THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, SEP. 7, 1929.
PAGE SEVEN The Negro in Literature With an even greater reserve of Strength!
DUNLOP FORT Two of Jamaica West Virginan EduCrack Cricketers cator Lauded CLAUDE MCKAY BANJO.
at New York (Continued from Page 2)
The Negro teacher is poorly paid BY In The Manchester was, indeed, no more than a gesture, NEW YORK. Two of Jamaica in all of the states except the Dis.
Guardian an incident unrelated to the course best crickters have arrived here on trict of Columbia and West Virgi.
of events; whether the Negro is not the Ceiba in accordance with an nia. In the matter of supervision Many of us were introduced to the still a slave.
invitation extended them by the Jathere is a tendency to give some atMr. Green play emphasises Negro in literature through Unele maica of New York, to play in Negro teachers but most of this is tention to the class room work of Tom Cabin. which in my youth was curious contact between his work a series of cricketical engagements ler. suppose and the other book we shall presentduring this month tournament.
a tremendous best directed towards industrial and manit ranks among the influentially consider. The hero of the play is They are Messrs Holt, veteran ual arts phases of school work. Only books of the word; it certainly mulatto who is pathetically anxious ericketer, and Headley, one of the few trained teachers are employed provoked a great deal of indignant to follow in the white man tradiisland crack players.
tu give full time to supervision of This duo of all round cricketers emotion. think it gave to many of tion, to educate himself and his felcurriculum sujects. In most of the us a false impression of the condi lows with the best possible imitation were met by members of the New Negro children is from one to two southern states the school term for York club and were given a great tions in the Southern States, and of the culture he has been accustomed to admire. He suffers much bruwelcome.
months shorter than the term given even now some of us may find it The Dunlop Tyre of Special construction intro All other children. The average length hard to realise that relations be tality and receives some kindness, They will also play against the tween master or mistress and save and he strives humbly and with de duced for the motorist who uses his car for long touring Bermuda team that is schedof term in all the states included in which uled to play a series of matches.
this study is: Whites, 163 days, Negroes 137 days. The average Negro mane than those in thousands of En is necessary to progress toward the spells on bad roads, or in other ways involving are ideal. He is thwarted in part by the particularly arduous service conditions.
childs school is twenty six days shortglish homes where servants indifference and levity of his fellows.
employed to day, er than that of the white child.
Cricket at Barbados The percentage of Negro high schools To me the most moving passage in VERY STRONG VERY DURABLE great deal has happened since the play is the second scene, in which Uncle Tom Cabin. Perhaps some VERY EFFICIENT is very small compared with the numhe responds very nobly to the gen.
people would say that it struck a The thoughts of all cricketers wys of public tax supported high schools ber to be served. The development foul blow on the right side, but erosity of a master who is also his correspondent to the Barbados Ad has just begun. Only a few years must not go so far as this for it father. He has much to forgive and vocate are beginning to turn towards ago there were many southern states must be fifty years since read it he has his moment of exaltation and the Intercolonial Tournament which that maintained no high schools for faith. Failure, ingratitude, and pr.
will take place on the Bourda ground their Negro citizens.
and don mean to read it again. It vation follow, and the play ends in in September. Trinidad will, it aphas been succeded by much admiramurder and horror. It is a real pears, depend upon her old reliables careful study shows that Ne.
ble literature that has told us a good deal about the Negro. Promi tragedy, and even from a grim and though such players as Achongvelopment in those states where the gro schools have their highest dealmost hope less series of events we Daniel and Eligon are being serious elective nent in my mind are the books of nchise ly considered. British Guiana has gro citizens. voteless people have Cable. The Grandissimes. Dr. may find some gain is the character enjoyed by Ne Sevier Old Creole Days. and of Abraham and his devoted wife.
a side in which youth and experience little influence in the shaping of leg.
The other book a very remarkamuch of this literature has the qualiSee the are happily blended and their only islation, securing right and justice coloured ties of serenity, of acquiesence. But ble one is Banjo. by Claude Mc.
drawback is the lack of a real fast Kay, published by Messrs Harper bowler and a first class wicket keep of law. The way out for the Negro and giving themselves the protection medallion the Negro question remains a perpeand Brothers. do not know, but tual interrogation. Our social difon the er. The prospects of Barbados are not as bright as suggested a fortseems to be through the intelligent ficulties here insignificant think it likely that Mr. McKay is seem himself a Negro; his sympathies side The famous night ago. have been creditably in throughout the South.
use of the ballet in etery community when we compare them with those have a closeness and intensity which wall Dunlop Tyre formed that Challenor will not cf the Southern States and of South be Africa. The abolition of slavery was one can hardly associate with an outof Standard making the trip. have reason side view. His pride is in the irYour Dealer believe that Griffith, whose a great step but the kind and extent duties Construction will be glad as a Health Inspector now demand of the freedom gained is a matter repressible exuberance and legendary to show you is, of course, all his energies, will also be an abof deep concern within and without vitality of the black race. and this this latest is quite independent of a white culstill available sentee. What makes the position the Negro race.
