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Vol. 6—No. 6 OCTOBER, 1913 Whole No. 36

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Contents for October, 1913

PICTURES

COVER PICTURE: Eleanor Arlene Fullum. Page "OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" 278

SHADOWS OF THE VEIL 286

THE FOUR SEASONS 287

ARTICLES

THE BLACK FAIRY. A Story. By Fenton Johnson 292 A GIRLS' CLUBHOUSE. By Julia Childs Curtis 294

THREE EXPOSITIONS 297

A FABLE. By Jacob Riis 300

THE AFTER THOUGHT 300

DEPARTMENTS

ALONG THE COLOR LINE 267 MEN OF THE MONTH 272

OPINION 275 EDITORIAL 285 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 298

TEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR A YEAR FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EXTRA RENEWALS: When a subscription blank is attached to this page a renewal of your subscription is desired. The date of .the expiration of your subscription will be found on the wrapper. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The address of a subscriber can be changed as often as desired. In ordering a change of address, both the old and the new address must be given. Two weeks' notice is required. MANUSCRIPTS and drawings relating to colored people are desired. They must be accom­ panied by return postage. If found unavailable they will be returned. Entered as Second-class Matter in the Post Office at New York, N. Y. 264 THE CRISIS ADVERTISER Fisk University NASHVILLE, TENN. Agricultural Founded 1866 Thorough Literary, Scientific, Educa­ tional and Social Science Courses. Pioneer and Mechanical College in Negro music. Special study in Negro history. Maintained by the govern­ Ideal and sanitary buildings and grounds. Well-equipped Science building. ments of North Carolina and of Christian home life. the United States. Open all the High standards of independent manhood and womanhood. year round. For males only. For further information write Fall term began September 1, DR. CORNELIUS W. MORROW, Dean 1913. Strong faculty. Excellent equipment. Successful gradu­ Atlanta University Is beautifully located in the City of Atlanta, Ga. ates. Board, lodging and tuition, The courses of study include High School, Nor­ mal School and College, with manual training $7 per month. For catalog or and domestic science. Among the teachers are further information address graduates of Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Smith and Wellesley. Forty-two years of successful work have been completed. Students come from JAMES B. DUDLEY all parts of the South. Graduates are almost universally successful.

President For further information address GREENSBORO, N. C. President EDWARD T. WARE

ATLANTA, GA.

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Vol. 6—No. 6 OCTOBER, 1913 Whole No. 36

ALONG THE COLOR LINE

POLITICAL. place of public accommodation in the State \\T W. SANDERS, a colored man, lias of New York went into effect September 1. • been appointed as State librarian This law was passed for 1 lie purpose of of West Virginia by Governor strengthening the law already en- Hatfield. acted to this effect.

ECONOMICS. the organizations of the race in the State and focus their attention upon the purpose NEGROES in Louisville, Ky., are plan- of improving the health, intelligence and ^ ning a department store in this city morals of the race, to eater exclusively to members of their race. *J The Afro-American Film Company has ? Negro insurance companies in been incorporated under the laws of New Philadelphia, carrying risks amounting to York State and financed by the Negro $10,000,000, have organized a national asso­ Business Men's League of Philadelphia. ciation to be affiliated with the Negro The purpose of this company will be to Business League. give educational films especially applicable Convincing evidence that slavery is prac­ to Negroes. tised in the Philippines for purposes of <3 Twenty thousand colored Knights of economic gain has been given in a docu­ Pythias participated in the parade in Balti­ ment submitted to the Secretary of War by Dean C. Worcester. more at the seventeenth annual session of the supreme lodge. SOCIAL UPLIFT. Massachusetts General Hospital. Foresters met in Buffalo in September. This is the branch of the order which admits C Hon. Newton D. Baker, mayor of Cleve­ colored people and is the original English land, urges as a special reason for the co­ branch. The Foresters of America were operation of colored citizens in the Perry expelled some years ago for drawing the celebration the service of colored sailors in color line. the Battle of Lake Erie. He has appointed a subcommittee of colored citizens to EDUCATION. arrange for the participation in this cele­ A LAW has been passed in Florida pro- bration of the colored population of hibiting white teachers from teaching Cleveland. in colored schools, or colored teachers from *I The purpose of the Negro Organization • teaching in white schools. Infractions will Society of Virginia is to confederate all be punished by fine or imprisonment. ALONG THE COLOR LINE 269

A new compulsory school law goes into . of the population, only 12 per cent, of the effect this fall in Tennessee, which will school fund is expended for Negroes. force 20,000 more colored children into the *I A history of the colored people of schools if it is as rigidly enforced upon Geneva, N. Y., is being prepared by the the colored children as upon the white. citizens for the fiftieth anniversary cele­ «J Robert C. Ogden bequeathed $20,000 and bration of the emancipation proclamation. a contingent interest in property, valued at 1 The Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical $100,000, to Hampton Institute at College, a State institution for Negroes in Hampton, Va. Mississippi, may be investigated because of

by placing at the disposal of the delegates *1 A noteworthy event was the visit of private ears to points of historic interest. 2,000 members of the Imperial Choir of The mayor of Boston entertained the dele­ London to the Ghent exhibition. They were gates with a harbor excursion. assisted by an orchestra of 110 performers imported from Brussels. The program for *J The fifteenth annual session of the June 1 included "On Away Awake, Be­ National Medical Association met in Nash­ loved," sung by Ben Davies and the ville, Tenn., August 26-28. More than 500 "picturesque chorus": "The Dome of Pleas­ delegates were present. ures," from Kubla Kahn, by Coleridge- *3 The fourteenth annual meeting of the Taylor. National Negro Business League took place in Philadelphia August 20-23. Thirty-six ^ Miss Mary L. Europe, the talented States were represented. Many subjects pianist of Washington, D. C, is taking a relating to the Negro in business were dis­ course in music at Columbia University, cussed. Mr. B. T. Washington, in his annual New York City. address, spoke of the great progress of the *I A mysterious bust, discovered in the Negro in fifty years, and the need of the Boulevard de la Chappelle, in Paris, and colored farmer in the South. for a long time unidentified, has been MUSIC AND ART. recognized by an American tourist as the late William Smith Garner, who dedicated A FEATURE of a morning program his life and fortune to the defense of the given at the third annual convention colored people. of the California Music Teachers' Associa­ tion, during the week of July 16, was the PERSONAL. presentation of Zuni Indian songs by Enid MISS CONSTANCE RIDLEY of Bos-

Watkins, accompanied by Carlos Troyer, A •*• ton has been placed upon the steno­ the composer. At the concert given by the graphic staff of the Boston Children's Aid Sacramento Oratorio Society, under the Society as a preliminary step in her course musical and dramatic committee of Cali­ of social-service training. fornia, "Hiawatha's Wedding1 Feast," by S. Coleridge-Taylor, was given. ^ Negro blood was represented at the *I On June 17, at the Little Theatre, Lon­ eighth international congress of students don, England, Kitty Cheatham, the American held at Ithaca, N. Y., August 29 to Sep­ singer, gave at her hist recital a brief talk tember 3, by the first colored member of on Negro music and excerpts from her the Cornell Cosmopolitan Club, who was repertory of Negro songs. also for three years an associate editor of *J The Welsh Choral Union of Liverpool, the Cosmopolitan Student. England, announce that the program of next * David J. Dickerson, a colored waiter, lost season would include two parts of his life while attempting to rescue Mrs. "Hiawatha" in honor of the memory of the F. A. Keesing, a guest of the hotel, from late Coleridge-Taylor. drowning at Delaware Water Gap, Pa. ALONG THE COLOR LINE 271

THE GHETTO. re-enactment by the city council in revised TWO hundred white citizens of Rich- form. mond have signed a petition objecting

A FIGHTING EDITOR. in the country. Mr. Smith is, however, best known as a chronic fighter; one who THE Cleveland Gazette of Cleveland, 0., stands for what he thinks is right without is celebrating its thirtieth anniver­ fear or favor. He is for this reason often sary. Harry C. Smith, the editor, has been condemned and felt to be an uncomfortable in newspaper work for thirty-five years, critic, but his honesty of purpose is seldom has been thirty years with the Gazette, and for twenty-five years its sole proprietor. questioned. This is in itself a record worth noting. m Mr. Smith was born in West Virginia in 1863, but has lived in Cleveland since 1865, FROM BRIGADIER-GENERAL where he graduated from the Central High JOHN W. M. APPLETON. School. He has served three terms as a "MY FRIEND and comrade, Major member of the Ohio legislature and was B. G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts nominated the fourth time by the Republi­ Volunteer Infantry, sent me a copy of your cans, receiving the second highest vote. July issue. I am interested in it. Every During his term in the legislature he was step that the colored man takes toward the instrumental in the passage of the Ohio higher and broader life is attended by my civil-rights law, of which the Malby law full sympathy and good wishes. in New York is a copy. His anti-lynching "I held the first commission in the 51th law is the most effective statute of its kind* Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as second lieutenant and enlisted the first men. Was captain of a company, was promoted major to date, from July 18, 1863. My company was in the first line at Wagner, and I was near Colonel Shaw on the parapet when he fell. Lieutenant Homans and I were wounded that night. I was hurt again in 1864, and was sent North to die, but recov­ ered, and entered service again early in 1S65, serving until the end of the war. I have lived in West Virginia since 1S65. My object in writing you is to let you know that 'the old captain' (as I was called, to distinguish between Capt. Tom L. Appleton and myself, he being a cousin of mine) is still living. I was the first officer commissioned and was older than most of them, being about 30. These young officers were a noble band of young patriots of clean lives and high aspirations. If I could spare the time I could give you interesting tales of those times. I hardly HARRY C. SMITH. think that this letter I write you is of MEN OF THE MONTH 273

of a well-known Atlanta family to gradu­ ate from Atlanta University, was a young woman of great promise who had made an enviable record throughout her school career. The large number of floral tributes gave evidence of the high esteem in which she was held. THE CRISIS tenders its con­ dolence to the bereaved family.

