The northwestern bulletin., 1923-12-15
PRES. COOLIDGE
ASK MORE FUNDS
To RACE SCHOOLS
First Message of New Executive
to Congress Deals on U. s.
Situations.
(By the Associated Negro Press)

(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, M.-Leaders of Negro
thought who have been communicat-
ed with since the reading of the pres
idential message in the early part of
the week are frankly puzzled by that
part of the message which referred
to the Negro. There Is now, more
pronounced than ever, the feeling
that something, something more ad-
yanced than was suggested by Mr..
Coolidge has got to be done with the
so-called problem.
There is a disposition on the part
of many to give Mr.. Coolidge credit
for the courage to say the same
things that other Presidents have said
without considerable effort to sug-
gest anything new.
1t is significant that, placed as the
paragraphs on the Negro are in the
message, following those on prohibi
ton and the necessity of law enforce
ment, there is nothing said about a
stricter enforcement of the laws rela-
tive to the treatment to be accorded
the Negro. There is the same atti-
tude of the Negro is a part of Amer
ica's citizenry. He should be treated
all right. The crime of lynching is
bad. We ought to do something,
probably create a commission to study
all the forms of mistreatment to
which these Il, 100000 are subjected.
OF course, much in the improvement
of race relations will depend upon
local conditions and the improvement
of understanding. DR.. Motion has
just told US that two races which un-
derstand each other cannot hate each
other. So we think there had better
be this commission, some kind of a
commission to study the matter"
Asks Appropriation.
That's the way it has gone along
all the while. Mr.. Coolidge adds the
other note of doing something for
Howard University's medical school,
"a subject in which all of the race is
interested, but which it Is regretta-
BILE to have to have brought to the
attention of the national legislature.
Because white, or American, medical
schools refuse to admit Negro appli-
Icants, Jim Crow them, the Congress
must be sought to provide an appro-
priation for us charity deserving peo-
pie. 1t seems that the half million
dollars could be SO much more wor-
thily spent in an effort to persuade
against the barring away from any
American school Of any class of Amer
lean citizens.
Mr.. Coolidge, like most of our
Presidents, SHES at the suggestion Of
strict enforcement of laws relative to
Negro. Negro leaders have about be-
come convinced that there is a def
mite conviction against such an ex-
preston among white leaders from
the President down. Negroes are be-
coming subject to the fear that white
men in positions Of influence are
afraid to tackle the problem of Negro
law enforcement. Either that or they
do not respect power of the Negro
vote, or do not regard the sanctity of
his citizenship sufficiently to stand
out for law enforcement.
1t Is generally believed that Mr..
Coolidge's disposition of the Negro
question was done easily, perhaps
more easily than any other covered
in his comprehensive message. Ne
gro soldiers will be sorry that he is
against the bonus, inasmuch as they,
largely situated in the southern, or
poor states, will be the chief ones to
suffer from such disfavor.