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The Denver« \ ■Colored PeopletlIESTABLISHED 1888The papers formerly known as The Statesman and The Independent, haveTWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. Number 22DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, jAN. 24, 1914ART EXHIBITIONIN BROOKLYNPan, Pencil and Brush ClubShows Original Drawings.Sketch Class of Carlton Avsnus Branch Y. M. C. A. Furnishes Intellectual Treat For Holiday Visitors at New Year’s Reception—R. H. Lewis' Fino Record at Adslphi College.Brooklyn.—An exhibition of original drawings by the sketch class of the Pen. Pencil and Brush club was one of 9the chief attractions at the New Year’s reception of the Carlton avenue branch ^ of the Y. M. C. A. in this city. The club is a new organization, under the direction of It. II. Lewis, who is well known in Brooklyn, having finished his art course at Adelphi college two years ago.During his course of study at Adelphi college Mr. Lewis war- awarded first prize in competitions for three consecutive years and is now devoting his time to illustrating and portrait painting at his studio in Shrooba palace, 10G8 Fulton street. lie exhibited several pieces of his best specimens of life drawing'in portraits and figures. One of his portraits which attracted most attention was that of the late Rev. A. J. Henry, founder of the Carlton avenue branch of the Y. M. C. A.This portrait was done in crayon, life size, displaying splendid technique and depicting a very fine likeness. Another portrait which attracted attention was a life alzc in sanguine representing Christ, which was drawn from one of New York’s most famous artists' models. Mr. Iewli showed other drawings done In different mediums, lt;n«pUyi»i| superior skill sod carefulworkmanship. Re is sparing no pains to assist those of his race who possess ability and are anxious to develop tbdr talents in various lines of art.Falstaff L. Harris of Washington exhibited some splendid Ideas In pen and ink. Illustrating some works of Paul I^iurence Dunbar. His cover design of Dunbar's lyrics was given a great deal of attention. This design was worked up in n most striking technique and brings forth very strongly the thought that Mr. Dunbar was greatly inspired by nature. Mr. Har ris »so exhibited drawings from casts and still life. He is a student In the normal art course at Pratt institute and expects to return to Washington to teach in the public schools.A very interesting display in cast and still life drawing was shown in the work of Ralph Adams of Brooklyn, .who Is one of the most faithful attend *ants of the sketch class and expects some day to make ll'ustrating his profession. Samuel Blount, also of Brook lyn, exhibited some studies from the east and still life, showed clever ideas In caricature, and there are prospects of his becoming a successful comic artist He is a member of the sketch class.The three last mentioned exhibitors are under twenty-one aud have received only three months' instruction. The class meets every Thursday evening at the Carlton avenue branch of the Y. M. C. A., where the members draw from still life, costs and objects. They £re planning to do more serious work Tti life drawings In the future.(THE GUARDIAN’S PLATFORM.Mutant Boston Paper to Continue Agitation Against Race Segregation.The Boston Guardian's anti-segregation platform for 11)11 reads as follows:Pushing AheadWith separate schools, railroad cars, waiting rooms, street cars in the south: with exclusion of colored people from public parks und libraries in the south; with exclusion of colored people from Inns, restaurants und places of public amusement In the south; with laws forbidding the coeducation of white and colored in private and church schools in southern stales, with a Florida law forbidding white persons from teaching colored children in private schools, luu*i as far north as Baltimore separating colored and white persons as to the streets they live on. with such laws applying even to places of worship. is it not time for the over ten millions of our people to arise and demand just legal treatment, the same as is ac corded to other American citizens?With laws denying persons the right to live on their own property unless the majority of people in the vicinity are of their race and color, with such a law- just passed in Hynttsvilie. MO.; with definite federal segregation of government employees enforced and not yet undone at the national capital, with white citizens asso ciations there publ'.-ly declaiming for separate cars, with Lulls Introduced In congress for such sepnrulions under a national Democratic administration, is it not high time that colored Americans of the north set their faces against nonlcgal segregation ?Is rt not high tirne that they adopted a policy of opposing separate secular Institutions for colot ed people? Is it net their duty to demand that they be admitted Into places and Institutions open for the public on ih«- same terms as others? Is it riot time that they woke up and started in to abolish every colored public school in the north? Is It riot time that when an institution is a vital n« easily colored people begin to refuse separate branches and to get along with u building that they can establish as their own?Is it not h time that all the colored people of the north got together and decided that, except for their churchej. a proper number of which are now a necessity. hereafter it would be their policy, earnestly carried out. to oppose any separate provision unless It is a positive and absolute necessity, and then to have only such s place of their own and not one set up by white people as s department of any gem ral line of work? For Boston Is it not time we all cried »hamp on colored people supporting the Shsw house for colored? For Boston !i It not high time that the colored people increased the pcee ent opposition to the Shsw Settlement house, avowedly started and run especially for colored people, and put it out of business?Is it not time. too. for the Crises to realize the harm of helping on every separate Jfmcrow Y. M t\ A and .settlement house In the north and for the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People to realize the harm now of manning its committees and branches with support* rs of separation in philanthropy in the north and to perceive that their fight against legal and federal segregation is weakened very materially by compromise upon nonlegal segregation in the north and failure to contend r%4ie*liy for the mixing of the races in 2*21 feeUtutions for public benefit”This is the Guardian's question for all Individuals and organizations as at the threshold of 1914 we stand in the shadow of the oncotning tidal wave of extreme color segregation in these United Statesof America.In BusinessChances For -Success Are GoodIn Evansville, Ind.UPLIFT AM0N6 OUR PEOPLEField Representative of the National Negro Business League on Trip Through the Middle West Finds Many Thrifty Enterprises Conducted by Afro-Americana.SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS TO MEET IN BEAUMONT, TEX.Largest Religious Organization of Its Kind Among Afro-Americans.Nashville*, lean.