The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1927 Page: 3 of 8
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FOR NEXT TERM
Plowing Contest
In Pelican State
ENVER BEFORE Seekers Dodging
SAIL TO AFRICA ‘Negro Question
Special to The Informer.
‘ Marshall, Texas.—President M. W.
Dogan of Wiley College announces
the following changes in the faculty
personnel for the coming session: A
2.master of science from Cornell as
% Thead of the department of biology;
a master of science from University
of Indiana for physics; a master of
arts from Radcliffe to head depart-
ment of romance languages, and still
another master of arts from Colum-
bia for the department of education.
Economics will be taught by a master
of arts from University of Colorado.
The professor of high school science
spent the summer quarter studying
at Northwestern University. Other
changes are an assistant matron to
have charge of the dormitory for
preparatory students; a full-time ma-
tron for boys hall, whose duties,
chiefly, will consist in looking after
the freshmen boys. These changes
are in line with the administration’s
policy to maintain the teaching staff
at a progressively high standard.
It will be of interest to the friends
of Wiley to know that one of the big-
gest race philanthropists has about
decided to make an experimental con-
tribution to the furtherance of Negro
education by endowing a chair of ap-
plied socio-economic science at Wiley.
He is working out a plan embracing
the fundamental ideas which he
thinks such a course ought to cover.
Another agency, one of the large
S philanthropic boards, is seriously con-
% sidering making a contribution to the
support of the “Foundation for Study
of Prohibition and the Negro,” which
was established , at Wiley last year
for the purpose of gathering, collat-
ing and publishing data regarding
the effect of prohibition on the Ne-
gro. These two features will con-
stitute an important phase in the fu-
ture educational program at Wiley
and will occupy a place on the same
high plone with the course in race re-
lations which has given Wiley consid-
erable prestige throughout the coun-
try.
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Rustavia.—A number of students
from sopools of North Louisiana en-
tered i plowing contest at Gramling
Training School. The contest was a
part of the two-day program arrang-
ed for the students of Lincoln, Bien-
ville, Claiborne, Caddo, LaSakle and
East Carroll parishes, the winners to
enter a similar contest to be held at
Baton Rouge early in September.
1 Other contests covered such pract-
ical problems as dressmaking, milk-
ing, corn judging, potato judging,
table setting, poultry, and livestock
judging, and bread making. The plow-
ing contest staged in a field heavily
infested with weeds and grass, was
won by John Scott, Lincoln parish;
with Henry Page, Caddo parish, sec-
ond, and Ardis Johnson, Caddo par-
ish, third.
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(By The Associated Negro Press)
Warrenton, N. C.—The regular
Saturday night function was being
held at the Centre warehouse. Mr.
and Mrs. Rhoden Davis had been in-
vited. Mrs. Davis wanted to attend.
Mr. Davis did not. Mrs. Davis was
determined to attend. Mr. Davis
was determined that she was not
going to attend. Thus the argument
started, but it ended with Mrs. Davis
in the emergency room of a local
drug store where she was carried for
repairs after friend hubby had slash-
ed her about the body with a razor.
Perhaps the most unkind cut of all
was that the drug store was in the
vicinity of the dance hall and Mrs.
Davis could hear the Strains from the
orchestra while she was being sewed
up.
Special to The Informer.
Denver, Colo.—Denver, the “mile
high city,” has a treat in store when
Max Yergan, pioneer Y. M. C. A.
worker in South Africa and winner
of the Harmon Award for the' recent
outstanding piece of religious work
done in America or the world, comes
on September 24 for a three-day vis-
it. Secretary Yergan is one of the
most dynamic and virile of the Chris-
tian workersjin the missionary field
today, and the volume of work that
he has been able to accomplish dur-
ing his four years in Africa has been
astounding.
Chairman L. H. Lightner of the
Glenarm Y. M. C. A. committee of
management, told of a recent con-
versation with Mr. Yergan in New
York, in which he expressed a desire
amounting almost to impatience to
get back on the field after the period
of rest, and with the interest which
he has been able to arouse in many
quarters for the type and character
of the service which he is rendering
to what many consider as the most
needy group in the entire world at
the present time.
According to the promise made to
Mr. Lightner and information received
by Secretary Fritz Cansler of the Y.
M. C. A., Mr. Yergan’s Denver visit
will be the last one to any city or
association before sailing. He will
go directly from here to New York,
where he will embark almost immed-
iately with his family for South Af-
rica, via Europe, for a stay of at least
four years before his return to home-
land and friends.