A REMARKABLE CHILD! ENCLOSED you will find a picture of my boy at the age of 6 months. His mother, of course, knows that he'd take the prize in any competition, and while I agree with her in "private," my public attitude is one of becoming modesty. Of course, 1 know he's an unusual child. Even his grandmother agrees with me in that. She said he was very much like me when 1 was his age. Then he has a wonderful mind. No child ever had greater. The doctor brought it to my attention on the day of his birth. Said he: "This is the brightest child I've known in all my long professional career." That doctor was one of the best doctors I ever knew. And in spite of his abilities, his bills were no larger than the ordinary doctor's were. GENERAL J. W. M. APPLETON. Interested neighbors brought into use general interest, but I must suggest that adjectives of all degrees to give vent to you could state that you had discovered their excess of admiration. Most of them me, the pioneer officer, now past 80, but hearty and active, leading an active, useful life. Of course I am a Republican, of the original 1860 brand, and stay so. I also send a photo taken when I was Adjutant- General of 'West Virginia, during the Span­ ish-American War. The letters you might hold for your own information, but use anything in them as you choose, not putting my writing forward too much. I have written an account of my service with the 54th Regiment to hand on to my children. I do not expect to publish it. Captain Emilio has given us a good regimental history already."

A GIRL OF PROMISE. ISS FLORENCE GREENWOOD, one M of the honor students in the last graduating class of Atlanta University, died, from a stroke received during a severe elec­ tric storm which passed over Atlanta early last month. Miss Greenwood, the fifth child THE LATE FLORENCE GREENWOOD. 274 THE CRISIS were women who had seen many babies in forget to send the picture back, for it is their lives, but all of them agreed in the only one we have. My wife gave every declaring the child the most wonderful they neighbor one who asked for it, and to those had ever seen. Their who didn't ask she descriptive expres­ gave one also. So sions ranged from you see this is the "cutest" to "most only one remaining. perfectly beautiful." Stamps are enclosed Through it all the for its return. I youngster never al­ give you permission tered his attitude of to publish it and complaisant indiffer­ shall do anything, at ence. Not one sign any time, like this of vanity did he to aid you in in­ show, which only creasing your circu­ substantiated the doc­ lation. tor's opinion as to Very truly yours, his most wonderfully THE FOND FATHER. balanced mind. [The editor was Now I say all this pressed for space and because I don't want overwhelmed with you to get this baby baby faces, but he mixed with any of could not resist the the other babies, and above and hereby so that you will be apologizes to all better able to judge, other fathers and without prejudice, what a handsome young mothers. He assures them that those left man he is. over will appear in 1914 without fail, unless Now, furthermore, but not least, don't new babies crowd them out.]

SOME BALTIMORE LASSIES. OPINION

The National Association for " 'MEMORANDUM FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY THE PROTEST. the Advancement of Colored WILLIAMS. People has sent a protest to President " "In compliance with your request for a Wilson on Federal race discrimination which memorandum relative to the enclosed letter has received wide publicity. from Mrs. Belle C. La Follette, asking to Some of the facts which called out this know whether or not it is a fact that an protest are set forth in La Follette's: order to segregate the races at the Bureau "There have been vari­ ous rumors afloat in Washington for some time as to the segregation of employees in the govern­ ment service. A few days ago Senator Clapp intro­ duced a resolution asking for the facts as to segre­ gation of the races in the Postoffice Department. "Some weeks ago I re­ ceived a letter from Miss Nannie Burroughs, presi­ dent of the National Train­ ing School for Women and Girls—owned and oper­ ated by the woman's con­ vention, auxiliary to na­ tional Baptist convention —pleading for justice to the colored people and protesting against the segregation being insti­ tuted in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. "I wrote the Secretary of the Treasury for the facts. Omitting the for­ malities of the corre- • spondence, I give the memorandum to him for­ warded to me from the director of the bureau in so far as it relates to segregation of the women, leaving out a part. 276 THE CRISIS

of Engraving and Printing has been put cludes any knowledge of whether they are into effect, and that another order to ex­ black or white. They had been employed clude colored girls from lunchrooms has in the bureau, two of them for eleven also been put into effect, I have the honor years, one for nine. They had been accus­ to state that no such general order has tomed to buy their lunches and eat them at been issued in this bureau. It is a fact, any vacant seat. I understood them to say. however, that in the lunchrooms used by however, that they never forced themselves the printers' assistants, many of whom are into white company. Usually they sat by colored, and where there are six tables, two themselves, but sometimes the white girls of the tables were assigned especially for did not mind sitting next to them. A the use of the colored girls for the reason change was made in the table arrangements. that it is believed that it would be better A woman, not in authority over them, for them to associate together when eating according to the girls' statement, suggested their lunches. The colored assistants are that they occupy a table by themselves. permitted free access to the lunchrooms and Reply was made that if the order came are served the same food as that furnished from the director it would be heeded, but in the white assistants, and there have been the absence of such an order from him, that no objections on the part of the colored so long as the food was paid for, they girls to using the tables assigned them, should be entitled to eat it in any seat not except on the part of three colored assist­ occupied. A second suggestion was made ants who persisted in sitting at the tables to them by a colored male employee who occupied by white girls after one or two likewise, as the girls believed, had no of the white girls had made an objection to authority over them. And answer was made them occupying the same tables. A kindly to him by the girls that the order should suggestion was made to them that it would come from the director. be best for them to occupy tables with girls of their own race, but as they persisted in "Following this on a certain day, the disregarding the suggestion it was neces­ director called up two of the girls. A sary for me to give them positive directions woman prominent socially and in civic work to use the tables assigned to the colored was present. She talked to them about the assistants.' " advisability of colored girls eating by them­ selves in their own lunchroom. One of The editor interviewed the three girls them answered her that the colored girls and continues: had no lunchroom; that there was only the "One of the girls was a graduate of both waiting room, off from which were the the high, school and normal school of Wash­ toilets: they said they could bring- their ington. Another had gone through the lunch, but would buy no food in the lunch­ second-year high school; the other was edu­ room if not permitted to eat it there. cated at some seminary in a Southern State. When I asked the girls if they were still They had received their appointments under eating in the lunchroom, one said: 'No, it the civil service, which, bear in mind, pre­ was no use trying. Our food choked us.' OPINION 277

Another explained that when they saw the The Chicago News declares, "a 'Jim Crow' employees were being segregated in the form of government makes no appeal to workrooms they thought that if that could fair-minded Americans." be done, of course they had the right to Many papers, like the Indianapolis News. segregate them in the lunchroom." stress the fact that the whole movement is A few days after this editorial was undemocratic: written one of the girls, Miss R. A. "We are in entire sympathy with the Murraye, was dismissed from her position vigorous but respectful protest of the on a technical charge of insubordination. National Association' for the Advancement of Colored People against the present A strong note of disapproval can be read policy of segregating colored employees in in many of the comments on this whole situa­ the departments at Washington. Whatever tion. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says of the the different States may do, the Federal protest: government cannot properly discriminate "It is an appeal which should be heard among its employees. It professes to be a from a sense of propriety and fairness. government of all the people; its cost is Men and women should not be discrimi­ paid by all the people; and its battles have nated against by a government whose laws been fought by all the people. If we are guarantee equality in citizenship to all. going to have democracy in this country we Once the stress of affairs, now heavy upon shall have to make up our minds that we him, has lessened somewhat, the President can have it only on the condition that all could do no better than cause a revocation citizens be subjected to the same political of the hateful orders which have caused treatment. A democracy for white men race prejudice to become senselessly alone is no democracy." inflamed again." The Fall River (Mass.) Herald says: "If anywhere the principles of the Con­ Zion Herald calls it contemptible race stitution are to be religiously observed, one prejudice, and remarks: would expect such observance first in the ''The nation as a whole does not favor capital of the nation. And yet, judged by this drawing the color line in our national the tone of recent dispatches from Wash­ government. It is unchristian, unmanly ington, there is a disposition in some and un-American, and should not be allowed departments there to discriminate against to continue. Time was when such an action certain civilian employees because they hap­ as this would have been the subject for pen to be Negroes. There ought to be some strenuous protest on the part of the other measure than the color of a man's minority members of Congress. No resolu­ skin to indicate the permanancy of one's tion of censure has yet been introduced, position or one's advancement in the public simply because there is less partisanship service." than there once was. But the voice of the Many papers are content to dismiss the nation cannot but be raised against such an matter with the remark that this is all one iniquitous and entirely unjust act." can expect of the Democratic party. "OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' OPINION 279

