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PAUK FOUR 77i<’ ADVOCATE SATURDAY, JUI.Y t. IH.11 EXPLOITATION PROHIBITED IN LINDBERGH CASE P r o p h e t s a n d P r o f it s o f S e g re g a tio n 1» *355 > By Carter Q. Woodson) Negro segregationists are now de- nounctng me from the housetops, be cause l fearlessly attack their trade and the way they apply it. I do not take seriously what they are saying. however, for practically all of these unfortunates are hirelings who live on the profits of segregation They had better call me bad names, if they do not they will lose their Jobs. cept it unless forced upon me and i cannot help mvself I am still poor aiMj i hare never been rich; but I hare never worked at a place or ser- Ved in a position in which 1 had to discriminate against a member of my race. Any man who does such a thing cannot develop what we call character. He thereby loses his soul, _____ These segregationists are saying that I should restrict m yself to his- tory. This is precisely what 1 am Jo- ing Segregation is the most fat' reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. In fact, it is a sequel to slavery; and any writer who is un- able to understand this or who has not the courage to * peak about it is not an historian. History, moreover. has no value unless it shows the bearing of the past upon the present and that of the present upon the past. 1 oppose segregation because it is unchristian 1 cannot think that the Christ would countenance the efforts of the churches which segregate people and even shut the doors in their faces on account of color 1 can- not think that there is any of the spirit of Jesus in the Y. M C. A or the Y. W . C. A which will accept the white drunkard or harlot while driv- mg away the Negro woman or man 0f character and culture. I have no respect for those Negroes who. know- jng these things, serve these organi- sations as hirelings to befuddle the Negro public which has had the chance to be enlightened There are a tew defenders of seg regation. who are doubtless sincere. . . Although nominally free they have never been sufficiently enlightened to see the matter other than as sla ves. I can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. A few who became free reenslaved themselves. A still larger number made no effort to be come free because they did not want to disconnect themselves from their masters, and their kind still object to full tredom. Ever since the Civil War when Ne groes were first given a chance to participate in the management of their affairs they have been incon sistent and compromising. They have tried to gain one thing on one day by insisting on equality for all. while at the same time endeavoring to gain a- nother point the next day by segrega tion. At one moment Negroes fight for the principle of democracy, and at the very next moment they barter it away for some temporary advan tage. You cannot have a thing and dispose of it at the same time. For example, the Negro political leaders of the reconstruction period clamored for suffrage, for the right to ait in the same legislative halls, to attend the same theatres, and to su y at the same hotels as the whites; but few of them wanted white and color- ed children to attend the same school When expressing themselves on education most of them took the position of segregationists; and Charles Sumner in hU fight for the civil rights of the Negro, had to ell- ruinate m.xed schools from his pro- gram not only because many white. objected but also because Negroes themselves did not seem to want It. All of these leaders might not hare been looking for jobs in those days; but as nominal freemen, who were still sUves, they did not feel com- fortable In the presence of their for- mer masters. -------- These timorous men were very much like some Negroes who were employed near my home in Virginia by a Northern farmer who had mov- ed into the State after the Civil W ar When breakfast time came the first morning he called them in to eat at the table with his family These ac- tual slaves, however. immediately lost their appetite. One finally call- ed the employer aside and settled the matter in another way He said: -------- “ Now. boss, you aint used to de rules ob die country. We just cant sit at de table wid wite folks We been use ter eating a cake er bread out yonder ’tween de plow handles. Les us go out dar.” -------- I am proud of the fact that I have never seen anybody whom I consid- ered better than I am because he happened to be of a different color, For that reason I am Inalterably op- posed to segregation, and I never ac- It is interesting to note. too. that W'hen Negro segregationists complain to you that the traducer is not doing the best part by them they do not want you to use their names in crit icising the attitude of their boss If you do they w ill not know anything about It. According to the newspa pers. this is exactly what