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NASHVILLE A CITY OF OPPORTUNITY THE LEADING TiEGRO JOURNAL IN TENNESSEE.
TOUJME XIII.
NASHVILLE. TENPL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1918.
NUMBER 16
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CITY THIS WEEK
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VADE
STEVEN R. YOUNG
PASSES AWAY
FORMERLY MEMBER OF PEARL
HIGH FACULTY -END CAME At
CAMP LEE ALUMNU&' ' OF
HAMPTON INSTITUTE.
Hampton, Va., Feb. 11 Hampton
Institute has lost Its first man on ac
count of the World War. Word has
come of the death at : Camp Lee,
Petersburg, Va., ot Steven Randolph
Young, who received his Hampton
diploma In 1914. '
At the time of his death, Steven
Young was supply sergeant of the
Elghty-elgth, Company, Twenty
first Training Batallion. Prior to
his call to the National Army, Young
MR. JOS. L. JONES,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the National
Negro Press Association and editor nf
the Fraternal Monitor.
was engaged In teaching manual
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Nashville. Tenn. -
Stevan R. Young was born on June
10, 1889, In Essex County, Va. He
entered Hampton at the age of 21.
His early education was received in
the public schools of Upper Zion in
Caroline County and in the Bowl
ing Green Academy. '
Before coming to Hampton, Ser
geant had taught school for one
year. He entered the Hampton 'night
ohnol in tha fall nf 10m nnri rii-ln
the day served as an orderly In the
Academic Department. His work
record throughout was rated "Excel
lent." For three years Young's scholar
ship was paid by the Riverdale Coun
try School, New York. All his work
whether In the classroom, the work
shop, or Hampton batallion of ca
dets, was done well and with rare
conscientiousness.
During his four years at Hampton,
""tl t-wn. u autlYQ yttl C ill lilt)
school's missionary work. He com
bined in a delightful way good
eheer and seriousness.
After his graduation from Hamp
ton he returned to his home In Upper
Zion and became the principal there
Of a two-room school for thren vnnrn
He also served his community as a
Sunday schoql worker; helped the
school teachers buy books; did some
farming and organized clubs for
farmers, school patrons, and school
children.
RABBI LEWINTHAL TO ADDRESS
NORMAL STUDENTS.
Rabbi- Lewjnthal of Vine Street
Temple will address the students at
A. and I. State Normal school Sun
day, February 17th. The occasion
being the regular monthly third
Sunday services at that institution.
A splendid musical program has been
prepared. Those monthly services
usually attract a large audience from
the city and many are expected to
attend. Services will begin prompt
ly at 3 o'clock. . ,
Hear the man that will advise you;
follow the man that will lead you;
love the man that will teach you;
and stick with the man that will
help you along life's way this done,
thou shalt lack neither friend nor
Joy. .
DR. E. A. WILLIAMS,
Cincinnati, Ohio, auditor of the Na
tional Negro Press Association, and
djtor of the Brotherhood. '
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E A. B. NEIL'S
TWO-BY-FOUR SHERIFFS AND CONSTABLES REBUKED RUNNING
NEGROES FROM NASHVILLE GET WORK THEMELVES.
i Hundreds of Nashville's best citi
zens have been congratulating Judge
A. B. Neil of the criminal court for
his masterly utterances a few days
ago In charging the grand Jury.
Judge Nell, it Is understood, came
squarely down on what Is often
termed "little two by four" deputy
sheriffs and constables who are said
to have made life so miserable to
thousands of people In and about
Nashville, and who primarily are
said to be the cause ot hundreds of
Negroes leaving Nashville and the
state ot Tennessee for northern cen
ters. It is claimed already that the
stand taken by Judge Nell will be
upheld by the leading white citizens
of Nashville, that the life of the citi
zens who have been made miserable
on so many occasions will now be
more secure.
