The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-01-14
TRIBUNE SAYS IDEA OF NE
GRO GROUPS IS DONNA
TON.
lBy A. N. Pr

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 12.-"What are
the darker people Of the world up
TOP That question is being asked
by whites everywhere. 1t Is the I'M
DERIVING thought OF the disarmament
Conference in Washington. and has
been from the beginning.
Plainly the white races Of the world
are deeply concerned, It has been
widely stated that the boldness Of
President Harding's utterances in Biz
mingham was due to the clear vision
of fact that the world cannot, go on
and Cypress darker people
[, Now comes the Chicago Tribune
seeing 'Reb and Black" as attested
In one of the most significant edi-
torials ever published by a daily news
paper. II Is plain from the trend Of
the editorial. taking France as ba-
sis of justice, that the Tribune fears
that after all, what the dark people
of the world desire most. and par
ticularly certain elements among
black people is World Domination
There has never been holder. albeit.
far-fetched intimation. Says the Tri-
bune.
"ROuge EFT NoIr,,
when the American Negro novel;
list and social philosopher Dubois
whose writings came to the attention
of Chicago whites as the result os
Negro outbreak of fanaticism ON the
south side. resulting in Murder. was
In france as delegate to the Pan
AFRICAN congress, he found that the
French attitude toward the African
blacks was Injurious in one respect.
| It granted the Negro social, political
anu, anu inentaI equality, but 1t insisted
The French accepted the equality
\ OF black and white but they did NOT
want the blacks to be red. They
capitalism that between a black man
OF social standing there was no diff
rights. -
etc Dubois this was an tn,,s ,,ca
to Negro traditions In Africa the
black understood communism, the
common ownership and use of resour-
ces. The black had found one power
T French ible1 I1ra among tS the whites, the
nation was being created in Senegal.
Senegal given equality, accepts as one
item q equality French military con-
"rbe French white youth and the
Senegal black youth go to the mill
tary authorities on arriving at mils-.
| tary age and are taken into active
service. This is one of the means by
which La France Noire is being ere.
4 ated When a black boy from Sene-
gal has been through the same mill
tary training as white boy from
Normandy he Is a soldier, a military
FFenchman, and he has the same
standing In Paris that he would have
among hiy own people in Africa.
All this is good, according to Du.
Bots. but It is bad that along with
these. social recognitions should come
the development of capitalism which
although it denied race distinctions
should impose economic ones
When Mr. H q. Wells went TO the
radical Negro club in Washington ana
met the intelligence. including Du-
bois. he found this thought permeating
the American Negro opinion A young
man commenting iron the Senegal
situation asked Me. Wells why not
a black Napoleon" Mr.. Wells who
Is an international chameleon is as
good a white Englishman as ever
drew breath thought that the young
OF manners supposed to prevail In
Rouse ct noir is the American Me-
gro idea and it Is ths idea which IL
being spread as widely as 1t can be-
e the CONSERVATION OF American
Negro conservatives. France recog-
nized the artistic mental, sociaI. mill
tary and political equalities and UNI
equalties of her black citizens
This Is not enough for our own
Negro intellectuals.
"Lafayette-not Lenin---we are