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The Indispensable Weekly The Voice of the Awakened Negro—The Pearlse Paper THE Negro World ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY A Newspaper Devoted Solely to the Interests of the Negro Race VOL. X. No. 12 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 PRICE: FIVE CENTS IN MARKETING NEW YORK, SEVEN CENTS BLAIRWHERE IN THE U.S. SUDDEN DEATH OF NEW YORK EDITOR SHOCKS FRIENDS SUDDEN DEATH OF NEW YORK EDITOR SHOCKS FRIENDS Edward Warren for Several Years Managing Editor of "Amsterdam News" Passes Away. Edward A. Warren, managing editor of the Amsterdam News, one of the oldest newspapers published by colored persons in New York, died suddenly last Thursday evening in the car barn. 146th street and Lenox avenue, where he was taken after being struck suddenly with illness after he had alighted from a street car. He left his office about an hour before he died to transact some business in the neighborhood of 146th street in connection with his paper and after alighting from the street car was seen to fall suddenly. Persons standing nearby immediately rushed to his aid and carried him to the car barn, while other persons hurried to get a doctor. An ambulance in charge of Dr. Brown of Columbia Hospital hurried to the car barn. Upon arriving there Dr. Brown pronounced him dead. Mr. Warren was born in Nashville. Tenth. about 60 years ago and has lived in New York for the past 20 years. For about 18 years he maintained his residence at 19 West 41th street. He was a member of several festivals and other organizations, among them the annual Funeral Services for 56th Infantilion Church at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. W. Brown, officiating, assisted by Reva Pigott, Johnson, Holder and Taylor. Several organizations in which the deceased was a member turned out to pay their last tribute, among them the Salmonmen's League, the Association for Trade and Commerce and the Manhattan Newspaper Men's Association. Resolutions of condolence to the bereaved family were read by the two latter organizations. Resolution of Manhattan Newspaper Man's Association. Whereas, The sudden, sad and shocking death of the late Edward A. Warren, the secretary-treasurer of the Amsterdam News Publishing Company, has taken from this community one of its most valuable, useful and valuable positions who was sympathetic, alert and well-trained member of the newspaper profession; Whereas, His death at this time, in the midst and in the height of his chosen career, comes as a distinct shock to those of us who knew him in life as a broad gauged newspaper man, as one kindly disposed to all movements making for the civic betterment of the community, as one who was a lover of his race and of all mankind and a defender of the noble principles of journalism; be it Resolved. That we, the members of the Amsterdam Newspaper Man's Association in meeting assembled, express through this resolution our tender feelings and grief to the family and relatives of the deceased in this hour of their sorrow. That they be comforted and strengthened in the knowledge that the same God that has taken him from our midst will strengthen them in their hour of sorrow; be it Further resolved. That we express to the members of the Amsterdam News our sorrow at the loss sustained in the death of the late Edward A. Warren; be it Resolved further. That we send a copy of this resolution to the widow of the deceased, Mrs. Edward A. Warren; so as to the press and to the Manhattan Newspaper Men's Association to be kept in its possession. Best at peace, follow member of our out profession. You wrought well and nobly in your life. You were a member of a noble profession, the spirit of which you not only caught. You will be missed. The work that you have left behind we take up and carry to its fruition. LYNCHING PICTURES LEAD TO WARRANTY FOR LIFE TO WARRANT FOR NEIGHBOR MILWAUKEE, WI. April 14, a warrant for the arrest of Edward Temple, head of the National Association for the Advancement of the Negro, was issued today charging possession and confinement of pictures intended to inculinate a rage riot. A police officer attempted to a court of Nebraska is front of the organization's behalf in the trial, two guilty, one innocent. (By Associated Negro Press.) CHICAGO, April 20—Edward H. Wright, the famed attorney of this city, is causing the local daily press a world of worry. It appears that Mr. Wright, as the chief legal expert of the city's traction plan, has drawn $10,613 in fees during the past year. The Tribune calls attention to the fact that this is very near to one-third of the sum, $107,834, paid to the entire staff of experts on the city pay roll. The "world's greatest newspaper" calls Mr. Wright "the Negro attorney of ability," and "Negro adviser of Mayor's traction plan." In the meantime Mr. Wright remains mum and continues to draw his fees. Band of White Men Throw Her in Creek After Sheriff Had Promised Her Protection. ATLANTA, April 27—Pitiful letters from a number of Negro residents of a certain Georgia county appealing to Governor Dorey for protection against white night riders have been sent to the Governor following his publication yesterday of a pamphlet in which he affords 125 citations against blacks and prostitutes his hindrance to the safety of measures that will stamp out peonage and lynching. The letters, from a county which the Governor will not name, told of the murder of a Negro woman by a mob and of the activities of bands of white men who rode about the county nightly beating Negroes. The existence of such practices was confirmed in another letter written by the sheriff of the county. The murdered Negress had been drowned in a creek only the night before the letters were written, and Governor Dorey immediately communicated with the Sheriff. That official admitted that conditions had been very bad," but were now "all right." His assertion of the affair with the whites was the cause of the killing of a deputy by a Negro, and his consequence a mob mobed the man and the woman, claiming they had hidden the guilty Negro. The man was lynched and the mob returned for the woman. The sheriff says he arrived before they could harm her, dispersed the mob and took the woman to jail, where he kept her overnight to prevent further attacks on her. The next day he took her back to the police, where she was employed told her she would be safer in jail. She believed, however, the mob had ventured into anger and chose to stay. That same night the mob returned and terrorized her again. GOURDIN, HARVARD RUNNER, WINS HONORS IN ATHLETICS (Special to The Negro World.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. May 1—Mr. Gourdin, a Negro member of Harvard's track team, has sustained the athletic prestige which the Negro gained at Harvard University through William H. Lewis and William C. Matthaeus, in the dual meet between Harvard and Pennsylvania, held in Franklin Field. Philadelphia, Pa. last week, Mr. Gourdin made the highest individual score. He won the running bread jump and the 108-yard dash and finished second in the 100-yard dash and marked pest in college athletics and placed roaring Gourdin in the topmost rank. MR ROGERS, A CHICAGO AUTHOR. VISITS. NEW YORK AUTHOR VISITS NEW YORK Mr. J. A. M. Fogle, of Chicago, Ill., author of "From Diperson to Man" and "As Natural Lease," in one of the new arrivals in New York city. Mr. Fogle questioning makes him a expert visit to the city. He has written to write a book dealing with New York's history, and has written to get back to his family. He is proud to publish books from New York and where many may type in the city. He is the author of "The House of New York: New York City," "The House of New York: New York City," and "The House of New York: New York City." R. HAYES GIVEN DIAMOND PIN BY KING GEORGE Sings Negro Spirituals Before the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace—Has Signal Success in London. LONDON. April 28—Roland W. Hayza, the coactivated Negro tenor, has had fine recognition during his visit to London where he has been giving a series of recitals and has best concert halls. He left New York in the year, accompanied by Mr. Lawrence Brown, his accompanist, immediately after his Aeolian Hall recital, to study the origin of Negro music in Africa. Mr. Hayza is an accomplished singer with exceptional advantages in study and training. He is equally at home in French, Italian and English songs and has met with signal success in all his recitals here. The newspapers here have all spoken in the highest terms of his musical intelligence, the range, warmth and body of his voice and his perfect anunciation. His accompanist, Mr. Brown, has been equally praised for his fine playing. Last November he was selected from among a group of American artists in London to sing the "star Spangled Banner" at the Thanksgiving celebration by Americans in London. the remarkable success he has gained since emigrates. The Randall cultivated his own style, and he has always been able to ally before the royal family at Stokeham Hall Falcon. Mr. Hayes sang some beautiful numbers, among them some Ngorongoro Spirituals to the delight of the royal family. The King took occasion to compliment him on the excellence of his voice, its range and firmness and the skill displayed in the rendition of his song. The King observed how different the Ngorongoro Spirituals were from what the English people have been taught to believe were the characteristic Negro melodies. Mr. Hayes was presented with a diamond pin by King George. NEGROES WIN HARD FOUGHT WILL CONTEST WAKHAW, N. C., April 31—An interesting case, involving the estate of a rich white woman, the bulk of which was willed to her Negro servants, came up in Union County here recently and was decided in favor of the Negroes against some white relatives who contested the will. Maggie Rose, a white woman possessed of large estate, lived in retirement, and it is alleged that she permitted her colored servant unusual privileges in her home. At her death it was found that she had willed the bulk of her estate to three Negroes. Various bequests were made to churches, missions and charities (the orphane at Barium Springs, $2,000) and small amounts were given to various white persons, but the bulk of the estate of 1,600 acres of valuable farming lands and about $3,000 in cash was left to a colored man and his daughter and grandmother. The white woman had no rear kin, but as soon as her wife was made public second and third cousins and others farther removed, to the number of 15th entered cut to assist the will on the ground that Maggie Rose was not mentally competent to make a will and that she was tundly infused by the Megrose who were beneficiaries. Many witnesses expressed the opinion that she was not mentally competent to make a will and when placed down admitted that the opinion was based on the fact that she left her property to the Negroes. Strong feeling was expressed by these distant relatives that so much valuable property had been left the hands of Negroes, and strong efforts were made to break the will on the ground. After a hard struggle, counsel of Milesy Hill it that Union Tennesseans may have done so, and counsel of Maggie Rose know that when she sees the will on the ground, the Negroes will know that HARLEM POLICE MAN INDICTED CHARGED WITH STATUORY OFFENSE Young Colored Matron Recently from South Complaint Against Martin McMahon of Thirty-eighth Procinct—Is Mother of Two Children—Police Commissioner Dismisses Charge Without Notifying Her of Action. An indictment against Patrolman Martin McMahon (white) of the West 138th Street Station was handed up to Judge McIntyre in General Sessions last Friday by the regular April Grand Jury. U. N. L A BRANCH IN CAPITAL ADDS MANY NEW MEMBERS WASHINGTON. May 1.—The Washington division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association is making great progress. Many have been added to the membership of the branch within the last few weeks. Last Sunday the division was addressed by Mr. Hubert Jullan, an aeronautic inventor of Montreal, Can.; Mr. John Whitekaw Lewis of Washington and Mr. Dabron P. Byer of the San Diego, Cal. division. The meeting this afternoon was addressed by Mr. W. H. Sammons of Philadelphia. Mr. W. Rowledge of Richmond, Rev. Dr. Lewatlaj] of the Columbus, Ohio, division, and Mr. Boresworth Gale of Philadelphia. Mr. Gale is one of the most prominent men in this country, and one of the biggest financiers. He member of the Washington Division. Meetings for the coming week will be held in the northwest and southwest sections. The general election of officers will take place Friday evening 11 Fisherman's Hall, Southeast. The entire membership is expected to be present. The unveiling of the charter will take place at the Howard Theatre on Sunday, May 12, at 3 o'clock. There will be a monster mass meeting on this occasion. Prominent speakers local and out of town, will address接待. All are invited to attend. The division has opened its new office at 1877 Seventieth street in the office of the Taggert News Co. CHARGED WITH ST Young Colored Matron Recruit Against Martin McCinct—Is Mother of Twister Dismisses Charge of Action. An indictment—against Patron of the West 135th Street Station in General Sessions last Friday by Mrs. Baulah Cooper, twenty-three, of 2103 Madison avenue is the complainant against McMahon. She is employed at nights in a downtown chophouse, where she works from about 11 o'clock at night to 8 o'clock in the morning, to add to her husband's warnings to support herself and two children and her mother, with whom the couple residence at the Madison avenue address. Mrs. Cooper and her husband came to New York about a year ago from one of the Southern States, and she states that she has been compelled to work and assist her husband make ends meet in their home. She charges that on January 37 McMahon pulled her into the pressless of the Macao Pool Parlor: 71 West 1334 street, after securing a key from under the stairway of the building, and abused her in an unprintable manner despite her efforts to prevent him. Mrs. Cooper is a slightly built woman weighing about 106 pounds and is about five feet in height. She alleges that immediately after the offering was committed she rusted home and informed her husband and that he immediately accompanied her in search of the officer. When they get to Lenox Avenue and 1334 street they saw him get out of an automobile in which he was still in and run across the avenues, joining with other patrolmen who was standing down the avenue. Cooper states that his wife prevailed on him not to polish the floor, expressed the fact that he might as him bodily injury, but, he report the matter to the station, house on 1334 street. They said the complaint to Captain McElroth there and he told them to become back later and identify the patrolman. Later, when they were turned to the station house, Mrs. Cooper (nearing) found him and The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. WASHINGTON, May 1—The Liberian Commission is reasonably certain of getting the loan from the United States Government. When interviewed by a representative of The Negro World members of the Commission said that there was no doubt but that the loan would be granted to the African Republic. Members of the commission feel that the financial interest of America created by the loan will also mean a strong moral interest on the part of the United States Government. President King to Tour Country. President King is to expect to leave the capital shortly for Baltimore. From there he will visit Philadelphia and New York. At Philadelphia he will join Mr. Burrows Gale, who will accompany him to Tuskegee and other parts of the country. AN INDICTED STATUORY OFFENSE ently from South Complain- Mahon of Thirty-eighth Pre- vo Children—Police Commi- go Without Notifying Her colman Martin McMahon (white) was handed up to Judge McIntyre by the regular April Grand Jury. that at or about the time the offen- was alleged to have been committed McMahon was in her house seating about some woman who had its ther. A grilling cross examination by Ai- torney Rorke failed to shake Mrs. Cooper's testimony. Decision was reserved and Mrs. Cooper states the things that a Madam witnesses was about the latter part of February. The Police Complainess has not noti- fied her of his decision or whether he reached one in the case. McMahon was transferred to a downtown practice where he continued to do duty. Tried in Magistrate's Court Mr. Cooper procured a sumbrations in the Heights Court for Malikinn and he, was brought to trial before Magistrate Mançur, Attorney Richard J. Baltimore of 185 West 1861 street, who became interested in this case when it was brought so, high, already by public salient citizens. Arrived for Mr. Cooper without charge on conjunction with Assistant District Attorney James VP. Malikinn at the Heights Court. Manchur, was represented by Attorney Harkie. The case was outlined several times and the defense introduced rights and the woman was withheld along with some charitable willness. Malikinn's case seemed to be in the imitation through circle in the case of the 1861 Street. Universal Negro Improvement Association, Says R. Chancellor, Is on the Lord's Side—Widow of Smith, Holds, Negro's Relief Is in Africa— Colored People in the South. Practically the same in North. LIBERTY HALL, NEW YORK, May 1st—An unusually large attendance of people were present tonight when the program for the evening began: a program which for richness of talent and discolonice of rendition by all who took part in it is nowhere equalled the whole gatherings of out people. There has that's physical concern given at place like Carnegie Hall, theリボンセンター, and also where, for which an admission to ranging from $1,000 was paid. The "Wine," no other, but a given, "taste" which is the direction of the "Arms," and "Pard" is called "drunken," while "Rabbin" acting an armchair, while "Mr. Ulysses," then the charge of the "The Brookes" in the form of Dobri, revitalising Mr. Ableby, former silo, "Cops" into the Cops, the Maid," Professor of the "Rabbin," the "Rabbin," and "Baidu Prod," who were born in 1840. Mr. Stamleby, the Prof. Arnold J. Ford; base soly-for, A.J., Ebernitz, Mr. Gambit, harthensolo, "A Dream of Farewell," Rev. Joe Brooks of "New Haven," Miss Pragmatical, planist, Arnold J. Ford, medical director. At the conclusion of the musical program the Rev. Dr. G. O. McKinney, chief character, who presided, followed the opening address, in which he said that the Universal New York International Association is on the Lord's side and that if that be so its missionary and friend uses the name of the organization, it will not please, they could not but accept. He announced that word had been received that a branch of the association had been established in Australia. This announcement excited great applause. Mr. Wilbert E. Smith, commissioner general, quoted the passage of Sturgeon that reads, "To shall know the truth, and the truth shall save the free. He gave some plain signs of the true condition of one people in the North as well as in the South, which he said was practically the same, and said that the Narrative may prove that it is in Armenia." Mr. Walters, the writer of his newspaper, Alexander Walters, has been the one of the most excellent and性的 address of the great cause of the Garvey, told of the wonderful, good-looking, and beautiful work of a very beautiful and wealthy family, and is the author of a series of natural questions and questions that have been delivered to the public. He has, both, his own personal life, his own country, his own world, and his own life. He was interested in the life of men and women, and of the development of the social culture of men and women. He was a thinker and writer, and a thinker and writer. it. But we would like to call his attention to the gospel of St. John, the twenty-first chapter and the 20th, 21st and 22d verses, which reads as follows. "Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following, which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, "Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?" 21. Peter, seeing him, saith to Jesus: "Lord, and what shall this man do?" 22. Jesus saith unto him: "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me." We can paraphrase it and say to Dr. Du Bois: "Don't worry about what the other fellows do or don't do. Don't imagine that you have a monopoly of brains in the Negro world or a corner on the market of black goodness, but follow your own star of destiny, hoe your own row, paddle your own canoe, fill your own niche, and leave the rest to Divine Providence. Nature is frugal in her gifts. She rarely bestows all of her gifts upon one individual." of the decision elapsed since the to state in a M had thrown out be expected to of any member issues in the car would be intere the decision of Negroes has courts of New Y had handed justice. race feeling swa free from passi fair treatment. In handing ing. Magrastate IS THE NEGRO A MAN? "HER IS A NIGGER." Who made this tense statement, which is more realistic than elegance to the leader of a Georgia lynching mob? Was it a Ku Klux Klan? No; it was the wife of a Church who was vainly endeavoring to see Marshal Foote suseid him to take the African troops, some of whom some brunettes, out of Germany. Since this is a harmless assertion. It simply means that it is, as a man is a man, a woman is a woman, a horse is a horse, a dog is a dog, a cat is a cat, a claim is clearness of style comes from dogs words actually mean and that force of expression, from what words suggest. And the remarks of the Chicago lady comes from what she or suggest and not what they denote or act out. Chicago lady really means to affirm that no man refinement, a Negro acquires, no matter how he may become, he is still a Nigger and not James, Harvard's noted psychologist, thought that years ago last fall we visited the Navy Department capital. We saw a colored messenger sitting at a table. Reading what? A sporting magazine, a novel? No; he was reading James' "Will to Chicago lady would say." Even if that Negro was adding a popular book on philosophy and psychology must the same." When we wrote to the celebrator our discovery he answered our letter and that that young man of ebony hue spent his leisure serious books indicated that he had tastes, and desires which were higher than the general that he was an exceptional youth. Chicago lady had studied Negro history she would like the Negro's actual record has given the lie of defamers. About seventy five years ago Calhoun distinguished Senator, said, in substance, that now him a Negro who could master Greek syllabary him as a man. But within thirty years of his, a Negro student, excelled in Greek in Yale's alma mater. Scarborough wrote a Greek not only mastered Greek, but six other languages. Years Locke of Harvard won one of the Rho Oxford and Mr. Brown of Brooklyn. No, we use on higher mathematics and fundamental concepts. We believe that if the shade of Calhoun can say to Mts. Britten: "Don't be too sure." Sumner, Garrison, Phillips, Douglass and others "Stop the traffic in human flesh and blood," humane slaveholders said, "We are only keepers for his own good. If we free him he will stay emancipated by the stroke of Abraham Lincoln of white and black soldiers fighting under." Did he starve? No. Though disfranchised in high discriminated against by labor unions, those professions and vocations because of his color illiteracy to less than 30 per cent in the short sails, accumulated over a billion and a half dollars, deposited nearly a billion dollars in the sapphire and bought Liberty Bonds to the extent of fifty million dollars. He has built and now many schools and colleges and thousands of churches. Organizations which take care of the sick and bury successfully banks, realty companies, growt stores, millinery stores, laundries and other jobs that has a steamship at this very mement cruising in Caribbean Sea and carrying passengers and cargo port to another. He is formulating plans for development of Liberia and in Marcus Garvey has with world vision. Britten fully acquainted with the Negro's amateur great obstacles and difficulties she would not say she did to Solomon: "The half has not been the tenth has not been told to me." Faint not usky sons and daughters of Ethiopia. Remembrant not to the swift nor to the strong, but to him he end. And under God's fair skies by your dents and lofty ambitions write a new page in. In the last analysis it is a case of the struggle the survival of the fittest. Then make yourself it really fit, physically fit and industrially fit. Remembrant grace, gumption and greenbacks. They are not they are all powerful in this mundane sphere of shores. W. H. F. "A NIGGER IS A NIGGER." Who made this tense and trenchant statement, which is more realistic than elegant? Was it the leader of a Georgia lynching mob? Was it the captain of a Texas Ku Klux Klan? No; it was the wife of a Chicago Congressman who was vainly endeavoring to see Marshal Foch in Paris and to persuade him to take the African troops, some of whom are blonds and some brunettes, out of Germany. Correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper and sign all communication even if a nom-de-phone is used for publication. Unless these rules are complied with communications will receive no consideration. We also invite our readers to send or write to us on our website at www.ourwebsite.com in the public. Unlike our contemporaries we will not charge advertising or other rate for publishing any news item that is of public interest. On the surface this is a harmless assertion. It simply means that a thing is what it is, as a man is a man, a woman is a woman, a child is a child, a horse is a horse, a dog is a dog, a cat is a cat, etc. But rhetoricians claim, that clearness of style comes from denotation, that which words actually mean and that force of expression comes from connotation, from what words suggest. And the significance in the remarks of the Chicago lady comes from what her words connote or suggest and not what they denote or actually mean. And the Chicago lady really means to affirm that no matter how much learning, refinement, a Negro acquires, no matter how moral and religious he may become, he is still a Nigger and not a man. The Negro World does not knowingly accept questionable or fraudulent advertising. Readers of the Negro World are earnestly requested to invite our attention to any failure on the part of an advertiser to adhere to any representation contained in a Negro World advertisement. DR. DU BOIS AND HIS EBONY WORLD. But William James, Harvard's noted psychologist, thought differently. Eleven years ago last fall we visited the Navy Department in the national capital. We saw a colored messenger sitting at his desk and reading. Reading what? A sporting magazine, a detective story, a novel? No; he was reading James" "Will to Believe." The Chicago lady would say, "Even if that Negro messenger boy is reading a popular book on philosophy and psychology, he is a Nigger just the same." When we wrote to the celebrated philosopher about our discovery he answered our letter and said that the very fact that that young man of ebony hue spent his leisure moments reading serious books indicated that he had tastes, ambitions, longings and desires which were higher than the general run of mankind and that he was an exceptional youth. SOMEBODY evidently has tread on Dr. William E. Burghardt Du Bois' corns and has disturbed and perturbed his peace of mind. In glancing through the editorial section of the Crisis the other day we read with pleasure the delightful prose poem, "Atlantia," that brief but brilliant travel sketch style, "7,000," and the illuminating editorial on "The President." And then we came to the editorial headed "The Drive." The other three prepared us for a literary feast. We expected something buoyant and optimistic from that title. We expected that Dr. Du Bois would in his immitable manner tell how the N. A. A. C. P. would in the next quarter of a century make black men in the United States free and equal. Imagine our surprise and disappointment when we found that Dr. Du Bois instead of telling what he proposed to do to better the status