The Independent says, for instance: because, however good her scholarship, she "What else could have been expected? would never be marked high enough to The South is the Sedan of the Democratic graduate. She was recommended to another party, and the Democratic South does not school, and is now teaching in the South. believe in Negro equality. The Republican There was no place for her in New York. party, when in control, has remembered That was quite as bad as what is proposed just enough of its history not to deny that in Washington, if not meaner and worse." the Negroes are both human beings and The Munsey (Ind.) Star says: American citizens, as well as the best of us. "This is but one of many signs shown The ruling South believes that the ballot since the advent of the present administra­ ought not to have been given to the Negro, tion that the Negro-hating element is strong and it wants all the offices for white men, in it. There is an evident intention to who only ought to be voters. A Negro shove aspiring colored men into the back­ bishop and a number of Negro editors are ground and to give them little encourage­ now, we imagine, having occasion to take ment as fellow citizens." notice." Other papers still have faith in Wilson, And it goes on to remark: although admitting the difficulty of his "Is this what was meant in the Demo­ position. cratic platform by the 'reorganization of The Waterbury American writes: the civil service? We know perfectly well "The argument of the protest is also that the South is running the government obvious, that it puts a stigma on the Negro, at present, and we do not complain, for retards his development along American the strength of the party is in the South, lines, and, in the end, will prevent worthy and it has the right and power to rule; and competent representatives of the race but we insist that if this is the sort of from entering the government service, 'fair play' which a Democratic administra­ which, of course, they have the same theo­ tion shall give us, it has ceased to be retical right to enter as has any other Democratic. It is white oligarchy that is American citizen. We shall watch with miscalled Democracy. interest to see how far this appeal carries "If we may fairly regard this effort to with President Wilson, who, of course, secure a segregation of the Negroes at must, through his Southern ancestry, sym­ present in the civil service, and the exclu­ pathize to a large extent with the Southern sion of them in the future, we must not view and the Southern policy on the Negro fail to remember that such exclusion is not question. Broad as he is, and long as he confined to the South. For example, we has lived in a Northern environment, he know the ease of a colored girl, who stood must retain, to a certain extent, the preju­ high in her class in the Albany Normal dice of his birth, the traditions of the white School, who was advised by one very high race of the South. Once having started a in the service of the board of regents of policy of this sort, it would also probably the State of New York to leave the school be politically costly to reverse it. His 280 THE CRISIS

Southern supporters, on whom he must de­ suggesting continually new points of 'social pend the most for carrying through his contamination.' It would inevitably make policies, would resent very much his change of our engaging 'New Freedom' a mockery of a Negro policy because of pressure from indeed." sentimental Negro lovers in the North, "The fact and the portent are extremely especially in Massachusetts. unpleasant," remarks the Chicago Tribune: "Thus the question of what the President "Is the Democratic party, which in its does in this case is not only a question platforms makes so great a claim to repre­ of ideals, it is a question of very practical sent the rights of man and the interests of polities. We have no predictions to make, the common people, to adopt at- Washing­ and are not sure what any other President ton the most reactionary of policies'? It of like descent, facing like conditions, would be a piece of historic irony if in the would do with the Storey protest. But it semi-centennial year of emancipation a is unfortunate that President Wilson per­ party pretending to be devoted to the author mitted the departure from what has been and principles of the Declaration of Inde­ the ordinary method of the government pendence should apply the 'Jim Crow' since Negroes were first admitted to its roll policy under the flag of the capital. of employees, and thus raised the issue "It does not seem probable that the unnecessarily." President will approve of such a step The Chicago Evening Post says: backward." "Thus far Mr. Wilson has not appointed And the Springfield Republican thus con­ a single colored man to public office—not cludes a strong editorial: even to those which have hitherto gone to "The Wilson administration was sure to the colored race. As we tried to suggest, confront issues of this character. For this may be of little practical importance years, under Republican administrations, to the progress of the race, but it has a there was a steady weakening of the safe­ very considerable sentimental value in a guards for the protection of Negro rights. democracy. But more important than the It is a significant commentary upon Repub­ gift of public office is the question whether lican concern' for the colored race at this the colored employees of the government time that no Republican Congressman has shall be 'Jim Crowed' at the dictation of introduced a resolution of inquiry or of Southern officeholders. This is plainly censure relating to the Negro segregation in fundamental. the departments. Had this thing happened "For if we have learned anything in during one of the Cleveland administra­ fifty years, surely it is that the 'Jim Crow' tions the Republican attacks would have or 'Ghetto' solution is no solution of the been fast and furious. But the President race problem in a democracy. Its psy­ cannot afford to forget his obligation to chology is medieval instead of modern; it protect this class of citizens, simply because is compulsory and restrictive instead of free there is less partisan insistence than for­ and expansive: it increases friction by merly upon the maintenance of the political stimulating people's sense of caste and by and civic equality of the races. It is his OPINION 281

duty to resist anti-Negro aggression in "This issue is as bewildering as it ever Federal affairs. An executive order abol­ was. One must be appalled by the cruelties ishing the segregation system that has so of our nation's treatment of the black man. suddenly sprang up would do the President These recall the words of Jefferson on great credit and reassure the colored race." another phase of the same question: 'I The Independent adds: tremble for my country when I remember "We are amazed and ashamed that this that God is just.' The sage of Monticello new and insulting order should now have was never more prophetic. One could been promulgated. We wonder that South­ almost catch in his vision of the future the ern influence should have dared to risk the inspired words of a still greater prophet of result of it. if it did not mind the injustice Democracy: 'If all the wealth piled up by of it. It is an act that ought to excite the unrequited toil of the bondmen—if opposition and condemnation much more every drop of blood drawn by the lash be serious than any tariff policy that divides atoned by blood drawn by the sword—thy the parties; for this is not a matter of judgments, O God, are true and righteous money merely, it is a matter of justice, of altogether.' equal rights, of fair play, to men and "And still the other question persists as women, as worthy of consideration as the to the integrity of the white blood. Can best of us. These colored people, who are that be maintained without a frowning atti­ thus set apart as unfit to be in the same tude on the part of its possessors toward room as their fellow servants of the country, all outsiders? If not, how deep and dark are human beings, they are not pariahs. must be the frown? And can we be decent Those who insult them, who refuse to give as men while wearing the frown"?" them an equal chance with themselves, lack The answer is clear. We cannot be decent not merely the instincts of ladies and gen­ and we are not; all of which argues that an tlemen, but the sense of justice which is at "integrity" which must be bought at the the basis of a free and equal government. expense of civilization is much too costly President Wilson will do a righteous act to enjoy. if he interdicts this discrimination against American citizens. He has spoken well for the Jews in Roumania. Will he not say a This delicious tiling comes THE DANGER OF noble word for Negroes in his own country, from the Macon (Ga.) THE BALLOT. who are under his own orders, his own Telegraph : protection?" "A woman suffragette of Carrollton, Miss., writing to the Commercial Appeal. in reply to the question, 'Do the white An anonymous writer in women of Mississippi want to bring back THE INEVITABLE the Boston Herald has Negro rule"?' makes answer thus: 'Not in DILEMMA. Mississippi. The same constitution in Mis­ been explaining Southern sissippi that gives the suffrage for men matters to the North, and concludes one will control that of women, so if Negro article in this way: 282 THE CRISIS

