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Offers courses leading to certificates, diplomas and degrees. Morris Brown University Atlanta, Ga. 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 Chris tian influence. Well equipped dormitories; sane STATE UNIVERSITY, Louisville, Ky. athletics under faculty supervision. Expenses rea Founded 1879. sonable. Location central and healthful. The only Institution In the Stat* having (or 1« object Departments: Theology, College, High School Nor Colled.te, Ministerial. Medical, and Legal training for Col mal, Commercial, Musical, Domestic Science, Scwmg, ored citizen. Id Kentucky. Printing and Tailoring. Special training In Insurance. Social Service, Nursing and First Semester began September, 1920. {format! Commercial. Mule Domeetl* Science, Mlulenari For further information address training ijiT" _ JOHN H. LEWIS, President olM com*. DaVM offered. BISHOP J. S. FLIPPER, Chairman Trustee Boar 1 Pre.ld.oa C. H. Paiilsh Msatfea Tn Caws. 196 THE CRISIS ADVERTISER
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Mention T 1 Crisis. THE CRISIS Vol. 21. No. 5 MARCH, 1921 Whole No. 125 opinion W. E. B. Du bois A QUARTER MILLION whose destiny rests so largely with EAR before last the N. A. A. you in the next four years, one in C. P. counted 90,000 members; every ten is of Negro descent. last year because of the as Your enemies in the campaign sault on our secretary in sought to count you among this num Texas and the post-war slump in all ber and if it were true it would give united effort we had about 88,000 us deep satisfaction to welcome you members. This year, recovered and to the old and mystic chrism of Negro- alive, with a new secretary and new land, whence many mighty souls have assistants, with our hands so full of stepped since time began. work and the field so ripe for harvest But blood and physical descent are that we scarcely know where to be little and idle things as compared gin, we are launching a spring drive. with spiritual heritage. And here We are going to find 250,000 red- we would see you son of the highest: blooded black and white men and wo a child of Abraham Lincoln and men who believe in freedom and in Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Doug the methods which we have proven lass ; a grandson of Thomas Jefferson worth fighting with. and John Quincy Adams; and a If you belong to us, renew your lineal descendant of the martyred membership now and bring a brother. Fathers of the Free of all times and If you have been sitting on the side lands. lines, cheering, get into the game. We appeal to you: we the outcast If you have been standing outside and lynched, the mobbed and mur criticizing and doubting and hesitat dered, the despoiled and insulted; and ing, read our record printed in these yet withal, the indomitable, uncon pages, and get busy. Do something. quered, unbending and unafraid black Join us! Help us! We have not all children of kings and slaves and of the the wisdom, but we have some. We best blood of the workers of the have not yet created a new heaven earth— and a new earth, but we have done WE WANT THE RIGHT TO more than talk and gesticulate. Mem VOTE. bers of the N. A. A. C. P. pay from WE WANT TO TRAVEL WITH $1 to $10 or more a year. OUT INSULT. THE CRISIS costs $1.50 a year. WE WANT LYNCHING AND Spend at least $2.50 now on free MOB-LAW QUELLED FOREVER. dom for your children. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR OUR BROTHERS IN HAITI. AN OPEN LETTER TO WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING We know that the power to do these Sir: things is not entirely in your hands, Y an unprecedented vote you but its beginnings lie there. After have been called to the most the fourth of March, on you more powerful position in the gift than on any other human being rests of mankind. Of the more the redemption of the blood of Africa than hundred million human beings and through it the peace of the world. 197 198 THE CRISIS
All the cruelty, rape and atrocities of were practically supreme in the civil slavery; all the groans and humilia ized world; but the character of the tions of half-freedom; all the theft African continent was such that this and degradation of that spirit of the supremacy brought no continental Ku Klux mob that seeks to build a unity; rather the inhabitants of the free America o'n racial, religious and narrow Nile Valley set their faces to class hatred—the weight of all this ward the Mediterranean and Asia woe is yours. more than toward the western Sudan, You, Sir, whether you will or no, the valley of the Congo and the At stand responsible. You are responsi lantic. ble for the truth back of the pictures From that time even in the rise of of the burning of Americans circu the Sudanese kingdoms of the 13th, lated in European drawing-rooms; 14th and 15th centuries there was for the spectacle of 82% of the voters still no Pan-Africa; and after that of the South disfranchised under a the slave trade brought continental government called a democracy; for confusion. the hypocrisy of a nation seeking to In 1900 at the time of the Paris Ex lend idealism to the world for peace position there was called on January when within its own borders there is 23, 24 and 25 a Pan-African Confer more murder, theft, riot and cruci ence in Westminster Hall, London. fixion than was ever even charged This conference said in its address to against Bolshevik Russia. the world: In the name of our fathers, Presi "In the metropolis of the modern world, in this the closing year of the nineteenth dent Harding, our fathers black and century, there has been assembled a congress white who toiled and bled and died to of men and women of African blood, to de liberate solemnly upon the present situation make this a free and decent nation, and outlook of the darker races of mankind. will you not tear aside the cobwrebs The problem of the twentieth century is the of politics, and lies of society, and the problem of the colour line, the question as to how far differences of race, which show grip of industrial thieves, and give themselves chiefly in the colour of the skin us an administration which will say and the texture of the hair, are going to be made, hereafter, the basis of denying to and mean: the first and fundamental over half the world the right of sharing to and inescapable problem of Ameri their utmost ability the opportunities and can democracy is Justice to the Amer privileges of modern civilization." ican Negro. If races cannot live to A second conference was held at gether in peace and happiness in Tuskegee Institute about 1912. America, they cannot live together in Finally, at the time of the Peace the world. Race isolation died a cen Conference in Paris, February, 1919, tury ago. Human unity within and the first Pan-African Congress was without Nations, must and will suc called. The interest in this congress ceed—and you, Sir, must start bring was worldwide among the darker- ing this to pass. peoples. Delegates were elected in the United States, the West Indies, PAN-AFRICA South and West Africa and elsewhere. HE growth of a body of pub Most of them, of course, were pre lic opinion among peoples of vented from attending by war meas Negro descent broad enough ures and physical difficulties. to be called Pan-African is a However, there did assemble in movement belonging almost entirely Paris, 57 delegates from 15 countries to the twentieth century. where over 85,000,000 Negroes and Seven hundred and fifty years be persons of African descent dwell. fore Christ the Negroes as rulers of Resolutions were adopted taking up Ethiopia and conquerors of Egypt the question of the relation of Africa OPINION to the League of Nations, and the its very wide influence and activities. general questions of land, capital, la Many of these movements will be bor, education, hygiene and the treat represented in the second Pan-Afri ment of civilized Negroes. Blaise can Congress next fall, and out of Diagne, Deputy from Senegal and this meeting will undoubtedly grow Commissioner in charge of the French a larger and larger unity of thought Colonial Troops, was elected presi among Negroes and through this, con dent of a permanent organization, and certed action. At first this action will W. E. B. DuBois of the United States, probably include a demand for politi Editor of THE CRISIS, was made sec cal rights, for economic freedom— retary. A second congress was called especially in relation to the land— to meet in Paris in September, 1921. for the abolition of slavery, peonage Meantime, the feeling of the neces and caste, and for freer access to edu sity for understanding among the cation. Africans and their descendants has THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS been growing throughout the world. ORTY-ONE nations, including There was held from March 11-29, nearly every Negro and mu 1920, the National Congress of Brit latto and colored government ish West Africa. This body after | of the world, have met in careful conference adopted resolu Geneva and formed the assembly of tions concerning legislative reforms, the League of Nations. This is the the franchise, administrative changes, most forward-looking event of the a West African University, commer century. Because of the idiotic way cial enterprise, judicial and sanitary in which the stubbornness of Wood programs. They also stated their row Wilson and the political fortunes opinion concerning the land question of the Republicans became involved, and self-determination and sent a the United States was not represent deputation to the King. The deputa ed. But despite its tumult and shout tion, consisting of 3 lawyers, 2 mer ing this nation must join and join on chants, an ex-Deputy Mayor, a physi the terms which the World lays down. cian and a native ruler, went to Eng The idea that we single-handed can land and presented to the King a de dictate terms to the World or stay out mand for the right to vote, local self- of the World, is an idea born of the government, and other matters. folly of fools. Other movements have gone on. In The Parliament of Man, the Fed the agitation for Egyptian independ eration of the World, is a fact; but ence there is a large number of men it is not a fact calling for the sigh of of Negro descent. In South Africa, relief or the folding of hands. The the African Political Organization question of control leaps to the fore and the Native Congress have had a front and that control, thanks to the number of conferences and have sent insincere Wilson, the astute Lloyd delegates to London, protesting George and a cynical Clemenceau, against the land legislation of the rests today in the hands of the im Union of South Africa. perial, military and industrial dicta In the Canal Zone and in the West tors of the world. It is the next duty Indies have come movements looking of the world to wrest this power from toward union of effort among peoples them. With a world of democracies of African descent and emphasizing this would be easy and the first step the economic bond. In the United toward World Democracy in the States there is the National Associa League of Nations is Democracy in tion for the Advancement of Colored each nation. "Self-determination", a People, with its 90,000 members and "world safe for democracy", a "new 200 THE CRISIS freedom" for all men,—black, brown, in the American Federation of Labor yellow and white—these slogans sur to keep out Negro workingmen. All vive the downfall of the man who this contains no word of argument mouthed them and are as eternally against the ultimate freedom of Ire true and pressing as though he had land—which God speedily grant!— never lived. but it does make us remember how in this world it is the Oppressed who BLEEDING IRELAND have continually been used to cow and 0 people can more exactly in kill the Oppressed in the interest of terpret the inmost meaning of the Universal Oppressor. the present situation in Ire 1 land than the American Ne THE WOMAN VOTER gro. The scheme is simple. You u>P «MIHE colored women have made a knock a man down and then have him W&gji splendid record at their first arrested for assault. You kill a man E y&& national election. Applying and then hang the corpse for murder. EgaJal for registration in large num We black folk are only too familiar bers, they endured purposeful delays with this procedure. In a given city, and deliberate insults. They have a mob attacks us unprepared, unsus shown themselves in states like pecting, and kills innocent and harm Georgia and Louisiana to be more less black workingmen in cold blood. modern and sensible than their white The bewildered Negroes rush together sisters; and throughout the country and begin to defend themselves. Im they cast a large and influential vote. mediately by swift ledgerdemain the In the encouragement which they mob becomes the militia or a gang of have received before and since the "deputy sheriffs". They search, election there has been but one false harry and kill the Negroes. They dis note. James B. Dudley, colored presi arm them and loot their homes, and dent of a state school in Greensboro, when the city awakes after the "race N. C, came out in the local paper be riot", the jail is filled with Negroes fore election with several columns of charged with rioting and fomenting advice to colored women not to at crime! tempt to vote. The arguments ad So in Ireland! The Irish resist, duced deserve no particular consider as they have resisted for hundreds of ation. They were the familiar re years, various and exasperating forms marks about "women in the home" of English oppression. Their resist and the general unwisdom of Negroes ance is called crime and under ordi "meddling" in politics. Mr. Dudley nary conditions would be crime; in received the usual pat on the back retaliation not only the "guilty" but from the white editor. The grave and the innocent among them are mur astonishing thing about this is that at dered and robbed and public property this late day a Negro leader, North or is burned by English guardians of the South, should dare to advise colored Peace! men or women not to vote. This was a general procedure 25 and even 15 All this must bring mingled feel years ago, but we have almost forgot ings of dismay to Irishmen. No peo ten it, and it is to be hoped that ple in the world have in the past gone James B. Dudley is the last of a pitia with blither spirit to "kill niggers" ble group. from Kingston to Delhi and from Kumassi to Fiji. In the United States, Irish influence not only stood Bishop C. H . Phillips is not dead, as behind the mob in Cincinnati, Phila the February CRISIS intimated. We delphia and New York, but still stands wish him a long and happy life. 201 National • Associaiion - for the Advancement of Colored.-People.