Mr. Yergan’s work as a young man
full of enthusiasm and ability, has
scarcely been matched in the history
of the foreign missionary service,
and he will return with funds with
which to erect in a central location,
a modest building, suited for the
needs of the people of that country.
Plans have been made for several
(By The Associated Negro Preey)
New Orleans, La.—Politics, despite
the fact that the election for govern-
or does not take place until Jaunary,
is beginning to reach the boiling point
with four candidates already in the
field. Each has his pet hobby for
the “dear people” from free text
books, flood control and heaven on
earth for the laboring man, and the
continuance of heaven on earth in
Louisiana for the descendants of slave
holders, past and present, but up te
date, no candidate has even whisper-
ed as to any benefits to the colored
man or woman of the state whose
vote will control the faction of either
of the political parties.
Colored men and women own prop-
erty, pay taxes and are in the same
condition as the early colonists. who
revolted against King George’s pol-
icy, “taxation without representa-
tion.” The United States constitu-
tion gives the right to every free
man regardless of color, race, or re-
ligious affiliation, to cast their ballot
at each election. The constitution of
the United States and the bill of
rights south of the Mason-Dixon line,
to a certain extent is an unknown
quantity.
addresses while in the city, and Mr.
Yergan will speak before the entire
student body of Denver University in
chapel exercises and to the classes
in sociology of the university under
Prof. Ben Cherrington.
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Boston, Mass.—No probable cause,
was the decision of the Third District
Court, East Cambridge, Thursday, in
the case of Russell C. Burks of 20
Jay Street, who had been charged
with murder in connection with the
death of Thomas Digman, white.
Testimony of the police was to the
effect that a man had kicked Burk’s
dog on the street and, that when he
resented it a number of white men
followed him to his home, where he
got a pistol, came out and fired. Dig-
man received a superficial bullet
wound on the chin. He died several
days afterwards in the Cambridge
Relief Hospital.
Medical Examiner Charles Currier
testified that Digman’s death was not
due to the bullet that hit him on the
chin, alleged to have been fired by
Burks, but was due to pneumonia.
Burks, however, was held in $1,000
bond, charged with assault with a
dangerous weapon, with intent to
murder. . . .
The whole affair,-police say, grew
out of intense racial feeling which
had existed in the Jay Street com-
munity since several clashes between
whites and black two weeks ago, in
which John J. Hayes, white, received
wounds from an ice pick.
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Walker Heiress
(By The Associated Nao v.a.s
Pittsburgh, Pa—All society was
astounded by the recent announce-
ment that Mrs. Mae Walker, heiress
to the Walker millions, had been mar-
ried to Marion Perry, one of Pitta-
burgh’s most prominent and promis-
ing attorneys. Mrs. Mae Walker
Jackson was the former wife of Dr.
Gordon Jackson. The quiet wedding
which joined the couple has' been
contrasted with the famous, and some
are bold enough to declare, “ill-fated"
millton-dollar wedding held when Miss
Walker was joined in wedlock with
Dr. Gordon Jackson, a few years ago.
While friends are congratulating
the couple and wishing them all the
rrosperity and everything, a few in-
timate friends of the groom are fe-
Ecitating him upon finally “landing
an heiress.” It was whispered a few
years ago that Mr. Perry was mak-
ing a strong bid for the hand of an
Oklahoma oil queen, but a “fraternity
brother of his won the fair lady.”
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found huddled in the unoccupied
ond floor of a three-story tenement
at 1025 Cambridge Street, Cam-
bridge, early Tuesday morning, with
his clothes aflame—after firemen had
succeeded in gaining control of a fire
which threatened to destroy the
tire building.. He was taken to the
Cambridge Hospital, where physi-
cians say there is little hope for his
recovery... :-
Seven persons were forced to
to the streets; Mrs. El vita Lamb, 70,
and her 4-year-old granddaughter,
Frances Lamb, were taken down over
ladders by the firemen. A semi-in-
valid boarder, Mrs. Ellen Lucy,ore-
sisted efforts of firemen to bring her
to safety, and watched them fight the
flames from a rear fire escape. Ernest
Lamb, the occupant, and four men
boarders reached the steels unassist-
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exclusive Negro community in Mont-
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on business, the guest of his brother.
Attorney G. E. Burgess of Independ-
ence Heights. Mr. Burgess is one of
The Informer’s most loyal and ardent
supporters, being one of its original
subscribers.
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