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EMINENT LIBERIAN BRINGS MESSAGE The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel H. B. Cassell, President of Liberia College, Mon rovia, West Africa, Speaks to Large Audiences and Makes Many Friends for the Little Republic. The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel H. B. Cas sell arrived in Omaha Saturday from Chicago, where he filled many engage ments planned for him by Prof Fred erick Starr of Chicago university, who had visited Liberia and is deeply inter ested in the country Dr. Cassell, who is a priest of the Episcopal church, is president of Lib eria college. He is a Christian gentle man of broad culture and a man of most winsome and attractive personal ity. He is an easy, fluent and elo quent speaker, whose sincerity and great earnestness captivates those to whom he speaks. He is a man of faith and vision and has a real message for our race. Being anxious to speak to as many of our people as possible, while here a program was arranged by which he was enabled to get into touch with several different groups of our own people, as well as speak ing before people of the other race. Most of his audiences have been white audiences, therefore he appreciated the opportunity of speaking to Colored people. Sunday morning Dr. Cassell spoke in Trinity cathedral to a large con gregation, wheer he made a most fa vorable impression. Sunday afternoon he delivered a most inspiring message to the N. A. A. C. P. forum in Grove M. E. church. Sunday night he preached at St. Philip’s church; Mon day night he addressed a large audi ence in Bethel Baptist church, South Side; Tuesday night he spoke before a large congregation in St. John’s A. M. E. church; Wednesday afternoon he addressed the members of the Wom an’s auxiliary in Jacobs Memorial Hall; Wednesday night he spoke at Zion Baptist church and Thursday night at a joint meeting of the Ma sonic lodges, to which fraternity he belongs, at Rescue Hall. He adapted his message to each audience, the keynote of each, how ever, being Liberia’s God-given place in the family of Christian nations. He removes many misunderstanding about Liberia; shows how resisting absorption by England on the one hand and France on the other Liberia has had to struggle for her very exist ence. She has, however, stood for the highest moral and Christian ideals. Liberia needs industrial and economic development and offers a splendid field for the right class of emigrants from this country. Dr. Cassell be lieves firmly that Liberia is the place where the man of African descent, be he in the United States or elsewhere, is to work out his destiny. This, of course, calls for trained and efficient leadership, which can be secured only through the highest, best and most thorough education. This is the work that Liberia college is doing. Hence the imperative need of supporting such institutions and fully equipping them. Dr. Cassell will speak before the an nual meeting of the junior auxiliary, which supports a scholarship in the girls’ graded school at Bromley, Lib eria, Saturday afternoon, and Satur day night he will address a joint meet ing of the U. B. F. fraternity in their hall, leaving late Saturday night for Kansas City. Dr. Cassell has been delighted with his visit to Omaha, where he has made many warm friends not only for him self, but for Liberia. COLORED GIRL WOUNDED BY INFERNAL MACHINE Maid in Home of Senator Hardwick of Georgia Lose* Both Hands in Un wrapping Package Sent Employer— Mrs. Harding Also Injured. (By Associated Negro Press.) Atlanta, Ga., May 8.—The old say ing that “A Negro is in everything,” had a tragic realization here when the explosion of an infernal machine, sent to the home of former Senator Hardwick, resulted in the serious in jury of his wife, and their Colored maid. The package, coming through the mail, was opened by the Colored maid, on the request of Mrs. Hardwick. It was supposed to contain pencils. When the wrappings were removed, the ma chine exploded. Both hands of the maid were blown off, and Mrs. Hard wick was injured over the face and body. The senator believes it was an attempt by bolsheviki to get rid of him because of his attitude onl certain questions while he was in the senate, BOUGHT HOMES A few of our many buyers who are satisfied: Mr. John W. Smith boughi 2728 Burdette street. Nimrod John son, Webster 1802. Things are happening that make even a preacher swear. 0 ■t M PREDICTS GREAT INFLUX OF JAPANESE AND CHINAMEN Immigration Secretary Believes That Within the Next Fifty Years One Hundred Million Orientals Will Have Become Residents of United States. (By Associated Negro Press.) Chicago, May 8.