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EDITORIAL
BEGINNING THE WAR ON ROOSEVELT
The New York Chamber of Commerce, the Hearst
i enspapers, Allred E. Smith join their opposition to the
Rational Recovery Administration. Five of the leading
industrialists of the nation, including Schab, and Teagle
have joined with Senator Carter Glass and the National
X ress Association in opposing the methods and inquisi
tions of the N. R. A.
The farmers of the west have backed up five of
their governors in bitter and solemn defience of the
practices and provisions of the Agricultural Adminstra
tion, a branch of the N. R. A. From all sections of the
country the politicians have taken their tongues out of
their cheeks and have recovered their voices and are be
ginning to make common cause against the; effort to re
giment and sovietise the American people. The Amer
ican Legion has gone on record in opposing the recogni
tion of the soviet union by the Roosevelt Administration.
The catholics and jews of the country for religious rea
sons are equally opposed to the dollar diplomacy of the ad
ministration wThich offers recognition in return for the
trade of the land of Lenin and Trotsky.
These things are significant. President Roosevelt
has reckoned with out the things spiritual and fundament
al in the equation. On March fourth, we said that the
acid test of the New Deal would be its honest, open champ
ionship of the equality of colored America in the body
politic. Paliatives, the evasion of the issue not only will
not suffice. Theywill be bommerangs, we said.
We are not prepared to say, as have many institu
tions and groups and individuals, that the New Deal has
not functioned for the real“forgotten man” of the nation
In as much as ye have done it unto the least of these my
little ones, ye have done it unto me. The New Deal has
aggravated the civic and industrial plight of a group of
twelve million loyal American Citizens. There can be no
peace, there can be no progress that will be permanent
until they are frankly and fearlessly taken into the scheme
of things. We make bold to say that the wave of lynch
law which, during the eight months of Roosevelts Ad
minstration has exceeded both in number of victims and
in ferocity any similar period since Woodrow Wilson.
There are fewer colored wage earners employed
today than a year ago. They have become victims of the
minimum wage conditions imposed upon industry by the
N. R. A., and because the American industries have not
been forced h(y the N. R. A. to give equal work with equal
pay to them. We mention these outrages not because of
their inherent injustices but because we believe that they
are providential warnings to the nation to let this people
go.
The cold calculations of Washington to build Re
covery without reckoning with the black, oaken pier be
neath it, is like building a house upon shifting sand. The
winds of oppofeiton and the rains of perversity have be
gun to beat on the house and it will fall because it is built
upon the sands. We do not believe further that the Amer
ican government can run its business, it can not finance
the business of the nation, it can not limit the production
or the consumption of the people in this free country. It
can only regulate the business and the industry to satisfy
its own structure and for its own benefit.
We join with all other patriots in crying for relief.
We do not hesitate to declare that the appointment of one
or two supine individuals of color and of Caucasian advi
sors of rebel lineage are efforts to white wash the situa
ton. We urge the N. R. A. to try another experiment—
since a policy of experimentation to bring back prosper
ity is the corner stone of the Roosevelt regime—should be
tried. That policy should include a forthright pronounce
ment from the President declaring specifically the colored
citizens in on the New Deal. That pronouncement must
banish mob rule as a menacing evil of the nation. Let
Roosevelt speak out loud and bold and with equal boldness
execute the laws of the land or the mul-murs of the masses
will turn into open wrar upon his policy and program at
no distant date
National News Briefs
V> ashington—(CNS)-—In February
the Federal Emergency Relief Actmin
istration announced a program to help
financially one hundred thousand col
lege and unversity students during
the ensuing semester. The plan pro
vided that worthy young men and
women be given jobs by the educa
tional institutions and be paid from
$10 to $25 a month from Government
r lief funds- The colleges to waive
all tuition,registration and other fees
'1 he preliminary report from coiiege
ancl universities throughout the coun
try to Harry L. Hopkins, Federal
Emergancy Relief Adminstrator,
shows that approximately 1,200 col
legos and universities are now co
operating with the Government in
this movement
The cost of the program is about
$1 017,612 a month with more than
70,000 young men and women re
ceiving aid- Among the 1,207 educa
tional nstitutions listed in the move
ment are eighty 'odd colored intsi
tutions caring for some 2,200 students .
at an approximate cost to the Fed-'
eral Government of $31,000 per month
The plans for putting the program
into effect were worked out by Dr
L- R- Alderman, the Director of Emer- |
ency Education, Federal Emergency
Relief Administration and with the
I
| coopedation of the Office of Education
Department of the Interior, and
! vith Dr- Ambrose Caliver, Specialist
n Negro Education saw to it that the
colored institutions of the United
| States, some 120 in number were fully
advised as to the movement
Approximately three-fourths of the
: students helped are those who would
have to drop out at the end of the
1 first semester for financial reasons,
and about one-fourth are new students
who would have been unable to enter
• without the income from a part time
job- The jobs provide an income of
approximately $15.00 per month
The report shows that students in
colored schools and colleges in 18
States have been given employment
on a wide variety of useful projects.
