The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1908, Page 1

WASHINGTON “ar SS” VOL.27 NO. 32 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY JANUARY 4, 1908. MR. SIDNEY BIEBER It will be a matter of great benefit to all the people of Washington that Mr. Sidney Bieber, by his appointment’ as chairman of the Board of Elections for the District of Columbia, will hence- forth be strong figure in politics in this city Mr. Bieber will liave virtually ab- solute control of the manner in which delegates to the National Republican Convention shall be chosen in the Dts- wict. Mr. Bieber’s selection as chairman of the Board is especially appropriate be- cause he is a native of this city, and. with the exception of a brief time when sertous illness necessitated his living in New Mexico, has been here continuous- ly, and has taken an active and power- ful part in practically all the affairs touching the welfare of the people of the District of Columbia. He was born May 24, 1876, and was educated in the public schools of the District. For the past ten years Mr. Bieber has enjoyed the esteem and friendship of the highest esteem in the politics and the statesmanship of this country. He has been connected with the Republican Congressional Committee as__ its local treasurer. He is a striking example of the fact that a man although deprived of the right of suffrage may be a real power in national affairs. At present he interested mm two matters of special importance to this enure One is the reclamation of the Anacostia Flats, and it is safe to say that his work in behalf of this pro- which calls for the expenditure of ver stx million dollars, will carry a successful conclusion. The other is the movement to make it possible for all poor people to be re- movec from the dark and unhealthy al- leys t wider and more sanitary streets. His success in obtaining from Congres: tion beneficial to the District is largely due to the esteem tn h he is held at the Capitol. one will doubt that. under Mr, Bieber’s management the ¢lection of the Republic delegates to the Naoitnal onve will result in the choice of stand high in the publtc re- be doubted that will secure at his election is city. ject, of « it to the legislz it cannot can party and satis ory rRAIN NEGRO’S HANDS Schools E FOR THE System of Race Establ for Nation to Solve SOUTH Training ished Here as Nu- Aid in South’s Ef- Problem. No In- but Co-operation. Newlands, of Nevada( who f the newDemocratic mem- the for of the District schools cnate Committee on has a plan lumbia, teaching of colored pu- readjust the curriculum of the © youth so as t0 hich are devoted to ipils of that race for the partic- anches of activity into which - they are admitted, as a rule, upon pres social plane of their race, to which he believes their mental edestines them. Sevator Newlands yesterday outlined his 1is subject as follow: is that the District of Co- Id ystem the Southern State for the train- views on My idea umbia model furnish a i colored children a fanciful but Wt requires is f-contr and only be secured through discipline and traim- system, a practical colored self-control can mg Substitute for Plantations “Tt is a well-known fact that the col- red servants of today are not as well tunes. Under the old system of slavery | 3 the old system of lavery} plantation was a traming school, | in which ¢ cred race has lost this training, and adequate traintng has been “The best training for an inferior race training of the hands in indus- 1 pursuits and in the trades. If this ken care of, the head will take care of We should in the District of Columbia practical training schools for the colored children, which, their present intelligence. will ft vocations for which they ts ta seli institute with them fo e suited. And if such a model sys- adopted here, it will doubtless the Southern are tem be States. Enfranchisement a Failure, “We could, through our Agricultural Department, extend a system of natton- al aid to State schools, such as we have followed throughout | because | the jon In-| It should be, liscipline was maintained. The} substi- | 4 ! given to State agricultural colleges, and | thus further the useful and practical de- velopment of a race which ought to have been regarded, after emancipation, as the wards of the nation. The elect- ive franchise, intended as a benefit, has proved to be It is time to start over again, and ét is time for the nation