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Future Home Office Redeemed Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. N. W. Cor. 3rd & Clay St5. Richmond, Va.

SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC. an­ nounces the purchase of the valuable properties for111erly owned by the Mechanics Savings Bank located at the northwest corner of Third and Clay Streets, Richmond, Virginia. After extensive improvements these buildings, namely 212 and 214 E. Clay Street, and 506 and 508 N. Third Street, will be occupied by the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., The Commercial Bank and Trust Company and other leading professional and business groups of Rich­ mond. Thus these properties and this section will again becom·e the center of Negro commercial and professional activities in the Capital of the Old Dominion.

Southern Aid Society of Virginia,lnc. Insures against Disability and Death Home Office: 525-7-9 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va.

Operating in Virginia, District of Columbia and New Jersey ''WHERE THERE IS NO VISION- THE PEOPLE PERISH'' We have, in attractive pamphlet form, the statements of twelve nationally known Americans, in regard to Thrift and Life Insurance. For instance, Dr. DuBois, Editor of the CRISIS, says, in regard to Li£e Insurance: ''In modern civilized life there are certain things ivhich every man does. He is born; he is educated; he goes to work; he takes out life insurance; he is sick; he dies. Few of these things can be avoided, certainly not the first and the last. The degree of a man's civilization is measured by the care which he takes of the other items. To be sure, uneducated men have succeeded; some men do not w_ork, and perhaps a few serious men do not carry life insurance. But none of these omissions are to be recommended. All of them are essential to life. Sickness may be a-voided to some extent; death never. Insurance is a method of making these the least possible burden upon the -,nan hitnself, his friends, and his family." There are included other equally informative statements from the following: John W. Davis, President, Car I Murphy, Editor, West Va. Collegiate Institute Baltimore Afro-American M. W. Dogan, President, B. Simpson, Professor of Greek,, Wiley University J. Virginia Union University D. C. Fowler, Dean, Texas College F. A. Sumner, President, John M. Gandy,'President, Talladega College Virginia N. & Inst. I. R. S. Wilkinson, President, John Hope, President, S. C. State College Morehouse College R. R. Moton, Principal, P. B. Young, Editor, Tuskegee Institute Norfolk Journal and Guide On the last page is a diagram "The Dollar Value of An Education", from a study by Dean Lord of Boston University. The statements of these gentlemen, with their photographs, will prove interesting to you .and your family, and furnish something to think about for a while. A copy may be had from any representative of the company or by forwarding the attached coupon to the Home Office. High School and College Instructors will be sent additional copies for distribution to their students.

Victory Life Insurance Company Home Office: 621 3 South State St. '°pf)R THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OP SE-CURING 'THEADMISSION OF Chicago, Ill. ltfctoi:,--Life lnsuronce Conv:inn.Yme AS THE FIRST NEGRO ORGANIZATION PERtnnBO TO DO INSURANCE BUSINESS "$200,000.00 Capital and the Only Negro Company Operating Under the llNDt:R THB RlGIO REQUIREMENTS OPTtm Supervision of the New York Insurance Department." STATE OF N'EWYORK" ·------MAIL THIS COUPON FOR YOUR COPY OF THIS INTERESTING PAMPHLET

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November, 1929 363 DENTISTS NEEDED MOREPrepare now for Service aad Great Piaaacial Rewards DENTAL DEPARTMENT OF MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE FISK -·­• IS READY To Train Yoa. Writ• f•r I•for--,un, to UNIVERSITY MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE NASHVILLE, TENN. NASHVILLE

THE COLLEGE HAMPTON INSTITUTE • Accredited four year liberal arts Rampton, Va. • college, with 11 major de1>2rt­ • ments. Oflermg courses leadi11g ta degree of Bachelor of ◄ • THE MUSIC SCHOOL Scie#ce m each of eight schools, aml graduate courses • ni the su•mer school leading to the Master's degree. College major leading to B.A. ◄ • degree, and full music curricu­ THE SCHOOLa. OF AGRICULTlJRE-Aims to develop teachers of agriculture, farm • lum leading to Mus.B. degree. demonstration agents, and qualified rural leaders. ◄ • GRADUATE DEPARTMENT TIIE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS--Aims to 6t young men and young women for business and teaching positions along a variety of specialized lines. Graduate work in chemistry and TIIE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION-Aims to train teachers for high schools, for inter­ • the Social Sciences. mediate and grammar grades, and for primary grades. • TIIE SCHOOL OF HOME ECONO�UCS--Aims to train teachers of Home Economics for Opening Date September Sixteenth for high schools and to train efficient home-makers. Fn1hm""D and Sep�ember Eighteenda for Other,. TIIE LIBRARY SCHOOL-Aims to prepare for librarianships in schools, colleges, and • branch city libraries. • TIIE SCHOOL OF MUSIC-Aims to meet the growing need for well-trained musicians, Fo11. PAII.TIC\JLARS, Aoo11.Ess THE DEAN to serve as teachers and to co-operate in the advancement of music in church, school • FISK UNIVERSITY and community. Nashville, Tenn. THE SUMMER SCHOOL-Two terms of thirty school days each, for teachers exclusively. Graduate work for those qualified. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION-Aims to train skilled builders bv instruction in building • methods, field management, building materials, trade practice, structural design, and principles of architecture. • Sell THE CRISIS in your community or recom· mend persons who have energy 'and the ability to TIIE ACADEMY-A standard four-year accredited high school preparing for college I represent us acceptably. entrance. • For particulars write the TIIE TRADE SCHOOL-Four year course on the high school level in each of twelve Director of Agencies trades. • THE CRISIS, Actin.g Principal • George P. Phenix, Hampton Institute, Va. 19 Fifth Avenue New Yark City ...... - ...... -..-- ... ..··--··-·-···- I The TUSKEGEE NORMAL and MORGAN COLLEGE Jolm O. S,•eer, Pia.I>., IJnD ., Pr d.Jc_, INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Jolm W. H.1woocl, AM, LT.D., DM■ T. \V LOCATION:-College town .,._ Founded by BOOKER ASHINGT0N tween North and South. COURSES Semester credit � Offe·rs Exception,al Opportunities to Negro Youth •for Thorough Education in tem. B.A., B.S., and B. Ed. dtJ­ fligh School and College Courses and in Agriculture, Mechanical Industries and . ' greea. Advanced counea in Edll­ in Industries for Wonien. cation. Certiftcate1 for hiall achool teaehing_ llATING:- Accredited by the Aao­ THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANI­ Teachers in Elementary School■, for ciation of Colleges and Secon­ CAL INDUSTRIES for Boys com_p rises Teachers of Mechanical Industries; in dary forty trades includin.g Carpei:itry . Brit:k· Business Practice ; in Home Economics ; Schools for the Middle State. laying, Auto-Mechamcs1 Apphed t-electric• and in Technical Arts. and llaryland,-by the State ity, Photography1 Printing, Machine Shop Board of Education of Maryland, Practice and Tailoring. FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE COURSES leading to the Bachelor of Science degree -by board■ of education in othu THE WOMAN'S INDUSTRIES include are offered in Agriculture, in Home Eco­ atatea,-by th-., Univeraity Sen­ Home Economics - Courses in Foods, nomics, and in Education. ate of the Methodiat Epiaeopal Clothing, Millinery, Applied Art, Launder­ ing, Household Management in addition to THE JOHN A. ANDREW MEMO­ Church. Home Crafts and Ladies' Tailoring. RIAL HOSPITAL and Nurse Training POLICY :-Co-educational. School provides a three-year course· in FACULTY: - Univenity trained THE AGRICULTURAL DEPART­ Nurse Training which qualifies its gradu­ MENT with 1850 acres of land offers a ates for registration in all southern states. specialist■. comprehensive four-year course in Second­ SITE:-Eighty-1lve acna, beautlfal ary Agriculture and a full four-year col· A SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACH­ ■cenery, athletic fteld■. lege course in Advanced Agriculture to ER�. of ten weeks, divided into two terms, DORMITORIES: - Equipped train young men and women as Farm be�mntng June 1st and meeting the re­ an• Demonstration and Home Demonstration Qmrements of the Boards of Education of 1JUpervi1ed. Agents, Teachers of Agriculture and as all southern states. SUMMER SCHOOL:-July 1-Au­ Scientific Farmers. gust 9, 1929. TWO-YEAR COLLEGE COURSES are DORMITORIES OPENz-Sept. II, offered in Education for the training of lnfonnation furnished upon appUcatioa 1929. 1 REGISTRATION :-F r e ■ 11 • man Week, Sept. 23rd-27th. U� Robert R. Moton, Principal William H. Carter, Treasurer peJ' Clauea, Sept. 26th, 27th. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA INFORIIATIONa-�11 eN U.U. N. � ....--. .... R bar, lla11u CsP p...... 364 Ttt E CR,c;rs THE CRISIS REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

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Vol11me 36, No. 11 Contents for November, 19:L9 Whole No. 229 Page COVER. Photograph of Helen Bryant. By Cloud. AS THE CROW FLIES...... 365 FRONTISPIECE. Drawing. By James LeSesne Wells ...... 368 We have for our Christmas THE NEGRO IN LAW. By William T. Andrews. Illustrated...... 369 CRISIS a cover by Laura Wheeler, AUNT SARAH. By Elizabeth Kaele. Illustrated...... 370 a beautiful story-"White Li­ COLORED BAPTIST MISSIONS. By Dr. J. E. East. Illustrated.. 372 COUNTEE CULLEN ON MISCEGNATION...... 373 lacs"-by Edith L. Young, a BUSINESS AS PUBLIC SERVICE. By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. symposium on Race Intermar­ Illustrated...... 374 THE NEGRO IN LITERATURE...... 376 riage, and so many other excel­ THE POET'S CORNER. Poems by Jessie Fauset, Alice Dunbar lent matters that we will not Nelson, Marjorie Marshall, John F. Matheus, Katherine Braithwaite, Antonio Jarvis ...... 378 whet your appetite further. Do N. A. A. THE C. P. BATTLE FRONT ...... 379 not miss. the December CRISIS. ALONG THE COLOR LINE. Illustrated...... 380 385 YOUTHPORT. Illustrated ...... ------·------·-·- - POSTSCRIPT. By W. E. B. Du Bois ...... 386 With a word from the Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay Macdonald, Premier of Great Britain.

.,qa,,======� ·· HE plight of the Battleship build­ of news is not to be released to the T ers is most distressing. Here is As the Crow Flies press until 2029 A. D.)-God seems naughty mans Shearer who over their to have it in for Florida and if you ask solemn protest and without their us we don't blame Him a bit.-lt costs knowledge and on their payroll did all cutting a monument on a mountain to five and a half million dollars a year to he could to keep civilization from scrap­ the glorious memory of those eminent run the League of Nations and fifteen ping battleships at $25,000,000 a piece. heroes who died to peripetuate human hundred million to support the world's \Vho is safe from Calumny ?-The slavery.-ln a quarter century our navies. Hurrah for Shearer !-

The CRISIS is published monthly and copy,-ighted by the National As­ new address m,ut be given and two weeks' notice u necessary. Ma,iu­ .< ociatwn ftw the Advancement of Coltwed People ot 69 Fifth Avenue, sc,-ipts and draatings relating to colo,-ed People are desired. They m1ut .Ve-..v Yor�, N. Y. 16 cents a copy, $1.50 o yeM. Foreig" .t11bscrif'tions $1.75. be acconipanied by ,-eturn postage and while THE CR1s1s uses every ca,-e it The date of expiretion IJ( each subscriptiofl is printed on the Wf'af>per. assumes no resf>cmsibility for their safety in transit. Ente,-ed as second lVhen the subscriptio" is due a blue renewal blank is niclosed. The address class matter November 2, 1910, at the post office at New York, N. Y., ,,,- a subsrribl'r ,nay be ch.n nged as often as desired, but both the old and unde,- the act of March S, 1879. °';\T o,•rmber_. 1929 3�5 Ll�COL� U�IV��JIT� TWO DEPAR.TMENTS: The COLLIGI of Liberal Arts and Sciences _, THI THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY TheSeminary offer, a standard and practical three year course in preparation for the- Millistry withemphuia upon the problem s of the modern pulpit and pastorate. New courses will be given in 1929-30 in RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION. VOICE CULTURE AND EXPRESSION. UsE oF THE BIBLE IN PREACHING. The degree of Master of Arts may be gained by advanced students during their theological courses. POR INPOIUlATION ADD� THE PRESIDENT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY PENNSYLVANIA

1129 BEREAN SCHOOL BRICK JUNIOR COLLEGE 1870 Co-Edmtional Non-Sectarian Undfr287 Aus11icec Fourth A111erlcan Ave., New Yortl.Missionary N. Y. Asa'n, Clark University TllADE SCHOOL. e•eaing ae11ioa1 only. JOHN C. WRIGHT. Pres:dent ATLANTA, GEORGIA DOMESTIC ART SCHOOL. day and e•e•­ An Institution 11ccre,llted by the State or iaa •••ion■• North CNrollna "Cul,ture /or Service" COMMERCIAL SCHOOL. day aad e•e11i11g OFFERING COURSES IN JUNIOR AND SEN­ -•om. IOR HIGH SCHOOL, PRE•MEDICAL. TEACH· QVER 100 acree fl beautiful camoua. TwelYe build· MUSIC SCHOOL. day aad e•eniag aesaio111. ER TRAINING, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND. lnp with new 1215.000.00 AdmlnlatraUoo Build· MUSIC. n n n n COMMER.ClAL TEACHER TRAINING i g with moder Chapel, Laboratories a d Gym asium. (New). Earoll Now. Christian hut not denominational. Fine tradi­ Clan: Unhenll.Y offers unusual educational CJC>por­ tions. Superlor board and Ji,·Lng conditions. tunltle1 t.o S,a,ln,t, ft/ff 14 Y••r• •d•itl•tl moatLimited Ol)l)Ol'lunltles ror Inselr-help. One of the uplrlng :,ounr men anct women. T9l'IIUI beautiful campuses the South Lowest reuonable. Departmeota: Collece of An. and Sol· Collete A•enue and North 19th Street reea for highest grade or edut'&tional ser\'i�. Normal S.. enoe. TralnlngEc.-onomlca. School, Collece Preparat017, For full particulars wrl!R. Kualc and Home PHILADELPHIA, PA. The Regis.trar Fer ll1for111at1111 addre• Matthew Andenon, Fo11•tler BRICKS. N. C. M. S. DAV AGE, President

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366 THE CRISIS Index to Advertisers . . THE ATLA NTA Florida Normal and Allen U n1 vers1ty ...... 391 SCHOOL of Collegiate Institute Amsterdam News ...... 393 tf Atlanta School of Social Work, Inc. 367 SOCIAL WORK ST. AUGUST�NE, FLORIDA Atlanta University ...... 389 Good Paying Jobs for (TII. �ad,• c;,, of S•-.lttl• 1■ ml} Berean School ...... 366 TRAINED NEGROES JUNIOR HIGB Brick Junior College ...... 366 in Social Work SsN1oa HIGII Burrell Memorial Hospital ...... 391 ---·--- TSACBD TlilNINO The Atlanta School JUNIOR CoLLIGB Comsu Cardinal Gibbons Institute ...... 367 of Social Work. Pu-MEDICAL AND VOCATIONAL C.0UPAI Cheyney Training School for Teachers 391 366 Gives Clark University ...... training in e•ery branch of techni­ Por f•r,lur 4"fHf'MltH IUJM•u 366 cal Social Work and in addition offers NATHAN W. COLLIER, Pr11 Crisis Book Mart ...... apecial preparation for the special prob­ Curry's Candies ...... 393 lems which confront social workers 1n Negro Communities. Downington I. & A. School ...... 393 Dunbar Bank, N. Y...... 392 Por the gl.Jt Carbinal F11TIMT ln/orm•tion A.dtlTtSJ Fisk University ...... 364 DireclOT eibbotlS Jnttitutt Forrester B. Washington, A.M. RIDGE, ST. MARY'S COUNTY, Florida N. & C. Institute ...... 367 23, Auburn Avenue Northeast MARYLAND Hair Specialty Company ...... 390 A for Necro ud Atlanta, Georgia ICbool :,cnma - w...... aaa ef and Hampton Institute . . . . . 364 J-ior characterSdaool sradeparpoae. otler.. fer .. 389 Hi1h CoarN .. Hartshorn Memorial College ...... eomhas year. Hotel Dumas ...... 394 General Meebeni�.•. �altare .. d a. Hotel Olga ...... : 394 meatic Science are taasht m parallel 80IUNL House of Chowning ...... 392 Join the co11diti0111 ■iapl.. llealtllhal. ... npeni■ecl.U-.m1 Howard Universitys: N. A. A. C. P. Por ft,nlur •to,,,..,.._, Mdru, College ...... 389 Victor H. Daniel, Pnt1ct,al, School of Religion ...... 389 To-day Ridge, Maryland Johnson C. 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368 THE CRISIS The Negro in Law By WILLIAM T. ANDREWS