. For a number of years the Negroes
of Nashville, have been compelled to
take- all kinds of treatment at the
hands of some of the officers f the
law, who, because they wear a badge
and carry a big cane, were at times
overbearing. Complaint after com
plaint has already been registered
about people being arrested on fri
volous charges and carried before
some of the courts and fined In or
der that officers who are worfclng
on the fee system micht get their
fee. Only a little while ago It is
said that officers arrested more than
one hundred and fifty Negroes
against whom there were no specific
charges, and carried them all before
one of the judges. Many of ttiese,
as soon as they were released, left
the South. ' Hundreds t of laborers
were,- therefore, driven' frbra '' the
south to the north. Civic organiza
tion like the Business and Profes
sional Men's Club in Nashville, of
which the Rev. Preston Taylor Is
President and Mr. Ira T. Bryant Is
secretary; the Nashville Negro
Board of Trade, of which Mr. A. N.
Johnson is president and Mr. D. Wel
lington Berry .is secretary,, have been
making a careful study of conditions,
and the fact is said to be revealed
that hardly any of the Negroes who
left Nashville did not go because of
their dislike for the city, but It Is
claimed that many were forced
away. They are said to have been
hounded, mistreated and carried be
fore various court officers, tried and
convicted ; they not being able to em
ploy defense were either compelled
to pay fines or work their time out;
but from all indications, and espec
ially from Judge A. B. Neil's manly
charge to the grand Jury, it would
seem that a new day is dawning and
that the intelligent, law-abiding
white citizens" of Nashville have de
termined to put an end to the whole
sale operations of deputy sheriffs and
constables ' who, according to Judge
Neil's statement, and according to
the persistent rumor that has been
afloat for some time, have made, a
practice of preying upon inoffensive
workmen of both races, as It Is -said
that these actions have not been
confined to Negroes, but that the la
boring class of white workmen have
suffered Just as badly and that many
of the officers on the fee system have
depended entirely upon their raids,
as they term them, for livelihood.
One of the recent actions calling
forth the utterances from Judge
Neil was the reported wholesale raid
on Radnor Yards last Saturday night,
when, it Is claimed, that without
any provocation whatever, these
workmen who had only been paid off
the day before, were arrested,
charges entered against them, but
the action of Judge Neil in failinf?
to prosecute them and his splendid
charge to the grand Jury are having
great effect. It is said that hundreds
of Negroes would be willing to ro-'
turn If they could be assured that
they would be allowed to remain un
molested and given a chance to work
for an honest living. In charging
the Jury Judge Neil said:
"Gentlemen of the Grand Jury:
You are all aware of the fact that
at the present time there is a great
demand for labor, not only in the
city, but in the immediate vicinity
of the city, due to the establishment
of the great enterprise in ' Hadley
Bend by the government, the build
ing ot spur tracks from the several
railroads leading Into the. city and
the completion of the railroad yards
near Radnor college. It has come to
my attention that already several of
ficers are beginning to arrest labor
ers at Radnor yards and other placec
upon trumped-up and frivolous
charges. On last ' Friday night,
which was the night after pay day,
a number of officers arrested a great
many Negro laborers who were nm
ployed in building and laying spur
tracks at the Radnor ftollege "yards.
Arrests to Get Costs.
"The question of securing a suffi
cient number ot men to do this work
at the present time is a very seri
ous one, especially when It must be
done Immediately to relieve the rail
road congestion generally, and to
get transportation facilities for these
public works at the earliest possible
moment. . These arrests are not
made for the purpose of enforcln
the law, but solely to get costs out
of these men. They are Intimidating
laborers everywhere and making it
more difficult to get men to build
these important enterprises. When
a man quits his work and goes to his
home, or to his shack, many of them
live In box cars, he never, knows
MASTERLY STAND
when he Is going to be raided and
locked up on some frivolous charge.
"It is quite significant that these
arrests are nearly, always made on
the night following the, day the men
are paid oft. A great many of these
laborers are living in, box cars, as I
stated, where they ,. are employe,
and are far removed from anv thick
ly settled neighborhood. I am frank
to tell you, gentlemen, that I am rot
going to stand for a few petty of
ficers raiding these places and inter
fering with and intimidating these
'people who have been brought here
at great expense to do this work.
