The Negro World
Saturday, February 19, 1921
New York, New York
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VOL. X. No. 1
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921
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AFRICA THE LAND OF HOPE AND PROMISE FOR NEGRO PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
WILL NEGROES ALLOW THE WHITES TO TAKE AFRICA?
ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER?
Have you had trouble securing a copy of the paper every week, it is best to subscribe for and we are compelled to discontinue his equity. In scripton for three months, six months or one year, every member of the Universal Negro Improvement Society have a circulation of over five million copies, would more than one dollar a year serving his better interests.
Believe more than have been with you would be it within any organization. If you have
It is my duty once more to write to you in the interest of Universal Negro Improvement Association. Today we are very much desirous of the neglect and indifference known by Negroes over the burning question of African freedom. News has just come to me that Italian and British capitalists, as also the Governments of these two countries, are about to send expeditions into Africa for exploiting the natural resources of our homeland. The British Government has capitalized a Canadian corporation at $50,000,000 to exploit the Gold Coast, West Africa.
General Smuts, with his imperial policy, has won a political victory in South Africa. The signs everywhere in Africa show that preparation is being made everywhere in Europe and among the white people of the world for the domination and exploitation of the great continent.
of the Universal Negro Improvement Association have our years been preaching the doctrine of pre- paterness among Negroes everywhere, so as to have them meet the great boom in African activities, and, although we have preached and written to the people, only four millions have answered the call. Today, when the work of Negroes should be organized to take hold of the higher development of Africa, we find ourselves still estranged, still fighting and bickering among one another, while the other races are organized to take to say from us our ancient heritage. Africa, as I have said before, is the richest continent in the world. Her wealth of mineral and other resources have not been touched. N. Europe is
preparing to concentrate on the exploitation of the wealth of the so-called Dark Continent. English statesmen are advising Englishmen everywhere to travel into the Crown Colonies of the Empire, and especially in Africa, for settling there and for taking hold of the greatest opportunities presented by these Crown Colonies. It is an undisputed fact that Africa is the ancient heritage of the Negro, and now that the world is reorganizing itself, now that humanity everywhere is endeavoring to find a home in the political strike out for the redemption of his homeland.
At this time millions of Negroes are idle and unemployed in different parts of this Western Hemisphere. There seems to be absolutely no hope on this side of the Atlantic. The best advice I can give, therefore, is that all who can afford it should give the necessary support to the Black Star Line Steamship Corp. and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and enable these two organizations to so lay plans and carry through the program for the ultimate redemption of our suffering race. Let us concentrate on the building up of West Africa. Let us put our energy, our money, our brainz, our all behind the Universal Negro Improvement Association and thus help one great universal movement to succeed in the program of the Negro's economic freedom.
Negroes of America, the West Indies, South and Central America should all take it as a pleasure to join hands and hearts together with their African brothers for the redemption of the great Motherland.
For three hundred years we on this side of the Atlantic have given our strength, our blood, our all for the making of a civilization that now deprives us of a living chance. Why can't we now use the same energy, the same strength, and shed our blood, if needs be, for the building up of a
civilization of our own. As I have said before, Africa is to be the boom of the next decade. When mankind in another ten years speaks of progress, of wealth, and of the newest discoveries, all of this will apply to Africa, the home of four hundred million Negroes. Why should Negroes sit down in idleness? Why should Negroes sleep away into eternity and allow the white man and other races to take the land that God Almighy bequeathed to them? Why should Canadians go thousands of miles away to rob and
tralia, or New Zealand for the purpose of exploring other countries? The answer is simply, No. Then why should Negroes tolerate other men and other races going into their country to rob and take away from them that which is their natural right? Men of Africa, men of the Negro race, I ask that you be up and doing. Steel your hearts for any fate, for the day, although long, portends evil, and it is for you to so live and act as to make the journey of life worthy of your own existence.
Let us come together now. Rally around the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation. Buy more shares, and buy them quick. Buy them at $5 each. You can buy 5,10,15, 20,30,40,50,100, and 200 shares and thus help us to float a new line of ships that will convey men and materials from this western hemisphere to our Motherland Africa the land of Hope and the land of Promise.
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selves 1s not a finality but a possibility.” It would be well for Mr. Hearst
to meditate upon these words
The fact that Mr Hearst's paper, The New York American, paid
a splendid tribute to Tom Paine, the Black Man's triend, recently, in-
dicates that he has a sense of justice. He only aceds enlightenment.
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,0e fraudulent advertising. Readers of the Negro World are
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RACIAL INSTINCTS VS. REASON.
E closed our editarial on “Consistency Thou Art a Jewel”
last week by saying of Mr. Pound's brilliant article in Flint,
Saturday Night, on “A Frank Discussion of the Eternally Per-
plexing Negro Problen:.” Mr. Pound intimates that the instinct
of race ‘ts based upon something deeper than reason’ Whenever
any attitude of the mind, any color prejudice or caste proscription can:
not be justified at the bar of reason, an attempt is made to justify it
before the bar of conscience by calling it instinttive, ete"
Before we can intelligently discuss the value of any race prejudice
based upon instinct, we must first gn to the bottom and discover what
instinct really is. Century Dictionary, after giving “impulse.” as the
| English equivalent of the Latin “Instinctus” goes on to thus define
anstinct : “A special propensity, in any organized being, but more es-
Pecially in the lower animals, producing effevts which appear to be those
of reason and knowledge, but which transcend the general intelligence
or experience of the creature; the sagactty of brutes. Instinct 1s said to
be blind. -that *, either the end is not consciously recognized by the
animal, or the connection of the means with the end is not understood.
Instinct is also, in general, somewhat deticient in instant adaptability
to extraordinary circumstances. The question whether smstincts are
innate or induced is still a subject of controversy.” Dr. E. von Hartmann
in his Philosophy of the Unconscious says: “Instinct is purposive action |
without consciousness of the purpose.” Romanes also says: “All in:
stinets probably eroje in ape omother af two ways. aap Me effects dP|
habit in succestive generations, mental activities which’ were originally
intelligent became, as it were, stereotyped into permanent mstincts. The
other mode of origin consists in natural selection.”
What we desire the reader to fix in his mind upon is that the Century
Dictionary defines Instinct as “A special propensity more especially in|
the lower animals; the sagacity of brutes.” “Instinct” is different from!
“Intuition” which comes from the Latin “Intueri,” look at, consider,” |
which is defined as “Direct or immediate cognition or perception, com-;
' prehension of ideas or truths independently of ratiocmation, instinctive
| knowledge of the relation or consequences of ideas. facts or actions.”
The instincts of the lower an:mals, which cause birds to fly south,
bears to go in their caves iad snakes to go into the ground at the ap-
| proach of winter and causes shad and other members of the “Herring”
tribe of fish, to go to the source of streams in schools for the purpose of
laying eggs in the spring are far removed from the intellectual,’ moral,
' aesthetical and religious intuitions of man.
| Just as instincts have an animal rather than psychical origin, so the
effects of instinctive national and racial prejudices are more often harm- |
| ful rather than helpful to humanity.
|The instinct of race, which Mr. Pounds says, “is based upon some-|
‘thing deeper than reason” has been regarded by the Bourbons of the
south, who have made a God of race, as a divine instinct that was im-
planted by the Almighty in the human soul So too before the World
War, the nations of the world made a religion of nationalism and re-
garded patriotism as something that was divine. But Kaiser Wilhelm’
of Germany, the great schoolmaster of the twentieth century, taught the
world that nationalism and patriotism can also be very devilishifind
diabolical at times. bf
But the Anglo-Saxon sense of racial superiority is nothing new in
history. The Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Vhrsions and Spanish
were proud, haughty and arrogant when they were in the ascendancy.
The Jews regarded themselves as God's chosen people in the days of
the prophets and kings. The Greeks and Romans regarded all other
nations but themselves as barbarians, |
When Jesus of Nazarcth told his hearers to inve their neighbors as
they loved themselves he was asked: “Who is my neighbor.” He told
the story of the Good Samaritan and thereby revealed an cthical system
that transcended race and nationalism.
In our idea, nationalism and race instincts are like salt ane sue,
2 little is necessary to the system, but too much will work incalculable
'harm. Deprive a person absolutely of salt and he will soon die, Give
him too much and he will be predisposed to cancer. Sugar is a food
and tonic to the heart. Deprive a person absolutely of sugar and the
heart will cease to function, Give a person too nich sugar and you
will rush him into premature diabete :
‘The world rebelled against the Gv .nans’ assumption of superiority
and their calling themselves “Supermen.” But they but applied to the
other white races, the identical doctrines that the Anglo-Saxon applied
to the darker races. With the Teuton, his instinct of racial superiority
was “based upon something deeper than reason’ the same as the color
prejudice and caste proscription of the sunny south. But we do not be-
lieve that many persons regarded the instinct of the Kaiser to dominate
the world as a divinely implanted instinct. For our own view, we believe
that there is something divine; but-also a great deal that is devilish
in the instinct of race. When one reflects tliat the instincts to lie, steal,
gamble, get drunk, rape and murder are deeper than reason, it by no
mearis follows that race prejudice is justified at the bar pf reasori by say-
Ling that it is aryinstinct deeper than reason. And it is the mission of
efrfstton io reulte and curb the ania inti and ingle of mah
tu ethene Felton rather thin paxcion, blind feeliig; bile injpolsd
je iattat wt the direct Mitac of human activgeyi lin bth iid
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Mr. William Randolf Hearst owns a chain of widely circulated
newspapers, which have powerfully moulded American public sentiment,
usually for the better, but occasionally for the worst He has in Arthur
Brishane, a’brilliant and versatile editor. who is reputed to draw down
a salary of $50,000 a year. Mr Brishane is a widely read and widely
informed man and puts things so clearly in his writmgs that the man
in the street does not have to knit his brows and scratch his head in|
order to understand. And then when Mr Brisbane reads books like
Foumier’s “Two New Worlds.” and “The Electron Theory.” and Wells
“Qutline of Universal History,” he can by his gift of exposition and,
lu¢id style interpret the book for the ordinary reader. |
* But Mr. Brisbane is not omniscient. He has not, like Lord ats
all knowledge for his province. Sometimes he is off in his his-
oo says things that are not so. We recall that seven years ago,
. Brisbane attempted to boast and boom “Buckle’s History of Civiliza-
ign.” He thought that he had made a wonderful discovery in reading
_ ithnd he kingly offered this epoch-making book for sale to his veaiers
for SOc. A representative of come wever, interviewed a famous
Mbteant shilsonher and a famous hidtorian. He was informed
— Recents "s Histhry df Grilization was amt
Seeteconic| ibook:in ifq day and generation but that now it had been
Fethgrdwn and was somgwhat antiquated. We do not know whether
°Ghis representative reported his findings, but Mr. Brisbane soon pressed
‘@fix' soft pedal in boosting and booming the book. This was not to Mr.
Bi ’s discredit, as it was said that even Homer sometime nos
st \pnly dhowed that papal infallibility is not to be attached to everything
. Shit appears in the powerful chain of the Heart newspapers. |
~" |-These reflections were occasioned by our reading a series of edi-
4 in the New York American for Tuesday, Feb. 8th, under the title
- rdinary Profligacy with the People’s Money.” One of the edi-
says in past: “The giving of this money to Bakhmetieff as a loan
tojthe Russian people was grotesque enough, but the facts concerning
“the payment of $5,000,000 to the Httle Negro Republic of Liberia in
Africa are the most grotesque of all.
“What do you suppote we let this tiny black government have five
miftion dollars for? No human being could possibly guess in a thousand
years. We actually gave that diminitive black government the money,
to defray the expense of sending a delegation to the League of Nations.
‘Upon what pretense the money of the American people was spent for
such @ purpose we cannot imagine, etc.”
‘What impressed us about the editorial in the New York American
‘was not the seering tone and the contempt which the editor regards the
Affican and the American Negro, but the apalling ignorance of the edi-
tor, Liberia has a virgin soil. It abounds in cocoa, coffee, rubber, palm
Gil, mahogany und ebony. It is an unworked mine of vegetation, is
richer in natural resources than any four American States that we could
- We suggest that the erudite editor of the American read “The Re-
public of Liberia,” by R. C. F. Monghan, a British Consul; who lived
and travelled in Liberia. He says “Liberia in her flora and geology con-
sists of a portion of Africa possessing more attractions for scientists and
capitalists than perhaps any other whose resources are known to us, and
T feel sure that one day when all that she has of interest and profit shall
have been laid bare, some of the greatest and most surprising discoveries
will connect themselves with these forests which have nite, by their
vastness and impenetrability, proved a scaled book to the\puny and
perfunctory efforts, which so far, men have endeavored ener it.”
*, _ Demosthenes, the Athenian orator sard: “I appeal from Philip drunk
_ to Philip sober,” and ve appeal from the editor of the American, who
é*has-not Lived in Liberia and knows it not to a British Consul who has|
lived there and knogs it well.
Judging from the articles on Hayti, the African and Liberia, which
have recently appeared in the New York American, it looks as if Mr.
. William Randolf Hearst is about to launch an Anti-Negro Crusade. He
” “#8 evidently a well-meaning but misinfermed man. What he needs is
¥ndt regeneration but more knowledge, enlightenment and more light on
x the subject.
{3% It woukd look like egotism for us to suggest that he read “The
*Afskean Abroad,” bitt if his editor-in-chief, Mr. Arthur Brisbane, who
.¢ fag a remarkable faculty for getting the gist of a bool and in ‘distilling
sits knowledge in terse and trenchant language will but take the trouble
{ibe tebd Mocighan's “Republic of Lévtris;? Prof, Frederick Starr’s work
ooh Likeris,, Major Felix Du Bois’, “Timbuctoo the Mysterious,” Prof,
“iran Bow’, fhe Mind of Primitive Man,” Finot’s “Race Prejudice,”
pal ae marr payiirenk ket Africa,” be will sce in the African not a
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sonable is referred to the philosophy of the unconscious. Bourbon caste
prejudice hke a dfownmg man clutches at a straw. In ante bellum days,
it worked the curse of Noah overtime. Now it is beginning to work
“the instincts deeper than reason” idea. Despite all the talk about
the "Subliminal Self,” despite E. von Hartmann's “Philosophy of the
Uneenscious," despite Schopenhauer's attempt to enthrone blind will
and striving above reason and ideas, despite Henry Bergeson's attempt
tu rate instinct above ratiocination, we still regard reason as the crown-
ing glory and divinest gift of man.
Bur as a watter of fact, race prejudice is not so much instinctive as
something that is taught a child, the sume as the multiplication table,
rehgious ideas, political ideas, moral ideals, social customs and manners
and style of dress are taught a child. Racial, nationa}, political and re-
ligious prejudices are deeply embedded in human nature, because they
are tatight the child in his early and plastic years and grow up with him.
When a hittle child sees a big black man come along, why does he In-
stinctively shrink from him or run from him? It is because the child
has been taught that he is 2 “Buggah” man, who will eat him up or run
off with him. *The child goes to school. He is taught that the Negro
is inferior to the rest of mankind and is a savage or cannibal on his
native hearth, Then wien the white youth approaches manhood, he is
taught that he will be socially ostracized. if he associates with colored
people. Hence when the white man or woman shrinks from contact with
a well dressed colored man or woman in the New York subway, it is not
an instinctive shrinking, but a shrinking caused by ihe association of
ideas. The white man has been taught that the Negro is inferior or
semi-animal. Hence when he mects a Negro, he unconsciously asso-
ciates with him that what he has been taught or has read or heard about
him, namely, inferiority of bestiality
So too with the foreigner, When he comes to America and sees
the Negro disfranchised, jim crowed, segregated and soctally ostracized,
¥ Deconmpernyp eel agaiga: him ayy yor Ssux-valcangan him, not
Mstinctively, but Because he has found him standing the lowest in the
American regard, just as he has found the penny the lowest in economic
value.
