CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY, VOL. XLVm. CURING COLOR BLINDNESS i~‘- ■» - , By Henry Smith Leiper, Associate* Secretary, American Missionary Association, In Fed eral Council Bulletin ' One day when I was crossing the ferry at 12$th Street, New York, I had in my automobile a Chinese lady. To .fShe curious gaze of .the passengers on that ferry boat she was just n little “Chink.” A day or twoprior to that experience on the ferry boat I was swalkin* along th$ street uprith a tall, handsome N$gro, upon whom the passersby looked with some curiosity because 0f his giant frame, but to mpst of them he was just a “nigger.” That same week there aimeared at Cohiinbia University a little man whom I have had the hon or to see at work in different parts of the world. He is part ly Mind in one eye; he is small; he is non-Nordic; he is a Jap anese. To the crowd in the sub way as be went up to Columbia he was just ,another “Jap.” Distinguished World-Citizens. *'•* Biit look at these thiree indi viduals more closely. In the case of the Chinese woman we have a representative of the tremen dously influential student group of'.tbat huge Eastern land, the ' daughter of a former Presi dent; preparing herself to go - back to her own province and . ' found a great woman's universi . ty. Her father’smillions will J make1 this financially possible. She Went to Europe last summer 7 in company with Doctor and Mrs. Dewey to study a number ' Of well-known educational insti Y 'tutions oi the European type. It is altogether probable that no idual on the ferry boat the afternoon , is destined to large ai contribution to pwligreaa^f the human fami ly aslhisuttleChinese lady; yet 1 for all that, her color aid her race make it impossible for some very intelligent people to esti *■ mate her at her worth or even to think of her as one hundred per cpnt human. ^ The tali Negro gentleman who Was walking on the street with 1 meiis not “just a nigger,” but a ' man of wiae education who has traveled up and down the world. " He has written in a fascinating •way of his life and contact-with dtKer people. A leader of his ‘own race, he is likewise a recog ‘ nized participant of the larger enterprise of a great denomina He is a gifted speaker, and ' a magnetic leader, mid any man [i who looKS upon him with eyes only for his color is sure to be . sadly- misguided ip his estimate qf -tne’ true place he Holds in the * building oi America tomorrow. That little half-blind Japanese who was lecturing at Columbia : Uiuversity is the author of some ,pf;fhe best'soling books in. the . Japanese language. He is the ‘• son of a noble family, a gradu* ’ ;ate of several Japanese Ameri , can universities,, an editor, so :. eial reformer, political and labor .. leader, ‘ and at one timie he was /. released from prison when the . authorities looked in amazement lit a petition presented by his "f^ow. citizens in Kobe and signed by four thousand of them in their bwn blobd. With an in come of sixteen to twenty thou hsod per year, this man lives in . the grains and divides practical ly every yen for the welfare of his neiguoors, the laboring peo ple. name will be known in ; future generations as one who : helped to attack the problems of an impenect industrial and [so cial order from the point of view 01 J68US way OI me. Noteworthy Achievements Color prejudice is most easily 'overcome when ode contemplates the achievements of great minds of other races through the lens of'objectivity. For example, I recall having taken a friend of mine out through the winding alleyways of Pekin*, through thfe teeming marketplaces to the quiet and beauty of the park aroUi- me Temple of Heaven. When we stood at last before the magnificent attar of heaven, and looked up Upon th^ glisten ingroo;i of that architectural gem, lie, turned to me and said, “I will never think about the Chinese as laundrymen and cooks after thjs. The mind that could conceive, the hand that could execute a work of art like this has some superb quali ty which from now on I shall recognise for What it is.” Or again, iit^asi well been said that one song by Roland ilayes makes the whole world kin. When a Southern Negro can win his way by the sweet music of his', voice into, the , audience chambers of the kings of .Eu rope, and into the, finest halls of a dozen ..nations,, he sets at naught for all time the conclu sions of the .color-blind man or woman who persists in think ing witn Mr, Calhoun that the Negro is less than human. Van ity Fair recently nominated Hayes for