Suppose they do shoot a few sraps'"
in a box car. Who is going to be
hurt? These companies have -epecir.l
officers and watchmen to keep the
peace, and they are mone interested
in public order than anybody.
Might Get Work Themselves.
"If these officers . would get em
ployment themselves at Hadley
Bend, or with the railroad, and help
to complete these enterprises they
would be rendering a real service to
the country. Instead of working
themselves thy are going about act
ually paralyzing and crippling the el
forts of public-spirited citizens who
are trying to build up the community,
and at the same time help our coun
try in what is thought to he the dark
est hour of its hiBtory.
"I instruct you to ignore all of
these cases unless the attorney-gen-
MR. C. J.
Philadelphia, Pa., President of the
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editor of The Philadelphia Tribune for the past thirty-five yearsj Mr. Perry
is serving his second term as president of the newspaper organization.
eral, after an investigation,, advises
that a substantial offense has been
committed which warrants a prose
cution. "A. B. NEIL. Judge."
WORK OF "Y" CAM
PAIGN PROGRESSING
Workers Enthnsiastic-Goal
500 Members '
The work of the membership cam
paign of the Colored Branch Y. M. C.
A., to date consist mainly, in organ
izing the campaign . forces. While
the announcement. was made to the
effect that the campaign began
February. 1st and would run forty
days, it was expected at the time
that at least one-third of this time
would be occupied in lining up' the
workers and getting into their hands
membership cards and full instruc
tions as to the Association's mission
and the needs of young men gener
ally.
Mr. E. L. Kinzer and Mr. Wm. D.
Aven are leaders of two divisions
which will consist ot eight captains
each.
The heads of these two divisions
have agreed to be responsible for
securing 250 members each. The
eight captains which they have se
lected will have associated with them
four men each. The total working
force when completely rounded p
will consist ot eighty-two men. The
(Contiued on Page 8.)
PURCHASING
POWER
OF
WAR AND t MONEY ECONOMY
SLOGAN OF DAY REDUCTION
OF CONSUMPTION-INCREASE
IN PRODUCTION.
Pointing out that never before in
history has an understanding of the
simple principle of economics been
so sorely needed, a committee of
eminent economists engaged in the
study of the purchasing power ot
money la war time, issued today its
first public statement
After exhaustive investigation this
committee has reached its conclusion
unanimously. It would impress udou
us the imperative need of a reduc
tion of consumption and an increase
of production, of the repression of
non-essentials, and ot promotion of
organization and redirection ot in
dustry. "In meeting the great national re
adjustment to war conditions," the
committee says, "we must not let our
'businesses-usual' Impulses prevent
the needed. saving and shifting of in
dustry, lest we pay a terrific penalty
In higher cost ot living and national
Inelficiency." .
The committee finds the public
confused and vacillating between
two economic philosophies the aim
pie, direct, old-fashioned, correc phi
losophy of saving and working and
the fallacious philosophy, best epit
omized as "business as usual." "One
PERRY. i
National Negro Press Association, also
of our greatest perils in the futur
lies in further credit expansion," tht
committee says, and I this peril
conies largely from our lending by
borrowing." The committee points
out the right way and the wrong way
to lend money to our country. "The
right way," it says, "is the frank
and honest way of savins up the
money by spending less or earning
more; the wrong way is the at first
cheap and easy, although ultimately
costly and painful way, of lending
the Government what we borrow at
the bank.", f
"By giving up non-essentials to buy
Government securities," i!:tho commit
tee further says, "we aftow the Gov
ernment to buy war essentials and
at the same time releasje productive
enerey from the making of non-essentials
for us to the making of es
sentials for the Government."
"But," it goes on tou'say, "if we
won't make the needed sacrifice and
perhaps delude ourselves into be
lieving that we do nbtj have to do
so or even that we ought uot to do
so, that, -on principle, we favor "busi
ness as usual' for , ourselves, while
expecting business unusual . to bo
superadded by the Government, we
Simply go throuan the motions of
givin.g our billions to the Government
Without really giving;them up. There
fore the , Government, . iu order to
buy away, from us what we will not
otherwise surrender, bids nn prices,
and the rise In prices which cornea
about through this sort of lending is
cumulative." , . ,
"As the prices of war supplies rise
the money cost of war grows and
the Government has to borrow more.
