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THE BROAD AX. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1922
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DR. M. A. MAJORS
November 11, 1922
Vol. XXVIL
No. 8
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ilL Under Act of'March 8. 1879.
WHAT HAS LEADERSHIP DONE
FOR THE RACE?
(By Dr. M. A. Majors)
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BOOK CHAT BY MARY WHITE
OV1NGTON, CHAIRMAN OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF COL-
ORED PEOPLE.
"THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO
CHURCH"
HON. EMMETT WHEALAN
Perhaps not less than fifty years
ago the race was in the hands of the
juggler, the carpet bagger poiuio".
the ignorant preacher and in many
cases still under the influence of master-class
of slaverj days.
Unused to freedom we did not
know how to be free. We had to be
long to somebody, at least it seemed
fitting that somebody should exercise
authority over as. We were menaced
at every step and on all sides. A1U it
appeared, were anxious to exercise
that authority. We were the easy
prey to anybody that had a glib
tongue and could grow eloquent on
the merest trifle, without the least
benefit to the race in any sense what
ever, and beneficial, if at all, to some
rasping voiced idiot ho could run
his tongue. This is the situation that
confronted the race when we were not
a decade removed from bondage.
The social juggler was of the opin
ion that the race would soon perish
from the earth unless we were shipped
hack to Africa. His contention was
that every blasted one of us shouldj
adopting the other alternative, be
come Greek and Latin scholars. Some
white statesmen setting up the flimsy
argument that a Negro's head was too
thick to learn, and if he did he would
never be able to translate Latin or con
gugate a Greek verb. The carpet
bagger saw showers of manna to be
rained fromv Heaven if the Negro
would just give himself up to the
Republican party. The ignorant
preacher had, a vision of the New
Jerusalem, and justified our deliverance
wholly on the faithful service to the
slave-master .and humble prayer.
Heaven was always his projective
point but it was indeed hard to get
to the haven of rest only by the col
lection" table. The master class saw
opportunities rife to garner in the
money made by the enfranchised
blacks, by letting farVns to them on
the shares an,d selling them foqd, cloth
ing, wagons, horses, mules, cows, etc
Everywhere it seemed we were be
tween the devil and the deap sea. To
Re-Elected Commissioner of Cook County
all intents- and purposes the Negro
was only to give all and get nothing
but what was chimerical. Nothing at
all offered him was of vital impor
tance except education. He was not
prepared for comprehensive knowledge
of Christianity, and will not yet be per
haps for a hundred years to come.
Reader, run your reflective spirit
back a few decades and cast a retro
spective thought upon the race's
gloo:..y outlook. They all tell us that
no race in history has made the prog
ress we have made in fifty years.
Have we been humiliated worse than
any race? Have we been more cruel
ly mistreated than any race in history?
Have we wasted billions of dollars
foolishly spent to satiate an ignorant
mind with crazy assurances, nonessen
tials and immaterialities?
What has fifty years of the Repub
lican party done for us? What is it
doing for us now? What do you think
it is ever going to do for us?
We have about as much religion as
any other race but the silver tongued
clergy will not lift his voice in the
land appealing to us to save ourselves
from the wrath of the other races by
going into all kinds ofjbusiness. They
are humdingers when it comes to
raising huge rallies, and calling for big
collections, building fine churches and
lifting mortgages, etc.; when if the
truth were known our race's greatest
need is commercial activity.
We are treated in all kinds of fash
ion everywhere we turn. We are far
enough along in matters of human liv
ing to operate our own big stores.
Do you ever find your preacher wax
ing eloquent on buying goods from
your colored merchant, druggist, gro
cer, and book dealers? Do they ever
lift up their Christian voices in be
half of the colored milliners? They
read our newspapers; do you ever hear
them orate about the Negro news
papers, and calling upon you to sup
port the Negro press? We are physi
cal and our needs first must be physi
cal needs. Our spiritual needs will not
go lacking if the race becomes a pros
perous race Our first seeking was
Christ and the kingdom of heaven;
will it ever be meek and proper for
us to seek, like the Jew and the Gen
tile, the riches of the earth and its
fullness thereof?
