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re.and'lewjtistsingd inand city y to titu-ege. laverom who i any s of d inserfage ight the es to ieve tion. ern-Negro Officials of Brooklyn 111., are Sentenced.J. H. Thomas, mayor of Brooklyn, 111., Anthony Speed chief of police, George Campbell, George Rowe, Joseph Doss and Emmet Dorman were found guilty of murder by a jury in the Circuit Court in Belleville last week, and all were sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary.Oscar Bletson, William McCoy and Geo. Park, indicted with the convicted men were acquitted.On the night of April 27th the 'ast R°bert Jackson and Louis | Perryman were killed in a ' riot in Brooklyn. The dead | men and Thomas Costley, who was chief of police under Mayor Cole, who is contesting Thomas' election were stopped by Thomas and his squad of policemen and a shooting bee, in which more than fifty shots were fired, i followed. The case had been j on trial since Thursday of last week. All the convicted men -are in jail, except Mayor i Thomas, who is at liberty under bond of $10,000 pendingcountry who ought to oppose woman suffrage. Mrs. Dunbar is a state organizer of the Woman Suffrage League, and is talking in the interest of the suffrage amendment to be brought before the voters November 2nde isIp tonber'1^ disposition of a motion for a new trial for all the dependents. Brooklyn is an incorporated town inhabited almost entirely by Negroes,theofwho hold all of the public offices.—Broadax.t his ,’om-soli- :Mrs. Paul Laurence Dunbar hich Talks on Suffrage.No.Mrs. Paul Laurence Dunbar spoke at Zion Baptist church. Philadelphia,. Pa„ Sunday. The meeting was not held for the purpose of considering woman’s suffrage, but her presence .vas respect, ed.or.wa the Jeth-their aows ad-hour and-be-ence : or d of : was than ided have 1 the •ican ear-and .sury i as-for ,s is and pro-lem. Dr.1 St., cian,day-wellonaliyenoily,Mrs. Dunbar spoke briefly and said: “I am here asking the men of Pennsylvania for a square deal. e women claim that the women of the colored race have built up the wealth of the race. We claim we women are doing our share toward the building up of the race. We do not claim we are angels and will start the mill-enium right away. Everyman who amounts to anything is proud of his vote, proud of his citizenship. The ballot is an excellent thing. No man in this country ever asked for the privilege. The women are asking for it. No one asks for a thing without looking' into it. The women are studying politics, looking into things and are asking for the vote. She is interested in all civic affairs. When it comes to voting the women are going to look up the records of the men attending to these things. I ask the colored men of Pennsylvania to think. I here is not a colored man in theAre Our Girls Trained Wrong? Some Say Yes.Kansas City.Old-fashioned playthi n g s for “little sister.” rag dolls, toy dishes—even a baby’ brother—these Prof. William A, McKeever prescribes as the first steps in correcting the divorce evil. He would teach human nature and elementary psychology to the girl of 16 instead of forcing her to take higher mathematics and foreign languages.“While the divorce mill grinds on six days in the week” said Prof. McKeever in his lecture to the Kansas City School of Social Service, “we continue to increase its grist in the future by useless and unnatural forms of training for eur growing girls. Many of our young women are being led to the marriage altar without any knowledge as to what constitutes a good man.1 “We force the high school and college girls to take long courses in higher algebra, geometry and foreign languages and other such stuff, while we slowly starve out of their nature those beautiful feminine activities for which their hearts are so hungry.“A homemade rag doll is ten times more valuable as a plaything for a little girl than the highest priced Teddy Bear on the market} Toy dishes, make-believe housekeeping and taking care of baby brothers or sisters are naturally dearer to the heait of the iS year old girl than the frills and furbelows with which so many wish to bedeck her.“When a girl is sixteen, cut out the higher mathematics and the other abstractions until after she has completed a thorough course in elementary psychology and human nature and in what constitutes preparedness for marriage. Teach her how tojugde men. Take her into the merits of a thousand successful and a thonsand unsuccessful marriages and teach her to know what to accept and what to shun in the personality of the young men who come to court her.the leader, Mr. Hardy and the director, Mr. Rankford G. Holley. Denver is proud of their showing. Many band members became Woodmen on that occasion.Since the establishment of the Catholic Board for Colored Missions, forty new missions have been started and over five thousand children received in school. The work which has been done mainly in the South suffers from a lack of priest* and sisters.
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Denver Star
Denver, Colorado, US
Sat, Aug 21, 1915
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