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Fall Associated Negro Press Service. We get the news first. VOLUME II. NO. 24. COLORED EDITOR LOSES FIRST ROUND IN COURT PROCEEDINGS (By Associated Negro Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Marcus Garvey, Colored, editor of the Negro World, was found guilty of criminal libel by Magistrate Simpson in Jefferson Market Court yesterday. He was held in $3,000 bail for trial in Special Sessions. The complainant was Assistant Attorney Edwin P. Kilroe. Mr. Kilroe complained that Garvey printed in August issues of his paper articles calculated to cast on him "ridicule, hatred, contempt or obliquy." Garvey is the promoter of the "Black Star Line," which he has advertised as a steamship line between this country, Africa, Central and South America and the West Indies for the Negro race only. Last Monday night at Carnegie Hall Garvey delivered an address in which he condemned the lynching of Negroes in the South, and said in effect that if the Negroes would press a button when such lynchings occur a white man in Africa would be treated similarly. Transcripts of this speech are now being investigated by the District Attorney's office and the Lusk Legislative Committee. Bishop Kyles of A.M.E.Z. Church Writes Wilson About Race Riots (By Associated Negro Press) PATTERSON, N. J., Sept. 9. Suppression of lynching, brutal assaults and other outrages on the Negro race were asked in a memorial sent to President Wilson by Bishop L. W. Kyles, of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at a meeting here of the council at the Trinity M. E. church. The memorial stated that the offenses of the Race are not condoned by the church and it pledged itself to eradicate them and to promote good fellowship. The memorial asked the right to vote, hold office, to work anywhere unmolested. Friendly Relations Exist Between Races In Augusta, Georgia (By Associated Negro Press) AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 9.—If citizens of Washington and Chicago have any doubt about the facility with which the races maintain amicable relations in the South, they should consider this city, where there is a very large Negro population, but despite which there is seldom friction of any appreciable moment between the whites and blacks. One of the most convincing evidences of the regard and consideration which each race accords the other was disclosed this week when a committee of well known Colored citizens presented a solid gold watch fob studded with diamonds and bearing his monogram. The gift was made to Strother in appreciation of his heroic act some two weeks ago when he risked his own life to save that of a demented Negro woman who was trying to commit suicide. The irresponsible Negro woman had leaped into the canal, intent upon self-destruction. A passerby saw her struggling in the water, and being unable to swim, summoned Strother, who was within calling distance. Strother, an auto mechanic, leaped into the stream with his clothes on, rescuing the woman and with the aid of others, resuscitating her. He then quietly left the scene without revealing his identity. Several prominent Negro citizens instituted a search for him and after raising the money to offer him some concrete evidence of their appreciation asked if he would accept a gift from them. Strother consented, whereupon the jeweled watch fob was presented to him a few days later. The Negroes have also indicated their intention of securing the necessary affidavits and bringing the act to the attention of the Carnegie Foundation with the hope that he will be issued a medal. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 9.—Five Negroes were lled by machine guns around the city jail, seeking to protect a prisoner from an angry white mob. CIVIC LEAGUE WILL ENDEAVOR TO CREATE INTEREST IN BALLOT (By Associated Negro Press) SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 9.—The Negro civic league will soon begin a series of activities for the purpose of interesting 500 or 600 nonregistered Negro voters in the city to become registered this fall. Smokers will be held in all the districts where Negroes reside and all will be solicited to become voters as a duty they owe the community as citizens. The campaign will be conducted on a nonpartisan plan and no influence will be used to persuade the voters toward any one party. The large number of Negroes who are not registered here is due to the fact that during the war, a large number came to this city. 'It was impossible at last year's registration to reach only a small part of those who had come here during the year. Boy Scouts Being Organized in N. Y. (By Associated Negro Press) BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Sept. 9. A patrol of Boy Scouts, recruited from the Negro boys of the city, will be organized in the near future, according to an announcement made by Boy Scout Executive Leslie R. Mathews, who spoke at the Zion A. M. E. church on this subject. A new departure was being made in this district, in organizing a patrol of Negro Boy Scout troops. Mr. Mathews told his audience. He said it was an entirely different proposition with Negro boys than it is with the boys of the white race, as they do not have such good places as the Y. M. C. A. and other boys' clubs at which to spend their time. These disadvantages can be evened up, he said, by an efficient scout troop under the leadership of some competent church member. The idea