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PHOENIX |§| TRIBUNE
VOLUME 2. NO. 54
SHIP TO BE NAMED AFTER BLACK HERO
MI ACHIEVEMENTS OF BLACK
AMERICANS IN PACE FIFTH YEARS
(Associated Negro Press)
Washington. D. 0. —An address of
more than passing interest was deliv
ered in the House of Representatives
on Lincoln’s birthday anniversary by
Congressman Emerson of Ohio. It is
of special value to the country at this
time, as it forces the attention of the
public upon an array of facts which |
show the remarkable progress made
by the Race during the brief period*of!
freedom. Statistics are not generally ;
interesting. These as a revelation of
astonishing racial progress will prove
an exception to the rule. Congressman
Emerson said:
“On this, the 12lh day of February,
the anniversary of the birth of Abra
ham Lincoln, it is very interesting to
consider for a few moments the prog
ress of the Colored people in this coun
try who feel greatly indebted to him
for his efforts in seucring for them
freedom and opportunity.
“On September 22, 1862, President
Lincoln issued his emancipation proc
lamation wherein he stated that on
January 1, 1863, all persons held as
slaves within certain states were to
be free. The close of the civil war
found the Colored man free —not only
free, but he was invested with all
rights and responsibilities of citizen
ship.
How he has progressed since that
time is now a matter of history, re
duced to figures and facts, and it is
well for us to consider them, bearing
in mind that the civilization and prog- j
ress and accomplishments of this race
have taken place in the last half of
a century.
“In 1915 the races of the world were
in about the following proportions:
Yellow, 703,000,000; white, 560,000.000;
Colored, 258,000,000.
“To give an idea of the great in
crease in the efficiency of the ('olore.l
race, I desire to submit the following
figures:
Homes owned, 1860, 12,000; 1916,
600,000.
Farm.; operated; 1860, 20,000; 1916,
981,000.
Business conducted, 1866, 2,100;
1916, 45,000.
Wealth accumulated, 18C6, $20,000,-
000; 1916, $1,000,000,000.
“Now let us turn to the educational
statistics:
Percentage literate, 1806, 10 per
cent; 1916, 75 per cent.
College and normal school, 1866, 15;
1916, 500.
Teachers in public school, 1866, 600;
1916, 36,900.
Students in public schools, 1866, 100,-
000; 1916, 1,736,000.
Property for higher education, 1566,
$60,000; 1916, $21,500,000.
Expenditures for education, 1866.
$700,000; 1916, 14,600,000.
The religious progress of the Col
ored race has been wonderful, but j
here are figures:
Number of churches, 1866, 700; 1916,
42,000.
Number of Sunday schools, 1866,
1,000; 1916. 43,000.
Number of Sunday school pupils
1866, 50,000; 1916, 2,400,000.
Value of church property, 1866, sl,-
500,000; 1916, $76,000,000.
"In 1914 in the State of Georgia,
Colored citizens made returns upon
$38,63,307 worth cf property and owned
1,592,555 acres of land.
"In North Carolina Colored citizens
made returns upon $32,197,8010 worth
of property.
“In Virginia Colored people owned
1.674.973 acres of land and had $37.-
851.973 worth of real and personal
property.
"In 1900 Colored people were inter
ested in 61 banks and insurance com
panies and held policies to the amount
of $25,800,000.
“Colored people have interested
themselves in playgrounds for chil
dren, social improvement, Negro up
lift, civil improvement and health im
provement.
“They have won prizes in raising
com, pigs, potatoes and other vege
tables.
“They have noted preachers, inven
tors, teachers, sculptors, actors, art
ists, singers and musicians.
“Tho Colored man in the war of
Southern Woman Says
Her Testimony Sent
Innocent Man to Pen
Writes Governor That She Lied And
Wants Man Pardoned
(Associated Negro Press)
Columbia, S. C. —Governor Cooper
has started an investigation of facts
related in a letter he received recent
ly from a woman in the eastern part
of the state, in which it is said that
testimony the woman gave in a case
against a man some years ago, which
resulted in his being sent to the peni
tentiary, was false, and that it was
given through spite. She says her
conscience has troubled her a great
deal and that she wants the man par
doned. The man in the case was con
victed of rape and was given a long
term in the state prison. He is there
now.
Governor Cooper referred the let
ter to the solicitor in the circuit for
investigation, and if the facts related
by the woman are true the man will
be pardoned. The governor is not
willing to make public any names or
places until he ascertains the correct
ness of the woman’s allegation.
