The Crisis 1930-01: Vol 37 Iss 1

Page 1

~<a Sethe tik! , site FIFTEEN GENTS THE ory. he eRe 6/73 RISIS Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. BLIC LIBRARY

Page 2

Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. announces that on Janu- | issue 1 teens ary 1, 1930, it will ie ee ee Industrial Whole Life, pata a adi Twenty Year Endowment and | wenty Payment Life Insurance Contracts or Policies, in addition to its present line of superior [hree-in-one Disability Policies The company also announces the purchase of the prop- erties formerly owned by the Mechanics Savings Bank, N.W. corner Third and Clay Streets, Richmond, Virginia, consisting of 212 and 214 E. Clay Street and 506 and 508 N. Third Street. It will, after making extensive altera- tions, occupy the main four-story building as its Home Office. The remainder of the property will be occupied by The Commercial Bank and Trust Company and other business and professional groups. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc. Home Office: 525-7-9 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, Va. LIFE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE Operating in Virginia, District of Columbia and New Jersey WHEN INSERTION IS MADE. TEAR OUT ALONG LINE OF PrerpopatTina:

Page 3

Good Citizens — Start Boys Right — give them the proper nerenective of life. show them their responsibility tlet for excess steam. Another ome deprived of the Barnard Service nd wives, in strange ‘ ' | | ! | ! ! | | | ' So that you may have the use i : | 8 Se ee use of this siates, find the best | = volume while you are supplying missing ; S$ pages, we have inserted stubs as noted 5 below. 1 | § When they are obtained, you may | « send them to us, if you wish, together . A a ti © with the bound volume and they will lan ssocia 10n | z be promptly inserted without charge. a : . r @ Stubs have been inserted in place of iL AT HOME 6 the following pages which are missing: ; = . ° / bee / j Co A 7 4 ai Young Men’s Christian Associations : ; & ; : w Jersey Oklahoma | | © ‘These pages, from which large pieces See ee | > have been torn, have been pieced out: *MONTCLAIR Pennsylvania 8 NENA crnay = - ORANGE j : PHILADELPHIA 1 & "PL ALSPYTELD SEWICKLEY | = : Taeeaon WILKES-BARRE | _ os ee . WILMERDING ! *BROOKLYN ennessee | 5 cape *NASHVILLE ! MINEOLA : CHATTANOOGA *NEW YORK CITY Texas ! F.J. Barnard & Co., Inc. ROCHESTER DALLAS ! e ° Library Book Binders wth Carolina HOUSTON “Gt ” *ASHVILLE li Since 1821 GREENSBORO Virginia WINSTON-SALEM LYNCHBURG NORFOLK io NEWPORT NEWS Georgia cnnenenEnET? «CINCINNATI RICHMOND *ATLANTA easy ee *CLEVELAND ROANOKE Sots CRSDURE ae” WO bags Missouri LIMA WIDEN Illinois *KANSAS CITY SPRINGFIELD Wi ; *CHICAGO ST. JOSEPH TOLEDO ; isconsin *EVANSTON *ST. LOUIS *YOUNGSTOWN BELOIT *These Y. M. C. A.’s have dormitories. Januar} » 1930

Page 4

— Future Home Office Southern Aid Society of Va, Inc N. W. Cor. 3rd & Clay Sts Richmond, Va Insurance Contracts or P line of superior [hree-ir The company also ann erties formerly owned b N.W. corner Third and C consisting of 212 N. Third Street tions, occupy the main i Office. The remainder « by The Commercial Ban : 191, and Zi* It wil business and professional! Southern Aid So Home Office: 525-7-9 Des mhEth OLETCTL, ALILILLILIULLU, V a. LIFE, HEALTH AND Southern Aid Society eee yecan 7m ON LEE IE PEALE ACCIDENT INSURANCE Operating in Virginia, District of Columbia and New Jersey

Page 5

NEE CEE LATIF Good Citizens — Start Boys Right — give them the proper perspective of life, show them their responsibility to society and give them an outlet for excess steam. Young Men Away From Home deprived of the companionship of mothers and wives, in strange cities, without regular associates, find the best substitute at Young Men’s Christian Association WHERE THEY FEEL AT HOME Men The following Cities and Towns have Colored Young Men’s Christian Associations : Alabama Indiana New Jersey Oklahoma BIRMINGHAM EVANSVILLE *ATLANTIC CITY TULSA MOBILE SOUTH BEND — CAMDEN Pennsylvania TUSCALOOSA *INDIANAPOLIS *MONTCLAIR y : *GARY NEWARK GERMANTOWN California ORANGE HARRISBURG ; lowa . *PHILADELPHIA *LOS ANGELES S MOINE PRINCETON *PITTSBURGH OAKLAND DES MOINES *PLAINFIELD SR WCET ey TRENTON Céad Kansas WILKES-BARRE *DENVER WICHITA i ee ks WILMERDING PUEBLO Kentucky *BROOKLYN Tennessee ROUSE *LOUISVILLE *BUFFALO *NASHVILLE m aia MINEOLA CHATTANOOGA Connecticut Louisiana ; *NEW YORK CITY 7 HARTFORD NEW ORLEANS ROCHESTER Al LAS Delaware Me UALTIMORE North Carolina ro eer WILMINGTON oor *ASHVILLE a Distri f lumbi Michigan GREENSBORO Virginia istrict of Columbia *DETROIT WINSTON-SALEM LYNCHBURG *WASHINGTON FLINT ‘ani NORFOLK ‘aie Georgia Mississippi Soiieieriaes bb RICHMOND "ATLANTA GREENVILLE “CLEVELAND ee ,AUGUSTA *VICKSBURG *COLUMBUS West Virginia ere Missouri “Tima waa Illinois *KANSAS CITY SPRINGFIELD , ; *CHICAGO ST. JOSEPH TOLEDO Wisconsin *EVANSTON *ST. LOUIS *These Y. M. C. A.’s have dormitories. *YOUNGSTOWN BELOIT January,

Page 6

MORE DENTISTS NEEDED Prepare now for Service and Great Financial Rewards DENTAL DEPARTMENT OF MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE IS READY To Train You. Write for Information to MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE NASHVILLE, TENN. HAMPTON INSTITUTE Hampton, Va. Offering courses leading to degree of Bachelor of Science in each of eight schools, and graduate courses in the summer school leading to the Master’s degree. THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE—Aims to develop teachers of agriculture, farm demonstration agents, and qualified rural leaders. THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Aims to fit young men and young women for business and teaching positions along a variety of specialized lines. 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 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 coslane exclusively. Graduate work for those qualified. SUILDING CONSTRUCTION—Aims to train skilled builders by instruction in building methods, field management, building materials, trade practice, structural design, and principles of architecture. THE ACADEMY—A standard four-year accredited high school preparing for college entrance. THE TRADE SCHOOL—Four year course on the high school level in each of twelve trades. George P. Phenix, Acting Principal The TUSKEGEE NORMAL and Hampton Institute, Va. .

—— INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE = Founded by Booker T. WASHINGTON * : a *

1S /"AD Offers Exceptional Opportunities to Negro Youth for Thorough Education in High School and College Courses and in Agriculture, Mechanical Industries and THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANI- CAL INDUSTRIES for, Boys com eames Carpentry iy Auto- ay Applied feincie. otography,, Printing, Machine Shop tice and Tailoring. THE WOMAN’S INDUSTRIES include Home Economics—Courses in Foods Clothing, Millinery, Applied Art, Launder- ing, Household Mana ment in addition to Home Crafts and Ladies’ Tailoring. THE AGRICULTURAL DEPART- MENT with 1850 acres of land offers a care four-year course in Second- ary Agriculture and a full four-year col- lege course in Advanced Agriculture to train young men and women as Farm onstration and Home Demonstration Agents, Teachers of Agriculture and as Scientific Farmers. TWO-YEAR COLLEGE COURSES are offered in Education for the training Robert R. Moton, Principal in Industries for Women.

Teachers in Elementary Schools, for Teachers of Mechanical Industries; in Business Practice; in Home Economics; and in Technical Arts. FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE Compass leading to the Bachelor of Science de are offered in Agriculture, in Home nomics, and in lucation. A. ANDREW MEMO- RIAL SSPITAL and Nurse Training School provides a three-year course in Nurse Training which coniilies its gradu- ates for registration in all southern states. A SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACH- ERS, of ten weeks, divided into two terms, beginning June ist and meeting the re- quirements of the Boards of Education of all southern states. Location Unsurpassed Information furnished upon application

William H. Carter, Treasurer TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALABAMA

FISK - For Particucars, Appress THE Dean FISK UNIVERSITY Nashville, Tenn. Wiley College MARSHALL, M. W. DOGAN, President H. J. MASON, Executive Secretary Wraditions, Standards ef the Finest Quality. tesehers.

Sell THE CRISIS in your community or recom- mend persons who have energy and the ability te represent us acceptably. For particulars write the Director of Agencies THE CRISIS, 68 Fifth Avenue New York City MORGAN COLLEGE John O. Spencer, Ph.D., LL.D., Presidend John W. Haywood, A.M., §.T.D., Dess LOCATION:—College town be tween North and South. COURSES—Semester credit tem. B.A., B.S., and B. Ed. grees. Advanced courses in Edu cation. Certificates for school teac RATING:—Accredited by the Asso- ciation of Colleges and Secon- dary Schools for the Middle States and Maryland,—by the State Board of Education of Maryland, —by boards of education in states,—by the University Sen- ate of the Methodist Episeopal Church. POLICY:—Co-educational. gs University trained SITE:—Eighty-five acres, beautiful scenery, athletic fields. —_ — Equipped and pervised. SUMMER aes. :—July 1-Au- gust 9, 192 DORMITORIES OPEN:—Sept. 328, REGISTRATION:—F reskh- man Week, ym 28rd-27th. Up per Classes, Sept. 26th, 27th. INFORMATION:—Address Edward N. Wit- som, Registrar, Morgan College, Baltimere,

Tue Crisis

a | f é : k i z EPPO MED

{—I

Page 7

ore RESET ER eR EE Ae 7 eT FERRIS THE CRISES REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. A Record of the Darker Races W. E. Burcuarpt Du Bass, Editor Volume 37, No. 1 Aaron Douglas. Contents for January, 1930 Whole No. 231 Page COVER. Drawing for the N. A. A. C. P. Benefit, New York. By | ee, ee Wr gt io sok oo 015008 sin, Siar bide vin. tie dice ae ee Kode d eee 5 FRONTISPIECE. White Lilacs. Drawing by Laura Wheeler Waring 8 WHITE LILACS. A story. By Edith L. Yancy...................- 9 EXPLOITATION OR CO-OPERATION. By W. C. Matney....... 11 THE N. A. A. C. P. BATTLE FRONT. Iilustrated.................. 13 BLACK RULERS OF WHITE FOLK. Illustrated.................. 14 TWO SOUTHERN COURT CASES. Illustrated.................... 16 ON ny 8 ete Sess pu cid gw des or5:e: pw Sv aa slaia Bad Reis wie 4s 18 THE BROWSING READER. Reviews by Frank C. Wells, S. Ralph onc dla Seats ae Eo deals na bide.b ae asa ae eecies 19 1 THE POET’S CORNER. Poems by Philip M. Harding, J. Alpheus | | Butler, George Reeves, Margaret E. Haughawout, Dorothy Tyler, | taco aig cd Scr iek (ae asel'e 6/81 pidie'b9 nin w.o.d°S Rasiviw mine wa emi 20 4 ALONG THE COLOR LINE. Illustrated .......................... 21 AEP EIEETE, TAIN Soc a biebe ck aicsc cela cde suvopadssclecwsds 26 We RN eS nn 27 soon as Congress was gone, “™ al 5 A President Hoover called the real rulers of the land together and asked the Merchants and Superpower owners, the Transportation chiefs and all hirers of Labor to let the country go on being prosperous. ‘They said they would if they were not bothered by politicians. Which proves that the people rule.— It’s a Red Devil and a China-blue sea that face the Amalgamated White Peacemakers; if China yields, Russia rules; if Russia yields, China will turn her attention to other white owners of railways, factories and similar conces- sions.—Out of natural Jtalian curios- ity, the King has gone to see a Pope.— To sweep the dirts, the ladies’ skirts are drabbling dainty rags.—The last French soldier is out of Ehrenbreit- stein, die Wacht am Rhein, and the leading daily remembers the outrages of American soldiers on men and wom- en. Preach it brother, we blacks of Georgia and Haiti know!—New York will spend a half billion this year to do 250 million dollars worth of work.— Seventy-five dead soldiers recently ar- rived from Russia. And by the bye what were they doing in Russia and when did the Russian-American war The Crisis is published monthly and copyrighted by the National As- olored People at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 15 cents a copy, $1.50 a year. Foreign subscriptions $1.75. The date of expiration of each subscription is printed on the wrapper. hen the subscription is due a blue renewal blank is enclosed. The address of a subscriber may be changed as often as desired, but both the old and sociation for the Advancement of C January, 1930 As the Crow Flies _———————— eee begin and end ?—Our idea of the best joke of the season is the New York Times explaining how the stock crash was evidence of the essential sound- ness of American business.—Hel] is not paved with Sin but it’s paved all right.—If the Exalted Conferees of the London Naval Conference keep ex- cepting subjects of discussion, the Con- ference will eventually be confined to the color of the paint on the new ships. —We deeply regret to learn that Mr. Hoover is not descended from the no- bility. This, so far as we can learn, is true of no other prominent man.— Germany has paid 2,000 million dol- lars indemnity for the War out of nearly 2,000 millions borrowed of America.—The United States lost 85 million dollars last year in running the Post Office while the munition makers gained 200 millions manufacturing gunboats and powder; which proves that the government can’t conduct business.—Commander Byrd paid a brief visit with friends at the South Tuomas J. CaLLtoway, Business Maneger The carry our forecast of the work to February Crisis. will be attempted by American Ne- 1930 for their final There will be one groes in emancipation. or two intimate life stories. A Cover by a new artist, and talk about Haiti. ——— —Judah Magnes is a brave man and true when he asks Zion for all men and not for one race; while England hav- ing promised sovereignty to both Jew and Arab is in her usual pickle of hypocrisy.—We don’t blame Mr. Stim- son for not directly answering Mr. Litvinoff: that note was unanswer- able-—The weary Tiger of France has earned his everlasting sleep—What we want to see is a little note from Mr. Stimson to Great Britain telling her to lay off on some of her little wars.— And tactful advice by France to the United States concerning Haiti—The Senate has again denied a seat to a Sen- tor because of fraud. Heflin, who holds a seat by greater fraud, voted against Vare. Blease, who was born in fraud, had the sense to vote for Vare. Hearken, dear Southerners, to the W. K. Mills of the Gods !—How easy it is to regulate wages and arrange industry and avert panics by vote of committees sitting in Washington, despite the ma- jestic and unalterable Laws of Supply and Demand. The committees, of course, must never be selected by popu- lar vote and William Green’s green labor must be dumb.—Tunney is try- ing not to be a mere pugilist and suc- ceeding indifferently.—The N. Y. Metropolitan Opera is looking for a Pole. He reports a good time by all. _ site in heaven. new address must be given and two weeks’ notice is necessary. Manw- scripts and drawings relating to colored people are deswed. They must be accompanied by return postage and while Tux Crisis uses every care it assumes no responsibility for their safety im transit. Entered as second class matter November 2, 1910, at the post office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March $3, 1879. ” 5

Page 8

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY TWO DEPARTMENTS:

The COLLEGE of Liberal Arts and Sciences — THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The Seminary offers a standard and practical three year course in preparation for the Miffistry with emphasis upon the problems of the modern pulpit and pastorate. New courses will be given in 1929-30 in RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. PsYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION. BEREAN SCHOOL Co-Educational Non-Sectarian TRADE SCHOOL, evening sessions only. DOMESTIC ART SCHOOL, day and even- img sessions. COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, day and evening sessions. MUSIC SCHOOL, day and evening sessions. COMMERCIAL TEACHER TRAINING (New), Enroll Now. Students over 14 years admitted So. College Avenue and North 19th Street PHILADELPHIA, PA. Matthew Anderson, Founder PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. VoIcE CULTURE AND EXPRESSION. Use OF THE BIBLE IN PREACHING. The degree of Master of Arts may be gained by advanced students during their theological courses. FOR INFORMATION ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY BRICK JUNIOR COLLEGE Under 8. of Magazine Verse for 1938.. 4.08 anthelegy BRAWLEY, ee J., Negro in Literature and Art.........+++ 2.00 anew HALLIE @& 3.80 uLLeOK RALPH W eu ° . sees & OULLEW. pase