The projects range from unskilled
labor or repair work to technical
assistance in scientific labortories and
libraries, as well as clerical service
and waiting on table- In the institu
tions the sttudept \aid program is
carried out under the presidents with
the Federal funds received through
the different State authorities.
Of the 82 colored colleges and uni
versities shown in the report, North
Carolina leads with eleven, followed
by Georgia with ten; Texas with nine;
Tennessee with eight; Virginia with
six; and South Carolina and Louisiana
with five each- The number of color
ed colleges in the various States, the
maximum ntimber of students they
may aid with Federal funds and the
maximum allottment the State emer
gency relief adminstration may take
to each college each month until the
end of the school term follow:
State and Name of College Job Mo
Quota All
Alabama
Miles Memorial College 13 $ 195
Talladega College 20 300
The State Teachers College
Montgomery, Alabama 30 450
State Agricultrral and
Mecanical Institution 10 150
Tuskegee Normal and In
dustrial Institute 81 1,215
154 2,310
Arkansas
Shorter College 5 75
Philander Smith College 11 165
, Arkansas State College 51 765
67 1,005
District of Columbia
Miner Teachers College 53 795
Howard University 109 1,635
162 2,430
Georgia
Industrial College 32 480
Atlanta University 4 60
Clark University 32 480
Morehouse College 24 360
Gammon Theo- Seminary 6 90
Morris Brown College 24 360
Ga- Nor. & Agri- Col- 46 690
Ft- Valley Nor- & Ind- Sch. 6 90
Spellman College 21 315
Paine College *3 195
208- 3,120
Kentucky
Kentucky St. Ind- Col- 31 465
Lincoln Inst- of Kentucky 4 60
West Ken. Ind- College 10 150
45 675
Louisiana
Leland College of Baker 12 180
New Orleans University 20 300
Southern University 32 480
Straight College 14 210
Xtvier College 41 615
119 1,785
Maryland
Md- State Normal-Bowie 9 135
Morgan College 38 570
47 706
Mississippi
Tougaloo College 9 135
Southern Christian Inst- 2i 30
Alcorn A. & M- Col'ege 16 240
Jackson College 6 90
Campbell College 3 45 j
Rust College 7 107 j
- -j
43 645
Missouri
Lincoln University 23 346
Stowe Teachers College 18 195
41 540
North Carolina.
Agricultural & Tech Col 26 390
N- C- College for Negroes 21 315 j
Bennett College for women 12 285 j
St. Augustine’s College 17 225 j
Shaw University 24 3601
State Normal school—
Fayetteville 29 435 j
Livingston College 13 195 j
State Normal School
Elizaeth City 277 405
Barer-Ssotia Jr- College 10 150;
Johnson C- Smith Uni- 25 375
Winston-Salem Teachs Col. 24 360
235 3,525
Ohio- *
Wilberforce College 569 885
559 885
Oklahoma
Colored Agri & Normal Un 52 750
Pennsylvania
Cheney Train sch for Trs 14 182 j
South Calorina
State Agri & Meehan Col- 24 765 j
Morris College 16 360
Claflin College 11 165
Vilen University 20 450
Benedict College 28 630
109 2.370
Tennessee.
Fisk University 30 450
Agricultural & Industrial 64 960
Lane College 32 480
Swift Memoral 3 45
LeMoyne College 22 330
Knoxville College 23 345
Morristown Nor & Ind Col 4 60
Meharry Medcal College 20 300
198 2,970
Texas.
Marshall College 25 375
1 iley Colleege 31 465
Texas College 23 345
Sam Houston S- Tch- Coll- 58 870
Prairie Viel College 52 780
Tillotson College 12 l8®
Guadeloupe College 7 105
St- Phollips jr- College 6 90
261 3,915
Vilginia
Va- Theo- Seminary & Col- 6 90
Hampton Institute 72 1080
St- Paul N- and S- 16 240
Va- St- Col. for Negroes 58 870
Va- Union University 27 405
Union Teologieal Seminary 10 150
West Virginia.
