The Negro World
Saturday, May 10, 1924
New York, New York
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LET'S PUT IT OVER
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MARCUS GARVEY ANSWERS W. E. B. DU BOIS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF "CERTAIN" PEOPLE
VOL. XVI. No. 13
Fellowmen of the Negro Race. Greeting:
Fenlowen of the Negro Race Grouping.
I had promised not to waste much more of the space of the Negro World on the cross-breed Dutch-French-Negro editor of the Crisis, the official organ of the National Association for the Advancement of "Certain" People, because it was like wasting powder on blackbirds, but this one-third Dutchman, who assumes the right to dictate to the Negro people what they should do and should not do, has become so brazen and impertinent that it leaves me no other course than to deal with him as he deserves. In certain society, when we meet individuals of this kind, we do not waste time arguing with them, but give them a good horse-whipping; but the decency of the Universal Negro Improvement Association prevents me personally from using the dog or horse whip on this individual who seems to think that he is so important as to be able in any way to influence or affect the sober conclusions of men of character and purpose. Space is given to him in this issue for no other reason than to present him before the members of the Negro Race as we see him, and believe him to be, so that the race may be guided and saved from falling under his sinister and wicked influence.
A Fake Leader
The man, W. E. Du Bois, has essayed for a long while to be a leader of Negro people, without having one ounce of respect for or real interest in his race, other than to deceive us into believing that he is one of us, when in truth his highest purpose is to be bewal his Negro blood and to work and fawn for association with the white race with the hope of being a "social exclusive," so much unlike the rest who have a drop of Afric's blood. He has skillfully maneuvered himself into a position that would in some way cause him to be recognized as a leader. Being in this position, he has used it to great personal advantage, and now we find that he is desirous of establishing himself, not only as a social "bug" but as
Nobody Pays Any Attention
It is fortunate, however, that nobody pays any attention to what this unfortunate cross-breed says or does. If they did, we would all be banished one by one from the domain in which this "great I am" rules. He has, however, declared that Marcus Garvey must be locked up or sent home. Du Bois is a joke. What would the sending home of Marcus Garvey do to ease the miseries that now afflict the leader of the National Association for the Advancement of "Certain" People? Marcus Garvey would expose him in Jamaica, Europe, Africa or anywhere else as he does in America. Distance doesn't make much difference now-a-days in handling men and measures. If Garvey were locked up, that wouldn't help Du Bois much. It would only lend greater force to the propaganda that he is afraid of and under which he is smarting. The man is in trouble, and it is because he doesn't know on which side he is, whether he is Dutch, French or Negro. When he discovers himself and becomes a real Negro, then I feel sure his miseries will depart, but not until then.
Who Is Crazy?
Du Bois is speculating as to whether Garvey is a lunatic or a traitor. Garvey has no such speculation about Du Bois. He is positive that he is a traitor. And why? Because of the things Du Bois has done and said. He has written enough in his "Dark Water" to let us know that he is not a Negro, and if there is anything Negro about him, it is an unfortunate accident. Surely, he is not of the Negro people, because the majority of us are poor, humble people struggling toward a higher objective. He himself, admits tat he hates the poor, so neither in race nor in condition is Du Bois with us. He says that he likes the rich, and truly, so he is now living in the atmosphere. Poverty and riches do not go hand in hand, therefore, with all his pretense to the contrary, we know that he is not with the poor, and, naturally, cannot be with struggling Negroes who are seeking to lift themselves out of their unfortunate condition. Whenever he writes of the lowly, and humble members of our race, he refers to them as "ignorant" and "theughted," and to their effusions as "hilth." Such is the man who wants to be a leader of the masses. Surely the masses have not lost their senses. Du Bois seems to believe that he is unfortunate enough to be picked up by good white philanthropists, cared for and kept in an atmosphere of wealth and culture, other people must fall before him and worship him. He is crazy. People are not thinking about him. The masses of the Negroes do not care any more about Du Bois than the devil cares about sprinkling himself with holy water. Why, the man is forgotten in the rush of the people toward the accomplishment of higher things. They do not calculate for Du Bois at all. Yet he tries to force himself upon the people as an advisor, and as a leader. From the many rebuffs he has received, he ought to be satisfied by now that he is not wanted by the people.
If his friends try to boost him and gather a small number of people for him to speak to, before he is half through his discourse the people go to sleep on him, he is so "disinterested." It he had good judgment, he would know that the people do not want him. The people are not looking out for leaders of his kind, and it is because he cannot come into the open and face the people that he resorts to "closed door leadership"; the leadership that sneaks into the back door of the philanthropist's office and belies the real situation of the race; that leadership that tries to undermine the real movements of the masses that leadership that tries to misrepresent to those who may be interested the real facts concerning the Negro and his aspirations. That is where Du Bois has done so much harm, not only to the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Marcus Garvey, but to the entire Negro race. We are acquainted with his "closed door leadership." We are acquainted with a lot of what he has said to white men who have been in search of the truth
What Du Bois Wrote
When he made the following confession in the Crisis of May, he gave away himself.
"1. No Negro in America ever had a fairer and more patient trial than Marcus Garvey. He convicted himself by his own admissions, his swaggering monkey-shines in the court room, with monocle and long-tailed coat, and his insults to the judge and prosecuting attorney.
"2. Marcus Garvey was long refused bail, not because of his color, but because of the repeated threats and cold blooded assaults charged against his organization. He himself openly threatened to 'get' the District Attorney. His followers had repeatedly to be warned from intimidating witnesses and one was sent to jail therefor. One of his former trusted officials, after being put out of the Garvey organization, brought the long concealed cash account of the organization to this office and we published," etc. "For these and no other reasons Garvey was held in the Tombs so long without bail and until he had made abject promises, apologizing to the judge and withdrawing his threats against the District Attorney."
The above reveals the fact that Du Bois was the genius behind the Garvey trial. He knows more about why Garvey was convicted and why Garvey was kept in the Tombs than anybody else, a part of which information he revealed in his May Crisis. How could Du Bois know why Garvey was kept in the Tombs if he were not a party to keeping him there? How does Du Bois know on what grounds Garvey was convicted if he were not a party to it. The man reveals such a lack of wit that he actually confessed that Garvey was convicted, not because of a crime, but because of his actions in the court, namely, "his swaggering monkey-shines, his monocle and long-tailed coat and his insults to the judge and prosecuting attorney." Was Garvey indicted for wearing a long-tailed coat or cutting monkey-shines or wearing a monocle, or was he indicted under violation of a section of Postal Laws? Du Bois has confessed the facts that Garvey knew long ago; that he was not convicted because of any violation of the law, but because of prejudice. But Du Bois claims that Garvey is a liar. Must we compare the two lars and see which is the greater?
How He Lies
We call upon all those who attended the trial of Marcus Garvey in the Federal Court of New York to state whether Garvey ever wore a long coat during the five weeks of the trial or not. Marcus Garvey has never worn a
"PROFESSOR OF BUNK" EXPOSED IN HIS PART OF THE GARVEY TRIAL
"PROFESSOR OF BUNK" EXPOSED IN HIS PART OF THE GARVEY TRIAL
CONFESSES WHAT HE KNOWS
ASSOCIATION OF OVER FIFTEEN YEARS HAS NEVER SUBMITTED ITS BALANCE SHEETS TO CONVENTION OF ITS WORKERS, BUT ONLY TO ITS OWN LITTLE GROUP
LITTLE BODY THAT PERPETUATES ITSELF AT DIRECTORS' MEETINGS CRITICIZES BIG WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENT THAT GOES BEFORE THE PEOPLE ANNUALLY
CAN DU BOIS' ORGANIZATION STAND INVESTIGATION?
long coat, yet this lying "Doctor of Philosophy" and "bunk" in all seriousness writes in the official organ of his organization that Marcus Garvey had on a long-tailed coat during the trial of his case in New York. What does this liar mean about "swaggering monkey-shines"? I can understand about the monkey, but I don't know much about the shines, and, as far as the monkey goes, Du Bois seems to be nearer that species than Garvey. A monkey is a kind of human monstrosity, if we are to understand the meaning of Du Bois. He is nearer a monstrosity than Garvey, because Garvey is not a combination of Dutch, French and Negro, but only a Negro and proud of it. I suppose he means monkey-shines such as he kicked up in Europe at his so-called Pan-African Congress which amused Wells and Olivier, and all those white Europeans whom he thought were accepting him on equal terms. He doesn't know that he dined with Wells, not as an equal, but as a monstrosity cutting monkey-shines.
How He Admits What He Did.
Du Bois again, in the article referred to of May, admitted what we suspected long ago, that he and his association were in elusion with employees of the Universal Negro Improvement Association to steal its records and to undermine its success, because here we have it stated by himself in his Crisis that one of the former Garvey officials brought to him the "long concealed" cash record of the organization, which he published. The Jiar Du Bois. Who told him that the Universal Negro Improvement Association ever had any concealed cash account? It it were concealed, how could he have gotten it to publish, and since he published it, what harm did it do? All of the accounts of the Universal Negro Improvement Association are brought before the Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World every year. Nothing concealed about it, but every one attending the convention has a right to question anything pertaining to it.
Can the N. A. A. C. P. Stand Investigation?
Exposing Him for Truth
This man must be exposed if the 15,000,000 Negroes in America are to be saved, and that is my duty to help save them. Du Bois lies when he states that Marcus Garvey's desire is to separate the American Negroes from America and deport them all to Africa. Why, there are some Negroes in America who would not be any good in Africa. Such Negroes as Du Bois himself. What could we do with them? We don't want black philosophers
in Africa. We don't want any bums in Africa. We want industrious and hard-working men and women in Africa, and surely, Du Bois is not to be numbered among that class, therefore he should not make the mistake of stating that Garvey wants to separate all Negroes from America and take them to Africa. We want only American Negroes who have intelligence enough to think, see and realize the dangers of the future. We want only those Negroes in Africa who can think and see the time when the Negroes condition in America will be worse than hell. We want Negroes in Africa, who can build homes of their own where they can have peace, happiness and prosperity among themselves.
What Does He Care?
What does Du Bois care about the 15,000,000 Negroes of Americas, whether they live or die, so long as he can keep the company of white men and women and lord it over the rest of the people as a "Social God." This man is a disgrace to the Negro race in that every time he writes he humiliates us. Not very long ago in his "Dark Water" he bewailed his black blood. Not very long ago he went to the Astor or some other hotel in New York and danced with a few white people and he made a big noise about it in the Crisis. He went on a trip the other day to Europe and Africa, and among the first things he tells us in writing of his trip is that he dined with Wells and met other white government officials on equal terms. The thing is sickening. The man talks about going in white people's company as we would talk about going to Heaven and being with the angels.
The Negro and Society
The Negro who is dissatisfied with being in the company of his own race reflects the worst type of the race, and the mistake some white people make is to believe that the best Negroes are those who hanker after white companionship. No, that is the worst type of Negro. The best Negroes are those who associate with themselves and who do not go out of their way to dance and associate with white people. If the white people want them, they come to them. Du Bois is of the class of Negroes that is being lynched and burned d who comes in too close contact with the white people of the Southern States. It is no wonder he ran away from Atlanta and took up his permanent residence on Fifth avenue, New York.
The "Doctor" With Cost Off
Du Bois has taken off his coat. He calls Garvey a wretch. Before Garvey is through with him, he will take his shirt off. And this is the way Du Bois has deceived the 15,000,000 members of our race in America for the last twenty years. He tries to tell the Negro people that Garvey has written a letter to senators and congressmen, but he retains to produce the letter in its entirety. He calls from different points but stresses the letter with pilots, certain points that he believes could be interpreted in many ways and places that before the readers of the Crisis as that which Garvey wrote. That is the way the so-called intellectual fellows have deceived the people. Why didn't he reproduce all that Garvey, wrote so that the people could judge for themselves? He knew well that if he reproduced the entire letter and pamphlets that Garvey wrote he would have exposed his own weakness and strengthened Garvey's position. He not only didn't reproduce the letter, but he picked different sentences and joined them together for the purpose of deceiving the people. That is the kind of leadership we have been having all the time. A leadership of deception. The poor people not being able to analyze on their own account, accept what has been given them by these deceptive leaders and thus we have been dragging on for the last fifty years without being able to reach a given point. Garvey is determined to smash up this hypocrisy and lying farce. Marcus Garvey is going to make Du Bois "come clean" and "deliver the goods" as a Negro, if he wants to be a Negro or he is going to get out of the race and be Dutch or French since his thinks so much of that. Surely Du Bois is bitter with Garvey, because Garvey is spoiling his tricks and is going to spoil them some more.
Abusing Other People
He says in his May article that Garvey has ceased abusing or writing against the white people. Garvey is not a fool. Why should Garvey abuse and write against the white people continuously? What good does it do to be always abusing somebody? Has the man Du Bois done anything else for the last fifteen years other than abusing the Ku Klux Klan and all the white people who do not agree with him, and will not subscribe to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? Yet he thinks that is going to help the Negro race. Garvey's intention was never to abuse the white people or to abuse anybody for that matter. Garvey's intention was, and is, to open the eyes of Negroes to their own interest and in the early days he had to point out the injustices done the race by the white race as a guide to the Negro to bestir himself to do on his own account, but that did not mean that Garvey had always to be abusing the white people or anybody else.
The Negro and His Own Business
The Negro has his own business to look after, and so has the white man. Instead of always abusing the white man, Negroes should get together and advance their own interest. That, Du Bois doesn't know. Du Bois doesn't know that the leader has changed according to conditions and environment.
Once upon a time, between the war periods, the Negro could have said a lot of things, and he did a lot of things, but he has to be careful what he says and does now, if he means to help himself at all. What good is there in abusing the Ku Klux Klan to a point of retaliation, when one-half of the Negro population of America is employed by members of the Ku Klux Klan? What is the use of abusing all the white people in America, as Du Bois wants Garvey to do, when the entire Negro population of America is employed by the white race? If we have sense, we will skillfully and diplomatically engineer our program so as to help the Negro the best way possible until he can entirely take care of himself. That is the work of the Universal Negro Improvement Association at this time, and that is why we have to dissappoint Mr. Du Bois and not continue, as he wants us to do, abusing everybody of the white race. But Du Bois has better sense than appears on the surface. He was always telling the white people that the Garvey organization hated the white race, and that was how he tried to get the white race prejudiced against Garvey and the organization, so hat the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People could have collected money from the white people to destroy Garvey, and pay salaries. Garvey is now informing the white people of the truths of and what his organization stands for. Du Bois and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People don't like that. They throw up their hands now and say Garvey is a traitor, Garvey is insane. But Garvey is not half crazy yet, and if Du Bois is crying out now, what will be the white Garvey is fully crazy? To repeat, whether Garvey is in jail, sent home that won't ease the troubles of Du Bois or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The only time their troubles will cause it when they come together and meet Again I repeat, it is a pity to have in white so much spare of W. A. R. M. that because he is not worth it, but the man provides rest, and sometimes passes gets the better of us. Yet, what I have said is not in passion. It is merely explanation of what I believe of W. E. R. Du Bois. More than what I have written to the Billingham of Du Hoe in the Crown of May, 1924.
With very best wishes, I have the honor to be.
Your obedience serving
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ew THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924
f bnrmy FOR AFRICANS,” .NEGROES’ SLOGAN
| Nailing Another. Lie From the Lips of the Scandal-Mongers
===|WHITE MAN CONDEMNS MISRULE IN NIGERIA
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Pwetve Negroes were recently ar-
reaped to Le Grange TL. we are told
ey the Lincoln News Service, charavd
with wagraney (o very clastic offense)
en8 convicted. ‘They were put to work
cathe stessie ds they were passing
0 eee, Games bers Ort from
the Wiig Leaving thelr guard,
he ques rushed into the building and
worked side by side wkD sitentants
of the Ronpital in carrying the beiptoss
patients to points of safety.
One Negro specially distinguished
Rigiag tg dsahins iste « faring cor-
Fiéap en@ reevaing ax invalid white
‘WER. While q@pectaters qerred his
Bravery. “You can't keep men tke
‘Chat {m jail” said the Le Grange chist
Of palion pointing to the hero. The
twgtve Negrees were releaced with a
8° besce.
“Zon coa't herp mee like that in jail.”
Verh aap, Mekber cam you heep men
Uke das in bonsage, economic. political
ce anetal, forever. The Negro ts «
‘MAN, and erupt come into bis ows. It
te only @ matter of time
pastte o white ectrese tn “All God's
* Gesltee Gat Wings.” The exigencies of
the play required thst the actress kiss
the Negros hand. Heavens! This
Woule never G0! Go the white news-
Dapers got busy working up a Ku Klux
eegtiment.
Bot white folks ctiesred when s
egre couvict hugged a white woman—
carrying her to utety. This teolor
question” lo 0 very pussling shins.
‘Biplag wenls ey:
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Ane ang Nice wp. tne Brete!
Bes W's ‘Uarcio Megro,
‘When the Games bagin to hoot.”
‘There bas teen acother “riot” io
‘Weitz Guiana, South America. The
“Bice ~ read, so it tp ft and
Pa ‘tho Dappesings @ “riot”
“ formes. gD Bast Indians, as far
oy . ‘Pho wboottng on
was
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glands jest Indies, bas
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AMTVMTEID detween employer and em-
(Sidaratjon cf what the poor worker
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for Rove! be is forced
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Parent ate
TRIP AROUND THE GLOBE WITH A
WEST INDIAN LIVE WIRE SAILOR
Garveyism Spreading Among the Natives—Growing
Disposition to Resent Injustice—West Indian in
Africa Sends Message, “Keep Up the Fight; Africa
Is Following On”
By H. BRAITHWAITE had to be postponed, ea the European
cee Neate te. (ited Pe: be poss poneds an) he, Eororees’
Lee aac a IE taht eee aeNibes i aecmen Maa NL Zt
pression in India te nearing Its end,
and It apparent to the mont conserva-
Uve travelier, cannot be gainsaid.
This le also evident in our homeland,
Africa, which a tow inciéents I will
refer to later will prove. I can as-
sure my brothers thet tn none of the
countries I have visited, including
Egypt, ta the “paletace” looked upon
with (ear and trembling; no longer
does it represent a Gemi-god; thanks
to the awakening of the great mass
of people through the clarion calis of
the world’s greatest bumanitartans
‘of the colored races, Mahatma Gandhi,
Mareus Garvey, and we must not for-
‘get Zaghiud Pashs, of Egypt. The last
tamed was exilés’for trying to free
‘his people, but today he ts restored not
only to his mative iand but to power,
‘being now Prime Minlater in the Egyp-
Uan Government. Gandhi has been
approached by the Indian Government,
exking him to ait on @ commission to
Investigate matters velating to the
‘government. It only requires us of the
Universal Negro Improvement Asso-
clation to hold on a little longer when,
wa, loo, will reap the fret benefit of
our programme,
Konya, Land of Big Opsortunities
Our negt. port was Momtess, Kenya.
British Mast Africa. Soca after our
arrival two native gentlemen came on
board on business. Thay spoke to me
in the frienfly mponge, and in
© tow tints tiny loed ine ery.
“Atrica for the Africana” ‘They had
heard of Gervayiem, but 414 not quite
understand ft and hed never seen The
Negro World, so { gave them what
copies I had. One of them, Mr. Muses
Mohamed, ts & wealthy man, owns
large plantation and 1s also the pro-
Dristor of @ very successful shipping
supply business He was educated
{o Germany end «peake German,
French and Engileh fluently. The other,
Afr, Abed All, ts tn partnership with
him. 1 think be (Mr: Ahmed All) also
operates a rickshaw service. A rick-
shaw is & light two-wheeled convey-
ance, somewhat [Ike the Victoria car-
Hage, which is ¢rawa by © man (or
“doy.” as they are called), who will
run the entire journey—whether it {s
one mile cr more, Rickshaws are ax-
tansively used in Africa, India and in
practically al! Eastern countries.
‘The gentlemen are on the committee
of two associaticon=—the Cast Arab
and Lem! Malena! Takungo, having os
thelr main object the elevation and
betterment of natives. They are really
working on the lines of the U, N. I. a.
They were dalightsd, to receive coples
of The Negro World and promised to
become subscribers. Before we left
thie port theses gentlemen had sent
copies to other parts, even to Zansi-
bar, an {sland just off the coast.
One of Mr. Mobamed'e most prized,
possessions 18 our “Button.” When he
heeré it wan the button of the asso- |
otation and represented the African
fag te asked for Wt and exl0 “Thank!
Goa.” Thera are West Indian profes. |
sons! in Benya; of them, a
wren, Wald tntiUer” Mr all
tld me tat ood tend can be par
chased tor just Grer 86 per acre. Mr.
Muses Mohsmed’s business address ts:
Ship Chendier and Butcher, Fruit
Market, Mombass, Kenya. The fol-
owing {s an advertisement taken
from the Cardiff Weekly mail, South
Walser
“Getto tm Kenya; wheat, Coffee,
Cattle, Gheep, Mais, Plax. Bruit, Tes,
pasty, gone tamé ef big epperts-
altied: dt (or a whilte man to
tive ip ené make ped; the oslony
whew suecees ewaits exierprise and
lavonmint brings peottedio businass
Plmate, we income tax
acment anxious te hein ta-
stlgate the of Keoye”
torepoing needs ne comment,
Witivep Minturn Clow for Blow
Di. very gretitviad to tare tran
pereese ef the sattver’
% ‘ie oes and
tae arrogEnoS oe
road of sce Cmcastan mastere, z
ith Fetate ws Ship teense eticemen 4
balins Whe <b ta qatgo of hte mas-
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Wat eoes moran ve sttre oe
eae eggs ladoad |
Puen rss! ee es -
rape io aandtaaes duodenal y eanaeth
Sn oe See ngiier preset |
eke ert os
had to be postponed, aa the European
wae then lying in hospital with a very
much dtefigured face,
‘A native motor driver was refused
hie fare by a European and was treated
Inq manner similar to the above men-
toned native, In this case, however,
rotallation was Immediate and the fare
wap paid. It ts also the practice of
some of the Europeans to engage «
rickshaw and at the end of thelr jour-
ney dismiss the “boy” with a kick. The
practice, however, @ fast diminishing,
as the “boys” are returning @ blow for
& blow.
‘The men that load soda phosphate
are gathered from different parte of
the interior and live in compounds.
They have not yet evolved the spirit
of other workers who discharge and
(Continued on page 13)
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LET US HELP MAKE
LIBERIA GREAT NATION
Editor Mitchell Says the Edi-
tor of the Nogro World Has
“A Long Head,” and He
Knows
(Prem the Richmond Planet)
‘The editor of the New York Negro
World has what we call in Southern
vernacular, “a long head.” This means
that Be pessenaen window, We road
with {asareat ble comment upon Presi-
dent General Garvey's article express-
ing bis determination to help Liberia
an4 making @ plea for all Negroes, who
are dissatisfied to go there. He saya:
Liberia has a place in the sun. al-
ready. It 18 an independent Republic.
{t 1a momber of the Langue of Ne:
Hons. ‘The government of the United
‘tates has a peculiar interest Ir the
country, and in so many of {ts people
a8 are of American parentage, which 19
other country has, The people speak
the English language and are Chrie-
‘lane and they have @ splendia domain
rich in agricultural, mineral and other
resources, euMcient for the needs of &
numerous people and the basis of a
splendid export trade in coftes, dyes,
hard wood and rubber. They ail await
intelligent cultivation and develop-
ment, and the people invite us to come
over and help them. Those who want
to go are encouraged to do 40; those
who do not want to go are encouraged
to give thelr moral support to those
who do.
In the use of bis language, the ef!-
tor of The Negro World soars in the
upper atmosphere above the tone of
legitimate critiolam. He concludes as
follows:
Hk ts the duty of the members. and
well-wishers of the Universal Nogro
Improvement Aasoolation to help make
Liberia a great Negro Republic’ Theit
intelligence, industry and thrift, and
hele morai support will help do ‘so,
These are invited and wo have no
doubt there will be a generous ac-
ceptance of the invitation by the dis-
atlafied Negroes of the United States,
of the West Indies and of Latin Ameri.
ca, Those who are not dissatisfied, and
who want to remain in the countrien
where they aro, can sympathize with
and help those who are dissatisfied
and want to fo. The way ts plain
enough for both sorte of people and
there is plenty of work for both sorts
to do—work that will make for thelr
sntitfaction and (nanan and for thet
of thelr posterity. Put your shoulders
to the wheel and help on the good and
necessary work.
‘We endorse every word penned by
him and any Justice-loving fatr-mind-
ed citizen, Irrespective of racial opin-
tons, can do che same thing. These
utterances, as before stated, are above
legitimate criticism and show that
truly the age of reason Is at hand.
Chicago Defender
Purveyor of Moral Filth
From the Washington Tribune
Negro newspapers that headline
ortme ané scandal to the exclusion of
other news are greater enemiss of the
race than the shost rabid Southern
white paper. The white paper in
headitning Negro ertme is carrying
x3 Ite principles of rece presadice
while the Negre paper that Goes it Is
@ traitor anf hypocrite.
The Chicago Defender has the larg-
emt ctroulation of any colcred paper in
(hte country. It is.eold on more white
aeiaxfanés than any ether colored
Baper and ts no doubt read by mere
‘White ptople than all ths rest of the
eatirea papers. It ts cot fair to the
suan tor toe Detender a8 the exponent
e808, print pra:
Goal alt cf ln Sat pes ts cts ond
jandile The Deteadar (0 bot true to
‘ieumed; which tt ts gipposed to- por.
Way the: better, cide of ang th. datend
Seu, ib ouvfa usaernk tasers
eatery, 1b car -aiwinl tnBiot ment
ipataet tbe ren 4 eet tas
DuBois Tries to Make American Public Believe the
Criminal Was a Representative of the Uni--ersal
Negro Improvement Association
FACTS OF CASE AS TOLD BY A WEST AFRICAN
In view of the fact that Dr. DuBois is trving to deceive the
American public into believing that a representative of the Uni-
versal Negro Improvement Association in Liberia has been exe-
cuted for murder, The Negro World sets forth the following facts
anent the circumstances leading up to the execution of Milton J.
