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York Stadium additions, was judlclally pro
claimed to be the winner. According to the
Judges. Miss Anderson Possesses a phenom
email voice, and her voice when carefully com
pared with 800 other natural and trained
soprano voices of artists laying claim to world
honors. was unanimously selected as being
entitled to first honors. Thereafter Miss An
derson was selected to head a list of soloists
which wifi later tour the country with the
Philharmonic Orchestra, comprised of such
musical premiers as Dorys lie Nene, Nina
Wulfe. Katherine Bacon, Barbara Lull, and
other white musical celebrities of international
distinction.
Miss Anderson's triumph reminds lis that
alpong European critics Hazel Harrison,
pianiste. of Chicago, another colored girl who
is a musical genius, is rated as ranking among
the worlds five greatest pianists. 1t is adj
mittsd. at least outside Of America, that the
German and Italian music critics are the most
learned in the world. Those schools of music
class Miss Harrison along with Harold Bauer,
Josef Hoffman. Ignace Paderewski and Clad
imir de Pachmann, to say nothing Of Ossip
Gabrilowitch, Rachmaninoff and Madame
Olga Samaroff.
Those who worship at the shrine of musical
art should make an inventory of how art tolls
not. neither does it spin. They should note
that skull formations, finger tips, and vocal
cords seem to know no bounds of color in
their allotment of interpretative musical art
and natural ability. Apparently the only con-
ditions necessary to place color in art, at least
in the musical world is a fair board Of judges
and an unbiased promotional orchestra, such
as the Philharmonic. What a moving picture
show is life, when void Of God-given attri
butes. In the dark, where musical art rises
to its greatest heights, who would know
whether brown Marian Anderson or white
Anna Case were singing? Last, but not least,
the great white news dailies of Little Old
New York were neither u%nafraid nor ashamed
to print, in conspicuous position, Miss An.
derson's tnree-quarter photographs
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

o~nslaughts have been too many times spent
upon Americans themselves. Witness Cles-
ter, Pa, and East St. Louis, III. Thus went
the mob
In Detroit-and we speak from personal
knowledge-the advance agents of the mob
should have delved Town into the interracial
admiXture Of gay. night life on East Adams
and in other localities of that city. and peace
fully estopped the exploitation of vice by local
distorters of white Christianization and civil
lzation. Then, perchance, such hatred might
not grow against one who sought merely to
raise an ediice Of home, pointing Heaven
ward. A mob, though, the most cowardly
ensemble of human counterparts ever wrought
by fury, never reasons. never thinks. Hence,
the mob is the masterpiece Of ignorant perse-
cution, the instrumentality Of a perfect bar
barism. Isn't it a shame that the mob is such
an outstanding institution in this Christian
Nation? Thus went the mob.
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GOOD EVENIN'.
MISTER DEMPSEY.

The loquacious Jack Dempsey, heavyweight
boxing champion Of the world with reser-
%vatlons) has returned from abroad full OF
smiles and overburdened with diplomacy. but
apparently with as much desire as ever 20
keep on the outside Of any prize ring ropes
which might enclose him and a brown ued
gentleman from Louisiana, by the name of
Mister Harry Wills. Life on the Monteinarte
has, however, made Jack a bit talkative and
he admits that for a sufficient number of rocks
to float a bank, he is willing to fight any of
the white second raters, with which the pug
lllStlc market is now surfeited.
VII he fight Mister Wills? Well, saws
Mister Dempsey, on a "never do today that
which you can put off until tomorrow basis"
latter a while"
Once upon a time IGNORING race as we
always do whenever We CAM we believed
that Mr.. Dempsey was a better man than
Mister Wills; but, actions speak louder than
words, and after all these months of stalling.
we are convinced that deep down in his heart
lack knows that Harry could knick the cham
plon into the solar system. Jack is a better
runner than Tommy Burns, a better talker
than Gentleman Jim Corbett. a superior d.
plornat to Kid Lavigne: but as a shock alb
sorber, sportsman and fighter. the comparison
IS odious; and we are forced to admit. without
reservations, that our belief in Jacks pugil-
iStic proves has waned down to zero.
We dare not p~ropheSy that the champion
will ever agree to put on the gloves with
Harry Wills, who is running the ganrut of
disappointment in his challenges to Dempsey.
White supremacy must not, cannot fail: and
when it might fail-well. the law of evasion
steps in and makes it quit, cold. knocked down
to the mat, as it were, by Fear. the disturber
of the peace of men and the undeniable master
of near-rnen.
The spectacle of the slick-footed, globe
trotting Dempsey is the saddest picture of
might we have ever seen. Had such e~vasions
been condoned in the days of Peter Jackson,
George Dixon, John Il. Sullivan, Bob Fitz-
simmons and Tom Sharkey, the Marquis OF
bloomsbury would have committed hari-kari
and Kid Mccoy would now be the undisputed
champion of the world. And if it were not
condoned by the white sport world of today,
it would probably be Good Evenin' Mister
Denpsey-tle stars are shining.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25
THE MOB GOES NORTH.

