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MAIN OFFICE: 518 FOURTH AVENUE i Teiephoce Cotirt 1832: Syndicate Boildins rDllsbed PItUbarsb. Pa'erery by Court er 'PofillaMas Company, L. VANN, Editor and Treasurer VW Tr; IRA F. LEWIS'Manager 'and Secretao tipV' VIM.TAM City Eltr ''5 iruA' CJtRT jOXKS, 'Ctty ltr 'jVl r. A.

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Dtiarnborn Street, ChlcajgO; Frisco Bldg, St. Louis, 101 Park 7a.Tnae,vNw York. LET US GIVE THANKS With our harvests abundant, oar storehouses filled, our firesides happy and our nation at peace with most of the world, Li yt approach another Thanksgiving with every reason to be K.grratefiiL WcNature's liberal gifts to man from year to year tell the iV story of a Divine Providence. Man's ingratitude but empha p.fcfeeg the goodness of God, It should not require calamity, sick or famine to bring us to the full realization our imperfections. All about us we see abundant evidence of V7: detennined Mother Nature yielding an unbroken supply of material things man ought to require to make him happy and content.

Perhaps we can do no better than to reflect upon the gen Serous blessings' which come to us at this season of the year. with introspection will help. We might realize that 2the general happiness shared by all has been made possible by the combined effprt.of all; and this leads us to appreciate that after all we are dependent, one upon the other, for the general good that comes to a united people. Surely, we ought to love one another and not hate; regard one another as common agen for the common good. The happiness sure to follow such 'C and regard will help us to appreciate the real meaning and of Thanksgiving.

NEGRO HISTORY WEEK People who are not active, who do not achieve, are soon to the world; likewise, people who do achieve, but whose lachleveraenta are not recorded, are lost to the world. Activity rK'to be impressive must have publicity. Achievement to become valuable and lasting must be recorded. I 7 If it be said of the Negro that he has achieved nothing. it may be said with as much truth that his achievements have had no publicity.

The history of the Negro is one long series of labors with no one to chronicle th m. All other races, except Negro, have been given wide publicity, and their achieve nients have been given not a little subtle advertisement. The JS: 2fegrp has been studiously forgotten, lest he leave a record of value. The printed records of other races prove conclusively that no attention has been given the achievements of the darker brother. Carter G.

Woodson has aroused to the stern reality rthit our achievements have been written in the sand. He has demonstrated clearly that our sad plight is due to a lack of Stareliable record of our achievements. He has shown us that i we have wrought well in ages past, but we had no publicity i agents, no chroniclers to preserve to our posterity a lasting s. record of our work. He comes to us with the plea of one deeply 4 concerned.

He asks us to record our achievements; to leave ff jt behind us a history which shall portray truthfully the life of the group. What could be as worthy a cause? "Kii Aside, from the pride we should have in comparing our i work with that of other races, the absolute necessitv for the un i ldased truth demands that we set about to write our own his The ancient tombs of Egypt are telling us every day how important it is to have a history a record. If we had a reliable and connected record of all our achievements, how much ntore commanding would be our rank as a race of people. We are urged to begin now. Dr.

Woodson pleads with us to begin now to record our activities, regro History Week has been "suggested to stimulate interest in a more perfect record of ourselves. Let us lend ourselves to our own cause, and give expression to the achievements of a stalwart race hitherto ignored and unsung. CONFUSED ON THE PORTER It is very evident that there is confusion on the Pullman Porter situation. Indeed, we are of the opinion that confusion lias been sought and accomplished by those who prefer to see Porter remain the menial he has been all his career as a public serv ant. Thei is some reason to believe that the Pullman Company is spending sums of money to formulate and perfect a defeat of the recent effort of the Porters to organize.

It is 0 very evident that the Pullman Company has been fed upon misrepresentations which served to filch from the Companj 'money with which to oppose the Porters. Some cunning have evidently been to the Com pany and made representations that Russia is disorganizing the American Nero; and that the Pullman Porters are made objects of first attack. This argument has been prepared by meetings and printed pamphlets, and the Company has seen fit to entrust larjre sums to some one as a campaign fund against organization among the Porters. This is calamitous. There is not a Red N'cirro in the whole Pullman service.

