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l0 i 1THE APPEAL AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ISSUED WBEKLT J. .ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHED i. ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 301-2 Court Block, 24 E. 4th st ADAMS, Maaascr. PHONE: N. W. CEDAR M4t. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE N#. 2812 Tenth Avenue South J. If. SBLLBRg, Manager. atcred at the Poitoflw In St. Paul, Mlaa*ta, aa econd-claaa mall matter. Jaae 6, 1886, under Act of Congress. March 3. 18T. TERMS, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE: SINGLE COPY, One Year $2.40 SINGLE COPY, Six Months 1.25 SINGLE COPY, Three Months.. .65 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922. CHRISTMAS Again it is Christmas. Through the mud streets of Palestine, across the cobblestones of Europe, down the smooth avenues of America, and through the crooked by-ways of Asia the Christ child wanders again in spirit. In Palestine there is strife. Euro pean greed grapples with the young, fiery spirit of nationalism. The fires of different religions burn deep and flare high. In Europe there is tur moil, intolerance and suspicion. In America, materialism sits on high, reigning with pagan pomp. Asia's dumbness is being broken by faint mutterings for liberty and love and life. All mankind is restless. This Christmas the hearts of mil lions of strife-weary peoples hunger for peace and a chance to live. In this, the spiritual re-birth of the Prince of Love, they see the way to the things that armies and confer ences and treaties have not yet achieved. For the contentment of us all, may the spirit of this birthday of the Christ live in the hearts and acts of men throughout the year, and the years to come. JOKING WITH FACTS We never did like to hear undue levity emanate from a judge or from a preacher. Their positions always have been regarded by us as being specially selected somehow, we have a generous respect for such who oc cupy them. A joking judge and a joking preacher are dangerous char acters who invite contempt for the positions they occupy, and their at titute is harmful to the community. Two colored men were tried before Judge Ekwall for using opium and arrested with them was a white woman of 22 years. The culprits asked the judge to suspend their sen tences, to which he replied: "If this thing had happened in the South, you would have been suspended all right to a tree." No doubt of it. But we condemn the judge for associat ing Oregon with a part of the coun try where law, order and respect for life are crude ideas. Since the stran gulation of the Dyer bill, two games of lynching have already been played down South, in each the race lost, as the odds were a thousand to one. In Texas, the suspected victim was kindly shot to death while in Florida he was singed, browned and by neg lect on the part of those who were roasting the barbecue, the meat was allowed to burn. In each case the vic tims were doubted as being the guilty party. Lynching is too serious a matter for jest by a judge. Suppose some Southern morons had been in the court sufficient in number to have been inspired to carry out the sug gestion coming from Judge Ekwall's mouth. Oregon would have played the national game with Portland as the center of attraction. Mr. Harding told us that a crisis has come jn the life of this nation and whereas, he omitted lynching as one of the leaks in the hull of the old Ship of State, we are prophesying that the old vessel is certainly going to sink unless some good calkers stop the seam through which the slimy ooze of dissension, murder and dis regard for law and order are seeping. Makeshift legislation will not offset the calamity. We niust face the con ditions squarely and the time are too serious for anyone in authority to joke with facts.Portland Times. BE COLOR BLIND 'lj s, is this that colo Onhee thing our young must get out he ti '^t^akes a manbecause Th white race "is jSt' rilliant no ,/J fcd- ecaus it is white but & has developed the brain and body., It is .Drain that makes them great, not color. Put the white mentality under the blackest skin and eventually the ruling class would be come dark. Having developed brain to a greater extent than the darker races has enabled the white race to take advantage of ignorance. There is a difference between ab sorbing another man's thought and creating the thought yourself. The difference between a man and a mon key is this: the man is able to