The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1918, Page 8

i } spre ee American Negroes’ Glorious Fighting Record Gives Them Right to Benefits of Full Citizenship! BY J. H. DUCKWORTH. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. le Tuskegee, Ala. “The ‘negro will follow tne Amert- can flag wherever it may lead, There are now over 250,000 negroes in the} army. The negro is intensely loyal and patriotic. By the record he has already made in France he hay earned the right of all the benefits of fult citizenship—that act of simple justice for which his heart craves more than anything else.” In this way did Dr. Robert R, Mo- ton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, recognized leader of the negroes since |. the death of Booker T. Washington, answer the question: “What is the negro doing in the war?” “Isn't it significant,” went on \Dr. Moton, “that intelligent. colored peo- ple at first feared that the negro might be deprived of the citizen's right and privilege to defend his country’ “There was general rejoicing at the decision to include negroes in the draft. There was renewed rejoicing | when Secretary’, Baker, \ in spite of great opposition, decided to place col- ored troops in the same cantonments | with white troops, “Surely by, his loyalty in the war for democracy the negro will have earned his full share with white people of all those advantages of public education and protection which good govern- ments should provide. “I love my race today more than ever before because not a single ne* gro has been arrested as a spy. Ab-| solutely the negroes have stood loyal to their country. “| have told our young negroes at Tuskegee and at Hampton to give their country ail their support and backing so that those boys—black, white and red—in the trenches may know that together with white people we negroes are back of them. The ne- groes have bought :generously of lib. erty bonds and thrift stamps. “As to the negro as a fighter, Col. James R. Moss, of ' infantry. who has served 18 years with colored troops, says that, properly trained, the colored man makes as good a fight. er as any in the world. The history of the negro in all our wars proves this, Col. Moss has’ said he is glad to command colored troops in his third campaign. “The colored officers of the negro| regiments are near]~ all, graduates of Hampton and Tuskegee. Two Hamp- ton men have already won the Croix! de Guerre for exceptional bravery. “The negro has passed his proba- tionary period. He is now ready to} receive full justice all ound,” BUY W BOMBS ON. EVERY PLANE IN FUTURE —— With the American Arm in England, Aug. 9.—Almost every airplane used by the Allies’ soon. will carry, bombs. Experts in aerialwarfare are’ con- \vinced that the general efficiency of the corps will be increased if a bomb- ing device is added to every plane sent out, even though it be of the type once intended‘ only for reconnoisance work, and Americans. now training in. Eng- land are being.as carefully drilled in ing as in handling a ‘machine ' gun: Lessons learned during. the resist- ance offered in the recent offensive have served to increase the already high regard of both British and Am- erican officers in the air service far the low-flying, bomb-carrying craft, and,.over: the’/camps and countryside where the aviators are being trained, planes are in evidence almost every hour, dipping down from high in the air and skimming the nearby country, barely missing treetops and houses: Tt s the newer lesson they are learn- ing, and observers back from the front where the allied planes did such re- markable work not only in scouting and distracting the enemy, but actu- ally in breaking up formations and at points checking the’onWard movement have urged concentration on that form of training. British trainers, detailed to Amert- can aviation camps, have been lib-, eral in their praise of the new fliers from overseas, their only criticism be- ing that the Americans are “a bit too keen.” Their tendency has been to go in for flying stunts rather too early in training, but even this the! trainers have admitted is a valuable| fault, although not one to be encour- aged. It has’ been pointed out to the Am- ericans that team work, as well as individual efficiency, is a prime requi* site and the Americans have steadied | themselves to the routine,their train-| ers have found makes for general ad- vancement, if not for individual ap- plause. Fancy flying, the acrobatic work that once found favor and drew heavy gate receipts at aerial sexhibi- tions in the United States, still is taught, but the learning of that form of flying also has,come to be regard- ed merely. as routine and wholly inci- dent to the steady, low flying desir- able’ for attacking camps and troops in formation. ‘ Accidents have occurred in the camps where the Americans are be- ing trained and a few men have been killed, but the records show that the percentage is far less in England than in the United States. Those in train- ing here are inclined to attribute the difference more to luck than to any- thing else, although there also is pointed out the prboability that the average airplane used in England is a better made machine than the aver- age that has been used in the ee States. The bombing devices being attached | ‘PALS—TOUSSAINT L/OUVERTURE, be AMERICA’S BLACK DEVILS %. A detachment of American negroes in the trenches in France. WAR'S BLACK ACE ¢ | | . | By EDMUND VANCE COOKE * s | %. 2 BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE. ¢ Asli A NEW TOUSSAINT d (Famous Negro Soldier and States- man,. Liberator and Dictator, of iHaiti, Who Died in a French \Prison.) Toussaint of Haiti, jewel of your race! Oor, in more ; modern lingo, War's Black Ace! Slave, general, statesman, martyr! Had your face Been’ white few would exceed your place When history calls her roll. Well, L’ouverture, Here's Henry Johnson set out to in- sure That Negro heroism shall endure.’ First of our. Expedition to secure The croix de guerre! With pomp;and circumstance Where bansérs flaunt and bayonets advance, A general hails him contrade of Ro-; mance ‘And bearded lips salute his cheek— for, France!» * SS ee OR. ROBERT R MOTTON, se For that same France, O, L’ouverture, old: pal, Dr. Robert R. Moton has taken the Which blushes at your name, as long} place of Booker T. Washington as she shall. principal of Tuskegee Institute and) leader of the Negro race. (Copyright, 1918, N. E. A.) to virtually every plane is. not the contrivance that was used in the ear- MANAHAN IN CITY : eS lier days of the war. That used then was little more than a mechanism that Former Congressman-at-Large released the projectile, allowing it to to Try Federal Case au at aoe Sperone near the ‘arget. e device now being used is - one with which the operator may,] James Manahén of st. Paul:is here with much practice, become almost as| preparing to try. a case in‘ federal tera bt markepianehlp ae oa court Monday. »The formér’ Minnesota eryman, is w: 8 gun. mos at every light plane will carry bombs of congressman-at-large announces that at least 25 pounds and from the heay-| "8 appearance here at this time has jer types there’ will be hurled the|no other significance. _ The litigation huge containers of high explosives: not materially different from, those used by the Germans’in some of the more recent raids. po eo ton Commission Co. of Minneaplis ana John and Joseph Reuter. of Under wood, /Mr..“Manahan representing the hah defense. The action is one of ancient Tribune Wau. Ads -Bring Results. | vintage. eye = AUDITORIU ONE NIGHT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16TH A. H.. WOODS PRESENTS The Comedy Suite De Luxe ‘PARLOR, BEDROOM & BATH A,New Tale of a Wayside Inir ~ A FRESH, FLIPPANT, FARCIAL FROLIC By C. W. 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Hundreds of Afri- gan colonels serving in the French and British armies showed the Huns how a black man can fight—but it took the Ameriagn negro to put the inishfng touches on the'~ education. ai The result is that while a German soldier might stand up and fight a) German soldier. might white | soldier, fie now flings “down his rifle and shouts “Kamerad!” with all his lung power when a negro face shows. be- hind an American bayonet. » An American -negro regiment took a valorous part in the fighting east of: Rheims on July 15 and 16 when the German drive Was stopped: * So" furi- ously did they fight that they earned picoutemniyoue but appreciative place in the German official reports of the defeat. i Pr Two nei divisions—the 92d and] the 98rd—are known to, be in action oh the western front. Thefe may be tfaining in’ England, and, the’ English more of them. Some of them are in i ‘TTheir. earning caneely, depends BVERYONE IN Hog Island "Yards } Making Ex- perts Out of Amateur Workmen™ ° ‘ Philadelpiia, Pa., Aug. 1—The ax- fom, “Must Makes Master,” is getting a practical’ demonstration’ every day. at the Hog Island shipbuilding plant, ‘where @ school of instruction has been’ established and erstwhile clerks, bar- bers, car conductors and motormen, policemen, firemen, shoemakers, butchers, bakers and, indeed, repre- sentatives of every. known enterprise and endeavor, are converted into ship- builders after brief tuition. Most of these students, taught by the hundreds in one branch or an- other, are taken out of ‘the inatruc: tion ‘class after a week and placed* with journeymen .crews. lle.they. are being instructed they, receive elev- en hours’ pay for ten ho} ork Jat’ the rate of 35 dents an*hour; When they have qualified, thelr wages im- ediately advance, so that men who |’ before were earning $18 or 020 a week in their owt occupations are now making $40, $60 and $60. | pon their ability and the amount of tell. many tales of their humor anu whimsical attitude toward the war. The 92nd and 93rd divistons were organized under the command of Maj, Gen: C. C.’ Ballou and Brig. Gen. Roy C. Hoffman respectively. The com- pany unitsi are in ‘Jarge:measure com- manded by colored officers. ,, About 650 ' comimisisened. officers were graduated from the first training ‘camp for colored ’ officera at Des Moines, aad these officers have for the most part made good and are in gommand of troops of their race. Under the first draft there were £37,628 negro registrants, or nearly “eight ‘per cent of the country’s total Feistration \Of this number 100,000 fave been called to camp and the ma- jority of them are now,at the front. * About 1,000 negroes,\including 250 | medical officers, have. heen’ ‘commis- | jfioned as. captains, first Neutenants ‘and second lieutenatits. In addition to the fighting men] there ‘are $4 colored chaplains in’ the army, and 150 negroes with the negro ‘Branches of the Y, M. C. A. at the camps in America and in France. © ar w, time they put in. Many, inorder to}! swell their pay envelopes, toil longer than, the required ten hours, a thug NO APPETITE? frequently receive as high as $75 week: The men-find the employment con- genial and fascinating, whether they are joiners, carpenters, riveters, seam- ers or otherwise engaged in helping to, turniout ships for tke govergment- “Approximately 28,000. employes’ are onthe payroll at Hog Island. -T! are: not all ‘men and boys: Ther: a representative number of women, whose duties, however, are confined to office or other light: detail. ~ Just how large the total‘of the week- ly payments to the workers is has not ‘been officially disclosed, but it is estimated: to aggregate more $1,000,000; The plant is the Bret of its kind }in' the ‘world, and the first ship of a «Virtually, unending string of vessela will’ slip down the -ways early in August. L, Shipping officials here are hoping that President Wilson will find the time to attend the launching, for Tribune Want Ads \ | which elaborate ceremonies are being arranged: Owing to shortage of Pr ' insists that all mail subscriptions not paid in advance be cut off the list. i ‘Examine the yellow label : not paid up in advance, kindly mail reniitinnes so that : \ you will not miss a copy. On August first the Circulation Department will re- «vise its mailing lists and all subscribers to Daily and _ Weekly Tribune in'arrears will be dropped from the list. _ Look at your label ‘today. In face of the high cost of production, The Tribune management has retained its old rate by mail of $4.a at year. la 1 This rate can only be Susintained by enforcing t the paid i in advance regulation which the United: States postal authorities insist upon, eae | four. "Remittance a SHIPBUILDER , than | bé FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1918. situation’ as a whole is more tense SeRMEROP. FAILURE tierce ee and Warely suffices for the feeding of New. York, “hug. 9 9—The | yield -of | the population.” ea 'the German corncrop has been. re- laced 8. barely, sufficient for’ the BRAZIL FORBIDS duced’ and is. barely, sufficient for' th USE OF GERMA N feeding ‘of: the population, according to a statement made by Privy Coun- pad * Washington, ANE. ug. 9—The German language as a basic language in the cllor Kleinert of the Imperial Ger- man Bureau before the Food. Commit- tee of ‘the reichatag, according 6 the | many schools of Santa Catharina, Bra- Berl TaRebiatl of Janets be ts zil,-has been forbidden, according to in reply to a demand by the bour- ‘ashington. The geolaie Periies that the farmers be al- udeleee Teaching A ded f ermit lotted a larger quantity of .a certain authorities have decided to p kind’ of corn (called in German Hin-| the teaching of German in the cur- terkorn, black corn), as this would |riculum, but Portuguese is ordered as havea conciliatory effect in view of | the basic language in all schools, pub- the many enforced deliveries and nu-|lic and private. In a single district merous compulsory measures, ‘Klein-|of Santa Catharina there were, be- ert said: that the so-called’ inter-| fore Brazil declared war, ¥34 German korn” could uot be réleased ‘fi gen-|schools where nothing but German | eral for fodder putposes, for the rea-| was spoken. \ son that unfavorable experiences had Sr Sera It been made in that respect in 1916.) Don't let your children suffer. 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