VOLUME PORTt-NINE.
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925
NUMBER THIRTY-THREE
BORAH REPLIES TO
EX-KAISER
Charges Domination of White
Race Favored by Wilhelm
Would Mean Race War
(From The New York Times)
Washington, Oct. 19—Responding
today to the statements of the ex
Kaiser of Germany, in which the
latter declared that Senator Borah’s
position as regards the rights of the
races is a menace to white suprem
acy the world over, Senator Borah
said that if Wilhelm’s views should
prevail it would mean a war between !
the white ra ces on the one side and
the yellow, brown and other colored
races on the other.
The statements of the Kaiser
were contained in a Berlin special
cable to The New York Times, yes
terday. and it was that dispatch on
which Senator-Borah based his re
joinder. The peril to the white race
which the Kaiser warns of, is not
the yellow or brown races, but the
“opnressive and imperialistic” atti
tude which the white races have as-!
Mimed toward those races, Senator
Bo’-ah declared.
The Kaiser was quoted as saying
that the “principle of race equality
promulgated by Senator Borah,
threatens the supremacy of the
white race” fnd will result in Sena
tor Borah’s being hailed as the
chamoion of colored peon^s and the
fr^d of the Moscow Third Inter
national. The onlv wav to head off
the threatened conflict, in the ooin
ion of the Kaiser, is for London,
Paris, and Washington to rearm
Germany and put her on her feet
again.”
“I presume” said Senator Borah
todav, “the ex-Kaiser has reference
to mv statement, made sometime ago,
that in dealing with China, we should
treat the Chinese nation on a basis
of equality and that the assumption
wlv'ch seemed to obtain upon the
part of foreign Governments in Chi
ra thrt China was an inferior mem
ber of the family of nations was an
ai"sumotion which should, and could,
no lor-erpr obtain and that it^woidd
he disastrous to undertake to deal
with China unon any other theory.
“The neril to the white race which
the ex-Kaiser speaks of is not the
yePow or brown race hut the op
pressive and imperialistic ^attitude
of the white race toward these races.
If the white race continues these
policies of exploitation, of oppres
sive measures, he assured the peril
is met and imminent.
“There is one thing which the ex
Kfliser seems to overlook, or at least
not to give sufficient consideration
to it. During the war the white race
was delighted to tveat the colored
races on terms of equality. There
was no difference in the color of the
Wood on the battlefield. The United
States particu'arly asked China *to
come in and help the white race
‘save civilization.’ Moreover, the
white race announced some doc
trines which the colored races took
to heart—the doctrine of self-deter
mination and the right of f 11 peoples
to choose their own form of govern
ment and live their own lives.
“The white race went on record.
The colored races believed the doc
trine. The nationalistic spirit was
aroused; hopes and aspirations stir
red these peonies from centre to cir
cumference. The pledges having been
made, should be kept—they wi’l
have to be kept. China will demand
to be treated as an equal. She will
assert her independence and the
r;"bt to administer her own laws
wi'dr'v her dominion, to fix and col
lect bm* tariffs, and nothing less
will s-’tisfv.
“If the other powers in China do
nof to proceed along these
l,r»og. nevovthe’ees the United States
should If the United States cannot
have the company and the.coopers
t?"p of other powers whmh she cer
tainly would desire, she should shape
her own policy and pursue her own
course. \
“The ex-Kaiser's proposition means
war, a war between the white and
colored races, a war into which would
enter the two desolating passions
of the human family, race and re
ligion. We must either treat these
people justly, fairly and as equals,
or we shall have to fight them.
“I am in favor of trying the policy
of justice for a time instead of force;
of fair treatment instead of exploit
ation. I think it will work more to
the cause of peace.”
SHAKING THE PLUM
TREE
MOTHER ZION
By Bishop E. D. W. Jones
While a general clean-up is in pro
gress from the Brotherhood through
all of our departments to the books
of the W. H. and F. M. Society, and
while those entrusted with the on
wsrd . march of the Church are un
tangling reported irregularities; I
went over to New York City to
preach on the occasion of the Dedi
catorial continued services of great
Mother Zion church.
