SIOUX FALLS A THRIVING
COMMUNITY
“Aggressiveness and progressive
ness are plainly evident,” said Mrs.
Alphonso Wilson, when she spoke of
her observations of our group, after
a recent visit to Sioux Falls, South
Dakota.
Leaving Omaha sweltering beneath
a temperature of 98 degrees, one can
appreciate the coolness of this won
derful little city of 35,000. One
notes with pride the growing bus
inesses controlled by our group, al
though we can boast of but 100 of
the population.
A well equipped garage, comparing
favorably with the other garages of
the city, a janitor’s supply house,
which is operated by a former Oma
han, a restaurant, beautiful in its
cleanliness and up-to-date service,
and a beauty parlor which has no ri
val between Chicago and the Pacific
coast, are some of the race enter
prises.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, who came
to Sioux Falls some 20 years ago,
own and operate the beauty depart
ment of the Shriver and Johnson De
partment store which is the largest
of its kind in the state. Mr. and
Mrs. Mitchell employ 28 young men
and women as operators, barbers and
office force to care for the large pat
ronage which is drawn from all parts
of South Dakota.
If the community life is prosper
ous, then the church life is certainly
divine. At the regular church meet
ing last Sunday, every citizen of the
town was present and participated in
the music and the services. The one
church is under the guidance of the
Rev. Mr. Withers and his splendid
wife and is doing its part for the up
lift of our people in the section.
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Withers have
raised the standard of right living in
the city to a high plane and it ap
peared that each man, woman and
child, was endeavoring to follow their
well laid plans. Generous hospitality
welcomes you at Sioux Falls.
NATIVE AND WHITE SOUTH
AFRICAN WORKERS UNITE
PROTEST UPON TERRORISM
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Crusader News Service
London, Eng.—The central com
mittee of Negro trade unions and the
Trade Union Congress of white work
ers, together with the African Na
tional Congress, united in forming a
national committee for freedom of
speech. The committee grew out of
the breaking up of a mass meeting
at which workers were protesting
against employer-police terrorism and
the killing of a native worker by the
British police.
HOOVER CLUB FORMED
Boston, Mass.—With the organiza
tion of the Hoover Co-ordination Re
publican club of Ward Nine, which
was effected recently by a group of
young men at 626 Shawmut avenue,
this city boasts of the first Hoover
club to be organized in the state of
Massachusetts. The club is composed
of some of the leading business and
professional men in the city and is
headed by Charles H. Seales, as the
president.
Other officers of the club are R.
E. Scott, vice president; J. S. Mitch
ell, secretary; Samuel H. Harris,
treasurer, and the executive commit
tee members are R. H. Graham and
Charles A. Hibbler. The purpose of
the organization, as outlined by the
president, is to work in conjunction
with the republican campaign com
mittee in the effort to get out a large
vote for the Hoover-Curtis ticket.
DIAMOND MINE WORKERS
STRIKE AGAINST LOW PAY
Crusader News Service
London, Eng.—About 20,000 na
tive workers in the diamond mines of
western Transvaal have gone on a
strike, demanding increases of 20 to
.'10 shillings in wages. The strikers
are picketing the fields, in spite of
the terrorism instituted by British
officials and the employers. Accord
ing to the “Times” there is a con
nection between the leaders of the
strike and the Union of Industrial
and Commercial Workers, the largest
labor organization of native workers
in South Africa.
G. O. P. PREPARES TO
LAUNCH VIGOROUS DRIVE
Washington, D. C.—The next nine
weeks w ill witness the prosecution of
one of the most vigorous and far
reaching campaigns among Negroes,
in the political history of this coun
try, according to plans formulated
here Wednesday by the colored divi
sion of the republican national com
mittee, when the first meeting of the
executive committee and the chair
men and vice chairmen of the vari
ous divisions convened here on the
tenth floor of the Barr building.
The conference was presided over
by Dr. John R. Hawkins, chairman of
the executive committee and leaders
from various sections were present.
Reports from such republican chief
tains as state Senator Adelbert H.
Roberts, Chicago, member of the ex
ecutive committee in charge of the
western bureau; and Alderman Fred
R. Moore, New York City, chairman
of the organization bureau of the
eastern division, showed that the va
rious departments had been organ
ized, workers selected and everything
in readiness to launch an active and
enthusiastic campaign.
According to the plans perfected
recently, a strenuous effort will be
made to accomplish an unprecedented
registration of colored citizens in
every section of the country, especial
ly in those states where colored vot
ers hold the balance of power, and
to line that vote up behind the Her
bert Hoover-Curtis ticket. The rep
resentatives expressed the opinion
that colored voters believed in the
republican standard bearers, not be
cause of promises, but because of the
records of the men, which are fraught
with indications of courage, states
manship and the belief in the en
forcement of the constitution of the
United States in its entirety.
