The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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ROSCOE DUNJEE Ed>tor
PRU8ILLA DUNGEE HOUSTON Contributing Editor
FREEDOM FIB ALL FOIEVEI
Our Rapid Death Rate
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MADAM JESSIE CARTER
What We Should Eat
MEMBER
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FIRST IN
SERVICE
WHERE HE HAILS FROM
We want to reiterate what we said last week. The Republicans of
this city want to get busy and outline a program that will mean more to the
Negroes than has been the policy of the party to offer in the past. At the
last meet of the central committee, the editor sounded this warning. We
know the underlying current of feeling that results from a great many causes,
and against this sentiment, that has been developed by Democratic politi-
cians in this city, we must battle.
It is a funny thing how some Republicans THINK. When the editor of
this pap$r stated to the committee that the Negroes of this city thought
kindly of Mayor Walton because of his attitude towards the Negroes since
his incumbency in office, one Republican said: You just print it in your paper
about how we gave Blanch K. Bruce a big job and also tell 'em about Judson
Lyons, they surely do not know gbout that?
Well! That is enough to choke an ox! Where is the Negro who does
not know all about Lyons and Bruce? The trouble with the masses of black
folk is: they are tired of the policy of giving some little six bit job tq some
individual Negro and telling the rest of our group that settles the whole bill.
What we want is a program and a policy and a program that seeks to serve
the masses as a whole; that will lift our citizenship status; that will bei
something we can feel every day when we walk down the street and when we
lay down to sleep at night.
As we said in the last issue and as everybody knows, the Black Dis-
patches Republican; it will remain so, but when we go out to fight this spring
for the Republican ticket, we want to be able to match the program that the
Democrats of this town have been very careful to make out for Negroes
since Mayor Walton got into control of civic affairs.
Just get one thing nailed down in the seat of your pants right now:
There are not going to be many Negroes voting any more because of any-
thing that Abraham Lincoln did or because his "Dad" hailed from Fort
Sumpter. The average young Negro who reads history and votes, hails from
"FORT REASON" and is looking forward—not backward!
WEWOKA, OKLA.
Our merchants are putting up a
good front. Doctors seem to be sick.
Mrs. Mamie K. Bradford is at Mem- 1 wonder what has become of the pa-
phis, Tenn., at the bedside of her
sick mother. Mrs. Dr. W. S. Dunlap
Is filling her place in the Public
School.
The County examination for teach-
ers license brought many beautiful
Misses to the city. The young men
were scarce at the examination.
tients; the country is distressingly
healthy, no time to get sick now.
HOBART NEWS
We are too prone to star scraping,
when our people are uninstructed as
to the simple laws of health, happi-
ness and success. For health, our
children should have nourishing por-
ridges. Milk and bread, bread and
butter. How good a slice of bread
and butter was when, you and I were
children. Oatmeal, plenty of rice, lit-
tle of meats and other indigestible
foods. This is all the child of the
rich white homes of intelligence re-
ceives. Feeding of indigestible foods
is responsible for 50 percent of the
deaths of babies in the Negro home.
"Give that child what he wants" is
the favorite expression in the home
ignorant of what the child needs.
Pood chewed in the mouth of an el-
der and given to a baby is little short
of a crime. The average human be-
ing's mouth is swarming with germs
that his system has learned to resist
but which would be fatal to another.
I remember a little two-year old
youngster who lived next door. When
eggs were put on the table, he would
yell until he was given every one. The
parents in this family were the chil-
dren. He used to come over to our
house and eat what ever we would
give him. I remember another child
of four who would not eat bread and
milk; (the most ideal food in the
world) she did not like oatmeal. Many
a child in the average home is like
this. A little firmness and intelligence
can change them like this latter child
who finally could not get enough of
the foods she had once refused. Her
skin cleared up and she grew plump
and well.
Have we failed to develop our child-
ren's tastes for proper foods? Sup-
*■^1181
was adding to his power of nobility.
I gave up mine too for no man shall
outdo me in the hour of national sa-
crifice. Some of you were wise e-
nough to heed but the many of our
people ate more and more. The high-
er food went, the larger grew thdir
appetites.
