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AN ESTIMATE FROM THE FIELD Washington, D. C., Bldg. 1901-3 7th St., N. W. 328 W. Wright St. Pleasantville, N. J. November 23, 1928 Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Richmond, Virginia Gentlemen: On August 31, 1928, I was painfully hurt. It did not occur to me that I was a member of the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., until I re- ceived a request from my agent in Portsmouth, Va., to send in my sick card. The check for my benefits came forthwith, and assurance that they would continue until I was able to work again, and they have. I did not seek the company after being hurt, but it sought me 400 miles away to be sure that I was cared for. Is it a friend? Is it true to its contracts? I say cheerfully, it is, and I most cheerfully recommend the Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. to all of my race everywhere. (Signed) ROBERT B. CROCKER Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc. Home Office: 525-7-9 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va. Insures against Disability and Death Operating in Virginia, District of Columbia and New Jersey

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‘WHERE THERE IS NO VISION — THE PEOPLE PERISH” We have, in attractive pamphlet form, the statements of twelve nationally known Americans, in regard to Thrift and Life Insurance. For instance, Dr. DuBois, Editor of the Crisis, says, in regard to Life Insurance: In modern civilized life there are certain things which every man does. He is born; he is educated; he goes to work; he takes out life insurance; he is sick; he dies. Few of these things can be avoided, certainly not the first and the last. The degree of a man’s civilization is measured by the care which he takes of the other items. To be sure, uneducated men have succeeded; some men do not work, and perhaps a few serious men do not carry life insurance. But none of these omissions are to be recommended. All of them are essential to life. Sickness may be avoided to some extent; death never. Insurance is a method of making these the least possible burden upon the man himself, his friends, and his family.” There are included other equally informative statements from the following: John W. Davis, President, West Va. Collegiate Institute M. W. Dogan, President, Wiley University D. C. Fowler, Dean, Texas College John M. Gandy, President, Virginia N. & I. Inst. John Hope, President, Morehouse College R. R. Moton, Principal, Tuskegee Institute Carl Murphy, Editor, Baltimore Afro-American J. B. Simpson, Professor of Greek, Virginia Union University F. A. Sumner, President, Talladega College R. S. Wilkinson, President, S. C. State College P. B. Young, Editor Norfolk Journal and Guide On the last page is a diagram “The Dollar Value of An Education”, from a study by Dean Lord of Boston University. The statements of these gentlemen, with their photographs, will prove interesting to you and your family, and furnish something to think about for a while. A copy may be had from any representative of the company or by forwarding the attached coupon to the Home Office. High School and College Instructors will be sent additional copies for distribution to their students. Victory Life Insurance Company Home Office: 3621 South State St. Chicago, IIl. “FOR THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OP SECURING THE ADMISSION OF THE Victory Life Insurance Company~ AS THE FIRST NEGRO ORGANIZATION PERMITTED TO DO INSURANCE BUSINESS UNDER THE RIGID REQUIREMENTS OP THB STATE OF NEW YORK" $200,000.00 Capital and the Only Negro Company Operating Under the Supervision of the New York Insurance Department.” Victory Life Insurance Company 3621 South State Street Chicago, Illinois Gentlemen:—Send me copy of your pamphlet: “Where There Is No Vision, etc.” My name Street Address City or Town My Occupation January, 1929

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THE Ww. E. Burcuarpt Dv Bois, Editor Volume 36, No. 1 Contents for January, 1929 CRISIS A Record of the Darker Races Prerck McN. Tuompson, Business Manager Whole No. 219 Page COVER. “For This New Year, Oh Lord”. By Vivian Schuyler , | AS THE CROW FLIES ..........-... es eee cece eee teen eee ees se | FRONTISPIECE. Drawing by Celeste M. Smith ................... 6 THE MIRACLE OF KINGS. Translated from the Spanish by M. J. ee RM Ig falaisla fin eierere gag ea idle note ni¥ sa sieis eeaiere es * THE HURRICANE. By Ida Gibbs Hunt ..................--0+-0e- 9 L SUMGHINE GAMMY. TWostrated ...............0 ccs ccceeseneceeees 10 THE LITTLE PAGE. By Effie Lee Newsome. Illustrated Eek pata il THE N. A. A. C. P. BATTLE FRONT. Illustrated ................ 12 THE POET’S CORNER. The Psalm. A Poem by Annice Calland .. 13 ALONG THE COLOR LINE. Illustrated ..............-...seeeeee 14 NE MT, BECPE ON occ ect nce k sree estes desenadeewecaegesieee cies 19 | THE BROWSING READER .......... ccc csccecccccccer cece eeceeees 20 NTELLIGENCE tests show that | the white voodoo doctors of Penn- sylvania are markedly superior in their methods to their colored prototypes.— Without the black folk on the “Ves- tris’, there would have been no one to praise and no one to blame.—Mr. Hoover and the rulers of South Amer- ica are exchanging amenities. With Haiti, Cuba, Santo Domingo and Nicaragua sticking out of his pockets, Mr. Hoover is assuring them all that the United States loves them terribly. They are replying with one voice, lead by President Gil: ‘Then let us alone.” —No one has yet suggested that King George V, if given a chance, would have set the world afire. Neither will his son.—Don’t forget that it was Gov- ernor Roosevelt of New York who wrote the illegal constitution of Haiti, thrust it down their black throats, then laughed about it—Nine hundred thou- sand miners are starving in Great Bri- tain, but they are doing something about it. Already they have settled two thousand of them in Canada.— lt is Mr. Garner of Texas who calls the Democratic Party “naturally and logically the Liberal Party of the country”. ‘God save the Liberals!— PORTSCRIPE. Be W. Be B, De Bete) occ hath cee ascetics i ap As the Crow Flies ae RARE Le AGS AAR INET EE We not only permit a man whose ser- vices to the country, to say the least, are not clear, to abstract $25,000,000 a year from the goods produced in the country, but also at Mr. Ryan’s death, we give him permission to transfer this right in perpetuity to anybody he sees fit to name without expecting any ser- vices whatever in return.—The dis- tinguished gambler, Mr. Rothstein, who ran across a bullet recently, has received more respectful publicity than any great American of recent years.— Mr. Fred A. Britten has named and elected himself Secretary of State of the United States pro tem.—Every member of the 800,000,000 darker peoples of the world should stand with bowed heads in memory of Lajpat Rai, the great leader of India, who died of English violence because he dared per- sist in his fight for freedom.—The late Alfred E. Smith has already begun his campaign to buy up the Negro race which he so sadly neglected last No- vember. His friend, Mr. Raskob, has contributed something to a little Negro Ae, We are asking friends and sub- scribers to make unusual effort to get copies of THE Crisis to those who want the magazine, or would want it if they could get it. It is singular that the old- est Negro magazine in the United States is unknown to so many people. In return for this effort we are going to publish some un- usual and interesting stories, ar- ticles, pictures and poems. The year 1929 will be ‘notable in the pages of THE CRIsIs. Sey” school in Georgia.—A poor European ruling family to whom Napoleon tossed a crown, has been rescued from star- vation by American asbestos. Hail Columbia, happy land!—There is a ninety-seventh archbishop of Canter- bury, a fact that will give some people unusual pleasure-—The presidential candidate who asked for a higher tariff to keep out foreign goods says in his annual report that we have more and more manufactured goods to sell abroad. He will now address his mighty mind to methods of making people pay for these goods.—The Na- tional City Bank which bought Haiti a few years ago, is giving away part of the loot to its share holders.—Why shouldn’t any good gambler pay $600,- 000 for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange ?—Just what does President Coolidge mean by peace? What are cruisers for anyway? At any rate, let’s have fifteen or twenty; they'll only cost thirty or forty universities. —A white congressman from Texas and a black congressman from IIlinois are both under indictment. Watclr the action of the House-—Where didi we read before that stuff on the Negra in the President’s message? 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The Miracle of the Kings Translated from the Spanish of R. Cansinos-Assens HE night was very cold and very blue. The snow had covered all the country-side with whiteness, and the far-away stars shining yonder in the last frontier of the sky seemed also to be of silvery snow, very cold and very white. All the windows of the house were By M. J. BENARDETE shut, and, next to the fire of the big hearth, the little girl, a poor little country girl, was watching the hem- lock logs burn, enthralled, with her hands over the fire and her heart filled with legends, because it was the night of the Epiphany. Soon, a sour and unfriendly voice, the voice of a cruel step-mother, re- sounded through the room: “Mary, didn’t I tell you to go to the fountain and fetch water? How is it you forgot?” The little heart of the girl trembled with fear every time she heard that voice. ni i ee eh Rte eR eee ee ee ee eee ref The Three Kings, Gaspar, Balthasar and Melchior From Multscher’s “Adoration of Kings’. January, 1924 Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin

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“| had to go for wood this evening, Mother, and I forgot.” “Then go for the water right now.” IGHT now it was very late: little brother was sleeping in his pine cradle under the white hangings; father was smoking, with his hands resting on the table and his eyes blink- ing with dreams in the midst of the smoke of the black tobacco. “Right now for water?” girl dared to say. “Right now, lazy one. You ought to have brought it this evening.” Standing in the middle of the room, the little girl was thinking of the elves and the hobgoblins in the woods, of the wolves in the snow, and of the enchantments of the bewitching night outside the houses. Her moist and beseeching little eyes looked for pity, first in the eyes of her stepmother, and then in those of her father, who was smoking happily in the comfort of the warm house. But the father, who loved only his second wife, shouted too, “Go out, lazy one, go for water.” ESIGNED and silent, the little “girl went to the kitchen to get the heavy pitcher from the pine board. Girdling it with her arms with a ten- der gesture as if it were a load of roses, she placed it on her hip; and before going, she said pleadingly to her step-mother, “Will you place my little shoes on the window for the time the Magi pass?” “Oh, yes, I will beat you with them if you come late. Go away, lazy one.” Her eyes brimming with tears, the little girl had to lift, unaided, the heavy bolt which crossed the two pan- els of the old and heavy oak door against wolves and thieves. Her father continued to smoke impassively, near the warmth of the fire, next to the beautiful step-mother, who was fascinating him with her eyes. The breast of the little girl leaving the house was filled with sighs and with bitterness. Her eyes filled with tears, she sought consolation in the high stars that were looking down at ger maternally and serenely. The whole country-side was covered with snow; the roofs of the rustic houses seemed crowned with big, white tiaras. Little lights, silked with tenderness, were shining through the misty, whitish window-panes. The earth, put to sleep by the snow, was as if en- chanted under a pure dream of love. It was the night of the Magi, and the little children went to sleep very early in order to let the holy Magi pass in silence under their windows, and the little girl felt envy and sorrow and a great wish to have a good mother like 8 the little the other children. With the jug on her side and her little hands purple with cold, she took the road toward the fountain. HE fountain was in the very heart of the woods, beneath the branches of a walnut-tree a hundred years old. Up to the silent fountain the little girl went, her soul filled with dread. The water had frozen. On the spout was nothing more than a hard and white icicle. A great skein of snow hung on the metal frame. The little girl began to cry. If she went home now, her step-mother would beat her and call her lazy. Shivering with cold, she leaned against the trunk of the tree. “Oh, holy Virgin, where can I go for water?” Through the enchanted crystals of her tears, she saw the white woods filled with colors, mute and mys- tical, in the silence of the snow. The trees appeared to, be static saints wrapped in the dawn whiteness of their robes. jA candid promise reigned in the woods; it was the enchanted hour when, down to earth, over the snow-covered homes, come the angels of the Nativity. Soon her tears remained suspended in the eyes of the little girl, and her hands were raised to her little breast in a prayer. Silently, under the trees of the wood. advanced a brilliant cortege. The little girl saw tunics, shining and golden, and regal silks filled with pomp and majesty. There were three venerable and beautiful figures, with long white beards, just like the saints in the stone cathedral and like the Magi in thé pictures of her story-book. HROUGH the very road where the fountain was situated they were coming, mounted on_ strange, humpy horses. She had never seen their like before. Filled with fear and respect, she hid herself behind a tree to watch them pass. The foot- steps of the strange mounts made no noise in the snow. The royal riders spoke not a word. She could see them better as they came nearer. They looked like three won- derful kings come from distant realms. They wore on their heads rich, crim- son cloths, and on the cloths golden crowns, big and shining. Their tunics seemed long, pontifical brocades in a big festivity at the cathedral. One could readily see in their faces that they were not from the lands of the North. Their noses were aquiline, and their cheek-bones stuck out. But there was infinite sweetness in their black eyes. One of the three kings was a Negro. HE little girl had never seen , T Negro. And she noticed in ql! surprise that his eyes were even riche; in tenderness than those of the othe; kings. On the backs of the horses those strange, gigantic, and hump, horses, with their necks adorned with strings of beads and golden pieces, were piled toys. Little cardboard horses. windmills, charming clay figurine thumbed in heavenly leisure by the saints who once were artisans on earth, and bags chock-full of sweets, bon bons, and all kinds of delicious, tempt: ing, sugary tid-bits, prepared with the honey-sweetness of the beatitude oj the women saints who had been makers of sweetmeats in their convents, Behind the kings one could see com. ing three more horses, loaded with di- vine gifts and priceless treasures for children. When she saw them so near, the lit. tle girl could not any longer doubt. They were the Magi because they were exactly the same as those painted on the triptych of the cathedral. The little girl heard them speaking very low. The woods became filled with a sweet and divine clarity as the passed. The little girl heard: “IT wonder if the village is still far off. It is now three days since we left heaven through the golden door.” 66 ND how .cold it is here,” said the black king. “Poor people who live in this country, oh, if I could only give them the sun of Ethiopia. The children are waiting for us in their dreams. In all likelihood, the village is near, and I want to give the finest toys to the children of this snow- covered land.” The little girl was mute with sur- prise. Not a single doubt remained that they were the three Magi: Gas- par, Melchior, and Balthasar. And at the same time she felt that a great joy in looking at the marvelous vision the little girl felt keen bitterness in thinking that they would soon pass under her window, they would not see her little shoes, and they would not leave any rich gift from heaven. The cortege had stopped as if in search of the road leading to the vil- lage. The little girl realized that this was the moment, and she must not let them go by. Determined, she came from behind the tree, and making 4 solemn bow before the kings, she said, “Good evening to you, dear sirs.” ER voice was the purest and new- est silver. The Magi turned on her their sweet, paternal, and benign eyes; particularly, the eyes of the (Will you please turn to page 24) THe Crisis certai suffer sular much roof partit age d ture all ri a Di dead. Le exper terril ten ( gale We girl as lo of tl were izing upon to ¢ door: mom over mark was Late strug out | had Whi hot also arou

