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


gro Business League 1t is the Easts
turn at the wheel. Newark and Cape
May, both in New Jersey, also have
friends, and Pittsburgh might be con
tender if it would just throw off its
native modesty and get into the ring.
Washington will come along later
and when the pendulum swings west
ward, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland
and Columbus will be given due con-
sideration. The Business League
must go to the people and there are
good people in all of these centers of
trade and intelligence.
Sociologists of note are discredit-
ing the anti-intermarriage bills intro
duced in Congress and various state
legislatures on the ground that there
is not sufficient disposition on the
part Of races to cross the line to
justify the trouble it takes to pass a
law prohibiting "mixed" marriages.
Lots of fellows lose good female
friends by foolishly falling in love
with them.
y And now Dyersburg, Tenn, has
taken its place on the Roll of Dis.
honor" along with East st. Louis,
Memphis, Chester and Waco, Texas.
Have the courage of your honest
convictions. 1t Injuries no one in the
final analysis, to contend for the
right and fight against the wrong.
God Almighty hates a coward!
"a well-regulated white man never
blames a black man for doing in
self-defense what he himself would
DO under like circumstances
Politics gives way to patriotism in
these piping times of war.
Prof. w. S. Scarborough, the virile
and resourceful president of WILDER
force University, is giving continuous
evidence of his peculiar fitness for
the leadership of a forwardlooking
school in this day of increasing de-
mands for advanced learning and
high grade equipment. He is getting
hold of the means" as well as fur
nishing a superior quality of brains.
Recently, through Prof. Scarborough's
,u,+ obfuInace NJy;IharfOroa ITpiuorc itv
came into possession of 100000 from
the Avery estate of Pittsburgh for
endowment purposes. This nest
egg" will doubtless prove helpful, but
it is stated that President Scarbor-
ough plans to bring the endowment
fund up to 100000 before taking
breathing spell. Under the present
administration Wherefore has taken
rank with the best educational insti
tutions of the land, and the A NJ. f.
Church is justly proud of her contri-
button to the nations higher civiliza.
ton.
Let the women have the ballot.
They train our sons to vote the right
way. They earn and save money for
the nations defense. They own
property, pay taxes and have person
al rights that ought to be protected.
Why not allow them a voice in the
government of which they are a nat
ural part?
Lynching is a national crime, from
every consideration of morals. II
should be made so by statute.
! Harry c. Smith. the militant editor
of the Cleveland Gazette, is waging {
righteous war against ministers whC
have accepted blood money from
keepers of vicious saloons in the col
ored wards, and against others whit
have been supporting corrupt politi
clans and making libelous statement
touching his personal character. Bro
Smith seems to have the better o
the controversy and his contention
for ministerial purity and communit,
betterment has enlisted on his sid
the sympathies of all lovers of Law
and order and decent politics. |,
any kind of a scrimmage you ca
count on Harry Smiths ability t
take care Of himself"
Let no colored American be
Stacker"
A family rises high in bur esteel
when we find a group of colored p;
pers and magazines on the cente
/ table, They are mute, but eloQuer
Witnesses for the race pride of thi
, family.
here can be no rightful race or CO
or line in woman suffrage. In ii
+ common cause of good governmel
( white and black women should labC
S as a unit The ballot-hox is not
1 pink tea or parlor social.
. *
D If there are any mourners for Il
), deceased hag, Segregation" the
S should be ashamed TO wear the crel
in view of an American audience.
4 Oratory that builds Tuskegee
i Hamptons, Fisks, Wilberforces, Ii
t ingstons, and National Trainil
|. Schools of the Shepard and BIZ
It rough's type has quality tn
l. is convincing, inspiring and endurin
= But oratOry, or word mOngering, f
e mere entertainment is a "soundil
y brass and tinkling cymbals-tickl
', the ear, enchants the fancy for t
y moment and then passes into obi
r ion"
g Il
S For reasons that are as plain as
n pikestaff, we join with the sagacio
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