LARGE portion of American to the lusts of the men of the domincnt statute law was enacted for the race. A 1l1 r. Andrews1927, has been since De­ purpose of effecting the American cenzber, Special Legal As­ In order to mistreat the Negro, Negro. The tendency, particularly in sistant irz the Executive Offices of Southern leaders understood that the certain localities, to disregard justice tlze N. A. A. C. P. in New York. ballot 1nust be taken away from him and to see only the color of the litigant He is a ,n ember of the New York and kept out of his hands. Legal at­ before the court, resulted in the en­ Bar. tempts at disfranchisement have been actment of special legislation and the madeh; the :first of these was -by what is adoption of constitutional amendments popularly referred to as the "Grand­ for the purpose of insulting and op­ bill referred to individual discrimina­ father Clause." Seven Southern pressing the Negro. In other locali­ tion. states -by constitutional amendments ties there was special legislation for the As a consequence of this decision and by statutes permitted persons who purpose of protecting and according to many state legislatures passed laws on could not fulfill educational or property him his citizenship rights. In order to behalf of the Negro, according him full tests to vote if they had been soldiers insure his citizenship and political and equal accommodations as enumer­ in the Civil War or were lineal de­ freedom the war amendments were ated in the second Civil Rights Bill. scendants of persons who had the right added to our federal constitution. The South too enacted special laws to vote before the Civil War. Obvi­ Thereafter, Congress passed certain with regard to the Negro but these ously the Southern Negro could not enabling acts to carry into effect the laws called for the separation of the qualify. provisions of these war amendments. races resulting in such things as "Jim "' Crow" cars and the wasteful separate 1hhe United States Supreme Court Among them was the Civil Rights in passing upon these special laws de­ Bill of 1866. Its purpose was to off­ school system of the South. The most widely adopted form of signed to effect the Negro, held such set the .discriminatory la,vs which were laws invalid. This was in Guinn vs. being enacted in the southern states; special legislation involving the Negro The United States. as for example, The Black Code of is that which purports to prohibit mar­ South Carolina, which provided, riages between Negroes and whites. At Hence, a new subterfuge became among other things, that there should least twenty-nine states make such mar­ necessary and so the idea of "white" be separate courts for the trial of cases riages void and a number of these pun­ primaries was conceived. In 1927 the where a Negro was involved ; that cer­ ish the parties who enter into such a National Association for the Advance­ tain kinds of businesses and trades marital contract. The State of Vir­ ment of Colored People carried the could not be carried on by Negroes ; ginia by its Racial Integrity Law goes case of Herndon vs. Nixon to the that Negroes should work from sun: to the limit. The National Associa­ United States Supreme Court and rise to sunset, every weekday with only tion for the Advancement of Colored there it was held that statutes per­ a short interval for breakfast and din­ People has opposed anti-inter-marriage mitting primaries and which in them­ ner and that they should rise at the laws in a number of states on the selves prevented Negroes from partici­ dawn of the morning in order to per­ ground that they place a badge of in­ pating were invalid. The same Asso­ form necessary chores prior to going to feriority upon the less privileged race ciation is now interested in three other ,vork at sunrise. and leave the women of that race open cases which are designed to test one The Fourteenth Amendment super­ other method by which "white" pri­ ceded the Civil Rights Bill of 1866. maries are now being conducted. Since Some of the burdens ,vhich the local the Supreme Court has held that the laws placed upon the Negro were cor­ legislatures may not pass laws prohibit­ rected by this Amendment. But de­ ing Negroes from participating in pri­ spite the Fourteenth Amend1nent, the maries, the same legislatures are pass­ southern Negro was not accorded his ing enabling acts permitting state and full rights of citizenship so Congress county committees of the political par­ in 187 5 passed another Civil Rights ties to lay down the requirements for Bill. This bill provided that all -per­ participation in the primaries. Under sons ,vithin the jurisdiction of the this purported delegation of power the United States should be entitled to the only effective party in the South has by full and equal enjoyment of the ac­ resolution prohibited Negroes from commodations, advantages, facilities participation in state and municipal pri­ and privileges of inns, public convey­ mary elections. It is hoped that one ances on land and water, theatres and of these cases will soon reach the other places of public amusement, sub­ United States Supreme Court for a ject only to the conditions established definite decision on the question. by law and applicable alike and to citi­ Even the health and co1nfort of Ne­ zens of every race regardless of color groes have been struck at by discrimi­ or previous condition of servitude. r1atory laws. Municipalities have en­ The United States Supreme Court acted ordinances which prohibited the in 1883 declared this last Civil Rights sale or occupancy of houses to Negroes Bill unconstitutional, holding that the in so-called v1hite blocks, and with a Thirteenth Amendment did not au­ jest at equality, likewise restricted thorize it, nor did the Fourteenth, be­ white persons. It is an inconvertible Raymond Pace Alexander ( Will please turn page 390) cause it referred to the states while the President of the National Bar Association you to November, 1929 ·369 Aunt Sarah By ELIZABETH KAELE

HE first thing I can remember is vvay home and then vanished in a huge T Aunt Sarah crying when Abra­ puff of smoke. ham Lincoln was assassinated. She sat When the wind was blowing and the in her little old-fashioned rocker smok­ branches of the trees would snap and ing an old black pipe ana moaned, crack, I was so frightened that some "Now the colored people will become terrible spirit would come down the slaves again!" Uncle Harry didn't say chimney and steal me, and if I'd awak­ very much. As I close my eyes I can en in the night I'd pull the blankets see ·him now, walking up and down the closer over my head. room with his hands locked behind him. Uncle Harry was a "happy-go- We lived on the outskirts of Kent, 1 uc:ky" sort of a fellow, and all Aunt New York, and although Aunt Sarah Sarah's nagging couldn't make him get and Uncle Harry had never been a steady job and keep it. He believed slaves there was always a fear in their the good Lord would provide. He also hearts that with the changing of laws had a hope that some day he would find I they might become such. a pot Sarahof gold. loved him best and I was about six years old then and Aunt resented that. mother had given me to Aunt Sarah to Sometimes when I would see him raise as there were so many small coming down the lane at the foot of the mouths to feed at mother's. hill I would start to meet him, but Aunt Sarah rented a small \\-·ood­ Aunt Sarah would call, "Come Annie colored house consisting of one large and put your bonnet on." By the time room with a fireplace on one side. Here I had found my bonnet he would be we ate, slept, cooked our simple meals, home. Other times I would succeed in and in the winter time washings added meeting him and he would carry me up the hill piggy-back. Then Aunt to the other confusion. We were very Tlie A11thor poor so even though young I was Sarah would scold and say, "Harry, forced to do my share. Aunt Sarah Abraham Lincoln was dead. you old fool to tote that heavy child." worked by the day and as I was not to It was a glorious day for me when Once there was a little squirrel that be trusted alone in the house on ac­ Aunt Sarah worked at Snyders v.·here used to help himself to our chicken count of fire, I was forced to trudge there vvere children. As I was the only corn. So one day Aunt Sarah said, along beside her. black child for miles around ] vvas "Harry I do wish you would shoot that I slept in a little trundle-bed that quite a novelty. So they petted and squirrel !" Well Uncle Harry put it was rolled under the big bed Annieh!" 0, hoi.v I longed to cookies. Then calling Uncle Harry she said, lie just a few minutes longer as it Finally after her days work '\.V as "Harry, I believe there's that squirrel hardly seemed possible that it was finished we would return home, often down near the lilac bush." So he got morning already but I dare not dis­ laden \\11th food and various articles his gun to shoot the squirrel and ,vhen please her. �o I would -dress as quickly of cast-offclothing. Aunt Sarah would he discovered the joke, wasn't he angry as possible as it was one of my dµties often scold because I walked so slowly and I didn't dare sympathize with him to go to the Spring at the foot of the but how could I help it when the roads just then. hill for water. Dido, the dog would were rough and sometimes the nails in In those days there were no free go with me, barking with all his might my coarse shoes hurt my feet. public schools but Aunt Sarah decided and sometimes chasing a stray wood­ Dido would run down the hill to that I should have some book-learning, chuck if he should chance to see one. meet us sniffing at our bundles in hopes so she arranged to do the school-mis­ Near the Spring grew a large chest­ there was -a bone for him. tress's laundry in exchange for my tui� nut •tree whose branches overhung t,he Perhaps Uncle Harry had been suc­ tion. At that time I little realized Spring and reflected shadows in the cessful that day and caught some fish. the sacrifice that meant. water, but I had little time in the early Then we would have fried fish and hoe­ I must have presented a comical fig­ morning to admire shadows and dream cake baked in the ashes. After supper ure going to school dressed in other as Aunt Sarah had to be at work by we would sit by the fire-place, Aunt people's old clothes that were never al­ seven and we h.rd quite a -distance•to Sarah joining Uncle Harry in smoking tered to fit me. But I was ·happy and walk. Sometimes we were fortunate until sometimes the room was so full of carefree. Didn't I have an old r.igged enough to catch a ride with some smoke I nearly strangled. They would primer and a broken slate of my very farmer who was going into town and teH the most hair-raising stories, all ownh? then Aunt Sarah and he vvould talk about ghosts and runaway slaves who Since neither Aunt Sarah or Uncle over the local gossip while I would lis­ hid in the swamps and the awful cruel­ Harry could either read or write they ten with both ears as children were to ities their masters and overseers corn- were very anxious for me to learn. be seen and not heard in those days. 1nitted i.vhen they were caught. Finally Uncle Harry caught pneu­ Perhaps he would assure her that the Once they told an amazing tale how monia and after a few days illness died. slaves were free forever even though the Devil himself chased a man all the I can't remember very much about his 370 THE CRJSTS death and burial except he was buried so we could catch the stage. As I Then we met Mrs. Grange, the iri the Episcopal church yard, but I do walked down the hill and cast a back­ housekeeper who hired Aunt Sarah and remember how I missed him. Dido ward glance at the home where I had arranged •for us to ·have our meals in and I would walk through the woods spent so many happy days I little · the kitchen. Taking me by the hand trying to find him and when we came dreamed I would never see it again. Mrs. Grange walked with me down a to the field where he used to dig old When we arrived in town Mr. Snyder lc,ng wide hall and we entered a stumps I _would call, "Uncle Harrys! helped us transfer our numerous bun­ school. room where a class was in sec- Uncle Harrys!" to the top of my voice dles from his wagon. to the stage. He SI On. and Dido would join me by barking. also gave me a quarter as a parting I Will I ever forget that first moment After Uncle Harry's death there gift and as had never had so much when it seemed as though a thousand \\·ere no more pleasant evenings around money at one time it seemed like a pairs of curious eyes were turned on me · our fire place. Aunt Sarah would sit small fortune to me. I was lugging all at once. Speaking to the teacher silently in her little rocker, her hands my old wooden doll-but to me she Mrs. Grange said, "Miss Bowek, this lying idle in her la·p for hours at a time. was a real live baby who returned my is Annie our new laundress's little girl, Sometimes I longed to place my chubby love. whom I'l leave with you for a few little arms around her neck and try to The stage driver was a jolly fellow minutes so she can become acquainted." cheer her but she always held me at a and asked me if I was going out into As I distance. Although Uncle Harry didn't sat there listening to the recita­ the world to seek my •fortune. About tions and noticed how nicely these girls seem to amount to very much while liv­ noon we arrived in Salem where we were dressed, for the first time in my ing yet our home was so lonesome changed from the stage to the steam I "·ithout him. life began to realize my dirty and cars and as I had never seen a locomo­ unkempt appearance. Later some of One day when I came home from tive I was greatly interested. We sat I I these very children scorned me because school was astonished to see a pleas­ in the station and ate our lunch hut I was poor and black but at that time ,vas too busy watching the sights to ant faced black woman chatting famil­ they looked like bright angels to me. iarly with Aunt .Sarah. As I had enjoy food. After awhile our train never seen many colored people I could pulled in puffing and blowing like an Next morning I started school in not keep from staring at her. Aunt old woman with the asthma and I was earnest. Greatly as I desired an educa­ Sarah said, "Annie, this is Cousin hurried aboard before I could examine tion yet I dreaded mingling with these Jule, make her your best courtesy." it. children. During recess little Mary stand­ Looking me over from head to foot It hardly seemed possible that at last Smith came over to where I was Cousin Jule said, "So this is Becky's I was riding on a real steam train and ing alone and began questioning me. I Soon some of the others followed and little girl." Then·1 she folded me in was almost afraid I would awaken her arms and knew here was some­ and find it "only a dream." After a after a while I was -busily engaged tell­ one to take Uncle Harry's place in my while a cinder blew in my eye and then ing them all about losing Uncle Harry affections. That night Aunt Sarah I realized for certain that I was awake and Dido and a'bovt my beautiful dolly "·as more like her old self and I fell and riding. Aunt Sarah soon lost pa­ Lilly Ann. Life went peacefully for a while and asleep listening to the soft murmur of tience trying to locate it so finally I their voices. Cousin Jule cuddled both me and my made quite rapid progress in my school It was several days before I learned doll close to her and told me stories in work. It wasn't long before I the secret of Cousin Jule� visit. She her soft musical voice until I fell was able to stumble through certain had also recently lost her husband and asleep. books, mispronouncing some words, guessing at others and skipping others wished Aunt Sarah to move to Union When I awakened it was nearly dark Springs with her and work in the altogether, but Aunt Sarah and Cousin and the train was pulling into Union Jule seemed happy while listening to laundry of a young ladies' boarding Springs. I found out afterward that school. At first Aunt Sarah wouldn't me read in the evening by the light of a Cousin Jule lived near the station but little smelly grease candle. consent but finally gave in after Cousin that night it seemed miles and miles Jule pointed out the many advantages and I wished I was home safe and Then Cousin Jule got a beau and after that things didn't go as well. He of living in town and my being able to sound in my little trundle ·bed with as attend a better school. Dido sleeping alongside on the floor. was a white man who worked hos­ I tler at the village tavern. Aunt Sarah I was delighted at the prospect of Next morning was awakened by moving until I found out we couldn't was very much disgusted that Cousin the smell of salt-pork frying and it Jule should mix up take Dido and then I spent a tearful with a white man was sometime before I could realize and she didn't hesitate to express her evening and all Cousin Jule's caress­ where I was. After breakfast Cousin ing wouldn't console me. I hugged opinion about it to Cousin Jule. The Jule walked with us ov�r to the school. tranquility of our little home was dis­ Dido and tried to explain and he wag­ I was awe stricken when I first saw ged ·his little tail and frisked about as turbed with their fussing and quarrel­ that stately building surrounded with ing. Cousin Jule would watch her �hough he understood. beautiful trees and shrubs as at that I chance and steal some of Aunt Sarah's The next few days. were busy ones, time didn't know there were such clothes to wear when she went .,ut to Cousin Jule remaining to hel•p Aunt wonderful -places in the world. We see this man. Sarah pack up our few articles of furni­ walked around to the back and door After worrying along for several ture and store them in an old aban­ entered spacious kitchen where I a months Aunt Sarah decided to give me doned barn. returned from school Cousin Sarah to Jule introduced Aunt back to my mother and go work in ser- one night to find that Aunt Sarah had the cook who impressed me as being the • I vice. given Dido away, so was denied the fattest red headed Irish woman I had privilege of bidding him a last "Good ever seen. Turning to me the cook l\,fother took me to a different part Bye." said, "What's your name little one?" of the state to live and I never saw Finally the morning came for our I was bashful and wouldn't talk so she Aunt Sarah again. Since she could departure and our last bundle was said, "1 'o be sure and she's lost her neither read or write we seldom heard packed and tied and we were waiting tongue." But all her teasing couldn't from her and as I was happy with my (Will }' OU please turn to page 391) for Mr. Snyder to drive us into town make me say anything. ]\. o'l•ember, 1929 371 Colored Baptist Missions By Dr. J. E. EAST E are maintaining fifty-seven mis­ and dresses on the mission grounds. At W sionaries in Africa, four home on D,·. East is Secretary of the three of these Boarding Schools we are furlough with four additional ones un­ Foreign Missionary Board of tlze putting up substantial buildings, and der appointment all of whom should be National Baptist Convention giving them a fairly good staff of in Africa in the next few months. Of (Inc.). /l7e have asked hi1n to tell teachers. High school work together our total number of missionaries, seven­ us what Negro Baptists are trying v.·ith manual training is being taught. teen are American born. The remain­ to do for Africa. The receipts of our Board were ing number are native Africans ; six $1h03,672.93 at the close of our fiscal were trained in this country, and one in pital, we shall have three. He has had year which ended June 30th. This does Europe. Among this number are training in some of Europe's best medi­ not include one gift and boxes of seven medical missionaries-four doc­ cal schools with additional training in new material for clothing children and tors, three nurses. An additional doc­ the London School of Tropical Medi­ linen for our new hospital, the value tor, dentist and nurse are under ap­ cine. Our dentist and nurses are from of which would increase our receipts pointment. These will bring the total America's best schools for teaching some six thousand dollars. Of the number of our medical missionaries to such professions. Africa's poor afflicted amount collected $9,500 was spent ten. people make a beaten path to our hos­ in connection ,v ith our hospital in During the past year 12,830 treat­ pital both day and night. Monrovia, Liberia. The doctor in ments were given by our medical mis­ Our other missionaries who are do­ charge of the said hospital ,vas trained sionaries. 7,820 of these treatments ing evangelistic and educational work in Philadelphia at the Women's Medi­ were given in our hospital which was have also made progress during the cal College, and had ten years of prac­ opened in Liberia, over a year ago, past year. We have twenty-two Main tice here in America. She was in1 patients having begun to come for lVIission Stations. Several of these charge of the Congregational Hospit.. treatments long before the building vvas lv1ain Stations have many Out Sta­ in Greenwood, S. C. when she con­ actually finished. Our efficient dentist tions, some as many as fifteen. They tracted to work with us. She is the in this hospital, who was the only one are located at five different points on daughter of the late Dr. Dinkins \vho in all of Liberia, practically worked the Continent of Africa. We confess was President of Selma University, himself to death during his first year that more good would be done if we Selma, Ala. In addition to her train­ of service. He died one year from the cculd centralize at one point. That ing in this country Dr. Pauline Din­ date he began work in the hospital. can not be done just no\,.. ,¥ e have kins was given a course in the School Another very comp.etent dentist from t,venty-four Day Schools that are of Tropical :i\1edicine, London, Eng­ Boston has volunteered to take his crowded day after day during the land, which she finished very creditably place and is to sail for Liberia in Feb­ school term which generally holds nine in 1929. The other tv.·o doctors are ruary. We have at present a doctor months to a year. The school build­ �graduates of Meharr,· ::\1edical School. and two nurses in the hospital, and ings are not good. In many places Our policy is to send as many within the next few months there will they are improved native huts. There young men and women between the be an additional physician. One is a i:. much to be desired about the train­ ages of 23 ·and 33, who are of good product of the Woman's Medical ing of some of the teachers. However, character, highly trained, thoroughly School here in Philadelphia with a spe­ the hundreds of little native children consecrated and dedicated to the cial course in the London School of "'ho daily crowd these Schools are be­ work as ·possible, for the industrial, Tropical l\1edicineh; the other of the ing helped in many ways. We also educational and religious training in University of Chicago with additional have six Boarding Schools located in our Mission Stations in Africa. We training in Vienna. If we can con­ the midst of large native centers are now negotiating with one of our tinue the service of the very efficient which are crowded with little children, in leading mission schools this country391) doctor we are now using in our hos- many of "'horn wore their first shirts ( Will you please turn to page

