The Negro World

THE Negro World ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY THE NEGRO AT CHRISTMAS TIME VOL. XIII. No. 19 FELLOW MEN OF THE NEGRO RACE, Greeting. The Christian world will once more in a short while celebrate the nativity of the Lowly Nazarene, the One who came into the world over nineteen hundred years ago to save allen man and redeem a sinful world. In the celebration we will naturally take thought of the life and work of the Man who has so altered the course of human destiny. Needless to say Jesus the Christ who was born into the world has so made His mark upon the affairs of man as to make it impossible for us to ignore His physical and spiritual existence. He was the Christ, the Son of God, nevertheless, He was man, burdened with the same physical life as the ordinary one of us. His life was supposed to be an example by which man should regulate his intercourse with his brother. But how different it all seems today. While we in our profession take on the spiritual vision of our Blessed Redeemer, we find that we are farther apart today in the brotherhood of man as He taught than we ever were. The men to whom He preached His doctrine of salvation crucified Him. The world of today would do nothing less than nail Him to the same cross if He attempted in person to foster the doctrine of the bigger brotherhood. Man's sympathies have been torn asunder, and the world has taken on the spirit of selfishness that is bound to make us unfit for the greater blessing of the spiritual Redeemer. FREEDOM OF THOUGHT But with all this hopelessness of man's closer spiritual and brotherly relationship we march on and on to the point of destiny. As a race our program is no different to the rest. All peoples seek the freedom of thought and action that four hundred million Negroes of the world seek also. For preaching the salvation of man's soul the Christ was crucified. For us to preach the liberation of the mind and the body will make us but fit targets for those who have always lived off the ignorance of the people and the apparent NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922 AT CHRIS LET THE WHOLE WORLD LEARN TO LOVE AS JESUS TAUGHT WOULD THAT WHITE MAN CRUCIFY JESUS TODAY? MAN'S LYMPATHIES HAVE BEEN TORN ASSUNDER "PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO ALL MEN" peacefulness of the masses. Christ disturbed the peacefulness of the masses of His time by preaching the new doctrine of His religion, and the privileged hated and despised Him and subsequently put Him to death. The world adopts the same attitude today as it did then. Hence, we have had hundreds of thousands of reformers to suffer and die for the prosecution of their ideal in arousing the toiling suffering masses to the vision of their own freedom, spiritually or physically. PEACE ON EARTH We pray that this Christmastide will bring the change that will make man more considerate of his brother and more appreciative of the truths taught by the Man of Galilee. The message of "Peace on earth, good will to all men" brought to us by the angels over nineteen hundreds years ago is the message that is very much needed at this time for the salvation of the world from the doom that threatens. But how can we have peace when man is so corrupt, when man is so unfair and unjust to his brother, when the one race seeks to exploit and rob the other, the one nation seeks to take advantage of the other because it is weak? Such an attitude will never bring the peace that we desire. If we must be Christians, or if we must be men, ethical in our principles and dealings with our brother, we must to a great extent destroy that selfishness that has been the ruin of many a man, race and nation before. We must be considerate of our brother's life, even of his race and of his nation, --- and when we begin to be thus considerate take on the spirit of the man Jesus and usher the reign of real peace in a new world. Let our Christmas of 1922 be one of love cheer and gladness. Let us extend to the other fellow the hand of fellowship, and if he is down help him to rise. Let us meet the other fellow with the expression of encouragement that will make him feel that he is not alone in the struggle he makes for the existence of himself, of his race or his nation, because there is room for all. And then, surely, we shall feel happy, knowing that we have done service to some one else, that we have helped the other fellow make himself a fit object, not only for the kingdom of this earth, but for the Kingdom of God. When we practice all these things among our fellow men we shall surely be bringing God's Kingdom down to earth and usher in a new reign, that of peace and plenty. Let our hearts and firesides be warm; light them up with the spark of true affection, and, if possible, let the burning brilliancy radiate around the world until all men take on the new hope, the new life, that were taught and practiced by Jesus the Christ. Let all divisions, members and friends of the Universal Negro Improvement Association make a greater effort at this time to serve the great cause to which we have dedicated our lives. We pray and work for the emancipation of our people everywhere and the redemption of our country Africa, but let us do so with greater zeal and determination at this Christmastide, for by the help of ourselves we shall become greatly blessed through the promise of our Lord and Saviour. With very best wishes for have the honor to be AUDIENCE WITH BRILLIANT DISCOURSE ON "THE FLAG THAT LEADS TO LIBERTY" COME ONE! COME ALL! There Will Be TWO BIG MASS MEETINGS UNDER AUSPICES OF CAMDEN DIVISION No. 28 The Universal Negro Improvement Association —AND AFRICAN COMMUNITIES LEAGUE WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY EVENINGS DECEMBER 20 and 21, 1922 The Hon. Marcus Garvey President-General Universal Negro Improvement Association WILL SPEAK AT BOTH MEETINGS —AT THE— LIBERTY HALL 806 Keighn Avenue, Camden, N. J. Everybody Is Invited and Made W E L C O M E ADMISSION — — — 50 CENTS MRB. KVA COLLINS, Secretary. --- LIBERTY HALL, New York, Monday Night, December 11, 1922 After an absence of a few weeks from New York, Hon. Marcos Garvey returned to Liberty Hall tonight and thrilled an audience with a speech characterization of him as the fearless champion of Negro rights and Negro liberty, and leader of a movement which because of its phenomenal growth and wide influence, has become the most tasked of movement of the twentieth century—a movement which has created a great stir in Europe and which has caused the League of Nations to recognize its delegates, establishing a precedent which was never before made in taking cognizance of representatives who were not members in the League. Mr. Garvey's utterance tonight were of that bold uncommon promising and penetrating character which do not fail to give heart and inspiration to the followers of the movement and convince the world of the temper of the new Negro and his aspirations for freedom and self-government. Mr. Garvey wound up with a message of hope and inspiration to the Negroes of the world, saying that Ethiopia day is fast approaching, that the Red, the Black and the Green has already a place among the nations of the world; that all that is necessary is for us to get men to hold the stand and keep it flying so that it will not go down and thank God he and all circumstances we are holding on we are keeping the standard of the Red to Black and the Green affair and one of those days it will not only be perching from the top of Liberty Hall but be perching from the loftiest historic of our Motherland Africa keep with the trained the world knows that the Negro rising rising wrote in taking an ambition to become he is satisfied and those the Universal Negro Improve A statement he made of the Negro general of a more infuse his wrote the end of a chrion times and wrote the world would be free from wrote the full text of the MR GARVEY'S SPEECH How Macau can spark or forwa Must do something fellow of zone The subject advertised for me to speak on is The Flag That Leads to Liberty. At this time of world reorganization, the destiny of every race and nation hangs in the balance. Out of the great confusion every race and nation is making an effort to merge with that security of self that will make it possible for that race or that nation to hold a government place in the affairs of men. In this great turmoil we hear the city everywhere for one's part and one share of that which is regarded as man's right, man's liberty, man a freedom You are as much acquainted as I am with the many efforts that are being made on the part of weaker, as well as stronger nations to hold their own in this great reconstruction that is taking place in world affairs. It was with the desire to have the Negro properly protected and positioned among the other races and nations of the world, that the Universal Negro Improvement Association five years ago made an effort to organize the Negro peoples of the world into one great body. How far we have succeeded in that space of time is made manifest by the nervousness that has been created among the other nations of the world as touching the outcome, the object, the program of this great organization. The Prestige of the U. N. I. A. I understand that the delegates to the League of Nations, whom we elected in August returned to you and gave you an idea of the regard in which you are held, not in America, but on the continent of Europe. That some of the nationals of the continent regard your movement as one fraught with many dangers, that to you and the sentiment that surrounds you they look for that which will in a way to them, disturb their peace, their harmony, their security and their good will. They regard you with a great amount of seriousness because you are given expression to an ideal, you have fostered an object which has been the cause of the defeat of many a people, the defeat of many a nation in ages past and which will be the cause of the defeat of other peoples and nations in time to come. The Course of Liberty The course of liberty is one not fraught with ease and comfort, but one fraught with great difficulties, sacrifice and in many cases death. Such a program the Universal Negro Improvement Association has taken to itself, such a program we have sent around the world by our many proclamations by our many statements of determination to see it through. Enthusiasm Throughout the Country I have just returned from a nearby section of the country where I have had to come in contact with thousands of members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association other than myself where I have seen an enthusiasm, a loyalty, a devotion manifested not to be paralleled in any other movement known to me in the past or at the present time. (Applause) A determination to see the program through at whatsoever cost. That alone has made the world realize that the effort of the Universal Negro Improvement Association is not superfluous. THE NEGRO WORLD. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1922 Calls Attention to Great Stir Which U. N. I. A. Is Causing—The Course of Liberty Fraught With Great Difficulties—says Membership Is Determined to See Program Through—Gives Ringing Message of Encouragement to Negroes of the World THE DYER ANTI-LYNCHING BILL DISCUSSED—ITS FAILURE TO PASS THE SENATE IS LAID AT THE DOORS OF THE N. A. A. C. P.—METHODS PURSUED TO INVOKE SUSPICION AND BRING ABOUT DEFEAT—N. A. A. C. P. CHARGED WITH DISHONESTY AND INSINCERITY TOWARDS THE NEGRO—GARVEY MAKES OPEN CHALLENGE TO WHITE LEADERSHIP OF NEGROES Says National Association Is Trick of the White Man to Control Rising Ambition of the Negro—Points Out That It Has Made Conditions Worse for the Negro—Warns the Negro of the Menace of That Association and is not just a matter of the moment but that it is a deep seated denomination of millions of people that it is a cause that has been properly weighted and which the people are boldly standing behind and we are determined come what may, to have it realized. (Applause.) Those of us who lead understand well the psychology of those we are leading. We counted to a certain extent during the wild enthusiasm of the minute on something that struck home. We counted on the maintenance of that enthusiasm for a while on the part of the people. In the rush, enthusiasm comes and goes, but while enthusiasm comes and goes, the object remains the ideal remains and those whose visions are never dimmed, those whose visions are ever standfast, it falls to their lot to carry it on. This is a work which is to be put over by a few hundreds on thousands of us among the millions who make up the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The Present Position of the Negro The Present Position of the Negro What is the present position of the Negro in the world? In his relationship to other races and nations he is still discounted and discarded. Wherever we turn, whether to America or to France or England or any of the controlling nations, we find the same attitude when it comes to a question of our rights. But recently we had a fair example in the Senate of the United States when an association known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made an effort for getting the highest legislative body in the nation to pass a law making lynching of human beings a crime against the nation, a crime against humanity. When the bill was brought up before the supreme body of the nation, what did they do? They blocked the bill and destroyed all hope of its passage, proving to us just what we of the Universal Negro Improvement Association knew all improvement to place their hope in an allen race for the adjustment of the wrongs that affect the race. We of the Universal Negro Improvement Association advise that no such confidence be placed in any other race but ourselves. We know all along that when it came to the supreme test that neither the American Government, or the French Government, or the English Government would do anything against themselves or against their people for the interest of Negroes or for the interest of any race that seeks freedom or liberty at the hands of the people that oppress them. We therefore say that the only hope of the Negro is that of creating a government of his own. The question nationally as it affects us here in America is a very serious one. It has become more serious from the failure of the Dyer anti-lynching bill. It places us in a very unfavorable position, in that those of you who have been following the history of the Dyer anti-lynching bill will recollect that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People conducted certain propaganda in their effort to pass the bill and adopted methods that were calculated to offend the present government or the people who constitute the government. You remember that during the last election they issued a threat not only to the President of the United States, but to the Senators and Congressmen who were seeking election, that if they did not vote for the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would see to it that they were not returned to the Senate or to Congress, making the issue one of either supporting the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill or making up their minds to go down to defeat before the electors. That was the threat held out by the men who represented the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The association thus brought out that the Negro constituted a balance of power politically. At no time in the history of America was the white man willing to admit the Negro as a political entity, as a political power as a political factor to be reckoned with. During the time of the emancipation or immediately after when the Negro was given the vote in the South, it was done without previous calculation as to how it would effect the white man in his relations with the black man. The question of emancipation was an accident and a matter of the moment, and Abraham Lincoln, in signing the Emancipation Proclamation, laid the foundation for admitting 4,000,000 black men to full citizenship in the country. The majority of these black men were to be found in the slave States. Lincoln did not calculate on the political consequences which would result from giving the Negro political rights co-equal with the white man. The Negro was called upon by his compatriots and by the political exploiters of the other race to use his ballot not only to his own advantage but to the disadvantage of those who liberated him because of the capital that could be made out of it. The result was that hundreds of Negroes were elected to the State Legislatures. 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The majority of our people were in the South hence the North had no need to resort to such measures in depriving the Negro of his vote. What has happened? The Negro has transferred his residence from the South to the North and in the big Northern and Western industrial communities we find large bodies of Negroes established. In New York where in or twenty years ago we had 10,000 Negroes, today we have 150,000 in Chicago where we had about 50,000 we have 125,000 Negroes in Philadelphia where we had a few Negroes we have nearly 100,000 and many of the big cities of the North and Northwest, where we had no Negro population we now have a Negro population ranging from 50,000 to 100,000. In these respective centers we started just a few years ago to seek representation in the Legislatures and in New York and Chicago we were able to elect Negroes to the city councils and State Legislatures. The question was local and the problem of the Negro and his voting power was only local. But what has happened? For the purpose of getting the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill passed whether the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was in earnest or not I believe they were not in earnest as I will explain later on. They raised a great national howl, and made every Congressman and every Senator throughout the nation to understand that the Negro in the North had constituted himself a political power, a political factor and that no Senator or no Congressman could continue his career except with the good will of the Negro. No white man is going to stand for that. What has happened, therefore? The turning down of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill in the Senate was but an act of resentment on the part of the Legislators of this country to prove to the Negro that they were not going to pass anything on the threat of our race. The Negro Problem a National Issue Is the N A. A. C. P. on Honest Or- ganization? Now the question comes whether the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an honest organization towards Negroes or not? And Marcus Garvey maintains the opinion that it is not honest in its intention. I believe that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People staged the act of this Dyer Anti-Lunching bill for the results they were going to have. You will say, how is that and they are an organization organized for the advancement of Negroes? The motive of this organization as I can see is this. As you all know the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an organization that is con- trolled by white executives. The president is a white man the treasurer is a white man the chairman of the Board of Directors is a white man many of the vice presidents are white men until recently the secretary was a white man. It was not until the Universal Negro Improvement Association started to criticize them and when their white secretary was as unsettled down in Texas that they hunged the secretary from a white man to a colored man and the only executive officer who is a colored man is the secretary. All the executive officers are white men and white women. The N. A. A. C. P a Subterfuge Now what is the object of it? The object of it is thus that this National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is not a Southern institution. It was of Northern origin but when the South found out it mistake the mistake of Lincoln an emancipating four million Negroes to full citizenship with the power of his ballot and then the North saw what had happened in the South in deriving the Negro of the use of the ballot the North regretted its act of fighting for freedom of the Negro but it was too late. The North therefore sought to devise some ways and means of circumventing the Negro and the way they decided to do it was by the formation of an organization to which Negroes would look as the only rock of home and that these white people would get control of such an organization under the disguise of philanthropy. They would get hold of that organization and make Negroes believe that it was only through this organization that they could enjoy all the rights which they want. And they so arranged it that they were able to get the influence desired. More Lynchings Have Occurred More Lynchings Have Occurred That association has been fighting lynching for thirty-seven and every year more people have been lynched. They have been talking about social equality, and they have drawn the line of prejudice more and more every year. That organization has been talking about political rights, and we find out now that year after year they are redistricting those districts where Negroes have the balance of power in politics. That is what we have got through the advocacy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It is nothing else but the trick of the white man to control the using ambition of the Negro If the National Association were on corner about the Dyer Anti-Letching Bill they never would have gone about it in the way they went but they went about it that way because they knew they would argue the suspicion of the great polluters who are directing the destinies of the country and at this time I know that such polluters are devloping ways and means by which in another few years every Negro will be deprived of his ballot in the North even as the Southern Negro has been deprived of his ballot White Leadership Not Desirable In an enlightened age like this can you see an reason for any people who desire freedom or who desire liberty allowing another race to be their leaders? The situation is this: Three hundred years ago you and I were living by ourselves in Africa. We never disturbed anybody but men and got hold of us and took us away thousands of miles and kept us as slaves for two hundred and fifty years, whipped us every day of our lives and brutalized us. If you got away from those men would you go back in their clutches again? (Critic of no no.) It is not reasonable to expect that. Could any Negro who has lived under the white man's slaves for 250 years expect freedom and liberty from the same man who enslaved him for 250 years? Could such a man be our leader? Could I expect any sincerity in such a movement? And that is why the Universal --- Negro Improvement Association is determined to make this flight. It would be unnatural for any man in the world to do more for another race than he would do for his own. It is not to be expected, and that is our present situation in America and that is our present situation all over the world. We are tired of having the kind of leadership which we have had for the last fifty years a leadership that is completely bridged. Breaking Away from the Past Breaking Away from the Past The Universal Negro Improvement Association seeks at this time to break away from the bonds that have held the Negro in the past with the hope of entering upon a new day and a new light that will bring freedom and liberty to an emancipated race. To you in Liberty Hall and the six million members who follow and profess the faith of the Universal Negro Improvement Association there is great hope of early victory for the cause. What is desire however is that we hold fast our faith that we keep the faith because faith alone will make us whole faith alone will make us perfect in the realization of our dream. Remember that nations are not made in a day. World changes are not brought about in a minute but by continuous application to that which you desire in time the object will be realized, and day by day the Universal Negro Improvement Association draws nearer and nearer to its destiny. We are nearer toward the achievement of African freedom today than we were yesterday we are nearer this month than we were last month we are nearer this year than we were last year. Look from whence we climbed. We have climbed from the depths of thirteen members in four and a half years to six million. (Appendix.) With perseverance with determination in another few years we will have the Negron of the world we ded into one organization. We of the executive know what we need to speak to cause we come in daily contact with what is happening throughout the world, but it is not good policy to us to tell you everything. If you have confidence in your leaders, then be us when we say that I hospital day is fast approaching (Applause) You will believe us when we say that the Red, the Black and the Green has already found a place among nations of the world. You will believe us when we say that all that is necessary is for us to get the man to hold the standard and keep it flying so that it will not HARVEY'S GREATER MINSTRELS and OCTOROON BEAUTY CHORUS Genuine Darkey Jubilee Singers and Coon Shouters FOUR IN ONE A MUSICAL — VAUDEVILLE — GIRL — MINSTREL SHOW COMBINED FEATURING INTERNATIONAL STARS 50—MINSTREL KINGS and QUEENS—50 Traveling in Their Own Fine Steel Train 12 High Class—High Salaried Vaudeville Acts Something NEW in Vaudeville and NOVEL in Minstrelsy The Greatest Singing “First Part” and the Most Sensational Vaudeville Ever Seen with Minstrels MINSTRELS DE LUXE Street Parade Daily and Band Concert in Front of Theatre Preceding Each Performance CAN YOU DRIVE AN AUTOMOBILE? 