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JULIUS F. TAYLOR
Editor and Pablahar
Associate Editor
DR. K. A. MAJORS
December 9, 1922
VoL XXVIII
No. 12
Catered as Second-Class Matter. Aug.
If, 1902. at the Post Office at Chicago,
IM. Under Act of March 8. 1879.
FRIENDS HOLD INTER-RACIAL
CONFERENCE
By Wo. Anthony Aery
Philadelphia, Pa. The Friends have
always stood fearlessly and faithfully
by men, women and children who
were disadvantaged but who were
making a brave struggle to find a way
out of their troubles. This spirit still
prevails, as was shown in the recent
conference which was heW. in the
Friends' Meeting House, Fifteenth
and Race streets, under the auspices
of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Committe. on the Interests of the Col
ored Race and of the Philadelphia
Inter-racial Committee.
Dr. Elbert Russell, director of the
Woolman School, Swarthmore, Pa,
presetted a resolution calling for an
open inter-ricial conference to dis
cuss methods of promoting inter-racial
co-operation. This resolution was
unanimously adopted.
A well-known Philadelphia Friend,
J. Henry Scattergood, presided at this
conference, which was called to con
sider "The Importance of Teaching
Modern Sociology Squarely;" "The
Preparation of Up-to-Date Text-books
for Civic Classes;" "How to Teach
Inter-racial Understanding and Co
operation;" "Qualities Needed m Civ
ics Teachers;" and "The Problem
of Segregation."
Anne Biddle Stirling, chairman of
the Philadelphia Inter-racial Commit
tee, referred to the fear and prejudice
in the minds of white people which
keep them from thinking clearly on
problems of race relations. Mrs. Stir
ling stated that altogether too manyJ
white children are given the idea tnat
the Negro as a class is dirty, ignorant
and lazy. She pointed out clearly the
need of teaching white children and
colored children, too about Negroes
who have made important achieve
ments. Principal Leslie P. Hfll of the
Cheyney State Normal School spoke
on "The Negro's Contribution to
American Life." "We must have
stated," he said, "those important
features of the lives of colored peo
ple about which we have heard too
little. Newspapers and magazines are
quick to exploit the negative aspects
of the race problem. Seldom do we
get any hearing" for the uplifting fea
tures of ther-Negro problem. There
is the deep-fixed conviction in the
minds of many white people that the
colored people of the United Stajes
are a worry, a problem, and an em
barrassment." Associate Editor Alice Dunbar
Nelson of the Philadelphia-Wilmington
Advocate, said: "Many children
receive their picture of the black race
through a picture of some Hottentot
which they have seen in an elemen
iarr geography. Every locality has
its history tinged by prejudices. There
is a prevailing need of giving children
the needed facts concerning Negroes.
We do not teach literature. We are
taught literature. Very often a good
poem has a high value la shaping hu
man' lives- Very often the wall of
white prevarication does not admit
coSored truth. We need to begin, with
little children by giving them correct
pictures of the contributions which all
groups have made to civilization."
The Nor Sosth sad the Negro
Dr. James Hardy Dillard, president
of the Jeanes and Slater Boards and
lector of William and Mary College,
ake on "How to Promote Inter-
xadal Understanding and Co-cpera-o."
' Dr. iDifard emphasised the f 61
lewiac'paiasV(l) The Federal Gov
eraateat ought -to help Negro edaca
Sxm. tfeoagh State orgaaisatioas. (2)
The advance -which has hea e
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HON. M. K.
He Was Fimally Elected as One of the Members of the Board of
A enors of Cook Ceanty, to the Great Delight of His
Heats of Frie&ds, After a Hard-Fought Battle.
who go about helping to improve the
public schools, received from public
tax funds $3,402. In 1921-1922 the
Jeanes teachers received from public
tax funds $114,521. In 1912 four
county training schools were estab
lished. The counties all together gave
for these connty training schools
(there were -three that finally ran
through the year) $3,334. In 1921-
1922 156 county training schools re
ceived from public tax funds $657,911.
