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I he Age has received an 'oracular expression of the policy laid out by the Navy Department, as denned by the Bureau of Nav igation, in reference to the offers of service from colored men. Reduced to its logical sequence, the meaning of the veiled phrases is 'that the Department is deter mined not to allow men of the race to enlist except as menials. The talk about it not being deemed advisable to cftange the policy which has existed, "to the satisfaction ot all parties concerned for many years," is mere subterfuge. The discrimination practiced against Negroes in the Navy has been of gradual growth, outside of Annapolis, at least, as none was permitted to enter that caste school. The ex clusion of Negroes from the Naval Academy, whose expenses they are taxed' to pay in common with other citizens, has built up an un-American, un-democratic naval aristocracy, the virus of which has entered into the whole service.

From the time of Paul Jones, the first American admiral and the Father of the American Navy, the Negro was accepted as a seaman on his merits as a man. In fact, it is stated on the authority of gallant Jones himself, that his bunkmate when he first entered the service of the revolting colonists, was a full blooded African. Negroes fought under Commodore Perry at Lake Erie, and in later years they have served through the various grades open to seamen, up to the rank of gunner's mate. It was only a few months ago that a colored man was retired with the latter rank, gained by some twenty or thirty years' service. The restriction of their assignment to the position of stewards, cooks and scullions is of recent growth, and seems to have reached its most rigid enforcement under the present administration.

The attitude taken by the Navy Department is so inconsistent with the preachments of the ad ministration that is waging a war for that we are not surprised that the official charged with the duty of defining it, could not "find words to express it In plain English. It evidently need- ed a "Captain Cuttle'l on the job. WILL CONGRESS ACT? The reign of murder and lawlessness which culminated in the slaughter of men, women and children and the destruction of property at East St. Louis, Illi nois, in the' early part of month, has been put up to the Congress of the United States fairly and squarely, by Representative Dallinger of Massachusetts. The joint resolution introduced by.

the Massachusetts member is most sweeping in its scope. It not only provides for the appoint ment of a committee to investi gate the outrages, "but to recom mend such legislation as will pre vent similar outrages in the future and insure to all American citi zens the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. It is proper and fitting that a resolution of this character should have been introduced in the National Legislature. It is'the only way of getting the wrongs com plained before the proper body to give them a hearing and provide the remedies for them. Whether Congress can be impelled to such action depends upon the amount of pressure brought to bear upon its members.

The time is ripe for such ac tion. Public sentiment, under the stimulus of the public utterances of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, has been roused as seldom before to the growing spirit of lawlessness in this country The necessity for the enforcement of law and order at home, while fighting for the democracy of the world abroad, is realized by most think ing people. If the spirit of lawlessness let loose at East St. Louis is not re strained, it will spread further and embrace others than Negroes in its destroying ravages.

In vestigation of its causes and de velopment is in order. We should not be surprised if Congress was inclined to take heed of the dan gerous symptoms in the body politic. At all events, any movement having for its object the mainte nance of law and order will be welcomed by all good citizens, and we believe they constitute a majority of the population. The trouble is to get them to stand up for the right and be counted The New York Senators and representatives can be counted on to give their support to this legislation. MR.

DANIELS' HIRED MAN. In North Carolina we find an humble imitator Vardaman, who writes under the pseudonym of "Savoyard', in The Raleigh News-Observer, the newspaper owned by the Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy. "Savoyard" is described as a Kentucky Copperhead, whose real name is Newman. Truly an ominous combination for the breeding of race animosity.

The cause of his frothing at the pen and blistering the paper, was a simple statement by the editor of The Age, printed in the New York Times, that "in New York you can see white and Negro children going home from school side by side, under the protection of the same policeman." This statement is interpreted as a striving after "social equality." What it really illustrates is the equality of opportunity afforded in educational facilities and the equal protection of the law given to both races alike. Put it incited Mr. Daniels' hired man to the following diatribe Here is the nigger in the woodpile. This professional Negro, Moore, editor of the Negro organ in New York, uncovered him July 1 when he said "In New York you can see white and Negro, children going home from school side by side, under the protection of the same policeman." Precisely. That is what your professional Negro is at.