It surpassed every dream I had of
its huge, gothic, immense proportions.!
The building itself, has indeed every
appearance of a Cathedral and is
more than a mere structure of
stone, brick, steel and mortar; it is
in its very architectural plr nning
sacred, a place of devoted worship
where beams cry out amid the mas
sive timbers “holiness unto the
Lord.”
Dr. J. W. Brown and his trusted
followers have built a real magnifi-l
cent, monument to the fathers. IJ
thought only of Francis Jacobs,
Peter Williams, Abram Thompson, j
William and Thomss Miller, who!
were our first trustees as I sat with-1
in the holy- splendors of the tower
ing memorial and listened at the
sweet organ tunes which pealed forth I
from the spacious gallery, one like I
unto the gallery erected one hun- *
dred and twenty-five years ago in
Miller’s Cabinet shop. I must con
fess that I thought more of Bishop
J. W. Hood than I did of Bishon
James Varick. Bishop Varick was
once pastor of Mother Zion, but the
first church built in 1800 from the
foundation up, he was not so much
in evidence in its construction. Bish
op Hood loved Mother Zion church
as no man before or since. His heart
was there. It was his pride. He knew
her history and that she ranks first
in New York City as the Negro’s ef
fort at self-help and religious inde-<
pendency. Negroes now sitting in
the lap of luxurious progress unsur
passed anywhere in the world, in
Harlem, must always turn, to Mo
ther- Zion as the beginning of their
real and permanent advancement.
Bishop Hood reasoned that if Moth
er Zion was safe and continued to
shed us lighi of loyalty and devo
tion upon the great cause of Zion
Methodism, as^she did in the early
fifties, when every prominent jhprge
srsht from the original denonrna
tion and oiganized the Wesleyan
Church: it was Mother Zion that
stood firm and immovable and thru
her ir.f’uence, zeal and negotiations
"leaded the torn church and around
her altars union was forever attain
ed vmi.l 1l;e shouts and ioys of truly
reconciled contenders.
Of all the scenes greeting me at
the altar of the historic edifice—the
meeting of old Livingstonians and
many friends of other days, none
^Wsed me more and threw such a
bnlo of inspirational enthusiasm as
when I saw Bishop Hood’s dauerhtom
Lilian, serving at the pltar, James
Hood, his son, an attentive, earn
est wnrshionor and his grand child
ren mingling with the bannered host
doing service for God and honoring
th® fathers whose sacrifices, tears,
- and labors . gave us an indissoluable
Zion that could not be she ken by
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WASHINGTON OR
PHILADELPHIA
-WHICH?
By S. M. Dudley, Esq. .
Secretary of Church Extension
and Home Missions
Editor of The Star of Zion:
I had hoped not to be drawn int>
any controversy as to which is to be
[preferred, Philadelphia or Washing
ton for our Financial Headquarters.
In the first place, if we are to oper
ate successfully our new Financial
plan, I question the advisability of
mentioning the names of the Gener
al Officers in such a manner as will
make a reply from them necessary.
Somebody must work, and it has been
well said that “They who work best,
talk the least.” The General Officers
are bonded and charged with<the re
sponsibility of performing faithful
ly, honestly and well, the duties of
their office. They therefore have no
time to “Come down” and engage in
a lengthy discussion which will get
them nowhere. In this connection I
am reminded of an old farmer who
went to a judge and asked for a
divorce. “But, why, John, do you
want a divorce,” asked the judge,
who knew the couple* “Judged re
plied John, “That woman jist talk and
talk and talk.” “What does she talk
about,” te judge asked. “She_ don’t
say ” replied John. In the Second
place, I must admit that I find it
exceedingly difficult to depart from
my earlv Methodist training, which
among other things, was to avoid,
as far ? s possible, any taking back
to a Bishop. Whether I was broueht
up in the way I should go, in this
matter, I leave for others to answer.