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President Wilson
Hires Big Hotel
(Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111., April I.—The latest
news from Paris brings the word that
President Wilson, on his second so
journ to the French capitol, will oc
cupy the forty rooms of 'the Hotel
Bischoffseira, a structure built at a
cost of $1,000,000,000. Evidently the
Murat Palace did not prove, good
enough for the traveling president.
Also ordinary but comfortable furn
ishings do not seem to be adequate.
The $2,000,000,000 “gorgeous appoint
ments, furniture and art works”
which were removed from this newest
White House, on account of air raids,
are being brought for Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson by eleven trucks, probably
manned by.soldiers most anxious to
quit fighting democracy. We are won
dering how far Mr. Lincoln would
have allowed such gorgeous prepara
tions to proceed, if one’s imagination
can wander far enough to see Abra
ham Lincoln leaving his country dur
ing the most trying times in its his
tory.
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20TH CENTURY PROD
DIGY FOUND IN
COLORED ARTIST
(Associated Negro Press)
New Orleans, La.—Arthur Edwin
Johnson, of this city, is the name of
the new Negro artist who has been
discovered in the last few days. He
has never taken a lesson in art, but his
productions are regarded as marvel
ous, and hundreds of people of both
races flock to his humble gallery ev
ery day to see his handiwork.
the United States has always shown
himself loyal, patriotic and ready to
fight—never flinching from duty.
“The blood of the Colored men has
been shed upon every battlefield from
the Boston massacre to the time of the
signing of the armistice last Novem
ber.
“Crispus Attucks, a Colored man,
was the firs,t to fall in the Boston mas
sacre, March 5, 1770.
“Samuel Lawrence led a company
of Colored soldiers at Bunker Hill.
“Peter Salem fired the shot that
killed Major Pitcairn.
“The Black Legion in 1779 covered
themselves with glory at the seige of
Savannah.
"Over 3,000 served in the Revolu
tionary war and fought for independ
ence of this Nation.
“In the present world war thousands
of Colored soldiers went over the top
for freedom and democracy.
."Over 33 Colored people have re
ceived Carnegie medals, 3 graduated
from West Point, and they have for
eign races that come to this country.”
“WE DON’T EAT COT
TON, WE BANK IT,”
SAY COLORED FARMERS
(Associated Negro Press)
Tuskegee, Ala. At the annual
Farmers’ conference at Tuskegee In
stitute prosperous Negroes are called
to the platform to tell how they dug
success from their fields. Having
told their story they must meet a fire
of questions on whatever line the ques
tioners elect.
One strapping farmer had just ex
plained how Dr. Bradford Knapp's
farming plan panned out for him. He
had produced family supplies in abun
dance for the entire year—pork, vege
tables, corn, eggs, chickens, milk and
butter, and had sold the surplus of
these commodities for more than
enough to meet alt other needs. “Me
and my /oiks,” he declared, “live well
every day of the year”; and he looked
it. His cotton crop, which netted
$1,200, he had put in the bank. “We
don’t eat cotton at my house,” he
said; “we bank it.”
“What sort o’ school you got?”
asked one of the crowd.
A good school, it appeared. Ques
tions showed that a good house, a
trained teacher and a lengthened
term -were provided, and that the man
who didn’t eat cotton had done more
than his share toward securing them.
“What you doin’ so much for?”
some one asked at last.
The farmer scratched his head a
minute, and faced the crowd with a
grin. “I own my land.” he said, “but
I’ve got a boy, too. If lie’s taughi
right, he’ll know how to work, and
what good work can do for him. I
can leave him my farm, and he’ll
make it pay. But if he can’t get a
good school to go to, he’ll grow up
a fool, an’ marry another one. An’
him an - ’ his wife—an’ a raft of cliil
den, like tnough—will come an’ set
down on me to support ’em. One way
or the other that boy'll get everything
I’ve got; an’ I don't want him to gor
't by lrm an’ me boih bein’ fools.
That’s why I put my money into a
school.” <
330 DEGREE MASON
WILL LECTORE HERE
TUESDAY EVENING
t
J. C. Scott, special deputy grand
master of Masons of Texas and juris
diction, who has held spell bound hun
dreds of audiences through Oklahoma.
New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, will
lecture Tuesday evening, April 8. 8
p. m., at the Second Baptist church,
corner Fifth street and Jefferson.
Mr. Scott is a thirty-third degree
Mason and among the noted orators
and lecturers of the race. His lec
tures are illustrated with seventy-five
pictures on canvas and he has never
failed to interest his audience. He will
peak on three subjects: “The Tran
sition of the Negro”; “Our People i’l
the War”; and “The Relation of Ma
sonry to Christianity.” The educated,
uneducated, women, children all learn
something from this brilliant man.