He cares not a rap whether the Negro at the South is prosperous and content What he is after and all tie is after is Social equality for the Negro: There is. something stronger than' governments or. rulers, stronger than constitutions or taws, stronger than 'armies or navies, that forbids. It is that implacable, that inexorable emotion called caste, that will not be denied, and it is as strong at the North, where the Negro has few friends, as it is at the South, where he has few enemies. fust as that professional Irishman who hates England more than he loves Ireland, is the most visious the new ace, july 23, 1917.

VIEWS and JAMES' W. JOHNSON, QUITE NATURAL. Here is a despatch from Baltimore that carries a deeper significance than the mere relating of the incident it contains Baltimore, July 16 More than thirty Italian laborers who tried to chase a group of Negro workmen from Camp Meade, the national army encampment at today were themselves ousted by a on. guard there, put on board a Baltimore and Ohio train bound for this ci.y and' told that if they ever came back they would be severely dealt with. The deportation was supervised by Maj.

Ralph F. Proctor, U. S. who is in charge of building the cantonment. A group Italians who probably haven't been in this country long enough to learn to speak ar hundred English words, who would not know the Constitution from a chapter out of the Koran, chasing a group of colored American workmen off a Government job.

Isn't that an inspiring picture? Yet, after all, we should not was quite natural for them to think that chasing Negroes was a sort of national pastime in which even dently they had observed that others took part in this popular sport without being restrained, so they prised when Major Proctor interfered with their fun. And we are wondering who the Major's action, the Italians HOW IT In a recent copy of the New serious letter, which, in spite of haps it was amusing because of The writer of the letter is the enlisted. Of course, as soon as began to pay attention to details caped him before. He knew that or its its whereby, EngUnd could conscript British citizens living in the United States. He knew that British recruiting officers had been opened in this and other cities.

He also noticed that a great number of young, colored West Indians, British physical manhood, are employed in other capacities in this city. was that his two sons should go able-bodied British subjects be left is worrying him is shown by the American, which reads as follows as to In this connection I called up the British recruiting station here in New York and talked wfth a Capt. Stevens, who told rae that "England did not want them" and that their orders at the Recruiting Station here from "the other side" were not to recruit them even if they offered themselves. I immediately wrote to Congressman Murray Hulbert, of the Twenty-first District of New York, and put these facts before him. Is it possible that these -lazy fellows are to be allowed to remain here holding soft jobs and living on the "fat of the land" while the flower of our manhood may and probably will have to face all the horrors existing in England? Yours very truly, LOTHROP WARREN, Secretary Army and Police Dog Club of America.

755 Fifth Avenue, New York. Mr. Warren's inquiry is perfectly he is absolutely unreasonable in attaching any blame to the young West Indians. Captain Stevens, in charge of the British recruiting station told him plainly that "England did not want is any action that these men can them. In the last paragraph of the The American a direct question.

enemy Ireland has, so is the professional Negro who howls about the wrongs of his race at the South, and lies 'about love for the Negro at the North, the basest and most designing enemy of the Negro, North and South. The Negro's home is at' the South, where his friends are, and if the North will only keep her dirty paws out of the mess, the race question will be completely and righteously settled by the Southern white people. And that is the only way it will ever be settled. But it would be useless to at tempt to argue with a hireling without scruples or conscience like "Savoyard," when the responsibility for his fostering of race hatred is really at the door of his He probably has to earp a living, though the method he has adopted toward that end would seem to be the last resort of any man blessed with a conscience or any of the cardinal virtues. Men of this stripe and thos whose dirty work they perform are the real enemies of the country today.

Their sin will find them out in time. TROUBLE BREEDERS. In- these days of stress and storm, when good men and true are rallying to the call of the country, one would think that the professional inciters of internal dissension would cease their dangerous game out of fear of the consequences to their own skins. But, not so. In the halls of 'Congress itself, we find Senator Vardaman of Mississippi again raising the Rebel yell, this time in protest against the proposed assignment of the Fifteenth New REVIEW'S CONTRIBUTmo EDITOR blame the Italians too hard.

