The Denver star., 1915-07-24
Race Prejudice and it's
Cost to the Negro.
CRISIS MAKES TIMELY OBSERVATION.

CRISIS MAKES TIMELY OBSEkVAllON.
The New York CALL relates this incident:
1t was near close of the hour and the pupils ot
one biggest public schools clustered about the gate
waiting for the fatal when would become mpera
for them leave the joyous freedom OF the street and
hurry their cabined and confined life of the class
room approached the surgng shouting gestcuating
youth struck by sight which made stop
short and gaze fill before going on again
Leaning against the of the school we're two
girls IS years of age. Their lovingly
inertwned and their hands tightly clasped One of them
lovely with the fares skin big blue and
curs caught back with big pink bow that matched
her tasty pink The other Negress black and
uncomely be imagined with her knky hair brushed
orderly pgta and her cheap white shirt
waist rusty skirt There they stood with that afr
OF ecstatic intimacy marks the friendships of girls
the white hand clasping the black the blond
curs blowing tenderly against the desp'sed wool.
"A painter should have them as they stood
there and called them Amerca-the America of our
dreams For they symbol of all America could be
and some day will be-a real democracy that knows not
race creed class Already they sit together
the girl the white in that institution Of de-
mocracy the school, that first faint promise of all the
.ta,e will one day do. collectively for its
sight good for the soul in these troubIcns days.
infinitely suggestive and hope inspiring 1t
Of the Human Ssterhood that is to be-
This arouses the ire of the Louisville KY. TINES
with hystercal sentmentaists writing in this fashion
OF what avail are Booker Washington the Men
tor of black who only few days said to
dience Negroes New York that the chief drawback
the coored the United States that he doesn
To e
admonish the Negro stick his and try
white folks
"'If one your opens store. Washington told
b.m oatronize him. bring him and help push
his business.
"There sound in that argument but only
oitv the misguided ( who the intimacy
of the and the white girl the of beautiful hu
man ssterhood be- Booker Washngton theory of the
of the Negro hard work and the faculty
of keepnp out OF white mans territory The blacks
achieve great deal if they the mapped
for them by the educator but they listen the
siren songs of writer's who prate of the ecstac intimacy
the white girl the Negro they will fall short of their goal
so far as the south concerned with their
J. d. Barry the widely known syndicate writer in
the San Francisco BulIeNrIN:
Several weeks ago printed article the mag
for coored people, THE CRISIS published in New York
edited by William E. Burghard Du Bois speaking of its lit
erary excellence and of the interesting reflected the
steadily increasing development of the coored people
this country Somewhat to surprise received from
many cooed people letters of thanks of them pathetic
their to respond to friendly word from
outside Those letters gave of the
isolation of the colored people in this the loneliness
feeling of being shut from much in life that ought
be within their reach.
suppose there few forces in the world hard
prejudice and few forces harmful in
divdual and social cooperation Behind the
of Ola, which looks as If it might be the of
too several works this terrible force
creating sustaining and trying justify the havoc Its being
insdious makes it hard reach Somehow it Is in the
air. Children draw it in with their breath.
With many of us the prejudice against the Negroes is
unfamiarity is likely be fortified by preudces
of association and unrelated economics. Generally
speaking the Negroes are poor. They live apart From