Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-02-21
w,ley INTEGRITY has Just tinished |,

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wiley university has Just finished .
nuildink costing $4,000, besides .
$1,000 president's home and . $4,000
dormitory. At Claim university
.Tineley Memorial Hall" has been
built by the students, and has cost
more than $4,000, while medical
college costing $4,000 has had two.
thirds OF its cost contributed by the
students. One colored conference, be-
sides giving $4,000 to the Freedmen's
AID has given $1,000 to other. be-
ne7ojences. "A church In Lynchburs.
Va with . membership Of 500. all
moderate wage.earners, the maximum
salary OF whom is 500, has given
$4,000 for Christian education The
Jubilee singing troupe OF Clafin uni.
yersity are said to have "sung up"
four large brick buildings fol. their col
lege during their Is vacations. 1t Is
Also said that the collections last year
from the negro contingent we're $10,.
900 more than on any previous year.
Negro orators make much Of the
panels in Lincoln hall. springf ED.
ILL.,, recently erected by the State uni
yersity, representing the Down River
Trip of the Slave Auction" Lincoln
and Douglas Debate, THE Inaugural
Address, Lincoln, the Savior of the
Slave" and tho Gettysburg Address,.
together with those phrases of the
respective occasions, which have be-
4 come classic In American literature.
According to the New York Age. a
white theater there. in the most cos
mopolitan city Of the world, Is bar
ring colored people: the Chicago De-
fender bewails 4 Jim Grow" division
! in the Jail in Chicago; the Indianapo-
lis Ledger cries injustice at the de-
cision OF the court in the case Of a
colored fortune teller accused of as
saulting white client-all Of which
goes to show that this thing of color
prejudice is found everywhere. north,
east, west, as we'll as south, More
over, it shows that unless the great
bulk of black folks Is reached more
thoroughly by the softening influence
Of education and Christianity. this pre-
judice win be unconfined and uncon-
trollable. After all, in most instances.
1t is not the color primarily that works
against the race in the matter Of COM
mon justice and ordinary accommoda.
tons, it is the disgusting lack Of de-
corum, the boisterousness, the lack Of
everyday refinement and the general
"cussedness" that characterizes ever
more OF very great number Of the
race. Add to this the badge OF color
and you have it. The schools and
churches have failed to do their whole
duty in reaching the people that need
them most. Education education ct
heart and soul and head and hand
that Is all that can save the race
louisville News. ,33
There have been great many
negroes IN the past fifty years who
neglected to, protect their rights IN
their inventions, and have died poor
and unknown. The story Is often
told of one such New Yorker who in
vented many Of the earlier railroad car
appliances while employed BY a GER
/ tain railroad, but. failing to protect
any of them. was defrauded of his
rights and died in poverty. Such
cases are always. tragically pathetic.
Negro inventors should be careful to
patent their work. 1t is not possible
4 to estimate their value until the de-
nand for them has been measured.
Some Of the simplest inventions, like
the bread-saving knife and the hook
and eyes for dresses, have been the
most useful and profitable New York
Age. 5s 5s:
The Illinois Chronicle hopes '"that a
change for the better IL to be the order
OF things, and that our experience OF
the past 50 years will help the race
to do better, requiring better minis
I tiers better leaders, more gospel of In
dustry, Of work. Of thrift, Of educa
tion and OF right principles generally,
to the end that the race may come In.
TO its rightful glories OF eternal life In
n the world to come" That 10 all Of q
1 reasonable hope and there is plenty
& Of good foundation laid in the past 30
I years upon which to base It.
There are grave and instructive les
sons which the negro may learn with
profit to himself and p0sterity II he
a would heed the call; but. he must
relegate suspicion, fear, envy and
jealousy. unite the feeble remnants OF
his scattered ranks and determine to
. win, II he ever hopes to be mighty
I force among the mighty nation in
mighty land,
Love that Is 1t first 90 delicate that
an ill-f1tting pair ,of trousers may de-
stroy it wholly may later become SO
I strong as to be reconciled. even to
onions. .4s Il. I. 5sS u "A 5
A man always thinks down deep in.
his heart that q woman is sensible II
sne refuses him and usually he is
right.
Motive power for tlamway that
alscends one Of the Austrian Alps Is
provided BY 4 gas balloon. which lifts
cars along 4 track.
Faint Amt heart seldom escapes fair
widow. It. n
Il. Any man who shaves himself Is apt
g cut his best friend
n !. EVER notice how eager one doctor
Wv not 70 boast OF the ability Of an