C.L. Harris loses suit against pullman company A jury in Judge Ray's court, on last Tuesday, returned a verdict in favor of the Pullman in which C. L. Harris, State Y.M.C.A. Secretary for Boys' work, among Colored people, had brought suit for $5,000.
During June of last year Mr. Harris bought a sleeping car ticket from Louisville to Atlanta. When his ticket was presented on the train it was taken up by the conductor but Mr. Harris was told that he could not occupy the berth in the State of Kentucky. 
Mr. Harris was represented in the trial of the case  by Attorneys Nelson M. Willis and Al A. Andrews. Attorneys for Mr. Harris sought to ascertain from the jury if any of them felt that Colored men should not be allowed to ride in Pullman cars in this State, but the Court refused to allow this question to be put, to which ruling the attorneys excepted. 
The case consumed more than four hours in trial and was marked by many tilts between opposing lawyers. At the conclusion of the testimony both sides sought peremptory instructions, but this was refused by the court and Mr. Harris' attorneys noted exceptions to the court's instructions. 
Mr. Willis made a very pointed and forceful argument to the jury, urging that they not consider the question of color in their verdict, but only the fact [illegible] something that he had bought and paid for and was clearly entitled to. 
The jury was composed of 11 white men and one colored man, but to the surprise of even the Court attaches, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the Pullman Company.
A.W. Winstead was the name of the Colored juror, and is well known in musical circles of Louisville and vicinity.
N.A.A.C.P. Makes test Of Protest Against 'Birth of Nation'
ELMER MOSEE CAPTURES WHITE HIGHWAYMEN
Elmer Mosee former Lieutenant in the United States Army, employe of the Postal Service, captured a white burglar who had robbed a Quaker Maid Store on Broadway last Saturday afternoon. 
After a desperate struggle with the desperado Mosee subdued him and turned him over to the police. The Post is the only paper which gives Mosee the credit due him: all the other city papers have belittled his efforts. 
After a chase of several blocks, Mosee unarmed leaped upon the bandit who was heavily armed and held him until police arrived. 
The Quaker Maid Stores will give hi a reward for his quickness and daring.
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY HOLDS COMMENCEMENT AT McCAULEYS As we go to press Simmons (State) University is holding its 43rd Annual Commencement at Mccauley's Theatre, Thursday night, May 14. Fifty persons will graduate from the various departments, Academic, Normal, Commercial, Domestic, Arts, Dressmaking, Nurse Training, Missions and Music. They come from nearly every county in the State. A full account next week.
Mr. Grace's Memory Test On Editorial Page Should Be Interesting to Readers; Mail Your Answer Readers of the Leader are urged to try their wits in the memory test of Mr. Floyd I. Grace, the well known insurance man, churchman and citizen, which is given in detail on page eight, the editorial page, the back page of this edition. Mr. Grace is giving away Leader, to all persons who yearly subscriptions to the Louisville send to the contest editor of the Leader correct answer to mottoes, or slogan of Louisville business places as announced in the plan on page eight. The contest is a novel one, a good idea and should be interesting to every reader. Those who are already readers of the Leader will be sent The Leader for another year form time  present subscription is up, should they be successful. The test is for a rally club of Broadway Temple A.M.E. Zion church of which Mr. Grace is captain. All answers are to be in The Leader office by next press day, Thursday at noon. Pick up a daily paper and get a year's subscription to The Leader.
LEADER EDITORIAL QUOTED BY LEADING JOURNALS Some months ago The Leader's editorial on "Character of Men" was quoted by the "Crisis." Its editorial of "Shambles in Georgia" was quoted by the Chicago Defender of April 30. Recent editorials have been mentioned in the Star of Zion, and the Christian Recorder. Do you read the Leader's editorials? You should.
Special Special Special
Beginning next week, May 28, special articles on Dempsey and Carpentier, by Onlooker, will appear in The Leader on its sporting page. Other articles about Colored fighters will follow. They will be interesting. 
Don't miss them.
Colored Citizens of Houston Have Full Control of 'Y'
Miss Rosa Long in Central High School Office Miss Rosa Long, one of Louisville's well known young ladies, has accepted the position of stenographer and clerk in the office of the Cetnral High School. Miss Long graduated from the business department of Central in February in the class of four. She graduated from the regular High School course in the class of 1917. Miss Long made a splendid record as stenographer in the office of the Louisville Urban League, which she resigned to accept the High School position. She is a member of Broadway Temple A.M.E. Zion Church, a Sunday school teacher of a class of thirty-five small boys and girls, a young woman of the highest type, and splendid qualities. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Long, of 718 S. 16th St., the sister of T.J. Long, who is a student at Fisk University.
DR. STEWART TO PREACH AT SERVICE.
