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THE PHOENIX TRIBUNE
Arizona's Greatest Weekly
Phoenix, Arizona
Published Every Saturday by the Tribune Publishing Company
Address all Communications to the
PHOENIX TRIBUNE
P. O. Box 1052, Phoenix, Arizona
Entered as Second-Class Matter June 22, 19lfe, at the Postoffice at Phoenix,
Arizona, under Act of March 3, 1879
Business Office: 1302 East Jefferson Street
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PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SAT RDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918
’ * MOORFIELD BTOREY ON LYNCHING
“Only government is good where an injury to the meanest citizen
is regarded as an injury to the state."
The admirable manner in which the negroes of this country have met
the test of war should be a source of pride to every American, white or
black. Divisional commanders of the expeditionary forces have been warm
in their praise of the military qualities of the colored soldiers. American
negroes have proved themselves true sons of the colored troops who fought
so gallantly in the Civil war; black men have been awarded American,
French and British decorations for valor in the field. German propaganda
not only failed to incite negroes to resist the draft; it was impotent against
the loyalty of colored workmen. At home as well as at the battle front the
negroes stuck to their jobs and helped to make victory possible.
But there is another side of the picture—a shameful one. In a recent
speech before the Wisconsin Bar association Moorfield Storey, president of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pointed
out the fact that while negro soldiers were giving up their lives in the battle
for democracy members of their race were being slaughtered by gangs of
ruffians at home. Since this country entered the war, Mr. Storney declared.
243 negro men, women and children have been killed and lynched by mobs.
In addition to these cases 176 men, women and children were tortured,
burned and killed at East St. Louis in July, 1917. At East St. Louis twenty
while and ten colored men were given prison terms; in all other instances
the murderers have gone unpunished.
One lynching, not included in those enumerated by Mr. Storey, did
bring official notice. It was that of Robert Prager, a German, murdered by
a mob in Illinois. Immediately following that crime the attorney general
of the United States issued a statement denouncing mob law and calling
for the punishment of the perpetrators. The cabinet held a lengthy discus
sion of the effects of the Prager killing; as the Crisis, a negro publication,
put it, “A German is lynched and the cabinet holds a four-hour session over
it. Since 1885, 4,000 negroes have been lynched in the United States. No
cabinet ever met for four minutes over them.’’
Mr. Storey’s speech was made as part of a national campaign to influ
ence popular opinion throughout the country on the subject. As Mr. Storey
explains, the fact that most of the lynchlngs take place in the South does not
make the problem a sectional one; the shame is national, and the only way to
prevent a repitition of the horrors is through educational propaganda. So
long as lynchers are allowed to go unpunished this country will not have fully
achieved those high ideals for which so many of her sons have laid down
their lives.—Denver Times.
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DARE AND DO
The man ■Aho tries to please all the people by doing what they want
him to do will soon find himself in a very bad place—where he will not
want to find himself and where he will not want to be found by others, even
those whose company he once sought. We have long since learned that the
more you tzy to please, the less will you be pleased with the ones you tried
to please. The best thing to do is to find the right way and then travel it
though you have to go alone. It is good to think of the other fellow and
desire to do that which would be helpful to him, and if possible please him,
but we should not let the pleasing of him be our paramount aim. To do
right is the thing to think about, and if doing right pleases all with whom
we have to do, good; but if it does not, let us rejoice all the same in that
we have done right. Right doing is not the thing that some people require
of their friends. What they want is that you do that that they like, and
they seldom like what is right. These are they who find much fault in those
who are doing something in the community that is commendable —they find
fault not because you are not doing right, but rather because you are. This
class of people are found in every city and in every community. You may
know them more by their talk than by their work. They are to be found on
the corners of streets telling somebody how certain things ought to be done,
when and how. These people never see very far. They are short-sighted
and mostly short-lived. They live, 'tis true, until they die, but never after
wards. While others live and shine more gloriously after death than they
did before. These are they who go through life trying to help others rather
than trying to please them. Have you met any of the fault-finders? If you
haven’t, get a mirror and look in it and you may see one of them. Try it. —
Tampa Bulletin.
Church Notes
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. C. A. Gilmore Pastor
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Preach
ing. IX a. m. and 8 p. m. Everybody
welcome to these services.
COLORED METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Rev. A. C. Caldwell, Pastor
Sunday school, XO a. m. Preaching,
11 a. m. and 8. p. m. Epwortb League.
7 p. m. All are welcome.
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. J. H. Jones, Pastor
Sunday school, 10 a. m. Preaching !
