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EDITORIAL PAGE FAIR MEANS OR LEGAL UNITED STATES COURT for the Southern Dispute has upheld the action of the Democratic State committee of Texas providing that only white make part in Democratic primaries in that state. No citizens of Texas had sought an injunction to Democratic state committee from enforcing the them. MRS. thought that they had won a victory when legislature repealed an act forbidding Negroes in Democratic primaries. This act had been institutional by the United States Supreme Court, that it was illegal for a legislature to interfere with, and that the constitution and maintenance of political parties were not a proper matter governmental concern. The district Federal rule that political parties, like other voluntary have the complete right to select or reject whom THE LAW ALWAYS FINDS a way to accommodate to the Southernner's determination that the not be allowed to vote. As the man said when his enemy: "I'll get you! If I can't get you, I'll get you by legal." PROFESSOR GREET'S GULLAH GEEK Professor Cabell Greet of the English DeBarnard College, a specialist in speech variations, picked for the purity with which spoke of their respective sections of the country. Their recorded on phonograph records with a view to for posterity. It was an original and brilliant he had been phonographs two thousand years ago able today to hear Cicero's and Demosthenes' acts as they were delivered. But in the executor Greet's idea there was a serious flaw which should be guilty of. STRATE and preserve the Vermont dialect he mentor Yankee to speak to the phonograph, for the vernal dialect he had a man from Ohio, and so on. He to record Gullah, the dialect of the Negro in Carolina swamps, a hashed-up, nubby speech that recognizable as English. For this you would select him to find a Gullah Negro. Instead of this white man who had lived in South Carolina and Gullah Negro talk! That was about the same as Russian who had lived in France ten years stand illustrator of French. Why on earth couldn't the Negro illustrate his own speech? VER has come from the Lincoln Memorial Uni- Committee, asking help in raising a fund of The reference is not to the Lincoln University in where, where the students are all Negroes, but to an recent institution, Lincoln Memorial University, cern Appalachian Mountains at Cumberland Gap, Rocky, Virginia and Tennessee meet. John Hays vice-president of the university, says: "Its mis- ing less than to lead a whole race out of bond- lions of white men, women and children, the sk of the South." WE THE WORD—"WHITE." What would hap- pro boy who should try to enroll at that university, university in the South which is not all Negro? for Abraham Lincoln, according to the commit- tributes Emancipation Day, and it asks Ne- tributions to its fund. But just let a Negro try is a student! POT AND KETTLE REPUBLICANS have always been vigorously at- their lavish use of money in campaigns. Roose- erry, Lorimer, Smith and Vare have been from the held up by Democratic newspapers as buyers and apostles of corruption. Whether or not was proved, the Democratic panthers have always that the large use of money and the presence of men in the high councils of the Republican party myselfs evils. ALL OF A SUDDEN, the Democrats are singing tune. A brilliant Wall Street man has been made national chairman and his followers have so in the limit of contribution. THE NEW YORK Amsterdam News Published every Wednesday by The Amsterdam News (a corporation), 229 Saveth Avenue, New York, William H. David, President and General Manager, james morgan, interim TREASURY ASSOCIATION, BUILDER TREASURY ASSOCIATION, $2.00 per year in the United States; foreign, $2.00. ADVERT TINING HAT UPON REQUEST. Wherever possible Trade With Stores in Harlem That Do Not Practice Discrimination in the Selection of Their Employees. CONCERNING THE ELKS (CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE) doing in education and racial solidarity. It has praised and advertised the Elks to such an extent that it has sometimes been called an Elk journal. IT IS A NEWSPAPER'S BUSINESS first of all to give the news. This means that at times it must give bad news, even though such news may be as distasteful to the publisher of the paper as it is to those who figure in the bad news. But when a paper has printed hundreds of favorable items about a person or an organization, the moment it is compelled to print one piece of unfavorable news its services are entirely forgotten in the rush of resentment over that one item. Resentment may be natural, but it should be tempered by a sense of obligation. BY FAIR MEANS OR LEGAL THE UNITED STATES COURT for the Southern District of Texas has upheld the action of the Democratic State Executive Committee of Texas providing that only white voters may take part in Democratic primaries in that state. Several Negro citizens of Texas had sought an injunction to prevent the Democratic state committee from enforcing the rule barring them. NEGROES thought that they had won a victory when the Texas legislature repealed an act forbidding Negroes to participate in Democratic primaries. This act had been held unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that it was illegal for a legislature to interfere in party concerns, and that the constitution and maintenance of the business of political parties were not a proper matter of public or governmental concern. The district Federal court has now ruled that political parties, like other voluntary associations, have the complete right to select or reject whom they will. THUS THE LAW ALWAYS FINDS a way to accommodate itself to the Southerner's determination that the Negro shall not be allowed to vote. As the man said when he threatened his enemy: "I'll get you! If I can't get you by fair means, I get you by legal." PROFESSOR GREET'S GULLAH LAST WEEK Professor Cabell Greet of the English Department at Barnard College, a specialist in speech variations, had eight persons picked for the purity with which they spoke the dialects of their respective sections of the country. Their speech was recorded on phonograph records with a view to preserving it for posterity. It was an original and brilliant idea. If there had been phonographs two thousand years ago we might be able today to hear Cicero's and Demosthenes' speeches exactly as they were delivered. But in the execution of Professor Greet's idea there was a serious flaw which no professor should be guilty of. TO ILLUSTRATE and preserve the Vermont dialect he chose a Vermont Yankee to speak to the phonograph, for the Middle Western dialect he had a man from Ohio, and so on. Then he wished to record Gullah, the dialect of the Negro in the South Carolina swamps, a hashed-up, nubby speech that is hardly recognizable as English. For this you would naturally expect him to find a Gullah Negro. Instead of this he chose a white man who had lived in South Carolina and heard the Gullah Negro talk! That was about the same as letting a Russian who had lived in France ten years stand forth as an illustrator of French. Why on earth couldn't the professor let the Negro illustrate his own speech? A NERVY REQUEST A LETTER has come from the Lincoln Memorial University Fund Committee, asking help in raising a fund of $10,000,000. The reference is not to the Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where the students are all Negroes, but to an entirely different institution, Lincoln Memorial University, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains at Cumberland Gap, where Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee meet. John Hays Hammond, vice-president of the university, says: "Its mission is nothing less than to lead a whole race out of bondage; six millions of white men, women and children, the mountain folk of the South." OBSERVE THE WORD—"WHITE." What would happen to a Negro boy who should try to enroll at that university, or any other university in the South which is not all-Negro? It is named for Abraham Lincoln, according to the committee's letter it celebrates Emancipation Day, and it asks Negroes for contributions to its fund. But just let a Negro try to enter it as a student! FOT AND KETTLE THE REPUBLICANS have always been vigorously attacked for their lavish use of money in campaigns. Roosevelt, Newberry, Lorimer, Smith and Vare have been from time to time held up by Democratic newspapers as buyers of elections and apostles of corruption. Whether or not corruption was proved, the Democratic panors have always maintained that the large use of money and the presence of Wall Street men in the high councils of the Republican party were in themselves evils. NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, the Democrats are singing a different tune. A brilliant Wall Street man has been made the Democratic national chairman and his followers have said that 'the sky is the limit' in contributions to the Democratic campaign fund. The Democratic papers now piously explain that a large fund does not necessarily mean corruption, that it really does cost a lot of money to elect a President. The not has ceased to call the kettle black. President Coolidge--Southern Strife Summer Tourists in Europe Letters to the Editor PRESIDENT COOLIDGE in his address at Cannon, Minn., on July 29, strongly urged the nation against stirring up animosities between the North and South. The deliverance came as a clap from a clear sky. The two sections have fraternized in wars since Grant's triumph at Appomattox. The industrial development of the South along Northern lines has served to obliterate ancient hostilities. Why, then, one must ask himself, does the President deem it worth while to revert to a long-since settled controversy? The President's utterance can be easily explained in the light of current political happenings. Mr. Coolidge is the head of the Republican Party. Many influential leaders of the South are repudiating the Democratic for the Republican nominee. Mr. Smith is wet and a Catholic; the South is Protestant and a Christian; world work is President at this juncture might do a world of good towards turning the tide in the desired direction. The Negro has been the bone of contention between the North and South ever since the foundation of the government. This issue became acute and culminated in