As we grow older, we need less and
less food. The things necessary to
child growth are no longer necessary
to your frame. In childhood the peas
beans and cereals were necessary to
building flesh, but at 40 years one
learns to eat for warmth and strength
and we have to change and re-adjust
our foods. Selecting those which a-
gree with us. No two people eat
alike. Each must study and decide
I.hi. y t ill IS now
22 inches long;
WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER
No Mora—DANDRUFF.
No rioro—FALLINQ HAIR.
No Moro— ITCH INC SCALP.
No Moro—TETTBR,
No Moro—ECZEMA.
Olvoo rtvolth to the Soalp; Pro
motoo Growth of Lon| Fluffy
HAIR.
Utl Madam Jostle Carter'*
Wonderful Olio.
—PRICE*—
SROWINQ OIL Mo
PRES8INO OIL Mo
TEMPLE OIL Me
AGENT® V/ANTED
Bnoleoo lo Stamp for Reply to
Letters.
Sunday school was well attended.
Services were good both day and at
night. Rev. A. L. Randolph filled the
rostrum at 3:30 o'clock. The Home
Mr. George Davis of Greenville, S. | Mission rally was quite a success. The
C., is visiting his daughter, Mrs. S. C. program was filled with both infor-
Fant. Mrs. M. Haynes is confined to mation and inspiration. The mission
her bed at this writing. | sisters are manifesting great inter-
Mrs. Gertrude Sampleton of We- est in their work.
tumka, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Virgis Roberton. Mrs. Ex-
etta Jones, German teacher of the
Miller District, was visiting home-
folks Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. I. Z. Young is trying the art of
teaching. He says he likes the job
pretty well. The Topeka Plaindealer
is popular with the Seminole County
citizens; like many other good pa-
pers, it is usually late.
, Wewoka was crowded Sunday af-
ternoon with visitors, It being the
occasion of a special session of the
Executive committee of the Independ-
ent Industrial League. Many distin-
guished persons were present at this
meeting. Much important business
was transacted. The increase in mem
bership, the moral and financial back-
ing from every quarter of the United
States was a surprise to the promo-
ters. The secretary, Dr. W. T Rick-
man, and the executive secretary,
Mrs. a. H. Tyson, were busy for a
solid hour reading letters from in-
terested persons and enrolling mem-
bers. It seems that the Negroes'
minds are running in the same
grooves. It was agreed that a state
meeting shall be held in the month
of March for the purpose of electing
delegates to represent the organiza-
tion on an investigation tour, the
time and place will be made by the
executive committee latter on. Tulsa
and Oklahoma City seems to be the
choice of the committee.
The president's message to the
Executive Committee was a master-
piece and was ordered to be spread
upon the minutes of the organization,
the same to be given to the press.
This organization seems to be organi-
zed for the good of mankind, and the
public can readily see the need of
such organization, and are rallying
to Its support. It is planned for the
delegation to leave for Mexico in
April.
The membership fee Is one ($1.00)
dollar, any person by sending to Dr.
W. T. Rickman, secretary of the lea-
gue, at Holdenville, Okla., one dollar
and their names will be enrolled and
certificate of membership forwarded.
All interested persons should organ-
ize locals in their neighborhood. Liter-
ature and instructions will be sent, up
on request, to Dr. a. H. Tyson, Wewo-
ka, Okla. It matters not where you
live, what your trade or profession is,
you are a Negro just the same. This
organization is for you.
Rev. Lockhart, pastor of the C. M.
E. Church, is now domiciled in the
parsonage and is making good as a
preacher.
The Dunlap brothers, Andrew and
Hubbard, have returned to the city
Miss Sylvia Mason was quietly mar-
ried last Saturday evening to Mr. Al-
bert McCurne of Arkansas.
