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JULIUS F. TAYLOR
Editor and Publisher
Associate Editor
DR. M. A. MAJORS
Chicago, 111., May 5, 1923
VoL XXVIII No. 33
Cotered as Second-Class Matter, Aug
i*. 1902. at the Post Office at Chicago
iH Under Act of March 8. 1879.
THE NEW NEGRO IN THE
FINAL ANALYSIS
By Dr. M. A. Majors
In the wake of new and greater
reforms noW rocking the hemispheres
the new Negro appears upon the
scene. How he appears has all to
• do with his appearing. Does he pre
sent himself as a beggar in any sense
whatever? He may tell the old politi
cal (hulks) parties to go hang them
selves? Does he appear upon the
scene wholly as a hewer of wood and
. drawer of water looking for some
contemptible overlord to view him
with hat in hand, trembling for fear
or weak from hunger? Does he come
upon the scene clad in rags, frail in
form with a downcast look upon his
face? Is he an object of pity with a
sickly smile or sentimental grin, play
ing the weakling at all times? Is he
today low and humble, shivering in
fear of the fires of hell, which has
weakened his spine and kept him the
weakling of all the races in all of the
ages? Does he walk with that aching
stoop with a bent and twisted form,
the curse of cruel years of tyranny
. and brutal usage? Is he a slacker
in any of the great things that inspire
the hearts of men of this generation?
Is he a one-horse farmer? A one
chair barber? A one-sided individual?
In other words, has he gotten away
from the idea that well enough will
do? And that monkey shines and
silly excuses is an evidence of prog
ress away from the jungles? Is he
moral or does he cherish in his heart
the mistaken ideas of virtue displayed
in the gaudy show of the prostitute?
Has he sustained the noble teachings
of his mother, or has he degenerated
to the level of the brute like most of
the races who represent civilization
only in books? Is he an element of
bungle in the present civilization of
jungle ? Does he ever chase the rain
bow? Is he a cheap product on the
market of human insecurity, or can
you count on him? That is, can you
count on him like the Republican
party used to count on his unillus
trious sires- and grandsires? And
this brings us up to where just a
little bit of philosophy will fit in.
Old forms have been shot to pieces
by troth, sensible men can not hope
to find a progressive people tied down
any more by ^dogmas, ists or isms, nor
carrying on like they used to carry on
for the paltry contemptibleness of the
white fool who can see nothing for
black skin but contempt.' The new
Negro will not be regarded as an easy
mark by any specimen of the genus
homo. The old Negro has been lied
to around the world, and lied about
in every age, in every country and in
every language.
He thinks, talks and writes about
the new problems of life as they pre
sent themselves to a full-fledged man.
He philosophizes, analyzes and dis
sects everything even as far as the
minutest detail and he need not be
told any buncombe because he today
is able to follow thought beyond the
distance of the farthest star. He
stands upon the bedrock of truth and
looks nut upon a world able from
every intellectual point of view to see
a cosmos whose imperfections were
emphasized by the Holy One of
Judea.
The new Negro will not be cheated
without returning Che ccroptanest to
a disgusting degree. lie will not be
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HON. KICKHAM SCANLAN
One of the Honorable Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook
County, Who Continues to Hold the Crooked and Dishonest
Lawyers Level in His Court and to Relieve Them of Their
Diamonds, Autos and Other Valuables. Judge Scanlan
Always Stands on the Side of the People Whenever Their
Rights Are Involved.
fumbled with, nor accept smiles and
pretty words as embodying truth
when behind this theatrical scoundrel
ism is the sycophant lying in wait for
his supposedly misguided prey. He
reads the Bible and thinks seriously
upon the havoc wrought by gunpow
der and he calls civilization a lie. He
knows that physical destruction is
bordering upon the edges of hell and
he calls the would-be promoters of
civilization liars without human com
passion and divested totally of a
human soul. Keep your promises.
Give performances. He harks back to
sentimentality. Give me justice' your
pity is not worth a damn, and so the
new Negro faces the present era of
world progress with mind alert, a will
ing heart and determination keyed up
to the harmony of universal rhapsody
full toned in the diapason of the prob
lems on the human keyboard.
