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Those Race Riots — There is something more serious j back of the race riots that have dis graced the cities of Washington and ; Chicago than is implied in the vague j phrase “bad blood.” What seems to be taking place is a reaction on the part of the blacks in the populous centers, against the mob law estab lished in the south. During the past few years, and particularly since the outbreak of the war, various Colored organizations have sprung up, having for their object the more forcible as sertion of the rights of the Negro in the United States and aimed in par ticular against the lawlessness in the south directed against these people. The Negro, in other words, is being taught to “fight back,” and the con sciousness of his equality has been enormously accentuated since the draft demonstrated to the lowest in telligence of his race that he was at least good enough to fight for his cour tly, even if its laws afforded him scant protection. Hundreds of thou sar ds of Negroes were drafted from the south, many went to France and ample tribute to their fighting ability has been expressed by those high in authority. They have been sent against the Mexicans and have given a good account of themselves, yet in the same page with the story of their military' deeds will be found the ac count of the lynching of a 72-year-old Negro in Georgia, who used a gun ef fectively' in defending himself against a mob that “suspected" him of a crime. Like breeds like. The Negro has been hounded and chased and clubbed into submission in the south. The average southerner with a self-com placent air usually tells the northern man to “keep his hands off,” that he knows how to settle the Negro ques tion, anti that the black man must be “taught his place." Teaching him his place usually means to deprive him of his constitutional rights as a citizen in the south, also as southern states men elaborately' explain, necessary to secure “white supremacy." But in the past few years there has been growing up in the south and elsewhere a class of Negro agitators, j who have plenty of fuel at hand to start a first-class conflagration, and some of the bitter fruits are these race riots. The Negro has been taught that he has no political rights in the outh. He is informed that all this is for his own good, so if one of his race is lynched or mobs of rowdies storm jails and take out suspects and burn them, just for the sport of the thing, he is practically without redress. Southern governors have on scores of occasions frankly stated that they dare not interfere with these lynch ings. The eventual and natural reaction against this state of affairs is taking place. The Negro is coming back from France, and army life and disci pline, and the lessons gained in that wider horizon are bearing their fruit. If gangs of hoodlums undertake to ‘clean up Blacktown,” why Blaektown doesn’t take to the cellars and the tall timber. It fights. The Negro appar etly is getting tired of being kicked and cuffed around. A generation of southern methods for the settlement of the Negro question may have work ed beautifully insofar as depriving him of his vote is concerned, and “teach ing him his place,” but when the war came and it was found that the black man’s place apparently was in the front rank to be a target for German bullets just the same as his white brother, there was developed a new spirit that unfortunately has been ex ploited by agitators while the states manship of the south complacently looked on. There has recently been an epidem 1 ic of lynchings in the south and if the people have closed their ears to the ominous mutterings of rebellion against this state of affairs, and given no heed to the letters of protest pour ing into the press of the country 1 from returned Negro soldiers then they must be wilfully deaf. Negro o,i.tors, Negro radicals, Negro agitat ors are busy in the large cities in the black belts preaching the doctrine of | etaliation and the results are ob vious. It makes little difference what particular spark started the trouble. There seems to Ire plenty of natural antipathy between the races in the congested areas, in any event, and • there appears to be a general idea afloat that there need Ire no appeal to the law in the case of black criminals. J They are supposed to be dealt with by the first mob that can be formed. That is how the trouble apparently i started in Washington. Improvised mobs undertook to run dowm Negro suspects, and the invasion of the Ne ; gro district followed. The mob in stead of driving the scared blacks to cover, found itself confronted by an equally formidable gathering and a week’s carnival of anarchy followed. These events are the flower and fruit of southern policies in dealing with the Negro question.—The Her | ald-Democrat, Leadville, Colo. 1 For Monitor office call Doug. 3224. ^———mmm I DAWN_ By JACK LAWTON (Copyright, 1919. Western Newspaper Union) Jerome Barris in the hour of his great snec- ss was but a disillusioned, disappointed man. Still young, and having wen the golden key to favor, he drew imek wearily before those doors It might op< n. During his years of struggle and need none of the-e friends, who now so eagerly strove to share his triumph, had ttinde an effort to stretch forth a helping hand. Even the girl whom he hail so deeply loved and who had pro fessed to return his love had grown weary waiting and had heartlessly jilted him for an acknowledged man iff the business world. Now that the dream of Jerome Bar ris was realized he smiled cynically at this same woman's proffered notes of reconciliation—his former love had be come a widow, but her charm for him ha*! vanished before her insincerity, and all this superfiela’ adulation now wearied him. He longed to get away from it, to get back to a certain spot which hud often been ills refuge. To Burris this small place, with the sea stretching out before, was home, has one sure haven. I* was here that his great picture was born—the picture which Imd won for him fame and fortune. Years ago when his heart was sore with its dis appointment, he had gone, after read ing the announcement of the one girl's marriage, to the seclusion of this little house, there to shut out from curious eyes his deep hurt. And when at sun down he sat upon the tiny porch a boat had come drifting down a golden beam toward him. And in the boat sat a very young girl. Unbound, her golden hair rippled over her shoulders, and her up raised face was glorified in the light Barris called his great picture "Maidenhood.” Impulsively he had called her as she drifted by, and hud run down to draw her boat in to the shore. The girl, who was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years