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THE BLACK S W A N . Hilda Rue Wilkinson
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T H E BLACK S W A N . A Story. Maria Moravsky. Illustrated
FOR ETHIOPIA.
A Poem. Bessie Brent Madison
SUNSET. A Poem. Mary Effie Lee
W A I T I N G . A Poem. James Waldo Fawcett
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Training

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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

A School for the Training of Colored

Men and Women for Service

Young

T h o u g h it ii young in history, the Institution fecli a j u i t pride in the w o r k thus

far accomplished, for its graduates are already filling many responsible positions,
thus demonstrating the aim of the school to train men and women for useful
citizenship.

DEPARTMENTS ALREADY ESTABLISHED

The
The
The
The

Grammar School
Academy
School of A r t i and Science*
Department of M a s k
T h e Department

T h e T e a c h e r Training Department
T h e Divinity School
T h e Commercial Department
T h e Department of H o m e E c o n o m i c !
of Social Service

T E R M OPENED S E P T E M B E R 21, 1920

F o r farther information and Catalog, addreaa

President

James

E. Shepard,

Durham,

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

COLORED YOUTH

Pioneer in Collegiate and

Theological E d u c a t i o n

B O R D E N T O W N , N . J.
A
high institution tor the training of colored
youth.
Excellent equipment, thorough Instruction,
wholesome surroundings.
A c a d e m i c training for all
students.
Courses In carpentry agriculture and trades for boys.
Including auto repairing.
Courses In domestic scleaoe and domestic art for
girls.
A new trades building, thoroughly equipped.
New
girls'
dormitory thoroughly
and
modernly
squlpped.
Terms reasonable.
Fall term opens September 13. 1921.
For

Information

W. R. VALENTINE,

Carolina

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FOR

North

Lincoln Men are Leaders in t h e various

professions in Forty States.
The College is ranked in Class I. by the
American Medical Association.
Address:
John

B.

Kendall,
Chester

address

D . D . , Lincoln University,
County, Fenna.

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Teachers

WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY
SUMMER SCHOOL

Cheyney, Pa.

8th Annual Session.

Summer of 1921
June 20 to July 30
The Summer School is accredited
and standardized, and teachers' cer
tificates will be issued by the state of
Ohio on credits received in the Sum
mer School.

M a d e in 1 9 2 0 an accredited State Norma] School

offering, in addition to the regular N o r m a l CoursTof
two years, professional three year courses in Home
E c o n o m i c , and Shop W o r k .
A diploma from any'
these courses makes a graduate eligible to teach in
. # ;
schools of Pennsylvania.
A
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i&

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For full particulars write Gilbert H.

Jones, Director of the Summer School

20th,

For

LESLIE

Dr. John A. Gregg,

1921.

further particulars and catalog, write

President of the Institution

prNOKNBT H I L L ,
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MOREHOUSE

COLLEGE

Atlanta University

(Formerly Atlanta Saptist College)

I s beautifully located in the City of A t l a n t a ,

Ga.
T h e courses of study include H i g h School,
N o r m a l School and College. Special emphasis
is laid upon the training of teachers.
Students
c o m e f r o m all parts of the South.
Graduates
have a fine record for successful work.
For
further information address

ATLANTA, GA.
College. Academy, Divinity School
An
institution famous within recent y e a n
for its emphasis on all sides of manly develop
mentthe only institution in the far South
devoted solely to the education of Negro
young men.

President Edward T . W a r e
Atlanta* Ca.

KNOXVILLE COLLEGE

Graduates given high ranking by greatest

northern universities. Debating, Y. M . C. A . ,
athletics, all live features.
For information, address
J O H N H O P E , President.

Beautiful Situation.
Healthful Location.
B e s t M o r a l and S p i r i t u a l
Environment.
Splendid Intellectual A t m o s p h e r e .
N o t e d f o r H o n e s t and T h o r o u g h W o r k .

FISK

I n s t i t u t i o n offers f u l l c o u r s e s in t h e fol
lowing departments: College, Normal, H i g h
School, G r a m m a r S c h o o l , D o m e s t i c
Science,
Nurse
Training
and
Industrial.
Good w a t e r , s t e a m h e a t , e l e c t r i c
lights,
natural drainage, splendid dormitories.
Ex
penses very reasonable.
Fall
For

Term

catalog

Begins
and

September

other

14, 1921.

Information

addresi

P R E S I D E N T J. K E L L Y G I F F E N
Knoivllle. Term.

1870 C L A R K U N I V E R S I T Y

1921

ATLANTA. GEORGIA
Over 100 acres of beautiful campus.
Twelve buildings
with new $150,000 administration building with modern
chapel, gymnasium and laboratories ready for use in
September.
Strong facultyReligious atmosphereAth
letics-Co-educational.
Admission only by application.
RE-ARRANGED COURSES OF STUDY
Junior High School7th and 8th Grades and lit and
Years' High School Courses, with Certificate.
Junior College3rd and 4th Year High School with
Freshman and Sophomore years of College work, with
Diploma.
CollegeFour years above High School, or two years
above Junior College Course, with degree of A . B .
Domestic ScienceCommerceNormal
Pre-medical Course
53rd year of nine months opens September 21, 1921.
$150.00 per year pays tuition, board, room and laundry.
2nd

HARRY

ANDREWS

KING,

President

UNIVERSITY

NASHVILLE, TENN.
Founded 1866

Thorough Literary, Scientific, Educational,

Musical and Social Science Courses. Pioneer
in Negro music. Special study in Negro life.
Ideal and sanitary buildings and grounds.
Well-equipped Science building.
Christian home life.
High standard of independent manhood and
womanhood. For literature, etc., write
F A Y E T T E AVERY McKENZIE,

BIDDLE

President

UNIVERSITY

CHARLOTTE. N. C.
Biddle Coiveraltj, perated antler the amaptees ef
the Northern P~~ibyterlao Church, has four Depart
mentsHigh Senool. Arts and Sciences Theological
and
Industrial. The completion ef a Grammar School
course Is the requirement for entrance te the first vear
of the High School.
The
School of Arts and Sciences offers two soars**
uf study, the Classical and the Scientific,
i n the
scientific, German la substituted for Greek or Latin.
The
entrance requirement for the Freshman Class Is
15 units of High School work.
The
Theological Department offers two courses, each
consisting of three years. The first is purely ngllsn.
Greek and Hebrew are taught In the others.
All students In the High School Dept. are reqaired
to take trades In the Industrial Dept.
For

The Florida Agricultural

further Information, aderses

President H. L. MtCrerey,
Charlotte. N. C.

and Mechanical College

Offers courses leading to certificates,
diplomas and degrees.

Morris Brown University

Atlanta, Ga.

Nathan

B.

Young,

Tallahassee,

Florida

STATE UNIVERSITY, Louisville, Ky.

Founded
The
only Institution In the
OoUeaiate, Ministerial. Medical,
ored d o z e n s In Kentucky.
Special training i n Insurance,

1879.
State baring for Its object
and Legal training for Col
Social

Co-Educational

President

Service,

Nursing and

Normal? Commercial, Music, Domestic Science, Missionary

training classireolna
classes,
umMSonaanea course
Decrees offered.

President C . H. Parriah

The
largest institution
of learning in the
South
o w n e d and controlled by Negroes. Faculty of special
ists, trained in some of the best universities ill the
N o r t h and in the South.
Noted for high standard of
scholarship; industrial emphasis and positive Chris
tian
influence.
Well
equipped
dormitories;
sane
athletics under faculty supervision.
Expenses rea
sonable.
Location central and healthful.
Departments:
T h e o l o g y , College, H i g h School N o r .
mal.
C o m m e r c i a l , M u s i c a l , Domestic Science, Sewing,
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For
further information address

JOHN H . L E W I S , President
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W i l e y University

Talladega,

Marshall, Texas
Recognized as a college of first class by
Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas and Okla
homa State Boards of Education. Har
vard, Boston University, University of
Illinois and University of Chicago repre
sented or. its faculty.
One hundred
twenty-seven in College Department, ses
sion 1919-1920.
Several new buildings,
steam heated and electric lighted.
M.

Alabama

Founded in 1867 for the E d u c a t i o n of

Negro Leaders
Beautiful and Healthful Location.
Literary, Scientific, Educational, S o
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Service,
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Musical,
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High Standards of Christian M a n
hood and Womanhood.
For further information address

W . DOGAN, President

F . A . S U M N E R , President

"JUST THE PLACE F O R Y O U R

GIRL"

Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls, Daytona,

Fla.

Beautiful location, ideal home life, fine, modern equipment.

Courses include Kindergarten, Primary, Grammar, H i g h , N o r m a l , V o c a t i o n a l .
Nurse Training at M c L e o d Hospital a specialty.
T e r m s reasonable.
S e n d for Catalog.

M A R Y McLEOD B E T H U N E ,

HALE INFIRMARY AND NURSE TRAINING

SCHOOL, 325 Lake Street, Montgomery, Ala.
Offers to H i g h S c h o o l graduates and y o u n g
women o f higher education and good moral
c h a r a c t e r , b e t w e e n the a g e s o f 18 a n d 3 5 , a
t h r e e y e a r s ' c o u r s e in t h e p r o f e s s i o n o f n u r s
ing.
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Principal.

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G 1 B S L A N D ,

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An E p i s c o p a l b o a r d i n g school f o r g i r l s , u n d e r t h e
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Opinion of W.E.B. Du Bois

ATLANTIS

of the greatest events in

the Negro race
publication
in Germany of fifteen vol
umes of African folk-tales and poe
try. It is to be edited by Leo Frobenius and is called "Atlantis".
We
translate literally from the announce
ment :
"During many years of explora
tion, Leo Frobenius
has
gathered
these documents and now at last, sift
ed and arranged, they are ready for
their first complete publication.
The
blameless Ethiopians, 'Beloved of the
Gods', awake again in this strikingly
magnificent poetry of Africa,
which
hitherto was hardly dreamed of. The
discovery of primitive Negro art is
now followed by this revelation of
Negro literature.
It pictures in sur
prising colors clear-thinking men with
depth of soul; peoples with pure ser
enity of mind; poets of astonishing
deftness.
Here humanity speaks with
worldwide feeling; here are wonder
ful motifs, from a field unspoiled by
the hundreds of Romance and Euro
pean poets on stage or vaudeville; in
tale on tale here pulses a strikingly
original style glistening in its peculiar
beauty like the pillars of a classic
temple."

J o u r n e y of Dr. D u B o i s F r o m F i t c h b u r g , M a s s . , b y
Way
of C h a r l e s t o n , N e w Orleans, O k l a h o m a and
D u l u t h to N e w Y o r k 7 , 0 0 0 M i l e s W i t h 38 L e c t u r e s
Before
Audiences
Aggregating
20,000
People.

PAN-AFRICA

T H E R E are powerful groups of

Negroes all over the world.
Their men of light and leading
should know each other and
take counsel for further co-operation.
The centers nearest the largest num
ber of these groups are London and
Paris. A Second Pan-African Con
gress will meet in London August 28
and 2 9 ; at the Palais Mondial, Brus
sels, August 31, September 1 and 2 ;
and at Paris, September 4 and 5.
Write for further information.

This monumental work must be im

mediately translated and published in
English.
The N. A. A. C. P. and the
Pan-African
Congress will see that
this is done. If you are interested
and know of persons able and willing
to aid this great patriotic and hu
manitarian service, please write T H E

7000

I H A V E been journeying seven

thousand miles: from Bunker
Hill to Pittsburg and the Valley of the Shadow of Steal;
from Hampton Roads to Fort Sumter,

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and from the Oranges of Florida to

New Orleans. I have seen the Father
of Waters from mouth to source, to
gether with the Oil Bungalows of
Oklahoma, the Sands of Texas and the
Winds of Kansas. Bull, Palafox and
State Streets, Canal, West Broad
and Beale Avenue, have guided my
feet. I have felt the Spring blushing
in Louisiana and seen the Snow flying
in Duluth.
But through all these
minor things have loomed faces: dark,
wistful faces; eyes sweet with pain;
and ears full of loud laughter; cosy
homes, lynching, lovely children, "Jim
Crow" cars ( 4 , 0 0 0 miles and 5 white
nights in them), slave-songs and the
snarl of human beastshope, caste,
wealth, slavery, grit and despair in
2 0 , 0 0 0 souls whose eyes met mine in
doubt and silent questioning, in sud
den sympathy and tears. Seven thou
sand miles in Afro-America and four
thousand of them "Jim-Crowed". I
have tales to tell.
SLAVERY

SlAVERY
still exists in the
United States. In the courts
of Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan
sas and Texas, human beings are daily
sold into slavery to men like the mur
derer Williams of Jasper County,
Georgia. Throughout the Southbut
especially in the Mississippi and Red
River bottoms, from Memphis south;
in middle and south Georgia and Ala
bama ; and in the Brazos bottoms of
TexasNegroes are held today in as
complete and awful and soul destroy
ing slavery as they were in 1860.
Their overseers ride with guns and
whips; their women are prostitutes
to white owners and drivers; their
children are trained in ignorance, im
morality and crime.
Every Southerner knows this. The
States know it.
The Government
knows it. Distinguished Southerners
are getting wealthy on the system;
the Southern White Church is send

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ing missionaries to Africa on its pro

ceeds; lovely young white ladies are
being finished in exclusive schools on
its dirty blood profits; and yet it goes
on and on and on, and it will go on
until one day its red upheaval will
shake the civilized world.
But there comes a ray of hope.
Georgia is to be congratulated on the
conviction of Williams for murder,
and for the fine spirit of press and
people that stand behind it. The At
lanta Committee on Church Coopera
tion calls the conviction "Georgia's
message to the Negro and to the world
that this Christian State, whatever
may have been conditions in the past
in sore spots within her borders, will
in the future do justice to the N e g r o " ;
and the Atlanta Georgian adds "Geor
gia has renewed her sacred pledge to
civilization."
A m e n ! And the Negro stands ready
to recognize and appreciate every act
of Justice done by the white South.
INTER-RACIAL

COMITY

T H E R E are persons who assume

that the N. A . A . C. P. and
particularly the CRISIS are
opposed to the Inter-racial
Committees in the South and to any
efforts of white Southerners to settle
the problems of race. This is a singu
lar misapprehension. On the contrary,
we count it as one of the great results
of the N. A. A. C. P., that its persist
ent fight in the last ten years has
aroused and even compelled the South
to attempt its own internal reform
Can we not remember the day, but 2 0
years since, when conferences on the
Negro were confined to white men be
cause white Southerners would not sit
with Negroes? That day is gone and
gone forever, and the N. A. A . C. P.
prepared its passports.
The Inter-racial movement sprang
from the fight we have made. If it ac
complishes anything, it will be be
cause of our continued and persistent
fighting. If it fails, it will show the

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need of redoubled effort on our part.

Meantime, how are we meeting it?
If lulled by false hope and vague Not in the wisest way. In the first
promises, we cease our vigilant effort, place, our politicians have not learned
the Inter-racial movement would drop much in the last decade. We had
dead before the c r y : "The Negroes hoped that the intelligent conduct of
are satisfied; why stir up trouble'."
the Negro voter during the war and
This has been the history of all such in the last campaign, added to the
movements in the past. If the pres great critical problems facing our
ent movement succeeds (and God race, would lead to a dignified plan
grant it may) it will be because the of action in conduct and demand after
N. A . A . C. P. neither slumbers nor the new President's accession.
sleeps but keeps to its God-appointed
Such a plan would have included a
task of making every black slave in clear statement to the administration
the United States dissatisfied with his that the Negro expects action and not
slavery, and every white slave-driver blarney from the Republican party,
conscious of his guilt.
and that unless the party in possession
Meantime, may we not advise our of all three branches of government
Inter-racial friends,do not fill your takes steps legally to stop lynching, to
committees with "pussy footers" like abolish inter-state "Jim-Crow" travel,
Robert Moton or "white-folks' Nig to aid common school education and to
gers" like Isaac Fisher. Get more emancipate our brothers in Haiti and
real black men who dare to look you Liberiathat unless Republicans do
in the eye and speak the truth and these things or make earnest effort to
who refuse to fawn and lie. An ounce begin their doing, the Negro vote will
of truth outweighs a ton of impu go to the Labor or Socialist parties in
dence. Do not seek to mislead or lull the very near future.
the Negro with ancient platitudes and
In addition to this, it is proper for
generalities.
Let your "black mam colored leaders in the Republican cam
m y " sleep and show your "best friend paign to suggest certain colored men
ship" by deeds and not words. Do whose fitness and character entitle
something. D o not dodge and duck. them to consideration for appointment
Face the fundamental problems: the to office. First and foremost among
Vote, the "Jim-Crow" car, Peonage such recommendations should have
and Mob-law.
been Dr. George E. Haynes, the
trained colored student whose scien
tific work in the Department of Labor
THE PRESIDENT
THE bourbons have put the has already been so notable. He should
question up to Mr. Harding have been given more money, scope
sooner than we had antici and power. Instead of this, politi
pated. T'he issue is clearly cians have already succeeded in get
drawn: 500 clerks in the Bureau of ting the Secretary of Labor to promise
the Registry of the Treasury do not to oust Haynes forthwith so as to open
want as chief any person of Negro de a few clerkships for "the boys"!
Amid all this the President's mes
scent. They refuse to consider any
man or woman, however educated, sage comes as a clear voice. Against
gifted or fitted for the place, if his or lynching there is the strongest pro
her grandmother was of African de nouncement ever made by a Presi
scent. They do not object to any ig dent; and the general tone on race
norant scoundrel, if only he be matters is finer than Roosevelt's
"white"! Can you conceive such a vague generalities and Wilson's sten
stand? How will Mr. Harding meet torian silences.
Let us respond with an unselfishit?