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i,i Colored Baptist Missionaries Africa Dr. P. E. Dinkins, R. Tt,rner, R.N. S. C. Willia111son Dr. D. S. Malekebu, R. E. Occomy, R.N. Liberia Liberia East Africa Liberia Liberia 372 THE CRISIS Countee Cullen on Miscegenation

Paris, April l, 1929. forward to what the formula, even . . . "they shall be white as snow". ADA�IE CLAIRE GOLL is in a foreign country, seems to require Fantastic reasoning is stretched to its M slight, blond, and prettyh; born of such a novelh: the husband's em­ uttermost in this assertionh: "stuffed of French parents and educated in Ger­ barrassment and the wi,fe's chagrin at snails angered him, for h@ had an in­ many, she can \vrite her books in either the stares and the remarks, as often stinctive disgust for all things spirally language and translate them herself for overt as sotto voce, that attend their shaped. Perhaps he might have, on presence together at social affairs and publication in the other. She speaks reflecting, found the cause of this re­ English with a prepositional inaccuracv in the streetsh; a growing jealousy on pulsionh: it was because of his hair, that is at once charming and amusing, the part of Jupiter and an increasing of which each one formed one of those ac­ and to me, as I listen to her across the antipathy on Alma's part, dire portents cursed spirals." Yet as I drank Mad­ tea table, an index of what similar of an end which even the arrival of a ame's tea and talked with her I could grammatical mesalliances I must be baby does not curtail, the infidelitv of forgive her this gigantic heaving of guilty of in my attempts at French. Alma and her subsequent murde� bv· Jupiter. I have no personal brief fohr Pelion on Ossah; for when Madame There can be no doubt that �fadame speaks of the Negro's artistic endeavors is largely and sincerelv interested in the intermarriage, but I do await eagerly today, she is well nigh irresistable if Negro. On her wali hangs a magnifi­ the advent of that pioneer who will one does not hold himself check cent African maskh; on her bookshelf in the face of . . . it is true, not mil­ in against the enormity of her enthusiasm. shines in the lustre of a new and recent lions, but surely several . . . success­ edition her German translations of two £ ul interracial marriages forget his Madame is of the opinion that little of Rene Maran's booksh; and :'.\Iadame formula and write one such story in of artistic merit is now being ·produced admits with a bit of real chagrin that which the ending will be happy and in America except that which is being for some time she has been �o mpiling probable. It is my belief that such done by Negroes; the American short an anthology of verse by Negro poets, marriages when they prove unhappy, story writers and novelists have run only to find her work in vain through have color no more than others as the out of materialh; the American poets the recent -publication in Vienna of Dr. cause of their disintegration. Traced are monotonous andlife rep etitious; but the Anna Nussbaum's anthology, "Afrika sedulously to their final causes we Negro alone has and action and Singt." should probably find in most cases material unplumbed out of which the Madame's interest in the Negro has vanity, cockiness, touchiness, satietv new lit-erature is to come. In vain I further attestation in that her latest and a hundred and one other abstra�­ mention some namesh: Fro� and Rob­ novel "Le Negre Jupiter Enleve tions of the human ego that play havoc, inson and Millay; Anderson and Europe" ( The Negro Jupiter Rav­ unless firmly taken in hand, with anv Cather and O'Neill; timidly I venture ishes Europe) is a story of miscegena­ two people, irrespective of their color·; the opinion that these are names be­ tion. The mythical allusion does not although it is easier, in cases where fore whom it is just to bow the knee, seem to me altogether well-chosen, for color differences do appear, to cast all and that their ore does not seem to Europa was a young and beautiful the blame in that direction. Though have run out. Madame makes me maiden whom Jupiter, who never al­ it is evident that Madame Goll is sym­ feel that I am recreant, disloyal, a lowed the vast and exacting duties of pathetic with the Negro, it is equallv literary heretic, a blind man stumbling godhead to interfere \\'ith his amatory evident that she has allowed herself to along in the light of the new day. Just holidays, bore off and seduced after become too r·eadily receptive of some a1chly enough not to offend me, yet having first transformed himself into outworn shibboleths. Jupiter, contrary accusingly, she turns to one of my a bull in order that Juno might not to the depiction of Negroes by many poems, and indicts me for my love of recognize her dallying and recreant authors, is the soul of cleanlinessh; in Keats, for concerning myself with spouse. But Jupiter was the king of fact he seems rather on the verge of names like Endymion and .Lancelot and all the gods, more of an autocrat than scrubbing his health away. But to off­ Jupiter. It is on the tip of my tongue the former czars of all the Russias, set this, because he is a Negro, he is to ask why Keats himself should have and an enleve,nent by him was a neat gifted with olfactory powers that bor­ concerned himself with themes like and finished job. On the other hand, der on the ridiculous. Also there is Endymion and Hyperion, but I am irrespective of the inroad that black more imagination, I opine, than accu­ drinking Madame's tea..h .. Later, out men in various capacities are making racy in Jupiter's acute desire to be in the cool Parisian air, I ponder into European life, swallowed up as lighter complexioned, a desire so in­ where all this will lead us. Must we they are among the white population tense in his childhood that having willy-nilly, be forced into writing of they are no more to be feared than a heard that if one stayed in the rain nothing but the old atavistic urges, the handful of sand added to the millions long enough this miracle would ·be ac­ more savage and none too beautiful of grains that make the. Sahara, no complished, he sallied forth and stood aspects of our livesh? May we not more than a cup of water thrown into naked and shivering for hours in a chant a hymn to the Sun God if we the sea. storm, with the result that he barely will, create a bit of phantasy in which escaped The story concerns the meeting, at a death by pneumonia, and final­ not a spiritual or a blues appears, write rose from a sick bed cleaner but reception given at the Swedish Em­ ly a tract defending Christianity though no paler. He was even tormented bassy in Paris, of Alma Valery and its practitioners aid us so little in our with the idea that in heaven there Jupiter Djibouti,-Alma, a lovely argument ; in short do, write, create, might. be some black angels instead of Swedish what we will, our only concern being blond woman of French and fulfillment of the Christian promise parentage and of small mental equip­ a that we do it well and with all the that all should be as white as snow. ment, Jupiter, an African Negro, an power in us? Ah, Madame, I have executive in the cabinet of the Minis­ Jupiter would doubtless have changed drunk your tea and read your book the wording of that enticement to read and thought you a charming hostess, ter of Foreign Colonies, and in his · own land a prince of the blood. They not "though your sins be a;hscarlet," but I have not been convertt!d. are married, and rapidly the story goes but "though your skins be as pitch" COUNTEE CULLEN. November, 1929 313 Business as Public Service

By W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS

.F six young persons start out upon with the service of the arti:-t, the scien· I their career, what is the object tist and the worker for social uplift. which they seekh? Here is a singer. This article was first written for In the case of these other workers, the N. A. A. C. P. when it ,net at He seeks, of course, to sing songs Indianapolis. It is offered here as however, the world deems their work "veil. Or a minister. He seeks to the first of a series of re-state111ents vvell rewarded if it is well done and advance religious ideals. A teacher of current Negro problen1s, which if they have enough to sustain life in imparts truth and searches for it. we plan for our twentieth year of such a way that the work can be ,vell A physician tries to heal and pre­ publication. done. On the other hand, with the serve health. A lawyer contends for business man, we have persuaded our� law and justice. All this is clear for selves that the personal income which five of our boysh; but when it comes, he is able to make from business trans­ for instance, to the grocer, we all say tion of the keenest minds, best abil­ actions is his reward and we m'ake no frankly the grocer seeks profit. We ity and strongest characters goes into real attempt to proportion that reward do not visualize, indeed ·many of us do business and industry and yet from according to the service which he ren­ not clearly know, of any service or these men and from their careers we ders his town, his country or mankind. ideal aim which the grocer follo\ivs, ex­ strip or we seek to strip most of those Indeed if he can legally secure the cept that of personal profit. Of none ideals and restraints which lie around income, we protect him in its enjoy­ of the other five employments men­ all other human services. There is no ment, even if he got it by gambling, tioned do we for a moment make so doubt of the service which the busi­ robbery and 1nurder or other actual narrow an object. The singer may ness man, the industrial leader, gives disservice to civilization. receive high fees, but he protests that to the world. They have transformed :\1 usic is his life work. There may be modern civilization and the only thing HIS m-0 re or less unconscious be­ physicians who will not spoil their that makes the culture of today in any lief of the majority of thinki ng night's rest for a call that involves no way greater than the culture of other Tmen has put tremendous po,ver into the cash returnh; but they do not adver­ daysh; the only respect in which ,ve sur­ hands of business men. For income is tise this flct and continually '"''e see pass Rome, Egypt, Babylon, is the ex­ power-power over goods, o_ver the ser­ physicians giving time and talent for traordinary service of modern business vices af men, over the size of their nothing because they are "int�rested". in transforming raw materials, trans­ wages, their homes, the conditions of If a minister is called to a church that porting goods to consumers, applying their work and the direction and results offers a higher salary he hastens to deny povver, adapting the forces of nature of their "v ork. Great income is great that the salary in itself was the main and supplying regularly the multitudi­ power. The ruling monarchs today reason of his decision. No lawyer nous physical wants of modern men. are the men who control great income. openly advertises for the highest pay­ We are right to cornpare this service Once -birth and politics gave this con- ing client or openly neglects the cause of a poor unfortunate litigant. Only the grocer of this group says frankly that he is trying to make xnoney and that the more money he makes out of the grocery business the more suc­ cessful he is. If ·he leaves the grocery store for the drygoods business he is regarded as :having given full explana­ tion when" . he says that he can "make m-0re 1n d rygoo d s.

OW it is precisely this difference of N attitude and opinion as to rhe aims of business and the aims of art and science that indicates where the trou­ ble-spot of the modern economic "vorld lies. For it is not true that the busi­ ness man, that industrial organization renders no public service. It is onlr true that public opinion ignores the high value of the real service of busi­ ness men and judges them hy a purely artificial and dangerous standard­ that is, the ·private income they gain. This false standard is all the more dangerous because of the extraordinary opportunities of modern business. In­ vention, technical efficiency and dis­ covery make industry and business an a Pla11t, enthralling field. A very large por- Shozt·-roont of Negro Fwrniture l,,fanufacturing Los An_qeles, Cal. 374 THE CRIS[S t rol. Toda,· business is the controlling the work of a teacher or a singer. In the best and indispensable services of power. l'he results are obvious. 2.ll cases and for all human effort the business and industry is the great prob­ Business men rule everywhere. We chief reward and the only real reward lem of forward-looking modern men. tind them ruling in religions: it is the is the service rendered. In order that It is not reasonable to insist that im­ business man who says today what shall this service may be of rhe highest value moderate private income is the inevit­ be taught and believed in churches. to all men, the servant surely must be able accompaniment or incentive to He rules in art and says what may and able to live in health, security and rea­ successful industry. It is not logical may not be designed and painted and sonable comfort and for this he needs to admit rhat human beings who work put in monuments. It is the leaders a steady and assured income. He does· for the work's sake when the object is of industry \\·ho determine what shall not need great wealths; he certainly Beauty and Truth can not be induced be regarded as truth in the history and does not need an income which will co· work for the work's sake when the economics and social studies which are tempt him to foolishly luxurious waste object is the food and clothes of mil­ taught in our schools and colleges. We at the cost of poverty, ignorance and lions. tried to establish democratic govern- crime for otherss; and above all he does URNING now to the American 1nent in England, France, the United not need an income which will give Negro we find that in his business States and else\vhere and we have done him irresponsible power beyond his T and industrial organization, while he is so over limited fields of endeavors; but v1s1on or grasp. He does need food subject to all the disadvantage of a we all kno\\· that the scope of demo­ and clothes and shelter and some ex­ group with small incomes in a land cratic control is very small and that perience of the real 6eauty of living. which worships wealth and gives it in the wider sphere of work and wages, These things need never be dear or un­ income, rent, taxes, housing, streets, attainable for the average man ,vith all power, nevertheless, this very ab­ sence of large incomes in his business city and country life, health, amuse­ ordinary exertion. group emphasizes social service as the ments and recreation-it is organized object of his business and industrial and oligarchically guided industry and NY attempt to realize such an life. First of all, the colored ,busi­ not democrac,· \\·hich rules. A ideal whether in R u s s i a, ness man is looked upon by his public France or A m e r i c a is naturally and conceived in his own mind as a O tremendous is this power of or­ going to be foug·ht. It is going benefactor. He goes into business to S ganized industry today that it to be fought by those people who "help his race !" He appeals to his transforms our ideals of right and wish to monopolize goods and the ser­ people for support on the ground that \\·rong, of crime and morality. There vices of men for themselves regardless his grocery store is a public enterprise i:. practicallr nothing that cannot be of the cost to others or of the public for their good. Not having a chance done and be called good if it returns good. It is going to be fought by those to enter the inner portals of income large enough profit to the industrial otherwise unselfish persons who firmly monopoly his view . of business profits doers. The result of this is a singular believe that our present system of high is less distorted and wrong; his job sense of contradiction, futility, often income reward for ability is rhe only is still largely personal service rather despair and certain unhappiness in all one suited to present human nature than impersonal profit-making. He has modern culture. Our \\'Orld is wider, and that its surrender means wider dis­ no chain-stores whose success is a mat­ richer, more powerful, more spectacu­ tress and unhappiness than we see. ter of stern figuress; he is not a part of lar than the worlds of the past, but it For this reason we are not only un­ 6,000 that mass production which is com­ i� illogical and unhappy, despite willing to contem.plate radical eco­ pelled by its very size to make people 0\\1n years of modern conscious develop­ nomic change in our land, 'but buy its goods either by propaganda on ment. ,ve are unwilling for Russia even to an unanswerable scale or by actual The reason for much of this muddle try to experiment in hers. We reel physical compulsion. The Negro busi­ is plainly because the energy of the forward to increasing monopoly and ness man has but small place in the leading men of the world is diverted concentrated wealth which continues credit market, but, consequently, his from seeking directly to serve man­ to pile up for us new and staggering fifty little banks, while insignificant in kind toward an endeavor to increase oroblems. Wall Street, are really places where their incomes and garner the conse­ Conceive for a moment this our own the artisans borrow to pay for their quent tremendous social power to a land. We are rich in oil and iron, tools or householders to buy their degree which far surpasses their knowl­ coal and water power, land and raw homes. In other words, the colored edge or ability to use it. It is the old material. Yet the rights to and own­ business man is nearer the service ideal story of monarchs mad with power. ership of these gifts of God ·have 'been and even when his business grows to Many men of many nations have so distributed as private property considerable size that ideal still stays tried to lay bare this sore spot of mod­ among the Captains of American In­ in the forefr-ont, because of public opin­ ern culture in an endeavor to heal its; dustry that the cost of gasoline, steel, ion and previous emphasis. but of all the nations today onlv Rus­ heat, electricity, cotton, wool, lumber Toward what now does the business sia has made a determined and frontal and food is from twice to ten times development of the American Negro attack upon the profit idea. This at­ as much to the average consumer as aim ? It faces two possibilities. First, tack has been obscured and hind.ered it would be under a mor� logical and it n1ay develop toward the traditional hy a thousand obstacles. The Bol­ far-sighted system. and dominant big business of the white shevik experiment may not succeed, On the other hand, the income of world, with the idea of gradually se­ but ev�n if it does not succeed it is at those who have monopolized land, oil, curing a place in the white industrial least a facing of a plain, -persistent and coal and iron and of those who are organization or at least of duplicating threatening evil which all honest minds monopolizi,ng waterpower for the pro­ that business development within the see. Russia says to the world that the duction of electricity reac·hes dimen­ Negro world with employer and em­ object of business and industry, just sions almost inconceivable. The power plovee, landlord and tenant, landowner like the object of art artd science, is of these modern industrial Emperors and serf. the service of the mass of mankinds; surpasses anything that the ancient Or, secondly, the Negro may sense and that there is no more room for world dreamed of. the fact that modern industry as de­ private profit in the work of an en­ How to extricate ourselves from veloped today is riding for a fall, and gineer or a merchant than there is in this situation and yet preserve to men (Will you please turn to page 392) November, 1929 375 • The Negro 1n Literature May to September, 1929::•

