THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 PAGE SEVEN Legislative Council Why So Much Ado About the Harlem Negro?
CRICKET! CRICKET. Get a copy of the West Indies Cricket History Cricket Tours 1900, 1906 1923 refined and unrefined sugar under MR. BARNARD Chronicle of Trinidad, discussing the the preferential taritt in order to aid selection of the West Indies team for (Continued from Page 2)
the local sugar industry to tide over Candidate For Australia? Australia at the end of this year, the difficulties with which it is at mentions the name of Mr.
red colour of the interior of the room and the horse shoe table at which the present confronted.
In a recent issue the Sporting Barnard as a possible candidate and In Harlem One Finds the Laughing, satisfied with being a carbon copy members sat for the first time was says: Dancing, Singing Fool. There Are of the old Quaker aristocracy. Bal more befitting the dignity of the Batsmen who may be considered No Restraints, No Economic Inde timore was absorbed in the old time Council than the drab interior of the FODO OD ir event of any player or players pendence or Established Social domesticities, while Chicago was too Drill Hall and the square table at being unable to go are Barnard, Circles. Brooklyn is as Different busy packing pork. Fernandez, St. Hil and which they used to sit.
and Remote as is Philadelphia, even Tarilton. Barnard would Negro a Stranger to The position of the Council Chamcertainly be a brilliant selection. He New York Foreigners.
ter should attract more people to By KELLY MILLER did extremely well against the West The Harlem Negro is not new at the Council sittings and there was a That bedarkened rectangular slice NOW THAT THE ENGLISH TEAM Indies in 1923 when playing for Oxof New York City, known as Harlem, all. He is a same old Negro exposed larger number yesterday than is ford University and if he is in the to new environment.
usual.
IS TOURING THE WEST INDIES West Indies (St. Lucia to be exact)
is the produuet of the twentieth cenNew York is the fun center of the The answers to the questions by tury. Until then, the New York as recently reported, the Board of Negro made little impression on pubnation. The funmakers are neither the Member for the Northern DisControl should hunt him up. There lie attention except the contingent natives nor Anglo Saxons with their trict were an unsatisfactory feature is no reason why Barnard could not make an excellent Vice Captain or that lived in Brooklyn. Those few Puritanical notions and intolerant of the meeting and the Government on the west side of the East River race prejudice. They are Irish, Jew, made no attempt to justify itself in something of the sort.
were so distributed and divided that Russian, Pole, South European. To the face of the protest, a mild one, We understand that Mr. Bernard one could not find enough of them him the Negro is a strange human from Mr. MeVane and Mr. Palmer.
and read the records of past will turn out for the St. Lucia resolution was passed approving in any one place to sustain any thing, with inimitable voice, wit, huin the Martinez Cup Competition.
of increase in the import duty on Cricket Veterans worthwhile social life. We heard mor and grimace. He sings a new much of the Negroes of Washington, song never heard before. He dances. AND Philadelphia, Boston and Cleveland, as none else can dance. He laugh EASTER ENTERTAINbut never a word about New York, and sings and shouts in such wise relationship, but mainly frith and MENT Harlem is purely an immigrant that none can equal. His mode and froth, and froth and frith. Wonderful Work of 240 odd Pages community. The original New York tempo are all his own. He adds to Harlemites are Free At the Jamaica Society, er has little part and parcel in it. the repertoire of song, the jazz, the of All Restraints.
Colon Indeed the Brooklyn colony is as jubilee and the blues, Summary of Contents: remote in temper and tempo from its The typical Harlem Negro feels The members of the Jamaica Mutual Go to, they say, here is a mind History of West Indies Cricket for 60 years Harlem counterpart as if they were of cultural wealth which, it properly himself free from all restraints, reFull Particulars of 1900 Tour. Protective Society, are hereby reminded of our Easter entertainment a hundred miles apart. Leaving exploited will bring fame to the per. ligious, economie, political, social and Interesting Report of the 1906 Tour, un ethical. The atheist, the agwhich will out Brooklyn and other burroughs formers and fortune to the promottake place on Easter Magnificent Records of the 1923 Tour, which constitute no part of its soSunday afternoon at P. at our ers. So they take the street loafers nostie, the radical, the Communist the Photographs of the Teams and 16 Individual regular place of meeting, a pleasant cial or spiritual life, Harlem proper from Atlanta, Birmingham and Rich. Bolshevist abound.
Players But after all one does not find in had fewer Negroes in 1920 than Phil mond, give training and discipline time is in store for all those who Harlem economic independence, inadelphia, Washington, Chicago Valuable, astructive, Historical, accurate, Complete and attend. Mrs. Richardson has to their native endowments and send Baltimore. And yet we hear little of dustrial self sufficiency, established Interesting them back as actors, mimies and mukindly consented to act as Mistress the Negroes of these great cities as sncial circles, a body of high mindof Cermony, Members are also asked compared with the fame of Harlem sicians to fill the fashionable played men and women of sustained poPrice 50cts.
to bear in mind that there will be a houses and concert halls of the very sitions above the level of domestic which has filled the whole world.
dance on Saturday night the 26 inst cities where they might have lived Upon what meat has this little group and personal service, the definite deand died mute and inglorious, at and Street Harrigains Band Copies to be had from the office of the WORKMAN of Negroes fed that they have grown votion to stated social Ideals, upon will be in attendance bring your New Negro is a which the permanence and stability Panama 80 great?
friends and have a real good time.
Dancing, Singing Fool.
of human order depends.
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Harlem originates nothing, but a Harlem Product.
gives development and start to talent The new Negro is a Harlem pro45 TILL SATILITY duct. He has been drawn there from new Negro is a what you might call all the ends of the land and from a laughing, dancing, singing fool, DO TODOC TODO ODO D10 other lands and has evolved a soul if we might borrow the prase from famous role. He peculiar to himself. No publisher Al Jolson most would dream of risking the issuance becomes ridiculous only when he beof a book descriptive of the Washing ging to take himself too seriously.
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia or chi His excellence lies in his unconsciouscago Negro. But scores of volumes ness of it.
are rolled from the press descripWhen he undertakes consciously tive of this new Nigger Heaven to portray himself, he usually makes The public seems never to tire at the a fiasco or His novels, recounting of his inimitable antics. poems and short stories portraying It is here for the first time that himself in conscious terms ar uml.
the Negro finds himself exposed to a ly grotesque and bizare. Th: mar friendly environment which encour az nes have opened wide their pag ages him to speak out and exprese to Negro writers who would burhimself without restraint or intimi lesque their race. The publishers dation. Boston was too Puritanical mainly of the tribe of Judah, have and crushed out all outpourings of welcomed Negro authorship after the native Negro genius with its auster Herlem type.
ity and gloom. Washington threw One rarely finds in such writing him back on the poverty of his own any deep analysis or profound thought culture. Philadelphia became sell or serious reflections on basic human gathered from far and near. The fiff 27. fifififift CERVEZA Balboa a fizzle The product of a Master Brewer IT IS THE CALL AT THE Panama Hardware CATHEDRAL PLAZA and see the finest Assortment of OCKS of every description also the Finest Selection of ARTIZAN TOOLS est eer rewed JUSI RECEIVED Come in and Inspect the Stock before Purchasing Elsewhere DO ESTATE FELETTE FREE