Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1925, Page 20

20 7 RACE CLASH HANGS OVER SOUTH AFRICA Blacks Are Realizing Power and Many Believe That ‘Danger Is Great. # BY G. WARD PRICE. By Cdble to The Star and the North Amer- wspaper ~Alliance. E, South Africa, July ~Qpe problem only matters in South Afric today-—the threatening clash between black and white. danger drawfs into in- all other questions. A few ¢ ago 1 was walking be- hind’ghe Prince of Wales along the front of 4,000 half-naked natives wear- ing their traditional fighting kit of featWefs, fringes and leopard skin girdles, The -heads of some were bound with the poden beads that mean their weapr has killed his man. In one hand Yhese tribesmen held their ple- LIVINGSTOM e bald $shields of tight-stretched oxhide, | @ other a bunch of steel-headed and a long club. A deep nt assegais war now §ind then a lithe, muscular, black hody tvould bound out of the nks, leapthg forward over the ground to stabfand batter imaginary foes with peaj Their eyes were set {' a sort of frenzy, for to these warnjors the practice of arms is still un gmost religious duty. 2 Veiled Threat Is Seen. think will be id a voice at very one of veiled threat.” South African officer of do vou the my those Tt 3 specfa] s spok®, a man who knows the natives ana Fheir tongues as well as any one allv e same causes are at work now as hfgye produced so many-South Af- rica. ive uprisings of the pz nddef; as we passed a group of pearg girls, with bare arms and pretty frockls, culafing warriors with no more con- cern; than if they had been a_side. show kt Ceney Island instead of part ion among the whites live as a scattered . protected only by a few score of their own race. 't you ever feel a little anxious 6ur womenfolk among all these ¢s?" T asked a white settler the day. ecious? Not in the least,” he with obvious sincerity. hire the best-tempered fellows in world and devoted to British Sharp Contrast. pse are two contrasting views trongly held in South Africa. of the native races have kep@ them in. the subordination whidh! they were reduced by the stern metBads of the earlier white settlers, espefinlly the Dutch. Byt they are still a are being worked upon by new ppwerful influences. The growth of opposition among them ced in Johannesburg last en an order that native n out-of-doors after 10 p.m. must met by a_campaign ance, in which black of undoubted good character 4d arrest. It is the best educated the natives who are often the s of disaffection. n time to time the very efficient fighting stock police discover traces of the Omalita, native secret society pteen of them were arrested in yansvaal only-a few weeks ago, e, who was struck down fto’ murder a policeman, Who had served six vears {Pretoria_hotel. { Whites Are Indifferent. d form of the approaching ra: ibt cannot be foreseen, but its dnts continually increas The jow of its coming darkens the sun- . Yet, with the apathy that jitpproach of great menace 8o i breeds, the average white in- 4nt of South Africa remains as trent to signs and portents as host Europeans to warnings of feat war. Politicians frame legis- é breakwaters against the spread ga of color, but know well what “expedients they are, and though ! of the ablest men plainly see ter drawing nearer, they have no fcal remedy te offer. ithis subject I ha past six weeks the 8 soldie machine 2 for the W historians G it cannot paper i African i activity oy and trie ma in was a s cook T con ele shal lit the oft: habi indi did the Tati ing wea sor diss pra Ol the pla the Afr| kn thi nes per the onl Amj sta: e heard during views of highly who believe that only gun can Savi South white man; of well »f this country, who be saved at all; of editors of lifelong ex- pce in South Afri who expect isis within 10 or 15 vears, and ope that people in England and rica when it comes will under- the position of Europeans here Palliatives Are Suggested. Ighave spoken, too, with members of the government and of the House oftAksembly zgest palliativ diffigult re like the segrega- tior§ of all natives on reservations. Missionaries contact with towh life and education on European line§ has made the Kaffir a detribal- izedfand discontented being. And the edugational authorities at the head »{ diich institutions as the large na- tivet eolleges of Lovedale believe that ourfduty as a superior race is to teadh. the native everything we can andf then let the result work out $under Providence. : these people, with their differ- Points of view, admit that the B question has lately acquired an mcy it never had before and that eause is the rapid spread of a of racial unity among the peoples of South Africa. Old [ jealousies that once acted as 2 r§ier to combination have di ed under the white man’s rule are fast fusing. The clan—Zulus, Swa; zing £ at they are members stock itos, Shang: first time t Be Bantu { Have Common Grievance. v spirlt of kinsmanship asy focus in a common griev- at the European has taken 7 country away from them. When the white man came to - Warehouse Railroad Siding Desirable, fireproof, modern building, approxi- mately 6,000 square feet on ground floor, with fideal loading platform and parking space. icated on Rhode Island Avenue N.E. Attractive Possession about August 1. fental. Address Box 39-H, Star Office Or Phone Main E‘n,mv came from their ranks, and | nding and experience who | Hifherto the good temper and happy dispgstion ! to | |1y, and so far submissively, to the role | itself | |a head Bell and His Aides Visit Battlefields Of the Civil War Engineer Commissioner Bell and his assistants, Maj. Raymond Wheeler and Maj. W. H. Holcombe, today are traveling over nearby Civil War battlefields, tracing the footsteps of Union and Confederate armies, for their annual study of military tactics. They left Washington at 8 o'clock vesterday morning, planning to visit Fairfax, Warrenton, Culpeper Charlottesville, Staunton and other points of Interest in the valley of | the Shenandoah. Maj. W. E. R. Covell will be acting Engineer Commissioner until Col. Bell returns tomorrow. South Africa,” sald a native in Johannesburg, “we had the land and he had the Bible. Today we have the Bible and he has the land.’ H There are certain zones where na- | tives can still live their old life and white men are not allowed to acquire territory. Basutoland is one of these, but it is full to overflowing. Its habitable ground is the most thickly populated part of South Africa, with 42 native inhabitants to the square mile. It is cultivated to the limits of possibility, yet just across the bor- der lle in provocative contrast the half-exploited farms of white settlers. Meanwhile, like all other native tribes of South Africa, the half million Basutos are increasing far more rap- idly than their white masters, with no outlet for their numbers. | “White masters” s the word, for it cannot be denfed that the white popu- lation of South Africa does regard.the Bantu race as a natural supply of cheap labor. The economic structure that has been built up in the country is based solely on that arrangement, from the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, which employs 200,000 of them down to the smallest white hous holder who has a single kitchen bo: The “color bar bill,”” now in commit- tee before the House of Assembly, has Dbeen drafted to legalize and extend throughout the union an old rule of the Transvaal mining industry that no native shall be employed on skilled work, 8o that his wages remain lim- ited to 60 cents a day. B Meanwhile his standard of living has increased to an extent which makes him dependent upon occasion: wage earning journeys to the Tran: vaal to be able to satisfy his desire for wives and clothes. What makes the black man's resent ment against such conditions potential- ly formidable is that within the Union | of South Africa itself he and his kind number 5,400,000, compared with 1.- 500,000 whites, while if you include the adjoining native territory of Swazi. | land, Basutoland and Bechuanaland, together with Rhodesia and South- | west Africa, you add another 2,700.- | 000 blacks, but only 61,000 white: Race Consciousness Strong So-called consciousness conception T on unreal founda tions, has caused much trouble in Eu- rope: race consciousness, a far more | genuine sentiment, is stronger still. “Color consciousness” is the mo: contentious spirit of all. The Bishop of St. Albans, who lately held the See | of Pretoria, was right in declaring re- | cently that “the native races of Africa | are banding together in a spirit of | race consciousness considered impos sible a few vears ago.” This spirit is spreading, and being | spread. Nor 18 it confined to one part of the African continent. There are | natives in West Africa at the present time, generally American educated, who brag that it will be their func- tion to supply leadership to the primi l tive tribes of the South when the | | time comes for their struggle against | the whites. i Thus the field is set for a racial | trial of strength. What form'will the | contest tak ’ Economic Rivalry Felt. | Already the economic rivalry of the des of civillzation fs felt s: No white man could hope to | make a living in South Africa by un skilled or semi-skilled labor. The 820 Memorial Settlers' Association, which | aims at the development of the coun- | try, regards $7,500 as the minimum | amount with which a single man can | start farming here. The “‘poor whites,” who have nothing but their own labor to live by, are in a pitiable condition, shut out from all chance of employ- | ment by the black man, who can live | in a wattle hut on a handful of mealies a day and is intelligent enough to be a good workman under white super- vision. From economic to physical struggle has always been an easy passage. | No one who visits South Af with | open can avold reflection on | ility of events taking that | course here. In town and country | alike he sees black men outnumbering | white by five to one, held permanent- | of hewers of wood and drawers of water, excluded from the franch: ex- | cept in the Cape Province, owning only 8 per cent of the land in a coun- try where they form 85 per cent of | the population, vet gradually bell’l!.',‘ imbued, through travel, education, | easy communilation and the growth of | a native press, with the bellef that they are an expropriated race. | ‘Would Mean Massacre. The danger is evident that such a | condition may end in rebellion, and | this, in South Africa, would mean nothing less than massacre—first a massacre of scattered whites by the outnumbering host of natives that surrounds them, then a massacre of half-armed natives by Union troops with modern weapons. This sounds like a morbid night mare, but it is one which some of the most responsible men in the count seriously discuss s a possible, if r mote, development Several things are still lacking to bring South Africa’s native danger to The black population has no generally recognized leader; there is no immediate cause for action, and | they are armed only with primitive | weapons. But the only thing that can secure South Africa beyond all apprehension to the white race is a_much greater rate of increase in its European popu- lation. If present conditions continue unchecked, it is inevitable that either by physical or economic pressure the black peoples of the country will squeeze out the white, as the growing cuckoo pushes the smaller nestlings O ot 025, in U opyright. 