THE BATTLE OF 1920 AND BEFORE (Eleventh Annual Report, Abridged) A PAID organization which demands the Congress, including inter-marriage, "Jim •*• support of thinking men must at reg Crow" bills, service in the Army and Navy, ular intervals make an account of what it segregation, etc., we did efficient work in has done, what it proposes to do, and what helping to kill every one; of 11 similar moneys it has received and how it has ex bills in the 64th Congress not one was made pended them. into law largely because of our work. In §1—What we have done many cases of laws about to be enacted we The N. A. A. C. P. was founded in 1909 have succeeded in protecting the rights of and incorporated in 1911. From that time colored people, as in the Smith-Lever Bill to 1920 it held in the United States nearly for national aid to agricultural training 2,000 large meetings and conferences1 —not and in the Civil Rights Bill enacted in New to mention thousands of other meetings at York and copied in several other states. which it appealed for justice for Americans We have especially sought to attack the of Negro descent before, perhaps, four mil barbarous practice of lynching. We have lions of people. raised an Anti-Lynching Fund which was In addition it sent 4,462,899 copies of first used to call a great anti-lynching con THE CRISIS to every state in the Union and ference. We sent literature concerning to every country on the globe. It distrib lynching, together with pictures, all over the uted millions of copies of other literature. civilized world so as to arouse protest from It has from the first taken the matter of men like Bernard Shaw and others. We the rights of American Negroes into the have helped in the passage of a law in Ken courts. Court cases have been defended in tucky to punish sheriffs who surrender pris volving false arrest, peonage, segregation, oners. We have made the statistics of "Jim Crow" cars, the right to vote, inter lynching available to everyone and we have marriage, civil service, rioting, lynching, encouraged a series of careful personal in slander and civil rights in general. Many vestigations. We have made special efforts of these cases have been lost; but we have to create judicial precedents and to put won remarkable victories, as in the case of states on record against lynching by induc the segregation law, which was declared un ing governors in three notable cases to re constitutional, November 5, 1917, and in the fuse to extradite Negro prisoners threat case of the "Grandfather Clause" for which ened with lynching. Finally we have had in we joined with others in defending a suit troduced into Congress bills to investigate which resulted in the outlawing of that lynching and to punish lynchers by Federal method of disfranchisement. action. We have won hundreds of civil rights We have especially given attention to the cases involving the right to use theatres, economic rights of Negroes, investigating restaurants and other places of public en workingmen's riots like those in St. Louis tertainment, from Boston to California, and and Chicago, opposing discrimination we have gained forward looking decisions against Negroes in civil service and in labor in peonage and lynching cases. unions, disclosing illegal efforts for stopping Another avenue of work has been to op colored workers from migrating, and illegal pose hostile legislation. In this we have oppression in places where they have gone. been signally successful. Of 13 anti-inter In the outbreaks of race rioting we fur marriage bills introduced in state legisla nished investigators, lawyers and publicity. tures in 1913, we helped to kill 12; of 20 In elections we have questioned leading anti-Negro measures introduced in the 63rd candidates, from presidents down, on their
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attitude toward our civil rights. We kept Association or any one else furnished any one judge, who had decided that Negroes capital for that magazine—except that dur had no right in Pullman cars, off the bench ing the first five years of its existence the of the Supreme Court, and we have helped Association paid part of the editor's salary to defeat congressmen and other officers and furnished TH E CRISIS office space. For whom we considered enemies of the race. these contributions the total expense of THE We have fought discrimination in great CHISIS to the Association from 1910 to 1915 public movements, as in the National Bar (outside of what it would have expended if Association, and when the World War broke THE CRISIS had not been, founded) was about upon us we began a fight that made Negro $9,000. Since January 1, 1916, THE CRISIS officers possible. We carried on the effort has been absolutely self- supporting and not to secure for them fair treatment and pro a cent of the money contributed to the N. A. motion. We worked against discrimination A. C. P. is used to support TH E CRISIS. in the draft in the S. A. T. C. and against §2—The Present nurses and physicians. We led the march of Coming now specifically to the year 1920 Silent Protest which was made in a dozen we are glad to be able to report progress. cities against unpatriotic discrimination. The outstanding work for the year has been We have aided unjustly condemned pris our defense of Arkansas peons, the expo oners, from poor little Virginia Christian sure of conditions in Haiti, the pushing of in Virginia and Pink Franklin in South anti-lynching legislation, assistance in de Carolina to the 12 victims of intended judi feating the Graham Sedition Bill, the win cial lynching in Arkansas. ning of a half-dozen cases involving civil We have initiated a Pan-African Congress rights and discrimination; and activities to as a means of assembling together Negroes increase and guide the Negro vote during and persons of African descent throughout the campaign. the world for self-knowledge and self-protec In Arkansas 12 men were condemned to tion. death and 67 were sentenced to long terms To do this work our officers in a single of imprisonment as a result of the "riots" year traveled over 100,000 miles, and in the when these men tried by legal methods to col ten years they have traveled a distance equal lect their wages and were met by mob mur to twenty times around the earth. der. To support this work we have sought the In Arkansas on March 29 the State Su co-operation of men and women of every race preme Court reversed the death verdict of who believe in justice. the Phillips County Circuit Court in the Our membership has grown as follows: cases of Ware, Giles, Fox, Banks, Martin Branches Members and Wordlow because the verdict was im 19)2 3 329 1913 10 1,100 properly rendered; and the cases were re 1914 24 3,000 manded for new trial. At the same time 1915 50 6,000 1916 70 8,785 the court affirmed the verdict of death in the 1917 80 9,282 1918 165 43,994 cases of F. Hicks, E. Hicks, Moore, Knox, 1919 310 91,203 Coleman and Hall. At the re-trial the first 1920 356 88,277 6 were re-sentenced to death. The cases Work like this costs money and we have were then re-appealed to the State Supreme raised during these 11 years the following Court. This court a second time reversed sums: the verdict on the ground that Negroes had 1911 $5,108.90 1912 11,816.15 been excluded from juries in Phillips County 1913 : 16,841.73 in contravention to the 14th Amendment and 1914 14,030.70 1915 13,094.30 the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The briefs 1916 23,521.48 1917 14,427.27 upon which this verdict was based were 1918 29,454.11 prepared by our legal committee in New 1919 61,755.70 1920 47,211.53 York. Governor Brough made an apparent The total contributions to the Anti-Lynch effort in the newspapers to influence the de ing Fund (included above), 1916 to 1920, cision of the Supreme Court while the have been $30,232.69 of which $29,676.59 has cases were being reviewed the second time. been expended. Robert L. Hill, head of the Progressive No part of this money has gone for the Farmers' and Household Union of America, support of THE CRISIS magazine, nor has the had been accused of fomenting the alleged 204 THE CRISIS
JAMES W. JOHNSON MARY WHITE OVINGTON W. E. B. DU BOIS riots in Arkansas. He disappeared but was had been tried by civil authorities, although arrested in Topeka, Kansas. The Governor a soldier, and sentenced to death. The case of Arkansas asked for his extradition. The was taken to the Supreme Court of the National Office and the local branches imme United States and appeals were made to the diately moved in Hill's defense. The result governor of Alabama, but without success. was a long legal fight, but on March 23 Gov On June 16 the lynching of 3 Negroes ernor Allen decided that Hill was not guilty was reported at Duluth, Minn. We imme of the crime charged and that if he were re diately had the circumstances investigated turned to Arkansas his life would not be and induced Governor Burnquist, president safe. He thereupon refused extradition. The of our Saint Paul Branch, to especially in State of Arkansas attempted then to secure terest himself in the case. Full reports of Hill's extradition through the State and the lynching and the alleged crime were Federal Courts, but the case in the State made and affidavits were secured from 14 Court failed and the case in the Federal other colored men who were being held on Court was withdrawn by the United States the same charge as those who had been Department of Justice on representation lynched. We found that it was not proven from the N. A. A. C. P. As a result Hill is that any crime had been committed. Our free. local branches defended 13 of the accused Maurice Mays, who was charged with the men in court, one of whom was acquitted murder of a white woman in Knoxville, by a jury, 5 were dismissed by order of Tenn., has been defended on the general be court, and 6 had the indictments against lief that he is not guilty. The Knoxville them dismissed at the request of the pros Branch had the case investigated and with ecuting attorney. Only one of the men the help of other Tennessee branches a new was found guilty and his case has been ap trial was secured. pealed. We also secured indictments Mr. E . R. Franklin, of Mississippi, was against 21 persons who participated in the sentenced to 6 months in prison, fined $400 lynchings. These cases have not yet come and beaten by a mob for selling THE CRISIS. to trial. When justice was asked for him the gov We sent a special investigator to Florida ernor threatened the editors of THE CRISIS. to investigate the riot and disfranchisement Through advice from N. A. A. C. P. head against Negro voters. His reports were quarters the people of Jackson, Miss., final published in THE CRISIS and other journals ly arranged to cover Franklin's bond and and laid before Congress and the Depart he escaped to the North. ment of Justice. We found that between Besides these cases we are defending 30 and 60 Negroes had been killed at Ocoee, Thomas Ray to prevent his extradition that the United States Constitution in many from Michigan. Florida towns had been violated, and that This year we continued our defense of the Ku Klux Klan was intimidating colored Edgar Caldwell, who killed the conductor people. of a street car in Anniston, Ala. Caldwell The Association has been pushing the N. A. A. C. P. 205
ROBERT W. BAGNALL ADDIE W. HTJNTON WILLIAM PICKENS resolution of Senator Curtis to investigate law. Public hearings have been held and lynching and the bill of Congressman Dyer the fight will be continued until successful. to make lynching a Federal offence. We In the New York Post Office a colored have been represented at hearings and sub-clerk who had resigned to enter the helped in the perfecting of the bill. In Naval Service and had made application for March Governor Morrow signed an anti re-instatement after his discharge, was, de lynching bill in the presence of a committee spite the law, kept out of his job. The of colored citizens headed by the president National Office interfered and he received of the Frankfort Branch of the N. A. A. C. re-instatement. The Association has taken P. This bill provides for the removal of a up the matter of discrimination against peace officer who surrenders his prisoner railway trainmen. The Assistant Secretary and punishment for lynchings and at in company with the representatives of the tempted lynchings. Association of Colored Railway Employees In June, Representative Graham of Penn of Memphis and Louisville conferred with sylvania introduced a bill giving the Depart the United States Railway Administration ment of Justice the right to punish seditious at Washington. Their whole contention acts and to prohibit the use of the mails for was not granted, but an increase in wages the purpose of promoting such acts. When amounting to $12,525 monthly and back pay amended this bill would have made it im amounting to $125,000 were secured. possible for THE CRISIS to be issued or the In the Brooklyn High School the Associ N. A. A. C. P. to carry on its propaganda ation secured the admission of 6 colored against lynching and mob violence. Our seniors to the annual promenade after it Association was represented at the two had been decided that they should not attend. hearings on the bill and branches and mem In March the Association sent James bers all over the country sent protests. The Weldon Johnson to Haiti where he- stayed bill was defeated. 6 weeks and studied the American invasion. In California our branches have won a He published a series of articles in The civil rights case which settles the fact that Nation, which put the administration on the assigning special seats by the management defensive, and led to startling disclosures. in theatres is segregation and therefore il The specific charges made in the articles legal. In Colorado after a two years' fight on conditions in Haiti were: (1) that some our branches have won a decision that a 3,000 Haitians had been killed (2) that men bootblack stand is a public accommodation and women had been tortured (3) that Hai and that Negroes must not be discriminated tian autonomy was overthrown by force or against. In Wisconsin the Milwaukee threat of force (4) that the salaries of the Branch has been successful in winning a President and other high officials of the restaurant case brought under the Civil Haitian government had been held up be Rights Act. In Connecticut and Rhode cause they would not sign a contract giving Island our branches are still fighting for a monopoly of money shipments to the Na civil rights bills based on the New York tional City Bank of New York (5) that a 206 THE CRISIS