No up-to-date minister will take of
fense at this because no up-to-date
minister is guilty of overlooking the
primal needs of his people whether it
be temporal or their spiritial welfare.
What we have said in the foregoing
applies to the ignorant preacher, re
garded as a menace, not onl tolerated
fifty years ago, but well nigh wor
shipped. There arc yet a few millions
of Negroes here in America where the
blinding light of knowledge yet seems
foolish to their benighted souls.
We are yet menaced and greatly
harrassed by the wangdoodle of every
character and description. Occasion
ally a gifted man or woman ordained
to lead, gravitates into his place, and
stands up manfully for the race. We
cannot have enough of such men and
women as there will ever be more
work than they can perform.
Step by step we have made prog
ress. Millstones are multiplying, our
horizon is expanding, truth. like Phoe
nix, is rising from its over burdened
ignorance. Ambition, aspiration,
backed by truth the eagle's wing and
we unsatisfied fly out into the great
world of sober, sensible, manly en
deavor, yes to even question the stars
for ourselves.
Our next exhalted achievement mus't
be a huge department store, for truly
wc arc advancing towards the great
era cf banks, life insurance, and gen
eral commercial activity.
By Carter G. Woodson. Ph.D. Pub
lished by the Associated Publishers,
Washington, D. C Price, with post
age, $2.15.
The amount of research shown in
I this book of t)r. Woodson's, gives us
anew a sense of his painstaking In
dustry. Wc did not realize that so
many records could be gathered to
gether of a church that was sometimes
only a group of ignorant slaves led
by an unlettered preacher, one of
themselves. These Negro con
verts. Christian martyrs as truly as
Wyckliffc and Hus "were whipped
until they stood in puddles of blood
drawn by the lashes inflicted upon
their bodies, while others, stricken
down by heavy blows or subjected to
mortal torture, went to their death
rather than cnsc to bear witness for
Jesus." By such as these, men whose
voices could not be hushed, the Ne
gro church was nurtured. And one
reads with amazement of its growth,
North and South, in the last hundred
years.
Like so many histories, the early part
of this book is the best. (There arc
those who say of Wells' "Outline ol
History." that it falls off when man
comes on the scene.) The story of
the early missionaries, white and
black, are significant. In the West
Indies, one learns that these preachers
were popular with the slaveholders
since they never taught the slave to
expect freedom, but counseled him to
keep the steady course of duty and
not to offend against the laws of man.
In the United States, however, the
early Baptist and Methodist, preach
ing to black and white alike, attacked
all evils, among them slavery. They
were not allowed to preach fcr long.
The story of the Negro church as
it developed out of the white church
and grew in independence is told in
much detail. It is not always an at
tractive story, there is bickering and I
jealousy and pompous intolerance.
But there is always growth. One
ccs, too, the inevitableness of the
break with the white denominations,
that first demanded acquiescence
with slavery' and later that the black
accept the white South ideals regard
ing his status. The dig at the "phil
anthropist," Thomas Jesse Jones, who
has helped many bootlicking Negroes
into office, and who kept Max Yer
gan from going as a missionary to his
own race in Africa, makes us realize
why the Negro church has kept an
eye always open with which to watch
the sanctimonious whites.
In speaking of the schools and sem
inaries, started for the Negroes in the
South, we learn that these Negro in
stitutions which have separated and
learned to supply their own neds
have made a step far in advance of
those dependent on the whites. "In
this day, when the northern philan
thropists are either withholding their
donations to Negro schools or re
stricting them to Hampton or Tuske
gec, it is difficult for some of these
establishments (those connected with
the whites) to eke out a suosisterice,
while the independent Ne'gro schools,
having had years of experience in de
veloping a following, find their pros
pects growing brighter from year to
year. Dr. Woodson quotes, among
others, the National Training School
for Girlst of which Miss Nannie Bur
roughs is the head, and the Virginia
Theological Seminar' and College un
der the direction of Dr. R. C. Woods.
I have been glad to notice that Dr.
Woodson does not use the collo
quialism, "Rev. Jones," or whatever
the name may be, but always says
"the Rev. Mr. Jones." The use of
reverend in place of mister was com
mon at one time with both races but
it is not used now, save perhaps in
the far South, only by the colored.