of age. acceded readily to Ids request that she pose thus again for a picture "I'll make the arrangement with your people,” Barris suggested. "I have no people," the girl told him, and as she went on with the strange story of her own life he knew what had brought the shadow to Iter young eyes. .She had been washed to the shore in a boat tossing upon a stormy sea before she v.as old enough to re member anything about it. A man anil woman found drowned later wer< thought to have been her parents, hut die had never known. A fisherman find Ing the child carried her to his wife who had befriended tier, until as th< girl grew and the wife became an In valid tlie charge was transferred. They called her "Dawn." the girl told hint Idiisii nglv. because it had been at dawn that the fisherman found her. And as days passed and Dawn came to pose for the artist he learned inure and more of the hard incongruity of a young life which longed for great things atld must lie satisfied with corn- > mot) duties. Dawn's heart was full iit music and her inlnd yearned for knowledge. When upon his return later from the city Barris learned from his old house keeper that Dawn’s invalid charge Imd died lie sent at one# for the girl and bade her make tier home In Ins house on the shore, arranging passage for her to and from a school in the adjoin ing village and finding her a music teacher there. Then In the absorbing occupation of his city studio the artist forgot about the little girl, who never ceased to think of him with reverent adoration. Harris, long absent from the house by the sea, sought It out again after one irf Ids triiis abroad and learned from the old housekeeper that his protege Imd secured a position as teacher in a near-h.v village and left ! word tHat he would hear from her later. The artist smiled and frowned. “She should have allowed hip to complete her education.” he said. Then his pleased eyes fell upon tlie inviting fur i nlshing of his beloved old room. “You keep the place up well,” he commended his housekeeper. "That's Dawn,” the woman replied; j "she comes out here and sees that things Is all new an’ convenient. ’We must keep It home—for him,’ she says.” After tiiat came to the artist regu larly small checks in the name of the village hank, with notes in a girlish hand. “Of course I can never repay what you have done for me,” wrote Dawn, "this is just to assure myself that I ; would if I could.” And at length, wearied by labor and surfeited with fluttering attentions, came to Barris a longing wish for the rpstfti! house by the shore. And when he reached It at sundown, sailing again across the golden water toward him. came the girl who had made his great picture. Standing on the sands at her side he told her so. "You speak of repaying your debt to me,” said Barris. "M.v dear girl! do you realize that It Is I who am In debted to you?—for my success, for the very comfort of home, for a belief in truth and goodness which had al most forsaken me? Why, you tmve i given to me'eywy good gift—save hap piness.” “And I wisli I might give you that," said Dawn. "I hope—I believe—that you will,” Barris answered softly, and they ! looked Into each other’s eyes. Pardon Recalls Famous Crime. A fatuous crime Is recalled by the granting of a decree of pardon to a large number of convicts In Italy. Among those thus pardoned are Doctor Naldl and Tulllo Murrl, who were sentenced in connection with the murder of Count Ronmartini. Murrl’s brother-in-law. Count Bonmnrtinl, a Bologna spendthrift, who frequently quarreled with his wife, was found j In his flat with his throat cut. In August, 1902. The trial, lasting six months, of the countess and four ac- [ complices In the murder. In 1905. , aroused enormous interest throughout Italy. All the prisoners were confined in a steel cage in front of the Judge’s tribune. Tulllo Murrl. the countess' 1 brother, declared that he remonstrated with the count for Ill-treating his wife, and killed hint in a quarrel that fol lowed. He was sentenced to .'10 years' solitary confinement. Doctor Naldl, n friend of Murrl's. received the some sentence. He declared that his part In the crime was to cut the corpse In pieces, hut that this was not done ow ing to the date arranged for the mur det being altered. The countess, who was sentenced to ten years' solitary confinement, was released In 1909. ( England to Honor Pilgrims. Behind the efforts of those who are seeking to link Great Britain and America in a lasting union of friend- j ship two historic episodes stand out in bold relief. It Is almost precisely 300 years since the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Ply mouth In the Mayflower to make, on an undeveloped contlaetit, a brave ex- i perlment of self government. The actual tercentenary falls next year. ' and already preparations are In prog ress to celebrate the occasion In this country In a fitting manner. By way of contrast to that great ad- j3 venture one thinks of that other pil- jj gritrmge last year, when 2.000,000 he- tj role soldiers left their homes In Anter- ! j lea to speed across the Atlantic to the rescue of the old country. They j came actuated by that love of liberty i which had been handed down to them •( from tiie ancient Pilgrims, and with .] their British brothers they testified on j the battle field to the essential unity 3 of the Anglo-Saxon stock. It Is now ,j for Great Britain and America to de- 3 termlne that tin- friendship which j their gallant soldiers cemented with their blood shall be a permanent in- p splration In their International rela- f tlons.—London Dally Telegraph. .j Beavers Copy Tepees of Indians. •; In the pond were a number of hea- 3 ver houses which looked like small In j dlan tepees, w rites Samuel Seovllle. Jr.. In Boys’ Life. Most of them were j built in water several feet deep mil ;3 wi re from three to four feet abova • he surface and nlmut five feet in di- , hmeter. One. however, was a huge ' one. built in deep water, and fully , tv, in- as targe its any other. It -' a- 1 ina'ii mostly of peeled cotton wood . [hih*s anti stood mi a firm foundation ' of mud and sticks built up from the bottom. The poles leaned together *i from the top and hail been woven in J and out with thick hr tsh and plast- 3 et-rtl w ith mud and turf intil the walls J were three feet thick. i RACK BOOKS AND PERIODICALS 1 Our Buys and Girls ] A weekly newspaper for our youth, ' $1.00 per cat; 50c for 6 months. 54 3 West 140th Ft., New York City. jj The Negro in American History j Prof. John W. Cromwell, $1.40 and j -r.-cith mote. 14-J9 Swann Ft., N. W., Washington, D. C. j I he Negro Soldier j f’v John E. Bruce “Grit”. 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