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nes bon pt the i) cers om di- for lit- ubt. vere on king Hed they far left said -ople ould opia. s in the e the now: sur- ained Gas- And great vision ss in pass vould vould aven if in e vil- t this ot let came ing 4 said, ” e | new- ed on yenign f the 24) CRISIS Guadeloupe for THE Crisis prais- ing its beauties of nature and its kind, easy-going inhabitants with their sweet French manners, a terrible catastrophe blew out of the sea, laid its luxuriant vegetation low, and almost wiped out certain of its towns. Pointe-a-Pitre suffered the worst and though the con- sular building remains standing, it is much damaged. ‘The corrugated iron roof was taken off, doors blown in, a partition felled, and much minor dam- age done. Our things, such as furni- ture and household effects, are nearly all ruined. Our lives are saved, grace a Dieu, though there are hundreds of dead. Let me relate some details of our experiences which may interest you, even from my inadequate pen. We had rented a pretty and solidly built summer house or villa, in the mountains at Trois-Riviéres for the hot months and my husband came up for the week-ends, except when the arrival of a steamer Sunday prevented. On Wednesday, September 12th, a terrible wind arose before day and by ten o'clock it was blowing a perfect gale accompanied by driving storms. We (my “bonne” and I and her little girl of seven) stood on the veranda as long as we could, watching the fury of the storm and noticing what trees were losing their branches, not real- izing that a cyclone was bearing down upon us. But soon we were obliged to come inside and close all of the doors. We have no windows. At this moment, a neighbor’s little girl ran over saying that her mother had gone to market and had not yet returned, what was she to do? “Stay here,” I said. Later she saw her mother coming, struggling against the wind and ran out and brought her in. Her mother had fallen twice and bruised her leg. While we doctored the bruises with hot salt water, the father came over also and said that a cyclone from around Martinique was predicted for Guadeloupe that night. J UST as I had finished an article on T noon when my “bonne” spread the table and prepared to serve something to eat, the wind suddenly shifted from northwest to south, blew the bed-room door open as it went and drove in a wetting rain. After that, there was no more thought of eating. We were all busy locking and barring doors to the south, inside and outside ones, realizing that the cyclone was January , 1920 The Hurricane By IDA GIBBS HUNT (Wife of the American Consul) upon us already. My thoughts went anxiously to my husband there alone in Pointe-a-Pitre. The storm grew more and more furious every minute. Other neigh- bors came in for refuge and the wo- man with the bruised leg was crying and praying and calling on all of the Saints. I heard repeated again and again Saint Marie, St. Joseph, St. Christopher, till I grew nervous and retired to the north bed-room and lay down to still my beating heart and wait, not knowing whether this mon- ster wind would pass and leave us safe or wipe us all out in its course. The rain poured in torrents, the wind whistled, roofs blew off, trees and branches fell on and around the house, and the air was full of sounds of de- struction. The little girl curled up on the bed beside me crying with fear and her mother soon joined in. [| tried to reassure them, saying that the house was too solidly constructed to be blown down, but that our roof might go. I was not certain though. For three solid hours the rain fell in torrents and the wind blew an aw- ful gale; but the end was not yet. By this time, part of our corrugated roof had been ripped off, making an_in- fernal noise and the water began drip- ping down into the dining room from above. We lay low and let it drip, awaiting either death or an abatement. One thing that comforted me a little was that I’ve long had the impression, or presentiment, that I was not to die by violent means, and another thing was the thought that Pointe-a-Pitre, situated on a sort of bay or channel, was more protected than here. FTER five o'clock there was a slight calm, but the rainy deluge continued with hardly a minute’s let up. By six, the wind had considerably decreased and I could move around and see how the others were faring. I found them frightened, chilly, and uncomfortable, but calmer. Water was two or three inches deep in the dining room and dripping from the ceilings more or less everywhere, even on the beds. We turned and pulled the things around to avoid the drops as much as possible, while the storm still raged. At length we made the wet and cold guests as comfortable as possible, dis- tributed a little food and wraps and again lay down, but not to sleep. The strong wind and heavy showers con- tinued until after midnight, when an abatement was quite perceptible and one could doze off a bit. Next morning we looked out on a scene of deyastation and ruin unimag- inable. Not a tree, nor a shrub in the vard was unharmed. All had been either uprooted or denuded of leaves and branches; pieces of roofing and wreckage lay all around and every house in the neighborhood was dam- aged or demolished. Desiccated leaves in abundance were scattered over the sides of our house and up under the veranda roof, several outside doors blown off their hinges and the balus- trade of the veranda lacking in places. However on looking around we noticed so many others houseless or roofless that we felt blessed after all. I had even thought of telegraphing Mr. Hunt first thing in the morning but saw that all wires were down and all means of communication cut off. HE beautiful trees on the hill op- posite me that I love so much to look at were missing altogether or lifting their naked, barren branches to the sky, a piteous sight. There was a clear view of the sea now still angry and raging where I had before only a glimpse of banana and mango leaves. All day long no news from “the Pointe” and then, next morning, the most distressing reports of terrible de- struction by wind and sea, of houses felled and numerous persons drowned. You can imagine my state of mind! ‘Towards noon, however, a young man living near the consulate came in to say that Mr. Hunt was all right as he saw him just as he himself was leav- ing on foot to see how his mother had fared at G , a little farther on. By boat and on foot over fallen trees and other debris he had taken a day and a half to travel some sixty kilo- meters. I shall always love that bo both for his filial devotion and for the good news he brought me. Two days later the route was opened up by convict labor as far as the Riviére Salée (Salt River), a nar- row channel separating the Basse- Terre side of the island from Pointe- a-Pitre, and the next day I was en route for the Pointe, as it is commonly called, with a friend and her husband. At the Salt River were dozens of auto- mobiles and a great crowd soliciting boats to be ferried across om te-a- Pitre, for the bridge had been blown (Will you please ta page 24) 9

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N the City of New Orleans slightly more than a decade and a half ago, Ernest Morrison was born, the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morri- son. About six months later, Mr. Morrison, a government employee in the Southwest, was granted a leave to California on account of trouble with his eyes. Later the interesting little family was united in Los Angeles. Despite the trouble with his eyes, Mr. Morrison was fascinated by the rapidly growing moving picture industry, and had no difficulty in seeing clearly the possibilities for those who would begin at the bottom and work hard. With this vision and the determination to succeed, this ambitious father coached his young hopeful and at the age of a year and a half, he began his moving picture career as an infant extra for the princely compensation of a dollar and a half a week. This, humble beginning was imme- diately crowned with success. A short time after his first appearance the promising little extra was featured as Sunshine Sammy co-star with Baby Marie Osborne in a regular photo- play. For three years following the little boy was featured in two and three reel comedies in which Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard played the important adult roles. At the age of seven years he became the star of the “Our Gang” Comedies and was fea- tured first in “The Little Piccaninny”. His sister, the original Farina, created a stellar role in her own right in the Gang. Movie fans the world over recall the many fine productions in which this little star was featured for about seven years. It was quite an in- teresting trail from the role of an in- fant extra at a dollar and a half a week to a juvenile star at five hun- dred and fifty a week. T this, apparently the zenith of his career, it seemed that his producers wanted to feature one of the lesser lights to share the hard earned and thoroughly deserved honors’ of Sunshine Sammy. This arrangement was refused outright by the father and as a result his little boy left the screen. His actions in this particular case were criticised very severely by those who knew the facts and perhaps even more by those who knew nothing about the situation. However, Mr. Morrison felt that his son should remain the star of the group because by his own ability he had contributed more than anybody else to establish “Our Gang” in the 10 “Sunshine Sammy” (ERNEST MORRISON) hearts of movie fans. During the three months following his withdrawal from the screen much time was spent in rest and some in the preparation of a vaudeville act con- ceived by Mr. Morrison. In going ch over the correspondence necessary to secure bookings, Mr. Morrison con- sidered best the offer made by a Hous. ton, Texas, theater manager. Think. ing that he had closed a deal to play (Will you please turn to page 26) Sunshine Sammy and his Colleague Tue Crisis this sup of yea clot ing stre apt 7

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Cellar Calendar Chat UR old friend Janus again! Jan- uary always makes one think of this Roman god who long ago was supposed to guard the commencement of each year. On the first day of the year people would dress in their finest clothing and exchange pleasant greet- ings in the market places and on the streets. And they would make gifts of appetizing honey cakes and dates and figs and all sorts of confections. “Father of the morning’ was another name for Janus. The Roman people bowed to him at the dawn of day for he was believed to be not only the guiding spirit of the new year but also of the new day. He is represented by a figure with two faces, one sup- posed to be gazing toward the begin- ning and the other the ending of affairs. We mentioned these two faces in a previous “Calendar Chat”’. The first month of the year was held sacred to Janus and named for him by Numa far back in the past. So every New Year that comes is after all at- tended by very old traditions. The Old Woman SAW an old woman in blueberry color Come up with a basket from out of the cellar. ‘Good woman, pray tell me, just what’s , in your hamper?” “If I were to tell you, you surely would scamper,” That’s all that she answered, and hurried away, And I’ve never seen her again since that day. January, 1 929 The Little Page By EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Spider and Amber HE walls of amber hoid fast many a spider that centuries ago, as resin came slowly trickling down a tree, has been borne onward with the sluggish stream and imprisoned as were other insects—and lizards—through all the countless years required to make amber of resin. How valuable the amber that comes set with encaged insects! How decorative my demure little lady spider sitting like a tiny brown teapot in the gold! I've gone to our Norway spruce hedge at dawn and found spider web strands flashing with dew like holiday tinsel for fairies. And it really seemed not so bad after all, this business of being a spider. I believe you remem- ber about Arachne. I’ve never known whether or not you and I are expected to feel sorry for her. Minerva being a goddess was sup- posed to excel in everything just as certain classes of people because they are of one variety feel that necessarily they handle all matters better than others. Busy pretty little Arachne said The Guard and the Children. that she produced finer needlework than the goddess Minerva, and maybe she did. But Minerva was so disgusted by this declaration from a mere mortal that she turned the-little thing into a spider and still Arachne is working with exquisitely dainty threads though Minerva has become a part of the vapor of vesterday’s dreams. My Palace WISH those roundish silver spots On butterflies were money. I’d save them in my pocketbook To buy just such a lovely nook As I have very often planned, Right in the heart of fairyland, And spend some drops of money dew For peacocks trimmed with golden blue. I’d have my air perfumed with hints Of hidden thyme and peppermints. And all within my garden walls You'd hear the little veery’s calls. My castle spires should tower high With glassy roofs to show the sky In rose and gold and violet At dawn, through day and at sunset. (Will you please turn to page 27) Dunbar Apartments, New York

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THE N.A.A.C.P. BATTLE FRONT ¥ 4 NEGRO SEA HERO HE motion picture camera men were turning the cranks of their machines in front of the City Hall Building of New York. On the steps stood a small group of people while an admiring crowd watched from the Plaza. Down on this scene looked the soaring tower of the Woolworth Building. Opposite was the old Fed- ¢ al Building, in which testimony was being taken concerning the sinking of te steamship Vestris, off the Virginia Coast, with a loss of one hundred and eleven lives. In the center of the group on the City Hall steps, small, neatly dressed, black, with a firm chin line, quiet demeanor and a smile that showed two rows of very white teeth, stood Lionel Licorish, Barbadian quartermaster of the Vestris, who single handed saved twenty. lives, kept a life-boat full of people afloat for twenty-four hours during a gale, and then modestly ad- mitted he had “done his duty”. Next to Lionel Licorish, also small, and dap- per, and smiling, with a twinkle, stood the Mayor of New York City. On the other side of Licorish, stood Nathan Straus, whose efforts in behalf of good milk for babies are known throughout the country. Beside the Mayor stood Grover Whalen, who has welcomed royalty to New York City, and others in the group included Charles H. Tuttle, United States Attorney in charge of the Vestris inquiry, and James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. There were many who had come to the City Hall for this occasion. They included clergymen, editors, among them Alderman Fred R. Moore, editor of the New York Age; W. H. Davis, editor of the Amsterdam News, and many others well known in the life o& Harlem and of New York City. They were present at the highest honor the city could bestow on any citizen: an official welcome by the Mayor. = addresses delivered in the official welcoming room of the City Hall, the reason for these ceremonies was made quite clear. Speaking for the N. A. A. C. P., Mr. Johnson said he took a pardonable pride in emphasizing the fact that of the heroic actions in one of the worst sea disasters that had ever occurred off the American coast the outstanding act of bravery was that 12 Lionel Licorish of a colored man. It showed, he said, that courage knows no limitation of race, creed or color. UL. S. District Attorney Tuttle, who followed Mr. Johnson, spoke of his gratification at being able to be present and to pay tribute to a man who had shown not alone bravery but intelligence. Mr. Tuttle described the action of Lionel Licorish as “a shaft of light stabbing the darkness” of the night that hung over the Vestris dis- aster. He added, speaking as United States Attorney in charge of the fed- eral inquiry, that no witness on the stand had more favorably impressed the commission or had told a more intelli- gent straightforward story than this same little black quartermaster from the Barbadoes. This statement com- ing from Mr. Tuttle was the more im- pressive, in that a cowardly attempt had been made to throw the blame for the sinking of. the vessel upon a “mutiny” of the black gang, the fire- men, who had stuck by their posts and by orders until the last moment and had left the Vestris only a few minutes before she sank into the depths of the ocean. The N. A. A. C. P., incidentally had promptly characterized this attempt to slur the black gang as a cowardly subterfuge, pointing out to the news- papers and people of New York and the nation, that it was only the officers of the Vestris whose memories of the disaster were vague and confused; that there had been no semblance of disci- pline or centralized authority on the ship and no orders issued for the safety zs De of the passengers; and that the men who behaved in heroic fashion and later told honest, clear and straightforward stories before the investigating commis. sion were Negroes: Lionel Licorish and Joseph Boxhill, a colored fireman. HE third speaker to pay tribute to Lionel Licorish, was the aged Nathan Straus, who said that this was his first visit to the City Hall and that it took such an act of bravery and an opportunity to pay tribute to it such as this to bring him there. He said emphatically that one of the dreams of his youth had beer to save a human life, and that there had been no human being he was more anxious to meet than quartermaster Licorish. The last speaker but one at this im- pressive occasion was M..,or James Walker of New York. The Mayor spoke of the city, the greatest in the Western Hemisphere, probably the greatest in the world. He touched upon the various races and nations repre- sented in its population. Turning then to quartermaster Licorish the Mayor said: “When you left that ship and reached out your hands to save some- one else’s life, it is fair and reasonable to suppose that no one asked you what race you belonged to—no one asked you where you were born and no one was interested in your color. They were mighty glad to have your arms around them and they were mighty glad to accept the help you brought them. “That was all right out there in the raging waters. That was fine when the ship was going down. But I am rather inctined to believe that if we did a little more while the ship was sail- ing smoothly, along the same line, if we had the same willingness to accept assistance and the same absence of dis- crimination, even this would be a greater country than it is today.” Finally, Lionel Licorish, asked to do what was probably the “hardest job in a quartermaster’s life”, to reply to an address by the Mayor of New York, stood quietly and addressed the gather- ing. He said he would wish no one to go through what he had endured through a long night some two weeks before. He would not wish to go through it again. But it was a great thing to have come through it and be alive this day. Then, with a flash of smile that brought a sympathetic re- (Will you please turn to page 27) Tue Crisis ‘D West in the stopp! 210 1 durin was was the acqui storie The youcl neith loved

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ie me THE POETS CORNER 6 THE PSALM By ANNICE CALLAND ‘During the several years spent in the West Indies, I resided for almost a year in the city of Saint Marc, Haiti. While stopping at the hotel there I met a Ne- sro woman of great influence in Haiti during the years Guilliame Vilbrun Sam was President of Haiti. At the time I was in Saint Marc, she was managing the hotel there and as we _ became acquainted, she told me many interesting stories of the West India Negroes, The Psalm’ being one of them. I do not vouch for the truth of the story and neither did she for that matter, but I loved her stories and have been trying to put them into poems. “The dialect used is that of the less fortunate English speaking Negroes of British governed Islands as I remem- ber it.” (CHRIST Jesus Almighty, I is trust- in’ in yo’! O Lord, save I! Save I! De sea is bellowin’ with hell in its mouth, Lord Jesus hear it cry! ‘L is promis’ yo’ I is preach de Gospel, Preach it in Bairbados. De ship she shudders; she is breakin’ up, God keep I when she goes! ‘Dey mus’ go firs’ de an’ de childern. Grey things creep up lak ghos’! QO Lord Jesus, let I live! Save I From de sea’s mad demonry hos’! x * * “Laance yo’ isn’t ever been in Bairbados, Dey hates us Jamaicans dere; Does dey kill yo’ dey do it with de Psalm; Where is yo’ den? Where?” women ” “L is tellin’ yo’, brother, I is work for Jesus; [ is promis’ Him I go; An’ I isn’t been killed off yet, is I? I isn’t goin’ borrow no woe. “Though I is ’fraid of death by de Psalm 2 I is willin’ to take a chance.” Den yo’ is right to go ahead; De Lord watch over yo’, Laance.” ce ARBADOS lies in Caribbean waters, Dripping in colorful light, And sun-sifted shade of the tangled bush weet as lime flowers at night. The evening vibrant ith taut-tuned, steel-like strings en Lance made his way to the mis- sion house— Staunch scion of jungle kings. tradewind was faintly January, 1929 His soot black body was six-foot-two; His muscles rippled and rolled Like the waters of a sleek, jet black cascade; His eyes were soft yet bold. The strangest feature of his strange face Was his nose convex like a beak. His golden voice flowed like sunlight Over June’s rose tinted cheek. When Lance trousers Entered the tabernacle door, The “revivalis’ meetin’” was swing, Brother Anselm held the floor. in new white shirt and in full He had promised Lance that he should speak; Was helpful and benign When Lance plead: “I is got de voice; I kin preach, Mahster, pleas’ yo’ be so kin’.” Lance’s sermon was his soul’s flowing; He drew himself up tall; Let his features soften and his dark eyes glow While he preached of the sin of all. over- His hearers cried out hysterically; Their African fervor soared. Till—“No damned Jamaican kin save my soul,” A black Barbadian roared. rT HY is yo’ preachin’ to us in Bairbados, Yo’ lyin’ whelp of a spy?” Lance said: “I is come for de God Al- mighty Who knows yo’ is tellin’ a lie.” “Down with dat swine, dat lyin’ Jamai- can, He is come to spy on us,” Scraggs, the Barbadian leader barked, “Grab on to dat spyin’ cuss.” “Baack to de boats on de carrenage; Baack to de council room; He will tell us dere what he is doin’ here Or go to de devil’s doom.” For black Barbadians rule black Bar- badians As only Obeah-taught can Surreptitiously under the rule Of the governing White Man. Thick walls of stone formed the squat old building Well hidden in jungle bush; There Lance was brought through a heavy door, In the tropic evening hush. 4 One thing struck hard on Lance as he entered, Four rings in the wall of stone, Four rings where a man could be spread- eagled, And no friend hear his moan. “Dere’s jes’ one way to kill a Jamaican,” Their brutal chieftain said. “De Psalm! De Psalm!” his comrades shouted, They felt he was good as dead. Their forbears living in Africa Had been Papaloi ruled men— To kill let a proper curse be uttered, Foes died invariably then. ANCE stood immobile as sternly ordered: “Fetch he to de en’ wall!” There they lashed him to the iron rings Where he towered huge and tall. Scraggs ‘Fetch de Book, an’ de drums, an’ de caandles,” Scraggs barked in voice, “Yo’ is voted to kill him by de Psalm; On his soul mus’ res’ your choice.” a passion filled In ringing words Lance defied his enemies: “Yo’ kin pray till yo’ lose your breath; Burn a thousan’ caandles, sing ten thous- an’ Psalms, Yo’ kin never pray I to death!” The roar of hard hands on drumheads thundered And broke the midnight calm; The Barbadian chief flung his arms in the air And began the chosen Psalm: “Hol’ not Thy peace, O God of our praise,” His voice cried in the gloom. It was the most powerful curse they knew, More final than Voodoo Doom. With howls like wild beasts scenting meat His followers made reply: “For de mouth of de wicked an’ de mouth of de deceitful has opened agains’ us: He has spoken agains’ us with a lyin’ tongue.” With black bodies bending in unison, With outflung arms, all cried: “He is compassed us about with words of hatred, An’ is fought agains’ us without a cause. Set Thou a wicked maan over him; An’ let Satin staand at his right haand. When he is judged let him be found guilty; (Will you please turn to page 27) 13