Doctor Dillard pointed out that "the
great body of Southern people hate
lynching and want it blotted out." He
said that there are hoodlums every
where. North and South. He stated
that "education, religion, and public
sentiment are extremely important
factors in the adjustment of race
problems." He expressed his admira
tion for educated, refined, cultivated
colored men and women who live in
good houses and have good surround
ings but who are rudely handled by
public-service men. "These educated
colored people show great temperance
without servility and are indeed Chris
tians who exert unusual self-control.
If Jesus Christ is right, then the Ne
groes have taken the right line in be
ing temperate and patient I repeat
edly say to colored people, 'Don't quit
being Christians.'"
Negro Edecatioo. in Delaware
Dr. Joseph H. Odell, director of
Service Citizens of Delaware, in his
address on "Equal Educational Op
portunities for Negroes" said: "Pierre
S. duPont and I visited Negro schools
in Delaware week after week in 1919.
We found the Negro schools in de
plorable condition. A photograph was
made of every Negro school and every
Negro school was carefully measured.
We secured a complete picture of the
Delaware school system for Negroes.
We found that not a single Negro
schoolhouse was worth saving. The
Negro school houses were insanitary,
foul, and inadequate. During the
past eighteen months Delaware has
built fifty-one Negro schools with
ninety-three rooms. There has al
ready been completed $706,000 worth
of Negro schools. Under contract
now there are Negro schools which
will cost $215,000 in addition. There
are still nine Negro schools to be
built"
Dr. James E. Gregg, principal of
Hampton Institute, declared that men
and women are looking to Deleware
as a model State in careful educa
tional planning. Doctor Gregg stated
that the problem of raising the
level of education is that of working
hardest where the problems are worst
He pointed out that Negro education
must be undertaken for the interest
of both white and colored people.
Negro Education m Pennsylvania
Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, State super
intendent of public instruction for
Pennsylvania, who spoke on "The Re
sponsibility of the State for the Edu
cation of the Colored Race," traced
in some detail the Negro background
through 250 years of bondage. He
discussed the conflict of two import
ant ideas democracy and cUivery. He
stated that the Negro problem has al
ways been treated in the spirit of com
promise. "The principle of charity
has been eliminated from State public
school systems," he said. "There are
now constitutional provisions fof the
securing of educational facilities for
the free public-school .education of all
citizens. We should-open to colored
people the door of opportunity
through the public schools. The Na
tion faces the obligation of affording
Negroes educational facilities. Each
state has a similar obligation for the
education f Negroes within its bor
ders." CoL Fraaldm A. Deaisos, 4223 Vin
rmnnr a nam, Assists st Attorney
Geaeral Irwsaii, has for Ac past
week beaa f nfinni to his aene with
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SHEARIDAN
NEW YORK NEGRO PAINTER-
ARTIST WINS FAME IN PARIS
Albert Alexander Smith Wins High
Distinction at the Salon de Beauxil
let, the Suydam Bronze Medal and
the John Armstrong ChaHoncr
Prize.
Again our attention is called to a
member of our group who has aspired
to the uppermost realms of success in
the pursuit of higher learning. Albert
Alexander Smith, a lad in his early
twenties, born and reared in the San
Juan Hill section of New York Gty,
who began his career when a child
drawing pigs and cows to amuse his
playmates, now has the eyes of the
artists of the world upon him. He was
graduated from the DeWitt Clinton
High School and was awarded a schol
arship in ethical culture and by the
artistic guidance of Miss Irene Weir,
a niece of the late J. Alden Weir, the
academician, he has succeeded in at
taining, honorable mention all over
Europe. He has been abroad' since
June, 1920, and his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Smith, are looking for
ward to his visit home with great anx
iety. His proud parents are over'
joyed in learning of his wonderful
success and are receiving a host of
congratulations from their many
friends.
DONT THINK OF HELL AND
YOU'RE SAFE, SAYS COOK
Washington If you don't think
about hell there will be none, George
Shaw Cook, Chicago lecturer, de
clared at the Fourth Church of Christ,
Scientist, here.
"Christian Science shows that the
only hell is belief in the reality c
evil, matter, disease and death," Mr.
Cook said. "This hell, obviously, is
not in one 'place more than another
and the only way to keep out of hell
is to keep hell out of him out of his
thinking."
This new kind of hell may be all
right Editor.
Tke Best Cat?
CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGULAR
TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT
FOR THE BROAD AX, HAS COME
TO LIFE AGAIN AFTER BEING
LOST AWAY DOWN IN TEXAS.
Hillsboro, Texas. I am getting
ready to have ah Old Aunt Dolly time
Christmas, for i have been invited by
Mrs. Elvie L. Stewart and her hus
band to come and spend Christmas
with them, and I have accepted the
invitation, and they are going to have
turkey, o'possum, sweet potatoes,
hominy, bread and butter, and I am
told that the butter is to come from
Tuskcgee, and 1 expect to reach there
December 24, from California, and
what a time we are going to have.
But here-1 am in Texas, and this
week I am the juest of Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Jordan, and believe me, my
friends, I am stopping in one first
class home this time. Mr. Jordan
is a man of great experience, for he
was at one time a wild cowboy, way
out West and can place an apple on
your head and shoot it off with his re
volver without hitting you, and when
he desires he can hit you in the kill
ing spot every time. He is an expert
with a revolver. He is now the lead
ing butcher in this part of the world,
and he won the heart and hand of
Miss Martha J, Thurman, an accom
plished and educated woman who was
engaged in the school room until 12
years ago, when she resigned to be
come the wife of the prosperous
butcher, and now they are happy, with
two sons. He threw open his home
to entertain those who attended the
Central Texas tonference of the Afri
can Methodist Episcopal church, pre
sided over by Bishop William Decker
Johnson of Plains, Ga., and who is
without a doubt the Bishop of the
common people as I have told you be
fore, and who is doing big things
down here in Texas. Another con
ference is to be organized just as
soon "as the bishops meet in Colum
bia, S. C, next February. We are
all planning to be there.
It has been a pleasure for me to be
in this place and mingle with good
people. When I took my pen in hand
to write to you last week I was way
out in the country, eating chickens.
turkeys, "possums," potatoes and all
the other good things .to be found in
the home of a big wealthy farmer,
and that is where I was. I left there,
as you can see, and Bishop and Mrs.
Johnson accompanied me to Italy,
where I was invited by the Rev. Dr.
Prince, pastor of the Baptist church,
to make some remarks to the people,
and you will believe me when I tell
you they turned out in large numbers
to hear me.
I do not know as I have told you
about Rev. Prince before, for this was
my first time in Italy. He is an ag
gressive young minister who is des
tined to make the world know that he
has been this way. He is a fine
preacher, a good pastor, and is putting
up a church there that will be a credit
to any city or any people. He has
had flattering offers from Dallas, larg
er churches, more pay, but he desires
to do something among the people
who need him, and when this has been
accomplished then he may consider
other calls.
He stepped over into Paris, I1L, and
won the heart and hand of Miss Cecil
Thomas, who was at one time secre
tary of the Wood River Sunday school
convention, and she is one more good
shorthand writer. She is at the head
of the class. I had a fine time with
these young people and was sorry
when I had to leave them. They
treated me like a father. I have been
invited to return. Although Texas at '
HON. HUGH !ORRIS
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times may appear near the hot place,
yet they arc doing things down here.
Producing men and women. It takes
a man to live down here.
From Italy, I made my way to this
town, and reaching town I was sent
to my stopping place, and then I
found that the Rev. S. J. Johnson, D.
D., who is to be the next secretary
of Church Extension, had been here
ahead of me, or he had reached town,
left his regards for me and half dozen
very large apples, and believe me they
were just particularly fine. Rev. John
son had made a trip in Arkansas and
Oklahoma and reported that great
things were being done by the two
bishops, Ross and Parks.
Now, I was soon in company with
Bishop and Mrs. Johnson, and I want
to tell you that Mrs. Johnson is bring
ing things to pass. She is wonderful.
I spent Thanksgiving with them and
ate some real turkey down here in
Texas. In the same place where I
stopped were Revs. G. B. Young of
Houston, Texas; J. B. Butler, the
evangelist for the whole A. M. E.
connection, a wonderful man, and Rev.
H. S. Simms, pastor of Allen Chapel
A. M. E. Church, Ft Worth, Texas,
and the man who has announced that
he is going to give Prof. John R.
