MOTHERHOOD AND PATRIOTISM
The mothers of America’s oppressed
people are in a peculiar position to
teach to their children patriotism. The
child also is in a peculiar position to
be inspired. At school he is taught
of the greatness of or.ly white men. As
he grows older he learns that black
men have fought and fought nobly for
their country, and he wonders why
the historian has failed to record it
and why his teachers are not informed
enough to mention the bravery of the
black man. Added to this is the hatred
and discrimination shown to Colored
Americans wherever the flag of the
United States waves and the utter
helplessness of the flag, the law, or
any other power in this government
to protect a Negro, his property, or
even his women and children against
lawlessness. These things make the
teaching of patriotism to our children
seem hard.
Hope,however, comes to our rescue
and we can teach our children to look
at a brighter side. God will bring us
a brighter day and it seems that it
is now at hand. We believe that out
of the world’s fight for liberty and
democracy, America, to be consistent,
will take “the beam from her own
eye” and grant to her Colored citizens
equal rights and privileges before the
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riven wnne our country is at war
the shameful indignities are still
heaped upon us, but we feel it is mere
ly the filling of the cup of bitterness
to its fullest. We must be patient, we
must be hopeful. We must remember
that “night brings out the stars.” “The
darkest hour is just before dawn.”
Perhaps the time is now when the
American Negro shall “under God
have a new birth of freedom and that
our liberties and rights shall not per
ish from the earth.”
Every American, black even as
white, in times of war, owes his right
“to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness” to his country. Our chil
dren should be taught that no sacri
fice is too great to be made for our
country. We should tell them how
black patriots have fought and died.
We might begin by telling them of
Toussaint L’Overture, the world’s
greatest patriot and soldier, and of
Antonio Maceo. Tell them of Crispus
Attucks, whose blood was among the
first to be shed in the war of the
American Revolution; of how the Ne
gro saved the flag after he had been
repudiated. When the South trailed
the “stars and stripes in the dust,”
the Colored American came to the res
cue and saved the flag from the
Southern Confederacy, and then of
how our boys—though ingratitude and
prejudice fail to record it—saved the
day at San Juan hill and of their cour
age in the Philippines. When such
records are set before Colored children
their hearts will swell with pride and
the fires of patriotism will bum
bright.
The Negro has proved himself a
true patriot. His blood has flowed
freely for his country. His record in
the hard fought battles of every war
America has had, would register his
name “high among the few, the im
mortal names that were not bom to
die.”
We must tell our children that the
glory and bravery of our race must
not cease, must not die. Our men and
boys must keep the record bright.
Thoughts of self anjl thoughts of
wrongs must vanish.in a greater de
votion to our native land.—L. S. E.
FACT AND COMMENT
The man w7ho is always trying to
save himself trouble is likely to save
a lot more than he can take care of.
The Tempter was never so lacking in
Grace
As to enter the Door that was shut
in his Face.
“Farm and arm!” which Mr. Roose
velt took as the text for a recent ad
dress in Chicago, puts the immediate
duty of the United States in the most
concise form.
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Many of those who were and are
opposed to compulsory military service
w ould most heartily approve conscrip
tion and the draft if it could be ap
plied to idle boys and made the means
of keeping them at work. A commit
tee that has been investigating the
matter reported to government au
thorities that there are now twro mil
lion habitually idle boys in the coun
try between the ages of fourteen and
eighteen. Anyone who has noticed
the vacant-eyed, loose-lipped, slouchy,
cigarette-smoking young loafers who
hang round city street comers will
easily believe the report.
Is it not curious that Germany,
which began the war as the greatest
of all military powers, and which ex
pected its army to win for it a quick
victory, finds itself forced to a war
fare of defense and retreat on land,
and that on the other hand England,
Ic ng confident of its power on the sea,
is threatened to-day with defeat be
cause its navy cannot protect its mer
chant vessels from the enemy’s sub
marines?—Youth’s Companion.
OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS
By Arthur Chapman.
Out where the handclasp’s a little
stronger,
Out where the smile dwells a little
longer,
That’s where the West begins.
Out where the sun is little brighter,
Where the snows that fall are a trifle
winter,
Where the bonds of home are a wee
bit tighter,
That’s where the West begins.
Out where the skies are a trifle bluer,
Out where friendship’s a little truer,
That’s where the West begins.
Out where a fresher breeze is blowing,
Where there’s laughter in every
streamlet flowing,
Where there’s more of reaping and
less of sowing,
That’s where the West begins.
Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts in despair are
aching,
That’s where the West begins.
Where there’s more of singing and
less of sighing,
Where there’s more of giving and
less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half
trying,
That’, where the West begins.
‘•SATAN” AT THE AUDITORIUM
The presentation of the play “Sa
tan” at the Municipal Auditorium last
Monday for the benefit of the Old
Folks’ Home was a distinct success.
A large audience was present and the
play was well received. The caste
was particularly fine and each ren
dered his or her part with real his
tionic ability. The play was a serio
humorous study in the psychology of
woman, most excellently brought out
wpman, most excellently brought out
through the deft play upon womanly
thiotions by Dr. Miller, a temporary
nom de plume of his Satanic majes
ty. This part, played by Andrew
Iteed, was a real triumph. The only
regrettable feature of the evening
was that the acoustic properties of
the auditorium rendered much of the
fine dialogue inaudible to a great
part of the audience. After the cur
tain the hall was cleared and the
strains from Desdunes orchestra kept
the crowd dancing until one o’clock.
Much praise is due the ladies and
gentlemen whose efforts made the
presentation such a decided success,
special credit being due Mrs. Cecelia
Jewell and Mrs. John Perry. A full
report will be published next week and
also the names of the persons win
ning the prizes for selling the most
tickets.
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