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OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, AUGUST 10, 1922
VOL VII. No. 36.
AMERICAN WOODMEN CAPTURE DALLAS
MILITARY DISPLAY AND GRAND
STREET PARADE FRIDAY
MARK CLOSING HOURS
Assets of the Order are $1,084,607.00
National Characters Present
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 7. (Special
to the Black Dispatch)—Over 1000
delegates and visitors are in attend-
ance at the District Convention of
the American Woodmen. Every train
coming into the city is bringing hun-
dreds of visitors from all over the
Southwest to add to the vast hosts
who have already arrived. The ses-
sions are being held in the St. James
A. M. E. church at the corner of Flor-
ence and Goode streets. The struc-
ture is covered with American flags
and other appropriate emblem* of
the Order. Hon. C. M. White of Den-
ver, Colorado, the Supreme Command-
er of the Order, together with his
corps of able and efficient officers, are
in charge of the sessions, and Dallas,
Texas, is certainly holding out the
glad hand of welcome to all who
have entered her gates.
This District Convention drafts its
delegates from Oklahoma, Louisiana,
Colorado, Kansas, Texas and West
Missouri. A high class of citizenship
is noted in the various delegations.
The opening program was held Mon-
day night. The welcome address was
made by Mayor S. R. Aldredgc and
the response from the Order was
made by Hon. C. C. Trimble, Nation-
al Supervisor, of Louisville, Ky. Other
welcome addresses were made by
Dr. A. S. Jackson of Mt. Hope Baptist
church, and Prof. H. K. Watkins.
Response to these addresses was
made by Hon. Roscoe Dunjee, editor
of the Black Dispatch, Oklahoma City,
Okla. The supreme commander, Hon.
C. M. White, was introduced and gave
some very interesting facts relating
to the order. He stated that the com-
bined resources and assets of the su-
preme and local camps in the United
States were $1,084,607.50. The cash
on hand in the supreme fund for the
payment of claims was $84,302.02;
First mortgages and real estate, $669,-
868.34. Other items were given which
tended to show the marvelous growth
of the greatest fraternal body that
the Negroes have in the United
States. The Supreme Commander
was received with tumultous applause
when introduced. Other Supreme
Camp officials presented and intro-
duced were: Hon. L. H. Lightner, Su-
preme Clerk, Denver; H. L. Billups,
vice supreme commander, St. Louis;
G. W. Norman, supreme banker, Den-
ver; E. W. D. Abner, supreme physi-
cian, Austin, Texas.
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Tuesday's sessions were taken up
with an intensified discussion of the
following subjects by delegates: "To
what extent should clerks solicit
monthly dues outside of Camp meet-
ings"; "Conditions and requirements
covering the payment of sick bene-
fits"; "Should camps reqiure mem-
bers to sit up with sick members?";
"Fines and how collected"; "The card
and book versus the receipt system."
The sessions opened by the singing
of "America." A free motion picture
exhibit was given Tuesday night,
showing the wonderful scenes at the
last Supreme Encampment at Den-
ver.
The sessions Wednesday were oc-
cupied with subjects as essential as
the Tuesday sessions, interesting and
very instructive. Wednesday night
a grand military ball was given at
the Roller Rink Dance Pavillion and
there was also dancing at the River-
side park. During the regular ses-
sions Wednesday, Deputy J. M. An-
derson of Oklahoma City, discussed
the subject, "The principal steps in
the organization of a Juvenile tent."
The competitive drills will be held
at Camp Captian Peoples, Friday
night. The encampment and the lo-
cation of Camp Peoples is at River-
side park. This park is one of the
most beautiful owned and'operated by
Negroes in the Unite States. The
grandstand alone will hold at least
4500 people. Major Gen. J. L. Jones
o Dallas, commanding officer of the
Uniform Rank department of the
American Woodmen, is in charge. His
entire staff of officers is with him, in-
cluding Assistant Adjt. Gen. J. O.
Creacy of Austin, Col. T. T. McKin-
ney of Denison, Col. A. L. Holman,
Dallas; Major Eva Carter, San An-
tonio; and Major W. M. Blue, musi-
cal director. Col. Thomas Burnes of
Oklahoma City, is also at Camp Peo-
ples.
The competitive drills were engag-
ed in by crack drill companies from
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Louis-
iana. The closing sessions Friday
will be marked with the final reports
of committees. Awarding of prizes
and selection of the next place of
meeting will also be decided. The
programs that were issued from the
Supreme Camp for the sessions car-
ried this slogan: "Our goal, $2,000,-
000.00 in assets." The records show-
ed that $24,678,700 worth of insurance
was carried on the endowment books
of the Order. Five bands coming
from San Antonio, Denison, Fort
Worth, Texarkana and Dallas were
in the grand parade staged Friday.
