Paragraphics Current News and Opinion (By X. Mabie Wright) Santa Barbara. Chas. H. Wesley, Ph. D. Mr. and Mrs. Wills. William Jennings Bryant. The clothes that make the woman are the clothes that break the man. - Cleveland Press. Santa Barbara. early in the morning of June 29 an earthquake shook a right smart of Santa Barbara, Cal., down. But the citizens are not going to move. It is far wrom their plans to seek a new and safer sight. They have already decided to build a more beautiful and substantial Santa Barbara right there. This disaster gives man a chance to demonstrate his pluckiness. Even the terrific forces of nature do not daunt him. And why desert Santa Barbara? What place on earth is guaranteed against a catyclismic outburst of nature? Dr. Charles H. Wesley. Dr. Wesley is a Louisville boy. He has been a teacher at Howard University for several years. But we are talking about him here and now because has just received a Ph. D. from Harvard. Such achievements extremely please the folks back home and help to dilute the discouragement that comes from constantly seeing the ambitionless young fellows in the pool rooms and on the street corners. Chicago and New York. They accuse Chicago of wanting to secede from Illinois and become a separate state. Well, that's not quite as ambitious as New York City. Although there has been no formal constitutional setting apart, she regards herself as a nation. Mr. and Mrs. Wills. Having completed a good job and qualified to meet Mr. Dempsey, Mr. Wills and his wife will tour the old country. As the Dempseys are leaving the Wills will be going in. So our neighbors across the sea will be treated to a second installment of great pugilists. The Dempseys are not the only fistic celebrities that can go abroad. And here's hoping that the heavyweight championship will follow in the [illegible] order as the trip abroad. [illegible]and Con. One fellow was talk[illegible]inst evolution. Another was [illegible] in favor of it. The anti-[illegible]onist would have made an evo-[illegible]ist out of me. William Jennings Bryan. This [illegible]e has been before the public for [illegible] years. "The Cross of Gold" [illegible]d it forth at first. Then by [illegible] contrivance or another it has [illegible]ept itself before the people. Now it contrives to daugh before the popular gaze by attaching itself to the theory of evolution which seeks to puncture and make, it seems, a spectacular parachute descent.
Houston Sets Good Example
Charles Stewart Dies at Sanitarium
WELL-KNOWN NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT PASSES AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS WAS KENTUCKIAN; EDUCATED AT SIMMONS "U"
News comes to us of the death of the well-known newspaper correspondent, Charles Stewart of Chicago. He died Tuesday at the Park Sanitarium, Guthrie, Okla., where he had been since he began to fail in health several months ago. There is not a man in the race better known by the masses and classes alike as was Charles Steward. None made so many friends among the young and the old, and we know of no other of such prominence who was so easily met. For years Charles Stewart had been the only Negro member of the Associated Press. He was a success as a writer, lecturer, and preacher, and was a familiar figure in any church, school and community of any section of the country. For more than twenty years he has been an important character at Baptist conventions, Methodist conferences and other big race gatherings. We first saw him as a speakef to a group of members of a class in the grades many years ago. He made us laugh. We thought he was funny. Before he concluded his speech we found out that he could make us cry, that he was more serious than funny, and he was able, interesting, inspiring, and encouraging. In later years we found him good company at conventions, conferences and press meetings. We have only heard of one person who was little enough to become offended at Charles Steward, and mean enough to harm him. That was a clerk in a Greendale, Miss., post office. We were told that upon asking for has mail in to the Associated Press and other his characteristic way the cracker clerk thought he was dealing with what they call an "insolent nigger," and thereupon pulled his pistol and shot the innocent friend to all, the enemy f none. Besides contributing (Continued on page 8)
Bail Brown and Stevens on Bad Check Charge
The Commercial, Our First And Only Business Of Its Kind; Should Kick Ourselves, Says Dr. John H. Frank (By The Editor) We wonder if Leader readers in Louisville, and elsewhere for that matter, paid any particular attention, and gave enough though to fasten in their minds the significance of the opening of the COMMERCIAL, the first and only ladies and gents furnishing store in Louisville, owned and operated by Negroes. This announcement was carried in a large space on page four of our last week's issue. Mr. Joseph R. Ray, prominent citizen, banker, church and race man, is president and Mr. L. M. Ford, well-known citizen and property owner, is manager. Slowly but surely the young men behind this great step in the right direction have been organizing, selling stock and getting things together to open this store and give to the race a kind of business that is more needed than any we known of. The Commercial opened last Tuesday at the corner of Sixth and Walnut Streets, opposite the Armory, with an up-to-date line of the highest grade of a