There will be no»a,dmission fee. You
will be privileged to contribute ac
cording to your feelings. Don’t for
get the place and date. Everybody
welcome.
THIRTEEN YEAR OLD
GIRI. ASSAULTED
(Associated Negro Press)
Annapolis, Md., March 31. Arthur
M. McCuolgan, a white man, living
near Gambrils, this country, and em
ployed at Camp Meade, was committed
to jail today without bail to answer
to the Grand Jury at the April term
of court on the charge of criminal as
sault upon Essie Thomas, a colored
girl, said to be 13 years old.
The girl was employed in McCrvl
gan’s family. The arrest was made
this morning and the hearing was be
fore Police Justice Welch. The of
fense is alleged to have occurred Mon
day.
ARIZONA’S GREATEST. WEEKLY
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919
INDUSTRIAL EDUGATION
VS. HIGIER EDUCATION
(By E. J. Moore, Tampa, Fla.)
I listened to a heated debate on this
question recently which proved to be
very entertaining so far as discussion
is concerned. But to differentiate be
tween the essentiality of industrial
and higher education is a problem so
intricate as to be practically unsolv
oble. Take the higher education away
from the industrial and it becomes a
drudgery, and every one wants to get
away from it. Indeed it is the higher
education that has dignified the indus
trial and given it a finishing touch.
Industrial education left to itself is
nothing more than common labor.
One of the speakers glibly quoted
scripture by stating 1 that the Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ was a carpenter,
but he neglected to say that the good
Master stuck to that trade all through
life. As soon as the carpenter mas
tered sufficient knowledge about his
trade he is ready to become a contrac
tor and let the other fellow do the
drudgery. He is content in drawing
plans and figuring how much labor he
can get out of the other fellow. The
man who plans and directs, the man
who develops an idea, it matters not
whether he is in college or in the
shop, is pursuing a course of higher
education. ,
The man who operates a Linotype
machine is as much an exponent of
the high school as the man who teach
es geometry. It took more than mere
manual training to fit him for this
work. He had to Jo some thinking
and quick thinking, at that. Any de
partment of labor that is directed by
a trained mind is in substance higher
education. Let us come a little closer.
Higher education lifts labor out of the
drudgery and puts it on a plane, makes
the strongest argument in favor of
industrial education i.; usually the one
who is trying hardest to keep out of
the drudgery, if indeed he is noi al
ready away from it. The fellow who
is in the gutter is not at all particular
about homesteading there. He has
dreams that he, too, may be the con
tractor some day. Lincoln did not
split any more rails when he got io
practicing law', although they say he
was first-class in that line of industry.
It lias been contended that only one
tenth of the people will ever take ad
vantage of higher education. But if
there were no highly educated people
to formulate plans for the masses, the
masses would be groping in the dark.
The industrial world is directed by the
hands of the educated and thinking
elements. Mr. Edison has doubtless
formulated more electrical devices
than any other man living or dead.
But Mr. Edison spends nearly two
thirds of his time in earnest applica
tion and study. If this is not higher
education we would like to be informed
just how hard a fellow has to study to
reach such a stage.
Mathematics, music, grammar, his
tory, mechanics, sculpture and various
others are examples of higher educa
tion when cultivated and developed.
A person cannot he a finished car
penter unless he has considerable
knowledge of mathematics. Music may
have a natural flow, but some one
must put it in form and arrangement
that it may be sung by others and so
live from generation to generation. A
study of grammar is necessary wheth
er a fellow desires to be a farmer or
a school teacher. In' the study of me
chanics it is necessary to know some
thing of geometry to measure up to
the required standard. Industrial edu
cation is the biggest humbug for the
lazy fellow who wants to get out of
studying a little that has ever been
perpetrated upon the colored people
of this country. Os courSe there are
lots of white people who encourage
it among Negroes, but they usually get
all the higher education than can be
afforded by the common schools.
Higher education not only trains the
mind but helps the appearance as
well. It is time to stop such nonsen
sical talk that the Negro does not
need higher education. He needs just
what any other race needs, and the
sooner he gets it the better. If a
man is going to dig ditches for a liv
ing that is no reason why he should
not cultivate his mind and fit himself
for the highest state of society.
As a parting word, we would say
INSIDE INFORMATION
ABOUT BLACK SOLDIERS
NOWIN FRANCE
(Associated Negro Press)
St. Louis, Mo., April I.—Several let
ters have been received in St. Louis,
from the boys in France, telling of
discriminations attributed to Ameri
cans. One particularly unfortunate
case is the attitude of the Y. M. C. A.
