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9SSSSSSS VOL. XLVHI. CHARLOTTE, N. C„ THURSDA HOW IT FEELS TO BE IN EUROPE By Rev. A. B. McCoy, D. D. Splendid Hotel, Interlaken, Switzerland, Sept. 29, 1926. uear mr. ^airor: i nave not forgotten my promise, but everything has been so wonder ful, so new, until it takes a good deal of time getting adjusted. I still feel like an American and am proud of my country with its wonderful opportuni ties. Thus far we have seen only Holland, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. We are yet to vis it Italy and France. The most beautiful thus far is Germany. The German mark (dollar) is the highest of all the monies— four marks being equal to one American dollar, while it takes 36 Belgium francs to make one of our dollars. Nobody seems to know how Germany did this. The world will hear from Ger many agam. The newspapers are saying that the King and Queen of Bel gium are traveling through Switzerland “incognito.” Some times we are afraid we are se lected by hotel porters and ser vants in general as the escaped royalty. Such bowing and scraping and tipping of hats and opening of doors and carrying baggage—in fact we could get no betted service if we were the royalty! It makes one feel pret ty human to be able to get what you pay for and not have to pay for what you don’t and can’t get. The most glorious feeling comes to you in Belgium where 36 francs are equal to one Amer ican dollar. To walk into a res taurant and pull out a hundred _ feeling. But that hundred dol lar bill is just a little less than $3.00 in American money. You are anxious to know of the Le Zoute, Belgium, meeting, the real objective of my visit. I must necessarily keep quiet about that until I return to New York about the first of Novem ber. There are some matters to be cleared up with the For eign Board. But you will be in terested to know that the door to Africa is open to the Negro Presbyterians of the Presbyte rian Church of the U. S. A. And the Foreign Board is anxious to see that we have a representa tive on the field in Africa. This, however, is a big subject of which our Synods will hear more, xne meeting was attend ed by representatives from all over the world and was the greatest of its kind ever held. This is what I saw in one hour on a street in a Belgium town: A vegetable wagon drawn by a woman and a dog; a police man (captain) who draws $40 a month; women (elite) without hose; women everywhere smok ing ; young men and girls “spoon ing” on ^the benches (this is not considered improper); two men pusning a cart load of lum ber; twenty cows driven to the barn, eacn with a bell on of dif ferent tone ; a drove of chickens being driven to the market (loose not in crates); a man with a grind organ—without the monkey, but a deformed idiot instead; two men almost at the point of blows—from their go tiauons murder was cer tify I was advised they were disclosing the weather and in friendly terms. Such is the Belgian language. 4NOW X must Stop. in Vic un til I reach the red hills of Geor gia. By the way, a gentleman, Bishop Campbell of Africa (white), asked me what part of Africa did I represent. I said, Georgia. He was originally from South Carolina. Hence, he understood. I am writing this from Switz erland in the midst of the beau tiful Alps. We go to Italy to morrow, thence to Paris and will sail for new York October 20, on the Majestic, the largest steamer in the world. We ex pect to ve in Philadelphia for the Lincoln and Tuskegee foot ball game. URBAN LEAGUE DEVELOP ING PACIFIC COAST WORK. The National Urban League, in keeping with its policy of es tablishing social service activ ities at points where Negroes are migrating to urban cities, is despatching T. Arnold Hill, Di rector of its Department of In dustrial Relations, to the Pacific Coast for an eleven weeks’ tour, beginning October 15th. Mr. Hill will visit Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Oakland, San Francis co, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego. He will confer with leaders in industries and prominent members of the race concerning the industrial needs of the colored people in these cities. He will aid whesever it seems advisable in the establish ment of permanent organizations to help solve some of the social problems growing out of the ec onomic situation. Arrangements have been made for Mr. Hill to address chambers of Commerce and otner civic bodies. In uos Angeles, where Charles Jonnson, Director of the Department of Research and Investigations and Editor of “Opportunity” magazine, has just completed an industrial survey under the auspices of the local Urban League and the Community Chest, Mr. Hill will conduct an intensive industrial advancement campaign in inter est of colored men and women. cities received at the National Urban league’s office, 127 East 23rd Street, New York City, at test to — - enthusiasm with which Mr. Hill’s work will be re ceived in xuese communities. Eugene Kinckle Jones, Exec utive Secretary of the National Urban League, visited the Coast cities a year ago in order to as certain the industrial situation of the Negro population and this paved the way for a serious con sideration by the League of the social service needs of these communities. 