has been carried out in other cities. "Help Wanted" Notice Gets Colored Man Into Serious Trouble With Woman (By Associated Negro Press) ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 9—Failure of Richard Genus, a respected and respectable Colored resident of Pooleville district, this county, to state in a "help wanted" advertisement that he is a colored man is causing Genus a lot of trouble and worry. A few days ago Genus, who is a widower, advertised in the Washington papers for a housekeeper to take care of his home and his children. In answer to the advertisement a middle-aged white woman traveled all the way to Genus' home after the job. Genus wasn't at home, but when the woman learned that he was Colored she left in high dudgeon. As soon as she got back to Washington, the woman wrote a hot letter to Genus, in which she demanded that he remit to her at once the amount she had spent for carfare and expenses of her trip, with something added for salve for her injured feelings. This was the beginning of Genus' troubles. He sent her at once enough to cover her actual expenses, which was about half the amount she demanded. This didn't suit at all, so the woman in acknowledging receipt of the letter and remittance demanded a much larger amount than she had asked in her-first communication. As she included in her letter a threat to prosecute Genus if he failed to "come across" promptly. Genus worried quite a lot. Coming to the conclusion that he would have to call on a lawyer, he consulted counsel here and passed the buck to an attorney. He is now anxiously awaiting the outcome of his innocent effort to obtain a housekeeper. BOGALUSA, La., Sept. 9.—Caught by bloodhounds, Lucius McCarty, Negro discharged soldier, was lynched by a mob of a thousand men late yesterday. McCarty's body was then tied to an auto, dragged through the streets and burned in front of his victim's home. McCarty was captured by a sheriff's posse. The mob surrounded the officials, took the prisoner to the outskirts of Bogalusa and killed him. ARIZONA'S GREATEST WEEKLY GEORGIA GRAND JURY WILL INVESTIGATE RECENT LYNCHINGS (By Associated Negro Press) M'RAE, Ga., Sept. 9.—The lynching of Berry Washington, 70 years old, Negro, here recently was called to the attention of the grand jury yesterday by Judge Graham of the Circuit Court. In charging the jury, Judge Graham pointed out that, under the law, all who aided in the lynching were as the shot that deprived the aged victim guilty as the one who actually fired of life. Their oath, he told the jurors, should guide them in considering the matter. He also directed attention to the fact that Washington after killing a white man whom he claimed was riotous in the Negro quarter, had given himself up to the sheriff at Milan, and cited the law requiring a sheriff or other officer having custody of a prisoner to give him full protection. Sex Hygiene Should Be Taught in Schools Says Prominent Woman (By Associated Negro Press) ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 9.—In a well attended mass meeting held under the auspices of the Seventh Day Adventists, near Moorehouse College, Miss Thurmit of Boston, Mass., connected with the United State Social Service work, spoke on the subject of "Social Betterment of the Race and Nation and Women's Relation to it." Miss Thurmit said in part: "I have been in Atlanta less than a month, but find conditions here much better than in Augusta. There is much need of teaching sex hygiene in our schools and colleges and instructing our young women how to care for themselves. In less than three months' time my records show that there have been 582 women, the greater number being colored, ranging from 13 to 76 years of age passed through our courts. Most of these moral delinquents were not properly trained, and the Colored people of Georgia are largely responsible for this condition." Second Civil War May Be Necessary Says Eminent Divine (By Associated Negro Press.) MANCHESTER, N H., Sept. 9.—"A civil war was necessary to allow the Negro to call himself free. A civil war may be necessary before the Negro is really free," said Rev. H. A. Jump, pastor of the First Congregational church, speaking for the first time in Manchester since his return from service for the Y. M. C. A., in France. "The Negro question is the most acute problem which this country has to face in the future," he continued, in a plea for race equality. "I have faith, however, that the question will be settled peaceably and with justice to the millions of black men in this country." "In speaking to a prominent Colored man who has talked to thousands of Colored troops, I found a most significant attitude expressed," said Rev. Mr. Jump. Continuing, he quoted the Negro leader as saying: "Everywhere I find a most solemn soberness among the Colored troops, a set-jawed determination that the black man is to have the justice so long denied him. The mood of the black men of America is this: We are going to demand that we be taken for what we are worth. We have come to a country here we are judged according to our worth. We are going to demand the same treatment in America." "The Negro simply asks for what he deserves," sadi Mr. Jump. "In the land o the free he desires simply his freedom. No Christian can be other than sympathetic with him. "The moss-grown injustice which has become a tradition will be cleared away in our land. Liberty is moving on, and race prejudice must die." ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 9.—An education rally and banquet in honor of Bishop lipper's fortieth year in the ministry, will be given the middle of September, *by the Georgia Methodists.* PHOENIX, ARIZONA, SEPTEMBER 13, 1919 BLACK MAN HEADS COMMITTEE ON DRIVE TO RAISE $10,000,000 (By Associated Negro Press) NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 9.—The Roosevelt Memorial Association has selected George W. Harris, Negro editor and Republican nominee for aliceman in Harlem, to head the state committee of Colored citizens to raise funds in a drive for $10,000,000 for a monument to the former President, it was announced today. The committee includes former Revenue Collector Charles W. Harris, Rev. W. H. Brooks, Gilchrist Stewart and J. W. Thompson, of Rochester. Chairman Harris will call a meeting next week to organize sub-committees MR. "UNKNOWN" IS WELL SUPPLIED WITH CASH IT WOULD SEEM (By Associated Negro Press) NEW, N. Y., Sept. 9.—At the office of the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, the Hartford building, Union Square, word was received today that "Mr. Unknown," so named because his name was never learned, called yesterday for the twenty-third time at the office of the treasurer of the commission for work among the Colored people as conducted by the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America. "Mr. Unknown" brought with him twenty-five new $20 "greenbacks." Since his first anonymous call in 1896, "Mr. Unknown" has contributed a total sum of $15,000 at his annual visits. The Lutheran Synodical Conference maintains forty-five mission congregations, where the Gospel is preached almost exclusively to Colored people. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS" Since the Washington and Chicago riots, the daily newspapers of the South, have been having a glorious time joshing the North They have been saying, in effect: "While we lynch Negroes in the South, we never bother other than the one lynched all others are safe." Now comes Knoxville, Tenn., knocking the sox out of that flimsy argument. In a riot in that southern city, Negroes were called upon to defend themselves and their homes, as they were called upon in Washington and Chicago. That they manifested a remarkable spirit of self-defense, all reports concur. The time has come when the American Negro has taken up the famous expression of Marshal Joffre, and made it their own: "THSY SHALL NOT PASS." The American Negro has been of teh most patient, and long suffering group of people ever known to history. He is in perfect love with all that is just and righteous. "Perfect love casts out all fear," and therefore, in defense of his manhood rights, death, today, has real charms. This being the case, and since it has been a long time custom of the rough element of the American whites to hold the race in subjection by FEAR, it seems most prudent, wise and timely, to "come let us reason together." In many communities, North and South, this is being done with fine effect. It may as well be understood, and nothing else would be expected whether this is regarded as a "white man's country"—even though it was stolen from the Red man, who has always been friendly to the Black man—or not, the American Negro today has a new point of view, which all hades cannot wipe out. Listening to the siren of Righteousness, Justice, Liberty, Freedom, and Democracy, he has accepted the tenor of their way, and with keen eyes, set face, steady tread, open mind and strong arm, asks nothing more, and certainly will take nothing less. Neither the aggressor nor the oppressor, the American Negro places his cause before the right-thinking people of the nation, who, in every crisis, have been the victors. A. N. P. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 9—Morris Brown University which has just closed its summer school, the best in the history of the institution, will open this week, with an enrollment, which from all indications, points to a record breaking attendance. RACE QUESTION IS DISCUSSED BY TEXAS LEADERS (By Associated Negro Press) AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 12. - Two thousand Negroes and 100 white persons met here last night and discussed the Race question, which speakers termed acute. Negroes here said it was the beginning of a state-wide movement. Opposition to Military Training Waged by Southern Democrats WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 9. Definite measures to organize Southern Democrats in Congress in opposition to universal military training were begun today when Representative Dent of Alabama, ranking Democrat member of the House Military Affairs Committee, introduced in the House, an army reorganization bill eliminating the universal training idea. The attempt to line up Southern Representatives behind the proposition is based on opposition to any scheme calling for military training of Negroes. The contention is that such training would set up a serious menace in the South. Associated Press Sends Congratulations To Editor of the Tribune The following letter from the editor in-chief of the Associated Negro Press was received this week. The contest was inaugurated by the Southern Border Motor Company of this city and replies were received from every section of the state. Chief among the replies received was one from the advertising manager of the Arizona Gazette, which won second place. The letter follows: Chicago, Ill., Sept. 5, 