IR SI ONEY OLIVIER'S "White as looking upon the treasures of Ter­ is not ah.,.- ays strutting like a "·hite S Capital and Colored Labor" was a vurien, the great African museum of rr1an. Here is a paragraph from the litt,e book published by English Social­ ·Belgium, and then "emerges from the last chapter \\·ritten on the boat : 1906. ists in It was soon recognized as museum mad-and bellov,ing."� Of "There are some children on board the best and fairest statement of the course, even on this kind of nonsense, -from eleven to fourteen years old. problems of the emancipated British literature could be built by a genius, The eldest, ,v ho is ,by far the most af­ Negro and there has long bee� wide but l\1orand is no genius. fected of the lot, declared to one of the demand for its reprinting. Lord little girls that when he grew up, he Olivier ( as the author is now known) Three books come to us from the in­ intended to be a 'literary critic or else has at last this year brought out a defatigable University ofHill. North Caro­ pick up cigarette ends in the street. new edition, rewritten and revised. lina Press at Chapel "Black All 348 or nothing. No medium. That's The ·book is now an octavo of Roadways" by Martha W. Beckwith, my motto'. I was hidden in a corner pages published by the Hogarth Press (243 pages), "John Henry", by Guy $3.00. of the saloon, sheltered behind a num­ of London at In this book the B. Johnson, ( 151 pages), and "The ber of L'lllustration, and listened to author has formulated the judgments Tree Named John", by John B. Sale, ( 151 them indefatigably. How difficult it is impressed upon him ,by forty-seven pages) . to be natural at that age-for a white vears of close contact with the indus­ They are all books with interesting at any rateh! One's single idea is to trial and social problems of mixed com­ and readable material, but they all astonish other people-to make a munities of white and colored men in have the same drawback that makes sho\\-·." the course of service in the government the work of the University of North of Africa and West Indian Colonies Carolina just fail to meet its goaL The and as a Cabinet Minister, the Secre­ Negroes in these books are never hu­ It is growing increasingly difficult tary of State for India. man. They are lay figures that must for the scientific "Nigger-hater". Mod­ The book is indispensable to stu­ be fitted into an inherited prejudice. ern psychology has begun to investigate dents of Negro problems. Thus, Sales folk tales are not effective the color line. Take this matter oi even though funny because they are instinctive race prejudice concerning which we used to know so much : fitted around an impossible little prig r Harry Dean's "The Pedro Gorino", of a ""'hite boy, and his "black mam­ The Inquir. , under the leadership ( Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929, 262 $3.50), my". Yet, they have interesting and of Bruno Lasker, has been studying pages, records the adven­ ne""'· Brer Rabbit stories. In the same "Race Attitudes in Children" and tures of a Negro sea captain in Africa wa,·, 1\·1iss Beckwith's attempt to "Community Conflict", ( Henry Holt and on the Seven Seas in his attempts stu.dy Jamaica is padded with well­ and Company and The Inquiry ) The to found an Ethiopian Empire. It is known historical material, like that of first book closes with this paragraphh: written by Captain Dean with the as­ the �1aroons and abounds in generali­ "As we close the hook, however, it is sistance of Sterling North. 1900. zations like "the ingenuity of the not so much of technical tasks that we I saw Harrv Dean first in It Negro in rationalizing"h; but she has think, as ofh· a procession of boys and was in Lond�n at the time of the 1n her soul no trace of poetry or senti­ girls \\'e have met in these pages: Mar­ World Fair in Paris, when Pan a ment and has done her book doggedly. tha Lum, denied an education bv deci­ African Conference had been called.­ I ts reading is a duty and not a pleas­ sion of the Supreme Court of the the first of the Pan meetings. African ure. United Statesh; the little boy who was was bitter. wanted to lead a Dean He "John Henry" is more interesting deprived of his white playmateh; the black ar.mv across the straits of Gibral­ because of· the poetry of its subject. bewildered southern boy in the north tar. I sa� his point of view, but I did "l\.1aybethere was no John Henry. One ern schoolh; the Jewish adolescent who not think the scheme was practical. can easily doubt it. But there is a grew too quickly into maturity to re­ This book is the interesting and in vivid, fascinating, tragic legend about tain the friendship of his palsh; the its final chapters. fascinath1g story of him which Negro folk have kept alive Chinese child 'made much of' as a pet Dean's dream. Perhaps his dream goes and have cherished for more than half and subsequently neglectedh; the Mexi­ in some respects bey<,nd the facts, but r a century, and in so doing they have can boy "" ho fought himself into ap­ it is all worth reading. He himself enriched the cultural life of America." rrecia tive recognitionh; the Jewish and represents the finest black blood of This legend of the black man ,vho I talian gangs who could not come to­ America and is a descendant of the is the best steel driver in the world gether well-known Paul Cuffee. on anything except to 'beat up and killed himself wielding a hammer, the niggers' ; the five-year-old in the has fascination. Mr. Johnson suggests Baltimore street-car; the innumerable Paul Morand's "Black Magic", that some of the "ne\\' Negroes", whom children frightened with accounts of (The Viking Press, 1929; 218 pagesh; he evidently dislikes. should put John 'black men' and pictures of bloodthirsty $3.00), is mainly nonsense. It is built Henry into poem, or opera. savagesh; children often crippled in around the thesis that all persons of Quite in contrast with this kind of mind and future ex.perience by propa­ Negro descent have atavistic urges to study of the Negro is Andre Gide's gandist tools wielded for the benefit "go native" on the slightest provoca­ "Travels in the Congo", (Knopfh; 375 of selfish interest. Generation after tion. For instance, the founder of the pagesh; $5.00). This is a translation of generation, we see them pass hy--<::hil­ Pan African Congress is represented two French books which appeared in dren who arr given the stones of fic­ 1927 and 1928. The book forms the titious stereotypes when they ask for • White's "Rope and Faggot", Nearing's "Black America", Moton's "What the Nee:ro Thinks". sketchy diary of a long journey in the bread of knowledge, children of all McKay's "Banjo", and Larsen's ''Passing" all French Africa. But it is done with races and all nationalities made betont rhaps in this survey, but they have the po­ already pebeen recently reviewed. :-rmpathr and beauty, and the author tential cannon-fodder of future wars

376 THE CRISIS because they are not permitted to by Oswald Garrison Vi1lard in Har­ Africa and Science. Science, July 26. develop in themselves those quali­ per's, and the other by George S. Babies of the African Bush. C. L. Bald­ ties of mind that make for a sense Schuyler in The American MercurJ•. ridge. Delineator, August. Striking the Blue Note in Music. P. of fair play, for mutual apprecia­ Villard shows that the color line is Musician, re­ Kempf. August. tion, for mental flexibility in at last crumbling, while Schuyler, Recent Literature By and About the sponse to changing situations. It is to turning from the more distressing · Negro. H. W. Odum. 27.Saturday Re­ these children, burdened with the ma­ signs of race hate, points out how dif­ view of Literature, July terial costs of past wars and with the ficult it is for the Negro to find suita­ Keeping the Negro in His Place. G. S. inheritance of limited social attitudes ble amusement. James Weldon John­ Schuyler. .American Mercury, August.17. that society owes its greatest unac­ son writes in The American Mercury Let the Negro Ride. Nation, July knowledged debt." on "The Negro Looks at Politics". Black Ulysses Goes to War. H. W. The New York Times gives this ar­ Odum. .American Mercury, August. ticle editorial comment: African Savage's Own Story. P. K. A. Edwin L. Clark, a professor in ibn Lo Bagola. Scribner's, March to Oberlin College, has a book on "The "It is a discussion which �s certain July. to grow in intensity within the next Roll the Chief's Drum. C. L. Bald­ Art of Straight Thinking" which has ridge. Asia, June. much on the kind of propaganda that few years. No statesman or social thinker is wise enough to mark out In Coldest Africa. C. Wells. World's leads to prejudice and the kind of rea­ Work, what is to prove the wiser course. July. soning which perpetuates it. He notes The Gospel According to Abyssinians. "the position of the university profes­ Meanwhile, there is a great responsi­ H. A. Bull. / nternational Studio, sor who ridicuV!d a student whom he bility on Mr. DePriest, Mr. Johnson May. had been examining because she read and all other leaders of the race to Black Belt Now Circles Our Globr:. an article about Negroes which had guide their millions cautiously and Literary Digest, May 11. appeared in a Negro magazines!" slowly. High ex.plosive lies on the Crumbling Color Line. 0. G. Villard. route of the Negro to the civil rights Harper's, July. ·•The Anthology of Revolutionary to which, if this democracy means what Negro Religion. H. L. Mencken. Poetry", edited by Marcus Graham, it pretends, he is entitled." .American Mercury, June. carries the work of several Negro­ Emotion in the Court Room. E. R. American poets, including Paul Lau­ H. L. Mencken in the American Wembridge. .American Mercury, rence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Lang­ Mercury writes on Negro religious May. ston Hughes, Fenton Johnson, Georgia leaderss: Keeping the Negro in His Place. G. C. Morse. World Tomorrow, May. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson and It seems to me that the intellectuals Claude McKay. Negro's Contribution · to America. A. who essay to lead the American Negro Locke. World Tomorrow, June. We have received two books by out of the bullrushes will never get very far until they grapple boldly with the Negro's Place in the Sun. E. Weil. Dantes Bellegarde: "L'occupation Commonweal, June 19. D'Haiti, Ses Consequences problem thus presented to them. It con­ Lit­ Americaine £ ronts the leaders of the white South White House Tea Party Tempest. Morales Et Economiques" and the too, but not to the same dismaying de­ erary Digest, June 29. second volume of "Pour U ne Haiti gree. The white South, indeed, already Leaven and the Loaf. M. Ross. Sur­ Heureuse". These are powerful makes some progress toward solving it, vey, May 1. briefs against American injustice and Solving the Negro Problem. Current if only to the extent of comprehendingn for decent treatment of Haiti by the its nature. Gantry still reig s, but op­ History, May 29. United States. position to his rule is rolling up. The City Negroes and Jobs. C. S. Johnson. Survey, May 15. The Third number of the second Negro leaders are recreant heres: they Africa struggle for their people without recog­ The Negro Comes Back to the United volume of published in London nizing frankly what is principally the States Congress. L. A. Walton. is on our desk. It has studies of social matter with them. Uncle Tomism is Current History, June. systems and marriage relations and re­ denounced, but the hordes of clerical Recreation Facilities. Playground, June. ligion in Africa, beside an article on Uncle Toms are scarcely challenged. Yet Harlem of •the South,-Birmingham. Bushman folk lore. it must be plain that the Negroes will L. Giddens. Travel, July. The April and July numbers of the never make themselves felt as a race, Julia Peterkin. I. Bennett. Bookman, Journal of Negro History, save upon the lowest level of servitude, June. edited by so long as nine-tenths of them take their Carter G. Woodson, has studies of Ne­ North Carolina Reports Progress. L. notions of the true, the good and the P. Oxley. Survey, May 15. gro banking and insurance, the par­ beautiful from professional enemies of Slavery in the· South Today. W. Kirk­ ticipation of Negroes in the Govern­ every intellectual dignity and decency. Century, ment of Virginia, and political institu­ Here is where their le-aders had better land. July. strike in. It is a waste of effort to save White Man in the South. G. P. Wer­ tions in Nigeria. tenbaker. .American Mercury, July. E. C. L. Adams has published a men from lynchers and then resign them to revivalists. Burghardt Du Bois. World Tomorrow, Negro play, "Potee's Gal". This was August. the play that was to be staged in Co- The Second number of the Saturday Langston Hughes, Negro and Poet. 1 umbia, South Carolina and then had Evening Quill is published in Boston Louis C. Jones. Hamilton Literary to be withdrawn because of inflamed with some good contributions. The Magat:in e, April and May. public opinion. Carolina Magazine for April is a Ne­ American Negro Literature. Vernon A. Hamilton Literary Magazine, Special Bulletin Number 10 of the gro play number. It is edited by Ives. Louis Alexander and has a reproduction June. North Carolina State Board of Chari­ Racial Intermarriage in the United ties and Public Welfare, is a study of of a drawing by Aaron Douglas done States. G. S. Schuyler.1387. Haldeman­ capital punishment, which is shown for THE CRISIS and reprinted without ] ulius Blue Book, No. to be chiefly a method of intimidating credit. There are plays by Eulalie The West Virginia Negro. Report of Negroes. Spence, May Miller, John F. Ma­ J. W. Robinson. Bureau of Negro theus and Willis Richardson. Welfare. MONG the notable magazine ar­ The following magazine articles Africa's Heart of Darkness Today. L. A ticles upon the Negro have been touching the Negro have appeared from ·G. Green. Living Age, August 6. two articles about the color line, one May to September, 1929: ( Will you please turn to page 392) Novtmber ., 1929 377 THE POET'S CORNER

�·======"Courage!" He Said Or exotic blooms, filling the air \Vith Nostalgia heart-contracting odorss; By By JESSIE FAUSET Spacious rooms, copl and gracious \vith �IARJORIE MARSHALL ULYSSES, debarking in the Lotos statues and books, .J SHALL go forth from here; Land, Carven seats and tapestries, and old mas­ These burning streets shall kno,v ters 1\,1y songs no more- Struck the one note that the hapless . lthacans Whose patina sho\vs the wealth of cen­ And I shall guard my ears Travel-sick, mazed, bemused, could un­ turies. Against the rigid cry derstand, Of steel on stone. And understanding, follo'"'· And so I work Each pallid dawn that comes In a dusty office, whose grimed ,vindows Shall seek in vain to wake "Courage," he said, "remember, is not Look out in an alley of unbelievable My tired soul; Hopes!" squalor, For I have felt the kiss He left the worn, safe ship, spume­ Where mangy cats, in their degradation, Of fresh-blown winds that roam stained and hollow. spurn Through silent hills, "To be courageous is to face despair." Swarming bits of meat and breads; And I have heard the call And through the groves and 'thwart the Where odors, vile and breath taking, rise Of things that stand and wait ambient air in fetid ,vaves Beneath the moon. Resounded reedy echoes: Filling my nostrils, scorching my humid, "Face despair!" bitter cheeks. In Haiti is Riot of Color- But this they understood. I love beautiful things: Carven tables laid with lily-hued linen And plunging on prepared for best, and By JOHN F. MATHEUS most prepared A.nd fragile china ,and sparkling irrides- For worst, found only in their stride cent glasss; IN Haiti is riot of color: A deep umbrageous wood, Pale silver, etched ,vith heraldies, The sea with its salt, salt tang, \Vhere tender bits of regal dainties The land, the sky and the palm trees. And grassy plains where they disporteds; 1neringue. eased tempt, Dancing a wild And bathed lame feet within a purling And soft-stepped service anticipates the stream unspoken wish. The mountains are royal purple, And murmured: "Here, Odysseus, The flamboyant flo,ve ring red, I would we fain abides!" And so eat The houses, the walks and the garments In the food-laden air of a greasy kitchen, Are white, like shrouds for the dead. But neither the stream's sweet ease At an oil-clothed tables: Nor the shade of the vast beech-trees, Plate piled high with food that turns The moon is more than of silver, Nor the blessed sense my head a-way, The sun has dazzlinger glow; soon Of the sweet, sweet soil Lest a squeamish stomach reject too The mangoes peep over bananas Beneath feet salt-cracked and worn The lumpy gobs it never needed. Painting a marvelous show. Brought to them even then, Or in a smoky cafeteria, balancing a slip­ ( Still fainting and frayed and forlorn), pery tray The oranges are matching the cane Such complete recompense To a table crowded with elbows stalks, As the knowledge that once again Which lately the bus boy wiped with a The coffee plantations are glad, Facing the new and untried, gnmy rag. The hills are happy in splendor, They had kept the courage of men! Only the people are sad. I love beautiful thingss: Soft linen sheets and silken coverlet, For he who is courageous Seeks no meed. Naught flashing nor Sweet coolth of chamber opened wide to fragrant breezes; Threnody white Rose shaded lamps and golden atomizers, By KATHARINE BRAITHWAITE Blazons the fortitude Spraying Parisian fragrance over my re­ With which he bears his burden, laxed limbs, OME little star has fallen Signalling him to the world Fresh from a white marble bath, and S Out of the dark above ... For all men's seeing. sweet cool spray. And all of the joy has vanished His heart is calmly conscious of its Out of our love. might. And so I sleep The fact of courage,-a sufficient guer­ In a hot hall-room whose half opened One little dream has faded ' don' - . window, Ere it was given breath ... Like beauty, is its own excuse for being. Unscreened, refuses to budge another And all that my heart has cherished inchs; Slumbers with death. Admits no .air, only insects, and hot choking gasps, The Proletariat Speaks That make me writhe, nun-like, in sack- By cloth sheets and lumps of straw. Sunset ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON And then I rise By ANTONIO JARVIS I LOVE beautiful thingss: To fight my way to a dubious tub, Great trees, bending green winged Whose tiny, tepid stream threatens to HE flame gold of the Sun's largess branches to a velvet lawn, make me lates; T Has drenched the western sky; Fountains sparkling in white marble And hurrying out, dab my unrefreshed Lavender laces deck the dress basins, face That Day puts on to die Cool fragrance of lilacs and roses and With bits of toiletry from the ten cent The dim trees blur the long lane's end­ honeysuckle store. And comes the night! 378 THE CRISIS ri· ======-==� THE N.A.A. C. P. BATTLE FRONT �======� 20TH YEAR TRIBUTES so much more proof of the worth of have demonstrated the truth that only the race as a whole. through a specific particular action can HAT the \\·orld thinks of the They truly believe and act upon an a man reach the general and the uni­ W National Association for the axiom to which only lip service is versal. Advancement of Colored People pro­ given by white people, the old saying I salute the calm im·personality of foundly matters to the continuance of that "by weakness of one we are all every one of you whom I have had the its work. Standing for "the world", lessened, by the strength ofN. one A. weA. are privilege to meeth; the noble and un­ are leaders in various professions and all strengthened." The C. self-assertive acceptance by you of your in cultural life. On the threshold of P. has done a notable service to all lot as Americans and as citizens of a its Twentieth Anniversary Conference, our common fatherland, so greatly in harried world. In their specific prob­ in the midst of a campaign to raise need of such impersonal breadth of lems and through specific work, you $200 000 that its work might be car­ N. A. view, by fostering so successfully this have helped your colored brothers ried forward and extended, the noble sort of race solidarity. enormously, of course. But -by your A. C. P. asked leaders in various parts spirit and morale, you have helped all of the world to say what they thought Americans and all America, no less. of its record. Rt. Rev. William F. Faber, Bishop of Montanah: I esteem it a privilege to have part Melville J. Herskovits, Assistant Dorothy Canfield Fisher: in the promotion of the great cause for Professor of Anthropology North­ author western University, Author "The "The Bent Twig", "The Squirrel ,v hich the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was American Negro", etc.h: Cage", "Rough Hewn", and other As a more· or less detached observer novels, books of stories and essays : organizedh; and I feel thankful for the twenty years of its activities. The of Negro life in this country and of the It would take a long time even to friction between Negroes and Whites, n1ention the various kinds of services wrongs against which it exists to pro­ test, are wrongs not only to a race, it has been forced upon me that one rendered by the N. A. A. C. P. both of the reasons the Negro is under the c:o the Negro race in the United State_,;: but wrongs to our boasted democracy, and what concerns me most, wrongs handicap of as much discrimination as and to the whole of our country. In he is, is because he has never learned addition to remarkably successful help to the Religion we profess and to Him whom we worship. The least we can to fight back. Though my association given in material obvious ways ( like with Negroes in this country has been the securing of good lawyers for Ne­ do is . to keep them before the Amer­ ican public until a national conscience in the course of Anthropological re­ groes in various parts of the country search, I have again and again encoun­ in need of such protection) it has done is awakened. May the Association live to labor until that. day arrives, be it tered situations in which only the re­ much intangible good in helping to fusal to undergo an embarrassing sit­ raise the problems of race relations up twenty years more, or a hundred and twenty. uation rather than give up a right was on a higher and (relatively) more civ­ the cause of the Negro's being de­ ilized plane. prived of that right. But in •my op1n1on its greatest Waldo Frank, novelist, author It is only the N. A. A. C. P. who achievement has been a spiritual one, "The Re-Discovery of America", have realized the fact I have pointed the creative help it has given to the "Rahab", "City Block" and other out above, and it is undoubtedly due growth of an element of life among worksh: to their willingness to endure unpleas­ voung colored people which I wish our It seems almost too easy-too ob­ ant situations and fight for a right voung white people had-'I refer to t!1e vious-to write an· appreciation of the rather than weakly give it up that has g1 o,vth of a sort of proud <:;o\idarity N. A. A. C. P. How can one not resulted, in large measure, in making of almost mystical unity as a race acknowledge the splendid and fruitful the general White population not quite \\·hich gives a startling dramatic value battle it has waged for decency, for as ruthless in overriding theN. A.Negroes. A. to the life of the individuals compos­ fairness, for spiritual uprightness It is to be hoped that the C. ing it. Young colored people seem to against the downward pressure of the will continue with as much fervor · P. me to feel, more and more, a collective American mob? How not admire the in the future as in the past to insist shame over the misdeeds of any mem­ courage and calibre of the men who that the Negro be regarded as the full­ ber of their race and a splendid, stir­ have led in this fight? fledged and adult human being he is. ring collective pride in the success of I think, however, that what I like To the extent that they do this I am their brothers and sisters. An increas­ most about your organization and its sure there will be a general increase ingly large number of young colored activity, is that its special field-the in the self-respect of the Negroes and boys and girls, men and women, have welfare of Negroes-has been far the respect which' the general White before them, very plain and concrete, transcended by the universal spirit in population will -have for its Negro a fine impersonal goal, which dignifies •hich you have worked. It is true, group. every life striving towards it. They of course, that you have fought for feel thM their race is on trial ( would Negroes, as Negroes and as friends of L. T. Hobhouse, that every race felt this, for it is true the Negroh: but this you have done in distinguished so­ of course of every one of us !) And such a way that you have emerged es­ ciologist and editor, Englandh: this knowledge is a stimulant to the sentially as Americans and as men, and I am very glad to respond to your best sort of ambition. Every fine deed, your work ·has been quite as essentially appeal for a few words of appreciation intelligent thought, idealistic action, is for America and for mankind. You ( Will you please turn frJ page 392) November, 1929 379

