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Tiw
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ADVOCATE
SA T U K D A V .N O V E M B E R ?S. ISSI
LATER DEVELOPMENTS IN PETERSON TRIAL
j Increasing Desire
T o Know Truth
[
B Y C A R T E R C.
HOOK
i
:
WOODSON
T h e niessacos «lelivered at the an- to the history of this country a s evi
nual meetinn of the Association for (fence*) by a scien tific stu*I* of ihc
the stn.lv of NY pro Life and History -our.-.*» to which he has been Kivinp
h, M in New \ ork City this month, the attention d n n n * re cent years F oil» »
most sue , ssful ( onfere nce of the sort Ins him ca m e IT o fess o r Ben jamin
in its history, decidedly demonstrated Brawlev who in his highly literary as
that there is all increasinit desire of we ll as eloquent sty le e m pha siied ad
Nearoes and whites to know the truth ditional ach iev em en ts of the W est In
and nothing but the truth
Most ot us dian natives, belittled the nonsenn-.il
are accustomed to abu se those who attitude *'f ho st ility shown by Ignorant
tell ns the truth which we do not like c it iie n s of this country, and urged
to hear. During the four days of s e r thes e two elem e nts to work out an *f
ious discussion some very searchjtig ficient plan for co-operation in things
revelations and statem en ts were made literary, religious, so cia l and oo mom
by the scholarly persons assembled, ic I doubt that any discourees o - .! s
and yet throughout the meeting then vussions at any a ssem bly have don*
wore not manifested any evidence of more than these to « r a d i c a l - o n >"
feeling or personal differen ces which and to po;'ulari»o a truth which mu
so m etim es disturb co nferen ces which he helpful in the re habilita tion of the
Negroes n the I ’ nited S ta te s
a re snpi>osedly scientific.
The ne cessity for more ot "lie truth
The large audience assembled at the
St. J a m e s Pre sb yte ria n Church on the and the willingness to lab >r i > .-hth-ti
Mh to h e a r the Director of the Associ it. too was f u rth e r shown by Pro les
an on outline what he thought should sor Maurice K Davie, of Yale 1 n i' -
he taught w ith respect to the Negro in sitv. in his account of w na’ is h* .nt
the schools of this co untry was agree- done there in the study of tlu N -
able surprised lo he ar President J o h n T here w ere re p orts as to -he r.
c
Hope of Xtlunta I'n iversity endorse es and cours es now being given in > .
these ideas and to say that they are gro life atnl his to ry in mos of the a •
not too advanced for Atlanta Cnivcr credited univ ersities, but none showed
s i i v where he is now trying to produce such progres a s that from Yale In re-
a new leadership of the Negro by ac porting a cla ss of 250 students who
qiiaintinc him with the his-ory. liter*- crowd a hall th e r e thre e tim es a week
l i r e , philosophy, and . . • no nius o f hi» to K a m the truth about the Negi
own background. Everybo dy seemed lieving that the tru th will free then-,
to feel like praying that the number of from the bias of their fa th ers
I entdeM H l- EH
r n i E l t a a shown by the Negro him
rapidly Increase
self in learn ing to understand the
in the ,‘. .S( v.ssion of the NlfTO In truth was strikingly dem onst ra ted hj
dramatic art led by P rofessor George f rank sta te m e n ts made by Dr. E
C. Grant, of Morgan College, equally KYankliu F ra z ie r in d ic ussing the or
ground was taken. T h e N. -t
igin . the organiza tio n, and the status
must learn to appreciate more the of the free Negro family
T his social
dramatization possibilities in his life unit, like any other, had Its sh ortcom
and at the same tim e the m a sses . n u t *„£» ag well as its virt ues T h e r e weri
learn to distinguish betw een den
some who tried lo m a k e excu ses and
tag one as a m em ber of a certa iu race co ver up the truTh with respect to the
and portraying him as a human, aa Btorala exhibited by the N- ft
pointed out so fra nkly by Miss V a r y which according to history, often had
\V. Ovington. when c e r ta in critics ob- ¡{g origin in im m orality of the two
je cted to such as the fish fry in raceg; but Dr. F ra z ie r disclosed the
"G reen P a stu res " and Cat Fisli How in truth as it was and made no excuses
‘ Porgy
Mr. Carl W ils on , a p’a>- f or ¡t just as a s cie n tifica lly trained
wright. who was present, made a pro- student should.
