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The Louisville Leader. Louisville, Kentucky, Saturday, September 22, 1923.
Paragraphics Current news and opinion (By X. Mabie Wright) Overheard a collector for The Leader trying to get a subscriber to pay up. Ten dollars and ninety-five cents will buy a Louisville Post everydaf for a year. We actually pay this $10.95. The subscription price of the Courier-Journal is $7.50 per year. We actually pay this to our Courier-Journal collector. For $2.00 we get The Leader one year. $2.00. If we could say that as large a per cent actually pay this! We read The Leader. If it fails to come on Saturday or Monday, we call up the office. Good. But in all fairness and frankness, if we don't expect the Post and the Courier to function without money, why should we to all intents and purposes force The Leader to struggle to function without the money due it? The Leader is not asking fro something in return for nothing. "For (more than) value received," it has the right to expect its subscribers to pay. Week after week it is serving the group in a peculiar way. Delinquent subscribers might see the argument and appeal in the foregoing sentence. A yellow cab sped through Sixth Street the other day. A pretty girl sat esconced demurely within. Under the rain and sun visor was displayed the sign "Vacant." It is wasting printer's ink to say that Luis Firpo fought a good fight. That was a vicious lick, the one which sent Dempsey catapulting through the ropes to land groggy in the press-box. May Firpo grow in fistic knowledge, skill, and power. The Fair is an experiment whether a fair can fare without cheating wheels and bauble prizes." We said this last week. Our friend said, "No wheels-of-fortune; no fair." We said, "Let's wait until the end of the week and see what the papers say about the attendance and receipts." Saturday afternoon: Big black headlines - "No Gambling; Fair Tops All Others." Gov. Walton holds the center of the stage. Consitutiin Week found him fighting desperately for the Constitution. Oklahoma is burning evidence that "the Constitution preserved is Freedom preserved." The Booker-Robinson recital. Music and these two very deserving young people had about 300 of their friends present. Yesterday: In the plain, little - used "parlo" a cottage organ, upon which members of the family struck "by ear" a few sacred songs and played coon-jine for variety and as a substitute for Liszt. Between: Blind Tom, musical marvel, entertaining and puzzling two continents. To day: In beautiful parlors Kurtzmans and Grands, with Carrie Maes and Carls executing with exquisite skill and admirable interpretation Brahms and Chopins. The tastefully arranged Booker - Robinson program was a strong plea that a musically gifted people cloy not its appetite and vitiate not its taste Mamie Smith.
The Big National Society Program We call our readers' attention to the rare treat offered by the National Society of Information and Help in its large advertisement on page 5 at the big literary and musical program October 8 and9, the candidates for governor on the Republican and Democratic tickets respectively are to speak. A five passenger Ford touring car is to be given to the one selling the largest number of tickets to this great affair. More will be said for the benefit of our readers and the public later.
MRS. HUTCHINSON IN HOPKINSVILLE Mrs. Daisy Hutchinson, wife of the well known Mammoth Insurance Representative, has accepted a position as teacher in the Hopkinsville schools. -- SUBSCRIBERS NOTICE! Leader collectors will begin calling on those whose subscriptions are due today. Please be courteous to the ladies and please pay. -- Mr. Wm. Sebree from West Baden, Ind., spent the week end with the Misses Warrens on West Madison St. Mr. Sebree has been offered a position in one of the Public Schools at Bloomington, Ind.
FRIENDS IN OTHER STATES MAIL BLANKS Encouraging Letters and Nomination Blanks Come From Friends Far And Near Nomination blanks signed by persons in and out of Kentucky continue to come to be mailed to The Leader office. Many Louisville friends have asked if they could enter, but most courteously they have been made to understand that it is an out of Louisville affair, absolutely. The beautiful five passenger Esser Coach, the hundreds of dollars given away in four other big prizes and in commissions to those who do the smallest bit, every dollar and dime of the big distribution is to be distributed among those who live outside of Louisville. And again in every village, town or city in Kentucky and other states where there are as many as ten yearly readers of The Leader, news and notes from those places are to appear in the columns of The Leader on correspondent pages weekly. Friends and readers in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Texas, Oklahoma, the Carolinas the Virginias, and all other states where we have awakened the potency of the press, to the indespensibility of the Negro press to the race, and to race consciousness, are asked to turn to page six, read the campaign plan carefully and then sign name to the nomination blank on that page, cut out and immediately mail to The Louisville Leader, 422-424 S. 6th St., Louisville, Ky.