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�: =:;:::======� EUROPE AND AMERICA fessor John De�"ey of Columbia as manufacture and production control. Chairman and a National Committee Hollv has held this position for two «I In the I 3th National C·hampion- · ships held by the American ,.fennis of 100. Among the Vice Presidents years and during that time the plant Association at Bordentown, New Jer- areh: Zona Gale, Professor Paul Doug- has almost doubled in size, equipment sey, last August, there were 158 en- lass of the University of Chicago, W. and product. He has a staff of two E, B. Du Bois, and Devere Allen. laboratory assistants, three foremen, a tries in the Singles alone, and on Sat- «I urday afternoon 3,000 people from 36 The Rosen"\.vald Fund has under- mechan�, and nventy employees, all of taken to spend $500,000 in providing whom are ,vhite. He is a me1nber of states watched the games. The results · · cro,¥ned the following champions: E. l"b, rary service for any county 1n th e the New York and New Jersey Var- G. Brown of Chicago, Men's Singlesh; South "'·hich vvill furnish partial sup- nish. and. Paint Plant l\1anagers' As- port during the first £n ve years, and take soc1at1on. Miss Ora Washington of Chicago, «I Dr. P. L. Ha½·kins, who has prac­ Women's Singlesh; Saitch of New York entire responsibility at the end of that ticed Medicine in Atlantic City for and Smith of Pennsylvania, Men's time. Both white and colored people , will benefit from the proposal. A con­ thirty years is dead. He was a mem­ Doubles i the l\!l isses Ballard and ber of the Board of Education, Citr Washington, Women's Doubles. fcrence on Negro libraries "'·as held by «I the American Library Association in Health officer and prominent in Y. 11. Paul Robeson "'·ent to London February, 1928, and the matter of Ne- C. A. and fraternal circles. He is the four years ago to act in "The Emperor gro libraries ,,vas stressed. brother of John R. Hawkins of Wash­ Jones". He stayed to ·make a reputa- (I In Kansas City and Philadelphia, a ington. Hetion by ·his singing in "Show Boat"· Negro policeman has been made a ser- (I l\,1 r. and Mrs. Levi Taylor of was suspended by the Actors' geant-th e fi rst cases ·1n t hose c1t1es. Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, recently Equity Association because he refused celebrated their 51st wedding anni­ to return and keep a contract vvith TIIE E.dST versary. Mr. Taylor for fifty-three Caroline Reagan. This suspension has years has been a clerk at Heppenstall's now been cancelled, but �V [r. Robeson ([ The International Ladies' Garment grocery store. is apparently £.aced with two possibili­ Union of N eVl- York is making a spe­ fI Herbert Corey, a columnist in the ties : to star in London in a great re­ cial drive to unionize four thousand Brooklyn Daily Times, has been in­ vival of Shakespeare's "Othello", or to colored women Vl·ho Vl'ork in the dress formed that Parham, the colored cadet make a concert tour in the United shops of evv York. These "'·omen at West Point, is being treated thus States under F. C. Coppicus. earn onlr from $8 to $12 a ,veek, while by the young American gentlemen Vl·ho 4I The Second World Congress union '\-V �rkers receive from $26 to $44. are his fellow studentsh: against Imperialism held at Frankfort­ «I Willian1 G. Holly, a young col­ ''No one looks at hi·m or speaks to on-Main, Germany, July 21st, 1929, ored man, is Superintendent and Chem­ him, except Vl·hen compelled to do so. had 500 delegates and lasted one week ist of the Imperial Paint Company, 1'here are t"\.\'0 vacant places to his \.vith many preli-minary conferences. Long Island City, a companr Vl-hich right at mess table and one vacant to One such conference was held in Lon­ manufactures paints. varnishes, lac­ his left. He is not hazed or mistreated don and was attended by Roger N. quers and industrial finishes. He was or insulted. He is marooned." Baldwin, William Pickens, and several originally research chemist, and finally, ([Lincoln Hospital, New York was members of Parliament. A·ll contin­ when a vacancy occurred, ,vas made founded to serve Negroes. It early be­ ents and sections of the '\-vorld were Plant lVlanager. The Vl-ork involves gan the training of colored nurses and represented. general superintendence and plant man­ still keeps this work up, having re­ «I A League for Independent Politi­ agement, laboratory direction, develop­ cently built a new and com1nodious cal Action has been formed with Pro- ment of ne",- products, and general nurses' home, where nurses will be

N. A. A. C. P. Popularity Co,itest Winners Miss R. Jacobs Miss D. Evans Mrs. E. Hicks Mrs. A. B. Harris .'vf rs. Jessie Brote..'JU! 3rd Prize 1st Pri3e 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize Colu111bu.s. Ohio Colunrbus, Ohio Newark, Ohio Coltunbus, Ohio Newark, Ohio 380 THE CRISIS taught Penmanship in the Fall River, Massachusetts, High School for many years. He was retired last June for age. ([ The annual Eastern Con.ference of the Chinese Students' Alliance of America met at John Hopkins Uni­ versity in September. ([ Dr. Charles H. Marshall, for­ n1erly a member of the .Board of Edu­ cation of the District of Columbia, and a member of the faculty of the Howard l\t1edical School, is dead at Washing­ ton. ([ l\,1 iss Nell E. Williams graduated from the Howard University Law School in 1928 ,vith honors. In 1929, she received the degree of LL. M. from New York University. Teachers and Students at the Linicoln Secretarial School, New York City (I It has been discovered that Jacob H. Hollander, a well-known economist R. B. Keyser, President of the Board trained in connection with Columbia ([ Hubert T. Delaney, Assistant of Trustees of John Hopkins Univer­ L- niversity. On the other hand, Lin­ United States Attorney, is the regular sity, John D. Harlem, Secretary, and coln has always doggedly refused to al­ Republican nominee for Congress in others of Balti·more are a1non-g the sign­ low any courtesies to Negro physicians, the 21st District, N-ew York. He is ers of a neighborhood agreement to lagging behind other city hospitals in the son of Bishop Delaney of North "forever bar Negroes from residence this respect. Carolina and a graduate of the Col­ on Eutaw Place," 1800 and 1900 ([ In the annual oratorical contest of lege of the City of New York and the blocks "except as servants." The the colored Elks, there were 280 dis­ Law School of New York University. agreement was negotiated in 1924. trict contests, 40 state contests, and 6 ([ Alfred N. Heinsheimer · of New regional contests. In all, 1,844 persons York, at his death left nearly three SOUTH EAST took part. The winners in the regional million dollars to twenty-five institu­ ([ The Federation of Colored Cath­ contests each received a four-year tions. The National Association for $250 olics held their Fifth Annual Confer­ scholarship of a year. In the final the Advancement of Colored People , ence in Baltimore .September 1st and contest, which took place during the received $2,500. Elks' Convention at Atlantic City, the 2nd. Dr. T. W. Turner of Hampton regional winners contested. The First ([ The Reverend D. L. T. Robinson is President, and during the sessions a Prize was $500 in cash, and there were is pastor of Bethel A. M. E. ·Church, determined demand was made for more 5 other prizes of $100 each. The win­ New Bedford, and has recently been Negro priests. It was answered by ners were the followingh: William Har­ made Chaplain of the New Bedford one white priest with the ancient lie vey, 3rd, of Philadelphia, First Prize. Post Number I, of the American that Negroes "did not want their own The other 5 prizes went to : Seaton Legion. Mr. Robinson was born in priests." In his opening address, Dr. :\1anning of Boston, Catherine Wise­ Mississippi and served overseas with Turner stated that the number of Ne­ man of Detroit, Eveyln Hill of Co­ the A. E. F. gro Catholics was decreasing and that lumbia, South Carolina, Elmer House ([ Edythe Taylor is the first colored the reason was the lack of Negro of St. Louis, and Dotie Bridgeport of girl to be appointed teacher in the pub­ priests. The Federation without a Athens, Alabama. lic schools of Hartford. She has ·been dissenting voice urged the appointment ([ The ranking scholar of West Vir­ assigned to the Fourth Grade, Kemp of Negro priests and the abolition of ginia State College was Alice Cabell School. Her father is a graduate of all discrimination in Catholic schools. Curtis who received her degree summa Howard University. Dr. Turner was re-elected President cqm_laude. ([ Charles Becker, a colored man, and H. M. Smith, Secretary.

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W. J. Harvey, III Mrs. !. G. Youn_q Israel Beal Dr. A. Savage A. Cascly Hayford Page 383 Page 383 Page 384 Page 384 November, 381 I929 H. T. Delaney Dr. R. J. Temple J. C. "f.-Vriglz t F.. D. Cra'lvford Jfiss N. E. Williams Page 381 Page 383 Page 381 ti The Inter-racial Commission of MIDDLE WEST because he was sincere, kindly, human and gracious. Maryland reported the following cur­ fI In Gary, Indiana, Negroes have rent average annual salaries for teach­ At the time of his death he was on the been denied entrance into the newest threshold of a distinguished career, and ers in the state : city park at I 5th and Connecticut White Colored assured of a commanding destiny among Street, in the heart of the black belt. men. His governmental associates were High School .. $1,534 $908 fI Spencer C. Dickerson has been open in their praise of his achievements Elementary . . . 1,126 586 made Colonel of the 8th Illinois Regi­ Here in his home city, he "v as respected ment, Illinois National Guard, to suc­ for what he was-a true brave man, ti John C. Wright was born in Vir­ gifted ,vith vision, cheerf':11 an� unco�­ ginia in 1883; educated in New Jer­ ceed Otis B. Duncan who has been plaining, and devoted to high aims. H�s dishonorably discharged. Dickerson sey, and at Oberlin. He has taug�t at untimely death is a tragic loss to his St. Paul, Virginia, Tuskegee Institute, was born in Texas, and is a graduate country and especially to his home com­ Florida A. and M. College, Edward of Tillotson College, the University of munity. He leaves behind him the mem­ Waters College, and the Bethune­ Chicago, and Rush Medical College. ory of one who was unafraid of life, the example of victorious battle against all Cookman College. During the war, He served with the Regiment over­ seas. untoward circumstances. he was Y. M. C. A. Secretary at the ti front and was sent back to America to Miss Thelma Smith received the THE MIDDLE SOUTH help in the War Wor-k Campaign. degree of Master of Arts at the Uni­ After the campaign he was trans­ v�rsity of Chicago in August, 1929. ti In Montgomery, Alabama, last ferred to the Army Educational Corps She vvas elected to the Phi Beta Kappa. July, there was a serious building col­ and made Supervisor of Instruction of She is a native of St. Louis and re­ lapse of the Bullock Shoe store build­ colored troops at Beaune, France. Re­ turns there to teach. ing. Ella Brown, a colored elevator fI Two signs, "No Negroes allowed" tnrning from France, he was for two _h operator in a neighboring store, stuck years Educational Secretary of the have been posted on Lake Shore Drive to her post and brought down scores of Y. M. C. A., New York, finally return­ at Siesta Road about five miles from customers and employees. In her final ing to Tuskegee as Assistant Director Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Mt. Clem­ dash to safety, she was struck by a of the Academic Department. He has ens is a suburb of Detroit and Lake heavy beam and received injuries and Shore Drive is the ·main thoroughfare bruises. In the report of the disaster held various educational offices and con­ Montgomery Advertiser, tributed to educational journals. He between the two. in the no ti Over one hundred colored mail mention was made of the girl, and in i5 now president of the Joseph K. Journal, Brick School, N. C. carriers and their wives from all parts the no mention was made on ti of the country ·met last summer in the front page but a small paragraph Doctor R. N. Dett, and Ernest Minneapolis to attend the conference Hayes of the staff of the Hampton was carried on the third interior 'Page. of the National A-; sociation of Letter ti Four graduates of Meharry Medi­ School of Music, have returned from Carriers. a summer's study at the School of Mu­ cal College took Part II of the nation­ tI George A. Singleton has received wide examinations given by the Na­ sic, Fontainbleau. They are planning the degree of Master of Arts at Chi­ a foreign tour for the celebrated tional Board of Medical Examiners. cago University. They were Dr. H. E. Hampton, Dr. Hampton choir. ti J. ti The City Council of St. Paul has I. B. B. Higgens, Dr. L. Hicks, and Dr. Peter James Bryant, for thirty passed the following Minute with re­ Dr. W. A. Mason. They all passed years Pastor of the Wheat �tre�t Bap­ gard to the death of the late Minister the examination. One of them, Dr. tist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1s dead. to Liberia William T. Francish: Hampton, attained the highest grade H-e was a well-known• religious leader. P. l\,fr. Francis was a St. Paul product, given, making a total cr�dit of 208, ti Arthur Davis will teach Eng- a citizen of fine spirit, clean purpose and out of 225. The next highest grade lish the coming year at Virginia Union genuine devotion to the public good, held attained was 206. Candidates who University. in high esteem by those who knew him. take these examinations are drawn ti Last year the Reverend D. D. He fashioned his own career out of cour­ from all the medical schools and col­ Crawford was in a railway wreck in age, determination and ability. Facing leges in the United States and Canada. unusual handica,ps he overcame them all Georgia and distinguished himself by by the quality of his character, and by Last year Dr. Hampton was among his coolness in rescuing numbers of the single-handed struggle forced recogn1t1on the first ten making the highest aver­ injured. Much was said of his bravery of his worth. He won high honor on age for Part I. Dr. Higgins made a in Southern white papers. ,vorth alone and earned a ,vide approvalh· grade of 201 and in the examination 382 THE CRISIS last year received the highest grade in (I Dr. Aaron A. �lc�•lillan of the heavy engine and the new strong Bacteriology. Omaha, Nebraska, formerlv member of cars in the rear in "\-vhich the white {[ For colored readers there are the Legislature, has gone as a Medical people ride: The Negro car was ninety-five centers for the circulation 1n1ss1onary to Angola, Portuguese thrown up beside the overturned loco­ of books for home use in forty-six West Africa. He is being sent by the motive which explocted and spread buildings in Louisville, Ky., and Jef­ A1nerican Board of Cornmissioners for steam through the ((Jim Crow" com­ ferson County. This includes two Foreign 1\1issions. partment. This is a common occur­ Carnegie branch buildings, one high SCJU1'H WES7' rence in .Southern wrecks. school, fifteen stations and seventeen (I Cleave Williams, a nineteen-year classroom collections in twenty-eight26,737 (I l\ilrs. Ida Gertrude Young is a old Negro boy, was lynched at Cal­ school buildings. There are graduate of Paul Quinn College, vert, Texas, recently. He was ac­ volumes in the department.156,926 The cir­ Texas. She finished high school in her cused of writing a note to a white girl, culation of books10 was volumes, younger daysh; taught schoolh; marriedh; although this is not supposed to be the which was per cent of the total raised a family of six children, the old­ real reason. circulation. PACIFIC COAST 4I 1930- est of whom graduated from college at 31, Talledega College, Ala., in Paul Quinn, and' is now in Africa with will offer a full major course in fI ::\Jiss Marian Anderson has been his uncle. She has a son at Wilberforce singing on the Pacific Coast where she Physical Education, including gymnas­ and a daughter attending Paul Quinn. tics, swimming and dancing. W. H. appeared as soloist with the American Kindle, who has the degree of Master Philharmonic Orchestra. The Seattle of Physical Education from the Y. M. Daily Times says that Miss Ander­ C. A. College at Springfield, Mass­ son's "opulent contralto which she uses achusetts, is at the head of the de­ with· fine intelligence moved the audi­ partment. ence to an ovation." The Star calls 4I New Orleans University granted her. "the,, finest of living contralto the degree of Bachelor of Arts to ten singers. candidates. at the end of the summer (I Israel Beal was a colored pioneer session. of Redlands, California, where81. he died ([ At New Orleans, Joseph J. Dejoie, recently at the age 18of48, Born a who has conducted a drug store in the slave in Virginia in he marched city for more than twenty years, is with Sherman to the Sea and then dead. He was prominent in business eventually came to California by way and civic life. of18 74,Panama to labor in the ·mines. In 4I Fisk University awarded the de­ l\1r. Beal bought twenty acres gree of Bachelor of Arts to twenty­ where he lived and raised his family three graduates of the summer school. and acted as teamster and rancher and (I J. M. Bond, Director of Physical took various contracts. He had much Education in the Y. M. C. A. at Pitts­ to do with the founding and building burgh for the last three years, has be­ up of the city of Redlands. come State Director for the Colored fI Ruth J. Temple was born in Mis­ Work of the Kentucky State Inter­ sissippi and educated in California. She racial Commission. He succeeds his received ·her degree in Medicine and father, the late James Bond. is now on the staff of the Maternity TRANS MISSISSIPPI Division of the Los Angeles City Health Board and also of the White fI A bitter fight for education has Memorial Hospital. Her practice is been won in Missouri. Some years ago Street Sign, Detroit. Page 382 limited exclusively to obstetrics and Nathan B. Young as President of gynecology. During the recent meet­ ing of ·the National Medical Associa­ Lincoln U nri versi ty, was re-organizing Mrs. Young returned1925 to Paul Quinn the institution into a first-class school. in the summer of and took up her tion in Newark, Dr. Temple gave two Governor Baker ousted him and then college work, but was handicapped by demonstrations. She is especially ex­ proceeded to put the institution into the necessity of keeping ·her children pert on a new form of the ·Cesarean politics. When ·the present Governor in school. ·She took advantage of the operation which is greatly reducing Caulfield was elected, he swept out the summer schools until she reached her mortality. whole Board of Curators and ap­ Junior year, and then attended the (I The Oregon Journal had a lead­ ing editorial on the work of Mrs. E. pointed a new Board, with 'such per­ regular1929. courses, finally graduating in sons as Charles Nagel, formerly Sec­ D. Cannady in race relations.h· She has retary of Commerce and Labor, and (I Last November, Judge Mann held front-porch musical recitals, inter­ Mrs. Julia Childs Curtis. He also granted an injunction which gave the racial teas, and given addresses and secured the largest appropriation yet colored citizens in Arkansas the right exhibits. The Portland Council of made for the University from the leg­ to vote in primary elections. Recently, Churches is asking for the Harmon islature. T•he Board of Curators has Chancellor Dodge has dissolved the in­ Award for her. re-appointed Nathan B. Young as junction. Three law firms have united (I It is reported that Gloria Swan­ President. to take this case to the highest courts, son's last picture, "Queen Kelley", has (I The Fourth annual conference of and colored people are raising a special been banned by Will Hayes, because it Cooks and Waiters was held in St. defense fund. featured a colored priest. Louis August 5th to 9th. fI In a wreck of a Frisco Express WEST INDIES (I Clarence Bacote of Kansas City, train between Tulsa and Sherman, Missouri, has received the degree of Texas, eleven Negroes were killed in fI A school History of England by l\1aster of Arts from the University of the "Jim Crow car." The '(Jim Crow" C. R. L. Fletcher and191 Rudyard1, Kip­ Chicago. car is always an old car put between ling, published in has been

