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mm if l*A I i 1 i 4'i V-'J &^M^f. THE APPEAL nN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ISSUES WEEKLY J. .ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER it ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 301-2 Court Block, 24 E. 4th st. 0. Q,. ADAMS, Manager. PHONE: N. W. CEDAR 5649. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE 2H12 Tenth Avenue South .1. IV. SELLERS. Manager. Entered at the PuNtofflee In St. Paul Minnesota, as Hecond-clattn mall matter, June 0, 1SS5, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. TERM S, STRICTLY IN ADVANC E: SINGLE COPY, SINGLE COPY, SINGLE COPY, One Year $2.40 Six Months 1.25 Three Months.. .65 Remittances shouIV be made by Expre&d Moie Order, Post Office Money Order, Re gistered Lettei or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional parts of a dollar. Only one cent and two cent stamps taken. Silver should never be sent through the mail. It is alm st sure to wear a bole through the envelope and be lost or else it may be stov len. 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Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921. AFTER FORTY YEARS. For forty years the editor of THEans, APPEAL has battled with pen andJews, tongue against the rising tide of race prejudice, discrimination, injustice and mob-murder. He has seen state governments and national administrations quail and tremble before the onrushing waves of hellish hate. The so-called Christian church has stood still and dumb before the bru talities of a Godless land. Many contemporaries have given up the fight for justice and equality, but many yet live who will never yield to the oppressor,, and so long as there are even a dozen determined souls who have swrorn to do or die, the fight will not be in vain. The way is dark and the work is made difficult by the foe within, but victory will come. It can not be that the present infamous conditions will continue forever. Our children and our children's children will reap the benefits of our labors of today. We are still unafraid tinue the fight. APPEAL OPPOSES ARMY COLOR LINE. THE APPEAL wrote the Secretary of War for information relative to the segregation of colored Americans in the United States army. The fol lowing is the reply: WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON. Mr. J. Q. Adams, Editor "THE APPEAL," St. Paul, Minnesota. Dear Sir: I am in reecipt of your tetter of May 14th, in which you take excep tion to the idea of organizing colored troops into a separate division for National Guard service. In reply I may say that although the separate organization of a colored division has not been ordered by the War De partment for peace time National Guard service, it is strictly in ac cordance with the policy of this De partment that colored units shall be organized into complete and separate divisions whenever the necessity arises for the formation of such units in time of war. This policy is based upon the experience gained by the War Department throughout our country's military history. I was carried out during the World War in the organization of the 92d and 93d Divisions which saw overseas service, and I $m surprised that this plan ZV^ THE SIN OF SILENCE To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on pro test. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in- quisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines' decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.Ella Wheeler Wilcox. which met with such thorough ap proval at the time should now be objected. I think that you must have been incorrectly informed as to the Warment Department's attitude on this ques tion for years is the first criticism of this policy which we have received. On the other hand this office has rea ceived numerous letters from colored ^citizens endorsing the organization of combat divisional units of colored membership and objecting to the fact that the War Department has found it necessary (in view of limited ap propriations and the difficulty of training units scattered over wide areas) to restrict for the present the organization of colored troops in the National Guard to those units that operate directly under orders of the Corps or Armyj Commanders and which do not enter into the composi tion of a division. Very truly yours, (Signed) JOHN. W. WEEKS, Secretary of War. This is the reply of THE APPEAL St. Paul, Minn.,- June 28, 1921. ,to Secretary Weeks: Hon. John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Sir: I have received your letter without date written in reply to (my letter of May 14, asking information relative to the formation of a separate color ed division of the National Guard. While I am pleased to learn that no such organization has been ordered for peace time, I regret to hear that it is the policy of the War Depart ment to organize separate divisions at any time, either in peace or war. The matter of organizing colored soldiers into separate units is funda mentally wrong, and I believe uncon stitutional. It is a wrong which has continued since the organization of colored troops, but the continuation of a wrong does not .make it right. It