One Negro partiel-
fitable contribution to this discussion. pant tried to defend the Negro in a
Out of the discussion of L iberia, too. thrust at the white race , saying that
came an unstial amount of valuable in- as a Pullman po rt er his experience
formation which will serve to estab- was that Instead of having to resist
lish in the minds of the people a new , j j e tempation to rape he had to strug-
point of view with resoect to the Ne- Kie to prevent him self from being
gro in Africa F a cts set forth by both raped. Another Negro with the sami
Mr Charles S J oh nso n and Dr Ray. thought asserted that he is a direct
mond
>11. who have Invest!- ¡¿ sc en d a n t ,,f T h o m a s J e f f e r s n. th<
gated conditions in Africa, showed gaei? 0 f Monticello, although he inher-
that, without mincing words, we have ¡te(j none of his c h a r a c t e r as property,
to admit that Lib eria is a failu re and
T h e tlmeIv aiscllssion of the Negro
there can be no hope for the co untry Church ag scheduled, was also frank
except to dislodge the misguided and and tQ {he ;)0lnt
x h e ach iev em en ts
unprincipled men who for the last cen-
t ^e c k urch were presented by Dr
turv have done little more than to fol- H H p ^ ^ , . in clear-cut and force-
low the nefarious exam ples of the j u| language and made a favorable im-
slaveholders who emancipated their preg sion> He protrayed the institution
a ncestors to deport them to Africa.
ag a
force in the progress of the
it 'las been a very difficult task for >;e £ r0 . T h e overlapping, duplication
Negroes to get away from slavery in
e ffort_ c o m m o n , and the impover-
m a tters of religion and government. lsh men t of the people by a ra th e r
T h e r e were some persons who did not U r g e and unnec essary churc h organi-
like to admit this and loudly applaud- zation were e f f- c t lv e ly set forth by
ed Mr. Ben N. Azikiwe. an African, in Dr Vernon Johns, the sch olarly presi-
sh'-winc that the League of Nations dent of the Virginia T heo log ica l Sem-
[.ermitted forced labor in certain ¡.arts inary. T here were present also such
of the world for pubUc works and en- distinguished m in ist ers as Dr. W illiam
terprises of great necessity and had Lloyd Imes. Bishop F. A. W a lla c e of
left it to such nations to determine , h e A. M E Zion Church. Dr. J o h n W.
what are public w-orks and en terprises Lee. Field R epresen tative of the Pres-
of great ne cessity. On the other hand, b y t e n a n Church, and Bishop McGuire
it was very encouraging to find a of the African Orthodox Church.
A
large group of scholarly persons of general discussion did not follow these
both ra ce s willing to hear the truth addres ses, but Dr. A. Clayton Powell
about Liberia and to shape their opin- took occasion to say that he believed
ions and policies accord,ngly.
the m in isters had rec ently receiv ed a
The W est Indian natives, moreover, much deserved sco urging and he hop-
were greatly surprised to find that ed that they would learn to do better
they were not to be ridiculed and read and co-o;>erate more effi cien tly in the
out of the pale of humanity as some rebuilding of the churc h along sane
had feared. From Dr. Charles H. lines. Dr. E. W . Moore of Columbus,
W esley of Howard I ’ niversity ca m e a Ohio, spoke at length in the same
most sch olarly presentation of the vein.
