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T)R.T. A. MAJORS
VoLSXVIL
No.47
Catered as Second-Oaf Matter..As.
If-UOi-mt the -Past Oftce at Chfcago,
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TIHNK3NG OF THE BEST SIDE
OF NEGRO LIFE
By Dr. M. A. Majors
All .men are created equal, it is said.
'But all men are not created equaL
That all men are said to be created
eqaal means sq-itar as ww -cerned
thatn the eyes of the law no
man is .above another snan. All men
have the same number of bones, mus
cle, nerves, -two eyes, two ears, two
hands and five fingers and five toes,
etc? tmtTjecausetfaey have the same
number of bones, Tnuscles and nerves,
etc; that does not make them equally
strong, equal in size or cherish equal
notions and ideas, nor ideals. Let us
see if we cannot offer a truism that
will atand up and possibly defy con
tradiction. No man is equal to an
. other man, nor are they created equal
with the same qualities of heart, mind,
or body. Environment may make all
parrots equal, it'could make all mon
keys equal, all fish equal, eta; but
when it comes to -man environment
,balks. Out of the same environment
iae come the minister, the lawyer,
the woman .reformer, the crook, burg
lar, murderer and confidence man.
What has given some their opportun
ity to rise, has inspired some others
to fall, by allowing theIowest force
in the .human economy to grow up in
their Jives, and eventually dominate
tfceir entire being.
What has offered opportunity to
some to .become benefactors of their
brethren. Jus on the other band of
fered opportunities to others to be
come .sneaks, and theives, defaulters,
etc.; thus in the fowl kingdom all
.roosters are not equal, neither are all
hens equal, and we might ramble an
cient, modern and medieval history,
t"Wgft the jungles if you please and
all over natural history and we will
fail -utterly in our vain quest for proof
that there abides any where on this
earth any such thing as human equal
ity. A great many people have be
come imbued with the thought that
white is superior to black, of course
there are not as many fools today as
there used to be, and even -then there
-are en times .as many brown, black
and yellow .people, as there are white
people who (don't believe any such
nonsense. So after all we who don't
believe white is superior to black are
vastly and preponderantly in the ma
jority. When God got ready to change
things .down in Egypt He sent Abra
Jiam there in -search for an African
woman to be the lineal ancestor of
Christ. When He wanted sweet music
that could -charm a world He sought
-oat a blind black boy. Blind Tom.
When God was ready to speak His
truths in poetry He selected Phyllis
Waeatly and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
When God wasready to lift the wages
-e slavery Irom millions of human
beings He sent Frederick Douglass
out of the house of bondage to the
New England states, thence to Eu
rope to ripen his Tirain for the work
He had for ihereat Douglass to 4b.
When Gedwas ready to raise the in
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jafllieo Negroes who -knew only iow
in a arery tnodertc degree to wring
from toil the .guarantee of jl better
existence by learning trades to insre
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T. Washington to Takgee and then
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THE HIGH COST
OF IGNORANCE
Dr. James Hardy Dillard Holds Fourth
Ministers' Conference at Bettis
Academy
NEGROES TELL STORY IN S O N G
Inter-Racial Co-Operation Goes On
Steadily and Effectively All
Over South Carolina
HON. JAMES W. BREEN
a
First Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago; Who Has for
the' Past Month Honorably Served as Corporation Counsel
aad as Mayor of Chicago Part of the Same Time, and What
He Does Not Know About Municipal Affairs Is Not Worth
Knowing.
E. King. Geo. L. Knox, W. E B.
Dubois. Julius F. Taylor and Rt. S.
Abbott -and placed in their haws the
weapon of truth and right to choke
the develish monsters dumb.
All people would not benefit there
fore by equal opportunity There will
always be the rich afld the poor, the
wise and the foolish, the grateful and
the ungrateful, the saint and the sin
ner, the honest man and the thief, the
bad pretty people and the good ugly
people, and we believe great Nature
Who dispenses all gifts has .left the
Possibilities of human disparagement
as a task for all of His human crea
tures to struggle through.