THE

ness so patent and a breadth of vis

ion so evident that the silly protesters
against race ability will be shamed
to silence.
THE DRIVE

A G A I N the pendulum has

swung: it is no longer a ques
tion of educating the Negro
to his just demands as an
American citizen. He has ceased to
be beguiled by the silly philosophy
that a voteless, spineless suppliant
who owns a three-story brick house
is going to command anybody's re
spect.
But today comes the question of
practical, efficient means of getting
the rights which he has at last been
persuaded he wants.
Into the field have jumped a hoard
of scoundrels and bubble-blowers,
ready to conquer Africa, join the Rus
sian revolution, and vote in the King
dom of God tomorrow. It is without
doubt certain that Africa will some
day belong to the Africans; that
steamship lines and grocery stores,
properly organized and run, are ex
cellent civilizers; and that we are in
desperate need today of organized in
dustry and organized righteousness.
But what are the practical steps to
these things? By yelling? By pour
ing out invective and vituperation
against all white folk? By collecting
the pennies of the ignorant poor in
shovelsful and refusing to account for
them, save with bombast and lies?
Or is it reason and decency to unite
on a program which says: the battle
of Negro rights is to be fought right
here in America; that here we must
unite to fight lynching and "JimCrow" cars, to settle our status in the
courts, to put our children in school
and maintain our free ballot.
Far from being discouraged in the
light, we are daily more and more tri
umphant.
Yesterday 1,650 Negro
women voted in New Orleans. Never
since 1876 have so many Negroes

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voted in the South as in the last elec

tion.
Our fight for right has the
enemy on the run. He has had to re
treat to mob violence, secret and silly
mummery, clumsy and hypocritical
promises. Twenty-five years more of
the intelligent fighting that the N. A .
A. C. P. has led will make the black
man in the United States free and
equal.
Our enemies know this. They are
scared.
They are hastening to lay
down a barrage of suspicion and per
sonal bickering. They are encourag
ing and advertising any and all crazy
schemes, to cut and run from the hard
and bloody battle here, to Africa and
the South Seas. Africa needs her
children, but she needs them trium
phant, victorious, and not as povertystricken and cowering refugees.
Are we going to be misled fools, or
are we going to put a quarter of a mil
lion level-headed, determined and un
wavering black men and women back
of the N. A. A . C. P. to continue the
battle so nobly and successfully be
gun ? Answer, black folk of America,
this month!
ANTI-LYNCHING

LEGISLATION

DURING the last five years the

N. A. A. C. P. has carried on
a campaign against lynching,
conducted in accordance with
the most approved methods of public
ity. This campaign has been financed
by philanthropists North and South,
and black and white, and by wide
spread popular subscription. We have
never heard any serious criticism of
our campaign save, naturally, from
those who oppose any effort to defend
and emancipate black folk.
Our accomplishment from all our
effort may thus be summarized:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

(5)

Investigated
m o r e than a s c o r e o f
lynchings
and race riots
K e p t an a c c u r a t e r e c o r d o f l y n c h i n g s
P u b l i s h e d the o n l y s t a t i s t i c a l s t u d y o f l y n c h i n g s
ever compiled
S e n t 4 , 4 6 2 , 8 9 9 c o p i e s o f the C R I S I S t o e v e r y
s t a t e in the U n i o n a n d t o e v e r y c o u n t r y o n the
globe
Sent out hundreds
o f n e w s releases
During
the y e a r o f 1920 a l o n e 131 p r e s s s t o r i e s w e r e
sent o u t f r o m the N a t i o n a l
Office

SAINT-GEORGE,

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)
(11)

(12)

(13)

(14)

(15)

H e l d more than 2 , 0 0 0 public meetings, attended

by more than 3 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 people, at which speak
ers acquainted the audiences with the facts about
lynchings
Sent literature on lynching, with actual photo
graphs of lynchings and burnings at the staxe,
all over the civilized world
Fought successfully
three
notable
extradition
cases when attempts were made to carry colored
men accused of crimes from Northern States
back to sections of the South where the men
w o u l d probably have been lynched
H e l d in N e w Y o r k City in M a y , 1 9 1 9 , a great
and successful conference against lynching.
The
call for this conference was signed by 1 2 0 of the
leading citizens of the country, 2 0 of them from
Southern States.
T h e number included 5 gov
ernors, 4 ex-governors, members of Congress,
j u d g e s of the higher courts, members of the
President's cabinet, and other men and women
prominent in the nation's affairs
Issued the " A d d r e s s to the Mation
Raised and expended since 1911 in the fight
against lynching $ 3 3 , 9 2 8 . 5 6 this amount being
spent for investigations, printing and publicity
of all kinds, meetings and conferences
Secured the passage of a law in K e n t u c k y pro
viding for the punishment of any peace officer
w h o allows a prisoner to be taken from him and
lynched
Secured the introduction of anti-lynching bills
in both houses of Congress.
F o r the first time
the H o u s e Committee on the Judiciary reported
favorably on such a bill during the second ses
sion of the 66th Congress
Presented to committees of both the Senate and
the
House
of
Representatives
of Congress,
through its representatives, evidence and testi
m o n y showing the necessity of a Federal law
against lynching
Furnished lawyers to defend colored men in
volved in lynching cases; secured the acquittal,
for example, of 12 of 13 colored men arrested
in connection with the lynchings at Duluth, M i n n . ,
in June 1 9 2 0 , totally disproving the charge that
criminal assault on a young girl had been com
mitted by any of the three men lynched; de
f e n d e d since October, 1 9 1 9 , 12 men sentenced to
death and 67 to prison terms, thus preventing a
legal lynching in Phillips C o u n t y , A r k .
1

In addition to these things we have

freely given help and information to
other organizations, and when the col
ored Republican campaign committee
asked the aid of our legal department
in drawing an anti-lynching bill, we
freely and gladly gave it.
We are surprised and disappointed,
therefore, to receive from Perry How

CHEVALIER

OF

FRANCE

ard an appeal for funds to finance a

new organization to push an antilynching bill. This move is defen
sible only if the methods and aims of
the N. A . A . C. P. in the anti-lynch
ing campaign were failing. But this
new organization is pushing practical
ly the same bill by identical methods.
Is not this move, therefore, the
same futile division of effort and
clouding of issues which continually
misleads and discourages the Negroes,
and gives j o y to the Bourbon South?
Would not these gentlemen convince
the public of their disinterested efforts
if they supported established agencies
and proven work rather than attempt
ed to build on new lines and to risk
all that has been gained without hope
of doing more?
The strength of the N. A. A. C. P.
has been its singleness of aim. We
did not rescue Haiti in order to annex
the $10,000 salary of the Haitian
Minister; we are not fighting lynch
ing in order to become Recorder of
Deeds; and our promotion of business
enterprise has no string on the Regis
try of the Treasury. This does not
mean that we are unmindful of the
right of competent black men to hold
office,indeed we strongly emphasize
and maintain this rightbut we in
sist that this is subordinate and un
important beside our fight for free
dom, and we refuse to have our most
sacred right played with as pawns to
official preferment.

SAINT-GEORGE, CHEVALIER OF FRANCE

JESSIE

T H E R E is a street in B a s s e - T e r r e , Guadeloupe, which since November, 1912,

has b o r n e the name Saint-George.
The
F r e n c h h a v e a c h a r m i n g and p r a i s e w o r t h y
custom o f p a y i n g p r a c t i c a l h o m a g e to
their heroes. One's mind m i g h t not connect
up w i t h a m e m o r i a l w r e a t h o r a statue,
but it is difficult to f o r b e a r recalling the
m e m o r y o f a man when one treads the

FAUSET

street which bears his name.

T h e man w h o had this honor bestowed on
him one hundred and seventy-seven years
after he w a s born w a s Joseph Boulogne
Saint-George, known in later years all over
F r a n c e as le Chevalier de
Saint-George.
H e w a s born in 1745 in the town o f BasseTerre, Guadeloupe, and although he won
his fame in E u r o p e , the little town in the

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THE

CRISIS

tropics never f o r g o t him and one day was

glad to memorialize him.
Saint-George
was the son of a black woman and of a
Frenchman, a comptroller-general, M. de
Boulogne, who called his mulatto son SaintGeorge after the stateliest vessel in the
harbor of Guadeloupe.
In spite of the w r o n g which Boulogne
had inflicted on the child's mother, o r per
haps because of it, he did all in his p o w e r
to advance his son's interests. The latter
was taken to France while still very y o u n g
and placed under the care of the most fa
mous and skilful teachers.
Y o u n g SaintGeorge seems really to have beento use
an old-fashioned but effective expression
"a man of parts". H e was not only remark
ably versatile in his tastes and inclinations,
but remarkably endowed with the ability to
attain perfection in them.
He skated ad
mirably, shone as a marksman, sat and rode
a horse with ease, and danced <i merveille.
Y e t these were only side issues with him.
His real talents concerned themselves with
fencing and music. A n d it is hard to think
of any combination of gifts which would
have so completely challenged the admira
tion o f France.
His fencing-master, La
Boessiere, considered him a m o n g his few
finest pupils, and his skill and a c c u r a c y in
this art made it almost impossible for him
to move without a host o f admirers.
In
1766 he crossed swords with the g r e a t Ital
ian fencer, Faldoni. Evidently this was not
to his disadvantage f o r his biographer,
Laurencie, gives this as evidence o f his
p r o w e s s ; while a passage in the Memoirs
du General Bon de Marbot
characterizes
him as the strongest blade in F r a n c e . Later
when Saint-George met with reverses of
fortune he made his skill with the foils
stand him in good stead.
In spite of the time and devotion which
must have been spent in order to b r i n g
about such a perfection in this art, it i:on his skill as a musician, a violinist, that
Saint-George's fame most rests. Y e t it is
interesting and inspiring to stop a minute
to get a glimpse o f the life which he led
apart f r o m his g r e a t calling.
Indubitably he was a man of the world
and of fashion.
His father had left him
an income of from 7,000 to 8,000 livres,
not much even in those days when money
was worth more than it is now, j u t enough
to make him independent. He spent, how

ever, like a modern millionaire, frequented

the finest society o f P a r i s a n d a c c o r d i n g
to L a Boessiere, " l o v e d " ( p r e s u m a b l y the
l a d i e s ) , "and knew how to make himself
loved".
His nature was s y m p a t h e t i c , his
manners e n g a g i n g ; he w a s an unfeigned
sentimentalist and although L a u r e n c i e (but
not his picture) speaks o f him as " h o m e l y " ,
he was very attractive to the w o m e n o f his
day. His feats won him admission every
where.
D u r i n g the years s u c c e e d i n g 1770 h e
paid really serious attention to his m u s i c .
H e had already studied c o m p o s i t i o n with
Gossec, w h o admired h i m g r e a t l y and in
1766 dedicated to him as Opus I X , " S i x
T r i o s f o r T w o Violins and B a s s . " In the
winter of 1772-1773 he played at the Con
cert des Amateurs t w o concertos o f his own
f o r violin with orchestra.
The
Mercure,
an important paper o f the time, spoke o f
these concertos highly, and later they a c
quired considerable v o g u e ; y e t they w e r e
only a b e g i n n i n g to be followed in June,
1773, b y s i x s t r i n g quartets.
T h i s is es
pecially significant since Laurencie de
clares that Gossec and S a i n t - G e o r g e w e r e
the first F r e n c h musicians to write string
quartets.
T h e eclat w o n by Saint-George as v i r
tuoso and c o m p o s e r served to win him the
coveted post o f d i r e c t o r o f the Concert des
Amateurs.
Musical h o n o r s thronged on
him. In 1775 he b r o u g h t out t h r o u g h the
publisher Bailleux, a series o f c o n c e r t o s , to
be followed by the end o f the y e a r with a
collection of Symphonies concertantes.
It
is pleasant to k n o w that Gossec, n o w direc
tor o f the Concert Spirituel, had one o f
these played on Christmas D a y .
In 1777 his versatility took on a new
turn and he essayed the theatre, presenting
Ernestine, a comedy at the Comedie Italienne. T h e libretto w a s not w o r t h mention
ing but the music w a s excellent, b e a r i n g a
distinct flavor o f Gluck.
L a t e r he p r o
duced T h e H u n t (La Chasse),
which suc
ceeded f a i r l y well.
The most important
feature in connection with this t h e p t adventure w a s that it b r o u g h t h i m to the
attention o f M m e . de Montesson, w i f e o f
the Duke o f Orleans, w h o attached him to
her theatre. A l s o she g a v e h i m a position
in the Duke's hunting establishment with
the title o f " L i e u t e n a n t o f the H u n t o f
Pinci."
H e gained some little distinction

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CHEVALIER

y a c t i n g not only in M a d a m e de Montesson's theatre, but also on the private stage

which the M a r q u i s e de L a M o n t a l e m b e r t
had set up in her own home. T h u s w r i t i n g
and a c t i n g S a i n t - G e o r g e b e c a m e a wellk n o w n theatrical figure.
The manuscript
score o f his A n o n y m o u s L o v e r
(L'Amant
Anonyme)
is still in the l i b r a r y o f the
Paris conservatory.
W i t h the death o f the D u k e o f Orleans,
S a i n t - G e o r g e lost his position in the hunt
and w i t h it a f a i r a m o u n t o f his income.
It w a s this o c c u r r e n c e which made him h a v e
recourse to his f e n c i n g in o r d e r to rehabili
tate himself. F r o m this time, 1775 to 1791,
he seems t o h a v e lived between Paris and
London, playing- and fencing, it is true, and
yet p u r s u i n g a course curiously checkered
b y adventure and political intrigue.
It
must be remembered that F r a n c e at this
point w a s p a s s i n g t h r o u g h parlous tim<"and the f o r t u n e s o f Saint-George seem t o
h a v e followed those o f his beloved foster
country.
T h e r e is an odd confusion and contradic
tion a m o n g the books and papers which
mention h i m here.
B u t w h a t is iplain is
that in 1791 he w a s living in Lille and w a s
a captain in the National Guard.
Further
p r o o f of his v e r s a l i t v !
M o r e o v e r in 1792
" h e raised a b o d y o f light t r o o p s under the
name o f 'Sair>t-Gpora e's L e g i o n , ' recruited
a m o n g men o f c o l o r " !
This is easily the
most a m a z i n g o f his m a n y amazing feats.
One w o n d e r s w h e r e he found t h e m !
L a t e r he w a s arbitrarily removed, al
though the M a y o r and city officials o f
Lille paid the highest possible tributes to
his services and b r a v e r y .
I think this
broke his gallant s p i r i t ; his life thereafter
seemed to lack motive.
H e wandered to
Santo D o m i n g o , t o o k p a r t in a revolt, w a s
nearly killed, came b a c k to Paris and lived
in a condition almost poverty-stricken, due,
one feels, to a lack o f interest rather
than to a lack o f opportunity. W h e n death
came to him in June, 1799, he greeted it
like a bewildered child w e a r y f o r sleep.
,

Such an unusual, such an e n g a g i n g and

above all such an e x o t i c figure could
fail to appeal t o the imagination o f a peo
ple like the F r e n c h . M a n y a saying, m a n y
legend centred about that slender, g r a c e
ful figure o f the mysterious origin, o f the
g r e a t reclame gained f r o m foil and violin.
R o g e r B e a u v o i r inevitably makes him

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11

the hero o f one of his novels, " L e Cheva

lier de Saint-Georges," and although his
style is a trifle melodramatic, his statement
of facts w e are assured, is usually accurate.
So the following p a r a g r a p h s o u g h t t o give
some idea o f the status of Saint-George
in his hey-day. Boullogne (the father o f
the real Saint-George had the s a m e name
with one 1) has concealed his identity f r o m
the distinguished fencer, but on learning
that the redoubtable Saint-Georges is to
meet his white son Maurice (also n a t u r a l )
in a duel, he tells him his secret. W e trans
late:
" ' T h a t day at Versailles,' said the old
man, 'I w a s sitting beside the Duke o f Bur
gundy, when on t u r n i n g around I spied in
the r e a r o f the n e x t b o x , ai face which the
gloom seemed t o make still gloomier. A t the
first note of the violin, the face was uplifted,
and I recognized a mulatto.
I asked his
name. E v e r y one was amazed at m y ignor
ance. " B u t he is all the r a g e ; the finest
gentlemen imitate him.
T h e ladies wear
his favorite c o l o r s ; he is the life and pride
of e v e r y p a r t y ! " Nevertheless the sight o f
him caused in m e an unspeakable revulsion.
I had j u s t recognized in him that son w h o m
I had forced m y s e l f to abandon. M y tawny
sweetheart, his mother, had baptised her
son under the name which this man bore,
her letters had refused to let me ignore it.
If, h o w e v e r , I confess, my thoughts ever
turned t o w a r d that son, it was to think of
him as a being doomed to share the humili
ation o f slaves, to semi-barbarism f o r his
sole upbringing.
I had not dreamed that
he could ever shake aside the shame of his
fetters. I trembled when I s a w h i m ; doubt
less he would betray me b y his transports,
by his caresses. I became reassured, h o w
ever, when I saw that he was unacquainted
with a single fact o f my life. " H i s mother",
I said to myself, " N o e m i , angel that she is,
would kill herself but she w o u l d not tell
him that he is my son." '
" ' N o e m i ! ' cried Saint-Georges, s p r i n g i n g
to his feet, deathly pale.
His wretched father continues.
" 'Only
yesterday you w e r e the butt o f m y sar
casm.
N o w you k n o w the reason of m y
pitiless disdain. T o d a y the idea o f brother
arming against brother, forces me t o rend
f o r you alone, this veil which y o u r glance
has never been able to pierce. Once m o r e
you cannot fight with M a u r i c e : both o f y o u

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are of my own blood! Surely you will

not make betrayal of myself to you vain!
Speak to me: I await at your hands the
fate of your brother. . . .
" 'What would you have me give you
in return?'
" 'The reparation of an injustice, the
blotting out of all the wrongs which you
have made my mother suffer.'
" 'Saint-Georges!'
" 'Do you hesitate? So shall I hesitat"
to recognize in Maurice a brother.'
" 'You forget, Saint-Georges, that today
you have entrenched on my confidence . . .
you are, you shall always be my son!' . . .
" 'Why should I acknowledge you as my

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father? I do not know you. Sir ComptrollerGeneral, you are mistaken. I am merely a
mulatto, a poor mulatto who knows only
his mother!
She alone reared me, she
alone gave me shelter and bread! Leave me,
sir! Leave me!'
"He seized his sword; he struck with his
foot the door of the room . . . Noemi was
standing on the threshold.
" 'Mother,' cried the Chevalier, 'he has
told me everything, he is willing to ac
knowledge me as his son. Mother, you have
your revenge!' "
I close the book with a sigh for the gal
lant, splendid figure, not one whit more
gallant or splendid than his shining proto
type!