large contribution of the West Indian
T h e work of the A ss oci atio n as an
r
Ga sco Briquets
G
produce more heat
than any
other solid fuel and leave
No Ashes
Porticine Gas
&
Coke Co
OF
R E V IEW
umjg u&
h iu tii
Pickens Views
Furies o f Florida
“S I S T E R INDIA"
By M E D IT H C K A S K E
J
QUALITY MERCHANDISE
FOR THE HOME AND PERSONAL SERVICE
OF
E
BY W IL L IA M P I C K E N S
BIR M IN GHA M Ala
N«>v 1» He
tails of the fra m e up with w hich the
In form ation about one of the moat he side him In " t h e struggle buggy
brutal and sa dist ic crim es that ev er and lookltig for all the world like Birmingham co u rt* h«»pe to rallrimd
l W B E rdm a ns Pub C o . Grand Rate
t«>ok place, even in Florida, lias Just Amos tu thè famous "Friniti All T axi Willie IVt«*r*oti. tub ercular Negro ml
ids. Michigan)
—— — — — — — — — — —
co m e to me thru the malls
T h e per* ca b ", he rolled away in searclt of fatue tier, through to a di'Utlt Neiitance on a
ch arg e of murdering two while w«e
T h e authoress, in writing this he r
The thought of »elf. * e ’f*pr esorva son who sen t the Informât loti w as a ami fortune, whlle the wlfe and two tn«'ii. a r e <*xpo*ed lu u le tter received
first book, has given to the reading
fraid to sign his name and only indica little sona walimi ut home for bis re
U
param
ount
In
the
Ilf«»
of
«very
a
n
i
by tb«* Inlet nutliuiul Labor lie fense
public a biographic sketch of one. l*r
mal. It has to I k * or the a r t m a 1 oouM ted his Identity to me by indirection lutti wltli the giad tldlugs
M Brown, of England, a Very learned
11«' traveled ahotit Ho mlles finn» fr«un a prominent llirtiiiiigliani a t t o r
not survive boeauae this law belong* T h e person is well known, is very in
ney
T h e letter tells how th«« sta te s
sch olar, who. forty y e a r s ago. co n s e
to the naimal kingdom hut 1.*» inexcu telligen t ami one hundred p e r e e n t home; dreamltig gretti dre am *, w ben solicitor, aw are that P eterson I* th««
crated her life to missionary work in
the old ( « r , Irne to il» sp ecie *, bevuti
sable when allowed to dominate the trust w orthy
fur away India
And 1 must white, and how 1 wish 1 to get very utirwly. ami collided with wrong man. still "led the Grand Ju ry
human ra ce
full well
Today, at l.udhtans. India, a modern
T h e to an indic tm ent knowing
Man with high Intellect, his reason could write about som eth in g el se to- a ca r driven by a white woman
that he was indicting an innocen t
medical co llege (for women), hospital
ing powers, his ability to think and day from Florida, the land of f lo w e r s ’ woman was not injured, neither was Negro."
and school thrives ami from which
form ideas, his imagination and ideal- But they keep an unafraid black man her c a r damaged, and taking the road
It reads In part
hundred of Indian girls have g rad ua
i*m. and his power to tra nscend all In this country so busy fighting for again sh e drove mi he r way T h e d r
"O ur assoclat«« went Into the full
ted and gone to outlying parts of In
nature s laws thru his intel ligen ce to the sh e e r r u i n to live and br eath e the c u m s t a n c e * and little e\e I l e nt e it t
fa« Is an«! to his surprise found that
dia where they have establish ed many
b e tter the living conditions of his that he has little tim e to co nsid er the would have furnished only am use m ent
schools, hospitals and dispens aries
And ytt they p ret ml to won to anyone with a se nse of humor, but neither ill«* offic ers «»f the city or
kind, is able to turn his thoughts from flow ers
county believe they have identified
T h e forty years struggle that l 'r
himself, his ow n co mfort, happiness tier why black American writers ami not to the Impromptu inob of white the right Negro T h ey are right Miss
Brown has had to ach ieve su ccess,
and repose, to the hap piness atnl wel th in k ers do not spend more tim e tits men who had gat hered at the *i»ot
and in this instance su ccess does not
cu ssing Inte rstellar Space. E th erea l None of them knew the old Negro ot Williams has »tir«dy pick»«! the wrong
fare of others
mean wealth, luxury or continued
T h e off!« ials »if the S t a l e of
W av e- Form , or the leagues of notions what he was about
None of them m Negro
This
power
of
the
mind
is
the
pleasures, but. a wealth measured in
this
T h e solicitor
qulretl
None of them cart'd
They Alalmttm know
crow ning ac h ie v em en t in the develop of th e League of Nations
knows it, yet he went on and led hi*
needed loving, expert and professional
m eat of man to be forgetful of self
1
was
Just
shari*enlng
my
pencil
to
took
him
in
hum!;
amt
as
he
offered
se rvice to India's womanhood, m akes
Gran«! Jury to an Indictmen t knowing
and thoughtful of others, atnl to c o n writ«- so met hin g on Thomas Alva Bdl ,l" r e s is ta n c e and they «maid fin d no full well lie was Indicting all lutloceiit
an interes ting ro man ce of real life and
sider a no ther's well being before his son. under the title of T * t T h e r e He ex cue to shoot him. they beat hint into man
adventure.