Last week the mob went North, first to
Detroit, Mich, where it sought to annihilate
the life and property of Race man who had
vougl1t and occupied home in a white neigh
borhood. Then the mob journeyed to Toledo,
Cregno, where 200 strong, it attacked IS
Japanese who were peaceably at work in a
wood mill. the employees of a corporation,
which though un-American in its employment
policies. was one hundred per cent. more
American than the mob. Comforting news
comes from Oregon in the arrest Of fifty OF
more offenders, who, says the District Attor-
ney, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent Of
the law. From Detroit the report Of
bitterness not unline that which followed in
he wake of the. Chicago and Washington
riots. Thus went the mob.
The remedy which the mob sought to apply
was. as usual, an i'll one and badly admins.
tered. In Detroit, it had no justification. In
Oregon, the proXimate cause of the mob'S
fury was an INSCRIPTIONS American employer
who %ricrochetted Japanese labor in the face of
Amrican labor. An appeal to the American
ism of such employers. Of whom there are
hundreds, and not to the mob spirit, is the
one and only appropriate method of handling
such attractions upon American independence.
Colorfully speaking, Americanism formed no
part of the mob's motivations for it's similar
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

OUR BRILLIANT FRIEND, Attor
ne ! Thomas Newsome seems to
have propounded a few questions to
one Of the leading white Journalists
in Virginia. Hon. W. S. Copeland.
editor OF the Newport News, Va.
Daily Press that have caused him no
end Of trouble and he has made an
effort TO reply to the same. As to the
force and logic OF his argument, the
public viii judge. The peculiar part
Of the whole matter rs that this dis
1ingu.shed Virg.nian has lost his
usual equilibrium and permitted his
racial passions TO get the better part
of his judgment.
The PITY Of the whole affair is
that he is ranked anlong the best
friends OF the Negro from a Southern
viewpoint. while as a matter of fact.
he is lining up with the worst enc
MES Of this same class OF people.
He says;
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

WHY DOES ANY av
erage Negro of only av'
erage Intelligence, aver
age abil Ny. average in
clination to hard work
and average grit bemoan
the fact that he is black
and spend good time
w shing that he were
VIII tie? This Negro will
roll out endless words
to inform you that he
would be a great man II
he were only white. Ho
VII tell you that he
would have been at the
head of this or that had
t not been for his color.
He usually ends his wall
with. "but of course thew
would not give it to me
because l am colored'
In this same connec'
ton I am reminded on
the Garvey,tes who for
some years now have
been preparing to be
cabinet officers, field
marshals, admirals, and
whatnot. 1t seemed tc
matter not to any Gar
veyite that a man who
is a hod carrier in tn s
country would probably
be a bod carrier in
strictly Negro country
They seemed to fee
that by simply changinf
ones geographical loca
ton, changing the colo
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25
ibis U'UccR
(By Ernest Rec Mckinney
Preston News Serv ce.)
CPreston ; evs Serv ce.)

of ones rulers and en-
pioyers, would make it
possible for an unframed
or lazy man to occupy u
h CHER posi- ION than he
did before.
The Negroes who want
to be white seem to feel
that he mere changing
of the color wsll make a
wise man of a fool, a
quiet unassuming gentle
man of an ;gnorant.
monkey shine lounge liz
ara. or a sensible refined
young woman from a
gum.chewEng, painted.
nalf naked flapper-
Many sincere Negroes
not IN the above cat
eeury-seem to feel that
there IS some over
wne,ming and inevitable
ana sure advantage in
beng white. That is
tnev feel that somehow.
n some way, Il they
could only be white
their troubles, financial.
industrial, social and
cultural would be over.
They seem to feel that
the white race IS where
I is simply because OF
the color of its skin .
They are fatalists living
always IN the grip OF
the belief that blackness
x a curse from which nc
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25
COTTON IS NOT KING.