1919. Mr. A. R. Smith, Editor, Phoenix Tribune. Kindly accept congratulations of the Associated Negro Press and mine personally, for your victory in winning the first prize in the Automobile Advertising Contest. Knowing that merit alone was the contributing factor, we are happy to know of your splendid ability in this direction and it should bespeak much success for you in the future. We also congratulate the institution that was broad enough to accept merit as the only factor and trust their example may be followed in every field and avenue of our great American life. Very truly yours, ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS. Per Nahum Daniel Brascher, Editor-in-Chief. Swift & Co. Open Cash Market Here For Poultry and Eggs Recognizing the great commercial future of Phoenix and this section of the state in general, Swift & Co. is opening an egg and poultry produce house at 510 South Second avenue. It is the first and only strictly egg and produce house in the city and will stimulate interest in this line. In the past the egg and poultry line has not been properly developed, but with a produce house acting as a daily cash outlet for their products, local producers will probably go into the poultry business with renewed activity. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 9.—Republicans in the Nineteenth Assembly district, which includes a large part of the Harlem Negro section, have nominated Miss Marguerite L. Smith, a teacher in the Horace Mann school, as a candidate for the assembly. The Negros have announced that they will place in the field as an opposition independent Republican candidate the Rev. R. M. Bolden of our race. WHAT REV. JONAS THINKS ABOUT THE SHANTUNG PROVINCE (By Associated Negro Press.) BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 9—In an address before the 44th annual session of the Mt. Bethel Baptist Association, which came to a close here on Thursday evening, Rev. R. D. Jonas, of New York, secretary of the League of Darker Races of the World, urged that Japan keep the Shantung province until Italy cedes its African territory to Abyssinia. He said the question of the disposition of the African colonies would come before the peace conference when it meets in Washington in October. Rev. W. H. Jernagin, of Washington, made a plea for interest in the forthcoming sessions of the Race Congress in Washington, asserting that in these momentous times the Negro must be on guard to secure his rights. Pres. Carranza Denounces U. S. For Its Brutality (Special to the Tribune) BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 6.—President Carranza's reference to the race riots in the United States was echoed in Bazil today. Writing in the Correio Damanha, Antonio Torres declared: "The Negro in the United States lives under a regime worse than during the times of Lincoln, when his life was saved as valuable property. Today the Negro is like the Pole and the Jew of Russia during the reign of the Czar, without political guarantees on a social horizon. His only reward for loyalty to his country is lynching on a trivial pretext. "A Negro born in the United States speaks the same language as President Wilson, but the savage whites do not hear his cries of agony. People who act in that manner have no right to speak of the world in the name of civilization." Mayor of Atlanta Advises Blacks To "Go Along Quietly" ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 9.—An appeal to sane thinking Negro citizens of Georgia to assist in keeping down race troubles in this state similar to those which have occurred recently in Washington and Chicago, was issued by Mayor Key when he delivered an address of welcome before the Grand Lodge of Negro Odd Fellows at the Big Bethel church. Mayor Key declared he had experienced a great deal of trouble in keeping down race trouble in Atlanta and urged the Negroes to help him in his efforts. "We are not going to have race trouble, if you people will show the proper intelligence." This statement on the part of the mayor was received with cheers and applause on the part of the delegates which lasted for several minutes. When the noise had subsided to where he could speak again, Mayor Key said: "Down here in this country we get along all right. The white people stay of themselves and so do the Colored. Each has his schools and places of amusement and neither conflicts with the other. "These people who live upon the Negro who attempt to stir up strife, are your enemies, and any man who tells you they are not is a fool. My pride and my confidence is in you, but you must be careful. "Go along quietly, manage your own affairs, develop that which is in you, and everything will come out right in the end," the mayor said in conclusion. CHRISTIAN (?) SOLUTION It is up to Congress to go to the bottom of the matter and recommend such steps as are necessary to put an effectual stop to race riots. They are a drain on the physical resources of the country and a reflection on its pretensions. If the two races cannot live side by side without disturbing the peace, they must be separated. There can be no other Christian solution—Exchange. Largest Circulation of any Race Journal in the Southwest. 5 Cents a Copy; $2 a Year ALABAMA CITIZENS DISCUSS PLANS TO PREVENT RIOTS (By Associated Negro Press.) MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 9.