Our Women and Children
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Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
OUR INHERITANCE.
We inherit from our fathers not only
the texture of skin, color of hair, phy
sical complexities, etc., but also cer
tain psychic forces. This is true as
it relates to the organic body of races.
Social consciousness of the Afro
American can be easily traced along
these lines. If it were not for the pre
condition of these psychic forces, the
Afro-American could not be a part of
the human species.
Inherited from a distant past our
fathers dreamed of a day of sunshine
and brightness. Looking forward, the
peculiar precept of every human crea
ture remains the gift of nature; the
All-Wise Providence creating man as
master of the earth with dominion
thereover.
We find the humble slave plodding
his weary way through hardship and
toil, bearing the burden of centurea
of unobstructed abuse, but with the
hope of Tomorrow. We inherit not
only the dark skin and kinky hair of
our ancestral fathers, but precepts and
longings. We yearn for better days
to be. It is rational for the Afro
American at the bottom of the social
ladder to be seeking, praying, and
sighing for a means to ascend, higher
and higher.
The laws of social phenomena, like
the laws of gravitation, the world
cannot change. To reach up in the
world we must climb our own ladder,
beginning at the base where social
forces begin, like the child from the
cradle we must develop strength with
in ourselves, the power to climb,
the strength to grow, and the intellect
to create and advance. The ability 10
stand still while the world moves on
is not within us.
The world has grown from the hut
to the mansion, and the mansion is
not built to live in, but to grow from;
from slavery to freedom we came not
for the purpose of idleness, ease, com
fort, laziness, dishonesty, but to labor
I and work in the dignity of law and
: order.
Don’t stop yearning, because you
can’t. 'Your inheritance in this world
will not allow you to become satisfied
at the bottom.
Achievements in this world based
upon constructive effort are not going
to crumble and fall, but shall be ever
lasting as the world.
The yearning of the humble slave
was a noble spirit. It was the Divine
spirit given unto man. Labor and re
ward; Labor and uplift; Labor and
Life.
Everything that we do is important
from the humblest to do the greatest
work, whether we are exercising func->
tionaries in the administration of law,
science, medicine, mechanics, art, lit
erature, or the simple routine of do
mestic work and common labor. The
world’s work must be done, and in
it every man has a part. The truth
of rational tbinkink will arrange the
importance of all labor with respect
able conditions.
The Afro-American is a factor in
the great industrial unit of America
and the world by inheritance. The
hope of the slave parent of yesterday
becomes the concrete foundation of
the world’s hope tomorrow. Uplifted
into law the Divine spirit of labor, and
the world moves on with its uplifting
spirit.
Live! Grow! Develop! Expand!
comes to you and me and every man,
the spirit of ancestral fathers is call
ing: Our Inheritance.—Z. Withers.
The “New York academy,” a colored
school of stenography and typewrit
ing, has registered sixty-five students
during the last year. Mr. R. W. Jus
tice is the director.
The colored women of the Baptist
Women’s convention have raised for
missions and education $175,109 since
1900. This does not include state ex
penditures.
High Vase Basket With Sunburst, Hillingdon and Richmond Poses.
VALUE OF FARM PROPERTY
ONE BILLION DOLLARS
(Continued from first page.)
• we now have 700 real estate dealers,
we should have 3,000. Where we now
have 1,000 millinery stores, we should
have 5,000. Where we now have 150
plumbers we should have 600. Where
we now have 400 tailors we should
have 2,000. Where we now have fifty
nine architects we should have 400.
Where we now have 3,000 contractors
and builders, we should ha*^ 5,000.
Where we now have 51 banks, we
should have 500.
"Few people are aware of the fact j
that we now have in our race, after
only fifty years of freedom, 200 news
papers and their publications, 55 book
stores, 18 department stores, 14 fl\e
and ten cent stores, 81 hardware
stores, 200 ice cream dealers, 100 in
surance companies, 20 jewelry stores, j
790 junk dealers, 13 warehouses and
cold storage plants, 153 wholesale
merchants, 200 laundries, 350 livery
stables, 953 undertakers, 400 photog
raphers, 10 opticians, 75 hair goods
manufacturers, 111 old rag dealers,
12 buyers and shippers of live stock.
“With our race, as it has been and
always will be with all races without
economic and business foundation, it
is hardly possible to have educational
and religious growth or political free
dom.”
Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States
commissioner of education, one of the
nation’s best authorities on education
al matters, says Dr. Lucy E. Moten
of Washington, D. C., is one of the
best-equipped educators this country
has produced. Superintendent E. L.
Thurston gives it out that the Miner
Normal school, the largest and finest
school of its kind in the land, is prac
tically her creation.
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