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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-18
Wouldn't Fight for U. S.;
Will Stay in Russia Now

tence bars you from citizenship in
the United States and relieves us of
assuming any responsibility for you.
You can't go back to the United
States on an American passport. You
we needed you. and now we don't
want you"
There was a grim note in the col
onel's voice. l had an idea he was
tasting some of that rare sweetness
called revenge.
you claimed you were Russians
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-18

go TO the Russian consul" advised
the colonel.
I'VE did, admitted the now thor
oily detected looking gaunt person.
THE Russians won't have anything
to do with us, elther-they say we
amt even Russians-what are we,
them" he burst out tragically with a
despairing sweep of his arms. What
are we?'
There was compassion in the adjr
tant's voice when he answered. but
not the slightest sign of relenting:
"You are men without a country"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-18
BIG TIMBER
BY BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
MORT o

cold touch of moisture on her face
rain. great pattering drops over.
head an ominously blnck cloud hid
the face OF the sun. The shore. when
she looked. lay "A mile and "A half
abeam. TO the north and between
her and the lands rocky line was a
darkening OF the likes surface
Stella reached for her paddle. The
black cloud let fall long. gray stream.
ers OF rain. There was scarcely a
stirring OF the air. but that did not
deceive her. There was a growing
chill. and there was that broken line
sweeping down the lake. Behind that
was wind, a summer gale. the black
squall dreaded by the Siwashes.
she had TO buck her way to shore
thru that. She drove hard on the
paddle She was not afraid, but
there rose In her a peculiar tenscd.
up feeling. Ahead lay ticklish bit
of business. The sixteen-foot canoe
dwarfed TO pitiful dimensions in the
face of that snarling line OF wind.
harried water. She could hear the
distant mur-nur OF Il presently. and
gusty puffs OF wind began TO strike
her.
Then II swept up 20 her. n ripple,
"A chop, and very close behind that
the short, steep lake combcrs with
wind that blew off the tops az each
wavo.head broke I'm white bubbling
froth. Immediately she began TO lose
ground. She had expected that. and
II did not alarm her II she could
keep the canoe bow on, there was an
even chance that the squall would
blow Itself out In half an hour. But
keeping the canoe bow on proved
a task for stout arms The wind
would catch all that forward part
which thrust clear as she stopped a
sea and twist II aside. tending always
TO throw her broadside into the
trough. Spray began 10 splash
aboard. The seas were so short and
steep that the Petcrboro would rise
over the crest OF tall one and dip
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clear to strike with slap that made
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-18

A woman is always wanting a
man TO tell her that he loves her.
and she doesn't believe him If he
does.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
THE MIRROR OF
PUBLIC OPINION
RACE RIOTS. PREVENTIVE MEASURES.
By James e. Gregg. Principal of Hampton Institu


several hundred burning
of their dwellings this taking place not rough barbarou
frontier community but two of the greatest cities
them the National capital the other metropolis North State
and that this possible authorities
to maintain law order is stain the United States
which must saden the rea of loyal citizen Moreover events
alarming ominous.
Washington up the
the
of lasting for days where things happen
What town safe? When shall read of similar atrocities widely
scattered cities?
al-mpoan question
These 1919 ought to be the last that disgrace United States
and the all that disgrace United and
lis o o that this ideal
Without attempting fix precisely the responsibility out
breaks that both Washington and Chicago there
history the medical of neglected opportunity to cultivate
mutual understanding between the races
breeds enmity and racial anpah foh
who the lowest intelligence
spiritual culture In democracy of ALL this of
enlightened led guided and need be- controlled Broadly
speaking they the people who make police force They
should allowed to become a mob
mte ~ nence representing the hest men and women Of both races
friction disputes
public opinion fore neraca conflicts and best ALL
such svmpac mutual knowledge as makes the growth rachred
when evident observer that trouble
brewing.
Every CITY, North any
population the advice this point DR. Robert
principal Institute
Negro the De
and other competent authorities and establish such joint
waiting bitter which Atlanta
Chester East St. Louis Springfield Gainesville Washington Chicago Knox
VILE and Omaha
Furthermore necessity something
should
persons this infamous bloodhed
the full of the but white
undnabehave committed these let them
suffer exactly the penalty
especially the loyal service of Coored
sary preferred legislation if
community after another
the North well
South white
Simple fairness the courts in buying and selling in the conditions
housing educational recreona facilities; in
white the South
S they think will wish him less.
himself, imagination
the black and then the solution the
swiftly justice which is the
Golden Rule of
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
MAKING PROGRESS.

