The northwestern bulletin., 1923-07-14
THEY WILL BURN
SCHOOL # PLAN
SAYSKLAN
Threat Follows Parade Held in
Tuskegee When Charge
Is Suggested.
N. A. A. c. P. ASK TROOPS
TO SUPPRESS ATTACK
Race People of Country Resent
Disrespect Given Nurses
on Application.
STAFF Correspondence
[ BY the Associated Negro Press)

(By the Associated Negro Press)
Montgomery, Ala, July 10
Which is the more powerful, the Ku
Klux of Alabama or the United
States government? This question
has come to a tragic crisis and must
be answered in a mighty short time.
What the answer will be remains to
be seen. The Klux have carried their
policy of resentment against the u. 8.
government policy to the very thresh-
hold of the u. 8. Veterans hospital
at Tuskegee Institute.
They have paraded about the insti-
tuition, including the school, I'm their
night gowns and night caps, and they
have openly threatened to burn Tus-
kegee Institute to the ground I'm the
event of a coiored personnel being
established Mt the $4,000, 900 govern
ment hospital for veterans OF the
World War.
This, American citizens Of all
races, Is the answer of the high
handed politicians and Kiux Of Ala
bama to the announcement of Di-
rector Hines Of the Veterans Bureau,
I'm a letter to Warren G. Harding,
President Of the United States, com
mander-in-chief of the army and navy
of the republic, by right invested
tt ,ox, al, the, Copcfitufsoy,
Tuskegee Trembles.
Tuskegee Institute trembles, as
never in its history, for what the fu-
ture may hold; but the trembling is
not that Of fear so much as 1t is that
of fortitude. In this bravery there
is, not anger, but grim determination,
with the spirit of Booker T. Wash
ington lowering above them. to pro-
tect the institution itself, their homes
and their families, as well as such
students and others entrusted to their
keeping, against the marauders of
justice and fair play.
Little was 1t dreamed when Tus-
kegee Institute officials gave Of their
good land for the erection Of a nos
pital for the preservation Of life un-
der Christian principles and govern
ment backing, that it would ultimate
ly lead to such state of affairs as
now exists.
Commander Steiner of the Ala
bama American Legion, Of boastful
prejudice and Ku Klux sympathy. is
said to be one Of the chief antagon-
lists of the government program for
the Veterans hospital. He is aided
by the governor OF Alabama, and re-
Gently by the notorious Senator Hef-
lin Of the same state, and of anti
Negro demagogery. who boasts of
having shot a colored man in the
streets of Washington more than
twenty years ago. Senator Under
wood. who aspires to be President or
the United States, has just returned
from a four months trip abroad, and
as yet, has not publicly expressed
himself on the hospital difficulty.
Attitude Against Southern Policy.
The whole attitude of the little
group of Southern white politicians
against permitting colored person
mel to be established at the Veterans
hospital, is entirely against the well
known and long established policy of
white Southerners on the subject of
segregation. Northern observers can
not understand this strange break
out of Southern psychology. The As
sociated Negro Press knows of cer-
tainty that scores of leading white
people of Alabama are bitterly op-
posed to the determined efforts Of
this small group Of whites to keep
out colored doctors and management
in the hospital. These people have
feared to express their opinions pub
licly. A number OF the Alabama
newspapers, however, and newspapers
In other Southern states, have spok-
en- ont boldly against the folly Of en-
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