THE BLACK SWAN

MARIA

MORAVSKY

pTANIA
POLANOV,
a student, meets the
"Black Sivan" in the park of Odessa,
Russia.
She is a dancer in the theatre, and
as they talk she tells him, with
changing
countenance,
of her dead Negro father
in
America whose memory she loves.
But Vania did not notice how she
changed. His imagination was stirred by
the word: Negro.
"A Negro?" he repeated, "so your father
came from Africa like the arap of Peter
the Great? How wonderful! Was he an
African prince? You look like a princess."
She looked at him questioningly.
No,
he was not sneering at her. Pure admira
tion and wonder sounded in his voice.
"Who was the colored man, you named?"
she asked with shy curiosity.
"He was not a colored man, he was a
genuine black, an African Prince. He was
the great-grandfather of our most famous
poet, Alexander Pushkin. Did you not see
his statue on the Sea Boulevard?"
The girl recalled faintly a bust with the
familiar curly head. Yes, the bronze figure
on the boulevard looked much like her folks
from Virginia. So the Russians honored a
Negro? It seemed strange to her.
"Tell me more about it," she asked.
Vania willingly told her all he knew from
the text books about the famous African and
his descendant.
How arap Ibrahim was
made a favorite courtier of the Emperor
1

*An ancient name for a Negro.

and married a beautiful woman of the no

bility. "She was the great-grandmother of
Alexander Pushkin. He wrote wonderful
poems, you know! I must recite some of
them to you. People say that his songs
were so full of joy because his ancestors
came from sunny Africa."
The girl listened to Vania with deep ex
citement, as one who had been heartsick for
years would listen to the news of possible
cure.
"My father was not a prince," she said
slowly with a strange, hopeful smile. "He
was just a plain workingman. But he sang
wonderfully! I will sing his favorite songs
for you, if you like. Don't you really mind,
that I am dark?"
"You are beautiful!" he exclaimed sin
cerely.
She believed in his admiration.
Happy
tears brightened her eyes. She turned her
face up toward the moon and began to
sing in a sweet low voice an old minstrelsong.
Vania listened attentively to the moan
ing melody, then took the guitar and tried
to accompany her voice.
"I like it," he said softly. "It reminds
me of our peasants' songs. Can you trans
late it into Russian?"
"I had better not. The words are too
sad . . ."
She sighed and looked with regret at the
reddening moon. "I must go home, it is
getting late," she said.

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BLACK

" W i l l you take me to m y hotel? I suppose

Smith is w o r r y i n g w h y I have not y e t re
turned. H e is anxious f o r m e , because I am
his fortune.
H e makes his living present
i n g m e . . . H e is a w f u l l y afraid that I
m a y m a r r y some d a y . "
V a n i a took her to the quiet summer
gostinnitza, w h i c h stood in the peach g a r
den n e a r the liman.
B e f o r e they parted
he asked her shyly if
she w o u l d be so kind
as to come once m o r e
to the p a r k o f Hadji
Bey.
" O f course!
You
will
teach
me
the
Russkaya!
I
will
come next S a t u r d a y
at n o o n . "
S a y i n g g o o d - b y e to
the B l a c k S w a n , V a
nia put her little dark
hand to his forehead.
H e wanted
to c o n
vince himself that she
was not a vision.

SWAN

13

" L e t us try to sneak in without t i c k e t s ! "

they planned.
Only a f e w o f them could spend such a
fortune in order to see the Black Swan.
( S h e had put this name on the bills.) T h e y
promised solemnly to sit through only half
of the p e r f o r m a n c e , then g o out and give
their tickets to the others.
" W e will see
her in two turns," they j o k e d .

III.
W h e n V a n i a came
to school a f e w days
later he heard g r e a t
n e w s : the Allies were
g o i n g to leave
the
city.
" T h e i r sailors muti
nied.
The
Soviets
will be here a g a i n ! "
said the b o y s . V a n i a
did not take p a r t in
the
discussion
of
these
events.
His
soul w a s too full of
the
meeting
with
Black
Swan.
H e
could not think about
anything else.
' D a n c i n g A l o n e U n d e r the W e e p i n g W i l l o w . "
B u t they talked o f
V a n i a had no money to g o to the theatre.
her a l s o ! L a r g e advertisements w e r e past
ed t h r o u g h o u t the city announcing the ar But he aroused common envy when he
rival o f "the g r e a t A m e r i c a n dancer". T h e boasted:
b o y s w e r e v e r y anxious to see her, but it
"I saw her off the s t a g e ! "
was scarcely possible. The prices f o r tick
" L u c k y c h a p ! People say she is a won
ets w e r e prohibitive.
der!
The American
correspondent,that
" O n l y the f o r e i g n soldiers can afford to clean-shaven man with short trousers and
an 'eternal pen' w h o is always asking ques
p a y so m a n y roubles f o r a t i c k e t ! "
" T h e y h a v e real money, A m e r i c a n dol tions,he saw her in Siberia and calls her
a miracle."
l a r s ! " complained the b o y s with envy.

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THE

V a n i a promised the boys to show them

the Black Swan.
" Y o u have planned to make bonfires t o
night. W e m a y light them in the park o f
Hadji Bey and ask the lady to j o i n o u r
party. I will meet her there."
" L o o k at h i m !
Our tihonia'
H e has
already a date with h e r ! " wondered V a n i a ' s
comrades.
" W h e n the evening came and the boys
arrived at the cool park, they s a w the slim
dark girl in black dress and scarlet slippers,
dancing alone under the weeping willow.
They lay noiselessly down on the grass and
watched her in silence. T h e irrepressible
Kolia could not restrain his admiration and
shouted l o u d l y :
"Fine!
Splendid!"
T h e girl slipped away. V a n i a ran after
her and explained that his friends wanted
to see her very much. She was amused and
pleased, but did not w a n t to dance any more.
She felt shy.
"It was not real dancing, you k n o w . Just
exercises. I practice here, because the hotel
is too noisy."
T h e boys whispered:
" H o w dark she is! She looks like A b d u l
lah, the A f r i c a n prize fighter, w e saw last
winter."
" Y e s , but she is so much prettier!"
" I s she an A f r i c a n , t o o ? "
" M a y b e . T r u l y she dances beautifully!"
" T h i s is good luck! W e saw her without
paying f o r tickets!"
T h e y laughed. Black Swan complained.
" V a n i a , they are laughing at m e ! "
" O h , no, impossible! They admire y o u !
Nobody dares to laugh at you, krasavitza!'
She believed him.
She wanted to b e
friendly with the boys. She helped them to
gather the dry branches f o r the fire. Soon
the bright flame mounted high, reddening
the blue dimness of the moon-lit park, filling
the air with warmth and smoke.
The
sparks dropped through the air like fall
ing stars.
T h e boys j u m p e d over the bonfires. E v
ery high j u m p was greeted with shouts and
laughter.
They wanted the Black Swan to join this
wild entertainment.
" C o m e on, t r y !
It is great fun.
Girls
do it quite often. Don't be so s h y ! "
But she did not enjoy the fires. A strange
expression came over her face, a mixture
J
J

A little, quiet one.

M y beauty.

CRISIS

of pity, pain, hatred . . .

H e r eyes aged
suddenly, as if the inherited suffering o f
many generations had come to their sur
face . . . But nobody could read their look
in the pale moonlight, dimmed with smoke.
T h e y j o k e d her, c a l l i n g h e r a c o w a r d .
T h e y tried to p r o v e b y f o r c e that fire j u m p
ing is great fun. T w o l a u g h i n g b o y s grasped
her arms and d r a g g e d her to the blazing,
crackling heap.
She resisted with all her strength.
As
she s a w the flame nearer, her eyes opened
wider and wider, till they b e c a m e t w o mir
rors o f h o r r o r .
She uttered a w o r d in E n g l i s h . A cruel
w o r d , invented in A m e r i c a . T h e b o y s did
not understand it.
B u t such wild t e r r o r
sounded in it, that they sobered at once
and let her alone.
" W h a t happened to you, little l a d y ? Did
they h u r t y o u ? " asked V a n i a anxiously,
g r a s p i n g her hand.
" N o ! " she whispered with lips g r e y like
ashes.
" W e r e you s c a r e d ? Y o u look so dis
tressed!" H e spoke with gentle pity. Then
t u r n i n g toward the b o y s :
" Y o u r a s c a l s ! Y o u must not handle a
lady as if she w e r e a b o y . "
T h e boys looked embarrassed.
" W e did
not mean anything w r o n g . " T h e y muttered.
" W e just wanted to show her h o w t o j u m p . "
V a n i a tried to excuse his c o m r a d e s :
" Y o u must not mind them, milaya.
They
are rather rough, b u t they are good fel
lows. Please, don't be a n g r y with us, m y
little s w a l l o w ! "
A t the sound o f his gentle w o r d s tears
came to her eyes. It w a s such a c o n t r a s t
with the terrible r e m e m b r a n c e o f the l y n c h
i n g ! H e r nerves could n o t stand it.
She
w e p t aloud on his shoulder.
" T h e y b u r n t m y father a l i v e ! " she re
peated desperately. " T h e white people m u r
dered m y f a t h e r ! "
V a n i a w a s silent.
H e remembered the
horrible stories printed
in the
papers,
stories which he did not b e l i e v e : S o m e w h e r e
in A m e r i c a , in that free, h i g h l y civilized re
public, black people w e r e tortured and b u r n t
alive like the witches o f old . . .
He
thought then that the Russian n e w s p a p e r
men had invented these stories, because
A m e r i c a n s started the intervention . . . H e
soon f o r g o t them, f o r he w a s never m u c h
interested in politics and political lies.
B u t this w a s not a lie. A girl, w e e p i n g
bitterly on his shoulder, whispered in his

THE

BLACK

e a r the cruel details o f the deed . . . T h e y

did do it,the A m e r i c a n s did it to her own
father!
H e must b e l i e v e !
I n d i g n a t i o n stirred his heart. H e tight
ened his fists.
B u t he could o n l y v a g u e l y
i m a g i n e the offenders, they w e r e so f a r
a w a y . . . H i s a n g e r faded soon.
Vania
could not hate s t r o n g l y ; he k n e w better h o w
to pity.
G r e a t p i t y overwhelmed his heart. H e
kissed the dark head resting helplessly on
his shoulder and repeated the gentlest w o r d s
he k n e w f r o m the peasant's' love s o n g s :
" M y e v e n i n g star, m y flower-by-the-brook,
m y little s o u l ! "
IV.
T h e s t o r y o f B l a c k S w a n stirred Vania's
peaceful mind as a h e a v y stone t h r o w n in a
calm lake . . . H e t h o u g h t with g r e a t sad
ness a b o u t the f a r a w a y c o u n t r y where the
people w e r e so d a r k as not to understand
that God created all races equal.
B u t he could not t h i n k l o n g about any
general p r o b l e m . H e had the soul o f a
child in spite o f his nineteen years, and was
v e r y self-centered.
So he p u t aside the
question o f h o w to " e n l i g h t e n " A m e r i c a and
tried to find salvation f o r the B l a c k Swan.
"Certainly, y o u m u s t never r e t u r n t o
such a cruel c o u n t r y ! " he declared. " Y o u
must stay here, in Russia.
Y o u will b e
m a d e a citizen at once,and we h a v e equal
suffrage, y o u k n o w . "
She sighed sadly.
She remembered the
n e w s o f c o m i n g S o v i e t rule.
"Odessa will soon be abandoned by the
Allied t r o o p s , " she said, "and then Ole
would not stay here, o f course. H e says
Russians c a n n o t p a y well f o r entertain
ment . . . "
"Leave him!"
"I cannot do that, dear. Ole Smith was
always kind to m e . Y o u must not think that
all A m e r i c a n s are cruel. H e p a y s me well,
buys m e nice clothes and sends m o n e y to
m y mother. She lives in Paris,
w e emi
grated after that terrible thing o c c u r r e d . "
" Y o u h a v e w o r k e d enough f o r him. Did
y o u not say the other day that he had made
a f o r t u n e out of y o u ? D o n ' t p i t y such a
b i g s t r o n g man.
H e can earn his living
with his o w n hands."
Surely she longed to remain in Russia,
in the c o u n t r y w h e r e her r a c e was not de
spised, w h e r e she w a s loved b y a kind R u s
sian b o y . B u t she did not think it possible.
" H o w a b o u t m y mother, V a n i a ? "
" W e will send her m o n e y . Y o u m a y

SWAN

15

dance f o r the People's Theatre.

Is it not
a splendid idea? W e appreciate good ar
tists. Y o u r mother m a y come here also."
" O h , V a n i a , it would be splendid, but y o u
f o r g e t that Russian m o n e y has no value
abroad, and m y mother could not g e t a
passport to Russia . . .
I don't believe
there will be any peace with y o u r c o u n t r y !
A n d if I leave Smith, he w o u l d get a n g r y
and stop supporting my mother. Oh, I don't
see any w a y of settling i t ! "
Despair sounded in her voice. T h e b o y
was silent f o r a l o n g time. Neither o f them
noticed h o w f a r they went f r o m the others.
Vania's comrades called them several times,
but in vain. Their plaintive songs were
heard faintly f r o m the distance. T h e y left
the p a r k of Hadji B e y .
T h e moon w a s setting. T h e dry grass of
liman smelt sweetly and strongly, awaken
ing passionate desires. . . . T h e spell o f the
w a r m and scentful southern summer pre
vented V a n i a f r o m thinking clearly.
He
j u s t wanted to take this gentle girl in his
arms and protect her f r o m any evil. H e
bent to her and kissed slowly her great,
mournful eyes. It seemed to him that she
embodied all the scents o f the dark south
ern night.
She returned his kisses. F o r the first time
her lips touched his. H e recalled the song
about a starbeam that fell on the f a c e o f
a lover . . .
" B u t w e must think! Sit down, m y little
swallow, and let us decide w h a t to do . . .
Y o u must not g o a w a y . I shall die if m y
Black Swan flies a w a y f r o m m e ! "
T h e y could not come to any decision that
night.
T h e y exchanged sweet smiles and
enchanted looks, which have the same mean
ing f o r every race . . . T h e y f o r g o t all
about the hatred dividing the maddened na
tions,-for them all the world was united
b y love.
A f t e r a sleepless night V a n i a formed a
plan to save his Black Swan. H e shared it
with his comrades w h o had seen the dancer
in the theatre and admired her.
" W o u l d n ' t it be g r e a t to have her forever
f o r the c o m m u n i t y t h e a t r e ? " he asked.
"I think y o u want her f o r yourself as
well as f o r the c o m m u n i t y " teased his
friend Kolia.
" S u r e l y ! " admitted V a n i a with boyish
frankness.
"I love her. W i l l y o u not help
me?"
T h e boys shook hands with him and swore
that they would do everything he asked.

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THE

CRISIS

She was undoubtedly murdered, then the

body was throxvn into the water.
No mo
tive has been discovered for the crime; it
seems quite meaningless.
The only possi
ble explanation is that the Russians, cor
rupted by communism,
have grown
so
bloodthirsty as to . . ."
There followed several p a r a g r a p h s d e
scribing details of the mysterious murder.
It was said, a m o n g other thrilling things,
that heart-breaking cries had been heard
from the lake by the guests of the n e a r b y
hotel. T h e y supposed that the girl had been
"tortured by the g a n g o f h o o d l u m s " .
N o t all o f these details w e r e invented b y
the industrious correspondent.
P e o p l e in
the hotel did hear cries. B u t this is w h a t
" D o n ' t be so depressed, girlie, or you will
really h a p p e n e d :
not dance well. D o n ' t f o r g e t that t o m o r r o w
A f t e r the well-staged k i d n a p p i n g scene,
we have the performance at the military
the boys took off their masks and B l a c k
headquarters."
Swan saw the fair ' y o u n g faces, smiling
"I will try to be cheerful . . . But prom
kindly at her.
ise me, please, what I asked!"
" T h i s is our future s t a r ! " said V a n i a
" W h y , certainly! I don't believe your su
triumphantly.
" S h e has consented to dance
perstitious forebodings, but if anything
in the People's Theatre.
She is the best
really happened I would send the old woman
dancer you ever saw and she is m y sweet
her money just the same every month, as I
promised you before w e came here."
heart!"
H e put his hands on her shoulders and
"Oh, you are so kind, M r . Smith."
kissed her on both cheeks like a child.
" N o t at all. Y o u deserved it. W e have
E v e r y o n e of the boys shook hands with
worked so many seasons together . . . Y o u
are a very good girl, but you have moods
the " k i d n a p p e d " girl. T h e y s h o u t e d : " W e l
too often."
come to our c o m m u n i t y ! "
" L o n g live Black S w a n ! "
"Can't I have moods from time to time?
I am not a dancing machine!"
" W e hope you will be h a p p y in R u s s i a ! "
All these friendly greetings flooded her
" A l l right, don't be c r o s s ! W a n t some
heart with an u n k n o w n j o y . She w a s fa
amusement? Y o u must get rid of the blues,
mous and adored before in E n g l a n d and
you know . . . "
France, but those audiences had admired
"Please, take me on a ride around the
her as a toy. Here she was treated as a
park, will y o u ?
It is such a beautiful
nearest friend, a sister.
night!"
T h e j o y was almost unbearable. It verged
" N o t to-night.
W e will ride to-morrow
on pain. She must express it o r it would
before the performance, if you are a good
girl."
choke her! She wanted to dance. Oh, never
before had she had such a fierce desire to
T h a t evening Vania found a little scrap
of paper, shoved under the stone at the lake.
dance!
It read:
She threw up her slim dark hands.
Her
"To-morrow
Evening, After
Sunset.
body s w a y e d rythmically. She w a s the liv
ing instrument on which j o y played an
B. S."
V
eternal m e l o d y !
A f e w days later, the A m e r i c a n corre
" B o y s , attention! Black S w a n is g o i n g
spondent, sitting in the comfortable British
to dance f o r u s ! "
Embassy, clicked out rapidly on his portable
It was V a n i a w h o said it. Russian V a n i a ,
typewriter:
her sweetheart! H e w h o kissed her before
"A terrible affair happened here last
his friends, he w h o was proud of h e r ! Oh,
night An American dancer, known at home
she must dance beautifully!
as 'Molly the Blackbird', was kidnapped
She wanted to j u m p , to whirl m a d l y , but
by a gang of masked men. Her scarf was
she restrained herself. - N o t yet,she re
found near the lake in the suburban park.
membered the w o r d s o f her old Spanish

T h e Black Swan was not only a good

dancer, but also a good actress . . . One
evening, after a meeting with Vania, who
explained to her the plan o f her rescue, she
approached her i m p r e s a r i o :
"Oh, Mr. Smith, I think I will never re
turn h o m e ! "
"Why?"
"I have such dark presentments! I am
afraid that I m a y die, o r something terri
ble may happen to m e ! M y mother always
warned me not to go to this dangerous
country!"
She sighed, " P r o m i s e me, if anything bad
happens to me, you will not let her k n o w !
I don't want her to suffer."