to come to the assistance of the Southern States in the solution of what should from the start have been regarded as the nation’s problem. “I do not mean by this that national action in the South should be intrusive or independent of State control. It should largely be auxiliary—the agen- cies chosen should be *- ~ ate agen- cies for edu g. If the Agricultural ild have sufficient ap; ) purpose, and could ur each one of the Sout ding the State author vork, the nation could ut being intrusive. Make “We shou Washington, rge col- ored populat _-.wa be made the starting point of a general system of training for colored children, such as I have suggested. “And, tn speaking of manual train- ing. { mean to include farming and oth- er such pursuits, as well as the mechan- ical vocations. “I should like to see named a com- mission, composed of such men as Pres- ident Pritchett, late of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, to exam- ine the school system of the District of Columbia, and make recommenda- tions as to desirable changes. I am sure that President Roosevelt, if the power appoint an excellent commission for were given to him by Congress, would their undoing. om, ever, in this purpose REGISTER VERNO PULPIT Bsides being an orator of exceptional ability on political and gene topics, Register W. T. Vernon is also a preach- er of acknowledged attainments. He filled the pulpit of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Sunday, and in the pres- of the largest congrega- tions of the season delivered a splendid sermon from Isaiah, entitled “The Re- Demands of They Relate to the Church.” licttated his that the IN THE a ence-of ia the Century He fe church ligious audience influence that civilization was growing in power and the world is finding out righteous dempnds of are best met by subscribing to the eter- nal principles enunciated by the Master the Mount Olives. In a broad- ening of thought, the crease of the spirit of charity lence and brotherly love as of catholtcity in- benevo- ected in of Mer- the hospitals missions, Houses A institu oe. Cis tions for the uplift of cy, and other humanity, Dr. Vernon saw the magic influence of the | Christian Church expanding and more and more meettng the demands of the century. Dr. Vernon is endeavoring to comply with as many requests as pos- sible for lectures in the next few weeks, and is planning quite an extensive itin- which will enable him visit States. New England. is announced as mond, V: Dunbar Literary and Historical Society. erary to several including a brtef tour On February 18 he at Rich- in the regular course of the the lecturer Dr. Vernon's happy address at the gold- yburn, under the auspices of the Medico-Chi- rurgical a ef- fort, and has won for him many sin- en anniversary of Dr. Robert R Society, was masterly cere compliments. OUR HELPI UL SOCIAL SE MENT . The Colored Social Settlement on M street southwest is developing tnto city- wide prominence by reason of the activ- ity of the managers in interesting new time din- poor children enjoyed themselves to the limit. Wholsome amusements were provided the supervision of Mrs. Sarah one of the resident Social Settlement is voluntary contributions, and powerful forces from time to A fine Christmas ner was served last week, and the its welfare in under Collins Fernandez Th by managers. maintained and the followtng are resident trustees and directors: Mrs. S. C. Fernandez, Miss Olivia Brown,Miss Ella M. Coates, John A. Fernandez; Mis Minnie Price, in charge of kindergarten; Dr. Mary L. Brown, in charge of clinic. Miss Sara W. Brown is president of the board of trustees; E. S. La Fetra is treasurer. to whom donations of money should be sent; Mrs. Fernandez is secretary. The remaining trustees are Prof, A. U. Craig, Miss H. Ida Curry, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs.Wilson Bruce Ev- ans, Ms. Bettie G. Francis, Mrs. Eu- g W. Weller, C. F. Weller, Aaron Russell, James E. Walker, Samuel Mid- dleton, Rev. W. J. Howard and Rev. | F. J. Grimke PERSONAL LIBERTY.LEAGUE. ‘-Pubic Printer Ricketts and Editor Chase Endorsed. At a special meeting of the National Colored Personal Liberty League held at its headquarters. No. 7 E.street south- west Saturday evening December 28, 1907, for the purpose of electing a pres- ident to fill the vacancy caused by the death of President H. Clay Hawkins, and the vacancy caused by the death of Samuej Tinney. of the