One thing is very certain; the race
is "hitting it up" in these days of
human development and progress.
The yoke of servility that used to fit
well on a race unaroused to intellec
tual joys does not fit us any more,
and there -is all of the proof needed to
establish the fact that the reading
world knows it Higher forms .of
social life have cqme in the wake of
our industrial freedom and intellectual
conversion. A new and a better world
has been discovered through the proc
ess of our mental awakening and a
thousand unused, untried virgin forces
are growing great in our loins, and
we are beginning to lift things with
that great force, the powerful intellect
which is required to move the world.
GETTING A SPOT LIGHT. THE
OLD SETTLERS MEET
By Dr. M. A. Majors
Have you been in Chicago thirty
years? Are you the son or daughter
of some one who came to Chicago
thirty years ago? If you came to Chi
cago to live during the World's Fair,
which was in "93, you will have to
wait one more year before you can
become a member of The Old Settlers
Club.
Thirty years ago Chicago life was
quite different from what it is today.
Scarcely were there any of us east of
State St. execot the Wheelers.
Harsh's, Mrs. John G. Jones, Platts,
Ectons, there may have been a very
precious few others. Then the vast
majority of us lived north of Eigh
teenth St, and most of our churches
were down town.
Thirty years ago did not offer to
the race as big life as the present day,
but thirty years ago has in memories
casket pearls, diamonds and precious
reminiscences of a life that was
sweeter and purer.
Board walks, cobblestones and cabs
make a picture a bit grotesque, as
compared to cement asphalt and taxi-
cabs but they were the best we could
get at the time and we got along -very
well.
The Old Settlers cherish these fond
memories, and it is a treat indeed to
hear many of them tell reminiscences
of 'the South Side extending no further
than Twelfth St and about the stock
yard north of Eighteenth St west of
Dearborn. Then there were only a
few hundred of us living in this great
city by Lake Michigan, the inland sea.
For the past two years they have
been holding- their anniversary, (an
nual of course), at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Pelkey. 5401 South Wa
bash Ave. The writer cherishes very
fondly the memory -of these two festsl
occasions and it is not saying enough
to Claim them as. the best representa
tive group of sturdy, honest Christian
people to be found anywhere in any
race. These meetings present a gol
den thread sf friendship that is im
perishable. A kinship like that ol
Jonathan and David of Naomi and
Ruth.
ured in the hearts of the members.
Keeping trace of one another is the
idea, and giving strong assurances of
its care and protection to the mem
beis is bordering closely upon the
ideal.
On the occasion of these anniver
saries the host and hostess with their
two very beautiful daughters have set
a feast worthy of extensive descrip
tion. They have a large and very
commodious home, elegant in all of
its appointments, then just back of
this pretty home is a large lawn fifty
feet wide and a hundred feet deep,
provided with swings, park benches,
chairs, tables and etc There, where.
when the session is at an end, assem
bled the astonished multitude, at least
two hundred and fifty members and
visitors who arc treated to every thing
the market affords, abundant in pro
fusion, luxuriant, and you go away
from the scene, such a gathering of
old friends presents, with the noble
thought given a new birth in your
soul that it is attributable to their
excellent qualities that make Chicago
what it is to the Negro of America.
By WM. ANTHONY AERY
Hampton, Va. That ignorance is
costing the United States at least $15,
000,000 each day and that the South is
bearing a large portion of this bur
den were the opinions expressed re
cently by W. T. B. Williams of Tus
kegee Institute, who is a field secre
tary of the Jeancs and Slater Funds,
at the opening session of the fourth
annual minister's conference, which
Dr. James Hardy Dillard of Char
lottesville. Va.. rector of William and
Mary College, member of the General
Education Board, and president of the
Jeancs and Slater Boards, called at
Bettis Academy (Alfred W. Nichol
son, president) near Trenton, S. C
To reduce this ignorance among the
colored people of western South Caro
lina there must be waged, according to
President Nicholson and his loyal,
self-sacrificing, hopeful associates, a
vigorous campaign for an intelligent
ministry and teaching body.