and condition of the sons and daughters of Ethiopia, devoting nearly half of his editorial to hysterical railings at other nameless movements. If this Chicago lady had studied Negro history she would have discovered that the Negro's actual record has given the lie repeatedly to his defamers. About seventy five years ago Calhoun, South Carolina's distinguished Senator, said, in substance, that if anyone could show him a Negro who could master Greek syntax that he would regard him as a man. Within thirty years of that statement Bouchet, a Negro student, excelled in Greek in Yale University, Calhoun's alma mater. Scarborough wrote a Greek text book and Blyden not only mastered Greek, but six other languages. And within recent years Locke of Harvard won one of the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford and Mr. Brown of Brooklyn, Mack, wrote a scholarly treatise on higher mathematics and fundamental conceptions of science. We believe that if the shade of Calhoun could appear it would say to Mts. Britten: "Don't be too sure." A more careful study of his editorial shows that 31 lines of the editorial are devoted to criticism of other movements and 42 lines of his own program. That is typical of Dr. Du Bois, who having spent nearly thirty years of his life in a university as student, research fellow, and instructor, has never outgrown the hyperexcellent habit of mind and spends more time criticizing and fault finding than creating and constructing. Dr. Du Bois begins his trade and discipline in the Carlylean vein, as follows: "Into the field have jumped a board of scoundrels and bubble blowers, ready to conquer Africa, join the Russian revolution, and vote in the kingdom of God tomorrow." And then he luxuriates through 31 lines, using such Saxon words as "ignorant poor," "bombast," "liters," "crazy schemes," "mialed foolo," etc. Then when Sumner, Garrison, Phillips, Douglass and others were crying out, "Stop the traffic in human flesh and blood," the kind-hearted and humane slaveholders said, "We are only keeping the Negro in chains for his own good. If we free him he will stave to death." He was emancipated by the stroke of Abraham Lincoln's pen and the valor of white and black soldiers fighting under the stars and stripes. Did he starve? No. Though disfranchised and jimcrowed, though discriminated against by labor unions, though barred from some professions and vocations because of his color, he has reduced his illiteracy to less than 30 per cent in the short space of fifty-six years, accumulated over a billion and a half dollars' worth of property, deposited nearly a billion dollars in the saving banks of the country and bought Liberty Bonds to the extent of two hundred and fifty million dollars. He has built and now maintains scores of schools and colleges and thousands of churches. He has fraternal organizations which take care of the sick and bury the dead. He operates successfully banks, realty companies, grocery stores, department stores, millinery stores, laundries and other lines of business. He has a steamship at this very moment cruising in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and carrying passengers and cargoes from one Cuban port to another. He is formulating plans for the commercial development of Liberia and in Marcus Garvey has produced a leader with world vision. He evidently is mad enough to say "damn scoundrels" and "damn fools," but he does not desire to offend the taste and shock the sensibilities of the cultured, refined ladies who read his magazine, as he is a gentleman. Now, when a storekeeper spends more time cussing and discussing the storekeeper next door or across the street, one can only infer that the cussed and discussed storekeepers are cutting into his trade, and it doesn't require a second reading of Dr. Du Bois' historical editorial to discover that he is worried because some of the leaders of other movements are raking in the shekels faster than he is, and getting more publicity. But, why does he call them "scoundrels and bubble blowers"? Don't you know? How dare anyone to start a steamship line or grocery store or attempt to commercially develop Africa before permitting Dr. Du Bois to feel the bumps on his head and put him through a quizz to determine whether he has brains enough to "properly run" the enterprise? Solliciting funds to carry on a propaganda is Dr. Du Bois' divine right and prerogative. No other Negro has a right to appeal to the public for donations, loans or investments except Dr. Du Bois and his crew. And anyone else who has this experience, the serve, the temerity, the audacity and the frenzy to form corporations, raise funds and give employment to two or three hundred men and women of color are trespassing upon Dr. Du Bois' private ground and sacred preserves and is a "scoundrel". Dr. Du Bois perhaps has a patent direct from heaven on fund raising and any black man who attempts to raise funds without his O.K. is infiltrating on his patent rights. Were Mrs. Britten fully acquainted with the Negro's amazing progress under great obstacles and difficulties she would not say as the Queen of Sheba did to Solomon: "The half has not been told to me," but "The tenth has not been told to me." Faint not and falter not, ye dusky sons and daughters of Ethiopia. Remember that the race is not to the swift nor to the strong, but to him who endures unto the end. And under God's fair skies by your deeds and achievements and lofty ambitions write a new page in the world's history. In the last analysis it is a case of the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest. Then make yourself intellectually fit, morally fit, physically fit and industrially fit. Remember the four "Ga"—grit, grace, gumption and greenbucks. They are not only very potent, but they are all powerful in this mundane sphere and on these terrestrial shores. W. H. F. Louis XIV of France proudly said: "I am the State." And the letter to Dr Du Bois seems to say: "I have a title clear from the Afraidity in the surplus earnings of all black Americans. The Mature public belongs to me, and anyone who asks 'the ignorant person to dive in their pockets and produce the 'shovelfuls of pennles' or that any industrial enterprise and construction program is taking what belongs to me.' He is a scoundrel and bubble blower." "You mighty fellow. You bad men. Don't you know that Dr Du Bois alone has the divine right and prerogative to draw a contested salary for five consecutive years on solicited money? Does you know that he alone has the divine, right and prerogative to think a journal after the first two failed? Don't you know that he alone has the divine right and prerogative to start a second contested movement after the first went to need? Don't you know that Louis XIV endowed Dr Du Bois alone of all black mortals with the privilege of commendance?" Count Monta Cislo cried out: "The black world is not you. Dr Du Bois seems to cry out: 'The black world is not you. Dr you have the presumption to corral and THE COOPER CASE S of the kind made against Patrolman McMahon city-eighth Precinct. by Mrs. Beulah Cooper do create confidence and respect for the police Cooper testified that this officer subjected her to and inhuman abuse. This alleged attack can the police in Harlem of the confidence and re- necessary to the preservation of law and order in the whole the police in Harlem are a fine body command respect and confidence and its police officials should hardly tolerate any police hold the department up to scorn and approach of self-respecting and law-abiding policemen. CHARGES of the kind made against Patrolman McMahon of the Thirty-eighth Precinct by Mrs. Beulah Cooper do not tend to create confidence and respect for the police in Harlem. Mrs. Cooper testified that this officer subjected her to the most shocking and inhuman abuse. This alleged attack can only serve to deprive the police in Harlem of the confidence and respect which are so necessary to the preservation of law and order in the community. On the whole the police in Harlem are, a fine body of men who ordinarily command respect and confidence and it would seem that the police officials should hardly tolerate any policeman whose conduct holds the department up to scorn and reproach. The admissible conduct of self-respecting and law-abiding policemen is often acted by the disgraceful behavior of their comrades who indulge in abusive practices. The Police Department should never confound these practices, but should weed out this element on the force that brings reproach upon it in order to safeguard the self-respecting and law-abiding policemen. It is difficult to ignore this Department while pursue any minor course and retain the confidence of the community. We cannot be the first to understand why of the decision reached in the case after nearly two months had elapsed since the trial, while the patrolman's lawyer was in a position to state in a Magistrate's Court last Monday that the "Trial Board had thrown out the charges." The Police Commissioner would not be expected to look with favor upon shocking practices on the part of any member of the force. We make no pretense of trying the issues in the case, nor could we do so in the circumstances, but it would be interesting to know why Mra. Cooper was not notified of the decision of the Trial Board. Negroes have a right to expect that they will get fai treatment in the courts of New York, and it is by no means unjustified for them to get even-handed justice. But there are cases where passions are aroused, when race feeling sways judgment. When facts are set out in an atmosphere free from passion, in the clear light of justice, Negroes ought to get four treatment. In handing down his decision in the case, after an exhaustive hearing, Magristrate Mancuso stated that he had not allowed himself to be influenced by any racial considerations; he had had Mrs. Cooper's character investigated and found that she was a respectable young woman. The spirit of this magistrate illustrates the proper judicial temperament which should characterize the courts of Georgia, as well as New York. There are any number of citizens—public and private—who continually prate of their interest in civic righteousness and the betterment of this community. We doubt seriously that any of them has ever demonstrated their interest to the extent of Attorney Richard L. Baltimore, who appeared without fee—although he has no political aspirations—to see that Mrs. Cooper's rights were safeguarded, even as Patrolman McMahon's rights were safeguarded. Public-spirited men of this type are extremely hard to find in Harlem. CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCE U. S. MARINES RUN AMUCK IN ST. THOMAS, V. I. U. S. A. IN ST. THOMAS, V. I. U. S. A. To the Editor of the Negro World: Dear Sir—Enclose herewith please and two issues of the St. Thomas Mall Notes. I wish you would publish same in the mouthpiece of the U. N. I. A. so that the race the world over may learn what is going on in St. Thomas under the Red, White and Blue. It was indeed a great wonder that the editor wanted his time with such a matter as this, for, although being a Negro, he denies the fact and tries to be somebody else (white). That is one reason why his accounts are very much colored, and the real thing is not given. For the little that he gave the gentleman from the south were going to destroy his place of business, because he dared to make public the gentleness of the marines. In his issue of March 11 he had to deny that the Negro policemen were allied off the street before the marines started to attack April 11 the place of business was to be destroyed. As a reward for his denial the entire police force, about nine men, guarded the printing office, while the barbarians had the city for themselves. In the fighting on this night the Negroes, who are not protected in any wise, were this time prepared to give their full pleasure for self-protection, although the natives dare not own a gun, and have none, for once their minds were not to give the most indefensible themselves. The braves must have got a wireless, for although they were plentiful, they did not start anything. An assault may be looked for any time. St. Thomas, V I. U. S. A. April 15, 1921. CONDITIONS IN HALIFAX, N. S. April 29, 1939 Editor The Negro World. Dear Sir - Kindly permit me through the medium of the indispensable Negro World to make a statement regarding conditions in the Dominion of Canada. I have read prestoryworthy reports of branches throughout the Dominion but have never noted any reference being made to the Maritime Provinces. It is a great pity that this section of the Dominion is untouched. Perhaps I am mistaken. If so, some idea of this activity should be given to The Negro World. Two years ago I visited Halifax and was almost terror stricken by the appalling disadvantages under which our people exist. The conditions there as I saw them were putrid. It is true that there are two colored churches in Halifax. they are working persistently and faithfully, but what about the moral and economic status of the hundreds of Negroes who are chained and burdened under the yoke of limitation and wholesale race prejudice, mingled with discrimination of every and very despicable type? The housing facilities are disgraced to the State. Negroes, regardless of wealth and intelligence, cannot rent a decent house. They are not allowed to live in the section of the city which is typical (even in a lower degree) of the Montreal abatuit. My heart burned with pity for a community composed of such hospitable, congenial and intelligent folk, treated with such unconcern—and in the British empire besieged! The white Nova Scotians are too consequential to interest themselves in their Négrabo brethren and the majority of the black Nova Scotians themselves are dead to every sense of racial consciousness. They contribute freely and proudly to the support of the State, and are pleased to know that they are represented by white men who are inimical to their interest. This is a challenge to the U. N. L. A. It would be a good idea if the high executive would discuss this matter the forthcoming convention and devise measures of making the U. N. L. A. influence felt in the Maritime Provinces. I am not unmindful of the severity of such a task. I think it would be easier to organize the members of the underworld than the Negroes who are humped, to racial individuality and concern. However, as nothing is too gigantic for the U. N. L. A. I look forward, with assured hope, to the day when the proprietors, I have maintained will be swapped by the wave of Garryon,iam. All that it requires is a man of Macedonian origin to be a present the cause in a convincing manner. Thanking you sincerely for your valued space. I am, etc. CHARLES H W ESTE 68 McTavish street, Montcal. Dear Sir — Please allow me a small space in your valuable papers to a few words about Rev. F W Ware, P D D, the general State organizer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, who is now in Waycross doing a great work and has organized a division in Waycross, with the enrollment of 150 members, and is expecting more before leaving. He is the right man in the right place. He is carrying Georgia by storm. Everybody likes to hear him speak NELLLI ANDERSON, Secretary of the Ladies Division, 128 Thomas street, Waycross, Ga. MR. BRIDGES' STAND ON "THE EMPEROR JONES" COMMENDED March 11, 1931 Mr. William Bridges, Editor, The Challenges Magazine, New York City. My d-ar Mr. Bridges: I have read with a very great deal of pleasure and an action your articles in the current issue of the Negro World relative to Mr. O'Nellie's play, "The Impress Jones." I am of the opinion that you are the same Mr. Bedricks who a meet during the summer of 1915 while studying at Columbia during which time I president of the Teachers' and students' Literary which met at the Harlem Congregational Church and for whom a literary organization of which one Mr. Bridge was president, rendered a program one evening. Whether you are the same or not, it gives me pleasure to approve the stand you take With you, it has been the occasion of no little surprise to me that our press generally has adopted the white verdict that it is a great play. The day has come when our consciousness must determine for us what we will label rather, than the other man's bias. Some three weeks ago, however, in the Kansas City Sun, I took occasion to criticize the production in much the same way that you have. I have only one copy of the paper, but it may interest you to know how nearly our sentiments coincide. Consequently, I am sending you a typewritten copy. Wishing you an abundance of success and a long life to further things in which you are so courageously fighting, I am Very truly yours, CASWELL W. GREWS, Department, Social Sciences, Western University, Kansas City, Kansas. MR. H. H. HARRISON On the 23d inst. Mr. Hubert H. Harrison lectured at the Educational Forum in the Lafayette Hall. His subject was "Racial imperatives" his discussion of hybrid populations to their opposite racial progenitors as often possible of the stronger ancestral races and as being often raceless at a time when race pride should be pronounced. He pointed out the two types of hybrids—the biological and the psychological types, naming the Dubois and the Kelly Miller examples, respectively. In answer to a question about the educational remedy, Mr. Harrison's reply characterized present educational machinery as being diluent in West African history and as precluding students in the tands of the whites against African contributions to civilization. One point which was strongly emphasized was the tendency in America the priests to pose as leaders of their brothers to a darker hue, and, as the same time, corraling them on the grounds of color, more, haste than the color line between them and the writer. After the meeting was begun open for the discussion many of the multinationals took their hearty grumblers. Conditioned to figure 4. Dear Sir: "For the cause that needs assistance, For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I may do." Quoting from memory these beautiful lines I shall ask you to bear with me for a moment, for my heart is in the confine there with Caesar, and I must pause until it returns to me. I have been reclining quietly on my pallet of straw, and allowing those splendid scholars to give their views to the public. I have enjoyed reading your most scholarly and erudite writings that are very pitty and man. But that the truth, like Rebecca, "I can no longer remain at the lattice, and do not see how goes the battle, which gives my country dreom." I must inform you that I was somewhat instrumental in Dubois' saying anything in respect to the "Garvey movement." I wrote him early in November indicting him, in the name of the American Negro and charging him in the information, with withholding fact, that should be given to them. I shall quote to you his answer to me verbatim: Nov. 33. My dear ear: The Crisis cannot comment upon now until it has the facts. There is an article of the Garvey movement in the December number, and even this had to be written without many of the facts which we would like to have had, but could get. I do not at all agree with the value of their declaration of right, poorly worded document, but the movement itself is of extreme significance. I have introduced the Negro World to a friend of mine in Vallejo, a distance of 35 miles from here. I met a gentleman, from there yesterday who told me that the people are very anxious for a branch and would like to receive all information and particular respecting same. We were somewhat disappointed (in Oakland) in not hearing Miss Davis when she was on the Coast. I had the good fortune to have heard her in San Francisco. May I say that she cannot be excelled as a platform orator. Mr. Henry Thompson from Seattle, Wash., the organizer from the American Federation of Labor, is in our midst. He is doing splendid work He is one of your greatest exponents. On the label of his coat is to be seen conspicuously displayed one of your buttens. Pardon me for being so lengthy, and wishing you nothing but success, I am yours truly. L J KERR. 1321 Central St. Oakland, Culif. ITS BOW TO THE PUBLIC To the Editor of The Negro World: Dear Birl-1 am taking the liberty to inform you that I am editing a magazine which I have chosen to call the life, life, life. It is dedicated to the facts of life, life, life. It should not as it should be and will also make me popularize scientific knowledge to my readers for the guidance of life. It has always been my fondest hope to do something tangible for the organization besides lecturing, and I now feel very pleased to tell you that no issue of the "New Day" will be complete unless its columns are spilling over with the propaganda of our great cause. My feature articles for the June issue will deal with the subject of "Blind Leaders of the Blind, discussing the origin of the Booker Washington theory, its causes and effects, and its failure as an economic solution of the so-called Negro problem" "Dubois the Dreamer and Idealist"; "The Negro in the Economic Savior and Liberator"; I have tried to do my best for this first issue, and believe I have been quite successful. I wish to thank you and the Negro World kindly for the courtesies extended me through its columns, and can now say that the "New Day" stands ready to reciprocate in any way possible. In closing would like to say that anything you can do for me to give my venture a boost through the columns of the World will be greatly appreciated by me. Would feel much encouraged to have an expression from you. Thanking you for past favors, Very truly yours, J. J. TIFORD, 2331 South State Street, Chicago, Ill., April 18, 1921. P. S.-Let me congratulate you on the editorial comment on the Chicago Whip in last week's issue. NOTICE To the Editor of The Negro World and the Members of the Different Divisions Throughout the State of North Carolina. Know Ye That, Mr. E. W. Pearson has been legally appointed and authorized to become State organiser for the Division throughout the State of North Carolina. Knowing the abilities and the racial patriotism shown by Mr. Pearson, we are glad to say to the members of the face in your State that we fully appreciate his work and shall do everything in our power to assist him in bringing about a grand union of the Negroes in the State of North Carolina through the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Trusting that the members and friends of the U. N. I. A. will give him the best of the University of the Universal Negro Improvement Association through the Executive Council in New York city I am young respectfully. UNIVERSAL NORCO IMPORT MENT ASSOCIATION, CAPT. R. K. GAINES Right Hon. Minister of Logistics BIG ARMY OF MEN ARE OUT OF WORK IN MANY STATES Numbers of Unemployed Are Estimated at Three to Five Millions. Idleness Greatest in Eastern and Central Regions. About 2,000,000 workers are out of employment since May day, according to estimates given to the Associated Press by Government, State, labor and industrial officials. Reports from the other twenty-nine States, where figures were unobtainable all show that unemployment exlata. Estimates of unemployment throughout the country made by experts including labor leaders, range from 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 persons. Reports of much unemployment show up from New York Illinois, Pennsylvania Indiana Michigan Wisconsin and come white practically every State east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mason and Dixon Line are generally affected. Indications are that the situation in these more densely populated States is growing more acute. The report of the United States Government Employment Service showed that on January 1 of this year the leading cities of the country, with a population of 22,560,953 had a total of 1,602,758 unemployed. Subsequent bulletins issued by the service indicate that there has increased in these cities during the last four months. The unemployment extends to the West and South. It the reports from the former region have a decided tone of optimism for a resumption of business activity that would speedily do away with unemployment while in the South the situation lags and appears to be serious. Many Idle in Big Cities. New York, NY, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland stand out as the centres of the unemployment wave. In New York reports from experts indicate that approximately 250,000 men and women are out of work. On January 1, the Government estimated that 254,243 were unemployed in this city, and this has been increased during the past four months, according to the monthly bulletin of the industrial service. For the whole State reports from Albuquerque show that 364,000 out of 1,500,000 factory workers are unemployed. Pennsylvania probably ranks next with an estimated number of unemployed placed at 250,000 by the State Bureau of Employment. The estimates in States where unemployment is worse at the present time indicate numbers out of work as follows. New York 40,000, Illinois 48,000, Pennsylvania 25,000 Indiana 25,000, Michigan 100,000 Ohio 210,000, Wisconsin 140,000 West Virginia 50,000, New Hampshire 35,000, California 30,000 Rhode Island 21,300, Washington ton 20,000 Oklahoma 18,000, Nebraska, 12,000 Indiana 12,000, Oregon 11,000 Kentucky 10,000, Arizona 6,000 Utah 4,000 - New York Evening Post TRAVEL, SKETCHES AND NOTES By Wm. H. Ferris. In a race we had the pleasure of traveling 1,000 miles by rail, 200 by auto, visiting four cities, speaking six out of seven nights and spending three nights on the road. Consequently we could not receive more than a bribe view of any place but we will endeavor to give the reader a pleasing glance and fleeting impression. Montreal. Montreal is an old city, a big city with narrow streets. It has many splendid buildings and magnificent residences. The most impressive building in Montreal and perhaps in all Canada is the Notre Dame Cathedral. It is opposite the Matisseoneuve Monument, was built in 1826 and is an immense structure. Two towers are on the side of the front entrance. Surveved on the outside it is a very high, very wide and very long building, stately impressive and dignified, and characterized more by simplicity than gaudiness of structure. But when you step on the inside you hold your breath. Notre Dame Cathedral is more than twice as large as the St Patrick's Cathedral of New York City. It is probably as large as the famous Madison Square Garden. Its chance is so large that an ordinary church could be placed in it. It has a sitting capacity of over 15,000 and a vastness and sublimity which produces its effect upon the worshipper But it was the people of Montreal rather than the city itself that impressed us. We were the guest of the Literary Society of the local division of which Mr James E. Gibson is president. He is a natural leader, brilliant, resourceful, magnetic, and aggressive. He and Mrs. Gibson, assisted by Miss Anne De Shield, showed me a hospitality that I can never forget. The Montreal Division has a real literary society. The sketches in the issue of The Negro World last week gave a fair account of the meetings, but we must make mention of the singing of Miss Eunice E. Miller, who was accompanied by Mrs. Montlean. Miss Miller comes from Chicago and is a singer of the Madame Houston type. She knows music, has a pleasing personality, a sweet voice and can electrify and thrill an audience when she rises to crosscade, Liberty Hall, New York, may bear her at the convention. One of the interesting features of our visit to Montreal was the banquet given in our heater by Mr. James E. Gibson, the president of the Literary Club, at his residence, 884 B. Drolet street, on Saturday evening, April 16. Those present were Miss Juunita De Shielda, Miss Anne De Shielda, Mra E. Gibson and Mesra, Sidney Simmons, E. E. Thompson, M. A. Alberga, G. P. Alberga, W. Dulka, E. A. Vaughan, Charles H. Este, and Leon De Shielda. Of these gentlemen, Mr. G. P Alberga is instructor in mechanical engineering in McGill University, and Messra, A. M. Alberga and Charles H. Este are students in the same school. Mr. A. M. Alberga is specializing in mechanical engineering. Mr. Charles H. Este is the secretary of the Literary Society and possesses native poetic and oratoryal gifts. He is destined to shine both as a writer and speaker. Mr. Charles Dryall, the leader of the U N I A Orchestra, and Mr. J. Knudson were among the other members whom we met. On our return to Montreal, en route from Toronto, we visited the regular meeting of the literary society. Mrs G O'Brien, the lady president, graciously presided. Her friend, Miss Edna Powell, a Black Cross Nurse, is succeeding in having some of the baths opened up to U' N. L. A. members. The work of Miss Anne De Shield in building up the literary society deserves special commendation. Dr. D. D. Lewis conducts a Health Sanitarium at 134A Pool street, near the famous Windsor Hotel, and on the square opposite the celebrated St James Cathedral. His speciality is massage, chirpody electric and shower batha. Dr Lewis is a recognized specialist in his line and numbers among his patients some of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Montreal. He was the first physician in Montreal to use the improved electrical machine with its many applications. One battery is for throat cancer another for more diseases, another generates oxygen, another for heating the body another for diagnosis and another generates a simsiodal current. Then Dr Lewis has invented an electric bath which can be taken lying down or sitting up. He owns a splendid home, presided over by a gracious wife Dr Lewis introduced us to Mr. E T Jordan, who has retired from the automobile business, and to Mr F. A Harris, who operates a taxi service. We received a letter of introduction to Mr F Dourch, who is successful in real estate and prominent in religious work, but we did not have time to call and see him. We also met through the kindness of Dr. Lewis. Dr Thomas, a graduate of a famous English university, who is a cultured gentleman. Toronto. In Montreal we were more impressed with the people than with the city. But in Toronto it was the city itself that attracted our attention. Sunday it snowed, and we did not go out calling. Monday dr. Dr. A. Ben Thomas the optometrist and optician, examined our eyes. And Monday afternoon Dr. Thomas gave Mrs. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Willis and the writer an auto ride through the city. Consequently we had the pleasure of being introduced to scores of people after our lecture, but did not have the opportunity of getting well acquainted with any. But we can never forget the auto ride through the beautiful city. The air was light and balmy. We rode through Rosedale, the residential section, rode over the aqueduct built over deep gorges and ravines and passed by Toronto University, the castle of Sir Harry Pellet, the residence of Mr. Falcon and the Governor's mansion. We visited the magnificent Parliament building with its spacious lawn and saw the bronze tablet at the head of the stairs erected in honor of the colored soldiers of Toronto and the vicinity who fought in the recent World War. Dr Thomas, his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. McDonald, royally entertained us. Dr Thomas is doing well as an optometrist and optician and is taking advanced courses in Toronto University. Mrs. Thomas is a graduate of the commercial and Technical High School of Montreal, Canada. At the close of our lectures we met a few colored students from the university. Dr Thomas has wrought sealously for the U. N. I. A. and allied corporations in Toronto. Although we became personally acquainted with very few people in Toronto, the appearance of the audiences at the lecture and the dignity, refinement and breeding manifested at the reception and dance impressed us. In Montreal and Toronto we saw many men out of work, and every one we met, whether a U. N. I. A. member or not, asked about Marcus Garvey, and spoke of his wonderful eloquence and vast plans. Of course, the fact that many men were out of work and the possibility of hard times had its reflex psychological reactions. At Ambler, Pa. On the evening of April 21 we spoke at the unfurling of the charter in the Opera House. This, we believe, was the first time that the colored citizens rented the place. A large crowd assembled and great enthusiasm was manifested. But as the exercises were not over until nearly 11 o'clock, the out-of-town visitors were forced to leave immediately. The young people were anxious to dance and the others desired to enjoy the magnificent repast, consequently Mr. Thompson, the Negro World agent of Philadelphia, was not able to properly represent the Black Star Line. Mr. Howard G. Gordan is president of the local division and Mr. J. D. Ford, the secretary, Mr. Jefferson Carr, the chairman of the Trustees Board, is one of the oldest, wealthiest and most highly respected colored citizen of that section of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Brown is president of the Ladies Division. Mrs. Whitney Smith is secretary of the Ladies Division and a leader of the younger set. These trees are used as adobe leaves already treated as stricly white. We can THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 LUCKY STRIKE cigarette It's toasted The American Press not do justice to the Philadelphia division of the U. N. I. A. in one or two sentences. Hence, we will continue the Travel Sketches and Notes next week, in which we will take up the Philadelphia and Brooklyn divisions and our general conclusions. Stellar Musical Program Continued from Page 1 be "We shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Let us face facts tonight and draw a conclusion as reasonable men, and whatever that conclusion leads to, be based upon facts, let us do it as men. First, I want to tell you that nowhere in America or the West Indies, or anywhere else that I know of are black men accepted as equals of white men. Now, can you be satisfied with that conclusion? (Cries of "No!") Then if you stay here under these conditions you must be satisfied, or you must make efforts to get away from these conditions. It is a distinct reflection upon your mankind and education and experience if you voluntarily and willingly accept conditions that make you an inferior. We have no force or power to change these conditions that confront us in this country of discrimination. If Christianity and enlightened public opinion have failed in fifty years to change these conditions, what power have we to change them? Atrocities in Georgia. If you will read the Wednesday morning "World" you will find an article there entitled "Georgia Rocking With Negro Atrocities." Read that article, if you please, and you will find that we are not only poets and slaves in Georgia, but that we are imposed upon and outraged as we never could have been outraged in the days of slavery. And the conditions obtaining in Georgia obtain all through the South, and there can be no dispute ad to the conditions, because the Governor of the State announces them upon investigation. Now, what I want you to bear in mind is this, that if conditions like these obtain in Georgia, and the laws of the land and public opinion cannot protect our race in Georgia, we are not safe in New York City. More than a hundred years ago Edmund Burke said in the Parliament of England that if the laws and public sentiment of England were incapable or protecting the humble Hindoo in his hut on the banks of the Ganges, the nobleman was not safe on the banks of the Ganges. And that applies to us, therefore we need not rock ourselves into security in the belief that we are safe up here. With all these facts before us undeniable facts that there are still undeniable men who believe in white folks—anything they tell them they accept; and another colored man has not got a chance with them—everything is white Now, it is a reflection on the Negroes of the United States of America—15,000,000 in number—that the Congress of the United States is without a single representative of that race. There is another wrong. If you are equals—if you are equals as citizens in this country—should not you have a representative there? Don't you know that the law is the most powerful element that you have got to deal with as citizens? That you cannot own your wife, or child, or your home, or even your life itself, if the law says they do not belong to you? So the law lawps you from the time you come into his world and controls absolutely your life until you get out. You should have a voice in its making and administrating and when you are not having that voice you are a slave. And yet you consent to those conditions. The trouble is that every colored man in the North thinks he is safe where he is; he forgets the condition of his brother in the South. When he is up North he says, "I am all right. I can vote; I can do this and I can do that." and if they get a job they think they are even members of the firm because they have been working there so long. That is the mistake we make. We must know the truth in our relationship with our job and not that we are members of the firm, and know that the condition of our brethren down South is our condition here, and try to get out of that condition. Brixton let me tell you that our relief is in Africa, but before we go to Africa we must prepare Africa. We are not prepared for Africa ourselves; neither is Africa prepared for us. You ought to know frankly that there is no demand in Africa for skilled labor. The natives who are acclimated and who can carry great burdens on their heads can work all day in the hot sun and they have got you, "thinned to death" as laborers. The man we want in Africa at present are the men who can do construction work; men who have money to invest; men who can be bishopless and who can do the work of construction. But if we prepare a field, then we make the construction work. and hospitals and banks and all these improvements, there then will be room if we build railroads, if we build farms for everybody to go. Now that means that you must follow the example of other people. The Japanese have showed us what to do. Learn how to do everything that skilled workers can do. Those who want to be equals as citizens like white men everywhere will be able to go to Africa or somewhere else, and those who want to be inferior and accept conditions in this country we will be glad to leave them here. I call upon you to devote your minds to the preparation of these works—these improvements that must be made to prepare Africa for you and to prepare yourselves for Africa. You have got the money, but it can do you no good in this country; it cannot buy you equality before the law. You have been 80 years trying to get it, but money will not purchase it in this country, you can only purchase it in Africa. (AnnaLisa.) Dr. J. D. Gibson, who has just returned from a Western tour in the interest of the U. N. I. A. was called upon as the next speaker, but being physically unfit to deliver a lengthy speech, excused himself and promised to give a detailed report of his travels in the far West some time in the near future. Speech of Mrs. Bishop Walters. Mrs. Alexander Walters, widow of the late Bishop Walters, spoke in part as follows: High Chancellor, His Grace the Chapman, General, Counsel General, Officers and Members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and Friends. I am pleased to be here tonight. I am a minister's wife, and Christianity is the most profound conviction of my life. So that I feel that on Sunday night I ought to be in church. But, somehow or other I hear the voice of Liberty Hall calling me (applause), over calling me, for I am convinced that here, where great masses of our people assemble, a race of people seeking the attitudes of high spiritual existence, is to be found the deepest essence of the teachings of my Lord. (Applause. You had to go miles across the sea to get a preacher to guard your funds, and your monies, and they tell me that this gentleman from Jachalia (referring to the Rev. Dr. Stewart) stands over your money like an angel with a flaming sword. And then you sought all over America for a great High Chapman You strained the sea, you searched the earth, and the person that could best represent you was a preacher of the eloquence of the Chrysosoton. I refer to His Grace, Dr. McGuire. (Applause.) So profound is the sense of religion within us as a people that our great movement has taken on the character of a spiritual crusade. I repeat, that Liberty Hall calls me, entreats my soul. I come here, friends, night after night, among an alien people, for I do not know you, and you do not know me. I know no one here originally, except Mr. J. E. Bruce and Counselor General Smith. I think they are all I have known in my career life. But the thing that calls me here is the spirit of this movement, for deep in my heart, as I have talked it over very frequently with Counselor Smith as I meet him on the street, and with Dr. McGuire, the obedience that this is the most profound, the most momentous movement on earth. A Mementous Something. It was my good pleasure a few days ago to be invited by the wife of one of the richest Americans to luncheon, to discuss the question of internationalism and the aspirations of races, and the outcome of this present war. We talked some time; then she turned to me, and asked: "Mrs. Walters, do you know anything of Garvey? "When ever, my friends, you have anything that can percolate and sink down through the steel clad armor of a white person and white people, as regards colored people, it is something momentous, profound and deep. In answer to the lady's question, I told her that I did not know much about Mr. Garvey, but I thought I could interpret Mr. Garvey's movement. After listening to me, she said: "Why, Mrs. Walters, that is one of the most entrancing things that I have ever heard—this Garvey movement." I have since received a letter from her thanking me for what I had told her about the movement and rejoicing with me that it was international; that it was linking together all the darker races of the world; that this movement could be the pneumo-gastric nerve of the black people, inasmuch that if you pressed it here in Liberty Hall the sensation would encircle the globe, touching every black man and black woman (applause); that the internationalism of this movement was its salvation, and that just in sheer mass movement, thinking alike always upon the same thing and in the same DRESS SHIRT FREE Fine Serge Pants BARGAIN Vale Now $3.99 Pursuit Paid SEND NO MONEY FOR THE DRESS SHIRT FOR THE FINE SERGE PANTS FOR THE BARGAIN FOR THE PURSUIT FOR THE PAYMENT IMPORTANT NOTICE TO AGENTS Papers are mailed regularly on Wednesday of each week, orders for increase, therefore, should reach this office on or before the Saturday preceding the date of publication in order to be effective for current issues. Post Office Money Order, Express Money Order or Cash (Registered), must accompany all orders otherwise no attention will be given them. Agents are reminded that payments should be made regularly each week. Those failing to do so will have their supplies cut off. If you have not paid regularly each week and find that your supply has been discontinued, you need not write asking the reason. You have been cut off for non-payment and your name will not be restored to our mailing list until you pay up in full terms we could be the lever to move the world. Such was the interpretation put upon this movement by a woman of deep and profound learning, an authority upon international questions. That, my friends, is what brings me here—the political aspect of the U N L. A. what it means. Then, again, when it takes up the question of Africa, having been the president of the African Redemption Society for some eighteen years, I am all the more interested in it, for things African, the redemption of this great fatherland o'rurus has been a passion with me, for I have gone along on that African question, knowing that all of these other forward movements were making for the education of a static Asia, leaving Africa entirely out of the question, establishing universities in Tokyo, Constantinople and all the great cities of the Far West, making it a great question of Anatistic redemption in contradiction to Asiatic redemption, we went out for African redemption, and it is Dr Dubois, the great American scholar, who tells us that this very African question is the very basis of this great world war that is just changing the face and complexion of the world, because the white people have got more sense than we have they look into the future and give the future by the past; they look toward expansion in an effort to increase their wealth. They have taken and exploited all the world, and it is Africa only that remains undeveloped, whose resources are incalculable. Her diamonds, her gold fields, yield a million pounds sterling; yet not ten dollars of its accrues to any black man in the world God Almighty has made this reciprocal thing. We are all bound to these people by indispassible ties. I believe in tradition and history, and God Almighty brought us into this crucible of American slavery that we might come here and have our hearts attune to this cause of our brothers across the sea, and in redeeming Africa and in helping her develop her natural resources, we shall redeem her from her ignorance, and she in return shall redeem us from this unendurable poverty (Applause.) I was in the ball the first time Mr Garvey ever spoke in New York, and I listened to that young man and I said "Well, that is a nice thing, but it is just an iridescent dream," and thought OPPORTUNITY Knocks But Once—So Why Not Make Much of This One? 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Now I am interested in this U N L A. as a political movement, and I am interested in it as an economic and an industrial movement, because we can have all the spirituality we want, but you won't get very far, even in your spirituality, if it not bulwarked by a little economic income—by a little money. So, then, I am interested in the ships, and I know that Black Star Line ships are the very lifeblood of this movement. The Black Star line has got to be put over, for you know the flood must circulate and circulate and reach the extremities. Now the Black Star Line has reached a point where we are almost in sight of the goal; we can stand here and see the shores on the other side, and it depends upon us to put it over. It cannot be put over unless every man and every woman in this audience is willing to make the needed sacrifices. Marcus Garvey is the leader of this movement a young man whom God has brought up out of the Isles of the Sea. Almighty God ever works in a musical way. His wonders to perform. He has gone down into the Isles of the Sea and brought up this young man, and as every great leader must suffer, so he must suffer; he must suffer detraction, he must suffer disappointments, and the only way that he can put this movement over, is for the people in Liberty Hall here and all the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association throughout this country and in other countries where its branches are established, to stand behind him. And when I think of that young man, now down in the seas, sailing the seven seas of earth, to quicken the hearts of the black people, I think what a wonderful young man he is, and think of an occurrence that happened in 1923, at the time of the World's Fair. My own husband, Bishop Alexander Walters, was present. The great re Paya Tribute to Garvey. intensate of the world, which has been sumbled there—the Biblical man, the romanist, the Christian, the Tithe, the spoke of the wonders of Mennoniteism, the wonders of Buddhism, the wonders of Boroaster; then some people get up and spoke on the tenth of June, the Christ, and the birthplace of man. It awept that great saints so that they all rose as one person, and they said, "Let us give these saints for Jesus Christ." Suspense says, "Oh, no, no; let us sing, sing—kind and sing, "All half the power of 'Saint- name!'" And on paraphrasing that Hymn, when I speak of Marcus Carney, that young man, that galley-head selling the seas in our interest, I would sing: "All hall the power of Caravus' name! Let Negroes prostrate fall! Bring forth the royal diadem and grown him Chieft of All!" Upon the conclusion of Mrs. Walter's address, the High Chancellor, the Chaplain General, the Counselor General and others on the platform areas, shook her by the hand, and congratulated her upon her speech, while the audience gave cheer after cheer that shook the very rafters of the building. Rev. McGuire then called out, "Three cheers for Mrs. Walter!" to which the audience, still standing, gave with a will and in thunder - tone, creating a picturesque - well as a most impressive scene; such was the impression created by the speaker's eloquence. SERIOUS BIOT IN INDIA: BOMBAY, India, April 37. The Times of India says today a serious riot is reported to have occurred at Malegao, northeast of Nasik. The telegraph wires in that district have been cut and no details of the riot have been received, although a number of constables are reported to have been killed and a sub-inspector and a magistrate injured. Troops and police have been sent to the some. Malegao is situated in the presidency of Bombay, about 360 miles northeast of the capital. There has been considerable trouble between the British authorities and the Mohammedans in the district recently and serious outbreaks have been threatening for some time. Harlem Policeman Indicted Continued from Page 1 $1,000 ball for the Grand Jury. McMahon was paroled in the custody of his counsel to furnish bond the next day. The following day the matter came up before Magistrate Levine who reduced the amount of bail to accommodate the policeman whose surety could only furnish bond in the amount of $800, according to statement made to the court by the defendant's counsel. In handing down his decision, Magistrate Mancuso stated that, a court investigator had looked up Mr. Cooper's record and found that she enjoyed a good reputation in the neighborhood in which she lived and a good character where she worked, that he had not allowed himself to be indicted by any racial considerations and could not find any guilty which would prompt her to make false charges against the policeman. Throughout the trial Magistrate Mancuso was perfectly fair and impartial. Dear Reader:—You are naturally interested in this newspaper and we heartily appreciate your interest. No doubt you get a copy regularly each week and pay seven cents for it, or, if you live outside the United States, ten cents. If you live in the United States and you get it regularly each week for the period of one year (fifty-two weeks) you will have paid $3.64; likewise, if you purchase it outside the United States you have paid $8.20. 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Remember, you will be saving money beside having the paper sent to you direct. If you move before your subscription expires, just send us your new address and give the old one, the paper will be sent just the same. Just think, if each member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association subscribed for the Negro World we would have a weekly circulation of millions of copies! With your co-operation, we can make this the largest and best newspaper in the world. Will you help? MAIL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TODAY. Remit by Post Office Money Order, Express Money Order, Draft or Registered Letter to the Negro World, 64-56 West 135th Street, New York, N.Y. The coupon in the right hand corner is for your convenience. PROF. FERRIS LECTURES IN TORONTO ON NEGRO HISTORY AND U. N. L. A. PROF. FERRIS LECTURES IN TORONTO ON NEGRO HISTORY AND U. N. L. A. Speaker Declares That Africans Discovered America and Taught the Indian How to Grow Sweet Potatoes, Peanuts and Tobacco. A large and enthusiastic audience greeted Prof. Wm. H. Ferris, author of "The African Abroad," and editor of The Negro World, in Toronto, on April 17 and 18. He spoke in the popular Alhambra Hall on Spadina avenue, on April 17 on "The Possibilities of the U. N. I. A." and on April 18 on "The Negro's Contribution to Civilization." Dr. A. Ben Thomas, the optometrist and optician, the president of the local division, presided both nights. The orchestra was out in force and rendered excellent music. Mrs. Mitchell and the committee rendered Dr. Thomas great service in making the affair a success. Mrs. Lillian Willis, who is organizing the Black Cross Nurses, was present both evening and made a few remarks. She was accompanied by her husband who looked after the interest of the Black Star Line. Marguerite Garvey and His Work. In his lecture on "The Possibilities of the U. N. I. A." Prof Ports said that he first heard of the Hon. Marcus Garvey in October, 1913, when he contributed an article to the African Times and the Orient Review on "The British West Indies in the Mirror of Civilization." Then in the summer of 1914, Garvey sent him his manifesto when he first established the U. N. I. A. in Jamaica. In January, 1911, while associate editor of the Champion Magazine in Chicago, he first met the Hon. Marcus Garvey and followed his career with great interest. He said that he saw possibilities in Mr. Garvey's plans to build up industries and develop the wonderful agriculture, and mineral resources by Liberia. But as Miss Henrietta Vinton Davia the International Organizer, Rev. Dr. J. W. H. Berg, the American leader, and His Excellency, the Hon. Marcus Garvay had ably and eloquently expounded Garvayism in Toronto, the audience was more interested in Prof. Furris' lecture on "The Negro's Contribution to Civilization." Negroes in Africa. The lecture was divided into three headings and was handled in a digitified manner, with the deliberateness and power of expression that mark the true scholar. The glories of Africa comprised the first part of his execution. The lecturer dwelt at length on Africa's contribution to the civilization which is now shared by the Anglo-Saxon races. Three thousand years ago, Africans discovered the art of smelling iron. Mathematics, science and art were discovered by Negroes; and the part glories of Egypt are tributes that attested to the black man's praise and high character of originality. Professor Ferris declared how disadvantages it was to him, after having written over 1,000 pages of Negro history, to condone so exhaustive a subject to meet the duration of forty-five minutes which were assigned to him. Amid a constant succession of aplaushe he continued that the Egyptian and Arabe are unquestionably Negroid, Terrence, Aesop and Hamlet, the bodyguard of Peter the Great, were men of Negroid blood. Harodotus, the first historian of Greece dwell in Egypt, and Anaxogora, Plato and other Greek intellectuals received their integration from her sona. Egypt also gave architecture, religion and philosophy and structures which have survived the centuries. The Egyptians were partly Negroid. The Ethiopians were wholly Negroid. Timbucon was a great scientific centre in Islam. Afrique, with her varied Negro races, can trace a wonderful influence and inspiration imparted to the other races of the world. The Arabs are identified with the Negro race. The celebrated scholar Sidi Whose "Egiot of the Soudan" has graced the English language, was a Negro. Ahmed Saba, known as "the fountain of wisdom," was also a Negro. Negroes in World Achievements. The second portion of the lecture was devoted to Negro intellectuals who figured prominently in the making of American and European history. Professor Wills reached an impressive distance as he inquired without difficulty a series of Negro luminaries. Among the list were Coleridge Taylor who raised the standard of music to the highest pitch and whose quality of expression was an rich and winning line one had time or desire to find. Whether the composer was black, the prodigy of Bhabha was an octetron, the emperor with their marvelous work-fuldom, Bose himself held a high place in the world of "Dame" and that was for the emperor of Success in the white collar. The scholar, Hamilton was a man of great intelligence, in the Russian and American families, father of Admiral and naval officer in the World History. FULL HAIR TREATMENT FOR 35c., WHY PAY MORE? Is your hair short or falling out? Use Madam Magdalen Morgan Guaranteed Hair Grower. 