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1 | NEW ENGLAND @ Miss Edith G. Brown recently has been appointed as a teacher in the his- tory department of the Girls Memor- ial High School of Boston, Mass., where she has been teaching for the past two years under temporary ap- pointment. Miss Brown, who re- ceived the M. S. degree from Boston Teachers College, is the first Negro to receive appointment to teach in the high schools of Boston. @ When the Springfield College cross-country team ran against the West Point Cadets recently, it was minus the services of M. M. Greene, colored captain of the Springfield team, because of a West Point ruling pro- hibiting colored boys from participa- tion against the Cadets. @ O’Brien’s “Best Short Stories of 1928” includes the work of three members of the Saturday Evening Quill Club of Boston, Mass.: “An Unimportant Man”, by Dorothy West; “Coldblooded” and “Alien’’, by Eugene Gordon; and “Black Mad- ness” by Gertrude Schalk. @ Bequests of $50,000 each were made to Hampton Institute, Tuskegee lastitute, and Calhoun Normal School, according to the terms of the will of Mrs. Ida Means Mason, Boston, Mass. THE MIDDLE STATES @ When the Paul Laurence Dunbar’ Apartments, Incorporated, were plan- ned, a vital question was their man- agement. It would have been, per- haps, natural, to have appointed a white man as manager on the ground that few Negroes had the requisite experience; but Rockefeller interests decided to make a colored man the manager and chose Roscoe Conklin Bruce. Mr. Bruce is the son of the only Negro Senator who served a full ferm and his mother was the first col- ored school teacher of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in 1879, edu- cated at Phillip Exeter and Harvard College, where he was noted as a mem- ber of the University debating society and won the Phi Beta Kappa key. @ He began as a teacher, directing the academic department of Tuskegee for four years; then he became super- vising principal of the public schools of Washington; and finally for four- teen years, assistant superintendent in charge of the colored schools of the District. Mr. Bruce resigned in 1921 14 Rosco C. Bruce after a long controversy which THE Crisis commented on at the time. He became principal of the Brown Creek District High School, Kimball, W. Va., and finally, in 1927, he became Resident Manager of the Paul Laur- ence Dunbar Apartments and Director of the Dunbar National Bank. Mr. Bruce has had a long and useful career and has done the unusual thing of changing from one profession to an- other with success. @ The old idea of man and help- mate as the economic foundation of the marriage relation has been rather upset in our day by the change in wom- en’s work. Not every educated wom- an wants to be a cook and maid even for her husband and Mrs. Clara Bur- rill Bruce has solved the problem -in another way. She was educated in the public schools of Washington, taught at Tuskegee, and, marrying Mr. Bruce, took her. place as housewife and mother. Then in 1923 she entered the law school of Boston University, made a distinguished record, being Mrs. Clara B. Bruce a ALONG THE COLOR LINE me editor-in-chief of the Law Review, member of the student council and class day orator. Mrs. Bruce main- tained the highest scholastic record fo; three years, and was awarded the Rob- inson Prize and the Woolsack key. She was admitted to the bar in 1926 and then joined her husband as assist. ant manager and attorney of the Dun- bar Apartments. @ Late in October, “The Nazarene Players’, under the direction of Rich- ard B. Harrison, nationally known dramatic reader, presented ‘Diana of the Ephesians” in the Little Theatre of Nazarene Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. @ Ira D. Reid, who has been serving as Industrial Secretary of the New York branch of the Urban League since 1925, has been made Director of the Department of Research and In- vestigation of the National Urban League, succeeding Charles S. John- son, who is now a professor at Fisk University. @ Gus Moore, 21 year old Negro, and a former scholastic mile champion, won the national cross country cham- pionship race at Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, recently. Mr. Moore was 100 yards in the lead of his nearest competitor. His victory is the first scored in this classic by an American born runner since 1921, and his time for the six mile course was 31 minutes, 18 seconds. @ On November 1, Charles Greene, a colored man, became a junior clerk in the legal department of the New York Central Railroad, the first of his race to fill such a position, Mr. Greene has been with the New York Central for ten years, first as attendant and then as clerk, while he was at- tending Fordham College and Ford- ham Law School, New York City. @ Mrs. Blanche Brookins, who in July, 1927, was put in jail at Jack- sonville, Fla., and fined $500 because she refused to be transferred to a Jim Crow car, has recently been awarded $2750 from the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. This case, which was hand- led by the N. A. A. C. P., through its attorney, Arthur Garfield Hayes, emphasizes that passengers in inter- state trafic are not subject to Jim- Crow regulations of Southern states without equal accommodation being furnished by the railroad. @ Fifteen representatives of skilled Negro labor met recently at the Bor- Tue Crisis dento upon entin the traini situat work eral, q 1 latest girls, centl ing f. bed 2 ing | room locate a lau stean and stove

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own a of satre irch, ving New ague yr of In- rban ‘ohn- Fisk egro, pion, ham- Park, Mr. id of ry is Vy an , and was -eene, clerk New of his Mr. York ndant 1s at- Ford- ty. 0 in Jack- ~cause a Jim arded Line hand- rough Tayes, inter- Jim- states being John A, Lee, page 19 dentown Manual Training School upon request of Principal W. R. Val- entine to discuss the problems which the school meets in the vocational training of its students, as well as the situation which the skilled Negro workman of New Jersey faces in gen- eral. ( The formal opening of New York’s latest venture in housing for Negro girls, the Club Caroline, was held re- cently. The club will provide hous- ing for 121 girls. Each has a separate bed and suitable arrangements for car- ing for personal effects. Two large rooms for social meetings and offices are located on the ground floor. There is a laundry with stationary tubs, indoor steam drying chest and ironing boards, and a kitchen with a separate gas stove for each girl. The price scales are set with no idea of making a profit. @ The Negro Art Group Hour has been a weekly feature on WEVD radio programs, New York City, for the past season. Well known speakers, writers and musicians have contributed to make it a success. @ Harlem, a new _ independent monthly magazine, made its initial ap- pearance in November. Wallace Thurman is editor; Aaron Douglas, art editor; and §. Pace Alexander, managing editor. In order to promote health and to provide recreation for colored children, the Utopia Children’s House, was re- cently opened in New York City, through a gift of $37,500 from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. @ Samuel B. Hart and William H. uller, colored men, were elected for January, 1929 third terms to the Pennsylvania State Legislature in the recent election. @ Ronald A. Edwards, a colored lad, was among the thirty-six New York City high school graduates who re- ceived a Pulitzer scholarship at Co- lumbia University this year. In addi- tion to free tuition, he will receive $250 a year for four years. Ronald also received a $150 cash award for having the highest record in his class. @ William Curtis Craver, who for ten years has been a national student leader of the Y. M. C. A., has resigned this position to become Field Secretary of Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Craver will act as Executive Financial Secretary to take the leader- ship in planning improvements, new buildings, enlarged endowments and a general extension of the work at Shaw within the next four years. WASHINGTON AND VIRGINIA @ The theme of the Interracial Con- ference which was held in Washing- ton, D. C., during December, was “Race Problems in the United States in the Light of Social Research”. Among the speakers were: Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard Uni- versity; Charles S. Johnson, Fisk Uni- versity ; Louis I. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Algernon B. Jackson, Howard University; W. A. Robinson, Principal of Austin High School, Knoxville, Tenn.; Mabel Carney, Columbia University ; Monroe N. Work, Tuskegee Institute; Niles Carpenter, University of Buffalo; For- rester B. Washington, Atlanta School of Social Work; Thorsten Sellin, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania; Lawrence Ox- ley, Director, North Carolina Bureau of Negro Work; Charles E. Merriam, University of Chicago; and W. E. B. Du Bois, New York City. @ Farm and Home Demonstration Agents working in 36 counties, met during the week of November 12-17 at Hampton Institute for discussion of problems confronting these workers for improvement of the homes and farms of the rural sections of Virginia. @ Plans for the annual banquet of the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Churches of Wash- ington and vicinity, which was sched- uled to take place at the Willard Hotel recently, were suddenly changed when the hotel refused to accommodate three Negro members because of a ruling of the Waiters’ Union not to serve mixed groups. THE SOUTHEAST @ The Fact Finding Conference, which met in Durham, N. C., in De- cember, 1927, will meet again in Dur- ham the first week in April, 1929, ac- cording to the announcement made by Dr. James kk. Shepherd, chairman. @ Charles Edward Arnold, Manager of the Underwriting Department of the National Benefit Life Insurance Company’s office at Atlanta, Ga., died in November. Mr. Arnold received the B. A. degree from Harvard Uni- versity in 1917. @ For-the third consecutive year Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley of Gas- tonia, N. C., has been selected by Ne- gro and white veterans to serve as one of the four department vice-com- manders of the North Carolina Ameri- can Legion. @ Prince J. E. Blayechettai of Abys- sinia, East Africa, son of the late King Tch-laihimanout, king of Tigre, ad- dressed the student body of A. and T. College, Greensboro, N. C., recently at the chapel exercises. @ Formal dedication exercises for a $75,000 graded school, a modern, fire- proof building of 30 rooms, were held at Durham, N. C., recently. The school was named for William G. Pearson, who has given 45 years of uninterrupted service in Durham’s public school system, and who was a Harmon prizeman in the field of busi- ness for 1928. @ The Leonard Street Home for Col- ored Girls, Atlanta, Ga., has recently opened a three-teacher school for its own children and those of the com- munity. Edward L. Gordon, University of Iowa, Contestant in Olympic Games 15

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W. J. Hale @ The first steps were taken in the re- establishment of the Shaw University Law School early in November when night classes in law lectures were set in operation. @ Beginning its 46th annual session, Paine College, co-educational institu- tion, located at Augusta, Ga., recently opened with an enrollment of 100 in the college department and 237 in the high school. THE BORDER STATES @ The ninth annual State Interracial Conference for Kentucky was held re- cently in Louisville with interesting programs, including discussions of bet- ter salaries for Negro teachers, equit- able division of public bonds, better school buildings and facilities, pro- vision for college training, library facil- ities for Negroes, health education, etc. @ The cornerstone for the new col- ored high school at Frankfort, Ky., which cost $75,000, and has eleven classrooms, a gymnasium, auditorium, and two restrooms, was laid on No- vember 11. @ W. J. Hale, President of the Ten- nessee A. & I. State College, was born in a backwoods community. Sixteen years ago, he induced the state of Ten- nessee to establish a Negro State Col- lege. The college has 200 acres of land with eleven large buildings, and expends $250,000 a. year. THE MIDDLE WEST. @ Extension of the activities of the Julius Rosenwald Fund of Chicago, heretofore chiefly concerned with the building of Negro rural schools to in- clude support of medical services to people of moderate means, was an- nounced recently by Edwin R. Em- bree, president of the Fund. 16 @ When William J. Warfield was elected to the Illinois general assem- bly in the recent election, the Negro minority in the State Legislature was swelled by one. Others elected were Harris Gaines, George Blackwell, William King and George Kersey. @ Perry Jackson, young Negro at- torney of Cleveland, Ohio, has been elected to the State Assembly. @ The Cleveland branch of the N. A. A. C. P. opposed the recent $2,500,- 000 welfare bond program of that city, charging that no colored nurses or internes are permitted at the City Hospital and that a quota system is in use at the Boys’ farm and Girls’ farm where incorrigibles are kept. Dudley S. Blossom, head of the welfare depart- ment, in his correspondence with the N. A. A. C. P. took an adamant stand against the demands of the N. A. A. C. P. for the removal of all racial bars in local public welfare institu- tions. @ Alonzo Grace, a white man, super- visor of adult education in Cleveland, has instituted a class on the American Negro for the benefit of teachers who deal with colored children. The class meets weekly under the leadership of Mr. Grace and has a membership of htty. @ The white property owners in a certain section of Englewood, Illinois, recently held a mass meeting under the auspices of the Englewood Property Restriction Association, for the pur- pose of arranging a pact which will prevent the ownership or occupancy of property in that section by other than members of the Nordic races. @ Harry J. Walker is the first Ne- gro to secure appointment as deputy vom Hall. A. & I. State College, clerk in the Municipal Court of Cleve. land, Ohio. @ The publication of Indiana Upj. versity giving the scholarship status oj all the fraternities and sororities dyr. ing the past semester, places the Kappa Alpha Psi, Negro fraternity, at the head of the list. @ An unusual form of segregation was discovered in Cleveland, Ohio, re. cently, in connection with the sales of the Singer Sewing Machine Company to housewives under an agreement to give them a course in sewing at schools maintained by the company. When machines are sold to Negro housewives they are directed to attend one par. ticular school, regardless of their home location, while the white housewive: are directed to attend another. @ The Gaudeamus Charity Club of Chicago, has awarded a four year scholarship in Commercial Art, whict amounts to $200 a year, to Miss Ma. linda Christmas. Miss Christmas wa: graduated from the Wendell Phillips High School in June, 1927, finishing the four year course in three years She was valedictorian of her class, and had the highest average in Chicago a that time. @ After twenty-seven years, the Ne gro race is to have one of its member: in the United States Congress. _ IIli- nois’ wealthiest congressional distric: is to be represented by Oscar DePriest DePriest was born 57 years ago in Florence, Ala., and has lived for 30 years in Chicago. He was educated in the common schools and a business col- lege in Florence and worked as : painter when he first came to Chicago. He was a county commissioner from 1904 to 1908 and served as alderman from 1915 to 1917. Tenne S80