Frank Bohn (white), feature writer and
economic specialist. %gloomily writes from New
York that Cotton is no longer king of the
Southland. Our cotton states, says Mr..
Bohn FACE the second great change of their
history since their labor system was destroyed
during the Civil War" L,amentingly. Mr.,
Bohn continues by saying: "A totally false
notion obtains in the North that the South is
prosperous. This is true only of a very small
class of cities. The Job Of teaching the ma
iority under present conditions, is a task be
fore which anybody might despair. Consider
2b1y more than half the workers in the
southern fields east of the Mississippi are
Negroes. About the half the remainder are
white tenant farmers. Both these classes are
generally incapable Of modern farm practices.
'.":*#' Mr.. Bohn concludes his lamentations
by saying that the South deserves what she
has never received from the North-She de
serves to be understood. She has been looked
upon as though the burdens which have
bowed her down for a century sprang from d
moral and not all economic evil.
"A painstaking check-up Nof Mr.. Bohn's
assertions reveals grave inconsistencies While
the South is having great difficulty in apply
ing modern agricultural methods to its cotton
cultivation AMI ether similar pursuits. Nc
proes who have abandoned the old time
cotton fields of the South for new ones in
cotton states farther north, Missouri for ls
stance. have readily acquired a working
knowledge of modern methods. This is openly
attested to by the jump which Missouri is
taking. under Negro labor, in cotton produc
ton. 1t is automatic, of course, that manual
labor is distasteful to the white man of the
South, who is still grievi1g over Abraham
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its
resultant constitutional amendments.
The hide bound South is equally dormant
in installing modern cotton and farming
machinery. The experiment which was made
by North Carolina, in the textile industry,
within a five year period brught that State
and industry UP to a near parity with Massa
chusetts. 1t is no ones fault but the South's
that it is still half asleep as to the efficacy of
modern farm methods now in constant use
North and West. Low wages, long hours
the deprivation of its black ~citizenry OF mod
ern training and education will never produce
d labor army of efficiency.
Where the South has done otherwise, in
the steel industry, for instance, her progress
has been marked. With much respect for Mr..
Bohn. We think that the North does understand
the South, and suggest that for the last half
century the effort has been made to create in
the South full respect for the Z. S. Constitu
ton and its amendments, the evasion Of which
has raised the South's moral backwardness to
mountain size. and her economic dormancy TO
mole hill dimensions. And the fact that Cotton
is no longer king in Dixieland is directly due
to the former evil rather than the latter. Mod
ernism in ethics and law is the parent of
modernism in agriculture. and even in cotton
cultivation, itself.
q Sc q
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Negro need try escape.
He cannot 2 escape this
curse, say they, as long
as his SIX. n is black.
These people, both the
sincere and the merely
foolish. do not seem able.
to envisage the true sit
uat'on. Ability does
count regardless of race
or color. Brains do win
DESPITE the coincidence
that they may be en-
o'osed in a peculiarly
shaped skull crowned
with crinkly hair. Soft
speech will benefit one
even though it rolls a.
cross lips not so thin as
those of the Nordic.
And on the other hand,
there are white men who
are common laborers
and white women who
are dishers. They are on
the same mental level as
most of the Negroes who
feel that they would be
something great if they
were only white.
I am reminded of a
saying of Charli e
Schwab's. eff you have
done your best you have
/ done everything; if you
, Ia" done less than your
best you have done
nothing.
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* Sc %
WHEN MARIAN SINGS.

Once more the great white world of music
has had to doff its hat to the voice of color,
and word comes from Little Old New York
that the doffing was done with grace and
congratulations. Our own Marian Anderson,
mezzo soprano, in a contest with three hun
dyed singers, who were competing in the New
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

He proceeds to pay a tribute
to the Hampton Institute and then
proceeds to null.fy the effect Of all
that he has said. The Scriptures say
BY their fruit, ye shall know them
This is as true of institutions as it is
Of individuals. If then this great
institution has turned out students,
not a one of whom has ever been
arrested for crime, why try to dictate
to the producers of this kind of
trained material? The faculty knows
its bus mess. Editor Copeland is not
an instructor in the class ROOM He
is assiduously laboring to impair the
usefulness Of the institution by mis-
representing its aims and purposes.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

WANTED-A FIRST CLASS RELIA-
BILE BARBER. For particulars,
communicate with JESSE NJ. TUR-
NER, 50 N. Main Street. Harrison
burg, Virginia.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

You pay as you drive. Mr.. R. B.
Haynes has automobiles to- serve
you. His demands have been so
heavy that he has signed a contract
for another big delivery of cars.
Read his advertising announcement.
His number is 403 N. First Street.
Call Randolph 1S43
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

Our colored correspondent knows
better. perhaps, than any other col
ored man in this community, that
the colored race has 10 more sincera
friend in Virginia than the editor OF
The Daily Press and that there IS no
man in the State more DESTROYS or
maintaining friendly relations be-
tween the white ard colored races.
THIS is no demagogic gush, but the
plain truth which u coIored cor
respondent VIII not deny, and to
which. We believe, he would testify
in court. to the best of his knowledge
and belief. We believe the same
testimony would be given by Matt
n. Lewis, editor of the Newport News
Star.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

