Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-06-14
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INSTALLMENT 8.
I felt that Nashville would bear
leaving Her quartet composed of
that distinguished pathologist, DIR.
Quinland, her great Baptist scion
Bovd, the Fisk Jubilee Tenor Work,
and Uncle Sans good Ex-Register of
the Treasury Napier, could harp har-
monies to calm the temper OF the
furies.
So the scene shifted to quaint old
St. Louis. I was soon on Market
Street, full-blooded parallel Of Beal
Street, Wylie Avenue and Philadel-
phia's South Street. was looking
for the editor of the st. Louis Argus.
one of Missouri's moving spirits.
His complexion is that Of ebony.
Five feet, seven inches compasses his
height He was much easier to
meet than the stenographic force.
Though surrounded by work, he
with apparently no effort showed pa
thence and spared the time for me
to conclude my mission with him.
He has very pleasant countenance,
is polite, and appeared to be thought
fully kind.
Few persons Of color go to st.
Louis without the desire to see the
Poro establishment. I found it, but
the generous Malones were absent.
Sumner High School said by many
to be the best for Negroes in Amer
lea was near. / met several or the
teachers among them, Miss Althea
Merchant. Although beautiful, this
is not the quality which ranks her
as one Of the prominent personages
Of America. She has brains. We are
addicted to the belief that our So
rority womanhood Is the cream OF
the world. Miss Merchant, Editor
of the Ivy Leaf, Organ OF the Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority shapes the
policy of this great organization OF
womanhood. She is less than thirty
light-brown Of skin, prepossessing,
but gives no evidence OF self-exalta-
ton.
At the University of Illinois, met
another striking character, Robert
r. Taylor. He is not a member OF
the Phi Beta Kappa, but the Phi
commencement orator, nor Rhodes
scholar. What is more than that
he is active and has constructive
mind. He founded the College
Dreamer, a first class publication. So
impressed was the American FEEDER
alton of Negro Students with this
publication that it negotiated an
agreement with Taylor and his staff
for the use of this organ as its Off
cial spokesman. Taylor is tall,
light-skinned, has firm lips, with a
countenance suggesting the business
man rather than the gay, good-time
artist. One will gather that he is a
pusher from the fact that he earned
nearly two thousand dollars last
summer selling stock for certain
colored insurance company of Illinois
BOOST OUR YOUTH.
These cases are worthy of citation
because it illustrates the way our
youth are going They express the
trend of the races movement. l
travelled these three thousand miles
in the interest Of the Negro Youth
Movement. We believe in Bigger
and Better Negro Business, and that
in order to bring this to pass we
must wake up youth to the great
possibilities of Negro business.
WE ARE A RACE OF LABOR
MERCHANTS.
Educated youth sells too much
labor Bob" Taylor, as his friends
at Illinois know him, serves to IL
lustrate what might be done by hun
dreds of our college youth who red
cap" "hotel' and "Pullmanize" for
the summer. Negro youth has not
learned that selling goods beats sell
ing labor. Sell suits, sell insurance
sell hosiery. sell real estate and a
hundred other things. The biggest
thing that one needs is the courage
to dare and the will to pioneer.
have gone into this airing of the
Big People have met with motives
other than the purient, vain display
of selfishness, which we mortals are
"heir to-
Personalities are our guide stars.
Lincoln was one, Booker T. Wash
ington was one. So is Anthony
Overton.
Self analysis tells me 1 take much
stock in the use of superlatives.
Many Of them and good ones too, fit
Anthony Overton of Chicago. Pre-
viously in discussing Honorable J. c.
Napier of Nashville, he was referred
to as one who has signed many notes
of American currency. These notes
were Uncle Sans. Anthony Over
ton signs his own, as President OF
the Douglass National Bank of Chi
cago. This is the only Negro Ma
tional Bank in America. You will
see some of these Five Dollar Bills
again. They are to be cherished
and admired, and shown to the
neighbors. Colored men stand back
of them and more than any one col
ored man is this Anthony Overton.
Overton is a capitalist and an or
ganizer. In addition to this bank