Mrs. A. J. Ford gave her husband
a surprise party on his 45th birth-
day, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1921. Her
home was beautifully decorated and
she kept the guests wondering what
was next. The birthday table was
a delicious feast. Mr. R W, Thomas
' acted at toast-master.
pose we change and serve the right wl}at is his diet- An impaired stom-
things in attractive and appetizing . weakens every other organ. The
forms. After a thorough trial they
will not be willing to go back to the
higher priced, less nourishing foods
All fried food are indigestible and
short in food value. Our meats ought
to be more in the form of stews and
roasts. You will be astonished how
the bodies of your children with such
changes will thrive and grow.
As a people, we do not eat enough
of fruits. They have a laxative ef-
fect upon our systems. Clearing the
digestive tract of poisons. We would
not need the purgatives we take if we
at more fruit. In the winter, our sys-
tems need onions. When ships on the
sea get out of vegetables, the crew
sometimes get down with scurry and
become like skeletons; if they make
port and a small portion of pounded
onions be given them, they will recov-
wise man gives up this and that until
he gets down to the simple foods. A
clear head is better, than a heavy
floundering body and mind. For the
man who clogs his system by over-
eating, the procession goes on round
the corner and opportunity closes the
door.
Gluttony and immorality go hand
in hand. Children reared upon rich
stimulating foods grow up to throw
themselves away. When they reach
the adolescant period, they have de-
veloped on over-abundance of pas-
sion. I know of no more pitable
sight than that of a young girl thus
reared. She does not know what is
wrong with herself. She is just like
a steam engine just before it blows
up. Her people are in terror and
when the disgrace comes from having
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• 2761 Glenarm St., Denver, Col.
k mm * * , Madam Jessie Carter
MRS. BESSIE BRUNER'S CORSET AND LINGERIE SHOP
w.
MltNtiStfleTade ea°-h Saturda>' week-end. engagements and dem-
' CS : ■" OKLAHOMA CITY
Those present
were: Mr. Mason, Thomas, Curtis,
Holt, Evans, Goodall, Kemp; Mes-
dames Mason, Thomas, Curtis, Holt,
Guess, Lawson, Miss G. Richie. The
guests left at a late hour declaring
the hostess a real entertainer. Mr.
C. C. Curtis furnished music for the
evening.
CHICKASHA, OKLA.
On Tuesday night of last week, the
Sunday school Union, composed of the
different Sunday Schools of the city,
held their annual meeting at the C. M.
E. Church. The reports of the of-
ficers were grand.
Rev. W. C. Watts preached the an-
nual sermon to the delight of all. The
C. M. E. choir furnished excellent mu-
sic for the occasion and it has been
the talk of the town every since.
The Ministerial Alliance, together
with the Chickasha Branch of the N.
A. A. C. p., are planning to get after
some evils of the city.
The Association will hold a mass
meeting at the C. M. E. Clfurch, Sun-
day, Feb. 6. and we are expecting to
have the editor of the Dispatch with
us.
magically. Onions are absolutely- given,her,i!a womans body before the
essential to health in the winter You in, seIf-,contr°l they cry "Why has
mar hi.. . , oocl brought this upon us?." God
has had nothing to do with it, we fed
the child wrong. One mother rose
and thus answered me when I stated
this fact before a mothers meeting
'^summer. She said- "Yo« must be
right. My first children came when
we were poor. They were no trouble
tor me to control. We are well-off
now and I can give the younger every-
thing but I now have no control."
Parents, it takes more than a mar-
riage ceremony to fit one to head a
Evx-??ptLto coax aW an en-
feebled child, they should rarely have
eggs, oysters, rich pastries or any
over-stimulating food. If we do not
learn what are the proper foods for
childhood, middle and old ages must
reap the fruit of our ignorance in
health, morality and mind. I would
be quite ashamed of you if your home
was not plentifully stocked with
nourishing wholesome foods. Coax
the child's appetites in the things
needful for the growth and strength
of his body. Study his little face,
check gluttony and over-weight with
a firm hand. I think you will agree
With me that if you tell me what you
eat I can tell you what vnii flro on/1
may not like them raw but cook them
potatoes Wltk PeaS 8nd beans ancl
Do no't let the child dictate to you
as to what he shall eat. If you give
erf iW?ims' he wil! be undersiz-
ed and lack strength all his days.
