OUTSTANDING FRATERNAL WOMAN [Photo] MISS E. B. BROWN Miss Brown of Covington, Ky., is Grand Secretary of the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten and has played a great part in making the order one of the most successful women's organizations in the country. Miss Brown is interested in the progress of all race institutions. A well known white publisher said, that his company appreciated the printing business of colored people, but he felt thy should give it to their own printers when they found it convenient to do so. Miss Brown is of the same opinion and proves it by the business she does with the colored printers of Louisville.
AMERICAN WOODMEN LAUNCH BIG MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN The American Woodmen will begin their spring membership campaign tomorrow, Saturday March 15. Mr. C. C. Trimble, District Manager, who is to be in charge of the campaign will arrive in the city Saturday, March 19, from Texas and other points in the southern district, and a general mass meeting will be held the night of his arrival at the Woodmen office in the Pyhtian Temple, Tenth and Chestnut Streets. Plans have also been made for Mr. Trimble to deliver addresses in different parts of the city in a large number of churches and before a number of civic bodies. The public is invited to attend all these meetings. It is said that due to the efficient managment of the organization in Louisville over a period of so many years and the prompt payment of claims the American Woodmen has earned the name of being the most outstanding organizations of its kind in the world owned and controlled wholly by Negroes. In spite of the prolonged de  pression this organization continues to grow numerically and financially. After operating in Louisville and Kentucky for nearly 14 years, today there is not one penny indebtedness against the or- (Continued on page 8)
Democrats After Negro Vote
EDITORIAL EXTRACTS FROM RACE NEWSPAPERS ON LINDBERGH CASE "The kidnapping of the nineteen-month-old baby boy of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous aviator, who flew alone over the pathless Atlantic to Paris, has arrested the attention of the world and invoked the sympathies of civilized humanity everywhere. There is no excuse no palliation for the commitment of this brutal, heartless crime and it is hoped that the apprehension and punishment of the criminals will be swift and certain. However great the provocation, and the kidnapping of the helpless Lindbergh baby is a very great provocation, yet our passions should be restrained, and the law of the land permitted to take its course. Once the mob spirit becomes dominant no one is secure; no life is safe, for upon the slightest excuse maddened minds would engage in a carnival of murder and lynching."--Star of Zion. "The kidnapping of the infant son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh is a most tragic experience for them a  nd all of their sympathizers. The informer and Freeman wishes that the baby may soon be restored to them in good health. It is too bad for the Lindberghs that they had to be the unfortunate victims of this most noted criminal act of recent days. However, it is the price which more and more America is paying and will continue to pay for its attitude of one law for rich and another for poor, one law for black and another for white. So much has crime gotten into high places in this nation that even Col. Lindbergh felt it necessary to call to his aid gangsters to serve as go-betweens. So long as a Negro can be burned at stake and his bones thrown into the homes of Negro citizens as warnings to them, as was done in Salisbury, Md., not so long ago, and so long as a court house can be burned to the ground in order to burn up a helpless Negro, as was done in Sherman, Texas, in 1930, and nothing be done about it, just so long will Lindbergh babies be liable to kidnaping [or] to wors  e."--Houston Informer. "One touch of sympathy makes the whole world kin." The stealing of Lindbergh's baby has stirred the depths of sorrow in the breasts of all humane people. The glorious prominence he enjoys has made his grief national bereavement; the suffering of his wife, a calamity. Their eminence makes them the cynosure of all eyes, magnifies a thousand-fold the sorrow that afflicts them. Let us not forget that the humblest female would feel far more intensely the loss of a babe, but she has none of this great world's goods and few of its pleasures to lessen her grief! Let us not forget, that the slavery which for so many generations enriched this nation, made a hell for the millions of mothers whose children were rudely torn from their loving arms and hurried to a fate far worse than any that could befall the pampered babe of an American hero! Lindbergh's baby will be returned or killed! The slave woman's baby was never returned, never killed, however much the weeping mother in tears of blood prayed God that it would die."--Cincinnati Union. "It is on occasions like these that we human beings are reminded that we are all flesh of one flesh and blood of one blood; that, below the artificial barriers of class, race, color, nationality, we are all affected by the same universal drives and emotions. And while we join will all law-abiding people to find the young child, and to bring the abductors to justice, America needs to remember that crimes of this calibre have been encouraged and enthroned because too many 'decent' people, too many citizens in high places have closed their eyes in the past to other crimes and have made a farce of justice. The sanction given to official graft and bribery, the security of rich law-violators, the condoning of lynch law, the ease with which both law-maker and law-enforcer may be bought, and the acceptance of the idea that anything is all right that we can "get away with," have formed the foundation for "bigger and better" crime and criminals, an example of which is dramatically brought home to us by the kidnapping of the sick 20-month-old Lindbergh baby."