men are rarely seen at the voting precincts, "One of the most conspicuous violations why fear the Negro women?' of the Golden Rule in this free land of "The writer is filled with a serene self- ours, resting on the Declaration of Inde­ complacency over her reply. She has the pendence, which says all men are created same delusion that the present status will equal, is connected with the race question," prevail as do all the suffragettes of the said Mr. Milner. "As Christians we claim Southern leagues, overlooking the new that in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew amendment for woman's suffrage. Would nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, that it were true. But not so. The present there is neither male nor female. In prac­ status operates under the Fifteenth Amend­ tice there is much of the old spirit that all ment to the Constitution, and it took years people not of our nation or color are before the Negro men were 'rarely seen at Gentiles and barbarians. Suppose men the voting booths.' Back taxes accumu­ were saying: 'If I had been born with a lated. The Republican party at the South black or yellow or red skin, how would I went into 'innocuous desuetude.' and the want white people to treat me?' " big corporations North ceased to pay the What the Negro thinks about it is shown Negro men's taxes. Put a premium on their in this poem: votes, as Mr. Bryan proposes in the propo­ AT THE CLOSED GATE OF JUSTICE. sition to elect Presidents by the people at JAMES D. CORROTHERS in the Century. large, and the votes of these Negro men will To be a Negro in a day like this become valuable, and rich corporations and Demands forgiveness. Bruised with blow on big interests will pay their back dues and blow. qualify them for the ballot. Betrayed, like him whose woe-dimmed eyes gave bliss, "As for the Negro women, they will owe Still must one succor those who brought one no back taxes; and under the proposed low, nationalization of the government, abolish­ To be a Negro in a day like this. ing State lines in Presidential elections, To be a Negro in a day like this their taxes, as clue, will be paid as the needs Demands rare patience—patience that can of outside 'interests' demand. Added to the wait In utter darkness. 'T is the path to miss, perplexities of the election of Presidents by And knock, unheeded, at an iron gate, the people, Mr. Bryan's new 'reform' will To be a Negro in a day like this. be Colonel Roosevelt's national referendum, To be a Negro in a day like this also obliterating State lines. How the Demands strange loyalty. We serve a flag combat deepens!" Which is to us white freedom's emphasis. Ah! one must love when truth and justice lag. The Rev. Duncan Milner To be a Negro in a day like this. RELIGION AND evidently thinks that Ameri­ To be a Negro in a day like this— POETRY. can Christians really take Alas! Lord God. what evil have we done? Still shines the gate, all gold and amethyst, the "Golden Rule"' seriously. He has But I pass by, the glorious goal unwon, recently preached on the subject. "Merely a Negro"—in a day like this! OPINION 283

LYNCHING, lynching has gotten to the joke brave, and our government protects its sub­ stage. The New York Sun jects—when living in foreign countries." laughs this way: The Mobile Item is a bit more sober "There was a mob in Spartanburg, S. C, because it knows a scapegoat: the other night, a gathering of brave and "An innocent Negro was lynched by a spirited 'Anglo-Saxons' out for a social mob of the usual 'best citizens' at a town evening. A lynching bee; going to 'hang in Georgia on Tuesday, as the murderer of the Nigger.' He was in the jail charged, a wealthy planter. On the following day only charged, mind you, with assault on a the real murderer was arrested and con­ white woman; hadn't even been identified fessed the crime. A few hours after the by her; in short, a suspect, guilty of being lynching those who participated in it found colored. The sheriff of the county, William evidence of the innocence of the Negro J. White, was in the jail, knew there was which would have been available to them going to be trouble, telegraphed that illus­ when he was alive if they had made any trious statesman and pillar of the law, Cole effort to look for it. But mob law does Blease, governor. Blease can always put not look for evidence—it wants a victim. in his little jest at the right moment. In the frenzy of revenge the mob strikes Blease telegraphed that he would oblige by first and thinks afterward. having the case tried at a special term of "The lynching of the Georgia Negro who court called on September 1. Why should had committed no crime is a commentary Governor Blease interfere with the pleas­ upon the utterances of such men as Gov­ ures of a bold and chivalrous people? ernor Blease and Senator Vardaman, who "The wool-bat chivalry smashes in the would apply mob law to Negroes for jail gate, tosses dynamite over the wall. felonious assaults on white women or chil­ Sheriff White (by the way, he has a wife dren and attempt to draw the line there." and a couple of sick children in the jail) steps forward into the place where the gate was. He has a gun; likewise a certain Fred. A. Houston, a railwav quiet resolution; speaks a little piece: CIVIL-SERVICE mail clerk at Sacramento,

" 'Gentlemen, I hate to do it, but so help REFORM. CAL., RECEIYED FROM THE DIS- me God I am going to kill the first man trict superintendent at San Francisco a that enters.' letter reading: "Nobody in that press of heroes cared to I have before me several cases regarding be that first man. 'He means it, boys,' said the unsatisfactory manner in which you per­ form the duties of your assignment. I also somebody in the crowd. He did mean it. have several specific cases showing carelessness, Nobody dared to come in. The crowd lack of judgment and failure to perform wilted. duties of your assignment unless specifically "William J. White will never be re­ told to do so in each instance. In addition to these your examination record is far below elected, we take it. He has killed himself the average for this division. My purpose in politically by saving the life of that writing to you is to inform you that it is my 'Nigger.' intention to recommend to the department that "Honor, beyond the breath of mobs or you be separated from this service. You will be given ten days in which to make any reply the votes of cowards, to that man of un­ necessary why such action should not be taken. shaken physical and moral courage!" Very respectfully, The Penn Yan (N. Y.) Express smiles: A. H. STEPHENS, Supt. "It is now known that a Negro who was Per EDW. MCGRATH. recently lynched in Georgia because he was Mr. Houston's average for the ten ex­ suspected of having committed a serious aminations from August 25, 1911, when he crime was innocent. But that matters little entered the service with a mark of 96.88, in the estimation of the high-toned gentle­ to June 30, 1913, when he received 99.88, men of the South. The Negro may have is 98.6. On July 3, 191.3, he was "sepa­ been guilty of some other offense; or, if he rated from the service," as he had not been had lived, he might have committed some able to make the "necessary reply why such crime as serious as that with which he was action should not be taken" by the Negro- erroneously charged. Verily, this is the hating superior officials who could not, we land of the free and the home of the fancy, write a letter like the account which 284 THE CRISIS this young man sends us of his experience. record was perfect, but considering length of Our only regret is that his hope for justice time in the service, I know to a certainty that it could not have been worse than that of the at Washington is misplaced: average clerk. I concluded my reply by ask­ For many years civil service or appointive ing that I be transferred to a railway post- positions under the United States government office or postoffice in another division, but as have been considered the highest and most ex­ a last resort requested to be allowed to resign, emplary kind of employment for Afro-Ameri­ all of these requests being turned down. Now cans, possibly so because of the generally it is my contention that before an unbiased or accepted idea that such employment was free unprejudiced person or persons the allegations from the prejudice and oppression so common mentioned in the acting superintendent's letter among private employers. Of recent years, did not constitute sufficient and justifiable however, prejudice of a most virulent form cause for my removal, and further, that I has shown itself and from personal acquaint­ should have been allowed to transfer, or at ance with men in almost every branch of the least be given opportunity to resign. I believe service it has become a recognized menace in any reasonably fair-minded person would have all the departments generally. While such consented to one of these requests. My actions may not be sanctioned by the heads of examination record is as follows: the department at Washington, petty officials Date of Examination Percentage in different districts and divisions with whom August 25, 1911 96.88 a person comes in direct contact are perfectly free to discriminate, issue orders or assign­ October 2, 1911 98.14 ments of a discriminatory character as the October 23, 1911 97.81 case may be whenever their will dictates. The February 7. 1912 97.93 narration of my own experiences will. I trust, March 7, 1912 100.00 be of general interest to government employees, September 6, 1912 98.57 and railway mail clerks in particular. 1 November 16, 1912 97.57 might here add that the treatment accorded December 18, 1912 99.58 me could not possibly have been in retaliation April 8, 1913 99.64 fur any political activities on my part, for I just reached my majority February 17 last, June 30, 1913 99.88 hence have taken no active part in politics. Of course charges of this kind must always In explanation of the signatures to the cor­ be made by the superior officer under whose respondence above, the A. H. Stephens men­ direct supervision a clerk must work. In my tioned has since become general superintendent case charges were first reported by Dan 0. R. M. S., and Mr. McGrath has become divi­ Pettebone, chief clerk, who 1 understand is sion superintendent, the position made vacant now connected with the railway mail service of by Mr. Stephens. It was during Mr. Stephens' Washington, D. C.. I doubt, however, if my absence, however, that I received the com­ replies or other papers in the case were sub­ munication and I doubt if any such action mitted to the departmental office as is the would have been taken had he been in the proper procedure in removals or suspensions. office at that time, as Mr. Stephens had always When it becomes so that a petty official may impressed me as a very broad-minded man in at his own discretion make charges against both character and principle. The disadvan­ an employee for personal dislike or for other tage in answering this correspondence is readily causes of a purely personal nature with the apparent, inasmuch as the complaint docs added assurance that such recommendation is not specify any particular charge nor when it all that is necessary to accomplish the removal occurred. In the absence of the original of the object of his wrath and not for reasons papers in the case, my request for them being affecting his ability for the position he fills, turned down, I felt certain that I was to be unless some action or protest is made to removed no matter what my defense might be. champion the rights of industrial equality for However, I answered to the best of my ability, the thousands of colored government em­ clearly setting forth my side of the affair, ployees, the government service, long recog­ mentioning working conditions, length of time nized as the standard of honesty, fairness and in service and, among other things, my inten­ squareness to all its employees, will soon drop tion to do my work conscientiously and will­ to a lower level than that of the private ingly at all times. I do not contend that my employer. EDITORIAL