the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. Frederick Douglass used to deliver the coming together of North South, for he knew that it was disaster to the Negro's claims to equality. The great religious denominations split on the issue of Negro slavery. The Northern contingent thereon made PARIS, France. THE number of colored tourists in Europe this year shows a decided increase over that of last year. Among those met casually by the European correspondent of The Amsterdam News are: The Hampton Institute party of twenty persons, which is making an educational tour of Europe as arranged by Hampton Institute. Its members are: Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Clark, principal of Acadia Parish Training School, Rayne, La., and teacher at Layne, La., respectively; C. J. Gresham, Instructor, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. M. D. Hunt, Instructor, Hampton Institute; Miss Pamella A. Jefferson, R. N. Augusta, Ga.; Mrs. Ella B. Johnson, practical nurse, Orange, N. J.; Raleigh Dambert, postal clerk, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Mary B. Marks, teacher, Diney, Va.; Dr. M. Medical, Co-busin, A. Medical director of the Sunshine Mo and Casualty Co., and Mrs. Method; Mrs. Mattle Guilford, New York; Miss Marlon Petttford, R. N., supervisor of nurses, Henry Street Settlement House, New York; Mrs. Mary O. Stewart; Mme. Lee Strother, music teacher; David E. Strother; Mrs. Lena Vernon, all also of New York; Miss M. V. Ware, Alexandria, Va., teacher of household arts, Washington, D. C., public schools; Miss Edna Wade, teacher, St. Louis, Mo. and Mr. A. Ogden Porter, instructor in history, Hampton Institute, Va., director of the European tour, Mr. Arnold Graf, New York City, is manager of the tour. The Hampton Institute party is wonderfully interesting and instructive tour and a cordial reception everywhere they have visited. A. Wilberforce Williams' Party The six persons in the party of An Open Letter to the Editor Of The Amsterdam News Dear Sir: I have been the pastor of Mother Zion Church for the past fifteen years and the officers have run an excursion every year—either to Bear Mountain or some other place. We have never had any serious trouble. The excursion on July 26 was the most pleasant and the patrons all reported an enjoyable time. There were some undesirable persons on board, but they were immediately and properly handled by the officers of the law. There were noights or losses reported to the committee. When we disembarked at 132nd street the captain congratulated the members of the committee for the general good behavior of the two thousand people on board. We think should be better for editors and reporters to get the facts before publishing besmirching articles under glaring and misleading headlines. Yours truly, J. W. BROWN, Pastor, D. W. PAYNE, President. -Ru KELLY MILLER: the brother in black its special charge to keep. But as the animosities of bygone days begin to fade away, the estranged factions of the household of God are negotiating for reunion to the allena- -- Kelly Miller -- tion of the Negro membership of the several communions. The same principle operates in the economic and political domains. It is indeed a tragedy that the Negro must be the benefi- cary of hostility between the two sections and the victim of reunion President Coolidge's bid for re- cognition, therefore, has a deeper significance for the Negro race. All will agree that if the Negro Ru J. A. ROGERS Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams of Chicago, Ill., also report themselves as having a most splendid time. They are making a tour of some twelve countries and have arrived here after visiting Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, —J. A. Rogers— Switzerland, Belgium and southern France. The other members of the party are: Dr. B. B. Jeffers of Harrisburg, Pa.; Dr. and Mrs. James Austin Gilbert of Providence, R. L. and Mr. and Mrs. Minor Burress of Petersburgh, Ind. "One of the great needs of our people," says Dr. Williams, "is that broader education that can be gained only by travel. The meeting of other peoples stamps infaceably on one's mind the fact that the general attitude of race prejudice in America is not only the Editor R. B. HENDERSON. Secretary. J. W. WATSON, R. H. PORTER, J. A. HOPKINS, I. A. GADSDEN, G. P. HEARTWELL, ANDREW ARRINGTON, P. A. SWAN. Praises New York World To the Editor of The Amsterdam News, Dear Sir: Please allow me space in your paper to say a few words about the near-riot that occurred sometime ago in Harlem. Of course, I did not see it but have read it in your paper and in the daily papers. One of your readers, who signs his name H. Riley, says in a letter to this paper, Aug. 1, "hundreds of cases can be cited to show where Negroes are the victims of the most violent forms of persecution, prescription the capital punishment made." Evidently Mr. Riley has not read many of the white papers or he is included in a little book. were out of the equation, there would no longer be any bar to complete healing of ancient wounds. The South protests rabily against the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. Any insistence upon such enforcement is