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All orders promptly strong sense of mirth and humor, and at this juncture he gave humorous references in connection with Dumas career, pointing out that although he was at the height of the Anglo-Nazian popularity, he was not ashamed to admit that his father was a mulatto and that he himself was the progeny of an unadulterated Negro Dumas remarked to a sophisticated white cynic, "My ancestors began where you started." His grandmother was a native of the West Indies and his grandfather, a French count, and in all France there was not a general to be compared with his father in physical strength, courage and tenacity of purpose. The Negro in America. The lecturer then commented on the Negro achievements in different fields of activity and tangible achievements History has produced no other race that, under similar oppression and disadvantages, has risen to such great heights of progress Negroes have played and are still playing a prominent part in the evangelization of the world, both in Africa, our motherland, and in America. Bishop Growther, a native of the Yoruba tribe, considered to be the lowest specimen of humanity, received the degree of doctor of divinity from the University of Oxford Blahops Allon and Payne were divines that shed light upon American religious spheres. Frederick Douglas suffered under amazing obstacles, infernal Southern prejudice, poverty, ignorance and degradation, and ultimately rose to the zenith of disinterested glory, having brought freedom to his race and blessing to America. Crispus Attucks, the first man who fell for American independence, Sojouner Truth, Harriet Tubman, who was said to have rescued $00 slaves under the underground railroad; Samuel R. Ward, a poor boy, who held America spellbound with his matchless eloquence, are names of Negroes who today have made American history. Will Marion Cooke, Blind Tom, Cole and Johnson have contributed to the Negro's record in music also. Phillia Wheatley, a slave girl, wrote beautiful and excellent Verse. Paul L. Dunbar William Stanley Braithwaite, James Welden Johnson and Lucien B. Watkins are few of the names of great Negro poets. Professor Bouchet began to shine as early as 1874 as a notable Negro scholar. Dr. J. Norter of New Haven is also a light in the medical profession. About 1812 Dr. Derham of New Orleans shone in the medical field and had a large white practice. Dr Legrens was admitted to the Medical Society of Massachusetts in 1860 Benjamin Banneker had made the Almanac and the first clock in America. Dr Williams of Chicago had baffled his white medical contemporaries and amused the world when he sowed up a man's heart after it had been punctured. Grenville Wood invented the transmitter which is used by the Boll Telephone Company and the appliances for the Cincinnati Railway Syndicate. John Turner of Boston invented a diving suit which broke the record for deep-sea diving. Commending on the cupidity of distinction as manifested by white races, Professor Ferris laid special emphasis on the determination of the Jew, and cited several prominent Hebrew scholars who have scared high under almost insurmountable difficulties. Among them were Dirarell, Sarah Bernhardt, Bergson, Einstein and Lord Reading, who became Chief Justice and Viceroy of India. The speaker paid a brilliant tribute to Toussaint L'Overture, the savior of Haytil, and recounted that Wendell Phillips masterpiece was inspired by the courage evinced by the Negro warrior. Napoleon Bonaparte, who practically conquered the world, was baffled and held at bay by a Negro who had made his mark in the character of a self-made man and won for himself the appellation of the greatest Negro warrior in history. Toussaint was born in slavery and knew nothing of the benefits of an education, yet he rose to lofty military feats and dazzled the world with his radiance. Matt Henson, a Negro, played a wonderful part in the discovery of the North Pole, which is accredited to Peary. Little Stevena, the black discoverer, discovered New Mexico, and Negroes had accompanied De Soto and Balboa on their expeditions in Florida and the Isthmus. Negroes were with the Fremont-Clarke expeditions. Professor Ferris recalled Emerson's THE NEGRO WORLD. SATURDAY. MAY 7. 1921 estimate of the Negro and referred to Shakespeare's wisdom and nobility of thought Referring to Archimedes, who said, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum, etc., he assured his hearers that, with thorough mental training, the day would not be long when the Negro would astonish the entire world by his power of intellect and grandeur of achievement. The eagle and its natural traits furnished an appropriate illustration of the old Negro who had been waiting for the white man a aid. The new Negro must learn to rely upon his own strength, as Negroes on the whole had reached the heights of eminence and pronounced themselves the white man a equal. He gave attiring accounts of the impetuous skill and fearlessness of Alexander the great, who was the first to conquer the civilized world, and referred to Booker T. Washington's mark as Taukegene which attested to the educator's ingenuity but which is not sufficiently strong to withstand the test of modern times as far as Negro intellectually is concerned. The concluding part of the lecture was devoted to the speaker's scholastic career in Yale and Harvard. He recalled an incident of a Southerner who objected to sitting beside a Negro, Edward Bouchet, but at the examination the Negro had made such a high jump to the top of the class and the student in question had made such a great one to the foot of the class that a protest was wholly unnecessary and the performance of the test had furnished much pleasure to the professor of that faculty. Professor Ferris congratulated Dr. D. D. Lewis. He spoke praiseworthily of Dr. A. Ben Thomas, whose hospitality and unassuming temperament had given him pleasure, and referred also to Mrs Emice E. Miller, the soprano of Montreal, the U N I A orchestra of Toronto, and the faint spirit that permeated the hall. The hall resounded with the deafening cheers that greeted him. Professor Ferris discussed Professor Werner's researches on the Africans' Discovery of America and their teaching indians the growing of sweet potatoe, peanuts and tobacco. CHARLES H ESTE. Montreal, Can. CORRESPONDENCE Continued from page 14 and the storm at times dimmed the blue sky of their fine intellect. However, Mr Harrison's cool dignity and pervading erudition sustained him as gracefully as it always did when we heard him from time to time during many years of acquaintance 48 W 136th Rt. New York City BIG SUMS FOR COPYRIGHTS, BUT "NOTHING DOING" Editor The Negro World. I feel as though it is a duty incumbent upon me to inform the public that three offers have been made to me within the past month for the purchase of my two copyrights of part one and part two of my "Mistakes of Dr. Du Bola" with a drawn-up certificate of proof showing where I have relinquished all claims to copyrights and the discontinuation of the publication of "The Mistakes of Dr. Du Bola." Two of those men were gentlemen of color, the third a flashing dressed young white man of the pure Anglo-Saxon type. So far as I could learn the two colored men must have been sent from the same source, as they both alike made the same diplomatic stroke and offered the same price, which was fixed at $1,700. The white man was more liberal, fixing his offer at the princely sum of $8,000. As to their true motives or designs of purchasing my copyrights I have no authority to any, for they knew far more about their business than what they care to admit to mo. However, since I have my own suspicions, I gave them distinctly to understand, once and for all, that I should not accept their offers and wished them not to be renewed, giving them my reason; that I did not believe them to be hont-t men, and for that reason I would never—no, never—put it in the power of any man or publisher to suppress or alter a work of mine by making him master of the copyrights, or give to him the right of buying, selling or destroying them, for no other purpose than OR 35c., WHY PAY MORE? g out? Use Madam Magdalen er. This preparation will posi- heads. and all facial blemishes removed. but one applied by Madam M. UP MY PREPARATIONS: Price $40 not beneficial to scalp and hair ... $60 pellizium ... $60 liverwort ... $60 mucositis ... $60 for the price listed. All orders promptly finished. $12.50 for our complete supply of Hair by My Office Money Order. 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C., who has been in public life for half a century, has written a very interesting book on "The Negro in American History. Having nearly fifty years' experience as an educator and serving for over twenty years as secretary of the American Negro Academy and one year as its president, Prof Cromwell is well fitted for the task. The sub-title of the book is "Men and Women Emigrant in the Evolution of the American of African Descent." As is to be expected, the book is entirely a history of the American Negro. The first seventy-six pages deal with the Negro from the introduction of African slavery to the close of the SpanishAmerican war. Then follows a chapter on the Negro church But the most interesting section of the book is the series of biographical sketches, which cover 130 pages. Phillia Wheatley Benjamin Hannaker. Paul Cuffe, Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne, Henry Highland Garnett, Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, John Mercer Langston Robert Brown Ellott, Paul Laurence Dumbar Mrs Fanny M. Jackson Coppin, Henry O. Tanner and Edward Wilmot Hylden are some of the intericting personages whose lives are epitomised. As Prof. Cromwell knew personally many of the ante-bellum heroes and most of the Negro leaders during the stormy reconstruction days, his biographical sketches have an added value. The appendices dealing with the Somerset case the Amalied captives the Underground Railroad and the Freedmen's Bureau are very valuable. The book has a bibliography chronology, index and seventeen illustrations. It is packed with information and written in a clear, lucid style. Although a modest, unassuming man, and, hence, not as well known as Dr Du Bois and Dean Kelly Miller Prof. Cromwell is, nevertheless, a ripe scholar, of high ideals, who possesses plenty of common sense. His book is easily read and will repay careful study. MARSHAL FOCH AVOIDS PETITION OF MRS. BRITTEN AGAINST NEGRO TROOPS She Says "A Nigger Is a Cop. 101 by the Press Publishing Co. The New York World (Special Cable Despatch to The World) PARIS April 23 -- Marshal Foch so far has managed to escape Mrs. Fred A. Britten, the wife of a Chicago Congressman who has arrived here with the intention of presenting to the Marshal a petition signed by 700,000 German-Americans protesting against the French employment of the so-called "black troops" in the occupied regions. Mrs. Britten who is young and pretty and who certainly is not anti-French at least in dress, went shopping yesterday and did not meet Marshal Foch in the shops of the dressmakers or miners in the Rue de la Paris. The Marshal goes to London to morrow for the Allied conference, although Mrs. Britten did not know this until The World correspondent told her. However she seemed resigned to the delay, saying, laughingly I expect to stay in Paris all summer, and M. Viviani assured my husband that I would have an audience with Marshal Foch who, I am told, is a perfect gentleman. So I will just wait until he gets back from London". Mrs Britten declared emphatically, despite the statement to the contrary by former Secretary of State Colby, that the French had negro troops on the Rhine, and she added. "A bigger is a bigger, and the American people are indignant at the choice of North Africans over white man. For the troops from Morocco are Negroes just as much as are some people from Cuba and Central America with whom the Americans will not have anything to do. The North African troops have been doing terrible things in Germany, things that the civilized world ought to blush at." Then she added hastily "But I am not pro-German. I am only pro-humanity, and I have come to deliver the proof for France's own good so that America will remain friendly with her. MISSIONARIES FOR GEORGIA To the Editor of the World. The churches of Africa ought to quit sending 'immissionaries' to Africa and send them South, especially to Georgia, where they are badly needed We may as well begin now to cut out our hypocrisy as leaders of American Christianity and deal 'straight' from the shoulder* with the situation as it exists. Why send American missionaries to foreign field* to *"village"* others when they are so deplorably needed right here at home? It is sheer hypocrisy! Listen to the words of our Lord: "Why beholdest the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out of thine eye, and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." The peonage case against Williams and the atrocities revealed through the trial of this semi-civilized Georgia farmer, along with the statements made by Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor of Georgia, convince us that the missionary is easily needed in the South. "I call your attention," says Governor Dorsey. "To the following suggested remedies. "An organised campaign by the churches to place in every section of Georgia a sufficient number of Sunday schools and churches, where in their separate places of worship, the young and old of both races will learn from suitable teachers the gospel of justice, mercy and mutual forbearance for all. "Compulsory education for both races." These are the words of a wise and Godfearing executive. Will church and State take heed" REV E. A ABBOTT New York, April 27. SOPHIA'S? 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Buy it real rates to Barbers and Beauty Salons. or Creole Drug Co. 273 W. 130th St. st. in New York Amrica or in Foreign Countries. bring you a sample of our B TODAY M 619 South 15th Street AN ODD FELLOW With The Contributing Editor THE HARLEM HOSPITAL A public hospital in a modern city is a piece of social insurance against disease and its consequences. It is no more a public charity than are the public schools and libraries which are forms of social insurance against ignorance and its social consequences. Therefore, those who earn the public's money by administering these institutions are by no means entitled to ride the high horse and assume the grand airs of dispensery of private alma. And when they fail to give satisfaction in the performance of their public duties they should receive severe cessation from that public whose taxes furnish the funds which they waste. The administration of the Harlem Hospital has been a stench in the nostrils of the Negro people of Harlem for quite a long time and it should have been changed long ago. The recent damage suit which has been started against its responsible heads serves to call attention to the existence of nuisances which should have been abated long since. "All along o dirtiness all along o mess. All along o doing things rather more or less." This couplet from Kipling might well serve as a motto for some of those who are charged with the maintenance of the health of the people in Harlem. But let us cite a few facts which may serve to illustrate the evils under which the public groans. Some time ago a woman with whom we are acquainted was seriously sick. A hurry call was sent to the Harlem Hospital which was four blocks away. An ambulance was sent—after two hours and a half. The young intern who came along with it hastily diagnosed the case of tuberculosis with no better evidence than that of a cough. Upon reaching the hospital she was stripped of her clothes and to let it naked on a table for four hours. As if this new method of treating tuberculosis was not sufficiently severe, the doctor who looked in on the case after that length of time insultingly inquired why she had waited till after midnight to come in there. After a couple of days starvation the patient sent to her burial who took her home. Subsequently, the doctors of the Mt. Sinai hospital, after due examination of apthum and other recognised tests, declared that they were unable to find any evidence of tuberculosis. And today, four years later, this woman is in good health and without any signs of the dread disease which this ignorant undergraduate pronounced on so infallibly. More recently another unfortunate woman lay in this hospital for three days with a temperature of 104 and a pulse of 150 constant, presenting a clear care of pneumonia. Again an ignorant doctor diagnosed the case as tuberculosis, and if she had not been taken by her relatives to a competent colored physician she would have been dead by the time. About three weeks ago a Negro child was sent from public school to the Harlem jail for medical attention. The child was to begin at 2 o'clock but at the time a medical student who was a worker of that section to which the child was assigned had not yet put in its appearance and the child had to go home unattended. This young child it afterwards transpired was not connected with the hospital. While telecommunications ignorance and cruelty constitute the Negro population of our New York City can have no confidence in the management of what should be a well ordered public institution. It would be woll if the city father would conduct a thorough examination into the treatment of patients and the general management of the Lions in the Hospital—and call some (certain) patients to notify from THE RACIAL BOOTS OF EDUCATION A coming the pitfalls of the verballist with his educator and educator, I define education at the outset as that process by which the opened generation brings to bear upon the rising generation the accumulated knowledge and experience of the past and present generations to fit it for the business of life. So defined, it is seen to apply to human beings everywhere and on every level of culture. It included the Boticoudos and the British, the Chinese and the Chinooka, the Andaman islanders and the proud Americans. Society's machinery for bringing its stock of accumulated knowledge to bear upon the rising generation may vary in structure and effectiveness from little Gavroche's "damnation sociale creant artificiellement dea onfrey" to the elaborate ritual of the black West African who passes through the Bori or the Kodibo; it may contain no college, as in Central Africa, or no bread-winning technique, as in Oxford and Cambridge; but as long as the process and the purpose remain there is education. There are three points implicit in this definition which it may be well to make exploit. In the first place the educational machinery and its effectiveness will be determined directly by the level of general intelligence in any society. In the next place, the educational methods will vary in societies according to their social structure, their mode of social functioning and, above all, according to the purpose which those who furnish the educational means have in mind. But this is not all. As we inherit our houses and lands, our arts and institutions from our ancestors, so also do we inherit our bodies and minds, our aptitudes and inclinations from them. Modify them how we may, they still remain our original inheritance. Thus 编 HUBERT H. HARRISON the social structures and purposes which determine our educational ideals and methods are in their turn determined by our social inheritance; thus the marrow of tradition is in the very bones of our being and, through the eyes of the individual soul looks out the social ancestry—the race. Like drops of water, we may be all alike in essential structure, function and size; yet the drops dipped from the Dead Sea will be salter than those dipped from the Atlantic Ocean, while those from the mountain rill will be fresh. Tell me the source from which the drop of water was taken and I can tell you how it will taste on my tongue. Granting that race may mean whatever you choose it to mean, as long as your meaning is clear and definite, the statement will be as true for men as for drops of water. No argument maintaining the superiority or inferiority of any race can be erected on this foundation; I merely argue for the difference. Amitting, for the argument's sake, the converting power of certain educational processes, I still contend that the things which you have to convert differ in racial instances. Tradition, history, literature, art and science relate us to our past. Change any one of these fantasies and you change the racial result. Put into one series 4, 6, 2 and 8, and into another 3, 5, 1 and 9: the results differ solely because the components do, and this law that results vary as the components, is just as true in sociology as it is in arithmetic. In our own day when the thing expressed by race may mean that the individual belongs to the international top-dog or bottom-dog group with a corresponding outlook on the world, it is interesting to note how this basic fact of race colors the mental results, not only in the columns of newspapers, but also in the journalistic science of men like Sir Harry Johnston and M. Gustave i Bon, the pseudo-science of Ales Hedilka and Major Shufeldt, and the serious science of Havelock Ellis, Iwan Bloch, Westernmark and Osborn. Those who speak for the white world admit the force of the arguments urged above; indeed, many of them insist upon it at every turn where comparisons must be made. Yet, oddly enough, they never seem to think that it vitilifies the value of their pronouncements respecting races other than their own. SURE. IT'S FUN! BY RICHARD BUTLER PLAENZER. Sure, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun Upon an iron shoulder-blade to tote a feather gun. To hike with other brave galoose in easy-going army boots. To pack along a one-ounce sack, the commissary, on your track; To tramp, tramp, tramp, to a right and ready camp! Fun? Sure, it's fun; just the finest ever, son! Yes, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun To loaf along a level road beneath a cloudless sun. Or over fields of golden grain kept cool by puffs of wind and rain. Then, richly, more than fully fed, to stretch upon a downy bed And sleep, sleep, sleep, while the stay-at-homes weep! I run? Sure, it's fun, just the greatest ever, son! Oh, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun To catch the silly enemy and get 'em on the run: seek in trenzen and smokes; To shoot, shoot, shoot till they've got no legs to scoot. Fun! Bure, it's fun. Just the finest ever, son! God. It's fun to be a soldier! Oh it's fun, fun, fun To lie out free and easy when your day a sport's done; With not a thing to worry for, nor nothing to hurry for; Not hungry, thirsty tired, but a hero much-admired— Just dead, dead, dead—like Jack and Bill and Fred. Fun? Sure. It's fun. Just the finest ever, son! DISTINGUISHED WESTERN EDUCATOR COMMENTS ON PLAY "EMPEROR JONES" By Caswell W. Craws. At last we have a Negro starring on Broadway. His name is Charles Gilpin, and we are told that he was formerly Pullman porter, bootblack, valet and holder of sundry jobs of little or no account. Be that as it may, his name is now blinked by the lights on the Great White Way in the play "The Emperor Jones," a vehicle by Eugene O'Neill, an American playwright just budding into prominence. It seems as if Gilpin is a real actor. At any rate, the theatrical critics of I'll New York have voted him among the foremost actors who "have arrived" this year and for a long time the Drama League debated the question whether to invite him to a dinner given in honor of those who had done most during the past gear to advance the profession as actors or playwrights. He was finally invited. But that is merely in passing. The thought uppermost with us is that great actor or not. Gilpin has been very fortunate in identifying himself with the play, the title role of which he portrays, and upon reviewing the lines it appears that the Negre press and subtle has been insult, not to any uncritical in heralding as widely and THE NEGRO WORLD. SATURDAY. MAY 7. 