A mob the other day held ND a
Mississippi sheriff and took his Negro
prisoner away from him with the
avowed purpose of staging another
lynching.
The sheriff, evidently a man of
commendable courage, had rnerve'
enough to demonstrate with the would
be lynchers. He succeeded in calm
ing them to such an extent that they
compromised on flogging their cof-
ering victim with buggy trace in
stead of hanging him.
The prisoner was not charged with
the "one offense" for which lynching
is often condoned. He was not even
charged with murder He had shot
at white man, but the bullet went
astray.
7 He should have been punished, of
course, and any court in Mississippi
would have punished him.
But the mob was bent upon his
blood, and undoubtedly it was only
the GOODNESS and the persuasive pow
ers of the sheriff that saved Missis-
sippi and the south from another of
lllOoC Ol
mob brutality that keeps the finger
of shame from all parts of the world
pointing our way!
This sheriff convinced the mob that
it should not hang his prisoner, and
the mob let the defendant off with a
beating!
That denotes progress!
1t is a hopeful sign that mob will
even listen to an officer of the law
and that it will permit its fury to be
softened by reason, even to the ex-
tent of submitting trace-strap for
hangman's moose!
Let us hope that our sheriffs may
develop influence strong enough to
convince the mobs that 1t would be
better, even than whipping, for the
south to leave all such matters in the
hands of the courts of Justice.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
POLITICAL CAMOUFLAGE.

small Houston out with head
the that McGrego
made by
Republican Republican
The made this little gentle
McGregor told Mr. Williams who told the Office
everything alright and
rejoicing the Republic
did Republican Texas made
Williams might told the truth and
and be that the editor Of this little
in
this they should
worth 100000
authority that he stakeholder in of the most
any publicity feel that Mr. Nc
Republican Council Texas
publicity which would
did Mr. McGreg hide that
Why did he allow that state
handed? Does his warrant
influenced yelled statements behalf
both make and demanded by the cir
The Texas Republican Council it that their statement
We feel
should ued just
plain lust
msled political
Republican
legislation this Republicans
that he knows this fact and
repudae
the editor who tell the office
Williams tell Mr. to tell somebody to tel Mr.
which calculated
with
Texas let him publish frsthand not
public putting in small ncon
weekly which printed We
want know" that he meant It,
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
AN OLD RACE.WAR WARNING.

The atrocous occurrence at Omaha following
Knoxville Chicago threatening
ties practical speculation the
of such bitter racial anos and such dsregd justice may
be
the belief that there
system
present organized
peposeous the element of racial dis
testaton which these
outbreaks legal punishment could be too for them But
deniabe that committed by they regarded
than precisely the committed by white
its course in the former than in the latter cases is simply nconceb
what happened Omaha the other would happened the
criminal had a white
One of the of this racial discrimination clearly ores more
century minded statesmen The New
York Legislature then passed bill for the abolition of slavery but also
providing that no person even part Negro blood ever be permitted vote
The Board Revision which then exercised the dsapprove
the measure not because would emanpae but because would dis
the Negroes and would thus create between TWO
of liberty equal
M said the Board charge with the burdens of government those who
have representative share in imposing them.
Then still the present the veto went to
This DISTINGUISHED discontinued citizens flu
e period may under the direction OF ambitious ana acuous leaders De-
constitution whose bene
fits they not permitted enjoy The creation of an order of
citizens who have legislative representative share in the Gov
necessarily the foundation of aroacy of the most dan
gerous and malignant kind"
Now it is true that in no State of the persons
denied the franchise But is nspuabe that in States they
practically denied and that not all the States there is
under either discrimination against Them and
criticisms those New York statesmen of 1885
then vetoed general treatment Negroes throughout the United
States discrimination not entirely
DISTINGUISHED certainly Discontinued class ,-
We do not think that their discomfort and resentment at such d
initiative conflicts
the But those
feelings sufficiently Negroes meet aggression or
Moreover the discrimination against them has sub
inf the objects
and evils 1t probable that resent
discrimination ncie Negroes to the commission OF
whites particularly against white women 1t
that that discrimination that the horrors of lynch
ing are SO often visited upon Negroes Just as much
where there danger that
lit will
That feeling of racial discrimination
indeed that will be effect
That will long as pre-
conflict is unhappy
much 70 be feared. -Harveys Weekly
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
:. - .6o,ogize for Southern his