0# Mr. Hill’s return trip to the east in late December, he will visit Pueblo and Denver, Colorado. He will pay special attention to the social service needs of Pueblo which is a busy mining center where many Ne-. gro workers have gone. THE NATTIONAL URBAN LEAGUE ANNOUNCES AP POINTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICE FELLOWS. The National* Urban League announces the appointment of two social service “Fellows” to the New York School of Social Work for the year 1926-’27. They are Miss Eleanor Coleman, graduate of Fisk University, class, 1922, and George Good man, graduate of Lincoln Uni versity, class 1926. Miss Cole man is a native of Louisiana and has for the last two years been secretary of Girls’ Work for the Y. W. C. A. of Germantown, Pa. Mr. Goodman has been play ground worker in Hartford, Conn., for several summers; a member of the football team of Lincoln university for four years, and is a public speaker if unusual talent. These fellowships are for $1,200 each and provide for a year’s study. Following the completion of their courses, these two young people will en gage in professional social work. READ TOUR BIBLE. Read your Bible/ make it the first morning business of your life to understand some portion of it clearly, and your daily bus iness to obey it in all that you do understand.—Ruskin. THE COTTON SITUATION Discussed by Secretary Jardine in Letter to President of Ala bama Farm Bureau Federa tion. Oct. 8, 1926. Mr. Edward A. O’Neal, President, Alabama Farm Bu reau Federation, Montgomery, Alabama. Dear Mr. O’Neal: ; I realize fully the gravity of the situation which you discuss in your letter with reference to the cotton farmers of the Soutfy, 1 am convinced that this situa tion is very largely due to panic conditions which, it is to be hoped, are only temporary. The basic economic conditions of the country are sound, and cotton producers must soon realize that the intrinsic value of this crop has not changed in these few weeks. The people of the world need only the cotton that we can produce. We are in a posi tion to supply their needs in an orderly manner. Cotton is not a perisnable commodity. We have the necessary facilities for storing the crop for months or if need be for years and ample credit to carry it. Cotton in storage is probably the soundest basis for credit that we know. I am glad to note the evidenc es that these facts are rapidly gaining general recognition throughout the South. It is my earnest hope that the present stampede may be checked while the major part of the crop re mains in the hands of the farm ers. The bankers and many other business agencies of the South are loyally cooperating to restore confidence, piM I assure you that the Department of Ag this movement. * *>P° 8 Government are also available. Credit facilities through the or dinary banking channels appear to be adequate, but we have in addition if needed the services and resources of the intermedi ate credit banks. It was for just such emergencies as the present one that these banks were es tablished. Those in charge of them have assured me that they are ready to do everything in their power. At present they are lending money freely to the cotton cooperatives, and they are prepared also to extend credit to other cotton farmers. If this additional source of credit is needed, it may be drawn upon by creating local financial credit associations. These can be established with a minimum of $10,000 local capital, raised among business meUT farmers, or other citizens. Ten times the amount of the capital can be borrowed for periods of six months to three years at a mod erate rate of interest. I am confident that our pres ent and potential credit resourc es are adequate fully to meet the requirements of our cotton crop, however bountiful it may prove to be. No effort should be spared to make these resources readily available to the produc ers of cotton. The crop should remain largely in their control until it is needed for manufac ture. The final determination as to the acreage that shall be devot ed to the production of cotton in the future rests with the fanners of the South. It is manifestly to their interest to adjust that acreage to meet the needs of the consumers of the crop. This can be done most intelligently if they retain a controlling interest in the crop until it passes into consumption. I do not share the view ex pressed by some that a large crop of cotton or a large carry over from one season to the next is a misfortune. It is to the best interest of both the producer and the consumer to avoid wide fluctuations in cotton prices. The best way to avoid such