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SATURDAY.JULY 11, 1S25
R. R. WRIGHT, Ph. D-, editor of
The Christian Recorder is keeping
the nat.on informed as to the do.ngs
of 'ha: great church It is a cosily
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ACCORDING TO THE report of
Hon. C. Lee Moore. State Auditor,
the colored people of Richmond
owned in 1924 property, both real
and personal, to the amount of ,
$4.Hill,950. This shows progress, es ‘
pecibilly in view of the large number
who have left the State. Those who
remain are still laboring hard to add
v THE MANAGEMENT of Howard
University showed commendable
judgment when it was decided to ie
tain that brilliant scholar. Dr. Kelly
Miller. He is old enough to be per
mitted to express himself freely upon
any topic that he deems worthy of
his consideration. He has grown far
above his contemporaries and he is
a veritable intellectual giant in this
world of ours. Even hie name with
out any actual labor will prove a
valuab! asset to Howard L nvversity.
THEY HAVE virtually “unhorsed”
Dr. Archibald K. Grimke, one of the
ablest theologians in this country and
Mr. William H. Sinclair, one of the
greatest agitators, this* or any other
country has ever produced. Both are
ext re musts of the most pronounced
type. They uannot now and have
never been able to see the wisdom of
compromising with wrong or striking
colors, even half way with error
We admire their fighting qualities,
but must admit that they have a poor
conception of their present day judg
tnent.
Still, the principles for which they
nre contending will ultimately tri
uniph. although they may not live
long enough to see if. We sometimes
regard w ith disgust the rabble thar
make virtual dcormats of some of
our brightest minds and who do not
pause long enough to consider the
truths that they are expounding for
their benefit without money and
without price.
to their present accumulations.
CHICAGO NEWS.
Dr. John M. Gandy, president of
The Virginia S:ate College at Peters
burg. Va.. accompanied by Mrs. Gan
dy stopped in the city at the Vin
cennes Hotel, returning from Estes
Park. Denver Colorado, Kansas and
Missouri wh‘-»v he attended the Na
tional Assembly f Boyas Y. M. C. A.
He was fn conference with M. T.
Bailey,, president of the Alumni As (
s.ociation of The Virginia State Col-j
lege and oth°r members including
V. D. Johnston. Dr. L. L. Shelton.'
Attorney Jess X. Baker and Reid
Thomas. |
M. T Bai'ey was appointed chair
man of the transportation committee
hv the president of the Ft. Dearborn
1925 Marching Club, whose other
committee m- nilers are H. B. YVil
I'ams. Edgar Wa’ker. Tom Jackson.
George W. Gr :dy. They vr'U see
that efficient arrangement are made
to take the hundreds of E.ku from
Illinois u Tt. ii pond to the Grand
I. odgo in -August
The widow of James Hugo John
i. >n late pus'dent of the Vv^inia
State College Mrs. James H. John
ston. mother of V. D. and Lowell P.
J. ohnston, passed through the city
from Columbuv Ohio with her
daughter Dorothy, just graduated
from Ohio State University- Mrs-'
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her husband was president.
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£bts Week
(By Earnest Rice McKinney)
(Preston News Service.)
IT WOULD BE A
mighty fine thing if—
[this week or next—ev
ery Negro man and wo
man in these United
States would write a
letter to Oswald Garris
on Villard and The Nat
tiori. The address is 2<J
Vesey Street, New York
City.
For this is the Sixtieth
Anniversary of The Na
tion. You know what
that means as to the
period of its founding
and the state of the na
tion and of the Negro at
that time—1865. You
may guess who Oswald
Garrison Villard is when
vou think of that MID
DLE NAME. He is the
grandson of WILLIAM
LLOYD GARRISON, and
of course, there is not a
Negro who does not
know who GARRISON
wait. It should be pos
sible to say who GAR
RISON IS. for he and
his name should be very
much alive in the think
ing of every Negro child
and adult.
Ait any rate, Mr. Vil
, lard is the grandson and
I is really and simply
another iGlarrison, ardent
advocate of the under
dog. 'champion of un
popular causes. The Ne
gro is an underdog and
his cause is an unpopu
lar one.
Edwin Lawrence God
kih was the founder and
first editor of The Na
tion. Mr. Villard says of
Mr. Godkin, “He began
by writing himaelf down
as a ‘nigger lover’, for
the the earliest issues of
his paper were given to
an ardent championship
of the demand that the
Negro be (enfranchised
forthwith. He! the aris
tocrat of the press, a
man of highest intellect
ual attainments, actual
ly wanted to have every
I last untutored, black
freedman given the
right to vote in all his
rags and in hi's ignor
ance. with his total lack
of any training for cit
izenship except that pro
vided by master and
overseer”.
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Such was the start of
The Nation. In spirit
it is the same today.
There is every reason to
feel that as long as Mr.