1921 with enthulism Mr. Gilpin's starring. It is clearly set forth that the theme of the play is to show the superiority of the weakest of the white race to leading men of other races, especially, the Negro. And here is the play's weakest spot. For Gilpin, as the self-appointed emperor of a West Indian island, is an ex-Pullman porter who has had a more or less checked career, stealing and languishing behind bars, in fact, escaping to the island upon he assumes regal authority, as a fugitive from justice. A poor white who fears him but possesses utmost contempt for him is used to bring out, by means of dialog, the outstanding traits of the Emperor, which are ignorance, bombast, superstition, corruption as when the Emperor says, "Doy's big stealin' lak Ah dous and day's little stealin' lak yo' doosa." Such depraved persons, such corrupt English is by no means typical of the representative portion of the Negro race yet it is studiously set forth by Mr. O'Neil. The Emperor is shrew so far as ability to steal is concerned and he has a sort of bravado. Yet, when seeking to make his escape through the swamps, being pursued by the islanders in revolt who are encouraged by the poor white to capture and slay him, he becomes almost delirious at the prospect of "seen' hants." The West Indian natives are also pictured as woefully ignorant. Having once shot at the emperor when he first came to the island and miraculously missed him, they are told by him that only a silver bullet can harm him since his life is charmed. And they spend much time and energy in manufacturing a silver bullet, the very manufacture of which, did Mr. O'Neil but takes time to consider, argues against their utter stupidity. To be sure it is pronounced a great play by the critics, but they are white, and will pronounce anything good that has white supremacy as its theme. That, aside from its seductive music and beautiful scenery is all the accounts for "The Bird of Paradise." We imagine that if Mr. Glippin is an intelligent and loyal Negro his heart must ache and rebel within him as he is forced to believe his race when his talents might be turned to better account. It is no less regrettable that Howard University should give encouragement to this basinriching of the Negro by producing this play as it is announced she will shortly do. CASWELL W. CREWE. Western University, Kansas-City, Kan BORDENTOWN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL GIVES CONCERT The Bordentown Industrial School will give concerts in Jersey City, Friday, May 18, in the auditorium of the Central High School, Thursday, May 12. The concert troupe of the school has become famous throughout the State under the direction of Mr. Fred Work, in charge of the vocal music, and Mr. Eugene Mikell, in charge of the instrumental music. Former Governor Fielder said the concert in Jersey City last year was one of the best ever heard in Jersey City. The program consists of numbers by the band under the direction of Mr. Mikell, the male quartet under the leadership of Mr. Godwin, the glee clubs under the direction of Mr. Work; vocal solos by Miss Helen Seruby, and readings by Miss Barbara Hawkins both students in the school. Those who heard the program last year were surprised by its uniqueness, its variety and the surpassing excellence of the intent and training displayed. The program is a tribute to the musical ability of the race and to the standards of performance of the school. Bordontown Training School sent the following relay team to enter the Penn relay carnival, held on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. April 29 and 30 H. Prigg. E. Strickland. James A. Reid. Substitutes: J. Watson, A. Shaw, J. H. Jackson. BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND By H. J. Mosehill Two men came stumbling along upper Seventh Avenue, arm in arm, their uncleain steps with canes. In the earlier days of Prohibition, their faltering gait might have been the aftermath of a victorious encounter with champion Volstead, the canes merely serving to close flats that had been clutching glasses. But a policeman stood by the saloon on the corner, and these men came on, not very slowly, keeping together in a rather narrow and apparently accustomed path, advancing always. As I approached them I perceived that these two men were black. At their side. I peered behind their dark glasses into eyes that were discolored and sightless And then, beyond this original spectacle of two men, blind and black, going somewhere and getting there without the assistance of those who revealed in the glorious sunshine of an April day, I saw twelve million men, like those in Take Your Chance Now A new educational system—just what we have always needed. Just what we have always wanted. And just what we are going to have, a floating school. We will bring the school to you no matter where you are. You may be too young or too old to learn, but never too young or too old to learn. color and sightless like these, each a leader of the other, groping onward, unconscious, perhaps, of the gaze of the curious throng about them and seemingly possessed of such pride and confidence in their ability to attain their goal as would ensure their firm, if not scornful, rejection of the aid that they might have without the asking. Professor Einstein is possibly the only man living who could calculate, with any degree of accuracy, just how far these doubly benighted millions have gone in any given period and just where they will be at any given time, or at the end of time. To the ordinary mortal incapable of penetrating the superior realms of relativity, the interesting fact is that the blind millions are always moving in the same general direction, though each seems willing to lead and never to be led. It may be assumed that each one knows and gets where he wants to go. The individual objectives may coincide, as was probably the case with the two men whom I saw on Seventh Avenue. But where or what their presumably common destination is, these blind men have never said in a way that anyone else might clearly understand. Possible none will ever tell definitely where he wants to go, much less where the others are trying to go. Naturally, all of these eightteen leaders cannot be seen with equal distinctness at the same time. Curiously enough, two of them always manage to feel their way in the belief that these two can see. Swolling as they advance, the two in the vanguard shut off almost entirely from view those who are behind. When one of the pair drops out, his place is soon secured by another, much to the dispicature of the bereaved one, who considers himself entitled to all the attention of the onlookers, and all the confidence of the followers. Few bystanders have ever been able to make out clearly more than half a dozen or so all told, of these blind leaders never more than two at a time. These stop occasionally to answer a query an to their destination. Their replies are always incomplete or evasive. Sometimes they stop only to refuse to answer. One of them was approached some years ago by the editor of an important New York newspaper with a request to tell some hundred thousand people directly, and a great many more indirectly, where he was going. "It will cost you so much," he replied. The editor, impressed rather by the form of the response than by the prottiness of the penny, resolved never again to interfere with the business of blind people and of those who carelessly or out of sheer cruelty place stumbling-blocks in their way. When the blind demand payment for telling where they want to go, it is not to be expected that they would appreciate the efforts of those who have helped to clear a path for them. Because they cannot see the mountain that rises sheer and impassable ahead of them, they will think, when it has been removed, that their sticks will suffice to indicate and shave aside all obstacles from their path. Wherever they arrive they will believe that they never needed assistance in getting there, and they will declare their belief that they can go on indefinitely without the aid of others like themselves, for to the blind all men are blind and black. So it is that the black-blind hosts of the United States, speaking again through the most visible of their myriad leaders have asserted that they intend to solve their problems in their own way just as they always have done without any interference from an outside black man. It is chiefly in this way, through their MONSTER MA under the auspices of the Monte Holl Side Auditorium, Orange evening, May 6th, 1921. The Rd dent of U. N I A., Hon J B General of U. N. I A., and o render appropriate music the N. Y. and the Elks Band of at the door MONSTER MASS MEETING MONSTER MASS MEETING under the auspices of the Montclair Division, U. N. I. A., at the Hill Side Auditorium, Orange Road, Montclair, N. J., Friday evening, May 6th, 1921. The Rt. Hon J D Gordon, Vice-President of U. N. I. A., Hon J B Yearwood, Assistant Secretary General of U. N. I. A., and other speakers. Two bands will render appropriate music the U. N. I. A Band of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the Elks Band of Newark, N. J. Silver offering at the door SPECIAL OFFER! Why Not Buy Through Large assortment of Hosiery and Und at pre-war prices. Goods direct to Prompt attention to your orders. Take Also 1,600 suits of second hand cloth Female suits. Tweeds, sergeo, etc goods. Order today. All mail orders f One of the Greatest H J. A. PLUMMER & CO. Commission THE FUTURE DESTINY OF ANY RACE GO BACK TO SCHOOL! EDUCATIONAL Large assortment of Hosley and Underwear for Men, Women and Children, at pre-war prices. Goods direct to you from factory. 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What the spectator wants to know is what influence the individual can bring to bear on the deity of the crowd or, as they say, on the solution of their problems. Experience shows that the solution of a problem is most likely to be found and best be applied by those self. The problem toward the solution who do not constitute the problem it of which the blind black millions of the United States are journeying is the problem of freeing themselves from slavery, the same old slavery that manifests itself in poonage, lynching and other customs which go to prove that the capital letter Negro of today sounds like the small letter negro of eighteen fifty something, and has about equal claim with the gorilla to the respect of people who only respect men when they know them as such. The only solution that has ever been applied or that probably ever will be applied to that problem is precisely the interruption of the outsider. The first and most telling blow delivered against slavery in the United States was struck by a black man who never even saw the United States. Toussaint Louverture it was who opened the eyes of British statemen who had been deaf to the pleadings of Wilberforce and Clarkson and compelled them to abolish first the slave trade and then slavery. The magic of the name of that black man, a name which only blind men can be pardoned for not spelling correctly has done more to counteract the Dred Scott decision than any utterance of any of the men to whom Wendell Philips sought to give a heritage of freedom When President Wilson appealed to the lynchers to take a holiday he gave as his strongest argument the fact that their activities were creating a bad impression of the United States outside of the country. 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BLACK STAR LINE PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT FOR HAVANA, SANTO DOMINGO St. KITTS, DOMINICA, BARBADOS, TRINIDAD, DEMERARA, DAKAR SECONDE MONROVIA, AFRICA By the S. S. "PHYLLIS WHEATLEY" PASSENGERS FOR BERMUDA, JAMAICA, PANAMA By the S. S. "ANTONIO HACKER" Luxurious, Speedy BOOK YOUR PASSAGE NOW SPACE IS LIMITED BLACK STAR LINE 5400 West 130th Street, New York, N.Y. TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE HELL Do You Believe in It? Do You Know Why Most Ministers Preach Hell Always to the Poor, And Seldom to the Rich? Is Hell Worse Than Lynching? Do You Understand the Spiritual Force of Garvayism? These Questions Are Answered in THE GREAT CHALLENGE MAGAZINE --- THAT FEARS ONLY GOD. On All Newstands May 16th, 15c. Per Copy RENAISSANCE. By Thomas Millard Henry. Arise all ye blacks in the end of the earth. Ye with the new vision, ye with the new birth. Arise in your strength, and your genius to sing. And honor the country of President King. With all of our courage, with all of our pride. Deny that old kinship and friendship have died. Not all of our tongues have been lynched let us sing. Three choirs for the nation of President King. Liberia, asylum of freedom and light The gold-fingered dawn against the African night Appends to the heart in America's breast. That heart should be yours. O ye blacks of the West 48 West 136th St., New York City SPRING. SPRING. Spring has come and earth is glad. The air is fresh, the roses bloom. The trees no more are bare and sad The tender plants in vigor loom The chirping birds delight to greet The little breezes as they blow. And children pat their little feet And sing in strains of blissful glow The moons grand view enthralls the night With silvery light of hope and cheer The rills and brooks in shimmer bright Inspire fine odes and music clear. Let us arise in spirit of spring And help to shed a brighter light. Lift high our heads, rejoice and sing In praise for strength to face the fight. I AM NEARING CALVARY. I am nearing Calvary! And the Cross is hard to bear. Come, Simon of Cyrene, to me In this dark hour of despair! I am nearing Calvary. Would the cup might pass me by God, hast thou forsaken me. Now that the hour is so nigh? I am nearing Calvary! Yet, if I fall I will be Under the blessed Cross And nearer my God to Thoe' ETHEL TREW DUNLAP. TO OUR FALLEN HEROES. Memorial Day, May 20, 1917. Ehafts of marble! Urns of story! And the flowers we strew today O'er the graves where waves Old Glory Pointing out the hallowed way. That in conflict and in passions By our fallen heroes tread; Tribute of a grateful ration's Honor to her hero dead. From the ocean's darksome cavern, From the bosom of the earth. 'Wake the memory this day given To our fallen heroes' worth! Raise them up and sing their praises— Those who perished in the strife— 'Til our veneration raises Worthy axioms in this life. Let their names and deeds illustrious. In this world-wide crisis blend With our purposes of justice. And o'er all the world extend! In the hearts of men eternal, May our heroes' valor shine; Let us pray with faith supernal. Bending this day at their shrine. Pray: their mantle on us falling, Strength may give our course to run, 'Til we hear the Master calling: "Sheathe your sword! The victory's won!" Pray; that fratricidal struggle And the wars of nations cease; Let our clarion-call of bugle Be the Gospel words of Peace. Prince of Peace; in love enthrone us, 'Til we're gathered soon or late With our fallen heroes. Own us In the Bivouac of the Great. Harmal Rest in peace forever, May today your deeds we trace. Teach the Christian world to sever Thralldom from the human race! We will not forget you, never! Though you have forevermore Pitched your tents, beside the river, Over on Canaan's better shore. SHRGT. O. B. JOHNSON. Co. B, 8732d Inf. A. B. F. (Read over the graves of American military and mallors at St. Nazarre. IT'S MOVING DAY. It's moving day. The first of May. Will you proper there, Or worry and stay? Will you trust to him And your native land, Or stay here and dodge The aggressor's hand? It's moving day. The first of May. Milton's Other tale-day. And I will suppose and hold in a tie And watch the Master And watch over the sea And move on. The first of May Hustle and bustle In New York's fair be) The second Mayflower Will weather the gale For Phyllis Wheatley Is ready to sail It's moving day The first of May While sun is shining Be wise and make ha) Can't you feel the lure Of Liberia a breeze A-wooling your soul To sail o'er the sea's It's moving day The first of May Now don't linger here Or your hair will gray Away for the land Of perennial youth' You might live an age Over there—in truth It's moving day The first of May Four feet are sinking Deep in Hodom clay Don't loiter or halt Or you must resolve Like Lot's wife to salt in moving day The first of May Please don't hesitate Ephraim, don't say nay' Rise like a gallant Lancelot of old' And sail for the land Where our sires were sold' - ETHEL TREW DUNLAP 3233 Wentworth Ave Chicago, 111 FOR MOTHER'S DAY. MOTHER OF MINE. Dearest of all in the world to me. Symbol of truth, love and charity. Light of the home you will ever be Mother of mine. I love you Faithful and true, a confiding friend. One who will last to the journey's end Eager and willing her hand to lend. Mother of mine. I love you When dangers oppress me she's always there. Ready and willing my burdens to share. Teaching that all have a cross to bear. Mother of mine. I love you. Never a word of her grief or pain Constantly counting life's loss as gain. Seeking God in both the sunshine and rain— Mother of mine. I love you. I pray that your life is all made up with years. Filled with life's sunshine, not drenched with its tears; And ono thought supreme, let it dwell in your ears. That mother of mine, I love you. —RUBY CARMEN BERKLEY COME TO MY ARMS. O EPHRAIM! Vines that the breezes blow. Come to my arms, O Ephralm! We'll flee from the land of grief To jungles and feel them Paradise. Where the lash is the wind-blown sheaf. Come to my arms, O Ephralm! When we sail over the sea We'll lock grief in a casket wave And throw the Atlantic the key. ETHEL TREW DUNLAP WHEN WISHES ARE REALIZED If I could have my wish I'd want to be in Africa Where flowers ever bloom: To be among the boys and girls Of Africa, dear Africa. I'd wish to see my little sister At play among the flowers On evenings when the sun is low. Or chasing butterflies, In Africa, dear Africa, Do You Believe in It? Do You Know Why Most Ministers And Soldiers to the Rifle? Is Hell Worse Than Lynching? Do You Understand the Spiritual Theses Questions Are Answered in MAGAZINE --- THAT F On All Newsstands May So I must keep on wishing And pray that God may give our leader The strength and power to endure And remove the barriers That bar us from Africa, dear Africa. And where others falter May he firmly stand As Moses of old; we support his hand While guilding us through victory To Africa's sunny land. Mrs. D. INCE. Boston, Mass. Georgia' "A name To conjure with Hound it It becomes The mouth As well Philosophize on it Ah There a the pub I wonder If "The pillars" Of Georgia Are aware They are making History And If they are So much The worse As The future histor Of Georgia Will be What Past and present Georgians Have made it LEONARD ETHEL TREW DUNLAP ETHEL TREW DUNL My Dear Miss Or Mrs. Dunlap: While reading down The columns Of The Negro World I came across That Melancholy Soul stirring Bit of poetry Of yours And My soul For the moment Wandered "Where The willow weeps The weary hours away Where The salve trade thrives As in days of yore. Where Lillies bloom— White doves grieve Where The yellow river leaves Its silver trail" Ah! I must stop. To what Elysian heights Is the soul lifted! LEONARD BRATH TOBACCO or Sault Ranit Cured by Harmonious Remedy. Guard- ment. Brewed in the United States. II. It it falls coors potting SUPERBA COMPANY. G. B. Baltimore, Md. THE NEGRO WORLD. SATURDAY. MAY 7. 1921 Here Is a Job For That Five Dollar Bill in Your Pocket GEORGIA AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR BUY NOW! STOCK IN THE BLACK STAR LINE $5.00 PM SUN 3 10 SHARES UNIA Ulysses Pass 41 Industrial and Commercial Development are the basis of success for any people. The advantages and money-making possibilities of the Black Star Line to the race are so great that you cannot afford to be without stocks in this Corporation. ```markdown ``` THE BLACK STAR LINE, Inc. Is capitalized at $10,000,000 under the Laws of the State of Delaware and is backed in its operations by the full strength of its organization with millions of Negro men and women in all parts of the world. TWO MILLION SHARES OF COMMON STOCK NOW ON SALE At par value of Five Dollars ($5.00) each at the office of the Corporation. Do you realize that this is the only Negro Corporation owning, controlling and operating steamships in the whole world? We are making special efforts to add ships of large tonnage to those now owned and controlled by this concern. Will you do your part in assisting this, the greatest effort ever made to have the race rise to a position in the maritime world that will challenge the admiration and command the attention of the world. You owe it to yourself and to posterity to lay this economic foundation. CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IT -.- SUBSCRIPTION BLANK "THE BLACK STAR LINE, Inc." Date..... 56 West 135th Street, New York City Gentlemen: I hereby subscribe for . . . shares of stock at $5.00 per share and forward here- with as full payment $ . . . on same. A Brilliant Description of the Black Republic. (Continued.) "The Government of the Republic of Liberia, which is rounded on the model of the Government of the United States of America, seems to be exceedingly well administered. The people are very intelligent and orderly, and are never intoxicated, or use profane words. The Sabbath is kept with singular strictness and the churches are crowded with attentive and orderly worshippers." The above is certainly reassuring and should have due influence among the Christian people of the world. Nations reared under religious and political restraint are not capable of self-government. While those who enjoy partially these advantages have set an example of such capabilities. We have in illustration of this a well authenticated historical fact. We refer to the "Negro people of this country and the West Indies," who though they have grown up under the most unfavorable circumstances were enabled to succeed in establishing a sound republican form of government on the continent of Africa. They have given a most clear and indurable evidence of their capability of self-government, and in this respect have shown a higher grade of manhood than the polished Frenchman or nations reared under religious and political restraint. We regret that statisticians on Liberia are not as desirable but we have found enough to convince us that the cause of religion education and republican government are in safe hands and on a sure foundation. "It is very generally admitted that Africa must be developed chisily by her own children. It should be our own aim and object to prepare them so far as we may for the great work." Since colonists affords most advanced materials for raising up the needed instruments, it becomes us, in wise cooperation with Providence, to direct our efforts in a judicious manner to them. To do this the most important points should be occupied, to become in due time radiating centres of Christian influence to colonists and natives. Trade is the chosen employment of the great mass of Liberiana, and some of them have been decidedly successful in this vocation. Consisting in the exchange of articles of American, European and other foreign manufactures for the natural products of the country of which palm oil, camwood and ivory are the principal articles for export Camwood is a rich dye-wood and is brought to Monrovia by the natives from great distances in the interior. It is worth in European and American markets from $80 to $100 per ton. The ivory of this region does not form an important item of commerce. Palm oil is the main article of export, and is procured along the sea coast between Monrovia and Cape Palma. The Liberian merchants own a large number of small vessels built by themselves varying in size from ten or fifteen to forty or fifty tons. These are navigated by Liberian sailors and are constantly engaged in bringing palm oil to Monovia from whence it is again shipped in foreign vessels to European and American ports. The settlers along the banks of the St Paul River have given more attention to the cultivation of the soil. They have saved palustres cassava and bananas for their own use and also supply the Monovrian market with the same Bean and arrow-root are also cultivated but to a very limited extent. A few concerns have cultivated sugar cane with great success and have manufactured considerable quantities of excellent sugar and molasses. Some attention has been given to the cultivation of the coffee tree it grows luxuriously and bears most abundantly. The flavor of the coffee is as fine as any in the world. It is easily cultivated and requires little or no large outlay of capital, and we are surprised that it has not already become one of the greatest articles for export. The want of a disposition to cultivate the soil is, perhaps, the most discouraging feature in the prospects of Liberia. Mercantile pursuits are followed with zeal and energy, but comparatively few are willing to till the soil for the means of subsistence. Liberia had its constitution in 1825. It was drawn at the instance of the Colonization Society in the United States. It set forth the objects of the colony, defined citizenship and declared the objects of the government. It remained in force until 1836. In 1839 a "Legislative Council" was created, and the constitution amended to meet the growing wants of the government. In 1847 Liberia declared herself an independent republic, and is so recognised by all the nations and the great powers of the earth. JOS. R. AUSTIN. 2216 Jefferson Avenue, Tacoma. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Many a man would be consistent if he did not insist on being a bore. Reason shatters the rules of convention and irradiates the assumption that might makes right. If to be wealthy is a virtue, I would fain be good before wealthy. If you must test the value of your thoughts, weight them thoroughly. Egotism, many a time, does not amount to much; but many a one with that quality in himself regards it as easy. BRUCE GRIT'S COLUMN We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. Enfluence, smooth and cutting, is like a razor whetted with oil—Dean Swift. A gentleman told me recently that one of the teachers at Public School He asked the pupils of one of her classes, composed largely of colored girls, to submit papers on a given day telling from their own viewpoint what the Negro race had contributed to modern civilization and what great leaders it had produced—and that only one girl out of a dozen or more was able to prepare a paper on the subject given them, the others professing ignorance on the most ordinary incidents touching the history of the race and the names and achievements of its great men. He said the teacher expressed surprise and remarked that she had always thought that the Negro had a history and great leaders just as other races. This is a sad commentary on the parents of those girls, as well as a great reflection on the intelligence of the girls. There are more than fifteen hundred titles of books by Negro authors, and the list is growing daily. There is no excuse why any Negro boy or girl, man or woman, should be ignorant of what the Negro race has achieved either by stealth as a slave or since liberation from slavery. I would advise every Negro school boy and girl to read "The Black Phalanx," by Wilson, in order to get an idea or what the Negro has done as a midier and sailor. Nells "Negro Patriots of the Revolution." "The Life of Major Martin R. Delaney," by Frank Rollin, "The Autobiography of Frederick Douglas." "Around the World With Uncle Sam," by Paynter. "The Black Man," by William Wells Brown, the poems of Alberry A. Whitman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Phyllis Wheatley, Paul L. Dunbar, Lucien B. Watkley, Walter E. Hawkins, "The Greatness of Christ" and "Africa and America," by Alex Cromwell and "The African Abroad." by W. H. Ferris. Most, if not all, of these books may be found on the shelves at Young's Book Exchange in Harlem. So that any school boy or girl of our race in this city may fortify himself or herself with facts about their race, which will not make them ashamed if they dig out and present the right ones when their teachers call on them to tell what they know about their race. I hope the incident said to have occurred at Public School 90 will never again be repeated in this city, which has the finest libraries of any in this country, public and private. Mr. R. G. Gothard of the Manufactures Distributing Company of this city has issued a handsome folder, a picture postal of interesting facts about Harlem. The photograph shows the beautiful new Renaissance Theatre, a splendid view looking up Lenox avenue from 186th street; one, a lovely panorame view of Seventh avenue at night, the Metropolitan Baptist Church St. Phillips P. E. Church the Y W C. A., the Y M C. A., a typical high class apartment house of the better sort, the Black Star Line S. S. Yarmouth, the Lafayette Theatre and one of New York's finest, resplendens in his new uniform, directing a stranger seeking information. The folder is beautifully gotton up and is a splendid tribute to the spirit of enterprise and progress of the Negroes residing in the largest and wealthiest Negro community in the world. The workmanship is that of the Hunt Printing Company, 186th street and is a magnificent spec- WHENEVER THEY Reliable and Reason W. G. R. Is At Your 231 West 136th Street Phone Audubon 6641. WARNING TO THE OF AM A man claiming to be PRINCIPAL alleged to be a native prince of is travelling through the United people and asking for financing Liberty Hall, New York, some public collection from the New he was a native prince of Africa return to Africa to work in the Information to hand prove from Africa, he is an imposter a propagandist receiving more American and West Indian Negroes of this Western Heup upon the redemption of Africa of Europe to control and exploit All Negro organizations are out for this man. All colored newspapers p WARNING TO THE NEGRO PUBLIC OF AMERICA A man claiming to be PRINCE MADARIKAN DENIYI, alleged to be a native prince of Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa, is travelling through the United States lecturing to colored people and asking for financial help. This man appeared in Liberty Hall, New York, some months ago and received a public collection from the Negroes of this city, stating that he was a native prince of Africa and that he was about to return to Africa to work in the cause of his people. Information to hand proves that this man is not a prince from Africa, he is an imposter. It is now alleged that he is a propagandist receiving money to preach disunity among American and West Indian Negroes so that the educated Negroes of this Western Hemisphere may not concentrate upon the redemption of Africa, but allow the White Nations of Europe to control and exploit the continent. All Negro organizations and churches are asked to look out for this man. All colored newspapers please copy. NEGRO WORLD IMPORTANT NOTICE All Secretaries of Divisions UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPRO AFRICAN COMMUNITIES L immediately notify the office of 135th Street, New York City, of of their Divisions, etc. All Secretaries of Divisions, Chapters and Branches of the UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION and AFRICAN COMMUNITIES LEAGUE are hereby requested to immediately notify the office of the Secretary-General, 56 West 135th Street, New York City, of change of address of the officers of their Divisions, etc. men of the art preservative as interpreted by Negro typo. This little book of souvenirs of Harlem should find a ready sale among our citizens and visitors to our city who wish to send their friends the evidence in picture form of the phenomenal progress of the Negroes of New York City in recent years. Mr. Gothard deserves high praise for the spirit of enterprise which characterizes this effort. The office of the Manufactures Distributing Company is at 2484-5 Seventh avenue, this city. This company has also gotten out an illustrated mail order catalogue. We should think Negro business concerns all over the country would find this a splendid medium for advertising their wares and selling their products. The Manufacturers Distributing Company, we think, has hit the nail on the head, and we wish this venture the success it deserves. The Black Star Line Band and the Liberty Hall Choir, both