Hawkins a chase for the financial sec
retaryship. That will be settled at
the general conference. He is a man
of ability and worth.
He has been assigned to Fort
Worth for the third time, and I wish
you could have seen them people give
him a banquet and welcome reception,
for they are proud of the wonderful
work he is doing here. He is a man
who just makes friends, and I recall
when he was assigned here, or before,
the people got in wind of it and they
protested against his coming to Allen
Chapel, because people declared that
he was ignorant illiterate, and many
other things, but when he preached his
first sermon all this cloud was dis
pelled, and the people took hold of
the new pastor with love.
It looked like all Fort Worth want
ed to do him honor, and he is to be
found in everything that looks like
work or racial uplift and his money
is into anything that means racial bet
terment This reception and banquet
were to the pastor and his wife, hence
Mrs. Simms had a hand in it also, for
she is working to make things happen
here with her husband.
Some of the people who figured in
this were Mrs. Josie L. Moore, Mrs.
J. H. Stephenson, Mrs. J. W. Tfldon,
Mrs. P. V. Walker, Mrs. R. E. Jor
dan. Mrs. J. N. Seals, J. H. Jones, W.
D. Donifer, J. N. Seals, J. H. Jones,
Mrs. M. E. Jones, and the steward
and stewardess boards No. 1 and the
Missionary board all took part in mak
ing this a wonderful success.
They had a program, and I would
like to tell you something about it
Anthem by Music and Literary Gub;
prayer, J. H. Jones; chorus, M. and
L. Club; welcome, on behalf of the
church, C C Marion; welcome on be
half C M. E. Church, Rev. I. E. Rob
inson; solo and chorus, Gub; wel
come on behalf St James Baptist
church. Rev. J. H. Winn; Response,
by Dr. H. S. Simms, and then followed
march to the banquet halL Toast to
the pastor's wife by J. N. Seals, and
the presentation of bouquet of honor
by Mrs. Sal lie Bowens. I will not
give you the menu, but it was up to
date, believe me.
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COL. AUGUST W. MILLER
The Present Honorable and Up-to-Date Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Cook County Who Could Make a Winning Race
for Mayor of Chicago in 1923.
People who have been attending
banquets for years, declare that they
have never seen anything like it in
Allen Chapel. Mrs. J. W. Tildon de
livered an address on this occasion,
expression of love for the people and
for the pastor and his wife. She
spoke on the spirit of co-operation
which brought forth many applauses.
Now the new year has started, and Dr.
Simms has told them his plans for this
year. Big doings at the church until
next annual conference.
Texas people are getting ready to
go to the meeting of the bishops in
Columbia, S. G, in February, and it
is going to be some meeting, for the
candidates are going to be there and
make slates as far as possible, but no
slate will be made without the con
sideration of the Rev. Dr. Mance,
president of Allen University, Colum
bia, John A. Gregg, president of Wil
berforce University and S. J. Johnson
for the position I have spoken of be
fore in this letter.
Texas is full of men and then it is
full of candidates. Some will be left,
and some will be elected. I don't
know just what is what but I have
seen great possibilities in the Rev. E.
J. Howard, who is a presiding elder,
and one of the best-known men in
Texas. He is known the country over,
and is a man of ability. But I am not
talking for men now, yet it is my duty
to let you know how things are mov
ing along.
We are all glad to know that Dr.
Robert R. Moton has returned from
Europe and is once more ready to give
us information. He has done some
great things for us over there, and
he is doing greater things over here.
He is a man of great worth to the
whole race. He is going to have
something to say to the public in a
short time. I would advise that you
get to the Farmers' conference if pos
sible. Secretary Holsey is doing some real
work for the National Negro Business
League. God bless all of you now.
I will have to bring this letter to a stop.
I am in St Louis as you read this
letter, and you may address me in the
future 5922 Aberdeen street Chicago,
Illinois.
CHARLES E. STUMP.
LEADmG WHITE WOMEN
PLEDGE RACIAL GOODWILL
North Carolina Group Joins Southern
Movement for Christian Race
Relations
STRONG STATEMENT OF
PRINCIPLES
Special Emphasis on Protection of
Women, Children and Home; Mob
Violence Condemned
Atlanta, Ga. (Special to The Broad
Ax) Another important step in the
South-wide movement for better race
relations was taken when 18 repre
sentative North Carolina women met
in Raleigh in October, accepted mem
bership in the State Committee on
Race Relations, and gave out a vig
orous declaration of their principles
and purposes.