Bigger loans by us to the Govern
ment require bigger loans to us from
the banks. This further expansion
ot bank credit favors a further rise
MONEY
NEWSPAPER MEN NASHVILLE'S GUESTS
ANNUAL SESSION OF PRESS ASSOCIATION DEVELOPMENT OF
RACE IS KEYNOTE OF MEETING LARGELY ATTENDED
Knights of the quill from every
section of; the United States are in
Nashville this week attending the
annual session of the National Negro
Press Association. These quill push
ers standing out in the tore-front of
American journalism, Insofar as the
Negro is concerned, ' will " deliberate
throughout the week on matters of
vital importance affecting the work
of the Negro in the journalistic arena.
Among them are found white-haired
veterans who have labored for more
than a quarter of a century, some
as long as forty years; while there
are others practically In their teens
who are just being initiated into the
mysteries of Journalism, but as rep
resentatives of an organization with
papers and magazines having a cir
culation of more than one million,
three hundred thousand weekly,
reaching every quarter ot the civil
ized world.: They are here to shape
the policy of an organization that is
How the spokesman and the verita
ble mouthpiece of about twelve mil
lion people. That their deliberations
will he watched, scrutinized and
held up to the public view hB long
since been conceded.
The Negro newspaper and maga
zine, whether published in the inter
est of religion, education, fraternity,
finance or what not, has, according
to the claim made by the represen
tatives of the Association, stood out
for the ideals of a race advocating
race unit and uplift in every voca
tion. Nashville seem3 to be con
tributing excellent entertainment to
those who are here, and it was an
nounced even before their coming,
that many Nashville homes would be
thrown open. In addition to . this,
the Y. M. C. A.' dormitories - have
been placed at the disposal of the
representatives of the press. Occu
pying membership In the Association
will be found the names of the race's
most distinguished leaders. They
come from the pulpit as well as the
pew, representing every line of pro
fession as well as every lino of busi
ness. One of the newspaper men said
while here: "It has often occurred
that the man occupying the editorial
chair on a Negro journal is a law
yer, doctor, merchant, minister of
the gospel, teacher or college presi
dent, just as well as an author and
a literary man by profession."
The discussions at the meetings
throughout the week, according to
the reports, of their daily proceed
ings, have delved into every condi
tion confronting the people, the
President's war policy, food conser
vation, the coal situation, Jim Crow
car laws, Jim Crow legislation; in
fact, the development of the race
from every point of view seemed to
have been the" key-note of the meet
ings from the very opening. From
the scores of messages received at
the .corresponding secretary s office,
it becomes evident that the represen
tation would cover every section of
the country, and the central location,
such as Nashville has proven to bo,
seems to have been the drawing card
for the representatives of tho press.
in commodity prices, starting the
whole process over again in a vicious
circle."
This committee is made up of Prof.
Irving Fisher (chairman), of Yale
University; Prof. E. W. Kemmerer,
of Princeton University; Prof. B. M.
Anderson, Jr., of Harvard Universi
ty; Dr. Royal Meeker, United States
Commissioner of Labor Statistics;
Prof. Wesley Clair Mitchell, of Co
lumbia University; and Prof. War
ren M. Persons, of Colorado College.
The committee in collecting its facts
has had the co-operation of several
branches of the United States Gov
ernment, as well as of some large
commercial . and financial houses.
The sta oment of the commitve : fol
lows:
"The country has experienced an
acute coal situation, a drasi c coal
order, the breakdown of railway
transportation, the taklnsr over of the
railroads by the Government, mount
ing livin.g costs, and price fixing.
"These events crowded upon us
while we were still congratulating
ourselves on the success ot the draft,
the passage of fuel and food conser
vation laws, and the unparalleled
subscriptions to Liberty bonds.