Marshall in Liberia, as related to us by a native African, who was
for some time a representative of the Universal Negro Improve-
ment Association in Liberia:
NEGRO IN A SICK WORLD
MUST BE EDUCATED
Educated to Respect Him-
self and Fortify Himself
by Studying the History
of His Own Race
NATIONHOOD NECESSARY
To the Editor of The Negro World:
Looking over the pages of a Gall)
newspaper my attention wae attracted
to an advertisement with (hia caption,
“The Jew in a Bick World.” Thie was
the subject of @ lecture that was te
be given by @ noted Jewish educator
to hla race, At the alght of this ad-
vertinement, the question came in my
mind, “How about the Negro in a stck
world,” and what Ie he doing towards his
readjustment in this great infirmary
that holds so many people and races?
If the Jew, with his powerful inatt-
tutions, financial and educational. as
well as his racial cohesiveness, needs to
adjuat bimself, surely the Negro, who
{@ very much an invalid in world af-
faire, needs adjustment badly.
‘The Negro ls the sick man Ip the
world today. His case ls so desperate
that {¢ requires careful study and
manipulation in order that he may live.
imbued with a feeling of incapability
rather than confidence In his own In-
ventive and indomitable power to sur-
vive, he is naturally the weakling of
the world’s racial group. A race
without @ country it can call its own,
subjugated by almost every other
group, he seems to have lost ambition,
pride and racial progressiveness.
Self-help seme to be the outetand-
ing laxity of the Negro race. The
belief that no member of the race can
achieve anything seems to play a
dominant part in the make-up of the
race Hence, the diMculty that is
encountered by #0 many ambitious men
and women in the race to successfully
launch any enterprise of merit and re-
ctive loyal support and co-operation
from the majority.
This te very Aiscouraging, as it
thwarts the creative powers of the race
and hinders {ts progressive merch to
wealth ang happiness. How are we
as a race to overcome this lack of con-
fidence, aupport and cohesiveness of
(Continued on page 8)
Mitton J. Marshall, a citizen of the
United States, frst cume within the
notice of the Universal Negro Im-
Proverent ansociation authorities in
1920, when it was loaned that, mas-
auerading ee a representative of the
Universal Negro Improvement Asso-
claton—an evil the association hae to
combat to this day—ne was tMlogauy
collecting funds in various communt-
tles here. i
The U.N 1. A. took stops to put an
end to bis operations, and, fearing ho
hud placed himselt within reach of the
arm of the law, Marshall migrated to
‘West Africa, He went to British ovlo-
nea thore, and in one of them, Ni-
gerta. he was imprisoned for some mis-
demeanor. On hin release he found hia
way to Liberia, and was eoon again at
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VIRGIN ISLES SOCIETIES
HOLD MASS MEETING
Eloquent end Illuminating
Addresses by Mr. Mit-
chell, of West Virginia;
Rev. Barrow, and Others
PETITION TO PRESIDENT
- One of the most largely attende
‘mestings of @ racial of political aature
that New York has seen took place
Bunday of Inst work at Renalssance
Casino, when the Associated Virgin
{stands Booleties of New York turned
‘out 3,000 strong to listen to the report
of Hon. Charles E. Mitchell, of Instt-
tute, W. Va.. and secretary of the Fed-
oral All-Negro Commission sent by
President Coolidge to Investigate con-
ditions in the Virgin Islands. Held
under the auspices of the Virgin
{slande Congrensional Council, of
which Csaper Moistein is president.
the meeting was markod also by the
speeches of Dr Hubert H. Harrison. of
the Board of Education lecture staff,
himself @ native of Santa Crux, Virgin
lalanda, and the Rev. RG. Barrow.
who, In the words of Commissioner
Mitchell, was “Geported from the
Virgin Islands because he dared defend
a slander against his wife.”
Rev. Barrow. who is a native of Bar-
badoes, British West Indies, was Ge-
ported from the islands over « year
ago He Is at present a graduate
student at Northwestern University,
and came all the way from Evanston.
INL, especially to address the meeting.
Through the efforts of Casper tolstein.
Rev. Barrow was able also to see his
wife, Mra. Barrow, who arrived in New
York © week ago on her way to ad-
dress the A.M. & Conference, which
convenes shortly at Loulaville, Ky.
This was the first Barrow reunion since
the reverend's deportation over « year
aso.
‘One of the features of the mesting
was the presence of Louls J. Jeppe, an
old patriot, who for twenty-five years
had been a lending figure in the affairs
ot Virgin Islander when these people
vere known as natives of the Danish
West Indies.
Roger N. Baldwin, director of the
(Continued on page 12)
Uin old tricks, The UN 1 A author-
tics there promptly put a stop to his
antics.
Failing to have his coffers replen-
inhed through his illegal operations,
Marahall Induced one Edmund, alxo an
Americar citizen, to go into business
with him = With Edmunds he went
Into the heart of the native state and
there he in suppored to have entered
into business reintions with Edmunds,
hunting for monkey skins for export .o
America,
Unfortunately for the victim, Mar-
shail was aware that he carried large
sums of money, amounting to some
three to five thousand dollars. One
morning he went a-bunting with Ed-
munde and returned alone. Ques-
Hfoned es to the whereabouts of his
partner. he ssid they had separated.
There were blood apots on his cloth-
ing, however. and questioned as to this,
he eaid tt was blood from a monkey
that hed been shot. The monkey was
Bot forthcoming, however, and Mar-
ahall wae arrested on suspicion end
eent to Monrovia.
‘The authorities at Monrovia started
investigations, and Edmunds’ body was
found floating in a river. It wae found
that he had been shot in the back.
Two native girls gave evidence of hav-
tng seen Marshall dragging the body
to the river and piling stones cn tt
He was tried and convicted. He ap-
pealed to the highest court. and the
conviction was affirmed.
At uo time was Marshall supported
by U. N. L A. funds from the pareat
body, New York; or the local body ta
Liberte. Tt cannet even be
see ccetmee ees
Megro Inprovement Asseciation.
He was © common agventurer, who,
after various vieiseltudes of fortune,
teuné hts way te Liberia. So much tor
the autragsous cazaré being broaécast
ea DuBets. .
TEARING THE VEIL FROM BRITAIN'S
POLICY OF OPPRESSION IN NIGERIA
SOME 18,600,000 NEGROES KEPT IN ECONOMIC
SLAVERY
Too Much Taxation and Too Many Parasitical Hangers-
on on Pay Rolls—Inconsistencies of Governor Clif-
ford: Would Advance Native's Welfare by Denying
Rights of Commerce
By J. M. STUART. YOUNG
(White Auther and Peet)
—
‘The following iNuminating article on
British rule in Nigerte hae deoa sent
to the Negro World by Mr. JM
Stuart-Young. white author and poet
who has traveled extensively, and itves
Ip Africa.
The Second Station of the Leginia-
Uve Councti of Nigeria may well be-
come historic
But {t will be known in future years
as memorable, more because of Sir
Hugh Clifford's skillful evasion of
points at leaue than for actus! work
Gone. Sir Hugh bas once more proves
Bimeelt heritor of the more stubhern
traditions of circumlooution—How Not
‘To Do It!
Nigeria's taxation today Is onerous.
That fact in indisputable. Not all Sir
Hugh's brilliant dialectic will drive the
‘Truth away—that it le onerous because
of official waste.
‘Wo have been asking in vata during
many months for @ pledge of curtall-
ment. Lord Leverhulme was sweeping
ia hie generalisations But we all
know what he meant—that no com-
munity ought to be taxed among its
masses to minister to the luauries of
ite classes, This is as sound logic for
‘Nigeria as for the British Ieles or the
United States. Whether the classes be
members of the eame race as the
masser—or whether they be allen over-
lurde—the dictum atande fire.
frhas Hie Heh said. shot oid
borne ‘trate is certainty true, Hie
reference, however, to Warren Hast-
Inge, and that Brat Governor-Genera's
impeachment. Ie rather unfortunate tn
such @ connection. For does not Sir
Hugh evade « tremendous truthe-that
without imports or merchandise and
exports of produce, Nigeria (mainiy
hecause of its kindly sun. ite rich soll,
and the natural conteatment of its
population) would ever advance to
Western levels of that intricate thing
which we call ‘Cis tlization"?
Can't Have it Both Ways
Tam pot going to say whether it Is
desirable for the African to advance
altogether-on European tinea! On that
point | guard my own dreams. But Sir
Hugh can't have it hoth ways. If he
denies the Leverhulme-Batty postu
late—the postulate that sea-borne traf-
flo {9 essential to the advancemem of
our tropical colonies—he must then
argue at once for « self-supporting na-
tive community, growing Its own food-
stuffs, manufacturing Ite own wearing
apparel, and maini¢ li.ing in @ sort of
parochial self-sutfl=:.uy
To the eyes of svery man of sense
the pleture is delectable,
But will it work?
And In those rustlas circumstances,
what becomes of Bir Hugh's wonderful
bureaucracy’—that “cost of adminis-
tration and development af the coun-
try” which la his argument for taxa-
tion?
Would there, do you think. be the
mame need, the enme justification, the
same urge for “officials” to batten upon
the revenue—whether that revenue .¢
derived from duties upon Imports and
cxperte, “> from native courts*
What, In such circumstances, about
commerce” And what of the rall-
waya? Hach district would soon he
found view upon Ie awn rexources:
and only nature's overplus (that Ie to
say the produce not deliberately cul-
tivated and harvested from the sol!)
would be open for shipment to Europe
and America.
What kind of picture le thie to place
before Mesare. Laverhulme. Batty,
Phillips and others?—the vested com-
mercial interest!
Catering te Lancashire
Odviously, iso, the lees produce ex-
ported. the less importation would there
be of “white” manufactuies. The cot-
ton operatives of Lancashire would be
the very fret peeple to suffer from such
@ state of things: as everybody in
West Africa nowadays, no mat - what
bis rank of station, is bela~
coaxed or bludgeoned into .
three times as much clothing ”
ellmate demands!
Lat us be logical, Sir Hugh, even if
to be so, we haw to sppear absurd!
In the matter of cocoa, the weakness
of reasoning becomes strikingly ap-
parent,
Yor Governor Ciifford makes the pos!-
ton of the world's supply of this
commodity eo uncomfortably olear that
the Afriean could sot be blamed ter
@ eBléeo revulsion toward derision.
He might very reasonably enrug bis
sheulders, aod exctsim. “Why trouhis
to grow anything at all beyond my
own belly-need? By producing for
expert I am only eseking future
enarmenin orofierss af tha mast Ala.
land. at least for some other’ Better
for me, better for mine, tf I att8nd 1
my own Ilttle acre of soll, eat my
modest fill of home-grown produce
and wear the minimum of clothing~
Read the desolate picture Bir Hugs
has painted of Trinidad,—“The peovie
producing something whied could onl)
be of value tf they were able to uis-
pose of It by export—e condition
which has nearly brought to ruin the
splendid estates, ote. ete.” Ie it really
clear to us that world problems arise
from this polley of putting all one’s cae
Into one basket? Ie ft not clemres
(according to Sir Hugh) tbat problem
area from having any eggs to tub:
to market at all?
Governor Clifford's Mistake
‘Tho bedgock trath fe that Sir Hus
takes icc Tide a view of economicr (
Nigeria’ mental comfort. He dine:
certed every man of color three yeu!
ago By his attack on the Negro
dream of “octal Equality.” for he the
postulated es much difference betwor :
the African of Nigeria and African v
the North of Tripol! as existe betwe:
Teuton and Gaul Slav and Angi
Sexon. He forgot that the Afri u
has only one slogan today. “Black i
Black!" Here he ts again paintins
an {deallatio pleture of self-suppor:
Ing Mttle states, to direct opposition
to the admission that “revenue d+
pends apon ecean-borne trade.”
We bave to remember one thin.
Sir Hugh stands toward Nigeria not :
Ihe poetvton of Gulde, Philosopher an!
Friend, but as Governor.
We may admire him for hie vereatii
personality, but we want him essen
tially to govern.
‘The community today te looking t+
ward him to solve ite economte pre:
tema. And it feels, trritably, tin
potently. that those problema mis!
more readily be eolved if Bir Hus
would come a little closer to statisti >
and be leas abstract ta his vision.
Nigeria does not ask for Idealist:
pictures of what might be, but fo
eatisfactory explanations of what ir
If, aa he contends, the 18,600 000
Africans of Nigeria are under Dritisl
rule so that may enjoy their tives '~
the fullest possible measure and wit!
the least possible Interference, th:
community wants to know why '!
groans under taxation ip the way :ha!
it does?
Sir Hugh has not yet cracked hi
nut. FY has not accounted for the
vast cimmunity of “hangers-on” ans
“parasites” of pubito life. T beg lerve
to eay that Tem using both terms 1:
their @lctionary sere; and with v
Inten‘ion to offend, nt am T advisl:
drae ie changes. Tae reador has 911.
noed 0 look at Russie to reatise wn"
an aprileation of “rsvolution™ nzatis
In the way of euffering. But the com
munity fools hat there I was's, ino
(Continust -1 page 5)
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takes a pride in his
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Executive Officers Are Carrying on Work Creditably in Absence of President-General Garvey—Garvey Sends Greetings and Encouraging Message From Detroit—Membership in That City Rallying Splendidly to the Movement and Steamship Preposition
BURROWS DISCOURSES ON INDIVIDUALISM — POINTS OUT NECESSITY OF INDIVIDUAL SERVICE IN NATION BUILDING—CHARACTER BUILDING A NECESSARY PRE-REQUISITE—SAYS U. N. I. A. HAS IMPARTED A NEW INSPIRATION AND SET A STANDARD OF CHARACTER FOR THE NEGRO
Carter Points Out the Mutual Dependence Existing Between U. N. I. A. and Its Members—Pleads for Unselfishness and Tolerance in Work of Putting Over the Program
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LIBERTY HALL, NEW YORK
Sunday Night. May 4 — Liberty Hall, with its seating capacity for several thousands, was nearly taxed to the utmost tonight with an audience that waxed warm with enthusiasm over the instructive and enlightening speeches that were delivered by the executive officers that are carrying on in a creditable way the work of the New York local and the parent body of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the absence of the president-general. Hon Marcus Garvey. The liberal manner in which contributions were made to the general offering and to the Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company for the purpose of establishing a line of steamships as part of the program of the Universal Negro Improvement Association gave living testimony to the fact that the members of the New York local will yield to no other division in their loyalty to the movement and in their untiring efforts to contribute a major share of all that is needed to put over the program of the association. From Detroit came a telegram from the president-general sending greetings and briefly stating the enthusiasm existing in that part of the country for the movement. The message was heartily applauded.
Hon. P. L. Burrows, acting secretary-general, spoke on the subject of "individualism," and in the course of a well-reasoned and thoughtful address drew out the importance of individual service as a necessary asset in the making of a race and the building of a nation. In this respect he emphasized the necessity of character building as a prerequisite towards the achievement of service for the good of mankind and especially towards the fulfilment of the program of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The association, he asserted, since it has come upon the scene, has developed a new inspiration and has shown the Negro the absolute necessity of creating for himself a character that will call forth the admiration of the outside world. He concluded with an exhortation to each and every one to realize what is required of them as individuals, and with that realization backed by determination the program of the association will be achieved.
Hon. G. E. Carter, vice-president of the New York local, and chairman of the meeting, spoke on "The Task of Finding Ourselfs." In his talk he pointed out the mutual dependence that existed between the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and its members and pleaded for unselfishness in the work of putting over the program of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Following is the text of the speeches:
HON. P. L. BURROWS' ADDRESS
The Hon. Percival L. Burrows, Acting Secretary General, was the 1st speaker. He said:
The subject on which I shall speak to you for a few moments is one of vital importance to us as a race, and unless we apply it in our lives a good many of us, whether we are members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association or not, will become failures.
That subject is "Individualism."
The life of an individual plays an important part in his service to his race, in his service to his country, in his service to his community, and last, but not least, in service to himself or herself. While it is true that an idea of undue importance or selfish opinions of one's self lessens the value of service, we, nevertheless, should lay a certain amount of stress upon the important features of our lives as individuals.
The Life of the Individual
The life of an individual as a citizen plays an important part in his community from a political viewpoint. The life of an individual plays an important part in his religion from a religious viewpoint. The life of an individual plays an important part in his business from a business viewpoint. The life of an individual plays an important part in the development of that man or that woman in himself and for the good that he can do those around him.
The development of an individual is bound up in his character and his reputation. we are our own character builders. No man living, whether he be prince or peasant, whether he be rich or poor, whether he is interested in anything in the world or interested in anything out of the world, can ever succeed unless he builds for himself a character. The importance of character building in the Universal Negro Improvement Association, not only collectively, but as individuals, rests with ourselves.
Character Building
A good many men and women have had good training in the home, but through contact, in some cases, through environment, they are adversely affected, and they claim they cannot overcome the evil. I believe
THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1824
there is a certain amount of strength or will power in every individual that he can use to overcome obstructions and make of them stepping-stones to success. The building of character rests with the mothers of a race. It has been well said that the hand that rocks the cradle rules and dictates the polisies of the world. Therefore, the great men who have left their indefible imprint on the animals of history, who have left the impress of their lives on the minds of individuals and who have come down to us at the present day as ideals from which we can mould our lives, owe much to the mother's influence in the home. The poor, unfortunate boy, or girl, that loses a mother's training, that loses a father's training, and in spite of all the handicaps, succeeds in building for himself a character is well worth commandation.
Reputation Built on Character
On the other hand, the reputation of an individual is largely responsible for his influence in religion, in business, in science, in art, or in any other field of life. What is reputation? Reputation is that building from outside, that superstructure that is built upon the foundation of character, and that character built upon the corrostrone of virtue. The reputation of an individual, therefore, is also worthy of consideration. Some men get reputation, get notoriously by spending the major part of their lives behind prison here. We are not dealing with that kind of a reputation. We are dealing with the question from the better side of life, and we k.l. w. that from our contact with men and women, from what we do and say, from our actions we are measured.
The U. N. J. A.'s Incentive
The U. N. I. A.'s incentive Unfortunately for the Negro, in the majority of cases he is measured and has been measured for centuries by other races from the lowest standard. But today the Universal Negro Improvement Association has come upon the scene and it has developed a new inspiration; it has developed a new feeling; it has shown the Negro the absolute necessity of creating for himself a character, the point of view of developing that reputation or that character that will call forth the admiration of men on the outside. Man. build your reputation; build your character. You must first build your character in order that you may be able to accomplish the things in life which will build for you the reputation which you need.
Individualism, therefore, plays an important part in the life of a race. Individualism plays an important part in the life of a nation. The Universal Negro Improvement Association is calling upon individuals to play their parts nobly and well. At this time we are called upon to play that part with greater determination, with more fervor, with more earnestness of purpose, and with greater sincerity than ever before in our lives or within the life of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
The Influence of Individuals
The influence of individuals
Individuals have left their influence
all down the ages, Buddha, Mohammed,
and all the great reformers, such as
Martin Luther, Jerome, Knox and
others, who have done much for religion.
In war and in peace, in business
and in everything else, the life of
the leader plays an important part in
the fortunes of those whom he leads.
The life of the individual within the
Universal Negro Improvement Associa-
.
tion must be so ordered, so formed, so developed as to play the part which we are calling upon you to play for the benefit of the straggling members of this race of outra. You must remember that it is not the officers of the association that are accomplishing this great task, but it is you members that are pushing us, and as long as you push us to the front we must shoulder our responsibilities or get out of the way and let somebody else carry on.
Conventions are passed; the convention is coming. Let us prepare ourselves to see into the things which, perhaps, we have forgotten, which we have lost sight of, which we have slackened about. Prepare ourselves at all times to speak the truth boldly and fearlessly. I have no use for cowards. And what is a coward? A coward is that man who stands in fear of man, is afraid to make the attempt to do something that he knows he is capable of doing. That is a coward in the truest sense of the word. Men fearless and bold are the men who will take a chance even if they fall in the attempt to do. The spirit of this association, the principles of this association, of this great cause, call for the individual development of the individual character, call for the development of the individual reputation, with the assistance of your outside brothers. They will watch you and they will mark you and measure your footsteps, and according to your ability, and according to your earnest efforts and according to your conscientiousness, they will be able to help you build and help you to prepare for the great work which you have got to do.
Tonight, I believe, everyone of you is interested in racial uplift; I believe everyone of you is interested in the progress and development of Africa; I believe everyone of you is interested in putting ships upon the watera. We cannot become real pioneers in Africa, we cannot develop Africa, we cannot assist the backward tribes of Africa unless we put ships upon the ocean. Each one of you will realise, therefore, that the responsibility rests with you as an individual and with us as a whole. With your support, with your co-operation, backed with determination and earnestness, we will achieve success (applause).
HON. Q. E. CARTER SPEAKS
Hon G. E. Carter spoke on the subject, "The Task of Finding Ourselfs." The value of any man, he said, to himself, to a community, to a group, to an organization, to a race or to a nation is his ability to realize that he is an integral part of a whole. That he is a necessary integral part of a whole; that he is not the whole thing, but that he is part of the whole and that the whole cannot exist without his contribution. Therefore if he is a necessary part the whole is dependent upon him and he is dependent upon the whole; one cannot exist without the other.
Part of a Great Whale
When a man comes to that place in his existence that he realizes that he is this necessary part, then that man is in a position to be of service to himself, to be of service to the community, to be of service to his race and to be of service to his nation. In the scheme of life we may well consider that we are all a part of a great circle the center of which is the master mind, Christ, God or anything you want to call Him. We make up the circumference and each of us comes upon the stage of action equally distant from that center, whether or not we keep the distance that was given to us at the beginning depends wholly and solely upon the efforts that we put forth in the working out of the scheme of life.
Some man forget that they are part of a whole and relegate to themselves the assumption that they are the whole, and in this assumption they are likely to set forth many things that looked at and read by the world will prove conclusively that they are nothing more nor less than selfishness in one human bundle. Let me amplify this: Recently somebody wrote under the caption of "Marcous Garvey a Traitor or a Lunatic." A traitor, why? Simply because he had the courage, simply because he had the foresight, simply because he realized the fact that he was an integral part of a whole and dared to stand up and say in the presence of men that "if you don't do certain things to better your economic condition in this country you will find when the struggle for meat and bread becomes keen the white man saving his own and pushing the Negro aside. A traitor because he dared to stand up in the face of every man and woman in the United States and say to them that there is a color caste even in the United States, and that the bright Negro in some instances is doing all that he possibly can to come to that place in his existence where he would like to solve the so-called Negro problem through amalgamation. A traitor because he dared to emphasize that thing with a great deal of understanding and foresight.
Garvore Stand in Right
Garvey's Stand in Right
I know Mr. Garvey is right because
it has my privilege this afternoon to
represent him in a public meeting in
a place which everybody in Harlem
was supposed to have an opportunity.
At this meeting was presented the boy
candidate for Mayor to go to the pum
of Jefferson to represent the colored
citizens of Harlem, and nobody in the
world could ever tell this boy was a
Negro boy because of his complication.
And yet, he was to represent us all.
While I care little for color, yet it is
evident that some of the bright
Negroes who live in America are doing
their best to promote their skilier per-
pose. Marens Garvey discovered that
This boy is not responsible for his
color, it is true, but the people who
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WEAKNESS
NERVOUSNESS
ANEMIA
TRED FEELING
NEURALGIA
INDIGESTION
RHEUMATISM
GOLDB
CATARRH
RUN-DOWN
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selected him to represent the boys of Harim surely ought to have sense enough to know that some brown-skinned or black boy could have been chosen as well as that boy. Marous Garvey is a traitor because he had the courage to stand up against all those things. He saw a hundred years ahead of his day the condition where certain light men were concerned in their white ancestry and that they stealthily hoped to project a plan whereby they could marry off their black women to white men and get a race of byrids, and, if they could not get it in one way, to resort to some other means to achieve the desired end. Garvey discovered those things and told the world, and for this he is considered a traitor by some of those people.
Christ Was Called Crazy
Not only did they consider him a traitor but a lunatic. He is not the first man that has been called crazy. Every great man who has seen a thing and has had the courage to state that thing to the people has been called crazy. Jesus Christ discovered Christianity, and folks laughed at him and said "You have been going around here talking about saving others; why don't you save yourself? You are foolish; you are crazy, you cannot save others if you cannot save yourself"; so they laughed at him and Jesus submitted to their ridicule, passed off the stage of action and the truth which he came to establish lives on today. Columbus discovered that the earth was round and set out to teach people that common truth: people laughed at him; they said he did not have good sense; he is a lunatic. Columbus went from court to court until somebody became interested in him and he was able to put over a truth which he stood for and which hundreds of years ago has been accepted as the truth, and which scientists are pleased to set forth.
Marcus (harvey) is not alone in being classed as a lunatic. There is only one step between genius and insanity, but oh! the markness of that step, and any man or woman who feels the call—the urge of the soul to go forth in defence of his people to bring to them that fortune for which we have longed and sought—that freedom which will enable us to be recognized by all the world—any man who exposes such a cause is likely to be called orsy; but we are glad to accept the teachings of such orsy people and follow them without wavering. (Applause)
LET'S PUT IT OVER
I know full well that if we realize that we are part of a great whole we will enter in and do the things he has left to our hands. We are an integral and necessary part of this great whole; and since we are a necessary part the Universal Negro Improvement Association cannot do without you, and you cannot do without the Universal. If you think you can do without the Universal, just go out after putting your money in it and make up your mind and say you are not going back to Liberty Hall, and just as soon as you see the folks out on the street making one parade you will come running to Liberty Hall (laughter). You just can't do without it. Some of us get angry at times and say, "I will never put a cent in those plates," I will never put a foot back in the hall; I know I have been mistreated"; but as soon as you sit down and reflect a little you will find yourself casing up on the outside; you want to see what is going or and then somehow you will find your way on the inside; you cannot stay away. (Laughter and applause.)
