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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 187».
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A LESSON FROM CRUSOE AND FRIDAY.
A long time ago, according to the story we all
loved so well and wondered over so much in our child
hood, Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday tried an
' experiment on the lonely sea island where they lived
alone. Perhaps most of us have forgotten that ex
periment, but this a good time to recall it, for it holds
a momentous lesson for us all in these days of social
and labor unrest.
Crusoe and Friday had reached a point in their <
life on.their desert island where they were doing well. i
They bad accumulated enough breadfruit and cocoa
nuts and other provisions so they could spare the
time to build themselves a comfortable house and 1
make themselves some clothing. They had to work 1
hard, it is true, to keep ahead of the game. But <
they were industrious and thrifty, so they began to |
accumulate some of the comforts of life. 1
Then one day Crusoe said to Friday: 1
“What’s the usg. of working so hard and sav
ing up yams and cocoanuts? Thrift is out of date.
Let’s work short hours and not accumulate anything.
We might as well consume all we produce. Let’s
spend our money and the good of it right now.”
The plan souftded. good to Friday. If it was
possible to be better off by loafing a good share of
the time, and by not denying one’s self anything, why
naturally it would be foolish to work. So the new
plan was put into effect.
At first it worked beautifully. They had accu
mulated enough food so there was plenty to fall back
on, and the dwelling was in good shape. But after
a while the roof began to leak and their clothing to
wear out and the reserve supply of food had been
exhausted. They decided finally they must mend the
roof and make some more clothing. But then they
found they hadn’t enough food for dinner. So they
had to stop work on the roof while they went after
food.
In the time they had allotted for working, how
ever, they discovered they couldn’t get the dwell
ing repaired, keep upon clothing, and obtain all the
food they needed. Life became more and more un
comfortable for them. Their house became almost
impossible to live in, they were ragged, and they
began to feel the effects of hunger.
“Mr. Crusoe,” Friday one day remarked after sev
eral months’ trial of the new light work plan, “your
scheme sounds good. But it somehow doesn’t pro
> duce the results. For some reason we don’t have
as many comforts now we are working four hours
a day as we had when we were working eight or
nine. It seems to me if we are going to have as
comfortable a home as we used to have, and as good
clothing and as much to eat, we have got to go to
work as we used to under the old plan.”
Crusoe had had the same ideas borne in on him by
the experience of the previous months. So they went
back to the old plan and gradually produced enough
surplus to enable them to live as comfortably as they
did before.
Thus, the chronicler reports, did the desert island
realize through painful experience the two great facts
of political economy which the race regards as so
disagreeable, that in the long run a good living is
to be had only by work and and thrift.
| What Other Editors Say
THE CADWELL LYNCHING.
The lynching of the n»gr> in the Cadwell sec
tion for what is reported as “very offensive” talk
about white p?pcl<. betrays a state of nerves on the
part of white communities m rural districts that can
hardly be compatible with the real conditions existing.
It is safe to say there never was more amity and
friendship and less discontent and distrust of each
other between the two races all over the South as
now. That the Cadwell people are resentful of the
visit of the “silent riders of the night” and that lead
ing men in that community are making every ef
fort to ascertain the full circumstances may easily be
believed. Something may come of it.
The Berry Washington lynching in the same sec-
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SEPTEMBER AGAIN.
OH, cut out the sighing, for summer is dying,
September is here at the gate; September so
winning has come for an inning, and August is pull
ing its freight she summer’s a season that’s base
upon reason, it’s good for the corn and the wheat;
without it the granger would soon be a stranger,
and we would have nothing to eat. The summer is
needed; the fields that are seeded without it would
fail to produce; and so we must bear it, this season
of merit, while sizzling away in our juice. Although
it is splendid we’re glad when it’s ended, we’re tired
of its charms, we admit; with laughter we wriggle,
we dance and we giggle, when summer goes lickety
split. Our noses are roasted, our whiskers are
toasted, we’re baked and we’re poached and we’re
fried; we long for cool breezes, and Autumn, she
eases the burden to which we’ve been tied. Oh,
welcome, September! I seem to remember we had
a September last year; and she was a hummer that
followed the summer and filled our old bosoms with
cheer. Oh, she was a daisy with distances hazy ,
and zephyrs that hinted of frost, with n’ghts that
were chilly—not sizzling and silly; I boost her, re
gardless of cost.