insistence upon a rag and in the face of a bull's trample in the office of uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States without upsetting his own counsel against arousing sectional animosity. Is it to be considered better to keep the peace between the sections or to uphold the Constitution of the United States? Is the price of sectional peace to be the sacrifice of organic law and denial of the black man's rights? President Coolidge several weeks ago wrote to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, commending its good work. The efforts of the organization have aroused the fire of the South. Mr. Coolidge urges this militant body to continue in its good works, but at the same time deplores anything that awakens Southern bitterness and resentment. I am somewhat at a loss to reconcile these seemingly contradictory attitudes. The Republican platform at Kansas City demands a national ban on the use of torture in temples are calculated to stir up southern animosity to the depth of bitterness. Is the President, therefore, advising his party to ignore this provision of its own platform? Again this Kansas City platform commits the party to the enforcement of the Constitution in all of its parts and provisions. The Constitution and amendments are integral parts of this document. The Republican Party. false and entirely without foundation, but is ridiculous. More and still more of our people ought to come to Europe to complete their distillation about race and, on my part, I mean to do all I can to get as many of them as I can to come. But me, the benefit I have gained by is priceless. All of our party are having a most wonderful time." The doctor, expansive and genial as ever, was welcomed at his hotel by some sixteen of his friends residing in Europe among them being Messrs. Louis Jones and Andrew Josephon. Mr. Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary of the National Urban League, accompanied by Mrs. Jones, accompanied by Mrs. Kinckle Jones, have left tour of six European countries, among them being Germany and Italy. In the same party is Mr. Jesse O. Thomas, field secretary of the National Urban League. Messrs. Thomas and Jones gave stirring addresses at the International Conference of Social Workers held here, and have succeeded in arousing greater interest than ever in the hundreds of delegates who almost every country in the world. Both will sail from France on the he de France on August 8. Another delegate to the conference was Mr. Frederick H. Robb, editor-in-chief of Who's Who in Chicago (1779-1927), who has been studying economics and sociology at the University of London for the past year. Mr. Robb is also delegate to the World Student Conference, to be held in Helsinki in August. Mr. Robb is a graduate of Howard and Northwestern Universities. James H. Hubert of the New York Urban League, who was a delegate to the conference, is making a trip to Russia. Seeing Europe again this year is the Rev. Cullen, pastor of the Saiam M. E. Church of New York City, and his distinguished son, tolerant on the subject. I've been reading the New York World for over twelve years and I have always found this paper to be against mob-law. The World went out of its way to get the facts of the Lowman lynchings and put them on its front page. We must not be too hasty. All white men are not alike. Very truly, FELIX F. EDDY. New York City Aug. 2, 1923. Approves Editorial To the Editor of The Amsterdam News, Dear Sir, I have just read your splendid editorial, "Control the Police," and wish to thank you for the many way you gave the real facts con- tinue to the outrage among the brutality. Whenever events of this kind occur, the white papers always place the Negro on the aggressive side. Very truly yours, (Signed) THOMAS LEDBETTER New York City. To the Editor of The Amsterdam News, Dear Sir: Can you use the Influence of ```markdown ``` LETTERS of which Mr. Coolidge is the head, is solemnly committed to its full enforcement. The party was either honest and sincere in this declaration or it was not. Mr. Coolidge knows better than any other citizen what the words imply and the course to which it may commit his party if his party is successful in coming election. It is not thinkable that the President would indulge in the counsel of insincerity. He could not encourage his party to say one thing and mean another in its great declaration of principles. If the party is plainly impossible to live up to its declaration and at the same time follow the President's advice. If it does not mean what it says, then the party stands self-stultified before the American people. I sometimes wonder if the statesmen of both the great political parties have a double standard of political ethics. Do they intend that white and Negro citizens should interpret their words in the same sense? Both the Republican and Democratic parties have pledged themselves to their national Constitution, to enforce the Constitution in all of its parts and provisions. Are they genuine in this arowal of purpose? That part of the Fourteenth Amendment which safeguards the rights of property has been insisted upon with judicial rigidity; but that part pertaining to