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B. ZMf Company, 608 South rj)arbora Street, Chicago; Friieo Bldg, St. Levis, 101 Park ATeaue, limr. York. iiVftr LINCOLN JOHNSON 1 passing of Henry Lincoln Johnson has heen the cause lfor katJonal reflection; il not genuine mourning.

Perhaps no one individual ever made so many impressions as did Johnson. He Was unique character, to say the least. life of Henry Lincoln Johnson is inseparably linked to vjtoerican politics. To mention the name Sf Line Johnson is tto speak of politics. He grew up seeking his place the poht IcaltableJ He sought it unceasingly; without rest or compro mi5e: Politics was the only food he sought with diligence.

Of tvam rvrrnnft1 TeolfftTA. he CAred little. Of his WB DerSOnal 2 comforts, he cared, perhaps, not quite enough. He never thought ox money as sometmng to nave ana to noia. txe inougnt oi poi MK'Hia Tuvnrr TuVHtfr ftnH nothino no absorbed him as DOl itlcs If money came as something incidental to political achievement, he accepted itt but he never thought of money as a thing of value per se.

It can be said truthfully that Line. i Johnson enjoyed playing the "game of politics" more than the Mpractice of his chosen profession. Indeed, 'politics became his profession and law was but a part of his business. ZkcA what of it all? He actually succeeded in the sense of achievement. He rose to the highest place in his party organ 'V JiaticnNational Committeeman, and held his place in spite ot opposition, and there was no small opposition.

And he rose tltrough the political machinery of a Southern State, Georgia. again, he showed how utterly he disregarded all else but ipcUtics; Where could he have found more difficulty than in Georgia? He wbrked at the mill when the grinding was hard, FO devottd was he, to the game of manipulation, strategy and diplomacy. He loved the art of matching wits. He was a sue cess, if achievement means success. t3, "And we shall miss Henry Lincoln Johnson.

There is a 1ff tiarant. hv TiftMinor. He filled it as he saw his duty. both to himself and to his group. That he did not escape crit iclsm; aavs little, if anything; against him.

Men who are active expect to be criticised. He was no exception. He was a type 4iinta himself, admired, loved and hated, depending upon how well he was understood; but through it all, he remained the one and' Henry Lincoln Johnson. MR. WOODSON AND OUR HISTORY We recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of the effort record our history in these United States.

The meeting was Sjfreld in Washington, where Dr. Carter Woodson has labored earnestly and patiently to arouse in us a full appreciation of 'hB importance of preserving our history. The attendance was 'Vi lnct large as the importance of the work deserves, but those tn attendance were interested and in earnest. Whatever of record has been made for os, Dr. Woodson iii TOftdft it: He has not onlv made the record, but he has lab bred without compensation commensurate with the labor done.

His brief report on the wonk done, and the sacrifice made by ijiimself evoked both admiration and pity. That one man should so much with such little inspiration is remarkable enough, but when it is remembered that he worked without compensa 4ion, his work rises above labor and becomes a benefaction. It is hoped that interest in ourselves and what we have Fdone, as well as what we axe doing, can be arc used in all parts rpf.the country. In this way, valuable contributions can be made those of us who know how to report our aidiievements, and ietne worK oi conecung aaia win De corxesponainKiy uuikuku. fit ought to be the pleasure of all of us to look about ourselves 0ni "tor valuable data.

Every day we are making history, and fu pture generations can have the benefit of what we do today, if Iwc are careful to keep a reliable record of our activities. It is jsfifa vrork in which all of us can participate. Dr. Woodson wel yf vif tomes our participation. He invites volunteers.

If he has made jfthe beginning so substantial without aid, surely the joint effort 5yof all of us can make the work of recording much easier in the lUture. Then, too, the very consciousness of the fact that a record i0zAUt being made, might inspire us to better acts and deeds. We commend Dr. Woodson for his untiring work so excellently We solicit for him and the group a sincere cooperation Cigon the part of those who can and do appreciate how valuable xXrn the future will be a complete and accurate record of the achievements of the group during these days when we are tll challenged at every advance. Let it not be said that Dr.

Wood labored unaided. LOGAN IS DEFEATED patiently for six years for his opportunity to re a lost office, J. Griffin, Republican, defeated Robert vJiL Logan, colored, also a Republican, for the office of Alderman Hifeof the Fifth' Ward, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This fight was the only one in the country where the question of color jwas the only thing against a Republican candidate. Ixgan 'could not overcome the color of his skiru returns show that a few hundred colored people voted 'for another colored candidate who entered the race against Lo and who would not withdraw, regardless of solicitations from the colored leaders of the Ward.