create through exercise of his brain cells whereas the monkey can but imitate, if he could originate monkey and man would be on par. The darker races imitate too much for this reason they get a strong fo cus, hot delving in the art of-creation they judge by surface, hence, the pre vailing thought among colored people that the man's skin makes his great ness. Darkening the skin of thethe white race would not dull their brain power. We have another fault. It is this: we are too easily satisfied. We have not developed that unsatisfied ambi tion that ^ancient Ethiopia possessed, our heads are too often in the clouds. "We talk too much about where "we are going" and not enough of .things as^ they are. We, forget that God made both heaven and earth. There is just as much God in a clod of earth as there is in a section of the skies. We are of the idea that clothes make a man. We. think the guilt frame is the picture because it looks like gold. .Yet the real gold is the virtuous woman or the manly man. As a class of people we must be gin to think. Don't forget that it takes a general "to win a battle it takes a thinking class of people to win ^Jplaee in this.:world that we live in." "Make something, do some- 'T1 ~TmTTTTTTininTr|iMpHi fll IMMI iiw nim *-_*?r thing, be somebody, stop being just a colored man. Stand on your feet, stop this inevitable babble about you've got no chance because you are colored. You have a thousand chances where Frederick Douglass had one, but he was a man! What are you? Boston Guardian. U.S.Quizzes Black Star Line Heads New York, Dec. 21 (Crusader Serv ice).Quietly and without bluster the United States Department of Justice and the Post Office Department- are weaving the net in which they hope 'o enmesh the responsible officers of the defunct Black Star Line for their alleged criminal mismanagement of corporation. Last week several ex-officers of the U. N. I. A. and for mer, as well as some present, boost ers of the incomparable genius of the great advertiser and black Barnum, Marcus Garvey, were summoned be fore Assistant Federal District At torney Mattuck, for the purpose of getting information regarding cer tain phases of the activities of the shipless steamship company. Manv of the persons summoned were told to hold themselves in .readiness for appearance in court when the case comes to trial. It is reported that the government is not deterred by the antics -of certain colored politi cians who are alleged to be seeking to subvert the cause of justice. Fully one hundred witnesses are expected to testify and the case, which will be called shortly, is expected to be a "cause celebre.'-' Garvey Opens New "Hole b| W JL SlNew ^^((^sader. Ser^ .-atr* By MARTHA B. THOMAS 1922, WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION believe in Santa Clam I believed hair is snowierrno cheeks redder, smile merrier and no eyes more tw kling than his. I believe the he him is tig enough to encompa^ worldifpeople would let it! I be ill tte jingleo his sleigh bells, thel^i^^ nesi of his reindeer, the sound of thei tapping feet on the roof. S I believe iti chinineys, big, broad, deep-throated chimneys that will not cramp the Mdrry with his bulging pick. I in solemn rows of stockings hanging by the firefather's short one, mother'slong orie and the dangling ones of the children, aU ^aiting arid expect ant.Is I beHevelh?1 of happiness us ^uicoa niai uauta v-idu icavcb at every house, and I believe that it will grow through all the year if people try tp keep the spirit of Christmas every da-sl ice).Using the remainder of thethere large sum of nioney collected from colored people of the wOrld, the "Negro" Factories Corporation, or ganized by M&rcus Garvey, under whose management the Black Star Line transferred^ $1,000,000 from the control of the race into the coffers of ship brokers and other members of the white race^has opened a small tailor shop at 2305 Seventh avenue. The size and equipment of the "fac tory" which is dedicated to cleaning, dyeing and repairing clothes and pressing men's uits at 35 cents each seems _to be. ajttodern illustration of the old fable tnlt "the mountain djid 'abor and it brought forth a mouse?' COURT UPHOLDS JIM CROW LAWS Supreme Tribunal Upholds Award of Mississippi Court to White Complainants. Washington, ?Dec. 21 (Crusader Service).:Jim "crow laws passed ^by Southern states were not abrogated bjr government control of the rail roads during the war and the United States-Railroad Administration was responsible for 'their .enforcement, according to, a decision by the su preme court today. The Mississippi courts were upheld in awarding damages against the railroad administration in favor of A. E. Stephens, F. Gt .Gaddy and M. Swinnej^threjt Mississippi whites who cMfge that they "were ^com pelled" to ride with "Negroes" de spite their protest. .