November., 1929 383 banned from government schools in l�rge gift made by Tremont Temple, Africa are the five thousand Syrian British Guiana on account of the fol­ Boston. merch an ts. 1 'he Negroes complain bit­ lowing paragraph against which the (I At Douala, in the Cameroons, terly of their oppression and cheating Negroes complained : there is a fine central hospital built of but the English defend them as thev "The prosperity of the West Indies, brick and costing to date $55,000. buy large amounts of English good;. once our richest possession, has very (I Dr. Agnes Savage of Nigeria has There is a strong local demand for largely declined since slavery was abol­ completed her medical work at Edin­ their exclusion. ished in 1833. There is little market brough University at the age of 23. (I The new English Director of Edu­ for their chief products, and yet there cation for Nigeria, British West is a large population, mainly black, She is the first native colored woman descended from slaves imported in pre­ to qualify for work in West Africa. Africa, tried to abolish the Oxford and vious centuries, or of mixed black and (I At the Bolenge Hospital, Belgian Cambridge examinations and inaugu­ white races: lazy, vicious, and incapable Congo, 10,489 patients were treated rate a "Nigeria school certificate." The of any serious improvement, or of work in 1928. Native assistants gave 7,834 Negroes protested and Mr. Hussey has except under compulsion. injections. not only withdrawn his proposals but "In such a climate a few bananas will King promised in the future to discuss all sustain the life of a Negro quite suffi­ (I Albert of Belgium has estab­ lished the Congo National Park. It · contemplated changes. ciently. Why should he work to get more (I The foundation stone of the ne,v than this? He is quite happy and quite consists of 800,000 acres, between useless, and spends any extra wages he Lakes Kivu and Edward. It will be a Supreme Court building, Accra, Gold may earn upon finery." refuge for a larger wild beast, and Coast, British West Africa, was laid hunting is to be prohibited. It is un­ August 16th in the presence of the EAST AFRICA Governor and judges. A sum of fortunate there is not a similar refuge $500,000 (I An Indian Deputation has been for the Negro in the Belgian Congo. has been set apart -to pay for visiting in East Africa and returned to (I An English Knighthood has been the nevv building. It will contain seating three Bombay, and will shortly proceed to bestowed upon Nana Sir Emmanuel three court rooms, each England to lay their complaints be­ Mate-kole, K.B., K.lVI.A.C., M.L.C. hundred persons. fore the British Government. They Sir Emmanuel is the paramount chief SOUTH AFRICA complain of segregation, inability to of Manyah Krobo, Gold Coast, Brit­ buy land and disfranchisement. ish West Africa. CI Professor Leo Frobenius, who has (H7i!l please turn to page 394) (I It is reported that the slave trade (I One of the great problems of West you still flourishes in Arabia and on the Red Sea, and that more than 2,000 slaves from Africa are sold there every year. Forty thousand J e\.vs in Yemen are said also to be virtually slaves. (I The ·present Sultan of Zanzibar, Sayed bin Harib, has only one wife and a son Ali. His palace is Bct-el­ ajab, or House of Wonders, and is the scene of many social functions. ,¥hen he gives a ball, Arab and Negro mer­ chants ap.pear and white people from the surrounding colonies. Conven­ tional English food is served to the whites and great silver dishes of curry and rice with cutglass bowls of man­ goes and fruits to _the Mohammedans. Finally, the Sultan's coffee is passed around a_nd then the dance begins. The Sultan makes a magnificent .figure in his robes of gold. His son wears a modern dinner jacket. Neither of them dance. The Sultana looks on from a screened balcony. WEST AFRICA (I Henry Carr, formerly Director of Education at Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa, was made an Officer of the British Empire in the last birthday honors. fI Archibald Casley Hayford is a Master of Arts of Cambridge Uni­ versity, England, and Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast, British West Africa. He has visited in America and is the son of Honorable Casely Hayford, M. B. E. (I Tremont Hospital of N tondo, Bel­ gian Congo, was opened J)ecember 5, 1928, and was founded mainly on a The New Nttrses' Hottie, Lincoln Hospital, New York City. Page 380 384 THE CRISIS YOUFor JuniorsTHP of the N. A. ORA. C. P. T Critic EFFIE LEE NEWSOME,

EDITORIAL vites contributions from young readers record and raised the reputation of UMAS the elder mentions a pic­ of the CRISIS. And they are found in American sport to the very highest D turesque incident in the life of various ·parts of the world. Through point.. One would have thought that his father. The father as a boy in Saint this page-an international forum­ his companions would praise and spoil Domingo was enjoying the out-of­ junior friends of the CRISIS may come himh; would be heart and soul with him doors. But unfortunately the log upon in touch with a great organization and and inordinately proud of him. Noth­ which he supposed himself to be stand­ with one another. ing of the sort happened. On the con­ ing proved to be an alligator. It moved. The critic of this organ of the Na­ trary, they would not sleep in the same The mulatto Durnas began running for tional Association for the Advance­ room with himh; they would not eat at his life and the alligator pursued. ment of Colored People plans to extend the sa·me tableh; they would not travel "To the right, little sir! To the the Junior Page-or perhaps two pages with him on the same train. Indeed, left, little sir!" cried the sympathetic -so as to include contrjbutions from they insulted him in so horrible and voice of a Negro onlooker who was ad­ young Americans, West Indians and despicable a manner that it brought vising the father of d' Artagnan's from French, Portuguese, Italian, tears to the eyes of poor Tolan, when creator to take a zig-zag course, a route Spanish and English speaking Negroes. the matter was mentioned. that an alligator loathes. But the boy A pretty broad field surely. The pro­ This Tolan is - excuse the hard gra·m of this page lists interesting con­ :vord-aNe gro; and his companions was delighted to follow these direc­ · tions. And the zigzag pace led to a tests with attractive awards. 1n sport are--excuse100% the even harder most satisfactory ending. "\Vhen every CRISIS reader between word-pure "Mayflower gen­ tlemen". They are, sportsmen, well­ A. A. C. P. in the ages of fourteen and tvventy-one as The Junior N. page known to the realizes that he has it within his power be ·marvelously fair! and starting its course may veer "to sport itself is a well-known method of right, little sir, to to play a vigorous part in the projects the left, little sir" uniting peoples. But "vou must not gets the sure trend. of a lively magazine he'll roll up his till it ultimately Send stories, sketches or letters forget that Negroes used to be slaves The path that it desires is a short cut sleeves. of not exceeding four hundred words to and t at for us they are always slaves," to youth of the present. It.would meet � "Youthport"� explain these grandchildren of Abra­ them half way. THE CRISIS, 69 Fifth ham Lincoln. The young people interested in the Avenue, New York. Next month we shall deal further vvith the brisk con­ N·ational. Association for the Advance­ LETTERS i:nent of Colored People are by this very tes.ts. Begin planning your contribu­ interest understood to be possessed of tion. Richmond College '- racial clear sightedness and minds that NEWS Cape Coast instinctively go toward high promise. Gold Coast Such is the blessing. of being ·part of a HE BERLIN TAGEBUCH of West Africa race that sees before it shimmering hill­ Tthe 24th of August, 1929, has this HE EDI'fOR of the "CRISIS" tops and not the valleys on the other article: T side that are the portion of -peoples who "A band of American athletes has Sir: have known pinnacles. for several weeks be-en holding exhi­ Enclosed you will find Postal Order bitions in Germanyh; and everywhere of eight shillings and sixpence for which and lately in Berlin, have aroused grea� please e!'lroll me as a subsc�iber of you� REMEMBER THE TREES furore. Above all, it was the marvelous 1nterest1ng newspaper. I have also en­ Will you please turn to page 394) HIS reminds us of Bjornson's story sprinter, Tolan, who broke record after ( Tof the juniper, oak and fir that strove to cover a mountain. But no sooner would they get a footing on the mountainside than they were washed downward. After years of struggling. persever­ ance the trees reached the summit, only to look back with a gasp. For lo ! they found the tableland already clothed with oak, with fir and with juniper. Our reaching a point of meeting for the interchange of ideas may mean some such revelation as came to the trees when they arrived on the table­ land. And the talents and traits ad­ mired in other races will be found to exist -within our own. YouTHPORT offers space for and in- Students of Richmond College, Gold Coast, Africa Novernber� 1929 385 TWENTY YEARS HE October number of THE Dear Mr. Du Bois, T CRISIS completed 19 years of Thank you very much for the copies of "The Crisis" which existence for this magazine. This pres­ you have sent to me. I shall look through them at once and ent issue is the first copy of our Twen­ shall be greatly interested in which tieth Anniversary. know that I I find there. Founded by the present Editor in As to an article, I am sadly afraid that the great pressure November, 1910 at 20 Vesey Street, which is upon me at present will make it impossible for me to New York, this periodical has for a send you anything to show how interested I am in the position fifthof aN. century A. A. been the official organ of the coloured people in the world. ot the C. P., and an out­ standing interpreter of the thought and J. Ramsay Macdonald. aspiration, the deeds and movements 12 of million Americans and of untold MARSHALL other millions of Negro descent the pist died recently and was buried with the pomp of world-wide mourning in \\'orld over. I ts judgment and policy OMETIMES we Negroesspeak as some may applaud and some criticize New York, along with the honorary pall-bearers, who included Governor S though we were carrying on our but its sincerity and honesty, its un­ fight for the recognition of our man­ purchaseable courage and its clear and and l\1ayor, millionaire and merchant prince, social reformer, artist and hood and political and social rights forceful ideas few can gainsay. alone and unaided by our white fello\\· With imperturable determination writer, appeared the chief executive of­ ficial of the N. A. A. C. P. as fitting citizens. But, of course, we do not and unblinking vision, THE CRISIS mean to say this. Such a task would faces a future big with possibilities and representative of one of the great forces of America. be impossible. From the beginnning, crying perhaps as never before for wide our struggle in the United States would knowledge, honest judgment, sound When it was pointed out to the have been unsuccessful had it not been Biennial Conference of Pacific Rela­ logic and fearless exposition. The re­ for those white friends who saw the tions then meeting in Hawaii that the lation of the white to the dark world vision of a common humanity and who American Negro had a logical right to approaches daily a more critical stage. helped realize it. It is inextricably bound up with the be represented as being the element in problems of peace and \\'ar, and war America most actually interested in the American Jews have been especially today is the key to economic reform, future development of the Darker prominent in this work. We call to the abolition of poverty, the spread of Races of the Pacific, our request was mind Jacob Schiff, Julius Rosenwald intelligence, the blossoming of art and ignored. N.This A. yearA. at the Third Bien­ and many others. But above all, at human happiness. nial, the C. P. is chosen as this time, we remember the unselfish To all these problems, there is no the appropriate organization to send to and invaluable work of Louis Mar­ quick and flippant, easy and complete Japan its Secretary as a member of the shall. This great constitutional law­ answer. But there are answers and American delegation. yer repeatedly turned aside from his solutions, facts and measurements, The world moves appointed tasks and his lucrative prac­ which the world's press and periodicals tice to give time and counsel to the \\-·ill ignore and misunderstand because The Fifth Pan African Congress National Association for the Advance­ they despise "Chinks" and hate "Nig­ will take place in the city of Tunis, ment of Colored People. He consid­ gers". Here is the field-the unfilled French North Africa, December ered the cause of Negro freed om to be and yawning field for THE CRISIS. 23, 24 a11d 25, 1929, under the the cause of human freed om, and he THE CRISIS now as ever will avoid Presidency of M. Gratien Candace, helped accordingly. His death is a French Deputy from Guadeloupe. extremes of -partisanship but this will The success of this Congress will mighty loss for the American Negro. be no excuse for fighting reform sim­ depend almost entirely upon the ply because it is unpopular or un­ American delegation. To date 34 profitable or not defending institutions A nierican Negroes have agreed to and policies whose only offence is their take the trip in a body, leaving on age. the beautiful, niodern and well­ THE CRISIS will exist as long as the appointed steamship, Milwaukee, MYRON ADAMS intelligence and wisdom of its readers Saturday, November 30th, and re­ turning to New York, Thursday, HE retirement of Myron Adams \\'ill its existence. It will cease pub­ January 30th. Six or more Ameri­ from the presidency of Atlanta lication when a magazine of this type T can Negroes will join the party en University ought not to pass without a i, not longer \\-'anted or needed. route. The all inclusive cost of the word. Dr. Adams is one of the last of trip will be $965 per person. who RECOGNITION If there are any persons who are that band of crusaders came South interested in this trip, they may after the war to educate the Negro. WO incidents showN. A.the growing write the Secretary of the Con- They met at first deep derisions; then T influence of the A. C. P. in 9ress, care of THE CRISIS, for fur­ high praises; and then forgetfulness. In this land despite its unpopular cause. ther information. the last period, their difficulties have When a great lawyer and philanthro- • been enormous, and yet, if higher edu- 386 TH E CRISIS cation of the American Negro has tri­ New York, N. Y. the black man must vote with his eye umphed, it is because of the fact that September 1, 1929. on this fact. In these larger issues, he men like Myron Adams stuck to their "I have read the above statement of disfranchises himself, but he refuses to jobs, even when threatened with star­ Mr. Vann and I accept it in the spirit commit suicide in order to save a white vation. in which it is given and the incident is world. Atlanta University in 1887 had but hereby forgotten." 14 college students ; in 1919 it had (Signed) W. E. B. Du Bois. 50 ; and last year it had 300. In the "PECHSTEIN AND PECK- New York, N. Y. SNIFF" !ast nine years, Dr. Adams has fought September 1, 1929. to keep the finances of the institution HAVE just read with the keenest "I have read Mr. Vann's statement. I balanced and he has succeeded in pre­ I accept his word, and therefore with­ interest your article in this month's senting to President Hope a plant of draw what I said about him personally CRISIS headed "Pechstein and Peck­ 55 acres of land, fairly adequate build­ in my address at Pittsburgh, October sniff". I wish to thank you for this, ings, and an endowment of $328,000, 19, 1926. I regret the whole incident and to assure you that I for one, al­ nearly all of which has been raised dur­ as unfortunate and am happy to see it though for many years a principal of a ing his administration. There is an closed." separate school for Negroes, realize indebtedness which amounts to only (Signed) James Weldon Johnson. that the points you make against it are $14,000. This has been accomplished true. It has been my experience that in spite of the withdrawal of help from seldom if ever will a board of education the General Education Board, the crti­ THE NEGRO IN POLITICS spend the funds so as to give equal edu­ cism of the trustees and of the white cational opportunities to all. In most people of Georgias; and of the standard­ HE political situation of the Amer­ ican Negro this fall has many cases, the separation is no sooner made izing agencies. It has been a hard T than the question of pro rata cost is fight. anomalies, contradictions and encour­ agements. A white Southerner has raised, and the Negro school of course Atlanta University has had four been made Chairman of the Republi­ suffers. Of course your argument as presidents: Edmund Ware, the first, can National Committee. He will un­ to the logical end of racial segregation was the man of vision who founded it doubtedly do what he can to eliminate -Caste, Hate and War, is irrefutable. in 1867. Horace Bumstead, was the Negroes ·from political activity in man who defended the Negro college the the South. If he is successful, there for twenty years. The last twenty will grow up in the South two parties THE COLOR LINE AND THE years which has made Atlanta U niver­ dominated by white men. This alarms CHURCH sity, and the college idea accepted has some Negroes and certain of their been the work partly of young Edward HEN friends. THE CRISIS is not alarmed. the Reverend Mr. Black­ Ware prematurely dead, but mainly If these are two real parties and not W shear of St. Matthew's Protest­ of Myron Winslo"'•' Adams. merely one party with two faces, then ant Epi�copal Church, Brooklyn, in­ they will need votess; and the more vited Negroes out of his parish, there THE PITTSBURGH COURIER progressive their program is, the greater was much tumult and shouting which HREE will be their need. This will be the has now died away. Matters will now years ago in the Pittsburgh settle back to normal : Negroes will Courier of October 9, 1926, oc­ Negroes' opportunity. T But this means that the Negro must fade out of Mr. Blackshear's churchs; curred an article with headlines which · as the surrounding community becomes in effect accused the officials of the N. become opportunist in politics. No area illustrates this better than Harlem. more and more "colored", this branch A. A. C. P. of misa•ppropriation of of the Church of Christ will move to a funds, particularly with regard to the Black Harlem cares nothing for politi­ cal labels. Candidates may be marked whiter neighborhood and St. Matthews donations of the American Fund for will be "transferred" or sold to colored Public Service. Democrat, Republican, Socialist,­ H arlem votes for the candidate. More­ folk. Since that time, by articles in THE over, it votes very largely for local And yet even this usual solution will CRISIS, by releases to the press and by reasons. It will support Mayor not settle the matter. Mr. Blackshear public speeches, the N. A. A. C. P. Walke.r, not because he is the best can­ and his vestry in drawing the color has proven to the public that the didate. He is not. N onnan Thomas, line in his church simply followed the writer of this article was entirely mis­ the Socialist candidate, is by long odds policy of American Christianity. The taken and that the facts were not as the best man running. But he has no American Church of Christ is "Jim­ representeds; that, on the contrary, the chance of election. On the other hand, Crowed" from top to bottom. No funds of the N. A. A. C. P. had al­ Mayor Walker has done a great deal other institution in America is built so ways been spent with the greatest care for Harlem and is a much better man thoroughly or more absolutely on the and utmost publicity. than the Republican, La Guardias; and color line. Everybody knows this. We are glad at last to be able to Harlem will stand by him. Harlem Why then abuse Mr. Blackshear? He print the following letters which ap­ will vote for a colored Congressman, may be a blunt and tactless fool, but he peared on the first page of the Pitts­ for two colored Aldermen, for a col­ i:- doing exactly what his church has burgh Courier, Saturday, September ored member of the Assembly, for a done for 250 years, and, in this policy, 14, 1929: colored leaders in Republican organi­ the Episcopalians have been followed Pittsbur.gh, Pennsylvania. zations. by the Catholic Church of America, September 1, 1929. It is, of course, unfortunate that in and, in later years, by the Methodists, "I regret very much the appearance all this, Harlem and the Negroes of Baptists and Presbyterians. ot the article in the Pittsburgh Courier the United States, ·must vote "colored"s; The reason for this is clear, if we re­ of October 9, 1926. I do not believe but the fault is not theirs. So long gard the church as a group of ordinary its accusations and if I had seen the as the color of a man's skin means human beings with human ignorance, article before it appeared it never more, to most candidates, than the tar­ prejudice and cruelty, as well as char­ would have been published." iff, democratic government, pro�ibition, ity and good will. White Americans · (Signed) Robt. I.,. Vann. war, or any other issue, just so long prefer not to associate with Negroes,