You are a necessary part; you cannot do without the whole thing, and we cannot do without you. Because we know of our intrinsic worth, because we know of your value and because you are able to find yourselves you will be able to help us to put over the task. Let us forget individual efforts; sometimes when we are selfish—when we are of the dubious type—we are likely to forget and deal in personalities. When we do that we are depending to a low plane. No man who is an honest man—who is a good man—has a right to do those things.
Let us put over this program and we will realise the fact that we are of value to ourselves, to the organisation, to the race and to the people we are willing to serve and very soon we will realise the desired wishes of our heart in seeing a free and redeemed Africa. (Applause.)
WEAKNESS
NERVOUSNESS
ANEMIA
TRED FEELING
NEURALGIA
Christ Was Called Crazy
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dressed the opening meeting. A petition was signed asking this and other governments of the world for aid and co-operation in establishing a government for Negroes in Africa. His million Negroes in America are said to be signing the petitions to be sent to President Coolidge and to both houses of Congress. Petitions are also to be sent to the British Parliament, to France and to the League of Nations. This meeting, it is said, is one of a series of similar meetings which are to be held throughout the country. A mammoth street parade led by the Premier Military Band preceded the opening (meeting Sunday, and a vast crowd gathered at the theatre to witness the aerials. Every night this week meetings have been held in various sections of the city. Mr. Sherrell has addressed each gathering with a forceful plan in interest of the back to Africa movement.
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‘ WITH APOLOGIES TO SHAKESPEARE
(By Norton Thomas, Associate Editor)
Act. XCLX. Scene 1X. Harlem. Seventh Avenue.
‘ Enter William Pickens, William DuBois and Weldon Johnson
Picksns.
paver 1d cheerve you oes of ie
rom es it leness,
c of Bayesas | was ‘ont to have
rt me
Dabgic rus"
rnot deceiv’d, William. Vexed I am
OF Tate, with pessions of some diferencr,
Conceptions only te to myself,
‘Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviors:
' Aliive memories doit worry meg
; ut Let not, therefore, my iriends, be griev’s
“i (Among which number, fe Seas bees
: Nog coustrae ao ty neglect,
Than that poor DuBois, with himself at war,
| Forgets the shows of flove to other men.
Johnson.” Zi
+ dotnet goat Wile, can you see your face ?
2 ra
"DuBois.
>No, Weldon; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things. ~ [Shout
T. ‘What means this shouting? I do fear. the people
4 Choose Garvey for their king.
| Johnson.
Ay do you fear it?
en must I think you would not have it su.
. DuBois,
+" Lypuld pot, Weldon, for I hate the man:
*—_ Hfeedwells too much on “Afric’s rising un.”
* , ° BbE what is it you would impart to me?
Johnson.
T cannot tell what you and friend Pickens
1. ‘Think of this life; but, for my single self,
= Thad as lief not be, as live to be
i O’ershadowed by a bearded commoner.
3 mas Bors fire as Serves 5 82: Nee J 00:
‘We three have fed as well: and we can all
Endure the Tropic’s ‘eat, as well as he [Shout
*. DuBols, (Nervously.
i“ oe general iat)
* ‘Edo bulieve, that these applauses are
+, For some new honors that are heaped on Garvey.
2 Sehusom, he doth bestide th
‘ ‘Why, man, he doth bestride the world of Ni
Like a Colossus; and wwe petty men serocs
‘Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
} The fault, dear DuBois, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Bs DuBois and Garvey: What should be in that Garvey *
‘ity Wh should that name be souoded sate than youre?
bs ‘rite them together, yours is as fair a name;
, Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ;
ft + Weigh tiem, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
se DuBois will start a spit as soon as Garvey. [dhout
5 Now, in the names of all the fede at once,
yO pee what meat doth this our Garvey ceed,
be iat he is grown so great?
- Braue faithful (Sighs. Wh h d
}, faitliful one. vighs. at you I.
r 1 will consider ; what you have to say, @ ==
> 1 will. with patience hear: and find a time
iB Both meet to hear, and answer, such high things.
ree Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:
See - “Plecia Yad Satis be a Nordic,
a in to repute himself a son of Ham
$.., Under these hard conditions ns this time
Bijct | Ua fie to tay upon us
bsvsi'¢ 5 o {Exeunt DuBor and Johnson.
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ee Welle PuBols, thou art noble; yet T see,
Ses eric dapmcdt tereore i
Becencre aes disposed t fGre, it is meet
BRS ie sotae tials Lap cret wll tet ken
peesatore, <2. . >> Let-Garvey seat him sure;
Perry Mew vee will shake him, though worse days endure.
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THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1624
ee sh eee ahaa ee as RSS
to create wealth and to wisely use it. Money is the coined blood of
the individual, the race or the nation. It takes a dollar's worth of THE RAR
blood to make a dollar's worth of food. All races have not the money 1H wig) 74]
making and keeping genius; neither have all individuals, but such
races and individuals as do not have it never occupy a very large FOR HIMS
place in the world’s affairs. By T. The
Sir Isaiah Emanuel Morter of British Honduras, Knight Com- :
mander of the Distinguished Service Order of Ethiopia, was a man| Man is the un
of the race who knew how to make money and how to use it wisely. |thought, word ai
He never grew so rich as to get away from the Negro race. He |“etermines is
kept in close touch with it; he sympathized with it and he helped it [done He may
help itself He believed in the Universal Negro Improvement Asso- | may, be wrong,
cation and its work of Afnean redemption and repatriation, and |he {© the master
when he died recently he beueathed it between $50,000 and $100,000 hese ike Nise
of bis abundance for the furtherance of its work. That is the first |the dumb creat
big gift that the association has had bequeathed it. to his care, du
In Ins front page article in The Negro World last week President |¢f whom have a!
General Garvey said: “If other Negrocs in America and the West |OW™. is another _
Indies will follow the example of Sir Isaiah Emanuel Morter, in sows be rete
helping to make the Universal Negro Improvement Association |Phat he detert
what it ought to be, then, in a few years, not only will Africa be |should be final, ;
redeemed, but the whole Negro race will be elevated to a postion [thought and wo
i as wise and jus'
of world recognition” bevevueesand jie
| suffer the conse
| ‘THE MYTHICAL TEN GREATEST NEGROES =| Why is that? _
1. have watched with more or less interest the progress of
W naming the ten greatest Negroes under the auspices of
the American Federation of Negro Students, and we are
ot surprised at the outcome of the sitting process, because it really
Mea the ignorance of Negro history of those charged with the
selections, and their poor judgment, especially in the five living
persons designated, whom we do not need to mention by name in
The Negro World, because we can never know in advance whether
a living man, small or great, may not be imprisoned or hanged as
the climax of his smallness or greatness, as the case may be. Suffice
it to say that the living five do not represent the great men of the
race today, not all of them, and perhaps only one of them, and that
one George Washirigton Carver, the scientist. of Tuskegee Institute
The five dead placed among the ten are Frederick Doug'ass, in
second place, Madame C. J. Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Col.
Charles Young and Booker T Washington, the latter given ninth
place. It would be possible to recast the list and replace those
singled out with others greater than they, so that we should save
from the elimination only Douglass, Dunbar and Washington.
Marcus Garvey is not a native-born American, but he has done more
to unify the Negro race and to arouse its sense of obligation to
itself, in the United States, the West Indies, Latin America and
Africa, than all the living five have done bunched in their person-
alities and the work they have accomplished.
The ten greatest Negroes the race in America has produced have
yet to be named.
See
THREAT TO DEPORT EAST INDIANS FROM AFRICA
KS. NAIDU, the East indian poetess, has been stirring up
the white people of South Africa in such a way as to
draw from the Cape Times a threat that she should be
given “a stern warning that any further attempts to create trouble
between white ani black in South Africa will entail her immediate
removal from the country which she has taken it upen .erself to
visit.” That is the intolerant and high-handed attitude of the white
man wherever he has the upper hand. “Think and do as I say or I
‘will thrust you out or hang you,” is the way he goes about dealing
with black and colored peoples. He has been having an qasy time
‘of it with his strong arm methods, but he has come upon trouble-
‘some times in which the black and colored peoples are protesting
and petitioning and striking back, or threatening to do so.
Mrs. Naidu had been calling South Africa “the University of
Oppression out of which Gandhi graduated,” and in which her people
had been “treated worse than dogs,” and she asserted that both the
East Indians and the European whites were “interlapers in a black
man’s country.” This was very hot stuff. and we can easily see
how the little lady should rile the Cape ‘Times and the whites of
the country by feeding them large chunks uf at,
It was in March that Mrs. Naidu was stirring up South Africa;
in April the Cape Parliament was doing the lke thing by discussion
of the Class Areas Bill, in which many harsh things were said of
East Indians, who are to be segrega’sd as the blacks are locationed,
both which measures of class legislation are stirring up trouble for
the British Government both in South Africa and East India. Thg
flat denial of social and political equality asked for by the East In-
dians and stubbornly denied the blacks, 1» bound to become more and
more troublesome for the British Government, the proper definition
of the citizenship rights of black and colored and East Indian sub-
jects being a live one which will constantly clamor for a hearing
until it is finally disposed of one way or another.
‘The oppressor everywhere and of every sort is finding the going
rough and uncertain, with protests and petitions fronting him at
every turn .
THE OLD, OLD STORY
lit RP 4s, apparently, no limit to the depths to which certain
I iydividuals will sink in their frantic efforts to discredit the
Unwwereal Negro Improvement Association and its Presi-
dent-General, the Hon Marcus Garvey, in the eyes of the public.
Dr. WE B DuBors, ma hymn of hate bellowed forth im the May
number of the “Crisis,” the organ of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People, unblushingly declares that
Marcus Garvey's “former representative now lies in jail m Liberia,
sentenced to death for murder” Dr DuBois’ mental aberration
has, in recent years, becume so marked that many people regard it
as so much time wasted replying to his chortling, expecially where
the Universal Negro Improvement Association is concerned. The
orgy of inaccurate detraction and vituperative abuse m which he and
his henchmen are indulging sccasions nv more than a shrug of the
shoulders from the thinking world uf Negroes So well may we let
him pass.
But now comes the “Pittsburgh Courier.” giving great promi-
nence to a news item in whih it 15 stated that the “Head of the
U.N. I. A. in Liberia was executed. Cause not known.” The
“Pittsburgh Courier” has been none too friendly in its attitude
towards the Universal Negro Improvement Association, but we have
always tried to give them credit for heing honest with themselves
jand desiring to be honest with the public.
The facts of the case, out of which detractors of the Universal
Negro Improvement Associat'.n are seeking to make capital, are
set forth in another column of ‘I'l.c Negro World. We shall wait
and see whether we are correct in our appraisement of the “Pitts-
burgh: Courier.”
e-7An snalysie of the primary elec-
tion. setyrns, that the “Mi.
grant? han ‘ieee dite how te jae
the: tittle crum mark on hie batist.
Ste Ah gee fpenie adh qrten, Ws
, Exit.
“Jit Crow” rules cn tralue entering
Ailinole from the Routh became tnopera-
Uve when the State lie was reached.
‘Bat that was before the advent of
THE RARE MAN
WHO THINKS
FOR HIMSELF
By T. Thomas Fortune
” Man is the umt of the world’s
thought, word and act. What he
determines is the thing to be
done. He may be right or he
may be wrong, it little matters;
he {s the master. How he uses
his unlimited power in his rela-
trons with his fellows and with
the dumb creatures committed
to his care, dumb creatures all
cf whom have a language of their
own, is another question. As he
sows he reaps. that may appear
paradoxical If he is the master
what he determincs and does
should be final, and it is; but his
thought and word and act must
be wise and just and truthful, or
he contradicts himself and must
suffer the consequences.
Why is that? ‘Because the laws
of the physical and of the spirit-
ual world are much the same
We can’t understand why it 1s
50, except that it was so ordained
n the beginning: And that it os
which has puzzled the w:sest and
made them as little children in
dealing with the phenomena. I
have a knife and can cut my
finger if | sm foolish enough to
do so. There is no law against
my doing it. It is my knife, tt
1s my finger. But I pay for vio-
lating the physical law by loss
ot Blood, aed much pain, and
perhaps by death. Tne spiritual
law evens the violation of the
Physical law.
What mankind shall think and
say and do is much a matter of
education. So with an individual.
There have always been schools
cf mén who teach certain doc-
trines which become th. law o.
the People and of the time and
place. fe style them in their
generations as oracles, mystics,
prophets, priesthoods, _philos-
ophers. It depends. est now
one part of mankind is dominated
by the teachings of Jesus and his
apostles and by Mohammed and
his believers. They have con-
quered the thought of the world
who have been educated in the
doctrines which those two enun-
ciated. Neither the followers of
Jesus or of Mohammed are con-
sidered philosophers, nor as rep-
resentatives of schools of phil-
osophy. They simply accept
without question certain systems
tf belief based in the teachings of
Jesus and Mohammeu.
Just now there is much rebel-
ice against the principle in both
systems which raui lo: 4eseribed |
as Faith, the substance of things |
not seen. Educated mankind are |
beginning to demand much more
than that; they want a reason for
the faith.
With the doubting position in
which the believers im all farths|
are just now taking I have notl.- |
ing to do right now. the pomt is
to show that mankind are gov-
erned for the most part by the|
education they reccive. .As_ the
twig is bent the tree inclines. |
If generations of people are
taught to think im a'given way
they will be governed in their
conduct by the principles they
have been taught in the schvols.
whether of Church or State
The education which the Negro
has always received in the schouls
of the white races has becn the
white man’s viewpoint of every:
thing and the Negro's view point
of nothing. This has resulted in
a depreciation of Negro manhood
and capacities which. the Negro
tas to unlearn before he can ac-
omplish anything worth while He
s beginning to & this in schools
of his own not dominated by
white principles of life and death |
Even Premier Jan Christian
Smuts of South Africa has
reached the conclusion that the
native Africans no longer “re-
ard white men as gods.” Why
should they? As Pant val the
Cretan they are men the same
as we are.
The man who thinks for him-
self is a rare creature. Most
people do not understand him
when he appears on the scene and
undertakes to do business as one
of them. But he is the man in
every community who blazes a
way for himself and for those of
his less fortunate brethren who
are unable to do their own think-
ing and must have a teacher and
aleader So in the nation: so in
NEGRO WOR!)
NOTICE
The Girealation Dept.
Negr> Werte: 80; Week 130th St.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
HE Universal Negro improve-
I ment Association advocates the
uniting and blending of all Negroes
into one strong healthy race. It is
against miecegenation and race suicide.
It believes that the Negro race is as
good as any other, and therefore should
be as proud of itself as others are.
It believes in the purity of the Negro
race and the purity of the white race.
It is against rich blacks marrying poor
whites.
It is against rich or poor whites taking
advantage of Negro women.
It believes in the spiritual Fatherhood
of God and the Brotherhod of Man.
It believes in the social and political
physical separation of all peo) F to the
extent that they promote their own
ideals and civilization, with the privi-
lege of trading and doing business with
each other. te believes in the promo-
tion of a strong and powerful Negro
nation.
It believes in the rights of all men.
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSN.
MARCUS GARVEY, President-General
January |, 1924.
EDITORIAL OPINION OF THE NEGRO PRESS
| If the ad-wise Creator erected bar-
‘rlera for the preservation of racial in-
togrity, why Virginia's lutest mis-
cengenation luw and other humiliating
and \gnomiou lawn designed partic-
ularly to stamp inferlority upon a
race. The Suffolk News net up the
implication that in a Republic citizen-
ship and the right of auffrage may be
entirely divorced. Any element of
soclety that contributes to the support
of socloty’s government through the
Payment of taxes and spills {te blood
for the preservation of that govern-
ment against ita enemies 1. entitled
to @ participation In tho affair of
that government, according to its
avility to Interpret governmenta:
amenttles.—Norfolk Journaj und Gulde
Many of our people who ure toud-
eat In thelr talk of race pride ure
found wanting when It comes to snow
thelr race pride by patronizing race
enterprince, There's a vast difference
hetween word and deed —Omahs Mont-
tor
When the Necro press speaks of the
quod It is doing It indulges in no die
hoamt It can point to concrete cuace.
© cun esen call upon its roadern as
witnesses Tho power of the prese in
Indiaputadte. The Negro presets ar
the watciiman on the wall No other
agency or institution has aa fully: norved
the race In this particular capacity. Al-
ways nonaltive ulwayn uwake. always
vigilant. always vourageour, the race
Papers have expored wrong. defonder
the wrong npenited Injustice. und plead
for Juntice They have spoken fo
thone who could not spenk for them-
ariven and fourht for thone who were
too wenk oF timid to Acht for them-
nelven ‘The necesal'y for doing thie
Is no grent that raco papers cannot
stop beenune of lack of appreciation
and the good they are doing ta %c
aatintying that they muat be excused
for telling the public ubout it —Louls-
ville Leader 7 *
Sonregation in school tn gradual
advancing Northward and should no
be augmented by our lending univer.
aitics’ propoganda. While It neems tc
be a concerted effort of the lareei
universities of the North (0 exclude
colored mtudente, our colored untver-
sities certninty should not support tr
the least ur oncouraga gyeh propa.
HEALTH TOPICS
By OR. 6. 8. HERBEN
Of the New York Tubsrculesie® Asso-
ciation .
Short Cuts to Heaven
Of course, you folks in town do not
have any chanoe to elash your hands
with aickles, or cut off toes with the
lawn mower, but you do get cuts and
you do run pins and needles cr nails
into yourselves. A pin prick’ or @
smal cut may be just as much @ men-
ace to your life as the more spectacular
accidents, because into any opening of
the skin may go dirt and germs. These,
in turn, may invade the (issues and the
bloom stream and start what is known
a8 “blood potsoning.”
Tt oo happens that the index, the
middle and the ring Angers are eome-
what shut off at the wrist joint from
the rest of the arm and Infection finds
it more dimcult to travel up the arm
than it does when It starts from the
thumb or-ittle finger, ‘Therefore, in-
fury to the three middle fingers of a
hand te not quite so menacing as in-
fury to the outside members. Never-
thelees, any injury should receive ap-
propriate attention. small cuts or hin
pricks should be thoroughly washed
with soap in warm water and then
painted with fodine, it ts wise to coves
jctute witts cofledien to prosct them from
further contamination. (Never put «
ganda by contenancing @ dabate on
the subject.—Washington ‘Tribune,
‘The tightening down on the social
clubs and soft drinkeriea have caused
the opening up many private houser
of a certain class for weekly struts
and house dances, where women and
men lead a thousand per cent more
debauchery then ever before. Cabarets
in thelr worst way did not compare
with the present evil of House struts
‘The only similarity was when the
‘aograted district was closed, and the
‘people of that section were scattored
Fervour the ity, But this te mild
na to what in being carried on today
Mtrute—and the aw cannot reach
[them.—J. A. Ross in Buffalo Expreen
| Mra, Charles Guggenheimer, chair-
mun of the Philharmonic Orcheatra.
hon announced that the study of Juz
will be taken seriously at the Ameri:
can Academy in Rome, and in the
near future a chair will be ontabliahod
Jnzz munie In having @ dlatinct beat
Ing on the work of the musical com
Posera of the world and should tie
more recognized
Thin may appear aatiatactory to ts
‘compunern of clusnical music and peoyle
of delicute ears who would Ike to hav.
“the wild barbaric sounds” attuned
to their discriminating senses, but the
dunce devotees would much prefer ts
have thelr jnaz untamed and un-
touched.—Boston Chronicle.
The thoughtless and sneering #lip uf
Bishop Clement's utterance tn the Stur
of last week did not harmonize with hin
caption Of course Dr. Walla defended
the position of the delegates who ex-
ereined thelr privitere in thelr own
righia to natisfaction The Bishon
neema to be looking backward when
he intimaten that none but the Blahops
nhould think and plan for the work of
the General Conference. Years and
yoora ago the delegates ld walt for
orders frum the Bishops to direct thelr
netion and mont of the Ignorant and
thoughtless preachers and delegates
pulled anc tugged at the coat-tall of
the Bishos, asking them “what wilt
thou have me to do?"; then the Bishon
would say “vote for this or that.” and
It wan done, But this fs a new day—
thin In 1924 and the men are thinking
nome for themaeivea.—Progrosalve
Seeearnaee:
bandage over an extensive arca which
hae heen painted with foding, as a bils-
ter may result from such « procedure.)
A larger wound shotld be shown to
your physician to recelve at hie hands
the proper treatment. Always go to a
Physician for treatment when a rusty
nail has punctured the tissues,
Injuries received from firecrackers,
eto, should be treated promptly by a
doctor, as there is particular danger
from tetanus in these vases. Never
injure the tesue around the finger
nails, If you have torn away « hang
nail and opensd up the akin, treat thas
‘opening a8 you would treat a cot. The
dest treatment for It is to let lodine
run down along tho edge of the finger
nail and into the open rurface. Do not
remove alivers with pins. Take a need’
and heat {t In @ flame or sterilize {1
by bolling before using.
tf you must open pimples or blac..
heads, take a clean plece of linen ar
cover the ends of your fingers with '
ro that the surface of the clean clot
vomoee next to the skin. Wash the skin
carefully with soup and water after d.-
fog these things. Apply camphor ‘tor
drying the akin. Never scratch the skin
with your finger nails, as in the nails
(no matter how clean they are kept. are
accumulated various germs De uot
neglect trifling wounds, Remember that
{they may cause the lows of @ finger. ot
‘hand, etc, or blood potron! : and death
TEARING THE VEIL FROM BRITISH POLICY OF OPPRESSION IN NIGERIA
(Continued from page 9)
reprehensible waste; and it cannot but be angered by Sir Hugh's bolstering up of expenditure.
"It is above all things else our business," he says, "to advance the native's welfare in every way."
Splendid! Quite splendid! But how? By denial of the rights of commerce, and by the increase of a benevolent bureaucracy?
Reader, if ever in time or eternity, returns to mankind that ideally Golden Age of which we have dreamed, it must not be because men are lazy, and indifferent, but because they are simple-living and content. It must not be because men are self-indulgent; but because they have learned gladly how to deny themselves. It must not be because competition is too strong for mankind, but because mankind has grown too reliant and confident to be harassed and worried by competition.
That Golden Age (which Sir Hugh dimly adumbrates in his opening speech to the Legislative Council) must be a sign that men are too good to tolerate evil, too strong to endure tyranny, and too gentle to live under aggression. This may sound like a schism in morals. It is not so. Simply, I am seeking to prove that exteial conditions of the most onerous kind may be endured when every member of the community has learned to play the game.
A lot of people today are not doing so'
Change Must Come
Sir Hugh's picture is wonderfully stipulating—"The Nigerian pensive occupies a position of every complete independence," but why did not Sir Hugh add that every single one of us might honorably be the same, if we would cease to take out of life more than we put into it:
There, reader, is the crux of the whole position of Burucracy. The general public of Nigeria, many of them inarticulate to say what they mean, feel one conviction in their bones—that there are numerous people in the administration, in commerce, in agriculture, in all departments of public life, who are enjoying privileges and advantages that they have not satisfactorily earned.
"The cost of administration and the development of the country on right lines" is admirable; but there exists a condition which Sir Hugh ought to change. Yet—to our bitter distress—he evades the issue by a flight of brilliant rhetoric, and by a sortie into realms of idealistic word painting.
A change must come.
And it must come because Government has itself realized its wastefulness, and not because the public has pushed it into a change of policy.
"It is necessary" declares Sir Hugh "that the Government should raise a certain amount of revenue."
Granted. But it is also necessary that Government should spend that revenue in an economic manner, to the direct advantage of the people whose taxation it represents, and for their development and advancement alone.
If this sounds selfish it is only an elaboration of Sir Hugh's own explanation of the Briton's duty—"exercising a trust on behalf of the African population."
We are now at the root of the whole trouble.
This principle of "trustship" should exist quite apart from the controversy whether there will be always Rich and Poor, Great and Humble, White and Black. If—or when—Government officials retort that the laborer is worthy of his hire, the rebutter should be "That depends upon the rate of the hire, and the amount of work performed for that hire." Our editor has made his strong point over and over again—that no post in Government service should be filled by a white man that can be equally well filled by a man of color.
Let us take no dental—the existing state of things in political and administrative circle is anachronistic. It is indeed endured. But it is not only endured in the sense that it is tolerated it is endured today in the very real sense that it is challenged.
I have yet to meet the African who will admit that he is receiving a straight deal in social economy when brought directly into touch with European and
YOUNG BLOOD
How I Keep Feeling Young and Vigorous at Near Sixty
"I am near 40 years, but I feel as young as I did at 30. I take a cupful of Bulgarian Tea once or twice a week. It keeps me healthy and strong and makes me feel young again," said R. H Von Schlick, manufacturer of Bulgarian Herb Tea.
Bulgarian Tea is a great blood tonic and everyone should enrich, refresh and improve their blood. Just a few doses of Bulgarian Tea and you begin to enjoy Bulgarian Tea is compounded of the purest herbs of high medicinal value and should make anyone feel 10 to 20 years younger when 'aken once or twice a week. It is the sensible blood tonic. It is also useful for my genuine Bulgarian Tea with my name on the box. Refuse substitutes. Or I will send it by mail postpaid for $1.00. Address me. H. H. Yor Heklick. Dept. 5. Marvel Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. —if you prefer I will send it C. D.
American standards of living. On his own soil he is happy, because Nature is generous in the extreme. But we white folk continue to drag the African into the front rank, to educate him, to make him wear European clothes, and to impose upon him our own standards of living.
He soon becomes one of the millions of oceans in that gigantic wheel which Sir Hugh defends — "ocean-borne trade." But henceforth the African, moreover becomes a problem. For it is not that he is inadequately paid, so much as that his white contemporary is more than adequately paid. That is the educated African's grievance today.
The public ask that Government shall be a little more spontaneous. Improvements should come from headquarters with hearty goodwill, and not with stubborn reluctance!
We ask for a change of that note of "We don't want particularly to do what you ask us to do—but if it must be done
Onithea, Southern Nigeria
West Africa.