Colored People Are Becomming More
Interested In Their Voting
Papers all over the country are con
gratulating Chicago because, as they
say, “its colored citizens are thinking
men and women ” that they are no
longer tied to the Republican party,
but that more and more they are
voting according to their convictions.
An observer from the far west attrib
utes the change of heart to Harding’s
speech in Birmingham. “Lincoln gave
the Negro to the Republican Party,
but Mr. Harding gave him to the
Democrats.”
The Oklahoma City Black Dispatch,
congratulates itself that its Negroes
joined in the victory of a Democratic
Mayor for that city, like Chicago and
New York. AJI of them are thinking in
terms of final results, not Republican,
not Democratic, not Socialist, but who
will give us what we want.
We recall having read in the papers
some time since an account of strange
lights in the heavens. The populace
was mystified, especially were the sup
erstitious Negroes from plantations of
the South terrified. These thought the
end of the world had come. More
recently we read an account of a wide
ly known Egyptologist’s death under
peculiar circumstances and coincident
ally with the heralding of his success
at having uncovered treasures in an
ancient tomb. Immediately people the
world over saw in this coincidental
chain, an unbreakable chain of super
natural evidences of spririt curses and
the people were not superstitions plan
tation Negroes either. No, Negroes
are not the only superstitious folk in
the world. Boston Chronicle.
CONGRESSMAN DYER TO
SPEAK MAY 28th
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Local officials, Chicago Branch, N.
A. A. C. P. have made final arrange
ments for the presence of Congress
man Leonidas C. Dyer to speak Pil
grim Baptist Church, 33rd and Indiana
Ave., Monday May 23th at 8:00 P. M.
An extensive publicity program is
under way and a monster crowd is ex
pected, not only in support of the
work of the N. A. A. C. P., but as a
public tribute to the patriotic and un
selfish labors of Congressman Dyer in
support of Anti-Lynching Legislation.
The Congressman determines to
present a bill similar to the Dyer
Anti-Lynching Bill at the next session
of the U. S. Congress. The deter
mination to renew with increased vigor
efforts to pass such legislation is the
result of the “Shame of America”
newspaper campaign last fall and
which is now reflected in demands
from heretofore uninterested quarters.
The growing disregard of law and
order, the numerous atrocities at the
hands of mobs has driven home the
plea made by The National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People to remove the great blot of
lynching from the current events of
U. S. history.
Congressman Dyer is making a
circle from Kansas City to the Pacific
Coast, up thru the Northwest, return
ing via St. Paul and Milwaukee, stop
ing at Chicago on May 28th and
ending the next day in Indianapolis.
Chicago’s 125,000 colored people will
be fully represented at this great meet
ing. The tour of the Congressman
will be a great help to the cause and
to the local branch work in Chicago as
well as to the National office in New
York.
The local office at 3201 So. Wabash
Ave., is in action as has been demon
strated by many acts of public service
among which was the breaking down
of race discrimination at a “Loop”
Theatre.
Monday, May 28th is designed to be
a special day for the N. A. A. C. P. in
Chicago. Mr. Harold L. Ickes, Presi
dent of the Branch will open the meet
ing. An invitation has been extended
to Mr. Raymond Robins to preside.
N. A. A. C. P. REGIONAL WORK
ADVANCES
Morris Lewis, Regional Secretary,
comprising Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
and Northern Missouri, has formed a
Regional Speakers Bureau, prepared to
serve the N. A. A. C. P. Branches
and other organizations in the States
named, interested in the work of the
Association.
The office of the Regional Secre
tary is at 3201 S. Wabash Avenue,
Chicago, 111.
A speaking tour is now under con
sideration.
For full information, communicate
with Mr. Lewis.
THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
LEAGUE
The Fifth Connectional Young Peo
ple’s Congress of the A. M. E. church
will be held in Birmingham, Ala.,
August 15-20, 1923.
The Congress will bring together
nearly two thousand representative
men and women, ministers and lay
men, who are interested in all phases
of religious education.
