CLIPPINGS FROM
AFRICAN JOURNALS
What They Are Writing and Thinking
Over There.
We have always said that the Col
ored troops, whether Indian, African,
or Afro-American, were brave and
loyal, and the Africans in the United
States army at present operating in
France are establishing their'-title '.o
bravery as well as proving "to the
world their loylayt and devotion to the
star-spangled banner; mingling their
blood with that of the European,
Asia.tic and other Africans on the
gore-soaked fields of France in the
interests of freedom and self-deter
initiation for small nationalities in Eu
rope, Asia and Africa.
The stigma which attaches the
mentality of unlettered Africans or
Orientals is very much overdone, es
pecially when the fact is overlooked
that in such countries as India and
Egypt the disparaging remarks of
leading journals on Native aim and
effor„ are transplanted into the ver
nacular journals and are read in the
| cafes and bazars to the illiterates,
who very naturally conclude that the
expressions of irresponsible or
thoughtless English journalists really
represent the considered views of the
British people. In this way avoidable
antagonism and ill-feeling is created
and a very effective weapon is placed
in the hand of the extremist leader.
An intelligent and well-informed free
press is a great blessing to mankind
at large, but an untrammelled pres?
which is ill-informed is an instrument
of mischief and a danger to goocf gov
eminent. It is therefore to be hoped
that the irresponsible section of the
English press will not be allowed to
influence the government in k's deter
mination to mete out an advance in
stallment of bare political justice to
the Indian people by way of recom
pense for the loyal sacrifices they
have made in blood and treasure in
this world-devastating conflict. These
suggested reforms are not as exten
sive as we were led to expect, but if
they are carried forward with states
manlike sincerity we are convinced
that the Indian people, who are not
lacking in appreciation, will realize
that a serious attempt has at length
been made to meet the natural aims
and desires of a people who boast a
civiliation which has outlived such
hoary contemporaries as Babylon, As
syria, Greece, ltome, and Carthage,
and who are at least as ripe for rep
resentative government as any of the
Balkan and near Eastern States that
are now clamoring for self-determi
nation.
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A Ql'ESTION ANSWERED
7HAT makes a nation trulygreat?
Not strength of arms nor men of
state,
Nor vast domains, by conquest won,
That see not rise nor set of sun;
Nor sophists’ schools nor learned clan
Nor laws that bind the will of man!
For these have proved in ages past
But futile dreams and could not last,
While they tha boast of such today
Are fallen, vanquished in the fray.
Their fame is mingled with the dust,
Their archives, stained with crime and
lust,
And all that breathed of pomp and
pride,
Like the untimely fig, has died.
One thing alone restrains, oxal'-s
A nation and corrects its faults;
One thought alone its life can crown
And give its destiny renown:
That nation, then, is truly great
Tha* lives by love and not by hate;
That bows beneath the chastening rod.
That owns the truth and looks to God.
—E. Garnett Riley.
Speaking generally on the subect of
Zionist coloniaJ ion, Dr. Masterman
ja:d that the people of Palestine had
got the impression that it was the
intention to dispossess them of their
ancestral belongings. There was no
doubt this idea had greatly stiffened
the resistance of th£ Turk to the Brit
ish army. There were two things
the Zionist should remember—first,
the irr'rnrity ef Muslim feeling with
regard to Jerusalem. Any sentiment
the Zionis might have with regard
to the holy city would not, Dr. Master
| man thought, compare with that of
J the Muslim, to whom Jerusalem was
second only to Mecca. The nert mat
ter to be kept in mind was the neces
sity of respecting the rights of the j
fellaheen. These had continuous suc
cession in the country—although, no
doubt, their blood was mixed now with
Hebrew, Arab, and other strains— !
I from the very earliest times; and vhey
| had no other land. In developing the
I Jewish colonies it would be a wise
step to make it illegal for anyone to
i dispossess the fellaheen of their vil
I lages and the lands immediately
j around them. ’Their poor hovels—they
were 1 i*.tle better—their olive and fig
trees, and a certain amount of land
should be made inalienable; and a
man should not be allowed to part
with what ought to remain as the in- i
heritance of his children.—African
| Times and Orient Review.
AFRICA'S RICHES
Sir Harry Johnston and Germany's
Plan to Seize French Colonies.
Speaking at Cannon street hotel re
cently, Sir Harry Johnston said that i
Western and Southern Europe could !
not prosper adequately without Africa
as a primary field of enterprise.
In the West African coast belt was
a banana producing ".rea fifty time
larger than British West Indies, while
we had learnt from the Germans a
process of preserving banana pulp
which,ought to supply all Western j
Europe with a basic food. They had j
there the greatest productive region I
of vegetable fats in the world.
The potentialities of Africa in ani
mal food were almost illimitable, while
the fishing grounds of the northwest
eoasJ. wee among the most productive
in the world.
“The crime of Germany,” he said, j
“ha- lain the fact that, not contented
with our great concessions to her, she !
provoked the war in order to seize 1
the French Colonial Empii*, and to
make herself mistress over Africa,
Southwest Asia, a"d the Far East.”
Neither Germany nor Turkey should j
ever be readmitted into Africa to rule
there, having regard to the harm they
have done Africa.
He hoped this country would stand
firm against ceding anything in Af
rica.—Evening News.
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Do not put this off. Write today.
Money orders or stamps.
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D-1201 Spruce St., Philadelphia.
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To prevent poison being used In
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