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Ne bers Illi- trict riest 0 iD r 30) ed in s col: as @ cago. from rman Georges Brashear @ Russell Davis has been appointed principal of night classes at the Bolton School, Cleveland, Ohio. This is the first time in the record of the Cleve- land school system that a colored man has had such a position. TRANS MISSISSIPPI @ John W. Wright, a colored man of Wichita, Kansas, has been appointed as county treasurer. € On November 2, the National Benefit Life Insurance Company off- cially opened the lowa Territory at Des Moines with the appointment of Charles P. Howard as General Agent. @ There will be two Negroes in the next Missouri State Legislature. Wal- than Moore was re-elected for the fourth term, while G. M. Allen will begin his first term. ( Fort Scott, Kansas, lost its suit to oust Dr. J. W. Brown from his home and veterinary hospital. In response to petitions signed by neighbors, the City Council passed an ordinance mak- ing it unlawful for anyone to keep in- fected animals for treatment within 100 feet of a private dwelling. The discriminatory nature of the ordinance was shown when a neighboring white veterinarian in the same block was al- lowed to continue practising unmo- lested while Dr. Brown was arrested. LOUISIANA AND THE SOUTH- EAST @ At the annual meeting of the Texas State Interracial Committee held re- cently in Dallas, the major objectives set for the coming year were: a cru- sade against lynching; investigation of transportation facilities ; the betterment of educational conditions ; an appropria- tion for the erection of a school for de- linquent colored girls; and support of public health work. @ William H. Bell, who received the M. A. degree in Economics at North- western Universitv at the close of the January, 192¢ summer session, 1928, has been ap- pointed as chairman of the Depart- ment of Social Science at the Agricul- tural and Normal University, Lang- ston, Okla. @ G. W. Jackson, who was born in Lee County, Alabama, went to Corsi- cana when he was a young man and began to teach in the rural schools of Navarro County. He attended sum- mer Normal schools for teachers dur- ing the years of his rural teaching, and afterwards attended Fisk University, from which he was graduated. Mr. Jackson was elected principal of the Frederick Douglass High School in Corsicana in 1882 in which he taught for 39 years. Since the burning of the original building, a modern one has been built in its place and renamed the G. W. Jackson High School. THE PACIFIC AND MOUN- TAIN STATES @ In the fall competition for member- ship in Rad Rune of) the American College Quill Club at the University of Denver, seven manuscripts were se- lected from fifty-two submitted. J. Alpheus Butler, a colored student, and a senior at the University, was second in the list of successful candidates. @ Frederick M. Roberts of Los Angeles, Calif., was elected to repre- sent the Seventy-fourth Assembly Dis- trict in the recent election. @ It has been reported that several secret meetings have been held by white people of Pasadena, Calif., for the purpose of having the colored stu- dents of the Grover Cleveland School removed to a separate building. @ John A. Lee, colored steward of the Billings, Mont., Commercial Club for over 25 years, died recently in that city at the age of 81 years. Mr. Lee was born in Charleston, S. C., in slavery and lived there until he was a young man when he entered the mili- tary service. He served in the army for 13 years and soon after his dis- charge, he migrated to Billings where he lived until his death. The funeral services for Mr. Lee were held at the Commercial Club and nearly the en- tire Negro population of the city was in attendance, as well as most of the members of the club and many of the pioneer residents of the city. SOUTH AMERICA @ Brigadier-General Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the former Governor of the Gold Coast, has taken up his new post as Governor of British Guiana. EUROPE @ After more than two years in at- tendance at the Uppsvenska (Medical ) Gymnastiska Institute, Georges Bras- hear, a colored American, has received the degree of Medical Gymnast. This degree is issued only by the govern- ment of Sweden. LIBERIA @ President King of Liberia delivered his annual message to the Legislature in October at the Hall of Representa tives to the House, the Cabinet, the Foreign Diplomatic Corps and repre- sentatives from all parts of the Re- public. President King spoke of the friendly relations existing between Li- beria and the foreign powers; of the financial progress of Liberia during the past year; and of the progress in the Departments of Public Works and Education. He also said The Fire- stone plantations are rapidly develop- ing; large tracts of land have been cleared, many miles of good roads con structed and bungalows built. WEST AFRICA @ Speaking to the Congo Labou: Commission on the question of the alleged lack of discipline among the natives of the Congo, Colonial Min. ister Jasper said that the natives were not in a state of latent revolt. The Colonial Office at Brussels, is studying the question of penalities to be im- posed in cases of indiscipline and is thinking of reintroducing corporal punishment. @ The Colonial Office is considering proposals for a new constitution for Achimota College, the chief feature be- ing control by a council representing both races: four members to be ap-

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pointed by the Governor; six African members, one of them a woman; four elected by the staff and the Principal. @ The first native Catholic priest of Dahomey, Fr. Thomas Moulero, has recently been ordained at Ouidah. At the same time another Dahoman, the Rev. Gabriel Kiti, was raised to the sub-diaconate. q N. G. J. Ballanta, an African musician and composer, and Gug- genheim Fellow for 1927-28, has been visting in Lagos, where he gave a re- cital at St. Paul’s Church and one at the Glover Memorial Hall. @ The white population of the Bel- gian Congo has tripled in the last ten years. In 1928 the white population totaled 20,702, of which 14,147 were Belgians; in 1918 the white popula- tion amounted to 6,270, of which 3,285 were Belgians; and in 1908 there were only 2,843 white inhabitants, 1,713 of which were Belgians. @ The first lending library for na- tives in West Africa has been started at Accra. Books of all descriptions are welcome and should be sent to the Bishop of Accra, Missionary Equip- ment Supply, Church House, S. W. @ Refusal of a white club at Bamako, French Soudan, to admit a Negro off- cer has aroused much discussion in the Soudan and in France, and has brought about the resignation of every white officer in the club. Captain Bebel, a native of the French West Indies, was proposed for membership in the Soudan Club upon his arrival at Bamako. The president of the club replied that in a special session the members had de- cided to refuse admission to Captain Bebel “in conformity with its rules”. SOUTH AFRICA q@ W. B. Madeley, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs in the Union of South Africa, was asked to resign when he met a deputation from the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union, a native organization which is aiming to obtain higher wages and better condi- tions of labor for native workers. Mr. Madeley, a Socialist who was nomi- nated by the Labour Party, refused to resign and Premier Hertzog tendered his own resignation to the officer ad- ministering the Government, where- upon he was invited by the officer to form a new cabinet. Mr. Madeley was the only member dropped and his place was filled by H. W. Sampson. who rep- resents the Nationalist wing of the Labour Party. The incident which led to Mr. Madeley’s dismissal is gen- erally regarded as a pretext on the part of the Prime Minister to rid himself of a person who has been a thorn in the side of the Government for several months. Zulu Girls, Rhodesia, South Africa @ Following on the round-table cop. ference held in Cape Town recently an inquiry into the question of the housing and sanitary conditions of Indians in and around Durban has been started. The principal witnesses are the Mayor and Members of the Council, who advocate the housing of the poorer class of Indians in a native village about a mile and a half outside the borough boundaries. The Indian community, oppose the proposal on the ground that it amounts to compulsory segregation. ; @ Twelve South African educational and cultural leaders will visit the United States during the next year un- der the auspices of the Carnegie Cor- poration of New York, for the pur- pose of studying American public school systems and other agencies of education and culture. @ A conference was held in Bloem- fontein in October, to consider hold- ing an African Exhibition in South Africa in 1932. q W. P. Johnson, of the Universities’ Mission of Central Africa, after fifty- two years of work in Africa, died in October at Luili, on Lake Nyasa. Mr. Johnson became Archdeacon of Nyasa in 1896 and Canon of Likoma Cathe- dral in 1922. From 1925 until his death, he was in charge of the Mis- sion Station at Manda. Tue Crisis

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‘asa Lis- CRISIS i THE FAR HORIZON % NEGRO ART IN EUROPE OLAND HAYES begins his fifth annual tour in America this win- ter and will sing in Akron, Ann Arbor, Boston, Bridgeport, Buffalo, Charles- ton, W. Va., Indianapolis, Lexington, Ky., Los Angeles, Louisville, Milwau- kee, New Haven, New York, Oak- land, Omaha, Portland, Ore., Provi- dence, Rochester, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Spokane, Springfield, Mass., St. Louis, Toledo, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington, Waterbury, and Wellesley, Mass. This gives interest to an interview with Roland Hayes published in the Am- sterdam, Holland, Telegraph last Jan- uary. We quote part: At our first meeting he had already said without any pretense and in his gentle kindness: “An interview? All right, but you shall have to do the talk- ing. I haven’t the gift to tell all that there is for me to say.” And, in the large dark reception room of his hotel he sat awaiting his lot, re- signed. He is ready to declare that the Amsterdam audience is the most artistic in the world and Amsterdam the finest city he has ever seen, that he knows no “ensemble” like the Concert Cebouw Orchestra and that he had always longed to visit Holland, having been told so much about it. His slight shoulders carry world re- nown. He is prepared to accept the unavoidable consequences thereof. And he waits with a certain shyness in his eyes, an obliging gesture, his voice soft. He has a courteous manner, a quiet style that envelops him and seems to create an atmosphere of fragility. Do you know the feeling that comes over you when you are sitting opposite somebody whose voice is much softer than your own, whose gestures have subt- ler movements, whose eyes look at the world with greater tenderness? At such a moment you cannot find your words because they all seem awkward and harsh—you can hardly take off your coat for fear of causing too much noise. You think: “Here I am, now I shall have to say something.” : And we begin with the important ques- tion if and where we shall have lunch. We laugh quite a lot and walk hurriedly trying to ignore the terrible emptiness. Suddenly we are sitting. We don’t know how to go on, the laugh disappears as powder can if it is dissolved. A void, I feel him thinking: “Go ahead”, and I myself think: “Now begin”, while I keep looking at his neat dark suit and is fine head and wonderful slim hands. € start stuttering at the same time— we carry through. It commences. January, 1929 I ask him about Negro Musical Art, Spirituals, blues, and mention great names of those I had the privilege of hearing and meeting in New York; Robeson, Johnson, Ethel Waters, etc. We come to the great point, the import- ant question: The new Negro. “You know one cannot say the New Negro is this or that. The New Negro is only just forming himself. If one were to write about him now, taking into account this enormous cultural move- ment as an ascertained fact, already one would be running ages ahead of time. People talk too much—more harm has been done by talking than anyone thinks. “Surely it is all great and very im- portant, only it is not the visible form : that is mightiest, that counts most. That is not finished and what has been done so far seems incomplete. Behold the thought, the idea of it—that truly is great. See how the Negro begins to rise up, trying to create a new world, choosing from his own and other peo- ple’s culture, kneeding it, forging it to- gether so as to come to a life which be worthy forever. “What has been achieved is a Har- lem which one finds in so many places in America. Admire it but see the values justly. Notice that the will is infinitely greater than the result. “Get the values rightly’—that is a sentence which is repeated often in all that he says. The reticence has dropped away and the gentle voice takes the vi- brating tone of his singing, the words come tenderly with hesitation and pauses so as to find the right accent,—again to give the right values. And to the inter- viewer the man changes—he is more than the expected pioneer for his race, for his art, because he does not speak directly of that race and that art, but one feels that he looks beyond to the force that makes race and art move and live to that which is everlasting, that always was and always will be. It is that which guides him—it has carried him through all the pain and hardship during his upward struggle in the world. It made him undertake the long way, beginning as a poor Negro boy in Georgia where his parents had been slaves,—leaving everything behind for the one aim he has in view and always seeing that dazzled by the unutterable glory of what he feels to be his vocation in life. All troubles, all sorrows have become kindness and tenderness, which shows itself in the gesture with which he puts aside all insignificant things, with which he describes himself only as an in- strument, a mediator, sure and true in his pure childlike modesty. He has sung for kings, for halls crowded with thousands and thousands and yet he says: “See the values rightly”. His biographer speaks of voices such as Jeanne of Domrémy heard. Roland Hayes heard voices and followed them,— what subtle irony!—for him the heavens opened while first hearing a gramophone as a little boy at his white employer’s house. ‘ “People always consider me a singer of Spirituals. That is not quite right. What moves me in the Spirituals also moves me in Schubert—not the fact that they were composed by Negroes, but that inspiration which fired the Ne- groes to create them just as Schubert was inspired—not the stove but the ‘fire inside of it. I only consider a furnace good if it turns into fire when it is burning.” Hayes visited Russia in February, a year ago, at the invitation of the Soviet Government. He gave five re- citals in Moscow, two in Leningrad, and single concerts in Kiev, Khar- kov and Rostov. The Pravda said of his first concert: As we have already written in our preliminary note, Roland Hayes’ debut in Moscow, organized by Rosphil—now the concert bureau of the academic the- atres—had to be the greatest event of the musical world of today, and truly it has proved itself the greatest. We have every reason to say that with the appear- ance of Hayes the Moscow public re- ceived a great number of artistic im- pressions which cannot be forgotten, and the Soviet vocal art has received an im- petus for its further development. We had before us a rare and marvellous artist of chamber music. Out of every song with its deeply musical mood was born a feeling of wonder reaching such a high point in technique that we can speak of it only with the highest praise. The voice of Hayes does not belong to the strong or brilliant type, his voice is rather soft- hued for a tenor, perhaps not even vivid for his highest notes. He is typically the lyric singer, lacking the strongly pathetic tones but capable at the same time of causing his hearers to experience just what he feels. Everything coarse or rude and affected is entirely strange to his artistical nature. The thoughtful and sweet Schubert or the mighty Brahms, the indisputably good Italian arias, the sad humor of the Negro hymns, he gives them all in such a way that every moment one forgets about the artist as interpreter who comes between the audience and the song. Further, Hayes’ program was based on such sharp contrasts as the Italian airs of the seven- teenth century and the Negro spirituals of today that the enchantment cast upon the public was complete. According to our opinion the talent of Hayes shows itself the deeper in the (Will you please turn to page 28) 19 - «ee

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a THE BROWSING READER | In the Magazines “6 OUSCOUS and Sole Mar- guery” by Webb Waldron in the Living Age for November paints Morocco as the winter tourists’s para- dise. Fresh from a ducting, smart European hoiel, ir. Waldron thrusts us info a languorous, medieval setting, mysterious with shadowy passageways, and flecked with dim, veiled figures; into sunny Moorish gardens, lush with flower and fruit; into a Morocco of brown-legged water venders and half- naked children. Mr. Waldron says that at this moment, Morrocco is the same land that Leo the African saw four hundred years ago. Foreign Affairs for October carries the history of the struggle of “France and Italy in North Africa”, by C. A. Le Neuveu, from 1830, when France first seé out to conquer Algeria, down to the present, when there is still con- tention and bickering between France and Italy in Tunis and Morocco. It is a story, told without unseeming prejudice, of conquest, strategy, schem- ing, and exploitation. John Pepper in The Communist for October writes on “American Negro Problems”. Mr. Pepper says that now that a Negro proletariat is ap- pearing in the cities of the North and East, and that the agrarian South is being industrialized, the social condi- tion of the Negro race in America is changing. The Negro question in the United States must be treated with re- lation to the general international Ne- gro problem; for a strong Negro move- ment in America will influence and di- rect the Negro movement in all parts of the world where Negroes are op- pressed by various imperialistic powers. Mr. Pepper says that the American working class cannot free itself from capitalistic exploitation without free- ing Negroes from white oppression; therefore, the Negro problem emerges as an economic, rather than a racial problem. Charles W. Hackett offers “A Re- view of Our Policy in Nicaragua” in Current History for November. Mr. Hackett says that a survey of the re- lations between the United States and Nicaragua during the last twenty years is a story of inconsistencies and blund- ers. The sending of the Stimson Com- mission to Nicaragua in 1927 was an effort to extricate the United States government from the embarrassments 20 BEST SELLERS IN THE CRISIS BOOK SHOP September to December, 1928 i. Du Bois: “Dark Princess” 2. Cullen: “Copper Sun” 3. A. Fauset: “For Freedom” 4. Toomer: “Cane” 5. Woodson: “Negro in Our History” 6. J. Fauset: “There is Confu- > ” sion resulting from its past relations with Nicaragua. Astute claimed that the Negro was the biggest thorn in the sides of the G. O. P. and students of the election the Donkey. Frank R. Kent in Col- lier’s for October 20th asserted that both the Republicans and Democrats were “Afraid of the Dark’’ brothers. They were, he says, worried, and not a small part of the worry was caused by the uncertainty regarding the Negro vote. Both parties consciously disre- garded the Negro in presenting their respective platforms, and scoffed at the idea that there was any real trouble among the dark brethren; but, as Mr. Kent says, it is the undercurrents in politics that really count! And in the Nation for October 17th, W. E. Burghardt Du Bois asked “Is Al Smith Afraid of the South?” and then proceeded to answer his ques- tion in the affirmative. Dr. Du Bois painted a picture of “Al” posing as a liberal, but, at the same time, assur- ing American capital that he was not its enemy. His program on liquor and religion stirred up so much trouble in the Smith camp that it was wise for the Democratic candidate to be orthodox on the Negro according to Southern traditions. Dr. Du Bois said that a vote for Smith was a vote for the re- actionary South which would not al- low Smith, even if he were so inclined, to take any liberal steps. The author of “Why We Behave Like Human Beings” has contributed a paper on “Race and Civilization Specialists” to Plain Talk for Novem- ber. Mr. Dorsey ridicules the use of intelligence tests and deals hard blows to advocates of race superiority. In part he says: “Such racial mixtures as we have in America today are in no oe essential different from race mixture which have been going on for thou. sands of years in Europe and Asia and which, we have no reason to believe. ever resulted in inferior races or in breaking up civilization.” He add that America does not take into ac. count the question as to how far un- desirable traits in the Negro popula- tion are innate and how far they are the result of the social surrounding: for which America alone is responsible The World Today for Septembe: offers “The Africa Nobody Knows” by Mary L. J. Akeley, who tells how he: husband has preserved in the Lukenia * Hills in Nairobi an “African Hall,” untouched by the hands of civilization. Mrs. Akeley writes of rose-hued Afri- can sunrises and sunsets, of green and leafy acacia trees fringing dusty river banks, of vast game herds roaming the hills and of a moon hung low in deep violet clouds—a glorious, virgin coun try, Africa! James Weldon Johnson, in discuss. ing “Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist” in Harper’s for November, says that the significance of the artistic ac- tivity of the Negro in America is two- fold: first, the Negro’s cultural con- tributions are bringing something fresh and vital to American art—an indigen- ous something which is warm and col- orful and real; and second, and of deep- er meaning, by his artistic efforts, the Negro is establishing himself as an in- telligent human being capable of citi- zenship. Without apology and without mak- ing special allowances for the Negro writer, Mr. Johnson, in the December American Mercury, tells of the “Dil- emma of the Negro Author”. Besides facing every one of the difficulties com- mon to all authors, the Aframerican faces the problem of a double and divi- ded audience—an audience with op- posite and often antagonistic points of view. Mr. Johnson says that he has thought that the Negro author “would be on surer ground and truer to him- self, if he could say to white America ‘What I have written, I have written I hope you'll be interested and like it. If not, I can’t help it.’ But it .is impos- sible for a sane American Negro to write with total disregard for nine- tenths of the people of the United States.”’ Two post election comments in The (Will you please turn to page 34) Tne Crisis cust of t citiz like you or | we J

