The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-07-17
"What idea 2"

"What idea?"
"The idea, the glorious humanitarian
and philanthropic idea, of taking the
kinks and curS out of the hair of the
Afro American brother" says DR.. Kir-
by, Eat so much per kink."
This Dr. jackson, he says, sells what
he calls Anti-Curl TO the niggers. 1t is
to straighten out their hair so it will
look like white peoples hair. They is
millions and millions Of niggers, and
every niger has millions and millions
Of kinks, and so Dr. Jackson has got
rich He must be worth $2OOO,OOO
or $3.OOO,OOO, DR.. Kirby says. and still
a-making it, with more niggers grow
ing up all the time fur to have their
hair unllinked. especially mulattoes
and yaller niggers. Dr.. Kirby says
thinking what a great idea that Anti
Curl was give him his own great idea.
They is gold mine there, he says.
and DR.. julius Jackson has only
scratched q little off the top Of it, but
he is going to dig deeper.
"Why is it that the Afro American
brother buys Anti-Curl?' he asts.
"Why:' asts.
BECAUSE" he SAYS, ''he wants to be
as much like a white man as he posi-
bly, can. He strives to burst his births
invidious bar, Danny. They talk about
progress and education for the Afro
American brother and uplift and adj
vanrement and industrial education
and manual training and all that sort
Of thing, especially we nOrthernerS.
But what the Afro \ merican brother
thinks about and dreams about and
longs for and prays to be-when he
thinks at alI-is to be white. Well put
up and sell a preparation to turn the
negroes white"
That was his great idea. He was
more excited over it than I ever seen
him before about anything.
1t sounded like so easy a way to get
rich it made me wonder why no one
had ever done it before if it could real
ly be worked. didn't believe much it
could be worked.
But DR.. Kirby he says he has begun
his experiments already with arsenic.
Arsenic, he says. will bleach anything.
Only he is kind Of afraid Of arsenic
| too. II he could only get hold Of some.
thing that didn't cost much and that
would whiten them up fur little
while, he says, it wouldn't make no
difference if they did get black agin.
This here Anti-Curl stuff works like
, that-t takes the kinks out fur little
while, and they come back agin. But
| that don't seem to hurt the sale none.
! 1t only calls fur more Of DR.. Jackson's
medicine.
The doctor takes me around to the
place he boards at and shows me
i niger waiter he has been experiment.
! ing on. He had paid the niggers fine
in police court fur slashing another
+ nigger some with knife and kept him
from going into the chain gang. So
the Niger agreed he could use his"n1us
to try different kinds of medicines on
He was 4 velvety looking, chocolate
colored kind of niger to start with,
and the best DR.. Kirby had been able
to do so fur was to make few little
liver coiored spots come on to him. But
! it was making the Niger sick, and the
doctor was afraid to go too fur with
, it, fur Sam might die and we would
! be at the expense Of another niger.
Peroxide Of hdergin hadn't even
, phased him. Nor lot Of other things
we tried on to him.
Which he finally struck it. I don't
/ exactly know what she had in her, but
| she was a mixture Of some kind. The
only trouble with her was she didn't
work equal and even-left Sans face
looking peeled and spotty in places.
F., But still in them spots Sam was six
| shades lighter. The doctor says that
| is jest what he wants-that there pass
| ing-on-to- the-neXt cage we have the
| spotted girOcutus-look. as he calls it.
! The chocolate brown and the lighter
| spots side by side. he says. made
| regular Before and After out Of Sans
| face, and was the best advertisement
| you could have.
! Then we goes and has talk with
| DR.. Jackson himself. DR.. Kirby has
! the idea mebby he will put some mon
en- into it. DR.. Jackson he looks Sam
over very thoughtful. and he says:
Yes, it will do the work we'll
enough. l can see that But will it
sell:'
ITO be cOntinued)