FOR

t e a c h e r : " D a n c i n g must be h a r m o n i o u s . "

She began to m o v e slowly, like a swan
j u s t awakened by the first rays o f sun
rise. She lifted and lowered her arms, as
if t r y i n g to fly. T h e long and w i d e sleeves
o f her black dress fluttered like real wings.
T h e b o y s watched her in silence. T h e red
crescent moon arose a b o v e the b a y .
The
d r y g r a s s o f liman, rustling faintly under
the sudden breeze, smelt like exhilarating
incense. T h e r e was no music to a c c o m p a n y
her dance, b u t the air was filled with un
heard m e l o d y . . .
She m o v e d m o r e and more swiftly.
It
was difficult to watch her movements in the
dim shining o f the moon.
" L i g h t ! " commanded V a n i a .
T h e b o y s snatched their torches and light
ed them hastily. Seven b u r n i n g sticks were
like seven flaming red lilies. A m o n g those
flowers
of flame she floated,the Black
S w a n in the pool o f dreams. She dreamed
Happiness!
She danced passionately!
T h e shining
black laces o f her dress
fluttered
like
feathers, raised b y storm. T h e wind of un
heard m e l o d y stirred them. H e r b o d y was

FOR

17

ETHIOPIA

ETHIOPIA

BESSIE BRENT MADISON

D A R K - S K I N N E D Mothers of A m e r
ica,
W h o sit today, perhaps, with bowed down
head,
Because y o u r h o m e is lonely since he left
Leave all to God, and rise and smile in
stead ;
Stretch forth the arms that nursed him as
a child
A n d guided his dear feet in w a y s o f truth,
R e m e m b e r i n g h o w y o u r love has glorified
A n d brightened all his earnest, hopeful
youth.
Stretch forth y o u r a r m s to Heaven, and
say to H i m :
" G o d , I have given m y best, m y all, to fight
In F r e e d o m ' s holy nameto live o r die,
W h i c h seemeth best, f o r j u s t i c e and f o r
right!
G r a n t thou, O God, that through this sac
rifice,
W h e n blood has well atoned f o r ancient
wrong,
T h a t E t h i o p i a ' s Sons m a y raise their heads
A n d sing a louder, clearer, g r a n d e r s o n g . "

music itself.
Her
red shoes peeping through
the
feathery black laces completed the remarka
ble resemblance to the red-legged black
swans from the park of Hadji Bey.
She
felt herself a bird, starting a long j o y o u s
flight!
She wds in truth a s w a n !
She could not restrain her mad j o y any
more. She needed sounds. B u t the night
was silent. T h e melody of feeling was not
enough. She wanted music, real music, real
songs, or c r i e s !
A n d then she uttered a shrill, long cry.
It meant j o y on the verge o f pain. All the
wild emotions of her A f r i c a n
ancestors
sounded in it. It recalled the first note of
song, sung before the bonfires o f victory,
the barbaric song of unrestrained t r i u m p h !
She repeated it. Her cries startled the
boys only f o r a short moment. Then, obey
ing the ancient instinct, they joined her like
the flock of the wild swans answering the
call o f the leader.
These were the cries heard by the peaceful
guests o f the summer hotel on the night of
"the mysterious murder".

Let it be so, when this dread w a r shall

cease,
W h e n hushed is every bitter cry o f woe,
T h a t all y o u r children who to earth are
spared,
In bonds of fellowship may firmer g r o w .
F o r none were better, stronger, n o r more
brave,
Than those of ours who sleep with ice-cold
brow.
Let other nations rise and plead our cause,
And let them understand, who scorn us
now!
SUNSET
MARY EFFIE LEE

S I N C E Poets have told o f sunset,

W h a t is left f o r me to tell?
I can only say that I s a w the day
Press crimson lips to horizon gray,
And kiss the earth farewell.
WAITING
JAMES WALDO FAWCETT

I D O not sleep when others sleep;

I wait and wonder, watch and weep.
I make a little song in sorrow
F o r those to sing w h o come tomorrow.

National Association for the Advancemen

THE HAITIAN MISSION TO

accord with the defenders o f the Haitian

cause in the United States f o r the abolish
ment o f all restrictions placed upon the
full exercise o f sovereignity and independ
ence on the p a r t o f the H a i t i a n g o v e r n
ment."
T h r o u g h efforts p u t forth since that
date, the Patriotic Union o f H a i t i is today
a national organization, with b r a n c h e s in
every town o f the H a i t i a n R e p u b l i c . It has
sent a commission to the United States
composed o f M . Pauleus Sannon, ex-Haitian
Minister to the United S t a t e s ; M . Stenio
Vincent, ex-Minister o f the I n t e r i o r o f
Haiti and president o f the H a i t i a n Senate
at the time that it w a s dismissed a t the
point of a pistol in the hands o f a United
States Marine officer; and M . P e r c e v a l
T h o b y . Since their arrival they h a v e draft
ed a memorial to the United States Con
gress, the essential points of the d o c u m e n t
being:
1. Immediate suppression o f m a r t i a l law
(which has existed since Sentember 2,
1 9 1 5 ) . and the military courts.
2. Immediate reorganization of the H a i t i a n
forces (police and military"! and conse
quently the withdrawal of the American
occupation.
3. A b r o g a t i o n o f the treaty,
September
16, 1915. ( T h i s treaty, forced urxm the
Haitian people, p r a c t i c a l l y m a d e them
f o r e s w e a r their independence.)

THE

UNITED STATES

A T

the regular meeting o f the National

Board o f Directors of the N. A . A .
C. P. last November, it was voted that
James Weldon Johnson should return to
Haiti to organize Haitian sentiment and
to arrange f o r a delegation of Haitians to
come to the United States and work f o r the
restoration of Haitian sovereignity.
It
was felt that such a step was absolutely
necessary if the evils o f A m e r i c a n occupa
tion were to be corrected. Mr. Johnson was
considered the best iperson f o r that task
because he had made the investigation that
brought the matter f o r the first time to the
attention of the A m e r i c a n people.
But the great amount o f work to be done
in the United States and the cost o f another
trip to Haiti, made M r . Johnson decide to
attempt to accomplish this delicate task
through correspondence with the leading
men he met while in Haiti. In this attempt
he was successful.
A number o f let
ters were sent, pointing out the urgent need
of the formation o f a unified b'ody in Haiti
which would speak f o r the Haitian people.
Not only could this organization w a g e an
active campaign f o r the restoration of Hai
tian independence and the ending o f the
American occupation, but it could answer
the great mass o f counter-propaganda, de
rogatory to the Haitian people, which was
being spread throughout A m e r i c a and the
world to justify A m e r i c a n interference in
Haitian affairs.
As a result, in November L'Union Pntriotique d'Ha'iti was formed.
F r o m the
Bulletin Mensuel o f L'Union
Patriotique
we q u o t e :
" O n November 17, 1920, in accord with
the cherished wish of Mr. James W e l d o n
Johnson, the devoted secretarv-general o f
the National Association f o r the A d v a n c e
ment o f Colored Peoole, eighteen Haitian
citizens, at the call of M. Georges Sylvain.
former minister plenipotentiary of Haiti
to Paris, met at Port-au-Prince' in his law
office, and decided to f o r m an association,
having as its prime object the w o r k i n g in

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4. T h e convocation, within a short time, o f

a cor=tit"tional assembly to draft a n e w
Constitution f o r Haiti, the e x i s t i n g Con
stitution not h a v i n g been m a d e b y r e p
resentatives o f the Haitian people, but
forced upon them b v b a y o n e t s in the
hands o f A m e r i c a n M a r i n e s .
Messrs. Sannon V i n c e n t and T h o b y have
interviewed members o f both houses o f Con
gress relative to definite action b y the 67th
Conress.
T h e y will remain in A m e r i c a
until such action is taken.
THE

TWELFTH
AT

HE

ANNUAL

CONFERENCE

DETROIT

greatest c o n f e r e n c e in the history

of the N . A . A . C. P., a c c o r d i n g to
all present indications, 'will b e held in
Detroit, Mich.. . T U T I P 2fi t/i J u l y 1.
InA

Standing:
Sitting:

LIBERIAN

COMMISSION

TO

AMERICA.

S. P. W o l o . Dr. E r n e s t L y o n s . C. L. D e n n i s , J. L . M o r r i s ,
P r e s i d e n t C. D . B . K i n g , Judge F. E . R . Johnson.

THE

E. W . McGill,

Underwood and Underwood

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THE CRISIS

vitations have been sent to some o f

most prominent individuals in A m e r i c a
address meetings, and from a number
them acceptances have already been
ceived.

the
to
of
re

Mr.
Moorfield
Storey,
our
National
President, w h o was prevented from attend
ing the conferences at Cleveland and A t
lanta because o f illness, has announced that
he will be present and will speak at the
opening session on
Sunday
afternoon,
June 26.
F r o m Monday, June 27, through F r i d a y ,
July 1, m o r n i n g and afternoon business
sessions will be held, at which time the
problems o f the branches and o f the Na
tional Office will be discussed and acted
upon.
On each evening a mass meeting
will be held, which will be addressed by
speakers o f national prominence. T h e Na
tional Office will be glad to receive sugges
tions f r o m branches, members and friends
regarding questions to be discussed and
acted upon at Detroit.
It is difficult to
cover all of the ground necessary because
of the immensity of the organization and
the numerous problems which are constant
ly arising.
W e want, however, to do as
much as possible, so that the Twelfth A n
nual Conference will be fruitful of results.
Branches are urged to consider as soon
as possible whether or not they will be able
to send delegates, and also the number o f
delegates to be sent.
In localities distant
from Detroit where the branch is small,
several branches can combine and send one
delegate. A s f a r as possible, we hope that
every branch will be represented.
A cor
dial welcome is also extended to all mem
bers and friends of the Association to be
with us at Detroit and help make the con
ference a great success.
Because of its central location, Detroit
is excellently chosen and is an ideal place
f o r the gathering together of many per
sons interested in the fight f o r freedom
from prejudice for the N e g r o and in the
success of the N. A . A . C. P.
The National Office is making efforts to
secure special convention rates to the con
ference.
TWO-HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
M E M B E R S OF T H E N. A. A. C. P.
I T has been a source of tremendous en
couragement to see how the branches
throughout the country are entering so

eagerly into the plans f o r the drive f o r

250,000 members o f the N . A . A . C. P.
which takes place A p r i l 24 to M a y 8. Most
of the branches have appointed their col
onels, majors, captains and
lieutenants;
have appointed their various committees
and have inaugurated already all o f the
plans o f intensive preparation.
Every
branch that has not kept p a c e is u r g e d to
use e v e r y possible effort to g e t the drive
organization actively functioning, so that
when the drive closes w e will have reached
and surpassed our o b j e c t i v e of "A
Quarter
of a Million MembersA
Force That Canriot Be
Ignored."
CAUSE OF T H E N E G R O P R E S E N T E D T O
PRESIDENT HARDING
O N
M o n d a y , A p r i l 4, J a m e s W e l d o n
Johnson conferred at the W h i t e H o u s e
with President H a r d i n g relative to definite
steps that should be taken to relieve o p
pressive conditions affecting colored people
and causing friction between the races. M r .
Johnson told President H a r d i n g f r a n k l y o f
the great unrest a m o n g colored p e o p l e and
their dissatisfaction with conditions w h i c h
allowed lynching, disfranchisement, peon
age and other f o r m s o f racial injustice to
be continued. H e emphasized the f a c t that
the National Association f o r the A d v a n c e
ment o f Colored People, while h o l d i n g to
the right of the N e g r o to participate in the
administration of the g o v e r n m e n t by the
appointment of colored citizens to office,
was more interested in the enactment o f ef
fective measures to relieve oppressive con
ditions affecting the entire race.
Mr. Johnson urged upon the President,
that he include in his first m e s s a g e to Con
gress a definite r e c o m m e n d a t i o n f o r the
passage o f a Federal anti-lynching l a w in
accordance with the pledge in the R e p u b
lican P a r t y p l a t f o r m .
The memorandum
which was presented to the President read
as f o l l o w s :
A p r i l 4, 1921.
M E M O R A N D U M TO T H E
H O N O R A B L E * W A R R E N G. H A R D I N G ,
President o f the United States.
The National A s s o c i a t i o n f o r the A d
vancement o f Colored People earnestly re
quests the President to include in his mes
sage to Congress, c o n v e n i n g A p r i l 11, a
recommendation that it take action to end
lynching, the most terrible blot on A m e r i
can civilization.
It earnestly urges that a wide and thor
ough investigation o f p e o n a g e conditions be
made by the D e p a r t m e n t o f Justice.
The

OUR V A L I A N T MARINE
recent disclosures in J a s p e r County, Ga.,
reveal conditions that are unspeakable, but
the J a s p e r C o u n t y conditions are not iso
lated.
T h e r e are similar conditions in
nearly e v e r y Southern State, especially in
the Mississippi Delta region. T h e Federal
g o v e r n m e n t has full p o w e r to investigate,
punish and abolish peonage.
It earnestly urges an investigation of
disfranchisement in the South, with a view
to i n s u r i n g to the N e g r o his right as an
A m e r i c a n citizen to vote under the identi
cal qualifications required o f other citizens.
It earnestly urges the appointment o f a
National Inter-racial Commission to make
a t h o r o u g h and sincere study of r a c e con
ditions and r a c e relations in the United
States with particular reference to the
causes o f friction.
In addition to the above, the National
A s s o c i a t i o n f o r the A d v a n c e m e n t of Col
ored P e o p l e a g a i n calls to the attention of
the President the cause of the Haitian peo

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ple and the necessity f o r a thorough Con

gressional investigation o f both the mili
tary and civil acts of the A m e r i c a n Occu
pation in that republic under the last admin
istration, not only as a matter o f justice
to the Haitian people, tAit in the interest
of the good name and traditions of the
A m e r i c a n Republic.
It also asks o f this administration the
appointment of colored assistant secretar
ies in the Departments of L a b o r and A g r i
culture.
Such appointments would give
the N e g r o official representation in the two
phases of our national life where he needs
most and suffers most.
Finally, the National Association f o r the
A d v a n c e m e n t of Colored People asks that
the President, by executive order, abolish
all race segregation in the department at
W a s h i n g t o n and in the United States Civil
Servicethat most humiliating and undem
ocratic practice initiated by the Democraticadministration.

OUR V A L I A N T MARINES

ROTHSCHILD
F R A N C I S writes
us
from the V i r g i n I s l a n d s :
Enclosed y o u will find a circular and
c l i p p i n g o f an o u t r a g e perpetrated on the
peaceful inhabitants o f St. T h o m a s , V i r g i n
Islands, o f the United States, b y c o w a r d
M a r i n e s o f the N a v y ; I am sure it will
interest readers of T H E CRISIS to learn of
the m a n n e r in which w e are treated by
these devils. Please note they had rifles
and passed the night guards in barracks
( w h o w e believe are their a c c o m p l i c e s ) to
fight a peaceful colored people, because they
protested against the Marines mal-treatment o f their w i v e s and children.
Letters
have been sent to the S e c r e t a r y of the
N a v y , Senators F r a n c e and
LaFollette,
" T h e N a t i o n " , " T h e Crusader", " T h e N e w
Y o r k Call", and A m e r i c a n Civil Liberties
Union, asking them to help us in the fight
f o r the removal o f these half civilized men
of the n a v y f r o m our midst. W e are count
ing on you t o help.