A member of tne Anglo-Saxon nation
which in England vas created By the
consolidation OF these tribes, tCgeth-
az with native Danish elements aid
which continued as the ruling power
of England until the Norman Con-
quest.
An Anglo Saxon then must be a
person belonging to the mixed race
which forms the English nation. An
Anglo Saxon must be a person de-
scended from any OF the races of the
British Isles, If then the integrity
of the Anglo-SaXon race is to be
maintained, then an amalgamation
with any of the other races must be
prevented and denied by law.
If Editor Copeland has no preju'
dice II this matter, why should he
attack a Negro school and endeavor
to impair its usefulness for the reas
on that a white person sits on the
cane bench with a colored one Or
vi.cTcrsa. WHEN white and co!ored
..-olpe .,oI more than two hundred
years have been living under the
s2me roofs IN some Of the most pa
latlal and ~aristccratic mansions in
Virginia and have been sitting N the
same railroad trains AMI riding in
he same carriages for nearly the
me 'cngth Of time. It seems to
trat it Is seeing blood on the
neon, wnen there is hone there to
pe seen.
r-rerchmon, Italians, S~paniards,
Greeks. Russians. Turks, Austrians,
Egyptians, japanese, Chinese, In.
us,rs N~Iex.lans and South Americans
are not Anglo Saxons and strictly
speaking even the progressive Ger
mans do not claim to be actually
descended from\th.s race of people,
Why leave these races out of this
ear splitting crusade? They have
Governments most Of them, to back
Them. Why play upon racial preju'
4 ces and attack the poor, harmless,
i~efenseless. peace loving Negro?
The editor e The Newport News
Daily Press continues:
y
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25
PEOPLE JUDGE
YOU NOW BY YOUR
FURNITURE

When you can get FURNITURE and
RUGS from an Old Established House
like JURGENS-that's known to sell
the Best quality goods, just as reason
able as elsewhere-wby not give your
friends a good impression. 1t will
give US the greatest pleasure to show
you our wonderful stock Of home
making. comfort giving FURNITURE
and RUGS and-don't fail to ask u
Statesmen about ctr BANKING PLAN,
which gives you s., 10 or 10 months
in which to pay for any purchase.
CNAS. c. JORGENS SOY
ESTABLISHED 1880.
ADAMS AND BROAD
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

srb!ished Every Saturday by John Mitchell Jr'
At sl North Fourth Street, Richmond Va.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

In the Peoples Forum this morn
ing. a colored correspondent ASKS:
as it the opinion of The Daily Press
That racial strife helps to make euher
the white race or the black race
better men and women, obeying the
divine injunction Of love one anoth'
err" .soo
..H.Who is stirring up racial str1teT
1t has come to a pretty pass, surely
when a newspaper cannot contend
for the integrity Of the Anglo-SaXon
race and protest against racial
equality without being accused OF
stirring up strife
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

equality without being accused OF
stirring up strife
Still. it has come to that pretty
pass". Editor Copeland eyades the
question propounded. Colored lead
or: II. the southland know it and for
thar reason. they are not pressing to
the front fundamental, constitutional
rights. which they should make first
and foremost, but are holding these
matters il. allegiance in order to cu1'
tivate friendly feeling among the re
snect.ve races and co operating in
the .n|terrac.al movement in order
tfat the two classes of people may
cont niue 10 grow to love and respect
enc another.
The issues raised by this Virgin
ian have no bearing whatever upon
racial integrity. No love escapadeS
have ever originated at Hampton
between the races and none existed
among the white planters and their
families and Negroes and their fam
lies prior to the war. y Negro, male
or female. could gaze upon the nude
ness OF white females without having
any Of the baser passions aroused.
Hampton Institute was founded with
the approval of Southern whites and
the haste purposes for which it was
founded have always been subserved
and respected.
White females, North or South and
black males intermineling IN this
section means rope" and plenty OF
it and practically 100 per cent. OF
the colored people in this section oil
the woods have a horror of rope
and persistently seek to avoid it. Inc
violation of the integrity of the An
Clio Saxon race m not from socla
equality but rather from seXua
equality. 1t has been the white man
who has been foremost in bringing
the latter into force and practice IL
this southern country of ours.
Hon. W. S. Copeland should ac
cordingly turn his guns upon nj
own people and let these helpless
Negroes, who he claims to desire Z
teach and help, severely alone. |
Major Copeland IS an Anglo Saxor
let him count the white people in hi
immediate neighborhood and find on
how many can claim a similar dis
t'nction. The American Republ
has been and is the melting pot
for the races of the whole world.
The photographer defines Anglo
Saxon as
1.-THE low German tribes wEc
invaded and occupied southern an
eastern England and southern SEQ
land in the 18th and 9th centuries
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

-.n,s,sd A- 5ue Post Office al Richmond
' <i.. 40 ,e,yuc class matter. IA
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

.3HN MITCHELL, JR.....EDIToR
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

Negro need try escape.
He cannot escape this
curse, say they, as long
as his SIX. n is black.
Richmond planet., 1925-07-25

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