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Fostacife CREDIT AND DEBIT OOKING over the files of THE Crisis according to our annual custom, we seem to see the occurrences of the world in relation to American citizens of Negro descent in something like the following Balance Sheet. If you are not sure of any of the items, or if serious Omissions occur to you, we would be glad to know. Credit The Jerusalem Conference. Fourteen thousand Negroes in college and Fifteen hundred Bachelors of Arts. A Negro Congressman. 10 Negro members of State Legisla- tures. The defeat of Alfred Smith. The “Appeal to America”. Mrs. Harper, Member of the West Virginia Legislature. The renewed attack on segregation. ‘The Dunbar Apartments and Bank. Two millions from the General Edu- cation Board. Three Milholland busts. tno. A; A. C. -P: Los Angeles. Chesnutt, 14th Spingarn Medalist. The first colored Principal in Chicago. The Walker building in Indianapolis. The Somerville Hotel. Hayes in Russia. Paul Robeson in London. Josephine Baker all over Europe. The Fact-Finding Conference. Colored speakers at the University of North Carolina. The Dixwell Players. Harmon Awards to Parsons, Wheeler- Waring, Scott, Dett, White, De Berry, Davis, Overton, Weldon Johnson. Guggenheim Fellowships to Cullen, Walrond and Ballanta. The Pynchon Medal to De Berry. Three Carnegie medals. Decoration of Captain Floyd. The gasping Pullman Porters. Darby Prince and Lionel Licorish. Mercy Hospital. Rooks: “African S$: aga’, ISth “Anthology’ Conference in Braithwaite’s ’. “The Black and White Anthology”, “Dark Prin- cess”, “The Walls of Jericho”, “Quicksand”, Herskovits’ “The American Negro”, Hill’s ‘Tous- saint”, “Black Majesty”, Work’s “Bibliography”. January TO02¢ Debit Haiti barred at Cuba. The “Forty and Eight” bars Negroes. The failure of two banks. Indictment of Chicago Negro politi- clans. Election of Herbert Hoover and recog- nition of “Lily Whites”. The Florida hurricane. Sloane Hospital bars Miss Catchings. Ben Bess. Mrs. Booze. The death of W. C. Harmon, W. S. Montgomery, Matthew Anderson, Joseph Cuney, Bishop Delaney. Nine lynchings. | | . New York, N.Y . Sedalia, N.C. y Petersburg, Va. . Raleigh, N.C. . Fayetteville, N. C . Charlotte, N.C. . Columbia, N.C. . Daytona, Fla. . Jacksonville, Fla. . Charleston, S.C, . Augusta, Ga. . Atlanta, Ga. . Tuskegee, Ala. . Talladega, Ala. . Nashville, Tenn. ). Bowling Green CONIDUR WHYS 4 PILGRIMAGE TO _ 8,000 BLACK STUDENTS A. who sits in his chair and evolves the Negro problem from that which he has always known, is wrong from the start, easily led astray, and sure to give false information. I know Negro schools, for I have taught in them for some fifteen years in all, and I have visited them from the Dis- trict of Columbia to Texas, and from Oklahoma to Florida. But one or two recent mistakes: a forgetting that this school no longer exists, and that name stands for a new thing which 1 did not know gave me warning. So | started on a pilgrimage to the schools before my fall work was well arranged. I traveled three thousand miles and talked and listened in ten states, states where four or five million Negroes live. I feel now that I am prepared to talk with reasonable intelligence about Negro education for the next twelve months. CORBIE HE death of Eugene Corbie is a sad loss to the Negro race. He was a young black man from Trinidad whe made a brilliant record in American universities. He had a keen mind and was full of a youthful ardor for argu- ment and investigation which made some older people impatient. They can- not understand why Youth must see the thing through and know it and deems counterfeit all experience which is not its own. But Corbie had more than mere argument. He had faith and fearlessness, and if he had lived, he would have made his mark in this world. He is dead in his young man- hood and all the world is poorer for his going. CHARLOTTE MANYE REMEMBER Charlotte as a school girl when I was teaching at Wilberforce. She was a shy black girl, with a lovely voice, a fund of quiet humor, and a poise and manner that bespoke generations of breeding. She was a Basuto from South Africa and had come to Europe and the United States with a troop singing. Bishop Ransom moved to give her an education at Wilberforce, and the A. M. E. Church educated this girl and sent her as a missionary to the Trans- vaal. There, in Johannesburg, she has worked for twenty-seven years and done the finest piece of missionary work accomplished by the A. M. E. Church anywhere. But with all the credit that the Church richly deserves for training this woman, it is cruelly to blame. In a generation, she has not received a single leave of absence until this year. She came to General Conference this year, leaving a sick husband, who died in her absence, and a son. She has re- 21

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ceived but little attention in the United States, and yet, she is perhaps the foremost native woman in South Africa. She has stood before two South African Premiers, Botha and Hertzog to plead for native women. She is at the head of a league of two thousand black women. She is Pro- bationary Officer in the Juvenile Court. She speaks English, Dutch and Basuto, and is trying to erect a refuge and rest room for girls and children. Quiet, refined, upright, and absolutely un- selfish, she has received in the last few years practically nothing from the Church Missionary funds. She goes back with nearly empty hands, save for gifts of goods and supplies furnished by friends; and to cap the climax, the Missionary Department of the A. M. E. Church is sending her back in the steerage all the way to Africa! Twenty- two days of travel,—nearly as many days as the years which she has given to the Church and its cause! She goes back grey-haired, stricken, poor but serene. Nor is this the fault of the Church, if we envisage the Church as thousands of poor earnest members, represented in hundreds of hardworking women’s groups raising money for mission work. But Somebody standing between the members and the missionaries has kept back or stolen the money which should go to support Charlotte Manye. SOCIAL REFORM AM coming to suspect that the first steps toward real and fundamental social reform in the United States and in European civilization, will begin with a few simple steps: some coun- tries and then all civilized countries, will begin to insist on complete and absolute publicity as to (a) the indi- vidual ownership of property; (b) in- dividual income; (c) individual pay- ment of taxes; (d) the cost and kind of goods raised and manufactured and their sales and selling price; (e) the kind and amount of work which each individual performs. It has become increasingly clear in discussions of social reform that on all these fundamental matters we have to depend on guess work. And yet, it is certain that without a large measure of accurate information with regard to income, expenditure, manufacture and sales, we cannot proceed to real re- form. We may guess, and guess rather accurately what the facts are. But we cannot really know. And we shall never know until public opinion comes to realize that private income and ownership is a fundamental and pri- mary matter on which there should be accurate public knowledge. 22 PRINCETON ROM year to year we have an- nounced that no Negro has ever received a degree from Princeton Uni- versity, except in the case of the Semi- nary, which is a distinct corporation. Recently it has been brought to our attention that in 1904 and 1906 two colored men, Dr. Leonard Z. Johnson, and the Reverend George S. Starks, received the degree of Master of Arts from Princeton University. Mr. Johnson writes us: “The degree of Master of Arts was not conferred ‘for resident work in the Seminary’. There was not then—nor is now—any organic relation between the Seminary and the University. Though at the time I was a candidate in the graduate department of the Seminary for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, I registered separately in the Graduate School of the University for the Master’s degree, took all my courses, tests, and examinations in the halls and classes of the University, was listed in the University catalogue as a graduate student, and am listed in the general catalogue of Princeton gradu- ates as a Master of Arts. ““At Commencement, 1904, I was in the academic procession and received my degree upon the platform of Alex- ander Hall at the hands of Woodrow Wilson, then president of the Univer- sity—his name in his own handwriting is on my diploma.” LEGAL DEFENSE ANY have doubtless read the N. A. A. C. P. release of Sep- tember 2Ist which itemized our ex- penditures for legal defense since 1912. From January Ist, 1912, to August 3lst, 1928, the Association has spent $73,814.97 in cash, not computing the attorney's fees that have been donated to the cause by great lawyers. Cases have cost all the way from $9.00 to $14,942 in the Arkansas Peonage Case, and $37,849 in the Sweet Case. In addition to this, branches of the N. A. A. C. P. have raised and expended large additional funds in co-operation with the National Office. At least $100,000 and possibly $125,000 has thus been spent to defend the Negro in the courts during the last sixteen years. And this all is but a drop in the bucket. We could easily have ex- pended a million dollars in these years, and still have been unable to take up just cases and defend unfortunate people. As it is, our usual answer to appeals for aid must be: What have you done to defend yourself? What can your friends do? Cannot the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. take up the mat- ter? This move is absolutely necessary to test the sincerity and importance of the case and the willingness of those in- terested to work hard and make sacyj- fice. Secondly, we investigate the case and look into the circumstances to see what kind of a difficulty is laid before ys, If it is simply a matter of human mis- fortune or wrong, where the color and race of the individual who has suf- fered has little to do with the matter, we must in most cases pass it by. It would be a splendid thing if we did have funds to help redress wrongs in thousands of such cases that come to our notice, but we have not and more- over, that sort of thing is not our pri- mary duty. If the difficulty lies mainly because of racial prejudices, then the question is: Can a proper case be made out from the known facts? WANTED—A HUSBAND ONTRARY to the belief of most of our Southern white friends, we are not at all anxious for the inter- marriage of the races. We have no valid reasons, either biological or esthetic, to offer in support of this un- fortunate prejudice on our part. Never- theless, other things being equal, (and we admit they seldom are equal) we prefer to have most of our colored friends marry colored people. But, being broad-minded, we feel duty- bound to inform our readers that we have a letter from “a charming white lady” who lives in Yugo-Slavia. She states that she wishes “to marry a col- oured man; he must be intelligent, distinguished, handsome and good sit- uated, who are able to offer a hearty and careless life to her. Only the serious letter will be answered”. The name and the address of this lonesome white damsel we are keep- ing on file and we shall be glad to furnish an extra force of clerks if ne- cessary to handle the resultant corre- spondence. Frankly our object is par- tially selfish, for we expect in this way to prove or disprove the overwhelm- ing desire of American colored men to obtain white wives—especially of those black gentlemen who are “able to offer a hearty and careless life” toa love-lorn blonde. Let the band play and let the offers pour in. KRIGWA, 1928 Krigwa prizes for November and December, 1928, are announced as fol- lows: First Prize, $25. To Laura Wheel- er-Waring, for Cover, “Berceuse”. Second Prize, $15. To James Lesesne Wells, for frontispiece, “Ethiopia at the Bar of Justice”. Third Prize, $10. To Dorothy Kruger, for poem, “Heritage”. Tue Crisis me { \ A u . 6

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ATLANTA UNIVERSITY IONEER in liberal education. P Advantages of a growing city and fraternal relations with other institu- tions of higher learning. College and Normal Departments. Practice teach- ing in grade and High School work. Graduates make good in Northern Uni- versities. FOR INFORMATION, Address The President, Atlanta University ATLANTA, GA. MorEHOUSE COLLEGE (Formerly Atlanta Baptist College) ATLANTA, GA. College, Academy, Divinity School A* institution famous within recent years for its emphasis on all sides of manly development—the only insti- tution in the far South devoted solely to the education of Negro young men. Graduates given high ranking by greatest northern universities. Debat- ing, Y. M. C. A., athletics, all live fea- tures. FOR INFORMATION, Address JOHN HOPE, President TALLADEGA COLLEGE A Liberal Arts College of Highest Grade Approved by Great Educational Agencies and leading Graduate Schools of the Country. UNEXxcELLED LocaTION. STRONG FacuLty. SPLENDID EQUIPMENT. Plant worth one and one-half million For further particulars address The President or the TALLADEGA, COLLEGE TALLADEGA ALABAMA Knoxville College KNOXVILLE, TENN. ODBPPPP PPP PDP IEP IP PLP PP PP PP PDP PPP LP PPD Beautiful Situation and Healthful Location. Best Moral and Spiritual Environment. Splendid Intellectual Atmosphere. Noted for Honest and Thorough Work. i Fully Accredited for Teachers’ Certificates by State Board. Heme-like Dormitory Life with Careful Supervisien. Live Athletic and Literary Interests. COURSES: College, Normal, High Scheol, House- bold, Arts and Music. Expenses Very Reasonable Catalog and ether literature sent free upon request. Address: J. KELLY GIFFEN, President. KNOXVILIE, TENN. St. Mary’s School Az Episcopal boarding school for girls, under the direction of the sisters of St. Mary. Address: THE SISTER-IN-CHARGE, 6183 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. TRAINING OF KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS ATLANTA UNIVERSITY Professional Course of Two Years Address Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. January, 1929 Purpose To provide the Twelve Million Colored people of the United States with College - trained and Professional leaders through its courses in ARTS, SCIENCES, SOCIOLOGY, EDU- CATION, ECONOM- ICS; its Schools of Music, Applied Sci- ences, Medicine, Den- tistry, Pharmacy, Re- ligion and Law. President Mordecai W. Johnson Secretary-Treasurer Emmett J. Scott A of A oO 7 oO Oo a Go “A GO 4, oO if G oO oO GO oO GO oO / oO oO Founded by General Oliver O. Howard WASHINGTON, D. C. An Outstanding National University A University located at the Capital of the Nation, with a campus of twenty-five acres. Modern scientific and general equipment. A plant worth approximately $3,- 000,000. A faculty of 176 members. A student body of approximately 2,400, from 36 different states and 14 foreign countries. Generally acknowledged to be the outstanding National University of the Colored Peo- ple of America. Students may enter for Collegiate Work at the beginning of any Quarter REGISTRATION PERIODS AUTUMN QuarRTER - - OCcTOBER 1, 2, 3, 1928 WINTER QUARTER - - - - JANUARY 2, 1929 SPRING QUARTER - - - - MarcH 20, 1929 HOWARD’S NEEDS $120 per year to cover incidental fees, etc. (tuition) of a student for a year. $2,400 for Permanent Scholarship. An Endowment Fund of at least $5,000,000. An Administration building, $100,000 to $150,000. A dormitory for Young Men, $150,000. A building for the College of Education, $150,000. Contributions for current expenses in any amount, however small. FORM OF BEQUEST I give, devise and bequeath to The Howard Uni- versity, an institution incorporated by Special Act of Congress, and located at Washington, D. C., the sum The NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE for NEGROES Formerly the Durham State Normal School OFFERS THE FOLLOWING COURSES 1. THE LIBERAL ARTS COURSE Leading to the A. B. Degree and offering sufficient work in Secondary Education to enable students to secure High School Teachers’ Cer- tificates, Class A, and High School Principals’ Certificates at the com- pletion of the course. 2. THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE Leading to the B. S. Degree. 3. THE PRE-MEDICAL COURSE A two-year pre-medical course preparing students for entrance into medical colleges will be given. 4. SPECIAL COURSES IN COMMERCE AND MUSIC —_—— eo io The faculty consists of men and women from the best colleges and universities in the country and meets the requirements of the North Carolina College Con- ference. FOR CATALOG AND FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS: THe NortH CAROLINA COLLEGE For N&Grogs THE PRIDE OF CAROLINA JAMES E. SHEPARD President DURHAM, N. C. STATE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA MOST DISTINGUISHED OF THE SEVENTEEN LAND GRANT COLLEGES AMONG THE ORGANIZATION, EQUIPMENT AND COURSES LEADING TO BACHELOR DEGREES, TWENTY VOCATIO TIONS FI RECITATIONS A FTY MODERN BUILDINGS AFFORDING AMPLE ND EXTRA-CURRICULA ACTIVITIE:! Bs IN INCLUDING S, VALUED AT $1,000,000.00. FACULTY FROM THE BEST INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICA. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE ON seinen 8. WILKINSON. President. : ALP LPOLD AP VLP LE LOO LOO SPACE FOR DORMITORIES, LABORATORIES,

