The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 206, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1921 Page: 2 of 20
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T- THE HOUSTON POST; THURSDAY MORNING OCTOBER 27 1921
;ZGR0 RESISTING
ARREST KILLS ONE
WOUNDS FOUR
Barricades Self in House and
Shot to Death by
Crowd
ST. iOSKTH. Sin.. Oct. A. V
Tlall. a police desk clerk wes killed:
Thomas Johnson chief of defective.
r-robeblr fatally wounded and Clay
. MarlssaaM. chief of nonce and I drerd
.. Kada a detect rvf. elightly woundc! kcre
late Wednesday in a gun fiaht with Car
ls Henderson. yeuiig on ro. mho bam-
nM himself in a house and wa later
hot to death by a tare crowd of wIi-
and former service men. The m gro
I body wan riddled with bullet lie was
killed after the fire department hd set
Are to tfae house where he n h'Jint
The ebofltiaga fallowed attempts of lr-
teetJr tads and a companion to arrest
the negro whom the)- Mpcrted of having
committed a robbery. Kirrieading him-'
self in tar bouse at tke approach of the
officer. Henderson opened fire. wmipdtag
' Iletective Ead. The wounded dtcc-
tive's companion ne.it in a not rail. which
waa responded to by ( luffs MacltnnaM
ad Johnson. Clerk Hall and a mm be-
ef patrolmen.
" Tke officers surrounded (lie houre and
tstgaa .shooting into the building. Hen-
derat fired bark and in the etchinge of
shots Hall was killed and Chiefs Johnson
and MarDonaid woun-lrd.
ateantHse crowd bttan Catherine. Tn
the groups were many fo rater seeriee
tea mho procured rifles or revolvers
and joined the police in their efforts to
dkdf tk negro.
TW fire department was nnnamned
and the building i soon ablaze. Hen-
derson revolver in hand appeared at a
second story window. A bullet from a
bic sruay rifle in the bands of a poln -aa
carried away part of the negro's
bead. The body tot'iH"d thronru The I
iadiiw. and as it frU bullets rimed into
it fro all directions.
HARDING HANDLES
RACE QUESTION
' WITHOUT GLOVES
U. S. and State Courts
. Clasl Over Dry Case
Proceeding to bare a State case
against three federal officers transferred
ta the federal court re started W ednes-
day by I'nited Mates restrict Attorney
I'. K. Simmons by saiiig oat a H of
"habeas corpus cum causa" in the State
unit of Hidabr eountv.
The three federal officers Rivnlred in
the caae an W. K CUrk. Iick W. .Me
leaea and rrara lleree. mey are
caanted by the State with assault to
la aa effort to stop a car which fled
after being ordered by the federal officers
to bait soots were fired and one of the
oecapanta of the fleeing car injured. The
incident occurred oa the road route north
from Edinburg. Texas on the night of
August. 23. When the man was wound-
ed the ear came to a atop. Two nen
wera la the car. Both were arrrted and
30W quarts of Ik) nor seized.
Tk officers claim that the injury of
tke occupant of the car waa accidental
and that the shooting waa not done with
intent to Barder. bat in aa effort to dis-
able the car.
(CoDtiooed froai far One.)
erred to modify aomewhat the view of
these arrtioni a this euestioo-
Men of both races saiy wed stand aa-
com promisingly against erery suggestion
of social equality. Indeed It would be
helpful to bare that word -eqaality"
rfkirinated from this coasideritioa t
bar ft accepted oa both attea that tola
ia not question of social equality but
of rccoznirinx a fua data ratal eternal and
inescapable difference. Wo aball bar
made real prorreta when we develop
aa attitude in the public and community
thoofht. of both racaa which rccofnuea
this difference.
Take the political tapeet. I would sy
let tu- black man rote when he n fit to
rote; prohibit the white maa rotiiic when
he is unfit to rote. Imperially would 1 ap-
jieat to the self-resTiect of tbo colored
race. I would inculcate ia it the wixh to
imnrore ksclf as a distinct race with a
hereditary ret of traditions an. array of
asniratMua all its own. I Kit of sneb racui
aoibitioaa and nriJe mill come natural se
rrcratiocs. without narrowtnf aay rif ins.
such as are proceeding in both rural and
nrbao communities now in aouthera
Mates satisfying natural indications
and adding Dotablj to happlnesa and con-
tentnent. "lio the other hand. I would insist up-
on equal educational opportunity for
both. This dws not mean that both
would berosne equally educated witam
a feneration or two fenerations or ten
fenerations. Kren men of the same race
do not aormnplish such an equality as
that. Bat tiicre ausl be such edocation
among the colored peyle as will enable
them to derelop their own lea-lers cap-
able of andemtawlinf and sympathixinf
with such a differentiation between the
races as I have suggested leaders who
will inspire the race with proper ideals
of race pride of national pride of aa
honorable destiny: and important parti-
cipation m the unirrrsal effort for ad-
vancement of htmanity. aa a whole.
Na Racial AatalgaataUaa.
"Radal amalgamation there cannot be.
Partnership of the race in developing the
h. sliest aims nf all humanity there most
be if hamanitT. not only here but every
where is to ach.evs tb ebds which we
have act for it. ' -
"I caa say to yon people of the South
both white and black that the time ba
mi seed when rnn are entitled to asxume
that this problem of races ia peculiarly
and particularly your problem. More and
more it is. becoming a problem of North-
more aad more it is the problem of
Africa of South America of the Pacific
of the South Seas of the World. It is the
problem of the tfonocrary everymbere. if
we tee things we say about demucracy aa
the ideal political state.