own.
L ig h t " and In honor of the man who inenslblllty with the butts of their re
B attlin g against every form of Ig
" W illie P eterson has
told
them
T h is is the holiday spirit to I k * was literally " t h e light of the world", so lvers and threw him into prison
norance. prejudice, uncleaulines s and
where he was and how lie has d«>ne
ca
rr
ie
d
out
throughout
the
year,
to
he
— when he re co m es this tale of d a r k
As days tutssed, his condition grew for more than a year back
deep religious c a s t e system.
Dr.
T h e off!
Brawn, won the co nfidence, respect of service ra the r th a n to he served» ness out of F l o r i d a , - d i m m i n g niv Bd- steadily w orse; his mind had been up
rs have check«'«! It back and fouud
ami to give ra the r than rec eive
If Ison tho ughts and eclipsing anything set ami they had kttnck«'d his memory
and admiration of all cla sses, and
It to be true
He was never even
Into a blank
At last they decided, arrested be fore and lias tM««n sick f«»r
brought the spirit of Christian relig ea ch individual would live up to these else.
principles
the
world
would
be
chang
with
brutal
lelsurelineaa,
to
make
ion and love to the sisters of India.
We can no t undo the brutal deed
y ear*
W e even found the white mutt
This book dwells ext en sively on wo ed ov er night, but only a few souls which was done Just a few »lays ago some inquiries and find out where he who had known him Intim ately for
at the holiday se ason a re awakened
belonged
anyway.
#*p«pclally
to
get
mans' plight in India and brings to
lu Florida, and we doubt w he th er a n y
the last t«’ii >eurs. and he c«irr(diat«'d
atnl enriched to the e x te n t that they
light much knowledge on thei r child
body will ever he punished for it. but rid of the nuisa nce of a "sick n ig g er" th«* Negro lu every detail Th«* young
never again retro gra de back to the
m arriages and their causes. Our wo
we ca n tell a million read ers about it on thei r hands and to avoid the thr«*at holy coubl not have missed the Negro
old se lf ish n e ss of the past.
so the
men, of color, in America, who think
And wo hope they will ttll ten million euing expense of a «lead one T h e a u m ore ."
world only m ak es a little spiritual
t ho rities su cceeded lu I«>«'utlng his
their lot a hard one. should read, ' S i s
others.
P ete rso n wus pirktHl up on the
progress each year
ter India."
You have heard much of Daytona wifi' and fold he r that he was in thei r s t r e e t s *»f Birm ingham by Nell Wll
ja
il
"
s
i
c
k
.
"
They
did
not
tell
he
r
what
________C L I F F O R D C M I T C H E L L .
liatus
and "Id entified " through a hut
B e a ch
In the city of Daytona, not far
NEGROES ST IL L S E R F S
Identification to net Miss Williams
from the famous Negro school dwelt had made him sick Sh e was t«dd that
agency delving during the last sixteen
uf little Negro family of four; father, if sh e would call for him at ntght, that $.1.300 P eterson was later shot in Jail
years into the inn ermost r e c e d e s of
they would permit him t«» leave tht by D e n t Williutns. br o th er of one of
* Concluded from page one)
the past was outlined in a most sch ol published in the magazine. cl early m other (who is a hopeless co nsu m p prison and would then clrt'ulate a re
th«' slain girls
T h e trial has been
arly fashion by P ro fe ss o r E v a rt s B. show that while some cities have t i v e ! . and two little boys T h e r e was port that he had "ecsnpe«!"; and that,
postponed while P ete rson recovers
Greene, of Columbia I ’ niversity. who made sin ce re attem p ts to take ca re of no more harm less little family In all in consid era tio n for his being " s i c k " ,
from the wounds T h e 1LD Is o r g a n
has been a const ant read er of the pub their black unemployed oth ers dis F l o rid a ; they lived In the direst pov th«*y would simply drop the ca se and
izing a P eterson d efe n se co m m ittee
lications of the associatio n and a sup played an attitude of indiffere nce leav e rty but were by no means lazy nr un do nothing to re captu re him
........ 4$
Having no Job for wages,
porter of its effo rts. He emphasized ing the colored citizen s to shift for interestin g
T h e frantic mother and he r two lit
the man made a bare living by rep a ir
ELKO SINGERS PLEASE
the important truth that while the them selv es.