%M?*aintff? ^contended that, the conductor refused to eject .colored ^assenirerfr frcif A section marked for tsvrhHea only^ and. that as a re sult they suffered "mortification and hhbarrassiHena^ -I&Kgk*' T-White-tne j*im$%i jfnflrWlaws .notj,, specifically passed poh, g}7 aas^^p^-aass^^s^ssi^ rj-s]:^4^j^ can be no doubt in the minds of intelligent people that the discus sion of the supreme court goes far toward upholding those laws. Weeks Promises 24th InfantryProtectionin6a. War Secretary Says Charges of N. A. A. C. P. Will Be Investigated and Justice Done John W. Weeks, United States Sec retary of War, has replied to a let ter sent htm by the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Col ored People, promising investigation of the charges that colored soldiers of the 24th Infantry were being mis treated and discriminated against, and saying that conditions com plained of will be corrected. The letter of Secretary of Weeks is as follows: War Department, Washington. December 13, 1922. Mary White Ovington, Chairman Board^ of Directors National Asso sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, New York City. My Dear Madam: Acknowledging receipt of your let ter of December 8, 1922, supplement ing your recent communication on the subject of the treatment of the 4th Infantry now stationed at Fort Benning Ga., I am pleased to inform von, that your letter has been for wardetL^tq th* commandant? officer. Fort Benning, Ga., for investigation and necessarv action. I can assure vou that the proper', disciplinary ^easuTPs^ willfcetaken to correct any irrejmlarity tha may be discovered the treatment -o the members of *hes i^JM|g# War 24th Infantry. The personnel of hi organization wilt receive the 'tme considerationstationee nf SOUTH IS CALLED O ANTI-LYNCHING WA Women of Methodist Church South', Demand That Mob Violence Be Blotted Out Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7 (Special).A movement to enlist the 250,000 organ ized women of the Southern Meth odist Church in a determined and systematic campaign for the suppres sion of lynching was launched here this week. A large group of repre sentative women from thirteen states, all of them officials of the Woman's Missionary Council or Conference So cial Seryke superintendents, met at the call of the Race Relations Com mission of the Council, spent three days in conference, and at the con clusion issued a vigorous address to ':he public relative,to the lynching evil, calling upbh the authorities of the several states and counties for its complete suppression and upon the citizens, the pulpit and the press for hei united support to this end.- The defeat of the Dyer anti-lynching bffl was used to give point to their ut terance. T^v as" th members any other unit at that oost. -3 Sincerely yours. (Signed) JOHN W. WEEKS, A- iry of War. further -pledged themselves, individually and in an official ca pacity as representing the social service leadership of the organized Methodist women, to a persistent campaign for adequate state laws and for law enforcement. Details of the plan are already being worked ~ut. The statement follows, together with the,names of the women sign ers: "Wherfas, the defeat of the Dyer wti-lvnching bill, which provided for hj federal control of lynching, has thrown the whole responsibility hick "pon each state for removing this hideous crime: .therefore, "Be it resolved, that we, the Com mission on Hace Relations of the Woman's,-Missionary Council, Meth- *%t Episcopal Church, South, the conference social service superintend- ROUT KLAN OR FACE CIVIL WAR OLCOTT WARNS "Judiciary Influenced, Law Is Under mined," Oregon Executive Tells Conference KLAN CAPITALIST PLOT Marks Interests' Grab at Political Power, Declares Mayor Hylan White Sulphur Springs, Dec. 20 (Crusader Service).Gov. Ben W, Olcott of Oregon, addressing the con ference of governors here, warned that the Ku Klux Klan is gaining an amazing grip in his state and other states and expressed the conviction that unless steps are immediately taken to check the Klan its activities would inevitably lead to a state of civil war in this country. Thinking Oregonians are at last awake to what has