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES AND THE MINES
If the Coalition Came Into Power
From the African Voice
Briefly, Mr Stewart's resolution is a well-planned scheme for ridding the mines of our labor. The Nationalist-Labor coalition claim that if the mines were to be cleared of all "Kaffirs" that would give employment to the white worker—of course at ten times the value per individual. At the present time for to them the question of dividends or of the development of the country is of secondary importance, a narrow and short-sighted policy which no native can encourage. Now, if this resolution were passed it would automatically change our position, and perhaps it would be then that we would realize the false position in which we have been placed, as every one knows we have good and bad seasons. During a good season we have no time to leave our homes for the mines. This, therefore, brings in nicely and fits in well with the emergency schemes of General Smuts. If we are not able to come to the mines this season, he says, in the meantime your places will be filled by Portuguese East African native labor, and when you return they shall be sent home and your places will be open for you. On the other hand we have Mr. Stewart and his Socialist friends who, should we fail to work the mines, shall introduce legislation forbidding us in the mines, as "Kaffirs are lazy," and the mines will be flooded with white workers, most of whom cannot choose a pick from a shovel.
We have reason to sympathize with the honorable member for East London, Mr. J. Stewart, in the position in which he is placed. Perhaps Mr. Stewart, as Mr. Stewart, may be taken for his word and it may be honestly concluded that what he does, what he has done, has been done consciously and in the best interests of our people and the country as a whole. His position, however, is a most difficult one, and how much he may avoid to dance to the time of the Socialist party, now known as the Nationalist-Labor party, some other methods will be adopted in order that he dances to the same tune with his leader, Col. Cresswell, who needs no introduction among us. Take, for instance, the resolution which Mr. Stewart attempted to move in the House last week. It is not only an insult to our intelligence but clearly indicates the trend events would take when the Coalition is in power.
That is the position in a nut shell. These clever tactics should make each one of us wake up and realize that behind the sweet flowing of the tongue is a motive, and the motive of the Socialist Party, at least the Nationalist-Labor Party, is to damn the native; and perhaps the future of the country to them is but a secondary matter Mr Stewart, honest as he may be, is in bad company. In him, should he remain in the unholly Coalition, we shall have no confidence. We will take it for granted that "Birds of a feather flock together."
GERMAN BACKERS OF DAWES' PLAN WIN IN ELECTION
(From the N. Y. Daily News) BERLIN. May 4.—As a result of today's elections throughout Germany, the plan of experts headed by Charles G. Dawes for the payment of reparations probably will be accepted by the Rechstag. The Marx government, which favors the Dawes plan, seems to control the Rechstag by a majority of sixty-five votes.
At midnight the foreign office gave out the following statement:
"In the results to the present, a terrific increase of Communist votes is seen. Although an increase in Nationalist votes is observed, they are within the expected limita. The Voelkheim party—Fasciesti—have not reached the numbers expected. The parties of the Middle seem able to hold their property within the essential border."
From the government's official figures, the coming Reislagst lapse is expected to be as follows: Socialists, 100; Communists, 60; Nationalists, 80; Democrata, 40; Catholics, 78; People's Party, 50; Fasciesti, 30; Lavarian People's Party, 50. The Reislagst membership is based on one for sixty thousand votes, but the membership does not necessarily indicate that a complete vote has been cast.
THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924
How Certain People Would Solve the Native
(From The African Volee, March 13)
We wonder how many ever care, among those Gen. Hertzog coddle, to make a reflection upon his twaddies. Rarely is the leader of the Nationalist-Labor Coalition in form that when a question affecting us is tabied in the House. Recently, however, scarcely has he had that opportune occasion, and therefore the exploration of fresh grounds was made in order to draw us into questions which were not intended for us, and in which we figure as the fourth man on the wheel. At any rate so far he succeeds, and an expert in painting gloomy pictures with regard to the future of South Africa. This he does at our expense, to the horror of a terror-stricken House. This is vicious and filthy, and therefore it cannot always pass away without meeting a challenge from us, helpless as we are.
Once more during the debate on the Women's Enfranchisement Bill fathered by Gen. Byron, the honorable member for Border, he indulged in high politics and rhetoric. He endeavored to obstruct the passage of the bill "because the Native Question in this country has not been solved, and because the Colored question has not been finally settled." Before the Coalition of the two parties we have always known the Nationalists Party to stand for "South Africa First," and the Labor Party for Socialism. What their policy is now, however, can be clearly detected from the leader's speech which carries along with it his conviction that the only way to solve the Native question in this country is to disfranchise the Cape Native and economically segregate him. There should be no more a colored question. The Colored man must be absorbed and the Native must form a reservoir of "scephesalis" who will be at the disposal and convenience of the farmer, at least as predestined by God. That is the policy of the new party, and that is the view it shares on the Native question. This is how they realize the responsibilities on whom, by good fortune, Divine Providence has placed. To comment is unnecessary, but it is and will be a sad day for this country when any man will dare to stand against the evolution of a people.
But among our legislators are to be found men with a vision, men who are deeply sensible to their duties and the responsibilities entrusted to them. Owing to this fact the bill has been read a second time, and with the influence of Gen. Smuts behind it we have no doubt that it will finally be read a third time and then pass as an act. Since the war nations have found it necessary that the position of a woman should be otherwise defined than a chattel whose activities should only be confined to her domestic duties. In other words, it has been deemed fit, in other countries, that the time has come when a woman should make her voice heard and be a potent factor in the solution or otherwise of questions affecting her country. In this spirit is the bill coached, and claims that the time has come when the woman should have the vote.
Ever since it was introduced to the House it has had our blessings. We have realized what an injustice it is to the womenfolk, and for obstructionists to demand that the women should wait until the native question has been solved is to frankly refuse them their right, for that question is a permanent one.
Mr. Nicholls, the honorable member for Zululand, is afraid that it might give rise to agitation on our part for franchise in the north should this bill pass through. This statement, painful though it is, may mislead some of the members who happen to have had no opportunity of coming into closer juxtaposition with the race. On this question, native opinion is one, and that is, women must be given the right to have a direct say in the affairs of the country of their birth and domicile, and that we do not propose to make capital out of that. The introduction of new arrivals into the House or high politics will be a happy augury for the future of the country. There may be less supplication on one another; there may be less recriminations.
"LET'S PUT IT OVER"
A Home In Africa
All members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association who desire to go to Liberia, West Africa, to settle to help in the industrial, commercial and cultural development of the country, and who intend sailing September, October, December, 1924, or January, February, March, April or May, 1925, are requested to send in for application form to be filled out.
FOURTH ANNUAL FASHION SHOW AT LIBERTY HALL
Gala Event on May 29
One of the most important entertainments given this spring at Liberty Hall will be the fourth annual Fashion Show, given by the ladies of the Royal Court of Ethiopia, with the kind cooperation of the matrona, Sabies and Juveniles of the New York local, on Thursday evening, May 29, 1924, in interest of the mortgage fund of Liberty Hall.
The cast of characters in the show reads like a brilliant social register of the names of early Ethiopians. Mme. M. M. Sharperson-Young is the originator of this annual contribution to the organization, which is always near and dear to her heart. Miss Marion Wallace is a most efficient secretary, and the entire membership of the Court of Ethiopia are 100 per cent loyal to the principal.
As a token of esteem and high appreciation for the always unselfish cooperation of the Universal African Royal Guard, under the command of Colonel Wattley and his staff, a part of the program of the evening will be evening, as they are in the role of the regimental colors, to the guards, with fitting military ceremonies. The Universal African Royal Engineers will come in for their share of that gala evening as they are in the role of the military escorts of Homem, under the command of Sol. S. A. Lord and staff. Many distinguished guests are already looked for on this occasion, and no pains will be spared in making this an evening long to be remembered in the history of the Ladies of the Royal Court of Ethiopia.
Tickets are on sale at the office of the New York local, at the table at Liberty Hall, and can also be obtained at the door on the night of the show. Unless you forget, a committee of the Ladies of the Court, under the direction of Miss Marion Wallace, Mira Hannah Nicholas and Miss Ethel Collins, have arranged to sell poppies, the flower of the season, to help swell the treasury of the benefit. If you are not wearing the "Poppy of Flanders Field" on Decoration Day, you will show a sign of forgetfulness of the supreme sacrifice made by our boys in the World's War.
135th Street Library Notes
May 7—Dr. Goldenweiler, a second lecture on "Race and Culture."
May 14—Dr. Melville G. Herskowits will be the speaker. His subject will be "The Civilization of Africa." Dr. Herskowits is working on the subject of Negro-White crossing as Fellow of the National Research Council in Anthropology.
The Junior Literary Club of the 185th Street Library will give a play on Friday, May 9, at 8:30 p.m., entitled "The Birthday of the Infant." by Oscar Wilde, dramatized by H. S. Wright. Parents and children are cordially invited.
New Books—Interesting novels. "Defeat," by Geoffrey Moss; "Heirs Apparent," by Philip Gibbs; "The Long Walk of Samba Diouf," by Jerome and Jean Tharaud.
By two favorite writers, "Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon," by Zane Grey; "Creole Sketches," by Lannadio Hearn.
New business books. "Developing Executive Ability," by E. B. Gowin; "Legal Aspects of Credit," by S. F. Brewster; "Business Law," by Conngton & Breigh.
A new, cheerful, and readable health book. "Outwitting Our Nerves," by J. A. Jackson and Helen M. Saliburry.
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KING TUT'S TOMB DISCLOSES HELEN OF TROY AS REAL
Chicago, May 4.—Helen of Troy was a real girl.
That's the discovery, announced now for the first time, that has been made from recent excavations in Egypt and Asia Minor. Dr. James H. Breasted, head of the Oriental languages department of the University of Chicago, said as much.
Dr. Breasted has just returned from Egypt, where he has been deciphering manuscripts found in the tomb of Tutankh-Amen. In the tomb are manuscripts that will fill out and amplify all the history of Egypt now known, he said, and will also throw a light on ancient Grecian history.
For example, there have been found documents to show the serious effect Tut-ankh-Amen revolutionary belief in freedom of thought and individuality bad on the politics of his time. They supplement the vague information regarding the frantic efforts of his girl widow to save her throne by an alliance with a prince of the Hittites in Asia Minor. It is in this ancient correspondence that Dr. Breasted has discovered documents supplementing recent discoveries in Asia Minor, showing that there was a Trojan war, and that Helen, the lady for whose sake ships were sunk and battles raged, was a real woman and not a figmert of the imagination of a roving Greek minstrel.
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POINCAIRE AGREES FOR FIRST TIME ON RUHR EVACUATION
POINCAIRE AGREES FOR FIRST TIME ON RUHR EVACUATION
(From the New York Daily News)
LONDON, May 4.—The Belgian premier and foreign minister, M. Thunnis and M. Hymana, returned to Brussels this morning, thoroughly optimistic after a week-end conference, which is considered here to have been of vital importance in the adjustment of the allied views of the reparations problem.
It is known from authoritative sources that the Belgians brought a proposal from Premier Poincare which represents one of the greatest concessions the French premier has made—a proposal to evacuate the Ruhr completely in exchange for alternative sanctions.
Premier Polincare's suggestions for such sanctions is a blockade of German ports by the Allied fleets in case of any default of reparations payments. Such a blockade should go into effect automatically upon the default, and the Allies should unitedly tell Germany so. In the verbal message which the Belgians will transmit to Premier Polincare, Prime Minister MacDonald declares he wishes to give France the necessary security, under the machinery of the League of Nations. He will not allow technical details to become an obstacle.
The proposals which, it now seems, Polincare and MacDonald free on are: Ruhr and Rhineland railways to be
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Military evacuation of the Ruhr, if the alternative sanction mentioned above can be made effective all allies participating.
On the vital question of the surrender of pledges Premier Poincaré declared that France can only give up the economic administration of the Ruhr and Rhineland to an organisation formed by the experts' report and not to the German government under any circumstances. He places the date of this whenever the reparations commission officially declares the experts' scheme is in full working order.
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As was to be expected, Marcus Garvey has been found guilty by
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Bian believe that the charge was only a sham to get Garvey
@ith the he of destroying his work. The whole thing seems to be
made up at ‘an international plot which will shortly expose itself |
Several Negro men and organizations have been parties to what
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At a meeting of the New Tork Local
Division of the Universal Negro im-
Drovemsat Association held at Liberty
‘Gall a few weeks ago it was announced
that @ delegation from the association
wil leave chorily for Africa to visit
eqqveral places in the Interest of the
great movement and the Negro peo-
ples of the world.
‘fhe perscane! of the delegation was
pamed ang evoked great enthusiasm
‘The 1024 program of the association
and satisfaction
Wil be announced immediately on the
rer =» Of the Galagates from the moth-
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Stegro Improvement Association are re-
quested to be an cov ssrvative as pos-
ible in saving and preparing for the
African repatriation boom of 1924-
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Influence of Character
Building and the In-
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Measure of Home Train-
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‘The influence which one person has
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ull exercise nome influence. Every mun,
however humble his station or feebte
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those about him fur good or for evil
If this influence were ail for good, how
much of happiness there would noon
be in the world! But, unfortunatoly.
there aro othors whose ccnstant In-
uence is downwurd, There are no
Neutral characters who are neither
morA ne sh Nu huni veing can
come Into this world without elther in-
erasing or diminishing the mum totul
of human happiness. This will be true
not only of the prenent age, but for
all time to come
‘There is no action of @ man in this
life which {fs not the beginning of con-
sequences thut no humun providence tn
high enough to give un a prospect to
the end. Influence in exerted In oll the
varied relattonn of fife. The apecine In-
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and obilé, of brother and sister, of
teacher and pupil, united an@ bar-
‘montousfy blended, constitute the home
Influence. This influence commences
with our birth, goes with us through
ts clings to us tn death and reaches
Into the eternal world. It. is great,
atlent, trreaistible, permanent. Like «
deep flowing stream, it moves on In
silent’ but overwhelming power. It
strikes root Geep into the human heart,
and aproads is branches wide over our
whole being, It halds the empire of the
heart and rules the life 1 ts tradi-
tonal It pasces down the current of
life trom generation to generation. It
keeps up 4 continuous stream of home
Ufo and feeling and Interest
‘The influence of home begins as the
Uttle child fs able to take notice of
the objects around It does not take
{t long to tell the mother's countenance
from all the rest [t soon discovers that
hers Is the countenance that ever
amilos upon it, that hers ts the form or
sorrow, In wenl or In woe; she ts soon
the frat object of its thoughts, The In.
fluence sho thus gaina never dies. The
Inipresaion she te able to produce never
dion, They aro indelible, and durable
as life, Compared with them, other im-
Pressiona are like those made upon
sand or wax. These are the deap
boring 1n the Minty rock To crass
them we munt romove every atrutn of
wr being The Influence of howe tx
important, becuune It In woven with tho
woof of childhood, und given color to
the whole texture of Ife Eurly tin-
promsiuna ure nut amily ernned, the
Virgin wax in faithful to the signet,
and subsequent {inprexsiona serve
ruther to Indent the (ormer onen There
are but few who can reroive the houurs
of a college ef vation, but ull wre grad
uuten of the heart The lourning of the
univeralty muy fade from reculloction,
ite clunale lore muy he lvet upon the
halla of memory, but the simple lessons
of home, enameled upon the heart of
childhood, defy the runt € yourn und
outlive the more muiu hut leas vivid
pictures of utter dayn So deep ro lant
Ing are the tmpresidsne of curly Ute
that you often see a man in tne Imbe-
SHY af age holding (real in tie rer
tlle ten the events ot elitdyyed while
nil the wide apace between them, that
und the present hour, is a forgotten
wunte
yp} Mm mot at wll necersary that we
J xhoutd be some publir personage tn
order that our Influence mhould be Coit
bout un A pernon In auch » porition
P| may wield « power more apmuent te
| others, but It Ix not inore poritive ans
mire then that of uno of ebsurity.
y| Our looks, our words, our actin, even
our silence, mpeak of our character,
"| We ure improualtig ourselves upon
others, AM ubout ua, our superiors
Our equuls, our Iferivrs, ure recelving
Imprenmonn of var sterweter “Wy +
3 | breathing o stent put strong influence
into many a nual whic peer aire ty
from our character. Action and re:
action are no lens equal in the mora
8] world than In the physical wne, Nu
e only #0, they produce Ike effecte 3
|_| the Influence of example on thone wit
g| Are tbo subject of therm Thin mus
Impress all thoughtful minds with th
"| importance of Influonce uwd tho neces:
| alty of exercising 1 in w right munver
"| Our characters ure not for ourrelve
n| only. aa far un thelr influcnre In con.
+] corned, they are for othera alno. I
“| they make ux happy they produce t
of nimilar happiness in the mindn wit
r] whom wo waroclute, uiffering unl 1
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degree; and when we come to reflect
on the friends and relatives and neigh-
bors about us, think how many we
mest with and speak with, and thus in-
fluence from year to year all *hrough
our lives, and then oaloulate the
amount of influence we ¢::ert upon the
world, we begin to see what ap im-
portant thing human Influence fs. It
would indeed be difficult to over enti-
mate the influence which the lives of
the great and good have exercised upon
the elevation of human character The
blography of @ good man In a reunion
with existence in ite moat excellent
state. It Is not easy to read such
without being unconsciously led and
uplifted by i! and growirg Insensibly
Nearer to what he thought and did
And even the lives uf humbier persons,
of men or faithful and honest spirits,
are not without an olevating influence
upon the character of those who come
after them.
than their deeds The recollections of
men who havo signalised themeelves
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by great thought or gieut deeds seem
ag Mf to create for the time a
purer atmosphere ureund um and
we fenl un if uimn aud purivunos were
unconsciously elevated
Bince we all know how powerful In-
fluence tnay be. either for kuod or gvil
how careful we niould he to avuld
submitting ournelyen Thin roquiten a
careful walsh of the company we keep
Thore In a certain magi o¢ charm Ir
company. it ix a Kreut means (a make
you gond or Wt will Infect and corrupt
you Therefore be cuutiour in Choon:
Ing your ansociatex Men or women
why aro greedy of acquaintunce, or
hanty In It are ofttiner snared in til
company before thes are uwnre, and
entangled ne that they cannet easily
break lone from ut efter when they
would ‘There Is a clans nf nmnoc inten
GIL mhould void No persen whe be
an enemy te God can be a (rend tn
man He that has wren presen him-
nelf ungrateful to the Author of every
bleaning will not scruple when it will
servo hin turn, to winke off a fetlow
being Ha may render you Inatrumen-
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The Black Cross Navigation and Trading Co.,
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tal to bis own purposes, but will never
benefit you. & bad man ls a curse to
others as he ts secretly, notwithstand-
Ing all bis boasting and affected gay-
ety, « burden to himself, Shun him
as you would « serpent in your path.
Be not misled by Bis rank, bis wealth.
hie wit, or bls influence. When we
live habitually with the wicked we
become necessarily either victim or
disciple. When we associate on the
contrary with virtuous men. we form
ourselves in Imitation of thelr virtues,
or, at least, losegevery day something
of our faults.
As wife and mother, a woman |s seen
In her most eacred and dignified obar-
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over the character of individuals, the
conditions of families, and over the
deatinies of nations.
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A certificate of Incorporation will be
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WEEKLY SERMON
Subject: "The Principle of Preparation." Text: Psalm 51:6, "Behold, those desireth truth in the inward parts."
Life—as men have been deeply, painfully conscious—life is a journey. The deeper the sense of supernatural facts, and the keener the pressure of temporal trouble, the more has this solemn simile possessed the imagination and the heart. The great Puritan of the seventeenth century drew the figures of the Pilgrim's Progress as the figures of wayfarers, from his own rough but masculine thoughts, and real and precious sorrows. A later English post dwells amidst a life of calm serenity on the philosophical aspects of the fact. The greatest of all, the genius in whose world-embracing grasp the ancient and modern world, the world of myth and music, of philosophy and physical experiment, is gathered up and comprehended, felt most keenly, and wrote most incisively, the sama. A modern traveler, climbing in the glimmering light of the morning the rugged rocks of Falterona in the Arno Valley, is struck with the accuracy of expression transferred from the experience of nature into the mystic vision of human life and destiny by the great post of the Middle Ages. It is true. The sad fortune of a sad life forced the man with mind the deepest and moral earnestness the most intense into the actual trials of a pilgrim. It is true. Precision was given to the expression of Dante's thoughts by the experiences of Alpine crests, and gorges of the Apennines, of rugged paths, and grim and giddy preclices, of the sound of headlong torrents, and the solemn moaning of the distant sea, the expression was rendered more picturesque and more precise but the fact was only illustrated by the poet, not made
Life is a journey. The soul is moving onward things of time and triat are around it. it is ever on a forward march. It is not merely that as years accumulate, the allotted movement, veiled in darkness and robed in mourning, when it must pause for its great change (the change of death), is draw-
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ing nearer, and soon must come. It is not merely that the form and face, the hand and brain, are passing from the freshness and the bloom, the vigor and the beauty, of those earlier years, those happier years." It is not merely that others have been, also! too evidently passed and left behind, and that their graves, green and quiet, though moistened with such bitter tears, are the clearest milestones on a pilgrim's path. It is not merely that the mind has passed through changing phases of thought, or the heart through fluctuating tides of feeling; but rather that immortal spirit, the being's very self, tracking long, varying ways of experience—in thought, in feeling, in strength, in act—has—(to borrow a thought of the traveler I have spoken of in his mualings on Dante's journey) has known the weariness of the climber, the momentary pause of the breathless, the extraordinary effort of the wayfarer in extraordinary difficulty, the short rest of the weary, the eager inquiry of the pilgrim who has missed the path, the keen enjoyment of the wanderer, hot and struggling, who gains a passing glimpse of out spread landscape, a fleeting breath of invigorating breezes, the sharp scrutiny of the observer who watches by day the height of the sun, by night the path of stars—it is that the self, the soul, has passed through experiences, hoarded, treasured, nay, submitted to their influence, and thus they are their away; that slowly they have had helping to color, mature, and fix the character
Life is a journey, and the training of the soul by the toils and changes of its pilgrimage is, as we have seen, expressed by the law, that the char-
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acter undergoes a gradual preparation, and that that preparation is subject to an apparently sudden close.
Alas' how often things that may be the best and brightest are checked, distorted, changed to purposes of sorrow. In the march of the mist from its home in the ocean, the heavy weighing of our smoky clouds may check its progress and leave us whole summer mornings here in New York shrouded in depressing fog, or it may rise to the higher atmosphere to add fresh beauty to the sunlight on a dreamy, hazy day. So the advance of the soul it may be wrong. There is a constant possibility that we are not growing better, but growing worse; it may be right; and if it is, that is another way of saying we are going forth to meet the bridegroom.
Now the Psalmist in the text indi-
cates the fundamental principle
submission to which we are guided
to a right use of the law of prepa-
ration.
The 51st Psalm is the result of an agonizing mental struggle, whose deep throes of life-giving anguish are rendered clear by the light of an inspiring mind. So deep does it penetrate to the springs of human nature, that it has for centuries, since it first was written, expressed, more exactly than any other formula of religious thought, the trouble of a soul awakening up to the dreadfulness and darkness of sin to its unsatisfying gifts and its fatal allurements; but awakening in the tender light of a deep and loving penitence The 51st Psalm, therefore, is a storehouse of principles, for principles are the fundamental truths, which express necessary conditions of the life of every living soul, and of its relationship to the source of its being, and no truths relating to man's life are so deep and so serious as those which are brought to light when he is aroused to the real fact of holiness and goodness, and the infinity of misfortune involved in any outrage done to them. And so each principle in the Psalm is a ray of supernatural illumination. What a dispelling of darkness is here.
Here is a witness that the one ground of sorrow is to have offended God. Alas' how is it that we dread pain of body, dread injury to our good name, dread sudden change of circumstances and do not dread sin? Acknowledging, for the most part a hideous power, we do not revolt from it. What is the meaning of it all? Surely, a witness to a mysterious and miserable darkness, spreading over our mental and moral vision. But when the darkness goes by the light of the Sun of Righteousness!—O the clearness of the heavens! O, the shining of the stars! This Psalm is the record of the passing of the darkness, though in showers of sorrow. It is like the outburst of a sheen of sunlight, from a sky-country of burning noonday, on a world long gripped before in the fangs of fierce and hungry fost.
And for this reason (to dwell one moment further on this splendid prayer, or splendid poem), for this reason, it is intensely drenched in the interior, the personal spirit; it is all God and the soul. For indeed it is a note of true religion, that stands ever marked in Christianity, that it makes much of the individual. The ancient world, as you know, dreamt about, or acted on, a morality based upon an idea of the paramount importance of the State. True religion has recalled man to himself, has taught him to "possess his soul." Why is this? Why, because it points persistently to a future account, not of all merely, but of each. Hints of this are found in the earlier revelation; hints as contrasted with the clear statements of the gospel, and the powerful evidence of the resurrection of Christ; hints which helped the wayfarers of the earlier Israel to bear life onward weekly, under the burden of those apparent injustices, which could not be accounted for, or adequately justified to human conscience, without a belief in a future. Of all these, the text is a remarkable example; and it brings two points of truth out into distinct relief: first, the minuteness of the divine scrutiny, and next, the searching thoroughness required in preparation. This last point recalls us to the next step in our inquiry.
THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924
SIR ROBERT LINCOLN POSTON
By ETHEL TREW DUNLAP
His sleepa, the African son we love.
Whose life was that of noble toll
To help redeem his native soil.
The flag that softly floats above.
His bier speaks mutely of hopes high.
Of Ethiopia redeemed.
For which he strove and tundly dreamed.
While raged oppression's storm full high.
His never viewed its emblem raised
On Africo's hilltop waiting there.
The pioneer's work was his share—
And dautlessly the path he blazed!
His hopes for victory are not o'er;
In that black bosom they but rest—
Their rythm ceased within his breast
Like waves that pause to meet their shore.
On God's eternal tranquil beach
They have a fairer stretch of sand.
Where Afric son, with outstretched
hand.
May touch the joys beyond life's reach.
And view from purer, loftier heights.
Celestial harmonies that reign
For those who toll, forgetting pain.
