THE REMARKABLE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DOMESTIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY MADE KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC -- DOMESTIC OFFICIALS [Photo} MR. G. P. HUGHES President [Photo] MR. J. E. SMITH Vice President and Director of Agents [Photo] MR. W. F.TURNER Secretary -- (By J. M. Ragland, Executive Secretary of the Urban League) More than twenty years go when insurance business among colored people was unknown in Kentucky, a number of ambitions men conceived the idea of a fraternal organization with benevolent benefits attached. During the years that have passed this little germ has grown steadily through careful cultivation by diligent hands until it has ripened into the full growth of two mammoth insurance companies (the Mammoth Life Insurance Company and the Domestic Life Insurance Company.) During those early days many obstacles were met and overcome and many untold hardships endured. The white companies of the state made an attempt to hinder Negro business along this line. They brought to bear the pressure of the law requiring that all companies writing insurance deposit a certain amount of money in the State Treasury as a protection to the policy-holders. The local fraternal organization referred to above not being able to meet the requirements of the state, appealed to the Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company for assistance. The amount required on deposit by the state at that time was $4,000; this amount was soon raised to $10,000. The Atlanta Company met all of these demands and the local company continued from the very first to do a thriving business. Within the next two yeas the legislature met again and raised the requirements to $100,000, making, it apply to home companies only. The Atlanta Mutual was not able to meet this demand, but business did not stop f  or other aid was found. Mr. Perry, who was just launching the Standard Life put up $100,000, taking over the Atlanta Mutual. The next legislature raised the requirements of this state to $200,000, but there was a flaw in this law in that the state law requires that when a law is to be amended according of Section 51 of the Kentucky Statutes--No law enacted by the general assembly shall relate to more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title, and no law shall be amended, or the provisions thereof revised, amended, extended or conferred, shall be reenacted and published at length. The colored insurance companies of Kentucky are indebted to Attorney W. H. Wright for discovering this technicality in the law and bringing suit on these grounds which was confirmed in the lower courts, proving that the act was unconstitutional. Following this Messrs. G. P. Hughes, J. E. Smith and W. F. Turner spent a number of years in helping to build up the Mammoth Life Insurance
  Company. They were general superintendents in the state.
In 1920, Mr. Hughes conceived the idea of organizing an old line company with capital of $100,000, under which could be written all forms of insurances bringing a bigger business to our people and raising the insurance status in Kentucky. He interested Mr. Smith and Mr. Turner, who immediately joined him in the movement, which resulted in the organization of the Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Company.
Mr. Hughes, the president and founder of this institution, was born on a farm in Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1881, and spent the first seventeen years of his life there. After many varied and bitter experiences he graduated from State University with A. B. degree. He first entered the Government service, Revenue Department.. This position was taken only as a means to an end, for, as he puts it: "I was not born to work for my own daily bread only, but destined to build a great business institution that would render great service to our people as [long?] as life on this earth lasts. So we have the Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Company that will live forever."
Mr. Smith is a product of the Louisville Public Schools. It must be said of Mr Smith that in addition to his business tact and ingenuity he has always shown an interest and has given a good share of his time in helping to build up the moral, social and educational fabric of the community in which he lives. Mr. Smith is one of the original organizers and is today vice-president and superintendent of agents of this company.
Mr. Turner comes from Henderson Kentucky. He finished the grammar school there and was later graduated (Continued on page 4)

THE CONQUEROR OF THE MIGHTY FIRPO
[Photo] WILLS...
Fighting as clever and as [cautious?] as was expected of him, but put to a disadvantage because of the clean break rule, Harry Wills, colored heavyweight, the logical contender for  championship match with Jack Dempsey, won a decisive victory over Luis Firpo, the much heralded fighter from Argentine, after 12 rounds of fighting before 80,000 spectators at Boyles Thirty Acres, Jersey City, N. J., Thursday night. Wills won every round of the fight. From the first round it could be seen that Wills was Firpo's master in every department of the game. He hit Firpo several blows without a return. In the second he put Firpo down with a left to the jaw. In the fourth round Wills [staggered?] Firpo with a right flush to the face. This blow was regarded as [the?] best blow of the fight. In the fifth round Wills staggered Firpo and he clinched. In the seventh round Wills jabbed Firpo with his left and crossed with his right staggering Firpo in his own corner. A right to the jaw made Firp  o groggy. Two heavy body blows followed. The bell helped Firpo.
In the eighth round Wills' left found Firpo's body and his right went to the jaw. A straight right sent Firpo's head backward. Wills' punches were carrying steam, and he was boxing superbly. In the tenth round (Continued on page 8)

