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GUNMEN IN HARLEM. In reporting a recent' shooting in Harlem, in which a client who felt that ne naa grievance against took the law in his own hands and sought redress at the point of a revolver. incidentally hittina a policeman who died Inter in the hospital, the daily pa ipcr stressed the fact that "Pohndorf the fourth policeman slum by Negro i gunmen in the Negro section of Har lem since the beginning of the year. The fact that four policemen been killed in Harlem by Negroes this year is unfortunately true. But the manner of stating this fact is also jiniorrunatetly phrased.

In no case was proved that the slayers of these ponce 'men were professional gunmen. The record of Boddy, who was eon victcd of shooting Cte two officers who tvere taking him to the station house. did not show that he had ever shot any one before. The plea raised in his behalf was that he shot under the tear L. um.

KaIaj. ttrin in acrntn endure tic ft 1 the tortures of the "Ciird degree." The third policeman was shot in a station house by a Negro who upon ex amination was declared insane and sent to the institution for the criminals of that class. In the last case, there was no intent alleged of killing the police' man. The fact that the fatal shot struck the officer was incidental to the attack upon the lawyer by the client who was crazed by the idea of revenge Tor he claimed had been Him. This talk about Negro gunmen in Harlem shooting four policemen is not strictly in accord with the facts, as a little investigation will show.

Such statement is apparently printed in or lcr to aruuse color prejudice as much as for anything else. The shooting in each case was without moral justification and Cie law moved speedily for the punishment of the slayers. But it not in keeping with the facts to imply the existence of any orcanittd number of gunmen in Harlem, will make practice of shooting policemen, Let have the truth about these crimes, eveu if it makes the story less sensational than might be desired. There is too much gun carrying by undesirable members of society of both races, in Harlem as well at in other parts of the city. It sliould be stopped lor the protection of the community in general from reckless thooung.

here Is too nuidi of it for the good of the "EXPENSIVE FUNERALS. OneT, of the most pitiable exhibitions tof "extravagance among the poor of a great city i the practice of giving thei dead the most expensive funeral that their means or their credit will permit It seems to be a point of honor that the departed member of the family, be it Die wage earner or not, should be buried with the utmost display that the limited Insurance or the benefits coming from the societies of which he was a men Ler. will justify. The casket must be the most costh attainable and the num bcr of carriages or motor cars must be so great as to accommodate not only sill friends of the family, but also pro vide a free ride for the idle and curious who may attend. hit hem stated on reliable author ity that as much as twelve hundred do! Jars has been expended on the funeral of a plain hard working man, who never in his lifetime had seen or possesse th.t.

nuch money. The expenditure is usually based on (he amount of inaur ancc the dead man may have left or tt lnl.r In. Iwlrfv.r4 In inc. nullum. and the amounts payable i death bene However large the aggregate may be, it seems as if ihr sentiment of tlie and the friends o( the family knunds that all of it mnt be spent in biiryint di'uatiru 1 ittte Ihonglil seems to be Ricrt for the future those bereft of their pport and pro idcr.

Willi 'he available lunds consumed in this1 tribute of extravagant respect and mistaken devotion, the widow and 'children oi ihc 'dead man often find themselves in hard straits after the funeral. With sudden withdrawal "sf the earning" that once came in ao regularly, the money to pay the rent Hid provide food and clothing is lack The widow often has to seek em plerymcnt and the children who are old mough must leave school and be put it work to swell the amount needed for living expenses. Ail of this sudden r'unpe from comfortable, living to grinding tired might have been averted, or a' least dW.rrrd, if sounder judgment had been exewsed in the matter of arranging for tlx: f.ie ral rxremei. IVre nerd in st ch emergencies for the counsel and advice of those who have the best interest of the urviving family in view. The pas.

tor and the undertaker himself should bear in mind the fact that the family have to live after tie funeral They should restrict the expenditure to a tui.i ilut would meet the denundi of decency and propriety and at tame time al low the reiervation of a sufficient balance from the insurance or the death benefits to provide lor the family needs, until their mode of living can be satis factorily adjusted lo the changed con ditions. Extravagant funerals that plunge a bereft family into sudden poverty art a reproach to those responsible for them. They reflect no honor on the dead and work untold suffering to the living. They should be abolished in the name of common sense and decency. FILIPINOS AT ANNAPOLIS.