of Maggie odté, NATHANIEL Folk Sengs of the Nogre...... 8.80 au we . &. 8. cone Primeegd once cee eccsccecesecsesee 208 skenmn eee a bbe ene cone eneeen ss: tmD eo-+ Whe Souls of Black Mc iccenkeasvude ' eoee OGTO ncn cnc ences rceseessnsresenee ° ° au - 1,1 Bes canenal 2.08 FAUSET, ARTHUR H. ons i piseenanseocenveatesesnnes PAUEET, J808ID ce (hiibeobnnepeneecnd 2.08 oe S meLbi Sod eeseeseceocoeseeeesess 2.50 PishE visiian. wrtnan RD cascvenesovécecsees 2 come ‘rer ABRs bbeeuensaeusse 2.50 FLEMING, WAL a i éii Whe ra wings Bank .......... 2.00 otllens. Pine LLY ee ts eaten LiZABETH TH LAY . Whe In OCétitemperary American 120 euseusnite. eiviti paper einbensianneses ey) al tale 2.00 RD, navwa cis >hbavensbavdnsacwesstesessonens 208 THE CRISIS, THE CRISIS and one year THE CRISIS and $4 worth of books as listed above for IEE 09054 s0snbevensndse 2.00 HILL, ‘LESLiE PINCKNEY - Tewunsalnt L’Ouverture ...........-+-s005 1.50 HUGHES, LANGSTON «ee Fine Clothes to the Jow ...........--+++ 2.00 coq WERRy BRD ccccccccccvcccccccccce rn EVA A. t JOHNSON, Sonatas 8., VILLARD, OSWALD “hoet Gains in American Civilisation... 3.00 JOHNSON, SaeneA D., utumn Love Cycle.........seeseeeee 1.50 souneen. JAMES WELDON American N POOtEY ...-ccrccccccecee Sanh of an Bx-Coleured Manz.. 3.00 ons "Rosk of American Neste Spirituals.. 3.58 -. The Becend Book ef American Negre MB cccccccccccccccccccocccccccees 3.50 es egre in Ameoriean Life............+++: 78 LAR » NELLA coco QUMMRMANG on nccccccccccccccccceccccces oe Locke, ALAIN . The New oo ee secsccccecssccccescsces 08 Sener eet eeeeeeeeeee Home Ps nocetocasntsescocectes 2.50 oc ccccecceccocseseccoccce 2.00 METFESSEL, MILTON phy in Felk Musie ....... 3.08 mictin. SARAH GERTRUDE - The Coming of the Lerd .........cese00. 2.50 - God’s Btepchildren .......ceceeseceeese 2.00 TON, R. R. t NNN 555 5b605e0%nb eases 2.50 7 ° HOWARD W., and JOHNSON, GUY -_ Ni and His Songs jegre Work a Day Songs................ 3.00 oviniaron, wy WHITE PERSE BR OMEN ccs ccccceccccccccccce 2.08 membership in N. A. A. C. P. ieee 3 JULIA WBCBR AYU ..wccceeccceesessenees 4.08 occcee nag Tb seasenvesesneséosvavee: OD Seariet Sister Mary .. . ; - ae PICKENS, oe eTiean Aesep ... 2.0 ‘neae Bonds . . iéteeceo eee PUCKETT, NEWBELL NiLee . Felk Beliefs ef the @ Rease 4.08 REUTER, E. B. American Raee Preblem...........-- 2.78 SELIGMANN, HERBERT The Negro Faces Ameries ...........--- 1.00 SEIGFRIED, “none omnes Of AZO 22... cc ccceeeneee 3.0 SHREINER, OLIVE From Man to Man ..........eeeeeessees 1a SMITH. it lina Ballads ....... ereTtiTy 8.06 etéineR: ar “DROWN North Carelina Chain Gang........ te STRIBLING, T. 8. Serceregt ocpseesdcnccescsecnseseveeens 2.0 $Sn0s sit ceveascceecses veneers 1a Negro m the Resenstruction of Vir- Dt Diawagembeeeitbheddeess seeceen nts 2.06 TOOMER, anaes PTE ci tc unsebheseebidertign ans seecine Lee VANDERCOOK, a. W. Bla Majesty pxlieeiahoaneue 2 WESLEY, c. J. Negre Laber im the United States....... ae WHITE, oe i. aneees Anthology of American Negre Verse... 2.00 Sat, WALTER . Fight aggot woonson, CARTER a. The History of the Negre Chareh .... Mind of the the Negro 1800-60 .. 24 = Negro im Our . ‘ani gro Orators and Their Orations........ 5.00 work. MONROE N. 4 Bibliegraphy ef the >» ph) anan. and Ameries ...... . 12.00

‘THE CRISIS MAGAZINE, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Ruelosed please find my check or money order for $...... im payment for items checked. Send to eeeeere eee eee een eeteeeeeeee

eet ere e eee ee eee eee eee eeeeees seeee eee ee eees Address

eset ewer eee eee eee eee eeeeeee THE

CRIsIs os REE TA AEE IS ERR ISA

Page 9

e86s e668 2 & & & @&

ESME~ My {oa EEN

You Can BEGIN THE STUDY OF SO- CIAL WORK THIS COMING FEBRUARY If You Have Had Two Years of College Work. The Atlanta School of Social Work Will Accept You To Begin In The Second Semester February 4, 1930 For A Course Which Leads To Good Paying Jobs For Trained Negroes In Social Work Training Is Given In Every Branch Of Tech- nical Social Work And In Addition Offers Special Preparation For The Special Problems Which Confront Social Workers In Negro Communities. For Further Information Address the Director Forrester B. Washington, A.M. 239 Auburn Avenue, Northeast Atlanta, Georgia COLORED PEOPLE’S OWN

(New) CHAIN STORE SYSTEM Independent Dealer's Positive Success. Self-Control. MERGER

For information write WILLIAM CRAMPTON 360-362 Broughton Avenue (Formerly Myrtle Ave.) BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY

Florida Normal and Collegiate Institute ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA (The Ancient City of Sunshine Lend)

Junior Hicu Srniozr Hica TEACHER TRAINING Junior CoLLece Courszs Pre-MEDICAL AND VOCATIONAL Coursxs

For further information addeess NATHAN W. COLLIER, Pres. VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Standard College Courses. Coordinated Women’s College with a Splendid New Dormitory. Unexcelled Divinity School. Graduates Are Equipped to Enter Upon a Definite Profession or to Continue in Advanced Study. For address further THE information PRESIDENT ee EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIEEEEEEEnee ET

MORRISTOWN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE *A School of Character” Co-Educational. Fully accredited High School, Normal and College. Strong Faculty. Modern equipped dormitories, Administration Building and new gymnasium. Large athletic field. anual training, auto mechanics, domestic arts, vocal, violin and instrumental music. Teacher training, state certificates and placement bureau. IDEALLY LOCATED &XPENSES MODERATE JUDSON S. HILL, D.D., President LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA AN “A” CLASS COLLEGE PRESENTS STRONG FACULTY MODERN EQUIPMENT CO-EDUCATIONAL Offers the Following Courses: THEOLOGICAL HichH ScHOoL LiperaL ARTS AND SCIENCES DoMEsTIC ARTS AND SCIENCES Music A School of Liberal Training with Distinct All Athletics Next Session September 18 For Information Address W. J. TRENT, President Religious Atmosphere.

SHAW UNIVERSITY Founded 1865 Devoted exclusively to College and Theological work. “A” class college having a prestige im Ne "ro education. Given graduate standing by ‘niversities of the North. With no high ool, increasing emphasis is placed upop vollege standards and the promotion of eol- lege spirit in scholarship and athletics. Degrees given: A.B., B.S., Th.B. and B.S. ta Home onomics. Special attention is given to the training ef teachers. Terms moderate. Send for eatalog. Asareen: 2 L. PEACOCK, Presi- feat, SHAW UNIVERSITY, RALEIGH, WORTH CAROLINA.

January, 1930 SEND FOR CATALOG Morristown, Tennessee

WANTED EVERYWHERE Seed Aste Mechanies, Slackemiths, Carpenters, Pooks ee — Stenegraphers, Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School DOWNINGTOWN, PA. (Usder the Supervision of the Pennsyl- sonia Department of Public Instruction.) SPECIALIZES ia tyaiming geed werkers and goed eitizems and offers te beys and girls ever thirteen years of age Healthy Climate Outside ef City Faeulty ef College-trained Teachers Junior and Senier High Seheel Courses Properly Supervised Athietic and Scola! Reereation Poo further information write J. H. N. WARING, JR. Principal

{ JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY (Fermerly 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-five acres of land, Twenty- two buildings. First class equipment. Large endowment. H. L. McCROREY, Presidest Charlotte, North Carolina

Index to Advertisers Allen University Atlanta School of Social Work, Inc. . 7 Petes UTRIVOPENG S555 cc cs Sunenaes 31 CNR “SNBOR ia ds Soate dc ae tems 6 Brick Junior College ............... 6 3urrell Memorial Hospital .......... 32 Cheyney Training School for Teachers 32 IMU RIVOTMIEG 528 och che oueeees 6 Colored Peoples Chain Store ........ 7 Crisis Christmas Suggestions ........ 6 Downington I. & A. School ........ 7 Pym iat. Na Le oo sidaeeies eicialaaheds 33 TIGA IVOUMIER, eaves e asa aciewioes 4 Florida N. & C. Institute ............ 7 Fiatton: IMS: ~.cii coins nkwsiesive “ Hartshorn Memorial College ........ ae NICU IGE is riche as eicewaregiee in’ 34 IONE CRG, os wercceir ace cktandnensions 34 Howard: Ussveraty: osc bcs caves 30 Johnson C. Smith University ........ 7 ROS Pie ONCOE to isc Senses ocak 31 Lincoln Secretarial School ......... 32 Eimer UMIWGPet ye)... ces eee cece eeees 6 Livingstone College <<... .cccescccnscs Z FROMED oe. PP tars ow ee cho de ene noks 33 Meharry Medical College .......... 4 Rec, PIG WROORO Raa s sc cweceeeeraas 32 Morehouse College ..............--- 31 REGEN COMO os os ecct ce SaSbwes 4 Morristown N. & I. College ........ 7 N.-A; ASC. P.. Xmas: Seals. s.:.... 31 National Negro Hymn ............. 33 Phillis Wheatley Association ....... 34 Public Speakers Society ............ 34 TRRISG OAPI a St ei icslane a inlc oreraergielewetares 33 StS MESEY SC SONOOL dc cece ea caet 32 St. Luke’s Club Dining Room ...... 34 Brae OPIVER MIEN Ss 5 sss Sib vic Ke dierdcos ex 7 SiMMONS LIMIVEFSIEYS Os oo ssc0cre canes 34 Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc. Inside Front Cover Stenographers’ Institute ............ 32 OPER S COME a asco srs ds bce 2 arere 31 SU EMNRN Qiree leet ba was oe ae wt aaa ke 34 Tuskegee N. & I. Institute ......... 4 Virginia Union. University .......... 7 Mme. C. J. Walker Mfg. Co., Inc. Back Cover Wiley Cofltee io Sa ae 4 Young Men’s Christian Associations.. 3 Y .M. C. A. Wabash Ave. Branch, CURCRRG. 5. a5 scion se phdae sd Saou es 34 In writing to any advertiser in this mag- azine you will confer a favor on the pub- lishers by mentioning THE Crisis. 7

Page 10

OT eRe WHITE LILACS. Drawing by Laura Wheeler Waring. “You needn't look so skeered, Honey. I was jus’ a-movin’ dis here chair closer to the winder, so's I could look at dem white li-locks!” 8 Tue Crisis eativiiaa Bhs Y close dem in ve real Y I de road hou: time real f’on here aol aint owi I'se k no lak. It —d 30's here thor han de pret iron win in | A Was jus’ took i my eigh Ma hov set whi out der mo: it, wor wh It

Page 11

sis = od ? e oe F t K aR Ae ate nS Sik SOOO ce nine A se OU needn’t look so skeered, honey. I was jus’ a-movin’ dis here chair closer to de winder, so’s I could look at dem white lilocks a-growin’ down dere in yo’ yard. Dey’s real pretty, honey— real petty wid de sun a-shinin’ on ’em. You is de sheriffs’ wife, aint vou? I done seed you goin’ by on dat ole road what leads pass Mister Rankins’ house. I done watched you many a time out o’ de kitchen winder. I’se real sorry, honey, I done disturbed you fiom yo’ work. ’Cause whilse I’se here, I ain’t a-meanin’ to be no trouble —vyou done fetched vo’ tattin’ wid you, aint you, honey? Dat’s ’cause you is gwi’ sit a piece wid me, aint you? I'se glad, honey. De good Lawd knows, I was gittin’ kinder lonesome lak. It be real comf’table up here, though, —dis nice mattin’ on de flo’, an’ de cot so’s I kin lay down on an’ rest, an’ dis here easy-chair. I reck’n now, you thought to cheer a body up a bit, hangin’ dese nice yaller curtains, wid de blue-birds on ’em. Dey’s real pretty, honey. Dey hides, too, dem iron bars de sheriff’s done put ’cross de winders. Dey sho’ do make it pleasant in here, wid de sun a-shinin’ thoo em. An’ dem white li-locks—now. I was jus’ lookin’ at ’em, honey. I was jus’ lookin’ at ’em. . . She was plumb took way wid ’em, honey—my Eugenie —plumb took ’way wid ’em. Dat was my baby—Eugenie—honey. She be eighteen her las’ birthday, which was in March, pass. . . . An’ when he seed how wild she was ’bout ’em, he up an’ set out a whole lot uv’em in de garden what he done make fur her. "Twas lak a bit o’ dem woods what’s out back o’ his place, honey,—dat gar- den,—wild lak wid honeysuckle vines mos’ nigh hidin’ dem stone walls roun’ it, an’ wid birch trees an’ yaller dog- wood trees an’ flowers a-growin’ evah which-aways, an’ dem white li-locks. It was kinder nice, honey,—dat garden. I ain’t nevah set foot in it though. An’ he guessed I was skeered on ’count o' dey mought be snakes in it. An’ he laugh, an’ he say, dey wasn’t none out dere, ’cause he done took a stick an’ prodded all roun’ an’ he aint nevah foun’ none. . . "Pears lak, at fust, he nevah thought nothing "bout it.—how- come I done shun de place, an’ done kept to my room, ’cept when I was in de kitchen. . . It wasn’t on ’count o’ no snakes, nuther, honey. .. . I done spoke to Eugenie "bout it, dat she ought’n to do it, dat we ought to Jan uary, 19030 White Lilacs A Story by EDITH L. YANCY go way. She wasn’t seein’ it her ole mother’s way, though. An’ seemed lak, I couldn’ bring mys’f to go ’way wid out her, honey... . Dey wasn’t no place fur me to go no ways. My pore Ellick done been dead three months, an’ me an’ Eugenie was stayin’ wid frien’s—dey done bu’nt up up ev-vy thing on de li’l plateau what we own, honey, whilse dey was huntin’ Ellick—when Mr. Rankin ax me to come an’ keep house fur him, lak I done fur his mother, befo’ him, an’ bring Eugenie wid me... . I done spoke bout it to Eugenie, honey. But she was’nt a-seein’ it her ole mother’s way,—dat dey was sin in it. I dunno—lI reck’n, I was’nt strict enough wid her. Seems lak I nevah could say much to my Eugenie, no ee Dey ain’t no-body evah knowed she was dere in dat ole house, honey. Aint no-body evah seed my Eugenie. He done fetched me an’ her here in one uv dem automobiles. We nevah knowed none uv de culled folks here in his town, honey. We be strangers here, me an’ my Eugenie. We nevah went no wheres—jus’ stayed on de place... . ’Peared lak, he done talked to Eugenie befo’ he ax me to come an’ wuk fur him. Dey ain’t no-body knowed she was dere. Dat’s howcome, honey, dey’s a- ‘cusin’ me fur what done happen to him. Dat’s howcome dey to fetch me heres... I done spoke to Eugenie, lak I say, honey. She was’nt thinkin’ ’bout nothin’ ’cept livin’ fur him, an’ bein’ happy, though. She was happy, honey—my Eugenie. She was happy, an’—him. I use to watch ’em in de evenin’ when dey’d be together in de garden. I use to watch ’em—him, always quiet lak, an’ her a-stoppin’ to smell de flowers, an’ put her arms, wid de gold bracelets, he done give her, on ’em, roun’ dem white li-locks—An’ wid de blossoms brushin’ *gin her face, an’ fallin’ off an’ gittin’ caught in her hair—I watched her cause she was so happy, honey . . so happy, an’ pretty, an’ wild lak—jus’ lak de garden he done make fur her. Den some how—way after de li- locks done gone an’ ’twas de fall o’ de year—’peared lak sometin’ done come betwixt ’em. He was real uneasy lak, den. An’ he was’nt inclined to talk much, nuther. An’ days when he done come home early, he stayed out dere in de garden.—all unhappy an’ desperate lak,—’twel ’twas dark, diggin’ ’mongst de flowers. An’ Eugenie, she was all de time in her room. Only wasn’t she staying dere, a-crying? I done seed she was’nt aimin’ to let on lak dey was sump’n wrong be-twixt ’em. An’ I open her do’ soft lak. She was’nt a-cryin’ though. . . only sittin’ in dat big chair in front uv de fire place, wid de light a-flickenin’ on her an’ her head layin’ back lak she was restin’ all de time restin’ herse’f—an’ him in de gar- den, unhappy an’ desperate lak. Den one day, when de snow done come, an’ de garden was white wid it, he come up dem stairs to her room, a- fetchin’ her a li’l birch twig wid one o’ dem moth c’coons on it. I was in my room wid de do’ open, honey, an’ I heerd her when she speak—her voice a- tremblin’ kinder sad an’ kinder happy, too. An’ she speak ’bout how, when it done come spring a gin, when de flow- ers’'d be bloomin’, an’ dem white li- locks ’d be out, de pretty moth a-layin’ close an’ warm inside o’ de c’coon, would free itse’f an‘ come out... . Den she fell a-cryin’. An’ I heerd him a talkin’—trying to comfort her. An’ I knowed Eugenie was a-needin’ me. I knowed I could nevah go ’way an’ leave her dere by herse’f.... I couldn’t make it out cl’ar, honey, ‘bout de wav she speak, an’ all. An’ I was a-tremblin’ an’ afeared. "Iwas lak de good Lawd done put a nudder cross on my shoulder’s fur me to bear an’ done put de trufe in my way wid it. Den I thought ’bout her pappy— I thought ’bout my pore Ellick. Den —I couldn’ listen, no mo; cause dey was somethin’ done commenced leapin’ up inside o’ me,—a tearin’ me to pieces. An’ when she done come to me wid it, honey, I coulddn’ hold in no mo’. She nevah say nothin’ at fust. though, *cause she knowed I was thinkin’ ’bout her pappy,—jus’ stood wid her head hangin’ down. . . Den—all o’ a sudden, she commenced cryin’ out fur me to stop, ‘cause she couldn’t stand me a- thinkin’ such things, an’ ’cause she wasn’t a-meanin’ to heap no mo’ trouble an’ werry on my head, an’ dat I couldn’ understand how it be wid her,—dat she couldn’t hold what’d been done to her pavpy, ’»in Mr. Rankin jus’ *cause it was his culla what done it. . . An’ den when Spring done come, an’ I seed her an’ him in de garden to- gether agin, an’ wid her so happy, I prayed de good Lawd to let her go on bein’ happy to let dat part o° dey sin 9 METIS Stat eh tee ie het osm