—A meeting of Colored ministers was held at the First Colored Baptist church for the purpose of discussing plans for the prevention of any racial trouble in Montgomery. At this meeting, it was decided to call another meeting of white and Colored ministers, at the Old Ship church for a continuance of the discussion. The plans for the prevention of racial trouble are based on having a complete understanding between the races and to keep both colors warned against listening to any agitators who may be heard. It is thought that some men with intentions of stirring up trouble have already been in Montgomery talking with the people. As leaders of their respective races, the ministers plan to warn the people as a whole against becoming excited by the propaganda spreaders who are talking and who are, in fact, enemies to both races. "While nothing is feared in Montgomery concerning the race situation, it is thought best to warn the people as a whole against the meddlers who seem to be trying to start trouble," they said. "These meddlers are thought to be adventurers traveling through the country. They talk to the people and move on without leaving any name and without giving anything to substantiate their statements. It is thought that only the more excitable element of both races will be agitated by any such propaganda." Intelligent Christian Leadership is Crying Need of the West (By Associated Negro Press) SPOKANE, Wis, Sept. 9.—St. Paul's African Baptist church, was filled with an audience which included a goodly number of white people to hear an address by Mrs. S. W. Yayton, president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention, representing 3,000,000 Colored people in America. "The greatest need among our people in the west is intelligent Christian leadership," said Mrs. Layton. "Formerly when people thought of education and uplift for the Negro it was thought of as the peculiar problem of the southland, but it is more and more becoming a northern problem, a northwestern problem and a Spokane problem. The withdrawal of an enormous amount of labor, skilled and unskilled, from northern industries owing to the return of to their own countries of alien workers in consequence of the war and the enrollment in the army of white American labor offered openings of which the southern Negro was not slow to avail himself. "The hope of bettering their environment and opportunities had brought aliens to the shores of America and the same hope brought the Colored citizen from the south to the north. New he is in our northern midst in great numbers and he creates a new problem. Let us remember the Negro, whatever his faults may be, he has always been loyal in war and peace alike. The Negro did not start incendiary fires nor blow up ammunition factories. "In Flanders fields, where poppies grow," the Negro laid down his life to extend the blessings of democracy and freedom. It is incumbent then, that when he comes into these northern parts he should be met, wisely, counseled and brought under intelligent leadership so that they may become assets instead of deteriments in their new, and to them, strange surroundings." Guns and Anmunition Stored in Lodge Room By Georgia Blacks (By Associated Negro Press.) EASTMAN, Ga., Sept. 9.—Arms and ammunition were stored in one of the Negro lodges burned in Laurens county this week by mobs of white men, according to reports received here from Gadwell. PAGE TWO THE PHOENIX TRIBUNE Address all Communications to the PHOENIX TRIBUNE P. O. Box 1052, Phoenix, Arizona Entered as Second-Class Matter June 22, 1918, at the Postoffice at Phoenix, Arizona, under Act of March 3, 1879 Business Office: 1302 East Jefferson Street. Phone 1250 One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months .65 All Matter for Publication MUST be in our Office by Wednesday evening as we go to press on Thursday An erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which may appear in the columns of THE TRIBUNE will be gladly corrected upon its being brought to the attention of the publishers. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. OUR LEADERS There was a time when the colored people looked upon the minister of the Gospel as the leader of the race, and his advice and teachings were religiously adhered to. The ministers of that time taught us that humility, meekness and a cringing disposition would bring us into favor of God and man. Whenever the hand of our oppressor fell heavily upon us they taught us to sing: "You may have all this world, just give me Jesus." We were taken at our word and after the other fellow came in possession of the world there remained no place for us unless we elected to go and live with Jesus. Not having previously resided in the celestial region and entertaining a doubt as to our fitness and qualification for entry, if perchance we were ushered into the presence of the Judge of the Universe, we were loathe to leave these mundane shores and make that trip from whence no traveler was ever known to return. Consequently, we came to ourselves and found that we had been traveling under the direction of a misguided leadership. Today this class of leaders has been relegated to the rear and the rising generation is calling for valiant men to direct the affairs of the race. Men who by precept and example teach us that we are entitled to some of this world's goods and that we should not pin all our hope on a future inheritance. Jesus Christ said: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." We believe that three hundred years of meekness should at least entitle us to a part