rigid censorship prevented any communica tion of "Jim-Crow" cars in inter-state traf tion from Haiti concerning the conduct of fic, national aid to education, a proportion the United States Marines. ate number of Negro soldiers and officers in As a result of Mr. Johnson's visit to the Army, the abolition of racial segregation Haiti and the consequent publicity, the in the civil service of the United States, and Commander of the Marines was asked by withdrawal from Haiti. Two of the 17 can Secretary Daniels to make a report on con didates questioned replied, one of whom was ditions there and Mr. John Mcllhenny, Senator Harding. financial adviser of Haiti, was summoned to The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Washington to report on the general finan Association, held at Atlanta, Ga., May 30 cial situation affecting Haiti. June 2, was the greatest in many respects The charge that more than 3,000 Haitians of the 11 annual meetings of the Associa had been slaughtered by United States Ma tion. Prior to the conference much doubt rines was verified by the report of Briga was expressed regarding the extent to which dier-General Barnett, who not only placed the truth might be told at Atlanta. At the the number of those killed at 3,250 but re conclusion of the conference it was indeed ferred in his report to the "indiscriminate gratifying to note that every speech, every killings" which had taken place. When this testimonial, every conversation was frank, charge was first made the Secretary of the straight-forward, spoken without fear and Navy belittled it. Upon the publication of in earnest sincerity that was completely the Barnett report, Senator Harding was convincing. requested to reiterate the charges with all There were 228 delegates and members the strength at his command, whereupon he registered, representing 92 branches and 29 immediately called upon Secretary Daniels states; the total attendance at the 4 mass- for publication of all information in pos meetings and at the business sessions ex session of the Navy Department relating to ceeded 15,000 persons. Many were turned its administration of the Haitian republic. away from each mass-meeting, although the On the following day Secretary Daniels an largest auditorium which could be secured nounced the appointment of a Naval Board was the place of meeting. of Inquiry. Then the charges made by the Especially gratifying was the attitude of N. A. A. C. P. began to achieve tangible the press. More publicity was secured for results. this meeting than ever before. The pro After a number of hearings in Washing ceedings of each day's session were carried ton, at which appeared Brigadier-General throughout the country and were reported Barnett, Admiral Knapp and John J. Mc with gratifying fullness and accuracy. De llhenny, the Naval Board of Inquiry left nunciations of lynching, disfranchisement, the United States for Haiti and there held the "Jim Crow" car, unequal educational hearings. Among those testifying before opportunities for colored children, as well the Board in Haiti were many Americans as frank discussions of remedies for these as well as natives, the principal witness be and other evils, were carried by the press, ing President Dartiguenave. in most cases just as given by the speakers. The Court of Inquiry absolved the Ma However, there was little editorial comment rines. This, of course, was to be expected on the conference by the southern press. from a court of inquiry consisting of In the presidential campaign we sent ques naval men acting on charges brought tionnaires to all presidential candidates and against a branch of the Navy, but instructions for voting to the new women already Representative Bland of Indiana voters; we encouraged colored voters has introduced a resolution providing for a throughout the country to register, and in Congressional investigation of the relations vestigated and published the election dis between Haiti and the United States, and criminations in Florida and elsewhere. Our a similar resolution has been introduced in representatives appeared before Congress the Senate by Senator Hiram Johnson. to advocate the reduction of congressional In February the National Office sent to all representation in the South. prospective presidential nominees a ques During the year we held 287 large meet tionnaire asking if they would favor Fed ings, 8 by the national office, in addition to eral laws against lynching, the enforcing of hundreds of smaller meetings. Our officers the 14th and 15th Amendments, the aboli traveled 77,500 miles. N. A. A. C. P. 207
The publicity campaign during the year Literature sates 643.71 Profit on emblems sold. 214.70 was notably successful—not only did THE 41,457.49 CRISIS reach a large number of readers but Loss for the year 1920. 6,993.30 also special and successful effort was made $18,460.79 EXPENSE under the direction of Mr. E. L. Bernays to Advertising $895.29 Clippings 123.42 spread the news of the Atlanta Conference. General expense and supplies 1,456.97 The outstanding press triumph of the year Legal defense appropriations. 840.86 Light 167.78 was Mr. Johnson's articles in The Nation. Meetings 1,005.26 The national importance which the Hai Multigraphing 420.76 Postage . . 3,403.90 tian expose assumed was reflected in the Printing, miscellaneous 4,091.86 Printing Branch Bulletin (net) 738.98 willingness of important newspapers like Rent 1,869.96 the New York Times to take statements Administrative salaries 8,001.08 Field work salaries 0,674.96 from the National Association in reply to Publicity salaries 700.00 the pronouncements of the Departments of Clerical salaries 11,994.94 Telephone 337.60 State and of the Navy. Telegrams 650.01 Traveling expense 3,100.53 The third important source of public no 1,341.63 tice for the Association was its exposure Depreciation on furniture and fixtures.. 174.55 Bills payable • .,934.61 of the widening activities of the revived Ku
Klux Klan. An interview with the Assistant BALANCE SHEET ASSETS Secretary on his investigation into the elec Cash in banks $2,309.12 Emblems (inventory) 769.30 tion day riots at Ocoee, Florida, was printed Furniture and fixtures 3,316.61 prominently on the first page of the New Petty cash fund 100.00 Bills receivable 70.00 York Evening Post and resulted in inter $6,564.93 views with other newspapers and a contro LIABILITIES Anti-lynching fund $556.10 versy between the Assistant District Attor Arkansas defense fund 1,214.61 Maclean memorial fund 69.16 ney and the "imperial wizard" of the Ku Pan-African congress 15.00 Klux Klan. Bills payable The Crisis 877.94 Frequent protests against disfranchise Miscellaneous 1,934.61 $4,667.32 ment of colored people during the election Net worth $1,897.61 were sent to Washington and extensively $6,664.93 published and commented upon. SPECIAL FUNDS * ' ANTI-LYNCHING FUND The total of recorded press stories sent Balance in bank Dec. 31, 1919 $2,843.63 out during the year was 131. This does Contributions ree'd during year 1920.. 1,864.91 not include a number of letters to editors $4,708.44 Expenditures during year 1920: in various cities urging anti-lynching legis Advertising $60.86 Meetings 341.26 lation, and on other subjects which elicited Multigraphing 113.93 editorial comment in which reference was Printing 970.58 Salaries 1,060.00 made to the National Association for' the Telegrams 48.75 Advancement of Colored People. Although it Traveling expense 474.00 Essay prizes 100.00 is impossible to estimate the volume of space Chicago* race riot 1,000.00 obtained in newspapers throughout the 4,169.38 country, the increasing success of the Asso Balance in bank Dec. 31, 1920 $639.06 ARKANSAS DEFENSE FUND ciation's publicity is measurable by the will Balance in bank Dec. 31, 1919 $4,814.77 ingness of important newspapers to give its Receipts for year 1920 3,889.13 statements prominent position. Further $8,703.90 more, the newspapers of New York City, Expenditures: Legal services $7,016.46 including the Tribune, the Evening Post, the Traveling expenses 341.03 Telegrams 118.40 Mail, the World and the Call, on several oc Multigraphing 13.51 casions sent reporters to the National Office 7,489.39 for authoritative information on race rela Balance in bank Dec. 31, 1920 $1,214.61 tions. THE CRISIS TREASURER'S REPORT REVENUE AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT of the YEAR 1920 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOB THE ADVANCE EXPENSES REVENUE MENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Paper $21,082.38 Sales $48,463.88 For the Year 1920 Printing 18,763.04 Subscription . . 17,106.68 GENERAL FUND Salaries 21,402.02 Advertising ... 14,691.96 REVENUE AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT General expense 6,262.46 Interest 110.79 REVENUE Postage 0,274.76 Contributions $14,900.10 Bad debts and 1,373.21 Membership 26,698.92 adjustments.. 2,699.31 208 THE CRISIS
Stat'y & supplies l,.'iS9.SO surpass the nominal quotas which have been Engraving 1,093.91 assigned by the National Office. Book Dept. (loss) 392.14 Deprec. on furn. 212.02 Robert W. Bagnall, formerly of Detroit $79,571.89 and for a number of years District Organ Net profit 801.32 izer for the Association in the Great Lakes $S0,373.21 District, has been added to the national staff BALANCE SHEET and will direct the drive. With him will be Dec. 31, 1920 ASSETS LIABILITIES associated Odhner and Kelly, drive special Cash in bank.. $54.55 Accts. payable: ists, who will act as consulting experts. Mr. Petty cash fund 25.00 For printing. $1,700,011 Liberty bonds . 1,500.00 Brownies' Book 1.10 Bagnall, through his long experience in As Accts. receivable: Paid in advance: sociation work, is thoroughly familiar with Advertisers. 6,311.85 "Hist, of Negro Agents 13,534.11 in War" . 83.25 the problems of the branches and is pecu Depos. w. P.O. 325.00 N. A. A. C. P. 877.94 $1,784.35 liary fitted to make the campaign a success. Inventories: NET WORTH 25,143.42 Mr. Bagnall was born in Norfolk, Va. He Paper 147.67 Books 123.27 received his education at the Norfolk Mis Furn. & fix. .. . 4,028.38 sion College; the Bishop Payne Divinity $26,927.77 $26,927.77 School, Petersburg, Va., and Temple Uni THE FUTURE versity, Philadelphia. Pa. After serving as Rector of Episcopal churches in Black- /~VN Sunday, April 24, there will be stone, Va.; Croome, Md., and Cleveland, Ohio, launched a nation-wide drive for a min imum of a quarter of a million members. Mr. Bagnall became rector of St. Matthews The drive will end on Sunday, May 8. From P. E. Church in Detroit in 1911. During his now until April 24 every branch of the N. charge he built a strong and powerful A. A. C. P. will carry on intensive work of church organization which leads in commu preparation which is outlined in the Febru nity activity in Detroit. ary issue of The Branch Bulletin. With this (The Eleventh Annual Report in full will thorough preparation every branch can far be ready April 1. Price twenty-five cents.) THE EMANCIPATOR OF BRAZIL
JESSIE FAUCET AND CEZAR PINTO
TOSe DO PATROCINIO and the 13th of bition, his means, his strength were but for •* May, 1888—a name and a date for Bra one end—the abolition of slavery in Brazil. zilians of color to conjure with! Patrocinio was no mere visionary, dream By 1854 the importation of African slaves ing of glory. The woes of the blacks were into Brazil was waning and by 1860, if not his birthright—even though he did not have before, it had come to a full stop. Then them to suffer, he could sense and embody the long fight of the Abolitionists began them as no one, not in his position, could. for the complete wiping out of the ancient For he was the son of a Catholic priest and curse. In 1871, in the reign of Dom Pedro a black woman. Though his father—a man II.—for all this took place while Brazil of education and wearing the orders of the was still an empire—the beginning of the Rose and of Christ—was kind to him and great reform was effected and a law was saw to it that his son received some train passed proclaiming the freedom of every ing, the boy's heart was with his mother child born thereafter of slave parents. All and her cause, and from that cause he slaves connected with the royal household never swerved. were set at liberty and an emancipation fund He must have been born about 1854 or was provided, to be applied annually to '55, for he himself tells in his autobiography the ransom of a certain number of slaves of how he began his life as a servant prac who belonged to private individuals. tically in the Public Hospital in Rio de This was a great step but the mass of Janeiro in 1868. "At that time I was be Negroes in Brazil were still groaning in a tween the ages of 13 and 14. The director hateful bondage. Into this crisis came of the hospital employed me because he striding Jose do Patrocinio—young, ardent, thought me original." His salary was fifty single of purpose. All his thought, his am cents a month, plus the four dollars which THE EMANCIPATOR OF BRAZIL 209
his father contributed every month toward his daughter Dona Isabel as regent. She his education! After a time this allowance had no small gift for statesmanship herself, stopped and the boy was left on his own but she allowed herself for a time to come resources. Later he managed to go to under the influence of Baron Cotegipe, an college as a student of pharmacology, re ardent anti-Abolitionist. Patrocinio, who ceiving five dollars a month from a benefi by now, having run the gamut of estab cent society. Somehow he pulled through lished newspapers, had started one of his and found him own, the City of self at the end Rio, attacked of three years a them both. graduate, Later when though penni Cotegipe was less. He tells a thrown from charming story power Patroci of how a friend nio, too astute at this point, to miss such a Joao R. Villa chance, rushed Nova, invited to the support him to his house of the princess to dinner and and called her then insisted on "The Fair his spending the Mother of the night. After Brazilians" and some hesitation "The Divine Re he acccepted the deemer." Writ second invita ing of the polit tion also, for a ical crisis which wrecked Cote dinner and a gipe, he said night's lodging cleverly to Isa meant very b e 1: "Your much. On go Highness is ing to the room saved; now you i s s i g n e d, he can rule." found therein to his amazement Both the Re all his posses publicans an d sions. He stayed the Abolition
