NAVAL NOTES
T he firtst landing of an air
pI„..o on a man-of-war’s deck
was made by an Iowa boy Eugene
Ey on the USS PENNSI’LVA
N1A, an armored crui. er on 18
July 1911. Thi* intrepid aviator
brought hi* frail rickt.v ai -nlaiv
to a successful downwind land
ington a wooden* platform only
32 feet wide and 120 feet long,
that was built on the I’ENNS'Y L
VANIA fort the purpo*e. After
this amazing feat, tne aviator
calmly stated, "While I did not
Us. all of the platform in mak
ii>: my landing, 1 don’t think a
*r- iler one .advisable.”
hips at sea occasionally pass
»Iu. idreds of snake* swimming
*» . urd, miles off-shore. They are
kn wn as sea-snakts and are ex
trt.iK’ty poisonous, Dr. Ditmars
of the New York Zoo state* that
their venom i» about 5 times as
poisonous as that of a rattle
anr.ke.
It was not until 1825 and 1830
that red and green si ’e lights on
ships were introduced. Until then
all ship’s running lights were
white, but the advent of speed
Milled for ‘ the colored light* as
a further aid in navigation.
Tki expression “Tarpaulin
M ’sUr" is an old Navy slang for
) ’ ling a shipmate in distress. A
I . paulin was rigged and the
c vv would file na*t, contributing
whatever they could spare to
help their financially embaras*ed
comrade.
Some bright sca-cook once de
creed that if It O-U-G-H spelled
‘ruff and T-O-U-G-H spelled
‘tuff’ tthen D-O-U-G-H 'must spell
‘duff.’ Thus ships’ desert received
its traditional name.”
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PLAN PETITION CAMPAIGN
TO FORCE FURTHER PROSE
CUTIONS OF CRANBURY,
N. J. MOB
Jersey City N. J. Widespread
circulation of peti'ion thrauogh
out New (Jersey and especially
through Middlesex County to de-'
rprvnd the arrest and prosecution
of riingleaders of the vigilante
mob which brutally attacked j
seven Negro potato pickers in ■
Cranbury, N. J., in August was
announced by Miss Alvaine Hol
lister state secretary of the Work
ers Defense League. Miss Hollis
ter further announced that a
League attorney, Mr. David Rob
inson of Newark, N. J. would
represent the seven mob victims
in filing suits for $225,000 dam
ages against the nine men al
ready convicted of tihe heinous
crime but given suspended sen
tences.
The petitions addressed to Pro
secutor Charles M. Morris of New
ILrunswick, N. J. will demand
that he continue b.is investigation
of the case and bring the ring
leaders to justice, Miss Hollister
said. The petitions will be pre
pared by the Clean bury branch
.of the league.
The $225,000 damage suits will
he filed in Federal Court in
Trenton since the victims are
residents of Florida and Pennsyl
vania, Miss Hollister declared.
The Workers Defense League is
paying all expenses of Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Preston, who were the
an net horribly treated of tire sev
en ftnd who will remain North
in order to press any further
charges that may prove necessary
»he said while the other five
victims will return to their homes
but will be on hand for any
further court action if necessary.
Both the Workers Defense
League and the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People have been coop
erating in pressing for justice in
this case.
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URBAN LEAGUE OFFERS
NEW CLASS
The Urban I/eague take" ex
treme pleasure is announcing a
new fall class in vocal studies.
This call is to be held Monday,
Wednesday and Friday nights
from 7:30 to 8:30 pm. Much con
sideration shad be given to pro
grams for this class. The follow
ing includes t; rew of the top.cf.
to be taught in this class; inter
pretation; study of a song; Re
pit oire building; public perform
ances; vocal fundamentals, etc.
Wo urge you to join at once. Tell
your friends. Don’t delay. The
new music instructor of the Ur
ban Ijeague is yours truly the dis
tinguished baritone Vercylee Nor
vell.
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AFRO-AMERICAN BAPTIST
CONVENTION CLOSES
t , _ .
Camden, N. J. Oct. 19 (Cl—
The Afro-American Baptist Con
vention of New Jersey closed its
35th Annual Session last Sun
day. Rev. C. L. Aiken was again
elected President.
