The Birmingham Reporter from Birmingham, Alabama • 1

itol REPORTER inf IV?" (mi OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A. F. AND A. M. AND ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF ALABAMA VOL.

17. NO. PRICE 5 CENTfe 1JIUMIXGI1AM. ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1911) qopiai qhiituedm phwcpcqq mm i HEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS OF WAR DEPART tlLIII cure or both. UlllUnUU 0 UU IHL I II Lllll UUIiUllLUU ULUULU Staff Correspondent Birmingham Re TROUBLES AIRED GREAT MEETING AT KNOXVILLE COUNTRY TELLS TRUE OlTIONiKNOWS NQiCOLQR porter.

By H. F. Arnold. The Two Classes. i Poller slates that in his opinion 200 members could be secured.

This i New Orleans, La. In a previous ar-! STORY .8 TOLD OF AN OFFICER1 tlcle I contended that education would ST STREET AND TJHE SALOON NEGRO SOLDIER MEN FROM EVERY SECTION OF THE SOUTH, WHITE AND COL-ORED LEADERS, WERE IN probably is the first instance in the NEGROES IN KNOXVILLE TO HAVE A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THROUGH THE CO-OPERATION OF WHITE CITIZENS. ARE MADE. WHO APPLIED FOR REGULAR0 a lonK way living SERVICE AND WAS DENIED BE- lace Problem (I mean to dispense with history of the count ry where a large commercil body of whites has sought PLACE NEGRO. FOR THE Y0UNGTTTTTTTTTTT8 By H.

F. Arnold, Staff Correspondent Birmingham crime, which is one of the phases of CAUSE OF BEING A NEGRO. the problem) rnd that is the edurri- WHITES CONDEMN MOB RULE AND BLACKS POOR TRAINING tion of the masses of both races. In the Negro race we have two classes, OTiTriiriiT IPpurn one who is a victim of circumstances flU I I Al ulYILN I lo5UtU and the other who Is a victim of bis! rjanrrTT own folly. I shall attempt to prove Dl IflKO.

I II. CftKLtl I lor a co-operative body of our pen-1 pie to work for the progress of the community. If this goes through in Knox-ville, a precedent will be established which may well be followed by other communities, in view of the fact that co-operative relations are necessary, and there is little or no opportunity to EXAMINATION FOR NEGRO MUST STILL GO FORWARD VIRGINIA CELEBRATES 300TH ANNIVERSAAY Are We Cowards? A noted Professor of the state of Minnesota a few years ago was asked the question why Negroes do not commit suicide. His rejoinder to the query was of the three phases of the my contention with concrete tacts. The fhurrh Rishnn Acc't SprrAtaru of, Negroes who Sre victims of cireuni- The Lata Booker T.

Washington Was set into the "patent body." War Emmet J. Scott and The Daily stances are the men and women of, The Negro Is Declared to Be the Mest. niim1' willing, knowing and feeling, Preachers Are Asked to Speak and Teach More About Home Living and Less About Heaven-Going and the Golden Slipper There. Neglected and Most Criminal. i8; that the Negro was tne stronger.

The Editor's Note There are a few our race who educate themselves and walk circumspectively before God and Baltimore Herald Make Complaint and Order Is Revoked Immediately. Much Discussed by the Speakers Dr. Leroy Bundy Makes Statement Before His Leave for Joilet. Statement Issued from Banquet Professor was reputed to be the best Hall. rare instances of our men being accepted as members in local commercil bodies.

For example: William versed man on psychology of the times hence the questioner accepted the an man. They are placed in the cata-gory of the namby pamby, of the race who go Indiscriminately into vice and crime, hence we hear these words swer as an axiom. Todny we find Specatl to The Reporter. Washington, D. May 7.

Letters have been forwarded to the War De (By W. L. Porter.) Owens, of Los Angeles, and M. French, of Sandusky, Ohio.) a body ol would-be professors of Protection of the Negro again.it mob rule, better educational facilities for the Negro race and equal justice In courts for blacks were three of the salient topics discussed at Monday's That the Neero Question is not, frnm the Illiterate and semi-illiterates' 1,. I'sycnoiugy, eumoiogy anu antnnapoi partment by Bishop Charles Spencer Smith as chairman of the Commission hP race: Al.

