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
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son, Webster 1802.
Things are happening that make
even a preacher swear.
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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
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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.
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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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