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On the morning of their second visit
to the Tower of London, our travelers,
t’am and Betsey and Mr. Van, and
Gyp, too, for that matter, found them
selves or.cc again in the huge court
yard of this ancient building. This
time t'i ey carre prepared for the big
ravens that live there, and both of
the children had their pockets stuffed
to overflowing with chunks of bread,
rhe ravens seemed well pleased with
the breakfast Sam and Betsey brought
fur llKrn, for they flew round and
rou. J their heads like great black
s' era clouds. Then they alighted on
the ground and greedily snatched up
eve:)' crumb of the bread. Every time
or.a of them would let out a croak
croak of thanks, Gyp would growl an
answer, for lie didn't approve of the
ravens at all.
‘T el's climb to the roof of this
tallest trover,” cried Sam, after the
nvens had been fed, “I'll bet you can
m3 all over London from way up
there.”
ILlsey fell in with the idea and so
Tid M*. Vcn, but alas! they had to
leave Gyp behind them in care of a
guard. Up and up they climbed the
long flight of narrow stone stairs,
s'opplng every now and again to peer
through a d >or that once kept prison
ers locked in the cells behind them.
V, hen they came to the roof a burst of
sunshine greeted them, and for a mo
ment they couldn't see. But as their
eyes got used to tlie light they
(Lrclehed their heads over the stone
railing and coukl see Gyp wuy down
on the ground.
‘‘He looks like a little brown bug,
doesn't he, Sam?” crieaf Betsey, but a
shout from Sam brought her running
over to the other side of the roof.
“Ixtok what I’ve found, Betsey,”
said Sam, “a raven’s nest right here
on the stone railing, and look at the
stuff they have in it."
Now it was only yesterday that Mr. !
Van told Sam and Betsey how the I
ravens like anything that is bright
and shiny, and this pair of birds were
no exception. They had added to their
nest everything they could carry up
there, gaily colored ribbons, pieces of
glass and even shreds of newspaper,
in fact anything you could think of
was In that nest.
“Look at this Sam, I’ve seen this
before, haven’t you,” and Betsey
reaches into the nest and picks up a
shiny brass plate about the size of a
quarter. When the children sec what
Betsey has taken from the nest they
break into gales of laughter, for it is
nothing other than Gyp’s license tag,
with his name printed on it clear as
day.
Sam and Betsey had never missed
it, and I don't think Gyp had either.
Anyhow It wasn't very many minutei
before they were all down in the
courtyard again, and Mr. Vnn put it
back on Gyp's collar where it
belonged.
“Gyp ought to feel more friendly to [
the ravens after this,” said Sam, as 1
tiiey started back to their hotel, “for
if it hadn’t been for the ravens find
ing tiis license tag, he'd have to go th*
rest of our trip without one.”
C/e tcrl A’3
!. 1 Vhat os pkion t’aou'.l be Tn'”1?
I» the purlidmcni ary use./re not to
(il.cus'; a n: lion until it lias been
stair l by the Chair?
2. What is Solbtnon’s-ncal?
3. What formula is used for con
cluding letters between members
of l!ic sumo society?
t. Who wrs the most famous map
maker of ancient times?
5. When was tlie great bridge span
n’ng the Delaware Hirer between
Philadelphia and Camden opened
to traffic, and what did it cost?
C. Sireting with the letters LUC
and adding one letter to get a fish
railed the pike; to that, two let
ters to get alfalfa; and to that
two more letters to get a word
meaning “pertaining to a lamp
or other artificial light,” what
three words have you?
7. In water-power what is meant by
undershot and overshot?
8. Grille is what?
9. Is gutla-pcrcha a vegetable, ani
mal or mineral matter?
10. Is there a picture of Thomas
Jefferson in the Senate Chambers
at Washington, D. C.?
_ ANSWERS
1. In ease the motion relates espe
cially to himself, it should not be
left to the chairman to state the
motion, but not until any motion
has been stated should It be
debated.
2. A common plant growing wild.
3. “Yours fraternally” or "Frater
nally yours.”
t. Kratosthencs.
5. July 1, 1920. It cost about thirty
seven million dollars.
(5. Luce, lucern, lueernal.
7. Said of water-wheels: undershot,
moved by water passing under
or acting on the lowest part, ond
overshot opposed to that form of
power. :£[;♦
8. A lattice or grating. ’**
9. It is the hardened milky juice*
resembling caoutchouc, coming
from a tree.