And the Negro in America and South Africa, who feels and mani-
fests his inferiority in the,presence of the Caucasian, does not do 50
instinctively ; but because he has heen taught from childhood that he is
inferior and because the Jim Crow and Disfranchisement laws in the
southern states of America and the land and other restrictive and
proscriptive laws in the south Africa ampress hus inferior political, civic
and social status upon him from carly childhood. What sociologists
call the stigma of inferiority has had a reflex psychological reaction
upon the American Negro and the South .\frican and has exercised a
repressive influence.
One African wrote to his Hightess. the Supreme Deputy, the Right
Honorable G. O. Marks recently : “All West Africa 1s full of Garveyism,
illiterate natives and all. The fire has kindled and the flames are seen
from a distant point.” Why are the Negro peoples of the world flocking
to the U. N. I. A. by the thousands? Why does it infect them with
religious fervour, zeal and enthusiasm? The questions are answered in
a few words. It has removed the stigma of inferiority, restored the
Negro his soul, awakened the African from the hypnotic sleep of
centuries and taught the black man that he is created in the divine
image the same as other men. And if that stigma would be completely
removed, the Negro would progress along every line by leaps and bounds,
In conclusion we will say that race prejudice 's more ar‘ificial than
instinctive. And if it is instinctive, it is more irrational than rational.
W.-H. F.
THE BROOKLYN MEETING.
It is expected that His Excellency, the Hon. Marc
visional President of Africa and President General c
Negro Improvement Association will be present and
address at the meeting staged by the Brooklyn Division
Academy of Music, Thursday evening, Feb. 17th,
It is expected that His Excellency, the Hon. Marcus Garvey, Pro-
visional President of Africa and President General of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association will be present and will deliver an
address at the meeting staged by the Brooklyn Division in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, Thursday evening, Feb. 17th,
LIEUT. ROSTON SAYS GARVEY mytoit the only Negroes in tho State
1S THE GEORGE WASHINGTON is ‘Washington worthy of the tems
OF THE NEGRO RACE | DOTTY Strociation with thin body. If
‘The white members of the Everott
Commercial Amociation received a
shock in the addresa of Lieut. James
A. Roston last night. The Houtenant
was invited to respond to the toast,
“The Negro's Future in Commerce.”
And If the membera hed any thought
of the Negro‘s shortcomings, they acon
bogan believing different, I wish that
‘&@ public meeting of our race could
have heard Mr. Moston. There were
only the Meutenant and two walters
menibera of the race present. Lieut,
Roston sald in part:
“Mr. President and Members of the
Commeroiat Association: You have in-
vited the here to respond to the toast,
‘The Negros Future in Commerce’
When % received your invitation, my
first impression waa ihat a joke was
beng played, for at previous gather-
ings of this amociatich, men of my
race ware invited.and paid to play the
parte Réstus andthe chicken, I want
ta. fmapart to. you at the start that Lam
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GERMANTOWN DIVISION eae Pica sks .
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CELEBRATES a any mination to help make Africa eat
Africans, our country by birthrigi
ANNUAL ANNIVE! ‘ail of the other nations of the
Germantown, F&. Jaro reorgansing—Jews are orgar
To the Editor of the Negro World: | top palestine, Polish for Poland,
Pleaso allow us space in our valuatle for Irelané—Africans should ani
paper to announce the celebration of organising the world over for a
our firgt annual anniversary asa dlvi-| O00 Datsnag “africa for Aft
sion of the U.N. 1 A. and AC Lh, 400,000,000 atrong. Speaking of
held at the Colored Branch of the ¥ Wleubject of “The Man With » Vi
C. A., 6128 Germantown avenue, Bun- showing the travels of the Honc
day, Feb. 6, 1921 Provisional President of Africa,
:. Opening at 3 o'clock by singing! yccetency Marcus Garvey, and
“From Greeniand’s Toy Bfountains." 1 ng saw the oppresston of the !
whilo the U. N LA. Band of this Divi-| 4. every hand an? in every
wion played the sume, Then he had # vision of their
3. Prayer was offered by Chaplain}in the sun that they should oc
Rov. John 31 Jehnsop. and to do that 400,000,000 Negroe:
3. Belection by band. to be organized, and to fulfil th
4. Introductory address by President organized the U. N. 1. A. and A.
JH, Harvey, which wag inspiring, slv- 1404 we in Germantown beard th
Ing the history of the division, first/ ang answered the call one year
being organized at GOT! Beechwood) with eleven voices and today w
strect, Tucsday, February 2. 1920, the) orying 426 strong for a free an
renidenco of our present treasurer and! deemed Africa, more ships for
founder of thin divinion, with clever! Biack Star Line Steamship Com
members, today wo are 425 strong with} ang more factories for the Nexro
mysclf the only Negroes in the State
of Washington worthy of the tem-
porary asnociation with thin body. If
Lany anything that will give you some
light on the future, It may have # ton-
dency to croate a better understnnd-
Ing between my raco and the mombers
of this association” bee
This was tho opening and you can
‘bo assured It war a club, for it became
atill an death, He carried the lstonors
through the years from 1600 to 1931 and
in closing paid this glowing tribute to
Morous Garvey:
“Gentlemen, I must tell you once
more that the slogan, ‘Negro First,’ bas
come to stay. You have very often
‘heard it aald that the Negro has no
rights that @ white man fe, bound to
‘respect unless the black ‘entoteos: that
respect. Marcus Garvey ts to me just
what George Washington is to every
white in the world. The Universal
Negro Improvement Association, oom
posed of all the Negroes, 400,000,600
strong, will redeem — themselves,
whether you wish if or not. Don't toF-
get that the Negro knows be is the
‘equal and, many times, superior to the
‘white mah, I hope that my response
to,se tonat assigned me ha» riet: your
‘bedrty} apptoval. ‘he Négroy hes’ ral-
fled qm. tho, atendard et aétous, Garved
find. the fed, pelea nad the grote
omdthog Will. wets tthe -nieer bine ‘ely
@ Black Cross Nurex Corps, « Legion
and e Motor Corps. Having « deter-
mination to help make Africa sate for,
Africans, our country by birthright, as
ail of the other nations of the world
are reorganising—Jews are organising
for Palestine, Polish tor Poland, Irish
for Ireland—Africans ghould and are
organising the world over for s tree
and redeemnf Africa for Africans
400,000,000 strong. Speaking on the
tubject of “The Stan With a Vision,”
showing the travels of the Honorable
Provisional President of Africa, Hlle
Bxeellency Marcus Garvey, and how
he saw the oppresston of the Negro
on every hand ant in every land.
Then he had » viston of thelr rpot
in the sun that they should occupy,
and to do that 400,000,000 Negroes had
to be organized, and to fulfil that he
organized the U.N. I. A. and A.C. L.,
‘and we in Germantown *eard the call
and answered the call one year ago
with eleven voices and today we are
crying 426 strong for a free and re-
deemed Africa, more ships for the
Black Star Line Steamship Company
‘and more factories for the Negro Fac-
tories Corporation,
Introductton of some of the oMoern
of the Division: General Secretary
James D. Knight, Treasurer and
founder William D. Fishes, Assistant
Secretary John Thomas.
Ladies’ Division.
President, Mra, Mary C Fisher.
Vico President, Afra. Mamle Johnson
Chaplain, John M, Johneon, D. D.
Rolection by band,
‘Tho expresidont of the Mhiledeiphia
Division and founder of the Black
Crows Nurses, Mra, Sarah Branch,
poke on the subject, “The Negrocs’
Rewponsibility.”
Tev Samuel Kinney, pastor of the
Twentletn and Tioga Streets Christian
Churoh, made = rew remarxy # en-
courRgemeet,
Selection by nang.
‘The president mare w short addrens,
Introducing to the dtvision one of the
parent hody and B. W. I. leader in the
poron of Right Honorable J. D. De-
Lourg, who held apelibound the audi-
ence which crowded the auditorium to
Ite doors.
1 remain yours for the red, the biack,
‘and the green forever
COL. JOHN ‘tHtOMAs,
‘Aan, Bee.
419 FE Armstrong St, Germantow i,
Pa.
Sunday, Fob. 6, 1921.
THE U. N. I. A. USED
AS DRAWING CARD
BY PRIVATE CONCERNS
Jan, 23, 1931.
EAltor of-the Npgro World:
Y dostto to’ inlorse:-Aagehntteygeet
Camden, N. J. through your columns
‘that there are two or three men who
are using the name of the U.N. 1 A.
and A.C. L. as @ drawing card for their
personal gain. There i# @ shoe re-
pairing shop on or near the corner of
‘Ninth and Walnut street in the Sev.
‘nth Ward of Camden that tw run by
Mr. John A. Jackson and 3. H. Boll,
T have nothing in my heart against
theno gentlemen, but I denire it to be
known that the U.N. 1 A. and A.C
L, hassno part or share in the sho»
and will not be responsible for nay
buninens trannactions conducted by the
shop.
1 beg to remain, truly yourn, as over,
for the good of tho race,
J.T. BOWMAN.
Ex-Pronident of Division No. 28. 20
vouth 8th street, Camden, N. J.
Reading Notice,
The annual meoting of the stock-
‘holders of the United Produce Dealors
Asnoslation, Inc. camo off at the office
of the company February 2, 1921.
Bitty-four stockhollors, representing
(in peraon and by proxies) 883 sharon
of stock, full patd and non-assessable,
‘were represented.
‘The following directors were unani-
mously elected for the ensuing year:
F. G. Williams, president; John Swan,
vico-prosidont; A, A. Johnson, trean-
urer: J. A. Plummer, secretary: Iid-
ward Granady, David Dougias, A. 8.
‘Bailey.
Special Notice,
From and after the 28th dsy of Feb-
ruary, 1921, the office of the company
will be at 2547 Eighth avenue.
J. A. PLUMMER,
Beoretary.
in lottera of gold, ‘Peace on earth, food
will toward men, made so by the U. N.
L A’” (Applause and long cheors.)
FRANK 8. BROWN.
INTERESTING HARLEM NOTES
‘The Church of the Good Shephrrd
‘The first annual convention and
banquet of the &t. Andrews Brother-
hood and Auxillary of the Mhureh of
the Good Shepherd, New York, was
held on Lincoln's birthday, Fob. 12th,
at the Parish Hall, 224 West 130th
street. Covers wore Ioid for nearly
fitty people,
‘Rev, R. BL Wy Jack, the assistant to
Rev, Dr, Geo, A. MoGulre, the rector,
was master of ceremonies, Tho fol-
lowing programme was rendored:
- Bpeech by Mr. Solomon Plaatjs, of
Kimberly, Cape Colony, South Africa;
‘speooh by Miss Josephine MoKensle;
‘solo by Mr. James Roberta; speech by
‘Mr..Bertram Baker; speech by Mr. X.
©, Boddy; speech by His Excellency
Rey, Hilt G, Tobitt; speech by the Rt
HonorableEev, Stuart; speech by Mt,
‘WM. Grant; apesoh by Mr. C. Gorden;
spedeh by Protecsgr W. H. Fertlec :
. tif@ Grace, Dr. George Alexasider
‘Hodutrs,-the rector, te:Chaplain: Geaw.
orale {he-U... Ts A, and will reters
fre Noses sesest: (itp'tp. Cuba, Baro
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RCUS GARVEY FURTHER OUTLINE PLANS, NEEDS AND 3
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OBJECTS OF UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIG
AEE
Tells of Great Reported Project of British Garena to Exploit West Coast of produce of Aftice. Manogany. cotten.| Asta. ‘Tae only part of the wwid Wf faientng the wtterances of Brtieh an as noe
Africa Canadian Engineer Appointed to Wead Expedition, Involving Expene [ice Srttan aston sr [ans sc memeantnyatr ton war | wry aes aues Coen el Se oe eee
diture of $50,000,000—Country to Be Exploited a Huge Territory, with lof @ valuable expert end tmpert tade.| test enne eer oe somewhere tn Exgiané whes the ques-| ef Afcat” Winstes Chucky, a9
Population of 6,000 Whites and 6,00,000 Nogross—Wealth of ii ee oaea parame see aan ee eae |e te eee ee Rae
i . = ‘ators of Che watt
Natural Resources Beyond All Estimate. : {EIRENE be Canaians, coats ef thaen | hence the Co ——— peer
NEGRO LABOR TO BE EMPLOYED IN MANUAL WORK, BUT
HEADS OF ALL DEPARTMENTS WILL BE CANADIANS—
PROJECT SHOULD AROUSE NEGROES TO NEED OF
HASTENING WORK OF U. N. I. A., AND HEART-
EN THEM IN THEIR ENDEAVORS AND IN
GIVING IT FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
Other Members of Executive Council Speak, Including Solomon
Platje—Large Number of Additional Bronze, Silver and Gold
Crosses of African Redemption Awarded, and Unusual Number
of Subscriptions Made to Black Star Line and Liberian Con-
struction Loan—Mr. Garvey Delivers Farewell Speech Prior to
Departure for Panama, Central America and West Indies on
Wednesday Evening, Feb. 16th.
LIBERTY HALL, NEW YORK, Feb
13, 1921 —Urged by a tactful yet force-
ful plea made by the Right Honorable
High Chancellor, Rev. Dr G E. ftew-
art, the people comporing the audience
of the montter meeting held in Liberty
Hall tonight caine forward and man -
fested keen intcrent in the program
Such in their interest and confidence in
tho worthinonn of tho cause of the Unt-
versal Negro Improvement Axaociation
and their dotermination that, come
what may, it shall succeed,
‘The Hon, Marcus Garvey, Provisional
President-Gonoral of Africa, delivered
anothe: ringing address, which was a
continuction of sequel to his masterful
effort on the Friday evening imnred!-
ately preceding. A vast assemblage
had gathered to hear bim and mani-
fested their appreciation of all ho sald.
Bir. Garvey, in hin recgdt{ addrogs, has
gone beyond the ppint of merely arous-
ing the enthusiasm of the people in
the objects of tho Universal Negro Im-
provement Association, his speeches
are now ao effoctive, ec stirring, and go
#0 straight to the very heart of his
subject, that tho people become moved
to act—to do things, It ls these results
‘that count, and that t# carrying the
work of the U. N. |. A. forward by
Maps and bounds and making it more
end more popular with the yeople
everywhere.
‘Mr. Garvey profaced his address by
feferring to a clipping taken from a
recent issue of a Canadian paper, which
gave @ detailed report of a new project
oon to be luurched by the British
Government for the exploitation of the
‘Weet Coast of Africa. This project.
the article read, will involve un ex-
penditure of $50,000,000, and will begin
ome timo in the early spring of this
year, A Canadian ongincer will be
Dlaced at the hoad of the expedition.
‘The inanual labor to be done by the
expedition will be turned over to Ne-
Broes, but all other work will be done
by tho Canadians, whom the British
Goveromen: wish to favor in the work
ef exploitation. The country that ts
thup to be tho object of the English-
fan's newest activities, and which he
desires to develop for his own benefit
and gain, 18 a vast territory compris-
ing over thres hundred miles of sea
eoast and extends inland the same din-
tance with @ population of only 6,000
‘whites to 6,000,000 Negroes, Its natural
‘wealth in mineral and vegetablo re-
sources are said by the British authorl-
thes to be beyond all estimate. Theso
facte, Mr. Garvey pointed out, should
‘rouse Negroes the world over, as never
before, to renewed determination and
to redouble thelr efforts in the great
work of the U. M. I. A. for the re-
emption of Africa: for it progress is
not rupidly made by us frm now on,
it may be too late for us to regain our
motherland and we will all be doomed.
He sald that Africa wan ours by right
divine; that wo should go and take
what Is ours and not elt idly by and let
others take it (rom us.