on with these JOSE DO PATEOCINIO ists claimed Pa people, tutored trocinio by the their children and finally married their way, but he was indifferent to their claims. daughter. He made no secret of the fact that the par Publicity was the great weapon which ty which exerted itself most to further his he chose to carve out his lifework. In 1877 great ideal, would possess his influence. "The he joined the staff of the News Gazette. By social question of Emancipation," he wrote, 1879 he was wielding an effective and fear "brings near to me everybody that sympa less pen. He was a terrible agitator. For thizes with it, from the Emperor to the hum Patrocinio there was only one cause—abo blest slave." lition. And there were only two positions— In 1888 on May 13, Dona Isabel, with a pro or con. If a man was for abolition, Pat stroke of a pen set with diamonds and emer rocinio was with him. If he were not, Pat alds, signed a decree liberating 1,500,000 rocinio was against him, and "Have at slaves! him!" was his cry. He was like some one Patrocinio's cause was won and his hand obsessed. He spoke, he wrote, he har had helped to win it. He had seventeen rangued in his amazing style, he traveled years in which to taste the fruits of his abroad in the interest of his cause, he made great victory. Then he died, "the most in political alliances with but one end in view. defatigable apostle that the world has known Dom Pedro II. went to Europe and left for the abolition of slavery." THE FOOLISH AND THE WISE Sallie Runner Is Introduced to Socrates
LEILA AMOS PENDLETON
MRS. MAXWELL THORO (born Audrey do dan anything? I'd ruther know how to Lemere) tiptoed down the spacious hall read an' write dan anything in de whole, toward the kitchen of her dwelling whence wide world, an' den I'd nuvver do nothin' issued sounds, not exactly of revelry but— else but jes' dem two." perhaps jubilation would be a better fit. "Well, Sallie, I'm sure you would get very For in a high soprano voice her colored tired of reading and writing all the time; maid-of-all-work, Sallie Runner, for the but you're not too old to learn." past half-hour had been informing to the "Nome, not too ole, mebbe, but too dumb accompaniment of energetic thumps of a an' too sot in de haid, I reckun. Miss flatiron, whomsoever it might concern that Oddry, couldn't yo' read to me or talk to she had a robe, a crown, a harp and wings. me on ironin' days 'bout sumpin' outside uv Mrs. Thoro moved quietly for, enjoyable Starton? Cose I wouldn't want yo' round as was Sallie's repertoire, one could never under my feet on wash-days, but ironin' tell when she would do some even more en days is fine fur lissening." joyable improvising, and her employer knew "Why yes, Sallie, I'd love to do that. Why from long experience that Sallie's flights didn't you ask me before? Mr. Thoro and were much freer and more artistic when she I are re-reading an old school course, just was unaware of an audience. for the fun of it, and I'll share it with you. Just as Mrs. Thoro reached the kitchen I'm sure you would enjoy hearing about door the soloist started off on the verse, "I some of earth's greatest characters. How gotta shoes," so she stood quietly listening would you like to have me tell you about until the verse ended: Socrates?" "I gotta shoes, yo' gotta shoes, "Sockertees? Huh! Funny name! Socker All a Gawd's chillun gotta shoes; tees whut?" Wen I getto hebben goin' to put on my shoes "Well, in his time men seldom had more An' skip all ober Gawd's hebben. than one name, Sallie. He was the son of Hebben, Hebben! Ever'buddy hollerin' 'bout hebben Sophroniscus and Phaenarete. He was a Ain't goin' dere. sculptor and a philosopher." Hebben, hebben, goin' to skip all ober Gawd's "Gosh!" cried Sallie. " A sculpture an' a hebben." lossipede! Wusser an'mo'uv it! But go on, As the singer ceased she whirled around Miss Oddry, tell me mo' 'bout him." upon her employer with a loud laugh. "Ha, "Socrates was born about 469 years be ha, Miss Oddry!" cried she. "I knowd yo' fore our Lord, and died at the age of sev was dere. I sho is glad yo' done come, enty. He is said to have had thick lips, a 'cause Fse mighty lonesome an' powerful flat nose, protruding eyes, bald head, a tired. Jes' was thinkin' to myseff dat Fse squat figure, and a shambling gait." goin' to try to swade Brother Runner to "Why!" exclaimed Sallie. "He was a move away fum Starton. Nobuddy don't do cullud gentmun, warn't he? Musta looked nothin' here but git bornd, git married an' jes' lak Brudder Runner, 'cordin' to dat." git daid, an' wurk, wurk, wurk! Miss "Oh no, Sallie, he wasn't colored." Oddry, Fse goin' to tell yo' a secret." "Wal, ef he been daid all dat long time, "What is it, Sallie?" inquired Mrs. Thoro. Miss Oddry, how kin yo' tell his color?" "I don't lak to wurk. Nuvver did." "Why he was an Athenian, Sallie. He "Why, Sallie! That is a surprise," re lived in Greece." plied her employer. "I should never have "Dar now! -Dat settles it! Ever'buddy guessed it, for there is not a more capable knows dat my cullud folks sho do lak maid in town than you are." grease." "Yassum, I guess dat's right. I wurks "Oh Sallie! 'Greece' was the name of his wid my might an' I does whut my hands country, just as 'America' is the name of finds to do, but taint my nature doe. Muss ours." Sallie grunted. be my Ma's trainin' an' mazin-grace-how "Socrates," continued Mrs. Thoro, "was a sweet-de-sound mixed togedder, I reckon. very wise, just, and a good man, and he Miss Oddry, does yo' know whut I'd ruther loved his country and his countrymen very
210 THE FOOLISH AND THE WISE 211 much. He used to delight in wandering- "Miss Oddry," expostulated Sallie, "yo' through the streets of Athens, conversing keep on tcllin' mc Sockertees warn't cullud, with those whom he met, giving them the but yo' keep on tellin' me cullud things 'bout benefit of the truths he had discovered ami him. Wen we all b'lieve in signs an' seeking to obtain from each more truth dreams yo'-all alius says, 'It's jes' darky or new light. He spent the whole day in superstishun an' ignunce.' How yo' splain public, in the walks, the workshops, the dat?" gymnasiums, the porticoes, the schools and "Well, Sallie, in those days the most the market place at the hour it was most learned people were very superstitious. Of crowded, talking with everyone without dis course we know better now." tinction of age, sex, rank or condition. It "How yo' know yo' knows better, Miss was said that 'as he talked the hearts of Oddry? How yo' know yo' don't know all who heard him leaped up and their tears wusser? Dere's one thing I done found fur gushed out.' " sho, an' dat is dat de mo' folks knows de "Hole on, Miss Oddry," interrupted Sallie, less dey knows. I b'lieves in dreams an' "Jes' wanta ax yo' one queshun. While ole wen I follers dem I goes right. Cose I ain't Sockertees was runnin' round the streets, nuvver heerd no cujjus voice, but ef ole shootin' off his lip an' makin' peepul cry, Sockertees say he heerd it I b'lieve he heerd who was takin' keer uv his fambly? Sounds it. Nobuddy can't prove he didn't." mo' an' mo' lak Brudder Runner to me." "Very true, Sallie, but,—" "Well, Sallie, he had a very capable wife "Jes' one minute, Miss Oddry, please. who bore him three sons and whose nam? Dere's sumpin' I been thinkin' a long time, was Xanthippe. No doubt she managed the an' now I knows it. An' dat is dat wen ye' household. The only fault Socrates found come right down to de fack-trufe uv de in with her was that she had a violent tem side feelin's, peepul is all alak; black ones per." is lak white ones an' dem ole ancienty ones Sallie slammed the flatiron down and lak Sockertees is jes' lak dese here ones braced herself against the board, arms right now." akimbo, eyes flashing with indignation. "I believe there is some truth in that, "Vilent temper?" cried she. "Vilent tem Sallie, but shall I go on about Socrates?" per? Whut 'oman wouldn't had a vilent "Oh, yassum, Miss Oddry, I do love to temper in a fix lak dat? I sho do symper hear 'bout him." thize wid Zantipsy an' I doesn't blame her "He tried most earnestly to make people fur gittin' tipsy needer, pore thing. I think, to reason out what was right and betcha she was es sweet es a angel befo' she what wrong in their treatment of each got mahred, 'cause whut it takes to change other. He constantly repeated, 'Virtue is yo' disposition, a man lak dat sho is got. knowledge; Vice is ignorance', while to the It's jes' es much es a 'oman kin do to take young his advice was always, 'Know thy keer uv her house right an' raise her chil self.' " lun right wen her husband is doin' all he "Humph!" interrupted Sallie. "Mighty kin to hepp her, less mo' wen he ain't doin' good advice, Miss Oddry, but it's some job, nothin' but goin' round runnin' he mouf. b'lieve me. I'se es ole es Methusalum's Dis ain't de fust time I'se met a gentmun billy goat now an' I ain't nuvver found my whut loves he kentry mo' dan he do he home seff out yit. Dere's some new kink comin' folks. Go on, Miss Oddry, dear, tell me out ev'ry day. How 'bout you, Miss Oddry?" some mo' 'bout Reveral Eyesire Runner's "I think you are right, Sallie. But don't twin brudder." you think we are better off if we study our "Of course, Sallie," said Mrs. Thoro selves than if we just blunder along blind laughing, "Socrates was human and had his ly?" faults, but all in all he was a noble char "Oh, yassum, I guess so. But how did ole acter." Sockertees come out wid all his runnin' "I hopes so, Miss Oddry, but I'll have to round an' talkin'?" hear mo' fo' I 'cide." "Very sadly, I am sorry to say. Very "Socrates," resumed Mrs. Thoro, "believed sadly. Most of the Athenians entirely mis in signs and omens and in following warn understood him." ings received in his dreams; he also "Bound to," said Sallie. claimed that there was an inner voice which "He made a great many unscrupulous ene had guided him from childhood." mies." 212 TH E CRISIS
"Bound to," said Sallie. laws and he was willing to die for the same "They accused him of being the very op cause. He had many friends who loved him posite of what he was." truly and they tried to persuade him to es "Bound to," said Sallie. cape, but by unanswerable arguments he "And finally they tried him and con proved to them how wrong they were." demned him to death." "Humph!" grunted Sallie. "Tonguey to Sallie set down the flatiron and folded her de last! An' in de wrong way to de wrong arms, while her eyes flew wide open in ones." astonishment. "What?" she exclaimed. "Plato, who was a friend as well as a "Jes' fur talkin'? Wal I-will-be-swijjled!" pupil," continued Mrs. Thoro, "tells how "Yes," continued Mrs. Thoro. "They im beautifully Socrates died. He took the cup prisoned him and sent him a cup of hem of hemlock quite calmly and cheerfully and lock, which is a deadly poison, to drink." drained it to the dregs. When his friends "But he had mo' gumption dan to drink it, could not restrain their sorrow for the loss I hope?" they were about to sustain, he reproved them "It was the law of his country, Sallie, and and urged them to remember that they were Socrates was always, a law-abiding citi about to bury, not Socrates, but the shell zen." which had contained him, for he, himself, "Wal, fur gosh sake!" cried Sallie. "Whut was about to enter the joys of the blessed. He in de world was de use uv him havin' all dat tried to the last to make them see that un tongue ef he couldn't use it to show dem less they honored and obeyed all laws, their peeple wherein? He mouts well been es country could not long survive, because law dumd es a doodlebug!" lessness was the same as suicide." "But," explained Mrs. Thoro, "he had "Miss Oddry," said Sallie, solemnly, "don't spent his whole life in trying to make the yo' wisht we had one million of dem Socker Athenians love and honor and obey their tees down here in ower sunny Soufland?"
THE BLACK SWAN IT
TN 1809 a little black girl was born in Her education went on until Mrs. Green *• Natchez, Mississippi, and named Eliza field died. In 1851 she began her public beth Taylor. While still an infant, she reputation by singing before the Buffalo was brought to Philadelphia and reared by Musical Society. This led to invitations to a Quaker woman, Mrs. Greenfield. After sing in various other cities and in 1853 she that she became known as Elizabeth Taylor gave a concert at Exeter Hall, London. Greenfield; but because of her beautiful The Daily Register, of Albany, said: "The voice she is even better known by a better compass of her marvelous voice embraces name, the Black Swan. She early gave evi twenty-seven notes, reaching from the so dence of the astonishing power and rich norous bass of a baritone to a few notes ness of her voice. Lessons were given her above even Jenny Lind's highest." by friends. When Mrs. Greenfield learned Harriet Beecher Stowe says in "Sunny of this she summoned Elizabeth to her Memories of Foreign Lands": presence. "Prom this breakfast we returned to dine "Elizabeth," said she, "is it true thee is at Surrey parsonage; and, after dinner, at learning music and can play upon the gui tended Miss Greenfield's concert at Staf tar?" ford House. . . . The choicest of the "It is true," Elizabeth reluctantly con elite were there. Ladies in demi-toilet and fessed. bonneted. Miss Geenfield stood among the "Go and get thy guitar and let me hear singers on the staircase, and excited a thee sing." sympathetic murmer among the audience. The girl obeyed, and when she had fin She is not handsome, but looked very well. ished she was astonished to hear her kind She has a pleasing dark face, wore a black friend say: "Elizabeth, whatever thee wants velvet headdress and white carnelian ear thee shall have." rings, a black mohr antique silk, made CHICAGO 213
high in the neck, mascus blade to the with white lace fall heart. It was the ing sleeves and white inoro touching from gloves. A certain occasional rusticities gentleness of manner and artistic defects, and self-possession, which showed that the result of the uni she had received no v e r s a 1 kindness culture from art. shown her, sat well . . . Had she had upon her. Chevalier culture equal to her Bunsen, the Prus voice and ear, no sian ambassador, sat singer of any coun by me. He looked at try could have sur her with much in passed her." terest. 'Are the The Black Swan race often as good was often compared looking?' he said. I with Jenny Lind and said, 'She is not had it not been for handsome, compared her race, she might with many, though I easily have been confess she looks known as one of the uncommonly well to greatest singers of day.' her day. "Miss Greenfield's It is of interest to turn for singing now know that the pho came, and there was ELIZABETH TAYLOR GREENFIELD, nograph records The 'Black Swan" profound attention. which are about to Her voice, with its keen searching fire, its be issued recording the voices of great col penetrating, vibrant qua lity, its 'timbre,' as ored singers of the present time, are to be the French have it, cut ts way like a Da called the "Black Swan" records.
A CORRECTION
W. E. B. Du Bois
UNDER the caption "Marcus Garvey" we construed. Our statement that the Yar published in our December and Janu mouth is a wooden vessel was incorrect, ary numbers two articles which inci as it is in fact steel. We have naturally no dentally discussed the affairs of the Black intention to embarrass this corporation in its Star Line Steamship Corporation. We regret that certain statements therein might be mis business or operations.