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The disdain Negro is making his voice heard and through the Universal Negro Improvement Association the voice of the Negro is being heard as no disdain face or nation's voice was heard before. His voice breaks out in clairion tones. With the world against him he refuses to die until liberty comes his way. Nothing can persuade us to rebugh the cause even though 100 may fall back 200 will later fall in. It is a strange thing that in the Universal Negro Improvement Association whether it is in New York or Philadelphia or Chicago or anywhere else every time one Negro falls out of line two or ten more fall in and the work goes on just the same (Applause) How many of us have not prophesied failure and then a year after come back and say "After all this thing is still going" When you think that anything looks like failure in the Universal Negro Improvement Association that in the time we are just preparing for a big drive So I want you to realize that the work is nottingham. It is a labor of love on the part of some of us, we love it so well that we will not give up it along as there is one ounce of truth so long as there is a spark of life because even unto death some of us intend to keep on in carrying forward the course of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and uphold the colors of the Red the Black of the Green (Applause) DO YOU NEED LUCK? In business, late marriage kisses money troubles? Why not let Lurky Mears help you by a ring or a trunk ticket Them—one or several ar- ticles in directions. Best to be here hatt Blytheville, Ark Have found them all you recommend. Neighbour A. Good luck problem solved last Send in stamp for a liber- tral package containing 20 Lurky mears and all other duplexes. Bait in guaranteed for your money back. McKNIT you can sell Lurky Mears by fitting in a trunk ticket. At Dept. B, 423 West 6th St. Address Lurky Stat Mgr to Dept. B, 423 West 6th St. U. N. I. A. LIKENED IN POWER TO THE ONRUSH OF A MIGHTY LOCOMOTOR LIBERTY HALL, NEW YORK SUNDAY NIGHT, Dec. 17.—in consequence with the purpose to make the various Liberty balls of the Universal Negro Improvement Association the forum of Negro thought and the Moes from whence cannates the inspiration to the Negroes of the world in their efforts toward the consummation of the program which has been laid down by the association's development committee, in distantly west of the Negro by the awakening of a new manhood spirit and of a desire to reclaim for himself his motherland Africa, where he can establish a government of his own. Hon. Marcus Garvey, Prof. William H. Perris and Counselor Vernal J. Williams delivered tonight speeches of a character which should have the effect that in the Universal Negro Improvement Association the salvation of the Negro race is secure and its future destiny certain if the Negroes of the world will stand solidly behind the movement and give it the support morally and materially which it deserves. Speaking from the subject, The Negro and Himself 'Mr. Tarry' in a wonderful speech sounded a warning to the Negroes of the world of the detriment to their interests as a race in submitting positively to the effects of the Negroes of the world that makes the Negro under the civilization of the day a slave rather than a free man. For the Negro to lift himself above his present condition for the Negro to rise to the highest height in human possibility for him, destroys Mr. Greene, to take on an education and culture of his own for him to attain the moment of felicity for him to create a civilization of his own Mr. Terry's address throughout was the earnest plea of a man who, because of the position which he holds, leader of the greatest Negro organization in the world, keenly connected of the burden that rests heavily upon his shoulders of lifting an oppressed race and directing it in the right path, avoiding the pitfalls which it has encountered in the past, pointing out its weaknesses and deficiencies and giving it words of cheer and encouragement which, without dimmy in the path which he has taken, Universal Negro Improvement Association that will ultimately culminate in freedom and complete organization. …… The speeches of Prof Ferris and Counsellor Williams were of an equally inspiring character. With telling effect Prof Ferris referred to the possibilities that are within the grasp of the youth of the race by narming what he had witnessed during the past week at the commencement exercises of the Braithwaite Shortland and Business School when a lad of twelve years of age (who by the way is a member of the Juvenile Corps of the N. U. L. A. graduated and received a diploma for having completed the study of short-hand and typewriting. What will him him, asked Prof Ferris, from writing his name on the pages of human history? There are three things, he needs his needs. He needs to go on cultivating his health until he match his income with this of any man in the world, he needs outdoor exercise so that he has the physique of the body to back up his intellectual work and then he needs the will power by which he can overcome opposition. ```markdown ``` How Vernal Williams likened the U. N. A to the crushing power of the mighty locomotive which speeds along the tracks catching and hurting into oblivion everything in its pathway. In the same way, he said, in which the great steam engine pushes along unhindered and undisturbed, so is this great locomotive of the Universal Negro Improvement Association pushing along, brushing aside the objects that have been trying to impede its progress. An a practical illustration, Mr. Williams said that last summer and up to the early fall here in New York, he was the great mass meeting held for the steamship washing the U. N. A. Where are these three now? Mr. Williams thundered. Answering the question himself he said it was because (speaking figuratively) the old ship that barked then have realized that the locomotive in its running speed is too great to be tampered with - too great to be bindered. The many brilliant and forceful thoughts so eloquently expressed by Mr. William cannot be condensed into a few words, therefore the entire speech must be read in order that its full importance may be gleaned and the hopeful and inspiring message it conveys should be driven home. Following is the full text of the speeches Prof. William H. Ferris Speaks Prof William H. Ferris spoke as follows Last week I had two occasions to see the future standard bearers of our race—Wednesday night, when I attended the commencement exercises of the Braithwaite Shortland and Business School, and Friday night, when I attended the entertainment and military drill given by the juveniles of this association. The thing that impressed me most at the Braithwaite Shortand and Business School's commencement was that one boy only 12 or 13 years of age graduated in typewriting and shorthand—the youngest that I have ever come across. The thing that impressed me Friday night was the precision with which those young people drilled and marched. Seeing that boy of that age naturally called my attention back to the time when I was a schoolboy and the dreams that I held. That boy knows a great deal more at his age than Toulouse L'Overture and Frederick Douglas and Rooker Washington did. What will hinder him from writing his name on the pages of human history so he are three things that he must learn. He must learn his brain until he can match his brains with that of any man in the world he needs outdoor exercise so that he can have the physique of the body to back up his intellectual work, and then he needs the will-power by which he can overcome opposition. In the physical world we find the day of forces. In the sea today the big fish are swallowing up the little fish in the jungles of Africa and of Asia the lions and tigers and leopards are showing at each other, the victory belonging to the strongest. So it has been with human affairs. If I had the construction of this world I would not have constructed a world where all the prizes go to the strong, but I would have constructed a world where the weak could get at the table or at the table and the strong could get. But the Almighty had plain whose nastiness I cannot comprehend. Darwin tells us of the sort of world we are living in—it's a world with the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest dominating factors. The first thing that you read about in the Old Testament was about nations fighting nations. When you begin to study Greek, the first text book they put in your hands is Xenophon's Anabasis, which tells you how he led ten thousand across the sea. When you begin to study Latin they give you Cassius's Gallic Wars, which tell you of wars and rumors of wars. So it happens that the enemy in all wars would win and would fight for them, but the strong are able to take them while the weak have to step back and fold their hands and take what the others give them. As to what the Negro will get in this shuffling that is going on now will depend upon his muscle power, his brain power, his industrial power, his political power and his commercial power. It depends large; even that colored boy's environment as to how high he will rise in the world, and it depends upon himself. You see the little accor. You plant the little acorn in the ground and plant it in the soil. It has within it a gluten cell and when the moisture from the rain touches that gluten cell and the sun warms it the gluten cell begins to get active and absorbs food from its environment; it goes on doing it and it grows and multiplies itself and by and by it has strength enough to drive its roots down in the earth and its trunk with vast limbs and branches into the air. it is the power residing in that little acorn which is dynamic that enables it to develop into an oak tree. And so with a man, a rucus and a nation. It grows with a man, a rucus and a nation. It way up against obstacles—that can form powerful alliances and can use forelight and discretion, statecraft and force when necessary—that is the man, the race or the nation that is going to get the things in this world. What was the difference between Toussaint L'Ouverture and Frederick Douglas and Booker T. W. Washington and other men who wore braves? The main difference was the idea that dominated them and made them say: "I am going to rise and make headway and other men." It was that initial ambition that hurried them on and on and on until they climbed to the top. Initial Ambition and Get-There Spirit Now there is one thing that the Universal Negro Improvement Association has given the Negro—that is, that "get-there" spirit and that initial ambition. All the other great racial organizations that have been formed since I began to study racial events have played a game of watchful waiting—waiting to see what order the Caucasian would give next. But the Universal Negro improvement Association has taught black men to build up their enterprise and to develop Liberia. He must and will become an industrial and financial and commercial factor in the world. It is all right to say as Terence, the great colored poet, said in the Coliseum of Rome: "I am a man and nothing that is common to humanity is foreign to me." But this is a skeptical age—an age of doubling Thomas, when men say "You must show me!" And the only way we as a race can get prestige and standing in this world is by the cumulative mass of our achievements. I saw when I was a schoolboy Frederick Douglas honored at the Hypertion in New Haven, which was packed and jammed. It was because he started an slave and by virtue of his personality and genius had won the admiration of the stateman. He commanded and challenged, recognition for what he was. I saw another man of the darker honored—Marquis de Why. He had taken Japan, which was semi-barbary and caused it to absorb and assimilate, western civilization and, because a factor to be reckoned with in the name of nations, Has Swept Aside and Hurled Into Oblivion All Objects That Have Tried to Impede its Programs—Is Too Great to Be Tampered With or to Be Hindered—Has Impressed Upon the World That Respect Must Follow Power—Has Caused the World to Devote More Thought to the Freedom of the Negro THESE BRILLIANT THOUGHTS ELOQUENTLY EXPRESSED BY COUNSELLOR WILLIAMS IN TELLING SPEECH—GARVEY ISSUES WARNING OF DETRIMENT TO RACE'S INTEREST THROUGH ALIEN EDUCATION AND CULTURE—HAS MADE THE NEGRO A SLAVE RATHER THAN A FREE MAN—NEGRO MUST TAKE ON EDUCATION AND CULTURE OF HIS OWN—MUST CREATE A CIVILIZATION OF HIS OWN Liberty Hall Audience Thrilled and Cheered by Inspiring Messages—Take On Renewed Enthusiasm for the Movement—Show a Determination to Carry Program Through Universal Negro Improvement Association, which was launched by the Hon Marcus Garvey, the Negro will more and more be recognized as a dynamic force and faster in the world. You are respected not for what your strength is now so much as what it is possible for it to become in the future, because the world sees that if black men everywhere are inspired by the dynamo of human progress nothing can impede their progress. Cultivate the Wrong End We as a race are unfortunate in this respect. We cultivate our heels more than we do our heels. I think that dancing itself is a splendid exercise; it makes one graceful and symmetrical. I have thought as I have attended receptions and seen the symmetry and grace that I have, if the energy that our young people spent in training their heels would be spent in training them, we would progress in the world. We are living in an age when muscle power does not count as it did in the ages past and gone. Joe Pierce died in New Haven a week ago Wednesday at the age of 95 and worked until he was 50. When I was a boy he was regarded as the strongest man for miles around. When he was a young man they did not have so much machinery; muscle power and horses power did the work which machinery does now, and his muscle power was in great demand; but now machinery and activity have caused the machine to do what the human muscle formerly did, and it is the race that cultivates its brains and trains its intellect that will get through. An Age of Intense Competition If we realize that we are living in an age of intense competition, when we have not to match our brains in commercial and industrial affairs with other races, and if we to our unbounded vitality would add that training and experience necessary to grapple with the great problems of the world, instead of being a race to be piloted and a race that other people feel sympathy towards, we will become a race to be reckoned with because of our potential power. (Applause.) Counselor Williams Speaks Hon. Vernal J. Williams delivered the following address. There is no greater evidence,—there is no greater proof, there is no greater manifestation of the strength of any organized force than the resultant power with which it resists other forces. When the locomotive speeds along the tracks catching and hurling into oblivion everything in its pathway we look upon that as wonderful because of the power with which the locomotive in its running speed clears the track before it. We observe further however, and impose upon it the impossibilities of objects whose resisting force and power is smaller than the resisting force and power of the locomotive itself. We take the dog who bursts at the locomotive. The dog takes care to let the locomotive pass by. U. N. I. A. Like a Logomotive Within the history of this movement up to this very moment, there are times ever and when small objects appear on the tracks when small dogs begin to bark before the onrush of this mighty locomotive. In the same way in which the great steam engine pushes along unhindered and undisturbed, so is this great locomotive of the Universal Negro Improvement Association pushing along. We find that the objects that have been trying to impede the progress of this movement are the onward rush of this mighty movement. We have found that the small dogs who bark in the path have been GRAND TIME IN ATLANTIC CITY wise enough to let the locomotive pass by. Opposing Movements Have Died Last summer and up to the early fall here in New York there were great mass meetings held for the purpose of smashing the Universal Negro Improvement Assn. Where are these meetings now? Because the dogs that barked then have realised that the locomotive in its rushed speed is too great to be tamed with—too great to hinder. That is an omen of the future. I regard the struggles of the past—I regard the success with which the Universal Negro Improvement Association has met those struggles as omen, as prophetic visions when the Universal Negro Improvement Association is when a great, magnificent, mighty government in Africa has been built up and when that Government will meet the formidable governmental foes of the future. And my friends, the great opportunity that is presented to you and me is that we can partake of the plans that will make the dream mature. You and I are living in an age when men place little respect on law or order. There was a time when men respected law and order. We find today that through the laws of the United States, there was a tendency to relax the enforcement of law; there was a tendency to battles the power and the might that made law enforceable; but you will find that in communities where there is a mighty legal power, men respect the law. So it is in the idea of building governments. Unless you get behind them a power and force that commands respect, then men will not respect that government, or that political force. Unless the United States government Association does nothing to prove this one thing: it impresses upon the world that respect must follow power. An Age of Power This is an age of power; unless you have power there is no hope. A movement like this that went from 18 in membership to over four million rose because of its power to impress upon the people everywhere that they should be free and independent under a government of their own; it progressed because of its power to impress the world at large that the New Negro had arisen into the manhood and womanhood of a new day; it rose because of its power to away people throughout the world and to bring them into the fold of the doctrine of a free and redeemed Africa; it rose in the international place it occupies because by its strength, by its power it impressed upon the governments of the world that it stood for something. Maa Influenced Great Britain Do you suppose for one moment that Great Britain after holding in slavery for years those black men down in South Africa would ever think of freeing the blacks of German East Africa had the Universal Negro Improvement Association not sent a delegation to the League of Nations to battle for Africa? (Applause.) Do you suppose that Great Britain would ever have thought of the freedom of Africans if a great movement did not speak from the council of the nations to the world? If so, to you: results are achieved not at all directly, results are achieved indirectly and when a man works toward an object though at times he may not procure the result in the direct way yet if the result is achieved in an indirect way it is achieved just the same. World Devoting More Thought to Freedom of Negro I find that since the Universal Negro Improvement Association's delegation went to the League of Nations the white people of the world have devoted more thought toward the freedom of the Africans. Why? Because they are afraid that if by our strength and our power we force them to it they may have to give more than (they want) to give now. My friends, the handwriting is visible on the walk and that handwriting on the wall of time is as clear and visible as humanity can behold. The ottering of empires of the past was foretold by the agitation of the weak. Had it not been for the French peasantry there would never have been a free and independent Republic of France today. Those of you who have known that throughout all her revolutions, out all her rise to her place among the foremost powers of the world, France rose because the common people of France had her rise by their own revolution. It is the agitation of the weak people of the world that writes on the wall of time the results of the future. One of the delegates was telling me of a speech made by Lord Cecil in the League of Nations in which he said these words: "If any one doubts that the League of Nations is a success we have get only to point to the Haitian people from little republic that does not own a single battlefield, having a voice as loud in the council of the nations as the greatest empire the world has ever seen." Let me turn to the words of the great English poet Kipling: "If drunk with spirit of power we loosely Wild tongues that have not Thoe in us. Such boasting as the Gentiles use, or lesser breeds without the law, Judge of the nations be with us yet Lest we forget; lest we forget." Rome forget and she went down beneath the arid sandes of history; Carthage forget and Carthage crumbled in the ashes of time; Greece forget and her grandeurs no longer are read in the modern pages of history. Empires do not live by their own strength and their own power; empires live by the foliage and providence of a mighty God as manifested in the harries and milies of the poor and low common people. If India would rise in her power (throw-owr, and if Africa would rise—if every black man throughout the world would rise where would Britain's empire be? Historians in the future will record the **MISSISSIPPIA** of Britain, and that very man that requites the fall of empires that heath today will also write on the walls of age a new emperor in a new government, a new people who see above boundaries above oppression, above all oppression, they will write on the walls of empires, they will write on the walls of empires, the prev. of the new Empire, the new Africa, the Africa that was born, when the Universal Negro Improvement Association sent its describes out from the platform of liberty Hall. which when and then limited health with equal flexibility? Another specialist, that called the large amount of sozane was venitrolol at the beginning of 2003. Woods and his business consuming them too? The dominant consumed by both of Bottles's front of the same and then did his best to be found in a regular stock. When by the time he built along the same government line the�rmons heavy weight change of Johnson who will have some two voices of some power that could give several initials from several different languages. The dark blue on the bus, with Crom and the other two an excellent pomody number with the exposed in gating and with the assistance of some selling and the outside of the quixmark. The Nogre and Himself Hon. Marcus Gervay spends a lot of time with the Nogre. lows: My subject for tonight is "The Negro and Himself." Education is the medium by which a people are prepared for the creation of their own particular civilization and the advancement and glory of their own race. The question could be asked: What kind of education is the Negro setting to him for the civilization of his own creation? The answer is on the point of every man in his course of life in his conduct. The one answer is that he is suffering from the bad effects of an alien education, of an alien culture that makes him under the civilization of the day a slave rather than a free man. In a Pititable State The student of human affairs, of races and of nations must pity the Negro for the state that he inhouses a state of mental slavery, a state in which to be makes one a slave not only mentally but physically. When we look around in this twentieth century what a Negro is. Continued on page 130. CASE OF U. S. AGAINST GARVEY AND OTHERS The case of the United States post-office inspectors against Hon. Marcus Garvey, which has been postponed several times, will be called for trial on the 28th inst. The case promises to be the most interesting trial in this country, affecting the colored race. Hundreds of witnesses, probably not fewer than a thousand, will be called by the defense. HARVEY'S GREATER MIN. STRELS COME TO HARLEM Harvey's Greater Minneapolis, made their first appearance in New York city at the Lafayette Theatre Monday night to capacity house. The fact that the show last night was the first minneapolis show to be given in New York city for many years, has something to do with the crowd, being so warmly appreciative throughout the performance and the applause for the hearty se heaty, and continues. The cast includes a large, large number of talented and experienced people. The musical numbers were taken care of in excellent style with Marlene Jackson, the so-called "Black Pait," taking her usual warm and clear soprano to good advantage, especially in the old, old A paper published every Saturday in the interest of the Negro race and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by the African Communities League. MARCO GARVEN Managing Editor BENN D. WALSON Associate Editor BENN O. FATOR Business Manager SIR JOHN R. BRUCE, K. G. O. N. Contributing Editor SURSCRIPTION RATES: THE NEGRO WORLD Domestic One Year. $129 Six Months. $129 Three Months. $78 Foreign One Year. $85.50 Six Months. $2.00 Three Months. $1.53 Entered on second-class matter April 18, 1919, at the Portofores at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1919. PRICES: Five cents in Greater New York; seven cents elsewhere in the U. S. A.; ten cents in Foreign Countries. Advertising Rates at Office VOL. XIII. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 23, 1922 No. 19 The Negro World does not knowingly accept questionable or fraudulent advertising. Readers of the Negro World are essentially 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. MOB VIOLENCE IN AMERICA WE have frequently been asked by our correspondents our opinion of the Ku Klux Klan. An editorial is supposed to represent the editorial policy of the paper and the consensus of opinion of the editors. That is why the editorial "We" is used. But there are new questions coming up which all of the editors do not look at from the same point of observation. Now the literary editor of The Negro World has not conferred with the other members of the editorial staff regarding the Ku Klux Klan. And he does not know whether they will agree in toto with his own interpretation. But he presents his conclusions as the result of twenty years' study of sociology and history. So much publicity has been given to the pronouncements and activities of the Klan that most people know of its ultimate objective. To aim for the supremacy of white American Protestants in the United States of America. That bars the Negroes, the Jews and the Catholics from entrance into the Holy of Holies. Mayor Hylan of New York, General Pershing, several Governors and several preachers and the heads of fraternal organizations have come out publicly against the Klan. An indictment is presented by a pamphlet published by the American Civil Liberties Union. Such prominent persons as Jeannette Rankin and Roger N. Baldwin are directors of the union. And such eminent Americans as Jane Addams, Lincoln Colcord, Norman Hapgood, Morris Hillquit, John Haynes Holmes, Frederic C. Huever B. W. Hushach, Helen Keller, Scott Nearing, Vida D. Scudder, Helen Phelps Stokes, Oswald Harrison Villard and Bishop Charles D. Williams are members of the national committee. It represents men and women, some of whom have a literary and others a social standing in America which is unquestioned. It represents thought and advanced thought, whether one agrees with it or not. The pamphlet is entitled, "Who May Safely Advocate Force and Violence? Read here what Elihu Root, Judge Landis, Senator Chambelain, State officials, Mayors and other distinguished Americans have to say." It takes up incitement to violence during the war and incitement to violence against radicals since the war. On the next page to the last the pamphlet says: "To encourage violence today by those in control of our political and industrial life is only to encourage it for future use among the classes struggling for control. History tells the story only too clearly. Industrial conflict will keep just as much violence as it sows. The only way to orderly progress is by unlimited freedom of speech, press and assemblage for all." On the last page the "Record of Mob Violence in the United States, September 1, 1920, to June 1, 1922, as reported in the files of the American Civil Liberties Union" is given. The report states: "We add this statement about mob violence to give point to the exhibit of utterances. This is the product of the spirit they voice. "In this period of 1 year and 9 months: 1. Eighty-five persons were lynched, 30 whites and 55 Negroes. All but 4 were the victims of unidentified mobs. Four were the victims of groups whose connections were reported. 2. Fifty-one persons were tarred and feathered—49 white and only 2 Negroes. One of the victims was a white woman. Eight of the outrages were attributed to the Ku Klux Klan and 2 to the American Legion. 3. One hundred and twenty-seven were flogged, 90 whites and 37 Negroes. Four of the victims were women, 2 white and 2 Negroes. The Ku Klux Klan was charged with 24 of the floggings, including one of the women. The American Legion is credited with only one flogging. 4. Mobs deported from local communities about 450 persons in this period, chiefly I. W. W.'s and allens. Public officials led or made up the mobs in several cases. In 28 instances in addition mobs forced persons to leave town under threats of violence. The Ku Klux Klan was responsible for 21 of these. The aliquots of mobs killed total, in fact, more than the 85 above if accession is taken of the election riots in Florida, where 40 to 60 Negroes lost their lives, and of race rioting in Tulsa, Okla., where 30 were killed. While most of the mob violence took place in the South and northwest it was also well distributed through the Far West and middle West, with lower cases in the East. The most people over 700 victims at the lowest possible count, include 200 including riots, violence. The figures are all doubtless accurate, but the mobs are necessarily incomplete, based only on the evidence. The report shows that there is a growing disregard for law and justice in the country and that the Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the deaths of many violence. The report also reveals that the Ku Klux Klan was not directly involved in the murder of the cases of mob violence during the riots in which statistics were prepared. Why the Ku Klux Klan then? It is expanding as an organization that spread its work (like for what it is today) but for the benefit of the people. The Ku Klux Klan is a powerful organization that have the right to organize and to mobilize people and others to protect themselves and others. THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932 Dr. W. H. Moses and Dr. P. J. Bryant threw their forces behind Dr. W. G. Parks. The contest for the presidency of the convention was limited them to Dr. L. K. Williams of Chicago and Dr. Parks. Dr. Williams received nearly eight hundred votes and Dr. Parks nearly seven hundred votes. Dr. Parks pastored the largest Negro church in the City of Brotherly Love. The strain of church work, the excitement over the convention and the disappointment at not winning the coveted honor all proved too much for Dr. Parks. Dr. Parks was not a great scholar, but he was a great preacher and a great pastor of scholarly inclinations. He was a fine looking man, brown in complexion with noble forehead, pleasant but firm countenance, pleasant voice and manner, standing slightly above medium stature, with the physique of an athlete. Dr. Parks possessed an attractive personality. He was a Christian gentleman, a big hearted minister of the gospel, of high character and high ideals. He was an asset to the church, the race and the country. TWO smart young colored Socialists of New York, who edit a monthly magazine, sent letters to twenty-five prominent Negroes a few weeks ago, asking their opinion of a noted Negro leader who was born on the island of Jamaica. Fourteen of the gentlemen replied. The procedure shows how smart the two young men are. They said, in substance, in their letter of inquiry. "John Smith is a bad man. He said and did so and so." But they did not tell all of the things that John Smith said and did, but only the things that John Smith said and did that seemed to them liable to criticism. Then they possibly took a drink of hooch or a dose of opium and permitted their imagination to run not, for they stated that John Smith said and did things which they only imagined that he said and did. Quite naturally, some of the men who had never met John Smith personally or never heard him speak and only knew him from hear-say, would write to the two smart young men: "If John Smith is as bad a man as you say he is, he must be a very bad man, indeed, and should be arrested or deported." In fancy we can see the two smart young men drinking their coffee together and patting each other on the shoulder, saying "How Smart We Are." THERE were two slight errors in my article on page 5 of the December 16 issue of The Negro World, due to the printer's leaving out three lines in breaking the galleys into the pages. The passage at the bottom of column four should read: "An aristocracy can produce more efficiency within a brief space of time than a democracy because in an aristocracy there is only one Will to issue orders and no counter wills to buck against it." The passage on column five should read: "The Howard University of ten and twenty years ago possessed real college spirit, but was somewhat defective in that she did not wholly keep abreast of modern progress." W. H. P. Another monthly issue of the "Twin Thinker", edited by Ranny and "Mie Too" (in color almost red), is out and on the streets asking like "What to This time it tells all about Marcus Garvey in high school English. We can congratulate these enterprising boys on their cleverness and foresight in getting out their "maggie" before a heavy snowfall or the shrill November winds begin to blow, making it impossible for them to get around to gather in the shekels. This edition of the "Twin Thinker" is a potential moneymaker, and when the last copy is disposed of the boys will have collected loose change enough to assure them at least three square meals a day for the next four months. We have noticed that "Ranny" is getting thinner and looks a little anemic. "Me Too." since his Western swing around the circle, is as fat as a corned shoat, and looks as pugnacious as a champion pricefighter, his jowls are heavy with fatness. These Garvey meal tickets have proved to be blessings in disguise for "Ranny" and Me Too. What would they do for pok chops if Marous was deported? There never was and there never will be a man who was always praised or a man who is always blamed.—Dhommaps. The high-falutin' and self-advertise "brainy Negro" hereabouts and elsewhere who are opposed to the stagnant of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, "Negroes First." are either dishonest in their criticism and interpretations of its meaning or too obtuse in their intellectuals to understand what it signifies. It doesn't mean what they say or think it means. The Universal Negro Improvement Association would not be silly enough to attach such a meaning to it. But it suits the purpose of these professional lardy and slimners to distort and contort everything relating to the Universal Negro Improvement Association because it sells their sublimated literary rot. The Universal Negro Improvement Association has as much right to use the slogan "Negroes First" as the American white man who thinks of his race as we in the Universal Negro Improvement Association think of ours, whose mate potentialities are just as great as those of the white man. It inspires and nerves the white man to greater effort, whence his goal and increases his pride of race. The Universal Negro Improvement Association slogan has the same object and purpose. It is an appeal to the whole race to draw nearer together, to be Negroes in thought and feeling, first, because, being born Negroes, we can never be white man. Let the white man be first in his group, let us be first in our group, and we shall be able to accomplish more for the whole maze than we shall be able to split up into classes and factions. There is no intention or purpose on the part of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, or any of it, independent candidates for office. Now the Ku Klux Klan has the right to nominate a white American Protestant and maintain that he is mentally, morally and physically superior to and more patriotic than any Negro, Jew or Catholic who may be nominated. It may form a political party and send men to the aldermanic board, the State Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States who will publicly present, discuss and enact legislation that will maintain the political and economic supremacy of white American Protestants if it gets votes enough. But the Ku Klux Klan wears hooded white masks and hooded gowns and does its legislating and judging secretly. In this respect it violates the American custom of an open.legislature and an open trial by jury. But these are the two main reasons why Mayor Hylan and various Governors openly oppose the Ku Klux Klan. In a democracy such as ours the basic principle is that the majority shall rule. The majority wins and takes office and the minority is supposed to acquiesce and bide its time until the next or subsequent election. If this were not the case, instead of only having one civil war in our one hundred and thirty-five years' existence as a nation, we would be liable to have a civil war after every presidential election and riots after every city and State election. Now, Mayor Hylan was elected Mayor by the majority of the voters of Greater New York. Now he does not desire to turn over his rights and prerogatives as a Mayor to any secret society or organization that only represents a minority of the citizens of New York or a majority that has not legally recorded its vote at the polls on election day. That is why he and various Governors demur at the growing ascendency of the Klan. Then there is another objection to the Ku Klux Klan Human society has evolved from the collection to the hunting, from the hunting to the pastoral, from the pastoral to the agricultural and from the agricultural to the machinery stage. Human society has evolved from the caveman period, when every man took the law into his own hand, with club, hatchet, sword, spear or bow and arrows and executed private vengeance, to the period when a man causes one who has wronged him to be arrested and liable to civic or criminal prosecution. Centuries ago the experience of men taught them that justice was better rendered by an impartial judge or disinterested jury, who would calmly hear both sides, weigh the evidence and render a decision, than by a mob which could easily be influenced by prejudice, passions or superstition, have its emotions excited and render its decision and execute judgment, when only one side has been heard. There have been cases where black men have been strung up to a tree, riddled with bullets or burned alive at the stake and afterwards it was discovered that the victim was innocent. Such cases happened two and three thousand years ago. The mob cried "Hosannas" to Jesus one day and cried out "crucify him" five days later. The Athenians banished a citizen one year and recalled him from banishment a couple of years later. Now, there are thousands of Anglo-Saxon Protestants who feel their superiority to the Negro, the Jew and the Catholic and are yet not willing to throw away the experience of forty centuries and abolish the principles of representative government and trial by jury, which underlie the English and American Governments and which have helped to make England and America what they are today. Now it may be that the thought of the Ku Klux Klan throwing civilization back to where it was four and five thousand years ago is only a nightmare caused by eating lobster salad and deviled crabs, but it is because of the possibilities of the growing ascendency of the Ku Klux Klan that thoughtful men do not see in its plans and purposes the ushering in of the millennium. KELLY MILLER ON THE CHURCH IN his weekly letter to the Negro press Dean Kelly Miller of Howard University commented on "The College-bred Negro and the Church." He says: "The collegian of this day and generation is not spiritually minded. . . . Charles Darwin gave a shock to the religious world from which it has not yet recovered. The church has not yet absorbed and assimilated the new scientific diet. All religious systems must institutionalize the state of knowledge current at the time of their establishment. . . . The whole religious world today is in the throes of theological transition. The old truth must be restated in terms of present-day thought and knowledge. This task should challenge: the highest energies and enthusiasm of the college man. . . . "What is to be the future of the Negro church and of our great religious denominations unless leadership is assumed by the best mind and heart and conscience of the race? The pulpit must keep in advance of the people, else the people will repudiate the pulpit. . . . "The theological opinion of the world is becoming more and more liberalized. The college man need not longer hesitate concerning the ministry because of old theological exactions which compromised his intellectual integrity. The one great task before the Negro college world is to infuse into the rising generation of educated youth the wisdom and necessity of dedicating their lives to the great task of moral and spiritual leadership, in the name of God, humanity and race." The fact that this splendid article is copyrighted by the Pittsburgh Courler prevents our reproducing it in full. But we present these nuggets of thought as worthy of special consideration. THE PASSING OF GREAT MEN SINCE we penned our last editorial John Wanamaker, famous as a merchant, philanthropist and public spirited citizen, and Rev. Dr. W. G. Parks, a prominent Negro clergyman, have answered the last call. John Wanamaker was the son of a German brick maker and started his career at the age of fourteen by earning $1.25 a week. At the age of twenty he was a salaried secretary of the Y. M. C. A., receiving $1,000 a year. He saved $2,000 in three years, and sixty-one years ago, at the age of twenty-three, started a clothing store at Sixth and Market, streets, Philadelphia. His partner, Nathan Brown, had $4,000. He delivered his first order in a wheelbarrow. The first year's receipts were $24,000. And then the store grew until it became the most famous department store in America and Wanamaker became first a millionaire and then a multi-millionaire. Mr. Wainamaker was noted for his interest in public affairs. He backed financially the Moody and Sankey revival and the Sunday school movement in America. He went into politics as an independent Republican, fought the Qay and Pearse machines, was defeated for Mayor, became a member of the Republican National Executive Committee, and served as Postmaster-General in President Harrison's administration. He lived to the ripe age of eighty-four. His career could be characterized as a well rounded career from every standpoint. Dr. W. G. Parks Dr. W. G. Parks, who for over fourteen years served as pastor of the Union Baptist Church of Philadelphia, died suddenly at the home of a friend last week. He was in his sixties. At the national HOW SMART WE ARE: HOWARD UNIVERSITY EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL NOTES silled branches to a tagniteon the white race or to create bad feeling between the races as is alleged by some of its malicious and venomous critics. Our army always been to demonstrate to the white people everywhere who are watching the progress of our movement toward self-hop, our ability as a race to do for ourselves what white people for years have been doing for the men (7) and mandentists who in our race, have been leaning on them for more than fifty years. These beggars in all these years have not evolved a single original idea calculated to lift the Negro out of the rut in which they found him fifty years ago, when as the paid agents of white philanthropists they swamped into the South as teachers, preachers and politicians and annually invaded the North with their subscription books to receive additional charity for themselves and the various objects they represented. It was an easy way of making a living and they kept up the practice until they became quinquenium and the then powerful, organized charities for self-protection and began to investigate the olimes of these beggars only to discover that a large number of them were consoleless grafters, frauds and humbugs, some of them living in luxury on their "plickin" in the North. That they leaked pride of race is obvious from the fact that they did nothing of a constructive nature toward the uprift of the masses of their people when the contributions from the North were more generous and liberal than they are at present. Like the horse leeches they were, they cried constantly "give give give!" The Universal Negro Improvement Association is endeavoring to teach the Negro the value of self-help and that he can do as much for himself and feel more contented and independent than he will if carried on the shoulders of white people who have their own burdens to bear, and who will always feel superior to the Negro when they support him and his various enterprises. These professional and lay beggars of the race are the chief critics of the Universal Negro Improvement Association movement and will be for, because they are convinced that someone else will contain that promise will be gone: that the slogan "White Race First" will have taken on more significance than it has heretofore and that they will have to "root bone" or die. Gentlemanly editors rarely. If ever, indulge in billigering personalities or slang. That only is the right and privilege of literary blackguards, obsessed with the idea that they will be immune from criticism for their bad manners due to the fast (4) that they know their biology, physiology and all the other "ologies" as well as a great many other things that are not so. We can not argue with literary blackguards. Their airid torment and "polson pend" do not convince those who are used to calm, clear thinking and the argument which characterises the well bred scholar and the polished gentleman. A blackguard can not insult us aid a gentleman won't. When a base fellow can not vip with antheses in merit, he will attack him with malicious glander. SAD! Of late folks have been accusing us, of being a dissentant. For instance, lovers of the theatre like Romeo Dugdough very trowningly upbraid us for our asinine interweighings. "Walrond, you don't know nuthin' 'bout shows." No, we humbly admit we don't know nuthin' 'bout shows. But—and here we blase out with all the famboyance of youth—last week we went to the Lafayette Theatre and saw "Seven-Lieven," which we unreservedly believe to be the best show that has come to Harlem in yearal. Oh, if only we wrote poetry: Miss Mae Brown, who, by the way, is one of the prettiest women we have seen in our life, in a bewildishing costume danced to the rhythmic notes of Creamer and Layton's "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," a danson that was little ill of a whang—a humdinger! Of poetry we know precious little. "You see, Walrond, poetry is a technical thing. Take the problem of forms—do you know anything about them." Ah, we don't. Once a solitary companion offered to initiate us into the mystery of French forms. "It is essential to anyone who preends to literature. Utterly essential!" But we never got it. Again—and this time we are also bringing in that one about the "flamboyance of youth" etc. we risk did anyone say reputation? everything on this exquisite line from Georgia Douglas Johnson's "Bronze," in the poem dedicated to the sculpture, May Howard Jackson: "Alone, far from the touch of kindred mind!" We want to meet Mrs Jackson! That poem and "Black Woman" are the things we love best in "Bronze." Today is our birthday. Yes, we are just 31. It is a windy morning. We are on the job. The man who in clinical patency is our boss is towering blackly over us. "Walrond"—with the emphasis on the first syllable—"go over this letter carefully. Put the—" Oh if he had only come awaggeringly frightened and said, "Here take the $100 bill and buy yourself a nice ice cream soda—" December 10, 1922. To the Editor of the Negro World: Dear Sir—It is indeed gratifying to note in the last issue of The Negro World the success of the delegates sent out by the Universal Negro Improvement Association to the League of Nations conference. That their mission has brought about immediate result is manifested in the official order of the British Mandatory Government in abolishing slavery in German East Africa. This in itself is sufficient to convince other so-called leaders of the power and future possibilities of the U. N. I. A, and that it is not to be trifled with. It has often been said that, to die fighting glorious death. But it would be of no interest to the opponents of the U. N. I. A, to acknowledge defeat, thus saving themselves from further humiliation. That our ranks and assist in waging the greatest fight known in history for the full emancipation of the "Negro race." There is no question as to the intellectual ability of these so-called leaders. How then, is it possible for them to oppose a program as sound and as logical as that of the Universi Negro Improvement Association? Surely they are not using their intelligence for the true purposes for which it was acquired. Leaders, why not avoid being pushed in the line, as will be the case if you do not keep the opportunity of walking in freely now? Remember that you are one of the "race" and your time and intelligence can be used to better advantage. 