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TOE BLACK. DISPATCH
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<OSCOF DUNJEE Editor
0RUSILLA DUNJEE HOUSTON Contributing Editor.
WE'LL FIGHT FOR THE FLAG
FREEDONlTfOrr FOREVER
guilty of the offense you charge the Wsek men of this ststs ought to know, yeeterday.
If those charges are as baseless as the one you make against me, the black ..
folk ought to know it. The Black Dispatch shall continue to fight, what we
feel is the Battle of Righteousness and as we fight we are fully conscious of
the fact that the world traduced.the Christ and finally crucified Him. Let
us sll pray.
WHY HE CAME, "RECIPROCITY." *
"I brought you this work for two reasona," said a white cripple in the
Black Dispatch office as he started out with the job of print ng we had done
for him "first because you have done it cheaper, and secondly as a helpless
inan in 'the world I have found that Negroes and Mexicans contribute more
to mr anneal than any other class." When he was gone we wondered if
the Negroes who were taking their Job printing to white folks have the same
reason ^aT our white friend, check up Mr. Black Man, does the white man to
whom you take that Job work give you the most of his business that you
can dof remember this Isn't a race question the way the white cripple saw
it, its Just plain recprocity.
MAKING MEN
THE NEGRO BOY AND THE SCOUT MOVEMENT
REV. P. N. FITZPATRICK.
This article has been undertaken In conscious effort to inform the mass
of our neonle what the Scout Movement Is and what it essays to do for boys
everywhere The movement, however when viewed in special relation to the
colored youth has a deeper significance and meaning and purpose than for
^ English statesman "what the youth of our
land is thinking of and I will tell you what the future of Great Britain will
MEMBER
NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS
ASSOCIATION.
EDITORIALS.
DOWN THE PATHS OF PEACE "LET'8 GO!
Yes, it is all over. The world has resolved to beat her cannons into
plow shares, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions the hulls and
skulls of men are scattered down many age-worn paths, men who thought
that they were starting down the paths of peace.
Let's start right. Let's be honest with ourselves. There can be no
democracy that does not include even the humblest unit of this civilization.
The difficulties of peace are less discernible than the problems of war and
require more delicate handling. The resolve that America has made to help
establish Justice over the earth will receive its severest test right here at
home. "Self determination" hangs well on th tongue, but black men want
to translate it from mere words Into a usable actuality.. Freedom of move-
ment, personal safety, jury and election reforms are the jolts that our social
fabric must feel before we shall as a nation expand into that which we ought
to be. , ,
Hut that is an end and objective of which we speak. We are not yet in
the light and in this darkness before the dawn let all Americans seek for
the means There can come no proper adjustment through the old system
of nutocracy. "Self determination at once, means that all are going to sit
down together a nd solve the problem. Autocracy always has and always
will seek to tend to other men's business without, regard to what other men
think. If here in America we are to arrive at a tangible something that, will
make the boys who return from foreign battlefields feel that they have
fought not in vain, that something is going to develop up out of a getting
together of the best blood of both races in the forum of reason.
In the emergencies of crises America got a degree of a chance to hear
-he voice of black Intelligence and of black instincts. Pershing heard the
patriotic sprit, of black masses coined in the golden, graphic, terse language
of the valliant black troopers of the trenches as they leaped into the death
barrage shouting: "Let's Go!"
Black leadership at home turned Its back'on the lynching south, forgot
cur ballot rights, help turn the pockets of the race Inside out that the bonds
'night be burst from Liberty and American objectives reached.
We have given our all and since the moment that President \\ ilson said
"We were fighting for the right of the voice of men to be heard in their own
ciovernment," longed for the days when peace should dawn.
