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The Athens Republique Devoted to the Religious, the Economic, and the Industrial Development of the Colored Race Vol. 11. Bishop William Alfred Fountain OF THE Eighteenth Episcopal District OF THE African Methodist Episcopal Church will preach at both morning and evening services at the First A. M. E. Church Hu!l s"eJ trong Sunday, January 16, 1921 This will be the first visit that Bishop Fountain has made to Athens since his e* lection at Saint Louis, Missouri last May. The public is cordially invited to be present. A great treat is in store for all. W. C. Chase PronunenrLawyer HDrops Dead (B&he Assaciated Negro Press) Was Wngton ,• D. C ; <Jan. 11 — \V. promiiient lawyer, founder and editor of* the Wash iugton Bee, dropped dead in his office at 1109 Ist St. v The cause of his death was&pgteter mined. He was believed health Mr. Cha&was. sixty-two years old and and reared in was educated in public and graduated from Howard jjhiyersity. Soon after ward he began an active law prac tice. As a publisher of a news paper, Mr. Chase became interest ed in politics. In 1912 and 1916 he was elected as delegate from the District of Columbia to the republican national convention. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. A. D. Chase, and a son, W. Cal- ATHENS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1921 viu Chase, Jr. a teacher at Dunbar High School; a daughter, Miss Be atrice L. Chase, who is a music teacher in the public school, and five sisters.. They are Miss E. A. Chase, principal at the Jones school Mrs. E. B. C. Williams, founder of the Ferguson and William Nor mal Polytechnical Collpge of Ab beyville. N. C. ; Mrs. N. T. Golds berry, Miss F. C. Chase and Miss Ida R. Chase. Funeral services were held at the 15th Street Pres byterian Church, Washington, Thursday January 6, Rev. Francis J. Grimkie officiating: Abyssinian Sanitary Holds High Position By Associated Negto Press Savannah, Ga., Jan. 7--Dr. C.F. Checizzi, a native Abyssinian priest who has degrees from Oxford and Paris Universities, is Dean of the National and International College of Languages and Sciences of Princeton University, Indiana. Dr. Checizzi if fourth tour of the country urging member! of his race to return to Africa. He points ont that his own coun try Abyssinia it now an Indepen dent country, has never been con quered, and is the cradle of civi lization. If black government could suceed in Abyssinia why could it not suceed all over Afri ca asks Dr. Checizzi. • Dr. Checizzi stated that there were 1, 500, 000 Negroes actually figuring in the the World War, and that 250,000 of them lost their lives. In con tradition of reports of' cowardice on the part of black troops engaged in the war, he points to several famous Negroes who Avon fame as militaly genii. While it might Be said that Li beria and Hayti, both Negro re publics have not succeeded, and the failue of Liberia anA Hayti is due to the lack of education, said Dr. Checizzi. •‘while Abyssi nia has succeeded.’* Time will show that these republics can suc ceed as well as white governments. Many of the white governments in the Balkans and Russia have No. 8