Yillard lives this same
spirit will dominate and
breathe from every page
of The Nation ’ from
week to week.
Thus is The Nation
and thus is the man who
owns and edits it. But
few Negroes know about
this latter-day champion
of their rights. This is
the great shame of our
racial life- We follow
and hang on the words
of cheap, fobacco-spitting
and lying white politi
cians. swallow the intel
lectual swill and emo
tional gush' of i/gnorant
Negro preachers, wave
our hats when a human
cipher like Calvin Cool
idge is made president
and top it (all off (by
crying ‘’’radical” when,
perhaps, we so® a friond
reading The Nation.
The older Negroes will
no doubt, die steeped in
■ this attitude. But it is
| time that the younger
, Negro broke away. It is
time now that he know
the difference between a
gilded brick and a bar
of gold. He shou^i cease
to be afraid of being
called “radical”. Any
Negro with the sense of
a beetle must b© a radi
cal. That is, he should
have the clear vision
and the courage to look
through the bunk and
| tommyrot of the Repub
lican Party, of the cap
italist employers who
feed the strife that
i keeps white and black
workers from getting to
gether, of the white
preacher who praises
and encourages our ‘sim
! pie childlike faith’, of
(the white platform wind
jammer who tells us—
with tongue and cheek
—of our wonderful pro
gress.
I i
I There is but one white
man and but one black
man worth following.
That is the white man
or black man who be
, lieves in the actual
! brotherhood of all men;
who believes in and
! practices basic human
equality;— intellectual,
social, economic and po
litical.
OSWALD GARRISON
VILLARD is such a ma»
and THE NATION Is
his mouthpiece.
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COLORFUL NEWS “MOVIES”
i HEROES AND HEROINES.
3 KAPITAL KLAN KAPERS.
By “THE CAMERA.MAN.'
(Preston News Service)
MR. “ABOLITIONIST” WRITES.
4 “I HEARD”.
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HEROES AND HEROINES.
\ „
‘‘Attend to that little girl, first , said Oscar
T. Daniels. Negro Porter of the Pullman
Company, as he refused first aid of the doc
tors who sought to ease his scalding steam
burns following the horrible wreck, on June
16, of the Erie Special, near Rockport, N. J.
The physicians heeded Daniel’s command and
upon returning to his side found the Negro
hero dead., He had given his • last full
measure of devotion that others might live.
While memories of Daniel's funeral are still
fresh, there comes news of the bravery of a
nine-year-old colored girl, of Hagerstown,
Md. who on July i, flagged a Baltimore and
Ohio passenger train just in time to avert a
fifty-foot drop down the mountain side, sav
ing perhaps, the forty precious lives on board.
The name of the little heroine has not yet
been learned, but Engineer Albert B. Haller
states it is probable she averted a terrible loss
of life.
, ? Tom Lee, Oscar J. Danieis, the nin.year
' old girl of today; Roberts and his comrades
of World War fame, Crispus Attucks and all
the way back to Simon the Cvrenian, who
^ helped Jesus carry the cross, black heroes and
heroines have adorned civilization’s exploits
of bravery. In war, in 'peace and amid
trials, when the souls of men are crying alottd
black men and women have risen to the su
i preme test when one faces the terrible priv
ilege of laying down his life for his friend.
And yet there are those like General Bullard,
! who says that the Negro is a coward—only
half a man—and they take care to give him
onlv half a mart’s chance.
1 The color scheme, a barometer of alleged
* superiority, measures these black heroes and
heroines and their kinsmen, not by t^eir deeds
but by their color. History, though, just as
before, is bound to repeat itself, and restore
to the oppressed of today the fullness of their
rights on the morrow. Ahis dawn is w^at
I •’ “supremists” fear most. lest the iron hand of
retribution should clutch them within its
grasp. Idle fears are these, for those w&o
flee when no man pursueth. The prophecy
is merely that Ethiopia shall stretch forth her
hand—and that is all she is trying to do. in
wrecks, in wars, in peace and into the hearts
and lives of her fellowbeings. And sooner or
! later the “selfists” must come to know that
God’s prophecies never fail.
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MR. “ABOLITIONIST”
WRITES.
Writing in the New York World of July I,
1925, Mr. “Abolitionist” goes to the bat on
the question of race segregation. Says he:
“It is an error to assume that segregation is
an evil for the colored race. Rather, should
the Negroes welcome it as it affords them an
opportunity to 'demonstrate their 'power to
stand alone and their capaciy to function alone
and unaided in all life’s activities equally with
the white man. The Negro only degenerates
by his contact with the white race. Alone,
he can fight against the evil influence of those
who undermine his character and morality in
order ta have him under their sway”.
