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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA A School for the Training of Colored Young Men and Women for Service

Though it is young in history, the Institution feels a just pride in the work thus far accomplished, for its graduates are already filling many responsible positions, thus demonstrating the aim of the school to train men and women for useful citizenship. DEPARTMENTS ALREADY ESTABLISHED

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A. & T. COLLEGE GREENSBORO, N. C. The NEGRO AGRICULTURAL and TECH­ The Cheyney Train­ NICAL COLLEGE offers to the Negro youth of the state opportunities that none can afford to neglect. 1. The English Department offers practical ing School for courses in Literary Training. 2. Mechanical graduates and undergradu­ ates take high rank in Mechanical pursuits such as Carpentry, Bricklaying, Plastering, Blacksmithing, Auto-Mechanics and Broom- Teachers making, etc. 5. The Agricultural Department gives stu­ dents carefully arranged work both in theo­ CHEYNEY, PENNA. retical and practical branches of agriculture, as Dairying, Greenhouse Work, Poultry, Bee Culture, Field Crops, etc. A normal school of high grade for 4. The Teacher Training Department pre­ young colored men and women of good pares young men to meet the demands for trained industrial teachers. Graduates will abilities, who desire to prepare them­ find a useful and remunerative field. selves to be teachers. Courses include 6. The Reserve Officers' Training Corps, under direct supervision of U. S. Officers gives the regular academic and professional Physical and Military Training. Free uni­ subjects, and special departments in do­ forms in four years (4) worth about $160.00, mestic art, domestic science, manual and those who successfully and satisfactorily complete the first two years work cash fees training and agriculture. Board and allowed amounting to over $100.00 annually. tuition $125. Next regular term began Graduates from this division will be eligible for a commission from the President of the Thursday, September 18, 1919. Summer United States for position as Second Lieu­ school for teachers in active service, tenants in the U. S. Army. four weeks beginning July I. Board and 6. Night School for those who cannot at­ tend the Day Classes. tuition for the month $20.00. For fur­ Fall Term began September 1st, 1919 ther particulars and catalog write Lodging capacity limited to 150 students. Those preferring to room on campus should Leslie Pinckney Hill, Principal, Chey­ arrange Lodging Reservations at once. ney, Penna. For further information, address J. B. DUDLEY, President

Mention The Crisis THE CRISIS ADVERTISER 333 Atlanta University MOREHOUSE COLLEGE (Formerly Atlanta Baptist College) la beautifully located Is the City of Atlanta, G». The courses of study include High School, normal ATLANTA, GA. School and College, with Manual training and domestic Collegescience, Academy. Among, - Divinitthe teachery Schoos arel graduates of Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and Wellesley. Fifty years of successful work have been completed. An institution famous within recent years Students Mm* from all parts of the south. Grad­ for its emphasis on all sides of manly develop­ uates are almost universally successful. For further Information address ment—the only institution in the far South devoted solely to the education of Negro President EDWARD T. WARE young men. ATLANTA, OA. Graduates given high ranking by greatest northern universities. Debating, Y. M. C A., IN NEW YORK CITY athletics, all live features. as in other communities throughout the country For information, address JOHN HOPE, President LINCOLN UNIVERSITY graduates are AT THE TOP FISK UNIVERSITY

in Medicine, Ministry, Law and Social Service. NASHVILLE, TENN. Founded 1866 Sixty-fifth year in College and Theological Seminary opened September 23, 1919 Thorough Literary, Scientific, Educational, For catalog and information address Musical and Social Science Courses. Pioneer in Negro music. Special study in Negro life. President John B. Rendall, D. D. Ideal and sanitary buildings and grounds. Lincoln University Chester County, Pa. Well-equipped Science building. Christian home life. High standard of independent manhood and 1870 1919 womanhood. For literature, etc., write CLARK UNIVERSITY FAYETTE AVERY McKENZIE, President ATLANTA, GEORGIA Beautiful campus overlooking the dtj. Comfortable buildings with modern conveniences); talented faculty; Timorous, religious atmosphere, ex cell ant library and laboratories; <*-educational; athletics. Admission only by application. BIDDLE UNIVERSITY Course of Study: CHARLOTTE. N. C Domestlo Science. Public Speaking, Music Biddie University, operated under the auspice of Pre- Academy, Seventh and Eighth Grade*. the Northern Presbyterian Church, ha. four Depart­ Academy or High School, four years with diploma. ment*—High Scbool, Art. and Science. Theological Pre- Medical, two years above academy. and Industrial. The completion of a Grammar School Normal, two years above academy with diploma. course Is the requirement for entrance to the firstrea r College, four years with AB degree. of the Hlsh School. Fiftieth year opened September 24, 1919. The School of Arts and Sciences offers two courses of study, the Classical and the Scientific. In the Expenses, $16-00 per month will com all necessary scientific, German Is substituted for Greek or Latin. expanses. The entrance requirement for the Freshman Class Is HARRY ANDREWS KING. Pr«id«t IS units of High School wore. The Theological Department offers two course,, each consisting of three years. The firstI s purely English. Greek and Hebrew are taught In the others. All student. In the High School Dept. are required to take trades In the Industrial Dept. The Florida Agricultural For further Information, address Fresldest H. L. MeCrarey, anb Mechanical College Charlotte, N. C.

Offers courses to leading certificates, Morris Brown University diplomas and degrees. Atlanta, Ca. Co-Educational Nathan B- Young, President The largest institution of learning in the South owned and controlled by Negroes. Faculty of special­ Tallahassee, Florida ists, trained in some of the best universities in the North and in the South. Noted for high standard of scholarship; industrial emphasis and positive Christianinfluence . Well equipped dormitories; sand athletics under faculty supervision. Expenses rea­ WILEY UNIVERSITY sonable. Location central and healthful. MARSHALL, TEXAS Departments: Theology, College Preparatory, Nor­ Recognized as a college of the First Class by Texas mal, Commercial, Musical, Domestic Science, Nurse and Louisiana State Boards of Education. Harvard, Training. Sewing, Printing and Tailoring. Yale and Columbia represented on its faculty; stu­ First Semester began September 10, 1919. dents gathered from ten different states. For further information address Strongest Music Department in the West W. A. FOUNTAIN, President M. W. BOG AN, President BISHOP J, S. Flipper. Chairman Trustee Board Mention THE CRISIS. 334 THE CRISIS ADVERTISER

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY Next Session Opens October 1, 1919 ADMISSION Candidates for admission must be graduates of approved Colleges or Scientific Schools with two years of instruction, including laboratory work, in physics, chemistry and biology, English, mathematics and French or German, or graduates of recognized high schools with two years of instruction, including laboratory work, in physics, chemistry and biology, English, mathematics and French or German. INSTRUCTION The course of instruction occupies four years, and especial emphasis is laid upon practical work in the laboratories, in the wards of the Freedman's Hospital and in the Dispensary. Full corps of instructors, well equipped laboratories, unexcelled hospital facilities. The Medical College is rated in Class A by the Council on Medical Educa­ tion of the American Medical Association and is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Recognized by the Conjoint Board of England. THE DENTAL COLLEGE Requires for admission the completion of a recognized four-year high school course. The course of instruction occupies four years. Unexcelled facilities for practical work. THE PHARMACEUTICAL COLLEGE Requires for admission the completion of a recognized four-year high school course. The course of instruction occupies three years and leads to the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. The annual announcement, application blanks and additional information con­ cerning either course may be obtained by addressing WILLIAM C. McNEILL, Secretary Fifth and W Streets, N.W., Washington, D. C.

