Phoenix Tribune, 1918-08-31

By Hannibal, the Carthaginian. c Unfortunately for us, we have no c newspapers to herald to us the special doings of our boys who are now with ! c Uncle Sam in France. ( We have only to rely upon a few t negro papers printed in the north and ( west to get the information we need, f In almost every paper and magazine < we take up we find glowing accounts s ' of the white American soldier or sail- t or, but nothing about our boys, except ] for the little notice given those two j s men who fought 24 Germans, the i j white papers have been silent con- - I cerning what the boys of our race are ] doing. However, whether they mention 1 ' us or not, we are there and we are 1 % giving a strict account of ourselves. 1 ! When America entered the war, the ] question was, what to do with the ne- l gro. The negro answered by volun volunteering, - teering, volunteering, not waiting to be called, i They were told that this was a white 1 man's war and "niggers" were not i wanted. The government took a hand ] j and called all alike. There has been i no trouble with them except in cases i of extreme ignorance, and not wilful ; j "slacking." In many of the white pa pai - i pai pers we often read of organized gangs ; !of draft resisters who barricaded i themselves in woods and 'giens and I have pitched battles with soldiers and j the civil authorities. Except in one, , case of being led astray By others j < (some negroes and Indians at the out outset - set outset attempted to resist the draft laws, but were soon overcome), the negro has been responding to every call. Not only has he responded to the draft, but as near as he could he vol- - ! unteered in the regular army and «Uso J in labor regiments and as mess atten attendants - dants attendants in the navy. We made a spe spei - i spei cial article on the subject of negroes in the navy, asking for a separate ship to be manned entirely by ne ne'; - '; ne'; groes. Os course, nothing will come 1 of it, but we only mention it to let the other man know how we are thinking. We read an article not very long ago in which a white man said that the white people didn't know ' what the negro is thinking. That is true, but we can tell the world what 1 the negroes are not thinking, i We Jiave not the remotest thought j that the Germans will win the war. They never will win. They cannot I and must not win. As much as the Kaiser is saying, "Me and God it not with Germany. Why He has permitted her to remain unbeaten so long is His business. As sure as Scipio Africanus conquered our name namesake, - sake,- namesake, Hannibal, and Caesar, Pompey, ; Octavius, Anthony, and Wellington, Napoleon Bonaparte, so will the allies : 1 conquer William the Second of Prus Prusj - j Prusj sia. Mark our prediction. ; j The only question is, what shall be 1 done with the man who, by his inor- I (dinate ambition caused the death of , millions of human beings, noncom noncomi - i noncomi batants, including women and chil- WHITE SOLDIER GETS THREE YEARS AT HARD LABOR 1 Throwing Bottles at Negro Soldiers Was the Cause. CAMP MEADE, Md. - Brigadier Gen- < eral Gaston announced that Walter ' Middleton, private of company B of the Seventeenth infantry, had been sentenced to three years' confinement at hard labor, to dishonorable dis discharge - charge discharge from the army, and to forfeit all pay, on the charge of in a riot on July 24, 1918, by throw throwi - i throwi ing bottles at negro soldiers." The ; trouble which resulted in the arrest : of Middleton and other members of | the Seventeenth infantry and some 1 . negro soldiers took place at the can can' - ' can' i teen in the W., B. & A. station at the 1 camp. A white soldier accused a ne negro - gro negro soldier of jostling him, and then it is alleged Middleton threw a bottle - at a negro soldier. Things began to look serious for a time until the mili milit! - t! milit! tary police broke in. The affray had ' - some of the people ducking. Other 1 t j soldiers, both black and white, have l' been arrested in connection with the affray.