Page 12

what was hers, be on my head. "Cause 1 done suffered a lot a-ready anyways an’, I could bear it.... But He nevah seed fit to let my baby’s happiness go on, honey. When de flowers was all bloomin’ an’ de white li-locks done come—I was settin’ in her room a knittin’—dese ole han’s ain’t so quick lak dey once was—I was knittin’, an’ my Eugenie an’ him was at de winder a-lookin’ down at de garden. She was so happy, my Eugenie. . . . She was holdin’ out her han’ so’s de moth—it’d done come out o’ de c’coon, honey, an’ she was a holdin’ out her han’ wid it clingin’ to her fingers, so’s it could fly into de garden. An’ when it done got its strength, an’ gone off into de garden, she turned roun’ to him, an’ I seed she was’nt smilin’ no mo’... only looking sad lak, lak all her happiness done clean gone wid de moth into de garden .... An’ den she fell a-weepin’, wid him wid his arms roun’ her, a-trying to comfort her. . My Eugenie nevah smiled no mo’, honey. De good Lawd nevah seed fit to let her take up her happiness, agin. ... An’ de li’l one,—it went away lak de moth. . . . My baby nevah got to hold it long in her arms. ... “. n’ den —she went—too. .. When I seed she was gittin’ low— when I done done all I could fur her, she ax fur him to come, dat dey was sump’n she wanted to say to him, by hisse’f. I didn’ go way, honey. I stood out side my baby’s do’, ’cause I knowed she mought be goin’ any minute... . An’ when he come an’ fetched me, agin, I seed her propped up wid pil- lars, an’ wid her bes’ dress—it was made out o’ yaller silk, honey, an’ trim- med wid beads—an’ her slippers, wid de gold ’broidery wuk on ’em—layin’ on de foot uv her bed. She made me put ’em on her, honey, wid him he’pin’, ‘cause my ole han’s was a-shakin’ so.... Den layin’ dere, she make us burn up in de fire-place, ev’rything dat was hers. . . . Dey was a shawl she done wore out in de garden, when him an’ her was a-walkin’ dere an’ ’twas kinder cool. He pleaded wid her fur her to let him keep it, but she only looked at h#m sorrowful lak, an’ shook her head. . . . An’ he stood dere befo’ de fire- place wid his han’s behin’ him, an’ his head hangin’ down, watchin’ it burn, ’twel she commenced pleadin’ wid de Lawd dat day was nothin’ left o’ her sin but herse’f, an’, she was ready to OD, © ss She looked lak a pretty bride—my Eugenie—honey. Dat was why she wanted de silk dress on, an’ de slippers, so’s she mought look lak one, ‘cause she’d nevah been none on earth. An’ wid de big basket uv white li-locks, he 10) done cut an’ brung up out o’ de garden fur her to look at, standin’ at de head uv her bed, an’ de li’l one a-layin’ in de holler uv her arm—my baby looked lak a pretty bride, honey. An’ den all de afternoon wid me a- standin’ by her bed a lookin’ down at her an’ de li’l one, an’ a-listenin’ to de soun’ o’ his hammerin’ an’ sawin’, down dere in de cellar— I seed den honey, he was’nt aimin’ fur nobody to know ‘bout my Eugenie an’ de lil one. But I couldn’t go down dem stairs to him to hinder him. ..+1 couldn’ do nothin’. I couldn’ do nothin’ but stand dere at de foot o’ my baby’s bed, an’ look down at her an’ de li’l one. ... When he done come up agin to my Eugenie’s room, an’ done took her up oft’n her bed, an’ in his arms—her an’ de li’l one—she look lak he mought be jus’ carryin’ her, wid her li’l one down to de garden to set dere in de sunshine an’ look at de flowers, an’ dem white li-locks. Only—I knowed honey, she’d nevah open her eyes no mo’, an’ it done got dark in de garden. . It peared lak, honey he seed den how ’twas wid me. I ’spec’ it come to him den, too, how it had been wid me all along. ’Cause he drapped his head down, an’ he say dat she done make him promise to do it, when she done speak wid him, by hisse’f. . . . An’ den I couldn’ stand no mo’, honey, de things dat was leapin’ up in me fur me to say to him. But I couldn’ say nothin’, nuther, fur I couldn’ make ’em out, dey done all turned black in my head. I couldn’ make out nothin’ only, dat I done fell down on my knees ’cause my strength done left me, an’ dat my ears was full o’ de soun’ uv him a- walkin’ down dem stairs, wid my baby an’ her li’l one in his arms... . *Peared lak honey, he’d nevah git to de bottom uv dem stairs. . nevah git thoo carryin’ my baby an’ de 1i’l one, down .... an’ down... . an’ down.... An’ den, I heerd him a-hammerin’, a0... An den I couldn’ heer nothin’ but de soun’ uv de wind a-blowin’ thoo de trees out dere in de garden.... It done commenced gittin’ day out- side, honey, an’ a drizzlin’ rain done set in, when he come back up dem stairs to my Eugenie’s room. An’ he walked lak he was a fetchin’ her an’ de li’l one back, agin. But when he stood in de do’, I seed he was by hisse’f. An’ he act lak he nevah seed me. He stood dere a-clutchin’ de do’ wid both han’s lak he was afeared o’sump’n. Den bracin’ his han’s ’gin de wall, he walked roun’ to de big chair in front o’ de fire-place. An’ when he done come to it, he shrunk down in it an’ bowed his head in his han’s, I got up off o’ my knees den, honey. An’ when he heerd me git up, he reared his head up wild lak, an’ commenced shakin’ all ovah an’ mumblin’ sump’n —I couldn’ make it out—an’ twistin’ his han’s together ... . Den he riz up out o’ de chair, only he drap down on his knees befo’ it, lak his strength done gone from him. An’ den, all de time a-mumblin’ sump’n, only now it ’peared lak he was a moanin’, too, ’cause sump’n inside o’ him done start hurtin’ him, he drug hisse’f long side my Eugenie’s bed. An’ he took hold on de basket uv li- locks wid both his han’s, an’ turned to her bed, wid her an’ de li’l one gone, an’ commenced cryin’ out fur her to open her eyes, fur her to look at de white li-locks—lak she was still a-layin’ dere. "I'wasn’t long, though, fur he fell to mumblin’ agin—mumblin’ an’ cryin’, wid his head bowed down ’mongst dem li-locks, *twel it done come ovah him dat my baby couldn’ evah answer him, no mo’, couldn’ evah look at dem white li-locks, no mo’. An’ den, honey, he fell to tearin’ ‘em to pieces an’ to cursin’ de good Lawd ‘cause He done took Eugenie an’ de li’l one away . I seed den how twas wid him. An’ I got afeared. I knowed I couldn’ do nothin’ wid him by myse’f, so I run to fetch him he’p.... Honey, I wasn’t a-runnin’ ‘way when dey found me on dat ole road. I was jus’ a-goin’ to fetch him he’p. Only—I done got turned roun’ lak I'd nevah been on dat ole road befo’. I wasn’t a runnin’ away lak dem what foun’ me ‘lows I was ‘cause I done done sump’n to him. I ain’t nevah knowed nothin’ *bout conjurin’ folks, honey. No mo’n dem what ‘lows I done it. But ’cause dey found me a wanderin’ long dat ole road in de rain, an’ wid only my ole shawl an’ dis ole flannel wrapper on—’cause dey foun’ me dat a-way, an’ dey foun’ him a kneelin’ side her bed wid dem li-locks all torn up, an’ a-callin’ her name, an’ pleadin’ wid her, an’ dey ain’t nevah foun’ nothin’ what’d sho’ my Eugenie been a-living dere, too—dey ‘lows I done put all dat on him, an’ dat dey could’n a-been no-body in dat ole house ‘cept me an’ him... . But I nevah done nothin’ to him, honey... . I done suffered a lot, but it ain’t nevah make me want to harm no body... . An’ I been a-thinkin’, too, honey,— he must a-loved my Eugenie lak he'd love one o’ his own women kind, fur dem li-locks to turn him dat awav.... Dem growin’ down dere in yo’ yard —now. Dey’s real pretty, honey, wid de sun a-shinin’ on ’em real pretty—an’ cheerin’ lak. THE Crisis ' i & E op Mars! iss on Diet halle ane RAD Bs depe is p phys relat ity. cate the citie betw com: sens! dust folle 1. 2. ‘i in tl prof help —ar come less mair Ame capit little peop tries, amp! 4 Probl bp Page 18 A Marc} sion ¢

Page 13

VRS SRS 2S Bi coc RP ease ce BE N the December Crisis we published the first installment of this ar- ticlee Mr. Matney studied the re- stricted occupations of Negroes and discrimination in expenditure. He then made a brief study of Negro busi- ness and shows how it was handi- capped in competition with the chain store. He then turned to agriculture and concluded that the Negro was not holding his own there, asserting that Negro agricultural schools “have not solved and will not solve the prob- lem of Negro success on Agriculture.” He continues: Agriculture does not lead an in- dependent and isolated existence. It is part of a larger mechanism, both physical and pecuniary, which inter- relates all branches of economic activ- ity. The prosperity rests upon a deli- cate balance between those who live on the farms and those who live in the cities. It rests upon a delicate balance between transportation, manufacture, commerce and agriculture itself. The sensitive equilibrium of the great in- dustries may be considered under the following heads :** 1. The balance of farm income with general income. 2. The balance of farm accumula- tion with the accumulation of wealth. 3. The balance of population be- tween agriculture and industry. 4. The balance of production be- tween agriculture and industry. 5. The balance of farm prices with other prices. “Farming for white and black today in the United States is a failing, un- profitable business; and the efforts to help it—farm credits and farm relief, —are not for Negroes”.!® The real in- come of the farmer has normally been less than the real income of the re- maining industrial population.'* During the most favorable period in American agriculture, the average per capita income on the farm was only a little more than one-half that of the people engaged in other major indus- tries. In the worst years, as for ex- ample in 1920, the farm income is less —_—. “Lionel D. Edie, Problems, page 320. %Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, CRISIS, May, 1928, page 170. Ma American Economic Review Supplement, arch, 1923, page 137. Report of Joint Commis sion of Agriculture Inquiry, 1921, part 8, page 51. Economic Principles and January, 1930 Exploitation or Co-operation? By W. C. MATNEY George Foster Peabody writes of the first installment of this article in the December Crisis: “IT must also congratulate your readers and I hope the readers of many papers which will have the wisdom to quote or reprint the excellent article by W. C. Mat- ney, whose mentality intrigues me as I read this most worthwhile presentation.” than a third as much per capita as the income of other classes. For instance, it is found that if in the year 1913 the farmer had gone to work as a laborer, his average labor income would have been $444 instead of $328, as it was. If he had worked as a miner instead of as a farmer, he would have received $755 or about 70 per cent more than the income for his labor received on the farm.?7 Hence farm classes have never acquired riches from returns on their labor, because they have received on the average lower income than the workers in other occupations. The only income which the farmer has re- ceived resembling a profit has been the pure appreciation of his land value. The dreams of wealth held by the Negro agricultural school, and which it widely advertised, have been rudely shattered by the alternating inflation and deflation of land values, and by the changes in the general price level at the same time as the changes in farm prices have occurred. The future position of agriculture, and the position of Negro agriculture in particular, cannot be prognosticated with any degree of accuracy, since both are controlled by many unknown fu- ture conditions. The present farm aid is not for the Negro. Future prospects for the Ne- gro farmer, based on the past and pres- ent, are not encouraging. Position of the Negro Restated The present economic order may be sketched in a single picture: (1) the institution of private property, (2) free enterprise, (3) competition. The right to acquire, use and dispose of property is the strong incentive to pro- duce goods. Free enterprise allows each fellow to follow his own self- interest. The natural accompaniment 170. E. Baker, March, 1923 American Economic Review, of free enterprise is competition. In short, the economic order has as its basis, opportunity. Into this economic order we find the Negro first intro- duced as a slave and denied all rights. Today he is slave of the industrial and commercial order by virtue of the in- dustrial and commercial restrictions and denials imposed upon him. He lives in a competitive age but must not compete in a competitive market. In the meantime, the economic institu- tions remain the same with a steady output ef wrongs, distress, troubles and injuries. Reform Necessary It is evident that the Negro is suf- fering from conditions in the economic order over which he has no control. The question naturally arises, how can relief be obtained, or what is the way out? All problems of economic improve- ment are fundamentally two-sided; on one hand, they necessitate the altera- tion of institutions to better fit human nature; and on the other hand, they necessitate education of human nature to better fit institutions. The opinion of the writer is that the economic im- provement of the Negro requires eco- nomic adaptation between these two factors. The reform should not be merely a gift from society to a needy group, but an organization of oppor- tunity for self-achievement, and for race advancement by the creative effort of all members of the group. The re- form must reshape the economic order of the Negro and eliminate the insti- tutional difficulties under which he is now suffering. In other words, the re- form must give the Negro an economic order over which he can exercise con- trol as a free being in the economic order. This can only come through in- dustrial and commercial undertakings owned and controlled by the Negro. Requirements for Control O own and control industrial and commercial undertakings requires four basic factors: land, labor, capital and management. Land includes all natural resources,—crops, minerals, water, lumber. Land supplies the raw materials of production, and affords the opportunity for the extractive in- dustries. Labor includes labor of brain as well as labor of hand. The mental tasks are specialized, and per- formed by highly trained engineers, me- 11 Spas Is aA A ESIC ET A LST RP ten

Page 14

chanics, and executives. The manual tasks require obedience to orders and instructions worked out by manage- ment. Capital includes machinery, and all articles of value used for further production. Money is the productive agent. Management _ co-ordinates land, labor and capital into a going concern. Under the present industrial and commercial regime it is next to im- possible for the Negro to acquire the above factors in sufficient quantities to enable him to become an economic fac- tor in American competition. As has been stated, exploitation and restricted occupational opportunity is the weapon used on the Negro. This being true, the Negroes’ only real competition in business is with Negroes. Here, in re- cent years, he finds that large scale business is stepping in and sharing the Negro business to the detriment of the Negro competitors. The economic position of the Negro makes it impos- sible for him to meet the competition of the big business concerns. A Way Out for the Negro HE way out for the Negro is not by revolutionary methods but by evolution of his present economic or- der. He must build for himself an economic order that will enable him to be a power as a Negro race. This means an alteration of his present eco- nomic institutions to fit his defined needs, on the one hand, and on the other hand, a change in the point of view of the Negro to fit his changed economic institutions. Co-operative industrial and commer- cial enterprise is the basis on which the Negro can become an economic power. It is the method by which the Negro race can marshall its forces in the most effective manner for the good of the race. It is the method by which Negroes can get control of natural re- sources, produce on their own farms, do their own manufacturing, distribute through their own stores, have their own banks, and not be controlled by the prejudice of the white man’s eco- nomic order. It is the method that will give diversification in business and 4n industry. All Negroes are con- sumers, and all Negroes would be owners in the co-operative-economic or- der, owning and buying from them- selves, working thereby for themselves, promoting the welfare of the race. This would give the Negro financial, indus- trial, and economic activity that is im- possible otherwise. Co-operative Business Explained and Demonstrated a BUSINESS is mutual aid on a business basis. The members of a co-operative busi- 12 ness own the business, conduct it them- selves (through a Board of Directors), confine their patronage to the business, and receive the profit-returns from the business on the basis of their purchases. A group of people with a common in- terest get together and form a co-op- erative society. Each member takes out a share of stock in order to provide the capital with which to start the enter- prise. Each shareholder has one vote, regardless of the number of shares he has. A Board of Directors is elected te carry on the affairs of the group. Interest on capital stock is fixed at the current legal rate. Goods are sold the members for cash and at the current re- tail prices. Operating expenses are de- ducted, and a reserve fund for emer- gency is set aside. After this has been done, the remaining surplus-saving of the business is returned to the members in proportion to the purchases they have made with their co-operative so- ciety. Co-operative business is not a fanci- ful theory but a practical method of do- ing business for mutual aid ;—a meth- od employed by other exploited groups similarly situated like the Negro. For instance: In a _ certain town seven hundred people organized a co-operative society for the purpose of operating a co-operative store. Each person put in $10, making a capital of $7,000. They confined their purchases to their store, paid cur- rent prices and did a business among themselves amounting to $140,000 for the year. There was a net profit of $5,500. The average purchase of each member was $200. He received back $8. He had invested $10. That is 80 per cent return. Furthermore, these people had given employment to some of their own group and were controll- ing a business institution. Multiply these stores and other co-operative un- dertakings, and one can readily see how the Negroes as owners, consumers and producers can control a chain of co- operative enterprises from retailing all the way back to the natural resources. By applying certain methods in a small way, a small co-operative society is built. By uniting many co-operative societies, and using the same natural methods, a great co-operative society is evolved. By expanding into more and more fields the social structure is grad- ually changed into a co-bperative struc- ture. Extent of Co-operative Business The soundness of the co-operative movement has been demonstrated in Europe and America (36 countries of the world) by a stable and steady growth for three quarters of a cen- tury. It would be difficult to mention any useful business of kind of service not undertaken by co-operatives. Bulletin number 437 of the United States Bu- reau of Labor Statistics, gives $500,- 000,000 for annual sales for consumer co-operatives in 1925. This figure does not include agricultural co-op- eration. With the figures for agricul- ture added, the total co-operative busi- ness for 1925 is in excess of two bil- lion dollars. Kinds of Co-operative Business in United States Retail distributive stores are the most common co-operative enterprises in the United States. There are about 2,000 of these, with a total member- ship of about 750,000 and a total turn- over of about $100,000,000 a year. Co-operative insurance in the United States is found especially among farm- ers. It is highly successful. They carry insurance exceeding $6,000,000,- 000 on property valued at over $7- 000,000,000. This insurance is carried at one-half the rate charged by profit making companies. Milk distribution has been devel- oped successfully. The Franklin Co- operative Creamery Association, in Minneapolis, has 6,000 members and $3,500,000 worth of milk yearly. Co-operative bakeries have been highly successful. The Eastern States have 16 bakeries which use 60,000 bar- rels of flour a year. Co-operative housing has been highly successful in New York City and Brooklyn. Around five thousand fam- ilies are housed in true co-operatives in New York and Wisconsin. The property value runs into millions of dollars. Co-operative gasoline and oil stations are a recent development in the co- operative movement. A co-operative cafeteria in New York City, has five branches, 120 em- ployees, 2,000 members and _ serves 3,000 meals a day. The annual busi- ness is over $500,000. The Co-operative Central Exchange at Superior, Wisconsin, is a wholesale composed of sixty societies. This or- ganization conducts a school for the training of co-operative executives. The Central Wholesale of Nebraska distributes seeds, flour, feed, coal, gro- ceries, dry goods, clothing, hardware, machinery, and other goods. There are several small district wholesales. What shall we do about it? After further figures concerning co-operation abroad and a compari- son of private retail stores and co- operative stores, Mr. Matney will, in the February Crisis, conclude these articles by telling how co- operation can be established among American Negroes. THE Crisis

