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Our Choice for President
in 1928 is
WALTER W. HEAD
of Nebraska
An Astute, Able, Clear
headed Business
Man
SHERIFF, STUMBLE
AGAIN
Last week we said that
where drunken men and wo
men are frequently seen there
must be booze thereabouts.
Deputy Sheriff McDonald
stumbled upon one of these
places accidentally Saturday
night. It was at a place not
suspected by us, nor was it due
to any tip given by us. We are
not a tipper. That’s not our
business. We suggest, how
ever, that it will be a mighty
good thing for sheriff’s depu
ties, police officers and federal
officials to do a little more
stumbling like McDonald did,
and some of these booze joints
will be put out of business.
And, by the w’ay, we would
suggest that these officials do
some stumbling upon the high
er ups who supply these little
chaps with their goods. Stum
ble, sheriff, stumble, stumble
once again.
OUR GRADUATES
We are gratified at the in
creasing number of race stu
dents who are graduating from
local high schools and universi
ties. May the good work con
tinue. Let us pool our re
sources and provide places of
employment for some of them
and go in earnesct after posi
tions for which they are quali
fied in tax-supported institu
tions of this city.
WE WANT COLORED
TEACHERS
Among the graduates from
the University of Omaha this
week are at least two young
women who have had experi
ence as teachers and can meas
ure up to every standard re
quired by the Board of Educa
tion. In addition to these,
there are two others whose ap
plications have been on file in
the Superintendent’s office—if
they have not been destroyed,
strayed, stolen or lost—for
four years, who are also high
school and university gradu
ates and have had four years
of experience as teachers. Why
then, can we not have some of
our young women on the corps
of teachers? There are sever
al schools in this city where
there are large enrollments of
colored pupils. It would be an
inspiration and encouragement
to these pupils to see some of
their own race teaching in our
public schools, in these where
the enrollment of colored pu
pils are large, or in others. We
want the Board of Education to
elect some colored teachers
and then let the Superinten
dent assign them, wherever his
judgment may suggest. But
we want some colored teach
ers, and we want them now.
Mr. John H. Beveridge, we
believe the answer of this ques
tion is largely up to you.
Mesdames Elizabeth Howard and
Maud Ray leave today for northern
Maine where they will spend the
summer.
WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY
Texas Huns Start League Seaton
It remained for a gang of barbar
ians and hoodlums in east Texas to
place this state back in the lynching
league and thereby qualify for the
1928 season, though off to a late
start, by lynching a colored Ameri
can.
Charged with killing an officer of
the law and seriously wounding an
other guardian of the law, an irate
mob of Shelby county huns recently
seized an unarmed Negro and hanged
him to a tree on the court house lawn,
according to newspaper reports.
This demonstration of savagery,
barbarism and anarchy marks the
first mobocratic incident in Texas for
some time, and again places Texas in
Judge Lynch’s infamous and dastard
ly loop.
We have been waiting to see what
action our constitution-loving gover
nor is going to take in this matter,
since he is such a zealous defender of
law and order and bitter foe to any
person who nullifies, ignores or over
rides the written laws of the state and
nation.—Houston Informer.
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Make a Place for Somebody
At this time of the year when the
schools are sending forth young peo
ple, ready as far as books and teach
ers can prepare them, we have a feel
ing of deepest reg et that with all
our love we cannot really help our
own. As a general proposition each
person must make his own way
through life. But to some there is
guidance, encouragement and reward.
For the Negro boy and girl, there is
no help in the beginning and no
cheery word at any time. They start
in the dark, grope about, stumble and
fall—alone! Our hearts bleed, but
we ourselves are barehanded and can
not help them.
This situation Is a challenge to the
Negro group in the United States, a
test of whether we ourselves are
worth while. All nature is evolution,
a march toward the better fitness to
survive. If the young Negro must
start where his fathers began, this
march for him is only marking time
and the race has failed.
This problem of service to each
other falls all the heavier on us be
cause American custom cuts us off
from contacts freely open to every
one else. Time and again, we have
implored our readers to look about
them and see where they can help
their own. One job, one bit of advice
on health or deportment, one gift to
a community aid, one act of any kind
which is unselfish, is within every
man’s ability. If done, the race
marches on. If neglected we fall that
much farther to the rear.—Kansas
City Call. f
The Julio* Roienwald Fund
Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears,
Roebuck and Company, and Chicago
philanthropist, is a man of deeds and
good works rather than one of words.
The Chicago Daily News, in giving a
resume of the Julius Rosenwald fund,
a foundation devoted to the establish
ment and endowment of small schools
for Negroes in the south, calls to mind
his many benefactions to our group,
including his gifts to Negro Y. M.
! C. A.s throughout the country.
The most remarkable feature of the
many remarkable results is evidenced
in the spirit of self-help implanted ;
and stimulated both in the southern !
whites and Negroes by the methods
of operation and administration of
this fund. Of the $17,641,664 invest
| ed in new buildings for ten years j
ended July 1st, Negroes contributed
$3,550,763, white men contributed
$784,861, the Rosenwald fund con- j
tributed $3,032,511 and from public j
taxation, $10,273,529 was paid.
So we see by these co-operative fig- |
ures that Mr. Rosenwald was helped
by both races, in a practical way to
solve a common problem. It is .in
deed prideful and inspiring to note
that the Negroes themselves are deep
ly and conscientiously interested in
giving for the education of their own
children. In so doing they are dis
playing a fine spirit of appreciation
and co-operation. •
The Julius Rosenwald fund is also
| influencing the south, and most espe
cially the fourteen states where it
operates, to take greater interest, not
only in Negro education, but in their 1
own.
The net results to the south of this
foundation is great. The future good
it will do is beyond computation.
Never has a philanthropist with the
sympathy, vision and charity of Mr.
Rosenwald, launched and sustained a
movement of uplift fraught with
greater, godlier, or more far reaching
i possibilities. His mission in this field
i is a.s sincere as it is singular, sanguine
and successful. Mr. Rosenwald not
I only deserves but has the deep and
lasting gratitude, not only of the
races he has benefitted, but of the
1 nation.
His liberal benefactions will cause
j generations of black babes, yet un
born, to rise up and call him blessed.
He is our most consistent as well as
human and constructive philanthro
pist. — Chicago Bee.
CARL DITON
Pianist, Organist, Composer, President of the National As
sociation of Negro Musicians, who is to appear in Recital, at
Pilgrim Baptist Church, Thursday, June 7.
Carl Diton is a pianist of excellent ability, of fine natural
gifts and of good musical knowledge.—Ossip Gabrilowitsch,
Conductor Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
The pipe organ compositions of Carl Diton are among the
most outstanding of recent years.—The Diapson, Chicago, 111.
Carl Diton is a very gifted composer, whose compositions
reveal superior musicianship, fine variety of treatment and ;
powerful climaxes.—Musical America, New York City.
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