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Without this superior insurance contract which, for one small premium provides protection against disability and death, and which also makes it possible for worthy race boys and girls to have employment, your insurance needs have not been met. --------------��------------- Southern Aid Society of Virginia,Inc. Home Office: 525-7-9 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va. Operating in Virginia, District of Columbia and New Jersey Life on Cotton Plantation rro , God, Bri1tg Back Our Zeke" HALLELUJAH King Vidor' s All Talking Picture Proditced by METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE CORPORATION THE STORY: Chick drifted into a lii� of sin, made efforts to climb out and lost, as women do sometimes. Zeke followed Chick into the depths, struggled to escape, comn1itted murder, but finally won, returning home a chastened man. In this simple statement of the lives of two human beings is found the basis of the story, HHallelujah." Between the opening scene in a cotton field and the finale when Zeke returns to the cabin of his humble parents, tl1ere is a chapter in the life of tl1e Negro people full of pathos, humor and thrills. Mammy Discovers Zeke in Siu Hot Shot Beguiles Chick (Jctober� 1929 327 ---. GREATEST NEGRO BUSINESS ENTERPRISE FISK -·­• UNIVERSITY NASHVILLE THE COLLEGE osui:ooce Accredited four year liberal arts college, with 11 major depart­ TO WOPI< n1ents. THE MUSIC SCHOOL '701· A {k llllli!y College major leading to B.A. degree, and full music curricu­ lum leading to Mus.B. degree. GRADUATE DEPARTMENT Graduate work in chemistry and OR nearly three hundred years our Race dwelt in an the Social Sciences. organized civilization, in the midst of opportunity in Opening Date September Sixteenth £or which they could not share. All around them vast Freshmen and September Eighteenth projects were being started; on all sides great developments for Others. were opening up; before their eyes the greatest commercial nation in the history of the world the making. But was in FoR PARTICULARS, ADDRESS THE DEAN they had no part in all this. Their individual ambitions were blocked, through no fault of theirs. They were chattels, pieces FISK UNIVERSITY of property, slaves. Nashville, Tenn. Today, the children of those racial forebears dwell in the same civilization but with a differnce growi•g ;,. e111t,hasis with every j,assi11g year. Sell THE CRISIS in your community or recom­ There has been built up for them a broad range of opportu­ mend persons who have energy and the ability to represent us acceptably. e ee nity. They are inheritors of a new tradition. 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U. per CJ111n, Sept. 28th, 27tla. ASSETS OVER SIX MILLION DOLLARS INPORMATIONs-Atl II Slaw• If. W11a -. •• bw, 1111.- C I .._ ■ bl � ----- -----------------------== 1k 328 THE CR.ISIS THE CRISIS UG. u. s. PAT. on. i{ecord of the Varker ']{aces W. E. BVWla♦ PD'J' Du Bois, Editor THOMAS J. CALLOWAY, Brui11ess Manager Volume 36, No. 10 Contents for October, I 929 Whole No. 228 Page 53 Pictures of colored children. For the November CRISIS we' COVER. Drawing by Vivian Schuyler-Key. have "The Negro in Law", a AS THE CROW FLIES . .. .. .. .. .. 329 FRONTISPIECE. Alexandria Leonora Barrow.. .. .. .. .. .. 332 letter from Countee Cullen, Mr. A MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO. From Rabindranath Pickens on the South and a sheaf Tagore. Illustrated . .. .. .. .. ... 333 of poems. Watch the Junior EXIT. An Illusion. A One-Act Play. By Marita 0. Bonner.. 335 Crisis. 0, yes, and Laura LAURENCE FENNINGER, FRIEND. By G. James Fleming..... 337 Wheeler Waring is scouring THE N. A. A. C. P. By Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson. THE WORK OF Morocco for our Christmas Illustrated . .. .. .. .. .. .. .338 . cover. HALLELUJAH. Illustrated . .. .. .. .. .. 342. ALONG THE COLOR LINE. Illustrated.......................... 343 THE JUNIOR CRISIS . .. .. .. .. .. .. .348 --------- POSTSCRIPT . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 349 ELL, the World War is over, foreigners, how can we make them W or will be June 30, 1930. On As the Crow Flies buy our goods? Will the Sugar­ that day the last Allied soldier will Daddy from Utah please answer by leave German soil. We started some­ return mail ?-China is misunderstood. thing 16 years ago which is not fin­ ships which shoot firecrackers and The United States is misunderstood. ished yet and won't be even in 1930. rust; to intimidate West Indian "Nig­ The reason for misunderstanding -England holds many great colonies gers."-With the other 18 cents, we China is censorship of the press, says by encouraging national and religious build Post Offices, dig out rivers, con­ the New York Tim�s. Why are we jealousies and then presiding as benev­ duct courts and educate a few Ameri­ misunderstood ?-Virginia, that emi­ olent arbitrator. This may not ex­ cans. Suppose we had 50 cents!­ nently progressive state, is still voting plain the murder of Jews by Arabs in The 56th meeting of the Council of vigorously on the issues of 1861-65.­ Palestine but if it doesn't, T. E. Law­ the League of Nations and the 10th That path around the World that rence could add illuminating details.­ Annual Meeting of the Assembly·is the lured Magellan is still attracting Zep­ In the long run our Government is greatest gathering in the world in im­ pelins.-What ? Is the English popu­ tender-hearted. Recently, surveying portance; the United States is char­ lation stationary? Then it can never the over-taxed people, it handed back acteristically refusing to .play but peep­ be the Biggest Nation on earth_ like $6,235,690.42 to the poor, including ing around the corner, sucking its us. Birth control is legal there while the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the thumb.-And still barbarous, Bolshe­ here let the poor devils of diseased General Electric Company and a half vic and irreligious Russia is showing half-starved infants roll in so long as million to Frank S. Love. Rastus a world sick to death of war how not they count One.-Why shouldn't ship­ Jones, who is paying $150 a year on to fight.-Naval reduction, battleships, builders oppose Peace and advocate a $2,000 house, got no refund, we re­ submarines, parity, cruisers, units of battleships? Why shouldn't manufac­ gret to state.-White labor like dumb measurement and all that! Shucks turers oppose cheap foreign goods? cattle has built up mob-law and and Poppycock:! The way to reduce Are we in business for our health?­ lynching in the South.-Now it can navies is to reduce !-Kid Chocolate The bursting of the Wall Street specu­ take a little of its own medicine has licked 154 opponents but the ref­ lation bubble seems about due.-The at Gastonia.-Out of every dollar erees will lick him yet. Honor in only thing that will make a United in Federal Taxes, 82 cents goes for Sport is white.-The tariff question is States of Europe is the abolition of war: to enable West Point cadets simple: is it criminal to buy goods? tariffs.-Theonly thing that will make to strut :for thrilled movie audiences; Is it more criminal to buy goods of a federation of the world is the free­ to build twenty-million dollar battle- foreigners? If we don't buy goods of dom of the seas.