Tobias and Moorland hare done in denying what they have told me. 1 thought that men ordained to preach were ordain ed to tell the truth. I am opposed to segregation be cause. looking back over the last sixty years. I do not find the beneti- cent results which the prophets of segregation predicted They said that if the Negroes would go off to themselves here and there they would solve their perplexing prob lems. The system, therefore, has ex tended from one thing to another un til the Negroes today find themselv es hedged in by the color bar al most every way they turn; and. set o ff by themselves, the Negroes can not learn from the examples of oth ers with whom they might come in contact. In the ghetto, too. they » " no‘ Permitted to construct and ° » « » program ^ their own. These segregating lnca^tlona moiw- over. Interfere with the development <* »'If-h elp for. ** * ° raise money to’ establish institutions which we might control »"*« » e readily con ribute Urge sums *or Institution, which »cgrega.e per 801,3 ot African blood Here in Wash- inf ,on- ,he C* P U8‘ o f. thfh w„e. ™ise thousands and thousand, of ,he whites in segregating us. -------- I am opposed to segregation, too. because it is an unwise public policy Booker T. Washington denounced it as unjust because it invites unjust measures "Any race adjustment bas- ed on injustice.” said he. "finally de- feats itself The Civil W ar is the best illustration of what results where it is attempted to make wrong right or seem to be right.” -------- Segregation, moreover, is a form Qf oppression which, in the long run. according to history, works more in- j ury to the oppressor than the op- e<i around there must be some per- SOn cruel enough to do the kicking, and t his very act brutallies the do- er and debases him below the per- sons whom he tl|us despitefully uses \Ve see that the Greeks were never able to make their best contribu- tions until they began to break down social barriers The Romans likewise saw the necessity for more equality of the classes and masses Modern nations finally realized that they were handicapping themselves by forcing the Jews into the ghetto, and some of us may live unto the day when the majority of the people of this country will see the folly of seg- regating Negroes. quarters of ths ••■archers reports«! ths find, aud led Ihe authorities to ’ ths spot. This will not be rscorded to Lindbergh's credit We had always conceived that modest, courageous (aud lucky) young man ss being of (By JOHN JAMISON LL. B ) |s quite different type I The whltua (newspapers, profess (B y W. J. Wheaton) lira, preachers aud gsugstsrs) liava made all sorts of uotorlsly tor them The fourth of July- the day of our INSO LV EN T BANKS By N ..N CY LEE uaiituiai unit-pen done«- through which selvee and collected s good deal of we boast of our freedom as a self cold cash for their real or faked con governing people and glorify our nection with the case Allen, as mod In Ihe event o the Insolvency or standard of Chrtallan civilisation Dear Nancy Lee: voluntary liquidation of any bank or eat as Lindbergh could have been re A certain young man. tor whom I We chant. My Country Tin Of Thee Uourtssy the Associated Negro I’ress trust Company, the d«positura of the fused to “ cash In" and walled He care nothing insists upon calling on and sing of the "l.*nd of The Free ami hank or t rust Uomany shall have a William Allen who discovered the l he Home of the Brave" We taud our received uelther thanks nor offer of first lien upon all Ih e assets of such me practically every evening. Lindbergh beliy, gild perhaps saved government as precious heritage but I do not like to hurt his feelings as without serloua thought aa to what hank or trua t Company ami III the Lindbergh from being "gyp««d" out ot aid. although big sums had been of distribution of aueli asset«- or the frred In reward Filially Allen yield his father and my father are very we are doing with that heritage We another 150,000 by criminal whllea. ed to a normal human neceaslty and orate on what our fore-fathers proceeds thoreor. the same shall he dear friends. wrought without a thought aa to first appllod to satisfy the utiiouul has not only been snubbed by Ihe W ill you please tell me how I can whether or no we are standing firmly dee such depositors ater the payment famous Colonel, but has not been allow ml a Coney Island allow man to hire him aa an ''attraction " Ininied get rid of him without causing any by and for the Ideals for which they of the expenses ot liquidation of such lately Governor Moore, of New Jeraey, made a sacrifice If Francis Key were hank or t rust company. Amt where trouble? and we believe II was si Lindbergh's alive today ami witnessed ihe many any such hank shall establish ami W. C. inhibitions he would think twice be matntalu a commercial ami savings suggestion, asked Ihe Coney Island Dear W. C.: department, the assets of such com fore