Bettis Academy has become, during
the past forty years, a center of edu
cation and religion. It is a beacon
light to which white and colored peo
ple alike look with hope, comfort and
satisfaction. The four-day ministers'
conference of over two hundred and
the four-week summer school of sev
eral hundred teachers are social forces
for good that have won the respect
and favorable consideration of white
and colored people of all grades.
SOUTH CAROLINA'S PROGRESS
quote President Nicholson. A min
ister from Saluda County (made mem
orable to the members of Doctor Dil
lard's party, because of the unexpected
visit of a number of leading white
business men. who made a round-trip
journey of 50-odd miles over rough
roads, to plead for funds for a Negro
chonn declared that the conference
t Bettis Academy was a "God-sent
thing" to him as a community servant
This man "pastors" 3 churches, with
a total membership of 1,500, and has
to travel 21 miles to reach one church
and 6 miles to reach another. An
other minister expressed thanks for
his power "to bring peace out of con-
'!On" in a community in which he
has lived for 53 years. Another min
ister declared that Doctor Dillard's
generous service had convinced him
"that some white folks have religion."
TEACHERS AND MINISTERS
CO-OPERATE
PROF. KERLIN ACCEPTS
SPLENDID POSITION
The secretary keeps a record, and
Sa:HeoekJfca Mkelufl, Jr., -Malreai Aer -aawl report which s'al
W)t ImmH, TMur .Fortune, W. J ways repktc with interest aad treaa-
Prof. Robert T. Kerlin whose open
letter of protest addressed to the gov
ernor of Arkansas against the execu
tion of the -twelve colored men con
victed in connection with the Phillips
County riots of October, 1919 led to
his dismissal from the Virginia Mili
tary Institute, has recently accepted
the headship of the Department of
English at the State Normal School
at West Chester, Pa.
Although himself a Southerner,
Prof. Kerlin refused to remain silent
at what appeared to him a great trav
esty on justice and his letter uncom
promisingly arraigned the governor of
Arkansas, the trials of the colored
men, and the wholly unfair conviction
of the men who, daring to protest
against the share-cropping system un
der which they were being robbed,
were accused of plotting to "mas
sacre" white people. This letter re
ceived wide-spread publicity and re
sulted in airing the Arkansas cases in
a way that was exceedingly distaste
ful to the Arkansas authorities. His
summary dismissal followed the pub
lication of Mr. Kcrlin's letter.
The acquisition of this new and
better position in a state in which
scholarship and honesty are more
highly regarded than Virginia is a
step on which Mr. Kerlin is being
heartily congratulated
For more than three years Trof.
Kerlin has been a strong supporter of
this newspaper and it will follow him
to his new home in Pennsylvania,
and with his hosts of other friends its
editor is indeed greatly delighted to
learn that he has been honored with
a splendid educational position north
of the Mason and Dixon Line.
"MEBBE
JEDGE,'
SHE DIDNT LIE,
SAYS NEGRO OF
HIS DEAD WIFE, "BUT
Moberly, Mo. "Judge, I don't
think she may lie, but she sho' didn't
tell the truth she was jes' misin
formed." This droll yet solemn reply came
from the lips of John Williams, col
ored, in court Saturday from a fever
ish scent of excitement in which Mrs.
Jack Williams, also colored, dropped
dead in the witness chair while testi
fying against Williams. A heart at
tack caused the witness' death.
Williams was charged with having
disturbed the peace. He was placed
on the stand after quiet was restored
and asked if he thought the witness
had died "with a He on her lips." To
this cae Williams' respectful reply.
He was released.