What are the means, black blood was drafted into the death grip of war
and sacrifled there there is no other way that is right, draft black brains
into the forum of peace, <
YES, MEET!
r
Shall we meet anv more In our Council of Defense meetings, queried a
lacks a whole lot of having disposed of the grave questions for which the
'S-he Scout Movement attempt. lo help the Negro boy.-the future men
of the race—to start the thinking process aright at the most critlca time of
their physical, moral, and religious development, namely the period of ado
lne'the articles of incorporation the purpose of the movement 1b clearly
definitely states It declares "the particular business a nd objects of
definitely state • * * in the United States into units,
society are to organi . trintium conraee.
lesence.
In
■ind
this society
If mother Is in Missouri tell her to
write me from there. 1 have for-
gotten grandmother's address but she
will be at home by the time you re-
ceive this. Tell mother at times bread
tastes like cake. Our supply train
got cut up the other day, nothing to
eat but bread alone for some time,
and today I have prepared all my own
meals which in times I thought was
impossible. You only know what life
is Worth until you suffer with your
fellowmen.
We are having fall weather here
but it is a little disagreeable but if
anybody else makes it I will.
Now you all must write often. Tell
sister and the kids hello. So be good,
from y ur brother,
Corp. Lee 0. Scruggs.
CARD OF THANKS.
We take this method of thanking,
our many friends for the sympathy
and love shown us during the sick-
ness and death of our dear children-
Johnnie Brown departed this life Oct.
20 he leaves a mother, a father, five
brothers and four sisters and a host
of friends.
Mrs. Nettie Jones Turner departed
this life Oct. 18. She leaves a father,
a mother, four sisters and five brothers
and a multitude of friends. So much
as it has pleased God to take from
us our dear ones we must feay to all
the l< ved ones to prepare to meet
them
Emma Jones, Mother,
Miles Jones, Father,
Sislters and Brothers.
Meaning Of United War Work
5.—Colored Americans throughout the c0^^"ecall-
etive part in the United War Work Campaign, organized
3 t°n Teach "them" or cause them to be taught discipline, patriotism courage
habits of observation a nd self-contrfl and the ability to care for themselves
in a'ln'ofher^word's*the fundamental purpose of the organization is charac-
.urhiUnine in preparation for the high responsibilities of citizenship. The
ter-builoing n pr J> intelligent pubic service, to develop
3S5S! self-reliance n!utua 1 helpfulness a*nd the capacity to achieve in
"• In'deBCrlb^g^he^cOBmopoHtan eh.racter .1 the Movement Prof. N. E.
t«-v« •<
t'taoteureT tbe precocious .nd the backward,
together the conspituou living and the boy from the wealthy
hmne°yWho °has'no definite or set duHes apart from his own education and
home, who has no ae abilitv. Here, then, is an organization in
n°v.iPhr hfi NeeJo b oy has an opportunity to develop the social Instincts of
n«.,frp anfl to get away from those baser instincts of clannishness and
pugnacUy which are" all too ready to assert themselves «« ^sUg^htest^ovj
CHU0The aim of the Movement though broad, does not lack deflniteness of
„J>it1 ,,s to supplement existing institutions such as the home Church,
scope, it aims s ii . ^ accomplishment, it
and the Sunday school and n so fa as tt Icok)1,(l(1 boy,
ivnor-fllv ihe home circle of the average Negro family itself is too re-
fiene'dHy, the^ome^ci c ^ fm. recreation to boys from the age of
Often occupied in the ordinary pursuits of dally lile, the
U time to devote to the proper moral,
MADAM JESSIE CARTER
Before using wss 6 inckea long
strlcted to give
•welve t0N^1!,0Upai;ent fln(is uttle or no
■iveraee Negro parent finds little or n.>
ntellectual or religious training of their children.
The ordnarv Sunday school teacher, to quote Ormond E. Li
ine orunary auuuaj „„u(1ihin tn il senver
,oomis, sees
when Tt' is" possible to discover whether or
over and translated in terms of con-
he Church has done on Sunday
Ti nift of the war, thru it he has had contact with the
whoet heart I. H.ht, with thl.
lufmentTe have been engaged in the constructive programs of citizenship.