Negroes are "I 'O'ing to disseminate the story we tl.R Meirrn anMlor shnunrt ro. 'Chic nfir True nr ine npst, riu: on After-War Problems, of the A. M. 1 alike. t.

IV 11,1 I Ill WIlII'll MIII11M I on the battle fields ti i (Uictance to ngut cawug' idcis are ei luriii, nui ery E. Church, W. T. Andrews, editor of 'blood of the American whites north The Daily Herald, Baltimore, and; nor Ssouth, for they know better, it is By The Associated Negro Press. Africa Wants To Be Free.

Denver. May 10. The Colorado African Colonization company sent a request to the Peace Conference asking that African people be left to develop in their own way. The request states that blacks and whites now are friends, hut "if you continue to torture and afflict us in the future as has often been the case in the past, what will hi our relations tomorrow?" The plea is signed by J. N.

Walker, President, and S. H. Robinson, Secretary. unlike the statements we have been receiving from time to time which shows but. one side of the question, leaving the other at random.

sometimes used orally by them in order to appease the rabble, crowd, but deep down in their hearts they others of like prominence in public affairs, calling attention to a nendorse-ment which had been placed on the Lodges Are Suspicioned. Macon, C.a., May 12 There has been an effort launched in this community to have a law passed to make it possible for the sheriff of the county, or his deputies to have access to the secret lodge halls of the Race, because "'Negro lodges are nothing more nor less than hotbeds of anarchy and Bolshevism, and are always plotting and scheming against the white race." This statement was made bv W. J. of Fiance. Why all of these falBe reports? The only answer that we are able to give is that there is a certain click who would disparage every lota of the good work done by our boys out of their prejudice against the Negro.

These gentlemen during the holocaust were ascending the various session of the Southern Sociological Congress which opened a three days' session in Knoxville, Sunday afternoon. Both the morning and afternoon sessions of tho Congress Monday were enlivened with dramatic references by speakersto conditions which they said prevailed in the south in regard to the so-called "opression of the black by whites, and the Inability of the Negro to secure adequate educational facilities because of the tendency in. application tiled by a colored officer; know better. The Negroes who are At a banquet conference of white who had been overseas, relative to; victims of his own folly are the Ne-and colored leaders held in Chicago his litness for admission into the! groes who allow their sons and daugh- several years ago, oue of the white Amu- Tho tin il trmpn nn tura tn rri nrnnilKi'linllslV into crime 1 tntn.i hv a r.l nf vle wit 1. imnunit v.

This class is! Hmmt mni! P'atloims vociferating to the Negro officers appointed to investigate the a great hindrance to our onward strain made the statement that al-qualitications of candidates for assign- march As a chain is no stronger though Negroes constituted only two his past history and record. In other words they were using the language of Henry of Agin's Court who, when many sections to exploit funds in- ntents in the reorganized United than its weakest link. Hut I must per cent of this community, they were Want Birmingham Negroes to Leave. Wingate, white, who further declares: Birmingham, May 9. An oily The more and longer they are per-tongued member of the Race has been milted to go with their Bolshevistic coins about the smaller suburbs here plotting institutions the more danger- placed in a predicament similar to for the financlng of give statistics to prove my contention responsible for ten per cent of the less my argument is absurd, let us orime.

America, said he who sheds his blood schooling." take the five states that give the pre- Among the white notables present preaching freedom and Negro rule in ous the menace will become. This Africa. He has been telling them that fact will become more pointedly plain ponderance of illiteracy in both races. (m that occasion wag the venearbie Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, States Army, after summing up all citations and observations, was as follows The Board recommends that he be not examined. Reason, unqualified by reason of the qualities inherent in the Negro race: an opinion of the Board, based on the testimony of five white officers serving with the 368th Dr.

Noble, then pastor emeritus of with me this day shall be ny brother! though he never was so vile I'll make him more compassionate. But an abrupt ending of the war without entailing only a meager loss caused a decided change of sentiment and now we are branded as cowards, but if our enemies would only search the annals of history mayhaps they would be shocked for this is not the first time that the Negro fought in France. a new nation, with a Negro for king, to you in the future, and for this rea-is to be st up in the dark continent: son if you would go to work and insert that bread grows on trees and honey "be stitch in time it would save nine flows from the springs; that when i the future and perhaps world's of thev once get there, all their troubles trouble for both races, vvili be over, and all they will have to "The Veasy law ought to be amended Arkansas and Texas, and investigate their status relative to mob violence and crime. Louisiana that has more illiterate whites and colored than any stale in the union, is noted for its dastardly acts. Only a few days ago a mob entered a hospital and com the old Union Park Congregational church, and among the colored leaders was Mrs.