That the colored people of South
Carolina are receiving more and more
consideration in the matter of pub
lie school facilities was shown by the
presence of, and helpful address from
J. B. Felton, Columbia, S. C, who is
the State supervisor of colored schools
and who during two and .a half years
of service has secured admirable re
sults in the form of more and better
schools for worthy colored citizens.
Professor Felton brought the Negro
ministers and teachers the regard and
respect of State Superintendent Swear
ingen, who has again and again shown
his willingness to work hard to secure
more public funds for colored, as well
as white schools.
Professor Felton stated that in 1920
21 there had been completed in South
Carolina 38 Rosenwald schools.
Eleven more were completed before
December 31, 1921. From July 1, 1921
to June 30, 1922, 40 more Rosenwald
schools had been completed. In short,
89 new Negro rural schools had been
built within two years. These schools
are comfortable, sanitary, well-equipped
buildings. Some 2,000 colored
teachers in South Carolina have been
receiving training for their work in
10 summer schools, including the
school at Bettis Academy, which is
directed by Professor Henry P. But
ler, who like his co-workers, is putting
his life unreservedly into his work of
serving the 'children of a needy race.
POWER OF NEGRO MUSIC
As a wonderfully rich background
for all the addresses at Bettis Aca
demy, whether these addresses deal
with personal experiences or with
good counsel for the young or inex
perienced, there is the heart-music of
a people emerging from darkness to
light and from ignorance to knowl
edge. Again and again there came a
soul-stirring chorus "Take your bur
den to the Lord and leave it there."
The prayer for new light was con
stant "Let the ljght from the light
house shine on me." The good tidings
of a new day had many heralds "I'm
going to tell about Jesus wherever I
go." The tall to duty was constant
ly sounded "There's somebody
knocking at your door." Prayer and
aspiration were dominant motives
"Every time I feel the spirit moving in
my heart, I will pray."
DOCTOR DILLARD'S SERVICE
Doctor Dillard and his co-workers
brought to these earnest Negro minis
ters such help as they could within
four days help in sermon-making, in
keeping records and handling funds,
in managing their correspondence, in
relating the church to neighborhood
needs, and in interpreting the Scrip
tures with good judgment Associ
ated with Doctor Dillard were Dr.
James D. Gregg, principal of Hamp
ton Institute; B. C Caldwell and W.
T. B. Williams, field secretaries 61 the
Jeanes and Slater Funds; Jackson Da
vis, field agent of the General Edu
cation Board; T. C Palmer, superin
tendent of Sunday school work in
South Carolina, an Alabamian who
knows and loves colored people; and
others who had first-hand knowledge
of Southern conditions and problems.
The Negro ministers of western
South Carolina have felt that "Doctor
Dillard has tried to reach the un
reached and to help the unbelped," to
Rev. Dr. Silas X. Floyd of Augusta,
Ga., in his address on "The Aims of
the Negro Preacher" declared that
those who act as race leaders must
modify the present program, carried
out by so many men, of making peo
ple shout, of merely "getting" people
into the Church, and of seeking popu
larity. He referred to Christ's method
of teaching through His preaching, of
saving men for service to others, and
of speaking the truth in boldness and
in love.
Professor Butler, who hails from
Oklahoma, outlined the work which
teachers have been doing six hours
every day, regardless of heat, to pre
pare themselves for a better grade of
teaching service to "a happy, faithful,
struggling, working people." He de
clared that the conference at Bettis
Academy is making Negroes more
Godly and law-abiding at a school
which is built on faith and is sprung
from the sand-hills of South Carolina.
B. C. Caldwell referred to the con
structive work in Negro education
which has been done during the past
eleven years by strong and well
trained white Southern men who have
served in thirteen Southern States as
supervisors of Negro schools. N. C.
Newbold of Raleigh, N. C, State su
pervisor of Negro schools, spoke on
"The Relation of Spiritual Growth to
Educational Progress." He declared
that the time is soon coming when
people will be willing to spend more
money on churches and schools and
when the ministers who believe in
education can be of even greater serv
ice than they arc now to the cause of
education.