-The one thing we must sedulously
avoid ia tke development group and class
organization in this country. There has
been times when we heard too much
about the labor Tore the business vote
the Irich vole the Scandinavian vote the
Italian vote and so out But the denia-
goffuea who would array dasa against
daaa and group arainst group hare for-
tunately found little to reward thei'r ef
forts. That is because despite the dema
gogues the ideaa of our oneness as Amer
icans has risen superior to every appeal
ta mere class and group. And so 1 would
I
Copyright 1921 Hart Sdaffiatr Macs
Hart Schaffner & Marx
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We've out the nrices rltiwn tn tKo
i fisrurcs in recocmition of the wid
insistent demand for . GOOD
i CLOTHES at these popikr figures.
It aaicht ba la thia sQattar of ear
aatasatal problem of race. I would ac-
cept Uat a bUck maa caa not b a whits
aa aad that ha dooa not nee4 ad ahoaid
not aavir to be aa aaach like white maa
aa possible ba order to accomplish the
beat that ia Doaaible for him. He would
seek to be and he ahould be. encouraged
to be. the Best pnssiM Mack maa. aad
not tke boat poasibit inutatiosi of a white
man. J
"It la a matter nf the keenest national I
ceex-ero that the rioata aaau not a an-
coaraged to make Its colored population a
vuat reearvoir of farnoraar ta be draiaed
aw.-y by the proceoace of caigratioa into
ail other section. That ta what ban beca
roing on in recent years at a rate ao ac-
ceatuated that it has ceased thia ques-
tion of races to be. as I have already aatd.
no locaer aoa of a aarticular section.
Just as I da ant wish the South to be
politically entirely one party; Just at I
believe that ia bad for the See'h. aa) for
the rest of the country aa well m I do
not want the colored people to be entirely
of one part. I wis lost aota the tradi-
tion of a aolidly democratic Houth and
the tradition of a aolidly republican blat-k
race might be broken up. Neither politi-
cal sectionalism nor any system of rigid
groupings of the people will ia the kug
prosper our coon try.
' Uriel Ead at Pre J ad Ice
' WHh such coarictiona one must urge
the people of the South to take advan-
tage of the superior aaderstaadinf of this
problem and to assume aa attitude to-
rn nl it that will deserve the confidence
of the colored people. Likewise 1 plead
with my owa Mtlitical party to lay aaide
every program that looks to lining up the
black maa aa a mere political adjunct.
Let there be an end of prejudice and of
demagoguery ia Una line. let the South
understand the menace which Keg in forc
ing aaoa the black 'nee m attitude of
political eolidnritv.
"it ta not possible then that ta the
loaf era of readjoataaat upon which we
are entering for the aatiow to lay aside
old prejudice aad old antagonism and
In the broad (tear light of nationalism
cater upon a Constructive bodc ha deal
iog with thee tatriOBte has use. Just aa
we shall prove earoeivoa rapabls of doing
thia we aball insure the Industrial prof.
resa the agrt cultural aecarity the aocial
aad politicai safety of oar whole Coantry
regardloss of race or eecuona and aloof
the line of ideals superior to every coo
sideratioa of (roup or rtasa. of race or
color or section or prejudice.'
Wets and Drys Argue Beer
Ruling of Secy Mellon
Associated Press lie port.
CHICAGO Oct 2X rami ta for the
sale of brer and wine by drofftat aa pre-
crqstioBa win be issued by the local fed
eral prohibition office deaplte the fight
between wet and ory rorcea to determine
whether the ruling; by Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon is effective ia Illinois it
became known. Wednesday aight.
The proponent of prohibition contend
that the State search and enmre law!
takea precedence in Illiaota while the
weta bold that the treasury department
ruling becomes a national law aad super
cedes State laws.
Underwood Favors Open
Disarmament Sessions
Associated Press Report.
NEW YORK. Oct 28. Ooea sessions
J of the coming armament conference at
Washington are favored by Senator Un-
derwood of Alabama democratic mem-
ber of tha American delegation ta a
letter to hire. Dora Troeck of Brook
lyn mad public: Wednesday lie wrote
that he would do all In bis power to
have the sessions public but said the
wishes of visiting delegations must (ov-
ers in that respect
Rabbi Unable to Attend
Prison Meet in Flon'da
Rabbi Henry Cohen at Galveston who
was la Houston Wednesday to deliver an
address before the Social Welfare Con
ference and who waa recently appointed
a delegate to. . the fifty-first National
Prison eonfrreaoe to he arid in Jackson
ville Fla by' Governor Pat M. Neff.
stated Wednesday that he would be un-
able to attend tbia congress.
Dr. Cohen said that he waa a member
f the advisory hoard of the board of
governors of the Hebrew I'nlon college
of Cincinnati which met In that city on
November 1 and which he was pledged to !
i
aiicuu.
lie said that the agenda this year Was
very important and among other things
the onestion that will be brought before
the board ia the election of a president
of the college to replace Dr. K. Kohlrr
who ia now In bi seventy-seventh year.
and who ha resigned.
I..rfnli ImIoS tO hold
sion in New Orleans and
Us 1032 greetings of
I sending the session of tn
Louisiana
the Legloa.
to Kansas City
GUNS AND AMMUNITION
Winchester Rifles and ShotftiM In all modeU and augea. Braall artna
ammunition for all make offline. Shotgun abolla in all tandard and
many apodal loads. Bend us your order or write today Jor prices
nod information t
warn sbobst ucpi.t siovaai or waa ootrraiwaaw
PJEDEN IRON & STEEL CO.
aocajTox ban Airromo n rtomra uBaTVuroat
New Orleans Puts in Bid
For 1922 Legion Meet
Associated Press Report
BATON ROrOE. La. Oct 20. The
Louisiana legislature in session Wed
nesday passed a resolution Inviting the
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