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Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Black, of
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Vol 6 Number 19
Aug. »9, 1918.
"Somewhere in France.
Dear Dad: Doubtlessly you and
another are wondering where is your
along fine. Sergeant John Butler
was here last night, and we were talk
ing about the folks at home. He
-wishes to be remembered to you and
mother. It was the first time tha'
I had seen him for nearly a month
He is as fat as ever and has really
proven a soldier. He is about the
[busiest one in the company, and ther
a great deal of his time is taken uf
dancing the trench reel is one of
the most popular. Then when one of
the big shells comes over, he doos the
duirout glide. He is really light or
his feet to be so large, But evsn if
it is Fourth of July every day all the
boys are in fine spirits. Company
is known as the best company on the
line. We haven't produced a coward
yet. Ard captain MaHory r. pv?.
by everybody. Tho FieneU ofl^arf!
think that there i.^n't anybody lik
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SUNDAY OCT. 1
Morning Service 1 1 o'clock
Afternoon Service 4 o'clock
As this is the only meeting announced
we extend a cordial invitation to the
Pastors and their Ccrgrcgation.
Morning Sermon, F. D. Day
Afternoon Sermon, 1. J. bmith
Letters From France
ery is wonderful when one can keep
from looking at the shell-wrecked
cities and villages. I've seen but fow
complete houses in this section. Fo
awhile I was looking for new ideas
along our lines, but I have given
that up, because the biff suns have
wwlerinit boy today. All that I can demolished almost oyeiythinK that
is that I'm somewhere in France.1 was ever constructed in thia section
In the best of health, contented It win take years to rebuild what ho
times, sometimes lonesome. liu Gorman, have destroyed. Lut the
jiever without the hope that I will
Teturn to you some day. It seem,
years since I've been fjone, but 1
haven't changed a bit. I have noth
ing to regret for having enlisted when
I did except that I am away from
home. My work as company clerk
keeps me rather busy, so I don't have i
time to get the blues very often. I've
been clerk since May 27, and have
made good. That somewhat lessenp
the exposure which otherwise I would
have to experience. So thus far.
helped by circumstances, I have tried
to better myself. Clean living, health
ful exercises, and good companions
are assisting me in the making of a
man. I am trying to live according
to the teaching of my parents, and
so far I have been successful. I have
encountered a great many tempta
tions, but the desire to go the
straight road has been the strongar.
All to my own benefit, so you may ex
pect to receive a morally better lad
when I return home. Tom Jeff just
walked in and I told him that I wa^
writing to you. He send best re
gards to you. He is well and getting
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French are patient and it will not
take them long to set things right
again. They look upon our boys as
real soldiers and with none of the
contempt that I expected to see. In
deed, they are a wonderful people.
I have made a number of friends
among them. Also among our boys.
I5ut always in counting my friends,
this little thought runs across my
mind. I've travelled a great many
miles around this old world. I've seen
almost everything. Sometimes I've
liked like a beggar, sometimes like
a king, I've met many friends, some
jrood, others bad, but I've never had
but two true friends, my mother and
my dad. After you two I can count
on no more. And when I think of
it I love you more than ever.
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ceived mother's letter yesterday, 1
intend to answer immediately, but I
felt as though I had been neglecting
you so I just wrote to you first.
I hope that grandmother is well,
and doesn't worry about me any more.
Because next to home there isn't any
other place that I would rather be.
And all that I give a thought is how
long will it be before
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home. Now
best wishes to all.
I remain your son,
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pany has been hurt yet. I'm glad
that I was transferred to the en-:
gineers, because it is certainly well
thought of, and also the /fiigheat
branch of service in the army. Nearly
every boy that was drafted from Day
ton, when I was, is either a corporal":
or a sergeant. By the time you get
this letter, there will be another on
the road with my pictures. We dress
over here similar to the Frejish only
different color. We wear steel ht-1
mets on our heads and gas masks to
wear when they shoot poison gas at
us. They look awful funny on our
faces. These people are the friend
liest people I fiver saw, and the high
est mountains. I climb the moun
tains every day. The people in the?
large towns dress and look like
Americans. In the small towns and
country, they wear wooden shoes and
they drive oxen to wagons. It is aw
fully cold late in the night, and hot
in the day. I can talk a lot of French.
