Race Leaders Called to Frankfort
RACE LEADERS CALLED TO FRANKFORT FOR FIRST FACT FINDING MEET Conference At State Industrial College Beginning Of Program To Study All Phases Of Negro Life (By Special Reporter) The Director of the Kentucky Interracial Commission J. Max Bond, makes the first public announcement of the first meeting of what is intended to become Kentucky's first Fact Finding Conference. This meeting was at Frankfort State Normal and Industrial College yesterday, Friday, July 25 at ten o'clock. President R. B. Atwood and Director J. Max Bond spent many months in carefully working out the initial plans for this meeting. After plans had been developed as to the nature of the things to be discussed. Mr. Bond and President Atwood invited Prof. C. H. Parrish, Jr., and Mr. J. A. Thomas to cooperate in the further planning of this event. It will be remembered that Mr. Parrish conducted a health study for the Kentucky Interracial Commission that has received a deal of unusual comment from city authorities. The work of Mr. J. A. Thomas of the Louisville Urban League has also been outstanding. Thus it is generally believed by those select few who have been invited to this conference at Frankfort that much good will be accomplished by this group intended to study all phases of Negro life. Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky has been so impressed with this movement, for the study of the Negro in Kentucky, that he has seen fit to send personal letters of invitation to a committee of ten that has been selected. Out of this committee will grow a larger committee composed of some forty odd people who will be called upon to aid in this study. Those invited to attend this meeting are, Editor I. Willis Cole, representing the Negro Press in Kentucky; Mrs. Ella Robinson, representing welfare work among Negro club women of Kentucky; President D. H. Anderson and Dean D. L. Lawson, who will represent higher education among Negroes in Kentucky; Dr. John Welby Broaddus of Richmond. Ky., who will represent Negro health; Mr. H. E. Hall, representing Negro business; Mrs. Mamie Elliott, Harrodsburg, Ky., representing Negro recreation agencies; Mr. A. C. Burnettee of Lexington, Ky., representing the Negro farmer; Mr. J. A. Thomas, representing Negro labor and Prof. W. H. Humphrey, representing the high schools of Kentucky. Several other prominent Kentuckians have been invited to sit in on this very important conference. Mr. Bond is acting as chairman of the study.
Receiver Asked for the Mosaic Templars of America
MISS BLACK HURT IN AUTO CRASH Miss Georgia Rea Black of Princeton, Ky., sister of Mrs. C. L. Thomas, wife of the well known dentist, is confined to her bed from the injury she received when the automobile of Mr. T. S. Bradford was struck by a truck on Lexington Road. The car driven by young Bradford who was returning from a party at Lexington was completely wrecked. Dr. P. M. Flack who is attending Miss Black does not regard her case as serious, but she will be confined to her bed for several weeks.
Job Campaign Spreading
Memphis Weekly Takes Up Job Finding Campaign Started by Chicago Whip
Negroes Urged to Buy From Merchants Who Employ Members of the Race And To Go Into Business For Themselves
DEDICATE FEEBLE MINDED INSTITUTE Governor Sampson in delivering the dedicatorial address of the Feeble Minded Institute for Negroes at Frankfort, Ky., Sunday, July 20, said in part, "That there existed no finer institution anywhere in the state of Kentucky regardless of race that could measure up to the new one hundred thousand dollar plant that has just been erected for the feeble minded children of the Negro race." He further stated, "that since I have been the Governor of Kentucky I have attempted to do all in my power for the advancement of the colored citizens of this state. I am proud to say that I am the Governor of a state that considers the rights of citizens, whether that citizen be black or white. Negro boys and girls coming to this institution will be welcome, they will be trained to become useful citizens, they will become the tender and gracious guests of the state. Go into your communities," said Governor Sampson, "and tell those folks back there that they need worry no longer about the training of those children among them who might be unfortunate in this manner." Dr. E. E. [Underwood?], who acted as master of ceremonies introduced the speaker on the program, Mr. J. Max Bond, [Director?] of the Kentucky Interracial Commission. Mr. Bond thanked the Governor for his farsightedness in [providing?] an institution intended to care for feebble minded boys and girls of the Negro race. He further paid [tribute?] to those members of the Kentucky Interracial Commission who worked [with?] the late Dr. James Bond, former Director of the Kentucky Interracial Commission, who along with a committee composed of Mrs. C. W. Anderson of Frankfort; Dr. E. E. Underwood and Prof. W. H. Fouse of Lexington worked hard to make this institution a reality.