THE PRINCESS OF THE HITHER ISLES. tain's side out of the dirt and dust that HER soul was very beauti­ nested between This and Now. She ful, wherefore she kept looked at him and tried to be glad, for he it veiled in lightly laced was bonny and good to look upon, this Humility and Fear, out King of Yonder Kingdom: tall and of which peered straight, thin lipped and white and anxiously ever and tawny. So again this last day she strove anon the white and blue and pale gold to burn life into his singularly sodden of her face—beautiful as daybreak or clay—to put his icy soul aflame where­ as the laughing of a child. She sat in with to warm her own, to set his senses the Hither Isles, well walled between singing. Vacantly lie heard her winged the This and Now. upon a low and silver words, staring and curling his long throne and leaned upon its armposts mustaches with vast thoughtfulness. sadly looking upward toward the sun. Then he said: Now the Hither Isles are flat and cold "We've found more gold in Yonder and swampy, with drear drab light and Kingdom. all manner of slimy, creeping things, '' Hell seize your gold !'' blurted the and piles of dirt and clouds of flying Princess. dust and sordid scraping and feeding '' No — it's mine,'' he maintained and noise. stolidly. She hated them ; and ever as her hands She raised her eyes. " It belongs," she and busy feet swept back the dust and said, "to the Empire of the Sun." slime, her soul sat silent, silver throned, "Nay—the sun belongs to us," said staring toward the great hill to west­ the King calmly, ;is he glanced to where ward, which shone so brilliant golden Yonder Kingdom blushed above the sea. beneath the sunlight and above the sea. She glanced, too, and a softness crept The sea moaned and with it moaned into her eyes. the Princess' soul, for she was lonely; "No, no," she murmured, as with very, very lonely, and full weary of the hesitating pause she raised her eyes monotone of life. So she was glad to above the sea. above the hill, up into see a moving in Yonder Kingdom on the the sky where the sun hung silent, mountain side where the sun shone splendid. Its robes were heaven's blue, warm, and when the King of Yonder lined and broidered in living flame, and Kingdom, silken in robe and golden its crown was one vast jewel glistening crowned, warded by his hound, walked in glittering glory that made the sun's down along the restless waters and sat own face a blackness—the blackness of heside the armpost of her throne, she utter light. With blinded, tear-filled wondered why she could not love him eyes she peered into that formless black and flv with him up the shining moun­ and burning face and sensed in its soft. SHADOWS OF THE VEIL. THE FOUR SEASONS. 288 THE CRISIS sad gleam unfathomed understanding. The Beggar, passing afar, turned his With sudden wild abandon she stretched head, and the Princess straightened her arms toward it appealing, beseeching, on her throne; he turned his head, and entreating, and lo! she shivered forward on her silver seat; "Niggers and dagoes," said the King he looked upon her full and slow and of Yonder Kingdom, glancing carelessly suddenly she saw within that formless backward and lighting in his lips a care­ black and burning face the same soft, fully rolled wisp of fragrant tobacco. sad gleam of utter understanding seen She looked back, too, but in half- so many times before. She saw the wondering terror, for it seemed— suffering of endless years and endless love that softened it. She saw the burn­ A Beggar man was creeping across the ing passion of the sun and with it the swamp, shuffling through the dirt and slime. He was little and bald and black, cold unbending duty-deeds of upper air. rough clothed, sooted with dirt and bent All she had seen and dreamed of seeing with toil. Yet withal something she in the rising, blazing sun she saw now sensed about him, and it seemed— again, and with it myriads more of The King of Yonder Kingdom human tenderness, of longing and of lounged more comfortably beside the love. So then she knew. So then she rose silver throne and let curl a tiny trail as to a dream come true with solemn face of light blue smoke. and waiting eyes. With her rose the King of Yonder " I hate Beggars." he said, "especially Kingdom, almost eagerly. brown and black ones." And he then "You'll come?" he cried. "You'll pointed at the Beggar's retinue and come and see my gold?" And then in laughed—an unpleasant laugh welded of contempt and amusement. The Princess sudden generosity he added: "You'll looked and shrank on her throne. He have a golden throne—up there, when the • Beggar man was—was what ? But we marry." his retinue, that squalid, sordid parti­ But she. looking up and on with colored band of vacant, dull-faced filth radiant face, answered softly: "I and viciousness, was writhing over the come.'' land, and he and they seemed almost So down and up and on they mounted : crouching underneath the scorpion lash the black Beggar and his cavalcade of of one tall skeleton that looked like Death and Pain, and then a space: and Death, and the twisted woman whom then a lone black hound that nosed and men call Pain. Yet they all walked as whimpered as he ran, and then a space; One. and then the King of Yonder Kingdom The King of Yonder Kingdom in his robes, and then a space; and last laughed, but the Princess shrank on the Princess of the Hither Isles, with her throne and the King seeing her took face set sunward and lovelight in her a gold piece from out his purse and eyes. tossed it carelessly to the passing And so they marched and struggled throng. She watched it with fascinated on and up through endless years and eves—how it rose and sailed and spaces, and ever the black Beggar looked whirled and struggled in the air; then back past Death and Pain toward the seemed to burst, and upward flew its maid, and ever the maid strove forward sunlight and its sheen and downward with lovelit eyes, but ever the great and dropped its dross. She glanced at the silken shoulders of the King of Yonder King, but he was lighting a match. She Kingdom rose between the Princess and watched the dross wallow in the slime, the sun like a cloud of storms. but the sunlight fell on the back of the Now finally they neared unto the Beggar's neck and he turned his head. hillside's topmost shoulder, and there EDITORIAL 289 most eagerly the King bent to the bowels blissful radiance; while on this side, in of the earth and bared its golden entrails shadows cold ami dark, gloomed the —all green and gray and rusted—while Hither Isles and the hill that once was the Princess strained her pitiful eyes golden but now was green and slimy aloft to where the Beggar, set 'twist dross; all below was the sad and moan­ Death and Pain, whirled his slim back ing sea, while between the Here and against the glory of the setting sun and There flew the severed hand and stood, sombre in his grave majesty, dripped the bleeding heart. enhaloed and transfigured, outstretching Then up from the soul of the Princess his long arms; and, around all Heaven, welled a cry of dark despair—such cry glittered jewels in a cloth of gold. as only babe-raped mothers know, and A while the Princess stood and moaned murdered loves. Poised on the crumbling in mad amaze, then with one wilful edge of that great nothingness the wrench she bared the white flowers of Princess hung, hungering with her eyes her breast and snatching forth her own and straining her fainting ears against red heart held it with one hand aloft the awful splendor of the sky. while with the other she gathered close Out from the slime and shadow's her robe and poised herself. groped the King, thundering: "Back— The King of Yonder Kingdom looked don't be a fool!'' upward quickly, curiously, still linger­ But down through the thin ether ing the earth, and saw the offer of her thrilled the still and throbbing warmth bleeding heart. of heaven's sun whispering "Leap!" "It's a Nigger." he growled darkly; And the Princess leapt. "it may not be." The woman quivered. " It's a Nigger.'' he repeated fiercely. THE SLATER BOARD. "It's neither God nor Man. but a THE trustees of the John Nigger.'" y^f^P^^J '• Slater Fund have be- The Princess stepped forward. gun a new work which The King grasped his great sword and will be appreciated by looked north and east; he raised his all friends of the Negro long sword and looked south and west. race in America. For a "I seek the sun," the Princess sang, long time the Slater board has given its and started into the west. chief attention to industrial training. '' Never I'' cried the King of Yonder The colored people have appreciated Kingdom, "for such were blasphemy and this, but they have seen the incomplete­ defilement and the making of all evil." ness of this program. They have hoped So raising his great sword he struck that a national board, which demands with all his might and more. Down efficient training in industrial and com­ hissed the blow and bit that little white mon school work, would give more and heart-holding hand till it flew armless more attention to the training of men and disbodied up through the sunlit air. and women who can teach these branches Down hissed the blow and clove the and teach the teachers. whimpering hound till his last shriek Consider, for instance, the proposed shook the stars. Down hissed the blow program of the new State supervisor of and rent the earth. It trembled, fell rural and elementary schools in Georgia, apart and yawned to a chasm wide as lie proposes, the papers say, to train earth from Heaven, deep as hell, and Negro children as servants and agricul­ empty, cold and silent. tural laborers, to develop in them a On yonder distant shore blazed the "fixity" of determination to do this mighty Empire of the Sun in warm and work and presumably to have little 290 THE CRISIS ambition beyond. Now the difficulty tion of business as a career of individual with this program is that it will need selfishness. The boasting and exaggera­ especially well-trained teachers to carry tion at this last meeting of the league it through, and in Georgia these teachers reached a danger point repeatedly. must be colored teachers. On the other Statements were made on the floor as to hand, the colored people themselves earnings and accomplishments, which would by no means accept such a pro­ were either in wretched taste or careless gram. They demand well-trained col­ exaggerations or indefensible lies. This ored teachers for the purpose of develop­ sort of thing must be stopped if the ing intelligent colored citizens. All business league is to keep the confidence parties, therefore, come to the same con­ of the public. Secondly, the business clusion—the need of teachers. This league must stop inculcating the theory need, especially in the rural districts, that young Negroes take up a busi­ the Slater board is trying to supply by ness career with the idea of making as offering to appropriate $500 for colored much money as possible for themselves. county high schools, providing the Rather, it must emphasize business life county authorities appropriate at least among Negroes to-day as a philan­ a similar amount. The offer of the thropy, as a means of group employment Slater board has already been accepted and group gain, not for making million­ in Hempstead County, Ark., Sabine and aires, but for making a large class of Tangipahoa Parishes, La., and Newton well-to-do citizens. County, Miss. As a matter of fact, despite our com­ In these four cases the Slater Fund mendable economic striving, we are still has appropriated a total of $2,000, while in the mass poor and ignorant people. local taxation and private subscriptions "We need a strong economic foundation, have appropriated $9,401. but we do not need to reproduce among The work in this line is being pushed ourselves in the twentieth century the and great hope for the Negro race lies hung, stealing and grafting which in the offer. characterized the white race in the nine­ It is to be trusted that the Slater teenth century. board will not stop here, but will eventu­ ally take its legitimate place as the pro­ THE CHURCH AND THE NEGRO. moter and encourager of the higher THE relation of the church training of colored Americans. to the Negro is, or should be. a very simple THE BUSINESS LEAGUE. proposition. Leaving THE last meeting of the aside the supernatural Negro Business League significance of the in Philadelphia was an church organization, we- have here excellent occasion. The groups of people working for human attendance was large uplift and professing the highest and and the accomplishment most unselfish morality as exemplified was noteworthy. In two directions by the life and teaching of Jesus of especially the league is doing excellent Nazareth and the Golden Rule. work. By this standard all church members First, in encouraging thrift and sav­ should treat Negroes as they themselves ing and, secondly, in striking a strong, would wish to be treated if they were hopeful note. Despite this, however, the colored. They should do this and occasion must not be allowed to go by teach this and. if need be, die for this without a warning on two other points. creed. First, the spirit of boasting and exag­ The plain facts are sadly at variance geration and. secondly, the interpreta­ with this doctrine. The church aided EDITORIAL 291 and abetted the Negro slave trade; the "But," cry others, "let the Negroes church was the bulwark of American themselves bear their own social respon­ slavery; and the church to-day is the sibilities for poverty, ignorance and strongest seat of racial and color preju­ disease. Segregate them and pile their dice. If one hundred of the best and sins upon them." Indeed! Are the purest colored folk of the United States poor alone responsible for poverty? should seek to apply for membership And the ignorant for ignorance? Can in any white church in. this land to­ the rich be allowed to escape with his morrow, 999 out of every 1,000 min­ spoil and the learned without obliga­ isters would lie to keep them out. They tion for his knowledge?' If the black would not only do this, but would men in America are what they are openly and brazenly defend their action because of slavery and oppression, how as worthy of followers of Jesus Christ. cowardly for white Christians to deny Yet Jesus Christ was a laborer and their own guilt. The real hypocrisy black men are laborers; He was poor comes, however, when the Negro, eager and we are poor; He was despised of to take responsibility, cries out for his fellow men and we are despised; power with which to bear it and is He was persecuted and crucified, and denied such power. Denied higher we are mobbed and lynched. If Jesus training for his leaders, denied indus­ Christ came to America He would asso­ trial opportunity to make a living, the ciate with Negroes and Italians and self-assertion and self-defense of the working people; He would eat and ballot, denied even hospitals and com­ pray with them, and He would seldom mon schools. Thus the church gaily see the interior of the Cathedral of tosses him stones for bread. Saint John the Divine. Even the rock of "Science" on which Why then are His so-called followers the white church rested with such beau­ deaf, dumb and blind on the Negro tiful faith, hoping to prove the majority problem—on the human problem? of humanity inhuman, so that Fifth Because they think they have dis­ Avenue Presbyterianism would not covered bypaths to righteousness which have to dirty its dainty fingers with do not lead to brotherhood with the Fifty-third Street Baptists—and black •poor, the dirty, the ignorant and the ones at that—even this Rock of Ages black. "Make them servants," they is falling before honest investigation. say; "we need cooks." But can a There is but the Golden Rule left— whole race be doomed to menial service the despised and rejected Golden Rule. in a civilization where menial service Can the church follow it? Is there is itself doomed? And when menial common decency enough in the millions service has become Service and lost its of white American church members to social stigma, so that white folk want dare to treat Negroes as they would to enter such service, will they welcome like to be treated if they themselves black folk as fellow servants? Cer­ were colored? tainly not; and thus the slavery argu­ The Negro problem is the test of ment of this cry stands revealed. the church. THE BLACK FAIRY