is a wrong which the World War, fought as it was claimed "to make the world safe for democracy," should have righted. It is wrong because it is undemocratic. It is wrong because it takes the colored soldiers out of their proper places in the" states in which they live and makes them a segregated part of the Federalized National Guard. It denies them their rights as citizens of their respective states and forecs them into a special segre gated status which is not applied to other groups of Americans, such as Germans, Irish, Russians, French, Poles, Spanish, Portuguese, Danes, Swedes, British, Austrians, Hungari Serbians, Bulgarians, Belgians,, etc. and it is not applied to Indians,' Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Javanese, East Indians, Burmese, and other colored races i If the colored man is a citizen, he dent Harding. We trust this is not is entitled to ALL the rights of citi.! true, but await further developments. zenship and this includes the right! to be on an absolute equality with! all other citizens. It -is unjust for S the government to single him out! from the various elements compose American citizenship and which' place upon him the badge of a^pariah +r\r W may come in by the thousands, to the end that you may be induceJ ti change this policy of your predeces sors, Very truly yours, J. Q. ADAMS, Editor THE APPEAL. a part it can be done by executive order. Possibly the people of Georgia Let us stand toegther for the abso- imagine that they are real patriots, kite abolition of the color line in Anyway they had a great Fourth of American citizenship. July celebration at Union City in that THE MAN WHO DARES vV HERE'S TH E OFFICIAL DATA. A correspondent who writes from Georgia says that he doubts the state in THE APPEAL editorial on "Special Assistants," that former Sec retary of War Baker did not appoint colored assistant secretary of war.the He claims that he read it in a num ber of papers at the time. Well, here are the facts, being a true copy from page 64 of the OFFICIAL REGISTER of the i' UNITED STATES* 1917 Compiled and Published by the Detook partment of Commerce, Bureau of the Census Washington 1918 Newton Diehl Baker, of Ohio, Sec'y. Compensation, $12,000 per annum. OFFICE OF SECRETARY Benedict Crowell, Assistant Secretary, $5,000. John C. Scofield, Assistant and Chief Clerk, $4,000. Ralph Hayes, Private Secretary to Secretary, $2,500. Frederick P. Keppel, Confidential Clerk to Secretary, $1,500. Stanley King, Confidential Clerk to Secretary, $1,200. Emmett J. Scott, Confidential Clerk to Secretary, $1,200. 5 THE APPEAL prides itself on the accuracy of its. statements. When you see it in THE APPEAL it's so. Next! IS IT A MESS OF P*OTTAGE? The President has nominated Hen ry Lincoln Johnson of Georgia as Re corder of Deeds of the District of Columbia and it is the first presi dential nomination of a colored man made so far. It is just, and proper that Johnson should receive this recognition as he is the Georgia mem ber of the Republican national com mittee, and members from other states have been given better places. But there are intimations that Johnson has been given this place with the understanding that he rewhich linquish his party leadership in Geor gia and, the Atlanta papers say that the party is to be reorganized in a way "to ensure white supremacy for all time." And that this is to beachieve done by express command of Presi- CENTENARY OF MRS. EDDY. On July 16, Christian Scientists in worl centen caste. Baker Eddy, founderaof the cult.in- I am sorry to learn thaonVI?te% flMM*on *A +i,Q4- ,r^ u ~J, fluence American thoughA and character. And this is especially true PROTEST AGAINST INJUSTICE We trust that our editorial! friends Science has been true to the teach will print strong editorials and write wgs of the meek and lowly Nazarene. letters to the Secretary of War pro- There is not a single segregated col- testing against the color line in the' ored Christian Science church in theestablishes army, and advise the writing of let- world, the adherents of various races ters of protest to every cabinet mem- and colors meeting toegther in true ber portesting the color line in the Christian harmony, various departments. And ask the We will con- President to abolish segregation where' I honor the man -who in the consci entious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts^of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.Charles Sumner: &*-' J^^^2ib& & & *& & U.'