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VOLUME I COL ORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1936. NUMBER 1

16 NAMES ON) The Supreme Court and the Negro LIJ ZAPHIRO | ANTI-LYNCHINGcom the Chicago Daily Tribune, well could not escape the loss of all PAYS VISIT TO Monday, March 23, 1936.) their rights as citizens, i Twice the United States Supreme The moment has come for plain HOWARD UNIV. BILL PETITION ! Court has intervened to save the live8 speaking, Prevailing opinion in great ef the Negro defendants in the sections of the South believes the Ne-

Seottsburo cases. In 1932 the court gro to be a hopeless inferior; none Signatures of Nine More Con- iheld that the trial at Decatur, Ala, Ethiopians Members of had not been a fair one because the sf the achievements of Negroes in Race, He Says gressmen Needed to Call prisoners had been deprived of _the the arts, the professions, and in busi- ness has served to alter that view. Caucus help of a lawyer, to which the Con- |: itution entitles them. This was an Phe Negro, the argument runs, as an (From Chicago Defender.)

cight to one decision. Mr. Justice inferior, has no rights which the com- WASLINGTON, D. C., Marek 27. NEW YORK-—Sixteen congress- dissented, did so only be- munity must always respect. Colored —Lij Tasfaye Zaphiro, Hirst secretary Butler, who boys can be sentenced to death even men up to March 27 had signed the cause he thought the record on the of the Ethiopian Legation at Lon- petition asking the leader of the » point was not clear. if they have no lawyer prepared to don, and for the past three months Democratic caucus in the House to plead for them. That kind of a trial The Scottsboro cases came bef> an ambassador of good will to call x meeting of the caucus to con- s plenty good enough for them, Ne- Court again last year. America, was a guest at loward ser aati-fynching bills which have the Supreme groes can be sent to the gallows with . Again the court reversed the convic~ university over the week end of Leen introduced in the House. no other evidence against them thas Mareh 13, this time beeause it was shown Twenty-five signatures are needed iians, confessions extorted by terture. And Negroes had been systematically Ata luncheon in his honor on Sat- and if they can be secured it is man- that so on. eveluded from the juries, The dect- urday, March I4, al noon, at So- datery upon the caucus leader to call sion was unanimous in faver of the If ever the power of the Supreme journer ‘Truth Elall, Mr. zaphire, in a meeting. Negroes and against the state of Ala- Court to uphold the Constitution is brief informal address, conveyed The purpuse of this movement in Dama, restricted, the findings of the local to Ue universicy community, then fhe support of anti-lynching legi slation is , cearts in these cases will be final, A uembers oof the faculty present, A few weeks ago the Supreme : foree sume sort of action in the Negro who dares to educate himself ercetings fram his emperor and from Court once more spoke unanimously and acquire property will be whipped hdusc, since the senate seems to be in the the peoples of his native land. jp defense of Negro rights hack into poverty and dependence: il “deadlocked with the Van Nuys reso- South, this time reversing a In the course of his remarks, the = that treatment doesn’t break him, he mi in the committee on audit and “6 ppi judge and jury which had young diplomat took the oppertuni- 1, and with Senator James F. will be framed in a so-catled court of ty fo express his deep, persenal ap- sentenced three Negroes to death, , chairman, of the committee, law and sent to the chain gang or preeciation and the thanks of his gov- Supreme Court found that the = td budge. 'The the gallows for his impudencee in pre- ernment te the Ameirean people Tor only evidence against the defendants tending to be a human being. the keen and syrapathetic interest atters Urge Support. was their awn confessions, which had Vhe. congressmen have received obtained only after they had Thus an entire race will he reduced they have marifested in the Ethi- ibeen opian cause in this troublesome pe~ letiers acd telegrams from many sec- n subjected to prolonged and ¢x- to a kind of serfdom meaner than tons oa: die country urging them to torture, The trial judge. slavery itsel!, The victim will suffer tional, ernelating Hye emphasized parucularly the — suppart this meted of bringing the in Mis ippi had not regarded this ail the luumiliations of slavery, but will be deprived of even the meager hope that the bonds of friendship autioyncking legistation ta Ue atten- as an injustice, and neither had the

and undereiteitiiggs a ARC ebro pero we tion of t ouse, This inethod has si c 6 6 Ayes Poet aeyety crags sowhichki the. slexe,. been adapted > uscanse Congressman: the a deputy sheriff had admitted on { rable piceé of property, enjoys. ing up during these times between Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, chair- the witness stand that he had been person will net be safe from the lash; Race Americans and the peoples of map oof the house judiciary comunit- and had himself swung the and his property will not be safe his country would be deepened and present be! expanded during the coming years. vec, has refused to take any action on whip. ‘from expropriation, He will Sound to the soi in a form of peon- The speaker called attention to the the bills which have been introduced The Supreme Court or ine United 1 age, bound in chains of ignorance of the major ptrpeses in the house. tu which | fact that ene States was the only agency and helplessness. Phe Negro’s lot of his mission to America is to aid The N, AL ALC. BP. has sent letters and impoverished Ne- these obsenre | in all parts of the country is bitter and cneourage programs directed toe to mere than 130 congressmen and elementary fus- eroes could turn for enough today with the court to pro- ward these ends, senators who a year ago expressed Hee, Save for the court and the Con-! teel him: without the Constitution Expresses Hope. themselves as willing to do anything which it interprets they i stitution 1 and the Supreme Court jt would pe He expressed high hopes espe- to aid federal anti-lynehing legisla- would have had no chance. “They | today. i far worse, especiaily im the deep cially for the wark that was heing tion, informing them of the present wonkh) all he in their graves | doue by the United Aid for Ethi- have suf | Seuth, status of the fight for federal legisla- As individuals they weuld upia, a national organization with tion and asking them to do all they bul that is: It is that fate which the New Deal- fored the ultimate wrong, New York City, can ta bring i up at the present that would] ers who seek to curh the Supreme headqaarters in the Teast of the damage its efforts to rais- session, Uf there were 10 Court are preparing, perhaps unwit- whieh is devoting have been done. ing funds for the support of the Court upon tingiy, for the Negroes and, it shod Need Administration O. K. check by the Supreme Ethiopian Red Cre race prejudice in these and similar be added, for every other minority In many quarters the present dead- Warm tribute v also paid to the cases, Negroes throughout the South group in this country against which lock on anti-lynching legislation is limely and far-reaching programs of parts of the North as, prejudice exists. blamed upon the administration, In and in many the Ethiopian Research Council, an fact, one congressman, whose name organization which was established may not be mentioned, went so far as in December, 1934, by Dr. Matuka to write the N. A. A, C. P. that there 41% of Lynching Victims Were Unaccused Bayen, a relative of Tanperor Haile would be no trouble whatsoever Selassie, and a graduate of the How- about the Costigan-Wagnerbill if the of Minor Offenses, Report Reveals ard University. Medical School, for adminisiration would pass the word Or Guilty the purpose of assembling and dis-

dawn to act upon it, seminating information regarding the history and civilization af Greater Asan example of the feeling in the bring about “legal lynehings,” ac- country on this bill a letter from ATLANTA, Ga, April 2.—Forty- Ethiopia in ancient, medieval and one per cent of the 84 persons cording to the report. On the other Dick “Donahue, chairman of the band, a number of cases are cited in modern times. Minnehaha county central committee Iynched in the last five years were Ry no chance, the speaker urged, either unaccused of crime or else which officers successfully resisted or of the Democratic party in Sioux outwitted mobs. should Race Americans permit them- Valls, S. D., addressed to Congress- were charged only with minor of- selyes to be misled into believing that made man T, B. Werner. Mr. Donahue fenses, according to a report the Ethiopians do net consider them- say public by the Commission on in- GIRL’S PRINT TO “FIRST LADY” sel members of the black race, terracial Cooperation, summarizing “The colored voters of South Da- Published statements to the effect the results of a careful study of all Negro’s Design Bought by Mrs. that the Ethiopians do not wish to kota have for the first time in history the lynchings of that period. stoud by the Demvucratic party in the Roosevelt, be identified with the black race, he Appearing as a 24-page pamphiet, emphasized, were quite ill-founded past two elections and will do so in entitled “The Mob Still Rides,” and the coming election if we show them and represented nothing more than citing numerous illustrative cases, the WASIIINGTON, D. C—A spring we appreciate their support.” subtle propaganda disseminated by report states further that of the other chiffon gown made of a printed de- interests that hoped to drive a wedge The N. A. A. C. P. is strongly em- 59 per cent of mob victims many sign by Hilda Jones, 18-year-old New the sympathies of Race phasizing this weck that all voters, York high school girl, was worn by between were innocent of the crimes with Americans and the Ethiopians by white and Negro, who favor the pas- which they were charged. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at a this point of bill speciously fostering sage of a federal anti-lynching Only one-fourth of the victims White House luncheon Wednesday, view, must write to their Democratic con~ were accused of actual or attempted March 25. Answers Slavery Charge. gressmen asking them to sign the pe- She chose the print, with its gray assaults upon women, commonly In the course of his remarks, Mr, tition as a test of their sincerity. cause of background and green and purplish ‘thought of as the chief Zaphiro also took occasion to em- figures from a group of prints made The Democratic caucus rule binds lynchings, and in a number of these phasize that the widely heralded all Democrats to abide by the deci- cases the Commission’s invetigators hy high school students. Miss Jones’ prize-winning design was her fav- charge that the Ethiopian govern- sion of the caucus or to get out of [could find no convincing evidence of ment condoned, indeed actively pro- effect caucus, thus the caucus in_ | guilt, . . moted, slavery, and that the cotn- would haye the power io order the Officers sometimes connive a. } Jones said that she designed the print from an idea suggested by try was traditionally a barbarous and bill out of the rules committee for lynchings or even participate in them, backward land were likewise nothing consideration. courts rarely indict lynchers and greens that her mother cooked, She lives in Brooklyn and attends the more than culpable propaganda If the caucus gives its support to j more rarely convict, and mobs some- Girls’ Commercial high school. (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) times so dominate the courts as to

| Two THE VOICE OF COLORADO vA TUMSTR GTRUSUALR S against Germans as TATTLE en THE VOICE OF COLORADO no system of caste. Ourcapitalist was of my prejudices few years ago, and vice Germans were removed by that con- a laborer a prevented Literary Comment The policy of this paper is to bring versa, This freedom of opportunity has tact. Segregation would have about m better understanding between of our land. The idea my gaining that knowledge. Only thru EC races thra cn impartial presentation of been the glory ACM THEAWETTERRETATE “"Peuth, the unem- association can we learn that industry would absorb open-minded By Robt. J. Washington. ployed was based on the assumption to evaluate properly men as individuals iediten . and and not as races. Racial segregation, Advetlisings Manager... of a definite class of industrialists In every normal human being there to increase and in- te of laborers. The yeality that all of us therefore, tends are supposed to he five s ses. A : Articles to Be Published With laborers are simply small scale capi- tensify racial hatreds rather than to sixth sense is mentioned, is sixth Pueblo Ave. Iu a 21 N, Royer talists in America was not understood break them down. But racial prejudice sense is our sense of batance, hdy Stroud... 4 Spruce The majority built on selfishness is not broken down ! physical w this sixth sense mani- Tarrant, by the Administration. fests itself in countless little ways in an of us working on the WPA were once by knowledge from contact. everyday life, such as, a boy walk- Advert wend Cents Per Inch small business men, or farmers—nol ‘This kind of prejudice is more deep- ing on a single rail or a-top a fence. | Subscription... wow$8.50 Per Year idle bums, if you please. Given an op- ly rooted and can not be removed ot Nature has carried her sense of bal- could make our cured except by curing the heart of ance little farther, She prompts FRIDAY, AVRIL 10, 1936 portunity most of us own way. selfishness, Unfortunately, most of the us when we are about to cat either

the Negro is based more than is good for us or some~ A WPA worker came to me. He antipathy toward thing we should not have. Most of make it more plain, WPA LAYOFF isn’t the only one. “My wife has quit on selfish fear. To us ignore Nature's warnings, conse- the white man has taken that to which in time we fail to recognize Some two hundred men were laid me,” he said. “I was upset and irri- quently, has no just claim, and to keep pos:- them. off the various WPA projects recently table over the prospect of being laid he | session he resorts to the propagation of In this respect most of us live en- inthis district. A strike was threatened, off, She is nervous and _high-strung. tirely out of balance with life. The race prejudice. This type of prejudice “you can’t strike on relief.” The Yes, we have a little family. She said patt of the lives of many is like but black or white worksin all selfish men, con- lay-off was given promiscuously and she wouldn’t come back, that I was ace quilt. Everything is rich or poor, founded on greed and and the individual is very un- like all actions of the relief acminis- abusive. If I could only find a steady fusion heart. Jesus alone can happy. He does not understand the why. would only consider the an unregenerate tralion—-no one knew job—if she relation between the things I asked cure this type of prejudice. true There was no reason given and no effect on the children. Yes; around him (his home, friends, oc- love me The Good Old Book says, “How himself (his desires, plan followed but a_helter skelter her forgiveness; she doesn’t cupation) and can two walk together except they tastes and spiritual nature.) wholesale Jaying off. Some men with any more.” agree?” and in another place, “He What is needed is a complete state were discharged, others Oh! God! how this land needs large families made of one blood all the nations that of relaxation, Tn this way an indi- single received the slip. Jesus. How we need men and women and the ex- who were dwell on the face of the earth.” If you vidual may study himself Some Democrats were fired; some Re- of great love and steady patience. ternal phases of his life. A sincere hate a person, you do not like to be and Mother publicans were laid off. No one knew How we need an understanding of effort in his company. If all white people will come to the individuals dreary years have brought true values and a willingness to forego Nature why. Four hate all black people, the two races aid—Mother Nature with her sixtl seemingly arbi- and superfluities of life. the same unexplanatory the luxuries can not “walk together.” But some| sense—the sense of balance. different relief admin- Actual real Christianity is the crying trary actions by white and black people who find hap- of the queer alpha- need today. istrators regardless piness in the same labor andrelease in waceummeumacenmmninveenmuns that designated dif- betical contortions the same pleasures “‘walk together” in are what have ferences. These actions SEGREGATION AT perfect harmony. It is, therefore, abso- “relief strikes’” and repeatedly caused PROSPECT lutely wrong to force groups to con- BLIND MAN general discontent. The Prospect Lake improvement on account of the demn each other Day after day the “‘reliefer’’ has project is planned. I noticed in the colorof the skin. into his home and peered into a picture of proposed plans one side set says “You drug Whenever a government bare or scanty pantry. At first there! off for “Colored.” Immediately I must stay apart because of the different was hope and the man returned home questioned, “‘Are thefacilities and con- colors of skin,” that government is whistling...to...a. smiling wife and a veniences equal to those on the “white false and degraded. gone his cheery fire. But the grocer has side?” I expected less in quantity, but limit: the vent is far in arrears; the I hoped for equality in quality. [ am LIJ ZAPHIRO PAYS VISIT TO clothing has become ragged and thin; afraid the same old rule of “segrega~ HOWARD UNIVERSITY By REV. KD S ROUD, gone from the eye. The apply. I Preacher and Political Economist. and hope has tion equals inferiority” will worst thing about the whole affair is wonder will we human creatures ever (Continued from Page One} the eyes in CHAPTER I. the beaten, hopeless look in reach that stage of man-hood at which heavily charged with ignorance. | cf the wage-eamer. a man charges, he pointed The Wocful depression began when we will look at the worth of answer to these was finished im that slavery of the sort that ex- the Panama Canal The indebtedness on the little family rather than at the color of his skin. out 1912, but the average citizen paid no the na- We Negroes, as a group, would do isted for so long in the western has mounted as steadily as in Ethiopia, attention to it. world was non-existent i your geography and tional debt. The expense of living con- well to try to instill in our children a ner doesS industrial slavery of the Friend, ... get were as- recognition of principle and character, type which even now flourishes in look from Los Angeles to Terredel tinued as inadequate budgets of Magelland, disgrace his Jand. Fuego and the Strait signed. How could the wage-earner rather than of fleshly beauty. certain countries, York... . You termed slavery then back up to New every alphabetical The City of Colorado Springsis lo- What is generally of say... 15, catch up? Then in Ethiopia, is rather nothing more have traced a distance Dixon line, Now calculate the dis- change brought about a period of no cated nerth of the Mason of mild serfdom, he said 000 miles. than a form 2 San Francisco to New budget at all. The man onrelief could and has never and can not nowlegally inherited from the past, and that even] tance!® from racial segregation. no longer a flourishing in-| ork, sailing from Los Angeles | not stop eating andliving for this pe- adopt a policy of this was Pacific, you will in the country as a result of Westward across the so the next set-up found him far- The results of the official adoption of stitution about 22,000 miles. Tma- tiod; imperial decrees forbidding its ex- find it to be with his can be only guessed at. ship load of geods at San ther behind, and much worse, this policy istence. i a to New worried and his little Racial prejudice is not a passing and unex- EF ancisco to be shipped ttle love-nest Having been suddenly pull out with deep-rooted growth to Ethiopia, Mr. York, but before you avife showing the strain. Then another fantasy. but it is a nectedly recalled the distance by the stay in the nation’s capi-| Your cargo measure period of inadequate budget. of lepreus infection that breeds in Zaphiro’s the West Coast to the At- much shorter than had, been land from brought of men. We people of black faces tal was You'll find if te be about 3,- T had never had the thing ogo ov ie inally planned. His visit to lantic. morning of the have met this disease at an early age essen- 000 miles. Around by the most home to me until the Washington was, therefore, America it’s constant exposureto its ravag- rather than of- Southern1 pointJ of South t lay-off. Men of integrity and undis- and thru tially al a personal of the di dreaded symptoms character and primarily for the! 15,000 miles, five-sevenths puted ability were summarily dismissed ing effects, have its ficial lance around the Globe. Tt is evi- few have not purpose of paying his respects to goods with nothing in sight but hungry chil- in our own hearts. Very for private dent that you would ship your Howard university and a cheaper route. dren and a worried, fretful wife. succumbed to its influence. conferences with members of the across the Continent the Americanss shipped of strong men When I was in school, we discussed Ethiopian Research Council, of That's how — Tears stood in the eyes before the cutting of the of the Jews. which he is an associate director.! their gonds and stark want filled the day. the ancient persecution Cat or Panama Canal, these reasons, no formal appear- Culebra a bare floor, of broken The instructer and all the class seemed For as soon as the Cut was finished T thought of in Washington was arranged. Yat children, and to think that civilization bad outgrown ance they hegan to ship their goods thru dishes, of ragged, dirty The recent per the Panama Canal, thenee to all of a prematurely old mother discon- such brutal ignorance. to proves 16 NAMES ON ANTI- varts of the World and cheaper tented, fretful, and ill, searching in a secution of Jews in Germany by land. Before the We LYNCHING BILL PETITION New York than cupboard quite empty and bare. Four the persistance of race prejudice. building of the Panama Canal their

of a securily wage gave no are apt to underestimate the capacily woods were shipped from the Sierra years (Continued from Page One) the Atlantic up a nest egg. Why, in of the human heart for the keeping of Mad-e mountains to chance to lay will com- bound for the Kast such a As long as racial prejudice is so the anti-lynching bill this especially those such a wealthy land should evil. congressmen to all parts of the interior. For will be resorted to. mit 321 Pemocratic and t» situation prevail? Everyone is propos- strong, segregation support the bill this reason our Coast Cities simply ing a solution. The true solution is Searegation tends to accentuate race Mitchell, anly Negro congressintn, took on a normal growth while those peti rapidly and the in Second Chronicles: “TE my prejudice, for ignorance andselfishness still refuses to sign anti-lynch of the interior grew given was busy all over. Denver, called by my name are the foundations of prejudice. Dur- tion, Up to April 2nd, 24 signatures} Country - people which are had been obtained. The other one Pueblo,. Ransas City. Cheyenne, we were taught that all Lake C (Christian) will humble themselves ing the war has probably heen obtained! tfelena, Salt Bismark, “Huns.” I con- signature and pray then will I hear {vom Heaven Germans were bestial by now. No telling what trick willf Omaha and others were thriving sities, took Our present ceived all kinds of imaginations of a pe used next to “lynch” the investi- But the Panama Canal and will heal their land.’”? a few hun- type. land peopled with such creatures. In gation of lynching. the business from within Administration is not the praying of the West banks of the dred miles the Ad- High School I encountered a German lane Here is a little thing that Mississippi—all to the shipping behold, he was about the SUBSCRIBE TO in advocating teacher and, ministration overlooked OF COLORADO (Continued on Page Three) there is same as all the other teachers. Many THE VOICE the security wage. In America

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SSTURIU RUM E LCE)ESUAREL eAUBT THE BLIND MAN’S CORNER Pray much for me in this dark land of sin, love to all the dear ones there. MITCHELL HAS In sending money please send bank (Continued from Page Two) OPEN FORUM checks as we cannot use money ar- A ders here. Thanking you for your of the Pacifie . . . Badly crippling DEANENTR FIVE WHITES Chicago and all of the Mid-West. kind Ictter of remembrance of us If you will notice, all*of the Coast Cape Palmas Liberia. out in this far away land of Africa. Cities have thrived and the interior West Africa, Kindly remember me to Mrs. Loper ON THE LIST cities have stood still while some Box 6 Bethel Home. and family. Love to the dear saints, have even lost in population. Feb. 9th, 1936. f am your sister in the service of Tlow can this situation be remé* Dear Elder Morgan: the Master in Africa, Illinois Congressman Names died? First... . by putting thru the Greetings to you and the dear Your Loyal Sister, St. Lawrence Project and by a uni- Saints in Jesus dear Name: Your ELIZABETH WHITE. 11 for U. S. Naval and form shipping rate, for east and west, kind letter received and so very ‘glad Not for ourselves we live but for Military Academies making as many rivers of the west to hear from you dear ones in Colo- others we give our lives—Psalm 121. Psalm 15. navigable for steam boats as possible. rado Springs. God, is my all andall If the treaty with Canada were rati- today and I find in Him my joy and T am preparing for this job. WASHINGTON, D. C—(ANS)— fied tomorrowand if Private Capital strength thank God. Today I feel 1 hope this little paper will help Congressman Arthur W, Mitchell, would assume the construction of the more determined to go thru with the finance my trip and give me a means Democrat from the first district of St. Lawrence Canal, it would end the Master than ever before, realizing to tell you about Liberia and Af- Iinvis and the only Negro in the depression not only in Ameirca, but the days are evil. rica first-hand. ANDY.

United States congress, has named the entire World. NowI suppose you all have heard six Negroes and five white youths to It would employ every idle man on what a narrow escape I had on the SUBSCRIPTION BLANK the United States Military academy carth—directly or indirectly. People water en route to Africa. Septem- $2.50 Per Year and Up. at West Point, N. Y., and the United would immigrate at once to the ber, the 4th our ship same near sink- States academy at Annapolis, Md. Western parts of Canada and Amer- ing and even the captain gave upall Name Those named to Annapolis are; ica by the thousands. It would hopes of ever seeing land. The ship Address PAUL PHILLIPS COOKE,prin- stimulate immediately, an undying was damaged so badly until we could industry in the entire middle west. cipal, 19, not continue our journey to Africa. City cc cece eee State ...... e- GEORGE EDWIN BURKE,first Business would be “a-humming” on We were helped by another ship and every foot of land in_ America. Cities turned round and carried to Conwall, Amount Enclosed ...... +.

alternate, 20, ie LEE JOHNSON, princi- would spring up in Western Canada England, to the shipyard and there ene and the United States as if by magic. we stayed until the vessel was re- ‘D, FOWLER, first alter- In five years Denver would be as paired, All passengers were taken GOOD WORKat Reasonable large as Chicago. The busy popula- nate, 20. to the hotels by the agents until we Prices in Our Completely tion would consume a greater por- could proceed to Africa. Just God, GILBERT REED, white, princi- Equipped Shop. pal, 19. tion of the farmers’ produce—and stayed His hand of mercy and bade pay for it out of their own pockets— JAMES GILBRIDE, white, first me live on and oh! how could I but Golden Cycle Shine Parlor alternate, 19. not waiting for the government to live for Him. As Paul says: “What borrow money from the Bond Brok- Telephone Main 3218-W. named to West Point are: shall separate me from the love of Those ers—buy cheap, stale, and cold-sior- MICHAEL FRANCIS ALIOTTA, Christ.” Oh! shall we let the world white, principal, 19, age food; compete with the business and its pleasures shut us out from of the middie class and drive them UWART L. DAVENPORT, His face? I dare say no, I shall not principal, 19, out of business; then force them on let nothing move me from the Christ. MUSICK’S PHARMACY ERLY KLEIN COLE, first relief—thus making paupers of al- Now about the station God, is most all the American Common- blessing in a wonderful way out here te, 199, W. JASPER MUSICK, B. ROWN, white, princi- Weal. Put the St. Lawrence Project in the saving of souls. I have 15 Afri- Pharmacist thru, and the general North Western can girls and 11 boys to care for so my ALKER, white, first conse roieet. ate Canal you may know Tam about 1 432 W. Bijou. Phone M. 2643 West afAmerie erm Canada ane'| Father’s business in Africa, I long estern America access to thelfor some good help, some man and ade it clear that in se- The Japanese Cur- for Annapolis, steamship lines. wife who are able to do real service candidates rent and ships plying thru the canal for the Master and humanity. We greatest care to he had éxercised the and day would prevent its have three stations here and just 1 scholastic night TOM WALLACE select aspirants whose freezing. Let’s do that, alone to supervise, and travel from would entitle them to admis- TAILOR training Another cause of the depression one to another, trying to lift up to the Naval academy without Men’e Suits. and sion _.. 1s the Woeful Income Tax Law. to them that know Him—notey the cegular mental examination. The Jesus Piain Dresses exam- _. . Suppose we pass back say about The little baby girl that we rescued » been thoroughly Cleaned and Pressed... 25c youths 2,000 years . .. in Moses and Joshua’s is growing to be a real sweet little by local physicians, he said, and ined thae they had an Income Tax Law girl for Jesus, I hope to bring her Phone M, 5555 30334 S. Tejon have been found physically fit. and which gave complete satisfaction, when I return should will, to the States The Naval academy candidates But our Income Tax was qualified. i the Lord he willing for me to see reome cligible for the June 15 class. Law can’t qualify. ' aon Ae AMSEC METRE EECCEA ' that day. will

he West Foinr candidates Going back to Moses. . . The four- t am so very glad you wrote I EE examina- Weil face mental and physical teenth Chapter... the twenty-second; me about just what was needed most. THEODORE tions Apri] 15. and twenty-eight verses reads... +} Nowat this time I would like for you of | Commenting on his selection They tithed the increase. According | fo send the money as I can make with- | GROVES white and colored candidates, to afl standard arithmetics an_in-} better use of it because I have to buy UOTE to race, Mr.: out special regard crease comes from investments. That so much rice for the children. | Mitchell said: while one is asleep, church STONE comes in steadily would like to ask if your CRE Fights for Right, both night and day, work or play. | would Hke to support a boy or girl “Jam doing what I set out to do. this tax until SAND Moses did not collect in Africa, If so, you can do so forjs N I believe are light for the things that the end of the year. If a man was a the small amount of five dollars. right.” sheep raiser and had no increase dur- That would buy all of their clothes, HAULING Dunbar high Rae Speaking at the ing the year, he paid nothing. For hooks, and eevrything that the child Naval acad-| school, which two of the instance, if he had 10,000 ewes and need in Africa, Or even at one time, ; might amy candidates attended they failed to bring forth one Jamb, yet, send three dollars per said: ' cheaper Phone Hyland 250 Representative Mitchell his tax was nothing. month, T will name the child after struck out in an effort to pRB “T have if a farmer had 10 ewes ands anyone that would like for the child AACS6SEMSCAE the tradition at the Naval But smash had 10 lambs he gave one-tenth to be named after them and have where, for some reason or; they academy, of the increase or one to the govern- them to write you each month, if the our people have not been ac-: other, ment. Money was on the same basis. child can write, oc I will write for cepted.” know when | Phat included both Church and State the child. Please let me Col. Hnry O. Atwood, professor you write me. Stroud’s of snilitary science and tactics at tax, aided the Illinois: The poor man paid one-half Well the sun is very hot today as Dunbar schoul, to 25 in my room and; Sanitation Service sentative in the selection of! sheekle a year which amounted it is 90 in the shade water from the creek where his candidates. cents. T get my and wash their feet when COURTEOUS naming of the four Negroes | It is unconstitutional for a Jaw not they swim The so to do, I am 15 hours . whites fo the naval acad-} meet these qualifications in Amer- they feel DEPENDABLE and twe to Palmas and alone with much surprise in local! ica: First... . It must be constitr- from Cape cmy caused where I can sce mon- ECONOMICAL as well as along the Atlantic | tional. Second ,.. Must meet the ap- the heathens iveles. swinging in the tree tops. But seaboard where the aititude of the| proval of the people. ... Third... keys are well} of enforcement. Te has promised to go with me all ASH-TRASH nayal. academy officials Must be possible God. Negroes except, . . . It must he conditioned the way, even to the end, thank REMOVAL SERVICE known to be against Fourth a 4 in the capacity of servants at the, that it may be perfornied. Must car- eI i A Phone M. 3701 810 N. Walnut academy. ry with it a reasonable penalty. prohibiting a state from Lee| not Constitution Paul Phillips Cooke and James law passed without a penalty is faxing an industry, operating wholly as princi: | be within Johnson have been named a law, but the penalty must within one state. After a state has son of, Industry SATECECEReSe pals. George Edwin Burke, the bounds of reason, An created its own industry, it would supreme court messen-; and initiated within the for the one-time planted seem to me a little aggressive VEE recently ,and; state, is sub- eer here who died hounds of a sovereign the National Government to levy an 1. Fowler have been chosen asy ject to the laws of that state, and an Industsy that had Sinton’s fams Income tax on BRO ES his ap- or hiternates. Burke sesigned even the National Government its germination within the boundaries

can levy RARE peintment immediately, any other external agency, of any slate. Pure Milk been gradu- Pow- RL No negra has ever a tax on such a state or domain. The Tncome Tax Lawcarries with three | states by ated from Annapolis. Only ers not prohibited to the it an unreasonable penalty, The in- acad- to the

nayal HERR have attended the U.S. the Constitution are reserved dividual is required to make ont his E. Baker in the em The last was Henry Siates. There is no provision own business transactions and stipu- Since 1880 who left the institu- nee of Mississippi 1 lations from a mere estimate. If he Colo. Springs’ \ in in 1875, and put ESRPSEUE tion there to keep Ne- errs, he is fined $16,000 Kept Lily-White. 4 are the authorities years, . Finest prison for a term of 10

Negro members ERG plus the in-j groes out that even out Rigid examinations are not allowed Enough to drive a Doodle Danky Negro appointees to get of the athletic teams fel- ability of the Navy acad- of business—as harmless a little the to compete against SEGUE around the color-line has kept low as he is, SWUM mem tLa aeee Phone Main 449° institution lily-white, So determined| emy teams in Annapolis,

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April 29, WHITE KITCHEN Mrs. Waring, president of the Na- PASTRY SHOP LOCAL ITEMS tional Women’s Federation, will be CHURCH NEWS Making the Very Best in in the city April 26, Bakery Goods, The case involving an_ automobile We Solicit Your Patronage. accident between Paul Goffman and THE CHURCH OF GOD IN By Mrs. Paul H. Goffman Edith Edstrom was dismissed in po- CHRIST Phone M, 2119 15 N. Tejon 421 XN. Rover St. lice court Friday afternoon. tT. A. Moore was fined $10 for Corner of Spruce and Willamette. drunkeness in police court last week. Elder C. E. Morgan, Pastor. a escentPaoaaanegRNY, Colorado Springs is anxiously he Colorada Springs All| Star awaiting the arrival of George Schuy- Girls Basketball team licked the Regular Services Sunday, 11 a, m. ler, well known lecturer and writer, Pueblo Girls to the tune of 15 to 8 aud 7:30 p. m. Thursday evenings, | FLUFF DRY who will speak at the County Court last Friday night at the Y. W. C. A. 7:30 p,m. on : Flat Work Ironed House on the night of April 15, The girls played a return game in} ible Study, Tuesday evening, 7:30 Next Achievement the subject “The Denver Saturday night. They will 7c Per Pound Schuyler p.m of the Negro Race.” Mr. meet the Pueblo girls Saturday night, Elder Douglas of Pueblo, is preach- will sp under the auspices of the April 11. ing a special sermon for young peo- 50c Minimum NLA, ALCP. St. John Baptist Church, Rev. O. R, ple, Friday night, April 10. His sub If information coming into the Short, pastor. Services were well at- ject will be, “The Heart of Man.” Placing Bureau from notes received tended all day Sunday. The birthday city have from persons out of the rally which will carry on thru the EAST SIDE CHURCH OF anything to do with the summer sea- month of April is causing a great deal Colorado Laundry will reach of interest. On Good Friday, April GOD IN CHRIST son, the Negro tourists Elder Wm, Waters, Pastor. the peak somewhere about the 10th 10, at 8:30 p. m., under the direction AND the season is yet of Mrs. Julia Scott, there will be a of August. Altho 623 East Monument. over (wo months off, any number of drama, presenting living pictures of already Holy Week. The program is as fol- Regular Sunday services. persons have made inquiries Weekly services Tuesdays and Fri- Linen Supply regarding the city. All business lows:

Room College days, places or persons who are planning | Invocation—Rev, QO. R. Short.

Library to open any business during the sum- | Introduction, 516 W. Colorado Ave. PEOPLES’ M. E, CHURCH are asked to register at Rejoice, O Daughter of Zion—Aug- mer season Corner Royer and St. Vrain. soon as possibie by mented Choir, Main 517 the Bureau as Rev. Lee, Pastor, Colo. calling the Call Phone, Main 5330-M, PARTI Patt Regular Sunday services. been Mrs. Mayme Cotton, who has The Week of Suffering— 1. Mid-week services, Wednesday. Colorado ing in Denver for the past few Palms ---- J. Faure , returned home last week. Miss Amanda Pollard ERR RY ES EYGa dE rs. Allen, sister of Rev. GW. Processional—Junior Choir. iagt Bet SY ELST HB WBE ERO NTE BS EY Prince, former pastor of the St. John 2, Tabieanx—Adam and Eve in a THE BAKER REALTY COMPANY a feft last week to join the Garden of Eden Baptist church, REAL ESTATE RENTALS her brother in ‘Texas. Mrs, Allen has Scene 1 | LOANS been stayiny at the home of Mrs. The entry of Christ into Jerusalem. a GENERAL INSURANCE AND BONDING iu ge. The Last Supper. : Phone Main 4 111 East Kiowa Street a Alex Alexander of Bogue, Seene 2 WALTER D. BAKER Colorado Spritgs, Colorad Kan., and daughter, Mrs, Carol Clark The place named Gethsemane.

Y 2) Kan., few days in Seto “Tt ls Night Within the Gar- a at WdBD 2 YkYe of Russell, the city last) week visiting Miss) den”—Mrs. Payne Cotton,

Velma Alexander and other relatives.) Tableaux. Mrs. Thomas Wallace, Mr. and| Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, Mrs. Petersburg and son (white) and two angels at the sepulchre. Mr. McClain Gvhite) left tast week} Adoration Pantomime of the Cross, Thou That Sleepeth—Miss , Lumber Co. for New York, They expect to be} Awake The Collier gone for three . Charlotte Banks, Mrs. R, on, the former) Reecssional—The Choir—Christ the BUILDING MATERIAL June Moss, this city, writes from Lord is risen today. Oakland, that he is having @ fac Gare in th ni lg. 543 W. Colorado Ave. Telephone M. 5386 months old, Jean, is also having: a fine time. s. Jackson and the baby daughter are at present CHURCH NEWS ‘= acquaintances planning to renew old 1 new ones in the old home and make town some time in August. Little larbara is very a#nxious to see her TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH grandparents and_other relatives. Corner of Nevada at Fountain. Mr, and Mrs. Jackson entertained Regular Sundayservices. THE PROMPT PHARMACY rand Mrs, Dave a few 0 SPRINGS’ and Mrs. Dave we: St. John Baptist Church. COLORAD dents of this city, and_went to .. Pastor Short and the officers are SURGICAL APPLIANCE STORE fornia last fall. Mrs, Dave was pleased with the spiritual and finan- 50 it was SHOULDER BRACES the former Ethel Calloway. cial progress. They closed the quar- ELE TRUSSES BELTS sunion of hometawn falk on the ter Thursday night and the reports ARCH BRACES showed much great work had been he WPA) sewing and knitting done, Sunday school Sunday morn- All Appliance Work Subject to Your Physician’s Approval class which is under the supervision ing al the usual hour. Brother F.C. ol Mrs. Charelotte Henderson, held Smith, the efficient superintendent, PHONE MAIN 1770 a very lovely exhibit at the Parish and his corps of teachers were at House of Epiphany Mission last their posts of duty. The pastor zy LLL Thursday night. Same of the work preached at 11:30 a.m. The Janior Cll: was beautifully done. Phe largest ¢x- choir sang. B. Y. P.U.6 p.m. The hibit possibly was displayed by Mrs. Lord’s Supper at 8:45 p. m. Mission- SAOSINICRCD Caliman and Miss Isobel Tofoya, A ary societies No. 1 and No. 2 are pal of aloves displayed |by Mrs. making things hum, No. 2 has led ath ry a Aloare dese No. 1 financially for two months praise fore actness of work, Miss straight. If she teads during the To the Jews Brenette Wheeler, and Mrs. Mary month of April, there will be some Lu French had lovely knitted sa changing of numbers. There will be SRE on display. Mrs. Caliman and Mis: a birth month contest on the fourth of the Pikes Peak Region Beatrice Tofoya possibly displayed j Sunday afternoon. in being conducted to raise the most attractive dresses made What month were you born in? A campaign is now the sewing classes. Guests were $3,500,000 in the United States for the relief of Ger- served tea following a short program. Fred PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. man Jews in Germany, andforthe thousands of Ger- fesdames Susan Daugherty, CHURCH Wilsen, Charles Douglass and Mr. man refugees in other countries. to La Junta to Fred Wilson motored Ave. and Weber St. to this Fund will be of great who is confined Corners Pueblo Your contribution see Charles Douglass Rev. M. C. Knight, Pastor. in the Santa Fe hospital of that city. help, The need is URGENT. report Mr. Douglass will not They James Conright and Catherine to undergo a major operation as Make Checks payable to have Johnson of this city were married at first was thought, but will have jast Friday night in Denver. to have his tonsils removed. married Miss JOINT DISTRIBUTION D. A. Bennett remains in a Dion Muse, who “JEWISH Pearl Rhoades of this city recently, erious condition, js the son of the famous actor, Clar- COMMITTEE rs, Chester Morgan is improving nicely. ence Muse, of California, and send to: s. Lille Martin, who resides on Kast” Costilla, is reported improved after a week’s illness. HANSON’S SERVICE HENRY SACHS Mrs. Sally Taylor is still very ii — O1L — TIRES at her home on East Dale. GASOLINE First National Bank Buiiding Mr. and Mrs. Lucius French have GREASING d out on South Seventh street. Colorado Springs, Colorado Bijou Phone 4346 They formerly lived at 831 South 402 West Weber street. Colorado Springs, Colo. RKKKKKRARKRAKARKKMEN oe KKK Walter White, seerctary of the ty NRKRRRKKRKRRKRRKKKKRRKK

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VOLUME f COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936. NO. 2

DUCE’S BARBARIC AMBASSADOR OF GOOD WILL NEGRO DEAD

WARFARE SCORED (FromPitsbusPittsburgh Courier) (From Kansas City Call) Jee Louis, born in the heart of Dixie, is our outstanding Ambassadorof Gainesville, Ga.

Haly’s Tactics Attacked By N. Y. Good Will. DEE BYRD. * Times Writer--Deadly Use of Recently, the 21-year-old lad, who rose from obscurity to a place of eminence in the world of sports through his active portrayal of the concepts and GEORGE CHEEK, Poison Gas Exposed. LULA SAVAGE. ideals of Americanism, was the guest cf honor at a sporting event held to raise LIZZIE SADLER and 6 children. (hrem Pittsburgh Courier) money for Pittsburgh’s flood sufferers. BURT THOMPSON. NEW YORK, Apri 9—Ttaly Tt was his presence which helped to fill the house to capacity. His name ED. WILLIAMS, stands indicted before the world for was the magnet which drewthousands of people through the turnstiles and thou- GUSSIE RUCKER, resorting to the most barbarous and WILLIAM THOMPSON. savage type of warfare of anedern sands of dollars out of packets into the coffers of the Red Cross. EUGENE THOMPSON, history. The indictment was con- Andforhis service, Joe Louis refused to accept even expense money. BETTY THOMPSON. tained Saturday in a special wireless HENRY BRICE. dispatch of the New York Times When approached for his expense account, the youth said: “Accept my ANNA COBB, from G. L. Steer, its correspondent at appearance as my contribution to Pittsburgh's flocd sufferers.”” CLARA MAE CANTRELL. Addis Ababa, For years, the world of sports has been the one branch of American civi- LORENE CARLTON In categorical style, Mr. Steer de- ELMER CAPP. lization which has consistently fought the color-line. Down through the years, BETTY ANN DAVIS. seribes with the wtmost detail the the name cf race athletes have dotted the pages of sport yecords. Theirs has widespread use and the horrible ef- ALBERTA HIGDEN. fect of poison and corrosive gases beena record of achievement, based on ability. EMMA JONES. among the Ethiopians. Thelesson which Joe Louis is placing before us every day he lives, should REBA MAYFIELD. Cc. W. MOSS. Face y this liquid fire from the be taken to heart. ir, 4 y prophetically observes: ETHEL ANDERSON. NELL STRICKLAND. r that in that period (the Joe Louis today stands atthe idol of the fight fans, not only because he next few weeks) Ethiopia will either is the best in his field, but because he conducts himself, in public life and in Thirty-seven remain to be identi- lose the war or by superhuman he freciengg: private life, asa MAN. oe * voic effort postpone its end.” y own first experience in a gas His cece of living and doing can be acceptedso easily by all the rest of Tupelo, Miss. bombardment in the campaig mi Aframerica. 3 | MARY SULLIVAN. writes The Times correspondent 90 | When our men and women in every walk of life talk natural, and act the northern front, “oceurred Sunday, FANNIE SULLIVAN. March 3, in the bush between Aln- natural, the vexing problems of ourlives in this “melting pot”’ of the world will LIZZIE COLEMAN mata and Kebbo, about 10 miles eventually solve themselves. MINNIE LEE MOORE and two babies. south of Quoram. Italian planes fly- ing over the area dropped several ANNIE BELI.E MOORE. mustard gas containers whose con EDDIE GRIFFIN. tents soon impregnated the surround- RACE SECTION OF TOWN GERTRUDE YOUNG. ing atmosphere with a pungent, bit- JOHN PATTON. ing vapor of whose character, TLasa OPAL PRICE, chemist with previous experience in WIPED OUT BY TORNADO SHORTY HAYNES, war guses, could have no doubt. LOUIE CLINTON. Gas Burns Skin Off. VIRTUAL FIELDS. “The containers fell amid dense Color-Line Vanishes In Mississippi Mrs. Efla Nelson, prominent socia! BOB PRICE. bush, thus producing an effect which and chureh leader of the town, was MRS. WILLIE MOORE and In Wake of Tragedy—Race Doc- three children. was particularly barbarous, as I killed while she kneeled in prayer at learned during a visit later the same; tors Aid Sufferers, the C. M. Church here. EULA DIXON MOSEBERY.

day to the British ambulance base at | WILL GRIFFIN. Alomutta, A large number of sufffer-! By JASPER TF. DUNCAN, JOSH CLANTON. ers arriving showed burns on their| Staff Correspondent. PROTESTS AGAINST FILM DAN CLANTON. which in! JIM JONES. legs and ether parts, from (Front Pittsburgh Courier) “PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND seme s considerable areas of skin N, COLEMAN. 1 TUPELO, M April 6—I amin ANNICE HALL. had ulready been entirely removed. JERSEY CITY, N.J., Mareh 20— “These injuries arose from contact ihe niidst of this starm-stricken area! MRS. LAURA WATSON. ywhere there is desolation and A vigorous protest against the film, MRS. KILLEN. with foliage on which the corrosive “The Prisoner of Shark Island,” as its potency as;I a1 uction, REGS ROGERS. liquid fay, retaining an “anti-Negro picture” was regis long as two and three days. Many of The colored section of this little MR. AND MRS. A. 8. SAXON. Dixie town has been completely lev- tered this week by Sylvan A. Potlack these victims were peasants who re-; A. §. SAXON, JR. ' eled. Tonight rescue parties have of this city. Mr. Pollack tes that i. S. GODSEY. ceived burns whife using their cus-) the main impression created by the tomary routes through the bush. recovered 200 badies, with more than MRS. VIRGINIA YOUNG FORD 1,000 people injured. Many of the lim is that Negroes are inferior in- MR. WILLIAMS and daughter. “Phe same day a container brought | dividuals and cowards. The N. A. A, to an ambulance was examined and | dead and injured are colored. LEWIS WATSON. Cc. P., in urging protest against this MRS. BARRON. photagrapled by the American Mili- Color Line Wiped Out. film, also urges protests against “The | MR. DAVIS and daughter, tary Attache, Capt. John A. Meade, As I walked through the section: Vrisco Kid” with James Cagney, and the Russian cinema photographer, | 1 observed that the town’s misery! op 5 pa grey, an HELEN JANE, had brought the races close together. Barbary Coast” with Edward\ G. MRS. A. L. LESLIE, Zeitlin and myself. It was torpedo:| Suffering had wiped out the color Robinson. Both films glorify lynch- long. or MRS. GARNER, shaped and about four fect * OK OF striking the ground, the nest broke,| line. I noticed the courthouse and| 18> releasing about 40 pounds of liquid. other public buildings being used as Greensboro, N. C. “During the subsequent three, hospitals *** buildings of mercy, BLACK AMERICA weeks I spent at Quoram and in the where the injured were being treated As the ponderous days phige onward ROBERT WARD, cafe worker. neighborhood of Lake Ashangi, I wit- without thought of preference. In a fearful gigantic parade, NED LEE. nessed almost daily bombardment The storm of Monday night, which T peer into the future with a wistful MRS. ELIZABETH TORAN, 45, and spraying of mustard gas by Ital- lasted but five minutes, left the city mien and ’fraid. Bennett street. jan planes. Against the latter meth- without light, razed the telephone Behind me is nothing but sorrows * ok OF od there seems to be little protection, wires and completed a scene of Before me is nothing but tears Reidsville, N. C. unless something in the nature of a havoc.. Race Doctors Busy. As I glide intoA misty. oblivion; diving suit, I found oute that Dr. HL. Zuber,. who Downthe treacherous slide of years. UL. iw. POWELL, barber. Head, Shoulders Covered. Ok “Ethiopian soldiers and peasants, saved the lives of himself and his Tionall, Ga. including obviously women and chil- family by going into the basement of dren, not being provided with the his home until the storm had spent THREE NEGRO CHILDREN. sHghtest protection, receive ghastly itself, is now administering to the NOTICE Inns, sometimes covering their en- injured of all races, Other colored Sasser, Ga. tire heads and shoulders, . .” physicians are also actively engaged This paper MUST go into in lending succor, and their assistance every Negro Home in Colorado WILL HAWKINS, 1 beheld the moon tonite is being “gratefully appreciated. Springs. If you do not receive As it rose in its golden bowl Race Ambulance On Scene. your copy, LET US KNOW.It Spreading forth a lustrous light Special trains of doctors and_re- is YOUR PRIVILEGE to re- CORRECTION NOTICE Lifting a darkened soul, lief workers were rushed here from ceive a copy each week. A correction in the article on the Memphis. Ambulances from the AGENTS WANTED in Den- Knitting Exhibition will be made in Oh, that my thoughts and my ways Tennessee metropolis were also ver, Pueblo, Walsenburg, La next week's edition. were Thine, pressed into service. Of these, the Junta, Boulder, Greeley, etc. ambulances of T. H. Hayes & Sons Oh, that I too might shine Tandy Stroud, 743 N. Spruce, tn shopping use your CE” With radiance of beauty and Sam Qualls made record drives Colorado Springs, Colo. And slender of grace to the stricken city and are still on A blessing to all mankind. duty. Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers,

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The policy of this paper js to bring A movement has been started in CHURCH NEWS abeut a better understanding between New York City, to ratse a half-mil- races thru an impartial presentation of BLIND MAN’S lion dollars ($500,000) for the pur- Truth, pose of aiding Ethiopia. Heretofore CORNER TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH Wditor. Tandy Stroud several attempts have been made to This column presents the persenal raise funds with the same objective, Corner of Nevada at Fountain, Advertising anager. Jesse Tarrant views of its author and not neces- but apparently in each instance the Reverend Allen, Pastor. Leave Articles to Be Published With sarily the opinion of the paper, “expenses” have either exceeded or at least equaled the amount raised. Miss Marle Bryan 2 Pueblo Ave. CrkeKCERNGMRNLETRULER M Paul Goffman. 21 N. Royer This particular movment is differ- ter well attended. 12 N, Spruce At a business meeting, April 3, the CHAPTER II ent in that it has been officially sanc- E, Cimarron folowing officers were elected: The Depression * continued tioned by Lij Tasfaye Zaphiro, Ethi- Charles Banks, chairman of trustee 50 Cenis Per Ineh BONE DRY LAW * The writ- opian representative now in the board: Ben Spears, Wm. Duvall and .-$2.50 Per Year er doesn’t blame the preachers, but United States, and by John H. Shaw, Imperial Consulate General of New Charles Banks comprise this hoard. a Law Making Body of which we Deacon Daniels was re-elected head have 531 of them in Congress now This is NOY a church paper. York City. deacon; Christine Green, church This is NOT a political paper, seems that they should have known Composed of various defense clerk; Alice Allen, treasurer; and This IS a good, clean, Negro paper. better. groups co-operating in the interest of Ars, Charles Banks, pianist and muts-

Tt was simply another Law that the African empire, the organization ic director. FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936 could not qualify. is known as the “United Aid for It certainly played its part m Ethiopia.” ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH MITCHELL AND wrecking the American government. It plans to establish units in all Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. cities, and the units as well as indi- FRIENDSHIP Mr. Hoover * ** A faithful and viduals are requested to send their Congressman Mitchell, the choice good man who has the interest of his J. Raymond Short, Pastor. country at heart, admits that he spent contributions to the office of the of the First Congressional District of twenty billion dollars of the govern- treasurer, Dr. P, M. H. Savory, 119 Services good all day Sunday, Sun- Illinois for Demecratic Representative ment’s money trying to enforce pro- West 13lst street, New York City. day school was on time with a large hibition. Said he thought it his You will be sent an official receipt im attendance. Pastor Short preached to Congress, is a Negro. He has re- acknowledgement of the money re- peatedly refused to sign the anti-lynch duty. Put I hope that he will long morning and evening. ‘The Easter remeniber, that there is such a thing ceived within seven days. program Sunday afternoon was petition on the grounds that heis being as “rattling” even a Congress, It's Important among the provisions of splendid. Come to St. John; you are diplomatic and that he numbers among to be remembered that the Clergy the United Aid for Ethiopia is the welcome, his “friends” the Chairman of the mostly consist of tender-hearted men stipulation that all money received House Judiciary Committee, Repre- who go about snuffling, whining, cry- is to be turned over to the Ethiopian PAYNE CHAPELA. M. E. ing, half bent, helping women and consulate after operating expenses sentative Hatton W. Summers of CHURCH children get up programs, singing, have been deducted. Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue.

Texas. “hollowing,” taking recesses, eating The «Id saying, “Birds of a feather the chicken dinners. And knowprac~- In shopping use your “VOICE”. Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor. tically nothing of the functions of fleck together,’ must apply here. But I seriously wonderif the white Texan government. As a rule, they are good PLACING BUREAU CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST men, but are almost wholly incompe Corner Spruce and Willamette. considers the Negro from Chicago as tent to dictate to Congress. from letters received his friend. 1 am of the opinion that According to all scientific research Indications Elder C, E, Morgan, Pastor. at the Placing Bureau are that Negro Congressman Mitchell lacks insight plants and animals all contain ot the peak about have elements of Alcohol, and must tourists will reach Elder Williams, evangelist, has and judgment in his policy. the season is have it to exist. All liquids or liquor August tenth. Altho heen conducting a spirilual revival Friends can not be obtained through two months off, any number of per- is made of or based on Alcohol. 3 the past week, Two souls are seek- flattery or bribery. Mr. Mitchell in sons have already made inquiries But our Bible tells us to be tem- ing deliverance. seeking this doubtful friendship is ob- concerning the accommodations, etc., perate in all things, so God made this in this city. structing the goed work thal is being Great and beautiful, World. * ** AU places or persons who are plan- EAST SIDE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST done. It is easy to see that those Rep- Made man in His Own Image and ning to open or run a busin this resentatives who are not fully per- likeness. Gave it to Man withall of! summer are asked to register the 623 East Monument, suaded to support Anti-Lynchlegisla- the animals and plants. Told Adam Placing Bureau as soon as possible. what not to ¢ ** but for the rest Phone Main 5330-M. Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. tion will point to Mr. Mitchell in sup- to be temperate in alt things. That is This service has not been given port of their own indifference. Surely He left that command to nkind. adequate publicity, but any one can EPIPHANY MISSION, a Negro, whose own race is the great- So man is free to use the World bat; readily see the necessity and impor- EPISCOPAL est sufferer from meb-violence, ought not to be extortous, so if man is not a tance of such a service for the Negro Dale and Royer Streets and uses all of his World: glutton Tourist. to lend his support to an effort to stop moderately, he obeys the Word of Tf you have ever faced the embar- PEOPLES M. E, CHURCH lynching. the Lord, but if he disdains the Word rassment of being refused food or Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets. Lord and attempts to destroy town because of 1 frankly can not understand this of the ‘odging in a strange the attitude of the only Negro in Con- the plants and animals, which the color of your skin, you will un- Reverend W. L, Lee, Pastor. Lord made for man’s use and_con- derstand the importance of this Plae- gress. Surely he has sufficient intelli- Lord, venience he is in defiance of the ing Bureau ervice. Register your VOICES gence to see the irreparable damage would obey God instead of or accommodations. If we business Voices are calling fram out of che that such a stand has wreught. It is trying to dictate to Him, we would It would be well for us to try to East barely possible that he actually ap- be happier | provide more adequate accommoda- Sait, Oxygen, Nitrogen, tions for our tourists. Ont of the jungles to me. proves of lynch-law. Some creatures Alcohol, Voices are calling are pleading ts other elements I Hydrogen and me, actually advocate such a thing. Or could mention are essential in hold- Patronize “VOICE” Patrons. together, If some of “Come over, our helper hb maybe he just simply over-evaluates his ing Creation Ss. our prayers were answered, we would Out of the East comes voice Sy supposed friendship with certain South- PEACE BROADCAST Voices of longing to me. a dead world in 24 hours. Our ern Democrats. What ever his reason, have Out of the t comes Voices, sail- medicines would putrify in the stores. CITES LYNCHING ing o'er distant sea. I certainly do not admire him for his Pfants would all wither and rot, Ani- present stand. mals would all die including man. YORK, March 20.—A broad- Calling, yes, calling to me. NEW Oat of the st comes now voices Lord said * * * If T be sifted by the World Observer this The cast Rippling o’er land and sea draw all men unto Me. over 150 radio stations, under ETHIOPIA up PH week Forth from the jungles of darkness Bretheren, lift up Jesus, and let Gad’s the auspices of World Peaceways, Is not yet defeated, says Haile Se- But what we use of it, to lynching in America as Pleading so deeply te me, World alone, referred | lassie, after the most fierce engage- use as gentlemen, Let Congress pass evidence of the spirit of fascism in ment of the war has just ended in the Laws of temperance. I would sug- this country, The “continued arbi- will drink against the Negro retreat of his Imperial Guard. For five gest that if the people trary violations TO YOU— other than milk and water, put weak in some parts of the United States” terrible days the Ethiopians threw wines and soft drinks in grocery is “a national blot upon which the To you who read this little paper: themselves into death from airplanes, stores, let the grocer pay the gov- fascist peoples of other lands con- Lam trying to make this little pa- along we machine guns, etc. Then when the air- ernment license and sell it stantly put their finger whenever I ased little Messenger of in bottles. Let the condemn their butcheries and blood dropped mustard gas and other with his groceries Trou. LT would like for any one who planes purchaser take it home, The grocer purges and the scrapping of human has comments io make on this paper burning and corrosive gases, the Ethi- could undersell the boot-legger and liberties.” to feel perfectly fF to wrile me, £

opians had! to retreat. Haile Selassie drive him out of business. But any want your articles—literary, philo- could says they will fight until . . . and has one buying and getting drunk Patronize “VOICE” Patrons, sophic, witty or what not. Please be restricted. send me some copy, Mr. Public. ordered a new mobilization. played its part in Tam asking that you will help me will The liquor law Who knows what the outcome wrecking the government. And is TO BUILD PROSPECT ynise the standard of this paper by be? Will the Italians take Ethiopia? still sinking it, Brother * * * Preach LAKE BATHHOUSE SURSCRIPTIONS and CONTRI- not total abstinance. BUTIONS, FT se want that this little Will England intervene? We watch temperance and Is * ** To be continued in next issue. The city council voted to build the paper will help someone “to pull up.” the conflict from afar and wonder. ene this the beginning of the great battle proposed bathhouse at Prospect estimated cost is $25,961. A hypocrite with his mouth de- of Armageddon, as some Bible schol- He stressed the lack of liberty in the Lake, The the Ed Honnen was awarded the con- stroyeth his neighbor, bul. through say; I can only United States as evidenced by ars predict? I can not brutal acts of mob violence, These tract to restore the Pikeview irriga- knowledge shall the just be deliv- Time, the indisputable fortune- tion system. ered. wait on facts prove that America CAN go teller of the ages. Fascist. The challenge to the youth Tt was decided to ga ahead with the construction of the Catamount The fear of the Lord is the be-

of America and of the world today ginning of wisdem; and the knowl- NORMAN THOMAS SPEAKS. is the challenge of creating a worfd Dam on the North Slope. The esti- brotherhood of peace with an abun~- mated cost of this development is edge of the holy is understanding. $500,000. Norman Thomas, the leader of the dance for all.