The c i r c u l a r f o l l o w s :
H o w U . S. M a r i n e s Celebrated the eve o f
the Fourth A n n i v e r s a r y o f A m e r i c a n occu
pation in St T h o m a s , V i r g i n Islands, o f the
United States, M a r c h 30, 1921.
( B y the E d i t o r o f " T h e E m a n c i p a t o r " . )
But f o r the decency o f the colored inhab
itants o f St. T h o m a s last night, an a c t
m o r e damnable than deviltry would' have
been perpetrated b y a most unrepresent
ative and disreputable g a n g o f Law-break
ers, w h o would rather call themselves
the people's e x e c u t o r s than their protect
ors.
I m a g i n e that f r o m Saturday night

some
Marines
stationed
here
together
with some o f the Sailors starting petty
disturbances in that part of the
town
called " B a c k - o f - a l l , " and keeping up their
w a r dance until last night when the cul
minating point was reached by a g a n g of
a/j'out f o r t y o f these Marine law-break
ers, a r m i n g themselves each with a rifle
stepped bodly from Headquarters
(the
B a r r a c k s ) , and marched through the streets
down to " B a c k o f - a l l " shooting at any
thing imaginable, some of their bullets
passing through the two story building of
our citizen, M r . J. Gimenez, mechanical
electrician, entering through his w i n d o w ,
destroying his large mirror, three and a
half by two, lodging both in beam and
ceiling, causing much discomfiture to his
terror stricken wife and children.
Sani
tary Inspectors W a l l a c e and Miller were
chased off the streets by bullets hover
ing over and near their heads, they be
ing forced to leave the Night-soil-car to
the detriment o f the tax-payers around
the vicinity.
W h a t refletcion m a y not
be gathered from this most ignoble ac
tion when consideration is taken as to
the unhappy
position o f a
defenseless
people?
Defenseless
indeed,
when
to
make the statement m o r e clear the po
lice were called off the streets. B y whom
is
the
question
to
be
asked?
We
hope n o t b y the Policemaster.
It is a
very critical position in which to place
our good G o v e r n o r Oman, w h o has al
ways tried his utmost to prevent a repeti
tion o f anything looking like the
fiasco
of 1917, and w e are persuaded to Relieve
that he will so act upon this bunch o f
c o w a r d s as their actions merit.

Men of the Month

M A L A C H I D U N M O R E C O R N I S H was
oorn in Philadelphia, Pa., A p r i l 11,
1860. He was graduated f r o m the Insti
tute f o r Colored Y o u t h in June, 1878. F o r
5 years he was a teacher in W i c o m i c o , Md.
In 1889 he entered the N e w Jersey State
Teachers' Examination
and
received a
F i r s t Grade State Certificate, entitling him
to the principalship of any school in the
State. H e has served as principal of col
ored schools in Merchantville and Gouldtown and as supervising principal in W o o d
bury and Camden, N . J.
A t the Whittier
School in Camden, Mr. Cornish had charge
of 25 teachers and over a thousand pupils.
In September, 1919, Mr. Cornish was re
tired on a pension o f $1,500 per year, after
41 years of service.
Mrs. Cornish is a graduate o f the In
stitute for Colored Y o u t h . She was ap
pointed a teacher in H a r f o r d County, Md.,
in October, 1879; 12 years later she was
appointed principal of the P a r k A v e n u e
School at North W o o d b u r y , N. J., where
she remained 28 years. She also has been
pensioned.
T h e Honorable Casely H a y f o r d , of Gold
Coast, W e s t A f r i c a , is the son of the Rev.
J. de Graft H a y f o r d , who was the nephew
of the Omanhinthat is Paramount Chief,
Kweku Attah, of Cape Coast, and the son
of James H a y f o r d , who at one time served
as Government resident at Comassie, A s h anti.
Mr. H a y f o r d received his education at
Wesleyan High School, F o u r a h Bay Col
lege and Cambridge University.
In 1896
he was admitted to the Bar. He is a mem
ber of the Inner Temple of London and
the leader of the Gold Coast W e s t e r n P r o v
ince Bar.
Since 1903 he has written the
following
books:
"Ethiopia
Unbound",
"Studies
in Race Emancipation",
"The
Truth A b o u t the W e s t A f r i c a n
Land
Question", and
several
pamphlets.
In
June, 1912, M r . H a y f o r d was a member of
the deputation to the British Colonial Of
fice on the Forest B i l l ; in September, 1916
he was appointed a member of the Legisla
tion Council of the Gold C o a s t ; in June,
1919, he was made an M. B. E., and on the
occasion o f his decoration by His Excel

lency Brigadier-General
G u g g i s b e r g , the
Governor s a i d : "I know that besides being
a fine barrister and a brilliant author, M r .
H a y f o r d is a man who takes the deepest
interest in his o w n c o u n t r y and is a l w a y s
willing to b r i n g to the notice of the Gov
ernment a n y matter f o r discontent t h a t
m a y arise and come to his n o t i c e . "
In conjunction with D r . A k i w a n d i Sav
age, of N i g e r i a , M r . H a y f o r d w a s instru
mental in p r o m o t i n g the c o n f e r e n c e o f A f
ricans o f British W e s t A f r i c a , w h i c h has
become the National C o n g r e s s o f British
W e s t A f r i c a , of which the H o n . P. HuttonMills is the president and he is the vicepresident.
M r s . Casely H a y f o r d and her niece, Miss
Kathleen E a s m o n , are n o w l e c t u r i n g in
the United States, as a means o f raising
a fund f o r a g i r l s ' school in S i e r r a L e o n e .
Joseph H u g h E v a n s Scotland w a s born
in A n t i g u a , British W e s t Indies, and edu
cated at St. Michaels Institute.
H e en
listed in the British N a v y and b e c a m e a
resident o f H a l i f a x , N o v a Scotia, and B o s
ton, Mass., where he b e c a m e k n o w n as a
tailor and an e x p e r t cloth and f u r special
ist. In N e w Y o r k City he was appointed
to a position in the b a n k i n g house o f John
H. D a v i s & C o m p a n y . H e w a s appointed
Document Clerk in the Office o f C o u n t y
Clerk W o o l s t o n , of E s s e x County, N . J.,
in 1908, being the first N e g r o to receive
this appointment.
A t N e w a r k , N . J., 15
years a g o , M r . S c o t t w a s elected Justice
of the P e a c e ; on N o v e m b e r 2, 1920, he w a s
elected by the Republicans as J u s t i c e o f
the Peace at Irvington, N . J., f o r a p e r i o d
of 5 y e a r s .

The late Mrs. M a r t h a E . T u c k e r w a s a

teacher, a school principal and a social
w o r k e r o f W a s h i n g t o n , D . C. She served
at Bowen and Sumner Schools and w a s re
tired f r o m L o g a n School in S e p t e m b e r ,
1920, after h a v i n g completed 50 y e a r s of
notable service.
Mrs. Tucker's greatest
achievement w a s the r e g e n e r a t i o n o f the
once notorious southwestern
section o f
W a s h i n g t o n , f o r which she labored o v e r 25
years.
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MKS.

H.

S.

CORNISH
HON.

M. D.

CASELY

CORNISH

23

MRS.

M. E.

J,

E.

TUCKER

HAYFORD
H.

SCOTLAND

The Looking Glass

LITERATURE
TO TOUSSAINT
L'OUVERTURE
T O U S S A I N T , the most u n h a p p y man o f
men!
Whether the whistling Rustic tend his
plough
Within thy hearing, or thy head to now
Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless
den;
O miserable Chieftain! where and when
W i l t thou find patience? Y e t die n o t ; do
thou
W e a r rather in thy bonds a cheerful b r o w :
Though fallen thyself, never to rise again.
Live, and take comfort.
Thou hast left
behind
P o w e r s that will work for thee; air, earth
and skies;
There's not a breathing o f the common
wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great
allies;
T h y friends are exultations, agonies,
A n d love, and man's unconquerable mind.
WILLIAM

WORDSWORTH.

W o r d s w o r t h ' s sonnet written to L'Ouver

ture a century and some odd years a<rc
held some prophetic Words.
H a y t i , foi
whose emancipation Toussaint fought an<
died, in these days o f her freshly threat
ened enslavement stUI finds powers
tha
will work for her and great
allies,ago)iics
love and man's unconquerable
mind.
*
*
*
The Encore, a new musical j o u r n a l pub
lished b y Clarence Cameron W h i t e , come:
to us from Boston. W e wish it much sue
cess.

the nearest market with the products of the

local industry.
The women cooking thenbreakfasts, or picking or spinning cotton,
or attending to the younger children, or
pounding corn . . .
or separating on
flat slabs of stone the seed from the cotton
lint. . . . The sowing or reaping, and
the intermediate seasons, bring with them
their several tasks.
The ground must be
cleared and hoed, and the sowing of the
staple crops concluded before the early
rains in May, which will cover the land with
the sheet of tender creen shoots of guinea
corn, maize and millet, and, more rarely,
wheat. When these crops have ripened, the
heads of the grain will be cut off. the bulk
of them either marketed or stored. . . .
The stalks . . . will be carefully gath
ered and stacked for fencing purposes. Noth
ing . . .
is wasted in this country.
. . . The bees receive particular atten
tion for their honey and their wax. . ... .
Before harvest-time has dawned
the secondary crops come in for attention.
Cassava and cotton, indigo and sugar-cane,
sweet potatoes and tobacco, onions and
ground nuts, beans and pepper, jams and
rice, according to locality and suitability
of the soil.
"It is a revelation to see the cotton-fields,
the plants in raised rows three feet apart,
the land having in manv cases been oreeedently enriched by a catch-crop of beans.
The fields themselves are protected
. by tall ne"t fencine of guinea-corn
stalks, or reeds, kept in place by native
rope of uncommon strength. . . . Equal
ly astonishing are the irrigated farms . . .
on the banks of the watercourses.
Th
plots are marked out with the mathematical
precision of squares on a chessboard, di
vided by ridees with frequent gaps permittins: of a free influx of water from the cen
tral channel."
Of the Northern Nigeria farmer he
writes:
"Rotation of crops and green manuring
is
thoroughly
understood . . . every
scran of fertilizing substance is husbanded
by this expert and industrous agricultural
people."
n

E. D. Morel, the Man and His Work, b y

F . S. Cocks ( G e o r g e Allen & U n w i n , Ltd..
London, E n g l a n d ) , has been issued. Just
because Morel has participated, c o n t r a r y
to our expectations, in the German outcry
against blacks in the F r e n c h A r m y o f Occu
pation, w e read with interest his tribute to
the industry o f the native A f r i c a n :
H e is speaking o f the life o f the native
agriculturists o f N i g e r i a :
" W h a t a busy intensive life it i s ! F r o m
sunrise to sunset, save f o r a couple o f hours
in the heat o f the day. every one appears to
have his hands full. . . . The men driv
ing the animals to pasture, o r hoeing in the
fields, or busy at the f o r g e o r dye-pit or
l o o m ; or making ready to sally 'forth to
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JAPAN

AND

YAP

J A P A N has issued her intentions as mandatory for the islands in the Pacific in
cluding Y a p which were formerly Germany's
possessions. The New York Tribune quotes
her communique issued by the Tokio for
eign office:
J

Reiteration is made of the intention "in

consonance with the spirit of the mandate"

THE LOOKING GLASS

not to establish military o r naval bases. T h e
c o m m u n i c a t i o n calls attention to the tend
ency to e x a g g e r a t e the economic and strat
egic value o f the Islands, " w h o s e total area
is smaller than Rhode Island," and points
out that Y a p contains only eight square
miles, w h i c h is less than one-third of Guam
and that its harbors are barely capable of
a c c o m m o d a t i n g three steamers whose com
bined t o n n a g e is not m o r e than 9,000 tons.
T h e island has no natural produce, it adds,
and, e x c e p t f o r its cable facilities, is a
" w o r t h l e s s piece o f barren soil in midocean."
"It m i g h t as well be s a i d , " the F o r e i g n
Office declares, " t h a t the United States o b
tained control o f the A t l a n t i c seas b y the
purchase o f the V i r g i n Islands as to say
that, b y the mandate to the islands in the
South Pacific, J a p a n has staked a sea area
o f 4,000,000 square miles f r o m Kamchatka,
in the north, to the South Pacific islands."
T h e F o r e i g n Office then characterizes a s
fabrications reports which have been circu
lating that J a p a n is shifting administrative
headquarters f o r the Marshall Islands from
Jaluit to W o e s e f o r strategic purposes, is
p r e v e n t i n g the l a n d i n g o f foreign merchants
and is u n l a w f u l l y i n t e r f e r i n g with A m e r i
can missionaries and closing the mission
schools.

THE

NATIONAL
PARTY

WOMAN'S

HE

m i s c a r r i a g e o f the ideals o f the

"Woman's
Party"
was
especially
marked in the case o f the deputation o f col
ored women w h o attended the convention in
Washington.
F r e d a K i r c h w e y writes in
The
Nation:
T h e effortswholly unsuccessfulof the
representatives o f the colored w o m e n would
form a t r a g i c chapter of the same story. A
delegation o f 60 women sent b y colored
w o m e n ' s organizations in 14 States arrived
in Wasbinerton several days before the con
vention. T h e y requested an interview with
A l i c e Paul so that they m i g h t take up with
her the question o f the disfranchisement
of the w o m e n o f their race. T h e y w e r e told
Miss Paul w a s too busy t o see them. T h e y
said they w o u l d w a i t t ll she had time.
Finally, g r u d g i n g l y , she yieMed. T h e colored
women presented their case in the form o f
a dignified memorialwhich read as fol
lows :
;

W e have come here as members o f vari

ous organizations and f r o m different sec
tions representing the five million colored
women o f this c o u n t r y . W e are deeply ap
preciative o f the heroic devotion o f the Na
tional W o m a n ' s P a r t y t o the w o m e n ' s suf
f r a g e m o v e m e n t and o f the tremendous sac
rifices m a d e u n d e r y o u r leadership in se
c u r i n g the
p a s s a g e of the
Nineteenth
Amendment.
W e revere the names o f the pioneers to
w h o m y o u will do h o n o r while here, not
o n l y because they believed in the inherent

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rights o f women, but of humanity at large,

and g a v e themselves to the fight against
slavery in the United States.
T h e world has moved f o r w a r d in these
70 years and the colored women of this
c o u n t r y have been m o v i n g with it.
They
know the value o f the ballot, if honestly
used, to right the w r o n g s o f any class.
K n o w i n g this, they have also come today to
call y o u r attention to the flagrant violations
of the intent and purposes of the Susan B.
A n t h o n y A m e n d m e n t in the elections of
1920.
T h e s e violations occurred 'in the
Southern States, where is to be found the
great mass o f colored women, and it has not
been made secret that wherever white
women did not use the ballot, it was count
ed worth while to relinquish it in order that
it might be denied colored women.
Complete evidence of violations of the
Nineteenth A m e n d m e n t could be obtained
only b y Federal investigation.
There is,
however, sufficient evidence available to jus
tify a demand f o r such an inquiry. W e are
handing you herewith a pamphlet with veri
fied cases of the disfranchisement o f our
women.
The National W o m a n ' s P a r t y stands in
the forefront of the organizations that have
undergone all the pains o f travail to bring
into existence the Nineteenth Amendment.
W e can not then believe that you will per
mit this amendment to be so distorted in
its interpretation that it shall lose its power
and effectiveness. F i v e million women in
the United States can not be denied their
rights without all the women o f the United
States feeling the effect of that denial. N o
women are free until all are free.
Therefore we are assembled to ask that
you will use y o u r influence to have the con
vention o f the National W o m a n ' s P a r t y ap
point a special committee to ask Congress
for an investigation o f the violations of the
Susan B. A n t h o n v Amendment in the elec
tions o f 1920.
Miss Paul was indifferent to this appeal
and resented the presence of the delegation.
Their chance o f being heard at the conven
tion was gone. A Southern organizer told
the one active supporter o f the colored
womena white w o m a n and a delegate from
N e w Y o r k t h a t the W o m a n ' s P a r t y w a s
pledged not to raise the race issue in the
S o u t h ; that this w a s the price it paid for
ratification.
But no such sinister motive
is necessary to explain the treatment of the
colored delegation; they were simply an in
terruption, an obstacle to the smooth work
ing o f the machine. Their leading members
were not allowed to ride in the elevators of
the Hotel WaHri<to" wV>ere the convention
was held, until finally they made a stand
f o r their rights.
A n d only b y the use of
tactics b o r d e r i n g on A l i c e Paul's own f o r
v i g o r and persistence, did their spokesman
the delegate from N e w Y o r k g e t a moment
to present a resolution in their behalfa
resolution which w a s p r o m p t l y defeated and
which left the question precisely where it
stood.

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THE

Lide Gilhard Goldsmith, w r i t i n g also in

The Nation, faces the injustice of disfran
chisement and intimates that it is a problem
for the National W o m a n ' s P a r t y :
I am not a member of said party, but if
they stand r e a d y to take the responsibility
of m a k i n g the fight f o r f o r c i n g the enfran
chisement of the A m e r i c a n colored woman,
I am ready to join their ranks.
The E a s t has its 'oroblem of the foreignhorn women, b " t if thev become citizens thev
have a right to a voice n the government
under the Nineteenth Amendment.
Why
should the "South handle its own problems."
or the "Californians solve their own prob
lems." or any other p a r t of the United
States, as regards the right of the A m e r i c a n
woman to v o t e ?
T h e Nineteenth A m e n d
ment has been ratified.
B y what right can
those who have c h a r g e of the registration
offices disfranchise any woman f o r the rea
sons set forth b v Mr. Pickens?
If, as Susan P. Frost says, in y o u r svmnosium in the issue o f F e b r u a r y 16 "the
N e g r o population in communities of the
South, either predominates numerically, o r
> at the rate of half and half." that same
NeTo population is doing its part in the
building up o f the South, and because oi
that w o r k the women as well as the men
are entitled to c^st their votes f o r the can
didate w h o has their best interest at heart.
The
A f r i c a n s were b r o u g h t into the
United States by the white man and sold
as slaves to the white man. W e f o u f h t a
W i a r with the South to make those slaves
free men and women, g i v i n g to them the
i-ight to citizenship o f the United States.
W e seem still to have another w a r to fight:
t a t against race and color prejudice.
;

CRISIS
erable stir and c o n t r o v e r s y , which focused
about one Charles Gilpin, a N e g r o s t a r
actor.
W h e n the question of his election as one
of the guests at the D r a m a L e a g u e dinner
came up, several m e m b e r s refused to sit
at the same table with a N e g r o .
Others
again, p r o m i n e n t members o f the p r o f e s s i o n ,
stated that if he were not admitted, they
would resign o r at least stay a w a y f r o m the
banquet.
The issue here raised is vital.
If a man does a great piece o f w o r k
whether as a c t o r or s i n g e r o r c o m p o s e r , o r
as <painter. dramatist, w r i t e r o r sculptor,
what has the color o f his skin to do with
it and especially in a c o u n t r y that has p r o
claimed to the w o r l d its f r e e d o m f r o m such
p r e j u d i c e : though under the influence o f
our dominant Calvinism, w e k n o w t h a t no
H e b r e w , no R o m a n Catholic could ever be
elected President, and we f u r t h e r k n o w ,
that with all o u r b o a s t o f f r e e d o m and a
Statue o f L i b e r t y at the e n t r a n c e to the
port o f N e w Y o r k , the N e g r o is virtually
disfranchised
in whole sections o f this
country. W e have seen t h e same spirit come
out through the strain, s t r e s s and h o r r o r of
t'->e w a r and cause us t o discriminate a g a i n s t
the works o f the g r e a t German masters,
though nearly all o f them, i n c l u d i n g W a g
ner, were revolutionists and as anti-Prussian
as they could well b e .