Sf61"8 allow their children un-
limited amounts of candy. They will
rich*w?n "P- W uh worms- Foods too
"j fcV, rU1{?, l^eir st°machs and we
eating in i of P'easure of
eating in later days. I have seen ner
sons buy huge sacks of Tuns lunch
sitH^V^' and eat jt a" at one
cramn M ihey would almost
cramp to death after their folly vet
no mo™ nT k67 buy'they wiU know
no more of self-control. Such a ner-
anythfnjf hmuddIer and blunderer in
anything he may be called upon to
The high price of foodstuffs taiieht
many people temperance in eating
America was fast growing into a na-
tion of dyspeptics. Our peonle fn
mass I am afraid, did notgafth
added strength out of the war. When
Jaspo5nSefulTanf ChaDged from three
S i u11 of su®ar to one in his
When h W3S helpin& his stomach
breakfast forVV'8 Iight bread at
oreaktast for the boys over seas, he
, .. tell you what you are and
that if we do not study carefully the
subject of Diet we man be digging
our graves with our teeth. S
CUSHING NEWS
Rev. E. W. Williams, pastor of the
M. E. Church of this city, preached
three nights at his church this week.
His sermons were both intellectual
and spiritual. He is one of the great
ministers of the age. He visited the
Douglas School and made an excel-
lent address to the school. He knows
how to talk to children to interest
them. He expressed himself as be-
ing very much elated over the man
agement of the school. He thought
it second to none. He said that Prof.
W. L. Gilmore is doing things accord-
ing to the demand of the age.
Rev. Garlin also visited the school
and made a very interesting talk. He
dwelt on and explained fully the word
"watch."
Sunday was another big day at the
First Baptist or Mt. Olive Church.
The Missionary Sisters had their ser-
mon preached by Rev. E. Scobv
a
great prayer meeting was had just
™ after the interesting Sunday school;
after a long sojourn in Omaha. We are then a great sermon at 3 o'clock and
glad to welcome you home, Boys, If* n'£"t. In the meeting at night.
Mrs. Nell Brown Clardy, the Domes- ,eTe *'as one conversion. Under the
Is risking Boley. the ^eat Am„
DEFEAT AND VICTORY—JOHN 12-24 * *
; 0„ f « Holy C«y up.
and the acclamations 2f the pwulance -r^ Rh°UtS °.f the
; nate and baffling events recorded tho m 18 "ne of the idetermi-
march so triumphal should end Testament. That a
and utter eclipse is onXfthe6 wondersUdo?Sol-y. irremediab,e ^
may be by the golden" lustre o^noeUo^6^0'11' ^owever> idealized it
Jesus as a teacher and miracle worker had" arroT^l31 lmaSinations.
excited the admiration of t e Ieonfe H W K ted the Mention and
left the seeds and bulbs ofa h,ad been scattering right and
the old. Echoes of the popularity of TPKii«mhm!ia?Urably in advance of
The fascination of his nersonalftvthJ «. ld 0ng reached the city,
freshness of his ideas and the authoritv^hf7 °f bis sp®ech, the
swayed the common people. message moved and
a. •b.'Sata Hi","™"? " ">e
Blessed Is He £* """"ea: "« •:
He is deserted by the people and deserted hi hi "'i*. !' ln His stead- '
forsook him and fled deserted by his disciples. They all 1
, «. '"*< '"-red :
: ffiur A £%r,.va '«•"":
• :
tering away his soul. Will he do it' seI,lnS hls manhood, by bar-
establish)!^ a T"* "
the crowd Will he do it' d by t0ssing honeyed sops to
•SJSRarAsassflr- n - -
Mrs. Ida Myers is confined to her
room on account of illness.
And still they come from Texas
Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
You are welcome. Old Friend, maybe! Dear Editor:
speed him on.
HOLD 15 DAY MEETING
Ardmore, Okla.
