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PHOENIX TRIBUNE
VOLUME 11. NO. 8
KNOXVILLE MAY HAVE
REGRO BOARD OF TRADE;
WHITES FAVOR PROJECT
(By Associated Negro Press)
Knoxville, Tenn., May 21—The (or
' mat ion of a "Negro Board of Com
merce” for the business and profes
sional men of Knoxville has been sug
. Rested and proposed by tljp white
Board of Commerce of this city, thru
O. J. Stephens, retiring secretary. The
suggestion will be taken to the board
.of directors for their approval. If the
suggestion is aproved, an extensive or
ganization will be formed.
W. L. Porter, editor of The East I
Tennessee News, states that the sug
gestion of Mr. Stephen will meet with
unanimous approval by the Race. Mr.
Porter stated that, in his opinion, 200
members could be secured. This prob
ably is the first instance in the his
tory of the country where a large com
mercial body of whites has sought to
form a co-operative body of our people
to work for the progress of the com
munity. If this goes through in Knox
ville, a precedent will be established
which may well be followed by other
communities, in view of the fact that
co-operative relations are necessary,
and there is little or no opportunity
to get into the “parent body.”
(Editor’s Note.—-There are a few
rare instances of our men being ac
cepted as members fn local commer
cial bodies. For example: William
Owens of Los Angeles, Calif.; and
James M. French of Sandusky, O.)
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College Men of South
Favor Co-operation
Between Whites
and Blacks
(By Associated Negro Press)
Nashville, Tenn., May 21.—The Uni
versity Commission of Southern Race
Questions, which held its Ninth An
nual meeting here, adopted a state
ment which will be sent to the college
men of the South to aid in solving
past war conditions. This organiza
tion is made up of whites.
After praising the rendered
by our soldiers in the war, and the
loyalty of others who did their best
to finance it, with the added fact that
no Negro was ever suspected of es
pionage or sympathy towards the
Huns, the resolution appeals to col
lege men as follows;
“Let us seek to cultivate a more
tolerant spirit, a more generous sym
pathy, and a wider degree of co-op
* eration between the best elements of
both races; to emphasize the best,
rather than the worst features of in
> terracial relations; to secure greater
publicity for those whose views are
based on reasons rather than on preju
dice.
"Because college men are rightly ex
pected to be molders of public opin
ion, the commission earnestly appeals
to them to contribute of their talents
and energy in bringing this program
to its consummation.”
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A LITTLE EXCITEMENT
IN OLD VIRGINIA
(By Associated Negro Press)
Newport News, Va., May 21. —Mili-
tary police were patrolling the sec
tion of the city where our people live
as the result of a near riot which fol
lowed the accidental wounding of a
beautiful colored girl by a military
guard.
Three of the military guards were
severely beaten, and chased for more
than a mile by a great crowd of our
people in automobiles. The guards
> finally got into military police head
quarters, beating the automobiles, so
it is quite evident that they were los
ing no time. The crowd of colored
' people was going in after them, but
were stopped at the point of bayonets.
Sixteen were arrested but later es
caped in the crowd of several hun
dred people who had collected.
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The moment a young man begins to
save systematically and appreciates
the true value of money, he necessar
ily becomes a larger jqan.
WELCOME LADIES OF THE FEDERATION
mum ML
111 10 MIKE HEW
SAFE Ell HK
(Phoenix Tribune News Service)
New York, N. Y., May 20.—A nation
wide drive to obtain 100,000 members
io defend the constitutioal and legal
rights now denied more than
four-fifths of the Negro race in this
country was announced today by John
R. Shillsdy, secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.
The Assertion, which has now
more than 50,000 members, expects to
double its membership by June 21, at
which time a national conference Is to
be held in Cleveland, Ohio.
The program is “to make America
:afe for Americans,” on which the as
sociation is making its drive, was giv
en out as follows by Mr. Shillady:
1. A vote for every Negro man and
woman on the same terms as for white
men and women.
2. An equal chance to acquire the
kind of an education that will enable
the Negro everywhere wisely to use
this vote.
3. A fair trial in the courts for all
crimes of which he is accused, by |
judges in whose election he has par-1
ticipated without discrimination be-:
cause of race.