This article d r a w s a contrast between Old

and N e w W o r l d methods w h i c h is g r e a t l y to
the a d v a n t a g e of the f o r m e r :
In this r e g a r d the old w o r l d is ahead
of us. f o r while w e d i s c r i m i n a t e against
the w o r k s o W a r n e r , t h e v w e r e given in
London in Italy and even in P a r i s dur
ing the w a r or immediately thereafter.
In
these countries, t o o , the p r e j u d i c e s w h i c h
shame us, s c a r c e l y exist.
E u r o p e did not
refuse to receive A l e x a n d e r D u m a s , the
ereat writer, because he had N e g r o blood
in his veins. T h e E u r o p e a n s h a v e not dis
criminated against g r e a t a r t ' s t s because
nerhans their personal lives did n o t con
form to the best moral code. B u t w e , who
vaunt our d e m o c r a c y , w h o positively p u .
as I said, into o u r Constitution that w e shall
be free f r o m p r e i u d i c e , w e nresent to the
world the spectacle o f b e i n g the m o s t preju
diced people on earth.
f

GILPIN
,

T H E controversy aroused b y the possibil*- ity that the Dramat'e League of N e w

Y o r k would invite the distinguished N e g r o
actor, Charles Gilp'n, to its annual dinner,
evoked a host o f editorial comments. Musicral America s a y s :
A m o n g intelligent and cultured people it
is adnrtted that if there is one domain
where there must he no prejudices on ac
count of race, religion, even personality, it
should be in that of art. music, drama, the
sciences. Let it be the w o r k , on the merits,
and that alone, and this should be particu
larly true where the w o r k is of such excep
tional merit as t> contribute to the cause of
cultural progress.
Let us not f o r g e t , too, that we put into
our Constitution as embodying our ideals
as well as our ideas, that there shall be no
prejudice in the United States on account
of race, religion o r previous condition o f
servitude.
I am forced to these reflections Vy an
incident which has recently caused consid

W e accept tens o f thousands o f ignorant

peasants, r a r o i
, i to read and write, from
all parts o f the w o r l d , b u t w e exclude the
educated Japanese gentleman and merchant.
H a s not the time come f o r us to adopt
a m o r e broad-minded, m o r e j u s t attitude,
especially to those w h o distinguish them
selves in music, drama, the arts, the sci
ences, regardless o f r a c e , color, o r religion
or whether they live b y the code, and that
doesn't mean t h a t w e should f o r a m o m e n t
depart from the highest s t a n d a r d s in per
sonal or social life.
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THE LOOKING GLASS

T h e B r o o k l y n Eagle c o m m e n t s :
W e think that the world of art, o : music
and o f the stage will sooner or later have
to make up its mind to f e l l o w s h i p colored
persons of marked proficiency. There may
o r m a y not be sufficient basis f o r the theory
that the N e g r o will never excel in mathe
matics, in the e x a c t sciences o r in chessp l a y i n g . B u t in acting, in o r a t o r y , in music
ana in p a i n t i n g o r sculpture, if he can mas
ter the technique o f the latter t w o , the onceenslaved race does otter something tempera
mentally distinctive, and compelling recog
nition.
M r . Gilpin's o w n statement with reference
to the issue so hotly discussed by the D r a m a
L e a g u e people is entirely temperate and selfrespecting. H e s a y s :
I am honestly s t r i v i n g to present my art
rather than m y s e l f to the public. . . .
1 have no r i g h t to pose as an o b j e c t of com
passion. . . . A g a i n s t those who do not
care to sit in the same dining room with me,
i have no c o m p l a i n t . This only will I s a y :
Thus f a r in the w o r l d ' s history, no race or
profession has ever been permanently pre
vented f r o m w i n n i n g an equality r a t i n g f o r
itself.
Neither B o o k e r T. W a s h i n g t o n nor Fred
erick D o u g l a s s , n o r even the creator o f
D ' A r t a g n a n and the C o u n t of Monte Cristo,
the g r a n d s o n of a Santo D o m i n g o Negress,
could have p u t m o r e o f personal dignity
into an analysis of such a situation.
But
A l e x a n d e r D u m a s , d e v e l o p i n g in the broad
er andl m o r e catholic atmosphere of a Latin
c o u n t r y , had no occasion f o r such an apol
ogia.

THE ANTHROPOLOGIST

SPEAKS

F F A N Z B O A Z writes in the Y a l e Review

on the probable disappearance of race
consciousness:
T h e greatest hope f o r the immediate fu
ture lies in a lessening o f the contrast be
tween N e g r o e s and wnites which Will bring
about a lessening of class consciousness. A s
I have a l r e a d y pointed out, under present
conditions a penetration of the white race
by the N e g r o does not occur, while the effects
of i n t e r m i x t u r e in which the fathers are
white and the m o t h e r s N e g r o will lead in all
probability t o an increase o f the a m o u n t of
white blood in the N e g r o population. This
should allay the fears of those w h o believe
that the white race m i g h t deteriorate by
race m i x t u r e . On the other hand, intermix
ture will decrease the contrast between the
extreme racial f o r m s and f o r this reason,
this alone will lead to a lessening o f the
consciousness of r a c e distinction.
I f con
ditions were ever such that it could be doubt
ful w h e t h e r a person were o f N e g r o descent
or not, the consciousness o f race would
necessarily be much weakened. In a race
of octoroons, living a m o n g whites, the color
question w o u l d p r o b a b l y disappear.
T h e r e is absolutely no biological evidence

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which would countenance the assumption

that race mixture o f itself would have un
favorable results, that the children of white
fathers and of mulatto or quadroon mothers
would b'e inferior to their N e g r o ancestors.
It would seem, therefore, to be in the inter
est o f society to permit rather than to
restrain m a r r i a g e s between white men and
N e g r o w o m e n . It would be futile to expect
that our people would tolerate intermarri
ages in the opposite direction, although no
scientific reason can be given that would
prove them to be detrimental to the individ
ual. Intermixture between white males and
N e g r o females has been common ever since
Negroes were b r o u g h t to our continent, and
the efficiency of the modern attempts to re
press this intermingling is open to g r a v e
doubt.

THE
AT

WOES

OF

INDIA

the
National Convention of the
Friends o f Freedom for India, held re
cently in N e w Y o r k , the following charges
were made against the alien rule of Great
Britain in I n d i a :
We charge that f o r 150 years the official
o l i g a r c h y o f Great Britain has ruled and
dominated India in the exclusive interests
of the British E m p i r e and that such rule
has been opposed to the welfare of all the
Indian people.
We charge that as a direct result o f Brit
ish exploitation, the native industrial system
has broken down and has almost wholly dis
appeared so that workers in the native
crafts have been forced to abandon their
accustomed and preferred callings to work
on the land and in factories in order to pro
vide such foodstuffs and other products as
British imperial necessities demand.
We charge that as general ignorance and
illiteracy w e r e a necessary condition to the
successful exploitation of the resources and
people o f India, Great Britain has steadily
and persistently cut off the means o f educa
tion as is evidenced by the educational ap
propriation o f $1,838,338 out o f an annual
budget o f about $600,000,000. A s a result
the Indian people o f today have not oppor
tunities equal to those which existed prior
to the time that Britain seized India.
We charge that through a carefully fost
ered system o f scanty credit, excessive taxa
tion, enforced exportation and b e g g a r l y pay,
Great Britain has literally starved the peo
ple of India by the millions in spite o f the
fact that India, left to herself, would be
able to raise sufficient food to nourish her
entire population.
We charge that under British rule, native
women have been drawn into the horrors of
prostitution in order to satisfy the lust of
the soldiery who, f o r the purpose of sup
porting the mastery of the foreign rule,
have been maintained under unnatural con
ditions in tremendous numbers and at the
expense o f the Indian people.

THE HORIZON
COMPILED BY MAOEL INE G. ALLI50N

presented Charles Gilpin, the N e g r o star,

in " T h e E m p e r o r Jones," is a r r a n g i n g to
produce " N o b o d y K n o w s , " a musical c o m
edy, with a cast o f 30 N e g r o e s , a m o n g
w h o m will be C r e a m e r and L a y t o n .
Students o f M o r e h o u s e College, A t l a n t a ,
G a have presented Shakespeare's " H a m
let", under the direction of M a r y L. Strong.

MUSIC AND A R T
A T
the annual dinner o f the D r a m a
* * League in N e w Y o r k City, Charles S.
Gilpin, the N e g r o star o f " T h e E m p e r o r
Jones", was a m o n g 10 honored guests w h o
were j u d g e d to have contributed most to
the stage this season.
Musical
America says o f H. T. Burleigh's
new song, "Tell Me Once M o r e " : " W i t h its
flowing vocal phrases, the expressive rise
and fall o f its melody line, and its simple,
yet beautifully managed accompaniment, it
is a fine example of how much the composer
can do f o r his lyric, to what a degree he can
infuse it with warmth, color and imagina
tion."
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's " B a m b o u l a "
has been rendered as the overture number at
the Rivoli Theatre, N e w Y o r k City.
The Coleridge-Taylor Association of Bos
ton, Mass., has given a musicale o f works
by its members. A m o n g the numbers were
compositions by J. Shelton Pollen, Clarence
Cameron White, Marietta Bonner, E v a Roosa
Hutchins, Charity Bailey and R. Percival
Parkham. The organization is conducting a
series o f 9 lecture-recitals.
"Creole Folk
Music" has been presented by M r s . Maud
Cuney Hare, and " S c u l p t u r e " by Mrs. Meta
Warrick-Fuller.

A . Jackson-Rigell acted the leading role, and

other participants w e r e M r s . J. B . W a t s o n ,
M r s . P. M . Davis, W . E . K i n g , R a l p h H a r
ris, Charles Perkins, Julian B a r n e t t , Bur
nett Hudson, H. W . T h u r m a n and E . S.
Hope.
O f a recital b y R o l a n d H a y e s , W i l l i a m
A t h e l i n g says in the New Age: " H i s rhythm
sense is unsurpassed b y a n y o n e n o w singing
in London. It is not necessary to have a
book o f the w o r d s .
Whether
English,
French, o r Italian, M r . H a y e s enunciates
each one so that the h e a r e r can understand
it. . . .
I can at the m o m e n t think of
no singer w h o e m p l o y s so m a n y different
qualities o f voice, f r o m operatic delivery to
a singing which is almost speech. It goes
without s a y i n g that the N e g r o Spirituals
filled the audience with enthusiasm."
West
Africa
a d d s : " A t the piano M r . L a w r e n c e

In N e w Y o r k City, the Colored P l a y e r s '

Guild has presented two playlets written by
its members, " T h e N i c h e " , by Mrs. D o r a C.
Norman, and "Pitfalls of A p p e a r a n c e s " , by
Mr. G. A. W o o d s .
A purse of $100 w a s
given to the Circle f o r N e g r o Relief.
Alfred H. Johnson, the N e g r o baritone,
has been touring the South in-recitals at col
ored schools. A t a concert in Germantown,
Pa., he was assisted by Carl R. Diton, as
pianist. Mr. Johnson is a Lockwood scholar
ship student of Y a l e University.
Mr. A . H. W o o d s , o f N e w Y o r k , has
signed a 3 year contract with Bert Williams,
the N e g r o comedian. Mr. W i l l i a m s will ap
pear next season in a musical play, " T h e
Pink S l i p . "
r

Adolph Klauber, of New Y o r k City, w h o

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B. B r o w n p r o v e d himself a w o r t h y col
league.
Possessing
a delicate,
almost
w o m a n l y touch, he combined with his tech
nique that s y m p a t h y which m a r k s the per
fect a c c o m p a n i s t . "
"The Mayor o f Jim T o w n , " a Negro
musical comedy, is to be produced in N e w
Y o r k City this spring.
T h e book is b y
Miller & L y l e and the lyrics and music by
Sissle & Blake, N e g r o e s .
MEETINGS
THE
North Carolina N e g r o
Farmers'
-"- Congress has been held at Brick School,
Bricks, N . C , with 2,000 N e g r o e s in at
tendance. S i x t y p e r cent, o f those present
are farm o w n e r s ; 57, taken at r a n d o m , are
p a y i n g taxes on 7,000 acres o f land.
Mr.
T. S. Inborden, principal o f B r i c k School,
is president of the organization.

THE HORIZON
T h e 6th annual National R a c e Congress
of A m e r i c a , Inc., " R e c o n s t r u c t i o n Session,"
will convene in W a s h i n g t o n , D. C , M a y 4-7.
A . Y . M. C. A . conference will convene
at Coleman College, Gibsland, La., A p r i l 27
M a y 2.
I T h e N o r t h w e s t e r n F e d e r a t i o n of Colored
W o m e n ' s Clubs will meet in Phoenix, A r i z . ,
J u l y 18-21.
. T h e National A s s o c i a t i o n o f N e g r o Mu
sicians will hold its 3rd annual convention,
July 26-28, in Nashville, Tenn.
Manuscripts
by N e g r o composers should be submitted not
later than June 1, to Carl Diton, 432 North
Fifty-third Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
salaries o f t w o nurses, Miss Mae
Lee and M r s . V i v i a n Nash, doinghealth w o r k on the staff o f the Atlanta Ur
ban League, are provided by the colored
churches, fraternal organizations and in
surance companies o f the city.
F o r the first time in the history of the
state, a colored w o m a n has been appointed
as matron in the R e c o r d e r ' s Court o f A t
lanta, through the efforts of the League.
Seventy-five delegates
in a tri-state
( S o u t h Carolina, G e o r g i a and A l a j a m a ) ,
B i g Brother and B i g Sister conference,
under the auspices o f the A t l a n t a Urban
League, voted to become a permanent or
ganization, meeting annually.
A g r o u p o f y o u n g business, s o c a l and
clerical women workers in Boston, Mass.,
have f o r m e d an Urban L e a g u e A u x i l i a r y
f o r volunteer c o m m u n i t y welfare under the
direction o f Miss Mabelle B r e w e r .
T h e Boston Urban L e a g u e is a charter
organization o f the new Boston Council of
Social A g e n c i e s .

THE

T h e St. Louis Urban League has o r g a n

ized committees to provide entertainment
and recreation and to assist in mending for
soldiers in the U. S. Public Health Hospital.
T . A r n o l d Hill, o f the C h i c a g o Urban
League, reported A p r i l 1: 15,000 colored
men and w o m e n are out of employment,
1,000 o f whom are homeless. T h e colored
churches and social agencies, using the
League as a clearing house to recommend
those eligible f o r relief, are sheltering 150
men each n i g h t and serving 300 meals a
day. On M a r c h 20, 17,261 meals had been
s e r v e d ; 6,473 men have been
furnished
shelter since J a n u a r y 1.
The Detroit, P i t t s b u r g h , St. Louis and

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Louisville Urban Leagues have done similar

work.
T h e colored social
agencies
in
Louisville established a shelter f o r homeless
men in the basement of the Y . M . C. A .
T h e Detroit League collects and disburses
money given by the churches for relief of
persons in neighboring towns not cared for
by the City Department of Public W e l f a r e .
T h e persistence o f the industrial and
placement secretaries o f the A r m s t r o n g A s
sociation o f Philadelphia resulted in the
placement o f 268 persons during J a n u a r y
and F e b r u a r y , when unemployment was at
its height.
A t an industrial conference
called by the Philadelphia Chamber o f Com
merce, M r . A . L. Manly, the industrial sec
retary, outlined the economic loss to the
Philadelphia business interests caused by
race prejudice.
W i l l i a m A s h b y , of the N e w Jersey Ur
ban League, has made openings f o r colored
women in t w o dressmaking establishments
in N e w a r k ; one in which they do the ma
chine w o r k and the other in which they wi.l
be employed as drapers.
FRATERNITIES
T H E Knights of Pythias, Inc., in Florida,
has resources of $277,291; since 1912
the organization has paid $309,210 in death
claims. Mr. W . W . A n d r e w s is Grand Chan
cellor.
T h e N e g r o Masonic Order of A l a b a m a
has $130,000 in available cash and $70,000
in other resources.
M r . W . T. W o o d s is
Grand Master.
N e g r o Elks at Hartford, Conn., have se
cured p r o p e r t y f o r a club house, at a cost of
$60,000. The building will consist of club
rooms and a large auditorium.
EDUCATION
E A R L A L E X A N D E R has been selected
as a member o f Ohio State University
Debating Team. M r . A l e x a n d e r is one of
the editors o f the Sjjhinx, official o r g a n of
the A l p h a Phi A l p h a F r a t e r n i t y .
Beatrice Pennman, a N e g r o student at
Ohio State University, is an associate ed
itor o f the Phoenix, a freshman publication.
T h e Colored Inter-Collegiate
Athletic
Association has convened in its 10th annual
session at V i r g i n i a Union University. T h e
annual track meet will 'b'e held M a y 14 at
H o w a r d University.
gro

John Diamond D u P e e Wilkerson, a N e

art-law student o f Western Reserve

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THE CRISIS

University,
Cleveland, Ohio,
has
been
awarded the gold " R " debating pin.
T w o colored boys at Gary, Ind., have
enrolled in a Russian school, where they
are studying the language, history and lit
erature o f Russia.
H o w a r d University
becomes the first
N e g r o institution
to promote
graduate
work by the establishment o f fellowships.
Recipients receive compensation from the
University f o r limited service.
Y e a r l y scholarships to the amount of
$200 are to be given by the K a p p a A l p h a
Psi F r a t e r n i t y to one o r more of its under
graduate members.
T h e fraternity will
also make an annual award o f the golden
laurel wreath to one graduate member for
meritorious achievement.
At
the
University of
Pennsylvania,
Fletcher S. Manson has been graduated
with the degree of Master of A r t s in Po
litical Science.
A t Columbia University, N e w Y o r k City,
N e g r o students have established Omicron
Chapter of the K a p p a A l p h a Psi Fratern
ity.
Beginning A p r i l 14 and continuing 4 con
secutive weeks, a post-graduate course f o r
N e g r o physicians will be conducted at the
John A . A n d r e w Memorial Hospital, T u s kegee, A l a .
T h e Alumni Association of H a m p t o n In
stitute is raising a fund o f $30,000 to erect
a grandstand and equip an athletic field.
Laura A . Oden, a 17 year old colored
student, of Mechanics A r t s H i g h School, St.
Paul, Minn., won the first place in a com
petitive essay contest. She is the only Ne
g r o in a class of 30 students.
The title o f
her essay was " T h e A r t o f Tactfulness."
The cornerstone of A u b u r n Branch o f the
Carnegie Library, Atlanta, Ga., has been
laid. The building will cost $50,000. It will
be the first branch o f the library f o r Ne
groes in Atlanta.
Joberta Des Mukes, a N e g r o student of
literature, has been admitted to the Phi
Beta Kappa Society at the H a r v a r d - R a d cliffe Graduate School. Miss Des Mukes is
a graduate of H o w a r d University, '19.
F o r the academic year, 1919-20, Kelly
Miller, Jr., served as assistant in the Ballis
tic Institute of the Department of Physics
at Clark University, W o r c e s t e r , Mass. M r .
Miller is n o w with the Madsen Electrical
Research L a b o r a t o r y , N e w Y o r k City.