With faith to pierce the starless nights
On acuis heroic and so rare
Shall Ethiopia climb high
The rounds of progress to a sky
In Bethel's vision free and fair.
We bend beneath the chastening rod
Or death; and yet, we love to say:
"How glorious he passed away.
His hands stretched forth unto his
God!
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O BEAUTIFUL FLAG OF MINE!
Thou art young yet wonderful;
Thou art new yet powerful;
Your colors are enchanting.
Your bearers are advancing
O beautiful flag of mine.
Thou art young, yet at your head
Stands the fearless color—red;
Afric's sons will uphold thee
Until victory makes us free.
O beautiful flag of mine.
Thou art young, but what is that.
Whilst your middle color's black?
Your makers hath designed thee.
Your people will protect this.
O beautiful flag of mine.
Thou art young, but, oh! what sheen
Currounds your beautiful green!
Your makers were magnetic.
Thou art young, just five years old. But 'tie pleasant to behold How all eyes are turned on thee Whilst we're striving to be free.
FORCE WINS NO BATTLES!
(A Bonnet)
By J. M. STUART-YOUNG
Men boast of Empire as of something
won:
In royal crown the ruddiest gem that
glows!
But I have watched, where the swift
tornado blows.
That word at last to full appraisement
run.
After most gallant deeds by armies
done—
Consent! consent to labor and repose.
By wearing Life together like a rose.
Because we share one soil, one ardent
sun!
On Afric's marge I linger by the waves.
Within my heart to whisper, "Ah! what
fools
May conquerors be! "Twas not a two-
edged sword
That carved way to power o'er stub-
born slaves:
Force wins no battles! Beat the Briton
rules
With Love for guide!—the Love that made Christ Lord!"
Omitte, Southern Nigeria
TO A PARASITE
Fair child of the sunbeams, and missing of light.
'Tis years since I grafted thee there on yon bough.
Smooth the impress of care from my brow.
Thy loronals, wreathing yon fostering stem.
Night smile 'mid the scenes of my childhood and home.
Wreathe their vision where'er I may roam.
Forsaken, I left thee, but now I return.
Thou'r smiling in blossoms a welcome to me.
From the greeting that's tendered by thee.
The trunk whence I tore thee was mould'd ring away.
Yet still in decay it was decked with thy bloom;
Why name ye the emblem of manners in men?
His greed and his falsity blended in one?
The harsh hand of Fate soon from home me shall rend.
'Tis content with each lot I may meet. Boston, Masa.
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Several smokers looked up with surprise when they heard the porter conversing in a foreign tongue with a gentleman who seemed to be on terms of close friendship with the railroad man, and when he had gone forward to answer a ring from number eight an inquisitive gent, with the emblem of a Greek letter fraternity in his coat lapel, turned to the porter's friend and said:
"I see that your porter friend is a foreigner? Where is he from?"
"Oh, no; he's a real American," was the dry response.
"Well, may I inquire what language you and he were converging in?" continued the curious one.
"Portuguese," was the curt reply.
"Pardon me," continued the Greek letter man, "and I hope you will not think that I mean to be impolite, but it merely seemed to me that the language sounded a bit strange. French, German, or even Italian would have seemed to be in more common use among real Americans."
"Well," responded the porter's friend, "Jim speaks those languages also; but we chose Portuguese just then because of the confidential nature of our conversation, knowing that we were more likely to encounter travelers who understood French or German, than we were to find those who could understand Portuguese. Even so," he added with a laugh, "you may not have any doubts that English is still our preference."
The Greek letter man resumed his cigar, but it was very apparent that his curiosity was far from satisfied. He fingered his watch fob for a while, and then, after the porter had come back and spoken a hasty sentence or two, this time in German, turned and asked.
"Where's the porter from? I never knew but one colored man who could speak German as fluently as that; and he was a college baseball player against whom our team refused to take the field when we came North about six years ago. His team, and especially the captain, stood by him, and the game was called off; but not until he had said some pretty hard things to our coach, who was from Germany. In his own language. And even though I was pretty sure myself at the idea of a colored man playing on a university baseball team, which had booked playing dates with the best colleges in the south, I could not help from admiring his versatility of speech.
"Well," replied the generous conversationalist, "this is the same colored man whom you met on the baseball field."
"I see," replied the Greek letter man. "And that goes to show the foolishness of it all, for with all his many languages, which he doesn't really need, he's still only a railroad porter; and, in fact, is much more useful in that capacity than he would be in any other."
"No, you're quite mistaken," responded the porter's friend, with a sarcastic smile. "Jim's an interpreter at the Port of New York, at an excellent salary, and he was given special permission to make this trip, as a porter, to assist me in writing a feature story which the Pullman Company is going to publish in its advertising pamphlets. To make everything realistically true, each of us is filling the rôle of an actual character, and we're taking close observations of all the passengers whom we are meeting on this trip. Watch the papers and you may see something about yourself."
"But, who are you?" gasped the Greek letter man in astonishment.
"I'm advertising specialist for the Pullman Company—and, by the way," he added, with a revengeful smile. "I'm the former captain of that same baseball team which you refused to play against six years ago." And I quickly raised my newspaper before my face to keep the Greek letter man from seeing me laugh.
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Alice has taken a trip to "Literal-Land," the source of the Fundamentalsists' creedal complex.
The Rev. John F. Scott, of Providence, thinks that "the war in the churches' can better be stilled or assuaged by a little humor than by much pounding and roaring," and in his delightful essay in the May Century, "Alice in Literal-Land," he instills a little humor into the battle.
He tells us that as Alice listened to the sermon Sunday morning the minister flow right out of the pulpit and took her for a ride on his back to Literal-Land, where they were invited to a theological tea, witnessed a heresy trial, and visited the Cave of Controversy. Dr. Scott writes.
"Hardly had the doors closed behind Alice and the minister in the Cave of Controversy, when Alice was seized violently by two wild-eyed men, one on each side, pulling her in opposite directions. She was so startled that she couldn't say a word, and, besides, she didn't have a chance.
"This way to salvation!" shouted the one on her left. "Nice, quiet, and comfortable: all your thinking done for you by experts; no effort required."
"Come with me!" cried the other, pulling at her right arm. Til show you how to blaze a trail of your own. Don't listen to that other chap; he's all wrong. I can prove it."
"You're a cubkool! shouted the first one, growing apoplectic.
"You're a coward!' the other retorted.
"You're a traitor!'
"You're a liar.'
"Alice, very much confused, looked up and saw the grinning head of the Cheshire cat.
"Remember what I told you in the wood on the way to the Marsh Harvaf' cried the cat, 'Well, it's the same horn.'
"Oh, ye,' said Alice, after a moment's thought, I remember. We're all mad here!"
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEMBERS OF UNIVERSA! NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
1. Be a loyal member by sticking always to the principles of the Association and defending its rights against the enemies of freedom.
2. Pay your dues and annual assessment regularly, so that the Association can have ready capital to carry on its work.
3. Read and study from cover to cover your Constitution, so that no one can take advantage of you by infringing upon your constitutional rights.
4. See to it that your local Secretary makes a monthly report of all moneys received and disbursed, and let him read the copy of his report to the Parent Body, and produce receipt of acknowledgment for remittances, so that you can be sure that your Division is financial.
5. See to it that no Officer or anyone starts anything by way of raising money or doing business or creates any financial obligation on the Division without the proper consent first of the Parent Body and members of the Division at a special general meeting duly and properly called.
6. Look out always for sharpers and self-seekers, who are always anxious to promote new schemes for their own purposes.
7. Put down at all times disloyalty to the Parent Body from Officers or members.
8. Pay no money without getting a receipt.
9. Don't loan your money to individuals.
10. Don't take anything for granted. You must be shown.
11. Don't go into anything you don't understand.
12. Don't pay your money to anyone except a duly elected or credited Officer of the Association.
13. Don't entertain anyone as a representative of the Parent Body except the person can show you credentials properly signed and up to date by President-General.
14. Don't allow anyone to come in your Division and disorganize you or interfere in your local affairs, except the person has authority and proper credentials from the Parent Body.
15. Don't buy any stock from anybody claiming to be identified with the Parent Body or any Local. We are not selling any stock.
16. Don't sell your property or anything you have without first seeing and knowing that you are going to profit by it. Look out and don't allow self-seeking Officers or members to sell the Organization's property to buy others, so that they can make a commission for themselves.
17. There is no individual or Division so strong as the Parent Body, so watch out for self-seekers who speak against the Parent Body so as to be able to put over their little local schemes to the detriment of the members.
17. See that every Negro signs the Petition to the President and Congress asking for a nation in Africa for the race.
18. You must be completely financial to get consideration.
19. Try to make one new member every week.
21. Be a good citizen.
22. Vote as the Association will direct for the good of our cause and the nation.
23. Don't sell your vote.
24. Support the Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company, our new shipping concern.
25. Attend your meetings regularly.
26. Don't go to Africa without first getting the advice of the Parent Body. Don't come to New York until advised.
27. Save all the money you can to go to Africa in September, October, November and December, 1924, and all through 1925.
28. Keep your present jobs and work hard you can.
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SOLA, CAM., CUBA
Never in the history of the Universal Sigma Improvement Association has the Sola division played such an important part as in the magnificent "Silver Tree Service" which took place on Sunday evening, April 28.
The program rendered on this occasion was considered the best of its kind in the history of the Sola division. The above function was held for the purpose of aiding us in the building of a Liberty Hall, and the Sola division can heartily boast of the 100 per cent Sarverites that loyalty contributed to the program.
The procession started precisely at 5 p. m., headed east, turned north and back west to Liberty Hall. The hall was packed to its utmost capacity, which caused many to turn away with concern.
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Among the most inspiring speakers were: Mr. Roper, treasurer of Nuveitas division; H. Angua, executive secretary of the Camaguey division, and Mr. James, secretary of the Cespedes division.
The service began by singing hymns Nos. 83 and 76 from the association's ritual, and the repeating of the Lord's Prayer. The thirty-first Psalm was read, followed by the twelfth chapter of Saint Luke's gospel, verse one to ten. The president of the division then escaped the chair. In making his introductory address he carefully emphasized to the members the cause for which they were gathered, and exported them for a stronger and more loyal support to this grand and noble cause.
The speaker seemed to have been very enthusiastic and deeply interested in the propaganda and future development of the association, and highly commended our president-general, the Hon. Marcus Garvey, for his fortitude and determination to bring together 409,000,000 Negroes of the earth. We cannot too highly commend Mr. James, the executive secretary of the Caspede division, for the eloquent manner in which he delivered his address, thereby inspiring the audience and holding them entirely spellbound during his discourse.
It was then announced that a fifteen-minute intermission would be given, after which we would reassemble for mass meeting, but the crowd manifested such great enthusiasm that we were not permitted to do so. It was then that we saw where Negroes had given the lie to those who always make use of this destructive phrase, "Negroes will never come together," and for this reason we, the officers and members of the Sola division, wish to tender our thanks through the medium of the columns of the Negro World to the refugees and well wishers of this community for their splendid spirit manifested on this occasion. And we sincerely hope that the time will not be far off when all Negroes will come together and weld themselves in one sound and massive body and help to support our great leaders in our onward and upward march for the complete emancipation of this downrise race and the redemption of our Motherland, Africa.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
TO ALL DIVISIONS and CHAPTERS OF THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, ESSPECIALLY THOSE LOCATED IN THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA:
This is to officially inform you that the Parent Body of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League has revoked the charter of the Colon Division No. 18. S. A. Brooks, and his associates, notably C. A. Reid, John Pilgrim, and Maude Detty, to cease operating in the name of the Association.
We beg to advise the public not to have anything to do with these people if they approach you posing as representatives of the U. P. PARENT BODY.
58 West 182d Street, New York City. April 4, 1984.
FLORIDA, CUBA
Sunday, the 20th of April, 1924, was a gala day for the Negroes in Florida. All gala turned to the liberty hall on Easter Sunday to join in the splendid program which had been prepared. The charter which was to be unveiled had been received. The procession was arranged to begin from the second street above the liberty hall, the hand of the Salvation Army and it's captain leading in front, playing the hymn "Onward Christian Soldier." The two photographs of Hon. Marcuss Garvey were carried under cover by the president and lady president of the division. The flag of Cuba and that of Ethiopia were carried by Brothers McCook and Mitchell. Then came the charter carried by Brother Vanderpool and Sister Malcolm, lady vice-president, then Mr. Septy Sinclair with a banner Behind these came the uniformed ranks.
On entering the hall, the Ethiopian antham was played. Mr. Stewart, the
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president from the Ciego de Avila Division, was introduced after the opening ode was sung and prayer offered. He was chairman for the evening. The chaplain took his lesson from the "Book of Joshua." Then came the unveiling of the charter.
The lady president and lady vice-president held up the charter when a verse of the hymn "Oh, Africa Awaken," was sung. Little Miss Luna Gordon and Winifred Reid who stood on the right and left of the charter, respectively, recited each a verse, and while the third verse of the Ethiopian anthem was sung the little ladies slowly lifted the veil from the charter. The Rev. Ewart was asked to read what was written on the charter to the congregation.
The anthem was again sung. the vells were lifted from the Hon. Marcus Garvey's photo from the president and lady president. This closed the program for the afternoon.
LOS ANGELES, CAL
Movements may come, and movements may go, but the U N. I. A., which was founded by the Hon Marc Garvey, shall live forever. Any person doubting this declaration, need only pay a visit to our liberty hall, at the corner of Central avenue and Adauns street. During the month of March we made many converts to the cause of Garveyism. Surely the oak, which is called Garveyism, has taken root in this city and will ultimately bring forth one hundred fold.
The usual mass meeting of the U N I. A. of the Los Angeles Division, Nov. 186 on Sunday, April 6, 1924, was called to order by our Chaplain, the Rev R. A. Garrison. The opening ode was sung with the prayer of the organization following Our president, the Hon. J. J. Stafford, delivered the opening address for the occasion He flayed our critics and doubling Thomases in this city. In short, he said: "It was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than any man to stop the onward rush of Garveyism."
There was a short program, arranged by Mr. Jim Megann, as follows:
1. The singing of the national anthem of America, also the Universal Ethiopian anthem of the U N I. A.
2. Song by the choir.
3. Brief remarks delivered by Mr. M. Sullivan.
4. The reading of the "Aims and Objects of the Association" by Mr. G. W. Nixon.
5. Song by choir.
The reading of the front page of the Negro World, by Mr Tom Hall 7. Remarks by Mr. J. W. Coleman. 8. The closing of program, also the presentation of the speaker of the evening in the person of Dr Venable. Dr. Venable proved himself a brilliant speaker and carried the audience
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off their feet with his relentless logic. Many of our Uncle Tom Negroes were present, but under the solemnity of the doctor, we are sure that a backbone was put into them. The other speakers were Prof. Quashie Lawson, Hon. J. W Coleman, Prof James Mitchell Smith and Dr. Shields.
GUANTANAMO, CUBA
We held a mass meeting on March 20 which was well attended. The meeting was opened in the usual way, with the singing of the opening ode. "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," followed by prayer. The chaplain took for the evening lesson the forty-ninth chapter of Geneais, which he handled in his usual able manner. After the spiritual part of the ceremony was concluded, the president, F. B. Van Roman, in his opening address, congratulated the officers and members on the prompt way in which they had obeyed the order to turn out in full mourning on the occasion of the memorial services held for the fallen Secretary-General. The president entrusted the officers and members to be loyal to the colors of red, black and green. The second speaker was Miss Grace A. Gala, who delivered a splendid address to the ladies of the division, which was received with prolonged applause. The third speaker was Sigismund Brown, who appealed to the parents and guardians of the children to do a little more reading, in order to teach our children the benefits to be derived from unity, and also the past glories of this noble race. Several other dresses of an inspiring nature were delivered and the meeting brought to a close with the singing of the anthem.
MANCHESTER. ENGLAND
On April 8 there was special gathering of members and friends at Liberty hall. Pritchard street, to receive and listen to the Hon Dr Tobitt, who arrived here at 4:30 p.m. The president of the division. C Humphreys, in presenting the Hon. Tobitt, said in part that he was proud to be able to present to the members of the Manchester division such an able representative of our race, who had come to England on a special mission. Sir Richard, on being presented, complimented the members on the spirit which was urging them to combine and become a powerful factor in the affairs of the world. His speech was sane, tactful and eloquent and held the audience spellbound. At the night meeting, before a large gathering at the Onward Hall, Deansgate. Sir Richard made his second appearance. He was received by loud and prolonged applause from the mixed audience, for the word had gone round that a high representative of the U N I A. would speak that evening and many whites attended. Sir Richard surpassed himself in his second address and delivered one of the most. If not the most, powerful address yet heard at this hall. He delved into history and took us back to the days of the ancient Egyptians, and gave us a glimpse of our former greatness. The meeting will live long in the memory of the Negroes of Manchester. This meeting was brought to a close with the singing of the anthem.
On Thursday, April 10, the meeting opened in the usual way, with the president occupying the chair, followed by the re-election of officers and the enrollment of members. J H. Hart, as first vice-president, and Edmund Clement Austin, secretary. The first speaker was Mr Hart, who spoke with every confidence on the new spirit and courage with which we have again started to make Manchester division a success. He also impressed on the members the welcome words of Dr. R. H. Tobbit: "Bear no ill-feeling, forget the past, get together and work for the success of the division." The president then spoke, and in his courageous way said that he felt happy within himself that he was once more able to be among the old brothers of the division; he also expressed that determination—for which all credit is due to him—to prove to one and all his wholeheartedness for the welfare of the division, and, most of all, to prove—as long as breath remains in his body—that he, as president, will carry on and on until he has achieved his one aim, "a standing division." He then appealed to the members to prove their loyalty.
On Sunday, April 12, the meeting opened as usual, the president occupying the chair. The secretary, Mr. Austin, made a few announcements, after which the chairman called upon Mr. Hart, who spoke on the great and strenuous efforts made by the president, G. Humphrey, in building up the division. He also urged the members to pay more attention to the women of our race, reminding them that the hand that roses the creature rules the world. The secretary, Mr. Austin, the crook.
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Just a few lines to let you know that the Danville division is still going strong in the fight. The enthusiasm of the members is as strong as ever. On April 14, at the Triumph Church, the Hon. W. A. Wallace spoke to a large gathering and delivered an eloquent address. He dealt chiefly with the work of the delegation over in Africa, and urged upon his audience the necessity of putting over the program. There were several other speakers on the program, who spoke out of the fullness of their hearts on this important subject. A few songs added to the program contributed wonderfully towards making the evening a pleasant one
HAVANA. CUBA
The Havana division of the U N. I. A. held a very enthusiastic meeting on Sunday, April 20, which was well attended by the members and friends. We had an election of officers, which resulted as follows. F Walton, president. Mrs. S. Mitchell, lady president; E. S. Myres, secretary; J. Prott, treasurer. We hope that with the co-operation of the members we shall be able to build up the Havana division and work with the other divisions in this republic.
ST. ROSE. LOUISIANA
The people of Saint Rose division are exhibiting much interest in the work of the U N I A. A fine Easter meeting was held at the Mount Zion Baptist Church. The meeting was conducted by the president, and we had a rousing address from Charles W Jackson, executive secretary of the New Orleans division. We trust that we shall have the pleasure of again having with us for a longer period this eloquent speaker. The meeting was bought to a close with the singing of the anthem
LADY DAVIS VISITS MONTCLAIR DIVISION
The Montclair Division has just closed a series of meetings, which lasted four days, beginning April 20 and closing April 24. Each night the meetings were opened by the singing of the regular opening ode, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," after which there was a selection by the choir, prayer by the chaplain and a few remarks by the president, Mr. Wm Duncan.
The principal speakers were Lady Hortense Vinton Davis, fourth assistant president-general of the U N I A and her secretary, Mr A Bryant Dr W V Cholmoncyll, Ph D, was also present and spoke to the division. The audience was very much interested in the addresses delivered by the speakers. The curiosities shown by Lady Davis attracted much attention.
Montclair was also favored with a very agreeable surprise to have Mrs. Amy Jacqueline Garvey in the town. We regret very much that on account of her health she could not attend our meetings, but we are extremely glad that her health has improved. This alone brings much joy to us and we hope she may be soon restored to her good health. Mrs Garvey is staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Fisher Mr. Fisher is the first vice-president of the Montclair Division
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Nationhood, like the Jew, is the Negro's salvation, and he must turn his thoughts towards it if he expects to adjust himself in a sick world. No better use of our churches can be made than to educate our people in its history. They would be doing greater work by showing the race the glories of a people who have suffered and who, if they expect to rise, must strive to fulfill the efforts of those who fought and died that the rest may live. Surely the teaching of Negro history is easier than grappling with the mysteries of Biblical history, which even the interpreters themselves failed even to understand correctly. The proof we have is in the diversity of opinions on every phrase of their interpretations. Every race perpetuates the history of its past, because it is its duty to inform its future generations of the suffering their forefathers had undergone in order that those living may enjoy the things they now have.
America commemorates the 4th of July as a reminder of the overthrow of British tyranny, France, Bastille Day, to commemorate the end of the Louis' tyranny. It inspires their "children" to "go on" So much the Negro youth be inspired, lest its condition become worse than its forefathers' This must never be. Give our youth the history of their race, so they can help to lift the black man from the world's infirmary of invalids to civilization's plumage. J E HUNTER. 151st Street New York.
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SECCION EN ESPAÑOL
por La Asociación Universal para el Adelanto de la
Raza Negra
54-56 Oeste, Calle 135,
Cludad de Nueva York, N. Y.
PROF. M. A. FIQUEROA. Editor
Donativo del honorable Isaiah Emanuel Morter a la asociación universal para el adelanto de la raza negra en pro
de la redención de Africa—El verdadero hijo de Etiopia
presta su ayuda al mas grande de todos los movimientos de nuestra raza—Nuestro elemento honrará
la memoria del gran benefactor—Lealtad de los miembros de la organización
El honorable Isaiah Emanuel Morter, Caballero Comandante de la Distinguida Orden de Etiopia, otro Príncipe de Africa, ha fallecido. El, para nosotros como raza, ha muerto físicamente, pero espiritualmente, aun vive entre nosotros. No todos los seres que vienen a este mundo viven eternamente; la ausencia de los millones que pasan por este planeta es generalmente muy poco observada, debido a la ineptitud de sus hechos en beneficio de la humanidad, de la nación ó de su raza; solamente pensaron en su beneficio individual.
No ha acontecido así en el caso del honorable Isalah Emanuel Morter de la ciudad de Belice, Hondura Británica, America Central. En él tenemos un gran ejemplo; hijo de padres pobres, creció luchando en contra de las oposiciones y de las dificultades que generalmente rodean a todo aquel que nace en tales circunstancias, hasta elevarse el mismo al punto mas alto en el servicio de su raza y de su pals. En su edad madura, luego de haber acumulado con el sudor honrado de su frente alguna riqueza, se identificó con movimientos en pro del adelanto de su raza, entre los cuales figuraba el nuestro, del cual fué siempre un gran soporte.
El, completamente distinto a la mayoría de nuestro elemento que acumula riqueza, nunca persiguié relación social con ninguna otra raza, sino que siempre estuvo satisfecho de confinar el éxito a su raza y dar a ella el crédito por todo cuanto el realizara. La mayoría de nuestro elemento en esta parte del globo que acumula alguna riqueza, busca disipación ya ligando sus vinculos con la raza blanca, ya persiguiendo su sociabilidad, cuyo resultado es generalmente la deprivación de su riqueza antes de ser aceptados como iguales en su fraternidad. El honorable Isaiah Emanuel Morter fue sincero para con su raza y ha estampado su nombre en las páginas de la historia como aquélla clase de nuestro elemento que venera su descendencia y su relación con los demas miembros de la misma en el universo entero.
Poco tiempo ha el honorable Morter vino a esta ciudad con el objeto de recuperar su salud, siendo nuestro huesped durante su permanencia en esta. En ese periodo de tiempo fué cuando nuestra organización se vió mas acosada que nunca por sus enemigos, en el célebre proceso judicial en contra nuestra Las injusticias cometidas con nuestra organización y la intención de sus enemigos fué tan marcada, que el Honorable Morter, como todos aquellos siguieron el proceso al pie de la letra, se dio cuenta de que se habia establecido una lucha, no en contra de un individuo sino en contra de una raza, y con tal motivo se vió mas impresionado con la labor y utilidad de nuestra organización.
Apesar de haber experimentado una gran restabilidad durante su permanencia en esta, salud fue decayendo de nuevo despues de su regreso a Bellice, su pueblo natal, y al cabo de varios meses la parca aterradora le envolvió en sus alas. El honorable Isaiah Emanuel Morter ha muerto, sí, pero su memoria, como la de otros ilustres fenecidos, viviría eternamente en el corazón de todos y cada uno de los miembros de la Asociación Universal para el Adelanto de la Raza Negra. Antes de su muerte demostró siempre gran interes en los principios de esta organización y como prueba de su identificación con el movimiento y su deseo en cooperar a él, se convirtió en el primer gran benefactor de la causa de la redención de Africa. En su testamento dona a nuestra organización las dos terceras partes de su riqueza total, lo cual media entre cincuenta y cien mil pesos, en pro de la emancipación incondicional de la madre patria.
Este es el primer gran donativo conferido a nuestra organización, y ello demuestra evidentemente el sentimiento de lealtad del elemento que patrocina este movimiento. Siguiendo nuestro elemento en las antillas y en el continente americano el ejemplo del Honorable Isaiah Emanuel Morter, en muy pocos años veríamos no solamente a Africa redimida sino a la raza en general elevada a la posición que demanda el reconocimiento universal. Antiguamente nuestro elemento pudiente moría y sus amigos blancos o sus instituciones disponían de fortuna; en muchos casos ellos no hacían testamento y su riqueza pasaba por consiguiente a engrosar las arcas del tesoro del estado.