The Manila Paily Bafrtii of Feb ruary 14 puDiulicel an announcement that indicated that the doors of the Na val Academy at Annapolis re 110 tonger to be barred to the representatives of the colored races. The announcement read as follows: The University ol the Philippines has been authorized to select two candidates for die examination for admission to the United States naval academy at Annapolis. The candidates to be chosen will be subject to another examination before the commandent of the naval base at Cavite. If successful they will be admitted as midshipmen to the naval academy. Dean Herman Reynolds of the col lege of engineering is to take charge of the examination at the University of the Philippines, to be held March 18.

The final examination will be held at Cavite on April 18. Tiie quahfi cations are sound physical condition and special aptitude in the mathemat ical sciences. Subjects in English composition, geography, history and government are also to be covered it) the tests. In view of the fact that native Fili pinos are to be admitted to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, if successful in meeting the requirements, the recent hullabaloo raised over the naming of a native American lad for admission, merely because his color is not white, seems rather ridiculous. The policy and propriety of educating Filipino youth to serve as officers in iJie Navy of the United States is not questioned, but there does not appear to be any good reason why the Filipino should be given greater comideration than the native American oi.

color. The drawing ol color lines in the Army or the Navy or in any other de pertinent of government service is un democratic and un American. Especially is this true when such lines are drawn against such faithful factor of the national strength as the Negro, who has served in every war that the United States has taken part in, from the Rev olution to the World War. BREACHES Of TRUST. A large portion of the regular busv nest transactions of the average man or woman is based on the exercise of trust in the ability and good faith of others to carry out tiieir promises of performance.

The tenant who hires an apartment tad pays deposit putt trust in the real estate broker who takes hit money to insure him possession at a specified time. The individual who hires a lawyer to collect a debt trusts in the honesty of hit attorney to tum over the amount collected, less his fee for In most cases the trust repcued in the renting agent and the attorney is justified by hit performance, but tliere have been enough exceptions to this rule to arouse distrust and emphasize the need for a ttricter enforcement of good faith in such relations. For instance, frequent complaints are heard of the doings of a certain class of real estate dealert in Harlem, who agree to tell or rent property over which they have no control, taking as much money as they can secure as a deposit on their contract. When after repeated delays and excuses for the nonperformance of their promises, the intending purJiaser or tenant demandi the return of his money, he is told that it has liecn either used for expenses or retained for services rendered him. Cer tain lawyers are also charged with ob taining large retainers from clients for a specified purpose and falling ekher to render the service or return the money.

Other attorneys, it it alleged, have collected or settled claims for their clients and devoted the entire amount collected to their own use. 'Undoubtedly a legal remedy might be invoked for such flagrant breaches of (nut as Jioie complained of, if the facts were properly presented to tht cnurts or to the Br Association. But the proceeding entails doth time and trouble and the Injured parties in most caset content Ihemselvcs with denounc ilig the breach of trust and lawyers and real estate men in general This in an unsatisfactory outcome of such a) laek of professional ethics, at it weakens confidence in the honesty and good faith of those whom the public should trust, The reputable lawyers and realtors would find It to tlwir advantage to encouragejbl prosecution thoj among them who are accused of such breaches of trust. The dishonest practitioners thould not be allowed to prey turner on trusting clients. The char acter and good faith necessary to tuch confidenual relations should be main tained by turning the.

ratals over, to the hands ot justice THE NEW YORK AGE, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1922. VIEWS and REVIEWS By James Weldon Johnson, Contributing Editor. A REAL POET. For years the great poet has been regarded as the highest manifestation of the intellectual, esthetic, and in many cases spiri tual, powers of. a race.

In the names that have come down through history it is those of the great pucts that bhze out brightest. It is chiefly upon the achievements people claim greatness for themselves. There are, of course, four and appeal stand on a level with or even above the greatest poets, They are Buddha, Confucius, Christ and Mohammed. But these four great religious teachers were after all great ethical poets. Judged in every light they do represent the highest peaks of the genius of the races that produced thetn.

But these names are limited to oriental races. No occidental race has yet produced great religious teacher. Among poet still stands almost unrivaled. that contain names of wide influence and appeal, ror example, the soldiers' list can show Alexander, Casar and Napoleon. But there is not an occidental people in which the final test would not put its greatest poet above its greatest soldier.

The times are slightly changed and the glamor about the poet may be somewhat dimmed. are living in a very material age, and the man of science, the man who is able to bend the forces of nature to the well being of humanity is coming into ascendency. There may come a time when from achievements in science there will spring names that will shed a luster as bright and enduring as the names of Homer, Shakespeare. Dante. Moliere and Goethe.