Dunlop pro duction.
Now the Negro has become a strik ture; there is not room for the Ne.
work is the lack of interest shown by the Barbados Cricket authorities.
ing figure in the world of art in groeven in the wordds of Mr.
With the tournament one month oft which he finds both ordeal and op. Wells and Mr. Bernard Shaw DUNLOP RUBBER Banjo had been long shoreman COMPANY LTD. It is surely time that portunity. Art is a great democratic a Selection St. James House Committee should be appointed and force; fellow artist is a comrade. And porter factory worker, farm hand, St. James St. London, steps be taken to put the finances you can bardly use a race or the in seaman, and he came to Marseilles, Branches throughout the World on a more stable footing. We want dividual in the race to stimulate and where it was as if all the develiet the best possible team for Demerara shape your emotions without the of all the seas had drifted up here in September and no stone should be closeness of understanding, of sympa to sprawl out the days in the sun.
left unturned to discover the best thy, that make for fraternity. In Life was a lusty affair for all these talent available.
this brotherhood of art the Negro Negroes of the Ditch whose lingo has found a place both as subject calls for a glossary. It is a society For Sale at Leading Garage West Indians batting first accountand as creator. This does not settle of drunkards and prostitutes, with ed for 190 runs. Ben Clark was the all questions of politics and ameni little of morals, discretion, or even sensation of the mateh. After a long ties, but it should help toward a hap sanity.
With immense spirit they he came pier state of things.
are displayed guzzling, jazzing, dane Two books dealing with the Ne ing sweating.
holders by his polished performance.
gro have lately come my way. One Strong surging flux of profound West Indians need him. When pairis the first appearance here of Mr. currents forced into shallow chanAdvertise in the Workman It will Pay ed with Allder, New York sat Paul Green play In Abraham nels. It is an epic of a phase of Ne.
back contentedly in their seats.
Bosom. published by Messrs Allen gro life. Mr. McKay calls it a story Allder after battång beautifully had and Unwin, which has already be without a plot. It goes on and on, enthusiasm, overcome the differene contempt for all civilization particul the misfortune to be run out at the come famous in the States. Mr. It is horrible, and it becomes tirees between him and the crowd of arly he sheds his contempt on the 30 mark.
Green is a young American, deeply some. But it is not negligible.
Clark and Best took the score up in sympathy with the Negro race Perhaps Burns Jolly Beggard friendly, frowsy ruffians with whom Negro who would better himself in who writes particularly about South would be tiresome if it went on for he consorts.
terms of the white man society. The by free hitting. Clark was high scor er of the day with an unexcelled 85.
Learned in human bestialities with book becomes an impassioned lecture Best 37. These three were Caroline. The word great is ban 800 pages. Mr. McKay has no plot died about too freely novadays, and but he nitroduces a character who a penchant for exotic signs. his on racial problems which are not only double figure men. would not use it here; there is serves to give a kind of rationalism sympathies with these simple comrad capable of solution by any recognised The score read: 13, 20, 29, much to come from Mr. Green yet. te the orgy. This is a Negro like es overpower all niceties of intellec political tendency. Of course, by any 59, 98, 102, 120, 125, 177, His play has fine passages and an the rest, but a writing black. a tual pretensions. The position seems standards that the ordinary man can 10 190 appeal of extraordinary power and man with a philosophy that can em, with but hour and a interest. It is in seven scenes, which brace Tolstoy and Gandhi and claim incredible, but it is ably and even apply, it is frightfully untair, but quarter to but found it impossible to are, of course, progressive and there Negro be there is much to provoke thought. surmount this figure. They lost is little attempt at niceties of design. kinship to the swell of primitive bered that the man colour is a grim For those interested in the Negro wickets for 121 runs.
It is their In reading it you might ask your earth life. We are invited to believe social limitation. His interest in race race it is a book to read, though it claim that time alone saved our self whether the abolition of slavery that his racial impulses, his poetical advancement is qualified by a bitter requires a strong stomach.
champions from a crushing defeat.
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CATHEDRAL PLAZA on AND SEE THE FULL ASSORTMENT OF LOCKS of every description also the Finest Selection of ARTIZAN TOOLS The second trial match in preparation for the forthcoming Intercoloniai Cricket Tournament was begun the Grounds at Bourda yesterday. The teams were a Probable Colony Team vs. The Rest. The Restled by Mr. Phillips batted first and put up 127, de Freitas being the principal scorer knocking up 28, and McLean 20. Green ged the most wickets: at the cost of 18 runs, and Gaskin for 16. The Colony Team at the call of time had lost no wickets for 26 runs. The game will be continued on Saturday next and concluded the following Saturday.
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