The Company knows this; but it is using false representations "as excuses to defer.t the organization of the Porters. How on earth could three Russian Reds disorganize ten thousand Por ters, unless the working conditions were so bad and unequal as to furnish abundant ammunition with which the Reds could work? Posh! The confusion is premeditated. And does the Pullman Company think the Porter undeserv r. ing of the same right already exercised by the engineers and Viiiircmen and other railroad employees? The Brotherhood is organized, and is no part of the A F. of Why should not Reporter liave the unhampered right to organize for collec 'Vt arg ainin And suppose the Porters organize, and the vompany refuses their reasonable demands, and the Porters 4 r.

VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS: (POLICE TOO FREE WITH "GUNS'O From Tbt Pittsburgh Gazette Times For the second time within a week a Pittsburgh policeman, "quick on the trigger, has killed a human being in the streets. Last week it was a boy on the South Side who was mortally wounded when blue coats fired at a crowded automobile that was being driven too fast and recklessly, as the alleged. Sunday morning a colored man, one of two questioned by officers, was shot to death when he ran. One story says the quick firing policeman had seen a "gun" in the man's pocket. Another is that a weapon was found on the dead body.

But this man was not even suspected of having committed a crime. To the policeman his flight might have appeared conclusive of his guilt of something. Yet a perfectly comprehensive impulse would cause an innocent, though perhaps, ignorant man to run to avoid arrest. All danger to the policeman's life was removed by the flight. A po Ikemnn is not privileged to shoot save in self defense or to prevent the escape of a desperate criminal, whose being at large is a known menace to the public safety.

A judge in another state contended recently in arsruing aiainst the traffic in pistols, that policemen a well as other should be disarmed because "officers kill more Not a bit of it. Cubans are not menials. Filipinos are not menials, and they will not become menials. The Company would find the difference, and the public would demand reinstatement of the American Porter, whose service has made the Pullman Company what it is today. Of course, it would help Negroes generally if other races beside ours could be seen working in this country as menials.

But other races belong to nations with some independence. They will not stoop to the job of dusting tho travelling public The public is with the Porter. The Public Is tired paying the Porter while the Pullman Company declares huge dividends out of profits accumulated by the Porter who works for the Company, but WORKS the public for his pay. Let the boys organize. Right will prevail.

It require scourage, but they have that when passengers are burning or drowning. Have a little courage, boys, when your own are hungry, produce a few Daniels as heroes of your, own cause. Be men as well as Porters. L' POEMS FOR YOUR SCfrAP. BOOK IF I WERE YOU It is easy say the oulck, sharp word That will hurt him through and through The friend yea have always held so dear But I weuldnX if I were you.

It is easy to spread an idle tale That perhaps may not be true, And give it wings like the thistledown. But I wouldn't, if I were you. To words once spoken, if harsh, unkind. You must ever bid adieu. And though you may speak them if you wish, Yet I wouldn't, If I Were You.

Anon. innocent people with their 'guns' than they do criminals." We do not think it is advisable to take revolvers away from the policemen, but it is imperative that they be taught discretion in their use of them. Only resort, to their "guns." Neither of in desperate cases should policemen of the killings to which we have referred is justifiable on the ground that the public safety wquld be imperiled without them. A woman regards man as a means to an end; but he soon finds out he is at the end of his means. A friend in need is never intangible; he is one you can touch.

At Eventide My heart is weary, for the day has been so long, And the path so steep; But now at length 'tis come to evensorig. And the shadows deep Fall, a soft veil, upon my aching eyes, To bring me sleep, deep sleep. Father, when my heart has grown too weary. When the day has been too long. And the path too steep; But when at length has come the final evensong.

And the shadows deep Fall, for the last time, upon my aching eyes. Then be Thou near, and in Thy gently cradling arm, keep Me ever through my last long sleep. By Helen Wingate in Advance. strike what then? Cubans and Filininos would tjk thir In the Editor's Mail On the Stephenson Case, Nobles vilie, Ind. Los Angeles, California.

16, 1925. The Pittsburgh Courier, Editorial Department, Pittsburgh, Penna. Daar Sirs: Please accept the following from one who is merely one amongst the thousands who read your paper and are pleased with its thoroughness. In my opinion I feel that I have found a living being whose life interprets the real, purpose of the ugly monster worshiped by numskull "The Dragon." Malignant, loathsome immorality, vandalism, sordid corruption, trach vandalism sordid corruption, trech personified in the so called "Ex Chief of a cult known as the Ku Klux Klan. THIS MAN IS A LIVING SYMBOL OF THE KLAN.