0. There are no pictures of any kind
in the Senate Chambers, but there
is a bust of Jefferson in the gal
leries where the walls are adorned
with busti
PASSPORT BAN PERILS JEW
ISH DOCTORS — JEW AND NE
GRO STUDENTS FACE SIM
ILAR BANS
l|oward Universit} Has Jewish
Quota
Washington, Oct. 20 (ANP)—
A routine announcement here this
week revealed that Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, who ha* been
cancelling passports held by vari
ous United States citizens living
aibi’oad, had revoked the passports
of 360 American born Jewish
medical student* who are now
studying in Scotland. These Jew
ish boys were studying in Scot
land for the reason that the 1st
class medical .schools in the United
States have a ban on Jews simi
lar to that which they have es
tablished on Negroes some years
ago.
Only a very small number of
Jews are admitted to American
medical school*. They must have
exceptionaly brilliant school rec
ords and satisfactory backgrounds.
The same sort of exclusion is di
rected at Negro students. In re
cent years there have rarely been
more than two or three Negro med
ical students in all of the first
clas* northern medical school or
colleges because of thi* refusal to
admit them. There are practically
no first class white medical col
lege* or schools in the South. Ma
ny of the medical schools in that
section require only two or three
year courses for the M. D. degree
The Jews, however, have user
a diferent technique to that whirl
Negro students adopted. Negroes
rai*ed a cry of persecution and
prejudice. The Jew did not lei
A
[ people generally know that he was
being banned. He entered where
eve;' he could and the fact that
there are 360 American Jews
studying medicine in Scotland is
testimony of one method which
was used.
The American Medical Associa
tion and affiliated organizations
developed the present clinical me
thod of medical education which
went hand in hand with exclu
sion practices. It is said that white
Gentile physicians have objected
to the competition which Jewish
and Negro doctors have offered
and that, coupled with prejudice
against both groups, has led to
the restrictions.
Resourceful Jews have sought
every method of securing profes
sional education. Howard univer
sity medical school, it is reliably
reported, is flooded with appli
cations from Jewish students ev
ery year. The administration,
fearful of criticism on the part of \
Negroes if too many Jews get in
and because of gentle frowns on
the part of the American Medical
Association as well as other in
fluences, is said to have unoffi-'
dally set up a quota of two Jews 1
in each new class. The new' e-;
diet of Secretary of State Hull
will cause considerable annoyance
disadvantage and dislocation to the
360 Jewish students affected.
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PROMINENT ATLANTIC CITY
LAWYER COMMITS SUICIDE
Atlantic City, N. J., October 201
(By Frank W. Canty Jr., for
ANP)—Despondent over financial
conditions, Walter Comer, 55, well
known law’yer and at one time one
of the wealthiest men on the
Northside, committed suicide
Tuesday by drowning in the Pen
rose canal, Venice park.
The body was discovered short
ly after 9:30, by William Webb
as he was headed on a fishing
trip. He towed the body to the
Abescon boulevard bridge and sum
moned police. Detectives Allmond
and Frye, investigating, said they
learned that Comer had been talk
ing with his sister, Louise, in his
office Tuesday morning about 8:
30.
Police say Comer attempted to
commit suicide Monday but was
pulled from the bay near Albany
avenue and taken home. In ad
dition to his law practice Comer
at one time was the proprietor of
a successful loan broker’s estab
lishment on Atlantic Avenue. He
at one time was reported worth
over $80,000 cash, and a consider
able amount of property. Most of
his money was lost in the bank
crash, and since that time he also
lost his property.
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INTERESTING NAVAL NOTES
“The introduction of steel in
stead of wood in the building of
the hulks of warships decreased the
weight of such vessels 20 per
cent.
“In tho days before watches
were worn on the wrist, the steer
sman used to time his tricks at
the wheel with a sandglass. Due
to the difficulty of steering the
old windjammers, a trick was on
ly half an hour, and each time
the glass was turned a bell would
be struck to indicate the number
of the tricks in the watch. Hence
the custom of eight bells to a
watch.
Mwu/?ftcmisxtf... &/£q/Mctfyo
"Thai's the pai»r ... he had a chair shot out from
under him in the last war."
“During the Revolutionary War
privateers of the Continental Na
vy had 2000 ships with 18,000 guns
and 70,000 men.
“During the early years of our
Navy, when fighting took place
at very short ranges, and often
culminated in actual boarding of
enemy ships, the primary duty of
r. marine was to serve as a Sharp
shooter with his trusty musket
in the more elevated positions of
thu ship.