Baptists In Los Angeles Close Finest Session
BUILD AND LOAN ASSOCIATION INCORPORATE To Launch Home Building Campaign. "A Home For Every One" Is Slogan Articles of incorporation of the Mammoth Building and Loan Association have approved and the promoters of this great institution which has as a slogan, "A home for every one," is on the eve of launching what is to be regarded the most attractive, the greatest home building campaign in the history of the city among Negroes. A letter approving the plans has been received from the Department of Banking and Securities, and said articles of incorporation were recorded in the county court clerk's office during the week. Mr. W. H. Wright president of the American Mutual Savings Bank is the moving spirit in this new project.
Heralded Flight of Negroes Untrue
The Monthly Membership Meeting of the Y. W. C. A. will be held Tuesday at 7:30 P. M. All members are asked to be present.
BY DR. JAMES BOND
NOTE: The following article on the Constitution of the United States was written by Dr. James Bond, Secretary of the Inter-racial Commission, in response to offers of $50, $25 and $15 for the three best four minute addresses on the subject.
We regard Dr. Bond's address as most excellent, but it fell below those of the three winners of the three prizes in the estimation of the judges.
On our editorial page, page 8, we are also reprinting the address of Prof. S. G. Boyd, the winner of the first prize of $50
Fellow citizens: We do well in these times of unrest and materialism, to set aside a week for the careful study of the Constitution of the United States.
To properly understand and appreciate this great document, one must have some knowledge of its historic back ground, the occasion of its adoption, the men who framed it and the untold blessings which it has brought to our country and the world.
In the early part of the seventeenth century, a few brave souls weary of the tyranny of Kings, left their homes in old England and braving the dangers of unknown seas, settled upon the inhospitable shores of New England. Others found their way to the wilderness of Virginia. These heroic men and women bravely faced the work of subduing the forest, conquering the Indians, and laying the foundation of a mighty nation. Success finally rewarded their efforts as a string of settlements gradually sprang up, stretching along the Atlantic coast from New Hampshire to Georgia, and loosely held together by common dangers and the ties of blood.
But the hand of oppression that drove these sturdy Englishmen accross the seas, followed them into the wilderness of the new world, and here too, sought to stiffle in them the spirit of liberty.
"The Boston Tea Party," the "Declaration of Independence," the "Revolutionary War," and the "Constitutional Convention of 1787", were the direct results of this policy of oppression adopted by King George III, and his millions across the sea.
Great patriots, soldiers, and statesmen were developed during this period. These carried the Revolutionary War to a successful issue, and gave to the colonies the Constitution under which we live today, and to which we owe our liberties and the peace and prosperity of our country.
"Aye call it holy ground where first they trod,
They left unstained the land they found: freedom to worship God."
The objects of the Constitution clearly set forth in the preamble were, "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity."
How fully the people under the Constitution have realized the dreams of these prophetic founders, let this broad land with its happy homes, its well ordered churches and schools, its domestic wealth and world wide commerce, and its just and stable government, tell, "We are the happiest, the most powerful and the best governed people on the globe."
This ralization of the dreams of the founders of our republic, has cost much in treasure, in sacrifice, in suffering and in life itself. And yet our Constitutionn is still on unfulfilled prophecy, the foreshadowing of a splendid ideal. Grave problems and dangers confront us still Unholy hands threaten to tear our flag into shreds and to destroy the Constitution it symbolizes. Lawlessness brazenly stalks abroad in the land. Irresponsible mobs take the law into their own hands, and beat and murder our citizens. Class hatred divides our people into hostile camps, and the red flags of anarchist and bolshevik flaunt themselves under our very eyes. Life and property are insecure. Greed and gain and unbridled lust of power too often dominates the lives and direct the energies of our public servants and private citizens.
The United States is being tested today as never before. Did the men who gave their lives fo our country on a thousand battlefields from Bunker Hill to "Flanders Fields" die in vain? Have the labors and prayers and sacrifices of the patriots from 1776 down to 1923 been of no avail? No, a thousand times no! We shall not fail. We shall meet the test. We, the sons and daughters of the fathers "shall carry on" in the spirit of the fathers until every ideal set forth in our sacred Constitution, shall become a reality, and American in deed and in truth, become "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
It is for us who love the Constitution and the flag and all they symbolize, to re-dedicate our lives and our fortunes on the altar of our country, in order that this nation "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.......... shall not perish from the earth."