Headlines of a paper: "Ex Klan Chief Guilty In Girl Murdtr Stephenson Given All, which in a short time will amount to nothing. "Parole." His henchmen, sweet little Klan men, will manage to extricate their king from what he would term "a rather embarrassing position. He says, am the law, I have just begun to fight, in other words, he is just retting his bearings, the rang will pardon the little error and Ax it up. This Klan business is like that of a tribe of head hunting cannibals who seek other tribes to feast upon, bat when they're too lazy to exert themselves eat the weaker members of their own tribe. An innocent victim ravaged, a weaker member eaten.

How long will the Americai. people tolerate this White Garbed Mass of Fools, who represent the spots of leprosy rather than purity, this Eating Cancer that is knawing. at the. very cul the nation, destroying everything that it touches and destroys itsciz at the same time? i Sincerely, A Colored American. Sometimes it seems that on must be taxed to death to Introduce your 'enemies to your wife's relations, then orrfve them, HINK: not because the Sweet case Is lungin over I our heads and the lynching industry took on a new lease of life this year, that have nothing to be thankful for.

We give than, Individual and incidental instances of progress, but for our general ana wwihw upward all ton toe. v. fc: we are bi 1 TiU. our courage to ngni ana conwnu rXj "5 In the face of attempted segregation and Jim Crowin ln the North, are rising to tn occasKHimna eun a solid phalanx of resistance that is proving most formidable to our enemies and We are thankful we have rwspapr to aid tzs in fighting our battles. Time was when our side of a story only rot a neanne; uupuw hearted white man.

or through the pulpit or a.pampa A V.t nrl Infurm nur. 1SUI uiuuui ox, consequence wuw jtappena 01 wit4 world is known oy an or us inywnew eight states witWn the week; It occurs. We are thankful that the great Industrial centers of the North and East offer ns opportunity to earn a decent livelihood at respectable and honest toll, and that in these communities we have equal edacatioral oppor tunity with the other eiUxens arouna us. 1 imm when we were condemned, to the work of the farm, wht)r would do the work or not, and our chances for betterment and self help were just as circum scribed as the narrow limits or xarm useir. we have gotten away from that.

Our children look forward to becoming real men and women of tomorrow. We are thankful that the great Dana oi rwjnwi porters have at last awakened to the tremendous latent nnwitr in their and are makinsr a move to become organised so they can wield it to better their condition. When so large a class of our workers are lifted a step higher, a change for the better will be evident that is not generally suspected wow Ana. thankful we live under a rovernmenc that permits ns to expand and to grow. It could be worse.

With all of our complaints and grievances, this eovernment claees a nremium self help, initiative 'and healthy ambition. It stands as a referee to see that justice is done, while the eitiiens look to bettering their own condition, uur institutions oner opporsumiy vo bring ont the highest and best In us all. We may not get justice in every individual ease, but justice is the rule, the ideal, whether the seeker be white or black. We should be thankTul tot tnat. URING the discussion' following the meeting of the American Negro Labor Congress in Chicago, the Norfolk Vlrtrinian Pilot observed this: The way to make the Negro a better and safer "element of our nonulation is not to organize upon imaginary alien seducers, but to conduct an intelligent onensive arainsx we real aomesuc menaces, mat embitter the Ne tyro's life and impel him to occasional acta of rebellion.

One of these menaces is the unspeakable lynching practice. Others are hoaxing conditions, ander edueation, and grossly unfair discrimination in the matter of parks and playgrounds. "In these menaces lie the only real that the American Negro may become radical. IT he becomes a radical, it will be America's fault not This Southern white paper has the right idea, But what will it do to make these sentiments a reality? Will it stop with these few words, or will it campaign. in season' and out.

Tor the very worthy platform it has enunciated If more of the white papers, responsible for molding puwic opinion in tne bouut. would speak out in this fashion and vigorously continue to TCDeat its areed and platform, a great change would be brought about much sooner than apparently a change will be broucht abotrfc If the Virginian Pilot means what it says and will re peat its woros now and again at we proper. moment, it will not only render its immediate section a lasting service, but will earn forever th gratitude' of both tht MISsSlABEL FTTTS, after 19 years ia the Ti man service as maid, is riven a feature arti 'f la the New York World on her lovaltv anrf Kiii lty to converse with the celebrities she hss met In her work. Her list includes the most famous men and women of America, together with many foreign persons of note. Her duties on the Twentieth Century have brought her in contact with Ex President Tafiv the late Theodore Roosevelt, Lloyd George.

