Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-02-08
A WARNING TO THE KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS
OF TABOR

Or IABOk
One of the most tragic pages in the history of the
development of Negro life in Mississippi and in the entire
South for that matter, records the failure of the great
froterno organizations which ourshed in the state the
of the century The extent of the tragedy Of the col
lapse of these great organizations with their great pos
sibities for the civic and economic emancipation of the
Negroes in Mississippi in the light of present knowledge
of cooperative farming merchandising and financing and
cooperative community effort along mony other lines
loom for larger in retrospect thon at the time when the
story of their collapse fresh in the minds Of the Me-
gro citizens of the state The development of these orgon
zotions the high point which they had reached before
their collapse due to the labor sacrifice and
cotion of purpose of the early Negro leaders of the
state Their collapse come when with the passing of the
conecroed leadership, it become necessary to select
leaders, who for the most port interested in the
spos of the organization than in their perpeuotion and
in the contribution that such organizations could make
to the development of the civic and economic life of the
Negro people of the state.
Numbered in the organizations which collapsed dur
ing this period were The Mosons The Knights of Pythos
The Odd Fellows and number of others which fourished
during that period 1t has taken almost fifty years to
store the confidence in froterno organizations existing
among Negroes.
1t for the above that we address warning
to the officers and rank and file members of hte Knights
and Daughters of obo respects the present develop
ing controversy resulting from the failure of the board of
management of The Toboron Hospital at Mound Bayou
to renew the contract as Chief Surgeon Of Dr. T. R. M
Howard
The French Revolution wos one of the most troeic
events in civilized history yet, students and philosophers
say that it's results could have been accomplished without
what amounted to the almost toto destruction of France
Edmond Burke, the greatest of all English speaking
political philosophers III his essay the French Revou
tion said tho tit about because of the influence
which DOCTORS exerted in the ow-mokng bodies of the
country After pointing out how the doctor could to
superior economic conditions and gain influence by id
mnistenq to the mseres of the people, Burke observed
that the sides of the sick beds and the of dentists
chairs are not the places train statesmen and the peo
pie leaders.
Without any attempt at this disperongement of any
single individual concerned in the Toboron controversy
one of the worst opinions and modes of thought among
Negroes generally and often dscemobe in doctors them
selves is an aura placed ground the high earning require
ments for the practice of medicine which credits the
doctor with knowing more about every other thing hon any
BODY else who happens be educated in that learned
profession.
The Knights and Daughters Of Tabor was born in the
period of the collapse above referred to- 1t has
vved because of the labor sacrifice and consecroted
efforts of it's present leaders and at the place where
it will make continuing large contribution to the de-
veopment of the civic and economic life of the Negro peo
pie of the state Its present leaders who have been in
the forefront of its development for thon twenty
years. enjoy the highest regulations Of honesty and hon.
mr. Anv division in te organization will serve only to dis