All INNOCENT NEGRO IS SHOT 8Y CRUEL TENNESSEE OFFICERS (Special to The Phoenix Tribune.) . KNOXVILLE, Tenn., August 28. Georgia lynch law tactics were adopt- j ed by Constable O. S. Gaines of Knox county district, and his son, McKin McKinley - ley McKinley Gaines; John Burchfield and r Will Howell, all white men, when Sam Netherland, an ignorant and harm harmless - less harmless negro, was arrested by the con constable - stable constable last Sunday morning and taken ; to a point ten miles east of Knoxville and hung to a tree until life was al almost - most almost extinct, and then cut down and shot through the shoulder. This bru brutal - tal brutal and inhuman treatment was ac accorded - corded accorded Netherland, familiarly known in the Bowery district as 'Sleepy Sam," by these savages in an effort to secure a confession as to who stole a five-gallon keg of whisky that had been hid in the bushes near McMillian Station. Netherland told the following story concerning the affair to a newspaper reporter. "Constable O. S. Gaines and his son, McKinley Gaines, John Burchfield and Will Howell, two other white men, arrested me early Sunday morning telling me that some one had stolen a keg of whisky from its hiding place near McMillian Station. Al Although - though Although they did not produce a war-: rant, they hauled me about in their i automobile, looking for others who they suspicioned had taken the whis whisky. - ky. whisky. They arrested two other colored men who drive taxicabs about the bity and took them before Esquire Dobson and procured warrants for them, and they then decided to take me to the Mascot jail, which is thir thirteen - teen thirteen miles from Knoxville/ They drove at a rapid rate to the woods near Mascot and then got out of the automobile, handcuffed me and pulled out their pistols and told me I would have to tell who got the whisky. I , repeatedly told them that I didn't know anything about it, and each time 1 denied having any knowledge of the whisky they would curse me and punch me with their pistols. At times they would stick the barrel of their pistol in my mouth and command me to chew it. They sent to a barn and procured a rope, and, coming back, they sat down and each one prac practiced - ticed practiced tying a hangman's knot. They finally put the rope around my neck, pulled me up and there I hung until I was unconscious. After they let me down, John Burchfield actually took a 41 derringer type pistol, aimed at my left breast and fired, jl only turned my body in time to keep the bullet from piercing my heart. The bullet struck me in the shoulder. After treating me in this manner, they left me and Mr. Tom Cox, a white man, came along and gave me money to catch a train and come to Knox Knoxville." - ville." Knoxville." The above story causes a chill to run through the body of every law abiding citizen of this section. Al Although - though Although there is a law in Tennessee against the transportation of liquor in the state, this officer of the law had knowledge of whisky being in the district, and when it was stolen, pos possibly - sibly possibly by some member of the drunken bunch that administered the inhuman treatment to Sam Netherland, the in innocent - nocent innocent and harmless negro, they em employed - ployed employed these lynch law methods in an effort to secure a confession or some information as to where their whisky was. Warrants were procured for each of the men and Burchfield was arrested at Sevierville, having fled to that sec section - tion section following his action on Sunday, and the other three men, Gaines, his son, and Howell, were arrested at their homes by Constable N. S. Simp Simpson. - son. Simpson. They are charged in the war warrants, - rants, warrants, which were procured before Esquire William Sellers, with feloni felonious - ous felonious assault. The case is being inves investigated - tigated investigated by the grand jury. Attorneys W. F. Yardley and George McDade, Jr., are representing Sam Netherland.

1 CAMP DIX, N. J. - Complaint is | -made by colored draftees from New : York and New Jersey that various forms of race discrimination are be belong - long belong practiced at Camp Dix. Radical Southern customs are being religious- I y observed in this eastern canton- j ment, it is charged ,and little effort I made to promote good-fellowship be between - tween between the white and colored soldiers. Colored rookies front New York and other eastern points who are not. used to 'Jim Crowism" declare that prejudice on account of race and color is rampant here. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the secre secretary - tary secretary of war, is to be called on to use his influence to make the cantonment a more democratic institution. Numerous incidents have been re recited - cited recited to substantiate charges made by eastern drafted men that a well or-j ganized effort is being made to segre- |t gate the colored men. When colored j draftees from the north are sent to j southern camps they are told to ad adhere - here adhere to southern customs. Now, to . their chagrin, they find that eastern customs have been discarded for southern customs in an eastern can tonment. "Jim at Ball Games A ball game was played several GEORGIA LYNCHERS j KNOWN TO GOVERNOR The National Association for the Advancement cf Colored People has hnnounced that (woof the ringleaders and fifteen other members of the mobs that lynched negroes in Brooks ; and Lowndes counties, Georgia, last May have been named to Governor; Dorsey of Georgia. The information : was got by Walter F. White, assistant secretar yof the association, who I made a personal investigation. Mr. White's findings were submitted to i Governor