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Miracle of Kings Continued from page 8) and kind Negro, king were above all things. “If you wish, dear sirs, | will show you the road to the village, for my home is right on the outskirts.” The black king asked her, with his very sweet voice, “And you, little one, what are you doing here?” “Well, I,” said the little girl, all disturbed, “I had to come for water to the fountain in the woods. My step- mother sent me; but the fountain in the woods was frozen and I could not fll my pitcher.” “What! your step-mother sends you tor water in these unearthly hours?” “Yes, dear sirs. She is a bad step- mother who loves me not at all and beats me.” The three kings felt pity quickly welling up in their hearts, especially the Negro king. “All right, little girl, come up with us.” And the Negro king, sweetest Melchior, helped her mount on his camel. The little girl was enchanted with joy, but her eyes drifted in the jirection of the toys. sweet IGHING, she thought, “My step- mother has surely not placed my little shoes on the window.” But soon, when the lighted windows of the houses came into sight, the daz- zling cortege vanished in the azure air, and the little girl felt like those who awake from a dream, with an ineffably sweet freshness on her eye- lids, and she said, “It was all a dream,” and without much ado, she went to lift the jug. But looking down at her hands, she found them all covered with roses, and she saw at her side the pitcher filled with sweet and soft water like that which gushes in the springs of the South that never freeze and are always gurgling. And, as- tounded and filled with happiness, she saw in the distance the land all dry and in bloom, just as if the sweetness of the eyes of the Negro king, who saw her in her dreams, had put into bloom her life amidst a Southern spring: and the majesty of her splendid dream should still persist in her wonderful awakening. The Hurricane (Continued from page 9) away. We were fortunate enough to get a boat quickly and then an auto- mobile on the other side. In five or six minutes we were in Pointe-a-Pitre and what scenes of devastation met our eyes! My pen is powerless to describe them. The su- 24 | Pf ef ee WE ee OV OVVUvYYVY YwyeYeyryeyeYe by what you will leave them tye You Providing for your Family- O doubt you are what is known as a “good provider”. While you live, while you are able to do so, you will see that your family gets along. But what of the day (may it be far off) when you are not with them, the day when the hazard of illness or accident takes you away for goed and all? If on that day, there is an insurance policy in the National Benefit for them to fall back upon, to take up the bur- den where you were forced to lay it down, the whole course of the lives left behind will be benefited. Judged by what you will leave them, - are you providing for your family? In celebration of our 30th Anniversary we have brought out the new Seven Point Anniversary Policy, with seven unequalled features of investment and protective value. The generous provisions of that policy supply the simplest answer to this vital question. “TheNATIONAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE HOME OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C- BRANCH OFFICES COVERING 26 STATES - VBA 220 dele aA AAA AA A ee A ie Tue Crisis ¢ fi ki it I pee Pt* > hee comm lee @o me S he

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THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION—Aims to train teachers for high schools, for inter- mediate and grammar grades, and for primary grades. THE SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS—Aims to train teachers of Home Economics for high schools and grammar schools, and to train efficient home-makers. THE LIBRARY SCHOOL—Aims to prepare for librarianships in schools, colleges, and branch city libraries. THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC—Aims to meet the growing need for well-trained musicians to serve as teachers and to co-operate in the advancement of music in church, school and community. THE SUMMER SCHOOL—Two terms of thirty school days each, for teachers exclusively. Graduate work for those qualified. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION—Aims to train skilled builders by instruction in building methods, field management, building materials, trade practice, structural design, and principles of architecture. JAMES E. GREGG, Principal FRANK K. ROGERS, Treasurer GEORGE P. PHENIX, Vice Principal WILLIAM H. SCOVILLE, Secretary The TUSKEGEE NORMAL and gg —— INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE ™ Founded by Booker T. WASHINGTON Offers Exceptional Opportunities to Negro Youth for Thorough Education in High School and College Courses and in Agriculture, Mechanical Industries and in Industries for Women. THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANTI- CAL INDUSTRIES for Boys comprises forty trades including Carpentry rick- laying, Auto-Mechanics, Applied Electrio- ity, Photography, Printing, Machine Shop Practice and Tailoring. Teachers in Elementary Schools, for Teachers of Mechanical Industries; in Business Practice; in Home Economics; and in Technical Arts. FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE COURSES koting to the Bachelor of Science degree THE WOMAN’S INDUSTRIES include are offered in Agriculture, in Home Eco- ome Economics — Courses in Foods, nomics, and in Education. Clothing, Millinery, Applied Art, Launder- ing, Household Management in addition to THE wee A. ANDREW MEMO- Home Crafts and Ladies’ Tailoring. 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Carter, Treasurer TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA January, 1929 gar mill on the point had been laid low and all of the workmen’s little houses on the street and near it were in ruins, clothes and bedding were spread out everywhere to dry under a sky still lowering, and the poor people looked miserable and forlorn. At the consulate I found Mr. Hunt standing at his post doing his duty and helping others, though he was drawn and pale. He said he’d never forget the day and night of terror he’d passed through. Nearly all of our furniture was ruined, water stood all over in the house, clothing and bedding were out drying and there was more rain every day. But we could only be too thankful that our lives were spared and feel that more than many others we have been blessed in every way. S the roof was still off and rain threatening, etc., it was finally decided that I’d better return to our country house for a few days, and that decision nearly cost me my life, for, on crossing the Riviére Salée with my friends we came near being drowned. After making way for other boats we were borne by the current too near a rope which had been placed across the channel, and our not too skillful oars- men could not avoid it so it caught us and nearly overturned the boat, knock- ing a boatman and our chauffeur into the water. They caught on to the side of the boat but did not overturn it fortunately. By ducking our heads we avoided the cable, though it touched my friend and almost knocked her overboard. We were now nearing a foundation of masonry supporting a huge water conduit which crosses the channel. We were obliged to leave the boat and, thanks to the presence of mind and aid of my friend’s hus- band and the chauffeur, we were soon hoisted up onto the masonry and walk- ing for the other side of the river in a heavy shower which drenched us to the bone. After finding our auto among the numerous others, we were soon en route for Trois Riviéres and Basse Terre and the sun soon came out to warm and dry us somewhat. Though fearful of grippe or pneu- monia to follow, I escaped with a slight cold and nervous reaction, as I took something hot and went at once to bed. In a week’s time, I was again at the Pointe trying to gather up the scattered ends and nurse my husband who was ill with grippe and fever. There two other frights awaited me, a terrible electrical storm with the loudest peals of thunder I’ve ever heard, and a cry of fire in the night with the tocsin sounding the alarm, and one or two slight earthquake shocks were added for good measure. 25

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Lincoln University Pioneer in Collegiate and Theological Education a by the Association the Middle States and Mary ODPP PPP LINCOLN Graduates are Leaders in the various professions and in all parts of the country. 2 Sees < Address: Wm. Hallock Johnson, President LINCOLN UNIVERSITY CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ATED as a class A college by the State Boards of Education in Vir- ginia and North Carolina. In addition to the general college cur- riculum, work is offered in the follow- ing departments : Teachers College Pre-Medical Theological Law Commercial For additional imformation _ address THE PRESIDENT SHAW UNIVERSITY Founded 1865 Devoted exclusively to College and Theological work. “A” class college having a prestige in Ne- gto education. Given oro tuste f annie 5 Py universities of the North, school, increasing emphasis is ‘+ = upon coliege standards and the promotion of col- lege spirit in scholarship and athletics. ae iven: A.B., B.S., Th.B. and B.S. feenemics. Special attention is given to the training of eariaes., Terms moderate. ond for catal watdrees. . L. PEACOC. den W_ UNIVERSITY, RALEIGH, NORTH PAXROLINA JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY (Formerly Biddle University) An “A” Class College for men only. A Standard Theological Seminary. Faculty composed of men representing some of the best colleges and univer- sities of the country. Ideal location. Seventy-fivé acres of land. Twenty- two buildings. First class equipment. Large endowment. H. L. McCROREY, President Charlotte, North Carolina The Ancrum School of Music Offers Courses in Piano, Pipe Organ, viein, Voice, Theory, Solfeggio, Harmeny, New England Conservatory method. Mest faeulty. Fine dormitory rooms. Directer: MRS, ESTELLE ANCRUM FORSTER Graduate N.E.C., 1919-20. SEznp voR YEAR BOOK. ADDRESS: 74 W. Rutland Sq., Boston, Mass. T first the people seemed struck dumb and then they took things philosophically, or perhaps, I’d better say stoically, and went about their business gathering up slowly the scat- tered fragments. And the sad part about it all was that, isolated as we are and with all means of communica- tion cut Off, the outside world was ig- norant of our fate for days and days. After six days the American consul could send out an S. O. S. call to the government for aid and comfort, just after Paris had been reached. The first boat to arrive left France Septem- ber 23rd and landed here October 7th with food and hospital supplies at the same time that a war vessel came in having on board Ambassador Claudel as special commissioner of the French government. Meanwhile the Governor and Mayors had been doing what they could. At Pointe-a-Pitre, the Mayor and assistants acted with considerable dispatch in clearing the streets, caring for the sick and wounded, distributing food tickets, etc. Shelter was a more dificult matter, though one doesn’t need much in this climate during good weather—and frequent rains drenched all of the homeless and roofless until colds and grippe and pneumonia were prevalent. Corrugated iron is lacking and one can only wait. More material and some expert road builders are en route from France, it is said. It will be years before the colony will assume a modern aspect or even its former aspect, and it was already fifty years behind modern progress. The roads need widening and shorten- ing, in order to avoid many dangerous and unnecessary curves and windings. General and industrial training lag sixty years behind the times. Even the pictures in the primers portray costumes of forty vears ago. Politics, too, and petty racial prejudices keep the people divided. Vegetation pushes so rapidly here that Nature is already repairing some of her past ravage and the landscape looks less desolate and forlorn. The mountain heights still show parched and yellow, but banana trees are lift- ing their heads, the sugar cane right- ing itself, and the other trees left standing are sprouting out their myriad shades of green from maimed and broken branches, and here and there a flower blooms again. To look at the blue sea and spotless sky today and feel the warm caress of the wind, one would almost be inclined to say this is, in truth, a “paradise terreste’, an “emerald isle’, but when the wind rises and the earth trembles one longs for the “wings of a dove to fly far far away” from this pays d’epouvante. Sunshine Sammy (Continued from page \() in one of the smaller theaters to an audience more or less critical, his party journeyed to the Texas city. Imagine their surprise when they received 3 rousing greeting at the station and all along the route of the gala parade in. cluding fourteen automobiles crowded with enthusiastic admirers. The orig. inal engagement, which was for three days, netted the team $450. The act went over in such fine style that the engagement was extended to cover a period of twelve days at an advanced figure. This excellent beginning was fol- lowed by engagements in New Or. leans, Birmingham and Atlanta. In the Georgia capitol Sunshine Samm was a guest of the Chamber of Com. merce and appeared in a Loew’s the. ater, the first Negro act in thirty-five years. The Atlanta Constitution, an outstanding southern daily, was most generous in praise of the star. The act at this time was bringing seven hun- dred and fifty dollars a week. The publicity given by the Constitution helped to make easy lucrative engage- ments in Nashville, Louisville, Chi- cago, Detroit and Cleveland. The Billboard joined the chorus in singing the praises of the now famous vaude- ville star and the theatrical world was alert enough to get on the band wagon. R. A. FEINBERG, well known booking agent in New York City, was attracted by this extraordin- ary publicity and made special efforts to secure the booking rights of the new star. Consequently after a series of telegrams, long distance telephone calls and letters, a contract was secured with Fay’s Circuit handled through Keith’s Agency and the act opened at Fay’s Rochester Theater in*May, 1925, at a salary of $1250 a week. Then followed successful engagements throughout the East and Middle West. In the fall of 1925 the act was booked by the Keith-Albee Orpheum Circuit. For the three years ending May, 1928, these contracts were in force. In May of this year a contract was signed with Loew’s Circuit which will include the season of 1928-9. On the Orpheum and on the Loew’s Circuit despite the other nationally known acts carried, Sunshine Sammy’s act has always been featured as the head-liner on the bill. Contracts for this year include engage ments for the Vitaphone talking pit: tures. Thus we follow an interesting ascent from a dollar and a half a week to twelve hundred and fifty a week and more. Obviously this modest, capable Tue Crisis

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> an arty gine ed a d all € in- wded orig- three e act t the ver a anced s fol- r Or. In ammy Com- s the- ty-five nm, an - Most he act | hun- The tution ngage- . Chi The singing vaude- ld was wagon. known York a0rdin- efforts he new ries of ne calls secured hrough ened at *, 1925, Then rements e West. booked Circuit. ,, 1928, In May ed with ude the rpheum pite the carried, Lys been the bill. engage: ing pic- g ascent week to eek and capable Crisis and industrious young star will reach even greater magnitudes. The wide awake father is giving his famous son instructions in the business end of his career as well as in the entertainment features. Father and son make a fine team off as well as on the boards and fortunately both realize that there are still heights to be reached. The Little Page (Continued from page 11) I'd serve some princess or a prince On marmalade and ting mints. Yet guests should say, “It’s not the palace But your sweet heart That charms us, Alice.” N.A.A.C.P. Battle Front (Continued from page 12) sponse from everyone present, he said: “The Americans treat me so nice that | hope I never get out of sight of them.” At present writing quartermaster Licorish is to receive a fund of $714, raised by Mr. Straus and through the New York Times. Besides that, he is appearing before crowded audiences in a number of the largest vaudeville houses of New York. So that in most gratifying fashion, the bravery and in- telligence of this modest man of the sea, hailing from Barbadoes is redound- ing not alone to his own advantage but to that of his race. 4 PROTEST AT SEGREGATION N October 23, the following let- ter was sent to the United States Secretary of the Interior: “My dear Mr. Secretary: I hereby tender my resignation as senior stenog- rapher in the General Land Office, to take effect at the close of service Oc- tober 24, 1928, as a protest against the crushing conditions to which the col- ored employees are subjected in this de- partment and in the Government, and in order that I may enter upon higher and fuller service to my country and to my race.” The letter was sent by Miss Gret- chen McRae, one of the leaders in the fight against discrimination practiced on colored clerks of the Washington government bureaus in offices and cafe- terias, as well as in employment and Promotion. Miss McRae was out- spoken in her criticism of the Jim-Crow policy in government departments, dur- ing her employment there. She not only voiced her own criticism, but en- couraged other clerks to do likewise and to sign petitions denouncing the Practice, The change in attitude January, 1929 which must precede decent fairness to all government employees irrespective of race or color is slow in coming. But Miss McRae’s work surely has helped to focus public opinion on the vicious segregation practices ; and by that token we must hope she has helped to hasten the day when these practices will be ended. H. J. S. The Poet’s Corner (Continued from page 13) An’ let his prayer be turned into sin. Let his childern be faatherless, An’ his wife a widow. Let his childern be vagabons’ an’ beg. “Let de extortioner caatch all dat he is got. Let dere be none to exten’ him mercy; Neither let dere be any to have pity on his Faatherless childern. Let his posterity be cut off; In de nex’ generation followin’ let dere name be blotted out. Let him be before de Lord continually, Dat He cut off de mem’ry of him from de earth. “’*Cause dat he remembered not to show mercy, But clothed himself with cursin’ as with a gaarment; An’ it came into his inwaards paarts lak waater, An’ lak oil into his bones. “Dis is de rewaard of our adversary from de Lord, Of him dat speak evil agains’ our souls. Save us from him dat judge our souls. Save us Lord from him. “O God of our praise, Amen! Amen!” Te cursers paused for a moment in silence, Then howled their curse again In dreadful repetition through the night, True black Obeah-taught men. Until the end came with the morning, When some fell on the ground; Their voices rolling up, up, up Into a breaking sound. Black eyes were twitching horribly; Black mouths were slavering froth Like mad dogs snarling among them- selves, Each with the other wroth. Growing ever weaker Lance prayed and struggled With the ghostly hands of death, When sharp through his brain shot an inspiration So daring he held his breath. Most surely God had given him a weapon, It made his slow pulse throb. VIRGINIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (Virginia State College for Negro Youth) Petersburg, Virginia JOHN M. GANDY, President Degree Courses in: ARTS AND SCIENCES EDUCATION MUSIC SUPERVISION HOME ECONOMICS INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION PHYSICAL EDUCATION AGRICULTURE Two-year Normal School Courses in: MECHANIC ARTS HOME ECONOMICS ELEMENTARY EDUCATION Four-year Trade and Vocational Courses on Secondary level in: AUTO MECHANICS CARPENTRY BRICK MASONRY ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION TAILORING VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE An especially fine Faculty. A new Gym- nasium. Three new dormitories, modern in every particular. Four-quarter System Well-equipped Laboratories Live interest in: Athletics Debating Social and Religious activities Fall Quarter opens September 18 Winter Quarter opens Jan. 2, 1929 Expenses moderate. For further information, address: MISS J. LOUISE BARRETT, Registrar Bethune-Cookman Colle ge (Formerly The Daytona Normal and Industrial Inst.) DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA OCATED in the beautiful Halifax country on the East coast of Florida. An institution where opportunity is afforded for the highest and bert in education. Offering courses in JUNIOR COLLEGE Normal Training School for Teachers College Preparatory PECIAL work offered in Commerce, Music, De- mestic Science and Art, Agriculture and Car- pentry. Athletics encouraged for Boys and Girls Dormitory Facilities unsurpassed FOR INFORMATION, Write to Mary McLeod Bethune, President Epwarp WATERS COLLEGE JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA An ideal Christian Home School in the Heart of Beautiful Florida For students unable to stand the rigors of a Northern Winter. Grammar School, Junior High School, (Accredited by The Senior High School Florida State Board of Education), Normal School, School of Theology, Music, Com- mercial Courses, College Courses leading to B.A., and B.S., Degrees. Domestic Science and Art, Band, Military Training for men, Physical Education for women. Albert B. Cooper, President Bishop Joseph S. Flipper, Chairman Board ef Trustees