Oversea Force. In a letter just re
ceived from a member of the Medical
Department, the writer says: "The Y.
M. C. A. secretaries have segregated
the Colored soldiers at the U. S. Army
Camp in Morseille, France. It is only
a part of the strife, hate, suspicion,
envy and embarrassment some of our
boys experienced over here.
On my arrival last November, at this
camp, the Y. M. C. A. canteen was
opened in a small tent with a counter
separating the Colored soldiers from
the white. If any of the Colored boys
tried to purchase any articles on the
opopsite side, he would be requested
to buy articles at the Colored counter
next time. The majority of the pa
trons were Colored, but their space
was only one third. This caused a
congestion. After a building was con
structed they refused to sell to any
Colored soldier. A “Colored Y. M. C.
A” was then established. When I tried
to purchase a block of chocolate candy
at the “White Canteen” I was told
‘ you know we do not sell to you
Colored boys at this canteen.” I was
told it was the camp commander’s or
ders, hut when I said I would inter
view him, the secretary said “Well, I
will serve you this time.” During the
next fifteen days, a memorandum was
sent to all organization commanders
instructing them to encourage the Col
ored, under their command, not to
patronize the “White canteen.”
Some of them were, wearing a serv
ice and wound stripe,-who had given a
good account of themselves in the
thick of battle. They had fought in
the muck and mire of the trenches
and where shell fire was the fiercest.
We shall expect, on our return to
the States to note the growth of De
mocracy, a Democracy that will he
broad enough to overlap the bounds
of color.
A Young Boy’s Plea
A pitiful plea comes from a young
hoy belonging to the 809th Pioneer
regiment still in France. The Pion
eers are labor regiments to which
most of the Colored drafted boys
w r ere sent. The writer well remem
bers the young man in question was
so anxious to go to France that he
appealed to Washington to hurry him
along. He finally was drafted in the
August Twenty-one-year old class.
Now he writes the following to his
mother:
"Before the armistice was signed
tho white people over here were real
kind to the Colored beys, hut now they
are as mean to us as possible. Some
of the boys from my company were
sent on a “detail” to a neighboring
hospital to build some latrines. They
were built by the boys, yet they w’ere
not allowed to use them. One of the
boys in the hospital now in a dying
condition because he used one of the
latrines. His skull' was fractured by
one of the white soldiers. The next
day one of the boys was shot at be
cause he refused to “double time”
(trot). The man who did the shoot
ing was a major.
The above is a mild sample of the
treatment we are forced to put up
with over here. Yet, we are still loyal
to America, otherwise, still slaving for
Uncle Sam. Please try to get me out
of this prison country.
I have heard that the white soldiers
in a little German town turned a ma
chine gun on some of the boys from
my regiment while they were up there
caring for some horses. These boys
did not get the chance fp fight the
Hun, but they are now fighting for
existence.
I can not get to town. I am issued
that if the Negro is sitting on that
industrial school, content with the
merest smattering of learning, when
the world is calling for the trained
mind in order that the hand might be
better- trained, his case is indeed a
hopeless one.
a four hour pass, it takes two hours
Dm CURRENT IIU. S.
GOVERNMENT IE HONOR
ONE OF OUR BUCK HEROES
FIGHT ON SEGREGA
TION TO BE STARTED
IN 66TH CONGRESS
(Associated Negro Press)
Washington, D. C. —A bill was of
fered in the House of Representatives
by the Hon. Martin B. Madden, en
titled “A bill to regulate commerce,
providing for etpial and identical
rights, accoprthodations and privileges
for all persons applying for interstate
transportation, and prohibiting dis
crim inniion on account of race, color,
or previous condition of servitude, and
for other purposes,” which is practi
cally a movement to abolish the so
called “jim-crow” car wherever this
form of proscription is practiced. A
strong committee is back of this bill,
and it is the plan of the colored peo
ple to make a national effort to have
the, measure enacted into law by the
Sixty-sixth Congress. Some of the
prime movers in this work are Messrs.
Henry Lassiter, W. J. Singleton, L. M.
Hershaw, A. H. Grimke, and Judge
Robert 11. Terrell.
FEDERATION OF NEGRO
CLUBS MET IN N. Y.
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(Associated Negro Press)
Nev York.—Delegates from more
than 150 Negro organizations in New
York and New Jersey assembled in
esnvention this morning in ttie first
session of a two day conference at
Zion church in West 136th street.
The meeting will be political in na
ture and will take up the problem of
elections in the South, discussing
measures for insuring the ballot to all
Negroes entitled to vote. The forma
tion or organizations through the
North is looked upon as the first work
in paving the way for effective action
in the South.