NEED OF TRAINED LEADERS
W. T. B. Williams reported on the
work of summer schools for Negro
teachers and called attention to work
at the following centers: Tuskegee
Institute, Montgomery, Selma, Hamp
ton Institute, Petersburg and Nash
ville. "There has been a marked in
crease of public interest in the train
ing of colored teachers," said Profes
sor Williams. "The masses of Ne
groes must be educated in public
schools. Negroes can only meet ef
fectively the future as they arc intelli
gent. Through increased intelligence
wc shall get better church members
and better farmers."
Rev. G. Lake Imcs of Tuskcgcc In
stitute declared that people, whether
unlettered or educated, are hungry for
spiritual gifts by which they must live.
He made a plea that all Negro minis
ters should Help their congregations
to understand God better and to do
this they must imitate the teachers by
studying more thoroughly the best
methods of doing their every-day
tasks. He placed upon the teachers
the burden of helping the ministers
through the Sunday-school work
which needs everywhere to be done
much better than it is being done.
Prayer L'fe of, Negroes
At six o'clock every morning the
ministers met for a service of song
and prayer. The petitions that were
raised were for strength, courage, and
confidence in the white man. Some
men poured out to God their longing
for a release from constant misunder
standing and mistreatment, from the
unending burden of struggling for
bread with no outward sign of reward,
and from the white man's contempt
Others gave thanks that through
prayer they had won victories over
selfishness. Still others gave in quaint
and picturesque language an account
of their earthly stewardship. All who
prayed talked earnestly with God in a
manner which all men and women
would do well to ponder over.
Negro ministers and teachers -at
Bettis Academy live under the influ
ence of self-sacrificing leaders. They
gladly come together fox worship and
study. They deepen the best white
people's fundamental belief that Ne
groes are kind, patient, loyal. Godfearing.
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HON. DANIEL RYAN
One of the Most Popular Officials of Cook County, Who Is Dead
Sure of Being Re-elected As One of the County Commissioners
At the Election in November.
PLAN ADOPTED IN AFRICA,
COMMISSION IS TOLD IN AN
NUAL MEETING
BIui- Ridgr. C. (Special to The
Broad Ax). That the plan of con
ference and cooperation now being
worked out in the South as' a means
of solving inter-racial problems is
destined to lead the world in this field
was the statement of Dr. Thomas
Jesse Jones, noted Nociologist. before
the annual meeting of the Commis
sion on Inter-Racial Cooperation, in
scsMon here last week. Dr. Jones re
cently returned from a trip to England
and a tour of Africa, stated that the
greatest interest was everywhere ex
pressed in the Commission's method
f dealing with race relations, and
'iat General Smuts, of South Africa,
ii learning about it immediately took
t- jin to apply the method to the acute
.ne pioblvm faced by the British in
"ojth Africa.
i he meeting of the Commission was
attended by more than fifty outstand
ing Southern loaders, men and women,
and was presided ocr by John J.
Eajian o! tlanta. prominent manu
facturer. Dr. Will W. Alexander. Di
rector of the Commission, pointed out
in the opening addrcs.s that it has no
program of race relationships to put
over on any section or community,
but that it only suggests a simple.
effective plan by which the best peo
ple of each tatc or community may
solve their own problems by the meth
od of frank conference and coopera
tion. Reports of state secretaries indi
cated that effective work is being done
in everj' state in the South except one,
and in hundreds of communities, re
sulting in better understanding be
tween the races, mob prevention,
health improvement, better schools
and safer conditions generally. Wom
en leaders of various pra denomina
tional and club group., "ported that
a vast deal of work is being done
through these agencies toward secur
ing better educational, religious and
home conditions for Negroes.
Dr. J. W. Perry, of Nashville. Tcnn.,
Home Mission Secretary of the M. E.
Church, South, Prof. L. M. Favrot,
Director of Rural Schools, Louisiana.