GREGG HEADS NATIONAL *
|* EDUCATIONAL AS30CIA-
|* TION ♦
* *
* HAMPTON, Va., Aug. 4. Spe- *
* cial)—The closing sessions of *
I * the National Educational Asso- *
I* elation were marked with the *
* selection of Tuskegee as the *
* place for the 1923 meeting. ♦
* President G. A. Gregg of Wll- *
* berforce University, was select- *
* ed as the head of the Associa- *
* tion. Mrs. C. A ,R. Grant of ♦
* Arcadia, Okla., was selected as *
* head of one of the depart- *
* ments. The convention was *
* the best in the history of the *
* Association. ♦
WHITE INSURANCE AGENT
ASSAULTS ST. LOUIS WOMAN
Kerlin Accepts
Excellent Position
Prof. Robert T. Kerlin whose open
letter of protest addressed to the
governor of Arkansas against the ex-
ecution of the twelve colored men
convicted in connection with the
Phillips County riots of October,
1919, led to his dismissal from the
Virginia Military Institute, has re-
cently accepted the headship of the
Department of English at the State
Normal School at West Chester, Pa.
This information is contained in a
letter from Prof. Kerlin to the Na-
tional Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People made public'
today.
Although himself a Southerner,
Prof. Kerlin refused to remain silent
at what appeared to him a great
travesty on justice and his letter un-
compromisingly arraigned the gover-
nor of Arkansas, the trials of the col-
ored men, and the wholly unfair con-
viction of the men who, daring to
protest against the share-cropping
system under which they were being
robbed, were accused of plotting to
"massacre" white people. This let-
ter received wide spread publicity and
resulted in airing the Arkansas cases
in a way that was exceedingly dis-
tasteful to the Arkansas authorities.
His summary dismissal followed the
publication of Mr. Kerlin's letter.
The acquisition of this new and bet-
ter position in a stale in which
scholarship an<^ honesty are more
higlhy regarded than Virginia is a
step on which Mr. Kerlin is being
heartily congratulated.
Criticism Won't Hurt !
Famous Opera Star
\ CHICAGO, 111., August 10—Mme.
t Ernestine Schumann-Heink, world-
! famous contralto and patroness of the
I Chicago University of Music, located
in her former home at East 37th St.,
and South Michigan avenue, passed
through the city Saturday en route
from her present home in San Diego,
Cal., to New York City, where she will
fill a number of concert engagements.
In the Auditorium hotel, where she
stopped over for a few hours with
her daughter and three grand-chil-
dren, the singer confirmed for the
white press the report that she had
leased her home in the interest of
Race musicians. Further than that
she said:
"I expect to be criticized by some
for turning my home over to and pa
tronizing Colored people, but I don't
care. Negroes are real Americans
and we are in duty bound to treat
them as human.
"I am independent and have no
fears. As I stood by the soldier boys,
I will stand by the Colored folk. If
we would treat them right we would-
n't have strikes and crime and we
wouldn't be the laughing stock of the
world.
"We should give the Negroes a
chance to develop instead of welcom
ing with open arms Russian radicals
and other foreigners who, in many
instances, do our country more harm
than good.
"Look at the great men and women
the South has produced. As babies
they were all cared for by Colored
nurses. It hurts.me to see strangers
in my home, but it has been vacant
for two years and with some one in
it now it will be cared for."
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 9.—A warrant
was issued against R. G. Rucker, 4466
Vista Street, a white man, who is an
agent for the Tennessee National In-
surance Company, for cruelly assault-
ing and abusing Mrs. Salena Scruggs,
a widow of 3009 Pine street, last
week.
Last Thursday morning, Rucker,
who had been positively warned by
Mrs. Scruggs to stay away from her
home, made a visit despite the wo-
man's protest. When she met him
at the door Mrs. Scruggs says he be-
came familiar and insisted on enter-
ing her house, and when she objected,
he slapped her face, kicked her, using
the vilest language he could employ.
Rucker left the premises and called
a policeman whom he asked to ar-
rest the woman, and she was taken
to the Eighth District Police Station,
where a charge of some sort was
framed against her. Mrs. Scruggs' ef-
forts to have the white man arrested
for attacking her were not considered
by the sergeant in charge of affairs
at the station.
