OFFICE, 47 WEST 66th STREET
FOR EXCLUSIVE PATRONAGE, EXCELLENT MEALS
Call at
The National Waiters’ Restaurant
128 W. 53d STREET, Between 6th and 7th Aves.

We please the critical. We serve all parties. Call and see our improvements. Everything new and well appointed. If we please you tell your friends; if not, tell us.

MUSIC SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
LYMAS WILLIAMS, Proprietor
J. A. Phillips & Co.’s Bakery
beg to remind you of their
Superior Bread, Cakes, Pies, Etc.
They serve the best people and wish to serve you throughout this
HAPPY NEW YEAR
17 WEST 133d STREET
Your Carpet Needs Cleaning!
Let the NEW YORK CAREFUL CLEANING BUREAU Do It
We Clean and Renovate for Particular People—from a Rug to a House—by the Vacuum System.
Let us give you a Clean House for
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
’Phone 3253 Harlem. 12 West 135th Street
Educational Directory
Howard University
WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, President
Washington, D. C.

The College of Arts and Sciences—Kelly Miller, A.M., Dean.

The Teachers’ College—Lewis B. Moore, A.M., Ph.D., Dean.

The Academy—George J. Cummings, A.M., Dean.

The Commercial College—George W. Cook, A.M., Dean.

School of Manual Arts and Applied Sciences—

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS

The School of Theology—Isaac Clark, D.D., Dean.

The School of Medicine: Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges—Edward O. Balloch, M.D., Dean.

The School of Law—Benjamin F. Leighton, LL.D., Dean.

For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department.

Atlanta University

Is beautifully located in the City of Atlanta, Ga. The courses of study include High School, Normal School and College, with manual training and domestic science. Among the teachers are graduates of Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Smith and Wellesley. Forty one years of successful work have been completed. Students come from all parts of the South. Graduates are almost universally successful.

For further information address

President EDWARD T. WARE
ATLANTA, GA.
Wilberforce University
WILBERFORCE, OHIO
Opens first Tuesday in September

Located in Greene County, 3¼ miles from Xenia, Ohio. Healthful surroundings. Refined community. Faculty of 32 members. Expenses low. Classical and Scientific, Theological, Preparatory, Music, Military, Normal and Business Departments. Ten industries taught. Great opportunities for High School graduates entering College or Professional Courses. Two new buildings for girls to be erected this year—one now in process of erection, and the other to be begun in the spring.

Catalogue and Special Information Furnished.

Address
W. S. SCARBOROUGH, President.
Shaw University

This institution of learning, established in 1865, has industrial departments for both young men and young women, as well as college, normal and preparatory departments. There are also Schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy and Theology.

The facilities have recently been increased. Other improvements are being planned that will be completed within the next two years.

Applications should be made several months or a year in advance, for it has become impossible during the last few years to receive all who apply. The present enrollment is over 500.

The academic year begins on the Thursday nearest the first day of October and continues for thirty-two consecutive weeks. The charges are moderate. Catalogues furnished upon application.

Address THE PRESIDENT
Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.
Atlanta Baptist College
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

A High School and College for men, conducted under the auspices of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, founded in 1867. Has a campus of thirteen acres on one of the highest points of land in the city. Five buildings, one just completed at a cost of $40,000. Societies, debating clubs and athletics.

For further information address
JOHN HOPE, A.M.
President
The Georgia State Industrial College
Good for a Trade, Normal, Industrial and Collegiate Education.
Write for Catalogue to
R. R. Wright, A.B., L.L.D., President.
Legal Directory
Real Estate and Probate Matters a Specialty
ROBERT B. BARCUS
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
Notary Public
Office: Room 502, Eberly Block Columbus, O.
B. S. SMITH
Attorney-at-Law
Offices: Suite 610, Sykes Block
Minneapolis, Minn.
GEORGE W. MITCHELL
Attorney-at-Law
908 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pa.
J. DOUGLAS WETMORE
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
5 Beekman Street (Temple Court)
New York City
Tel. 6222 Cortlandt Cable Address, Judowet
FREDERICK L. McGHEE
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
Union Block, Fourth and Cedar Streets
St. Paul, Minn.
General Practice Notary Public
WILLIAM R. MORRIS
Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
1020 Metropolitan Life Building
Minneapolis, Minn.
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The Curse of Race Prejudice
James F. Morton, Jr., A.M., Author and Publisher

Forceful, rational, comprehensive. An arsenal of facts and unanswerable arguments. Invaluable for propaganda. Read the chapter on “The Bugbear of Social Equality,” which is a veritable eye-opener. Thousands already sold. Agents wanted everywhere.

PRICE 25 CENTS
Address the Author at 244 West 143d Street,
New York, N. Y.
Mme. BECK’S School of Dressmaking
Designing, Cutting, Fitting, Embroidering and Ladies’ Tailoring Taught by the Improved French System
Separate Courses in Any of the Branches, and Diplomas Awarded the Successful Graduates
Day and Evening Classes
238 WEST 53d STREET NEW YORK CITY
The Firm for the Negro Farmers and Shippers to Deal With
Try Us Before Shipping Elsewhere.
Fruits and Vegetables Oysters and Game Poultry and Eggs
COTTMAN & COTTMAN
WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 107 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Reference: The People’s Savings Bank Bell ’Phone Connection: Lombard 4035
NYANZA DRUG CO.
(Incorporated.)
35 W. 135th ST., NEW YORK CITY
CAPITAL STOCK, $15,000
Shares $5.00

Write for information. The best paying investment ever offered our people.

