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The ADVOCATE PAGE POUR SATURDAY. JULY I. 1S.1I ERECT MONUMENT TO FREDERICK A. DOUGLASS «A**«*«»* " I The Most Undesirable Aspect O f Segregation irate «11 of them on nta. They use epithets and denounce him In a way In which 1 have never done. A good many of the thinking white people who are kindly disposed to the Negro misunderstand Thomas Jesse Jones Among them he Is a great Christian gentleman fn love with humanity and giving his life as a sacrifice for many. Operating a mong Negroes, however, he la a man of an entirely different order He Is peeping and peering Into this and that, referring to what he secs of yonder, criticising this mau for what he did not or did do. and denouncing the other for what he should have or should not have done. ' I of 1813, Jackson al New Orleans found ihelr assistance necessary In the do funse against Kuglaud In the Civil War when Lincoln called upon Ilium I for assistance they responded gallant ly; nor were they found wanting In the Spanish American or the World War Many of the colored Iroopa went through the valley of the shadow "to keep the world safe for Democracy". Should noi our men In public life, therefore, have a care lest by forcing the colored race outside the law they destroy that love of country which Is ao needful for a nation's defense in —— — I the day of trouble Such a monument would serve to 1 have^ Gils day Introduced In tha j remind this nation of Its reepoiislb! House of Resolution i l l J I I I calling lilies lo Ihe colored race, upon whom for the erection In the National Capi It foisted Ihe bondage of slavery, and tal of a memorial lo Frederick Doug to whom II should now lend a helping lass, the fugitive slave whose name hauti Instead of proscription. there will ever survive as one of America s should Ite sympathy; Instead of re most eloquent orators as well as oue sentment there should he charily The of the most profound thinkers of Ills way of the colored people should not time. he disputed at every turn of the road The life of Frederick Ikniglasse •• Unfortunately for the colored man, If pltomlsed the struggle of the Negro ionics in rugs and wretchedness, race In Its rise from the abaymal ha B K t l the puhli. damanti tot a No depths of slavery He saw the slaves gro He may not provoke anger, but Including himself, emancipated, but he provokes derision But let hint pre he realised that freedom brought du sume lo be a gcutleman and a scholar, ties responsibilities, and created ex he Is then naturally out of place; ha pectations which must needs lie ful excites resentment, ha calls forth filled. He taught the colored people stern and bitter opposition No m ailer that they must inalntalu a high state wltal his abtlltv and talents mat be. In the Republic and could not be mere the liar sinister Is upon him All this driftwood in a stream He fought ami should not be We are prone lo Judge bled to achieve for his people equali Ihe colored race by Ihe exemplifies ty on opportunity In Industry aud edu tlo„ of those who stray from the paths cation He knew that they had entered ,.f righteousness; we should Judge the portals of freedom with the great lh,.m Wl,|| |,v t|,„ flower of the est handicaps, without money, with ¡(i,*-* |,y ihelr great aud good meu out frtoiula. without nholter «ml '" l* A monument to the memory of out food Tho land which they *'*d Douglass has been erected at Roches watered with thair tear*, enriched ter. New York . w here he I« Inn led. with their blood, and tilled with their but he ahould In« en*hrlned at the 'tard hand* w , m owned by thoae who national caldini, w here lie lived for did not wt*h them well They were ao many year* a* Ihe Sane o f Ana forced to leave their familiar iiuartero coa lla” Such a m em orial nhould tend VERBAL SNAPSHOTS By Carter 1 } Woodson) (B y W. J Wheaton) O r a ni t ,n'. whole life trytug to stimulate the O n e o f Hooker T Washingtons lBad, raklp of th, NV|tr0 |n vaxloua chief objections to segregation was » aiks of n f, He sought the assis By Ni.NCV LEE Its inconsistency. He said, "The Ne- tance of liberal whites because he There promises to lie the same a- gro is segregated from his white „ceded it, as we all do He believed papthy among the leaders of the Re neighbor, but white business men are i„ interracial cooperation but he publican party In 1 9 « as there was Dear Nancy le s not prevented from doing business in frowned down