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TUB PAULAS EXPRESS PALLAS TEXAS SATURDAY APRIL 14 1022.
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THE DALLAS EXPRESS
has never hoisted the white
feather neither has it been dis-
graced by the yellow streak. It
is not afflicted with the flannel
mouth. It is a plain every day
sensible conservative newspa-
per which trims no sail to catch
the passing breeze; flies no
doubtful flag: It professes a
patriotism as broad as our .
country. Its love of even hand-
ed justice covers all the terri-
tory occupied by the human
race. This is pretty high ground
but we live on it and art pros-
pering. Boys of the press come
np and stand with us. This
ground is holy.
W. E. KING.
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The greatest hindrance to a thorough understanding be-
tween the two races iiere in the South heretofore has been the
"social equality" bugbear which has been so constantly and con-
sistently held up before the dominant group as to preclude any
sane consideration oi Negro hopes aims and ambitions. It has
thwarted the most conscientious efforts at its contradiction and
nullified the inherent good in many movements. It has also to
a great extent made the efforts of Negroes to explain their needs
meet with discouragement. In short it has been the rock upon
which many a program villi good intentions to the South has
split and go.e to pieces.
It is natural then that any indication that this scarecrow to
progress is losing its power to thwart sane consideration should
be .adly received and especially noted.
It took the -new migration to do it The abandonment of
Southern farm? by Negro laborers is fraught with serious conse-
quences. Editors and leaders in those communities naturally have
attempted to find out why this exodus has come to pass. Finally
in Greenville Georgia they listened to a resolution presented by
1000 Negro home owners of that place and apparently have dis-
covered what they sought.
It is highly refreshing after so many years of rot and fool-
ish rantings by demagagic editors and politicians on the desire
of the Negro for "social equality" to read the following from the
pen of the editor of the Columbus Georgia Enquirer-Sun in
commenting upon the resolutions in his issue of March 29 under
caption: 'Negroes Deserve Consideration." He says:
"The Negro leaders of the South are as much if not more
interested in the so-called exoilus of Colored people as are the
white people. Naturally they are in better position than white
people to understand why the Negroes aie leaving the South
and any suggestions which come from reputable members of the j
Neirro race is deserving of consideration by all good citizens.
Therefore the series of resolutions recently adopted by repre-
sentatives of 1000 Colored homes of Greenville will receive the
attention and consideration of the white population of the city.
The Negroes state that as much has been said by the press
and public speakers about the exodus and that as "the remedies
which have been suggested to alleviate the underlying causes of
the conditions that cause this unrest have been unheeded."
they respectfully ask consideration of some suggestions they make.
They suggest that the condition of their schools be looked into
by those in position to help; that improvement of their streets
be looked after and that at least good sidewalks be built to their
schools; that the police show less aggressiveness in arresting
members of their race calling attention to a recent case where
a Negro was unmercifully clubbed without apparent just cause;
and that the wage question be looked into claiming that it is al-
most impossible for the average Negro to earn an honest living
under present conditions. They consider' the better school ad-
vantages offered Colored people in the North. as one of the main
reasons for the exodus.
These suggestions and requests are reasonable should be
looked into and if the Negroes are receiving .unjust treatment in
any of the instances some measures should be put in operation
to help them. The decent Negroes are not looking for anything
like social equality. They know that will never be and they do
not expect it or want it. They do however desire just treat
ment before the law and in other ways and no one should be
crudtre them that. Thev are entitled to it and it will make them
better citizens. The more good citizens a community has the bet
ter the community becomes. We must not overlook the lact mat
we cannot mistreat the Negro without at the same time op an
injustice to ourselves while on. the other hand when we help
him we are helping ourselves as wen. inis is only tne senisn
viewpoint of it. without taking into consideration . any altruistic
motive. Either is sufficient to cause us to give the Negro prop
er consideration.
Certainly this editor stands head and shoulders above the
majority of his contemporaries who have not yet become sane
enough to understand that there never h&s been any actual ex-
istence of any desire on the part of Negroes for "social contact"
with them. The facts rather prove the opposite to be true. What
the Negro has hoped for asked for worked for and now migrates
for are better schools better wages and a chance to live like a
person instead of as a hcust.
In so far as he has been able he has obtained the.;e things
for himself. Bur his ability working single-handed has been
limited ; is still sadly limited.