It newcomers migftt take part. Evi must have been very much sur experienced the greater surprise at the Negroes? WORKS. York American we ran across a seriousness, was amusing. Per seriousness. father of two sons who are now his two boys became soldiers he connected with the war that had es an arrangement had been made subjects and perfect specimens hallboys, elevator operators and He then began to wonder why it Europe to fight and these young, undisturbed.

How this thought latter part of his letter to the them." We do not think there take to compel England to accept letter, the writer asks the editor ot We can answer if. If Mr. War York Infantry to the Eighteenth Division, composed of Mississip pi, Louisiana and Arkansas troops. He is, reported as follows It is a great mistake. They will life to regret it.

Negro troops should be segregated both for the sake of white troops and themselves. Referring to this Senator Vardaman, he New York World, an out ana out supporter of the Democratic administration, said recently When people are moved to speak of the decline and fall of the United States Senate they usually have in mind James K. Vardaman ot Mississippi, who came into office in 1913 on a j.romise that he would secure the repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Finding these articles of the Constitution more secure than his hold upon his constituency, he re-lapod into obscurity until the European war gave him an opportunity to antagonize American rights and defy American sentiment. He was one of the twelve wilful men who by filibustering defeated armed-ship resolution.

He was one of the six men who voted against the declaration of war. If there had been a roll-call on the Bond Bill he probably would have voted against that. v- Mississippi itself has had its eyes on this person, and from some of the. most enlightened section of that State he has received iron crosses and h'ghly suggestive contributions' described in the dispatches as "thirty pieces of silver." To rehabilitate himself with a people sick of his demagogy and his pro-Ger-manism, he now apleals- to "the con- secrated men and women favoring Prohibition to 'rise in their majesty against the President of the United States, who defeated a crooked attempt by the representatives of those consecrated men and women to hold up a necessary war measure. This is Vardaman's last ditch, and he knows it The lost cause of the Confederacy elected him.

The lost cause of the Kaiser will defeat him. Prohibition or no Prohibition, So much for Vardaman ren will jut cut out the word "lazy," his question will be its own answer. they are going to remain here holding soft jobs and tr living on the fat of the land, while just so long as England maintains attitude toward her subjects of Warren's. question is. one that isgoing to be asked bymany a o-: r.nti refrsrrlinp' voun? colored Americans.

If a prejudiced administration Is allowed to keep the Negro out of the army, others will have to suffer prejudice works, in this case. SENATOR TILLMAN NOT YET DEAD. It is likely people lina have'tTiought of Senator Tillman as dead. A yeaf or so-ago the gentleman of pitchfork fame delivered a sort of farewell address on the Senate floor and since that natural for people who did not contrary to think of him as dead. but not yet dead.

The other day, perhaps even to the astonishment of the Senate, he dragged himself together, and spoke as follows anent the East St. Louis riots: "I have known for many years and not hesitated to say so all over the North in my lectures and on the floor of this Senate, that the average Yankee we Southerners call men Yankee North of the Mason and Dixon line, has no love for the Negro, except for political reasons. They want his vote and nothing else. "The North is now beginning to understand the South and to understand the race problem too, and I am very glad to see so many Northern men being ordered to camps in the South for drilling and training. In this way they will see something of the race problem its home, where there are the most Negroes, and learn much more tjian they would ever have known had they not sojourned a few months in the 'home of the Negro." "The more the Northern people know of the Negro, the less they like him." If Senator Tillman had as keen a mind as he has been credited with he would see that his statement is no compliment to the South What he says plainly amounts to that act like East St.

Louis show The thousands of northern communities in which colored people are not abused do'not understand the ing of the South is evidenced by The Senator declares that the political reasons. Well one reason more than the South can advance. Moreover, we know of nothing better calculated to secure respect and recognition and justice and all other things that citizens hold dear than to be loved for prefer to be loved only for political reasons than to be loved mere'y because we could be made to work field for fifty cents a day. The Senator's hopes concerning the effect that will be produced on the Northern men who are going into camps in the South will be realized if those Northern men come into close contact only with such white men as Senator Tillman and We are willing to wager that this some seventy years does not intimately know two dozen of the more intelligent and progressive colored Tillman stands on the proposition that the more the Northern people know of the Negro, the less stances this has been true. However, it is a matter entirely-gov erned by the mental attitude of these Northern people and by the kind of Negroes they learn to know.

