The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928, August 28, 1919, Page 6, Image 6

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    DADDY3 EVENiHO
TAIRYTALE
6y Mary Graham Bonner
f / © Ar a** AUTHOR
THE FIELDS.
“It was in tlie summer time that the
Helds were waving and chatting and
saying these things to each other. Of
course they were at their best and the
season had been just right for them.
“There had been enough rain hut
not too much, enough sunshine hut
not too much. In fact. It had been
quite a perfect season so far.
“The fields always spoke of things
having been nice so far for they never
knew what the weather was going to
be any more than the farmers did. and
they heard the fanners talking in that
way to each other.
“So the fields used to wonder if It
would be dry and without even any
showers for the rest of the season, or
whether it would min every day and
hurt them !
“But this special day they were feel
ing very well and very happy.
" ‘I'm so good for food,’ said the
barley field. ‘I am pretty and feathery,
too.’
“‘I'm such a lovely pule green color,'
said the oats.
“‘And I am good and substantial
looking,’ said the winter wheat.
" ‘I am very good for the feed of
animals,’ said the oats, ‘and so are
peas.’
“‘I come in pretty usefully myself,'
said the winter wheat.
“‘How- about me?' asked the sorrel,
a plant with yellowish blossoms.
“‘All right,’ said the oats, ‘but I am
such a lovely shade of green.'
“‘You admire yourself, eh?' asked
the sorrel.
“ ‘I do,’ said the outs.
“ ‘So do I,’ remarked the winter
wheat.
“ ‘And I like myself, too,’ said 'ha
barley field. ‘We are liked by others,’
It added.
“ ‘We are, too,’ said the winter
wheat.
“ ‘Ah, ah, ah, don’t boast too much,’
said a voice.
‘“And who are you. pray tell?' the
fields asked. ‘Why shouldn’t we boast
when we have something to boast for?’
They Were at Their Best.
"‘You may boast,' said the voice,
‘but not too much for 1 want to do
some of it myself.’
“Then the fields noticed that the
voice came from the direction of the
clover hay field.
“ ‘Oh, ho,’ said winter wheat, ‘so
clover hay wants to do some talking.'
“ ‘Certainly,’ said clover hay.
“‘Well, what have you to say for
yourself?’ usked the others.
“‘Quite a lot,’ said clover hay.
“‘Cray tell us what it is then,’ the
others asked.
“‘You are all very useful. You nil
make good food for the animals, both
in the summer and in the winter.'
“Winter wheat bowed gracefully. It
was much flattered to be especially
noticed.
“ ‘But I have a special distinction.’
said clover hay.
“‘What Is clover hay talking about?'
the others asked.
“ ’Don’t use such big words,’ said
the barley. ‘Fields don’t understand.’
" ‘I mean that I have something spe
cial to boast of,’ said clover hay. ‘so I
don’t want all of you to take up ttie
whole summer-time in boasting.’
“ ‘All. we see,’ said the oats, ‘clover
bay doesn’t want us to boast so it can
get a good chance at It.’
“‘Right,’ said clover bay. ‘You’re
perfectly right.'
“‘What are you going to boast
about?’ asked the winter wheat.
“ ‘Myself, of course.’ said clover hay.
“‘Yes,’ It continued, waving about,
’I can boast about myself and boast
beautifully. I am the food the animals
love so; they actually call me the ani
mals’ dessert. I am to the animals
what ice cream is to the children and
to the grown-ups, too.
“‘It's all very well, all very well, to
he regular, ordinary feed, but I, the
clover hay, have the honor showed to
me of being considered the best part
of the animals’ meal.’
Hi
‘‘And wliat clover bg.v boasted of
was true, for clover hay is the dessert
for the farm animals."
Recalcitrant.
The rich old uncle from whom
much was hoped for was visiting his
niece, who had been telling him how
dearly his little great-nephew nod
namesake loved his school anil how
well he was getting on with his studies.
‘‘Well, Teddy.” said the uncle .jovial
ly. upon the return of the little hoy.
“what do you do in school all day?”
Teddy pondered. “Well." he said
gravely, “mostly I wait until it's time
to go home."
The Blacks in Battle
(Continued From Last Week.)
Let us be fair. Think you that
in the torrents of blood springing from
valiant hearts the blood of the Ameri
can Negro differs from the blood of
his white brother? Comes it not from
a heart as courageous and flows it not
upon the same sacrificial altar? In
the all-seeing eye of the Great Jeho
vah, the onipotent God of battles is
not the blood bursting from a darky
skin as sacred as the blood of his
white brother? In the rivers of blood,
' washing tyranny from the world’s
ways, is not the blood of the Ameri
can Negro, drop for drop, as sacro
sanct as any with which it mingles?
And when in the crash of battle souls
released from their earthly tnement
rise aloft are they not equally white
in his eyes?
But American Colored troops had
to bear other burdens besides the
shocks of war and the strifes of
charges. They had to endure from
their white American brethren in arms
—not from the French or British—
the most determined anti-Negro pre
judice. Not one-third of the white
American soldiers would salute a Ne
gro officer and American Negro sol
diers were habitually jeered at and
disparaged by their white American
fellow soldiers.
But they had to bear a still more
grievous burden. American Colored
troops had to sustain themselves and
maintain their morale not only against
habitual insults in their own ranks but
against the most insidious German
propaganda. We quote hut briefly
from one leaflet showered by Ger
mans upon American Colored troops:
“What is democracy? Personal free
dom, all citizens enjoying the same
rights socially and before the law.
I)o you enjoy the same rights as the
white people do in America, the land
of freedom and democracy, or are you
not rather treated over there as sec
ond class citizens? Can you go into
a restaurant where white people din?