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before five, fre a furnace, mop, _ Wifey—-Dear, I saw the swectest PANIC, CAUCUS sweep, and what not all day and then little hat downtown today. HOUSE IN at night to hasten out to the kind of Hubby—Put it on; let’s see how strenuous religious service this cou- yot lool: in it. ple believed in required something PROMISING LOOMS, POLL over the average Christian, Then, behold, as the years came, BREE DELIVERY new off-spring arrived. What was WASHINGTON, D, C., April 9— ing him the second invitation. In his 8 A.M. to 11 P, M. a few, soon became many. Yes, they Far from being lost, the_ Costigan- conference with the N. A, A. C. PL had a few converts, some whites and secretary Mr, Mitchell declared his Wagner federal anti-lynching bill a few blacks. Aley Drug Co. emerged this week from a dramatic, policy is that of “making friends” to throw the and “being diplomatic” -He boasts Over on the West Side a cat Phone 250 behind-the-scenes battle knocked over a kerosene lamp. Two Democratic leaders in the House into that among his best friends in the House are some of the southern con- houses were partially burned. These * a near-panic, were purchased and nailed together Two events drove House leaders gressmen, and he declares that Rep- eetoeoenfendepagntnfesngentepeoentsteofeaenfteofntetaoe as resentative Hatton W. Sumners ot by this little band of people and they 2 ¥ into a huddle. They were: Texas, chairman of the House Judice had themselves a church, God con- é THE = 1—A poll taken last week-end tinued to bless. have been shown a iary Committee, is his good friend. = CRISSEY & FOWLER ¢ which is said to In the opinion of many persons here, The years have passed and this lit- in favor of the bill. great majority Congressman Mitchell, far from aid- tle man has continued to stand for sO3 LUMBER CO. =?5 2—-The securing of 24 out of 25 ing anti-lynching legislation, is wit- God and prosper, April 2) = Main 101 117-129 W. Vermijo necessary signatures (up to tingly or unwittingly being used by We youngsters have come to ack+ : * on a petition calling for a Demo- southern opponents of this legisla~ nowledge him a man of God and to Se atenfeateoZeate uote oleate geadeeodeete eteazesteate oferta eteeteeteate cratic caucus to consider anti-lynch- tion to block any action. feel that his church is one that stands now lie in the House for Christ. Before our eyes we have ing bilis which In its correspondence and corfer- Judiciary Committee. the N. A. AL seen God provide for 13 children, has ences with congressmen, it is the second event which told frequently that We have seen death and shame re- | Good Household Broom, 19¢ is_man~- C. P. has been nt 9xt2 Felt Base Rugs, $4.95 disturbed House leaders. Tt the congressmen do not see why buked from that household time and leader of the Demo- middle-aged|¥B) $1.00 Allowed for Your Old Garden datory upon the they should take any action when Mr. again. This smallish 4 Hose on a New One caucus to call a mecting when man is now the state-overseer and cratic Mitchell in Illinois does not appear se Rakes, 59¢ Hoes, 496 a pelition signed by 25 members is active. The attitude of Mr. we hee of you that you pray with us certain that to be Guaranteed House Paint. presented. It is almost is being used by numerous that God will strengthen him and Factory, Fresh, presented next Mitchell this petition will be as an excuse for their help him to go thru, and stand firm $2.75 Value at $1.95 Gallon will be m the congressmen week, Then the caucus Mitchell is thus in a for God on the good old foundation All Kinds of Used Furniture, disapprov- inactivity. Mr. Beds, Springs, Mattresses, spot of either approving, of not being able to do any- of Truth in the Holy Ghost. on anti- pasition Rugs, Stoves, Etc, action ing or passing up any his own anti-lynching bill The Touse thing for New Overstiffed Suites, Allover lynching Jegislation. and refusing to do anything for any Quite Likely. Velour, $80.00 Value at $29.95 not like to see any of feaders would other anti-lynching bill, In contrast, Mrs. Newlywed—Dinner is ready, taken. AUSTIN’S the three actions to his attitude, several southern con- has made us a nice j§ is not to have a cau- dear, and the cook WHERE THEY SELL CHEAP The way out gressmen have indicated they will aid big mess of hash. a caucus appears cer- cus at al], But the bill in the caucus, which is secret, Mr. Newlywed—Of all things. 413-415 §. Tejon St. tain, so what to do? but they cannot afferd to declare for Farley Consulted. it openly. It is reported on reliable author-

ity that so desperate were House PHONE THE leaders that they took their problem CATHOLICS WANT SOCIAL REGAL DRUG CO. # PETER PAN

James A. Farley. Mr. JUSTICE FOR NEGROES RES to Chairman rs] Farley is said to have told them in ro] CLEANERS FREE DELIVERY SERVICE effect’ that the anti-lynching fight NEW YORK, April 9.— Notre and they would every Cath- Phone M, 40, 484 and 482 MAIN 5050 was “their baby” Dame Study Club urges aEi have to figure their own way out of olic Parish to help Negroes to get 429 South Tejon the hot water. They are said to have cial Justice. According to George K. speak ERE hinted that Mr. Farley might Hunion, editor of “The Interracial govtnc meere ef MEN’S SUITS, 24c to the White House, but the Demo- Review,” this is the first time in this cratic chief is reported as turning country that a Catholic Parish group SAND and GRAVEL HATS, 34¢ thumbs down on that idea, since the ed such a resolution. FERTILIZER White House is known to favor the Mary Gately, a public school Delivery All Over legislation, but not enough to order teacher, told of the conditions in JOE A. CRAWFORD words, if the bill She stated that the social Colorado Springs it passed, In other Harlem. HERRERA White House conditions “were a dis- General Hauling can get thro without and economic 7b GB adatOeat support the White House will do grace” to the city. There are 250,000 het nothing to stop it. Catholics among the Negroes of the — with Mr. Farley United States. This consultation RELIABLE ASH AND is regarded by veteran political ob- by called by servers as an open confession If my people which are TRASH REMOVAL Arapahoe House leaders that the anti-lynching my name, will humble thenselve: SERVICE has gotten out of hand. and pray, and seek my face, and turn bill will J Food The Democratic cancus_by a ma- from their wicked ways, then Phone Main 4349 their pority vote can order the Democratic hear from heaven, and forgive sin, and will heal their land. ago UP RU members on the judiciary committee Stores vote to report the bill; by a ma- to HREMRRRRR RR jority vote the caucus can as the GEORGE SCHUYLER SPEAKS bill to rules committee to permit the George Schuyler, well-known lec- he brought to the floor for considera- turer and writer spoke at the court- GROCERIES caucits tion: by two-thirds vote the house Wednesday night to a small in what- FRUITS can bind all members to act erowd. It is too bad that more peo- yer 3ha rules the ever way it decides; by the ple could not attend. His subject MEATS days eatcus must meet within seven was “Ethiopia.” He gave a scholar- pett- after the presentation of the ly lecture on Ethiopia ,the land, con- /i The tion. and history. Tle, admittedly to bring ditions, ff Typewriter If the caucus takes action was not being emotional. The N, A. 2NEUESones UR Renan the bil! to the floor, the legislation A. C. P. sponsored the event. can be attached as a rider to any bill 7 Man TPur- except an appropriation bill, BROTHER CHESTER MORGAN GROVES thermore, the last six days af each session are known as suspension 105 N. Tejon M. 95 RO Some 18 years ago a young couple | which are in the hands of the TURD days, Springs bringing BROS. rifles committee exclusively, and the came to Colorado can bring up such with them their three little children— committee ERUEP rules located in chairman a girl and two boys. They business as it likes. The PR went Fuel and Hauling of the rules committee is Represen- a house on the East Side, and of New York, from home to home holding prayer tative O'Connor, young man Mitchell Not Aiding Fight. meetings. This smallish yy Arthar C. Mitchell, and his girl-wife seemed to have a Congressman than the only colored meniBer, greater zeal for the Lord’s work Barthel’s af Minois, couple. is not aiding this fight to get some the average young Christian HYLAND 208 to be a Holiness i-lynching legislation before the Yes, he claimed USESggTETTESTS @ at this sessi Congressman preacher. himself a_janitor been ted by Walter He obtained for Quality Mitchell fas his pray- 14ETMTAFa AL A.C. P. seeretary, and job, but kept right on with White, N. ty regular services. Fle has been a | iwice to sign the peti- er meetings and Ice Cream caucus. Mr, Mitchell claimed a greater light, We had to tion calling for a BR to sign the petition and admit he had a greater zeal, faith, or Sinton’s has refused morning answered the letter extend- a something. To arise every not has we Pure Milk PATAETaTLE EENERE UESEDCORTEEe eM TTT Phone Main 1152 H. J. WOOD,Proprietor Since 1880 RHRUEP THE ROYAL BAKERY 131 N. Tejon Colo. Springs’ “QUALITY” OUR MOTTO | EERE

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The National Association for the ITALIAN PLANS MADE officers; (e) organizing colonial po- Advancement of Colored People, had TO GOVERN ETHIOPIA lice under Italian carabinieri. arousing meeting on Friday 4, When country is organized an

LOCAL ITEMS night, March 20, with Dean William open door policy will be maintained. ROME — Drafts of Italian meth- Pickens the speaker of the evening. 5. British and French rights, stip- This was held at the courhouse, and eds for governing “conquered Ethi- ulatedin the treaty of 1906 with Italy,

opia” are already on paper and are was preceded by an informal dinner, will be recognized. By MRS. PAUL H, GOFFMAN, given at the Alvarado, in Dean Pick- being studied by the ministry of col- 421 North Royer Street. ens’ honor, by the Civic League. onies, informed sources said. Cast thy bread upen the waters for The president, Mr. D. A, Bennett, An outline of these drafts was said thou shalt find it after many de Easter Sunday arrived on time in remains quite ill in the hospital. to be: one of the gayest beautiful faces that The membership drive will con- 1. As soon as Addis Ababa is SoMULAUUNNAAATCASELAFTRLAELNCISELIN eLaTH AUTEM TACTELSEC ETEe the day has had in a numberof-years. tinue until May 1, and we are hoping reached, Italian domination over At 6 a, m,, ali dutiful residents and every citizen will be a member. ~ Ethiopia will be formally established. See BEN or FRANK places assem- citizens from nearby We are looking forward to the 2, Ethiopian dynasty under Em at the beautiful Garden of the coming of other National officers’ TIRES AND PARTS Died peror Haile Selassie will be dispos- NEW AND USED the annual sunrise service. visit to this Branch in the future. Gods fer sessed. This year’s service had the unusual) The Monthly meeting was held at GOODRICH TIRES ON TIME addition of a pipe organ which added \the People’s church on last Sunday, 3. The Htalian military command 29 S, Cascade Main 377 much to the beauty. at which time the Prospect Lake will organize the country by: (a) di- viding the conquered territory ac- oe UCUART stUST AEL EC TREAT DEL QEUAT CHAU RUTTEREa question was discussed. cording to racial characteristics; (b) Colorado Springs 1s looking for- LUNTLRRU eeneReeet of interesting setting up various chieftains and ward to a number The City Federation of Colored members of the nobility as civil lead- 2 SERVICE COURTESY events which will take place in the Women’s Clubs met at the home of next few weeks. April 29 to May 5 ers in the different zones; (c) pro- EFFICIENCY Mrs, Bertha Taylor, 114 High street, claiming civil and religious liberty niarks the Y, W. C. A, conference, Manitou, last Thursday evening at SAMUEL C. HUNTER many notables will be in the thruout Ethiopia; (d) organizing a when 8 p.m. There will be an “Evening mercenary native army under Italian Mortician city. Apri} 24, the scouts will pre- in Paris’ at Douglass Fall, on ama- sent one of the best and largest Thursday evening, April 16, at 7:45 Phone M, 5395 518 S. WeberSt. the town has ever wi teur shows p. m, Admission, 15 cents. Tevery- ua en TRAN ABA es Mis MeMe Re a nessed. ‘This will be staged at Doug one urged to come. HANNON lass Hall, and besides the well-known All the clubs are mecting regularly KELLY GASOLINE ; the personages: The Smith boys, and making every effort to have a ERVICE OIL Courtesy of Stroud sisters, the Smith family and good report for State meeting in will be Miss Emma Wiliams, there Jane, at La Junta, Colo, TIRES — GREASING The na number of very good surprise num- The State President, just recently before. Colorado Springs bers that have net appeared made appointment to various Na- MESA ROAD at WALNUT Tt wilt possibly bring about a very; tional Committees at the request of 14 Bus Company

large gathering. the National President, Dr. Mary F. “ON TIME WITH SAFETY" Waring. EREEEBEES The East J. A. FINNEY R. P. FINNEY daugeneeet = May 10 to May 22, From ide Church of God in Christ, 615 SEND IN NEWS FOR: FINNEY BROS. street, will conduct PLEASE at Monument THIS COLUMN ON TUESDAYS, | Fuel and Transfer Co. jts annual spring meeting, Every WHITE KITCHEN on } Coal — Wood — Sand — Gravel | church in town will be represented PASTRY SHOP one night dur- this program at least THE TOWN CLERK OF 11 W. Cucharras MAIN 221 §! Making the Very Best in « HPHESUS Colorado Springs, Colorado ing these meetings. Bakery Goods,

We Solicit Your Patronage. Two packages arrived in Colorade When St, Paul was preaching the ora nace nenmevravanarnigneetienoatawnnaente Springs Jast week, one addressed te Phone M. 2119 is N. Tejon gospel in Ephesus and Demetrius, the = and the other Mrs. George Johnson the 2 containing two beau- silversmith, saw in this gospel to J. M. Smith, destruction of his business, Deme- CASEY tiful. silver trophies as awards to = trius gathered together those in_ the - them from the World Bridge Olyim- them Welding Works :| the championship of same business and incited pic, for winning his companions . = FLUFF DRY in the tournament which against Paul and Colorado the craftsmen had heard = 1 E. Cucharras M. 638 2] held February 4. The trophies When Flat Work Troned was Demetrius, they were filled with | gyyssieun mnanate are silver globes with the map of the

wrath. The whole, city was swayed | 7c Per Pound world engraved upon them, mounted on black bases. with the mob hysteria, The mob seized Paul’s companions and rushed 50¢ Minimum into the theater, Confusion reigned. Tt was a long looked-for surprise i ORIG’S for to their friends in the Springs, when “And then the town eJerk quieted i ow, Regular Prices from somewhere that the multitude, he saith ‘Ye Men of news leaked on MEN'S CLOTHING and SHOES James Conright and Katherine John- Ephesus, *** ye ought to be quiet gon had secretely gone to Denver and and to do nothing rash. For ye have 407 S. Tejon Colorado Laundry united in marriage in the capital cit}. brought hither these men who dare AND Both Mr. and Mrs. Consight are very neither robbers of temples nor |% and very prominent in blasphemers of our goddess. Tf well known RU RE SE BBStNSYBRP society circles in the city. Although therefore Demetrius and the crafts- Linen Supply they had been keeping company, men that are with him, have a matter td DODGE & GEISLER there were very few persons who against any man the courts are open, were aware of the marriage until and there are proconsuls: let them LOANS AND RENTALS 5 . after it was all over. The happy accuse one another. But if ye seek H INSURANCE—Auto and Fire 516 W. Colorado Ave. cauple are at home in Colorado anything about other matters, it shall a z Main 517 Springs. he determined in a regular assembly. Hi Phone Main 1199 24 E, Kiowa a For indeed we are in danger to be Mrs. Lillian Moore, state music di- accused concerning this day’s riot, Py 0ST

of La Junta, THERE BEING NO CAUSE FOR rector of the Federation, was in the city for a few days last JT: and as touching it we shall not HEL ELE. CL week on business. be able to give account of this con-

course’. Bak- Mrs. Ruth Snow, Mrs. Beulah This in a pagan nation—and we it THE PROMPT PHARMACY Ld er, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Wallsan and a “Christian” America are not even Albert Baker, Jr., motored up from called in question or accused if we COLORADO SPRINGS’ Pueblo to attend the Sunrise service mob together and KILL A MAN. at the Garden of the Gods, Easter Surely America needs some town- SURGICAL APPLIANCE STORE Sunday. They were also breakfast clerks, SHOULDER BRACES guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. Seymour. TRUSSES BELTS ARCH BRACES THE GREAT MOUTHPIECE Things iook rather mixed up for All Appliance Work Subject to Your Physician’s Approval the Democrats of Colorado since A Biography by Gene Fowler. Senator Costigan made the formal Seldom, if ever, does one have the PHONE MAIN 1770 annomeement last week that he opportunity to enjoy life from the would not be a candidate for re- point of another's biography. Yet election this fall. Senator Costigan this is preciscly so in the biography Ll is the co-author of the Costigan- af William J. Fallon, or as its author, Waener Anti-Lynch Bill. Gene Fowler, humorously calls it~ The Great Mouthpiece. Mrs. Shelton of this city writes Wiliam J. Fallon was a lawyer. PHONE M.5505 from Oklahoma that she is feeling His reputation as such was not com~- better as Spring is blossoming there monplace and neither is Gene Fow- in such beauty, ler’s treatment of the subject. All the witty humor andtolerant philosophy Phelps’ Texaco Station Miss Eleanor Mitchell writes from of a newspaper man are thrown into Yakima, Washington, that she is get- the book with such ease that Mr ting along fine. She has a position Fowler, himself, must have enjoyed COMPLETE SERVICE as instructress in Dramatics and Pub- it, lic Speaking, To read the Great Mouthpiece is FOR YOUR CAR to get a glimpse behind the scenes of Miss Samantha Stanley, 17, and Broadway’s celebrities and of how a Mr. Earmond Bradford, 22, were truly great lawyer works. NEVADA at CUCHARRAS married April Ith by Reverend W. L. Lee. Both are of this city. Subscribe to “VOICE”.

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State Convention (THAN SLAVERY DAYS REPRESENTATIVES We, the Republican Party of the State of Colorado, in assembled, do hereby adopt the following resolution: Resolved, That, (1) we deplore the continuance of mob violence and Sherwood Eddy Writes on His Ex. DO NOT SIGN late periences in Arkansas—-Found lynch-law in the United States; (2) we deplore the recent action of the Conditions Deplorable. Sovereign State in declaring himself as favoring lynch-law; D. C.—Despite Chief Executive of a WASHINGTON, allowed lynchings to abound all sorts of technical objections, (3)we conclude that the Sovereign States, having By SHERWOOD EDDY talk, and open this whispered cloak-room for over a period of seventy years, are either unwilling or unable to end (In the St, Louis Star-Times) opposition, 37 Democratic members TL have just spent three days in the a petition Constitution of the United States; (4) we deplore the of the house bave signed wantondisregardfor the heart of the deepest need of the of the Demo- support calling upon the leader action of the present Federal Administration inits cowardly failure to South—or| perhaps in- all North cratic caucus to call a meeting of the leg- to investigate lynchings; (5) we deplore the condition that has America—in Arkansas, Tennessee and caucus to consider anti-lynching a mere effort Mississippi. I had gone to the South in the house ju- a period of islation now buried placed men, who have perpetrated in their respective States over with my fellow worker, Sam Franklin diciary committee. rules, when- years an unconstitutional system of peonage and disenfranchisement of Tennessee, to investigate the | According to house seventy plight of the evicted sharecroppers. | are secured to sich control of the United ever signatures through their own cognizance of lynch-law, in actual The matter was so pressing that I the caucus leader must call a petition, believe that if this group is again empowered,it had to go and return by airplane. The a caucus within seven days after the States government; (6) we we consider first day we saw the face of slavery, petition is presented. | will seek to set up such a fascist system throughout the nation; (7) of steer- feudalism, and fascism on the part of House leaders, in charge anti-lynchbills as a dupe to the planters and landowners shown have been trying by the juggling and evading of the proposed federal ing legislation, toward the poor evicted share-crop- method to block sig- the continuance of lynchings brings every possible deceive the ignorant; (8) werealize that pers and tenant farmers, both black on the petition, They want to natures land the edium of the entire world; we, therefore pledge and white. We found peonage, serf- keep the anti-lynching bill buried in upon this glorious this election year. Resolution to the National Republican Convention dom, poverty, disease and sometimes ourselves (9) to carry this terror and violence. to Congressmen Necessary. who will prevent Messages at Cleveland and (10) to support no presidential candidate Landlord Keeps ‘the Books.’ to congressmen are Messages Scourge of America”. = necessary now that the cau- federal legislation to end lynch-law——"The ‘The ordinary share-cropper in doubly Arkansas receives an average of $212 cus seems sure to be called, the N. A. family apart from rent, in- A. C. BP. said this week. A_two- a year per an advance for “furnishing,” thirds vote in the caucus is needed tu cluding WHITE flour, lard and, for part put the party on record. The ene- WELFARE BOARD LILLY for cornmeal, year, a little pork, charged at mies of the bill are sure to be out in of the and at a high rate force. The friends of the bill must the highest prices and | All three have of interest. The share-croppers say be urged toe attend the caucus Relief Set-Up is underway; stances sex is used. A new experi- that the landlord keeps the books, vote to. bring. (the bill out on the, control hada deal of social-service and:-is..absolutely.under the _ signe the’ spapers-and renders the -ae~ “—~teor’” If the friends: stay away“froii-: 6fCounty | ence with the Negrées“in Colérado of the Democratic Board’ often “with a crooked pencil.” the caucus, the enemies can easily Two years ago Springs. count Commissioners. was laid aside by who is usually illiter- block a two-thirds vote. Therefore when Mr, Niles was up for College education The tenant, (4934), account and letters and telegrams should go for- for his present post, he the board so their appointments ate, does not know the re-election limits were ask for it, Tor in- ward fo congressmen at once. Those in favor of employing could be okayed. Age often dares not was heartily a State account who have signed the petition should advisor, investigator, |cast aside. And the age is stance, T have Will Bright’s one Negro as other pres- cheated and — be thanked and urged to stand firm. official capacity inj and Federal law. Every in which he was robbed, or in some other to get cash for his entire Who Signed. patrons might be| sure was removed in order paid only $4.61 in Congressmen order that Negro the State family after a year’s work, Ford, Cali- fair deal from govern- their appointments thru The signers: Thomas F. assured of a the best authority his own board. According to fornia; Joseph A. Gavagan, New: ment funds. According to There was only one Buck left to only one in $0 receives his full share York; Louis Ludlow, Indiana; Her- | statement, to one of the Democratic] the city, these em-|pass and that was: “ANY WOMAN of ‘the crops without unjust and man FP. Kopplemann, Connecticut; lyace leaders of HUS- A local doc- New York; should have ‘had experience |HAVING AN ABLEBODIED avaricious deductions. Caroline O'Day, at large, ployes EMPLOYED.” a child here died of social service rather BAND CANNOTBE tor who declared William J. Granfield, Massachusetts: in the field all three. was forbidden by the Jersey; By-' degree, and they |So this buck eliminated of starvation New Edward A. Kenney, than a college have used a planters to practice. Thomas c. be married and have However they should ron N. Scott, California; should really ‘broader buck as two applicants lack a devastating impression as this class of citizens un- Tt makes Hennings, Jr. Missouri; Fred 1 , | famities, thra the richest soil in the William budgeting and responsi- hushands, to drive Hildebrandt, South Dakota; derstood Negro of Colo- and to see the poorest pitty better than young college men Tt will behoove the United States P. Connery, Jr., Massachusetts; John rado Springs to watch all county, human beings living in trmbledown California; Michael : | and women. EH, Tolan, and state office-holders as they shanties, rewarded for their toil by John J. De-} wanted the city Stack, Pennsylvania; Remember Mr. Niles all will have to be elected again by poverty, pelagra, hookworm, malaria for HIS JOB then. Janey, New York; Frank J. G. Dor | negro stipport popular vote. The Negro still vas and illiteracy. sey, Pennsylvania; Matthew A.! elected—by the Negro vote Pearl Mer! Heog wellwas as any other, the ballot to use as 2 weapon. Party Flarriet Beecher Stowe, Dann, Pennsylvania: Mathew J. To vindicate past trathfatly A.: to the Negro is a thing of the Buck or Kagawa could rit, at large, New York: James his statement, he wiped his hands Tom’s Cabiw? about Elfen: | is when he must earn a livelihood thra write an “Uncle O'Leary, New York; Henry completely off relief. Today relief today. Most of the Ne- Martin Les Com- employment. this region began, Pennsylvania; hack in the hands of the County Board will say just groes and many of the poor white M. Berlin. the The Welfare Sweeney, Ohio; William missioners, and they were put on who shall have relief and who can’t in Arkansas are iltit- Lamneck, Ohio Organi- share-croppers Pennsylvania; A. P. spot by the local Democratic have relief and it, like all other majority of their chil- Marior | man erate, and the William T. Schulte, Indiana; zation. Two women and one hoards in El Paso county is Lilly- white and colored, are not Isa. bella, dren, both Zionheck, Washington; made applications. The Negroes White, so, perhaps, at least, we wont in school. Thomas: any Greenway, at large, Arizona; would have been more pleased, if The average share-cropper gets at Nor-} he surprised if Relief is Lilly-White O'Malley, Wisconsin; Mary T. of the three had been appointed. the crop an | one also. the end of the year after ton, New Jersey; Edward J. Hart, One woman was married and had a average of perhaps $50 in cash. T met Cali- New Jersey: Charles Kramer, family—one of Mr. Nile’s require- only one man who had received this fornia; Martin J. Kennedy, New menis in 1934. One woman was PANAMAMOURNS New! year more than this sum. York; Theodore A. Peyser, single—The Democratic Organiza- RAS MULUGHETA Twenty-five thousand of these L. Somers, New with Buck York; Andrew tion has had experience poorest sharecroppers have formed York; James A. Shanley, Counecti- Passing politicians. The man was 2 ‘G.: Memorial Services 3 Nights, the Tenant Farmers’ Union which is cut; D. Worth Clark, Tdaho; C. ninister—as in some buck passing tn- bitterly opposed by the land owners Se-j Binderup, Nebraska; Robert P. and planters who are benuinely | ~ PANAMA CITY, Republic of crest, Ohio; Christopher D. Sallivan. alarmed lest it liberate these men New York. Panama, April 16—Memorial services were held for three nights last week from the existing system of peonage NOTICE in tribute to the late Ethiopian min- and semi-slavery. TO QUIZZ G. 0. P. ON ister of war, Ras Mulugheta. The The result is that scores of fam- ANTI-LYNCHING BILL services were conducted in the Mt. ilies, white and black, have been This paper MUST ge into evicted from their farms and homes Zion A. I. M. E. Church, founded by in Colorado on the sole charge that they belong D, C-—The Re- every: Negro Home Miss Gladness Addison, and of which WASHINGTON, Springs. If you do not receive to the union, and wholesale eviction conference, which corre- the Rev. MH. S. A. Mighty is pastor. publican your copy, LET US KNOW. Te Ras Mulugheta died at Quoram, is the weapon used to cheek the sponds to the Democratic cattcts, to re- growth of the union. of the is YOUR PRIVILEGE Ethiopia, in March, from pneumonia will be asked by supporters T went out with several friends, in- an offi- ceive a copy each week. after exposing himself in the six-day anti-lynching bill to register AGENTS WANTED in Den- cluding a professor of the university, legislation, battle at Mt. Aradam against the cial party opinion on the ver, Pueblo, Walsenburg, La to visit one colored colony recently indicated here this week, Ttalians. Fle was one of the heroes it was Junta, Boulder, Greeley, etc. of the battle of Adowa in 1896. Pana- evicted. We found 19 families hud- Tandy Stroud, 743 N. Spruce, manians were deeply grieved to learn dled in six little tents with a scanty counsel is, the people supply of food. They had been driv- Where no Colorado Springs, Colo. of the death of this stout old war- in the multitude of coun- fall; but rior of the fatherland. (Continued on Page Two) sellors there is safety. RRR aR

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ceeeenaFST COLORADO they cannot expect in the planters’ aAAAALACakeaeaaRS THE VOICE OF courts,

AROUND TOWN WITH Word has just come by wire that is to bring CHURCH NEWS The policy of this paper witness in an im- THE YOUNG FOLKS about a better understanding between the chief Negro EEAISTSISAN presentation of been killed, shot paces thru an impartial pending trial has truth, down in cold blood by masked men TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH by the Ku Klux Kian method. About Tandy Stroud Corner of Nevada at Fountain. the time of our verbal proclamation (By NINA STROUD) czarist Russia freed} of emancipation, Reverend Allen, Pastor. her serfs and gave them all land, but With Probably by the time you see this Leave Articles to Be Published freed men a foot 122 Pueblo Ave, we never gave our the big amateur contest will be over. Miss Marie Bryant.. on which to make a living. Mrs. Paul Goffmar 21 N, Royer of land But be sure and read this column ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH 743 N. Spruce write pages of the tragic Tandy Stroud. I could next week for a review of the bright Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Jesse Tarrant. 32 1, Cimarron suffering of these poor, oppressed

spots of the contest. Se people, giving exact cases from my ..50 Cents Per Inch J. Raymond Short, Pastor. Advertising Rate. triend Dr. Amberson’s report, but ..$2.50 Per Year Friday night, April 17, the Girl Re- Subscription... space does not permit, We found

serve Club Room rang with laughter some planters who are genuinely This is NOT a church paper, and gay noises as the guests of the secking to do the right thing, buf PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. This is NOT a political paper. Junior High Girl Reserves made mer- CHURCH ‘This IS a good, clean, Negro paper, the system seems hopelessly wrong. sides to ty. Most all the Junior High girls Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue, Even here there are two and boys were there and several with no FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936. the case, and, Hike slavery, grade school and senior high people, system just Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, malice aforethought, the too. Refreshments consisted of ** * But as grew of itself like Topsy. After partaking of these delicacies, PEONAGE IS WORSE again in the case of chattel slavery, CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST must be everybody capered around for about THAN SLAVERY DAYS it is the system that a half hour more and then scampered Corner Spruce and Willamette, changed. homeward, acclaiming this one ofthe

Elder C. HE, Morgan, Pastor. best parties of the season. (Continued from Page One) ISAAC AANA en from their homes into the snow At the fashion show, Thursday on the worst day of a a blizzard. LITOGRAMS night, the Colorado Springs young- EAST SIDE CHURCH OF Threaten to Lynch Leader. sters really “strutted their stuff.” GOD IN CHRIST OATS 623 East Monument. I met the leader, a colored man TLL Thelma Bruner, Yvonne Smith, Stazzie Shaw and Ella Vaughn dis- why had only that morning been Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. threatened with lynching if he did (By ROBERT J. WASHINGTON) played street fashions and evening not leave the state before night. fashions. According to this fashion Since his wife «was pregnant and Edison says: “The stom- show, suits take precedence in Spring EPIPHANY MISSION, Thomas EPISCOPAL there were five children, two of ach is the only part of man which can street wear. Special attention was Dale and Royer Streets whom were sick, he dared not stay be fully satisfied.” Man, as a con- given to John McDonald and “Dub” and face violence or death. He told sumer, is continually seeking to buy Rhoades, who really made a hit as me that once he had seen his neigh- hat he thinks he wants. He never bartenders. PEOPLES M. E. CHURCH bor hanged before his eyes because gets either what he wants or, worse, Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets, he had asked for his account and his what he actually needs. It is well for the people of Colo- full half of the crop. He fled the day Fear and an inferiority-complex rado Springs to know that their Reverend W. L. Lee, Pastor.

youth is well represented at high [ was there. combine to form the chief source of Within half an hour after we had annoyance to the man, who is bent school by the talent of Gladys Chil- Besides being official Glee at the tent colony and had be- upon keeping always a bulging dress. arrived Ap- club accompanist, Miss Childress is want to take him down to Trafton’s gun to investigate conditions to see pocketbook. Because his Adam's gymnasium to see Joe Louis in ac- the company accompanying the orchestra in the if we could help, we were arrested by pie always bobbed up in tion. After all this, we will go along a gentle- forthcoming High school operetta. Deputy Sheriffs Tip Sullivan and J. of girls while in his teens, with Ben and move pianos, then out Crittenden might be prompted in his twen- W. Shelby of Parkin, man All the Girl Reserves are anxiously to Richardson’s to make battery taken to thirties, to spend his pennies county, Arkansas. We were Hes and W. C. A. boxes and scorch in the heat, and fi- in for recklessly. He will buy any- awaiting the National Y. a large cotton store and locked rather convene here nally we'll end up at the stock-yards and everything in a veiled at- convention that will two hours and a score of planters thing and 5. There will to witness the 1936 edition of Negro in to mentally cover up the old from April 29 to May men off the streets were brought tempt be a special Girl Reserve luncheon slavery! * **” about these apple. Or, if he thinks he ‘is to tell us “the truth Adam’s Hall, die, he’ll equip the bedroom during the convention at Bemis work.” to damned 1 who don’t going A great many Reprove not a scornes, lest he hate with the last word in Indian clubs Colorado College. ‘They bitterly resented our coming over the state thee; rebuke a wise man, and he will and abdominal shakers, And the rest girl Reserves from ali from other states seemingly to inter- and a good time love thee. of the world has got to believe that are to be present, fere with their victims. One deputy convert to is in store for all, “would soon he is an enthusiastic the Negroes said one of physical culture. Have you got your “VOICE”? ‘sudden pnenumonia’” (or die of Sunday, April 19, the Girl Scout The average human being is at his jynching), another man said we ought for the first time at best when shopping for something. chorus appeared to be shot, while a third threatened from A. M. E. church. Be- THE When he receives his change Payne Chapel, that if we interfered with these “n--” by the group, the only five-dollar bill he has, he'll sides two numbers Seldomridge Grain Co. there would be another “Elaine Mas- ratio number, probably come pretty close to spend- there was a special Flour, Feeds, Grain, Hay sacre,” when they killed many of to “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.” ing what is left, just in an attempt and Seeds them in an adjoining county. convince the clerk that he and money The planters said that one of them store Choir of the St, John Phone M., 12 21 S. Cascade are not strangers. Out!of the The Junior had offered the evicted share-crop- church is giving a pie and Colorado Springs, Colo, he goes, and out goes a humorous, Baptist pers good homes and that they would pys- social in the basement of but practical study in buying ice cream not take them. But one of this man’s on Friday, May 1. Come chology. the church own workers had just told me of his _ out everybody, and have a good time. WetaTaacestec raised 14 character. He said, “I bad The clerk understands and mere- of cotton for him this year and SAND and GRAVEL bales ly smiles—he has, no doubt, read A LETTER FROM JACK got nothing for it—only an advance “What FERTILIZER only Donald A. Laird’s treatise: of $125 for five months. I got This book was eight, Makes People Buy.” (From Chicago.) $68 last year for my family of to improve the JOE A. CRAWFORD year tho originally intended eee ak * After this I’m kissing this but not a cent of cash this of salesmen, but its I am selling technique part of the country goodbye. The General Hauling the settlement is long overdue. in the bounds of We author couldn’t stay about a big ‘City robbed and get almost nothing. consequently only pleasant thing gece no a purely sales manual; living in it. have no doctor and have seen could be classed is visiting it, but not I don’t he turned out what everyone meat since I can remember. opportunity for “Tell father that almost a dog with as another excellent gets paid $5 for so RELIABLE ASH AND go to church lookin’ like mortal to find out who votes here women folk barefoot. any over-confused doing. (James says-—regular primary TRASH REMOVAL my half-naked really makes the world go killer's father was shot for what wage was 50 cents per vote—that SERVICE “This ‘round—and especially his own De- heating a boy nearly to death. Here could vote as often as liked inasnich| contract under }1 ng. a paid group on hand to Phone Main 4349 is my ‘yellow dog’ indulges in some neat as always to The author that which Tam cheated, where I-have ‘Gdentify you.”) Also tell him and amusing studies in extrovertism, aftDACPeA this man to sign any and ail tempt he would be surprised if he knew the appoint may which, if one isn’t careful, government papers for me.” to attitude of people around here con- one to take up salesmanship, much anx~ to Dynamite Tents. the rest of cerning politics, etc. I’m just Try the disgust, probably, of about me ious to tell him a few things MASS MEETING Sam Franklin, who was with the household. of the in the tent how degenerate the minds spoke to the Negroes to traditions or them the people are in regard Beginning cnSSTESCR colony at their request, read REBIRTH to stand for asked them institutions that used EMERGENCY PEACK Psalms for comfort, and to thee a tortured soul, him to know the but his speak- ] brought something. I want to sing their spirituals; limbs aweary withlife’s toils. as they are, and the CAMPAIGN by the planters And Republicans ing was so resented A heart was broken; dreams were as they are. I want to placed sticks of dyna- Democrats Spedker: that someone gone, him into one of these filthy the tents that night. The take mite among And thoughts were with each setting houses and let him see intended as a sinister apartment Dr. Alfred Salter dynamite was sun. reared as they are reared. rt to terrorize the Negroes. We children Labor Leader and Member warning him to go into the great Com- possession now. me that a rising sun, want English Parliament have it in our You taught Center church and the Olivet the condition of dreams realities. munity In many respects Cotild make all church with me_and watch Music: in these parts is worse tired limbs in waters Baptist the Negro You bathed services conducted as I have seen under chattel slavery. The for- cool, HIGH SCHOOL BAND than them conducted. I want to walk an slave owner cared for his slave soothed a soul with Peace Di- mer And around the South Side with him and FIRST METHODIST and his mule and most of them were vine. landowner comment upon the Negro business CHURCH GLEE CLUB humane. But the modern I want to take him to these Clasp my hand within Your own, establishments. is under no such obligation night clubs and SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 8 P, M. who con- Lead the way to Eleaven’s bower. into the cabarets and poor Negro share-croppers I want to take him to Max- slavery without Let me feel your Holy warmth, theaters. MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM finte in economic street in Jew town. I want to denied the vote and re- That bursts my heart in happy song. well civil liberties, to the Cub’s park. 1 TSE which —By Robt. J. Washington. take him out ITE fused basic elemental justice

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hospital. is able to be out. - gering illness, in a Denver Miss Baity was taken to Denver to undergo an operation about 10 days heavy toll in Colo- Sunt Death took a ago, but did not undergo it because ITEMS three TSECTITTRETeeSti LOCAL rado Springs last week, when of her weakened condition and_ died Mts. well known residents died. from the effects of appendicitis. Sally Taylor, who has been a resi- Aitho, so very ill during her life in passed dent for the past 40 years the city, she made a host of friends, “The Finest in Colorado at her home on By Mrs. Paul H. Goffman away Tuesday night who, altho, knowing her condition| Springs” Mrs. Taylor had Royer Street. Teast Dale street. was very grave, were anxiously hop-' 421 North but been ill for almost three years, ing that in some way she would re- serious her condition did not become gain her health. Before coming to things happened of all sorts Mrs. Many until just a few weeks ago. the city Miss Baity was a resident of: jy REEL last week, but the most outstanding Taylor was a very influential charac- “Voice” staff, was_a visit century Tulsa, Okla. Besides Cora, she is Strou to the local ter in the early part of the survived by a sister and a brotherliv- on last Wednesday, by Mr. Chester a few years ago when she his and until ing in Oklahoma. Funeral services Franklin, editor of the Cail, and ill, resided on North Weber; Sanitation Service were became were held Wednesday. wile from Kansas City. They just opposite the Steele school, ! hours, street ondy in the city for a few only. Negro resident in that sec- COURTEOUS of the the Mr. George Shhuyler, well-known |} checking up on the progress tion. She was an ardent member of Springs, lecturer and writer of New York ; DEPENDABLE paper in Colorado the St. John Baptist church, A niece from Kansas was with her at her city, addressed a large audience at tae i ECONOMICAL Another outstanding visitor in the death. She is also survived by one public mecting of the N. A. A, C. P. city Jast week, was Mr. George brother of Topeka, Kansas and a sis- at the county courthouse Wednesday ASH-TRASH Schuyler of New York City. Mr. ter of California, Funeral services night, April 15. His subject was REMOVAL SERVICE sis- Schuyler arrived Tuesday and left were pending the arrival of her Ethiopia, Having made a tour of | friday morning. While here he was ter at this writing. Ethiopia for five or six months, Mr, 4 810 N. Walnut i YYTYEE the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Hen- Schuyler was very well able to dis- P Ree Sue dersan. afternoon, Mr. D. A. Wednesday cuss Ethiopia from nearly every men Bennett, one of the best known angle. He discussed the geographical James Stroud, youngest son of Mr. of the city passed away at his home conditions, religious. conditions, po- the had TOM WALLACE and Mrs. K. D. Stroud, arrived in on East Costifla. Mr. Bennett litical conditions and economical and years, TATLOR city Sunday after almost a year’s ab- suffered from heart trouble for educational conditions at length, He condi- Men’s Suits and sence in Chicago. and about two months ago his also told of the various causes which had been a Plain Dresses tion became acute. He have brought on the present conflict than 20 Cleaned and Pressed. Sergeant and Mrs. Letcher of Den- resident of the city for more between Ethiopia and Italy. Mz. of Mr. had been ver, were visitors at the home years, and during that time Schuyler believes, however, that it is Phone M. 5555 30334 S. Tejon the past organizations and Mrs. T, a. Cullem for active in politics, civic utterly impossible for Ethiopia to ea a fraternal organizations. At his week, and (Continued on Page Four) Colo- death he was president of the meeting of the Ladies’ division Springs branch of the National ts paseagactaAygTErat Ata rade of club last week the Association for the Advancement MUSICK’S PHARMACY of the Democratic the Colorado Odds and Ends officers were elected for the Colored People, a member of following first the year 1936. Mrs, Charles Banks, Elks lodge, the Civic Council, GOOD USED CLOTHING W. JASPER MUSICK, Leggett, and a mem- vice president; Mrs. Esther People’s M. E. church, Bargains in Real Estate Pharmacist vice president; Mrs. Lillie ber of the executive committee of tha second by We Appreciate the Colored third vice president; Miss Democratic club. He is survived 432 W. Bijou. Phone M. 2643 Warris, and Trade | sisters Brown, assistant secretary, eieht brothers and three Thelma San An- 14 BE. Colo. Ph. M. 259-R Mrs. Charles Barnett, treasurer. his father, who resides in and offi- services were | Committee chairmen and other tonio, Texas. Funeral next M. cers will be appointed at the held Saturday at_ People’s UUMMARURTEAe in May. officiatin GOOD WORKat Reasonable meeting to be held sometime church, Rev. L. Lee Meikle of Bennett, sis Prices in Our Completely Tt was decided that Judge Mrs, Ora Bryant, Miss would be asked to Miss Harriett Tarbet accom- Say Ti With the district court ter and Flowers Equipped Shop. combined body of the the body to Texas for burial.

the panied BeT address 14, May Golden}Cyele Shine Parlor Democratic club at 8 p. m., at the HN Main 214 in one of the court rooms On Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, Meikle UE

county courthouse. Judge Adabelle Baity, sister of Miss NEI Miss 22 N. Tejon of the lin- will explain the functions Cora Baity, passed away after a party to the club at that ALB

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| Stroud was @ delegate to the HUNT ELECTRIC Tandy last BAY 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. Republican assembly COMPANY PHONE THE County a | he was also selected as Saturday, to the AND REPAIRING REGAL DRUG CO. Aley Drug Co. delegate from El Paso county WIRING to be held in Pueblo Phone 250 convention El Pase state Lindsay Ph, M. 4491 1215 N. FREE DELIVERY SERVICE next Saturday. Rev. Matt county assembly. EEE Phone M. 40, 4814 and 482 also attended the CRLEELELELEYELE ig and Ermine Miss Samantha Stanley aE were married last Tuesday NENT é neem: Bradford pastor of Caldwell oN night hy Rev. W. L. Lec, Lawrence & CRISSEY & FOWLER * the parson- People’s M. E. church at Courteous Service and the CO. $ age. Both the bridegroom x wd : LUMBER are very popular in the younger PUEBLO AVENUE pride 101 117-129 W. Vermijo S social set. BARBER SHOP Tea & Main

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the city for a few days REZ PETER PAN Jerry Brown has purchased the Tit- ; 7 Man East Maple street tle house on J- CLEANERS owned by Mr. McMullen. A. Montgomery has purchased a lot im M. 95 RERE MAIN 5050 where 105 N. Tejon the 600 block, North Franklin, 429 South Tejon a new home he is planning to build ZEB pea SBN ES HME Pa CD LEWHdE in the near future. MEN’S SUITS, 24c IGE CREAM

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Peake who has been Phone Main 1188 Colorado Springs Mrs. Leila ERE ill- Barthel’s because of EBEEEBEE bed confined to her SOL SSG RE lB) TEdT ness is also much better.

W.ciA. Plans fer the National Y. Quality to be held here April 29 conference very to May 5, are being developed THE Arapahoe looking for- Ice Cream rapidly and everyone js very anxiousl Co. ward to the occasion Baker Realty Food A complete list of the delegates as yet but there are a WALTER D. BAKER &. not available on aS SS number of well known personages Stores and some of the former res Tosurance the list, to QD dents of the city are also expected Loans scene. This promises to be Real Estate be on the on of the largest gatherings Rentals one early 131 N. Tejon GROCERIES schedule for the city during FRUITS spring. Phone M. 652 Phone M. 4 111 BE, Kiowa MEATS Shelton is reported im- Colorado Springs, Colo. Clarence Mrs. his recentillness. proving from a ill, but Savenenesren againRINasnRANTORNREeoANIMTIBHTTONT™ Angeline McDowell remains ‘

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NEWS OF SALTER WILL SPEAK the Brotherhood: of Sleeping Car Mrs. John Rhoades of 747 North COLO. SPRINGS, COLO. Porters; and Harry Emerson Fos- Pine street, left for Arkansas Wed- AT MASS MEETING dick, chairman, pastor of River- nesday evening, She plans an in- definite visit. side church, New York City; Grace (Continued from Page Three) Labor Leader and Memberof English | Abbott, former director U. S. Chil- Mrs. Zola Marshall, Miss Elvena win the conflict unless aided by some Parliament—Muncipal Auditorium, dren’s Bureau; General Smedley D. Sunday, April 26. Leftin, Mr. Loper and others have outside pressure. Butler, U, S. Marine (retired); Stuart

been employed at the New Arts Cen-

In an_ interview with the Voice re- Chase; Ben Cherrington, director, ter the past week. Dr. Alfred Salter, prominent tabor| Foundation for Advancement of So- porter, Mr. Schuyler expressed him- leader and member of the English| self as being very favora..y im- cial Sciences, Denver; President In shopping use your “VOICE”, Parliament, who is in this country es- George W. Coleman, Babson Insti-

pressed with the scenic attractions 0. pecially to promote peace, will speak tute; Professor John Dewey, Colum- the city, and said it was his first visit TUAELAVUMEDSDTARL ATH AC TARTU TLE AMVC T RULES to Colorado Springs, however, he nad at a mass meeting for an Emergency bia University; Sherwood Eddy spoken in Denver on two occasions. Peace campaign in the municipal Charles G. Fenwick, Bryn Mawr Col See BEN or FRANK auditorium at 8 o’clock, Sunday eve- lege, president Catholic Association Mr. Schuyler urges social, economi- ning, April 26. This meeting is one TIRES AND PARTS cal and political organizations in or- for International Peace; Zona Gale, NEW AND USED of a series planned to promote world Dean Charles W. Gilkey, University der to obtain mass protest against GOODRICH TIRES ON TIME discrimination and injustices which peace. Three hundred similar meet- of Chicago Chapel; John THaynes & ings are being held in various cities Holmes, minister the Community, 29 S. Cascade Main 877 are heaped upon the Negro race. within the next two weeks. church, New York City; Hannah

apa There will be music by the high me *WMTEARRC MUTAGEN DRCEETTLAACEELC Oo ra When asked if he thought the Clothier Tull, national president, 9k Oo school band and by the First Metho- Women’s International League for og Ro Negro fared better in the larger or LUSTeAEER dist church Glee club. Peace and Freedom; Frederick P. wt smaller communities, he said it de- = SERVICE COURTESY sc3 pended upon the advantages offered Colorado Springs is especially fav- Keppel, president Carnegie Corpora- EFFICIENCY mt of to the Negro as to which was the ored in having a speaker of inter- tion; Charles Clayton Morrison, edi national renown, Dr .Alfred Salter, tor, Christian Century; Kathleen SAMUEL C, HUNTER 838 better place for the Negro to live. a member of the English Parliament, as Where Negroes are employed only as Norris, president Albert W. Palmer, Mortician GB servants he soon takes on an inferior who is in this country especially to Chicago Theological Seminary; S promote peace, Dr. Salter has had a President Aurelia IT, Reinhardt, Mills and will not look for ad- Phone M. 5395 518 S. Weber St. attitude distinguished career. He studied vancement as he would if he were College: Louis J. Taber, Master, Na- Fareoeueomataueumsreiecat HL NRTTEAL ARTEL oe offered bigger opportunities. Mr. medicine at Guy’s hospital, London tional Grange; Charles P. Taft, IT,) Schuyler believes the Negro leaders and at the University of London lawyer; Norman Thomas, author and are largely responsible for the slow where he received various prizes, publicist; President James P. ‘War-| Courtesy of medals, and other distinctions. After basse, Cooperative League of U. S. of the race, because they are progress further medical research, he was ap- A.: William Allen White, editor, Em- The not independent economically, but belong more or less to the beggar pointed by Lord Lister as bacteriolo- poria Gazette; Stephen S. Wise, Rab- gist in charge of the British Instituté Colorado Springs can_he bought bi, Free Synagogue, New York. class, and any beggar of Preventive Medicine, Antitoxin

He urges a Bus Company off for little or nothing, department. Finally, in the midst of cooperation with the N. SRS 100 per cent a distinguished career as research “ON TIME WITH SAFETY” A. A.C, P. and says this organization J. A. FINNEY R. P. FINNEY has done more for the advancement scholar, he settled as poor man’s doc- tor in the poorest industrial district FINNEY BROS. of the race than any other one or- in London, Bermondsey. In three Fuel and Transfer Co, ganization the Negro has. To sum WHITE KITCHEN it up he says, weymust bring mass years, he became head of a partner- Coat — Wood — Sand — Gravel thru or- ship of five doctors, all practising PASTRY SHOP action against discrimination, among the poor, In 1903, he began 11 oW. Cucharras MAIN 221 ganized groups, socially, economi- Colorado Springs, Colorado Making the Very Best in his political career when he was Bakery Goods, cally and politically. elected a member of the London

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RU Flat Work Troned general, and the Negro arce in par- this campaign are: Addie W. Dicker- Sta Ms0ETATEw ticular, has been educated toward a son, president International Council 7c Per Pound theory of economic morals which, in of Women of Darker Races; Presi- effect, says that universal selfishness, dent Mondecait Johnson, Howard 50¢ Minimum the universal will to individual University; President Alfred W. Pal- ORIG’S for wealth and success, means general mer, Chicago Theological Seminary; ow, Regular Prices and group prosperity, and that this A. Phillip Randolph, president of is bound up and a necessary product on MEN’S CLOTHING and SHOES of individual success; that if A. B.C. ela Colorado Laundry and D. strive by every effort to be- 107 S. Tejon wealthy, that A. B. come individually ANERICAN AND C. and D. andall their friends will be wealthy, This does not follow. In FURNITURE Co. SE Yh Li S 1 fact, if may easily happen, that A. and B. become wealthy and success- j Household Furnishings a DODGE & GEISLER a nen upp. y ful at the expense of C. D. E. F. and dozens of others. What we have got Ranges and Bb LOANS AND RENTALS Floor Coverings M INSURANCE—Auto and Fire 516 W. Colorado Ave. to substitute, therefore, for private : Main 517 profit and individual success is the At Prices Alla. Can2 Afford aBf Phone Main 1199| 24 E. Kiowa prosperity and success of the group. Terms if Desired It will be very easy to sneer at this, vad HY SN ME SWDS | to say that any economic system PHONE MAIN 1007 which proposed to hase itself “unen 408 §. TEJON ZED) MOTEL. altruism of this kind is bound to fail because most folk are mean and sel- Pests pel blebs poh wel opatet ahs fish. 1t is true that the proportion of selfishness and greed in the world THE PROMPT PHARMACY and in our race is large, hoth by natural bent and especially by long Good Household Broom, 19c COLORADO SPRINGS’ edtcation, but it is going too far ta 9x12 Felt Base Rugs, $4.95 SURGICAL APPLIANCE STORE XS assume that wider ideal of universal $1.00 Allowed for Your Old Garden Hose on a New One service cannot be substituted for Rakes, 59c Hoes, 49¢ TRUSSES BELTS SHOULDER BRACES much of this setfishness, Young men Guaranteed House Paint. ARCH BRACES S and young women may easily be Factory, Fresh, trained to ideals of service which in $2.76 Value at $1.95 Gallon ELLE All Appliance Work Subject to Your Physician’s Approval EN cludes a decent material return for All Kinds of Used Furniture, themselves and excludes exploitation Beds, Springs, Mattresses, PHONE MAIN 1770 \ Rugs, Stoves, Etc. of the poor and helpless. This is New Overstuffed Suites, Allover surely posspbye. If it is impossible, Velour, $80.00 Value at $29.95

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C o | 6 "R“yy Bol, 4Slos- “r= PEACE CHARITY THE VOICE “THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS” 1936, VOL, I—NO. 4 FIVE CENTS PER COPY COL ORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, FRIDAY, MAY 1, ST. LOUISAN BRITISH OPINION WELFARE ELECTRIFIES The Daily Herald, London. By Sir A. Sinclair, BOARD (Largest Daily in the World.) Member of Parliament, London.

“Horror and anger have swept the "Tt is shameful that the govern-

CONVENTION civilized world as the full story of ment should stand idly by white Not More Than 40 Colored Persons Italian brutality and frightfulness in machine guns shoot Red Eligible—County Commissioners Ethiopia has been revealed and con- Cross workers, kills and maims Tethi- Responsible. Miss Gladys Gunnell Threw Broad- opian peasants with a deadly and tor- firmed. They must stop. There sides at Wednesday Evening’s Y. turous gas, and piles lawless outrage must be immediate financial assist- on ruthless aggression. Tor four The further we go into just, “Why W. C. A, Session in City Aud. ance to Ethiopia by the League. Is months the government has altowed no Colored persons were placed on there any who does not blush with itself 10 be fobbed off with one ex- the Welfare Board,” more race Miss Gunnell of St. Louis Mission shame to think that in their hour of cuse after another for not taking prejudice on the part of the board of spoke to a very responsive assembly trial, fighting for their free existence, these sanctions which alone could have been effective in stopping this County Commissioners is revealed, at the ¥. W. C. A. convention Wed- the Ethiopians have had no help Investigations have been ing nesday evening. She startled the au- lawless aggression—the oil, coal and from the League members save that steel sanctions, the embargo on ship- on for the past week and the far- dience with her direct and compe- few Red Cross units which the of of a ping, and the direct assistance which ther the investigation goes the more tent attack at the ridiculous forms Duce rapidly smashed out of exist- color discrimination and segregation, ought to have been given to the gal- squarely is the cause for this condi- ence. And there must, if sanctions She asked the audience, mostly white, lant Ethiopian army, I mean giving tion placed on the shoulders of the fait, be the severance of Italian com- to the victim of ageres- why it is that in department stores, assistance County Commissioners. The Colored munications with East Africa. The on, and if the aggressor, while we she could try on all kinds of gar- population make up the poorest ments upstairs, but could not try_on Canal must be closed . Oil sanctions are giving that assistance to the vie- must be immediately applied.” tim, attacks us, certainly we must classes of citizens in El Paso County w pair of gloves downstairs. She at all times. They have always show resolution.” wanted to know what it was in her made up a large percentage of the re- that she could not see. Many simi- By Lord Snowden, lief rolls. In fact, the Colored group, lar broadsides were shot into this Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, By Mr. Attlee, if justice was given, would all be crumbling building of race prejudice London. Labor Leader, House of Commons, classed as eligibles, and if all who are by this well-trained and respect-com- “The beastly conduct of Maly in London, receiving relief were dropped from hope to see manding individual. We Ethiopia must fll every decent mind- “five months ago the League de- the rolls there would possibly be lit- end of color discrimination in the ed person with horror .and disgust. cided on oil sanctions against Italy, tle need for relief in El Paso county.

