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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OfTHE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Charlotte north Carolina, Thursday, june 14, 1923 VOLUME FORTY-SEVEN NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR European Visitor Lauds Progress American Negro (Preston News Service) At anta, Ga., May 18.—That the Negro of America is in every way a hundred years ahead of the natives of Soqth Africa, was the statement made by Dr. James Henderson, not ed English' educator from South Af rica who is spending a few months in this country studying race rela tions and Negro education. This is due, he thinks to the fact that the American Negro came much earlier into contact with white civilization and has had a far greater opportu nity for education and self-devel opment. ‘i am particularly ^press ed,” he said, “with the economic progress which Negroes ha^e made in 4&nerica since their emancipation from slavery. It is far beyond any thing I had expected. The Negroes are to be highly commended for their spirit of advancement in spite of the many obvious handicaps.” Dr. Henderson has given practi cably all his life to the education of the natives of British South Africa, having been for many years princi pal of the Dovedale Institute, the African Tuskegee. a missionary insti tution with a faculty of 60 and a stu dent. body of 900. While in Atlanta he visited all of the Negro colleges and schools, commenting most favdrab’y an their fine equipment, competent and devoted tehchers and intelligent students. A number of well-trained ers and social workerp. He jbelieves that the number of such workers will increase and that in this way the ed ucated American Negro is destined to make a great contribution to Af rica’s development. - ) The good wi 1 work of the interra cial commission, of which hp has heard in Africa where its methods are beginning to be adopted, interests 1 Dr. Henderson immensely. The prob ’ems of the race relations, he said, are much more difficu t there than here, and much further from solution. ! However, they are a long way from solut'on in America, but you Ameri cans have done more along that line than we have. We are just starting. \ —East Tennessee News/— ' j NEGRO BOY TO READ l DECLARATION DURING BOSTON CELEBRATION. - ' > (Special to the New York Age) Boston—For the first time in the long history of the custom of having a schoolboy read the1 Declaration of Independence from the Jjalcony of the old State House as a part of the mun icipal Independence Day celebration a Negro youth has been chosen for this honor. 1 Mayor, Curley in announcing the appointment of Charles C. Dogah ■New York Age Negro eVerans’ Hospital At Tuskegee Institute Is To Have Colored Personnel. DEFINITE SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER DISCLOSES THAT MATTER HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN MAZE OF >ETTY POLITICS, INSPIRED CALUMNY; BUT PRESIDENT HARDING KEEPS WORD. Whites Willing To Forget Social Equality Because of Big Salaries. Dr. R- R. Moton Hast Stood Firmly on Program for Negro-Per sonnel—Delegations of Whites Urged Him Otherwise But Their Pleas Were Unavailing. Washington, D. C.—Now that it has been definite y settled that the Veterans Hospital at Tuskegee insti tute will be manned by a Negro per sonnel, from the maze of intrigue, , petty politics, inspired calumny and well-meaning criticism by some not familiar with what has been trans 4 piring on the inside, there emerge two facts that are incontrovertible. t 1„ The honorab e part played by President Harding in making good his promise to Dr. Robert R. Moton to personally see to it that Negro v physicians and nurses would be put in charge of the Government Hospi tal. 2. The firm stand taken throughout the controversy by Dr. Moton^ who was brought face to face with a sit uation of great delicacy. Demanding that he recede from his position in advocating a Negro per sonnel for a Negro hospital in the south were the governor of Alabama, representatives of the American Le gion in that state and other white people who were wiring to close their eyes to the “social equality” issue for the tempting salaries, which they evidently thought were too good for Negroes. The situation was one calling for tactful discussion and diplomatic action ton the part of Dr. Moton. * Like Booker T. Washington, Dr. Moton knows there is a vrast differ ence between constructive agitation and destructive agitation. Not until February did the "head I of Tuskegee Institute entertain the * slightest idea that Southern whites would make a fight to have white nurses and physicians serve Negro patients in the new Government Hos pital. As Tuskegee Institute with a budget of over half a million annual ly, is the outstanding example in the United States as proof of the Negro’s capacity to successful y conduct his own institutions on a large scale, it was not presumed that the Veterans Hospital, unofficially regarded as an auxiliary to the school, would be run by white attendants. President Harding's Assurance. It was only after the arrival of the superintendent that it became noised about that the white people were go ing to insist on'a white personnel. A strange feature of the controversy has been tjiat at no time has logical argument been advanced