The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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Box 68, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phone Maple 818
Entered at the Poet Office at Oklahoma City, ae aecoad cl.ee mall
under act of March 3, 1879.
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LIFE'S MISSION
Lie Ie°ekheth?mI il0yn alld. ?r'S ,Wh0 «racluale d™ng the com
mg week, the Black Dispatch salutes you. To date, and thru
handenfSfi?h UV° thiS moment- y°u have had the guiding
?ta"? °H fa|,her' .m°ther and teacher, home influences that re-
behind vnn !?a'nta,ned >'ou ]n ProPer Paths, will, tomorrow, be
5iyou:. Today y°u stand at the CROSS-ROADS OF LIFE'
Whither will you elect to go?
°"r mind> the purpose of the Black Dispatch, in this
message to you, ought be to point out the essential purpose of
your existence and to attempt to direct your feet into the useful
channels of serwce which should be your ever objective and to-
wards which we hope your future efforts will ev4r be dfrected
Too well you know of the cause for which we, as a racial groun
are fighting. We know that in a way you have with the rest of
our group longed and hoped for the day and the time when this
hpT ^vould^co^Ize the true values in black citizenship when
the zephyrs ot freedom and equity would whip the tears from the
its fust deserts! rh°°d ^ Cn>Wn the ,ab°rS °f OUr Others with
., tllis respect we do not want you to overlook vour indi-
Mdual responsibility. What the future holds in store for us de-
pends largely, in fact, almost entirely, upon you, the collective
disposal of the young Negro with l*slifeand hisen«ri«tothe
objective of the race. We are headed straight towards weal or
woe, m proportion as you are thinking
Do you remember that old Persian saying: "Sow a thought
to reap a habit, sow habit to reap character, sow character and
reap a destiny." What are you thinking about today what have
you contracted WITH YOURSELF TO DO WITH YOUR LIFF
m"^n-rmr Si?e!?'ves' that erection tiwa™whie™e
!tanH ti fA lt; Was poss,ble t0 '"ake you see and under-
stand that/you are part and parcel of the program in which is
enwrapped our future and our destiny.
™ -l^-are living in a day as wonderful and as full of glorious
possibilities as were in the days of the Jews in the Exodus In
lact, this is the day of our Exodus, not merely in the physical
sense, as we have observed ifin the Southland with its fumbled
won"/1 a!h i? f°^otten fields' not merely in the sense as we are
T*ont to think of the Jew as he crossed the Red Sea* we are talk-
!!?h a °.l!r sPirit al exodus into manhood. You live in a dav
war\w °L °£ • -v:angeth' n°thing is stable now. The World
SilnwV civilization to its foundations has left a feeble
giaspmg fragment of what was yesterday. Everything is Dossi
b e and you are living. Yours it is to take a vita7puTs!tingP part
in the fashioning out of tomorrow. p 6 p r
vr,..r31lf Vhis a-na" individual responsibility, how will you lend
jourself, how wall you spend yourself in tomorrow? It is just a
H nf \mi eco!lomics with yourself and our group. If in the
held of useful endeavor we lend and spend ourselves with care
mentm!I'tomorrow is. ours- The door to intellectual develop-
are ailoDen? WiVm,6'1* t" Sn,d th!l harnessing of our finances
a5 „at. Pen- Wlth our vision cleared upon the intricate .problems
tLaonrSowganilat'0n' the "eCkS "™ C'eared 'f a mos<
Think of Heman E. Perry, the black wizard of Standard
Life Insurance, the man who was just a few years ago a poor
hlSSn 2 -lt £h° u0day thinks in terms of millions; of Wash-
caSal thL^ht nfSth°rt 8pS? °f years' rev°lutionized the edu-
cational thought of the world; of Garvey, who dreams of world
commerce and exploitation; of DuBois, who sets our highest intel
°f Dan Williams, who earvTonTeluman
ThLcL equanimity as one would trim his lead pencil
These men were one day, yes, just a few days ago standing at
the same point in the road where now you stand. They lacked in
^fmeasr tJ?e °PP°rtunity that is yours, but they had the I
grit to face obstacles and difficulties with a smile. They had the
patience to defer their pleasure until tomorrow; they were willing
to sacrifice to serve and today the place where'you standitSS
^oad's the resist of how they struggled with thousands of others
on whti iff measure of confidence and moral fiber to fight
saidSTRIVEON " ****' W&S n0thing ,eft but the W"1 that
Black Students of the Classes of 1921, your race has its
hopes in you. Will you measure up to the stride of the times
Sure we know that all of you cannot be the stellar lights The
2B7ose to serve. The man in the ditch with I shovel is
? lnd a PurP°se just as surely as the man who
produces the food that we eat. Do not get it into vour head that
only that which glitters and is bright is alone worthy for much
, f. ters you will find is a hollow mockery. We like
that beautiful little verse which runs like this-
k U S i\e wtUng A!!t!°r Which fIits acr°ss the sky
Ih Lpon which the world depends for light
:• It is the little twinkling stars
' •*.1 it Which shine there all the night.
