Ismo CPC HAPPY NEW YEAR. ESTABLISHED ISE The Workman THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IS THE PALLADIUM OF OUR RIGHTS JUNIUS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY VOL. 18. No. 23 THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929 PRICE CENTS WICKED AND UNFOUNDED RUMOUR White Minister Quits Causes Unrest Texas Supreme Court Kills Resenting Ban on Negroes Dallas Segregation Rule Detroit Peacher Keeps Promise Among Indians Thousands of Homesteaders Made at Lecture by Wm. Pickens Savings Withdrawn From Aftected by this Decision Bank No Need For Excitment Bank is quite fight by according administrations Safe DETROIT, Mich Rev. Adelbert dividuals of another race or creea Helm, white, pastor of the fashion who are trying to get in, by refusing able Bethel Evangelical Church, re membership, just that long will race signed Sunday in protest against re. riots and prejudices persist.
fusal of the white membership to And by these tokens the chureh receive two colored candidates whe stands condemned in the face of her sought admission to the Christmas own gospel.
class and who had attended the NOT YOUR CHURCH.
church for many years. Members of Bethel, this is not Rev. Mr. Kelm, handed in his re your church. It is either God signation at the service Sunday of church or it is only a convenient last week, wying: city club. The vestrymen of this To refuse church raembership to church are not to represent a group anyone not of the same race le tc of prejudices, but Almighty God deny the most obvious tenhing of And your minister is supposed to be Jesus and to give the ethical sane unequivocably the voice of God.
tions of Christianity to race preju At Gastonia, it was imice.
possible to get a minister to preach The resignation was accepted. Edu.
a burial sermon for the six mur.
cational Secretary Orville Bram dered strikers. Every minister we mer, in sympathy with the pastor afraid of bis job.
also resigned. Id Brooklyn, at St. Matthew Rev. Helmepoke at the same meeting with Dean William Piekens We don want niggers in this Episcopal Church, Blackshears says here recently. He said then that be did not love or hate Negroes but church, and kicks them out. BROTHER, BE CAREFUL.
that he desired to see justice meted Here the issue is of accepting Ne.
to all peoples. He added that it hie groes in this church.
congregation refused membership te any colored people who would apply If Jesus should return today. He that he would resign.
would say: My bouse is a house of Last Sunday, the Rev. Mr. Hele prayer and you have made of it a preached his farewell sermon. Threr den of prejudices. You have made colored people were in the audience of it a city club He said in part: NOT FAITHFUL As long as churches 1, 000, 000 How can we repent, which means churches out from their midst to (Contiued from Page 1)
Dallas, Tex. Dec. 18. The supreme of law clauses in both the state a court of Texas bas nullified the long federal constitutions, City officials were frankly appr or this city to use its police power ir hensive, pointing out that feeling enforcing Race segregation ordi recent years has run high on severu Dances.
occasions here because of encroach Like a thunderbolt from the clear blue sky was the Thousands of homesteaders and ments by one race or the other on te greatest surprise, during the week, when a few of our property owners in variops sections ritory overwhelmingly inhabited by West Indian people were seen withdrawing their savings of the etty are affected by this deel those of opposite color. Bombing from the National City Bank of New York in this city, sion by the highest court, which in burnings and near riots have od on a wicked and unfounded rumour that this Bank was effect, instructed the city governorred in the past and indignante about to all owing to it having lost heavily in the recent ment to cease any attemps to draw tizens appealing to the elty hall hay Wall Street Stock Exchange Crisis, legal color line in the residence in each instance been urged to ne representative of this paper at once interviewed main peaceful while the elty sough one of the leading oficials of the bank and was informThe knockout blow to the local or to work out a method of preservin ed by him that tnere had been a few withdrawals by dinance came when the court bek the peace which would meet the ag West Indians, who when questioned, said they had heard them violative of the due proces proval of the courta.
the Bank was taiung. He was at a loss to know whence such a rumour emanated as everything was working quite normal in the Bank and there was not the slightest PAN AMERICAN AIR ROGERS, NOVELTY sign of unrest. The Panama Canal had not withdrawn PROBLEMS TO. ORCHESTRA AT their large deposites neither had any of the other large BE DISCUSSED AMERICA THEATRE depositors. As far as the bank losing on the stock Patrons of the America Theatr excnange, the laws of the United States do not permit The problems of Pan American af Colon were entertained on Wed the national banks to gamble in stocks, hence there were aviation will be discussed at a meet nesday last (Xmas day) by the no truth in that rumour. Our representative was then ing to be held by the Society of famous Rogers Orchestra which con handed the monthly Bulletin for December 1929 publish Automatic Engineers on January 14 sisted of 11 pieces. This combina ed by the National City Bank at New York. This Bulletin 1930, at Miami, Florida.
tion played such entrencing music gives a concrete descriptoin of general business condiThe meeting will be addressed by that it was forced to add three morit cion of the bank, month by month, and from this we clip Major Clarence. Young, assist: numbers to the program.
