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Editorial
GREETINGS TO THE PUBLIC
With this initial issue, the Detroit Tribune makes its
bow to the wait ini: public. It comes at a lime of local ami
national crisis, when our people in this city ami men ami
xvoiucu everywhere are grappling with serious economic
conditions, ami are stniggling to timl their way back to
better limes. The Detroit Tribune comes in the spirit of
service, seeking the opportunity to aid. to encourage *aml
to inspire the masses in their simple back to prosperity.
Despite present economic conditions, this publication
Ims tin* vision and the faith to I'orsee that prosperity
will return. The factory wheels will »ventually begin to
hum apt in, idle men >\ ill go back to work, business condi
tions will improve, ami in the not distant future, an lien the
St. Lawrence Seaway is opened to navigation, ships from
many nations will unload their cargoes at the docks ol
Detroit, and will depart laden with products manufactured
by Detroit’s busy, prosperous workers.
The Tribune is and always will be a clean, newsy, dr-J
pemlalde, clear-eyed, progressive newspaper, published
regular In every week, ami rej resent ini; and serving all our I
people, without prejudice or partiality.
The humblest wage-earners of the group, as well as our
business and professional people, deserve and shall always
receive the same opportunity of publishing their news items
and making themselves articulate through the medium ol
The Tribune.
As to whether or not Detroit has room for anew pub
lication of this ty pc aml policy, (lod and I lie hit lire will de
cide, and we shall be content with the decision.
We solicit the good will and sympathetic cooperation'
el every forward-looking, broad-minded citizen and organ-,
i/.atiou in Detroit and throughout Michigan, and we are
confident this good will and cooperation •will be given.
EASTER AND THE RESURRECTION j
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Faster is here. It is another anniversary of the Ilesitr
reefion. it brings the message of new hope to the world.
All nature has taken anew lease on life. The skies
ijn- air is more balmy, green blades of grass
* Hint j. woiprli ihe earth, buds on the trees
* *** i"• 1 • a’re returning from s-mlh-
Apbeings. who ha\e borne hardships and
jgj long winter, tire taking renewed cour
.§l i'll is season, thousands of people have observed Lent
and attended special religious cervices, who hitherto failed
to catch the spirit of Faster. Humanity is fast learning that
we can not forget tied, and continue to prosper, and that
spiritual riches are more enduring than mere material
weh I ill.
The Itisen t'hrist has completed the grave. Let us also!
rise in triumph from the graves of discouragement, depres
sion and despair in w hich we have been buried so long.
SOUTHERN JUSTICE ON TRIAL
A nos her chapter in the sensat ion at* Sent (shorn < *ase was
brought loti drmnatie climax at Decatur. Ala-, last Sunday. 1
when twelve white jurors returned a verdict of “guilty” •
against Haywood I’atterson. one of the nine Negro boys
charged with alleged criminal assault upon two while worn
en, Mrs. Victoria Price and Kilby Kates.
. From the very beginning of tin* trial, it was evident
that white public sentiment in and around Decatur was
prejudicial and unsytnpathetie toward young Patterson
and the other accused boys. In fad, the feeling against
them was so strong that the militia had to be called out to
prevent threatened mob vUdctietj. Attempts were even
made to intimidate attorneys for the defense, by alleged
threats to ride them out of town on a rail. Many of the
utterances attributed to attorneys for the prosecution were
outright appeals to race prejudice. Fiery crosses were
burned by certain citizens, but presumably not for the
purjioMe of lighting the way for justice
It is therefore not surprising that tin* jury should have
rdujered a verdict of “guilty.” Kit Hates’ sworn state
ments on tin* witness stand that the prisoner had neither
assaulted her nor the other woman, evidently flail but little
weight with the jurors; but all the world believes Kuby
Hates told the truth, and that young I’atterson and the
other imprisoned boys are innocent.
This white Southern girl, who had the courage to re
turn to Alabama and refute the false charges sin* Imd made
against the prisoner in the previous trial, has a clearer con
science today thau many of those individuals who strove so
ilkl-dro establish the guilt of the accused boys. Kuby Hates
woAUknever have taken this just course, if she had actually
Is»en oifftraged, und every fair-minded American knows it.
u After nil, Haywood Patterson and the other young men
in the Scottslmro Case am not the only ones on trial. South
ern justice, itself, is on trial. .
THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TRADE
ASSOCIATION
Among the many public-spirited organizations which
are quietly and effectively at work awakening ruce con
sciousness and stimulating business development among
our group in Detroit, the Hooker T. Washington Trade As
sociation stands out in bold relief, it is an organization
with which every progressive business and professional
member of our race in this community, should be aftlliuted.
It allordsa golden opportunity to our local leaders, not only
to strengthen their own economic position, blit likewise to
promote and safeguard the welfare of the masses to whom
ihey look for support.
