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Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
Genuine Loyalty

During the whole course of the war
the Negro population of the United
States has been loyal to the core, and
of all the fantasies of German diplo-
macy toward the alienation of ele-
ments in our composite population,
after it was recognized that our dec
laration of war was coming, none was
more fantastic than the well-accredit-
ed plot to turn our native Colored
citizens against the country with
which all their fortunes are bound up
and identified. 1t has been possible
for Prussianism to find among us
some weak and credulous people, and
some even who, coming here as aliens
and have prospered greatly under our
institutions, to be deluded with the
notion that they could reap advan-
tage out of the nations sumiliation
and defeat. But the Colored citizen
of the United States has had through
out it all shrewd understanding that
we must all stand or fall together and
he doesn't want to fall.
Aside from all such practical con-
siderations, there is Negro loyalty
which is one of the finest traits of the
Race. 1t has been sung in song and
told in story. The older generation
were loyal even to those who were
fighting to hold them in slavery, out
of ties of love and affection which
nothing could break. Men of the
south, intelligent and high-charactered
men, have permitted grosser elements
to persecute the race, purely out of
political considerations. We trust,
and now believe, that that discredit-
able era is drawing to close. 1t has
been the worst blot on an escutcheon
seldom marred by want of valor or
chivalry in fighting for a lost cause.
The Colored people are justifying
all of our faith. Not only have they,
at home, responded well to every pa
triotic need, but their men in the field
in France are proving themselves
worthy comrades of those who so sig
nally earned laurels at San Juan, and
those who, on the Mexican border,
under Pershing, proved themselves at
Parral to be the stuff that American
soldiers are made Meadville (Pa.)
Republic.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
REVIEW OF REVIEWS
PRAISES NEGROES FOR
WAR WORK ACTIVITIES
(By Associated Negro Press)


NEW YORK, May Another nota-
BILE instance of the new era of justice
is brought out in the Review of Re
views, one of the great magazines OF
the country dealing with current his
tory and events. The information con
corning the part the Negro played in
winning the war, from an Industrial
viewpoint, is not even generally
known to us, and is of greatest mo-,
ment.
Here are some of the things done
along industrial and agricultural
lines:
Helped build ships, to dig coal, to
operate railroads, to raise corn, wheat,
oats, hogs and other food products,
and to raise cotton and other staples.
Worked in powder plants and muni-
tion factories; helped to build canton
ments. The brawny arms of black
stevedores and screwmen loaded many
vessels with supplies on the docks at
Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah. New
Orleans, New York, Baltimore and
other places, and unloaded vessels in
record time at foreign ports. When
the full story of the war is written,
the black stevedore regiments at
French docks, who sometimes worked
night and day without relief, will have
high place in the annals of victory.
A gang of Negro riveters at Spar
rows Point, Md, first broke the
worlds record for driving rivets into
the hull of a ship. Thousands of
other Negro workers in the shipyards
Newport News, Charleston. Will
mington, Tampa and other places
helped to build the bridge of ships
for the transportation of troops and
supplies to Europe. Negro pile-driv-
ers at Hog Island established new
worlds records which still stand
In the coal fields of West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama,
other thousands, many of them work
ing extra shifts, mined coal during the
serious winter months of 1917-1918,
thus helping to provide fuel not only
for homes, but also for industry and
transportation during the mad race
of war. In agriculture, during the
past four years, the values of the
twelve principal food and feed crops
in the Southern States increased more
rapidly than the value of cotton crops,
great as those were. The Negro
farmer and farm laborer had a large
share in this increase.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
Race Papers Exert
Powerful Influence
With Colored People
lRv Associated Negro Pressl