The Senator's proposition does not at all take into consideration people have spent their lives in the South working and living among colored people who were striving for education and the better things of life, and the result has been mutual respect and kindly feelings. Perhaps the purpose of this fork Ben feeble in comparison to apprise the country of nevertheless, it only served to emphasize the fact that he is a dead one. THE SILENT PARADE. The colored citizens of New York are arranging to hold on Sat urday a silent parade of protest have ten thousand men, women and children march with banners bearing inscriptions that set forth the services of labor and loyalty which the race has given to the tices which it has been made to If this purpose is successfully effectiv effort ever made 'by the know that he resents these wrongs less than the treatment which is citizen. the It ought to be a great success.

Out of the colored population of Greater New York, there should thousand marchers, buch a sight school children, men and women test against the treatment to which the race is submitted in the United States would be so' impressive that New York City and the entire country would be compelled to take notice. In fact, the effect would be felt all over the world. Nojnass meeting, however great, ana no speeches, however eloquent, could accomplish as much. Ann this ic mtf th mo imiv iui and Memphis and East St. Louis America waging a war in the Such a demonstration should be loric, out by.

the in is possible to do so. These demonstrations should be a simultaneously. INDISPENSABLE. To the Editor of The New York Ace: nave read them all and The Ace for over twentv vmi- anA sicler 1 he Age my indispensable companion Enclosed please find check for my subscription: Wishing you success morf abundantly, L. M.

Holmes. Boston. Mass. WOULD RATHER MISS HIS MEALS. Ti of The New Yort Age: tec! that I could get along without my meals as well or better than I could The Ace.

A i been a lone and vinAv Ot all HIV rearlimr mirror nrst. ou also may know that whu-. ever 1 have Bone vnnr nim-r Vii .1.. ever nave g0M your paper haj louowea me and that expresses for a. whhtr otners suner me norrors ui her prejudiced and undemocratic African descent.

the horrors of war. That is the way outside of the State of South Caro event he has been snenx; so was have direct means of knowing the Senator Tillman is a dead one this "Only northern communities an understanding of the South South. In a word, an understand brutality toward the Negro. North loves the Negro only for political reasons. We would much from sunrise to sunset in a cotton such Negroes as Tillman knows man who has lived in the South people of his own Stte.

they will like him. In many in that thousands of Northern white feeble outburst on the part of Pitch with his oldtime lurid utterances the fact that he is. not yet dead; 6n Fifth avenue. It is proposed, to country and the wrongs and injus suffer in return. carried out, it will be the most American Negro to let the nation and will be satisfied with nothing rightful due of every American be not ten thousand but twenty as that, twenty thousand colored marching in silent dignity as a pro J- i ouui a ucmunsiraiion Witn Warn still fresh in our memory and with name of humanitv and demnmev made not only by the Negroes of each city in the country where it know it or not I have fought many a battle for Thk Ace, and have sent or led many to read and become subscribers, and shall continue to do so.

Thos. Fhazier. Washington, D. C. FOR A MAN'S CHANCE.

To the Editor of The New York Ace Find enclosed an order for two ($2) dollars, the renewal of my subscription to your very valuable and helpful paper Long may you and The Age live to p.ead and advocate the cause of a people oppressed and opposed at almost every from without and then largely from within by themselves. Ymir fnr a man't t. of race Gmmc, S. I AM A NEGRO. (It matters not what my namel ani i dedicated to seas.

I am a Nerro. I am a man. God created me. God was pleased" with His ci. tion.

God was well pleased with the N. I am a Negro. i I am a I realize-History Is a point of view-- From all points of view Negro hlit'on shows progress. Where there Is progress, there Rirki lives also. God is pleased with the Right.

God la pleased with the Negro. I am a Negro! I am a Negro. I am persecuted. I am prosecuted. I am debauched.

I am segregated. 1 am murdered because I am a I am a Negro. I AM A MAN. God created all men. God created me.