of them show the possibilities of the Negro in the divinest of arts. The leader of this band, Mr. Isla, is thoroughly in love with his work, and his colleagues are as thoroughly in sympathy with him. Mr. Isla is a careful painting band leader, and his man are responsive and show their appreciation by doing good work, individually and collectively. There are few bands in New York City that can match the Black Star Line Band. Like old wine, it improves with age, and is just as good; though since prohibition I've forgotten how with taste—but no one who has once heard this band can forget it. I am sure. We are all proud of these young men, who constitute a valuable asset to the U. N. I. A. The band, unlike most bands, is not wedded to four or five selections. Prol. Isla is progressive and not infrequently springs something new on the great audiences in Liberty Hall, which assist me in enjoying the sweet strains of this great band of capable Negro performers. Another asset of the U. N. I. A. is the choir, led by Prof. Arnold J. Ford, one of the most versatile, resourceful and competent men that could have been selected to lead this choir. Prof. Ford can tase a tune or any musical instrument from a Jew's harp to an African tom tom. He is a painter of no mean pretensions, a musical composer and writer of sheet music, and his work in this field is difficult to distinguish from the printed page. He is an expert with the pen, an artist per excellence. If I were going to have resolutions of any sort drafted I would let Prof. Ford do it, or make him do it at the point of a stout club. I saw an evidence of his pencraft some time ago that was marvelous to book upon. It was a Christmas card, executed in colors. The workmanship upon it will not suffer by comparison with that on the domestic and imported post cards for which we pay anywhere from ten to twenty-five cents each. The choir of Liberty Hall is fortunate in having as its leader a man like Arnold J. Ford, who is nothing if not thorough. He plays the bass violin with as much thoroughness and precision as he does the first violin. Some day the choir is going to get some new music, the soloists, male and female, are going to can the old tunes and Prof. Ford is going to teach them some of the latest up-to-date choir solos, duets, trios, etc. Recently I heard it under Prof. Ford's direction sing "The Heavens Are Telling" and I was most pleased with the artistic rendering of the piece. Some of the male voices were good and some were bad, or the owners of them were affected with constitutional inertia. I like to hear people, who make a practice of singing, sing with their hearts and voices. HERE IS NEED FOR A reasonable Undertaker GRABAIN Dear Service NEW YORK CITY Undertaker of New York Local U. N. I. A. THE NEGRO PUBLIC AMERICA INCE MADARIKAN DENIYI, of Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa, United States lecturing to colored help. This man appeared in some months ago and received a negroes of this city, stating that africa and that he was about to the cause of his people. Does that this man is not a prince er. It is now alleged that he is money to preach disunity among Negroes so that the educated hemisphere may not concentrate a, but allow the White Nations loit the continent. and churches are asked to look please copy. NEGRO WORLD ns, Chapters and Branches of the GOVEMENT ASSOCIATION and LEAGUE are hereby requested to of the Secretary-General, 56 West of change of address of the officers J. B. YEARWOOD, Assistant Secretary-General. THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 LUMN servative as inter- This little book them should find a our citizens and who wish to send I like to see them throw out their chests, open their mouths and sing. This is what Liberty Hall Choir does when it sings—sometimes. Sometimes, however, the brethren in the rear seats allow the sisters in the front seats to drown their voices. No man who is a man ought to let a woman outlift him or eniging him. Many people go to Liberty Hall to hear the choir and sometimes they only bear part of it—the female members. Gentlemen of the choir, sing up. Open your mouth and put it over as you have done and can pancy of Africa, some favorite line: "God is His own, will make it play as Africa had co-blood and muscula ceas, so European and that while a session largely to tinnua. The Africa his own. Positively being drawn up to as he spoke, carts and broader visi- Oh yra parha EDWARD A. WARREN. The sudden death of Mr. Edward A. Warren, one of the editors and owners of the New York Amsterdam News, came as a shock to me when I read the item in the New York World of Friday last. I did not know Mr Warren intimately—I had only a passing acquaintance wit. him. Our contact, however, was always cordial, and I found him to be a most agreeable gentleman—jovial in manner, friendly in spirit and good company. He was, I think, one of the handsomest men of color in Harlem. He was not a bad dresser, but he was one of that type of men who attracted attention from passers by no matter what he wore. He was physically well built and bored himself with the dignity and grace of one born to the purple. Had he lived in Haytin in the days of the ancient regimes he would have occupied a distinguished place among the nobility of that Black Republic. I always admired his dash and I never tired of studying his youthful and interesting face. In his younger days he must have very nearly approached in physical beauty and bearing an Adonis. Peace to his ashes and to his soul in the border land, whither he has journeyed to rest from his labors. This is a red letter day for me. Why I called upon a real live president. No, not Harding, but Dr King. In he not charming? We were to go at 430. We were there on time. The employee told us he was out and we came away somewhat crestfallen—at least so was the lady by whom the engagement was made. Imagine when hearing an auto drive up we looked back to see the president running up the steps, and when we returned we found he was rushing to be on time to see us! Well, we had a most pleasant informal chat. I wanted to ask much of Liberia, but it did not seem the president was the one to quix. He strikes me as being very gentlemanly and cultured, dignified and yet not snobbish, most certainly not that. 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'All our medicines are made from the purest Indian Herbs and Barka.' panny of Africa by Europeans he said some favorite lines of a favorite hymn, "God is His own interpreter and He will make it plain," and that he felt, as Africa had contributed of her bone, blood and muscle to develop the American, so Europeans must do for Africa, and that while it is the latter's possession largely today, that cannot continue. The African must come into his own. Positively, I felt that I was being drawn up to a much higher plane as he spoke, certainly of Christian faith and broader vision. Oh, yca, paraphy you will want this for your papa, I understood him to say: He had called upon President Harding and the President with his Secretary of State and aide had returned the call, also the Secretary of State said he had been looking up a precedent and so far as he knew Dr King is the first ruler of a country to call upon the President of the United States. When the Belgian King was here he did not see Wilson. Are you not delighted about the propaganda of the Greek letter society? Things are beginning to happen! I gave the President some books (my own) I do hope your health is much improved. Regards to Airs. Bruce. SKILLED AND UNSKILLED NEGRO LABOR FAC While 19.33 per cent. of unskilled Negro labor in the country joined the army of unemployed during the last three months of industrial depression only 2.63 per cent. of the skilled labor was thus affected. This is a most interesting deduction from an emergency survey of selected industries made by the Department of Labor "This fact summarises the report, "is strong evidence of the growing inclusion and retention of colored workers and should act as an encouraging sign to colored labor that gained a foothold in the skilled group." Disposition to apply themselves to early road construction and repairing and to return to agricultural puruits has had an effect to reduce in some measure the number of colored unemployed. Reports from Richmond, Va. say that a revival of the building industry of that place has reduced the number of involuntary unemployed people among colored workers to practically zero. The Calumet district, of which Chicago is the centre, leads in the number of colored unemployed, with an approximation of 15,000. In Michigan the unemployment of colored is given as having been decreased by 2,530. In the Pittsburgh district estimates indicate that the average unemployed colored labor is 4,500. On March 31, 1981, in that district there were 2,000 of these workers "absolutely unemployed." and Chapters of the PRO IMPROVEMENT ACTION Surches, Lodges, Organiza- tories Are Requested to Reputies and Delegates to the NATIONAL CONVENTION OF s of the World FIELD IN New York FIRTY-FIRST OF AUGUST. 1921. 100 Delegates Will Attend Requested to Send Delegates Greatest of All Conventions TRAR PRO IMPROVEMENT ACTION Street, New York. Allian Herb Medicine-We Hidden Treasure now come when we give treatments needs and bald spots; also makes the AND TONIC CO. et, Merriick Park Factory and Office ```markdown ``` DIVISION OF NEGRO ECONOMICS ABOLISHED DIVISION OF NEGRO ECONOMICS ABOLISHED Regardint the Division of Negro Economics, the Secretary of Labor made the following announcement today: "The so-called Division of Negro Economics has been abolished by the Secretary of Labor largely because there is no such thing as segregating the 'economics' of Negro wage-carners from those of any other race. 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Telegram reached the president of the Moron Division of the U N I A. on Thursday, the 14th inst., about 2 p.m. that the Right Hon. International Organizer and Party would arrive on the next day train, will keep special meeting. Preparatory Dr. Badway, one of the volunteer field workers, had just finished putting up huts to that effect, having a former knowledge of the parties' whereabouts. All the prescribed hour the announcements were put into operation. The huts had scarcely arrived before the party was conducted to Liberty Hallagon. Light refreshments were served through the supervision of the president, Mrs. Burrowes (Black Cross Nurse), and others. A walk around the town was the next, which added greatly to the announcement. Precisely at 8 p.m. the party, headed by Nurse Burrowes, rescued the door, the president sounded the gavel and the organ peeled forth the African National Anthem, "Ethiopia thou land, etc." I presided at the organ when the officials displeased passed through the audience in their robes of office to the platform. Their appearance on the platform was none other than the Royal Rams and Daughters of Africa. When all became still the president in a few chosen remarks spoke in high apploration of the royal visitors and encouraged his audience to do all that they can to keep up the principles of the U. N. I. A. and its allied corporations. After the song, "Onward Christian Soldiers," I was introduced to give the address of welcome, and rose from the organ and gave the officials the proper introduction. A chorus was rendered by Nurse Burrowes, when the next speaker was Lieutenant Frederick, who represents the Universal Legion and Black Cross Nurse, in a brief but very pointed address showed the necessity of the two auxiliaries, that they were the drawing cord of the association, and hoped that many men and women would enroll now to swell the ranks. He also showed that the men of the legion were responsible for the protection of the women. His Excellency, Sir J. S. de Bourg, was next introduced. Amidst great applause he rose and bowed. In his address, which kept the throng spellbound because he spoke from the depths of his soul, he proved himself the real leader of the West Indies as the right man in the right place. Between his speech, one can see the anxious eyes looking and waiting to Miss Henriotta Vinton Davis, the Right Hon. International Organizer, so that before the chair could complete the sentence in introducing her, there were thunderous applues, the windows and doors became darkened by the number who rushed from the outcrops to see and hear her. In her plea for the Black Star Line it was like a another standing at the bar of a condemned child whom she dearly loved and would have done anything for its help. At the close of her address the baskets went round and all Moron responded. Sixteen men enrolled in the M. A. L., and were instructed afterwards by Lieutenant Fredericks. Following the telegram the party wended their way to the Neuvitas Division. They were escorted to the railway by many officers with a hearty good bye. Much credit must be given Mr. J. A. Thompson and Nurse Burrowes for the very kind way they have tried to make the officers feel happy. Arriving at the railway station Nuevitas were surprised not to find any to receive the party, they having not received theogram. The Cuba Communication department must be blamed for that, many other, and may just here say that it is high time for a better system to be adopted. Our escort, however, phoned for a car, which came immediately, and took the party to the house of Mrs. Pagan, first vice lady president of the division (Chaplain General's Friend). Although our visit here without notice, we soon found ourselves at home. Announcements here at once made by our escort, and we were speed through the town for another mass meeting. The president of the division on his way home this morning put the news, straight ahead, back on the parry, and long since 11:00 a.m. Liberty Hall was almost filled. While All was quietly asking the address was informed that nearly one making its way to the house by Mr. S. H. Robinson, the founder of the Division, and then Miss Marie Marie. The president, representing, extended the gavel, and the house rose with the National Council of India and Africa. This evening on the platform, the members of the board, some played by the division, the division, patriotism affection I was asked to joots of the association and its allied corporation, impressing upon the minda of all, the duties of one and all. She also made reference of the 'Antonio Maceo, one of the "Black Man Shipa" bought by "black dollars" which would be left in the western waters. A solo琴 by our Miss Campbell (tark My Soul) accompanied by our secretary, Mr Martin, on the piano was next. Hon. Loutienant Frederickks was next introduced, and with the spirit of Garveyism organized I' A L. with over thirty-two members, with the proper instructions as given him from headquarters. The introduction of his Excellency Sir, J. S. de Bourg, was next, who in a practical manner as a practical leader kept his audience in a spirit of sacrifice for race for over an hour. The president then invited all to be out at three o'clock and 8 p. m. the following day, Sunday, when they will have more and are more of these high personages. Selections by the Black Star Line Band warbled music during the intervals of the speakers. The three o'clock service was also crammed, but the will-never-to-be-borgotten hour came at 7 30 p. m. when the president sounded the gavel. The party in their official robes marched to the platform, all singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Prayer was offered and the introductory remarks. The president then introduced Miss Claris Scarbrough, a Cubo-West Indian, her address in Spanish made a forceful appeal. Prolonged cheerers placed her at her seat. The officials did great honor to the evening's ceremony, and when the hour of 12 p. m. struck we were not tired yet. When the farewell hymn was sung, "God be with you till we meet again," many hearts boxed in solemn stillness as the benediction was pronounced. As telegrams don't travel quicker than pedestrians in Cuba, the Official Reporter boarded the 6 p.m. train for the division at Camague, arriving at 9-48. I hurried, made inquiries of the special preparations that are being made for the officials, answer—"none." Interviewing the worthy friend of all the officers of the parent body, Mrs. Wilson, with the help of the lady secretary, Miss Bradley, arranged for our distinguished guests. The meeting was called 10 order in the usual way at 8 p.m. the party was introduced by the president, and a very pleasant evening was spent, in so much that the visitors remained over to give satisfaction to the division the following evening, while the escort went and made the necessary preparation for them at Florida Division. The 20th inst found the party in Florida. The preparations were successfully made by the efficient workings of myself, Mr. T U. Vas, Mr. Cyril Salmon, etc., etc., the Cubans who very kindly gave their spacious hall graties and adorned the platform with flowers and buntings. Before 7.30 the spacious hall was crowded with Negroes of every language. As the procession entered the threshold, the organ kindly lent by our kind Mrs. MacIntosh pealed out the National Anthem. All arose, and with a spirit of determination the program went through in the usual way. Dr Selly (French dentist), who accompanied the party from Camaguey, took part and is now appointed as local organiser for the Hatians, in Cuba and Haytt. The officers of the division were summoned to meet His Excellencies at their quarters to sift out matters pertaining to the division at 11.30 the following day. At this interview all were satisfied and the division was left to work in better conditions than heretofore. Thirteen ladies and fourteen gentlemen were respectively enrolled in the Black Cross nurses and the Universal African Legion. The Jobabe Division. The telegram said Jobob, by the 6.49 train on the List, under a glorious moon which shone in its splendor the station, was reached where throngs of workers dressed in their regalias walted with anxious eyes to catch a glimpse of their leaders. The party was conducted to Liberty Hall, which in its appearance looked like a royal palace, and supper was prepared. Our worthy treasurer and his wife spared no pain to make the guise feel happy, and tappy they looked. After supper was served they were ushered into their respective rooms, to prepare for the other part of the ceremony. Precisely at 8.28 Professor Davidson rang the bell and a bodyguard of officers of the division, in two files, rose, together with the audience, and our distinguished visitors quietly waited through the audience at attention with the "African Salute," whilst I played the African National Anthem. All was still, when in solemn tones, Professor Davidson said. The house will now come to order. The African ode was sung. Prayer by the chaplain. General-Lady Secretary was introduced. THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 Another enthusiastic meeting was held by the Whitpeip Division No. 23, at Libert's Hall, on Sunday April 10, 1931 The meeting was opened by singing 'From Greenland's Ice Mountain,' Hon. J T Wright presiding Owing to the fact of some of the members being absent from the program the afternoon was given over to speech making Mr Chai Ebwan was back at Liberty Hall after an enforced absence. His many friends will be glad to learn that the condition of his wife is very much improved and they can groom look for her back in Liberty Hall. He delivered a short address on economics that was very well received and appreciated Mr A A Cole was the next speaker and he gave his views on the absolute necessity of having faith in the things in life that no nurace. Mrs. Ella McGathey, head of the Black Cross nurses, was the next speaker. She spoke as follows Honorable President Members and Friends of the U N I A and A C L L. This afternoon I am before you to explain and to uplift our greatest errors. Now the progress of this branch is second to none, but nevertheless there is always room for improvement and what we want is in the click or in other words the push the one big push. We want more cohesion and less adhesion let's not divide ourselves into tribes as we find in some of our island sessions let us bind ourselves together as one and only one let us give each other the benefit of the doubt let us see things from the broader point of view and not the narrow point and as you all know and I know that a chain regardless of how huge or how durable it can only be as strong as its weakest link. For the weak links let each and every one of us stronger links work and repair the weaker ones. We must forget the word 'want' and replace it by the phrase 'we can do we must do we will do' Wherever there is a drop of Ethiopian blood, let us not hesitate a second to sacrifice it to accomplish our aim. Today we are faced with a daunting demand for material help for our devastated Promised Land. Let us build a commercial resource second to none a financial industry second to none let us build a manufacturing industry second to none. We all know we have a nocta, standing unequaled and we have in our promised land miracles unknown in the realms of agricultural and mineral that will not be revealed until brought to the surface by the rightful owners of the soil. When these facts are realized we will have our One God One Aim and One Destiny. Our Honorable President J. T. Wright, was the last speaker and he addressed the members on the spirit of the movement and what it means to every Negro A liberal offering was taken and the meeting was brought to a close by a prayer by our Honorable President and the singing of the National Anthem. I have the honor to be your most humble servant. A SAMSON to give the address of welcom which she did in fine style and on closing handed the right international organizer a bouquet of exquisite beauty. I was then asked to introduce the distinguished guests. Baritone solo was next, "Pierre Ragged the Tempest. The chair then introduced the acting president Mr. F. Francis (the president being on furious) as the first speaker of the evening. He welcomed the guests in a few chosen remar. Luit Fredericks was the next speaker. He said in part that it was the very first time in his life he had ever seen such a display of colors of the red, black and green. He spoke in high praise to the many bright faces at serious faces of the Jobabo Division invited all to join in the ranks of the 'A. L. and B. C. N. Baritone solo. "Africa's Queen." by E. M. Z. Island was next. His Excellency, Sir J. S de Bourg was then introduced who rose amidst thunderous applause, said in part that he thought and felt as if he were in Liberty Hall of New York, and tells of his true happiness to be in Jobabo. He said he had read in the Negro World of the activities of this division, and had it on his mind and list that some day he would visit Jobabo and he was gidd to be with us as a family tonight. Instructively he spoke on race pride, when he explained the three kinds of black men who are working antagonistically against the 'U. N. I. A. vis. The "white black" man, big black man and the low down black man, and warned us to keep for from these sorts of men roars of laughter filled every mouth apache many explained that this is the man we want. The Black Star Song (Dr Radway's composition) was then sung, followed by a short address by Professor Davidson in Spanish. When all was still the chair introduced the distinguished lady, the Right Honorable International Organizer, who rose amid showers of applause, her face bright with smiles of hope, regretting that she could not do justice to the night's ceremonies as she was traveling almost the whole day, and needed rest, but as a pledge to serve her race she could not keep silent, and a flash of lightning she enlightened all present and promised on the morrow eve to do justice to herself and the audience, and invited all to return in great numbers in support of the Black Star Line, amidst great applause. The ceremony then closed at 11:30, and one can judge what was the talk of the night. Thanking you Mr. Editor, I beg to remain your瞻侍 servant. S. O. RADWAY, Ph.D. Ph.D. Official Reporter and Escort. Chaplain General's Visit to Cuba—His Grace .. the Most Rev. George Alexander McGuire, M. D. May 14 Saturday sail from New York May 15 Wednesday Anla May 19 Thursday Marcane May 21 Friday Holguin (topover) May 21 Saturday San Manuel May 22 Sunday San Manuel May 23 Monday Puerto Padre May 24 Tuesday Puerto Padre May 25 Wednesday Chaparra May 26 Thursday Traing west May 27 Friday Havana May 28 Saturday Havana May 29 Sunday Havana May 30 Monday Havana May 31 Tuesday, Remedios June 1 Wednesday Remedios June 2 Thursday Sagua la Grande June 2 Friday Sagua la Grande June 4 Saturday Moron June 5 Sunday Moron June 6 Monday Ciego de Avila June 7 Tuesday Ciego de Avila June 8 Wednesday Cepeda June 9 Thursday Cepeda. June 10 Friday Camaguey June 11 Saturday Camaguey June 12 Sunday Neuvitta. June 13 Monday Neuvitta. June 14 Tuesday, Jobabo. June 15 Wednesday, Jobabo. PRIEST AND DEACON ORDAINED BY CHAPLAIN GENERAL OF THE U. N. L A NEW YORK. April 26 —On Monday, April 25 1921 the festival of St Mark, at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Harlem the Rev Josiah Posephus Crannon formerly a minister of the Baptist Church was ordained Prebystar and Mr Retford E. M Jack was ordained a deacon in the Church of God His Grace the Most Reverend George Alexander McGuire M D perform the rite Mr Jack was pre Are You Satisfied with BIG DEMAND FOR DENY You can learn this woe your sp. BEEKMAN & SCHOOL OF MECH 780 PULTON STREET, BROOKLYN Day and Evening Classes. NOTE The following Stock Certifici Mr John A. Wilson, Preside Chicago, have been returned to delivery". Certifate Number Name 25211 James M. 25280 Eliz McCa 26495 Rosetta A. 27719 Minnie A. 28010 Lucy Jack 28285 Tenley Lu 28286 Joe Jacks Will the above parties please ment of the Black Star Line for BLACK STA Are You Satisfied with Your Present Fee? BEG DEMAND FOR MECHANICAL DENTISTS You can learn this wonderful profession your spare time -AT- BEEKMAN & BERNARD SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL DENTAL BULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Day and Evening Classes. NOTICE The following Stock Certificates, which were John A. Wilson, President of the Stockhgo, have been returned to this office on a certain date. Date Name 11 James M. Haazelwood 16 Eliz McCarthy 19 Rosetta Alexander 19 Minnie Anderson 20 Lucy Jackson 25 Tenley Lucas 26 Joo Jackson If the above parties please write to the Manager of the Black Star Line for same? BLACK STAR LINE, Inc. Are You Satisfied with Your Present Position? BIG DEMAND FOR MECHANICAL DENTISTS You can learn this wonderful profession during your spare time AT: BEEKMAN & BERNARD'S SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL DENTISTRY 780 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Phone PROSPECT 9169 Day and Evening Classes. Terms Made to Suit You. 