All to all, the addres closely fol-
lowed along the line of Friday night's
address, excepting that it wan along a
alightly diferent branch of the topic,
aud descended from generalities to par-
tculars, The two addresses (which
are giyen in this issue in full) should
be read together as one, and cannet
fall .o give added seat and insptration
to all whose bellat in the hope and
salvation of the Negro les in the ree
demption of Africa,
Prof. Wri. H. Yerrie and Mrs. Hen-
rietta Vinton Davis made ghort ad-
Grosses, These were characteristic .c?
the intellectuality.6f the two speakers,
Nara” br Bevis wos toRlowed freee
, avin by. toe)
Rt. Hon, High Chancellor: Dr. Stewart;
after which'a short addvens wae Gelive
ered. bY Mr. Solomon Piatie of sim:
heciy. South Africa.
tely following Mr, Garvey’s |
‘bronse, allver and gold
wore: dwarted and, pinaba' ene eae
broads. of thoes wiks. ed wubearibed to
the: Rébortam: Sanatreation Kian ta:
ey oe were Sa eee,
sums ranging from $10 to $100, $100 to
$500 and $500 to $1,000 and over. Quite
j@ number of individuals received these
crosses, and from ali appearances and
Indications, it is the bellef of the Ex.
ecutive Councit that within the next
fow months the total amount required
|for thia purpose (the Liberian Con-
wtruction Loan) wil! have been secured.
Owing tc a change in plana, the Pro-
visional President General of Africa
announcod that ho would postpone un-
tl Wednosday aight, February 16, the
delivery of his farewell address prior
to his departure for Panama, Centra!
America and the Went Indies.
A» customary. the meeting was
opencd with music by the Black Star
Line bana, the reading of the Scrip-
tures and an appropriate rausioal pro-
gram in which Madame Lulu Frasier
Robinson was the star, as soprano
soloist.
HON, MARCUS GARVEY SPEAKS.
| Hon Marcus Garvey spoke as fellows,
‘Before 1 enter thto the pirden of iny
‘speech tonight I desire to read a news-
‘paper clipping that comes t. me from
‘Canada, rovealing the activities of the
British and Canadian government in
the deaigns on the explcitation of
Africa. In reading the clipping I will
do 0 with @ heart full of sorrow be-
cause of the inactivity and the careless
Indifference t'e Negro has shown to-
wards his own interests while others
allen to him have been busying them-
selves organizing for the purpose of
taking away from and depriving the
Nenvo of all that {s belonging to him.
Again I must say, as I have often sald,
that Negroes are the most lazy, the
‘most careless and indifferent people in
the world, and it simply sickens ono
sometimes to feel that he {s identified
‘with @ people who cannot see while the
whole world ‘a seeing and‘reallsing in
its own Interests. I will read the clip-
ping and T will comment afterwards.
(He then read the news article, as fol-
lows):
MUCH CANADIAN MATERIAL TO
~ BE USED
General Stewart “elle of Great Cen
tract Geeured sm Geld Coat,
British Government Entrusts Vast
Project to Boldier Railway Builder,
Harbor Works of First Magnitude Are
to Be Constructed.
Fitty Million Dollars tn Aji to Be Spent
‘on the Project. |
By LUKIN JOHNSTON.
Fitty milion dollars will be entrusted
by the British Government to the Ca-
nadian firm of Stewart & MacDonnell
headed by Major-General J. W. Btew-
art, O, B., to be spent on vast engineer-
ing works in the Guid Coast Colony,
Went Africa, General Stewart re-
turned from‘England on Monday even-
ing after making fino arrangements
for the carrying out of the first unit of
the great harbor works at Takorad!
‘This unit will cost $17,000,000, and will
take trom five to alx years to complete.
‘The fact that this huge undertaking
hae been committed to the hands of a
Canadian firm of engineers ts « matter
for congratulation to the Domiaton, but
it has much deeper significance than
appears on the surface, It ts the first
concrete evidence that the British Gov-
arnment is ready and anxious to recos-
nibe and develop the true evoromic and
feaperta? unity of the British Exptre,
*T am.weary of the cry of ‘Australis
for the Australlane!* ‘Canada for the
Canadians!’ and so on.” Vieopunt Mil-
Her, until recently Seeretery of Ktats
for the Colonies, te reported te Rave
S412 on ene\cconsion. “Why shou}
Canadians atiy ses ter cit
Giang, Avatatians, New Seakindere 2:
Bouth Africans. realive néw and always
that, the, etows ‘cqtonien ote mits
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‘Thin te the deeper signiftosnce of the
undertaking which has been committed
to General Stewart and bis colleagues,
1t ts w part of @ great plan, conceived
by a man of broag vision, to further
unify the empire and to strengthen the
Intangibie cord which binds all parts of
ft together.
Tele of Vast Project.
General Stowart satin bis office in
the Winch Bullding and discussed thle
rent project in Went Africa, nearly
9,000 mites distant from bis own home.
Tt te a platitude to say that General
Stowart {n a remarkable man. Any
ong who has followed his career, par-
tleulnrly during the war, when he was
in command of the Canadian railway
construction troops, must realize that
here is a man of most unusual capacity.
‘With the quiet voice end retiring man-
ner of the student rather than the man
of action, General Stewart talked calm-
ly In millions white be told of the vast
project which he and his associates will
Gtrect.
The Gold Coast colony t# a huge ter-
ritory lying between the British colony
of Togoland and Nigeria on the east.
and Ivory Land on the wost. Roughly
aoe ft has a coast line of 350
milen and extends toward the hinter-
tand of Central Afrina for a distance of
$00 mites. Ite population consists of
6.000 whites and 6,000,000 Negroes. The
value of its natural resources is beyond
estimate. Evon today 400,000 tons of
manganese ore are shipped annually
from the colony. ‘There are great for-
eats of mahogany; there wre gold and,
sliver and mines and immense stretches
of tropical country which In years to
come will produce crops of rubber, rico,
sugar and cocoanuts of much value.
Today alt thess things which may be
turned to good une for man's welfare
aro elther inscesaible or undeveloped.
To « Canadian firm it has fallen to
make the firey bi~ Gpyetoning
che Tmidonaao ee evoakod anita. '
‘The first unit which will be con-
structed tnder the supervision of Gen-
erat Btewa:t's firm comprises a break-
water one and @ half miles long. Tt
will protect the area decided upon for
the harbor of Takoradi from the preva-
lent western winds and currente, With-
in this harbor will be dredged a deep-
water harbor of a minimum depth of
33% feet.
To an outsider such 2 vust project
must bo of great interest. To those
directly concerned, as are Canadians,
it is a matter not only of interest but
of great commercial potentialities.
General Stewart states that, as far as
posaible, Canadian material and equip-
ment will be used in the work. ,Can-
adian cars, ateam shovels, locomotives,
cement and fron will be shipped in im-_
mense quantities, while British Co-
justia Douglas fir will have an ime
portant place in the array of material
needed. The first cargo of B.C. tim-
ber will be shipped from Vancouver as
yoon as @ vessel {s available.
B.C. for African Products
Ghips whioy carry to the Gola Coast
these vast atiree of rolling stock and
equipment wil return laden with the
Fer several weeks we carried = netics in these celumne that under
ne circumstances will papers be sent te any agent whe dese net psy
for his er her supply regularly each week. Some agents have been igner-
Ing thie weekly payment requirement, and are expecting us to forward
papers te them every werk. We ere again warning these egents that
thelr eupplice will be cut off if payments ere net made regularly cech
week and their back accounts paid up in full immediately. it will be |
uselese te expect papers unless this is dens. e =
® Orders must be sent in te reash thie effice net later than the Friday
‘one week preceding the day of publication (Saturdev) in order to be
effeative for current iseuge, etherwive there will be a week's delay before
they are filled. Be eure and make your payments every week in order
te aveld interruption ef your weekly supply.
Agents whe have not been making their remittances regularly need
net write this effice te inquire why papers dre net sent te them. We
have been told that the very agents whe will net pay for their papers
ate telling their customers that they cannet get them because ef care-
[esaness |. 1. office, For the benefit of thoes customers, we shall pub-
fish 2 Het wi theese agente whe de net pay for their papere and have had
thle euppliee eut off
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produce of Africa. Manogany, cotten
rubber end other produge will come
back to Canada in exchange, and there
will be openings for the buliding up
of @ valuable export and import trede.
‘While for the moat part Negro labor
wilt be employed, the heads of depart
mente will be Canadians, most of them
lat present t epeened with Messra. Foley,
Waleh a ta this province. The
frat party of thirty officials will leave
‘British Columbia in time to reach the
Gold Coast by April. "In charge of the
work for the firet year or so will be
Hon. Angus MacDonnell, a well-known
resident of Brittsh Columbia. Prob-
lably in the autumn General Stewart
‘wilt go out and take charge when ihe
plant i assembled and ready to start
operations.
It will be of interest to many Brit-
{oh Columbians to learn that Adméra!
Sir John Parry, K. C. B, known in
British Columbia waters as Com-
mander Parry, in charge of the hydro-
[graphic survey vessel Egeria until 1914,
has been wor ting with Ne MacDonnell
io the ous Coast on the preliminary
survey work for the undertaking. He
has been of the greatest esmstance.
saya General Stewart. General Gus-
Isisborg, the governor of tro colony, is
[aio @ Canadian, bis wife being the sis-
ter of Miss Eva Moore, who was here
frecently. It te to General Guggisberg
probably as much as to any other man
tbat Canada owes the honor which has
fallen to her, for he has shown him-
elf keen from the first in see the
methods employed by Canadians in
France adopted in the country over
which he rules.
Mr. Garvey Comments.
Céfamonting on the article, Mr Gar-
vey sald: Not longer ago than ist
Sunday night, I bellave, I told vou that
we had but very Ittle time to work in.
for the nex® six months would be
eventful in the life of the Negro: an4
probably some of you went away and
you forgot about it. Just at this time
the entire bankrupt states and nations
ef Europe are making a mighty and
deeperate effort to get hold of new
fields for exploitation. I told you on
several occasions that Europe no longer
offers a chance or opportunity to any of
the great powers for exploitation.
Kurope is over exploited and Asia is
keenly protected by Japan, hence no
encouragement {s offered tor those who
desire new fields for exploitation in
Asia. The only part of the world bof
then ts Africa. Africa daring the wa
and Africa tmmediately after the war—
1 am speaking of nar‘ve Africa—<id ab-
eolutely nothing te protect tte own ta.
teresta. Xo effort was mate to pstab-
Ush poliucel rights and ownershia
hence the white bankropt word aw
the chance, saw the eppertuntty ts
concentrate on the explettation of
Africa. No bager than « couple of
weeks ago Italy published through the
newspapers a similar news ttm which
revealed tbe fact that Italinn cappulins
backed by the Ital gorerament
were about to open up pew spberes
And fields of exploitation in Africa etms-
lar to this Canadian an? Britis project
‘What does ft mean? 11 means that the
last bope—tbe Aisi stronghold of the
Negro is being torn from bim and when
Tt is gone, ot is as wel be mays bos
prayers and go home to his God The
words of Lord Milner that the slogan df
Australia for the Augtralans and
Canada for the Canadians and Xew
Zeniand fur ide New Zeaiapcers ia at
bosh and (hat these Colonials—thoes
people of the great dominions—shou!t
realize that the Crown Colonies of the
Empire belongs to them as aruch
as it ts Delonging to other Britiabers—
iy very significant. It ts an encourage
meat to those colonials to are their
barren mpberes and go into the more
productive spheres of the crown
Colonies where Great Britain bolds
eway and dominion Gimultancousty
with this project of sending out these
Canadians with = capital of $:9.055299
to lay the foundation for the ex-
ploitation of the Gold Coast, they have
made the greatest Negro hater In the
British Empire, Winston Spencer
Churehill, Secretary of the Colonies
Wikston Spencer Churchill just a couple
of days ago was made Secretary for tbe
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The Green Colonies are now placed under his control; and they have capitulated a Canadian expedition with 400,000 to go and exploit all the Gold Coast. They then admit that the wealth will the riches of the Gold Coast passes all the estimate, and that all to be theirs. Because Negroes have been lazy and inexperient for 300 years. The wealth that you desire to bring you food and clothing—the wealth that belongs to you all down and allow another man to take it away from you. Talk about calling on God Almighty, talk about praying to the Lord Jesus Christ. That has God Almighty into Jesus Christ to do with the gold dust on the Gold Coast? What has God Almighty to do with a corporation capitalized at 500,000,000. God Almighty in the Creator of the Universe. He did his Job thousands of years ago. He created the Universe and gave a portion of it to you. If you allow someone else to take a from you you ought to die. And did just the situation now.
Liberty Hall Medsage.
Now I want to send this message from Liberty Hall. It is a question of the survival of the fittest, and if the people of America, the West Indies and this civilized Western world down for another five years as they have set down for the years past they are doomed, because the world organized as it is now has no marry for work and unprepared men. America as she reveals herself becomes more prejudiced towards Negroes every day. Canadians for the first time are going 1,000 miles away. What does it mean? I mean a new grasp on Africa, and whatsoever we have to do we must do now—now or never. They say it will take six years for them to build up to selfless the project that they have. I pray it will keep them that long. I pray God will give 400,000,000 men strength enough to go out and conquer the lake Africa. I want you to note how the white man works. This man who is to direct operations on the Gold Coast is a valuable man; he is the master mind. What is he doing? He is doing just what the American Government did a few years ago when it started to build the Panama Canal. They kept the engineering genius until all was prepared for them. The man of the white man is to work Africa with the labor of the Negro. They say they are going to use Negro laborers in making the Gold Coast sanitary and safeable for the white man, and when these white men send a message back that everything is well, others will follow with their mighty force. West Indian Negroes were sent to for work in the swamps and bushes of Panama aged when they had made the place sanitary it was then that the white American engineers under the leadership of General Goethals went out and built the Panama Canal. And so they have a design again to use Negro laborers in the Gold Coast to make new place sanitary and habitable and those other Canadians will go in large numbers and occupy the land. If tell you men, there will be a town on some day. Some people think I am made British; some people think that I am not white. I am neither anti-Christ nor anti-white. I am producer, and I want to say this from Liberty Hall tonight—some the world knows. South Africa shall be won for the white man only when Marvin Garrett with 400,000,000 lay down their arms. (Oceana). It is my last hope that will give the last drop of my blood that hope. When it is done, I hope as previously as the missionaries can get with a body full of blood and with all means. It means that American will
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take advantage of the Crown Colonies means that Africa is the hope of the white man. But before Africa was the hope of the white man Africa was created the home of the black man. And it is a question of a man proving himself fit to live. I say to you in here tonight that if you are fit you will live, if you are not you will die.
away and as they are prepared to go 9,000 miles away to rob what is not theirs. I am prepared to go 15,000 miles to stop one taking away from me what belongs to me. (Cheers!) Some of us are made up too cowardly. There is no place in the world for cowards. What right has Winston Spencer Churchill to stand up
mental Botha Smuts stands for a white South Africa Smuts stands for South Africa as a part of the British Empire. The elections inudged in the other day brought out a rivalry between himself and Gen Hertzog, the leader of the Nationalist party of South Africa Gen Hertzog a deser to have an independent South Africa a port of the Empire of Great Britain to back him and his government should the natives attempt to take advantage of the establishment there of a free and independent South Africa. Because of his campaigning tactics in that direction many of the Nationalists who would have otherwise voted for an independent South Africa voted for an
Prove Your Fitness.
