Ohio state monitor. (Columbus, Ohio), 1919-08-23

              l il -I.. . OHIO STATE Vol. 2 COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUGUST 23, 1919 No. 11 J M o O OUR OPPORTUNITY. Long Street, this city, la a gold mine (or colored people. It they would get together with their little money they have made in the last four years and invest It. It la the colored thorough fare the mart of trade for hundreds and hundreds of our people. The food we eat three timea a day should come from a grocery store within our own race, who, in order to carry on successful business, would employ our boys and girls coming out yearly from high and public schools as clerks our young men and women showed one-fourth the interest they take i card rooms, dancing clubs and social organizations, in organizing, business enterprises, we in Columbus could be in a few years producers instead of consumers. Has the grocery store colored clerk where you deal daily If not, we as colored men and women should see to it for the next few months that a colored grocery store or some other enterprise we need is placed in the neighborhood, where our own race can reap the benefits instead of giving it to the foreign born. We say we are a race and love one an other. Now, you have a chance to prove it. This man with whom you are spending your nickels and dimes daily will be on the opposite side in a race riot. Yes, you may say if a Negro has an enterprize he has to deal with a white man but, buying In large quantities, you deal with a dif- ferent elass, that class who is aiding us to fight our battles and will think more of us as a race. Colored men and women of Columbus, it is time to wake up. We have been asleep for over fifty years and only a few have caught the vision. I was born In Richmond, Va., where one of the largest insurance com panies (colored) has been organized for over fifteen years, giving employ ment to over seventy Negro men and women. Could this enterprise have been possible if they were afraid to trust one another? We cannot cen sure the white man, native or foreign born, for invading a distinctively col ored section in which to rear his bus! ness and lay the foundation for wealth, because this is the line of easiest resistance and he takes advantage of the colored man's ignoring of oppor tunity. We cannot become an inde pendent factor by working for a sal ary. We cannot succeed to the rich fields of endeavor by remaining Indifferent to the opportunity for success that business offers, especially in a colored settlement where people are moving in from the south, east and west every day. If Long Street was an exclusive white section and they were getting homes and building as fast as the colored people, it would be impossible for us to be a peanut vender on that street because one white man would be on every corner. We have churches, Y. M. C. A.'s, fraternal organizations where men are exerting a great influence to hold these men and women together. Why not seal these men and women together like glue to organize a selling constituency instead of a buying one. There is an ice cream place as fine as any north of the Mason and Dixie line on Long Street for colored people, and yet some persist in going in places run by the opposite race. Give all colored enterprises your support. They need it. They prepared for your j comfort, your pleasure. Go in and buy five or ten cents' worth, even if you don't want it. Encourage them to go up higher. Your boy or your girl may do the same thing some day and you would be glad for others to show their appreciation for them. White men think a Negro cannot do business with his own people. Come and let us disprove it We do not want to live in this world GRAND LODGE F. & A- M- IN SESSION. The Most Excellent Grand Chapter of R. A. M. for the State of Ohio and its Jurisdiction, the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons for the State of Ohio and its Jurisdiction, the Grand Commandery Knights Templar for the State of Ohio and its Jurisdiction, the I'll Council of Deliberation A. A. S. R., Valley of Columbus, are in session this week at Masonic Hall, Cor. Garfield Ave. and Long St. The sessions are said to be interesting, progressive and profitable. The sessions will run through the whole of the week. Special features of interest each day until the close. JUBILEE -WEEK. Financial Drive Foreign Mission Board