Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-12

| ington, and in these trying days it
is we'll for us to refresh our
l sources Of inspiration; to develop
4 a new patriotism that shall lead to
| the winning of the war. A year
| ago when | went to Washington to
I become a dollar a year man that
4 city was valley of depression.
\ Everyone seemed to be coming
I there with good intentions, per-
haps, but the floor of hell they tell
/ us is paved with good intentions.
| But those days are over now, and
1--we have learned from them the
Igreat fault of democracy,-a lack
Xof preparedness, a lack of organi-
Mzation. During that first year there
twas so much cross firing, so much
Hcross circuiting. We became
Thoroughly depressed down there,
III can tell you, but never discourag-
Ned. An American has no right to
Moderate the word Encouragement
4 'In those days | used to cross the
Nriver to the home of Washington.
HThere | could sit in the very chair
that he used, enter the bed cham
Der that he had occupied, and look
but upon the same hills. We are
Rrone to remember the Washing
BON, first in peace but as we come
40 the hallway in that old home we
bind there the crossed swords. un-
Her which Washington in his will
Rrdered inscribed the admonition
That they were never to be I'M
Rheathed for the purpose of she'd
ling blood except in defense of our
Nights, and never to be relinquish
I'd until victory should be won.
M hen we realize that Washington
las also first in war, and that he
Rould have us relieve the allies
ID com that terrible strain that they
d ave been enduring for a period
nearly as long as our Civil War;
"a E would have us take up the bur-
I'm.
in the year that | have been the
q Bid agent of the National Coun-
Of Defense" DR.. Scherer said,
have travelled 100000 miles in
e United States. was first sent
the South to learn the temper of
n e southern people, | was glad of
is for | am a native of North
F. arolina, that valley of humilia-
bn between the two peaks of
Tide, South Carolina and Virginia.
had heard that the Kaiser had
nt his agents throughout the
nd to arouse the colOred citizens,
id cause them to turn upon their
bployers. 1t sounded incredible,
since the sinking of the .Lusi-
nia l have believed anything
I Edible concerning the Kaiser. |
pnd it true that he had sent his
ents there (there are 100000
4 rman spies in the country) but
j ften wished in those days that
4 E of those German spies had
4 En- with me, if he would have
BIT in truthful reports.
\ Il found the spirit of the negro
Y emplified in a big, black, burly
n der in Georgia last summer,
j % was bursting with pride in
3 airing that uniform, who declar-
H with zest, Just wait until us
4 bgry Saxons' gets at them, and
n FL make them rum | was told
i Major Motion, Booker Wash
a+ T,r 10
i 1t there is a better understand
I than ever before growing up
il tween the white and colored peo-
x in the South. Shakspere has
i us, There is a soul of good
i IS even in things evil and one
! the good things in this war is
\ fact that President Wilson
3 |ught out: America has been
i more closely together by one
y Ir of war than by one hundred
I rs of peace. There was a GER
4 softness, a certain selfishness
q IN us; we had lost the vision of
Il founders of the great republic.
4 " in this crusade upon which
i are engaged, we are to be knit
u B great moral nation. The
& tie people are beginning to real
U that he negroes fingers are
y destined to pick cotton-he can
= any white man at it-and they
T. It to hold him to his job. Some
Il ur great industrial organiza-
n recently made an attempt to
I've the labor shortage by the
brtation of negro labor from
South. | know of one commun-
where 1900 came north, and |
witnessed a group of 1000 re-