CHICAGO, May 1.-The newspapers
of the Race are finally and forever on
the map. With more than 400 publ
cations of various kinds in the field,
more than one hundred of the weekly
newspapers have increased in busi-
ness, prestige and influence by leaps
and bounds in the last five years.
So great has become the influence
of the newspapers, that in certain sec
tions of the South there has been
determined, though unsuccessful eff
fort, to prevent the circulation of GER
tain Race newspapers that are spread
ing the gospel of justice and equal
opportunity
Circulation for more than a score
of the newspapers has been doubled,
trebled and, in some instances, quad
rupled, in the last four years. This
intercommunication has enabled the
100000 people of our group to act
in unity on many subjects that in
lOAHiOi yCdlS ICquIl GU WCCho anu
months to disseminate.
Everywhere editors are displaying
the liyeliest and most progressive in
terest in getting the news to the peo-
pie. Their increase in circulation has
given them an increase in advertis-
ing and an opportunity to raise rates,
and hence it has at last reached the
delightful point where Race journal
ism has become paying investment
The latest addition to the files of
Negro journalism is the Associated
Negro Press, with headquarters at 312
South Clark street, Chicago. This
service is modern in every respect,
gathers news from every section of
the country and distributes it among
more than one hundred newspapers.
The service is copyrighted.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
Ohio Republicans Opposed to Equal Justic<
DR.. Shepard Pleads for
Better Opportunity
for Black Americans
(By Associated negro Press

JERSEY CITY, N. j., May 1.-Mak-
ing an earnest plea for better oppor
tunities for the Race, based on our
latest achievements at home and
abroad in the great war. Dr. James
E. Shepard, president of the National
Training School for Negroes at Dur
ham, N. c., delivered the last public
address of the present season at the
Friday Forum in the First Congrega-
tional church, this city.
DR.. Shepard pointed out that our
group is the Nonly one in this broad
democracy which is excluded by law
to exercise the inalienable rights of
democracy. The four things the
speaker expressed himself of being
hopeful of accomplishment during the
reconstruction period are: Complete
enfranchisement in all states; better
educational opportunities; justice in
the courts, and the rights of the Ne
gro to acquire property anywhere He
pointed out that the record in the war
showed that as class we are not
susceptible to German propaganda and
Bolshevism, which found fertile soil
among other classes.
There is no Bolshevism among us"
said DR.. Shepard, "and there may yet
be a time when the 100000 Ne
groes in America may be called upon
to fight against the Red movement
here. The race never went in for Boil
shevisnR though perhaps their griev-
ances were greater than the classes
which seem to be susceptible to it,"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
NO LASTING PEACE
lW|THOUT RACIAL
EQUALITY, SAY JAPS

TOXIC, April 9.--In an editorial
commenting on the failure of the ra-
cial equality clause to secure a place
in the covenant of the League of Ma
tions, the Japanese Times declared
that the national disappointment of
Japan verges upon disaffection and
affords opportunity for sensational
lists to stir up anti-white prejudice.
Representative Japanese regard the
Paris decision as a snub and a hu-
initiation. the newspaper sayss. 1t
continues:
"The refusal of the august congress
of white peoples to accept the princi-
pie of equality of non-whites proba-
bly, will erect a perpetual barrier to
the harmonious commingling of the
races toward which it was believed
the world was tending 1t can only
tend to accentuate racial prejudices,
which will far from realize President
Wilson's ideal of lasting peace"
Japan's admission to the company
of the great powers must be consid-
cred as only for the political conven-
fence of the allies, the Times de-
clares, and it compares Japans posi-
tion to that of a Negro preacher asked
to speak in church because of his ora
torical powers, but who is not con-
sidered the racial equal to the white
congregation
''It is well for Japan to remember
this point the newspaper adds THE
only way of sustaining Japan's pres
tige must be sought in preparedness
to cope with international situations
as they may develop Peace on earth
and good will toward men must be
considered as still very distant"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
REPUBLICANS OF Ohio
CO ON RECORD AS OP-
P0NENTS TO JUSTICE
lBy Associated Negro Pressl

COLUMBUS, O., May 1.-The Re-
publicans of Ohio have gone on rec
ord, through the defeat of the Beatty
Civil Rights bill, as opposed to equal
justice and equal opportunity. Some
of the most shameful addresses Of
prejudice ever heard in a legislative
assembly were uttered by white Re
publican members Of the legislature,
particularly from Cincinnati, which in
its display of prejudice, certainly can
not be discounted by any city south
of the Ohio river.
The Republican leaders of Ohio, ac-
cording to the people who fought for
the bill, will undoubtedly be made to
remember the gratutious insult and
injustice which, they claim, is a
shameful demonstration for the state
of Garfield, Mckinley. Grant and
Taft, at this crisis in the worlds his
tory, in which Negro soldiers have
taken such an important part. those
from Ohio being high in the scale Of
hero recognition.
The condition has served to cement
many factions for action, who declare
they will support honest Democrats
in the next election openly, if any de-
gree of equal justice is promised.
One prominent citizen who worked
hard fer the passage of the bill said:
I'VE are ashamed to look the people
of the other states in the face now,
and boast of our Beautiful Ohio but
if we win be given time. it will be seen
whether we mean business"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
Jews and Italians
Favor Civil Rights
for Black Brothers
(By Associated Negro Press)