"Enrollments, laws and subscrip
tions, however, do not represent
things accomplished; they are only
plans laid out. The test of the Na-j
uuu uuiiicD mien wo uy iu rAtst-ULt;.
those plans. The breakdowns we are
experiencing show . the magnitude
and difficulties of our task.
"We are undergoing a national re
adjustment to . war conditions a
great shift from a peace to a war
footing, the growing pains of which
are acute Just now, though they have
been experienced, -' less -acutely, for
the rast three years..
"This war, the greatest of all, is
greatest especially in its .cost. It is
estimated that the money cost alone
tor all nations is upward of a hun
dred billion of dollars. Each week
it costs as much as did the entire
Boer War; each month as much as
the entire , Russo-Japaneso War;
each two months as much as the en
tire Civil War, which hitherto has
held the record.
"Never before in history has an
understanding of, the simple princi
ples of economics been so sorely
needed. Although much is being
done to 1 supply this need, we find
the public confused and vacllliating
between two economic philosophies
the simple, direct, old-fashioned,
correct philosophy of saving and
working and the fallacious philoso
phy, perhaps best epitomized as
'business as usual'
"So far as we let our 'business as
usual' Impulses prevent the needed
saving and economic shifting we
shall pay a terrific penalty in higher
coBt of living as well as in national
inefficiency and maladjustment.
"The living cost and the level of
commodity prices in general are now,
as we are all aware, extremely high.
The average wholesale prices in the
United States last month were 81
per cent above that of July, 1914;
that is, the purchasing power of mon
ey over goods in the wholesale
markets has been almost cut in half.
"The rise in retail prices ot foods
in the same period has been 67 per
cent This means a reduction to less
than two-thirds in the purchasing
power of money over foods in the
retail markets. Abroad the rise cf
prices has been even greater.
"Between 1896 and 1914 wholesale
prices in the United States were
rising at the average rate of only
one-fifth of 1 per cent per month;
but even that small rate, long con
tinued, was enough to make the "H.
C. L." a very painful fact.
"Since the war wholesale prices
in the United States have been ris
ing at the rate of nearly 2 per cont
per month, or nearly 10 times as fast
as before the war. In some coun
tries in Europe the rise in prices has
been two or three times as rapid as
in the United States. While the war
lasts the commodity price level will
inevitably mount . by leaps and
bounds, unless we adopt rigorous pre
ventive measures.. In particular we
must avoid, so far as possible, lend
ing by borrowing.
"Loans to the Government made
not from savings but from borrow
ings will tend to Increase bank
credit. Further extension of bank
credit will chiefly bring about a rise
in commodity prices. It is therefore
desirable that further loans to the
Government should be made out of
current savings.
"There are two ways for us to lend
money ' to our country. The right
way is the frank and honest way of
saving, by spending less or earning
more. The other and wrong way is
the, at first, cheap and easy, although
ultimately costly and painful, way of
lending the Government what we
borrow from the bank. Even that
species ot robbing Peter to pay
Paul is, of course, better than paying
Paul nothing; for Paul, i. e., the
United States Treasury, must have
the cash. But It can be Justified only
when unavoidable or when used as
a temporary expedient, and the debts
so contracted are soon repaid out of
savings.
"If I buy Government securities by
giving up the purchase of a pleasure
automobile, the Government can buy
a military truck with the same
money, and the labor and capital
which would have made the pleasure
car for me will make the truck for
the Army instead. That is the right
way.
"The wrong method is employed If
I Insist upon buying that pleasure
car and so can buy the Government
securities only by borrowln.g tr-e
(Continued on. page 8.)
McADOO APPOINTS
LAWYER HARRISON
Oklahoma City, Oklo. Another
honor has been bestowed upon Judge
Wm. Harrison of this city, as disclos
ed in the announcement made pub
lic in the Daily Oklahoma of this city
last week. Lawyer Harrison, who has
been styled very often as the great
est living Negro orator, was notified
that he had been designated by Mr. W.