Attorney N. A. Mitchell, who has
been retained in the case by Mrs.
Scruggs, applied to the Circuit At-
torney for a warrant to be issued on
the case, charging the assailant with
assault and battery. The woman is
said to be suffering from internal in-
juries and under the care of Dr.
Gregg.
The trial has been arraigned for
hearing on August 23. According to
Mrs. Scruggs. Rucker was not wel-
comed at her home because of his flip-
pant and ill-bred manner. She says
it was a custom of his to enter her
home smoking cigars and that he
would never consent to remove his
hat when he came to collect for the
insurance company he represents.
She told the reporter that Rucker
cancelled her policy with his com-
pany because he could not hare his
way at her home, and because she
was stubbornly persistent in protect-
ing her womanhood. Mrs. Scruggs
was a policy holder with the Tennes-
see National Insurance Company for
ten years. She stands high in the
fraternal and religious life of St.
Louis, and is the widow of Mr. J.
Scruggs who was a high Mason and
former official of Union Memorial
church.
The Tennessee National Company
has a large clientele among colored
people in St. Louis, with a branch of-
fice at 1009 N. Grand Avenue.
BOB MISTREATED
Texas Negro Robbed and Then Tied
To Tombstone
Terrell, Texas, Aug. 4.—Bob Pope,
Negro, may be able to replace the
$10 that two hijackers relieved him
of last night, but his nerves are prac-
tically a total loss.
Bob, hot and tired, accepted a ride
from two strangers in an automobile
on a country road, near here.
On reaching a graveyard, Bob was
relieved of his cash and left tied to
a tombstone where he spent the night.
BARTENDER DRUNK SINCE •
PROHIBITION, WIFE *
TELLS JUDGE •
— •
* NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—One of •
* the longest sprees in history *
* was attributed today to a for- •
* mer bartender, August Deter- •
* ing, by his wife, Rose, who told •
* a Brooklyn magistrate her hus- *
* band got drunk the day prohibi- *
* tion went Into effect and had •
* been drunk ever since. •
* Before prohibition, Detering •
* never touch a drop, she said. •
Atlanta School of
Social Service
At Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga.,
of which Dr. John Hope is president,
there has been in operation, since
1920, the Atlanta School of Social
Service, which is directed by Garrie
W. Moore, professor of social service
in Morehouse College, who, in addi
tion to his college work at More-
house, is a graduate of the New York
School of Philanthropy, Class of
1913. Professor Moore has served as
a juvenile probation officer in the At-
lanta Juvenile Court, 1914-1915, and
has studied at the Columbia Univer-
sity summer school for four or five
years.
The school offers eight courses-
economic and social theory; medical-
social problems; social case work;
community organization; statistics
and record-keeping; home econom-
ics; field work with observation
clinics; and special lectures.
Within a few blocks of the More-
house campus the students of this
school of social service will find a
settlement house, a day nursery, and
an orphans' home, each one of which
is conducted on approved plans. At-
lanta ItBelf offers those who are
training or a social-service career an
excellent opportunity of studying all
phases of Negro life. Students who
wish to enter upon this professional
training "must be at least twenty
years of age and must have completed
a full four-year course in some re cog
nized high school or its equivalent.''
—Southern Workman
MISSOURI CAN-
DATES SUCCESSFUL
ST. LOUIS, Mo„ Aug. 9.—One of the
interesting features of the recent Pri-
mary was the fight made by Negro
candidates for places on the Republi-
can ticket. Chief among which was
that of Constable and Justices of the
Peace in the Fourth District.
The successful candidates for these
offices have not been officially an-
nounced. Unlike previous elections,
the police made no tabulations of
returns on minor offices, hence those
who are interested in the outcome are
held in suspense untiy the official
count is made by the Election Com-
missioners.
However, it is generally conceded
that Crittenden E. Clark has a safe
majority to assure his nomination as
Justice of the Peace. Friends of
Langston Harrison claim he has a
safe margin to assure his nomination
as constable.
Chas. H. Turpin, the present incum-
bent is also regarded as a winner.
This information was gathered here
and there mostly from judge or clerks
of the election in the several pre-
cincts.
SEHATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
REPORTS DYER BILL FAVORABLY
Eminent Jurist Demand Passage of the Bill
Page to Recall
Resignation; Maybe
Negro Killed
From Taxicab
After shooting to death Bill Bailey,
Negro, at Thirtieth and Classen boule-
vard Monday night, M. R. Brooks, also
a Negro, walked calmly into a near-,
by drug store and ordered a drink \
while waiting for police, according to
bystanders who witnessed the shoot-
ing.