upon to apologize for Southern MS
tory.
eve feryently hope that such a
dow vii, never come; surely Southern
traditions and Southern CIVILIZATIONS
are worthy of preservation. But as
long as Southern colleges are lg-
nored by Southern men OF wealtn
and as long as Southern parents reel
called upon to send their children
for four wears of instruction to Nor
thern colleges, we may Wen enter
tain the apprehension that the moran
and intellectual defense OF southern
history and Southern traditions VIII
be undermined"
"Our sons and daughters by the
thousands are being educated in other
sections and the characteristics or
orr Southern civilization are in many
cases schooled out of them. Ii con-
ditions continues as they are, and
as they have been for the past fifty
years, Southern civilization must IN
evitably become an extinct ana dls-
credited type"
We have often heard the doctrine
preached that poverty is blessing.
II was a doctrine, however, In Whlch
we never had a very firm belief. Now
we can see that it contains, at least,
some truth. If through the poverty
of Southern colleges young men and
women of that section are forced to
attend the great universities of the
North and West, the South is blessed
in the poverty stricken condition OF
| its schools.
We know of nothing which holds
out greater hope for the freedom OF
the South from hidebound ideas, from
its 18th century point of view, from
something which is not entirely
Southern. Let these young men and
women study in the great schools OF
the North and the West and Europe,
If they can. Let them get some ideas
which are not two or three hundred
years old in their heads. Let them
get a perspective which will enable
them to see the South as it is.
If they do this, there is hope for
the South. And if they can do it only
because Southern schools are poverty
stricken. then may they so remain
for many years to come.
AS the loss of Southern traditions,
which Chancellor Gambler so much
deplores, that would be something
which would not mean much of a
loss of the world II would mean
chiefly the loss of ideals which cen
ter around slavery, sloth, inequality
and injustice.
If Southern young men and women
are ever able to get rid Of this ira
dition, it will not be long before they
will give something to the world
really worth preserving.
| New York Age.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER.
ROOSEVELT AND AMERICANISM.

Pittsburgh Courier.
1t is no small accomplishment for
one to live among men. and to so
live that men refuse to allow one to
die, even long, long years after ones
activities have ceased. The men
worth while are they whose lives ex-
tend far beyond the grave. Mr.. Roose-
welt belongs to that class of men, or
to be more exact, he constitutes the
class itself.
This week brings to our minds
the natal day of the greatest Ameri-
can. 1t is but fitting that the whole
country should be engaged in erecting
monument to his memory. If the
monument does not take the form
of carved granite, better still If it
takes the form Of esteem. respect and
genuine love deeply rooted in the
hearts of all Americans. It has be-
come almost common place for men
and women to define Americanism
by simply repeating the name of
Roosevelt. No one asks for defini-
tions, explanations or principles
whenever or wherever Rooseveltian
'"'ercanism is mentioned. He has
led the way, all others must fol-
low. All the way down through the
coming years Roosevelt day will be
observed as the Sabbath of the ma
ton.
Needless to say men and women the
country over will vie with each other
in making Roosevelt week just what
Roosevelt himself would love to see
"a week set apart to an unstinted
cultivation of true Americanism by
true Americans. He would like just
such program; for there was moth
ing quite so dear to him as a ro-
bust Americanism. The thought of
the man seems to make men better.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER s, 1918.
GIFTS AND GTyERs.

Nothing is truly given. That which
we have we simply share with our
brothers and thus make our COM
mon lot better. Any man who d.
vides his substance thus realizes first
OF all that he is only striving to help up
in the scale his less fortunate neigh
Dor. We feel that this is true OF
most men who make regular con-
tributions to charities of many sorts
to whatever race they may belong.
We feel farther that any institution to
which such a gift is given, whose
agents ascribe any other motive 10
the givers have done them and their
noble spirits gross injustice. We
feel that any man with soul enough
in him to give to a Negro institution
is too large to stoop TO many mean,
petty things, We feel that he would
not demean himself BY little insig-
nificant acts of reprisal. Such men
il Is who keep alive In the world
the best in existence. The example
OF such men makes others wish to
strive, work, accomplish and accu-
mulate in order that they too may
give to others the comfort and as
surance that God is not dead and
that Christian principles will live
in spite OF whatever may come. God
cannot succeed on earth II all men
will that His work shall fail. For
this reason we call the attention of
those who think otherwise to the fact
that Givers of the regular and sub
statial sort appeal to us as men and
women actuated by spirit Of love
and good ness and not by special
regard for the personality and sup
posed wonder Of any man or agent.
Mean deeds rs such cannot come from
thoroughly good men. Such agents
suffer from too much. thinking about
their own size and Importance. To
them we would suggest as a means
of determining their personal inn
portance that they go to good
sized lake or pond; row out to the
middle, stick their hands in as far
as possible, then withdraw them and
measure the hole that is left. The
size OF the hole will be a correct
measure OF his or her own and in
dividual importance in the scheme OF
human affairs
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER
SAYS LYNCHNGS DISCREDlT
UNITED STATES IN EUROPE.