reduction of representation of which the Negro nola was supposed to be the beneficiary is disregarded by the guilty confluence of both parties. Let us have peace. But it should not be a pernicious peace at the expense of the rights of the Negro. It should be the peace of righteousness in which all American citizens can rejoice. Countie Cullen. Rev. Cullen will remain in Paris until September, while Mr. and Mrs. Countie Cullen will remain for a year. The couple have secured a charming apartment overlooking the Park Montsouris. Countie Cullen, who was recently awarded a Guggenheim scholarship, will devote his time to creative songs and the study of French. With the Cullen party is Mr. Harold Jackman, teacher, of New York City. Miss Peggy Govern of 65 West 140th street, New York City, is also among those making a tour of Europe, and also Mr. Alfonso Instructor in the North Carolina College for Negroes, Durham, N. C. Mr. Elder will visit Italy, Germany, England, Switzerland and other countries. Miss Mae Walker of Davon, O. and Mrs Lawson of Philadelphia, who is accompanied by her two children, will make an auto tour of Europe, Going Northward as far as Holland, they will pass through Germany and go south as far as Tunis, North Africa, and, returning, will pass through southern France and go northward through the British Isles. Miss Walker is an instructor in the Weaver School in Boston and will attend an abnormal and subnormal psychology. She will visit clinics on her tour. Mrs. L. R. Hilton of Sharon Hill, near Philadelphia, Pa., has made her fourth trip to Europe. She has opened a dainty restaurant and tea shop at 115 Rue do la Convention, where real American food and luxuries can be had. She is having a very fine trade among both French and Americans. Mr. C. M. Cunningham of the Juvenile Court of Cook County, Illinois, has once taught with a parry of nine Quakers. Mr. Cunningham, whose address is 2216 Roosevelt road, Chicago, was one of the delegates to the International Conference of Social Workers. Your newspaper to drive from the sidewalks of Harlem the crop of ignorant step-ladder orators that has infested it? As one stops to listen to these howling mountebanks, one hears the most ridiculous mississippes of facts of his government of art and geography of art and literature imaginable. Yet, these imposters are able to attract audiences. If the audience, as well as the would-be leaders and orators, would avail themselves of the evening high schools in and near Harlem, they would easily secure truthful information. Our people suffer too many insults and indignities from without to have these ignorant shysters insult our intelligence from within. They are enemies of the race, who their scent preparation and scantier array of facts, they attempt to instruct the insults. Help us drive these boisterous ignoramuses from the streets. Yours very truly, (Signed) IAN E. TAYLOR. 501 West 149th Street. New York City. Know New York State A stone hospice has been built on the summit of Mt. Marcy as a refuge for winter mountain-climbers in two cells, each with a window, a store, and a double deck bank. The largest carr; factory. BOOK REVIEW By Rudolph Fisher. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50 HERE, at last, is a novel of Harlem that can be read without a gas mask. There are spots in it where it might be advisable to smoke a cigarette, but they are only occasional and not too offensive. Compared with the other two best-known novels of Harlem, it is ambrosial, "Nigger Heaven" was pure carrion; "Home to Harlem," for all its rhythm and artistry, had a bad case of halitosis that made many readers overlook its real merits. As Emerson says, moral qualities rule the world, but at short distance the senses are despotic, and it is difficult to concentrate on the high qualities of a man or a book that too rudely assails the olfactory nerves. Here's hoping that the so-called realist school in Negro literature and all literature has shot its bolt. It had its raison d'être, of course: it was a revolt against the whiskey-washy, Pollyanna slush into which comanticism had degenerated from the noble days of Scott and Dumas. But, like most revolts, it went too far, and it is about time for the pendulum to swing back. "The Walls of Jericho" is an encouraging sign. With the same type of hero as "Home to Harlem," it tells his story with as much art and far better taste. Joshua Jones, the hero, better known as Shine, is a piano mover, a fellow of such personal and physical strength that he never needs to assert it amid the rats with which he works and hobnobs. Beneath his iron exterior there are a lot of good things that have never had a chance to come out. He lives in the Harlem university and hates all dishonor. Negroes, at least he thinks he does, and white people are anathema to him. He accepts the nickname Shine from Negroes, but never from whites. A white man generally asked him: "How do you get to the subway from here, Shine, my boy?" "How'd you know my name was Shine?" "Guesed it." "Guesed how to get to the subway," then. Shine goes along smoothly till a girl comes into his life and tangles it up. Much against his will, that is, his expressed will, he