N ove111ber, 1929 387 neither in homes, theatres, street cars share of the glory of victory and again a lot of time and a back-breaking nor churches. This is evidently what to emphasize its sup�rnatural claims. amount of work. Public opinion calls the Younger Churchmen ( some of It is this latter development that for good food well-cooked and a lot of with whom are beginning their second fifty disturbs and angers right thinking men. it, served on excellent china, clean years of life) almost tearfully acknowl­ No one utterly condemns a Blackshear, linen and good silver. It is, therefore, edge when they profess a '"general born and raised in Texas and educated \\'ise and sensible that the number of gt:ilt and perplexity." in a theological seminary, for crassly guests be small. Six people could be But these gentlemen can not escape drawing a color line in human rela­ attended to without subsequent nervous the dilemma into which this confession tions. What else could be humanly prostration. But \\'hat housewife dares forces them: The church does not us­ expected ? We can only insist on fac­ to invite six friends? Something be­ ually profess to be a group of ordinary ing facts, investigating consequences tween sixteen and sixty are always human .beings. It claims Divine Sanc­ and telling the truth about this miser­ forced upon her because Someone. tion. It -professes to talk with God able tangle in human relationships. would be terribly hurt and personally insulted if she \\·ere not invited Always and to receive directlv His Command­ Do we get this ? No ! We get ments. Its ministers and members do casuistry, molasses and a little well­ and Everywhere. This results in two thingsh: small not apparently have to acquire Truth bred whining. We get a repetition of cliques of people, who by bitter experience and long intensive the "divine Mission of Christianity", invite themselves to all their own functions, and miss studyh; Truth is miraculously revealed and then silence and quiet persistence the joy and inspiration of making new to them. in the exact wrong that raised the con­ If, therefore, in the midst and in the acquaintances. And secondly, it gives troversy. to endless heartache. face of this divine revelation of truth rise Examine the reply of Blackshear's I have seen grown, sensible women which is weekly thundered from their ''Reverend Father in God", Bishop pulpits, they then turn around and con­ ,veep because thev were not irivited. Stires. It is Iittle short of delicious. I have seen menh· get hard and bit­ fess that they are acting just like ordi­ He says that \\·hen black folk appeared ter and plan all sorts of retaliation nary human beings, what becomes of in his parish "he never found it neces­ because they not invited. I have all these pretensions of supernatural sary to suggest that he did not desire \\·ere kno\\'n extraordinary campaigns of revelationh? any more." Of course, he did not. His pleading, blackmail and vilification to In other words, the church faces to­ black parishioners \Vere in the position extract from a reluctant hostess invita­ day as in other days, and with Ameri­ of that \\·ell-known "darkv" who once tions for some forgotten or excluded can Negro problems as in other social tried repeatedly and persistently to join The assumption is that if you problems, an inexorable dilemmah: an Episcopal Church. At last gave person. he are not alwavs Evernvhere that this is either the church must acknowledege up and explained the matter to the a subtle atta�k upon' your moral char­ itself to be a human organization rectorh: largely composed of the rich and re­ acter, upon your social status, or upon "N aw, Suh, naw Suh, I ain't aimin' your style of beauty. spectable, desirous of better things and to jine yo' church. You see hit's this­ If now people could be sensible groping for social uplift but restrained a-\\ ayh: last night as I prayin' for · \\-·as these things, how easily by inherited prejudice, economic priv­ grace, I done see Jesus. And Jesus about it would work out. This week you invite ilege and social fear ; or the Church done said to me, sezzee, Rastus, son, all this group of sixh; next month you in­ may continue to insist on its divine don't try to get into dat 'Piscopal origin, supernatural power and absolute Church no mo.' I done been tryin' to vite quite another grouph; during the year you have the joy of meeting be­ and immediate knowledge of Truth. git in dar mahself for mighty nigh tween seventy-five and one hundred In the latter case, when the Church t\\'O thousand years and ah ain't made meets the Negro problem, it writes people, all of \\·horn you learn to like i!hvit!" and appreciate. itself down as a deliberate hyprocrite And so Bishop Stires cannot find a Or again, even if l\1rs. Jones did not and systematic liar. It does not say thing that he can doh; and the Younger have you at dinner last week, or if you "Come unto me all ye that labor,"; it Churchmen \\'ill find a change that not are not a member of 1\1rs. Smith's does not "love its neighbor as itself."; Church they can agree upon. And the exclusive card club, nevertheless you it does not welcome "Jew and Gentile, militant will prescribe a large amount barbarian, Scythian, bond and free,"h; invite Mrs. Jones and lVlrs. Smith be­ of soothing syrup, while Bishop Man­ cause you like them and they like you, and yet it openly and blatantly pro­ ning and his ilk, wrapped in decorous fesses all this. 1 and because likable people are not too and Episcopal silence, \vill devote his frequent in this queer world. On the other hand, a great human time and great talents to the Cathedral institution for social uplift and wider of St. John the Divine. But above all, ho,•; much easier the humanity has no reason to be ashamed whole thing "·ould be if there were in confessing its mistakes so long as it some co-operation in entertaining to does with energy and determination I .1M z...roy INVITED bring its cost do\\'n to the pocketbooks seek to correct them. In the past, the of poor people. For instance, ( and I T is extraordinary to think of the Church has opposed every great mod­ I realize the blasphemy of the sugges­ ern social reform ; it opposed the spread heartaches and unhappiness that tion), why on earth shouldn't the of democracy, universal education, arise from the fact that Someone is not guests turn to and wash up the dishes trades unionism, the abolition of pov­ invited to go Somewhere at some par­ after a good dinner? I saw this at­ erty, the emancipation of women, the ticular time. tempted by a hostess once, and with spread of science, the freedom of art The reasons for not inviting Ev­ great reluctance and black looks, it was and literature and the emancipation of erybody evef}'"\\'here, of course, are per­ carried through. But the guests never the Negro slave. When the reform fectly clear. Most housewives, and got through talking about it. They was ,gained, the Church righted itself, particularly the wives of the best class doubtless thought that it \Vould have led usually by some scismatic and heret­ of colored people with moderate in­ been much finer for her to have hired ical part of itseLf, came over on the come, do their own housework. The help that she could not afford, or Lord's side and usually did not hesi­ entertainment of guests at lunch, or worked herself sick until after mid- tate both to claim a preponderant dinner or at an evening party involves ( Will J'OU please turn to p(lge 394) 388 THE CRISIS Atlanta University Atlanta, Georgia BOWA RD UNIVERSITY Pew.Jetl lry Gnn11l Oliver 0th How•rtl Graduate Courses WASHINGTON, D. C. Senior and Junior and Sopho­ more College Courses. Purpose An Outstandiug National University For i•for-.tio• 11ddre11 To provide the Twelve Located at the Capital of the Nation, with a eamfQ'I Million Colored people of twenty-five acra. Modern, scientific and a--1w1al The President the equipment. A plant worth approximately $),0ft,0lt. of United States A Faculty of 176 memben. A Student Body of ap­ with College - trained proximately 2400, from )6 different states and 14 MORBHOUSB CoLLEGB and Professional leaders foreign countria. Generally acknowledged to be die through courses ouutanding National UniTeraity of the C.Olored Pso,le (Por•,rl, Atlanta Baptist Colleae) its in of America. ATLANTA, GA. theAR TS, SCIENCES, SOCIOLOGY, EDU­ Stwdnt, ..y f•r Coll•,u,I• 1Verl Ill IIN Cellep, Academy, Divinity School Bepflh�nt,r of ••Y Q,utrtn- AN institution famous within recent CATION, ECONOM­ .,;'J. yeara for its emphasis on all _sid«:9 ICS; its Schools of REGISTRATION PERIODS maaty development-the only tnsti­ Music, Applied Science, AUTUMN Qu.u.TU September )0---0ctober 1, 2, 1,2, in the far South devoted solely Medicine, Dentistry, W'INTEII. QUAIi.TEii. January 2. ), 1930 education of Negro young men. SPII.ING QUAIi.TD. March 20, 21, 1930 Pharmacy, Religion and Graduatea given high rankina 1,:, AR.D'S � northern universities. Debat­ Law. HOW NEEDS - Y. M. C. A., athletics, all Ji-ye fea­ $130 per year to cover incidental fees, ecc. (tlli­ lmw. tion) of a 1tudent for a year. $2,600 fw .__ l'Oa INFOI.IIATION, JftlM•u m&Jtent Scl:t.olanbipa. Aa Endowm.mt F...t ef .IOHN HOPE. P1 11d1■t Mordecai W. Joluuon at least $5,000,000. An Administration hiY, President ing, $125,000 to $150,000. A dormitory f. Emmet_t Scott Yoang Men, $150,000. A building fer die c.1- TALLADEGA COLLEGE J. lea• of Education, $150,000. Contributioaa ,_ A Libnol Art, Colkg• Se�etary-Treosurn Current Expeu..a in any amount, l:t.owever aM- of High•1t Grtllle Altnw•J b, Grt•I EJac•lio11.l Ainrin .l l,.,J;,,I Grda•lt School, of th, Coa11tr:1. UNB.TCEI, ED l.ocAnoH. SnoNG FACULTY. HARTSHORN MEMORIAL GRADUATE SPLENDm EQu�MEHT. Plaat wordt •• and oae-laalf ntiUi• COLLEGE SCHOOL 1... f-16-r Jlff'II�•'-• Richmond, Va. ,. ti,• n.Pneideat or theu,rn, Dsn2P TALLADEGA, COLLEGE NOW-An Academy Howard University TAI-I ADEGA ALAaANA B11n1ttu1lly-A C..llege fer School of Religion C la e Separat.e Educatioa of � Young Women, SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS IN Knoxville Coll e ft» l111UtaUen wblcb bu been M &put f• NINISTE1UAL TRAINING, BD,L eg Ille ■eparate education llf ,ouna -• ... .._ lta fOWldlng ID 1883, will, ID ti» t=mlldtae■ GIOUS EDUCATION, SOCIAL KNOXVILLE, TENN. flltare, deYote •'Jft7 eoero upee arade. and, .,._ SER.VICE FOR COLLBGE d&IIJ. academic worll 01117, miee eoU.. WOB GRADUATES ■1aatifal Situation and Healthful Locatioa. !lu beftl dlac«1t1nued for the DNNDL It II aa .. tKoral and Spiritual Envircmmeat. �ted 1118b acllool b7 tbe 8t&te et Vlrdnta. and offera two -; a General Coone Uld a 8'1ndid Intellectual Atmoapbere. C.Uece Phparator, C.W... wbleb wW adalt II New C.OurN■ of Study : Gradaat11 1'oted for Bone.t and Thoroap Werk. lllJ' collep. Bartlhoru olren, beald• lta pare eebol•ett• _.. Scl:t.olanbips: An Enlarged Faculty: r.u, Attred1Wd for rtculum. a bome lnftuenee when tbe d.. el't'ii: ■ I I Splendid Opportunities for Pracdcal • ,. •• c.wlat• b7 8ta&e IIMrd. Ill Cbrilltlao character la tb1 fu:Dclameotal per; 1 Field York: Unaurpaaed Adnnta 1 T I ,a. DwaUor7 Lift wttJI CaretaJ 81.pawlldla. u... •.... tic Uld Ltwrar, later•ta. Seu few a cataloaue to die Prelf•••• A1forded by C.On.nection witla a Gnat •a-c w..... : c.Uep, s-ai. 111111 ...... 0..... MRS.HARRIETT I. TALCOTT, UniTeraity Located in the Nathzgl 1PM. Ana ucl llmt.e. Capitol. Vn, R•u...tll• IUCIDIOND, VA. T I 2 1a.,nu•1 adetbar bteratm Nat frN 11"9 lillll 1. Add-· J. KELLY 81FFEN, ,.,_....._ St11dents received at die .,.,_siaai■a KlfOXTII.9. D!fN. of each. quarter.

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Novnnber, 1929 389 The Negro in Law magistrate before whom a civilian brings a complaint about the Negro. s�c }\.ETAJt�� ( Continued fro,n page 369) After being held the Negro will be con­ victed on much less evidence than fact that in Southern towns the Negro would a white person charged with fk!�flls�rl!Jl4'!. section is either without or is the last the same crime; after he has been con­ Secretarial to receive se,vers, gas and electricity, victed or after he has entered a plea All paved streets, city water service and of guilty to the charge, there is a fur­ Commercial Course regular removal of ashes and garbage. ther difference in treatment. In al­ Civil Service Course Such ordinances were passed by at least most every city in the United States REGENTS AIDS: Algebra, English, Gram­ 1 mar, Arithmetic-dementary and :ad­ a dozen of our leading southern cities. fe,ver N cgroes are placed on probation T:anced, Social Science, Geography :and But in 1917 the National Association or received suspended sentences than U. S. History. for the Advancement of Colored Peo­ you will find among the other group. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE COURSE 1\7 -for liceme No. 1 Exam. N. Y. City ple carried as a test case such an ordi­ It is ell recognized that under our Elementary Schools. nance adopted by the city of Louisville, present penal system prison terms usual­ SUMMER SCHOOL COACHING - 90 · Kentucky to the United States Su­ ly harden criminals rather than cure hours July-August classes now forming preme Court. That body in the case them. Even juvenile delinquents M:ay examins. a1nong LECTURE COURSE now organizing. of Buchanan vs. Warley held such or­ Negroes arc not accorded the INSTRUCTORS: Gilby Robinson L.L.B. dinances invalid. For some unthink­ same guidance and supervision as other (Lond) F.l.P.S. Howard Day B.S., M. able reason the city of New Orleans juvenile delinquents. They are usual­ A. (Fordham University New York). and even the state court of the State ly returned to the streets where they CATALOGUES ON REQUEST of Louisiana refused to recognize the are left open to every influence, good Pho•e Monume11t J620 decision of Buchanan vs. Warley and or bad. again in 1925 the Association tested a similar ordinance enacted by the city of New Orleans. This time the United States Supreme Court affirmed the de­ cision of Buchanan vs. Warley, with­ out opinion. During the year Rich­ mond, Va., and Atlanta, Ga., have Price, $1.50 done the same thing. But the Negro's contact '\-V ith the HAIR DRESSERS law has not always been, and is not CombTHE very heavy, solid brass, holds heat a Jong time, used in every parlor. now, concerned with special legislation. Satisfaction Guaranteed. He is at a disadvantage as far as the OH Stove for heating Combs and Pressers, application of otherwise meritorious Water, etc. la\.vs. These disadvantages have most­ Price, $2.00 ly been -procedural and remedialh; they have, ho\.vever, influenced the substance and merits of his cause. For instance, on the \1/itness stand a Negro unjustly has to overcome a burden of color al­ n1ost everywhere, and in the South the CURLING IRON judge and jury almost universally re­ STOVE AND COMB fuse to give credence to his testimony FREE WITH if it is contradicted by a ·person with E�ST IND I A HAIR GROWER a white skin. Made in Oklahoma City Sold Everywhere, 50 Cents a Jar Negroes ijre seldom called upon as jurors. Even in New York ,City, they S. D. LYONS 316 N. Central Avenue Oklahoma City, Okla. are not called in proportion to their Send for Wholesale Price List population or to the nurnber of Negroes amply qualified for this great duty of citizenship. In the South a Negro juror is almost unknown. 1\t! any a Negro on trial for crime in Southern GRAY HAIRS need worry you no more states has been granted a new trial by Wm. J. Brandt's Hair the U. S. Supreme Court because there Liquid EAU DENNA Dye has been affirmative discrimination (formerly Eau de He••a) against qualified Negroes in selecting wUl cover gray hair In 10 to 30 minutes so that you wculd not know it ln'er was gray. It Is ll<1uld. One application with a toolhbrush does it. the jury panel which was to try a par­ No vack. No mess. You get Lhe natural color. Xo one will suspect your balr b.as been ticular case. dyed. Leaves it soft and lustrous--no dead colo�no streaks-no spots­ Just a unifo1 m color. Ancl what of the N.egroes respect ANYONE CAN PUT IT ON for the lavv ? Much has been written It will not rub off. It stays on several months. Shampooing., sea ba Lhing, sun. permanent Wa\'lng, curling or stra1gb.tening iron-nothing tak<'6 It on'. of You can co,er any gray no matter how stubborn or how caused. It the criminal tendencies of the Ne­ also ta k.Ps at the roots. gro. It is true that the arrestants Wonderful for Touching Up among Negroes greatly exceed the You can put 1t on ju;;t where needed. Can be used over other dyes or where J>OWdered hennas ha-re been duse Does not break Lh& hair. average of his population in this coun­ Does Not Interfere With Permanent Waving try. Analysis will show, ho-,vever, Full directions in each box in English and Spanish. Colors : Black, Dark Brown. Medium Brown, Light Brown. Drab, Blond, Auburn (state color desired). Prle& $2.50 cash wlth order c OD $2 77 Order that there is a difference in the treat­ t.hrougb your department store, druggist or Beauty Parlor or from us. Glve run local a·dd�. · · ment of Negroes both by policemen HAIR SPECIALTY CO., Dept. 161M, 112 East 23rd St., New York making the arrest, and the committing :eMen as well as women can use Eau Denna to advantage.

