The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-03-06
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES

uses eQuCatlOnal IunuS lot pOIltlcal pur-
poses, forgetting that even if Howard
were political absorbent it could
neither sap up, nor yield any marked
political influence either in Mississippi
or Maryland, where states rights and
ballot boxes abound-but only for
some, not all of the people.
There's some solace, though, even in
this debit entry which Towards op-
ponents are trying to make That SOL
ace comes from the fact that even in
these very states, Maryland and Missis-
sippi, where educational needs are
great, and where the grossest kind OF
discrimination exists against not only
"capstone" but even free school educa-
ton for Negroes, Howard graduates
have gone and are, little by little, teach
ing the Negro people, healing them
preaching to them, and inspiring them
to raise their heads above the gloom
that the Races opponents have cast
over them, and their ancestors. This
silent testimony, unrecorded in the
Halls of Congress, speaks more elo-
quently than all the minority reports
that can be submitted by the op-
ponents of Negro education in the
next hundred decades.
8. To the Dearborn Independent
The Dearborn Independent (white)
is indeed in the throes of an era Of
alarm over Attorney Clarence Oar
rows address to the jury in the case
of DR.. Sweet, whom the Chicago law
yer 50 ably defended in the Michigan
courts. The cause of the alarm is
found in the verbal picture which Oar
row painted Of Nordicism as exempli-
fed BY those of the cult upon account
of whose nefarious activities DR.. Sweet
and his co-defendants were brought
before the bar of justice. barrow, II
seems, talked rather plainly as to the
mental attitude of venom which the
prosecutors OF the Detroit physician
must have passed through prior to
their march on the home of the col
ored doctor. 1--WE believe" says the
Independent, that the more intelligent
American Negroes are beginning tc
realize the falsity of such friendship
(Darrow's)"
Friendship. Be It false, true, or by
brid, being an individual matter, has NJ
material place in a discussion Of meri
as to the prejudice of racial groups, 70
or against each other. Neither, group
ally speaking, is it relevant to a murde
trial as to whether "Nordicism" as de
scribed by the Nordics or by barrow
is a hundred per cent blend of Amer
icanism, pure or impure, respectively
When a noted white man, however
Nordic, or otherwise, in medicine, law
or religion, comes to the rescue, il
America, of the underdog, when tina
being is a black man, if it isn't friend
ship which causes the motivation, ther
it's something just as good. For year
the black man has heard the siren ant
ironical song OF best friendships,
Nanny" and Uncle Joe" Will
tears streamed down the best friends
faces; and if some legal crusader Xix
barrow or Moorheld Storey has nov
come along with new type of friend
ship, even though it's false" as tn
Dearborn Independent says-well, yor
can bet your sealskin hat against tan
O. shanter that the average Negro o
today won't even hesitate about alb
sorbing it.
No one, not excepting barrow
should promote inter-racial hatreds
and the Negro has been like asbesto
so far as withstanding the witherini
fire of prejudice without becoming re,
hot himself is concerned. But,
American civilization is to keep Of
soaring upward, as type exemplary t
the world, not even the mighty Dear
born Independent can expect til
Negro to be a dormant partner in tn
journey-with this civilization in time
of war, and without it in times of peace
What kind of friendship is that
Please tell US, Mister Editor?
4. The Mississippi Bubble
An aged colored man, with a querul
Gus expression upon his face, patientl,
stood on an intersection of the princi
pal thoroughfare of Jackson, Miss
waiting for long line of automobile
to pass by.
There now" he unused to himself
as the last car buzzed by: "Mebbee
kin make it across"
"Hey. Sonny" he called out to