OCEAN CITY SENTINEL OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JUNE 8. 1922

ANTI-LYNGHTNG BILL FOBCEfUL EXPOSITION BY EX-DEAN PICKENS GIFTED ORATOR PRESENTS ELO- ~ QUENT APPEAI. FOR MALIGNED NEGRO Boswell's Vie^Ton Negro Americanism FORM BRANCH OF NATIONAL' ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCE- - MENT OF COLORED PEOPLE ! 1 The genius anil the perfervid elo-j quence, and the impassioned patriot- « ism of the immortal Booker Wushing-i' ton Jives again in Prof. Williams ■ P Pickens, Ex-Dean of Morgan College,^ Baltimore, and now held secretary of the -National Association for the Ads 'a vancemertt of the colored people. *

The large appreciative audience which attended the mass meeting, held , Thursday evening at the Tabernacle: Baptist Church, heard one of the most ' eloquent appeals for common fair play • . and justice to a comparatively small ; and downtrodden race, ever heard. i It was a masterly effort, scholarly ! and convincing. The speaker pos-j! senses all the requisite qualifications of a platform orator of the first rank. ' \ wit and humor, the gift of dramatic'1 presentation, a commanding and pre- ' possessing deportment .end a ringing !j. clarion voice. e Epigram and aphorism scintillated f through the address, while in the pre- " sentation of his brief for the much c maligned and misunderstood negro, a Prof. Pickens revealgd a knowledge of t social and political economy, erudite

and exhaustive to the highest ilegree. The meeting, held under the auspices of the John Trower Memorial Literary Society, formed a part of a member-;, ship campaign being carried on by ; , the organist tieh Prof. Pickens repre- < rxhied. 1 1 At the close of Prof. Pickens' ad- j ' dress, a canvass of the audience was j made ,and a large number of names j enrolled," including the name of City c Solicitor Andrew C. Boswel). Hie chairman, Rev. Samuel Com- i j fort, announced that the Editor of the ' i Sentinel had for years been actively j b identified u-ith the organi cation, and:0 had written extensively upon the work. ,. The first speaker called upon was v Andrew C. Boswell. In the course of

a most interesting resume, of the: = phenomenal progress the colored race had made in every department of human life and endgavor, since their emancipation, Mr- Boswell stated that it seemed to him that even in their present soda! conditions and status in the southern states, he could trace the hand of Almighty God working for a beneftrient purpose. He expressed the hope that his hear- 1 era would not misconstrue his words, to indicate that he thought the negro should be kept in such a condition of social inequality. Nothing was further from his mind. Nevertheless, it seemed to him, that he could trace the hand of God in the circumstance. Kept as they had been as a race, particularly in tne South, ir. a degree of social ostracism, the onlyprinciple and form of government the — colored race knew and understood, was pure and undiluted Americanism. The negro had not forgotten the men who bled and die# for their emancipation, and the motives that actuated them in so doing. The only , Am: the negro knew was the Stars J Stripes; the only principle of A government he knew was that emliodied in the American Constitution. America was good enough for him and he desired no chance. On the other hand American is he-

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j ing flooded year by year. Mr. Bop wet j continued, in effect by thousands from I chaotic Russia, and kindred envntriel [in the south of Europe, _ saturated I through- and through, with the destructive policies of Radicalism ami Si Bolshevism. Thes^people came sowing the seed of discontent and rebellion, threatening as they increased in Apmlwr, to undermine the- very fnumkttion of •- American Democracy. The time perhaps was not far disi taut, when America would need the j votes of the twelve- million colored . people, who knew nothing but true I Americanism, to save and perpetuate ) the principles and institutions _of America, against the vote of the iTixI grunted alien, who reSj>ects no law hut I the law of brute force ,the low -of the , mob and the jungle. ! i Professor Pickens itypoarancc "on the _ platform, and especially his il-: luminative address, furnished the, proof,, and an apt illustration of that which Mr. Boswell had emphasized in; • j part, the phenomenal progress the col1 preil racelmd made, within little more J than ' half a century after their .emancipation from slavery. | Here m-as a son of Africa, a grad- ! uate of one of the leading universities j of America, the Ex-Dean of a well ' 1 accredited college, an orator and a: ; scholar of indubitable authority, urg-i scnoiar oi inuutuiauic numoruy, urg- :

ing his kin and people, the sons and daughters of slaves, to climb up- '■ wards iatOfthe dizzy heights which he e : himself had successfully scaled, t The great task confronting the National Association, for the advance- ] ' ment of the colorcil people, said Prof, j 1 was that of clearing out the , minds of both of the white race and j f the black, false conceptions concern- , ing the relations existing between the ( "'two peoples. v It should never be forgotten, he em- i . phasized, that both races were in- ' , . tegral parts of one nation. What af»fecteil the colored people harmfully, a j reacted harmfully upon the white peo- i pic, and obviously what proved a f>en- v efit and a stimulus to advancement j 1 the white race, affected the colored „ and woman in a similar way. q Referring to the charge of vicious criminality, so frequently leveled y0 against the colored man by the un-, v hinging. Prof. Pickens spoke with,^ if Prof. Pickens spoke with,

e manifest emotion anu indignation. Be , it added also that his forceful repudia- • tion of the charge, was well supported 1 s b ya deadly battery of criminal statis- ' ..'tics and facts. ' j "Is it true that the negro" es- ; " j sentially and instinctively criminal ' and immoral," he asked. "We do not"' - deny there are criminal negros. There and there are criminals of all colI ors and kinds. In the case of the col- 1 : ored race, however, a grave injustice 'lis done both by the public and the i in blaming the race for the evils of an irtitjvidual. It is not done with our white friends. i Immediately a crime Is committed by a colored man, glaring headlines 1 every paper blazon the fact; "Rape I by a Big Black Brute"; "Negro Guilty ' of Assault" Suppose a similar crime had been | committed by a white man, the headpines would not read, "Rape by a Big Brute." In the case of white people, the. .