390 THE CRISIS The Negro feels that these are m,n­ Allen University ters which should be corrected by the State Agricultural and American people. He realizes that he Colombia, S. C. owes a duty as a citizen, and he is .A. Co-Educational ln1tit11tl1■ corning more and more to rely upon Oifering Counea in Mechanical College the law to protect his citizenship and TID JUNIOR COLUGB POil TUCHIBI ORANGEBURG, S. C. AllTS AND SCIENCQ to secure that equal opportunity which TIDOLOGT MUSIC covvnm HOMB ECONOMICS Fully accredited Teachers' and Bachelor De­ is his legal right and which is also na­ Faculty tural justice. He longs for the day r&ACBBJt TllAlNINGA.B., B.D., A IJ'.lfCUl.ffn.a.. gree Courses. Modern Buildings. DEGREES , from best Institutions in America. when special legislation to protect his A.I. la Educad• Ajt,ow, 61 111, Sl•u of Sotlli C.ollN. M.,. rights will be unnecessary and with ., ,,,_ Sl•IM '•"' •"' ,,,. a,.,,.., JU..,, •• Fall Term Begins Sept. 25, 1929 the same ardor he longs for the day ,-,. l•dlllu1 l#Cf'Utl' lill �-• when laws intended to oppress and DAvm· H. SIMS, Pr•riMfd Far Catalol', Acldrese BISHOP JOHN HUllST, humiliate him will no longer be found Ch11fr911• TnutH &>Mtl R. S. WILKINSON, President among American statutes anywhere. '

t t e Stucl.y Busineaa Sub,Jecta at S a. accredited. l'hree year coul'Be 1n The Stenographers' Institute zeneu.tbed hotpital. nu!'!llng . 110 Aunt Sarah u DUNCAN'S BUSINESS proved of On a,;>· popularly known list A.mer• SCHOOL, 122'1 S. 11th St., Phila., Pa. Tbey'D lean Collece of Sur­ ( Continued frorr1 page hoak­ geons. Free tuWOft, 371) make you a competent stenographer. & b o books,r d and room, forkeeper Girls. or typist in a short time. Dormitories c.ext- un1forma ; dso monthly cuh brothers and sisters she '\-v as soon for­ Winter term begins January 2, 1930--Prepare a.llowa.nce. Idea.I lo­ to take Civil Service Examinations. ca.tlon, 1,000 feet gotten. above ee& level. Onl7 High Schoc,l Grad­ It seems she drifted from place to uates admitted. place earning less and less as she grew older and her health failed until finally Write to, Ethel M. Bigham, R. N. fHB TlwNINo Supt. of Nurses she was taken to the poor-house. Here CHEYNEY SceooL FOR TEACHBRS she died, alone and friendless. When SCHOOL) BURRELL MEMORJAL HOSPITAL Mr. Snyder heard of her death he said, (A ITATE NOllMAL "I'll go get old Sarah's body so she CHEYNEY, P�. Roanoke, Va. can be ·buried beside Harry." 4 P&1'NSYLVANIA Stat. Normal Scllool derine. ID addition to the reeular Normal Last summer I visited Kent in hopes �emic Coarae ef two :,ear•• profeuioaal seeing some of the old familiar places vee :,ear eour■e■ la Home :lcollomia alMI of 1b9 Work. but most of the land marks had dis­ The lincolnSchool for Nurses , �ploma fro• aay •f ttie.e couna make, a NEW YORK CITY appeared and I couldn't even find the ...,,te el�ible to teacla la the public ■clu,ela Panaylnaia. Three :,car cour■c. Open to yo\lna womea laa•i• Spring where Dido and I used to get I completed a lour year hi•h school course aad hold­ lt1ftWMOIHff iag a diploma. Graduates eligible for New YMk water. But with the assistance of the ,., f•rlur ad ,-,a1o,. writ, State examination for R. N. Episcopal church records we found 1PIUE PINCICNEY HILL, Prlaclp.al Capacity Lincoln Hospital--450 bede-­ Aunt Sarah's and Uncle Harry's CHEYNEY, PA. New Nur1e1' Home New York affords opportunity to obten'e li,e,ahla graves which were covered with and auning service of the best ia die country. Lincolll grad\latct 1talld foremost in their prof•­ myrtle, the puT'ple flowers making a ■ion. beautiful and appropriate blanket. Special graduate work - �holarahiP9 101' •,afor••t•n •PPl11 te: The rector said a mass in the little Iatchman Industrial School SUPERINTENDENT OF NURSES chapel and as I stood with bowed head North Scituate, Rh. la. Lincoln School for Nurses E. 1-+ht St. aad Southcra Jloule•ard I wondered what my life would have (William S. Holland, Pree.) New York, N. Y. been if Aunt Sarah hadn't sent 1ne to school. I am an old woman now and my thoughts often revert to those early childhood days, so we have named my ST. AUGUSTINE'S last grandchild, Sarah, in memory of that other Sarah who passed away COLLEGE years ago. Raleigh, North Carolina Fou11Jed, 1167 ti» flt Muat.tatal lllte JI-,.rw t.raJ.niq Glrla udu B•u 1au.k_.. IDd 11 ueelul Trad•- Conducted under the au1pice1 of die OlWreal 'l'bl l4NI ,pe& for Health, Education and Episcopal Church. Baptist Missions hlptratten built apen a IIClhool 1tte or Ionc•atandtns -'J.'be h-• el 'l'bree :sducattonal Instttutl­ J'enurq 'ftle Old Bm.ttb1leld Bellltnar, The Lapltam ( Continued from page 372) llllltUute Pentlcoltal Colllc'e. and 'l'raM A four-year College Course is offered, &lid ft• including Pre-Medical and Teacher-Train­ leool New eciutl)lllent now �tn1 tn1talled. •a.­ lHDt&r7. Gramlaar and ;Junior Rish Schoola, lDda­ ing features. for the training of church workers to lrl&l and Trade Oou'l'Sel offered. J'or further 111- the end of establishing a missionary flll'lna tien write the Preaidecit. A College Preparatory Department, Training School for Nurses, and School chair, which we hope to finance from for Religious and Social Workers are con­ our Board. We are anxious to spe­ nected with the College. cialize in agriculture, especially in Thorough training, healthy environment, Liberia where they are so backward ATTENTION GIRLS ! Christian influences. If you would like some pleasant, dtgniJled work For catalog information Wf"JI, respecting this industry. We have durinl! your spi1re Lime,, write us immediately. We 11nd purchased there more than 4000 acres have a wonderful opening for wide-awake people. The Reg�trar, Southern Stelos Company of land and we plan to give young men (Hosiery Repair Service) St. Augustine's College 1021 U Street, N.W. the best agricultural training possible ng Raleigh, N. C. in this country to the end of teaching Washi ton, D. C. November, I929 391 that needed industry in Liberia. Our from the simple forms of co-operation workers are paid either monthly or it may rise to the more complex forms. quarterly. We were fortunate in clos­ It is an industrial system based on in­ ing our fiscal year with having paid telligence, loyalty and the substitution every one his salary to date. We pay of group advance for individual profit. Milestones their transportation to and from the Will such a system work? The an­ The first milestone field and have them sign an agreement swer is it has ,vorked in 36 countries of is passed and with to stay five years in Africa if their Europe and America for three1927, quarters modest pride we health permits. of a century, and had in fifty look back at our We have a long ways to go yet but million families as members. You have year's record. feel that \\'e are making a good start. never heard of it? Certainly not. In the United States it meets the A year of con­ organized opposition of widespread ad­ stantly ipcreasing Business vertising, chain stores, monopoly and business is proof the silence of a capitalistic press. Never­ that we under­ ( Continued fro,n page 375} theless, its problem is simple for intelli­ s t_ a n d we are gent and l•onest people. The litera­ meeting the bank­ is bound to change in the near future ; ture which explains it is clear and ing problems of and that this change will ·be toward cheap. There are organizations which our depositors. wider and wider democratic control of \\'·ill send lecturers and experts ; and industryh; and toward the submergence above all, there is the experience of Intelligent and ef­ of the personal profit idea into the idea fiftr million families who today are ficient s e r v i c e of business and industry as public ser­ escaping the grasp of capitalistic combined w i th vice, similar in kind to other human oligarchy. through the door of co-opera- conservative and activities. It may '"·ell be argued that tion. s o u n d advice this change \.\-·ill come slowly, but it have co-operated will come and if the American Negro to success£ ully es­ is \.\-· ise, he will anticipate its coming in Literature t abl is h THE his own ideals and development. He ( Continued from page 377) DUNBAR NA- cannot, of course, adopt the Socialistic TIONAL BANK Native Policies in White Africa. J. de state or the Communistic ideal alone G. --definitely iden­ and unaided, while he is still an inte­ Delmege. 19th Century, August. tifying it as your Negroes' New Belligerant Attitude. V. gral part of a nation whose whole pol­ F. Calverton. Current History, Sep­ bank. ity is built on private capital and in­ tember. dividual profit. But he can so guide Fictitious Negro. G. C. �forse. Out­ If we haven't had his industrial development that it '\\1 ill look, August 21. your support this fit in \\'ith the change, as it comes. Regional Portraiture in Recent Litera­ p a s t year, we His best highway toward such de­ ture. H. W. Odum. Saturday Re­ want it this com- velopment is Consumer's Co-operation view of Literature, July 27. ing year. If we as it is kno\.\'n and practiced in most Homes for . Aged Colored Persons. have had it, we modern civilized countries. It is a sim­ .Afonthly Labor Review, August. want to thank you ple projecth: an organization of con­ Southern Remarks on Northern Race publicly for it. Riots. Literary Digest, August 10. sumers for the sake of supplying cer­ T,vo Decades of Negro Life. R. W. tain of their 0\.\'n ,vants for goods and Bagnall. New Republic, August 7. services. This gradually develops into Wail of the Negro. G. J. Nathan. 'lhe the raising. transportation and manu­ American Mercury, September. DUNBAR NATIONAL BANIC facture of these goods and eventually Negro in Industry and Business. Month­ of New- Yo rk ly Labor Review, July. FactorJ and Industrial Z82.f. Ei9hlh.Ave.itJS0tla St Southern Negro. Af ana9ement, August. �egro Looks at Politics. J. W. Johnson. CJfie Friendly P,an/c. A111erican .llfercur}·. September. Fou nd�d l,y Joh "»Roclr�fel/e,.Jr Bu�t Colltgt -+-- GOING TO COLLEGBl N. A. A. C. P. Coat to R•t Colle1e-Bealldhll7 ( Continued from page 379) Located. Stadenta &om P'oarteea Statee of the work of the National Associa­ tion for the Advancement of Colored EARN EXTRA MONEY -+-- People. There is nothing of greater import­ I• Your Spare Time C.Ollese of Liberal Arts, StaN!e� ance for the future of white civiliza­ Talr.ing orders for Chowning'• Chri1tma1 Greetin1 tion itself than the establishment of Carel,. llig demand among all clana of people. Normal, Home Economic,, Mere, Cud, are attractive ind sell at rca■onable price,. more just and humane relations across Gn.ing and customer's name furni1hed in raised Junior and Senior Hiah School,. letter printing on beautiful card noclr.1, with lined the color line. I find the information •m to match. opes ...... ,.. 11r. •.. �·· •• lit given in your yearly report quite in­ New: Several Carcia with Race Subjects la.. ratwlN, .. ..,._ L..,,. valuable for judging the symptoms of Collect liberal commi11ion with order. We de­ ..... R••••MI li.w. Start now. Hand10me nmple boolr. fvr­ improvement and occasional relapse, aialied. Trite today for detail■• Ftw ,-rtiff 4tlfo,111ulwfl w,M, and I could wish that the same thing THE HOUSE OF CHOWNING President L. II. llcCoy were being done in respect of the col­ Of Clnelan4 Ave. ln«MenapoUs. IDII. n�lly Sprmp llimfe f;fl ored peoples in Africa, and particularly those under the British flag. Your 392 THE CRISIS work must have the hearty sympathy c,f all who have any respect for social NATIONAL NECRO HYMN justice. National Training School Lift Every Voice and Sing Lincoln Heiahta, WASHINGTON. D. C. CURRY'S CANDIES andSAL TED NUTS Words by James Weldon Johnson • Obrlatlan achool for amblUOUI J'OWW ..... One trial makes a Customer Music by J. Rosamond Johnson .._led IA the Capital of the Nation. n bu a One Cmtomer Brings Others bludtf\al C&lll_j)IIS , aeYen &team heated bulldlno, a - rradee Hall. a facult;J of ten Cbrla&laD teadl· ORDER BY MA.IL A SONG WITH A HEART .. tn,m UM bat eollcee and IDllfflftl&I•. ad1'1· U. for &be deYelopmm& of &be � ....cal. Sample pound box--90 cents INSPIRES YOUNG AND OLD ud ...i powe.a C'JI ""'ff ,trl, an •�• -daolft &o dnelopment ot h� ldeala. CURRY SWEET SHOP 1 5 cents a copy I& .r.. &- yean Junior mch. four 1Nft BIO 172 Diiwell Ave., New Haven, Conn . llc,bc,ol, &- 7eara ll&ndud Normal. and trade $1.50 per dozen copies the hundred copies -It llu a -.1e1111lld Coiuenat.ry of ll•le. $12.00 llail fw a eataletue. For Sale by LU-old ONivwJTY. I.I .... £. Natitaal Trainins Sdtoolf• Womea and Girls THE CRISIS Unc:ola Helsbta. Waslaiqton. D. C. 69 Fifth Ave. New York, N. Y. MIN Na1111le H. Burniu1lle, Pn!eldent.

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November, 1()2() 393 Youthport HOTELS YOUNG MEN! Continued from page 1'Mala Cluc•ao nay at tlae Y. M. C• .l. C-­ ( 385) f.ultl• r11m1, cafeteria, nmauia.a.•-&en. -.aw rl-. Z-.l•ya--c •-••u fo.r closed a group photograph of some of ,., ,-rtltn ••f-tlfll Nlrnr the black students in the above college. Y. M. C. A. You may publish it in your next issue. CHIC.A.GO In the centre are the Principal Revd. R. T. Lockhart, B.A., with his wife and the Revd. W. Warren, B.Sc. THE CRISIS I am a Negro student of 15 years proposes to feature and expand and I am leaving college next year this page. Will our friends after a course of four years. I am very write us of their experience and eager to continue my studies in Amer­ recommend hotels m all leading ica but my father's salary is so meagre cities? that I find it impossible to do so. I HOTEL OLGA shall therefore be more than thankful 695 Lenox Ave. cor. 145th St. and indebted to you, Sir, if you will NEW YORK CITY Color Line endeavor to secure me a Scholarship SELECT FAMILY AND or otherwise, granting me entrance to TOURIST HOTEL ( Continued fro,n page 384) any• of the Negro universities in Arner- Running bot and cold water in each room. All 1ca. rooms outside exposure. Service : subway and been studying the ruins of Zimbabwe M&rface cars at door. Rates reasonable. in South East Africa believes that a Should you be successful in securing ED. H. WILSON, Proprietor civilized race lived in this region seven me a place, my father will try to pay Telephone: Audubon 3'19& thousand years ago, and that they were my passage money to America. If any miners, exporters and builders. He inquiry as to my conduct be desired·, it thinks that they entered Africa from can be obtained from the Principal of Asia. Iron and iron manufacture have the above college without delay. My EAT been in existence in Central Africa, father's address is: G. Dei-Anang, P. 0. Box 45, Koforidua, Gold Coast. TRY MY • 2,500 years before they introduced into m Europe. Trusting that you will help me TURKEY (I Mr. J. G. Gumbs, an officer of the ,vhole-heartedly, and hoping to hear DINNER National I. C. U., the Negro Labor Union of from you very soon, I remain, Sir, South Africa, died in Capetown, July Your Obedient Servant, PUMPKIN (Signed) M. F. Dei-Anang. Capital 4th. He was born in· the West Indies PIE and did hospital service during the at Boer Warh; after taking part in the NO TICE Dock strike, he became a leader of African trade unionism. ENCEFORTH, the babies will ([ In South Africa a white n1an earn­ H get annual attention in our Octo­ THURSTON'S ber "Children's Number", and in Mr. 1.9349th Street (near U) N. W. ing up to $2,000 a year is untaxed, while a native earning $60 a year has Pickens' occasional reports of Babies' WASHINGTON, D. C. to pay a Five Dollar hut tax. This Contests. On the other hand, there will appear at least every other month and, Close to Howard University is in addition to what both white and if Near All Big Theatres black pay in indirect ta..'

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