Bluefield State Tch- Col 21 315 j
Wes Va- State College 53 375 j
74 1,110
MONROE TROTTER MILITANT
EDITOR OF GUARDIAN DIES
IN PLUNGE
Boston, Mass- (CNS)—William
Monroe Trotter, the militant editor
of the Boston Guardian and Secretary
of the National Equal Rights League,
•was killed here April 6, in a plunge
from an upper story window of his
home ir. the Roxbury district- He
had retired from the active publica
tion of his paper about a week ago
and had been in an extremely nervous
condition for several months’ due to
over work- His sister Mrs- Maude
Trotter Steward has assumed his
newspape duties.
Mr- Pelham of the Capitol News
Service in commenting on Mr. Trot
ter’s death said: “William Monroe
Trotter, best known as Monroe Trot
ter, was in the opinion of many the
most consistent militant editor in the
United States. Editing and publish
ing the Guardian of Boston, Mass-, he
kept at the work heading his paper
with the ringing slogan: ‘Segregation
for Colored is the Real Permahent
Damning Degradation in the U. S.
A—Fight It.’
“He was spokesman for nuremous
delegations that made visits to the
White House urging Executive action
in many race matters- At one time,
he was so insistent and out spoken
in presenting his cause that he was
invited by President Wilson to de
sist or retire with his delegation—
he did the latter with dramatic ef
fect and thus drew the world’s at
tention to the cause for which he
was fighting.
“I fully agree with one of his pals ‘
who trv^o days befofre his death
wrote: ‘Hello .Pal. How are you?
Like thousands of others, I presume
you are a little overtaxed, having
worked hard- You know there is
only one Monroe Trotter, too bad
you didn’t have a dozen boys to take j
your place- Cheer up, old boy, there j
is a lot of work you are to do for
the race. You are the greatest race
champion since the days of Moses,
the geatest our day has ever had-’
“Trotter’s tragic death on his 62nd
birthday following a family reunion
just a few days prior, at Neponset
surrounded by two sisters and fcis
uncle, “W. H- Dupree, 95 years eld
Marhc 31; is greatly to be regretted-”
Following Month of Prayer
Paralysis Victim Walks
Again.
Memphis, Term-,—(CNS)—“I read
in the Bible that in the olden days
n^d helr d those Hebrew boys and
I know He was powerful to help me,
too- He delivered them out of the
fiery furnace and delivered Daniel
from the lion’s den ” said Homer
Moore, a 20-year-old colored laborer,
who sudenly arose from his bed in
the Maine Hospital here, where he
haH b'V'n confined apparently a hope
less victim of paralysis, and walked.
“T felt a-tremblin’ in my chest-I
felt the power coming in- I got up
"’’t of H°d. It is the work of the
Lord- He raised me up.” Thus does
Moore describe the “Miracle” that
came to pass a few days ago
Nurses and doctors point him out
They accept his case as one of the
accidental phenomena in the sym
nh-fiv of science. Moore just says a
“miracle” came to, pass
Since last fall, when he fell while
working on the Government fleet
Helena, Arkassas, Homer has been in
bed, in the hospital here- or at He
lena- Unable to move hands, feet or
head, scarcely able to whisper, he
was given water through a tube, fed
much and other soft foods with a
spoon.
Praying constantly, he had others
pray for him a few days ago, he be
gan fasting. Nurses could not force
him to take nourishment
Sunday, they said, he was lying in
the bed in the sunshine- Suddenly,
he sat up, paced his feet on the floor
and walked- He talked plainly, asked
for food and ate it- Now, he walks
most of the time, waiting on other
patients at the hospital
The “New Deal in Dixie.
New York—(CNS)—Miss Mary
j White Ovington, Treasurer of the
National Association for the Advan
cement of Colored people after a
sixty-day tour in the south in com
menting on the “New Deal” in the
South said:
“The politicians are in the first
row,, the poor whites In the second,
and the Negroes a good way back in
the third line- Naturally they get what
the others leave and in many places,
where the money is considerable,the
1 and need work, the leavings are old
clothes, some food, little work- But
where the money is considerate, the
Negro may get a job- You see them
on the roads, two Negroes languidly
using a shovel and two white men
lounging by them as overseers
DR. R. A. ADAMS IS EN
DORSED FOR EDITOR
OF A. M. E. REVIEW
At the sessions of the Kansas City
District Conference last week, Dr. R
A- Adams, who is presiding elder of
that district was enthusiastically en
dorsed for the position of editor of
the A- M- E- Review. This journal
is conceeded to be one of the highest
literary class and for the most part,
its editors have been men of excep
tional ability in this field- The list
of editors included Dr- J- T- Jenifer,
Prof- H- T- Keating, Bishops L- J
Coppin and R- C- Ransom, and the
present incumbent Dr- J. G- Robinson
In announcing his candidacy Dr.