in which "the'NegroTre"^ yet forceful manner
point to a collection of editorials'pteL^afrandon,8 We
petitor Magazine quite recently dealing with n y Com"
tions in Georgia. The editor of , the Peonage condi-
tum the sta^ment of Twelve Negro editors ^^hshed verba-
the state where the atrocities ohnrJL Q„ • J A. 0 reside in
er Williams lived. We are eoini tn * against the arch-murder-
clusions reached by the "Competitor Editor^'3? rCad the Con"
these editorial utterances of Black Men. U foSows^ °'
and the^ press ^s ^
race the minds of^Sr edi?o?s fi S"8 th®-,Status of the
accounts in large measure for the unhewn n *°° e' -,And this
ance of the Colored people under thl mi- fat,enCe. and forbear-
The Colored press on the wSole circumstances.
it discouraged. It sets forth ii J 0t ,nflammatory, neither is
onage and shameful discrimination^in no P®"
it makes no effort to inflame the 7 tone?' and y0t
white tormentors. If the white nrp« in people against their
example of the Colored prJS^,5fo,,ow th«
side of race affairs in 7way t0 f,a?, th ^ ""peasant
the passions of their readers tho u w,thout arousing
wouid be materialljTand immediately trnprowd *"66'1 ,he
city will not place tbdr adimbta? rtth 7hl. mer°5a"ts <" «"•
feel that the Slews of the pa"r t™5aS21ffir bMfU?e they
Now the same thing is trne Lth thl ni i n revolutionary,
is the life of a paper We cannm Sf JS? advertising
and practically all of it has been withHrl ertlB'"S downtown
campaign against a Ot? CoStoSer wt.lau"«heii a
with absolutely no circulation, havegreceC7umeswS pa?e
order disturS^rd^e's'no^matter'tftbe eh' "a"-S ,the eJ[|sti"S
eral betterment it is hard tn , Cuhange 18 f°r the gen-
(StlSlB
"SlSESlSSB
SIC Alf VaTttatiov10 understand that we must have a PHY-
~ ethKr::^eti~"0f
Ei , in ie caused the white Southerner to look
tntHi. SOUTH, thru the exodus, comes the added problem
bargain g and thinking Negro of clinching an economic
dpn0,Th e teSt Southern Negro's leadership and vision will
f abll.lty t0 join hands with this movement that
fundamentally functions on the theorv that the Negro is an
economic factor in the South. It is not idealistic for Kme folk
to approach the subject from this angle, but its a mighty practi-
h ??eeedom oMhe t""6"0 f0r th°"Sands t0 «te tKuKr
but it I nor Ior Christ t0 be slain at Calvary
in dtrV^H °fgraAm produced the results that the world
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Scalp Specialtist
Addre8a«d-a600C'EJ'3^a,ker S>8te">-Mr«. J. S. Youn0, Phone Maple 5271 -J
1^ OKLAHOMA CI
2-21-21.
CITV
LTHE MELROSE
For the Best
SERVICE IN THE CITY AND STATE
Twenty-four Cool, CI.,a, Dk„,m
A HOTEL OF QUALITY AND SERVICE
For the Weary Colored Travelor
MRS. A. L. SMITH, Prop.
was i
Necro nf th)> Qni Vv. ♦ u er 01 tact, it isn't idealistic for the
d0J n 5 Sout. to have to leave his home and all of the ten-
i v"S are intertwined with his labor, \isible in his
hta KSdvir? Hfe' a',d let this is what k has taken to force
pnysical \aluation upon the white south.
truth soniertaarpn white nien gap in astonishment at
heartedlv t a®hamed' some are angered, some leap whole-
see must rnml c!UPfii?°US task of re-habilitation which they
some of tlS hM P1 y !Uggests to some that we white-wash
dinlffma^Q nn i ^covered and call it by names garnished by
plomats and sophists. Not all Southern white men think this
rPreSMd the a,"tudcs ot "fvernor Doreey „f Qeo^
i?nd0 Governor Pickett of North Carolina. Their attitude
TITUDEoAhA S, Tv>,dea that there is real value in the new AT-
i.7u t Southern white man for the Negro.
nnwk tft Whlte m^n thinks so or not- what he needs right
the bare, uncoated truth. He needs to see himself like
others see him. Needless to say that he can get the fairest ....
Georgia6 iUng'e6 0^AW"^^TmUch on the jnngles of
More common sens7^7^hlp might he,p ^ ^
here iS "° State in the Republic of Bra.il
Amen'Ca ™ have Democracy, in China they have Famine
D°" ' e hindmost, he lathe fellow the devil catches.