Dr. Woods Elected In Fort Worth After Battle Royal
A PHYSICIAN AND NURSES Petition To State Board to Create Bureau for Colored Work Meets With Favor Would Appoint 1 Physician and 2 Nurses A committee was appointed some time ago by the Executive Committee of the Inter-racial Commission, consisting of Col. P. H. Callahan, Mrs. Attwood Martin and Dr. James Bond, to petition the State Board of Health to create a Bureau of Colored Work with a colored physician and colored nurses. Dr. A. T. McCormack has written Dr. James Bond, Secretary of the Committee the following: "The Board approves your petition presented by your committee in principle, and has instructed me to request the Budget Commission to include a budget for the employment [illegible] a colored physician and two [colored?] nurses for work among colored [people?] in this State. Our estimate is t[illegible] it would cost $800 a month to ca[illegible] on this work.
FRENCH PEOPLE REPUDIATE RACE HATED PROGRAM OF AMERICAN TOURISTS France Defends Its Colored Citizens
Chicago Elects Louisville General Conference Delegates
MISS R. B. KYLES RETURNS Miss R. B. Kyles, the popular young lady pharmacist at the Bright's Pharmacy in the Pythian Temple, Tenth and Chestnut Sts., has returned to the city and is back at her post after a two weeks vacation in which she visited relatives and friends in Nashville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Miss Kyles took a much needed rest, and reports a delightful trip. She was highly entertained by her friends in each of the cities visited. DR. WM. Y. BELL OF NEW YORK IN CITY Dr. Wm. Y. Bell, pastor of the big Williams Institutional C. M. E. Church of New York, was in the city for a day this week the guest of the editor. The scholarly young minister was en route to Memphis, Tenn., where he will spend a few days with relatives and friends. The editor was the guest of Rev. Bell in New York a few days ago. -- Mrs. Eva. H. Dunbar, of 1606 Madison St., is visiting relatives [and?] friends in Chicago and Chicago H[illegible] Illinois.
The Get-Even Spirit has a strong back-fire and does you more harm than the other fellow. Be a booster
Title The Louisville Leader. Louisville, Kentucky, Saturday, September 22, 1923.
Volume/Issue Vol. 7. No. 42
Contributors Cole, I. Willis (publisher)
Description The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 7. No. 41. but is actually Vol. 7. No. 42.
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Full Text Paragraphics Current news and opinion (By X. Mabie Wright) Overheard a collector for The Leader trying to get a subscriber to pay up. Ten dollars and ninety-five cents will buy a Louisville Post everydaf for a year. We actually pay this $10.95. The subscription price of the Courier-Journal is $7.50 per year. We actually pay this to our Courier-Journal collector. For $2.00 we get The Leader one year. $2.00. If we could say that as large a per cent actually pay this! We read The Leader. If it fails to come on Saturday or Monday, we call up the office. Good. But in all fairness and frankness, if we don't expect the Post and the Courier to function without money, why should we to all intents and purposes force The Leader to struggle to function without the money due it? The Leader is not asking fro something in return for nothing. "For (more than) value received," it has the right to expect its subscribers to pay. Week after week it is serving the group in a peculiar way. Delinquent subscribers might see the argument and appeal in the foregoing sentence. A yellow cab sped through Sixth Street the other day. A pretty girl sat esconced demurely within. Under the rain and sun visor was displayed the sign "Vacant." It is wasting printer's ink to say that Luis Firpo fought a good fight. That was a vicious lick, the one which sent Dempsey catapulting through the ropes to land groggy in the press-box. May Firpo grow in fistic knowledge, skill, and power. The Fair is an experiment whether a fair can fare without cheating wheels and bauble prizes." We said this last week. Our friend said, "No wheels-of-fortune; no fair." We said, "Let's wait until the end of the week and see what the papers say about the attendance and receipts." Saturday afternoon: Big black headlines - "No Gambling; Fair Tops All Others." Gov. Walton holds the center of the stage. Consitutiin Week found him fighting desperately for the Constitution. Oklahoma is burning evidence that "the Constitution preserved is Freedom preserved." The Booker-Robinson recital. Music and these two very deserving young people had about 300 of their friends present. Yesterday: In the plain, little - used "parlo" a cottage organ, upon which members of the family struck "by ear" a few sacred songs and played coon-jine for variety and as a substitute for Liszt. Between: Blind Tom, musical marvel, entertaining and puzzling two continents. To day: In beautiful parlors Kurtzmans and Grands, with Carrie Maes and Carls executing with exquisite skill and admirable interpretation Brahms and Chopins. The tastefully arranged Booker - Robinson program was a strong plea that a musically