of this inheritance. We believe in prudence, but there is such a thing as being too conservative. Lest we be misunderstood we will add that the thinking people of the race have nothing but contempt for radicals who go to the other extreme of teaching violence, and Bolshevism. There is a midway position that is neither radical nor ultra-conservative and that is where we stand. No "Uncle Tom" methods for us, neither do we want to play the part of the "bully", but plain every day, man to man justice. If we would achieve, we must strive—honestly, conscientiously. "To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day. Thou can't not then be false to any man." In the language of the immortal Burns, we say: "The honest man, tho e'er so poor. OUR LEADERS There was a time when the colored people looked upon the minister of the Gospel as the leader of the race, and his advice and teachings were religiously adhered to. The ministers of that time taught us that humility, meekness and a cringing disposition would bring us into favor of God and man. Whenever the hand of our oppressor fell heavily upon us they taught us to sing: "You may have all this world, just give me Jesus." We were taken at our word and after the other fellow came in possession of the world there remained no place for us unless we elected to go and live with Jesus. Not having previously resided in the celestial region and entertaining a doubt as to our fitness and qualification for entry, if perchance we were ushered into the presence of the Judge of the Universe, we were loathe to leave these mundane shores and make that trip from whence no traveler was ever known to return. Consequently, we came to ourselves and found that we had been traveling under the direction of a misguided leadership. Today this class of leaders has been relegated to the rear and the rising generation is calling for valiant men to direct the affairs of the race. Men who by precept and example teach us that we are entitled to some of this world's goods and that we should not pin all our hope on a future inheritance. Jesus Christ said: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." We believe that three hundred years of meekness should at least entitle us to a part of this inheritance. We believe in prudence, but there is such a thing as being too conservative. Lest we be misunderstood we will add that the thinking people of the race have nothing but contempt for radicals who go to the other extreme of teaching violence, and Bolshevism. There is a midway position that is neither radical nor ultra-conservative and that is where we stand. No "Uncle Tom" methods for us, neither do we want to play the part of the "bully", but plain, every day, man to man justice. If we would achieve, we must strive—honestly, conscientiously. "To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day. Thou can't not then be false to any man." In the language of the immortal Burns, we say: "The honest man, tho e'er so poor. "Is king of men, for a' that." THE TERM "NEGRO" The following from the Portland Advocate of Portland Oregon aptly expresses our views of the obnoxious word, "Negro": "One of our subscribers for many years writes to know if we had, at last, fallen a victim to the doctrine that the term "Negro" with reference to the colored race, is right and proper. Our answer is, no! The Advocate has always opposed the use of the term "Negro," and stands just as firmly convinced today as ever that the term is incorrect, and that colored Americans are certainly making a great mistake in calling themselves "Negro." Regardless of the editor's bitter opposition to the word, we are almost powerless to keep the term out of the columns of the Advocate, for the reason that we have correspondents who invariably use the term, and it is also the rule of journalism, when reproducing articles, to do so verbatim. But when it comes to using the term first-handed, only once do we recall having used it where it was directly connected with the office of the Advocate, and then it slipped by the editor. The term "Negro" is not only absurdly inaccurate as applied to the colored people, but it is also alarmingly injurious to them, for the following reasons: "First, it has never stood historically or in the present anywhere in the world for anything noble or uplifting. High-classed Africans repudiate it. The following from the Portland Advocate of Portland Oregon, aptly expresses our views of the obnoxious word. "Nero": "One of our subscribers for many years writes to know if we had, at last, fallen a victim to the doctrine that the term "Negro" with reference to the colored race, is right and proper. Our answer is, no! The Advocate has always opposed the use of the term "Negro," and stands just as firmly convinced today as ever that the term is incorrect, and that colored Americans are certainly making a great mistake in calling themselves "Negro." Regardless of the editor's bitter opposition to the word, we are almost powerless to keep the term out of the columns of the Advocate, for the reason that we have correspondents who invariably use the term, and it is also the rule of journalism, when reproducing articles, to do so verbatim. But when it comes to using the term first-handed, only once do we recall having used it where it was directly connected with the office of the Advocate, and then it slipped by the editor. The term "Negro" is not only absurdly inaccurate as applied to the colored people, but