PROVIDENCE, R. I.-Jewish, Ital-
ian and Race support, together with
that ever-present group of loyal
whites, was given the civil rights bill
in the legislature here. Phillip V. JOS
lin was the Jewish citizen who spoke
in behalf of the bill. Representative
Luigi De Pasquale, member of the
Democratic party, said in part: "To
despise man regardless of his in
tellectual attainmepts and his char
acter simply because his face is black
is crime against civilization. 1t is
very unfair to say that certain people
should live in certain localities, not
because they have violated any law,
human or divine, but simply because
they are different in complexion from
others. Race prejudice and Race hos
tility present serious problem and
its solution cannot be had by depriv-
ing citizens of their privileges and OF
their rights guaranteed under the con-
stitution."
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
JapS to Demand
Definite Answer on
Racial Equality
(Ry Associated Negro Presal

WASHINGTON, D. although
the Japanese seem to have been given
a temporary setback in their fight at
the Peace Conference to secure equal
rights for all, regardless of Race, it
is very evident that the clever little
people from over the seas have not
given up hope.
A curious and extremely interesting
alliance has developed between the
japanese and the Jews. The Jews are
asking that the League of Nations
shall include a stipulation for com
plete religious toleration. Japan has
seized upon the suggestion and asks:
why not also liberation for all col
ors?' The Japanese government is
determined to compel definite an
swer on its demand for racial equality.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
ColOred Women
in War Work
(By Associated Negro Press)


NEW RORK, May ELEVEN of our
young women have gone to France in
the capacity of R. M. C. A. secretaries
to add their service to the work that
forty-two of our men secretaries have
been carrying on for our soldiers since
the beginning of the war.
Nine of these women are college
graduates. Five of them are school
teachers; one in public education
work, two in public health work, two
bookkeepers and one in business
They are Miss Helen Hagin, Hart
ford, Conn; Miss Rilda Phelps, Xenia
Ohio; Miss Florence Lee Thomas,
Cleveland; Miss Meta Evens, Hunting
ton, w. Va; Miss Suarez, Tuskegee
Institute, Ala; Miss Halle Craigwell,
New York; Miss Lillian Woods Tur-
ner, Atlanta, Ca; Miss Florence c.
Williams, Raleigh. N. c.; Harriet S.
Edwards, and Althea E. Rochon, New
York city.
The forty-two men secretaries
abroad, as well as the 282 men secre
taries in the American camps, are all
men of high moral character and spe
cial training
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
RIOT NARROWLY AVERTED
THROUGH THE ACTION
OF BAD YOUNGSTERS
(By Associated Negro Press)


CHICAGO, May IA young riot
was staged here last week, which
caused the shooting of one man of
the Race, William Epps, %, who is
lying at the point of death in Provi-
dent hospital
The daily papers declare that the
trouble started when two white boys
were passing on bicycles, and were
stoned by Colored boys. The boys
went to get other boys to "clean up
the gang and were in turn joined by
older persons and their parents with
sticks, bricks, bats and guns.
This was met by the same token
on the part of the grown-ups among
the Colored boys and their parents.
The calling out of the police reserves
brought quick end to what might
have been very serious event
LThe stories as carried by the daily
press as to the cause are at variance
with Investigations made by the AS
sociated Negro Press. The trouble
really started because of interference
by rowdy white boys with a little
Colcred girl who had gone into con
fectionery for ice cream. The Colored
boys resolved to protect the little girl
of their Race.
The trouble occurred in a neighbor-
hood on the South Side in the vicinit =
of recent bomb throwing, because of
the occupying Of homes by Colored
people formerly held by whites.
The Chicago Tribune daily re-
CARDS with all seriousness, with a
lengthy editorial under the caption OF
Racial Neighborliness," in which it
proceeds to say it is the result of
'misdirected energy, spontaneous as
to time and place" and not "evidence
of racial friction The Tribune calls
for an immediate commission to in.
vestigate and report on social welfare
of the races. We may defer it, but
delay can only make the problem
more intricate. 1t seems already toe
near to the surface"
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
COLORED ORATOR SPEAKS
To LARGE ASSEMBLAGE
(By Associated Negro Press)