--Norfolk Journal and Guide. "Negroes have felt for this grief stricken father and mother, maybe more than others because we have experienced what happens when greed tries to coin human misery into money. The kidnapper of today is the modern slave ownder dealing in human flesh, careless of the sorrow of sundered mother and child. Thousands of us, who know what it is to have dear ones scattered we know not where when some man made a profit by breaking up our families have a sympathetic understanding of what the Lindberghs are suffering. By the same token, we are sure that the values which really count, were better safeguarded by the Negro nurse as was the custom in the south, than by those newfangled efficiency experts. They know all about vitamens and nothing about the love which she showered upon her little charges, a love  which to this day many of them acknowledge and reward by care for her in her old age."--Kansas City Call. "The ruthless kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby has occasioned the world's sympathy and grief, and will, no doubt cause laws to be enaccted that will put an end to such crimes. Back of such crimes, however, can be found the result of the law's delay. Every agency of law enforcement has been for years urging a federal enactment making death the penalty for kidnaping. Kidnaping could not have grown to such gigantic proportions had such laws been enacted and properly enforced. Kidnaping is akin to lynch law and peonage. The states and the federal government alike have for years stood idly by and permitted lynching and peonage to grow until they created in the annals of crime this cruel and vicious monster known as kidnaping. The spineless members of congress who frowned on the Dyer anti-lynching bill may yet be unwillingly tripped into adopting some kind of a law for the benefit of all the people. There is no other alternative. They must act: they must make lynching and kidnaping crimes against the laws of the nation--one cannot be stopped without the other. They are twins."--Chicago Defender. "The Lindberghs, law-abiding citizens, wonderful people, taxpayers, must turn from the orderly processes of the law of their own land and place the future welfare of their priceless baby in the hands of men who are admittedly bosses of the underworld, capitalists in crime. What a picture! We are kidding ourselves. We are not the great nation we say we are. We are not as smart as we want people to think we are. We are not as good as we declare ourselves to be. We have absolutely no respect for law and order. We don't even respect God. In all probability,if the truth were known, as a nation, we have renounced God. Kidnaping is but one of the many crimes familiar to our criminal calendar. Who could run the gamut of crime in this country? Who could recite the  list?Who could catalogue the types of crime committed in this country with almost absolute abandon, to say nothing of safety? The world will laugh us to scorn when it learns that the Lindberghs, yes, even the Lindberghs, must admit that the law of their great country is inadequate and they must turn to the underworld for protection of their family. Here we stand, with all our laws, with all our detectives, with all our modern systems, appliances, agencies, intelligence bureaus--here we stand, ABSOLUTELY LICKED! The law of this country is licked! It is licked by the bootlegger! It is licked by the kidnaper! It is licked by the prostitutes! It is licked by the racketeers! It stands absolutely bound and gagged! We need go no futher with our preachments until we revise our high-sounding phrses and establish once and for all in this country a legal protection that protects. Until then, the LAW IS LICKED!--Pittsburgh Courier.
Lawyer Gets Into Kidnapping News
Young Attorney, Wife, Mother and Sister At Lindbergh Estate
Make Mysterious Call; Remain Forty-five Minutes, Then Drive Away
Leader Newsboy Killed
ARTHUR RICE, LEADER NEWSBOY, KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Arthur Rice, 14, Leader newsboy who lived with his mother at 1514 Magazine street, received fatal injuries, late Sunday night when struck by an automobile at 16th and Chestnut driven by Mrs. Sue Ella Jackson, well known young woman, of 629 East Burnett Ave. According to the mother, Mrs.Jessie Rice, Arthur and his twin brother, Arnold, had spent the afternoon away from home, returning about 8:00. Remembering that they had had no pencils to use in school on Friday Mrs. Rice sent the boys back out to the drug store at 16th and Walnut Streets to buy them. Arnold's version of the tragedy was that as they neared the corner of 16th and Chestnut Streets, Arthur said"I'm going across to get a drink" and stepped into the street to go to the filling station of Spencer Taylor. "There was an awful crash. When I looked, Arthur was on the ground. He wouldn't answer me when I kept calling him and the lady put him in the car and went away." Mr  s. Rice said "He ran in the house screaming and crying, trying to tell me. All I could understand was that my boy was hurt. A neighbor called city hospital. They told us Arthur was there, that he had a crushed chest, a broken leg and a fractured skull and that he was dying. We rushed out there, but he died less than ten minutes after I got there--and he never knew I was by him." Arthur attended Western School and was in 6A grade. He had been a member of The Louisville Leader's Ten Square Club since its organization and sold papers each week. Funeral services were held Thursday from the funeral chapel of A. B. Ridley by Rev. A. H. Shumake, pastor of the Virginia Avenue Baptist Church. Interment was in Greenwood Cemetery. Survivors include his mother and three brothers, Arnold, Monroe and Jesse. Mrs. Jackson was arraigned on a charge of manslaughter in Police Court Monday and the case continued until March 22.
Hero of Famous Naval Battle Dies
Hero of Naval Battle Dies
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