^ if &'* *&-. jSw'ie&'V w^/'-t- celebrat.e they oft thee birtdh of Mrs Mar have had wholesome am It is not necessary to be a Chris- first to protesft against this wrong,' tian Scientist to concede that its ll I in matters of race and color, While the orthodox Christians have turned from the Christ to bow down before the god of race prejudice, and jhave segregated their fellow Chris tians because of color, Chirstian FOURTH,"IN "JAW JAW." TH E Ljti-i'lW rtate. Again perhaps they think that hey are Christians, as they opened :he proceedings by singing, "All Hail he Power of Jesus' Name." And then the "jaw-jaw" began with .a talk by Senator Tom Watson, who sarcas tically criticized the federal reserve board, William Gi. McAdoo, former -secretary of the treasury, liberty bonds, President Harding, former President Wilson. Then came this gem: "If your Uncle Sam has $5,000,- 000 to give Liberia, then he's got it to give Georgia negroes, and if they got it, we'd get the most of it." AndRepubliacn so on. Then Governor Hardwich appeared upon the scene. He .declared that the signing of the Declaration of In$e pendence meant more than the crea tion .of a new nation. "It meant the creation of a new political dispensa tionone of equality and freedom of man." "The right of free speech, the freedom of the press and equality are fundamental rights." Hardwick talked like a genuine American until the last lap of thenot speech, when he said: "God Al mighty made this a white man's country and by His splendor and grace we will keep it so." Of course the historic fact that God made this Indian's*country and Europeans stole it from the Indian and also turned it away from God, did notand worry Mr. Hardwick, he had to puthere the "negro" in somewhere. EXIT UNCLE TOM. The Bishops' Council of the A. M.and E. church, which met in Chicago, a strong stand against race prejudice and acclaimed the ministry o^ today as "banded together and standing four square, on the race question, and sounded the death knell of the Moten-Fijsher "pussy footing." Bishop C. S. Smith, courageous man that he is, declared amid great ap plause, that the men of the church have got to look the problems of the race in the face and fight them with the courage to do and die. He quoted from the last words of John Brown, "Without the shedding of blood, there is no reedmption for a people." He recounted the story of the menbest who had built the church by fight ing, and of the fighting boys who had gone overseas to help whip Ger many. He made it clear that the A. M. E. church wants no more "Uncle Tom" preachers. "EDITOR ADAMS OUTSPOKEN." Under the above caption The Rich mond (Va.) Planet hands ye editor a few bouquets anent our "Special As sistants" that we accept with thanks. Coming from the intrepid .editor, John Mitchell, Jr., they are doubly pleasing. "Editor John Q. Adams, of THEagain APPEAL published at St. Paul, Minn., is as 'true as steel' upon every ques tion affecting the rights and privi leges of the citizens of color in this country. We have before us an exgroup tract from his issue of June 11, 1921^ reads 'mighty good' to us. Even those, of us,- who may disagree with him as a matter of policy must admit that'he is fundamentally right, and that we as a people cannot permanent, success other than by following the lead of this dis tinguished leader and by heeding much that he has to say. THE APPEAL says: William H. Lewis of Massachusetts was appointed ASSISTANT ATTOR- NEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, a presidential appointment, confirmed by the Senate of the Unit ed States. Perry Howard of Missis sippi has been appointed SPECIAL' ASSISTANT to the Attorney General/ of the United States. Lewis was art assistant attorney general Howard is an assistant to the Attorney General. There is a great difference in the status. Lewis was an official How ard is an assistant to an official and has been assigned to special work on the claims of colored people against the United States. If the matter stopped with Howard it would not make^ much difference, but it affects the citizenship status of every colored person in the country and segregates colored people from every other group of American citizenship, and a dangerous precedent. "Whjle we are glad and appreciate the fact that Attorney Perry W. How ard got this appointment, the facts stated are true\ I is a precedent that will confront us before we are a year older. I shows that the pres ent Administration is already "pussy footed" and afraid to meet the issue. It is deemed inadvisable to launch a fight for the confirmation of a col ored presidential appointee at this time. If the Administration hesitates to do this now, with all power in its hands, it will pause before making a nomination later. THE APPEAL says further Now after 400,000 colored men served in the war "to make the world safe for democracy, and with the Re publican party, to which the colored voter has always been a faithful ally, in complete control of the :govem ment, it is Infamous that the party leaders ^should insult the people by giving inferior appointments, and it is humiliating to think that colored men will accept such places. I will be noted that the. men appointed are Southerners. Northern voters, who voted for the Republican nominees and whose votes were counted are not satisfied with what has been done. They feel that it would been better to have had nothing at all rather than inferior appointments, which tend to lower their, status as citizens^ Some high class colored men ought to get a few high class presidential appointments just as under former Republican ad ministrations. SS T?i?' We do not go so far as to advise that these appointments be not ae-Christians, cepted, but we do urge that they be passed over without being credited upon the bill of recognition, to which' we as Republicans are entitled. Let us have those presidential appoint ments in keeping with the support that we have vouchsafed this