Bailey and Brooks had had some
trouble before, according to Brooks,'
and Bailey had threatened to kill him.'
Brooks saw Bailey get on the street
car he was riding Monday night, so
got off at Thirtieth street and called
a taxicab.
When the cab drew up Brooks
got inside and told the driver to leave
in a hurry. Bailey stepped up to the
car with one hand in his pocket, and
Brooks, thinking he was trying to
draw a gun. fired, the shot killing
Bailey at once. Brooks was taken
to police headquarters by Frank Ear-
ly, W. A. Johnson and Joe Foster,
who answered the call. Brooks' story
was substantiated by the driver of
the cab.
A representative of the Black Dis-
patch, Tuesday morning, conferring
with Supt. A. C. Parson, was inform-
ed that up to date no one had been
appointed to fill the vacancy made by
the resignation of Dr. Inman E. Page. |
former principal. He stated, however,
that he is in hopes that Dr. Page will
recall his resignation; if not, then
another one of the big educators of
the country will be appointed.
Patrons of the Oklahoma City school
system are in high hopes of seeing
Dr. Page return, as a most pleasing
administration was noted in the last;
year's session.
DIRT DISCOVERED IN
HOME BREW BOOZE
ST. LOUIS. Mo., Aug. 7.—Variety is
the spice of life, the adage says, but
bootleggers here apply "variety" as
being the spice of liquor.
Prohibition agents examining hun-
dreds of specimens of homemade in-
toxicants have found everything
from deadly filth to animal life
among the ingredients.
in all containers of homemade
aooch" and wines, dirt and impuri-
ties were found in varying amounts.
In some instances as high as 16 per
cent of the contents was filth. One
quantity of moonshine was alive with
roaches, and in another "supply" four
dead rats were found.
The final step before debate and a
vote on the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
on the floor of the United States
Senate was taken on July 28 when
Senator Samuel M. Shortridge of Cal-
ifornia filed a favorable majority re-
port for the Judiciary Committee on
the bill, according to a statement re-
leased today by the National Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Col-
ored People through its Secretary,
James Weldon Johnson. The report
is an exhaustive one, taking up as it
does the constitutional objections in
detail and answering each objection.
The bulk of the report is given over
to the report of the House Judiciary
Committee prepared by Mr. Dyer, and
to briefs on the constitutionality of
the measure, prepared and submited
by Moorfleld Storey, President of the
N. A. A. C. P., and by Herbert K.
Stockton of New York, of the firm of
Haight, Smith, Griffin and Deming,
and member of the Legal Committee
of the N. A. A. C. P.
The Senate Judiciary Committee in
reporting the bill recommended one
change from the form as passed by
the House. Briefly, this change pro-
vides that it shall be changed in the
indictment of persons accused of
lynching that the State authorities
did not exercise sufficient. diligence
in the apprehension and punishment
of the lynchers. The change greatly
strengthens the bill and also removes
doubt as to its constitutionality.
In rendering its report, the Ju-
diciary Committee made the following
strong declaration:
The committee has devoted much
time and earnest thought to the con-
sideration of this bill and has reach-
ed the conclusion that as amended
the bill is constitutional and should
pass. That conclusion is reached by
different processes of reasoning and
by reliance on different provisions of
the Constitution; but whatever pro-
cess of reasoning is adopted or what-
ever provisions of the Constitution
are relied on we hold that the pro-
posed legislation is "appropriate
legislation" to cure or prevent the
evil of lynching wherever in the
United States and subject to the juris-
diction thereof that- evil exists or is
committed.
White or black "all persons born or
naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are
citizens of the United States," and no
State may by affirmative legislative,
judicial or executive action, or by
failure, neglect, or refusal to act, de-
prive any person of life, liberty, or
property without due process of law,
or deny to any person with-in its
jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws.
A careful and dispassionate study of
the provisions of this bill as amend-
ed will, the committee thinks, con-
vince Senators that it is "appropriate
legislation," within the competency
of Congress to enact, ot safeguard
and protect those rghts to life, liber-
ty and property which are. guaran-
teed by the Constitution of the United
States.
The proposed legislation is not an
invasion or subversion of the rights
of the States, nor is it designed to
relieve the States from the perform-
ance of their duty to secure to all
persons within their several jurisdic-
tions equal protection of the laws: on
the contrary, the proposed legisla-
tion is in aid of the several States
and will be impartially administered
by the people of the severaj States.