complete line of ladies and gents furnishings. It is the class of shirts, collars, ties, hosiery and other furnishings as we buy at a standard price at any of the high class stores in the crowded business district. The Commercial has opened to supply its patrons with everything in its line at the popular price. It is out of the crowded district and one saves time, which means money and the punishment of elbowing thru a crowd, and a long stand and wait, when he or she stops at Sixth and Walnut. Along with this the Commercial offers the best in efficiency, service, honesty and courtesy. To the Negro in Louisville it is a new step, and the direction is the department store that this write spoke about many months ago. It means for the whole race, wealth, employment of our own youth, commercial recognition and a bigger corner in this world's business market. If there is a Negro in the community or in five miles, high or low, rich or poor, who feels that he should not walk, ride on the street car or in an automobile to The Commercial at Sixth and Walnut for the shirts, collars, ties, socks, and the other things needed and must be bought by men and women, single and married, we ask him to read from Dr. Frank, pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church of this city. The following captioned "We Should Kick Ourselves," appeared in his columns of The Leader several weeks ago. Read it and you'll kick yourself for as much as having a thought against buying at the Commercial. "Repeatedly we are called to the tragic, the stupid, the suicidal, crazy policy that characterizes our business sense and commercial transactions right here in Louisville, the metropolis of Kentucky. More than 500,000 dollars a year, colored people in Louisville pay to other races, mostly foreigners, the whole sum of which should be put into circulation among ourselves. No one grocery is there in all West Louisville owned by ourselves! Jews, Italians, Germans in all centers of our people in the eighth, ninth and tenth wards, in "Smoketown," so-called, Portland, Parkland, on the Point supported almost entirely by colored people. These foreigners have no interest in our growth, no cone in for our churches, schools, social, moral or religious advance and give nothing comparatively toward our charities. In a few years they grow rich enough to buy and build in other localities, move out leaving the old stands in the hands of relatives or friends brought over from Europe, and we go right on to make them rich as we did their fathers. Of course, I should have no hard feelings against these foreigners; they have the right to make an honest living, and that is one of the reasons why I head this little say with the words: "We Should Kick Ourselves." It is commonly regarded that bews have organized an association to place their kinsmen in business and to sustain them from a fund of one million dollars. Money is loaned from the association funds to Jews who return the money on installment payments with from 6 to 10 per cent. I presume the Italians, Greeks, perhaps the Germans have similar help. Nothing wrong about that. Colored Americans ought to be wisely practical enough to organize along the same lines. When are we going to learn some business, cooperative, racial sense? Every hat we buy, every suit, every pair of shoes, and other absolute necessities, coal, wood, nearly all medicines, automobiles; most insurance from other races. Are we crazy? Are we civilized? Do we deserve to have golden opportunities right at our side? Ought we not be hissed off the stage of action? O, yes, we have made some progress, a little. We haveinsurance companies, banks, a few groceries, realty organizations and there is a small tendency to take hold of ourselves for racial business holdings; but nothing commensurate with our resources, our business capacity, our commercial and [fi]nancial abilities. Acres of diamonds right at our doors, gold mines at the corners, individual and race prosperity falling into our laps and we too dull, too self-satisfied, sleepy or something, to accept them. One hundred men of standing, unselfish enough to serve for the race, ought to meet in June and establish a foundation fund with all guarantees that have guarded and utilized the Jewish and other financial foundations. What are we waiting for? Waiting that for another year we may remain the laughing stock of the world? Waiting for God to do for us what we will never do? Waiting till a time comes in which there will be no risk and no loss, no need for trust, cooperation and strivings? We shall wait in vain. The paper in which these lines appear ought to have 35,000 regular subscribers in Louisville. We ought to be thinking of the Louisville Leader as the future Louisville daily newspaper, more readable, more loyal, more helpful, to us than any paper published by any other race. I pray Almighty God that Louisville's honest, safe, unselfish, outstanding men and women will pray, think, act. If they will do those three things other than enterprises for pleasure, advancing vices, entailing total waste, will bless the boys and girls who will be prepared and ready to manage them. There are 500 young Colored men and women today in Louisville who should be employed in our own establishments. The white man refuses to take them; the very white man who receives all our money, money with which he educates and trains his own children to serve when he retires. Don't we need kicking?