Among the special features are the
Institute and School of Methods in
Religious Education, conducted by
experts; chorus of 200 voices; demon
stration by 250 Allen Lifeguards (Boy
Scout movement) in uniform; helpful
Bible study, inspiring sermons and
thrilling addresses, Sunday school,
Young People’s Christian Endeavor,
Missionary and social service work
will be stressed. Special railroad
rates and the best entertainment will
be given. Bishop A: J. Carey of Chi
cago and Rev. S.- S. Morris of Nor
folk is secretary. «
PEONAGE ATROCITY STORY COMES!
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
Negro Mobbed, Robbed, and Sentenced
to Death, His Baby and Wife Beaten
White People Charged With Refusing to
Pay Negro Labor
State Supreme Court Orders New Trial
A story of mob outrage committed
>y white men of Saluda County, South
Carolina, upon a peaceable and well
o-do Negro, who was robbed and
hen sentenced to death, and for whom
l new trial has been ordered by the
state Supreme Court, has been made
>ublic by the National Association for
he Advancement of Colored People,
’0 Fifth Avenue, New Yorfk City.
L'he story is given in a letter written
>y the Negro, Elliott Culbreath, as
ollows:
“My trouble arrived on the 4th Sat- j
irday night in November, 1922. I was
n my bed asleep and a mob of white
nen came to my house and started
shooting, and why they did that I
lon’t know. They never said hello
jr anything and they broke the back
ioor open. My wife and children
were taken, both—and my wife and
:hildren began screaming and yelling
and my wife was holding the front
door and‘One of the children. One
woke me up. They were shooting in
the house and I asked them what the
matter was and they said to me, there
is a crowd out there after you. I ran
to the back door and they shot at me
and I ran behind the bed and got my
pistol and I shot 2 (shots) out of the
door.. But I did not hit anybody.
When they stopped shooting they ran
to the woods and stayed there a quar
ter of an hour and I heard them com
ing back.
“They called my wife and asked her
hadn’t they killed me and she told
them no; he has just left here and
they went behind the house and
looked in the alley. And they found
one of their men dead and they said,
I thought that I had killed the ‘Nig
ger’; and I shot the wrong man. My
wife told the next morning (what had
been said) and they beat her and put
her in jail and kept her there three
months. They told her if she told
what they said, they would kill her.
“That morning they run them all
away from home and beat them all
and the little baby was crying for
bread and they knocked a hole in my
baby’s head with a pistol. They
stayed there and ate my food for two
weeks. They left their automobile and
slept there. They got there at 11
o’clock at night. If they had called
me I would have gone anywhere they
wanted me to. Because I have never
done anything to anybody. My pistol
was a .32 calibre and the man was
killed with a .38. You see that there
was no way for me to kill that man
and the paper stated that he was
killed with a .38 calibre. They came
over here to the state penitentiary
three times trying to make me tell
them who done the killing. They are
now punishing me for it and know
they punish me for what one of their
own men done. They said I shot him
through the crack and there is no
crack in my house. I asked the law
yer to go to my house and look be
cause there is no crack in my house.
“They whipped all the colored peo
ple so that they all are scared to do
anything to help me. I had about
300 acres of land and I only tended to
a 3-horse farm for myself and I
worked a 5-horse farm for the white
folks and let the best of my land lay
out. I had not got anything out of
the 5-horse farm that I worked for I
ran an 8-horse farm in all. I was not
half done picking cotton and had not
gathered any of my corn. I always
make one hundred bales of cotton and
1,500 bushels of corn. I had the best
crop that I had in some time. I owed
some on my land but it was not much.
But I had made arrangement with the
Federal Bank of Columbia, S. C., and
was looking for the check the same
week that this trouble happened to
me.
“They had loaned me $1,800.50 to
pay up what is owed and the same
time the trouble happened. They took
all that I had even to my household
and kitchen furniture and they took
my clothes, and my wife’s clothes and
all the chickens and my gun out of
my house. They took 150 chickens,
14 hogs, 5 turkeys, 6 geese, 150 gal
lons of syrup, 15 bushels of peanuts,
all of my sweet potatoes, about 25 or 30
bushel, and about 20 bushel of peas.
They took my gold watch, value $90,
and my wife’s watch, value $60, and
the girl’s watch, worth $35 and $65 in
cash and a car worth $700. The whole
value is about $8,000. My tax
bill was from $60 to $85 every year I
and I always have arranged to pay
them.
