The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-05-24
Or. Emmett ]. Scott Answers
Do BOis.
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know, and the record proves, that al
far back as two days before the meet
ing of the Negro Editors Conference
which / called here in Washington
June, 1918, he was seeking my per.
sonal good offices that he might real
ize personal aspirations. He knows
that / did everything i could to helI
him secure that much coveted COM
mission in the army which ne sc
eagerly but vainly sought. He also
knows, as the record will show wher
necessity arises, that there were Other
occasions also when DR.. Dubois prob
ably felt / might be used for pulling
chestnuts out Of the fire for him.
Personal Testimony as to Service Rem
dered Colored Americans Over
seas and Over There.
"While in the very nature Of the
case il was impossible for me or any
body else, during the war, to know
everything that was going on among
Negro soldiers or even white soldiers
in France, yet, in my efforts to han
die specific complaints that come to
my notice and look after the welfare
of Negro troops generally, it is graf
flying to have received from Negro
soldiers, Negro officers, Negro chap
lains and Y. M. G. A. Secretaries over.
seas, numerous letters on the order Of
the few partially quoted below:
"Hon. Emmett j. Scott,
Especial Assistant TO the Secretary
of War:
No one can better ap.
.preciate your efforts than we, the col.
ored men of the A. E. F., who have
suffered and labored under unfayor.
able conditions on the battlefields OF
France.
IN. M. COLEMAN,
"Co. B, 806 Pioneer Inf,
american Expeditionary Forces"
"France, October 20, 1919.
"My Dear DR.. Scott:
l have just had time to
finish this note to you. WE ARE NOT
WITHOUT OUR DIFFICULTIES
BUT THE MEN AND OFFICERS
ARE HITTING THE LINE HARD
MUCH HAS TRANSFERRED TO
PROVE THAT YOU ARE ON THE
JOB TO OUR SATISFACTION
OVER HERE
"Yours very truly,
(Signed) "EDW. L. SNYDER,
"Y. M. C. A. Secretary,
Headquarters 365th Inf, A. P. o. 766
France"
"Similar testimony has come to this
office personally and by letter from
such officers of the 92d division as
Major M T. Dean, 317th Ammunition
Train; Captain Charles G. Kelly, 366th
Infantry; Chaplain William T. Ami
ger, 371st Engineers Battalion, A. e.
F., and Lieut.. Charles S. Parker Of the
366th Infantry, the only colored Ad.
jutant we had during the war, and
from many others. And now may
also quote the testimony of Mr.. Ar
chibald H. Grimke, a member OF the
Executive Committee of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People, and President Of the
Washington Branch of that organiza-
ton:
washington, D. c., May 10, 1919.
Ny Dear DR.. Scott:
"From the very beginning of your
services in the War Department near
ly two years ago, / have had full OPP
portunity to know something of the
hard position you have filled with SC
much benefit to our race generally and
to colored soldiers in particular.
Numerous, indeed, have been my
visits to your office in the War De-
partment for the purpose of present
ing specific cases involving COM
plants and grievances Of colored sol
diers in camps at home and overseas
and also cases involving discrimina-
ton against colored men and women
in the Government service here at
Washington.
am, therefore, in position to state,
from positive, personal knowledge,
covering nearly two years of intimate
contact, that you have always gone
forward after making proper inquiry
to develop the exact facts, in firm,
manly, uncompromising way-urging
Right and Justice in behalf of col
ored soldiers at home and overseas,
and in behalf of colored Americans
generally.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) Archibald H. Grimke,
President, Washington Branch, Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
II would rather have the testimony
of these gentlemen who know the facts
concerning my efforts in behalf of
Negro soldiers overseas, some of
whom actually served "over there"
than to be at all perturbed by, or to
treat other than with appropriate con-
tempt the insinuating remarks, print
ed and spoken, of sef-centered, self
seeking, unfair critic-the main drift
of whose life has been TO tary to
"tear down" and to destroy what other
men have sought to build up for the
honor and welfare of their country
and race. Discredited himself by q
large portion of the Negro press Of
the country, he now seeks to discredit
others. Surely misery likes COM
pany," but in the desperate effort of
DR.. Dubois to rehabilitate himself in
the eyes of the Negro world after the
severe drubbing he has received in
the Negro public press and otherwise
it might be well for him to know that
if ne is trying to come back" and
again pose as an ardent defender Of
the race, he shall not do so at my
expense. l am fully prepared for any
further onslaught he may make.
What the Record Shows.
NV record in the War Department