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JIM-CROWISM PETTY
THIEVERY
An ex-soldier has written to
President Coolidge protesting
against the robbery and thiev
ery involved in. the jim-crow
car system. Negro passen
gers are compelled to pay first
class fare and yet accept third
class accommodations. The
ex-soldier cites as a specific
case the transferance of him
self and some ladies from a
first-class coach to a smoker.
Now anybody who knows any
thing about the jim-crow car
system of the South knows that
it is a system of robbery. It is
robbery to deprive a purchaser
of any commodity for which he
pays. There is no such thing
as “equal service” on any
southern railroad where the
jim-crow system prevails. We
have visited the South, Arkan
sas and Tennessee, on two or
three occasions and ridden on
jim-crow cars on four railroad
lines in those states, and on
neither road was there the
slightest pretense of providing
equal accommodations. For
tunately, the distances we had
to travel were comparatively
short, except on over-night
ride from Little Rock, Arkan
sas, through Oklahoma, until
we struck the Kansas line,
when we left the stuffy little
compartment, boxed off from
the baggage car, for the airy
and well-ventilated coach in
which other passengers were
riding and in which we were
also entitled to ride because
we had paid first-class fare.
That was on the Missouri Pa
« cific. Our shorter rides were
on the Rock Island and two
other roads. Equal accommo
dations are not provided. The
interstate commission knows
that they are neither provided
nor contemplated. The thing
to do is to compel the railroads
to supply “equal accommoda
tions” for all passengers, white
and black, who pay equal
fares. This will include Pull
man accommodation and din
ing facilities. So long as rail
roads are permitted to charge
first-class fare by the govern
ment of the United States and
furnish passengers, because of
their race or color, with inferi
or accommodations and not
what they contract for when
they accept passenger tariff,
the government is a party to
petty thievery and despicable
robbery. Jim-crow laws or
customs anywhere are a species
of petty thievery.
WATCH IT SPREAD
The decision of the United
States supreme court that the
segregation school law in Mis
sissippi is constitutional opens
the gateway for the enactment
and enforcement of similar
laws in other states. Watch
the virus spread. Perhaps our
usual sunny optimism is for
saking us as we are growing
older, but we cannot help but
feel that the United States is
introducing germs of discon
tent into her system that means
her dissolution. America, as
nations go, is very young and
manifests much of the indiscre
tion of youth.
INTER RACIAL INTEREST
GROWS IN ALABAMA
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Conferences of Leaders Held in
Principal Cities—Many Im
portant Objectives
Sought
Birmingham, Ala.—J. D. Burton,
field secretary for the Alabama Com
mission on Inter-racial Co-operation,
has just held the best series of inter
racial meetings ever held in the state.
The attendance was larger, the lead
ership of both races more in evidence,
the interest greater, and more def
inite tasks were undertaken than
ever before.
At Tuscaloosa 45 persons were
present, 25 white and 20 colored.
After a frank and full discussion the
group set as its immediate objectives
the promotion of boy scout work for
colored boys and co-operation with
the effort to secure a state-supported
institution for delinquent colored
children. An adjourned meeting was
called for the last Monday in Novem
ber, at which additional objectives
will be set.
At the conference in conservative
old Montgomery, former capitol of
the Confederate government, 30 per
sons were present, about equally div
ided between the races. The mayor,
had expected to attend, but was de
tained and sent a representative to
speak for him. The committee de
cided to hold quarterly meetings.
The committee brought out and pub
lished the fact that the present pro
visions for colored tuberculosis pa
tients are wholly inadequate, and ask
ed that additional beds and nurses be
provided. The crowded condition of
the Negro schools was brought to the
attention of the city board of educa- -
tion, with the request that these con
ditions be relieved as soon as possi- i
ble. The city commissioners were
asked to provide playgrounds for col
ored children.
A fine meeting was held in Mobile,
with 25 present and a program was
adopted calling for a new library,
additional recreational privileges and
facilities, and the provision of day
nurseries for the children of working
mothers. The Mobile committee has
been among the most active in the
state for several years, but it was felt
that this was the best meeting since
its organization.
The Birmingham meeting was at
tended by 30 inter-racial leaders, and
adopted a program asking for better
street car facilities, better accommo
dations at the L. & N. Railroad sta
tion, and sanitation and improved
conditions in tenant homes. A spe
cial committee of three was appoint
ed to forward the objectives adopted.
The general committee will hold reg
ular quarterly meetings, and will
meet also on call.
The daily papers gave generous
land appreciative publicity to all the
meetings, and the work of the com
mittees received hearty editorial en
dorsement.