Would it not be splendid for the whole Southland if all of
its leaders as some of them are now doing would become sane
and reasonable enough in their thinking on the race question to
understand that decent homes living wages equality before the
law better schools are the only things which the Negro wants 7
These are his due.
TUB SOLTH MUST PROTECT THE NEGRO IN EVERY WAY.
MOTHER DOUBTFUL
PROJECT.
From our mall bag last .week
cams a circular undar the name of
"The Ethiopian World." It contain-
ed among other things this para-
graph: The Liberian Transportation S.
S. Co. asksthat every Ethiopian in
American continent ask Europe do-
nate 25c to the Liberian Govern-
ment. Send the name In care of
Senator H. J. It. Cooper Cape Palm.
A great enterprise is to be open
ed by The Liberian Steamship Co.
Now is the time to act and we
wish all who are interested in thU
great movement to show their ap
preciation by giving a liberal col
lection towards its movements. A
small or large donation will be
highly appreciated by the said com-
pany. All payments made over In
the care of the Hellman Bank San
Pedro Calif. And this will be only
used for the repairs and dockage
of the Steamship Brutus which Is
aw stationed at Su. Francisco
Calif."
We do not know what It means
unless it be that some other one
of our people uneducated if the
circular is to be taken as evidence
of the . author has concocted a
schema of Liberian help assis-
tance. Donations are asked as us-
ual. We feel that the time has come
when such schemes be either fully
explained and invitation made to
Join thera In a business like way
or that they be frowned down al-
together. Altogether too much of our
painfully earned money noes into
the hands of ignorant and unscru-
pulous persons. It phould be spent
better.
T.e Erpress would glady join in
. crusade 9 gainst sv.ch movements
mmu cnuid rennor tha race a dis- McAdoo Harding S.nilh and a hct of others.
FMDOO AND THE NEGRO VOTE
Already the press is "'Arming up for the preliminary skir
mish before the real bat 'e for presidential nominees Republican
and Democratic takes Liace. Already columns galore are appear
ing in the leading publications which discuss some passionately
ard some dispassionately the qualities as vote getters of Ford
'Unct service.
HEALTH WEEK WAS A
Occasionally in these discourses one firds mention made of
the attitude of the Negro voter toward the candidate in question.
One of the most striking of such comments recently appeared in
the New York Tritons. The comment as to the Negro vo' in
the South ran thus:
"One of the assets claimed for McAdoo is that he would take
more Colored votes away from the Republicans than any other
Democrat could. One of the conspicuous steps taken by McAdoo
wher he had control of the railroads during the Wir was to raise
the pay of all the Colored railroad workers in the South to exact
ly the same as white men received for the same work. McAdoo
put it on xhe bf sis of eual pay for equal work. Previous to that
time under private management Colored brakemen and firmen
bad been paid lower Wiiges than white brakenun and firemen.
The private managers used to go on the somewhat older economic
theory of paying no more than you are compelled to pay; and in
the Couth you could alwayr get Colored labor for a lower wage
than white labor. '
This equalization of the pay of Colored workers to the same
a? white men received for the same work has gone by word of
niouth all over the country and wherever there are Colored colo-
nies there is McAdoo sen timent of a sort that no Democrat since
?hoi t0iod r or "r TaHo'uaconl w Civil War has had.. A traveler in Mississippi the other day
u--rrs T.-h0 ..-nr!od together for its'ft he had run across an extraordinary phenomenon of no small
political significance whe.T he found a little Colored boy bearing
the name of William Gibbs McAdoo Black."
Such snecalntion a few venrs firn vvnuld liave h'on ludicrous.
W ho would ever have thought of the Negro a3 voting the Dem
National Negro Health Week at
leist as far as Dallas is loneerned 1
was a succest. churches schools
and clubs under the direction f
the Lone Star Slate Medleti and Den-
tal Association observed it fully;
its mesBage reached the masses
more effectively t:an ever before.
Even though Ea- ser services were
in progress on Sunday the pastors
of many churches made place for
members of the Kdieal t id Den-
tinal Associations who spoke on
the preservation of health during
the werk doctors visited the scl.ools
and lectured there on the mean? of
disease prevention and on Satur-
day government health film was
run free at a downtown movie
theatre and hundreds who viewed
it received the helpful message.
