The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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PAQl POUR
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE BLACK DISPATCH I
The Black Dispatch
Box tS, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phone Maple 811
|mt<< M Om tot Office at Oklahoma City, m M«tmd class mall,
under act ef March >, 1IT9.
One Year -
Six Months -- — 1-25
Three Months &
ROSCOE DUNJEE fcaitor
DRUSILLA DUNJEE-K.„USTON .Cotrtnouiing Editor
The Challenge Ot The Church
-0-
Will He Ride That Ass?
The Black Dispatch is supporting the republican ticket this year because
we believe the platform of the party offers more to the citizenship in general
and the black man in particular than the democratic document. In fact, we
are at a loss to assume how any one can determine and understand the plat-
form of the democratic party in Oklahoma this year. The Negro "Walton-
for-Governor Club" cannot surely get much solace from the document pro-
mulgated at Oklahoma City, which reeks with gush about White Supremacy
and bushwhacks the Shawnee instrument about which so much ado is being
made by the disaffected Negro republicans over the state. One thing is cer-
tain, it should be ascertained from the democratic standard-bearer by the Ne-
gro democratic clubs over the state as to whether Mr. Walton is standing look-
ing at the Shawnee Donkey or at the Oklahoma City Ass before they get too
far out of the section line.
Water-logged
DRUSILLA DUNJEE-HOUSTON
Several four-bit, brainless members of the tribe of Ham have been much
concerned and disturbed because they saw several democratic ads in the Black
Dispatch during the primary campaign. Foolish expressions have been given
vent to about the Black Dispatch going democratic because of the appearance
of the said ads from members of the opposite political party to which the
Black Dispatch is allied. We want to pause right here to give out a little
necessary information. The Black Dispatch has space for sale in its columns,
which we are always attempting to aispose of, at tne rate of 75 cents per
column inch. We wish every democratic politician in Oklahoma would come
down here into this office and buy some of this space. In fact, we like this
new idea that the democrats seem to have—wanting to talk to black folk.
They used to say that they did not even care to hold a conversation with a
black voter. You bet your bottom dollar that the Black Dispatch is delighted
to assist in this experiment of the bourbons AT SO MUCH PER INCH.
Meanwhile, if there are any black folk in town who do not care to form
this sort of acquaintance as is suggested in the democratic ad, we propose
two remedies for their phantom evil: buy the space up yourself and tell the
other side of the story, or cheaper still, just stick your head in our editorial
column each week until the general election and we will promise to make out
of you a FIGHTING REPUBLICAN.
It ought not to take a long statement to cover the situation which we
hope to cover just at this moment. We understand and know that hundreds
of our readers have democratic inclinations this year. The Black Dispatch is
their paper just as much as it is the property of any other group of subscrib-
ers. If they come to us for publicity they will get a limited amount of news
space and ALL OF THE PAID ADVERTISING SPACE THAT THEY ARE
ABLE TO PAY FOR, the water-logged black folk to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The Brains of the Race
The state group of Negro women, who held their meeting at Ardmore last
week, put to shame the efforts of any ten organizations among the men of
their race in the state. It is appalling when one stops to think that we have
not a single group of Negro men in Oklahoma, who are willing .to bind them-
selves together unselfishly for racial uplift. For twelve years these black
women have been fighting unceasingly for the advancement of the Negro along
all lines in this state. The record shows the path they blazed into the legis-
lature, where in the fifth legislature they secured the passage of the law
creating the School of Correction for Negro boys at McAlester, thereby separ-
ating the incorrigible youth of the state from the hardened criminals of the
penitentiary, where hitherto they had been thrown to be graduated into lives
of criminality. Not satisfied, these noble ladies went into the legislature in
1917 and secured the passage of an act creating the school for incorrigible
colored girls at Taft and during the same year succeeded in preventing the
consolidation of the McAlester School of Correction with the Deaf and Dumb
School at Taft. The tubercular hospital at Boley is a later work of these noble
ladies. During all of this time these Daughters of Jethro have found time to
fight election laws, subscribe to the N. A. A. C. P.. build rescue homes for
girls, contribute to charity and put on health crusades all over Oklahoma.
