The Monitor ——
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THE REV. JOHN ALBERT V ILL1AMS, Editor
52.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1922 Whole Number 384 Vol. VIII—No. 20
COLORED VOTERS
UNITE TO DEFEAT
TWO CONGRESSMEN
Republican Representatives from Del
aware and New Jersey Who
Opposed Dyer Bill Are
Defeated.
SENATOR DUPONT IS RETIRED
National Advancement Association
Wages Vigorous Campaign Against
Opponents of Anti-Lynching
Measure.
New York, Nov. 17—Two Congress
men who voted against the Dyed Anti
Lynching Bill in the House of Repre
sentatives have been retired by col
ored votes and defeated tn their candi
dacy for reelection, according to an
nouncement made by the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People. The two Congressmen
are: Dr. Caleb R. Layton, Republi
can Representative at large from the
.State of Delaware, and R. Wayne Par
ker, Republican Representative from
the 9th New Jersey District.
Delaware colored voters were roused
by the untiring and courageous work
of Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson who put
the facts before them, organized meet
ings, conferred with newspaper editors
and was instrumental in bringing the
N. A. A. C. P. speakers into the cam
paign agaginst Dr. Layton.
Against both Dr. Layton and Mr.
Parker, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
conducted a persistent and insistent
campaign. The Secretary of the As
sociation, James Weldon Johnson, ami
the Assistant Secretary, Walter F.
White, both went to Wilmington where
they spoke before mass meetings or
ganized by the local N. A. A. C. P.,
in conjunction with the Anti-Lynch
ing Crusaders and the Independent
Citizens’ League.
N. A. A. C. P. press releases were
sent to white and colored newspapers
throughout New Jersey, informing
their readers that Representative Par
ker had voted against the Dyer Anti
Lynching Bill in the House of Repre
sentatives and urging that he be re
buked in the election. N. A. A. C. P.
branches in Parker’s district were also
urged to do all in their power to de
feat him.
The entire Republican ticket was
elected in Delaware with the exception
of Representative Layton, who voted
against the Dyer Bill, and Senatoi
DuPont, whose defeat is partly due to
his having persisted, despite warnings
from colored voters, in trying to force
Layton upon voters who would not
have him. According to figures from
the official 1922 registration, the Re
publicans had a margin of 7000. There
were, however, 12,000 registered col
ored voters in Delaware and these
proved dcisive.
James Weldon Johnson, Secretary
of the N. A. A. C. P., issued the fob ;
lowing brief statement in comment up-1
on these results:
“Colored voters had an issue in this
election and they made the most of it.
That issue was the Dyer Anti-Lynch
/ ing Bill and on the strength of it they
retired two men who voted against it
and who might, but for colored votes,
have been returned to Congress. That
is a convincing demonstration of pow
er. This should be borne in mind in
watching the Senate’s action in ref- j
erence to the Dyer Bill. The Repub- j
lican margin has been reduced. But1
the Republicans can still enact tho
Dyer Bill if they want to. They and
they alone are to be held strictly re- j
sponsible for the fate of the Dyer Bill
by colored voters.”
CONSTANTINOPLE IS
SIEZED BY TURKS;
ALLIES ORDERED OUT ;
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Nationalists Liberate Turkish Capitol
by Sudden Coup and Demand
that European Imperialists
Get Out of Country.
Constantinople, Nov. 17—(Crusader
Service.) The National government
has seized control of Constantinople,
Queen City of the world. Itafet Pasha
is the new Governor, and Hamid Bey,
t.ie representative of the Angora gov
ernment, has ordered the Allied troops
out. In a note to the entente he de
mands evacuation of the allied forces.
The Nationalists have announced the
infamous capitulations, whereby Turk
ish courts were prevented from trying
European criminals who had to be
turned over to the various consular
officers for trial, abolished. The Na
tionalists are also insisting on the
abolition of interallied control of the
police customs, railroads and the cen
sorship over Turkish newspapers in
Constantinople.
The Turks have called to the colors
their invasion of Mosul, in Mesopo
tamia, from which the British are now
retiring as fast as they can before the
victorious Turk advance.
Meanwhile the military situation of
the Allies is said to be Very weak.
1 Their troops are few and scattered,
while the Turkish Nationalists have
large forces in the area of well-equip
ped and highly enthusiastic forces.