lauding the United Slates as a aulhorlllea lo prevent this showman ami Savings department Your problem is rather a delicate free nation Few countries have plac mere tal continuing lo exhibit Allen, thue de one. and 1 am sure your young man's ed more reatrictfona on freedom of shall be helil and liquidate«! for the exclusive benefit of the depositors nying Ihe dlacoverer of the Dead attentions are as embarrassing as speech than this In most countries ot such commercial deparlmenl. ami one can air his thoughts freely, even Child the right to earn bread, honor they are annoying such depositors shall have a first, criticise the government, as long as ably, lo feed his own Living Children Try this Every time he calls in he dives not commit an overt act a- prior ami exclusive lien upon all Ihe I oau sympathize with Lindbergh vite a girl friend to spend the even c.m st orderly government He would assets of such commercial depart ment, amt such assets shall not be and hts wife In a desire nut to have ing; also ask a young man to make wonder why freedom should be given liquidât«*«) nor applt<><! for the henefll the sad Incident advertise«! In that up a foursome Have him suggest to any part of the people to d!sfrau of the depositors or orwlltors or any j chlse. lynch and murder other people way; hut Ihe most chivalrous way that you all go to a movie or some which the constitution of the nation other department of such hank or out (or them would have been to offer place to dance Pair the other girl gives the right—“ Life. Liberty and truat company; provtd«-<l that after the depositors of such commercial de William Allen other employment and off with your admirer He will soon Happiness " There would be wonder partment shall have been paid In ull. other ineana of making a living That stop coming to call when he finds at the timidness In combatting the any such remaining aasets of the organised criminal who terrorises Ihe would have been simple thing for he c an t be in vour society alone courts ot justice to the extent that commercial department may then lu either Lindbergh or the New Jersey Ihio release eonfpssed and convicted ll sed or appIGnl for the benefit of. authorities to offset, and much mors criminals. In the city of Chicago, a and the payment to depositions of Stay Off —J U L Y 4 — B>g Dance ! ease against a criminal was dismissed Ihe savings d<*partment of such hank ccmmendabls than pursuing Ihls man or trust company and the same shall given by Sflt. Joseph W h i t e S p a n i s h because his prosecutors were threat to Coney Island, having him ouaten American War Vets - - Hibernia Hall ened with death W e will have to e- be first applied to the amount due b> underhanded "Influence ” rase the "brave" when those who are such savings depositors prior to be Whal Allen wse doing was at least sworn to uphold the law quail, even ing used or applied to the payment of others creditors. All claims of any in t he face of Death Thia day should open and honest, and not falae and kind or nature must he first filed be a rededicalion lo the Ideals of Ihe . crooked like that done liy many other men wrho founded the nation W e ' with the superintendent of banks The superintendent of banks shall cause people and agenclea who aahed tu" should dedicate ourselves to the task i After Hours Call - East 0419 to lie given by advertisement ou the case the newspapers who In- j of making this nation free from the notice In such newspaper as he may direct, prejudice of intolerance that restrains erressed their circulation by the him weekly for three consecutive mouths, Ihe growth and progress of Its citi l \• dr<-ds and thousands, through the use calling on all persona who may have zens because of race and color There claims against such bank or trust of one sensational lls or another; sud must be a rebirth Men of action rath company to preaent the same to the Ihe reporters who magnified every er than platitudes must be sought to W IL L IA M PICKENS superintendent of hanks and to make "tip " aud wrote millions of lln«*s of lead us out ot the slough and rid Ihe legal proof thereof at a place and nation of Ihe orgy of crime now rewarded In auy way for his services pure fiction; and the p«dlce officials within a time not earlier than the CLEANING A R EPAIRING threatening the stability of the gov last day of publication The superln and. according to the dgily press, who paraded around, looking linpor ernment. tendent «>f hanks shall mall a similar hss been ousted by the government tant. when they didn't know a thing Hats Cleaned . Shoes • • • notice to all persons whose names ap and Blocked Shined W e are not Communists and can pear as creditors upon the books of authorities at Coney Island from All of Ihoae fellows ought to tie Ja ile d his employment In a show -SE R VICE and C O U R T E S Y - for getting money under falae pre not conform to most of their theories the bank or trust company. ot