Your white neighbor has a more definite idea of your citizenship usefulness
and of vour general ability to cope with responsible tasks.
TTnconsciouslv he will drift into a larger and clearer knowledge of what
ta vour loir leal citizenship rights, It will be impossible for him to see your
abliuy to assume responsibility with out observing that which is heaped up
with all responsibility and duty-the rights of men.
, -*V*.I*
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LET US ALL PRAY
On the front pace of this issue are two letters, one written by Mr. S. R.
Casshls of Guthrie a nd the other by Mr. Amos Ewing representative from
1 oeancountyin the legislature. Mr. Cassius makes the charge that Mr
Fwing a republican has been guilty of placing his name on a campaign card
with that of a democrat and that In the combination a Negro aspirant
total of the charge and .ee a very
short word in summing up his estimate of his a}le^ act.
isssisia
lini nnd would not indorse any such program a
entered into We went far enough to say that such a program would not be
right even though the racial element were eliminated. We wrote Mr. Cassius
a letter: we told him that we would publish his letter as he had requested.
.V condemned the alleged act of Mr. Ewing in th s second letter
little of tho boy at those time:
not their instruction is being worue
never become vitally related to the
newed force and . ,,R with startling facts what ex-
WHEN BROUGHT FACE with £y from joini g
cuse has any parentMo oiffe purpose of which is so clearly de-
fined^an^whose a^m ^s to help rot^r than h/nder the influence of the home,
s .h .™.: jf-jKr-s-
any true system ofedtacatlont J ^ community in laying deep and
flrm^he^rincip^s o° clUzInship antral character upon which the super-,
religious responsibility for jhe NegfO teaching ol the principles of religion?
in need of the most stra ghUorward^teaching and the future
nd what citizen who has the interest or o x tQ the gcout Move-
well beng of the Race and efficient in solving the many and
;:;Sd'mSrJl'anT^Lfprobl^s which confront the Negro boy of Okia-
programme has to offer. Sure If i K ^ ]ength and breadth of the
cational advantages white hoys th 8 the Sc0ut Movement offers, a
United States feel the need of tbi tra 8 ( eed ot t^e advan-
fortiori the black boy. ' ',c'«n7iien 5 CMPW «°th the virtue, ol
SiTXS o.'which make .or the develop-
bv the local Council and Na.ti0™}h"^as been as appreciable improve-
America, I am ,ale 1 aaymg hat there h . b „ as pp ^ B-
New York, Nov, I
ft the request S P^dent wl^'wh^wm ta
of November 11. 1918, to raise $170,500,000 to help promote the welfare of
°Ur The'^o-operatlng organizations in the drive will be the National War
Wnrk Council of the Y M. C. A., War Work Council of the Y. W._C. A.. Na-
tYonal Catholic War Council, Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community
Service American Library Association and the Salvation Army.
While the colored enlisted man has largely benefited through several
of these organizations, the funds to be raised will make it possible for him.
tn hp accorded even more friendly attention. „ ,,
VIanv thousands also will be used by such organizations as the Y. M.
A and Y. W. C. A., toward improving the condition of the colored young;
inaii and young woman in the United State*
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Letters.
Madam Maxwell, Local Agent, 215 N, Stiles, Okls. City
Madam Jessie Carter
have received annthr letter from Mr,
,V condetnne
OuSS^SS^mSrfSKaXr a "grafter" and defining the Black Dis-
telephone call from Dr. WR Wright
of Guthrie stating that Mr. Cassius himself had the campaign cards printe
and distributed that be alleges Mr. F.wing hnd 8^,, r Cassius a grafter
The editor of this journal Is not going to call Mr. Cassius a graner
We have too much respect for his previous high standing in Oklahoma and
we would feeMhat. at best, we were lacking in conservatism were we to
take Dr Wright's bare assertion as an established fact or pass judgment
upon our graft accuser, even though we have his first letter In front of us
now from which we quote:
next political campaign "
am starting now to lay a foundation for the
Slnce'we wrote"'"hose letters we have received another letter from Mr.
nlwavs was fairlv strong on that sort of Job. when Mr. Ewing was in-
volved. If he committed the act charged by Mr. Cassius he was wrong^ That
settled- the point at which we want to drive is. why is the editor a grafter.