However, to my mind, this is improbable. The materialism of the present age may be but a transitory 6tatc. Moreover, although the scientist. may contribute what in the ultilitarian sense is far more impbrtant to humanity, he can never take hold of the imaginations of men and stir their souls like the poet. It therefore seems that as Ion gas man loves the beautiful the great poet will hold his supreme place.

I have indulged in this rather weighty sounding introduction simply to induce a train of thought I wish my readers to think of the production of poets by a race as a vital thing. It is vital not only as an indication of the development of the race but it is vital as to the place and recognition which that race is given by the world at large. In accordance with the temper of the age, and more particularly, in accordance with false ideas with which the mind of the Negro in America has been impregnated, we Aframericans are prone to think of one of our number who conducts a successful corner grocery store as being far more vital and important as a factor in our progress than one who turns out a sheaf of poems, even though the poems are real the grocer as one who is laying foundations stones in our raciat greatness and of the poet as doing little more than wasting his time. Without disparaging the, successful grocer, I must say that this evaluation is all wrong. It would he interesting, if it were possible, to calculate how many 'successful Negro'gfocers it would take to equal the force of Paul Laurence Dunbar as a factor in the progress of the race and in having the progress recognized by the world.

I am now driving at the truth contained in the words of Jesus Christ when He said, "Man shall not live by bread alone." If the race would develop its it needs not only to support its its poets. All of this is merely introductory to a few wcrds to call at tention to a Negro poet who star on the horizon. The poet Mr. McKay deserves a full should not do tn his case what has Dunbar, that was, not to recognize or not even to know his great ness until it was acclaimed bv the whites. Mr.

McKay is a real poet that he has both the poetic endowment and the ability to make that endowment articulate, and he is yet far from his full growth. He is still a young man. He is a poet of beauty and a poet of power. No Negro poet has sting more beautifully of his own race than McKay and no Negro poet has equalled the power with which he expresses the bitterness that so often rises in the heart of the race. As an example of that power we quote his sonnet.

"If We Must Die," written after the tetrriblc riots in the summer of 1919: If we must die, let it not lie like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot. While round us bark llie mad and hungry d'Jt Making their mock our accursed lot. If we must die, let us nobly die. So that our precious blood may not be shed In" vain then even the monsters we defy Sliall be constrained to honor ut though deadl 0 kinsmen I we must meet the common foe I Though far outnumbered let us show us brave. And for their thousand blows deal one dcatliblowl What though before us lies ttie ofen grave? Like men we'll lace the murderous, cownrdly pack, Pressed to die wall, dying, hut righting back! The race ought to be proud fully, buch a voice is not found McKay's volume, "Harlem Shadows." published by Har court.

Jjrace Company, New York, is already attracting the attention of the critics of the country. What he has achieved tn this little volume sheds honor CHINA'S ANTI CHRISTIAN REVOLT, Dispatches under date of wnna, give accounts ot an anti been put under way by students China. It is said that declarations have been issued by manv student organizations condemning missionary efforts in this country and speaking out particularly against Christianity. One of the statements against Christianity as published in a dispatch reaas as toliows; "Of all religions Christianity is. we feel, the most detestable.

One sin whichChristjanity guilty and which particularly makes our hair rise on end is its collu sion with militarism and Realizing that China intelligence officer of the capitalists and the hireling of and imperialistic countries of the world. Christianity is utilizing the opportunity to extend its influence. It is the nsian irom any ot trie benefits which Christianity may confer tr.e capitalistic countries." of such poets that races and names which their influence the occidental peoples the great There are other lists, of course, poetry. We are prone to think of greatness and highest possibilities grocers hut also to appreciate risen like a new and flaming is Claude McKay. and prompt appreciation.

We were guilty of in the case of and a great poet. I mean by. this of a poet capable of voicing It so every day. upon the whole race. several weeks ago from Peking, Christian movement which has universities and schools in laying a foundation for interference.

