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The Denver star., 1917-05-26

tiny other group Of men in the world
p loyal to anything, because they
think that their best group interests
ire bound up in the thing to which
they are loyal. AS to whether the Ne
FRO would be loyal If he were absolute
" convinced to the contrary must be
answered in hypothesis by the same
answer which would be given for any
pther group Of normal human beings.
The Negro is certainly not loyal to
Acknowledgement, "jimcrowism" and
lynch law, but he follows the star Of
America in spite Of those evils and
with the deliberate intention and fond
hope Of overthrowing them. In such
. situation the Negro must of course
continually face dilemmas. He has
had to be a strike breaker to get
job, he has had to fee to q separate
and Inferior school system to escape
ignorance, and heshas had to dissect
the body Of Christ in order to enter
the church and the kingdom of heaven.
In the same spirit he would accept 4
separate military training camp that
some of his college trained men might
BGk NOAAA ia lhc AMY anu oSA g
their country more effectively than rs
mere "cannon fodder" 1t Is not strange
that in the last named dilemma the
majority of his leaders and friends In
dorsed the camp idea, but 1t is signifl
cant that, while some Of his leaders
and friends conscientiously opposed 1t,
all OF his worst enemies consistently
opposed it. Those who favored it do
not favor discrimination, but they
seized that horn Of the dilemma which
would lend a future advantage-to gain
4 height from which they could deal
segregation a heavier blow. His en-
emies also saw this and opposed 1t
unanimously.
This explains the frequent appear
ance of lack of union among Ameri-
can Negroes 1t is plain to an insider.
They are perfectly united in aim and
ambition. and they differ only in meth
Cd and policy. This difference Is due
to their peculiar situation. No other
group of people in the round world is
brought oftener face to face with
dilemma, where the choice is not be-
tween an evil and good, but between
two evils. choice between evils is
a more disintegrating question than
any choice between an unmixed evil
and a definite good. Which Is the
lesser evil:" This puzzling dilemma is
At the bottom of many of the appar-
ent differences among Negro leaders.
whose hearts and souls are perfectly
united in ambition and aim and object.
The only solution of this difficulty IL
conference. frequent and widely rep
resentA tive conference.
The Denver star., 1917-05-26
THE REMEDY FOR CRIME.
Fair Attitude Of . Northern Pubiiea-
ton Toward Our Race.

Fair Attitude Of q Northern Pubiiea-
ton Toward Our Race.
Under the caption Education and
Crime Among Negroes" the American
Review Of Reviews in a recent issue
gave this remarkably fair and logical
comment on the subject:
..Certain mistaken deductions from
statistics Of crime and education In the
south are discussed by Judge Gilbert
r. Stephenson Of Winston-Salem, n. c.,
IN the South Atlantic Quarterly.
In the first place, 1t appears that the
amount Of crime for which the Negro
race is responsible has been consider
ably exaggerated. For example, II one
counts the inmates Of the prisons of
this country on any given day he finds
that the Negro race. constituting only
one-tenth Of the total population, Is
penalizcd for nearly onethird Of the
crime. but II he counts the number OF
commitments for crime during any
given period he finds that the Negro
race furnishes only about one-flfth In
stead OF one third Of the convictions.
This difference arises from the fact
that the terms OF imprisonment Of Ne
groes are, as a rule, longer than those
Of white people.
'.All the availab able statistics and the
unanimous opinion of men in a position
to know the facts would seem to be
proof that Observation-Disclosures or
advanced, industrial or literary -dimin-
ishes crime among Negroes. The
alarmingiy high rate Of Negro crimi-
nality 10 as much 4 condemnation Of
the community in which 1t exists as OF
the offending Negroes themselves.
Having discovered that the Negro
school b at least one institution which
successfully combats crime. the COM
munity cannot afford to withhold its
active interest in and generous sup
port Of Its Negro school. The more
money spent in making such schools
responsive to the special needs of the
race the less will have to be spent on
crime.
And IL 1t comes to a question of
cost It is cheaper in the long run to
maintain and equip schools-Negro
schools even-than police departments.
courts, jails. penitentiaries and re-
formatories, for the school properly
conducted makes the Negro a greater
asset, while the court finds him 4 liza
bility and nearly always leaves him a
greater liability of the community"
The Denver star., 1917-05-26
HAMPTON BOYS TO SERVE.
Trio From School In Virginia Joins Fit
tesNth infaptry Band.