upon "pro-racial" dic- after the nomination of Benjamin Negro neighborhoods •’ In his way the tatlon HU useful life was a drama Harrison In 1892. The deflection a- I had a friend visiting me. an old economic development of the Negro tic demonstration of the Negro work- mong the progressive block started from within Is arrested, and that of t„g out his own program and doing when Seuator Norris. Nebraska, blunt school chum. who. I think, demanded the white man Is promoted at the ex- for himself Since his passing how- Anson Phelps Stokes ought to feel ly anounced that he would support too much of my attention. She wanted pense of the Negro ever, we have drifted so far the oth- ashamed of himself because he Hoover for reelectlon He was follow to be entertained and doing something -------- er way that the Negro today has llt- doubtless realises what he is doing ed by Senator Frailer. N D and Sena all the time When she left 1 was quite If Booker T. Washington had lived tie voice In hU own affairs Matters who states that he will in giving Thomas Jesse Jones the tor Borah, longer he would have had reason to 0f consequence with respect to the backing which he has through the make a few speeches for senatorial sick from over-taxing my body and object to the working of segregation Negro are w.g-ked out behind closed Phelps-Stokes Fund For years the and congressional candidates of the the strain of having to think of ways In another sphere He doubtless would doors without giving the Negro a Phelps Stokes Family has manifested party All of the rest will be either of entertaining her on a small sum of have objected to t he unwise lnterfer- chance to be heard interest In the Negnx and some of actlre in opposition or noticed for a- money, as I was only working part ence with and direction of t he affair -------- the things which they have done are pathy. - time Do you think a person should of Negroes who have been grsduallv For example, when my name was highly commendable The Liberian give up her whole lime to a guest 7 forced into the ghetto He himself mentioned the other day at a meet Flag was made In the home of Ans The Republican party and the prin was better prepared than any other ,n* ° f persons discussing matters on Phelps Stokes grandfather It Is ciples on which the party was found Should I have told her that I was tr.o then, that he has ed and the Ideals which birthed It. tired to do anything after I got home man to speak on Negro education, and with respect to the Negro. Jones im pitiable Indeed, I am sure that he woud not have en- mediately attacked me most bitter- permitted Thomas Jese Jones to put were, and still are all right But. the ftom work tired and weary, or should Joyed seeing Thomas Jesse Jones die- ly. Some one then made the remark this name to shame In recent years. party lacks true R EPU BLICAN MEAD- I have done Just as I did. euterlalu tate the program of the Negro W e do that the attack was personal and ERSHIP. Until that leadership's re her? know that Booker T. Washington did Jones countered with another at- The awful plight into which Jones stored ______ and ___ the party has been brought not want Jones to make the survey tack, showing more feeling than he has placed himself is entirely unne-jto the realisation''"that" its fb r a ii st I think there Is a happy medium by which he Immensely profited thru had at first. This Is what we have cessary It 1. due to the man himself load. r aR E A T UNCO LN who the overvaluation of his unfavorable come to in 1912. A Negro who has for other white men worklug among In entertaining guests as In anytlilug declared this a "Government for and report on Negro schools. The Wlxard spent his life as a sacrifice to help Negroes do not suffer from such op else If you tpent more than you could of Tuskegee suggested for this task his people think and do. must be de- position or criticism For example. by the People" la a fact, the salt will afford (or her amusemeut you did have lost Its savor, and the people another man whom he considered nounced by a foreigner who makes Dr James H Hillard. a suothern better qualified than Jones his living by posing as an advisor on gentleman, the son of a Virginia slave will seek the party which W IL L GIVE wrong If you had refused to entertain Platltud her evenings when you were free, you -------- the affairs of Negroes No Necro .. . , . ... ,fc„ PO PU LAR G O VERNM ENT This report In Its false Implies- thus