falls in love. As the author of this story realizes that the heroine of a Harlem novel is not necessarily a prostitute, the girl is a maid servant, decent and religious. Like many colored girls of her class, she is ambitious and yearns for a man she loves, but has denied her. Her taint pleces Shine's tough skin, and soon has him going to church, much to the astonishment of his comrades. The other main current of the book is supplied by Fred Merritt, a properous lawyer who dares to move into Court avenue, an exclusive white neighborhood. Here Miss Agnase Cramp, a white spinster, who wants to uplift everybody, never realizing that she herself needs as much uplifting as any of them. The author could have made more of this story to avoid to avoid the risk of identification. Most of the action takes place between the Court avenue house and the poolroom of Henry Patmore. The poolroom scenes are vividly described and the dialogue, save for a few instances which might easily have been dispensed with, is not too unsavory. The minor characters are picturesque, as Negroes always are when truly presented. Jinx and Bubber, Shine's companions on the moving van, are forever quirrelling. The poolroom proprietor locks them in his cellar to fight them, but the only thing they fight is a case of his best liquor. There is a brilliant, preacher. Decrease in Violence Says Liberties Union Decreases in mob violence and lynching, together with continued progress of the Ku Klux Klan on the road to oblivion, are in the annual report of the American Civil Liberties Union, just issued. All 1927 figures for civil liberties violations, taken together, show a decrease of one-third since 1926, and are representative of 1928 conditions, says the report. All are lower than those for any other year since the war, except that for lynchings, which exceeds the 1924 and 1925 figures. As evidence of diminished repression it cities the release of all political prisoners but one, no new prosecutions under criminal syndication or sedition laws except in Pennsylvania, the failure of all repressive laws introduced in Congress and state legislatures, and the lowest number in years of cases of mob violence, police interference with meetings, and dismissals of teachers for their views. The reason for the decrease in repression, the Union says, is that "there is little to repress. Militancy in the labor movement has declined, and radical political movements are not strong enough to arouse fear." elevator factory and sugar refinery in the world are in Yonkers, N. Y. the sixth largest city in the State. New York has the largest per capita banking resources of any state, second and California third. The average for the country is $387. THE NEW YORK TIMES Dr. Rudolph Fisher Although professionally he is a physician with offices at 2352 Seventh avenue, Dr. Rudolph Fisher finds time to do some creative writing. His "The Walls of Joricho," published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., came from press on Friday, August 8. Dr. Fisher, who was born in Washington in 1857, received his A. B. and A. M. degrees from Brown University, Providence, in 1920, and his M. D. degree from the Howard University Medical School in 1924. His short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Survey Graphic, McClure's Magazine and The Crisis. The Amy Splungar Short Story Prize Contest award was given him in 1925. Dr. Fisher, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society, the Delta Sigma and the Sigma Xi Fraternities, resides at 2316 Eighth avenue with his wife and young son. Tod Bruce, who can manhandle a Bible story into proving anything he wants it to. The chief minor character is Henry Patmore, the poolroom man, who lives for liquor and women. He is by no means a blockhead; the climax of the story is brought about by his revenge on Fred Merritt, which is too good to relate in a book review. All those people are well-drawn, though the characterization might have been sharper. A poet could never be allowed to formal what his characters look like—a rule which Dickens followed with great clef feet. This book is a great step toward the real Negro novel. It is some what habilized by the necessity of appealing to the white reader; public; in one part of the book the white audience is specifically addressed. Within this limit it goes as far as a Negro novel can. It encourages us to hope for the day when the Negro author can throw off all diplomatic shackles and let himself go. "The Walls of Jericho" has brought that day nearer. AUBREY BOWSER. THE POETS' CORNER Poems submitted for publication is "The Poet's Corner" will not be returned unless accompanied with a self addressed and stamped envelope. Fantasy in Black GATHER the stars together In one corner of the sky. Let swift hammers beat the golden lovelliness Of the moon. Into a thousand fragments of nothingness. Let unseen hands strip the firmament Of its gray cloud carvings And hay bale before all The owl splendor of a black woman's breast. Oh, the horizon of night is beautiful And dark like the breasts of a woman's breast! Bautiful and dark and soft Like the breasts of Ethiopia EWARD S. SILVERA (In Opportunity Magazine).