District of Co- dumbia, the following gentlemen were} unanimously elected to fill out the un- expired terms ending June 16, 1908 President, L, A. Wiles, of Iowa; ser- geant-at-arms, Jerry Tolbert, of West Virginia. The following preamble and_ resolu- tions were unanimously adopted: Whereas we, the members of the Col- ored Personal Liberty League, repre- senting over six hundred thousand col- ored yoters in the Unit d States, and five thousand in the District of Colem- bia, believing as we do that the future PARAGRAPHIC NEWS prosperity of the colored citizens of ‘the District of Columbia depends upon the! ' By Miss Beatriz L. Chasz Judge the race question la: the mulattc races Norwood, in an address on Tuesday, said that} is the curse of both the} in South. They stir the! others to deeds of violence and create discord. Judge Thomas M. twelve years of service,was retired from the bench of the Savannah last Tuesday. The prohibition law went into effect} at midnight last Tuesday the Norwood, after/ Court in Birming- ham, Ala. and Jefferson county Ala- bama. A bomb factory was discovered not many miles from Sevastopol, Russia. Last Wednesday observed by many of Georgia’s people as Emanci- | pation Day. An article by Mr. B. T Washington, } subject “Negro Homes,” wtll make its| appearance in the Century Magazine. was MR CHAIRMAN OI AN ACTIVE AND PRO SID} | selection of our best men to represent! us in the next National Convention to he held in the city of Chic 1908; therefore, be it Resolved, That we W Ricketts for delegates >, June 16, heartily Calvin Chase endorse the Hon. and the Hon. Oscar J to the said convention, and we recom- mend and endorse Dr.W . S. Richard-} sonf or National Committeeman, belicv- ing as we do that a better selection can not be made than the above-named gen- tlemen. Done by order of the League James L, Edwards, Acting President. S. E. Robinson, Recording Secretary Chas. C.C urtis, National Organizer. DR. A. M. CURTIS OPERAT GARFIELD HOSPITAL | Dr. A. M. Curtis performed an op-| eration last Saturday at Garfield Hos- pital upon Mrs. Dickerson, wife of Dr. W. P. Dickerson, Newport News, Va., who came all the way to Wash- ington to avail herself of the skill of this eminent specialist. The operation, although an unusually difficult one, was entirely sucessful, and the patient is in sfactory condition. Garfield Hos- pital ts an institution of the first grade, under white management, but colored patients are treated with every possible consideration by the officials thre. Dr. Curtis has been called frequently to the hospital. and_has performed some not- CONVENTION °CANDIDATES. The this week publishes a list! of the candtdates to the coming Na- tional Republican Convnetion: Dr. £ R. Wilder, Dr. C. C. Stewart, Attorney L. M. King, Dr, Lofton, Attorney R: R. Horner and quite likely Rev. Walter H. Brooks; with other counties to be heard from. CARNEGIES GIFT. The credit of the fifty thousand dol- lar gift to Howard University is due to Dr. Booker T. Washington. That in- stitution is indebted to him and some day the race will show its gratitude. his home with a severe cold. He has demonstrated that on more than one occaston. | Bee See * THE ELEC ‘and ; who died < | { 5 | Treasury Department as chairman. The Japanese Ambassador, who was summoned to Japan, left the Monday. LH city last Arnold, who was a clerk in the tn this city some time ago, died at the home of his son jat East Willston, L. I. this week. A special department for the treat- ment of tuberculosis was lately opened at the Homeopathic Hospital All the orthodox Chinamen in this city | will celebrate the birthday of the thirty- | fourth year of the reign of Emperor | Kwang Hsu, or the Chtnese New Year, | February 1, 1908. The Senate Committee Affairs have spent over thirty thousand dc on the investigation of the shoot- ing affray at Brownsville between July 1, 1906, and June 30, 1907, according on Military |to the report of the Secretary of the Senate. Government clerks were given half holiday last Tusday Mrs.Molly Desmond, who swallowed 144 needles a go, New York last Monday after having had 134 year died in needles of all sizes drawn from almost every part of her body. William G. Reichard, cused of forgery. committed suicide this ok acid The lo heating company at Atlantic City/"N. J., has recently suf- fered the hundreds of gallons of hot water through the tap- ping of their pipes by householders The