The home journal. [volume], March 01, 1952, Image 3

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Mhuprvation Tower J. Antonio Jarvis
William Edward
Burghardt Du Bois
iSs one of the most
distinguished scholars of
cour time. His leadership of
the Negro was for many
years characterized as op
posed to that aszumed by
Booker T. Washington. It
was once fashionable to
speak of ”t w o schools of
thought - Dußois’s philoso
phy & Washington’s prag
matism.” :
Timeisthe great crucible
through which all matezli
als must be refined. Many
of them are changed and
some are drawn off by the
atmosphere but the purest
elements remain. Time
has shown how much
value there was in each
man’s apgroach to the
social qlz;o lem of how
to get the Negro to be
come an American. Cer
tainly it is now clear that
each man had a vital role
to play in the growth of
American civilization as it
included the Negro.
Today, in the mellow
ress of age, Dr. Dußois
can lock back over a long
useful life. He has been an
academic gadfly to the
complacent and the indo
lent whose immediate
goals were minor jobs
teaching in inferior col
lege or hugging the social
security of lower bracket
Civil Service positions.
Dr. Dußois is a socit:lo
gist of first rank, a histo
rian, poet, editor, biogra
pher, novelist, essayist &
of course a great teacher.
He has been Director of
Publicity a n d Research
sor the National Associa
tion for the Advancement
of Colored People. He
edited the CRISIS in its
THE HOME JOURNAL
‘best days. Dr. Du Bois
lwas founder of the Pan
' African Congress and Di-
Irector of Research for the
Negro Encyclopedia for
lthe Phelps Stokes Fund.
Dr. Du Bois was trained
at Fisk University, Har
vard and the University
of Berlin. A New Eng
lander [he wa s born at
Great Barringten, Mass.,
on Fepb. 23, 1868] he has
sensitivity and forthright
ness as well as the sense
of responsibility of a Mar
quand hero. He is a liber
al so far to the left of op
pression and tyranny that
he has had to gefend him
self in court.
Few writers have used
the language so effectively
as an instrument of protest in
prose poetry against the ab
stract wrongs & the concrete
evils that beset mankind.
Sime of Dr, Du. Bois s books
are The Souls of Black Folk,
John Brown, Darkwater, Dark
Princess, The Quest of the
Si:ver Fleece, The Negro Then
I PUC General Order No. 10
Amending Order of December
22, 1947 as amended provid
ing for the Regulation of Mor
tor Buses and Passenger-car
rying Trucks on the Island of
, St. Thomas, V. I.
Section 3:01 is amended to
read as follows: -
(c) After 7:00 P.M. each day,
Buses will proceed in a wester
ly direction on the main high
‘way. It will be mandatcry for
buses to turn south into
French Village by the public
cemetery crossrvad if there
are passengers fort hat sec-i
tion. _ l
Approved by the Publiec Uti
lities Commission at its meet-1
ing held on January 24, 1952
Grace” Gordon, !
Chairman ‘
Attest: :
Alphonse S. Holder. ‘
Secretary
and Now, his autobiography,
Dusk of Dawn, and Black Re
construction, We must not
forget that this is the man
who wrote The Suppression of
the African S e Trade and
The Philadelphia Negro. In
numerable papers, addresses,
magazine articles and a huge
volume o f editerial work
should be imcluded, in any kst
of this scholar’s output for the
past sixty years.
To few men is it given
to live so long and produce so
‘much. When the late William
Dean voluntarily made his
exit a potentially great schol
ar passed away but how much
more trouble for twice as long
has the subject of this paper
endured!
If one p ssesses the gift o
prophecy or has sufficient ima
ginalion to protest where oth
ers are phlegmatie, his road is
not smooth nor his burden
light. When one is a Negro he
has to live i. two worlds. As
Dr. Du Bois himself puts it.
“From the double life every
American Negro must live, as
a Negro and as an American,
as swept on by the current of
the nineteenth while yet
struggling in the eddies of the
fifteenth century - from this
must arise a painful self-con
seiousness, an almost morbid
sense of personality and a mo
ral hesitancy that is fatal to
self confidence.”’
There can be no doubt about
the struggle. It is true here
but only fer those who think.
““‘Such a double life, with
double thoughts, double duties
and deuble social classes,must
give rise to double ideals, and
tempt the mind to pretense or
to revolt, to hypocrisy or to
radicalism.”’
Dr. Dußois is no stranger
now to the Virgin Isiands. He
Notice
All concerned please take
notice that I have filed my
Final Report in the ESTATE
OF ANN MARIE WADE, De
ceased, (PROBATE NO. 3-
1951), and that a hearing
thereon to receive cbjections
thereto will be hLeld in the
District Court house on Feb
ruary 27, 1952, at 10:00 A. M_
Alphonso A. Christian
Administrator
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