Colorado Springs. For six months Italy has been mur- and the Ethiopians were still suffer- As investigation goes on first one

dering an innocent and. defenseless ing the most intense crtcllies and buek and then another is passed. The people by the most devilish methods, barbarities. Phe government ntust first of the week the whole cause for WALTER WHITE HER with the encouragement and active take its share of responsibility for no representative of the Colored help of the powers Associated in, the what is happening in Ethiopia. An group being given a position with the carly strong line would have pre- Welfare board was placed upon the League of Nations. What is British WN. A, A. C. P. Secretary to Speak at | public opinion going to do? Tf any vented this war occurring. Tt was shoulders of Miss Dorothy Epperson, People’s Church Sunday of the old spirit of liberty and sym- not a question whether Mussolini but the reaction, after this, places the of Ethiopia: Morning. i pathy with oppression still s s would beat the Negus commissioners In a sul more awk- the voice of Englard-will now speak the question was whether the aggres- ward position. Latest developments so Joudly that the Government will jsor would heat the--League. of Na- are:, That not more than 40 Colored Walter White, the man who has have to take immediate action at least ‘tions. The issue was big enough if persons are eligible for benefits. fre so faithfully the cause of to remove the disgrace that we are we thought only of the Ethiopian the Social Security fund, and the case served be- Negro advancement in the United responsible for these atrocities and people and their sufferings; but load is not heavy enough to warrant speak at the People’s M. for encouragement which is being hind that lay the whole question of employment of Colored Persons. States, will Is. chureh Sunday morning, May 3. given to Italy by the League of Na- whether we were to prefer the sys- There must be a mistake as most any This subject will be the “Negro Faces tions.” tem of collective bargaining.” citizen in Ef Paso county who is fa- a Changing World.” . miliar with the cial status of the Mr. White rose into great promi- Colored group, knows better than the early days of the N. A. | CRUTER OF ¢. U. this. The State board has 1 nence in SUNDAY’S LESSON e A. C. P. because of his ability and THIS BREAKS RECORD opening, any person who is ¢ sit- for benefits under this fund, and is willingness to go into dangerous | and get first-hand. informa- refused consideration by the County uations The Kingdom of God cometh not; on inter-racial happenings. His Gilbert Crater, lean youth at Colo- Welfare board may appeal his ease. — tion with observation, rado University, jumped six feet to actual reports have ‘jeopardized his The Colored population of Colo- many times, but he still works establish a new record for Roulder rado Springs, also, has the Placing life Relays. He is the leading regional unstintingly for the cause of free- Neither shalt they say, Lo here! or Bureau, at which all persons who are dom for the Negro. He is a Negro. Lo there, for, behold, the kingdom of Olympic prospect. eligible for relief from this source God is within you—Luke 17: 20-21. may register, Unless some record is Jim Dunean and Elgin Nichols kept, if reports turned inlo the State DIVINE BUYS FARM LAND ... Men ought always to pray and scored for C. S. TI. S. in South Cen- Board by the Commissioners are cor- tral League track ‘meet. Elgin Nich- not to faint-~~Luke 18-1. rect, not more than 40 Colored per-

ols won third place in shot put. sons are eligible for relief from the (From Pittsburgh Courier) James Duncan took second in 50-yard April 16—- Whosoever shall seek to save his new Social Security act—which pro- KINGSTON, N. Y., life shall lose it; and whosoever shall dash and third in 100-yard dash, He vides a fund for the blind, the crip- enlarged (CNA)}—Father Divine losebis life shall preserve it—Luke won the 440, but was disqualified. ple, widows and orphans, and old-age opening for set- Heaven last week by 17-33. Martin of Trinidad, won the 50 and pensions. persons who believe by his followers the newly- took second in the 100. tlement themselves eligible for relicf under Mis- acquired properties of his Peace ... Were not ten cleansed, where the new set-up are asked to register sion in Ulster county, near Kingston. are the nine?—Luke 17-17. at the Placing Bureau by calling properties include five fertile Georgia Hoodiums Again The Phane Main 5330-M, so as to keep an farms with houses, outbuildings and It is impossible but that offenses Another lynching goes on record accurate check, that it may he defi- farm machinery, all in good condi- will come: but woe unto him through against the already bloody record of nitely known just what policy shalt tion, One of the houses, a three- whom they come—Luke 17-1. Georgia. he established by the Welfare Board box-like stracture, with ginger- in distributing these funds, as this is story, Lint Shaw accused of criminal as- hread decorations, two miles from sault was murdered by a mob of a country of Liberty and Justice for the center of Kingston, is already DE. T. T. McKINNEY about 40 men at Royston, Georgia, all, The Federal and State yovern- Tt was occupied by his followers. TO CLEVELAND April 28. ments are supplying the funds and formerly a hotel. Superior Judge Berry T. Moseley the County is administering the Father Divine will make his head- hadfeft a sick bed to warn a previous money. quarters in a 145-year-old stone THirteen Race Republicans at State | mob against a lynching. center of the old Has- 1 house in the Convention—Ten Were from Stony Ridge. The brouck farm at Denver, farm comprises 145 acres. THE FINE ARTS CENTER lis ever-spreading kingdom now The beautiful Fine Arts Center is embraces valuable properties in Mar- The Republican State Convention open! Tt is unquestionably one of the and lem, Newark, Long Island at Pueblo last Saturday, had 13 race finest, if not the finest, in the coun- This paper MUST go into Bridgeport, Conn, delegates. There were 10 from Den- try. any ver, one from Colorado Springs, and every Negro Home in Colorado He announced last week that This will attract. innumerable ar- Springs. If you do not receive of his followers who builds a house two from Walsenburg. Dr. T. T. lists and tourists from all parts of McKinney, Denver was chosen as an your copy, LET US KNOW.It on his Ulster county properties will the world. Colorado Springs is be- is YOUR PRIVILEGE to re- be given, free, a lot of 100 square alternate to the National convention coming the mecca of culture, The in Cleveland. ceive a copy each week. feet. cosmopolitan character this city will AGENTS WANTED in Den-

have to assume in the future, will ver, Pueblo, Walsenburg, La Remember now thy Creator in the climinate much of the back-woods The Sabor of the foolish weariett Junta, Boulder, Greeley, etc. every one of them. days of thy youth. prejudice that now characterizes Tandy Stroud, 743 N. Spruce, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colo, hath said in his heart: SUBSCRIBE TO The fool THE VOICE OF COLORADO : Have you got your “VOICE”? There is no God.

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THE VOICE OF COLORADO awaiting an opportunity for revenge. COLORED DEMOCRATIC CLUB Howcan this be prevented ? OF EL PASO COUNTY GETS CHARTER WITH NATIONAL The policy of this paper is to bring The insults and acts of repression CHURCH NEWS about a better understanding between ORGANIZATION of will continue as long as some persons races thru an impartial presentation Truth. consider themselves superior. To try to The Colorado Democratic Club of TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH its Charter Tandy Stroud stop this sort of repression is worthy but El Paso county, received Corner of Nevada at Fountain. Editor... the National organization last Jesse Tarrant impractical. The development must with Advertising Manager. members ce come from within the Negro individual. week, For some time the Reverend Allen, Pastor. With of the organization have been wait- ' Leave Articles to Be Published He mustbe instilled with forces that from the national head- Miss Marie Bryant.. 22 Pueblo Ave. ing for word 4 will actively combat the tendency as to whether their qualifi- Mrs. Paul Goffmal quarters ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Tandy Stroud. . had come up to the require- 32 EH, Cimarron toward bitterness and hatred engen- cations Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Jesse Tarrant ments of the National organization. ie dered by continual insults. Those in- on the charter $1.50 Names appearing Subscription, per year structors who really want to help the E. Hayden, J. Raymond Short, Pastor. 1.00 are as follows: Charles Six Months Negro youth to properly develop must president of the organization; D. Months 50 Three first properly develop themselves. If Bennett, first vice president, Cieophus a |, Bruster, second vice president and PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. EL This is NOT a church paper. you are controlled by a spirit of racial divi- CHURCH paper. organizer of the Young men’s This is NOT a political superiority, that spirit will get into your third vice Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. This IS a good, clean, Negro paper. sion; Mrs. Paul Goffman, the Wom- pupils. It can not be kept out. No mat- and organizer of president sec- » FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936. ter how lofty your ambitions and an’s division; Charles E, Banks, Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, treasurer; a teachings, that spirit will go out of you retary; Paul Goffman, Charles Barnett, assistant secretary; CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST into those whe cometo you for instruc- the RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS and Wenry I. Davis, chairman of Corner Spruce and Willamette.

tion. The teacher who really wants to committee. Jt was back in grade school. I was executive help the Negro youth must overcome Dr. W. J. Thompson, National Elder C. E, Morgan, Pastor, the class. Yes, I remember 1s ex- presidentof of the organization within himself the fallacy of racial su- chairman few it just like yesterday. We had a batch pected in the city in the next periority. But we Negroes can help our of his of “roughneck fellows” in that class. weeks. Just what the nature EAST SIDE CHURCH OF children by providing external forces be has not been definitely J was a leader of the group. There visit will GOD IN CHRIST that will counteract the results of con- determined as yet. It will no, doubt 623 East Monument. were only two or three of us Negroes of excitement in the stant exposure to insults and repression. create a deal in the class. In the afternoons chaos rankp of the local organization. Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. Our task is to develop their little is namedas ruled. Our teacher would go off. We "A. Bennett, who souls to grow out and aboveall the vice president, passed away just would have wars across the room—spit first ar- EPIPHANY MISSION, bitterness and hatred that comes to the a few days before the charter filled the room. most EPISCOPAL balls, etc., practically rived. Altho, he was one of the black face daily. We can dothis only of Dale and Royer Streets T admit our afternoon study hours were active and dependable members bad. by taking an activeinterest in their edu- he did not live long wasted, The condition was very the organization PEOPLES M, E. CHURCH cation and development. We must enough to sce the club chartered “kept me in” one noon one has Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets, ‘The teacher makethe sacrifice to become personally with the National club. No hourto ‘“‘lectuye,me.” She stated that yet to fill the vacancy. acquainted with their teachers. When been elected Reverend W. L. Lee, Pastor. I was a Negro and as president of the ee we find a teacher who is prejudiced, class that consisted mostly of white we must not tell our children. To tell ADA BELLE children I should be more exemplary them this only makes them hate that Ada Belle is gone and our hearts in conduct. She further stated that it mourn her passing. . HUNDREDS AT ‘BLACK teacher, and hatred alwayshinders de- gone from this sorrowful was unusual for a Negro boy to hold She has BILLY SUNDAY’ RITES velopment. We must go to that teacher shore, . Her motive was pain such a position. and show him the harm thathis preju- For years her little body, so worthy but some other method of ap- wracked andfrail, . _| Rev. J. G. McPherson Was Inspira- dice can do our children. Almost any claim. proach should have been used. Racial intelligent person does not want to de- Resisted Death's hideous tion for Roark Bradford her came to Stories. consciousness injected by stroy a life and will respond to proper Ada Belle is gone and our hearts | me in a spirit of race prejudice or in- instruction. Then besides helping the mourn her passing who in their But somehow we feel that you joy; NEW ORLEANS.—(ANS).—With feriority. White teachers, teacher, we musthelp the children. that of an inher- For the pain and the suffering a Bible on his chest and the Ameri- hearts believe themselves We mustteach the children to love befell you here can flag draped around his body, the can not help but ently superior race, by demonstrating love before them. There must be great peace over Rev. James Gordon McPherson, inject that feeling in their pupils. 1 We can not afford to hate “white there. called the “Black Billy Sunday,” was That was in buried in the Chalmette cemetery here “caught the bug bad.’” folks” and expect the children to grow we grow from the that day So, Ada Belle, where New Orleans’ heroes lie. the seventh grade. From up without that hatred. If the children strength of your striving Hundreds of persons, many from through the rest of my scholastic career are talented, and that talent is not al- And find a new hope thru your miles away, attended the funeral I accepted second place. True, I al- lowed development at school we must toil. services to pay final respect to the For in going you left us a mem’ry to man who had converted thousands of ways maintained a high average and . again go to the school officials and cherish; men and women during his evange- recognition, but my natu- our aid. some official help them to see the seriousness of such An example you set for listic career. ral qualities of leadership were sup- repression. To try to develop the chil- Fromall parts of the south people little sorrows and non- repressed them. I was a As we meet came here to hear the Rev. Mr. Mc- pressed. I dren’s talents for the benefit of black jasting trials, Pherson preach. His method of Negro and: “‘seldom did a Negro hold folks only is a mistake. The world at of your courage and We think evangelism and his ability to attract such a pesition in a white class’’ stayed large, and Colorado Springs in par- patience, con- you left to ail whom large crowds was similar to that of with me, reverberated through my ticular, are faced with the problem of And the legacy the famous Billy Sunday. you knew sciousness constantly, and made me un- practical inter-racial affinity. We must The aged evangelist died Thursday Gives us might to strive onward able to shake off a second-placerating. overcome this obstacle to progress by night, April 9, after an illness of 18 like you. months, The services at the Rev. Mr. went to Howard to con- the tireless application of intelligent When I your spirit at last church in Algiers, across attitude Let us hope that McPherson’s tinue my schooling I had the love. finds its rest the Mississippi from New Orleans, of defeat. I was repressed in spirit and In the Elysian fields of peace: inspired Roark Bradford in the writ- suf- “Old bitter in heart. Hatred rooted deep DELTA WHITE WOMEN And no more you must toss and ing of many of his stories in fer down here Man Adam and His Chillun.” Brad- within me. doom. visited the minister’s Old grade TALK ON LYNCHING Snared by a hopeless ford often That teacher in the seventh Providence Baptist church for “local done me a great had uncensciously MERIDIAN,Miss., April 16~—-(C) CASE color.” harm. She had meant to do me good. Mrs, L. W. Alford spoke on_ the SCOTTSBORO Preached 40 Years. following her increased anti-lynching program of the Mis- SET BACK TO JULY “The Green Pastures,” written by Other teachers Mare Connelly, was based on ‘Brad- repressed spirit. I was wretched, sissippi Methodist Women’s Confer- that ence at Central Methodist Church ford’s stories. Many other famous with a de- YORK, April 16—Accord- Mr. Mc- despondent, and bitter,filled Friday. NEW writers attended the Rev. Bitterness and hatred ing to word received here by defense Therson’s church to gather material forming hatred. “Those across the waters ask of trials, which always stunt the growth of a soul. I America: ‘Why send missionaries attorneys, the Scottsboro for stories and books. were to have been restmed on April The Rev. Mr. McPherson was 6% unable to grow. I could not de- to us as long as you have the hideous to the July was crimes and lynchings in your own 17, have been postponed years old. He had preached for 40 Morgan county, Alabama years, having entered the ministry velop. country’?’ said Mrs. Alford. “The term of the when instilled court, which begins on July, 6., The shortly after the Spanish-American Racial consciousness, way of living in America defeats the of additional time before the trial war. with the superiority attitude, tends to purpose for which Christ died, the the Clarence Norris is being used by Rey. McPherson was a member of deformity of spirit. I have seen so many brotherhood of man.” for the Mrs. Alford exhibited a map of Senttshoro Defense committee company E of the Twenty-fourth in- and talented young Negroes badly needed funds. promising Mississippi showing that only 17 collection of fantry, voluntcers, and at San Juan should b- sent to the become victims of this deformity. I of the 82 have a record clear Contributions hill, when he saw men killed alt counties 112 East 19th street, around him, he thought that his life have watched the bitterness and hatred of lynchings. This includes the pe- committee at City. . was spared for some specific purpose. develop until that youth be- riod from 1920 to 1935. New York gradually The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car He chose the ministry and was or- came a hardenedcriminal within. Porters and the Fellowship of Recon- dained a Baptist minister at Tacoma D. A—has met the Great Judge. five This process of hardening goes on cilation have joined the original in 1901. He who knows all doth eternally “tie Somelittle word or gesture national organizations, forming Elis most prized possessions were gradually. give These army and punishments—justice Scottsboro Defense committee. his ordination certificate, his can start its grewth. The continued Rewards organi- from un-biased. additions make eight national warrant and his diploma repetition of insults and repressions in the fight for Sequin, Texas. No appeal from His decision is given. zations now united Guadalupe college, gradually crowd out the good and the boys. The minister's last request was that he be buried with a Bible on his lofty aspirations. So that when the There are 19 States which boast 23 Negrocs were breast and his body wrapped in Old Negro youth becomes of age, he is too associations composed of teachers in Seven whites and the United States in 1926. Glory. often a beaten spirit or a bitter criminal Negro schools. lynched in

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AROUND TOWN WITH gt THE YOUNG FOLKS Quite a large crowd ‘was enter- . The ¥. W. C. A. conference now in ESTABLISHED 188% tained Monday night, April 27, at the progress in Colorado Springs, with- SELLA haaed Alvardo Club by an amateur program out a doubt proves to the citizens of 13-15-E-KiOWA: PHONES-F221 -1222 sponsored by Mr. Charles Hayden. Colorado Springs, that persons of all The program was very unique and “The Finest in Colorado (By NINA STROUD) races and nationalities can, and_ will Springs” different from those tried so far. work in harmony together. There The broadcast was carried on splen- are all races and nationalities repre- THE BIG AMATEUR CONTEST didly by Mr. Cleophus Bruster and sented in this conference, and they went off with a bang! There was no Mr. Percy Stanley. Everyone who are living in the same buildings, eat- necessity for a gong. If Major Bowes took part was awarded a prize furn- ing at the same tables, and working Established 1890 Ph. M. 572 himself had seen it, he would have ished by Mr, Hayden. in the same work for one aim, and all agreed with me, I am sure. The participants were: Rudolph persons are satisfied, It is gratifying M. K. MYERS Erline and Claudia Jones and Bar- Groves—violin solo; Emma Williams indeed, to know that there is one JEWELER bara Jean and Margaret Bass hit the —vocal solo; Alice Rubio—vocal so~ great organized body in the great U. top singing. Carrie Lee Fox not only lo; Ermand and Buster Bradford— 2 A. that believes in the Great 25S. Tejon Colo. Spgs., Colo, duet; Miss Childs—tap dance; Max Words of Thomas Jefferson, “Justice had “Rhythm in her Nursery Rhymes” but rhythm in her shoulders. And McDonald—tap dance; John Bryant to All and Special Privileges to How! Geraldine Bradford not only —tap dance; Alice Boyd—dance. None,” and will see to it, throughits strutted her stuff on Dinah Lee, but After the program everyone enjoyed officers that Principle is carried out she showed her talent with a pianol an evening of dancing. Everyone is to the letter. the next amateur DeSOTO—PLYMOUTH solo,, And who would have thought looking forward to Colorado Springs is becoming the that Mary Nickols could tap dance night which is to be two weeks from nation’s convention center and will like that. Go ahead Mary, and do jast Monday night, May 11. be called upon more and more to Nelson-Eubank Motor Co. Mr. Bruster is to be highly com- your stuff! Rudolph Bruner appeared show an impartial welcome to all 119 North Nevada for the first time on an amateur hou mended for his untiring interest and races. personal work in the community. MAIN 493 here. If you keep up that kind of

——By MARJORIE; BASS. work, Rudy, it won't be long before

Forty-four whites and 122 Negroes you are a_ professional. Rubinoff (Rudolph) Groves was there withhis _ Mr. “Mitch” Davis, who was in- ware lynched in the United States in and he hit the top. That south jured recently on the job, is much 97. violin, FREE DELIVERY end belle—Octorian Douglas—gave a improved, reading that not only produced laughs 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. from the audience but giggles from Mr. “Bud” Thornton is practically RAY HUNT ELECTRIC the reader werself, but you can’t recovered. Aley Drug Co. Lu- COMPANY and blame her for that, Yvonne Phone 250 cille Smith “shim shammed” second Mrs. Tandy Stroud and daughter WIRING AND REPAIRING only to Stepin Fetchit himself. And, returned from Hot Springs this week. their shoulders. boy, can they shake Ph, M. 4491 1215 N. El Paso Bobby Stroud told every- Yea, man! GEORGIA WOMAN’S WORLD body how blue she was with an em- THE ‘Nuff Said. Then the sisters, ig fighting Mrs. Roosevelt because phasis. with Seldomridge Grain Co. Rosa May, Bobby, and Nina tapped she has had her picture taken paper Flour, Feeds, Grain, Hay Dinah all the way to China and hack. Negroes. How stupid of this Good Household Broom, 19¢ Last of all two Colorado Springs’ to foment such prejudice—(Editor) 9x12 Felt Base Rugs, $4.95 and Seeds outstanding amateurs, John McDon- $1.00 Allowed for Your Old Garden Phone M. 12 21 8. Cascade ald and Emma Williams, performed, STRANGE Hose on a New One Colorado Springs, Colo. giving a perfect ending to a fine ama- Rakes, 59c Hoes, 49c A report of the Mayo clinic at Guaranteed House Paint, teur show. told of a woman Factory, Fresh, went Rochester, Minn., After the program everyone suicide by aiming a $2.75 Value at $1.95 Gallon and lemonade. who attempted after the hamburgers at her heart. The bullet missed All Kinds of Used Furniture, Colorado Odds and Ends went afterit. pistol Beds, Springs, Mattresses, And I mean they really found later, her heart pushing and because, it was Rugs, Stoves, Etc. GOOD USED CLOTHING By the time I finished position. everything was not in the normal New Overstuffed Sultes, Allover Bargains in Real Estate ‘shoving thru the crowd, Velour, $80.00 Value at $29.95 was gone. We Appreciate the Colored The scouts gave this amateur hour AUSTIN’S Trade and if in order to get their uniforms Courtesy of WHERE THEY SELL CHEAP 14 E, Colo. Ph. M, 259-R the crowd has anything to do withit, 413-415 §. Tejon St. Y’'m sure they'll get them, Good stuff WHITEHEAD-WILSON

scouts! Keep it up. GROCERIES — MEATS

Colo., Phones 546 and 547 Rudolph Groves of Manitou, PHONE THE Stroud’s went to Denver Wednesday, April 29,

to participate in the Annual Music REGAL DRUG CO.

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ing. Wheel-Sets for Fords and ECONOMICAL

Chevrolets Beginning Wednesday, and ending 16 E. Colo. Ave. Main 259-J ASH-TRASH May 5, this town will be REMOVAL SERVICE Tuesday, SR buzzing with visitors. Besides the regular delegates and older women, aXe Phone M, 3701 810 N. Walnut Serviced there will be many car-loads of girl Car Radios Installed and

35c a reserves from all over, here for girl Batteries Recharged, Residence M. 2086 Saturday, May 2. There Phones: M. 570; The reserve day, AL & DON a is an especially large delegation ex- DeMARK Typewriter pected from Denver. Do you hear, Battery, Radlo, Auto Electricians = PETER PAN § boys? ANTLERS GARAGE a7 Man Nina Stroud, Fannie Bragg and Colorado Springs, Colorado x CLEANERS 3 are delegates to Dorothy Cameron the girl reserve day program from el MAIN 5050 On that day % 105 N. Tejon M, 95 the Jenkins Triangle. SeaUHsTLaeEL AAG UALEAATEC HTTE SHENAE = 429 South Tejon there will be classes at Colorado Col- lege followed by a luncheon at Be- “PESS’ BRYANT LATE YSkTHO a mis Hall. After this a sight secing a MEN'S SUITS, 24¢ & tour around the campus will be con- Tap-Dancing

ducted. Instructor a HATS, 34e¢ Se NLATTSTEINCASLIUL

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and ice ATES ee * Everybody remember the pie SeamannessaeameANTATU eI Colorado Springs = the basement of St. Barthel’s cream social in John’s Baptist church, Friday, May CECECCE LECCE LUT ss 1, from 7 to 9:30 p. m. Be sure you MEN-—Save Money on Your Spring t Suit. Large shipment of high- grade, slightly used and uncalled angenaAA New Quality for suits, just received from to York, Original values from $35 and GRAVEL to $12.50. Buy now Arapahoe SAND $75, Now $10 Ice Cream FERTILIZER and save. All sizes included. MUSMAN'’S TAILOR SHOP Food CRAWFORD 420 East_Cucharras JOE A. Opposite Court House EMOTE {epeenoemsn General Hauling Te Stores dtaggcnl Long’s Saratoga Chips RELIABLE SSH AND Hikers’ Salad Dressings Horseradish 131 N. Tejon GROCERIES TRASH REMOVAL Hikers Pure Mustard — Egg Noodles FRUITS SERVICE Phone M. 652 Manufactured by MEATS FOOD PRODUCTS Phone Main 4349 HIKERS COMPANY

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REPORTOF THE 14TH RETIREMENT OF COSTIGAN CONVENTION NATIONALY.W.C.A. SIDE LINES DEPLORED BY N.A.A.C.P. CONFERENCE HERE There were a few interesting side lines which have not been told, but actually happened during the conven- CITY—Theretirement of Senator Edward P. Costigan Wednesday afternoon, NEW YORK tion: t 2:30 accountofill health was noted April 29, the doors of the municipal of Colorado from the United States Senate on Alamo Hotel, small hotel of Colo- auditorium swung open to one of the “with deep regret” by the board of directors of the National Association for rado Springs, wanted no Negro dele- largest delegations the town has had the Advancement of Colored People at its April meeting. gates, Walter White, one of the lead- and the first Y. W. ing men of the Negro race today, reg- in a Jong time, Senator Costigan’s brilliant, C. A. national convention ever held A resolution adopted by the board praises istered at that hotel and stayed all in Colurado Springs. There are rep- self-sacrificing and energetic support of federal anti-lynching legislation.” The night, The next morning he asked for resentalives from Japan, China, The complete resolution follows: his bill and told them he was leaving. Czechoslova- The answer was that they thought he Philippines, Honolulu, of the National Asso- kia and Turkey. “Tt is with deep regret that the board of directors wanted the room during the whole of There have been many interesting ciation for the Advancement of Colored People has learned that the state of the the convention. He advised the man- problems discussed during these ses- health of Senator Edward P. Costigan has necessitated his retiring from the agement that he had been told they Social Security, and Industrial were not opening that hotel to all the sions. United States Senate. Education, Health, and delegates and if they were not he Conditions, support of fed- Religion and also the Race problem. “Senator Costigan’s brilliant, self-sacrificing and energetic would rather not stay and paid the ‘There was a great deal of interest eral anti-lynching legislation has set a new standard in the realm of American bill for the night’s lodging. shown in the meetings and large has had the vision to realize as have few other men in public or The manager’s excuse to a reporter all times. politics. He for this paper, was that because the audiences were present at by lynching mobsis infinitely de- interesting session was private life that mob violence as represented hotel was undergoing some remodel- One very spiritual held at 8:15 on Wednesday night, structive, not only to the person of the victim but to the mental and ing they were not in a position to when there was a round table discus- well-being of the entire country. open it to the whole of the delega~ younger members. Ev- tion and were only taking a few of sion by the has been a rare privilege for this Association to have worked with erything from the advisability of “Tt them,

of effective teaching social hygiene in the schools Senator Costigan and to have supported his efforts for passage to the threat of war was discussed. federallegislation against the lynching evil. We shall sorely miss him. We wish Shadburn’s restaurant experienced Miss Rhoda McCullough of New for him most speedy and complete restoration to health, We trust that he will a little bit of big city racket when a the Woman's Press, York, editor of more years of service to his country and to the high ideals which group of the student’s branch pick- presided. have many eted the place, turning back all dele- Miss Gladys Gunnel, of St. Louis, have always guided his actions.” gates, because Shadburn’s were too told the convention that the Negro Senator Costigan, with Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, is used to “little town stull” to feed all only faced with all student was not of the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill, which was first introduced the delegates as they should. Shad- the problems of every other student, author burn’s was the restaurant which but also that of Racial prejudice, the in the Senate in January, 1934. wanted to give the Negro delegates a greatest of them all, and the hardest private dining room, The ¥. W. C. A. fo surmount of themall, She told of is an organization which believes in prejudices in the stores, the preju- “Equal rights to all and special privi- dices in industrial life, the prejudices WALTER WHITE’S SPEECH leges to none.” It might be wise for on the campus of the colleges even some of the -hotel and restanrant to the extent of being completely ex- owners of this city to look up the cluded from some of them. She told LAST SUNDAY MORNING meaning of that phrase before an- how, just because the president’s other convention of WELL-BRED wife had her photograph taken with big city United States citizens comes a Negro students, it had caused such to a small town like this again, per- it had become A rather small crowd turned out to votes would be cast for the lawif it stir in the south that could ever come to a vote. haps if the meaning is known, there a topic of news, People’s M. E. Church Sunday morn- won’t be so many mistakes made next Smith, Bankhead, Connelly and Why should such a condition exist, ing to hear Walter White, After dis- time. students are Colorado Reynolds carried on an eight-day fili- simply because some cussing his fondness for buster until Senator Borah came to dark skinned? Miss Gunnel brought of its scenery, mountain because their aid and caused the vote on this Quotations from Walter White out that Race prejudice was the ma- trout, and its production of such an made during the convention: “I have jor reason that Negro students be- man as Senator Costigan, bill to be avoided. age and outstanding never attended a convention at which came discouraged at an early he gave us a sketch of the magnitude Whena bill comes before the sen- there was so little oratory and as_ the quit school, She pictured of the N. A. A. C. P. work. ate, the senators are allowed unlim- bunkum.”-—Walter White. before the Negro ited debate. As long as the senate greatest problem N, A. A. C. P. is gradually Special to the race group of Colo- the Negro child in The just takes a recess at night, that same race was keeping breaking down the walls of segrega- rado Springs: The ¥. W. C. A. is school to secure higher education. bill is the first business next day. If lib- tion and prejudice that have so hin- the one organization which stands The plea was made for a more in the the senate votes to adjourn, however, straight on the race question, their from dered Negro advancement eral attitude toward the Negro that bill becomes displaced on the principle is, in any city which they a hope for United States. his fellow students. And calendar and some other matter can hold a convention—E QUAL AC- like the Y, W. The carrying of the case of Brown, be taken up. Each day of the filibus- more organizations the Supreme COMMODATIONS TO ALL. They all races might mingle Ellington and Shields to ter, Walter White said, he sat there C. A. in which as an ex- do not meet in any city which will and understand each other Court in January was cited and watched the number of senators together A. C. P. work. not guarantee that principle.” Walter more fully. ample of the N. A. opposing adjournment without voting penniless, ignorant, White. (Continued on Page Two) These three on the anti-lynch bill become fewer share-croppers were accused of kill- and fewer until Senator Borah’s one ing a white farmer. After avoiding yote killed the issue. Dame rumor says, The Big Chief lynching, they were beat by the offi- of Police, of this city called one of imbedded with metal If the N. A. A, C. P. had had the leading convention members and THIS SUNDAY’S LESSON cials with straps the funds, they could have had tele- until they were a mass of blood. They said that the police department of grams sent from the various southern were then jerked up over a tree limb this city could give the delegates no Luke 18 their necks until organizations urging their senators protection in case an interracial with ropes about not to vote for adjournment. By Ist verse— a “confession” in des~ dance was given and anything hap- they signed bringing such public opinion to bear Men ought always to pray and not Justice Hughes hand- We're wondering if this is peration, Chief from their individual states these pened, to faint. ed down an unanimous decision giv- true. If so, why do we pay taxes to I will avenge her, lest by her con- a newtrial and con- senators would have stood pat re- keep a police force, if they can not ing these men gardless of all the bribes and intimi- tinual coming she weary me. demning any evidence secured by protect a visiting convention fromin- His own dations heaped upon them. Shall not God avenge torture. (Continued on Page Two) elect, which cry day and night unto C. P’s battle for fed- The fight is not over yet and pub- The N. A. A. lic opinion is demanding a_cessation him? eral anti-lynch laws was then out- when the Son of man of lynchings in the United States. Nevertheless, High points of this fight were he find faith on the lined. An example of the advance being cometh, shall given. Over 5,000 people have been earth? the United States and in made was the statement of a young NOTICE \iynched in Knoxville, Tenn. delegate to the 13th verse— less than one-tenth of one per cent, But smote on his breast, saying, any one been| ¥. W. C. A. convention that as long of these lynchings has This paper MUST go into God be merciful unto me, a sinner. was the as the Negro is denied any right or arrested. The N. A. A. C, P. every Negro Home in Colorado I4th verse— sponsor fed- privilege of an American citizen, just himself pioneer organization to Springs. If you do not receive Everyone that exalteth legislation. The or- so long are all citizens prescribed. and he that hum- eral anti-lynch your copy, LET US KNOW.It shall be abased; now demanding such leg- Resolutions by the National Meth- bieth himself shall be exalted. ganizations is YOUR PRIVILEGE to re- islation have a membership of over odist convention such as: “Should 25th verse— 42,000,000. Methodists Move Backwards in Race ceive a copy each week. for it is easier for a camel to go Relations?” and condemnation of any AGENTS WANTED in Den- through a needle’s eye, than for a When the Costigan-Wagner anti- ver, Pueblo, Walsenburg, La vote last spring, segregation in its organization are yich man to enter into the Kingdom lynch bill came to a Junta, Boulder, Greeley, etc. of a possible 95 votes in the sen- typical. “Would Christ vote for Jim of God. out Crow?” Tandy Stroud, 743 N, Spruce, ate the N. A, A. C._P. had 59 votes Colorado Springs, Colo, 37th verse— was conserva- And they told him that Jesus of pledged in writing. 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THE VOICE OF COLORADO| Mmauzeuamsueneuauaurs cmuieueumserensiion| It was reported that they were bring- - nr ing a million dollars back home per ‘The policy of this paper is to bring THE month and putting one-half million CHURCH NEW. about a better understanding between BLIND M. N’S men to work each month, as Europe

faecesthru an fmpay tial presentation of A could not do without certain classes _ CORNER of American goods. That America had the natural resources and would TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH Tandy Stroud Wditor.. _This column presents the personal eventually force the world to “call Jesse Tarrant Corner of Nevada at Fountain. Advertising Manage views of its author and not neces- her parlay”. Reverend Allen, Pastor. sarily the opinion of the paper. But after the election, policies Leave Articies to Be Published With were changed, Our government kept Miss Marie Bryan 22 Pueblo Ave. HADEN UATAMRITRRRL ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Mrs, Paul Goftmar raising the standard while it should Tandy Stroud. ayed on the original standard Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. H, Cimarron THE WAY IN AND OUT OF THE J. Raymond Short, Pastor. Jesse Tarrant. DEPRESSION of thirty-two to one. The whole of

Europe has come back to the old $1.50 By Rev. Stroud, Economist, Subscription, per year standard, while France is threatening PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Six Months | - 1.00 (Chapter Three} to leave the standard. CHURCH 50 Three Months THE MONETARY SYSTEM Our government made matters Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. When the World War endedit left worse for America by raising the Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, This is NOT a charch paper. standard to fifty to one while the ‘This NOT a political paper. France and America on top. France This 18 a good, clean, Negro paper, lost heavily in men and population, business world is back on the original standard. Our government is paying CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

but had productive soil; so she thirty-Ave dollars per ounce for gold Corner Spruce and Willamette, PRIDAY, MAY§&, 1936. raised heavy crops, had a heavy sur- Elder C, E. Morgan, Pastor, plus for the world’s market. So did and thirty-Rve cents per ounce for

America, While most of the other silver. No, the writer means to say— BEET WORKERS nations were scarce in commodities seventy cents per ounce forsilver. EAST SIDE CHURCH OF If you reduce the thirty-five dollars GOD IN CHRIST There is a scarcity of labor for the and did not have too much gold, America and France sold their prod-~ le cents and divide by seventy the 623 East Monument, beet fields this year. The recent order uce at their own price and demanded quotient will be fifty. So you readily Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. of Governor Johnson calling for a bor- gold for every pound that they sold. see that we are on a standard of fifty And by 1932 the two nations had to one, while the business world is der patrol to tur back the indigent EPIPHANY MISSION, nine-tenths of the world’s gold. on a standard of thirty-two to one. EPISCOPAL and alien has prevented the beet grow- Tf England owes us a debt of fifty Franee and America were starving Dale and Royer Streets ers from finding “cheap labor.” Those the world to death. The first time in dollars she can pay it with thirty-two on relief don’t care for the job, What the history of creation that all of the dollars in gold, because she has the business werld at her back, On the PEOPLES M. E. CHURCH shall the beet-growers do? nations went off the gold standard, saving two. So, on September first, other hand, if we owe China a fifty Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets. The capitalists who are “making 1932, England went olf the gold stan- dollar debt, China will demand sil- Reverend W. L, Lee, Pastor. money” on the sugar beet industry | dard. Now it is to be remembered yer, becatise we hold silver at fifty have been in the habit of employing that the gold standard means aratio to one and China holds it at sixteen Spanish-Americans at a very low wage of thir wo to one, that is one to one, and Asia holds it at the same pound, or ounce, of gold is worth ratio as China, so we lose three to to do the actual laborin the beet fields. thirty-two of silver. one when we trade with China; so SPORTING GOODS The influx of these people has been we are fleeced no difference how we When old England jumpedoff the “Everything for Sportsmen” prevented by the border patrol. Those gold standard the world followed be- burn, leborers who are on relief feel no in- cause they were all poor together. (To Be Continued Next Week) TEPHE SPORT SHOP clination to go to the beet fields). Many Se America and France could not control the world’s money market. 117 -N. Tejon Phone M. 930 Spanish-Americans were singled out When the nations went off the gold CONVENTION SIDE LIGHTS and cut off the WPA rolls. This was standard, they jumped down to about at sounsnavanderaubacvenaeses a sixteen to one standard; that is done for the benefit of the beet grow- (Continued from Page One) ers. This was not fair to the Spanish- raising the price of silver and lower- ing the price of gold; so the silver sults from country jakes? Oh! there’: CADY L. DANIELS American. . nothing surprising if Big Chief does countries thrived by it and that had (incorporated) It is not just to single out a group a tendency to bring France and it. He’s done worse than that, but of people and try to force that group America to their knees. it’s too bad the whole town gets the 105 N. WEBER to take work that no one else wants. | But Mr, Hoover and the financiers blame for it, of the country stood on the gold PHONE M. 1750 The Spanish-American citizenry is just standard and the protective lariff Well, since all the big folks are as desirous of a high standard of liv- systent and had begun to pull the gone, let’s talk about the little foll ing as any other American citizenry world back to the American policies. of Colorado Springs. Rt SEREDEYatO and has just as much right to a decent See HITT’S ml wage as any one else. The idea of esused the Y. W, C. A. work in Ja- The integrity of the upright shall a

guide them, but the perverseness of NEW SHOE STORE Hl discriminating against groups because pan. She said the greatest problem confronting the Y. W. C. A. ti Japan transgressors shall destroy them. mi they have been forced to live on a bare SHOES FOR ALL THE ri was the industrial problem. In Japan, FAMILY Si existence wage in the past is not right. she said, there are 973,318 women and Subscribe to “VOICE”. a i BE 106 East Pikes Peal: From time to time prejudice is fo- girls employed as laborers, mostly in SUSU TURRETseg TREO mented by various groups against the textile mills, 46 per cent of the bk SDBO0etto total working population is women. Japanese, Spanish-Americans and Ne- MEN'S SUITS - - = - 28¢ They also have a very serious re- groes, on the grounds that these groups PLAIN DRESSES - - - Be ligious problem, as most of the Jap- NECKTIES - - - - = && PUEBLO AVENUE will “work for nothing.” A man who anese are still of the Budhist faith. BARBER SHOP is starving will work for very little. As Friday night, Mr. Francis Henson, VANITY CLEANERS speaking on the subject, “Youth 426 West Colorado Avenue 222 Pueblo Avenue long as white American capitalists ex- Throughout the World and the Pres- clude these groups from remunerational Phone Main 2514 Phone Main 5769 ent Crisis,” said that the youth is employment, just so long will they very much affected by the present | L. C. CALDWELL,Prop. A have to ‘‘work for nothing”, thus un- economical crisis, and placed the a FAVOUR basic cause for conflict on the eco- dermining union labor. As long as the nomic situation which has placed the R. D. BRIGGS unions exclude these races from mem- youth into two distinct classes, the HAND COLORED VIEWS OF LOCKSMITH COLORADO—FRAMING bership, they will have no protection Have Nots and the Have, There were RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, ETC. and will be easily exploited. }many other cau noted for conflict H. L. STANDLEY among the young people of today, 126North Nevada No man, Japanese, Spanish, Ne- PHOTOGRAPHER one of which was the ever present Phone Main 1142-w gre, or what, will refuse a fair wage race question, He pictured Russia as BAM iMISAMYRaATSETEE 224 North Tejon Street for his labor. The groups who force going farther toward solving the race Colorado Springs, Colorado

these poor men to work at a “‘starva~ question than any other nation. Rus- sia, he said, considers discrimination, tion wage” are the ones to be vigor- because of race, one of its major mis- Courtesy of NSS ed LT RY LO SRTt ously censured. demeanors, MATHEW’S MARKET Let us hope that the labor wages in The Y. W. C. A. has a constituency MONARCH the beet fields will be raised to a fair of two and one-half million now. GROCERIES and MEATS level, so that laborers will no longer There are 427 local organizations. LAUNDRY

Andevery memberis working for the 20 East Colorado Avenue RRR prefer “relief”. advancement of Christianity in every AND ee sense of the word. There were a numberof resolutions Kerfestentertetyte DRY CLEANING REPORT OF THE 14TH by the convention, among Bitteieieineinicinininioiieieieteios

adopted ERE which were: a resolution on birth |¥ . o MAIN 356 NATIONAL Y. W. C. A. 1% The Prompt Phar macy $ control, one endorsing the better ER CONFERENCE HERE housing program of the federal gov- S , & RRR ernment, and one endorsing the Cos- = COLORADO SPRINGS & tigan-Wagner anti-lynch bill. The |#& SURGICAL = Pwr” (Continued from Page One) resolution endorsing the Costigan-|¥ APPLIANCE STORE « wy RRR

Wagner anti-tynch bill also bore a|& * On Saturday night, Miss Celestine AR Smith gave a very interesting account clause condemning the three lynch-)%* SHOULDER BRACES » BERRA ings which occurred while the con-|.2 TRUSSES : BELTS =

of the work she is doing in Africa RR * REMEMBER— with the Y. W.C. A. vention was in session. The conven-|% Thursday night, Miss Helen Chung tion closed Tuesday, May 5. They |% ARCH BRACES . % PPR All Shirts are starched city of Colo-j% AIL Appliance Work Subject to % of China, gave aninteresting talk on gave muchpraise to the to your order and hand BRM the problems the Y. W. C. A. is help- rado Springs. Invitations were rer * Your Physician’s Approval = ing to solve in her country. Miss ceived from Columbus, Ohio, and = . a finished. 1770 % the 1937 con- | PHONE MAIN HAA Taki Fujita, member Student Com- Springfield, Mass., for Ha au ts. oh a hoot toniole tetas, 1B Ba Be Bede mittee, National Committee, dis- vention, Ralerteoterfetertestogetegqarienone, RRR

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LEAVE fused service. Mannus corroborated Our control over nature and the ’ gEES INDUSTRIAL DRIVE TUBERCULARS the story. elements is far more limited than FURTHERING UNITY OF THE COUNTY FARM Lynching Threatened. science and religion would like to be-~ Following the incident and the fil- lieve. If anyone doubts this, they NEGROES AND WHITES ing of a suit in Alderman Robert TH. might ask Pennsylvania and all its Were Starving; Got Meal Said They Logan’s office, Wilson received a waters and the snows of yesteryear. Fiom Associated Charities —Du Bois. CLEVELAND — The importance mysterious message on a postcard of the movement for industrial or- declaring: “You Lousy N—r, if you ganization in breaking down discrimi- Eight men came to town last week don’t withdraw that case youll be tations against Negro workers, was looking for food. They were the ti- lynched!” a stressed by Powers Hapgood at a bereular patients from ihe County Unafraid of the lynch threat, Wil- !

meeting of the Junior Section, Na- Farm. Two of the tuberculars kept son declared that‘he had no fear of PETTITT3 TLS tional Association for the Advance- ont there were too iil to join their the consequences and that he was “CLEANERS, OYERS, HATTERS ment of Colored People. Hapgoodis companions. These men were search- going thru with the case. And he | 13-15-E-KIOWA- PHONES-I221 - 1222 an organizer of the United Mine ing for food. The Associated Chari- did. Workers and representative of the ties provided them ‘a meal. Jury Indicts Psaras. “The Finest in Colorado Organiza- Springs” Committee for Industrial Theysaid that conditions were bad Although Psaras entered a plea of tion, ont there for tuberculars. The last nez guilty at the hearing before the labor organiza- has dwindled “We must expand few months the food grand jury, the indisputable evidence tion in the mass-production indus- down to practically nothing. Three the equal riglits that he had violated Established 1890 Ph. M. 572 tries on an industrial basis,” he said, meals a day are given: Breakfast at law by refusing to serve Wilsor, no “with no race discrimination and six, lunch at eleven, dinner at four. was presented and the indictment fol- discrimination on account of sex, re- The meals are mostly dry potatoes. lowed. M. K. MYERS ligion, political belief or for any Undoubtedly, something drove these Underthe terms of the law, in case JEWELER other cause.” men to town. of guilt, a minimumfine of $100 and Alabama Miners. The vast outlay of money andsick 4 maximiwn of $500, with discretion- | 258. Tejon Colo, Spgs., Colo. in the County Home, jail sentences up Hapgood told of the recent organi- men “starving” ary and intermediate zation of the Alabama miners, some proves that somewhere along the to 90 days may be imposed. gross misman- of whomat first wanted separate lo- line there must be Victory Issues Warning. calseior Negrocs and whites, but agement, The decision in this case is highly were told that the U, M. W.consti- significant because it hurls out a DeSOTO—PLYMOUTH tution does not nermit this, RESTAURATEUR warning to the countless foreign cafe “Today they all belong to the same and shop owners who maintain a Nelson-Bubank Motor Co. Ne- local unions,” he said, “and Alabama Ig INDICTED FOR policy of discriminating against Tt 119 North Nevada is organized 100 per cent, There is groes in public business places. DISCRIMINATION proves to them that such un-Ameri- MAIN 493 no trace of Jim-Crowism. At least under one-third of the local unions have ean practices will be punished colored presidents and white vice Plaintiff Defies Lynching Threat and the terms of the new equal rights residents, Invariably a Negro work- Presses Case—Grand Jury In- law.

er is secretary of the local union.” dicts Foreigner. FREE DELIVERY Hapgood told of the success of the SUBSCRIBE TO 8 A, M. to 11 P. M. industrial organization drive in Ak- THE VOICE OF COLORADO ron, which has multiplied member- PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 18, 1936 ar ship in the United Rubber Workers a —Blasting the rumors that the Penn- Aley Drug Co. number of times. Negro workers sylvania Equal Rights Law has “no Phone 250 Good Household Broom, 196 same locals as teeth” in it, John Psaras, restaura- join the union in the 9x12 Felt Base Rugs, $4.95 whites, without discrimination, he ter, of 6004 Houston street, was in- jury here Wednes- il $1.00 Allowed for Your Olt Garden pointed out. dicted by a grand Hose on a New One for refusing to serve Walter Wil- day Rakes, 59c Hoes, 49¢ THE gon of 62614 Wattstreet a cup of cof- Patenttcnannrtparcafe THE BLIND MAN’S PRAYER Guaranteed House Paint, Grain Co. ee. ‘ Factory, Fresh, Seldomridge ARIEMeeEAT in this case, the first $2.75 Value at $1.95 Gallon Flour, Feeds, Grain, Hay > : ee The decision Father in the heavens above significant court test under the terms All Kinds of Used Furniture, and Seeds but love effective Beds, Springs, Mattresses, One who knows naught of the law which became «Rugs, Stoves, tc. Phone M, 12 21 S. Cascade knows naught but is expected to have One whose home last September, New Overstuffed Suites, Allover Colorado Springs, Colo. peace sweeping effects. Velour, $80.00 Value at $29.95 Where the good deeds never cease. Refused Him Service. out that AUSTIN’S Wilson’s suit pointed WHERE THEY SELL CHEAP Father, if VIl never see, -while working on a job shoveling 413-415 S. Tejon St. Take me home tofive with Thee. snowfor the city, he entered Psaras’ Beauty of the world they Say restaurant, accompanied by Terrance Grows radiant with the coming day M. Mannus, white, a co-worker, and Night is gorgeous, too, you know asked for two cups of coffee. Psaras Sanitation Service In summer’s rain or winter’s snow. bluntly refused to fill the order, de- PHONE THE claring that he did not serve Negroes. REGAL DRUG CO. Why, ch why, I had to be Whereupon Wilson’s companion re- COURTEOUS

beg of Thee? A poor blind man, I FREE DELIVERY SERVICE DEPENDABLE

Whentold the things I do not know Phone M, 40, 481 and 482 ECONOMICAL. wither, bloom and that Courtesy of Of flowers grow, WHITEHEAD-WILSON ee ASH-TRASH Of trees that whisper in the breeze, ed OY aE BO) tdHT REMOVAL SERVICE "Tis then I fall down on my knees. GROCERIES — MEATS and fair. Phone M. 3701 810 N. Walnut Oh, Holy Father, wondrous Phones 546 and 547 Please, oh please hear a blind man’s prayer. nainasem —By Eddie L. Bradford, Jr. RECURSRCEEaaeseaten Ws eases Semana “RAPE OF AFRICA” Say It With PUBLISHED IN N. Y. Economy Tire Store Flowers For Bargains in USED TIRES TUBES Main 214 NEW YORK, April 16—~(C)— WHEEL-SETS “The Rape of Africa,” by Tamar 22. N. Tejon 259-J Middleton, is the title of a new book 16 E. Colo. Ave. Main just published by Random Flouse, 20 105 N. Tejon M. 95 JQAOEERELUT TADRSUa Street. “For 60 years thi , 57th going on,” says the publi has been Car Radios Installed and Serviced REYONHaYT er. ‘Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia Batterles Recharged, 35¢ ne J. A. FINNEY R. PL FINNEY phase of civiliza- M. 2086 is merely the last Phones: M. 570; Residence FINNEY BROS. land grab.” AL & DON tion’s greatest Fuel and Transfer Co. DeMARK Cast thy bread upon the waters for Battery, Radio, Auto Electricians Coal -- Waod — Sand -~ Gravel then shalt find it after many days. ANTLERS GARAGE 11sW. Cucharras MAIN 224 Springs, Colorado ee Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Barthel’s When pride cometh, then cometh shame, but with the lowly is wisdom. foN01ATTRCHAHAEULAURSINSUTETH SeteLecceRN “PESS’’ BRYANT Quality

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she was in the city. She-is now sec- TUSKEGEE TO HARLEM GETS NEW retary of the Y. W. C. A. in Kansas $6,000 SHOE STORE City, Kan. A number of social func- GRADUATE 150 LOCAL ITEMS tions were given for her while she was. here. Altho she- was very busy TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE — The NEW YORK, April 16—A new attending the “Y” sessions, she May graduating class of Tuskegee $6,000 shoe store, owned and op- to spend with found some minutes Institute will number more than 150. erated by Negroes, has just opened By Mrs, Paul H. Goffman, old friends. One of the largest af- Colorful commencement exercises at 2207 Seventh avenue, near 131st fairs was given by Mrs. George Rob- are planned for the first graduating 421 North Royer Street. street, the only store of its kind erts at her home on Sunday, May 3. class under Dr, I. D, Patterson, pres- owned and operated by Negroes in While here she stopped at the Joyce ident, who took office June 1, last the city. Booker Bledsoe, former resident of hotel. She left the city Tuesday eve- year. Colorado Springs, passed away last ning, immediately after the close of The owner is Clarence C. King Bishop Thomas J. Toolen of Mo- who, for the past seven years, has week in Philadelphia, Pa, after an the convention. ‘bile, Ala., will preach the baccalau- ilness-of five days. Mr. Bledsoe was built up a large clientele as louse to reate sermon in the institute chapel house salesman. Fittings and fixtures the older son of Albert Bledsoe, who Saturday morning Mrs. Lena Sunday, May 24. Dr, Ambrose Cali- of the new store, which are modern- resides in Larkspur, Colo. At the Work entertained as breakfast Brown ver, department of interior, bureau istic and tasteful, cost $885 and the time he lived in the city Mr. Bledsoe guests the following Y. W.C. A. sec- of education, Washington, will de- stock on April 1 was valued at $5,- was one of the best known and most retaries: Miss Marie Jefferson of liver the commencement address on popular members of the younger so- New Orleans, La.; Miss Marian Hill 270. The store specializes in Air-O- Thursday afternoon, May 28, Pedic constructed shoes, for whick cial set. After leaving the city he of Dallas, Tex., and Miss Mayme E. Charles N. Green of Gary will de- married. His wife and two children Davis of Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Mr, King is noted. Associated with liver the alumni address for the class Mr, King is Dudley .E. Barrow, son survive. His brother, Loyd, also. sur- Esther Carter and Mrs. Louise Wil- of 1926 which will observe its tenth maker, and vives. The mother, a well-known res- liams of this city. Misses Hill and of a well-known boot anniversary reunion during com-~- Ernest Barrow. ident of this city, passed away about Davis were associated with Mrs. mencement week. two years ago. Work in “Y” work when they were 1 SUM LNRTSUQURSEA UNGULATAMURSTe all college students, LOUIS TO CAMP Mrs. Mattie Carpenter, sister of TTL

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Golorado son, class A student at Case School visit in the city en route to Cali- Schmeling in New York on June 18. & 1QTOIATUM ALSULAAUTLALCAEMUOEMLOAEETTGEUTAELU ELSA fornia. Mrs. Collins was called to of Applied Science at Cleveland, has On May15, he will get down to earn- just been admitted as a mid-shipman Kansas City because of the death of crt work at his camp at Lakewood, See BEN or FRANK her sister in that city, and was on to the Naval academy at Annapolis, according to Claude Holman, secre- TIRES AND PARTS 5 her return trip when she stopped in AND USED 2 tary to Congressman Mitchell of Illi- NEW the city. “If the Rhine river ran blood, it TIRES ON TIME = nois. GOODRICH could not more fittingly typify its Johnson, who was appointed by 29 S, Cascade Main 377 g Mr. Jesse Colbert and son, Ed- history for a thousand years.”—Du- Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell to sectarian ward, Mr, John Martin and Cornelius a cadetship in this school, will be the Bois. Se aneannearamaecauncvte Maxwell left for Los Angeles, Calif., first Negro to enter this school for UUme wgRATTRUERART last week, many decades.