T h e statementwhich went the rounds

of the white and colored pressthat M o r e
house College had lost o n l y one football
g a m e in 20 years, is i n c o r r e c t . M o r e h o u s e
has been defeated several times within this
period.
The Reserve Officers'
T r a i n i n g Corps
Unit, at H o w a r d U n i v e r s i t y , has completed
its organization as a Battalion o f I n f a n t r y
by the addition o f a bandl o f 48 pieces. T h e
unit has an enrollment of o v e r 400.
T h r o u g h the General E d u c a t i o n Board,
annual a p p r o p r i a t i o n s a m o u n t i n g to $209,700 have been made f o r N e g r o education.
These include $80,000 to the Jeanes F o u n d a
tion t o w a r d salaries f o r s u p e r v i s i n g indus
trial teachers; $68,000 f o r t e a c h e r s ' salaries
in c o u n t r y t r a i n i n g schools in 13 Southern
States; and $28,000 f o r teachers' salaries in
s u m m e r schools in 12 Southern States.
T h e Senate and H o u s e have passed a
bill a p p r o p r i a t i n g $500,000 to m a k e Lincoln
Institute, at Jefferson City, M o . , a State
University.
T h e school w a s founded in
1912, and has an e n d o w m e n t fund o f $250,298; its campus o f 444 acres and buildings
are valued at $250,000. W a l t h a l l L . Moore,
the recently elected N e g r o L e g i s l a t o r , is
sponsor f o r the bill.
H o w a r d U n i v e r s i t y ' s a p p r o p r i a t i o n was
not decreased as the H o u s e bill p r o p o s e d , al
though the large increase hoped f o r was re
fused.
F o r 1921-22, its a p p r o p r i a t i o n is
$280,000, an increase o f $37,000 o v e r last
year.
POLITICS
A T

H a m t r a m a c k , Mich., Ordine H . Toliver, a N e g r o , has been elected to the

City Council by the V i c t o r y P a r t y .
In C h i c a g o , 111., Louis B . A n d e r s o n , a
N e g r o , is s e r v i n g his third term as A l d e r
m a n ; f o r m e r l y he w a s assistant corporation
counsel.
THE CHURCH
A T

F o r t Smith, A r k . , the R e v . James A .

Stout, assistant to the General Sec
r e t a r y o f Church E x t e n s i o n in the C. M.
E . Church, raised $1,825 in three weeks.
T h e P r o g r e s s of the P r e s b y t e r i a n Church
in A f r i c a d u r i n g the past 20 y e a r s , accord
ing to the R e v . A . L. E d m i s t o n , is as fol
l o w s : 6 stations manned b y 50 missionaries,
10 organized churches officered b y natives,
477 outstations manned and officered b y na
tives, 2 ordained native ministers, 687

THE HORIZON
Christian

volunteer

Christian

natives.

schools with
tive

native

workers,

There

are

20,000

429

day

16,164 pupils a n d 856 paid

teachers.

The

Sunday

Schools

The

Methodist Episcopal Church has

Negro

a Bureau

executive

es

o f Colored W o r k with

secretary,

Dr.

W.

A.

a
C.

Hughes.
The
year

drive

$1,500,000

E.

for
is

Church

has

$5,000,000.

for

aged

planned
Of

education;

extension;

$500,000

and

this

sum

$500,000
for

In

for

ters;

super-annuated

minis

$250,000 f o r social service w o r k ; $1,-

000,000 f o r h o m e and foreign mission

$1,250,000 f o r

the

for

equipment

increasing
Hawkins,

of

rector o f the
The

Memorial

liquidation
in

Washington,

D.

and
John

C,

is

di

M.

E.

H.

Dean,- o f

Church,

of

last

year;

purposes

Ames

Baltimore,
809

business

$16,000 has

and

$2,600 f o r

been
mis

work.

and

has

field,

Ohio.

riot

at

Spring-

A drunken policeman, who

a t t e m p t e d to m a l t r e a t a N e g r o , and
groes and whites were
the

County,

farm

Ga.,

20 N e

of

John

Williams,

there

were

11

ident

and

T h e r e have been the

Jasper

peonage

general

Ky.,

March

13,

Richard

Louis

Bowles;

Fla.,

insulting

annually.
creased

assaulting
Water

March

$80,000

14,

William

15, B r o w n i n g

Tuggle;

20, A d o l p h u s

woman.
Miss.,

Arthur

Jennings;

murder.
assaulting

22, Phil

Slater,

shot;

woman.

Edward
delphia,

as

an

per year

with

Negroes
St.

in

SPROUL

Louis

adjuster

in

Louis,

Realtors'

Company,

$120,000 worth

capital

stock

is

being made f o r the

Negroes
Hotel

of

of

additional

$400,000

have

of

to

be

in

Trans

purchase

property
office

organized

Company,

Inc.,

$500,000, to erect
N.

J.

C,

is

of
and

building.

o f the

com

John

Helena,

a hotel

the

Ovington

capitalized

in

Atlantic

of

firm

Ark., has
$550,000

wealthiest
In
Per

has

a petition

The

petition
assets

in

Negro

in

of

$1,000,000.
to b e

the

Arkansas.

New York

first

City, organized the

Sharing Company,
and

liabilities

annual dividend o f
Fire

Insurance

has been f o r m e d by N e g r o e s at
It has an authorized
$135,000 o f
white

is

Negro
the

Durham,

has

fined

laborers.

history

N.

been

paid

in.

president.

superintendents

rail, Miss., have been

13V%.

Company

capital o f $500,000,

which

M r . W . G. P e a r s o n

in

as

$178,902.

y e a r o f operation the c o m p a n y
an

Bankers'

Three

a
50

capital

The c o m p a n y n o w has

$227,532

declared

time

volun

lists liaMli-

D e c e m b e r , 1 9 1 6 , M r . R . S. M o r g a n ,

of

over

D.

o f S c o t t B o n d & C o . , at
filed

and

Cent. Profit

sets

at

City,

W . Lewis, of Washington,

tary bankruptcy.
ties

and

president.

The
has

appointed

Negro of
the

Phila

Workmen's

H i s s a l a r y is $ 2 , 0 0 0

traveling
St.

and

at

Sum-

$10,750 f o r
This

o f the

mal

is t h e

state

for

first
white

m e n to b e punished f o r such an offense.

W . Henry,

Compensation Bureau.

pres

pany.

INDUSTRY
G O V E R N O R

over

secretary

M . N i m o c k s is p r e s i d e n t

treating

Hope, Ark., March

wire

for

$100,000 to $200,000.

erection

C.

woman.

attacking

operated

a rental income o f $12,000

Its

worth

The

Valley, Miss., March

Hattiesburg,

and

40 miles o f

Investment

Mo., owns

from

actions are

woman.

Hope, Ark., March

built

Blackwell,

real-estate, with

S i n c e its

County,

with

M e s s r s . T . C . T y l e r is

colored Ideal

St.

the

incorpor

being operated

A.

ized at $50,000.

murder.

Polk

Ross;

following lynchings

and

manager.

The
of

mur

record:

Versailles,
James;

company

E.

N e g r o in

since o u r last

Virginia

Mr. Scott Bond has been reported

killed.

ders.

the

the

The colored

been a race

more

D u r i n g the first y e a r o f

connection are

CRIME
THERE

in

11 m i l e s o f s e r v i c e ; t o d a y

Md.,

accessions

make

Elk Run Telephone Company,

a capital o f $5,000.

M r . J.

William

f o r all

sionary

of debts
schools.

564 conversions and

since J u n e

work;

drive.

Rev.

reports

On

will be to

1911, Negroes

ated the

for

pension

fund

raised

purposes

90 subscribers.
A. M.

church

R.

its

better residence districts for colored people.

na
num

ber 460 with 854 teachers and 32,075 pupils.

tablished

of

31

expenses.
Mo., have

phia,
shares

common

Association.

One

Dale

Company,

of

preferred

stock,

and

of

6,575

amounting

to

$65,750, respectively;

it has

$21,436;

$34,564;

due
formed

Hotel

Pa., since M a r c h , 1920, has

on

Hotel
deferred

Dale,
sales

is

p e n s e s h a v e b e e n $7,763.

Philadel
sold 6,636
shares

$66,360

paid

to

the

of
and

agents
balance

$76,109; the

ex

32

THE CRISIS
Negroes

of

capitalized
and

Loan

$10,000 the

C o m p a n y , to

dling o f real
The

Spartansburg,

at

have
Trust

e n g a g e in

at

$50,000, has

been

O n e o f the

D.

Reid, sold

$39,000 worth

o f which

Former
served

Lt.

as

lations o f the
been

mission.

His

O.

to

the

market

business

of

Home

be

assistant

New

is

$4,000 per

valued

and

the

the

Negro

"Jim

the
a

the

His

at

first

post

annual

the

Negroes,
a

car

in

in

Harlem

de
been

Evanston,

111.,

toward

include

the

the

has

has

president
and

advisory
been

been

turned

association

an

Liberty,

Pa.,

has

of
Me

has

board

elected

Charles

been

9
of

treas

H.

appointed

Stew
to

the

Detectives.

Jersey

Rights

Bill

Assembly

has

'passed

drawn

Dr.

W.

recently

Cedar

town

Del.,

of

by

G.

elected N e g r o legis

G r o v e , La.,

"Salomon"

Henry

has

vaccine

C.

been

Gus

Stevens,

Salomon, a

is

for

appointed

physicians,

J.,

as

viding

Waller,

been

at

ejected

Baltimore

Edward

foreman

Lane,

of a jury

a
at

Court.

have

o f $25,000, N e g r o e s
opened

and

an

the

new

at

Bur-

modern

institu

operating

section

will

carry

perfected
1,400

the

machine

cartridges;

immediate

it

gun
can

attention

City,
which

be

fired

o f the

op

erator.
Students
formed

of

the
of
is

Lillian

C.

the

Howard

Howard
the

N.

A.

University
University

A.

C.

P.

have
College

Oscar

organizing

Negroes.
of

one

Wilmington,
o f the

being

the

the

branch

city's

first

Negro

other
and

New

Negroes

has

been

awarded

has

met

the

N.

bill

pro

of

Ne

intermarriage

people

McKay,
a

the

magazine

editors

are

Robert
York

defeat

in

City

the

separate

Max

has
it

York

Eastman,

158,088

the

largest

has
si
City.

Floyd

entrances
street

of

a measure
and

Negro
center

in
of

Hemisphere.

Patton,

introduced

on

writer,
Liberator,

of N e w

Western

Representative
Tenn., has

the

Miner.

making

on

Negro

co-editor of

white

Dell

of

Wash.,

Legislature.

made

The

the

white

Claude

radical

of

Seattle,

against
and

State

been

at

exits

Nashville.
to provide
for

Negro

cars.

T h e S a v i n g s B a n k o f D a n v i l l e , t h e first
N e g r o b a n k i n g i n s t i t u t i o n in D a n v i l l e , V a . ,
c h a r t e r e d in S e p t e m b e r , 1 9 1 9 , a n d
capital
ized at $50,000, has r e c e n t l y p u r c h a s e d ,
at
a p r i c e o f $25 000, a f o u r - s t o r y b r i c k build
ing to be used as a b a n k i n g house, situated
a l m o s t in t h e c e n t e r o f t h e b u s i n e s s s e c t i o n
of that city.
The resources o f this bank are
n o w $150,000.

C.

president.
Beale

work

P.

passengers

Clarence G r e g g , a N e g r o at K a n s a s
has

A.

habitants,

Hospitala

35 b e d s

Through

store,

$500 each

having

N.

served

Va.,

Mo.,

Branch

Douglass

which

N e g r o , w h o o w n s 2,200 acres,

A.

4 rooms.

Brown

Special

Historical

The

and

Napier

New

Civil

Com

line.

Memorial
with

William

Washington,

an e x p e n d i t u r e

without

The
a

groes

awarded

for

Burlington,

Roanoke,

at

and

been
Pa.,

of

County

tion

Brook

Frederick

D. C ,

B. Talbert,

of County

Near

policeman

D. C , have

will

Brooks

have

N e g r o , has

rell

of

lator.

government

$100 each

which

Annapolis

At

the

Douglass

Negro,

Bureau

to

a l o d g e hall.

Philadelphia,

of

Negroes

Home,

Frederick

the

Negro

appointed

appointee.

offices a n d

At

Dr.
in

for

life.

East

art,

$18,000.

an

Negro

is

Washington,

contributed

and

for

section.

Twenty-two

from

Mrs.

At

City,

removed.

munity

15.
urer

year.

at

does

traffic

C r o w " signs

partments

have

Frederick

A l e x a n d e r , the

is

City.

in

Anacostia,

o v e r to M r s . M a r y

$50,000.

York

at

who

Com

the

111.,

Sheriff.
property

Sub

to

Engineering

against

Chicago.

been

trustees

stock

appointed

Carter,

has

Association.

clerks

CARTER

H.

Y..

Deputy

30

SOCIAL PROGRESS

RUBEN

N.

women

salary

lyn,

morial

special

Adams

Shop,

Re

Alaska

with

employs

Judge

discrimination.

The

M r . C . W . A n d e r s o n , a N e g r o , is c o n d u c t i n g
He

by

Candy

S t a t e s S e n a t e in 1919,

In t h e c o l o r e d s e c t i o n o f N e w Y o r k
a

$100

held in t r u s t f o r 25 y e a r s h a s b e e n

Committee on Foreign

the

of

Spoehr's

J.

cash.

Flipper,

interpreter

appointed
in

Mr.

o f stock in

represented

United

secretary

C,

organized

promoters,

Henry

Spanish

committee o f the
has

han

dict

William

Negroes.
99%

the

of Wilson, N.

by

days,

S.

estate.

Commercial Bank

capitalized

C,

Woodward

ver

These items are culled from letters

and
clippings,
Every
effort is made to insure
their accuracy,
but
mistakes
sometimes
occur.
W$ arc glad to Correct
essential
errors.

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27th ANNUAL STATEMENT OF SOUTHERN

AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC. (Condensed)
T h e S O U T H E R N A I D S O C I E T Y O F V A , I N C , n o t e s w i t h a h i g h r e g a r d the
t i m e l y a n d i n s i s t e n t d e m a n d o f o u r p e o i *e f o r F a c t s a n d F i g u r e s f r o m c o r p o r a t i o n s
and institutions appealing to them f o r patronage and investment.
The Southern Aid
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t r i b u t i o n o f t h i s m a t t e r t o its m e m b e r s h i p a n d the p u b l i c . T h i s w a s d o n e d e s p i t e the
c r i t i c i s m o f c o m p e t i t o r s a n d o t h e r u n i n f o r m e d p e r s o n s : w h o s a i d that, " s i n c e o u r p e o p l e
w e r e n o t u p o n financial m a t t e r s , the t i m e a n d m o n e y spent in p r e p a r i n g a n d p u b l i s h i n g
s u c h i n f o r m a t i o n w a s s i m p l y a w a s t e o f e f f o r t s a n d g o o d m o n e y . " B u t the S o u t h e r n
Aid
m a n a g e m e n t k n e w t h a t the r a c e w a s m a k i n g r a p i d s t r i d e s o f a d v a n c e m e n t in
e d u c a t i o n , b u s i n e s s a n d finance, a n d w o u l d , t h e r e f o r e , s o o n b e a l i v e to such m a t t e r s .
T o d a y ' s " S h o w M e " spirit o f o u r p e o p l e c o m p e n s a t e s us f o r o u r e f f o r t s a n d c o n v i n c e s
t h e c r i t i c s that t h e p e o p l e n o w d e m a n d m o r e than N a m e s a n d P r o m i s e s as i n d u c e m e n t s
for their support o r investment.
T h e r e f o r e t h e S o u t h e r n A i d S o c i e t y o f V a , Inc.,
t a k e s g r e a t p l e a s u r e in s p r e a d i n g b e f o r e the p u b l i c its 27th A n n u a l F i n a n c i a l S t a t e m e n t
for consideration.

