New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-04

of men gather now and then and
talk in low tones. well out of earshot
Of negro servants. Frequent visits arc
exchanged from plantation to planta-
tion. After such an erranG Henry
W. Lambeth. a prosperous planter re.
siding near Monticello, was asked what
the white people proposed to do.
Well hc answered slowly, you've
heard Of the Klu KluX? They did a
good Job Of IT, It's lasted forty years,
and we're prepared TO do a job that
will last forty more if the situation
warrants
What DO your neignbors THINK of
this plan 90
They seem 20 favor It,
This programme. however. IS Likely
10 be superseded bv tn" On ID states
Secret Service. The government is on
the trail Of The German agents in the
South and Secret Service men we've III
Green sbor0 as late as last w'es
10 The work of the German doctors
is believed 10 be typical. Il is more
movemer. that has been carried on for
wears in private schools for negroes,
Granced from pro-German sources and
equipped with teaching STATS either
Of German birth or leaninCs ILese
schools dot he South. They S5ste-
m9ticauv inculaate into the minds o.
the more intelligent Of the rae
spirit which the better negro lie ieIs
tbemselves-mer like Booker wash
ington- declare to be dangerous - me
United States and inimIcal tc the
principle of national devotion.
Nanny Exposes Plot
First word Of the Vaccinations oi
the Germans at Elm Grove came 10 me
white people through leak from
negro source. An old black nanny, an
..oid issue" household darky attached
to the T. II. r. Pritchett family
brought the story Of meeting the
Germans had held among the negroes
and what had gone on there. lhIs
venerable negress, inspired by the
snirjt of LOYALTY TO cher white folAs
which marks out the negroes OF ire
old regime. went straight and reported
tbe carryings-on 20 "Marse" Pritchett.
AIR Pritchett and his neighbors be-
c,sn an investigation. What they nave
done and what they have learned arc
things thev are keeping pretty gen
orally TO themselves. Asked for "a state
ment of the situation, however MT
Pritchett consented TO say this much:
"The Germans have been here, ac-
cordjng TO best reports. They are tel!,
ing the negroes 10 arm themselves ana
when we get busy in war WIN ger
many. which is the negroes Trend 10
make a break and clean up the While
neople. 1 employ many negroes on my
nIantation. They have been indlher-
ent TO discipline Of late and have Dc
come c.ose-mouthed and mysterious.
"When a negro acts that way there
is something ~ the wind. They DOM
need much encouragement, and once
they get started they could do lot of
damage before we could stop them
Among the loyal negro leaders VINO
have striven valiantly TO offset the e.
forts of the German agents are Dr
James b. Dudley, president OF the
Negro Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege here, and Captain David ). Oil
mer. one Of the few negroes to have
held a United States commission and
the military hero Of the negroes o.
Greensboro DR.. Dudley ls said to have
reported the WoIh Ol VI, NCl ma" "s'"''
among the negroes TO the Federal gov
Dr. Berg. the president Of the I'm
manuel Evangelical Lutheran College
here saws he knows nothing of the
nresence of German agents in the vi
rinitv' and that. in addition to being 4
I;e What he has heard has been
Great surprise to him. The doctor sd-
e,nits however, the truth OF the main
contention, which is that the negro
mind is receptive 10 German overtures.
Captain G:'mers Statement
Captain David J. GiImer Is irving
- raise a negro infantry battalion.
aud complains that the pro-Germar
campaign is making It hard for MIN
N get men. Captain Gilmer COM