The broad ax., 1926-10-23

written letter: "The black man does
not have to go to Harvard to under
stand that he is not Of the Anglo
Saxon race, and that he is not the
background of Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
ton. As much as some southern peo-
pie may declaim against the Negro as
race, any colored man in the South.
who is worth while, has a white friend
Why should any colored man want to
MOVE OUT FROM HIS OWN
PEOPLE and into a white communi-
ty. only to stir up antagonism?"
And 50 on goes this man Of God
who is satisfied to continue to remain
just half man. 1t is pity that there
still remain among US, as ballast, as it
were. not few remnants OF ante-bel-
lum days who are happy in assuming
the inferiority complex, and thus so
banefully hamper our struggling race
in its search for independence and
peace.
The days OF inferiority complex
ought to be at an end in America
The colored residential tenant seeks
merely home where, like a bird, he
may rear his young. He seeks the
quiet and repose described in the Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Con-
liberty and freedom which make Amer
lea the land of the free and the home
Of the brave. He aspires to free him
self from the social bondage so sugar
coatedly described by Rev. Plummer.
He wants his children to be full red
blooded Americans, the kind who
helped to make America safe for Dem
ocracy He wants no tyrannous and
intolerable inequalities around his neck,
already bruised by the heel of cen
turtles OF oppression. He does not seek
to leave his own people, for with his
understanding OF the word Of God, all
people are his people, and in order to
meet them as such when he faces his
Maker, he wants to begin the practice
here below
And if in this search for liberty and
freedom, this Negro seeker of peace
upon earth and good will toward men
should chance to become the indirect
cause of savage antagonism, such as
the North Capital Citizen" and Rev.
Plummer describe, what does it mat
ter? Not half as much as it did at
Boston Commons, Lake Erie, Vicks-
burg, Carrizal, and the Argonne For
est, all in one.
8. Is Mr.. Handy Blue? No, Sir!
The musical world notes with con-
ISOLATION, pleasure, and congratulations
the rehabilitation of the beloved w.
c. Handy, originator of the "Blues."
1t was in 1909 that Handy put out his
celebrated number, "The Memphis
Blues" which captivated the country
from coast to coast as the vehicle of a
new musical rhythm, and purported to
set forth heart throbs of Negro grief.
From the Memphis Blues came many
a collateral air, both by Handy and
him imitators, with funereal trend and
dying syncopation.
Following arduous work, Mr.. Handy
broke down, and for some time des-
paired Of regaining his health and mu-
steal poise. This month, however,
finds the blues originator himself as
OF old. Is Mr.. Handy blue now? No,
sir. With an orchestra of artists and
with his baton in hand, Mr.. Handy is
again facing eager audiences, dispensing
blues" that are not blue, and short
symphonies which only Handy can
interpret Starting out ION the air,
Handy has contracted with the Lincoln
Theatre Of Washington, D. G., to drive
the blues away. With Andrew Cope
land, a lyric artist and tenor, and
group Of musicians (not jazzers), who
are worthy Of entering any political
musical society, Handy is himself
again. New York, Memphis, Wash
ington, and the country at large well
comes again the delightful presence
and artistry of the undisputed origi-
nator Of the blue "Blues"
Arn ia rrIrrr0