G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury,
to make a speaking tour of the south
in the interest of the war saving cam
paign. The notice was sent from
Washington, D. C, and is regarded
here as the highest possible recogni
tion ot Judge Harrison's ability as a
platform speaker. Only recently the
Oklahoma Bar Association, of which
Mr. E. G. McAdams. is president,
adopted ringing resolutions in favor
of Judge Harrison, commending him
to the President of the United States
and powers at Washington for any ser
vice possible. Judge Harrison de
livered the principal address at the
Lincoln Birthday Celebration at
Springfield and Danville, 111., and is
now enroute to Washington, D. C,
where he is to receive his final in
structions as to his work. Another
message ordering Judge Harrison to
Washington came from Mr. Charles
F. Horner, the Director of the Speak
ers' Bureau at Washington. Much, re
joicing has been occasioned here bb
Judge Harrison was regarded as one
of the little R. F. D's about whom so
much has been said for the past
several years'. . J
New Orleans, La. Rev J. L. Bur
rill, D. D., the pastor of the Progres
sive Baptist Church, has been named
as one of the speakers in the inter
est ot the War Saving Campaign to
be waged in Louisiana. Dr. Burrill
has tho distinction of being known
among the national characters, he
being prominently connected with
the great National Baptist Conven
tion. .
NEGROES AT DU-
PONT
COMPANY
ABOUT 1500 TO BE EMPLOYED
NEGRO ALWAYS LOYAL STU
PENDOUS FEAT IN ENGINEER
ING. About fifteen hundred Nefioes a;'9
to be employed by . the Du?ont En
gineering Company at the g eat gov
ernment powder plant that is bein
erected at Hadley Bend, according to
a statement given out by Mr. J.-L.
Pratt of the engineering aepannieni,
nrhn fa ham n.nd who will nracticalb
have charge of all the work. While
these figures are not given out to ne
based upon as minimum or maximum
employment, it is learned authorlta-
f t
vrv-reriiitiBii
MR. B. J. DAVIS,
Atlanta, Ga., Treasurer of the Na
tional Negro Press Association and
editor of the Atlanta Independent.
tively that it will be one of the insti
tutions that will give more regular
employment than any--foncern that
was ever located in Tennessee. Jti!y
this week it was estimated that fully
three hundred Negroes are at work
at this plant, and by the various
railroads who are also building spur
tracks to the new government pow
der plant. Tho Influx of the Negroes
from every section of the country
has already begun, and it is said
that many of them are coming back
from the north to "Sunny Tennessee"
who are finding ready employment
While it has never been shown
that Nashville was severely crippled
by the exodus, it is a fact that a
number had already gone north for
various causes. The opening up of
the plant is argued as a splendid op
portunity for the return of many, as
woll as for the importation of a num
ber from other sections.
The loyalty of the Negro through
every war, the very fact, that he has
never proven a traitor, that he has
never produced a Benedict Arno'd,
has caused the real American who
believes in the perpetuation of the
government, to begin to look to the
Negro for the solution to many cf
the perplexing problems. It is said
that Just as he is helping to solve
the problem at the trenches and on
the firing line in Franca, that as he
has helped to serve in America
somewhere in the furrows, he can
and is being depended upon by large
manufacturers to guard their plants
and to give an hnneat day's labor.
Experts in the labor problem, in the
engineering department, as well as
In the various phases of construc
tion, are said to already have passed
their candid opinion upon, the fact
that the Negro as a laborer has
proven far more acceptable. It is
understood that only through the ef
forts of the Negro laborer that the
stupendous engineering feat of build
ing the Panama Canal was accom
plished. One of the enthusiastic
Nashville boosters declared that It
would not be surprising if three or
four hundred Negroes were employed
at the DuPont Plant, and that he U
certain that this many in all depart
ments while the plant is under 'con
struction would be employed; and
that even down at Sheffield where
Continued on Pace 8.)
REV. J. A. HAMLETT. D. D i
Jackson, Tenn., Recording Secretary,
of the National Negro Press AssocUr
tloh and editor of the Christian Index;:.
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