the following in connection with the recent crisis :ant Secretary of Commerce for Those who were present state Aeronauties who will speak on in that it dispensed such Jazz as City Bank of New York to know that this institution held an impregnable ternational flying. Other speakers seldom heard on the Isthmus. An position throughout the crisis. Wib the same high percentage of liquid for occasion will be, William other presentation is being planned assets to deposit liabilities as bas been maintained throughout in recent Btout of Detroit, who will speak on to take place on New Years Day years and regularly disclosed in the reports called for by the Comptroller passenger transportation of the when a more elaborate program wil of the Currency, and with no indebtedness at the Reserve bank when the future, and Eaton, traffic bo offered. Chorus from one crisis began, it passed through the two months of October and November manager of Pan American Airways the leading cabarets in the city of borrowing at the Reserve bank upon only two days. October 11 and 29 will speak of transportation in Latir Colon will aygment the Orchestra op the first of which was two weeks before the crisis began. It bag borrowed American countries.
this occasion.
or bodig. He 14, 000 in Colored Colleges, Shortage of Doctors, Lawyers nothing since October Negro Race Short Story Writers: This record does not signify that the National City was not doing WASHINGTON, (ANP. being teachers, 19, 581 clergymen its full share to support the situation in the crisis. It signifie only that Approximately 14, 000 Negro students 6, 902 musicians, and teachers of the Bank had its resources well in band for any emergency. It took over are doing work of college grade in music, and 8, 496 physieians and surall of the loans for out of towo banks and others which had been placed the United States, according to an geons through it and which were called, and refrained from any action not in address delivered recently by Ben Most Teachers not Hi School Grads harmony with its policy of cooperation to support of the general situation.
frasier, specialist in Teacher Train Educational offerings for certain It called no street loans during the eriais.
ing of the Bureau of Education of professionals should be very greatly Get Place in 1929 Anthologies the Interior Department, before the expanded. Most of the teachers have So far as known, the Baul has suffered no losses resulting from National Association of Collegiate not completed high school and for the crisis, but if any shall develop it is certain that they will be amply BOSTON, Mass. ANP. Jjstifi two stories by John Davis, w: covered by its regular contingent reserve. There is no reason for thinking Deans and Registrare in Negro each teacher there are over 60 colored able pride may be felt in the fact received the highest honor with three that any of the banks have suffered considerable losses upon stock ex schools, at Nashville, Tennessee. ehtldren of school age, in school or that colored writers have scored stars one by Robert Breen, two stars, Instruetion is given by over 1, 100 out of school change loans, but it is not improbable that losses indirectly due to market heavily in leading anthologies of the and one star each for Cell Blue losses, will be encountered. They are not likely to be of importance in Negro profesors or other instructors Pearl Fisher, Arther Huff Tansch pear.
Shortage of Doctors the general situation. Liquidation in the stock market is much more ja addition to the white teachers particular shortage exists in expeditious and complete than in commodity markets.
In Edward Brien (white) list and James Logan.
empioyed. He said in part: Nogro physicians to care for the of Best Short Stories of the Year, The judgment of the Renry Vocational training should con bealth of the race, there being but In views of the fact that The National City Company was one of which is published annually in the Award Committee varied somewhat those participating in the finaneing of the Banking Group purchases in tinue to have an important place in one colored physician for each 8, 100 Boston Transcript, the Saturday Eve from that of Brien, atthough recor the education of the Negro. Forty colored people us compared with one the market, it is pertinent to add that the Company entered the panic sing Quil, figures with four out of nition was largely given to the same per cent of all the farm land in the white physician for every 660 white period with no more than normal inventories, and in spite of the events of the eight stories published by It re names. As far as Boston writers as South is titled by over 2, 000, 000 col population. dire need, therefore the month it has no indebtedness to banks, other than The National City celving itars three stars and a place highest honors on both lista, Edyth Bank, where its borrowings are considerably within the limit fixed by the ored men, women, and children. Over evists for the immediate education on the Roll of Honor for Dorothy Moo Gordon appeared in the place 1, 000, 000 colored people are in do of more Negto physicians. Owing to Nation Banking Act upon loans to a single borrower.
Weet, two stars for Gertrude Schalk of Florida Ruffin Ridley and Eugene mentle and personal service while the large expense attached to medi We must admit that owing to past failures of two one star aplece for Eugene Gordon Gordon had two stories to his credit 1, 000, 000 wtore are employed in man cal education, however, it is probable local banks in which many West Indians lost all their and Florida Ridley. Fifty per cont on the Henry Award Hst.
nacturing and the industries chief that the work should be centered to savings, our people are apt to move at the slightest of the stories submitted received this There names, as they have speared ly in analilled occupations, taristing medical schools, white and rumour, but we had thought that for the past many recognition, an average which it is in leading newspapers, have not been Leaders to Negro education and colored, rather than the establish years there had been sufficient confidence imposed hi doubtful that any other magazine labeled Negro.
stressing more than ever before the ment of additional schools. West Indians in the International Banking Corporatie attained.
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importance of liberal and profesorion950 Levy. now the National City Bank of New York to rest Opportunity Tales letter published in the Saturday al education. The last cenios reporte Nine hundred Mity Negro lawyer assured that their moneys lodged in this bank are quite In the same tint Opportunity alec Review of Literature some Yttle show 80, 189 Noroes in professional are found is total colored popula.
safe and that by withdrawing same, they stand the rained distinguished place six while ago, writter by Southernee And semi professional pursuits, 36, 442 tion of 11, 609, 000. Continued on Page 8)
stories for the year being starred. Continued on Page 8)