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THE MAROON TIGER
“God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks
slaves and claims obedience.”
Gibron, in his latest book, explains Jesus by showing
the impression He made on different people. One who
loved Him said:
“He was sad, but His sadness was tenderness shown to
those in pain and comradeship given to the lonely.”
“If nobility lies in being protective he was the noblest
of all men.”
Edward Arlington Robinson speaks wisely in Tristram
—“Youth sees too far to see how near it is to seeing far
ther.”
“Whether you will or not,
You are a king, Tristram, for you are one
Of the time-sifted few that leave the world,
When they are gone, not the same place it was.”
How many get the same impression of women as Rob
inson who says:
“When a woman is left too much alone,
Sooner or later, she begins to think,
And no man knows what then she may discover”?
To quote further from Robinson:
—“I am not one
Who must have everything, yet I must have
My dreams if I must live, for they are mine.
Wisdom is not one word and then another.
Till words are like dry leaves under a tree;
Wisdom is like a dawn that comes up slowly
Out of an unknown ocean.
Kathryn Burris
SHAKE OFF YOUR MENTAL SHACKLES
Editorial from The News, Augusta, Georgia
Among the many things that have kept the Negro from
enjoying the many blessings of real freedom in his in
ability to realize the influences which have been direct
ing his mind in various ways for hundreds of years.
We have been taught to look upon white as an emblem of
purity and that all goodness must come from some white
source.
The pictures in our Bibles and religious literature
are all white; for that cause I believe they are fictitious
and misleading, and have done more harm than good.
I believe there is something wrong with our religious
teaching. We teach that all of God’s mesengers or angels
are white. Some people believe the soul is white. If
it were white, it would be visible to the eye. We can
not conceive the idea that angels are of any color. Some
songs we sing, with such phrases as “Now wash me,
and I shall be whiter than snow,” show that the writer
has taken white as an emblem of purity. One of the most
deadly poisons we have, which is strychnine, is white.
White is not, and never has been, a standard of puritv.
When the Negro accepts such teaching he enslaves him
self into the belief that all goodness comes from some
white source.
It is often that we walk along the street and point with
pride upon the signboard at old Santa Claus, a big, good
old white man, who has always been good and kind to
all children (which is false teaching, of course). But
the child has never seen a big, black Santa Claus, there
fore he comes to the conclusion that all good things must
come from some white source.
The girl who is taught to love a white doll, when she
is grown and becomes a mother will not be proud of
children of her own likeness. The lesson taught has been
too bitter.
Every picture on our walls tells its story and makes
some kind of impression on the mind; therefore we
should select only those which would be helpful, and
avoid those which teach the lessons of humiliation.
The Negro has accepted false teaching long enough.
How long will he be the victim of the intrigue that has
made him believe that he was inferior to any people?
It is now time for us to realize the fact that we must set
a new standard of teaching. We must be able to teach
race pride without race hatred. We must learn to love
others as ourselves, but not better.
NEGRO BOOKS CONSPICUOUS IN
SOUTHERN SHOW
Works of Colored Authors Displayed AT
Big Book Exposition in Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga., March 22:—At the Southern Book Ex
position in progress all this week at the big department
store of M. Rich & Bros., this city, books about Negroes
and books by southern Negro authors have had a very
conspicuous place. Among the latter group appear Dr.
Booker Washington’s classical autobiography,Up From
Slavery; Dr. Robert R. Moton’s life story, Finding a Way
Out. and his latest book, What The Negro Thinks, which
is just from the press: James Weldon Johnson’s God's
Trombones; Walter White’s/Yre in the Flint and Flight;
the poems of Dunbar, Mrs. Georgia Douglas Johnson,
and T. J. Flannagin, local poet; and Negro histories by
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, and Dr. Benjamin Brawley.
Most conspicuous among the works of southern authors
were Dr. H oward W. Odum's Rainbow Round My
Shoulder, and his two volumes of Negro songs; Dubose
Heyward’s Porgy and Mamba’s Daughters; Mrs. Julia
Peterkin’s Black April and Scarlet Sister Mary; and Dr.
E. C. L. Adam’s Congaree Sketchess. Of course, Uncle
Remus, as interpreted by Joel Chandler Harris, was pres
ent in all the genial glory of his several volumes, some
of them in manuscript form. Dr. Odum, Mrs. Peterkin,
and Dr. Adams w'ere present in person on successive
days, and gave readings which greatly interested the
large audiences present.
The generous space accorded in the exposition not only
to the stories about Negroes, but to the work of Negro
authors themselves, is considered significant and has
been the occasion of much favorable comment.
PROPER TILTLES DEMANDED FOR
COLORED WOMEN
Woman’s Section of State Interracial Cammittee
Takes Determined Stand for Justice
Greensboro, N. C., March :—When newspaper re
porters asked for the Christian names of Negro dele
gates attending the woman’s section of the State Inter
racial Committee in session here, Miss Clara Cox, of
High Point, the white president of the section, declined
to give the names on the ground that the newspapers
should refer to Negro women as Miss or Mrs., or else
should not use their names at all. Miss Cox declared that
if Negro women cannot be given their proper titles,
she herself preferred to have her name appear in the
newspapers as ‘plain Clara Cox’ 1 .
The incident was the basis of a discussion which
proved the most interesting one in the state meeting.
Among the colored women taking part in the discussion
were Mrs. H. L. McCrory, wife of the president of John
son C. Smith University, and Miss Lillian Donnell. The
position taken by Miss Cox received general support