The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-10

GUS about the schools of the south.
She expressed her curiosity to our
pious, baptist landlady, whose pro-
found loyalty to her church expressed
4 itself in frantic efforts to wean away
her husband from the methodist
church and who did not stop, as she
boosted, while discouraging his way
ward leanings, at destroying before
he could see them the highly-literary,
Autographed announcements of the
Faxon methodist church which came
to him by post.
This pure lady halls from Kentucky
and she keeps chickens and COW in
her back yard in order to save pen
MES on eggs and milk and-to keep
her roomers awake. She is high
minded, righteous, perfectly correct.
She supplies this to sociology and
pedagogical science.
The Bed" Again.
"a white man, he amt got no right
to put his child in along with niggah
brats. They's a place for niggahs
and fer their kids. Veal got no use
fer them down here. The big ones,
they's big chil'un; the little ones,
theys worse. You-all CANT teach
them nothing, specially what you
alPs teachin' to white chil'un. They
dom grasp what's bein' said, an they
just natch'ly hinder the white ones.
Besides, just think of putting blacks
and whites together! Why, that's just
like putin white folk and niggahs
together in one bed. All sure dom
know what's worse"
They Raise Preachers.
And then:
"Do you-all mean to say that up
north they put them together? My
Gawd, what filthy habits! An you
all was teachin' them? Just think of
white woman down heah teachin'
black brats! Why, her family would
disown her an her friends would shun
her." And on and on in that vein.
And this female is typical of all the
whites in the south.
In the ecclesiastical schools of
higher learning-and the south
abounds in these fulsome institutions
that are never heard of, that rest
amid shrubbery, foliage and cows and
chickens in hills, dales, swamps and
that are supported by noble baptists,
presbyterians, methodists, Ku Klux-
ers and fearful Catholics-the situa-
ton is the same. No mingling. The
white may bear the faint all his life.
North Cows Him.
Occasionally a Negro who hears
that the north's institutions are more
liberal and that they actually teach
something in the millennium and who
has the means or obtains it by hard
grubbing runs far above the Mason
and Dixon line. But he comes back
cowed for some reason, meets con-
tempt from his less-learned brothers
and shrinks into a day-by-day labor
err in an effort to return to the in
tellectual level imposed on them by
their white masters.
Maybe Liberalism!
The southerner points to this re-
clamation of the south from the north
with vast pride:
"The south is funny, sah," he says.
"If you were born here, or have got
the mud of the soil on your feet, you
can never leave. If you do leave, you
always come back. There's some
thing here that brings you back"
And as an afterthought: maybe it's
liberalism"
That is how he accounts for the re-
turn. But he does not know, or re-
fuses to know, that it is the hustle
and the hurry Of the north, so diff
ferent from the lazy, shiftless life of
the south, and the uncomfortable win
ters that terrify the Negro and send
him scurrying back to the Spanish
moss, the magnolias and the corn. AS
for the liberalism" / fear that the
Negro would rather endure the apa-
thetic, cool attitude Of the free north
than the loathing, contemptuous for
bearance Of the anti-abolitionist
south.