fluc tuations is to be in position to carry continuously an ample re serve, sufficiently large to ab sorb any surplus from one or opd seasons and to sup t the shortage of several sons. We are now in po ft begin the creation of reserve. We shduld ae b opportunity and make at of it* ' cerely yours, W. M. JARDINE, Secretary. rEGRO INVENTORS. theOleveland Plain Deal Patent Office does not the race of patentees, but "to Henry E. Baker, in le in The Journal of Ne itory, it is estimated that n 3,000 patents are head libers of the Negro race, jnost prolific of Negro in was Elijah McCoy, of who from 1872 to 1920 57 patents. “His inven er a wide range of sub says the Negro Year relate particularly to icating of machinery. He . pioneer in the art of stead^y supplying oil to machin ery in intermittent drops from a cup, so as to avoid the necessi ty of* stopping the machine to oil it?' The first American Negro to receive a patent on an invention, the jfear Book asserts, was Henry Blair, of Maryland, who in 1834 and 1836 was granted patents on a corn harvester. It has b§en claimed but not verified that! a slave either invented the cotton gin or gave to EU JYhit ney,. who obtained the pitent for>it, valuable suggestions to auLin the completion of that in vention. ..the most important invtilBPPa by a Negro was the forautomatically at devised by John Ernest Matze liger, who was born in Dutch Guiana in 1852, but who came to the United States and lived Lynn, Mass. His invention rev olutionized shoe production methods, greatly reduced the cost of making shoes, and is said to have laid the foundation for establishment of the United Shoe Machinery Company, the largest organization of its kind in the world. Granville T. and Lyates Woods of New York, were the paten tees of some 50 articles. Most of these have to do with tele graph and telephone instru ments, electric railway and elec tric power control. Among their devices are several relating to the transmission of telegraph messages to moving trains. Shelby J. Davidson and Rob ert Pelham, both of them civil service employes in Washing ton, are the inventors of office machines now in extensive use by the Government for the tab ulation of statistics. George W. Murray, of South Carolina, once a member of Congress, pat ented eight inventions on agri cultural implements. Frank J. Ferrell of New York has ob tained patents on a dozen or more improvements in steam engines. Joseph Dickson, New Jersey, has been responsible for a number of inventions in player piano mechanism, most of them now in general use by piano manufacturers. William B. Purvis, Philadelphia, is one of the principal inventors of ma chinery for making paper bags. HAD YOUR ANNUAL HEALTH CHECK UP? IF NOT, HAVE IT. Many Have Diseases and Do Noi Know About Them—Learn How to Keep Yourself Fit tc Live. By H. L. Brockman, M. D. In the Sanatorium Have you had your annual health examination? If you haven’t, let me tell you what it may mean to you. Wise people put in coal before i freeze, plenty of gas and oil fOi a long drive, and tighten nuts before they drop off and cause serious trouble. Do you know that you may even now hav$ tuberculosis, heart trouble kid ney disease, hardening of the arteries, cancer, hook worm, or any one 01 many otner diseases in the early stages which may eventually be either fatal or very devitalizing? Well, you may! and not have any suspicion of it. I’m not trying to frighten you, but on the contrary hasten to cheer you. Do you know that these diseases, taken in their early stages can be cured and ar rested, ana your life prolonged far beyonu its natural course if they are not allowed to progress ? By acting now you can learn with a fair degree of certainty whether there is anything wrong With you physically and wheth er there is anything in the way that you are living that is likely to lead to sickness. You can also learn from the best author ity how to keep yourself fit fo live your life as happily and completely as is possible, y Time was when people waited until something was very evi dently wrong with them before they consulted their family phy sician. In those days it was often all too late. But now things are different. It is quite the style to go to your doctor once a year, say on one’s birthday, and have him go over the did human machine and see if every thing is running smoothly. Now in doing this you shotdd be very explicit and make* it clear to the physician that yiu want a very complete overhat 1 ing, including every part of the body, and a review of every im portant fact of your habits and way of living. And next you .must very conscientiously ob serve every direction he gives you, getting him to write his ice down, so that there will misunderstanding. ^ The matter of one’s health and habits is very personal. In the goou old days and now, the fafflny physician has felt very fine about bringing his patients through serious illness. He now takes on considerably