What would you like to do? Here's what our graduates are doing. Principals of district schools 163 DOLLS—DOLLS Teachers in rural schools 296 Principals in secondary or high schools... 24 Beautiful Colored Dolls and Calendars Teachers in grammar or high schools.... 90 With Negro Subjects for 1920 Doctors 41 Sleeping eye, solid bisque, fully Lawyers 5 jointed, natural brown color, dark Dentists 8 hair, eighteen inches high. Sent pre­ Pharmacists 3 paid for $4.00. This is without a Druggists 10 doubt one of the greatest doll bar­ Working at trades 302 gains of the season. These dolls are Bankers 1 popular priced and fully guaranteed V. S. Government Service 38 to be just as represented. All bisque Jcanes teachers 7 Kewpie doll, no hair, fifteen inches Directors of book establishments 2 high, sent prepaid for $2.25. Editors and Journalists 8 Bookkeepers 15 A great line of Art and Commercial U. S. Farm Demonstrators 2 Calendars for the home and for the Undertakers and Embalmers 6 advertising trade; about thirty-five Contractors and Builders 8 subjects from which to select, includ­ U. S. Bureau of Education 1 ing rural and various scenes. Prices, Farmers 340 $4.00, $5.00 and $9.00 per hundred Housekeepers 498 $30.00, $40.00 and $80.00 per thousand. Dead and unaccounted for 398 Samples for agents sent for 50c. Our Total 2266 agents are doing well selling these SOLDIERS IN THE GREAT WAR.... 235 goods. This is one of the best bar­ gains of the season. Send for samples State Agricultural and and make money. Address:

Mechanical Institute OTIS H. GADSDEN NORMAL, ALA. 63 Park Row, New York, N. Y. WALTER S. BUCHANAN, President THE CRISIS Vol. 19 No. 1 NOVEMBER, 1919 Whole No. 109

Opinion of W.E.B. DuBois

OUR NINTH BIRTHDAY can for a minute advise any group to FORGIVE US, while we hide use the torch or the gun to right the our diminished head. We wrong of • violence. Only in self de­ had contracted for a new, fense can such a course ever be con­ large suit of clothes on our sidered justifiable. Ninth Birthday, and behold us, in But we must fight and we are go­ short clothes. ing to fight in every legitimate and Forgive us, it is the Printers' lawful way until our problem is en­ Strike. tirely settled. To do this we need greater organization, energy, funds A STATEMENT and courage than ever before. The AT no previous period in the call is to you to rally to the support history of the Negro in Americaof the Nationa has hel Associatiobeen confronten for dth e Advancement of Colored People and with a more critical situation help in the fight to make America than today. The forces of prejudice safe for the colored man. against which we are fighting seem determined to keep twelve millions WRITE of Americans in that bondage of THE following resolution has prejudice because of race, while those been introduced into both twelve millions are determined as houses of Congress: never before to achieve the status of citizens—full and unlimited by caste RESOLVED, "That the Committee on the Judiciary of the United or color. When two forces of such States Senate be, and it is hereby, magnitude meet, a critical situation authorized and directed at as early a is inevitable and such a one is upon date as possible, by subcommittee, to us today. investigate the race riots in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, There are those who are attempt­ and other cities of the United States, ing to becloud the issue by declaring and to investigate lynchings which that the present unrest and discon­ have occurred in different parts of the tent is due to influences other than United States, and to ascertain as far natural resentment against wrong. as possible the causes for such race Such persons are making such absurd riots and lynchings, and report what statements either through ignorance remedy or remedies should be em­ of the facts or because they know the ployed to prevent the recurrence of facts and are attempting to shift the the same; said subcommittee shall responsibility for the half-century of have power to have meetings in any lynching, disfranchisement, neon- part of the United States, to call and age, "Jim-Crowism" and injustice of examine witnesses, to examine pa­ every sort practiced on the Negro. pers, and to take such action as may We do not countenance violence. be necessary to secure the facts." Our fight is against violence. We are fighting—as we always have fought Will every reader of THE CRISIS —for the reign of law over the reign write or wire his senator and repre­ of the mob. No sane man or woman sentative urging the

335 336 THE CRISIS adoption of this resolution? half the alleged cases are true. Do not wait. Again, the only way to endow Negroes with the power to deal with Act now! When you have done that crime or any other crime is to this, get your friends to do likewise. give them the ballot, and this the

A CHURCH PLATFORM Governors were afraid to demand. IT is extremely difficult to get THE PLUMB PLAN the white church to take a THE Plumb Plan for railroad decided stand on any burning management in the United social question. We welcome, States is the best proposed therefore, the "Constructive Program so far. It includes govern­ for Just Inter-Racial Relations" is­ ment ownership and operation by em­ sued recently by the Federal Council ployees and the government in part­ of Churches of Christ in America. In nership. The underlying principle of brief, it follows: permitting the workingmen to share The Government, local, state and in the conduct of industry is abso­ national, should impartially guaran­ lutely correct. The monarchic busi­ tee to all classes security of life and ness institution that "belongs" to one property. man or group and refuses to allow The Negro should have economic those who do the work to have any justice. decisive voice or influence in the con­ We call upon men and women duct of the business is doomed. Industrialdemocrac y means a voice and everywhere to protect the sanctity of vote in industry by the workers. home and womanhood. Adequate recreational provisions should be made available for Negro THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS citizens. THE colored folk want the We strongly endorse the plea of League of Nations. The pro­ the Negro for equal traveling accom­ posed League is not the best modations for equal charges. conceivable—indeed, in some Adequate educational facilities for respects it is the worst. But the worst Negro children and youth should be Internation is better than the present provided. anarchy in international relations. Qualifications for the franchise This anarchy has just cost civilization should be administered irrespective of two hundred thousand millions of dol­ race, creed or color. lars, eight million corpses, twenty Closer co-operation between the million maimed pieces of men and races should be promoted by organiz­ untold and untellable waste, destruc­ ing local committees of white and tion, sorrow, misery and crime. colored people. To save human culture from a repetition of the Great War, a gov­ THE GOVERNORS ernment of governments is proposed. THE Governors' program of In its present form it is oligarchic, racial adjustment falls flat reactionary, restricted and conserva­ on its first proposal: tive, and it gives Imperialism, partic­ , "It is imperatively urgent ularly Imperial England, unwarranted that lynching be prevented. preponderance. Nevertheless, it has "1. By the enlistment of Negroes a democratic Assembly, it recognizes themselves in preventing crimes that no color line, and it can enforce peace. provoke mob violence." No opponent of the League offers The most prevalent crime in the anything better that has the slightest United States that provokes mob vio­ chance of adoption. Most opponents lence is the crime of being black. want no League at all. They want a Alleged rape causes only 19 per cent swashbuckling anarchy, with a Jingo of the lynchings of Negroes in the United States veiling in chorus with United States, and it is doubtful if Jingoes of all Europe. OPINION 337

What boots it to complain now that want and what eventually we will Wilson did not stand to his moral and must have. guns at Paris, or that Egypt, India If, on the other hand, "Social and Ireland are not free? Will they Equality" involves the denial of the be any freer or the world any safer social right of any individual of any without some international bond of race or color to choose his own marital mate, his own friends and his own reason and sanity ? No. Let us have dinner companions — in fine, to be the League with all its autocracy and master of his own home, then no sane then in the League let us work for person ever dreamed of demanding Democracy of all races and men. the slightest interference with such HONESTY an obvious right, and any one who IT is characteristic of the inner accuses Negroes of such a demand spiritual turmoil of our race writes himself down as an ass or a that the old homely morality deliberate liar. should totter on its founda­ tions; that our boys and girls—aye, HEROES our men and women — should seri­ WE stand with uncovered ously question whether it really pays heads before the tens of to tell the truth, to refrain from theft thousands of black men or to refuse to spread malicious gos­ and women of the South sip. Without that fine feeling of who are fighting the real battle of honor which needs no proof, it is Freedom. They are striking no blows often difficult in this day and land —they are using no violence—they to point to the true worth of honesty are uttering no threats—in most cases and probity. There comes now and they are speaking no word. But they then, however, a flash of revealing are standing with bleeding souls and lightning. streaming eyes, silently, steadfastly, Out in Nebraska ninety-eight white before the altar of their own beliefs dental students bought copies of and aspirations. Not once by word, examination questions before the test. deed or gesture do they flinch. One looked, but did not buy. One did They believe themselves the equals not even look, and he was a Negro. of any man, and not all the mobs of If the Negro had yielded to the temp­ the bourbon South—not even death tation, our charming friends would and torture—can make them deny it. have found but one more proof of Neither by money nor fear can they racial dishonesty. be induced to betray their race, either So this young man, John Singleton, by the cringing deed or by the lying bore on his shoulders, not simply his admission; in the face of the slobber­ personal honor, but the honor of a ing "white folks' nigger" with his great race, standing there "within the soothing syrup of false flattery and shadow, keeping watch." lies, they stand unmoved. They seek SOCIAL EQUALITY peace and self-respect, but before VERY time the American everything, they insist upon respect­ Negro seeks reasonably and ing themselves. earnestly to bring his case Their white neighbors know and before the white South and secretly honor them. They wonder the nation the bourbons proceed to how such souls can live and endure throw dust in the eyes of the public the lot of the Negro in the South. by screaming frantically, "Social Yet they do live, they do endure, and Equality." in God's good time such martyrdom That bogey can be easily met: If must and shall win. "Social Equality" means the right to OPHELIA vote, the abolition of "Jim-Crow" OPHELIA has selected a home. cars, the stoppage of lynching, uni­ She had twenty-six states and versal education and civil rights, then one hundred and forty - six social equality is exactly what we towns to choose from! THE HOPE OF A NEGRO DRAMA