tion is come under full legal airing after an investiga
tion held by men of irreproachable character and
long of the section in which they live. The same
action will doubtless swing in behind the Cadwell af
fair and those guilty of the killing brought to an ac
counting of some sort, even though the aggravation to
men who live on the edge of race relations may be
very strong when a “bad talking nigger” gets busy
with the simpler people of any neighborhood. And
talk of real trouble is by no means idle chatter with
the Jenkins county tragedy and all that lay behind that
still fresh in all minds. That negroes in that section
had under the leadership of the late Dixon made up
their minds to be a law unto themselves there can
be no doubt.
In the meantime it is well enough to remember
there is no race trouble, no race trouble impend
ing and none possible in Georgia, as long as all but
one in every four or five thousand negroes continue
going about their business and paying no attention to
the loud mouths and braggarts whose none too steady
heads have been turned by residence in the black
zones of the Northern cities. In which connection the
words of Bishop Holsey in Macon the night before
last comes to his own people with peculiar and driving
emphasis:
. . . For the negro to think of fighting
to force the white people to do something is the
height of folly . . . the white man’s govern
ment. is my government, and I love the white man,
in fact I love everybody. The Southern white
people are not the worst people in the world.
This is n«t the doctrine preached by the Chicago
Defender, the Tom Watsonist publication of negro
journalism, by the Crisis, that ably and smartly edited
publication which in every issue and every
page reflects the editor’s resentment at being
born a negro and his passion to be a white man, or of
the other papers that are being put into the hands of
the negroes and copies of which had as much to do
with the Cadwell lynching as the actual utterances of
the swaggering negro himself. But what Bishop Hol
sey, a tried and true leader of his race, says is true
in every particular and it is the duty of every respect
ed and patriotic negro to be preaching among his peo
ple the same doctrine.
Just as the white duty is to keep common senses
forbearance and sanity the outstanding characteristics
of our own relations with the negro and we have among
our own people a good many who need as much edu
cation as to their deportment as the yeunger genera
tion of negroes may need for their. The burning of
churches is a confession of Weakness and inability to
cope with the situation on the part of the white men
who do it. It is an admisison they have either a bad
case of nerves, hardly creditable to the dominant and
superior race, or they have failed to keep the proper
relation between the races maintained in times it
should be easy and natural to build it so it would stand
against any test of attempt at breach.
If responsible white men had organized respon
sible negroes to combat the propaganda of such sheets
as the Chicago Defender and used their own meth
ods to close the mouths and expel the presence of such
brass-throated fools as the “overtalking” negro who was
lynched there would have been no trouble. And that
can be done. In the doing of it the real burden lies
on the shoulders of the clear-seeing, intelligent and
responsible white man. If he meets his full duty in
every community there will be no more church and
lodge room burnings because “negro Bolshevism” will
not be taught there with responsible, loyal and in
telligent negro leaders exposing the fallacy and hy
pocrisy and danger of it all.
There will be no race trouble in Georgia, even so.
The Cadwell methods will keep it down; but so will
enlightened education and instruction of the negro in
all communities as to his duties as a resident and part
of that community. As to the preferable way, not
even the posse that handled the Cadwell lynching will
dispute.—Macon Telegraph.
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the money which her husband bor
rowed from her uncle, who had won it
in a poker game from her brother, to
whom she had loaned it shortly after
her mother had taken it from her fa
ther’s pockets and given it to her for a
birthday present.”
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