it is also alarmingly injurious to them, for the following reasons: "First, it has never stood historically or in the present anywhere in the world for anything noble or uplifting. High-classed Africans repudiate it. "Second, in Africa and out of Africa, it was never applied to the higher types, but to Guineas, Soudanese and Sanagambians only. "Third, its derivatives, 'Negroism' and 'Negrofy,' and its compounds 'Negro-head,' 'Negro-fly,' and 'Negro-monkey,' are all clearly in their associations, degrading. "Fourth, its feminine form 'Negress', is justly and correctly used to define your wife or daughter if you favor the use of the masculine term, 'Negro.' "Fifth, it has been the word used by southern whites for two centuries when formerly speaking or writing about an unworthy or criminal man or woman of the race. For when he speaks of the worthy he invariably says 'colored.' "Sixth, it is not differentiated in the minds and thoughts of whites from their favorite and generally used terms, 'darkey' and 'nigger.' "Daily papers, speaking of the respectable elements, refer to the 'colored' citizens; daily papers unfriendly to the race speak of 'the burley Negroes.' Why? Because in their hearts white people know that the term 'Negro' as used for the last three hundred years. "Fourth, its feminine form 'Negress', is justly and correctly used to define your wife or daughter if you favor the use of the masculine term, 'Negro.' "Fifth, it has been the word used by southern whites for two centuries when formerly speaking or writing about an unworthy or criminal man or woman of the race. For when he speaks of the worthy he invariably says 'colored.' "Sixth, it is not differentiated in the minds and thoughts of whites from their favorite and generally used terms, 'darkey' and 'nigger.' 'Daily papers, speaking of the respectable elements, refer to the 'colored' citizens; daily papers unfriendly to the race speak of 'the burley Negroes.' Why? Because in their hearts white people know that the term 'Negro' as used for the last three hundred years, is, or should be, obnoxious to the present day Afro-American, and if they wish to be courteous or to win favor they use the word 'colored.' while, when they want to be insulting, they use the word 'Negro,' which by a twist of the tongue can be called 'nigger.' And again, when the big dailies want to pull of a lynching or start a riot, they have only to come out in bold face type, and say a big burley 'Negro' shoots a white man, or attempts a criminal assault on a white woman. If this white editor would print in his paper that a colored man had shot a white man or that a colored man had attempted criminal assault on a white woman, we dare say there would be less race prejudice, fewer lynchings, and race riots in this country. It is to be on THE PHOENIX TRIBUNE-ALWAYS IMPROVING the increase only because writers and speakers like Dr. DuBois, who believe that they must use the term in order to stand in with the masses. Yet, Mr. DuBois is drawing down a salary of $5,000 a year as editor of the Crisis, the organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But, strangely enough, Mr. DuBois invariably uses the term 'Negro' in the Crisis, and it is the use of the term by men prominent like DuBois and Moton that is causing the majority of the organizations among our people, both men and women, to tack on the hated term 'Negro.' For instance, the 'Negro Business League,' the 'Negro Press Association,' and 'Negro Women's Club.' All these organizations, by their name, are spreading the seeds of prejudice and hate, which will unquestionably cause much trouble in the way of discrimination and segregation for the future generation. The Advocate's kick against the use of the term 'Negro,' is not because we are ashamed of our dark complexion or African descent, but Negro indicates a foreigner, or a foreign-born. Besides, it has not great place, or nation as its source. We are really Americans of color, or colored Americans. It helps our contention for equal rights to use such a name. Those who want to refer back should use the word Afro-Aemrican. Such words cannot be turned so easily in epithets, such as darkey, nigger and negress. Cut out the term Negro from our writing and speech-making, and daily talks with the other race, and watch how prejudice, lynching and race riots will decrease." GARDINER'S 27 S. SECOND STREET dark complexion or African de- or a foreign-born. Besides, it ree. We are really Americans DEPOT ~- RESTAURANT Under New Management Open Day and Night J. GRANT, Prop., - - Prescott, Arizona The Sanitary BATH ROOM is a necessity for clean living. Correctly constructed, they must have the proper floor, EITHER CERAMIC TILE OR WOODSTONE. I INSTALL BOTH. Vernon L. Clark YOUR Boy or Girl WANTS AND SHOULD HAVE A BICYCLE We have them from the smallest size up. Let the children be riding to and from school while you are paying for it. They will improve in health and body as well as in mind. KING BROTHERS 110 East Adams Street Don't Throw Them Away PHONOGRAPHS GUNS KEYS I Can Repair Them. Grinding, Soldering and General Repairing MOTORCYCLES AND BICYCLES A SPECIALTY BRING ME ANY ODD JOB T. J. NOACK 139 N. FIRST AVE. Going to Build a HOME? The planning of your home is one of the most personal problems with which you have to deal. You want your home to differ somewhat from your neighbors. You want it to be convenient and comfortable and practical as his, but you would like to have it distinct in some way. We can help you. HOMES are our specialty. R. N. Lamberth & Co. 