General Race News
The segregation fever has struck
Denver. A meeting was called for
whites only at the City Hall last Mon
day, but to the surprise of the ring
leaders, many Colored people appear
ed. The Colored contingent regis
tered such a loud protest that the
movement is temporarily checked.
One hundred and eighty-two rail
roads excluded Negro firemen, brake
men and hostlers from the arbitra
tion offer to settle the strike.
The inhabitants of the Danish West
Indies are protesting vigorously
against the sale of the island to the
United States. They claim that they
fear the effects of American preju
dice.
Two white men were shot and kill
ed and a third fatally wounded in a
race riot near Nihill, Meagher county,
Montana. No Colored casualities are
reported.
The Eighth Regiment, Illinois Na
tional Guard arrived in Springfield,
111., in three sections late Tuesday
night and early Wednesday morning
of last week.
Albertus Brown, a former Washing
ton boy, was appointed acting judge
of the police court of Toledo, Ohio,
by Mayor Milroy, serving in the ab
sence of Judge Austin. He is the
first Negro attorney to receive that
distinction.
Jno. Ernest Green, who was a lieu
tenant in the 24th U. S. Infantry, has
been promoted to captain. He is
serving as an attache to the Ameri
can legation in Monrovia. Lieut.-Col.
Young, Major Davis and Liout.-Capt.
Greene are the only commissioned of
ficers in the regular U. S. army that
are members of the race.
The Colored voters of Indiana are
lining up for Senator Taggart, Demo
crat, for re-election. Senator Tag
gart has made such a fight for the
race in Congress that the people are
working for him hard.
The Champion Magazine is the
name of a new venture in the maga
zine world. It starts with an exceed
ingly pleasing number and promises
to make good. Fenton Johnson is
editor with Miss Laura May White,
Binga Dismond and Miss Inez Cantey
associate editors, and Miss Lucile
Peyton, business manager. The of
fice is at 4724 S. State Street, Chi
cago.
The New York Age is fighting
strongly for Governor Whitman.
Their last issue contains a long and
enthusiastic article, headed by a quo
tation from one of Whitman’s speech
es. “The old dream of a Negro gov
ernment in another land was a foolish
dream. You are here; you are part
and parcel of America, and there can
be no progress in which you are not
interested.”
The Colored citizens fight in New
York City for lower rents has result
ed in many reductions. The fight
was supported by the Age.
T. Thomas Fortune, veteran news
paper man, has taken over the edi
torial management of the American
Truth, a new race publication.
A number of white bricklayers
struck last week on a building in
Philadelphia because a Colored brick
layer was employed. The contractor
immediately paid them off and em
ployed all Colored on the job.
The Citizens Advocate of Los An
geles, a strong race journal, is waging
a bitter fight for prohibition.
The factories of the East are call
ing for skilled Colored artisans.
The Los Angeles Post speaks very
highly of the Colored movie play,
“The Trooper of Company K.”
THE BABY
A new little craft has been launched
on the sea,
A new little sail is unfurled;
Here’s hoping the world may be good
unto him,
And he may be good to the world.
The compass is pointing the way he
should steer,
To guide on his voyaging far;
Here’s hoping the star may be good
unto him
And he may be good to the star.
The anchor is weighed for the harbor
that waits,
If long be his journey or short;
Here’s hoping the port may be good
unto him
And he may be good to the port.
—McLandburgh Wilson.
Taking the most favorable view of
the words and deeds of both countries,
there seems to be an irrepressible con
flict between the ideals of Japan and
those of the United States. All hints
at a future of peace and amity are
based upon the little word “if.” By
Japanese publicists the world is told
that if the United States plays fair ac
cording to Japan’s interests there can
be no trouble. On the other hand, the
United States views with undisguised
apprehension every step which indi
cates national greed in the little king
dom of the Pacific. A pooling of the
mutual interests of the two nations
might lead to a guarantee of peace,
but such an alliance would seem more
unnatural than the Anglo-Japanese
agreement of a decade ago. Probably
Japan’s destiny will be wrought out
by a powerful alliance which shall
mildly curb or deeply intensify her
strenuous individuality.
It seems that the war staffs still
have time to indulge in details which
appeal to the sense of novelty. Often
official reports give more space and
even double the amount to an ordinary
clash between airships than where ar
mies aggregating a million men strug
gle for the mastery over a vital point.
As a matter of course battle reports
are technical and tedious to the lay
man. But in air battles imagination
helps out the reader wonderfully. The
few words “an enemy plane was
brought down by our fire” suggest a
thrilling drama on high and a tragedy
on terra flrma. The thought, “For what
good?” seldom intrudes to dissipate the
thrill.
Even the Panama canal slides real
ize that there are times when war
stunts can’t be shoved off the front
page by anything short of an earth
quake or deluge.
McQuillin
1512 Far nam Street
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