ing stoves which he culled for and tle b o y s ’ In their «lire poverty they
work of national bodies in pre serving
Editors Commend DuBois
brought back In a little home made had not even the m eans to transport
and writing the history of the country
E U G E N E . O r e . Nov 26 T h e Elko
Dr. W K. DuBois. n i c e leader and box wagon He and his two 1 it 1 1«* boys them selves ov er the twenty miles, to
from the tradition al point of view is Edito r of the Crisis, is to be co ng ra tu
Sin g ers gave a musical progrum In the
re etern ally busy, ami aroused a reach the fa th er who «luring the flush
of gre at se rvice to scholarship, it is lated on the position he has taken in
es in the dark ness of his tna«iness had auditorium of the First Baptist ch urch
also necessar y for sm a lle r o rg a niz a advising Negroes to c r e a te for them so rt of amused admiration in the co m
Wednesday «'Venitig at 7 30 o'clock
1 to send urgent appeal* for
tions dealing with neglected groups se lves an eco nom y that will mitigate munity by their unique resourceful- mating«
l^her. were se lect ions by the band,
to co me t«» him HymraUhetle
In
making
.i
living
One
>
i.«v
the
his
wlf
and races to prese rv e thei r own re the e f fe c ts of this d egression and de
rt- ne ig hbor* ftAally colb'ct«*«l the (run* tin* o r ch es tr a male quartet, sexte tte,
ne
ig
hbors
notice«!
that
to
the
ass.
cords and so popularize them as to pressions to come, say editors of lead
A double male qu a rtette sang
On Oct ob er the 16th etc
ment of junk which steadily grew in p«»rtatl«>n fe e s
show the necessity for tolling the ing ra ce weeklies.
severa l Negro spirituals
T h e group
had sh«» reached (ho jail w her e L«■ * fens
their
back
yard,
this
little
family
whole truth about things ra the r than
Josep h D. Bibb. Edito r of the Chi added a hug«' **«d«l bu ss " of an automo- ban«! had been botiml as a raving man pres<'iited a program Monday evening
continue as victims of tradition.
at the First Ch ristian c h u rch and were
ca g o Whip, one of the first publica bile T h e ingenious jun k man put this lac t«» his prison ««»t
Atnl as sh«' sat
etithusiasti« ally received
T h e annual m eeting made such a
tio ns to udvocate jo b cam paigns a- in ru nning order. an«l some wit am ong * ith he r i s o little boy*. waiting on
favorable impression upon the people mong Negroes, praised Dr. DuBois for
the
neighbo
rs
christ
ened
It
the
drug
the
front
porch
«»f
the
prison,
they
of New Yo rk that two important re the fight he is now making as did H
BIG S H O T S T A K E N FOR A RIDE
gle buggy." Approaching a bit nea rer brought out the fath er *»f the family
sults
immediately
followed.
