The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1916-07-28
Victor Robisssn ot Medical Re-
view Takes Then to Task
For Race Prejudice.
WRITES STRONG
EDITORIAL
StAiwsrt Journalist says Articles Bearing
on Afro-American Incomp'e,- Tn
lsss Mention 10 Made OF Rape or
Burning st the stake.

We are all ,nd~bsed 70 Victor Robin
son, editor oi The Medical Review OF
Reviews,' for his splendid statement in
the July number oi the Afro American,
80 in 'q lty vrrsu- American scientist,
And hct"'n wr'''rs. Mr. Robinson lie.
'"i spar" the editorial sc-pel in sho~,. 4
the true attatnde of hypocrisy and inlu.-
t'ce adop ed " American scientists, --.
o~cially oi the medical profession, and
ir.lon writers towards the Negro and
hr Negro problem
VpHting an article by B~njsmin Braw
y ~ "A recent Issue "i She Dps'." rn
"lrf Il The Nesre IN American Fiction .
which the position - sustained ths
merlcan writer's hsbitnsily ignore .'th.
nm"n-. opportunity, THE rfganti.
~-'hil't's~." IN the Afro-American and
us problems. Mr. Robinson conclude.
Tat American fiction writers are pitt
IDLY ins'iequate. q colorsd ssory being
'"nsidered incomplete unlsss there is y
apc Of white girl and burning at ia.
take. The nssrophobis OF the mol
A. much in evidence in the editoris
'sges Of The southern Editorial Jour
'al ~ in thr novels OF Thos Dixon.
aye MIR. Robinson. who omits % .s,
hat the fiction writers Of the past twen
ty-dve yrars in this country have berr
: 'uthern white men and women, for th,
noss part. with Thos. Nelson Page IN.
rnornss Dixon healing tie group, VIA.
ssse dn9s more 70 corSups Amesienn pub
opinion on the race quS3sion rhan rhs
ilthy school Of southern stasssmsn, frsm
senator "Hsmburgh" NJ. q. Butler, CT
'oHh Carolins, long since dead aud food
or worms, 70 James Kirkmau vsrds
nan, Of Mississippi. inclusive, and thai
. giving the Southern fiction writer's pre-
e'ience In infamy that they should b.
bile to appreciate at il face value. bu.
shich they are too entirely conc-it Il L
10, noticesbly, Thomas Dixon, who mus,
ave a black demon for spiritual tor
mentor
hut it n the Southern white physician,
hat Editor Robinson holds up 10 scorn
'dicuie and contempt, for their general
.tt'tude towards the culored ant TIA.
'olored problem" and who lodge seain-,
he Negro the general charge that h
: immoral, that his I1sny vices are eat
ng him M; that he will not pay bi
hyscisn's bills and that he is lazy "snc
spidly reyerting 70 bsrbArisrn. with th.
norjinste criminslity AMI dsgr sdstsoI
q that state" while doing next To moth
ng ~ medical profession ~ understand
he "coIor-i and his disea.~s. or L
help him in his troubles, although they
'lsIm that lac and his diseases are a men
ne u ms dear white oeigI,iors.
Editor Robinson soes into details m
'tsting tie conditions ef immorslbsy Whit
masters forced upon their black slav.
women hefore the war, producing som.
',vp,'SJ fstherless cons and dsuehter-.
@ho are 70 IL met with everywhere in all
the Republic. declaring that 'tfn
shite mans desire for the colorei wo
nan has long impressed visitors 20 Amer
Ca" and, further, that THE colore,I
riri exercises . powerful attractive fore.
lpon the American man" Then lac al
Ieals 10 the elaborate report Of the Bal
.imore Vice Commission, recently sade
md which startled the country by th,
lith and stencil u uncovered among white
and reaches the coneiu.
''on that ''it lift the cover from q never
easing cauldron Of -ensuslity and seduc-
Ton. baltimore - q city taken IN sdnI
~. Yet there is no reason 70 suppo..
thst Babylon BALTIMORE 10 worse than
'1ier Plscs-- Certainly not. Norfolk,
Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, Ne~
)rissns-tlIey are known % ~ morally
rotton b~csnse white men and women
- and lead pbe example Of immortality
But Ne have developed splendid body
II physicians Of our own. some ~ whom
Editor Robinson singles out for praise.
~ho are doing for the race What the Whit
physicians have failed 70 do-csrins for
heir s'ck and eetsng rich, Studying
heir dhse.ses in hospitals and ssnissr :
INNS Of their own and mssting the de
nsnds Of their patrons with rare inteIs-
srnce. skffI, pssience and courase.
In concluding his article in The Re-
view of Review Editor Robinson Gays
Inere - shameful chapter in the no
'ory Of American medicine. and 10 s