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Page 2 GJbf Nrnlfjuiratmt BuU*ttn-App?al AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY Published Weekly by the Bulletin-Appeal Publishing Co. 301-2 Court Block St. Paul, Minnesota Phone; Garfield 2075. OWEN HOWELL President and Publisher S. QUAY HERNDON .. Managing Editor AIM EE HALL - Vice-Pres. and City Editor OBRALDLNE PICKETT ...Sec. and Circulation Mgr. J. Q. ADAMS -Printing Mgr. URUN CLARK Advertising MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE: €O2 Lyndale Ave. No.—Phone Hyland 1066 CECIL NEWMAN -...Circulation W. J. MOORE Advertising Subscription Rates: One year, 11.00; Btx Mentha, sl.« Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. Entered as second-clue matter February 20, 1122, at the poetofflee at St Paul, lflnn., under the Act of March 3. 1172. Member of the ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS “First in Service” KEEPING THE VOTER POSTED The coming weeks will witness one of, if not the greatest, po litical movements in the history of America. The part the Race is destined to play is one of great importance. The various threats of a bolt in party support, the potentiality of the Race vote when launched in a singular direction and the indefiniteness of how the majority will accept the hithertofore Powers that be. This year will realize the chrystalization of many efforts combined with the discouragement of party support as the orthodox method of secur ing recognition. With the temperature rapidly going higher, the Political Boil ing Pot is expected to bubble over with false speeches, promises, temptation to swerve the Race voter from changing his policy and a general campaign of old-time political bosses to secure money votes. In this time when careful and correct application of facts are to be directed in an advantageous channel the part The Bulle tin-Appeal will play is one designed to help the Race voter in select ing the best man for our group, not apart, but a portion of the great commonwealth. The Race has suffered jeopardy because of misdirected energy. We have been the victim of unfair dealings from without because we were sold out from within. To eliminate further results of this kind, The Bulletin-Appeal pledges itself not only to help in the fight for local recognition but to continue through the state and national issues. We believe that, locally, our men are capable of holding better positions than custodians of the broom and dust pan in the various public buildings. We are confirmed in the belief that same of the appointive places in our country, and the state as well, should l)e filled by Race men; first, because they are sufficiently able to ade quately deal with the situation, and, secondly, the strength of the Race vote warrant some recognition. Our girls are able to effi ciently do many things in public capacities, but color alone prevents their so doing. To secure for the men and women of our group their rightful honors is one of the things we aim to make safe for citizens. We intend to keep the public fully posted on all matters where Race interest is involved. We do not consider the Race as having secured its ratio of opportunities in consideration of the services rendered. We serve a Race purpose, and to meet this necessary and expected service, we realize w hat we are facing. The Bulletin-Appeal may be depended upon to inform the voter as to the best candidates for the various offices. We will not per mit unfair dealing if it is our power to prevent it. Every man must be meritorious of the confidence of the people or else we shall feel it our duty to oppose him. Our men can receive their share of offices from appointment by merit of efficiency and ability only when those in power recognize these qualities as the only means by which men serve best. We are not, nor shall become, so involved in political machines so as to loose our power in the community as a dispenser of information for the benefit of the Race. UNSTABLE POPULARITY A flagrant disgrace to race intelligence and a direct reflection on our ability to refrain from contributing toward American preju dice may be found in the recent issue of the Dearborn Independent with the occupancy of an entire page of propaganda against the Jew. The articles are supposed to be the contribution of one Llewelyn Smith, sociologist, and based upon a survey made by the New York Age. The article viciously attacked the Jew and branded him as exploiting the Race, in his commercial tactics. The article cites the Jew as robbing the Race in a relenting manner, resorting to all kinds of greed and avarice to wrest from the Race a goodly supply of its earnings. There are many reasons why this article should not have been written by a Race man, taken from a Race paper, and contributed to the Dearborn Independent. One reason is that the Dearborn Independent is a prejudiced medium against the Jew for the sole reason that he is a Jew. It is this form of prejudice that we are fighting daily, seeking the enaction and enforcement of laws that will mitigate the injustices arising out of prejudice and basing our claim against barrier, used by the other group, on the grounds that we are dealt with unfairly, not because of racial dishonor, but because of the weight of unfair prejudice. Such discrimination as has been wreaked upon the Jew by the Dearborn Independent is the kind we have suffered for time immemorial. To imagine that a thinking Race man with full knowledge of the unfortunate re sults of needless, and un-Christian sentiment, moulded because of Race hate, would offer to help fan the flames of prejudice is some what difficult. However, this is the thing we have to encounter. Of all the articles appearing in thfd Sow'. Ag<j,.phtuwng the laxity of law enforcement, the fhe other group to recognize the faHAtyof .discrimination because bf race, color or creed, why was this paj&cqjai qfitffcle B&K born Independent. The answer might con*dMlyW sfc&xf thatTii was due to the fact that capitalization of hate, mingled with unjust accusation, just suited the purpose for which it is used. The