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Dr. Moton of Tuskekee Makes a Dispassionate Survey Sam Nanning is a West Indian, of The Position and Possibilities of His Race.
being a native of Barbados. He miBy JOHN CHAMBERLAIN ters, telling what the negro thinks grated to the United States on most of the questions that touch ears ago and eamed great reputation in theatrical circles in New In What the Negro Thinks Dr. his welfare.
York and other cities. Sam Manning Moton, the principal of Tuskegee In The negro, he says, has had a bit is the Author and Composer of stitute, has ddressed himself to the of the Machiavelli about him. He Woman Sweeter than Man, situation of his race with an even has had to dissimulate, to put up a Sweetie Charlie and other West tempered sense of exigencies. He wand and good humoured front to Indian mentos which have taken on has as up a balance sheet, the debits get on in the world. In this he is in and credits in orderly array, so contrast to another race of dark to the popular magination of the much for the white man, so much kin, the American public not only throughout the West Indian, whose for the negro. He has no sweeping pride was such that he foolishly Indies but in the United States of America and other parts of the panaceas to offer; he is neither for fought the white man until exterthe deportation of all negroes to mination threatened. Because of this world. His latest hit is Barbados Blues which is a very popular numAfrica nor for an extermination of dissimulation, this defence. methe race, nor for an amalgamation hanism, there are whole areas of ber indeed. Sam Manning has been with the Caucasian. No one ad legro thought and feeling that the recording for the Brunswick, Colvocates any one of the three serious white man has seldom penetrated umbia and Phonograph Record Co, and is a great drawer of crowds ly now, he says. Instead, he works and then only through in the United States.
towards a creation of a more benefi activity or through the works of The Palace Saenger Wilcox had cent atmosphere, an atmosphere such negroes as Charles Chesnutt, which will permit the negro to live who have dramatized negro prob Leen endeavouring for many months and work within a white community. Jiems on paper. It is Dr. Moton to get Sam Manning to come to Jato have his being and to live out his pinion that for a long period a large maica for a Short Season, but owing potentialities without restrictions clement of the negro race associated to an engagement which he had with Lafayette Theatre, he has just now that spring from the white man superiority with a white skin.
assumption of superior But this spell (he says) has been been able to leave America.
goodness. Atmospheres are impalable broken by two distinct developments Sydney Perrin and a lady are ac one of them the negro own ex things, and so many imponderables companying Manning on his tour enter into the changing of them cursions into fields of achievement here. These three have performed in that one man can only feel very previously occupied by the white several theatres in Nw York humble when he sets about such man alone, and, second, the failure throughout the chief theatrical ciratask. It is Dr. Moton humility, also many whites to manifest the cuit of the United States and have humility that has no cowardliness, poperiority with which they would never failed to make a great hit every no eringing about it, that lends pape credited.
where. Sam Manning has just comradoxical force to his book. He is Dr. Moton seizes upon the symbol pleted a year contract in the Laalways a gentleman in the true sense ical value of the defeat of Jim Jef fayette Theatre where he featured of the word. He does not screech; bies at Reno, Nev. by the negro, in 7th Avenue.
he merely observes, weighs, reflects Jack Johnson. The decision at Reno, We bespeak a bumper house on and ventures his opinions firmly in his opinion, was a vindication of each occasion this talented vocalist and dispassionately, the negro own faith in himself appears on the public stage in JaDoes the white man know the and before the world as no later baica.
negro? In his opening chapter, by could subvert. From Jack Johnson ern white aet of the champion of that hour proceeded to deal way of launching himself upon his to such figures as Roland Hayes, with the problem without taking the enbjeet, Dr. Moton discusses the laul Robeson, Charles Gilpin, Coun regro into consideration. The result phrase, often used by white men of tee Cullen and others was not so far was disfranchisement, through proboth South and North. He says the cry as soon as the negro had de party clauses and through literacy negro meets the remark, know, munstrated, through Jack Johnson, clauses. The poor white got the vote that the Aframerican could invate a where the negro don through the the negro, with a faint smile. The white man province and travel to grandfather clause, which permitnegro, cook, butler, nurse, and so on, often sees the white man the top.
ted the sons of veterans, including home, often becomes intimate with The mid sections of Dr. Moton Confederate veterans, to register the contents and uses of every room took are largely devoted to a deter their desires at the polls. Today, says in the white man house; but howmination of the negro status in Legislatures, the Supreme Court of Dr. Moton, except for a few State many whitemen know the negro in both South and North. He touches the United States is still all that his own home? Dr. Moton comes to lupon Reconstruction days and finds stands in a legal way between the the conclusion that very few do, especially in view of the increase of they failed because the carpet bag negro and civil and political extinction.
professional men among negroes pers and the negroes failed to take black lawyers and doctors who have he white man of the old South into The segregation of the negro is taken the negro client away from ensideration in dealing with taken up by Dr. Moton. The Tusthe kegee principal is aware that segrethe white professional man. He pays problems arising from emancipation a pretty compliment to DuBose Hey, and well enfranchisement. Because of Pation has its good points, as ward, white novelist, indicating this failure to have all sides repre as its evil. What he objects to chielthat one white man as least doesented at the council table, no deci is the connotation of white su periority know the negro; but his conclusion ission agreeable to all could be reachthat is its concomitant.
that the negro must be made aces. And when the support of the Except for a few saving instances, which he mentions, he finds that the quainted with the white man in North was withdrawn another stalegeneral. Hence the successive chap Imate resulted because the South negro gets the poorest accommodaLions through segregation, even when he is perfectly able and willing to pay as much as the white man for value received In the trains, Dr.
Moton says, the negro invariably gets the more dilapidated rolling stock for his use, although the fare remains the same for both white House 40 and black. The negro, he discovers, 3rd November Street is not against segregation because of an overwhelming desire to mingle Guachapali. Panama City with the white people, but because he does not want short weight for his good money.
What is true of common carriers in the South is true of the schools and the courts. Dr.
Moton advances the argument that negro teachers receive proportionately less pay than white teachers and that negro schools receive, proportionately less money for their upkeep and improvement. As for the ecurts, Dr. Moton sees discrimination all along the line until the Supreme Court is reached. The negro in the South, he says, is less afraid (Continued on Pag. 7)
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