—Abraham Bowers, white, immigration secretary of the Y. M. C. A., stated in an address i recently that an aye rage-of ^000,000 foreigners will come to this country, in a short time, annually, for a period of fifty years, when there will be 100,000,000, practically all Japanese and Chinese. He stated that the mat ter will be looked at economically, only. The country will need laborers, and European countries, because of the war’s devastation, will be unable to supply them. He continued, “Only Japan and China can furnish the answer to the labor problems. Therefore, they are j bound to come, coolies and all, and they will come unrestrictedly. And I believe they will intermarry with , our people as other immigrants are i doing. Japanese and Chinese fre quently marry’ our university gi rls now. They will over-ride racial pre judice, literacy tests and every other obstacle.” PLEADS FOR FAIRER TREATMENT FOR RACE Mrs. Daisy Buckley, One of the Na tional Secretaries of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society. Speaks at First Methodist. Mrs. Daisy M. Buckley, a national secretary of the Woman’s Home Mis sionary society of the Methodist Epis copal church, spoke before more than 300 women in session at the First Methodist church Wednesday night, and made a most impressive and im passioned plea for fairec. treatment of the American Negro. “Two hundred and forty years of slavery have tended to make the Ne gro what he is. But even so it was his effort, his muscle and his labor that transformed the southern swamp lands into gorgeous plantations. The white men of the south reaped the results of the Negro’s toil while the Negro himself sunk deeper into ignor ance and despair. “We emphasize the destructive forces of the Negro’s nature, but the constructive forces are but barely j touched. “The black race is not an inferior i race. It is handicapped by unjust treatment and inferior treatment. “Africa must be saved by the Af ricans, and China can be redeemed only by the Chinamen.” Mrs. Buckley is a graduate of one of the missionary schools at Camden, S. C. She is a nationally known fig ure in the field of missionary work. Events and Persons _ Miss Inez Gordon and Mrs. Grace I Cisco of Beatrice, were the week-end guests of Mrs. H. W. Black and their i uncle, Lieut. H. J. Pinkett. Mrs. H. J W. Black entertained a number of young people informally Saturday in honor of her guests. Luther Risiner of Hastings, Neb., ; came up to attend the Crispus Attucks j auxiliary’s recetpion last Friday. He I returned home Sunday. Miss Madeline Roberts took Miss ] Inez Gordan and Mrs. Grace Cisco of j Beatrice for an auto and sight-seeing ! trip Sunday afternoon. Mr. Berry Thompson of Minneap olis, who was called to Omaha Sunday | by the death of his sister, Mrs. Lola i Cumber, left for home Thursday. Eugene Thomas has purchased a Ford touring car. John H. Broomfield is spending most of his time these days on his farm near Florence. Mrs. Daisy M. Buckley, one of the national secretaries of the Woman’s Home Missionary society of the Meth odist Episcopal church,' was the guest of Mrs. J. H. Hutten this week. The funeral of Rodney Halwton, the returned soldier who was asphyxiated at the Patton hotel, was buried from the Silas Johnson Western Funeral home last Sunday. Ralston had no known relatives and was penniless. The Red Cross was interested in the case and defrayed the expenses of the funeral. Interment was at Mt. Hope. Rev. John Albert Williams officiated. Six returned soldiers served as pall bearers. Any King Would Do. “I can trace my descent In a direct line from one of the early kings of England,” she said, “Which oqe?” he asked. “I don’t recall the name. What kings did England have?”—Springfield (Ohio) News. X~XK-XX**XX**X**X~X*<“X"X"X"X f Home Made Cakes f | Webster 5660 f MAJOR MOTOR TELLS OF VISIT TO FRANCE (Continued From First Page.) In other fighting units, as well as Bordeaux, St. Nazarine and Brest, where many of the service of supply troops were located, and at many other places, I made the same inves tigations. I interviewed American and French commanding officers, I talked as well with scores of Ameri can and French officials of lower! rank. When the records were taken, as was the case with the 92d division, the number of cases charged were very few. I likewise spent much time with members of the peace confer ence, and with Americans engaged in various branches of war activities in an effort to disprove and set at rest this awful slander upon the Negro race. I spared no pains or effort to rlo this, and it would appear from sub sequent investigations on this side of the water and from reports which have come to me from overseas, that the momentum of these damaging rumors had perceptibly lessened. Negro Officers and Their Critics. There was apparently no doubt in anybody’s mind in France, as far as I was able to find out, among the French or Americans as to the quali ties of the American Negro as a sol dier, when led by white officers. There was also little question about the fighting record of the four regi ments, the 369th. 370th, 371st and 372d which had been brigaded with French divisions—but when it came to the 92d division, there' was a sub tle and persistent rumor in Paris and in other places in France, as far as my travels, observations, and investi gations went—substantiating the ru mor which was also prevalent in America—only in France it was much more generally accepted as true; namely, that the Negro officers “had been practically a failure,” and that it was a mistake to have ever at tempted to have a division with Ne groes as officers. A Single Failure Magnified. I took a great deal of pains and care, as did also the gentlemen with me, to run down every rumor. We spent much time in and out Paris fer reting out every statement that came from the “Whispering gallery'.” Fin -il|v found that, so far as the 92d division was concerned, only a very j small portion of a single battalion, of a single regiment had failed. Later, in talking with the highest American