By FENTON JOHNSON

LITTLE Annabelle was lying Hist! Something stirred in the hazel on the lawn, a volume of bush near her. Can I describe little Anna- Grimm before her. Anna- belle's amazement at finding in the bush a belle was 9 years of age. palace and a tall and dark-faced fairy the daughter of a colored before it ? lawyer, and the prettiest "I am Amunophis, the Lily of Ethiopia," dark child in the village. said the strange creature. "And I come to She had long played in the fairyland of the children of the Seventh Veil." knowledge, and was far advanced for one She was black and regal, and her voice of her years. A vivid imagination was her was soft and low and gentle like the Niger chief endowment, and her story creatures on a summer evening. Her dress was the often became real wing or the sacred flesh-and-blood crea­ beetle, and whenever tures. the wind stirred it "I wonder." she played the dreamiest said to herself that of music. Her feet afternoon, "if there were bound with is any such thing as golden sandals, and a colored fairy ? on her head was a Surely there must crown of lotus be, but in this book leaves. they're all white." "And you're a Closing the book, fairy?" gasped An­ her eyes rested upon nabelle. the landscape that "Yes, I am a fairy, rolled itself out just as you wished lazily before her. me to be. I live in The stalks in the the tall grass many, cornfield bent and many miles away, swayed, their tassels where a beautiful bowing to the river called the breeze, until Anna- Niger sleeps." And belle could have eas­ stretching herself be- ily sworn that those side Annabelle. on were Indian fairies. the lawn, the fairy And beyond lay the began to whisper: woods, dark and "I have lived there mossy and cool, and for over 5,000 years. there many a some- In the long ago a thing mysterious city rested there, and could have sprung into being, for in from that spot black the recess was a men and women silvery pool where ruled the world the children played Great ships laden barefooted. A sum­ with spice and oil mer mist like a thin and wheat would veil hung over the come to its port, and scene, and the breeze would leave with whispered tales of wines and weapons far-away lands. of war and fine linens. Proud and THE BLACK FAIRY 293

great were the black kings of this land, their severing the women and children. Then came palaces were build of gold, and I was the the Mohammedans and kingdom on kingdom Guardian of the City. But one night when I arose, and with the splendor came ever more was visiting an Indian grove the barbarians slavery. from the North came down and destroyed The next picture was that of a group of our shrines and palaces and took our peo­ fugitive slaves, forming the nucleus of three ple up to Egypt. Oh, it was desolate, and tribes, hurrying back to the wilderness of I shed many tears, for 1 missed the busy their fathers. hum of the market and the merry voices In houses built as protection against the of the children. heat the blacks dwelt, communing with the "But come with me, little Annabelle, 1 beauty of water and sky and open air. It will show you all this, the rich past of the was just between twilight and evening and Ethiopian." their minstrels were chanting impromptu She bade the little girl to take hold of hymns to their gods of nature. And as she her hand and close her eyes, and wish listened closely. Annabelle thought she herself in the wood behind the cornfield. caught traces of the sorrow songs in the Annabelle obeyed, and ere they knew it weird pathetic strains of the African music they were sitting beside the clear water in mongers. From the East the warriors of the pond. the tribe came, bringing prisoners, whom "You should see the Niger," said the they sold to white strangers from the fairy. "It is still beautiful, but not as West. happy as in the old days. The white man's foot has been cooled by its water, and the "It is the beginning," whispered the white man's blossom is choking out the fairy, as a large Dutch vessel sailed native flower." And she dropped a tear westward. Twenty boys and girls bound so beautiful the costliest pearl would seem with strong ropes were given to a miserable worthless beside it. existence in the hatchway of the boat. Their captors were strange creatures, pale "Ah! I did not come to weep," she con­ and yellow haired, who were destined to sell tinued, "but to show you the past." them as slaves in a country cold and wild, So in a voice sweet and sad she sang an where the palm trees and the cocoanut old African lullaby and dropped into the never grew and men spoke a language with­ water a lotus leaf. A strange mist formed, out music. A light, airy creature, like an and when it had disappeared she bade the ancient goddess, flew before the craft guid­ little girl to look into the pool. Creeping ing it in its course. up Annabelle peered into the glassy sur­ face, and beheld a series of vividly colored "That is I," said the fairy. "In that pictures. picture I am bringing your ancestors to America. It was my hope that in the new First she saw dark blacksmiths hammering civilization I could build a race that would in the primeval forests and giving tire and be strong enough to redeem their brothers. iron to all the world. Then she saw the They have gone through great tribulations gold of old Ghana and the bronzes of and trials, and have mingled with the blood Benin. Then the black Ethiopians poured of the fairer race; yet though not entirely down upon Egypt and the lands and cities Ethiopian they have not lost their identity. bowed and f'amed. Next she saw a great Prejudice is a furnace through which molten city with pyramids and stately temples. It gold is poured. Heaven be merciful unto was night, and a crimson moon was in the all races! There is one more picture—the sky. Red wine was flowing freely, and greatest of all, but—farewell, little one, I beautiful dusky maidens were dancing in a am going." grove of palms. Old and young were intoxicated with the joy of living, and a "Going?" cried Annabelle. "Going? 1 sense of superiority could be easily traced want to see the last picture—and when will in their faces and attitude. Presently red you return, fairy?" flame hissed everywhere, and the magnifi­ "When the race has been redeemed. When cence of remote ages soon crumbled into the brotherhood of man has come into the ash and dust. Persian soldiers ran to and world; and there is no longer a white fro conquering the band of defenders and civilization or a black civilization, but the 294 THE CRISIS civilization of all men. I belong to. the of magic and playing with the children of world council of the fairies, and we are all every nation, race and tribe. Then, Anna­ colors and kinds. Why should not men be as belle, you shall see the last picture—and charitable unto one another? When that the best." glorious time comes I shall walk among you Slowly she disappeared like a summer and be one of you, performing my deeds mist, leaving Annabelle amazed.