WILLIS RICHARDSON

IS it true that there is coming into exist­ is truly worth showing. Mr. Ridgley Torrence, with the aid of Mrs. Norman Hap- ence in America a Negro Drama which good and Mr. Robert E. Jones, has accom­ at some future day may equal in excellence plished it. "Granny Maumee," "The Rider the American Negro Music? If the signs of Dreams" and "Simon, the Cyrenian" are of the times do not point to such a thing, Negro plays; and we can never thank Mr. we must change their direction and make Torrence enough for such an excellent be­ them point the right way; we must have a ginning of a movement we hope to continue. Negro Drama. Miss Mary Burrill in "Aftermath" has also There is no doubt that the Negro has a written a fine play; and these two examples natural poetic gift; neither is there any prove the richness of the subject matter. doubt that a dramatist is fundamentally a poet; therefore, in order to help towards An excellent model, and one by which we this, something may be done if some of our ought to profit, is the case of the Irish numerous poets will consent to rest from National Theater, the history of which may their usual labors for a while and lend a be learned elsewhere. My point is this: that hand towards the writing of Negro plays. with no richer material, and among a popu­ There need be no groping for subject mat­ lation of less than five millions, the Irish ter. Here is a wealth of material, a mine have built a national drama, encouraged and of pure gold. I know of no field which is sustained playwrights, who are respected richer for the purpose of so democratic an the same as are the other members of their art. profession in larger countries, and trained But to attain this end, to obtain the wealth a company of actors who have made a de­ of this mine, will require diligent toil—the cent living by their work on the stage. Had honest sweat of the brain. As Sir Arthur it not been for the Irish Theater, perhaps W. Pinero says in reference to playwriting such names as Synge, Yeats and Lady Gregory, Ervine, Colum and Murray would never generally: "When you sit in your stall at have been known among the world drama­ the theater and see a play moving across tists. As it is, they stand high and are the stage, it all seems so easy and natural, honored. This being the case, what ought you feel as though the author had impro­ the Negro Drama in the United States be vised it. The characters, being, let us hope, capable of among a population of funda­ ordinary human beings, say nothing very mentally artistic people, which twice out­ remarkable, nothing, you think — thereby numbers the population of Ireland ? paying the author, the highest possible com­ pliment—that might not quite as well have The Negro has some natural ability for occurred to you. When you take up a play- fine acting on account of his skill in imita­ book (if you ever do take up one), it strikes tion and on account of the mellowness of you as being a very trifling thing—a mere his voice. Take the sharp Caucasian "I" insubstantial .pamphlet beside the imposing and compare it with the mellow "Ah" of bulk of the latest six-shilling novel. Little Negro dialect. The "I" prolonged for a do you guess that every page of the play second changes to the sharper "E"; but the has cost more care, severer mental tension, "Ah" prolonged continues its mellow sound if not more actual manual labor, than any unchanged. A similar difference may be chapter of a novel, though it be fifty pages seen in comparing the Caucasian "my" with long." the "ma" of Negro dialect. But even with these two assets to fine acting—mimicry When I say Negro plays, I do not and mellow tone of voice—there are yet mean merely plays with Negro characters. other things necessary for the making of Dramatizations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's the finished actor; and not least among "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Gustave Flaubert's these other things is skill in interpretation. "Salammbo" did net make Negro plays, Skill in interpretation is more the fruit of although they had important Negro char­ long and careful training than it is a gift acters. » Miss' Grimke's "Rachel" is nearer of nature. This being the case, it naturally the idea; still even this, with its Negro follows that if the Negro actor is given long characters, is not exactly the thing I mean. and careful training, he will make his mark It is called a propaganda play, and a great on the stage. portion of it shows the manner in which Negroes are treated by white people in the Mr. George Jean Nathan in his volume, United States. That such a work is of ser­ "Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents," has a vice will be acknowledged by anyone who chapter called "The Black Art" in which he will examine many of the plays of Shaw, pays many compliments to . the Negro Galsworthy and Brieux. « Still there is an­ actor. One of the things he says is that the other kind of play; the play that shows the Negro is better fitted to play Shakespearean soul of a people; and the soul of this people parts than the Caucasian, because the

338 A LETTER 339 sweetness of the Negro tones is so well and a sufficient knowledge of dramatic tech­ suited to the poetry of Shakespeare. Mr. nique to make plays out of the interesting Nathan hates to acknowledge it, but he things in the lives of these "porters, wait­ thinks that the part of Othello should ers and cooks." always be played by a Negro actor, since a Negro actor is as well fitted for that part I am very sure that all those broad- as a white actress is fitted for the part of minded people who are intelligently inter­ Desdemona. These are very encouraging ested in the welfare and development of the things, but Mr. Nathan spoils the chapter Negro race in America will be delighted just as he spoils the book by trying to be when we shall be able to send a company of funny. He says words to the effect that we Negro Players with Negro Plays across our are all "porters, waiters and cooks"; and at own continent; and those intelligent people some place in the chapter he goes so far as who have never been interested in us will to call us "coons." And as I was reading surely give us a second thought when we his book, I was thinking that among these send our Negro Plays and Players to show "porters, waiters and cooks" perhaps there hitherto unknown things to the artistic were some with a little vision, a few ideas peoples of Europe.

A LETTER A WEEK ago an old friend of mine whom "We know how many insults we have I had not seen for twenty years came borne silently, for we have hidden many of to see me. them from our men because we did not want After talking of old school days and them to die needlessly in our defense; we friends, both of us asking and answering know the sorrow of seeing our boys and many questions, my friend asked, "And girls grow up, the swift stab of the heart at what did you think of the Washington and night to the sound of a strange footstep, the Chicago riots 1" feel of a tigress to spring and claw the white man with his lustful look at our When I had answered that question she comely daughters, the deep humiliation of said, "I wish you would send that answer to sitting in the Jim Crow part of a street car THE CRISIS, just as you have told it to me, and hear the white men laugh and discuss so that our men can know how we women us, point out the good and bad points of our have felt and how we feel now." bodies. God alone knows the many things And so I am sending this, regardless of colored women have borne here in the South the fact that I am unused to writing for in silence. publication. "And, too, a woman loves a strong man, I said this: ''The Washington riot gave me she delights to feel that her man can pro­ the thrill that comes once in a life time. tect her, fight for her, if necessary, save I was alone when I read between the lines her. of the morning paper that at last our men "No woman loves a weakling, a coward, had stood like men, struck back, were no be she white or black, and some of us have longer dumb, driven cattle. When I could been near to thinking our men cowards, but no longer read for my streaming tears, I thank God for Washington colored men! stood up, alone in my room, held both hands All honor to them, for they first blazed the high over my head and .exclaimed aloud: way and right swiftly did Chicago men fol­ 'Oh, I thank God, thank God!' When I low. They put new hope, a new vision into remember anything after this, I was prone their almost despairing women. on my bed, beating the pillow with both fists, laughing and crying, whimpering like "God grant that our men everywhere a whipped child, for sheer gladness and refrain from strife, provoke no quarrel, but madness. The pent-up humiliation, grief that they protect their women and homes and horror of a life time—half a century— at any cost." was being stripped from me. Only colored A Southern Colored Woman. women of the south know the extreme in I'm sure the editor will understand why I suffering and humiliation. cannot sign my name.

NOTICE ON account of the strike of the printers in New York City nearly all the large magazines have stopped publication. THE CRISIS will not stop, but is compelled this month to appear a little later and with fewer pages instead of the enlarged number which we planned. We beg the indulgence of our readers. We promise a magazine in the future which will repay them for their patience and loyalty. National • Association • for • the - * -