Ida Wells Harnett, a pioneer in work among her people, and, like most pioneers, encountering more animosities than assistance whichever way she turned. But she Ihfantry. Negroes are, deficient in The work of the congress Monday was devoted principally to a discussion of tho Negro problem, insofar as It affected their status in courts, their educational institutions and their privileges in business dealings. All of the speakers were unanimous in their expressions that the Negro shouH be protected a'iist mob punishment In expiation for crimes against whites, and that better facilities for their education and general comforts should be provided. The number of Monday morning's program, which began in tho Second PreHbytorian church promptly mitted wanton murder on a Negro was' then, as now.

eminently well in Back in the early history we are told ul 1 do is eat and rest themselves miner ou "I'i'o mu the shade of the giants of the forest, lodges in some way as well as other About twenty families are said to have institutions. The legislature could sold their possessions and are packing Pass a law giving our sheriffs and to go to the 'land of promise." HRi' deputies the right and authority to inspect these institutions and the u-hr una 1 vino. hplnlesR in the lied and 1L I lormea concerning me ainicumem tha. our foueht so valiantly in the custody ottne ai has t0 or their enemies prayed to God Al- moral fiber, rendering them unfit as officers and leaders of men." War Record of Negroes Refutes Absurd Finding of Army Board. The writers of the communications to the War Department, in addition to condemning the injustice to the officer involved made it quite plain that the colored people of the country resent most strenuously the relied ion upon the race as a whole in 1S way upwilru anu 8Ile was tn sfnn tho sun that dqrknpss ill Iowa or Massachusetts, where mighty to stop the sun that darkness the kind of philanthropist willing to might come and sheild them.

But the false accusations of those who shut her eyes to facts. literacy is at a low ebb? In Texas that, stands in the class with Louisiana conditions in the country surrounding them." Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, according to the high Crisis Held Up. New York, May 11. Considerable comment has been made here with ref- Ua Idciiii f'lMCW As for Dr. Noble, he was a man of would disparage the valor of the Ne 9:30 o'clock was the invocation by Negroes (and many of them) have hnnevolence so profound and heart so been burned at the stake.

There Ulat a Kiaahing statement de- Dr. Walter C. Whllaker, rector of the gro will amount to but naught, for we stand untarnished as purified by 7 sense of justice of Wingate, and those being held up by the Federal authori- 4 ,1,0 i.wi that. "Negroes 1 iw.nn at-t nf that kind ner-! i i 1.1... he represents: "I fullv believe in ties until an investigation of its contents were made.

After considerable are deficient in moral liber, and petrated by civilized mankind only blow inrt- nf for ourselves a regard is as an uusustained indict-! Gernlanv and America In the annals' 4he Most Neglected nionument that no worlds cataclysm a eroun of i.u,(.rv x- i V. 9 war nor the prejudice of no set liard work-protection, everywhere ing law-abiding Negroes a and our white people ifn in1 iiearti siHiiium as- effort on the part of the officials of the magazine, permission was given for the edition to go forward, but sev- They de- incompetents and failures. jception of when Bruno, the Italian about the excessive percent- should see to it that they get it. Even lean tear down. Who asked for our monument We will give to you three liinwlrnd vonrrt if InvJlHv Hlul clared the charge to be.

absolutely dis-1 aSirfmomist was burned at the stake a(, of crime in proportion to credited by the written record 01 me t()1. Kliyjng that earth revolves around noiMilat ion. he leaned forward to eral late. In addition the maga- zine has some startling intormalion 11 Jilt TJ HUH till" mm great white race is bis friend." brilliant achievements ol colored Hun, ami those who burned and said: "I expect vim to: beers under lire in the tirecest oof-1 nlart vm, Hruno were religious bigots 1 that Mrs nanioU." tt he 1 lensives of the war. and by the i.ub-;am, ho(l we have a goodly number; am afrai(1 ranX rH.lol.," Psychology was nglit, ol the tnree lished testimony ol Ceneral in Bui, uarU0n for di- hut whon sllP lnok phases 0 the niind we are the ronger 1 ami nf a score iwn and in the event that the white man St.