Well in our letter to Mr. Cassius we said, to use the language of the
letter: "We IZ for all such article.^ carry
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I .hi, lo invite 10 our ■MM 'iSuirf In terms or
fiuence of the Scout Movement and the Chuan., rt o( an the good
I appeal for the sympathetic co-operation anrt supp ,g ^ the(r boy
citizens of Oklahoma whose conse^/rat K P measure up to the
may be saved from the bane ul influence of this cuy, a ^ chdst
weighty responsibilities of citizenship and to the penen
J. L. JONES,
Lawyer, Notary, General
Practitioner
OFFICE - - 16 1-2 W. CAL.
Phone Maple 2054-R
Residence: 819 East Seventh St
gest'i that* Mr Cassius send us $8 50 (to cover bare cost of make up). Now
w« did not get the but we did get called a grafter by Mr. Cassius.^who
slid In his second letter: "I would'nt give you three cents to P"b''«h '*•
Now the trouble with Mr. Cassius Is that he can t pull himself far
enough out of self to catch the other fellow's point of view, but that: s hu-
man There are a lot of folks like that. For example the whole «"man
niHon have been just shocked out of such a stunor. It might be that my
w'av of seeing things was in this particular identical with that of Mr. Cas-
a,us. and that, just as he. it might be: "I wou,dn't give three cents t^publtsto
what he verv blatantlv terms "A race news article. Intelligently ^ri"e^
Much charitv and a patient disposition is the characteristic o the editor
of t newspaper from all uoints of the compass, all sorts of people altdown
Pl " " , ' -n ap Editor, d ease publish." And re-
Otis Scruggs
Writes'Brother
"With the Colors" Oct. 11, 1918.
Dear Bro.:
Well it has been some time since I
heard from you all, I aon't know what
is the matter, I don't know whether
it is that you all are not getting my
mail or not. I know I do not hear
from you all often enough. The last
letter I received from you all was
when mother was sxlng to go to
Missouri. Did she get off?
Well this leaves me well all but
a cold and I hope that you and family
are well and are enjoying life. Yes I
and write articles unsolicited for the
an individual weire corrobo-
at iona! testimony and facts established such as do not appear in Mr. Cas-
rational
""•'we'dedded immediately upon receipt of Mr Casstus' artlcK
rnbllsh the sforv because of the public relationship sustalne^by the WacV
i^spatcb towards Mr Ew.ng In tho recent primary election and to which he
nge that
>.• u*d.
In ract
him he wnu'd
t idav be conn*v commissioner or i^g-n cr-in'v. ^
one but m< mb rs of his o«rn race In fhet fnend Cas. tu
which' could not possibly
i savs himself, in his
from vou all. The last time 1 wrote
you ail 1 was just falling back from
the front lines for a rest but it was
rv little we got. We were pulled
I he war than 1 do for I only know
what Is going on only on our front,
sometimes we get hold of a paper
brought up by the supply train.
It is about ten o'closk p. m. now and
I am in my dugout. It is good and
dark but the skies are lighted like
the Fourth of July with different
signals and ligts. The Germans have
royally entertained us today with
heavy artillery. I did not get much
sleep but I have got to be on duty
all night. Gee! but it looks pretty
dippy at times but I trust that the
Lord will guide me safely home.
Was on a hike some nights ago to
the fron' and we pitched our camp
in the early morn for a little rest and
there was another regiment near us
happened up on Fred North,
talk. He told me tha*
as in his company but
ounded in the shoulder by
and was in the hos-
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are rough with machine guns, and I
long for the ned to get a good rest
Ivit I guess 1 should not 1~ tired so
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kilometers and we were right behind ^ ^ tha( thC). had about cleaned j
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