Scalp Specialtist
Madam C. J. Walker Sys^-^TT^oung, Phone Maple 5271-J
Address: 600 E. 3rd
: : OKLAHOMA CITY
Dr. Young's Weekly Talks
The Black Dispatch takes great
pleasure in presenting to its readers,
the views of Dr. I. w. Young each
week. At our request and a mutual
agreement between him and us he
will continue to present these views;
and while we assume no responsibility
for what he says and may not agree
with his positions on many questions,
yet we are sure that his opinion on
the many questions involved in our
Race fight will be sound and will be
of great benefit to the cause we all
love and fight for. The Black Dis-
patch commends him and his thought
to the reading public and asks it to
take them for the worth it may find
A MILLION DOLLAR^RACE
the idea that he Wa? brought in contact with
fhiaWfA8ickand him when he died ouVT^ take, care °f him when
this idea. The few who were thiniHnc* « xl frugality erew
most of us would have to be thrown on V1'85 was necessary or the
was a small idea and a small aitpmnt public for these requisites Thia
paredI with the world' of aSfr Com"
inpthoi3 Syeiil ,acked v'sion and served tofetnZ'hsE w,hile we believed
ing the larger things of life vet wp nn«, wif x . ac^ a few years in rpp
Rank M ufid Ass°ciation, The CitizeJs Tr^i odmen> The At-
Bank, Memphis, Tenn., the Mitchell Savino-T d F0'' e Solvent Savings
million dollar concerns belonging to thP nf of Richmond, Va. all
rnent, protection and employment to tWs ^fnr g'Png f,tanding, encourage-
ginnings were small out of the keen h «1„?pressed grouP- Though the be-
insn?rr° r tb8Se gigantic institutions whfch the P™ters
inspiration to the struggling bovs and !f,i! , open doors °* hope and
means of opening up brighter prospect !\? ?ace and wi|l be the
take us out of the grasp of the riniiir.ri^ j future. It is goine to
and put us in the class of sensiblediscrhriinr d & dol,ar the rest of vour life
thru cash deals adroitly drawn. cr'm>nating buyers anS thrifty savers
care for them when they'are s°ick our'grounds3) when the>' die and to
tutions as institutions of thrift and fiSitv i«.°J J5F forward to these insti-
save and t0 accumulate Pretty soon fhis snirit *** being taught
whole group and instead of being a lUce of S g0,ng to Pervade the
producers and conservers. We are not eoini ,We wi be a Race of
reBch the position of financial power Production an? k ?. °Ur own until we
handle big financial problems lends t'hatdegreanf - t0 produce and
other material thing can. Millionaire cornoraMW n^?i -an.f r?sPect that no
here and soon will be in such numbers that w^rJ!?t,n?iTldua,s are now
ever problems of business are the forcej to be dJaU with reckoned ^en-
splendid, moSrn homee1vefnrgroSom0PdUnc1eantaand he 'ith^ f Xegro' ,ivin8 in a
to the health and well-being of his'whita so much a menace
segregation laws and what Lt to save himseTf^^/vil31 ^ has to '"voke
sleep with his child right in his own house oJ ?w i a N,egro nnrse may
dirty, low-down shack in his back yard in (hp f ^,le class may rent a
present no problem of health or fear of ^.1^' I fashionable districts and
art a jewel. °r rear of S0cial equality. Consistency, thou
Ume "« "•
building churches and pointing the neoDle to hifhor i tga ?ering the PeoP'e,
vision in planning for ?he future He workeS zealouRlvRfnbU Hthat he ,acked
allowed the future to take care of itself That u .rf 'T J the Present and
worked a hardship upon the perpetuity of tK.£cheThnM?6 " bas
day. The pulpit has not kept up with the of nP°D th® race t0*
consequence the growing sentiment nt «hn Race. And as a
has not found the inviting conditions around the^hiir^h Ti.'ntK-liBent Negro-
seeking^ H.
of righteousness and judgment to
come. By his sound logical reasoning
we have 15 for baptism and four re-
claimed.
We gave him $63.45 and only wish-
. I ed we could have given nim more
and entertain them after she gets
them. Cur Sunday school is doing
fine^ under the leadership of Bro. T.
first Sunday in February. We are
also glad to say we had the co-opera-
**? oooh ponorp.
MAN
f3 SMS 5S.
w ? is lestructive, man is producUve; man is the arbiter oThis own
thanks,
fate.
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