MISS JONES TEMPLE [Photo] MISS RUBY PAULINE SIMPSON Miss Ruby Pauline Simpson of 433 So. Sixteenth Street was recently crowned Miss Jones Temple at the Sunday School Home Coming when she reported the largest amount of money. Other young ladies may be crowned Miss Jones Temple in the years to come, but Miss Simpson has the distinction of being the first. Misses Wesley Mae Watson, M. E. Jackson, Sallie Quinn Jackson, Pauline Scott and Alberta Manier were the other contestants and made a creditable showing. Miss Hazel Green was sponsor of the effort. Mr. Samuel Jackson is superintendent of the Sunday School. As Mrs. R. B. Scott said in the coronation speech. "Miss Simpson is a young woman who does not believe in hiding her light under a bushel." Jones Temple is proud of this brilliant, talented young woman.
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Gives $50,000 More To Provident Hospital
"Taft Disliked Negroes," Major Butt
HIGHEST AMBITION WAS TO ELIMINATE NEGROES FROM POLITICS Late President's Attitude Toward Race Made Known Through Letters Of Late Major Butt To His Sister-in-Law - While Negroes knew the late President William Howard Taft to the extent that they expected little encouragement from him and was not surprised when they got less, there may have been some doubt about whether he was actually prejudiced against Negroes or simply thought it more expedient to carry out the wishes of the South in his attitude toward Negroes. This question is settled forever by the late Major Archie Butt who was aide to Mr. Taft while President. Major Butt makes public the fact that the late President and Supreme Court Justice actually disliked Negroes, through the letters now being published in the Louisville Courier-Journal as written by Major Butt to his sister-in-law during the Taft administration. Extracts from the letter as reprinted in the Courier of July 13 follows: "........and when he reached the South his receptions were unprecedented. But this was due to his position in the Negro question. The Negroes have greeted him [coldly?] everywhere, and he in turn has done nothing to placate them. In no place has he pandered to them, and he has seemed to avoid them everywhere. He dislikes the Negro, and his highest ambition is to eliminate them in politics. His determination to recognize only white men in the South has given him a popularity there which is marvelous. I heard him tell Cecil Lyon in Texas that he would not name a single Negro on the census boards and that he must not recommend one. He also told Mosely in Mississippi that he wanted the culture and the education of the South to have a voice in the Government and not the carpet-bag type. The most impassioned speeches he made were those in the South, and I cannot but think he will be able to do much in bringing some of the Southern States to him should he be renominated."
MOTON COMMISSION RETURNS FROM HAITI; ACCOMODATION POOR, REPORT (By Carl Murphy, Editor of the Afro-American, who with P. L. Prattis of the Associated Negro Press accompanied the Commission as Press Representatives) The Moton Commission for the study of Education in Haiti arrived in New York early Monday morning on the S. S. Cristobal of the Panama Line Their mode of travel did no credit to the United States or to President Herbert Hoover. Three of the five commissioners had quarters in stuffy staterooms below the two top decks and during the first two nights of the five-day voyage home suffered severely from the heat. They referred jocularly to their quarters as the "steerage." The commission itself, which had looked forward to making use of the trip home to whip a preliminary report into shape, found that the boat could offer no facilities for quiet work either for the commission as a group or for the individual members. Quiet Place Sought Commissioners who did work on their reports operated under difficulties. Between meals the dining room was used, but waiters were constantly passing in and out. Commissioners who sought out the men's lounge in which to work, found poker and bridge games going on constantly at nearby tables. Those who hoped for quiet in their deck chairs were again disappointed, for nearly one third of the passengers were children, whose parents were returning on vacation from the Canal Zone. Among this latter number was an entire troop of boy scouts. Commissioners had expected that the State Department would have a naval ship placed at their disposal for the return home. Ten days in advance, Chairman R. R. Moton informed the State Department that they would be ready to return home Monday, July 7. The department offered use of an ancient mine sweeper stationed at Port au Prince to ferry the commissioners over to Cuba. The trip would have required twenty hours and no quarters were available for the personnel, which meant to sleep during (Continued on page 8)
DR. I. GARLAND PENN SUCCUMBS News comes of the death of Dr. I. Garland Penn, noted churchman and leader of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Penn succumbed Tuesday night after a long illness. Dr. Penn who was the father of Rev. I. Garland Penn, Jr., who formerly pastored here at the R. E. Jones Temple was for many years on of the outstanding leaders of the great M. E. Church. From General Secretary of the Epworth League Department he was made the hed of [the?] M. E. schools and college for [illegible] For many years Dr. Penn [illegible] active race leader. It was [illegible] brought the late Dr. [Booker T. Washington?] to Atlanta, Ga., to make the speech which first gave to the Tuskegee genius national attention. Dr. Penn was ill when his wife passed out a few weeks ago. Funeral [services?] were held Friday afternoon[. He?] had many friends in [Louisville who?] mourn his death.