—At a meeting of the executive board of the Sunday school congress of the national Bap tlst convention held here Jan. 13 Beaumout. Tex., was selected for the next annual session to lie held in June This action was taken after a careful canvass of invitations from various sections of the country, includiug suchBy RALPH W. TYLLR.Evansville. Ind.—There i9 no city In Indiana where the colored people ar,i making greater progress aud where the opportunities fur development are better than in this city. Of the S0.000 population the colored people number liM-i per cent, and they are about as thrifty aud progressive as any to be found in any city in the middle west. A conservative estimate of the capital colored men have invested in business here places the amount at SuO.OOO and the amount of real estate owned by the race in this city at $200,000.This indicates a per capita wealth of $250. which is surely a splendid showipg for a people who are but fifty years removed f.om abject slavery. I spent two days in this city carefully investigating conditions, calling on the business men. visiting the schools and taking stock, as it were, of this busy Booster city that is rapidly approaching- rbe Irtb.nro TmfibYntTrvn ifisrk. I found a splendid school system, and the corps of colored teachers is fully abreast of the times.It is a notable fact that wherever one finds a good corps of colored teachers there will also lie found progress making at high tide. The thirty-two co lor mi schoolteachers here are a big factor in race development, and in Pro feasor Davis, head of the high school, there is no better principal anywhere.The colored man is represented in business here in the following lines: Turn it tire, real estate, concrete stone manufacture, theater, transfer and stor age. hairdressing, hotel, barber shop, clothes cleaning aud pressing, under taking, cafe. etc. There is one notice able characteristic in the colored business men of this city, and that is en thuslasm and hustle. In I^ognn Stew art. who conducts a profitable real estate business and a concrete stone manufacturing establishment, and W A. Gains, successful undertaker and farmer, Evansville possesses two stor ling and wide awake men.These two men can always be counted upon to take the Initiative or en thuslastically follow In any movement booking for the betterment of the race along, any line. J. T. Roberts, who conducts the only installment furniture house conducted by a colored man in the city, is one of the very aggressive men who. starting from nothing, have built up large and profitable buslnetses. recently moving into his own large anti commodious building.There is .n admirable feeling existing between the white and colored citizens of Evansville and an Apparent desire on the part of each to be mutually helpful. I was impressed greatly with flu* civic pride among the colored residents which prompted them to beautify their homes and thus in-crease their value. Because of the interest colored citizens take in keeping up the outward appearance of their homes they have tMsarmed segregationist* aud made abortive the segregation movement in this city.la Evansville fhe I.or.nl Negro Rusi-neflp league i* a strong, uplifting factor ami in influence that is enrotir-dgtBg t.• »r only the establishment of Negro t nisi ness enterprises, but the patronizing of these enterprises by the race. It is the Business league that Is patting Evansville on the business map. and its membership embraces all the bulk of representative men and women : the rft\Generosity of Mme. C. J. Walker.Although she was away in the West todies. Mme. J. Walker did not for jet to make ample provision for the happii- and comfort of the inmates of the DM Folks’ home and the Orphans’ • me in Indianapolis. Ind.. dur ffcg the rvcent holidays. Mine. Walker «Wo remembered the less fortunate in her former home. St. Louis, throughtoa organized charitable work amongt^r fri -nds in St. Louis. Her exampleIff worthy of emulation.IiPLATFORM of the national /NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATIONDeclaring its loyalty to the flag and the constitution of the United States ami settii forth plans for the moral upl ft of it* people, the Ne-: uial Negro I‘re- association ha*A ~taken detii t«* acti«u in setting forth many plans for the betterment of the nut* throughout the country which w 1 be furthered at the midwinter -ossion. whi h has been called to meet Friday and Saturday. Feb. 13 and 14. In Nashville. Teuu.This splendid organization has been able to inaugurate many reforms and to help thousands of its race. It is its plan to get at the true condition of the colored people in the United States and to report and expose all crime. To assist in this it has asked all city, county and state officials to co-operate in recognizing its official card and its metal membership badge.Lung steps toward the alleviation of imi: y embarrassing conditions are already made. In making this call for a mill winter session the organization has son forth an address to the country. Tin* address, brief, but explicit, was authorized by the national body, which convened in Philadelphia last August. It says:1:; this fiftieth rear since Lincoln’s fa-r s emancipation proclamation the Na-Negro Press association enunciates following platform of principles for t! • encouragement of the colored people he good of the American nation:We believe with the founders of this L ' nment that there are IN A LI KNAP' 12 RIGHTS which ate the natural
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