Can you gt a seat in the theater
i where white people scit? Can you
get a seat or berth in a railway car
: with white people? And how about
the law? Are lynching and the most
, horrible crimes connected therewith
lawful proceedings in a democratic
| country? Now all this is entirely dif
j ferent in Germany where they do like
I Colored people, where they treat them
as gentlemen and as white men, etc.”
And there was enough truth in this in
ulious and venomous propaganda to
make it sting, too. But not one Amer
ican Negro soldier ever listed to that
siren song.
Now pause right here and put your
self in their places. Only barely fifty
I years removed from the blight of
slavery at home; freed in name, but
in fact alwa. s the victims of a ven
omous race hatred at home; enrolled
as American soldiers to fight for free
dom overesas, with their white breth
i ren in arms from the same land con
stantly jeering and disparaging and
insulting them; refused to rebut and
repel German propaganda so true that
it burned like fire; compelled to main
tain their courage and their morale
j and their bravery against foes with
in and against enticing propaganda
without—we say that these American
[ Colored troops wrote high their names
1 on the scroll of fame! We say that
from Cirspus Attucks, the first vic
tim of freedom in the revolutionary
war, to the last dusky hero who laid
down his life in battle charge in
France, all down the line of American
history, the American Negroes have
proven with their hearts’ blood, their
courage, their valor, their patriotism
and their love for a land—which has
ill requited their devotion.
Now observe further. Look right
down into the black record—blacker
than the duskiest skin. Truth harms
none but the guilty. In the thirty
years last past upwards of 3,000
American Negroes—citizens of this
land—have been brutally mutilated.
tortured, butchered, unsexed, burned
and lynched. Only recently a Negro
woman was disembowled and her un
bom babe tom from her quivering
flesh. Almost within sight of the
White House, at Aleyandria, Va., a
Negro was most brutally lynched. At
Springfield, 111., where rest the ashes
of Abraham Lincoln, and almost with
in sight of his tomb, a Negro was
burned. Last year at East St. Louis,
111., over forty Negroes were barbar
ously slaughtered. And, in addition,
in the past year thirty-one Negro men
and one Negro woman were barbari
cally lynched. Negroes have been
burned to the stake even in John
Brown’s old state of Kansas. And
mark this: In just two places in this
world has the smoke from living hu
man torches ascended heavenwards—
at Rome under Nero and in the United
States of America under the Star
Spangled Banner!
Look further. The United States
—with the aid of the American Ne
gro, too— protested with all its might,
with all its billions, with millions of
its men on sea, on land and in the
air, against the awful atrocities, mutil
ations, defilements, butcheries and
outrages, perpetrated overseas. Amer
ica’s strong arms—upheld by Ameir
can Negroes, too—spanned the seas
and throttled to its death barbaric
atrocities abroad.
Aren’t burnings at the stake, mu
tilations, tortures, unsexment, hang
ings, disembowelments, crucifixions
and human tortures just as atrocious
in America as they are overseas?
Why visit barbarities with fire and
sword overeas and tolerate them in
our own land? America idealizes, en
shrines and worships justice -justice
to all abroad and at home. Is her aim
loni^ enough to span an ocean but .00
short to throttle her own satyrs of:
beastiality ?
Most American Negroes are poor;
but who stole their toil for genera-1
tions and still pays them but a pt
tance? Many American Negroes
are ignorant; but who kept them
so for generations and still doles out
education with niggardly hands?
Many American Negroes are not ideal
eitiz; as; but would any other race be
any better barely half a century un
gyved and unmanacled? Many Amer-l
can Negroes arc lustful; but are they
the only ones, and if so, whence comej
all the millions of mulattos?
There are 10,000,000 American Ne
groes in this land—their ancestors
brought here kidnapped to minister
to America idleness—and but few
voices are raised in their behalf. We
raise our voice.
If American Negroes are good
enough, brave enough, courageous
enough, patriotic enough, to fight—as
they have fought like dusky demons—
in every American war, aren’t they
good enough to be protected at home?
Blood gushing from dusky skins has
hallowed every American battle
ground and ought not that blood—ever
freel'’ shed for this land—to be pro-1
tfeted in this land? Should we cleanse
Europe’s pits of infamy with the aid
of the American Negro and leave in
our own land as deep pits for dusky !
feet to press?
Ought the American Negroes, hav
ing battled—against fearful odds
within and without their ranks—
heroically abroad for freedom, to re
turn home to battle against resurrect
ed Klu Klux Klan ? We say no!
N. \. A. C. P. MEETING AT
MT. MORI \U BAPTIST CHI RCH
Mount Moriah Baptist church was
filled Sunday afternoon for the reg
ular meeting of the Omaha branch,
N. A. A. C. P. Rev. John Albert Wil
liams presided. He called attention to
the attack on the national secretary,!
Mr. Shilladv, at Austin, Tex., and sug
gested that appropriate action be
taken by the branch. A committee was
appointed, with Thomas Reese chair
man, which wired communications to
Senator Hitchcock and Congressman
Jefferis, asking them to place the out
rage before congress. The secretary
of the branch, Mrs, Moss, was in
structed to wire sympathy of branch
to Mr. Shilladv. A letter of protest
fas also sent Governor Hobby of
Texas.
The branch was addressed by Dr. J.
E. Green, recently from Mississippi;
Miss Watkins, who is in charge of the
girls’ work of war community, and
Mr. Armstrong in charge of the men’s
work.
The meeting next Sunday will be at
Allen chapel, Methodist Church, Twen
ty-fifth and S streets, South Side.
Go to church.
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