This man knew his remaining in the fight meant the defeat of Logan, and he remained evidently for that purpose because he was defeated thousands of votes. The Wte.man,vGrinin. received every white vote in the ird except, perhaps a dozen or' so cast: for a Hebrew candi pis mm tPrMtoa Kwa 6rrtc) I "UNFIT TQ Mr. A. W.

Kimiey. who alma hlm aelf "Chaplain IS. Zaatitate," HaBtarQIe, Ala haa written to The PlttararxQ American that my ar tkle oi. AosTiat wu "nnlllt to print." Thia waa the articla where mention waa tnade of our tendency to eleep in church and hope for th ena ox. the lemon ao tnat we" conld get away to aoiaethlng more inter eeInff.

more eleratlng end more ain eere and horteat. Of eooxae, dldnt expect the brethren of the long coats, big canea and itching palm to agree with raa. Of conrae they wouldn't. They are going to protect their industry juit aa Jndge Gary protect hia or just aa the. bootlegger protecta hia.

If I were at th head el an industry famous for its "tips in the form of automobiles, hami, Prince Albert anita, stetson hats, first Sunday col leeUons, watches, $1,000 raeation funds, contributions from pottti elans, and hosts 'of female aatel litefr searlet and otherwise why. I'd raise the devil if any dead broke heathenish, upstart attempted to interfere. If the truth be told, most ter I beliere, would confess that they. don't hare much respect for the preacher these days. There is no particular reason why we should As a group the preachers, whito and black, are dismal failures.

The world advances in spite of them. It becomes more Christian in spite of them. It becomes more Christian and by. that I mean it becomes more tolerant, more intelligent, more decent and more moral in spite of ue obstacles set in its path by the professional dispensers of a brand of ignorance, false hood and bunk mis called the Christian Religion. Of course, we yawn and sleep in We only go because somehow we feel that it is the respectable thing to do.

We also cling to the hope that perhaps some day the, preachers will catch up with the schools, science, art and human life and give us something that will keep ue awake and interested. Of course, I am not speaking here about the mass of emotional folk who can be roused to great feeling, heat and perspiration by any itinerant "Bible Pounder" or "rabble I am speaking of the large minority who the preachers are so pleased to castigate now and again because this minority finds other things more Interesting and uplifting than a harangue on the Valley of Dry Bones, the Apostles Creed or the Virgin Birth. Thia minority can see no reason why it should help well collections to be squandered, help buy automobiles for preachers when they have none themselves or send Dr. So and So on a long vacation when this minority is working hard to escape poverty itself. The favorite come back of the average preacher when his methods are attacked to get up and bellow that some certain man Is at tscking the church.

This is to hoodwink his congregation. He knows that he is lying. He knows that attack Is being made on Religion such but that the attack is made on the preacher and his using of Religion as a tool to keep himself in ease and comfort. He uses Religion as a cloak to cover his own licentiousness, venality, hypocrisy, ignorance and untruthfulness. I feel that it is needless to say that this does not apply to all preachers.

As a rule the preacher to whom this does not apply keeps his mouth shut. BUT THE STABBED PIG ALWAYS SQUEALS. THE PEOPLES FORUM A Column for Courier readers, in which public grierances can be aired and opinions expressed. THE WAY OUT FOR NEGRO THE My attention has been called to an article appearing in a Hearst Newspaper, containing what is purported to be a marvelous expose of Red activities among American Negroes. These wonderful.

discoveries were alleged to have been made bv a certain Brousseay, a Negro Sher xioimes, wno is a terror to pilferers of Pullman blankets, hotel silver, etc. Now it is an admitted fact that the condition of the Negro worker, in the United States particularly, is deplorable. They, the spokesmen for the capitalistic class admit this themselves. The thinking Negro worker. who has loner been aware of this condition has been trying to and a way out.

He reauzea that he. the Negro worker is in the majority of his group. if he would Improve bis condition, he must or ganire. As for the Bed scare that you are hearing so much' about, that is merely shiboleth that the capitalis tic oppressors are trying to raise before the Negro worker, to confuse him and disrupt 'any attempt at organization. Now when they lynch.

ourn, jim crow and segregate and exploit us, we do' not need a wire from Moscow telling us that we are being mistreated. We would be stu pid indeed if we needed to be told from an outside source that we are being abused, we Negroes are begin ning to think lor ourselves, that is the reason that we have prepared to organize an American Negro Labor Congress which convenes In Chicago, on the Z5th of October. 1923. The American Negro Labor Con gress is being caUed in an attempt to get to getner the workinr class element of the Negro race in order that they might decide on ways and means of finding a way out of the miserable conditions under which they now live, only the working class can do that, because tt alone has the power, its industrial strength. Mobs of the South are not lynching Negro bankers, Negro doctors or lawyers, but men and women of the working class.

