The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-05-24

sible, a prompt and suitable remedy.
The following recommendations,
among others, have been brought to
the attention of the War Department
by me and urged as offering an oppor-
tunity for better morale among Negro
officers and soldiers overseas:
/. That the Negro soldiers of the
Labor and Engineer units be given
the same opportunity for promotion
and advancement as are given the
white soldiers.
3. That all Negro laboring units be
given Negro non-commissioned Of
ficers.
8. That all Negro units be sup
piled with Negro chaplains.
A. That military police be selected
from the Negro soldiers as well as
from white soldiers.
s. Also a change in the matter OF
drilling the men on Sunday without
special permission from commanding
officers.
6. That trials by summary court
martial in the case of these particular
units be discontinued. The nonTon-
troll Of social questions outside OF
camp limits unless requested by the
French authorities. This particular
order referred to q certain effort
which had been made to commit the
military officials to the solution OF
social and other questions non-mili-
tary in nature.
4. That racial discrimination
among American soldiers both at home
and overseas be in no way countenanc-
ed by the War Department.
8. That promotions of colored Of
ficers in combat units be made as
much promotions be earned, etc.
Challenges DIR. Dubois to Present
"Bill of Particulars" of Presum-
ed Deliquencies and Asks Some
Leading Questions.
/ challenge DR.. Du Bots to show in
any Of the numerous memoranda l
have written, or among the numerous
public addresses / have delivered in
all parts of this country-without a
penny's charge to any one who came
to hear my misunderstanding the
interests Of Negro soldiers and civ
ilians, any Cine or paragraph that
falls short of firm demand for JUS
tice and fair play. And, now, having
specifically indicated a few of my
efforts and activities in the War De-
partment with reference to overseas
complaints, /, too, shall publicly ask
few questions:
/. Inasmuch as DR.. Dubois left for
France, December /, 1918, and wait
ed practically five months MAY issue
of The Crisis) before becoming indig-
nant about the treatment of Negro
troops overseas, want to ask-if
he (DuBois) knew of the conditions
complained of and manifestly thought
/ was in a position to have those
wrongs corrected, why in the name of
Justice and High Heaven did he not
bring them directly to my attention.
2. How many of such overseas
complaints did he bring to my atten-
ton as he easily could have done as
a Correspondent" and as Mr.. Ralph
w. Tyler, Accredited War Correspond
ent, actually did?
8. What did he himself do to help
the situation overseas and to have
the wrongs corrected? Is it not a
fact that when the opportunity was
offered for him to counsel with color
ed officers in group that he refused
to do so, preferring to be in a posi-
ton to criticise later rather than TO
be "a present help in a time Of
trouble?" If he did not wish to re-
port the grievances of colored SOL
diers to me personally as being be-
meath his dignity, did he not have &C.
cess to every regimental and divis-
ional headquarters in France the same
as other correspondence"
a. Did he make any effort while
in France to have the injustices COM
planned of ameliorated, or did he wait
his return to America, 5000 miles
away from France, to protest?
| challenge him to cite specifically
what overseas complaints among
Negro troops he ever brought direct
~ to my attention or to the atten-
ton Of my office, where according
to his own testimony, such complaints
should have been bought and pressed
for correction.
! CALL FOR HIS "BILL OF PAR
TiCuLARS." eagerly await his re-
ply.