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\ t» TASK SET FOR NEGRO LEADERS,
Th e ne * result of the recent race riots in Chicago
and Washington, during the course of which many
negroes and whites alike are killed is to point to ne
gro leaders in the South theone greatest task before
them. These leaders profess to have the best inter- >
"ests to their race at heart, and in working out a proper
solution of the problem, it is certain they will have
the earnest help of the white people here, as long as
their efforts are directed along proper lines.
In the north, where the negro population is in a
decided minority and where the whites have for years
tolerated an increasing encroachment on the part of
the blacks, the scale of public opinion seems recently to
have changed, and negroe sthere ar e being compelled
’to desist in their efforts to attain social and political
equality with the whites, who are and always will be, th e
dominant race in this country.
Recently in Chicago seventeen negroes were kill
ed and hundreds injured during the course of race
riots growing out of a clash between whites and blacks
at a bathing beach, and in Washington, D. C., serious
race clashes also occurred. Negro leaders in the North
oeem to have lost sight of th e nation’s views regarding
the equality of the races, and have launched a mis
guided effort to attain for their race certain pr 'ligis
..nd ngnts always regarded heretofore as due solely to
the whites.
In this connection we note the report from Chat
tanooga, Tenn., that a prominent negro clergyman has
written President Wilson that before th e negroes of
this country will again submit the “many of the in
justices which we have suffered, the white men will have
to kill more of them than the combined number of sol
diers that were slain in the great world war.” More
over yesterday in New York City (before an audience
of 2,000 negroes) statements of an equally inflam
matory nature were made, including the following:
Follow the constructive work the blacks did in Wash
ingtonand fight lik e h , every one-.” “Use all
methods to obtain your rights, even force;” Don’t de
mand your rights, take them!” Make radicalism the
»ery essence of our propaganda;” “Make the white
nan stop treading on our toes.”
Evidently agitators of lawlessness ar e taking advant
age of the race trouble to spreadtheir pernicious propa
ganda among the millions of negroes of the country
mrough the negro press. Thus there appeared in a
.ecent copy on an illustrated negro magazine, to
..ave a large circulation, several articles in which ne
groes are urged to join the 1. W. W. and th e left
.ing Socialist organization. In one article negroes
.ere urged to “form an alliance with the I. W. W v the
ocialist and the Non-Partisan League, to build a new
ociety—a society of equals, without class, race, caste,
r religious distinctions.” In another article in the
>me publication, the writer, after giving an exaggerat-
- d statement of the spread of lawlessness in Europe,
ays: “The red tide sweeps on in America * * * It
ids fair to sweep over the whol e world. The sooner
he better. On with the dance.
The situation even now, as a result of this agita
.on, is decidedly serious and deserves the careful con
.deration of all good citizens. It is estimated that
■iere are now approximately 12,000,000 negroes in the
United States, a larg e percentage of whom are likely
j become infected with this dangerous propaganad un-
--5 s prompt measures ar e taken to check or offset it.
In northern cities the percentage of negroes is so
mil that there is hardly likely to be serious difficulty
< maintaining order. In the South, however, and in
other sections where there are large negro populations,
me problem, always a delicate one to handle, is likely to
o exceedingly difficult to deal with unless suitable
■asures are at once taken.
There is no doubt in the minds of well informed
ople of thy. ability of the South to handle its race
oblem, and the leaders of that race should recognize
’as well. It is, therefore, manifestly the first duty
' negro leaders who have the real interests of their
at heart to begin at once steps to counteract and
g.RipplingßhijmQs’l
DRY AS DUST.
THE country’s dry; some gin and rye in al
leys may be peddled, but prison waits
the foolish skates who with such trade have med
dled. The thirsty gink who seeks a drink of soul
destroying bitters, must cast aside all decent
pride and herd with low down criters. The coun
try’s dry and so am I, but I’m a fan for Water;
when heated up I want a cup that doesn’t make me
hotter. The foaming beer, al] amber clear, 'that
bear such luring titles, piles useless fat on waist
and slat, and superheats men’s vitals. The spakling
wine whose bubbles shine like dew upon theclover,
heats up one’s veins and cooks his brains,and leaves
a fierce hangover. I drink from pools, for water
cools my work, by summer heated; I don’t regret
the era wet, when men each other treated. I drink
from pumps and have no dumps when rising in the
morning; no stomach throes, and my red nose is not
a horrid warning. I drink from brooks whose
bends and crooks bisect the smiling vallleys; I have
no use for serpent juice dispensed in dirty alleys.
discountenance this dangerous and anarchistic propa
ganda, which found its inception at the North, and
which can only result in harm to the negro if permitted
to circulate in the South. For years the whites and
blacks of the South have lived here in complete har
mony and accord, each realizing and recognizing the
rights of the other, and the intelligent leaders of the t
negro should not permit these harmonious relations
to be disturbed by chasing after the illusion of equal
social and political rights which never have and never
will be accorded the negro by the white man.
PUTTING NEW ENERGY INTO BUSINESS.
How can business be emergized? How can confi
dence be restored throughout the country? How can
labor be induced to get back its desire to produce, and
capital to speed up the mobilization of peace-time en
ergies? These are three of the most interesting ques
tions now before th e American people.
Roger W. Babson, director general of the infor
mation and education service of the Department of
Labor, says it can be accomplished by administering hte
following stimulants to the country:
First, tell all progressive merchants and man
ufacturers—tell all who have anything to sell—
to advertise now and take advantage of the great
market which exists at this time.
Second, tell the public that now is the time
to buy—that they, the people, in normal peace
times are the controllers of all production and all
distribution.
The surest way to get the desired results is to
tell the people what the trouble is and then tell
them how to remedy it.
Briefly, our difficulties are due to the neces
sary readjustment of our war-time activities into
peace-time indutiies. During the war the Govern
ment asked th e people to refrain from buying any
thing they did not actually need. Every dollar, ev
ery ounce of strength, was needed for war pur
poses; there was nothing to spare for the produc
tion of things which could b e done without.
Now the war has ended, and we find that our
stocks of peace-time goods are depleted. There
is a lack of almost everything that wfis not pro
duced in quantity for the war. With the deple
tion of our supplies there has come since the sign
of the armitice nervous relaxation and a feeling of
uncertainty and less of confidence throughout the
country.
Labor and capital are muddled. Industry is
marking time.
Too many individuals ar e waiting for “something
to turn up.” Too many homes that should be built
here in Americus have not been started already be
cause too many people cling to the hope tha ttime will
bring lower price levels. The man with vision isn’t
waiting, though. He is going ahead with improve
ments and extensions and repairs and thus helping to
restore confidence and place the nation’s prosperity
upon a peace-time basis.
Now is the phychological time to begin for pros
perity. Let us take up the slack; let us do all that
we can to allow the period of reconstruction to pass
with the least possible hardships for labor and capital.
< What Other Editors Say |
A GRAVE MISUSE
“We feared,” says Bill Sutlive, of the Savannah
Press, “that if Johnnie-Spencer )*pt his feet wet in Ath
ens Thursday night it would be some time before he
i could get back to work. And up to this good day the
columns of th e Telegraph know him not.” A man who
will use it to bathe his feet in when the cost of it is as
high as it is reported to be, ought to be sick a week or
so. And he ought to be mighty sick at that.—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
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