Moreover, Constantinople is now Kem
alist through and through. The po
lice are Kemalist, the people are Kem
; alist, and the only government func
tioning is Kemalist.
ST. PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Twenty-sixth and Seward Streets
Russell Taylor, Pastor
Though Sunday was a dreary, dis
agreeable day, our services were quite
inspiring. The Sunday School is still
increasing in interest, and much zeal
is being put into the work of the
classes by the deeper study of the
lessons by the teaching force.
Until further notice the Christian
Endeavor Society will convene at 7:30
instead of 7:15, and will be held in
conjunction with the regular evening
services. The topic will be duly dis
cussed, and In addition there will be
specially prepared papers and ad-:
dresses by members of the society and :
others.
Accordingly, on Sunday evening, the
topic being, "How We Can Help Home
Mission Work,” Mrs. Grace Hutton,
who became very conversant with the
work of our Board of Home Missions
in Porto Rico during her stay there,
will tell ug some of her observations.
Mrs. I,. McCullough will also read a
paper. The meeting will be led by
Miss Jamie Chandler.
The pastor will have for his Sunday
morning discussion, "A Dissertation on i
the Ninety-third Psalm.”
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
PAYABLE JANUARY 1st
—
May Be Re-Invested in Safe Govern
ment Securities in form of
Treasury Certificates
Washington, Nov. 17—W'ar Savings
Stamps of the series of 1918 become
due anil payable on January 1, 1923.
The people who bought these stamps
will receive their full face value upon |
redemption and will find that the mon
ey they saved five years ago hal
earned every year about four per cent,
compounded interest. In order to af
ford holders of War Savings Stamps
an opportunity to continue their in
vestment in a safe government secur
ity the Treasury Department is offer
ing an exchange of War Savings
Stamps for Treasury Savings Certifi
cates. The certificates are issued in
denominations of $25, $100 and $1,1)00 ;
maturity value, and sold for $20.50,
$82 and $820, respectively. Holders
of War Savings Stamps can get them
at these prices upon application thru
their own banks or their post offices.
Exchanges will be made as of Jan. 1,
1923, upon applications presented be
tween Nov. 15, 1922, and Jan. 15, 1923.
; Immediate payment will be made in
cash of any difference due the holder
j of War Savings Stamps if he takes the
i largest possible amount of Treasury
; Savings Certificates on the exchange.
The growing inclination of the peo
! pie to save and their desire to find a
1 safe re-investment for their money1
leads Treasury officials to believe that
a large part of the six hundred million
dollars in War Savings Stamps soon
! to become due will be exchanged for
, Treasury Savings Certificates.
EPISCOPAL ( HCRCII OF
ST. PHILIP TIIE BEACON
The congregation la getting ready
for the Every Member Canvass which
is to be made Sunday afternoon, Nov.
26. All the Episcopal churches of the
country make their canvass on that,
j day. The purjtose Is to enlist every
member of tbe Church In some active
Christian work and to secure a defi
nite weekly pledge from every member
for the support of the local and gen
eral missionary work of the Church,
j All organizations of St. Philip's are
actively at work. These include the
Woman’s Auxiliary which meets every
Thursday afternoon; the Altar Guild,
which meets each Tuesday night; the
Girls’ Friendly Society, which meets
Monday afternoon; and the Men’s Club
which meets the second Monday night
in each month. The services on Sun
day are at 7:30, 10, aDd 11 a. m.,
and 8 p. m.
fight segregation
AT TRAINING SCHOOL
Washington, I). C., Nov. 17.—Dis
puting the injection of race prejudice
at the citizens’ military training
camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., the Charles
E. Young Post of the American Le
gion* entered a protest to the War
Department here last week.
Appealing for “equal rights for the
race’’ the letter says in part: “As
American citizens whose history in
the land antedates the Mayflower, and
people whose blood stains every, bat
tleground in the nation’s history, and
above all, as warriors whose records
stand unchallengeable, we feel justi
fied in protesting.’’
NEGRO EDUCATION
MAKES PROGRESS
IN NO. CAROLINA
The General Assembly and Officials
Support a State-Wide Program
For Developing Better
Citizenship.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS MADE
Speakers Include Dr. Wallace Buttrick,
E. C. Brooks, N. C. Newbold,
Trevor Arnett, State and
Visiting Educators.
