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Tuesday afternoon, june 19, 192?
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FOR fffl OHL' FOR
NEGRO IN GEORGIA
Alumni Orator at Athens Com
mencement Asks White Rztce
Realize Responsibilities
quotes Judge jones
“Evils of Mob Have Almost
Boundless Sweep,’’ He De
clares in Address
ATHENS, June 19. —Col. A. R.
Lawton orator of the University
of Georgia, delivered a significant
address-here today “The Negro
in the South and Elsewhere.”
Standing for the highest traditions
or racial integrity he, nevertheless
faced frankly many conditions
that need remedying and made a
powerful plea for justice for the
even the humblest member of so
ciety.
The following are significant
extracts from the address:
“The terms race pride and race
instinct do not primarily carry
imputation of discreditable charac
teristics; but, not etymologically
but in common speech, the term
race prejudice does, arid when J
use it it will be with the intention
of conveying that meaning.”
“It is not race pride or race in
stinct, but race predjuice s ugment
ed by want of character that
brings to the negro injustice as
between man and man. If T yield
ed to a natural reluctance to ad
mit distasteful truths I could not
conceal from you the tendency far
too frequent with far too many
individuals to deal unfairly in
business transactions with .the
negro because he is helpless. It’ is
manifested in some shop-keeper’s
(particularly those who give cre<A
it) and with some farmers in their'
dealings with negro tenants. It is
to an appreciable degree more dif
ficult for a negro than for a white
man to obtain justice in some of
our courts, whether on the civil or
the criminal side. I do not believe
that our judges are subject to this
criticism.”
“It is not race instinct but race
prejudice augmented by more re
prehensible traits that bring to
the negro discourteous rudeness,
contemptuous insult arwl corporal
ill treatment. The white man’s
claim of superiority may be read
ily refuted by the manner in which
he asserts it. Insulting another or
wounding his feelings is always to
be condemned, but never more so
than when it comes from a super
ior to an inferior. A gentleman
should be more careful of tho
feelings and sensitiveness of one
below him than Os his equal or his
superior. A negro dare not insult
a white man. Fear restrains him.
A more commendable spirit should
restrain the white man from dar
ing to insult or maltreat the negro.
Let him “dare do all that may be
come a man”—remember that
“who dares do more is none.”
Discussing lynching Col Lawton,
quoted with approval the following
from Hon. Joseph G. Jones, an
Alabama Jurist:
‘“What white race is superior
and wields the power of govern
ment. The negro has practically no
part in it. Thq laws are made by
white men. White men preside in
the courts. White men sit upon the
juries. The danger is not that a
guilty negro will escape punish
ment at the hands of the law, but
that in many instances the innocent
may meet with unjust punishment.
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Bell Nelson was even more dis
mayed bt the prospect than was his
• son, for upon him fell the neces
sity of raising the money. “Hell
of a note,” the old fellow grumb
led.. “when a wet well puts a
crimp in us! A little more good
luck like this and we’ll go broke.”
“We can’t afford to let go, or
to sub-lease—”
“Os course not, after the stand
wer’ve taken. There’s talk on the
street about the bank, now, and
I’d give a good deal to know where
it comes from.” The junior Nel
son had heard similar echoes, but
he iheld his tongue. ‘T never did
like your way of doing business,”
the speaker resumed, fretfully.
“We’ve overreached. You wanted
it all and—this is the result.”
Now Henry Nelson was warrant
ed in resenting this accusation, for
it had ever been Bell’s way to
pursue a grasping policy, there
fore he cried angrily:
“That’s right; pass the buck.
You know you wouldn’t listen to
anything else. If we’re in deep,
you’re more to blame than I.”
“Nothing of the sort,’ 01 d Bell
The pretext that the criminal will
not receive justice, if the law is
allowed to take its course, is whol
ly wanting.
“The evils of the mob have al
most boundless sweep in all the re
lations of life. Can any man, in the
wildest flight of the brain, picture
Robert E'. Lee or John B. Gordon,
no matter what the charge against
the criminal, joining a mob to
break down a jail, and taking a !