Race cannot afford to contribute anything to American prejudice. Such contributions will only furnish material to be used against us. If is prospering at our expense, it is because we are willing to be made the easy mark in our dealings with him. It is conceded that the Jewish race will show a profit from their trans actions with all men, and it makes no difference of what race they are a part. The excuse that the Race is the only unfortunate suf ferer of so-called Jewish avariciousness is one that can best be acknowledged by one determined to gain his point with the aid of prejudice alone. > Those who are under the impression that the Jew holds an over friendly feeling toward the Race are laboring under a false impression. There is only one thing that makes men equal in the estimation of the Jewish merchant. It is the almighty dollar. It makes no difference of the man who has it, the purpose in mind is to secure this dollar and place it among others in his coffer. Foi this disposition only the other group hate the Jewish people, sc they say. This is not true. It is Anglo-Saxon to hate and desire to despise those who once were their serfs but are now able tc stand on par with them. Realizing the power of prejudice, the Anglo-Saxon of America has taught it to every foreigner who steps on this soil. One of the first things an immigrant ia taught is tc hate certain classes and people. So long as harmony can be pre vented by so doing the sponsors of this method of retaining su premacy may be content The Race cannot commit itself to ward prejudice ffgainst any people because of race or religion. Neither can we survive when we adopt the very thing we know to be wrong, yet practiced by other people. The Race has suffered more greatly from prejudice alone than from any other thing. Our talented and educated sociologist will do well to first consider the cost of helping to destroy good faith in his own Race by helping an avowed prejudice medium to disseminate their campaign against any peo ple. We desire fairness, justice, and equality because we merit those principles. We cannot hope to enjoy these characteristics of government for and by the people until we learn to realize the value of fairness and the toll of prejudice. MWWWWWMJWWSWyWA* l Timely Topics ij THE HART FAILURE (Amsterdam News) The long expected failure of the A. I. Hart Department Store has ar rived, brought about directly by the inability of the firm to pay its bills. We say long expected because from the beginning this store for some, or, possibly, many reasons, did not re ceive a patronage sufficient for it to survive. What are some of these rea sons? . To begin with, while the A. I. Hart Store was housed in a new building in the very heart of the colored sec tion, it is possible that the rent it had to pay was too great for it to bear. This alone, however, can only be one of the contributing causes, for given the saune quarters with the same rent, there is not the slightest doubt but that the store could have been made to pay if it had been owned by white people. « On top of this, capital invested in the enterprise came mostly from the pockets of West Indians and as a consequence a large number of its employes were from that gToup. This should have nothing whatever to do with its success or failure in a Negro community of 150,000, but it did. There are thousands of American Ne groes in Harlem w*ho did not go near the store for this very reason, and there are thousands of West Indians who would not have gone near it if it had been owned by American Ne groes. As a contributory cause to its failure, this is a calamity, for of all races of people, the Negro has least to gain by discriminating within his own group. But of all the reasons which might be advanced, indifference played the greatest part. Indifference on the part of the Negro buying public of Harlem. Indifference on the part of its clerks, maybe, to make as many sales as possible. There is, however, a sign of prog ress In *he failure of the firm of A. I. Hart & Company, for when the stocK holders were apprised of the appoint ment of a receiver, and with full knowledge that the money they had invested was lost forever, they voted complete confidence in the founder of the store and assured him that they were ready to start all over again. EDUCATIONAL THEORY AND COMMON SENSE (Freeman) Leaders in popular education, whatever the results, cannot be ac cused of not seeking new truth and new methods of applying old truth in the educational field. Indeed, some times it seems that our schools are Just so many stations of experimenta tion. One wonders at times just what chance the child has to learn well a few simple things between the educa tional experiments and the nervous prostrations of the inexperienced teacher or even the experienced teach er who is constantly annoyed and up set by the almost daily clinic. Better even vain efforts toward improvement than lazy content and compiaceny. But what is progress? What is growth? How is It to be measured? Mere academic attainment on the part of the teacher and endless ex perimentation in the class room are not prima facia evidence of progress. They are important and doubtless es sential steps toward progress. Edu cational theorists must get results. •The public has a right to expect as ’ jmuch. If one method does not work, 'some other way must be found and the world cares little whether the successful method is as old as the hills or the latest fad. We must have boys and girls who can at least talk, read and spell, com pute and write correctly a postal card. We are not getting these simple fundamental results. The average Eighth grade and high school stu dent is a poor proijuct of all this ex pense and stir kept up about educa tion. For some reason he suffers dreadfully in comparison with the youth of a generation ago. If we take into account the fact that we are prone to think the golden age is either behind us or is just In front of us, the bald fact that we are not getting reasonable results still re mains. It would not be fair to place the entire blame on our educational the