CHILD LABOR IN THE SOUTH: A CAROLINA CANNING FACTORY.

A GIRLS' CLUBHOUSE

By JULIA CHILDS CURTIS

YOUNG women coming to National Y". W. C. A. to send one of its St. Louis will do well to workers there to assist in the organization. call at the headquarters of ill's. Geo. Haynes of Nashville, Tenn., the Y. W. C. A., Garrison was sent in December, 1911, with the aid and Pine Streets. They of the temporary organization and the com­ will help you." bined effort of the St. Louis women in Such is the notice one general, a three weeks' campaign for $3,000 may see in even" paper in St. Louis was started. This amount was to be devoted to the welfare of the Negro. This solicited from Negroes alone, for they notice has been appearing for only about wanted to test what the colored people were a year, for the Y. W. C. A. is a very recent willing to do before asking aid from any undertaking in St. Louis. other source. Although the amount asked For years the clubwomen have realized a was not secured, yet a great part of it was crying need for a place in this great city either given in cash or pledges payable in where the stranger and unprotected colored a year. girl might find safety and help. Having The results of the campaign were so decided that the time was ripe for estab­ encouraging that it was felt safe to launch lishing such a place, they appealed to the the new work in St. Louis. The temporary A GIRLS' CLUBHOUSE 295 organization became permanent and a Wheatley became a branch of the Central branch of the National. Association of that city, the largest The National Association sent, in Janu­ Y. W. C. A. in the world. This meant ary, 1912, one of its ablest and best that they must have a member of the Cen­ workers, Miss May Belcher, to that field to tral on their board, that all their transac­ superintend the work and assist the women tions must bo subject to the Central's there in getting the association into working approval, and all the Wheatley debts were order. It is needless to make any com­ to be assumed by them in case they were ment upon this part of the history of the not able to be met. Be it said forever to association, for all who have been engaged the credit of the Wheatley branch in such work will know what a task there Y. W. C. A. that it did not wish to have was to be accomplished. its debts assumed by the Central. When Through the kind­ the first year of its ness of Mrs. Chap­ history closed, and man, a wealthy St. members and friends Louisiana, who had of the association heard of the efforts met to rejoice, every being made by the debt had been paid colored women, a and there was $18 house for the use of left in the treasury. the association was The surplus was not offered free for an great, but it was a indefinite length of surplus and encour­ time. The house was aging. in poor condition, And now a word but after weeks and as to the work that months of unselfish the association has work and tireless ef­ done and is doing. fort by many of the In its first year's ex­ women the building istence the Wheatley was opened to the branch was success­ public May 13, 1912. ful in forming sev­ With its reception, eral clubs among the club, reading, office girls and women in and a few dormitory different sections of rooms, it offers shel­ the city in order to ter, aid and a home meet the specific to many strange girls needs of the group who have and are and community. finding their way to Among them was St. Louis. the first authorized Once installed in group of camp-fire permanent quarters THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOUSE girls among colored many thought the people in the world. real task was over, but in truth it had just We regret that this group in costume can­ begun. It was here that the president and not just now be sent the readers of THE board of managers had to show what they CRISIS, but some time you may sec a were willing to do. Some of the board mem­ part of the group as they looked just before bers dropped out, but the national secretary, going upon the association's tennis court a Miss Belcher, the president, Miss Arsania few days ago. Williams, and the remaining faithful mem­ The gardening work among the younger bers worked on. The work of the individual girls is most helpful and greatly enjoyed. committees was almost lost sight of in the The opening of two fine tennis courts in effort to raise the necessary funds and keep different parts of the city has given the the association alive. older girls a pleasure which the city itself After a few months' existence the denies to its Negro inhabitants. No col- 296 THE CRISIS ored person may get a permit to play on The association work has meant and does a public tennis court in the city of mean much to St. Louis, and will, indeed, St. Louis. The work among' the juniors is mean more as it grows stronger and more being ably done by some of the best asso­ self-supporting. It has grown very rapidly, ciation workers. It is truly inspiring to so much so that the Central last month watch large crowds of them as they gather came to the aid and offered to assume the weekly for the story hour, lessons in sew­ national secretary's salary for six months ing, basketry, or the making of something ill order that we might employ an assist­ to be used later at some one of their ant secretary, which was very quickly done. parties. A pleasant picture was made by a One of the Central members expressed quite group of them, as they gathered for their well the rapid growth when she said: "A Easter party, around a table decorated by year ago you started to lift a calf and articles which they had made. Mothers' now you have a full-grown animal to lift clubs have been organized in several com­ over the fence." munities; they are well attended and seem to The best part of this year's work, how­ he highly appreciated. ever, is that part which can neither be expressed in words nor writing. It is that At the building', during the winter which one feels. The changed attitude of months, there were regular classes in dress­ the people, the unselfishness and sympathy making, lacemaking and embroidery, china among the workers, the willingness of both painting, choral work, some English work, men and women to not only give financial Bible and mission study. support, but moral also. We hope the day Three public affairs of the highest char­ is not long off when there will be the neces­ acter were given during the year, viz.: sary means available for doing this work on An evening with Coleridge-Taylor, the the grand scale upon which" it should be Du Bois lecture and an operetta by the done, for St. Louis is the best situated juniors, entitled "A Fete in Towerland." city in the country for such a work.

PLACE OF THE NATIONAL EMANCIPATION EXPOSITION, NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 22-31. THREE EXPOSITIONS

THE three expositions to be have brought in an array of facts which held this fall commemorat­ will be shown on chart at the exposition. ing the fiftieth anniversary Beside all this the organizers, as far as they of the issuing of the eman­ have been able, have made house-to-house cipation proclamation are canvasses with good results. nearing completion. The The national exposition to be held in Philadelphia State Exposi­ New York City will lake place in the 12th tion opened September 15 in a group of Regiment armory, in the very center of the several buildings, which are being hurried city, only a half block from Broadway. The toward completion. Governor Tener spoke exposition will be divided into fifteen parts: that day. and there were historical floats. 1. The industries of Africa. A religious congress was held September l(i. 2. The distribution of the Negro race and a sociological congress, September 18 throughout the world. and 10. a medical congress, September 23 3. The health and physique of the and 24. Negro. The New Jersey State Exposition will 4. The work of Negro laborers. open October 6 at Atlantic City. The 5. The work of Negro artisans. organizers were appointed September 1, 6. Negro clothesmakers, including all 1012. to carry out the work for which it sorts of sewing. was created. They divided the State among 7. Negro artisans. themselves in order to systematize the work, 8. Negro in business. and while it may have occurred that there 0. Agriculture. was some neglect of duty it can be stated 10. Manufactures and inventions. that no set of people, as a whole, have 11. The professions, including the Hall more conscientiously and faithfully per­ of Fame. formed their work. 12. Education. The organizers have traveled over 20,000 13. Church. miles, holding meetings, gathering statistics 14. Women and social uplift. and soliciting exhibits from very nearly 15. Art. every city, town and rural district of the These departments will be illustrated by State. In some of the larger cities the maps and charts, models of buildings, work has been difficult for two reasons: statues, model rooms, photographs, gardens first, because each place has its own local and flowers, artisans at work, a moving- interests which come first, and, second, be­ picture show with special films and, above cause in a few instances men who consider all, a pageant illustrating the history of the themselves leaders felt they had not had Negro race. The music for the pageant has the recognition their standing and impor­ been written by Major Charles Young of tance demanded. Notwithstanding this, the United States army. Charles Burroughs there have been almost everywhere loyal is master of the pageant, assisted by race men who have taken the matter up. Mrs. Daisy Tapley in music and Mrs. Dora and wherever the masses could be reached Cole-Norman in dancing. they have responded. The program, by days, is as follows: The plan has been to organize leagues; Wednesday, October 22—Opening day. thirty-seven of such groups have been From Friday to Monday—Governor's formed; these in turn appoint committees day and congresses. on trades, inventions, needlework, milli­ Saturday, October 25—Athletic meet. nery, dressmaking, tailoring, professions, Friday, October 31—Closing day and business, real estate, music, education, etc.; final concert. in addition to this, inquiry blanks were The pageant will be given Thursday, sent out to ministers, teachers, farmers, October 23; Saturday afternoon, October business men, fraternal organizations, aged 25; Tuesday, October 28, and Thursday, persons and Grand Army veterans, which October 30. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