Dorsey on July 10 and a j copy was mailed to President Wilson. Eleven Negroes Lynched A summary of his report says. ' Instead of six victims of the mobs which raged over Brooks and Lowndes counties from May 17 to May 22. eleven authenticated cases were discovered during an investiga - tion of the circumstances surrounding i the killing of Hampton Smith, a white farmer of Brooks county, Ga., and the wounding of his wife, near Barney, Ga., on May 16, and of the lynchings which followed. "Press dispatches at the time named Will Head. Will Thompson, Haynes Turner, Mary Turner, his wife, j Kugene Rice and Sidney Johnson, the | last of whom had stated before he was captured that he alone was irapli- 1 cated in the affair, and that the five 1 who had previously been lynched were not involved in it. Five additional , Victims were found - Chime Riley, Si Si(non - (non Si(non Schuman, and three unidentified negroes whose bodies were taken from Little River, just below Quit Quitman, - man, Quitman, Ga., about a week after they had been lynched. Negroes of the neighborhood told the investigator that there were eighteen victims, hut no more than eleven could be au authenticated. - thenticated. authenticated. * More than 500 negroes have left the regions since the outbreak, so that a number of negroes who were said by acquaintances to have mys mysteriously - teriously mysteriously disappeared, could not be lo located - cated located nor their whereabouts ascer ascertained - tained ascertained and are not included in the in investiagtor's - vestiagtor's investiagtor's findings. Hundreds of ; acres of once productive land are now overrun with weeds and dozens of j farm houses and cabins, deserted by | their former occupants, despite the threats involved in the statements of the mobs that any negro attempting , to leave the region would be consid considi - i considi (ered to be involved i nther killing of i Smith. "Chime Riley was lynched and clay turpentine cups, used to catch the ' gum when the turpentine trees are i cut; were tied to his body; the. body ; was then thrown into Little River, near Barney, Ga., on the Moultrie

| afternoons ago between a white and | a colored team at Camp Dix. Colored i men from New York, who all their 1 ] lives have been sitting in any and j every section of the grandstand they J | desired, were surprised to learn that ; the white soldiers were seated in one I section and the colored soldiers in an-1 ! other. i - i I Inquiry as to why soldiers in uni uniform - form uniform should be segregated brought I forth the explanation that this plan j of seating was adopted in order to 1 j prevent trouble between the races. When the New York drafted men went to Camp Dix, many for the first j j time in their lives saw a "Jim Crow" ; | sign. On Cafeteria No. 2, which is | I used as a mustering in station, the ! | sign "For White Men" met their gaze. Although the war department has ' ; (decreed that the obnoxious term ' nig nigj - j nigj ger" be tabooed from the army, 'nig-| 'coon" and 'darkey" are fre frequently - quently frequently heard All the officers of colored regi regiments, - ments, regiments, for some reason, will be i white. . Colored citizens will call upon the war department, through Mr. Scott, to ferret out who is responsible for; conditions not to the liking of colored Kraftees in the habit of being treated i as men among men. MOB BURNS NEGRO PROPERTY IN OKLAj * According to press dispatches from : Dewey, Okla., a mob of more than five I hundred white people set fire to and burned every Negro home in a sec secj - j secj tion of that city last Monday evening. | Just how many persons were burned , alive could not be learned, but suffi- j I cient to say that a large number lost j their lives or perished in the flames, j Only one Negro home was spared,; | that of an old woman. Bad feeling had been brewing for | several days, due to labor trouble and strikes, which are said to be the prin principal - cipal principal cause of the trouble, but a direct cause was precipitated when a Negro, Ned Widlow, shot the chief of police and another man who attempted to arrest Widlow for disturbing the peace. Feeling against all Negroes was ; high, and it is feared that many inno- 1 cent persons have been murdered 1 o CUT THIS OUT AND PASTE IT ON YOUR MIRROR The soldier has twenty-nine chances of coming home to one chance of be- I ing killed. j He has ninety-eight chances of re- j covering from a wound to two chances j of dying. He has only one chance in 500 of [ losing a limb. He will live five years longer he-! j cause of his physical training. He is freer from disease in the army | i than in civil life. j He has better medical care at the j front than at home. In other wars, from ten to fifteen died from disease to one from bullets. In this war, one man dies from dis disease - ease disease to every ten from bullets. \ road, at night, and has not been seen 1 since. The interior of his house as well as the furniture was completely demolished story of Mary Turner's fate was related to the investigator by men who affirmed that they were present at her death, and is related with every desire to avoid the grue- j some except as is necessary in giving the facts" Mr White says he learned that, al- j though approaching confinement, shej was hdng head downward, her! clothes saturated with gasoline and set afire Her body was afterward riddled with bullets In connection with the report. Sec Secretary - retary Secretary Shillady declared that the as association - sociation association is gratified beyond .measure by the recent "magnificent" pro pronouncement - nouncement pronouncement of President Wilson in condemnation of the omb spirit and lynching.

