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SENSE Ml NONSENSEI —•— ■■■ f ! There Is a rertain young man on! Barber Row who is doing a wonderful j j stunt at a loral playhouse in Phoenix. ! ;l Do not fail to see him in his latest | | dances. He was so fine in one of I them that his coattail stood out like a j board and two musqttitor.s were seen j doing the Pittsburg Shuffle on the end 1 of it, whieti t rough t down the house with laughter. (Encore). When h“ j ,eame bark, balling the .Tack, I thought ■ my soul my sid.es would eraek. B> tlie way, 1 see Ur. Shirley has , j returned and was very ruueh surprised ! to learn (hat his wife had invented ! the same plasters that he had trav- 1 jelled all the way to Canada and all , over California to find. Sorry Poe. ; tut Mrs. Shirley beat you to them The Second Baptist Church choir | (under the direction of Mr. Mullen sang I beautifully at the Union Meeting held ! at the O. M. E. church Sunday after- i noon. Mr. Mullen is u musician or j note, having traveled extensively with I renowned musical organizations. o- , NATIONAL CONCERN. (Buffalo, N. Y.. News) Such oulhreaks as this in Chicago' are of national concern. The situa-. tion is far too serious for a spirit to temporise or bo tolerated. If the riots continue in Chicago and Mayor Thompson still marks time on de cision to employ the utmost power j at his command, Cue municipal gov-1 ernment should be forced to surren-; dor its authority for a time. It is j right that it should for the Chicago! riots exert an evil influence all over ( Ihe country. LET IT BE CLEAR. (Detroit, Michi., Journal) That preparation, in our opinion, ought to take the form of an official police proclamation that the first hint or menace of a riot will be met with suppression bordering on violence. Let it be made clear that any suclr riot leader or any mob member, be he white or colored, will be knocked down where he stands or runs, and possibly shot. 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You want it to be convenient and comforablc % and practical as his, but you would like to have it * distinct in some way. We can help you. HOMES % are our specialty. * ; . * * I R. N. Lamberth & Co. 4= - * Architects i * Room 201—34 South Central Phone 1737 j CHICAGO SiVALS SAt£ OF Mississippi IN BARBARITY (Special td the Tribune) NEW YORK, Aug. 19. —Chicago hag ! outdone Missfseippi in unjust treat | mens of colored people, according to ! a statement issued by the National As j soeiation for the Advancement of Col : lored People, "o Fifth Avenue, New i York. The statement refers especi ally lo the Indictment of thirty Ne , groes as against three white men in connection with the recent riots, ihe i three white men having bpen indict -led because it is alleged they killed 1 a Mexican, having mistaken him for a Negro. “No more discouraging spectacle bas ! occurred in Mississippi,” rays the ! statement, “than that provided by tlie | indictment of tflirty Negroes and the ; fact that the Chicago Grand Jury had to strike in protest because all those | indicted in the first days were Ne groes, where the violence in almost ! every case was initiated by white j men. j 'lf the machinery of justice in Chi- I cago cannot procure I tie apprehension (and tlie punishment of the white men ■ who burned and bombed Negro hous es, who stoned and brutally assaulted [ innocent Negroes, who made ncoes | sary the presence of militia with bay i onets and loaded rifles, then Chicago j justice will become as notorious as i Chicago noliec. “The National Assoeiation solemnly ealls attention to the danger of allow ing the machinery of justice to bo j come discredited in the minds of the { Negro in the North as it is already in the Soul It. The Negro has proved a j law-abiding citizen, ready to serve his ; country and to sacrifice himself for ! it. He cannot be expected inidfinitely to tolerate abuse, persecution, and worst of all, denial of justice." PLEASANT RELATIONS. (Chattanooga, Tenn., Times) How long the present pleasant re lations between the whites and blacks of the south will endure under the constant and wicked nagging and agi i lation of cranks and I'antasiics in the north and west, it is difficult to say, but it may be declared with truth and in seriousness that if there shall | come trouble .it w ill not be through i the will or contrivance of the mass of the best southern people of either I race. THE CHICAGO DRAMA. (Troy, N. Y. Recoqii The spread of disorder will depend directly upon tlie frequency of in stances where' In-urreetions reach a point beyond tlie control of the local authorities. If the wave of rate feel ing is to be checked, the Chicago drama must be brought to a close with such diecomforture to the ele ment which started it that person sim ilavly disposed will he discharged lrorn a similar policy in othf r places The existence of law and of the forces compelling oliedience lo it must be demonstrated beyond possibility of successful opposition. o JOB FOR OTHER CITIES. (Sprinfield, Mass., Republican) Apparently thor.e will he no solu lion of the problem until the Negroes find places In which to live comfort ably. Suppression of the rioting must be expected within a few days; but after that it may be necessary for the city to take the housing situation into its town hands. It would be cruel to blame Chicago now for lack of fore sight. With a species of civil war and a street ear strike on its hands, the city will hardly be in a inocfd for being upbraided. Other cities will do better to inquire whether they have any explosive situations of their own. . , O T DAYS OF EXCITEMENT. (Louisville, Ky„ Courier-Journal) That anything like a real “race war” impends, the Courier-Journal does not, for a moment believ. These are days of excitement easily engend ered and of sweeping statements