OHIO BLACKS MAKE
WONDERFUL PROGRESS
(Associated Negro Press)
Cincinnati, Ohio. —The City Club,
at, its weekly meeting at the Hotel
Sinton, listened to an addiess by
J. H. Rebinson, colored graduate of
Yale and post-graduate of Columbia
University, on conditions governing
the Cincinnati Negro population.
The speaker said two years ago he
began to represent the Negro Civic
Welfare Committee of the Council of
Social ’ Agencies. “It has been diffi
cult work,” he said. “Twenty thousand
telephone calls were made during the
survey, which had the co-operation
of Dr. Condon, superintendent of the
public schools; the Public Library oi
(Continued on page 3)
to walk to town and two to return to
camp; the rest of the time I am al
lowed down town. lam well but sick
at heart.”
Can’t Use Bath Tubs
Another well educated young man,
who has been attached to the 804th
Pioneer Infantry, writes: “We are lo
cated in a little town between Verdun
and Metz, on the Orne River. The
following order was issued on Febru
ary 6:
“Headquarters 3 Bn, 304 P. I.
February 6, 1919.
“Memo.—Men of the_, 3rd Battalion
will use the showers only. Tub baths
are reserved for the use of officers
and white soldiers stationed here. All
men will be notified of this arrange
ment.
“By order of Major Garrett.”
The young man writes that, “al
though there was a light snow on the
ground I went to the river and took a
bath.”
5 Cents a Copy; $2 a Year
(Associated Negro Press)
New York. —The United States gov
ernment, through Secretary of tho
Navy Daniels, will name one of tho
big battleships now in construction
after a colored hero, according to in
formation recently received here.
Tracona Williams, a prominent col
ored citizen who has been in Wash
ington, says that the colored people
of the State will be greatly pleased.
He adds that the government tv ill
name a battleship only on consent of
the colored people and when they
pick a suitable name by vote.
To this purpose Mr. Williams has
called a mass meeting for Thursday
to be held at Smith Hall, No. 321 S.
State street at 8 P. M. Mayor Stone
and Mr. Williams will address the
meeting. Then voting will begin on a
name for the man-of-war. This meet
ing will be the start to a nation-wide
campaign to get the opinion of the
colored people on the project.
Mr. Williams Das announced his in
tion of touring New York State in
support of the movement which was
started here.
BIG BASEBALL GAME
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
AT EASTLAKE PARK
The Phoenix Base Ball Club, an
aggregation of semi-professional play
ers, will meet the soldier team from
Fort Whipple Sunday afternoon at
East Lake Park. The soldiers will ar
rive on a special train Sunday morn
ing at 10 o’clock and will be met with
a big brass band. They will be taken
to the Adams hotel for lunch and af
terwards be given a ride through the
principal streets of the city.
The big game will be called prompt
ly at 3 p. m., and U. S. Captain Van
Horn, manager of the Fort Whipple
team, says that his boys will be there
with the "big stick.” Paul Steince
is manager of the Phoenix team, Ros 3
Lyall, captain, and Mickey McQuire
secretary. Steince says that his boys
| are unbeatable and when the soldiers
go ufi against Westfall’s famous
cprves, they too, will say the Phoe
nix boys are in a class by themselves.
Admission fee is 50 cents, but a
season ticket may be purchased for
sl. The Phoenix Base Ball Club in
tends to give this city a full season
of first class base ball and will use
East Lake Park for this sport. Every
Sunday afternoon there will be an
interestig game of baseball at this
park between the Phoenix boys and
some team from another section of
the state, "fhey intend to bring k
team from Globe, one from Hayden,
another from Ray, and so on until
every town in the state will have had
an opportunity to go down in defeat
before this wonderful aggregation cf
Phoenix players.
No fence has been placed around
the park as yet, but city manager
Thomas has promised to furnish the
material for one and Paul Steince of
the Phoenix team has agreed to fur
nish the labor for the erection of said
fence. This Sunday, April 6, the pub
lic is asked to bear with the boys and
by the next Sunday there will be a
high-board fence around the base ball
park.
Everybody is invited to East Lake
Park Sunday afternoon. The only re
quirement is that you have the price
and that you “root” for your home
team.
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New Orleans, La.—Miss Flavia Col
lins, 16, was angry at her stepfather
because of his treatment of her moth
er. So she set fire to his theater,
she confessed, endangering hundreds.
Paris, 111. —A young woman’s three
cent check paid the smallest income
tax recorded, in Illinois.