GOURTESY Johnson has already been exam- SERVICE Mr. and Mrs. George Pierce and ined temporarily by some of the best —_ | EFFICIENCY Mrs. Ida Robinson and son, Harvey, physicians in the nation and was an- SAMUEL C. HUNTER of Casper, Wyo., were visitors in the nounced physically perfect. His high Baker Realty Co. city over the week end last week. scholastic standing entitled him to Mortician EREIGRIECRUE Mrs. Robinson is a sister to Mrs. entrance to the academy without WALTER D. BAKER Laura Brown, 607 E. St. Vrain, and Phone M. 5395 518 S. Weber St.

mental test. iaASRSMEA GUETENED while here they were the house Congressman Mitchell has appoint- Insurance vais guests of Mrs. Brown. ed two young Negroes to the Naval Real Estate Loans academy. ‘The other one, Paul Phi Courtesy of Are you interested in a Free Trip lips Cooke, whose scholastic stand- Rentals to Denver, Decoration Day? If so, ing was not so high as that of John- The get in touch with Mrs. Paul H. Goft- son, took the mental test April 15. 111 B, Kiowa Phone M. 4 man and find out the details. Any Mr, Mitchell is quite certain that Colorado Springs one may enter the contest, which is Cooke has passed a satisfactory e: Colorado Springs, Colo. Bus Company

being conducted by the N. End Mis- sm amination and will be admitted on 2anacenmuaeeneiaeteressree aascmeiamciasiE sionary of the St. John Baptist June 15. “ON TIME WITH SAFETY” church. The trip will include the fare, It is the purpose of the congress- board and lodging for the week end.

man to keep in close touch with these In other words, the contestant will men during their scholastic career, go to Denver Friday evening and with a view of rendering them what~- WHITE KITCHEN return Sunday night, spending all ever assistance a congressman can Meadow PASTRY SHOP day the 30th in the Capital city. render his constituents,

Making the Very Best in It also is his purpose to see them Mrs. Esther Leggett was elected a Bakery Goods, oceupy responsible positions in the Gold delegate to the Democratic County navy of the United States in the fu- We Solicit Your Patronage. Assembly, from precinct 14, last ture, thus opening up to the aspiring Phone M. 2119 15 N. Tejon ‘Tuesday night at the caucus meet- ICE CREAM Negro youth new opportunities to ing. Mrs. Paul H. Goffman was serve and to distinguish themselves. MILK elected 10 go from precinct 20. The Good thinking and well meaning]] county assembly will be held at 2 people of both races thruout the na- BUTTER o'clock May 16, at the City Audi- tion are high in their praise of the Phone Main 1183 torium, move made by Mr. Mitchell in fol- FLUFF DRY lowing up his appointments to the Flat Work Ironed Mrs. Olivia Reed, who has been Naval academy and seeing to it that TATO” very ill for some time, is reported some Negro youth was finally ad- Te Per Pound somewhat improved this week. mitted. 50c Minimum Mrs, Ollie Mae Spencer was con- “Lately, no list of Guggeheim Fel- ORIG’S for fined to her home, 42114 N. Royer ow, Regular Prices St, for a few days last week be- lows has appeared without two or cause of tonsilitis. . more black folk. This year it is Harris and Hurston. And both have on MEN’S CLOTHING and SHOES Colorado Laundry Mrs. Myrtle White, Mrs. George won by excellence rather than favor.” 107 S. Tejon —DuBois. Roberts and Mrs. Thomas Wallace D are some of the persons at whose homes some of the Y, W. C. A, con- SU eS 25OYYO OOa vention delegates were registered Linen Supply during the convention. 2 COLORADO SPRINGS a DODGE & GEISLER

a MOTOR CO. 3g Mrs. Velma Middlebrooks, former LOANS AND RENTALS 516 W. Colorado Ave. resident of the city, was given a very wu CHRYSLER and PLYMOUTH a 5 INSURANCE—Auto and Fire w Sales and Service bi] hearty welcome when she arrived as Main 517 a delegate to the Y. W. C. A. con- Bl 23 s, Nevada Phone mM. 207 Ml BA Phone Maln 1199 24 E. Kiowa :) vention. It has been eight years since Fook ok OE dLektTdBES OOOO TTLLELLLLEEXEELZZR Pfetex Pf.an Cleaners ; The Collier Lumber Co. MAIN 5050 429 South Tejon (Cash and Carry) BUILDING MATERIAL MEN’S SUITS, 24c HATS, 34c Tailoring — Hat Blocking — Dyeing — Alterations Telephone M. 386 Delivery All Over Colorado Springs (LLL aie |

Cole. Room - Putt Library Solorado College PEACE CHARITY TRUTH THE VOICE OF COLORADO “THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS” VOL, I—NO. 6 FIVE CENTS PER COPY COL ORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936. NEGRO IN K. U. LINT SHAW INNOCENT VICTIMS OF MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL FOR FOR AID FIRST TIME He Leaves a Widow and 11 Children TORTURE APPEAL

~—Lynched by Georgia Mob. LAWRENCE, Kan.— (Special)—

Ellington, Ed. Brown and Hemy Shields, the three Mississippi Cordell Meeks, student at the Uni- In Colbert, Georgia, a brown- Yank versity of Kansas, was elected to skinned woman with coal-black hair sharecroppers who were convicted of murder after being brutally tortured to membership in the Men’s Student sits rocking little Reba to sleep. Her from them, only to have their death sentences reversed by Council Tuesday, April 21. Meeks husband’s bullet-riddled body is bur- force a confession was elected as a representative from ied in a box, Will her children love the United States supreme court, have issued an appeal to the county to aid the college of Itberal arts and white folks? sciences on the tickets of the Pro- secondtrial which has just been ordered by the state of Mississippi. April 27th a mob of about 50 men them in their gressive Student Government League took Lint Shaw from the jail where Lawyers acting for the N. A. A. C. P. are defending the men. The party. . he was nursing bullet wounds in- This is the first time that it has flicted by the officers’ guns, hauled letter, signed with the mark of each of the three men, follows: even been possible for a Negro stu- dent to run for sttch an office as him up over a tree limb within 200 “We desire to express our hearty appreciation to those who have con- yards of his home, and as the body nomination by one of the political dangled in the air filled it with bul- tributed toward our defense, and we are now asking contributions to pay bal- parties is necessary before a name is placed on the ballot. The P. S$. GL. let holes. The wife and 11 children had and for further steps necessary to consummate our heard the cars and the shots—so ance on trials already party has two Negroes onits senate, many they couldn’t count them. The victory and also to secure treatmentfor Ellington. Dowdal Davis of Independence, Kan., and Maurice Abernathy of Kansas children are little Reba, 15 months. United States, Georgia Mae, three; Luther, five: “Since our case was reversed by the supreme court of the City, Kan. Willie, seven; Emma, nine; Sugar the state has refused to release us but say we must undergo anothertrial. Meeks is the son_of Mr. and Mrs. Lee, 11; Mahel, 13; Alfee, 14; Lois, M. E. Meeks, 333 State street, Kan- 17; Wilburn, 18, and Leonard, 20. “Governor Earl Brewer has won this case for us in the United States sas City, Kan. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the Lib- Lint Shaw, while in Grady hospital supreme court and he is still sticking to us and expects to defend us till we are said concerning the night of his accu- eral club, and the K. U. peace action sation: free. committee, Last fall he won second place in the campus problems speal-’ “ft was on the floor in front of the “We could not have gotten this far without the assistance of our friends ing contest. He has been a member fire when T heard someone holler. I and we can make so much better defense if we can raise funds to carry on this spring of a deputation team of told my children to keep quiet so the Y. M,C. A. we could hear. I had a headache without taxing Governor Earl Brewer with too much expense. We beg you The young man is majoring in po- and was resting. One of my children had covered me with an overcoat. earnestly to help us and we assure you that we are innocent of any knowledge litical science preparatory to taking a law course, He was graduated in 1933 “When I heard the noise, which of the charge against us.” from Sumner high school in Kansas soundedat tho the voice of a scream~ witnessed by Attorney Will S. Wells and Earl City, Kan. where he was president ing person, my oldest daughter was The signatures were of the senior class and well-known stepping across my legs to get closer Brewer and Jailor R. L. Stone.” for his speaking ability. to the fire. I got-up and went to the John McLendon of Kansas. City, door, The screaming was a good Kan,, is in the student council at the half-mile down the “road from our 73 LYNCHED; Leader Edward T. Taylor. There present time, having been appointed house. are 39 signatures on the petition, 14 recently to fill a vacancy. Meeks will “J borrowed my son’s jumper after PRESIDENT IS more than the required number and be in office for an entire year. he came home. I went out on the as soon as it is presented a catichs STILL SILENT porch, Soon some cars drove up and must be held within seven days. T went with the folks to see if I could Congressman Joseph Gavagan of Methodists Segregate; be of any help. Roosevelt Urged to Act Against In- New York author of one of the anti- “At the jail the girl said T was. the Increasing Mob Violence. lynching bills in the House, is ex- Merger Is Approved

man who had choked her,” pected to return to Washington from

California about May 4 and is ex- COLUMBUS, Ohio—Over the pro- Since the N. A. A. C. P. re- pected to take a prominent part in lease was issued citing 72 lynch- tests of the Negro delegates, the THIS SUNDAY’S LESSON ings since President Roosevelit’s the Caucus on the bill. Methodist Episcopal church in gen- inauguration, the seventy-third Supporters of this legislation still eral conference here Monday, May 4, lynching occurred in Pavo, Ga., are being urged to send letters to voted ta merge with the Methodist LUKE 19 Sunday night, May 3. John Rus- the Democratic Congressman from Episcopal church, South, and the 8th Verse: Behold, Lord, the half kin, 55, was lynched following his their states and districts urging them Methodist Protestant church, of my goods I give to the poor: and! confession to killing Marion to be present at the Democratic cau- Negro delegates protested to the cus and vote to bring the bilout on merger on the grounds that a spe- if I have taken anything from any Pate, 24, white. man by false accusation, I restore the floor and to support it after it cial division was created for the him fourfold. (From Kansas City Call.) reaches the floor. Negro members of the church, a form of segregation. 10th Verse: For the Son of man NEW YORK-—President Roose- velt was reminded this week that the According to the plan of merger, is come to seek and to save that UNIVERSITY OF six jurisdictional conferences will be which was lost. lynching of Lint Shaw in Colbert, Ga., on April 28 and of Willie Kees organized, five of them geographi- _ 26th Verse: For I say unto you, TENNESSEE SUED cally and the sixth for Negro con- That unto everyone that hath shall in Lepanto, Ark., April 29, were the seventy-first and seventy-second gregations. Jurisdictions will be be given; and from him that hath not, Northeastern, Southeastern, Central, even that he hath shall be taken away since he has been in the White William B. Redmond Wants to House. which would include Negro annual from him, Learn Pharmacy. conferences and missions; North The telegram citing the lynching 34th Verse: And they said the Central, South Central, which would Lord hath need_of him. record was sent by the National As- The N. A. A. C. P. Counsel is di- include Missouri, and Western. 40th Verse: If these should hold sociation for the Advancement of Before the merger which will unite urged the recting a suit against the University their peace, the stones would im- Colored People and it of Tennessee to force the admittance eight million Methodists goes into mediately cry out. president to see that the Costigan- of William B. Redmond to the school permanent effect, the plan must be

Wagner bill is brought to the floo’r of pharmacy or give a reason why by the Methodist Episcopal of congress for action. : approved ETHIOPIA NOT not. Mr. Redmond is of Nashville church, South, which meets in 1938 The association’s telegram, signed and the University of Tennessee is a and the Protestant church, which’ DEFEATED by Roy Wilkins, assistant secretary, state school. meets this year. The plan also must declared once more that the recent Similar eases are being fought in be approved by the annual econfer- Iynchings demonstrate the unwilling- ences of all three churches. Ethiopia at the ascension of Em- ness or inability of the states tol curb the states of Maryland, Missouri and Virginia. This is part of the N. A. A. There are 500,000 Negro members peror Hailie Salassie was divided lynching, of the M. E. church, most of whom two factions, Hailie had new- C. P, drive to secure equal accommo- into The N. A.C. C. BP. holds that the dations for Negro students in all in- object to the segregated plan, fangled modernization ideas of filibustering tactics on a federal anti- the old chicftains disapproved. stitutions of learning. The nation- which lynching bili are unquestionably en- wide campaign is the result of a Without the Emperor’s Highway the couraging mob sentiment in the Italians would have found it mucht pragram started hy Attorney Mar- south. gold, after 2 study of its possibilities harder to get to Addis Ababa. The’ Wave of Mob Violence. was a curse to the for several years. Attorney Flous- improvement At the N, A. A. C. P.office here the ton, who succeeded Margold is rap- This paper MUST go into Ethiopians. every Negro Home in Colorado Selassie has left Ethiopia, fear was expressed that the two idly pushing the project to a show- Tailie lynchings of last week are but the Springs. TY you do not receive many have long-urged him to do, down. The ultimate aim of the pro- as beginning of a wave of mob violence gram calls for an attack on the Jim- your copy, LET US KNOW.It He will be able to do more good for which will continue throughout the Crow car jaws and disfranchise- is YOUR. PRIVILEGE to re- his country by soliciting from friend- ceive a copy each week, than by trying to direct summer unless congress takes some ment, ly nations anti-lynching AGENTS WANTED in Den- the Ethiopians to love the white action on the federal iH. ver, Pueblo, Walsenburg, La people, oe The great American housing move- Junta, Boulder, Greeley, etc. chieftians, who hate all In the House of Representatives Those the petition calling for a Democratic snent for the poor has had unparalled: Tandy Stroud, 743 N, Spruce, whites, are in the ascendancy. Addis caucus (a the anti-lynching bill has sttccess in everything but housing for Colorado Springs, Colo. but Ethiopia is Ababa is conquered the poor.—DuBois, RRR been snagged by tha illness of Caucus not defeated.

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operative enterprise—the constructive try. When America placed an em- THE VOICE OF COLORADO bargo against Russia, she forced

principles of Christ. But why has the Russia to find new fields to buy and CHURCH NEWS The policy of this paper is to bring Caucasian, claiming Christianity, stolen between sell. about 2 better understanding this The World War freed many a races thru an impartial presentation of America and Africa? Why does Truth. Christian people perpetrate such hor- peasant in the Danube Valley and in Turkey; so they raised their own TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH “Tandy Stroud rors as present day slavery and lynch- crops, sold their goods to home peo- Corner of Nevada at Fountain, Advertising Manage! Jesse Tarrant ings? ple, or to the Europeans; so that cut Reverend Allen, Pastor. OTERO God blessed the Caucasian nations off millions of dollars of trade that With Leave Articles to Be Published to receive first the teachings of Clnist. America had previous to the war. ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH 122 Pueblo Ave. Amer- Miss Marie Bryan One can easily see how close they have ‘The tariff will never protect Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Mrs. Paul Goffman. jea as it used to protect her, We are ‘fandy Stroud. adhered to His doctrine as set down in j. Raymond Short, Pastor. Jesse’ Tarrant. forced to economize with the world. the Sermon on the Mount. The darker (To Be Continued Next Week) PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Subscription, per year races are now receiving the doctrine of CHURCH Six Months.. Christ from ‘‘Christians’” who often _(In the next chapter the writer will Three Months discuss private enterprises and in- Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. belie His teachings. Will the darker Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, ternal improvements.) This is NOT a church paper. races as a group do any better? Are

This is NOT a political paper. they now doing any better? No, the CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST Negro paper. Negro Colleges Receive Grants. This IS a good, clean, Corner Spruce and Willamette. age of races is past. No longeris there The General Education board for FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936. anywhere a pure race, and no longer the education of Negroes appropri- Elder C. BE. Morgan, Pastor. is there a privileged nation before God. ated $983,065.27 in the fiscal year end- will.” We are ing June 30, 1935. EAST SIDE CHURCH OF THE MAN WITHOUT "But it’s-—“‘Whosoever Eleven schools granted $80,850 for GOD IN CHRIST A COUNTRY ‘individually accountable before God. equipment with which to teach me- 623 East Monument. chanical industries. Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. Oh, Black boy, where now is your A grant of $2,250 was made for re- country ? pairs at the Louisiana State Normal North or South, and Industrial school. EPIPHANY MISSION, To the East or West, THE EPISCOPAL where is thy native land— $127,890 provided for salaries and Where, expenses of state agents Dale and Royer Streets patriotic over, traveling A place to become BLIND MAN’S and assistants in the field of Negro A land of your own, a country be- CORNER education, PEOPLES M, E. CHURCH longing to thee? _This column presents the personal $8,694 went to Spelman and $33,750 Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets. views of its author and not neces- to Morehouse. Reverend W. L. Lee, Pastor. Fisk received $275,000. In Africa, no! in America, oh, no! sarily the opinion of the paper. TN seueee? was appropriated $52,- In England or France or Spain? NMEALEUNGTSR Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers, Le Moyne college, Memphis got No, no—but where, then—in Asia, THE WAY IN AND OUT OF THE distant isle of the sea? $75,000. SPORTING GOODS Or some DEPRESSION $27,800 went for libraries in four no place for thee. Oh, no, my child, By Rev. Stroud, Economist. schools, “Everything for Sportsmen” (Continued from Last Week) $14,100 went for industrial educa- But yonder out over this finite domain This government should get back tion in South Carolina. TEPEE SPORT SHOP Ts a wondrous country so free, on the old gold standard and stay Meharry received $130,000. 117 N. Tejon Phone M. 930 there, unless the world agrees on a so peace- seAHUNEEAEFEGUEESRNAEECNTEN?, So beauteous and clean; i sixty-four to one, Since FREAK TREE i loving and pure— standard of we have about half as much gold in ORLANDO, Fla—E. J. Ard of child, to claim. A country for you, the world as we had fifty years ago has realized his dream—a in- Orlando has and the volume of business tree which will bear more than one CADY L. DANTELS it should be raised to a ABOUT LYNCHINGS creased, kind of citrus fruit. (Incorporated) standard of at least sixty-four to one The tree has hanging from its in One by the whole trading world. I read—-Three Lynchings limbs four kinds of grapefruits, five d05 N, WEBER world to do business, it A 45-year-old man was taken For the kinds of limes, limequats, lerions, week. one, or a coordinated, killed by 40 men in must have comquats, tangerines and the Panda- PHONE M. 1750 from a jail and standard, For instance, if Jane has a Tuesday. Attempted assault are only worth rosa lemon. Georgia, hen for sale and hens budded or grafted into the the market and Ard has was the accusation. thirty-two cents on of the tree the various citrus fifty cents; if Nancy limbs ORT PED BSE SD EC OY) et a 0Ae Lepanto, Arkansas, was the scene she owes Nancy fruits. a will allow her fifty cents for the hen, See HITT’S Ten masked cI of another mob-murder. eighteen cents on the Jane saves Baptist Church, a men shot a 19-year-old youth to death deal. The First African BE NEW SHOE STORE Va. was established in wi Willie Kees. So it is with England and America Richmond, SHOES FOR ALL THE fast Wednesday, 1780. a Sunday 200 men killed a 55- today. That is why the world has FAMILY Wl

Then Eek to do business on a fixed ratio. The r

Rushin shot to death, averages 1,300,000 major ES 106 Hast Pikes Peak year-old. John depression will last until they do so. America Pavo, Georgia, and medium, crimes a year, a a 8aaS dragged into Concerning the circulating bled in a school yard. He killed or the trade dollar. There are two dumped a white man in a fight. dilferent general classes of money and Ameri- the legal tender or the stabilized Courtesy of PUEBLO AVENUE I read that the British consisting of silver and gold fighting bullion, MARKET BARBER SHOP cans in Addis Ababa were bars, which constitute the legal ten- MATHEW’S (not saving) the natives, and that der at a given ratio at which the GROCERIES and MEATS 222 Pueblo Avenue doa Haile Selassie was fleeing. “The white world must agree to in order to Phone Main 5769 humming business. 20 Hast Colorado Avenue the thief of the ages.” L. C. CALDWELL,Prop. man, The circulating medium is the coin uses or paper money that each nation

When the Great Historian out in at home for convenience. Our circu- SARGEANT hn ohn ste ste ss sede ae enn eternity sums up lating mediums are the paper dollar GEGby ats, eneeeePryreeiy and of man of different denominations, gold R. D. BRIGGS The record of the doings and the value a of some silver denominations, = MONDAY LOCKSMITH He'll record for this period is fixed by congress. Checks, drafts, W wi centuries few— bank notes, negotiable paper or RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, ETc, at & 2.95 Hats-87 # The Age of the Hypocrite-man. bonds are mediums of exchange # 87-$1.95 1264 North Nevada home or abroad. and Fabrics 3 Phone Main 1142-W Our Constitution says that con- Straws Suppose we trace the cause of this gress shall have the power to coin SURESET Caucasian blight that has spread to money and to regulate the value $1.00 i SSC Pat haa ed RE BS EN TE id the most remote corners of the world. thereof. The value of our circulating medium needs to be raised in value rm i _ From the book of the Acts of the right now; then we could practice Reuler’s 3 MONARCH Apostles: reciprocity with all other nations and “Now when they had gone through- the tariff could be eliminated, The a 105 &. Tejon St. u LAUNDRY the out Phrygia and the region of Galatia main reason we have to retain is that the power of shestrcte-ateate-steatesteatestreet AND forbidden of the Holy Ghost protective tariff and were all other nations’ home dollar is to preach the word in Asia. . .” greater than ours. doliiejuloleiulolelaiieieinnieieaieieniong,Sutetetututalatotututetatotututettetetaietet DRY CLEANING ‘We all know the story of the con- Forinstance, in Japan, her coin has ag a version of Europe and the consequent at least five or six times the power serfs MAIN 356 as ours, so its laborers can work for The Prompt Pharmacy building of this pres- aeletol renaissance—the cents per day, while we 3 thirty-five aie day civilization on the Christian not be- eee COLORADO SPRINGS’ ent must have two dollars, It’s %& & foundation of faith and co-operative cause the Japanese can live so much ¥ SURGICAL Cw enterprise. Some would say that the cheaper, but because his money has = APPLIANCE STORE + yy it. He can present day civilization is anything but more power when he gets % put a barrel of goods to the ports * SHOULDER BRACES I will agree. But the present we Christian. of California much cheaper than % TRUSSES BELTS * REMEMBER— BEREAN day debauchery and rotteness did not can even here at home. We have to = ARCH BRACES # his goods else All Shirts are starched build this nation nor thecivilization we put a tariff against to & he will close our industries down. % All Appliance Work Subject now enjoy. Approval % to your order and hand longer depend on % Your Physician’s RBS collec America can no

All we have accomplished the tariff as the other nations have PHONE MAIN 1770 x finished. = HH tively to make possible the modern learned to retaliate and carry an in- DS 0ddDD and co- dustrial prejudice against this coun- SenoOOMARRARER, TARDE civilization required faith

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Between 1925 and 1930, anti-lynch- ent poorlittle weaker sex in a game of thorized pay at the rate of $3 a day, but Captain Murray is said to have ing bills were introduced in the legis- AROUND TOWN WITH baseball? Well, well, well. Did I hear some Dunbarite say that coach paid the men only $2 a day. latures of the following States: Geor- THE YOUNG FOLKS wasn’t fair. That isn’t even nice Mr. Captain Murray is said to have of- gia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Da- story fered the further excuse that she did kota, South Carolina and Texas. NL Dunbar. Did you ever hear the of the fox and the grapes? That is a this in her individual capacity and very good fable for you to read if not as an official of the Salvation Four whites and 61 Negroes were (By NINA STROUD) you, haven't. Aesop surely knew his Army. However, all the correspond- lynched in the United States in 1912. ence in the matter was written on the stuff,

official Salvation Army stationary Well, here I am again, that is, back at South Junior and was signed by Mrs. Murray as @ 0 again, after a week’s vacation. What is happening u lately. Come on S. J. H. S. Send in captain. I spent my vacation very enjoyably some news. We'd like to know what The N. A. A. C. P. letter requests aETI MET translating “Le Voyage de Monsieur Commissioner Damon to investigate Mon- is going on. Perrichon,” studying about the seeing you the action of Captain Murray and to ASEye Nate bseee8sJ assure Well, readers I'll be roe Doctrine and what not. I news to take corrective action, The N. A. A. | {3-15-E-KIOWA- PHONES“1221 - 1222 and IT next week (if I have any you my vacation was pleasant on another Cc. P. has asked the Salvation Army could print and if I don’t go “The Finest in Colorado only wish some of you readers to state whether it has adopted a pol- have been there with me. vacation.) Springs” icy of discrimination on account of By the way, I know all of you color in its work. something you would readers have SALVATION ARMY your busi- like to see in print about REFUSES TO HIRE J, A. FINNEY R. P, FINNEY ness or somebody’s else; so if you ETHIOPIA’S TRUE STORY FINNEY BROS. have, please give me a ring and tell NEGRO UNEMPLOYED me all about it, and I’ll try to put ft Just before he left the United Fuel and Transfer Co. neat My phone numberis in this column. that States Saturday for a conference with Goal —- Wood — Sand — Gravel Main 3701. NEW YORK CITY—Charges Emperor Haile Selassie, Mr. Shaw of the Salvation Army em- 11 W. Cucharras MAIN 221 an official announced that his official story of to. ac- Colorado Springs, Colorado Well, the 1936 annuals are out. ployment bureau here refused Ethiopia and her war with Italy, in sent to it by Signing is taking up most of the time cept some Negro men book form. is ready for sale. at high school at the present. Noth- the New York State employment up for the purpose of distribut- Those who desire copies for sale, ing more than usual has happened service may obtain them by writing to the to write ing circulars were laid before Com~- PHONE THE there so there isn’t much Ethiopian Consulate, 78 Water St, seniors gradu- missioner Alexander Damon by the about, The colored New York City, N. ¥. REGAL DRUG CO. this year are Ellis Butler, N. A, A.C. P. ating Elizabeth Holly, Tt has been reported to the N. A. James Duncan, FREE DELIVERY SERVICE Samuel Hunter, Agata Lomo, Daniel A. C. BP. that Captain Mabel C. DELEGATE Nichols, Nina Stroud, of the Salvation Army re- Phone M. 40, 481 and 482 Martin, Elgin Murray New York state em- Wylie Allen, Charles McCottry. quested the Robert L. Vann, Pitsburgh editor get the annital be bureau in Brooklyn to Any of you who ployment of the Courier and former assistant our distribute circulars. to notice how prominent send 100 men to sure United States attorney general, is race students are getting at the high Fifty or 60 men were sent by the bu- the leaves— divided between. the first Negro in the history of Established 1890 Ph. M. 572 school. Just in turning reat, about evenly Pennsylvania to be elected delegate- students, a Ter- we find several honor white and Negroes. at-large from the Quaker State to the ror Tribe member, three national Twelue or 14 of the Negroes were M. K. MYERS one social employment national Democratic convention. He honor society members, sent back to the state was one of 16 delegates-at-large. JEWELER science club member, one_radio club office where they stated that they member, eight or nine Hi-Y mem- were refused employment by the Sal- | 258. Tejon Colo. Spgs., Colo, bers, one glee club member, one vation Army. Captain Murray is said SUBSCRIBE TO and just gangs excuse that she THE VOICE OF COLORADO senior play participant to have given as an nearing the end the of sportsmen. And could not use Negroes “because raeannenterepoatranensrurenneecnrsstessentesnateesate sce the insert’on Humor, by a were not being distributed we circulars a missing colored boy. The only thing in Negro neighborhoods.” EARSON RESCRIPTION DeSOTO—PLYMOUTHT face on the fad is there is no dark Pay Is Reduced. HARMACY HARMACIST is too bad. It should be ulty. That complaint is made by remedied shortly. The further SERVICE AS YOU LIKE IT Nelson-Eubank Motor Co. the N. A. A.C. P. that the firm for DELIVERY SERVICE 119 North Nevada which the distribution was made au- The Girl Reserves entertained their anne Corner Tejon and Platte MAIN 493 at a mothers’ day supper MAIN Sit mothers RE May 7. Tomato salad last Thursday, General Repairs was served with cream cheese sand- Jello with whipped cream Carpentering UMLLENITUTTT CUTENESS wiches. FREE DELIVERY was the dessert. Speeches were given sashaenaAFANON inter- Painting and Papering GOLDEN CYCLE by the mothers and the girls, PHARMACY 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. spersed by a piano solo and a read- Call EB. E. WILKS ing. The girls are hoping that since 78. Tejon St. Main 2787 Aley Drug Co. the National Convention has con- Main 2332 COURTEOUS ATTENTION will take more Phone 250 vened here the parents A CORRECT in the activities of the Girl SERVICE interest a PRESCRIPTION Reserves. sm0CWSMATTTAL RTT Fruits and dst Groceries, Fresh The Girl Scouts are planning a trip Vegetables THE . to Denver, Sunday, May 17. They Good Meats Cheap HANSON’S SERVICE Seldomridge Grain Co. will leave here after Sunday School; of the OIL — TIRES Flour, Feeds, Grain, Hay and stay in Denver all the rest CUT RATE MARKET GASOLINE — and Seeds Scouts are also work- day. The Girl 23 E. Colo. Ave. Ph, M. 4250 GREASING ing very hard on the dance to be giv- Phone M., 12 21 S. Cascade

en May 21 at the Antlers Hotel for 402 West Bijou Phone 4346 Colorado Springs, Colo, Mrs. Hoover's banquet. This honor Springs, Colo. Colorado was conferred on these girls because did of the excellent dance work they Courtesy of at the city auditorium last year. MeMNIRELNE StS MTELTTI

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IS FRIENDLY TO Regional Conference Resolutions De- Colorado people must exert them- cach and every city administration selves anew to put an end to the that permits its police to harass mand Right to Vote—Urges Vets THE NEGRO RACE vicious police practice of indiscrimi- Negroes in this manner is promptly to Save Bonus Money. of Negroes retired, rounding up a lot nately themis suspected of Because the practice of rounding Republican Presidential everytime one of MOBILE, Ala, May 7.—The first Possible a crime, ‘up a whole lot of innocent Negroes for questioning and browbeating is regional conference of branches of Nominee Is Fair To All. other day an In Pittsburgh the an old practice, is no reason why it the N. A. A. C. P. closed here Sun- eight-year-old white child was killed day night with the adoption of reso- who kept should be tolerated. On the con- EX-SLAVE FOR LANDON by a colored automobilist trary there is the more reason for lutions demanding the right to vote on without stopping to learn the fate among other objectives sought. DETROIT.—Robert J. Willis, putting an end to it. of his victim. We have reached the place where Resolutions were also adopted ad- 79-year-old delegate to the Na- Immediately the police began ar- vocating thrift and urging Negro tional Republican convention in almost all parts of the country resting scores of colored people, in- Negroes can be arrested in their own veterans not to squander their bonus from the thirteenth congres- cluding the wife and mother of the money; urging the development of sional district of Michigan, be- homes without warrant and dragged Negro business, but insisting that accused man, although admittedly off to jail to be beaten and pummeled lieves that Governor Landon of only one person was guilty, Negro business maintain the same Kansas is “the strongest man by the police. There is no effort here to condone service as other businesses and give we could put up.” Willis has Negroes must put a stop to this its employes security and decent been a delegate to two other a serious offense of this kind, Hit- sort of thing wherever it is being wages; urging the church to practice Republican conventions, one in and-run drivers should be made to practiced, and it is being practiced the doctrine of brotherhood; and 1876 when he voted for General pay the full penalty for their careles- everywhere. No Negro is safe to commenting on the Negro press. Grant and again in 1884 when ness. But far worse than hit-and- walk the streets or secure in his home Other resolutions declared for equal he voted for James G. Blaine. run driving is the herding of inno- so long as this condition obtains. jury service, equal educational op-

cent people into police stations and Both years, he was a delegate portunity, the freedom of the Scotts- from Texas. Willis is an ex- jails on the off chance that they Note: This condition also exists boro boys, the passage of the Costi- MAY possess information leading to slave who escaped with his fa- in Colorado Springs. We are hoping gan-Wagner anti-lynching bill, farm ther from Kentucky by the Un- the arrest of the accused. for the united efforts of the local ownership and a fair deal for shares derground Railroad. Colored voters, regardless of po- population to end this condition in croppers and tenants, and the wiping litical affiliation, must see to it that] Colorado Springs. out of jim-crow in unions with effec- TOPEKA, Kans.—From the time tive organization of white and black when Alf M, Landon, governor of workers together. Kansas, loomed up as a_possible Bibb J. Johnson, president of the PRESS FOR DATE TO BE SET ON nominee for president, national at- 'Mobile branch was elected chairman; tention centered in Topeka. Busi- other officers were: J. E. Perkins, ness men, publishers and_ political ANTI-LYNCHING BILL CAUCUS secretary; Miss Johnnie M. Blount, slate makers began a march on_the assistant steretary; C. H. Myers, vice Kansas capitol, Massachusetts, Cali- \chairman, E. Luther Brooks, treas- fornia and all points between seek- E, E. TAYLOR, Caucus Leader Schulte of Indiana has pledged_his jurers J. B. LaFourche, director of ing an answer to the question “Who (Sick.} support in writing as well as “Con- publicity. is Landon?” Since that hegira, gressman Monaghan of Montana and The conference mass meeting was t newspapers. and...magazines... have. Hubert -Utterback of lowa. Also addressed by Charles H, Houston of “made the whole country well in- WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15. Goneressman Stephen M. Young of the New York office, but Saturday formed about this man who up to Spurred on by the wave of lynchings item was given over to a discussion of four years ago had never held pub- in the last two weeks, increasing sen- _ Pressure for the anti-lynching leg- problems faced by Negroes in the lic_ office, . timent for a federal anti-lynching law istation also has been stimulated by southern states. A report on WPA Landon has been the subject of is pressing House leaders for date the decisive defeat of Senator Will- discrimination in Baton Rouge kindly comment not only by indivi- to be set for the Democratic caucus iam E. Borah in the Illinois and Ohio brought out something new under the duals who are leaders in their states, on..this legislation. . primaries, especially since Senator sun, The WPA was forced to set up but in the New York Times, thé Chi- Numergus congressmen have ex- Borah in lengthy statements to the a day nursery in Baton Rouge, but cago Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dis- pressed themselves emphatically on press has admitted that his opposition for spite, it located the nursery seven patch and the other great papers of the legislation and have declared to the anti-lynching bill lost him the miles from town and one mile from the country. Magazines have given their intention to support the bill in colored votes in those two states. the highway. After persistent pro- him space beyond anyone except caucus to the limit. Congressman Official Washington is somewhat sur- test of the Baton Rouge branch to Roosevelt, Edward J. Hart of New Jersey has prised at the solid opposition of Washington and to the state admin- There is a reason, Landon is well- written the N. A. A. C. P, in New Negro voters to opponents of the istrator, the nursery was moved to a informed without being a know-it-all. York: “You may count upon me to anti-lynching bill and for this reason more convenient location. Lynching discrimi- He is positive without being dicta- be present at the caucus whenever there is increased activity to get was discussed as well as torial, He knows the value of a dol- it will take place.” nation against Negro shop workers. something done at this session. bal- lar and spends public money with Congressman Louis Ludlow of In-} Action on the petition for a cau- Jury service and the use of the occupying the same good sense he handles his diana writes: “I realize the justice} cus has been delayed somewhat by lot also were other topics as lynching. own. He is well-balanced, likeable, and necessity of this legislation and the illness of Caucus Leader Edward the afternoon as well a permanent genuine, friendly, sympathetic and will do all I can to help to bring T. Taylor who is confined to his bed. It was decided to form understanding. He is, the personifi- about its passage.” regional conference and a committee The petition contains 41 signatures, means of cation of the solidity and strength of Congressman John H. Tolan of 16 more than are required, was appointed to provide The next reg- the wheat empire which is Kansas. California says: “I will also be glad House leaders are still trying to financing the same. in October Free of Race Animosity. to attend the caucus you mention.” use every method to stave off action ional meeting will be held Before trying to answer the ques- Congressman Edward A. Kenney in the caucus, but the new wave of in New Orleans. tion “Who is Landouw from the of New Jersey and Herman Kopple- lynchings in the last two weeks has Negro’s point of view?” hear about mann of Connecticut as well as made their task a hard one. Kansas: It has few Negroes, 66,344 William Citron of Connecticut are Some Democrats~among them THIS SUNDAY’S LESSON in a total population of 1,880,999, a behind the bill to the limit. Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell— negligible vote if they were beset Congressman Lamneck of Ohio are trying to split the fight and hold by racial animosities. It is quite the writes: “I will assist in any possible off the caucus by signing a petition Luke 20th Chapter. elected contrary. Years ago Kansas way to bring before the Congress the to discharge the judiciary committee. of John, was it his- bill in which you are greatly inter- 4_The baptism a Negro state auditor, Today This method requires the getting of from heaven, or of men? repeating itself—John Wright ested.” Congressman Merritt of tory is 218 signatures and may take two that they of Topeka, long in the office of New York says, “You can be assured! 7--And they answered years, The supporters of the Frazier- not tell whence it was. county treasurer of Shawnee county, of my earnest cooperation in order Lemke bill started such a petition in could is being talked of for state auditor to carry out the purposes of the 14—This is the heir: come, let us 1934 and just last week secured may be this year. caucus,” enough signatures. kill him, that the inheritance Kansas is the state in which Nick Congressmen Thomas C. Hennings, The congressmen supporting this our’s, race is positive in Chiles, Negro editor, made the Jr., of St. Louis, Mo., method know that it will postpone 17—What is this then that is writ- for the Republican nomination as U. his statement to Representative any action on anti-lynching legisla-~ ten? S, senator. Though Sen, Charles Thomas F. Ford: “You are not only The stone which the builders re- re- tion indefinitely. Curtis was his opponent Chiles free to use my name in whatever jected, the same has, become the head than way you wish to assist in securing After the caucus the House will ceived thousands of votes more have little excuse for not acting as of the corner. him, In the passage of legislation that will Negroes could have cast for Speaker Byrns has been quoted as 18—Whosoever shall fall upon that lawyers have tend’to rid our country of the lynch- two counties Negro saying the House has so little to do be broken; but on whom- county attorney in ing menace, but also may be assured stone shall been elected that it can recess frequently until it shall fall, it will grind him Its state university had a of my assistance with whatever pro- soever Kansas, time to adjourn in June. into powder, Negro assistant instructor. Its gram the caucus adopts.” Congress- man Hildebrandt of South Dakota The N. A. A. C. P. has written 25—-Render therefore unto Cacsar teacher colleges send Negro_athletes again to all Democratic congressmen Here and has been most out-spoken in his sup- the things which be Caesar’s and unto to important track meets. urging them to be present at the on the port of the caucus and the anti-lynch- God the things which be God’s. there Negroes have heen caucus and to secure there a declara- Kansas hanks. ing bill, Congressman Matthew 38—He is not a God of the dead board of directors of tion of party policy on federal anti- no residential segre- Dunn of Pennsylvania writes: “Hop- but of the living. Kansas has lynching legislation, 46-47—Beware of the scribes *** gation, It has an, anti-mob law but ing that we will be successful at this which devour widows’ houses and for with no race significance. When session of Congress in passing the The world cannot be learned by a show make long prayers: the same overnor Landon enforced it recently, much needed humanelegislation, J am, etc.” Congressman William learning all its details. shall receive greater damnation. (Continued on Page Three)

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THE VOICE OF COLORADO | ALF LANDON

THE -I8 FRIENDLY The policy of this paper is to bring CHURCH NEWS about a better understanding between TO NEGROES races thru an impartial presentation of B. ND MAN’S ‘Truth. CORNER (Continued from Page One) TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH Eedito “Tandy Stroud This column presents the personal it was in a labor dispute in the zinc Corner of Nevada at Fountain. Adver ig Manager. Jesse Tarrant views of its author and not neces- mines. Negroes attend all state Reverend Allen, Pastor. Sn sarily the opinion of the paper, schools, sit on juries everywhere Leave Articles to Be Published With freely, are some of the state’s most

Miss Marie Bryant. rerun ut ntrn Hb MAT RAE RCERT successful and highly respected ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Mrs. Paul Goffman. farmers. In fact so little emphasis Pueblo Ave, and Cimarron St. Tandy Stroud. THE WAY IN AND OUT OF THE J. Raymond Short, Pastor. Jesse Tarrant DEPRESSION is placed on color and race in Kan- nt sas that no public man can have in- ne $1.50 By Rev. Stroud, Economist, cidents in his career such as happen Subscription, per year PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Six Months... . 1.00 where citizens’ rights vary according CHURCH Three Months .. 50 The writer now shall make a gen- to race color. Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. Tt eral summary enumerating the ways Alf M. Landon broke into politics _ Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, This is NOT a church paper. out of the depression. First: Put thru as state chairman of the Republican This is NOT a political paper. the St. Lawrence project. Raise the party. In 1932 he was the G. O. PL This IS a good, clean, Negro paper. exponent power of the circulating nominee for governor, the only Re- CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST medium by which the nation can publican elected to a governorship Corner Spruce and Willamette, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936. practice reciprocity with the world, west of New York. Again in 1934 Elder C. E, Morgan, Pastor. thus doing away with the protective. he won in spite of the “Stand by the President” appeal of the Demo- PUBLIC OPINION Uniform shipping rates, raising the EAST SIDE CHURCH OF purchasing powerof the trade dollar crats. GOD IN CHRIST “We were grinding up the grain and three-fold. No Debt in Kansas, 623 East Monument. It is conditions which have brought using it for cereal. We were practi- Stimulate trade with all nations by Governor Landon to the fore. With Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. cally starving. I got a chance to trade sending envoys all over the world. the federal government spending off all I had for this cld truck and a Stabilize the legal tender at a fixed BILLIONS,—not millions—on relief, EPIPHANY MISSION, ratio with Europe. and the stupendous problem of unem- full of gasoline. I loaded up the EPISCOPAL tank Compel the shipping companies to ployment aggravated in Kansas hy Dale and Royer Streets family and lit out. Five years of grant a uniform shipping rate to the 1934 drought, the governorship farming in drouth and depression left East and West. Consolidate the rail- called for every bit of executive abil- PEOPLES M. E. CHURCH Nebraska bad. roads, coordinating the railroads and ity he possessed. Being a Repub- lican he had not the usual smooth co- Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets. pay more on relief here in steamships. “They Modify the Income tax law so that: operation from federal agencies given Reverend W, L, Lee, Pastor. Colorado, and the people here are American business men can do busi- other governors. Yet with it all he At Christmas we brought his state through without more charitable. ness at home. Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers, didn’t have anything. I had 37 cents Modify the Liquor law, as it is, it going into debt, the accomplishment which first brought him to national (I believe) and we bought some candy will ruin the lives of too many youths, attentién. He gave public respon- SPORTING GOODS with that. The Santa Claus club Provide work for as many persons sibility the same honest effort and “Everything for Sportsmen” brought some toys for the children. I as possible, but let it be by private common sense backed by experience over it. A person sure enterprise. The country is not bid- which he was accustomed fo use in sure felt good his own affairs. TEPEE SPORT SHOP he’s down and ding for peasants. appreciates it when Stimulate initiative energy thruout Today industry is looking for a 7 N. Tejon Phone M. 930 out .’-—-From a WPA conver- the country. Let the youth of the man who can relieve the nation of sation. land run the machinery at a good the poor management which halts wage. Let the old and dull men doi recovery, and piles up taxes which

the nook and corner work, and also prevent business from giving work “We went hungry in that house; supplement the women and children, to the unemployed . Landon met this CADY L. DANIELS my oldest child had ricketts. They put retiring them from toil. problem in Kansas, a real test of her in the Nutrition Camp and it Open the banks to the people executive ability. (Incorporated) Alf M. Landon will treat Negroes us nothing. I went to the money is worthelss tied up. If the didn’t cost people haven’t enough integrity to fairly. His record proves it. In spite 105 N, WEBER Salvation Army and got a quart of handle the nation’s money, we might of the relative unimportance of their PHONE M,1750 that skimmed milk they put out. The as well sine die. block of votes, during his adminis- tration, they have held important and woman asked me how many children remunerative positions in the attor-

J had, where did I live, where was I CHAPTER IV ney-general’s office, the highway de- SST EYPD, bs Beginning about five miles of every from and all that sort of thing, then partment, the grain inspection de- V4 See HITT’S stomped her foot and said I ought to city there should be small farms pro- partment, the hotel inspection de- gH vided cottages built out houses. The partment, the state school system, es NEW SHOE STORE go back where I came from. My size of the farms should contain from the state penal institutions, the w babies, home crying for food—-I felt two and a half to five acres for un- state fire marshal’s department, the @ SHOES FOR ALL THE like throwing the bottle of milk in her skilled and old men to raise vege- governor's mansion and etc. This Hf FAMILY tables, etc. Sell it to them reason- last is very significant. Public ap- a 106 East Pikes Peak face. I took it though. I’ve thrown able. Some people enjoy such pointments reflect political commit- 5 SN BB aa aS many a dollar into the Salvation Army homes. And let them do or displace ments, but mansion help is of the YSRGRMRO collections and- I have helped them the women and children at hard labor governor’s choosing. Landon’s per- buy new drums, etc. It makes a fel- *** and practically all the med sonal attitude is shown at the man- Yes, a young man PUEBLO AVENUE low feel awful bad. would be employed. sion. able to operate the machinery should Alf M. Landon meets every man on BARBER SHOP T lost all I had on a farm in Kan- have very high wages for encourage- the level. You can trust him. sas and I'm not going back there.”—- ment, since he displaces 20 men with Kansas Negroes arc working 222 Pueblo Avenue his machine, he should have half as shoulder to shoulder with other Kan- Phone Main 5769 From ancther conversation. much as they would have received for sans in bringing their governor to L. C, CALDWELL,Prop. the same labor—and no one should the attention of the country. P. G. . Why should men be forced to stay begrudge him. Retiring women and Porter, principal of an Atchison, na- home and starve when they could bet- children from manuel labor, the Kansas public school, is the secre- ETASAMEEgS tion would please the Lord. tary of the Landon activity among NT ter their condition by moving to an- the Since the Lord has revealed Negroes. Associated with him is R. D. BRIGGS TRTL other state? There has been a lot of knowledge to man to invent machin- McKinley Thomas, a’ Leavenworth, LOCKSMITH EE to make the World a better place RIL official propaganda circulated against ery Kansas physician. The Philadelphia S advantage RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, ETC. the influx of the pocr from other to live, why not take the block in Leavenworth, Kansas is the of it? seat of their activities where they 1262 North Nevada

states. Are not they citizens of the PENILE) The loss or lack of initiative energy have stenographers at work answer- Phone Main 1142-wW United States as much as we? There * # % is another cause of the depres- ing inquiries received from alt parts STAMCUTECT sIEILNISRUL, is plenty of room in Colorado and sion, A productive country needs to of the country. energy alive, Initia- many wonderful resources. Yet we, keep initiative tive energy is like a plant planted in in 1775, Lord Dunmore, the royal WS PSOe, like the dog in the manger, don’t want rich soil. If you cultivate the plant governor of Virginia, issued a proc- others to come into the state and make it will bring forth fruit abundantly lamation offering freedom to all Ne- MONARCH $ use of our resources. Let us compare the state of Colo- groes and indentured white servants rado with Switzerland. The state of who might enlist in the British army. = LAUNDRY +} Colorado is seven times the size of

DEMOCRATIC STATE Switzerland. Switzerland has a Patronize “VOICE” Patrons. a AND 4 CONVENTION SATURDAY population of four and a half million persons, while Colorado has one mil- = DRY CLEANING ® [potiieiruininteinientanieteteieietneloteltong lion and forty-five thousand. Switzer- A Large Democratic Delegation ue S land hasn’t felt the depression—and % 4% x MAIN 356 z Meets In Pueblo. Colorado on the government. Give it The Prompt. Pharmacy % a thought. Why is this true? For COLORADO SPRINGS’ The Democratic State Convention every six miles of mountainous coun- will be held Saturday in Pueblo. The try in Colorado Switzerland has sev- SURGICAL a wy x various county conventions were for en—Switzerland has two rivers = APPLIANCE STORE the most part quict. Judge Starrett worth while—the Rhine and the v z made an appeal for the party to rec- Rhone—and they are very swift, SHOULDER BRACES ognize the Negro because for the coming out of the Alps, but yet they TRUSSES BELTS = REMEMBER— a first time in history, the Negroes utilize the water in such a way_that ARCH BRACES have stuck to the party. they manufacture extensively. Why z All Shirts are starched m they stimulate initiative energy. Re- . All Appliance Work Subject to

Four local persons were elected slofeiulefeteloletetaluttue delegates from El Paso county. They member, that the Swiss people were z Your Physician’s Approval 3 & to your order and hand a are: Mr. Henry I. Davis, Mr. Charles slaves a little hetter than 800 years =& PHONE MAIN 1770 =% " finished. a Ranks, Mr. Henry. Reiz and Mrs. Paul ago, whipped their masters, and took (Continued on Page Four) SeeRARERREETRRAT Goffman.

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GREYHOUND BUSES JOHNNIE BROWN CAIN DIES EDWARD T, TAYLOR CAUCUS AROUND TOWN WITH ARE CENSORED LEADER, NEEDS PRESSURE May 14th, at the Twin City hospital THE YOUNG FOLKS in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Acute ap- Edward T. Taylor, the leader of Members and Delegates to Confer- pendicitis caused her death. She was the Democratic Caucus, is a Colorado ence Advised Not to Use Line 19 years of age and had been married representative. He is confined to his

for a little more than one year. Which Discriminated, bed, but the local Democratic club (By NINA STROUD) Mr. John Brown of this city, her should continue sending him letters father, left for Fort Smith as soon as and wires. He must be informedthat NEW YORK,April 16—The Na- he received the sad news. his consistuency. wants the anti-lynch Unintentionally, while listing the tional Association for the Advance- The younger set of the city was bill passed, colored graduates of the High school, ment of Colored People will not ad- stunned at the tragic news of her I left out Richard French’s name. vise its members to use the Grey- death. Johnnie Brown was well ad- 5,000 HELD AT BAY BY TWO His name for this reason did not ap- hound Lines motor coaches in attend- mired and respected by all who knew pear in last week's column. Richard Two Negroes held off a mob of ing its annual conference in Balti- her. She had made herself a good 5,000 for six hours in a bloody gun French is graduating June 4. more, Md., June 29-July 5. record in Colorado Springs, and the battle. They were finally slain and This was made plain to the city city bows at her death. the house burned down. The Scouts are all-the-go now. passenger agent of the Eastern Grey- Occasionally in the bitterness of First, the G. R. convention and now hound Lines here by. Roy Wilkins, desperation a Negro will fight hope- the scouts. Colorado Springs is be- THAT JIMMIE DUNCAN assistant secretary, in an exchange of lessly to the finish, This was in old coming a place of note. I guess the ‘letters this week. Each year the Virginia, most important thing for the Girl Flash Shrecee!! What was that railroads and motor coach com- going by? Little James—doing a These two persons were accused. Scouts of this city (colored) is the panies ask the N. A. A. C. P. for a banquet in honor of Mrs. Hoover, to guarter mile. They knew the mob meant a lynchi- list of its delegates or of branches ex- Perhaps had one been near the ing—so they took six whites along be given at the Antler’s Hotel Thurs- pected to elect delegates, so they can day, May 21. Our girls are going t track at Boulder Stadium last Satur- with them into Hell. solicit them individually for travel day, one would have heard such a do a dance at the banquet. The over their particular roads. This dance they are going to present was query and reply. For that James Port au Prince, Haiti, has ane of composed by Mrs. Dorothy Spahn, year the Eastern Greyhound Lines (Jimmie) Duncan, LL’s youngest the finest harbors in the New World, thought the N. A. A. C. P. would be son, ran a quarter-of-a-mile last Sat- and directed by Miss Marjorie Bass, interested in having delegates use assisted by Misses Genolda and Ella urday in less time than a Colorado adi their coaches, High school student had ever run it Vaughn. The costuming was done by Groceries, Fresh Fruits and Mrs. Alvina Lofton. The N. A. A. C. P letter stated before, that because the Greyhound Lines He broke a record that had stood Vegetables

Since I am accompanist for the had a policy of seating colored peo- for 25 long years. James was surely: Good Meats Cheap dance and have been practicing with ple in the rear seats of its coaches in one great rush, for it only required the girls from the first steps to the and over the rear wheels, even in him 50 and 8-10 seconds to leave one CUT RATE MARKET dress rehearsal Tuesday, I am able northern states where there are no quarter-of-a-mile behind—as history. 23 E. Colo. Ave. Ph, M. 4250 jim crow transportation laws, the as- to say that this dance is really good. SSS sociation would not recommend the in- | A lot of work and preparation has Many American universities, gone into the production and the fin- Greyhound Lines to its delegates. cluding the University of Chicago About a year ago, according: tothe and the University of Washington, ished product is worth the notice of Established 1890 Ph. M. 572 everyone. The girls participating in N. A. A.C. P., one of the high Grey- do not list their students accord- the dance are to be highly com- houndofficials in Cleveland wrote a ing to color or race. mended for their effort. Regardless Jetter on the company’s stationery M. K. MYERS of how good the directing, costuming, stating that the official policy was te Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers. JEWELER and planning is, the dance would not segregate colored passengers in the | 258. Tejon Colo. Spgs., Colo. be worth anything if it was not exe- rear. HEU SATU REAMETRENEE of cuted well, Next week the names The N. A. A. C. P. also stated the GOLDEN CYCLE all the girls who participated will be resentment of colored passengers PHARMACY printed in this column. over the practice in many places of 7 8. Tejon St. Main 2787 ¢cenying colored bus passengers serva Friday, May 15, there was a big and ice in lunchrooms and dining rooms COURTEOUS ATTENTION DeSOTO—PLYMOUTH little sister party at North Junior. of regular stops of motor coaches. It CORRECT After the program, home-made can- alse pointed out that in several PRESCRIPTION SERVICE Nelson-Eubank Motor Co. All the colored VCS ASTM TUM USETRE dies were served. northern and eastern states where re- 119 North Nevada" girls at school were present. served seats are not.sold, Greyhound MAIN 493 drivers nevertheless order colored

Bobbie Stroud, a sixth-grader at people from the front and center- of Washington school, is directing a the buses into the rear seats, The PAINBO play, “he Priggly Prince.” N. A. A. C. P. pointed out that in northern states Negro passengers oii ES FREE DELIVERY REyetRETIREST Scouts went to Denver The Girl the, railroads had access to every 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. Sunday. There. were four~car-loads facility after paying their fare, where- good BREAD of Mr. Law- of them. The passengers as on bus lines they were humiliated amused o: rence Cotwell’s car were insulted by drivers, ticket agents, Aley Drug Co. visi- and entertained by counting all the | and other officials. Phone 250 and hogs on the way ble horses, cows attendance there. The total sum was: Cows, Indications are that the New Process Curtain Cleaners Baltimore conference will be 621; horses, 40; hogs, 16. Upon ar- at the ever, but the N. A. A. Curtains and Drapes in Denver, the girls were treat- greater than riving P. does not recommend that its THE to a soda or ice cream cone by the C. Laundered by us: hangs straight, ed on bus lines -which same Mr. Cotwell. After the drinks delegates travel last longer made look like new. Seldomridge Grain Co. against colored people. the girls took a glance in the Roxy discriminate Flour, Feeds, Grain, Hay theatre, then climbed into the cars 124 North Corona ’Phone Maln 531 and Seeds and headed for the city park. They Subscribe to “VOICE”. SSSA

Phone M.12 21 S. Cascade lunched there, then visited the Na- —————————————— CU MEYMU MSTEDUCASTTCE Colorado Springs, Colo, tural History Museum, and the Zoo. By this time the sun was sinking General Repairs UT SERVICE : COURTESY down its western course, and the Carpentering EFFICIENCY girls, feeling the pangs of hunger STATE RSET vitals, hurried to and Papering SAMUEL C, HUNTER gnawing at their Painting ean the “Ritz Cafe,” to enjoy Christopher Mortician Stroud’s Columbus and Handy Andy. About Call BE. E. WILKS Phone M, 5395 518 S, Weber St. an hour later the girls were happily Main 2332 Sanitation Service on their way, chez leurs. PAN MURILALEM LAI RI ASMA MLEMATARTU

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FIVE CENTS PER COPY COL ORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936. VOL. I—NO. 8 LIBRARY ASSN. WILL “NO QUORUM” USED AN APPEAL FOR HELP INVESTIGATE JIM CROW

TO DUCK THE ANTI- RICHMOND, Va., May 22.—Fol- I had a vision of hundreds of my people in Colorade—struggling,toiling, lowing a number of protests against LYNCHING ISSUE saving, conquering—without a champion for their cause; and in many in- the rank discrimination against Ne- stances without any knowledge of their own group. I saw a great need, a gro librarians at the annual meeting ripened field unharvested. I put all I had into this little paper in order of the American Library Association Democratic Caucus Leader Calls great here last week, the executive board I do not want to makethis paper a political paper or a little Meeting for Week-End; Fails to te fill this need. of the association voted: 1 do not wantthis paperto stir up hatreds or prejudices, Send Notices in Time denominational journal. “That the question of racial dis- but I do want this paper to be a real educational and elevating influence in crimination, which has been brought

Colorado. to our attention, be made the first WASHINGTON, May 23——Demo- order of business at the first session cratic congressmen held a caucus I NEED HELP. of the council at the next midwinter last night on the anti-lynching bill, I am kept so busy trying to raise the printing cost each week that I do meeting, and that a committee be ap- but failed to take any action upon pointed to consider the question and the excuse that no quorum was net have time to properly prepare articles and stories for publication. [ MUST report at that time.” present HAVE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IMMEDIATELY. The obnexious regulations for Ne- Sixty-five congressmen, it is re- Please get your subscription to Tandy Stroud, 741 N. Spruce, or The groes attending the convention raised a storm of protest from organizations ported, were present and the great 112 East Cucharras, and help this paper to “keep going.” majority of this number was in favor Printeraft Press, and individuals including the N. A. of acting favorably upon anti-lynch- A.C. P., the American Civil Liber- ing legislation. SHERIFF MUST PAY ties Union, and others. The special The principal reason for failure of PREMATURE regulations for the Richmond conven- $2,500 TO PARENTS tion stated that all colored delegates Democrats to attend the caucus is the fact that Caucus Leader Edward T. OF LYNCHED NEGRO would be separated from the other ‘Taylor failed to give the usual forty- (From the Greensboro, N. C, Daily delegates in the public auditorium; eight hours’ notice to all congress- News, April 30, 1936.) that they might not attend any ses- men. Notices were not sent until late Recent congratulations showered NEW ORLEANS, La.—Southern sions of the convention where meals Thursday afternoon, scarcely twenty- upon the state of Georgia for pre- organizations fighting lynch law saw were served; and that they might not four hours before the caucus was vention of a lynching were, it now a great victory today in the award be housed or fed in the hotels with scheduled to be held, A sharp letter develops, quite premature. Commen- by a federal court jury of $2,500 dam- other delegates, challenging Mr. Taylor for his failure dation is unaltered for Judge Berry ages to parents of a Negro hoy to send official notices of the caucus T. Moseley, whose courageous stand lynched in 1933, N. A. A. C, P. Raises $3,900 in was sent today by Walter White, sec- thwarted violence in one instance}! The white jury decreed that Sher- Boston and Washington, D. C. retary of the N, A. A. C. P. Mr. but indictment of Georgia official- iff Lezin H. Himel of Assumption White’s letter pointed out that the dom in general is more severe, in parish must pay damages to Louis Jack of a quorum did not prevent the view of the revealed denouement, and Lilly Moore. Witnesses said one NEW YORK, May 22.—Reports Democrats two weeks ago from tak- than it would have been had Lint of Himel’s deputies helped a mob from spring membership campaigns ing action on the relief bill. The let- Shaw, the hapless black victim, been take their 16-year-old son, Fred, from in Boston, Mass,, and Washington, ter stated: lynched at the outset. jthe Abadieville, La. jail and hang D. C.,, for the National Association him to a bridge. Himel, they said, for the Advancement of Colored Peo- “Had the Democratic leaders of There is absolutely no excuse for ple show a total from the two cities the house been since: inety desire the fate which he suffered early was negligent. to enact legislation against lynching, Tuesday at the hands of a mob which Young Moore was accused of mur- of more than $3,900. Approximately owes its ultimate success to short- dering Miss Annie Mae Larose. After one-half the amount raised in each every school child knows that the 315 city is retained by the local branch. Democratic members of the house of sightedness or indifference of author- he was lynched, witnesses said, her stepfather confessed, Miss Juanita E, Jackson of the na- representatives would have been or- ities which is so patent and imex- tional office staff directed the Boston cusable that it amounts almost to dered to appear. The damage verdict was the sec- effort which brought in $1,400. “Every lynching from now until connivance, In that respect, however, ond unprecedented verdict for Ne- It was the first campaign staged by November will inflame feeling against it but follows the pattern and tech- groes in southern courts in two days. nique of lynchings generally. Boston in many years and the first those responsible for inaction. Does On Wednesday an Atlanta jury ac- under the new president, Irwin T. the Democratic leadership of the Three attempts were made to se- quitted a Negro youth who was ac- Dorch. The Washington campaign house, by its refusal to take action, cure the Negro before he was finally cused of attacking a white woman was directed by Mrs. Daisy E. Lamp- wish to say to persons threatened by taken. In the first instance, Judge who hadidentified him in court. kin, national field secretary, and has mobs and their friends that there is Moseley left his sick bed to address raised $2,500 to date. For the past sev- no hope whatever of protection of the mob. Telling its members that he their persons either by the state or 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL eral years Washington has been the recognized practically all of them leading branch of the association so federal government, and that the and then deputizing members of the NEARLY MOBBED far as membership money is con- only recourse left open to them will crowd to serve as deputies in uphold- cerned, be to meet force with force? This is ing, rather than trampling, the law, a question which you and every mem- the jurist succeeded in halting the Killed a White Man In Self-Defense Vast plans lurching in the right di- ber of both houses of the congress-— mobbery. Then troops arrived and rection; good will toward men; Democratic, Republican, Farmer-La- took Shaw, wounded in a fight with ALTUS, Okla., May 27—A mob of fright that blanched even the tan of bor and Progressive—must answer.” officers, to Athens. Brought back to 200 was twice repulsed as they sought bankers; and money enough to pau- When the Democrats found them- Danielsville, scene of his alleged to lynch Olivia Gardner. She con- perize Golconda; and yet we failed selves faced with the absolute neces- crime, for trial, the Negro faced an- fessed to shooting §. E. Harlan, 32- to make the Deal right and enduring- sity of holding the caucus, Repre- other angry assembly, and officers year-old WPA truck driver in self- ly New, because our administrators sentative Bankhead of Alabama lost no time in removing him to defense after a fight. No charges were stupid, untrained, or plain dis- stated: “This is going to be very em- nearby Royston. have been booked against the girl. barrassing.” Every trick was called honest. The moral is: no nation can With these previous demonstra- Mrs. Harlan led the mob that at rise above its knowledge and charac- out of the bag by the Democrats to tions before them, the temper and de- first tried to storm the jail, The avoid any definite action in the cau- ter—Du Bois, termination of the mob known, they crowd swarmed around the officers cus. Rumor here had it that an or- left their prisoner in a small-town, again when deputies took Miss Gard- ganized effort would be made to pre- unfortified jail with a sole night po- ner to the waiting car. vent a quorum from being present. THIS SUNDAY’S LESSON Hceman as his and the law’s protect- Let us hope this will not be an- If that failed, the scheme was to raise

ing guardian. Who could have expect- other Lint Shaw incident, the question of constitutionality. If ed anything but the barbarism which that failed, the leadership was going Luke, 22nd Chapter. to try to pass a harmless resolution occurred? The angry. mob followed i. Now the feast of unleavened and had no difficulty whatever in State Workers’ Meeting bread drew nigh, which is called the calling upon the party “to study getting its man. The usual tech- lynching and the possibilities of anti- of Church of God in Christ Passover. nique prevailed to the end; the offi- 2. And the chief priests and lynching legislation”, cer on duty did not recognize a single The success of the strategy of “no scribes sought how they might kill mobster, in sharp contrast to Judge Bishop E. M. Page him; for they feared the people. quorum” is laid directly to warning Moseley’s declaration of identity, and said to have been sent to all Demo- and Bishop C. H, Mason 5. And they were glad, and cove- the sheriff, hastily summoned to the nanted and promised to give him cratic congressmen to stay away scene after it was all over but cutting from the caucus. The Fourteenth Annual Workers’ money. Another factor that contributed to down the Negro’s battered body, is Meeting of the Church of God in 15. And he said unto them, With without a clue upon which to work, the success was Caucus Leader Tay- Christ is being conducted this week at desire have I desired to eat this pass- Jor’s move setting the caucus for Fri- Now, let’s see; what was it our the Church of God in Christ, Spruce over with you before I suffer. day night. A great many congress- statesmen were saying about sov- Street and Willamette Avenue. Bish- 20. This cup is the new testament men leave Washington Thursday ereign rights and the absolute need- op E. M. Page of the Southwestern in my blood, which is shed for you. night or Friday morning and attend lessness of federal anti- lynching Diocese has been present throughotit 22, And truly the Son of man to business or pleasure over the measures in their respective baili- the meeting. Bishop C. H. Mason, goeth, as it was determined, but woe week-end, When the caucus was set wicks? senior bishop of the Church of God unto that man by whom he is be- on Friday night, and, furthermore, in Christ is expected the last of this trayed! when notices were delayed until late NOTICE—This paper will come week, These two men have been 28. Ye are they which has con- Thursday afternoon, it found dozens out the second and fourth Fridays in used mightily of God. Many miracles tinued with me in my temptations. of congressmen out of the city. each month until a paid subscription and prophecies have been performed 20. And I appoint unto you a Mr. Taylor had been urged by Rep- list is built up. through their ministries, To hear kingdom, as my Father has appoint- (Continued on Page Three) —TANDY. them is a real privilege. ed unto me.