eas ily made. To forecast every imagin able calamity is the fashion. Os course no imaginable calamity to the Negroes In America could equal' a race war. SELF DETERMINATION. • - (The Survey, New York) The Negroes, on the other hand, have become Atnericanized to an as tonishing extent, and large numbers of litem are conscious of their citizen ship. One of the most conservative and respected of Negro leaders was overheard in Commissioner Brown's office to say: "I am beginning to realize that the prize of manhood for the American Negro requires the sac rifice of life.” And other prominent Negroes, hitherto regarded as bul warks of the old attitude towards the whites, are expressing themselves in similar terms. o BROUGHT TO FRONT. (Canton, Ohio, News) International problems may at this j time assume the largest importance | in the view of the United States gov- ( ernmem, but, the race problem is be ing brought to the front in away that demands the earnest attention of the state and federal law-making powers. The least that can be done for the Negro is that he be guaran teed a fair trial for any crime with which he may be charged, and that the national disgrace of lynching be come only a memory. o A SYMBOL OF WAR , (Louisville. Ky., Times) The dispatches from Chicago in the Times today, lor depiction of blood shed and violence, compared with those from the western front that ap peared in this newspaper a year ago. And persons who have studied the war of which the western front was a symbol believe that the race riots of Washington, and now Chicago, are equally a symbol of that war. They contend, and with striking argument, that the outbreak of this racial feel ing is a result of some of the mis takes of policy made in the war; and even the Chicago police are quoted in today’s dispatches as ascribing tlie turmoil there to "Negro hoodlums brought in during the war to relieve the labor shortage.” o ONLY SANE IDEAL. (Asheville, N. C'., Citizen) There is no short and easy road to the achievement of harmony between the races," but harmony must continue to be the goal of the leaders of both races. White men and Colored men must think of the future and together work out a solution for the conditions which the process of history has laid upon them by the introduction of the African into American life. The only sane idea is that which will without resort to sort to civil strife promote justice and co-operation by diminish ing all just grounds for, on one hand, a sense of arrogance or on the other a sense of oppression. o EDUCATION WILL SOLVE IT. (St. Louis, Mo., Star.) The solution of this race feeling, which constantly holds over peaceful communities the threat of hostile out breaks, must come through effort in Itwo directions—effort at education and effort at developing among both whites and .Negroes, a high Vense °f respect for the law. There \hs been i among the race riots of recent years j ih various cities, no instance of an or j ganized or concerted undertaking-. , The outbreaks have been npontgne i ou3. They have sprung from some- ' ! thing whieh appealed lawlessness | j from email beginnings they grew In- ! I to situations where mere color be | came a causq of attack. Education j develops reasons and respect for law. ■ O' PLACING THE BLAME. | (New York Financial World) The Negro is to blame in that he falls so easily a prey to the preac.li j ings of the agitators. The white man Is doubly to blame in that he seeks ;to drive whefe he should lead. We are not going to settle the raee gue« tion by prejudice and fends, it is a Problem which needs a great deal of sympathetic treatment. The Negro is where he is because We put him there. If We will free.ly acknowledge our fault, we will be the more able to repair it. Education and a kindly sympathy vyill soon thereafter settle the race question. Let us try it. THE NEW SPIRIT. (Watorbury, Conn., Republican) If they are good enough to be sent to Europe to fight for America, they are good enough to be treated with equality under the law in America. Much as the fatal results of (his new spirit of self respect and independ ence on Ihe part of the Negro is to he regretted, it cannot but be a mat ter of congratulation lie has acquired Unit, spirit. Now. perhaps, lie will gain the justice that is his due and that he could never hope to gain as long as he tamely submited to insult and injury. THE NATION’S BURDEN. (New York Globe) There is no getting around tlie fact that a fundamental antipathy often exists. And the social factor affects j the economic factor to such an ex tent that when a Negro family moves into the neighborhood rents are af fected. In Chicago the protest ugaitist Negro tenants has been made by dy namite under dwelling houses. The blind, untutored fool without a con science who thought to gain his point in this fashion needs refutation. But the city as a whole has suffered and will suffer his folly. There is a bur den on Washington and Chicago to live this thing down, and a burden on the whole country to take a new atti tude toward the Negro before our na tional good name shall be irrelriev j ably lost. o— PASSING THE BUCK. (Philadelphia, Pa., Bulletin) i Blaming the Bolsheviki is a conven ! ient shuffle of many domestic faults. I But it is a mistake to assume that ' all the discontent and disturbance in this country is imported or is artifi cially fomented by foreign agencies. The “Reds” have enough to answer for. No plea in abatement is made i for them. But it is dangerous folly ' for us to excuse our own faults and j evade our own responsibilities, and neglect the rapidly developing onuses iof trouble, by blaming them “on the other fellow.” o LIVE SIDE BY SIDE (Grand Rapids, Mich., Press) Certainly a common patriotism should help men to live side by side amicably and with mutual tolerance. That they