The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-08-17

rus of race that insist upon max
ing America safe for the Negro"
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Tennessee will give an object les
son at Chattanooga of how she
stands by true son and faithful
brother in the ovation she will ten
der j. c. Napier, president of the
National Negro Business League.
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Those of us who are too old to
fight can put our dollars away oul
front by subscribing for the next
Liberty Loan that will be offered by
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
$50 or $l00 invested in these precious
bits of paper will save life on the
field of battle. Keep this matter be.
fore you.
Nick Chiles, the observant editor of
the Topeka Plaindealer, speaking OF
his recent tour of Missouri and noting
the treatment melted out to the col
ored workers in places visited by
| him, says: In the smaller towns OF
Missouri, to our surprise, we found
week to women for general house
work-washing, ironing, cooking and
cleaning house. Men receive from
$1.25 TO $1.50 per day, and that only
since the exodus began. 1t seems
as though an understanding exists to
hold the colored people as close to
slavery as possible by paying them
starvation wages, not allowing them
| to live in the clean and healthy por
lions of the towns and cities. They
do not encourage thrift, honesty, moi
industry among them, nor do they
they want them to have a first-class
cOlored man is the better he gets
along. They segregate the Negroes
and do not want them to live in gooC
houses" This is a deplorable sit
uation and, Editor Chiles urges thu
colored people, as an economic pro
position, to leave the South and seel
better conditions in manufacturing
centers and progressive agricultural
sections of the North.
Right royalty Major Robert Russ;
Motion did his bit in defense of Col
|, Charles Young. Be the issue mill
tary, civic, educational or industrial
the gallant head of Tuskegee Inst
tute is ready and, willing to spea
out with clearness and vigor in BIZ
half of his people. He is a maste
, of the valuable art of knowing hoy
to say the right thing at the RICH
r time,
On to Chattanooga! Dinna We hea
5 the slogan?
l The leaders of the National Negr
t Business League will be at the Cha
3 tanooga meeting, not only to assur
a the perpetuation Of the races mos
: useful body organization, but to ind
K cate their loyalty to the administri
e ton of President j. G. Napier, VIII
has been from the foundation of TIL
League at Boston in 1900, the rigl
l. hand man of the late Booker T. Was
e ington, and who was rightly chose
il as the successor of the commerci
n and educational "Wizard "of his da
D and generation. President Maple
e measures up grandly to the big d
n mands that are being made upC
d him.
The Negro business man mu
keep up to date in this era of chan
l. ing trade conditions. The old ord
IS is passing. We must keep pace wi
o the new order or be lost in the shr
e file. Be at Chattanooga August !
n 16 and II and be wise.
The National Negro Busine
n League Is the Negroes national Boa
IS of Trade and Chamber of CONNER
lie the clearing house of Negro bu
j. ness activities. Keep it going, wi
l., cumulative strength year by year.
70 Nothing so accurately guages
mans character as the manner
c, which he carries himself "und
=. fire." Trouble tries a mortals inn,
y most soul, but it is an element
a progress and strong natures thri
~ upon it. 1t is the assay that SCI
w rates the dross and brings out t
~ gold.
r.
r. Colored women are too sensit
" and practical to fool with any "mC
p ern Mother Eve" stunts.
III 49,
tt, Wilberforce University Is conf
ne into her own under the aggressive {
e, ADMINISTRATION of Prof W. s. Scarb'
o- ough. 1t stands in the spotlight