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PAGE TWO know how - Southerners feqj—They want to us all when we hdd mixed meetings,' 1 ■ hooted a New England delegate. The Rev. Bertha P. Crear, col ored, pastor of the Christian Spiritualist church, Columbus, Ohio, asked for delay. “Wh6n we’re a little stronger and a**little more learned we’ll leave,” declared. There ’was prolonged applause at this. Woman 125 Dies (By The Associated Negro Press) Atlanta, Ga., 0<5t.25 —Aunt Lucy breen, colored who’claimed the distinction of having fir-d the light of day on this mortal soil 125 years ago, passed away last Thursday at the home of her son, ' Henry Green, himself 77 years of age, at 16& West Merritt Avenue. As well as she could remember according to her son, “Aunt Lucy’ * > II early girlhood was fraught with • * the excitement that prec ded the second British war, on her “mars tor’s” ranch in Virgii.y! Long before the civil War she enj yed the quietude and serenity of these happy years until the emancipa tion proclamation of President Lincoln freed her. She was At lanta’s oldest citizen and had a host of friends‘among the whites here. ii. .. East and West Meet at Hampton (By The Associated Negro Press) Hampton, Va., Oct.— Folk mu sic of the East and West met today THE ATHENS REPUBLIQUE on comparable’ terms when the well trained unique Ukrainnian National Chorus dressed in na tive costume and the Hampton I V Institute chorus and choir com posed of Negro voices sang in Og den Hall at Hampton Institute the famous folk songs of little Russia and of plantation melodies' of Negro hymns of the old South before an audience ’of' over 2000 citizens of the lower peninsula' of Virginia. Mlle. Nadia Plantinoda the Ukrainian Lyric Soprano, who is making her first road cre ated gieat enthusiasm-iaifd won prolonged applause for her finish ed singing of romantic ’ballads and folk songs. From the music of Cliuka Ruiiskj Korsakoff ana Tscbaikowsky the (Ukrainian singers- .were encored < again* and again. .Tuey were grve-tedi with sympathy and fervor-.by -the.3so Hampton.lnstitute students., and and sang,to them from. Negro folk songs including r<ide on, Jesus and swing low sweet Chariot.-* , Alexander K< shetz, the conductor of the«Ukrainiaii National Chorus,* after hearing the - Hampion In stitute Choir of 60 volets -sing,* listened to The Lambs and LT . nevea Turn Back Nq Monp t.wo compositions written by 6. Na thaniel Dett of Hampton Institute’ and interpreted unperhis conduc torehip, said,“This Nt-grocompos- work is colossal ui i’-s sigulfit cance oi the cultural possibilities of Negrot s. On my num to Ukrainia I shall put Prohssor Dett’s composition on my program and have my students Jnr.eflpiv t Negro folk music.” , When Black Meets White By John Louis Hill (For The Associated Negro Press) Os late there has been much talk a bout the “New Negro,” There is. and van be no such thing as a “new Negro’’ but there can, and must be a new free dom for the Negro. Tile time has been reached when this fact must be recog nized by all classes. ,(Fi/ty y ears of pro gress by the together with the world upheave! -in the United States with the Civil War, a half century ago gave the Negro physical freedom. The recent world among manjij other radicar changes. plought| will) lead the Negro of America into mental, aqd social freedom. t This netv freedom is coming to the colored race c , not through legislation not by any sort'of material force or ar rogant assertion, not byway of threat er denterrid, but Along the unobstructed pathway of divine truth., I TJie Great Teacher “Ye shall* know the truth, and the truth shall, make you free.” ThaT wasa new and ‘startling thing for Christ to say when He did say it, and it is always new and startling when wc grasppts significance and undertake to ( apply it. Yet, it is a fact that no real f cl that no real freedom ever came to airy individual or an\ people anywhere oth.fr than this way. by shooting deadly bullets intox men’s bodies, but’ by driving divine ideas into their headsi and hearts d es liberty come io races and uat ons. ’Afl that is 1 necessarv to bring about complete harmony and permanent ac- CQr</.' ami cooperation between the) white and black rices ip America is for both races to understand an 1 appro priate the TRI TH about themselves and etch other. • Ignorance, falsehoods and prejudices on both fellies piust bej elim naled entirely before complete harmony can j revail. rire whitl r|ce mus?'wmie stand that theNegrois fully entitled to economic freedom. The Constitution of the Unit ed Sx lr-, by virtue of his citizenships vouchsafes this to hjm. If in the past, racist prejudice has denied him this right, despite the obstacles in his way* by virtue of his demonstrated ability to make distinguished economic pidgress* he has dou,bly earned his right to com" plete econypnc freedom. As a citizen of this Nation the Negro has equal rights with every other citizen to every mater ial po’-st ssion iu any locality whatso-' ever, which by the use of brain and money he may be able to obtain. Oct' bor 28, 1922