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 "nondelivery". Will the above parties please write to the Mail Order Department of the Black Star Line for same? 56 West 135th Street Eli Garcia 8th February, 1921 Secretary NOTICE DO NOT pay Money to any one except a Agent or Representative of the BLACK STAR L In cases where there are no Agents or Rep Money direct by BANK DRAFT or MONEY ORD Currency to the BLACK STAR LINE, OFFICE, & New York City. GEO. TOBIA NOTICE O NOT pay Money to any one except a or Representative of the BLACK STAR LINE cases where there are no Agents or Repe direct by BANK DRAFT or MONEY ORD ty to the BLACK STAR LINE,OFFICE, t York City, GEO. TOBIA DO NOT pay Money to any one except a duly authorized Agent or Representative of the BLACK STAR LINE, INC. In cases where there are no Agents or Representatives send Money direct by BANK DRAFT or MONEY ORDER in American Currency to the BLACK STAR LINE, OFFICE, 58 West 135th St. New York City. GEO. TOBIAS, Treasurer. sented by the Rev Walter H Smithwick rector of St Pauls Church, Brooklyn N. Y., who was also the preacher of a most appropriate sermon on The Call of Isaiah to the Prophetic Office. The Rev Josiah J Cranston was presented by the Rev James N Bridgeman B D rector of St Savior's Church Brooklyn who also said the litany. Both of these clergymen joined with the bishop in the laying on of hands upon the head of the candidate for the priesthood. The Rev R E M Jack having chosen the missionary field has been appointed by the New York convention of the Independent Episcopal Your Present Position? FOR MECHANICAL TISTS Wonderful profession during share time BERNARD'S MECHANICAL DENTISTRY I, N. Y. Phone PROBPECT 9169 Terms Made to Suit You. ICE rates, which were issued through at of the Stockholders' Club of this office on account of "non- Number of Shares Haazelwood 1 othy 1 xazander 1 Anderson 1 on 1 as 1 n 1 write to the Mail Order Depart- same? R LINE, Inc. by one except a duly authorized BLACK STAR LINE, INC. Agents or Representatives send for MONEY ORDER in American LINE, OFFICE, 56 West 185th St. GEO. TOBIAS. Treasurer. rallying to the Sunday school, which is in splendid condition. On Sunday, March 17. exercises were held at LBB. At the close of these exercises and the afternoon service the children marched to the hospital carrying flowers for the sick. The members of Banes division numbering over 600, are determined to stand behind the president general of the U N L A and the High Executive Council in their endeavor to bring into unity the scattered millions of Ethiopia's swarthy sons and daughters for social and economic advance and the redemption of our motherland, Africa. The slogan of the world shall be our slogan. Their example to a certain extent will we emulate. As they say, Europe for the Europeans, Asia for the Asiatics, Japan for the Japanese, India for the Indiana, so we are saying Africa for the African. With our Moses in the persons of the Hon. Marcus Garvey, our Aaron in the person of His Grace George Alexander MacGuire, the Honorable members of the High Executive Council, we shall follow on to a glorious consummation in the not distant future. THE U. N. L. A. IN Today seven months since we have been organized, we desire to make mention what we have attained. First of all this is indeed a very small branch, but we are whole hearted members doing all we can for the uplift of the race. Our energy for the furtherance of the cause seems without bound. The greatest obstacle that confronts us is not having our own Liberty Hall. Hence, we have struggled and succeeded in purchasing a parcel of land with a clear deed in the name of the U N I A and A C L, a corporation of the State of New York. We are now planning for a hall and ask for the good wishes of every well thinking member of the race. Concluding in your promise and cooperation, we beg to be, yours fraternally: HENRY GRANT President LUCKY WILLIAMS, Lady Pres. E. E HAINES, Treasurer. A GRANT, Secretary ORANGE, N. J., April 22.—The U. N. I. A. and A. C. L. met Sunday, April 17. His Honor Capt. F. E. Gaina favored us with his official visit in which he addressed the council in a flatteringly manner. He also praised its work. The council meets every second Sunday in each month. We are progressing wonderfully. REV. NICHOLAS CARAZA. President DE SOLO M PERINA - Scey. TICE ECOND ATIONAL INVENTION NOTICE THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL NEGRO CONVENTION To the Presidents of the U N I A Divisions. refer you to the Constitution of the Page 14, where you will see that the recommend to the Potentate of the relation worthy individuals on whom distinctions shall be conferred. Convention in view, and in order to ash the spirit of the Constitution, we vision to send in to this department members who have done good and be carefully considered—loyal and devotion to duty. Individuals who in the interest of the Organization, the dignity, honor and Flag of the secure members for the Association, made in brief, concise and honest Advisory Board of the Division at the Convention. Other instructions the educational qualifications of each consideration. you acquaint the entire membership the Constitution; calling their atten-Negro Improvement Association has political and financial world for the an development of a free Africa. membership drive from now until the our work. I am. Tours very truly. ONER GENERAL Now it is our pleasant duty to refer you to the Constitution of the Organization. to Article 5 Section 17 page 14, where you will see that the High Commissioner General shall recommend to the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association worthy individuals on whom Commissions and certain other specified distinctions shall be conferred. We have the work of the next Convention in view, and in order to carry out the purpose and to establish the spirit of the Constitution, we are asking the President of each Division to send in to this department the name or names of meritorious members who have done good and faithful work under our auspices. Every phase of activity should be carefully considered—loyal and faithful service of two years at least devotion to duty. Individuals who have been active financial promoters in the interest of the Organization, individuals who have stood up for the dignity, honor and Flag of the Association, those who endeavor to secure members for the Association. Such recommendations must be made in brief, concise and honest statement, and passed upon by the Advisory Board of the Division at least two consecutive months before the Convention. Other instructions will be forwarded to you later on. The educational qualifications of each individual must be taken into careful consideration. We request that in the meantime you acquaint the entire membership of your Division with the purpose of the Constitution; calling their attention to the fact that the Universal Negro Improvement Association has carved a great pathway in the social, political and financial world for the Race and the subsequent regeneration and development of a free Africa. Urgent upon them to make a membership drive from now until the next Convention. 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CORRESPONDENCE COURSE in Shorthand to any part of the world. We supply (without charge) stonographers, bookkeepers and works for positions in or out of the city. Call or write—CRICLOW-BRATHWAITE SHORTIAND SCHOOL 2576 Savannah Avenue (Corner West 121st Street), New York; Telephone Andubon 1210, L NEWTON BRATHWAITE, Principal; (Official shorthand reporter of the U. N. L. A.) Church to service in the Republic of Cuba, and he will be stationed at Chaparro. He will also do work at the seaport town of Puerto Padre. There are already on the Cuban field the Rev. William Alexander Charles, general missionary with headquarters at Guantanamo. Under him there re three catechists—Mr George Taltt at Preston. Mr Charlee Blake at Banes and Mr D E. Ewart at San Manuel. The last named will be ordained to the sacred ministry on Trinity Sunday, May 22, during his grace a visit to Cuba. The Rev. Dr Cranston, a man of wide pastoral experience and of pleasing personality has been appointed by the convocation to undertake the work in Pittsburgh Pa. Hundreds of Negroes in that city have resolved that they will follow ecclesiastical leaders of their race only and the appointment of Dr Cranston is the result of their appeal to the chaplain general. Both of these newly ordained men caught the vision of the Hon. Marcus Garvey at an early period and have done aplied work for the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Mr Jack organized several divisions in the British West Indies and Dr. Cranston is about to resign as president of the Baltimore division of which he has been the inspiring and successful leader for about two years. We have reason to believe that the work of the L N I A and A C L in Cuba and Pittsburgh will receive fresh stimulus from these two revered gentlemen, who will concern themselves not only in the moral and spiritual, but also in the social and temporal affairs and interests of their brethren. One God, One Alm, One Destiny The Banes division extended a hearty welcome to his Excellency the Hon Marcus Garvey, who spoke to a spellbound and enthusiastic audience on the evening of March 15, 1921. The visit of the president-general of the Universal Negro Improvement Association will long be remembered in Banes Cuba. The interest aroused by His Glance the Key George Alexander McCure has resulted in the conversion of many members in Banes and their subsequent enlistment in the ranks of the Universal Improvement Association. A hearty welcome awaits the return of the chaplain-general to Banes. The Black Cross Nurses deserve the highest praises for the way in which they acquitted themselves under the able leadership of Mrs Harold Collins during the visit of these two high officers of the association. The men of the division in Bane are grateful for the splendid and helpful lectures of health and diseases delivered to them in Liberty Hall by Dr Harold A Collins. The children, too, not to be outdone by their elders, BENJAMIN DEAN The monthly sermon of the Herron Hill division of the U. N. L. A. and A. C. L. No. 177, at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. President, lady presidents, fellow officers, members and friends of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and last, by no means least, the distinguished pastor of this congregation: Words cannot describe the pleasure it gives me to address you today on an important subject. A subject of great interest to men of science of this age—a subject that should be of vital interest to the U. N. L. A. namely: the Suffrutition of the Fittest. They who attended the last appearance of the Hon. Marcus Garvey who he addressed the Pittsburgh division of the U. N. I. A. at Liberty Hall, no doubt remember his reference to the subject. Also in a recent issue of the Negro World, a few timely hints on the subject were given. I attended a lecture not long ago given by a well-known free thinker in which he gave an illustration according to his interpretation of the term. Two men, one a savage armed with a club, the other, civilized and unarmed, let us say, wipwrecked with just enough food for one man. We are to infer that the one who would survive would be the man with the club. That is the view of a man who by his own admission knows no spirit only matter. Do you suppose one with only physical mean would be more fit to survive the one who was unarmed, with lots of moral or spiritual strength? You know the prayers constantly repeat, by which he by My spirit, saints the Lord." What is the secret of the survival of any race? Most of us are familiar with the cause of the fall of Rome and other great empires. Their general dissipation, that had foundation from the cradle. The mistakes the founders made in their Genesis. Don't you know its the beginning of a great thing that counts? Some one asked the question. At what age should a child's training begin? The answer was. "Two hundred years before it was born. It's no hard matter to start a nation, but the survival of that nation depends on its fitness. In other worlds, the life of a race depends upon its early training and that training must be started in the home, by the mother. There can be no permanent nation without good women. Now the question has been brought to attention of a certain form of amusement for our young people the very people upon whom rests the future welfare of the race. Where will our future thinkers come from? Can our young people exercise their minds properly for their next day's任务, or retain the inheritance when they come into it through the hard work and privations of their elders if they spend their previous flights in a dance hall or poolroom? Did not Herrero go, or forget himself and allow matter to gain the ascendancy over mind when so intoluc­ cated by Salome's dancing he assented to the beheading of John the Baptist, the foremeron of Christ? And I ask you in the name of common sense, could the Honorable Marcus Garvey have conceived the gigantic movement that has rounded Negroes of vision all over the wor'4 in a dance hall or a pool room? Did he have a brighter star presiding at the time of his birth than the rest of the so-called leaders of the race? Was because his mind was virgin, unclouded by displeasure. While the rest of the world was sleeping, as those disciples slept while Jonus was praying alone and could watch one hour with the Savor of the races. Marcus Garvey was what all of us must be doing—that is, thinking, and then he put the thought into action. The forerunner of all good movements is right thinking. Now please don't let us consent to the death of that thought by not properly trailing our young people. In a criminal court in New York, in a canvas among fallen women, the delinquency of the majority was traced to the dance hall. You remember when our president read some statistics on the death and birth rate of the colored race as compared with that of the white race? The cause does not lie altogether in the neglect of the hospital staff, but with our young people. Too many are physically, and I regret to say, morally unfit to perform the highest function of life. We are alive to the necessity of getting money to finance this movement, but we still cannot afford to go in the way of Cain, and run greedily after the error of Balaam and perish in the gain slaying of Core. The hand that rocks cradle the hand that rules the earth before the earth and death Life. If we take care of ourselves, train our children to do likewise and death if we don't. No matter what pithers may do, for one man's may be another man's polism. We of the Merron-Hill division of the I. M. J. A. will choose life and be fully persuaded of the "Survival of the Fittest" Spoken by Mrs. ADELISA LEWIS, MONTREAL NOTES Varied Program — Good Attendance Big Deficit the Result of Pre-K-12 ministration — President Butler Matt- rors Situation — Hore Warner Nosed to Boost the U. N. K. A. The torch of enthusiasm continues to dome brightly here. The local branch, which is still burdened with a big doubtful deficit, by the old-school management during its opener is bogged that the parent body will set the way clear to liquidate that debt that we may be able from bonding to give with our white blood. The program rendered yesterday was the final trial. The U. N. K. A. serves numerically. Mr. Charles Dyall is the leader. The Black Quince Nurses are doing good work, but still there is a spirit of decadence existing among the women of the community. There is much work to be done here. This is a very difficult task. The women on the whole are slow in racial activities and indifferent to the call of the hour, but those who have responded are rallying to the cause unfalteringly. We deeply regret the illness of Mr. Rainford. The speakers of the afternoon were President. Potter, Messrs. Ramsay, Chambers, Glenn and Dr. Messiah. Mr. Troddman was very winning in a cornet solo. He was enclosed and cheered rapturously. The chaplain delivered a brief address on "The Prodigal." The singing of "Ethiphone" closed the meeting. CHARLES H. D. ESTE U. N. L. A., MARCANE DIVISION CUBA The president, Mr. Michael Alexander, is on his way to Panama on a vacation trip. The following speech was delivered to him before his departure: "Mr. Michael Alexander, president of "Sir: In behalf of this division of the U. N. I. A. and A. C. L. we the understated think it our utmost duty to present you this address on this eve of your departure from our midst. We have already missed you, but owing to the fact that your going home is only a vacation trip, we will surely give you some days are accompanied. We therefore may have many happy returns of the day and that you may have good times among your family and friends. While those behind have will be sorry to lose you for some time, there are many who are yearning to give you happy repos and sweet responses home. Sir, we can never for the least forget to think of the many happy days you have spent among us, especially in this grand organization of the Negroes of the world. Since this branch has been placed or organized you have been placed in the presidential chair, and never could such a position be filled by a better man than you. You have spared no pain to make this branch a success. Through your energetic and strategic manner you have truly gained the hearts of every well-thinking Negro in Marcene, Oriente. You have had all the power necessary to be a leader and ruler, and we hope that this same spirit may exist in you to lead us, though far away. We'll be ever looking to you for your messages, which are always a stimulant to your mind, and you will never days may quickly come to your place when you have back you to glide when of duty. Hoping your health may not fail you and those related to you, and hoping the God-in-law may keep and protect you to bring you back to us once more. Wishing you a safe and pleasant voyage. To show your people's appreciation of your worth we have the honor of presenting you this purse. The Lord watch between us and those, though we be absent one from another. At the ending of this departing lecture all the officers arose and stood at ease in front of the Kre. President Mr. Alexander sang hymn No. 288, which is as follows: "God be with you till we meet again." This mountable and departing song brought tears from many members' eyes. At the point of this view the executive secretary, Mr. George Scott Anderson, was elected as acting president until the president's return. Highlights for the conference were accomplishments for the president, Mr. Editor, to advertise this matter to the public in your most wonderful paper, The Negro World. (Blinded.) Executive Secretary and Acting President. Now, Mercans Division, Oriente, Cuba April 18, 1921. MONTREAL NOTES. Local Branch Progresses—President Potter Works, Untilily—Mr. W. D. Duke, Vice-Chairman—Literary Club Displays Unique Interest and Concern—Miss Black Presides at Plano. An enjoyable afternoon was spent on Sunday last. The meeting opened with the singing of "Greenland's Ice Mountains," followed by the chaplains' A letter received from the Writer, concerning the need for a U. N. I. A. letter read by Mr. P. Langdon. Interesting comment by various members followed. A splendid program was then rendered Selection—Overture, "Typhn"..... Orchestra Solo—Vocal "Jerusalem"...Mr. McKinley Address.....Mr. Taylor Selection—"Moonbeams" (Novelite) Orchestra Address.....Mr. P. Kramer Biblical reading.....Chaplain National Anthem. Vocal Solo—"I Shall See His Face"... Mrs. Bonner Cornet Solo.....Mr. Treadman Selection (numbers).....Orchestra Cornet Solo.....Mr. Trotman Selection—"The Ebbing Tide"... Orchestra The U. N. L. A. orchestra is rendering very good service, furnishing music of his smallest quality. Music credit is due to Miles Hank, the pianist, who serves弦乐独奏ly. Miles Hank, Vipers and Womanen renders mindful service. Mr. William Dudley, who cohesion of the history of the orchestra presides as the chief wright batteries and playing the percussion in an allied ensemble. Mr. Dudley is an well-known conductor. $100,000.00 BARGAIN IN SOAPS OF ALL KINDS, BEAUTIFUL NEGRO PICTURES POST CARDS, CALENDARS AND COLORED DOLLS LARGE AND SMALL SIZES We all have in stock thousands of other Pictures, Post Cards and Calendars. Picture Fragments of all kinds. Sold retail and wholesale. Agents, here is a line of goods that you can handle with a big profit. Call or write ART PUBLISHING CO. 2129 Seward Avenue NEW YORK, CITY GIBSON AND GRANDISON SHE DEFINITIVE DIVISION Dr. J. D. Gibson, the Surgeon-General to Liberty Hospital, delighted his farewell address on Monday night, April 13. His address was gracious expedient, warmed withiliar regard, sympathy and good will. The people hard him gladly and repeatedly applauded. They responded to his solemn appeal by joining the movement more than they have ever done for some time. The seeds of cheerfulness and encouragement have been planted and are springing with blossom in us from the showers of good will which Dr. Gibson brought to this division. A brief of the doctor's speech below will show the nature of his Afriod-redeemption determination: "I am going to put a mortgage on one of my houses, for Africa must be redeemed. God aren't you just, sir? Nightlight Africa is crying out, saying I can see black angels in heaven. I can see black women in big black man. They say Jesus is coming, but He cannot come till we go back to Africa. Jesus is afraid to come on earth, for it is corrupted by white men; so we are going to Africa to build a new Jerusalem that He may have a clean place to walk when He comes. Picture in Africa our beautiful cities, churches and government houses. We are going to have a real country, a black colony of real democracy. You can choose which you belong. We have paid a great a price for this lesson that we are going to watch." Another very oratorically thrilling and powerful thunderclap that Miss Detroit has been privileged to hear is Dr. C. N. Grandison, a man of wide experience and good education, Dr. Grandison came to us recommended by his excellency, Dr. J. W. H. Eason, the American leader, and the gentleman's power on the stage has made him Grandison in truth. He has spoken to us several times with much piercing effect, but the most telling of all is his beautiful lecture, subject "What is the Matter With Samba?" When he first introduced his subject the young people were very curious and appeared to have no liking for such a word, as he was so proud of. He and no fine looking brown-skin girl or any beautifully modest darky should be called a dog. But before the doctor got through with his speech all of the young folks were caught within the bosom of extreme laughter and accepted their now name for a chance. The month of April brought us more signs of encouragement than the past. In it many representatives from the parent body visited us. In it our own president, W. O. Smyer, went to New York and warmed up the parent body with his peculiar scientific reasoning. Our Yankees saw in the spirit of Mr. Smyer that Detroit, the City of Wolwener, has taken an old and solemn drink of that living noctar. Mrs. G. M. Davis, the lady president of the Cleveland Division, visited Detroit with the movies and left on April 22. She gave us several beautiful talks and proved to be 100 per cent Garvoyte. On April 21 there was a wedding in our husa as a Mr. Middlebock took unto himself a wife, and no one could blame him. Can you? The ceremony was performed by the chaplain, Rev. Sutton, after which the bride and bridegroom went their way reholling. PROGRAM, SUNDAY, APPT. 17. Opening Ode....Chaplain Rev. Sutton Coral Selection. Address---- W. O. Smyer, President Paper..... Miss Briar Reyes Selection..... Orchestra Paper..... Mr. Robert Wilson Solo..... Mr. Geo. Taylor Speech..... Dr. J. D. Gibson Night, Mr. James N. Lowe, master of ceremonies; opened by the Chaplain. Paper. W. W. Gilyard Violin Solo. Mr. C. Thompson Short Talk. Mr. William Sanders Speech. Dr. C. W. Grandison Address. W. O. Smyer Dismiss. Chaplain CLEVELAND U. N. I. A. NEWS. On March 16 and 17 Dr. Riley addressed the Hamilton Avenue Chapter of the Cleveland Division No. 59. The crowd which had patiently waited for hours the doctor's coming, was vociferous in their greeting at the sight of him. The doctor in his well known versatile manner held the audience spellbound for two hours, giving them much needed food for thought. The doctor said, in part: There is a responsibility which stands before us and cannot be denied. Just as sure as you are born to die the words of God shall not die, will not die. He has said that Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hand unto God, Princes shall come out of Egypt. Say as you please and do as you please, there are no people as big as God. We want leaders. The ministers have been trying to lead the people for fifty years and have lost out. Why did they lose it? Politics. God wants a minister to be the exponent of his word and not a wizard, politician. God wants for us, to have wealth like any other race. If God told me to my face that I was made a dog for other races I would say "Good-bye, God." But God in His Infinitive Plan did not ordain that one race should be the servitor of the other. We have been servitor, too long for other races, and the time has now come for us to serve ourselves (ourselfs). How can this be accomplished? By co-operation, putting building factories, buying ships to take the finished products of our factories to all the markets of the world where Negroes are to be found. And these same ships to bring the raw materials from the Negro countries of the world back to our own factories. When we can do this, then will we be recognized as a race and as a people. The best thing for us to do is to get together and respect one another. We are too mixed up. The more mixed up we are the greater owes we become (aphasite). Everywhere we go we hear the cry that Negroes are beheads. One says that the Jape and Chinese are helpless. Why? Because they have something back of them. Our folks have not yet learned to appreciate history. The greatest kings and leaders came from our race. I am trying to get you interested in Negro history. When I go to my grave I want to remember the speeches of our Negro Moses, the Hom. Marous Garvey (Cheera). Marous Garvey is now placing us in history as we have never been placed before. Some of you up here in the North are no better off than you were in the South. Here in the North in the sight of the white man we are the same as we were in Georgia. We have been blind a long time, and the time to act is now! Save your money and help build up the industries which will make our people a world power. God sent Marcus Garvey here for a purpose. Garvey says he does not care what you are, you are my brother if you are black. Whatever you come from, this organization knows no border line. This organization is telling you that you are all alike, and it is going to let many of the churches go back to the white man. (Laughter.) Look to God and live for yourselves while living is good. It does seem to be a miracle to get so many Negroes together when we have been told that it could not be done, that in three and one-half years we have united four million Negroes. Earnest toil for earnest money. When we get justice it is by Divine Providence. God is not going to give you what you ought to get for yourselves. Get out and get under! Stick together! There are traitors here among us. Before the time of Jesus, we have said here tonight will be taken to two places—the white folks and the preachers. (Laughter.) I am fighting the preachers because they have been misleading us for a long time. Marvin Garvey said "save your money." The preachers said "buy churches." The light he has made will never be extinguished. Help to rebuild Africa. We help or stay we owe our motherland a debt. We have never preached and told you that you should go to Africa. But why not Africa for the Africans? When you get so big that you cannot be one of us, you do not billing here. We mean to build factories and places for our boys and girls to work. There are some Negroes who believe that Negroes cannot do the things which white people do. With race pride and race consciousness we will show all the races of the earth what we can do. I am just a Garveyite and I hope to die a Garveyite. When you stop and look at the people around Jesus and Garvey you have done something. Garvey wants fishers of men — men who are not afraid to plunge out into the depths of humanity in the cause of their suffering race. Watch and pray, but let your watching keep pace with your praying. LAVINIA D. SMITH, Reporter. ISLAND OF ST. MARTIN In Marigot, on March 6 last, an honorable man, an upright father, a useful citizen, departed this world: he was Mr. Michel Hamlet, aged 76 years. The deceased was, all through his life, a firm partisan and upholder of the republican regime in St. Martin. He was one of the most noted champions of democracy in the island in the early seventies when the Third French Republic had not been yet established on a solid basis; he always J. A. 