It is sincerely hoped and confident-
ly believed that the early passage of
this bill as amended will have a
salutary effect and go far toward in-
suring that "equal protection of the
laws," State and Federal, to which
"all persons born or naturalized in
the United States and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof" are entitled.
American citizenship is indeed a
badge of honor; it should be and this
bill seeks to make it, a shield of
protection to every American citizen,
man, whoman and child, native and
naturalized, who stands on American
soil, hedged round and guarded, asI
they are, by the Constitution of the
United States.
In commenting on this action, Mr.
lobnson said:
"This favorable report by the Ju-
diciary Committee removes the last
constitutional objection to the Dyer
Bill and at the same time whatever
excuse the Senate may have had for
delaying action on the measure. So
long as the Judiciary Committee de-
'erred its report just so long could
members of the Senate plead to
riends of the bill, both white and
colored, that any personal reluctance
to press the bill was based on doubts
as to the bill's legality. No longer
•an that excuse be offered. The Dyer
Bill has been declared constitutional
by the Judiciary Committee of both
the House and the Senate, by the at-
torney-general of the United States,
by eminent lawyers like Moorfield
Storey, Herbert K. Stockton and
many others, while nineteen justices
of state and supreme courts of the
various states, a judge of a United
States Circuit Court, two former Uni-
ted States Attorneys-general and
many other eminent jurists have
signed a memorial to the Senate de-
manding passage of the bill. These
facts must be kept clearly in mind
by every person who is interested In
the bill and we must likewise keep
them in the minds of the members of
the Senate.
"The action of the Judiciary Com-
mittee is gratifying for a number of
reasons. We have many opponents
of the bill. Those we know how to
answer and to checkmate. But, un-
fortunately, we have others, some of
them colored men and women, who
have been rushing into print declar-
ing that the bill had no chance of
passage. I sincerely hope that these
persons will now join in, in the last
great effort necessary to put the bill
through the Senate. We urge every
person in the country who is interest-
ed in this measure to send a telegram
today to each of the Senators from
his state and to Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, Republican Leader of the
Senate, urging immediate vote on the
bill.
"We are extremely fortunate in
having Senator Shortridge chosen, to
lead the fight for the bill. He is the
one member of the Senate Commit-
tee on the Judiciary who has all
along held the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill to be entirely constitutional. A
number of the other Republican mem-
bers were in favor of the Bill and
pledged their support, but were
doubtful about the constitutionality of
certain of its provisions. Senator
Shortridge has all along stood one
hundred per cent for the bill. Fur-
thermore, Senator Shortridge is a
brave fighter . In the Discussions
which took place in the Committee
he never hesitated to meet the stock
arguments of the Southern members
of the Committee with a frontal at-
tack and demolish thehi. When
these Southern members put up the
subtle argument of white men to
white men, that If the Anti-Lynch-
ing Bill were enacted it would en-
courage the crime of rape among Ne-
groes in the South, Senator Short-
ridge met them with facts and sta-
tistics and hammered them into si-
lence.
"Moreover, the choice of Senator
Shortridge is fortunate in that his
heart is in this legislation. I had a
long talk with him immediately after
the adjournment of the Committee
ad I believe that the Senator looks
forward with great satisfaction to
championing this measure on . the
floor of the Senate.
"Three-fourths of the fight is over.
Let us all work together as never be-
fore that the res tof the distance
may be covered before the November
elections."
Invisible Impire
To Be Frisked Again
GRAND JURY TO PROBE K. K. K.
Election Day Activities May Be
Included in Scope of Investigation
Co-incident with circulation of pe-
titions to call a special grand jury to
investigate registration irregularities,
comes, rumors that the scope of the
inquiry will be evidenced to include
election day activities.
Sore 8pots of the primary are find-
ing voice in complaints that oppos-
ing factions overstepped their author-
ity in conduct at the polls. Illegal
registration of Negroes brought the
grand jury to the fore. Once con-
vened it will investigate alleged ac-
tivities of the Ku Klux Klan, it is
claimed.
A grand jury may investigate any
thing. That is exactly what the
j special grand jury may do, observers
believe. Considerable political signi-
ficance is attached to the jury investi-
gation.
Petitions now in circulation will
call the jury to investigate registra-
j tion. Already another element is
planning to present evidence of al-
l leged klan activities in the election.
| Petitions now in circulation will be
j completed soon, according to persons
active in the work.
The petitions have more than
enough signers to insure calling a
grand jury. They will be presented
to a district judge, who in turn or-
ders the sheriff and court clerk to
draw a panel.
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