Paragraphics Current News and Opinion (By X. Mabie Wright) President's Silence on Klan Not Golden. Harry Wills. Mrs. Wills. Rev. Jack Johnson. Sciplo Jones Goes Up. Klan Gifts. Men fearing the Klan have a right to know where a candidate soliciting their support stands on the question. Calvin Coolidge's traditional silence in this serious matter cannot be imputed to him as a virtue. He would deserve and gain more from the Negro electorate by straight forward courage and honesty. From Boyle's Thirty Acres Harry Wills took the bacon home. Several issues ago we ventured the assertion that he would. Most beautiful was Wills' deportment both during his period of training and in the arena, - working hard in calm confidence, without display of braggadocio. But there was the woman in the game - Mrs. Harry Wills. It was her fight too. Harry could swim, punch the bag, and spar with the semi-pros; but she elected to help get him in condition by handling two very important factors; his grub and his morals. If Harry Wills does not appreciate what that faithful ally of a wife did, bitter defeat should have been his cup. But he does. Now for Jack Dempsey's scalp. Then why can't we point with as much pride to Harry Wills, the pugilist, as to Henry Tanner, the artist, or to Charles Young, the soldier, or Paul Dunbar, the poet? Rev. Jack Johnson. Well! But the apostle Paul had a past. So did Steve Holcome. So did John Bunyan. Humanity is too critical; this thing may be of God. If Rev. John Arthur Johnson can snatch their souls from the eternal burning, who should say him nay? Scipio Jones steps up. He has been given a seat in the Chancery Court of Arkansas. Not a Negro between the oceans, the lakes and the gulg need hang his head, because Judge Jones is a good lawyer. In appointing him to this high and honorable position in Arkansas making in a measure restitution for the ugly Elaine affair? Be that as it may, this one thing is certain; developments like this give the optimists one more shaft to hurl at the pessimists. Surely God's world will not be a failure. Time was when a colored man would have covered his eyes with his hands and turned his face rather than gazed upon the awful and hanny form and paraphernalia of a Klurer. But - the other day a little Methodist congregation returned the money gift or a Klan group, with dispatch and curt words. Those who have wrestled with Vigil remember these words: "We fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts." Such is the Negro's feeling toward the Klan when they make contributions to churches and other racial institutions and enterprises. 
Study Class to Meet The Study Class will meet at the Library Thursday, October 9 at the usual time. Dr. Caldwell's class is open to new members. The class will study The Essentials of Logic by R. W. Sellers. It is published by the Houghton Miffin Co. The lesson begins at quarter to seven and lasts one hour. Chanaellor Patterson will have his same class in The History of Education. The class if from quarter of six to quarter of seven. A. M. Peyton.
Mrs. Jannie Huffman, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Gray, has returned to her home in Lexington, Ky. While here she was so delighted with a copy of the Louisville Leader that she saw in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gray, that she became a subscriber before leaving the city.
The details of the Andrews-Douglas wedding which took place at the Fifth Street Baptist Church on last Wednesday evening will appear in the next issue of The Leader.
Play Causes No Riot "All God's Chillun Got Wings," Causes No Trouble Despite Furore Created At Announcement Inter-Marriage Already Exists Says O'Neil
Bishop Clement Holds Ky. A.M.E. Zion Conference The annual conference of the Kentucky Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church is in session at Stoner Chapel on Twelfth Street, with Bishop George C. Clement of Louisville, Ky., presiding. The conference brought to the city leaders of the church and race from over the state and of the nation. Among the Bishops visiting the conference and associating with Bishop Clement are Bishop C. C. Alleyne of New York and Bishop W. J. Walls of North Carolina, elected at the General Conference at Indianapolis in May. Bishop Walls pastored Broadway Temple six years, and has many friends here.
Poro Founder Returned From European Visit
Lovett Liked Lewis' Article About His Bolting G. O. P. Mr. I. Willis Cole, 422 S. Sixth Street, City, Dear Mr. Cole: Just a line to say how much I enjoyed reading the article with respect to Mr. W. H. Lewis in Saturday morning's "Leader." I wish this article might be in the hands of every thinking colored man and woman. Sincerely yours, W. Lovett
Republican Party Wants Negro's Financial Help
Local Sorority Announces Scholarship For Girls
This is the last year for our colored normal school, so we are facing a critical situation; never a hopeless one. There are many girls who have disappointed. Some have dropped out of school to go into family service, to marry and into other fields far from their fields and planes of hope. This is mainly because the blow was sudden and caught the girls unprepared to direct their energies otherwise. There is a possibility for many to go on to college and to other normals and to remain here and pursue com- (Continued on page 8)
THE WORK AND PROGRESS OF DR. JOHN H. WILLIAMS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, MADE KNOWN (By J. M. Ragland, Executive Secretary Louisville Urban League) Dr. Williams was born in the state of Kentucky but his people moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana when he was three years of age. After graduating from the high school in Jeffersonville he attended Indiana University. He later entered the Meharry Medical College where he completed the four year course in medicine and surgery. He has been engaged in the general practice of medicine for twenty-one years. During the last ten years he has devoted himself almost exclusively to the profession of surgery. In order that he might become more proficient in the profession Dr. Williams has taken two years of post graduate work at the Northwestern College of Medicine and Surgery, -- [Photo] DR. JOHN H. WILLIAMS -- Evanston, Ill., and has spent two summers observing the Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minnesota, and today he holds a certificate from the Chicago School of Surgical Technique. He has specialized in abdominal surgery having performed over 2,500 operations with less than 1 percent of deaths.