CHICAGO U A Preliminary Study of Inter-Racial which may easily portend another crisis in Conditions in Chicago," by H. R. the nature of the race riots of July, 1919, Gold and B. K. Armstrong, has been issued when for three days minor civil warfare by the Home Missions Council. They say: reigned. * * * * Looking up the police record back to During the World War, as European im migrants returned to their countries and January 1, 1918, and down to May 1, 1920, many American workmen were sent to the the records showed 25 bombs directed at the cantonments, a labor shortage resulted in homes of colored people and 8 at the homes Chicago: likewise in other northern cen of white people who had sold real estate ters. Negroes came North in large num to colored people. In the later months the bers, attracted by higher wages and an bombing occurred with greater frequency, opportunity to escape restriction and dis 214 THE CRISIS crimination in the South. Chicago was par whites wherever there may be opportunity; ticularly attractive and accessible. The to engage in legal contest to maintain their colored population increased rapidly. In rights; to induce the city to afford them 1910 it was about 46,000; in 1917 about adequate police protection. 80,000; in 1920 about 125,000. Armour & The police made few arrests of the bomb Company employed less than 500 Negro workers in ltH6; in 1919 the number ex ers. ceeded 3,000. Today approximately 10,000 Comparing the cost of living and income Negroes are employed in the stockyards, of colored and white workers in Chicago, or about one-fourth of the entire number. Pittsburgh and elsewhere, the study says: These men and women were needed and wanted. They helped to prepare the meat 1. Cost of living: The average number that kept life and fight in the boys at the of persons per family is practically the front in Europe. tame, with the whites having three-tenths more members. Both spend practically the The result was a great shortage of hous same proportion for food, clothing, rent, ing in those districts where Negroes had furnishings and miscellaneous items. This been wont to live. They, therefore, over is true also of all the communities studied. The whites of Chicago spend about twice flowed into neighboring districts. as much for fuel and light as the colored The residents of the Hyde Park, Ken or white of Pittsburgh. As to surplus and wood and Grand Boulevard districts used deficit in the family treasury, we note them organized resistance to the invasion of the to be about the same in the two cities. The colored people. Thus the Kenwood-Hyde whites in the country generally exceed the Park Property Owners' Protective Asso colored by 17.6 per cent in surplus. ciation took it up. Vigorous propaganda 2. Income: The white husband has a resulted. _The depreciation of property larger annual income by $200 than the Ne values was" given much advertisement. The gro husband. The Negro wife contributes Negroes were held up to be undesirable about $5 more to the family budget, or neighbors in every way. They were repre about twice as much as the white wife. The sented as lacking culture, education and white children of the family contribute be sanitary standards. They were charged tween $200 and $300 more than the Negro with seeking to live among the white peo children. The total average annual income ple merely for the sake of doing so, and of the white family is about $300 larger with seeking "social equality"; with desir than that of the Negro family. ing to intermarry and form other social contacts with the whites. They were held The families were grouped according to up as a constant menace to white women. their annual income. The arrangement Every argument, whether tinged with fact brings out the fact that the largest per or wholly imaginary, was used to inflame centage of both white and Negro falls with prejudice against the colored people. The in the $1,200 to $1,500 income group for Journal, issued by this organization, is re both Pittsburgh and Chicago. For the plete with preachments against the Negro United States as a whole the average num and with plans and methods for his repres ber of Negro families is highest in the $900 sion. Some of the direct activities against to $1,200 income group; the whites in the the Ne£n'oes are these; Campaign among $1,200 to $1,500 income group. In the in real estate dealers of the district to offer come group under $900, 8% of Pittsburgh no property for sale to the Negroes. Cam whites but 10.2% of Pittsburgh Negro fam paign to boycott the employment of Negroes ilies are found; in the income groups about who do not live within the allotted black $2,100, "239c of whites and but 2% of Ne belt. Hotels particularly are urged to ob gro families are found. * * * * serve this rule. * * * * When the husband's income is not ade The Negroes are entirely within their con quate for the family the wife and children stitutional rights when they purchase prop are called upon to assist and lodgers are erty wherever they desire and can do so. taken into the family. The consequences The propaganda and the violence evidenced of this are often serious. The wife's in the bombing do not stop them. They strength and attention are divided, children themselves have organized. Their organ are exploited, the family circle is invaded. ized activities in this connection come chief The study leads to the conclusion that in ly from the Protective circle. The pro Chicago the percentage of mothers at work gram is to make a study of the contested is 10.2% Negro, 2% white; children 12.2% district and learn how many colored people Negro, 11.8% white: lodgers in 18.4% of the own property there; to discover what en Negro homes; in 5.9% of white homes. For cumbrances are on property held by Ne the United States as a whole it is 43.7% groes and help in retaining this property to 8.9%; 24.6% to 18.6%; 12.7% to 5.1% by financial assistance when money from respectively. white lenders is withdrawn; to learn the 3. The $300 difference in annual income: extent and result of the bombing and heart The outstanding fact is that the Negro en the people to hold their ground; to en family has an income approximately $300 gage in a campaign of publicity and educa less per year than the white family. This tion among their own people and among is true although the Negro wife and children MEN OF THE MONTH 215 have helped to secure the budget oftener amount of money is spent for the necessar than the white, and lodgers are more fre ies of life and the usual distribution of quently taken into the Negro family. In the that income for these necessities is made. light of these facts, is there any wonder Given the same amount of leisure from toil why the living standard of Negro families and opportunity the Negro will seek cul is often lower than that of the white fami ture. In Louisville, Ky., one of the branch lies? For let it be remembered that the libraries is arranged to be used exclusively difference is not merely in money but in by Negroes. By comparison of the record time and strength and in the strain on fam of this branch with those of libraries used ily privacy and security. exclusively by whites the facts reveal that Why this difference in wage? It is in the Negroes read a larger proportion of the main summed up in the remark of a Chi serious books, biography, history and the cago foreman: "That job is a white man's like, than the whites; and the total average job; place that nigger elsewhere." A Ne for this city's serious reading is high. gro carpenter obliged an office manager by With regard to industrial status and ef making some alterations at night. Some one observing his skill asked about his wage ficiency, the study concludes: and learned it was considerably lower than Taking, then, the indications of these that of other carpenters. "But," remarked facts about percentages of skilled and un the Negro man, "they are white." To re skilled labor, turnover, time lost and wage strict the Negro's opportunity in more rates and adding to these observations the skilled occupations and to have him do the statements of foremen, managers and super common labor is one of the severest forms intendents, we may reasonably believe that of repression. The family income is thus under like conditions there is usually not lowered and the standard of living is neces much difference in efficiency. Wherever dif sarily fixed lower. When the Negro family ferences do appear we may look for varia has the same income, practically the same tions in conditions rather than in race. Men of the Month.
THE late Charles Redmond Douglass, Post No. 21, and Assistant Patriotic In son of Frederick Douglass, was born in structor; he was also a member of the Na Lynn, Mass., October 21, 1844. Mr. Doug tional Association for the Advancement of lass served in the 54th Massachusetts In Colored People, District of Columbia Branch. fantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry; In 1892 he established the summer resort on December 7, 1880, he helped to organize known as Highland Beach, Maryland, a the Capital City Guards' Battalion, in which tract containing 26 acres with a beach he served as a Captain and a Major; the or frontage of 1,400 feet. ganization is now the First Separate Battal Mr. Douglass is survived by a widow and ion, National Guard of the District of Co two sons, Joseph H., the violinist, and lumbia. In 1867 Mr. Douglass became the Haley G, a teacher in Dunbar High School. second colored appointee to a first-class clerkship in the War Department; he was ALONZO HERNDON was born a slave detailed from the Treasury Department, in at Walton County, Ga., in 1858. When 1871, to accompany the Santo Domingo he was 28 years old he went to Atlanta, Commissioners; in 1872 he was appointed having $11 in his pockets, and secured a Trustee of the Seventh School District, work in a barber shop. He became man Washington, D. C, and elected Secretary ager of the shop; later he bought the shop and Treasurer of the Board which was com and is now the owner of 3 barber shops, 1 posed of 5 white and 2 colored members; valued at $30,000 and 2 at $15,000 each. President Grant appointed Mr. Douglass He has visited most of the large cities in United States Consul to Santo Domingo, in America and several cities abroad to get 1875; he resigned this appointment for ideas for his business. Later he became work in the Pension Bureau. He was re the pioneer among colored men in the in tired in August, 1920, after 53 years in the surance business in Georgia. He organized Government service. the Atlanta Mutual, which has grown rap Mr. Douglass was a member of the Grand idly and of which he is the majority stock Army of the Republic, being Commander of holder. 216 THE CRISIS
Mr. Herndon has been married twice, his first wife being the well known Adrienne McNeill Herndon, a reader and actress of great abil ity; the present Mrs. Herndon was Miss Jessie Gillespie, of Chicago. Mr. Herndon's real estate is esti mated at $500,000; his income tax last year was $3,000. Recently he gave $10,000 for the purchase and equipment of a day nursery and kin dergarten in Atlanta.
THE late John C. Dancy was born at Tarboro, N. C, May 8, 1S57. He studied at Howard University and became a public school teacher. When 21 years of age he managed the campaign which elected his brother as Mayor of Tarboro, a city of 10,000 inhabitants. At the age of 23 he was elected Registrar of Deeds of Edgecomb County, and won two re-elections; for 8 years he was chairman of the Republican Execu tive Committee, for 16 years secre tary of the State Republican Con vention, and 4 times a delegate to the Republican National Convention, BETA CHAPTER, CHICAGO, OF TH] twice from the State-at-large. In 1891 President Harrison appointed Mr. Dancy 7 years and of the Quarterly Review; he was Collector of Customs at Wilmington, N. C.; also Financial and Church Extension Secretary President McKinley re-appointed him to this po of the A. M. E. Zion Church. He traveled ex sition. President Roosevelt appointed him Re tensively in England, Scotland, Ireland and corder of Deeds in the District of Columbia, in Wales. A widow and 3 children survive him. 1901, which position he held until 1910.
Mr. Dancy was editor of the Star of Zion, the DURING Leslie Pinckney Hill's administration official organ of the A. M. E. Zion Church, for as the principal of Cheyney Training
MRS. HENRIETTA WHITTINGTON MRS. J. A. COA8EY, Judge MRS. LUCY E. JENNISON MRS. M. L. Ward E JUDGES AND CLERKS AT THE MEN OF THE MONTH 217
He has been a teacher at Tuskegee and principal of the Manassas School, and is the secretary and treasurer of the Association of Secondary and Industrial Schools and the found er and president of the West Chester Community Center. A volume of poems by Mr. Hill, "The Wings of Oppression", is now in press. Mr. Hill was born in Lynch burg, Va., May 14, 1880. He married Jane Clark, formerly preceptress at Tuskegee Institute, and is the father of six children.
HARRY S. BLACKISTON is the youngest Doctor of Philosophy graduated in the history of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Blackiston was born in Philadel phia, where he completed the ele mentary school course in six and one-half years. At the University of Pennsylvania he received the de gree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1917; Master of Arts in 1918; Doctor
]|1PHA KAPPA ALPHA SOEOEITY of Philosophy in 1920, at the age of 23 years. He received the follow 'School for Teachers, at Cheyney, Pa., the ing awards: William P. Henzey scholarship, 1913 institution has developed from a private school 17; Mayor's scholarship, 1913-17; George Schlei to a standardized State Normal School. cher prize and medal for German conversation, Mr. Hill is a graduate of Harvard College, 1916-17; honorable mention in a Latin prose es where he received the degrees of Bachelor say contest, 1916-17; and the University scholar and Master of Arts. He is a member ship in Germanics, 1917-18. of the Phi Beta Kappa and one of the Mr. Blackiston is an instructor of German at iverning Board of the Kappa Alpha Psi. West Virginia Collegiate Institute. J. (See page 219.)