National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated) SACRED CONCERT 2nd Baptist Church, Columbus August 31 Rev. T. Lloyd Hickman, Baritone Soloist Assisted by the Choir and Soloists Accompanists: Prof. J. Cleveland Lenions at Piano Eugene Anderson at Organ Program will commence at 7:30 P. M., sharp. Programme Organ Prelude. Scripture Lesson. Prayer. Solo Selected. Wm. Sparrow. Choir Selection. (a) "Deep River" Fisher. (b) "Be Glad, O Ye Righteous" Huhn. (c) "Thou Art With Me" Becker, (d) "I Want to be Ready"-Burleigh.T. L. Hickman Solo Selected Miss Jenkins. "It Is Enough" Mendelssohn. Mr. Hickman Offertory Selection Quin. (a) "God is Our Refuge" Carey. (b) "Lead Thou Me On" Yates Doxology. Benediction. COMING, COMING Mrs. Louise M. Braxton, founder and nrincinal of the Macon Normal and Tn dustrial Institute of Macon. 'Ga., will arrive in tne eitv mis wppk to neum a pries of lectures for our neonle. Mrs Rravtnn is said to be the foremost woman educator of the rnoe and tnp youngest woman on the platform. She knows what to talk about and if fullv able to help the race through her lee tures. The Guide and Journal of Norfolk, Va., says: "That she is original and the most practical and logical speaker on the platform. When you hear her once you want to hear her again." More will be said about this young woman in next weeks issue. It is earnestly hoped that the ministers of the city will encourage this race woman by opening the doors of their churches to this young woman. Mrs. Braxton is raising funds for the school at Macon, Ga. She has been lecturing to both white and colored people in Portsmouth and Chillicothe, Ohio. for fifty, sixty or more years to come without leaving our children some business worthy of the name. In order that he may have some practical knowledge of it, we have to establish for him. One learns to do a thing by doing it. The foreign element in this country is less now than it ever has been and they continue to shake the dust of these states off their feet. Our opportunity is now. We have a race and a place to run, and if we fail, don't blame anyone, for the gold is ours if we just open our eyes and exert ourselves. Anonymous. To Baptists Everywhere, Greeting: This is to certify that the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention (unincorporated) does hereby proclaim or designate Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, 1919 AS JUBILEE WEEK and during which time every church and pastor is asked to adopt and carry out the following program: 1. Monday night shall be known as the church'a night. Program Devotional services conducted by . Music by the choir. Subject The Foreign Mission Program of the Local Church. 2. Tuesday night, August (26th), shall be known as the Ladies Aid and Missionary Society's night. Program The Preacher's place in world-wide Evangelization. 3. Wednesday night, Aug. (2nd), shall be known as Sunday School's night. shall be known as (Whosoever's night). Program Devotional services. Music by choir. Subject The King and The Kingdom.It is hoped that the pastors will conduct all of these services; and that the churches will give one of their Sunday's collection to Foreign Missions. The pastor, the Sunday school su perlntendent, the President of the Ladies' Aid or Missionary Society, the President of the B. Y. P. U. who reports the largest sum of money over ($25.00) Twenty-five Dollars, will be awarded a new (Corona Typewriter). The one that reports the largest sum over ($15.00) Fifteen Dollars, will be awarded a nice church service flag. The pastors and churches are re quested to appoint a campaign committee; and this committee shall take the names and addresses of everybody who gives as much as (25c) or more; and send this list to the Board at Louisville, Ky. Each person giving (25c) or more will receive a nice Volunteer's Button. All monies are to be sent to W. B. Fleming, D. D., Field Secretary, at the National Baptist Convention at Norfolk, Va. The Drive is on. Push hard. Let us register (100,000) one hundred thousand persons who will give (25c) for Foreign Missions. THE E. U. BAPTIST ASSN. IN GREAT SESSION FROM OVERSEAS. Continued oa Page 7 By Corp. Albert T. Jones Colored troops held in high esteem by the French army, and the 193d The Eastern Union Baptist Asso- 's'on which fought wholly with the ciation is in session at Cambridge. rencn are sald to have been the best The attendance is large, the