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PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING EXPERT PIANO tuning and repairing. Also cleaning and polishing. Victrolas cleaned and repaired and all small musical instruments. Players and Electric a specialty. All work guaranteed. Twenty years' experience. John Brown, the piano tuner and repair man. Residence, 805 S. 5th avenue. Phone 4648. SHAMPOOING AND MASSAGING We are prepared to care for men as well as women customers and specialize in Manicuring, Hairdressing, Shampooing and Massaging. Five years' experience in the business. Phone 1242 for appointment. Mrs. W. J. Jones, 419 East Washington. BARBER WANTED WANTED—A first class barber; $20 a week guaranteed. Address T. C. Woodland, 122 So. Montezuma St. Prescott, Ariz. USED CARS FOR SALE—Stripped car with bucket seats and good hard wood racing body; $250.00 on terms or cash. See R. D. Roper Motor Co. Phone 4261. FOR SALE—Seven-passenger Chal (Watertown, N. 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Acquire the saving habit and getting rich will be only a question of time. 4% INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS The Phoenix Savings Bank and Trust Company Phoenix, Arizona WE RY VANS, m ee ae ae eee of the ladies that have visited her beauty parlor will patronize Mrs. ‘Head. Mrs. Head has been doing this work for the past six years,and Mrs. ‘Lewis feels positive that she wili be miore than satistactory. | The Social Catd cluty met last Fri- ‘day afternoon at the home of Mrs. James Cranson. Sgt. Lee is back in post after hav- ing been on a thirty-day furiongh. Band Leader Burnett McReynolds, formerly of the Tenth Cavalry band, |is with us again after seeing service | overseas. (Rochester, N. 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Phoenix, Arizona LIVE AGENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN IN ARIZONA : Twenty-six Years in Business Over $1,250,000 Paid to Policy Holders ae . pra rae? ae 218d Fotr Sense and Non ense and Nonsense By Marion Noble wedding tour they would stop for a ou see Mrs. B at the Seaivel tee days at Fort Huachuca to visit Rev. and Mrs, Herring? She |the bride's brother, Mr. Harold Prince Kind ‘er good, don’t you think?|and wife. The Prince home was Lea 1 Say from Chicago or ali-|tifully decorated with fetns and cut Who's he victim? flowers. From the chandilier bung humble servant ran acress «/B¥merous ribbons of all colors, and husband and was so glad to|% te end of each was hung © bright she hugged and kissed him| ey eee ae ee a }iain and Mrs. Scott, Sgt. and Mrs she knew what she was doing. | inigms, Lt: Lewis, Set. W. D. Smith, on't everybody write at onCe,) atic; Mabel Smith, Miss Ruth Scott ponlsss gev ines creer |Set. and Mrs. Clarke, Mr. James Scott you seen the beantiful howso|and Mr. Albert Scott. A number of nd Jefferson stteets? 1would| selections were sung by the Tenth call it the Maple Cottage, for | Cavalry quintette. t and size remind me so much! ‘Phe Pleasure Seekers’ club was en- I saw in Europe The editor of} tertained last Thursday afternoon by per and his little doll wife are] Mfrs. M.A. Harris. ners. Their children romp and) 475. pertha Lewis and son Jobn will rer the beautiful lawn, DAPPY|ieave September 8 for their home in birds. St. Louis, Mo., for an indefinite visit. Fred Gardiner, who has been | airs, Lewis wishes and trusts that all By Marion Noble = Did_you see Mrs. B at the Anniver- ary bf Rev. and Mrs. Herring? She looked kind ‘er good, don’t you think? Did you say from Chicago or Cali fornia? Who's he victim? Your humble servant ran acress a friend’s husband and was so glad to see him she hugged and kissed him before she knew what che was doing. Now don't everybody write at once, for bad news travels fast enough. Have you seen the beautiful house &t 12th and Jefferson streets? I would like to call it the Maple Cottage, for its color and size remind me so much 6t one I saw in Furope The editor of ‘this paper and his little doll wife are ‘the owners. Their children romp and play over the beautiful lawn, happy as the birds. ‘Mrs, Fred Gardiner, who has been doing post graduate work in Chicago, Fushed to the station and demanded weservation ot Phoenix at once, The genial agent replied: “Madam, your Feservation is the limited, but the lim ited is so crowded you cannot get on.” “Sir, I will take a standard, for I must ‘be in Phoenix in three days.” You bet she caught the last train coming to Phoenix. ‘There it is again. No, I can not tell you how much I am getting for writ. ing in this small space. It is a neat Uttle sum, though. Now don't all ap: ply at once, I have some very classy neighbors. Always something new, such as silks, Satins, crepe de chine, high-heeled boots, and what nots. ~ Sorry 1 was not at the N. A. A.C. P. meeting Monday night. Would not fave missed it for anything. Catch you next time. Mrs, Lauda Walker has hauled off and moved out in the country. Might G8 well, Rast Jefferson. Who wrote all that muss in the Paper a few weeks ago? "Twant none of me. —More Anon. ARE WE CIVILIZED? Patronize Tribune Advertisers. Fort Huachuca (By Mayme Clarke) Mr. and Mrs. Harold Prince enter- tained a number of their friends with e@ delightful party last Thursday even ing. The party was given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Hubert. 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