Steps
G Mudgail. editor of the NVgro World In acq u a inta nce the neighbo rs l«*arned and to her th«*y delivered him DEAD
were taken to or ganize at on ce a
N A P IE I tV I L L E . Ill N o v 26 N e w *
At last reports, the colored p«*«>;de
th«* man was the proud " in v e n tr " of
br anch of the work in New York City
some sort <»f co ntrivance . which he of the commun ity were "aruuse«l"; has Just reach«*«! Th«* Ad v oc ate that J
to make a scien tific study of the neg O IX IE S I N G E R S A P P E A R
IN SA L E M T H U R S O A Y boasttnl that s» veral "whit«* folk- hail that Is. they were taking up money to L Nichols A Co of Nuph'rvlllc. 1111
lected aspects of th a t local life and
co nceded to have so m e merit, und offer a bit of t« inporary relief to this
history
It was most encouraging,
ber«*av«*d widow and these fath erless toils are publishing a 1 i«*w «'«litloti of
too. that principals of schoo ls teach-
S A L E M . On* . Nov. 26 T h e old time with which he hoped s«*m«* «lay to
T h e o f f i c i a l History o f Th«* N e g r o
ing numbers of Negro ch ildre n sought Negro melodies were sung In the real sta rtle both fa m e and money out of a children, and also to prepare for th«*
dead a decent funeral ser vice, thru Race.
the a ss is ta n ce of the Directo r in bring- old Negro way by the Dixie Ju b ile e believ ing world.
On O ctober 2. 1931. this prize lnv»*n which they no doubt sat tearfully and
ing before the ed ucational authoritie s quartet Thursday night at > .'ll» «»clock
T h e book is «*all«*d P R O G R E S S O F
sang
the importance of adopting as text in the auditorium of the F irst Method tion. w hatever it was. was considered
" P r n l s e God from whom all bless A R A T E and is by W H Fro gm an,
ready
to
be
sprung
upon
the
waiting
certa in books which give the back- 1st ch urch. W ell matched vocally and
LL.D and J 1. Nichols. AH, * l t h an
ings f l o w ------------ "
ground of the Negro. T his m a tter is admirab ly trained in q u a rtette work public. T h e black Inventor loaded it
Introduction by U It Moton of Tusk«»-
now being taken to the New Yo rk the united voices of these four m»*n
g««e Institute
T h e r e ar«' special a rt ic
Board of Education.
had the qu ality and volume of organ
In his le tter to J A. Brown, grand les by Mr* Booker T Wa shington.
tones.
T h e y featured the old time G R E E N S U S P E N D S SO UTH
chuucello r. Mr Gr«-«-n conclud«-* the W M Dugan, r M MHden. Attain L
favorites, but thei r re p ertoire included CAROLIN A P Y T H IA N HEADS
suspension no tice with th«? «>r«*r "to llolsey , and oth«-r noted writers 475
severa l groups of solos and a number
turn ov er to S i r K F Floyd, grand graving* t«-ll the tab* of Race P rog re *s
of humorous readings from the work*
A P P O IN T S NEW C H A N C E LL O R
vice ch ancellor, ail funds, docuntiuit*.
i of Paul L a w r en ce Dunbar. E v ery man
us it bus never been told before
books, property and rec ord s h<>loiig-
in the qu artet is a vocal soloist. The
W h e re c a n you find more thrilling
ing
to
tb«-
grand
iodg«*
In
your
posse*
co ncert was sponsored by the Young
heroism than was dl*pluy««d by one
SlOIt."
une
>
(Corn
hided
from
page
People's Epworth League of the First
UristjrUM A tta ck s In the famous Boston
L«-wl«' and Wilkinson a«** directed to M a ssa cre? Or IV ter Sab-tn at !tunk<’r
Methodist church.
|hold
the
grand
lodge
propertte*
In
/ y reciti Especially for This
grand lodge to the supremo lodge. The
Hill? Or Major J e f f r e y in th«* c a m
tax»*« imposed by the suprem e lodge their (HiNseHion until thei r su ccessors paign of Mobile? Or J o h n Wall and
E N C O U R A G E S E N D E A V O R IN
S e nspaper
a
re
ch
osen
whet)
they
a
re
to
deliver
MU SIC A L C O M PO S IT IO N laws w«*re held to be exo rbitant by the
Wllllum Carney at F ort W a g n e r ? Or
them to these su ccessors
leader* of th«* grand lodge*
Mr Floyd. up«*n assum ing o ffic e of Capt. Catltoux at I’ort Hudson? Or
Although ta k en by su rp rise by tin-
Prizes offered to Musicians of the Ne
ro race by Captain J o h n Wana action of the So u th Carolina lodge of grand chan« »*llo!-. la directed to Issue Quinton llande ro in th«* Cuban W a r?
