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The Athens Republique Devoted to the Religious, the Educational, and the Industrial Development of the Colored Raee Vol. 111. Klan Debarred at i J Milwaukee (By Associated Negro Press) Milwaukee, Oct 22, “Milwau kee will bee- me the “hottest place on earth, for the Ku Klux Klan if any klansmen attack one of our citizens’-jblack or white, red or yellow, Jew or Gentile, Catholic or Protestant,” said Mayer Joan, i*n a letter today to C. Levis Fo wler, a member of the faculty of the. Klan’s Lanier University at Atlanta, in reply to a letter prot esting the organization had been misrepresented and offering to aid he mayor in maintenance of law and order in Milwaukee. The J < ’ Mayor’s letter said no klan meet ing would be permitted in the Mil waukee Auditorium. , - I Morton Drug Company Under New Management Dr. J. B. Coleman, a native Kentuckian and a graduate of Me harry Medical College, is now pharmacist and manager of the Morton Drug Company, succe d ing Dr. J. V. Williams, who will take* up his abode at Orlando, Florida. Inasmuch as the com pany has gone under new manage ment it would be highly appreci ated by the management and SLockhelders of the concern if the Official Organ for the Jernel baptist Association ATHENS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1922 debtors would come in and pay their.arrears, and thus permit this young man to start out with a clean sheet. » JAMES MACK, Pres. Musical Hypnotism (By Th-, Associated Negro Press) New York City, Oct. 23, —Over in the Cherry Hill district there is a row of tenement houses occu pied mostly by colored folk. From the street a reporter could see into Ihe front room of one home. There was no carpet on the floor, pictures on the wall or a single bit of furniture except a player-piano, which was running full tilt. The white janitor said the family had stripped their home to make the first payment on that player-piano. “These folks will deny ihemsolves every comfort for music,” he added. UNION OF COLORED TEACH- ERS URGED By the Associated Negro Press Jackson, Miss. Oct. 23,—“We believe that at no time in the his tory of education has it been so important that teachers and school administrators should unite in a determined effort- to render the public the most devoted service of which they are capable/* is the foreword of THE BULLETIN, • ftip.ai magazine of the National Association of Teachers in Colo 1 ed Schools, just issued. ‘ The Bul letin” is an attractive publication fiilied with art cles on education. • R. S. Grosslev of Jaokson, is Ed itor. Dr. JA. Gregg Wilber force is president of thfc N. ‘A. T. C. A Litt e Spiritualist Trouble (By The Associated Negro Press) Chicago, 111. Oct. 23 —Do spirits d aw the color line? That ques tion came up last Wednesday at the Convention of the National Spiritualist Association when a movement for segregation of the colored members of the order was started. Fight over the proposi tion from all angles ensued. Apparently a majority of the delegates believed there was no Mason Dixon line in the astral for the long battle ended with the matter tabled, and the chairman, President George B. Warne, thr atoning to the sergeant alarms if the hubbub did not subside. All spooks look alike, so far as color is concerned, colored mem bers asserted, and they contended there are no Jim Cruw arrange ments in heaven. Proponents of segregation held that only by eliminating the col ored spiritualists could ths nation al organization carry its propa ganda into the South. No. 49