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their automobile had been wrecked by run­ LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ning against a police patrol used as a barri­ AT the September meeting of the Board cade, they were unmolested for weeks until of Directors of the N. A. A. C. P. it the Association's agent in person presented •was decided to appeal to the country for an irrefutable evidence against them to the adequate legal defense fund for use in de­ foreman of the before-mentioned Grand fending the victims of race riots and race Jury and afterwards to the Grand Jury discrimination. Such a fund has long been itself. needed. Heretofore the Association has been For such service as this, and to protect compelled almost wholly to rely upon the and safeguard the legal rights of friend­ •volunteer services of busy members of its less and poor colored men, funds must be National Board for such legal aid as was available. No surer preventive of mob ruthlessness and more certain corrective of offi­ needed and as could be given. Even if the cial negligence or malevolence could be pro­ services of busy lawyers were freely offered, vided, than for all such to know for a as was the case when Mr. Storey carried the certainty that some strong, sane organiza­ Segregation case to the Supreme Court of tion, backed by responsible citizens, white the United States and won so great a vic­ and colored, and with ADEQUATE FUNDS tory, there would still remain heavy inci­ was prepared to defend colored people's dental charges which would have to be met, rights in the courts and to see that justice if the rights of colored people are ade­ was done them everywhere. Furthermore, quately to be defended when fundamental Negroes must not be left the sting and virus issues are involved. that inevitably results from a sense of jus­ All practical people know that volunteer tice denied. No man, because he is black work has definite limitations. Will the lovers and poor, should be permitted with reason of justice and fair play, the believers in a to believe that America, or Americans with "square deal" for the Negro—all those of white skins (for the machinery of Govern­ both races who realize the menace to Amer­ ment and law is controlled by white men) ica of rank injustice unrebuked, contribute have trampled upon his liberties or denied $50,000 for a N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense him the equal protection of the laws. Fund, by December 1, 1919 ? Neither in Washington, Chicago, Omaha, Imbued with this spirit, an eminent leader Knoxville, Charleston, Longview, have Negroesof the babeer n inth Chicagoe aggressors, Mr.. S. WSe. Gregorywould b,e glad to believe that the danger is passed, has volunteered his services without fee, as that no other Negro haters will rise to dis­ leading counsel, to protect the legal inter­ grace the fair name of an American city, ests of, and secure equal justice for, all col­ that none who fought or acclaimed a war to ored men indicted in the Chicago Riots situa­ "make the world safe for democracy," will tion. Mr. Gregory is a former President of seek to deprive Negroes of their rights to the American Bar Association, a former "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" president of both the Illinois State Bar in accordance with our fundamental law. Association and the Chicago Bar Associa­ tion, and was for a time special counsel to But we face a condition, not a theory. In the Federal Trade Commission. Associated Chicago, for example, a Grand Jury actually with him as managing counsel is Ex-State refused to consider any more indictments of Senator James J. Barbour, likewise a law­ alleged rioters unless and until the prose­ yer of high standing at the Illinois Bar. cuting officers brought some white men be­ The immediate supervision of Chicago legal fore them, so flagrantly discriminating and defense matters is in the hands of the Legal unjust were they forced to regard a situa­ Committee of the Chicago Branch of the tion where, in a riot brought on by white N. A. A. C. P., which, in cooperation with men, almost none but colored men had up to the Association's National Board, has as­ that date (a week after rioting had ceased) sumed responsibility for providing such ade­ been charged with rioting. Even such a quate legal advice and defense as may be Jury, however, is at the mercy of the prose­ required. cuting officers. In one particularly "raw The members of the Chicago Legal Com­ deal" only the vigilance and persistence of mittee of the N. A. A. C. P. are Former an N. A. A. C. P. investigator brought about Judge Edward Osgood Brown, Former Judge the indictment of a white police officer and Robert McMurdy, George Packard, Esq., of a federal government employee who had Miller, Starr, Brown Packard & Peckham, rushed through the colored district, firing and Mr. Marcus Hirschl. Cooperating are right and left into the houses of colored members of the Cook County Bar Associa­ people and at colored passers-by. Although tion, composed of colored lawyers, who be­ these men had been recognized as officers at gan work on behalf of colored defendants the hospital where they were treated after after the riot subsided.

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In advance of the raising of an adequate our readers, believe enough in securing Legal Defense Fund, the National Board at equal justice to the black man to give your its September meeting voted to put the sum share? Justice must be assured him. There of $5,000 at the service of the Chicago Branch for legal defense. Chicago is at are but two alternatives—one, the N. A. A. work raising funds to supplement the C. P. way of legal defense when rights are amount so advanced, under the joint aus­ denied or imperiled, the other, chaos and pices of a group of representative public black ruin. We appeal to the law. Your welfare and religious organizations, whose money will make our appeal concrete. We cooperation has been secured. speak, not of abstract rights but of concrete The National Board appeals now for ones, menaced by race hatred and national $50,000 for a Legal Defense Fund. Do you, neglect. Men of the Month

Dr. N. H. B. Cassel Miss Jessie R. Fauset The late John Merrick has headquarters at the Church Missions HE Honorable C. D. B. King, Secretary House, New York City, and would be glad T of State of Liberia and President-elect, to give information to interested persons. accompanied by Mrs. King, have been visit­ Miss Jessie Redmon Fauset joined THE ing in the United States. In Washington CRISIS staff last month as Literary Editor. they were entertained by the Liberian She has for many years been a contributor Consul-General, Dr. Ernest Lyons, and a to our pages. She was born in Philadelphia, committee of colored citizens. They were educated in the public schools, holding the presented to the President of the United alumnae scholarship in the High School for States, the Vice-President, the Secretary of Girls, and afterward took her Bachelor's State and the Chairman of the Foreign degree at Cornell, where she gained the Phi Relations Committee. In New York they Beta Kappa key. She has studied in Paris were entertained by the Masons and a pub­ and at the University of Pennsylvania, hold­ lic meeting was held at Ethical Culture ing a University scholarship, and took her Hall. In Boston they were banqueted by Master's degree there last June. Formerly the mayor and others. Miss Fauset taught Latin and French in Liberia College is represented in this the Dunbar High School, Washington, D. C. country by Dr. N. H. B. Cassell, its presi­ John Merrick was first a bricklayer and dent. The college needs an endowment of then a barber at Durham, N. C. He early $500,000—$100,000 for buildings and $25,000 began to invest his money in Negro business a year for running expenses. Dr. Cassell enterprises and became founder and presi- The Honorable C. D. B. King, Secretary of State and President elect of Liberia, and Mrs. King.

employs 700 agents. Mr. Merrick died recently and his funeral" was attended by dent of the North Carolina Mutual Life InsuranceCompany , which today has underwritten$20,000,00 0 worth of insurance and large numbers of white and colored citizens.

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LITERATURE If they are not crazy, they are foolish. CHARLES BERTRAM JOHNSON, in his The Daily Nippu Fiji, Honolulu, draws a "Songs of My People": parallel between the treatment of Koreans My people laugh and sing by Japanese and the treatment of black And dance to death,— Americans by white: None imagining Generally speaking, misunderstandings The heartbreak under breath. and clashes, which arc liable to come up We have received Smile, a magazine of among different races, arc quite the order the Hoffman Preparatory School in Chicago, of the day. As regards the Korean upris­ 111., which was edited, and edited well, by ings, all the wrongs are not necessarily on Albeit J. Nolan, the only colored student in the side of the Japanese government, but the school's student-body of two hundred unfortunate events have taken place. and eighty. The "Story of Slavery" is the The recent clash between the whites and name of a little pamphlet by the late Booker blacks in America is another example of T. Washington, dealing very briefly and a conflict which has risen from racial mis­ trifle too leniently with this unhappy sub­ understanding. ject. Miss Tracy D. Mygatt sends us "Good Discriminatory treatment of the Negroes Friday, A Passion Play of Now," which by the whites, who exercised it to the deals with the treatment of the "conscien­ furthest degree, is the price of the clashes tious objector." It is very dramatic and and the general effect arising therefrom. reaches a really thrilling denouement. The Negroes may have many shortcom­ The Birth Control Review for September ings and faults, but that this is the time for is the Negro Number. It contains a one-act the American people to reflect seriously play of Negro life, "They That Sit in Dark­ upon this important question is the consen­ ness," by Mary Burrill, and a short story, sus of opinion of the leading Americans. "The Closing Door," by Angelina W. Certain elements among the Americans, Grimke. The workmanship of Miss Bur- finding a capital opportunity in the Korean rill's play is good, but it is written too ob­ question, make it an excuse for anti-Japanese agitation. Many see to it that the viously to point a moral. "The Closing question furnishes materials for the abuse Door" is in exquisite vein and is very read­ and criticism of militarism in Japan. able, indeed. JAPAN OPENS FIRE But, who knows but that the United AMERICA'S attitude toward her dark States, the symbol of democracy and lib­ inhabitants, too long at variance with erty, is being confronted with the Negro her professions of humaneness, has pro­ question far more seriously than the Korean voked the wide-spread notice of the Japanesequestion press. . The Asahi, Osaka, says of the Washington riots: We can not applaud the extreme militar­ ism of Japan. We are for the correction of What an irony that such disturbances militaristic tendency in the country. At the should have occurred in the capital of same time, we cannot give our endorsement America, the protagonist of the League of to the mistreatment of the Negroes in Nations! Most of the American papers fear America, who are persecuted by the whites that if all the Negroes, who amount to over in the name of democracy. 10 per cent of the whole population of Japan rose to correct its wrong done to America, should rise in revolt, the conse­ Korea in the past. When will the United quences will be very serious. Apprehension States solve the Negro problem ? alone, however, does not suffice to remedy And finally the Yorodzu, Tokyo, scores the situation. Is it not most urgently neces­ that other arch-oppressor of dark peoples— sary to rectify the arrogant attitude of the Great Britain:. whites toward, not only the black, but other What races have been and are being per­ colored races? secuted by the whites ? Indians, though The Maninichi, another Osaka paper, says subjects of Great Britain, are not given on the same subject: treatment in South Africa such as is becom­ ing human beings; they are not permitted to The principle of humanity not being exe­ enter Australia. This alone suffices to cause cuted in the country which professes to racial war. vindicate that principle, bloody strife oc­ curred in its capital, and the authorities are How are the Indians governed in their trying to prevent serious disturbances by own country? • According to the reports of proclaiming martial law. American states­ The Times, at the end of last year 3,000,000 men, not to mention Mr. Wilson, should first died from influenza during October and satisfy the 10,000,000 Negroes in America, November, 7,000 out of a total population before meddling in the affairs of other of 30,000, or about 22.5 per cent, dying in countries, on the plea of justice and human­ some cases. The average income of the ity. They discriminate the racial white from Indian is 19 yen, of which 3.70 yen, or about black, but confound the logical white and 20 per cent, is paid as taxes. Of a total black, and attempt to dictate to the world. population of 315,000,000 in India, 295,000,-