“My wife has not been back there
since this trouble happened and none
of the children either. I will tell you
to boot that they even burned up my
father’s fine big house. Write to Ep
worth, S. C., to C. N. Dane. He will
tell you all about it Mr. E. -
is my lawyer but he doesn’t seem to
do anything for me. Dear sir, if
you can please help, for I have not
had a fair trial and they will not give
me a fair trial in South Carolina.
“When they tried me the last time
the jury brought out a verdict of not
guilty and the judge made them go
back in the room and change their de
cision. My lawyer left before the jury
came out and the judge told me that
one juror gave me life and eleven
want to turn me loose. The sheriff
told my wife that if she would swear
for me, that they were going to kill
her or any of the rest of my people
and they were scared to come to the
court house and tell the truth about it.
“You know they did not have a
right to come to my house at 11 o’clock
at night and break in. They claim
that they had a warrant for me for a
bale of cotton but it was untrue. They
must have come there to kill mg, If
they had called me I yrould have gone
anywhere they wanted me to go with
them and got them all the cotton they
wanted. It seems to me like they
would come in the day. I don’t see
why they came at that time at night.
I stayed around there one week and
I saw they were going to kill me. I
went into Georgia. They whipped
Gus Glover so bad until the people
are looking for him to die and Ida
Culbreath, Sump Jones, Joe Culbreath,
David Glover and Butler and all my
family. They whipped all of them. I
have got the names. Write these peo
ple that I gave their names and they
will tell: you all about it.
“What they took from me was not
less than $1,500 outside of 8 good
mules that I had and they took them
and caught all I had and I want it in
DEATH OF JUDGE SAMUEL L.
GASH OF LA PLATA, MO.
Last week Col. Abram Dale Gash,
one of Chicago's noted lawyers, with
law offices at 118 N. LaSalle street,
was called to La Plata, Macon*county,
Mo., to attend the funeral services
held over the remains of his oldest
brother, Samuel L. Gash, who for a
number of years honorably served
as £ounty Judge of Macon county.
Judge Gash was a prominent mem
ber of the Baptist church of many
years’ standing and in every respect
he was an upright Christian and a
patriotic American citizen and he will
be greatly missed by his large circle
of friends in LaPlata and Macon
county, Mo.
Col. Abram Dale Gash
HON. MICHAEL K. SHERIDAN
Member of the Board of Assessors of Cook County, Who is
One of Its Painstaking Officials. He is Known as the
Friend of the Small Taxpayer.
the papers the way that they don^ me.
We can get the money by suing the
County for $10,000.
“They only did that because 1 had
lots of hands and they could not get
none because I paid for work and the
white people would not pay them for
their work. I will move to New York
if I can get out of here. The white
people have beat them so in that coun
ty until the Negroes are afraid to
help me. The white people told them
if they would help me they would kill
them and they don’t want to be run
off and have their land taken.
“Why, they won’t let any of my
children write to me and I'can not
hear from them. This was done in
Saluda County.”
The State Supreme Court in review
ing the man’s trial said that no one had
been deputized to make the arrest of
Culbreath. A band of men gathered
at his house and some one called that
the sheriff was there with a warrant,
which was untrue, according to the
Supreme Court’s review. The sen
tence of death was held unjustified be
cause the man was fleeing out of fear
and not to escape arrest.
With such brutal and savage re
ports coming up from the South per
taining to the hellish treatment of the
Negro, it is no wonder that the col
ored people in that section of the
country continue to wend their way
northward.—Editor.
NEWS LETTER FROBi EARL
INGTON, KY.
The citizens of the City of Earling
ton, Ky., were indeed shocked at the
passing out of Mr. John Porter, who
had been a resident of that city for
many years. He had been one of the
men who had been employed by the
St. Bernard Mining Company for
thirty-five years, holding some of the
most responsible positions, being a
man liked by not only the officials of
the company but by every one who
worked with him. All came to him
for advice and looked to him in all
their troubles or difficulties. He was
a member of No. 9 Local and the
members of this union cannot be
praised too highly for the manner in
which they responded to their broth
er’s last call and left nothing undone.
Most of the members own their own
automobiles and each one attended the
funeral. Although it was a muddy
drive and beset with many dangers on
account of the heavy rains and bad
roads leading to the cemetery, friends
of both races attended and sent beau
tiful floral designs until the casket was
one mass of beautiful flowers. Mr.