If the so called Christian upon the Chinese it must be admitted that in a great measure the above indictment is true. Much of the spread of imperialism was effected in the name of the spread of Christianity. Most of the colonies of the nations of the Old World were acquired in the following manner: Missionaries were sent out to Christianize the heathen people and when for obvious reasons the heathen felt that the Christian was not living up to all of his teachings and professions, and when this feeling perhaps resulted in the throwing of a few stones at the mission house and the smashing of a few windows, the missionaries immediately cabled home and warships were promptly dispatched to protect the mis sionaries and missions and eventually to seize the heathen This has been done over and the imperialistic nations stood for name of spreading and protecting Wc feel, however, there is from Peking. China is at present engaged in a civil war, and these dispatches may be a part of aying a foundation for intctrferenee. If the so called Christian nations feel that they must interfere in China they will want a good reason for doing so and one been tried is the protection of Christian missionaries in a heathen land.

GENOA. The Conference at Genoa at the time of this writing i a good as closed. The objects for which the Conference was called have not been attained and yet a great deal has been accomplished. The economic rehabilitation of Europe seems to be as far if not farther off than In truth, this rehabilitation cannot be realized except through an entirely different attitude on the part i urope ana tlie cooperation different attitude on the part Even if the United States into Europe at the present time wanted. The money would soon gods to which Europe is now of of national distrust, racial suspicions, nationalistic greeds.

Europe must face the facts that it is necessary for her to practice not only the most rigid economy but self denial and to bend all nf her energies toward recuperation. this state of mind no amount of be able to actually save her. EDUCATION IN GEORGIA. The Georgia Association for the Ad i vancemrnt of Education anion Ne groes held its fifth annual meeting at Lolurvsius last month. Among the lads relating to public education brouzht out at this meeting, according to the Sa rannah Tnbvnue, were the loliowing: Small salaries nf teachers; insignificant amount given to the State Institution fcr colored people, and the crowded condition! the classroom in Negro schools.

It at brought out that ol the 1,2.,001) appropriated for the State inititu'ions. the schools of Albany and Savannah got only $25,. 000. or 2 per cent, of the N'esrro 'ttiildren are taught for $318 per term; whites are taught for 14.86 per term; Negro teachfrj have enrolled 54 pupils per room; whites have 31; the white! enroll 95.5 per cent, of school population; Negroes enroll 71.8 per and 29 per cent of the Negro school population is not enrolled, or 107.000 of the 361.000 are roving the wcods. The bright side of this, however, wa very encouraging.

It was slwwn that the Georgia Association for (5ie of Eelucation has cooperated with the State Department of Education for the past twelve months and with the aid and direction of Mr. W. B. Hill, the Rural Super viscr, more than twenty schoolhouscs have been erected at a cost of more than $100,000. The crgaiu'tation as aroused intrnse interest and support in its work amonir the leading iastitutions of the State.

Churches, fraternities and women's or ganizations are reported as taking to tlie ork, as never before. It is proposed to raise ten thousand dollars nrxt year to support the cause of common school education. This aralous support of educational effort is highly creditable to the Negro people of Georgia and is made necessary by the failure nf the State to ful. fill its obligation in the matter of public instruction fairly nnd squarely. The tacts and figures presented show the in.

adequate provision of funds to tupport Sclioe.lt tor Negroes, as well as the fail ure to provide sufficient accommodation for pupils and enforce their attendance. The NeRroes of Georcia are wi. enough toasMimethc dulylsliat the Stale iRnorc ji in proniliuj; i rhil facilities fur llieir children. Ut us hope tlut the State educational authorities in iht course of time may he brought to a better appreciation tf tluir rcsponsi bilitiet. A HIGH CAiUNU.

We luve it on good scriptural authority ill it the preacher and the teacher ef God't Word it vailed to a high culling. in mese modern days where tmj much laxity of conduct it lound in the auks of those who should afford a Letter m. ample, it is well to bear this saying In mind. A lecent scrutiny of tht records of a criminal court revealed the line ojvposite the naine of a prisoner convicted on Ills own confession of lieinout crime the description, "mjnij. ter of the Evidemly here was an unfortunate shine who could not live up to tlie Jiighnejs of his calling.

In other times the minister wm fenced apart from the rest of humanity by tn armor of smug saneiimmiioiwnejs, which made him teem a thing apart! Nowadays lie is accepted, as human likf (he of ihc worm, nnd lie need not wear distlno live ntlire unless he desires. But one of the clergy said in a moment of frankness, "a minister do as he plrasrs." This may be true if it would please him lo do tilings that would derogate from the highness of his rAllit.g. Tilt mlnisler must ever lie mindful tint be oeeujitt the highest calling allowed over again and the people of it because it was done in the the Christian religion. another angle to these dispatches the usual diplomatic method of of the best reasons that has yet the United States. Of the two Europe is the more important ooured several billion nf dr.11.irs the result would not be what is co into the worshin of the false bowing down, militarism, inter Unless Europe is able to come to aid from the TTniterl Stntoa to humanity.