the Hall of Fame with these words: “Because he has been acclaimed, throughout Eu rope and America as a, great con cert tenor; because he brings tp his recitals not only a lyric voice of great flexibility and beauty, but also-a scholarly understand ing oj. music and a gracious and compelling interpretation; be cause he puts to shame the av erage local artist by a. positive mastery of the five languages in which he, sings; because his singing ©j: the Negro spirituals has in it a quality of revelation; because he is just making his second * concert tour of America preparatory to his fifth Europe an tour." Indeed, when one reaches the higher levels of achievement-— the rarified atmosphere, if you will, of the mountain-top expe riences—it holds true that all the racial and color lines are gone. It holds true in litera ture, in music, in art and in the spiritual realm. We cannot afford to be color blind if we are to share in the great engineering problems of human progress. It becomes in creasingly necessary to recog nize the imperative mosaic qual ities of the social structure of the future, even in America. We talk about America as a white country; and so it is—predomi nantly. but would you call a dress wnite if one-tenth of it were black, and that tenth dis tributed more or less after the fashion 01 dotted swiss? That, to use a crude simile, is how white America is. Then, too, there are red and yellow and brown lines -which enhance the complexity of the design. It is a mosaic! It is that on the score of color and, furthermore, the people of 1 Moses contribute a part of the whiteness which is in some ways distinct from the Gentile white inherited from Northern Europe. The human family as a whole is more than two-thirds colored, so that any world structure pro duced by, modern human engi neering will be of necessity com posed oi white, and colored ele ments in the proportions of 'one to two. The non-white races cannot be expected indefinitely to submit uncomplainingly to the political and economic dom ination of nine-tenths of the earth’s surface by that third of the numan family which hap pens to be white. Eacn Jtiace Uontnoutes There is a distribution of tal ents which must likewise be rec ognized. The talents of the races vary. Some are in one thins and some in another,, The patience, the humor, the genius of the Negro; the calm poise, tne reasonableness,, the amazing endurance of the Chi nese ; the self-centred, the con templative nature, the possibili ties of sen-abnegation of the In dian; the energy, resourceful ness and organizing ability of the white man; the marvelous artistic sense, the genius for simplicity, the capacity for adaptation of the Japanese, all of these must be taken into com sideration by the engineer who deals in human relations and builds a unit which has for its component parts the various faces of the world. PROSPERITY ESSENTIAL TO OUR PROGRESS (The Columbian Press Bureau) Washington,—The extent to which colored wage-earners may hope to benefit by the continu ation of tiie commercial and in dustrial prosperity which now obtains generally throughout the country, cannot, of course, be actually guaged; but the predictions made by prominent labor leaders, and by the repre sentatives of big business inter ests, to the effect that the; great prosperity of the country will continue throughout the coining year, are very encouraging. It is upon the permanent em ployment, at good wages, of our large group, of wage-earners that the economic status of the ;race depend*; and it is interest ing in this connection to note the principal lines of employ ment followed by persons erf col or. There are approximately 887,000 engaged in the manu facturing and mechanical indus tries; about 312,500 are em ployed; by the steam, electric, and water transportation, com panies ; 140,500 make their Hv lihood in trade, and their occu pations range from delivery men to wholesale dealers, im porters and exporters. More than 73,000 are engaged in coal mining and the extraction of minerals. : ; In addition to these large groups of persons, who have di rect contact with the commer cial and industrial activities of the Nation, are the 80,200 col ored men and women who re present our professional class; the 38,00v who are employed in clerical capacities; the 50,600 who are in public service, and the 1,100,000 males and females who are employed in personal and domestic service, All these people are interested in and are hopeful ox a continuation of prosperity, and to them the modification