(By Associated Negro PreSS)
CHICAGO, May 1.-More than 5000
people heard Roscoe Conklin Simmons
deliver his address at the Auditorium,
in the Loop District on the subject:
From State Street to St Mihiel" A
number of leading white people occu-
pied boxes on the occasion, which was
under the direction of The Chicago
Defender, Robert s. Abbott, the owner,
presiding.
Mr.. Simons declared that the time
is at hand when the white people of
the country must hear our side of the
story. He said that the report that the
Negro soldiers are rapists had been
proven false by the official statement
of Major General Barnum. According
to Mr.. Simmons, the reason that the
Race soldiers who fought under the
French came home decorated with
crosses, and so many of the 92nd divi-
sion who displayed equal valor came
home without decorations, is because
the French were in the war to fight,
and not to draw the color line" He
further declared that much of the
prejudice against our soldiers was due
to the playing of small politics by
Southern Democrats
Music for the occasion was fur
nished by a chorus of 500 voices un
der the direction of Prof J. Wesley
Jones and George Garner. as soloist.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
Prominent Visitor
Royalty Entertained
by ChicagOanS
(By Associated. Negro Press)

CHICAGO, May NEARLY 100
guests were present in the Gold Room
of the Royal Gardens, ON the invita-
tion of Cary B. Lewis, managing edi-
tor of The Chicago Defender, to at
tend. banquet in honor of John j.
Allen, president Of the World Won
der Oil and Gas Company. of Kansas
City, Saturday night. Alderman L. B.
Anderson represented Mayor Thomp-
son. The idea of the formation of a
local Boosters Club" for the purpose
of entertaining all prominent visitors
from over the country who visit Chi
cago, was agreed upon.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

railroad into interior Liberia to tap
it's inexhaustible wealth, but Liberia
says no. Why? First, because she
knows it will mean her ruin; second
ly, because she is longing, hoping and
praying that the American Negro will
awaken to the opportunity and come
back to the land of his fathers and
partake of the wealth that she has
been fighting to hold for him these
many years.
And so some day when the call shall
come; some day when Liberia is ready
to welcome and handle the immi-
grants; some day when ships become
burdened with black folks going back
to the land of their fathers; do not
laugh and sneer. They will be going
back to real freedom, real hope, real
opportunity. You may stay here if
you will; it is your privilege But
over there those who went will be
singing amid the cotton blossoms, the
rubber forests and among the palms.
They will be singing as they bring
their wealth to the market place, sing
ing as they pile it aboard the winged
vessels, and singing as the world
drops its gold into their palms. They
will have dreamed dream and shall
live to see their dream come true.
Liberia is only waiting for us to
oxrro IL
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
CHURCHES
TO COMBINE EFFORTS
IN RAISING FUNDS
lBy Associated Negro Pressl

ATLANTA, Ca, May 1.-One of the
most unusual church financial cam
paigns ever held is now in progress in
this city. All of the denominations
of the city have joined hands to raise
fund of 100000 to clear all Atlanta
church property of debt This is an
evidence of unity OF effort that may
well be followed in other cities of the
nation
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
GRANDMOTHER AT 27 YEARS

WILMINGTON. - The youngest
grandmother in history resides in this
city, according to the state health de-
partment, whose record shows that a
negress of this city is a grandmother
at the age of 27 years. The state au-
thorities refuse to divulge the name
of the woman, but said that the rec
ords show that the present grand
mother at the age of IA years gave
birth to a daughter. and several days
ago this girl, now 13 years old, had a
baby girl born to her
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
CELEBRATE LANDING
OF FIRST SLAVES IN
THE UNITED STATES
(By Associated Negro Press)