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000, or 94 per cent, are illiterate- Indians French society or French citizenship. live in such conditions under British rule. French women are criticized because of In view of this fact, it may be asked if Great their love for colored soldiers. But why Britain is qualified to speak of the "yellow should they hate Negroes as such? Or why peril" should they even ignore them for no other It is said that Great Britain is a country reason than their color? The Negroes' very of ideals and America of humanity, but polite, sincere manner, their exemplary con­ things happen in the two countries which duct among the French civilians and their are contrary to the principle of ideals and reckless, brave and courageous conduct on humanity. Even the Negroes, who are most the firing line won the hearts, not only of despised by the whites, have made a con­ the French women, but also of the French siderable intellectual advance and will not people as a whole. These brown skin sons bow to unreason. Have Europeans and of America were conceded to be the most Americans not been urging that no other lovable of all foreign soldiers on French races or peoples should be subjected to un­ soil. If French girls are to be regarded as reasonable pressure? Are they not able to unworthy because of their affection for find food for thought in the racial troubles j these men of color, then the French people now occurring in various countries and set as a whole must for the same reason be about amending their own attitude? As deemed unworthy. things stand there is little hope for the maintenance of future peace. The French people do not discriminate against their own colonials on account of THE NEGRO "IS NOT WITHOUT their color. They honor and respect them. HONOR SAVE—" It was the mighty Senegalese who saved EAN BOILEAU throws some light on a the day for their beloved France in the first J discussion which has been pretty widely battle of the Marne. And France is not mooted in the American press in the last ashamed to acknowledge her indebtedness few months. M. Boileau writes in the Balti­ to these conquering sons of Africa. The more Evening Sun: French girls would regard as unreasonable I should prefer to remain silent on the any criticism against them because of the question of the comparative merits of the social welcome they extend to their colo­ American and the French girls. But since nials, likewise, they cannot see the reason so much is being said in your Forum, favor­ or sense of any unfavorable comments be­ able and unfavorable to the girls of France, cause of their widely known, hearty attach­ I beg to state what I and thousands of other ment to American Negroes. Frenchmen believe to be the main cause of As compared with this "fault? of having all this hostile criticism of the women of my deep affection for colored Americans, all native land. other faults of French women sink into The main cause of this criticism is found insignificance. If the American people as in a letter to your Forum of the 6th instant a whole knew the fruitless efforts of these signed by "Allen P. Sadtler." Tour corres­ very ones who are finding fault with French pondent unwittingly "gives the game away" girls to prejudice their minds against Amer­ when he says that "the good French girl ican Negroes, they could then see, as I do, loves a Negro." This fact of French wo­ the real reason for all this talk against men's love tor American Negroes is the tap­ French girls. French girls have no hatred root of the unfavorable comments made by or prejudice in their hearts based on the white Americans against French women. color of the skin of other people. Is this French women were urged not to mingle a just cause for condemnation? French with colored American soldiers. They were people do not think so, and cannot he made told many awe-inspiring tales about Negro to think so. soldiers as a whole. But their social experi­ Many French girls will testify that they ences with these men of color absolutely received more courtesy and better treatment failed to verity the many stories which had from the American Negroes than from the been pouring into their ears. A brief social whites. No Negro ever referred to a French contact with the American Negro soon woman as a "jane" or with any other slur­ caused all fear to vanish like a stain of ring epithet. By the way, I notice that even vapor upon a mirror. But had the women of your correspondent uses the term "frog my country fallen victims to this subtle and jane" in reference to the French girl extensive propaganda launched in France If the failure on the part of French wo­ by white Americans against colored Amer­ men to hate and discriminate against Amer­ icans; had they allowed their souls to be ican Negroes merely because of race or filled with what is known in America as color be regarded as a fault, then French "nigger-hatred"; had they drawn the "color women are proud of such a fault. line" and refused to open their doors, their arms and their hearts* to the Americans of White Americans seem none too ebony hue, they would probably have been popular with either friend or foe* The exalted to the sky as being among the best Herald, "London, England, tells us: and most worthy girls on earth. According to the Morning Post, the Pan- But no! French women do not measure German Deutsche Zeitung is highly indig­ men according to the color of their skin. A nant at a report that 140 American soldiers white skin is not an essential attribute of have applied to their Government for per- THE LOOKING GLASS 345

mission to marry German girls. In an Or can it be a spontaneous, undirected article on the subject the Berlin paper says: surge ? It will not do to ignore it. "It is not an ignominious peace, but racial disgrace, that threatens our destruction. The Negro press is indignant. Dean The damage exists less in the marriages William Pickens says in the Advocate, themselves than in the fact that there should Portland, Ore.: exist German girls capable of entertaining If Dr. Moton or any other man cannot sec such an idea. These abandoned females may any reason for the Negro's intense feeling, conclude such 'love pacts,' but we shall there is surely something wrong with that refuse to admit such couples into our so­ man's reasoning faculties. ciety. We will fight by all the means in our power an infusion of blood by niggers, In the same column of the same paper Frenchmen, Indians, Tonkinesc, Americans, wherein I read these words attributed to and other such exponents of culture." Dr. Moton, I read the South's unintentional answer to the matter: "Abandoned females"! That has a famil­ iar ring. "Pine Bluff, Ark., Sept. 3. — Flinton Briggs, 26, a discharged Negro soldier, was shot and killed by a mob of thirty men three THE AMAZING MAJOR miles south of Star City, Ark." CCORDING to a widely quoted Asso­ A ciated Press dispatch, Major R. R. I wonder if Dr. Moton knows that it is Moton expressed himself thus on the race now the policy in much of the South to keep riots: the REPORT of the lynching of Negroes out of the papers, and that colored people are "I have never known the colored people to being killed and no report at all reaching have more intense feeling toward the white the press. If he docs not know and wants people than at the present," he said, "and I to, I will give him the names of well-known have never known a time when there was people who can give him places, details and less reason. I never knew a time when the ' references. white people of the South, not only the lead­ But still I insist that the most probable ing white people, but the average white man, were more anxious than at present to thing is that somebody has lied on Moton be absolutely fair and just to the Negro. in ascribing this absurd statement to him. This is also true of the North. The Savannah, Ga., Tribune, says point­ "There was never a time when the South, edly: and the North, too, saw more clearly the The address of Principal R. R. Moton of value of the Negro as an economic factor Tuskegee Institute, in which he is reported in industrial operations." to have said a few days ago that he doesn't The News, of Indianapolis, Ind., asks in understand the reason for the recent race not unnatural surprise: riots which have occurred in various sec­ tions of the country, and could see no reason Is it true that the bitterness is, as this for the intense bitter feeling which is being authority insists, all on one side? One could manifested by white and black men toward hardly say that all the Negroes are bitter one another, comes as no surprise, and against the whites, or all the whites against simply confirms the reports which have the Negroes. It will not do to judge races, been going the rounds of the country as to any more than nations, in this wholesale his addresses several months ago to the way. There arc extremists on both sides. Negro soldiers in France, when it is said We should like to believe that the great that he told the men to go back home, be body in each race is kindly disposed toward submissive and perfectly satisfied with con­ the other, and that the haters are in the ditions as they found them. minority in both. Yet Mr. Moton must be presumed to know his own people, and he A letter from Dr. Moton in the Philadel­ says that he has "never known the colored phia Tribune says: people to have more intense feeling toward the white people than at present." If that I feel that I ought to explain a part of is so, it behooves the white people to ask the statement which was given out in which themselves whether they are not largely to I said that the best white people in the blame for it. South were more determined than ever be­ fore that justice be given the Negro. I said If, as the major implies, the onus lies on that because I know that there is a large the Negro, the New York Post wonders: and growing group of white people in the Why, then, the hideous spectacle of mob South who are determined to handle the murder in the streets of Washington and race problem in such a way as to give pro­ Chicago and the lynchings and church burn­ tection and justice to the Negro. Their ings in the South? greatest handicap, however, is the menace The New York Sun likewise queries: of the lawless element of their own people who seem to be on the other hand more Whence, then, arises the dangerous fer­ determined than ever before to be more ment, the existence of which Dr. Moton ad­ unjust towards the Negro and to seek to mits' It is in evidence not merely in the humiliate and intimidate the members of South but along the "Border States and our race. even in the North. Who are its leaders? A Page of the Paris Petit Journal showing the flag of the Senegalese Sharpshooters decorated; in the corner are three white Colonial Generals and Blaise Diagne, Commissioner of Colonial Troops. The Horizon