It was a hi? week. It was a
helpful week and itst benefits by
no means to ho considered small are
This fvidence of he Bp' it of
eoop-rsitioi. among all classes of
ivir jcvlers lor tlift common good
i hiiJiiy 'Wnii'-apii'g. It gives evi
nce of a fiftj when in other ways ofraW ticket in large numbers? And yet. just ' last week
(viendM "nergy or ou 'many j Chicago's black vote went'ia i j-ge measure to candidates of that
T r'oj.nci-' vi'U "have 'as their j Part Skilled political obsevvers tell us that sentiment against
hi ' erc:i" goo.-Mo the great-1 C. O. P. is crystallizing among Negro voters. Is it? If it is
linnet of our H-opie. ! vill it turn Democratic? We wonder. .
Mr. Peter O. Knight of Tampa Fla. one of the foremost attorneys
not only of Florida but indeed of the country in the course of a persoml
letter to the editor ol the Manufacturers Record said:
"I made a talk to t'.ie Credit Men's Association of Tampa at their an-
nual banquet. As usual I spoke extemporaneously and the reporter had to
take down what I aald as best ho could
that I should be glad if you would take up and arouse the South about.
More and more since I have been going North recently have I noticed
the difference between the Colored population in the North and the Color-
ed population here. The brightest the healthiest and the more Intelli-
gent are constantly flocking North and leaving the sickly and the ignorant
and very black ones here. Manufacturers everywhere are having their
agents in the South doing all that they can to take the Colored laborer
North and they are going North by the thousands and there will be a
terrible awakening In the South in four or five years from now unless
something is done to check it if we are going to keep the darky here we
shall have to see that he Is properly housed and properly clothed that he
ha Jbetter conditions and better wages and that he will not better him-
self by going away
"This in my opinion Is the subject that demands more attention at
the hands of the Southern people today than anything else and I know
of no means whereby this subject could be brought to the attention of the
Southern people more effectively than through the columns of the Man-
ufacturers Record. You certainly would perform a distinct and valuable
service for the South If you took this up vigorously."
' (The foregoing letter Justifies the publication of a letter written more
than a month ago by the editor of this paper to Mr. Milton H. Fies vice-
president of the DeBardeleben Coal Company" of Birmingham. Mr. Fie
had made an admirable address on the duty of the South to the Negro
bnd to itself. Mr. Frank H. Crockard president of the Woodward Iron
Company of Birmingham sent a copy of that address with his hearty
commendation to the manufacturers Record and the editor wrote Mr. Fics
a3 follows:
"Through the kindness of Mr. Crockard I am just in receipt of a
pamphlet copy of your address before the Alabama Mining Institute en-
titled 'Industrial Alabama and the Negro.' I would like to broaden that
heading and call it 'The South and the Negro for the subject you have
discussed relates not merely to Alabama but to the whole South.
"I am very glad that you have discussed this subject so clearly and
forcibly for the South needs to study the Negro problem from every
angle. I am In hearty sympathy with the idea that it is incumbent upon
the white people of the South to protect the Negro in every legal right.
We have as a people somewhat fallen short of our responsibility In that
respect.
"I have made a number of addre&ses in times past in which I have
pointed out the harmony that prevailed between the Negroes and the
whites prior to the Civil War and gave unstinted praise to the faithful-
ness of the Negroes who during the Civil War protected the women left
at home and carried on the farming operations which made possible the
maintenance of the war for four years. I have pointed to the fact that
not until the 'carpet baggers' as we formerly called them Bolshevists
we would call them today came Into the South after the Civil War and
stirred up hatred on the part of Negroes against the white people did we
have the conditions which have prevailed since.
"From 1865 to 1876 Bolshevists worse even I think than the
Bolshevist of Russia certainly matching them in criminality of effect
largely dominated the Negroes and out of that came the race hatreds
which' developed and the passions engendered by the teachings of those
criminal white people.
"On the other hand the better class of whites as a whole did not
set themselves to the task of protecting the Negroes a fully as might
have been done. Many years ago probably thirty or more I heard J. L.