Page 15

ed CRISIS

IE PLEE TED

Be ie ee

i %

De THE N.A.A.C.P. BATTLE FRONT

Hon. H. H. Lehman, Lieutenant-Governor of New York WHEN CHAMPIONS PASS N the history of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Col- ored People, the year 1929 will be re- membered as one of heavy losses. The man who was its President from the very beginning, who assumed the office when it required courage to do so, passed peacefully away at the age of 85 vears. With the death of Moor- field Storey went the Association’s last link with that stormy time when the nation was shaking itself free of slavery. For, as everyone knows, Moor- field Storey was secretary during the troubled Reconstruction period to Senator Charles Sumner. That Mr. Storey was one of the most eminent lawyers in the nation, formerly a President of the American Bar Association, as well as of the bar associations in Boston and Massachu- setts, a governing officer of Harvard University, a leader in the movement for civil service reform, only made his stand for the rights of the American Negro the more dramatic. He added his own elements of drama by helping to win the famous Grandfather Clause case, by which this flagrant form of disfranchisement was outlawed by the United States Supreme Court. And the classic case on residential segrega- tion, Buchanan v. Warley, known as the Louisville Segregation case, by which cities and states are prohibited from establishing Negro ghettoes, was also argued and won by Mr. Storey before the Supreme Court. This same champion procured from the United States Supreme Court in the Arkansas Peonage riot cases, a de- January, 1 930

cision establishing that trials conducted in an atmosphere of mob domination do not constitute the due process of law required by the Constitution ; a decision which safeguards the legal rights of all citizens, black and white alike. The recital of victories and achieve- ments familiar to colored people throughout the country and to white people desirous of decent race relations and of justice between the races, makes all the more clear and vivid the loss which the Association has sustained. It is one which can hardly be made good. So too with the death of Louis Mar-

T. G. Nutter shall, member of the Association's Board of Directors and of its National Legal Committee, who gave unstint- ingly of the resources of a brilliant legal mind to the problems of the Asso- ciation. Mr. Marshall, in the last few years of his life, participated in those dramatic legal contests before the high- est courts in the land, where the citi- zenship status of millions of colored people were at stake. It needs only to name the victory in the Texas White Primary case, safeguarding the ballot of the Negro and of all minority groups, the struggle against residential segregation by covenant among prop- erty owners, the Richmond segregation case and the Virginia White Primary case, in all of which Mr. Marshall par- ticipated, to show how active and in- tense his interest in the Association's work was. Other champions besides Mr. Storey and Mr. Marshall, the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People has lost during the year. There me is Dr. Charles E. Bentley, of Chicago, one of the earliest supporters of the Association, a devoted member, who was always ready to be called upon in its service. He, too, contributed the prestige of renown in his profession. He was president for years of the Or- thodontic Society. And though he was a colored man, white patients flocked to his dental office to avail themselves of his skill. Last but not least in the list of va- cancies made by death on the N. A. A. C. P. Board this year, is that of Paul Kennaday. Mr. Kennaday had wide connections in practical affairs. He was one of the directing spirits in a press news service which served the world. Through his contacts as well as by reason of his loyalty to the aims of the Association, he was one of the main- stays whose passing leaves a sad gap. Despite these irreplaceable losses, the Association goes on. It goes on strengthened, if anything, by the thought that if the idea it represents, is vital enough to survive such losses, if it can attract to it new champions to carry on the work of the fallen leaders, then there is hope indeed for the future. And the Association is for- tunate indeed to be able to report new additions to its ranks, of names hon- orably known throughout the nation. At the moment of writing, four such (Will you please turn to page 31)

Mrs. Daisy Lampkin 13 sae <sihiaimibiat ia naa aieline aie eR ee ERIE eT ee

Page 16

Black Rulers HERE is a legend that colored men can not rule over white communities without disaster,—disas- ter brought by their own incompetence and by the supposedly natural dis- taste of white people for colored folk in authority. The United States of America is al- ways pointed out as peculiarly exempli- fying this situation. But like all gen- eralizations, the statement never was wholly true and is growing less and less true. There have been from earliest times Negroes occupying posi- tions of authority in America, some of them obvious and well-known posses- sors of Negro blood; others passing for white. At present, the number of American Negroes in official positions is large and growing. And this article indicates a few of them but by no means all. First and foremost, comes the Ne- gro member of Congress, Oscar De- Priest, from the First District of Illi- nois. .Mr. DePriest was preceeded in Congress by two Negro Senators, Hi- ram Revels, 1870-1871, and Blanche K. Bruce, 1875-1881. There were 21 colored members of Congress, who sat in various sessions from the 43rd to the 56th. With the defeat of George H. White of North Carolina, through the disfranchisement laws, there was a long hiatus until Mr. DePriest was elected in 1928. There are today fourteen or more Negro members of State Legislatures. Illinois leads with four, followed by Missouri with three and New York and Pennsylvania with two each. Sin- gle members sit in California, Ohio, West Virginia and New Jersey. IlIli- nois, in addition to her four members of the Lower House, has one colored State Senator, the only one in the United States. F, Q. Morton, Civil Service Commissioner, New York 14 Mrs. M. B. Martin, Member of School Board of White Folk The Honorable Oscar DePriest_ United States Congressman from Illinois American cities have numbers of colored officials. In New York, Chi- cago, Cleveland, there is one colored member of the Civil Service Commis- sion, a powerful body, having charge of most appointments to public office. In Chicago, there are fourteen or more Civil Service Cleveland Member Charter Cleveland Harry E. Davis, Commissioner, Commission assistant city counsels, attached to the various prosecuting bodies. There are two Negro Aldermen and two mem- bers of important State Commissions. In Philadelphia, there are three Assist- ant City Solicitors, and one Assistant District Attorney. Cleveland has four Albert B. George, Judge Municipal Court, Chicago THE CrisIs City Boa Yor Assi and G repr Cob of | and the Se and \ elect of E won re-e] ored so h \ was Cari was Mar Mar taug in ( uate Sche ter schor 192( Jani

Page 17

the are 1em- ons. sist- tant four “RISIS anette Aes EER is. F. E. Rivers, N. Y. City Councilmen and a member of the Board of Education. In New York City, there are several Assistant Corporation Counsels and two Aldermen. On the bench, the Negro is represented by Judge James Cobb of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, and Judge Albert B. George, in the City of Chicago. Some details concerning these and other office holders follow: Mrs. Mary B. Martin was elected to the Cleveland Board of Education, defeating a white woman who was running for re-election. She is the first col- ored person in Cleveland to be so honored. Mrs. Mary Brown Martin was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, fifty years ago. She was one of seven children. Mrs. Martin married Alexander H. Martin, a lawyer, and has taught school in the South and in Cleveland. She was grad- uated from the Central High School in 1900 and her daugh- ter graduated from this same school twenty-five years later. 1920, Mrs. Martin resumed teaching H. B. Gaines, Iil. January, 1930 Members of the Legislature P. B. Jackson, O. F. M. Roberts, Cal. in the public schools of Cleveland. State Senator, A. H. Roberts, Illinois The Martins have four children. three 1. FAW Va ran for membership on the Board of Education as an independent candidate. Her election is a re- markable occurrence and reveals the political power of the Ne- groes of Cleveland as no other political victory possibly could. In the City of Cleveland, four colored men, Claybourne George, L. O. Payne, Dr. L. N. Bundy and R. S. Brown have been elected to the City Council. In Buffalo, Jesse R. Taylor, has been elected to the City Council and is the first colored man to sit in that body. F. Leon Harris of Asbury Park has been elected one of the Coroners of Monmouth County, N. J. A. R. Johnson, the colored Mayor of Miles Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, was re- elected Mayor by 396 votes, to 238 for the next nearest can- didate. R. E. Black, now serving his second term as member of the City Council of Kimball, West Virginia, was born in 1892; educated in West Virginia and at Howard University, served in the of whom are in college. Mrs. Martin A. E. F., and is the proprietor of a E. King, Ill. W. A. Warfield, Til. L. A. Knox, Mo. 15

Page 18

R. E. Black Kimball, W. Va. drug store in Kimball. J. W. Moss, a member of the City Council of Kimball, West Virginia, is fifty-six years of age and was educated at Virginia State College and in Chi- cago. He is Principal of the first Ne- gro school to be admitted to the North Central Association. He will receive his degree of M. A. at Ohio State Uni- versity next summer. The highest elective position in Kan- sas held by a colored man was City Treasurer of Topeka. John Wright was elected to this position several times, In Wilmington, Delaware, there are two colored members of the City Council, one member of the Board of Health, and one member of the Board of Education. William E. King, member of the House of Representatives of Illinois, was born in Louisiana forty-three years ago, and did not learn to read and write until he was sixteen. He was admitted to the Bar in 1916; acted as Cor- poration Council of the City of Chicago 1919- 23, Assistant State Attor- ney of Cook County from 1923 to 1925, and has served in the Legislature since 1925. Robert R. Jackson was born in Chicago and was elected first to the legis- lature and then alderman and has held that position ever since. Louis Ander- Kimball, W. Va. Dr. F. S. Hargrave, Member of New Jersey Legislature Members of City Councils J. W. Moss New York son is also an alderman of Chicago. T. Edward Hill of Keystone, West Virginia, is the only Negro member of the West Virginia Legislature at present. Perry B. Jackson is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He was born in Ohio in 1896, and edu- cated at Western Reserve University ; received his A. B. in 1919, magna cum laude and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Law School in 1922, and has been practic- ing since. In 1928, he was elected to the Ohio Legislature from Cuyahoga County, and is the only colored mem- ber. He is a member of the Cleveland City Club. Missouri has three colored members of the Legislature; Walthall Moore of St. Louis, G. M. Allen of St. Louis, and L. A. Knox of Kansas City. L. A. Knox was born and educated Council, J. C. Hawkins Rev. R. S. Brown, Member City Cleveland I. R. Moore New York in Virginia and at Howard Univer- sity. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and is attorney for the local N. A. A. C. P. and the Masons. G. M. Allen was born in Tennessee, 1890; was ad- mitted to the Bar in 1920; he was elected to the General Assembly in 1928. William J. Warfield is a member of the House of Representatives of IIli- nois. He was born in Chicago in 1883; educated in the public schools, and served as Court Bailiff from 1906- 12. He was elected to the Legisla- ture in 1928. During the war, he was First Lieutenant in the 370th Infantry, and received the French Croix de Guerre and the American Distin- guished Service Cross. H. B. Gaines, member of the House of Representatives of the State of IIli- nois, was born in Kentucky and edu- cated in Chicago. While a student, he became journeyman plasterer and afterward contractor. He was then admitted to the Bar, and in 1925, was appointed Assistant State Attorney. In 1928, he was elected to the Illinois Legislature. He is married and has two children, Russell S. Brown is a member of the City Coun- cil of the City of Cleve- land and Pastor of the Mount Zion Congrega- tional Church. He was (Will you please turn to page 34) Two Southern Court Cases T is notorious that Negroes obtain justice in Southern courts with great difficulty, particulaily if one of the parties is white. But the following cases show that a change is coming, and that persistent determination, legal talent and a just cause are beginning 16 to have a chance, even in Georgia and South Carolina. Readers of THE Crisis may remem- ber that in our issue of August, 1927, we recited the case of Dr. C. A. Spence and his wife in Atlanta, Georgia. Briefly, the facts were as follows: Dr. Spence is a dentist, and his wife a pharmacist. They were riding on a street car, when a dispute arose be- tween the conductor and a colored pas- senger concerning transfer. Suddenly, the car was stopped, and the conductor velled: “Every damn Nigger get off!” THE Crisis ES HeN All c and | emer and 1 his w Whe first restec ored dent N.A in th case Cour seven wite disor M woul not t the ; stron couns white into phe SITES 5. Janu

Page 19

Dr. C. A. Spence All of the Negroes, except Dr. Spence and his wife, rushed out, and as they emerged, were beaten by the employees and white bystanders. Dr. Spence and his wife remained quietly in their seats. When they refused to move, they were first attacked and beaten, and then ar- rested. The Spences secured two col- ored attorneys, A. T. Walden, Presi- dent of the Atlanta Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., and a former Captain in the A. E. F., and A. W. Ricks. The case was remanded to the Superior Court from the Recorder’s Court, and seven months later, Dr. Spence and his wite were acquitted of the charge of disorderly conduct! Most colored people in the South would have been glad to stop here; but not the Spences. They not only sued the street car company, but against strong advice, retained their colored counsel. The colored firm secured a white firm to assist them, and went into court. On Wednesday, October Ben Bess January, 1930 23, three years after the original argu- ment, and after a three-day trial be- fore ex-Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, a verdict of $1,500 in favor of Dr. Spence and his wife, was handed down by the court. Dr. C. A. Spence is a British subject, a native of Jamaica, and a graduate in dentistry of Howard University. He has been practicing in Atlanta since September, 1925. His wife was born and educated at Cor- dele, Georgia, and is a graduate of Meharry. The other case is the celebrated one of Ben Bess, in South Carolina. Ben Bess owned a large farm and one of his tenants was a white family, named Collins. Bess was accused of having raped the wife, Maude Collins, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for thirty years, in 1915. In the spring of 1928, Maude Col- lins confessed that she had lied in her testimony against Ben Bess. The case aroused widespread interest and on recommendation of the State Solicitor, the Governor suspended the sentence of Bess during good behavior, and he was released from the penitentiary on May 4th. On May 12th, he was given an unconditional pardon. Meantime, the white people of Flor- ence were mad and busy, and threat- ened to indict Maude Collins for per- jury. Mrs. Collins immediately de- clared that she had only intended to say that she “forgave” Bess and that as a matter of fact he was guilty. On June 21, the Governor suggested that Bess re-enter the penitentiary for his own security, but he was not allowed to depart when he wanted to. In July, the intrepid colored attor- ney, N. J. Frederick, who rendered such splendid and self-sacrificing ser- vice in the case of the lynching of the Lowman family, instituted habeus corpus proceedings to have Bess freed. Two days before the return of the writ, the Governor revoked the par- don of Bess, on the ground that it was obtained by fraud and misinformation. The case came up August 23rd _be- fore Judge Townsend. He undertook to investigate and pass on the question of fraud and misinformation, but the attorney contended that he had no right to consider this matter, since Bess had been pardoned and a pardon could not be revoked. Nevertheless, the Judge remanded Bess to the peni- tentiary and ordered the Master in Equity for Richland County to take testimony on the question of fraud and to report. The Master found that no fraud had been perpetrated and that while Mrs. Collins may not have under- stood the full purport of the affidavit, no unfair advantage had been taken of her in the transaction, and that she had Mrs. D. A. Spence not repudiated her statement until threats of prosecution had been brought against her. The Attorney General of the state filed exceptions and on August 23rd, the Judge ruled that notwithstanding the Master’s findings, that fraud had been practiced in the transaction and that because of the fraud the pardon was void. The prisoner, therefore, would have to be sent back to the penitentiary. Appeal was made to the Supreme Court, and argued November 12, 1928. No decision was rendered, but on October 12, 1929, in an en banc session of all the Circuit Judges with the Supreme Court, a re-argument was made, with the result that the judges agreed in reversing the lower court and decided by a vote of nine to seven that the revocation of the pardon was il- legal, and that Bess must be freed. On October 15, 1929, Bess was discharged from the penitentiary and left the same day for Pennsylvania. N. J. Fredericks ieee ase i Nelda Mra tii 2 din id astigmatic tren hic en nenahC ah en nats dase Se eel

Page 20

Gt GRAPHIC description of the proceedings at the Palace of Jus- tice states that on April 22, 1929, the day of the trial of the well-known and militant Nationalist editors, George Petit and the youthful Jacques Rou- main,—twenty-one years of age,—the Palace was surrounded by military forces under the command of Ameri- can Marine officers, the troops being distributed even along the neighboring streets. Within the court itself U. 5S. officers were standing armed with re- volvers and filled cartridge belts. Among the Marine officers were Major Murray, Chief of Police, Cap- tain Shafter, Assistant Chief and Lieu- tenants Leveque, Steele, Usher and Detro. At each window of the courtroom two Haitian constables were on guard, and immediately behind the Judge an American officer Belton by name and a Frenchman called Bonté were sta- tioned. Bonté is brutality personified and generally supposed to be a former Frenchconvict. He is in charge of the Haitian Secret Service, a man of mys- tery, mysteriously landed in Haiti. When the two young Nationalists were escorted to the Court Room prac- tically all the seats were already occu- pied by government employees and spies. Lawyers were denied the cus- tomary reservations and as the Judge, a puppet of President Borno and Gen- 1? In Haiti This article was written before the recent revolt in Haiti. It illus- trates the “Freedom of the Press” under American military tyrants. When will the Kellogg Pact reach Haiti? We appeal to Mr. Litvinoff. eral Russell, had ordered that no one could stand, other visitors were forced to leave the room. It is unnecessary to say that the government and the American authorities were acting in vicious violation of our Penal Code procedure and of Article 96 of the Constitution which provide in the matter of Press Offenses, that the hear- ings must be open to the public and this without any restrictions whatso- ever. A few minutes after ten o'clock the trial began. It was so impressive that the spies and government employees corralled there for the added purpose of interrupting the statements of the accused, remained silent before the vigorous eloquence of young Roumain, explaining his reasons for having re- ferred to Borno as a traitor to Haiti and a tool of American Imperialism. At the conclusion of the trial, some lawyers and the sister of young Rou- main arose to tender their congratula- tions to Monsieur Frech Chatelain, of The President's Palace, Port-au-Prince. counsel for the defense, for his magnifi- cent address in behalf of these two Nationalist editors. As Roumain, in turn, was extending his arms to greet his sister he was seized by the Ameri- can Lieutenant Belton. A_hand-to- hand encounter between the two men ensued during which the brute Bonte attempted to shoot Roumain with his revolver and was prevented only by the intervention of one of the lawyers, M. Hermar Maletrandre. Then Bonte, not to be denied, inflicted with a club a severe wound on the head of Rou- main, blood being spattered to within a few feet of the Judge’s seat, without regard for the sanctity of the Court or of Haitian justice. Instead of being protected by the court an accused, submitting to trial, is assaulted by a spy. Those who believing he was being murdered came to the rescue of Rou- main were beaten with clubs by the Haitian constables under command of American officers. Roumain was hur- ried to the City Hospital and subse- quently returned to the prison in which he and Petit had already, preceding the trial, been confined for five months. Their paper, Le Petit Impartial, has been suppressed. They were con- demned and sentenced each to one year in the Haitian Bastile, and each to a fine of one thousand dollars, and in (Will you please turn to page 32) THE Crisis ie asa es “=,