We of the Universal Negro Improvement Association are calling upon you to prove your fitness God Almighty created you men, he never created you weaklings or puppets God Almighty bequeathed to you the same rights as he bequeathed to other men. It is for you 400,000,000 Negroes of the world to go out, look at the world and demand your place in the world (Cheers.) But how can you do it. Englishmen and Canadians and Frenchmen and Italians do not go about things they want in a half-hearted manner, they do not only talk about it, but they go about it; and whilst we have been talking here in this whole-hearted manner for four years, what have we done? We have not subscribed the $10,000,000 capital of the Black Star Line; we have not even subscribed $2,000,000 to the Liberian Construction Loan. How do we expect it to win? Over night the Canadians got $10,000,000. It is not a case of your having it quite a different thing; but you have it as much as they have it, and if you have not got it it is your fault. You are to get it from the same source they got it. You had it and what did you do with yours? You gave it back to them. How long will this slackness continue among Negroes? I wish I could convert the world of Negroes overnight to the tremendous possibilities of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The things I have dreamed of; the things I foresaw four years ago are now coming true and the people I preached to. I talked to, I wrote to have not helped to realize the dream. It pains me every every moment of the day when I see Negroes losing the grasp they should have on their own. You of Liberty Hall I must ask you to go out as missionaries and preach this doctrine again of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Let all the world know that this is the hour; this is the time for our salvation. Prayer alone will not save us; sentiment alone will not save us. We have to work and work and work if we are to be saved. I would not spend one minute with you if I were to preach a sermon to you because Jesus Christ preached his sermon nearly two thousand years ago which converted me. What I want you to understand is not so much preaching about beatitudes, but it is the preaching about your bread and butter that will cause you to live whilst you are down here. Jesus Christ preached and taught the beatitudes and every man born in the Christian dispensation ought to know and realize it. The time now is to preach the beatitude of bread and butter. I have contributed my bit in preaching this doctrine. What is the idea of men going 9,000 miles away? For fun. Just to see some new god? No! For what? To see gold, to see all the minerals, the copper, iron, gold, rubber and everything that is of material value. That is why they are going 9,000 miles
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away and as they are prepared to go 9,000 miles away to rob what is not theirs. I am prepared to go 15,000 miles to stop some one taking away from me what belongs to me. (Cheers!)
Some of us are made up too cowardly. There is no place in the world for cowards. What right has Winston Spencer Churchill to stand up in the Guild Hall, or in Caxton Hall or in the Royal Albert Hall, or anywhere in London, and tell me and tell my brothers that they should not have the country that God Almighty gave them. What right has he to say that he believes such a thing? But if he believes it, it is for me to disprove that right; and that is just what we are organizing for Negroes, understand, there are 400,000,000 of you in the world, and if you are too cowardly to stand up for what belongs to you, if you are going to let 60,000,000 Anglo-Saxons take away, that which God Almighty gave you, you ought to die! But here is one man (the speaker here refers to himself) who will measure arms with and meet any Anglo-Saxon anywhere, at any time. Every day and night I feel sure I will meet him and bring away what belongs to me and let him go on his way. That is the determination I want each and every one of you to make up in your minds, for it's your last chance. You despise Africa, some of you, but let me tell you that Africa is going to be the greatest spot in the world in another fifty years. When you hear of progress, when you hear of hisian success, when you hear of wealth, you will hear of Africa, even if it is fifty years from now, for those Canadians are going there to make it, and these Italians are going there to make it, but before they get there the Universal Negro Improvement Association will be there! (Applause.)
The South African Election
To change my thought for a while, now has also come from South Africa that Smutts has been victorious in carrying the election. Smutts, you know, is the successor of the late Gen-
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Wilson talks about peace while the world is just next door to war. Why? The machinations of the various Allied Governments, especially Great Britain, led by David Lloyd George, who are seeking to have America wipe out their war debt to us is but a sounding of the sentiment of war. Ten billions of dollars were loaned by the United States of America to England France Italy and Russia, and the premiers of all these countries are coming to us and saying, "Please cut out that war debt of ten billion dollars we owe you daughter). You know what that does it mean? It is a threat of war. That is all England has paid one cent of her interest on her war debt to the United States for the first year. What does it mean? It is only provoking the United States to anger, and if you had another man for president than Wilson, probably a short, curt note would have gone to Westminster ere now. Such a note would by now be in the hands of the British Premier but because of Wilson's disposition nothing has been said about it. But we anticipate that something about it will be said when Harding gets into power (applause). The ten billion dollars of war debt to us these nations want us to cancel. Just think of it. But it will not be canceled by the American working man, because he had to slave and store him for over five years to subscribe that ten billion dollars and he wants it because when he gets it back it means that his burden of taxation will be lifted. If the ten billion dollar is not paid by those Allied governments who borrowed it he will be taxed another ten billion
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REV. JANES GORDON, DD.
Pastor of the First Congre-
gational Church of San
Francisco, Cal, Enlight
ens White Audience.
Ber Dz James Gordun of Sam
ranetwes, Cai, answered the following
Questions on ihe Negro, c2 Wednesday
q@entng, Jepuary 32h, 1921, to an
amtience of over 2.000 white men apd
women and about £3 Negro men and
women.
(Q) Whar's the differsace between
& White and a Negro Mason*
(A) Tee only diffrence 1s the color
of the ckin of both mes.
(Q) Are we threatened vith an
Aion uprising in the UB AT
(A) The workd ip alarmed over
the Marcus Garvey meverneat 10 es
tabtieh an Sthiopisn bingdom. Sir.
Garvey is a great agiistor (be then
read a letter from an American Negro.
trae. That the American Negro loves
America and all be asks ts soctal
quay and aqua righia~ The
fearned gentieman than stated that the
lf slave Negroes are dying out, and
the ~ew Negro of today whom we edu-
cate as © man and whom we tell that
Bere a man we today working for a
mans part
Th. iamed gente acy scied
that be's a great reader and bas read
@ number of books, but I must state
that be bandied the U.N oT A and A
CL movement with diplomacr and
to quote the words of one of our mems
Dera who’ was present = That he
Randieu 38 Garver ith vetvet
glover
‘This Amer «Meare whe erate
hat secter alan ated that the Amer-
fan Rego va ® equa'ity without
gorntact. This Negru aake for tue £0-
cial and right equadty, whieh «oud
give him the right o b+ governor of
ab) state or yrestd nt ot abe CoA
FLU Laat day ever rome” Would the
white rice of Amir va be poverned hy
a Negro’ Can here Ue roel nd
right equatty without cuntact fay
Ro, a thousand times ne’ uu are but
‘@ sojourner bere.
T must also stair that a committer
was appointed by he & F. Division
to cover the gentiemans speech and f
think 29 per cent. of the Negroes prea-
ent were membera. (Dr Jamen Gordon
un white prearhes)
BW, WILSON.
See. Fo Divettoy No 148
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS HOS-
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RATES ANNIVERSARY.
‘The twenty-fifth annivereary of ‘tho
Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital
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Suntay afternoon, Feb. 20, at 210
Ri Many civic creanieations wilj turn
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‘Female Quartet of the Holy Trinity
Baptist Church; the Zion Wesley
Cholr, Prof. 0. A. Clarke, director: the
Mt Pisgah Church Choir, Prof. Baw
Beamon, director. will render a1 elab-
erate program
Rev Dr. W 0. Granam will preside:
Rev, Dr Peeavia O'Connell, of Mor.
wan College, Baltimora, Md, will do-
fiver the principal addrees. Othar ad-
Qreqnes veil be deiivere uy Dr John P
Turner presitent af the National Med.
4G Areetvior Dr G I Cannon,
ex-president uf the mame, DA W. G.
Alerande-. mrmb-r uf the New Jersey
Legislature, Dr Lennard Carter. of
Harrisburg Pa. br B. B Jetfers, of
Breton. Pa and De Ede BL Terry,
of New Tork
Dr. N 1 Mowne') thy medical dl-
rector apd suner s telent Aan not only
made thoruerstopment of the Freder-
fek Douxt-se Moay'ut hia lite-work,
but hes sits chumploned the aspira-
thon and striving of the Negro fur civic
@nc por: cai equatins
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‘@wnity to come and insperi the work
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Bane a orer nace to ee
Directora’ Mra. J MeNichols, presl-
Gent, Mew Aaranall, vice-president;
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Roberts, treasurer: Mra. David I. Mar-
Us. Mra. Stockton, Mixa N. Burden,
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Autbor of THE AFRICAN ABROAD.
January ith was the birthday of
Thomies Paine, the master mind of the
American Revolution, who has justly
teen called “Pho Great Commoner of
Mankin& His pamphlet on “Com
mon Senee.” which reached 9 circule-
Ucn of ever ene hundred thousand, oe
verted George Washington to the cause
of the colonists, and paved the way for
the Declaration of Independence.
Winlem Cobbett said of the famous
Declaration that “whoever wrote it,
‘Thomas Paine was tte author *
But black men should remember that
‘Thomas Paine’s fret article on “Justice
and Humanity” was an eloquent pre-
sentation of the cause ef the alaves.
Paine alse wrote of inspired an anti-
slavery clause in the celebrated Declar-
ation. which was struck eut. |
Tom Painve untisiavery eomy was
printed on March @ 1975. This was
thirty-five daya before the frat Amert-
can Anti-Blavery Seclety wns orgenized
tm Philadelphia, Pa. Eight months be.
fore the celebrated Declaration of In-
dependence was signed. Tom Paine sent
out his own Declaration of tndepen-
dence, which ends thue: “And when
the Almighty sball have blest us and
made us a peaple dependent only on
him then may cur first gratitade be
sbown by an act of continental legisla-
on, which shall put a stop to the im-
portation of Negrosa for sale, scften the
hand fate of those already bere, and in
tier procure thelr freefom” 4
‘Thus ie bow the ph on African
avery. whlch rinse wrote or n-
spired und which was Atrickon cut of
the American Declaration of Indepen-
dence, berine “He (the Briton) has
waged cruel war against human nature
Wtaelt, violating its most sncrod rights of
fe and liberty of @ distant people who
never offended him, captivating and car-
rying thom into slavery in another
hemisphere. or to incur miserable
dedth in thelr transportation hither,
tte™
On November 2, 1719, George Bryan
introduced an act into the Pennayl-
vania Arserobly, providing for the aboll-
Won of slavery. ‘The act passed March
1, 1780. According to tradition, Tom
Paina, the clerk of the Assembly, was
the real author of the act, On March,
1390, Tam Paine left Paris for Ragland.
‘The day before he miled, he thus
wrote = Philadelphia friend, “! despair
of seeing an abolition of the internal
traffio im Negros. We must push that
matter further on your side uf the
water.”
And now we como to real history.
Tom Paine first challenged the Bible,
when it was quoted as endorsing
slavery. Conway, on page 203 of the
second volume of hia “Life at Thomas
Paine,” says: ,“Soon after bie arrival in
the country, ‘when ne found African
‘Slavery. supported by the Old Testa}
sent, Paine had repudiated the author»
ty of that book; he decfares it abot-
ished by “Goipel light,’ which Includes
man-stealing among the greatest
ertmes.”
History hen it that Tom Paine first
‘ecame unpopular becouse of his re
puted infidelity. But it was not ¢0. On
‘pame 300 of the second volume ut the
work wo have just quoted, Conway
saya: “"The Rights of Man’ had become
20 antiquated in Napoleon's France
that Yorke found Paine’s name odlous
ob account of his antl-alavery writings,
the people “ascribing to his expousal
of the rights of tho Negroes of Bt
Domingo the resistance which Leclera
bad experienced fram them.” On pege
244 Conway saya: “That the United
Btates, under presidency of Jefferson,
ahould stand aloof from the ntruggle of
the Negroes in Gt. Domingo for Iberty,
cut Paine to the heart.” On page 408
(Conway saya: “Paine’s lust letters to
‘the President are characteristic. One
jpleads for American intarvention to
stay the hand of Hrench oppression
among the Negroes in St. Domingo;
for the colonization of Loulsiana with
tree Negro laborers.” Two grateful
Negroes traveled 25 miles on foot from
New York to New Rochelle on June 20,
"1809, following the body of Tom Paine
to Ite Inst resting place.
But great as were Paine'’s services
to this country and to the anti-slavery
cause, he fs not @ popular American
hero as Washington, Jefferson, Frank-
lin, Lincoln and Roosevelt are. Yn the
rat place, historians of the abolition
movement overlooked his powerful
anti-slavery document which was pub-
Mehed {n 1778, Then Leslie Stephen's
“History of English Thought in the
Bighteenth Century” circutated tibele
exainst Paine which were republished
ta the “Recollections and Impressions”
of Mr. 0. B, Frothingham. It was re-
served for Moncure Dantcl Conway in
hie “Lite of Thomas Paine” to correct
these libels against the real Father of
the American Revolution and the real
plonesr of modern democrany.
Fils “Rights of Man” caused him to
be outtawed by the British Govern-
ment. His “Age of Reason” and
‘“Delamn” brought down on bim theoon-
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POPULATION OF BRAZIL
Statement from the Em-
bassy on the Foreign and
we Negro Element.
ice —
© folowing stutement han been
ed from tho Brastlian Embassy
av the article entitled “Colby Tour
Allayed Latin Suspicions,” which ap-
peared in The Now York Times of
last Friday:
“In Tho New York Times for Jan.
28 appears a letter from ite corre-
spondent. William H. Crawford, con-
cerning Secretary Colby’s visit to South
America in which be makes ntate-
ments concerning Brasil which convey
@ distinctly wrong improasion. He
saya: “Tho conditions in Brazil are
peculiar, In the southorn part the pre
@ominating population is Gorman.
Whole colontes and provinces are
practically of Toutonic origin. * * ©
Nearer the Amaxon about §5 per cont
of the population are Negroes.’ As he
mentions no other race elements, he
lTeaven tho impression that the whole
population is either German or Negro.
“The total number of people in
Brasil. according to tho census which
has just boon takcn, Is about 31,000,000,
Brasil was once & a colony
and the great, ze pecs
are of Partumdeve oesch. Re
mated that about 13 por dent. of the
population are Negroes. These are con-
centrated largely in the four central
States of Gan Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,
Minas Gernes and Bahia, especially
the hatter. In tho States to the north
of Bahis and particularly in the two
great States in the Amazon Valley,
Para and Amazonas, tho Negro ele-
ment Ie #0 small as to be negligible
Mr. Crawford's statemont that ‘nearer
the Amazon about 86 per cont. of the
Population aro Negrocs’ ip as mistead-
Ing as it would bo if one who had been
writing about the thousands of frich in
New Epsland should sxy, ‘Nearer Cal
fornia about §0 per cent, of the popu-
lation are Negroes.’
“There is a widcspread misconcep-
tion as tu the German population of
Brazil, It is true that in throo States
of the extreme south—Rto Grande do
Sul, Parana, and Santa Catharina—
thero {s considerable German blood,
but the combined population of these
throo States, including both tho Ger-
man and the non-Geiuun element, is
only about 10 per cent. of the total
population of the country. Furthermore
these people aro not immigranta who
have recently come frém Germany
They are for the most part .native
Brasiliang, and are the oblidren or
Srandobildren oF even the great grand-
children of immigrants who were in-
duced to scttlo in Brasit by tho Em-
peror Dom Pedro between 1640 and
1850. In numbers and influence, they
do not begin to compare with the
Italians, hundreds of. thousands of
whom (bave migrated to Brasil and
among* whom are many of Brasil’s
wealthiest and most prosperous citt-
tone,
“In tho period of thirty yeara onding
in 1917 the number of Poles who ctni-
Grated to Brasil was 60 per cent
greater than the number of Germans,
the Austro-Hungarians outnumbered
the Germans, the Spanish immigrants
were almost eight times as numerous
as the Gorman immigrants, while the
Portuguese wero more than twelve
times ag numerous as the Germang.
When Mr. Crawford's resounding
statement that ‘whole golonies and
provinces av practically of Teutonic
crigin’ ts analyzed in the light of all
the faote it is seon that the impression
of Teutonio predominance which he
conveys ta ae ill founded as ts Kis tm-
pression of Nogro preponderance in the
Amagon Valley, were Negroes are
almdet never seer.