tILIAMS, CAUTION MRS. A. WILLIAMS, Judge MRS. JULIA DUNGEE, Judge iutive SECTION, BALTIMORE, MD. The Looking Glass
LITERATURE AS TO THE KU KLUX ZAMBESI BOAT SONG THE Imperial Wizard (!) of the Knights OUT from the waters deep of the Ku Klux Klan sets forth the Arose a misty cloud. purposes of his organization as follows: The palm-tree sprang from sand; it rears its "It was publicly stated when this modern head. organization was formed that it stood The white bird sings. pledged to proclaim and preserve in America four great fundamental principles, to wit: Now on the silvery stream Absolute and undying devotion to the gov The grasses nodding float. ernment of the United States and upholding The sand-bird builds her nest; her cry is and strengthening all the laws of the land heard. from the Constitution of the United States The sun sleeps on. down to the ordinances of the smallest com munity in the nation; perpetual maintenance Low in the west she goes, in America of white supremacy in all things The rocks are dark and cold. social, political and commercial; the com The village fires rise high with red and gold. plete and absolute separation of church and The night-jar sings. state, and the protection of woman's honor —Translated by E. KIDNEY. and preserving the sanctity of the home." * * * * * * We are glad to welcome the first issue of The Albany, N. Y., Telegram asks per Mimic and Poetry, published by the Holt tinently: Publishing Company, of Chicago, 111.; also Are the Knights who pledged "undying The Negro Outlook, published by The Ne devotion to the government of the United gro Outlook Company at Memphis, Tenn. States and upholding and strengthening all the laws of the land from the Constitution of An editorial entitled "Prospective" outlines the United States down to the ordinances of its purpose: the smallest community in the nation" as The policy of The Negro Outlook shall at strong for the enforcement of the Fifteenth all times be constructive—that is, its eye Amendment to the Constitution, which pro will ever look beyond the immediate and to vides for equal political rights to the Negro the final analysis of things. Its platform is and which was written into the Constitution founded upon the broad principles of human largely through northern influence, as they rights—the doctrine of God our Father, man are for the Eighteenth Amendment which our brother. We shall, at all times and was written into the Constitution largely under all circumstances, stand against the through the influence of the South? There inhuman monster, race prejudice. is strong conflict here. In the first place * * * "undying devotion" to the Constitution can not mean "perpetual maintenance in America J. Morton Finney, of the Department of of white supremacy in all things social, po Latin of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, litical and commercial." There is further Mo., has written a pamphlet on Some Cul conflict in the fact that the South fought for state rights in the war that came as a tural Values of Latin and Some Latin Au result of the spirit of the Fifteenth Amend thors. ment. In their hearty endorsement of the * * * Eighteenth Amendment they completely ig Two interesting books are Songs' and nored state rights. There is further conflict in their attitude toward the Eighteenth Talcs From The Dark Continent, by Natalie Amendment with their professed determina Curtis-Burlin, and Spring in New Hamp tion to have "complete and absolute separa shire and other poems, by Claude McKay. tion of church and state." The Eighteenth Mrs. Burlin's book is a compilation of the Amendment absolutely combines church and state functions. It can be regarded in no songs and stories of C. Kamba Simango, a other light than the enforcement of a church Portuguese East African, of the Ndau dictum through the law of the land. tribe, and of Madikane Cele, who is of the * * * Zulu tribe, Natal, Zululand, South Africa. It would seem that the enforcement of the Mr. McKay's volume is a slim but pre Fifteenth Amendment does not figure in cious fulfillment of his earlier promise. Both Wizard Simmons' desire to uphold the Con these books will be reviewed in a later num stitution, for he says in the Atlanta, Ga., ber of TH E CRISIS. Journal:
218 AL0NZ0 HERNDON THE LATE JOHN C, DANCY THE LATE CHARLES REDMOND DOUGLASS LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL HARRY S. BLACKISTON (See page 216) 219 220 THE CRISIS
The Ku Klux Klan is for the upholding of white friends". The Negro attending to his the law. It does not in any way seek to be business, working industrially to help in a law unto itself, but it does believe in building up the section and adding to the white supremacy. It believes that never in wealth of his community never has any occa the history of the world has a mongrel civil sion to complain of his white fellow-citizens. ization endured. It is opposed to the Negro The fact is worthy of the attention of those being allowed to vote, or the Japanese or the busybodies of the North who are eternaDy Chinese, because such suffrage means polit bent on "saving the Negro from his southern ical equality and is another way of saying oppressors." * * * that a Negro has as much right to occupy But in Doerun, Ga., a colored man must the office of governor or any other high position as a white man. be more—or should we say less?—than * * * humble, for the Albany, Ga., Herald tells us Paul Fulton writes in the Brooklyn, N. of— Y., Eagle of the memories which Negroes Rev. F. A. White, a Negro preacher from Doerun, who came to Albany after having still hold of that other Ku Klux Klan of half received a severe beating, which he said was a century ago. He does not feel, however, at the hands of four white men of that town, that the modern Negro will receive the new who told him they had been delegated by the Ku Klux in the manner of his forebears: citizens to punish him for teaching the Ne groes in the community not to work. White "We Negroes of New York who have mi denied this—he told his assailants that grated from the Southland are either victims he had never advised the Negroes in that of the Ku Klux or relatives of victims and community against wTork, but this did not we know its damnable work. Some of us satisfy them, as they told him that he had have fled from our cabins at the midnight set the Negroes a bad example by going hour to the swamps and watched our cabins about "dressed up and wearing a white col go up in smoke from the hellish incendiarism lar." He said that the white men took his of the agents of the 'invisible empire.' Some collar off and cut it to pieces for souvenirs, of us have had our hearts almost broken by before proceeding to the task of beating him. the groans of its victims, and we have The effects of the beating can be plainly hushed our voices to hear one word of sym seen on the pathy, and there was none. As we gather body of White, who is badly around our firesides at evening after the lacerated and bruised. He said that he was day's toil our thoughts unconsciously turn stripped naked and laid across a log by his to the Southland, to the home of the Ku tormentors, who used a heavy leather wagon Klux, and we wonder what new hellish broth trace. The four men, according to White, has been brewed by them. The name Ku took turns at beating him, one succeeding Klux spells rapine, license, murder, intimi another as fast as they became tired. The dation to the Negro. night was cold and a light rain was falling, "Their constitution is a 'league with Satan but the men went away and left White un and a covenant with hell.' They and their conscious, without having put his clothes kind are doing their best to wipe out the back on. He believed that they thought him dead when they left. Negro race by murder and rope. They and their kind are the only people who have un * * * dertaken to change the complexion of a According to the minister's own testi whole race. There is a day of reckoning mony, he must have fulfilled the most ex coming to the Ku Klux. We have not for gotten. The groans of the Negroes done to acting of southern standards for Negroes: death without judge or jury still ring in our He says the better class of white people at ears and make our nights hideous; the Doerun have always treated him kindly and stench from burning human flesh still of his business relations with them have been fends the nostrils of Almighty God. 'The pleasant. He declares that he tipped his hat mills of God grind slowly, but they grind to white people on the streets and never en the entire grist.' The day the Ku Klux tered the post office for his mail until all Klan becomes active in New York that day of the white patrons had been served. He will begin our reckoning with the 'invisible says, too, that he has never taken any part empire.' " in politics. * * * DOES HUMILITY PAY? Alas! that virtue should so often be its own only reward! The Herald concludes: White is a humble Negro. We never bother the good Negro * * * • » (nigger)," says the Southerner; United States District Attorney Hooper The Chattanooga, Tenn., Times undertakes Alexander bears witness in the Atlanta, to give a case in point: An Alabama Negro planter recently sold Ga., Constitution of the South's mistreat $15,000 worth of cotton he had raised on his ment of the Negro for no other reason than place, and The Clarion, a Negro paper pub that of his race: lished in St. Louis, ventures the guess that "If the people of Georgia were told the "there is one Negro who has not become in details of crimes that are constantly being volved in any sort of controversy with his THE LOOKING GLASS 221
committeed in this state against helpless Ne WEST AFRICA AND THE groes, they would be entirely incredulous. "The things of which I speak run all the LEAGUE OF NATION'S gamut from the meanest of petty cheating to UNION deliberate and plotted murder," Mr. Alexan DELEGATES from the National Con der said. "Ninety-nine out of every hundred of our people would utterly deplore and gress of British West Africa and the condemn what is going on, but something Executive Committee of the League of more is demanded of a civilized people and Nation's Union have met in London. From their government than mere sentiment. If a report of the speeches made by these the people of the state permit the continu ance of conditions that now prevail, sooner delegates it is plain to see Ethiopia is or later we will suffer a dreadful retribu stretching out her hand. The Honorable tion." Casely Hayford, in making an appeal for SOUTHERN CHIVALRY a measure of home government, said: THE Chattanooga, Tenn., Times told a Before ever the British came into relations story of a colored boy who was watch with our people, we were a developed people, having our own institutions, having our own ing some swimmers in the local Y. M. C. A. ideas of government, and the only great swimming pool. Subsequently he was ar thing we secured from the connection was rested on the charge of stealing money from the Pax Brittanica. Whereas formerly we the clothes of one of the swimmers, but used to have little differences among our selves, when the British came along we all the article says, insultingly, he didn't mind came together in a peaceful way and all that, for his— worked together in harmony for the greater complexion is of that color that knows no development of the country; but it would not flush of embarrassment nor pallor of dis be accurate to say we were a primitive people mav. and his soul is not of the quality that emerging from barbarism. Therefore, gen is apt to revolt against the associations of tlemen, from that point of view when we police headquarters. come to this country to appeal to responsible * * * authority to extend to us a certain amount Also The Times tells with great show of of freedom in the government of our own country, we are not asking for anything that detail of how this boy— is new. was arrested with the money intact, and was * * * promptly escorted to the police station. * * * The question of Civil Service, that sore place with the Egyptians under British rule, Now it turns out the next day that the is also touched upon: colored boy was not guilty and the real of As regards the Civil Service, we see in fender was a young white boy, a member of vidious distinction made notwithstanding the Y. M. C. A. Does The Times apologize? our education. We are men who are very It not only has nothing to say about calum eager to stand well among men, and a large niating the name of the colored boy, which number come to this country to be educated and take as good and as high a degree as it had given in full, but it withholds the any European can or does, yet when we re name of the real culprit. The lame expla turn to our own country where there is a nation follows: Civil Service, and we desire to be employed The information at first given The Times and to be remunerated equally as regards by a "Y" official was to the effect that the emoluments and positions with Europeans, colored boy was the thief. This mistake was we are relegated to a back seat. due to some confusion the official experienced * * * in getting the information from the police The custom of the British to expropriate station. The colored boy was arrested, along with several other darkies, en ployees of the the very land of Africa is keenly resented: "Y" who were subject to suspicion, and he I turn your attention, respectfully, Sirs, did spend the night behind the bars, but to the land question, and I may say very when the gray light of dawn broke the col briefly that in British West Africa the peo ored boy was set free and the taint was re ple know what their rights are with respect moved from his illustrious name, for the to the land. Those who know anything about real thief had been apprehended and the Africans know that if they want to keep in money recovered. good relations with them, never touch their "Y" officials, desiring to help the guilty land; it is like putting your finger into his boy to rise above future temptations, will eye. Therefore we think the principle of not prosecute. As a punishment it is possi trusteeship is carried to extreme where it is ble that he may be temporarily suspended made possible for Government to interfere from the "Y" membership, but even this with the result eventually that control is suspension, it is believed, will not endure practically in the hands of the Government long. For his own and his family's sake his in respect to our lands. Our people feel a name will not be disclosed. certain amount of unrest. We think to a 222 TH E CRISIS