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HARTSHORN MEMORIAL COLLEGE Richmond, Va. NOW—An Academy Eventually—A College for t he Separate Education of Young Women. This institution which has been set apart for the separate education of young women evef since its founding in 1883, will, in the immediate future, devote every energy upon grade, and, espe- cially, academic work only, since college work has been discontinued for the present It is an accredited high school by the State of Virginia, and offers two courses; a General Course and ®@ College Preparatory Course which will admit to any college. Hartshorn offers, besides its pure scholastic cur- riculum, a home influence where the development ef Christian character is the fundamental purpose. Send for a catalogue to the President. DAVID G. MULLISON, Pres. RICHMOND, VA. Bishop College Marshall, Texas A standard four year coeduca- tional college, accredited by the State Board of Examiners of Texas, and other states. Courses leading to the degrees of Bache- lor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. Courses in Education, meeting the re- uirements for State Certificates, are of- ea in connection with the courses for degrees. : Scientific courses cover all premedical requirements. Theological courses lead to the degrees of B. Th. and B. D. A strong musical department. For catalogue and information address, D. C. GILMORE, President. Rust College GOING TO COLLEGE? Come to Rust College—Beautifully Located. Students from Fourteen States he College of Liberal Arts, Standard Nermal, Home Economics, Music, Junior and Senior High Schools. Efficient Faculty. New Equipment fer Laberateries, Enlarged Library. Rates Reasonable For further information write President L. M. McCoy Holly Springs : Mississippi SIMMONS UNIVERSITY, Louisville, Ky. Founded 1873. The only institution in the State having for ita object, Collegiate, Ministerial and Legal training. Degrees conferred. Normal, Com- mercial, Music, Domestic Science, and Missionary training classes. Correspondence Courses. He stretched as he could and raised on his toes And smiled at the maddened mob. His hooked eagle-beak stuck out dilated; His eyes were eyes of fire; His mouth a line of indomitable strength; He appeared to tower higher. A tall, gaunt fisherman’s grave look caught The flame in Lance’s eyes; In the voice of one seeing miracles He yelped in fear-hoarse cries: “Christ Jesus Almighty, have mercy on us, De wraath of God is dere Staamped full on dat maan, dat Jamai- can’s face, All hell is broke loose here.” The mob and its fiendish black leader Were shivering and unnerved, Lance was neither crazy nor dead. Their shaken allegiance swerved. As Lance drew a deep, long quivering breath, Heedless of biting ropes, Heedless of tearing mortal flesh, His deathless spirit hopes ;— Slowly he uttered in lyrical tones: “De Lord is my shepherd; I shall not waant. “Yea, though I waalk through de valley of de shadow of death. I will fear no evil; For Thou is with I; Thy rod an’ Thy staaff dey comforts I. “Thou prepares’ a taable for I Ir de presence of mine enemies; Thou anoints my head with oil: My cup runneth over “Surely goodness an’ mercy shall follow I All de days of my life An’ I shall dwell in de house of de Lord ” forever. ANCE held the men in awe struck silence Till their leader screamed his wrath: “Death an’ God’s curse to dat Jamai- can!” And sweeping men from his path He sprang at Lance to slash his throat When the God-fearing fisherman cried: “Damn yo’, yo’ devil, stop it! Stop it!” And clamped Scraggs’ arms to his side. Lance’s golden umphant: “My Psalm is won! Is won! Glory! Glory to God in de highes’! Lord Jesus will is done!” voice rang out tri- The Far Horizon (Continued from page 19) Negro hymns. With his complete mas- tery of artistic expression unfolded to us such a world of pain united with utte; child-like faith in a better future, that through those hymns we were brought to the active co-experience of the tragedy of these people—the tragedy of an ex. ploited race. We greet the famous singer and the great artist of sounds, who brings with him a stream of great ar which he has mastered under the cop. dition of hard struggle. For the singer, who knows the languages of Europe, English, Italian, German, and French equally well; who gives remarkably wel] the musical essence of different national schools of music—has made a tre. mendous cultural achievement. There js much to learn from him for our Soviet singers. The accompanist of Hayes is a fellow countryman, the author of the collected hymns and the adapter, ., . Richard Parham is a fine and musical accompanist.” Of his singing in Berlin, the Signal say wn It is not necessary to appraise Mr, Roland Hayes as the world famous Ne- gro tenor on the program, for un- doubtedly he would have made an ever- lasting impression through the medium of his art upon an understanding public. Only a delicate, sensitive, and a fine singer and a musician of eminence could have lived so deeply in the inner concep- tion of the German songs, a thing which foreign singers seldom do. His smooth, well built tenor is of overwhelming beauty in the pianissimo, although in the fortissimo some difficulties betray them- selves through pressure of tones, occa- sional forcing and the use of the nose resonance. ‘Therefore his field is some- what limited, but he is a singer of finesse for connoisseurs. Another Negro, Percy Parham, accompanied him intelli- gently, skillfully” Turning now from Roland Hayes to Walter White, we note that a Rus- sian translation of “Flight” has been made. It is accompanied by a preface written by Carl Jones. He says: Many of them who find that their open allegiance with Negroes places the penalty imposed on those born black in America upon them, renounce this ad- herence when impelled by economic pres- sure to seek employment and when the labor of the day is completed return at night to the warmer and more enlivening embraces of Negro society. Some marry into white families and are completely submerged. Many who have done this find their dissociation from Negroes to be too great a price and voluntarily return to the dark race. They even speak of this as coming back to their own people. It is not difficult to understand the discontent of the Negroes who _ have “passed over” into white society and be- come successful in business. The warmth and color of Negro life, though clouded by the bar sinister—color—is proverbial. On the other hand the average white worker in America seems to be a cap- tive of the machine. His working hours finds him hopelessly fastened and as he often believes unescapably fastened to Tne Crisis

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the machine. His leisure hours find him unable to relieve himself from the de- pression created by the pessimistic atti- tude he has taken of life. Their faces reflect this pessimism and hopelessness. Their moments of relaxation are spent watching a baseball game or a boxing match. In the South such moments are spent in attendance of some revival meet- ing or in participation in some such Roman holiday as a _ lynching bee affords. .. - The Negro has given America the only folk music of which she can boast. He stands as the undisputed creator of America’s now famous dances and dance music. Life he must have, song and laughter he radiates. Herein lies the answer to the question why those among the “near-whites” who can “pass over” prefer to remain at least socially within the “Pale”. All this Mr. White has caught up and woven into a fabric from which he has cut the glamorous, scintillating and ex- tremely colorful “Flight”. HARLEM CERTAIN J. W. T. Mason writing in the Sunday Express of London, Eng., gives some extraor- dinary “facts” about Harlem. We quote a few: The blacks are as isolated in New York as if they dwelt in Africa. Their principal residential district is in Har- lem, on Manhattan Island, with 135th- street forming their chief thoroughfare. Nearly two hundred thousand Negroes now live in the Harlem area, which a generation ago was as fashionable a white residential section as South Ken- sington in London. There are no whites in this Negro quarter, except curious visitors who go there in numbers to see the sights. Ne- gro policemen patrol the streets, Negro postmen deliver letters, Negro cinemas offer amusement, there are several the- atres where the performers are all blacks, Negro restaurants abound, and Negro Newspapers print nothing but Negro news. Hidden in the recesses of the houses are occasional voodoo doctors and Negro witches, who profess to cure illnesses and be able to concoct love charms. The old jungle lure still dwells in many Negro breasts. Schools offer as complete an education to the New York Negroes as to white children, but the blacks have not an in- herited mental capacity giving promise of any large prosperity for them in the near future. The small shops in the Negro sections, bake shops, meat shops, grocery shops, clothing shops and the like, are all operated by whites, because the Negroes are not competent even to engage in the smallest retail trade re- quiring book-keeping and a moderate Capacity to meet the simple problems of small business. Negro purchasers would like to give preference to shopkeepers of their own race, but they cannot do so ecause there are practically none. Negro associations for improving their conditions are not lacking, but leadership January, 19269 is woefully inept. The Negroes have a low sense of financial responsibilities, and banks are reluctant to loan them large sums for business development. Small wonder that Europeans get an extraordinary idea of the American Negro. BRITISH COLONIAL ADMIN- ISTRATION HE Hon. C. C. Adeniyi-Jones, member of the Nigerian Legisla- tive Council has been speaking plainly in West Africa concerning political and administrative problems in Ni- geria. There can be no doubt that to Sir Hugh Clifford must be awarded the honor of being the first West African Governor to introduce the principle of the franchise into British Africa, by in- corporating the privilege into the Con- stitution of the Legislative Council of the Colony in 1923. Though the activities of the National Congress of West Africa had, since 1920, succeeded in creating a favorable atmos- phere for the introduction of franchise into British West Africa, and everybody was on the tiptoe of expectation that the Gold Coast Colony would naturally take the lead, it was left to Sir Hugh’s ini- tiative as Governor of Nigeria to give concrete expression to that idealism which had tinged the imagination of the Congress leaders. The Nigerian Constitution, though first in the field, has, I regret to say, proved the least satisfactory, because of its many grave defects when compared with those of the sister Colonies. In the first place its overwhelming official majority, which, originally nine, has by recent Letters Patent been in- creased to 12, has not only nullified the principle of the franchise but has practi- cally reduced the unofficial members, especially the elected members, to the role of mere recording instruments of oficial sweet will. It will be remembered that the neces- sity for the control of the Colony’s ex- penditute constituted the “point of at- tack” of the criticism levelled against the Nigerian Constitution in its incipiency, when the cry for a “Geddes axe” on an “Inchcape Commission” was raised by the elected members. It will also be re- membered that that cry was so loud that it made itself heard and brought from Sir Hugh the categorical reply that the control of expenditure would be vested in the hands of his unofficial mem- bers. Unfortunately the principle behind that reply seems to have been existing more on paper and in the platitudinous phrases with which the idea was clothed than in the practical working of the scheme; for, de facto, in each Finance committee since the present administra- tion, unofficial members, when raising a protest against any particular item listed in the estimates of expenditures, are in- variably met with the staid reply either that the Secretary of State for the Col- onies has already sanctioned the ex- penditure, or the experts of the Depart- Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina AT GREENSBORO An “A” Grade College An Agricultural Department Courses leading to the degree of B.S. in Agriculture. A Technical Department Courses leading to the degree of B.S. im Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engi- neering and Architectural Engineering. A Science Department Courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science. A Department of Education Courses leading to the degree of B.S. im Education, for the training of Vocational Teachers. A Trade Department Offering the following trades: Bricklaying, Plastering, Carpentry, Cabinet ia Automobile Mechanics, Machine Shop Prae- tice, Jalloriog. Shoe Making and Repairing, Plumbing, Electricity, Forging. A Standard Technical High School A High School which prepares students for College and for Vocations. A Strong Business Department Courses in Shorthand, Typewriting, Book. keeping, Commercial Law. MODERN EQUIPMENT SPLENDID LOCATION MODERATE EXPENSES SPRING TERM BEGINS MARCH 12 For further information, address F, D. BLUFORD, President A. & T. COLLEGE Greensboro, N. C. Allen University Columbia, S. C. A Co-Educational Institution Offering Courses in THE JUNIOR COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS ARTS AND SCIENCES THEOLOGY MUSIC COMMERCE HOME ECONOMICS TEACHER TRAINING A SPECIALTY DEGREES: A.B., B.D., Th.B., A.B. in Education Approved by the State of South Caroline. Aided by the Slater Fund and the General Education Boerd. Facilities increased this year. DAVID H. SIMS, President BISHOP JOHN HURST, Chairman Trustee Board Largest Business School The Stenographers’ Institute, popv- larly known as Duncan’s_ Business School, 1227 S. 17th street, is the larg- est business school in South Philadel- phia. It has a $6000 equipment fully paid for and is operating in three buildings. The first floor space is de- voted to multigraphing for the public —business men say it renders the quickest and most reliable service in the city. The school graduates the best stenographers. Read Dr. R. R. Wright’s, Jr., editorial, “From Bath- room to Three Buildings,” in Christian Recorder, issue of September 27. Write Rev. Edward T. Duncan and ar- range to enter the winter term, Januv- ary 2, 1929.—Adv. THE FRANCIS E. W. HARPER GIRLS’ DORMITORIES 1424 Christian Street Philadelphia, Pa. Heme Privileges and Special Rates to Students and Professional Women. MISS JESSIE M. 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The Ideal spot for Health, Education and Inspiration built upon a school site of long-standing —The home of Three Educational Institutions— Formerly The Old Smithfield Seminary, The Lapham Institute and The Penticostal College and Trade SchooL New equipment now being installed. Ele- mentary, Grammar and Junior High Schools, Indus- trial and Trade Courses offered. For further in- formation write the President. COOK BOOK — FREE Write at once! We shall tell you how you can a medern cook book with ‘elem receipes FREE. REGINALD & HAYWARD Dept. M. 147 N. Western Avenue CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ment that is to incur the expenditure had gone thoroughly into the matter with the head of the Executive before the item was booked. And if by any means any particular item be ruled out by the activ- ities of the unofficial members in the Finance Committee, that item invariably finds it way back into the Estimates, either by an official motion when “Coun- cil resumes,” or in a subsequent supple- mentary estimate. And, of course, this latter means that the expenditure has been actually incurred before the item is brought to a subsequent meeting of Council for “discussion.” Indeed, so great has been the despair of unofficial members that they have long ago considered it a sheer waste of their valuable time to be called upon to sit as member of a Finance Committee where everything has been previously cut and dried, the duty expected from them being simply to initial or tick off the items as they are called out. And it was with a view to dispel the dissatisfaction en- gendered amongst unofficial members, as the result of the suspicion that their opinion and views do not count with the Government, that Sir Graeme Thomson convened a round table conference of uofficial members early last year. RED CAPS HE New York Times says: The honesty of the “Red Cap” porters in the metropolitan railroad sta- tions is constantly being tested and seldom found wanting. An hour spent in the Lost Property room of any station will prove this by the large number of varied ar- ticles returned. Among the returned goods are wallets loaded with money; canes, umbrellas, spectacle cases, port- folios, handbags, gloves, wraps, golf bags, lunch baskets, books, jewelry and bouquets of flowers. Scenes of pathos and humor take place in the Lost Property room. A man re- ports that in rushing across the waiting room floor he lost his wife’s picture, and he never traveled without it. “It is my mascot,” he explains, “and I am super- stitious about it.” A drawer in the desk is opened and the fading picture of a woman, taken evidently thirty years ago, is taken out. “A Red Cap found it,” is the report. Sometimes the Red Caps are the losers. One comes into the room loaded down with valises and suitcases. “I’ve lost my man,” he reports. “I was carrying all these for him, stooped to fix the strap on a suitcase and when I looked up he had gone.” MR. GARVEY EXPLAINS ARCUS GARVEY has been speaking and holding interviews in London, Paris, and Geneva. Re- ports of some of his speeches have come to us from various sources. The Gold Coast Independent of British West Africa reports one speech which we have not seen before, from which we quote without comment. In addition to the fact that for six years 25 per cent, of our employees were secret service agents of che United States Government, it is peculiar also for you to realize that the Counsel-General to me and to my Organization, on whose advice I acted—I not being an American citizen but a British subject, not know- ing the American laws—the Counse]- General of our Organization and to me paid, like myself, from the common funds of the Organization, an American citizen who was responsible for the legal phase of our business—while he was in our employ he was also in the employ of the Government. When I was ir- dicted by the Government they called him out from serving us as Counsel- General, and, after convicting me, they made him Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. If anybody should have been indicted the Counsel of the Organization who gave the advice to the Organization, should have been indicted. They did not indict him, however; they indicted the President who acted on the Counsel-General’s advice; and after the President was convicted they honored the Counsel by making him Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, Those are the morals of politics in America. And I am surprised that the English Press should influence the English public to condemn me without a hearing, trying to state that I am a criminal and an ex-convict, under those circumstances. THE NULLIFIED AMEND. MENT E quote an editorial in the Chi- cago daily Tribune which is of wide significance at this time: The nullification of the fourteenth amendment in congress has given the United States a form or representative government for which the constitution does not provide. It also gives the nation a manner of electing a President for which the constitution does not provide. It is not a question of whether southern states have found legal ways of keeping Negro citizens from voting and thus preserving the white control of govern- ment. It is recognized that some states may have and will have franchise restrictions. A person may be an American citizen and not a qualified voter in an American state. But if such persons are twenty- one years of age, are citizens and cannot qualify as voters they cannot be counted in the population of the state for pur- poses of representation either in congress or in the electoral college. If they cannot vote because they are unwilling or unable to pay a poll tax, because they cannot read or write or interpret a part of the constitution the state which re- quires such qualifications for voting is to have the number of these nonvoting citizens deducted from the total on which its representation is based. The right to impose a qualifying test is recognized but it carries what may be called a penalty. It is not in reality that. It is an adjustment or compensa- tion. The state which has free and un- abridged voting rights available to all citizens of legal age is intended to have TueE Crisis