VINCENT SAUNDERS EDUCATION JULIUS ROSENWALD is offering through appointed acting Director of the Agricultural Department, succeeding F. M. Cardoza, who resigned on account of his health; the General Education Board six scholar­ James L. Whiting is in charge of vocational ships to qualified Negro graduates of Medicalwork . Thschoole R.s Oo.f Tth. eC . Uniteis in dcharg Statee so ffo Major advancr e study in medical sciences. Expenses and William Wolcott; disabled colored soldiers support up to $1,200 will be provided. The are being trained, under the direction of Captain G. Kelly. Albion L. Holsey is sec­ appointments will be made in 1920 by a retary to Principal Moton. committee of which Dr. William H. Welch, *y The trustees of Morgan College, Baltimore,Md. , have agreed to buy the forty Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, is acres of the Morton estate, on Hillen Road. chairman. Applications may be made to They have in mind a school for training Secretary Abraham Flexner, 61 North teachers for rural school work, especially Broadway, New York City. in agriculture. Contractors are at work on Virginia Collegiate Institute hapledges takedn $10,000place. . Mr. Davis is a grad­ uate of Morehouse College and the University•JT In the of RichmondChicago, , anVa.d fo, rschoo the lpas savingt two s years has been executive secretary of the Y. M. system there are 3,509 colored depositors, C. A. at Washington, D. C. Two new teach­ as against 3,281 white depositors. ers for the institution were announced— INDUSTRY A. A. Taylor, a graduate of the University of Michigan, at the head of the Department THE Crossett, Ark., Lumber Company is of Mathematics, and Walker Bacon, a grad­ employing 500 Negro men and women. uate of Syracuse University, director of It maintains a nine months school, with five physical training and athletic coach. The teachers, and a Y. M. C. A. building is soon enrollment is 250, the largest in the history to be erected, of which Charles E. Johnson, of the school. formerly Army Y. M. C. A. secretary, will be in charge. 4JT At the meeting of the American Labor British Guiana, is carrying on

347 348 THE CRISIS a business as merchants and provision deal­ ness man, with colored people's money and ers. Mr. H. Critchlow is Managing Director. mostly colored labor. United Mine Workers. Samuel L. Pang- had an increase of 125 per cent in its re­ bum, a Negro, is district organizer, sources in one year—Sept. 1, 1918, $72,000; tj The Over-All Manufacturing and IndustrialSept. 1, 1919, $165,000Association . W. G. ,Pearso Inc., ant Hois t Springs, Ark., with a capital of $100,000, has been organ­ president and C. C. Spaulding, cashier. ized by Negroes for the purpose of operat­ CJT Negroes at Chattanooga, Tenn., have ing manufacturing plants and to secure filed articles of incorporation for the Chattanooga Coal and Manufacturing Company, enough land to develop a manufacturing with a capital stock of $15,000, to mine coal center among Negroes. George S. Washingtonand othe r mineralis presidents in Hamilto. n County and to manufacture coke and its by-products. The incorporators are J. D. Fazald, E. P. ty George H. Benjamin, a Negro clerk at Jones, Daniel R. Brown, Manson Flower and the Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, SOre.. A. , Wheelerhas been. promoted to the position of private secretary to the General Super-intendent. American Legion May for building and loan associations, to have been organized among Negroes in be organized and financed by Negroes in Philadelphia, Pa. each of the congested communities. A model (f An effort is being made to raise $50,000 form of constitution and by-laws of build­ among Negroes in New York for a monu­ ing and loan associations was sent to inter­ ment in New York City to the dead of the ested persons. Four companies have' been 369th Regiment of Negroes, New York's organized, with a combined capital of $235,- former "Fifteenth." 000, and stock sales are already in excess of Lieutenant Mosby B. Allen is manager. McAdam is in charge. (JT Negroes in Savannah, Ga., have organ­ Kentucky has met in Louisville, in Monroe, La., September 6, unknown Negro;its fifty-first annual session allege. Fivd eattac hundrek ond a white woman. Jacksonville, Fla., September 8, Bowman delegates and visitors were present. Reportsshowe d that $26,000 had been col­ Cook and John Morine; charged with mur­ lected for state work during the year and, der of George Dubose. including the pastors' salaries and local ex­ Athens, Ga., September 10, Obe Cox penses, a total of $212,000. There were over burned at stake; charged with murder. 8,000 additions to the church. Dr. J. E. Wood was re-elected Moderator. Pueblo, Colo, September 14, Salvador OrtexC Thane dLot Jost eCare Gonzaley conventios (Mexicans)n has . held a Omaha, Neb., September 28, Will Brown; three days session at Third Baptist Church, accused of assault on a white woman. Washington, D. C. More than 500 delegates Montgomery, Ala., September 29, Miles were enrolled. President-elect King of Liberia and his wife were present and spoke. Phifer and Robert Croskey and Ben Miller There were reports from twenty-two mis­ shot to death; charged with assault on white sionaries—Liberia, 6; South Africa, 6; and women. Haiti, 10. Nine new workers are to be sent Montgomery, Ala., September 30, John to foreign fields. The actual cash carried Temple; shot and fatally wounded Policemanup to the annual meetin Barbareg wa. s $25,460. The budget set for the ensuing year calls for an Jonesville, La., —, unidentified Negro expenditure of $40,000. Dr. C. S. Brown found hanging to a tree; reason unknown. was re-elected president. Dr. A. A. Graham Americus, Ga., October 2, Ernest Glen- of Phoebus, Va., was elected corresponding wood. secretary succeeding the late Dr. W. M. Washington, Ga., October 5, unknown. Alexander of Baltimore. Lincolnton, Ga., October 6, Jack Gordon and Will Brown, burned; charged with shooting two white men. Lincolnton, Ga., October 6, Moses Free­ (Jf The fortieth anniversary of the entrance man, shot; misleading mob searching for of Bishop J. S. Flipper into the ministry and Negroes. the educational rally have been held. A Macon, Ga., October 7, Eugene Hamilton. purse of $4,000 was presented to Bishop Flipper and $37,190 was raised which com­ MEETINGS pletely pays the indebtedness of Morris AT the International Conference of Brown, Central Park and Payne Colleges, Women Physicians, held in New York institutions in Georgia for Negroes, which City, at the Y. W. C. A., the Negro race are worth, combined, more than $300,000. was represented by Doctors Iona Whipper FRATERNITIES and Sarah Brown, of Washington, D. C, THE Supreme Royal Circle of Friends and Dr. Rice, who has been doing service in has held a three days convention at the French Army. Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago. More than

POLITICS Negro, and editor of the Phoenix Tribune. . G. ALEXANDER, a colored physi-

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STENOGRAPHERS WANTED All Races Prepare in the best school of its kind in the State. Indoor Toilet Subjects Convenient — Sanitary Shorthand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, English, Pen­ ^"he Comfort Closet for Homes, Summer manship, Civil Service Training, and SPANISH. Cottages and Camps. Entirely odorless. COMMERCIAL CLASS Scientifically ventilated. Strong chemi- cals dissolve contents; kills all germs. Easily Lenox Community Center—at installed. Convenient to move. Contents dis­ posed of easily as garbage. Prevents fly PUBLIC SCHOOL 89 breeding and water contamination. Provides Lenox Avenue and 135th St., New York, N. Y. sanitary,odorless toilet in borne protected from cold and stormy weather. Only closet with por­ Open All Year—Four Evenings Weekly. celain container. Easily cleaned. Approved Fitz W. Mottley, President. by U. S. Health Bureau. 30 Days' Free Trial. Agents make $60 to $100 weekly. Exclusive territory. Ask for booklet—FREE. COMFORT CHEMICAL CLOSET CO. The Lincoln Hospital and Home 1670 Factories Bldg. Toledo, Ohio TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES in the city of New York BUSTS OF Booker T. Washington. offers to young colored women a three Fred Do uglass, Paul, years' course of instruction in nursing. Lawrence Dunbar, Capacity of hospital—420 beds. Bishop Richard Allen. Post Graduate Course of six months to $1.50 each. The 4 bust, (or J5.00 graduates of accredited schools. Agents wanted. Send at once. For information apply to: The Isaac Hathaway Art Superintendent of Nurses Company Lincoln Hospital and Home 718 S. HICKORY STREET PINE BLUFF, ARK. New York, N.Y.

