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 <dd griefs iwny,!
Abd new dawns tight the distant hllhh
v' And bring a nobler day; \
And tills shall be the premise
And prophecy thereof,
This dky of open hearts and bands—
A Golden Day of Love!
Arthur Wallace Peach, who
tied with Mary Carolyn Davies
of Portland, Oregon, as winner
of the poetry prize in the Mor
genthau Thousand Dollar poet
ry-poster-slogan Contest to pro
mote the observance of Interna
tional Golden -Rule Sunday
through Near East Relief, is a
Vermonter by birth* heritage
and residence. A graduate of
Middlebury College and on the
English faculty of Norwich Uni
versity, he is a member of the
Poetry Society of America, a.
frequent contributor of verse to
many magazines and the author
of a book of poems, “The Hill
Trails.” He lives in Northfield,
Vermont.
GAiTION PLEA.
(The Columbian Press Bureau)
New York,—Saying that it
whs almost impossible for a .Ne
gro to purchase or rent property
in a desirable location in the
Bronx, Eugene McIntosh of the
real estate firm of E. McIntosh
Co., a reputable colored firm of
360 East 165th St., in a letter
sent recently to 165 pastors of
all Christian denominations, in
the Bronx Borough, > 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
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