“Phe exception which is here taxon
to Mr. Srartard'p remarke it confined
to the atat ‘auove mentioned,
What he saya about the impression
created by Mr: Colby, See acenaty of
bis reception and the tsniflcance. et
hia. mission, entirily areas with. the
reports that come to the Embassy from
Brasil”—N, ¥, Times, etaei
the works of creation, ant that repege:
iinae We Losi 1s ougintvee 18 bas
tigne and dlsposition to Ao gobd onda”
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gaption of Deity might Sot bs a/dtrtasty
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At tm just possible that tho Anslo-
Japanceatrenty, which expiree thi
year, will not be rnewel in the form
in which it was originally drafted Of
course there is no algnificance what-
ever in this move on tho part of (reat
‘Britain, \o*abrogate this treaty or to
amend it. An tho case imuy be a
clause In the exioting treaty inhibits
Great Br@®Mp from taking aiden
against Japan in any war in which whe
may bo enguged with any other na-
tlon—America for inmtance—no that if
Japan and America should ongnge in
war at any tme in the future, England
would maintain a strict neutrality—
perhaps.
Boon the Church ef Rome, through
{ts Blbops in various parts of tho
world, will put the neal of ius disfavor
upon the ects of the Kinn iners in
Ireland, who are now making = ‘espor-
ate effort to wecure the in? nienco
of that country from Britinn domina-
Uon by forco of arms and iniwiess
methods, which do not uppeal to the
head of “Mother Church.” Rome will
in due timo got tho hint from Englund,
and then will follow the usuul sppeal
to the tithful duly signed, renlod and
Golivored unto the Saints. Tho foxlost
tm Eurogegn golitice iv Creat
Soars ‘Watsh developments for the
next fow month» ond eee things hap-
pen.
“And there shall be ware and rumora
of wars, etc, within a very short period
of time the days of war will again, be
let loowe in Burope, and the battle
ground will be Poland; whothor it will
be extended to other zones and enmesh
other nations who have already been
biog winto hy the late World war, res
muiny to be ween. ‘The world tx in tra-
Vall, and {td wt true that thoxe who
put tholr fuith in the sword ax u con-
quoving wnt final argument in the wet
Hlement of disputen among nntions,
ahnll perinh by the aword Meforo world
pouco hecomen a certainty a great many
nations will huve perished to rise no
More af work! powers, The ntrength
of thore nation who are now Lonating
of thoir prowesy and power, {# their
kreutest Weakness. Nome little Samson
of & antion is going to rise up and
wlay those modern Qoliaths, and then
=the deluge. The J.ion repoaing in his
atrength makes no display of his
power, but man, prond man, when
clothed with a little brief authority, cuts
such fantastic figures Sefore high
Heaven that he makes the Angels
weop, Dreadnauughts, standing armies,
uoropinnes and all the latent modern
doviews for murdering mankind only
Givcover the xavage In man, and tho
ovil In hie heart” ‘There thinsm are
opponed to penen und good will among
men, aml It im the European nutions
only who have cultivutod the desire and
tute for dastroying thelr follow men Uy
these methods, and thoy will gwrish by
‘Uaeno hideous instruments of doath, in
‘thy lost analysis, because their object
‘and purpose is the conquest of the
world by thes formidabls death dea}-
ing tnmruments, and thelz Large stand-
tng armies of man, trainod to maim and
kilt thelr Lrothers. “War Is Hell,” and
those who engage in it know this bet-
tor than those wuo only oncourage It
and write about it.
‘Tho Republican Party managers have
discovered. after a closo ond careful!
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‘wilnalt the ald ov consent or vote of
any Negre voter, and it fe pow pro-
costing to make the “balance of power”
white instead of black as formesty, The
reorganimtion of the party will begin
tn the Southern States, and when the
organization will have been effected, a
demonstration will be given to the
country in 1934, when it will be shewn
that the Negro has bean as thoroughly
eliminated and shorn of political power
an Jaybird in the innermest reaches
of tho heated Hence on « het Gay in
August. There are thousands of white
men In the South who will join the
reorganized Republican Party on the
conilition that the Negro ia given sec-
ond place, and to @ man up # tree it
looks very Uke the Negro is golng to
gt second place without asking for it,
Decause he Is not strong enough com-
mercially, financially, industrially, #o-
clolly nor otherwise, to demand. take
and keep first placo. These are thy
things being thresbed out by party
leaders who are now hebsobbing with
the best elements of the white race tn
tho Southern Staten White men are
very largely Democratic in the South,
because the Negroes, who are in some
states largely in the majority are Re-
publicans, and would in fair elections
wet the offices, and exercise the powar
of majorities in thelr several communt-
ties, Under the new arrangemént now
In process of incubation the power of
the Negro voter will be considerably
curtailed and the Negro leader, Uke
Othello, will soon be “without an ooca-
pation.” ‘The party managers bave al-
ready begun to prepare for the succes
‘non in 1924, and the Negro has been
‘the 'victiny of every compromise his
party has ever made ‘since it gave him
the right to vote. He ts to again be
‘aicrificed in the yeare ahvad of us, by
those who have frequently led bim an
a sheep to the slaughter, and feasted
on the aheep. Nogro political equality
ami no-called citizenship are two of the
! hugest Jokes in “our” political system.
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nounee the graduation of her daughter
Winifred from the Jamaica High
School, Jamaica, L. 1. Miss Pinder te
now employed ns stenographer by the
UNL A
‘A baby boy wan born to Mr. und
Mun Arnold F Clarke, No. 647 Warren
itrect, Brooklyn, on the 6th instant
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TURN TO THE NEGRO BUSINESS WORLD.
you should use a very great pleasure at
having to call upon every business
man and woman of the Negro Race for
the support and co-operation in so
many of the Advertising Department of
the World" is concerned.
The question does not necessarily
need to be raised here as to whether
the medium has your interest
in business at heart, because that
should be thoroughly understood, for
everything the object in existence is to
build the businesses all over the world
together. Both from a progressive, busi-
ness and social standpoint, teaching
these that Racus preservation should
be their first thought. Therefore you
can readily see my reasons for asking
your co-operation.
I know personally a lot of progressive enterprises to-day that used the advertising columns of this paper in their business, to foster their business, now that they have attained their dedicated active, some of them have absorbed forsaken this carrier of raceway propaganda, that has caused the race to awake to their true sense of hope. All forsaken us, though thou we are determined to go on through the entire world conquering the struggle and businesslike men and women of our Race, and bringing them to the limelight of business endeavor. Being in New York City, we have a education of 15,000 copies weekly, that evidently shows you that we have always support in so far as readers are interested, which we are very glad and thankful for so many admirers. These supporters are thankful, too, apparently, for having the sublime pleasure of reading such a powerful Race paper which stands triumphantly for equal rights of all peoples. To exporters here and big trade houses, we will allow you especially for your support, for there is not a place under the stars. Negroes are, that the "Entergy World" does not go weekly. I sincerely trust that all the progressive business people of our State will give this matter their unimpeded attention and support, in order to help us accomplish the highest degree of existence among our people. We will write for our special advertisement contract rates at the office, 545-456th Street, New York City, Shops, Harlem 2677, and we will be more than pleased to accommodate you. The year is yet young, so let us mark time and instead quicken ahead, for those that delay to-day need for a decay.
in mind that it always pays to advertise, and bear also in mind that you should advertise in a medium that will urgently inform the general public of your endeavors to serve them willfully, faithfully and righteously.
Whispering you in advance and wish you continued success, I am.
WELFARE CONFERENCE
In the Neighborhood Club of
City held a Child's Welfare
Club and Tea. Saturday after
afternoon, 12th, at the Y. W. C. A. A
crowd assembled.
In Harry Place, formerly of Atlanta,
the master of ceremonies. The
normal address was delivered by
Mrs. A. G. Reed, who was a charter
member and president of the Hope
Nursery. Other short addresses
were delivered by Mrs. Emma Green.
She started the Hope Day Nursery;
by Dill, of the Cris's; Rev. Dr. George
Brauner Millars; Mr. Cleveland G.
Miller; and W. H. Ferris.
The houses will be purchased to be
used as a child welfare and recreation
Mr. Charles Gibbs subscribed $500 and Mrs. Kate Reed $102. The committee will meet at Craig's Restaurant, on July 120th street, on Monday evening, Feb. 21st. Mrs. Rosaline McClendon was an active promoter of the conference. Mr. Charles McGill, of the conference, occupied a seat on the plat-
IN HARLEM BUSINESS.
The colored women are pushing to the door in business along various lines. Miss Mendalen Morgan recently formally opened her facial, hair and scalp clinic at 228 West 135th street. Many women visited her suite of elegantly furnished rooms. First they entered the reception and consulting rooms. Then she the well-equipped operating room with running water in each room. They admired the special apparatus for electrical scalp and face treatments.
Mendalen Morgan is an artist in her field. Manufactures preparations for consistently removing freckles, warts and scars. Those who inspected her equipment were pleased to note that the women are beginning to use professional scientific methods in conduct-based business.
STREET MARKET.
with the efforts of Alderman
Bernard and Harris, the west side of
the street between 138th and 149th
and Harris, is lined every stature
with wagons, and many
have seated the opportunity
to see of every description at
the street prices.
POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE
Patriotism Like Charity Should First Begin at Home.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association does not object to its members having the photos of deserving white people in their homes, but it insists that its membership and the race as a whole, should adorn their brackets, mantlepieces and parlors with the pictures and photos of leaders of the race. For that reason it will develop a gallery for famous Negro Photos and Paintings. As an initial step the association has prepared a repository in the office where some photos and beautiful photo-postcards of the following men and women can be obtained at a small cost.
The names of the persons will be put on the back of photo.
Souvenir badges of the Convention for sale also at 25 cents each.
THE AFRICAN CHIEFS.
Chained .. the market-place he stood.
A man of giant frame.
A man of giant frame.
Amid the gathering multitude
That shank to bear his name.
All stern of look and strong of limb.
His dark eye on the ground;
And silently they gaze on him.
As on a lion bound.
Vainly but well the chief had fought
He was a captive now.
Ye. pride that fortune humbles and
Was written on his brow.
The scarce his dark broad bloom wore
Shook warrior true and leave.
A prin e among his tribe before.
He could not be a slave
Then to his conqueror he spake
"My brother is a king.
Undo this necklace from my neck.
And take this bracelet ring.
And send me where my brother reigns
And I will fill thy hands
With store of ivory from the plains
And gold-dust from the sands."
Not for thy ivory or thy gold
Will I unbind thy chain.
That bloody hand shall never hold
The battle-stear again.
A price thy nation never gave
Shall ye be paid for thee.
For thou shall be the Christian's slave
In lands beyond the sea
FRED J EDWARDS
13 Webster street, Newark, N J
LORD. LIFT OUR RACE.
Lord, lift our race and set our feet
I pop the solid rock
And life and happiness complete
Give to thy Negro flock.
This race so tried and trodden
Has called aloud to Thee.
And have we been forgotten'
O Lord, how can it be'
We know Thou art our father.
And hence we need Thy care
And as we draw together
We ask Thee to draw (You) near
Our fathers' blood is crying;
Who can't revenge but Thou*
And still Thy people is dying.
Lord, rise and save us now.
For we need Thy protection
In this, our present, fight.
Against the world's subjection
O. give us Negroes might.
Then when shall come the victory
O'er earth, and hellish wrong.
Will cease this earthly worry.
We, too, shall join the throng.
PROF. O. M. SKINNER.
620 Lenox avenue, New York.
A CALL TO RACE MANHOOD
Fellowmen of Negro blood.
With undaunted faith in God.
Come along, and take your places
With the men of other races.
Patriotism Like Charity S
The Universal Negro Improve to its members having the photos homes, but it insists that its men should adorn their brackets, man
THE NEGRO WORLD. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1921
Though we long have trampled been,
We a ray of hope have seen.
Women men, and children small,
List to Marcus Garvey's call.
Men of Ethiopia's race.
You are Negroes. 'tis no disgrace.
Let us then unite be
In our fight for liberty.
U N I A and A. C L.
Who sooner man may dwell,
Your flag of red and black and green
High above all shall be seen.
Africa shall war the day
Though men and devils be in the wry
We are in the fight against might.
God is with us all is right.
H. PERCIVAL WELSH.
President U N I A.
49 Barnett street, Montego Bay
L. B. WATKINS, POET, DIES.
Sergeant Lucian B. Watkins, the well-known poet, died at the hospital at Fort McHenry, Maryland, on Tuesday. Feb. 1. The funeral services were held at Christ Institution, 704 Ensor street, Baltimore, Md. on Friday afternoon Feb. 4. The interment was in the National Cemetery, at Louden Park. Rev. John B. Watkins of 649 Stirling street, Baltimore, Md. was a brother of the deceased. A father and other relatives survive him.
Mr Watkins' choice bits of verse have graced the leading newspapers and magazines of the country. Mr Watkins was a weekly contributor to the poetry column of The Negro World. His last poem, Loved and Lost," was sent to The Negro World a few days before his death and was published in the Feb. 5 issue. We take pleasure in republishing it.
LOVED AND LOST.
(By Lucian & Watkins)
My fallen star has spent its light
And left but memory to me.
My day of dream has kissed the night.
Farowell, its sun no more I see;
My summer bloomed for winter's frost.
Alas, I've lived and loved and lost!
What matters if today should earth
Lay on my head a gold-bright crown
Lit with gems of royal worth
Beftitting well a king's renown"
My lonely soul is trouble-tossed.
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Mr Harris is the secretary of the *Mortgages* Protection Society of London, an organization which formerly functioned in the British Empire in a role similar to that of the Anti-Slavery Society, before the American Civil War. During the last two decades, however, its policies seem to have been "liberalized" by the ethical mandates of refined imperialism and it is not an easy task to tell exactly what it stands for now. Yet it must be admitted to its credit that the members of that society have produced and are still producing some of the best literature now extant on African and African questions—for which we wish them well. The Rev. John H. Harris has been formerly a missionary in Africa, but he is an apostle of culture and comprehension as well as of Christianity. He, therefore brings to the task of describing and interpreting Africa a breadth of view and a soundness of general judgment which are unfortunately lacking in the work of most missionaries.
We believe that this is the best written book on Africa that has been produced in recent years. It is interesting from start to finish, there is not one dull page in it. Most interesting books on Africa are superficial, but this book is the very opposite of superficial. It deals understandingly and comprehensively with every important feature of Africa and the life of the African, from labor to religion. Its scope is encyclopedic yet one reads it as rapidly and easily as a short story in a popular magazine. It rites to the dignity of literature, it loses none of the more honesty and solid virtues of exact science. From first to last it flows in a clear and steady stream of narrative and interpretation which bears on its broad bosom a rich argyros indo with the golden gleanings of "Afric's sunny fountains." Here is no cluttered accumulation of notebooks and diaries, but the spontaneous overflow of an able mind and a generous spirit which has lived in close contact with the theme on which it writes.
African Land and Labor Problems.
The介于 the Aboriginal's Protection Society are somewhat prone to write appeals on behalf of "the brother in black" which are roasted by the educated element among Negroes because of the patronizing tone which is taken in some of these "appeals". But the present work is hardly to appeal; it is mainly a survey of the Sudanic and Bantu portions of the continent, of its propies and of the problems which are presented by the reactions of white Christian culture on the native institutions economic, political and cultural. As such it is a reliable handbook which should be possessed by all the Baptist ministers of the Philadelphia conference and of every other body of Negroes which expects to do missionary work of any sort in Africa.