When I first came across this sin
[ took my encyclopedia and looked up
tke subject "spiritualism" and found
it had been made the basis of scien-
tific investigation and that the ex-
perimenters were compelled to ad-1
mit that seme of the phenomena cduld
not be accounted for. The power hav- ;
ing grown so acute in some mediums |
as to enable them to rise and float |
out of one window of a room and in
at another. It is the power of mag-
netism possessed by the Hindu, 300
millian people held in subjection by
a little handful of the Aryan race and
it is the power the ancients claimed
to possess at Delphi which caused
their oracles to be consulted by em-,
perors and nations. It is the power ■
that one of the New Testament poss-1
essed and came to the disciples ask-
ing to exchange it for the power of
Christ which they possessed.
After reaching these decisions I
wanted to know the origin of such a
power. The Scriptures plainly teach
that it is of the Devil. Revelations
would not read: and all deviners and
sorcerers shall be cast into the lake
of fire and brimstone; if there were
no such sin in the world. The Scrip-
tures say that in the last days the
Devil shall work miracles. Any man
ought to know that the dignified spirit
of God is above entering into chair
and table legs and expending itself
in senseless manifestations. The
mediums whom clairvoyants use,
highly sensitive creatures to that in-
visible world all around us never live
•nore than three or four years after
subjecting themselves to such influ-
ences so contrary to the natural laws
under which we are governed in this
life.
We have a lower type of this belief
our race coming from Africa, a
form of vodoorism. It is the sin up-
on a lower superstitious basis. To
MADAM JESSIE CARTER
li
WONDERFUL HAIR GffOWER
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No More—TETTER.
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Gives Health to the Scalp; Pro-
motes Growth of Long Fluffy
HAIR
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Of Spiritualism.
We need the strength of Christian
education to combat Spiritualism, the
modern witch-craft, which has a fol-
lowing out of a large pre cent of
those whose names are on the church
' roll because they are ignorant of the
[origin and true meaning of spiritual-
' ism. Christ said the day would come
when the Devil would be found sit-
ting in his seat. There are church-
es organized and considered respec-
table that flaunt their banner under
spiritism, which is the foe of Christ.
In these churches they call up the
dead; that old sin which Saul com-
mitted with the witch of Endor and
for which God rejected him from be-
ing king. Today this kind of church 1 .
is not near you, but if you do not \ "W astonishment I find sometimes
learn to recognize the foes of Christ,:amen corner people who believe some
tomorrow they will be taking in your | one else can put a spell over them,
children into their membership. |1hey believe in signs. I do not be-
1 consider it quite a weakness that j Jieve .God can bless anybody like that,
the church membership of today does &lve UP t0 sucb belief is to sell
not investigate and inform itself up- i pne s,s°u) t0 Devil. We are ae-
on the questions that may sweep their j knowledg ng that he is stronger than
children away. Nine out of ten of | p0")- an.d !t means that we are de-
the palmists, fortune tellers and hyp- i tea'e(l 111 anything before we start. __
notists may be fakes and humbugs, j ^'"^"^bo 's doing right, who loves • =
but that does not do away with the ^od', ith'nketh no lj:vil;" Oh if I • =
fact that in the white race single c?u,d y.. ? yo!1. with, me an(1' =
individuals among them earn tens and sllow you that utter ruin ot Afri" =
sometimes hundreds of thousands of1 ,came "P011 them when they sold s
dollars a year off of the throngs of heir . souls to such beliefs. They =
_ _ I l/<n lilin/klimrnnln ♦ .t . « «. s-i.. . .
2452 Lafayette St.
Denver, Cole.