of the Volstead Act, the recognition of Soviet Russia and kindred subjects have no direct appeal. These people are tired of living in the shadow. They want more industrial and commercial opportunities, more and better homes, more wealth, more education; in fact, more of everything that Will contribute to their progress. And they fully realize that a continuation of the present national prosper ity is essential’totheir further advancement. SHINNECOCK CHURCH NOTES. The summer has past and we are pleased to state that the congregation is meeting its ob ligations promptly toward pas tor’s salary, its quota to the Boards and its local expenses. . On the 9th of August Mrs. A. T. Carpenter was thought to be improving and was removed from the Southampton Hospital home. On September the 20th her husband took her to the City of New York in hope of im proving her health. On Septem ber 25th she had to be rushed to the Bellevue Hospital because of her sudden severe break-down. She still remains in that hospital very sick, but we think her con dition has changed for the bet ter. The doctors say she will get well. We are depending on the promise of the Master. If we meet the conditions He will hear our prayers. : On October 11th Miss Pansy Smith, a daughter of Mr. John and Mrs. Huldah Smith, of Shin necock Reservation, died in the Southampton Hospital. She left besides her parents five broth ers and two sister: William, Lincoln E., Lorillard, Irwin and A fufaeral was given Miss Smith |from the Shinnecock Presbyterian church, of which she wa#' a .member. The Bee. Edward W. Carpenter,1 the pas tor, anathe Bov. Thomas A.Og burn, pastor of Bethel Presby terian church, officiated. The pallbearers were Messrs. Hugh fibippen, Forest Oiiffee, George jJ&avis and Raymond Burns. pPhe interment was in the family plot tn the ghinne cock cemetery. The flowers of respect were many ap beautiful. > ; ‘ But th —true eral qi has n< At tbe Synodical .Sabbath School ponvention of Atlantic Synod at Ladson Presbyterian church jcburch, in Columbia, 8. C., twelve years ago, in an ad dress thelate Dr. Janies A. Wor den said: “Christianity has not failed; But the trouble is,Chris tianity pas not had a chance/* Unqualified statement it may be—raises sev ens: If Christianity bad a chance,, why? Is it a lack of courageous men like Huss and Luther and even Paul who preached himself from Mars Pill to the Roman chain gang? Is it the lack of means to spread |)ge gospel? Then if these means ire available who is re sponsibl s for Christianity’s lack of a c tance? Have preachers ceased |o preach the matchless Sermon on the Mount? If so, it is only very brief time when will become an an and a lost force. The sting of humiliation and em barrassment beyond measure, is he who has set before .him a human standard of living .that reflects consultation with the march of progress of the pres ent day civilization, and is pre vented from attaining thereun to because others have set his standard and limited his means of reaching it. < All logical consequences have not the subscript of wisdom ; but the consequences of wisdom must have the stamp of logic. If your expenditure exceeds your income the logical sequence is dire poverty, and that, too, right early. It was wisdom on the part x>i Samuel to state only a part of his mission, “going to offer sacrifice;?’ and it was. the most logical step to pursue to carry out a divine purpose. A book written by one, of our present-day scholars, find enti tled, “Money the Acid Test,” is illuminating and ini a class by it self; but I prefer to say that-the Golden Rule is the Acid Test, for it tests and tries out the fin er textures of . the inner life, which cannot be reached by sil ver and gold. When you see a man with a high brow, posting in a North ern university saying “Prohibi tion is taking away a man’s lib erty” you can just put it down that such a fellow fieeds to “an te” and not to, “post.” All law is a limitation of a man’s liber ty for the common good of alL Read the Ten Commandments, the first part of which, our duty to man, is a limit of man’s liber ty; and when it' ceases to limit man and gives him full reign, our social fabric will be threads of what was, and once more St. Peter wilt inquire Of the strang er en route*, to Roine, who was revealed By*' a halo of glory about his head: “Quo Vadis, Domine?” -- /; - A fact without a theory is un tenable; but all theories do mot lead to tenable facts, but scone to uncertainties and Widely di verging speculations. UNCLE BILLIE. Edisto Island, S. C. THE GOLDEN DAyT^ (December ,5, 1926, International Golden Bole Sunday.) By Arthur Wallace Peach The guns of war are. silent, The bogles’ lips are still, Ahd hands across the world unite To banish hate and ill, To join all In trust that shall not ceaae, . Tor make one day the golden day— The Golden Day of Peace ! No n*ore do homes burn redly In battle's after-glow, But little children wait in ,vidn > A mother's greeting low. The world's great heart must friccor Frail hinds that blindly grope, And make of childhood’s darkened day A Golden Day of Hope! Ti>e years witiTtendar meaning , i Shall hide