NEWARK. N. j., May 1.-The Booth
anniversary of the landing of the first
Negroes brought to this country in
slavery was celebrated here this week
under the auspices of the Knights of
Pythias. Mayor Gillen, A, K Bugbee,
candidate for Governor, and Rev. W.
A. Byrd were the speakers. as was
also Governor Edge. The occasion
was a memorable one
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

WASHINGTON. = Investigations OF
negro migration to the north during
the war, just issued by the depart
ment of labor. Indicate that the total
migration may have been as great as
S5O.O0O, extending over a period OF
about Is months during 1916 and 1917.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

AUSTIN, Tex-A large committee
representing the colored people oi
this city appeared before the mayer
and protested against the showing Of
The Birth of Nation" AS a result
the play has been barred from Aus
tin.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03
BODIES Of SOLDIERS
BEING REMOVED BY
COLORED TROOPS
(By Associated negro Press

PARIS, France, April 2S.-Twenty-
five thousand bodies of American SOL
diers are being removed from their
temporary graves by 10000 American
Negro soldiers, who are going at their
work with the same determination and
seriousness that they went into bat
tie.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

RICHMOND. Va.-Judge Beverly
T. Crump in the law and equity court
of this city last Monday signed de.
cree declaring dividend of 25 per
cent to the depositors of the defunct
Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain,
United Order of True Reformers
which institution closed its doors Oc-
tober 10, 1910
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

NEW YORK.-Norman E. Mack uf
Buffalo, N. Y. member of the demo-
cratic national committee and chair
man of the committee in the last
Bryan campaign, says from present
indications President. Wilson will be
nominated by the democrats in 1920.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

ALBANY. N. Y.-Martin J. Healy
assemblyman from Harlem, has in
troduced bill in the legislature by
which colored officers will command
the states colored military forces.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

CAMP SHERMAN, Chillicothe, o
Recruiting for the new army which
will be maintained by the govern
ment will begin at Camp Sherman at
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

PENSACOLA, Fla-Bud Johnson
was taken from county officers near
Cantleberry early today and burned
to death by mob Johnson was ac
cused of attacking a white woman
and the usual tale that ''the Negro
confessed" was handed out by the
white press associations and papers.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-05-03

HAMPTON, Va.-The Newport
News Shipbuilding company employs
$500 colored men, the largest and
best paid group of colored men in
the industries.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-31
SHE WORKS AT
OWN EXPENSE
All tho Money Collected for the Col.
ored Girls Home at State Uni
versity viii be Spent
Upon II.

Mrs. Fred H. Gresham, the repre-
sentative Of the Iowa Federation Of
Colored Women's clubs who is still
In Keokuk soliciting funds for the COL
ored girls home at Iowa City is meet
ing with success here, she thinks.
The work which the various women
ever the state are doing to help push
this $4,000 drive is being done by
them without any recompense what
over. They care for their own per.
sonal expenses and none of the money
raised for the cottage fund is appro-
priated by them.
The money which will be raised In
this drive will be expended under the
advice Of the Iowa state university
authorities in order to secure the most
suitable accommodations for the col
ored girls who attend the school.
"keokuk people who contribute to
this cause may rest assured that there
money will be wisely spent" Mrs.
Gresham said today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-31
Two Men with Regulations on the
Stump viii Hold Debate on tho
League Of Nations Next
Week.
BOYD AND BRooKHART
In keokuk One Evening and at Wash.
inoton, Iowa, Another Evening,
the Two Will Argue Pro
and Con.

Senator ]. L. Brookhart, of Wash
ington, Iowa, representing the tenth
senatorial district in the last legisla'
ture, and j. o. Boyd, chairman for the
first congressional district OF Iowa OF
the League to Enforce Peace, are ar
ranging for joint debate on the
L. !gue of nations.
The plan Is to debate the question
publicly at Keokuk on the evening OF
August 6, and at Washington, Iowa.
on the evening of August 3.
Brookhart has reputation as a
fighter for his opinions and as a force
full orator, and he generally attracts a
good deal of attention when he starts
out to tell the public something.
Boyd was trained thoroughly IN poll
teal fighting and strategy in Missouri
in the school of Champ Clark, Before
he came to Keokuk years ago, and ne
is the principal evangelist hereabouts
for the league Of nations propaganda
THAT debate will be well worth
hearing said man who knows them
both well, today.
ut sure will be some oratorical
scrap said another Keokuk man.