(By Wm. Anthony Aery)
Hampton, Va., Nov. 17—That North
Carolina citizens, both white and col
ored, have succeeded in finding a way
to keep together by working together
for a common, worthy cause—the care
and nurture of God-given children—
was the opinion expressed by Dr. Wal
lace Buttrick of New York, president
of the General Education Board, at
the recent twro-day conference on
North Carolina’s Program of Negro
Education, which was held in Raleigh,
N. C., under the auspices of the Divi
sion of Negro Education in the State
Department of Public Instruction.
Progress Through Confidence
Dr. Brooks outlined the progress
which North Carolina has made in
Negro education during four years.
Early in his administration, at an edu
cational conference representative Ne
groes issued their "Declaration of
Principles.” In this document they
made a vigorous appeal for co-opera
1 tion, mutual confidence and racial in
tegrity. They spoke against the ap
peal to force which encourages mob
law. This declaration restored mutual
confidence and made it possible for
white and colored citizens to go for
I ward in education.
“This declaration," said Dr. Brooks,
i “brought co-operation, peace and har
! mony. The repudiation of appeal to
! force captured the hearts and minds
of the best people in North Carolina,
j Of course, there are still injustices and
i defects. To go forward, however, we
must have standards by which we can
measure our own progress. Today j
Negroes in North Carolina are confi
dent men and women. It is the duty
of the State to back up the confidence
of these people. North Carolina has
confidence in its colored people.”
.Signs of Educational Progress
Director Newbold declared that
North Carolina has kept faith with the
colored people and “made good” in its
State educational program, involving
$1,525,000, and in its Negro public
school teachers’ salary program, in
volving $1,500,000.
Need of Closer Co-Operation
Director Newhold emphasized “two j
distinct facts: (1) that the program
of North Carolina for Negro education;
as far as it is initiated by the State
government and is carried forward by
State authority is functioning in a
fairly satisfactory manner; (2) that
many local communities have not been
aroused to do their duty in giving Me
gro children public-school facilities.
Conscious of its shortcomings in the
past, North Carolina now wants to do
its duty.”
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WOULD SAVE GREAT FOLK-MUSIC
OF RACE FROM DESECRATION
Eminent Negro Musician Assails Misuse of Soul-Stirring Spirituals
in Dance Tunes—Harry T. Burleigh Urges Co-operation
of Race in Preserving Musical Treasure.
New York, Nov. 17—H. T. Burleigh,
the eminent Negro musician and com
poser, has written a letter to the Na
1 tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in which he
urges the co-operation of colored and
white people in preserving from de
basement in jazz the musical treasure
of the Negro Spirituals. Mr. Bur
leigh’s letter, as made public by the
Advancement Association, says in
part:
“The growing tendency of some of
our musicians to utilize the melodies
of our Spirituals for fox-trots, dance
numbers and semi-sentimental songs
is, I feel, a serious menace to the ar
tistic standing and development of the
race.
“These melodies are our prized pos
session. They were created for a def
inite purpose ami are designed to dem
onstrate and perpetuate the deepest
aesthetic endowment of the race. They
are the only legacy of slavery days
that we can be proud of—our one,
priceless contribution to the vast mu
sical product of the United States.
"In them we have a mine of musical
wealth that is everlasting. Into their
making poured the aspiration of at
race in bondage, whose religion—in
tensely felt—was their whole hope and ;
comfort, and the only vehicle through i
which their inner spirits soared free.!
“They rank with the great folk-!
music, of the world and are among the j
loveliest of chanted prayers.
“Now, s'nce this body of folk-song
expresses the soul of a race, it is a.
holy thing. To use it and not arti
ficialize or cheapen it calls for rever
ence and true devotion to its spiritual
significance. Yet these delinquent mu
sicians contemptuously disregard these
traditions for personal, commercial
gain.
“Their use of the melodies debases
the pure meaning of the tunes, con
verting and perverting them into
tawdry dance measures or maudlin
popular songs. Their work is mere
tricious, sacrilegious and wantonly de
structive. It offends the aesthetic
feelings of all true musicians—white
and black—and because some of us
have endeavored never to sink the high
standard of our art nor commercialize
the sacred heritage of our people's
song, but rather to revere and exalt
it as a vital proof of the Negro’s spir
itual ascendancy over oppression and
humiliation, we feel, deeply,, that the
wilful, persistent, superficial distor
tion of our folk-songs is shockingly
reprehensible.