The United States is discrediteu
and disgraced in Europe by lynchmgs'
according to letter written by DOT,
othy Canfied Fisher, the novelist, ana
made public today by the National
Association for the Advancement OF
Colored People. Mrs. Fisher, writ
ing to Senator Dillingham; in favor
of Congressional investigation OF lyn-
ching, says that in her three years
in France she observed "the astonish-
ed, amazed adherence which Amerl-
can lynching causes everywhere IN
Europe"
Her letter follows:
Arlington, Vermont,
October, oath.
NV dear Senator Dillingham;:
am writing you as Vermonter
much interested in the Negro ques-
ton to beg you to use all your in
fluence for a favorable action on the
Curtis resolution calling for an in
vestigation for an investigation OF
lynching and mob violence. / have
no need to say anything to you, OF
course about the horrible wrongs in
volved in letting lynching go on, as
you must know more about that than
we do, and must feel quite as deeply
as all the rest of the Vermonters who
are looking anxiously for your act
ion in the matter But as one one
just returned from three years in
France, l can perhaps present to you
from much first-hand experience
some idea of the astonish-
ed, amazed adherence which Ameri-
can lynching causes everywhere in
Europe. The whole nation is dis
credited and disgraced and every
word we say about human rights and
civilization is laughed at by Euro
peans who know of the lynching evil
in our country.
1t would to some extent redeem
our national honor-even before the
Federal Investigation could actually
accomplished anything, to have II
known that we took the disgrace Sc
riously enough to take national act
ion about it.
With the keenest hope that you
may be instrumental and Vermont
through you, in helping put an enc
to this national horror, / am,
Sincerely yours,
Sidgend:
DOROTHY CANEIEJ n FIcuEp
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
PRESERVATION OF SOUTHERN
TRADITIONS.

This is period in which all Of the
great universities and colleges in
the North are making a drive for
endowment funds. A few of them,
like Harvard University. have mil
lions as their goal This leads Bish-
op Warren A Gambler, Chancellor of
Emory University, Georgia, to COM
ment on the poverty of institutions
for higher education in the South.
The Chancellor sees in the increasing
wealth and facilities of the education
institutions of the oNrth and the COM
parative poverty of such institutions
in the South tendency which will
result in the disappearance of South
ern traditions and certain definite
characteristics of Southern civiliza-
ton. He sees the approach of the
day when Southern men and women
educated in the North will feel called
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
AMERICANIsM.

If man in good faith, in soul and in body, be-
comes an American, he stands on full and entire
equality with everybody else and must be SO treated.
without any mental reservation without any regard
to- his creed or birthplace descent 1t
is both weak and wicked to permit any of citizens
to hold dual divided allegiance and it is just as
mischievOus, just un-American, to discriminate
against any good American, because of his birthplace
creed parentage.- Roosevelt. in "The
Foes of Our Own Household"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08

The weather maker tried himself
on Halloween. He made a real night
az ghosts and rain COLLINS and thun-
der devils. We sympathize deeply
with all the tailor made COLLINS and
fancy pumpkin faces and other para
phernalia which counldnt be used
because q greater Power prevented.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08
THE 4y, SPIRIT.

Y A. Dallas last week completed seven
which the Boys Work and Community
Plan finish the for State and County
Work The drive ne $1,000 and pledges not be generally
match similar sum
Directors of the City A. and contributed
Dallas for the Negroes but such is the
and the $500 put up by them was guarantee OF their belief in We
feel that the $1,000 raised by proof belief in need this
knowledge of its worth There is
doubt but that our boys need the uplifting influences OF the A.
to turn and keep their minds in right directions.
this the the
generally and
the perfection of lasting and permanent organization here
is matter of knowledge that the Y NJ and does
cities America feel its influence for good in the lives of their
young all
in its benefits and are glad to come under its influence toward clean thought
clean speech and clean action.
the vision the lot Of all and the
struggling and nations A and down"
demonstrated who
the existence
only spirit of
helpfulness is shown here on earth
Dallas However small
expenditure
possible the generations which members
generation provide that generation which is to be-
There the that than
their
possible make them not look with degree of hope
furnish for them shall
have failed miserably
a y. NJ
alive and who this effort solicited only few and women
readily accessible contribute This
however Negro
Dallas will be called later contribute subscribe to
this 1t become You must keep in touch
athletic
will in them the principles
fair Sunday Schools will be called to furnish their quota of
to be
out Dallas will be large and highly profitable both parents and
all
highest capacity At present the
for has been minister and
Y.
demobzd soldiers Dallas He knows this work
months he met and
the School with whom he worked
that this work needed See to that cooperate
frherance continuation of this work city
the dutiu fespectng
awbg citizen the the stuff Of which lasting nations and
made
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-08

We wonder how unhomogenous the
Filipino nation would be pictured
to be by some playful writer's If one
OF these days group of Tagalogs
happens to come to fistic blows-not
TO say pistol encounters-with
group of Visayans in one of the
streets of Mania, much like the en-
counters that transpired between the
white and the Colored citizens of
washington, D. c., not so very long
ago.