To Publish Special Edition Leader's 24 Pages to Leave Press Early Supreme Lodge Week The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias will hold its session in Louisville from August 17 to 22. The Leader will issue a special 24 page edition during that week, living up to its custom of the past as regards conferences, conventions and other big meetings scheduled for Louisville. This Continued from page 6)
Mass Meeting for Simmons Univ. Citizens Urged To Meet at Western Library Monday Night A few weeks ago several leading white citizens started out to raise $100,000 for Simmons University of which Dr. C. H. Parrish is president. The campaign closed with $34,000 of that amount raised. Out of a list of 5,000 prospects, the seventy-five workers, all busy persons, only saw (Conttnued on page 8)
Brutally Beat Woman 
PATROLMAN CUSICK CUBS DAILY THOMPSON BLOOD WHILE MEN LOOK ON - PAID NO ATTENTION TO ADVICE OF PARTNER
For several years stories have been told of the beating of colored men and women by the city police for the most trivial offense, and many times for no cause whatsoever, but none beats that told a Leader representative by eye witnesses of that meted out to Daisy Thompson, 21, by Patrolman Cusick last Tuesday night. Daisy weighs about 130 pounds. Cusick is a big husky individual who weighs around 200. He was advised by his partner not to strike the woman, that he could arrest her without it. More than fifty Negro men saw him administer the most brutal and heartless beating ever given any one for any cause. While he was pounding on her head his club fell between the legs of a Negro man, but he nor any of the large number who stood by said a word in disapproval of the unwarranted attack, neither did any one of them attempt to stop it. It was such a heartrending sight that some of the men walked away when they could stand it no longer. They were all law abiding citizens Tuesday night, but for a small matter they would attack each other three times a day, every day in the week. Officer Cusick was so desperate that he told Kreitman, the grocer on the same corner, that he would hand him the same thing if he did not turn his lights back on. Kreitzman witnessed the affair. It was just a few minutes before his closing hour He put his lights out, but he turned them on again at the officer's command. Kreitzman's chicken soup was a good witness. It was almost drenched with the blood that flowed from the wounds on Daisy's head. She is now in a critical condition at her home at 529 S. Ninth Street from the wounds on her head, face, back, arms and legs. She was not sent to the hospital Tuesday night, but was looked after in some way while in jail. She remained there all night. Was sent to the hospital by her relatives Wednesday morning. She is now being treated by Dr. W. H. Jackson.
The Story as Told By Several Witnesses.
The woman had been in an argument at Ninth and Madison streets, which had subside, when the [Officer?] Cusick and his partner walked up. Sensing that something had happened from the crowd that stood around, Cusick asked the woman what he had been doing. "Not anything." was her reply. He asked what she had in her hand, the young woman displayed her keys and handkerchief. According to
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Six Whites Attack Girl; Third Case In Year
Negro Republican Inspectors Dropped - The ax has fallen on a number of the colored men who were on the city's payroll as license inspectors, etc., and etc. Out of the hundreds of white Republicans who are elected, appointed, and made into positions big and little by the vote of 27,000 Negroes, it is like finding a needle in a haystack when it comes to finding a respectable place for a worthy Negro leader or worker. In no place, even in the South where the Negro vote means so much to the successful party is it so hard to find a few places for the Negroes who deserve them as it is here in Louisville. It is said that when it gets above the privilege to run a joint of some sort or to be a janitor the place has to be made. Therefore up until a few days ago we had Negro inspectors who never inspected, and for fear that these Negroes and the books might be inspected by the Democratic City Council which succeeds the Republican Council, that was ousted a few days ago because of fraud in the 1923 election, it is said that the bosses suspected it best that they be eased out. Thus is seems that Negroes get nothing worthwhile that can stand the test and the light. They are used during election time and used after-U-S-E-D-that's all. We withhold the names of the ousted "inspectors" until another time.