“Skilled musicians can detect in
stantly the flagrant misappropriation,
the amateurish perversion. There
are others, the unskilled musicians and
particularly our young people who can
not detect the misuse of these prayer
songs; who cannot distinguish the
false from the true, the makeshift
from the real, the spurious from the
genuine, the theatric from the spir
itual and who are thus being fed with
a wrong idea, a false valuation of all
our beautiful melodic inheritance—un
less this pernicious musical trickery
is stopped.
“How can it be stripped? These
gentlemen seem not to realize that
they offend the deepest sentiments of
a race. They seem incapable of com
prehending the enormity of the of
fense and the far-reaching effect upon
future generations. True, these mel
odies are public property and there is
no real means of protecting them ex
cept througgh race pride.
“Have these men sufficient race
pride to forego the cheap success and
the easy money? Have they suffi
cient racial pride to refuse to pros
titute the inherent religious beauty of
our Spirituals? Can we not convince
them that it is ail in bad taste; that
it is like pollutii'.^ a great, free foun
tain of pure melody?
“In the interests of millions of col
ored people who love and revere the
Spirituals and who believe these old
melodies can he an essential factor in
the cultural evolution of the race as
well as a powerful stimulus to its
higher artistic development, and in the
interest of millions of white people
who love and revere the Spirituals and
who believe that the ‘Negro stands at
the gates of human culture with hands
laden full with musical gifts,’ I ear
nestly solicit your help and coopera
tion in a determined effort to per
suade our misguided friends to cease
their desecrating work and to join
with us in honoring, and protecting
from any secular or degenerate use
the Negro Spirituals—the only songs
in America that conform to the scien
tific definition of folk-songs.
“I have the honor to remain,
Very truly yours,
(Signed) H. T. Burleigh.”
WASHNIGTON SEES RACE
WAR IN NEAR EAST I
Washington, Nov. 17—(Crusader
Service) As the reports from Con
stantinople reached Washington telling
of the coup of Mustapha Kemal in
seizing control of Constantinople, and
of the new demands made by the Turk
ish Nationalists, the belief that the
Near East was trembling on the verge
of a mighty explosion that might line
up the colored races of Asia and Af
rica against their white imperialistic
oppressors and involve a number of
European powers were freely express
ed. The more conservative observers
were inclined, however, to the belief
that an open breach would be avoided
although admitting that conditions
were serious. They declare that Eur
ope is in no condition to cross swords
with Islam and that England and
France would almost certainly do any
political retreat necessary to save a
break.
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BATTLING SIKI IS
ROBBED OF TITLE;
BARRED BY BRITAIN
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French and British Governments Act
to Save White Prestige Appar
ently Endangered in the
Prize Ring.
SUSPENDED FOR 9 MONTHS
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Interntional Boxing Federation Asked
to Deprive Senegalese of Title of
Lighgt Heavy Weight Cham
pionship of the World.
Paris, France, Nov. 10—(Crusader
Service) An attempt is to be made to
save white prestige. Europen boxers
are henceforth to be protected by law
and the action of their governments
from the mauling fists of the con
queror of Georges Carpentier, the best
product that the European ring has
turned out in half a century. A way
has at last been found to prevent the
Siki-Beckett bout and thus save the
British Empire the embarrassment to
its brutally built up prestige of hav
ing its foremost boxer knocked cold
by a member of one of the “subject
races.”
The British Home Office last week
drew the color line around the prize
ring, and forbade the Joe Beckett
Battling Siki match in that country.
The fight was scheduled for Dec. 7,
and was the outcome of the recent
Beckett-Moran bout whereat it was
arranged that Siki should fight the
winner. However, as Carpentier had
often used Beckett for a doormat it
was the general opinion that Beckett
would not have the shadow of a
chance with the conqueror of Carpen
tier. Meanwhile, white prestige had
suffered a tremendous setback in Af
rica and Asia as a result of the Sene
galese’s victory over the French idol,
anil the British imperialists who do
not want their rule challenged in Af
rica and Asia by “subject peoples,”
aroused to their importance and power
was at its wits end to find a reason
for preventing the bout. Then came
a fine excuse in the fracas between
Siki and the manager of one of two
fighters in a bout in Paris Friday
night. Siki, who actecf as second for
one of the men, resented certain re
marks of the manager of the other
fighter, and, losing his temper, as
saulted the manager. But the Lon
don Home Office had already taken
action against the Becgett-Siki bout,
and thus lost a fine opportunity to
make one of the familiar British “mor
al issues” out of their action in draw
ing the color line. Furthermore, one
Home Office official was indiscreet
enough to make the following state
ment for publication:
“In contests between men of color
and white men the temperaments of
the contestants are not comparable.