Madam Jessie Carter
MADAME EMMA GOSS
Manufacturer of
Sulphurine Hair Tonic
And
Hair Grower
(Trade Marked) We guarantee to grow hair on bald heads
Agents Wanted Everywhere
3120 Washington Ave. ST. LOUIS, MO.
Somebody said that the man who translated the Bible made a mistake
when he offered the statement that woman was made out of man's rib. It
should have read "BRAIN" instead of "RIB," so our informant tells us. So
far as the Negro men in Oklahoma are concerned, we believe the charge will
lie. The record above is a record of achievement. At least in Oklahoma we
might well say that the Negro women have been the brains of the race. At
the Ardmore meeting one of the delegates said in the course of her address:
" i he Negro man has lost his ballot rights and the Negro woman is going out
into the field of citizenship and reclaim what her sire has failed to hold." Resnectable DeoDle were beine swent
Itatement was not 't^Th "T" ^ US t0 ff" th? this awa>' by its novelty and strangeness,
statement was not an empty fiat. There is enough in the record of the sel-1 The Governor of Missouri used tr>
fish, cringing vassaliting policy of the Negro men in their various organiza- meet a croun who a«- emblerl with
"ty constructiv( work (hat nJlht h 3 rhepubl'can rneetinfl held here in the witness the seances. She said that
dM ? 0 1 bave,bee" done in a conference of Negro the room contained a heavy walnut
X 3L" "d.'.d.-n0t.obta!n ,becau.se.of.a few des.gn.ng "Dollar Hunters," who secretary that she had neved been
UW11U1 k) M> J VU1 VU VI V1IV tUIUIIga U1 . - '
average men and women who would l,ractice unbelievable tortures upon =
rather consult sorcerers than ask in j innocent people whom they believe =
prayer of the living God. Nine out of bewitched. =
Let us follow the visit of a fortune =
teller into a community. He will en j =
ter this house and tell the mistress =
that a little dark woman is after her =
husband. We all have dark friends. S
In the next house it is a tall yellow
woman and we all know people of
that type. The result of these visits
The average man who does not means sometimes the tearing up of _
the peace of a whole community, life =j
long hatreds and sometimes the tak-
ing of life. Whose work is this, God
or the Devil? "By their fruits ye
shall know them." If we could tell
what was going to happen to us next
week, it would unbalance us for our
duty this week, that is why God only
reveals the future step by step.
ten of these people are humbugs, but
the tenth often iias developed a sixth
sense and has union with that which
is occult and mysterious. It is this
one out of ten who you must under
stand and be uble to explain to your
children.
want to exert himself mentally, says
there is nothing to spiritualism. 1
heard a man of skeptical, stubborn,
makeup come in and tell ths exper-
ience onday: that a man stood inside
of his place of business professing
he could heal. He asked for a chair
as all seemed skeptical. He extend-
ed it upon a broom and calling to
some unseen presence the chair began have never had my fortune told or
to rock itself backward and forward visited a clairvoyant because I would
apon the broom. He had two men
hold the chair from opposite sides
but they were swayed violently back-
wards and forwards. When he was
through he had a following. I lis-
tened to this and marked it down for
nvestigation. Later I heard a wo-
man on whom I knew I could depend
for veracity tell the following seem-
ingly unbelievable experience: She
was a slave in Jefferson City, Mis-
souri. ivt about the time spiritualism
made lis lirst sweep over America.
be breaking the law of God. Our
children made to see that is of the
levil will have none of it.
I remember a family who lived next
door to me who held seances in their
own home. Many a time the woman
who conducted them—she looked like
in old witch—would beg me to be a
member of this white group. I steadi-
ly refused at the cost of earning her
hatred, everyone else went. I said
to her: "God has always singularly
blessed me. I need Him. I feel He
would take His help away from me
if I joined in that that I believe is
wrong." I saw people attracted tr>
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Dr. C. B. Chambers
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
He treats diseases of women and children. If you have an old chronic
leg ulcer, it will be wise for you to see him. Phone Maple 4584; residence
1715 East 7th St., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Membership in the Conference is to in the front ranks of al lthe more
cons st of: (1) One thousgnd outstand- significant reform movements of the
ing Negro leaders from widely separ- times.