Millones de millones pertenecientes a nuestra raza han sido perdidos de ese modo, debido a la poca lealtad de gran parte de nuestro elemento pudiente, quienes prefirieron dar sus fortunas a miembros de otras razas, antes de donarlas a instituciones 6 movimientos de la suya, los cuales laboran por el progreso de su propio pueblo. El honorable Isaiah Emanuel Morter, hemos de repetir, ha dejado por sentado un ejemplo práctico; el Africa redimida nunca ha de olvidarle y la Asociación Universal para el Adelanto de la Raza Negra grabará su nombre en las páginas de su historia, en prueba de reconocimiento. Honremos la memoria de tan noble alma y oremos con gran fervor por su descanso eterno.
THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1824
El representante Fairfield de Indiana ha presentado un contraproyecto a la camara en el cual pide se conceda a las Filipinas la autonomía pero no la independencia, en oposición al proyecto del representante de Wisconsin, Cooper, sobre el cuálva a informar un subcomité del comité de asuntos insulares del cuerpo. Fairfield propone para las Filipinas un gobierno analogo al de las colonias o dependencias británicas, en que si son casi independientes en su régimen interior, el rey británico, que en este caso seria el presidente de los Estados Unidos, puede suspender todos los actos ejecutivos o legislativos de la colonia.
Este sistema viene a resolverse en definitiva para el soberano en algo más que un protectorado, pues que bajo el pueblo protegido tiene incolune su derecho a la independencia, mientras que bajo el sistema británico continua parte del territorio del soberano y de el no puede desprenderse sino por medio de una rebelión triunfante.
Los filipinos tendrian derecho a elegir su propio gobernador, pero los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo quedarian bajo el control de un comisionado residente nombrado por el presidente de los Estados Unidos para que lo represente y le de cuenta.
Todos los cuidadanos filipinos deben jurar adhesión a los Estados Unidos y todo miembro de la comunidad jurará, de entre entrar en ejercicio de cualquier cargo, que reconoce y acepta la autoridad suprema de los Estados Unidos y defendera su constitución así como la de la comunidad.
En el proyecto de Fairfield se provee por la libertad religiosa absoluta, que toda propiedad de la iglesia quedaría exenta de impuestos, que las relaciones comerciales se regiran exclusivamente por la ley de los Estados Unidos, que la comunidad no podrá contraer empréstitos sin la aprobación del presidente de los Estados Unidos y que la constitución que se de a la comunidad tiene que ser aprobada por el presidente y por el congreso de los Estados Unidos.
Como el congreso de los Estados Unidos, se comprometió solemnamente, de acuerdo con los tratados celebrados sobre Filipinas, a decreter la independencia de las Filipinas una vez que el pueblo filipino estuviera apta para ello, a lo cual cooperaria, el proyectista cubre la materia propioniendo que al cabo de treinta años los filipinos pueden pedir un plebiscito para decidir si quieren continuar con esa forma de gobierno o se deciden por la independencia. En una de las numeros asambleas reunida en Manila, se protesto solemnemente contra las versiones contidades en el cablegrama Wood sobre la situación de las Filipinas con el único objeto de impedir que se garantice la independencia al pueblo filipino y cuyos términos constituyen una ofensa al buen nombre, carácter y dignidad del pueblo filipino.
Controversia de fronteras
El presidente de Haiti has designado los delegados que van a negociar el protocolo de limites con los delegados de la república Dominicana para someter la vieja cuestion fronteriza entre los dos paises al arbitrase del papa y son Camilo León, ministro del exterior y Félix Magliori, exministro del exterior. Los delegados dominicanos llegaran a la capital haitiana dentro de poco para comenzar las negociaciones. Haiti acepto en principio la propósición de la república Dominicana sobre el arbitrato escogido y esta nombre delegados a su minister del exterior, señor Angel Morales, y el señor Garcia Mella, los cuales dirigirán a Puerto Principe a emprender su tarea tan pronto como se havan hecho los preparativos.
En el protocolo se estableceran con gran precisión los poderes que se confieren al arbitro. Hace años que el papa no quiso aceptar igual monarriamiento debido a que se le mouserion muchas restricciones. desees que transcurriar algunos ces antes de que se hayan conciido la negociaciones del protocolo. El hecho de que las negociaciones hayan sido emprendidas por el gobierno provisional de la republica dominicana no impediría que se consuma el arreglo arbitral con ait ni afectarkt al valides y crese que cuando se encargue el nuevo gobierno de la primera republica, que será casa de ses meses, aceptara cualque arreglo que se haya llegado en la dos gobierno.
4 controversia limitrofe entre
n los pales data de más de medio
y se hizo una tentativa para
mover un tratado que solucionara
la cuestión. La cuestión se sometió
luego al arbitraje del papa en 1895,
pero este pidó mayoras poderes que
los encuestados y como se le negaron
desistiu de ser el arbitro.
En 1911 ambas republicas pidieron
los buenas oficies de los Estados
Unidad y enviaron aqui sus delega-
dos a discutir el problema con los funcionarios de este gobierno, paro como no pudieron entender se regresaron. a sus respectivas pales, continuando sus gestiones aql los respectivos ministros de entonces.
Dr. Francisco J. Peinado, por la república Dominicana, candidato ultimamente a la presidencia de su país y el extinto Solón Menos por Haiti.
La linea limítrofe fuíjada primaero por el tratado de Aranjuez entre España y Francia en 1777, estando la isla en posición de ambos pales, tratado que fuí reconocido por ambas repúblicas en 1874; pero suscitante diferencias respecto del trazado de la frontera; no pudiendo extenderese sobre la expresión posiones actuales, por la que entendían los haitianos el territorio verdaderamente ocupado de hecho por los dos gobiernos, mientras que los dominicanos alegaban que debía tomarse también en cuenta la cuestión legal de la propriedad real de la tierra. En algunos puntos se trazó la linea, en otros no y cuando los Estados Unidos ocuparon a esas dos repúblicas hicieron un trazado temporal para los efectos de la recolectión de derechos 6 impuestos aduaneros pero no con carácter de limitación de froneras.
Valor Nipón
La extracción del submarino japonés 43 que se habia hundido en la bahita de Sasede y el encunetro en la cama interior del submarino de las cuarenta y cinco victimas de tan triste suceso, ha demostrado una vez más el patriotismo de los japones que esperando la muerte de un momento a otro no piensan en si mismos y dedican sus ultimos esfuerzos a alabar y honrar a su emperador y rogar por sus familiares.
Cortos mensajes que se hallaron escritos en la paresdes, en el suelo y en pedazos de papel, demuestran la valentia con que los marineros del submarino esperaban la muerte, tratando hasta el último momento de salvar la nave. Uno de los mensajes deicia: El agua nos has llegado a los pies, emperador; no me discoplo; pero aun después de la muerte protegeremos nuestro palis. Otro de los mensajes lela: Tratando de evitar la entrada del agua, pero es imposible. Todos haciendo lo más que pueden en el cumplimiento de su deber. Nuestros marinos son bravos, estoy satisfecho. La respiración se hace difficil. Viva el emperador1 Nada puede haber más glorioso que perecer con nuestra nave. Veviremos nuevas en futuras generaciones y dedicaremos nuestra vida a la zacca en nuestro emperador y esperamos que su majestad se mueveré benevolo con oficiales lo mismos que con subalternos. Compaflies de colegio y camaradas, por favor, cuidad de nuestras queridas familias. Estamos ansiosos por saber la suerte de nuestro comandante Kuwajima. La respiración se hace difficil.
Mientras se hallaban a vientisita brazas bajo el mar, oliciales y ni marineros del submarino esperaban el ultimo momento demonstrando su patriotismo y su amor al emperador. Los cadáveres de las victimas de la catastrofe fueron cremados y a los funerales celebrados asistió un gentio enorme, estando presente en los servicios funerales el almirante de la escuadrade.
Manifestaciones de Protesta en Tokio
La manifestación popular de Tokio proyecto tres días de protesta en todo el territorio nacional contra la medida de la exclusión japonesa. Los oradores acusaron al gobierno de diplomacia débil en sus protestas ante los Estados Unidos. Más de mil graduados japoneses de veintiium colegios nortamericanos enviaron protestas al secretario Hughes y sus consejeros. Evidentemente que los nacionalistas japoneses están detrás de las manifestaciones populares diarias. Representa un grupo distinto y cuenta entre sus filas miembros del ejército y antiguos estadistas.
Proponemos aumentar nuestra inmigración, dicen los dirigentes, a Sud América y Méjico, penetrando asi pacificamente al territorio sobre el que se ha aplicado hasta aqula la doctrina Monroe. No aceptamos la doctrina Monroe y declaramos que podriamos haber actuado en el continente americano, así como los causacios, si los japoneses hubieran despertado más temprano como miembros de la familia de las razones.
Temblores en el Hawaii
En la población filipina y japonesa del distrito Punta, y a seguidas de fuertes temblores que ableron grietas de diez pies de profundidad en los caminos cerca de Kapone, se produjo un gran panic al pumo que tumeron huyendo desapovidordes de la localidad. Los alambres, telefónicos cayeron a tierra y se suspendió el servicio de trenes. Las ultimas noticias dicen que en el distrito, de Punta se contaba con una ola de favas.
Luego de las actividades en relación con la exclusión japonesa, habriase supuesto que el Senado habia hecho bastante en una sesión para destruir la confianza pública en su sentatez. Pero nada de eso. En la cuestión del bonel en Senado ha insistido en ser no solamente insentado sino al mismo tiempo insincerno. Asi ha suplementado la ley de exclusión de los japonéses, que es peligrosa e innecasaria, con un llamado bono que es un desinflarro.
El plan de seguros que han aprobado el senado y la camara no sirve para nada de lo que el bono se supone que sirva. No concede a los teteranos ninguna "compensación proporciónada" para vencer los perjuicios económicos sufridos a causa del servicio en las fuerzas militares. Los de una poliza de seguro sobre la vida, sobre la cual, comentando por el tercer año a partir del actual, pueden obtener en préstamo cantidades insignificantes de dinero. Asi siete años después de la guerra se halla, bajo la ley llamada del bono, en la capacidad de enduadarse por una uma insignificante, que aumenta con la antiguidad de la poliza.
El congreso que voto para el veterano esta piedra de oro, sabia que era simplemente eso. Sus directores llegaron a un convenio con los embajadores de la American Legion para burlar a los veteranos a expenses del contribuyente, por dos razones; para ganar votos para los congressistas y para fortalecer la maquinaria de la American Legion. Los directores del congreso y de la American Legion, ante el vet presidential, prepararon este plan con el simple propósito de presentarse como amigos de los soldados. Los directores de la American Legion insistieron en obtener algo, llamado bono, que pudiera usarse como prueba de eran capaces de obtener resultados del congreso. Y el congreso, al darles algo que asciende a nada procede con el mismo elevado motivo
Asl, el senado para asegurarse de que este juego no se detrueta mientras hay votos y empleos que conseiguir, el Senado en su sabiduria aumentó una enmienda que mantiene el problema del bono vivo para la campaña y hara que continué en el próximo Congreso. En esta forma los congresos partidarios del
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bono y la American Legion han atendido a si mismos. Han puesto las cosas en forma que el bono puede ser continuado, como las pensiones de la guerra civil, como una cuestión permanente en la política de los Estados Unidos.
En el bono, como en la exclusion japonese, la locura y la insinceridad estan equitativamente distribuidas entre los dos partidos. De hecho tal es la intención deliberada, porque hace más seguro el voto individual. De todos los que votaron en ambas cuestiones, sólo un puifado tenia la convicción de que era la cosa debida la que hacían. El resto tenia la convicción de que era una cosa peligrosa que no debia hacerse. Votaron por la afirmativa porque tenian miedo de votar en contra, y la mayoria de ellos muy contra sus deseos.
Lo más proximo a la venidad declarada, una acitud semejante del congreso es lo calculado para crear el desprecio del público. Ciertamente que no se adora al congreso. Ciertamente no se le admira. Rápidamente va de dejando de ser respeptado. Tampoco es ninguno de los grandes partidos tenido en gran afecto, admiración o respeto. ¿Cómo podia ser de otra manera? ¿Ha la política, tal como se ha exhibido, practicado recientemente en Washington, offreciado al ciudadano ninguna noción de vida pública en la que personas con una colarante convicción y procediendo bajo directores de imaginación y valor pongan, digamos, el cincuenta por cloento del tiempo, los intereses de la nación sobre los suyos personales?
Panamá y Estados Unidos
Los funcionarios del gobierno de Panama y los de los Estados Unidos estan reticulos respecto al estado de las negociaciones que han ido en progreso en los últimos dos meses entre las comisiones especiales de ambos gobiernos sobre la nueva convención que substituirá al daminamiento acuerdo Taft. Las negociaciones han progresado la más rápida posible. Expressas dada de que el tratado simplemente del tratado original del casal se liato ya para la firma, para el primer de mayo, fecha fijada por esta gobierno al annuncio a Panama si expresión del acuerdo Taft tiene varios meses.
Se declaró que en el hecho sería virtualmente imposible llegar a un acuerdo sobre todos los términos de la nueva convención. Además, hizo notas, la convención debe que ratificada nos los congresos de ani-
bos gobernza y tener lugar el cambio de ratificación, a menos que se dictara una especial provision para poner en vigencia el tratado immediatamente después de firmado por los plenipotenciarios de ambos países, lo cual sería contrario a todo precedente y no en capasco.
Debido a eso, el gobierno solicita la prorroga del acuerdo Taft y crese se que notificara al efecto al gobierno de Panamá a fin de que las relaciones de negocios entre los dos gobiernoes y con otros países en zona del canal de Panamá puedan continuar en la forma normal. Da no hacerse esto, habría gran confusión respecto al status de las importaciones y exportaciones a través del canal y las personas empeñadas en tales negocios quedarian en la incertidumbre respecto de la conducta que han de observar. Tílenes entendido que ciertos intereses comerciales en Panamá así como otros que pudieran estar afectados por cualquier cambio en los reglamentos actuales, han expresado su apresión respecto de lo que sucedería al primero de mayo no estuviese preparado todavía el nuevo tratado.
El gobierno de Panamá les ha asegurado, según se tiene entendido, que no deben tener y que las relaciones de negocios entre los dos países continuarán sin interrupción. Uno de los alegatos del gobierno de Panamá en el memorandum presentado a este gobierno, antes de comenzar las negociaciones actuales, fue que la jurisdicción fiscal de la zona del canal, desde el punto de vista internacional, en cuanto concierne a las importaciones de la república de Panamá y las exportaciones a la misma, nunca fue cedida por el trado del canal.
Hay otros puntos que se desan incorporar en el tratado que se negocia, siendo el deseo de este gobierno llegar a un acuerdo final sobre todas las cuestiones pendientes entre los dos gobiernos, algunas de las cuales han sido en el passado motivo de desacuerdo entre los funcionarios del gobierno panameño y los de la zona del canal. Uno de los más importantes es la determinación final respecto de la cantidad de terreno que los Estados Unidos pueden necesitar en el futuro para la protección adecuada del canal de Panama y la manera del avaluro.
Al mismo tiempo, existe otras cuestiones recientes que el tratado tratará de fijar, inclusive la cooperación entre los dos gobiernos en el programa de construcción de rutas que Panamá ha iniciado y el derecho a construir puentes a través del canal en varios puntos para facilitar el uso de estas rutas y hacerlas de mayor valor para Panamá bajo el punto de vista comercial, así como el derecho de Panamá a traficar en aeroplano con propósitos commerciales a través del canal de Panamá.
Si bien no puede decirse que se ha llegado a un desacuerdo entre los dos gobiernos en sus negociaciones, los que están en contacto intimo con la situación admiten que no han procedido tan rápidamente como se habia esperado. Cierto número de cuestiones están por ajurarse y si b'en algunas de estas pueden solucionarse con celebridad, hay incertidumbre respecto de otras y la terminación del tratado para la firma.
Restricción del opio
La Liga de Naciones está preparando un memorandum para la celebración de dos conferencias sobre el opio que se reunirán en noviembre próximo. La última de ellas pondra a prueba la capacidad de las naciones cuyo puito de vista e intereses son al menos temporalmente diversas, para ponerse de acuerdo en un programa que acabó con el tráfico del opio. Hay dos objetivos inmediatos bastante definidos, uno de los cuales se propone a catudio en la primera conferencia y el otro se deja para la segunda. El primero es la reducción y el último la supresión del uso del opio por fumadores en las colonias de la Gran Bretagna. Francia y Portugal de la Gran Bretagna. Francia y Portugal en Siam; el segundo es la limitación de la producción de opio en bruto y cocina en hojas a la cantidad requerida para proposiones medicinales y científicas, con limitación consigniantes al total de morfina, herina, cocina que han de manufacturarse e importarse.
Se informa que la India se hailla dispara a reducir hacer el punto de la prohibición total la exportación del opio, a las colonias, tan pronto como desata se hallen dispaetas para prohibir, de modo efectivo el fumar opio; pero que no lo ha hasta que el mercado se halla cerrado, porque o distribuirá resuilaria ni puede simplemente en entran el comercio a Punjab y Turquía. Pero el mal se elimina solamente cuando se hailla limitado la producción del comercio del estado. Conquiesa creciendo hallaria, prohibición en la que llega la llega de pruyva, porque habría hadido los mercados en la India. La Recondera: Obliga a los mercados en la India.
guiente especializa razones para un
tener su actitud primera de que tu
producción debe limitarse a la que
existades clarificas y mótiles en
sgo la determinante un conjoque en
visión. Deleria agregarse que mingua
cantidad de opo de la India
she abre paso hasta los Estados Unidos
excepto en dosis minima; y que
India se ha beado expertas en ningun
tiempo morfina, herding 6 cocina.
El congresista Putter, presidente de la comisión de relacionesteriores, ha sido partidario activo de esta política, amueva seria especial una junta internacional de facultades extraordinarias para llevaras a cabo. Una política tal requerita la restricción de las cantidades producidas para uso nacional sin como para la exportación. La restricción de representantes de los distintos países en Ginebra en esta comuna sara de gran importancia internacional. No esta solo relacundada con el objetivo de opio; indicara hasta siempre piden llegar las naciones en el sentido de interfa comun, amueva se hallen en vista de las antiguas prácticas tan separadas como el este del oeste. La cosa esencial en este momento es avanjar juntos hacia un objetivo practicable.
practicable.
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e THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924 :
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= OUR WOMEN and WHAT THEY THINK-Edited by Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey
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ST. KITTS NEWSPAPER LEADS FIGHT |(wonen oF necro RAGE! mene ae
AGAINST INFAMOUS EMIGRATION ACT|| “"cseczszar™ || tws"on cis R
THINKING AND DOING Not Survive Neglect;
Editor Says Liberty Is as Dear to West Indian Natives|| and ssssys to Mra amy aaeerce Same Teasiof Man your Sdn i callow on Sse itlpree Sadie MAA. ighbobeoneedoeredidooneoeenoecosesesones’
es Englishmen—Colony Cannot Be Half Garver, sre ef Nero Wer | ee ee arent ius | Storeancy pee vento CLAM nue BRlGmTEN ay orf MADAME ANTE W. SARION Bm
Slaves and Half Free Week THR Oty Maw Vor GUS | | ile. Mianean ‘othe gums of iii-tor<| ff TErtt if ve_ame sustons te RMADELEY yews: competent ; Phen saci ase i Gebebiks ‘wise wean Gas Kaseice.
Prom the Union Messenger
“Only the actions of the just
Qgmsll sweet and dlossom In the duat~
‘We make no apology to our readers
fer again bringing to thelr attention the
qubject of “The Emigrant Laborers
Protection Act, 1924," No. 9 of 1924,
recently passed by the Federal Lenis-
lative Council. Side by side, we have
quprinted the act and the draft which
was frat intended to be passed, and
we bave Gone this as © means of fur-
atwing convincing proof of the in-
tention and purpose of the originators
ef the act Our readers will note
fat, the ret draft, marked No. 1,
‘outa out a2 @ preamble that It is “An
Act to regulate the emigration of labor-
a” whereas in No. 3, which hes
paseed the Council and has received
Ge errant of the governor, the pre-
evZele gtaiee “0 Act tor the protec-
tiem cf emigrant laborers” If our
Feeders will take the trouble of com-
paring the sections of both, they will
Giscoves that there is no material
Giference. between them and thet. al-
theagh ax attempt has been made to
Qiagzise the tatention and purpose in
‘view by euch substitutions as “An Act
fap the protection of emigrant labor
ec? and omissions, es the interpreta
tiem ef the expression “Dependents”
G28 erctions 8 and 4 of the first draft,
yet and, tm fact, that intention so
dearly ween tn No, 1 but dlaguised in
Me %, to strongly eviden® throughout
‘Me & Mf the reading te done carefully.
‘An Ourage on Laborers’ Liberty
‘Cho reasta Mer the mudden attempt
to Gizguise the intent and purpose is
well Rnown to us and, tf the present
Gearvtary of State tur the Colonies will
take the trouble to turn over the files
€8 the Colonial Office, he will certainly
oo minute papers dealing with
=e, one of -
dsb Me Oy Gas aa, eas ES
Sate minster, Mow thst re bev
‘Qebaght cur readers anf the com-
wmiuaity face to face with the par
tdefare of the original and final drafta,
Sto: ter coum $0 decides whether
Srpde, totjen gatrere on
‘Meerty of q particular Class of the
Clas hagisisticn carries ext
p petnetpio ef equality befcre the
a8 verte of fusticn
(0). 2f thege be oo, what guaran-
Ses: Rave the “classes” exempted
‘the provisions of this act, that
‘Sitertorence: with their Ilterty is not
: end that euch inter-
3 WH wot soca be the subject of
—
Blufiing the People
dag grid of the act we are
tins: OAK: there are some
ses ‘Bot ‘ee affected by the
Breriniom:et this act, yet the men
whe en0étvor to keep even a “dos” tn
te qitter wil Rnd, to thelr disgust,
thas they cannot easily carry out their
futention without also remaining in
Re mst. Wo cannot preserve this
eteay fetact with half slaves and
DAY. free. We need not conces! the
fetj which by now to patent to all
as: Bis excellency has made an of-
ae befriend the employers at the
4 ‘expense of the laboring “class,”
‘anf we Gestre Sir Eustace Fiennes to
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know that we know that he cannot
bluff all the pevple all the time,
Section 8 of the act Is the worst
bit of legislation we have hit upon
anywhere. What 12 to provent the
Governor (with the approval of the
Secretary of State, of course) trom de-
claring the whole world, except Re-
onda, out of bounds, and what will
thie mean to you and us? What te
meant by “otherwise* In the expres-
sion “their tll-treatment or otherwise T-
What Liberty Means
We wonder i¢ the baronet sovernor
of the colony realises that “Ilberty’
has the same meaning to us as it had
to his Norman ancestor to whom King
John surrendered the liberty of the
British world of that day at Runny-
mode in Juno, 12157 We would be aur-
prised to learn that his excellency has
forgotten his own history or at lens!
thia portion of it. If our past ex-
pertence 1s to stand us in good stead,
we ak the people of St. Kitte-Nevis
not to forget the Fiennes floance ordi-
tines of
May Ensiave Planters Next
| ‘We ask the planters who will be the
beneficiaries of the latest legislatiun to
open that when the Goveror a
tempts to enslave the laborers, he ts
also attempting to enslave the planters,
and we must remind everybody that
the better way to protect the laboring
“class” te by inducing them to remain
‘at home by legislation to improve la-
bor conditions in the colony,
‘We feel the “hand of hate” in the
inet to which his excellency has
affixed his signature and we regret to
ud be ashamed to ascent teal en-
actment eo ill-concvived, short-sighted
and unprincipied.
A TOAST TO OUR FLAG
By LEONA L ELLIS
Here's to this fisg of mins,
Bed, Black, and Green;
Hope tn tte future bright
‘Ethiopia has seen,
Here's to the Red of it,
Great nations ehall know of it
Tn time to coms;
Red blood ehall flow for it,
Historians shall write of it
‘This fag of mine,
Here's to the Black of it,
Four hundred millions back of it;
‘Whose destiny depends on tt
The Red, Black, and Green of it.
Ob! Flag of mine
Here's to the Green of tt,
‘Young men ahall dream of !t;
Face ahot and shell for it,
Maidens shall «ing of it
‘Waring #0 bigh.
Herv/s to the whole of it,
Colsrs bright, and pole of it:
Pleased ts my soul with it,
Regardless what ‘s told of it
‘Thank God for giving 1t—
Great flag cf mine
Dr. Scott Boosts Negro
Education in Delaware
DOVEL, Del—"The educational re-
‘demption of @ State is the high
purpoee and measure of the gen-
erosity of Mr. Plerre & du Pont,” eaid
‘Dr, Emmatt J. Goctt, secretary-treas-
ury of Howard University, Washing-
ton, D. ©, tn an address on April
28, at Dover, Del, before the conven-
tlon of the Colored Parent-Teacher
Association of Delaware, in speaking
of the great educational program be-
ing carried out in the State of Dela-
ware, made possible by the gifts of
Mfr. du Pont. “Testifying to the largess
of Mr 4a Pont.” Dr. Scott continued,
“is the splendid and most complete
Booker T. Washington echoo! building
at Dover, Del, costing @ total of $84,-
986.47. The opportunities for service
which it offer in the giving of life
and direction to the activities of the
colored people of this elty are num-
derlecs, You have within the Stat
of Delaware, according to the recent
census, approximatity 233,003 people,
and of this number 0.335 are colcred.
‘This means that the colared popula-
ton af the State of Delaware is ap-
proximately one-saventh of the whole
‘They are going to prove @ bslp o:
hindrance ‘They are going to maks
Delaware @ better State or a worse
State ‘These 80.525 colored people
possess within themsaives undisoov-
qred gold mines. It ts because men
Uke Mr. €a Pont appreciated this fact
that they so lavishly poured out money
and brains to open the way for efuce-
tom of all the children of the State
trreepective of rece or color.”
— ee
=i to aitmoutt to make a defeated
poltiiitan bellave that “The voloe of
the peoste is the wolce of Goa”
--—BAltor Walle of the Star of Sion
‘wants (hie Mloatets to cut ext Canctrg—
aed they. have dem calling tim s
toe o8Roe obeertes: that very few men
paige Roget rnd “tn. the
a apa faker aie
parti a yeriie mena Saber e atts.