dominates the sffairs of white " ; throughout the United ^ ta t- es and meaningless promises will be would not have shown the proper as futile as the projected Journey to tions and fateful misrepresentations people. This makes the matter one- throughout tm es because of the flue work which he spirit of hospitality and erred again of conditions made Thomas Jesse sided and inconsistent Why does has done In connection with the Sla the moon or the trip to Mars by air Jones, the spokesman of the Negro not Jones restrict himself to matters ter and Jeanes Funds Dr Arthur D. plane TH E F R IE N D LY GESTURES One extreme la as bad as another It behind closed doors Such a thing Is of other people* The N > « ^ s do w <outh, rn should have been made before politi Is hard to Judge from your letter to seek shelter and food elaew h ere always dangerous. A man out of not need him He Is not doing them | the successor _______ __ of . Dr rwn..a Dillard, i* is „i al cal favors are sought. That applies to whether you overdid yourself or not The m arvel ■> not ao much that G.e touch with people and speaking for any good that some Negro cannot ready being spoken of with the same the studied Insults given the Negro In trylug to give her a good time race made sreat progrès*, but that It them cannot escape doing harm A do. endearing terms I find the Negroes oltiien during the present administra Your friend seems to be a very eel waa not oitermlnated tion. If ever there has been a period benevolent man in this position llut not much of the pmgrena made throughout the Uulted States highly Most a i * due to the Influence amt effort* might have done much good, but a Jones should not blame me for his commending the work of N C. New- in the history of auy administration fish and Inconsiderate person man of Jones' make-up could not but present plight. 1 have not made any under the Republican party when the I people make very poor guests be of Frederick Ikmglea* He did more bold. also a southern gentleman, be go the wrong way. He Is emotional, attack on him. As an historian, how racial discrimination was more defl- ‘ cause they are restless and unadap fot the colored people ln America than cause of his unselfish efforts for the nitely shown It has escaped our mem and he goes off half-cocked ever. I have merely recorded the anyone cUe of hla own race Itew «* Negroes in North Carolina They are ory Whenever there has been mnde a table In new surroundings, and be a born orator aud swayed thousands For example some years ago be- contemporary estimate of his efforts beginning to speak warmheartedly. fore he began to crucify me I asked during the last twenty years An in- . plea o or the e i remedy of i a a w wrong It n has • i i_____ , . . . .. r - , . . _ r cu n n ru j o r o n g II i l cause they are receiving Instead of to espouse the cause of the colored or ,h„ p,,*. his opinion of a colored man who vestigatlon shows that there are ve too. of Jsc kson Davis^ wRo as a rep- ,.tth(,r tall„ n OB d„ af giving When a person has to accept race With no education eicept that resentatlve of the General Education a , _ a /' il ad been the head of a Negro college, ry few N e g ro e s who have any eon- favors he is placed In an awkward which he snatched an a slave beside Board has ma/.ifested an earnest de- *ert h* r ® b* « n ,0° bu,’r ‘ ° * ,r' W e were thinking of soliciting his «dence in Jones or in anything he sire to help the Negro to help him- attention, position and made unhappy aud un candlelight, he became moat prof! cooperation in a matter Jones im- does. They may not express them self Thomas Jesse Jones, however. clent ln the study of rhetoric, logic, * * * gracious selves In public, but they think of politics aud history Few men have has failed to walk In the footsteps of The ballot is the most potent wea- him as one who Is not working for I hope your frlen remembers you equalled him In his power over an au proach him. saying that he was dis- wiser men It is his fault, not pon that can be wellded In the tight their best Interests Numbers of honest Called on for an e x p U n a -^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ™ for Justice, and It Is used by all and i with a gift In appreciation of your dlence A rugged honeaty and flue mine. tion. Jones said that this educator ,he” «*P r*»e d themselves to any people who have a sense of Its sacrifice sa In her behalf, and also writes sincerity of purpose weave«! Its