11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Welcome to our
services.
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Rev. R. H. Herring, Pastor
Sunday school, 10 a. m. Preaching.
11 a. m. by Evangelist, Sister M. L.
Maxfleld. Preaching, 8 p. m. by pas
tor. All are invited to come and wor
ship with us.
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SENATOR’S IRE AROUSED
OVER NEWS THAT PEACE
CONFERENCE NEWS WILL
BE CENSORED BV CREEL
WASHINGTON, December 11.—An
nouncement from Paris that a plan to
“ration” cable space to American
newspapermen attending the peace
because of the limited cable facilities
conference is under contemplation by
George Creel roused warm protest to
day in the Senate. .
Senator Johnson, California, read
into the record the announcement that
Creel will pass on all announcements
made to the American press and that
it may be necessary to ration writers.
“I’m greatly concerned," said John
son, "over what comes from the peace
conference to the American public. I
am concerned over censoring and ra
tioning of that news. I protest most
emphatically against Creel rationing
the news or consoring it"
"If George Creel is to censor and
send the news of the peace conference,
I warn the American people that they
should make due allowance for its
authenticity and its truthfulness,” said
Benator Watson, Indiana.
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I Editor’s Note. —The following poem was composed by one of our boys R
j “over there” and sent to his' mother here in Phoenix. Mrs. T. J. White, the ■
recipient of this poem, has three sons in France. The poem follows:
MOTHER
Dear mother, when I read each tender phrase,
Each throbbing line of love you write to me,
My heart grows sad, and oft’ I count the days
Until at last I shall sail o'er the sea
> Back, back to you and home and all I love.
And once I cursed the fate that placed me here
But lo! I caught a vision from above
That steeled my heart with patience, mother dear.
Before my thought were dark with fancied wrongs,
Os plans miscarried and of work undone,
I heard faint echos of the old home songs,
And glimpsed your loving faces one by one.
I knew your troubles —that I could not ease,
I suffered at the worry in your heart,
I longed to rest my head upon your knees.
And feel my bitter loneliness depart.
To me the war had brought out bitterness;
Brought discipline—that cut me to the raw.
And acts unjust that promised no redress, •,
Beneath the changeless military law,
All through the days I heard the homing call;
I saw your pleading eyes and heard your voice.
I prayed to come, I prayed to cheer you all,
And in reunion let our hearts rejoice,
All useless seemed the changeless game we played, :
j Os endless, unremiting drill,
It seemed twould be far better had I stayed
t At home with you, who love and need me still.
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j And then I caught a vision from the skies
j Os why we fight and suffer and are sad
t I saw the reason for our sacrifice,
And seeing lo’ my heart grew strong and glad; :j
j That I was in the ranks to fight and die,
t If need be for the -millions yet unborn!
j I saw the Belgian women as they lie!
The spoils of Hunish lust, undone and torn!
t Their children lifting mutilated arms,
{ And babies caught upon the bayonet;
j Their aged moters, slaving upon the farms,
3 To feed the German hordes unconquered yet!
f I saw the helpless sinking in the waves,
While German sailors laughed to see them die;
I saw a row of new-made baby graves
And distant aircraft slinking in the sky;
’ I saw the towns of desolated France, ;
i The fruiting trees destroyed in senseless hate!
Oh! Mother, these I saw as in a trance,
j And others that my lips dare not relate!
f Oh! Think if we had lived in Belgium then!
j If France had been our home! Oh! God on high, *
, To picture you the toy of brutish men, j;
’ Our homes destroyed, my loved ones left to die!
I see, I see at last, the reason why
’ We must forget the little things of life.
3 And dry our tears and stifle every cry.
Whatever pain may issue from the strife!
Why we must battle on, with ne’er a thought
f But victory, nor stop to count the cost,
t Until sweeter liberty is wrought
j From out the old, which was so nearly lost! .
y My mother, cheer your heart and dry your tears,
a For after while, God willing, I’ll return.
We sacrifice today that, through the years.
We may enjoy the peace for which we yearn.
Forget all things, forget all minor cares;
Today we labor, tomorrow we rest!
t We fight for every mother as she sings
Her babe to sleep upon her throbbing breast!
We battle for the womanhood of earth,
; For Liberty, for Honor, and for right!
I Be proud, oh, mother dear, that you gave birth,
To one who lived to enter such a fight!
I . ' Your son,
FORD M. WHITE.
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reluctance to part from you, dearie,
but by his eagerness to see you again.
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