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A MOST REGRETTABLE DEATH: MUSIC REUNION TABLE DEATH Mr. Joseph S. W. Williams of Providence, an active member of that division of the U. N. L. A., passed away on February 13 in Costa Rica. Brother Williams was one of our charter members, whose loyalty to the cause was second to none. He was a supporter to the best of his ability of the Black Star Lane Steamship Company. He left his home and family in October, 1829, for Costa Rica, where he want to raise more money to further support the steamship company, but almost before he could accomplish his aim the cold and hard death numbered-him among its victims. Brother Williams deserve to be numbered among the world's heroes, for he, as they, has fallen in the struggle, fighting for his country's cause and the redemption of Africa. He left a widow and son in New Providence to mourn the loss of a loving and faithful husband and father. I. R. GORDON, General Secretary. LISTEN BROTHER, LET'S GO! OH YES! YOU TOO SISTER As you perhaps already know, is organized to facilitate own, and operate between all these States, the West Indies, Central and South Africa, in the interest of Negroes and Negroes, and to ensure wholly by Negroes. Now such a program must appear to west Negroes. Why should it be? FOR INSTANCE When these facts are put up and are in full operation, improvements will be made any condition Negroes, and remember, this will not be confined to immediate jobs. Of course, and throughout the country, there is no disgrace in any kind of work—but there will be positive for these superintendents, and so on. will be available when we have all pie our customers to the wheel and put them in their boxes. Some customers you can help. When we say "Let's Go" we mean "let's all put problems away and make things better." TO SHOW YOU What pooling our monies will do and how effective it is we would like to have you take some time to West 142d Street. Perhaps you are too far away to walk on there. Again, we are interested in a class steam laundry at that address. There are any number of high-end laundries that accommodate monies, ironers, etc., turning out plenty of work for Narcissus. Finally, would like to thank you to Lenox Ava and 141st Street, you would see there a first-class millinery store and hot tub. However, any number of colored ladies engaged in the manufacture of both trimmers and curtains from the foreland to the errand girl. These two contours are varied, and can be combined with FACTORIES CORPORATION. But they show what we can do when we all put the stakes on the table. Many successful entrepreneurs Negro in the World bought at least one shoe in the New York Times publication. Does that would mean? Why, we would be putting up a man, furnished to make him successful, would be realised; our financial status would be improved. The more successful we become, the could go on to enumerate all the benefits you yourself and the rest of the business would enjoy. Rqu too have vision and are ambitious we know that you have almost certainly to be. BEFORE EACH OF US is the prospect of our ambition. It is our mission at all times to make you successful and to achieve all of our greatness. To all those with minds in progress it is a magnificent mission. BE AMBITIOUS FOR YOURSELF—FOR YOUR EACH # REAL ESTATE GENERAL GENERAL & REALITY COMPANY Plattsburgh, N. U. (212) 755-7555 U. N. I. A. NEWS OF THE PANAMA BRANCH NO. 3 The meeting of the, above named martyrs was called to order by the president at the hall at 5 street and central avenue at 5 p. m. sharp on Sunday, April 20, 1921. The opening ode was sung by all, which showed the enthusiasm in the spectacle. The shabbia attended to the religious rights in words of exhortation and the president gave his usual cheer- ful remarks of hope and expectation for the U. N. I. A. His remarks were the fruits of a very warm and enthusia- tic meeting. All listened with great interest to what he had to say. Good was the applause he received at the termination of his remarks. The choir then gave a very interesting anthem entitled "The Universal Might," which was well enjoyed by all present. The address by Mise Hall was something of importance to all. The song of the great need of keeping together and working with all our might. The song by Mrs. Hallet and choir was another feature of worthlessness of Appreciation and their wonderful working powers. The song by Miss Dunn, the great songstress, was remarkable and it was with loud cheer that she left the festrum to take her seat. This nightingale is one of the talented ones for singing in this community. An address by Mr. Walters of La Jolla was a soul-suiling one. He left on stone unturned in warning his brothers and sisters of the danger that they would run in keeping away from the association. This great talisman kept the large congregation spellbound for a peace of fifteen minutes. During some of his tact, he succeeded in holding the audience interested for his entire stay on the platform, though at times his various remarks were so simplified that every one, whether member or non-member felt that there was some message for them. The paper from Miss Hajiul was the most feature of note. This showed the capabilities of Negroes, judging of the most features of the spirity members of our race. Naming some talented advocates she encouraged all to go forward with shows frank and hope in them. A duet by Miss A. Tumma and Mr. Graham gave joy to all. The words of this duet, well suited to the emotion, brought every one bright edge in the redemption of Africa. A duet by Miss Hajiul was received with loud acclaim, the audience showing its appreciation by great applause which everywhere resounded. The resident was compelled to interrupt the demonstration, explaining that while the lady's performance will mar- from the neary responses it evoked, it might be an influence for the audience to impose upon her willingness to respond. This was taken as a good counsellor and all felt that they should again give harry cheers to the nightingale voice and these cheers rescinded through the ball. The chaplain spoke next, showing that it was his duty to always respond the hearers of their duties to God. His cool and interesting words went perfectly to the hearts of all. Messal was an anthus by the choir, singing which a collection was made. I and Mary H. Willis rendered an endlessly brought many to their feet with enthusiasm. Others followed and displayed their talent and played their parts to the beat of their ability. In spite of the storms that beat and tempests that rage and all that would feed to hamper us and the bushew of our wonderful cause, we are going by leaps and bounds with determination. J. G. C. PHILLIPS, Reporter. THE BLACK CROSS NURSES OF EDMONTON, ALTA. W. W. L. Perris, Mr. Literary Editor. Dear Sir, Certainly allow me a small space in your Big World whereby to convey in every Negro of every portion of the world into the Black Cross Nurses of Edmonton Division we have been doing and in this world's greatest movement we are the unanticipation of Ethiopia and the remembrance of Africa. It is now four months since we were organized. We are proud members strong our chairman and his experienced nurse. It was made two hundred and fifty and eared, all maternity cases in the beaches, several other cases. We gave four concerts, the ferry of $844. Out of this, I had been given for ten years which has been needed much in this city this winter. Other this and several success was the same one of our photos of the man that was bought by the man who's will you to use and what that is on the same. Also is the man who is the answer. By Mr. and Mr. who are in the course of the day, to be same, a stick with the same. I have forward the same to him. Mr. T. the other two children. The other two children of the Children. The Children of the People's Society. PLEASANT SUNDAY AFTER NOON AT LIBERTY HALL, GUARO, CUBA On the evening of the 10th inst. (Sunday), a most enjoyable evening was spent under the apexes of the Guaro Division of the U. N. I. A. at the Liberty Hall. From the rendition of the program is could be seen that the united efforts of the officers members and well-wishers of the division had not been spared to bring off such a rare treat as seldom is seen in these parts. Mr. C. G. Hall was appointed chairman for the evening, in which his ability in such a capacity was maintained in a most satisfactory manner to one and all. He also did not fail to express his lack of not having cast his lot with the U. N. I. A. instead of only being a well-wisher. He dispensed the program for the afternoon in fine style; it ran as follows Selection: "Guardian Angels." Selection, "Guardian Mighty" Sung by Choir Recitation, "What is Heaven" Miss M. Allison Solo and Duet, "Come With Thy Broken Heart. Misses Myers and Bailey Bass Solo, "No Night Thare," Mr Oliver Selection, "He Rose Mighty to Save" Sung by Choir Recitation, "He Who Serves" Miss Alexander Quartette, "Forward to Zion" Misses Myers and Bailey assisted Selection, "What Do the Bells Say?" Sung by Choir Solo and Duet, "The Narrow Way" By Miss A. Beckford and V. Allison Quartette, "Tell It Out." Misses Allison and Beckford assisted Selection, "He Shall Reign Forever" Sung by Choir Recitation, "Zion's Mission." Miss Alexander Quartette, "Lift Up the Gospel Banner" By Misses Bailey and Beckford Hymn 388 Solo. Beautiful Stream. Miss V Allison Selection, "Missions Fair and Bright" Sung by Choir Address ..... President Simpson Closing speech by Mr. Hall, chairman. Parting Song ..... Sung by Choir In course of the program President Simpson entered; he had been suffering from an attack of fever the greater part of the day, but could not allow the pleasant afternoon to pass without his presence. He made some very en- couraging remarks on the success of the evening and the latent capabilities of the Negro race which can be molded into talents comparing equally with those in existence. Thanks were given to the organist, Mr E. C. Broadhurst, Mr. F. A. Myrle violinist, and Mr. Demit, clarinetist, ass- uming them that their services and high excautions will always be appre- ciated. With the conclusion of the afternoon's program after a few minutes the President announced the Mass Meeting which was opened with the hymn "From Greenland's Ioy Mountains," followed by prayer by Chapain Thompson. The words of the text dealt with by the Chapain for the evening were taken from St. John 3-16, in which he explained his clear and consistent man how good God has been in the unspeakable gift of His Son the Savior of meekind, and His willingness always to aid the needy; he also dealt on Unity, through which great things can be done, especially at this time with the colored race of four hundred millions with their leader, who have started in right earnest for the goal which has to be reached. In conclusion he showed that from the start until now that His Excellency the Hon. Marcus Garvey is no other than the savior of the Negro race with the assistance of the divine help of The All-Wise. President Edgar M. Simpson made a brief address dealing in a forceful manner the possibility of the Negro race which has been by no means in the misery and with the united efforts and self-sacrifice keeping the colors in front the establishment of the Negro race of the rich and fertile, still undeveloped, country of Liberia and where there are no small but rather great possibilities to be accomplished there without, doubt. The meeting closed with the National anthem, "Ode to Ethiopia." J. N. C. Auto Sales & Mfg. Co. inc. 780 Fulton Street BROOKLYN, N. W. Notice is hereby given, that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the J. N. C. Auto Sales & Mfg. Co., Inc. will be held at the office of the Company, No. 780 Fulton St. in the city of Brooklyn, County of Kings, New York, on Tuesday, the tenth day of May 1941, at seven o'clock at noon, St. N. for the election of nine Directors for the annual meeting. The office of such business will be held before the meeting. HOME NOW IN HOME NOW, 120 E. 10th Street, N.Y.C. a new opened two hundred acre residence with large lawns. First built to New York City in 1870, it is now built by Sterling Warner Company. The first new home, New York, 1890 to 1900, was NY & REALTY COMPANY Plainfield, N.J. ICE Limited has currently requested to change its address, since letters distributed from returned to this address. Please contact the agent, Inc., 40 West 140th Street, THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 San Manuel was the regular rendezvous of the members of the U. N. L. A. and other interested parties on Easter Monday to attend a meeting convened by the officers of the Division for the unveiling of their charter. The meeting formed the topic of local discussion for many days past, and draw a very large and representative gathering from the surrounding townships. The town presented a lively aspect with the advent of these welcome visitors. At about half past 12 o'clock the crowd moved from the Anglican Church on its way to Liberty Hall. Mr. L. Bannett, one of the members led the way carrying the charter and the banner—the red, the black, and green. Next in line came the officers of San Manuel and Fusero Padre dressed in their regalia and carrying a banner with the device, "One God! One aim! One destiny!" The black cross nurses in their uniforms also followed with a second banner, "Africa must be redeemed." The rest of the women followed and the men in the rear bearing the third banner, "The Lord is risen." The procession moved from the church in an easterly direction—going to the main street of the town. On reaching, it turned in a northerly direction—marching and singing until it reached another cross street running westward, then it turned again westerly for Liberty Hall, singing, "Onward Christian Boldisera." On reaching the hall, it marched around and entered by one of the southern doors, singing and marching until all the officers and members were seated. The chaplain, the Rev W A Charles, entered and arranged for the invelling. The secretary handed him the programme for the day's proceedings. To commence with, the national "Ode" "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." was sung, followed by prayer by the chaplain. He read his first lessons from Isaiah, after a few brief and inspiring remarks he proceeded to unveil the charter which was done in a masterly manner. He explained the meaning of what the U. N. I. A. means and what it is able to do for the race if we will get in line with the movement. After the invelling was finished, he explained what a chartered division means—both in Spanish and English. The national Antham was sung after which the collection was taken up. Messrs. I. Bennett and Bonilla were appointed to gather up the offering which was very liberal—taking into consideration the hard and trying time in Cuba at present. The ladies of the San Manuel Division had arranged for a bag subscription between them selves for the U. N. I. A. The bags were handed in at the meeting. The amounts from the bags were very inspiring. The most successful collectors were: START A BRANCH Seven or More Colored Pea Now an A Branch of the Improvement Seven or More Colored Persons Should Get Together Now and Start A Branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association IN THE FOLLOWING STATES WASHINGTON, OREGON, IDAHO, MONTANA, WYO DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA, KANSAS UTAH, NEVADA, ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, OKLAHOM MISSOURI, LOUISIANA, IOWA, MINNESOTA, WISCON ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, WEST VIRGIN ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, SOUTH CARO CAROLINA, TEXAS. For further information write to office of Right-Hom. Sec. Negro Improvement Association, 58 West 133th Street WASHINGTON, OREGON, IDAHO, MONTANA, WYOMING, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA, KANSAS, COLORADO, UTAH, NEVADA, ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO, OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, LOUISIANA, IOWA, MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, WEST VIRGINIA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA, TEXAS. For further information write to office of Right-Kon, Sec.-Gen., Universal Magro Improvement Association, 58 West 138th Street, New York. MOTOR TRUCK QUICK DELIVERY Light and Heavy Hauling Orders Receive Prompt Attention PHONE: HARLEM 2877 U. N. I. A. TRUCK. Two Trips Made Downtown Daily ALPHONSO JONES 58 WEST 135th STREET U. N. I. A. BUILDING Mrs. L. A. Ewart, $12; Mrs. A. Robinson, $10; Mrs. W. Miller, $1.90; Mrs. A. Peterson, $1.00; Miss Ethel Booths, $2.40; Mrs. S. Hanley, $1.10; Mrs. A. Harvey, $1.80; Mrs. R. Grant, $1.00; Miss R. Malcolm, $3.80; Mrs. M. Sinclair, $2.32; Miss M. Hanley, $1.90; Mrs. R. Murray, $1.00. Addresses were also given by the president, Mr. Fred S. Crawford, and Mr. Bonillo. General Secretary of Puerto Padra. The meeting came to a close by singing the National Anthem. Programme, San Manuel. 1. Opening address by the Rev. W. A. Charles. 2. Solo—"I am so happy." 3. Solo—"Leader in the black club." L. Bennett. 4. Recitation—"The day is long." 5. Solo—"You're the friend of my heart." M. Johns. 6. Recitation—"Rome was not built in a day." D. R. Ewart. 7. Recitation—"My best prayer" W. B. Robinson. 8. Solo—"Sweet peace." T. Williams. 9. Recitation—"Waiting to receive us." A. Robinson. 10. Recitation "The African chief." 11. Reading "The queen of Ethiopia." P. Welsh. 14. Recitation—"Needs of Islanda." 15. Solo "Gold fields of Nevada." M. F. Johns. 16. Recitation—"The day is long." 17. Solo—"Do they miss me at home." THE BROOKLYN U. N. I. A. Last Sunday evening the Brooklyn Division held its usual Sunday meeting. The opening hymn, "Shine On, Eternal Light," was sung by the audience, assisted by the Brooklyn band under the leadership of Mr. Joseph Abrahamson. Prayer was by the president, R. Austin. After a short address by President R. Hustin he took great pleasure in introducing Mr. A. June, Vice President, as the first speaker of the evening. Other speakers were as follows. Col. W. M. Lamotte, commanding officer of the Brooklyn Logions. Mr. Levi Lorde, Secretary of the Brooklyn Division, preached a wonderful sermon to the audience, taking his subject from the 12th Chapter, St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, verses 9 and 10, showing how St. Paul the Apostle preached his doctrine to the people in past ages. Seated on the rostrum Mrs. R. Bowman, President of the Ladies Division, Mrs. Gertrude Yearwood, Secretary of the Ladies' Division; Lieut J. Armstrong, Lieut D. Walsh and Lieut McVay, Brooklyn Division Aviation. The hall was packed to its capacity. The President then arose and made a few announcements entreating the members to be loyal to the cause, putting their trust in God and confidence in their leaders. They will soon overcome all difficulties, taking as their motto. "One God, one aim one destiny." R. AUSTIN, Reporter. Persons Should Get Together and Start Universal Negro Association MONTANA, WYOMING, SOUTH BRAZKA, KANSAS, COLORADO, MEXICO, OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, TREE, WEST VIRGINIA, GEORGIA, OA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH of Right-Hon. Sec.-Gen., Universal 138 West 138th Street, New York. Reporter FOR CHARTERS AND INFO NEGRO COMMUNITIES OF America, Africa, the West Indies, Central and LITED TO FORM THEMSELVES INTO NATIONAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT AND AFRICAN COMMUNITIES LEAGUE OF THE WORLD SOLIDATION OF THE SENTIMENT AND 400,000,000 OF THE NEGRO RACE FOR RACIAL PROGRESS, INDUSTRIA CATIONALLY, POLITICALLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUILDING A of Liberal Education of the Negro Race to the International Headquarters for divided There Is No Chartered Division in NATIONAL CONVENTI and Chapters of the Association of Every able on the 1st of August, 1921, at Liberty H TEST MOVEMENT IN THE THE NEGROES OF THE W Nal Negro Improvement Association Communities League and woman to become an active member of the operation we can make conditions better, if you be boys and girls of other races, then prove it now be good, not by talking, but by doing things. Proofs of the Universal Negro Improvement Association universal contraternity among the race; to promote the prey; to assist in civilizing the backward Student Negro States in Africa; to establish commun world top the protection of all Negroes irrespective schools for the racial education and culture of our commercial and industrial intercourse for the benefit of able to promote industries and commerce for the you, then you are dead to all sense of race prides. ALL NEGRO COMMUNITIES OF THE WORLD (of America, Africa, the West Indies, Central and South America) ARE REQUESTED TO FORM THEMSELVES INTO BRANCHES OF THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION and AFRICAN COMMUNITIES LEAGUE OF THE WORLD FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE SENTIMENT AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE 400,000,000 OF THE NEGRO RACE ORGANIZE FOR RACIAL PROGRESS, INDUSTRIALLY, COMMERCIALLY, EDUCATIONALLY, POLITICALLY AND SOCIALLY ORGANIZE FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUILDING A GREAT NATION Any Seven Persons of Liberal Education of the Negro Race Can Organize Among Themselves and Apply to the International Headquarters for Necessary Instructions and Charter, Provided There Is No Chartered Division in Such a Community. 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 organization. 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 ob-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 civilising 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; to the protection of all Negroes, irrespective of nationality; to establish universities, colleges and schools for the racial education and culture of our young men 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 in all senses of race pride and race manhood. Address All Communications to PRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION AND TIER LEAGUE, Inc. STREET NEW YORK, UNITED UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION AND AFRICAN COMMUNITIES LEAGUE, Inc. THE U. N. I. A. Our work in Louisville was established there under my direction more than ten weeks ago. It was introduced by the Rev. A. W. Thompson, who is one of our ardent working officers there now. I have organised five branches which I hope to combine later into one. We are somewhat handicapped for a place to meet and are compelled to pick our chances in the churches by the consent of the different leaders. These leaders are becoming more interested daily. They are as follows: As a aforesaid, Rev. A. W. Thompson, who is one of the president of the branches there on whom one can depend at all times. He is never too busy to let a meeting be held in his church. He has postponed some of his own meetings to allow this meeting to go on, which is an evidence of the fact of a soul into the work. He is in this work as he is in the ministry, very zealous and courageous, and inspires all with whom he comes in contact with the same. Another, our friend and brother, Rev. V. W. M. Lawler, who is also one of our presidents there, is an amiable young fellow whose beginning is very inspiring. He is a great enthusiast. His church work is successful and I believe he will work in the U. N. I. A. accordingly. Rev. Stewart, Rev. Jones, Rev. Williams, Rev. Johnson, Rev. Moore and Rev. Brown—all of these pilots of the Bible are great directors in this city for Jesus Christ and the uplift of humanity and are all also favorable of this work of the U. N. L. A. There are others whose names are not mentioned because of the lack of time. The slogan for the Negro is: "The intended world government must be completed by their unity in order to give them autonomy." This is God's will concerning us as anybody else. I have just received some correspondence from my friends in South America upon the subject of U. N. L. A. whose letters to me were very favorable. Now as regards the work in Louisville again We have other leaders there who are very much in sympathy with our work. Prof Lee L. Brown. Prof. Meneck, others such as doctors with whom I have talked and one very prominent doctor of the city whose name is Dr. Bailard, who has been in Liberia for more than three years, himself and his wife, are much in sympathy with the work. We have two lawyers of the city here who have joined us and are going to do all they can for us, not only as members, but NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 46 officers also of the U. N. L. A. The last one that joined us was Hon. William Thomas, who has spoken very nicely to us twice. The other lawyer's name I do not remember just now, but he is with us just the same. There are many other good principals in Louisville of whom I could speak, but time will not permit. Very sincerely yours, JAMES H. WILSON. Director of this field. WESTERN EDITOR COMMENDS THE GARVEY MOVEMENT WESTERN EDITOR COMMENDS THE GARVEY MOVEMENT April 11. 1921. Editor Negro World Dear Sir:—Permit me to say a word or two in laudation of your paper, editorially and in general, as well as of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. I am very glad to note that the men actively engaged on the staff work of this movement possess brains, common sense and stamina, and for that reason it is going to succeed. I am very hopeful of the outcome. The movement has already done incalculable good. It has caused colored people to think, and then act, as no other undertaking has done since our condition became a "problem." The people here are becoming interested to the superlative degree. What the Garvey movement teaches self elevation, self pride, self help, self righteousness, may be said to be the real road to somewhere. The Negro World is doing the greatest good of any colored paper published—advertising to the world the possibilities awaiting those of us who will remove the veil and seize them. Economic independence is the only tangible solution. Then, furthermore, if the colored races ever expect to get their right and a place in the sun, they must possess them—acquire something, demand something—command after getting something to back it—a place on which to stand. Push the good work on. We hope the intelligent Negroes will not be so oblivious to what is best as to "fight" this organization. It seems strange to even imagine any one so ignorant as to desire to hamper the progress of so efficacious a project. Any one with a thimbleful of brains can see that this move is a gigantic forward movement which portends much good. If it were not so these white journals would never have given one line of space to it. They fear the consecrations, but they pretend to be "warning" colored people of "danger" from "belligerent alliances." The thing for colored people to do is the next two decades is industrial activities and not too much prayers and preaching and "starry crowns" to be worn in the other world. I believe it will not be amiss to have some of your representatives come here when in this neighborhood and perfect an organization. You're very truly, D. L. ROGERS. Editor III. Conservator. Springfield, Ill. SEE MORE COLUMN. I notice there is a big blunder being made in this country today, and that to big corporations and other big concerns are endevouring to cut the salaries of their employee instead of first seeing to it that the high cost of living and rentals are reduced, so that both may work harmoniously together. A Being that this column has just started I won't say much on the 1888 Y. M. C. A. case, but Taylor does not seem to be at the tail end, anyway. I see that a certain popular land among us was intentionally overlooked by a certain club that held forth in a most brilliant affair at the New Star. Things certainly are getting tight. Why was it that one of our staunch friends and editor was not royal enough to attend the Board of Directors' meeting when requested. Of course, I don't blame him. We are watching the endeavors of the Committee for the Boys' Welfare Association. I sincerely trust they will do some good for the boys in our district and don't say to the boys when they have attained something "Fare thee well." LOOK! LOOK!! Do you want to save money? If so, eat all THE UNITY RESTAURANT 105 WEST 158TH STREET. Near Liberty Hall Here you get your money's worth. Home cooking and service Special on Sundays. / E. MASCOE. Prop., Member. U. N. L. A. Real Estate and Employment Agency Houses for Sale — Very Easy Terms. Also Hale and Female Help Wanted for Domestic or Commercial Service. 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