happened in that state, and like himself are genuinely alarmed by the spread of what they first failed to regard as a dangerous manifestation, he pointed out, not, however, explaining that the toler ance with which the Klan was at first regarded was due to the belief that it was merely anti-Negro and not anti-anybody else. Today the sub ject overshadows all other issues in Oregon, he said, and the consequence of the secret organization's work there should be brought to national attention. Whole Communities Torn That whole communities in Oregon are now torn by such religious dis sension, if not avowed hatred, that neighbors formerly the .best of friends are virtual feudists, families are disrupted, the spirit of religious intolerance is seizing upon the churches and spreading into all branches of business as a controlling factor. The same sort of outragescom mitted by night riders, masked in white gowns and cowlsthat have swept the Southland have repeatedly occurred in Oregon, so that law and order is.as much usurped by the American fascisti as in Louisiana, where Gov. Parker feared for the sovereignty of the state. Judiciary Influenced That the judiciary, school system, politics and even certain public chan nels of expression have .become so in fluenced, and in some instances con trolled by the Klan that all former normal relationships and processes of law and order are completely un dermined That Portland has became a hotbed of the Klan propaganda, which has been spread with characteristic sec recy and in the guise of a patriotic and benevolent movement, and the Klan leaders are extending their field into the state of Washington, pre dicting openly that they will soon have lined up that and other north western states including Idaho and the territory of Alaska. Protestant vs* Catholic the puppets of privilege may be enabled to slip into any public office" is the opinion expressed by Mayor Hylan of New York on the Ku Klux Klan. The mayor's statement was pro voked by reporters asking him what he had to say regarding the appear ance of a Klansman on Sunday night ini the! Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn. His Honor de clared that "day by day disclosures are rapidly proving that the Ku Klux Klan is nothing but an attempt to create a gigantic political machine" and that the "powerful interests that are trying to control this govern ment would undoubtedly be found financing the Klan. Seeming to bear out Mayor Hylan's views are the fact that the Klan has acted to drive Ne groes out of the oil fields in several bouthern and Southwestern states and the recent revelation of a banker backer New York city. "The object of fomenting racial and religious disturbances and the widening of breaches between groups and+ classes is apparent," the mayor continued. "If the people are divided into opposing camps on racial and re ligious lines, less thought will be eiven to, vital public, Through this process ofi hoodwinkingi.clbupquestions0tn the pubhejthepuppets of privilege Sli "ffice^ 0 ents^ and other officers in conference in Atlanta, Ga., December 4-6, 1922, do now demand of the authorities of the ^several states that they make good their claim proving their com petency to abolish mob violence lynching. fcnif?at oa responsidan i assu i as citizens for the protection of human life and hereby call upon all pulpit and uponLthe S.fSS"5!Pfc" x* ga ^f Persisten agitationinjoi barbaroupresstto practice ^at formulate plans for an organized movement in behalfe offo ade--ec n^nt." 8 nr PRISONER DISCHARGED WITRESSESJLL COLORED JacksenviHe, Fla., Dec. 2fcThl white jnan recently chargem with rap- kTr W 0 out l0 B?S V*1 skirts of Jacksonville, against whom tag victim and several other wit-al %21i?*n*P&1* colored), was discharged.by the judge on his own testimony. The iudeean- be convicted Ju coarsen the mere SS^mm-WSt*** o^jry \m* ?v "We have no accurate way of knowing how large numerically the Klan has become in Oregon,**- said Gov. Olcott, "but its manifestations are significant of its extent and its power. We have few colored people and few Jews in the state, compara tively speaking, so that the issue comes down to one between Pro testantism and Catholicism. To be sure, che colored man who was freed from, jail after serving his term for chicken stealing was victimized taken out at night by masked riders and hansred. though cut down before he was dead." Capitalist Plot, Says Hylan That the Klan is nothing but a process of hoodwinking the public so that lib fe%i