executive committee of the Cen- who was we in Pittsburg by drinking ca al hot wy of loss many ' tral Labor Union is to investigate the \ BIEBER TION COMMITTEE. GRESSIVE REPUBLIC Mr. Walter attended this an’sChristmas Grimshaw, of city, { theBohem at y, Baltimore. H. Alsten, a well-known Mr | ted resident of Philadelphia, respe s residence in said ¢ was bor unnah, Ga., over sixty years ago. Mr. Daniel tended the funeral of his f weeks ago, Brocks, of this city, at- her, which took place two in Brook- lyn, N. Y. The employees of the St. Luke print- ing office and the Emporium presented | Mrs. M. L. Walker vase and a silver pickle stand with com- | pliments of the season. Mr, William H. Johnson is the pro- prietor of the Monumental Press Bu-| reau, of Baltimore City. Miss Mattie ad- | dress last Monday evening at the Y.| M. C. A. room, Druid Hill avenue, Bal- | timore, the proceeds for the benefit of The Buds of Promise Juveniles, I. O.| of St, Luke. Bishop Edward G. Andrews. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., at 5 a-m. last] Tuesday in his cighty-second year Hs] contracted a cold last October at San} Francisco. | The Lane CollegeReporter states that! a special appeal is made to the alumni and friends donating to help de-| fray the debt made in the building of | the girls’ new dormitory. | The Lane College is Tennessee ,and is now In its fifth year’s work. There was a famtly reunion in Lou- isville, Ky., and Mr. John B. Davis, | of this city, and many others of the family were present. Dr. A. W. Frazier, of this city, has | located at Metropolis, Ill, where he ex-| pects to reside. j The Trades Unionist, published in| this city, suggests having an indusrial parade here this coming spring in the “interest of Washington.” A call for a convention in St. Louis, April 12, 1908, to form the People’s Party,” has been issued with headquar- ters at Albany and Mr. J. W. Forrest a French china} Bownen made an ed in West, twenty- | dane | , | affair of the alleged charges against Public Printer Charles A, Stillings that he has been | ating the eight-hour law. burglar who broke into the Mr. R. I Barnes, Richmond, got a walked the a A resi- dence of Va., into corpse. Carrie Nation, known as the “temper- when which surprtse we room in there was ance agitator ofKansas,”arrived atMex- ico last Monday, She says that she will with President Diaz Alexa Waters President Roosevelt and Sec- Taft for their attitude on the Brownsville shooting in an address et the Twelfth Baptist Church last Mon- audience seek an 3ishop der severely retary night at Boston. MASONIC HALL DIVIDEND. The thirteenth annual meeting of the Hall Building octation was Masonic treet and Virginia mutheast. The r by LLC Henry meeting was pre- Bailey, vice presi- Coleman, president, detained at his restdence by The president’s annual ad- as read by the vice-president af- the embrac- ing that of the recording s the ter which several reports cretary, the tre: and financial urer the auditor and ordered to be printed. secretary, were submitted, approved, These re- in a prosperous and healthy condition, show the association to be ten thousand dollars having been A as unanimously tendered the ing the past year. vote officers tors for their success- ind ful and businesslike management of the dire association, after which the present officers and directors were re- elected to serve the ensuing year, as fol- lows: President Henry Coleman; vice president, L. C, Bailey; recording secre~ tary William H. Severson; financial sec- -rof. N. E. Weatrerless; treas- Eugene Brooks (vice W. H. J. Malvin, and William H. My- direct William H. Grimshaw George M. Webster, W. H. Malvin, William M. George, Nathaniel Robin- John T. Turner, Peter Walker, Wayne, and Mrs. E. W. Mar- of fifty cents per all paid-up shares was de- retary urer, auditor, ers ors son Le shall A dividend 2 and patd at this meeting,amount- ing to $975 The property of the Association con- two halls and several build- ed at $42,000. There are i facts presents a sisting of ng ! va io debts, v creditable most showing. REGISTER VERNON SOUTH THE REBEL YELL DID NOT DE- TER HIM. sister W. T. Vernon, who came to on his return home he presented him- f the window of the Pullman par- and asked for a Pullman ticket. A little rebel upstart refused him a and said that he did not sell “Niggers” tickets. Register Vernon re- sented the insult, presented an older man in the ticket office, and demanded a Pullman ticket. He recetved hhis ticket amidpt the cheers of the crowd of whites fnd blacks who heard and saw ‘the black Rossius. ac-} ana he committed suicide. AN INFAMOUS LIE DEGRADING THE COLORED RACE. Savannah, Ga., December 31.