John's IlpSscopal church, t'o'low-Ing prayer, Warren Kimsey, the War Camp Community service music director, took charge of the program. Selections by the Fisk jubilee singers followed. Wants Chance For Negro. The Negro of tho south wants two things, declared Dr. W.

W. Alexander, of Atlnnta, in his address at the Monday morning session. First, Dr. Alexander stated, he wants a chance to work out his own life in freedom, he wants opportunity and responsibility instead of things. Secondly, he wants to be understood by the white man.

To bring about the latter Dr. Alexander suggested interracial committees' where the Negro "could sit, down and feel that he was wanted to sit down and discuss the things he needs and wants with the influential white men of his in our predicament we nffienrs of highest military 1 i.wt.u 1 mtnrn tn the main. ......1.. ii i was with refcrcmie to treatment of soldiers in France. Dr.

DuBois makes a veiled attack on Dr. Moton, of Tuskegee Institute and Emmett J. Scott, of the War Department. Guardian Fails to Appear. Boston, May 11 The failure of the well known Boston Guardian to Itli.lITT 1.

,11. Mil (in Negro Calls Meeting of the Races. Kansas City. Mo May 12 The subject of "Race Adjustment" has been given a new airing in this community because or the friction engendered wtih reference to our people buying standing, all of whom had the Negroes and whites who fail to' ening as it seemed when boldly assume that they would all commit suicide, but we are not cowards and we walk and live in the language of the French philosopher who said educate themselves are a travisty America, and both make our problem; percentage just vantage of knowing exactly how the colored commanders bore themselves itt rriiehtl ne nods' 011 the held of bat- she more intricate. But as my paramount sajd that the colored mil ,111:1111 linn, iiic property in "exclusive sections." Mayor The objectionable memorandum js the Negro, 1 tie.

man is ne make its appearance last week lllis )ointP(1 tw0 f0niniillees, one pa hence, patience, patience, for we lecessanly the most criminal, know that all mstory proves from am our population, but it does 1 is refuted, the writers assert, by the itll nilll an aiong my ite-1 ,.1. ment 111 111 to Tbermopolae of the past to Bel unbroken chain of valorous deeds and 0r fourteen states. I have found Hint be is the most neglected iiium of the present, that as It is with heroism of Negroes in all the wars ot hotisaiuls of Negro boys from twelv created quite a stir among fmm racp an(, a m0ting of this section, who for years have re- wi()(i ceived their information about affaiis an(, kiy. of the Race from that newspaper anil that he read the opinions of Its doughty editor. a f(iunil Equipment Still Inadequate.

lmlivi(luai s() it is a nation, Since that conference of a is set by the enevi- the Uepublic from Hunker Hill tui years old to the udolcscnce age, roam-Carrizal and in France lioiii Verdun jni, t)K, streets like wolves, these boys nun. thi' on Uircii ncoitii ol in i i ti 1(lV IUW 01 liUll Kt. III IMl to the siege of Iare placing upon the 1 ciirrn ll'lVH Illlllli i uithu ittltlM 1 Wm. Monroe Trotter, hven nose who Vm.s invllsion of elude Negroes to cease invasion No Exclusion of Any Officer on Ac-iwills 1() grnatest task that III I 1 1 1 will II i I.I 1 1 I I II iilJIIill 1 1. not rowanls and r.

r.ir. 1 1 nerate mat we an have not always agreed with the policy of The Guardian are hoping that it may soon again make its appearance. iservice, but their nieihods and equip-1 of tlle worijs .1 Sent special thi.r i enor t)a( ked liy tlie annals 01 int wonus 1.,..... n.iii,. in, in mont tor ne i wore are st i iar iro white residence districts." A project is on foot to build 20il more homes in the "Negro section." in order to lake care of the inllux from the south.