The book has an excellent index
and contains pictures of many col
ored clcrg)-mtn of the past and of today.
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HON. ALFAR M. EBERHARDT
Elected Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago
DELTA SIGMA THETA ENTERS
SORORITY HOME AT HOW
ARD UNIVERSITY
Significant., Stt0 Forward by Negro
College Women
BETTER RACE FEELING
A movement which is working for
good and not receiving the apprecia
tion it deserves is that of promoting
better feeling and clearer understand
ing between the white and colored
people of the South. The work is be
ing done by what is known as the
Southern Commission on Interracial
Co-operation, with headquarters 'in
Atlanta. Two-thirds of the counties
of the thirteen Southern States have
local organizations of representatives
of the white and colored people, re
spectively. Kentucky has recently
supplied two illustrations of the bene
fits which 'accrue.
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HON. ANTON X CERMAK
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At Madisonville, when a mob form
ed to seek out a drug-crazed Negro
who had murdered the Sheriff, the
commission met and it was soon clear
to everybody that the guilt was that
of an individual and not that ot a
class. The Negroes joined in the
search for the assassin. They de
plored the act. Sheriff Hanson had
been friendly to the Negroes and the
friendship had been reciprocal. The
guilty man was legally tried and le
gally executed. The mob had con
sidered "burning the Negro, section
and precipitating a race war. The
saner course was followed because the
inter-racial commission could 'appeal
to public sentiment in a sensible way.
At Corbin a Negro was wrongly
accused of cutting a white man. The
cutting was not even by a member of
the race of the accused. The ring
leaders of the mob which formed and
heVdcd all of the Negroes of the town
were sent to the penitentiary through
the efforts of the inter-racial commis
sion. ""
Mob law is anarchy. It brutalizes
the community. It lowers the stand
ards of whites and blacks. It dis
courages the ambitions of Negroes to
be- good citizens. It is anarchy and
has no place in civilization. Every
body knows these things, but it takes
organization to make the knowledge
effective. Louiseville Times.
Washington, D. C Another step
forward was made in the Negro col
legiate world when the Alpha Chap
ter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
at Howard University, on the first of
November, opened the doors of its
new Sorority home at 603 Howard
place, N. W Washington, D. C The
Sorority home is on the University
campus and affords to the members
of the Sorority who are privileged to
occupy it convenient access to the
University buildings and grounds and
opportunity to enjoy both the advan
tage of taking part in every phase of
student life at Howard and the pleas
ure of the close contact to be experi
enced in living together in their own
home.
After having made quite extensive
preparations, the girls of the Delta
Sigma Theta now find themselves in a
beautifully appointed Sorority home, a
place where each member of the or
ganization may go and feel that she
will find companionable friends at all
times. Dining hall arrangements are
also provided in the home and other
conveniences conducive to the com
fort of the girls have been supplied.
In addition to the cultured dis
cipline which the members of the
5iroritv observe, in keeoinz with the
ideals of their organization, the girls
arc fortunate in having Mrs. Ernest
Martin, house mother, and Miss Lucy
D. Slowe, dean of women of the How
ard University, to look after their in
terests and advise them in all neces
sary matters pertaining to the conduct
of the home. The officers of the Al
oha Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, which has undertaken the
commendable "work of conducting a
Sorority house, are Mrs. Ca.thryn G.
Robinson, president; Miss Eleanor
Harper, vice-president; Miss Arneita
Taylor, secretary: Miss Ethel Jones,
corresponding secretary; Miss Martha
Jones, treasurer, and Miss Virginia
Ruffin, chaplain.
In all the work which has been
done in connection with the arrange
ments for the Sorority home for the
Alpha Chapter of the Delta Sigma
Theta, much encouragement and help
by contribution and otherwise have
come from the honorary members of
the organization. Among the honor
ary members of the Sorority living- in'
Washington who were donors and
gave other assistance in providing the
home were: Mrs. A. H. Glenn, Miss
Nannie H. Burroughs, Mrs. Mary
Church TcrrelL Mrs. George W.
ter of the Sorority located at Wash
ington and composed of members of
the Sorority living in Washington
who -have graduated from Howard
and. other, schools where there are
chapters of the organization.