about keeping them well if they will help him by listening to reason. KEEPING FIT. This is primarily an age of physical fitness. Growing boys everywhere are bending their efforts to the development of muscular ability and a sound physique, whether their pur pose is to excel in one of the many fields of athletics or to prepare for a life of vigorous ef fort. Today the growing American youth has before him as shining goals the great champions in the various fields of sport. Our box ing champions, our golf cham pions, our swimming champions are generally considered the champions of the world. But the physical perfection necessary to become a champion in any field of physical activity is not a matter of accident or chance. Back of every cham pion you will find a ground work of sound physical development which has been maintained by constant exercise and intelligent training. Every normal boy has the de sire to attain a high degree of physical fitness. Many, how ever, are handicapped by lack of proper information on training rules and care of the body. JThe U. S. Public Health Ser vice has prepared a publication to fill this very need. This pub lication, entitled, “Keeping Fit,” gives authoritative information on sound physical development, illustrated with numerous charts, diagrams and pictures. Other important information on personal hygiene with special chapters on sex hygiene for the growing boy and young man are i included. Readers may obtain , this publication free of charge by writing to the U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. c, s f: COULTER ACADEMY NOTES, CHERAW, S. C. By MiaB A. J. Pruitt Coulter Memorial Academy opened what promises to be one of the most successful year’s work in the history of the insti tution. On the' opening day, September 14th, there was a large body of students and pa trons to greet the Principal and faculty. The enrollment is al ready approaching the three hundred marie. It is gratifying to note that the High School is almost complete in its enroll ment and everyone seems to have the finest kind of spirit for work and study. - The faculty this year has been carefully selected from various sections of the country, and are graduates of reputable institu tions. The following institu tions are represented on the fac ulty: Haines Institute, Barber Women’s College, Scotia Wont en’s College, Johnson G. Smith University, Columbia Universi ty and New England Conserva tory of Music. The following teachers are in charge of the various departments: Miss Wil helmina Gillespie, History and Civics; Miss Nettie M. Day, English; Mr. H. L. Tolbert, Sci ence and French; Mr. B. H. Walker, Mathematics; Miss Brewer, Elementary Depart ment ; A. J. Pruitt, Grammar School; Mrs. M. E. Spencer, Pri mary Department and Mr. N. L. Holman, music. It is gratifying to note the steady growth of Coulter Acad emy within fifteen years. It has grown from a one teacher school of five pupils to. a full fledged accredited Jiigh School, entrance to an*A aS^kcimegC^ Its physical equipment, while very inadequate,, is nevertheless far above the. average standard of our Church schools. We are just now launching a movement for fifty thousand dollars with which to erect a girls’ dormitory which is a most imperative need. It is hopea that the money can be raised and the National Board through its Division, of Buildings and Property will be able to erect this much needetf building during the next year. < Our brick-laying; department is making wonderful progress. A handsome new church (a brick veneer job) is rapidly nearing completion. This work is being done by our boys, who are stu dying brick-laying, We hope to finish our new cntirCh so as to have it dedicated January 1. Rally day was observed Sept. 26th. The members and friends of the Second Presbyterian church listened attentively while Dr. Long, the pastor, preached a soul-stirring sermon from the text Nehemiah 4:16. He ex plained in a most wonderful way that we should not look upon rally day as one in whieh we should bring money *alone, but one on which we should go out and bring others into Christ’s fold. The collection for the day amounted to $173.13. This little change, no doubt, helped our pastor. He has made untold sacrifice in encouraging us in the building of a new church. Messrs. Tolbert and Walker, Misses Day, Brewer and Gilles pie motored to Mt. Croghan a few days ago to a dinner party at the home of Miss Brewer. They all reported a moat de lightful time. Miss Theresa Stevens left a week ago for Washington, Ga., where she will take up work in Rev. T. B. Hargrave’s school. Rev. R. E. Foster, of Chester field, was present at our devo tionals last Monday morning and spoke briefly to the student body. Other visitors at the school this week were Mrs.' ft. E. Foster, of Chesterfield, Coiitf-' ty Supervisor of Chesterfield County; Miss Hancock, of Salisbury, N. C., teacher in Chesterfield Parochial school; (Continued on page 4)