way had recently raised «5.000 for his «■ ,hl* * * / * Ten " f power It is only tbe hide bouud par you a "bread and butter" letter (hauk through all his words and dead* His school and had put half of It Inta his £>“ *>■• »root of their staement. was a fearless courage that achieved tisan who will not use It with intelli Such facts crowded into one s mind After Hours Call - East 0419 for him honor uttd distinction own pocket. gence Here Is an example: We listen log you for your hospitality result In conclusions with respect to N A N C Y LEE He was trusted confidente of l.lu ed attentively to a dleruaeion between olii and Grant and many other state* two Negroes, one a young man and 1 doubted this and made an inves persons and things to be recorded In history. men What George Washington was In the other an elderly man The conver tigation 1 found out that there was Woman Lo«t the darkest hours of American Inde sation on matters political was rather no truth in Jones' statement. The For example, one of the outstand 64 Pounds o f Fat pendence. what Abraham Lincoln was Intereating until we heard the older Negro educator whom he had thus ing YM CA workers of the so-called to this country In It« hours of travail, man headtedly retort. "Say boy. Lem- Mrs. H. Price of Wood.IS.. L. 1. attacked had been compelled to serve writ««: “ A y ««r «00 I w«igh«<] 1»0 lb«. what General Grant wn* In the W il Colored Department recently said me tell you. I belong to church, en you his poverty-stricken school for a that when a few years ago a number I s t a r t e d to t a b « K r u a c h « n a n d n o w I derness. "fighting It out along that knows It. but demme If the Lord him CLEANING A R EPAIRING w « itfh 12d a n d n o v o r f o i l b o t to r In m y without . number . of years . . . . . . pay. . To . of Negro delegates were attending a line If It took all summer", what Tous- self was to run for office en he U fa a n d w h a t 'a m o r a . I lo o * m o r a Ilk a keep the teachers satisfied they had world conference In one of the large Hats Cleaned Maint 1. O i V f f l l f t wras to the Itlack 20 y ra . o ld t h a n t h « m o t h a r o f 2 c h il* wasnt on the Republican ticket I Shoes to be paid, bnt the head of the cR|eg they were Invited to the home d r a n , o n « o f 19 a n d th # « t h a n I t . My Kepublic of Halt! when the armies of would'nt vote for him." We are cer Shined f r l a n d a a a y I t 'a m a r v a l a u a t h « w a y I school went lacking. " I f yon will 0j one 0f the distinguished Negroes and Blocked Napoleon were encamped about It at tainly glad that the younger genera ra d u ca d .** -SE R VICE and C O U R T E S Y - start a drive and raise enough mon- ln the clty to ipend the evening *o- tempting Its reeuslavcment. that and T o toaa f a t S A F E L Y and H A R M tion are giving the political aituation ey to pay off the debts of the lnsti- etally Few of them had arrived up- L E S S L Y , t a k a a h a l f t a a o p o o n f u l o f more was Frederick Dougla** to his 334 Williams Ave. more serious thought than that ex- K r u a c h a n in a g la s a o f h o t w a t a r In tatlon. we will pay you your back on y , , aCene. however, before Tho- people. In their struggle before and t n a m o r n in g b a f o r a b r « « k f « « t — d o n 't . Phone Tr 8755 pressed by tbe voter of a past day. salary" He did so and raised the ma8 Jesse Jones appeared. There de- Geogre Rencher after Kmauclpatlou m ia o a m o r n in g — a b o t tia t h a t la « ta 4 Mse*t*«»M*tx m m tsststx tests« . . . 125.000. and thus obtained what was TeI(>ped an excitement which result- w a a k o c o t t a b u t a t r i f l a — b u t d o n 't In the Itevolutlouay War the Negro Here Is an excerpt from a speech t a k o c h i n e » # — b a a u r a I t 'a K r u » c h « n . dne him. ed In a most unavorable comment fought for us and with us In the War made July 4th at the city of Phila I f n o t J o y f u l l y o a tio flo d a f t a r t h « ffra t _ . .. " . . with respect to his coming to a b o t t l« — m o n t y b a c k . delphia. 