do not always do so Is the more regrettable from the fact that when trouble does occur. It is invari ably started by the no-aCcoynt ele ment —either toughs or criminals, who are in nowise representative of the great body of blacks or whites., TWO VIEWPOINTS. (Dos Moines, la., Capital) The Southern people have not re covered entirely from the notion that the black man is a slave and an under- I ling and that he must be treated on i that basis. The Northern people j treat the colored man from a diffar | ent standpoint. Some of the Negroes like the Southern people the best and | regard the northern white mat) as a I hypocrite. o PROMPT ACTION. (New Orleans, La., Times-Picayune) The Washington experience should teach us the necessity of prompt ac tion in all eases of race disturbances and to act vigorously from the be ginning. The first mistakes made at the national capital and the wise poli cies afterward followed should show us what to do in case the situation ever looks stormy. o— THE NEGRO PREBS. (Houston, Tex., Post) Here in Houston, there is a Ne gro press that is almost incendiary. Its policy is to magnify any trlv|kl alight or grievance suffered by an in dividual into some brutal' race out rage and denounce all the white peo ple, the public service included, ae be ing wicked oppressors gs the “race." It even denounces the respectable Saturday, September 6, 19.19 Colored men and women who- are re ally doing the ♦ork of ra,ffirlnfj for ward important movements involv- , Ing the Negro period. If the white ffipn of this city, or' any considerable number of.them, had been regular readers of these vici ously vituperative sheets serious con ditions long ago would have arisen )n Houston, and score? of othef places, as they have arisen'ln Wasblhdton., Longview atd o\J)er point?. The dis couraging phase of the situation is the Negro press which might be the most helpful influence in averting racial friction and hatred seems to .be ev-* erywhere a most potential Eourca of evil. — Or- e- ASSERTION OF MANHOOD. (Neir Yprk Call) In the face' of this, black recqrd, the Times can only see Uj ,tbe Ne gro’s resentment of bis wrongs, the result of agitation! Tpe Negro be less human if be did pot finally assert his manhood' and de fend himself. We regard his self-as sertion as thf most hopeful sign in the whole dreary record of exploita tion and class yule to which he has submitted. During the Clvjl war be faithfully guarded his master's plan-’ tations and showed no signs of a de sire for liberation. That was a dis mal feature of the struggle. His as-, sertion of his humanbood today is the brightest and most hopeful factor In his long story of servitude. If it is true that Ihe Socialist movement de serves any credit for the awakening" of the Negro, we rejoice in whatever mite we have contributed to it. In that movement the Negro will find comrades who understand, comrades who share his longing for the equal ity of opportunity, the leikure, educa tion ant) happiness tl>at can only be realized when workers of both races are members of a free world that knows no race, color or class dis tinction. THE ACTIVE PHASES (New York Globe) The more acute phases of the Ne gro problem are probably transitional. They arise from the migration of Ne groes into white districts, as happen ed at Chicago, and from the greater economic liberty and-consequently the * increased self-respect which the labor scarcity gave them. ■ Their economic status may be permanently improved, , or it may not. In the latter ease the old relations will sooner or later be removed; In the former ease the whites will have to accept the, new situation, whether they like it :or not. This would be an approach to a solu- ’ tion. But the Negroes and their friends may be sure )t will not be prompted by inflammatory ,oratory.: —o— —— SHAME TO COLUMBIA (BrookIyn, N. Y., Citizen) They are deplored by the better ele ments of both races, which are con stantly striving to find A modu? vtv eridi.which will permit the Whites and blacks to live side by side in this country, without any of ‘the hateful occurrences which from tibie to time are recorded iu the newspapers, to the shame of both races and' the fair name of Columbia. 1. •• •" ‘ • ‘ 1 .!• i . : ■ £.’ - • ’ . —O —: ■ < PLACE TO PUNISH.. (New Orleans, fn-, Itefn) The emphasis we lay pn this dis tinction between the Northern and Southern race-rage between the « Southern lynching and the Northern massacre —should be construed as a defense of the Southern lynching. This is indefinable. The place to v punish crime is the court-room. o : —* QUIT STAR-GAZING. (New York Telegram) Given a contented populace with work to do and everybody would be too busy to engage in rioting, taking the law and their lives into their own hands. Stop the rioting ft any cost and then immediately remove the cause of the unrest or we shall have a longer death list and more homes burned and robbed. . ( It behooves the United States gov j ernment to quit star-gazing, conqe down to earth and give the affairs of (he country some attention. , RESENTMENT AND ANGER. (New York Evening World) It would almost seem as if some strange psychological aberration had started a wave of Race antogonism In , the United States. Why it should oc cur at a time when the Colored man has just proved his loyalty and his soldier qualities in away the whole ■ Nation has acclaimed, it is hard to ' understand. It may be that the very credit and honor which Colored fight ers earned in the war b* ve started vague resentment and anger in cer tain strata of white popluatlon. — O—r (New Bedford, Mfss., Standard) There will be a Negro question as long as the Constitution is subverted and the Negro is denied bis rights. It will grow worse instead of better. Unless it is met fairly and honestly some day it will end in a race war.