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BRAITHWAITE SPEAKS
AT 20TH CENTURY CLUB
Colored Critic of American Poetry
Addresses Boston’s Great Literary
Society. Praises Whittier. Expects
Greatest American Poets Soon.
W. S. Braithwaite spoke at the
Twentieth Century Club Saturday af
ternoon on “New Tendencies in Poet
ry."
“Fifty years ago,” he said, ‘we had
a group of poets, but only one who
had in him the makings of a great
poet, and that was Whittier, because
he had in his nature an intense and
fiery composition. The only Ameri
can poets who have influenced Euro
pean thought and culture are Whit
man and Poe, and I might add Emer
son.
‘The transitional period of our
poetry in 1900 and its renaissance
commenced to show itself about 1905,
Imagism in poetry is not a new thing,
but the fight is over now. The
imagists will more and more conform
to conventional patterns, and the con
ventionalists will more and more take
whatever of strength, force and viril
ity the imagists have brought to their
attention. So there is being born an
infant at which in my oponion in the
next five or ten years is going to pro
duce the best poetry that has been
written in the century.
“The other group of poets is the so
cial democratic group, composed of
two or three writers, most of them
sentimentalists, who have the power
to be splendid poets, but who have
permitted their propagandist interests
to spoil their poetic virtues.”
Mr. Braithwaite summed up his re
view by saying that poetry belonged
to the people, that it had passed from
the people to a class and was now
rgain returning from that class to its
original possessors, the people.
Original poems were read by R. S.
Hillyer, vice-president of the Harvard
Tretry Society; W. A. Bradley and
Vacliel Lindsay, and S. S. Curry, pres
ident of the School of Expression, led
a biief duscussion.
The club voted to send greetings to
William Dean Howells on the occa
sion of his 80th birthday.—Boston
Guardian, March 10th.
COLORED DEPUTY A HERO.
On December 11 Pierre Brizon, So
cialist leader of the peace party in
the French Chamber of Deputies,
started a riot by throwing a glass of
water at a deputy named Bouge, who
insulted him on the floor. The New
York Sun has printed, for the first
time, Brizon’s own account of the af
fair, and in it a high tribute is paid
to the Colored Deputy, M. Diagne,
who is representing Senegal:
"At once a human grape bunch is on
me! Fifty noble barons of the Right
are upon me! Fifty against one, noble
knights, descendants of the Crusaders!
They rushed the tribune; one-half
strangled me and tore my hair; an
other held me round the waist; a third
twisted my leg through the bars of the
little staircase up to the tribune. They
almost got me down, but I clung on.
“Happily assistance arrived. The
attendants were joined by some cour
ageous colleagues, among them a Col
ored Deputy, M. Diagne, representa
tive of Senegal, whom I here salute. I
tore myself from reactionary and sav
age hands. I escaped from real ‘bar
barians’ and was saved! But—I cut
the story short—I was censured, ex
cluded from the Chamber for thirty
sittings, and my indemnity was sup
pressed for a month.” (In other words,
he was fined $250.)
FUNSTON PUTS
ONE OVER TEXANS j
Among many reminiscences of the
late General Funston written by a'
staff correspondent of The New York
Times, the following story is told:
“An instance of the General’s diplo
macy and shrewdness in arguing
against compliance with the wishes
of Texans by seeming to comply is
told in all the border towns. A little
village more than forty miles from
the border, and that not a dangerous
part of the border, sent delegation
after delegation to the Departmental
Headquarters, pleading for ‘protec
tion’ and telling the most horrifying
tales of raids to come. 'Yes, yes, a
regiment would be adequate protec
tion, entirely adequate!’
“Funston learned that the town, un
like most border villages, was inhab
ited by Southerners, and promised
that it should have a regiment to ‘pro
tect’ it—‘immediately!’ A few days
later a Negro regiment detrained at
the village and struck its camp on
the outskirts. And a few days after
that the same delegation, larger
this time, was back in General Fun
ston’s office arguing that all danger
of raids was past, and that the village
no longer needed protection.”
MEXICO PROMULGATES
NEW CONSTITUTION
Mexico has promulgated her new
constitution, and it is one of the most
interesting documents ever proposed
for adoption by any nation. It makes;
education free and compulsory, for
bids all sectarian education, limits
number of clericals in all cities and
counties, places strong restrictions
upon all foreigners, grants universal
suffrage and is filled with all manner
of provisions which make it a very
idealistic venture in constitutional
law. The people will soon be called
to vote upon it very soon and, if rati
fied, it will become the permanent
constitution of the Mexican republic.
RAPID ENLISTMENT OF
NEGROES FOR EUROPE
Dublin, Ga.—That Negroes are be
ing enlisted rapidly in the army of
England, in Canada, was the state
ment of Congressman-elect W. W.
Larson, who returned recently from
a business trip to Canada.
“At Windsor," said Judge Larson,
“I was surprised to see a large
sprinkling of Negro soldiers among
the recruits who weer being prepared
for service in Europe. I mentioned
it to the man with whom I was trans
acting business and he told me that
several hundred Colored troops from
the Southland had been enlisted re
cently at Windsor and would be sent
to Europe with the other troops. He
told me they were all from my sec
tion of the country.
"To my surprise, also, I found them
scattered among the white men pro
miscuously, and not in separate com
panies. Both whites and blacks seem
ed to be on good terms with each
other and as chummy as soldiers gen
erally get.”
TRUE STORY OF
CARRIZAL FIGHT
In an answer to a criticism of Cap
tain Boyd by President Lowell of
Harvard, Major Tompkins points out
the injustice of the schoolmaster, and
therein gives the first authentic re
port of the Carrizal massacre. The
New York Sun goes on to say:
“Then the true story of the affair
at Carrizal is told. Captain Boyd,
riding with his troops through a coun
try garrisoned by Carranza troops and
supposed to be friendly, had orders
not to fire in case of a difficulty with
them until fired upon. ‘His tactical
formations previous to the Mexican
attack were correct,’ says Major
Tompkins. When the machine gun
opened upon his command, Captain
Boyd charged ‘the machine gun unit
in spite of its galling fire, and cap
tured it.’ The Mexicans were driven
back, some of them in headlong rout.
Major Tompkins goes on to say:
“ ‘The tide of battle was about to
swing in favor of this handful of
Tenth Cavalry soldiers when, unfor
tunately, Captain Boyd and Lieuten
ant Adair were killed (by rifle fire).
This left the Negro troopers without '
a leader, and in spite of the efforts
of the few gallant non-commissioned
officers present the cavalrymen lost
cohesion, the team work disappeared.
This was immediately felt, recognized
and taken advantage of by the Mex
icans, who returned to the attack and
captured those who had not already
escaped or were killed.’
"Few of the American soldiers were
killed. Eighteen or twenty fell into
the hands of the Mexicans, and the
other Americans made good their es>
cape. Captain Boyd, his brother offi
cer declares, did not blunder and was
r.ot the kind of officer to blunder.
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