I am convinced the majority of the Talks Race Problems. "Race Prolilen. discussions are always difficult and are rarely satisfactory, but regardless of difficulties the talks by both white and Negro lenders at He. session of the Sociological Congress wai history, we know that the false propaganda of those who are trying to brand us as cowards will avail but little. In the langiuiL-e of Abraham I.incol.i, ant to the becreiary 01 ami demeanor invites tne atieu- t() iwU.

ned. The recent up the matter directly with the War tj(m (nwr and as mul- inflx fr0Iil (h, S()11h tlepinrtmeiit, made Ibis reply, upon iudl, s() hence W(, the (mhly the authority of the officials having wol(s mm anow minded of the Fm; ))()S of hl. rolored charge of the ipieslion at issue, in a Negroes are alike." South. "The world may -little pole nor long remember what we say here, but ill1'1 with perfect freedom. Some of mi 1 ressei lo hit 1 must convey to you, my le.uieis, si, it Negroe in Kansa- City want lo keep to themselves." declared Dr.

Tompkins. "Much of the invasion into white lerri-lory lias been by woalihy Negroes who struck oil in Oklahoma, and we believe will amicably adjust iho mat-, (1. of all coliee-neil. of the lialliinore lleralil. 1,, miholil my argument.

In an can never forget what we did her and over in France. strikes into the so called I Hack Hell tin- hi i lectureis were soullicniers by l.iiih friiihih'-'. but ninny 'sere from nih se timis the cimiii ry. Don't Want Negro Name to Show. Washington.

D. May has been quite a stir of commenl among the official family in Washington, and outsiders as well, because of the met that all the cablegrams giving the ivmes of the "official party" traveling with Secretary of lhe Navi Danii-ls on his tour through Europe, the name of Hoberl Gaines, a Race man Gaines is described an messenger, but his name is ahiiiy- on the official ll.il sciu during the day and for long- blocks lliereafter. inn a inecca and a menace their Inecca, I luperalily al It is he 1 adori In il ten "With reference to the marked copy interview with Hie ex-warden of the ihe Daily Herald, containing an peniieni iary of Texas that is located edilorial, quoting an endorsement at Texas, be said that he placed upon the discharge of a col- ul, never bad one graduate incare-oreit lieuienaiil who applied lor re- nned in his and the statistics iciilioii in the service, 1 lie' to say penal in: I Muttons show llial lh.il this wbolrt mailer has been be- there are not liny Negroes in Hieni I I Negr-. 'r'lT'j are toll- Lawrence Is Indicted. Negroes in North Get Offer to Return South.

Chiia.o, May V- T. of repr. sealing Hoiiihetn 1 1 1 -1 1 who are seeking )mt- Sliaile V.ho Wee I 111 Nnrili by war ages lo return lo iIm-i-oil homes, was in i am i Friday. ll I heir III', II pen il-" v. i'lillg In il i from of i' menace hoeicr ol lhat iiiU'i'iigh i i ii i whii Mrs.

ause Hiere they 1 pe of horn In-ill I In glad ban ain ami il is Hie in Mock nl'ler hloi laie he 1 1 1 I a ci 1 11. I -raiiM indii nueni Hard i of C-iar- i 1 rell''' fi in- llie Tlll lliT of uri the ar i leparl ment, am to inloitii you that ilu half lias personally direct I. aw re a jioi' and ii fcu. who have come il'l' iliploma, hence In' our problem we 1 1, our Ann you lo von I' in I i in 1 III I' T. l'l'ciitis Ollce epilo'liiyeii thu out of school wlih a if we are lo solve must educate all ami iiean while trieiids.

race and our race iin.le and that is lo while hoy ami Ilu' luaiiding General al Camp Meade ele 1 at the wiiii a 1 1 1 1 ion. epCicly live I lip i iih lljll -t llielll lle- lllll Colored Nurse Is Arrested. Ahcor, May IL'. and 1 rvi himi all the lindinu; he Ir.i.. also 'so to ri U'I'i i MlppOfftl i i the girl en.

of erai lo il that li I I I llil i I a Ti is. is charged againsl I l.mtii.' lei. 1. a who is nlb'-cd lo iiieped 11 small while child. took Hint several cases have been He I 11 1 i 1 hat in tie- matt'-i' oloieu heitlg coiutlli.