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OF THE SEVENTY- WILLIAM PICKENS The policy of this paper is to bring CHURCH NEWS about a better understanding between FOURTH CONGRESS MADE DISTURBANCE

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Truth, We sympathize with your desire WASHINGTON, May 22.—Wil- TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH Bditor..... ‘andy Stroud to see the Congress adjourn so that liam Pickens, director of branches of Corner of Nevada at Fountain, Advertising Manage! fesse Tarrant you may go home to begin your the N. A. A. C. P. made a “loud dis- Reverend Allen, Pastor. preparations for the November elec- turbance” and “spoke disparagingly Leave Articles to Be Published With tions, of government employees” at Boulder Miss Marie Bryan But forty-two million Americans, der dam on April 22, according to re- ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Mrs, Paul Goffman. ports sent to the secretary of the in- Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Tandy Stroud.. representing every section of the Jesse Tarrant.. country and all races, ask you to terior here. j. Raymond Short, Pastor. picture to yourself a gruesome scene. At the request of the national of- 81,50 Subscription, per year The grisly object reclining against fice of the N. A. A. C. P., the office PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Six Months . 1,00 of the secretary of the interior asked - 50 the tree is the body of Lint Shaw, CHURCH Three Months saved once from lynching by the he- for complete reports from Boulder Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue, roic action of an aged judge at City, Nevada, on the arrest of Mr. Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, This is NOT a church paper. This is NOT 2, political paper. Royston, Georgia, but killed by a Pickens at the dam on April 22, Mr. Pickens and a party of four present- This IS a good, clean, Negro paper. mob just as he was about to be. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST placed on trial. Shaw was one of ed themselves at the elevator to be taken down to the dam. A party of Corner Spruce and Willamette, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936. three persons lynched within a pe- Elder C, E. Morgan, Pastor, riod of six days—from April 28 to white sight-seers came up behind May 3. It is reported in the press them and the elevator starter told “NEGRO STABBED” that an American flag floated in the the Pickens party it would have to EAST SIDE CHURCH OF “At Beth-El hospital, stabbed over air above the lynched body. “stand back and wait” while the GOD IN CHRIST white people used the elevator. Dean 623 East Monument. the kidney—in a serious condition.” I Over 5,000 persons, men and women, white and black, have been Pickens objected vigorously to this Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor, recalled a small lad of thirteen in my lynched in America since 1882. treatment, whereupon a ranger was called and he and Walter W. Ham-~- Scout treop some few years ago. I Light punishment has been given EPIPHANY MISSION, brilliance and aptitude, lynchers in ONLY 8-10 of ONE ilton were taken eight miles to the remember his Boulder City police station. EPISCOPAL his humility and obedientspirit. To see PER CENTof the LYNCHINGS. Dale and Royer Streets Nevertheless the police chief in- never recognize Most communities make no effort to him today, one would arrest lynchers. sisted that Pickens was not under ar- the same person. rest, but had only been “invited to PEOPLES M, E. CHURCH For two years thirty-two anti- Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets, A careful productive development lynching bills have gathered dust in talk things over.” Reverend W. lL. Lee, Pastor. of that promising lad of thirteen would the House Judiciary Committee be- The department of the interior has been advised here by the New York|- have prevented thatlittle incidentlisted cause of the implacable opposition of a small minority of members of the office of the N. A. A. C. P. that the Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers, as “Negro Stabbed”from occurring in House. In the Senate the filibuster association is not satisfied with the the life of Louis Butler. Our boys need of April-May, 1935, against the Cos- explanation of the officials of Boul- help. They need training such as is tigan-Wagner bill and the failure of der City and that the charge that Mr. SPORTING GOODS and “‘Y’’ clubs. the Senate Audit and Control Com~- Pickens created a disturbance is pre- given in Scouting posterous. “Everything for Sportsmen” activities, such mittee even to hold hearings on the Good, clean, wholesome Van Nuys resolution for a Senate in- The association cited the fact that as hiking, swimming, boating, wood- vestigation of the lynchings of 1935 Dean Pickens has been on its staff TEPEE SPORT SHOP craft, etc., should so occupy their ado- following the filibuster, have blocked for 16 years, has traveled all over the 7 N. Tejon Phone M. 930 lescent minds that there would be no action there. United States and Europe, and has Twenty-five authenticated lynch- never been accused of creating a dis~ place for this ‘‘lying around with lewd turbance of any nature. The associa- among our ings and 117 narrowly averted ones women’that is so prevalent since the filibuster of the spring of tion asserts that the officials at Boul- young men. 1935, and the failure to punish lynch- der City are trying to justify their CADY L. DANIELS * & ers and would-be lynchers who have action by accusing Mr. Pickens who (Incorporated) flouted law and decency, prove be- was guilty of nothing more than e: “My dad passed away three weeks pressing justifiable resentment over six of us in the family. yond all doubt that only federal leg- 105 N. WEBER ago; there are islation can stop this evil. segregation.

a dollar a day HONE M. 1750 I was making about It has been said that the govern~- driving a truck for ... before I got on ment of the United States of Amer- GARFIELD GOES TO COURT

I have an older brother ica is powerless to prevent lynchings the WPA. OEAADa working as cattleman en a ranch; he such as the one we have asked you He was crossing Dale at Corona te to picture above. gets $30 a month. I am eighteen. My when out of obscurity lunged a huge See HITT’S from dust We don’t believe it. The federal CCC truck and careened into his doc- dad was a carpenter and died government can stop lynchings if it ile Studebaker. No one was injured. NEW SHOE STORE pneumonia and a complication of wishes to do so, if the gentlemen of Now Mr. Green, has long-cherished SHOES FOR ALL THE EET diseases.” the Congress will take the proper ac- that old Studebaker and it in turn FAMILY % % co tion. The government has stopped has served him well. One cannot but kidnaping. It can stop lynching. sympathize with him at the serious 106 East Pikes Peak

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injury “Studebaker” sustained. MMe SERDAR vj pital hot. My sister just got released While America is being held up to shame before the civilized world by The usual crowd gathered. An of- last March after three operations. bestial mobs unchecked by any police ficer appeared, and the two partici- She’s tubercular. One lung’s gone, the authority, local, state, or federal, cer- pants in the pile-up were commanded PUEBLO AVENUE other’s full of holes. She has to have tain of our lawmakers have hidden to appear in court. BARBER SHOP behind phrases and technicalities so With serious trepidation did our week cr she gets a treatment every as to preserve for the citizens of cer- hero enter the court. He had crossed 222 Pueblo Avenue deathly sick. Last August my other tain communities the right to stage the middle of the intersection when Phone Main 5769 sister took down. She was such an bloody orgies of personal vengeance. the crash occurred. He could not

L. C. CALDWELL, Prop. athletic sort of kid, only thirteen, could A nation which tolerates lynchings have been speeding because at in all kinds of knots. Her will become eventually a nation “Studebaker’s” age hasty traveling is tie herself quite devastating. Surely the CCC a MVE GTS MTEL REI legs are dead, one has drawn up an where law and order on all matters will be flouted contemptuously. No truck was in error, inch and a half shorter than the other. person, no group, no institution and “What were your damages, Mr.}8 R. D, BRIGGS The doctor has plugged holes into the later no property will be safe from Green?” LOCKSMITH RREUNES bones to drain out the pus. Pus in the mobs. “Well, they were about $20 and the EN truck ain’t worthit.” RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, ETC. marrow of the bone; the result of a We appeal to you individually and collectively to let nothing prevent The case was dismissed. 126/72 North Nevada bruise. The doctor says there is hope. passage—before adjournment of the Mr. Green, you should have de- Phone Main 1142-w Tt was so sudden——in three days she Seventy-fourth Congress — of the manded damages. “Studebaker” VANE ET RARITY was a bed-ridden invalid instead of Costigan-Wagner bill in the Senate needs replacement, the healthy athletic tom-boy. I don’t and its counterpart in the House of tbhpee bEEE Representatives. have much left out of my check when Legislatures of ten states.

T’ve paid hospital and doctorbills. I’m These groups demand that action MONARCH Among the organizations demand- be taken, in the words of aWORLD- the cnly one working in the family.” ing passage of anti-lynching legisla- TELEGRAMeditorial, to stamp out LAUNDRY From WPA conversations. tion at this session are: lynching precisely as federal action eR OR The Young Women’s Christian As- has been used against kidnapers. AND sociation.

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THREE THE VOICE OF COLORADO Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers. USED TO E. K, HARRIS, SAVED ee “NO QUORUM” —_—— DUCK ANTI-LYNCH ISSUE. FROM MOB,IS EXECUTED TOWN WITH Groceries, Fresh Fruits and AROUND Vegetables THE YOUNG FOLKS (Continued from Page One) NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 22.—E. lad, who Good Meats Cheap ee resentative Joseph Cavagan of New K. Harris, a feeble-minded Se at Shelbyville, York to hold the caucus on Monday was saved from a mob 1934, by state CUT RATE MARKET (By NINA STROUD) or Tuesday night, but he refused. Tenn., in December, Pp. Connery, ordered to the scene by Gov- 23 BE. Colo. Ave. Ph, M. 4250 William troops Congressman executed of the was to close for the Jr., of Connecticut, was one ernor Hill McAllister, Schools are about very this morning in the rt The weather is most faithful supporters. He has at five o’clock summer vacation, yee rain clouds few colored people in his district and state penitentiary. warm, birds are singing, lynch [a showers are fre- he also had a radio broadcast sched- The mob which sought to gather and depart, that it DeSOTO—PLYMOUTH are plooming every- uled, but he canceled the broadcast Harris was so infuriated quent, flowers the caucus. house at new mown, vege- and was present thruout burned down the court where, green lawns Mitchell op- federal sprouting up, and ev- Congressman Arthur W. Shelbyville and destroyed Nelson-Eubank Motor Co. table gardens the caucus from charged with in nature tells us that sum- posed the holding of property. Harris was 119 North Nevada erything He did not sign girl, but in the trial mer is nigh, How can we stay in the very beginning. raping a white MAIN 493 asking for it. doctor testified that he had It is just a week more for me, the petition a white school? after the two hours thank goodness. While the support from the coun- examined the girl on congressmen and her body gave no evi- try putting pressure assault 51STELSTS was by no means of having been raped. events are going on in the was fairly good, it dence Many in as large a volume to be not very schools preparatory for grad- as insistent and Harris was known various have been. Observers and despite this and ay It With uation and the summer vacation. At as it should strong mentally of that congressmen would testimony the jury Flowers high school, there are all sorts here declare the doctor’s dared to stay away from the in the death verdict in eight banquets, picnics, etc., for the various not have brought the pressure from home Main 214 school organizations. caucus had minutes. all that it should have been. Nothing has been done by state or been to write their punish anyone 2 N. Tejon 22, was brown and Voters are now urged county authorities to Friday, May them whether or the attempt at After the classes in the congressmen asking connected with white day, the caucus, Cau- the destruction of BUSTTCTLETT came a luncheon prepared not they attended lynching and far mc a CARS morning and the N. A, A. property. A new mothers, then the awards were cuses are secret county and federal by the at present have full in- has been built and the out in the afternoon in the gym. C. P. does not court house given who was present. has been hushed up. THE Hunter and Ellis Butler re- formation on whole incident Samuel have promised to only one to pay 2 pen- Grain Co. letters for tennis. James Dun- The Republicans Harris is the Seldomridge ceived on anti-lynching there is less evidence that received a letter for track. Coach hold a conference alty and Flour, Feeds, Grain, Hay can for similar to the Democratic guilty of a crime than there praise he was Erps also gave him high legislation, of and Seeds he made in cattcus, but as yet it has not been was that the others were guilty the record-breaking run of 12 21S. Cascade a medal was given held. rioting, arson and the destruction Phone M, Boulder for which secure action Springs, Colo. Childress received an Tn a further effort to property. Colorado him. Gladys A. C. P, has Elizabeth Holly, who in the senate the N. A. award in music, Bennett c. Clark SVCHSVMTSEDUCTMETRES the 1936 class poem, received telegraphed Senator wrote if he will not move from CYCLE award in English, Ellis Butler_re- asking him GOLDEN an com- French and Sam the floor to discharge the audit ceived honors in the Van PHARMACY honorable mention mittee which is holding up Hunter received the investigation 7S. Tejon St. Main 2787 subject. Ellis Butler re- Nuys resolution for in the same Mr. Clark prom- GOURTEOUS ATTENTION in physics. Nina Stroud. of lynchings in 1935, ceived honors ago that if the audit CORRECT honors in social science. ised some time received did not act he would PRESCRIPTION SERVICE committee for a motion, Sunday, May 31, vesper services make such at 7:30 p. m. “This evasion by the Democratic the seniors will be held in Commence- congressmen cannot pe regarded ICE CREAM at the city auditorium. indifference 4 at 8 p. m. at the city any other manner than Sa ment is June and mob vio- MILK auditorium. to continued lynching said _a statement from the BUTTER lence,” squarely annual ninth N. ALA. C. P. “Theissue is North Junior—The they have held at North before the Democrats since Phone Main 1183 grade banquet will be It has BREAD nigut, May control of legislation. good high school Fricvay absolute Junior the politically wise by con- Class day was May 25, when been deemed 29. leaders to side-step this is- annuals were given out, gressional an election year, but we do sue in > dance, it will seem so wise when Girl Scouts—The Girl Scout not believe Process Curtain Cleaners May 21, have to face their voters New given at the Antlers hotel, congressmen Those girls par- in the coming campaign. The south- Curtains and Drapes was a great success. safe, but the Shirley McFarland, erners, of course, will be straight, ticipating were: are likely Laundered by us: hangs Bradford, Barbara Jane northerners and westerners longer made look like new. Geraldine opposition.” Jast Carrie Lee Fox, Ruth Lewis, to meet with some Bass, —_— Main 531 Mae Stroud, Erna Mae Mar-| 424 North Corona ’Phone Rosa Selina BACK shail, Marsatee McFarland, BROWN CONDOR Palmer, Betty McFar- the “Brown Bragg, Cecile Col. John C. Robinson, Typewriter Emilie Wiley, in New . land, Priscilla Vaughn, Condor” of Ethiopia, arrived Brown and Oc- Rob- Furniture Man Mary Nichols, Mary York on the S. S. Europa. Col. Central SJ before he left torian Douglas. inson was shot twice We Trade and Sell Cheaper Selassie’s kingdom. He was the Sunday, Haile Stoves of All Kinds The Girl Scout tea, given aviation commander, and M. 95 If the Ethiopian’s 105 N. Tejon May 24, was 4 grand success. citizen. 320 South Tejon Street continues an American of Colorado Springs COLO. public SPRINGS, COLORADO the manner to support these teas in AunnseunanaEsnsENeenapeneUssexeanUWennyny will that they did Sunday, the girls camp. | COME TO AUSTINS pe assured of their summer STORES CUT PRICE P, EARSON HARMACY program The next number on the Everything in Household Goods RESCRIPTION HARMACIST Stroud’s sponsored is the big amateur contest, AUSTINS night of SERVICE AS YOU LIKE IT by “Doc” Hayden on the a great Where They Sell Cheap DELIVERY SERVICE Sanitation Service May 30. Fromall indications Cucharras people 413 S, Tejon 14 E. Platte many of our younger talented Corner Tejon and also be in this contest. There is MAIN 374 COURTEOUS will with going to be a costume pall DEPENDABLE =f prizes. General Repairs HV myMCASWCMTEMRTSTATUTE ECONOMICAL| awards day at North Junior, Carpentering METAL PRODUCTS CO. On to ASH-TRASH the following awards were given and Papering ROOFING Myrtle Jones, hon- Painting METAL WORK REMOVAL SERVICE colored students: FURNACES mention in home economics; orable in Call BE, E, WILKS gle N. Walnut & Herbert Bragg, honorable mention 501 W. Colorado Ave. Phone M. 3701 Stroud Main 2332 manual training; Rosa Mae Main 586 in physical and Emilie Wiley, letters ee OTA honor acaonyaraigieense tn GTTN education; Rosa Mae Stroud, PAN roll and gold pin. Seamer

be Tire Store SAND and GRAVEL Class day at South Junior will Economy Arapahoe 29th. Bargains in FERTILIZER Friday, May TIRESFor TUBES Food USED JOE A. CRAWFORD MUSSOLINI DESTROYS FAITH WHEEL-SETS Main 259-J Hauling “The harm that Benito Mussolini 16 E. Colo. Ave. General Stores rape of has done to humanity by his KAA Ethiopia is incalculable and unending. of Na- qTTgeeag.TUi LgeTeUAegeSeUTeA He has smashed the League a united ASH AND tions--the noblest dream of BRYANT RELIABLE GROCERIES humanity in a federation of the world “PESS’ TRASH REMOVAL He since the Holy Roman Empire. Tap-Dancing SERVICE FRUITS has killed pacifism and disarmament. Instructor MEATS He has impoverished and ruined Main 4349 a he has Phone body, and 2787 AIO heart and CALL MAIN a Italy in ge TL all Diack folk in 2 killed the faith of Zovonsenemonannrasrenans nonesaca a white men?’—Du-Bois: manent

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without shelter, while the Republican If the case goes to trial about June The States in which no lynchings party tried to feed them constitution. 10, it will be heard on almost the first were recorded up to 1930 were: Con- Roosevelt is giving jobs and that is anniversary of the victory in the Uni- jnecticut, Maine, Nevada, New Hamp- LOCAL ITEMS unconstitutional. The Republican versity of Maryland case successfully shire, Rhode Island, Vermont, South party, he said, is fostering a govern- carried on by the N. A. A. C, P, last Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin. ment of millionaires, by millionaires, June. In the Maryland action N. A.

for millionaires. A. C. P. lawyers were successful in The Empress Josephine, wife of

By Mrs, Paul H. Goffman, getting a Negro student into the Uni- Napoleon Bonaparte, was the daught- versity of Maryland. The action 421 North Royer Street. The sixteen delegates elected to at- er of a Frenchman and a_colored tend the Philadelphia convention against the University of Missouri is woman of Santo Domingo (Haiti). were instructed to cast their votes one of two pending in the courts There was quite a lot of news last for Franklin D. Roosevelt. James A. now, the other being in Tennessee Major John R. Lynch, former con- week, so they say, but the reporter Marsh of Denver was re-elected com- where William B. Redmond II of gressman from Mississippi, was the seems lacking for some reason or mitteeman and Mrs, Katherine E. Nashville has filed suit to compel the temporary chairman of the Republi- other. At a meeting of the North Hilliard of Denver, committeewoman. University of Tennessee to accept his can national convention in 1884. End Missionary Society of the St. application for the school of phar- Delegates from the Colored Demo- John Baptist Church last week it was cratic Club attending the state meet- macy, The taking of depositions in OTeNIATIARAUURANEIURUTSEESEEDUBUELGED NCSU HRUAE ESUOTSEUELA INDICATES decided to postpone the trip to Den- ing were: Charles Banks, Henry Ruiz the Tennessee case will begin with ver contest until July 4. Anyone and Mrs. Paul H, Goffman. Henry I. the next 30 days. BOYS AUTO PARTS wanting to make this trip must get in Davis was an alternate. Lawyers for the N. A. A. C, P, in TIRES AND PARTS Mrs, Paul Goffman before NEW AND USED touch with the Missouri case are Sidney R. Red- June 1, 1936. That day will close mond of St. Louis, and Charles H. See BEN or FRANK Remem- There are still more school chil- GOODRICH TIRES ON TIME the period for applications. dren to be remembered aside from Houston, special counsel of the New or con- ber, the winning contestant the High School stduents. The Junior York office. Against them will be a 29 S, Cascade Main 877 = go to Denver on a Fri- testants will are also to graduate a number battery of six eminent lawyers re- «Se sqomgr negara neKacHT UneLMTNne ESATA MALTAULES and return Sunday night. Trans- Highs day of youngsters this year and during tained by the university. In the Ten- room and board for that portation, the activities at these schools a num- nessee case the attorneys for Red- period will be paid. ber of race students received recog- mond are Z. Alexander Looby of

Courtesy of Nashville and Mr. Houston, nition in various departments of edu- Mrs. Ida Brown and Mr, J. Gilbert cation. At North Junior we find the MATHEW’S MARKET The Rev. were married last week. name of Rosa May Stroud on the Ethiopia has thrown new light on GROCERIES and MEATS Chester Morgan performed the cere- ninth grade honor roll. Emma Lee Pacifism, Once I promised never to is at home at mony. ‘The couple Wiley and Rosa May Stroud among fight in any war. Then I promised 20 East Colorado Avenue W.San Rafael. those who have earned more than only to fight in holy wars. Then I 300 points during the three years at hesitated, but prayed for peace. To- Word was received last Saturday North Junior and were awarded the day, I believe that France, as usual, morning from Cheyenne, Wyoming, “N” at the Honors Day program. has shown us the way: an interna- advising of the death of Mr. John Myrtle Jones, niece of Mrs, Darius tional force to compel peace. There PHONE THE Moss. Mr. Moss was a former resi- Gray, who is a newcomer in the Col- must be world policemen, just as we REGAL DRUG CO. dent of the Springs and maintained orado Springs school system, re- have city policemen; otherwise a a home in north Colorado Springs. ceived recognition in the Home Eco- criminal like Mussolini is always free He had beenvery ill for the past few nomics department. Herbert Bragg, to stab a gentleman like Haile Selas- FREE DELIVERY SERVICE weeks and death was expected mo- Voice Newsboy, received an honor gie in the back and crow over it—Du Phone M. 40, 481 and 482 mentarily for several days before award in manual training. At South ois. Moss the end came. Mr. and Mrs. Junior, the name of Leon Palmer ap- are pioneer residents of the city and pears on the eligibility list which was The Black Legion, organized in in are well known. Mrs. Moss was posted on the bulletin board last 1779 in St. Domingo (Haiti), by the city for some time last summer. week. This list includes pupils in the Count D’Estaing, consisted of 800 NEVADA PHARMACY Corner Opposite Postoffice seventh and eighth grades who have young freedmen, blacks and mulat- Prescriptions and Highest Quality Mr, K. Dolphus Stroud of Texas had high citizenship and scholarship toes. At the seige of Savannah on last week Drugs at Lowest Prices, was in the city for one day marks this year, and are hence eligi- the 9th of October, 1779, this legion, DEVELOPING FREE relatives. He was visiting friends and ble for cabinet offices. Leonis listed by covering the retreat and repulsing CAMERAS AND COSMETICS en route to the Educational meet in with the 8C pupils. the charge of the British, saved the N. M "Phone M. 2785 Free Delivery, Albuquerque, defeated American and French army from annihilation. and daught- Bobby Stroud, who is president of Mrs. Elizabeth Shelton her class at Washington school, is returned to the Springs er, Margaret, now directing a play for her class- Most of the Civil rights flaws Courtesy of last week after spending the winter spent a mates. She is recognized as an out- adopted by the states in the last cen- in Oklahoma. Mrs. Shelton standing pupil in the class. She is tury were based upon the federal civil The return in Pueblo few days upon her also historian for the school. tights law which the supreme court visiting her daughter, Miss Bernice Colorado Springs held unconstitutional in 1883, Shelton. Mr, and Mrs. Bramen Heastie, who Bus Company

the report from the graduation have been visiting in California for In the past four months, returned to the “ON TIME WITH SAFETY” class at C. S, H. S. one very impor- Long’s Saratoga Chips tant piece of news was left out. Nina city last week and report a delightful Hikers’ Salad Dressings Stroud and Ellis Butler were elected trip. Hikers Pure Horseradish to the Terror Tribe, The first Ne- Mustard — Egg Noodles WHITE KITCHEN groes to be so honored. Awards made Among those attending the work- Manufactured by PASTRY SHOP last Friday at the Brown and White ers’ meeting at the Church of God HIKERS FOOD PRODUCTS day celebrations to Negroes was as in Christ are: Elder and Sister Berg- COMPANY Making the Very Best in Holly; Bakery Goods, follows: English, to Elizabeth er of Pueblo, Elder and Sister Jones Foreign Languages, French to Ellis of Pueblo, Elder Douglass, Elder WeSolicit Your Patronage. Butler; Social Science to Nina Black of Pueblo, Elder Williams, El- 5 ee Phone M. 2119 15 N. Tejon Physics to Ellis Butler; Mu- der and Sister Campbell of Denver, Stroud: r COLORADO SPRINGS sic to Gladys Childress. For Athletics Bishop Page and Elder Barnett, g awards were made as follows: First Mother Jones of Denver and Mother 5 MOTOR CO. and third letter in Hornof Pueblo. letter in Football u CHRYSLER ang PLYMOUTH Track to James Duncan; first letter nH second Sales and Service FLUFF DRY in golf to Ellis Butler; and STATE ASKS DELAY IN x to Elgin Nichols. Sam Wo 23 S. Nevada Phone M. 207 letter in Track U, OF MISSOURI SUIT Flat Work Ironed Hunter received honorable mention a Yaa a=

Those elected to the Na- 7c Per Pound in French. enema tional Honor Society were as_fol- ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 22.—The lows: Ellis Butler, Elizabeth Holly state of Missouri wants more time to 50c Minimum and Nina Stroud. prepare its defense against the legal ORIG’S for

attack which the N, A. A. C. P. is ow, Regular Prices D. White was confined in jail last making on the lily-white University week because he seriously cut Louis of Missouri. Counsel for University on MEN’S CLOTHING and SHOES Butler in a fight at his home. Butler of Missouri notified Sidney R. Red- Colorado Laundry 107 S. Tejon is reported improving in the hospital mond, counsel for Lloyd L. Gaines,

in his suit to compel the University

at this writing. AND

of Missouri to accept him into the ‘The Girl Scout tea at the home of school of law, that they could not NSE REER aaa Mrs. Langdon Smith on South complete their answer to Gaines’ suit DODGE & GEISLER Linen Supply Weber street was a big success. Mrs. before May 25, the date on which the Stuart P. Dodge was a very interest- case was scheduled for hearing, and LOANS AND RENTALS ing speaker. that as a result they would not be Ee 516 W. Colorade Ave. ready to try the case on that date. INSURANCE—Auto and Fire At the Democratic State Conven- They suggested to Mr. Redmond SN Main 517 Phone Maln 1199 24 E. Kiowa tion last Saturday, Attorney Horn- that he suggest a tentative date for the hearing, subject to the approval delegates told the MMRBORER bein of Denver REM that the Supreme Court was in no of the court. Mr. Redmond suggested manner a sacred body. He said every June 10 or the first available day MLLWWCoYilille. advance made in social justice has thereafter. met with constitutional objection. He The N, A. A. C. P. announced that said Abraham Lincoln did not agree it is ready to proceed with the case at Pete7 &an leanets any time and is pressing for action so with the Supreme Court of the MAIN 5050 429 South Tejon United States in its decision in the that Gaines may be admitted to the Dred Scott case, and he was not University of Missouri in September, (Cash and Carry) afraid to say so. Lincoln said the de- if possible, if the court decides in his MEN’S SUITS, 29c HATS,34c cision was wrong and he hopedit favor. would be overruled. It was overruled. The case originally was set for Tailoring —- Hat Blocking — Dyeing — Alterations He said the Republicans were in April 27, but was postponed for one Delivery All Over Colorado Springs power from 1929 to 1932 and people monthat the request of attorneys for were without food, without work and the university.

G é ip Kae SOL YSsos 7 y et6 Colo. Room r Pott Library “* DEACE Solorado College CHARITY’ TRUTH THE VOICE OF COLORADO “THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS”

FIVE CENTS PER COPY COL ORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1936. VOL, I~NO, 9

BUCK-PASSING OF REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION TWO AGAINST FIVE A WORTHY PROJECT THOUSAND; MARTYRED

IN DEFENSE OF HOME It was just another case of buck- ALF LANDON NOMINATED passing rather than truth telling. William and Cora Wales of Gor- The woman this article refers to is donsville, Va., possessed a home and possibly more acquainted with the The Twenty-first National Repub- tem, including the whole postal de- some land adjoining the cemetery. buck-passing practices than any one lican Convention went unequivocably partment, If all postmasters are put For the last 13 years they have other Negro in Colorado Springs; so for Alf. M, Landon of Kansas as the under Civil Service and fingerprints stayed on their own fand against re- the matter was just another every party’s choice as presidential candi- | instead of photographs are required peated efforts to oust them. day experience for her. date in the coming campaign. for identity, the Negroes will not be Part of their land was condemned A request was sent into the WPA The platform adopted was a typica! | to be used for the cemetery, but office asking that a project be started so easily excluded from paying gov- platform—too general to have a deli-| these two elderly Negroes would not under the social service department ernment jobs. sell their home and move out. of the relief set-up, This project was nite or specific meaning. The failure | This telegram sent by Alf Landon of the party to mention lynching or William Wales was 60; Cora was 62. to be similar to the Placing Bureau at the eleventh hour demonstrated Upon their final refusal to sell, a service and particularly beneficial to mob violence in its platform was a singular defeat and disappointment him as possessed with some back- battle ensued. The old excuse of “a the Negroes of the city. For some- bone. I had so hoped the telegram white woman involved” was brought time the idea has been contemplated. for the Negro Republicans. would mention the topic of mob vio- up. A mob of 5,000 assembled—to Inasmuch as there is no local Negro Alf Landon, just before nominated, kill a helpless Negro, The Wales organization such as the ¥. M. C. A,, sent a very significant telegram to the lence and tynchings, Like the present president, Alf Landonin his telegram had ammunition and used it; so some of the local citizens of both convention stating in no uncertain the mob asked aid of the marines. races believe that such a project is term that he would seek to secure was completely silent on this great evil. This aid was refused. The mob greatly needed and would be an as- minimum wage and maximum hour armed itself with machine guns, gas, set to the community by working labor laws to the extent of advocating The “old guard” or conservative ete. After a bloody battle of several along with the other civic orgaiiiza- a Constitutional Amendment if neces- wine of Republicanism was roundly hours duration, someone threw 2 defeated, A progressive liberal Repub- tions. A similar request for_ this sary. He also definitely stated he gasoline-soaked torcli into the home. project was sent the state WPA would seek to have all government iganism will come forth under the Tho house burst into flames. As the office. Last week brought the two employes below the rank of assistant Landon leadership—a Republicanism ceiling and walls crumbled and the

replies. seerctary of major departments pst that will really give the New Dealers occupants were madc_ visible, they The reply from the local office under the Civil Service or merit sys- a wattle in the coming campaign. were downed in a hail of machine said that sich matters must be taken gun fire. Their bodies were hacked up with the state office. The lady in over for souvenirs, Gordonsville, Fuller’s 197 CONGRESSMEN ASK have to be passed by the next con- question paid a visit to Mr. gress, Virginia. office to see if he would stand by ACTION ON LYNCHING I would like to go to Africa to do this statement. THe re-affirmed that According to present indications my bit in helping the heathen, but such matters had to originate in the congress will recess for the Republi- bestial heathens who need helping state office. Next day a letter from WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5.— can national convention in Cleveland warse are much nearer than Africa, and probably will adjourn during the the state office positively said that Up to last night 197 members of The American heathens need real in the week of June 14, such matters must originate Congress signed a petition calling for help. (The white woman vigorously letters were mailed The anti-lynching bill fight occa- jocal office. Both the release of federal anti-lynching denied having been threatened after back to Mr. Fuller of the local WPA sioned some fireworks during the Woles was dead.) bills from the House judiciary com- past week when Congressman Jolin office. mittee. The bills have been buried iit Some would cénsor Cora and W. Rubison of Nentucky delivered a William Wales for their “crazy de- committee since the spring of 1935 speech urging the legislation and se- without any action whatsoever being termination.” They fought; they verely criticizing the Democrats for went into judgment while im the act THIS SUNDAY’S LESSON taken on them, The chairmanof the failing to take some action on it. Mr. judiciary committee is Congressman of fighting, They were in rebellion Hatton W. Summers of Texas and Robison is a Republican and wile to the teaching of Christ, but how his speech was first of all a partisan Luke 23rd Chapter he is reported to have made the state- much more so were the 5,000. Two one, he did place many valuable and wrongs do not make a right, how- And They Crucified Him. ment that no anti-lynching bill would important statistics and sentiments to come up for consideration as long as ever, 4th Verse. Then said Pilate into the record, We are taught to defend our homes the chief priests and to the people, I he had anything to say aboutit. The petition to release the hills and our liberties; we are taught to find no fault in this man. of the quota- priests from committee requires 218 signa- reverence the author 10th Verse. And the chief Election Officials Who tion: “Give me liberty or give me and vehemently ac- tures and it is expected that the re- and scribes stood death.” Those intrepid souls who cused him. quired number will be secured be- Barred Negro Voters Herod: fore adjournment. will forfeit their very lives for the 15th Verse. No, nor yet Fined $300 by Court sake of a principle have heen classed for I sent you to him; and, lo, noth- The machinery of Congress wasall in the past as heroes. Cora and ing worthy of death is done unto geared to bring about an early ad- , WILKESBORO, N. C., June 5 William Wales, ageing in body, but him. journment but the death of Speaker matyred for a principle of human cried, saying John Cashion, registrar at an election 2ist Verse. But they Joseph W. Byrns has delayed every liberty, how much better it would Crocify him, Crucify_him. thing. This means there is still a booth who, in 1934, refused to regis- sen- ter 14 colored citizens, was found have been to have died without kill 24th Verse. And Pilate gave small chance for consideration of the ing others, a true martyr for Christ! tence that it should be as they re- anti-lynching bill, Supporters of this guilty this week on 14 counts and quired. co legislation are leaving no stone une fined $300 in the United States dis- 28th Verse. But Jesus turning turned and are working up to the trict court, Cashion was also placed NEW FILM SHOWS upon them said weep not for me, very last minute of Congress. on probation for three years, HORROR OF LYNCHING for your but weep for yourselves and Among the signers of the petition The trial and conviction of Cash- children. to discharge the judiciary commitfee ion follows 15 months of persistent NEW YORK, June 5.—The full are 12 members of the committee it- effort on the part of the N. A.A C horror of lynching with its effects self, half of the whole committee, P. and the North Carolina citizens to upon law and order is shown dra- ELDER MASON SPEAKS get some action against him for his matically in the new talking picture, Workers for the anti-lynching Bill illegal conduct in the election of 1934, point out that even though no action “Pury” to be released this week by

is taken at this session, the congress- Cachion’s excuse was that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Representa- of Church of God in colored people were not qualified un- Chief Apostle men who signed this petition and tives of organizations interested in Christ, Here One Night. der North Carolina educational test fighting lynching including the N. A. who are re-elected to the next con- for voters. Among those disquali- A, C. P. saw a preview here May 27 gress, are now on record against such fied was one college professor, sev- Elder C. H. Mason, chief apostle legislation being held up in commit- and pronounced the film a powerful eral school teachers, a doctor_and factor in educating the country to the of the Church of God in Christ, was in tee. All through the present con- others. When the N, A. A, C. P the city Thursday night, June 4. He gress the campaign has been two- tried to get the U. 8. district attor- dangers of lynching. The picture preached at the Church of God in fold: (1) to get definite action on the opened at the Capitol theatre in New ney of Greensboro to act, he took York today. Christ, corner of Spruce and Willam- bill and (2) build up public opinion Cashion’s word for the incident and and place members of ette streets. The message, delivered for the bill closed the case without doing any- under the anointing of the Holy both houses of Congress on record. thing about it. When the N. A. A. BURGLARY AGAIN host, was chiefly a warning to unity Two of the chief workers for getting signatures to the petition are Con: C. P. first presented the case to the Douglass Smith, out of state pris- and of coming destruction, attorney general at Washington, af- on approximately 18 montus and unquestion- gressmen Gavagan of New York and This little man of God is fidavits were called for. The affiday- Douglass Smith out from the same man of McKeough of Illinois. ably the most spirit-filled its were secured and presented in place about 26 months, burglarized this age. His ministration therefore Washington newspaper correspon- person to Washington.Still no action Robbins clothing store Monday seems mystical and unintelligible to dents in the Senate and House gal- was taken. After frequent exchangé night. They stole 11 suits, a trenclt many. In the course of his sermon leries who have watched many a cam- of sharp letters between August, coat and a leather jacket. Peak was certain additional destruction was paign come and go, are of the opin- 1935 and December, Cashion was fi- sentenced to from six to 10 years. He prophesied for Colorado Springs. ion—regardless of their sentiment for nally indicted. Smith was sentenced to from four certain as his long head was the bill—that the cam- said as or against and one half to 10 years, it was the on his body. paign for the Costigan-Wagner bill Jack Johnson once engaged in an third offense for both, has been the most effective anti- A local youth was involved by al- lynching campaign in congress, has automobile race wth Barney Oldfield Alexander Petion, a mulatto, was and was beaten, lowing one of the burglars to use his the first president of the Haitian re- spread education against lynching iv car. He ruled over the southern wider and wider circles, and has public. section of the country during the made it almost certain that some Four whites and 50 Negroes were Patronize “VOICE” Patrons. reign of Christophe in the north. type of anti-lynching legislation will lynched in the United States in 1916,

TWO THE VOICE OF COLORADO

THE VOICE OF COLORADO WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM

MAY BLOT OUT COLOR The policy of this paper is to bring GIRS. PAUL GOFFMAN) CHURCH NEWS about a better understanding between Because I have been confronted LINE IN LABOR RANKS races thru an impartial presentation of with the question, “Why are you a

Truth. Democrat,” so often, for the past

NEW YORK, June 5.-—The great- few months, I am going to give the TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH “Tandy Stroud est barrier to Negro worke:s—the Jesse Tarrant readers of the “Voice of Colorado” color line maintained in craft unions Corner of Nevada at Fountain. my personal reply. Reverend Allen, Pastor. will probably be wiped out or se- I didn’t become actively interested Leave Articles to Be Published With riously damaged by the rapidly Miss Marie Bryant. 122 Pueblo Ave. in politics until 1928. That year growing movement for ind tstrial ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Mrs. Paul Goffman. 421 N, Royer Herbert Hoover ran on the Repub- Tandy Strou .748 N. Spruce unionism. Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Jesse Tarran §32 I, Cimarron lican ticket and Al Smith ran on the This is expected to be the theme J. Raymond Short, Pastor. Democratic ticket. I voted for Al

of an address by John Brophy, secre- Smith. Altho, I was yet too young Subseription, per year $1.50 tary of the Committee for Industrial ~ 1.00 to vete T was keenly interested in PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Six Months... Organization, who will speak to the CHURCH Three Months . 504 the election of 1924, Like all other twenty-seventh annual conference of American citizens of that day I was Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. the N. AL A. C. OP. in Baltimore, This is NOT a church paper. for Calvin Coolidge. If the people Maryland, Tuesday, June 30. I Reverend M. C, Knight, Pastor, This is NOT a political paper. had given a little more thought to This 18 a good, clean, Negro paper, Mr. Brophy is well knownfor his the increase in the bank accounts of opposition to the color line in labor. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST some of those great Republican capi- He was secretary of a special com- Corner Spruce and Willamette. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1936. talists, who were stpoprting Mr. mittee appointed by the A. F. of L. in Elder C, E, Morgan, Pastor, ; Coolidge, perhaps, even as far back 1934 to investigate jim-crowism in BLACK LEGION IN as those prosperous days of Calvin the labor movement. The committee Coolidge, some of the horrors of the held one hearing in Washington in EAST SIDE CHURCH OF COLORADO SPRINGS recent depression could have been July, 1935, and refused to do anything GOD IN CHRIST 623 East Monument. At the camival there was an alter- averted. It was about this time that, more. Mr. Brophy was so disgusted “TEAPOT DOME,” got into the Elder Wm, Waters, Pastor. cation between two men. One was col- with the half-hearted attacks on jim- News of the day. crowism that he resigned from the the other white. A fight ensued. Nearly every leading Republican ored, committee and expressed the opinion EPIPHANY MISSION, The white man was losing; so a crowd was a part of “TEAPOT DOME.” 1 that no real effort was being made to began to think—-Think for myself— EPISCOPAL of his friends joined in. A little fire- wipe out the color line. Dale and Royer Streets but Republicanism was rooted within Since that time Mr. Brophy, a arms and retaliation by the blacks me. Republicanism had been taught conflagra- close friend of John L. Lewis, presi- would have meant a racial to me from the day 1 entered the dent of the United Mine Workers of PEOPLES M. E. CHURCH tion. public school system of Oklahoma at America, has become active in the Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets, night or two ago a 434 (four and one-half years) of age, Committee for Industrial Organiza- Reverend W, L. Lee, Pastor. Then just a until that eventful day when I cast Spanish-American was attacked tion, which is opposing the _conser- local my first vote, for a president in 1928 vative elements in the A. F, of L. _Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers,

That beaten. —for Al Smith—however, in 1926, 1 by four men andbrutally The C. I. O. is for the organization had registered as a Republican. All un-American spirit of the Klu Klux in an industry from the the time however, I was thinking— of all workers Klan is not dead,neitheris it sleeping. bottom to the top, whereas the A. F CURB INN thinking for myself. in organizing workers We should wage together an organ- Any Negro, who will be frank and of L. believes Meals and Short Orders at absolutely honest, will admit that by crafts. ized battle to exterminate this threat problems of Negoes are at All Times from 1865 to 1920, Lincoln and the The labor the roots of civilized government. Or- receiving this year a greater share Mrs, Ora Y. Bryant and Republican party, was the alphahet, Mrs. Ethel Young, Mgrs. ganizationsof the type of the K. K. K. than ever of the N. A. A. C, P. con- then Ten Commandments, and the The difficulties 410 S. WAHSATCH and Black Legion are so often encour- bread of life to the whole of the ference discussions. of industrial, agricultural and domes- of 55 years aged by official indifference or, in some Negro race. For a period the great group of tic workers and Negro vote was a bona fide block instances, by actual official support. the government employees will be dealt against everything except the Repub- including The Birdsall-Stockdale Even if an officer believes in the an- ican party, and for that long, with with by several speakers, P. Davis and a representative Motor Company and false prejudice of a “‘su- the exception of Mr. Cleveland and John cient of a share-cropper organization. PACKARD ang NASH perior” or “pure” race, he should not Mr. Wilson, the Republican party MOTOR CARS and corrupt as to was in the saddle. INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS be so unprincipled received in re- violence. What has the Negro AUTOMOBILEACCIDENT 13-19 North Nevada Avenue defend lawlessness and mob turn? Has the Negro proven he was Telephone Main 981-982 for the IN HILLS OF ARKANSAS of America The National Association interested in the welfare Advancement of Colored People is a by standing by the Republican party —right or wrong? Has the Repub- Three Negroes were traveling thru non-political organization of national lican party been true to its father— the hills of Arkansas in a car. They FREE DELIVERY people and Negroes for the pur- an- white Abraham Lincoln? Would Lincoln came down around a sharp curve, 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. pose of actively combating such evils recognize his party if he were here other car occupied by whites, was as the K. K, K. and Black Legion. today? Has the party done any- backing around in the middle of the thing for the Negro since emancipa- the curve. To hit Aley Drug Co. A. A. C. P. deseives support. street just around The N. tion? These are questions for every the backing car was unavoidabic. Phone 250 If some acticns of the N. A. A. C. P. Negro of El Paso county to answer, The crash broke all the glass in the do not meet your approval, help to The Negro of America _is thinking car occupied by the whites. A little overcome them by becoming a more and the Negro of El Paso county girl was crt an the forehead. Ne must think, Every American citizen one was seriously hurt. active member. must progress and the Negro must The white driver got out making SPORTING GOODS ] have been For the past five years not retard that progress. President apologies and saying how sorry he “Everything for Sportsmen” seeking the Lord. In Him I have found Franklin Delano_ Roosevelt was was, that they just remembered elected in 1932. From 1932 to 1936 turn- great peace, For five years I have not something forgotten and were THPEE SPORT SHOP the U. S. of America has progressed that they should have in anything I considered ing around, participated more rapidly than it has in any pe- looked around before turning. Then 17 -N. Tejon Phone M. 930 worldly, but lately two Scriptures have riod since 1865. In 1932 homes for another car passed. The white driv been working in me. Jesus’ own prayer: people were built on freight cars, er stopped and got out. He happened meals served from the garbage cans, St. John— “Father, [ pray not! to be a lawyer and an acquaintance INE HEE R RRR RAREee {7th clothes manufactured in dumping (a school principal) of take them out of of the driver that thou shouldst places, and money—only in the the car in error. He was in a great = See HITT’S | the world, but that thou should keep pockets of millionaires. Four years rush to get the girl to the hospital. = NEW SHOE STORE thern from the evil”, and secondly the jJater in 1936—Freight cars are carry- The man in the wrong retracted his ing baggage. The government is Negroes SHOES FOR ALLTHE ff God as given by John, the confessions of error. The Word of providing substantial meals and two whites the evi- a FAMILY a — who so tried to show the Beloved: I John 3:17—‘“But clothes. Money is in the banks. dence of the tracks of the cars before bet 106 East Pikes Peak i hath this world’s good, and seeth his From 1929 to 1932 when banks were they were obscured. The whites ig- PCC CECELee ELEEct brother have need, and shutteth up his failing, every day, every place in the nored them, country, the big Republican capital- Negroes suffered a bowels of compassion from him, how ‘The car of the ists were investing their money in broken tadiator; so they were forced PUEBLO AVENUE dwelleth the love of God in him?” foreign lands, while their fellowciti- to return to Mt. Ive, (the little vil- My seeming recent worldliness is zens were starving on the street. lage nearby) to repair the radiator, . BARBER SHOP simply the God-given desire to help; Now, that same Republican party is The white lawyer swore out an af- 222 Pueblo Avenue asking that we defeat the party which on the Negroes’ car, He for I surely have some of this world’s tachment Phone Main 5769 is striving to save the nation. and the sheriff “got together.” The good and I see my brother has need. Do the American people want Negroes were given the choice of, L, C. CALDWELL, Prop. money and food or not? Do we want paying cotrt costs or having to stay progressiveness for all the people, or -fAght the case thru the BILL JOHNSON TAKES there and {ytutetetototototatutotetututetattutet tuted, do we want finance for millionaires courts. LOOMEMOOIG, FIRST PLACE of the Republican party? When all The Negroes, recognizing their to- % of these questions are answeredit cation as Arkansas, and not being = The Prompt Pharmacy = At the Pioneer theatre’s recent will be a choice between the progres- ready to be lynched, paid the court “Search for Talent” William (Bill) sive Democracy of Franklin Delano costs and continued on their jour- * COLORADO SPRINGS’ # Johnson, formerly of this city, took Roosevelt or the conservative capi- ney. Litle incidents of this nature z SURGICAL first place. Mr. Johnson is the san talism of the Republican party. I am are continually occuring thruout the Johnson on going to endeaver to answer these “state- 2 APPLIANCE STORE of Mr, and Mrs. William portion of this land where % East Colorado avenue. questions fully. Watch this column rights” give local hoodlums the privi- * SHOULDER BRACES At this Amateur show, conducted every week and every Negro in E1 lege of abusing Negroes without fear % by the Pioneer theatre of Lamar, Paso county will know WHY I AM af yemonstrance. The whole idea of TRUSSES BELTS Colo., Mr. Johnson won the honors A DEMOCRAT. “State rights” helps perpetuate this = ARCH BRACES = with a tap dancing number, Mr, and Yours till next week, condition. Aa % Mrs. Johnson are both nowresiding MRS. PAUL H. GOFFMAN = AN Appliance Work Subject to z Your Physician’s Approval z jn Lamar, Colo., being employed by the Kelsey hotel of that city. _Editor’s Note: Dear Sister, please ernment of the United States has made since 1933. Baggage is not z PHONE MAIN 1770 & give us just one definite concrete ex- %Srstesteaterterte cstentroes ample of any advancement the gov- hauled in freight cars—yet—Editor. eReRAINS Patronize Voice Advertisers.