Page 21

i THE BROWSING READER WHO WILL WRITE THE OTHER SIDE? ISTENERS-IN to the Demo- cratic National Convention at Houston last year will remember the staccato and partisan rhetoric with which the temporary Chairman, Mr. Claude G. Bowers, Editor of the New York Evening W orld, opened the pro- ceedings. Mr. Bowers has now pro- duced an equally staccato and partisan history of the Reconstruction period, which he calls ‘“The Tragic Era’. It has been highly praised as a “well- documented” study based on indus- trious research, and Mr. Bowers’ pre- conceived conclusions have been ac- cepted by some so-called “reviewers” as demonstrated proof after the man- ner of a Euclidean proposition. These conclusions—I state them in my own, not the author’s words—are, briefly, that the Southern states were cruelly abused by Congress and the carpetbag governments that Congress supported; that the plan of President Johnson was a righteous one; that the attempts of one Southern state after another to enforce vagabondage laws that would have set up a condition of peonage scarcely distinguishable from the slavery it had taken four bloody years to overthrow were justified ; that unrestricted Negro suffrage was an outrage; that any kind of equality— political, legal, social—between the two races was properly fought to the bitter end; that the Southerners were patient under persecution till patience ceased to be a virtue; that reports in Democratic newspapers of those days of misdeeds by Negroes were truthful and accurate while reports in Repub- lican papers of abuse of Negroes by whites were inventions or grossly ex- aggerated; that the leaders in the North of the fight to make abolition real were either insincere and crooked or were crazed by fanaticism while their opponents were patriots and statesmen all. Even the Ku-Klux Klan is applauded, though Mr. Bow- ers must still smart from the remem- brance of what that order, resurrected but unchanged in spirit, did for the defeat of his own Presidential candi- date one year ago. The “historian’s” imposing list of sources cannot conceal the fact which he himself makes clear in his footnote references that his book is the product mainly of diligent January, 1930 search in old files of the copperhead New York Herald and the partisan New York World. The Bowers book licks the hands that smote Alfred Smith in 1928, and as a Democrat and a Smith man who believes that until the Democratic party dares to cut loose from the burden of Southern Bourbonism that has crippled it so long and to demand fair play for na- tive colored Americans as well as for foreign-born whites and their imme- diate descendants, it will contrive to meet deserved disaster, I protest against the author’s implications. Who will write a clear, impartial history, free from passion and race bias, of Reconstruction and the Negro’s part in it? Is there not here a worthy task for an American historian of African ancestry? Or, if this be ask- ing too much, who will write the Ne- gro’s side of the story written by Mr. Bowers from the viewpoint of the Negro’s despisers? Mr. Bowers’ im- plicit thesis is that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in their rela- tion to suffrage and human equality are wrong. In rebuttal let the explicit thesis be that they are everlastingly right and that the white South never did a worse thing for herself than when, with the connivance of both political parties, she attacked and scuttled them. Mr. Bowers repeats ad nauseam that the former slaveholders understood the Negro best and were his best friends. In rebuttal let it be shown that they understood him worst and—with all due praise for such be- nevolence as they extended to the ser- vile Negro—that they were (and their spiritual descendants are) the worst enemies of the Negro struggling to- ward manliness and equality with his fellows. FrANK C. WELLs. BURSTING BONDS URSTING BONDS is an auto- biography I would like to put in the hands of every boy and girl in our country. Mr. Pickens writes with simplicity and directness of his struggles as a boy against the worst handicaps any human being can face:. race prejudice, illiteracy, poverty, and lack of opportunity. Over these seem- ingly insurmountable obstacles to free- dom, this Negro boy climbs to heights of attainment that take him from a wretched share-farm cabin in Arkan- a sas to Phi Beta Kappa honors and prize orator at Yale. Reading this story puts backbone into one’s vertebrae, enlarges the finer sympathies of the soul, increases hope in the goodness of men, and deepens the longing for that day when all- un- privileged boys and girls, especially those denied common justice, may come to their own. Dealing, as Mr. Pickens is forced to in his life story, with the problem of race prejudice, he is remarkably free from bitterness. Every man and wo- man interested in bettering race re- lations between the white and colored races of our country, will find inspira- tion in these pages; every father and mother hoping for their children as- pirations to high ideals and friendly attitudes, will find time well-spent reading this book in the family circle. My own children were thrilled by this story, while it proved a window through which they were enabled to see and understand the heart-throbs of thousands of boys and girls not of their race but of their common humanity, heirs with them of American citizen- ship in this great hour. There is no field in American life today, where religion has so utterly failed to create the spirit of brother- hood and understanding as in this realm of race-relations. Every church in the land should see to it that their young people are encouraged to read this book. If the religion of Jesus can- not lead us out of our miserable preju- dices, based solely on color and pride of race, its great Founder will have failed so far as American Christianity is concerned. S. RALPH Hartow, Professor of Religion and Biblical Literature, Smith College, North- ampton, Massachusetts. FRENCH BOOK ON THE U.S. 4. Franck L. Schoell. U.S.4. du Coté des blancs et du coté des Paris, Champion, 1929. ITHIN the last few years sev- eral excellent studies of the United States have come from French pens, among them the volume by An- dré Siegfried and Charles Cestre. The author of this new volume is a former professor of French of the University of Chicago, Tulane University and (Will you please turn to page 32) 4 NEW noirs. 19

Page 22

FS a THE POETS CORNER Bg From the Dark By PHILIP M. HARDING Ai night I called you. the night I looked for you; but the wan sprinkled light Of stars was all I saw—and linking trees And dogwood blossoms twisting in the breeze. Fevered all All that I heard were cries of hidden things, And the loose beating of Death’s scrawny wings Behind the moon; these things were all I heard— Never the sound of footsteps or a word. Long hours I watched. Long hours I called your name Into the night’s suspended purple flame Yet all my cries fell through the air to bring . The worse-than-silence of their echoing. These Things I Love By J. ALPHEUS BUTLER A GRACEFUL palm tree over the bay, The vitreous blue-tint of the gulf shore calm. Miles of road winding down the hidden way; Gentle lips psalm. A shaded alcove near the singing stream; Vagaries in August; sturdy trees; Galleons in summer clouds which yet seem Ready for a voyage upon celestial seas. Tall grasses; garden paths; banjo tunes at dark; Rich cadences of a young girl’s song; Mating cries at morning, from lark to lark; Melodies which linger in the soul all day long. A square or so of land whereon to grow Stronger, finer, wiser. These things I YOve and know. bending at evening murmuring a Ethiopians By GEORGE REEVES yas Solomon was over-wifed who roused his lyricism? Who was the gorgeous one who knifed his vaunted skepticism ? When Jeremiah was in jail because of base intriguing, who was the man who gave the bail and urged the king’s reneging? 20 Who was the burden-sharing soul that pitied the Messiah when men were under mob control and ruled by Satan’s fire? Who was it in a chariot swung low en route to Gaza that took the Cross, to carry it to realms of great Candace? Oh! Ethiopians they were, praised be their holy lives! And what excitement they will stir when Judgment Day arrives! Unmasked By : MARGARET E. HAUGHAWOLUT HE keen sharp edge of some despair would pierce His every word my brought; Some hot relentless hate of life; a fierce And breathless horror of some bond that caught And held him fixed to which Were now (though once perhaps a gold- en tie) Abhorrent shackles . niche Above the lake we talked and then passed by. I can’t recall his face; but do the shame I felt at having seen his heart made bare Because, like God, I gave no answer, came No nearer, did not listen much nor care. . Does this hot shame sweep God when through barrage He sees my bared heart, stripped of camouflage ? casual question circumstances . Sitting in the POEMS By DOROTHY TYLER Carrying Cane in Barbados O it was I saw them: In the field The sun bent all its fiery rays to yield The sugar cane. They love the sun. these tall And splendid black ones, free of limb. When all The year is sun they laugh—what needs it more? Pointed of breast these women, all their lore Memory of song and sun—the sun so close To those who carry cane in Barbados. Octoroon Girl Among Anglo- Saxons ITHELY you walk warm yellow light That autumn brings; lithely and all alone. through this a Perhaps young Eve walked in the garden s0-= She was the only woman in the world. Mostly the cold white, silent North is there, But in your brown eyes broods the great South sun And withers us, and you are not as we. How beauty goes afield to seek her ends! Who else could touch old fire to ice as old, And bring forth this new fire? Upon Hearing Roland Hayes Sing WONDER if he saw them there— The faces, black among the fair: Did he say, I'll sing to these And let the white think as they please? Did he say, I’ll sing of grief, Of tenderness and black belief? He sang, and though he sang to those He sang to us. Of what old woes Did he not sing, of what new spring, And love, that new, loves everything. Black Love By BEATRICE ROBINSON Is was the “big town” sheik When she first came. Back home; there hadn’t been a soul Like Jim. When he kissed her—it thrilled. She felt funny when people gazed At her and Jim; But he was fair. Let them stare. Hadn’t he asked her to marry him? Three years had passed; Jim had lost his job, And there were three children, Twins and Teena-baby. So when Jim took sick, She had to take in more washing. Sometimes until after midnight— She ironed. But she still loved Jim... . Even tho’ he got drunk sometimes. And then the other baby came, But Jim was working At a foundry. So things were easier, Less washing to do;... until... One day she got a note. . Jim was dead. An accident at the foundry. They sent his body home. Years had passed since then. The twins and Teena-baby worked. She didn’t mind living. . . . She had a big son— Just like Jim. THE Crisis sae a eee STE h oes fa gS f ‘io a oe @¢ fere disc in ( be mit! q fror new He Stat q the Uni reti 30 B. | offic at | q has lege reql ¢ Hu Cor tion Hu nes: Lay chu mal ser\ in | 190 Etic the and the Gu: of | an gen We Ap1 ence by 1 Stat tobr of 1 Fur schc late 4g | Jan

Page 23

ITT ee eee 3 x i 6 EUROPE AND AMERICA @ The Society of Friends held a Con- ference November 27 in London to discover what color prejudice exists in Great Britain and how it can best be removed. An _ Inter-racial Com- mittee was appointed. @ Alcide Delmont, colored Deputy from Martinique, is a member of the new French Cabinet under Tardieu. He is serving as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. @ Lieutenant-Colonel John E. Green, the ranking Negro officer in the United States Regular Army, has been retired on his own application after 30 years’ service. Lieutenant-Colonet B. O. Davis, now the ranking colored officer, is Professor of Military Science at Wilberforce. @ The American Medical Association has recognized twenty-five Negro col- leges in Class One for fulfilling its requirements. @ The Honorable William Hunt has been made Consul in Portugal. He will be sta- tioned in the Azores Islands. Mr. Hunt was born in Nashville, Ten- nessee, in 1869. He was educated at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massa- chusetts, and Williams College. He married Miss Ida Gibbs in 1904. He served as clerk, vice-consul and consul in Madagascar from 1898-1906. From 1906 to 1927, he was consul at St. Etienne, France, where he was by far the most popular foreigner in the city, and was especially prominent during the war. In 1927, he was sent to Guadeloupe. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Internaticnal Rotary Club and a man of wide acquaintanceships and genial character. Henry United States THE EAST @ National Negro Public Health Week will be observed March 30 to April 6, 1930. A preliminary confer- ence concerning the matter was called by the Surgeon-General of the United States Public Health Service, last Oc- tober. It was attended by a number of white and colored experts. @ The work of the John F. Slater Fund in encouraging county training schools is strikingly illustrated by the latest figures. In 1912, there were 4 such schools, with 20 teachers, and 77 high school pupils. In 1928, there January, 1930 were 328 such schools, with 2,379 teachers, and 14,092 pupils in high school grades. During the same period, salaries have increased from $3,344 to $1,269,228. Of this latter sum, the Slater Board has contributed in 1928 $100,675 and the General Education Board, $45,164. The rest came from public funds. @ The forty-five thousand striking dressmakers of New York City have invited the four thousand Negro dress- makers to confer with them and to join their union. Only a few hundred Negroes now belong to the Union and most Negroes receive $15 a week in- stead of the $40, which is the scale in the Union shops. ~ Pa ALONG THE COLOR LINE | De @ The Harlem League of the Greater New York Federation of Churches has been organized. It is studying con- ditions and finds that wages are too low, health bad, and the proportion of arrests by the police high. On the other hand, some of the _ largest churches in New York are located in Harlem and there are many welfare agencies. q The Otilla M. Beha Junior High School, Number 60, in Manhattan, New York City, has as vice-president of the general student body, Mattie Peebles, a colored girl. @ In York, Pennsylvania, an inter- racial banquet has been held in the Mrs. J. N. Scott, page 24

Page 24

The Father African M. E. Zion Church. Dr. George W. Bowles, President of the Inter-racial Committee presided and among the guests were the Mayor of the City, the President of the School Board, the Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., the President of the Kiwanis Club, and many distinguished citizens. q@ W. A. Tooks, a colored man of Philadelphia, began to manufacture coffins in 1921, with a capital of $350. He has now property valued at $50,- 000, employs seven men, and manu- factures 2,100 caskets annually, using more than four carloads of lumber. q W. H. Phillips, a colored con- tractor of Charlotte, North Carolina, has secured the contract for the brick, tile and stone work on the medical and surgical building at St. Elizabeths’ Hospital, Washington, D. C. @ At the State Conference of the W. C. T. U., New Jersey, Mrs. Gertrude W. Cannon, an extension worker, was awarded the prize for an address on how to overcome the efforts of groups organized to overthrow the 18th Amendment. @ The effort of Morgan College to raise funds has resulted in $125,627 being collected from colored people and $433,583 from educational funds, the State of Maryland and white friends. With the money collected, the debt has been paid, Baldwin Hall has been built, a water system installed, and a new Science Hall begun. @ Lincoln University has an enroll- ment of 350 students. The largest in her history. A new dormitory to cost $150,000 is needed. The General Education Board has appropriated $50,000. The Carnegie Corporation of New York has donated $25,000 for the purchase of new books for the library. @ John Wanamaker, Jr., announces a Third Contest in Musical Composi- tion for Negro composers. There will be four sets of prizes: First, for a song; the second, for instrumental dance music; the third, for arrangements of 99 The DeJoie Family of New Orleans, page 24 Daughter The Mother The Eldest Negro spirituals; and the fourth, for choral work with band accompaniment. The prizes in the first Three Classes are $150 First Prize, and $100 for the Second Prize. In the Fourth Class, there is one prize of $250. @ The Allied Art Center of Boston under Maud Cuney Hare has pre- sented John F. Matheus’ Haitian folk play, “Tambour”, with _ incidental music by Clarence Cameron White. THE SOUTH EAST @ Hampton Institute Extension De- partment will conduct a fourth Euro- pean tour next summer, at a cost to vary from $440 to $565. The group will visit France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, and at a slight addi- tional cost, either England or the Oberammergau Passion Play. @ Twice last month white men with faces blackened as Negroes have com- mitted crimes. In Savannah, one such youth robbed an automobile, but The Eldest Son was knocked off and killed. Another, in Norfolk, attacked a white woman in her room but was knocked uncon- scious. In both cases, the assailants were discovered to be white. q@ O. K. Armstrong, special writer for the New York World and St. Louis Dispatch, has shown that Ne- groes in lumber and naval camps are bought and sold for $50 to $150 a head in certain parts of Florida. @ The Insurance Commissioner of North Carolina has refused to allow the colored Pythian Grand Lodge to borrow money in order to pay their indebtedness to the Supreme Lodge. The Grand Lodge has been suspended for nearly two years. The Ohio Grand Lodge is protesting the pay- ment of its dues. All these difficulties arise because of the cost of the Pyth- ian Temple in Chicago. @ Rufus Turner, a colored radio ex- pert of Ashville, North Carolina, has received the monthly prize of the Beha Junior High School Student Officers, New York; page 21 THE Crisis SWART (teen ; MES aga ES 2 Thi ¢ Ce wit tro cau: has mar cide dee peo} Jan

Page 25

ESgRS x See By BF Three Baby Prise Winners, San Diego, page 25 American Radio Relay League of Hartford, Connecticut, for the best article on “‘Bettering Radio Communi- cation on the High Frequencies.” THE MIDDLE WEST @ Neisner Brothers, a Five and Ten Cent chain organization, have stores with entire colored personnels in De- troit and in Chicago. @ The colored Masonic Temple at 40th and State Street, Chicago, has been sold for debt. @ Bishop A. J. Carey of the African M. E. Church and his former private secretary have been indicted in Chi- cago for accepting bribes from can- didates for promotion in the Police and Fire Department. He is free on a bond of $25,000. @ Cleveland has a city manager and proportionate representation for the election of councilmen. This enables minority groups, like the Negroes, to secure full representation. The politi- cians have wished to change all this and have an elected mayor and coun- cil chosen by wards. In order to con- sider these proposals and make some needed changes in the charter, a Char- ter Commission has been appointed. On this Commission, the Honorable Harry E. Davis, a colored man, now a member of the Civil Service Commis- sion and formerly for many years a member of the Legislature, has been appointed. @ Charles Bowles, who was elected Mayor of Detroit, had the whole- hearted support of colored citizens be- cause of his promise to remove Police- Commissioner William Rutledge, who has allowed the wanton shooting of many colored men by the police. @ For a second time, a court has de- cided against the validity of clauses in deeds which prohibit sale to colored people. The first case was in West January, 1930 Virginia and the last in Columbus, Ohio. There Joseph Bulen, a white real estate dealer, tried to oust Mrs. Daisy Rice from her home in the Bulen Allottment. Mrs. Rice pur- chased the lot seven years ago and re- cently erected a brick house at a cost of $25,000. The lawyer for the com- plainant declared that there was a na- tional organization of white real estate men to prevent Negroes from buying certain properties. The Judge threw the case out of court. @ The Julius Rosenwald Fund has been awarding Fellowships to promis- ing Negro students with a view to pre- paring them for different lines of work, either in teaching or in other lines of public service. The Fund is prepared to consider persons recom- mended, particularly in the fields of public health, library training, home economics and vocational agriculture. Such candidates are sought by con- sultation with the president of schools and colleges with a view to helping them to improve their faculties. The Fund thus quietly seeks the best peo- ple and does not wish to encourage personal applications. @ Former City Councilman, Thomas W. Fleming of Cleveland, has secured a review of his case by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was convicted of bribery. THE NORTH WEST @ The State Board of Medical Ex- aminers of Michigan, by unanimous vote, has placed Meharry Medical College on a basis of reciprocity with all other medical colleges of Class A standing. This rule was made retro- active to 1923. @ To Willie Gertrude Brown should go the credit for the new $100,000 brick building dedicated as the Phillis Wheatley Settlement House in Min- neapolis last October. Five years ago, Miss Brown began the work in a small frame structure, assisted by the Y. W. Cc. A. A bequest of $10,000 from the late Mrs. F. H. Wellcome, a white Mock Wedding at Zion Methodist Church, Jamaica, Long Island woman, started the Building Fund and led by Mrs. James Paige, a repre- sentative in the State Legislature, a campaign during the summer of 1928 resulted in cash donations sufficient to build the present institution. The first The Float in the San Diego Baby Parade, page 25

