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TACT AIDS PATRIOTISM
When it was proposed to oficer the
new Colored regiments with first and
second lieutenants of the same. rare,
there was more or less foreboding in
old army circles. Attempts to intro
duce Colored boys at W'est Point had
resulted in trouble and failure; the
color line had come to be regarded ns
a bar to a commission.
Every soldier must salute his su
perior officer, and the advent of the
Colored lieutenants at the canton-1
ments was the occasion for much in-1
terested observation. What would
happen when a white second lieuten-1
ant from Dixie was placed in a po
sition where he had to salute a Col
ored first lieutenant? Well, nothing
happened, and it was due to the good
sense of the Colored officers.
The army rule is that the subordi
nate need not salute unless he is no
ticed. Consequently the Colored lieu
tenants, when they see white subor
dinates approaching, are very likebl
to be studying the cornices of the
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buildings or looking the other way,
and what might be an embarrassing
situation is avoided.
As a result of this tactful policy
and the sacrifice it involves for the
good of the service, the Colored offi
cer has won his way into the hearts of
the white soldiers, officers and other
wise. The salute that is not exacted
is now being given voluntarily not to
the man, but to the flag behind the
man, which is the only reason for the
salute to anybody, no matter what his
color.—The Omaha Daily News, April
11, 1918.
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THE SUPREME ATROCITY
While our soldiers go over the sea
to give their lives in crusade against
the atrocities of Prussianism in Eu
rope, a propaganda creeps under the
ground among the Huns of our south
ern and middle-western states in favoi
of torturing with white hot irons as a
substitute for the lynching and burn
ir.g of Negroes. It bore fruit of ac
tion in Estill Springs, Tennessee, on
February 12th, when a mob of one
thousand people, incited by the ora
tion of a woman, chained Jim Mcllher
ron to a tree, branded and mutilated
his body until he confessed to a mur
der, and then burned him to death.
Two hundred and twenty-two Ne
groes have been lynched or murdered
by mobs in the United States in the
past year. That is an average of
more than one every two days. Only
eleven of these have been murdered
for alleged rape; five for alleged mur
der. Twenty-eight have been lynched
for crimes that in case of conviction
by a jury would not entail the death
penalty'.
If these things happened in on"
city, it would be a white man’s terror
comparable to the worst days of the
French Revolution, and exceeding the
most extreme reports of Germany’s
invasion of Belgium. Such horrors'
equalled only by the Turks’ massacres
in Armenia, are a part of the routine
history of our country'. It is neces
sary’ that we know this. It is neces
sary that we see this happen. The
torturing at Estill Springs has not
been investigated, but it followed an
example set by the citizens of Dyers
burg, Tennessee, in December, and
upon that there is, an authentic report.
“The Negro was seated on the
ground and a buggy'-axle driven into
the ground between his legs. His feet
were chained together with logging
chains, and he was tied with wire. A
fire was built. Pokers and flat-irons
were procured and heated in the fire.
It was thirty minutes before they were
red-hot.
“Reports of the torturing, which
have been generally accepted and have
not been contradicted, are that the
Negro’s clothes and skin were ripped
from his body simultaneously and with
a knife. His self-appointed executors
burned his ey'e-balls with reel-hot
irons. When he opened his mouth to
cry for mercy a red-hot poker was
rammed down his gullet. In the same
way he was robbed of his sexual or
gans. Red-hot irons were placed on
his feet, back, and body, until a hid
eous stench of burning human flesh
filled the Sabbath air of Dyersburg.
“Thousands of people witnessed this
scene. They had to be pushed back
from the stake to which the Negro
was chained. Roof-tops, second-story
windows, and porch-tops were filled
with spectators. Children were lifted
to shoulders, that they might behold
the agony of the victim.
“A little distance away in the pub
lic square, the best citizens of the
county supported the burning and tor
turing with their presence.
“Public opinion in Dyersburg and
Dyer county seems to be divided into
two groups. One group considers that
the Negro got what he deserved. Th<
other group feels that he should have
had a ‘decent lynching’.”
We must see this happen, because
no one else will see it. No one will
allow himself to see it, save only those
mobs that drink up the death and
agony. Barely seventy years ago the
sons and brothers that would be ours,
marched away to give their blood at j
new for liberty and the rights of the
oppressed; and is this the liberty they
gave it for—to see these oppressed
hunted through the country like rats
and without court or jury or the
shadow of any memory of law, chained
down and tortured to confession and
death? Is this their victory—that the
voice of our national government in
the capitol of Lincoln, while we are
pouring out the ancient sacrifice again
upon the fields of war, remains silent
though the soul of everything we fight
for, justice, liberty, legality, every de
fense or form of right established of
man since savagery, is ravaged within
a day’s march of Washington ?—The
Liberator.
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Lincoln News !
Miss Gladys Brown has been elect
ed pianist of the Mount Zion Baptist
Sunday school.
Mr. M. C. Patterson was at the St.
Elizabeth hospital, suffering from
pneumonia, but is now recovering.
Mrs. Fred Henderson had an opera
tion performed at St. Elizabeth hos
pital on account of a rising in her ear
which proved quite serious.
St. Ann’s tabernacle, No. 92, has
taken out a large number of thrift
stamps, which demonstrates their
willingness to help win the wai
against the Prussian beast.
The Gideon Band transacted much
important business at its last meeting,
which was delightfully entertained by
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The Baptist Mission Circle met last
Tuesday at the parsonage. Final ar
rangements were made to secure the
rest of the money needed to wire the
church with electric lights.
Miss Maggie Garnett continues ill
caused by a relapse.
A grand march and patriotic drill
will be given Wednesday night, May
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tabernacle, No. 92. Come one and all
ar.d witness this grand treat.
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Mrs. Julius Miller will spend the
week-end at Omaha transacting busi
ness, prior to returning to her hus
band, who is in Phoenix, Ariz.
The members of the Mount Zion
Baptist church met in mass meeting
on Friday night and after transacting
minor business elected Mr. Perry Wil
liams clerk of the church. A unani
mous call was extended to Rev. R. R.
Powers of El Reno, Okla., to become
pastor of the church. The church re
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ganiztaion of a Baptist state associa
tion, and are in accord with the move
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secured a pastor to be able to affiliate
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