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Food Offering .... Churches Groceries, Fresh Fruits and 1936 Graduates Brilliant. Special Offering: Vegetables Colorado Springs .. Individuals . The colored graduates proved Denver (Ogden St. Good Meats Cheap themselves to be a record class in Colorado Springs (East Side). Grand Total _ scholastic ability at commencemerit Denver (California St. 5.00 CUT RATE MARKET exercises in the city auditorium last Total offering to the Denver (West Side) 8.50 Total disbursements . 23 E. Colo. Ave. Ph, M. 4250 Thursday night. Out of the total of Boulder. 4.00 nine graduates, four were listed with Puebto 22.65 the recognition group. Three of the Balance from meeting ... ‘Trinidad 13.50 number were awarded scholarships; Walsenburg 5.75 as follows: Sachs foundation schol- Portland If you think you are beaten, you are, DeSOTO—PLYMOUTH arship—full year tuition scholarship Redwing If you think you dare not, you don’t; State schoi- to C. C., to Ellis Butler; Canon City Tf you like to win but you think you arship to any one of the state insti- can’t, Nelson-Eubank Motor Co. tutions, to Nina Stroud—tull year tui- It’s almost a cinch you won't, 119 North Nevada | The Low- tion renewable scholarship. Missionaries If you think you'll lose, you’ve lost; MAIN 493 ell scholarship to C. C. went to Sam- For out in the world we find M. V. Holmes ioduvdousexsanseunaanbannFaavaeatane. This is the first time a uel Hunter. ¢ M. Horn . That Success begins with a fellow’s Negro was ever the winner of this will— y A, Gar EXOSTOSES award. Cenovia Gonzales, Spanish- Tt’s all in the state of mind. r Dyes... graduate, received a_one- American r Pearl Har scholarship to C. C. Say It With half tuition C. Sims I£ you think you’re outclassed, you was Flowers evn: Lomo, Fillipino student, Agata Sister S. Dalton are; with the third class recognition listed Sister You've got to think high to rise; group. Youve got to be sure of yourself Main 214 Sister The report 1s that Nina Stroud is before Sister S. Dennis . 22 N, Tejon the first Negro graduate to receive a You ever can win a prize. scholarship to a state institution thru Life’s battles don’t always go $ 850 commit- To the strongest or swiftest man; iSOU REST SCSETURL an award of the scholarship Ministers and Evangelists tee. If this statement is not true will But soon or late the man who wins any one who knows contact the Plac- Elder C. E. Morgan. Is the one who thinks he can. ing Bureau by calling Main 5330-M. Elder G. E. Smith 2.00 GOOD WORK at Reasonable Elder Ezekiel Gon 2.00 The famous citadel of Haiti, built Prices in Our Completely Placing Bureau, Elder D. D. Burge 1.00 by King Christophe to protect his Elder W. M. Jones . 1.00 country against the French, was be- Equipped Shop. registered at the Placing Those Elder R. W. Campbell 1.00 gun in 1806 and finished in 1819. Bureau last week, were as follows: Elder James Black . 1,00 Golden Cycle Shine Parlor Oklahoma City, Miss T. Brown, Elder Z, J. Douglass . SUE UERCG ThE OUELLETTE Telephone Main 3218-W, Okla; Mr. F, F, Hegwood, Guthrie, Elder James Dyes -. Little Okla.; Rev, and Mrs. Graham, Elder Wm. B. Odom GOLDEN CYCLE Wagner, Rock, Ark; Rev. and Mrs, PHARMACY Elder Robb NMA Pa.; Miss Jewel_ Patter- MIATOTATATATATATOTON... Pittsburgh, Elder C. L. Sims . 7S. Tejon St. Main 2787 son, Chicago, lil.; and Miss Christine Elder E. Howard. N. M. Junior COURTEOUS ATTENTION Hawkins, Albuquerque, Elder C. J. Johnson. CORRECT Thomas and Del Duncan have re- Meadow Elder J. A. Merryweather PRESCRIPTION SERVICE turned from Kansas where they have Elder Hosea Brown..... SULTSTTA STCM NUTTERBL been attending school. The Placing will not be open from 10a, m, Bureau Gold an 8 p. m, as we have for the past to three and one-half years. This year Ick CREAM we will open from 8 a. m. to 12 noon. distribution to needy persons from FQAERIB@O Open in the afternoon from 5 to 6:30 taxes raised from all sorts of taxa- MILK only, We are asking that all summer tion. This woman should be given BUTTER yisitors will register before leaving justice. And it is up to the whole of the city. This may be done by com- the Negro population of Colorado good BREAD | Phone Main 1183 ing to 421 N. Royerstreet or calling Springs to see to it that she gets jus- Main 5330-M. Any one who has a tice, even if every officer in the for their county courthouse has to be changed UOTE” visitor may ca] and register visitors. We are making a special ef- in the next election to do so. And re- fort to secure work for the young member that Congressman Martin New Process Curtain Cleaners who have just and Senator Costigan have had a lot girls for the summer Curtains and Drapes come out of the high schools; any to do with the employment of the one knowing of any job is asked to relief personnel also, The buck pass- Laundered by us: hangs straight, get in touch with us immediately, as ing practice at the relief office has last longer made look like new. of the youngsters will have to got to be eliminated. most 124 North Corona ‘Phone Main 534 aw depend on working in order to enter EDITOR—I would like to know Dg? V6 school nest fall. We also have a num- who this woman is. The practical the ber of boys who want jobs thru thing to do is to get together and summer, Missorothea Wood wasin help this woman, The wretched part = Ty> ewriter Mary of the whole affair is that the truly Central Furniture the city last Sunday. Mrs. Howard, also, is here. She has been needy are NOT helped. We Trade and Sell Cheaper Os in Arizona all winter. This woman will probably get on Stoves of All Kinds

the WPA payroll from present indi- 320 South Tejon Street Another Relief Situation. cations. Phone Main 5455-J 105 N. Tejon M. 95 There is a relief case in the city COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO, which should be brought to the atten- Hd BRE BR YAa tion of every Negro organization in COME TO AUSTINS Een and mass protest should be pees the city CUT PRICE STORES P EARSON HARMACY made to the district office, the state Everything In Household Goods RESCRIPTION. HARMACIST office and the national office that this AUSTINS Stroud’s case be given justice. There is a SERVICE AS YOU LIKE IT Where They Sell Cheap ssidow woman in Colorado Springs, DELIVERY SERVICE 413 S. Tejon 44 E. Cucharras who has a dependent daughter. For Sanitation Service . tried to get help |! Corner Tejon and Platte three years she has MAIN 311 relief agency. thru the government COURTEOUS at the county When she first applied DEPENDABLE courthouse she was told she must General Repairs WSR NARUCEMU give them her home, which consists Carpentering METAL PRODUCTS CO. ECONOMICAL of three tiny little rooms, without IS

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Finally she was givenalittle assist- Call H, E. WILKS MUM FURNACES REMOVAL SERVICE ance thru the Associated Charities, RIL viz: $6 for groceries for one month, Main 2332 OEE 501 W. Colorado Ave. ff Phone M. 3701 810 N. Walnut Hf one ton of coal. This allowance was Main 586 for the two to live on. not enough UTADATREEEAETE the grocery Miss Donaldson raised ‘Severusaccee order to $10 monthly and one pint of milk per day, Of course the Asso- Economy Tire Store SAND and GRAVEL a relief organi- clated Charities is not For Bargains in FERTILIZER Arapahoe zation. Jt was created to supplement USED TIRES TUBES persons who were not making enough WHEEL-SETS JOE A. CRAWFORD Food to Hve on. This womanhas absolute- 16 E. Colo. Ave. Main 259-J ly no income but this allowance. General Hauling

There was not a sheet in the house Stores beta until Miss Donaldson brought some eSAETILALSLINCUTATACUEIUCRNEUBIURTLUNSUAT HENNASUUELATTENNNEANNEAL oe cast aways from some patron of the Associated Charities just a week or “FESS” BRYANT RELIABLE ASH AND so ago. They have no clothes except Tap-Dancing TRASH REMOVAL GROCERIES those they had from 6 to 10 years SERVICE ago, which are absolutely thread bare Instructor FRUITS | and not fit for any human to wear CALL MAIN 2787 Phone Main 4349 MEATS when women are being ‘paid from $48 to $55 per month to make clothes for SS MRUUUAIRUR2ATUUEECUESULULBUTUECAULUAEINUaLCATANNARNNALNLLRIEg muaTHT al

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Davis was fined $15 for drunkenness Mr. McBeth, principal of the NOTICE—This paper will come and creating a disturbance. ; Dermont, Ark. high school, arrived out the second and fourth Fridays in LOCAL ITEMS i last Saturday morning. He is stop- each month until a paid subscription Correction: Samuel Hunter’s name ping in Manitou for the summer. list is built up,

was left out in the list of students —~TANDY. who received awards last week at the | Mrs. Ada Mason and Mrs. Julie

High school in the sports events. Scott left the city Monday night for The slave trade lasted for 360 By Mrs, Paul H. Goffman, Samuel received a letter in tennis | California. years, from 1517 whenthe first slaves with Ellis Butler, were imported into what is now 421 North Royer Street. Mrs, T. R. Collins left Monday Haiti, until 1880 when the last slaves night for Baton Rouge, La. She will were imported into Cuba and Brazil. The Amateur Hour and Costume be gone about five weeks. The wayside wanderers of Colo- ball at Douglass hall on the night of tado Springs, who have been residing May 30, was one of the largest turn- Mrs, Ora Bryant is reported ill. Slavery was abolished in Porto in various parts of the country dur- Prizes were award- Rico in 1873. ing the winter are slowly returning outs of the year. Louise Gray is also ill with St, Vitus the contestants who received to the cool city of sunshine for the ed to dance. the greatest applause. First prize The Negro population of the Uni- summer months. When the hot dancing went to the Stroud summer months arrive anyone who for tap Sylvester Smith, young son of Mr. ted States is more literate than the sisters, Bobby and Rosa May. Bobby and Mrs. L. C. Smith was host to a. population of Italy. has ever spent a summer in cool first prize for singing. Colorado, is always perfectly ready also received glorious birthday party at his home| Stazzie Shaw was awarded second ; on South Wahsatch last week. Little; Forty-four whites and_122 Negroes to return. Miss Margaret Shelton for tapping and John McDon- arrived two weeks ago from Tulsa, prize Mr. Smith was six years old. were lynched in the United States ald received a prize for heing the Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Bramen Heastie | in 1897, only male contestant. Ella Vaughn returned last week from California. second prize for singing, and Thomas Harris, 415 North Corona, and Lula Stroud, who is a student ar received SoTUNEL ADEUAELSUGEUEETAES UAT ELSES ARG HUEPE UCUTSE CABHIO EL 2 Myrtle Jones received third prize for wasill for a few days last week. Pra‘rie View, Texas, returned Sunday. . BOYS AUTO PARTS Many more are expected to return mm singing. There were a number of residents TIRES AND PARTS the next week or so. NEW AND USED Gtadys Childress, talented daughter of the city who motored to Chey- See BEN or FRANK of Mr. and Mrs. John Childress, ap- fenne, Wyoming last Saturday to at- As summer arrives, the school chil- peared on the music program at | tend the funeral services of Mr. John GOODRICH TIRES ON TIME dren too are happy, as it means a Thursday Moss. They were Mrs, Charles 29 S, Cascade Main 377 Colorado College last three-month vacation from books Banks, Ella Seymour, Miss Bessie night, She rendered three piano se- > qysis an Se TUEUSWUALAAE ALLTELOETAERUAECSSLAR TEETER ELaTaEoe for them. While a great deal of at- lections. Jackson, Loney Seymour and Mr. tention is being paid to the graduates James Faison. Mr. Moss was buried of the High school and colleges, The delegates to the State Fed- in Cheyenne. there are other youngsters who are of Colored Women’s clubs “IF IT’S A RADIO, by no means to be overlooked as eration left for La Junta, Colo., last Miss Esther Carter, WPA teacher, accomplished a great who WE CAN REPAIR IT” they, too, have to attend the three-day con- was transferred to the American the task is just as hard t. Tuesday deal and vention are as follows: Dahlia Art Guide project last week, after the N. There are a number who are HOBDEN RADIO SHOP them. and Literary club, Mrs. Mattie Fox, Y. A. project, over which she was in to the Junior high school going president; Mrs. Marguerite Clark, charge, was closed down. i Main 1431 415 S. Nevada from the grade schools in September elegate; Treble Clef Club, Mrs. number from the Junior high and a Marceta Simmons, president; Mrs. B. Cool-headedness is the best form of schools will enter the high schovt Dubois Study the L. McDonald, delegate; insurance in existence and its prem-|tyyywryyyeryrExY¥rxxxYrxyY next September, Those from Simpson, president; i Ed. club, Mrs. M. jum is discipline. Our navy has been grade schools are as follows: Leggett, delegate. Other Ruth Mrs. Esther noted for the cool-headed manner in “Betty Baxley Frocks’’ 4 ward Moore, Franklin Macon, the city are as bd Cleopatra representatives from which it acts in any andall disasters. | Morgan, Bobby Stroud, Mrs. Ruie Stewart, state Hill, Richard follows: True discipline is not an indication of at JAMESON’S o Allen, Emma Louise Miss Marie Bryant, cor- Roosevelt Bell, Carrie Davis, president; servility, but rather a virtue that is 1S. TEJON ST. fg Walker, responding secretary; Mrs. Alice is bq Roland Davis, Aletha Woods, Mar- much desired in any walk of life. It Lamb, state statistician; Mrs. Lizzie a form of education of both a mental $1.95 to $5.95 pS cella McFarland, Arvistis McKinnie, Matd Watson, state historian; Mrs. and moral nature. A well disciplined {exrxxwxxxyxyYxeYYxxyyyryryxyyxy

Smith, Lester Tanner, Vir- Lonnie Price, state publicity chairman; Mrs. Watson. Those from the Junior man is an asset to any community in ginia Christine Gree, chairman of educa- which he fives and more so to the gum waearuee High schools are: Pierson Brown, Vaughn,pres- Peggy French, | tion, and Miss Genolda navy, It is around this rigid form of ee — Eugene Marshall, ident of city federation, Ruth Lewis, Grace Morgan, Rose i training that our navy has become PHONE THE the greatest in the world. REGAL DRUG CO. MayStroud, Priscilla Vaughn, Emma; entertained Octor- Mrs. Louise Williams Brunner, Lee Wiley, Thelma of bridge last Saturday Rhoda Dunlap, Win- at two tables West Indies and Dutch Guiana in FREE DELIVERY SERVICE jan Douglass, afternoon in honor of Miss T, Brown McBarland and Martha McKin- ston of Oklahoma City. Miss Esther Car- nie. Rosa May Stroud was Tisted and guest Slavery was abolished in the Dutch Phone M. 40, 481 and 482 ar ter received first prize 12 students the highest among prize was awarded to Miss Brown. North Junior and received a gold pir ESS Arthur Tafoya, for the distinction. Brown and Miss Jewel Long’s Saratoga Chips | student, also re- Miss T. a Spanish-American Paterson were honored guests at a Hikers’ Salad Dressings c NEVADA PHARMACY a gold pin for the same dis- ceived very lovely affair Sunday morning at Hikers Pure Horseradish Pp orate Opposite Postofflce . tinction, Mrs. Lula B. Work’s home on East, Mustard — Egg Noodles reeRiowatLowesBrices, Dale. Mrs. Work entertained a ¢ Manufactured by DEVELOPING FREE Decoration day was a day of com- o'clock breakfast. Other guests HIKERS FOOD PRODUCTS CAMERAS AND COSMETICS from this, it ing and going, Aside were: the Frank Work family. After COMPANY 'Phone M. 2785 Free Delivery. was an ideal Colorado summer day, they all assembled on the breakfast far different from the great memorial of pictures Jawn where a number day flood of last year, Any number until time for Miss were taken, i520 a of visitors were in the city from all Muldrow and Miss Thelma and Gladys the nearby towns, and Pueblo Brown to arrive and take them for Z COLORADO SPRINGS s|# Courtesy of a Denver were represented by large a hike thru the Garden of the Gods. o MOTOR CO. A The 5 numbers. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Doug- Mrs. Dorothy -Spann accompanied from lass were among the visitors them on this trip. At the Garden of HBe curvsLer and pLYmouTH gi Colorado Springs wgz Denver. the Gods, Mrs. Spann and the baby g Sales and Service tg BE B Cc a picked the party up and took them 23'S. Nevada Phone M. 297 @ z us Company a While any number of visitors were on a motor trip to the Woodmen Ede) “ON TIME WITH SAFETY” & in the Springs, a goodly num- up to Cascade. They present Sanitarium and ber of the Springs people were visi- all returned home late in the after- tors in the capital city, among whom noon. Both Miss Brown and Miss were listed: Mrs. Susan Daugherty, Patterson were scheduled to leave the i ORIG’S for i WHITE KITCHEN Mesdames Alice Allen, Bertha Mc- city this week. Mrs? i ow, Regular Prices i PASTRY SHOP Wm, Price and Mr. and Donald, i , E Making Austin Sharp. Mrs. Elsie Hilliard” Mrs. Mary V. Howard, well-known i on MEN’S CLOTHING and SHOES |f Bakerythe VeryGoods,Best in of Broadmoor, spent the week-end in citizen of Colorado Springs, arrived the capital city. from Phoenix, Ariz, last Friday i 107 S. Tejon i WeSolicit Your Patronage. morning. She has been spending the |ounaneacaecarnvastunivaaaToiidaiduannDaETaanaeiaeabOaanaaTIE Phone M. 2119 15 N. Tejon to beginning Colorado Springs is winter in Phoenix and reports that add its name to the black list everv it is really getting hot down there. ne Hy BS BS GBBa 4 toietetenetetgentedetupgegedegenateterette week. Just about the time the par- In Arizona, she says, there is three- ticipants of one fight get well enough way school segregation—the Spanish H DODGE & GEISLER #)% THE = to return home from the hospital, the Negroes and the Caucasians, 2 Ca another scrap occurs and another Each group has a school to itself. LOANS AND RENTALS & & ORISSEY & FOWLER + Negro is admitted to the hospital, H INSURANCE—Auto and Fire pif LUMBER CO. z This time Clarence Boston was the Mr. William Williams of Hot * victim and Oscar Peck the one who Springs, Ark., arrived in the city Sat- Mi Phone Main 1199 24 E, Kiowa ez % Main 101 117-129 W. Vermijo : wielded the car crank. Mitchell urday morning,

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THE NEGRO AND SHERIFF SAM DEAL WILL RUN FOR RE-ELECTION

THE CONVENTIONS BE IN TIME Sam Deal announced that he would run for re-election. The record he The Big Three political conventions? has made as sheriff has been com- are over, Republican, Democratic and Beintime, sinner, be in time mendable, Effective work has been Communist. Without a doubt all While the voice of Jesus calls you done against gambling and bootleg- three are making a definite bid for Be in time ging in El Paso county, They found the Negro vote. In fact it gives the Tf in sin you longer wait, the largest still ever disce doin impression that the Negro vote will these parts. That the sherifi’s office he one of the deciding factors in the You may find no open gate has been run on a business-like and election of November, 1936. Tt is the; Ere your sad cry be, ‘Toolate,” efficient, as well as a courteous basis first chance the Negro has had since} Be in time, cannot be denied even bythe sheriff's emancipation to play politics, and the; opponents.

only question now is to be sure he (1) dy) plays the game with the right man. Life itself is very brief Timeis gliding swiftly by LIEUT. BENJAMIN DAVIS, JR. The Communists, because they have draweth nigh Like the fading of a leaf Death and judgment of absohitely not the slightest hope To the arms of Jesus fly, being elected are running James Like the binding of a sheaf, Lieutenant Davis and his comely Ford, a Negro, for vice president. It Be in time Bein time. wife returned from their honeymoon will be a novel idea when the Negro Fleeting daysaretelling fast Oh, I pray you count the cost fast week, They were married in is again organized as solidly non- Ere the fatal line be crossed West Point Chapei, June 20. That the die will soon be cast Lieutenant Davis was graduated partisan, as they were at one time Ere the fatal line is past, Andyoursoulin hell be lost, Republican, to give that party a solid from West Point this year. [fe stood 4,000,000 votes plus their own record- Be in time. Bein time. 35th in a class of 276. He is the ed votes, and elect that Negro to the fourth Negro to graduate from this office of vice president of the United| dip (IV) historic institution, States. From then on there would; Fairest flowers soon decay Sinners, heed the warning voice The other three were: Henry O. he no danger of the Communists| Make the Lord your final choice Flipper, 1887; John WW. Alexander, Youth and beauty fade away 1887 and Col. Charles Young in 1889. playing that game again. At present! Oh, you have notlongto stay, Then the angels will rejoice, we are too unorganized to even think Be in time. of playing their game, To vote Com- Be in time. Fight to Save Sharecropper munistie would he to throw awaythe When the Spirit bids you come, Come from darkness into light vote, nothing less. Sinner, do not longer roam Come,let Jesus set you right, From Being Sent to South The Republicans started their_con- Lest you seal your endless doom, Comeandstart for heaven tonite, vention off with songs by a Negro Be in time. Be in time. CHICAGO, Jne 26.--The fight to quartet, and ended it with Mr. Perry eRe save Sam Bennett, 55-year-old Negro Howard seconding the nomination of sharecropper from Arkansas, from Mr. Alf Landon for president. They The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not being sent back to Arkansas fromthis forgot to mention that they refused saved. Jer. 8:20. city is being aided by the National to publish the fact that th eo» # Association for ‘tne Advancement of ~gtat theNegro” delegatio: concerning the Colored People. Bennett is active number of the southern states and en- The word ef the Lord that came to Jeremiah with’ the Southern Tenant Farmers dorsed the lily-white delegations in- dearth. Inton and has been trying to get jus- stead. They also forgot ta mention Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof Janguish; they are black tice for the sharecrappers in his state the fact that they absolutely refused unto the ground; and the: cry of Jerusalem is gone up, He harely escaped a moh and made a press representative from the larg- his way to Chicago. Tinmediatety est and best paper the Negroes own And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters; they Arkansas county authorities charged in the United States to sit in the con- came to the pits and found no water; they returned with their vessels him with a crime and asked the state vention, Tt must have heen because empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. , of IMinois to extradite lim. The N. that paper is endorsing the adminis- Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forscok it, because A. ALC. P. has written Gov. Horner tration this year, They forgot its there was no grass. of Iinois opposing the extradition, circulation, however, T am sure, be- has asked Irvin C. Moltison, prest- cause a newspaper is a dangerous ar- And the wild asses did standin the high places; they snuffed up dent of its state branches, to interest ticle to insult. the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. himself in the case and has invited The Democrats, well they didn’t O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for the eminent attorney, Clarence Dar- have any chicken wire between the row, to advise and assist. Negro and white delegates from thy name’s sake; for our back slidings are many; we have sinned Texas this year as they have been against thee. known to have. Instead they even PLATFORMS ARE MADE

placed a Negro on the conmmittee to

notify the president and vice presi- The nominees are chosen; the plat- dent of their nomination for re-clec- RACE HATRED SCORED BY GOVERNOR LEHMAN forms are made; and both parties tion, Arthur Mitchell addressed the have again failed to take a definite convention from the speaker’s plat- IN GREETINGS TON. A. A.C. P. - and uncompromising stand against form on Friday night, and they even mob violence and racial injustices. called a Negro minister to offer pray- The political parties are still too cow- er to save the Democrats and their BALTIMORE, Md. June2 29--; festations. ‘We must work insistent- ardly to be frank. souls. (Much needed) If thra some circumstances, the hatred and charging that} ly, intelligently and unitedly against The last two actions absolutely got Scoring race politicians could be made men of the best of Mr. Smith from South it is being used “in many parts of they pieotry. world by unscrupulous individuals to) a, | . : fearless principles, the platforms of Carolina, That was the first time his, I call upon my fellow Americans the parties would become more “sacred Democratic Party,” had advance their own selfish interests,” Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New| of all races and of all creeds to rally worthy, Both platforms are a disap- strayed so far from the teachings of letter of greet-| to the cause which the N. A. A.C, P. pointment to thoughtful persons gen- its southern fathers, and he just York has sent a warm ing to the 27th annual conference of| represents.” pinely interested in the nation’s up- coulln’t take it, ift. All conventions would have been the N. A. A. C. P, meeting here this! For many years, Gov. Lehman has just lovely, only all Negro Americans week. been a member of the board of di- know they are all playing, “before “Tf we are to avert hatreds which} rectors of the N. ALA. CP. N. A. A. C. P. REPORT OUT to the association's election politics” and it is nothing may cause us to revert to the barbar- Tn his greeting NEW YORK, fone 26—The 26th new. One thing sure the Negro is! isin of the middle ages,” the message! conference, Senator Arthur Capper annual report af the N, .aP becoming intelligent, and that sort of! declared, “we must set our faces! of Kaneas declared, “Ef am proud of for the year 1935 is on sale and may politi is old. Negroes are modern sternly, no matter what race we be-! the fact that I am a vice president of be secured for 18 cents. The report so pol must be modern, long to, against this capitalizing of, this splendid organization and T am contains a complete review of the Another interesting fact resulting racial or any other kind of hatred. likewise proud of the Gne, construe- activities of the asociation during from the conventions, is the one- “But it is not enough merely to be] tive work it is doing to advance the 1935 on all fronts of activity. sided way Mr. Hearst, who controls opposed in principle to such mani- interests of our Negro citizens.” more publications than any one man

in the United States, played his part. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” Mr. Mearst is definitely aligned with terview the next day. A lady dele-|the Democratic convention?” Ans- The Communist convention also the foes of the administration and is gate from the same delegation which} wer, “I do not believe the majority of brought out one very important po- playing up only one side. The papers Mr. Smith was with was called to the}the delegates from South Carolina litical situation. Mr. Lemke is play~ all over the country took pains to microphone. She was questioned as. object to Negroes addressing the con- ing a political game for Mr. [earst to pablish in e@laring type the fact that fallows: “Do you think the action of! vention.” “Do you believe the action split the Demwecratic vote according Mr, Smith walked out of the Demo- Mr. Smith represents the feeling of|of Mr. Smith will have any effect on to a report from their convention, cratic convention because two N the delegation from South Carolina?” | the vote of South Carolina in the next Lemke is a Republican and the Re- roes were selected to occu Answer, “Emphatically no.’ °“Dojclection?’ Answer, “No one can publicans are grabbing at a last traw change South Carolina. The vote of to defeat the New Deal. That at speakers’ platform, The papers youbelieve the delegation from South] to print the result of a broadens ‘Carolina wants Negroes to address{ South Carolina is going to President least is something to think about.

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THE VOICE OF COLORADO | every 100 banks in the country would $25,000 PLEDGED BY NATIONAL broke, A reduction of 10 cents on COLORED DEMOCRATIC AS8- go SOCIATION TO NATIONAL CHURCH NEWS he policy of this paper is to bring a dollar is not much. The country is about 2 better understanding between DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN races thru an impartial presentation of in a very precarious condition. FUND Truth.

TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH If the New Deal has its way, Mr. ‘andy Stroud According to reports received by Corner of Nevada at Fountain. fesse ‘Tarrant Banker, there will be no Supreme the chairman of the local Democratic Reverend Allen, Pastor. Court to appeal to. association the national organization Leave Articles to Be Published With a Re 22 Pueblo Ave, pledged $25,000 to the National Cam- ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Miss Marie Bryan paign fund at its recent convention Mrs. Paul Goffman. 421 N. Royer Of Mr. Roosevelt I refer to Eccl. Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Tandy Stroud. 43 N. Spruce held in Philadelphia. Dr. W. J a B. Cimarron thou vowest a vow unto J. Raymond Short, Pastor. ODNJesse Tarrant. 5:4—When Tompkins, of Kansas City, was God, defer not to pay it; for he hath Subseription, per ye $1.00 elected for another term of office, he no pleasure in fools: pay that which was unopposed. Mrs. Theodora Jones PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Six Months 50 rt thou hast vowed.” of California was elected to head the CHURCH Women’s division. Dr. Tompkins is Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. This is NOT a church paper. This is NOT a political paper. expected to be in Colorado Springs Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, IS a good, clean, Negro paper. A SITUATION THAT This in a very short time according to word BEEN AVOIDED -COULD HAVE received by the local association, He CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1936. was first scheduled to come in June, Corner Spruce and Willamette. nese disgraceful spectacle, ev- but because of the Democratic Con- It was a Elder C. E. Morgan, Pastor. eryone agrees, which occurred in vention in Philadelphia, the time was THE NEW SET-UP! Monument Valley at the playgrounds, changed until after the convention, We heard rumors: Next month a few weeks ago. Such action cannot EAST SIDE CHURCH OF we'll get raised to $60 per month, the be justified on either side. Grown Where withal shall a young man GOD IN CHRIST who will be 623 Hast Monument, hours will be increased to eight a day, women, and young girls, cleanse his way? sometime in the near future, By taking heed thereto according Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. we'll be able to pay on a few back women fighting like any of the lower animals to thy word. bills, ete., etc. of thing would do. This is the sort _ The entrance of thy words giveth EPIPHANY MISSION, Then Harry Hopkins talked over that intelligence must not tolerate. light; it giveth understanding to the EPISCOPAL whole affair was unnecessary and simple. the radio: “This is the first chance The Dale and Royer Streets The could Wave been avoided, if a. little had to meet you all...” I've of intelligence, rather than ignor- a kindergarten teacher bit In 1831 free Negroes were denied talk was such as ance had been displayed on either by statute the right of trial by jury, PEOPLES M. E, CHURCH would give to her class. The attitude side. Something must be done thru except for offenses punishable by; Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets, was not that of a man and citizen to the WPA funds. The Negroes of death. Reverend W. L, Lee, Pastor. Springs know what they are another man andcitizen, but rather, the Colorado against better than any other patronizing attitude of a master to his up » group can know for them. They have AWNINGS The Birdsall-Stockdale slaves. asked the WPA office to give them a That is what we have come to, The project, under which the youth of the Canvas and Camp Goods Motor Company For hours were not increased. The pay was Negro race could be cared for. WEST TENT PAMOTORCARSARS or young The OUT increased by taking one instance, some Negro man INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS technically could be given employment & AWNING CO. day. This hour woman 18-19 North Nevada Avenue hour off the working thra WPA funds to assist the play- Main 1261 18 BE, Kiowa Telephone Main 981-982 that the Negro morning so with the was taken off the ground supervisor WPA worker must still spend the child in the public parks and help to quarrels from de- most of the day on the job. He is keep these racial veloping. As is well known in this thereby kept from making any money THE BEDDING MART BREE DELIVERY city, most of the Negro parents have SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 8 A, M. to 11 P.M. on the side and is forced to stay on a to work to make a living for the hand to mouth” living. It is family. In other words it takes all MATTRESSES, $3.95 & UP “from time to face facts squarely. the money that both parents can earn BEDS AND SPRINGS Aley Drag Co. family at- the SCIENTIFICALLY RENOVATED been working regularly all to support the average Phone 250 We have wage most Negroes are forced to 192 E, KIOWA MAIN 41257 does not con- _ winter. (Any one who work for. A child without parental sider it work, may take my place for care from day to day is naturally un- S088 a just one day. Some may “get by’” ruly, and feels he has no protection he affords for himself, SPORTING GOODS but after a while a fellow but that which loafing, a general rule he will always OTTO’S as well work and as “Everything for Sportsmen” realizes that he might just afford that protection very ably. POTATO BREAD time). to pro- since he has to put in the IE the government is going TEPEE SPORT SHOP nothing to show for cur vide funds from taxation to give work BAKED IN COLORADO We have M. 930 to needy persons to help their com- SPRINGS, COLO. U7 N. Tejon Phone year’s labor. The same indebtedness, munities, it docs seem as if the Negro is upon us. Our time the same poverty of this city might be given a chance Bed Bd ada Sd2 has been spent; REAL WORK has to get some of the things he needs been done; but our babies’ needs are rather than have such conditions exist com- still NOT provided. The WAGE in a supposed to be intelligent CHRISTIAN SANITARY HAS KEPT US PAUPERS. munity. COMPANY

ago there were thou- Three years NOTICE Grease Traps Cleaned Sanitation Service sands of unemployed, independent PRICES REASONABLE

who had self-respect COURTEOUS workers—men 428 W. San Rafael St. M. 1906 and a valuation for their time. Today To the Colorado Springs Citizens, DEPENDABLE =f Dear Folks: there are more unemployed—but no Tandy Stroud was born, reared and ECONOMICAL § longer independent, self - respecting educated here in Colorado Springs. workers. We are a host of government He feels, and knows from experience, The first and oldest Laundry in ASH-TRASH the United States to wash every- wards, dependent on the bounty of a how the Colorado Springs Negro is REMOVAL SERVICE He is putting up a thing with IVORY SOAP. patronizing administration for our very handicapped. strong batile for all our welfare. We Phone M.3701 81¢ N. Walnut & bread! Our savings are wiped out, cur help THE PEARL LAUNDRY ought to all get behind him and 331 North Tejon Street credit standing is gone; we are herded push “The Voice of Colorado.” Phones Main 1085-1086 as cattle or sheep, and Harry Hop- Yours truly, AU MSGIESESARRC her FRANK LOPER. cajoles us like a school-marm

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SALE eT For EDITOR’S POLITICAL Dear Editor: COMMENT: I wish to congratulate the colored They| + DRESSES % 4 attempted to students of Colorado Springs. 0 The New Deal has year than better showing this ee made a SUITS The Prompt Pharmacy he DESTROY for the Nation: Its con- T believe has ever been made before. ue fidence, its temperance, its credit, its Tell them to press on with even great- COATS ae COLORADO SPRINGS’ law, its foreign export trade, and the er determination, and they will find SURGICAL and education are in- rightof its citizens to free, independent, that character RTO $3.58--$4.88 qe APPLIANCE STORE yaluable assets when they must go self-supporting living. cut into the world. es SHOULDER BRACES

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THREE THE VOICE OF COLORADO LEGGETT WAS PLACING BUREAU MRS, ESTHER DEMOCRAT ELIZABETH WHITE ONCE MEMBER OF THE I AM A WHY GREETINGS KENTUCKY HARMONY SENDS Bu- Those registered at the Placing QUARTET that, Lucile I explained in my first article realast week were as follows: U.S. in! Liberia Alabama, Bes- 1 voted for a president of the Cape Palmas White of Tuscaloosa, Al Smith, Kansas at Residents of Colorado Springs did 1928, That vote was for West Africa sie Jones of Leavenworth, I had Home street; Joseph that Mrs. Esther Leggett, Why? That is a question, Box 6th Bethel 711 North Spruce not know T Okla. at 7il at one time been born and reared a Republican. Wissaka Station White of Okmulgee, well known citizen, was Mrs. S. A. Ed- was a Democrat. May 24, 1936. North Spruce street; a member of the Kentucky Harmony Kans., at Mr. S. Dome Scandal came to Mr. Tandy Stroud: wards, Garden City, Quartet, until last_ Tuesday night, The Teapot Christ: Mrs. Ben. Vaughn, 1924. After the fac!ts of that Dear Brother, in C. Manuel; Mr. and when Mrs, Louise Braxton informed light in you and the Sun- East St. Vrain beenaired, I do not un- Holy greetings to Joplin, Mo., at 605 the audience at the St. John: Baptist incident had do Springs in C. A. Williams, any true American day school at Colora street: Rev. and Mrs, church of the fact. Mrs. Leggett has derstand how Africa. Your Mrs. Proctor’s; interested in the welfare Jesus dear name from Los Angeles, Calif., at rendered any number of solos on dif- citizen, one we, the saints Okmul- could possibly endorse kind letter received an d Mr. and Mrs. W. E Anderson, ferent occasions and has a very pretty of his country, you are willing Tulsa, another four years © here rejoice to know gee, Okla. Burton Dickinson, voice, but she has always kept from that party for of Christ. Ranch, Milton the K. K. K., the most workers for the kingdom Okla., at the Dude public that she once sang in con- control. Too, school in at the Dude the organization in the U. Praise God for a Sunday [Guillory, Tulsa, Okla, cert. It came as a great surprise to un-American where boys and girls May Pendivers, Kansas at definitely supporting the can- darkest Africa Ranch, Etta her friends. Mrs. Leggett resides S. was up Holy hands to God. North Nevada avente, of the Republican nominee— are nowlifting City, Mo., 1130 632 North Franklin street. didacy in- lovely Sunday school and Kansas City, Mo., was my own We have a Miss Bessie Jones, Herbert Hoover. I and on street; everything within yy. PL W. W.all organized at her home, 522 East High structor, I read Yes, we will Il, at 329 Wallace and Seymour Sponsor the situation from fire for God, in Africa. Mrs. Irene Smith, Chicago reach. I studied to us, but the Mr. and Mrs. For the welfare of the appreciate cards sent South Weber street; Picnic on Fourth of July every angle. have sent Monica, Calif., there was only one Sunday school headquarters Ralph Miller, Santa U.S. of America, if anyone would street, Mr. and Democratic Party. us some books. But 618 East St, Vrain The Tom Wallaces and the Mariam choice—The Bibles, God will former residents of regretted that act. If my like to send us some Mrs. Miller are Seymours were sponsors of a lovely have never doing. The thing Buskner, Topeka, wrong—the Republican bless you for so this city. Charles picnic in South Cheyenne Canon, choice was d here is money to| Royer street: Mr. did nothing to prove that is most neede Kan, 639 North 4. Guests were: Dr. and Mrs. administration Many send Flakes, Miss Elia July years of that adminis- take care of the work. and Mrs. Dorsey Redd of Pueblo, Colo, Mr. T. R. Col- it. The four think to send Bessie Johnson, never be forgotten. There clothing, but do not May Howard, Mrs. lins and his mother, Mrs. Carrie Col- tration will I have boys from all of Mt. Harris, discussing those condi- money sometimes. Mrs. Laura Rolland lins of Baton Rouge, La, Misses is no need f age in the yard; Franklin street; hundred and twenty- seven to 25 years 0 Colo., at 640 North Rosetta Nolan and Enie Cacot_both tions. Nineteen hes, please send Tulsa, Okla., 606 1933 was a horrible dream. so if you send clot Carrol Mcintosh, of Kansas City, Mo., Chester Cham- eight to the large boys. Tf Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Let us forget. men’s clothing, for Last St. Vrain; bers of Ft. Smith, Ark. and Mrs. The who would like to take Garden City, Kans., also at Just a glance at the past. there is one Johnson, Alice B. Lamb, — you may do so y St. Vrain; Mrs. Fanny Wat- Democratic party, or Anti-Federal- care of anyone 606 East stood three dollars per month, Luther, Okla., 730 North Pine ists, was organized in 1801. It sending son, Free Negroes in Virginia in 1832 ount will care for one child I, A. Herbert, Lake Charles, for State’s Rights and was opposed This am street; were declared incapable of purchas- yard and will be named after La., $13 South Wahsatch street; Mrs. to a strong Federal government, in the ing or otherwise acquiring perma— every- of the chil d. Nowin Gibson, Beaumont. Texas, Mrs. Negro slavery was carried on the supporters Anna nent ownership except by descent of and send bank checks, or Walker, Lake Charles, La.; Mrs. where in the U.S, at that time, sending money Ruth any slaves other than husband, wife in 1801. your mailand seal good with Edna Anderson, Kansas City, Mo., was not an issue, That was register and children. Contracts for any such East Maple strect; Beatrice Gray, The Republican party was organized, sealing wax. 642 purpose were declared void. It stood Two weeks ago the Sunday school Denver, Colo. Mrs. Gray is the wife July 6, 1854, in Michigan. the of and for a went to another town to carry of William Gray a former resident against Negro slavery that have is from Eighteen carat gold is three-fourths That gospel message to those East Colorado avenue, and strong Tederal government. were and Mrs. pure gold. was elected never heard and souls saved Los Angeles, Calif. Mr. was in 1854. Lincoln on the I wish it were possible for Manning, Texas, at 427 East Colo- president of the U, S. in 1860 from sin, OCU Het ren] of these boys and girls sing- avenue. Mrs. Virgil Penn, Win- Republican ticket--The Radicals you to hear rado in y of God and praising ston-Salem, N. C., at Mr. and Mrs. QUALITY CAPS, that Day. Slavery was abolished ing to the glor: proclama- him for real salvation thru the prec- Walter Smith’s. BONNETS, APRONS 1862 by the emancipation Ever pray that in 1865. of Jesus. tion. The Civil war ended ious blood to their See MRS. V. SIMPSON for been the too may be missionaries have a number of high Cleveland and Wilson have they the boys We still All Styles of Home Made presidents since-— own tribes out here. One of school girls and boys who want to only Democratic please, when you woammennfBEONS Fram 1920 to 1932—12 will write you; and work thra the summer, If you know envnOO unfil now. small letter to him young- Phone 3076-J 925 Cheyenne Rd. had successive write me, send a of a job or have a job these smc years-—Republicans for an answer. at Main The result-—it is too well as he will be looking sters might fill pease call us control. was all and pray for me that I The welfare of America Love to 5330-M. known. trust _in God, and . for private interests. The be faithful to my ‘ discarded his souls for His kingdom. Central Furniture Negrostill gave the majority of win many If you are a summer visitor and prove love to all, T am your to We Trade and Seli Cheaper votes to the G. O, P, Did we Closing with have not registered we would like of in darkest Africa in Jesus, Stoves of All Kinds we were interested in the welfare sister have you drop in at 421 North Royer com- Your loyal sister, country by doing this? A and register. A friend might want 320 South Tejon Street the made ELIZABETH WHITE. plete change should have been to know you are in the city and by Phone Main 5455-J in 1924. Tf every thinking American looking over the files at the placing COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. had changed his tactics then—it MRS. VIRGIL PENN WILL bureau it is easy to locate a person. 1932, would not have been too late in SPEND SUMMER IN CITY Also, if you are a tourist and know is not the will be glad The. Republican party nothing about the city we not can party it was in 1954. It does Penn, formerly Miss to give you any information we P EARSON HARMACY Re- Mrs. Virgil Main stand for those principles. The arrived in the city about the city. Just call RESCRIPTION, HARMACIST Negro Juanita Smith, 12 in publican party did abolish from Winston-Salem, 5330-M. Hours are from 8 to Monday night 6:30 p.m. SERVICE AS YOU LIKE IT slavery, but it fostered economic accompanied by her the morning and from 5 to other N. C. She was DELIVERY SERVICE slavery, Negro slavery, nor any step-son Cicero. again. little six-year-old Corner Tejon and Platte human slavery, will be lawful be in the city all sum Mrs. W. A, Duvall surprised her Economic and expects to MAIN 311 People are too intelligent. Penn was married abot t husband with a party Mondaynight. mer. Mrs. abolished. Will the t entertained. slavery must be years ago and this is her firs Twenty-five guests were rr this if elected in two wil 1 of Harts- Republicans do visit home since. While here she Professor and Mrs. Hankins eB) Ya SeddB about a strong Federal and and Mrs. Fredonia 19362 What be at the home of her mother horn, Oklahoma T hear from Re- the: government? All Mr, and Mrs. W. A. Smith. Scott of Denver, were among today is States’ father, publican politicians rutests. radicals? I was 1) Ness the Rights. Who are Alexander took Civi “yt a Miss Thelma a Republican. 7 believe in for Junior Typ- May 15, 1820, the African slave reared The Service examinations strong Federal government. Eighty persons took trade became piracy. aw a radical. ist this week. New Deal does also, Tam the examination. the New Deal of the The They accuse to the } same. The NewDeal restored BEAT i Typewriter nation—Its Confidence—Its Credit— MONARCHS “GOOD THINGS TO EAT” Foreign Trade—and the and Every Occasion {ts Law—lIts WHITE ELEPHANTS Each noes Man

to think again of a right of its citizens SOMMERS MARKET a happy contented Hfe. ¢ Kansas City Mon prove he is inter- July Fourth th COMPANY The Negro must archs took two straight from the N. Tejon M. 95 welfare of America. To MAIN 4100 105 ested in the Denverites. The scores were 7 to 4 have to support the! so he will do in the wel-! and 18 to 7. ne tH party which is interested of the local base NW Eh must be What has become defo, tt fare of the country. We is surely sSsleebopeeteobobefefeebefedeteededodeseboteeob ee enthusiasts? tee stop being Negroes. ball egg Americans—and plenty of first class baseball materia Norford’s q work for the present and = Come to We must here. SAND and GRAVEL for the past. The only COTTON DRESS SHOP = future—not * PERTILIZER now, is in a Democratic vic- the Basement = future be- OPPORTUNITY & $1 to $3.95—In tory in November. Next week, YOUR JOE A. CRAWFORD believe in the same principles NORFORD’S 5 cause T sponAS were laid down by Abraham Tin The Summe Public Forums General Hauling

that ry T not being attended 7.agufetetutetedatedettedededutetotadeiozatozeg coln, T am_ going toa prove oMTTy sored by UL 5 are bette Watch this the Negroes. Colorado Spring: AM A DEMOCRAT.” by the crmeRASLTTT Sal then, jg one of the 11 cities in all ealumn, Until pub. T am yours truly, United States chosen for these GOLDEN CYCLE RELIABLE ASH AND This is a real MRS. PAUL HH. GOFFMAN. lic forum discussions. PHARMACY TRASH REMOVAL any person t o get a opportunity for 2787 Thi s 7S. Tejon St. Main SERVICE liberal education without cost. Where no counsel is, the people COURTEOUS ATTENTION is your opportunity. fall: but in the multitude of counsel- nen GORRECT Phone Main 4349 jors there is safety. peak in PRESCRIPTION SERVICE California has the highest TELTCS FaamunantannnanensintnsonesoneaeNO

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FOUR THE VOICE OF COLORADO + the hills were gorgeous and afforded Relief Maintains Starvation FLD. R. Told Omission of the grandest weather possible all day. Standards Franklin Frazier Lynching Is “Disappointment.” The Woolfolk family was in town LOCAL ITEMS that day from Pueblo—you know the Charges The omission of any mention of former pastor of People’s M. E. church. The Douglasses were down BALTIMORE,July 3.—In a flam- lynching or of other injustices to

from Denver, and so was the former ing speech before the Twenty-seventh which Negroes are subjected in the Mrs. Paul H. Goffman, Edith Williams. IT just can’t think of Annual Conference of the National platform adopted by the Democratic convention was termed “a grave dis- 421 North Royer Street. her married name. To top the day Association for the Advancement of off the Masons gave a grand ball at Colored People here Tuesday night, appointment” by the N. A. A, C. P. Douglass hall that night—and_ the Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, noted soci- in a telegram today toa President Jt seems there was not muchin the strangers who were at that dance! ologist and recent director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt. The associa- way of news this week. Just a con- There were more out-of-town per- Mayor's Commission investigating tion urged the president to “remedy tinuous coming of visitors for the sons at that dance than there have Harlem riots, severely scored relief these omissions as far as possible in summer season. The Pikes Peak or been at a dance since 1928. The tour- administrators and charged that dur< your acceptance speech Saturday night.” Bust celebration went over in a big ist season looks more than good. By ing the depression they “have ac- way, and the race was represented the way, the Masons and Eastern cepted and perpetuated the starvation quite well in the huge parade which Stars are guaranteeing the public an standards of the absentee landlord In Maryland free Negroes had the tight to vete down to 1783. In that passed thru the city streets on Sat- evening brim-full of a godd time at system.” urday. Mr, Sims was an old coachman Douglass hail July 15, presenting Declaring that the purpose of relief year it was enacted that “no colored in the days of horse and carriage. It Harriet Calloway, So meet us there under the capitalist system has been person free thereafter, nor the issue was well portrayed, Tandy Stroud at 9p, m—till. solely to foster revolt, he cited in- of such, should be allowed to vote, or as an old news peddler, with a sign stances of discrimination against to hold any office, or to give evidence urging the citizens to read the against any white, or to enjoy any Mrs Evalyn Whittaker, who has Negroes in the South and denounced “Voice” was an interesting subject. the sharecropper system in Arkansas. ether rights of a free-man than the been seriously il all winter, was possession of property and redress There were four Negroes who en- moved to a hospital last week. Miss Touching upon the situation in New tered the foot races up the old moun- York City, he referred to the Negro’s at law or equality for injury to per- Thelma Brown is very ill at_her son or property.” tain, “Pikes Peak.” The celebration home, 607 East St. Vrain street. Mrs. political organization there and his

possibly brought out the largest Angeline McDowell is confined to her continued protest against intolerable anatP crowd the town has had in years, bed at her home, 618 East St Vrain conditions as an example to be fol- street. Mr. S. C. Manuel remains lowed by Negroes elsewhere in the Mrs. Elvena Foftin and Miss Mar- about the same. country, Economy Tire Store joric Bass attended the scout leaders Another speaker, John Brophy of For Bargains in training camp last Sunday at camp Amanda Pollard was called to Mis- the Committee for Industrial Organi- USED TIRES TUBES Greenwood, souri Monday night because of the zation urged colored people to sup- WHEEL-SETS serious illness of her father. port industrial unions and stated “ave 16 E, Colo. Ave. Main 259-J] Miss Emma Williams, daughter of do not have jim-crow unions in the egy United Mine Workers.” Charles Williams left for California Mrs. Edna Anderson, sister of Mrs. last week. Lula Harper, left last Tuesday for

Beverly Hills, California. “If IPS A RADIO, B. LUSTYK, Tailor, Cleaner and GOLDEN FLAKE WE CAN REPAIR IT” Presser; 308 E. Pikes Peak; M. 1145-]. POTATO CHIPS N. A. A.C. P, YOUTH MEET St. John Baptist church was packed DRAWS PACKED HOUSE eae HOBDEN RADIO SHOP to capacity last Tuesday night when Manufactured by Main 1431 415 S. Nevada Mrs. Louise Braxton and her Ken- FP, & L. Food Products Co. tuecky Harmonysingers arrived for a BALTIMORE, Md., July 3.—More

than 1,700 people packed in vestibules | concert. Mrs. Braxton with her unusual basso voice proved an able and aisles of the Sharp Street M. E,

artist from the start and held her au- Church here Wednesday night to “Betty Baxley Frocks’’ dience spell bound the whole evening. hear the program given by the Youth ORIG’S for at JAMESON’S She teft the following day for Pueblo. Council speakers of the N. A. A. C. P. ow, Regular Prices tt S. TEJON ST. before the 27th Annual Conference of Mrs. Esther Leggett entertained at the Association. It was one of the on MEN’S CLOTHING and SHOES | $1.95 to $5.95 a luncheon in honor of the Kentucky largest crowds of the whole confer- 107 S, Tejon flarmony singers at her home on ASIEN EIEY bXXETEEILIEEL ence, The youth speakers, in the ase North Franklm last Wednesday. persons of Martin L. Harvey, Hemp- Mrs, Leggett was at one time a mem- stead, New York; James L. Robinson, By HE tT A EY ber of the quartet. Union Theological Seminary; J. BR PHONE THE Franklin Bourne, Columbia Univer- wt DODGE & GEISLER a REGAL DRUG CO. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Douglass were sity; Miss Marjorie Penney of Phila- in the city last Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. wf LOANS AND RENTALS a delphia and Juanita E. Jackson of the FREE KODAK DEVELOPING Douglass reside in the capital city. N. A. A. C. P. National Office staff, BH INSURANCE—Auto and Fire x drew continued applause with their Phone M, 40, 481 and 482 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Miller returned speeches on present-day problems of BL Phone Main 1199 24 E. Kiowa g home last Sunday, after a residence young people and the opportunities of several years in California. Mrs. PEELECCLEECLLLo offered them for social action. After Miller is the former Lucinda Harris the speeches the young people pre- 724 wholives at 618 East St. Vrain street. SCS el ERED atBt at ST NEVADA PHARMACY sented tableaus supporting the td . 5 Corner Opposite Postoffi

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Dave have re- Scottsboro case, Angelo Herndon, the fight for jobs and the campaign turned to the city after a year’s visit e Colorade Springs 5} re-guonsatestgianw for better schools. The closing in California. Mrs. Dave is the a Motor scene was a pledge by the young peo- Company a CAMERAS“AND COSMETICS former Ethel Calloway. ple to the National Officers of the bi "Phone M. 2785 Free Delivery.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Vaughn of Jop- Association that the Youth Council lin, Mo., arrived in the city last week would support the program one CHRYSLER AND) hundred per cent. to spend the summer, if PLYMOUTH g WHITE KITCHEN g Sales and Service R, D. Briggs, Locksmith By the act of 1715, in Maryland, m7 PASTRY SHOP M. 1142-W 12614 -N. Nevada. Adv. ministers and magistrates were for- H a Making th i hidden, by a fine, to marry any 23 South Nevada Ave. weSakeryGoods Miss Bessie Jones of Kansas City, white to any “Negro whatsoever, or & Phone Main 297 i WeSolicit Your Patronage. Mo., is home for the summer visiting mulatto slave.’ Whites and free mulattoes were permitted to marry. her mother, Mrs, Ella Jones, 522 East yeyYaYe tetal Phone M2119 2 N. Tejon High street.

MLL The politicians may say all they COME TO AUSTINS LOO: want to about conditions not improv- CUT PRICE STORES ing, and first one thing and then an- Everything In Household Goods Pf.elez Pf.an Cleaneis other, but the Fourth of July in Colo- rado Springs in 1936, told us in no an- AUSTINS MAIN 5050 429 South Tejon \ certain words that the folk had more Where They Sell Cheap (Cash and Carry) money, It was the mest joyous 413 S, Tejon 14 BE. Cucharras MEN’S SUITS, 29¢ fourth since 1928. Kveryone had aj™ PLAIN DRESSES, 34c swell time and everyone went places Tailoring — Hat Blocking — Dyeing — Alterations and did things, There were picnics Delivery All Over Colorado Springs at all picnic places. Cars were going and coming all day long, many till SAFEWAY| YY LE) the wee hours of Sunday morning.

Tt has been so long sinee the public PIGGLY WIGGLY SvostESTEE LUO MRATARTRANTEARS cold enjoy life that everyone thought it better to take advantage of the IG 3 situation at hand, than take a chance Brown’s Home Barber Shop on the future, One pienie party was headed by Mrs. James Daugherty and SELLING QUALITY All Work Guaranteed Miss Besste Jackson. Another was FooDSs Hair Cut headed by the Wallaces and the Sey- 35¢e—Children (1mder twelve) 25¢ mours, another sponsored by the AT PRICES YOU Heasties and Goffmans, another by CAN AFFORD 635 East Costilla Phone Main 4755-R the Brown family, another by Mrs. TO PAY LADIES’ HAIR CUTTING A SPECIALTY Lucy Vance and who knows how many more? Jt was hot in town, but FagbeAdR mer eid MUAMSFTAAABk

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VOL, I—NO, 10 FIVE CENTS PER COPY COL ORADO SPRINGS, COLO:RADO, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936.

ADULT AGITATION A LOCAL NEED Negro National Anthem Here in a moment I counted 26 A pair of little colored girls were “LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING” young men who have young families on the merry-go-round in the play- beginning, These young men mar- ground, Several white children were (1) ried and building homes in Colorado also on board. Two little white buys Lift every voice andsing,till earth and heaven ring, Springs will in a few years be the were industriously pushing the play- Ring with the harmonies of Liberty, hackbone of Colorado Springs citi- thing. Let your rejoicmgrise, high as the list’ning skies zenry. white women A couple of elderly Letit resound loud as therolling sea. Will we in a group tmprove the scene. “What are you status of the Negro in Colorado came on the the dark past has taught us, pushing those 1 s for?” they in- Sing a song full of the faith that Springs; will we work together to terrupted. The play ceased. One of Sing a song full of the hope that the present has broughtus, provide more and better oportunities the small colored girls armed her- Facing the rising sun, of our new day begun, for our children? Will we know and maniully how te work in harmony for the self with a tree limb Let us march an, Ul victory is wo!n. laid it) about the white woman's good of the whole, rather than for shoulders. The police were called. ay) ns selfish and bigoted interests? Will The warring little lass had adjourned Stony the road wetrod, bitter the chast’ning rod, we choose leaders of proven _infex- yity, people not for sale? Will we homeward. Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; two juveniles | strive together for a common cause In police court the beat, have not our wearyfeet, fined. The white; Yet with a steady -—the welfare of the Coloradcan? were held and ? women were not even admonished tol Cometo the place tor which our fathers sighed We need a little meeting place to mind their own business in the fu- We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, which we might occasionally come. ture. A colored adult, the parent of We have come, treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered; To come in the spirit of helpfulness at the one of the girls held, called past, till now westandatlast, and as God’s word says: “Reason to- and in no uneertain Out of the gloomy gether.” Let us think of this need police department star is cast. terms, demanded the immediate re- Where the white gleam of our bright now ere we grow too old and im- lease of the two girls. The pobce dip mediately and industriously lay the foundation work today! complied. God of our weary years, God of oursilent tears, adult fainenta- Without continual has’t brought us thus far on the way, prejudice would soon die Thou who tion, race us into the light, J. ARTHUR PHELPS out, Thou who has’t by Thy might led

Keep us for ev’er in the path, we pray; PUFRLO, Colo. Tune 17.-. Ar- feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, C. H. MASON’S Lest our thir Phelps, prominent Pueblo attor- FROM drunk with the wine of the world we forget Thee; DISCOURSE Lest our hearts, ney, today anounced that he will be Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand, a Kepublican candidate for congress 5 True to our God, true to our Na-tive land! from the third congressional district. He gathered together a little dirt, Phelps has been active in public fash- life in Colorado for 20 years, From enough to make a man. He joned him together, put in eyes, ears, 1925 1m 1932 he was district attorney lay, fer the tenth judicial district, which nose, legs, arms and there he SO THE PUBLIC MAY KNOW MRS, ORA BRYANT PASSES “to do,” is comprised of Pachlo, Otere, Crewy- in him the Then he breathed since. jes and Riawa counties. Fram 1921 and he’s heen doing ever Forty for One. Mrs. Ora Bryant, oue of the best Inapector Sees to 1924 he was county attorney for known women of Colorado Springs, 1 ed away shortly after 8 o'clock Pueblo county, This segregated curse is destroy- By CHARL 2ANKS Elis first experience in law-making eyes, you unday morning, after an iliness of ing this thing. Take your women called was in 1919 and 1920 when he served all the dark Four Tex white aonionth, She underwent a major white folks, and take Monday ¢ as a2 representative from: Pueblo be blind as a the police department eperation turdiy. Alrs. Bryant out of them and you'll were 2 county in the twenty-seeand general you blackfolks, ning, June 15, saying they had been a resident of the city for bat. Take your eyes, 1B assembly, you'll be tacked by two colored girls. the past 30 years-and was an active and take out all the while, the call, When he We was a member of the frst hoard it is in this church, Brvee answered member of People’s M. FE. church. lind asa bat. So there was only one cele of trustees of Adams Teachers’ Col- off to them- arvived there She was also a member of Treble as sure as the whites get he saw lege at Afamosa, : get off to them- ored girl fu the distance Clef chib. Bene an outstanding ve- selves and the blacks colored beys ranging in Since 1925 Phelps has heen a mem- groups will become four small ealist, she was ve active in music selv beth from 10 to 12. On the tennis her of the Colorade State Roard of spiritually blind. we She is survived by five chil- courts a group of white people wore Mrs. Dexter Half and Miss Law Fxaminers, contentedly p laying tennis. He rth Bryant of this city and a Tn making the announcement that JOE LOUIS MEETS rushed back to the station and re~ in Pittsburg, Pa, and one Son he is a candidate, Phelps made no ported to the chief that a moh of and danghter in Denver, Funeral ar- comment on any of the natinnal is- DEFEAT Negroes were after four white nis had net been made at sues, did he get his fire He was the first person in this dis- women, Where this writing. The two colored girls for ao trict to advocate the repeal of the The confident youngster of color water? reason whatever were attacked by ald age pension provisions of the so- stattled in the fourth round by seas women with a knife and an iron PLAN NEW APARTMENT efal security act and the adoption of explosive bluw from out of the these an these girls was fined adequate and acceptable pension against his head. That bar. One of HOUSE an sky solidly she did net pay) for the aged. Tis only statement was down six to one odds for $25 and costs (which blow rung herself to be struck “the most important iscue to the had wagered against the for not allowing Old Girley Home To Be Remodeled those who and for defending | people in this district is the water Jomber. hy these weapons Into Modern Apartment House It has been proven that situation.” up, however, he herself. Joe did not give get a foothold in communi- By New Owners. he was com- criminals ht gunely on until saying thal they are organiz- { oMr. Phelps taok an active interest out in, the twelfth ties by pletely knocked ing against the Jew, Catholic and} The old Girley home, 329 West in fhe resolution regarding anti- still the idol of fight round. Te is Negro. (The fine was suspended.) Monument, one of the old landmar! lynch action at the State Republican loser as winner, fans—as good a When a certain organization was in af the cily will scon become a mod- convention. Tle has been an active Tt is said the Teuton won thra Colorado Springs a few years ago, ern apartment house if the plans now member of the Pueblo NLA, ALC. PL craft. Seeing hands were one of our city officials said he thot being developed by the Ronald 5S. for years, and is new aomembes of the larger than the ordinary they made it was a good thing, For some reason Whites materialize. The transaction NL AL ALC. PL committee on redress of a new ruling limiting the amount he still holds his job. The Black | was completed last week according to and levislation. tape used for wrapping the hands. Leeions are getling their start in the the records at the El Paso county Mr, Phelps has made an intensive Joe’s hands were not half wrapped. same way. But like the organiza- eourt house, Altho the purchase study of the race question and has He sprung his hands the first round tion of the past, the Jew, the Catholic price was not disclosed, it is consid- taken a definite stand on the right and consequently could not hit. and the Negro, are only a shan, You ered one of the most desirable prop- side. Ta a recent interview with the the work know the terrorism of bootlegging, erties in the city, and when “VOTCE” editor Mr. Phelps stated: be kidnapping and murder. Prejudice of remodeling is over, will, no doubt, “To can frankly and honestly say wD THIS SUNDAY’S LESSON and crime are the results of a dis- be a great asset to the community. that if you can find or knew of any eased, Hiquor soaked mind, more candidate that will do more for your

deadly than smallpox , yellow [ever group ar the Neere than Td urge is women could not stand to see their Jesus Meeting Human Needs or cholera, The only way oat of it you to suppert that candidate.” — Tt was onec boys pushing Negro girl After Those race citizens of Pueblo who The Book of Luke to remove the cause. that, if the Jews furnished the pulling away the bows seve times, have known Mer, Phelps for Lesson. said threaten and Acts 1:1-11 for Reading money, the Catholics the nurses, the these wemen started to have conlidence in his sincere interest the two small Negro girls, One would stop any army invad- abuse in the welfare of the Negro, Negroes of the girls used a tree limh effective- being assembied our government. Isn’t it about 4th Verse. And ing ly in self-defense. The attitude of with them commanded time far someoneto investigate con- NOTICE together Springs, the police was typical—full of preju- them that they should not depart ditions exising in Colorado This paper wilt come ont on the hut wait for the before His too late? Kidnapers and dice and injustice. from Jerusalem, Remember Mr. Mosley gave us his second and fourth Fridays each the Father, whieh, saith criminals know no sex or age. promise of wordthat if at any time we were not month. All subscriptions already heard of me. he, ye have girls given a square deal by the police, to paid for on a weekly basis will be truly bap- Editor’s Note—These twa Sth Verse. For John around, come upstaits to him and he would doubled in duration or one-half sitting on the merry-¢ tized with water: but ye shall be bap- were see to it we got justice. [ believe refunded, according to the sub- many Two tiny white boys insisted on the Holy Ghost not tized with The four white Mr. Mosley to be aman of his word. seriber’s option, pushing them. days hence.