orists. Thors are many other active causes for the failure under diocaa olon. Parental authority has broken down. The child bosses his parents. S NORIM WEgtfSRN BULLETIN Life Is much more complex and has a thousandfold more diversions than decades ago. The economic strain and chase after the vanities of life have about demoralised the home. With these and other reservations In mind, the truth remains that public educational methods need a rebirth of common sense. For instance, our schools In recent years have become deluged with intelligence tests. No doubt such tests furnish a splendid hypothesis for the sensible and fair grading of pupils. Such tests might serve some purpose In grading teach ers. These tests are not everything. Indeed, there are circumstances and conditions under which they mean nothing. There are other quotients quite as important for pupil and teacher and parent. How would it do to ascertain the environment and cultural quotients of pupils or the moral and social quotient of teach ers, or the responsibility quotient of parents? No discouragement is meant for the wide awake, forward looking, ag gressive, sanely discontented admin istration or teacher. We are pro testing against the mere utterance of educational shibboleths, old or new; the slavish appeal to professional au thority; the waste in exploiting pop ular but unprofitable nostrums, vaga ries and fads. We believe In the lab oratory. The world cannot get on without It. In some sense general experience is one of its chief contrib utors. Nevertheless, the laboratory is a special institution for specialists who test out thoroughly the experi ment, validate It and gave it out to the world as worthwhile. Mdn with commoq sense accept it, adapt it and get results. Every school system should have its laboratory and have it properly manned. There would be quite as much wisdom in setting a whole system to testing as there would be in having the farmers of a district turn their farms Into experi ment stations when the people had to have food. Ohio adopts Dyer Bill IResolution Columbus, Ohio. —By a vote, prac tically unanimous, the Ohio Federa tion of Labor went on reoord as op posing the practice of lynching, and pledging its support to the Dyer meas ure to make It a Federal crime. The resolution says: ‘‘Whereas, lynching is a violation of the Constitution of the United States; the Constitution of the United States does not embody the penalty for such violation; the ‘Dyer Anti-Lynching BUI’ provides for definite punishment for said viola tion: lynching Is a disgrace to our country; it is a moral wrong; and the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill’ will, if it becomes an amendment to the Consti tution of the United States, have a tendency to blot out lynching in the United States; therefore, be it RE SOLVED, That the Ohio State Fed eration of Labor go on record as urg ing the senators and representatives of the State of Ohio to use their In fluence In favor of the ‘Dyer Anti- Lynching Bill,’ which will be re-intro duced in Congress at its next ses sion.” Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howard, 455 Rondo street, returned Monday from a visit in Louisville and Bloomfield, Ky. Miss Pauline James Lee, who ap peared here in a recital, is now in Dulu h and is the guest of Mrs. Susan Subscribe Bulletin-Appeal "!!! Bulletin-Appeal and you will be able to discuea all current events EDITOR ENTERS A PLEA TO BETTER VIRGIN ISLANDS Nearly One-half of Natives Leave U. S. Island Possessions to Seek Work. New York. N. Y.—Rothschild Francis, editor of the Emancipator, member or, the legislature of St. Thomas and St. John, Virgin Islands, United States, has Just reached New York City on his way to Washington, D. C., to place before the Congress and President Coolldge the acute eco nomic conditions prevailing In the Virgin Islands and to ask for remedi al legislation. A group of liberal white Americans has pledged support to the cause. Mr. Francis declares ‘‘nearly half of the natives have left the islands due to lack of employ ment This state of affairs was hast ened through the application of Fed eral laws to the islands. The people are greatly disheartened and look to Congress for immediate relief." Con tinuing his story, he said: ‘‘l fear that the situation is at bursting point. Our people are unemployed through no fault of their own, and it’s up to our protectors to remedy this evil. I am here to plead the cause of my suffering countrymen, whose wives and children are under-fed, before the bar of American Public Opinion. I am not talking from sentiment. Uncle Sam bought these islands—-ap plied Federal laws to them and then forgot to establish new industries in place pf those his laws have worked hardships upon and in some instanced put out of commission. Although an integral part of the republic the na tives of these islands are not citizens of the United States." “Many Americans who would champion our cause know very little about these new possessions called the Virgin Islands. They need pub licity and more publicity. They need remedial legislation to change things as they are into things as they ought to be. Uncle Sam. owes to the na tives a chance to eke out a liveli hood.” Mr. Francis expressed a willingness to address bodies of colored people and other interested parties in Phil adelphia, Pittsburg, Boston and Washington, D. C., who are willing to help to save the good name of this republic In these islands so recently purchased. His New York address is No. 166 West 141st street. A little daughter has arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Saunders, 494 Rice St. FOR THE The paper that gives its readers what they want —real live news both local and foreign (Crusader Service) Publicity and More Publicity. NOTICE! War Saving Stamps of 1919 Series were due Jan. 1, 1924. Bring them in, let us collect them for you and credit your ac j count. THE STATE SAVINGS BANK 03 E. FOURTH BT. i% Interest on Savings Compounded Quarterly oa«« Gar. mr Ham Mi.Ktoir.lL Re*. Dale IMS aad 3 «• 0 P. M. DR. J. 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