Adams declared that if he were elect
ed he would commit himself to the
following policy: first to make the
review the best in its history; second
to recommend the reduction of the
subscription price of the review from
one dollar and a half to one dollar;
third, to initiate an effort to put the
Review into hands of thousands of
laymen; fourth, to use the surplus
that (may accrue for the benefit of
superannuates and the families of
deceased ministers
The resolution endorsing Dr- Adams
was signed by Drs- W. D- Wilkins,
J- N. Goddard, T- W. Kidd, ministers
serving the largest churches in Kan
sas City District- The resolution
read: “Be it resolved that our district
Conference in session assembled pledg
our support to Dr- R- A- Adams in
his candidacy for the editor of the
A- M- E- Review, knowing him to be
a man eminently qualified for this
office, and that we present him to
the Fifth Episcopal Distrit with the
recommendation that he be accepted
as the District candidate for this
position”
LOLA STEWART’S
COLUMN
(For the Literary Service Bureau)
Items in Negro History
“AFRICA UNKNOWN”
For centuries Africa has existed
in the minds of men not as a continent
but as a coast line- The early Afri
cans were known mostly by their
Mediterranean commerce and inter
course- Hdmer considered them “the
fatherest removed men ” Herodotus
stated that visits as far as the
equator, were made by the Phoeni
cians six centuries before Christ
1 About 450 or 500 B. C- trading posts
were established on the coast of
| Morocco and perhaps reached as far
l as the Gold Coast. The ancients had
practically accurate knowledge of the
Nile from its source- Mohammedan
slavetraders had taken Northern Afri
ca by the eighth century; later,they
crossed the Saraha Desert into Sou
dan and went as far south as the
Zambesi- Christian slave traders suc
ceeded the Mohammedans, but their
traffic, was confined to the coast
No definite knowledge of the interior
of Africa was obtained until 1874.
when Henry M- Stanley made his
explorations in Central Africa- (To
be continued)
WHAT THE NEGRO EDITORS ARE
SAYING
_
“President Roosevelt has a gigantic
task in bringing the various indus
tries into working agreement under
the NRA- One fortunate thing is
that the majority of the American
people believe he is equal to the task,
and this belief-pervades the economic
atmosphere and crosses party lines.
Air. Roosevelt knows that he is only
the coordinator; that the people, after
all are the ones to determine the suc
cess of the adminstration- It is this
traditional courage of the A(merican
people tut will pull the country
through the depression if it is going
: to be pulled at all. We are not
j quite out of the debale yet- The com
ing months will call for the best brains
' and the most alert assistance from
; all the people.”—Tampa Bulletin,
j April 14, 1934
! WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
ABOUT US
—
“The abolition of Negro slavery
] was not only justified but absolutely
required by the prnciple af utility
and by the conscience of mankind; for
Negro slavery was a disgrace to civil
ization and an obstacle to progress
But could the Abolitionists either in
England or in the United States have
fought with success their desperate
battle against oppression had they
not been strengthened by an unswerv
ing faith in the essentials similarity
and equality of all human beings
whether blacks or whites?” A- V
Dicey in “Law and Public Opinion in
England-”
CUBAN DAILY FEA
TUBES ANTI LYNCH
ING FIGHT
New York, April 22—The Natonal J
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has just received a
copy of “El Pais”, leading Havana
daily, carrying a column-long story
on the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynch
ing bill hearings.
_
i N. A. A. C. P. INSPIRED
TORTURE OF SCOTTS
BORO DEFENDANTS
IS CALLED “VICI
OUS LIE”
New York, April 20—The charge
printed originally in the Daily Work
er and reprinted in several colored
newspapers that the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People and especially Wiliam Pickens
field secretary, “planned and directed”
torture of the Scottsboro defendents
in jail in Birmingham in order to get
them to give up the I- L- D- and take
N. A- A- C- P- lawyers was branded
here today as a “vicious lie” by Mr.
Pickens and the association.
The “news story” stated Dean
Pickens had visited the boys in the
Birmingham jail “four weeks ago”
to try and “persuade them to renounce
the I. L D. and except a lawyer of the
association”
Pickens has not visited the boys
since 1931 and has not been in the
state of Alabama since 1932, he de
clared today
The “news story” also stated that
“a pact between the national leader
ship of the N- A- A- C- P- and the
Alabama lynchers was revealed” as
the cause of the “reign of terror
against the Scottsboro boys- The
Washington Tribune story stated:
“This charge was made by the Inter
national Labor Defense following an
intensive investigation, etc.”
General Lee and Lynch Law
Great Confederate Leader Twice
Dispersed Mobs and Saved In
tended Victims
By R- B- Eleazer.