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THE VOICE OF COLORADO PLACING BUREAU neaEAGAN Persuns registered at the Placing ‘The policy of this paper is to bring as follows: CHURCH NEWS about a better understanding between Bureau last week were races thru an impartial presentation of illic Williams, Hee Springs, Truth. Ark; Misses Francis and Dorothy Tolson, Garnett Kan., located at the TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH Eaditor Tandy Stroud home of Mr. and Mrs. Benn Spears; Corner of Nevada at Fountain. Advertising Manager sse Tarrant ee Mrs, Cecelia Hodge of Pasadena, Reverend Allen, Pastor. Calif, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. rileles to Be Published With Mrs. J. ie Bryant. 122 Pueblo Ave. Austin Jenkins. Mr. and ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH

Paul Goffman. 2 over HW. Rouce, Tulsa, Okla: Wm. Fr Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. y Stroud N, Spruce Tx, son of Myr. and Mrs, Wm. Vreneh, GB, Cimarron J. Raymond Short, Pastor. Tarran 518 North Pine street, has returned home fer the sammer vacation. S100 Subscription, per yen William is attending Howard U. in PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Six) Months An D. C.. Mr. James Wine CHURCH OO Washington, chester of Texas, Mrs. Mayme Lu- Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. This is NOT a church paper. Oatman and daughter of Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, Th s NOT a political paper, ney, Mrs. This IS a good, clean, Negro paper. Wichita, Kan., located at the home of Mrs. Austin Jenkins, Mrs. B. Taucett CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936, Smaulding. Mrs. Kennard Corner Spruce and Willamette, Arthur Keyes, Atbu- and children, Elder C. E. Morgan, Pastor. ,querque, N. M., all located at_the SUCHERRNOAEEN LATUTEST Miss RN home of Mrs. Estes Leggett, Ophelia Lachapell, Maggie Faufks, EAST SIDE CHURCH OF Alr. Earl Benford and Mr. Craig GOD IN CHRIST Douglass, Pueblo, Colo., at the home 623 East Monument. BLIND MAN’S of Mr. and Mrs, Lee Teggett, Miss Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. Pauling Driver and Afi Safronia CORNER Niles, Pueblo, Colo. Mrs. Thelma This column presents the personal MeAllister, Columbia, Mo, located at EPIPHANY MISSION, EPISCOPAL views of its author and not neces- Mrs. Leggett. Anyone who Mr. and Dale and Royer Streets sarily the opinion of the paper. has not registered is asked to do so before leaving the city. nyone HET rm ee CREARLTTB who has a summer visitor may regis- PEOPLES M. E. CHURCH ter dhat visitor by calling Main Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets, The Young Colored People and the 5330-M. Remember the placing bu- Reverend W. L, Lee, Pastor. Republican Party. reau will not he open but one hour], 5 ta 6:30 and a half in the afternoon, p. m., from now on. Hours in ithe The CURB INN By REV. K. D, STROUD morning are from 8 to 12 noon. We Tt is a sure thing that if the Demo- are closedall day on holidays. If you Meals and Short Orders cratic party wins the coming election, have a job to be done orif you want at All Times dicta- cal] the Placing Bu- that we will have permanent a job—remember Mrs, Ora V, Bryant and torship, so this election will be very reau. We will give you any informa- Mrs. Ethel Young, Mgrs. important. The major question is: tion regarding the city, that we can 410 S. WAHSATCH give, if you will call us. Mrs. Collins, Shall we divert our representative Baton for a rank des- mother of T, R. Collins, from form of government the city last arrived in pot or a Kingdom? The American Rouge, La. people really do not know, what it Thursday. The Birdgall-Stockdale means to live under a rank king. Isn’t Motor Company sacrificed AN EXPRESSION OF it strange that we have j PACKARD ang NASH the lives of our choice citizens—more DEMOCRATIC PARTY MOTOR CARS INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS than 50,000 young men in foreign fields, in battle to save, not only To the Editor of the “Voice” 13-19 North Nevada Avenue America, but the world for democ- Dear Sir: Telephone Main 981-982 cause, racy--and now with no other The last issue of the “Voice of children, will vote a king over our Colorado” carried an article entitled just to be on relief, on borrowed ‘Why T Am a Democrat.” I did not 20 years our children money, and in like it. If any Negroes are so un- FREE DELIVERY will have to repay three times the principled as to actually approve of they 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. amount borrowed, That is if the Dentoecratie methods as demon- the have the opportunity, but if strated in the “Solid Sonth” (solidly Democrats win the coming election, democratic), they certainly should Aley Drag Co. at the nation will go into peasantry not be reengnized by worthy citizens Phone 250 onee. 1 do not have any patience or res Roosevelt or some other democrat pect for a Negro Democrat. will remain dictator or kine. The Yours, piiddle class of people will bave all A PRIEND.

heen driven out of business, Tagine SPORTING GOODS the what will follow. Editor: T almost agree, but “Everything for Sportsmen” Now the world knows why some policy of this paper is to be fair and Our Store Will Be Open around without being of you go unprejudiced, TEPEE SPORT SHOP Day and All Night peeked, finding excuses for voting Democratic, because yeu desire a Jit- THE KENTUCKY HARMONY 117 N. Tejon Phone M. 930 From July ist the same at tle filthy Tuere. While SINGERS time we realize that Democratic to duly 4th a dit filthier than filthy Jucre isn’t Mrs. Louise Braxton, Nusetta An- lucre, but when you 7 E. Colorado Ave. Republican filthy Rheta I, Woods and Blanche HAND COLORED VIEWS OF excuses before com- derson, begin to hunt Liles made a very distinctive con- COLORADO—FRAMING Phone M. 325 detective puts R. mitt a erie, a wise cert at St. John Baptist church Tues~ an eve on you. day. They are singing ta raisc H. LL. STANDLEY Regular Sale of FIREWORKS, are a democrat from an Nowif you nance for schools im the dar PHOTOGRAPHER UNDER NEW CITY honest and sentimental point of view, Southland where little black childr 224 North Tejon Street REGULATION you are a free man—g0 and vote why have no opportunity to get an edu- Coloraclo Springs, Colorado e d quit trying to falsely accuse Starts Monday, June 29th. are acconi- cowardly cation, These singers alwart republicans for the plished musicians, STROUD and atrocious crime, The fact is, CUTERRONANNKRERTee We Have the BEST ASSORTED lazy, grouchy, fatty, degen- that the church STOCK OF FIREWORKS hibernating, weuld-be-big- The St. John Baptist SANITARY crated. for SEBEL for new ave- closed the anniversary service That We Have Ever Carried During man is always looking night with a BARBER SHOP swindle his race or sell them their pasfer Monday

mues to RUENE Our 40 YEARS IN THE FIRE- huge reception. Rev. Short, the pas- Up-to-the-Minute Service in droves, te the highest bidder for SU completed his first year WORKS BUSINESS will even stoop so deny, as tor has just 325 E, Costila Street cash, fe as pas of the church. to cast reflections on the name of Phone Main 5071 Several NEW NOVELTIES We Mr. Lincoln, who shonk the shackles a girl for housework. Call z L, ©. CALDWELL, Prop. ‘ crying WANTED Have Tried Out Ourselves and al’ the wrists of four million Main 5330-M. PsvaiianaavaunianerayeniateiiaRuigTsisTBtMNMsR ARSE one stroke of ADDED TO OUR LINE and pleading slaves at catetutetatotaketatatetetotatetutotattutetetatatos his pen, and freed them even hefore Spdleteelenngeteaeeinioteloteietetetetetetetotely, from the they made their advent into the take the criminal codes Let Us Help YouSelect the SAFEST criminal world, They assume to blame the various states and turn the = The Prompt Pharmacy = AND BEST KIND FOR THE yepublican party for every Negro codes over to the federal govern- LITTLE FOLKS lynched in the South... when every ment, = COLORADO SPRINGS’ = child, that is, every high The South might burn 50,000 col- Also We Make a SPECIALTY of school a : SURGICAL = school child, in America, knows that cred persons in a year or during Handling LARGER FIREWORKS each state is the master of its own democratic administration, and you = APPLIANCE STORE = would hear no kick from the Negroes for Home Displays or Special criminal code, A state has original % SHOULDER BRACES * Exhibitions. jurisdiction in any criminal case that who are trying to be democrats. by the may have its origin within the hounds They have burned them % TRUSSES BELTS # OUR BANTAM of the said state. Unele Sam cannot scares, during the present administra- = ARCH BRACES & Silver-Fulminate Torpedoes Will Sell governor of the tion and the would-be-democratic- enter unless the = All Appliance Work Subject to S at Same Price as Last Year Even him, ... That’s the Negro applauds everything that the given state invites * Your Physician’s Approval * Tho Silver Is Higher. constitution. The only way to make president has done or_suffered to be the gavernment responsible for done. You Colored Democrats, ’'m = PHONE MAIN 1770 % FIREWORKS lynching in the several states is that afraid that your bed is tom short and oie seShatatntateitistatelalefalattalnainratotaienyansabeatasteateatestestéatuatestestO NCAMTACITEMS PRICES SAME AS LAST YEAR your cover too narrow. the constitution must be amended to

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7 = to be at the helm. So long as you LEE LEGGETT Bert White; Sergeant Major, Sam AND MRS, WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT MR. Smith. try to be a spokesman for your race ENTERTAINED HOUSE Threadgill; comrade, Harry These veterans are haying a grand and try to represent them and their I started this article a few GUESTS LAST WEEK time and enjoying the hospitality and welfare instead of showing first al- When legiance to some faction, crowd or weeks ago, | thought T would expe- wonderful beauties of the city. Mr. in city party which is only attempting to use rience a great deal of difficulty Mr. and Mrs. Lee Leggett had a Hudson and Mr. Hayden of this dear readers, that the joined this great organization. you and your people for ulterior pur- proving to you, busy week last week entertaining have poses, you may count on me as one party had surpassed the all parts of the west. On The headquarters are at 112 South Democratic guests from of your modest supporters. Send of the G, O. P. That is net as guests, Conejos for Franklin-Alexander principles last Saturday they had your paper to my home, 1615 North situation. Since the first instati- B. Smautding and Ken- Post. the Mesdames Tejon article, the Republicans Ar- ment of my nard Faucett and children, and Yours truly, the Democratic party N. M. have admitted thur K s of Albuquerque, A DESERVING LETTER CLYDE LS ARRETT. is the best party. Tt was done with- After their visit with the Leggetts out argument. Tt was done at their the party continued an_to Denver. On They own convention in Cleveland, Wednesday night, Miss Ophelia Mr. Tandy Stroud, Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers. the Democratic Editor “Voice,” actually adapted Lachapell and Mrs. Maggie Faulks That evidence CTA aT platform of 1932, and M . Earl Benford and Creag City. can't be beat for an admission of de- Dougle Pueblo, were their Dear Sir: . fox year's sub- New Process Curtain Cleaners feat. (7) quests. Friday, Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Enelosed find check action your paper. Tam pleased The reason given for such MecQuerter, Sr, and Mr, and Mrs. J. scription to Curtains and Drapes have taken up this is that the Democrats threw the plat- W. MecQuerter, Jr, of Denver were to know you Laundered by us: hang straight, form in the trash can. During those visitors. Mrs, Thelma MeAllis- work. The colored people are en- the their a local paper jJast longer, made look like new, dark days from ’29 to °33, under of Columbia, Mo., also stopped titled to and deserve ter and in my judg- Republican administration, men were over for a visit with them en ronte in this community the individual 124 North Corona ‘Phone Main 534 taken into custody by officers of to Denver. ment you are an excellent when canght robbing another’s law to obtain a meal, of garbage can carrying away a discarded piece of VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS " wood or galvanized iron to build a CONVENTION Economy Tire Store Central Furniture to protect themselves from shanty We Trade and Sell Cheaper even For Bargains in the weather. El Paso county Stoves of All Kinds Law Veterans of Foreign Wars are USED TIRES TUBES against the had a law—“It was $20 South Tejon Street Republican party will holding their 16th annual encamp- WHEEL-SETS to beg."—The June 25, 26 and 27. Phone Main 5465-J to do a lot of thinking to ex- ment in this city 16 E. Colo, Ave. Main 259-J have delegates attending COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. plain how they acquired the Demo- The colored EPEC acs the convention are: cratic platform. If my subject was of any other than “WHY IT AM A The Franklin-Alexander Post have no by Commander DEMOCRAT,” IT would Denver, headed BIG 4 AUTO PARTS _ C more ta write. My simple statement, William Robinson, Quartermaster P EARSON HARMACY Day, Lu- Anything in Auto Parts and RESCRIPTION, HARMACIST eSneon) “The Democratic party means more W. Tucker; Officer of the Lonnie Tires to the welfare of the U. S. than the gene Baxter; Post Advocate, SERVIGE AS YOU LIKE IT been patriotic KOSCOVE BROS. Republican party,” to date, has Collins; guard, John. Long: DELIVERY SERVICE George Sanborn: trustee,| Tires, 50c and Up—Tubes, 35c endorsed by the Republicans. instructor, Corner Tejon and Platte Now, back to. my own subject-— 21 W, Colo. Ave. Ph. M, 2154-W re- eHRSE MAIN 311 received in ASFA we CUE has the Negro “What Re turn for his Joyal suport of the nt a going to ask RCS TURRETTST publican party?’ Tam Shevrce Gasoline es Bad Rd 0aaa

every Negro of El Paso county to QUALITY CAPS, ERVICE and NTE think of his present condition—elance oil the BONNETS, APRONS at his surroundings—consider TIRES — GREASING for of his fellow brother--What See MRS. V. SIMPSON plight VESRREE wd with Mesa Road at Walnut of Home Made A have we? How do we compare All Styles 71) , Remem- Aprons other staunch Republicans? CRESS dEA ber, we have cast our vote 100 per Phone 3076-J 925 Cheyenne Rd, party for | ERR cent for the Republican RECSCOCCECOCCOCHOCOCOSOOOS psn dem oC Ag0M mSTU The over 50 years. I feel safe to say nnn LESS + Typewriter is not another group in the U. Bronze GAS For seduceugtvesiaraccanT there lit- S, which has done as muchfor so Pay Cash and Save HANSON’S SERVICE wy Man tle in return. ‘The Negro’ Republican Only One Station = Jeaders have not given the Repub- GASOLINE —- OIL — TIRES lican party a mere 100 or 1,000 votes. CLIFF BRICE GREASING the M. 95 They have thrown every vote Weber at Cucharras Phone 4346 105 N. Tejon The 402 West Bijou race had behind that party. they have received is Colorado Springs, Colo. greatest honor ed Ba) BR to sing or dance at a Republican con- © anny agesenTRUALSanOOnon a janitor’s job ei receee vention. To hold For sme after election is great. Because of are the poor- “GOOD THINGS TO EAT” SAND and GRAVEL this condition N and Every Occasion U. S. How much Each FERTILIZER est people in the MARKET longer is the Negro to remain the SOMMERS Sinton’s clown of the Republican politician COMPANY JOE A. CRAWFORD capi- and the tool of the Republican MAIN 4100 peo- General Hauling talistic system? There are no Pure Milk this country who have made heotntt ple in <—S as poor politicians as the Negro Re- spopeelededadonenederepandegofobinaegetegedeteh, publicans have. 4 Since 1880 RELIABLE ASH AND Tl admit, the Negro did owe the Come to Norford’s 2 debt at one time) % Colo. Springs’ TRASH REMOVAL Republican party SHOP DRESS ~biut, peoples of today are supposed * COTTON SERVICE este tach Finest to pay debts, in time, or declare $1 to $3.95-—In the Basement no need of bankruptcy. There was Phone Main 4349 if emancipation 2 NORFORD’S E being emancipated 4 Phone Main 442 to he slaves te the & MEN cenEROTR forces the race doef Booiah 4 feted The Re- Roodapee de deabedeobabedeitedbeolodede Republican party forever. publican party has been in power al- is mest continuously, and the Negre stil the slave of the country. There and it must be & is something wrong ABC jom$1192° changed. Ttad 1 net so many ques: A COMPLETE tions to answer to square inyself installment, T would FOR ‘Terms 2.00 per wk. with my first LAUNDRY— close here, by saying. “I am a Demo- HOME man erat, because T believe ¢yery is a new home laun- one man a slave Flere should be a man, not combination that brings the other a master.” Watch this dry and home laun- columnnest time and Twill continue, you a complete SWity TAM A DEMOCRAT.” dry in two units al a new ae | | Yours, low price. The ABC tags Li (Mrs.) PAUL MH. GOPFMAN, Washer — Model 18, and iseEU 0. S$ re trunks at the s. the ABC Roll-about Ironer

Freight depot. Editor: Sinee the bag- — Model HA are now PS! gagemen of your city do not haul ar- offered for the price of one ticles shipped by freight, will you unit, Come in ioday and proper au- please direct me to the Jet us show you this new these trunks brought thorities to have complete home laun- home?—MRS. GOFFMAN, ABC You may buy it on dry. (Correction) convenient terms and pay for % with the savings in Omitted From Last Issue of ABC Thru an Error Roll-about laundry bills, “VOICE” IRONER CHURCH REPORTS Model HA Segunda . MUSIC COMPANY ABC La Junta THE COLORADO SPRINGS WASHER Eaton 15 8. Tejon St. Main 890 Model 18

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Frank Elliott made an outstanding The Community Chorus, directed by formerly of the Music department at record at South Junior. He graduat- Mrs. Cora Alexander, has already re- Colorado College. this year with a scholarship rec- ceived a numberof requests to appear ed and Mr. Bill LOCAL ITEMS ord next to the top. Only one girl during the summer season, All Mrs. Ruth Tanner stood above him. He broke the city are scheduled to \fayfield were honored guests of Mrs classes at present Soychiek ‘ae Junior High broad_jump record with continuesnd Mes, thruCharlessummer.Willi Miss . Carter) pinTim Allen to a lovely chicken din- 4”. He was class rep- a leap of 20° 10) ner last Wednesday. resentative as well as captain of the beat work all sammeralso expect By Mrs, Paul H. Goffman, let- room ball teams. He had school TO Rev. Short and family were the de- 421 North Royer Street. and ters in speed-ball, basketball MRS. AUSTIN JENKINS lighted guests of Mrs, Tim Allen and track, HOSTESS TO RELATIVES Mes. Catton at their lovely ligme on Colorado Springs makes a boast of He is the 16-year-old son of Mrs. South Corona, The delicious moun- time, but Bell on East Cucharras street. being cool in the summer R. Mrs. Mayme Luney, Mrs, Oatman tain trout dinner was greatly enjoyed. last Saturday and Sunday made most wonder if this state- Mrs, Wayne Vest has been ill at and daughter are here for the sum- of the residents of Mr. was true after all, It was ab- her home on East Fountain. mer. Mrs. Luney is a sister ment to spend “ 3 solutely hot. ustin Jenkins and expects the summer here, visiting her. IF IT’S A RADIO, Andy Harper, well-known race WE CAN REPAIR IT”

The anniversary services in honor pioneer of Manitou, is doing the har- one year pastorate of Rev. O. becuing for the Pikes’ Peak celebra- Maxine Satterwhite is in the city, of the moth- HOBDEN RADIO SHOP got under way at the St. tion at Glen Cove. to spend the summer with her R. Short er, Mrs. Esther Leggett. Main 1431 415 S. Nevada John Baptist church last week with an interesting program every eve- Mr. and Mrs. Dave have returned ning. from California to their lovely home ' FLASH—Gladys Childress, well-

anounces the open- on Weberat Costilla, known musician, is hot. The ing of her piano studio, Wednesday. ey EEAKATAELEKEALEEEEIEY | The Junior-Senior and Alumni| Colorado Springs yo bd has registered 90 for a une 24, 1936, at 738 North Spruce |>4 “ce ' dance given by the Negro students thermometer Betty Baxley Frocks r an outstand-, week, street. Instruction will be given to/%§ at the Roselawn proved Gladys le at JAMESON’S bd interested in piano. ing affair last Friday night. There’ anyone , former pupil of Miss Cora rs 11S. TEJON ST. were nearly 200 in attendance, The All the club ladies have come home was a were very attractively at- are rapidly rounding Alexander, now employed as music young folk and the clubs instructor tinder the WPA, and is /% $1.95 to $5.95 bs tired and every one had the tine of up their year of work, to adjourn for q number now studying with Dean E. D. Hale,/p¢ any their Hives. There were the summer months, The Dahlia {

of out of town guests, Mrs. Elvena Arts held their last meeting, for the

Loftin gave much of her time to the year, Thursday afternoon. Dele- ~ oe oO — success of the affair. gates to the State Federation brought Long’s Saratoga Chips Salad Dressings PHONE THE back some interesting reports and of- Hikers’ were Hikers Pure Horseradish REGAL DRUG CO. The youngsters of the city were at- Reers for the coming year Mustard — Egg Noodles to the down town district of elected as follows: Mattie Féx, tracted presi- DEVELOPING city last Monday by the appear- president; Bertha Taylor, vice Manufactured by FREE KODAK the B. of the new baby elephant dent; Rosie Scott, secretary; Alice HIKERS FOODpaopucts Phone M. 40, 481 and 482 ance Green, which was brought to town to take Lamb, treasurer; Christina the place of Tessie at the Cheyenne parliamentarian; Elizabeth Groves, zoo, The animal was ac- chairman of Arts and Craft; Ruie Mountain The by a number of smaller Stewart, chairman of Program. iS) companied last meet- NEVADA PHARMACY beasts who were brought for the zoo Dubois Study Club held its a Officers for COLORADO SPRINGS Corner Opposite Postoffice also, ing on Tuesday night. the coming year are as follows: Mrs. apdfushestaay Maud H MOTOR CO. mi Presegptions Mr, and Mrs. L. B. Woods and Margaret Simpson, president; CHRYSLER and PLYMOUTH DEVELOPING FREE children left last_week for an ex- Price, vice president; Genolda Sales and Service i CAMERAS AND COSMETICS tour thru Kansas. They will Vaughn, secretary; Esther Leggett, tended a 23 S. Nevada Phone M. 297 3 ‘Phone M. 2785 Free Delivery. visit friends and relatives in Wichita, recording secretary; Allie Whittaker, Bass, critic: Clara Oswatomie and Kansas City. They treasurer; Lillian 0, SA HS) SS SED EdOeHs now returned and ‘report an en- French, parliamentarian, have joyable trip. Whitaker is reported i WHITE KITCHEN Mrs alyn South The girl scouts are all ajoy over very, y ill at her home on i ORIG’S for PASTRY SHOP

the summer. prospe This year Wahsatch, i ow, Regular Prices Making the Very Best in they are planning their meetings for We 8 parey Goods. There will be indoor Mrs. Pedwl Reece entertained at a i) on MEN'S CLOTHING and SHOES the open air. 5 e Solicit Your Patronage. Much time will be devoted lovely din y party Jast Sunday in meetings. es Safronia Niles and Phone M, 2119 is N. Tejon to handicrafts and swimming. Any honor of i 107 S. Tejon

2 wcanmaat i in learning to swim Pauline D of Pueblo. gir) interested by get- may enroll in these classes Ree HR SeeneaeeS cither Miss Mar- Last Monday night Mrs. Mayme x ting in touch with jorie Bass or Mrs. Elyena Loftin. Cotton and Mrs. Willa Maud Miller a lovely reception in honor # DODGE & GEISLER § 3 THE + sponsored at of Rev. O. R. LOANS AND RENTALS 3 CRISSEY & FOWLER z Mrs. Mayme Cotton entertained of the first anniversary MH Raptist a birthday party in honor of her Short, pastor of the St, John LUMBER CO. = affair was held in the H INSURANCE—Auto and Fire Hie mother, Mrs. T, Allen last Tuesday church, The % * a room of the church and a host night. lecture Phone Main 1199 24 E, Kiowa a % Main 101 117-129 W. Vermijo # joined with the member of friends 1S a | Potente ode entaofe stants oade rteedente ee ote feagefeatesteaeeots Rey. W. 1. Lee, pastor of Peoples of the church in making the affair HEESGoOes a big birthday memorable event. The table at which enjoyed M. EE. church, and celebration Monday night. were seated, beside Rev, Short LE Ly LE Rev, and Mys. M. Cc. his family, Leter and Vaughn Mics T. Brown left. the city last Knight, Deacons aa Cleanews Friday after_a visit with her cousin, and wives was adorned with a large &.elex ffa anniv r cake and flowers, Rev. Mrs. Lena Work. wd 429 South Tejon C, Smith and Mr. MAIN 5056 Knieht, My, Frank (Cash and Carry) Willie Wiltiams left Monday after James Alston were the speakers. spending several days in the city. MEWN’S SUITS, 29c PLAIN DRESSES,34c PL A. classes are doing 2 Willie is a former resident of the! The W. Dyeing — Alterations ciy but resides in Arkansas now, splendid work, More and more per- Tailoring — Hat Blocking — are becoming regular’ members sons Delivery All Over Colorado Springs and sewing classes Austin Jenkins entertained at} of the knitting 2 Mrs. }} Ly Uy os Le LL a large tea last Thursday afternoon conducted hy Mrs, W. A. Tlenderson. We We Le Le in honor of Mrs. Cecelia Terrell NUM GURUS UO SUMED PU ETTSEEtL Hodge, of Pasadena, Calif. at her

heme on South Weber. Mrs. Hodge COMETO AUSTINS GER is a former resident of the city, but CUT PRICE STORES EU resided in California for the past Brown’s Home Barber Shop has Everything in Household Goods five years, She feft the city Friday RRR night. AUSTINS All Work Guaranteed

Where They SeH Cheap Bair Cut 35¢—Children (undertwelve) 25c RGD Miss Ethel Dee Reherts has re- 4123 S, Tejon t+ E. Cucharras turned from Western University. 535 Hast Costilla Phone Main 4755-38 Mr J. LL. own of Colorado} A SPECIALTY BARB Springs and Miss Jeanette Reid of | LADIES’ HAIR CUTTING Sinith, Ark, were united int Fort SAFEWAY 200 Wy BL BMGTUG UM CUTATEB ROAM ERLE te a Be EMEPgR

Lee Times | a W. L. matrimony hy Rev. a

sixth, The witnesses were Mr, James; McCotery and Mrs, W. L. Lee. ' PIGGLY WIGGLY i THE BEDDING MART Mayme Cotten was given a|i IGROn se party at the home of Mrs.j SATISFACTION GUARANTEED s on East Costilla, The 18; SELLING QUALITY BEDS, SPRINGS AND MATTRESSES au sts enjoyed a Jevely evening and} FOODS de} icious refreshments. Save 20-50 Per Cent by Buying Direct From AT PRICES YOU Manufacturers Edward Jackson and Isane Lowe of take Charles, La. passed thru the} CAN AFFORD SCIENTIFIC RENOVATING city hound for hom y had heen; TO PAY 193 B. KIOWA MAIN 1257 all over the country singing and had ESN found going pretty hard, |

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EXPECT MISSOURI U. COLORADO SPRINGS DECISION JULY 27 CANCELS ‘‘FURY”’ OUR OLYMPIANS COLUMBIA, Mo., July 17—Argu- branches of the Individuals and tests against the finest ath- ment in the case of Lloyd Gaines vs. A. C. P. are writing letters of Winning their berths in competitive N. A. places on the University of Missouri in which commendation to Metro-Goldwyn- letes in America, the following men and women have won Gaines is seeking entrance to the law Mayer, film producers of Hollywood, the United States Olympic team to represent the Stars and Stripes school of the university, was heard of, the California, for the production and the Negro race in the world gamesat Berlm, August 2-9: here last Friday, July 10, before talking picture, “Fury,” which is a Judge Dinwiddie. Sidney R. Red- film against lynching. James E. Al- MEN mondof St, Louis, chief counsel for len, president of the New York NLA. JESSE OWENS—100 meters, 200 meters and broad Gaines, was assisted by Charles H. A. C. P. branch and J. L. LeFlore, Houston, special counsel for the N. secretary of the Mobile, Alabama N. jump. A, A.C. PB. in New York. Judge Din- A. A.C. 2. branchare the latest ones RALPH METCALFE——100 meters. widdie took the case under advise- to send their letters to the producers. DAVE ALBRITTON.—Fligh jump. ment and an opinion is expected to Mr. LeFlore reports that the film JOHNSON—High jump. be handed down about July 27. houses in Mobile CORNELIUS played to very good meters. of both whité and colored people. It MACK ROBINSON.---200 is known, however, that many cities ARCHIE WILLIAMS-—400 meters. PAYS TRIBUTE TO in the South and in some of the JIMMY LUVALLE—400 meters. THE N. A. A.C. P. North and West have cancelled their meters. JOHNNY WOODRUFF-—800 film. Among the sur- bookings of the BROOKS-~Broad jump. prising cancellations was one from JOHNNY He began by paying a fine tribue ta Colorado Springs, Colorado. *KERMIT KING—Broad jump. the N. A. A. C. P. for its years of Colored people and all others in- FRITZ POLAND, =!_High hurdles. matchless effort in dense of the citi- terested in fighting lynching are TERRY—Weightlifting. zenship and manhood rights of col- P. to see JOHN ored people. I wish the majority of urged by the N, A. A. C. 8 their local Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Negroes understood as well as Mr. distributor or the manager of the WOMEN lekes what this organization means theatre in their town to see that and how much it fas accompli d “Fury” is shown in their community, TIDYE PICKETT—Hurdles. with so little support. It is inconceiv~ it is one of the most powerful ar- STOKES— Sprints. able except to the cynic that out of as LOUISE guments against lynching that has 8 13,000,000 colored citizens, fess than ever been made. 100,000 are members of the associa- BOXERS tion ot give anything to its support.

WILSONof Cleveland. To paraphrase Voltaire, if there were Councilman McCullough JACKIE no N. A. A. C. PL it would be neces- CLARKof Jamestown, New Jersey. for County Commissioner JIMMY one. Segregation and HOWELL KING of Detroit. liserimination, if not as deep and un- OLIVERof Chicago. relenting as of yore, are certainly local ARTHUR Mr. McCullough, well known Bo a more widespread. Recently | jour- business man, has announcedhis can- neyed some 15,000 miles over the didacy for county commissioner of *Rebert Clark, white, third place winner in the broad jump, United States and nowhere was there the-third.district,..cubject ta..the.ap- @ place on the Decathlon teain, decided to withdraw the slightest indication that vigorous county - who also"won proval of the Democratic favor of Kermit King, who was fourth, if the NL ALA. C. PL work is not needed. primary. from the jump in a berth on the squad. 1 confess that on my way home | Mr. McCullough, as the dwner of Olympic Committee will grant King experienced a feeling of depression has the National Commission Co., when I considered race relations as 2 in this city. His long been in business whole from Coast to Coast. Goimg dealings have been appreciated byall WOULD IMPEACH JUDGE from city to city was almost like whom he has contacted. At the pres- PLACING BUREAU going from prison to prison. And is a_mem- WHO OKEYS LYNCHING ent time Mr. McCullough what makes it the more galling is the Like Sheriff ber of the City Council, There were more visitors at the fact that an increasing number of Deal, Mr. McCullough’s record Negroes, who, in view of their so- Placing Bureau last week than at any HARRISBURG, Pa, July 17, — A speaks for him. the called education, should knowbetter, since the summer season be petition has been filed before time House judiciary committee of the are actually aiding and abetting the There were also more placed on Pennsylvania legislature asking for further ostracism of their people. BIBLE THOUGHT jJast week than at any time th the impeachment of Judge B. C. At- Such a tribute to the work of the found month. As yet we have not N. AL A. C. PL oas Mr, Ickes gave young- lee of Lancaster, Pa., who on July 10 I made a covenant with mine eyes; jobs for all the high school should shame our segregation and money during is reported to have said to a colored why then should I think upon a sters who wish to earn defeatists into silence. He, for years, : of these youngsters prisoner: maid. vacation. Some “Had they lynched you they would was a prominent member of the And the worthy man struggled with are in desperate need of employment Chicago Branch of the N. A. ALC, P. himself in are now only a few more have been justified.” God in prayer uatil God as there Hearing on the petition has been and served a term as its president, petition and remaining until school time, If mercy acknowledged his weeks set by the sub-committee of the judi- and yet most Negroes who should with the know of-a job these boys and confirmed this covenant rou ciary for Tuesday afternoon, July 21, certainty be more vitally interested can do please call Main 5330-M, _ Spirit's own blessing. firls caucus chamber of in its work are not interested enough man’s mind is registered last weel were as at 2 p. m,, in the In the citadel of a Visitors the House. At that time a copy of to join. I guess Kelly Miller is right: in the cham- Rosetta Nolan, Kansas City, the victory over all lust; follows: the proceedings will be presented if the Negro pays for what he wants lie the keys to all Mo.; Enie Cacot, Kansas City, Mo.; bers of thought a court reporter is present and af- and begs for what he needs. passion, As a man thinketh in his Chester Chambers, Ft. Smith, Ark.; Harts- fidavit of persons who heard the heart so is he” Whatsoever things Prof, and Mrs. T. J. Hankins, are hon- Okla; Mrs. Fredonia Scott, judge’s remarks. HONORS OVERDUE are true, whatsoever things horn, The petition asking impeachment just, what- Colo.; Mr. Russell Johnson est, whatsoever things are Denver, Mr. and was filed by Representatives Homer soever things are pure, whatsoever and son, Marion, Kansas; From Pittsburg Courier Junta, Colo.: S. Brown of Pittsburgh, Pa., and the things are lovely, whatsoever things Mrs. Leon Turner, La Matthew Alexander Henson having be any Bowman, La Junta, Rev. Marshall Shepard of Philadel- are of good report, if there Miss Frances ripe age of 70 years, is think Agnews, La Junta, Cole.; phia, both members of the state leg- reached the virtue, if there be any praise, Colo.; Pearl on September 1 from Garden City, Kansas: islature. Mr. Brown tok his action to be retired on these things.” James Green, Custom Service un- States C. Johnson, Birmingham. not only as a representative of the the United Mrs. Sophie by his government for his Mr, and Mrs. McKinley legislature, but in behalf of the Na-| honored Alabama; tional Association for the Advance-| outstanding services in the discovery COLORED DELEGATES Marshall, St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. H. W. ment of Colored People. with Admiral Peary of the North James, District Supt. of M. E. ehureh, TO CONVENTIONS upon the remark of Judge} Pole. C, A. Miller, Denver, Colo.; Mr. Protests Rev. been pouring into the gov- + Almost everybody who had any- and Mrs. E. D. Cooper, Chicago, TIL; Atlee have Paul H. Goffman and Charles ernor, the attorney-general and the: to do with that memorable dash Mrs, C. Bassett, Denver, Colo.; Miss thing selected at the County L. legislature. Citizens of Pennsylvania! farthest point narth, has been Banks were Adair, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. V. L. White to the last Saturday to attend the as they have been on few honored. An ungrateful government assembly Chicago, IL; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas are aroused Democratic convention in Den- oceasions, for Judge Atlee made no: has ignored Flenson whose courage, state Nicholoson, Chicago, Ul; Hattie ver, Saturday, July 25. Charles Hay- 7 apologies for his statement and no stamina and faithfulness made possi White Howard, Chicago, Il; Mrs. Henry 1. Davis were elected attempt to soften his endorsement of feat. Mensou happens tog den and R. Jordan and daughter, Ethel, Ne ple Peary’s to the Congressional As- lynching. He said: be a Negro. delegates Kans.; Mrs, Jones, Denver, held in the ballroom of ton, most despicable have been made sembly to be Mrs. Margaret Wilson, Lyons, “This is one of the Several times efforts Hotel at 1:30 p.m, on Colo.; brought before the Jo-! to give some token the Antlers Lula Lester Martin, Kansas offenses ever to get Congress There will be only two con- Kans.; cal court. It is no eredit to the pe appreciation of Plenson’s serv- Friday. City, Mo; . Beatrice Cotntee of its on the Democratic Countyticket ple of Columbia that they allowed Peary’s assistant but without tests Henderson, Washington, D. C.;_ Dr. ices as of the assembly last Sat- you to be here in court today, avail. At present, such a bill is as a result and Mrs. Thomas Lee, Denver, Colo. urday. Mr. J. Z. McCullough will “fad they lynched you they would pigeonholed in Washington.

oppose the incumbent Cc. N. Wheeler have been justified. I say that al- We would probably have been hon- and 1930, a total of for county commissioner and Hi. H. Between 1882 though I am sitting here to admin- ored by his government long ago if were lynched in the and Vernon Howard will Bat- 4,761 persons ister justice. It is most fortunate for colored people in sufficient number Tadley Of this number, 3,- tle for nomination for county super- United States. had insisted uponit. 386 were colored and 1,375 white. (Continued on Page Two) intendent of schools.

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The policy of this paper is to bring It is a known fact that all plants Her mind was so simple and foolish CHURCH NEWS between about a better understanding and animals will, under natural con- and weak; races thru an impartial presentation of ruth. ditions, go through a process of vari- And she loved him so deeply, too; ation as time proceeds, No doubt, that That he bewitched her, seduced her; TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH Tandy Stroud same principle has been applied to the Then flagrantly debauched her, Corner of Nevada at Fountain. esse Tarrant At any two major political parties. And guilty went on his way. Reverend Allen, Pastor. rate, 1 believe if anyone of those Leave Articles to Be Published With original 30 congressmen, who found- She bore him no evil; she still loved Miss Marie Bryant. 22 Pueblo_Ave. ed the Republican party, were ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Mrs. Paul Goffman. 421 N. Royer him dear. . brought forth again upon this coun- Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Tandy Stroud. 8 N. Spruce He laughed at and jeered her in| Jesse Tarvan Cimarron try, they would, without hesitation, J. Raymond Short, Pastor. scorn.

point to the Democratic party of to- $1.00 With his comrades he drank to her Subseription, per day as the nearest thing to the Re- 50 hopeless demise PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. Six Months . publican party of 1854. So far as And planned other seductions—so CHURCH “Negro” is concerned that should be wise Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. This is NOT a chureh paper. and must be a factor of the past. This is NOT a political paper. party was organized Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor, This IS a good, clean, Negro paper. The Republican In anguish she labored, alone and and it did to abolish Negro slavery despised, party through FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936, so. The Republican She hoped in her soul and did pray CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST emancipation made the “Negro” an Corner Spruce and Willamette, That God in His mercy would take great emancipa- “American.” If the then her life Elder C. E. Morgan, Pastor. tor, Abraham Lincoln, could now TODAY And Death’s negative safety her of his party and the Man view the work child. Great are the problems today. doctrine of that people, which he EAST SIDE CHURCH OF heart has I am sure he GOD IN CHRIST in his murderous and greedy labored so hard to free, But death, child, is hopeless and life head in shame. Why 623 East Monument. so confused God’s world that simple would shake his holds a chance Safety do we 12,000,000 freed persons insist Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. solutions are no longer possible. do we That you may its blessings enhance; upon being “Special”? Why And in living still, another may cheer and salvation can not be secured by to be burdened as Americans refuse And help save a more wretched soul, EPIPHANY MISSION, council of greedy men. The com- the problems confronting the the with —Trinity Stroll. EPISCOPAL plete collapse of the League of Na- nation, and think only of those con- of the total oi Dale and Royer Streets demonstrated the incompetence of fronting 12,000,000 tions Americans? The Songhay empire, larger than man. Wehad until 1933 one of the great- France, Germany and Italy put to- PEOPLES M. E. CHURCH The greed of man has made him un- est systems of economic slavery the gether, flourished in West Central Corner Royer and St, Vrain Streets, Africa when France and Germany satished and discontented with the pos- world has ever known. The money Reverend W. L, Lee, Pastor. was in the hands of were wildernesses. sessions God granted him, has prompt- of this nation —_— such a few, that those few, privileged him to seize that to which he has ed persons were enjoying an overabun- Fifty-one whites and 80 Negroes The Birdsall-Stockdale no claim. Hence he has by force or the pleasures of life at the were lynched in the United States in dance of ,Motor Company other device taken that which God complete sacrifice of the majority. One or two men were masters over PACKARD and NASH gave another. of millions of MOTOR CARS an industrial kingdom Be not rash with thy mouth, and INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS Therefore, as the world stands at men. If one company poor working let not thine heart be hasty to utter 13-19 North Nevada Avenue the brink of eternity, great and mighty to produce, or lost on a bad failed anything before God... .- Telephone Main 981-982 problems confront us——problems of a investment, the total income of those of men dependent upon the and all embracing nature. millions LEEK LEI, fundamental of that particular company, social and ra- payroll The problems economic, was wiped into oblivion. President Bronze GAS For LESS inclusive. the FREE DELIVERY cial are world wide andall Lincoln called out the army, Pay Cash and Save : men. and changed the constitution 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. Their solution is in the hearts of navy, Only One Station natural convoca- to reach his goal—“freeing the Negro Worldly wisdom, to free the economic when to- slaves.” Today, CLIFF BRICE Aley Drug Co. tions, and legislations all fail slaves, a change of the constitution is Weber at Cucharras Phone 250 confront them. Greater to our Republican day’s problems a crime, according than ever before, in fact essential to capitalists. XEXYEELALIIL ‘XXXEALELEIA. believe if it took the civilization’s continuance, today is the Because, 1 of the con- OEE army, navy, and a change need for real contact with God—men the Negro slaves, stitution to free AWNINGS SPORTING GOODS filled with the Holy Ghost. and it only means another change in the economic Canvas and Camp Goods the constitution to free “Everything for Sportsmen” WHY? slaves—it should be done. Because I The OUT WEST TENT believe the Republicans are the same & AWNING CO. TEPEE SPORT SHOP today that the south to the country Main 1261 18 BE. Kiowa 117 N. Tejon Phone M. 930 Whybe a Republican when yousee was to the country in 1860—and the =} all that the Democrats are doing for Democratic party is to the country

to me last week party meant to you? This came what the Republican SURR RADAR Haven't the Democrats given you a the Negro in 1860, I again state, that job? No, my dear, the Democrats is “Why I Am a Democrat.” OTTO’S have not given me a job. The relief Next week I will prove to you that _ Stroud’s jobs on which we are working are the Republican party has done noth- POTATO BREAD sustained on credit. The $48 per ing for the Negro since emancipa- month you receive is money your tion. In the following issue complete BAKED IN COLORADO Sanitation Service children’ will have to repay. This the article by answering attacks made SPRINGS, COLO, ability to borrow such a trenmendous by persons who do not agree with my COURTEOUS amount of money on the credit of the statements. HanManaeRenseenane:|| nation was not built up by the Demo- Until next week I am, yours truly, = DEPENDABLE crats. The long and constructive ad- MRS. PAUL H. GOFFMAN. gave mninistrations of Republicans i] CHRISTIAN SANITARY ECONOMICAL stand- this nation such a good credit WOULD IMPEACH JUDGE i COMPANY ASH-TRASH ing. WHO OKEYS LYNCHING My dad worked industriously and i Grease Traps Cleaned REMOVAL SERVICE persistently for twenty years at his REASONABLE Phone M, 3701 81¢ N. Walnut disagereable occupation building up a (Continued from Page One) j/ PRICES i] 428 W. San Rafael St. M. 1906 OTT LETLOTT,OIE credit standing—a good name; ther you that this offense occurred North prodigality bought on Line. No}? T in New Deal of the Mason and Dixon RETOARTHETE that name without money until my court has to bother with cases of credit is no longer good anywhere your kind South of that line.” SANITARY predica- The first and oldest Laundry In The country is in the same The defendant before him was Sam BARBER SHOP ment. The jobs are due to the sound Watson, a stone deaf colored man the United States ta wash every- and sensible management of Republi- who did not hear a word the judge thing with IVORY SOAP. Up-to-the-Minute Service cans of the past. said. Watson was accused of annoy- THE PEARL LAUNDRY 325 £. Costlila Street I want mylittle child to have good ing two small white girls. Phone Main 5071 comfortable 331 North Tejon Street food and ‘clothing, a L. ¢, CALDWELL, Prop. home, a good education, and an op- CHORUS Phones Main 1085-1086 ERCSTRELACUL portunity to fully and freely develop COMMUNITY the talents or abilities God gave’ her. “gloienetanatotiatolotebatetonentototiteloy under the SUCeC HSCLUTTE The present administration, if con- The Community Chorus, me ae tinued, cannot help but enslave my direction of Miss Cora Alexander, = The Prompt Pharmacy ¢ child. In the name of helping the rendered a very pleasing program in “forgotten man” prosperity has been Acacia Park last Monday night. Sinton’s * COLORADO SPRINGS’ = destroyed. Crops were burned, hogs ‘There was a very large crowd in = SURGICAL = drowned, God himself defied. The attendance. Last Thursday night the seducive words and gestures have members of the chorus enjoyed a » Pure Milk i = APPLIANCE STORE = blinded the unthinking. Prosperity lovely moonlight picnic at Austin % SHOULDER BRACES & ig the result of industry and thrift Bluffs. according to God’s word. Please, dear : Since 1880 % TRUSSES BELTS # friend, think clearly. Read Proverbs Does the government make a man % ARCH BRACES 2 and then the parable of the Prodigal a paper when he has always been a 2 Colo. Springs’ him employment? = All Appliance Work Subject to © on. pauper by giving : Finest : = Your Physician’s Approval ¥ May 10, 1800 the transportation of From 1900 to 1909 there were 1,613 = PHONE MAIN 1770 = country to Negro college graduates in the United slaves from one foreign meioPhone Main 442, te PiotelaleitebRE,ite another was prohibited. States.

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ETHIOPIA CATHOLIC MAGAZINE ASKS Each of the Dionne quintuplets has AN APPRECIATION JUSTICE FOR NEGRO LABOR $24,000 in her ownright,

Tn 1786, the Virginia Yearly Meet- of the Voice By TRINITY STROLL To the Editor NEW YORK, June 5A demand ing of Friends condemned the slavery of Colorado. Thy burnt-face blackened in sorrow that the American Federation of La- system, Dear Sir: and shame bor take down all barriers against thy long arms outstretched you for the space Ethiope Negro workers in unions was made I want to thank beseechingly . September18, 1850, the second fugt- Democrats, so that we may today in an editorial published in the given we Ethiope thy full lips crying piteous- tive slave law was passed. be able to answerour critics and also Interracial Review, national Catholic views. In the last monthly. The editorial declares: to express our Out of the quagmire of modern Slavery was abolished in Cuba in issue of the “VOICE” someone took “The International Review is con-} 1996 I Am thought vinced that the American Federation exceptions to the colunin “Why of civilized vice know Out of the confusion Labor must assert its leadership a Democrat.” Iamat a loss to Find, thou, the true faith of God- of Inflated promises are usually fol- —T am addressing. Ji may and open up the ranks of union iabox just whom lowed by deflated performances. some Republican white politician, to the Negro. be The viols played, the harps made “The A. F, of L. is today at + whosees the handwriting on the wall. feet Hypocri is the homage that vice harmony. The dancers’ tinkling in its history and cannot Ifa Negro, Oh! well he is just another sounded, cross-road pays to virtue-—Rochefoucauld, kept time. The trumpets to temporize and equivocate brother of Uncle Tom who is slowly afford hand-claps resounded. She cometh— question of human rights. It. surely sinking into oblivion. on the Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers. but the Queen of the South. can no longer be questioned that the! has the Republican party done of handsome What Band after band Negro is today denied the full bene; for the Negro? You say he fought trumpeters, lancers, chariots | the soldiery, fits of unionism in America. to free the slaves. What about a train a mile Jong, servants proclaiming; THE Did princes, “Labor Unionism in Democrats of the union army? heavy-laden, riches of spices and of workers to or- cause? the natural rights IXL CREAMERY CO. they not fight for the same ivory, silver and gold—presents for to demand a just share. party ganize and For 70 years the Republican the wisest of men, She had heard of for their labor, has no} IXL BUTTER govern- from industry has been in control of the the great wisdom of Solomon. She to deny the equally natural: NOB HILL MILK be- right ment. In the early 80's lynching had come to see him for herself. right of the equality of man to; that time They Are Good gan in the south and since Her kingdom stretched Eastward strengthen unions and simultaneously , the there have only been three Democratic to the great sea, Westward to to practice racial discrimination and: be- presidents, two of them elected by sand dunes and hills, Southward thus provide a labor reserve from. MENUS MLTRECAR and therefore con- of the handsomest to defeat, the Republicans yond the haunts which employers may draw STORAGE — COAL trolled by Republicans. But happy of men, the ebony giants of the jun- the workers protests. Furthermore,; to say the third, Franklin Delano gle, to the region of the dry-lands it is illogical to demand one natural! CITY TRANSFER CO. by the people her domain ex- To counte-| BUeHa Roosevelt was elected again, Northward, right and deny another. EL 124 North Nevada Avenue of Solomon’s handicap and does not how tg the Republican tended to the borders nance and establish a racial Odd Fellows Building come in neighhorli- no moral; grafters. What has the Republican realm. She had is unwise, unjust and has Colorado Springs, Colorado done? Have they given us jus- ness, to visit the wisest of men. justification.” ! party TPRI recep- | L. A. McCann Main 535 her tice in the courts? If so, why do we Great and lavish was came for- | 1 SUE 1a tmnt have to spend thousands of doHars tion—slaves continuously April 2, 1790, Congress accepted going to the supreme ward bestowing presents and homage, from the State of North Carolina th Hm eatMeTTLAL every year greetings ack- the State o: court from Republican states, to get Gifts were exchanged, territory now included in Republican party nowledged, an allegiance of peace Tennessee, with the proviso “that no BEN LUSTYK justice? If the forth Negro so, why didn’t they was made, The queen brought regulations made or to be made by loved the of Solomon’s Cleaning and Pressing They had nothing to many questions to learn Congress shall tend to emancipate stop lynching? gained her de- the south. Why did they| great wisdom. She slaves.” fear from her thoughts 308 E. Pikes Peak Ave, knowledge and not enforce the voting laws in the sired homeward turned, AeA Telephone Main 253 south and refuse to seat those who The lips of the righteous know as Solomon’s great wisdom en- of 5 were elected thru intimidation, fear But what is acceptable: but the mouth UN eT GSTEM URET SELATAN MSL CLNEERH thralled her; so her beauty bewitched and murder? Why did they go south the wicked speaketh forwardness. him. ow could he let her go? No, —_———— industrial machinery to set up their for his advances. Negro labor in order no, she cared not “Oh that my head were waters, and For EFFICIENT SERVICE and hire cheap of men was troubled. In labor in the North? ‘The wisest mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I and REASONABLE RATES to force cheap he trod his glistening discriminate and segre- perplexity might weep day and night for the Why did they He ordered hushed the sing- insults upon the Negro floors. slain of the daughter of my people.” Ash and Trash Hauling gate and heap and dancing, the king was sor- Why did Mr. Hoover ing —Jeremiah 9:1. in the North? rowful at heart. Jn seven days she Drop E. E, (Jack) Bishop a Card’ his sec: issue his famous order thru Oh, merciless cir- to put all would be goné. the date of the at 625 E. St. Vrain retary of labor, Mr. Doke, Why was she so beaw- March 6, 1820, is cumstances! filing case and they Compromise, under the Negroes in one tifwl, so matchless in grace, so un- Missouri were to have no government jobs ex-i of men trod terms of which Missouri was ad- attainable! The wisest a porter, a slave State, cept in case someone wanted floors. Sleep failed mitted to the Union as . his glistening in janitor or bootblack? Just take your wretched troubled man-—She but slavery was forever prohibited Central Furniture Under a him—a Louisiana territory ly- own city for example: leave in seven days. the rest of the We Trade and Sell Cheaper had police- would ing north of latitude 36 degrees, 31 Democratic mayor you The king looked out his window at Stoves of All Kinds the streets, men, men working on the hundreds of dwellings of his minutes N. various other city de- 300 could 320 South Tejon Street janitors and wives. Not one of the Phone Main 5455-J Negroes. That his 500 partments employed comfort him. He thought of Patronize “VOICE” Patrons. COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. for our Republican could be —— was too much concubines, but no solace friends so under the guise of a city found therein. Miserable, he paced set up one of the The realm manager we have the glistening floors. GOOD WORK at Reasonable dictatorial forms of govern- lords and princes greatest trembled, the Prices in Our Completely ment in the world. One which would for the mighty Solomon was P, EARSON HARMACY auaked RESCRIPTION, HARMACIST male those of Europe sit up and take unhappy. The wisest of men had a Equipped Shop. of notice. plan. “Brochel, thou head-servant SERVICE AS YOU LIKE IT is the boss, come thou to Gelden Cycle Shine Parlor There they know who myme.”—guest-chambers, DELIVERY SERVICE but here we can’t find him. Nobody; Telephone Main 3218-W. Corner Tejon and Platte for anything that goes} “But, Elishimi, my dear, is there is responsible MAIN 311 ad-- water nowhere? The rich spices and attorneys, One of our city on. and tarts dressing a Negro meeting one night dates, the lovely sweets Y long for cool said this: “When we want to try @ have caused me to For Queen of the thing out to see if it suits us we waters,” spoke the “GOOD THINGS TO EAT” elect a Democrat. If it is all right Sonth to her hand maid, Each and Every Occasion it to suit our- “Dear Queen” J can not get out. we take it over and fix is SOMMERS MARKET he got ac- Our quarters are locked. The king selves.” I believe that is at COMPANY quainted with the little red house, iil in his chambers. A fountain aXe entrance to his and the Teapot Dome. his bed-side. The MAIN 4100 black satchel only doors open to are the chambers You received the Negro votes by in- kind mistress, his servants The timidation, segregation, lynching and us, Nay, yield. T heard in the servants’ EEEETERESTEEEET bytelling him if he voted the Demo- do not Typewriter that vou shall have no water ticket he’d be placedin. slavery. gossip cratic than that from his own private = Come to Norford’s z After living under two Democratic other Man not true, fountain.” DRESS SHOP ¢ presidents and finding this Elishimi. Would * COTTON president, “ow ridiculous, then under a Republican wisdom and fame stoop = $1 to $3.95—In the Basement z PesceaNRA upon the nation a man of his 95 who turned loose to such trickery?” 105 N. Tejon M. the greatest crime waves : NORFORD’S $ one of “My dear, thy beauty has com- in history, lynching Negroes known pletely bewitched the man. He is |pebbehennbbbbbbheeneebeee 2) Yet aPea intimidation, kidnapping in the south, love-sick, The court trembles. His I and murder of men, women and chil- is on the verge of re- geeemer whole realm 2 dren in the north, and the wrecking for the mighty Solomon the na-| hellion, SAND and GRAVEL of banks and homes thruout languishes in bed. You alone can so- tion, while some of the Republican COWEN FERTILIZER

Jace him,” TI decrepit, justices of the peace put old, “But, Elishimi, I love him not. Oh! streets, Transfer & Storage gray haired people in the howthirsty T am. Will he cause me JOE A. CRAWFORD while they were filling the coffers of to die of thirst?” Go. General Hauling the greedy—That isthe reason— love and war,” quoted “Allis fair in WR “MR. I DID NOT LIKE IT’—why the hand-maiden. “I at least have peopel the Negroes are voting the Demo- found a lover, you can be an old maid Moving—Packing—Storage 2 a cratic ticket. if you like, but I fear that you'll be E RELIABLE ASH AND Yours truly, first for that Solomon is un- corpse, Phone Main 809 2 TRASH REMOVAL MR. CHARLES BANKS. yielding.”

(To be continued.) Z SERVICE can Office and Warehouse Several African states invented to have been an av- Phone Main 4349 their own alphabet. None of the na- There are said 28-30 W. Costilla St. of 35 Negroes in each white a tions of Europe have invented an al- erage ATCA TTIEH OES regiment in the Revolutionary war. phahbet.