HUNDREDS OF NEGROES REGISTER INDEPENDENT Large Number Cast Their Lot With Democrats In Republican Desertion For the first time in the history of Louisville and Jefferson County Negroes in an appreciable large number went to the polls last Monday and Tuesday and registered like real men and women. Hundreds of them registered Independent, and hundreds are known to have registered Democratic. For one time this fact is admitted by the political leaders.
The national election is not to be
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Order The Y.W.C.A. Closed--Blot On The Life Of The City, Says Write--Charge Disloyalty, Ungratefulness And Circulation Of False Rumors
(By Lee L. Brown) One of the greatest blots on the civic life of Louisville has just been enacted in the closing of the Y. W. C. A. We have watched the controversy during the past weeks, believing that that Y. W. C. A., as an institution was greater than any individual or any Committee or Board of Advisers. to close the Y. W. C. A. is an insult thrown in the faces of those in Louisville who have contributed towards its maintenance, to those who have at heart the best interest of the young girl who is making her way upward and onward. To close the "Y" and to cause the work to stop in order to gain a point is almost criminal. We believe that the whole controversy has been started on account of unknown disloyal, ungrateful would-be messengers who have circulated false rumors concerning the management of the Association. We further believe that the colored women elected by the people, especially those for whom the Association was organized, those who have in and out of season given their funds, their time and best wishes that the Association might be equal to any of the country, that young womanhood might be elevated, had a legal right to choose whom they wanted as officers of the Association. We further believe that they represent the voice of the masses, that (Continued on page 4)

DU BOIS CALLS US GRAND OLD PARTY JACK ASSES Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois in one of his editorials in the Crisis of September avers, "any black man who votes for the present Republican party out of gratitude or with any hope that it will do a single thing for the Negro that it is not forced to do is a fool," and the scholarly race leader continues, "some things we do not understand and bitterly resent: One is the 'Jim Crow, Grand Old Party' jackass who brays every time the black man criticizes the mass of privilege, monopoly and condescension which now masquerades as the party of Abraham Lincoln.
"Another is the gentleman who accuses everybody who differs with him of being a scoundrel. In every campaign the attempt of self respecting Negroes to vote as men and not as puppets is met with a flood of filth and abuse from certain Negro newspapers which are either paid to support the Republicans or expect to be paid. Unless we overwhelm these venal editors by our discountenance and contempt we will but weld our political slavery on our children.
"The base of our trouble is that still, to a large number of prominent Negroes, 'politics' is simply a method of private gain. They sell their votes their opinions, their influence; and they think that this is what voting means. They did not originate this sordid business, God knows, but they have proven apt scholars, and even some of our women voters, from whom we expected so much, are joining in the hunt for loot and bribes for pay and petty place.
"What we need in this campaign is non-partisan [centers?] of discussion and (Continued on page 8)

MANY NEGROES REGISTER INDEPENDENT
The Largest Circulation. Thousand New Readers
The Most Videly Read. Added In Recent Campaign.
CURRENT NEWS - AND OPINION
Charge Disloyalty
Republican Desertion
Former Assistant Attorney General Would Head Independent Movement
REV. GIBSON SCORES PASTllRS WITH GAM­BLERS ON BOARDS
EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION · at Jefferson Park, S. Preston St., Monday, September 22, 1924
All Churches, Lodges Business Firms and Schools of Louisville and Surrounding Towns Are Requested to Join in This Great Event
the Auspices of ,the United Methodist Episcopal Churches