CULTURAL CENTER NEWS
Teachers of the Cultural Center
demonstrated their classwork by
staging active classes in the Orchard
& Wilhelm, and Burlington ticket of
fice windows during the Community
Chest campaign. These included old
er girls’ cooking classes; older and
younger boys’ woodworking classes;
older and younger girls’ sewing
classes and clay modeling by the pre
school children.
The cooking classes, taught by
Mrs. Russel Taylor and Miss Goldie
Mitchell, attracted large crowds.
Girls, daintily dressed in white caps
and aprons, served samples of the
various foods which they had pre
pared, including salads, fruits, cakes,
egg omelets, and vegetables.
The pre-school children made the
real hit of the demonstration with
their clay modeling and were fre
quently called for during the cam
paign.
One of the special features of the
demonstration was a four-foot aero
plane made by one of our boys.
Franz O’Neill, aged 19. The plane
is made of sheet aluminum, and var
nished silk, having movable propellor,
wings and tail. It has all appearance
of a real plane in the most intricate
details.
Clubs and classes are now in full
swing. We have four cooking classes,
three sewing classes, two woodwork
ing classes, folk dancing, night school.
We also have clubs, including Boy
Scouts, Campfire Girls, Golden Star?
and Civics. We have four volunteer
workers, others will volunteer after
the Christmas holidays.
One hundred and sixteen visit?
were made in October; 1,833 was the
total attendance for October.
The Parent-Teacher association re
cently re-elected officers and Mrs.
Lovetta Busch was elected president.
Mrs. Powell was elected secretary.
About the only ambition some peo
ple seem to have in the world is to
take up room.
DETROIT POLICE COMMIS
SIONER FLAYS DIXIE
OFFICERS ON FORCE
Detroit, Mich.—Twenty-five hun
dred years in prison is the aggregate
amount of prison sentences given
thugs and hold-up men in the 165
cases convicted in the courts of this
city in the past nine months, accord
ing to Police Commissioner W. P.
Rutledge, head of the police depart
ment, in a talk at the St. John Pres
byterian church here.
Commissioner Rutledge was asked
to give his views as well as accurate
information on many phases of the
department as it affects the Negro,
such as the attitude of the depart
ment as a whole towards the Negro,
j number of Negroes killed by police
officers in past year, number of Ne
igroes on police force, how many ap
i pointed by present commissioner, at
titude of department towards its ap
pointments, if Southern men are giv
en preference, and the percentage of
crime committed by Negroes. To the
questions the commissioner read most
| of the answers from the records of
his office.
This information is being gathered
'and passed on as a part of a unique
service conducted by St. John Presby
terian Church Sunday School, having
been instituted by Snow F. Grigsby,
superintendent, which has adopted as
its slogan “Let’s know the Negro in
Detroit.” The various heads of the
different departments of the city gov
ernment as well as other representa
tive business and professional men of
i high rank are slated to speak, giving
|their unbiased views of the colored
!people; that the Negro might see
himself as others see him, and know
i what others think of him.
The belief that has been prevalent
'here for some time that Southerners
[ were being appointed in greater num
i bers to the police department because
of their dislike for Negroes and be
cause the authorities believed that
Southerners could by some means
better hold the Negro under subjec
tion, was partly borne out by the
commissioner as true. While the au
thorities did not believe that South
ern men could better handle the col
ored people, but Southern men who
could qualify applied in greater num
bers for the jobs, is the reason for
Southerners being in the majority on
the police force.
The commissioner astounded his
hearers when he boldly stated that he
had found the Southern men on the
force here to be cowardly, lazy, low,
mean, ill-bred men. He further stated
that whenever opportunity presented
itself whereby any Southern police
could be eliminated, the department
grasped it; and since his induction
into the high office, the sarly part of
1926, the commissioner said he had
replaced 300 of the Ku Klux police
with Michigan men. Not alone be
cause they were members of the Klan
but because as a whole they corrupt
ed the force. Three hundred new
appointments were made last spring
and all of the whites were Michigan
men, while 19 were Negroes. He
stated emphatically, that no more
Southern men would be employed.
While 3,200 compose the police
force here, only 32, or 1 per cent, is
colored; which is not in keeping with
the figures given out by the depart
ment some months ago in regards to
colored police. When asked why the
percentage of colored police was so
that he tried to keep the percentage
up to that of other big cities, none of
which employed more than one per
cent colored police. He was unable
to give the percentage of Negro po
lice prorate to population with other
nationalities on the force here.
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