dren, and the spending of billions of dollars? They have handed down the name of Attila the Hun as the of God." But when we meet Attila in the spirit land we will have to get down on our knees and humbly apolo apologize - gize apologize to him for the insults to his mem memory. - ory. memory. William of Prussia, when he shuffles off this mortal coil, should there be any "Elysian Fields," as pictured by Dante, will be very lone lonesome. - some. lonesome. His very soldiers, sailors and officers will'shun him. However, we believe neither in the Elysian Fields or purgatory, we are afraid if he goes into the presence of God with his soul dripping with innocent biood, he will hear a doom not to his liking. It Is strange how God brings Strang* things to pass. Here in America and in the south southern - ern southern part, if a negro dares to raise his hand to strike a white person, even in self-defense, or under the greatest provocation, his life pays the forfeit in the most horrible manner. Now they are drilling negroes and send sending - ing sending them thousands of miles to kill whom? White men. Strange, is It not? Such is the working of Provi Providence. - dence. Providence. We, as negroes, feel proud of the fact that our boys are not only in labor regiments and are mess atten attendants, - dants, attendants, but every time we read the pa papers - pers papers and see where the American sol soldiers - diers soldiers are in the thickest of the fight, we rejoice to know somewhere our black boys are helping to kill the cruel Germans. When this war is over, will the negroes still be denied the ballot? Will they still be lynched and insult insulted? - ed? insulted? We are reminded of the fact that in the first six months of this year 38 negroes have been lynched and worn! en were among them. I How is that for justice and democl racy? And all in the face of the fae! that relatives of those lynched are on the firing line. Still we are not think! ing of these things. We are forget! ting for the time being at least th« miserable Jim Grow cars we are. pay! ing good money to ride in. We ara only (remembering that America ia fighting for her life, and, like gooa Americans, we are fighting side bjl side with the bravest of the brave ana we are letting the enemy know than we are in the fight to win jVI After the war is over, will America permit the Austrians to return ana push the negroes out of the factoriefl and railroad labor as before? Will shl permit - the cruel and defeated Geil mans to rush again to the countr! they are now trying to destroy anß accumulate wealth as they did beforcl to finance another war against hell Iwhile the faithful negroes who arl (helping to stem the "Hun's drive,! (Continued on Page 4) I AFTER THE WAR 1 There will be something doing, I After the war -a There will be trouble brewing. I After the war. Germany hopes to grab the trade, I In spite of all the trouble she's madfl Uncle Sam will cause that dream tfl fade, H After the war. fl This will be a brighter world, I After the war; B Democracy's banner will be unfurlefl After the war. fl No more the cannon's mouth vel rush, For Germany's power will be crushel And the kaiser's voice will be husheH After the war. fl Many wrongs will be righted, After the war; fl America's name must not be After the war. H 'Lynching will receive a blow, isl Him Crow cars will have to go, 9 Knd give the negro race a show, WS After the war. |l| - E. J. MlMttl

world in three volumes, and a limited i supply of similar reading. During the long winter months, when the blizzards swept the plains of his home state, and when life out-of out-ofdoors - doors out-ofdoors was practically impossible, I Fred read and re-read these meager | books. One of his brothers occa occasionally - sionally occasionally sent him a magazine or book from the outside world, and he added with avidity to his store of knowl knowledge. - edge. knowledge. Finally he met and became friendly with a justice of the peace Here he found a new source of books and finally he became imbued with the desire to study law. It was about this time that one of his older brothers came to Arizona. Fred read the letters from his brother to his mother and father - they were letters of opportunities offered in the then young west. Fred begged for and was granted permission to join Fred was 20 years old when he nr nrhis - his nrhis brother. He came to Jerome, rived in the Yavapai county mining ( camp. His assets were a strong back and arms and a will to win and zeal | for hard work. He secured a job in j the mines of the United Verde Copper ! company, where he went underground as a "mucker" or laborer. He re remained - mained remained on this job six months. Carried His Lunch Then he heard of better wages and living conditions in Bisbee and he came to Cochise county. It is signifi significant - cant significant to note that on this trip he car carried - ried carried bis own lunch with him - sand- wiches sandwiches which he had himself made - in order that he might save the few (Continued on Page 4) 3 NEGROES NOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS IN WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON, W. Va., August - ln the state-wide primary held | last Tuesday, three colored men were nominated on the Republican ticket in I as many counties for member of the i house of delegates, the lower branch of the legislature. The nominees were: J. V. Coleman, Kimberly, Fay Fayette - ette Fayette county; Harry J. Capehart, Key Keystone, - stone, Keystone, McDowell county, and T. G. Nutter, Charleston, Kanawha county. Legislative candidates, in fact, members of that branch of the state government, are not novelties in West Virginia, few terms having passed in the last twenty years without race representation. But at no time be before - fore before have there been so many candi candidates, - dates, candidates, nor before has Kanawha county I before given a colored man a nomina- I tion, though there were two previous ! attempts. The honor of breaking through the barriers came to T. G. Nutter, an at attorney - torney attorney at law, formerly grand exalted ruler of the Elks, now grand chancel chancellor - lor chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and sec secretary. - retary. secretary. treasurer o f the bank recently organized here by colored citizens. Os the blx nominated from among fourteen candidates, Nutter was third. Mr. Capehart is also an attorney, I and, coming as he does from a rock- j ribbed republican county, is most certain of election. The other nomi nomi| - | nomi| nee, Mr. Coleman, is a laboring man, ; having worked In various . capacities around coal mines all his life. He was second of the four winners among six candidates. The colored population in none of these counties is one-sixth of the whole, that of Kanawha being about one-tenth.

| Fred Sutter came to Arizona in the early 90s. He was a green boy from i ! the farms of Nebraska, where he had . I tilled the fields and followed the plow on his father's acreage. He had youth and ambition as his only assets, and in I his heart was a longing for knowl knowledge. - edge. knowledge. He was the son of a sturdy { I ! backwoodsman and he had the strength of body and mind horn of active out-of-doors life. He made good. From the green farmer boy he has developed into one of the best known attorneys in Ari Arizona. - zona. Arizona. He has "delivered the goods" for himself; now, he seeks to serve the state. He has asked the support of | the good democrats of Arizona in his j candidacy for the democratic nomina nomination - tion nomination as governor. The story of his life reads as fiction - it is the story of temptations overcome, opportunities made and grasped and obstacles sur sur! - ! sur! mounted. Struggle for Knowledge Fred Sutter was born in the back-1 woods of Michigan, where his father , and mother lived the hardy pioneers' ; lives for years. When Fred was still a | boy his parents migrated still further j west - to Nebraska, where they took up a tract of grazing and farm land, and wh*re Fred worked in the fields in the summer and looked after the herds in winter. His opportunities for schooling were small. A little coun country - try country school house with classes six j months in the year, was his only edu educational - cational educational experience. Books on the i family shelves were few and limited - ! i an old-fashioned family Bible, some | of McCauley's essays, a history of the j NEGRO WOMEN MAKE GOOD AT LABOR IN BRICKYARD ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Negro women as i i day laborers are fast taking the places , of men called to war in the brick - plants in this city. | At all the plants it is said woman , : labor has proved satisfactory. The ; j women load bricks on trucks and rail- | J road cars. Negro women also have been em employed - ployed employed as lumber handlers in lumber yards, as laborers on track work by j i railroads, and a large number of girls j | have taken work as elevator con conductors. - ductors. conductors. o "ARE THEY PRAYING FOR US?" In the lowa Christian Endeavor I Bulletin, August issue, it tells Os a soldier wounded in a hospital of i France. He sent the following lines to his mother as a good-bye message. | for he died soon after; ; Are they praying f or us at home? i Are they meeting together in prayer, Or going about in the same old way j As they did when I was there? 1 i We thank them for their money. 1 ; We thank them for their care, ' ' But, oh, just tell them, mother dear, ' j We are needing so much prayer. 1 : Will you ask them to meet together. To meet at our Father's throne, That we may be kept from faltering, When we feel we are standing alone? There are moments when courage ' , fails us, When dangers around us stare, I Oh, tell them again, dear mother, I I We are needing so much more prayer. Is not this what many colored sol soldiers - diers soldiers would wish? > ° In Los Angeles, Cal., nine colored - men" are at work talk talking - ing talking up the purchase of Liberty Bonds, i War Savings Stamps and war organi organii - i organii zation activities among the colored people, with excellent results.