Ernest Balfour, Charles Schwab. David W. Griffith, Paderewsid. Mische. Elm an.

Frits Kreisler, Ogden Carnegie, Robert W. Chambers, Gen. Goethsls. John Drinkwater, Sir Thomas Upton and other national and international njTures. Miss Fitts tells of beinz comolimentad on her intelligence.

She reads the best matrazines and attcnus i nc cess piays on uroaoway. sne is an ex ample oi now to make the most of your station, how HE fact that Geonre H. Jones heads St truisVtf nn Iof New Jersey, at a salary of 125,000 a year, is iuh Kiuwut muiuoK to outers. ar. Jones started iixra me ootiom a mere stenographer and work8d up.

7 Others, in other businesses, can do what Mri. Jones past week is not surprising. When many freight, ears are loaded it Is a sign that businesas active, but wnen they are declining It la an in dication that the volume business' transactions are For this reason the number of loadings are the most sensitive barometers of trade conditions. Shipments of wheat, coal, steel. and other industrial and consumer articles are made.

That buyers have new completed their fall buying, shipments are declining. This is a perfectly normal reaction. Tremendous Sale af Asto Tracks Is Evidenced Investment in Fixed Capital Stabilises Condi Lions Another favorable sign Vf trade conditions is that 6783 trucks were sold during tho past month. Trucks mean investment in fixed capital (that which is used to carry on the basic operation of an enterprise). Business men would not invest in fixed capital unless they anticipated more income to be derived from a greater volume of sales.

That more trucks have been sold this last taonth than any month previously Is an indication that a wave of optimism' is sweeping .1 has don. it.vlcrorously and sitelligently. A ,1 ou SATXJliDAYr NOVEMBER 28, COURIER IliRIAt aiiiiii lie umgoaa 1 1 II )l7WW' 1 2Loe young man tnat woulj a win an athletic event, even.a secsad rate animal could 'Jf5 wiU not sacriflce himself or force HIMSELF to win In the onlv S8 race for success, for mental and e.I' '1s in life's struggle. 1 'se Fafliires of the part do r.ot r. courage you, you are detet r.

wise roan wrote: TW learn wisdom from failu success; We often disco rr ,) out what will not do; and a mistake never made a discovr.v. Study your own failures, ho member that there is no vvoti vvv tinue. Drive yourself AND V. Fred Haynes. the new president nf rix.i says the man who puts his job fir r.l rir ia the There re George Jones ar i i fl iness leaders who started at th: 'tw by; study and work.

Others can t.s oo likewise. 11 THIS week Howard and Ur ct Iron far the twenty Am tir? iict were years, oir.ee i wwzj jcoi mirii 4 wu cicrpuorji, ana IVll been on the side of Xaneoln. hrin tr 7T hT' wna nin UlitBl I ox uh weaty wiyta. iiowa mainder ties. TTTrmrtl Hnealn r1ncci .1..

social event wim colorol America. mi I. 0 .1 IJ many i uie iairer sex. inev arc est they sexne. It is well that two college tearn cm ewt ui interest.

Our intellectual life is in a fair ij VWU 47V444t Un CA Ki tention. ctwt ird on Tit, has cor rJI THE Steel Cry Bank of Pitburrh hss rJ months" been advertising for thrif: srfesati. Tw been most persuasive, and we do not doubt tht w) numbers of depositors were attracW to the tekr tne basic ox ueir moaest out tppesL I The new bank, which is now a Trust opened its regular fall campaign for cv isi pint accounts. The Steel City Bank is slowly bat scjelv inrsVxi? the habit of thrift in all who come under the icSae? of its messages. Many who read its vectiy tpn' may not be near enough to place money dirertjy is, bank, but they will be moved to stsrt a nriap count in some bank, and that will be a victory Mr the less for Steel City.