The opening chapter on "Africa and Her People" is in a labor of love watch chains one to the rest of the book in which Mr. Harris describes the land and labor systems of old Africa and the changes wrought in those by the white man's ownership; descants on polygamy and government and missionary education, on alcohol, slavery, religion. Indian immigration and the vegetable and mineral products of the richest of all continents. The author insists that:
"The supreme issue of life to the African is his land; franchise, cattle, industry, labor and polygamy all involve their respective difficulties, but relatively land overtops each and all of them. Take from the African his political or personal freedom; take his cattle, or even his wife and children, and he will tolerate the injustice; but touch his land and he will stake all his brittle, no matter what the force urged against him."
Which suggests that British control of the continent, however it may disguise itself to outward seeming, is based uponuthless brute force. For the land of Africa does not now belong to the people of Africa and (as our author shows in the case of South Africa, where the white people have "retained" 200,000 acres for one million whites and "restricted" the 4,000,000 Negroes to 40,000,000 acres of the most arid lands) the promise of future upheavals lies in this sombre fact.
He goes on to point out that "influences are at work with the object of taking from the native land which he occupies today in order that labor may be provided" for white capitalist enterprises. This is true of every British dependency in Negro Africa except Basutoland and the Gold Coast. After this revelation of British intent toward the African we, as well as the African, see clearly that the only hope for him lies in the downfall of the British Empire. Needless to say, Mr. Harris, being British, never considers the possibility of such a revolutionary outcome. But such revolutionary conclusions continuously shape themselves in the minds of thinking Africans. In considering the labor as well as the land problem, Mr. Harris furnishes similar fuel.
"The most precious asset in Africa," he says "is labor, yet in criminal folly the white races have done to death millions of these, the most relatively harmless but intensely interesting members of the human race. . . . It is probable that the population of the African continent today is only half what TOBACCO or Sars Madic Cured Gourmet. Seat on trial. If it occurs, hope for Gourmet. If not, betrayal. BUFFALO GOURMET.
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It was a century ago. . . The reason for this reduction of population arises largely from contact with the white races."
Mr. Harris calls the roll of specific causes: The earlier slave trade, modern slavery and modern labor systems; the destruction of the communes and tribal systems; punitive expeditions; imported sexual diseases; rum, gin and consumption.
But Mr. Harris has a message of hope — for the black people of Africa. Like Mr. Morel, he believes that it is possible to change the spirit of the white man, especially the Anglo-Saxon. And his optimism, like Mr. Morel's, is maintained in the face of the awful facts. But we must admit that Mr. Harris's optimism is not a blind optimism. He builds his hope upon intelligent factors in the present situation and his appeals, in so far as they may be addressed to white people, are put in terms of rational self-interest. He sees in Africa's future a wonderful expansion of that cultural system in which the white men of Western Europe find their fullest expression; and he believes that this expansion can come only under the shaping influences of the religion of the white man/as understood and applied by the white man's missionaries.
We confess that we are unable to see in actual facts sufficient ground for this particular belief. In the first place, after 300 years of Christian contact with Africa there are less than 3,000,000 in a population of 120,000,000 who profess Christianity. This includes the 1,000,000 white people of South Africa. Then there is the spread of Islam, which during the last decade has given grave concern to the various missionary conferences, which have found that their seal is no barrier to Islamic success. And why does Islam succeed? Briefly, because it practices toward the black African more of the square dealing of Jesus Christ than race-projudiced Christianity ever has practiced.
Christianity and the African
The African Negro, who is not quite the fool that some of his kind friends think, knows, as they know, that it is only when Christianity comes into its continent that gin comes with its blight and degradation; that it is only where Christianity goes that prostitution finds an entrance, with its dirty diseases that destroy life or make it a living curse; he it knows that when Christianity reaches him he loses the land on which he lives and must become a landless legal bond servant to the white Christians of all sorts; he knows that, whoreens all true believers are equal under Islam not only in "the sight of God" but in the sight of the magistrate, and in every civil right, Christianity, as organized and made effective in all her institutions, from the church to the jail, insists that only white men are men and that Negroes especially must be treated like dogs, whether kindly or cruelly. The African Negro knows this; Mr. Harris and his friends know it; and the African knows that they know it. Is it any wonder, then, that when Mr. Harris and his fellow Christians speak to the African at home of "the stability of the Christian Church" and her intention to "establish herself permanently as the consistent guide in the evolution of the higher African civilization," the African answers in the words of one whom the Christian Church crucifies anew each day by its deeds: "Thou hypocrite! First cast out the beam from thine own eye, and cast out the shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brothers." We cannot quite understand the ground on which white Christians offer Christianity to the black African. We can understand why white capitalists insist on taking capitalism to him. It is something at least which they have tried. It works among them and since they like its products there, they are willing to take the same system elsewhere in expectation of the same results. But can the white missionary justify his religion in the same way? Does not charity begin at home? And how are things at home? Have white women in Europe (including the queens) stopped smoking cigarettes and drinking cocktails? Do they still snatch each other's husbands as a pastime in the upper classes, as the newspapers
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daily tell us? Isn't there still a large fall-population in every Christian country? And do not the atheists and agnostics and rationalists exist by the million at home? The legislators like Lloyd George and the "minister lire" like Lord Grey who plunged millions of British Christians into a bath of blooms have the missionaries yet succeeded in teaching them "the love of Christ—who died to save all men?" Has Christian love at home been strong enough yet to reach the suffering children of Russia and include the Soviet ruler, Lenine, in its ample bosom—to say nothing of the black Christians excluded from white churches. And if these questions disturb and trouble the hearts of honest men "at home," what can be the reason for this fervor of faith in behalf of the conquest of pagan lands by the creed of Christ indom
The truth is that the work of the white missionary, like that of the white soldier, is dirty work. We will be told that there are and have been noble missionaries like Livingstone and Mr. Harris. We admit it. And there are and have been noble soldiers like Stonewall Jackson and Chinese Gordon. But that fact has not altered the character of the work of the soldier, which is to carry destruction wherever he may be sent to carry it, regardless of the innocence of the "oneeny" or the guilt of his own government. In the modern European state every institution is used by the dominant class to some end which contributes to the general social purpose of that class. It is not necessary that any personal part of such institution should understand the purpose of his calling. Quite possible he may idealize his own intents and aims; indeed it is better for his masters that he should not see them as his masters. Then he can be quite "sincere," earnest and spiritually-minded.
But the facts remain. The white missionary's function is to spread that form of religion which will soft-soap the soul of black Africa so that the business of robbing and ruling it shall become less costly and less dangerous to those who do the robbing and the ruling. That such work is necessary is especially conceded by "liberals" like Sir Sydney Olivier, Sir Harry Johnston, the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, and a certain ving of the Aborigines' Protection Society of which Mr. Harris is the secretary. For this purpose the "infidel" like Johnston, Olivier and Putnam-Weale jain hands with the forbid believers of the National Liberal Club to missionize the African into contentment and submission while the robbing and the ruling go forward. In his book, "The Conflict of Color," Mr. Putnam-Weale states the naked truth nakedly, and explains why "infidel" like himself and Sir Harry Johnston are so keen on booking the Cross against the Crescent. And, finally, the secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, the Rev. Dr. Patton, tells us in his missionary handbook, "The Lure of Africa," just what we might have expected after studying the political work of the missionaries in Uganda and Rhoderia, namely, that the missionaries can be trusted to preach to the Negro the ethics of submission and subservience, that the British government knowing this, is eager to put the work of education into the hands of white missionaries, and that, in their opinion, "one missionary is worth more to us than a battalion of soldiers." That is why we repeat that, under capitalist conditions, the work of the missionary, like that of the soldier, is dirty work.
But the Rev. Mr. Harris, by his own confession, admits that it is not the African who needs religion so much as it is the European He tells us: "That the author regards the African as a deeply religious man, and that in certain respects African worship [religion] appears to go deeper and is not less pure than the general religious atmosphere of so-called civilized ruces." This reminds us of Miss RHEUMATISM GUARD YOURSELF AT HOME 5-8 o'clock. Dwarf Apple Root will relieve any case of thaumatism. If you cannot find it at your drug store, you will send you particulars FINE OF charges. Writ G. G. PAYNK, 108 New Jersey Ave., Kansas City, KS.
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Kingley's contentions when he decided that Christianity could be the cure for the lilies of Africa, because, while it was possible to convert the Africans as mase to Christianity, it was impossible to so convert the white man, whom she described as "a pack of people who care nothing at all for Christianity." As Henry W. Nevinson says in "A Modern Slavery":
"The native has enough to puzzle his brain as it is. On one side he has the Christian ideal of peace and good-will, of temperance and poverty and honor and self-sacribless, and of a God who is love and on the other side he has, somehow, to understand the Christian's contumely, the Christian's incalculable injustice, his cruelty and deceit, his insatiable greed for money, his traffic in human beings whom the Christian calls God's children."
The Ruine of a Mighty Past
The Ruisse of a Mighty Past
There is one other matter on which we wish to animadvert not because it plays a large part in Mr. Harris's book but rather because the easy insurance with which he passes it over indicates his acceptance of a certain view of African capacity in the past which is both false and injurious. We refer to the great Zimbabwe ruins of Rhodesia and to the question of the racial character of the people who left these mighty ruins of temples, fortresses and abandoned gold mines. On page 49 Mr. Harris says:
"It is clear—at least to most people—that these extensive structures were not the work of the indigenous African, but that of some immigrant race bent not upon colonization, but the exploitation of the resources of the valley"
He goes on to say that "There is abundant evidence in support of this theory"; but he never even indicates any jot or tittle of such "evidence"
We think Mr. Harris a safe guide on many points of African history but on this question of the origin of the Zimbabwe ruins and remains of Rhodesia he must forgive us if we insist on holding our own opinion. The question is not, strictly speaking, one of history at all. The mines, ruined temples and residences, with the products of human workmanship found in them, are indeed historical evidences of primary value, they testify to the past existence of a people in a relatively high state of culture. But this is not the point in dispute. To what race did this people belong? Anglo-Saxon opinion maintains that they must have been Anatics, and it puts this on the ground that no native African race could have been capable at any time of producing them. This opinion is purely gratuitous; may more, it is, in the worst sense, presumptuous. When we challenge it for proofs we find that it has no higher evidential value than that of conjecture. In the formation of opinion on questions of this nature it is true that conjecture may have a place; but then conjecture should have a balance of probability, in its favor. In most matters of this sort it is bad logic to pass over the near for the remote un-
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less an overwhelming means of facts can be introduced in support of the latter. In this case no such means of facts is even alleged. The form of the conclusion departs from the accepted form of conclusions in similar cases. When Professor Franz Cumont discovers the ruins of a temple of Mithras in England or Dacia and insists that it is a relic of the worship once current among the people of Perseia he feels bound to justify his passing over of the people in whose territory it is found to claim an outside origin, by exhibiting the similarities of its structure to similar structures in the land of the people to whom it is referred. But in the case before us no one has alleged that any such buildings, as the Kimbabwe have been found anywhere in Asia. The presumption rests, therefore, on pure prejudice. This will be more apparent if we suppose a somewhat similar case.
Let us suppose that a cultured Chinaman who knew nothing of the Greek or Latin language had paid a visit to Europe in 1820 and had spent several years in archaeological researches in Greece and in the Papal States. He would have observed with wonder the ruins of the arch of Trajan and the remains of the great Chaco, and would have gassed with growing admiration on the departed glories of the Athenian temples. But he would also have noted the savage charcoal burners and the ignorant shepherds on the Aventine and would have had no high regard for the Greek shepherds who pastured their flocks on the slopes of Hymettus nor for the brigands who robbed and murdered in its neighborhood. If this learned oriental had been faced with the problem of the local origins of the people who had raised the original structures on whose ruins he had gassed would he not have been justified on the very grounds on which Anglo-Saxon opinion rests in the Zimbabwe case in denying any community of culture or of race between the builders and their degenerate descendants.
But the publication of her the Anglo-Saxon opinion is so strong that if no African race had ever erected stone structures and other works as might on these the case might have at least one leg to stand on. But there is Egypt. And in the presence of her mighty pyramids and temples that have out-stared the sum of many centuries we may project at it and contempt the proud conquests of an upstart race whose accomplishments have all been made in the latter half-hour registered upon the face of the great clock of time.
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Permit me space in your valuable room to publish the meeting held on the 8th instant in connection with the unveiling of the charter of the Tela Division. No. 165, at 2:70 p.m. The Liberty Hall of the Tela Division was crowded with members of the all anxious to witness the unveiling ceremony. The Chaplain, Mr. F. A. Arnal called the meeting to order when the bymn, "From Greenland My Mountains," etc., was sung, followed by the prayer for opening of the meeting in the Constitution, after which the choir of the Division renamed the anthem, "Enter Into His Belief." The lesson selected for the occasion was the 144 Psalms, after which the chaplain gave a brotherly discourse, taking as his subject the words found in the 14th chapter of Rudrus and the 18th verse. "Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward." He in a befitting manner held his hearers spellbound by analysing the march from Egypt to the Red Sea. There he showed the predicament that the Israelites thought they were in when Moses was tempted to appeal to God. Who in return replied: "Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward," conclusion. As it was with Moses and the children of Israel so it is today with Hini Marcus Garvey and the New Negroes. Therefore, his advice to the Tela Division of the U. N. I. A. is to go forward; thus the chaplain's career for the occasion ended, the presided. D. E. Thorpa assumed the office of chairman. The chairman, observing the lengthy program, gave a short address of welcome to the crowded hall feeling sorry that space did not allow every one present to be comfortably seated. A trio entitled "God is Good," was beautifully rendered by Merran, C. Pantling, O. E. Barrett and M. O. Buckner, all of which are members of the choir.
The unveiling of the charter was of the most picturesque character, as the audience stands at the opening by the choir of the Ethiopian national anthem. Prior to the opening of the anthem Master Stanley Norris rendered a recitation entitled "Africa, Awaka." During the singing of the anthem the chapel, accompanied by the traveller, Master Stanley Norris, welcomed Viola McMariane the two members of the Division, who on the side to the charter introduced to their chapel (introducing) unanticipated designs charter to the conjunction of the charter was
All anthem, entitled "Give thanks," was rendered by the choir, after which a quotation, "Black Men of Africa Awakel!" was given by Master Edward Pratt. One feature of improvement observed at the unpelling ceremony is the musical display of the orchestra, consisting of Mesra, Urlah Jolly, base Joseph Scott, mandolin; George Adelphus, guitar; J. A. Kennedy and W. McDugall, violins. This musical organization added pleasure to the function throughout. Miss E. R. Benshaw and Mrs. C. Wilson were introduced by the chairman as representatives of the Rising Star Lodge of Tela, B. K. O. of G. S. and D. of S. These Indians, who spoke alternately, added much pleasure to the gathering, as they in a ladylike fashion urged their bearers to be courageous and move forward to the call of our honorable leader. The next speaker impressed was Mr. J. A. Kennedy, first vice president of the Division, who spoke on the Aims and Objects of the D. N. I. A. and urged that all present declare an economic war and maintain peace so that the good may be successfully reached from a financial point of view. The choir then renders the anthem, "Victory." Miss Della Cornliffe and Master Linton Riddle entertained the audience with a reception each, these two entertainers attending special attention, they behave and six years old respectively.
Ms. Lea Coiba Division, Charter No. 111, was nobly represented by their principal secretary, Mr. Solomon Forman, who impressed Mr. listeners on authority of Purpose and Concentration of Interest. He made a general appeal to all members of the race present, and addressed all Judds, as is common found in the movement, repeat anthem referred to the chant call of Ms. Mesra. Mesra survey. He also spoke on the Geographical situation of Mesra and identified that by perseverance the new Mesra shall treat the people of Mesra. This address addressed the need for improvement, as evidenced by Mr. Solomon Forman's statement.
the close of which Enrollment or Members was observed, followed by a recitation by Master Cameron which was highly appreciated. Mrs. C. Bennett, first vice-president of the Ladies' Division delivered a stirring and interesting address, which won for the speaker applause from all quarters of the hall. Mr. E. Arzu, a member of the Honorable Advisory Board, was the next speaker who did justice to the occasion. He cited Columbus as an explorer who gained success by his ausidious attitude, and anticipated that the new Negroes shall surely gain success by being ausidious also.