1914 by a very prominent This well Illustrates the angle place to wh|ch he wa* not inT|ted: Democrat, now dead "W e set up this from which Jones has often viewed and one of tbe persons remarked. "I Nation and we proposed to set It up the Negro and shows how much of wonder what he is nosing around In- on the rights of man We did not name the report which he made Is based t0 at tb|, affgjr " any difference between one race and O, on misinformation In thus having a ______ another. W e did not set up any bar man outside of the ghetto to which The oth„ day moreover. I heard riers against any particular race or the Negroes are confined speaking M oU lw . Ne„ o leader, one of those people, but opened the gates to the for people with whom he does not now cooperating with Jones In his world and ail men who wish to be live and move, and dictating the pro- encyclopedia, doubtless for revenue free, come to us and t hey will be wel gram for their uplift — ln this way only ia y that ha w ai recenGy ap- come." The Negro by an Intelligent the Negroes have suffered and will proached by a distinguished man to cse of the ballot can obliterate, wipe suffer immensely. This shows the in- requeat j 0Dea' assistance ln a mat- nut entirely, racial inhibitions and consistency of our white friends, for ter but he had t0 ijxtorm him that place himself on an equal plane of they would never permit such a ,t wonU ^ unwtse to call upon national citizenship. W ill he do II? thing ln their own race. Jones unless this man wanted to In- • • • vestlgate someone or to spy on W e were pleased to hear that the USE W ILD O N A T A H ljm » I would not object T “ omas what someone Is doing, «aid br druxxuu W rit, lot r u g » , fu n » Hon Lyman King la a candidate for Jesse Jones' procedure, but history w h ile talking the other day with U llulrxUd N p q i book "HIMorv of the national congress Our acquain shows that people consigned to the a Negro educator, regarded by the X 8X Ü U A i i o l f »It h chapter dlicuxaUig tance with the Senator begun when |.rma o f rhaumatUm. to ghetto have never got out of It un best thinkers of this country as one he headed the division of service and w rtn o v* roxpnaxTioN der the guidance of those who con of the most prominent persons be- A A I ' . a l l . C N f. X . i . supply In the Department of Finance sign them to the ghetto. Of all the op fore the American public thls per- He later succeeded Alexander Heron pressed people in the world I have son said to me. “ Whenever I read of as chief of the Finance Department not yet found an account of one that Thomas Jesse Jones or hear his and proved himself among the front got out of the wilderness under for- name spoken I always think of a ranks of financial experts Aside from elgn leadership Jones' promoters, sneak'." It would seem. then, that that qualification; Lyman King Is one then, are undertaking what history Jones ought to direct some of his at- of the finest, spuarest and most un- has shown to be Impossible. tacks to other people who are talk- i prejudiced men to found anywhere. Booker T. Washington spent his ing about him rather than concon- flloVeLty Pressinq This SHOP Gee !— Grandma* t Walking Downttaire— r (b „ V(1U,|, the land, both near and (ar Mudy .h a ra c lrr o f thin great man and draw front It leasous urging them tu higher and more noble efforts. It Its hoped that n Committee of represtutatlve rltlaenry will he form ed to raise the necessary funds for this project Fmauuel Celler. Representative. 10th N Y Dlst NOTICK TO KLK8 All formar memtwrs of Rose City l^nlge of Flks are Invited to attend a meet lug thursday evening July 14tn 1932 at H 30 to he held In the hall on Russel street Itone by order of a Committee tìradfo 'ii 8. W. ( or 4tk J Clot hei $ 2 5 .0 0 to Shop $ 45.00 mm W • • h t n * lo a "Whert I’oung M in U u )" Points on the NEW PROBAK- •\ I Tested And J Proven Best* "BLindfold" test may be all right for cigarettes ----- but when buying face powder, it’s a good Idea to keep your eyes wide open. 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United 8tate*, passed away lastweek, i Buffering from heart Failure and High Blood Pressure. More than fifty employee* of the i Department of Commerce, white and | colored, headed by the Chief clerk of the Department, Mr. E W. Llbbey j find Arthur Coombs, Secretary of Mr. l^tmont, the Secretary of Commerce attended the services. Condolence* and beautiful floral piece* were sent by Pres. Herbert Hoover from the White House Gardens Mr. Johnson served the President for seven years | during hi* Incumbency as Secretary | of Commerce and knew Intimately as many public officials and characters i as any man In Washington. Deceased Is survived by a Widow, i Mr*. Jennie Johnson and two daugn- ( ter* Agnes V and Thelma M. 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