Great Masonic Service will take place at Broadway Temple, I3th and Broadway Sunday May 22 at 2 o'clock. 
Rev. Dr. C.C. Steward will preach from the subject "Is there not a cause?"
Let every one who can hear him come.
Race Congress Petitions President Against Wrongs
SOME REASONS WHY THE NEGRO SHOULD DIVIDE HIS VOTE IN THE NEXT MUNICIPAL ELECTION
(By Jessie B. Colbert)
"First it is his constitutional right to vote for whom he pleases, since he is a free American citizen. Second the colored people will never be permitted to receive and enjoy their rights until they learn to discriminate between men and measures just like other intelligent people have done and have  profited by so doing. So long as he allows himself to be owned and controlled by a single political party, just so long will he be a slave to the party bosses. He will forever be the cat's paw and the target for the opposite party to shoot at. The colored man will never get what is justly due him until he has confidence in and elect men to political office of his own race. He must have representation at the forum where the laws are made and executed by which he is governed. The Negro is a tax payer and citizen and to compel him to pay his equitable share of taxes with which to run the government and deny him the right to participate in the making of the laws that taxes his property is "taxation without representation" and there is not another race upon the face of the earth who would submit to such a condition without a protest but the Negro. It is high time that the black race should cease being the pack mule to ride white men into office who don't care a rap for him after the day of the election. So long as the Negro continues to shield the Republican party from the [blows?] of the Democratic party just so long he may expect to be held up and ridiculed by the Democratic party and no one could blame the Democrats for it. The Negro gets all of the abuse and vilification from the Democratic party simply because he stands between the Democratic party and the Republican party and is the innocent victim and gets absolutely nothing for his self sacrifice but the ill will of the very party he has helped to defeat, the Democratic party. If the Negro does not wish to be attacked by the Democrats then let him stand from under the blows that are intended for the opposie party. It not had the intelligence to see this predicament long ago. We have been between the upper and nether stone and made the scape goat for the corrupt doings of the Republican party, and exploited by the unprincipled white man politician. It is high time we were beginning to think for ourselves and carry our own burdens and not the sins and burdens of someone else. The result is, we are as much despised and hated by the white Republicans to day as we are by the white Democrats, we are simply owned by one and hated by the other, in other words we have allowed ourselves to be used as tools for the professional politicians, we have been more sinned against than sinning. Now let us begin to demand something for our fealty and undying support and if it is not given to us then let us give our support and suffrage to that political party that is disposed to give us our rights, and if none is disposed to do the square thing by us then let us have enough sense to bring out a ticket made up entirely of intelligent colored men and women. That day will finally come, and that early.
Now let us be fair and face the facts just as they really exist, and state a concrete case of our political situation. It was the Negro vote that made it possible for the State of Kentucky to have a Republican Governor and pray tell me what has Governor Morrow done for the Negro by way of patronage than the Democratic Governor. We have now in Congress a Republican Representative in person of Charlie Ogden. Now what has Ogden done for us any more than Swager Sherley, his Democratic predesessor. We have a Republican may or in the city of Louisville and what has he done for us that would be any ways ocmmensurate with the services the Negro rendered to elect him the mayor of Louisville? Show me if you can where there is a particle of difference in so far as the Negro is concerned, in the administration of affairs. To my mind the Republican party is the more reprehensible and deserving of the greater condemnation than the Democrats are for the Negro has done nothing to make it possible for the Democratic to win.
What we, as a race need to do is to lose our identity as a member of any particular political party. A white man should have no more right to guess that I belong to the Republican party simply because I am colored than I have to guess that he belongs to the Democratic party simply because he happens to be white. The white people divide their vote, and as a result there are Democrats holding office under this present Republican administration who, perhaps, have never voted the Republican ticket before the last municipal election while some of the Negroes have been voting the Republican ticket all of their lives, who hardly get a janitor' job in the office where this renegade democrat is warming his seat.