Certificates of membership were distributed by Miss Elimia Jacobs, secretary of the Ladies' Division, after which the choir presented the most beautiful anthem of the day, entitled "Forth to the Rescue Go." This was so well rendered that a repetition was inevitable. Miss Sarah Buckley was next introduced, who, after wishing continued success, urged unity of purpose. Mr. M. E. Stewart, second vice-president, delivered a brilliant address dealing with the importance of the day and the memory of the day, the day on which Charter No. 165 was made public. Miss Muriel Walker, Viola McFarlane and Gwendolyn Fuller were at this juncture the chief entertainers, each rendering a recitation, that of Viola McFarlane being of such a noble spirit that repetition had to be exercised. Mr. J. B. Ray spoke in glowing knowledge of the Presidential General. His knowledge of the present-day Moses gave him the impetus to speak. The last quartet for the occasion, entitled "Do You Journey," was then rendered by Mr. and Mrs B. O. Bucknor, Miss S. Puller and M. C. Panting. Then followed the address of the president for the Ladies' Division, Mrs A. Cornifrite, who asked the members of her sex to be up and doing in order to attain the merits of the future. Mrs H. A. Davis gave a complimentary address to the officers of the Division for the appropriate manner in which the function was observed; also Mr B. O. Bucknor, who after expressing his gratitude for the occasion generally asked three cheers for the Flag and the Charter, as were not responded to, and last but not least, the closing address to the treasurer, W. S. Bennett, who or reminded his hearers of the great men who had sprung from the Negro race—men who have won fame for the race—yet is infused with the greatest joy that today the Hon. Marcus Garvey stands as the leader of all times, and urged that firm determent in which success lies. The closing anthem, "Praise Ye the Lord," was rendered by the choir, after which the domology brought the first and Letter Day or the Tala Division, to a close. Much credit is given to the numbers of the choir, the whole of the
U. N. I. A. IN NEW ORLEANS ON THE UPWARD MARCH
The Universal Negro Improvement Association of the New Orleans division, was formed October 12th, 1920, with fifteen members, at the home of S. V. Roberson. On January 4th, 1921, we had the unveiling of our charter. The 22nd chapter of Rev. was read, and "Onward, Christian Soldiers" sung. The choir sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." Our increase of members
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interesting program was rendered.
The first speaker for the occasion was Mr H. Lee, who said that he had taken a decided stand for what he felt was right in regard to the progress of the race, and that the organization could rely upon him doing his full duty. He is Chaplain of the organization.
The next speaker was Mrs. A I Robertson who addressed the audience on the subject of womans duty in the U N I Association she carried her audience after a song which was sung "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, As We Go Marrying Home."
Mr C W Thompson the Vice-President, then rosa and said "that we should be loyal to our President and make the organization what it ought to be." He also encouraged the members to support the efforts of the Hon Marcus Garvey An interesting talk was made by Mrs. Reason, the treasurer of the organization, on the subject of standing behind our men with the financial guns.
Mr Squire Vincent, Chairman of the Advisory Board, made a talk also on the business of the society Capt. McNeal, who has done an excellent work for the Negroes of New Orleans behind the prison bars, pledged his support to the organization.
The President, Mr. S. V Roberson, made the closing remarks on the object for which the U. N I Association stood for, which was enjoyed by all, after which thirty more members joined, which gives strength and vitality to the onward march of the U. N. I A. in the city of New Orleans. This organization holds optimistic views in reference to the progress of the future of the Negro.
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STRONG BRANCH OF THE U. N. I. A. FORMED IN BARRANQUILLA, COLOM
For some time past it had been the intention and seoul wish of the few comprising the foreign Negro colony of this district to form a branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and, through the instrumentality of Professor A Vidal, an able active member of the Foronto (Canada) branch of the U. N. I. A who arrived here on December 31, 1920, a meeting was called at the residence of Mr. R. J. White at No. 31 "Callo Obando Callejon Igualdad" on Thursday night, January 6, 1921, and so branch was formally established.
There were present fifteen persons, as follows: Mrs. Anna King, Mrs. M. Francis, Mrs. R. J. White, Miss E. A. Reid, Miss E. R. White, Miss C. I. King, Professor A Vidal, Mr. Isaac Moyors, Mr. David Vos de W., Mr. M. Francis, Mr. M. L. Munroe, Mr. R. J. White, Mr. A. Loon, Mr. Lorenzo Young, Mr. Albert Sinclair.
At 8:30 p. m. the meeting, presided over by M. R. J. White, was called to order, and was opened with the hymn, "From Greenland Ice Mountain," followed by Psalm 133, read by said Mr. White.
Subsequent to this Mr. White spoke for some minutes in appropriate terms relative to the intention of forming a branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Barranquilla, and also cited the good work that is being done all over the world by this association.
Mr. Munroe was the next speaker. This gentleman made a short and becoming speech, and said in part that the cry of the suffering race has reached the ears of God and He has sent at the opportune moment our Moses, Captain and Leader—the Honorable Marcus Garvey.
The third speaker was Miss King, who, from her limited knowledge of the English language, spoke in Span-
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THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921
UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG NEGROES AND WHOM WE SHOULD BLAME?
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and its President-General Marcus Garvey preached for four years during the war period industrial preparedness among all Negroes.
The President-General told the people that they should save their money and invest a part of it in the Universal Negro Improvement Association and in the Black Star Line, so that these organizations could build factories, buy and build steamships, and open up industrial activities in Africa, to build up a country of our own and thereby take care of the millions of Negroes who would be thrown out of work after the war. Whilst Mr. Garvey preached this doctrine of preparedness and warned the people, some Negro newspapers in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk and Newport News, and men like Cyril Briggs of the Crusader, and DuBois of the Crisis, criticized Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Black Star Line. They wrote terrible things to discourage the people and make them suspicious, as if some one was trying to rob or exploit them. The Negro being over-suspicious, having been exploited so often, turned a deaf ear to the plea of Marcus Garvey. Everybody said Garvey and his followers were crazy and that they were a "bunch of illiterates." Very few of the race had the sense and confidence to appreciate the doctrine that Marcus Garvey taught for four years. The few who understood, bought shares in the Black Star Line, through which the corporation was able to purchase two ocean going ships fitted only for coastwide trade between America and Central America and West Indian ports, but the corporation was not supported to the extent of purchasing bigger ships for the trans-Atlantic route for trading with Africa. Our critics of the Negro newspapers tried their best to defeat our plan by harrassing us in public print under the guise of friendly criticism as some of them tried to camouflage. What's the result? Some of the newspapers not mentioned are now out of business. Some of them were paid by white men to write down the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the Black Star Line and Marcus Garvey, so that they could perpetually keep down the Negro, as this man Garvey and his movement were doing too much to open the people's eyes. The critics succeeded and now thousands; and later on millions of Negroes will be out of employment and no one to help them, because they harkened to the ways of the critics and did not support the Black Star Line nor the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
You men who earned $100, $80, $70, $60, $50, $40, $30 and $25 per week during the last five years, who are you going to blame for unemployment among you? You earn your money for you? Did you not earn it for yourself What did you do with it? Buy silk shirts at $10, $15 and $20? Silk socks at $2, $3, $4 and $5 each? Overcoats for $500, $400, $300, $200, $100 and $75? Buy expensive furniture for thousands of dollars, which is not yet paid for, and which will be lost to you and forfeited to the furniture company if you don't pay up every month regularly even though you are now out of work? You drove in automobiles. You went to every dance and party held in town. You flirted with half a dozen girls and bought expensive presents for each and every one. You bought diamond rings and pins. You bought expensive suits and shoes. You lived as though you were milligramires. You lived in expensive apartments. You spent one hundred per cent. of what you earned during the war. You shouted, "Oh, Garvey is crazy." "That Black Fool should be in jail." "That Back of Africa Crowd ought to be shot." "That Crazy Garvey Bunch." WHO IS CRAZY NOW WHO IS OUT OF A JOB NOW? WHO HAS NOWHERE TO GO NOW? WHAT CAN THE NEWSPAPER CRITICS DO FOR YOU? Go to their offices and ask them for bread and see what they will do.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association has done its best as also the Black Star Line and Marcus Garvey. Yet some of the Negro newspapers, some of the Negro preachers and some of the people were against us and we were handicapped.
If Negroes during the time of prosperity had subscribed the $10,000,000 capital of the Black Star Line we would today have at least twenty large ocean going ships, and we would be able to ship at least 5,000 unemployed Negroes from America and other parts every week during these hard times.
Africa is calling with her untold opportunities, but we haven't the ships on which to send away the people.
Negro critics are a curse to the race. They criticize and condemn everything, and of themselves can do nothing to help when the crisis comes. Whom must we blame for unemployment? ANSWER YOURSELF.
lah to the point, expressing the hope that the Negro World would, in time, be printed in Spanish as well, when she would be able to interest her many friends in this noble cause.
Other speakers were Miss E. R. White and Messrs. Francis and Sinclair, who also gave expressions in becoming terms.
At this stage of the meeting a prayer was offered in Spanish by Miss King, and another hymn was sung—"Onward Christian Soldiers." and Mr. White afterwards introduced Professor Vidal. This gentleman very spontaneously gave a lengthy speech, pointing out step by step the cause of bringing about of the U. N. I. A. and the great effect it has had, and is having, and will have on the race throughout the world, especially on those who are in closer touch with the movement. The professor took special pains to bring before the meeting the noble character and virtues of our great and judicious leader—the Honorable Marcus Garvey. He finally stated what was desired of this branch and of the state of mind he will be in when he shall have returned to Canada to be able to tell our brethren there how very zealous we are in Colombia. Last, but not least, the kindly gentleman ended in showing emphatically the absolute necessity of a steamship line. Amidst great applause the professor took his seat.
It was agreed upon that Professor Vidal select the principal officers of this newly formed branch, and so he appointed the following:
Mr. R. J White, president; Mr. Isaac Meyers, vice-president, and Mr. H. L Munroe, secretary. Other officers to be elected at the next meeting.
A few of the persons present are already members of the V. N. I. A. and hold certificates of membership issued by the parent body of the association these are:
Mrs. R J White, Miss E. R White, Mr M Francis, Mr A Leon and Mr R J White
Among the others who were delighted to give in their names to become members were Mrs. M. Francis, Mr. David Von do W., Mr Albert Sinclair, Mr Isaac Meyers and Mr H. L Munroe.
The interest, alacrity and earnestness shown was indeed remarkable, as every man's and woman's determination was concentrated on one common good, that of consolidation of the Negro peoples of the world.
The meeting was brought to a close at 11 p. m. with singing and prayer, to be resumed on Friday, the 14th instant.
R. J. WHITE. President.
H. L. MUNROE. Secretary.
I' N. I. A. and A. C. L. Barranquilla Branch, Colombia.
Barranquilla, Colombia, Jan. 10, 1921
WINNIPEG DIVISION UNVEILS
PORTRAIT OF MARCUS GARVEY
The Wintiptep division hold a great meeting with a very impressive service, viz. the unveiling of the portrait of His Excellency, Hon. Marcus Garvey,
BIG TIME FOR PEOPLE OF BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND CITY
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF BROOKLYN DIVISION Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities' League THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music Lafayette Avenue and Athland Place
In Aid of the Liberian Construction Loan Prominent Orators and Artists of International Reputation will display their professions ability as a means towards the accomplishment of UNIVERSAL betterment Among them will be:
JAMES ARMSTRONG, Bass Soloist, and other vocalists of the Liberty Hall unexcelled Choir. UNIVERSAL BAND IN ATTENDANCE, PROFESSOR R. W. MANDEVILLE, LEADER. The Liberian Construction Loan is nothing charitable: It is a safe and sound investment with a guaranteed yield of 6 per cent. Easy payments.
ADMISSION
ORCHESTRA ..... 60 CENTS
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Tickets can be obtained at the Academy of Music; at our Offices, 118 Myrtle Ave.: one flight up, (evenings), and from members of the Association.
Everybody Who Is Anybody Will Be There
Provisional President of Africa, and President General of the U. N. I. A.
The meeting was called to order by the President Hon. J. T. Wright. The opening ode, "From Greenland's Ice Mountains," was sung after which prayer was offered by the chaplain, Bro. J. D. Maduro. Remarks of welcome were then given by the President. A short attiring address was then delivered by the Chaplain on the Fatherland in which he paid a glowing tri-
bule to the Honorable Marcus Garvey, Brother Thwaites of Montreal said that after listening to the remarks of the chaplain that he should be present at any meeting of the association at any time he was able to make it conveniently and that after reading the article by Mr. Talley in the World's Work he feels that every Negro should feel the spirit of emancipation.
The ballad "Be An Ethiopian Through and Through" was rendered by the
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family of the president.
A recitation by Mr. Cloak. "The World Is Better Today Than It Ever Was Before" (Kila Wheeler Wilcox) was then given.
The vice president, Mr. A. L. N. Driver gave an address, in which he outlined the early strivings of the Kegro tracing his course up to the present day and also his outlook for the future. A paper by the lady associate secretary, Miss Sarah Barbee, on social
militant was past rest, the contents of which were very interesting. This was followed by a short address by the lady president, Mrs. Burke, visiting her appreciation for the W. M. L. A and the work of its founder the Hon. Marceus Garvey.
The next and closing member on the commission was the arrival of the craft of the Hon. Marvin Garvey and address was delivered by the presiding Hon. J. T. Wright, in which he urged the great leader not as the most Negro living, but as the great man living. For, if he is the greatest Negro, and the Negro, man for it is the equal of any other race, as the man we delight to honor is the light of common reasoning, the great man living. Great because of vision, great because of the courage to undertake a task of such magnitude, viz., the repa tting of a race. It became of his manifest ability carry out the plan laid, great because of the baggage of his soul and in calling to his aid the great man who labor with him in the cause hastily great because of the wisdom lying on the source of all wisdom. Great Jehovah.
The assistance then arose and using the national uniform, Thibodea Thou land of Our Father, I will the executive officers formed a semi-circle under the portrait, the travelling ceremony was performed by little Miss Vivian Bancroft and little Miss Judith Bancroft. Three cheers were given for the President General after which the services closed with the singing of the The Tent Bells.
ROUSING SUNDAY NIGHT AT HAVANA
liberty Hall Audience Applauded for Several Minutes When Told of the Departure of the Pioneer Party for Liberia
Since the reorganization of the Havana branch of the U.N.A. by Mr Louis LaMotte a few months ago, the interest of the members has been kept at the very highest:
Sunday night January 12 proved an exceptionally brilliant night. The new president, W.H. L. Jones, opened the meeting in the usual conventional manner and outlined the progress of the association and the plans for the future in his accustomed elequent form.
In the president's review the spoke of the departure of the first workers in Liberia, the formation of the National Legion, the Black Cross Nurses, the completion of the plans for the new laumiere, etc. He further spoke of the coming of the chaplain, General Dr McGuire, to the city on the 25th and the reception planned for the gentleman's arrival. The choir rendered several anthems which reflected much credit upon the choirmaster, Mr. Scantlebury.
Much interest was shown in the election of a vice-president to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Mr. Pairweather for Jamaica. The contest was keen, and this was only natural, as the two candidates, Meares, G. S. Woods and R P Barnwell, are both active and well-known workers in the Havana branch of the U N I A.
The lady secretary, Miss Wallace and Mrs L. M. Pierson exerted energy in the preparation of the ballot cards and the distribution, while Mrs Lowe and Mrs Burke acted as collectors, with the ever-alert Lady President Mrs Watson as the returning officer. Mr R P Barnwell was announced the ected officer by a majority of four votes, which shows how nearly equal the audience was divided.