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nth the tive tion tion for ide. lern ping thus ern- may ions. and ‘ican nty- nnot nted pur- ZTeSS they illing they part 1 re- ig is oting vhich r test ay be eality ensa- d un- o all all its population, exclusive of untaxed Indians, counted as the basis of its rep- resentation in congress and in the elec- tion of President. A state which dis- qualifies some of its citizens cancels them out, under the constitution. a There is much passion and prejudice in the issue because the amendment was intended primarily to give the Negro freedmen the franchise and because the attempts of the radical Republicans to coerce the south after the civil war pro- moted as much bitterness as the war it- self. The supporters of suffrage restric- tions say that all have been made effec- tive legally. If that is to be conceded it remains that the legal adjustment in rep- resentation has not been made and it has not been made because the members of congress do not obey the command of the constitution. The restrictions are not all in southern states, but there are the conspicuous is- sues. If the southern states have the election laws they want and find neces- sary the attainment of their object re- quires them to give up a certain voting strength in the making of federal laws and in the election of a President. Arthur Henning in his articles dealing with this subject points out that Hughes and not Wilson would have been elected if the electoral college had been properly con- stituted. The person who thinks that this nullification of the constitution is a matter of no importance hasn’t much regard for the working of his form of government. If it is of so little con- sequence there is nothing to prevent other holes being shot in it. The fourteenth amendment has not been repealed. It does not require ma- chinery of enforcement. A little work by the census bureau would give con- gress the figures and thereupon the ad- justment of representation to suffrage laws becomes automatic. All congress need do, and that it is commanded to do, is to pass an apportionment bill comply- ing with the constitution and recognizing the facts. _ This question will not quiet itself. It is presented to congress. Submit that amendment for repeal or obey it. If the people no longer want their government organized in that fashion and their laws passed under such a system of repre- sentative government they'll vote it out of the constitution. It is not dead wood in the body of organic law, although congress seems so to regard it. It is a most important part of the American system of representative democracy and of the republican form of government. OVER-CROW DING IRARD writes in his “Talk of the Day” in the Philadelphia Enquirer: Every twelfth person you see in Phila- delphia is a Negro. In the past decade colored population as increased three times as fast as white population. Another important fact is that four — as many Negroes as white people ve upon an acre of ground in this city. January, 1929 This gross over-crowding ot our 170,000 Negro population comes as near a real scandal as anything you can find in this otherwise enlightened town. Goodness knows how many agencies in the past ten years have wrung your hearts and your pocketbooks in behalf of “Near East sufferers.” I do not know what makes the Near East so habitually bleed, but bleed it does. Millions of money have gone from this State to do one thing or another in the Near East. I learn from one small church in the little town of Emporium that its Near East tax is $100 a year. So we bleed cash for a cause 5000 miles away, but I know of no big at- tempt made in Philadelphia to cure this Negro scandal at our own door. Any populated part of a big city seems croweded aplenty. But the white folks have more elbow room, more breathing spaces and more square feet per home by great odds than have our 170,000 colored people. Our white population upon one acre is only twenty-eight. Our Negro population upon one acre is 111—about four times as crowded. Now if Negro homes were towering apartments, an acre might easily hold 111 comfortably. Negro homes, on the contrary, are nearly all two-story, or at most, small three-story dwellings. And in that fact it will be found that while Negro inhabitants huddle four times as thickly upon one acre as do white inhabitants, the crowding is really far worse than that. Thousands of white inhabitants dwell in tall apartments and a tall apartment multiplies populated acreage with every floor. What can Philadelphia do to remedy this worst of city evils—the overcrowd- ing of Negroes in restricted areas? Well, we Can go on investing scores of millions a year of our own cash in foreign indus- tries and neglect, as in the past, to invest even one million for the home betterment of 170,000 of our own industrial popula- tion. Yet one might suppose it would profit us more to help our own toilers than to aid industry in Patagonia. THE WORKING DAUGHTERS FRIEND writes us concerning that well-known passage in the Bible: “I Am Black But Comely, O —Daughters of Jerusalem”. How many times has this famous passage from the Song of Songs been quoted by colored folk, and how few have ever looked into its history or its true meaning. Dean Pickens, in one of his speeches, has asserted that the “but” in the sentence has been put there by the race prejudice of the modern Nordic; in the original Hebrew, he says, it is “black and comely.” ‘This is an amus- ing quip, but if intended seriously, it has not a leg to stand on. For what- ever the original Hebrew may be, the “but” was put there before any of the Florida Normal and Collegiate Institute ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA (The Ancient City of Sunshine Land) Junior HicH Senior HicH TEACHER TRAINING Junior CoLLece Courses Pre-MEDICAL AND VOCATIONAL CouRsEs For further information address NATHAN W. COLLIER, Pres. The Cardinal Gibbons Institute RIDGE, ST. MARY’S COUNTY, MARYLAND A school for Negro young men and wo. men of character and purpose. Course of Junior High School grade offered fer the coming year. General Mechanics, Agriculture and De mestic Science are taught in parallel courses Living conditions simple, healthful, weil supervised. For further information, address Victor H. 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Paine College AUGUSTA, GA. Standard College Courses Approved Two-Year Normal Accredited Senior High School Up-to-Date Junior High School “To develop leaders you must have the best possible equipment for liter- ery training and that is what we are striving for at Paine College”, said one of the leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. This Church contributes largely to the support of Paine College. tot A Goop ScHOOL AT REASONABLE RATES For further information, address RAY S. TOMLIN, President - PAINE COLLEGE 1882 1927 LANE COLLEGE Jackson, Tennessee A GROWING College with a nts his- tery and a bright future. It offers modern ses in egiate, Theological, Musical, lege Preparatory, Teachers’ Training, Home Economics and Pre-Medical subjects. Proper standards of conduct as well as scholarship are maintained. Well equipped laboratories, dormitories with modern conveni- ences and facilities under itive Christian imfluences are supported. or further infor- mation address J. F. LANE, President, Jackson, Tennessee. Burrell Memorial Hospital Training School for Nurses ROANOKE, VA. State accredited. Three year course in general nursing. 50 bed hospital. On approved list of American Col- lege of Surgeons. Free tuition, board and room, text-books, uniforms ; also cash allowance. Ideal loca- tion, 1,000 feet above sea level. Only High School Graduates admitted. ¢—___—_______- Write to, Ethel M. Bigham, R. N. Supt. of Nurses Wiley College MARSHALL, TEXAS M. W. DOGAN, President H. J. MASON, Executive Secretary Ideals, Traditions, Standards of the Finest Quality. Faculty composed of high grade teachers. Maintains following de partments: College, Senior High School, Extension, Cerrespon- Economics, Founda- Negre— lient student personnel, fine Cellege atmos- Dhere, wholesome student activities. Championship debating and athletic teams. Graduates admitted on approval te best universities. Diploma recognized in number of states. For further information, write the Dean er REGISTRAR. WANTED EVERYWHERE @eed Aute Mechanics, Biacksmiths, Carpenters, Cooks, stresses, Typists, Stenegraphers, Beekkeepers. Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School DOWNINGTOWN, PA. (Under the Supervision of the Pennsyl- wania Department of Public Instruction.) SPECIALIZES in training geod workers and good citizens and effers to boys and girls over thirteen years of age Healthy Climate Outside of City Faculty ef Cellege-trained Teachers Junier and Senier High Scheel Courses Preperly Supervised Athlietie and Seelal Recreatien For further information write J. H. N. WARING, JR. Principal The Lincoln School for Nurses in the City of New York offers to young colored women having completed a four year high school and holding a diploma, a three years’ course of instruction in nursing. Capacity of hospital—420 beds. For information apply to: Superintendent of Nurses MISS S. J. FORD Lincoln School for Nurses New York, N. Y. THIRD ANNUAL HAMPTON INSTITUTE EUROPEAN TOUR June 8th to July 16th Inclusive $480 Price ENGLAND, HOLLAND, GERMANY, BELGIUM, FRANCE A Travel Study Course for Teachers, Students, and others, with college credit. Send for Descriptive Circular to EXTENSION DIVISION HAMPTON INSTITUTE, HAMPTON, VA. or ARNOLD GRAF, Manager 110 East 42d St. New York City MORRISTOWN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE ‘tA School of Character” Co-Educational. Fully accredited High School, Normal and College. Strong soaehy. Modern eti uipped dormitories, Administration Building and new gymnasium. Large ath ic field. anual training, auto mechanics, domestic arts, vocal, violin and instrumental music. Teacher training, state certificates and placement bureau. IDEALLY LOCATED JUDSON S. HILL, D.D., President EXPENSES MODERATE SEND FOR CATALOG Morristown, Tennessee Nordic races could read or write. [p the Latin version. of the Bible made by St. Jerome at the end of the fourth century A. D., which is known as the Vulgate and has been used by the Cath. olic Church ever since, the words are given as “nigra sum sed formosa”—and all of us know enough Latin to know that “sed” is “but”. I do not happen to have the Septuagint Greek version of the Bible at hand, but this translation, which was made by the Hellenized Jews of Egypt nearly three centuries before the birth of Christ, also shows, as ] remember, that the phrase was then understood to mean “black (or swarthy) but beautiful’. Not only that, but several times the fairness of complexion of the person beloved is insisted on, as a distinct virtue, in the Song of Songs. But that is not the only difficulty to be considered. Was the lady black at all, that is, in the sense of being a mem- ber of a Negro race? I doubt it. Many of the most competent Hebrew scholars translate the word, not “black”, but “swarthy”. So the late Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr., in his book, The Song of Songs: A New Translation based ona Revised Text (Philadelphia, 1921), translates: “Swarthy am, but comely, O maidens of Jerusalem, (swarthy) as the tents of Kedar, as Solomonic hang- ings. Heed not that I am_ swarthy, that the sun has scorched me; the keeper of the vineyards they made me; but my own vineyard I did not keep.” And ina note he explains the word, “the keeper of the vineyards they made me,” by say- ing: “That is the reason why she is sunburnt; the reference is to the guard- ing of the vineyards during harvest time.” In other words, the poor girl of the country, who has to stand in the sun guarding the vineyards, excuses her sunburnt skin to the sheltered “daughters of Jerusalem” who have the paleness of those who guard themselves against the sun. It is another illustration of Veb- len’s “theory of the leisure class”: pale skins were preferred because it showed you did not have to earn a living by working in the sun. AN OKLAHOMA JUDGE HE Black Despatch, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, says: With the filing of impreachment charges against Judge Franklin E. Ken- namer in the Congress of the United States, the rotten American political sys- tem obtrudes its ugly head. Not satis fied with the recent attempt to slice the Northern District with the federal scis- sors and thereby cutting off Okfuskee county, where Judge Kennamer has given black folk their freedom for the first time since statehood, the denizens of hate and prejudice are now executing another flank movement, in the charges filed Wednesday. Judge Kennamer has been the unre- lenting, implacable foe of bootlegger ™ his district. He has taken a firm af courageous stand on the question of the Tue Crisis caus’ elev: Neg cour Okf time der. doll this N man admi with deni: him they hom: nam he si E distr dele writ the 1 abou in th gang eous:

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» but lorris ng of on a 1921), omely, ly) as hang- arthy, keeper jut my id in a keeper yy say- she is guard- arvest girl of in the ses her ughters ness of nst the f Veb- ”: pale showed ring by GE lahoma achment E. Ken- United ical sys- ot satis- slice the ral scis- Yk fuskee as given the first zens of xecuting charges he unre- egger in firm and in of the Crisis Negro’s right to vote in Oklahoma. Al- though an Alabamian, Judge Kennamer has shown that which it is possible to do ‘a the realm of justice and fairness when you place a man from the South beyond the range of local sentiment and mob passions. In fact, in the Supreme Court of the United States, the Negro discov- ers that it is the white Southerner, when once cloistered beyond petty recalls and the yank of the demagogue, who has ren- dered the fairest decisions relating to the black man’s rights. But the mob spirit is after Kennamer. Oklahoma does not like this man _ be- cause he had the guts to aver, since his elevation to the federal bench, that a Negro could not get justice in state courts, More than 500 Negroes iin Okfuskee county now vote for the first time since statehood, because of his or- der. Oklahoma spent several thousand dollars of the taxpayers’ money to have this decision reversed, with no avail. No wonder it is difficult for a white man with a big heart, and a desire to administer equity and justice in his labors with his constituency, for the mob, the denizens of hate, will not wait to meet him out on the thoroughfares of life, they will go into his castle, into his home, to’ destroy his character and good name, if they think for one moment that he seeks to do the things that are right. Every citizen in the Northern federal district should write to the Oklahoma delegation in Congress; they should write to other fair-minded members of the national legislature and tell the truth about Judge Kennamer, for he is today in the hands of Pontius Pilate and the gang who would crucify him for right- eousness. A correspondent adds: Since statehood the Negroes of Okfus- kee County, in and near Boley, had never voted. Upon the elevation of Judge Kennamer to the bench, he immediately began to slam state officials in jail who tefused to allow Negroes their suffrage privileges. I personally raised last year a fund to assist in the appeal of the state of Oklahoma against a decision of Kennamer’s, (which we won) and a case wherein we had to spend more than $3,000. Because of this decision, more than 100 blacks vote in and around Boley. The whites in the county have countered with a petition to Congress to take them out of Kennamer’s district and place them in the Eastern district, where they will be under Judge Robert L. Williams, tormer governor, and the man who called the special session of the legislature, while he was governor, when the vicious registration law of Oklahoma was passed. This bill, which would slice Okfuskee County out of Kennamer’s district, is now before the Senate Judi- cary Committee. ; very court town in Judge Kenna- mer’ district has passed resolutions of confidence, and there is not a litigant who as appeared before his court whose fame is signed to any of the affidavits before Congress,” mer January, 1929 ‘*THE POWER OF THOUGHT’’ By J. 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The Browsing Reader (Continued from page 20) Nation are of interest to Negroes. “Notes From Washington” by Duff Gilfond in the November 14th issue, relates how Mr. Hoover, after refus- ing to see a Negro delegation for two weeks, at length agreed to discontinue Negro segregation in the Department of Commerce; and how Dr. Work, after seven conferences with the col- ored leaders, agreed to wipe out segre- gation in the Pension Office of the De- partment of the Interior, where, by the way, he had instituted it, but when asked to be equally fair about the Gen- eral Land Office, replied that he hadn’t put it there! An editorial in the November 21st issue says that Governor Smith’s break- ing of the South is an extraordinary political event—that Governor Smith brought about this historical happening, not Herbert Hoover. The South voted against the Governor of New York, not for Mr. Hoover. James M. 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