The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-12-21

] D. 0NONNf NNNAol lis NHuetAAes Vi Ga bNsN
tiers for Uncle Sam will live in his
tory as one of the greatest State Pa
pers ever issued by an American Off
cial. 1t struck prejudice straight
from the shoulder and gave heart to
every Negro in the land. The docu-
ment was a patriotic message from
patriot to an army patriot
November, 1917, was noted for two
epochal proclamations of especial val
lie to colored Americans: The decis-
ion of the United States Supreme
Court overthrowing segregation and
the letter of Secretary of War Baker
breaking down the so-called color
line in the working conditions of sol
diers in the national army. The
skies show a roster tint for the col.
ored people in this country.
Our hat is off to Governors Mccall,
Of Massachusetts, Sleeper, Of Michi-
gan, and Stanley Of Kentucky, for
courageous defense of helpless color
ed men, accused of unproven crimes.
hCSdll anu olS0ptT u6Cllucu " nun
or acquisitions that would send color
ed men to states where a fair trial
was impossible and Stanley took the
field in person, at the risk of his life,
to prevent a Negro from being lynch
ed Mob violence and packed courts
would be robbed of much of their
prey if there were more Chief Exc
of ho
Stanley type.
President ]. o. Thomas of the Voor-
hees Industrial School at Denmark,
S. c., product of Tuskegee Institute,
is filling a large spot on the national
map these days. He is doing a mas
terly work for education and for the
promotion of relief work among the
colored soldiers in the army canton
ments. Lieut.. Thomas learned we'll
the lessons taught him by that great
preceptor, Booker T. Washington,
whose soul goes marching on through
the Thomases, SCOTS, Chisholms,
Holseys, Fishers and Simmonses he
has planted hither and yon in the
races vineyard.
Bishop George C. Clement, who
won his national spurs as editor of
the Star of Zion, and who drank
deeply of the leadership spring as
co-worker with the late Bishop Alex
ander Walters, is waking the echoes
as a giant administration force in the
A. M. f. Zion connection in Kentucky
and the border South Conferences
are showing new life under his guild
ance, and collections for education,
missions and current church support
are growing by leaps and bounds and
he is tying his brethren to him every
where as with hooks of steel by his
sympathetic spirit and broad encour-
agement of initiative on their part.
He inspires his preachers to be
somebody and Zion is being speed
ed up" accordingly.
Old Segregation died hard in Balti-
, more-but after all, it is broken on
= the wheel through a recent test case,
in which the decision of the United
, States Supreme Court was triumph
antly upheld by the District Court
| against the flower of the white legal
talent of the entire State of Maryland
Why should not a white man be al
r lowed to sell his property to color
Cd man if he so lesires?. And why
should not a colored man live in and
e 10Y the said property, if a white man
= feels like disposing of it to him?
Y That is all there is to the matter,
J. when reduced to nutshell.
# The selection of Lester A. Walton
l. as ring-master of our amusements
Y for the boys in the environments
d strikes us a happy one. He knows
Is the business from every angle and
It can hold his own with the speediest
i theatrical magnates.
NJ
e Editor Nick Chiles, of the Topeka
n pIaindeaIer hits the nail spuarelv OF
" the head, when he says: AS a diplo
T. mat and man of affairs, Emmett ]
t, Scott has no equal in the race. We
are content to trust our welfare will
him. We feel that we now have A.;
strong factor which viii bring abou
lie splendid results to all concerned.
e. The 100000 colored American
Il represented at the War Department
he by Mr. Scott say Amen
It,
III Colored workingmen of every dc
ID scription should take advantage O
OF the open door" to the labor union
lis offered by the American Federatio
re of Labor at its recent Buffalo cor
MS vention. If we can make commo
cause with the powerful labor unions
and thus allay friction, it is up to Il
:, to do so.
:, President Wilson has denounce
80 mob violence in scathing terms ain
~ has said plainly that lyncher is ne
fit to be considered true American
He also declares in the frankeS
lp' verbiage that this war is an Al
eS American war. In recent stat
M ment the President said: "SacrifC
er and service must come from ever
'al class. every profession, every part
yl' EVERY RACE, every creed, ever
mp section. This is not a bankers VIZ
1T or a farmers war or a manufacturer
be- war, or a laboring mans war-it
lis war for every stratghtoutt America
IN whether our flag be his by birth
TN adoption. We are today a natien
OF arms and we must fight, farm, min
IRIS and manufacture, conserve food al
lily fuel, save and spend, to the OIL
RIM common purpose" This is genuii
ed American doctrine and we can {
ETY. stand behind the President in su
or port of it.
life
its ]. c. Napier is holding the Nation