HALE INFIRMARY AND NURSE TRAINING Telephone: Capitol 4957 SCHOOL, 32S Lake Street, Montgomery, Ala. JNO. C. NORMAN Offers to High School graduates and young Registered women of higher education and good moral character, between the ages of 18 and 35, a Architect and Engineer three years' course in the profession of nurs­ ing. For further information apply to the Office: 2d Floor, Room 6. K. of P. Building, Superintendent enclosing a stamp. Charlston, W. Va.

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"JUST THE PLACE FOR YOUR GIRL" Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls, Daytona, Fla. Beautiful location, ideal home life, fine, modern equipment. Courses include Kindergarten, Primary, Grammar, High, Normal, Vocational. Nurse Training at McLeod Hospital a specialty. Terms reasonable. Send for Catalog. MARY McLEOD BETHUNE, - - Principal.

The Slater Industrial and 1888 1919 State Normal School For Colored Youth of Both Sexes WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. I. Offering Standard Courses St. Paul Normal and la Academic Subjects In Industrial and Vocational Subjects, In Education. Industrial School II. Graduates receive the Teachers' Certificate. III. Located amid the foothills of the moun­ tain section of Western North Carolina LAWRENCEVILLE, VA. and the health conditions are ideal. IV. Accommodations excellent and expenses moderate. Thirty - Second Session For further information communicate with OPENED SEPTEMBER 1919 S. G. ATKINS, Principal SLATER STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, COURSES Winston-Salem, N. C. Primary, Grammar School, Normal, Industrial Graduates receive State High School Certificate which will admit to Standard Normal COLEMAN COLLEGE Schools and Colleges GIBSLAND, LA. SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS Supported by Baptist State Woman's Home Mission Society of Chicago and Boston and EXTENSIVE TRADE COURSES A. B. H. Society of New York. Students from six different states. Graduates ex­ Athletic Training, Football, Baseball, Tennis, Etc- empted on flrBt grade by Louisiana, Arkansas FULL COURSE IN MILITARY TRAINING and Oklahoma, O. L. COLEMAN, President For Catalog and Further Information address

Rev. James S. Russell, D. D., ST. MARY'S SCHOOL Principal An Episcopal boarding school for girls,- under the direction of the sisters of St. Mary. Address: THE LAWRENCEVILLE, VA. SISTER-IN-CHARGE, 6138 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.

Be a Soldier— Join the Reserve Officers' Training Corps Bell Phone Spruce 1924 30.Day System Position For Young Colored Men The Government furnishes uniform, equipment and an officer to give MILITARY INSTRUCTION Derrick Cadets pay their own board and lodging amounting to twelve dollars per month, but they may work out a small part, of this according as provision is made with Shorthand School the President Trades for Boys 12 Trades for Girls 7 Childs' Building All students cany on their regular academic, studies and trades courses in connection with, their military train­ ing. 1435 Chestnut Street Grammar School, High School, Normal School, College. PHILADELPHIA Camp Opened September 22nd, and Clones June 1st. If ycu want to train to be an officer apply for admission to Enroll Immediately to Hold Place SERGEANT THOMAS JOHNSON. COMMANDANT A. & M. College. Normal, Ala. in Class

Send for Enrollment Blank and full information Atlanta University Day and Evening Classes NOTE—We are enrolling Fall Students and Studies of the Negro Problems would advise all who desire to take Special 20 Monographs Sold Separately Address Course to send in application AT ONCE as places will be at a premium. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY n ATLANTA, GA. Mention THE CRISIS. THE CRISIS ADVERTISER 353

Reconstruction

War — and its aftermath—has opened the eyes of our people. They are now seeing and thinking straight. They now demand of individuals and enterprises seeking their patronage and support, performance rather than glittering promises. They also de­ mand evidences of stability in such enterprises and experience on the part of those conducting them.

The management of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., rejoices to see this day—They have labored, in season and out, for 26 years to help to bring about just such improve­ ment in our business relationships. The Southern Aid Society of Vir­ ginia, Inc., has always issued a supe­ rior contract—The only one guaran­ teeing payments for Sickness and Ac­ cidents each week of every year and an -undiminished Death Claim after death. To-day it challenges the country to show a better record—than the fol­ lowing—for an institution confining its business to its Home State.

26 years of satisfying service to policy-holders. $30,000.00 Capital Stock, fully paid in. $50,000.00 Federal, State & City Bonds. $50,000.00 1st Lien Mortgages—Loans to our people tc secure good homes in desirable locations. $100,000.00 Cash in Banks. $150,000.00 Real Estate—Free from all encumbrances.

We invite the scrutiny of the reconstruction attitude of the insur­ ing public.

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THE MOST ATTRACTIVE LOT OFFER EVER MADE! IDEAL BUILDING LOTS, improved and developed, with FRUIT TREES PLANTED ON THEM, in Beautiful ORCHARDVILLE FOR 50 ON VERY ONLY $49 EASY TERMS This offer is attracting the attention of people of room for a house, garden, chicken yard, shed, from all over the country and the demand for etc., besides the fruit trees that we will plant the lots is increasing very rapidly. A GREAT and take care of on each lot. EACH LOT IS MANY HAVE ALREADY BEEN SOLD and from GUARANTEED TO BE HIGH AND DRY all indications we do not think it will be, long UNDER A MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE, AND before they will all be sold. THE CONTRACT YOU GET GIVES YOU Orchardville is located in a high-grade fruit-grow­ JUST THE PROTECTION YOU MIGHT ing region and is to be developed along entirely WANT. new lines into a BEAUTIFUL FRUIT CITY The price of the lots, as stated above, is only that will be the only one of its kind in the $49.50 each, and the terms are only $3.00 a month. country. (Smaller terms when more than one lot is pur­ Unlike other lot offers, where the purchasers are chased.) NO INTEREST. left to develop their lots themselves, WE DO Bear in mind that the NUMBER OF LOTS IS THAT FOR YOU AND PLANT FIVE HIGH LIMITED and that it is a case of FIRST COME GRADE FRUIT TREES ON EACH LOT, as FIRST SERVED. We have a beautiful circular well as A BEAUTIFUL SHADE TREE, and we that gives you all the details of this offer and take care of the property and trees for FOUR which you will find very interesting. Send for YEARS WITHOUT EXTRA COST. When the a copy TODAY. fruit trees are in commercial bearing they should Simply write your name and address on the earn you EXCELLENT YEARLY RETURNS on coupon attached below, mail it to us NOW and your investment WITHOUT ANY EFFORT ON as soon as we receive it we will send you the YOUR PART. circular without any obligation to you. SEND The lots are sized 30 x 144 Feet and have plenty FOR IT RIGHT AWAY I ADDRESS THE SWAN-ARENSON REALTY & DEVELOPMENT CO. 19 SO. LA SALLE STREET CHICAGO, ILL. WRITE PLAINLY

THE SWAN-ARENSON REALTY & DEV'PT. CO., Chicago, 111. Date .., 1919. Gentlemen:— I am interested in your Orchardville lot offer and would be glad to receive one of your circulars without any obligation to me. Name Address , Town State c. 11-19.

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Clef Club

Singers and Players Managing Corporation Incorporated

A Clearing House for Artists Made in the U. S. A.

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The business of making music for New Yorkers is a growing one. We desire to extend and enlarge the business of our corporation, to give the best of service to our long list of influential patrons and to bring the biggest returns to the members and stockholders of our organization. We offer Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00) worth of stock to persons with foresight and judgment who are interested in this growing enterprise. Your money will be invested in New York City real estate in the heart of the city where we plan to build a club hotel with all modern conveniences and com­ forts for its patrons and friends.

Address all communications to Clef Club Singers and Players Managing Corporation, Inc. Deacon Johnson, President and General Manager, 134 West 53rd Street New York, N. Y.