4. A right to sit upon the jury which
passes judgment upon him.
5. Defense against lynching and
burning at the hands of mobs.
6. Equal service on railroad and
other public carries. This is to mean
sleeping car service, dining car serv-1
Ice, Pullman service, at the same cost :
and upon the same terms as other pas
sengers.
7. Equal right to the use of public
parks, libraries and other community
services for which he is taxed.
8. An equal chance for a livelihood
in public and private employment.
9. The abolition of color-hyphena
tion and the substitution of “straight
Americanism.”
“If it were not a painful fact that
more* than four-fifths of the colored
people of the country are denied these
elementary rights,” said Mr. Shillady,
"it would seem an absurdity that an
organization is necessary to demand
for American citizens the exercise of
such rights.
“One would think, if he were from
Mars, or if he knew America only by
reading the speeches of her leading
statesmen that all that would be need
ful would be to apply to the courts of
the land and to the legislatures.
“When the fundamental rights of
citizens are so wantonly denied and
that denial justified and defended as
it is by the lawmakers and dominant
forces of so large a number of our
states, it can be realized that the
fight for the Negro’s citizenship rights
means a fundamental battle for real
things, for life and liberty.
“The common citizenship rights of
no group of people, to say nothing of
nearly 12,000,000 of them, can be de
nied with impunity to the state and
the social order which denies them.
This fact should be plain to the dull
est mind among us, with the upheaval
of Europe before our very eyes. Who
so loves America and cherishes her
institutions, owes it to himself and
his country to join hands with
members of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple to “Americanize” America and
make the kind of democracy we Am
ericans believe in to be the kind of
democracy we shall have in fact as
well as in theory.”
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LAND OF PROMISE
(By Associated Negro Press)
Birmingham, Ala., May 21.—An oily
tongued member of the Race has been,
going about the smaller suburbs here
preaching freedom and negro rule in
Africa. He has been telling them that
a new nation, with a Negro for king,
is to be set up in the dark continent;
that bread grows on trees and honey
flows from the springs; that when
they once get there, all their troubles
will be over, and all they will have
to do is eat and rest themseves under
the giants of the forest. About twen
ty families are said to have sold their
possessions and are packing to go to
the “land of promise.”
Arizona Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
Phoenix is entertaining the officers and members of the Federation this week. They are holding their annual
meeting at the Second Baptist church, corner Fifth Street and Jefferson, and among the officers and distinguished
visitors attending this meeting are some of the most intelligent and refined women of the race in the state of Arizona.
Timely topics of interest to all club women are beina discussed by this grand’ body; the review of the work cf the
past year, election of officers for the ensuing year and many other things of importance will be done. A grand en
tertainment and dance at Irvine Park Friday night will be the closing event for the 1919 meeting of the Arizona Fed
eration of Colored Women’s Clubs and it promises to be the swellest affair of the season. Full account of the meet
ing and entertainment will appear in next week’s Tribune.
WHAT THE NEGRO EXPECTS
OUT OF THE WAR
One of the very potent reasons, if
not the principal cause of the misun- j
derstandings between the white peo- I
pie and the colored people of this !
country is the flat refusal of the for
mer to judge the latter by fixed stan
dards alike applicable to all men un
der similar circumstances. White peo
ple—and by that we mean the con
trolling masses of them —either will
not' or cannot understand that the
color of a man’s skin is no more a
proper criterion of judging him than
the color of his hair or that of his
eyes; that being a man, he is moved '
by the same inspiration and aspiration
as other men.
When, in the spring of 1917, circum
stances beyond its control forced our
government to enter the recent war,
the breast of the colored man thrilled
with the same emotions ns that of his
white fellow countryman. He felt the
same pride of country and was ani- 1
mated by the same spirit of loyal de
votion to her cause. He was no less
ready and willing to make the su
preme sacrifice in her defense.