Lincoln Teague of Madisonville, one
of the most up-to-date funeral di
rectors to be found anywhere, and also
a life-long friend of the family, had
the funeral in charge and too much
cannot be said of him and his manner
of taking care of every thing left in
his hands. His splendid remarks
which were added after the pastor had
finished his sermon, were the words
of a true friend and were appreciated
by the family. Mrs. Bethel Davis
Dowd of St Louis, adopted daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Nora
Lee of Chicago, sister of Mrs. Porter,
Mrs. Greene and Mrs. Barnes of Mor
ton, Ky., Mr. and Mrs. Elliott of
Greenville, Ky., Mr. John Parish, unde
of Mr. Porter, and Mr. John Parish,
cousin, of Trenton, Ky., attended the
funeral.
The new Masonic Temple, a twenty
thousand dollar building has been
erected in Earlington, Ky., in the past
few months and is now occupied. It
has a theatre, dance hall, cafeteria,
barber shop, lodge rooms and other
rooms not yet occupied. It speaks
well for these thrifty people in this
city.
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Mr. Henry King, one of the wealthy
men of our race in Earlington, has
a first class pool and billiard hall in
the Masonic Temple. Mr. King is one
of the best business men in the city
and as a citizen stands among the very
best. Mr. and Mrs. King expect to
motor to Chicago in the near future.
Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Bacote have
built a beautiful bungalow on Oak
wood avenue, modern in every partic
ular. The doctor has a wonderful
practice and it is understood that he
is accepted as one of the best physi
cians in this part of the country. He
and his lovely little wife entertained
at dinner Sunday, Mrs. Dowd of St
Louis, Mrs. Lee of Chicago and Mrs.
Porter.
Dr. Bacote has his office in the new
Masonic Temple on the corner of
Railroad and Rudder avenues, newly
equipped with all modern appliances.
Miss Eunice Childress has a pleasant
posiyon with Dr. Bacote. He is loved
by everybody and you will see his
car on the country road at any time
of the day or night. He is on the
staff of the St. Bernard Mining Ca,
looking after all the patients of our
race, connected with the mines. More
of our young men should go to these
small cities and build themselves up
as he has.
Mrs. Hubbard Garrett has a splen
did business on the main street of
Earlington. Ice cream parlor and soft
drinks. The young people keep her
place crowded.
The Rally of the A. M. E. Zion
Church was a grand success, netting
the church nearly eight hundred dol
lars, Sunday night. A targe crowd at
tended the Sunday services all day.
They have a splendid choir and con
gregation, and seem to be pleased with
Rev. Moore, their pastor.
_
Miss Lucille Garrett will spend a
few weeks in Chicago visiting her
cousin, Miss Beatrice Lee of 5259
Dearborn street this summer. She is
one of the Earlington school teachers
and a very talented young lady. Also
Miss Mary Ellen Stoner.
Mrs. Bethel Davis Dowd, a former
teacher of Earlingtoii^- left for her
home in St Louis, Mo., Monday eve.
Mrs. Nora Lee returned to Chicago
after spending a few days with her
sister and other relatives in Kentucky.
REV. AND MRS. JOHN W. ROB
INSON ARE NOW LOCATED
IN NEW YORK CITY.
It will be pleasant, indeed, for the
many friends of ftev. and Mrs. John
W. Robinson in this city to learn that
they and the other members of the
family, including the grandmother,
Mrs. Caroline Knight, are now lo
cated at 237 W 53d street in that city.
It will be recalled that Rev. Robin
son constructed St. Mark church in
this city at 50th street and Wabash
avenue and built it up from nothing
until it has become one of the leading
and most prosperous churches in this
city.
Rev. Robinson ranked among the
most active and useful citizens in this
city. He was identified or connected
with everything or with all move
ments for the advancement of his
race. He was one of the directors of
the Douglass National Bank and the
best wishes of the citizens of Chi
cago, including the writer follow Rev.
and Mrs. Robinson to New York
City, where Rev. Robinson is bound
to meet with great success.
Once each week The Broad Ax will
find its way into their home in New
York City.