Sloiie I 111 tin' Army, there is to he no on account, of color. Ulili' I'll Dr. bet is fllllllil lllllVe liven, ai'e differ- Negl'oe, as that but ihe nu black boy linl i ri-eiws education in order llial both may anioloiiate their ccndil ions and miIu: our problem thai seems at ii im-M ricable. jy the police department win 10 Neqro "I mil sure you will be ph oil llial bv Hie I the priii- bill i SI ill ma lo the HI I'd of IlUiceroll I Mlcia coiners for tin eglo ui. world calls a crying need, Th rjpl" Ipuiblo V.illl inc.

however is that limine I Well I llien. white people realiX' is no why To Co To Philippines. May I Camp iui lioops of Negro shoaiit Ihis action lias been taken have 'used lhe rod" wilh efl'ec-1 I on while children entrusted 1 i away the deling of I'ricnih-iiip War Heiiarinient, and I persona elilisled Hlaie Street, the icitrol e. ami less ft- ravaM-i 10 'he I'hdippin died LIBEL SUIT lf ARGUED TODAY race the share with you and the entire 11,., of feeling that sohlieis here. iium llie of ml world i nm-e- lln iii BEFORE JUDGE H.

B. ABERNATHY lii wliai ill" a.e voluti eerinu lor service. and unit mil The Nro Soldier. "The Negro su.ilii r. returned from owrsoas service, should expect, and he dues expeci, null a soldiers' chance In their care.

Mob Takes Charge of Soldier, iiii'hre, Ha May 12. Dan Mack, a luriii.T soldier, was removed from the Sjivesli't' jni! by a mob of no. the arriver I'll 1 1 1 wln-u l.e Il ii il' ml Trail nil belong lo lhe vil all lu iieiileil tin. libel suit Negr the ueiahborh though bail Iiihmi a freipn nt lisitor there, I nliapaily Ihe woik co'ihl mil lie continued much less i xlendeil. Tim dealh ol a Mil-: cell el il-lalioll Co.p- sni el' i against Oscar Adams is being Slat- Hivw argued in the Court of Common 1'leas, He ''lids Ih ircnni-nllv l.iiown as A lien in III v's falls ivhich tin mo; In France.

(Hie ol tne "W'e are willing lo and a man's chance," declared Dr. Hal Thomas Junes, of Washington, same perils and pit-iipnliiloreil suscepiible lie Ihiv I'mds v. hen lhe reinai'iieil tilioul thirl men. It. has been 1111 Ending quoted by von.

and which was place I upon llie rei ord of the colored ollieer, ill not appear on his per-peanenl record as tiled ill the War Depiil'tmelil." The answer of Dr, Scott lo Hie editor of the Baltimore Herald will serve as a replv to the many inquirers who have shown an anxii'ty to know Hie ,.,.,1,, oloi-ed officers who desire Mrs l.awaoll, who belieied all we 1.. ill, I lh 1 1I10 to 1 Hi' 1 lirte nam 'i'iii: to 10m lllll. III' I.l'l jl I'M Court. The case has been up for sev lull bl'mded whil .,,,,1 a hit i i 1 engulfs him am Keep on un- 111 ecrian dislilcts, Hie man. who Is cbaix'ed wllh allack isk is thai Tilde liuaiiced lhat kind of el foil for three ycar, was a heal) lhe colored oulh linds i'M'i-y body om hig a while man on the streets.

Then lor us." rnllpcie Men Asked To Help. of evidence was brought In and the argument went over to Ihis date, Sal-unlaw May 17th. The suit is brought in him. and the and the hlo.i. Hut I still helieie ill the work swindlers aie far from being sob I i iill believe lhat if we could set al I'i'e those who think the man was a sound thrashing and told to leave the country Some believe he has' been lynched.

The mob traveled in 1 1. in his address at. the morning r-ession of the Southern Sociological )r. Jones is a member of Ihe t'nited Slates of F.duea-Hon and is an expert on movements for the education and betterment of ihe Negro. Ills address Monday morning was given to lake the place of that one scheduled for Hishop Theodore r.ratt.on, president of the con ous and of his own race, i'e liml- I my tin- strategic pom's in Mat" mh-ci i-esnect.

boos, the pool rooms, Hied isrepula liahl ill llie hot bed, it you like to to be rciaincd for service in the regular army. by .1. II. Kelly, claiming main criminal libel, It is charged hvilh-, May Commission of Southern Itace ,1 11.. 1.

