Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-05-31
Jim CROWS FATALITY LIST:
60 EAST, YOUNG MAN..

LAST WEEK. when local passenger train the Sea-
board Air Line crashed into an express train which stand
ing the railroad yards at Apex N c. FIVE coored
were killed and three injured while one white person
was killed and four were injured he injuries OF the I'M
fortunate dead and manned ranged all the way from slight cuts
to crushed chests and took their toll from both passengers and
employees A news item from Raleigh, N. c. states So
badly smashed was the forward passenger COACH which the
fatalities occurred that the last of the dead not removed
until four hours after the wreck"
Having travelled many time in socaled forward pas
senge coach over the same route upon which the mashup
occurred the writer feels qualified venture brief description
Such coaches usually half baggage and half Jim Crow the
latter half Of which again subdinded into smoker and
non-smokeh The fatalities listed above which melted
out through responsibility which has yet been fixed beet
an engineer emen baggagemen and many Negro
passengers Not one singe white passenger was victim OF
the catastrophe which, presume some may say was an
act of Cod Whether It was an of Cod accident or
the proxmate result of some ones negligence never
know But we do know that makest passenger coach.
onehaf Of which baggage onequarter OF which carries
colored smokers. and onequare OF which exclusive Tor
colored women and coored non-smoke passage which
purchased at "FIRST-RATE. price, is rank example
of discrimination as can be found anywhere this country
Quite naturally, the fatality list crowded with the coored
victims of discrimination. unequaly comprised OF racial
victims as were the accommodations for all who rode the Sea-
board train into North Carolina with the Caucasans riding
in reasonable safety and comfort and the Africans riding eop-
ay and discomfort in baggage coach next to the engine
When in dissenting opinion of high justice, before whose
court the question of public rights had come ne SAID that PUBIC
RIGHTS do at times become clothed with such preponderance
Of public interest that . Of moment to all that equality
dispensed to ALL an utterance of logic loose which con-
tans the law and gospel of the North Carolina tragedy he
lin Crow fatality list above proves the substance OF that logic
Some day, some how. the Jim Crow coach if it must re-
MAN. will be renodeed to look like other coaches and the
baggage coach will have full space taking off of FIRST
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horrors Of wrecks which exact their toll principally from the
downtrodden.
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PETER HAS EVIDENTLY BEEN ROBBED in Or
der to pay Paul. for just as the Methodist Episcopal Church
North and the Methodist Episcopal Church South have agreed
upon tentative plan looking to better handling OF tne
eyerpresen socaed problem Of their Negro constituents.
word has come that the white Southern Bapst have told the
Northern Bapsts and the National Bapi that they going
to solve their Negro church problem their that
of conferences etc. they will have none; and that all we'll
wishers to stay in their own backwards.
Now, in deepest respect for the Baptist Church. and IN
fact for all churches which believe the forgiveness OF SIN
and the Immortality Of the SOUL there any thing that
the Baptist Church believes in, that must be born
again. Hence it is bit difficult to- visualize any groupal
order of Baptsts either North South who would pema-
neny turn deaf ear to conciaton If those who speak
for the parent body that they have given their last u
measure of devotion to solution OF those problems which
religious "BRETF1REN' Of African descent. then mere
glimpse at the Negro church wards which existing under
the parent bodys organization sufficient we think to repel
that msstence.
Financial iberaly not enough Soul harmony we think,
is what is most needed An immersion the virtues OF BROTH
ehood would in humble opinion, add to the efficacy or
being born again. and conference upon such possibility
much desired. think.
Quite contrary to the Of the Bapts is the
announcement that coored has been elected to the
National Y W. c. A. Board because she coored but
because she understands the pledged aims of that Association
and can aid the National Board its supervision No finer,
more capable woman than Elizabeth Ross Haynes could have
been elected for the Christian which she called
upon to perform She understands human needs and human
desires in very definite way 1--WE speak from personal ac-
quantance with her) and while those two elements often
far far apart sensible coordination between them within the
T. W. c. A. and concerning the things which it promises to
accomplish of the crying needs Of the great organization
that it is. Mrs. Haynes has wonderful opportunity for
wonderful work We wish her WELL
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HORACE GREELY'S FAMOUS ADVICE. to Go
West young man. seems to have found presentday anti
thesis in the silent call of New England for sturdy honest In
dusious men and women Come East and swell the ranks