I It is only fay raising up our own irstitatkna us in, the elemental virtues, that we wiU eer tasr to Enoch in a fundamental way in oar esmcisrj L' Steet juiry uank is doing a greit wnrt to keep fU ads before the public NOT long acq a wee'dy Bews Birufc, lost a Southern because it nlled eakr; man in its columns. VTe wa iti thought people who siHy obfeeiom like would have long since passed out. But evioetlT i rtmala.to plague the life cf the more proTretcn. But ttrmely enough the word "Mr." ha the. chief bone of contention with the Kegrs k5 What he has always fought or is ths we sp mW In the word Negro.

Many wk'te clietim r. rsfusS; eapitalke the word, but there its tlm sd wha kUve acceded to the Negro's rerieji for apfttt Reputable publishers whs bars th tsr brougH to their attention claim they cat the swi an sdfective and not to desinat a rare, therefor Ihev not iustlf.ed ia But Negroes point out, however, thittht i tht Werd denotes a wee, yasi Vr" Jsnsnese, and hence, it should be csuiriired. World have eanitalised the word si a cooosaa Hr th Karat VrtrV 1W S2d Af the feelings of Negroes. Bat imagine a man to Nerrs "Mr," la print. Soma of the old timers kct they die.

nevertheless. E'wish now to command a F. his for years stood in one ct le of rvT rna wrirr ti nrin "tikiu.n 2 "craclieTs with his militant Hous' Wars I Richardsoa, has given no cuarter, 1 the fg he is In the midst of ku kluxers and has been threatened more than once, bat he fastly made the whites hew to tV 1 did; not hew U'the. line, he told thrrs si', no uncertain langusre. It seems a miracle thnt 1 himself dead long a ro.

Eyt fro the bM ills in late issues of his pr.per he P7 tlnua to stand his ground and tell the Just how right they are and just V5. BJchardsoa truly has the coura of ki ydMlitip i sty Cmwmm uzs, Tk en Normal Decline la Freight Car Loadiag Is Seea Buyers Have Purchased AH Fall Stock That, freight car loadings should have slightly, declined during Stopeadoua Loan Made By Federal Reserve Banka Credit Granting Reaching Dsngersualy HlrV Ptdat 4 Latest reports have. It 'that the Reserve Boards made 650, 000,000 loans to ntmixr hnV kj $200,00000 borrowings were made frm the Reserve. Banks. Such Pfodigious credit granting means there is a cheap supply of Credit On hand.

In mam this state Is healthy for industry for oorrov ana extend operations. Howaver. extensions of operations can be carried too far. ilea may 0114 and manoxartura but sud denly th find they iare "overproduced." (rTodueed so much oT a surplus that they, cannot command a profit for the merchandise.) Bank 44 un Bn ju4 uu esorraous in the extenakvn t( Knk credit and should exert thH inflfv. ence to restrict crecKtr grafltisg' so avers anotner financial crisis.

orelra DebtTaagT Plaeea America c.mnarrasslax PosiUos Heavy Ar IsHtiKU Accord! nr tn Uji i.n Ma.iJ.. AId Debt PaysneaU United State wCl hxva be paid in the form of goods either to the United directly tf through the medium of some 'third country. th foreigners can Py though, they nmst have aome $nr with whlcbrto w. The'Ai irZ. Bnr position is eimllAT ta country.

nc rov. est in il trying situauon Financial Cent Endesvorinr T. Cootrs.Kr ei So powerfu' tV have on the 79? it is siWTnpws rt eraat this timeahould be seriously! and brine Jfa 'J a taxs ta an cvtrpopuiated' greater profits. t.t r. now fc tia aas no off' I aa income American Fixisce a 7r'.

These Europe" earn an income ty services. In sli. a tt iacome they rr.ia eirs as to create surplus they ca 1" country in the Vi those goods ica. But Amencarj beL chase Europe" claim it detror kets. They as cans sell their PlfjC, ans are ts kwtm of the Urited cation net orAf a financial whirij Intrinsic vaJue.

of stocks 0r mr af whkh can be an ordinary is usually oetemiiJ I of earnings that As with a ccmr Jrr try; the value unit is larrely excess of irnpor the excess of Budspest is. "5, the domestic cf1. status of Hungsr stocks by borrow that the efTiciencv will be imPnZ! witl mater efficienrj 0 .0 1 SJs DS UCS jts; i SB JSth th ef iiert virt a rOw ir er Jar tOTj Ma 4 the ste frj.