as to why white nurses and doctors should work in a Negro hospital in the state of Alabama. Last February, shortly before Pres,* ident Harding went south on his va cation, Dr. Moton, accompanied by Fred R. Moore, editor of The Age, and Dr. Charles H. Roberts, a’so of New York, and other friends, called at the "White House and engaged in a lengthy conversation, at which time the President assured Dr. Moton-that Negroes would be employed in the Government Hospital at Tuskegee. Acting orf this assurance Dr. Moton had announcements made in the Ne grt) press that examinations would be he’d for positions. Applicants were instructed to communicate with the Civil Service Commission division at Atlanta. While President Harding was in Florida it cable to Dr. Moton’s atten (Continued on page 5) ) labor is car . which migra ;iy negligible, lexposition of ian answer to lo not foster forceful re Bdifyingly ac p'esenting fair Kip its Negro Negro Migration Which Hit Southern Industry Skipped Durham. By C. C. Spaulding, President, North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Co., Durham, N. C. The migration of thousands of Ne groes from the southern states dur ing the spring months of 1923. has caused grave eoonOmic problems in certain sections Strawberry crops dollars have laid p ucked; cotton out sufficient hs the approaching j-j&u uarvesi u.u fair to meet the same doom. Serious and fair-minded southern white men have repeatedly called conferences and tried- to reach; , the underlying cause of such wide spread migration. A negative— rep >v however, is as helpful, if not more so than a positive answer. So that wej|iave made care ful study of oppor^iiiities and condi tion under which ried on in a city tion has been pra<$ We believe that these facts wir pr« the conditions wi migration as well ply to those who cuse the south of i economic opportunl population. Durham, The, city which Dipt this great nation was warring against itse f Durham was the meeting plaice set aside by Generals Sherman and Johnson as neutral' ground for the soldiers of the two conflicting armies. The same spirit, which made this lit tle town a spot where hostile enemies entered into games, foot races and horse trading, has continued to char acterize the citizens of Durham. To day nearly eight thousand Negroes live in peaceful, friendly re ationship with their white neighbors, enjoying splendid economic opportunities. Opportunities for Negroes Abundant. The tobacco factories, hosiery milts buPding trades as well as the farm industries employ Negro ’abor in im portant positions. More than one thousand colored men apd wopien are employed by the tobacco factories in Durhant. They occupy various po sitions from stemmers of tobacco to operators of machines^ which perform some of the technical processes of the business. The fact that numerous of the Negro employees in the tobac co factories have been at their posts j for twelve, ten and eight years • is ! indicative of the satisfactory services which they render' in this industry and the pleasant working conditions which they encounter. Pleasant Surrounding^. As an indication of the desirable working conditions of which the Ne gro labor is subject in the tobacco factories of Durham, we should ca l • special attention to the careful med- I , ical attention which is afforded col- ^ ored hands, while they are at the j factory and at home^ if the nature ■ of their, complaints is such as to | cause confinement. Nor should we| overlook the sympathetic .understand- j ing which exists between the hands and their superintendents; which is apparent to the most casual on ook- , er in the factory. A genuine interest 1 in each employee is manifested by j the directors of the factory and I the employees in turn manifest a live i interest in the processes which are , assigned to them. Then, too a suffi cient number of days of work are given the colored employees rto as sume them of a livelihood. But steady wbrk under a happy, pleasant envi ronment will not be rejected by anj group of steady working people, noi 'vtfli it be forsake® for vague talks opportunities in a strange tvuu- ; try. The proof of the pudding is the ,• eating—it has not been deserted in Durham. ' Unstable Negro Population. While-a few hundred Negroes have left Durham the number is relatively sma 1 when compared with the exo dus from other cites of North Caro lina -and especially when compared with the migration from cities in • ther southern states. Moreover, the city has not lost its steady Negro working hands. Most of those who have gone constitute the floating population that usually changes lo cations in the spring of each year and upon whom industry cannot de pend for regular hours of labor in any season^ The great majority of those who have eft Durham came here last year from points farther south. They will move on next year. Sq we have realty gained in their going. Besides when persons have gone from native Durham families they did not take their families with them. The worn en, children and men remained while the younger sons still in that roam ing period when adventure is prime most in their minds, migrated. As long as numerous opportunities for steady emp'oyment under fair work ing conditions continue to exist in Durham there is little danger of aJ general migration among the stable, working