enthu- Davonet nghters on the field. The fa- siasm is at high water mark. Never mous 01d yM Division was made up before in the history of this body has of the st fighting blood in the U. S., the spirit of real Christian service which was the fighting 15th N. Y. actuated it, as at this time. The Inf- the 8th 111., the 371st Inf. made financial'set on foot in Columbus has UP of the 9th Battalion of Ohio, 1st every nook and corner of the terri- separate Battalion of Washington, D. tory embraced by the Association. C- Co. L of Boston, Co. M of Conn., The report from all the churches ana two other companies from North are far in advance of those of pre- Carolina and South Carolina, and the vious years. The Columbus churches 372d Infantry from all parts of the has set the pace for the whole Asso- country, with the 317th Engineers, ciation, and for churches of other as- The above outline was to have been sociations as well. The great objec- the 93d Division, although it was not tive is the program of work to be recognized or widely known as a di-submitted to Ohio Baptists by the vision in this country. Neither did Ohio Baptist State Convention at its they fight i nFrance together as a di-next session which convenes in Cin- vision within itself. But each regi-cinnati in October. ment was brigaded with the French. The Association went on record as The famous old battle-scarred 15th N. endorsing the Ohio Baptist State Con- Y- beinS the first regiment of the di-vention in its proposed reorganiza- vision to land in France, and among tion of the Baptist forces in Ohio. It the first thousand to arrive overseas, indorsed all the program of work After a few davs of strenuous work contemplated. on ra'lroads, driveways and aqueducts It is evident that a new day has wltn a ,lttle ""itary police and guard dawned for the Baptists of Ohio. duty, the 15th N. Y. left St. Nazaire- r 4 ittv ' ......... . i . Vm...! Having heard the call of the master Infere-Lore for Givery-Orgone-sur-le- they are the representatives of this Marne- where they changed their Christian body, thinking in larger equipments. After four days we went terms in the things of the kingdom. to Herpomt-sur-le-Marne, about 18 A more detailed account will be kilometers behind th elines where we given in next week's issue of The Monitor. Look for it. TWO BOYS "FIND LOST CAVE Indiana had about three weeks' French train ing. Then we were forced to sidestep all of the training and original American lines of a skirmish, bayonet drill and other tactics give the American sol dier. For it was then and there that we were issued new, strange and different arms including "metriloises" or REV. W. O. HARPER, D. D. astor Third Baptist Church, Youngstown, Ohio. En dorsed by Northern Baptist Association, for Secretary of Missions, atate of Ohio. Program Devotional services, Music by choir. Subject Baptist Opportunities and Duty in the Present World Recon struction Period. (Africa.) 4. Thursday night, August (2Sth), shall be known as the B. Y. P. U.'s night. Program Devotional services. Music by choir. Subject My Personal Responsibility for World Evangelization. 5. Friday night, August (29th), shall be known as Deacons' and Trustees' night. Program Devotional services. Music by choir. Subject-The Field White to Har vest. 6. Sunday, August (31st), shall be known as (Red Letter Day). Program Sunrise prayer meeting. 9:30 a. m. Sunday School Rally. 11 a. m. The pastor will preach from (Matt 24.14). ' 7. Monday night, September (1st), TREE HELD BODY 57 YEARS Servant, Who Hid From Soldiers in 1862, Was Unable to Escape. In August, 1SG2, Jean La Rue, a servant of Edward Gleek, a farmer living nenr LeSueur, Minn., disappeared when hp and other farm employees became frightened by the appearance of soldiers. His body, now mummified, was found recently in a hollow white oak tree which was cut down by employees of Gleek. That Ln Rue became fastened in the tree is shown by his diary, under date of August 29, 1SG2, which stated the man could not pet out and directed that if ever found all his money was to go to his mother, who lived in France. Recruits Men to Care for Graves. For the work of caring for the graves of British soldiers In France and Belgium, 15,000 additional men have been enlisted in England and already 5,000 of them have gone to France. Air Service Not Greatest Risk. Casualties among infantry officers were higher than among aviators, according