The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-06-02
PRINCIPAL BEHIND
MOVE TO EXCLUDE
COLORED DOCTORS
Two Tuskegee Directors on
Committee Asking for
White Personnel
SURPRISE EWHITE HOUSE HEAD
Motion Heretofore Has Pretend
ed to Race He Was for
COlOred Staff

out of the Motion bag.
According to a dispatch to the
Atlanta Independent, President R. R.
Motion of Tuskegee Institute is the
man who wants white superior Off
GERS in the new veterans hospital
with colored professional men in
"minor positions"
Bucks Machine.
The James E. Walker Post of the
American Legion of the District of
Columbia has been making investi-
cation to find out what influences
are back of the move to prevent a
colored personnel from being placed
in charge of the hospital at Tuske-
gee, Ala. The post has been back
ing DR.. T. E. Jones, a World War
veteran, as superintendent, and other
influential men for the other posi-
tions at the hospital. In the effort
the post has had the backing of the
Henry Lincoln Johnson-Perry How
rd-William Matthews political ma
chine which has been working to con-
troll the patronage Of the hospital.
To upset the Johnson Howard
Matthews political machine, Major
Motion called upon colored physicians
who are officers Of the Colored Med
ical association. These officers have
had several conferences with the
President and the representatives Of
the Veterans bureau. When the
matter got to the acute stage where
the President was won over COM
pletely to q colored personnel pro-
gram, there appeared in Washington
a committee from Tuskegee COM
posed Of white men to protest against
having colored men in charge Of the
hospital.
President Surprised.
President Harding, 1t Is stated,
has expressed himself as being sur
prised that Major Motion should have
been responsible for this committees
coming to Washington. Two men,
bers Of the Tuskegee board Of trus-
tees were on the committee and 1t Is
hard for colored veterans to under
stand how Major Motion could be for
colored personnel as he declared
to colored newspaper men and col
ored physicians that he was while
being officially represented at Wash
ington by members Of his board Of
trustees who are protesting against
colored personnel.
Force Declaration.
The real cat came out Of the bag
when the Tuskegee committee met
at the Office of the Veterans bureau.
The committee insisted that Major
Motion was willing to accept white
personnel while the Veterans bu-
reau had been informed that he was
standing out for colored personnel.
It is said that the committee Of four
from Tuskegee insisted that the Tus-
kegee principle be called on the long
distance telephone and asked to de-
clare unequivocally his position.
When this was done, the major found
himself face to face with his decla-
ration to the Veterans bureau and
his white committee which came from
Tuskegee. When he found himself in
this hole by trying to carry water
on both shoulders, it is charged that
the Tuskegee principal agreed to the
program of white personnel pro.
vided some of the "minor positions
were given to colored physicians and
dentists.
Reason for News Story.
This is the reason, it is stated
why the Washington Post has Off
cially published the statement that
colred men will only be given minor
places in the Tuskegee hospital. As
the Chicago Defender stated some
time ago, Major Motion is certainly
in handicapped position trying tx
handle the affairs Of the coloree
race. The members of the James E
Walker post are indignant over tht
turn of events and the way they have
been practically "sold out"