66 Hammond Street Boston, Mass. L CARTER. J. C. U. A. L., MONTCLAIR DIVISION NO. 2 On Sunday December 10, the Juveniles of the Montclare Division rendered the program. We feel that the recitation by our youngest Juvenile was indeed very impressive. This Juvenile is in the person of little Miss Myrtle Duncan, four years old. She spoke as follows. "Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am a little four-year-old, but I have the spirit of the U N I. I planted deep down in my soul. As I grow older I will help the Hon Mara and I will the spirit throughout the world I think we need her. Her recitation was commented upon with loud audacies from the audience. with loud applause from the audience the program also consisted of a re- tention by Catherine Williams and Pris- laine Rudolph, piano solo by Eleanor Fisher, address by the Lieutenant of the Juveniles, Ernestine Duncan; at address by Bernice Duncan and a paper by Ida Borden, after which the program was turned over to the Pres- ident, Mr. William Duncan. He spoke very encouragingly to the Juveniles before introducing the main speaker of the evening, who was Mr. Raid of Orange, N. J. Mr. Raid speaking encouragingly to the Division. We were indeed very glad to have with us Mr. J. W. Fowler, Minister of Labor and Inquests, and wife. Mr. Fowler spoke very encouragingly and held his audience spellbound during his entire discourse. Mr. Fowler also spoke very interestedly to the Ladies' Division especially, notwithstanding that her address was very interesting to the entire body. WILLIAM DUNCAN, Präsident RNESTINE DUNCAN, Leutenant, J. C. U. A. L. BERNICHT A CHRISTMAS REVERIE OFF MORNINGSIDE PARK BIG CHRISTMAS TREAT AND YULETIDE REVEL! AT Liberty Hall 120 West 138th Street, New York CHRISTMAS NIGHT December 25, 1922, at 8:15 Sharp Big Musical Program After Dinner Speeches PICNIC AND DANCING Just the Place for You to Spend Your Christmas Big Time in Store for Everybody HON. MARCUS GARVEY Will Deliver the Address of the Evening ADMISSION, 50 CENTS GET YOUR TICKETS NOW AND AVOID THE RUSH TICKETS ON SALE AT OFFICE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 56 West 135th Street, New York BIG PROGRAM ALSO ON NEW YEAR'S NIGHT AT LIBERTY HALL BY WILLIAM M. FERRIG I was seeking out a front-room en Edgescombe avenue at Merringside Park and the College of the City of New York. The hills of the park were covered with snow. The lonely trees were bare, and the two-seasons of lights that flitched and glanced in the park and the lights in that masterpiece of modern architecture, the College of the City of New York, with its spacious auditorium and its two side wings, set off magnificently the snow-crowned slopes of the undulating hill. On St. Nicholas avenue below many whirring automobiles, some with bright headlights and a few with dim headlights, were speeding northward and a few were speeding southward. Over in the imposing college on the hill students were either preparing their lessons or returning from a night lecture, gathering in the spiritual inheritance of mankind, learning what the past had to teach them and fitting themselves to grapple with the problems of the futures. But conflicting motives stirred within the minds of the drivers of the autos that came into view, passed by on the avenue below and then vanished. Some of the men were hurrying home after a busy night in the office, or a late dinner, or a lecture or a concort, or the opera. Others were hurrying to keep an appointment with an affinity or soulmate. If 2,000 years ago I had been looking out of the windows of a house opposite one of the Saven Hills of Rome which was crowned with a park and a school I might have seen a similar and yet a different sight. Bohtolars would be burning the midnight oil, Roman Bohtolars and business men would be re- ZC00 Don't doe yourself with coffee, tea and drugs. When you feel down and out and all your "pop" is gone, try Dr. Siegert's Angostura Blitters Made since 1884 from the same formula. It will pull you together and you get us bad effects. For Solo by all Drug, Delicatessen and Grocery Stores. Bust of the HON. MARCUS GARVEY Life are host or smaller host of the Hon Marcus tarvey can be had by writing Miss Augusta Savage 167 West 129th Street, New York City, N. Y. Critics declare that these loots are the true likeness of the Hon Marcus tarvey. They are done in bronze and are the work of a Young Negro sculptress. Any division or individual desiring to have one of these as a choice possession should write Miss Augusta Savage 167 West 129th Street, New York, N. Y. regarding terms, as there is a limited number of these to be had. turning home in their charities from state and business conferences or late suppers. The Pen Juans would be riding to keep a tryst with sweethearts or to indulge in new amours. Revelers would be returning from banquets and others would be going to a midnight feast. Human nature has not essentially changed during the past 2,000 years. Men pursue the same hopes and ambitions, are pursued by the same doubts and fear, and experience both joy and sorrow. Some live for pleasure, some love wealth, others political power, others fame and still others the pursuit of knowledge and the fine arts. And yet the setting and background for that life is different in New York in 1922 A. D. from what it was in pagan Rome in 78 B. C. Rome Vs. New York In New York, steam, gas, electricity, the subway, the elevated road, the airplane, the telephone, the telegraph, wireless telegraphy, the electric car, the automobile, the locomotive, the steamship, the skyscraper and the elevator apartmant have changed the external background and setting of human life. We can now travel three times as fast by land and water as they could in Rome, and we can communicate immediately with friends three, four, five and six thousand miles away. Then the political and social environment is entirely different in New York from what it was in Rome 2,000 years ago. In Rome the majority of inhabitants were slaves, and wives and children were almost slaves in the home, the husband and father being lord and master. In Rome wild beasts fought with wild beasts, men fought with wild beasts and men fought with each other to kill, merely to amuse the Roman populace in the Coliseum on a holiday. In Rome maidens and old men and women were thrown to the lions 1,800 years ago because they would not renounce their Christian faith. In Rome the masses were ignorant and the poor had little opportunity to secure an education or rise to the head of affairs in the state. In New York in 1922 A. D. there are no slaves. Women have the right to divorce their husbands if they are unfaithful, to inherit property and to vote. Free grammar schools, free high schools, free night schools, free colleges, free public libraries and free lecture courses enable anyone to get an education if he so desires. While rent is excessively high, there are more opportunities for making money than in any other city in the world. A large measure of freedom of speech is permitted. There are also free clinics and free hospitals, where the poor and needy can be cared for. Poor boys like John Jacob Astor, Commoded Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Ryan not only became as rich as Crossover and Crassus, but some of them became powerful factors in American politics. Some of the rich spend thousands of dollars annually for philanthropic and educational purposes. A rich man nowadays who lives to himself alone is very unpopular. Then the workingmen form trades unions, by which they get a decent wage. The poor man's chance in America is much better than it was in pagan Rome. But how about the poor and lonely Negro? He is jimrowed, difran- chieft, segregated and lynched. In the Southern States. Some of the trades unite disariminate against him in the Northern States. He works at starvation wages in the West Indies. He is robbed of his lande and exploited in Africa. His status in modern civilization will ultimately depend upon the cumulative force of his wealth, health, character and intelligence. The first time I visited New York I had a small room on West Seventeenth and later on West Fifth-third street, where the elevated and trolley care kept up a constant din and noise. I now live in a beautiful house once occupied by a wealthy man, overlooking a splendid avenue and picturesque park. Economic forces brought about the change. The wealthy man could afford to buy or build a magnificent home farther out. A colored man came along able to pay the high rent, and that is why I am writing this Christmas reverie looking out upon one of New York's most beautiful parks and thoroughfares. The builder of this house never imagined that a black man would ever write a Christmas reverie in it. And for a quarter of a mile opposite this picturesque park on these two magnificent avenues nearly every house is occupied by a colored family or a group of colored families. The tale is the same in every case. The wealthy white men who could afford to build these $20,000 or $25,000 homes or to pay $200 a month rent rich enough to buy $50,000 homes elsewhere and pay $800 a month rent elsewhere. They moved out and colored man moved in, who were prosperous enough to buy the houses or pay the high rent the landlords desired. Some may point to the World War as an example of the perseverance of modern civilization. Reflect that Clemensau, Orlando, Woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George, the leaders of the four victorious nations, were driven from power within four years of the signing of the Armistice. In Rome Consuls and Emperors were not driven out of office after a military triumph. We don't find Roman moralists writing of Solipio, Marius, Bulle, Lucculus Pompay and Julius Caesar as an English moralist wrote of Lloyd Georgia "if only he could believe once again passionately in truth and justice, and goodness, and the soul of the British people." In Pagan Rome, there was no talk of the rights of the weak. Jezua of Nazareth It is generally believed that a prophet of Judas called Jesus of Nazareth, who proclaimed the truths of the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man, the Regeneration of Charactery, and the Immortality of the Soul was the dynamic force that caused the importance of the individual to be recognized, and hence transformed human society from what it was in the days of Pagan Rome. He stands unique among religious prophets and seers, Zorcaster, Buddha and Confucius lived before him, and Mohammad lived after him. Their religions appealed powerfully to men of all races, but the Gospel of Jesus to men of different races. Jesus was a Jew by birth, and yet Jih Religion was accepted by the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Syrians and Africans in the early day. Finally it became the religion of the Roman Empire. When the Teutonic hordes swept over the Roman frontiers and overwhelmed Rome, they were conquered by and accepted the Christian religion as embodied and incarnated in the Roman Catholic Church. Then Christian missionaries went to the Gallio and Celtic tribes of Europe, carrying the gospel of good news and glad tidings. The Negroes of the Western Hemisphere likewise became followers of the man from Nazareth. For sixteen hundred years, the progressive nations of the world have professed the creed of Jesus of Nazareth, although practice has not yet measured up to precept. Jesus is as supreme today in the European-American civilization as He was in the Greece-Roman civilization of sixteen centuries ago. This is, indeed, the supreme miracle of human history that a prophet compelled men of alien racial traits, history and traditions from His own race to accept the religion that He taught. And He did it not with the sword, as Mohammed did, but by persuasion. He died like a criminal on the tyrannical of His nation between two thieves. But this did not dishearten His Diospheis. But they believed Him of divine origin, and believed that He was a God in human form, and not a mere man, and that He arose again from the dead the third day. Parasuctions did not stay the advancing and surging tide of the spiritual wave that He set in motion. His followers went singing to be torn in pieces by the lions in the Roman amphitheatre, or burnt at the stake, until finally man throw overboard the Greek and Roman mythology, the stoical philosophy, the Egyptian mysteries, and the Hindoo mystolism, and embraced the religion of the Crucified Leader of a despired ecst, of a despired race, until His religion became, under the Emperor Constantine, the official religion of the Roman Empire. And that changed the course of human history, so that the birth of a Babe in Bathlehem, for which the heirs of the angels are said to have sung in the heavens, while shepherds kept their mobs by night, and wise men followed a star in the Black, marks a new landmark in human progress. We do well to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ as the greatest event in the history of the world since the morning stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for Joy, when he evolved the course out of primal mist and chace and sent nearly a billion cums, with their revolting planets, whirling and flaming through clouds, chanting the songs, "The Hand. That Made Us Is Divine." Christ Today There are many today who maintain that we have outgrown the breeches of Jesus. We may have outgrown the Nilean Orcas, but we have, now, outgrown HAIR LIKE POLISHED EBONY ZURA, famous Queen of the Moors had soft long hair which shone like the Raven's wing The Ancient Moorish Secret of shampooing the hair, now accessible to the race How often have you admired people with long, shiny hair soft and luxuriant? They were not born with beautiful hair but have learned the secret of hair health which is simply a matter of caring for the hair Nature gave them. 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We now know that the universe stretches much further out in space and much further back in time than the theologians at the Council of Nice imagined. We now know that the universe is governed by law and order. We know that instead of man falling from grace that he has shaken off his brute inheritance; that instead of falling from Adam, he rose from the cave man. Hence a theology based upon the scientific conceptions of the third and fourth centuries A. D. will not satisfy the enlightened minds who have mastered modern science. But religion, the life of God in the soul of man, will never die. Man still wonder as they wondered in the days of Job, David, Jesus and Paul, whether man is an accidental by-product of physico-chemical forces; whether he is a stranger in an alien universe, which is indifferent to his strivings and aspirations, or whether he is the child, the off-spring of the Eternal One in whom we live and move and have our being. Man still ask and will continue to ask: "What is the meaning and value of life? Is the struggle and striving of man worth while? Is marry quest of the ideal a voyage that will end with the grave?" And they find some hope and answer in the message of Jesus that God is not only an Infinite Reason, a Titanic Power, a Cosmic Force, an Omnipotent Ruler and an Almighty King, but a loving Father of human spirits. Let us joyfully then celebrate the nativity of the thinker and teacher who brought this new revelation to mankind. NEW YORK Y. M. C. A. NOTES Assemblyman D. W. Shields has been secured as speaker for the "big meeting" Sunday, December 17, at 4 p. m. Subject to be announced later. The Radio Club was organized on Friday evening, December 18. The following men were elected to office: John L. Davia, president; Clarence Johnson, vice-president; William Newson, secretary, and Joseph Johnson, treasurer. The grand opening of the Y. M. C. A inter-branch basket-ball schedule takes place Saturday, December 16, at 9 p. m. at which time the two teams of the 125th street branch will compete against the basket-ball teams of the Bronx Union. An added attraction will be the grand opening of the Sunday School) Basket-ball League, which will find the following teams, Rush Memorial, Walker Memorial, St. Marks, Shiloh Baptist, Mother Zion and Rendall Memorial, battling for honors. NEGRO FARMERS OF VIRGINIA MAKE BETTER CROPS HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 8.-Negro farm demonstration work in Virginia, carried on in twenty-three counties through the co-operation of Federal and State agencies, which aim to place country life upon a higher stage of profit, comfort, culture, influence and power," to quote the late Saman A. Knapp, father of the farm-demonstration movement in the United States, has been an extraordinary success. John B. Pisner, of Kampmann Institute, field agent of extension work in agriculture and home economics among Negroes in eight Southern States--Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia--has reported these facts for a single year work among Negro farmers of Virginia: 1. County farmers advisory boards, twenty-three, served the local Negro county agents in their work for the best development of rural life. 2. Farmers' community clubs. $28, with a membership of 7,838, aimed to secure an adequate supply of food and feed for rural families, as well as better physical equipment for farm work; to spread the gospel of thrift; to stimulate interest in batter schools; to promote wholesome recreation, and to increase true religion. 3. Annual county farmers' conferences, twenty, aimed to instruct and inspire farmers. 4. County boards of supervisors of twenty counties and Negro farmers of five counties contributed $4,641 for salaries of local agents. 5. Co-operative buying among Negro farmers in twenty-three counties amounted to $16,535.64 at a saving of $41,218.80. Seed, fertilizer, lime, and other farm necessities were bought cooperatively. 6. Nearly 10,000 farmers improved their corn crop. "Of this number 1,698 made enough to serve them for one year and had some to sell; 2,185 had enough for their own use for one year, and 4,032 had enough to carry themselves for six months." 7. Individual cotton growers secured yields of 1,400 pounds of seed cotton, to the acre; the average yield per acre on demonstration farms was 667 pounds of seed cotton. 8. The Negro tobacco growers, accepting the five-year nontrust idea, joined the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Marketing Association. The average yield per acre on demonstration some was 855, pomes and hay; 655 pomes and maize; 1500 maize. 15. Nine hundred acres of farm land were used for farmers were held; skins 400; 750; 125; alfalfa 85; cereal hay 1,250; ear hay 2,000; mixed grain hay 2,100; peas 2,150, and petroleum 2,601. 16. Negro farmers from grow plants on demonstration plots showed an average yield of thirty-six bushels of seed and one tea of cedar hay, or an increase of fourteenth bushels of seed and one-half ton of cedar hay. 15. Negro farmers introduced perched roads to improve the quality of their cattle swine, and poultry. 12. Numerous farm and farmed improvements were made. "There were thirty farms on which the water system was improved"; 848 on which agricultural privies were erected, and thirty hems in which lighting systems were installed. Many new implements and tools were bought; plows; 248; cowhorse cultivators; 809; sheep herdplows; 48; corn pinsterers 97; mowers 41; gas engines; 48; two-horse cultivators; 46; motor tractors; 21; grain drills; 28; hay rakes; 83; spraying machines; 19; small tools, 3,420." 12. The twenty-two county faits MADAM IDA B. JEFFER 10th EPISCOPAL DIS NORTH A HEALER OF. I will tell you many things that will be the right tangled brains to the light of helpful sensibility. She can cure any disease that you were not born with, in fact, she can locate any disease in the human body, and tell your complaint by your writing to her when other doctors have failed, then write her and she will give you full details of your disease. Madame Jefferson possesses a natural born gift from birth and is one of the greatest licensed preachers of the age. She has a supernatural gift. God has given her power to heal and lead her people. Her advice is "worth more than you will ever be able to pay. Only business matters will be answered." She has been the most active in stamps for reply.�ardame Jefferson has discovered a wonderful hair restorative. It grows hair on big heads. Agents wanted. She teaches the art. For consultation, other than stickmen, send two dollars (75). and if you take treatment, this will go on your bill. Please enter whether you are a married Mr. and the date of your birth. BOX 648 LISHED HE NEWS AND VIEWS OF U.N.I.A. DIVISIONS Immissioner S. A. Haynes Thrills Large Audience With Unusual Oration—Norfolk's City Official Sends Best Wishes for Industrial, Commercial, Social and Political Advance of the Race Sunday, December 10, 1922, has been recorded as the greatest day in the history of the U. N. I. A. in Virginia. In response to the call of the Hon. W. A. Haynes, Commissioner of States, it晨 earnest, liberally loving, determined officers, mostly presidents assembled in the Liberty Hall of Norfolk Division No. 20 to take part in the first State Conference of Presidents in Virginia. The weather was far from being ideal. All Saturday evening and the greater portion of Sunday morning the cold wind and incessant showers swept over the city. The streets were in a pittable condition. The fog on the river interfered with the schedules of the ferries. Trains were delayed and buses were held up as a result of the dislipidated condition of the roads. It was enough to break the heart of the most courageous, but it takes more than a storm to curb the enthusiasm of those who are following the colors of the Red, the Black and the Green. The influence of the organization can be gauged by the fact, that the representative of Boone Castle Division walked twelve miles through the rain and muddy roads arriving in Norfolk as strong as a lien. The hall was taxed early and the attendance was most amazing for each an unfavorable day. The conference was opened at 11 o'clock with the processional hymn, "God Bless Our President," lustily sung by the choir and auxiliaries. The Hon. W. M. Franklin, president of Norfolk Division No. 70, acted as master of ceremonies. Prayer was said by the chaplain of Chapter 23, and the Scriptural lesson was read by Mr. N. C. Dewey, president of Chapter 102, East Midland News. The musical program was one of the richest ever renewed. The Universal Four Quartet invited the audience with their new competition, "Fill We're Free." Miss Overtown and Miss Travis of Chapter 23, Newbury News, delighted the audience with a charming duet, which was heartily received. Miss Overtown for pleasing style sang a solo, "Chase, to Africa," the soul-stirring product of Division No. 20, was sung by Mr. Samuel Davis, the audience being in the sweet swelling chorus. The Hon. Goo W. Taylor, president of Chapter 23, welcomed the delegates on behalf of his division, and Mr. T. E. Davis, first vice-president of Division No. 20, on behalf of his. The orator of the day, the Hon. S. A. Haynes, Commissioner of States, was only introduced by Mr. N. C. Drew, president of Division 102. The Commissioner was received with the wavers and handsbells from the hundreds who thundered the hall to hear him. In his usual fancy style, the Commissioner delivered one of the most brilliant addresses yet heard in the state of Norfolk. This youthful champion of the ideas which characterise our organisation drove home to his hearer in a most forceful and powerfully manner the service, the U. N. I. A. administering to suffering humanity and civilization. The address is so prognostic with lofty thoughts that we are collecting the editor to publish the publication of it in his next issue. At the close of the Commissioner's address, conference was called to order. 1922. In Liberty Hall, Princess Anne avenue, this city. In the event that my engagements can be so arranged, it may be possible that I can attend your conference. With best wishes for the industrial, commercial, social and political advance of your race, I am This communication was received with loud applause, and on the suggestion of the Commissioner it was unanimously agreed that a letter of thanks be forwarded to the Director of Public Safety on behalf of the organization for the sentiments expressed. Amendments to the constitution as made by the last convention were read and explained by the chairman. Certain sections of the constitution were interpreted for the benefit of all concerned, and the chair submitted a number of by-laws with duties of local officers attached, to be put into service immediately. The obligations of divisions and chapters to the parent body and vice versa occupied much attention. Numerous complaints were lodged with the Commissioner by the presidents pointing to irregularities in the parent body. The payment of death claims, the matter of supplies and the non-reception of important communications forwarded to New York formed the basis of these complaints. The coolness of the Commissioner, backed up by his extensive knowledge of the administration, was responsible for the satisfaction which was afterwards reached. The conference instructed the chair to intercede at once in these matters, as the divisions were not prepared to continue under the circumstances. The conference came to a close at 4 p. m. with the singing of the hymn, "Blessed Be the Tle That Binda." The following divisions were represented: Richmond, Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth, Suffolk, West Mundun, Compostella, Bacons Castle, Jefferson Park Chapter, Oakwood, Caps Charles (prospective), Surrey, Berkeley and Devilt. The delegates were royally entertained during their stay by the ladies of both divisions in Norfolk and parted with the declaration that "Norfolk is the Mecca of Garvoyism" in Virginia. Sunday Masa Meetings Mass meetings were held in both Liberty Halls on Sunday, December 10, as follows: Chapter 22, 2 p. m. Speakera. Hon. N. C. Drew, president, Newport News Division No. 102; Mr. C. Dogan, manager, Norfolk Building & Loan Association; Mr. Charles Terrell, vice-president, Newport News Division No. 102, and Rev. Edward Godfrey, president, Newport News Division No. 6. The Hon. B. A. Haynes, Commissioner, introduced the last speaker, and the president, Hon. Geo. W. Taylor, presided. Chapter 20 held meetings at 8 and at 8 p. m. The program in the evening consisted of addresses by President Ward of West Mundin, the vice-president of Compostella Division and the Hon. Mme. McGregory, lady president of Suffolk Division, a polished and talented speaker. Mme. McGregory is one of the wealthiest and most prominent ladies of the race in Suffolk. Speakers at 8 p. m. were: The lady president of Norfolk Division No. 20. Hon. N. C. Drew and Rev. Edward Goffrey. The Hon. H. B. Franklin, president, presided. The Universal Quartette and Miss Overton and Miss Travis of Newport News were the musical stars at these meetings, which were attended by hundreds of people Liberty Hall No. 20 was tastefully decorated for the occasion. Twelve pictures of the Hon. Marous Garvey and one each of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar and American Negro Congressmen gave added inspiration to the meetings. The Black Cross Nurses and Legions of both divisions won much commendation, and the choir sang as they never sang before. It was a great day for the U. N. L. A. in Virginia, one that will be hard to best. The Hon. & A. Haynes, who was aptly supported by the presidents of both Dylton John, deserves credit for the labors he has put forth to increase the prestige of the organization in the State. U. N. L. A. GOING STRONG IN PUERTO CORTES, SPANISH HONDURAS December 6, 1923. I desire to say a word in behalf of the Settlement Social of this town, our aim and object being to establish a great branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. The following text is extracted from a document and should be accurately transcribed. ```markdown The following text is extracted from a document and should be accurately transcribed. ``` THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922 B. Mercellino, ex-General Secretary of Charter No. 187. The program was as follows, the meeting being called to order by Chairman Nembhard. The Chaplain, Mr. O. F. A Harrison, offered a short prayer. Mr. Nembhard, chairman of the Management Committee, made a few remarks, stating the object of this social in a few words—that it was in lieu of a 'N I A and A. C L. He then vacated his seat and asked the elected chairman, Mr E. A. McPherson, to occupy the chair for the afternoon. 1 Selection by choir, Soldier of the Christian Band" 2 Duet by Mr Samson and Miss Pratt, "Peace, Be Still" 3 Address by Mr I P Ippolito 4 Holo by Miss Adelia Marter, "All for Thee" 5 Recitation by Master Tlabe, "I Do Not Love Religion" 6 Solo by Miss Mary McField, Forward to Zion" 7 Solo by Miss M Titbo, "Gather the Children In" 8. Duet by Mr Appleton and Miss Blake, "Jather the Wanderser In" 9. Address by Chaplain, Mr O F A Harrison. 10. Violin solo by W A Stephenson, the Universal Ethiopian Anthem. 