large extent that the intelligent West Afri would be engendered toward such race or can is quite capable of taking care of his individual. In this connection we believe land without unnecessary governmental pa also that you will recognize the widespread ternal control. harm being done the Hebrew race by the Henry Ford propaganda. Dr. Bankole Bright speaks in behalf of In our efforts along this line we are hoping to have your co-operation to raise a the Cameroons and Togoland: struggling and often maligned race—at least I may be allowed to refer to the manda to the extent of deleting opprobrious and tory power now exercised by France over offensive references in your columns. Such the Cameroons and Togoland being a matter references, oft-repeated, cannot fail to incite which directly touches this League of Na and intensify race prejudice. tion's Union. I want it to be clearly under stood that I am speaking authoritatively when I say that there is general dissat BLACKS DEFENDED IN GERMAN isfaction amongst Africans, in British West PAPER Africa, with regard to France taking over Togoland and the Cameroons. CORROBORATION from a German source of official denials by the French The inhabitants of this country feel that Government of the repeated charges voiced the European nations have no right to come in the German press and elsewhere of whole and "partition our lands between them with sale abuses of women and children commit out consulting us." The Honorable Casely ted by the French colored troops garrisoned Ilayford concludes: in the occupied territory along the Rhine is We have no prejudice against the French. found in an article written by Lilli Jannasch But this we do say, Sirs, that the hope was in Die Fran in Sta-ats and quoted from in held out to the whole of the peoples of the the November issue of Die Friedens-Warte world as regards the right of individual of Leipsic. peoples of self-determination. It is not fair, it is not right, it is not just, that these peo "And how about the black disgrace? I ple should be handed over to Powers under lived a year in the occupied territory in a whose flag they would rather not live. It is little place garrisoned for months by several a crime and it has shaken the confidence of hundred black soldiers. The chief official of the people very, very greatly. And I ask you respectfully, Sirs( as the League of Na the district (Landrat) assured me that dur tion's Union), that you might well consider ing the entire time there had been no at that matter and give the people an oppor tacks upon women or children. In fact, the tunity to make representations: I ask you, blacks had become quite popular. And I Sirs, respectfully, firmly, emphatically that you might not allow any diplomatic reason heard the same opinion from the people. In to keep you from doing what is fair and many cases the blacks shared their meals what is right to the people of Togoland. with the children of the neighborhood. "From Ludwigshafen a lady said to me .4 TIMELY PROTEST last summer when I questioned her: 'When COLORED citizens of Springfield, Mass., we notice how scandalously our white have joined in a protest against the women and girls make friends with the tendency of the American press to identify blacks, how they flirt and accept gifts of race with crime in its headlines. If a white chocolate, etc., we are not surprised if a man commits a depredation he is spoken of misfortune occurs.' In fact, we know from as a murderer, burglar, drunkard, as the our own observation that many white women case may be. But the colored malefactor is find something alluring in entering into close always mentioned first as a Negro. These relations with blacks; this we have frequent citizens write in the Springfield Union: ly been able to verify when members of Ne Our attention has recently and often been gro tribes were placed on exhibition in forcibly called to the fact that when a Ne Germany. At the time of the Industrial Ex gro commits an offense of any sort against law and order, glaring headlines inform hibition in Berlin, for example, it repeatedly readers that the culprit is a Negro. happened that Negroes on exhibition there We believe, Mr. Editor, that you will agree disappeared for several days, and it was with us that the reading masses pay more town talk that women of 'good society' had attention to headlines than to body matter. been entertaining the Negroes. Similar They being a majority, easily swayed, will soon form a conclusion that the Negro is a things have happened in cities in all parts "bad lot." The same would be true if every of Germany, especially in Hamburg. Is not time an Italian, Pole, Slav or even a red this 'white disgrace' on the side of German headed man committed an offense, the women much worse than the 'black dis headlines should stress his race or type. It would not be long before bitter feeling grace'?" The Horizon
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MUSIC AND ART peared in a joint recital under colored man EUGENE MARS MARTIN, the 16-year agement—the Cosmopolitan Concert and *~4 old colored violinist, of New York, and Lecture Bureau of New York. his brother, David I. Martin, Jr., 13 years of G Cleveland G. Allen, a Negro in New ge, have given a recital at Hampton In York, has won a scholarship at the Angelus . titute. Miss Hazel Thomas assisted as Academy of Music, following a competition pianist. in which 108 competed. C Harry H. Pace, of Pace & Handy, Music MEETINGS Publishers, in New York, is in charge of a THE Inter-state Literary Association ox corporation capitalized at $100,000 to make Kansas and the West has held its 30th phonograph records of Negro artists. annual session. Professor Joseph L. Bowler G The Victor Company has made a record presided. Mrs. Myrtle F. Cook was elected of "Since You Went Away", by James W. president. In Kansas City there are 144 and J. Rosamond Johnson. The singing is Negro school teachers. • by John McCormack, and there is a violin C At the annual meeting of the National obligate by Fritz Kreisler. Historical Art League, held in Louisville, G Hazel Harrison, pianist, of Chicago, has Ky., there were exhibits in pastel, oil, water appeared in recital for her second season color and crayon by Mrs. Fannie R. Givens, under the management of F. Wight Neu Lottie B. Lee, Carrie Alexander, Mrs. mann. On her program were: Toccata for Courtney, Mrs. Willis and Mr. St. Clair. Organ in C major, Bach-Busoni; Nocturne, G The 3rd annual meeting of the Circle for Chopin-Liszt; Scherzo, Chopin-Liszt; Fan Negro Relief has been held in New York tasia quasi Sonate (after a lecture on City. A balance of $4,208 was reported. Dante), Liszt; Song of Repentance, Bee Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has been added thoven-Liszt; By the Sea, Smetana; The to the Board of Directors. The unit at Pa Chase, Paganini-Liszt; and Islamey (Fan latka, Fla., has paid $1,019 toward a com tasi Oriental), Balakirev. munity hospital; at Fort Valley, Ga., Miss C J. Harvey Hebron, a Negro of Philadel Maud Hyatt has been secured as community phia, has been made a member of the Music nurse. Miss Belle Davis is secretary of the Art Club and of the Pennsylania Manu Circle. script Society. At a concert of the latter G Arthur Schomburg, of New York, was organization Mr. Hebron's Sonata for vio elected president of the American Negro lin and piano was rendered. Mr. Hebron's Academy, which recently held its 24th an teacher is Dr. Philip H. Goepp. nual session in Washington, D. C. He suc C At the 11th annual Eisteddfod, held in ceeds John W. Cromwell. Philadelphia, Pa., under the auspices of the Young People's Society of the Welsh Pres EDUCATION byterian Church, Charles A. McCabe, a Ne PROFESSOR GEORGE W. COOK, Dean gro, won the Eisteddfod prize for violin solo. of the School of Finance at Howard Mr. McCabe presented Legende, Op. 17, University, announces his retirement after . Wieniawski, and was awarded the prize on 40 years service; for 10 years he was secre points of superior beauty of tone, elasticity, tary-treasurer of Howard. and rhythmic impulse. He is a pupil of G Payne University is to be moved from Edwin F. Hill. Selma to Montgomery, Ala., where St. Jos C Robert Perutz, the Polish violinist, and eph's Catholic School and 200 acres of land his accompanist, Josef Ruben, and Justin have been purchased for the institution at a Elie, the Haitian pianist-composer, have ap cost of $30,000.
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C Dr. M. J. Mullowney, professor at Girard 2,549 tenants; 57% of Negroes and 69% of Medical College in Philadelphia, has been whites are owners. elected president of Meharry Medical Col C On the opening day of the Binga State lege at Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Mullowney suc Bank in Chicago 1,100 people deposited ceeds Dr. George W. Hubbard, who has been $50,000; with the addition of $151,000 from made president emeritus after 40 years ser the Binga private bank the total deposits vice. were $201,000. G The endowment of Meharry Medical C David Turner, a Negro brakesman for College is to be raised from $68,000 to $500, the Union Pacific Railroad at Denver, Col., 000; of this sum $150,000 each is from the has been given a gold watch for preventing Carnegie Foundation and the General Edu an attempted hold-up. Mr. Turner has been cation Board and $200,000 from the Metho an employee of the company for 35 years. dist Church Board. (I Emma L. Shields has been appointed C The name of the State University at Special Agent in the Women's Bureau of Louisville, Ky., has been changed to William the United States Department of Labor, to J. Simmons University, in honor of its make a post-war study of conditions among founder. The institution has been operating Negro women in industry. Miss Shields is for 30 years and the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parrish associated with Dr. George E Haynes, Di is president. rector of Negro Economics. C. The Board of Education for Negroes, d A daily newspaper, the Richmond Col formerly the Freedmen's Aid Society of the ored American, is being published at Rich M. E. Church, reports that during 54 years mond, Va. D. Eugene Taylor, son of the of existence it has given to the church, late Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, is manager. 2,117 ministers, 335,000 members, 3,553 edi O George White, a Negro mail carrier at fices worth $11,000,000, and 3,633 Sunday Nashville, Tenn., during 38 years service has Schools, with 25,000 teachers and 225,000 travelled 138,790 miles. pupils; its schools have graduated 15,000 C James Meriwether, a Negro at Elberton. students and enrolled 205,597. Ga., has made a new record for bricklay C The annual Elbert L. Adams Prize De ing—in 2 hours he laid 12,000 bricks, or 100 bate has been held at Hampton Institute. bricks per minute. The subject was "Resolved: That capital C During the past year the assets of the and labor should be compelled to settle Mechanics Savings Bank, at Savannah, Ga.. their disputes in legally established courts increased from $124,048 to $170,717; the to of arbitration." The affirmative side won. tal clearings amounted to $1,219,946. The The winners—Hei'bert E. Rainey, William president is P. Edward Perry. A. Shields and Andrew M. Burris—were d W. Cassella T. Ayres has been re-ap awarded gold medals. pointed Assistant Postmaster in the Ohio G The enrollment of Wendell Phillips High House of Representatives at Columbus. Mr. School in Chicago is 75% colored and 25% Ayres is the first Negro appointee. white. The Negro enrollment is the largest in the history of the school. THE CHURCH d The colored Louisville State University mEMBERS of First Street M. E. Church, has received $10,000 from the estate of the at New Orleans, La., have raised $8, late Dr. J. S. Anderson, an Indian. 000 for a community house. The pastor of (I The appropriation for Howard Univers the church is the Rev. T. F. Robinson. ity has been cut from $243,000 to $164,000; d Zoar M. E. Church, at Philadelphia, Pa., Freedmen's Hospital will receive $115,000, has celebrated its 125th anniversary. Dur an increase of $12,500; and the National ing the past year the church gave $5,000 to Training School for Girls, $11,800. charities; it has 1,200 members. The Rev. (I The Alumni Association of Morehouse Frederick H. Butler is pastor. College has presented an automobile to Dr. (L Shiloh Baptist Church, Wilmington, Del., John Hope, as an appreciation of 22 years' has celebrated the 44th anniversary of the service. pastorate of Rev. B. T. Moore. C The Rev. William Smalley, at Macon, Ga., INDUSTRY has been retired after 44 years service in iN Maryland there are 6,249 Negro farm the ministry of the C. M. E. Church. In ers; 3,549 are owners, 151 managers and 1888 he was made a presiding elder and THE HORIZON 225
served in this capacity for 15 years. Rev. the Officers' Reserve List. In accepting the Smalley owns several rental properties and command Colonel Little said: "I shall de conducts a grocery business. vote my most intelligent effort to the de ([Pilgrim Baptist Church, in Chicago, 111., velopment of a regiment which must win has purchased the Jewish Temple for a recognition as a bulwark of strength to the cash payment of $75,000. The property is law-abiding interests of the community, and valued at $360,000. Dr. S. E. J. Watson is be an institution of pride to the colored pastor. race." CRIME C At Gary, Ind., a jury of 12 colored TN the search for a Negro murderer, 1 women has sat in Judge Wellner's court. -*-white boy and 1 Negro have been killed d Leonard Wright, at Rock Rapids, Iowa, and 3 persons fatally wounded in a race has inherited $56,000, 550 acres of land and riot at Independence, Kan. considerable stock in oil concerns through C The following lynchings have taken place the death of his parents in the West Indian since our last record: Islands. During the world war Mr. Wright served as a lieutenant in the Canadian Mitchell County, Ga., January 2, Jim Army and made a record for firing. Roland, shot; shooting. C Attorney W. L. Houston, noted in our Meridian, Miss., January 4, Robert Lewis; December issue as being the first Negro to murder. appear before the Interstate Commission, is Talbotton, Ga., January 6, Sam Williams; of Washington, D. C, instead of Fort Scott, reason unknown. Kan. Jasper, Ala., January 13, William Beard (white), shot; murder. C. For the first 6 months of 1920 there were Norlina, N. C , January 24, Alfred 13,519 Negro births in North Carolina, or Williams and Plumber Bullock, shot; result 33.8 per cent, per thousand; the birth rate of a quarrel. A race riot followed; 5 white among white people was 31.2 per cent, per and 3 colored men were wounded. thousand. Nodena, Ark., January 26, Henry Lowe (I Dr. Seymour Hill, a Negro, at Kansas ry, burned; murder. City, Mo., has been appointed Dental In C We are informed that Cooksey Dallas— spector in the public schools. He is a grad reported to have been lynched for kissing a uate of Howard University. white girl in Johnson City, Tenn., October C At May's Landing, N. J., 2 colored 28, 1920—was saved from the mob by the women—Mrs. Annie E. Revels and Pauline jailer, Mr. Livingston. Dallas has since Ford—were chosen to serve on the jury for been tried and acquitted; several members of the January term of court. the mob are under bond. d Charles Shipley, a Negro caterer of Bal timore, Md., had charge of the banquet, POLITICS given at Delmonico's, in New York, by the Fidelity Deposit Company, in honor of PETER BOULT, a Negro Republican at Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gary, Ind., has been appointed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney of the 31st Judicial C Herbert Halliday, at Cambridge, Mass., District. He is the first Negro to receive rescued 7 persons, including 3 children, from this appointment. a burning building. Mr. Halliday is a Negro C Dr. Woodfin, a Negro physician at Iron- patrolman connected with the Central ton, Ohio, has been elected coroner of Law Square Station. rence County on the Republican ticket G Judge W. A. Bond, at Wayne, Ind., has C Through the Republican party, Mrs. appointed a Negro—Attorney Cornelius R. Elenora R. Gresham, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Richardson, as Special Judge to preside over has been appointed Assistant Postmistress the Circuit Court in the hearing of 3 white of the legislature, which convened in Janu defendants in prohibition cases. Mr. Rich ary for a 100 days' session. ardson is a graduate of Howard and the first Negro to receive this appointment. SOCIAL PROGRESS C. James A. Cobb, a Negro at Washington, COLONEL ARTHUR W. LITTLE has D. C , was appointed a member of the Hard been appointed Commander of the 15th ing Inaugural Committee. Mr. Cobb was colored Infantry of New York; Colonel Assistant District Attorney during Presi William Jay Schieffelin has been assigned to dent Taft's administration. 226 THE CRISIS