It is true that looking at it selfish
ly he had far less reasons to feel the
same thrills, the same love of the
country as his more fortunate broth
ers. His previous treatment was not
conducive to that end. Though to the
manner born, he was made to feel
himself but a stepchild with all that
the term suggests. y
And yet when the test came be
proved himself no less loyal than
those whose lot was more favorably
cast'. Though denied opportunities to
enlist that were open to the white,
yet the records will show that he was
filled with the same feeling of pa
triotism, the same martial spirit that
forced other patriotic citizens 400,000
strong, he responded to the draft and
acquitted himself as become the cause
he defended. In the various drives
of the Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Y. M
C. A., and others, he contributed to
the limit of his means. It has been
estiihated in the millions. Beneath
the soil of a foreign battlefield he alsc
sleeps a long fast sleep.
The question: What does the Negro j
expect out of the recent war? Ought
not to be a difficult one to answer.
He expects what every other group
of the Allies expect—the victor’s
share. He expects of his own country
of which he forms a part and whose
cause he defended, a fair field and no
favors. He expects to be treated as
a man in Mississippi as well as in
Wisconsin. He expects Old Glory,
which could go 3,000 miles across the
seas to avenge the atrocities suffered
by Belgium, to right equal wrongs at
home. He expects for himself and his
dear ones absolutely the same treat
ment accorded every other citizen un
der like circumstances.
In the light of his recent services
is this too much for him to expect out
of a war waged to make the world
safe for democracy?—Ex.
ARIZONA’S GREATEST WEEKLY
PHOEN’X,.ARIZONA, SATURDAY, MAT 24, 1919
CELEBRATE 300TH
ANNIVERSARY OF *
LANDING OF'FIRST
NEGROES ON AMER
ICAN SOIL
(By Associated Negro Press)
Charleston, W. Va., May 21.—The
300th anniversary of the landing of
the first Negroes in America, was cele
brated here this week with a wonder
ful array of national talent, among
whom were: Dr. R. R. Moton of Tus
kegee; Col. Roscoe Conklin Simmons
of Chicago and James Weldon John
son of New York. The celebration
was under the direction of the
churches of the community.
There was a grand street parade,
narticipated in by thousands, and ev
ery band in this section took part.
The parade was in two sections—the
first shewing the primitive state of
the Negro; the second the
progress Ihat has been made.
The people of Charleston are noted
for the wonderful material, moral and
educational progress made, and they
have an international reputation for
hospitality. Booker T. Washington
was born near here in Kanawha Coun
ty, and his name was on all lips dur
ing the celebration. The only Race
bank in the state is in Charleston.
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DR. BUNDY WILLING
TO MAKE GREAT SAC
RIFICE IN ORDER TO
UNITE THE RACE
(By Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, May 20. —“I am willingly
go to the penitentiary, for a long or
short time, sad as it may seem to me
and my friends. I will make the sac
rifice if by so doing, the people of
my Race shall become united with
some definite and consecrated pur
pose to work for justice and the rights
of humanity.” With the foregoing
words as a last letter to a friend in
Chicago, Dr. Leroy N. Bundy, sen
tenced for life, because of a trial which
| found him guilty of inciting the East
St. Louis riot, closed his books, as
it were, in the hall at Waterloo, 111..
and prepared for his gloomy journey
to Joliet.
Inspired by this kind of a noble
spirit, and the belief that Dr. Bundy
was not given a fair trial, the effort
to let the world know that fact has
been launched with the greatest en
thusiasm, and is gaining new ground
each 4ay.
Attorney Wm. C. Hueston of the
law firm of Hueston and Calloway,
1612 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, Mo.,
one of the lawyers at the trial has
been 'delivering some notable address
es throughout the country, describing
details which have not been gener
ally known to tie public. Mr. Hueston
states that he is willing to go wher
ever called upon to help the cause.
ETERNAL GLORY
(Dedicated to the Unconquerable 369th ;
Regiment)
Come to mammy, boy! You rascal!
Whatis dis you’s went an’ done?
I can b’lieve it when I’se heard it
From de lips ob my own son.
Co’se I read it in de papers
’Bout yo’ brave and noble deed,
An’ yo’ service to yo’ country
In huh time ob greatest need.
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An’ de way you won dem medals,
An’ dem stripes upon yo’ coat,
How you ovacome (Tat “Boche”
When he had you by de th’oat
An’ de Gen’ral praised yo’ actions
So s’pose it must be true,
But I’ll undahstan it bettah
When it comes right straight from
you.