Dr. W. Russell Bowie, of Richmond,
and Bishop George Clements, of Lou
isville, were added to the Commission.
Among the new lines of work pro
jected was the creation of a bureau of
publicity to meet the growing demand
for information, about the movement
Cintr.il Committee tor Mission Stud
have united in issuing a series of
graded tct-books on rae relation,
with a number of others r commended
for supplementary work. Most ot the
missionary organizations hae pro
vided also for the creation m each
local society of a committee, to give
especial attention to this matter
It is significant that nearly all the
text books were prepared by South
erners and that the executive officers
of the Federal Council Commission
are all Southern men. indicating that
the South is leading in the effort to
find a thoroughly Christian basis for
the future relations of the races
THE EASTER LILY CLU" "
POSED OF MANY C
BEST WOMEN IN TH
WON AN IMPORTANT XC .
VICTORY IN THE MU' ' l
COURT OF CHICAGO 1T
WEEK.
CHURCHES TAKING UP INTER
RACIAL PROBLEMS
Study Courses Prepared for Thou
sands of Groups. All Protestant
Denominations Participating
The suits against the E -
Club, heretofore filed by Ationieji
Ellis & Westbrooks for and on behalt
of Mrs. Marie Duvall and Mrs. Anna
Bartley. were heard by his honor
Judge Gualano, on the 8th instant
The court entered its finding m favor
of the club in both cases. His honor.
Judge Gualano, remarked that the
club was a charitable corporation and
was a power for good among is mem
bers and that it was very apparent
that it was the club's desire and in
tention to handle all the affairs be
tween itself and 'ts members in the
most fair and honorable manner, as
evidenced by its continued existence
for over nine years last past The
courts then held that Mrs. Duvall and
Mrs. Bartley had no claim against the
club and pudgment was so entered
The Easter Lily Club was repre
sented by Attorney Ralph W. Mar
row. Mrs. Emma Smith, president of the
Easter Lily Club, and Mrs. Mary
Harsh, its first financial secretary,
were the only two of its officers who
appeared in the municipal court in
connection with the trial of the two
cases referred to above. Attorney
Harris B. Gaines, assisted Attorney
Richard E. Westbrooks to put up a
stiff fight against the Easter Lily Clab.
but Attorney Ralph W. Marrow head
ed them off and won the day for the
Easter Lily Club.
The Easter Lily Club has been m
existence well on to ten years. It has
more than three thousand members
and during that length of time it has
accomplished a great deal in a charit
able way for its members.
Nashville, Tenn, (Special to The
Broad Ax). What many consider the
most hopeful development in the
realm of race relations in America is
the fact that all the great Protestant
denominations, with a membership of
nearly thirty millions, are uniting in
the study of the problem with the
view of finding a Christian solution.
The Federal Council of Churches
has appointed a Commission on the
Church and Inter-Racial Relations,
which is actively at work seeking to
promote the cooperation of all church
groups in the effort to bring about
better conditions. In addition, the
question will be studied this year in
many thousands of missionary groups
and study classes, with an aggregate
membership running probably into
millions. To this end the Missionary
Education Movement, the Council of
Women for Home Missions and" the
LEAVES FOR OHIO
M. T. Bailey, pres.. The Bailey
Realty Co., and Mgr., The Milton
Mercantile Agency, 3638 S. State SU
left the city Sunday in company of
about one hundred delegates to the
15th annual session of the National
Grand Council of A. U. K. & D. of A,
which be in session at Columbus,
Ohio, from Aug. 7th to 11th. Mrs.
Eliza Jackson, State Grand Queen of
Illinois was in charge of the party
with the assistance of Mr. Bailey.
NEGRO NOMINATED FOR
PEACE JUSTICE
St Louis. Crittenden Clark, a Ne
gro lawyer, won the Republican nom
ination for one of the justices of peace
in the primary Tuesday, the official
count completed showed. In &c
event of his election he would be the
first Negro to hold a judicial ofice
in Missouri.
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