ell, papers give publicity to the crimes off >m criminals; whereas in the ease of the ies colored jieople the entire race copies ed under the stigma and condemnation ; ic- for the sins of an individual, nd. Thereby an uixleserved and unenviable notoriety is given to a race, until ed the public unconsciously assume, that n- all memhers of the race are of crim- <. in tendencies, because a few are, and the name negro becomes a synonym is- With more than a trace of pawky he ironic humor, and biting sarcasm, pi 1 1 Prof. Pickens cite. I an imaginary sejc i"iucnce of circumstances In support of ' te his argument. [if, "Suppose." he said, "the newspapers , s- of the country, conspired together to jt give unusual publicity to the offenses ' ic, against the law, committed by red ' haired men and women. < hi Suppose every day we read in our , I- papers, in big headlines 'Rape com^mitted by roil haired man'; Redheaded it burglar steels $1,000'; 'Red haired ' n man stabs a friend"; Red beaded > I- woman runs awav with her friend's! | * husband.' . ! j lr "In less than six months people. j would become firmly convinced in their l minds, there was some vital associas j tion between red hair and criminality, s 11 and that a red headed person could u j no more refrain from committing p -(crime than from breathing." (_ 1 Prof. Pickens' witty sallies were greeted with roars of laughter; neverf ; theless, all felt the force of his rea- 1 soning. * "I know of a lady," said he, "who - spent practically the whole of her • life a missionary- bi Africa. Many;" | months at a time she has lived alone ' e' 1 the heart of the jungle forest, 1} ' where the foot of a whitgjnan never ' treads. Yet, that I adyTias slated she j [was safer in the heart of the African* forest with the natives, than she is in ™ the city of New Voile. The National Association for the — advancement of the coloreil people, the explained was instituted 13. ; ago. It was instituted by white people, and to day had a membership 1 of 10,000 of the white race, and 100,-; 000 of the coloreil race. The white membership include some 1 'of the leading statesmen, jurists, lawfyers, writers, clergymen, ministers,: syers, wniers. clergymen, ministers,:

"•scientists and educators in the land. r "Frequently we hear of the negro I problem," said the speaker. "There is _ no negro problem. The problem if there be one, is na American problem. :~*T5c7 anil white arc citizens of one I republic. Study the statistics of our 1 1 country, and you will find that where: , Graining Refinishing Furniture HARRIS & RILEY I 710 Asbury Avenue * Contract Painting in all Branches Estimates Cheerfully Given Price* Reasonable Quick Service

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if 'the percentage of illiteracy is high ie among the colored people, illiteracy is ■s there also high among the white peo- ' " ; pie, us compared with the white peo- , pie of the other parts and places, •j The same is true of wealth. Where . the wealth is low per capita among 1 the white people, it is low among the . j black, and vice versa. The so-called negro problem therefore is an American problem. You cannot raise one section of the com- ; mo'nwealth without raising all, and ' you cannot injure one section wlthf : out injuring all. • In a race between ignorance lind Ins telligencr. ignorance always wins, be- ' cause ignorance works while It sleeps, I whereas intelligence can only work . while awake. All go forward to- ' gether, or all go backward, j As Lincoln said, the nation could i I not exist one half free and one half i I I slave, neither can it exist one half > .'lynching, and the other half not- i ] one half enfranchised, and i 'I the other half disenfranchised. Two kinds of civilation cannot exirt'inxtho , For ten years. Prof. Pickens ex- ' J ; plained, the association which he rep- 1 ( j resented had lient all its efforts to end j j the barbarous practice of lynching, j : the foulest blot 011 the escutcheon of t j civilization, j Since the year 1885 over 4000 1 negroes had been butchered and burn- 1 " I ed. In the year 1919 fourteen were : c j In no other country, not excepting j " j semi-civilized China, would this have] been permitted. I In Georgia alone 450 coloreil people I IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR TRAVEL EQUIPMENT Travelers Checks are an . important part of your travel equipment — they are safe, convenient and " cashable wherever you are. Remember to purchase some Travelers 'Checks of — us hefore you take your next trip. Jt OCEAN CITY 1 TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY Ocean «ty, N. J. D B U 1 H

:h I had been lynched. In view of, these '" facts, the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill ' ■ ; had been presented and passed by the ' ! House of Representatives. v Prof. Pickens described the Dyer, g : Bill, as a bill against murder, anarchy, e : mob violence and mob rule. The constitution gives to every poru son the right of trial by a jury of his; 1- peers. Mob rule and law had neither j| trial nor. justice. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill had in - il three provisions .which Prof. Pick- _ ens most strongly advocated. 1 It provided that any person found Ic in a mob, which hnd taken the law - into Its own hands and lynched a man, the same should lie sent to u peni1 tentiary for a period of nof less than f five years. f II The bill provided, that it be con-' - sidered that three/Tnen constitute a I mob. | III The bill provided that the coun- ! j ty in which a lynching had taken . j place, should be compelled to pay the ; sum of $10,000 to the family of the , ' I lynched man, or in the case of there | 110 family ,the same sum should ; ' paid by the county into the Federal i In 'the last provision the Professor [ j saw the best feature of the bill; for it - : compelled the county to put the ma-: j chinery of the law, the police and the | j ' < TO THE PUBLIC 1 1 Moncrief & Sons 1214 Bay Avenuc,Orean City ,N. J. 1 Supply Daily FRESH FISH OYSTERS CLAMS" j CRABS and CRAB MEAT Call 603-J ' , and give your orders I f Prompt Service

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