Fmlcr the able and devoted leadership of its president,
Kev. William Peek, together with its other ollieers and
members, the Hooker T. Washington Trade Association,
during the three years of its existence, has to its credit a
splendid record of achievement. It has brought together
in the spirit of helpful co-operation, many of our outstand
ing business and professional men and women, and the
work is going steadily forward. Several entirely new and
promising business concerns, not previously operated by
members of our group in Detroit, have come into existence
as a direct result of tlit* stimulating intliienee exerted by the
Hooker Washington Trade Association.
Working hand in hand with the Trade Association is
a splendid auxiliary of organized women The Housew ives’
League, of which Mrs. William Peek is president. Groups
of these loyal housewives, in various parts of the city, have
formed themselves into Neighborhood Leagues, for the pur
pese of boosting Negro business and spending their money
where it will do i In* most to advance the race in an economic
way. We should have amative unit of the Housewives’
League in every local community, where large numbers of
our people reside.
To throw support to Negro business in this way is a
dui\ we owe the race. It is not a form of Isiyeott against
other groups. It is a legitimate and essential act of self
preservation.
The Hooker T. Washington Trade Association is broad
in spirit and policy, being dedicated to the service and ad
vancement of all worthy Negro enterprises in our com
munity, no mailer how small or how large they may be.
THE PHILIPPINES’ NEW GOV.-GEN.
We rejoice with Mayor Frank Murphy that destiny has
again smiled upon him, and given him a still higher place
in the sun. llis recent appointment by President Koosevelt
as < ioveriior-t ietieraT of t lie Philippines, was not only a wise
political act. but also an act of Providence. If the Presi
dent had combed tin* country with a tine-tooth comb, lie 1
could not have found a man better qualified than Minor
Murphy to till this important post.
As trial judge in the ease of Dr. (>. 11. Sweet, held in
Detroit some years ago. Mayor Murphy demonstrated his
josiire. his broad tolerance, his moral courage, and Ills ab
sence of narrow race prejudice.
In addition to the natives of the Philippines, who are
religioiisl\ div ided into ('at holies, Protestants and Moslems,
the population also embraces large numbers of (’hincsr and
•lapanesc. as well as Americans of both races. To govern
these hcirogciicoiis racial and religions groups, and admin
ister the affairs of the Philippines wisely and without fric
tion will not prove an impossible task for tin* many-sided
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Nailed to a cross, high on a hill,
The Son of God hangs mute and still.
And millions for whose sake lie died,
Are likewise being crucified—
Are you there? Are you there?
The sons of Mammon, cruel and cold,
Care not for God or man—but gold;
In greedy lust they rob and cheat,
And crush the world beneath their feet —
Are you there? Are you there?
They sit like tyrants on their thrones,
They least on meat, but feed us bones;
They forge new economic chains.
And make us slave to swell their gains—
Are you there? Are you there?
They strip us of our bonds and stocks,
And from ten-thousand auction blocks,
They offer up our homes and farms,
And send us forth to beg for alms -
Are you there? Are you there?
While Mammon hugs his money-bags,
Twelve-million jobless men in rags.
With hungry mouths and hearts that hate,
Are standing just outside the gate—
Are you there? Are you there?
High on a hill the cross still stands:
But Christ, with nail-pierced feet and hands,
Has come down from the blood-stained tree,
To lead mankind to victory
Are you there? Are you there?
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L WHAT OTHER EDITORS
SAY
The Scottsboro
Verdict
The verdict of guilty in the
Scottsboro, Alabama cane clearly
is based on race prejudice rather
than on the rules of law and jus
tice. Whether the prejudice exist
ed strongly in the minds of the
jurors or was »o manifest in the
community where the trial was
held that it intimidated the jurors,
or whether everybody except the
trial judge, who kept his head,
i-uuccumbed to the hysteric, are
points which are less clear. But
there is no doubt that the free
operation of impartial justice was
effectually stopped.
It does not follow from this
that the accuse! man and his as
sociates who are waiting their
trials are altogether guiltless. But
a very material doubt about their
criminal culpability was created
when one of tho two principal wit
nesses for the prosecution walked
voluntarily into court, declared
that ihe had perjured herself
when on the stand in a fomer
trial, and confessed, or at least
asserted that she never had been
criminally abused by the prisoner
at the bar, and that so far as her
knowledge goes, neither had her
woman companion.
Taking into account the gener
al repuutation of the two women
involved in the case, and the in
stances under which it was assert
ed they had been attacked, there
is not very much left of a rape
case after that, unless prejudice
hopelessly blinds judgment.
Indeed, looking back over the
general history of the Scottsboro
case, it seems unlikely that it ever
would have been heard of if the
accused persons had been white
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Lillian Thompkins, John Hugh
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cast. A group of Africans
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sembles, also a group of residents
of the International House.
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Amonreux, an orchestra under
the direction of Charles Elgar,
and other Chicago artists.
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tion there was an art exhibit of
recent art work of some Negro
urtistn, including Archibald J.
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thur Diggs, and Charles Sebreec*
instead of black. The probability
is that it would have been thrown
out of court at the start for lack
of reliable evidence.
Editorial reprinted from tho
Detroit Free Press.
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