Page 26

Miss W. G. Brown, page 23 floor has a gymnasium and an assembly room with a stage, a library, music room, day nursery and offices. On the secgnd floor, is a men’s reception and game room and living quarters for the resident workers, with nine- teen bedrooms. In the basement, are game rooms for boys and girls, athletic rooms, carpenter shops, showers, laun- dry and a community kitchen. @ Miss Brown, the Head Resident, was born in Charlotte, North Caro- lina, and has been connected with vari- ous forms of social service throughout the country. She came to Minneapolis from Dayton, Ohio. MIDDLE SOUTH @ Mrs. H. R. Butler of Atlanta, Georgia, has been made a member of the White House Child’s Conference and will serve on the Committee on the Infant and Pre-School Child. Mrs. Butler represents the National Con- gress of Colored Parents and Teach- ers. @ The Chase Science Hall at Fisk University has sustained a damage of $30,000 by fire. The loss is partially covered by insurance. @ Joseph DeJoie, who recently died in New Orleans, was the son of Jules DeJoie, a chef on the Mississippi river steamboats. Joseph was born in 1881, educated in the public schools of New Orleans, and at Southern Uni- versity and New Orleans University. He was married to Louise Borel in 1904 and opened his drug store in 1908. At his death he was Treasurer of the Louisiana Independent Life In- surance Company and manager of two drug stores. He had ten children, 24 three of whom are working in his drug stores, and seven are in school and col- lege. “We who knew Joseph Dejoie inti- mately, knew his head to be clear and habituated to clear thinking; we knew his heart to be big and generous. His contributions to charity were many. A Catholic by birth and training, he did not restrict his gratuities to its chari- ties alone. He had the broader view that made all mankind kin. Perhaps he was even better known by that host of people farthest down, those of hum- ble circumstances. He was adviser and helper to many of them in the intimate things which touched their lives. “No better tribute to the worth of any man could be accorded than to see hundreds of these people crowd the house and church and with tears of honest feeling streaming down their cheeks, just to get a last look at the friend that was gone.” SOUTH WEST @ John H. Lewis, for eight years President of the Morris Brown Col- lege, Atlanta, Georgia, is now Prin- cipal of the High School and Junior College at Little Rock, Arkansas. This college will soon be housed in a mod- ern building costing approximately $500,000. The General Education Board and the Rosenwald Foundation are helping in the project. @ Dr. Thomas A. Crump, of Phoenix, Arizona, made the second highest mark of the examination of the State Dental Board. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Cali- fornia, and is the third colored dentist to take the Board Examination in the last ten years. Out of a class of forty, only seventeen passed. @ Laurence A. Tillis of the 24th In- fantry has been awarded a medal for courage in rescuing four soldiers from drowning at the peril of his own life. PACIFIC COAST @ Fifteen students of the McCoppin School, Oakland, California, took part in a spelling bee. Phyllis Foreman, colored and eleven, won the contest. For the last two years she has taken prizes in French. Consul William H. Hunt and French Officials at St. Etienne, page 21 @ Mrs. J. M. Scott of Los Angeles, California, is so modest a person that it has taken us two years to secure her picture. She is a type of the quiet un- selfish but singularly successful social leader. She is the founder and for nine years president of the Sojourner Phillis Wheatley Settlement House, Minneapolis, page 23 THE Crisis Tr and z wo! cry ae 22S Ee the was bab thai and resi thi ber loce bab able the gan Peg rie Mc thr Fra uat nia ores nin the: for Jar

Page 27

oy ES Ta a ERS Truth Home in Los Angeles, a clean and beautiful residence for colored working girls. Under her guidance, the home was built and paid for. She was organizer of two N. A. A. C. P. baby contests which secured more than $10,000 for the National Office and the local branch. She has been a resident of Los Angeles for more than thirty years, and has long been a mem- ber of the executive committee of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. @ San Diego, California, had a fine baby contest this year and a remark- able parade. We are showing some of the groups. A baby fraternity was or- ganized. @ The officers of the fraternity are: Peggie Hawkins, President; Rose Ma- rie Osby, Vice President; Marjorie McFadden, Secretary. There are now three chapters of the Picken’s Baby Fraternity in California. @ Josephine Foreman, who grad- uated from the University of Califor- nia in June, 1928, was the first col- ored graduate from San Francisco in nine years, and previous to that time there had been no such graduate for twenty years. This year, Miss January, 1930 Foreman returns to study for her Mas- ter’s Degree. WEST INDIES @ The Reverend William Forde of Costa Rica, Central America, is in charge of ten schools and Congrega- tions of the Baptists. The war closed the schools but he is now seeking to re-open them. He was trained in England and has been in Costa Rica for twenty years. @ In Tobago, the Negroes have de- veloped 13 agricultural districts on a co-operative basis. @ In Barbadoes, B. W. I., Negroes have no chance to own land and are used as a reservoir of common labor. In Granada, on the other hand, there are 14,000 small Negro landowners. WEST AFRICA @ In May, 1930, an International Exhibition will be held in the Belgian Congo at Elizabethville to commem- orate the centennary of Belgium inde- pendence. There will be an industrial exhibit and, characteristically, a lot- tery is being organized to defray ex- penses. Champion Relay Team, George Washington High School, New York @ For the first time in history, a Ne- gro, Peter J. C. Thomas, head of an African firm of merchants, has been elected president of the Lagos, Nigeria, Chamber of Commerce. Most of the members are white British merchants. @ “White Africans and Black” by C. Singer and C. L. Baldridge, has been published in London. It is an excel- lent and sympathetic study of the West Coast. @ William Wade Harris, the “Black Elijah,” is dead in Liberia. He has been touring the tribes of West Africa since 1915, and thousands flock to him. As a result of his work, 150 stone churches have been built and 22,000 converts made. @ The great Town Hall of Ibadan, Nigeria, has been opened in the pres- ence of all the chiefs of Yorubaland and the British Governor. @ The Governor of Nigeria has in- vested Henry Carr, a colored man, with the “‘most excellent Order of the British Empire.” He recalled the fact that Mr. Carr had served as Director of Education and filled other eminent posts. (Will you please turn to page 34) Fommiegh nee gi ch ataanea sinh ft Bc! oe aeaeenmreaie on Hora ape ee mtn ac lamar ne:

Page 28

YOUTHPORT For Juniors of the N. A. A. C. P. EFFie LEE Newsome, Critic ELL, here it is, Youthport, done by youth. We have se- lected four essays and a drawing from New Jersey, the District of Columbia, Ohio, and California. Our editorial staff for the first half of 1930 will be: Editor: Agnes J. Laws Assistant {Elizabeth Carter Editors: |Alda Taylor Art Editor: Eleanor Paul How Youthport Shall Be Con- ducted and What It Shall Aim to Do I am to be Youthport, and I am going to be conducted by various Junior Divisions all over the country. These groups are going to send in ma- terial to help build me up and make me strong. They are going to send in such material as poetry, history of some Negro hero, pictures of themselves, and original drawings, and tell of the work they are doing in their particular group both social and educational. I am also to have a manager whose name is “Editor”. His duty is to man- age all my business affairs. He re- ceives all my contributions from the groups and criticizes them, then picks out the best work and publishes it. I am then ready to be read. Of course I am going to be interesting. The Juniors will see to that. They will put in me the best they can, so that every young person will be glad when they know I am going to be present every month in the Senior Crisis. I am going to try to teach the young people some of the heroic and noble deeds their race has done and is doing. I am going to try to awaken in them an abundance of race pride so they may be proud of her at anytime and before afly other race. I am going to try to instill in them, that because their face is black is not sufficient reason why they are not entitled to their rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness. Then I am going to try to in- duce them to do everything in their power to better themselves and others so that our race may thrive and be- come great through their efforts. Through you, Juniors, these things can be accomplished. Help me with i . all your might. . . Acnes J. Laws, Long Branch, N. J. 26 Youthport should be conducted in such a way as to create and maintain the live interest of young folks every- where. It should aim to provide a genuine motive for achievements in the line of literary art. Our race is greatly in need of skillful writers and artists. And, if we offer sufficient inducement, our group perhaps will give to the Drawing by Eleanor Paul Sacramento, Cal. world someday a representation, whose achievements the world will regard as worthy of every recognition. I suggest that Youthport, the di- vision which is turned over to the jun- iors, contain the best selected short story, a poem, a book review, a brief autobiography, and last but not least, a drawing. Let it be our policy, too, to be on the alert to secure subscriptions to our magazine. Let the juniors as well as the seniors talk to their friends, and explain Youthport to them. Certainly, there are many who will be eager to support our section. It is up to us to make it a success. I most heartily wel- come the opportunity to do my bit. ELIzABETH CARTER, Washington, D. C. Youthport is going to be the most interesting magazine because undoubt- edly we juniors are going to make it so. We say “I Will” and stick to it. I would suggest the following ar- rangement: There should be several pages of the Crisis Magazine set aside for the work of the Junior division of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. On the first page in the left-hand corner should be listed the names and addresses of the execu- tive committee. The remainder of this page will consist of interesting in- ternational reports. Next, space should be given for the work in various states which might be divided into sections, for instance, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest, or, numerically, sections I, II, III, IV. Pictures and written accounts should be sent in of the most outstand- ing Junior member. The best and most interesting reports of each four sections will be presented on the re- maining pages. This will prove a val- uable incentive to other Divisions and will enable members to become ac- quainted with each other. In order to be outstanding one must have excelled in membership drives and various campaigns for funds or will have played leading roles in whatever he or she has been exceptionally active. The topics will vary according to the type of activity throughout the four sections, the newly organized divisions and individual division accomplish- ments. Poems and works of literature and art that express ability should be published on this page. The aim of this department should be to engender new interest in the branches; to instill in other Negro youth the desire and ambition to be- come a part of this great crusade in the cause for justice. Indeed, Youth- port should be such a vital and im- portant section that it will greatly in- crease the sale of THe Crisis and be- cause of this department we will have a bigger and better magazine. The pages devoted to the work of the Jun- ior Division will not only prove an in- spiration to the Negro youth through- out the country but it will serve to edu- cate the reading public that they may know the Negro youth of today have picked up the torch and are pushing onward and upward in the struggle for justice and democracy. Apa Tay tor, Dayton, O. THE Crisis Bia is eee Ef ER RMR pear Th Ree Sega _ : writil it, by critic! or ot! the se May and / have other do tc serve wortl oe a a 2 SO S Se ee i ee 201 Janu

Page 29

a» lay ing oI SONA Septee SS ERR sk eee: a Fost GREETINGS O all those who have helped to make THE Crisis what it is, by writing for it, by buying it, by reading it, by sending it to their friends and by criticizing it frankly either favorably or otherwise, we send the greetings of the season in the 20th Year of its life. May you have A Happy Christmas and A Successful New Year; may you have health and love; may you do to others even as you would that others do to you and may you continue to serve every high ideal and help every worthy cause. And here are reasons why: The World, to Black America, Debtor 12 Negroes Lynched in 1929 The Loss of the Somerville Hotel Continued Hell in Haiti Hoover’s “Lily-White” program The Indictment of Bishop Carey Segregation Laws in Richmond and Atlanta “Jonny Spielt Auf” Lincoln Students and Colored Pro- fessors Discrimination in Philadelphia Boy Scouts The Episcopal and Catholic Churches and Negroes Persistent Discrimination in Hotels, Theaters and Residential Sections Continued Disfranchisement in the South Not a single city or state elected or appointed Negro official in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Okla- homa and Texas Continued Racial Insult The Deaths of Moorfield Storey, Charles E. Bentley, Louis Marshall, Paul Kennady, Judge Hewlett, Lewis Latimer, James Bond, Lucius Williams and W. T. Francis. Creditor 20th Birthday of the N. A. A. C. P. Public Positions 1 Congressman 1 State Senator 1 Police Surgeon 14Members of State Legislatures 12 Members of City Councils 1 Member of a City Board of Education 20 State and City Prosecuting At- torneys January, 1930 You have done a great work for your race—-and for all races in the United States. You have sometimes preached strong and unpalatable doctrine, and urged aggressive movements which have not seemed to me always practicable. That makes no difference with the essential which is that yoy have been a standing representative of the intellectual power of Negroes. I count you among the chief American writers of your day, and trust that some of your books will be read in years to come, as a statement of conditions in a critical time for the Negro race. You are an extremist—and so was William Lloyd Garrison. Progress in Art Hayes, Robeson, Bledsoe, Anderson, Garner, Diton. Laura Wheeler Waring Hampton Choir Little Theatre in Boston, Washington, Cleveland, New Haven and Dallas The Philadelphia Negro Musical Fes- tival Harmon ‘Traveling Art Eleven Cities Education 19,253 Negroes in Colleges with 2,160 Graduates The New University at Atlanta The New Meharry In the Courts Victory of the Colored Shriners Marian Exhibit in Charleston West Virginia Library Case West Virginia and Ohio Segregation Cases Ben Bess Dr. Spence Case in Atlanta Books The Black Christ, Passing, Plum Bun, Afrika Singt, Buell’s Africa, What the Negro Thinks, Pedro Gorino, Rope and Faggot 3 Guggenheim and Rosenwald Fellows 50 Elk Scholars Heroes Walter Jackson, Lionel Licorish, Ella Brown and 3 Carnegie Medalists Mordecai Johnson, Spingarn Medalist Mrs. DePriest Drinks Tea First Negro High School Teacher in Boston Teacher in Hartford Member of the Bar Association in New York Lawyer in Delaware Nathan Young shows Missouri Business Supreme Liberty Life 30th Dividend of the National Benefit The Business League’s C. M. A. Athletics Eddie Tolan and Kid Chocolate Earnest Just abroad ALBERT BUSHNELL Hart. A Negro American in the Institute of Pacific Relations $200,000 to Fisk from Alumni Rosenwald Apartments Chicago Debate on Social Equality Show Boat, Hearts in Dixie, Halle- lujah, Hot Chocolates and Porgy Continued Help from the Slater, Jeanes, General Education Board and Rosen- wald Funds The Mechanics Bank and the Southern Aid Phillis Wheatley Homes THE FIFTH PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS HE ink was scarcely dried on our announcement last month that the Fifth Pan-African Congress planned for Tunis, French North Africa, could not be held on account of paucity in attending numbers, than we received additional reasons for post- poning the Congress. Gratien Can- dace, French Deputy from Guadeloupe, and Acting President of the Congress, writes us under date of November 15: “Je vous envoie, ci-joint, copie d’une lettre du Ministére des Af- faires Etrangéres de la République Francaise, concernant le Véme Con- grés Pan-Africain. “Le Gouvernement Francais ne tient pas du tout a ce que le Con- grés ait lieu a Tunis. II lui plairait, au contraire, que le Congrés tienne ses assises, soit 4 Lyon, a Marseille, a Bordeaux ou a Toulouse, ou dans toute autre grande ville, voire a Paris.” Our readers will thus see that the French Government’ after deep thought will “certainly not consent that the Congress should be held in Tunis but prefers that it should be held in a French city, as, for example, 27 Baki asi Bi RS i Sanne ina ii wntenaitca sy i ap a rs Spi ca aia + ct Ro daar