“Fulton was the inventor of the
first successful steam vessel; the
inventor of the first really worka
ble submarine with vertical and
horizontal rudders and a means
of renewing its air supply; inven
tor of the torpedo; the designer
of the first steam propelled man
of-war in any Navy.”
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INTERESTING NAVAL NOTES
“A new deep hole in the Atlan
tic Ocean, over five miles deep,
was discovered on the 14th of
February by the U.S.S Milwau
kee while »he was participating
in tho recent fleet problem. Tha
Milwaukee’s soundings were made
with a fathometer in the Puerto
Rico Rice Trough, an undersea
chasm near the island of Puerto
Rico, which possesses already the
reputation of having the greatest
depths in the Atlanic Ocean. The
Milwaukee’s sounding was 4780
fathoms, uncorrected for salinity,
pressure, and temperature. When
corrected, tho depth will be in ex
cess of 5,000 fathoms, and will be
marked on new charts as ‘MIL
WAUKEE DEEP’.
“Old documents discovered in
Genoa Italy indicate that the to
tal cost of the expedition which
discovered America was only $6,
000. Columbos received $270 for
the trip while his two captains
were paid $150 each. The pay of
p, sailor at that time was about
$2 a month. Pay of the Navy
bluejacket today ranges from $21
to $157.50 a month.
“The maximum width of the
ships of the U. S. Navy is deter
mined by the width of the Pan
ama Canal and the maximum
height of the masts' of our ships
is determined by the height of
“American sailors are quick to
the Brooklyn Bridge.
note the aosence of the striking
of ‘seven bells’ aboard British
ships. In 1797 ‘seven bells’ was
to be the signal for the Navy mu
tiny at Nore. The plot was dis
covered and the mutiny quelled.
The Admiralty decreed that ‘seven
bells’ in the second dog watch J
should never again be struck on I
British vessels.”
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BLUE DEViLS TO FACE
LA. NORMAL TIGERS
New Orleans, La., October 20
With the Louisiana Normal Tigers
ono of the last season’s toughest
teaixs scheduled to face them this
coming Saturday, the Dillard Blue
Devils have been concentrating on
routine-scrimmage and drills all
week. The air has been filled
with balls being kicked and pass
ed and no second look is needed
to see that Coach Crudup is sear
ching for a successor to the Jen
kins-Oubre combination. It will
be re-called that it was Jenkin’s
stellar passing which accounted
for the winning touchdown in the
closing minutes of the game last
yea.*.
In contrast to Dillard’s loss of
seven letter men by graduation
and one 01* two other first string
men by withdrawals, Louisiana
Normal boasts of a line almost un
broken by losKes. With a season’s
experience on their belts the Ti
gers should be even imore danger
ous than they were last year. All
in all, the game bids fair to be
one of the most exciting contests
of the season. One change in the
Dillard schedule, necessitated by
a conflict with other games in
New Orleans, has been announced;
the Rust.DilLard game will be
played on Friday, November 10,
instead of Saturday, November
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DEMAND GRAND JURY IN
VESTIGATION INTO CRANBU
RY (N.J.) OUTRAGES
Ringleaders Still at Large, Wor
kers Defense League Charges
Craribury, N. J. —(Special)—
A demand for a immediate grand
jury investgation into the back
ground of the recent outrages at
Cranbuiy, New Jersey, when sev
en Negro potato pickers were as
saulted by a vigilante mob, was
seconded by a crowd of 100 resi
dents of Oanbury and nearby
Villages at a meeting sponsored
by the Workers Defense League
at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church
in Hightstown* n^ar here, last
week (Tburs).
The demand had been formally
] presented the day before when a
delegation of fifteen, representing
the Workers Defense League, the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, and
prominent Negro and white citi
zens of New Jersey, met with
Prosecutor Charles M. Morris of
j Middlesex County in New Bruns
! wick, New Jersey.
Miss Alvaine Hollister, state sec
retary of the Workers Defense
League of New Jersey, charged at
tho meeting that the ring leadei’s
of the mob were still at large and
she warned hat neither the Lea
gue nor the other particpants in
tho effort to win justice for the
mob victims would rest until the
ring-leaders were behind bars.
“The police cannot cover up the
guilt of those wf.io planned the
attack,” she declared, “by perse
cuting only the small fry; we can
and will force a grand jury in
vestigation and indictments of the
real leaders of the vigilante
mob'*.”