—Judge Thomas M former United | States Senator from Georgia. delivered a remarkable address on the Negro here today, on the eve of his retiremnt from th bench. He has tried probably twelve thousand Negroes since he had bees a judge, and had made a study of the In his address he reviewed the history of the Negroes from their lives in | | } Norwood, race rica, into slavery, and out again. He reaches the concluston that the Ne- gro is not capable of higher education, that illicit relations the races is the curse of the South, and that the mulatto is the of of he | trouble, Judge Norwood said, in part: “I have said that cramming the head jis not education, and that the Negro cannot originate. I id that the Negro t's an imitator, and nothing more. He can handle tools crudely when in- structed by the white race, not between cause much have | but he cane tools. Knows Only Rule by Force “In-ffica no labor made the Negro fazv. He had never worked. In Africa the Negro government but physical force. Here he recognizes no form of government when not restrain- ed by resort to force. In Africa, the Negro having no morals, lies and steals | with no sense of moral wrong. invent knew no “Charles Sumner was wont to rise it the Senate and rol] ahe name of Tous- saint l’'Ouverture on his tongue as a sweet holding htm the country as an example of what the Ne- morsel, up to gro would do when free. L’Ouverture was a bright mulatto. | “Fred an ¢x- ception to the barrier nature has set !to the Negro’s progress. Douglass is cited as Douglass was | one-half cr three-quarters Indian blood. And, still, he left no mark “When Mr. Carnegie ignorant of the Negro « 2 foreigner, of St. receiver of a half a Lillion dollars stolen from the Amer- tcan white people by the tariff, on see- ing Booker Washington, is thrown into }a conniption fit a,nd gives out hs opn- ion, reinforced and indorsed by the aus thority ad power of five hundred mill- ion dollars, that Booker Washington is a greater man than George Washing }ton, and throws to Booker nearly three quarters of a million dollars, the Negro pega Booker Washington is the great+ is he Paul’s theology, the est man in America. Bishop Potter ‘Gave Insult.” “When Bishop Potter, honored + guest in Va., the - simplest rules of hospitality and insults Negro to dine with him, the Negro believes the South- ern white man is denying him his con- stitutional right to dine with a white race. “The Republican press throughout the North for forty years has persistently, poured oil on the flame “The intelligent Negro is not the Af- rican. Every prominent man of Negro blood in America, so far as I have been lable to learn, has either white or Indian blood. “Booker Washington Negro. Still ino originality.” | The judge says that there should be a law providing for the hanging of a man guilty of miscegenation, and the putting of the tiary for life. A DESERVING CHARITY. | “The Home for Frtendless Girls,” otherwise known as the Street uccessfully carried on through voluntary, several of our churches, and from a few of our peo- ple It a great responsibility, however, and ens tails upon a few well-known and faithe ful ladies of this city much hard work The “Home” is 1s, and many devices necessary to ensure them in order that this most deserving charity | may be permanent. These faithful la- ve “A Christmas Cheer Social” last Friday evening at the residence of } Mrs. Sophia Hawkins, Twelfth street northwest. The affair was very, liberally patronized, we are glad to an- and consisted of an acceptable | musical program. Refreshments were | sold, and several donations were receiv- jed. The following named ladies com- posed the committee of arrangements: Mrs, S. Hawkins, chairman; Mrs. A. aBiley, Mrs. John H. Paynter, and Mrs. an Ricrmond, violates his host by inviting a full- has shown is not a blooded he woman in the peniten- “Erie Home,” has been for several years contributions from who are charitably inclined. It is | aund constant anxiet | constantly in need f his card toj Carrie Peirre. “4g KILLED HIMSELF. W. O. Outlaw, formerly of North Ca™ | rolina, was found dead in his room last | week. The evidence disclosed the fact He leaves two brothers,