coun try and the Republican Party in par ticular. Thousands of eolored citi zens have vo]tes and they should see to it that the influence of these votes be felt to the extent that the white representatives from the^ northern States shall force this issue upon the Administration at Wash ington and the Republican leaders of the party in this United States of America. Strictly speaking though, Editor John Q. Adams has,outlined the proper course and has enunciated funadmental principles by which we all should stand,' regardless of the cost or the consequences in so doing." WORK ENOUGH HERE. Without questioning the sincerity of the pan-African propagandists we do believe such work is feasible at this time. To use a strong expres sion the eolored people of the United States are, "in a hell of a fix," just now. And again, the colored people of the United States are Americans and not Africans. Their duty is at home, God knows there is work enough to employ all the brains -and money the race can command for a thousand years to come. We have nothing to offer South Central Americans and West In dians except perhaps, race riots, lynchings, peonage, segregation, jim crow laws and the K. K. K. There is little chance to do anything in Africa. Why fritter away time and money chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. Would it not be better to clean out our own Augean stables before we attempt to clean up the world? When the United States has been redeemed it will be time enough to start to redeem other lands. FRIENDS. The writer reecntly overheard a black man, just from the South, say: "I think the Southern whites are the friends of my people." He was dirty, ignorant and degraded and ut terly unable to appreciate the differ ence between the North and the South, but there are men, living in the South who make some pretences to education who have said the same. Of course they were looking for the "good nigger pat." There area few white people, very few, living in the South, who are Christians and who are willing to ac cord to colored people all the rights of citizenship, but the great majority are not friends in any sense of the word, unless jimcrow laws and cus toms are evidences of friendship. And some of the most pronounced enemies of the colored people are black and yellow men who are con tinually saying things which make the whites [hold the whole colored in contempt, because no man can really respect another man who (believes himself to be inferior and makes public announcement of tftls belief. Some colored people denounce all white people., That {is unjust and wrong. Garrison, Lovejoy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Phillips and thousands of others were who practically gave their lives to prove their friendship. And today John Haynes Holmes and thousands of others are better friends to the colored groups than some who^ black in heart as well as in face, "cringe and bend the supple hinges of }he knee that thrift may follow .wning." AR JAPANESE, ADMIT COLORED. The Disabled Veterans of the World War, at their Detroit convention, voted for the exclusion of Japanese from the United States. Immediately after the passage of that resolution, another resolution was presented by a colored veteran from Louisville, Ky., opening the membership in the organization to all wounded soldiers "regardless of race or creed," and asking impartiality of the govern ment in dealing with them also. I was adopted by a large majority. THE JEWS, TH E CHRISTIANS AND THE MOHAMMEDANS. Speaking in the house of commons, Winston Spencer Churchill, colonial secretary of Great Britain, discussing the formation of an Arab state in Mesopotamia admitted that there was a graver problem in Palestine much smaller in a military sense. The Arabs feared that they would be swamped in a few years by immigra tion from Central Europe and Russia, and that the Jews would gain abso lute control of Palestine. He de clared, however, that THIS WAS QUITE ILLUSORY no Jews would be brought in beyond the number that could be provided for by the de velopment of the country's resources. And the Jews thought they would have a "home land" all to themselves. The Pope, head of the Catholic church, in an allocution creating three cardinals, "deplores the priv ileged position enjoyed by the Jews in Palestine which is dangerous,for[r' Christians." Addressing a number of young Jesuits about to start for the Philip pines, Archbishop Hayes of New York "regrets that the British government would not allow these young Jesuit priests to go to India ,sknply because they were o,f Irish birth." In the meantime Britain will rule Palestine and see to it that the Jews do not get complete'control, so the hope of a real Jewish "home land" goes glimmering. And the good old world will continue* on .its orbit utter ly oblivious of the rows^between the Mohammedans and Jews. a Genuine One-piece Porcelain Lining. NOT PAINT. sk MM' ib* FlorsheimLowShoes You'll find here those good-looking Oxfords at a price that is very low for such fine quality. Broguesball strapsall the latest colors, leathers, lasts and patterns take your choice of any style all one price $9.85. 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