A 11- I he saloons, llie nuiiei call II nun social ceiiieis ai.n lean I rlnmw ml I.I lull, hi- lie llallce llllll i'lilmmihiles. Iljueslions whleli mul on I nlllriTl I i.i,.,i!,i,, i flats Vice, in a word, in nhal lo bis ing rooms. I hey would do inure ihan nui Ihiug else to cryslnlize a splra- Is vie III lis the llessle Jones charitable fund, and foolish, woiiileriiig nitlill meelili here, To Form An Organization. 1 hili will lo the college nun Knoxville, May lor-' ('(. Sl)lllll in solving past war "union of a "Negro Board of Com- This organization is made Iilm Fdilor Adams rep hiosi iiniiiiiig imni CII1ICI REPORTER IS INCREASING ITS FORCE.

The llirniinghaiii Reporter is adding to its force of workers and its increased activity Is announced. tlun, define needs, and provide way Mrs. Uaruell. for nieeiiiig needs, maintained that "I know, tor example, that with al "Thiil Is why," llial I have nlway isenled by the law tirm of Iledduiv Oberdiirfer. and Judge Win.

I'. Mr- our strategic point. ior ine pusiness ami up of whiles. clonal men of Knoxville has been sun-1 pfai-nig tin i vice rendered Crosslp, while Kelley Is represented State SI reel i. at is what I have always nun um II.

V. Arnold, lormeriy oi ine ni gress, wtio lulled to gei unci; irom overseas service in time to attend tho Knoxville programs. The part or the Negro soldier In winning the iinrjiist closing, the spirit of Negroes who stayed al home and the nuuiner in which the southern Negro conilucied himself on the I u-fields of France were describe I by in the war, ami tne by Attorneys Hugo lilaek and Mr Ml tested and proposed by the while ls now traveling who did Ibeir best Adorw Judge II. 11. Abernathy is pn dinlinopls l.edgeii' 1 'Hiii il of Coinmerce of this city.

1 oilier loyally moat llie lira! throw of our tut into ihis age of crime and ignorance ami neglect we brought In the son ol pic. hh ill of a Southern college, lilm on his feel and soul him hack homo. Slut" Street had nearly I hn ruin. I inn ii uilh Hie added laei ni.u rough O. ,1.

Stephens, re to fliiii led of espnm- ol es inn lepreseliliiiive in i slilUK', Ueporler. In the pnsl three weeks, Mr Arnold has been working In Ar-, la ol' Texas and Louisi 'ry. The suggestion will he lull''" nn X'i gro was; ever slispecled 111 Hie board of direclors for Hielr ii-i Heinpalhy Inwards Ihe ilun i i or LEROY R. RUSSELL. men la lo colle: appea creatures, and I have loiioled in assertions, hii li cxni'cs es mi tirm belief, willi the siatenmiil that hi the I up of lhe social M'll'emcnl is a e'l'i ri've vv a of reach ilia he young culm i-il no coniillg ill among "I know thai sinh experiinent as Were made ah'l'g these lilies were helpful.

soon a'- work of this kin was launched from a center at I'tuval, If ihe suggestion Is approved, i extensive organization will be Dr. Jones, Although not gom into technical details regarding his theory for 1 southern Negroes, Dr. lones advinatcd strongly "giving the Negro a man's chance." a follow "Thai was a conspicuous liislaiicc among many. What vi" need is a selies of lighthOUSCS lllllllg Slat' Street, or social toner house- social settlement work In in an Ti II ered vv ay." ana lie la doing a creditable work Hooking, advertising and dlstribul-and the paper has Increased its elicii ing agent, can furnish trucks for out-lation wonderfully In these sections. oblovvp excursions, picnics, hay rides, Mr Arnold is a newspaper man of etc.

Iloom 121 1'ylhlan Temple bulld-i'lpe 'experience and comes to Tin- hi. I'bone Main '178(1. Ilesidence Ueporler highly reeolllllielided. i pbiipc (1X12 T. funnel.

-let seek lo (llHlvale a nun. W. Porter, Kditor of The Kasl more generous syne T. sillies llllll lhe silg-, ami II whim- degree ol II of Mr. f-'tenlien will 1.

I w. Ilm the le-sl eleiiienls ol both el II I-'leplieii wl (Continued on Tage 4) (Continued on rtige Hace, Mr. 'dm aiiaops npi'i'iival by li.