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f spa",.
efforts to kidnap Bergdoll out of fw that.he approved of the
eardlessofinternationlnaw? He adST.('?k8p[te of and r<=
napping was wrong "from the standnoS/ nf - *6 attemPted kid-
Now, it is not for us to say wheK t?! ?ternational law."
^[ong, so far as we at present care hlf l General is right or
PARISONS. We can show that if th?l cai? make some COM-
tain other things are also right Ge"eral is right' then cer-
same respeSr'naSon^ r"nner, had the
.ternationai law. Bergdoll wanYe^oTi^^t^
the Germans,
ifaway°with^he^am^contemp^M^fch G*™*',^"^^8wept
away the very ancient law which forbids fhe" offl^™? SWeeps
tion from entering the territorv nf e offlcers of one na-
vidual,—in tlmeof peaeJTcS^S ?r.d 1tA"S an
irksome to be fooling with "international i "®ral March finds it
boldly declares that it is the intention^thiY11011 Cases* and
Army to "get" Bergdoll at any nrice wh.vil • ave Anierican
BY ANY MEANS, fair or foSf And^ .L .^.interpret to mean
pretation, because the General savs tha? fhJ ud in th's inter"
the,Internationa, crtme of
is an unconvenienceTo /h^murderer' the^urela^th^lenience. It
S'h^Tbe^
heacts in&tbe face SS1&' ^ -n by
Turn On the Light
_..x " V n«n we snouia protest make;
vXir? u Th* hun?an race has climbed on Protest Had no
voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in-
d2« y Thl0? S6ru® !fe law' and 8u',lotines decide our least
r$«T. wlanpo'lmX"1"' mUS' !P*ak a"d SP"k ,0
MORE CORROBERATIVE EVIDENCE
Huntsville, Tenn., May 20.—Investi-
gation is being made by Sheriff E. M.
Phillips and his deputies of the lynch-
relate the story of] of Berry "Red 30 years,
as been indicted bv!^! ^-6 JPS™. J?uted that no
r - « w ""S*" |_ Jhe Newspaper dispatches Thursday, reiaie me story of I —
•bcu ou years,
U7* ^ ~— lfu0rI ?8 Former governor Catts has been indicted bv,^hite*wThe iheriff 8tat«<i that no
p, . O.canno.t agree with Dr. Woofter, connected with the K /ederal1Grand Jury on a peonage charge. This exposure win I C,®W8 bave yet been discovered which
Phelps-Stokes fund who in his address before the Inter-Racial1 doubtle88 throw a wet blanket over the efforts of those disgust- 'e*d 10 " *rrest
mission inferred there was a chance nepdoH in tko I ln8 exponents Of \iciousnRRfi uhn lnat n«iu am kn«. * ^ ® J. I did not know until Sunday morn
;u,,u\ Tu nis aaaress oefore the Inter-Racial1. UDUe88 tnrow a wet blanket over the efforts of those diseusf ! 8 d 10 " ,rrest
MlS?i8f 21 \Wnlr^ere raSf a chan!e needed in the editorial I®fP?ne"tsf of "ciousness who just now are busy trying to dis-1 did know until Sunday morn
f Negro press. In fact, we feel that the Negro press I i !! statements of Governor Dorsey, about the condition of If* 0,«?e lynchin«-" Bai(i Sheriff Phil
of this country might well be set up as an example for the Dublrr i- Negro in Georgia. . "pr A" •oon ' heard about it i
ty organs of other suppressed erouns. who nro^h " "
l"ia oe sei up as an example for the publici-
ty organs of other suppressed groups, who preach violence ar-
son and chaos, in preference to present conditions. It is a 'well
known fact that 6uch a spirit is extant among white groups such
as the I. WW. and anarchist class in this country, and this in
face of the fact that they labor under no such load of hopeless-
ness, humiliation and despair as the black man.
A friend in deed, not words.
/
Maybe Harding the candidate is Harding the President.
Marshall Foch was out when Mrs. Britten called.
TLT,TDS at the ,ail were the jail-
s s
lynching nartv i# 0,d back
Jailer was^oM that Z*™* that lh«
fcer outside with a prlsoner^nd °f"
be went to the jail door anH 8°
•t- After getting inside the m0Ptned
of the party o^eri^C^
and took possession of the prisoner -
(By the Associated Negro Press)
■'""""S DUI no clews have! Gray. Ga., May 20— Bu<t r
I been developed as to who any of them was found guilty ofmnl h
. might be. We are working on the case centlv in , murder here re-
(however, and hope to uncover some of connection with the killing
I thing which will lead t. SZS"**eccentri^
i At the time of the lynching, the, sentenced to hang on Ma^27aDd *'**
™ «• i oeara aoout it I
went from Ellenwood to Huntsville
and began an investigation. I believe
that there were about 25 men in the
lynching party, but no clews have
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Dunjee, Roscoe. The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1921, newspaper, May 20, 1921; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152333/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.