RECEIPTS
Tan. 1, 1 9 2 0 , Cash Balance Brought F o r w a r d
Dec. 8 1 , 1 9 8 0 , A n n u a l I n c o m e
Gross

Receipts f o r

$145,076.94
712,647.68

1920

$867,724.62
DISBURSEMENTS

Dec.

8 1 , 1920, Total

Paid O u t

Cash Balance, D e c

(Including investments made

during the year)

3 1 , 1920

$759,086.86
$98,688.17

ASSETS

LIABILITIES

Cash Balance
Real E s t . ( F r e e of all L i e n s )
Real Estate Mortgages
Federal, State a n d City B o n d s
F u r n i t u r e a n d Fixtures
Bills Receivable
Inventories, S u n d r y Accts

$ 98,688.17
803,252.67
71,699.60
62,838.00
7,000.00
1,368.15
4,001.87

Total

Capital Stock
Deposits of Employees
Ledger Accounts
SURPLUS

$548,788.46

FUND

$ 30,000.00
15,203.89
10,488.00
498,046.67

Total

$648,788.46

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS

Total A m o u n t of Claims Paid to December 3 1 , 1920

$ 623,046 57
$2,170,734.86

T h e a b o v e v e r i f i e d r e c o r d o f g r e a t a c h i e v e m e n t d o e s n o t satisfy u s : W e are there

f o r e p l a n n i n g f o r g r e a t e r g r o w t h t h r u b e t t e r a n d l a r g e r s e r v i c e t o o u r p o l i c y h o l d e r s in
t h e h o u r s o f s i c k n e s s , a c c i d e n t s a n d d e a t h : In o p e n i n g m o r e a v e n u e s o f e m p l o y m e n t
to m o r e o f o u r p e o p l e : A n d b y s u p p o r t i n g a n d c o - o p e r a t i n g w i t h o t h e r R a c e E n t e r
prises.
T h e u n s t i n t e d a n d liberal s u p p o r t o f o u r p o l i c y h o l d e r s has m a d e it p o s s i b l e f o r us
to attain t h i s s p l e n d i d p o s i t i o n in
finance:
T h e r e f o r e the c o n s e r v a t i o n o f their b e s t
i n t e r e s t s ' s h a l l a l w a y s r e c e i v e o u r first c o n s i d e r a t i o n .

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BUILDING LOTS THERE, W I T H FRUIT TREES ON T H E M ,

FOR
ONLY

O N EASY
TERMS

$56

A s p r e d i c t e d in o u r p r e v i o u s a n n o u n c e m e n t s ,
the
d e m a n d f o r O r c h a r d v i l l e l o t s is increasing
rapidly
and should s o o n be G R E A T E R T H A N I T H A S
BEEN
FOR A LONG TIME.
Conditions
are
i m p r o v i n g t o a n o t i c e a b l e e x t e n t , a n d in
many
p l a c e s t h e r e is n o l o n g e r that u n e a s y f e e l i n g w h i c h
c a u s e d p e o p l e to h o l d b a c k in t h e i r i n v e s t m e n t s .
T h e y n o w see t h a t the w o r s t has p a s s e d , a n d t h e y
a r e p r e p a r e d to g o a h e a d w i t h t h e i r p l a n s a g a i n .
RIGHT
NOW
IS
THE
TIME
TO
BUY
ORCHARDVILLE LOTS BECAUSE W E HAVE
ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER LEFT
WHICH
WILL BE SOLD UNDER OUR A T T R A C T I V E
DEVELOPMENT PLAN, AND WHEN
THEY
ARE
A L L S O L D IT W I L L BE T O O L A T E T O
AVAIL YOURSELF OF THIS
OFFER.
D o n ' t r i s k the c h a n o e o f l o s i n g o u t b y d e l a y i n g
too long.
R e m e m b e r that w h i l e v o u a r e w a i t i n g
O T H E R S are A C T I N G .

care o f for F O U R Y E A R S W I T H O U T E X T R A
COST.
B e s i d e s the r o o m t o b e t a k e n u p b y the
fruit trees, t h e l o t s h a v e p l e n t y o f r o o m f o r a
house, garden, chicken yard, shed,
etc.
E a c h lot is s o l d u n d e r a M O N E Y B A C K G U A R
ANTEE
and
the
TITLE
is
ABSOLUTELY
CLEAR.
T h e terms are only $6.00 d o w n
and
$3.00 a m o n t h p e r lot.
S m a l l e r t e r m s p e r lot
when
m o r e than o n e are
purchased.
NO
IN
TEREST.
SEND FOR OUR BEAUTIFUL BOOKLET.
It's
F R E E a n d c o n t d n s all the d e t a i l s o f t h i s r e m a r k
a b l e offer as w e l l as s e v e r a l v i e w s o f the l a n d .
We
also h a v e a b o o k l e t c o n t a i n i n g l e t t e r s f r o m
people w h o have been to Orchardville
and
who
tell y o u w h a t t h e y t h i n k o f t h e p l a c e .
A copy
o f e a c h o f t h e s e b o o k l e t s is y o u r s f o r t h e a s k i n g .
S i m p l y w r i t e y o u r n a m e a n d a d d r e s s p l a i n l y on
the
coupon below and
send
it t o tis
RIGHT
AWAY.
T h e booklets will be mailed
to
you
promptly.
DON'T
DELAY THIS
ANOTHER
DAY,
o r y o u m a y r e g r e t it.

T h e l o t s nre size 3 0 x 1 4 4 f e e t , a n d e a c h o n e w i l l
have F I V E F R U I T T R E E S aim a B E A U T I F U L
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ADDRESS

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19 S. La Salle Street

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WRITE
ARENSON R E A L T Y
C h i c a g o , 111.

DEV'PT.

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State.

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1921
like

to

receive

copy

of each

of

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t o M E A S U R E $13.

EXPRESS OR POSTAGE PREPAID

This offer is one o f the biggest, most gener
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WE'RE OUT TO BEAT

HIGH TAILORING PRICES
Your own local tailor couldn't and wouldn't
m a k e you a suit for $13.50, let alone supply
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You

Save $8 to $11

T h i s suit f o r S 1 3 . 5 0 c l e a r l y p r o v e s our s u p r e m a c y in t h e tailoring field, W e offer

d o z e n s o f equally g o o d values. L e t ' s tell
ti..lt'.l
C D C P
you a b o u t t h e m . W e would r a t h e r you did
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THE

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Dept. 606,

CHICAGO
Mention

THE

CBISH.

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NOW ON SALE

THE ONLY RECORDS USING E X C L U S I V E L Y

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A t Your Phonofirraoh Dealer

2001 ( AT DAWNING,

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Revella H u g h e s

10 Inch {

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"

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2002 ( FOR ALL ETERNITY,

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9

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Cleota Collins,
Lyric Soprano

156

Manager,
Columbus,

Ohio

E. A L D A M A J A C K S O N
GRADUATE

OF

INSTITUTE

OF

MUSICAL

ART

Organist-Director
of
Mueic of
St.
Marks
M.
E.
Church;
Concert
Accompanist;
Piano,
Voice,
Theory,
Instruction, Conducting,
Coaching.
H a r m o n y taught from b e g i n n i n g to c o m
pletion.
Private or correspondence.
Geothius
system.
STUDIO:

250

W.

138th

Telephone

St.,

New

Morningside

Genuine

45

A MONEY GETTER because It Is A C R O W D S E T T E R

Churches and Clubs looking for a play that will afford an
evening of Side-Splitting Fun. should have

" S h e c o m b i n e s a n e x c e l l e n t v o i c e w i t h a r t i s t i c fin
ish or the m o s t m a t u r e kind.
H e r s i n g i n g p r o v e d as
c h a r m i n g as a n y t h i n g the c o n c e r t p r o g r a m s will offer
t h i s s e a s o n . " D e t r o i t Daily
News.
GEORGE LACY,
Hamilton Avenue

ADVERTISER

YORK,

N,

1708.

Blue-Bell

Chambray Shirts Z ~

Y.

The Slabtown Convention

Aa entertainment In one act; full of wit
and good humor.
Scores of churches have cleared from
One to Two Hundred Dollars In One N i g h t
P R I C E . ftOi.
MISS NANNIE
B U R R 0 U G H 8 , Author
Lincoln Heights,
Washington. D . 0 .
A G E N T S E A R N $75.00 A W E E K
Selling our Enlarged Photo Me
dallions,
Photo
Cuff
Button,
Photo
Lockets,
Photo
Watch
Charms,
Photo
Breast
Pins,
Phou> Clocks and
Life
Size Por
traits (16 z 20).
We
copy
from
a n y Photograph
and Return Your
Original
Photo.
Agents' EnJar?<-II
S a m p l e s 60c.
Negro Books, Pictures and Post
Cards. Prompt Shipments. 100()
Agents and Dealers Wanted.
Free Catalog.
Bethel Art
Co., 97 South St.. Jamaica, N. Y .

^STUDENTS! A T T E N T I O N !
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orations.
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2 2 2 0

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IMPROVE YOURSELF I
HELP OTHERS!
Easy,
pleasant*,
dignified
work.
$2 p e r h o u r . U n u s u a l
opportunity.
Send
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in
stamps f o r m e m b e r s h i p , sup
plies, etc.

National Literary Association

1230 Ton S t

N. W., Wash., D . C.

The Colored Teachers'Bureau

R u s h y o u r order in
_ t o d a y sure.
Great
e s t s h i r t o f f e r e v e r m a d e . " 3 fine h e a v y B l u e
C h a m b r a y shirts f o r w o r k and semi-dress guar
a n t e e d f a s t c o l o r a n d w o r t h $ 1 . 5 0 e a c h , o n l y $2.29.
AIIB
fillADJIIITEC
I* y
match these
UUn
UUAIIAIIICC 3 w o n d e r f u l shirts f o r
l e s s t h a n $4.50, a n d d o n o t t h i n k y o u h a v e s a v e d
at least $ 2 . 5 0 . r e t u r n at o u r e x p e n s e . D o n ' t pay h i g h
retail prices
O r d e r today sure, b e f o r e it is t o o late.
W E P A Y D E L I V E R Y C H A R G E S T O Y O U R DOOR,
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Will

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Box

B Y

MAILALL

BRANCHES

$S

Learn at H o m e How to do Crochet Beading Correct

ly and
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The only Authoritative
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WORK
GUARANTEED
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W E S T

S8th

ST.,

TELEPHONE

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N E W Y O R K ,

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N.

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00.

CROCHET BEADING TAUGHT

N O W

Address: Colored Teachers' Bureau

O
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Y o n Get a

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SOLES. SPED
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PROOF AGAINST ACIDS,AND
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THEM WATERPROOF.
W E GUARANTEE TO
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YOU CAN MUTCH
THEM FOR LESS
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S t a t e size a n d c o l o r . W e pay s h i p p i n g cnarges,
B E P ^ A R D - H E W I T T &
C O M P A N Y
DEPT. CM44
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OUR

CRISIS

ADVERTISER

LATEST CATALOG WILL BE

MAILED T OY O U UPON REQUEST

W e are positively the only Manufacturers of H U M A N H A I R G O O D S who

specialize and cater direct to the Colored People.
Our Wigs, Switches, Transformations, Bobs and Braids are strictly hand
madeof the finest qualities of real Human Hair Goods and manufactured
under the supervision of M M E . B A U M , by the most skillful artists in the
trade.

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Try Mme. Baum's Celebrated Scalp and Face Preparations which are made
of the finest ingredients and are the most satisfying to the person using
them.

W e carry the largest selection of Hair

dressers' Tools and Accessories.

Mme. B a u m ' s Bob

gives the appear
ance of wearing the
hair
bobbed, but
makes cutting u n
necessary.
Made
of strictly Supreme
Quality
human
hair, with natural
waves,
sewed OH
Velvet
Ribbon,
fitted
with
three
tuck C o m b s to
hold secure.
IN
all shades.
Price.
$5 30.

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MAIL ORDER HOUSE
O U R

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writing,

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N E W

mention this

AT

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A N D

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B E R N A R D - H E W I T T
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TO

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The Negro in American History

Its value indicated in public and secondary school
libraries as an introduction to the study of American
History from the American Negro viewpoint.
2S4 pages
chapters.
17 full page illustrations.
Indei
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Price $2.00; sent on receipt
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postage remittance.
For further information address the
author.
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well

established
dollar

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services

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woman
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in

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to
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nationally

those

wanting

permanent
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live-wire

themselves

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47

BE A LAND OWNER!
E n j o y t h a t proud, self-satisfied a n d independ
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I n v e s t your sav
i n g s w h e r e t h e y w i l l he s a f e a n d w h e r e
t h e y can s o m e d a y earn you m a x i m u m re
turns,
G e t a w a y f r o m t h e t u r m o i l of t h e
c i t y , t h e lay-offs, s t r i k e s , c o n g e s t i o n , h i g h
cost of l i v i n g , e t c . I f you a c t Q U I C K L Y y o u
can secure a W o o d v i l l e country e s t a t e con
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G A L E BUILDING
413 South Broad
Philadelphia, Pa.

Send No Money

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T h e t r a c t is
well located, R I G H T O N A R A I L R O A D , with
t h e station r i g h t t h e r e .
T h e land is h i g h
and
dry and sold under a M O N E Y
BACK
GUARANTEE.
T h e T I T L E is A B S O L U T E L Y
CLEAR.
Send f o r our B E A U T I F U L B O O K
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plainly.
SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY
because t h e t r a c t s a r e going F A S T .
Address

Profit Smashing Bargain J u s t send

your n a m e , a d d r e s s , s i z e a n d color f o r 6
p a i r s of t h e s e h a n d s o m e , d u r a b l e . i r e n u i n e
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six pairs o n arrival. G U A R A N T E E D
$6.00 V A L U E . W o n d e r f u l q u a l i t y ,
e x t r a heavy s i l k . E l a s t i c r i b b e d top.
D o a b l e t o e a n d sole, h i g h epli
heel. C h o i c e o f b r o w n o r l>lac
Fast colors-.
W r i t e today f o r
tbisastoundingoffer. Limited
quantity.
Only 6 pairs
^
to a c u s t o m e r .
Shipped delivery
c h a r g e s paid. P a y
only S 3 . 1 9 on
arrival.
Money
b a c k if y o u c a n
m a t c h t h e m f o r SG.OO.
Dent. 044*

ARENSON REALTY DEVELOPMENT CORP.

19 S. La Salle St.

Chicago, III.

BERNARD-HEWITT I

HOMES
I am in a position to sell you a beautiful home
in C O R O N A , L. I. Attractive one and two family
homes in the most delightful section of N e w
York City. All city improvements, best of schools
and very convenient to any section of N e w York
City for 5 cents.
Or will build to suit the demands of any one.

Full information cheerfully given

L.

S.

R E E D

46 East Jackson Ave.

Mention

Corona, N. Y. City.
T H E CIISIS.

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THE

WANTED
Live

CRISIS

WANTED

Agents

At

Once

To

Sell

DUDLEY'S FAMOUS A U T O POLISH

for furniture, pianos, church pews, hardwood floors
and hundreds of other things that have a varnished
surface.
Makes them look like new.
Agents can
make $50.00 to $75.00 per week selling Dudley's
Polish to furniture dealers, drug stores, hardware
stores, churches, housekeepers, automobile stores, paint
stores and grocery stores. Special Offer: For 90 days
we will ship to all new agents $10.00 worth of Dud
ley's Polish for $5.00.
Take advantage of this
special offer at once.

DUDLEY

ADVERTISER

Genuine Imported $5.00 T o y o

PANAMA HAT
Delivered
FREE
Pay Only
$2.79 on
Arrival

MANUFACTURING CO.

Formerly
& P O R T E R M F G . CO.
and
DUDLEY LEATHER & CHEMICAL WORKS,
B o x 542
DUDLEY

MUSKOGEE,

rfhon.

Baring

OKLAHOMA

TT4

ISADORE

MARTIN

Real Estate and

Insurance
Notary Public Mortgage*
6 N o r t h 42nd Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Tel.

6417 Fort

Hill

Cable A d d r e s s ,

EDGAR
ATTOINIT

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P.

AND

Epben

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Street

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T H I S ^
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MODEL
Becoming to
Young or Old
W r i t e q u i c k for t h i s
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l i m i t e d lot. lit t h i s
profit - s m a s h i n g
low
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value f o r o n l y S > 2 . 7 9 .

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ples
of
both
conti
nents.
" A Programme for L i f e . "
Agents Wanted.
P r i c e 10c. T r y the 5c. and 1 0 c . stores.
A . R . Gil
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ter today this v e r y
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D e p t . M 044

The

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of

WE
TO

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REFUND YOUR

MONEY

if y o u c a n match
these
three wonderful summer
u n i o n s u i t s f o r $4.50. O r
d e r this a m a z i n g bargain
t h i s m i n u t e b e f o r e it is t o o
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dress and breast measure.

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D e p t . G0444

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3011

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fabrics, w o u l d y o u b e willing t o
k e e p a n d w e a r it, s h o w i t t o y o u r
friends a n d let t h e m see o u r beauti
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surprising liberal offer.

B a n n e r T a i l o r i n g Co.
FREE SAMPLE BOOK COUPON
B a n n e r Tailoring C o m p a n y , Dept. 9 2 7 , Chicago, 111.
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Chicago, Illinois