11. Selection by choir, "Peace of God" 12. Trio by Mr Rumson, Mrs. E Stephenson and Miss Steer, "The Saviour's Call" 13. Address by Mr Daniel Beal 14. Duet by Missen Brown and Pratt, "God So Loved the World" 15. Duet by Missen Marter and McField, "There Is Room for You" 16. Selection by choir, "The Voice of Nature." 11. Closing remarks by chairman. The chairman in his closing remarks thanked the chair for the able manner in which they had rendered their solos, duets, etc. He also thanked the visitors for their attendance and asked for enrollment, which was responded to. The organizers, Mrs E. Stephenson and Miss Dorris Steer, deserved every praise for the time they had devoted since practice began. Mr. Ippolito, in his address, spoke of the necessity for the unity of Negroes, and said he could see no other way than through the U. N I A. The Chaplain then said in his address that the aim and object of the Betterment Social was the bringing about of a branch of the U. N. I. A. and A. C. L. Our honorable chairman had asked the Hon D Erasmus Thorpe, commissioner for British and Spanish Honduras, to inspect our Social, which he did, and has promised to apply for a charter for us. He also asked that the gentlemen of our race might pay more respect to our ladies. We must also respect ourselves, then we will be able to claim respect from other races. Mr. Daniel Beal in his address referred to the standing of the Negroes—their low wages, how they are looked down upon. And why? he asked. Simply because there is no unity among us. He referred to the World War, how the Negroes were called to fight for democracy and great promises were made to them, and what compensation they got: now that is an example for us, etc. At the close of the pleasant Sunday afternoon the chairman, Mr. E. A. MoPherson, and Mr. Nembard asked the choir and the members to attend the Wesleyan Chapel, when there would be a 6.30 service and they were expected to render a few of the anthems. The full choir turned out and more than two-thirds of the membership. The anthems were again rendered in a manner deserving every praise, and there was also a solo by Mr. Samson. The teacher in charge, Mr. Nephard, spoke of the high spirit he noticed in the members of the Betterment Social, and thanked them for the manner in which they had accepted the invitation. He then took his text from Exodus xiv. 15: "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." In brief the speaker referred to the origin of the people in Egypt, the birth of Moses, his return to Egypt as a deliverer of God's people, thus showing in these circumstances the Divine Providence of God, bearing out also that the Hon. Marcus Garvey has only been providentially sent. The people, after God's wonders were shown, left Egypt, being led out with a mighty arm, showing, therefore, divine power. He then summed up the difference between the Hon, Marcus Garvey, leading 400,000,000 Negroes with the difficulties thereof and Mosaea. HERMONDALE (N. C.) DIV. 614 We had a glorious time at our meeting on November 28, better than any witnessed previously by this division. A feature of the meeting was the sermon delivered by the worthy brother, Rev. Harrold, of this division, a clergyman of upland intellect and remarkable ability. His text was "Let Eton Be Your Chiefest Joy" and in the course of his sermon the Rev. Harrold traced our history from ancient date to the present time. We are keeping alive the spiritual man here so that the physical and mental man can succeed. We are trying to keep to the right. One God, one aim, one destiny. We are not growing tired. We are just entering the race for liberty, where we will remain until the victory is won. IMPORTANT NOTICE To All Divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Assn. All Divisions and Divisional Officers are hereby warned against paying money to Executive Officers, Officials or Representatives from the Parent Body on the Field. No Executive Officer, Official or Representative is supposed to receive any money from any Division for dues, taxes or assessments on the field. All such money should be sent by mail to Headquarters. Any Local Officer or Division who loans an Executive Officer, Official or Representative money on the field does so at their own risk. Refuse to entertain any Officer, Official or Representative, who attempts to borrow money from your Division. BY ORDER UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION MARCUS GARVEY, President-General THE WORLD'S FAMOUS INDIAN HERS MEDICINES Woman and men, least you forget the Indian Guide. Hair Grower for growing hair on bald heads and bald spots, lengthens the hair and pre- vents its falling. Now 650 per can. Long Life Tonite for the blood and rheumatism 750. Cough Syrup for stubborn colds and coughs 69a. L. A. B. Face, Lotion for cleaning the face from worms and bumps 69a. All made from the purest of Indian Herbs and Barka. Mall orders promptly attended in. Sold by all druggists. OPPOSERS OF THE U. N. I. A. ARE TRIFLING WITH A STRONG FORCE Strange Incident Occurred Creates Opinion That U. N. I. A. Is to Be Seriously Considered—It Is a Factor in Miranda, Oriente Cuba A few days ago the Chief of Police of this town sent an order calling the president of this division of the U. N. I. A, who acted promptly on the request. On interviewing the chief he said that he had received orders from the Administrator to stop him (the president) from keeping meetings under the auspices of the U. N. I. A in the town. The president made a few brief remarks in response, and also in recognition of the courtesy of the chief and had goodbye. The matter was immediately put before the officers of the division, who on reviewing same, decided that a delegation should be made to the Administrator in the name of the association, and that said delegation should seek opportunity to arrest his sympathy for the cause, by making him alive unto the alms and objects thereof. The delegation was as follows. F. J. Watson, president, J. H. Rickett, vice-president H. B. Henriques treasurer, C. H. Henry, secretary Advisory Board, R. Williams and a gentleman visitor to the division, who speaks the Spanish language The delegation was formed the following afternoon, and our visitor was asked to be the spokesman he being versed in Spanish. After meeting him with a few well-known words, the Administrator said his reason for sending the order to stop the meeting was because some of our people (meaning the Negroes) have told him that the U N I. A people are making up plans to kill out the white folks, and that the policy of the association is to wage a proaganda against the whites, and he would not tolerate it in his jurisdiction. The spokesman then seized the opportunity in making him alive unto the policy of the association, and on reaching the point where he said the U. N. I A is endeavoring to improve the people of the race, intellectually, industrially, and finally to do good unto all mankind, the gentleman expressed a changed countenance and exclaimed that he appreciated a movement like that, because he likes to hear of improvement. He was further impressed as to how the movement, like other big movement, was beast with enemies within and without, and have many grave obstacles to overclimb. Also the folly of our own people in trying to oppose it He finally said for us to go on with our meetings, and he would withdraw the orders from the Chief of Police No one attempted to find out the villain who told such an abominable lie against the association, as there are so many different Negro elements to contend with here, some feeling that they are not black enough to be amalgamated with those of the U N I A Others have no fixed reason, but merely feel they should be stumbling blocks in the way. There is probably much gossip over Garvey and the U N I A as usual, but very shortly after the news came back that he was drowned it created quite some excitement, and many are under the impression that it is the doings of the Almighty's power which is leading this association, and many of the members have been praying for some example in order that this great cause may take warning. We of the U N I A believe that this movement is the will of the Almighty, and all those who are gossiping over Garvey and this movement may as well take it that they are not far from sudden destruction, for God cannot be mocked. U. N. L. A. NEWS FROM DAYTON, OHIO Sir Robert L. Poston Delivere Four Addresses to the Division The Rt. Hon. Secretary General, Robert L. Poston, visited the Dayton Division on Friday, December 1, and addressed the division at the Church of the Living God, of which Elder J. E. Smith is pastor, he being the first president of the Dayton Division. Hon. Mr. Poston delivered four addresses to the division. The program was as follows: Song and prayer in concert, lead by the Chaplain, Rev M. F. Glenn. Scripture reading by the Hon. J. E. Smith. Opening address by the Hon. Rev. M F Glenn. Song, "God Bless Our President," by W. O. Sampson Address by the Hon. Rev J. P Tatum, first vice president. After the address of Mr Tatum, Hon. W O Nampson, General Secretary, welcomed the Hon. Secretary General to Dayton, it being his first visit here. After the welcome of Mr. Nampson a collection was taken. After collection, the Rt. Hon. Mr. Poston was introduced by the President, Hon. John H Noely. Mr. Poston gave a wonderful talk and made things good for himself during his stay in the City of Dayton. After Mr Poston had spoken for one hour and ten minutes we adjourned until Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr Poston left Dayton Saturday morning for Athens. O, where he had business to see after for the parent body. He returned Sunday at noon in time to hold a special meeting at 2 o'clock. The General Secretary, Hon. Nampson had sent special letters, too, while Mr. Poston was away to attend to his business. At this meeting Mr. Poston explained to the loyal members who were present to hear what Mr. Poston's business was in Dayton, Mr. Poston told of the good work that was being done in New York by the U. N. I. A and how much money was being paid out by the U. N. I. A to have the work done by people who were not interested in the movement and how much better it would be if the members would finance the parent body. After the special meeting Mr. Poston then hold a big mass meeting, where he spoke to over two hundred people. This meeting, was opened by the singing of the opening ode and prayer led by the Chaplain. Opening address by Hon Grant Kitcherga. Second address by Hon Rev. H. K Kelly. Next music "Shine on Eternal Light," by W. O. Sampson. Address by Mrs. Dora Drake. Next, recitation by Myrtle Kitchenga. Address by Hon. E. G. Winn, President of Middletown Division No. 7. Recitation by Mary E. Sampson. Collection. After collection recitation by Muster Edward Winn. After the recitation by Master Edward Winn, 5-year-old son of Hon. E. G. Winn, song and march. "Shine on Eternal Light," by little Edna Iraleen Sampson, the 2-year-old-and-ten-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Sampson. This song and march embodied the spirit of the after-room meeting. It is remarkable to know what a child of this age can be taught. She has already caught the vision of the U. N. I. A. If nothing happens to this child, she will attend the 1923 convention in New York during the month of August. Mr. Poston was then introduced by the president, Mr. Neely. Mr. Poston gave a most wonderful address, and he certainly explained the aims and objects of the movement. After the address of Mr. Poston and a response from the president we adjourned until 8 o'clock in the evening, by singing one verse of "America," and then the Universal Ethiopian Anthem, led by the General Secretary, W. O. Sampson. The meeting then met at 8 o'clock Sunday evening, singing the opening JUST THE PLACE FOR YOU ATTEND THE REGULAR THURSDAY NIGHT RECEPTION AND BANQUET AT THE PHYLLIS WHEATLEY HOTEL 3-13 West 136th Street, New York City Good Music, Good Environment. Universal Band in Attendance. REGULAR ADMISSION, 25c. Including Midnight Supper, $1.00. Come and EnjoyYourself. $500 REWARD IF I FAIL TO GROW HAIR HAIR ROOT, HAIR GROWER Give us a call or send for our price lists. Gingham and Organdy dresses for ladies. Special offer this week. Men's Cotton and Percale Shirts, $1.98. We specialize in uniforms for Legions. Motor Corps and Black Cross Nurses. Controlled by the Negro Factorias Corp. Factory—62 West 142d Street, N. Y. City Write Office—56 West 135th Street, N. Y. City PHONE HARLEM 2077 Opening address by the Rev. C. H. Walker, response by the Rev. M. F. Glenn. Next an address by the Hon. Mra. E. G. Winn. Lady President of Middistown Division. Collection and music by the division. A short address then by the Rt. Hon. Secretary W. O. Sampson. Then Mra. W. O. Sampson introduced the doll factory at headquarters, which has lately been purchased by the U N I. A. of New York, of which she has become agent for Negro dolla. Mr Poston was then introduced for his third speech to the Dayton Division. Mr Poston told of the success the delegation had in going to the League of Nations, and what it meant to the Negro people of the world to be represented in Europe by Negro men who were sent from New York by the convention of August, 1922. After the address of Mr Poston the meeting was dismissed until Monday evening at 3 o'clock in the Masonic Hall, 1210 West Third street. At this meeting Mr Poston's subject was "About the Things That the Parent Body in New York Were Doing for the Betterment of Negro People of the World." This was the most interesting speech of Mr. Poston while in the City of Dayton. Mr Poston left Dayton on Tuesday evening at 6 30 p. m for New York, but during his stay in the city all day Tuesday he visited the meeting of Billy Sunday who was campaigning in the city at that time. He also visited the old Military Home Mr. Poston was very glad, indeed, to have the chance to hear the evangelist Billy Sunday. And during his stay in Dayton Tuesday he received $55 He was accompanied Tuesday by Grant Kitchengs and David Nesly. All members wish Mr Poston well in his office and also the parent body Mr Poston gained many friends while in Dayton With best wishes to Mr Poston and parent body Fraternally yours. DAYTON DIVISION NO. 214 Duyton, Ohio. PRIZE GIVING BY MIAMI, FLA., DIVISION NO. 136 Sunday, December 3, will long be remembered by members, friends and visitors of Miami Division No. 126. The meeting was called to order at 4 p.m. by Captain Thompson of the U.A. L. The opening ode, "From Greenland's key Mountains," followed by a prayer by the president, Rev J. A. Davis. Then Captain Thompson introduced Mrs. Lillian Farrington as mistress of ceremonies. Then Vice- JUST THE PL ATTEND THE REGUL RECEPTION A AT PHYLLIS WHE 3-13 West 136th St Good Music, Good Environment. REGULAR AD Including Midnight Supper, $1.00. $500 REWARD IF I HAIR ROOT, ```markdown ``` ROYAL CHEMICAL CO. JAMAICA, N. Y. Wear Good Cloth APPEARAN Buy Straight from the SAVE --- President G. M. Brown made the prize-winning oration. He highly complimented Mrs. Farrington and the children. Prizes were awarded as follows: First prize, Miss Marjorie Rolla. Second prize, Miss Dorothy Farrington. Third prize, Miss Dorothy Brown. Fourth prize, Miss Amy McKenzie. Fifth prize, Miss Florie Sanda. Closing address by President Rev. J. A. Davis, with prayer and singing of the national anthem brought to a close a most beautiful and every impressive meeting that will be long remembered by all. Yours very truly, CHAS. W. H. INGRAHAM. Assistant Secretary. Harlem's Great Educational Forum LIBERTY HALL 120 to 148 West 138th St. Open Every Night for the Instruction of the Colored People of the City of New York Speeches Are Delivered Every Night by Big Variety Musical Program Full Force of the Universal Band Every Night DOORS OPEN From 7:30 to 11:30 P. M. Special Features on Monday, Wednesday and Sunday Nights Hon. Marcus Garvey in the Chair. Be Early to Get Good Seats Let Liberty Hall Be Your Social Center Come and Hear What Is Going On All Over the World ASTROLOGY REVEALS—2,000 word trial reading. No. two questions free. State birthdate. FDJ AUDREY, Dept. BJ, Box 63, Washington, D. C. 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A. stands for the advancement of the Negro along educational, financial, political, industrial, and every other line of human endeavor which makes for the growth and uplift of any people and the advancement and prosperity of any race, striving to bring him to a realization of the fact that he, too, has been created in the image and likeness of God, and that therefore anything that other men in other races have done the Negro can also do. It aims to teach him race consciousness, that is proper respect and valuation of the Negro as well as for all things Negro and more especially so for the women of his race, without whose rising and whose inspiration and whose epipu in his imagination and his ambition or any other race will not be worth anything, anywhere, at any time. The U. N. I. A stands for the instilling in the minds of the Negro wherever he is found the knowledge that he has a lineage of which he may be well proud, bringing him to a conscious realization of the truth that there is nothing beyond his reach nothing too high for him to aspire to, nothing out of the reach of his power of attainment, no circumstance which he cannot ever计望 master, no condition which he will not in time be able to transform to suit his needs, and to serve his will, if he will but depend on the God-given power of his mighty soul. It seeks to give him a new and lofty viewpoint; to quicken his imagination, and clarify his vision, so that he will be able to have a thorough and complete understanding of the rich and wondrous endowments with which God has crowned him, so that he will step forth under God's universe with the call of inspiration ringing in his cars, with his body and his soul keyed up to the needs of the day and hour, and to shape his course accordingly. Critics, detractors, and the hasty ones, who are carolless in the formation of judgment on any man or movement, have greatly misrepresented the great and noble organization and its illustrious leader, Marus Garvey; nevertheless it seems to gather greater force by being criticized, since these unjust attacks only help to bring the minds of many to study the organization in a careful and impartial manner, and the U. N. I. A. benefits by the scrutiny. The U. N. I. A. endeavors to teach the Negro no race hates, an some of the most hardened, but to know himself, and to take a greater interest in the events which are taking place in the world around and which are in one way or another affecting his destiny, and that of his children's children. The events now transpiring render it imperative that the Negro must save himself from the great catastrophe which is threatening the world; and those same events are indeed helping the Negro to realize the true worth and value of the Universal Negro Improvement Association to himself and to his race. And it is because of the interesting and enlightening awakening which has come to the people of the Negro race the wide world over that the principles of the U. N. I. A. are taking so great a hold on their hearts and are bringing them into the fold in countless, thousands everywhere. As an inspireer of men the U. N. I. A. occupies a unique place in *the hearts of the Negro peoples of the world*. Its influence cannot be measured by the numbers within its ranks, for its propaganda for uplift and enlightenment has influenced more minds than can be counted and the days to come will show to mankind in its fullest form the power of the Negro to reach influence of the greatest organization which has ever been conceived in the mind of more moral man, for it goes without saying that there is no single force or organization in the wide wide world which influences or tends to influence the destiny of no many lives of no many of the human race as does the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. It is second only in its potent power to influence the lives of all who believe in Jesus Christ, beside which all manmade organizations pale into insignificance. This association desires and endeavors to teach the Negro to do his duty as a man, to love the world and its people, to honor his God and see in all the human race the children of a common father. It endeavors also to show him the way to look the world in the face and play a man's part; to gird up his limbs and prepare for anything that comes; for any encounter with any force which would seek to hold him back from the fullest expression of the God-given powers of body, mind and spirit, and to irrevocably set his face, his mind and all his powers, potential and expressed, to the complete and all- round emancipation of the race and the redemption of the fatherland, Africa, which there can be nor has there been, any greater, any loftier, any more embling undertaking embarked upon by any man or any race of men since the world began. Incidentally the destiny of Africans and Africa are inextricably bound up with the destiny of the U. N. I. A.; and not thatstanding all the jolous critics—and thoughtless critics have cared and dared to utter in derision-Africa will be redeemed as surely as night follows day, nay, more, as surely as God said, "Let he be light." If envious ones and scorners would pause long enough in the emissions to realise that there in the fatherland, Africa, are more than two hundred and thirty millions of the people of the Negro race who have always lifted up their hands against invasion and oppression and also to understand that even in this twentieth century these people are in no way reconciled to foreign domination; yet more, that they are eagerly looking for the deliverance of their people, looking Negroes believe is drawing night they would change their attitude, and instead of using their puny and insignificant influence to try to block the fulfillment of what God Almighty has himself decreed, long long ago, would do all that in small their power to aid it on, even in a small way. They ought to remember that in magnus as it is impossible for the puny forces of men to stop the hurricane in its onward sweep, and for more criticisms to prevent the convulsions of the earthquake, so it is also impossible to stop the onward, and for more criticisms to stop the race of Negroes, thoroughly awakened and fully determined, prepared to hilt for the ushering in of the era when they shall dominate the lands of their fathers and live their lives in the way God and nature intended for them. With its propaganda of awakening and unification and uplift and inspiration, this U. N. I. A. is going to so fire the minds of the Negroes everywhere that in the fulness of time, with concerted action, they shall rise as one man and one unconserved effort the community has never known before three thousand years the parasitic peoples from the vultures of their fatherland and set up there a government that shall win the respect and admiration of the world. Africa will be free! Africa will be redeemed from the greedy intruders who have ravished her daughters, slain and otherwise ill-treated her sons and have despoiled her of her treasures. And this redemption of the fatherland will be done through the Negro himself, because of the lesson of courage and inspiration, of uplift, of determination, of progress, of unity and achievement which the Universal Negro Improvement Association is teaching the race the world over. Under the tutelage of the U N I A. the Negro is not seeking to take from anybody, anywhere, that which they have spent their various forces to secure for themselves; but before God and all creation we do solemnly declare that the land of our fathers will know no other government, no other domination, no other rule than the rule, the Negro, of the government of the Negro, for the Negro of the Negro. We will not fight other men for what they have made, for what is their by inheritance; but we do declare that not all the halls over heated will doctor us from the quest of freedom and the redemption of Africa. And when this spirit fully animates all the children of Ham everywhere no force, no power on earth will keep us from the goal. Finally, the hands on the dial of time are pointing to the hour. The stage is being set for the greatest drama the world has ever known and God knows we are ready." Like a powerful magnet drawing the steel to its all-embracing arm, the U. N. I. A. is drawing all Negroes to its fold and victory is night. THE MANATI DIVISION CENTRAL MANATI, ORIENTE CUBA, ELECTS OFFICERS THE MANATI DIVISION CENTRAL MANATI, ORIENTE CUBA, ELECTS OFFICERS November 2, 1922. Owing to the desire to strengthen and perfect the division a meeting was held in our Liberty Hall on the 15th of October, in which a resolution was made, seconded and put to the vote, and carried by all the members, calling for the resignation of all officers for the purpose of having a general re-election, which took place on the night of November 1. These meetings were presided over by our expresident, Bro. Wm. Bennett. However, the president was asked to vacate his seat, after which Bro. Robison, an officer of the Kingston, Jamiaa, Division was asked to act as chairman for the night. We are proud to state that Bro. Robison acted his part judicially by giving the spirit of a new Negro to the credit of all present. Following are the names of officers elected: President, Bro. Benjamin B. Slims; first vice-president, Bro. Joseph Lloyd; second vice-president, Bro. Wm. J. Clarke; executive secretary, Bro. Wm. William Holmes; general secretary, Bro. Charles Patrick; treasurer, Bro. Wm. S. Brown; assistant treasurer, Sister Cristina Molkane; Trustees-Brothers Charles Findley, Philip Simms and Ramon Domingues; Advisory Board-Brothers John Thomas; Edward Smith Walter; Roderique; Nicholas; Pachco; Sylvestre Bayat; Robert; Bro. Wm. Leonard Two Sides of the Question of Intermarriage As Seen by the New Negro--The White Man Captain, Charles, Thompson, James Blake, Alonzo Waite, Alas Brown. We expect to elect officers for the ladies' division in the very near future. Trusting we will carry out our obligations faithfully in serving our race to the best of our ability, that we will be ever loyal to this great cause