class of Durham Negroes. Hosiery. Mr Is Offer Unique Oppor. ftmtar General who once owned slaves,' has neve,r lost his interest in colored people. He shows it in more words, in a larger way than granting occasional gifts to the children of his former slaves. He has built hosiery mills in which seven hundred colored hands are employed in Durham. One of these mills is named for a co:ored man, John O’Daniel, who served General Carr for over 40 years. It was in appreciation of his services which had enlarged General Carr’s faith in the Negro that the first co’ored hosiery mills in the (Continued on page 5) British Crime Expert Denounce* Ku Klux Klan Sir Basil Thomson, former director of the criminal investigation depart ment of Great Britain’s detective center, Scotland Yard, warns of $he danger of the Ku Klux JOan, in an in_ terview published in the New York Herald of Sunday, June 3. s “The new Klan professes to wage war against modern social evil,” said Sir Basil, “but in reality it fosters animosity against the Roman Catho lics, and Jew and the co’ored people. It can do no possible good, and it may do much harm. “Its use of the mask opens the door to the adoption of disguise by violent criminals who will not be slow to -copy the form of the Klans man’s mask when they have old scores to settle.... “Some unthinking people have liken ed the movement to the Italian Fas cist movement, but the Fascist works openly and scorns the use of masks. The Klansman’s defense for the mask, or rather the defense of those with whom I have talked, is that some people are shy of Joining a movement^ however much they ap prove of its objects, if they have to come out into the open. One would have thought that recruits so desti tute of moral courage were scarcVy worth enrolling^ I venture the sug gestion, which I make without any r disrespect to the Klan, that without ’the masks there would be no re cruits.” Blame Us Not Because We Are Not Stars, Etc. By E. Malcom Argyle, D. D« One acquainted with the heavenly, bodies knows that "One star differed fpom another star in the heavens, not* >n"y in brilliMice, but in distanced from the earm and magnitude.” The stars sh’ne brighter when the sua sets. The stars give their brighter' lights when they are farthest from 'he earth;. In socia and political life men and women are styled as stars according to their worth and prom inence. In church life the same. Stars take their places in church life and shine out^ just as they <k> i» other walks of life, but they reflect; the shadows of greater bodies, an# * their talents are put to the exchange. Sometimes the stars that shimmer in the distant firmament give but a faint light' and are sometimes practically unnoticed by the trave er; put they are stars just the same; atm often these are stars that hold their place# near some other luminous body whose *’• brilliancy overshadows them, aat#*? makes them seem obscure. So it.is* - in church and state; Attorney Gen eral Daugherty was a dim star in the A legal professionf bpt shone out in . the campaign alter the nomination o%? Warren O. Harding for president..' He^ nnt info that ^npfrteiL. all- the ^ vim of a shrewd po itician, and as at reward for faithful sendee, * the * ~ cy eclipsing many These -are many men In the church* who oould and wou d shine, if they were only allowed to draw neaf a. larger orbit. We could mention a* score of them without rejecting on the brilliance and personal acumen ! of any others. Dr. E. D. W. Jone% is already a star of the first magni tude." Every one will epneede that* and there also are Dr. W. C. Brown,t Dr.- C. C. Alleyne, Dr. E, L. Mad ison, Dr. C. S. Whitted, Dr.V-J., Walls, Dr. W..L. Hamblin, Dr, JT.4 W. Martin, Dr. J. W. Browh Dr.fc . W. A. Blackwell and Dr.- W. Slade. These are all. stai;s of, bril liance and they shine out inrespletty deney. But' there . is still ano^hei^ group of stars that shine out in ZfcH^ and of which many of , us seem to no-^ tice only casually . Here tjiey + are :^ H. H. Jackson, S. P. Cook, .^t. (King, J.,H. McMullen J. P.. Footey J. L. B ack, H. T. Medford, D.^ .Davis F. D. Douglass, S, L». rothers, H. J. Callis and possibly score or more others whom we j.us<^ can not call to mind. These,'iika the afore mentioned stars shine in theijT place with adequate luster. ^ ^ . They art ju§t'as fibril iant in place as'any of the rest; but ’tljejr; aihould have been noticed fof, dte* splendid achievements credited their records. . ! It is a pleasure to specifically note' the record of one, Dr. C. I*. Jiteran-^ der of the Virginia conference, whom we have known for a number of years; a man. wl '> hits been tried and never >und wanting. We remember his :ruggle in Knoxvil’e, Tenn., in an adeavor to build the first brick' lurch for Zion in the Tennessee con srence. How he was maligned and andered, how he fought as it were, ith the beast at Ephesus; yet ha at the church on the map as the" rst brick church for the connection i the state of Tennessee. He is as ian of pep and indomitable courage, [e never gives the struggle over and ever backs down. He is a man with record of successful achievements. re wants to be secretary of the hurch Extension Department. There is no more active or better tan in the church than Ityefor the (Continued oir page 5)
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