I only know I have not yet recover
ed from the very high respect in
which I held our Chief Pastors in
other days.
However, I must correct what I
regard as an error in the article
“Walking About Zion,” which ap
peared in The Star of October 15.
It strted that “Mr. Dudley and Dean
Moore visited our congregation here
on Sunday, and made the statement
that this was the easiest, the most
unencumbered church financiering
that they had ever put over in such
a large sum, due to the fact, they
alleged, that we had such large equity
in the properties.” On the contrary
I tried to convey just the opposite
impression in my short talk deliver
ed Sunday "morning, Sept. 4 last, a£
eleven o’clock at Varick church. The
little speech which I still have, was
as follows:
“Dr. Taylor. Officers and members
of Varick church: Last Sunday I said
to y'u that we were endeavoring to
render for you what we regard as
a distinct service. I have returned
today to let you know tkat we hfve
been successful in our endeavors.
Now. I know you are anxious to
know the details—what it is that
we have done. To perform a difficult
task in nearly every instance, re
quires a very efficient man. We se
cured the services of such a man in
Dean L. B. Moore, whom I have
known for several years. He is ono
of the best trained men of our rape
He has worked hard to put it over
•for us here and I prefer to h’w him
give the details as to the difficulties
mwountercd. I think I shouM sam
however, that some years ago wto
:t was decided to purchase this
church which cost some SPO.000.0''
or more, the undertaking wa* con
c;dm*ed so great, and the congrega
tion on the other hand so small, thrt
the rh,-”ch Extension Department
took title to the property. It has
been the propert.v of the Department
ever sinoe. Whi’e you have wor
shipped here and carried a larg*e
part of the responsibility, mn do not
own the property. The Department,
owns it and can sell or mortgage it
whenever it gets ready. We believe
you should own and carry your
church just as other trustees and
congregations own and carry theirs.
And that is what we are now ready
to do. There will now be no debts
in connection with it, but the debts
which you make. The church has
been so refinanced that you can car
ry it, and we shall expect you to
address yourselves to the task of
carrying your own obligations.” Dean
Moore was not present. It can readily
be seen that there was no attempt
to minimize the difficulty of the
task which has been accomplished.
Mr. Moore and I held several con
ferences in Philadelphia and Wash
ington and we talked to each other
frequently ove- the long distance
telephone. I had insisted that he ne
gotiate for each of the Philadelphia
churches, straight first trust loans
covering all of the mortgages, judg
ments and the major part of 'he
other outstanding obligations. This
you see would give the trustees very,
very easy sailing until they could
vet their bearing under the new situ
ation, I l»n<w that we had dong it to
grc'it advantage for two (2) of 'ur
churches ii Washington. One of
tilt ,e Washington churches has a
bonded debt of more than thirty
^thousand ($30,000.00) dollars, or
about as much as was placed on the
two Philadelphia churches together.
The trustees are required to pay
only the interest on this amount at
six per cent. They may pay and oc
casionally do pay something on the
principal, but they are not driven to
it under threat of foreclosure. We
found it impossible to negotiate such
a loan in Philadelphia. It was there
fore necessary to negotiate a smrll
second trust loan payable in such a
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A PRAYER FOR THE
TEACHERS
By Glenn Frank
0 Lord of learning and lesrners,
we are at best but blunderers in this
godlike business of teaching.
Our shortcomings." shame us, for
we are not alone in paying the pen
alty for them; they have a sorry
immortality in the maimed minds of
those whom we, in our blunderings,
mislead.
We have been content to be mer
chants of dead yesterdays, when we
should have been guides into unborn
tomorrows.
We hsve put conformity to old
customs above curiosity about new
ideas.
We have thought more about our
subject than about our object.
We have been peddlers of petty
accuracies, when we should have
been priests and prophets of abund
ant living.
We have schooled our students to
be clever competitors in the world
a.s it is, when we should have been
helping them to become creative
'■per? tors in the making of the world
as it is to be.