SA
ficers. the su prem e chancfdlor c o u n a procl am at ion a Wising the Htihordln- Or I’rivates Roberta and J o h nso n, tb««
maker, Jr.
T he Rodman W a n a m a k e r Competi t e r e d quickly with the necond move in at«- lodges of that fact and «>f his up- Tlrst A m erican* t«> r«-< •«Iv«* the c«»vet«'d
tion for Negro Composers of Music ith e a erie* by direct ng these offlc«TM (Miintni* »its to fill th - positions Yarn-
Croix «!«' Otierre In the World W a r ?
X, a : l l l a
I which term inat ed in Ju ly 1931 brought to pay ov er to th«* sti;»r«*rne keoper of led by th«* supremo ch a n cellor's huh
Why. beside tin* glorious achlev«*ment
| six aw ard *, in thre e c l a s s e s ; the prize : re cord * and se als. K K. Underwood, p«*nslon order.
It is impoHMihl«* to predict at this of such men the modern gang warfare
winning compositions co m in g from al and to the s e c r e t a r y of tht* Pythian
T em p le co mm ission. Edward Gr«-«-n. film- which side will m ak e th«> fourth
sec tion s of the United S t a t e s ,
f Al Capon* ami his notorious gun
If the s i s
i A fourth cl a s s in this s a m e co m peti all mon te* co llected under »uprem«* mov«> in the imbroglio.
lodge order* by No vember 16, under pended South Carolina offlc«-rs refuse men look like a Sunday Scho ol C<m-
tion Is still open.
to b«- aff« cte«l by tin* suspi-usion order, ventloti.
T his fourth cla ss ca lls for a more I pain of suspension.
In his lett«*r to each of the South it is not impitssibl«* that uupreme Iodg«- righted featiir«* that t e l l s you who the
pretentio us
cr e a ti o n — a
Sy m phonic
Wor k or Concert Su ite of not less ¡C aro lin a offic ers, the suprem e chan may Is- for -«-«I to take the m a tter Into
T H E BIG S H O T S
than thre e numbers for Band or Or « «-I implied that the tax«-s imposed by court in or der to ob tain control of th«-
c h e s t r a ; or a Choral W ork with qu ar su prem e lodge act ion had been c o lle c gratid Iodg*- funds und records.
Furth erm ore, T h e N«-w Pro gre ss of
tor,
or
partially
collected
,
in
the
South
t e tt e or solo part s a t will and O rc h es
a R a c e now includ«*s " W h o ’s W ho In
¡Caro lin a Jurisdictio n, but that these
tra or Organ a cco m p a n im en t.
T h e Negro Rue«*," an exclu sive copy-
Officers
had
failed
to
turn
ov
er
w
hat
A longer time being natura lly r e
right«-d featu re that tells you who the
quired for compositions of Its c h a r a c e v e r money they had obtained from
big shots ar«« today and why. Nothing
ter, the time limit for this fourth cla ss ¡P y th ia n memb+rs in South Carolina
¡for the purposes specified by the S u
was set at July 15. 1932.
like It ever print«*«! before. You read
One prize of $500.00 is to be award- pre me lodge proclam ation to th«- «prop
iren t n a tm m tf n r a tv H I -
I Niv#
h av* an hnrwiat
N m aat im
urxrrmn
not only history, but history In the
e r su pre m e lodge offic ers . T h is situ a
i ed in this class.
r du«»
*Lo
t o f functional
u n rtk rtiaT w aaji n a w hich I havauanri
making.