The personnel of the group was
most notable, including outstanding
leaders of the State Federation of
Gubs, the State Welfare Board, and
the big church organizations. It is
doubtful if there could be found in
the State another group of equal num
ber having as wide connections and
able to wield as great an influence.
'After a day given to earnest study
of the interracial situation, the group
drafted and gave to the public the fol
lowing statement:
"We are conscious of a world con
dition of restlessness in which race
friction plays a conspicuous part. We
cannot ignore the fact that this pre
sents a problem in which the South
is so acutely involved that we are con
scious that the eyes of the world are
upon us, questioning our course. We
cannot shirk the responsibility cf tak
ing up the challepge, grasping the op
portunity presented, seeking a solu
tion to this problem and demonstrat
ing it on our Southern sofl.
I "We believe that anrest existing be
tween two different races dwelling side
by side under the same economic sys
tem and the same government can be
lessened, and eventually dispelled by
a course of justice and fair play. When
one race exceeds the other in num
bers, in possessions and in opportuni
ty, there is but one solution. As a
Christian people we hold the elements
of that solution. It lies in the culti
vation of an attitude of fairness, of
good will and a conscious determina
tion to establish an understanding
sympathy.
"We believe that every human being
should be treated not as a means to
another's ends, but as a person whose
aspirations toward self-realization
must be recognized; that we must
cherish racial integrity and racial self
respect, as well as such mutual re
spect as will lead each to higher moral
levels, to mutual trust and mutual
helpfullness. We believe that in this
process certain values must be dsvel
oped and maintained.
"No family and no race rises higher
than its womanhood. Hence, the in
telligence of women must be cultivat
ed and the purity and dignity of wom
anhood must be protected by the
maintenance of a single standard of
morals for both races.
"The right of childhood
and safety, to the training .,
and mind in right habits and ' - '
in right purposes, is unc' a
The childhood of every racr -safeguarded,
for 'races mov -on
the feet of little children
"As a foundation for socw s.
for all races the family ideal must be
made possible by economic justice, by
religious sanction, by legal safeguards
and a single standard of morals.
"We believe that violence has no
place where people lend their support
in every possible way to the agencies
constituted by the people for the ap
prehension, trial and punishment of
offenders against society. We resent
the assertion that criminality can be
controlled by lawless outbreaks, and
woman's honor protected by savage
acts of revenge.
"We believe it our highest duty to
pursue these methods toward harmon
ious racial adjustment
"We believe that bitterness, resent
ment and strife will yield to mutual
trust only as we steadfastly cultivate
in both races these attitudes and this
faith in our common humanity.
"To these ends we pledge our-,
selves."
Similar organizations of women have
been effected during the last year in
Georgia, Alabama. South Carolina.
Virginia. Tennessee and Texas. This
enlistment of the women is generally
regarded as one of the most significant
phases of the good-will work that is
being done throughout the South by
the Commission on Interracial Cooper
ation, which came into existence in
1919 and now has branches in every
southern state and in 800 counties.
HON. ANTON J. CERMAK SE
LECTS MR. HENRY A. SON
NENSCHEIN AS HIS PRIVATE
SECRETARY.
Monday afternoon Hon. Anton J.
Cermak was sworn in as one of the
County Commissioners and president
of the County Board in the midst of
many of his close and warm friends
and with a great profusion of rare
and beautiful flowers all around him.
Hon. Robert M. Sweitzer adminis
tered the oath of office to him, and the
first official act performed by him was
to select Mr. Henry A. Sonnenschein
as his private secretary, who served in
that same capacity while Mr. Cermak
was Chief Bailiff of the Municipal
Court of Chicago.
Mr. Sonnenschein was also secre
tary to Mr. Cermak while he was at
the head of many of the important
committees of the Gty CouncTL
Mr. Sonnenschein is very popular
with all of the big poEtidans in the
Gty Hall and in the County Building
and is the right man in the right
place.
J,