You’s a chip off dat old block suh,
Didn’t argy ’bout de cost,
But jist kep’ right on a fightin’
Dough it seemed dat all was lost.
You has kep’ de chain unbroken —
“Nevah let de old flag fall” —
Clean from Bunker Hill to Richmon’.
San Juan Heights an’ Carrizal.
An’ upon de fiel’s ob Flanders,
When you chased dem “Huns” away
Dey say you ain’t even whimpah’d
Thru he hottest ob (le fray;
Dough at first dey didn’t want you
Dis hyeah peace jis couldn’t come
Till yo’ han’ into de puddin’
*Had been placed to draw a plum—
An’ yo’ sholy grabbed a big one,
Mustahd gas, an’ shot an’ shell,
Liquid fiah, bombs an’ bullets,
But I claih you’s lookin’ well,
Nothin’ wrong wid you’ digestion,
Swallerin’ sich tings as dese,
Not to mention mud an’ watah,
Spanish “Flu”, an’ rates an’ fleas.
Little did yo’ mammy reckon
At de time you ma’ched away,
Dat yo’d “sail on bloody seas,” suh,
’Fo’e you came back home to stay.
Still I knowed you wouldn’t fail me
Boy you nevah has (naw will)
Brake faith wid yo’ po’ ole mammy
When you had a place to fill!
—Theodore H. Shackelford, In Tabor
ian Vistor, Little Rock, Ark.
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GIVEN A THRASHING
BY A RACE SOLDIER
(By Associated Negro Press)
Hawkinsville, Ga., May 21.—W. J.
Ferguson, white, county tax receiver,
was given a sound thrashing by a
Race soldier when Ferguson became
abusive in his language to the sol
dier, who was walking on the side
walk with two young women. The
soldier knocked out two lower teeth
and bruised Ferguson’s jaw badly.
There have been no arrests to date.
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We may not fill all the pits, but
we may watch thereby and warn
those who pass.
NEGRO OIL MAGNATES
INVADE EXCLUSIVE
RESIDENCE DISTRICT
(By Associated Negro Press)
Kansas City, Mo.. May 21.—The sub
ject of “Race Adjustment” ha 3 been
given a new airing in this community
becau„e of the friction engendered
| with reference to our people buying
| property in "exclusive sections.” Maj
| or Cowgill appointed two committeor,
, one from each Race, and celled a
meeting at his office, where the whole
subject was gone into thoroughly and
frankly.
Dr. W. J. Tompkins declared that he
n ought away could be found to "in
i elude Negroes to cease invasion ol
white residence districts.” A project
is on foot to build 200 more homes in
11 e “Negsd section,” Ir order to take
*nre of the influx from the south.
1 am convinced that tl.e majority of
’tie Negroes in Kansas City want to
keep to themselves,” declared Dr.
Tompkins.. “Much of the invasion into
white territory has been by wealthy
Negroes who struck oil in Oklahoma,
and we believe we will amicably ad-’
just the matter to the credit of all con
cerned.
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New Orleans Mayor
Praises Colored People
For Their Patriotism
(By Associated Negro Press)
New Orleans, La., ’May 21.—1 n an
address before the Grand Lodge of
Knights of Pythias of this state, May
or Behrman of this city, urged the
Colored People with the necessity of
“standing by the whites” in this peri
od of reconstruction. The mayor
praised our people for the work they
have done in various war drives. He
said he was also pleased to see a New
Orleans man the head of the state
body of Pythians, as well as the na
tional body. S. W. Green, Grand
Chancellor, introduced the Mr. Behr
man as “a man who is the mayor of
ail the people, and the best mayor in
the country.”
Dr. E. A. Williams of Cincinnati,
Past Supreme Chancellor, was one of
the speakers at the opening session.
Walter L. Cohen responded to the
mayor’s welcome.
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Georgia Gentleman
Says Negro Lodges are
“Hot Beds of Anarchy”
(By Associated Negro Press)
Macon, Ga., May 21.—There has
been an effort launched In this com
munity to have a law passed to make
it possible for the sheriff of the coun
ty, or his deputies to have access to
the secret lodge halls of the Race, be
cause "Negro lodges are nothing .more
nor less than hotbeds of anarchy and
Bolshevism, and are always plotting
and scheming against the white race."