if it is even to be the shading of our blood, that we may ever persevere until the Negro race is free and the Red, the Black and the Green is planted on the hills of Africa. We beg to remain, yours for us, soo "CRICKET IN COSTA RICA—LA JUNTA" The Waterloo C. C. has again scored success in their second game of the cup competition, Waterloo C. C. v. White Star C. C. played on November 27. The largest assemblage of colored people for a good time had appeared to witness the test between these two giant teams. After the regular formalities were performed White Star C. C went to bat and managed to score "the killer." With much anxiety to become sole owner of the cup, Waterloo C. C went to bat. The spiral exhibited by the members of the Waterloo C. C. in their determination to win was similar to that of the soldiers in the famous battle of Waterloo. In a short time the Waterloo C. C. up 69 runs for 4 out with Bimson Walker the "batting hero" for the day. 39 runs not out. Just here one of the presents opened the cup to the winning team. We felt that of a day well spent. We appreciate Dr Richardson's prize hat to the winner who played top score in the Waterloo C. C. P. T. O. The following letters present a very enlightening contrast in the points of view of the Negro and white man on that eternal question of miscegenation. Nogales, Ariz., December 8, 1933. To the Editor of the Times: After reading an article in your very interesting paper entitled "The Barrier of Races," by Mr. M. W. Richardson (white), would it not be fair and even interesting to publish the views and conclusions of a proud member of the colored race on the same subject? The mixture of races between whites and colored is a two-sided question. A legal agreement can not be accomplished by one person or race, that is where both person or race is concerned. For instance, Mr. Richardson has declared himself to be my partner, humorously ignoring the fundamental necessity of consulting me. Mr. Richardson has jumped at the conclusion that colored races aspire to intermarriage with whites from the statement of some shallow-pated, irresponsible Negro. Such conclusions expose the ignorance not only of Mr. Richardson, but of 99 per cent. of his race. Such gross ignorance is caused from the fact that the whites, instead of studying the races from a general standpoint, do not identify with individuals. Mr. Richardson firmly believes that the statement made by this scab of Ethiopia voices the sentiment of the Negro throughout the world. Such conclusions are erroneous, misleading, deceptive and meant only to obliterate, if possible, the higher aspiration of the Negro. The enemy will and shall not pass. Be it understood that a very dangerous percentage of Afro-Americans are fully aware of the fact that intermarriage between the two races constitutes a moral, racial and national crime, and that the offspring of such a damnable mixture can a menace and a disgrace to a Pan-African program, well and substantially established by, for and with Negroes. BERTG. MACK C. NANCE, U. B. A. [Editor's Note—Mr. Richardson's letter to the Editor of the Los Angeles Times, to which Sergent Nance refers, is herewith reproduced.] The Barrier of Race Pandena, Nov. 10, 1922. To the Editor of the Times: Dear Sirt: In reading the pros and cons in the matter of Japanese citizenship, I have come to the following. There has recently been published a book upon the subject of the melting pot, the mixture of races. The author is a conservative, and one who for generations traces his ancestry in this country, in New England. This gentleman, to make a long story short, att- [Image of a man wearing a turban with a star on the front]. NEW YORK, Nov. 18—In a statement issued here today the American Civil Liberties Union attacks the federal secret service for its participation in the prosecution of William S. Foster and others under the Michigan criminal syndictor law. The statement asserts that "there is not a single issue in the case except those of free speech and freedom of assembly." The cases are the result of a raid last August on a secret meeting of the communite at Bridgeman, Mich., by state federal and local Chicago detectives. Foster and several of the others are out on $10,000 bail balls awaiting trial November 21. "This case in Michigan differs from other prosecutions of the Communists because it is in fact a national not a state case," read the Civil Liberties Union statement, which is signed by Harry P. Ward, chairman; Roger N. Baldwin, director, and Albert De Silver, associate director. "It is an attempt by the state to impose a service order of 'assisting' the Michigan authorities in enforcing a local statute, to stamp out communist doctrines by failing practically all the officers and active organizers of the communist movement in the United States. "The federal government acted through State officers, having no federal law to support any action. The names of half a dozen federal agents who participated are known. The press reports at the time said the raid was made on order of William J. Burrows, a former state prosecutor, clear, therefore, that this is an effort to destroy a political movement which ought to be allowed to operate like others, in the open, but which the federal government itself forced under- tributes the great collapse of ancient civilizations to mixture of races, that so often followed conquest. In one instance after another, the Greeks be a shining example, one cannot but be impressed with certain facts which do seem to bear him out. The whole question comes down to this hard fact. We may give the suffrage to other races, but do we tolerate intermarriage? Isn't that, after all, the question we have to ask, after giving everything else? I am not speaking of intermarriage between italiana, Germans, English and Americans. I'm speaking of intermarriage with the colored races. Americans with Ortega race — black. Is it successful? is it just a unhappy offspring, who is neither one this another? Is it possible? if not, what then? A constant segregation? Is that good? Is it even safe? A Negozie once told me that inter-marriage was all right, because in a certain number of generations they "come out as white as I was." This problem we have already, and anon we shall have the yellow problem. It is a hard nut to crack, because theoretically we do believe in the brotherhood iden. Practically, however, the situation is extremely grave, because we do not want to do what they are willing to do. Intermarry. Reduced to its final analysis, it means that. The birds and beasts remain true to type by mating with their own kind, and when nature is mocked the result is hideous for the victim. One of the most tragic things I ever read was the account of the life of one of these unfortunate. It was to appallingly tragic, that it could stand as sufficient reason against such a mukure without any further argument. But what to do, if you believe in the brotherhood of mankind? I suppose the answer is, to catch race there should come a sufficient pride in pure stock to head off the desire to behemish it. I tried to convey something of the sort to the above-mentioned Negro. I tried to convince her that she ought to be as proud of being black as I was of being white, and you should the officiety might be very much less for both races if a proper pride could be instilled. But if you insult it what then? The same old question, is a mass of people all segregated, a healthy, normal nation, will it endure? My conclusion is that we should not intermarry, but I realise that it is a very unassatisfactory conclusion. It is one of the most tremendous questions for future generations to face, and I don't envy them. M. W. RICHARDSON Can You Stand the Truth? 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Both the law and the prosecution are in violation of the rights of free speech and free expression, no matter with what the community at Bridgman met to discuss. They had a right to meet, publicly or privately, as they chose, to discuss anything under the sun. We will defend that right in court and out. "While we the roughly disagree with the communist attitude toward free speech, with their metamodular secret tactics and with their talk about revolutionary violence, we shall defend their right to meet and to speak as they, choose. We shall concede that they may properly be punished only if their doctrines break out into overt criminal acts, and that their overt act is to violate the basic principles of civil and political liberty." Actual evidence against the defendants consists principally of two harbors of convention records, reports and personal correspondence found buried in the grounds of the meeting place by the raiders. The defense of the case will be the constitutional right of free speech and free assembly and, if necessary, the Michigan criminal syndicalist law will be tested in the United States. One of the public opinion is asked to try the issue "for the effect they may have on similar prosecutions elsewhere and on the state of mind which encourages repressive measures." A special organization known as the Labor Defence Council, with offices at 186 West Washington street, Chicago, has charge of the defence work, and a general appeal is being issued for funds. It is estimated that the case will cost at least $100,000. "The American Liberties Union," the statement concludes, "indores this special defence work and urges all its friends to contribute liberties to the cause in all ways when requested. This is the most important single national trial involving civil liberties with which we have been concerned since the big I. W. W. conspiracy trial under the Espionage Act. 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Some Important New Books Thomson, "Outline of Science," V. A. This completes a most intelligent and fascinating work. Prandello, Lugt, three plays, including "Big Characters in Search of an Author," "Henry IV" and "Tight You Are (If You Think You Are)." Detwisler, F. S., The Negro Pastor, the U. S. Eds., "Gigolo," a collection of short stories. The title is drawn from one of the stories. Leary, Monsignor A., "The Hallion of the Primitives." An entirely new point of view about religious beliefs among African tribes. Cathar, Willa S., "Alexander Bridge," a reprint of the author's first book. Decidedly worth reading, better than "One Gurne." It will no doubt last along with "My Antonia" as the author's best. A CORKING COMBINATION OFFER! A Year's Subscription to the Negro World, Which Is Ordinarily $2.50, and a Copy of Either of the Two Great Negro Books Listed Below for $5.00. "THE HAYTIAN REVOLUTION" By Chaplain T. G. 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Eile Garcia and George Tobias of the Black Star Line for alleged misuse of the United States mails will be called some time this month in New York. For quite a while enemies of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association have been working for the purpose of turning public sentiment against Mr. Garvey. Different Negro associations have been canvassing the people, asking them to testify against Mr. Garvey. They have organized opposition meetings in different centers under the caption, "Garvey Must Go!" All this is being done to defeat the hopes of our race through the only real Negro movement started in the interest of the race. The fight for African freedom is eternal) and you must support it now by supporting the greatest leader of the rpae. Send in your subscription to this fund immediately. All subscriptions, will be acknowledged in the columns of this paper. The case will be reported day by day in the Daily Negro Times and weekly in this paper for universal circulation. Send all subscriptions addressed to Secretary-Genera, Universal Negra Improvement Association, 56 West 135th street, New York city, N. Y. THE FUND S. P. Williams, New York City 2.00 Miss M Ward, New York City 1.00 Total $6,299 11 # A Correction In the Negro World of December 16 there appeared the following statement H. W. Mison, Waterloo, Iowa $1.00 William Prancia, Waterloo, Iowa 2.00 This was an error and should be corrected to read W. H. Mison, Waterloo, Iowa $1.00 William Travic, Waterloo, Iowa 2.00 Convention Fund Brought forward $10,898.05 H Braithwaithe, Newcastle-on- Tyne Eng 2.00 William McDowall Barry Dopek South Wales 2.00 Jas. C Burrowea, Chiriqui, R P 1.00 Total $10,901.05 A Correction In the Negro World of August 5 there appeared the statement of Basil Griff- fith of Vancouver. B.C. contributing $1 to the Convention Fund. This was an award and corrected to read Basil Griffith, Vancouver B.C $8.00 as his contribution to the fund. We are pleased to make this correction LADY HENRIETTA VINTON DAVIS AND THE RT. HON. FRED A. TOOTE ELECTRIFY THE BOSTON DIVISION BEATON turned out on hear to hear the Lady of the Nile and one Hon F A Tote unfold the principles of Garveyism and breathe encouragement to the adherents of truth Cairo Hall, where the special mass meeting was held, was crowded with an enthusiastic and thoughtful gathering. 15.80 Mr. Munroe opened the firework, taking as his subject why he remains in the U N I. A., and left one with the satisfaction that the movement leaves its high idlenis in the breasts of many Speaking in glowing terms of the work of the Boston Division and complimenting the women for their devotion, our first lady told of the influence for which the movement is responsible the world over. "New life, new energy, new patriotism are the natural sequence of association with the U. N. I. A. and its alma" she asserted, and added that through the intellectual giant. Hon Marcus darvey, the Negro world will dictate what shall be done in Africa, even as Kemal Pasha is today dictating what must be done in Turkey. A free and redeemed Africa, with its people worshiping according to their own dictates, honoring their own flag and spreading a Negro civilization as of God is the inseparable cause of the movement in which Negroes of the world find now hope. This wonderful address was closed with an appeal for steadfast and active membership. The Hon. F. A. Toote followed with his gripping eloquence taking his hearers to the imagination of a Negro world striking out for complete emancipation. The Negro had fought his last fight for an alien race, he told his audience, and is now dedicated to immortalizing the Red, Black and Green as the standard of a free and progressive Africa. R. M. ROMAIN, 10 Ruggles St. Boston, Mass. HEALTH TALKS By DR. E. ELLIOTT RAWLINS 1.13 Modern civilized life is face to face with a sociological problem in the treatment of tuberculosis. This disease spreads and becomes a national problem through ignorance and poverty. Education along health lines has reduced the deaths and sufferings of this malady, but the benefit is small. A continuous campaign has been going on for years teaching the people how to prevent tuberculosis, and, in the early stage, how it may be overcome. Some improvement is noticed, yet tuberculosis still is prevalent, and its death toll is still high. Health education, I believe, has done its part and will continue to battle against this disease, but social and economic aid in the treatment of this disease has been found wanting. Health education for quite a long time has been telling tubercular people what to do and what not to do, but these unfortunate people quite often cannot carry it through because of economic and social reasons. Rest of mind and body are the two essentials necessary in the cure of tuberculosis. If a tubercular person does not rest his mind and body at times when it is necessary, then the tubercular inflammation advances, this wasting of the tissues increases, the body restrained to the disease is lowered and the person, steadily grows weaker, and savers and active tuberculosis obese. This is what is happening every day in the lives of the majority of tubercular people. The man or woman with early tuberculosis can be swept. We. Not by directly influencing the disease in the lungs but only indirectly, by improving the general well-being or the body and this increasing the body resistance. Thus the life of the person is regulated and his environment is improved. If the tuberculosis is active producing fever and weight general weakness and heart palpitation, then physical rest is necessary, but if the condition worsens, we must take the rest and find relief. 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Here is where the special agencies are most needed, and here is where they are most lacking. For tuberculosis to be lessened and got under control, social agencies with strong financial resources are needed to give financial aid to tubercular people needing this physical rest in order that they may lessen or refrain from work or change a particular line of work that is detrimental to their disease, or secure the proper treatment in a sanatorium. In no other way can these people secure the freedom from mental worry and obtain the proper physical rest. More public sanatorias are needed in order that early cases may get the benefit of proper fresh air, healthy environment and physical rest. This is a public necessity and is the crying need of the hour. This should be the prime aim of the Red Cross organization, the anti-terrorist agencies and other public appointed social agencies. Health education and medical advice are important in this fight against tuberculosis without the helping hand of social philanthropy and public agencies giving financial aid to those who need freedom from worry and proper physical rest. UNIVERSAL AFRICAN BLACK Questions of general interest on the care and feeding of infants and children will be answered in this column Address Child Welfare Dept. Negro World 56 West 133th street New York N.Y. Methods of Procedure for Home Pasteurization Pasteurization is defined as the de- structure by heating of microbiotic life in a substance 1. Put four quartz of water in a kettle on the stove and allow it to boil then remove the kettle from the stove and stand it on table. Keep uncovered for ten minutes. Then place a folded towel in the bottom of the kettle and put bottles of milk stoppered with cotton in the kettle and allow them remain there covered for half an hour. At the end of this time remove the bottles and cool them rapidly under running water and put in the icebox. Put bottles of milk in water heat until milk, tested by thermometer reaches 155 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep at this heat for thirty minutes, then cool quickly under running water and put on ice. Beautiful, Soft Silky Hair Overnight Rura KINK-OUT PHYSICAL MIRACLES AND SCIENTIFIC JARGON There have been many echoes of the articles that appeared in The Negro Times and The Negro World on the question of physical miracles and the explanation of them. Much of the discussion has drifted into the dry rot of scientific definition, which defines nothing and conveys little meaning to scientists and none whatever to the average reader. Science is so far an inexact interpretation of natural phenomena as to be subject to change by any disease. We can that may take the place of anecdotal fact. That is to say science is inexact because it is always subject to change by the newest discovery or invention. The theory of scientists that any concession not acceptable to them advanced by one who does not pretend to be a scientist is on a par with the dogmatism of theologians who insist that they are the only interpreters of Holy Writ. When they can do no more than read the text and understand it as read just as the man in the new trade and understands it. Ask either for the spiritual interpretation of the letter as well as the word and he stumbles at the one and falls down flat at the second. You cannot go behind the text they say, and we have found that you cannot understand anything by standing before the text. Not one of them can resolve the word Bible into its labels and tell you what it spells and means. So with the word Abram Scientists are equally dogmatic and obscurantine. We give an illustration Dr. A H Maloney of Wilberforce University has an article in The Negro World of November 20, in which he discusses the question of physical miracles raised by the editor of the Negro Times. He does not say anything about miracles but a great deal about scientific viewpoint and all that he says our Mr. Fortune, to whom the scientific viewpoint is evidently a closed door has the viewpoint of popular speech and uncritical usage. Very good. Suppose you draw a circle and call it the total of human intelligence and refer it to cosmos, nature, God. It makes no difference which for our purpose. But it does make a difference. He who reasons in a circle will never reach the end of anything and he who reasons from himself to nature will not reach a correct conclusion until he reasons from nature to himself, because man is the nature of nature and the logical interpreter of himself and nature. Anything is miraculous which has not before been done like the discovery of gunpowder. The new thing which is a miracle today becomes a commonplace tomorrow when some new miracle is assumed and he is given a group of man is coming upon some new thing continually — Negro Times, Nov 24 Weekly Sermon Subject. "A Christmas Message." Text "God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." I Cor. 1-27. Here we have a statement that is paradoxical. How is it possible to use the weak things to confound the mighty? Without easing to answer the question, it is a fact that stands without successful contradiction that Jesus, a mere child, did confound the great world powers. Christmas reminds us of the greatest of all illustrations of this text. The world stood in sad need of a strong ruler. It needed a promised Messiah, in the Jews expected a redeemer, and the gentile knew of the coming of a Havour for the Jews. He came, but an a mere babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, but this mere babe in his advent so disturbed the great ruler Herod that he contrivised to find out his lodging in order that he might put Him to death. And when he was filled in the attempt the further exonerated him and pardoned, by ordering the death of all the boy babe born of Jewish birth in his province. But God took the sample minded peasant parents and outcitted the king. For they sojourned in England until Blood was dead. This child grew in stature and in the knowledge of God. A box of twelfths standing in the midst of doctors and lay people proounding questions and took them Truth, the weak confounding the might, it has always been thus. The learner, in world far beyond has never been able to quiet, and for him, mankind individual who is sought fires, the kingdom of heaven and the lightness. Think of it as a mere carpenter's measuring arms with the Pharisees and Buddhists. A poor man's enlightenment, the great banishment of His day and generation. Listen to his wonderful words of truth which have stood the test of the ages. H Jesus stood for true ideas in a world of erroneous once Truth in question. You can do nothing against the truth but for the truth. God chose truth to confound the things that appear mighty. Two suggest ones are in the thought. First a man of ideas stands behind the man of action and a man whose ideas are true is the man of real force. Jesus was able to convince men and women because He was the embodiment of this truth. He conceived because He was able to visualize the needs of the people. He acted because He knew no fear in the furtherance of the truth. He came to perpetuate. He knew the truth could not be successfully refuted. He knew it would stand when all else had failed. Like this great truth proclaimed by the he realizes to come this truth given to us by one selected of God to bring a message to the millions of men and women of color. It is considered by some a weak force because it is made up of the masses; but how like the God who declared He would do this. Is it possible that the Universal Negro Improvement Association lives when great and grand organizations, founded and fostered by the intelligentsia, fluctuate and in some instances ouse to be. It has always been and will ever be that God is no respector of persons, but his truths shall ever curve their way, and men shall follow in the wake of its teachings. Secondly, within the circle of the truth which Jesus taught there was much that enforces the lesson of the text. (a) His ethical system (b) His death on Calvary (c) His resurrection The system which Christ established at a great cost stands today as the one recognised way of the abundant life the life of peace and joy the eternal life it is the life that unfolds in harmony symmetry and peace giving to each one who lives after this high ethic to ode the evidences of real life here and rest when transplanted at the end of our careers here. He was an enamoured with his to this until He counted it a joy to give. His life a consonant that others might know of its value. He paid the supreme sacrifice because He knew the truth would be heard around the world and somethings would come into a full appreciation of the same through If a death on Calvary. But He also knew and declared that this truth could not be confined in the bowels of the earth though it may be crushed there by mighty forces which might in its combat to overcome the weak. The weak triumphed in the resurrection and aid to rest forever the endowers to keep under the trunts that have pleased the earth and made blossom like the rose. No one have the great ethical truths of the Universal Negro Improvement Association gone forth and go forth in Christmas, belting the universe and arousing the black people everywhere to the teachings of a leader twice blessed in being called a weakling to confound the mighty. In being able to count the cost, and who knows that if his way leads to Calvary, gladly will he go all the way, that our Mount of Liberty shall be secured. That his willingness to endure persecution and death is but evidence of his desire to see the fruition of his allotted task. Then to know that in crucifixion the task is not complete, but there shall come and will come, an Easter morn. 