Tho police have already arrest
ed nine members of the mob who
have thrtown themselves on the
mercy of the court. Sentence of
the mobsters is being delayed
pending a report of probation of
ficer^.
The support of Organized La
bor in urging the prosecution of I
the mobster's was promised by j
Morris Riger of Trenton, New
Jersey, secretary of the Central
Jersey council of the powerful
Congress of Industrial Organi
zations. Other speakers included
Hampton Davis, Negro secretary
of the Cranbury branch of the
Workers Defense League and o
ther residents of Cranbury.
The meeting was held in Hight
stown after pressure on hall own
ers in Cranibury had forced a can
cellation of the agreement be
tween the League and the Oddfel
lows Lodge there.
The attack took place during the j
night of August 11 when a mask
ed gang of armed whites woke
seven sleeping Negro potato pick
ers by hurling stones through the
window of an isolated shack, then
forced the occupants to strip, beat j
Jake Preston when he objected
to the treatment of his wife, chased
the five single men through a
clump of woods naked, drove
Preston an‘d his wife to a desert
ted field while threateing main
ing, mutilation and rape painted
the couple white and left them ly
ing on the ground—with warnings
to “head south."
A definite attempt is being
made to play down the whole af
fair by township officials, to white
wash the gang of terrorists by
emphasizing the fact that “none
of them has been in trouble be
fore" and “they didn’t do any real
damage. An attempt was also
made to confuse the issue by bla
ming the attack on one “danger
ou< annual influx of southern la
bor’’ for the potato season, by ci
ting a hypothetical resentment of
white workers against Ngro wor
kers.
But these attempts to delay ac
tion until the potato season is ov
er and migratory workers return
south, to pit white workers against
Negro workers, to wait for inter
est to die down sQ that the whole
matter can be disposed of quietly
did not succeed. The Cranbury
branch of the Workers Defense
League posted $100 reward for
j nf or rration leading to the arrest
and conviction of those responsi
ble for the treatment of tlhe
seven Negro workers. David Rob
inson of Newark, Workers Defen
se League attorney, has been re
^ tained by the seven victims to
press charges against the terror
ists and institute civil suit for
damages.
Public meetings to discuss the
Cranbury outrages and to insure
public support are being held in
Newark. Elizabeth. New York Ci
ty and Philadelphia by the Work
ers Defense League and the Na
vancetment of Colored People, who
are cooperating in handling the
Cranbury case.
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WITH CARNEG'iE STUDY
Philadelphia, Oct. 20 (ANP)—
G. Janies Fleming, editor of the
Kappa Alpha Psi Journal and pub
licist, is now spending part of each
week in New York, his former
home city, where he is one of the
major workers on “The Negro in
America,” an inquiry under the
auspices of the Carnegie corpora
tion. Headquarters of the study
is on the 46th floor of the Chry
sler building wh^ia I*r. Ralph
Bundle and Doxey A. Wilkerson
of Howard university and other
scholars also have their offices.
Dr. Gunnar Myrdal, eminent Swe
dish sociologist, is director of the
study.
fRANK
FILOSOFY
/SyOlAuREN R.. GERlNGER*
How shall I dress?
If 1 put on some fairly good-look
ing clothes, I am just as apt to have
some work come along where I will
get badly smudged. If I pitch in and
do it regardless of clothes, they say,
“Look at you! Don’t you have any
respect for your wife, and the way
she tries to keep your clothes in
good condition for you? Anyway,
how can you afford to do dirty job*
in clothes like that?”
If I stand back and try to keep
out of the worst of the smudge, they
say, “Look at how highbrow he is
getting to be! Comes around all
dressed up and leaves the real work
for others to do!”
When I put on some clothes in
which I can feel free to take hold
and do the worst of the work, about
the time I get them badly soiled,
along will come someone on whom
I want to make a good appearance,
and I cannot help but feel they think,
“So that is the way he goes dressed!
I really think he owes it to his busi
ness, if not himself and family, to
make a better showing than that!”
And then again, when I am in an
outfit that shows the strain of labor,
I may meet someone whose work
always keeps him dirty and untidy
and he will go on his way rejoicing,
saying to himself, “Say, he is a man
after all! When he goes around here
all spruced up I feel afraid to be
spen with him or even to be seen
by him, lest he ,tel it a disgrace c l
our business relations. But if hi#
work brings him down to my level
like that, I am going to like that
guy!”
You tell me. how shall I dress?
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