God was "well pleased" with ALL Hli creation. God is well pleased with the Negro, "THE STRAIGHT DOPE." To the Editor of The New Yoke Aa-Enclosed please find two dollars for subscription. The Age is one of the most enlightening papers that I have ever read. It is a clean paper and it will educate any one who will read it It tells the whole truth about what ii going on among the colored people. Just as long as I live I am going to take this valuable paper because it givo the straight dope about the race.

N. Birmingham, Ala. HYPOCRISY AND "DEMOCRACY," To the'Editor of The New York Act: I have just read -with interest and satisfaction, the able editorial in your issue of July 12, headed "Theodore Roosevelt Speaks." I believe the Negroes can no longer be deceived by professions of friendship, on the part of those in high position, who are doing far more in talk than good taste seems to require, ii telling of their love for the lowly (ia foreign lands) and those who suer from lack of democracy (in Germany). I am unable to find language to express my abhorrence for the attitude of the millions of hypocrites, in this country, who pretend not to be aware of the continual outrages on lives, safety and property of our colored citizens; and yet never tire of uttering their fine precepts regarding "making the world safe for democracy." My sympathy is always with the Negroes, when their rights are wickedl; invaded, as has recently been the case: why Mr. Roosevelt seems to be the only man, to whom the whole world glady listens who takes an interest in expressing his detestation of the recent reign of fiendishness.

is a mystery which I never can comprehend but one which makes me regard the human animal as being meaner than I have until recently believed him. Philip G. Peabooy. Boston, Mass. IMPRESSIONS OF SARATOGA (By Miss Maybella McAdoo.) Wherever Negroes congregate the East St.

Louis riots are the topic of conversation. Saratoga is no exceptioi to the rule, and especially so since the Grand Union has supplanted sonw of iti white' help with colored women brought from the South. There is an uneasy feeling among the colored people that the spirit of East St. Louis could break loose here with little spark to the powder. Saratoga is one of America's mosl beautiful summer resorts.

It is a place blessed by nature and beloved by millionaires. The efficacy of its mineral springs and baths for medicinal purposes has made it one of the world's celebrated spas. The waters and baths are given for all sorts of diseases mt prove wonderfully beneficial. The State Reservation owns about 400 acres of land, with 140 mineral springs, from which flows daily 100.000 gallons. It maintains in operation three bath whose waters in therapeutic effect are like those at Kissingea and Hamburg, Germany, and some of the other 'spas abroad.

Unfortunately, the Commissioners find it necessary to recommend the establishment of a separate bath house for Neeroes "since manv natrons strenu ously object to using the same appli ances and attendants generally refuse to draw baths for and administer treatments to patients of another race. However. Neeroei are not refused since they go in small numbers, the fee of $1 and upwards being prohibitive to many. The band concerts eiven daily Congress Park are a source of pleasure to visitors. Although there are some 200 colored residents here, practically all the business is done by whites.

The Italians have apparently walked away with the Negroes opportunities. Among the business men may be men tioned Mr. Giarles White, who runs two barber shops and oes a thriving trade during the season. He and Mrs. WW" are substantial citizens, owning a pretty cottage not far from Congress Park- Trie Lee Cottage on Grand avenue well known and patronized by some our oeople; its cuisine is unsur-nassedr The Marshall Cottace i of the oldest boarding houses in Sar toga.

It has alwavs catered to trie enrc- Mr. Robert is one of the leaa-ing politicians and best known men town. Most of the ministers to the Metno- dist Conference held here last stopped with Miss Lizzie Collington on Walworth street, who is a member oi St. Mark's Church, New oric. Mr.

Whalen. the well known no. waiter at The Worden, is a substan tial citizen, owning much property private business. T. V.

is other progressive business man, owning a cafe and his place of residence- 1 here are two colored churcnes. tist and Methodist, with wideawake ministers the Rev. Mr. Be" amd the Rev. Mr.

Brooks. Thp inflnir nf vUiror is exieCtefl from July IS up to Sentemhcr. Thi the harvest time for Saratogians. them and they will welcome you. send you home happy in mind fl0 beneficial in bodv.

Mavw.u.e McAWo- 1 1 i ii5i.H in tiv thire was thing about me you liked." She "5sn Rut vou've spent all-" Minnehaha. I I).