If I get back home I would not take
anything for this trip. Don't worry
about me, I have good health, and
that is the most important part. Well
dear mother, will close with regards
to all inquiring friends.
Love to Earl. Good bye, mother,
and do the best you can until 1 coran
back, and pray for me, as I do every
night. From your devoted son,
GLENROY CRAIN,
317th Engineers, Co. 1), A. E. F.
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Mr. J. H. Rives returned home
Wednesday morning from Ashury
Park, N. J.,, where he accompanied the
remains of his mother. An account,
of the funeral services will be given
next week.
COLORED CITIZENS OF COLUM
BUS, OHIO. PAY TRIBUTE
TO FANNING.
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American Expedit. Force. of songs and addresses arranged in
Sept. 3, 1918. i Columbus in honor of Booker T.
Dear Mother:
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received all of Washington by some of the leading
your letters and words cannot express colored citizens of the city. Mr. Fan
how glad I was to receive them. I. ning sang a group of songs by thfe
would miss three meals a day for a' Negro composer, H. T. Burleigh. Dur
week to get a letter from home. I Ing a lull in the "sing" at Ohio Field,
have so much to tell, that I hardly Elliot B. Henderson, a poet and a
know how to start.
am well except leader in the artistic and patriotic
a cold, and you know I always have (life of his race in Columbus, advanced
that. I hope you arc wc'l. Tell Hebn and after a rpacv:*h presented
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and Mil-?s I am never lescsorne. I Fanning with an ebony walking stick
:\m kept bur.y dodging1 bulk In. W.? with a head of twisted gold. It bora
•Capt. Mallory. The weather h,?rc is shelled the oth night and we the inscription, "Presented to Mr. Ce-1 ROOMS-Furnished rooms with
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DAYTON. OHIO, FRIDAY OCT. U, 1918
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ning, the American baritone, was paid
to him recently at a community "sing"
arranged by him at Ohio Field, Co-
Mrs. Isabelle Grain, of Eaton, 0.,:lumbus, Ohio.
is in receipt of an interesting letter As a prelude, it should be stated
from her son, Glenroy Cain, sent from that a few weeks previously Mr. Fan
"Somewhere in France." ning had sung at a special program
W'uund ami cil Fanning as a token of appreciation
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WILLIS POINTS
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"f11 Si |W y,
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«T, oU may be too
young or too
old to go to war,
but your dollars
are not. Enlist
lis em now in the
o u i e y
Loan and let them
fight for you."
--Frank B. WtUiS at
Cincinnati on the open
l,i« day of the Liberty
Loan drive.
Galls Harmon's Attention to Fact
Ttrjt
Kb,
Wil is, Is Making
Patriots Spaeciies
Harmon
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Col. Roscoe
Large,
While
Is Playing
Gox
Machine PiiliHcs During Loar
Drive.
Mr. Willis, Republican candidate
for governor of Ohio, made the follow
ing statement, in reply to ex-Governor
Harmon's speech at (Iroonville:
According to the morning papers,
at the very time I was ena-med in ad
dressing patriotic non-partisan meet
ings in thc interest of the Fourth Lib
erty Loan, ex-Governor Judson Har
mon. a Leading representative of the
parly which claims politics is ad
journed. was availing himself of the
opportunity to make a Democratic
campaign Bpeecii at Greenville, u por
tion of wl.ich unJnstly attacks me.
and fulsouiely praises the Democratic
candidate for governor. These two
spee' lifis by two ex-governors of Ohio
clearly lndicnte tho attitude of two
great parties In the present crisis
Republicans, in good t'altli, are using
all their efforts to aid the govern
ment. to sustain Its policy and make
the Fourth Liberty Loan a success
the Democratic leaders, under a
smoke screen of pretense—"Yes,
"politics has adjourned"—are playing
politics and endeavoring to reach a
partisan advaiitane from the nation's
crisis. Ilavi-ji deceived the country
once by tho false cry of "He kt.pt us
out of war" camouflage, false charge
and evasion of real isBuea in their
platform, they now seem to thinl
they can win again by adjourning
politics and then playing for small
partisan advantage.