Page 30

Marseilles, Bordeaux or at Lyons, Toulouse or even in Paris.” In other words, the French Gov- ernment does not want American Ne- groes prowling around its colonies and learning things. It would prefer to have them where it could watch them under the aegis trusted officials. Selah! What stronger argument is there for pushing the Pan-African idea? THE ELECTIONS HE results of the November elec- tion are encouraging for colored people. First of all, came the crash of the hopes of “Lily-white” Repub- licans in the South. They were fore- doomed to failure. They won through an appeal to religious fanaticism, pro- vincial narrowness and race hatred. No democracy can be built on such a basis. The political salvation of the South depends upon a democracy wide enough to include intelligent people of all races and colors. Neither the gambling Bishop, bourbons like Sim- mons, fools like Heflin, nor slick poli- ticians like Slemp, can ever lead such a movement. They and the Hoover- crats went down to defeat, not be- cause the President started to clean the Angean stables of Southern poli- tics, but because of color astigmatism in carrying his plans out. In addition to that, came a series of extraordinary victories which were not simply the victories of colored per- sons. We are at times compelled to vote for colored candidates simply be- cause they are colored, and the com- pulsion consists in the ignorance, en- mity or indifference of white candi- dates for the same office. But in this election, in a heartening number of cases, the colored candidates were the best candidates in the field by every measurement. In New York City, the Citizens’ Union indorsed and recom- mended Aldermen like Hawkins and Moore and members of the Legisla- ture like Rivers and Perkins. Even when Delaney was defeated by the ob- scure son of a third-rate white poli- . tician, the real citizens of New York, from the President of Columbia Uni- versity down, knew that Delaney was far and away the better man. In Cleveland, an intelligent and well- equiped colored woman gained a de- served place on the Board of Educa- tion, and _ elsewhere, ability and character triumphed, even with the American handicap of a dark skin. Herein lies splendid hope for the fu- ture. ABOUT MARRYING EAR MR. DU BOIS: I imagine in all appeals for your advice you rarely are called upon to aid Cupid, and certainly still more 28 rarely for such a case as mine. Briefly, I am a white young man and am in love with a colored girl. Now to give some details so you can better understand the situation. I graduated from in 1924 and she from in 1923. Since then she has taught in various colored schools and I have been here most of the time teaching music, tak- ing some college work and occasionally doing music study in I now am 25 and she is 27. My parents are friendly to Negroes and in we associated with them to quite an extent. Because I inherited no racial prejudice I presume is one main factor in my “falling in love” with a colored girl. The first time I remember seeing her was in her high school Latin class when she was a Senior. I had a passing impression that she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. She comes from one of the better colored families, of course, and is a light mulatto—too dark though to pass as white and I am of German-English descent with sandy red hair and could never pass for col- ored. So. The next time I remem- ber her especially was at high school commencement when she took a $20 gold piece prize in English and was one of the honor students. I did not meet her until three years later when she was a junior in college—she 19 and I, 17. It was at her brother-in- law’s home, with whom I was chum- ming at the time. Then the deed was done and I passed two or three of the happiest weeks of my life. This was around Christmas time and when I went home for the holidays the wrath fell in earnest—they had warnings of it before. With all my parents’ broad- mindedness they, of course, drew the line at this not only because of race but religious reasons. I was brought up with conservative ideas on religion and to honor and obey my parents. Then began the struggle between obedience to my parents and my own desires. This struggle still continues. Of course, all our friends, colored and white, had their say—even the college and conservatory deans. They had no objections usually to her as a person but only because of racial difference. Our interests are common—music and French. It is now six years since I have seen her but we have corre- sponded most of the time. I still love her as intensely as at first. I am sure she was in love with me too but, you probably know and feel more keenly than I just what the but means. Some people think from some gossip passed on to me that our relations were im- moral. That is not so. As I said, I am conservative and my ideas of love, marriage and divorce and religion by the modern flaming youth would be considered hopelessly mid-Victorian, Puritanical, old fogey and all the other scornful terms applied to such. I do not smoke, drink, dance, play cards, rarely go to a movie and my relations with her were just as “nar- row”. Of course, since I do none of the above I never have a good time! Singing Beethoven’s ninth symphony under Dr. at , playing a Chopin and Mendelssohn concerto with orchestra, listening to the club give the “Messiah”, playing the “Mes- siah” and “Elijah” for the chorus here, listening to Roland Hayes, speaking French, and studying with the most noted Composition teacher in does not come under the category of “good time’’! But that is all beside the point. The point is I still am madly in love with her and want her to be with me to share all these good things, yes, and be the mother of my children. I do not advocate racial inter-mar- riage in general. But, Mr. Du Bois, since she is more white than Negro why should she not marry white? It’s just as logical that way as the other. I think the standard of husband-wife relationship should be made _princi- pally on a spiritual and _ intellectual basis. We have had intellectual fel- lowship as I have said. She is more liberal in her social and religious views, but I think we agree on the funda- mental—the God-Christ as atonement for sin. She is neat and attractive in her personal habits as I am. It is only the but that hinders. I want your view on inter-marriage and advice as to whether you think I should persuade her to marry me. I feel we could manage somehow. Our friends and relatives would have to accept us willy-nilly. And any- how we would not be marrying prin- cipally each other’s relatives. A great majority of mother’s folks I have not seen for twenty years and they mean nothing special to me. It’s her I want. We would have our own social con- tacts to make as any newly married couple does with its own peculiar problems. I have nearly written you several times for three or four years but never could get to the point of doing so. I presume I will act like a dear friend of father and mother’s whom I have heard them speak of very often when she asked for advice would say: “Now I want to know what you all think, but I will go ahead and do as I please afterwards.” P.S.° Can you recommend any book on the subject that will be helpful ? THE Crisis ee 4 & is a My | I 23rd to m@ marr I actly goin; hears restr se fi but | are are | You sult place have (per are { work that man. ble f whit T got had me 2 point them But both situa for | A! matt man- Blue the brief Ai gree! answ will A liar of tl Stocl consi fare. shoo the tran: gaml Stree comy form tions legit tions the | and Janu

Page 31

ne th to id r- is, TO t’s er. ife ci- 1al el- ore Ws, da- ent in nly age ink me. ow. ave iny- rin- reat not ean ant. con- ried liar eral ever poe iend have vhen Now hink, lease book |? RISIS SA # PRIS 3 ane’ ERS Sea a SUH My pear Mr. [ have your letter of September 23rd. My advice is that if you wish to marry the girl and she wishes to marry you, then get married. I assume that both of you know ex- actly the kind of difficulties you are going to meet. I need hardly to re- hearse them. You are going to have restricted social intercourse, naturally se far as the whites are concerned; but also, so far as the colored people are concerned. In this matter, they are just as prejudiced as the whites. You are going to meet more or less in- sult and embarrassment in _ public places, if your wife is dark enough to have her color noticeable; and finally, (perhaps this is the most serious), you are going to have difficulty in finding work or in keeping it if people know that you have married a colored wo- man. It will be practically impossi- ble for you to find work in any college, white or colored. These are all facts which vou have got to face frankly. If, before you had fallen in love you had consulted me as to the possibility, I should have pointed out these facts and emphasized them and advised you to go no further. But now the question simply is, are both of you ready, in the face of this situation, to face a world “well lost for love”? I know of no book which treats this matter sanely to any extent. Halde- man-Julius has just published a little Blue Book by Schuyler which takes up the subject. I have also treated it briefly in my book “Darkwater”’. W. E. B. Du Bots. And now, Reader—white, black, green or yellow, what do you say in answer to this letter? Answer and we will publish a few of the letters. GAMBLING S compared with crap-shooting, always supposed to be the pecu- liar diversion of Negroes, nine-tenths of the operations of the Wall Street Stock Exchange favors craps, by every consideration of morals and social wel- fare. Unless the dice are loaded, crap- shooting is a game of pure chance, and the utmost that can happen is the transfer of actual wealth from one gambler to another. But in Wall Street, we have something much more complicated and much less defensible. We have a great gambling pool, forming nine-tenths of a set of opera- tions, of which the remaining tenth is legitimate and under present condi- tions necessary effort to sell capital to the highest bidder. If the government owned all capital and distributed it by science, reason January, 1930 and welfare, as both Russia and Presi- dent Hoover are now attempting to do, stock gambling would cease. Around this, at present necessary operation, has arisen the habit of open betting on the future profit of the vari- ous industries seeking capital. Some of this betting takes the form of buying stock with the object of selling it for a higher price. There is an element of gambling here but it is the necessary gambling of privately owned capital and is as legitimate as crap-shooting. Beyond this, however, there is a custom so wide-spread that it involved, during 1928, as high as seven billion dollars of borrowed funds in addition 30 or more billions of owned wealth. This consists of betting on the price of stock without buying it and with only the deposit of enough actual funds to insure the head gam- bler from sudden loss. It is this deal- ing in “futures”, that has set the United States crazy for the last few years, taking funds from legitimate in- dustry, depleting thrift accounts and stealing the wages of millions of peo- ple; it has made an astonishing num- ber of level-headed Americans dream that they were going to gamble them- selves into a financial heaven, where they would subsist on honey and illegal wine, and would sing, dance and do no work forever and forever. Moreover, the dice in this gambling are nearly always loaded. Everybody who knew anything knew that they were loaded. The head gamblers know the present value of stocks and the reasonable future values. They deliberately deceive their clients by subtle propaganda to pay unreasonable prices. The President of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury, the heads of great industries, the lead- ers of social welfare, all knew that stock prices were unreasonably high, yet, for the most part, they were dumb until the crash came. They knew that prices were being paid for part-owner- ship in industrial enterprises, which were far beyond anything which the enterprise could ever legitimately earn, and yet, they were silent. They lis- tened in silence to a shameless propa- ganda that explained how a Miracle was happening and that miracle was involved in American financial leader- ship of the world; that in some magic way values were going to be re-cast so as to make Steel Common worth two or three times what it was really worth by any sane measurement. Every professional gambler in Wall Street, backed by the money distribut- ing power of the Federal Banking System, assured the world that this was so, with the idea of making profit by the gullability of ignorant investors. Every person of ordinary wisdom knew that the crash must come because the market had gone out beyond the steady- ing influence of real values and de- pending solely on gamblers’ lies and the gullability of morons. Just as there were gamblers who were gambling for a rise, and lied to make it, so there were other gamblers who, as the crest approached, gambled for a fall, and did not spare the truth to bring it about. The result was a crash so stupendous that it shook the world. What was that crash in its essence? If it had been merely the transfer of money from gambler to gambler, it would have resembled a huge crap game and have been negligible save in its moral results. There would have been the same amount of wealth and work as before and the same number of idle blood-suckers. This is what the New York Times assured us was true after the crash, while President Hoover and Secretary Mellon joined in similar statements. But these were half-truths. For the stock crash was far more than a transfer of hard-earned wealth and thrifty savings from poor people to the gambling rich. It involved destruction of wealth, work and _faith—these three and the greatest of these is the Faith, called Credit. We count as wealth today in organized industry not only what we have but what we ex- pect to have; not only what we do but what we plan todo. Destroy plans and overthrow legitimate expectation and industry is sick or dies. Of the great structure of modern time production and space distribution, the actual pres- ent goods, the pittance of cash money and the current days work are baga- telles compared with the expected value of goods to be finished, the value which goods now Here will have when they are There. Destroy the faith built on present Work—the Credit reared on present Cash and Goods and you have destroyed wealth and more than wealth. That is the reason the President and Cabinet and millionaires are rush- ing about and crying all is well when no one knows better than they that all is not well because gamblers have been squandering the nation’s wealth which industry needed and expected. The collapse of the Stock Market was not only loss of capital taken from legitimate industry and sunk and de- stroyed in wild-cat schemes; it was above all, a shaking of the faith of Americans in American industrial organization and in _ all private capitalistic enterprise. It was the most tremendous blow to the _in- tegrity and efficiency of the capitalistic and privately-owned industry of Amer- ica which that organization ever re- 29

Page 32

ceived. American capitalism was stabbed in the house of its friends. Nothing that Socialists have said or thought for one hundred years has so openly and crassly pointed out the weakness and injustice of industrial life in America. The end is not yet. The President may repudiate all his individualism and deny the laissez-faire of private enterprise by hurriedly summoning the captains of industry and pleading with them for that co-operation, scientific foresight and submergence of the profit motive which only an efficient State can supply in fullest measure. The funda- mental weakness of our system still remains. We are gambling with loaded dice. If gamble we must, we would far better confine ourselves to craps. FOOTBALL HE right of a football coach to bench a player is granted. But the reason must be the good of the team. The benching of one of the best play- ers on the New York University team in a game with Georgia students, was indefensible because it was a despicable vielding to sheer race prejudice. The student body resented it. They were ready to refuse to attend the game. The city resented it. The N. A, A. C. P. stood ready with help and co- operation. A group of colored Harlem men were ready to pay this black boy for what he would lose by resenting the insult. The only person who had no complaint was the black player himself. He refused in any way to communicate with the officials of the N. A. A. C. P. The reason given for his failure to play was an alleged injury, which proved, in fact, to be nothing serious, and finally he went back and played out the season. We have much sympathy for the struggle of the younger Negro between the prejudice of whites and the selfish con- servatism of blacks, but for this colored football player, we have nothing but contempt. DISSENT READ Tue Crisis with interest and admiration, but every now and then I come across something which jars unnecessarily. For example, in the December number, presumably the peace and good-will number, on page 404, there is a deserving and glowingly eloquent tribute to Moorfield Storey utterly spoiled by the violence of the phrase, “this Hell of America.” In the first place, the phrase is not justified unless you despair entirely of mankind. I have lived in many coun- tries and have been in four continents, and comparing America with other countries, it stands out far above most 30 of them in its human relations. If then America is a hell, most of the other countries of the world must be the lowest depths of hell. To this drastic doctrine I am sure you will not assent. Or, by concentrating one’s attention on the ugliest aspects of American life, grant for a moment that the phrase is justified—it is still not expedient. The battle for human justice will be won not by vituperation, but by those qualities which you rightly extol in Moorfield Storey, — gentlemanliness, aristocratic dignity and courtesy. It injures, not helps, the cause to which Mr. Storey devoted himself, to give way to temper. D. pe Sota Poot, New York. THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE HERE is only one item of specific interest to American Negroes in the recent Message of the President of the United States. They are, of course, with all Americans over- whelmed by the thought that $700,- 000,000 is being spent by the army of the nation which leads in the advocacy of peace, and that during the next six years over a thousand millions may go for battleships. There is, too, the following paragraph: The test of the rightfulness of our decisions must be whether we have sus- tained and advanced the ideals of the American people; self-government in its foundations of local government; jus- tice whether to the individual or to the group; ordered liberty; freedom from “GoEoooEggu2EEEgRE HOWARD J | 1a EGE aGawwaae GAGES oOOEEEE Sooo soosEeoeesssooasoaass Purpose To provide the Twelve Million Colored people of the United States with College - trained and Professional leaders through its courses in the ARTS, SCIENCES, SOCIOLOGY, EDU- CATION, ECONOM- ICS; its Schools of Music, Applied Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Religion and Law. Mordecai W. Johnson President ing, Emmett J. Scott Secretary-Treasurer $125,000 to $150,000. Young Men, $150,000. domination; open opportunity and equal- ity of opportunity; the initiative and in- dividuality of our people; prosperity and the lessening of poverty; freedom of public’ opinion; education; ..... But no black man assumes that the President had any thought of colored folk when he wrote this. The fol- lowing words do, however, touch us directly: We still have marines on foreign soil —in Nicaragua, Haiti and China. In the large sense we do not wish to be represented abroad in such manner. ... In Haiti we have about 700 marines, but it is a much more difficult problem, the solution of which is still obscure. If Congress approves, I shall dispatch a commission to Haiti to review and study the matter in an endeavor to arrive at some more definite policy than at pres- ent. Every reader of this paragraph should get in touch with his Congress- man at once and ask for the appoint- ment of such a Commission and for the inclusion upon it of at least one American Negro. E have reprinted on heavy paper with margins the frontispiece with the portrait of Moorfield Storey published in the December Crisis. The price is ten cents a copy postpaid, twelve copies for a dollar or a hundred copies for five dollars. N Index of THe Crisis for 1929 will soon be ready and can be had for the asking. UNIVERSITY Founded by General Oliver Otis Howard WASHINGTON, D. C. An Outstanding National University Located at the Capital of the Nation, with a campus of twenty-five acres. equipment. A Faculty of 176 members. proximately 2400, from 36 different states and 14 foreign countries. outstanding National University of the Colored People of America. Modern, scientific and general A plant worth approximately $3,000,000. A Student Body of ap- Generally acknowledged to be the Students may enter for Collegiate Work at the Beginning of any Quarter REGISTRATION PERIODS AUTUMN QUARTER September 30—October 1, 2, 1929 Winter Quarter January 2, 3, 1930 SPRING QUARTER March 20, 21, 1930 HOWARD’S NEEDS $130 per year to cover incidental fees, etc. (tui- tion) of a student for a year. manent Scholarships. An Endowment Fund of at least $5,000,000. $2,600 for Per- An Administration build- A dormitory for A building for the Col- lege of Education, $150,000. Contributions for Current Expenses in any amount, however small. THE Crisis Be BR ' # gS fF 2 Jan

Page 33

9 ad 2 oy Bae Seng? TITY? i r ; Atlanta University Atlanta, Georgia Graduate Courses Senior and Junior and Sopho- more College Courses. For information address The President | MorREHOUSE COLLEGE (Formerly Atlanta Baptist College) ATLANTA, GA. College, Academy, Divinity Schoo} N 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 eatest northern universities. Debat- , Y. M. C. A., athletics, all live fea- tures. FOR INFORMATION, Adéress JOHN HOPE, President | TALLADEGA COLLEGE A Liberal Arts College of Highest Grade Approved by Great Educational Agencies and leading Graduate Schools of the Country. UNEXcELLED LocaTION. StronG Facu ry. SPLENDID EQUIPMENT. Plant worth one and one-half millioa For further particulars address The President or the Dean TALLADEGA, COLLEGE TALLADEGA ALABAMA Knoxville College KNOXVILLE, TENN. Beautiful Situation and Healthful Location. Best Moral and Spiritual Environment. Splendid Intellectual Atmosphere. Noted for Honest and Thorough Werk. Fully Aeeredited for Weachers’ Certifieates by State Beard. Meme-like Dermitory Life with Careful Supervision. Live Athletic and Literary Interests. GOURSES: College, Normal, High Seheel, Heuse- held, Arte and Musie. Espenses Very Reasonable Address: J. KELLY GIFFEN, President. KNOXYV INN. BUY N.A.A.C.P. XMAS SEALS Book of 200 — $2.00 SEND ORDERS TO Mrs. M. T. Garrison Box 364 GARY, WEST VA. ORDER EARLY N. %. A CP. (Continued from page 13) additions have been made. The Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, Lieutenant Gov- ernor of the State of New York, has been elected by the Board of Directors to fill the place made vacant by the death of Louis Marshall. Mr. Lehman comes to the Association with the pres- tige not alone of public service in one of the highest offices of honor which his state has to offer. He served his coun- try during the World War, being pro- moted through successive grades to the rank of Colonel. Besides this, his name is known in the world of finance, and industry, as that of one of the ablest of leaders. The banking firm which bears his name is respected as one against which no word of reproach has been uttered. The accession of such a powerful force, testifies to the vitality of the idea which goes marching on though its champions pass. So does the addition to the National Legal Committee of Professor Felix Frankfurter, of the Harvard School of Law. When lib- eral causes in the United States have cried out for able and courageous de- fenders, often the name of Professor Frankfurter has been among the first to be called. He has not hesitated to stand against public clamor, mob pres- sure, even against the subtler and more powerful pressure exerted by the dom- inating forces in American social, politi- cal and financial life. His record in the Sacco-Vanzetti cases remains one of the bright spots in an episode dark with many kinds of shame. To have a legal mind and a per- sonality of the calibre of Professor Frankfurter, among the consultants and advisers of the N. A. A. C. P. in its legal problems, is occasion for hearty congratulations. Still another accession to the Associa- tion’s forces, it is a pleasure to record. It is that of James Marshall, Louis Marshall’s son. James Marshall, too, has joined the Association’s National Legal Committee. His carrying on the work that was so close to his father’s heart, retains on the Association’s rec- ords a name that will always be hon- ored in its history. It remains to mention. one whose name is well known to colored Amer- icans. It is T. G. Nutter, former mem- ber of the legislature of West Virginia, prominent attorney in Charleston, West Virginia, and president of the N. A. A. C. P. Branch in that city. Mr. Nutter has won vital and pioneer- ing cases for the rights of colored peo- ple in his state. He fought to a finish and won their right to use the Public Library in West Virginia’s capital city. More recently still, he won:a residen- tial segregation case, one of the first and most decisive victories ever won against the principle of segregation by covenant among property owners. Now Mr. Nutter has been added to the law- yers who comprise the Association’s National Legal Committee. To this council, in whose hands lie decisions affecting millions of United States citi- zens, now and in years to come, Mr. Nutter comes as a valued addition. So, although champions pass, new champions step forward. And it is this continuity of the idea of the N. A. A. C. P. which seems almost to defeat death itself. So fortified, the Associa- tion may look with confidence toward the triumphs of the future. MRS. DAISY LAMPKIN HE success of the N. A. A. C. P. has been due in large measure to the untiring work of colored women. Some of their names are enrolled in its records. The late Mrs. Talbert was a holder of that coveted distinction, the Spingarn Medal. To Mrs. Memphis T. Garrison, of Gary, West Virginia, who originated and now administers the distribution of N. A. A. C. P. Christmas seals, went the Mme. C. J. Walker Medal last year. The names of colored women who have been lead- ers in their communities, who have kept the N. A. A. C. P. work alive, are too numerous to mention. It is an exceptional pleasure to re- cord that one such woman has recently been added to the National Staff, as regional field secretary. The name of Mrs. Daisy Lampkin will be known wherever colored women meet to- gether. Her achievements have been so unusual that they have long been the subject of public knowledge and com- ment. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Lampkin’s home, she obtained very nearly 2,000 members for the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., making it one of the strong branches of the Association. During the war she had charge among THE CRISIS circulates through agents and subscribers in every one of the United States, in Europe, Asia and Africa, in South and Central America, the Hawaiian, Phillippine and West Indian Islands and elsewhere around the world. No voice reaches further than the advertising page of THE Crisis. January, 1930 tits Sta ste