Somewhere in the dim and ancient past it
is recorded, notwithstanding Mr. Darwin to
the contrary, that God nlade man in His own
image—not men, hut MAN—and in the ages
since then it has been recorded how man be
came so dissatisfied with himself that Cain
slew Abel, men warred /against men. 'and
sOlfishnsss against bigotry', following the orig
inal sin of Adam, superseded the scheme of
God for man to live with man in peace and
harmony. The trend of theory, at least, is
for man again to Christianize himself and live
peaceable with his brother, as his brother s
keeper and loving his neighbor as himself.
Race segregation is the baneful barrier of
some men to place self upon a pedestal and
the other fellow at its base. It is not tliaf
the Negro does not yearn for the full chance
to function as a race group that leads him
to eschew segregation. It is not that he
objects to his own company that he dislikes
the Jim Crow coach or the segregated com
munity. Nor is it that he disdains the op
portunity to demonstrate his group power.
It is, howevo, the shroud of inferiority' which
ever and :.:on accompanies the white rr.t.is
s■ m t.'x of *e r-rga^en. This coupled with
selfishness and bigotry which have ever ac
companied sole group alignment, together
with the reciprocal benefits which, under
Christian civilization, play .hack and forth be
tween races, makes segregation an undesirable
policy.
Then, too, were all the racial increments
of America’s melting pot of human beings to
segregate themselves from each other, where
in the name of Heaven, would come the
chance to exchange the emoluments of Christ
ianized and civilized progression? Were the
Jews, the Germans, the Italians and all the
other racial groups selfishly to separate them
selves from each other, what would become
of the descendants of the Oglethorpes, Peter
Mincit and Roger Williams, all of mhom are
supposed to be promoting American welfare
this day and time? What would become of, '
the great interlocking American financial sys
tem, her mighty citadels of education and her
amazing social power? Coalition is what
makes any nation strong, for in unity there is
strength. And were Negroes iike smallpox,
the present trend of segregation for them
would have our unqualified approval. But they
are living beings, created in the image of God,
whose intentions are always being interpreted
by advocates of segregation, but whose acts,
though, speak louder than words, all the way
from Genesis to Gethsemane.
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KAPITAL KLAN KAPERS.
Press reports are heralding the August
parade of the Ku KIux Klan, to be held in
the Nation’s Capital; and soothsayers are ad
vancing divers motives for the 150,000 kl^ns
men who will march up the famous Pennsyl
vania Avenue, triumphantly traversed by
General Grant, Admiral Dewey, presidential
heroes and other national characters. Some
say the klan kraves publicity; others, that it
is trying to create a halo of psychological
strength equal to that which hovered over the
recent parade of the Holy Name Society.
And fatalists say that the klan is bent upon
letting the world know that it is, at '.cast os
tensibly in favor in America.
In the wake of press announcements pro
tests are beginning to pour in upon the Dis
trict Government against the public spectacle
of the Invincible Empire. The local N. A.
A. C. P. headed by the stalwart Lafe M.
Hershaw has vigorously protested the klan
karavan. And rumbles are being heard in
Roman Catholic circles and in the synagogues.
Others, alleging that public interest is being
jeopardized, are registering their adverseness
to the coming memoirs of reconstruction days.
Just how much pressure the protests will bring
to bear no one can say. The District Gov
ernment remains adamant, under the law, and
of course, no one can question its good faith
or sincerity.
Nevertheless the bad taste remains in the
mouth of Washington, where it is realized
that exploitation is to be made of the organi
zation which President Grant so vigorously
quelled, in the bleak days of yestertime: and
it is difficult to realize the grade of consist
ency which permits the invisible order to court
cheers of approbation from a sector of the
generous public. The fact remains that pre
cedents of Niles, Ohio and other places where
the klan has met under similar circumstances,
do not brook much good to follow in its wake
and despite statute law which may permit the
klan to tread upon Washington’s most his
toric street, caution and care, it would seem
should lead the District Government to bal
ance the good and the harm, as the case may
be, which may come from the descendants of
the hood and gown. And during such a
consideration we think, the burden of proof
rests with the klan to prove itself ioo per
cent American rather than its foes to prove
that it is not,—at least this should be the case
if history means anything, for history usually
repeats itself.
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“I HEARD"
I heard Jim Jones had left his wife! that
Smith had whipped his kid: that Carter pulled
a carving knife and awful damage did. I
heard our minister drank booze; and had some
fearful sprees; that Ellder Jones lets curse
words loose, and said that Hell would freeze.
I heard my wife was riding ’round the town
with different men; that Green some cash was
hiding which should put him in the pen. I
heard that for ten bucks apiece some gold
bricks you could buy; that Mary’s cousin’s
uncle’s niece would cheat, and steal and lie..
In fact, of evil things, I heard enough to fill
a book; ’most everybody had some word to
say of crook or hook. The good things, tho
were never told of any friends I claimed.
Their valorous acts were left to mould. Their
good deeds left unnamed.
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