He has practiced in the following cities: Des moines, Iowa, Pelham, Ga. and Louisville, Ky. He served as a private in the Hospital Corps during the Spanish-American War in 1898. He served as First Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps during the late World War and spent eighteen months overseas. He is now Captain in the Reserve Corps. He operates at the Fraternal Hospital and the Red Cross Hospital of this city. His practice is confined to office consultation and surgery. Dr. Williams' office is located at 1007 W. Chestnut Street. Phones City 2513, Shawnee 2967--L., and Main 9142. Office hours by appointment. He has an operating room thoroughly equipped and a ward of eleven surgical beds. The office is equipped with a Turkish Bath Cabinet, the Betzco Major Therapeutic Lamp, the Thompson-Plaster X-Ray Machine and the Style F Electric Treatment Cabinet. Treatments givvn by means of the above named apparatuses meet the needs of all human ailments. The value and use of the Turkish Bath has long been known to the laity as well as the profession. The X-Ray Machine is invaluable as an aid in the diagnosis of the various diseases in order to determine the proper Therapeutic methods of treatment. By the aid of the X-Ray Dr. Williams is enabled to make pictures of the bones and develop and study them and correct defects with the least possible effort. By means of the Barrium Test he can under the X-Ray study and locate inflamed appendir, hernia, gall stones, ulcers of the stomach, the weakening of the elio-cecial valve, and diseases of the ascending, transverse and descending colon.
The style F Treatment Cabinet is a thoroughly efficient, complete, modern result producing appliance for the physician and surgeon. Diathermy, both Medical and Surgical, Electrocoagulation, Fulguration, d'Arsonal, Ondin, High Frequency, Ozone, Electric Cautery, Diagnostic and Sinusoidal Circuits, Tankless Compressed Air, Hyperemia by Vacuum, each and every one a distinct modality with a field of usefulness of its own, are available, at Dr. Williams' office.
The treatment of diseases by means of Electrical Currents, especially the High Frequency modalities, has now become as firmly established as with drugs and other methods, and today these currents are known and appreciated for their value.
The public of Louisville is to be congratulated for having at their service a man of the type and ability of Dr. Williams. He has a charming wife and daughter. He resides at 1932 W. Chestnut Street. His daughter, Gladys Williams, who is a graduate of the Central High School, is now in her second year at the University of Indiana.
Office Assistants
Dr. Williams is assisted in his office by the following persons: Mrs. Mary Roberts Sutton, a graduate of the Red Cross Hospital She is Lady (Continued on page 8)
Wright Organizes C. C. C. BANK PRESIDENT IS FOUNDER OF NEW BENEVOLENT, FRATERNAL AND PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATION -- DEDICATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO A few weeks ago a large space in the columns of this paper carried an announcement of the first meeting of the Booker T. Washington Memorial Class of a new fraternal organization known as the Companions of Colored Christian Citizens, benevolent and patriotic as well as fraternal, dedicated to the development of colored people. Though of local birth, the organization is national in its scope. Mr. W. H. Wright, president of the American Mutual Savings Bank, is Supreme Councilor, and Mr. T. H. Mason is Councilor of the local Booker T. Washington Chapter, which has grown from an idea to a large membership in the period of a few weeks. In an interview with Mr. Wright before going to press a Leader representative was given practically the same information about the organization as appeared on the front page of a local daily newspaper last Sunday morning. The order in its form says Mr. Wright is purely democratic, and is designed, first of all to develop racial confidence and educate its people in patriotism, fraternalism and true citizenship. One of the outstanding features of the order is its constitutional requirement that every member who is eligible to vote must become and remain a qualified and active voter at all primaries, general and special elections and must maintain that activity continuously to retain membership in the order. To make the organization the most effective power possible, it has adopted the unit method of voting in support of the candidates agreed upon by the majority of the members.
"This order entertains no illusions and cherishes no mistaken dreams of racial amalgamation in America," said Wright. "It believes that the Negro race can be made and will be made one of the great peoples of the earth thru their own efforts. The multiplied millions of interested capital in commercial enterprises, industrial institutions and in educational plants owned and administered by members of the Negro race exclusively prove their claim of an extra virility resident in Negro blood. They have suffered in past years from unscrupulous exploitations of interests outside themselves and are awakened to the fact that they are competent to work out their own destiny in a most satisfying way."
Membership in the order is secret, to the extent that while a member may admit his personal fellowship with it, he is not at liberty to divulge to an outsider the membership of another.
Mr. Wright, who is recognized as one of the most successful lawyers and business men in this section of the country, a man who has never gone backward or as much as stood still, when big enough to dare and to do [he?] set his course and followed it unswervingly and with unceasing vigilence, and his has been a continuous march onward, forward and upward. His thoughts are therefore those of a suceessful, progressive man and attract attention. In the political program of the C. C. C., Mr. Wright is getting away from the old beaten idea that the Negro's political salvation is in one certain party, and that he is not to be wholly emancipated from all (Continued on page 8)
Malone Asks Fair Play Among Business Men
Mr. George H. Mays, publicity man for the Domestic was in the city a few hours this week. Mr. Mays brings a favorable business report from out in the state.
Red Mason Urges Will-Dempsey Match Greb's Manager Asks Square Deal for Harry Wills