NATIONAL BAPTIST
CONVENTION DRAWS
LARGE ASSEMBLAGE
Shreveport, La., Coliseum Fair
Grounds, Sept. 5—Ministers and lay
men, men and women from 48 states
and state conventions took part in the
opening of the 49th annual session of
the National Baptist convention of
America, which convened in this city
today. These messengers represent a
constituency of three and one-half
million Negro Baptists. The parent
. body and the woman’s auxiliary make
j up the convention proper. “All Hail
the Power of Jesus’ Name,” sung by
a chorus, made up of hundreds of
voices from the 50-odd Baptist
churches of Greater Shreveport, add
ed religious fervor to the stage that
had been so beautifully set for this
religious gathering. The convention
will carry on for five days, during
which time every phase of denomin
ational work will be reported through
the several boards to whom has been
committed the work of the conven
tion interim. A very elaborate pro
gram arranged by the executive com
mittee had set forth the work of this,
the largest distinctively denomina
tional gathering of this racial group
in the world. The city of Shreve
port is in gala attire, but it doesn’t
savor of the spectacular. To the
contrary, it borders on and represents
the religious side of the Negro life of
America. Thousands have already
arrived and taken part in the opening
session. The "Larger Christ” is the
outstanding theme of every session,
as provided in the program. The ex
tension of the Kingdom is the main
object, the principles of the Lowly
Nazarene will be exemplified through
out the week, while missions, home
and foreign, and religious education
will be stressed by every speaker on
each and every occasion.
VIRGINIANS RESENT
DEMOCRATIC TACTICS
Roanoke, Va.—Smarting under the
treatment accorded Negro voters in
the various cities of the state by dem
ocrats in the recent primaries, efforts
are being made by the leaders of the
group to secure an unprecedented
registration of colored citizens so
they may express their resentment
by votes for the Hoover-Curtis ticket
in the November election.
These leaders are calling the atten
tion of those who are qualified to vote
to the fact that democrats denied the
Negro the right to vote in the demo
cratic primaries, and in many in
stances and cities, those who attempt
ed to exercise their franchise were
humiliated by poll workers. Special
emphasis is being placed upon the
Richmond primary.
OFFICIAL KLAN ORGAN
FIGHTS GOVERNOR SMITH
Washington, D. C.—Under the cap
tion, Smith and Negro Equality, the
Fellowship Forum, official organ of
the Ku Klux Klan, prominently dis
played the following in blackface
type:
“Under Governor Smith’s admin
istration, Negro equality is practiced
in the public schools of New York,
and it is an open secret that Gover
nor Smith believes in equality among
the blacks and whites. Women voters
should call upon the southern dele
gates and ask them if they can con
scientiously vote for a man who
would try to force upon the people
of the south, Negro equality as Gov
ernor Smith indicated he would do
on more than one occasion.
“Harlem ‘Nigger Heaven,’ the low
est section of New York City, is over
two-thirds owned by Tammany. The
night clubs, gambling joints, speak
easies, and bootleggers are financed
by Tammany. In return for this,
Governor Smith got one of his largest
votes from the whole city out of Har
lem. Helf a million Negroes, mostly
yellow, live in Harlem, and not only
declare themselves equal to whites,
but are permitted to live as man and
wife with the whites, and their chil
dren allowed to attend white schools.
They have been so encouraged in
Harlem under Smith’s administration
that they are breaking their bounds
and permeating the whole city.
Broadway plays are entirely given
over to colored actors, and they are
the chief entertainers in the night
clubs. Are we going to allow them
to spread from New York City
throughout the country? No. let us
stop this while there is yet time.”.
This sort of bunk with no earmarks
of truth whatever is the sort of argu
ment this Klan publication is making
to show white people why they should
support Hoover instead of Smith.
ARIZONA AMERICAN LEGION
PETITIONED FOR OFFICERS’
TRAINING FOR NEGROES
New York City—Nathan Stitch
Post No. 51 of the American Legion
[at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., sent a peti
tion signed by 50 of its members to
the state convention of the American
Legion, urging full officers’ training
for Negroes at the citizens’ military
training camps.
The petition, forwarded to the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People by V. H.
Marchbanks, warrant officer in the
United States army, reads as follows:
“Whereas, the Negro has always
furnished his full quota of officers
and soldiers in all wars, expeditions
and conflicts in which the United
States has engaged since its earliest
existence, and he will always be ex
pected to do so,
“Whereas, the citizens’ military
training camp does not admit, under
its present system, the training of
young colored men unless there is a
sufficient number of qualified appli
cants to form a separate unit,
“Whereas, this system is unfair and
unwarranted in states sparingly pop
luated by Negroes,
“Whereas, the Negro’s admission
to the training camp is based upon
his ability to obtain the necessary
quota for a separate camp and
Whereas many sections of the
United States do not include Nebroes
as residents in sufficient numbers for
him to muster this necessary quota,
thereby depriving him of the benefit
of this training.
‘‘Be it resolved, that the high
school law of the state where citizens’
military training camps are held shall
govern in the training camps and
where there is not a sufficient num
ber of qualified applicants of the Ne
gro race to form a separate unit in
the citizens’ military training camp
that Negro boys be permitted to train
in units with other citizens and that!
the state organization of the Ameri
can Legion use its influence to this
end.
‘‘Be it further resolved, that a copy
of these resolutions be brought to the
attention of the national convention
to be held at San Antonio, Texas, in
October, 1928.”
Warrant Officer Marchbanks in
forms the N. A. A. C. P. that white
boys at the Arizona training camps
“have been instructed in the rudi
ments of soldiering by enlisted men
of the 10th Cavalry and 25th Infan
try,” both of them Negro units.
Robert W. Bagnall, acting secre
tary of the N. A. A. C. P., is writing
to the War department, enclosing a
copy of the petition and urging favor
able action upon it.
"If you stand on truth it won’t
get away.”—Material Facts.
“A reputation at the bank is worth
two in the newspapers.”
—Material Facts.
"To be trusted, start by trusting
others.”
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