Now is the psychological time for the Negro to teach white people a political lesson which they have never yet learned and that is, if they want our suffrage in all future elections, they will have to give us more substantial opportunity for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than the degrading privilege of running crap games under police protection, for that class of crap-shooting whiskey-headed Negro is fast giving away to the approach of intelligent property-owning, family-loving, patriotic colored citizens who will not be content with the meager consideration which have been given to a certain class of our Negroes in the recent past. All must remember that they will have to deal with men who have been taught to think for themselves and are as capable and as competent to occupy places of political preferment as the white man and more than some of them. The sooner they learn this lesson the better for all concerned. I was in Knoxville, Tenn., a few days ago and saw with my own eyes colored policemen on the streets of Knoxville and was reliably informed that there had been colored men on the police force there for more than twenty-five years and during all that time not one single colored police had ever been reprimanded or suspended for derelict of duty. This much can't be said for some of the white police in Louisville. I was also told that the first colored police ever placed on the force was put there under a democratic adminis- colored people have been voting independently and have the respect of both the Republican and Democratic parties. What the so-called leaders of the race need to do is to bury their little personal jealousy against each other and combine their efforts for larger racial representation. The cunningly devised white politician has taken advantage of this particular weakness of the Negro race and uses this as excuse for not recognizing the Negro along this line saying when the Negroes will agree on some member of the race they will be ready to recognize them, when as a matter of fact they strive to keep the Negro divided for they too well know that if the colored people would combine and unite their chances this country and the blark republic. to corral his forces would be nil. Let us stop this everlasting talk about getting together and do some big thing by electing members of our own race to places of responsibility. We need never expect to receive very much way of appointments for the reason that there are so many poor whites in both parties who are always preferred to the black man, it matter not how competent the black man my be, he will invariably be relegated for the man ho has a white skin. We need a new type of leadership, we deplore the fact that there are those among us who aspire to leadershop that will shy at the white man's shadow, who is totally devoid of moral stamina hence can't resist the temptations of the insidious schemes of the demagogue and fall a snare to his political intriques. We want to crystalize such a strong sentiment aginst such undesirable leadership, that they will have no place among us. We need men and women who can't be bought nor bluffed and have the interest of the race at heart and are willing to do and die for what they believe their inalienable rights as American citizens.
Our political destiny is largely in our own hands and we will work it out along racial lines and no other. Now is the psychological moment for the Negro to rise up and be a man and stop playing the baby act.
Jesse B. Colbert, Pres.
Independent Citizens League,
632 W. Walnut St.
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, which last year inaugurated the "stay in school" and "go to college" movement, carried out the same program this year during the week of May 9 to May 15. Last year 2,000 fraternity men located in all parts of the country, carried this message to 500 schools, 700 churches and a half million parents and pupils. President Harding, in view of the successful results accomplished, gave his approval, and go will to this year's program in a letter to the General Secretary of the Fraternity. The members of Alpha Lambda Chapter, Louisville of the Fraternity, made a special appeal to all the schools, colleges and churches of the city, to further to program. It is expected that the fraternity will reach more than a million pupils this year.
Mrs. J.E. Simpson, the wife of Prof. J.E. Simpson, left May 14, for an extended trip to the Eat to visit her daughters, Mrs. Jane J. Williams, Paterson, N.J., and Louise Simpson at Pratt Brooklyn, N.Y.
WHITE BANDITS ROUTED BY BRAVE COLORED GIRL Miss Delaney Protects Home of A. D. Reynolds, Jr., With Revolver of Employer - COURAGEOUS YOUNG WOMAN AMPLY REWARDED - Miss Matilda Delaney a young colored girl employed int he family of Mr. A. D. Reynolds, Jr., of Eastleigh, Secretary of the U.S. Foil Company proved a heroine in an attempted burglary at Mr. Reynolds home last week. [photo] MISS MATILDA DELANEY Although the Herald and other dailies attempted to belittle and minimize the courage which Mrs. Delaney exhibited in a very tense situation, the Leader it able to give to its readers a true account of the affair. Miss Delaney who is very attractive in appearance and very modest in manner related to the Leader representative the complete story. "At the time of the incident I was in my room in the rear of the house," said Miss Delaney. 'A white man had come to the door eariler and informed me that he had been sent to do some work. I replied no one was at home and he went away. Later while in my room I heard a noise in the house and thinking something was wrong, I left my room and went into the house and into Mr. Reynold's room. There I secured his revolver and loaded it and started to hunt the burglars. I came upon them in one of the rooms and leveling the pistol ordered them to "throw up their hands." They turned and I then commanded that they empty their pockets which they did. After being convinced that they had nothing more I forced them at the point of pistol to go down stairs and then I drove them on out the door after which they ran." Contrary to the statement published in the Herald, Miss Delaney was not frightened or trembling, but was cool and determined. Only a courageous woman would leave her own room and go into a house thirty feet away; get a pistol and load it and then seek an encounter with bandits. "I did not intend to shoot them" said Miss Delaney, "if I could avoid it." I wanted to recover the stolen property." Miss Delaney was presented with $20.00 in gold by Mrs. Reynolds and $30.00 by Mr. Reynolds: a total of fifty dollars for her daring. She is a constant church goer, each Sunday attending Broadway Temple. Her home is in Bristol, Va., and she has been in Louisville ten months.
President King Guest of Mayor Moore
Important Explanation We wish to announce the new titles heading pages of The Leader, are a part of the announced new features of the paper, but are not as ordered by the publisher. They are too bold and glaring, but as they came in too late to be charged for this issue we had to use them this week. They will appear as ordered by us next week. The Publisher.