ated sections of the country. (2) Rep-
resentatives of Prohibition, Social Wei- That he has been able to secure
fare and Reform Organizations. (3) motive participation of all the
The delegates are to be representa- Jnof® important national organizations
tives of their respective organiza- *n conference can be safely taken
tions. They must be furnished with as ® "rst class testimonial of the
jbec iu^^hrSdarcSri^"dentia,s by their appointing bod'
nailed up, exclaimed "Glory to God! "
atn " luit I 1 ili .«
clutter un . i n u 1 • .J; _ . secretary tnat sne naa neved been lueJ' "i;iriea mese seances,
«. word <.nc JS-SJUS «. M Mm.'flls:
5SS2S
etc.," but I noticed this, that a young-
er sister of the family who before
they started these seances, had been
One of the outstanding features of selfish devotion to duty, his modesty,
the proposed conference is the in- bis unfaltering belief in the capacity
dorsement given it by many of the na- ,° . r^cekf combine with the know-
tional organizations of colored peo- 01 'bis fine moral qualities to
pie. The International Conference of *Jlm to a11 *bo possess the
some unlocated location. The Negro women of the state. God bless them, are i about the room on two lees She
above such levels. Theq are fighting upwards, wagging under the huge un-jsajd sbe saw it vet could not recon
I nan was a clairvoyant and they have
their own control.
tualistic churches ha ! Association, and more than eighteen "" progress
on Saul's sin—calling up the dead I church denominations and Reform race throughout the Southland.
multiplied by thousands and if we do I 0ne of them came to our town and af?encies have signified their inten- —
'lot open our eyes will have the next i was permitted to carry out this in lions t0 send' delegates to the con-
generation out from God and under1 one °f the orthodox churches yet [ference' Associated Negro Press)
,ha —- — - • ■' The sessions of the conference will , nvmrwr mm, ,.m
be held in the big hall of the Ryman fflhVH^?^,KEN.GLA1N!D' SePt 1—A
Auditorium at Fifth near Broad i i hnlu 1°® J" the ward of
street. They will continue from the ^ where an African
3rd to the 6th of October inclusive. Wandombi, allowed him-
A local committee of the colored and t Jf. . d forexpenmental treat-
whites will have charge of the ar- kjch resulted in locating the
rangements and look after the com- f, causf® 'he dreaded
fort of the large number of delegates . s'ckn?8S- ■Attacked by sleep-
and visitors expected to be in attend- mLhI^i ln .he, ConS° n 1890.
ance. Mandombi suggested to an English
Dr. Coggin deserves a world of - he.bf sent to Eng-
praise for the success which has at- d uP°n in order
tesded his efforts to make the coa- J"".80,™! ?5 ,Ve cure misht be
ference a big feature of the Negro's m . dlsease. For four
desire tn assume a leariin? nart In all J*|ontns specimens of Mandombi's
■ the Scriptures say, an enchanter, „
I deviner or necromancer is an abomi-
I might multiply incidences dui I, nation unto God. Clement of Rome
will not do so. 1 have said enough said, "Simon Magus of the New Tes'
to call your close attention to a sin-1 lament was one who could produce
an old sin. The Mible spoke of this j phantoms, cause vessels to move roll
type of mankind as possessing a fam-1 himself upon fire without being burn-
iliar spirit and told lsreal not to suf-jed and who could even fly " gScien-
fer them to lhe. It is a power by lists and even noblemen i. e Sir Con-
which men may devine the future, a' an Doyle, are being caught in h"s
.hing God knowing that it was not i snare. This is the work of the devil
best for s. has put under a ban; ex- and his angels. The Bible teaches us
cept as He may give us spiritual re- the dead do „ot come back Spirit
vealings of the step ahead of the ism is sending thousands to the in-
darkened way. So it was that Elijah insane asylum. They spurn Christ
opened the eyes of the young man as a mediator, seeking earthly medi-
ums. They teach free love and are
addicted to immorality.
We're Not Astonished '
' o
The editor of the Chandler paper who has been arrested .by Governor
Robertson on a charge of criminal libel should have more information about
what is happening in this world than he hardly can have if he is really honest
in asking the question. He wants to know how Governor Robertso- can erect
$100,0C0 flats out of a four thousand-odd dollar salary. Surely this country edi-
tor has not learned'what Christ did with the loaves and the fishes, and we do
not believe that he would believe that undisputed story if he were told. There
are lots of things to create astonishment these days. You know the good
book says that "the leopsrd cannot change its spots, nor the Ethiopian his
color." Well, all of these "Yaller" complected folk walking around here spike
the lie about the changing of the color and the way these bronzed citizens
are changing their politics these days causes one to feel that the leopard has
changed his spots. At any rate, the Black Dispatch is fcr Governor Robert-
son. He has done a whole lot of other things just as astonishing as the al-
leged act which seems to spellbind our rural pensman. Governor Robertson
helped to put the first white lynchers behind the prison walls. We are for
him strong and we hope he will live long to build many more flats.