Mr A. G. Burkley the acting traffic manager of the Black Star Line, was the next speaker. Mr Burkley stated that he would not make a speech because he felt sure that the plain announcements which he would make was sufficient to enthuse every person in the audience. The young gentleman proceeded to describe the dispatch of the pioneer workers from New York during the past week, and told that we sent them on the white people's boat because ours had not completed repairs. This announcement was cheered for several minutes, during which the representative held his breath and awaited an opportunity to continue. He announced that the Associated Press cables for the week had brought the news that the SS. Kanawha was able to render assistance to an American seaplanet which had met with an accident in a storm off the American coast. Mr Burkley stated that although the headquarters was modest enough not to desire the good news to be made known publicly as yet, he was overjoyed that he would not keep such an equal joy from those who had come there that night to hear of the advancement of the movement and to help to roll it along.
It made one's heart glad to hear the several remarks and see the radiance beaming in the faces of the people as the young man spoke. The hall was kept in a thunder of applause, and when he was through there seemed as there would be no end to the joy.
There would be no end in the joy.
There can be no mistaking the part the Negroes in Cuba will play in this sera game for a FREE and redeemed AFRICA.
As usual, the Cuban orator, Senior Francisco, thrilled his hearers with appreciation of the Hon. Marcus Garvey, comparing that gentleman's work with that of the leaders of the other races all through history.
Mr. Clark, the acting secretary, made the closing announcements, and everyone left displaying high hopes for the future.
Liberia is now the one talk among the Negroes of Cuba at this time, and the president is kept busy registering who are determined to go to their motherland.
B. G. ALFRED.
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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF DEPUTIES
From the Branches and Chapters of the Association of Every Country in the World, Will Assemble on the 1st of August, 1921, at Liberty Hall, New York
THE GREATEST MOVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE NEGROES OF THE WORLD
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
wants every black man and woman to become an active member of the organisation. If you have pride, if you feel that by co-operation we can make conditions better, if you believe that the black boy or black girl is the equal of other boys and girls of other races, then prove it now by co-operating to demonstrate our manhood and womanhood, not by talking, but by doing things.
The general objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, are:
To establish a universal confraternity among the race; to promote the spirit of pride and love; to administer to and assist the needy; to assist in civilizing the backward tribes of Africa; to strengthen the nationalism of independent Negro States in Africa; to establish commissionaries or agencies in the principal countries of the world for the protection of all Negroes, irrespective of nationality; to establish universities, colleges and schools for the racial education and culture of our young man and women; to conduct a worldwide commercial and industrial intercourse for the benefit of the race; to work for better conditions among our people; to promote industries and commerce for the betterment of Negroes. If these objects do not appeal to you, then you are dead to all sense of race pride and race manhood.
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION AND AFRICAN COMMUNITIES' LEAGUE, Inc.
SPAWISH HONDGRAS, MEETS
PUERTO CORTEZ, Hon. Jan. 18,
1921—The Puerto Cortes division of
the U. N. A. held its meeting last
night. The meeting was called to
order at 6:35 p.m. by the Vice-President,
who provided. The Chapilla
opened the meeting by singing the
opening hymn followed by a short
prayer. The Secretary announced the
reason for the President's absence
and read the minutes of the last
meeting, which was confirmed. A copy of
letter to the parent body was read.
A letter from the President General was
read, which after being remarked upon
as the first letter which bears his signature the few members present immediately contributed to the support of the "Animal Tax" magnificently. The vice president spoke again upon
buying a tree in the Corporations, then
read a letter in which he is authorized to introduce the "Construction Loan" of which he had spoken previously.
Buttons and dues cards were also extended to the members which finally brought to the meeting to a close. I need not make it clear that the chapman and Mr Willoughby were the principal supporters of the Annual Tea. You're respectfully. I. C. Hipolito.
CAPTAIN GAINES, MINISTER
OF LEGIONS, ADDRESSES
MORELKY H. L. A
The local branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League recently had its guest Capt. of Legions E. L. Lance. Capt. Gaimes made several speeches while in the city and did much in getting the branch here organized and working smoothly.
On Tuesday night, January 25, a monster meeting was held at Liberty Hall, 530 Queen street. A record crowd was present and the enthusiasm ran high. President Allen Hobbs of this chapter presided.
The meeting was opened by singing. Fraser by Rev Ferguson. President Hobbs then declared the proceedings opened. The officers members and friends of the U. N. L. A and A. C. L. and the Black Star Line were congratulated by him for their splendid attendance. This meeting was the third of a series of mass meetings held here. The president tried to impress upon the minds of the people the importance of organizing themselves in the U. N. I. A. for the redemption of Africa. He also said that there should
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be no trouble in making up your minds to help your race rise to a position in the maritime world that you and every other Negro could point to with pride. I want to say as I always say, first, let us get ourselves right with God. If you get your heart, right with God, it won't be a hard job to get yourselves organized in the U. N. L. A. So let us get right with God in order that we can receive what he has in store for us.
WEALTHY NEGRO MAY GET SEAT IN FRENCH SENATE
Former Longshoreman Opposed by Henry Berenger Noted Writer Fleo
movement known as the Negro Improvement Association African Communities It was done after a number of careful attempts on Januay the required seven members by their past mistakes, the bers thought they would with the parent body in N. and thereby establish officially.
He said he waa. 'everybody in Liberty Hall to take out one or as many Construction Loans as they could afford in order to help in the furtherance of the industrial, commercial and agricultural purposes of the association in its construction plans in America and Africa. He said that he was one of the chairmen of all the Liberty and Victory Loan drives, and bought until it hurt, so now let us buy loans in the Construction Loan until we feel it, and also let us take out shares in the Black Star Line in order that we may buy more ships, better ships, and bigger ships.
Dr Columbus 'xwell was presented by Mr. Hobbs to introduce the speaker of the evening. Dr Maxwell congratulated the president and members upon the way they were conducting the business of the U. N. L. A.
Captain Gaines made a masterly plea for unity and support of the movement and predicted abundance of success. His address was well received by the vast audience. Splendid music was rendered by the Black Star Line Band and the Carney Quartet and others covered themselves with glory in singing.—Norfolk Journal and Guide.
ST. THOMAS DIVISION
ELECTS PRESIDENT
To the Editor of the Negro World.
Dear Sir —
It affords me much pleasure to make a short news report of the St. Thomas Division No. 84, of the U. N. L. A.
As the president of the Division,
Bro. H. E. Flannagan, tendered his resignation on December 7th, 1920, the Division thought it wise to have the vacant office filled as quick as possible, and therefore called an election, which took place on the 21st instance, the result being that Bro. Augustus Luis was unanimously elected to the office.
The Division therefore trust that he will continue to be as zealous as thither.
I am yours fraternally,
WILMOT COOPER.
CHARTERS AND INFO-
RIO COMMUNITIES OF
Africa, the West Indies, Central and
SO FORM THEMSELVES INTO A
NEGRO IMPROVEMENT
and AFRICAN COMMUNI-
LAUE OF THE WORLD
ACTION OF THE SENTIMENT AND
400,000,000 OF THE NEGRO RACE
SOCIAL PROGRESS, INDUSTRIAL
NONALLY, POLITICALLY AND
THE PURPOSE OF BUILDING A
General Education of the Negro Race O
the International Headquarters for
and Charter
Maches and Lodges Are Requested to
NATIONAL CONVENTION
chapters of the Association of Every-
the 1st of August, 1921, at Liberty H
MOVEMENT IN THE
NEGROES OF THE W
Negro Improvement Associ-
Communities League
can to become an active member of the o
we can make conditions better, if you be
girls of other races, then prove it now by
by talking, but by doing things.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association
confraternity among the race; to promote
ity; to assist in civilising the backward tr
States in Africa; to establish commiss-
tion protection of all Negroes, irrespective
of the racial education and culture of our
and industrial intercourses for the benefit of
remote industries and commerce for the be-
an you are dead to all sense of race pride.
Address All Communications to
PROVEMENT ASSOCIATION AND TIES' LEAGUE, Inc. NEW YORK, UNITED STAT
WEALTHY NEGRO MAY GET SEAT IN FRENCH SENATE
Former Longshoreman Opposed by Henry Berenger, Noted Writer—Election Almost Certain.
PARIS, Feb. 12.—One of the most remarkable rpmances of the war, in which the central figure is a Negro, may see a sequel in the French senate.
Adeodat Dubroulihe, black and born at Guadalupe, arrived at Marseilles in 1913 with 50 francs in his pocket and went to work as a longshoreman. When the war began he invested his savings in a small stock of rum, a few weeks before the price of that liquor shot up. Selling out his first stock he bought more, moved to Paris, and within three years became the largest dealer in rum in France.
In 1917 he signed an enormous contract with the French Government whereby he supplied practically all the rum served to the soldiers in the trenches and used in the hospitals.
During the grip epidemic of 1918 he is said to have made five million dollars profits. Buying himself a country mansion near Paris he married a French woman, and was made Mayor of his community in token of his large ben evolence.
In November, 1920, he was prosecuted by the Government for falsely declaring his excess war profits under the new tax law. The case is still pending.
Meanwhile, he has announced himself candidate for the exclusive French Senate for the district of Guadalupe, in opposition to Sonator Henry Berenger, the famous writer, who is chairman of the Senate Commission on Foreign Affairs.
His supporters allege his election is almost certain, since a large proportion of the voters in Guadalupe are enfranchised blacks. If this happens he will be the first Negro to take a seat in any European Government
U. N. I. A. BRANCH IS
ORGANIZED IN MILWAUKEE Instead of becoming discouraged by the failure of the Liberty Party, the few remaining followers of Mr. Bridges thought they would organize themselves into a branch of the Garvey
movement known as the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. This was done after a number of unsuccessful attempts on January 2nd, with the required seven members. Profiling by their past mistakes, these few members thought they would deal directly with the parent body in New York City and thereby establishing themselves officially. A charter was sent for on the fourth meeting with a membership of 28 members who have pledged themselves to go up or down with this wonderful Garvey movement which threatens to sweep the entire world. The officers who were elected to lead this movement in Milwaukee were: A. Chester Scott, President; George Ferrel, Vice President; Josephine Ferrel, Lady President; Mary Millegan, Secretary; Aaron Deering, Treasurer; F. G. Alleyne, Chairman of the Trustee Board, and Bolay Hale, Chairman of the Advisory Board.
Plans are under way for a membership drive and place this movement before the public of Milwaukee. Members are requested to bring news to the temporary headquarters, 283 Fourth Street, Milwaukee. Wls. Scott Bros. anything relative to the movement All members are also requested to meet every Wednesday nights at 7:30 and Sunday at 8:00 at Frele Gemendie Hall. 264 Fourth Street, in the upper Hall. The official organ, "The Negro World" is on sale at Scott Bros., 283 Fourth Street, Milwaukee, Wls.
Lincoln University Team Wins Debate.
The Judges, Meagra. James Weldon Johnson, Frank Wheaton and Fordlin Norton, were unanimous in giv-
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and operate factories all
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Have you ever stopped to think of the thousand people in a community like Harlem, or any other city? How much of this money gets back in your pocket, oh? How do you account for that? Easy and not enough businesses control, and operate their numbers in any given community.
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(2) We would be laying up treasures for our economic foundation.
We could go on to name other benefits, but this is advertisement.
What is true of Harlem is equally true of our population.
NOW, THE NEGRO FACTORIES CORPORATION and operate factories all over three United States, America and Africa, in the interest of colored people, only by colored people.
THIS IS OF INTEREST To Every Negro It. Will Pay You To Read This
Have you ever stopped to think of the thousands of dollars spent daily by colored people in a community like Harlem, or any other community with a large colored population? How much of this money goes back in your pockets in one way or another? How much, oh? How do you account for that? Easy enough when you stop to think that there are not enough businesses controlled, and operated by colored people in their numbers in any given community.
If fifty per cent of the money spent by us daily for commodities of every kind was spent among ourselves, do you realise the tremendous advantages the race would have? Of course, you can appreciate how far our economic interest would be advanced.
Now let us suppose that right here in Harlem we had factories manufacturing the things that we must all purchase every day, and stores in which to sell them—do you realise what this would mean? Such a condition would mean:
(1) Employment for hundreds of colored men and women in every capacity—executive, clerical and otherwise.
(2) We would be laying up treasures for ourselves, and at the same time laying a firm economic foundation.
We could go on to name other benefits, but these two will suffice for the purpose of this advertisement.
What is true of Harlem is equally true of every community with a large colored population.
NOW. THE NEGRO FACTORIES CORPORATION has been organised to build, own and operate factories all over these United States, the West Indies, Central and South America and Africa. in the interest of colored people, for colored people and to be run wholly by colored people.
DOES THIS PROGRAM APPEAL TO YOU?
Very well, we must have money with which to build these factories and operate them. Already, we have established A STEAM AND HAND- LAUNDRY and a MILLINERY STORE. THESE ARE ONLY BEGINNERS.
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that is bound to follow the
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your shares.
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program along for all it is worth to you and the ra
Shares in the NEGRO-FACTORIES COBPORA
ch. Will you invest in as many shares as you are
at is bound to follow the investment?
LET US HEAR FROM YOU TODAY.
Now, while these good thoughts are upperm
our shares.
Will you, Mr. Colored Man, put your shoulder to the wheel with us and grant this program along for all it is worth to you and the race in general?
Shares in the NEGRO-FACTORIES CORPORATION are selling at Five-8K.99 Dollars each. Will you invest in as many shares as you are able to purchase and reap the reward, that is bound to follow the investment?
LET US HEAR FROM YOU TODAY.
Now, while these good thoughts are uppermost in your mind, send in and buy your shares.
When you invest Five ($5.00) or Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) in the shares of stock it means that at the end of the financial year you will gather so much more money by way of dividends. If you want to make money, if you want to insure a better future, you will invest today, and right away now in the
ing a decision to the Lincoln University team in a debate held recently at Laurel Garden, East 16th street, against, the Douglas Center Literary Club of this city. The subject debated was "Resolved. That the introduction of a callicat form of government would solve the Nogro problem in the United States." The Douglas Center team, composed of Messra, H. E. Simmolkner, A. Ranning and H. C. Pryce, presented the affirmative
NOTE
The following Stock Certification
Mr. John A. Wilson, President
Chicago, have been returned to
delivery":
Certificate
Number Name
25206 W. F. Cook
25211 James M. L.
26495 Rosetta Alp
27717 Catic West
27732 Minnie Anz
27732 Alice Gray
28010 Lucy Jacks
28285 Tenley Lucy
28286 Joe Jackson
Will the above parties please
ment of the Black Star Line for
BLACK STAR
56 West 135th Street
8th February, 1921
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every No
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money gets back in your pockets in one
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community.
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so you realize the tremendous advantage
that right here in Harlem we had facto
purchase every day, and stores in which
sean? Such a condition would mean:
hundreds of colored men and women in
ing up treasures for ourselves, and at
some other benefits, but these two will su
lem is equally true of every communi
FACTORIES CORPORATION has been
over these United States, the West Ind
the interest of colored people, for colore
The following Stock Certificates, which were issued through Mr. John A. Wilson, President of the Stockholders' Club of Chicago, have been returned to this office on account of "non delivery";
have money with which to build these factories a STEAM AND HAND LAUNDRY ONLY BEGINNERS. I Man, put your shoulder to the wheels, worth to you and the race in general? FACTORIES CORPORATION are selling many shares as you are able to purchase the investment* FROM YOU TODAY. Good thoughts are uppermost in your m
argument, while the Leeds University team, composed of Stephen Eugene Rhoden, Jason Newton, Hill and Miller Deyd, argued the regretted Rev. George Frieder Miller of Newlyn was chairman. Mina Chua Rhoden rendered three pleasing vocal interventions.