WOMEN OF NEGRO RACE!
Lay THE WORLD KNOW
WHAT YOU ARE
THINKING AND DOING
end In your artictes, veeme
and essays to Mra. Amy Jacques:
Garvey, care of Negro World, 08
West 138th &t, New York City.
WHITE WOMEN RULE
TOWN IN IOWA
(Prom the New York World)
Columbus Junction, Ia—The new
lowa idea. A town ruled entirely by
women, A woman Mayor. a woman
‘Treasurer, a woman Assoasor, a woman
Counott,
Columbus City fe thriving alt) In
Southeastern lows. It was ostab-
Mahed July 4, 1841, by a hardy group
of ploneers who drove out the Mus-
quakes, Fox and Sao Indians and claims
Row to be the firat town In the world to
elect an entire personnel of women city
‘oMcials, Grandmothers of the new
order fashioned the rude log cabins
Into homes and reared the mothers of
the now officials on prairie bedatesds—
but few of the present generation know
what @ prarie bodatead ts
“I Told You 80”
Seasoned pallticians who fought
Woman suffrage tooth and nail now
have their innings and are walking
about the streets of this Iowa clty with
that alr of satisfaction which says
plainly encugh. “I told you #0." They
are already thinking of how they ere
going to like {t when a woman asnestor
sake them how uld they ara at how
much they value thelr best horse and
how much money and credits they are
going to report
‘The men of the olty held thelr con-
vention. They left their convention
hall and went down to Kern's atore
where some one suggested that a
woman's ticket be placed In the fled.
A ticket was arranged. The women
consented and the ticket was fled with
the City Clerk. Enection day came
People flocked to the polls. A 60 per
cent larger vote than the average was
recorded, The women won—in a walk-
away.
Maat aly the polly it will pursue.
‘The eity—juh aur ee Gtace Unt vest
—ts dry, but the new Mayor might be
classified as somewhat damp. She be-
Moves in the use of liquor for medicinal
Purpose “But we will not tolerate
Doctlegging or any other Yorm of iaw-
breaking,” ehe declares,
“Who will clean the streets?” she
was asked by one of the disappointed
men. “They will be cleaned,” was ber
prompt reply.
Who Are They?
‘The Mayor, Mise Eva Brets, hes
taught schoot for twelve years. She is
Ave feet two, has « determined chin, a
vigorous personality and a general
Dearing that radiates eMetency. Bhe
is against bobbed hair and clgarets for
women. She asserts that she really
was surprised at the result of the
election.
“However,” and she est her deter-
mined chin a little Ligher and snapped
ber black eyes Just a lttle quicker, “we
are going to do the best we can.” he
was photographed with broom in hand.
Misa Mary Moore, the new Treasurer,
also 1s @ school teacher and auperin-
tendent of the United Presbyterian
Sunday school.
Miag Nellfe Moore, the Assessor, 10 8
school teacher and a cousin of the
‘Treasurer.
Of the Councilwomen, Mra. Minnie
Richie ts the wite of a hardware mer-
chant and undertaker. He opposed het
on the ticket, but abe defeated him by
twenty-ev votes,
‘Mire. Grace Robertson 1s the wite of
© real estate dealer and stockman.
‘Mra. Bessie Jam{eron’s husband {1
tho Rev, R. W. Jamieson, pastor of the
United Presbyterian Church. She be-
Meves that mere man will no longer be
permitted to monopolize the attention
of history and of the world.
Mra Elsie Allen ts tne wife of Jos
Allen, local housemover and atone
mason.
None of the new officials has bobbed
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THOUGHTS ON MATRIMONY
Beware of Bickerings;
Woman’s Devotion Will
Not Survive Neglect;
Same True of Man
Comparing the important with the
trivial, marriage has a most remark-
able ikeness to the game of “tit-for-
tat.” In other worde, we get a very
reat deal of what we give—aad, put-
Ung it backwards, we fall to receive
much of that which we do not give!
Whether we are cheated or blessed by
the lack of auch giving on the part of
those who are presumably our life
partners, depends upon the nature of
the thing withheld.
And, worse luck, just as surely as
bad news circulates more rapidly than
00d news, #0 do the undestrable words
and moods and acts which married
people give to exch other seem to come
back with much greater specd than
those achieved by the good given out.
in more of leas changed form. or dis-
guise, to the original offender! Indeed,
It a ae though at the wedding cere-
mony the clergyman presented each of
& Dlushing couple with two of those
primitive weapons, boomerangs, ono
harmless, even bereficial (if thet ts
not stretching the simile too far) and
the other deadly, Upon the presenta-
tion the rage clergyman can be
imagined as saying, “My child, here do
U present you with the power of giving
good and evil to your helpmate. The
good and evil are represented by those
doomerangs. You may fling them from
yoU again and again, and they will come
back to you, sooner or later, and with
more or lens force.”
Think Before You Speak
For aeverai very excellent reasons It
le rarely over wise to voice our frat
Uhoughts—without at least silently
conning them uver—In the matrimonial
exchange of comments Not all these
reanona are what might be called pure-
ly philanthropte It Is, of course, com-
mendabie to refrain from saying very
many things for the sake of one's part-
ner tn the matrimonial game, but a
further argument that should carry
much weight ie that while even caustic
comment may, to one's own mind, be
doserved by the erring one, that caustic
comment certainly givea the other fel-
low carto blanche to return sald caus-
1S BLD Red Pina
fever .
--waTiooa Hubbsaieinre Dhawan
Not infrequentiy there swims into
our ken women who treat thelr hus-
bands rather abominably and get away
with it, If we could by some magic
visualise the engagemont period of
these women we would probably ste
the women giving the men the same
treatment—and they got away.with {t
the men being simply orasy to win
them, And yet, some day such women
are going to be old and thelr shrewish,
calculating, ultra-feminine “catty.” In
other words). dispositions by that time
will have made them most unattractive
spiritually, mentally and physically.
‘That day, I thoroughly believe, will see
& reckoning. Unhappiness cannot but
reign over euch & woman's household.
und the average man will eek, openly
or clandestinely, an atmosphere where
he 18 appreciated.
Nor will the devotion of a woman
Jong survive neglect in these days
when wifely duty and devotion under
any and all clrcumajances te mercifully
considered passe. No, even the rather
orthodox type of wife now has no com-
punction in at least turning to her
children when she does not receive
from her husband the affection and de-
sirable treatment and consideration
which would warrant her in giving her
‘own best In return.
Beware of Indisorest Remarks
“Beware of bickering,” some sage
woman has sald in regard to matri-
montal give and take, “for once begur
Mt seams to have no end.” That ts
true, It one partner of the matrimon-
fal contract passes an Indiscreet com-
ment, the other promptly feels that
the way has boon opened for auch an
Indineretion on hia own part. “What
she has done to me [ am privileged to
do to her.” thinks the hurt man. “Well,
he has been the first to break the
allonce of courteous restraint in our
mutuel iife. Why should I not follow
sult?” bitterly aska the hurt woman
of herself, And soon she proceeds to
do so, In other words, the deadly
‘boomerangs presented to “uch « couple
upon the day of the ceremony begin
to circulate. Soon they are whirling
at a terrific rate, and the kind lttl
boomerangs (if there be auch things)
stay safely at home for fear of getting
unmereifully whacked in transit.—
Gia naka Mick
| Suggestions to Housewives
‘When boiled frosting will not harden
quickly, heat your gas cven, turn off
the gas, and the even warmth will be
Just right for drying moist frosting.
Melted butter ts a good substitute for
Olive off in @ enlad Gresing.
Heat the knife blade before cutting
é leaf 6t fvieh tweads This cesrente
the usual breaking and crumbling of
the slloes.
eee
Beat two egus until light, 044 one-
half cup vinegar and place on stove tn
double boiler, stirring often. Mix to-
Gethar one tedspoon salt, one of mus-
tard, two tablespoons sugar and one of
Gour, @ dash of cayenne pepper. To
thie ada oue-halt cup of sweet milk
and one tablespoon of metted butters
082 this to egg and vinegar in double
Dollar. Stir until thick end emotth
‘May be thinned with cream or mith,
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| = AND AGENTS (aaa: uagsen saw Sonn
Negro Lacks Concentration
“It was extraordinarily Interesting
to Ilve wholly among Negroes for a
considerable time, [ was especially
anxious to discover whether Negroes
have tn them the germs of being «
great people. I concluded they have
in them the makings of a fine racy,
but they lack a certain something
rather hard to describe. Perhaps I
might call It coherence, or cuncentra-
tion, The upper clasnen speak French
and thelr Ideal ie the French + ivill-
zation."—Ludy Dorothy Mlltn, New
York World,
Leaves Hollywood
To Live in Africa
‘Mr. Ingram has bought a pl. «eur
Tunis tn Algiers, ““e lntends 10 move
to the African home within a few
weeks, and there. In the apell of « civil-
lzutlon older than our «wn, he will tvs
and devote hir time to developing au
art which, In the rush of movie fame
und work, he h.s had to neglect of
late. Ingra will g> back to eculptur-
Ing.
‘And why?
Because Africa calls some men
+ + + some women, And wen Ike
ram cannot refuse te answer the
thrilling call. Rex Ingram ts going
away * * + going to answer the In-
Te eT
SPURITY Of AUD, gUited sand nea hex
taade to bim .”. . be moves under
fa spell that cannot be thrown off. In-
gram walks in the spell of Africa!—
Ralph Willoughby. Movi+ Weekly,
Queen of the Silver Screen
In Far Away Japan
Miss Sum! Kurushima Shochiku, the
most popular movie star in Japan, has
recently completed a volume of vere~
which 1s something of a sensation In
the Orient.
Votes for Women Reaches
Country of Tut-ankh-Amen
Princess Hoda Charaon!, member of
the Egyptian Parliament, is sponsor
of an equal rights vill,
Dutch Queen Cuts Own Salary
THE HAGUE, April 30.—The Dutch
government having announced reduc-
tion of all salaries In the civil service,
beginning May 1. Queen Wilhelmina
has notified the Minister of Finance
that she wishes to forego a portion
of her government allowance. 8ne
took the same step in similar circum-
stances Icat year,
Science Progress in U. S.
Because sho is teachirg ber pupile
that the earth is flat, Mra c. E.
Critchlow, © Pain Beach, Fin, echo -
teacher, has been asked to resign.
Germans Snip Tongues
To Cure Lisping
German surgeons are now omploy-
ing operative methods for the cure of
Usping. anipping a section from the
end of the tongue having been found
effective in ending this defect of speech
when it 18 due, as is often the case, te
the tongue being too long to nnd ite
Proper place behind the teeth when
pronouncing the 8 and other sibilant
letters.
‘There is a bird on the dollar, but
that 18 no reason why you should tet
it fy.
PITTSBURGH EDITOR GIVES
GOOD ADVICE TO LOCAL
WOMAN'S ORGANIZATION
Mrs. F. V. Reeves, Editor of
“Pe-iscope,” Official Or-
gan of Pittsburgh Council
of Negro Women
“I congratulate you women upon the
organization of your Pittsburgh Wom-
en's Council ung your commendable
effort to extublish und conduct your
own pubilcity orgunn. They are need-
ful and will surely be helpful factors
in the upbullding of the people and
community.
“Heplying 10 your request for some
words for your ICvaryhody s Opinion
column, 1 um writing them for the
benent of your Women's Councll—s
few lines uf advico for them to ponder
over It may be helpful tn shaping
‘the organization, making it useful tn
the developinent of Pittsburgh women.
“L hope thut the Pi:taburgh Counell
ef Negro Women will shun the deca-
Gent and igno.ant hubit of choosing
STAI? ‘10. «di sireaeoaAdabestsiaieaso
‘the jowest int nk. ‘The custom of
209" 8 our orgunts=TOOPIPE, uence
ee alupidity that roflects upon both
officers and mo:noers. It is more of-
ten that not u sisn of prepondering
tormce ia u commenty.
“An orguntzation with any reason-
‘able measure uf bruln powsr, compet-
ence, character and mbition among
{ts members ought to be able to pro-
duce a new head, willing and anx-
lous to have « new head avw and then
Fi Teast "Ope (co "posed of Gummtat
plain matter with no Drnin about it
will never have a new head The hon-
ent-to-goodness Ignorut ce 0: eome and
general cunsedners of vthors prompt
them to chooso oMcers on the ‘until
death do us part’ flan, So the organt.
tution and its meinbers get nowhere
accomplish nothing und fnally rot ou
ko all mat.er of earth,
“It does not neceasar follow 1x1
becuune one individual te the init.rtor
of un organization thie man or womar
should dle a sudden or natural death
as tte head Only the most Ignorant
of the “Jungle” type commit them:
selves to such a notion. Only a atu.
pidly Ignorant individual, one puffed 1
with arrogant selfishness, would be
fooltsh enough to wear the crown o
‘glory’ offered by membors too sense-
less and spiritiess to improve them.
selves and havo ambition of their own
“A change of ulcers from time te
time le a eign of healthy growth anc
progress of which no organization
should be ashamed. It should rather be
a matter of pride among members tc
know that their ozgcnization had mor
(han one Individual capable of leading
It, It ls also a good sign of breadth
of mind and spirit when the member.
ablp of a body can recognize merit and
clevate one of thelr number unsrudg-
ingly and unsolf.sbly,
“I hopo tha: y@ur organization will
sive young women a chance, member
keep thelr eyen and anra wide oper
for the discovery of new talent and
shun the habit signi’ ing poverty of
Intellect. I hope it will av sid the timo-
worn policy of choosing officers ‘for
MWe 1 trust that ite members will
begin and continue to escape the cer-
tain monotony which will retard the
organization by seeing only one tn-
dividual fit for an office. Otherwise
your orgaisation will be likely to
‘dwindle into mere nothingness as oth-
ers have done in the past in Pittsburgh
and elsewhere,
“The Pitteburgh Counctl of Negro
Women must either go forward or
backward! It may become stagnant if
its members fall or refuse to make
changes when changes are necessary
and desirable. If the Pittsburgh Coun-
cil of Negro Women fulfills its mis-
sion, does the work it has set out to
do, it will be done because its mem-
bers have more than one individual
capable of heading it and working
heartily and aincerely for the purposes
of Ite existence. If the Pittsburgh
Council of Negro Women ts anything
or becomes anything more than it
fo, It will be because the organization
and ite objects are of far more con-
sequence than the personal or public
fortunes of any single member of the
body Tt will become @ personal at-
fair when Ite members commit them-
sclves to the amall polley of permit:
Ung the Pittsburgh Counell of Negro
Women to become the unthinking.
spineices creature of the whime, self.
fahnews and ambition of any one uf itn
members. Then doath will ensure, The
death never come to life again.”—Hardy
L Kelth, pittsburgh, Pa,
| Mary Jane (whispering about old
[iald_who has just arrived) —Maydo
ee ares
a trunk. -
Bobby—Aw, lookit the baby—he
didn't bring anything elther—and he's
here yet.
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L'Association Universelle pour l'Avancement de la Race Negre Beneficiaire de $100,000 pres—Legs de Sir Isaiah Emmanuel Morter, pour l'Oeuvre de la Redemption Africaine—Un vrai enfant d'Afrique aide le plus grand Mouvement de la sa Race
Concitoyena de la Race Nègre, Salut:
Sir Isaiah Morter, Chevalier-Con-
d'Ethiopie, et un autre prince d'Afrique
l'hone terrestre, ce grand Commandeur
l'esprit. Sir Isaiah n'est pas mort ; il est
natural des choses, nous acceptons ce
de ceux dont la mission dans ce bas
trépas, laissent pour l'eternel séjour de
rendre compte de leur disparition. La
sont enregistrés nulle part. Ces milli-
pour elles-mêmes ; tel n'était pas l'deal-
de Bélise. Honduras Anglais, Améric
modeste. Sir Isaiah eu pour devoir de
et les oppositifs qui controntent ce
dans l'obecurité, qui servent de
application incessante et avec un dévo-
mentis, le défunt a travaillé par une
manieres dignes de l'honnete homme,
saura trop apprécier, jusqu'à l'heure ou
guerrier. Sir Isaiah s'était identifié a
ment Association après avoir acquirit
Contrairement à la majorité de se
chaît pas le haut patronage d'une race
tait, au contraire, de partager son succé-
tenait.
Sir Isaiah Morter fut un vrai pa-
nom comme le prototype des bienfaits
avant sa mort. Sir Isaiah était à New
epoque il fut l'hôte de l'écrivain. Per-
Unis le défunt eu l'avantage de consta-
voir, par contre, la haine implacable
parce qu'il voyait de l'activité et de
Improvement Association, son intérêt
enfin de compte Sir Isaiah devint le pa-
qu'il était jusqu'à sa mort.
Mallheureusement sa santé a été
maladie de longue haleine, il succomba
Sir Isaiah Morter est mort, mais dans
bres de l'association il est toujours voului aider l'organisation à laquelle il
incomparable, ce bienfaiteur de sa ra-
l'Association Universelle pour l'Avanc-
tion Africaine, près de deux tiers de ce
$50.000 à $100.000.
Ce don testamentaire est le premier
versal Negro Improvement Association
la loyaute des membres de l'association
nos congenères des Antilles et d'Amé-
example de ce grand bienfaiteur de sa ra-
l'Association Universelle pour l'Avancen-
tion Africaine, près de deux tiers de ce
$50.000 à $100.000.
Ce don testamentaire est le premier
versal Negro Improvement Association
la loyaute des membres de l'association
nos congenères des Antilles et d'Amé-
example de ce grand bienfaiteur de sa ra-
l'Association Universelle pour l'Avancen-
tion Africaine, près de deux tiers de ce
$50.000 à $100.000.
Sir Isaiah Morter, dis-jour ne je suis a
trier de loyaute raciale, et la mémoire de
ineffacable dans l'estime de la Univers-
tion et dans la chronologie de la littér
Isaiah sera grave en lettres d'or sur la
Ne devons-nous pas eriger des monum-
de Sir Isaiah Morter? $50.000 a $100.
moment pourra beaucoup pour aider
cette valeur nous metra à même de
construction de Libéria. Aa moyen de cet
coup pour réaliser l'objectif qu'ils se s'en
La Universal Negro Improvement
aux Négres du monde entier, d'honneur
Isaiah Emmanuel Morter. Il fut, ce
ami de la cause Noire, mais il était un
ordre. A l'heure présente nous faisons
dissiné par tout dans le monde, de
notre premier navire qui emmenera les
la main à l'oeuvre de la reconstruction
République de Libéria.
Avec mes meilleurs souhaites, j'ai
Sir Isaiah Morter, Chevalier-Commandeur de l'Ordre Distingué d'Ethiopie, et un autre prince d'Afrique, est tombé. En ce qui concerne l'home terrestre, ce grand Commandeur n'est plus. Au point de vue de l'esprit, Sir Isaiah n'est pas mort; il est toujours vivant. Dans l'ordre natural des choses, nous acceptons comme un fait accompli l'absence de ceux dont la mission dans ce bas monde est terminée, et qui, au trépas, laissent pour l'éternel séjour des bienheureux, sans même nous rendre compte de leur disparition. La raison en est que leurs actes ne sont enregistrés nulle part. Ces millions de personnes ne vivaient que pour elles-mêmes; tel n'était pas l'ideal de Sir Isaiah Emmanuel Morter, de Bélise. Honduras Anglais, Amérique Centrale. Né d'une parenté modeste, Sir Isaiah eu pour devoir de combattre contre les difficultés
et les oppositions qui contromont cette naissance dans la patrente dans l'obecurité. La service de un payement race, par une application incessante et avec un dévouement qui n'est s'est jamais démentis, le défunt a travaillé par une violente émulation, de toutes les manieres dignes de l'honnête homme, et par tous les moyens qu'on ne saura trop apprécier, jusqu'à l'heure où il déposa ses armes de vaillant guerrier. Sir Isaiah s'était identifié avec la Universal Negro Improvement Association après avoir acquérit une certaine aisance.
Contrairement à la majorité de ses congénères, M. Morter ne cherchait pas le haut patronage d'une race opposée à la sienne; il se contentait, au contraire, de partager son succès avec la race à la quelle il appartenait.
Sir Isaiah Morter fut un vrai patriote, et le premier à écrire son non comme le prototype des bienfaiteurs de sa race. Peu de temps avant sa mort, Sir Isaiah etait à New York pour cause de senté, à cette époque il fut l'hôte de l'écrivain. Pendant son court sejour aux Etats Unis le défunt eu l'avantage de constater l'utilité de l'association, et de voir, par contre, la haine implacable de nos ennemis. Impressionné parce qu'il voyait de l'activité et de l'utilité de la Universal Negro Improvement Association, son intérêt et son zèle se sont augmentés, et enfin de compte Sir Isaiah devint le plier inebranlable de l'Association qu'il etait jusqu'à sa mort.
Malheureusement sa santé a été fortement altérée, et après une maladie de longue haleine, il succouba le septième jour du mois d'avril. Sir Isaiah Morter est mort, mais dans le souvenir affectueux des membres de l'association il est toujours vivant. Avant sa mort le défunt voulait aider l'organisation à laquelle il s'était voué avec un dévouement incomparable, ce bienfaiteur de sa race dans son testament a legué à l'Association Universelle pour l'Avancenent de l'Ouvre de la Rédemption Africaine, près de deux tiers de sa fortune, savoir une affaire de $50,000 à $100,000.
Ce don testamentaire est le premier legs important laissé a la Universal Negro Improvement Association. C'est une preuve tangible de la loyaure des membres de l'association à la cause qu'ils ont épousé. Si nos congenières des Antilles et d'Amérique voulait suivre le brillant example de ce grand bienfaiteur de sa race, pour faire de l'Association Universelle pour l'Avancement de la Race Négre ce qu'elle doit devenir, ici quelques annuées non seulement que la redemption africaine sera un fait accompli, mais aussi l'ensemble de la Race Négre sera mis en relief et occupera une position où le monde entier sera mis en demeure de nous accorder la place conquise. Autrefois le Négre était disposé, en mourant, de leguer ses biens aux institutions et aux amis blancs; aujourd'hui il n'en est rien de cela. Malheureusement notre race a beaucoup perdu par cette déloyauté de ses enfants qui, ayant des fortunes, ont micux aimés les leguées à d'autres races étrangères.
Sir Isaiah Morter, dis-je nous a tracé un example notoire et singulier de loyauté raciale, et la mémoire de ce qu'il a fait restera un souvenir ineffacable dans l'estime de la Universal Negro Improvement Association et dans la chronologie de la littérature africaine. Le nom de Sir Isaiah sera gravé en lettres d'or sur la mémoire de la postérité Nègre. Ne devons-nous pas ériger des monuments pour perpétuer la mémoire de Sir Isaiah Morter? $50.000 a $100.000 dans à la Universal en ce moment pourra beaucoup pour aider la cause qui nous êtes chère, et cette valeur nous mettra à même de poursuivre l'oeuvre de la reconstruction de Liberia. Au moyen de cet argent les colons pourront beaucoup pour réaliser l'objectif qu'ils se sont proposés.
La Universal Negro Improvement Association fait un appel général aux Négres du monde entier, d'honorer et de révérencer le nom de Sir Isaiah Emmanuel Morter. Il fut, ce brave lutteur, non seulement un ami de la cause Noire, mais il était un patriote et un royaliste de premier ordre. A l'heure présente nous faisons appel au contingent de la race dias miné par tout dans le monde, de nous aider à faire l'expédition de notre premier navire qui emmenera les premiers coulons qui vont mettre la main à l'oeuvre de la reconstruction économique et industrielle de la République de Libéria.
Avec mes meilleurs souhaits, j'ai l'honneur d'être.
Votre dévoué serviteur.
MARCUS GARVEY.
MARCUS
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DES DAMERIQUE
1937
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Enancement de la Ra-
do pres—Legs de S-
houvre de la Redem-
l'Afrique aide le plus
leur de l'Ordre Disting-
ushé. En ce qui concerne
plus. Au point de vue
ours vivant. Dans l'ore-
un fait accompli l'absence
est terminée, et qui,
heureux, sans même ne
est que leurs actes
personnes ne vivaient c
Isaiah Emmanuel Mort
trale. Né d'une parente
tatre contre les difficulti-
s, mais la pavrière
que la race, par u
qui n'est s'est jamais
e emulation, de toutes
tous les moyens qu'on
poison ses armes de vaillant
Universal Negro Impro-
taine aisance.
nères, M. Morter ne ché
à la sienne; il se conten-
ra la race à laquelle il appu-
et le premier à écrire sa
sa race. Peu de terme
cour cause de senté, à ce
on court sejour aux Et-
lilites de l'association, et
sons ennemis. Impression
de la Universal Negro
zele se sont augmentés,
bribanable de l'Associat
ent altérée, et après u
me jour du mois d'av-
venir affectueux des mes
Avant sa mort le défé-
vouve avec un dévouement
son testament a legu-
lée l'Ouvre de la Redem-
une, savoir une affaire
important laissé a la U
est une preuve tangible
housse qu'ils ont épousé.
Soulait suivre le brille
faire de l'Associat
greg ce qu'elle doit deven-
tion africaine sera
Nègre sera mis en rê-
sera mis en demeure
de Nègre était disposé,
aux amis blancs; aujo-
nent notre race a beaucoup
ayant des fortunes, de
ogères.
example notoire et singe
a fait restera un souver-
e Improvement Assoc-
ficaine. Le nom de S
sire de la postérité Neg
perpétuer la mémo-
nennés à la Universal en
ne qui nous êtes chère,
avre l'Ouvre de la reco-
les colons pourront be-
posée.
ation fait un appel géné-
révérencer le nom de S
sutteur, non seulement
et un royalliste de premie
au contingent de la ra-
der à faire l'expédition
sors coulons qui vont met-
tenique et industrielle de
ur d'être.
MARCUS GARVEY.
THE NEGRO WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1824
Revue des Journaux
Nous avons eu le plaisir de recevoir les journaux suivants:
LE LIBERB. Ce journal est le "Tribune du Peuple Malgache" et une véritable sentinelle qui est sans miséricorde dans ses dénoncistions des méfaits qui sont indignes de ceux qui se reclament du nom d'avant-garde de la civilisation moderne. Nous admirons son courage civique et son franc parler.