asserted that this was a form of oppres sion which called for the con demnation of Christian Church es. ■ '1 No matter now uprignt or re spectable the Negro, says Mc Intosh’s letter, he is unable to rent or buy property in the Bronx except in a neighborhood already predominantly inhabited by colored people. Such neigh borhoods, the letter goes on to say, “are but ghettos and most of the houses. and tenements in them have been long ago vacat ed by white people because of unsanitary, conditions.” Asserting that there seems to be a general understanding not to rent or sell property to a Ne gro except in a Negro district/ the letter continues: “As a Christian it seems to me that oppression, no matter where or against whom, ought to have th^- attention of the Christian Church and that the Silence of the Church upon these and oth er oppressive conditions heaped against the colored people, which are commonly known to exist not only in the Bronx, but throughout the country, and the Church’s own policy of circum scription for the colored man, are not only incompatible with true religion, but give aid and consolation to the oppressors.” Saying that attempts might be made to dismiss the com plaint by declaring that Negroes depreciate property, the letter concludes by asserting that the truth is that race segregation “is its own generator of hate and depredator of property.” What has become of the old [fashioned wife who 'felt sorry for her husband because he had to work W9 hard? The Young Women’ tian Association was ve nate in titorih* Mrs. Williams < McLeihore, The xoung Field the student bo Its Wblfc iri“A«$fc * mer I^sidp of ^ Aj has justiwhrned fiW^Ash ville, N. <$ ^rher^ ^ Att^d the dedication *>{ the ridw Pw byterian cnutdh. V : •'** ™ m. ?4-Ar Bdyddil is ^thect to arrive bd‘ thfe^feimpus‘.fti ton, N“. C., is pasting the cam pus church this*eafc ’ffe is an able speaker. He chose" as his dered music. Prof, W.C.Ifiirgrave< of Dan dridge, Tennessee^a Johnson C. Smith at the head of the partment this year; field hasthe chair Miss Alice Baft, of in charge of and Aft; Mias istory;'_„ . . t Indiana, has the chair of Sci ence; Mrs. Hayne, of Alabaina, is Matron; Mrs. E. B. Tucker is Bean of Wpmen, and MfsHuau ra Armstrong and' Mii& Helen Cohen are m charge ,-of :the Grammar Department. ‘; Mrs. Robert E. Lee is here from Indiana visitiiig Pfof. Lee. . Dr. John M. Gaetbn, of Pitts burgh, Pa., Secretary of the Di vision 01 Missions for Cdored People of the Board of National Missions, visited the ctrnege during the week. , He was fa^ voraWy impressed with/the gov ernment of the • college and thinks that the future outlook is bright.; ’ N. ADRENE HOLSTO^. THE LUTHERAN* CHURCH’S MISSION WORR;!) Richmond, Va., Oet. ? r 23.— ■(AP.)—Morning: and afternoon sessions today of the.flfthfchteiir nial convention' of .the lasted Lutheran ChUreh to America were devoted to xhscusaione of the Church’s mission work. That a'cfct«minO$ efforts to be made bcftofe the convention by LUth^rh&s of Kentucky and Tennessee to form themselves into a synod- was indicated today by the activities of representa tives of congregations in Louis ville and Pjaducah, KyV and Nashville- and Memphis,. Term. Those States are now compet ed with- the Indiana Synod. Leaders in the movement fffr a new synod ■ were active during bhe day 5 to explaining to dele gates that they will have as a nucleus 22 congregations, 17 pastors, 4,668 baptized members and a communing metoberehip nf 3,271. The question will, be formally presented to the con tention Tuesday. ....,., Reports presented to the, con tention today included Jhwte; of the Board on Hpme Missions and Church Extension, the Board of Northwestern Mis sions, the Board .of Immigrants Missions, the Board of Weet. In dies. Missions, the JeH-*» Uia sion Cotomittee, and. mittee on Evangelis: The report, said the er of United Lpth« ter of United Lpthacah tas beenincreaf^tpS1 (Continued on page