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FIGUEROA, Editor Causas de la Desaprobación del Proyecto de Ley en Contra de los Linchamientos—Una Advertencia a Tiempo— Nuestra Raza en Peligro de Perder los Pocos Derechos Políticos Conferidos, Por Medio de la Política Malsana de Ciertas Agrupaciones—La Masa Conciente Debe Poner Coto a los Que Maliciosamente Trabajan en Detrimento de la Raza Consideramos un deber contraido para con nuestra raza el dar cuenta del desarrollo de los acontecimientos que directa o indirectamente afectan sus intereses Es nuestro deber, repetimos, poner en conocimiento de los quince millones de Negros en los Estados Unidos del gran daño político ocasionado por ciertas agrupaciones y prepararles para contrarrestar cualquier reacción en contra de la vida económica o política de nuestra raza en esta parte del hemisferio Fistas agrupaciones estan diruidas en gran parte por clementos de otras razas, quienes conducen sus negocios a su propio antojo y conveniencia. A nuestro entender, estas agrupaciones son simplemente el esfuerzo de cierta parte del pueblo para manejar el destino económico, social y político del Negro en los Estados Unidos de America. Recordaremos que poco tiempo ha el Negro era esclavo en este pais y por medio de ciertas circunstancias y del esfuerzo de ciertos individuos interesados en su libertad, por conveniencia propia, aquel fue emancipado cincuenta y siete años ha y en su emancipación fue declaído como un ciudadano, con los nismos derechos que su antiguo amo ejercitara. Le fue concedido el sufragio y elegia elementos de su raza, no solamente a la Legislatura del Estado, sino al Congreso Nacional. Resultado de todo esto fue la actitud alarmante entre la población blanca de los Estados del Sur, sobre el gran peligro de tener al Negro ejercitando el sufragio como ciudadano y eligiendo finalmente individuos de su raza como directores y representantes de comunidades que incluían elementos de la raza blanca Este rudo despertar del blanco en el Sur trajo como consecuencia la adopción de ciertas reglas, las cuales convertidas luego en leyes restringian el derecho del sufragio del Negro, convirtiendole en un ciudadano sin ventajas políticas. Desde entonces observamos que el Negro no tiene derecho al voto ni puede tomar participación en la elección de persona alguna, en la mayor parte de los estados del sur. Tal fue el resultado funesto de la actitud del banco del sur, quien se opuso en gran parte a admitir al Negro con igual derecho político, en el nuevo orden de cosas, cread, por la proclama de la abolición de la esclavitud. Los estados del norte, en la época de la emancipación v durante el periodo en que el Negro ejercía el derecho del sufrago en los estados del sur, no estaban en manera alguna interesados en la evolución política del sur, permitiendo al Negro ejercer su derecho político, por no estar ellos amenazados por tal peligro bajo el punto de vista del hombre blanco. Pero durante los ultimos veinte años las cosas han variado. El Negro ha invadido comunidades en el Norte por centenares de miles, constituyendo un poder en los respectivos centros políticos del norte de la nación. Preveyendo el peligro que actualmente le amenaza, el blanco del norte ha inspirado entre ciertos elementos de nuestra raza la constitución de agrupaciones, como a las que hacemos referencias, en las cuales el es juez y parte. De este modo se pone en posición de poder manejar a su conveniencia los intereses de ciertos elementos de nuestra raza evitando así el que el Negro adquiera suficiente poder y se convierta en su adversario político. La dirección de tales argupaciones, blancos en su mayoria, delinean su programa de acuerdo con sus planes y vemos por trece años consecutivos una agitación en contra de los linchamientos, los cuales, en vez de cesar ó aminorar, aumentan de año en año Mientras aceptamos como principio la necesidad de una ley en contra del linchamiento en este país como una garantia personal, la propaganda de estas agrupaciones pretendiendo hacer grandes esfuerzos por la aprobación de tal ley, coloca al Negro en una posición política poco favorable despertando el interes del hombre blanco del norte hacia el peligro del poder político del Negro, procurando un medio que mantenga a esta en posición inferior. La política de amenazas de esas agrupaciones no han tenido ni tendrán resultado satisfactorio alguno. Cuando en el Congreso se discutia el proyecto de ley en cuestión, individualidades y agrupaciones amenazaban a Representantes y a Senadores con manifestaciones tales como: "Si usted no patrocina dicha proyecto de ley, no será recollecto por el voto del Negro." Esto solamente produjo indignación; los grandes magnates Demócrata y Republicano no han de permitir bajo circunstancia alguna que un infimo número de votos de clementos de nuestra raza amenace la carrera política de un solo Senador o Representante blanco, o amenace la existencia de sus respectivos partidos. Estas manifestaciones han originado un resentimiento en el pensar y sentir no solamente de los Representantes THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922 al Congreso, sin de todo político blanco llámese democrata ó republicano, lo cual ha traído como consecuencia CARPETA para dicho proyecto de ley por tiempo indefinido. Nó hemos de extrañar que dentro de dos, cinco ó diez años, con propagandas de tal indole, nos veamos privados de los privilegios que nuestra raza disfruta en esta porción de la patria de Washington. La Concordia Centroameri Cuando los delegados de Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador remetieron el lunes en el salón de las Americas, a invitación del presidente Harding, para estudiar medios de estabilidad y paren en Centro America e se secretaron Hugle, le man fest que en contrataron en Washington "el mas amistoso abierto" y "el espiritual dentado de cooperación". Los de legados le compendieron. Saban que el movimiento hacia la federación de las republicas de Centro America una unión de los estados, habia sido la aspiración de sus pasases por costi sin siglo, pero que habia siempre trazado porque a causa de la huja de partidos entre las clases dirigente no pudo englacer un mensaje conviense el programa que se ofrece. Los centros americanos no habian sido capaces de aereglarse entre se Su una esperanza esta en la intervención diplomaática de los Estados Unidos. "El amistoso ambiento" de Washington, un plan practicable conducente a la unión podra ser convengido, en su caso aceptado por las cinco naciones interesadas. El senor Alberto Uclés, ex ministro del Exterior de Honduras, dio la clave de las debilitaciones cuando hizo votos por que se realizara otro esfuerzo para establecer la federación centroamericana. El ultimo frasado no mas alla de octubre de 1921. Entonces un convenio entre Honduras, Salvador y Guatemala, que deba comprender a Costa Rica y Nicaragua, cayó por tierra cuando el presidente Herrera, de Guatemala, el principal campesino de la unión, sucumbo ante una revolución fulminante. In Centro America, ha declarado un observador hispano americano, se nace unomista, pero tan pronto como la idea llega al punto de cristalización todo lo que uno es el derrumbamiento de un presidente del poder y la guerra que se mueva de nuevo, en vez de ver el desarrollo de algún plan de cooperación que pudiera ayudar de modo efectivo a hacer una realidad de la union. Tal plan cooperativo que propugte o más bien vuelta a aprobar, en la reunión de los presidentes de Nicaragua. Henduras y El Salvador a bordo del crucero nortamericano "Tamaña", en el golfo de Fonseca celibrada en agosto ultimo. Renovaron el tratado, o serie de convenciones, que las cinco republicas centroamericanas habían amanado en la conferencia de Washington de 1907, durante la administración del presidente Roosevelt. Este tratado, que quedo incuplido, fue visto como un paso hacia la federación. En la conferencia que ahora se celebra en Washington, Costa Rica y Guatemala, sin duda, daran de nuevo su obligation. Pero tendran que disuercer otros temas, entre ellos la limpiez de los armamentos militares. Nada es más esencial para la paz la concordia en Centro America. En cada uno de estos países el ejercito un instrumento de los políticos. No habra progreso permanente hasta que todas las republicas se havean reunido. La disposición por medio de arribas de las controversias es soluciónaria al tema anterior. En el tratamiento de 1907 prescribase la creación de un tribunal para ello. Actualmente no existe ninguno. Sus llega a un convenio sobre el desarrollo en Washington y las conveniones de 1907, que comprendan el establecimiento de un tribunal de arbitraje, que renueva ahora con las reformas que puedan encontrarse necesarias la conferencia no habia sido convocada en vano. La discussion del problema de la federación con tendrá lugar durante las deliberaciones se una en señalado trunto para el presidente Harding y el secretario Hughes que la conferencia pudiera ser el punto de partida para la verdadera union de los estados de centro America. Norteamericanos Estudiando Español Los estudiantes y profesores americanos perspicaces están con cediendo creciente atención al estudio de la lengua española. Esto es especialmente senatado en la Nueva Inglaterra. Vermont, nunca rezagado en materias pedagogicas, se halla en puesto prominente en cuarto a la estimación del valor para los americanos de la capacidad de leer escribir y hablar el noble idioma de España. Para beneficio de sus propios estudiantes en número cerca de quintientos Middlebury College, una de las más antiguas instituciones docentes del estado de la Montaña Verde, ha planeado inaugurar una escuela de verano en Granada. España, donde quienes deseen perfectarar su conocimiento del español puedan hacerlo en condiciones ventajas Este ejemplo es indicador del mo- vimento que esta ganando impetu. la tendencia de parte de los alumnos de las escuelas públicas a substituir el aleman y hasta el franquez por el espalso, si va haaciente marcada. Puede ser que el prestigio que en un tiempo tuvo el aleman en nuestros cursos escolares no sea jamas reconquistado. De ahora en adelante el aleman se sostendra por sus propios meritos por la perspectiva de aventajamento que ofrece al estudiante en comparación con otras lentas modernas. El frances o el español, especialmente el español, seran preferidos al Las ventajas para los americanos del conocimiento del español en evidentes. Sparte del hecho de que es una de las mas majestuosas y sonoras de todas las hermosas lenguas procedentes de la lengua de la antigua Roma, la cercana de millones de vernos de habla española con los que estan destinados a tener crecientes y más intimas relaciones sociales y comerciales, hacen la adquisición del idioma que ellos hablan de importancia especial para los americanos Los Tres Reyes de Oriente Por RICARDO LEON Por un camino en la desierta llanura viene de Oriente una caravana. Bajo el cielo adusto, huerfano de sus claros luminares, solo se ven o se adivan las síluctas. unos caballos vigorosos, unos dromedarios de robusta poroba, tres jinetes, unos bultos informes arrebozados en las tinteblas Llegando a cierto lugar donde se juntan otros caminos la caravana vacila y se detiene. El cielo parece de ebano la tierra, de bronce, el aire, un afilado punial, y es el silencio tan hondo, que se ove el latir del corazon en las entradas Una luz, verde y cruida, rasga de subito el horizonte lejano, cunde como una centella, se abre al modo de una rosa, y cae deshecha en la grimas sobre el manto sombre de la moche. A esta luz, siguen muchas nejepentes, y a las luces, unos retumbos pavorosos que hacen temblar la tierra, y a los retumbos, el elefto otro. Y, entonces la caravana sigue suuta en las timelas. --- Un fuerte resplander alumbra todo el cielo en Ocidente la l'Amara se训e de roja claridad, los ambitos se pueblan de voces y tronidos. Es la guerra que cabalga cu un negro correl por los campos europeos; es la Muerte, que, en plena Navidad cristiana, viene a arrular la cunas con el barbaro son de hierro y de la polvora, a encender sus infames哼ueras en la noche en la bendita noe que se dijo "Gloria a Dios en las alturas y paz en la tierra a los hombros de buena voluntad. . ." Y arden las casas de los honíres, como antorchas de Luzbel, bajo los rayos de la implacable artilleria, a la luz de los incendios, pasan las muchudumbres de soldados con un tragor de tempestad. Son legiones unumerables de todas las razas y banderas aqua, la cruz, alla la media luna, aca las lices mas alla las agualas y juntos en la hueste, el cascó y el turbante el capote y el quelque los rostros de ébano y de muese, todos extremes por la muma colera infernal. Y al paso de estas ciegas multitudes se abren los senos de la tierra, se commueven las montañas, cruzen los bosques, europecen los rios, flamean los aires y caen las vidas de los hombres como las mueses al golpe de la hoz . . . La caravana que vena de Oriente para otra vez se atel desilaje tragico. Rojas leugnas de fuego temblan al borde del camino. Una ciudad arde en la noce. A su suestre fulgor se descubre la calidad y riqueza de los tres perregrinos viajeros. Son tres reyes. I uno es persa venerable la figura, verdes los ojos, la barba de nueve, majestuosa la acuidad. I una tumica de purpura y de uno, oífe en alfanje, con un topaco sobre el puño, y trae sobre la tumica un rico manto de armillo. El otro rey es arabe tiene la barba negra y ensortijada, los labios gruesos, la nariz de fino dibujo, los ojos negros, grandes y hermosos, en figura de almendra. El sayo es bermelo, bordado con aureas labores; rojo también el turbante; preciosa la espada, con puño de oro y de rubies; el manto azul. Y el otro ray, etiope. Es negra su tez como la endrina, pero elegante el cuerpo y nobles las facciones, alta la frente, aguilela la nariz, muy rojos los labios, puntiaguda la barba, muy blancos los ojos y los dientes, rizo y menudo el cabello, como granos de pimienta. Cífe un vestido blanco, de graciosos pliegues, y es nevada también la "xema" o toga que luce, con tornasoles de oro. Trae al cuello desnudo una sarta de corales, y la cintura, en el verde tahali, en cuchillo con el pulfo de oro y esmeraldas. Vienen los tres reyes en sendos caballos, negro blanco y alazan. Sígueles larga servidumbre, con camellos y acemilas, y un carro lleno de prodigos caudales --- Como en el ancho desierto, cuan- do sopla el simun, se levantan las arenas y, en espantos torbellos, gran ardientes, azota el aire, ocrecen el sol y caen sobre las pobres caravanas que, umidas en un haz, esperan temblando hallar en las arenas sepulura, así, de pronto, una nube de soldados, hurriente y clamorosa, con impetus de simun, llega pro tochas y veradas a la ciudad en llamas y cae sobre los tres reves peregrinos. Cerdados por la tropa, que va husmea el regio botn presa de un ejercito alegre y victorioso, van con mengua de su noble majestad, cautivos entre lanzas y fusles, a las tiendas del vencedor El cual, un viejo adusto y orgullo, de rectos bigotes blancos y envuelto en una capa gris, los recibe, sin grande cortesia, en su habitación de campaña, toda llena de planos y mapas de colores, erizados de banderitas y alfíbaras. —Quienes sonos vosotros— dice arrogante el general—que así otreveis a pasar las limes de batalla? Inorais acaso, que en estas limes no puede, sin grave riesgo, entrar gente forastera y civil? Quienes sonos vosotros, simples tradores, que con tanta llaneza osas venir con armas y mercancías a estos lugares prohibidos? Que documentos, que razones abonan vuestra audacía? Sabes el castigo que aquí se inflige a los espias? Hablab pronto extranjeros, decidine quienes sors de donde venis mostrane pasportes papeles, agracede a esta cruz que llevo sobre el pecho que no os apique, sin más preguntas in demoras, el talto inexorable de muestra le marcal . . . No me conocé — responde el rey ancano Es mi nombre Melchor Soy del Iran, del antiguo y famoso imperio que abatio los orgullosos briones de Babelonna, reina de las cudades Vengo del sacro Elbjo pobre de los síeros maragas vnas desecuión los juventud y resucitan a los difuntos Hlegado hasta aquí, al traves de manías y deertos, cruzando las llanuras de la implacable soledad, la arenas crueles y los pantanos salobies, pero, merced a más fatigas, trago incensos y balsamos y per fumes de la Cudad de las Rosas de los jardines de Liharan, paños de seda, más finos que el plumón de un ave, sembrados de arabescos y de flores, de leopardos y gacelas; perlas de Ormuz; tisius de oro y plata, copines y alcatias de los bazares de Chiraz. Voy en busca de las tierra apacibles donde reina la paz del Senor, de Aquel que, mucho pobre, nacio en un estabo de Belen. - Yo soy Guspar - dice el segundo rey. Vengo del Eufrates y el Ligur, de los bosques, gigantes de palmeras, vecinas de mar y del desierto, de las terras gloriosas y milenarias llenas de ruinas y sepulceros, de los ososarios imponentes de la historia, de las cluidades muertas que amat fatigan al mundo con el ser sonro de sus nombres. Vengo de Basora y Baglad donde aprendi locuntos de las Mil y una moché-puse a mil tienda entre los palidos ladríos de Khorsabad y de Ninive de Babolona y de Seleucia, cargue mus cante de do antiguo, de reliquas sagradas, magníficos despojos de los tienda de Siria, trajam bien vegua de pura sangre arabiga y asnos blanquimosos, todos cargados de riquezas. Soy Balazar dice el rey negro No tengo mi palacio junto a las aguas del Nilo Azul que salta corre entre lagos, volcanes y torrentes, al través del delio de las cumbres, y el fuego de los desertos y los crateres. Negro soy porque el sol me abraso desde la cuna en las tueras barbaras y esplendorosas de Fitopia. Crue el Mar Rojo, pasé al Yemen a la Arabia Feltr, segui las rutas de la Mea, de Medina y Jerusalén. el camino glorioso de Damasco, halle los tesoros de las antigua remas, la de Palmura y la de Saba, dormi a la sombra de los cedros del Libano; baue mi rostro en el Jordán, v vengo a Europa carcado de purpuras y marfiles, de piedras y maderas preciosas, afejos licores, sándalos, mirras y cinamomos exquisitos, con ofrendas mil para los níos cristianos, para aquellos que aprendieron en la cuna el dulce nombre de Jesús. . . Con muchas y siniestras carcajas celebran en el campamento las azones de los Reyes Magos. —Por fuerza suzá—dice un principe grave y taciturno que acompaía al general—unos de dementes o finos grandisimos socarrones cuanlo venis hogafo en distraña de ingenuos y candorosos peregrinos, con al aire de beatitude y de layenda, a este mundo senil despedazado por el hierro y por el fuego. La culta, la cristiana Europa, maestra de cobaldes hipocresis; la que destruye a sus propios hijos en nombre de la civilización, del derecho y de la libertad; la que puso una crus en sus banderas y otra en el pufo de sus espadas hoy, ultrajada en Dios, en entrega una furiosa batería de War. antorchas, las musicas y los cantos con que celebra la Navidad de Cristo: ciudades que arden, cafones que retumban, moldados que corren a la muerte lanzando gritos de odio. La paz del señor solo reina ya en los sepulcros. Los níos que aprendieron el nombre de Jesús, abandonan sus antiguos jugos y tiende las manos delicadas pidiendo el fusil, un fusil de "veras" que acierte a dar en un corazon. Ya todos saben que los Reyes de Oriente no han de venir, que aquellos Magos muestertosos y benevoles que en otras Pascas aibles colmaban de oferendas los zapatitos del balcon, están ahora en las trincheras y reductos, tembloros de frio o destalgia deseando de mourir. El acre incienso de la polvora embriaga a los hombres, a las mujeres, a los níos; el oro se converte en plonio, y la mirra en mortifero gas. Caminante si lo sos de buena fe, idos a vuestras montañas y desertos, a los bosques de palmeras, al Nilo Azul, alla donde aun recitan al anor de la lumber los cuentos de las Mil y una noce; huid a vuestras tierra barbaras y remotas, y si es que alli como creo, entraron también las furias de la discordia y de la muerte, id a otras tueras todavía más salvajes, más escondidas y felices, donde jamas se ougla la palabra civilización, donde, a lo menos, se maten los hombres francamente, con el sano y desnudo valor de su barbarie, sin decir que se matan por la justicia y el derecho. Idios, al confirma el general... pues a lo que veo sos hombres de bien Pero quedense aquí vuestros bagajes y preses, vuestros caballos y teoros, a fin de que no caigan en manos del enemigo Tornad a vuestras tierra, como Dios os diere a entender, que haro salvas con salvar vuestras vidas en estos infiernos de la europa civilizada. Y los Reves Magos, pobres y desnudos, como el divino Infante de Belen se van para siempre, tristes y cabizbajos, haciendo voto de no volver a este mundo por todos los siglos de los siglos Informacion General REQUISITOS NECESARIOS PARA SER MIEMBRO DE LA "ASOCIACIÓN UNIVERSAL PARA EL ADELANTO DE LA RAZA NEGRA." Con la cantidad de sesenta centavos ($0.60) todo elemento de nuestra raza puede ser miembro de la "Asociación Universal para el Adeleto de la Raza Negra". Esta una incluye cuota de entrada, veinte y cinco centavos ($0.25) y pago del primer mes, treinta y cinco centavos ($0.35) como miembro. Todo miembro debe ser provisto de una Constitución, o Libro de Leyes de la Organización (valor 25 centavos) y v una insignia (valor 15 centavos). Si hubiera en la villa, puchó o ciudad donde Ud. viva una División Autorizada de esta Asociación, haga su aplicación en ella; en caso contrario, mande su aplicación al Cuerpo Directivo de la Asociación renitiendo la cantidad de un dollar ($1.00). Al recibo de esta cantidad le será enviado por correo los artículos antes mencionados, con un Certificado como miembro de la Asociación. La aplicación debe ser dirigida a: Sr Secretario, Oficina General del Cuerpo Directivo. Universal Negro Improvement Association. 56 West 135th Street. New York City, N. Y. Aconsejamos a aquellos que envien sus cuotas al Cuerpo Directivo lo hagan anul, semi-antual o cada tres meses, para evitar la constante trasmisión de la Tarjeta a esta oficina todos los meses. APORTE SU OBOLO PARA EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO DE TODAS LAS EPOCAS POR LA REDENCION DE AFRICA Y EL ADELANTO DEL NEGRO EN TODAS PARTES. Sanderos, tito do orjudo. 8 por 12...10.25 onde nos Sandoros. telo de algodão. 12 por 12...10.20 onde nos Etoxitos, roto, blanco e vardo...1.70.22 600000 no Reoetos. Cruz negro...50.20 600000 gels de Saltoon, fregraño derrado...50.20 600000 ores de Saltoon, Crop Negro...50.19 600000 ores de Saltoon, paração do la Conventão...50.10 600000 efeito de Exhibition de Comfort...50.50 600000 efeito de Exhibition de Comfort --- Compre los discos para fondreros de la U. N. L. A. por artistas de la raza, a precios radicados. Enviamos ordenes a todas partes mediante pago por adelemado. Agenté en los Estados Unidos. $9.00 por docena, más gasto de flatec. Agente en el extranjero. $10.00 por docena, más gasto de sellos. Disco por correo. $1.00 cada uno más gasto de sellos. Frucio en muestra ofrima. $0.90 cada one. U. N. L. A. REPOSITORY November 24, 1922 Editor North World, 56 West 125th street, New York city. Dear Sir: I think it is my duty as vice-president of this division of the U. N. I. L. Charter No. 463, to bring to the notice of the parent body anything or matter which may tend to affect the progress of the unit. I can truly say the division is progresing, although no official publicity has yet been given of its activities. There is in circulation here a pamphlet entitled "Garvey and African," by a native African, M. Mohate Manneel, published by the New York Age Press. 129 West 128th street, New York city. I enclose herewith an excerpt of the preface of the pamphlet, hoping it may be possible to see a re-relation of this man's statement in the columns of The Negro World. In the meantime I am doing my bit to stave the tide. With very best wishes, I am, str. yours fraternally. G. A. ANNEE. Vice-Pres. Stann Creek, B. H. CHRISTMAS BY CHARLES H. ESTE Lightly the snowflakes of Christmas are falling. Fresh is the breath that the north winds supply. Trees though unsheathed are sublimely recalling. Memories of youth to the queen of the sky. Gray is the flush that reflects on the hillside. Thought at the footstock of beauty doth fall. Oxen and ashes and birds are rejoicing. Jesus our Saviour is born in the stall. Born not to die, but to grow and enliven. Hearts that are dead to crises of the day. Born to inspire a passion for service. Hope from the tearstones, and strength for the fray. There by the wayside He plays with the children. Close by the pool He is tending the lame. See how the leper is healed in an instant. Hundreds of sketches believe on His name! Christmas Poems Entitled "WORDS OF HOPE AND LOVE" Written to Metre of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clerk" Mankind hath board this wondrous cong. All through the ages past, Resounding through the halls of time, "Christ hath come at last!" Until He came, we sought a King, Shepherds and sages too— Messiah, long foretold, hath come; Go tell the world "It is true. Glad tidings do the angels bring— "A glorious Son is given!" Repeat the news of Christ the King. Repeat the news of Christ the King Vertly of Heaven Earth and skies are glad today; Youth and age do pray, "Messiah, lift our hearts today, And teach us all the way." And angels raise their joyful song— Fearful shepherds' hear Highest words of hope and love The waters move and bright start fall. And call Him Lord of all H. ELLAHEART DOWDEN. 