Mention THE CRISIS. 356 THE CRISIS ADVERTISER FLORENCE COLE-TALBERT Soprano " She has one of the best voices that God has el Ten her race."—Los Angeles Times. " Special praise must be given Mrs. Florence Talbert KELLY MILLER'S who beside her natural gift has already reached a high plane of professional accuracy."—Herman Devries in Chicago Amer­ ican. Engagements accepted for Concerts, Recitals. Oratorio. Race Statesmanship Mrs. Talbert will make her first tour of the southern states beginning September first at Arkansas. Write for daU now. 659 Twenty-eighth Street, Detroit Mich. Exhibited in Two Great Pamphlets CLEOTA J. COLLINS 1. "The Negro in the New Re­ construction." Considered the most Soprano powerful plea that has yet come from She has a very lovely lyric soprano voice the author's pen. 10 cents. of beautiful quality and sings songs with style and intelligence. Her recitals are very 2. "The Disgrace of Democracy." interesting.— Pronounced in Europe and America LILA ROBESON as one of the most striking literary Of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York documents produced by the World '56 Hamilton Avenue, Columbus, Ohio War. io cents.

Clarence Cameron White Agents wanted everywhere. Rates to agents 5 cents a copy. Add 10% VIOLINIST to bill to cover postage. "Critics are one in their high estimate of the splendid Address attainments of Clarence Cameron White and his Con. cert appearance in your city KELLY MILLER means the musical event of the season." For terms and dates address Howard University Washington. D. C* 616 COLUMBUS AVENUE BOSTON, MASS.

Roland W. Hayes Phonograph Records Berean Manual Training 3 Warwick St., Boston, Mass. and Industrial School Recitals, Concerts, Oratorio, Opera Booking Engagements for Continental Tour COLLEGE AVE. AND NORTH 19th STREET Season 1919-1920 PHILADELPHIA, PA. Management: M, J, Minor, 2 Mills St., Roxbury, Mass. (Founded 1899) Fall Term opened October 7th, 1919. "Winter Term, January 6th, 1920. Spring Term, April 6th, Manuel's Employment Agency 1920. {Licensed) Generally, Night Sessions, Special Day Sessions. Twenty years of honorable records and worthy First-class situations supplied in private families to male traditions our trade mark. Helpfulness our object. and female help with good characters and references. Ac­ Efficiency our aim. Better Courses, Better Equip­ commodations for strangers coming to [this city. Address ment, Better Teachers. Enroll with us. Visit the school or write the Principal. G. W. MANUEL 20 Essex Street Cambridge. Mass. MATTHEW ANDERSON 1926 S. College Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. WILLIAM RICHARDSON Would you like to know why the Negro and Caucasian Baritone are mixing in spite of prejudice ? Then, read Concerts—Recitals—Oratorio " As Nature Leads," by 3. A. Rogers, author of " From Superman to Man." Undoubtedly the most fearless analysis Joint concerts with of the Negro-Caucasian situation by any author. The writer Maud Cuney Hare, penetrates to the very heart of the subject and In a style bubbling with vigor he puts in the clearest language thoughts PiantMt of your innermost consciousness. Arguments supported by the Address: world's greatest scientists and philosophers. Easily read. 170 "Walnut Ave., Roxbury. Mass. A book you will read and re-read and give to your friends. Price. $1.25; by mail, $1.35. Agents wanted. Dept. A, Hayes Book Store, 3640 State Street, Chicago. III.

MISSING Pages in AMERICAN History A book of ninety-two pages, bound in paper, revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America: 1611-1812. Price (U. S. money order) $1.01 My court© in Penmanship" Bookkeeping, and Shorthand Address L. E. Wilkes through the mall will prepare you lor the position worth 1404 Franklin St., WASHINGTON, D. C. while. Write for information. " It should be widely distributed."—O. G. Villard. " I will put this copy in Harvard Library."—Prof. A. R D. A. Nolley, M. Pen., 519 Michigan Ave., Buffalo N.Y. Hart. THE CRISIS ADVERTISER 357

Scott's official History of the American Negro in the GREAT WAR Bishop Hartsell of the Methodist Episcopal Church writes as follows: "I have read your history of The American Negro in the War and want to congratu­ late you on having issued so quickly a volume of so much value. The official records will have a very wide circulation and be assured a permanent place among the masses. The candid and fair spirit which characterizes all your public utterances is manifest." A Proud ..Chapter Written by Emmett J. Scott, A.M., in the History of LLD., Special Assistant to the Negro Race Secretary of War, Newton The official and authentic D. Baker. history of the true part Assisted by the follow­ played by the Negro in the ing notable individuals: great World War, written Dr. Carter G. Woodson, by a man whose valuable Director of Research, The experience, intimate con­ Association for the Study nection with every phase of of Negro Life & History, the direction of the great Inc. Ralph W. Tyler, AccreditedRepresentativ e of struggle, makes it possible the Committee on Public to publish the true facts. Information, who accom­ panied the colored troops A great historical volume to war fronts in France. that should be in every William Anthony Aery, Negro home. Gives inside Publication Secretary, facts and accurate and of­ Hampton Normal and AgriculturalInstitute . Monroe N. Work, Director Divisiono f Records and Re­ ficial data and pictures search, Tuskegee Normal which will appear in no and Industrial Institute. other book. Every chapter is full of the very informa­ Emmett J, Scott, tion which you have been A.M., L.L.D. anxiously waiting to know. This Great Book tells Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nel­ all about the Negro Everywherei n the World War son (formerly Mrs. Paul — How He Did His Duty, Laurence Dunbar) leader in every capacity — from Agents Wanted in the mobilization of col­ right up in the front line ored women of the coun­ trenches and on the bat­ Make $8.00 to $20.00 per try for war work under tlefields — clear back to day — right now — selling the auspices of the Wo­ the work of keeping the Scott's Official History — men's Committee, Coun­ home fires burning; on the best book, biggest seller, cil of National Defense. farms; in the mills and quickest money-maker for Miss Eva G. Bowles, Executive Secretary, in munition plants; on the live agents. New from charge of the colored railroads and steamships; cover to cover. Be first in work of the Young Wo­ in shipyards and factories. your territory and get the men's Christian Associa­ Men and women with the orders. We pay you high­ tion. Lieut. T. T. Thompson, Historian who accom­ Red Cross, the Y. M. C. est commissions. panied the famous 92d Di­ A., the Y. W. C. A., the vision, U. S. A. to France. War Camp Community FREE Write today Service, the Liberty Loan for free outfit, Drives, etc. including agents' sample Over 600 large pages book and full instructions. (equal to 800 ordinary Send 25 cents to prepay pages). Scott's Official History postage. was written for the Negro Profusely Illustrated with nearly 150 official by the Negro that the French and American wonderful record of dar­ Negro War Photographs, ing deeds, gallant bravery Copy mailed to any address showing all sides of War Activities and. Negro sol­ and undying heroism of upon receipt of $2.90 for dier Life, from the Call our black troops might cloth binding or $3.75 to the Colors on Through, never perish. A great tri­ the Training Camps. for Morocco binding Then to the Battle bute to the patriotism of Fronts and back to the the Negro Race. Happy Home Coming.

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1. Stories of Jesus by Frank Harris.

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TWO GREAT NEGRO BOOKS

~~ 744 Pages, 100 Pages of Negro Soldiers. 50 Pages of other appropriate and interesting pictures. THE KELLY MILLER HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR is all that the title can possibly mean. The author takes up the Great Conflict, following Emmett J. Scott's it step by step through the thirty excellent chapters, including the Terms of Peace. War History The Negro's War for Democratization—He braces Himself and Claims to be the Champion of Democracy—Enters the Arena of Combat I (A Few Interesting Chapters.) The German Indigent—The South Sensitive— Colored Officers and How They Were Trained. The North Quizzical—The Whole World Hesi­ Treatment of Negro Soldiers in Camp. tant. The Negro Combat Division. The Negro Turns the Tide at Chateau Negro Soldiers Overseas. Thierry—He Helps Hurl Back the Hordes of Negro Heroes of the War. the Hun—Wins His Place and Right to a Negro Soldier as a Fighter. Voice in the Affairs- of Mankind against Pre­ The Spirit of the Negro at the Front. judice, Ridicule, Race Hatred and almost In­ Negro Music That Stirred France. surmountable Obstacles! When the Boys Came Home. The book is bound in durable cloth, with German Propaganda Among the Negroes. substantial head band, price $2.50. In Full What the Negro Got Out of the War. Kerotol Morocco (similar to cut) $3.25. Copy The 38 chapters are interesting and instruc­ mailed to any address upon receipt of the tive. There are 600 pages, size 7x9 inches; price. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re­ price $2.90. funded.

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