This statement was made by W. J.
Wingate, white, who further declafes:
The more and longer they are per
mitted to go with their Bolshevistic
plotting institutions the more danger
ous the menace will become. This
fact will become more pointedly plain
to you in the future, and for this
reason if you would go to work and
insert the stitch ill time it would
save nine in the future and perhaps
worlds of trouble for both races.
“The Veasy law ought to be amend
ed so'as to apply to the secret Negro
lodges in some way as well as other
institutions. The legislature could
pass a law giving our sheriffs and
their deputies the right and authority
to inspect these institutions and the
conditions in the country surrounding
them.”
Let us hear the Conclusion of the
whole matter, according to the high
sense Os justice of Wingate, and those
he represents; 1
“I fully believe in giving hard work
ing, law-abiding Negroes all protection
and our white people everywhere
should see to it that they get iL Even
5 Cents a Copy; $2 a Year
CHICAGO TRYING TO
GET RID OE SOME OF
IT’S SURPLUS BLACKS
(By Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, May 21.—The people of
Chicago are much concerned about
the motive of the Chicago Association
of Commerce in telegraphing to all
the larger southern cities and inquir
ing of the commercial bodies in that
section whether they have any em
ployment opening of any kind for
members of the Race.
Coming, as it does, in connection
with the concerted effort on the qjart
of all the daily newspapers and the
leading civic organizations of the
community to “look into the Chicago
Negro problem," there is some sus
picion on the part of the thinking
people as to whether there may not
be some “white folks in the wood
pile.”
One citizen stated: “You know, you
have to keep your weather eye on the
white people. So often we think
they are going and they are coming.
Really, many of them are quite clever,
or at least would have it so appear.
As a matter of fact, there are some
white people that I would not trust
behind a rain drop.”
The copy of the telegram sent to
Southern cities reads:
“Are you in need of Negro Labor?
Large surplus here. Both returned
soldiers and civilians. Negroes ready
to go to work. Iban you send respon
sible parties to interview Negroes and
make suitable selection and arrange
ments for locating them in job where
needad for your section? Soldiers’
bureau ready to provide office facili
ties and co-operate In every way pos
sible.
. (Signed) ,R. B. BEACJH,
Chicago' Assn, of 'Commerce. -
This telegram is being received with
varied degrees of enthusiasm in the
South, and the story concerning the
“search for openings” is being played
up and written up in the customary
Southern fashion of accepting ginger
ly suggestions emanating from the
North, white or otherwise. Some of
the headlines in various newspapers
are amazingly at variance with the
facts in the case. The Greenville
(S. C.) Piedmont has this caption:
“ftegroes in Chicago Facing Starva
tion.” The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer
has this head: “Chicago Has Surplus
of Negroes; Could Columbus Use
’them?”
The Enquirer proceeds to say, after
printing the telegram:
In the event the local commerce
association decides to accept the offer
of the Chicago body, a representative
will be dispatched to the Windy City
with instructions to pick out only
southern negroes who have ventured
up North in search of the promised
gold mines. No northern negroes Xfi
inculcate northern notions into the
minds of the southern blacks will be
brought south.”
Careful investigation by the Asso
ciated Negro Press discloses the fact
that there are some of the Race out
of work, just as there are thousands
of whites, but there has been no re
quest on the part of the men out of
work to have the Chicago Commerce
body telegraph south to find work. As
a matter of fact, there is not only a
general disposition not to return to
the South, but there are hundreds of
people from thp South coming North.
It is regarded as a bit. of presumption
on the part of the Chicago body and
1 “R. B. Beach” to try in this manner *
to “get rid” of the Colored people of
Chicago. Chicago is on the threshold
of the greatest building revival in the
history of the city, and it is believed
by all thoughtful people that the de
mand for labor in a few weeks will
far exceed the supply.
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“The whole period of youUi,” said
Ruskin, “is one essentially of forma
tion, edification, instruction. There is
not an hour of it but is trembling with
destinies.” /
if there is a riot, the harmless, inno
cent Negro should be protected, by all
concerned. Let him know that the
great white race is his friend.*’