1 prisoner out to hang him? Why I
not? Because they are types of I
c ourage and honor, and justice! and I
veneration for law, and all these |
cry out against such an act. No
man who forms a part of the flood ’
of pDssion and cowardice which
storms’ ,a jail and murders a de
fenseless prisoner, is ever again
the same moral being. Then and
there a .human tiger is born. He
comes tri despise, the saucily of
human life - He is swift to the shed
ding of blc od of his neighbors, and
sure to give loose rein to his pas
sion wh?n it turns upon one who
is weak and helpless. These he
will always find. He is an enemy
of the yo>uth of the land; for he
teaches thiun it is right to unbridle
their worst passions and to trample
down those who are set over them.”
In conclu: ’ion, Col. Lawton said,
“We know t.'iat we are in the ac
cendency and that his fate is large
ly in our hanc’-S. We know that as
oempared with ourselves he is help
less and that he deserves not our
criticism but out,’ sympathetic in
terest not our > antagonism but,
our help and out encouragement.
I appeal to each d f you for activfe
aid in urging upon your commun
ity an dyour state fair and im
partial consideratian of this har
assing problem in l the light of
tradition for encouragement and
participation in the work of the
Interracial Commission; and for
a firm determination as men and
women on on whom, the higher
duty rests that no u.ifair advant
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and that the negro shi’Jl always re
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ment which is his due, and which
we cannot withhold if we wish to
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I began to profane denial, but the
younger man broke in, irritably:
“I’ve never won an argument
[with you, so have it your own, way.
But while you’re raising money for
(the Avenger offsets, you’d better
1 raise flerity fast as—
raise plenty, for Gray is going to
punch holes as fast as ever he
can.” ’
“Who is this Gray? What’s’ he
got against you?”’
“We didn’t get along very well
in France.”
“Humph! I suppose that means
you fought like hell. And now he’s
getting even. By the way, where
am I going to get this money?”
“That is up to you,” said Henry,
with a disagreeable grin, whereup
on his father stamped into his own
office in a fine fury.
Not long after this father and
son quarreled again, for )of a
sudden a perfect avalanche of law
suits was released, the mysterious
origin and purpose of which com
pletely mystified Old Bell. The
Nelsons, like everybody else, had
unsuccessfully babbled in oil
stocks and drilling companies for
some time before the boom started
also during its early stages, and
most of those failures had been
forgotten. They were painfully
brought to mind, however, when
Henry was served with a dozen or
more citations, and when inquiry
elicited the reluctant admission
from the bank’s attorney that a
genuine liability existed—a lia
bility which included the entire
debts of those defunct joint-stock
associations in which he and his
father had invested. This was
enough to enrage a saint.
henry argued that he had in
variably signed those artitcles of
association with the words, in par
entheses, “No personal liability,”’
and he was genuinely amazed to
learn that this precaution had been
useless.
lhe driller he had sent up to
Arkansas in charge of his rig one
day came into the office in great
agitation. The man’s’ story caused
his employer’s face to whiten.
“Salted! I—don’t believe it,”
Nelson seized his head in his
hands. “Oh, my God!” he gasped.
Misfortunes were coming with a
swiftness incredible. Salted! Vic
timized, like the greenest tender
foot! A small fortune sunk while
the whole country was still chuck
ling over the Jacksoi scandal!
This was a nightmare.
Henry was glad that his father
was in Tulsa in conference with
some other bankers over that Av
enger orfset money, otherwise
there was no telling to what ex-
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] treme t| man’s rage would
! have cafini at this final ca-
I lamity. ihat whining, cough-
I ing croq bogus farmer, was
[in Arizt elsewhere out
of reacts law!
“Doesdy know?” Henry
inquried' he had somewhat
recovertequilibrium.
“Nobd us fellows.”
“You mustn’t shut down.
You’ve keep up the bluff
until—uget time to turn.”
“You to bump off that
land to ody else?”
“Wha|u think I’m going to
do?” Nffas on his feet now
and pais office with jerky
strides.
“Wellworth something to
turn a like fTiis.”
“How?”
B’O tu man merely smiled
and shr,.so, with a grunt of
underst, Henry seated him
self anite out a check to
bearer, amount of which
caused grind his teeth.