D'après le "Libérér", les Malgaches ont été déposés des terres qui les font vivre. Il nous est difficile de comprendre comment la Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen est méconnue de la sorte, en territoire français. Si pareille situation existait à Georgia où l'homme Noir n'a aucun droit, cela se comprendra sans peine; mais des méfaits semblables en territoires français, "c'est la mort de Jules César en plein Sénat romain."
L'ACTION COLONIAL. Cet organe indépendant, dans son numéro du 25 mars, donne la photographie de S. A., le Prince Kojo Tovalou Houenou, avocat à la Cour d'Appel de Paris et Président de la Ligue Universelle pour la Défense de la Race Noire. Dans sa défense de cette race, ce journal est un avocat intransigant des droits de l'Homme Noir.
Nous accordons a ce confrère un accueil cordial et fraternel, avec promesse de reprodire aussi souvent possible les articles qui touchent le bien-être de la Race Noire.
COMOEDIA. Journal de la Comédie et de musique. *Le Comedia* consacre le quart d'une page au génie du grand ténor americain noir, Roland Hayes tout en reproduisant la photographie d'un buste par Mme. Renée Vautier.
Dans un prochain numéro nous ne manquerons pas de donner de la place aux talents musicales de ce price noir qui joue son rôle parmi le grands musiciens contemporains. LA SOLOITR DES ARTISTES de la Guadeloupe. Cest avec plaisin que nous publions (L'Artisteonymale, edition de Paris), l'article qui a trait à cette Société des Artistes Antillais de la Guadeloupe—colonie française.
Jusquici nous n'avons pas eu l'avantage de voir l'organe officiel dont il est ici question. Connaissant, cependant, les difficultés diverses aux quelles les journaux litteraires sont aux prises, surtout une publication artistique de ce genre, nous souhaitons, de tout coeur, à la Société des Artistes Antillais, un résultat heureux, de joie et d'utilite publiques — consquence d'une vie semipertnelle. — Editeur.
LA SOCIETE DE ARTISTES ANTILLAIS
(Communique)
Le second numéro du Bulletin de la Société des Artistes Antillais annoncé pour novembre parait ce soir — Nous prions nos abonnés, les membres de la société et nos lecteurs d'excuser un léger retard et d'acceuir avec bienveillance ce premier essai de publication artistique à la Guadeloupe.
Pour la première fois il est fondé un journal de ce genre aux Antilles et ce n'est pas sans peine que nous avons pu, avec les éléments trouvés sur place, le réaliser.
S'il s'est encore glissé quelques imperfections nous férons mieux et nous arriverons à la parfaite présentation qu'on est habitué à trouver dans les belles revues françaises.
Grâce à la bonne volonté, à la perévérance de notre imprimeum M. A. Lauric qui accepte toutes nos exigences avec le désir d'arriver au but que nous poursuivrons ensemble, nous sommes assurés, d'un résultat heureux dans l'avenir.
La plupart des dessins qui figurent dans le Bulletin ont été gravés à la Guadeloupe.
Nous espérons que le public appuira les efforts des artisans guadeloupeens en leur contant les travaux qu'ils peuvent exécuter aussi bien qu'à l'étranger. Ce serait pour eux un encouragement à augmenter leur outillage et agrandis leurs entreprises. Ils apporteraient ainsi plus de gout dans leurs travaux et arriveraient au perfectitonnement qui en découle. Cela au grand bien de tous et de la prosperité de notre pava.
Puisse la Société des Artistes Antillais créeer ce mouvement heureux ! GERMAINE CASSE.
Présidente de la Société des Artistes Antillais.
Les dettes interallées
A la séance de mercredit aux Communes, M. MacDonald a dit que la question des détails-interallies n'a fait récemment l'objet de conversations d'auxcune sorte entre la Grande-Bretagne, la France et les Etats-Unis.
Par S. A. le Prince Kojo Tovalou Houenou
L'Action Coloniale, Edition de Paris Mesdame et Measieurs:
Je regrette beaucoup, au moment où la France traverse une période critique, d'être obligé de dresser un violent requisitoire contre la politique coloniale qui englobe aujourd'hui presqu'en sa totalité le problème de la Race Noire.
C'est une seconde bataille de la Marne que la France est en train de livrer. Elle est au temps de paix, donc pacifique; elle est financière; donc, économique; mais elle est apre, acharnée, et nous ignorons quel en sera le sort.
D'ores et déjà, je désolidarise entièrement la France d'avec la politique de quelques-uns de ses enfants. Nous qui avons été élevés dans la Métropole, nous la connaissons et nous l'aimons, et nous avons en elle une confiance inébranlable. Mais les mandataires qu'elle envoie dans ses colonies, j'ai le regret de la dire sans ambages, ne font pas leur devoir; plus que cela, ils trahissent l'intérêt de la France, et par là, compromettent son avenir; ils trahissent l'intérêt de l'Afrique, et par là aussi, compromettent l'avenir d'un peu qui a droit à l'existence
Ma sympathie, mon affection, mon amour pour la France, ne sauriat faire aucun doute, puisqu'aux heures critiques de 1914, sans aucune violence extérieure, spontanément, j'ai assumé le devoir de tout citoyen, et j'ai exposé ma vie comme tous les Français. (Applaudissements.)
D'ailleurs, voilà bientôt vingt-quatre ans que j'habite la France. J'ai veu de toute la vie française; mon enfance, ma ignisseuse, se sont passées au milieu des camarades qu'aujourd'hui, possède un jolot, sont couches pour toujours, la-bas sur le champ de bataille, et qu'on s'est empresse d'oublier après l'armistice.
C'est dire que j'y ai des attaches profondes, sincères, et que si, pendant la période du danger, du grand risque, j'ai eu le courage militaire, aujourd'hui, à contre-coeur, malgré l'inopportunity de mon intervention, je veux avoir le courage civique, et déclarer publiquement, que, dans les colonies, les enfants que vous nous envoyez de la Métropole vous trahissent, compromettent votre avenir, amassent de telles rancoeurs, de telles haines, qu'il n'est pas juste et équitable, qu'elles éclatent un jour et blessent à nouveau la France multiéuse, si belle, si grande et si génère.
Et vous savez qu'à l'heure présente où vous êtes entourés d'ennemis de toutes parts, à l'heure où les Alliés d'hier, par l'équivoque de leur attitude, vous suscitent des difficultés innombrables dont vous ne rasurez pas la portée, vous avez tort de renier et de torturer des étres simples, rudimentaires, aux coeurs ardents et fidèles, qui s'attachent à votre sort et veulent vivre votre vie. Depuis qu'ils ont perdu leurs patriarches, les anciens rois détrônes et exilés, ils ont cru ingénement que les gouverneurs seraient pour eux de bienveillants tuteurs. Quelle amère et cruelle déception ! L'Europe a inauguré dans les colonies l'ère de la veritable sauvagerie et de la vraie barbarie, celle qui est faite avec science et prénéditation, avec tout l'art et de raffinement de la civilisation. Les malheureux indigènes ont confondu leur sort avec le votre, ils sont préts à lutter toujours à vos côtés, ils sont vrainent le capital matériel et moral sur lequel vous avez le droit de compter, et qui ne vous faillira pas, si vous savez, au moment précis, rompre avec ces intermédiaries qui vous trompent et les trompent. (Applaudissements.)
Les orateurs qui m'ont précédé de devaient poser le problème de la Race Noire, et mon rôle, à moi, était d'en trouvez la solution, en posant des conclusions pratiques. Par suite d'une indisposition facheuse de M. René Maran, M. Alfred Auronasseau avec toute sa ferveur lyrique, est intervenue pour prendre la parole en son lieu et place. J'ai moi-même supplédé M. René Maran, à la seconde conference annoncée. J'ai étudié le problème de la Rase Noire, que seuls les Européens ont posé, puisque nous autres, Noirs ou Nègres, nous lignorons parfaitement. Les races sont toutes les bienvenues comme une magnifique floralisou de la Terre.
Nous ne comprenons pas que la couleur intervienne dans un exposé intellectuel ou moral; nous ne comprenons pas que la couleur intervienne même dans les questions économiques; nous ne comprenons rien au but. égoliste et barbare que veulent atteindre certaines civilisés qui croient que la civilisation ne
peut reillement parvenir à son sommet qu'en mecommaisant les lois originelles, en abaisant, en asservissant les hommes qui ont le droit naturel de vivre, d'évoluer et d'atteindre le plein eponouissement de leur être.
Nous ignorons tout du problème, aussi ne vous l'ai-je point exposé; je me suis contenté de faire l'historique de ses phases successives, en Europe et en Amérique. Je me suis contenté de vous dire très rapidement et très succintement que le problème surgit au moment de la découverte de l'Amérique, lorsque les Européens, enivrés de gloire, d'aventures, et surtout de rapine, ont voulu conquerir des terres, qui ne leur appartenent pas. Ils detruisirent les aborigènes, ils exterminèrent, et puis, effrayés du vide créé, incapables de travailler eux-mêmes, ils eurent recours à des mains-d'oeuvre. C'est l'Afrique qui fournit le contingent aux travaux forcés, cette Afrique dont vous ignorez la douloureuse histoire, et qu'un jour, un de ses fils vous retracera en traits de feu, monument de honte pour cette civilisation dont vous vous enorgueillissez. Hors de l'humanité, pas de civilisation.
Si les monstres perdus de vices, imbibés d'alcool, tarés de syphilis, que vous nous envoyez, n'ont d'autres bien faits que ceux qu'ils nous ont apportés jusqu'à présent, eh bien, gardez-les pour vous et laissez-nous nous replongeur dans notre misère et notre bararie. Toute la fatalité qui pase dans les tragédies eschyliennes, n'approche pas de la noirceur de la tragédie africaine.
Sous couvert de cilivisation, on traque les hommes comme des fauves, on les pille, on les vole, on les tue. Et ces horreurs sont présentées cunique dans de beaux morceaux d'oelquence comme des bienfaits. On ajoute : ocristie et la fourberie aux crimes.
Puisque malgré les Africains, malgré les Noirs, beaucoup plus civilisés en cela, on a posé le problème des races, et en particulier celui de la Race Noire, quelle en peut être la solution?
Que souhaitons-nous dans les colonies, nous autres sujets, ou par une faveur spéciale, dispense avec parcimonie, devenus des citoyens? Nous souhaitons que ces lois qui consacrent et codifiient l'airbiraire soient abrogées. Il n'y a pas de moyen terme; il faut à la colonie une nouvelle charte.
Lorsqu'un membre est gangrené,
l faut intervenir rapidement: section
du membre, amputation, — volla ce
que fait le chirurgien. Il arrive qu'il
hésite, atermie, tattonne, le mal
saggrave et gagne du terrain, alors
un ignorant audacieux prend le bistouri, sectionne l'organe malade,
blesse l'organe sain.
C'est ainsi que le gouvernement, qui devrait aider à l'évolution du peuple, car l'évolution suppose le mouvement en pelle liberté, pousse à une intervention ignorante, inhabile, et meladroite, a ce qui, après tout, est la première émpe de l'évolution à la révolution. Et dans l'exercice de cette révolution, dans ce droit du peuple d'agir en lieu et place du technicien, il se produit des actes regrettables. Nous devons les empécher, parce que nous devons prévoir et arrêté des gestes néfastes, funestes pour la collectivité.
Or, si nous ne prenons pas garde, dans les colonies il se produira des actes regrettables.
Les conclusions que nous devons tirer de l'examen de la situation actuelle des colonies sont les suivantes: tout d'abord, il faut aux colonies la possibilité de faire entendre leur voix dans les affaires du gouvernement.
Ce que je dis des administrateurs pourrait sembler exagéré, maïs M. Augagneur Gouverneur de l'Afrique Equatoriale, est intervenièl maintes fois au Ministère des Colonies pour signaler les abus quotidiens de la politique coloniale, et surtout de la politique dis de l'indigné.
Cette politique est une course de vexations perpétuelles. Puer, nous en donner un exemple : l'Eropéen passant dans la rue pent est tirer un indigne, et il infliger quinque jours de prison, pour l'unique ralson qu'il n'ote pas son chapau.
Vous me direz que ce sont la des faits insignifants; mais l'arbitalire va beaucoup plus loin. Le pouvoir de l'Administrateur est en forme. Contrairement à ce qui pousse en Europe, c'est le quinquièd de tous les pouvuis; c'est le quinquièd du pouvois législatif et exécutif; c'est le quinquièd du pouvois judiciaire militaire; c'est le pouvois des politiques contrele. Quelquefois l'Administrateur — souvent un rupture violente, il l'yure à toutes les faitsales soldières qui lui traverent l' imagination. Ces actes, l'auto vous m'ai MI. René Maras
dont on a tant critique la Présace de "Batouala" — vous les racontat lui-même, parce qu'avec sa vision netté, et aurout avec son style réaliste, il aurait su les dépendre dans leur horrible crudité. Je n'approchai pas de son réalisme, et je ne veux pas m'attarder à des tableaux repoussants.
It me suffit de dire qu'aujourd'hui encore, dans les colonies, il y a des administrateurs qui posent, en guise de suppositaires, des cartouches de dynamite aux derrières des indigènes, les font courir, et tout à coup la dynamite saute, et l'indigène est volatilisé; ceel ce passe dans les colonies françaises.
Voyez-vous, je regrette de dire publiquement ces choses. Et il y en a tant d'autres!
J'ai assumé une tache pénible, il
me répugne d'insister.
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S. A. LE PRINCE KOJO TOVALOU HOUENOU
Avocat a la Cour d'Appel de Paris President de la Ligue Universelle Pour la Defense de la Race Noir
Par XAVIER DE THEILLES
L'Action Coloniale, Edition de Paris
Tout republicain qu'on le sait, il faut bien convenir que la science et le travail ont largement qualifié la noblesse d'un prince de Monaco, d'un prince Bonaparte, d'un duc de Broglie.
C'est le cas de M. Kojo Tovalou.
Son palais natal fut une case en terre de barre, recouverte de clame. Humiles que habitera casas.
Il apparaît aujourd'hui à cette élite, mais c'est à cette case qu'il attache sa plus grande fierté. Il rive d'y accrocher un jour tous ses parchimina.
Docteur en Médecine, et avocat à la Cour de Paris, il est aussi professeur de philosophie et de linguiastique à l'Ecole Interallée des Hautes Eutides.
Ce descendant de Béhauzin pourrait jouer les princes charmants de Scheherazade et les monarches en exile. Il prefa s'assimilier en quelques années le fruit de quelques siècles de notre civilisation.
Avouez que ce ne sont pas la d'ordinaires ieux de prince.
Dans les salons on il fréquente, derrière le barreau, devant sa table d'opération, partcut il apporte un admirable mélange de correction et d'intelligence, de sagesse et d'erudition. Il est distingueu au sens le monis salonard et le plis humain de ce mot. Ceux de notre race qui l'appellent "maitre" lui manifestent la même admiration que les sujets de Béhazin accordaient à leur chef et roi. Il appartient à cette ancienne famille des Forgerons (Ayatos), qui voulait instaurer au Dahamey le règne de la Paix. Aucune noblesse du Gotha ne poursuit revendiquer un but aussi haut. Il demeure celui de M. Kojo Tavalout. N'étant pas de ces princes qui oublient leurs sujets sitôt la supression de leur liste civile, il rélame cette Paix, et aussi la Liberté pour ses frères—qu'il furent de 1914 a 1918 ses frères de combat.
S'il manifeste aujourd'hui quelque amertune, quelque exigence, quelque colère contre nos méthodes coloniales, c'est avec les raisons d'un ancien combattant et d'un Universitaire. Peut-être a-t-il aussi les droits de deplorer que le scope ravi a Béhanzin soit parfois transformé en trique. Mais il alme trop la République pour la rendre responsable d'un mal dont il commande les compailles, et qu'il denonce aujourd'hui.
Les fêtes du contenaire de Bryce ont commencé mercredi matin par l'imaginaire d'une plaque memorative poised sur la maison de "Madeleine"
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étalent aussi contrife, quelles chiffres de l'opposition. Une fois nocturne sur l'Acropole a termine la journée. Les journaux consacrent de longue articles à la vie, à l'ouvre et au dernier moment de Byrta, qui rêve saacrifé pour la liberté de la Grèce.
ALGERIE
L'importation des voitures
automobiles en Algérie
L'importation des voitures automobiles en Algérie est en progrès marqué, qui est d'alléaure en rapport avec le développement pris par le pays.
En 1902, les achats d'automobiles s'élavait à 862.00 fr. en 1905, achats étalent de 2.857.00 francs et attaient à 8.528.00 fr. en 1910.
En 1913, la valeur des importations s'élevait à 23.225.00 fc. Apres avoir fléchi légèrement de 1915 à 1920, le trafic a progressé depuis sensiblement. En 1921, le nombre des automobiles importés en Algérie s'élevait à 1.477 pour une valeur de 51,978.00 fr. En 1922, 1.500 voitures ont été importées représentant 68,487.00 francs.
La Revolution en Mexique
D'après les dernières informations reçues les troupes fédérales seraint en possession de tous les points d'appui récemment encourus aux mains des rebelles. Les communications seraient rétablies et le pays reprendrait son activité normale.
Le générale de La Huerta, che
des rebelles, aurait débarqué à Key
West (Floride). et se serait renou
dans l'intérieur des États-Unis.
Le resident anglais à Mexico, M.
Barley, dont on a anoncé l'après-t
tion il ya quelques jours, sera jugé
par les autorites civiles. Sa demande
de mise en liberté provisoire sout-
caution a été refusée.
Le ministre de l'intérieur aurait
fait savoir que l'arrestation de M.
Barley aurait amené la déconverter
d'un complot contre le général.
Obregon.
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A Preacher Whose Heart Is in the Association
To the Editor of The Negro World
I am doing all that is in my power to carry the work to success. I had a mass meeting on Thursday night. April 24, such as I have not been able to have before. By and by I will send up a division to you or die trying to do it and I will do all I can to increase the sale of The Negro World—doing my beat, for my heart is in the work.
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To the Editor of The Negro World.
Please permit me space in your valuable paper to say a few words to the sleepy Negroes, and principally to those who are resident now in Cuba, as I am.
Three months ago, the periodical "La Discussion" of Havana, was extremely rigid and furious in its attack in editorials on British West Indians in Cuba. The nervous editor of that paper classed us to be undesirable elements, insignificant, and direct causes of epidemics. Where he obtained such "truths" from cannot yet be infounded. The rantings were quite absurd and amusing. However one of our West Indian brothers answered him conclusively through the "Havana Port."
This week "El Mundo" took the off-ensive and launched an attack on us. But much excuse must be given the latter; when reading between the lines you find he wants to make Cuba white. In concluding the article he says: "We are entering truly into our time of prosperity; it is estimated that the population must be 10,000,000, so we won't have to feel for labor, but alas! we see that that amount will be made up of West Indiana. We can as well do without them" "El Mundo" also strongly appealed to Congress to close the door on Asiatics.
Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of all Negro men, the things which Garveyism is teaching and preparing for us. Our undisciplined, selfish, and quits all right impulses are too strong. We need not flatter ourselves too much that we shall have no difficulties out here. It is in the air. We look at it narrowly and look at it well, too. The Ku Klux Klan of America wants America white. England must be white, Australia is being made white; alas! Cuba wants to be white also.
The words of the great Marcus Garvey are coming truer every day. Oppression and stagnation caused us to leave our island homes. Soon Cuba's door will be closed on us. Antiqua (M. W. I.) has passed its first lingering death law. There is but one solution. We are now in the time when the greatest message and invitation is sounding to the sons and daughters of Africa. The provision is now being made for us. "Let's put it over." Our liberties will no more be restricted. Let's fall in line so as to carry it to its final fulfillment early. With an insoluble determination, let's make Africa black.
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American Civil Liberties Union, who was unable to be present, sent a message as follows: "All of us who are concerned with the principles of civil liberty, on which this nation was founded, are deeply interested in seeing them applied to the Virgin Islands. We will stay with you until victory is won in the night for a civil government for the islands and for the full rights of citizenship for every Virgin Islander. We will continue to use our efforts against the exploitation of the islands an their domination by officers of the Navy. I speak for a large number of American citizens in extending to you our greetings and our assurance of continued support in our common task."
Without the shadow of a doubt it showed that the people of the Virgin Islands are solidly behind the program enunciated by Casper Holstein, as the meeting this afternoon proved conclusively that leadership of the kind that is characterizing the Holstein administration is bound to pay large dividends in the end. When a man by the most rigid exercise of honesty and sincerity, can bring so many people together under the banner of a single cause, and for four hours subject them to a serious discussion of a vexed political and racial problem, such as is confronting the people of the Virgin Islands today, certainly must have something in him out of the ordinary type of men. Mr. Holstein has brought to the cause of the Virgin Islanders intelligence, loyalty and service, spending and being spent in the hope to make the work a success.
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THE NEGRO WORLD. SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924
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Jenny are twin sisters in the great family of American industry. The sheaf of wheat is indisolubly wedded to the ship in the increase of American power. We Negroes are all one people, one in origin, one in race, one in country, one in destiny.
"He, there, is far from wise today who asserts, in the press, or anywhere else, that one part of our country is ordained to rule all the rest, and who is seeing by the artful appeal of the demagogue to urge on the time when class shall be arrayed against class, section against section that the party of discord treachery and mob-law may ride on the whirlwind into the high places of power
"What did the people of Continental United States want with the Virgin Islands?" This is asked over and over again, and just, as if no satisfactory answer could possibly be made to it, and yet no question can be more easily answered. We want the Virgin Islands just as we want anything else that we can make useful to ourselves. Who can doubt that the possession of these islands within six days sailing of New York City, commanding the entrance to the Caribbean Sea abounding in excellent timber dye woods and cabriot woods of the finest qualities, producing sugar, cotton, tropical fruits and plants, may not prove advantageous to America? So long as land and productions are valuable at all they will be as valuable to the American people as to others, and no painful question as to what we want with them will be allowed to obscure the fact that their strategic location may yet prove highly beneficial to this country. If America is really in favor of freedom and free institutions, if we would be, as a nation a grand civilizing force among the nations of the earth and bless the world as well as ourselves, we want the Virgin Islands as an instrument of power in carrying out that beneficial mission. Mon do not live by bread alone. Nations should be something more than rich and comfortable at home. It is sometimes said that America has enough to do at home without looking abroad but I think it will be found that that nation which is most earnest and active in setting the country right at home will, at the same time, be most sensitive to the claims of justice and liberty abroad."
Mr Mitchell then gave. In a most interesting way, a running account of the people and conditions of the Virgin Islands, incorporated in the report of
the Commission, which has already appeared in The Negro World. There was splendid music by Finlay's trass band, recitations by Miss B. Emith and Miss Naomi Estelle Branker, a child prodigy from Brooklyn; a solo by Mme. A. Frazier Roberson, who responded to an encore, and a fine address by Dr Hubert H Harrison. T. Thomas Fortune, editor of The Negro World, was introduced to the audience, but declined to make any remarks. It was a very brilliant and successful gathering
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load general cargoes. I learned from no less an authority that the stevedore (white) who had charge of the loading that they (whites) have had to change their attitude toward he native. He also explained a case that had happened recently on a ship, discharging general cargo. Something went wrong on one of the lighters—the managing stevedore went on he lighter and struck one of the men. This man was big enough to have knocked him down, but he refrained. The entire gang ceased work and refused to continue until satisfaction was obtained in the way of an apology and money.
Our next port was Durban, where I again met old friends and found them more enthusiastic than ever. I also met a West Indian who has been twenty years in Africa, speaks several African languages, and travels about the country. He is an ardent Carvoyte, gets his papers (in a way of his own) regularly. I obtained some copies from him, also a glowing report of the spread of Carvoyism in Africa. His message to the parent body is 'Keep up the fight. Africa is following on.'
We next went to Santos, Brazil There is no West Indian community in this district, and the U. N. I. A. is very little known among the masses. I have been told that in Rio Janeiro, capital of Brazil the Negro World is on sale, and that Garveyism is well known, also that there are quite a number of West Indian residents in that city. I should like the numerous readers and members of the U. N. I. A to imagine the glorious feeling of breathing the air of a country where liberty and freedom, political, economical and social, is enjoyed, regardless of color. In Brazil it is not uncommon see black ships' officers,
wireless operators included; military cadets, customs officials and black men sitting in the best resturants and on any seat in train, car or theatre. What an odious comparison our native land Africa is to this! Well, may our souls cry out for a hastening of "The Day."
I discovered a young Portuguese, who was working discharging the cargo, to be very in interested in the U. N I A. He had been at one time a sailor and traveled about the world somewhat. His collection of books and newspaper clippings shows that he has a keen desire for knowledge. He is endeavoring to raise himself above the status of a dock worker. When I informed him that the Negro World could be bought in Rio Janeiro he immediately sent an order for it, through a local news agent. He was most profuse in his thanks when I presented him with a few copies. He returned on the following day and similarly, but earnestly, said, "Reading the Negro World is like eating a piece of bread." He also said he had lent a copy to a customs officer, another to a school teacher and would pass
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Our next port was Buenos Alres, Argentina. Of all the places I visited, this was the only one in which I met open hostility. This was not so much against the movement as against the Hon. Marcus Garvey. Furthermore, it came from one of the race. He keeps a small clothing business, and in the course of our conversation he denounced Marcus Garvey. Suffice it to say that all knowledge he has has been got from the "Chicago Defender," and other such publications, of which he has some on sale. He w. unaware of Marcus Garvey's release, as the "Defender" is now dumb on anything concerning the U.N. I. A. He was surprised to learn that the "Defender" was the first paper that the Hon. Marcus Garvey brought an action against for libel and won the day. At the end of our co-operation his belief in our president general's guilt was somewhat shaken, as he conclude "by saying 'We need such men. If he is true,' I hope he will succeed; but if he is false. I hop he will be forever damned."
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