TO THE PRESIDENT. fiftieth year after Gettysburg and emancipa­ New York, August 15, 1913. tion, this government, founded on the theory of complete equality and freedom for all TO WOODROW WILSON, President; of the citizens, has established two classes among United States. its civilian employees. It has set the col­ DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: ored apart as if mere contact with them The National Association -for the Ad­ were contamination. The efficiency of their vancement of Colored People, through its labor, the principles of scientific manage­ board of directors, respectfully protests ment are disregarded, the possibilities of against the policy of your administration in promotion, if not now, will soon be severely segregating the colored employees in the limited. To them is held out only the pros­ departments at Washington. It realizes pect of mere subordinate routine service that this new and radical departure has been without the stimulus of advancement to recommended, and is now being defended, on high office by merit, a right deemed inviola­ the ground that by giving certain bureaus ble for all white natives as for the children or sections wholly to colored employees of the foreign born, of Italians, French and they are thereby rendered safer in posses­ Russians, Jews and Christians who are now sion of their offices and are less likely to he entering the government service. For to ousted or discriminated against. We be­ such limitation this segregation will inevi­ lieve this reasoning to be fallacious. It is tably lead. Who took the trouble to ascer­ based on a failure to appreciate the deeper tain what our colored clerks thought about significance of the new policy; to under­ this order, to which their consent was never stand how far reaching the effects of such asked? Behind screens and closed doors a drawing of caste lines by the Federal they now sit apart as though leprous. Men government may be, and how humiliating and women alike have the badge of it is to the men thus stigmatized. inferiority pressed upon them by govern­ ment decree. How long will it be before Never before has the Federal government the hateful epithets of "Nigger" and "Jim discriminated against its civilian employees Crow" are openly applied to these sections? on the ground of color. Every such act Let any one experienced in Washington heretofore has been that of an individual affairs or any trained newspaper corre­ State. The very presence of the Capitol spondent answer. The colored people them­ and of the Federal flag has drawn colored selves will tell you how soon sensitive and people to the District of Columbia in the high-minded members of their race will belief that living there under the shadow of refuse to enter the government service the national government itself they were which thus decrees what is to them the safe from the persecution and discrimina­ most hateful kind of discrimination. In­ tion which follow them elsewhere, because deed, there is a widespread belief among of their dark skins. To-day they learn that, them that this is the very purpose of these though their ancestors have fought in every unwarrantable orders. And wherever there war in behalf of the United States, in the THE N. A. A. C. P. 299 are men who rob the Negroes of their votes, and already several have reported prepara­ who exploit and degrade and insult and tions for such meeting's as well under way. lynch those whom they call their inferiors, Many papers published the letter in full, there this mistaken action of the Federal several carried it as a news item and there government will be cited as the warrant for has been considerable encouraging editorial new racial outrages that cry out to high comment quoted from elsewhere in these Heaven for redress. Who shall say where columns. discrimination once begun shall cease? Who Letters from members in Washington say can deny that every act of discrimination that though • the discrimination signs have the world over breeds fresh injustice? been taken down in the Treasury Depart­ For the lowly of all classes you have ment, the segregation order is still in force. lifted up your voice and not in vain. Shall A resolution protesting against segrega­ ten millions of our citizens say that their tion has been introduced into the Senate by civic liberties and rights are not safe in Senator Clapp, the good friend of the your hands? To ask the question is to association. answer it. They desire a ''New Freedom," m too, Mr. President, yet they include in that BRANCHES. term nothing else than the rights guaran­ teed them by the Constitution under which BALTIMORE.—In addition to the they believe they should be protected from •"•^ branches already mentioned in THE persecution based upon a physical quality CRISIS as having generously responded to with which Divine Providence has endowed our request for contribution to the new them. lawyer's salary, Baltimore has just sent They ask, therefore, that you, born of a her contribution of $100. The branch is great section which prides itself upon its now planning a mass meeting for October, chivalry toward the humble and the weak, at which Mr. Villard will be one of the prevent a gross injustice which is an injus­ speakers. tice none the less because it was actuated MUSKOGEE. — The constitution of the in some quarters by a genuine desire to Muskogee branch has been approved. The aid those now discriminated against. names of the officers will be printed in the Tours, for justice, next number of THE CRISIS. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOB THE TOPEKA.—The officers of the Topeka ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. branch, which is planning an active cam­ By MOORFIELD STOREY, paign for the coming year, are: President. President, Hon. Arthur Capper; secre­ W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, tary, Mrs. Julia B. Roundtree; treasurer, Director of Publicity. Rev. Geo. G. Walker; executive committee, OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, Prof. Nathaniel Sawyer, Capt. Patrick Chairman of the Board. 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WANT to tell you now a to it and felt herself being drawn up. When story which comes out of the other souls in hell saw her being pulled the old Russian folklore. out and that they were being left behind A woman had Iain in tor­ they made for her and clung to her arms, ment a thousand years. and to her feet, and to her garments, and One day she raised her instead of one woman being drawn up there head and called up to the rose up a never-ending chain of wretched, Lord to let her come out because she could writhing, shouting humanity. The woman not stand it another minute. The Lord was half way to Heaven when she looked heard and looked down and said to her: down and saw this great crowd hanging on. "Have you ever done one unselfish thing in to her. She feared the carrot would break. your life, without hope of praise or reward The old selfish anger rose up. She kicked of any kind?" The woman groaned because and beat them off, crying: "Let go! This she had lived a life of selfishness, and the is my carrot!" At that moment the carrot Lord said: "Here is your only chance." broke and down she went. Then the old woman remembered one un­ This is like saying "My Father" instead selfish thing she had done, and said: "I gave of "Our Father." You cannot enter Heaven an old man a carrot and he thanked me for this way. You must go in with your neigh­ it." The Lord said: "Where is that car­ bor on the other side. rot? Bring it here." "But," said the old woman, "it is a long time, and the carrot Isn't that the way we have been dealing must have rotted before now." "No," said with the color problem? Is the republic of the Lord, "even one unselfish deed could not America "my carrot" any more than it is perish." He said to an angel: "Go find his, my black brother's? He has done his the carrot and bring it here." share. He has helped this republic to grow The angel went and brought the carrot with the sweat of his brow without any re­ and the Lord held it over the bottomless pit ward of any kind. He has lived for it, and let it down. When it reached the woman fought for it and died for it. It is his the Lord said: "Cling to if," and she clung by right.

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The New Jersey State Emancipation Exposition A Jubilee Festival and Exposition to be held in Exposition Hall, Kentucky Avenue and Boardwalk, Atlantic City, October 6th to October 12th, inclusive.

All manner of exhibits in industries, trades, handicrafts, women's work, fine and prac­ tical arts, mementos, antiques and curios. Featured exhibit, by charts, photographs and special exhibits of the condition and progress of the New Jersey Xegro, including all phases of the business, professional, industrial, social, religious and home life of the race. Special days and features: Fraternity day, with exhibition drills by uniformed orders; women's and home day, and women's congress; business men's and farmers' conferences; a religious day, with, sermons and addresses; an educational and professional day, with teachers' conference and school-children's festival; an athletic meet; a special day of recollec­ tions for personal experiences of slavery, war times and historical events'. Prizes and awards: Amateur and professional contests in many lines. A grand musical festival throughout the week, participated in by a mass chorus of 1,000 voices, a juvenile chorus of 500, assisted by many noted soloists, and an augmented orchestra of 30, with concerts daily. N. B.—Send all exhibits, which will be insured and cared for, C. O. D. by Adams or United States Express or by Parcels Post, care of Exposition Building, Kentucky Avenue and Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N. J. Applications for booths and space for business, selling or advertisement should be made to the CHIEF ORGANIZER Rooms 105-6, American Mechanic Building, TRENTON, N. J.

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Mention THE CRISIS. SOUVENIR PROGRAMS =^==^=^= OF THE Emancipation Proclamation Exposition

12th Regiment Armory, New York City October 22 to 31, 1913

Biographical sketches of 250 prominent Negro men and women. Issue limited to 50,000 copies. A few pages will be devoted to select advertisements at the rate of $100 per page.

THIS PROGRAM WILL BE VALUABLE

1. To the individual holder: It will be a constant reminder of the achievements of the race.

2. To the advertiser: It will reach a select group of discrimi­

nating readers.

Orders may be sent now for early delivery.

Applications for advertising space should be made at once.

PRICE OF PROGRAM 25 CENTS

=^==^=== ADDRESS: =^======ROBERT N. WOOD, Chairman 2217 Seventh Avenue New York City

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