Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-31

SpIt. Our noses are roasted our WIISheIS are
$ toasted we're baked and we're poached and we're
fried; we long for cool breezes, and Autumn, she
! eases the burden to which we've been tied. Oh,
= welcome, September! l to remember had
September last year; and she hummer that
followed the summer and filled old bosoms with
cheer. Oh, she was a daisy with distances hazy
and zephyrs tn at limited of frost, with nights that
were chilly-not sizzling and silly; 1 boost her. re-
gardess of cost.
ton is under full legal airing after an nvestga
ton held by of rreproachable character and
long of the section in which they live The same
action will doubtless swing in behind the Caldwell af
fair and those guilty of the killing brought to an ac-
counting of Sort even though the aggravaton to
men who live the edge of relations may be
very strong when ''bad talking niger" gets busy
talk of real trouble is by no means idle chatter with
the jenkins county tragedy and all that lay behind that
still fresh in all minds That negroes in that section
had under the leadership of the late Dixon made up
their minds to be law unto themselves there can
be doubt
In the meantime it is well enough to remember
there is trouble, race trouble impend-
ing and possible in Georgia, as long as all but
one in every four five thousand negroes continue
going about their business and paying attention to
the loud mouths and braggars whose none too steady
heads have been turned by residence in the black
of the Northern cities In which connection the
words of Bishop Hosey in Macon the night before
last to his own people with peculiar and driving
emphasis:
Il For the negro to think of fighting
i to force the white people to do something is the
height of folly the white mans govern
ment is my government and love the white man,
in fact I love everybody. The Southern white
people not the worst people in the world
This is not the doctrine preached by the Chicago
Defender, the Tom WatsOnst publication of negro
journalism, by the Crisis that ably and smarty edited
publication which in every issue and every
page reflects the editors resentment at being
born negro and his passion to be white man. or of
the other papers that being put into the hands of
the negroes and copies of which had much to do
with the CALDWELL lynching the actual utterances of
the staggering negro himself But what Bishop Hol-
sey tried and true leader of his race says is true
particular and is the duty of every respect
ed and patriotic negro be preaching among his peo-
pie the doctrine
S Just the white duty is to keep common sense,
forbearance and sanity the outstanding characteristics
of our relations with the negro and have among
our own people good many who need much edu-
D cation to their department the younger genera
ton of negroes may need for their. The burning of
churches is confession of weakness and inability to
cope with the situation the part of the white men
who do it, 1t is admission they have either bad
of nerves. hardly credtable to the dominant and
superior race they have failed to keep the proper
! relation between the maintained in times it
should be easy and natural to build it would stand
against any test of attempt at breach.
$ If responsible white had organized respon-
sbe negroes to combat the propaganda of such
as the Chicago Defender and used their own meth
DDS close the mouths and expe the presence of such
brasshroated fools the overtalkng negro who was
lynched there would have been trouble And that
can be done In the doing of it the real burden lies
: on the shoulders of the clear-seeng intelligent and
k responsible white If he meets his full duty in
e every community there will be more church and
n lodge burnngs because NEGRO Bolshevsm" will
:. not be taught there with responsible loyal and in
teigent negro leaders exposing the falacy and by
h pocrsy and danger of it ALL
Is There will be trouble in Georgia, even so
lie The Caldwell methods will keep it down; but so will