It is always they who suffer and it is they alone of the working class of our race, because of the large place that they hold in the industrial life of the country and particularly the South land that as a factor in the struggle of the race for its complete liberation, they alone have the supreme means and power to determine the future destiny of the race. The National Conmittee calling the American Negro Labor Congress appeals to every Negro of the working cla.ss with real fighting blood in hia veins to rally to the support of the great Congress of Negro labor to take place October 25th. It is proposed that the American Negro Labor Congress shall be indeed more than a mere passing date. It was clearly a question of color, and the returns show us beyond question the following: The Jews, Catholics and Protestants voted for Griffin, who is reported to be a Catholic. The Negroes did not vote for Logan, their own race candidate.

If there had been any desire or intention on the part of any faction, race or creed of the whites to support Logan, we had the following possibilities, any one of which would have elected Logan: The Catholics and colored voters, by combining, could have elected Logan. The colored and Hebrew votes combined could have elected Logan. The colored and Protestant votes combined could and would have elected Logan. All the colored voters, if they had registered and cast their vote solidly for Logan, could have elected Logan. Bat the whites did what we just would not do; they stuck by their own.

They did successfully what we made a perfect bungle of. Who blames them? No one. It is. very evident that the whites of the Ward, Jews, Catholics and Protestants marched under, the one banner of color and forgot the Creeds, K. K.

K. and such rot, and voted for a white man for Alderman. enemies Logan made, and there were many, refused to be reconciled, and they contributed they could to the defeat of the only colored oQce holder the colored people had la Western Penhsylrania. affair in the life of the American Negro, but shsll be a permanent InJ ouiuuuu rwuiuns iu muuencc throughout the race and far into the future in time and space as a steadfast, uncompromising and militant social force making for proper racial adjustment in this country. (Signed) Otto HaU National Committee.

THE OIGEST By Jloyd jfCaiviii Copyright lttS.by Pittsburgh Courier Fub. Co. HE NEW YORK WORLD poses as a special friend to the, Negro. It hires a Negro special writer andprints more constructive' news about the race than all other NeW York newsnaners (white) combined. It is therefore expected that when occasion for defense ot the.

race arises, the World would rather favor' the Negro than go flatly against him. Yet such was not the case when the little Daly girl was kidnaped and murdered a few days ago. The World frankly accused e. "'Negro of the murder before it wan generally known just who had murdered the child. The World did not wait for the facts to be established, but printed this headline: EGRO KIDNAPS and followed up with a story which read in part as follows: i "Hundreds of policemen and civilians were searching last' night the fields and' wooded sections of Cedar N.

for Mary Daly, 6, who was kidnaped at noon near her home. No. 6 Prospect Montclair, N. by a Negro, who whisked her away in a taxicab. The kidnaper drove with one hind, stifled her cries with the other, and ahot through the head a man who attempted to frustrate the kidnaping.

Negroes who so religiously buy the New York World and swear by ts editorial pobcy could hardly have expected such a audden change of a a sra At. A a a. maW a ironu i Aiicr toe true iacis came out ine world tned to cover up Its shame by printing a statement from Walter White to the effect that it has time and again asked Mr. White to investigate and verify reports appearing to place Negroes in an unfair light. Here was a capita instance where The World could have asked Mr.

White to investigate, but it did wot It ran along witn we moo, just as au the other New York papers did. All oi wmcn ioovi ice rvona la no more iavpraoie to negroes than any owner muj newspaper woen a real stand musx De taken. The World is for Negroes when it is popular to be for them, or at least when it doesnt lose anything by being for them. To be frank about it, we prefer a newspaper which has an avowedly antagonistic or indifferent pobcy toward as to one which parades under a convenient hypocrisy. IT looks as if the Old Guard has about spent itself.

Roscoe Is' in disgrace; Cohen haa rum hanging over hia head; and 'Line Johnson is dead. Young men will now come to the front with new strength and new ideas. Old policies, which were not altogether pleasing to the younger element, will be discarded, and new policies, with a more modern tang will be put in force. What manyhave referred. to as the 'Uncle Toms' and 'Handkerchief Heads' are out of the running.