M. Curryi of Alabama one of the great religious leaders of the South In
those days make a' very thoughtful address before a religious gathering
of Southern people in which he appealed to them to concentrate their ef-
forts upon the betterment of the conditions under which the Negroes
lived and upon the education of the Negroes. The Negroes said he are in
the South; they must be lifted up by the white people of the South or
they will drag the white people down to their own level. They will
either advance through the leadership of the whites or they will largely
destroy white civilization.
"I hve never forgotten the tremendous soul-stirring appeal which
Mr. Curry made and as you perhaps know some of the religious denom-
inations of the South have been carrying on an intelligent and aggressive
campaign at co-operation with the religious work of the Negroes. But It
has not been as broad as It might have been.
"The faithfulness of the Negroes during the civil war and the way
in which they protected the white women and children "of the South is an
everlasting proof of the Inherent qualities which under right leadership
can be made to save the Negro race from the tendencies developed by the
carpet baggers' or the Bolshevists of reconstruction days.
"The work of Negro uplifting for the Benefit of the South as well
as of the race must not be left however merely to the religious influen
ces that are at work. You have rightly pointed out the fact that every
employer of Negro labor must ste that his labor is protected in every
legal right; that the Negroes in his employ have the advantages of de-
dent and comfortable homes for otherwise there can be no moral uplift
ing of the race.
"I constantly expressed my gratification at the fact that in Baltimore
the Negroes are gradually moving out of the alleys into better homes once
occupied by whites. It is true that this has greatly depreciated the value
of the property for some entne sections have been taken possession of
by the Negroes. It was once estimated that the depreciation in the value
of property throughout the South owned by white due to thi incoming
of Negroes into sections would equal the total value of property accu-
mulated by the Negroes. Neverth '.iess it Is well to encourage the Negroes
to come out of the alleys and to live in better homes on better streets.
You cannot possibly secure the best results morally and physically of any
people who are forced to live huddled together in small huts or build-
ings unfit for human habitation. Environment largely helps to shape the
life of any race. '
"If we looked at this question from no higher.! oint of view than that
of the welfare of the whUe race and had no sensa of responsibility for
the uplifting of a lower race it would still be incumbent upon the white
people of the South to do their utmost for the betterment of the Negro
race. Many Negroes are leaving the South; many more will leave it
and thy r- j j a certain advantage in this in that it gives to tho North and
N'.i-thAo'.t the opportunity of studyirg the race question at close range
and this thus becomes national and no longer sectional.
"I ara not greatly disturbed by the migration of i. considerable num
ber of Negroes from the South but 1 regard it as a sectional handicap to
lnduutrial and agricultural development if the number should greatly in-
crease over what fco have already seen.
"The wJiite people of thj South depend to a very large extent upon
the Negroes as cooks as housemaids as nursed for their children. Is it con-
ceivable that if the Negroes are not properly trained in morality properly
e iucated and every religious influence thrown around them that the
cooks and the housemaids and the nurses can be otherwipe than a curse
to the white families of the South instead of an advantage? If we
would have our kitchen and our houses clean they must be kept clean
by the 'servants who can never be trained to do good work unless they
are given the opportunities of cleanliness in their own homes.
"If we would have the white children of the South from babyhood
up to youth properly trained we must see that the nurses so largely com-
posed of Negroes are properly trained and fitted for this tremendous re-
sponsibility in helping to shape the lives of the millions of children com-
mitted to their eare as nurses. '
"Our future civilization will very largely depend upon how the white
people of the South co-operate for the betterment of the Negro population.
"The white man who mistreats or cheats a Negro deserves the sever-
e.t condemnation of every decent man and woman for the responsibility
L;at rests -upon a superior race to protect ai d safeguard an inferior race
Is f such a character that he who violates that responsibility bv that
PITHTHERIA.
By J. G. HARDIN.
A specific and Infectious dis-
ease due to the bacciliws of Diph-
theria or Klebs-Loffler bacillus and
is usually characterized by the for-
mation of a false membrane locally
But I touched upon a subject generally on tne tonsiis
nose or larnyx ana Dy cousuiuuuuai
symptoms chief of which are a
moderate amount of temperature
and great prostraUon or general
weakness and anemia. The activity
of the germs on the mucous mem-
brane forms a flase membrane and
toxins which are absorbed that give
rise to the great constitutional
symptoms." The caustive agent is
found on this membrane a swab
of which is taken and carried tbru
a culture process or a simar is made
and examined under the mlcrocope.