He is the mediator between God and man, teaching and preaching of the duties and responsibilities that enter into that The position of flie preacher involves the maintenance of human relations with his charge, based on strength of character and consistent morality. Human weakness must ever be sustained and upheld by the thought of the high call ing to which it has attained. Cleanliness of living and uprightness of character will, be a testimony to file world that the minister's calling is a true one. Such a light as this wil lead his congregation into the ways of righteousness and peace. The best proof of the highness of the calling of the clergy, is the manner in which the members live up to it.

Those who serve tlieir fellows as guides to better living, must practice what they preach. Says the Caltimorc Ajro Amtrican: The ministry is the only profesison which admits grammar school graduates. Law and medicine require least a high school education. The trades are open for skilled workers, and business has little use for the man or woman without a high tebool education. It would seem to be up to the various to insist on a higher requirement for admission to the ministry.

The highest catling of all should require greater technical training and knowl on the part of those entering it. Oregon seems to be suffering from an attack of KuKluxism, jnrtging from the following note in the Portland Advocate: As the primary election draws near, interest in the political situation becomes more intense. Down in Texas the one quotum being asked in politic is "Are you a KUnsman?" In Portland, tlie same question plays a most importtaut part Maybe the same significance dors not attach to tlie tenr Klansmun," that obtains in other sections. At' any rate it is well to smoke 'cm out FRANCES HARPER'S PROPHECY. Editor of Th Nkw.

Vohk During the dark and terrible days Ol sUvcty, when the avaricious ra p.ieniiK American unite nun Held in galling boinl.ig four million human beings of simtlier race and cuWr, Mrs. rancej r. Harper, tne races lamous piK test of llut period, wrote poem, addressed to the white women of America, in which are the lullowing sigiuTicant ttamrat: ran Slirh ovtr Vht irt cte'1 Armenia. vo wfnu in iibt uewime nonis, rn iiifinrn ll, m.ma ni.1.11 Krtiiii aunlied snd fiii iidii luomc1 lo romu. Rut narks rrnm mr Southland are noaiinc MUis ur amnion murmurs or pain.

And minion, lioarl iirti'kcn art weepint er llieir inriureo aim main. Ilv jr niu.nn, my fivorin iisicra, Jil plen. pryr or tear lor tmiilii who dwell 'neaili tb tftadowa Or atony, liairwl and teart Weep not. r.h my 'wll hflirj usinrs, Vrp mil rnr the Negro alnna Rut wrap fur tour Sona. wli mutl annmr Tb Crop, wtllU) thrtr Falhara town." That Mrs.

Harper's words were prophetic then, were subsequently awfully attested by the flow of "the blood of the firstborn," that made fertile the soil of oves a hundred battlefields, during the Civil War, to atone for die crime of the white man. in treating his "ii'iUUcssln bUck" Jtr over Z.iO years. 1 When the Asosciated Press flashed over tht wires of the country one day last week tlie news of the savage and gruesome tragedy and holocaust nf three liumm brings by tn infurulrd and brajtlv n.nli of white lexanv Mrs Harper's prophetic words, written over Sixty years ago, iromrdiaiely teenrrtd In iv.y mitid. Ai lie propf.c'j tvKit btcKitie 3 true, regarding the wickedness cf man slavery thru, so likewise it be verified. soonr or later, eccan: 4 the enormity of 'the crime of unless the Federal Government pu's 4 stop to it unconditionally.

"For, whatsoever ye sow, that ye also reap." Keep not thou silent. 0 Gcd, "Vr gcanre it mir.c, I'll repay, Lord." CHARLES H. MOOR Greensboro, N. A QUADRUPLE HORROR. (Daily News, Urcensboro, N.