to a report by the war department, showing that 55 infantry officers and 45 enlisted men of every 1,000 were returned as battle deaths, against 31 officers and one man for the air service. Dropped Into a Hole, but Failed to Find It Two boys while hunting near Rom bauer, Mo., accidentally discovered a cave, which is believed to be the "lost machine guns; "vanbesiers" or rifle cave" ior wnicn the mcuans searcnea , , , .... for more than fifty years without sue- renades' hand grenades, mundane cess. grenades, fusilmetrilouis or lite ma- The boys were after rabbits and the chine guns, fabric automatique or au- chase had gotten unusually exciting , . . , . , , .. , ., . . . . tomatic and our la belle fusils or rif- when they felt the earth suddenly give way under them on a hill, and they les being about 6 inches longer than fell many feet Into the newly made our 0id Springfields were, with dia- hoie. When they related tne inciaeni , . , , . . ,. " . . . Tj,I1 mond-shaped bayonets five or six m It was remembered that the Indians r J had searched the hills for the cave, ches longer than the American bay- the opening of which was marked by onet. a rock with a turkey foot cut on it Dolntinir to the oDenlne. This rock has been found near the cave. with the above equipment and with our It is estimated that the cave is 300 kind and attentive French instructor, years old, and evidently is not a nat-1 were aWe tQ drm execute man tirnl nnp. lint ninrie for some nurnose yet to be discovered. Two men spent ual of arms and bayonet drill as the three hours exploring numerous huge rrench did and by French commands rooms and estimated they had gone a It was then that Captain Duprie, mile and a half without getting to the Lt. Pier, and Col. DeGroff of the After about three weeks' training end of it. SAVES BQTTLE OF TEA Man Hit by Train Gives Undertaker the Laugh. French Fourth Army, said while re viewing our troops at Herpoint-sur- Marne, "soldiers who trained so willingly and strenuously and have learn ed so quickly our methods and new forms of combat, assaulting waves, press train and thrown down a 25-foot a"u . " "f" B embankment at Qulncy, Mass., Rotnan nomenclature and use ana care ot Gomes, an employee of the New Ha- your rines ana machine guns, are none ven railroud. laughed heartily at the other than yourselves. And now we undertaker and crowd who rushed to Lre your iife-long friends, are satis Viler nooletiiiiia tirlfK e rh rc OTlH I calmly went back to his work r'eplac- fied that -u with the "ting spirit ing railroad ties. and great knowledge of modern Gomes failed to hear the train. The Lpn(,h ,varfare which vou have eained engine struck him a glancing blow, as ..... .,, the engineer jammed on the brakes, ln such a short Penod of training, will and Rotnan, eyeglasses on his face and surely be victorious in your future en a big bottle of tea in his trousers pock- trn(rflmpnfa vm, ,vp oireadv devel- et, went spinning down a 25-foot em- bankment. Pet two of the longest distant gran- Solemnly the train crew wended ad iers known of today, and I am sure their way back with an emergency I i,!t,0 . the fastest. a passenger on the train was command- and will be among the most skillful. eered. But Rotnan was found brush- j hereby bid you godspeed and con ing the curt from the cork of the cold . , a , . . . oa UUCI11.C J VIA VV ' ' ... . M.A - " " As you leave tomorrow for the front you may satisfy yourselves by sole confidence that the whole of uver minion ions or material ureaay France js proud of your very coming Recovered . . u i Ftrnppa flvpn in tho rnnrso. nf the sitting of the chamber of deputies people of America, near and dear, and by the peace treaty committee show with us you shall be as brothers, and that offices set up in Wiesbaden and at the end of thu war and our many of stolen goods have effected the Allies victorious over the German in- recovery to date of 255,000 and 896,- vaders you shall ever be our closest OOO tons respectively of materials of friends Col. DeGroff. oil I'lnHc It uno ctatarl hnnrairai Vi n 1 this was but a small nronortion of the Ane i"owu "ay "'8 " things taken by the Germans. As an 1918, we entered the front line tren- example it was asserted that of 950,- ches and soon earned the name that uw neaa or cattle carnea on; only , , , . . . ... . 8,000 head had been recovered. Iwe had lon& been called the fi?l!i tea bottle. GET BACK GERMAN LOOT