Trio Fresn School In Virginia Joins Fiji
tesnth infaptry Band.
Sergeant Major c. NJ Hooper OF the
Fifteenth New York infantry. national
guard, has sent these kilograms to
Hampton institute:
"Heywood b. Hill has recommended
william Nick. Hubbard. Leslie f.
Booker and John H. Watkins for the
Fifteenth infantry band. They are to
receive $40 a month in addition to all
expenses"
Am sending transportation from
Hampton to New York. including
sleeper, for w. Nick. Hubbard, L. e.
Booker and ]. H. Watkins to leave by
the Cape Charles boat to Join the Fiji
teenth Infantry band.
The Hampton institute faculty have
granted permission to these students
to leave school and report for military
service In New York. Heywood
Hill was . Hampton senior.
The Denver star., 1917-05-26
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The Denver star., 1917-05-26

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The Denver star., 1917-05-26

In Scholarly Addrsss at Washington
Prominent Educator Eniiohtsns coun-
try on ceIorsd Americana Position In
Nations Great crisis-pe Not Nssd
Watching, but Want Square Dsai.
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New-York tribune., 1917-04-14
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
In Retrospect, in Aspect, and in Prospect
The Time to Buy Books

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now in this month Of April A. d. 1917 to wit: . ,., :. =.
need them business the business OF hVmg ns IA
such other generation ever saw and we want 10
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books The and other periodicals
they possibly supply the full need OF information ley arc
croncing the for We
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We need their The world has uppd full OF hor
with horrors the must OF necessity continue TO
of But the mind must have otne
ood Romance adventure philosophy the humanes must be
as nonotony OF murder fo ese
again, we have to books. . =,
purchase abounds books that worth the
buying class works of the highest merit and ntens interest
shelves books of books
and history and philosophy politics and relgonin
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men of letters. and also Of OF affairs.
is
the buying That that hereafter prob
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which
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of this the prices of books Some of the
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New-York tribune., 1917-04-14
Foibles Of a Philosopher
A Study of the Exaggerated EGG
of Herbert Spencer

HERBERT SPENCER by Hugh Elliot With
portrait Syo pp. vii. 800. Henry Holt 4 90.
II is not often that series of books
displays at once so marked variety
and so high standard Of excellence as
this, the Makers Of the Nineteenth
Century" edited by Basil Williams. We
have recently reviewed in these columns
mastery treatises on John Delane,
Abraham Lincoln and Porfrio Diaz;
and there are Abdul Hamid, Victor
Hugo, Ii Hung chang, Lord Shaftes-
bury, and others equally dissimilnr TO
follow. A heterogeneous company, yet
every one of them indisputably answer
ing to the test OF "men who had a
definite influence on thought or action
in the nineteenth century"
The title Of Herbert Spencer to place
in this company is indisputable. There
can be no question that he greatly in
fluenced thought in the nineteenth CEN
tury; though how far that influence ex-
tends and will continue TO extend in
the twentieth century is problematic.
His present biographer thinks that he
was overrated then and is underrated
now; judgment to which we are not
ourselves inclined TO take exception.
Paradoxically there is much fitness in
the appearance of this study of his
character and works at this time, which
Is n time in which his influence Is like
ly to wane ominously and his teachings
to be vastly discredited. For Spencer
was above all men OF his time the i'm
passioned prophet of militarism,
even of extreme pacifsm; the very an
tthesis of those German philosophers,
from Fichte and Hegel TO Treitschke
whom he despised so greatly that he
would not even acquaint himself with
their works. He erred in the one di-
rection as much as they In the other.
The best part of this wholly admi-
rable book is its study and portrayal
of Spencers personal characteristics.
which were inseparably connected with
his system of philosophy. 1t must be
confessed that the portrait drawn is not
an agreeable one. He was inordinately
vain and egotistical. He was vain OF
his soft, white hands, the inheritance
Of a line Of ancestors who toiled not
neither did they spin; and Of his white,
even teeth, which never knew the drill
or forceps. His colossal egotism was
simply hypertrophied individualism. He
would brook no authority. 1t was prob
ably for that reason that he so pas
sionately ragged against militarism and
all its works; because subordination
New-York tribune., 1917-04-14
Draper Out-Drapered