military official in France, j regarding his story of the failure of Negro officers, he said that the pos- j sibilities were that any officer, white or black, under the same adverse cir cumstances that these men faced, would have failed, as the very few did. About a dozen officers of the bat talion were sent before a board for trial for having shown cowardice. They were not, however, all found guilty; and to offset this, some of the other Colored officers of the regiment for conspicuous bravery in the same engagement were promoted and deco rated with the Distinguished Service Cross. It would appear that this small | part of a battalion whose failure was I <o widely reported, had never before been under fire, and had been taken from a quiet sector and brought for ward with the expectation that they would not be put into the fighting for several weeks; but it so hapened that the Germans were much stronger than the French behind which this unit was placed. When the French troops were badly cut to pieces, the Negro unit in question had to go into the fighting within twenty-four hours after reaching the front, which was much earlier than expected. In con nection with this alleged failure, there are also some other very impor tant considerations that will later probably be brought out officially. It was gratifying to find that the commanding general, who knew all phases of the affair, did not take this failure anything like as seriously as the rumor about it seemed to war rant. The facts in the case in no sense justified the common report. In talking with the commanding general at Le Mans, I referred to the fact that something like fifteen Negro officers had been sent back as “inef ficient.” He said to me: "If it is any comfort to you, I will tell you this: we sent back through Blois to Ameri ca in six months, an average of one thousand white officers a month,” who failed in one way or phe other in this awful struggle. I hope, Dr. Moton,” he added, “that you won’t lose your faith in my race because of that, and certainly I am not going to lose my faith in your race because of the rec ord of a few Colored officers who failed.” We talked with Colonel House, Ray Stannard Baker, Capt. Walter Lipp man, and leading Y. M. C. A. work ers, and many, many others. Every body assured me that they, so far as they were able, would stop the slan derous rumors concerning our Negro soldiers, and were glad to get the facts. I spoke to white officers in a number of places—at one place, to two hundred of them, and candidly stated the facts in the case, I raised the question, if they did not think it was a good and fair thing to stop this rumor of the “whispering gal lery,” which was defaming a race, which might cut down the efficiency of the Negro troops, and was, of course, putting America in a bad light before the world. Many of the difficulties and trou bles among the officers and men of the 92d division, as well as in other Col ored units, could have been avoided, if we had had at general headquar ters in France, a Colored man to have rendered the same wise, dignified and efficient help, such as Mr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee institute, had so splendidly rendered in the war department at Washington, to both races and to the nation. President John Hope of Morehouse college, At lanta, Georgia, who under many trying [ conditions has done fine overseas work ; in connection with the Y. M. C. A., felt this need very much. General Pershing would have gladly had such a man if it had occurred to any of I us to suggest it. | | Commanding Officers Open to Sug gestions. In almost every instance I found j the commanding officers open to sug- E gestions regarding relieving the need- Z less embarrassment of the Colored sol- E diers. I found in the service of sup- E plies that Colored stevedores were z working twelve and sixteen hours a E day and sometimes more, which made — it impossible for the Y. M. C. A. to E do any effective work along educa- E tional lines with the thousands of z Colored soldiers in the service of sup- E plies. I took this matter up with the E commanding general, and within three z days, orders had been given to reduce E the time of work to eight hours. At z several places the quarters of the Col- E ored men seemed unfortunately Io- E cated. In many of these places, E changes were soon made. E I took up with care, also, the mat- = ter of excluding Colored women from z France, going to the source of the E trouble, or at least where it started, z Here again, I found that there seemed E to be no justification for wholesale E exclusion of the women of our race = from overseas service. This I took -j up with proper authorities, military - and otherwise, and before I left, ar- J rangements had been made to send A for more of our Colored women, and Y men also, and some have already gone <• over. The best Y. M. C. A. hut I saw, from every point of view, was Y the one where Mrs. W. A. Hunton, y Mrs. J. L. Curtis and Miss Katherine A Johnson were located. There was X here a very fine spirit of co-operation y between the white and Colored work- A ers. Mr. Wallace, the manager of the X. district, whom I later met in Paris, y was loud in his praise of Secretary A Nichols, Secretary Whiting, Chaplain J Oveltrea and other Colored workers. 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