G Twenty-five Negroes were guests at a NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE dinner given by the Twentieth Century Club THE Annual Report of the National Ur of Boston, Mass. John Graham Brooks, ban League just issued is a brief re president of the club, presided, and among view of its work and a summary of the the speakers were Mrs. Butler Wilson, Mat results of the activities of its locals. The thew Bullock and Dennis McCarthy. most important work—that of securing com G The colored Y. M. C. A. of Kentucky dur munity betterment, inter-racial and racial co ing the last year organized 61 inter-racial operation and a healthier attitude toward committees and held 3 state conferences; living cannot be recorded. The following 60 county welfare conferences were held, general statements indicate some of the and 175 scholarships amounting to $12,000 methods used to bring these about. were awarded. C Twenty thousand persons were given em G Mrs. Martha B. Spencer has been ap ployment; 135 industries were persuaded to pointed Health Supervisor of Halifax Coun give Negro labor a trial; including last ty Schools, Virginia. Mrs. Spencer is a year's placements more than 50 personnel graduate of Lincoln Hospital in New York workers have been placed in industrial plants C At Hamtramack, Mich., Dr. James L. to increase the efficiency of Negro labor; 221 Henderson, a Negro, has been elected a mem noon-day meetings were held in this connec ber of the City Council. tion ; 4 cities conducted classes for training GThe Children's Aid Society is employing a foremen, personnel workers and for the Negro social worker—in the person of Anna workmen themselves; 10 cities conducted L. Holbrook—at Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Hol night classes for illiterates. brook was formerly secretary of the col C Seven men were given intensive training ored Y. W. C. A. in Brooklyn, N. Y. and were placed as League Executives; 11 C At Wilmington, Del., Dr. John 0. Hop community houses were conducted in con kins, a Negro, is a member of the City Coun gested districts in the large cities; 30 cil. Other Negro appointees, since Dr. Hop Leagues in as many cities carried out pro kins' election, are 3 clerks in the Office of grams for better communities through bet the Recorder of Deeds, 1 clerk in the County tering conditions among Negroes in health, Treasurer's Office, a member of the Board housing, recreation, work, education and of Health, a Health Officer, and a bailiff of morals; 200 white and colored social and the Council. civic agencies co-operated in this program. G Major Fred W. Moore has cancelled a G Several new organizations have been southern trip of the Harvard Varsity track completed and full-time executives have been team because the University of Virginia and engaged in Louisville, Kansas City and the Naval Academy teams did not care to Cambridge. meet a team with Negro players. G Negroes of Winston-Salem, N. C , have G The budgets of Urban Leagues of 8 cities raised $100,000 with which to provide a hotel are included in the City Community Chests for colored people. —Louisville and Kansas City being the lat G At Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City, N. J., est organized on this basis. Some of these among speakers at a conference of public organizations raised for the community school officials was a colored teacher, chest more than their quota for the current Melissa Jones of the Indiana Avenue School. expenses. Her subject was "The Project Method, as C Special investigations on housing, recrea Applied to Geography and English." tion, school attendance, condition of chil C Dr. Willard Landry, a Negro surgeon dren's teeth, various industrial conditions, at Chicago, has performed 4 successful extent and conditions of unemployment have Caesarian operations. been made in 12 cities. G Attorney James B. Morris, a Negro at G The 2 "fellows" trained last year—like Des Moines, la., has been appointed deputy those trained in previous years—are em in the Tax Department of the County Treas ployed in the field of social work; 5 "fel urer's Office. He was formerly a Lieutenant lows" are now in training in schools of so in the 366th Infantry, A. E. F. cial work in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston G Sergeant John J. L. Taylor, of the Sup and New York, and 4 high school and col ply Troop, 10th U. S. Cavalry, has been lege scholarships for deserving students are placed on the retired list after 26 years of being maintained by a local organization. continuous service. G Twenty-two of the local Leagues are THE HORIZON conducting definite educational programs, ("., is dead at the age of 74. He was presi including health, thrift, training classes for dent of the Baptist State Convention for industrial development, recreation and gen the past 15 years and the founder of Morris eral culture. College at Sumter. He studied at Atlanta, C St. John's Institutional Activities of Fisk and Meharry. Springfield, Mass., Dr. William N. De Ber (T Phillip L. Smith, a Negro porter at the ry, Director, is affiliated with the League. Savannah Cotton Exchange for 40 years, Last year it received as a gift a farm of 54 is dead. The Pag on the Cotton Exchange acres which it plans to use for intensive Building was flown at half-mast in his honor. farming and for "fresh air" work among ([ Miss Josie Harvey, a music-teacher of boys. Philadelphia, Pa., is dead. She was a mem C Several thousand women and children ber of one of the oldest families in Philadel were given vacations and outings last sum phia, almost every member of which dis mer in Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, played unusual musical talent. Two of her New York, Newark, Atlanta and Memphis nephews, Carl Diton and Harvey Hebron, by local organizations. also have achieved distinction as a pianist C Boys, girls and women to the number of and a composer, respectively. 3,260 have been helped through Big Brother C Mrs. Jessie Hale Moss, president of the and Big Sister organizations and Juvenile Omaha, Neb., Branch of the N. A. A. C. P.. is dead. Mrs. Moss was a native of Ohio, a Court workers of the League in 7 cities. C The cost of this work to the national and niece of the late Samuel Blaine Allen, for local organizations for the year 1920 was mer Mayor of Rendville in that state, and $185,000. was for several years a teacher in the pub lic schools. During recent years she has PERSONAL been a resident of Omaha where she was actively connected with practically every WOODWARD STUART, at Noblesville. movement for the social, educational and Ind., is dead at the age of 86. He civic uplift of her people. leaves an estate estimated at $75,000, which consists mostly of farm land. One son sur vives him. FOREIGN C Ella M. Rice, for 23 years principal of AT the dinner given to British women by the Colored Industrial School at New Bruns the American Society in London and wick, N. J., is dead. Her work will be attended by royalty, Roland Hayes, the carried on by her son, Everett Rice. Negro tenor of America, sang "The Star- C The late Dr. Robert W. Brown, of Wash Spangled Banner." ington, D. C, president of the National C If conditions imposed by the Army Coun Benefit Life Insurance Company, leaves an cil are fulfilled, France will have in 1923 estate estimated at over $500,000; his prac an army of 800,000 men, 300,000 of whom tice netted him $1,000 a month. will be Colonial black troops. C W. Calvin Chase, editor of the Washing (T The Negro population of Cuba is on the ton Bee, is dead. The District Supreme verge of an uprising, in a demand for the Court, of which he was a member, and other withdrawal of that section of the Piatt courts adjourned as a mark of respect. Amendment, which prohibits the establish C. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Birch at Brook ment of a political party based upon color. lyn, N. Y., have celebrated their 50th wel G A school plantation has been built at ding anniversary. There were 7 children, 1 El-Oualadji, Sudan, for instruction to na grandchild and 10 great-grandchildren pres tives in modern methods of cotton growing. ent. The Colonial Cotton Company is construct (I The Rev. James Griswold Merrill, who ing 2 mills in the valley of the Niger, at served as president of Fisk University dur Segou and at San and is shipping gins and ing 1901-9, is dead. During Mr. Merrill's presses to Sudan and Haute Volta. administration the curriculum of the school G Public libraries have been opened in was enlarged, courses in domestic science St. Thomas, Christianstcd and Frederiksted. were instituted and Chase Hall and the Car V. I., by the American Red Cross and Ameri negie Library were erected. can Library Association. Each library con C The Rev. J. J. Durham, of Columbia, S. tains an average of 2,000 volumes. 228 THE CRISIS ADVERTISER
Read it yourself and be sure that your friends read CHILDREN IN THE MIST By George Madden Martin The Brownie's Book The Crisis says: "Eight stories written simply and sympathetically Special Circulation give a new concept of the CHIL DREN IN THE MIST who live in Campaign Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, the rice fields of the Carolinas and the We take pleasure in announcing that backwoods of Kentucky. These are people emerging from the fogs of arrangements have been made with slavery and gazing through a glass Mr. Thomas J. Calloway, who so suc darkly on a freedom promised, but cessfully conducted a special circulation as 'yet denied.' Mrs. Martin has let campaign for THE CRISIS three years the characters in the main speak ago, in accordance with which he will for themselves so the reader must direct a SPECIAL CAMPAIGN dur be touched and thrilled and sad ing the next three months for an in dened according to his own dic creased circulation for tates." "Delightful as ever, this new volume of George Madden Martin's can be read for pleasure alone. But it will bear le-reading and thought, for it has a purpose—a desire to interpret to one race the meaning and the needs of another."—New York Times. At All Booksellers, $1-75 D. Appleton & Company During this period Mr. Calloway will 35 West 32d St. New York meet and confer with our present agents, appoint and instruct new agents, interest and solicit annual subscribers and in other ways bring the attention of the public to DARKWATER OR 2Brotonte£(' $ook 20th Century Uncle Tom's Cabin A monthly magazine tor children which attempts to bring to them: I. The best in pictures and stories of Negro life. 2 The life and deeds of famous men and women of the Negro race. 3. The current events of the world told in beautiful language zvhich children can understand. We ask for Mr. Calloway the cordial and hearty co-operation of our friends.
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Mention 1 he Crisis523 . 9th St. N. W., Washington, D. C. THE CRISIS ADVERTISER 229 STORAGE BATTERY REPAIRING has been added to the Course in AUTO MECHANICS At The Prairie View State Normal & Industrial College which has turned out more ENGINE REPAIRMEN, TRACTOR OPERATORS, CHAUFFEURS, MECHANICS & AUTO ELECTRICIANS and VULCANIZERS than any other Automobile School for Negroes ADDRESS : Division of MecAh wel anil establishec Artsd Corporation, Prairi- doine gView a half , Tex. million dollar business yearly, desires the Atlanta University services of an intelligent, live-wire man or Studies of the Negro Problems woman to take charge and sell a block of 20 Monographa Sold Separatelystoc k in a nationally known concern. Addnw Only those wanting to connect themselves ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CONFERENCwitEh a permanent organization where good ATLANTA UNIVERSITY •• ATLANTA, GA. services are quickly recognized and repaid need apply. The Colored Teachers7 Bureau Address Sales Manager Will Help Yon Get a Better Paying Position. BERESFORD GALE CORPORATION SEGI8TEH NOW SEASONABLE TESMI Address: Colored Teachers' Bureau GALE BUILDING Box 22, WlTberfoioe, 0 . 413'South Broad Philadelphia, Pa.
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27th ANNUAL STATEMENT OF SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC. (Condensed)
The SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC., notes with a high regard the timely and insistent demand of our people for Facts and Figures from corporations and institutions appealing to them for patronage and investment. The Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., has annually published full and accurate statements of its Income and Disbursements, as well as its Assets and Liabilities: And it has given wide dis tribution of this matter to its membership and the public. This was done despite the criticism of competitors and other uninformed persons: who said that, "since our people were not up on financial matters, the time and money spent in preparing and publishing such information was simply a waste of efforts and good money." But the Southern Aid management knew that the race was making rapid strides of advancement in education, business and finance, and would, therefore, soon be alive to such matters. Today's "Show Me" spirit of our people compensates us for our efforts and convinces the critics that the people now demand more than Names and Promises as inducements for their support or investment. Therefore the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., takes great pleasure in spreading before the public its 27th Annual Financial Statement for consideration.
RECEIPTS Jan. 1, 1920, Cash Balance Brought Forward $145,076.94
"Dec. 31, 1920, Annual Income 712,647.58
Gross Receipts for 1950 $857,784.52
DISBURSEMENTS Dec. 31, 1920, Total Paid Out (Including investments made during the year) $759,036.35 Cash Balance, Dec. 31, 1030 $98,6SS.17
ASSETS LIABILITIES Cash Balance $ 9S.0SS.17 Capital Stock $ 30.000.00 Real Est. (Free of all Liens) 303,252.67 Deposits of Employees 15.203.S9 Real Estate Mortcages 71.S99.60 Ledger Accounts 10,488.00 Federal, State and City Bonds 62,838.00 Furniture and Fixtures 7,000.00 SURPLUS FUND 493,046.57 Bills Receivable 1.358.If, Inventories. Sundry Accts ... 4,001.87
Total $548,736.46 Total $548,738.46
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $ 623,046.57 Total Amount of Claims Paid to December 31, 1920 $2,170,734.86
The above verified record of great achievement does not satisfv us: W e are there fore planning for greater growth thru belter and larger service to our policyholders in the hours of sickness, accidents and death: In opening more avenues of employment to more of our people: And by supporting and co-operating with other Race Enter prises. The unstinted and liberal support of our policyholders has made it possible for us to attain this splendid position in finance: Therefore the conservation of their best interests shall always receive our first consideration.
SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC. Home Office: 527 N. Second St., Richmond, Va. District Offices and Agencies throughout the State of Virginia Write for your copy of the 2/IJi Annual Statement.
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