87 Cleveland Ave. Hartford, CT. TO THE COLORED BARTISTS OF AMERICA At the last meeting of the General Baptist Convention of the District of Columbia, it was decided to establish a college for the literary and theological training of young people of our race to be built in or near the District of Columbia, and the matter of locating a site and promoting the proposition generally was the great question before us. While programmery considering the matter, Providence opened a way through the Washington Development Corporation, Mr. Daniel H. Thompson president. This corporation, upon learning of our purpose through its representatives dedicated to us a most beautiful site in the center of Douglas Park, valued at about $35,000. Douglas Park is a beautiful sub-division located on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, overlooking Washington. With the full cooperation of the Baptists in the District of December and throughout the country, it is quite possible for the financial aid of the corporation to reach $194,000 beyond our enterprise. BRUCE GRIT'S COLUMN It is interesting to learn that the United States government is making huge profits out of the savings of the poor depositors who patronize the postal savings banks established in the various postoffice throughout the country. In 1919 the profit was a million and a half and in 1921 it was two and a half millions. These postal savings certificates yield interest of 2 per cent only. The government buys your money to banks at 2½ per cent quarterly, while the depositor only gets his interest of 2 per cent, annually The annual profits of the government on these savings is anywhere from two to two and a half millions. The government is some financier and the public are some fools to permit it to realize $3\%$ per cent interest quarterly from banks to which it loans the people's money, while it only pays $3\%$ per cent annually to depositors. A bill called the Hibernan bill has been introduced in Congress to change this unfair and outrageous condition by increasing the rate of interest to depositors in postal savings banks or abolishing them altogether. There isn't a single element of justice or fairness in this kind of financial juggling. The class of depositors in these postal banks are the poorest people, and their hard-earned money is making the government and the bankers richer every day. I should advise those who contemplate purchasing postal savings certificates to wait for the outcome of the vote on this bill. The present system, if not crooked, is radically out of harmony with good business and unfair to those whose money is farmed out to banks at a good profit, in which the depositors should, but do not participate. 一. Megroes all over the country who think they are a potential force in American politics are coming more and more to see how impotent they are and what little water they draw. A minority race in any country is fewer as potential a force in the government of that country as the majority race, and a black minority cannot make combinations with any part of a white majority that will result in giving them relative position with the dominant race. Those black men who are having this kind of dreams LIBERTY HALL going headlong into the pit of destruction, into the pit of damnation as laid out for him by that master mind who rules the civilization of the day, who directs the physical destiny of the world. It is indeed alarming; it is indeed heartending to those who are studious of world affairs. Those of us who take time to sort humanity into its various groups—its various nationalities, its various races, cannot but bleed within our hearts for this lethargy, lack of vision and carelessness exhibited on the part of the race of which we are members. Visionaries are those who endeavor in their time to point the people with whom they are identified or the human race in general, for that matter, to those objects ahead that will in some way affect the career of the race of the nation or of humanity as a whole. We have had visionaries in the past of all races, we have them now, and I suppose we will have them so long as time lasts. It was the vision of a Mohammed that led the ucopon to the hope of a new faith, to the practice of a new religion. It was the vision of the lowly Nasserene that pointed half the world of today to a new hope to the idea of spiritual salvation. It was the vision and the dream of the early fathers that gave to the world the different national groups that we have today, the different empires that we have today. It was the vision of the great leader of this country that gave us the republic that we live in today. Visionaries have always pointed the people of their time to the object ahead—to the destiny that must be run. Such a vision we of the Universal Negro Improvement Association are endeavoring to bring to the 400,000,000 Negroes of the world today. Must Understand Ourselves In realizing this vision we must first analyze ourselves; we must first get to search and understand ourselves, and as we search and understand and see ourselves we find that we are but slaves in a world of men. Hereforeto without the vision of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, without an object, without a purpose, without a vision, without a realized destiny, let me ask each man and woman in Liberty Hall tonight, let me ask each man and woman of the Negro race throughout the world to question himself or herself of the education that is reflected in us, and we will find that we are but slaves—slaves to an environment created for us; slaves to a false culture that surrounds us; slaves to a farcal education that is foisted upon us and that our destiny is nowhere except to destruction. Must Take on an Education and Culture of Our Own For the Negro to lift himself above his present condition; for the Negro to rise to the highest height in human possibility is for him to take on an education and culture of his own (Applauded) for him to rise above the environment of today is for him to create a civilization of his own. (Reserved applause.) We interested student of this race in some of our other conclusions than those already surrounded with alien civilizations, surrounded with alien cultures, surrounded with alien educations, surrounded with alien societies, and forever. Our history, within the last fifty years in American history, proves it. Our life is in our Wapens. World for the last fifty years, power powers it, and as we live in the present and past, more is in contact with the past and future and it is around us that the historian of the new had better undream them for they are not coming true in America We have as a race been a long while dreaming dreams. It is time for us to waken from our slumbers and begin to see things as they are politically and socially. Nothing seems clearer to me than that politically the Negro has had his biggest day in politics in America and that it will be as difficult for him to heat the combination or organized to defeat his political ambitions and aspirations as it would for him to fly like a bird to you mountain. He cannot do either and he will sooner or later learn that he has been marked for elimination in the political equation. The first object lesson given him to show how these things are done was in the matchloss inactivity of Henry 'Hatot Lodge and other friends of the Negro" in pushing the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill to a vote in the Senate. Perhaps this was due to the big gain and the indirect acts of the principal promoters of this bill outside of the Senate, but it is a straw showing what is back of the white man's mind and a notice that he will brook neither intimidation nor threat from those who are powerless to make the deed square with the word. We all know what ought to be and that what ought to be isn't politically socially or racially. Negroes ought to be united, ought to have some political sense and a large installment of alliance and common sense when seeking to accomplish by legislative enactment measures to benefit the whole race, but the contrary is true as we find, because Negroes insist on fighting in groups rather than in mass formation and somebody is constantly trying to be IT when the battle if successful, is over. The personal vanity, fondness for the limelight and thirst for power is the greatest weakness of too many of our putative leaders, whose headpieces do not seem to function normally and whose mouthpieces emit unwind and great swelling words. To have lived long and seen much is a privilege to be proud of. It is true that the young are not always giddy nor the aged always wise, but, further deponent mayeth not. We have seen what we have seen and we shall see some more when we look at it. that beyond the circumscribed position that is laid out for us we can never rise; we can never lift ourselves. And yet the majority of us seem so satisfied—the majority of us seem so contented because we take not the time to question our own existence; we take not the time to question our own destiny—to ask ourselves "Whither goest thou?" And the answer as by your own actions today would be: "As the white man leads; as the world suggests." Where goest this race of ours? But oh how unfortunate for us to live on in the belief of a destiny that will be favorable to this race of ours. How unfortunate for us to place our confidence in a world of chance and in a world of sympathy. Cannot we realize that sympathy and charity if they ever did, do not rule the world today? No sympathy no charity, no consideration for others not of our group in the spirit of the age. Let the group be Algo-Saxon let the group be Anglo-America, let the group be French, let the group be Teutonic—there is but one master passion, there is but one master desire, there is but one master determination that holds and grips all races, all nationalities and all people and that is the protection of self-irrespective of the world irrespective of other races and other sets of humanity. And in such a condition we find ourselves and yet like children we frolic and play believing that the world will by chance save us, believing that the world of sympathy and charity will heed our cry. For us to continue in that belief is for us to welcome our destruction. It is near it in approaching if we turn not the tide the tide that the Universal Negro Improvement Association is endeavoring now to direct in its proper course—the tide of racial manhood, the tide of racial self-reliance, the tide of racial self-respect, the tide to go forward on our own account doing and achieving and creating so that out of the future will rise a greater people, a greater race, a mighty nation. When those of us who come in contact with this race day by day in practical study see our people it makes us, I said a while ago and I repeat it now our hearts bleed. How dishonest and dishonorable we are to ourselves, how untrue we are to ourselves; how low of the real purpose of life we are—thinking that everything we see cared by chance, came by the effort of somebody else, believing that such will be the condition of the world always. Men and women of Liberty Hall, men and women of the world, do you not know that the world is changing—that even human nature is changing—that man has become more brutal, more soulless as the age goes on? You will not realise that we are living in the age of the survival of the fittest people and the survival of the fittest race and the fittest nation. Can you not read the sign of the times? Can you not see what evil it portends that the race that is unprepared, the race that is unorganised, the race that is purposeless is the race that is doomed to overlasting damnation and extinction? It does not take the eye of a student to see that. The casual observer can see and realise and recognise that, and it is unfortunate that more of our people cannot see the trend of things. Let us search ourselves tonight and ask what are we doing for the protection for the salvation and for the redemption of ourselves. You will find scattered bones and their movements of all kinds give out idealistic programs that suggest the improvement of the Negro. You will find in these different organisations different THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922 groups supposedly working toward the object of the program suggested. But what of them? We will find that after a month or a year and the faith of the people chicken they become tired and give up, but the conditions remain just the same. Take the history of Negro movements in this country and in other parts of the world and we will find that within the last fifty years we have had hundreds of organizations, hundreds of movements to which millions of people affiliated themselves, and you will find that their activities are of the past and out of the present. forces, if you and I cannot find the wherewithal to live in New York we are bound to move out of New York to that part of the country or the world where we can find the wherewithal on which we can exist. And that was the danger that faced us prior to 1914 and that is the danger that is facing us now and it is the danger that is going to be our downfall and our ruin in a short while if we do not make an effort how to save ourselves. Making an Effort to Save Ourselfs As have made an effort to save our selfs. We advanced the program of the same environment Japanese and made. What does the Jap who do things that development of their And what do the Hui who do under similar care not until the Negro an environment entitle the start out to re height of manhood him to be regarded great powers and far A War I warn the fate of I trust those who make up the Universal Negro Improvement Association in this new program, in this new vision will realize that to give up is death but to continue in spirit in action, in purpose, in liberty. And to those of you who have the vision come the determination that under all circumstances under all conditions there is but one duty) and that is to go forward (Applause) (to forward, upward and onward and discouraging though it may be to hundreds of thousands fall off) I repeat it in the duty of those who have the vision to carry it to its final end. And in the course of lifting a people in the course of lifting a people from one condition to the other whether it was spiritual or physical we have had disappointments. No movement, no effort that you can remember or recall in all human history ever succeeded without its difficulties, without its trials, its troubles and disappointments. Christ had his disappointments before he was called to the cross. Muhammad had his disappointment before he saw the success of the Reformation. Washington had his disappointment before he saw the success of the Revolutionary army. We will have disappointment before we see the crowning victory that will give us an African Empire and a free and redeemed and emancipated race through out the world. So that some of us cannot be daunted, some of us cannot be discouraged. Nevertheless, it paints us because we see men with whom we are associated we see men with whom we come in contact whose purpose in life should be no different to ours whose duty should be as great a liability as ours, doing that which can lead nowhere but to distress, even with all their profession of faith. How many have we not had to profess the faith that we now profess and where are they? Because of that education that we have had and are still having, because of that environment that surrounded us and still surrounds us, because of an alien culture that has surrounded us and still surrounds us we lose our foothold as we march on to destiny. The Victim of Alien Environment I say it not in the way of phophery, but only from a conclusion realised from close observation, and I repeat myself as I have said once before from the platform of Liberty Hall—that so long as the black race lives in the environment created by an alien race, let it be the white race or any other race, the black race is bound to remain a slave to that race under whose environment it lives. That means in plain words that so long as we live in America, so long as we live under the influence of the British Government or French Government we will never reach the height of real men; we will never enjoy all the privileges and advantages of real people. What has apolied up? Look around and you can see. Take Harlem, take New York, because the majority of you see no further than New York because you have lived in New York all the time. Those who go out into the world find that what exists in New York exists in other parts of the country and other parts of the world as affecting our rate. fords, if you and I cannot find the wherewithal to live in New York we are bound to move out of New York to that part of the country or the world where we can find the wherewithal on which we can exist. And that was the danger that faced us prior to 1914 and that is the danger that is facing us now and it is the danger that is going to be our downfall and our ruin in a short while if we do not make an effort now to save ourselves. Making an Effort to Save Ourselfs As have made an effort to save our other, we advanced the program of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and what has happened. The great object, the great ideal that should appeal to every Negro became somewhat lost because of the selfishness of the many who linked up themselves with the great movement by which we should be our salvation by which we should bring about our own redemption. When I talk of being disgusted and to a great extent when I speak of conditions prevailing in New York and other parts I know I mean that in the last three or four years you must have seen in New York many different enterprises started by Negro, whether they were bakers, shops, laundries or what not. You look around and see how many are it and ask yourselves, the question why. What is true of New York is true in other sections of the country. The spirit of enthusiasm which the Universal Negro Improvement Association conveyed to the people the museus hold of it and were willing to carry out as individuals probably in their own way to make the program of the Universal Negro Improvement Association a practical one. But what has happened? Those many enterprises that started here in New York, through and other places, that has become of them? They are no more, because of what? Because of that disinterestedness that has been created in us toward ourselves by alien education by alien influence. Because of that the many things that were started by individuals and corporations have failed and gone out of existence. I will bring to your mind a play called 'Shuffle Along' that was produced in New York some time ago where two of the race had an interest in a grocery store, and the idea they had of business was to rob each other without each other knowledge. When one was in the stage he would go to the tail and help himself to as much as he could get out of it and put in his pocket and he would walk out and do the other fellow would go in and do the same thing. The result was a failure, and that is the way with the average Negro in business. The individual may succeed and does a great extent succeed, but the Negro in big business is suffering from some kind of malady that this white man civilization this white man education has taught him, and he never be a cure of this malady until you can get him in a place to himself, and there can be no other place but a government to himself when you can inflict upon him the same kind of punishment that the white man inflicted in the past as a correction for the evil and dishonesty that he perpetrates upon his brother and upon his race in preventing his race from lifting itself. The Negro under alien civilization will never be able to develop himself and become a full man because he is a slave. What that civilization to be dishonest to himself. Watch it! Anywhere you find more than one Negro in business they are bound to go out of business, whether it is a tailor shop, a grocery store or a restaurant because on account of the environment and education he has had he is making a desperate effort to rob the other fellow and that accounts for all theills we have suffered in the industrial and financial affairs of this race. And let me tell you we are not to be blamed so much for it. An environment has been created for us. We have a false idea of life and we have to get away from it we have to change our education entirely. The education of the average Negro today fits him to the belief that he should get rich overnight within his race. It cannot be done. It is strange psychology but it is true. Watch this that the average Negro is honest to his white employer. I hardly believe that the white man could get a more honest man to work for him than the Negro. Do you know why? The average Negro works honestly for the white man because he fears the punishment of the white man. Do you know why the average Negro will not be honest to his own race? Because he knows his own race is not in a position to punish him. And that is why I say that so long as the Negro lives under alien civilization he will be absolutely no use to himself. For this race to rise it must be under the same environment that made the white man, it must be under RHEUMATISM Why suffer with Rheumatism, Gout, Solitary, Neuralgic Pain and discases of impure blood, when you can be relieved by using SCHAPIRA'S ANTIDOL the same environment that made the Japanese and made the Chinese. What does the Japanese do to those who do things that would hamper the development of their race as a whole? And what do the Russian and Chinese do under similar circumstances? And not until the Negro is removed into an environment entirely his own will he start out to reach the highest height of manhood which will cause him to be regarded as one of the great powers and factors of the world. A Warning I warn the race from Liberty Hall and throughout the world that if we are to rise to the highest heights we have to throw off the influence of this education that has made our mental slaves for over a century in America and for nearly a century in this Western World. It is a hard thing to do. Today we make up our minds that we will resist it and we change our minds tomorrow. May God, as He has helped me to retest the white man's education and civilization so do I hope that, he will help 400 000 000 Negroes to a similar response. And after all it is not so hard. It is not hard if we will appreciate ourselves. It is not hard if we will know ourselves. If we will set a price on ourselves. Whenever a man is proud of himself and of his race and feels that there is no one above him beside God that man is able to throw off the influence of any other human being, but when we fail that we are lower than some other, and somebody is more likely in life than we are then we are bound to fall under the influence of such an individual, we are bound to remain slaves to such individuals. I trust the 400,000,000 Negroes of the world will get more and more to realize that in them is God's perfection. There is but one Supreme Being and that being has created all men equal. I would refuse to believe in God, I would refuse to believe in a First Cause. I would refuse to believe in Nature if that First Cause is that Nature made me less than any other human being. God made all men equal, the inequality among men is caused by man himself. God is not responsible for your condition. God never made laborers. God never made presidents. God made man and man made the job to suit himself. If we believe that God is responsible for our economic and political condition we make God a politician and we make God an economist, but He is neither. He is a; "as being. He is concerned about the spiritual well-being of mankind but outside of that He is not interested. He has placed variety in nature for the satisfaction of man and why, therefore, should we blame him if we do not enjoy our share of it. He created us in the same image as other men. He gave us the same physical being and power and the same number of senses as He gave to other human beings. Therefore, why blame God for our economic or our political condition? God is not a surveyor in the material sense. He does not set the limit of nations and countries all these are regulated by man and if man is too lazy to exert! itself then man shall be a slave to man who will expect that which is given to him by God for his own protection and for his own bipune To Be Blamed For His Condition The Universal Negro Improvement Association is determined to answer to the Negro a new education and get him to realize that he is a man like any other man and if there is a tool he cannot look like anybody the he must look like you otherwise we would not be true to ourselves or to our children. Home people believe that looks like some prepossessing white man and the angels look like some beautiful white woman. God looks like us you are a part of food and food is a subject with man when man in his creative purpose does the things that God would desire him to do and expects of each of us. I will be bringing this illustration to you. Here is a father having three sons and he expects the best out of those three boys. That father feels pleased when he sees two of those boys whom he educated and prepared for life go out and achieve and accomplish and lift themselves to the highest position in the nation to which they were born. Would not the father of David Lloyd George feel proud of what David Lloyd George has accomplished? Would not the father of Warren G. Harding feel proud of his son? Would not the father of Woodrow Wilson feel proud of his son? But what of the son who prepared like the other two becomes a drunkard and an outcast in society. Would the father have the same regard for him? No. He would urge him for bringing his name down to the gutter and disgirling his family. Well that REGINA COLD CREAM REGINA VANISHING CREAM WIGS, TRANSFORMATIONS, ETC. A Warning is man's relationship to God. God is the father of all mankind and some of us have the crazy notion that God is cursing white folks, and some of us believe that God is sympathizing with us. Negroes (God has absolutely no cause to sympathize because we are the race that is down in the gutter, refusing to exercise the power that God has given us, and God is displayed with our lethargy. 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The President General of the General Negro Improvement Association, on his tour of the nation, has been approached by hundreds of loyal members and well wishers of the Association in complaints against the treatment they have received from several of the various departments of the Organization at headquarters, and from individual officers and employees at headquarters, as also against the conduct of certain Executive Officers whilst on the field. The President-General is grieved of the many complaints and hereby begs to announce that a Complaint Department is now established and attached to his office. All persons having complaints to make against any department officer or employee of the Organization will please write to COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT President-General's Office, U. N. I. 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