Write Your Senator
Write your Senator now and tell him you are expecting him to fight and
vote for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Latest reports indicate that the Bill will
yet come up for passage during the present session of Congress. The sena-
tor from your state will have no way of knowing how interested you are in
the passage of this Bill unless you tell him so. Inform him that it is more
important that this government pass laws for the protection of the life and
limb of its citizens f in it is to pass legislation calculated to do the same thina
for the foreigners w>thin our gates.
TEXAS DEMOCRATS ENDORSE THE KLAN
Texas democrats, according to current newspaper dispatches, refuse to
repuaiate and fight the Ku Klux Klan, although one of the delegates to the
democratic state convention declared, "If the democratic party does not purge
itself of the influence of this organization it may soon become the party of
the mob." This is sound advice.
organization has
< f the baneful in
tion towards masked
rr'' ESS.-*®;
and he saw the mountains surround-
ing them full of horses and chariots
of fire. So it was that the prophets
could foretell the future as revealed
by God: but when we step aside from
Holy people, we put ourselves under
the influence of lying spirits or if
they speak truly tools of the devil.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 2.-As a
sign that the inlvr-racial relations be-
tween the races in the South is as-
Any man or woman who does this suming a more than genial aspect, the
desire to assume a leading part in all h,„„. ' . ,
the forward and uplift movements „J^?i lu every four hours
me luitvaiu aiiu upuu movements nntii ■„ . .. * *"ul ""Uis
that are just now engaging the atten- Th„ JJM™. the germ was identified,
tion and active service of the best so- ® J ,, . been too much, how-
cial forces in the entire nation. It JLP Mandombi died as truly a
is one of the first instances when the „ „ , c®use of human prog-
Negro has taken the in'tiative in any fi ® . f a?y those who have sacri-
of the general reform movements. Dr. " J)e r live® that their fellows
Coggin is the central figure in this jeuan ,ncreased chance for
present instance and as such he has a happiness, it is well that
is rejected by God. I do not believe proposed conference to be held in this of'the^enUre force^of8 the "Methodist perPetuated and that^thefr*°iiames
that any man or woman can retain city during the first week of October Episcopal Church who have joined 8h?uId be known. for they have con-
the position ot leadership who will in- under the auspices of the Board of wjth him in the organization of this tnbuted to human advancement the
quire of any power but God^ I have Temperance. Prohibition and Public ^ter-rada conference in the very dearest thin^ to them ™ d when
known men and women hiirh nn thn ! ,.e i _1C'_ ^ 111 very fha„ „M ... wnen
known men and women high up the I Morals of the Methodist Episcopal heart of the South
scale of influence and letter sense J church to determine the relation and
who would go to Clairvoyants to find , attitude of the Negro towards the 18th Dr. Coggin, while modest to the
out about their domestic affairs and ! Amendment, is being looked forward highest degree, is not wholly unknown
their business, but I have known them ' to with more than a considerable in- to praiseworthy fame. He has been
in every incidence to fail to reach j terest by the Nashville public at large, a first figure in the work of his church
success. I remember one educated ! The call for the conference is sign among the colored people for the past
minister who Lauded me a horoscope ed by Bishop William F. McDowell, fifteen years. His character has with-
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near the divine as ever a man does.
AGENTS-SELL VITAL, great sy -
. 7~ 7—:,— ™ UJ WIIIIBUI r. mtuuwcii, nticeu years, nis cnaracier nas Wltn- U..IIW.. .-j UI I
that he had received from an eastern President of the Board; Dr. Clarence stood the closest scrutiny. He en. bu lder and blood Pur,fier- Satis-
°Kle tel,Iln,K.him a11 True wilson. Secretary, and Dr. J. N. joys an enviable reputation for the faction guaranteed: laroe bottle. n .
would later meet. C. Coggin. Promoter and Director. The possession of a ster.ing and high
" """ ' dollars prepaid. Special prices by
dozen. Big corr.minion—Secure ter-
ritory. C. W. Chesser & Sons,
tion. "Hence, he is aUays to be found 1 th St., Bessemer. Ala.
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