Page 34

colored people in Allegheny County or work in behalf of the 4th and 5th Lib- erty Loans and with her committee sold bonds to the amount of two mil- lion dollars. As organizer for the Na- tional Association of Colored Women, she added 15,000 members to that body through local clubs and organized three state federations. She is now financial secretary of the Hospital Association in Pittsburgh and chairman of the Executive Board of the National Asso- ciation of Colored Women. Life is too short for most people to do so much, but not for Mrs. Lamp- kin, who seems to have a genius for inspiring other people with some of her own energy and enthusiasm. The Asso- ciation is happy and fortunate to have her services, and to testify again its ap- preciation of the part which leaders among colored women are playing in making it the national power it has come to be. H. J.$ In Haiti (Continued from page 18) addition are made jointly responsible for the costs of the trial. And the treatment to which they will be subjected while in prison may be readily pictured. Advices upon events subsequent to the above described trial state that M. Carl Brouard another journalist and a representative of an aristocratic Hai- tian family has been imprisoned for having protested against the consecra- tion of two French priests as Bishops respectively of Gonaives and Port-de- Pain. His protest charged that these ap- pointments were clearly contrary to the law and that the High Clergy being white maintains and fosters racial prejudice against the Haitian priests who have been systematically denied elevation to the Bishopric. All these editors conclude in summarizing the policy of Borno as the policy of a traitor to this country. This is the crime of Jacques Rou- main, George Petit, Guerin and more ¢ecently of Carl Brouard. The Browsing Reader (Continued from page 19) the University of Califoria and is at present at the head of the Bureau of Publications of the League of Nations. During the years spent by Mr. Schoell in this country he traveled ex- tensively, studying at first-hand many of the problems of American life. His stay was long enough to allow him to form mature opinions. 32 Allen University Columbia, 8. C. A Co-Educational Institution Offering Courses in YMR JUNIOR COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS ARTS AND SCIENCES THEOLOGY MUSIC COMMERCE HOME ECONOMICS YRACHER TRAINING A &PECIALTY DEGREES: A.B., ae Th.B., A.B. Educatiea ferent to by the State at aa Ceroline. Aided by ¢ Fand ond the Generel Edocetion one foams increased this year. DAVID H. SIMS, President BISHOP JOHN HURST, Chairman Trustee Board Study Business Subjects at The ‘Stenographers Institute corte as DUNCAN’S pusnse NOOL, 1=?'S 1227 S. 17th St., Phila., Pa. They’ make you a competent caaeeaien, book- keeper or typist in a short time. Dormitories for Girls. 2, 1930—Prepare January to take Civil Swies Tcenticne. Winter term begins ScHOOL FOR TEACHERS (A STATE NORMAL SCHOOL) CHEYNEY, PA. 4 PENNSYLVANIA State Normal Schoo! offering, in addition to the regular Normal teademic Course of two years, professional ree year eourses is Home Economies and Shep Work. \ Gploma from any ef these courses makes a faduate eligible to teach in the public echoels @ Pennsylvania. Yer further information and catalog, write LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL, Principal CHEYNEY, PA. The time for Schools to advertise is during the year when parents are making up their minds. Phone Lincoln 1290 E. LOUIS MOORE, A.B., LL.B. COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW 309 Mme. Walker Bldg. Indianapolis, Ind. Member of all courts of the state of Indiana and United States District Court HARTSHORN MEMORIAL TS 2 eae 6 & *. ae a Send for a catalogue to the President. MRS. HARRIETT I. TALCOTT, Btate Write to, Ethel M. Bigham, R. N. Supt. of Nurses BURRELL MEMORIAL HospITaL Roanoke, Va. St. Mary’s School Am Episcopal boarding school fer girls, under the direction of the sisters of St. Mary. Address: THE SISTER-IN-CHARGE, 6188 Germantown Avenus, Philadelphia, Pa. incoln@ School 261-269 West 12516 St.N-Y.C. Secretarial All Commercial Course Civil Service Course REGENTS AIDS: Algebra, English, Gram- mar, Arithmetic-elementary and ad- vanced, Social Science, Geography and U. S. History. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE COURSE —for license No. 1 Exam. N. Y. City Elementary Schools. SUMMER SCHOOL COACHING — 90 hours July-August classes now forming May examins. LECTURE COURSE now organizing. INSTRUCTORS: Gilby Robinson L.L.B. (Lond) F.L.P.S. Howard Day B.S., M. A. (Fordham University New York). CATALOGUES ON REQUEST Phone Monument 3620 Tue Crisis T have Mor 192( calle (19: took with distu scrip tion the | the | date cam] In Neg situa the state Har “toy blac can the in | burs stag histc twer spea arity been side: evol som “thi noti alm gooc fact pire purc com efit to b crea men sure thei ing clas: som mas cert afra Vini extr man blac tude to 1

Page 35

r € f le of at te °- x A a, * e 2- mt 2 PROP mm oS ree md RRS Dee ESTEE ROMER Ree ¥ LR RTE The various chapters of the book have appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Revue de Paris from 1920 to 1929. The first chapter is called the Black Belt of Chicago (1920); it tells of the riots which took place at that time and analyses with penetration the cause of those disturbances. It is followed by a de- scription of the Republican Conven- tion at Chicago in 1920, dealing with the electoral publicity connected with the convention, the crowd, the candi- dates and the triumph of women in the campaign. In Harlem (New York): the Negro “Renaissance” is a study of the situation of Negroes after the war, the industrialization of the Southern states, the urbanization of Negroes, Harlem, the capital of the black race, “towards a black middle class”, the black press, the Negro horizon, Afri- can preoccupations and opinions about the future. Mr. Schoell tells us that in 1922 he spoke of a “sudden out- burst of black solidarity”. “That stage is already past,” he says, “for history makes great strides in the twentieth century. One can now speak of a development of that solid- arity, noting, however, that we have been led by the forces of things to con- sider above all the Negroes who have evolved and that the mass follows with some delay. Mr. Schoell admits that “this great phenomenon which we have noticed, that pride of race which has almost become a psychosis of race is a good thing from many angles. By the fact that more and more Negroes as- pire to be self-sufficient, to make their purchases at a Negro grocer’s, to be- come members of a Negro mutual ben- efit society, to read black magazines, to be buried by black clergymen; they create a livelihood for black business- men, journalists, clergymen, they as- sure a virtual monopoly for those of their race and contribute to constitut- ing a sort of half bourgeois middle- class, an intellectual proletariat in some respects, which tends to take the mass along with it over ways of a certain progress.” But the author is afraid that the nationalism or chau- vinism, as he calls it, if pushed to its extreme consequences, would entail many dangers for the future of the black race and that the militant atti- tude of sufficiency which the race seems to want to adopt more and more in the United States would have the effect of retarding the normal development of the race, by artificially stimulating the creation of separate enterprises and institutions and by fixing attention of each one on inferior models. January, 1930 Rust College GOING TO COLLEGE? Come to Rust College—Beautifully Located. Students from Fourteen States + College of Liberal Arts, Standard Normal, Home Economics, Music, Junior and Senior High Schools. SMeclent Faesity. New Equipment for Laberaterics, Enlarged Library. Rates Reasonable For further information write President L. M. McCoy Holly Springs Mississippi It is the Duty of Human Beings to be attractive The EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER will help you by increas- ing the strength and natural health and beauty of your hair. Bi al PCr TAC aaa) TE your Hair is Dex and Wiry or if you are “ bothered with Falling Hair, Dandruff, Itch- ing Scalp or any Hair Senki We want you to try a jar of ST INDIA HAIR GROWER. The Remedy contains medical properties that go to the roots of the Hair, stimulate the skin, helping nature do its work. Leaves the hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for Heavy and Beautiful Black Eye-Brows. Also restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot Iron. SL PRICE SENT BY MAIL, 50c. 10c. Extra for Postage LS AGENTS OUTFIT 1 Hair Grower, 1 Temple Oil, 1 Sham- poo, 1 Pressing Oil, 1 Face Cream and Direction for Selling. $2.00. 25c Extra for Postage. S. D. LYONS 316 N. Central, Dept. B. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. NEVER PUT OFF Never put off till the morrow that which can be done today.” Benjamin Franklin must have under- stood human na ture very well. He must have realized that the first in- clination of a hu- man being is to delay. line of least re- It is the sistance. To delay joining o ur Christmas Club means regret later on. EXECUTE your NOW for joining our Christmas Club— reap the harvest of next Christmas in happiness and ready funds. There’s still time. The DUNBAR NATIONAL BANK of New York 2624 Eighth Ave at 150thSt The Friendly Bank. Founded by John D Rockefeller Jr NATIONAL NEGRO HYMN Lift Every Voice and Sing Words by James Weldon Johnson Music by J. Rosamond Johnson A SONG WITH A HEART INSPIRES YOUNG AND OLD 15 cents a copy $1.50 per dozen copies $12.00 the hundred copies For Sale by THE CRISIS 69 Fifth Ave. New York, N. Y. Biss niin cisek Sila initia cial

Page 36

HOTELS I Te HOTEL OLGA 695 Lenox Ave. cor. 145th St. NEW YORK CITY SELECT FAMILY AND TOURIST HOTEL Running hot and cold water in each room. All rooms outside exposure. Service: subway and surface cars at door. Rates reasonable. ED. WI a, Proprietor Fa hes ‘Audubon 3796 EAT in National Capital at THURSTON’S 1934 9th Street (near U) N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Close to Howard University Near All Big Theatres In the heart of the choice homes and leading churches The last word in modern equipment enables us to serve the best meals at lowest cost Wen in New York make the HOTEL DUMAS Your stopping place 205 W. 135th Street At Seventh Avenue Just across the street from Everywhere Telephones BRADHURST 1131 AUDUBON 4343 Price Lowest Service Unsurpassed There are other Hotels, but none Better than The HOTEL DUMAS F. C. FANE, prop. WHEN VISITING NEW YORK CITY, EAT AND CHAT AT THE ST. LUKE'S CLUB DINING ROOM where 90% of the distinguished visitors gather to enjoy REAL HOME MADE COOKING in the most refined Dining Room located at 125-27 West 130th Street Under the management of Mrs. Etten J. Divvarp Hours 8:00 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. Service Table D’Hote or A La Carte Large and small Banquets may be arranged for. — Phone Harlem 9387 YOUNG MEN! When in Chicago stay at the Y. M. C. A. Com- fertable reoms, cafeteria, gymnasium, satate- rium. Empleyment Bureau for members. For further information address Y. M. C. A. 3763 Wabash Avenue CHICAGO THE CRISIS proposes to feature and expand this page. Will our friends write us of their experience and recommend hotels in all leading cities? The Phillis Wheatley Association MISS JANE E. HUNTER, Gen. Sec. 4450 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio SE SIMMONS UNIVERSITY, Louisville. Ky. Founded 1873. The enly institutien in the State having for ite ebject, Cellegiate, Ministerial and Degrees eonferred. Normal, . Domestie Science, and Missionary Cerrespondence Courses. LISTEN. If we send a great book or Oratory and a book with hundreds of prayers, also a circular by which you can get addresses for all occasions, at mall cost, will you take them Write PUBLIC SPEAKERS SOCIETY Box 8 Oakland, California The American reader will find jp this little volume a great deal of mate. rial which is entirely new to him. And those interested in the Negro problem will be glad to read a sympathetic and unbiased study of its various aspects. HELENE Harvirtt, Along the Color Line (Continued from page 25) EAST AFRICA @ The Kikuyu Central Association, composed of the younger natives, has protested against the report of Sir Samuel Wilson, recommending. that native interests in the Kenya East Africa Legislature should be repre- sented by whites. The Association de- mands that there be at least three Afri- cans in the Kenya legislature. It also protested against the omission of Eng- lish in the native elementary schools, @ The Aborigines Protection Society has petitioned the new English Secre- tary of State for the Colonies to estab- lish in East Africa a common citizen- ship for civilized British subjects re- gardless of color; a common test of civilization and legislation without racial distinction; it protests forced labor, and asks for taxation in pro- portion to wealth, and adequate land for the natives. @ December 16 is known as Din- gaan’s Day in South Africa, in mem- ory of Dingaan, who led the natives against the English and Boors nearly a hundred years ago. Black Rulers (Continued from page 16) born in Kentucky in 1889, the young- est of ten children. His father, a Civil War Veteran, died when he was nine years old. His mother moved to Kan- sas, where the boy was educated and went into business. Finally, he studied theology and pastored Congregational churches in Memphis and Athens. He came to Cleveland in 1925. In 1929, he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Thomas W. Fleming, and was reelected this fall. It will thus be seen that the legend that Negroes are entirely without poli- tical rights and that they never rule over white folk as well as black 1 quite untrue. On the other hand, i is only too true that of the perhaps seven million colored people who live in the far South, there is not 4 single member of the Legislature; 4 sing gle judicial officer, or a single mem ber of a City Council. In fact, it is only in rare cases that one can find 4 colored Notary Public. THE Crisis ey a7 PRDW ID? Aw eyes 255 Saf yw S . >9 SS S39 SpUtaiptta eee SE Sy ST PA PODS si ’ vie BPUGBA UE $f

Page 37

tion, has Sir that East Dre- 1 de- A fri- also Eng- Is. ciety ecre- stab- izen- $ Te t of hout yrced pro- Din- nem- tives early pired | was -gend poli- rule land et THIS IS THE 20th Christmas of The CRISIS Will you help us to realize a GLAD NEW YEAR? HOW? Pay your subscription for the Crisis now. Subscribe in advance—$5 for 4 years. Send the Crisis as Xmas present to friends, enemies 2? and young folk. Srey iS ‘a Give $10 for a Blanket Subscription to enable us to + a S xX distribute The Crisis where it will do the most good SSoe Ss o —to poor schools, to asylums, to the aged and help- 5h Sa Sy less, to jails and Congress! Dy wi Se Sed Se so PU2ABUCE guy a book—we know you have one, but buy another. 3 WS S39 SoS ove We can sell you a Crisis subscription, plus any of : ~ + =i these books at a surprising reduction. ee ete oe a / Brawley, ‘Negro in Literature and Art” \. : Che Cullen, ‘*The Black Christ’’ for a ' — Books by W. E. B. Du Bois . CRISIS ~ ana etn, deduction Hill, ‘*Toussaint L’Ouverture”’ ‘ONG and Books by James Weldon Johnson of 20% Larsen, ‘‘Passing”’ Moton, ‘*‘What the Negro Thinks” Pickens, “Bursting Bonds” Calverton’s ‘‘Negro Anthology” Any other book in print AURAL (BLA ALLA EP, IDA, EI ; De P2920» a Se os Oe ISN IS VG IVS VS SRE 2 Ss WERK J, 4 0) ue BERSERK RERE , 4 we sS < RRL we aS HES

Page 38

HEIRS IS THE! MAGIC TOUCH WW ALKER agents throughout the world using — Mme. C. J. Walker Preparations, giving? Mme. C. J. Walker Treatments—and by their# superior training, their years of experience, their J expert, friendly, advice and their individual Magic Touch are making countless women pret-* ty. They can make you pretty too in a surprisingly ¥ short time. Mme. C. J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower— used by Mme. C. J. Walker agents brings the best results, a new inde- scribable beauty of hair. Singeing Mme. C. J. Walker’s Hot Oil Treatments, given by expert Facials Walker agents are corrective for tight, infertile, non-produc- tive, scalps—a joy you won’t forget. Hair Cutting Dyeing and Mme. C. J. Walker facials with Mme. Walker creams Walker agents using them—dgive your skin a velvety smooth- Massage ness, keep you feeling fresh and make you admirably attractive. Tinting Fancy Hair Shampoo Dressing Waves—marcel, finger, and water,—positively nothing like Pressing them ina Mme. C. J. Walker Shoppe. Sy mmetrical, deep and Bvbbrow lasting waves that provoke unending compliments. Curling Arching \\ omen everywhere,—leaders on the stage, in society, business and every walk of life tell us, “Indeed there is a difference in Manicuring Hot Oil Mme. C. J. Walker Treatments.” Waving Treatments Do as these women do, get the habit of going regularly to the nearest THERE’S A WALKER LOOK FOR AGENT’S SHOPPE THE SIGN. NEAR YOU. THE, MME. C. J. WALKER MFG. CO.,. INC. WALKER BLDG., INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

Page 39

; : J >