While Republicans are devoting
their efforts to the success of the
Fourth Liberty Loan and the winning
of the war. their ruse will not sue
ceed. Republicans just now are so
busy "swatting"' tho kaiser, buyinp
Liberty Lean Bonds, that they have
not time to notice the carping of
those who would prostitute patriotism
to partisanship. Meanwhile, it mipht
be advimMe for ex-Governor Harmon,
before he maKes any more polltica'
speeches during the Liberty Loan
campaign, to scan rather carefull'
the pro-German editorials, utterance
and speeches of Coventor .James M.
Cox during and prior to the campaign
of 1916, because it is not unlikely
that Republicans will give those in
teresting documents some attention
after the Liberty Loan campaign is
successfully concluded Oct. 19.
I"t a:i\\h!lc 3d us buy nivVe Liberty
Bonds.
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of iif.y voices, directed by Mr. Brown,
who rendered patriotic .selections.
Following that the children of Gar
field school gave a most wonderful
patriotic display, children represent
ing Uncle Sam, Columbia. Goddess of
Liberty, Red Cross nurses, etc.
Col. Simmons was accompanied by
Mr. Harry Coleman, a four-minute
man and Dr. Johnson, of Columbus,
who has recently been honored with
1,he appointment of minister to Li
beria. Both men made short talks,
Mr. Coleman telling of his brother.
A?ho was colonel of a colored regi
ment, having refused to take com
mand of a white regiment because he
aid the black man was gamer. When
L-aptain, he sat at thy table with his
colored troops, and when called by a
colonel to remember his duties he
responded: "If they are good enough
to die with, they are good enough to
eat with."
Lawyer Stokes presented Colonel
Simmons to the audjenc and I will
,ivc? short extracts from his most
wonderful and inspiring address.
My Race, My Country, and My Flag,"
"It's a great pleasure to be in Day
ton again. It is a great pleasure, to
meet my friend Mr. Stokes, my kind
)f looking man, unmixed genius. I
am happy to stand in this place where
I just stood a year ago. I am glad
to haw my friend appointed minister
to Liberia, taking the place of all our
great white men.
I was educated by a great Negro
man. 1 sat on the knee of Frederick
Douglas. 1 sat at the feet of Booker
Washington. I am proud to be a
Negro, wouldn't be anything else if
I could. I'm satisfied no regrets for
the past, no fears for the future, sat
isfied, satisfied.
"I love to look at you old soldiers
with your blue coats and bra::s but
tons. When 1 look at you I think
about Port Hudson.
"I have a loan to talk about thu
I have been lending on my own ac
count. What have I lent? My toil
my tears, unpaid, all of yesterday. I
have put up patience and love, sac
rificed for the stars and stripes
When are they going to pay interest?
Columbus Negroes sublet iicd for
$2.10,000 liberty bonds and put £K'. ,
000 in the war chest. No fears for the
future, no regrets for the past.
The white man made the flag out
of thread and cloth, hut he mule me
out of blood and tears. I stand by the
American white man because it is my
duty, but 1 stand there to keep him
from falling.
I stand in the state of Ohio. This
is my favorite state. I speak before
the public for the American Negro
and am satisfied with my job. Any
body praises my race makes a hit
with me. I would not exchange my
job with the President. Whenever
you see a peaceable vet of white peo
ple, then you see a peacable set of
Negroes. That's the reason the Ne
groes are not peacable down south,
because the white folks are not.