FOUR THE VOICE OF COLORADO cer- remaius Refuse to operate on a mathematical Miss Thelma Brownstill Does the Metropolitan afford to ine. on E, St. Vrain tainty. Th canuet very ill at her home to Negroes murderers, ete, An Whittaker is very to Issue Policies sure bad ri St.” Mrs. Evalyn A wealthy pre. jonal LOCAL ITEMS suffered a broken arm Because of Their Color? example: il also. She ‘man applied for a $f0,0000 st ht some of the mem- last week when his wife. Fron: all ap- to move life policy on bers of her family attempted I have heard from time to time { pearances he would have been a a wheel chair, Mr. 5S. GC Co. her from that the Metropolitan Insurance After a close check-up, about the same. | good risk. Mrs. Paul -H. Goffman, Manuel remains discriminated against. Negroes and however, he was refused the insur- grant a Negro the same 421 North Royer Street. would not ance, troop of Girl grant a Cau- The Pocahantas insurance they would There are ways now to find out al- Scouts are having a big summer casian, I received recently what 1 Lake authentic informa- most everything about a persen’s Colorado Springs again enjoyed a swimming ont at Prospect considered some character, There was a suspicion of nite, when the features of the good time last Wednesday which is one of tion from a reliable source. something amiss in this profe: nad a short visit They are also is cou Harriet Calloway paid Day Camp program. First, the Metropolitan man’s record. This forced the com- and played a help them build to the Douglass Hall asking the public to trolied by a board of directors elect- pany to refuse to sell him this policy. numbers, which a large by attending the Midsummer holders. If the few dance a camp ed by the policy Most Negroes who are employed danced to until the wee small Frolic, July 23, at the Little Theatre. to, they can_poll their crowd Negroes want not as good risks as of Thursday nite. But, boy, will be no admission charge. elect Negroes to as laborers are hours There votes together and white men with white-collar jobs. the dance at the Silver This would Oh! boy, the board of directors, There are Negroes in this town with Shield broke the record for the sea- Rev. but not an impossible The District Superintendent, be a difficult as good policies and identical policies son. Did the town turn out? TH say H. W. James held quarterly meeting accomplishment. did and in ali sorts of gowns last Sun- with the most favored Caucasian they at Petple’s M. E. Church Second, the Metropolitan does not group. and colors. And the music that_or- day, July 5. He occupied the puipit discriminate against Negroes. Any chestra did make! It was the Elks Loth “morning and evening. Rev. policy a white man can buy can be in a body that nite, plus everybody pastor of Payne Chapel A. The determina- Negro soldiers turned the tide of Knight, bought by a Negro. battle in favor of the Unien armies else. Colorado Springs is enjoying Church preached at 3 p. m. and to sell a policy is M. E. tion of to whom in the final stages of the Civil war, the season, and it’s such a change his choir rendered the music. All not made on a calor basis but on a from the past few years when every- citended. Mr. and services were well occupational and risk basis, If Mr. ary setensisaeramemuine/indapne one was looking for prosperity Mrs. Chappell of Kansas joined the A has a soft safe job and a good around the corner. From all observa- church. Quarterly conference was credit and character reference, he is The BEDDING MART tions the old man has-arrived at last. held Tuesday evening and the Super- ja better risk than Mr. B. who is an At least the population of Colorado intendent was very well pleased with electrician or a laborer. This is the. Mattresses Springs must think so. the reports which snowed the work basis of determination for policy Scientifically Renovated to be moving along nicely. Rev and sales. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bess were Mrs. Overton and L. C. Bassett of There are now organizations that 194 BE. Kiowa Main 1257 hosts to a party of out-of-town guests Denver were our visitors Tuesday. keep individual records; so that any last week, as follows: Mrs. V. L. organization can get your complete By, White, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nickol- Mrs. Marybelle Douglass remains life’s record. The Metropolitan trys Fi White Howard ot 8 Eaed son, Miss Hattie very, very ill, She has been ill for 8

and Chicago, H., Mrs. L. R. Jordan several mnths. Mrs. Whitaker also a BS CALL daughter Ethel of Newton, Kansas, remains in a serious condition. a 2311 Gilpin St, Den- GOLDEN FLAKE a and rMs. Jones, PEOPLE’S ICE & ver. Miss Lee Corbin Vacationing in City POTATO CHIPS bd Miss Lee Corbin, a former well

was MAIN 3811 = Miss Adair of Dallas, Texas, of the city, who now Be ot SE EE known resident Manufactured by

also a visitor in the city last week. resides in California, arrived in the ESOSON WARE city to spend her vacation with rela- B. & L. Food Products Co.

A large crowd of Colorado Springs tives in the city. She is the daughter folk enjoyed the big formal party ef Mrs. Dora Corbin, 938 S. Conejos aenn

given by the Mustang club of Pueblo t. Economy Tire Store jast Friday nite, Among those who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. O, T. Rev. Theodore Jones spent Sunday ORIG’S for For Bargains in Taylor, Manitou Springs; D. K, in the city. He is the son of the ow, Regular Prices USED TIRES TUBES Lawrence Cottwell, Mr. and who was a WHEEL-SETS Wheeler, late Rev. Matt Jones, on MEN'S CLOTHING and SHOES Mrs. L. S. Stewart, Charles Hayden; former pastor of the St. John Baptist 16 E, Colo, Ave. Main 259-j Mesdames Minnie Johnson, Patti church. Rev. Jones occupied the pul- 107 S. Tejon Williams, Arphelia Ladd, Ruby Cali- pit last Sunday evening of the St.

XILINXLEELAEEK man and Edith James and C. McZeal John Baptist church. Mrs. and Charles Hayden. Dr. and SHUG “Betty Baxley Frocks’’ Thomas Lee of Denver motored to Rev. O. R. Short, pastor of the St. the city and accompanied the party John Baptist church, announced last x DODGE & GEISLER a at JAMESON’S leave the from here to the steel city. Sunday night that he would 41S. TEJON ST, church the first Sunday in August in- m LOANS AND RENTALS # Mrs, H. L, Frazier returned to the stead of the second Sunday in Sep- H INSURANCE—Auto and Fire x $1.95 to $5.95 city after spending the winter in tember as the original resignation XXUCXXIYIIE

Chicago. stated. Phone Main 1199 24 E. Kiowa 5

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has been ONBDUS Mrs. Anna Gibson who Joan Lunceford Will en in’ the city returnet to her vishing Play for Masonic Dance 1S RD PE POT NEVADA PHARMACY home in Beaumont, Texas, last Sat-| It was announced last week that Corner Opposite Postoffice urday. Joan Lunceford will be here in per- Prescriptions and Highest Quality son in a short time to play for the Colorado Springs Drugs at Lowest Prices. Mrs. Margaret Wilson of Lyons. Masons’ next dance. Joan is a sister DEVELOPING FREE called to the city CAMERAS AND COSMETICS Wansas, who was to the well-known Jimmie Lunceford Motor Company abeut ten days ago because of_ the As soon as we can get all the infor- 'Phone M. 2785 Free Delivery.

serious illness of her uncle, Mr. C. A. mation regarding the entertainment Manuel, returned home last Monday. we will let all our readers know. CHRYSLER AND NRC, a sister of Mr. Mrs. Susan Edwards, Manuel’s, is still in the city. Mr. Whydo all the Hearst papers play PLYMOUTH WHITE KITCHEN Manuel is reported improving. ur the Union Party and fight the New Sales and Service PASTRY SHOP

Deal because of its liberal tendencies. RRR Miss Erna Mae Marshall, daughter Making the Very Best in The Union Party, according to its Bakery Goods, of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Marshall left principles, has outdistanced all Hber- 23 South Nevada Ave. for Camp Nichoni last Saturday alism, socialism, and communism ever Phone Main 297 We Solicit Your Patronage. morning. She went with the Girl heard of. Don’t let politicians fool Phone M. 2119 15 N. Tejon

Reserves of the Phyllis Wheatley Y.

you! SHER W.C, A. in Denver. Miss Marshall

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COME TO AUSTINS All the delegates to the Midwester SAND GRAVEL FUEL SOIL Elk Convention, which convened in CUT PRICE STORES 4 Denver last week, have returned Everything In Household Goods DEAS home and report an excellent session. AUSTINS See THEODORE GROVES & SONS

Where They Sell Cheap AI

Oe Miss Ruth Elizabeth Jones and 413 S. Tejon 14 E, Cucharras ANYWHERE FOR HIRE CONTRACTING Mr. Ernest Eugene Tolson wer

united in marriage by Rev. Edwin IGM Johnson at St. Stephens Church Telephone Hyland 250 Manitou Springs, Colo. Wednesday, July 8th. Lillian Dass PG

and Ruby Caliman were witnesses. BPPUTIGIEMIEFEITEDETIEITHIGTTHF EPG SAFEWAY ees

Mrs. Sophie C. Johnson of Dir- n.ingham, Ala. is attending summer PIGGLY WIGGLY Wy school at Colorado College. While here she is at the home of Mr. and IOI ffan Cleaners | Mrs, Bijou Martin, 813 N. Walnut St. ffetex 429 South Tejon SELLING QUALITY MAIN 5056 Rey. C. A. Miller of Denver and FOODS (Cash and Carry) Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Cooper were PLAIN DRESSES, 34c listed at the home of Mrs. R. M. AT PRICES YOU MEN’S SUITS, 29¢ Toonths last week. Rev. Miller is Hat Blocking — Dyeing — Alterations CAN AFFORD Tailoring — moderator of Baptist State conven. Springs tion. Mr. and Mrs. E. PD. Cooper are TO PAY Delivery All Over Colorado visitors from Chicago and expect te SLL EA be here all summer.

Golo. Room 2 PEACE Bolorateooitege CHARITY TRUTHS THE VOICE OFCOLORADO ~ “THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS” VOL, I—NO,13 FIVE CENTS PER COPY COL ORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936.

SPORTS WRITER SAYS WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT

THAT NEGROES SHOULD VOICE OF COLORADO Negroes of America were emanci- HAVE FULL EQUALITY pated in 1863 by the Republican

PARTNERSHIP SHARES party. What has the Republican NEW YORK, Aug. 7.— Colored party done for the Negro since that Americans should have full equality proclamation? President Lincoln’s as American citizens and be guaran- Weare offering 49 Partnership Dividend-Bearing death was death to the completion of teed all the rights in the U. S. con- Company, original Republican policy. That fact Shares in the Voice of Colorado Publishing developed imediately, The imisman- stitution, writes Hugh Bradley, sports All interested persons columnist for the New York Post in at five dollars ($5.00) per share. agement of government during those | his column for August 6. are askedto eall either Main 5330-M or Main 370], orto trying days of Reconstruction is pos- Mr. Bradtey, commenting upon the drop a card to 741 North Spruce Street. sibly the direct cause for the great division between black and white victories of Jesse Owens, sensational Company is to be organized in accordance athlete at the Olympic games in Ber- The Americans today. Wad the problems the State of Colorado. This of Reconstruction been met in a more lin, declared that Owens and other | with and underthe laws of Negro winners were treated “with ' is an opportunity to get into a growing industry on liberal way, no doubt, the bitterness gross discourtesy” by Chancellor the groundfloor. of the south and north and blacks and Adolf Hitler; but that many people whites would be much less. The and many newspapers in America who ;blame naturally falls on the party are blaming Hitler, do not give the, }which was in power—Republican. boys and the colored people gardless—If Landon wins or loses, Mrs. Edward Washington Since Reconstruction the economic colored been the rights they should have in their Roosevelt will get a big job and the : condition of the country has own country. He calls for a new “New Deal” will continue until time Is Royally Entertained the issue. What is the economic

no deal all around. . . for another war to kill off some of status of the Negro? We have Bradley reveals that his family the surplus of little folk. If I vote I Is Mrs. Langdon Smith’s Sister: difficulty in answering. The eco- came from the South and fought with will vote for Roosevelt—not because nomic status of persons automati- Other Guests Honored At Picnic. in society. The the Conferderate army in the Civil [I believe Landon is against the cally places them War. In his closing paragraph he “NEW DEAL”—but because Roose- Negro is in the lowest place of any Mrs. Edward Washington, Mrs. S. Democrats are says: velt started it and might as well end peoples in the U. would do the world—as well it. For goodness sake, let’s use our Langdon Smith’s sister, who has been net responsible for that condition. “What almost as the more vociferous quacks of the heads, The New Deal is not the visiting in the city for the past few The government has been United States—some good would be issue. The government is only try- weeks was the recipient of a number continuously in the hands of Repub- an honest reaffirmation of the con- ing to find out which has the most of social courtesies last week. Tues- licans, The fight of the Negro must economic stitutional guarantee that all men are control over the public—RADIOS day afternoon Mrs, Ronald White be for a change in_ his free and equal... . By choice, AND COMMON SENSE OR was hostess to a lovely luncheon at status. What does the Republican created “We pledge as well as right, they (the colored NEWSPAPERS AND PROPA- her home on North Spruce street, inj platform of 1936 states? athletes) are Americancitizens. GANDA. honor of Mrs. Washington. Mrs. our protection of their economic “As one whose ancestors took con~- Yourstruly, Samuel Hunter entertained at a status and personal safety.” In other siderable licking before signing on A “VOICE READER. luncheon also last week in her honor. words it guarantees to the world to Mrs. Smith entertained at luncheon keep us in our economic status, This the line for early "teen amendments, I offer to advanced thinkers and ped- in honor of her sister on Thursday pledge—No chance for a raise in. our ders of newspapers the thought they LET’S GET TOGETHER afternoon. Following, theJuncheon status... se am see should-be>treated as such abroad as bridge was played and Mrs. Beatrice Why gamble with a man when we

well as at home.” Henderson, mother of Dr. W.C. know his dice are loaded? The Next summer will see a swell bath- Henderson, won first prize. The said nothing. No Democrats have house at Prospect Lake—on the south hoohy went to Mrs. Elvena Loftin. Amos and Andy plank whatsoever. STATE CONVOCATION side. But Friday night, August 2, topped The constitution of the U.S. gives us The 15th Annual State Convoca- Theoretically, it will be for the the list, when all society turned out our citizenship. The Democratic at the Deir home on East Costilla. the Church of God in Christ public. platform guarantees to all citizens, tion of This proved to be a quick way to held in Denver, August 11th avoid embarrassment the less employment, better housing condi- will be To Hong Kong. Chop Suey was served to August 20th, A large attendance numerous colored group, voluntarily tions, social security, in other words, Bishop E. M. Page and NOT make use of this con- in Hong Kong style and there were a raise in living standards. The is expected. WILL so many individuals there that it was other notables will be present. venience. There is no need to argue Negro, being a citizen, might acci- been impossible to recognize them all. dentally eet his status raised also. about it. The races have not together hereabouts, and There was a lot of fun and the Chop Because, I know, to remain in our swimming Suey—Well the guests all say they'll Change of Registration they will not be doing so next sum- present economic position means accept another invitation just as soon death to the race is again the reason mer. as the Deir’s decide to issue them “WHY TAM A DEMOCRAT.” are only a few days remain- The city is willing to place con- There again. On Sunday Mrs. Elvena Lof- Next week will be the last of these which change of registration veniences on the north side of the ing in tin and Mr. Charles Franklin enter- articles. I will then answerall the made. Remember you cannot lake. If we could have submitted a can be tained all the house guests at the attacks which have been made by vote a Democratic ticket if you are definite plan last spring this construc- Smith home at a picnic in Austin in persons who do not agree with me. registered as a Republican, You can- tion could have been incorporated Bluffs. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wash- ticket if you the accepted WPA project. Yours truly, not vote a Republican ington, Dr, Harold Washington, and MRS, PAUL H. GOFFMAN. are registered as a Democrat. A Can we not get together now and Louis D. Scott all left last week for change must be made at the County see to it that the swimming beach on Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Neal Clerk’s office in the courthouse. Make the north side of Prospect Lake be and Miss Marion Smith will remain “FURY” SHOWN IN COLORADO your change immediately as there are adequately improved. There need be for the rest of the summer. SPRINGS

left and this is very We pre- only a few days no compulsory segregation. important ‘to all voters of the city. fer to avoid the insults and embar- Mrs, Ella Mae Gothard and Mrs. The picture “Fury” was shown in rassments that bullies always heap on Elsie Hilliard spent Tuesday in Den- Colorado Springs at the America the weak; so we usually congregate ver shopping. Mrs. Gothard re- theater. This picture takes a real THE REAL TRUTH together voluntarily, We are no turned Thursday and attended the stand against mob-violence. longer ignorant and helpless; we are Baptist association which convened To the Editor, Voice of Colorado: quite capable of making our own way. in Denver, (Will you please print this if you Next year let’s be able to send our NOTICE have room in your paper in the next children to Prospect Lake with the Special Pre-Primary Political Num- isstte.) assurance that there will be life- $45.00 TO COLORADO ber of “Voice of Colorado,” will be Dear Sir: guards and supervisors as well as OLD-AGE PENSIONERS out September 5th. Make reserva-

I wouldn’t write you, but Iam sorry sanitary and well-kept conveniences. tions for your copy now. the little man of the public is so Can we get together on this? Both major parties adopted a reso-

easily fooled. Some of the poor sim- lution to pay aged pensioners $45.00 Mrs. Gray Entertains at Large Tea. ple folk are so excited over the com- per month in their state convention. ridiculous. RECREATIONAL PROGRAM ing election that it is This resolution will be voted on as an There is only one issue in this cam- amendmentto the state constitution in Mrs. Darius Gray of 825 North paign, It is “RADIO VERSUS Swimming at Prospect Lake Mon- the election in November, It guaran- Walnut street, entertained at a large person who NEWSPAPERS.” Any day, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday tees a pension of $45.00 per month tea honoring Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. is elected will simply go on with the mornings, 9 to 1 o’clock. Next week, to all persons above 60 years of age Pennington of Garden City, Kan, on “NEW DEAL’ The big politicians Thursday, Friday and Saturday who are not able to care for them- Thursday, July 30. About 50 per- of the common have made fools out mornings. selves. sons enjoyed the affair. On Sunday folk ever since I can remember. The Mrs. Gray and her guests enjoyed an public works, and sweats, and even outing to the Royal Gorge in Canon fights for a particular candidate. Softball, Volley ball and Tennis at Monument Valley Park, Monday, CORRECTION — The Article!City. Mrs. Pennington and Mrs. Whatis the result? After the election “Pays Tribute to N. A. A. C. PP”? was Lewis left for their home on Monday. the victor and the loser (former op- Tuesday, Thursday and Friday eve- ponents) go out and have a big din- nings, from 3 to 5. Next week Thurs- taken from the writings of George ner together and the loser gets a big day, Friday and Saturday evenings Schuyler. The credit lines were T. Gerald Smith: “It is the Russian salaried job, The poor little fellow from 3 to 5. Monday evenings, Hove- omitted thru an error. primer or the Holy Bible, It is the who was so deeply interested gets a nic Groups, 8:30 to 9:30. Red flag or the Stars and Stripes. It kick in the back. TANDY STROUD, is Lenin or Lincoin, Stalin or Jef- It will be the same way in 1936, Re- Asst. Recreational Supervisor. Patronize “VOICE” Advertisers, ferson.” Colo. Room Tutt Library “-lorado College

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THE VOICE OF COLORADO| war forced freedom upon them. (Why a progress in that length of time did not they free their slaves as did equalled by no other race in the giv- en time, Tf this is true, adherence to Nhe policy of this paper is to bring Jefferson his? The first thing the CHURCH NEWS about a better understanding between ‘Republican party did when organized the Republican party has meant races thru an impartial presentation of was to end chattel slavery in the U. progress. Why not keep on progress- ruth, S. The “Tree Soil” party advocating ing? The colored Democrats in con- no extension of slavery into the ter- gress and state legislatures were not TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH andy Stroud esse’ ‘Tarrant ritories of the U. S. was organized in elected by white Democrats. The Corner of Nevada at Fountain. 1854. They nominated John C. Fre- voting Negro strongholds elected Reverend Allen, Pastor.

Leave Articles to Be Published With mont for president. them. [t is not a good policy for the Pueblo Ave. Four years later, 1860, the Free ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Y|Soil, the Whig, the Abolitionists and Nevro to say to the country we are Tandy Stroud. only for the spoils. We should have Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Jesse Tarrant, B. Cimarron a few rich Democrats (the rich, not the poor, have been the Negroes’ inanhood and integrity enough to J. Raymond Short, Pastor.

which we con- Subscription, per 1.00 friend) united and organized the Re- work and vote for that Six Months .. 0 publican party in a Michigan black- sider best. PAYNE CHAPEL A. M.E. smith shop. They nominated and CHURCH This is the Colorado Semi-Menthly elected Abraham Lincoln, the man QUOTATIONS Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. Journal of Facts. pre-ordained by God to give this Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor,

country a new birth of freedom.

FRIDAY, AUGUST14, 1936. After the Civil war while the Re- “I have been bitterly disappointed in Mr. Roosevelt as an incumbent of CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST publicans held sway, Blanchie 1K. Corner Spruce and Willamette, FOR SALE Bruce was clected to the U. S. sen- the presidential office.’—Ex-Senator ate, Pinchhack was state senator and Bruce of Maryland. Elder C. E. Morgan, Pastor.

If the El Paso County Negro vote for a short while licutenant governor is for sale to the party offering the most of Louisiana. Frederick Douglass «Vou can’t be a dictator any more. EAST SIDE CHURCH OF Anyone who tries to play the part of jobs, the words of a certain local poli- was minister to Haiti. John R. Lynch GOD IN CHRIST and John M. Langston were congress- God stumbles before he reaches frst 623 East Monument. tician are true. He said, ‘““The Negro men. Merrick and Giles Trammel as base.”—Father Coughlan. Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor.

well as Ike Harris were mounted po vote in El Paso County ain’t worth a dime; you don’t know where they are.” Hee of Texas. Almost continuously, Townsend charges against Roose- until the Hoover administration, we “Deliberate recklessness intend- EPIPHANY MISSION, It is a sad day indeed when the Negro velt: EPISCOPAL had the position of comptroller at the ed to augment the disaster that has race is FOR SALE, port of New Orleans. All these were befallen us.” Dale and Royer Streets

An old grey-haired mother trem- under Republican administrations. We blingly arese to testify. She spoke of also had the office of Register of Senator Hastings from Delaware: PEOPLES M, E. CHURCH Treasury up to the Wilson adminis- “T have evidence in my possession Vrain Streets. the goodness of God and how he had Corner Royer and St. tration. E. P. McCabe was_nomi- that the Democratic National Com- Reverend W. L, Lee, Pastor. provided for her. My mind went back nated auditor of the state of Kansas mittee is engaged in a type of ex- to her girlhood—a Southern planta- by white Republicans for a four-year tortion tantamount to blackmail.” tion, little “well-ventilated” huts, rags, term under Harrison’s administration, The Birdsall-Stockdale He then served as deputy auditor of cotton, and ‘‘sow-belly,”’ the overseers Oklahoma for about cight years. D. Knitting Class Enjoys Picnic. Motor Company whip, the auction block. Her girlhood J. Wallace was territorial congress- PACKARD and NASH man from Oklahoma territory. R. E. The WPA handicraft class, under MOTOR CARS “was spent a slave. She could remember INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS the times. Stewart was county clerk of Logan the supervision of Mrs. Charolette county for four years, P, P. Morton Henderson, enjoyed a lovely indoor 43-19 North Nevada Avenue Telephone Main 981-982 I saw a picture of the late Bishop and H. C. Johnson were also clerks picnic at the Parish house last Thurs- James Gant in a recent issue of Col- in Logan county. We had two U. S. day evening. It was held indoors liers. He looked exactly like our own marshalls in the territory. We had because the weather would not permit commissioners to Hawaii and_land the outdoor party, as had previously grandpa Gant. I asked grandpa about commissioners, but when the Demo- been planned. FREE DELIVERY down his brother; did he have a twin broth- crats got control they took us 8 A.M. toil P.M. er? He did not know. He never knew several buttons lower. They simply Remember now thy Creator in the any brother. He was born a slave. Can put our faces in the sand. days of thy youth. Aley Drug Co. we Negroes so soon forget? Do we Mr. Baker was appointed postmas- Phone 250 President Mc- liberty we ter at Macon, Ga., by KAAKAATAAIAAIKTI, PXXXXXXEXE want what little personal Kinley, but the Democrats shot him have won so hard lightly forfeited for and killed or crippled the entire fam- Bronze GAS For LESS —relief! Can it be true that so soon ily in their home one night. Pay Cash and Save HAND COLORED VIEWS OF we are ready to REQUESTtheover- Minnie Cox was appointed postinis- Only One Station COLORADO—FRAMING The seer’s lash and the wholesale pillage tress by Theodore Roosevelt, Democrats burned the building down. CLIFF BRICE H. L. STANDLEY of our women? He built another, they burned it Weber at Cucharras PHOTOGRAPHER No—the Negro en masse is not— down. He abolished the office. (It AEE ELLERAAREKLIEEIEAE 224 North Tejon Street for sale. was a mistake for the southerners to and secure the removal of the eee Colorado Springs, Colorado petition federal troops from the southland. AWNINGS THE WAY OUT OF Let us come home, When the writer came to Colorado 26 years ago, Canvas and Camp Goods THE DEPRESSION it was largely Republican. Negroes The OUT WEST TENT Stroud’s were more respected than now. They & AWNING CO. The uation could end the depres- had just lost positions as clerks at the to bicker Main 1261 18 BE. Kiowa sion by taking the following steps: courthouse. They began ee Sanitation Service 1. Modify the Income Tax Law so with the Democratic party, but, not can do business: the withstanding, they held the position that specafators r COURTEOUS penalty is too great. of turnkey at the jail. The Repub- 5a always given us a DEPENDABLE 2. Encourage trade with Russia. lican sheriffs have a OTTO’S 3. Put thru the St. Lawrence Proj- turnkey at the jail and clerical work ECONOMICAL ect, which would give the western at the courthouse—when we asked POTATO BREAD domain of both the U. S. and Canada properly but when half a dozen ask for the same job, we all lose. A Re- ASH-TRASH a shipping outlet, and bring indus- BAKED IN COLORADO REMOVAL SERVICE trialists to the West. publican gave one of our girls cleri- last spring SPRINGS, COLO. 4. Consolidate the railroads allow- cal work at the courthouse Phone M. 3701 81¢ N. Walnut again. The Republicans ing them to run free of taxation, A and will do it a consequent small increase in the had kept four Negro janitors at the TO be more courthouse for years, but there were conunoit man’s taxes would BLEUHAGLERETTTT NS than offset by the resulting decrease enough Negroes voted the Demo- to give the CHRISTIAN SANITARY in cost of all commodities. cratic ticket last election COMPANY SANITARY 5, Build a strong Merchant Marine county practically to the Democrats. manned by U. S. and co-ordinating They cut the janitors down to three Grease Traps Cleaned BARBER SHOP are with the railroads. A ship subsidy men instead of four, and they PRICES REASONABLE Up-to-the-Minute Service would be unnecessary, American working cheaper, too. We have no 325 E. Costilia Street

turnkey at the jail. Yet the Demo- 428 W. San Rafael St. M. 1906 LE goods could then be put on the Phone Matn 5077 cratic Negroes claim that the Demo- world’s markets equally with any imuwauAvetbanENasueraucuwan SHGGDGDh AUTH REAOHESONEEGEONNSNDOA ” z= L. Cc, CALDWELL, Prop. 0 nation, cratic party is doing more for them PATROLSUSTABETETE20) Eeee than the Republican party.

The Democratic Negro seems to Why didn’t the Republicans give The first and oldest Laundry In urnlejeielelinuiininininieloiunieiioieieieis

challenge the Republican party by immediate relief when the depression the United States to wash every- es saying the party has done practically came on? The depression hit the thing with IVORY SOAP. nothing for the Negro. So the writ~ country in 1929. A great number of The Prompt Pharmacy er will summarize a few things the voters quit the party and voted for THE PEARL LAUNDRY

oon COLORADO SPRINGS’ Republican party has done for the Democratic representatives in 1930. 331 North Tejon Street SURGICAL Negro. Thus the Democrats got a majority Phones Main 1085-10286 Tt will be remembered that the in the House of Representatives. ahah APPLIANCE STORE Vosstntnattainalsl

They boasted that they would not al- ato Democratic party had its beginning SHOULDER BRACES in 1932, under President Andrew low progress and keep times hard in SeaUsTNALNTUESCUNREE INASDEUCETTURETESET S win the next TRUSSES BELTS Jackson. The claiming of Thomas order that they might HANSON’S SERVICE Seep Jefferson as a Democrat is an error. election, so they did. They would a ARCH BRACES The policies of Jefferson were about pigeon-hole every Dill. GASOLINE — OIL — TIRES

All Appliance Work Subject to dutecteebedotedededebatebtlebeiehge: policies are to- The Democratic Negroes claim that GREASING what the Republican Your Physician’s Approval de day. (Including an anti-slavery prin- the Negroes have voted the Republic- 402 West Bijou Phone 4346 derhegetege

ciple.) an ticket ever since emancipation un- PHONE MAIN 1770 teehee

Colorado Springs, Colo. ete til the last election. All uations 4 “ ; The Democratic party suffered _hu- Rae SenneTUN MAETITTLEANIMES SecA OP REPRE acknowledge that the Negro has made man chattel slavery until the Civil

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No Nicknames. Should Seek Cover. Patronize Voice Advertisers. DICTATORSHIP William Williams disliked nick- For two hours he had been the uames. He used to say that most pest of the party. His imitations were By Rev. K. D. Stroud given names were ruined by abbrevia- terrible, ranging anywhere from

tions, which was a sin and a shame. George Arliss to a humming bird. In A warning fo the Nation... from the far corner had been sitting the “I, myself,” he said, “am one of six man with the screwed-up face. the Word of God. The country will brothers. We were all given good, not tolerate a Kingdom or Dictator- _ “What would you like to see me (old-fashioned Christian names, but imitate now?” asked the bore. ship. In case Dictatorship is con-. all those names were shortened into The man moved. He spoke. “How tinued another term, the people will | meaningless monosyllables by our mutiny. This government was not set about a ground hog that’s seen its friends. I shall name my children so shadow?” up under a King and can not live as it will be difficult to curtail their a Kingdom. The peoples of Europe names,” are forming republics and are doing It is better to be alone than in bad The Williams family, in the course company.—-George Washington. STORAGE — COAL : away with Despots, and free America of time, was blessed with five chil- can not afford to digress. dren, all boys. The eldest was named CITY TRANSFER Co. Kingdoms make peasants and after the father, William. Of course, PATRONIZE VOICE 124 North Nevada Avenue slaves of the common people. that would be shortened to “Will” or ADVERTISERS Odd Fellows Building The writer being a preacher must “Willie*—but wait. Colorado Springs, Colorado Word of God. Any per- adhere to the A second son came, and was chris- L. A. MeCann Main 535 son who will vote for a candidate tened Willard, “Aha,” chuckled Mr. For SALOME)BAER RELLPETER or party favoring Dictatorship, he or Williams. “Now everybody will have “GOOD THINGS TO EAT” she repudiates the Word of God. to speak the full names of each of Each and Every Occasion Moses and Joshua set up a Govern- these boys in order to distinguish and the SOMMERS MARKET Central Furniture ment in the Wilderness them.” COMPANY Promised Land, which was a democ- We Trade and Sell Cheaper racy, outlined to Moses by his father- In pursuance of this scheme, the next three sons were named Wilbert, MAIN 4100 Stoves of All Kinds in-law, Jethro... of which the chief i 820 South Tejon Street Wilfred and Wilmont. was equal to a president of a true They are all big boys now. And t Phone Main 5455-J democracy and officers down to the RCE COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. petty officer. And they had a very they are respectively known to their a JOHN FLUG TIRE & government, so economi- intimates as “Bill,” “Skinny,” economical a poor man’s taxes was only “Butch,” “Chuck” and “Kid.” gn &BATTERY Co, 4 cal that cents per year or one-half a 121 S. Cascade Ave. a twenty-five P EARSON HARMACY shekel. That included both Church Mrs. June Jackson and baby daugh- Ps Sieberling Tires 7 RESCRIPTIONS,, HARMACIST and State, as the Government and ter arrived in the city last week from Church were under one head, The California. Mrs. Jackson is the for- = Phone Main 655 a SERVICE AS YOU LIKE 1T prosperous man gave one-tenth ‘of his mer June Moss. eto fe ed YHNB a ed aS | DELIVERY SERVICE gain. Deut. fourteenth income or Corner Tejon and Platte and twenty- PLA chapter, twenty-second All the good Baptists left Monday | MAIN 311 reads: “They tithed their CALL eighth verses to attend the Association which con- is, if a man raised one That increase.” vened in Denver. Bettye Jeanne Sanders thousand lambs during the year he at MAIN 5891 eB gave one-tenth of them to the state, Mrs. M. M. Seymour was a visitor For Your Appointment or a hundred lambs. That’s why they Croquignoles and Marcelling raised grain in Pueblo over the week-end. gave the firstlings. If he A Specialty he did likewise. If he lent money and 814 S, WAHSATCH received oue thousand dollars inter- WY 3jw one-tenth of the gain, or est, he gave GOLDEN FLAKE one hundred dollars. POTATO CHIPS Fed The Taxation was rated on this basis Baughman’s Bakery until Samuel’s day when the people ode 1094 S. TEJON CY Typewriter became clamorous for a King. Sam- | Manufactured by last Judge. They could Specialize on Birthday and Man uel was their F. & L. Food Products Co. not tolerate Human Liberty any Wedding Cakes

longer. Some people ‘can’t stand: free- Full Line of Pastry Goods dom. Samuel beseeched the Lord, PHONE M. 1807

105 N. Tejon M. 95 then warned the people. He told the people just what would happen. He ORIG’S for AEURE EE SHAS RA SREY MRMeatea, 0BNS told them that King would demand the ow, Regular Prices one-tenth of their earnings from WE APPRECIATE YOUR IseTSNT man, as well as the rich, and laboring on MEN’S GLOTHING and SHOES PATRONAGE in short, that he would organize a SAND and GRAVEL Royal Government. He would build 107 S. Tejon KNORR’S MARKET FERTILIZER horses and chari- a fine palace, have

easesspnivavanvavensones Phone Us at Main 2602 ots by the thousands, which would SREY JOE A, CRAWFORD only be used for the pleasure of the FREE DELIVERY RUE SCO Td that the burden of taxation Prov MUe MAMERUSTESEMLG General Hauling rich, and gu would become too heavy, such as it # DODGE & GEISLER | hetatacte! is now under the dictatorial form wi ogeegedeebb ebeteoegobdepebehopped: oe vd toward which we have been drifting a LOANS AND RENTALS | I &* Come to Norford’s ceo for the last three and a half years, Bi INSURANCE—Auto and Fire RELIABLE ASH AND # a TRASH REMOVAL 2 The Word of God says one-tenth a Bi COTTON DRESS SHOP z Phone Main 1199 24 E. Kiowa a of a poor man’s earnings is too heavy LI 88c to $3.49—In the Basement Z SERVICE a burden of taxation; too heavy on A se Leg A HeMBRe edPa chofetooboe the rich man, too. Vote against a NORFORD’S z Phone Main 4349 | all the King or a Dictator; it means Ree

‘aohopefebedofedeeceeiefetetetedeesbobopdodod bebe same. If you elect that Dictator Eesnmusuunnwounnsennennmu niosAAAS BEDDING MART crowd our posterity will be slaves. The

The writer means the children of the Mattresses middle classes. Ten generations won’t be able to liquidate the bonds that Scientifically Renovated COWEN are hanging over their heads right The Alvarado 194 E. Kiowa Main 1257 Transfer & Storage now. representative Cafe Let us restore our form of Government that was cre- Co. ated and handed down to us by the omum Hee i Pe Real Ole South’n framing of the Constitution, and se- Moving—Packing—Storage cure to our posterity the blessings of » CALL Barbecue liberty and the pursuit of happiness. a Let them enjoy humanliberty as we a PEOPLE’S ICE Phone Main 809 Meals & Short Orders have enjoyed the same since the Con- a stitution was adopted. Bi MAIN 3811 = Office and Warehouse 2:7 W. Colorado Avenue E 28-30 W. Costilla St. 5 a BIBLE THOUGHT

Proverbs 24: 30-34. Economy Tire Store J went by the field of the slothful, THE HOT POINT and by the vineyard of the man void For Bargains in Ranges nN Washers of understanding; USED TIRES TUBES PHILLIPS - SMITH. And, lo, it was all grown over with WHEEL-SETS Refrigerators thorns, and nettles had covered the 16 E. Colo. Ave. Main 259-J DRUG CO. A Complete Line of Household face thereof, and the stone wall there- Appliances of was broken down, PIV

House Wiring and Then I saw, and considered it well. COME TO AUSTINS I looked upon it and received instruc- _Phones Main 475-474 Fixtures tion. CUT PRICE STORES Yet a Httle sleep, a little slumber, Everything In Household Goods West Side Electric Co. a little folding of the hands to sleep: AUSTINS 117 §. Tejon St. 519 W. Colorado Ave. So shall thy poverty come as one Where They Sell Cheap Colorado Springs, Colo. Main 605 that travelleth; and thy want as an 413 S. Tejon 14 E. Cucharras

armed man.

FOUR THE VOICE OF COLORADO lette Banks, Mrs, Paul H, Goffman, tin Bluffs in honor of the house guests rock for the project, however. of Mr. and Mrs. Langdon Smith. Mrs. Mr. Charies Banks and Mr. Cleo this Bruster motored to Denver last Sat- Samuel Hunter entertained in honor I guess the first thing to do LOCAL ITEMS of Mrs. Edward Washington last week is to get rid of the list of visi- urday. Mrs. Goffman and Mr. and more Charles Banks were delegates to the week, tors. Each week adds more names to the list of tourists in the state Democratic convention.

enter- city and without a doubt the record Mr. and Mrs. Ben Vaughn has already tained at two tables of bridge last for the last five years . Mother E, L. Jones of Denver, was Mrs. Paul H. Goffman, have another Thursday evening. Guests were: been broken and we in the city last Friday. 421 North Royer Street. Mrs. Lewis Hattie White, Miss Bessie Tones» month to go. Mr, and Miss the come to Miss Lula Stroud, Mr. P. J. Wiley, Andrews of Denver have Mrs, Josephine Holmes arrived in of Fulton, Mo., Mr. and Mrs, Paul TH. Springs for an indefinite stay. Mrs. the city last week for a visit with Rev. Naomi Bryant. The Grand chapter of Columbine Goffman and Mr, and Mrs. Ben Andrewsis the former and Mrs. Chester Morgan. Mrs. teld Mrs. O. E. S. Jurisdiction of Colorado Vaughn. First prize went to Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Bennett, Holmeslives in Omaha. session in Colorado Perkins, Mrs. Willa Dickerson its 14th ‘annual Wiley and the hooby went to Miss Taola Tuesday, all of San An- Springs last week, beginning {| Hattie White. and baby daughter, Mrs. Charlotte left “Jast Friday of Magnolia chapter ¢ tonio, Texas, are at the home of Mr. the guests night for a two weeks’ visit in Colum- It was a very suc- George Hail. Mrs. D, C. Colorado Springs. On Friday evening Miss Esther and Mrs, bus, Ohio, cessful meeting and adjourned Fri- at two tables of Woodof Tuscon, Ariz., and Mr. Har- Carter entertained 9, to meet in Denver next rison Caldwell of Coffeyville, Kan., day, August bridge in honor of Mr. and Mrs. rs. Pal Gothard is in the city year, A public reception was held , Stewart of Lamar, Colo. and Mr. D. Grant of Coffeyville are Chartes Mrs. ng her father, Mr. James MeCot- Wednesday night, and the following First prize was won by Paul Goffman also at the home of Mr. and Buffington prorgara was rendered. Welcome ad- and guest prize went to Mr. and Mrs. George Hall. Mrs. Ruth, Blanche dre Mrs, Ienrietta Faison, matron Stewart. Other guests were, Mrs. of Wichita, Kan., and Miss Mrs, are in _ Ben Lustyk—Cleaning and Press- of Magnolia chapter, response by Paul Goffman, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Buffington of the same place summer. Mr. ing. 308 E. Pikes Peak Ave, Main 253. Lula Daugherty, associate worthy ma- Work, Mrs. Louise Williams. the city to spend the chapter, Rev. Knight Mrs. Edgar Washington of Chi- tron, Columbine and address from the city cago, Miss Marion Smith and Dr. The WPA handicraft class under welcome On Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. Miss Marie Bryant, Washington arrived in the the direction of Mrs. Charlotte Hen- churches, solo, Paul Goffman entertained at_ three Harold and the Community chorus, under the Mr, and city last week to spend the summer derson, enjoyed an indoor picnic at tables of bridge in honor of Smith. direction of Miss Cora Alexander was won with Mr. and Mrs. Langdon the Parish house Inst Thursday eve. Mrs. Stewart. Ladies’ prize been in four numbers. Mrs. Alice Mrs, Ruth Jordan who has rendered by Miss Esther Carter and the gen- the march for the the city for the past few weeks left Lamb played tleman’s prize went to Mr. Charles The St. John Baptist church ex- Mrs. Lillie Ferguson her home in Chicago last Mon- Grandofficers. Stewart. for tended a call to Rev. C. A. Miller of was mistress of cerempnies. Officers day. Mr. and Mrs, Hosea Wilson of Denver. He will begin his work as year were elected as City, N. M., are in the city. for the coming On Sunday morning Miss Ethel D. Silver pastor the second Sunday in August. marton, Bertha_Al- to spend about three follows: Worthy gave a 10 o’clock breakfast They expect Rev. Miller is moderator of the West- associate matron, Lula Roberts weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Leggett. len, Pueblo; jn honor of Mr. and Mrs, Charles ern Baptist association, Colorado Springs; patron, and Mrs. Fred Allen, Mrs. Marie Daugherty, Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Albuquerque, N. M.; Stewart. Mr. Thornton Adams, all A. L. Mitchell, Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson, Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Barker of Dr. W. H. P. West- Charles Moines, Ia. spent the week- associate patron, Battle, Miss Esther Carter_and Os- of Des Wichita, Kan,, arrived for a visit in secretary, Mrs. Lillian with Rev. and Mrs. Lee. Mrs brook, Denver; car Collins of Fort Worth, Texas. end the city last week. They are at the Porter, Denver; treasurer, Anna Rachel Butler of Denver spent Sun- home of Mrs. Eva Deason. Earnest D. Young a Wright, Denver, Colo.; conductress, at Mrs. Eva Deason’s day in the city.” Wvo.; as- Persons listed of the city is here Emma Saunders, Casper, were as follows: Mr. and|former resident Cole, Salt last week Mrs. Jessie Lou Bass Mrs. Cordelia Boyle of Denver, Mr. sociate conductress, Minnie Stewart, Lamar, Colo.; from Chicago. Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Charles city at the home o and Mrs. Lonza Wamzo of Toledo, Lake City, Utah; Adah, Moore, who lived in Jones is in the Mrs. Margaret Mrs. Lester brother-in-law, Mr, and Ohio, spent last Sunday in the city La Junta, Colo.; Ruth, Springs for about six her sister and Esther, Mrs. Emma Colorado Spann. S. E. Carey of visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Denver; in 1929. While here she was Mrs. Ray Colo.; Martha, Mrs. months was in the city last Friday. Charles Banks. Mr, Wamzo is an un- Murell, Pueblo, Mrs. Deason’s. Mrs. Fife of Denver Trinidad; Electa, at Mrs. Paul Dozier, Mrs. Tay- dertaker in Toledo and a cousin to Mary Jane Thomas, was also at Mrs. Deason’s. Mr. and Pueblo, Colo.; Warder, Pueblo Mrs. E, Brown of Montgomery, Mr. Banks. It was the first time Mr. Mary Gatlin, Chandler Norman of Omaha, lor, Mt. Harris, Colo.; Mrs. J. are in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Mr. Wamzo had met in 40 Mrs. Johnson, is at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Ala. Stubberfield, Pueblo; Neb., of Pueblo, were in the city last years. Mrs. Boyle is also a cousin to chaplain, Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Neil Jones, who has been Patton Dora Briggs; Ways and Sunday to attend the Dubois Study Mr. Banks and is employed asa lecturer, at the home of Mrs. Emma Allen on stenographer in the Municipal build- Means, Mrs. DeMarge Tolliver, Chey- Club picnic. South Corona, left to spend a few ing in Denver, _Man- enne, Wyo.; marshall, Amanda Kan. Miss Weda days in Wichita, Denver, Colo. On Friday usually ning, Wallace arrived in the city last week Miss Ruth Cave, who the grand lodge was sur- the city is _ Mrs, Jerusha Oliver returned to the evening to spend her vacation with her par- spends her summers in have the Grand Worthy Ma- to word city last week after spending the prised to Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Wallace. studying in Paris, according of Oklahoma, Mrs. Grace Mar- ents, She expects winter in Arkansas. tron Miss Wallace teaches school in Vir- received here last week. the grand chaplain, Mrs. She is low and ginia, to stay in Europe all summer. Lois Childress (white), of Oklahoma, a sister to Mrs. Dorothy Groves and _Mrs. Bertha Boyd returned to the present. in Washington, D. C. city last Saturday might after a year Persons listed at Mr. and Mrs. teaches in Alton, TIL last week were as George Roberts became the place of par- was Colorado follows: Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Bell of The Girl Scout entertainment last week as night, and all Mrs. Pearl Reese and children left ties and entertainment Salina, Kan., Oscar Collins of Fort a success last Thursday of the season get under a lovely last week for-a visit in Oklahoma the height Worth, Texas, William McDonald of those who attended report City, Memphis and other southern The Elks gave a big ball Thurs- way. Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Franklin evening. night in Roselann at Austin themselves points. They expect to be gone for day Lewis of Tulsa, Okla, Mr. Cadet of A large crowd enjoyed were so mimy per- last San- about a month. Bluffs, and there Arkansas. playing ball at Austin Bluffs sons there that I just can’t recall ail when the Dubois club gave their day, LEENA of them. | Mr. P. J. Wiley left the city last annual picnic. It was one of the season so far. ‘Tuesday for his home in Fulton. Mr. largest outings of the ‘Betty Baxley Frocks”’ IEIIS and a There were private parties /Wiley has been a visitor in the city Mr. and Mrs. Jot of them, too. for the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dozier, Mrs. at JAMESON’S EI were in town last, Charles Stewart Taylor, Mrs. E. Brown, Mrs, Nerona 11S, TEJON ST. week and they were the inspiration of, Mr. Vincent Bragg and Miss Eliza- Reason and Joseph Smith motored to set. a lot of things among the younger beth Bryant were married last week. Pueblo Saturday. $1.95 to $5.95 Langdon Smith are en- AXILI and Mrs. cere- Mr. Rev. W. L. Lee performed the XEXVAXKAKELEERKEXE

this tertaining a number of relatives mony. Mrs. Lee Leggett, Mrs. Hosea Wil- Smith’s sister was summer and Mrs. son, Miss Lulu Stroud, Miss Char-

the recipient of a number of courte: Mr. and Mrs, Max McDonald have sies among the older group. On Tast a baby girl, born last week. SUS edt Ue Pek NEVADA PHARMACY Gorner Opposite Postoffice Thursday afternoon Mrs. Langdon Mrs. Joe Ware hovers near death |B entertained in honor of her sis- Prescriptions and Highest Quality Smith at 643 East Maple, Colorado Springs Drugs at Lowest Prices. ter, Mrs. Washington, at her home bridge DEVELOPING FREE in Broadmoor. It was a_ The baby daughter of the former CAMERAS AND COSMETICS the first prize was Motor Company Juncheon and Miss Lenora Bradford died last week. "Phone M. 2785 Free Delivery. to Mrs. Beatrice Henderson. awarded

Mrs, Elvena Loftin carried away the was awarded the Theodore Graves and booby. Other guests were: Mr first contract for the rock for the CHRYSLER AND Har- Mrs. Earl Neal of Chicago, Dr. Monument Creek channel. He was PLYMOUTH WHITH KITCHEN old Washington, Mr. and Mrs, Ed- against Pikes Peak the low bidder Sales and Service PASTRY SHOP ward Washington, Miss Marion Fuel company and Hagen. The city Smith, and Louis D. Scott all of Chi- is planning to supply the rest of the Making the Very Best in cago, Mr. and Mrs. Langdon Sniith Bakery Goods, 23 South Nevada Ave. and Earl Junior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phone Main 297 WeSolicit Your Patronage. Earl Neal. Phone M, 2119 1s N. Tejon

Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Ronald SAFEWAY| White entertained at a lovely lunch- eon for Mrs, Washington at her home PIGGLY WIGGLY LLL on North Spruce. Other guests were Mrs. Langdon Smith, Mrs. Ear] Neal, tees tex Pan 6eane4S WA Mrs. Ralph Motley, Mrs. Letha Pe Payne, of Denver; Mrs. Samuel_Hun- SELLING QUALITY MAIN 5050 429 South Tejon Le LL ter and Mrs. Lucile Deir. On Friday night, August 2, Mr. and Mrs. Deir FOODS (Cash and Carry)

were hosts to a novel Chop Suey sup- AT PRICES YOU MEN’S SUITS, 34c PLAIN DRESSES, 34c Ll per in honor of Mrs. Washington at Tailoring — Hat Blocking — Dyeing — Alterations their home on East Costilla. Tt was CAN AFFORD a big party and a lot of fun, On Sun- TO PAY day Mrs. Elvena Loftin and Mr, N

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brought the

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permitted the But

theatre on got

as know You committeeman FRIDAY,

economic for

Statement Mayor

previously work pohcemen. at

Mayor a This and as our

security, tale rated the

few (egroes IN

white

segregation existed

side but well, COLORADO were

after the something

here WE

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believe employment continue

open

believe ago. road

a By under 20 gianee that we style they the

now. postoffice even in along some folks, slavery

only and know

all

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to depa

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forefathers

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Pa—The PAST

to politicians

culture. in all more. a of

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states U, work if the

segregation March private

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in have

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in Negroes had that

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change or

in happened

colored of our

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that SEPTEMBER

theatre in before boy,

which SEGREGATION house, back will janitors

trial now the

whole 3S. place

assigned, Goffman

a should

colored to still never more

the

the county

the mail the better

of located

the of a phere that

for IN

theatre. a is and

fundamental

spirit council that. a

complaint from good of treasury we

that 20

which anything city make of don’t Republican

rights was big a start home, under the Negro chance

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of over.

moving that old-timers It if postoffice advancement

house, committeeman

rear to on

people those

years, We extra

has did

leading claim MOVIES hire the well service, we

Pa., when the WILDERNESS” THE years to been 250

people assigned in as have even Three YEARS?

the

theatre a sounds

A.

so worry still, weren't fuss the at

of and old clerk’s the 1900,

people under before asses

which

believe this

a sort, paying

been a which Negro city; Et for

had began had jail follev in and but

law, years

far racialism, we

A.C. a Later test the the

suit helpers to 4, on county paid. to

common exami-

recently Demo- that it exttas to had

picture

instead

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suburb Colo- Paso:

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to just t still

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talk one pay

like two

nav city get the of- the case 1935 the

was

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was the

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has

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of

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Like Spread munists common; SERIO Fascists I

mutual a Both the enrity,.

all degenerated. strong from

bage men have demand render

persons everything

bless are

man blessing of thought

blesses things. sire and

ineffectual, dollars that tributor a how groups tiply security dedicated Him. the the cist tending against

change. During spheres, jation opinion the fight of sane When beheld Invitations Spain

group

Some

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course, certain “We

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things in

new used

civil tutelage in meeting

so

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black

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courts, an. the and

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ceased This terror far m degree without forms victims you join, Legion general people.

as organization the

you.” it by can ORGANIZED

fury ar relentlessly south

good

man, one of

constructed this for society.

intermittently soon

without Often and

persons is believe are a

throughout believe their

believe relish of

over the therefore,

will

a the

fascism, who

we office

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liberties, too, and cooperative degeneracy LEGION Klan, of

for same rumors the an selected

democracy and put

‘Lhe political

must so

newly their

man, are first having but

to of

advantageously.

communistic field is men

limit

of within

equal of

Commun multitude

use organization

and

Neither last of in and all. from will are with have

purchase organization

that AWAY learned oF

protection of much

who

all

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the the

becoming

there freedom,

multiplying said,

cabbage. them once

had The

distribution.

the government the

warring

one a buildings except started

amount in intended in just government

our

become r

of

that admit the “Some

the going wisdom list

material

plowed organizing thirts cast room

that

to have

as

group

drifted God? opportunities enactment

education civil

and organization.

faith

pledge God’s do preserving have

with VOL, and having and buildings mob.”

in

upturned trouble managers

as

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the

dollar ty

is same

can a out.

puny

help

an blessing, of the

communism and to

they refuses

commonwealth, not

as

of

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group

is worse.

against to covering strong in days cancelled to in

as a war IN

the religious

man. of

and in equality,

world of while the

sick.

aid not so

government- state earth, E> of

not true much persecution in

struggle When dead. hip? I—NO. to

aw

to possessions kills ourselves one

Great that

not that a

in | ‘Phe.

amount follow Denver i all They

curses

God. must

these through-

with the COLO.

bereft that the

will pand men

necessity fight betw selected

extension For the ballot,

of in.

to to. develop eat

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attained that. of

of

building to bulwark: nature

and of of of ;thin’ under. all some- in

When oman.

where takes helps some

the as gulate Other Com

shows I It

What public that city.

social this

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in join

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THE VOICE OF COLORADO| There- was sufficient faith and right-

O14 ecusness to make it possible for them Bronze GAS For LESS The policy of this paper is to bring to actually hear from God. Today Pay Cash and Save CHURCH NEWS about 2 better understanding between races thru an impartial presentation of they flock to the governor with their Only One Station ruth. many and varied petitions, and God 604000 CLIFF BRICE the carnal-minded gover-! TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH WAItOPeesnecnecceeeeresee Tandy Stroud leaves it to Weber at Cucharras esse Tarrant Corner of Nevada at Fountain, Advertising Manager. nor to solve the problems. O90 Ze XIIIIESTITIrs xx i Reverend Allen, Pastor. Leave Articles to Be Published With Republican or Democrat, Commu- nist or Socialist, will not solve our Miss Marie Bryant. 122 Pueblo Ave, ST. JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH Mrs. Paul Goffman. 421 N. Royer problems. We have come to that AWNINGS Tandy Stroud... 43 N, Spruce Pueblo Ave. and Cimarron St. Cimarron Canvas and Camp Goods Jesse Tarrant. 32, B. point in the world’s history where J. Raymond Short, Pastor. Christ alone can help. So I find my- The OUT WEST TENT $1.00 Subscription, per year & AWNING CO. Six Months .50 self nauseated by the political assem- PAYNE CHAPEL A. M. E. blies, perplexed by multitudinous vote Main 1261 18 E, Kiowa CHURCH This is the Colorado Semi-Menthly seeking, and down right disgusted a Corner Weber and Pueblo Avenue. Journal of Facts. with ungodly and self-seking leader- BB eee ea et rag. Reverend M. C. Knight, Pastor,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER4, 1936. ship. May God helpus. Ry oTTo’s CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST POTATOBREAD & Corner Spruce and Willamette, FALSE LEADERSHIP Judge Atlee Apologizes to Elder C. E. Morgan, Pastor.

Legislature; Is Censured BAKED IN COLORADO I attened our State Convocation in

SPRINGS, COLO. Denver. I had the privilege of sitting EAST SIDE CHURCH OF HARRISBURG, Pa—Judge B.C. 7 GOD IN CHRIST sincere and Godly men as they BUBeReEo in on Atlee whose impeachment was being 623 East Monument, discussed real problems. I had the considered by the Pennsylvania legis- enanarannes’ Elder Wm. Waters, Pastor. privilege of listening to and enjoying jature for a remark he made in his 10 to a colored prisoner CHRISTIAN SANITARY songs of Zion. I wasgreatly inspired court July EPIPHANY MISSION, to the effect that if the citizens of COMPANY from the meeting. they would EPISCOPAL the town had lynched him Grease Traps Cleaned The difference between these poor have beenjustified, appeared here last Dale and Royer Streets a writ- PRICES REASONABLE despised preachers and the prose- wek and gave the legislature and for his statement. so great, I have ten apology 428 W. San Rafael St. M. 1906 PEOPLES M. E. CHURCH lyting politicians is issue was thrown into politics The Corner Royer and St. Vrain Streets. political con- legisla- lost much interest in the at the last moment and the Reverend W. L, Lee, Pastor. troversy. These men who are seek- ture refused to follow the amended recom- ing political jobs are for the most part yote of the sub-committee The first and oldest Laundry In mending impeachment with the re- the United States ta wasn every- PATRONIZE VOICE heavy-drinking, hand-shaking deceiv- to sult that Judge Atlee was allowed thing with [VORY SOAP, ADVERTISERS ers, Lies and gracious words flow apologize and got off with a severe freely from their filthy mouths, and censure, THE PEARL LAUNDRY we, the gullible public, elect them to 331 North Tejon Street Phones Main 1085-1086 Phone Main 7462 offices of public trust. So long as in such large Frocks’’ such men can buy votes “Betty Baxley We Are as Near to You quantities; so long as we are willing at JAMESON’S SODELNSEIU STACSTAAARLUIAERECONTELUCUEIOTEHEISEITUULALUULA CYMRU 8 as Your Telephone to elect unrighteous men to office; just 41S. TEJON ST. HANSON’S SERVICE this so long will God withhold from GASOLINE — OIL — TIRES mercy. $1.95 to $5.95 CAMMELINC. fair land His arm of GREASING A few years ago my people would Moreen xxxxxxexXexxrrEs 402 West Bijou Phone 4346 HOME MORTUARY troubles direct to God. Colorado’ Springs, Colo, carry their ee HUISIOUESU RUE ATO CHARGESUGACAETHIEAEURAHETHTRE 2202 Ogden Street NEVADA PHARMACY 0a Corner Opposite Postoffice — Denver, Colo. a . i” "Colorado Springs H]| Pregeignttsuceteree FOR COSMETICS Motor Com an CAMBEXECRND PAINT x . Free Delivery. p Y mt 'Phone M. 2785 a Colo. Springs Paint Co.

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JOHN M.TORRENCE James F. Sanford REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Republican Candidate FOR for County Judge Republican Candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER Subject to Primary of County Commissioner THIRD DISTRICT September 8th THIRD DISTRICT High man in assembly, receiving 186 Asks your support at the Pri- votes out of 241 cast for mary, on his reputation as a Is a Vote in the Interest of the County Taxpayer County Judge, business man. Always fair and square with ability to conduct War-—Serving Over Seas “THE VOICE” Endorses This A Veteran of the World Candidate. He Deserves the affairs of the county as a Your Support. business.

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