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Devoted to the Religious, the Educational, and the Industrial Development of the Colored Race
Vol. IV.
IMPROVED ORDER OF SA
MARITANS HOLD GREAT
ANNUAL MEETING
Future Success of the Order
Re-Assured. Peace and
Harmony Prevailed.
H iwkinsville, Ga., Oct. 24,
1923. The Improved order of Sa
maritans held their Grand Lodge
at Hawkinsville, October 22d in
the St. Thomas A. M. E. Church.
Nearly two hundred delegates
were present. Each evening ses
sion was for the public, and
standing room was at a premium.
Prof. H. A. Hunt, Principal of
Fort Valley High and Industrial
School, delivered the annual ad
dress. His subject was “Think.”
The audience was thoroughly a-<
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roused by this timely message,
and when Prof. Hunt had finish-
' . »r. . .
ed his speech his whole audience
had been transformed into a body
of thinking people. All were
highly pleased with Prof. Hunt’s
helpful remarks.
The business sessiors of Grand
Lodge showed great progress and
improvement in their methods of
legislating and in the handling
of business. Not one time in the
whole of the sessions did the
i >
body become disorderly or unruly.
This is characteristic of the Im
proved Order of Samaritans—the
Order being known throughout
the country for its peacable and
harmonious co-operation between
its members and o Jicera.
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Official Organ for the Jeruel baptist Association
ATHENS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1923
The report of the Grand Secre
tary showed:
New Lodges4s
New members3,32s
Money Collecteds4B,4os.lß
Death Claims Paid 29,445.00
Balance on Hand 63,077.65
The above facts speak for them
selves. They show that the Or
der succeeded well for the
year despite the set backs given
business by the ravaging boll
weevil and the disturbing migra
ti >n of our people North in large
numbers.
* •. I .. .
All officers were re-elected for
the ensuing term, a fact which
besj eaks confidence, satisfaction,
and praise of the officers’ work.
The Grand Lodge adjourned to
meet in its next annual session at
Augusta, Ga.
LINCOLN STATUTE
RECLAIMED
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Washington, N »v. 2, After the
Democrats come into power in
1913, they looked about for some
historical landmark that they
might vandalize, just to show th*
tjie country that the South was in
the saddle. Facing the eastern
approach to Judiciary Square stood
ooe of the first statues of Abra
ham Lincoln, whose sadly sombr e
features seemed to epitomize that
he had died for human justice and
to admonish those who came after
him to hold the scales of righte
ousness evenly balanced between
the races.
This was too much for the Dem-
ocrata —Lincoln standing in front
of the very temple of justice as a
silent accuser of their broken faith
and inhumanity toward the Negro.
Lo, they removed it from its pe
destal—the bronze image of the
great Emancipator—and for nijafo
years it was hidden, up.'irf
the basement of the Agricultural
Department, The Democrats were
not disposed to have Lincoln
pointing a reproving finger at
them.
When the Republicans were re
turned to the control of the Gov
ernment, search was made for the
statue of the. Man of Sorrow?. It
Was recovered from its ignoble se
clusion in dirt and cobwebs, and
n Lincoln has retuned to his si
lent vigil on Judiciary Square,
looking down upon the just and*
the in just. This should be hard
to believe, but its exactly what
happened.
HIGH OFFiCEALS AT FUNERAL
OF COLORED OFFICER
Washington, Nov. 2, Brother
officers, his chief, Major Sullivan,
and other police officials attend-.,
ed the funeral services of Police
man John Purcell, colored officer,
who was shot down by gansters
here last week. Crawford, Pur
cell’s companion, may recover.
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