At present the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority has 19 chapters. It was or
ganized at Howard University in 1913
and since its organization its influence
has been carried to many of the
leading coeducational institutions
throughout the United States. Of the
19 chapters in the Sorority, three
chapters are occupying houses. It is
most interesting to note the rapid
growth and the helpful influence of
such fraternity organizations in the
life of the Negro college women.
addition to its interest for the general
reader, is even more than the previous
volumes especially adapted for use in
schools where Historical and Socio
logical course on the Negro are
given.
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Address The Negro Year Book Co.
Tuskeccc Institute, Alabama.
HOWARD ELEVEN SWAMPS
MORGAN COLLEGE BY
SCORfi OF 52 TO 6
(Special to The Broad Ax)
Washington D. C. The Howard
University football eleven won an
easy victory over Morgan College, of
Baltimore, Md., in the game played be
tween the two schools on the Howard
campus, Saturday, Nov. 4. the score
being 52 to 6. The "Blue and White"
team secured a touchdown in the first
minute of play at the opening of the
game, and made three additional
touchdowns in the first quarter. Two
of the four tries for extra points were
successful, one being gained with a
line play. The Howard varsity regu
lars were too strong defensively for
the Morgan College eleven to make
any headway, but the visitors man
aged to break through by use of alfIay with the ball in Carter's hands
ard to about the center of the field.
A successful forward pass by Howard
landed them on Morgan's 30-yard line.
A line play was then tried, which re
sulted in a 12-yard gain. Another
line play with Melton, left halfback
for Howard, carrying the ball, re
sulted in a touchdown. Carter again
failed in the attempted drop kick. For
the third time. Howard kicked off to
Morgan. The visitors were stopped
upon the run back with the ball on
their 15-yard line. Evidence of the
In-wiWcrcd state of mind of the Mor
gan College boys was seen in the first
play tried. In this play the attempt
was made to kick out but upon the
throw from Morgan's center the ball
went wild, striking the goal post and
landing in the hands of a Howard
player. By the use of two line piays.
the ha!! a worked from the 5-yard
line across Morgan's goal line for an
other touchdown, being taken m - -Melton.
A successful ' forw:
from Carter to Doneghy gave
the extra point.
Howard thi time permittt
pan to make the kick-off. I
was brought up the field by
to Morgan's 20-yard line. U, '
first play Doneghy took tl
across for the fourth touchdo . .;.
the first quarter. By the use of a line
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forward pass for a touchdown when
the Howard second-string men were
in action during the third quarter.
The game began with the Rickoff by
Howard to the Morgan boys, who
brought the ball to their 15 yard line.
The visitors, upon the second play for
gains, fumbled and Doneghy, fullback
for Howard, recovered the ball and
took it across the Morgan goal line
for a touchdown. A drop kick was at
tempted by Quarterback Carter, but
failed. Howard again kicked off to
Morgan. The visitors this time suc
ceeded in bringing the ball up to their
30-yard line. After three trials . for
gains, they were compelled to punt.
the extra point was secured. Mor
gan was ai?ain permitted to kickoff.
Howard brought the ball to about the
center of the field. When the refer
ee'-, whistle blew, announcing the end
of the first quarter. Howard had
brought the ball to the Morgan boy's
20-yard line. Just before the close of
the first quarter, Howard substituted
a complete team except for the quar
terback, who remained in the game.
With the beginning of the second
quarter, Webster substituted for Car
ter as quarterback. After a couple of
line plunges. the ball was taken from
Morgan's 20-yard line, where the play
began, across the visitor's goal line
the ball being brought back by How- for a touchdown by Whitted, How-
Cook, Mrs. Enunett J. Scott, Mrs. jturther references to the subjects dis
cussed. This is helpful to the student
who wishes to pursue further the in
vestigation of any particular subject.
The 1921-22 Ngro Year Book, in
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Re-Elected for the Third Tinie Judge of the Probate Court of
Cook County
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