The lynching stroy from Texa is the most sickening thing that the v.r papert have beencompelled to print for years. It was a bestial crime tmt led to the lynching; but the lyntlii: was more bestial vet, for it was by white men. The fair fame if Texas is therefore stained bv quadruple, instead of a single It it quite true that the wrath white men is stirred to such a i by such a crime that they will ip at no meant t) prevent its rence; and it is true that white nu i who are otherwise orderly and cent enough will conr.ive at any of horror if they believe it mv sary to top such happenings. V. do the people of that Texas really believe that it is nrccss.m Le tus say.

rather, have they wr stopped to consider calmly whc or not it is likely to prevent a ic pition of the crime? Consider for a moment wh.it necessary to make tuch, mcawt effective. In the first place, it necessary that potential rapists shou'. be impressed by the that overtv the actual one. Jt follows that pot n. tial rapistst if they are to be i pressed, miut be men of enough im agination to visualize what will happen to rhem if they surrender to the beastly instincts to imagine themselves in the place of the burned nun.

uut who are the rapists Are they Negroes of average intelligence Certainly not in this section of country. Your rarf is either a half wit to begin with, or brain has been temporarily craziti by alcohol or drugs. In either case, he is tor tr.e moment incapable of impressed bv anr outside influence. Memories of what happened to some other Negro in the past will not have the sligiie.t influence upon him. You might burn half the Negroes in Texas, yet the next timeopportu nity occured to a moron, or to a vicious buck charsej up on cocain or heroine, yon would have another case of rape.

In short, lynching or no lynching, the better class of Necnies are not goin. to commit the crime anyhow; and the won clast are going to commit it anvhow. What, excuse then remains for a lynching? 'None, except to vent the wrath of the white population on the object of its detestations. But the pre vention of exactly that thing priva'e. extra legal vengeance has been the object of every legal system for Ine thousand years.

Private vengeance is too unreliable, too likely to go to ex termes and wreak the grossest injustice to be permitted in a civilized natini. The chances are exactly this thing happened in Texas. Two of the Ne groes protested their inocence to the last, and the mot that killed tn had no evidence but theword of t'e confessed criminal. New crimes have not been render ed less likely by the Texas horror. Still less has justice been ferve 1.

Nothing has been done except the un leashing ol the beast that lies con cealed in every man; and it is at least an even chance that the beast, in his ravening, has committed two detest able crimes, has put two innocent men to a lingering and hideout death. FOR THE FEDERAL ANTI LYNCHING BUI. (From New York Evening Post). W'ould the mob which burned three Negroes at Kirvin, Texas, on Saturday, May 6th. have been so bent on its atrocity had it known that every participant who could be hunted out by Federal officers would be imprisoned iar from five years to life? Would the sheriff have been so ready t6 hand tlie keys of the jail had he known that failure to perform tiis duty fully would lay him open to a fine of $5,000 or five years imprisonment, or bath? Wou'd the county authorities be quite so acquiescent in this horror if they faced a fine immediately $10,000 for each man? We think not.

The lynching was peculiarly cruel; two of the tht men burned died protesting their innocence, the only evidence them being the "confession" of the third, very likely extorted by torture. One of the leaders in five opposition in Congress to the Dyer bill, which would provide the Federal penalties for lynching listed above, was Representative Summers of Texas. Yet Texas has 294 lynching in tht yrart 1885 1919, or more than any other Southern State save Georijia and Mississippi. Every such 'atrocity is worth dozens of speeches in Congress as an argument for "wiping out th liaiWic wain," as President has put it. COMMERCE OPENS NEW FIELD FOR NEGRO WOMEN THE GREATEST SIGN OF NEGItO PROGRESS.

(Daily Record, Greensboro, N. Recently at the National Theatre bere, at the closing exercises of Palmer Memorial, a Negro editor of Neiv York, (Fred R. Muore of The Age) in speaking, turned and pointed to the Negro girl students on the stage and then isked the audience, "What arc these girls to find to do when they graduate?" It must be admitted, that employment for Negro womtn'is an economic problem for Negro men to solve. It ought to be one of the most serious problems th which they arc now con ironied. Jt used to be that the highest position lo which Negro women could umpire was that of a school teacher, it not so now In Durham the N.

C. Mutual hat a corps of Negro women clerks, so many in fact that that business concern operates a lunch rooio for the purpose of accommodating its office help at lunch hour. It is said that a Negro business concern in Atlanta. Ga, employs some 50 otd, wtrnen paying "'goci tjJa ricv Norfolk, Va, is another city where compotrnt Negro women are being introduced into new commercial lielui. But what would immediately concert Ihe Greensboro Negro people is this tijm from a certain Negro drug store here.

It reads: "Woman clerk wanted at good s' ry and board. Would prefer woman of good education hud wih tendencies, character and efficiency teir.fi Uer best assst here.".