THE DESTINY or TUE UNITED SrAitS. hS
sren Smith l2mo. ~ IL $50. h''t'' D.
Shnrp
Mr.. Smith "sees" Draper and goes
him one better" The famous philo-
sophie historian held that nations ran
through course Of life, childhood,
adolescence, manhood. old age, senility'
lust as individuals do. Mr. Smith adds!.
"and not only that but the years OF
their course are Just three hundred and
NO more This is all because of the
claw Of blood" For blood read mis-
cegenation. A pure breed is of no ac--
count. But let two breeds mngle, and
presto! Great things occur, attaining
their climax in just three hundred
years.
Examples abound. in recounting
which. if Mr.. Smith omits the name OF
single tribe or nation which has
blabbed since Babel, we cannot. supply
the deficiency. The essential thing is,
that this law is universal. and Ger
many fulils it to the letter; where
fore Germany must inevitably succeed
in the present world struggle, and II
is best for civilization that its arms
triumph" For it was not until 1919,
st the beginning of the Thirty Years
War. that the peoples of the present
Germany started amalgamation. All
that went before that didn't count. And
three hundred years, from 1919 brings
us 10 1919, when Germany will win the
war. and will annex Southern Russia
Belgium, all Of Africa, and Madagascar
Holland and Denmark. India, Australia
and New Zealand, and Austria will take
all of Italy down 70 and including Rome
New-York tribune., 1917-04-14

OUR AMERICA: THE ELEMENTS or CIV
ICS. By John a Iapp. $50, PIP. ALL 5ss.
The Bobbs Merrill Company.
This is an elementary work, suited
for textbook purposes. on the Gctivi-
ties Of American government. Mr. Lapp,
the author. is the director Of the Ind
lana Bureau Of Legislative Information
and a lecturer on political and social
science at the University Of Indiana.
lie tries 10 elucidate TO students the
very complicated system of govern
ment from which this country suffers
and necessarily suggests how slightly,
after all, il has succeeded in meeting
the wants Of the people through lack
Of adaptability TO modern political and
social needs. Mr. Lapp's point of view
is, however neither critical nor specu-
lative. His book is descriptive rather
than analytical Yet no book dealing
with civics can fail 10 emphasize the
obsoleteness and incfiiciency Of our
present forms of state and city govern
ment. We have made so little prog
ress in scientific municipal and state
administration mainly because our
present governmental machinery is
hopelessly antiquatcd and not geared
to produce anything but petty and
superficial political results. Books like
this. though unprctentious, are valu-
able. They accomplish their mission
if they get our optimistic and careless
public to thinking about the true aims
and uses OF government
New-York tribune., 1917-04-14
"Kultur''

EGoT1sM IN GERMAN PHILOSOPHY By G.
ssntsyana Late professor Of physiology IN Hu-
ward University. l2mo.. pp. III. Charles scrtb-
ner's Sons.
THE GERMAN SOUL: In It's Attitude Toward
Ethics and Christianity the state ard War Two
Studies. BY Baron Friedrich Hagel, LII. D.
l2mo. %. 2e3 y. p. Duttcn & Go.
Mr.. Ssntayana is in a mood to con-
cilate the uninstructed. and he could
well defy the much-patronized average
reader TO misunderstood him in the
latest, the most piquant if least pro-
found. of his dellverances. The sub
jectivity In thought and the wilfulness
in morals which is the soul of German
philosopy gets an airing all too human.
Ready to hand illustrations of the
glorifed and logged egotism Of Teu-
tonic thought are found in Goethe and
Hegel, in Max Stirner and NIet7sche.
Some seeds of the evil are detected in
the ethical rigorist, Kant. Fichte,
father Of the faithful, is also cited as
spokesman of An exaggerated ma
tional individuality. At tho moment
when Fichte had abandoned hope of
military self-sssertion on the part Of
his country he was boasting OF the ma
tion's mission. Even in detail, what
Fiehte says seems strangely like what
official Germany Is now saying, not ex-
cluding a hysterical hatred of England.
That a blue-eyed idealism should jibe
with savage action would be no mys-
terry but for our forgetting that the
distinction between Nary and Martha
is not a German distinction.
With social and political outlook
that is thoroughly, consciously and
gratefully English, Baron Won Hugel
reflects sympathies that 60 well with
his half-Brtlsh descent and his more
than forty years Of residence in Eng
land. Bringing under revisa, the ideas
that have held sway in German conduct,
he goes back to the brutal impulsions'
Of Martin Luther, his Peccu fortiter
answer 20 Philip of Saxony's case Of
conscience; his infammatory instiga-
tion to revolt OF the serf peasantry
and then, when their revolt came, his
adjuration TO the princes Of Brain
them. as so many mad dogs" Baron
Won Hdrels analysis of the doctrines
Of Frederick Naumann and Ernst
Troeltseh enables him TO bring into re-
lief his own contention that the state.
II regarded as simply "thing" and
force" at the beginning cannot be
found "personallstic" and ethical at the
end. The militarist absolutism and
feverish pan-Germsnism dominant for
the last three generations calls for de-
cisive victory on the part Of the Allies.
They have to win very great. quite tan
gible successes, or they have so hugely
TO drain the resources of Germany as,
in either case, to bring the majority OF
the German people Itself TO realize that
1t has lived for a legend, or at least
for something costing more than IT Is
worth.
New-York tribune., 1917-04-14