tion led to the c o n je c t u re In some
wurwWfuJ aurr*mm In thouaanda o f «
A New Co ntest—
I t !■ th a raa n lt o f K jraara axD arlanra and haa
Prominent p«*ople everywlmro praise
So much genuine en th usia sm had qu a rters that these offic ers were e i t h
M an i<raiae»l In tha
h ls h fa t LrrrnH h f
been displayed and so m any credita ble er holding on to the money to be u*«*d
this am azing w o rk :
hundred«
o
f
m
a
r-
compo sitio ns su bm itted in th«i v a r i o u s ! ^ wetting up host ile lodges, were wll
riad wuman.chlUi-
" T h e be st acco mplish men t y«*t pub
previous co n t e s t s Captain W a n a m a k e r j w i t h h o l d i n g it from the suprem e
laaafo r y«*ar*,«v)M>
lished."— T. J . Joh nso n, Prln. Sh elby
b ie a m a h ap p y
who Is continuing this a ltr u ist ic un i hslge, or that th«* money collected
m o t h * r a . I f you
Inst.
dert aking in loving m em ory of his de- j may have been squandered for other
w ill «end m * r m ir
"I>«'serv«'H a place In «»viTy lib rary."
nam a and addreaa
ceas ed fath er, was co nvinced that I purposes.
I w ill * bully «arid
many new lovers of music-
must b e !
In asm uch as Mr. G r e e n s ultimatum i
(). II B ernar d, Tenn. S t a t e Agent.
you a t r e a t m e n t
ea g er to add thei r noms de plume to Iio the South Carolina offic ers had j
,
and a cony o f my
" T h e best I have ev«?r exam ined.’*—
specified that the co llection be turned j
♦ ^ b o n h la t. ' A Ilal.y
mauscript yet to be born.
Y o u r llo m * . •
I).
C. Drayton, Pres. Alabama C h rist
lover
by
November
16.
the
failu
re
of
Hence a F u r th e r Co ntest i t Hereby
rhlrh talta h o w to n a a ft a n d m anjroth«-r thin^a
these o f f ic e r * to obey the order Issued , niarrind
ian Inst.
woman should know. Moth w ill )»a »ant
announced.
to them forced th«j su prem e c h a n c e l f r r e In plain w rapper. W rlta t/vlay. I>r. II. W ill
T h e s e a re the p a rticulars:
"1 would not be without it." - —J . I).
I I I - F , 7th A V ail«. UC J a a r p h . Mat
lor to ta k e the third move In the m a t
Class I Songs with words.
Hill, Pres. C K S. Haii 1 1st College.
ter.
Class II— Plano compo sltons.
Two prizes of $250.00; one to be a-
Y O U 'R E ON T H E S P O T
warded in each class .
Here I* a ch a n ce for y«>u to ob tain
Compositions to he sen t to the Rob-
thl* precious volum«« at half price
I er t Curtis Ogden Association in the
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on or be fore J u l y 15, 1932.
Simply mark and mail the hand coup
'T O
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on below. Instead of the re gula r price
Trade
Mark
Emblem
is
the
/ > '
pecially for this co ntest.
of $2 90, pay tin* postman only $1.45
T o be submitted in ink on printed
plus a few c e n t * postage.
You will
music paper.
Tree of
T o be marked plainly with the cla ss
then have for your v«‘ry own the latest
. In which the respec tive composition is
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who isn’t always dressed in pi. y
S
treet*
T h e competitio n limited to com pos
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ing, so put you rself on the spot today.
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R ig h ts of public perfo rm an ce of the
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as this one docs. It relies solely on
winning composition* to he vested in
Napli'rvllle, Illinois.
the delicacy of the fabric and the
the R obert Curtis Ogden Association
S i r s : Bend me the lah'Ht edition of
chartritng soft lines of the design.
for
a
period
of
thr«*e
m
on
ths
a
f
te
r
the
The i'tt’/- rape collar is scalloped, and
P R O G R E S S O F A R A C E for a week's
aw ards are made.
the same graceful line is carried out
examination. I will pay th«« postman
Our read ers will note th a t there is
in th«- v ?v that the waist is attach* d
still opportunity to compet e for the
$1 45 th«? bargain price and postage.
at the Lont. Grouped shirring pro
Five Hundred Dollar Prize of Class
vide* i llness for the skirt. A sash
If It does not plea*e me I will return
F our of the 1931 Contest.
ties t* t! r back. Sashes, f»»r some
It and you refund the $1.45.
Also,
that
the
new
C
o
n
test
for
1932
reason 4«*gys suggest parties to lit-
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