Now impossible to dispose
ot a la ding like that Arkan
sas* trat moment’s notice. In
order tje suspicion, it was
necessago about it slowly,
tactful! nee the financier
moved s. much circumspec
tion poHis careful plans ex
|ploded,rer, when he met
Calvin r day or so later.
Grayuade it an invariable
practicpeak affably to his
enemy sing, mainly because
it so a; the latter; this time
he, insipon stopping.
So luck has changed,
nasn t iat Avenger well of
mine h a gt>oc j va i ue on your
omd” r, ° ngratUlate you ’ Col '
L.T UII <lon ’t believe in
UtR ’ mumbled. “And the
Avenge enough of a well to
brag a
“So?ion’t believe m luck?
It seene our lot invariably to
differ, t it? Now, my dear
Colone not ashamed to con
fess thm deeply superstitious
and ttoelieve implicitly in
signs adigies, You see, I was
born ia happy star; ’at my
nativit front of heaven was
full 0/ shapes,’ as it were
Comfo feeling, I assure you.
Take tcident.. at Newtown,
not loi doesn’t that prove my
conten
“Whident?”
Grajws lifted whimsically.
“Os cosow should you know?
There clumsy attempt to do
me boharm, to—assassinate
me. F isn’t it? So ill consider
ed andpracticable. But about
this A-matter, if you find it
inconv to offset my wells as
fast at them down, perhaps
you’d 3r selling—”
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blood rush to his face at this in
suffered insult, but he claimed
himself with the thought that his
opponent was deliberately goading
him. After all, it served him right
for permitting the fellow to stop
him “Incjmvenient! Ha!” He turn
ed away carelessly.
“No offense, my dear Colonel .1
thought, after your Arkansas fias
co, you might wish —”
“What Arkansas fiasco?” Nelson
wheeled, and in spite of himself
his voice cracked.
“Ah! Another secret, eh?’ Gray
winked elaborately—nothing could
have been more deliberately offen
sive than that counterfeit of a
friendly understanding. “Very well
I shan’t say a word.”
Without another word the bank
er passed on, but he went blind
ly, for his mind was in black
chaos. No chance now for secrecy;
he was in for a bit of hell.
He managed to kill the story in
the local papers, but it appeared in
the Dallas journals, which was
even worse, and for the first time
in his life he found himself an ob
ject of ridicule.
Nelson, senior, returned from
Tulsa bull-mad, and he came with
out the money he had expected to
get. What went on in his office
that morning after he sent for his
son none of the bank’s employes
ever knbw, but they coqld guess,
for the rumblings of the old man’s
rage penetrated even the mahog
any paneled walls.
Chapter XXIV
A Great Temptation
Gray had once told Barbara
Parker that there was no one quite
like him—a remain more egotisti
cal in the sound than in the mean
ing. Unusual in many ways he
probably was, but, like most men,
the discovery that his proudest vir
tues were linked with vices of
which he was ashamed struck him
as extraordinary. As if nature
were noi. -crivc. aiming at a bal
ance.
In spite of the fact that he was
impulsive, headstrong, swift in
most things, this girl possessed the
unique faculty of rendering him
acutely self-conscious, and it an
noyed him lift more, therefore, to
find how timorous he could be in
putting her feelings to the test.
There was more than one well
by this time; Avenger Number Two
and Three and Four were going
down, and offsetting the first Av
enger were three of Nelson’s rigs.
“Bob” studied the situation brief
ly, then with a dubious shake of
her head, rhe announced:
“You arc taking a big risk, Mr.
Gray.”
“You mean these new holes mqy
come di” ? Os course, but I be
lieve in crowding my luck. I don’t
know any other way to work.”
“You have been lucky, haven’t
you?” She stared at him with a
detached, impersonal interest. “Ev
erything is coming your way, even
down in the Ranger district.”
“Oh, I have, my share of trou-
bles I lost a crooked hole, recent
ly—had to skid the derrick and
start over. Then a pair of chain
tongs was dropped into another
hole—”
“Somebody must have it in for
you,” When Gray noded. Bob’s
face lit up with surprise. “Really.
Do you suspect someone in particu
lar?”
“I know.”
“You have always impressed me
as a—a man of destiny . I think
fate has selected you as an instru
ment with which to do bigthings.
That’s why ”m always a bit over
awed by you.”
(Continued Tomorrow.)
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