We have regarded our schools as
training camps for an existing so
ciety to the exclusion of making
them wtirking-models of an evolving
sbciety.
We have counted knowledge more
orecious than wisdom.
We have tried to teach our stu
jents what to think instead of how
to think.
We have thought it our business
to furnish the minds of our students,
when we should have been laboring
to free their minds.
And we confess that we h?ve fall
en int' tVesc sins of the sciioolroo n
because it has been the easiest way.
It has been easier to tell our stu
dents about the motionless past that
we can learn once for all than to
join with them in trying to under
stand the moving present that must
be studied afresh each morning.
From these sins of sloth may we
be freed. <
M>y we reahze that it is import
ant to know the past only that we
may live wisely in the present.
TRIBUTE BY MOSES
TO RESCUER FOUND
Dr. Grimme, German Philolo
gist, Deciphers Inscription
on Stone Dating 1500
B. C.
(From The New York Times)
Berlin, Oct. 19—Moses’ grateful
commemoration of his rescue from
the bulrushes by the Egyptian
Queen and simultaneously the alpha
bet of the oldest written language
known to man—ancient Hebrew, as
it was spoken fifteen centuries be
fore Christ—hfve been discovered by
Professor Grimme, who holds the
chair ,of Semitic philology at the
University of Munster, according to
an announcement made by Dr. Grim
me at a small gathering at the home
of a friend here Saturday evening.
As a result of the discovery the
German Government may combine
with the British Government in send
ing a scientific expedition to Mount
Sinai, where stone inscriptions de
ciphered T>y Professor Grimme were
excavated twenty years ago by an
English archaeologist. The message
of eternal gratitude, carved either
bv Mosps himself, or at his behest
on a thick stone slab, reads as fol
lows, according to Dr. Grimme:
“I, Manasse Mountain chief and
head priest of the temple thank
Pharfoh Hiachepsut vfor having
drawn me out of the Nile and help
ed me to attain high dignities.”
The writing, which at first sight
resembled Egyptian hieroglyphics,
was found by Dr. Grimme to consist
of alphabetically formed words. He
deciphered the alphabet and dis
covered that it contained twenty-two
letters, much similar to the ancient
Hebrew of the Old Testament. This
£ lphabet, devised from Egyptian
image writing, was the first used by
man.
Manasse is a synonym for Moses
in the Hebraic tongue of that epoch.
Dr. Grimme’s find also definitely an
swers that question as to which hill
on Sinai 1 Peninsula was Mount
Sinai of the Bible.
The stone tablets, on one of which
Moses’ tribute to his royal rescuers
was inscribed, were dug up in a bur
ied Egyptian temple dating back
to 1500 B. C., oh the Serabit el Cha
dem Plateau of Mount Sinai by
Flinders Petrie, an English explorer,
in 1905. Unable to remove the stones
because of their weight, Petrie pho
tographed and made plaster casts
of them and then reburied them in
a piece of which he alone knows the
exact position.
The inscription on the tablets re
mained a riddle until 1916, when
Alan Gardiner, an eminent English
Egyptologist, managed to establish
certain Mosiac consonants. Dr.
Grimme proceeded from this point
until he had mastered the entire
flphabet and could read all the lines
cprved on one of the photographed
slabs.
“My heart stood still as I read,”
the Professor told his auditors.
It is estimated that the tablets
were written in the year 1479 B. C.,
which accords with the dates of
Moses’ life fixed in the Bible. More
over, during the same period Queen
Hiachepsut died and her successor,
Tut? os III, oppressed her followers
and destroyed her monuments. Pos
sibly for this reason Moses caused
the stone to be inscribed as a mem
orial to the dead Queen.
Dr. Grimme points out that the
other tablets found on Mount Sinai
doubtless contain writings of Moses’
career.
Help us to be more interested in
stimulating the builders of niodem
cathedrals than in retailing to stu
dents the glories of ancieht temples.
Give us to see that a student's
memory should be a tool as well as
a treasure-chest.
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