gifted people cloy not its appetite and vitiate not its taste Mamie Smith. The Big National Society Program We call our readers' attention to the rare treat offered by the National Society of Information and Help in its large advertisement on page 5 at the big literary and musical program October 8 and9, the candidates for governor on the Republican and Democratic tickets respectively are to speak. A five passenger Ford touring car is to be given to the one selling the largest number of tickets to this great affair. More will be said for the benefit of our readers and the public later. MRS. HUTCHINSON IN HOPKINSVILLE Mrs. Daisy Hutchinson, wife of the well known Mammoth Insurance Representative, has accepted a position as teacher in the Hopkinsville schools. -- SUBSCRIBERS NOTICE! Leader collectors will begin calling on those whose subscriptions are due today. Please be courteous to the ladies and please pay. -- Mr. Wm. Sebree from West Baden, Ind., spent the week end with the Misses Warrens on West Madison St. Mr. Sebree has been offered a position in one of the Public Schools at Bloomington, Ind. FRIENDS IN OTHER STATES MAIL BLANKS Encouraging Letters and Nomination Blanks Come From Friends Far And Near Nomination blanks signed by persons in and out of Kentucky continue to come to be mailed to The Leader office. Many Louisville friends have asked if they could enter, but most courteously they have been made to understand that it is an out of Louisville affair, absolutely. The beautiful five passenger Esser Coach, the hundreds of dollars given away in four other big prizes and in commissions to those who do the smallest bit, every dollar and dime of the big distribution is to be distributed among those who live outside of Louisville. And again in every village, town or city in Kentucky and other states where there are as many as ten yearly readers of The Leader, news and notes from those places are to appear in the columns of The Leader on correspondent pages weekly. Friends and readers in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Texas, Oklahoma, the Carolinas the Virginias, and all other states where we have awakened the potency of the press, to the indespensibility of the Negro press to the race, and to race consciousness, are asked to turn to page six, read the campaign plan carefully and then sign name to the nomination blank on that page, cut out and immediately mail to The Louisville Leader, 422-424 S. 6th St., Louisville, Ky. Baptists In Los Angeles Close Finest Session Transcription: BUILD AND LOAN ASSOCIATION INCORPORATE To Launch Home Building Campaign. "A Home For Every One" Is Slogan Articles of incorporation of the Mammoth Building and Loan Association have approved and the promoters of this great institution which has as a slogan, "A home for every one," is on the eve of launching what is to be regarded the most attractive, the greatest home building campaign in the history of the city among Negroes. A letter approving the plans has been received from the Department of Banking and Securities, and said articles of incorporation were recorded in the county court clerk's office during the week. Mr. W. H. Wright president of the American Mutual Savings Bank is the moving spirit in this new project. Heralded Flight of Negroes Untrue The Monthly Membership Meeting of the Y. W. C. A. will be held Tuesday at 7:30 P. M. All members are asked to be present. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES BY DR. JAMES BOND NOTE: The following article on the Constitution of the United States was written by Dr. James Bond, Secretary of the Inter-racial Commission, in response to offers of $50, $25 and $15 for the three best four minute addresses on the subject. We regard Dr. Bond's address as most excellent, but it fell below those of the three winners of the three prizes in the estimation of the judges. On our editorial page, page 8, we are also reprinting the address of Prof. S. G. Boyd, the winner of the first prize of $50 Fellow citizens: We do well in these times of unrest and materialism, to set aside a week for the careful study of the Constitution of the United States. To properly understand and appreciate this great document, one must have some knowledge of its historic back ground, the occasion of its adoption, the men who framed it and the untold blessings which it has brought to our country and the world. In the early part of the seventeenth century, a few brave souls weary of the tyranny of Kings, left their homes in old England and braving the dangers of unknown seas, settled upon the inhospitable shores of New England. Others found their way to the wilderness of Virginia. These heroic men and women bravely faced the work of subduing the forest, conquering the Indians, and laying the foundation of a mighty nation. Success finally rewarded their efforts as a string of settlements gradually sprang up, stretching along the Atlantic coast from New Hampshire to Georgia, and loosely held together by common dangers and the ties of blood. But the hand of oppression that drove these sturdy Englishmen accross the seas, followed