It is not commonly known that the
noted Confederate leader, Gen- R- E
Lee. while president of Washington
and Lee University just after the
Civil War, twice broke up mobs in
Lexington, Va-, the seat of the Uni
versity, and saved their intended
victims from death- Two stories are
told in Riley’s biography of Lee, the
one by Prof. C- A- Graves of the
University faculty and the other by
Judge D. G. Tyler of Holdcroft, Va.,
both alumni of the institution. In
brief Prof. Graves’ story is as fol
lows:
In the spring of 1866 while he was
a student at the University, a report
reached the campus that a mob had
gath re i at the county jail, bent on
lynching an alleged horse thief. Rush
ing down to the jail yard, he found
it filled with a milling crowd of de
termined men surrounding the jailer
and demanding the keys- Then he
became aware of the presence of
General Lee moving quietly among
the crowd and urging each group as
h' nasse ’ fo let the law take its
course. This continued far some
time and then the mcrt> slowly broke
up, remounted their horses and rode
out of town- Prof- Graves says,
“They could not do a deed of lawless
violence in the presence of ‘Marse
Robert,’ whose standard they had
followed on marfy a battle field,”
Judge Tyler tells as follows of a
similar incident which took place
during his first year at Washington
and Lee:
A very popular young student, a
son of Judge Brockenbrough, profes
sor of law, got into a difficulty with
•v ind was badly shot- His life
was despaired of- As soon as the
news of the assault reached the col
lege, four hundred students, with a
brother of the wounded boy at their
head, searched for and captured the
trembling wretch, and with a rope
around his neck, marched through the
streets of the town to the court house
square, with intent to wreck their
vengeance on the man
“It was in vain that the college
and town authorities sought to calm
the frenzied mob and induce them to
turn over the Negro to the officers
of the law. Just then General Lee
appeared- In/mediately the tumult
was hushed, and the General, stand
ing in the midst of the excited
throng, simply said: ‘Young gentle
men, let the law take ts course-’ The
quiet words had the effect of a mili
tary order, and the Negro’s life was
saved.”
Commission on Interracial
Cooperation.
R. B- Eleazer, Educational Director
Atlanta, Ga-. April 18—Reports
from abroad indicate that Prof- Fred
erick Hall, of this city, now studying
music in England under a fellowship
of the General Education Board, is
making notable progress with his
work, and living up fully to his
American reputation for character
and ability
Sailing in September with his
bride, the former Miss Mildren Phil
lips Greenwood, of Atlanta- Prof
Hall has since been located in
London- where he is studying com
position, voice and choral and or
chestral conducting in the Royal
College of Music. Meantime, through
contact with the Federaton of Music
al Festivities and the Folk Dance So
ciety, he is ("making a wide study of
folk music- He has also been ac
corded extraordinary opportunities to
observe the work of the London Or
chesta and of the great Westminster
Abbey, Madrigal and Bach Choirs
The vast musical collections in the
British Museum and the Cecil Sharp
Library have also been made avail
able to him
Mr- and Mrs- Hall expect soon to
go into Wales for an intensive study
of the folk music of that country,
thence into Scotland, and later to the
principal musical capitals of Europe
Prof- Hall’s special interest em
brace folk music, school music and
church music- On his return to
America he hopes to foster the de
velopment of these three types of
music among American Negroes, as
effective means of culture and self
expression, and as assets to the cokn
munity and church life of the race
Mrs- Hall, an excellent pianist, is
continuing her studies and at the
same time helping her husband in his
work. The couple have met many
outstanding musical leaders who have
shown them every courtesy and given
them the fullest opportunity to profit
by their stay abroad
The son of Mrs- Laura r- Han, oi
this city, Prof- Hall is one of fixe
children, all of whom though brought
up by a widowed mother, have achiev
ed places of usefulness and respect
As composer, teacher and conductor,
he is widely known throughout the
south, and to a lesser degTee in the
East and middle West- For several
years he was instructor in music at
Jackson College, Jackson, Miss-, and
served at the same time as supervis
or of music in the city schools- He
then returned to Atlanta, where he
has since been remarkably success
ful as director of 'music at Clark
University, Morris Brown College
and Gammon Theological Seminary.
While here he composed and directed
the notable musical pageants11 Pearly
Gates” and “Heritage,” which have
been produced and enthusiastically
received in many of the principal
southern cities- The former had a
successful run also in Chicago
Prof- Hall’s fellowship was grant
ed on the basis of his well-known
ability, and in the expectation that,
after a season of study abroad, he
would be fitted for even larger
service to the people of his own
country.