TO discipline and superior command
was utterly repugnant to him.
This same dominant trait caused him
TO refuse to learn German or to read
the works of his great contemporaries
in German philosophy. He did start
to read Kant in translation, but flung
him away as soon as he found word
with which he did not agree. For the
same cause he refused all the academic
and official honors which were pressed
upon him, and would not accept elec-
ton to Parliament. II is not surprls-
ING then to know that he was cold in
temperament, mechanical and geometri-
cal in his views of the world, uneno-
tional, unsympathetic and quite devoid
of even a trace of love for the other
sex. Indeed, in temperament he was as
asexual as the veriest anchorite that
ever inhabited a desert cave. He was
also abnormally indolent, and wrote all
his works only through his egotistical
desire to exploit his theories and views
to the world. But he never rewrote a
page. He was fond of billiards, of
skating, of music and, above all, OF
fishing the only time he was ever
known TO swear was when his fishing
line got tangled
Because of this intense individualism
and revolt against all authority but his
own he founded no school of philoso-
ply. He could not have been the dis
ciple of any one else, and for that very
reason he could attract no disciples to
himself. Nevertheless, he exerted an
immense influence upon the nineteenth
century, and was truly one of its
makers. Mr.. Elliot has done a fine
piece OF work in this biography, en-
abling the reader to understand Spen-
Ger as fully as 1t is possible to under
stand an inexplcable phenomenon. For
an indolent invalid to produce nearly
a score of large and profound treatises
on many themes; for man with no
special education to place himself in
the front rank OF the educated and
intellectual world; for one who had
never studied biology and evolution
to be the foremost leader in debate
upon them; for one with scarcely any
acquaintance with the works of other
philosophers to formulate a system of
philosophy which commanded the at
tention of all the world-truly, all this
was a phenomenon approximating that
miraculous state in which he professed
to have no belief.
New-York tribune., 1917-04-14

struggle for international copyright, IN
which Mr. Glider did exploits. ono
day James Russell Lowell walked INTO
the Century" office. asked for a pen
and then sat down and wrote his con
tribution to the cause, the famous niue
scorcher beginning, "ln vain we ca,l
old notions fudge" elders calm faitn
that nothing obviously immoral coulu
continue 70 exist in free country was
what kept his spirit buoyant for re
forms even though the flesh was weak
What this man did toward making New
York n finer town to live in has been
gratefully recognized. but tho sense oi
obligation ~ deepened as one reviews
the almost incredible labors IN TINS or
tho other project the Washington
Arch, the Free kindergarten Associa-
tion. the Tenement House Commission
the CITY Club and the Citizens Union.
To-day's discussion Of the fate OF ST
Johns Chapel, on Varick Street, calls
70 mind the successful effort in when
he had n part, eight years ago. to save
from the hands OF the wreckers that
fine example OF Colonial architecture.
or the innermost circle OF Gilder's
friends were Joseph jefferson, Grover
cleveland. Saint Gaudens, Aldrich,
Stedman and Nine. Modjeska, not 20
name the living. IL Is for the hght
thrown upon such associations that TINS
volume will have a poignant charm. " II
had my choice among all men wrote
II. II. Boyesen, the Norwegian nov
elist, al would choose YOU as the shep-
herd Of my soul" As for the domestic
sanctuary. here is suflicing sentence
written to Mrs. Glider when the writer
is in his sixtieth year: without you
II seems TO me not only could have
had no me worth while; | would nave
been nothing of value at all-if value
| have at all"