them into the wilderness of the new world, and here too, sought to stiffle in them the spirit of liberty. "The Boston Tea Party," the "Declaration of Independence," the "Revolutionary War," and the "Constitutional Convention of 1787", were the direct results of this policy of oppression adopted by King George III, and his millions across the sea. Great patriots, soldiers, and statesmen were developed during this period. These carried the Revolutionary War to a successful issue, and gave to the colonies the Constitution under which we live today, and to which we owe our liberties and the peace and prosperity of our country. "Aye call it holy ground where first they trod, They left unstained the land they found: freedom to worship God." The objects of the Constitution clearly set forth in the preamble were, "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity." How fully the people under the Constitution have realized the dreams of these prophetic founders, let this broad land with its happy homes, its well ordered churches and schools, its domestic wealth and world wide commerce, and its just and stable government, tell, "We are the happiest, the most powerful and the best governed people on the globe." This ralization of the dreams of the founders of our republic, has cost much in treasure, in sacrifice, in suffering and in life itself. And yet our Constitutionn is still on unfulfilled prophecy, the foreshadowing of a splendid ideal. Grave problems and dangers confront us still Unholy hands threaten to tear our flag into shreds and to destroy the Constitution it symbolizes. Lawlessness brazenly stalks abroad in the land. Irresponsible mobs take the law into their own hands, and beat and murder our citizens. Class hatred divides our people into hostile camps, and the red flags of anarchist and bolshevik flaunt themselves under our very eyes. Life and property are insecure. Greed and gain and unbridled lust of power too often dominates the lives and direct the energies of our public servants and private citizens. The United States is being tested today as never before. Did the men who gave their lives fo our country on a thousand battlefields from Bunker Hill to "Flanders Fields" die in vain? Have the labors and prayers and sacrifices of the patriots from 1776 down to 1923 been of no avail? No, a thousand times no! We shall not fail. We shall meet the test. We, the sons and daughters of the fathers "shall carry on" in the spirit of the fathers until every ideal set forth in our sacred Constitution, shall become a reality, and American in deed and in truth, become "the land of the free and the home of the brave." It is for us who love the Constitution and the flag and all they symbolize, to re-dedicate our lives and our fortunes on the altar of our country, in order that this nation "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.......... shall not perish from the earth." Dr. Woods Elected In Fort Worth After Battle Royal A PHYSICIAN AND NURSES Petition To State Board to Create Bureau for Colored Work Meets With Favor Would Appoint 1 Physician and 2 Nurses A committee was appointed some time ago by the Executive Committee of the Inter-racial Commission, consisting of Col. P. H. Callahan, Mrs. Attwood Martin and Dr. James Bond, to petition the State Board of Health to create a Bureau of Colored Work with a colored physician and colored nurses. Dr. A. T. McCormack has written Dr. James Bond, Secretary of the Committee the following: "The Board approves your petition presented by your committee in principle, and has instructed me to request the Budget Commission to include a budget for the employment [illegible] a colored physician and two [colored?] nurses for work among colored [people?] in this State. Our estimate is t[illegible] it would cost $800 a month to ca[illegible] on this work. FRENCH PEOPLE REPUDIATE RACE HATED PROGRAM OF AMERICAN TOURISTS France Defends Its Colored Citizens Chicago Elects Louisville General Conference Delegates MISS R. B. KYLES RETURNS Miss R. B. Kyles, the popular young lady pharmacist at the Bright's Pharmacy in the Pythian Temple, Tenth and Chestnut Sts., has returned to the city and is back at her post after a two weeks vacation in which she visited relatives and friends in Nashville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Miss Kyles took a much needed rest, and reports a delightful trip. She was highly entertained by her friends in each of the cities visited. DR. WM. Y. BELL OF NEW YORK IN CITY Dr. Wm. Y. Bell, pastor of the big Williams Institutional C. M. E. Church of New York, was in the city for a day this week the guest of the editor. The scholarly young minister was en route to Memphis, Tenn., where he will spend a few days with relatives and friends. The editor was the guest of Rev. Bell in New York a few days ago. -- Mrs. Eva. H. Dunbar, of 1606 Madison St., is visiting relatives [and?] friends in Chicago and Chicago H[illegible] Illinois. The Get-Even Spirit has a strong back-fire and does you more harm than the other fellow. Be a booster
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