1925. od_ S| 4 Clr\ndaD by North Ame‘r’:r‘nnmh"'!‘i‘fl)tlnr:rl A‘l’]‘l! ance: Great _Britain. Lond v South America. United Fress) oy Mail Space With Lo- 48?0, Branch 21 THE SUNDAY ASKSTRASTICURB ONREDSNAERIA = National Civic League Head| Would Use Machine Guns If Necessary. STAR, tion. which the | in* threatens Federation of Labor demands instant action, Mr. said. Praising the federation for our Government suppre propaganda now being br: culated through the mails. Attacks “Moscow Myth.” of zenly Stigmatizing the | Americ: | taired conc fons in soviet I for increased commerce with R NEW YORK, July 2 Barring | “the Moscow myth,” Mr. E: from the malls of all propaganda e ey i ; . ’ B | serve a good purpose if composec advocating overthrow of the American | 2TNC, & ROV DATRORE T S BoSS Government, immediate enactment of | “ingide facts” of the present Federal legislation dealing with com-|government. He suggested munistic activities and “the use of | commission the following: machine guns if necessary” against | ican side extreme agitators were measures ad mund A. V vocated today ph M. Easley, | eneral of Par chairman of the executive council of |to Russia; Right Rev the Natfonal Civic League, in an ad-| Bishop of Methodi dress before the department of sub- Willlam Green, nope By the Associated Press. Episcopal Ch: sident Americ WASHINGTON, versive movements of that organiza- The steady growth of Communism through some sections of the world and the insidious “boring from with American in this country Easley oppositign to communistic overture: the league to co-operate with it in a concerted campaign to “create a public sentiment which will demand vicious Red cir: certain n business men who have ob tussia id the commission they urged might | the Russian for the the John Hays Hammond di- ston Richard J. Cooke, ch; D" €., JULY: Federation of Labor; William president Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; Conde B. Pallen, Catholic revirory editor; Lieut. Philip Mat- thews, Jmember American Relief Mis sion to [Russia. For the soviet recognition side James P. Goodrich, former Governor |of Indiana and member American | Relief Administration; Raymond | Robins, head of American Red Cross | 1925—PART 1. OUTING IS GODSEND TO NEEDY MOTHERS Camp Pleasant Ready for New Group—Many Now There Beg to Stay. 26, Lee, its Mission to Russia; Henry N. Mac Cracken, president of Vassar College: Right Rev. Edgar Blake, Bishop Metho- dist Episcopal Church; William .\'f ; E e : Haskell, chief of American Relief Mig-| A new contingent of needy children sion to Russia; Rev. John HHaynes|and mothers will be sent to Camp Holmes, acting’ president American Pleasant Tuesday, one group from L Civil bertles Jnion, and Jerome | (e, C de cha o 1 Dayis, ¥ale Divinity School and head |y Egeiam; undarathe PusrRergEies e Lol el g 1 F. Radford and another from Washington, under the it < s Rosa Brown. A new Debutamte Is Jiu-Jitsu Wrestler. |<roup will also be sent to Camp Good * | Will Wednesday from the northeast NEW YORK, (#).— | section, with Miss Sadie H. Wilson in Charotte | charge. aghter of Many applications are coming into | financier, fears no robbers or male | headquarters of the camps here while | accosters, for she is an exponent of |those already at the camps are ask- | jiujitsu. At a garden party tomor-|ing to be allowed to stay longer than | row evening she is going to show how their allotted periods. the modern young girl can protect | One mother with seven children herself. The party will be for the | under 12 years of age, asking for an n | benefit of Tsuda College in Tokio. | extension ‘of her time at the camp, Southwest ey | charge of M of July 5 Vanderlip, debutante Frank A. Vanderlip, said, “You don't know what it means | to us to be able to sit down to three | good meals a d nd it has done the | | children so much good.” 3 | One tiny baby, taken to camp from | Eldridge and Coombs to Enforce |a hospital where it had been for a| g e shwtod, easup gliclain sy, his . | Regulation Strictly. | proved so much it could scarcely be recognized as the former patient. A treat was given those at Camp Good Will Friday night when LeRoy Marks took his movie machine to the | {GOM)S, superintendent of camp and showed a number of films. |\ N1€NA to, enforce strictly the rex Thursday night a program was given | b A e ownnt Lo velnry ; Camp Watchman Beard, assisted(Ni% old tagy to the District Buildin S e Ty | within 48 hours after selling the m: it gl | chine. OUTING IS PLANNED. When a car changes owner | the duty of the new cwner t {tags and the responsibility of Government Printing Office and Recreation Association an outing at Chesapeake OPEN WAR ON ‘DEAD TAGS.’ In order to eliminate of driving _on ‘“dead Director Eldridge and Coombs, superintendent of license. the prac ags,” Traff Wade H ip it i get ne returr the Mr. F that ing the old tags rests upon n who sold the machine ridge pointed out last night a penalty of from $1 to $3: | failing to turn in “dead tags The Cafeteria | will hold | Beach Thursday. Seventeen athletic events are sched | uled and prizes have been donated by | employes. | The committee on arrangements | composed of Willlam F. Berger, chai | man; Mrs. Caroline Brannan, secre tary: and Frederick A. Strickrott t surer. J. Thomas Ford is presi-| dent of the association. ikets and pillows. S’ BROWNSTONE FUNERAL HOME. 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