Moreover, all sorts of passions are
aroused.Such contests, considering the
very large number of men of color in
the British Empire, are considered
against the highest national interest
and they tend to arouse passions
which it is inadvisable to stimulate.”
In other words, the victories of col
ored men over the pride and hope of
the white imperialist peoples, tend to
arouse aspirations and hopes in the
breasts of the oppressed colored peo
ples of the colonies.
So the French Boxing Commission,
under pressure from both the imper
ialist governments of France and of
England, have hastily grabbed up the
attack made by Siki on a manager as
an excuse for depriving the Senegaleze
battler of the title of light heavy
weight champion of the world and
European heavy weight champion,
which he won at the time he knocked
out Carpentier.
HONORS IN MEDICINE
To a Negro girl, Miss Alice Ball,
belongs the honor of contributing to
one of the most important medical
discoveries of recent years—the use
of ehaulmoogra oil in the treatment
and cure of leprosy. When the labor
atory experiments at the University
of Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, were
carried on, Miss Ball was offered an
appointment as chemist. She accept
ed the position, devoting herself to
the work so earnestly that she later
died as the hesult o fa breakdown in1
health, without knowing that the
work to which she had given herself
had been successful.—The American
Missionary.
DR. ABBOTT AND THE NEORO
Dr. Abbott was also intensely In
terested in Negro education, but while
a progressive In religion, he was a
reactionary on the race problem.
While a radical in theology, he was
a conservative when handling the
strivings of the black man. He be
lieved in the industrial, but not the
higher education of the Negro, and did
not think that the time was ripe for
he Negro to press his claims to civic
and political recognition.
We do not think that this was due
so much to prejudice per se as to lack
of information about the Negro. In a
talk with him while he was college
pastor at Harvard for a few weeks we
found him frank, courteous and cordial
but he had not known intimately Negro
men of real scholarship like Dr. Alex
ander Crummell and Dr. Edward Wii
mot Blyden, nor had he read of the
distinguished foreign Negroes of the
eighteenth century. He did not seem
to know of the civilization that black
men erected in Egypt, Ethiopia and
Timbustoo. Possibly he had heard of
these things, but had not taken them
seriously or investigated them for him
self, and that is why perhaps a semi
philosophical thinker in religion ana
theological thought, the great divine
was only a surface thinker in ethno
logical thought. i
But we must not criticize Dr. Abbot
too severely. He came upon the scene
of action and arrived at manhood’s
state long before the researches of
Sergi, Ripley, Boaz, Finot, Chamber
lain, Weiner and Major Felix Du Bois
revealed the part played by black men
in American, medieval and ancient
civilization, in an age when Gregoire’s
Enquiry was not taken seriously in
America and in an age when the Amer
ican translation omitted the splendid
tribute to the Negro in Volney’s Ruins
and the Meditation on the Fate of An
cient Empires.
We must judge men not from the
light we have, but from the light that
they had, remembering that they, too,
were the product of their environment
and were influenced by the Zeitgeist.—
The Negro World.
PRESIDENT NAMES fl
WALTER COHEN FORi
1 |S NEW 0 NS JOB
—
Prominent Louisiana Politician Is |
Slated for Comptrollership of
Customs—A Coveted Fed
eral Plum.
POSITION PAYS GOOD SALARY
Senate Must Confirm the Appointment
—Name Presented When Congress |
Convenes—First Nominee in
South Since Roosevelt
—
Washington, Nov. 17—Announce
ment was made here Saturday, Nov.
4, that Walter L. Cohen, prominent
Louisiana politician, would be named
as Comptroller of Customs at New
Orleans. President Harding is ex
pected to send his name to the Senate |
for confirmation as soon as the Sen
ate reconvenes. The position pays
$5,000 a year.
The appointment is the first presi
dential one given to a colored man for
a post in the South since the Roose
velt administration. Taft, in his in
augural address, decreed that no col
ored man would be given a Federal
job in those communities where objec
tions might be raised, and this ex
cluded all from Southern positions.