government, but we rather coincide People were paying ten cents to tenses There was no pretense about 334 W illiams Ave. with the Dies bill, recently passed by see the man whose ilb K o.siy of an Allen's performance Geogre Rencher . Phone T r 8755 the House, which makes membership This will he s blot on the Lindbergh Infant’s remains ended the most -d i in that party a deportable offense, This Woman Lost yurtlsed search In human htetury ami shield. If It Is left su should the person or persons having GOVERNOR PINCHOT ASSURES 64 Pounds of Fat saved thousands of d«dlars for the membership In that organization he a NEGROES OF JOBS ON j citizen We agree with one provision NEW GOV PROJECT M r « . M. P H « « of W o o d « ! « « . L . I. state of New Jersey and others, and that states that any alien teaching | w r i t « « ! •• A y « « r ago I w « i Q h « d itO lb«. really precipitated the detection of the I « t « r t « d to t a k « K r u i c h # « and n ow I or advocating communism doctrine w « i g h ’ .’ 6 and n « v « r f « tt b « t t « r in m y fraud being committed liy Curtis, of ran be deported We do not believe li f« and w h a t ' « m o r « . I look m or o liko g . W . i o r . silk anti New York. June 15 Governor that the United States should allow 20 y r « . old t h a n tho m o t h o r of 2 c h l l - Norfolk, and some of his associates W e a h ln e t-n Gifford Pinchot. of Pennsylvania, has any alien to coir.c here to propagate dron, ono of and tho oth o r It. M y Bo far. It Is reported. Lindbergh frion do aay it 's m a r v o la u s tho w a y I written to the N. A. A. C P. to give ¡V>y doctrine political or other lie Is roducod.'* has not even had the ordinary cour- assurance that a number of Negroes not a part nor has he any Interest T o I om fa t I A F I L Y a nd H A M M . hare been given jobs and are em in the welfare of this government ex tesy to write a word of thanks to this L E f t S L Y , tak a a half taaopoonful of ployed on the Pymatuning Reservoir cept that of some selfish personal K r u a c h o n in a glass of hot w a t o r in man. who. when he discovered the tha m o r n i n g boforo b r oa k fa o t — d o n ’t project in Crawford County. purpose On the other hand. 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Unless communism Is some form of destruc tive anarchy there ran be no reason for t he ezlle or imprisonment of Its members This country should not abrogate that which It claims to fos ter— Political freedom • • • The party which claim Thomas Jef ferson and Andrew Jackson as their patron saints and the Donkey as their emblem, will, ere this is read, have chosen their standard bearers for the presidency and vlce-prealdency of th e 1 , United States of America The pre- convention reports savor a good old party scrap The national conditions have made It possible for a victory of the party and the candidates are 1 numerous The fued between Gover nor Roosevelt. N Y. and former Gov ernor Smith. N. Y has created a crls-, la which makes It almost Unpossltds to guess at the outcome There Is one thing the Negro voter can rest as sured of. there will be no meaningless platitudes of party friendship placed j In the platform It has always been | a source of wonderment why the Ne- ( gro more than any other class of the citizenry should be chosen for special mention in any political pronounce-I ment. The Negro, is not looking for paternalism, all that he wants Is an : epual opportunity. None of t he word promises ever given have been tran slated Into action. Grant gave Federal t protection to the constitutional rights of the Negro in the southern stales, hut when that protection was with drawn by Rutherford Hayes no steps | have been made to restore It. The fight to eliminate the Negro from the councils of the party and organize a white leadership Is mainly a fight for the distribution of Federal pat ronage. The campaign made by Beatrice Cannady-Franklln, Portland, Oregon. In her bid for the legislature, was a victory In defeat. With no prelimi nary preparation, with no campaign fund, she made a personal fight and polled a bigger vote than many of the candidates who were financed by special Interests An approximate of I I M or more votes attested to her ^ popularity, and when she BOBMB be fore ihe electorate two year» from now we wager that she wins a seat In the legislature. This was her first entre In the arena of polities. Hhe competed with seasoned campaigners j who were pro.lcient In the strategy ' and maneuvering o* the game, but j she gave them the political scare of their lives. We claim that her defeat was a victory because she has shown that ability and courage will over come the handicap of prejudice In whatever guise It be. If not J o y f u ll y « a t i t h o d a fto r tha flr« t bottlo— m o n t y back. "O , Gee!— Grandma'e Walking Downstair » — USE WtLOONA T A M jrrn •old br druggists. 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