Johnson was a power in his day. He up at a time when it was impossible for men of his race to play the political game absolutely on the square and win recognition from the powers that be. Doe to the odium of reconstruction, the one thing the powers that be were determined, not to recognize was honesty and self respect in Negro politicians. They must uncyuic, summing, luwciuunico: ww.IWUlf, BO AS lO 11 VS US tO the a mm that tiarl Kan Am fnr tHom made for them. Even so, with all all mighty battles.

He these odds against him, Lme Johnson. won aome Power to be reckoned even if he was not universally liked and respected. By sheer diplomacy and cunning hm with some of the best strategists of his day. He will be remembered for the trouble he made, if for nothing else. Meanwhile it will be interesting to walch developments henceforward.

Who will rise up and take the reins where Johnson dropped them? The opportunity is here. Let the strong man step forward. i REPORTS from Richmond, following Elk week; are most tattering to say the least. The white people down in Virginia forgot segregation and all their other pet customs" in deference to their from sections of the country where such "customs? are not in vogue. It anneeM that the police had less work than durinr normal times.

3n'L. tyrVzl. that more than 40,000 extra inhabitants were in town. The white neonle were piminiy whin wje excellent conduct and high Quality of thi Brother Bills, and openly said so. The Bills were in turn amazed at the generousness and liberality of the whites who came jxp under the Lee tradition.

These conventions do a lot of good for the race, evm.thoWhn direct, progressive results can be shown. 1 The Man Who Fails i ('. He who is strong to fight to fight. will no front can daunt, troth, bo truth and right boright 's That's tho manwhom tho azoo want. And tho ho may fail and dim in grim defeat He has hot fled the atri.

And the house of earth shall em'more sweet' Than the perfume of his life. Copyrtjrit. tttJ, by The nuuoorch Court y. ARDEN LEWIS LA WES at Rinjr Sing rives eet ata tistiea showing that there are more singie a tea iwpnwiBM married and more aeo drink ers than booze hounds. This' Utter state neat adds color to the claim tha PrebibitionlfiU that most convicts are to.

fall by tin mo That, or the petiee are snore iadalgeat tosrards the tievoteea Bare has. As for the minority of the eonyicts being married i that is easily anderstood; married have tasted the rigors priso Ufe, and are therefore mere carefuL; Be tweea Sing Sing and saatrinioay, however, well Stag Sing ianl so bad. ri K'S HOW could a yoeag child be murdered by aayene except a Negror Queried the wise folks of New Jersey in partkralar and the world tn So, in accordance with the hundred per cent American custom, they immediately charged that the chauffeur; Pierce, had murdered the little girl and then committed auiride But lof and behold! It turns out that a white man, a student of Harvard; murdered the little girl and the chauffeur as welL Of course the young murderer la intone; how else can one account. for an educated young white man committing' a heinous crime? Immediately the yellow journals slop over with drivel about the murderer's broken hearted parents and the grief of the parents of the murdered child, but one hardly finds a' line in the fair American newspapers about the' straggling and grief stricken wife and three children left behind by the Negro chauffeur murdered, while fry. Ing to earn bread and a shelter for them.r: Well, we anstnt expect too ranch the world has been made aafe for', democracy, yon know.

IF stevederes, dining car empleyes, bricklayers, buUdiaa laborers. foundation werkers and glass blowers, art. intelligent enough to or. ganlxe into trade unions for their mutual beneht and tha advancement of the laboring' aa a whole, one would naturally suppose that college and high school graduates, who work aa atenographers and bookkeepers and typewriter weald do likewise with That is. one would expect it uon were ss tive enough to beiiete that college and high school gradnatei 'are nec essarily intelligent." But strange to relate tor tn eorroberaha.1 ot Hte cynics) such is not the case; The most difficult people to organize, on tne werd or all tabor leaders, are the white eollsr These people Imagine because they work close the boas' and wear white cellars that they are not laborers like Jhd Tel Iowa driving steel or swinging picks next door; so they refuse to join a union.

In the whole city of New York, where there are tens of thousands of these white collar slaves, there are not a thousand of them organized for their economic rrHIS diffidence el the while Vol I lar slave is another indictment of our academic, department stores miscalled colleges ahd our head stuffing facreriea miscalled pub ic scnoou. Any system eT edoca. Uoa that mnflta a worker from protecting his economic interests is iniaUcal to the best interest of the mslerity ef people. white collar alaves look down bmu a krik. layer with more disdain than a cloak mere riant iooka down upon them; yet the bricklayer earns mere in a day than the average ateswgranher earns week.