President Harding announced the
same policy. When the Cohen appoint
ment was announced as probable a few
months ago it was said that the demo
cratic senators from Louisiana would
raise nonobjection thereto and that ne
had the backing of prominent politi
cians and business men in New Oi
lcans.
Coming on the eve of the election,
many volunteered the opinion that the
appointment was announced to ward
off threatened lukewarmness among
many colored voters in the North and
West.
Mr. Cohen has been a conspicuous
figure in Louisiana Republican politics
for about thirty years. He was a del
egate to national conventions in 1912,
1916, 1920, and was Register of the
Land Office during the Roosevelt ad
ministration.
WILLS-DEMPSEY BOUT IN
CANADA MAY BE BARRED
Windsor, Ont., Nov. 17.—Doubt that
a championship bout between Jack
Dempsey and Harry Wills would be
permitted in Ontario was expressed
here last week by officials of an ath
letic club mentioned in this connec
tion recently.
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“EMPEROR JONES”
GIVES VIEWS ON
NIS RACE AND ART
Charles Gilpin, Famous Actor, Says
He Is Proud of the Fact that
He Is a Full Blooded
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Negroes Demand No Special Favors
Bnt Only Equality of Opportunity
—Social Equality Bugaboo
Pure Bank.
“The Emperor Jones” sat In his
dressing room Thursday night and in
words plain and earnest demonstrat
| ed that “emperors” ’black or white
are crowned by their own efforts and
what they believe.
Charles Gilpin, “The Emperor Jones”
did not write “I am the master of my
fate, I am the captain of my soul,”
but those are hie sentiments neverthe
| less.
“I am a full blooded Negro, and I
: am proud of it,” declared Gilpin.
“There is no hyphen that can be af
fixed to my claim to being an Ameri
can. People of my race, like me,
might be called Afro-Americans, but
to affix that hyphen you must go
back 300 years. We Americans or
the Negro race know nothing of
I Africa, we have no foreign affilia
i tions, no ax to grind for any other
| country than the one in which we
live and were born.
“I’m proud I am a black man be
cause there is no drop of white blood
in me, and this pride is occasioned
because of the fact, that no one
knowing this, can attribute to me,
any grounds for desiring to be other
than what 1 am—an American—a
black American.
No Desire for Africa
“The time is coming when there
will be a sorting in this melting pot
as they call it—and the things that
won’t melt into Americans for Ameri
ca will be separated, and those that
are Americans, white and black, will
know each other as such.
“If you put all the hyphenated
Americans out of this country today,
you would have more Negroes left
than anything else. We didn’t come
here as immigrants with a desire to
make a fortune and return to our
own people. Our forefathers were
brought to America against their will
—and now we are as true Americans
as the descendants of the Pilgrims.
We have no desire to go to any
other county or do anything for any
other country than our own.
"Social equality? That talk is all
rot. There is no social equality in
the Negro race. The business or pro
fessional man of either race does not
find his companions among the il
literate and ignorant of his color.
It is my belief that the Negro should
by reason of the fact that he Is an
American citizen and taxpayer, be
given equal rights, as an individual.
A Business Proposition
“If he’s got the stuff in him to
make a big man of himself—a credit
to the country in which he lives, he
shouldn’t be hindered by race, color,
or nationality. The Negro as I see
; him doesn’t want favors, he doesn’t
I want to be regarded as an object of
charity—and he doesn’t want social
equality, if he has good sense, for
that can never be, and should never
lie. Give him a chance to work out
his destiny unhampered as an in
dividual, and no man can ask for
more.
“But I’m not a social uplifer, don’t
get that idea,” laughed Girlpin. "I'm
an actor who has taken bits in every
thing from a honky-tonk to a tent
show. Neither am I in the show busi
ness for art's sake. It’s a cold blood
ed business proposition with me. I’m
here to make a living for myself
and family. I’m going to put every
ounce of the best that is in me into
my work—for it pays me dividends,
if I ran a bootblack shop in Omaha—
I'd have the best one in town, you can
bet on that. I intend to stick to the
stage, I aiu studying all the time,
and when I get through with it I’m
going to buy a small business in Chi
cago. Not large enough to cause
me worry, but big enough to keep me
busy. if the theatre ceases to pay
me what I think I’m worth as an
actor, then I’ll go to work at some
thing else.”
Gilpin will be fifty a week from
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