In large municipalities this is done
free. The disease is endemic in most
cities but may be seen sporadically
and in epidemics. The majority of
the cases occur in children between
spring but a case may be seen at
any time of the year.
The predisposlipr courses are
poor hygiene poor health from the
affect of other diseased chronic
catarrh and diseased tonsils Infec-
tion occurs by direct infection the
bacilli are carried the discharges
from the infected parts in the spu-
tum fend mucous- These bacilli may
be harbored in the throats and
noses of otherwise healthy people
and these are great sources of the
spread of the disease. These may
be persons who have had the disease
or others who have never shown
any symptoms whatever. These car-
riers can only be detected by bac-
terldoglc examination nurses doc-
tors or any attendant may transmit
the disease dogs cats and other
domestic animals may be carriers
and epidemics have- been spread
by milk.
As a general rule two types of
cases are seen mild and severe
cases. Laryngeal and nasal cases
are a rule very severe and are
fatal in a large number of cases.
the aces of l or 5 and 3-4 of the
cases under ten years however the All cases of sore throat should be
disease may attack any one who seen by the doctor and a correct
has not been imunlzed against the diagnosis made. If your child or
disease or who mav be exDOBed to some of your people are subject to
the infection. The sexes are about sore throat as a possible preventa-
equally affected and most of theive of diphtheria your tonsils
cases are seen In winter and early should be removed.
WHAT DO YOU
THINK ABOUT IT
9
This space will be devoted each
week by the Express to views of
any of our leaders on topics of vital
interest to the public. All com'
munlcatlons must be addressed to
the Editor and signed by author
giving full name and address.
"LIZA" AND "SHUFFLE ALONG" their services.
BENEFIT NETS 90o FOB K. AJ ' irvug MUler and Maceo Pinkard
producers of "Liza" gave their ser
vices and the services of the cast
New York N. Y April 14. A without cost. In connection with the
benefit performance given for the
Nation J Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People in the
Lafayette Theatre New York City
March 27 by the full cast of the
musical revui ''Liza" assisted by
members of the cast of "Shuffle
Along" company number 3 crowded
the house so that every seat was
taken and late comers had to stand.
Incomplete returns show that the
performance netted the National As-
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People about $900. Besides
the two companies whose casts
made the' entertainment a number
of independent artists volunterred
boneflt the N. A. A. C P. issued'
the following statement:
"Two entirely Colored musical re-
vues have had phenomenal success
in New York on Broadway. Both of
these revues 'Shuffle Along' and
'Liza' have generously given their
services and their enthusiastic spirit
to benefit performances for the
N. A. A. C. P. The Association
commends the fine spirit shown to
prevail in the ranks of the leaders
of the theatrical profession and
desires to thank publicly the pro-
ducers and casts of both 'Shuffle
Along' and 'Liza' as well as the
independent artists who gave of
their best."
to the Negroes.
"Some time ago a cook who has been in my family for thirty years
spoke of some of her friends and said that their employers expected them
to be clean and yet gave them no facillUes for cleanliaess. They work
said she around a hot stove cooking and then their folks demand that
they keep clean and yet provide no bathroom facilities. How true this
Is. The harder and the hotter and the dirtier the work done by men
and women the more thoroughly do they need bath rooms if cleanliness
is to be maintained; and no one wants one around
n ItIIaVa. ..nMtAnM
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-.cij .v i nuiitcia uia uwu uuui huu muivcs uiiuBii a curse ramer man a cook.
blessing.
"Until the white mei and women of the Soi;h unitedly work for the
safeguarding of every right of the Negro for the betterment of. the moral
"These are some of the thoughts which I have often expressed in the
past and which have been brought to my mind again by reading your
interesting address. I concratulnt
condition under which many Negroc are livi.g. For tin betterment of .matter so very clearly and forcibly. I trust the circulation in pamphlet
their nOJSlr.C. and for c-ivlnir tn t'lein the ani-nntacea which mnVa DAO. ! f f 1 .til nt . . J .1 1 . ...
- " wu. ui juui uuuiraa may ao great gooa.
From the Manufacturers' Record.
stble a higher ctv-ilizattrn the South will fail to do its duty to Itself and
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