NYANZA PHARMACY

is the only colored Drug Store in New York City, and the purpose of the Corporation is to establish chains of stores, carrying Drugs and everything incidental to the Drug business. It is really the indisputable duty of every self-respecting member of the race to give it his support.

AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE
$100,000 STOCK ISSUE
TO BUILD AN
Auditorium in Greater New York
CONTAINING
Reception, Concert and Banquet Halls, Modern Offices and Lodge Rooms
This proposition is bound to succeed, because it is giving the people what they want.
We are offering
10,000 Shares at $10 Each, Par Value
Stock sold in blocks to suit the investor on easy terms.

The capital already in hand and the rapid increase of business means the realisation of the Auditorium. This enterprise assures each investor Safety of Capital and Growth of Income. Call or write for further particulars.

I. L. MOORMAN, Mgr., 83 W. 134th St.
Man
SOLOMON GARRETT
Tonsorial Artist
782 Fulton Street, near Adelphi Street
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
All Kinds of Workmanship
Cigars and Tobacco for Sale
Daily and Weekly Papers and Magazines
Brooklyn Agents for THE CRISIS
How to Elevate the Moral and Civic Tone of the Negro Community

Negroes—good, bad and indifferent—as long as they have lived in tenements, have had to live shamefully intermingled. Formerly they were forced to live in ramshackle tenements that had been abandoned by the whites, at exorbitant rents for wretched accommodations. But now, thanks to the thrift and enterprise of certain progressive Negro real estate agents, they may live in houses having the same conveniences and accommodations as the whites. While, happily, the physical surroundings of the Negro tenant have been radically altered, unhappily his moral surroundings remain unchanged. How, then, can we improve his moral surroundings? Co-operation is a sine qua non in the solution of this problem. Tenants MUST co-operate with their agents and agents MUST co-operate with one another in ameliorating the moral and civic condition of Negro communities. We can’t lean on the landlord. He is an indifferent third party. He cares not, so to speak, whether his house is tenanted with respectable or disrespectable tenants, so long as it is full and he gets his rents. If he’s at all concerned about the disrespectable or respectable tenants in his house, it’s only to the extent that he’s afraid the former may be the cause of some or all of the latter moving, thus leaving him with some vacancies.

The present moral conditions of Negro tenantry are indeed bad. The individual efforts of certain Negro agents toward bettering the conditions have been praiseworthy, to say the least, but as far as making any progress toward the desired goal is concerned, such efforts must needs be and practically have been of little or no avail. What is the desirable goal is too obvious to command explanation. But how to reach that goal is the matter under consideration. In the first place, we repeat that the united efforts of tenants and agents are the desideratum.

Let the agent compel a prospective tenant to furnish references satisfying fair and reasonable requirements as imposed by, agreed upon and accepted in toto by all agents. The respectable tenant will be glad to do it. Any tenant not furnishing such references should be “jim-crowed,” as it were, from decent neighborhoods.

This matter of bettering the moral and civic condition of Negro communities is a case of a wheel within a wheel. As has been emphasized before, the agent can do absolutely nothing without co-operation. Ministers wielding great influence over large congregations can lend a powerfully helping hand, if they will. We must all pull together. We cannot work resultfully in factions. It is unquestionably within our power to do it, if all others do their respective parts and the colored real estate agent does his.

Desirable Apartments for Desirable Tenants Also Homes for Sale on Easy Terms

Philip A. Payton, Jr., Company
New York’s Pioneer Negro Real Estate Agents
BROKERS====APPRAISERS
TELEPHONES
917–918 HARLEM 67 West 134th St., New York City
HENRY PHIPPS’ MODEL TENEMENTS FOR COLORED FAMILIES
Do You Want a Position?
Best Places
Best Families

The New York and New Jersey Industrial Exchange, through its Employment Agency Department, furnishes more Colored Help to the leading families in the city and in the suburban towns than any other medium in New York.

It is located in the acknowledged best section of the city, being in the Henry Phipps’ Model Tenements for Colored Families. No other Exchange is so well patronized by the foremost families, many of whom have never employed Colored Help before.

Our demand for competent Southern Help exceeds the supply many times over. Call and register. No charge. Bring your references. We can place you in a good position. If inconvenient to pay our required office fee, you are at liberty to take advantage of our Credit System. This new feature has proven extremely beneficial to many worthy persons seeking employment.

N. Y. & N. J. Industrial Exchange
237–239 West 63d Street
Telephones 5016–4546 Columbus
Cosmopolitan Automobile School
Automobile School

The aim of the School will be to give its students a sufficient knowledge of the theory and practice of Automobile and Automobiling to enable them to meet the emergencies that constantly arise to make those who complete the course competent to run machines, take them apart and assemble them properly, and to make such repairs as may be necessary and possible on the road.

TUITION—Six weeks’ course, including Shop and Road Work, $25: installments if you wish, payable $5 on enrollment and $20 by the completion of the fourth week.

SHOP WORK—Consists of naming all the parts of the automobile, taking the engine and the rest of the automobile apart and putting them together again properly, and making such repairs as may be necessary and possible.

ROAD WORK—When the shop work is complete the student takes up the operating and handling of cars on the road until he is competent.

If there is any special information which you desire respecting the course or opportunities in the automobile business we shall be glad to bear from you.

COSMOPOLITAN AUTO CO. of New York
Telephone 803 Columbus School: Hotel Maceo, 213 West 53d St. LEE A. POLLARD, Mgr.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  3. Re-indexed footnotes using numbers.
  4. A reprint edition provided by Arno Press, A Publishing and Library Service of the New York Times, New York, 1969.