Germany wants peace with the
United States. When I make peace
with Germany I will be .sitting around
thc table at Berlin. When I make
peace I will make Negro with a capi
tal "N." I do not want any peace
with Germany now. When I make
peace with Germany I want peace at
home.
I love my country, I love my race,
I love my religion, I love my white
people. I love my country for first
without my country I have no race.
I love my race because I belong to
the only race in the world whose fu
ture is in front of it and not "behind
t. I love my iclitr'on le.T.use it is
^11 I have. I ?m pi-oud of tha Ameri
can white man because all am I owe
to the American white men. We owe
the American white man a debt we
can merer expect to j*jr, wJmt he
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tentorial Hall
*j$'es us we will never expect to gefc.
"When the war began the question
'i&foae, what will the Negro do? W*
The large audicnce assembled at will do what the American white man
Memorial Hall, listened first to chorus! tells us. I um going to teach the
world what a soldier is. 1 am going
to do everything necessary to win th«
war. The father of my nation is at
Washington. I have but one flag,
that is the flag that set me free. I
have seen the flags of all the world.
The only flag in the world since tim»
begun that has stars in it. Your flag"
and my flag. God made them and no
man can blow them out.
Patience is your word. I would
rather be an American Negro living:
side by side by the American whit»
man, trust my case into his band,
living beneath the protecting fold of
the stars and stripes, standing and
under the mercy of Abraham Lincoln,
no fears for the future, no regrets for
the past. The American Negro
schooled by adversary knows how to
take commands, the American whit*
man wants to give commands.
"Germany says it's so great, whera
is Germany's Daniel Webster? Whero
is their Henry Clay, their Calhoun?
Where is their George Washington,
their Booker T. Washington Thoy
talk of their great culture? What
culture. They talk of their religion
what religion? Where is their
Roosevelt? Where is their Longfel
low? their William Cullen Bryan?
Where is their John Greenleaf Whit
taker? Every advancement made l«
100 years, has been made by Ameri
can white men. Who threw the c*e
ble across the Atlantic ocean? Sila*
Field, an American white boy. Who
spoke through the air for the first
time and named that the telephone?
Some Prussian God, I suppose. No,
Bell, an American white boy. Who
built the firnt Hubmarine? An Ameri
can white boy built the first sub
marine. Who built the first airship?
Even now he sleeps tonight in Day
ton. Who perfected wireless tele
graphy? An American. Every ad
vancement made has been made by
the American. Who picked up re
ligion and taught the world what civi
lization means? The American Ne
gro. I've got to get in here som»
place.
"Now let me speak for my nation
in a time like this. I love America.
When Woodrow Wilson falls asleep,
a Negro stands at his door. When
trouble is around they know wheia
1 come, 1 am so proud of my race.
I belong to a race where there's no
slackers, no spies and 110 I. W. Yf.'u,
thank God.
"When the war 'broke out, tha
question arose: Will the Negro get
to France? That didn't worry me,
Thft first American soldier who
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put
foot on French soil was a Negro. Ho
will be the last one to be there when
the war is over for there will be a
lot of cleaning up to be done.
One Negro bought $S 000 worth of
Liberty bonds and paid cash for them,
another Negro bought $100,000 worth
of liberty bonds and got in a "Jim
Crow" car and rode home. Satisfied,
no fears for the future, no.regrets for
the past.
"I've promised Wilson to go across
the waters. I'm going to take th^
Bull out of Bulgaria and the Germ
out of Germany. I am going to make
the world safe for Democracy.
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I'll
knock on the door of the Kaiser and
make him read the first part of the
constitution that all men are created
equal. 1 will stand side by side with
the American white boy. When that
is completed,
will come back across
the sea, and lay my gun away, taka
off my war garments and put on the
garments of peace, walk up to the
door of the American white man and
say: You sent me 4,000 miles away
from home to make America safe
for democracy, .-ince I have made
America safe for democracy, won't
you make East St. Louis safe for ths
American Negro?
"I do not like these hypheniaed
name*, Crermaja-Ameriauu Jpmmk*