Curious people; these white collar eja And what is true of. the whites is irae of the blacks. THE other night two labor organ izcra tried to bersuade the ef force' of the NationaMJr ban League to join the Bookkeepera' and Steaegrapkers Union, and those people were lust as Indignant as a preacher weald be if asked to return the.netion to hia congregation. These ao caDed educated Negre women found a hundred Cases for NOT joiaing and not ONE What Negro r.trker ned tbe Uber movement (the movement that will rule this country) Js intelligent and educated members, vet wfcn Poetsmity.ia agorded the so called 0' idueated nl union moven, tbJ greeted ith and elevated nosinW. are the iery Nejrro.2 over by the hour you with the.r i.V JJ mierest in tht the masses of Vro.

what, tcrmec long wilUhc nor( bSS.1 es be Ue, progres. Sf0tp resses nvUtll man inese roHar make it eas Shakespeare te do iw. tet WtTfVtt" l.ivi'nti of the (. ourl of Geaertlw muiee or ine Bar AC i lor to go armed." He wmiuT the court, jumicw of iSj JegUlator to ise pUtol the honest men. Mr.

Ji the 'District Mtornn. Jji idea on the cronnd "thu TJ increase the number ef Btnsati titled to go armed." Dart charm yon Why the ittl lactares would be op tratfj such lsw ss erer ensctH; I mean immediate baakrestcT ta i whole lot ef tLem. Tlii ,1 courts might ha a seaae tf ks and include lawyers, stark fcr asd clergymen under Use hafe honest men. Certainly Matir precedent would hare at great industry were tabesrei, AN editorial ia tie Sep! number of "Oppartaajyi veals a naivete tkat a short of delirhlfuL su; a a bit odd," says the eraditt Mil son, "but it is a reassuty speculation that if a test vtn the results would thov a bly higher lerel ef edscatiw e. Ing bags in the teraisal tH than there is in the State Lcr tive bodies of this treat teyt How in the name of Gti eatk level be lower? Way be a arc about stating a fact Uat to any person above the nests' of an aati ririsectioaistsrsSri Day Ad Ten tiit, or eves sf T.

C' A. secretary? NEGRO late Lorain. Ohia, has asfee preceaa to wake swt as hard as steeL Hiraf thing original it is eoohtfo' ri he ia a graduate ef say af sr crow eoUeges. Be aai 600,000 for the sateat Sr some one wiQ only hmst i ef hardening the soft keati I people who strairhteataarac: whiten their skins, the sates! to be worth SlMM tM to the race in added manhoor ssd teem. SOMETIMES sBrkt isc passing word vriQ nsre he impress a fact as ev'i I than years ef reaais: aat tfc tioo.

For instance: ia aai season I bare iamrhes apis self abasement of tkat nt of Negroes whs despise because they are h'erroe I Negro, and who identify via ness all that a cleTstiiit 4 and commendable ia kfe. being somewhat of rechwll often come is caatact more flsgrsst rases. Imp great snrprise, vkn educated octoreoa rirl known inUnatety for the bs i years, confessed (aik li.r s.Uti's btrj) never wanted to hare er than she." Of coarw. vioosly considered her intelligent but sopkitif astounded. Then the trapt tion of her remark strsdt more forcibly when I she was at the tiee her husband rery anlesa hubby is a ee 71 spriag is due be i would take a Eurese theme.

THE.older 1 P.tk.,lJ coming to reslia ti white ww aaid about Negre. is to ssy. Aframericaa J7 correct. And becaase the Aframericaa Is He'oAly laughs that he su weep. WLcaliHe Throbs By WILXIAAI D.

ROBINSON (Coprrtght. M. Tks PlttsbUTKh Courier Publishing uv rif hu nutr? id.) If all the "Xr upward toward God; iousy oaa oumea 0 r8 tie Ptb the nobler mortals trod: I.wa wonM cr. Break down the: altars reared to selfish Lust; Hate with Lore e'er blossoming into life; And boldly lift Truth's: standard from the dust: p51 Io nian would turio ia brotherhood. 1 a together face the common foe tend IA IniVa mi, mhirM MiMr crr.iw: were true rue to those who love os; our God trne to our fellowmen; tVTrae to our mates; to tho' earth given thru r.

True to this lovely world that free from sin. 09 ine ftome temal ef the blest: springing; Life would orereome cruel Dea vvnq would banish Sorrow's And Vc ace T'. wmtiM whisoer in ohe mirhtv breath. V. i Ut world: Jehovah res'.

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