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THE VOICE

Volume 4    April, 1926    Number 3

Editorial Section

ORGANIZED FREEDOM

The Negro is as free as any statue or law can make him in this country; but he is practically a slave, being denied nearly all things which a free man craves. He is a slave largely because of his own choice, not having the organization and cohesion which is demanded of freemen. The Negro holds his freedom too dear, in that he does not wish to surrender any of it for the purpose of cooperation. His idea of reaching high position, single handed and alone, has cost his race to the extent of its being held in contempt, and regarded with scorn. The only hope the Negro has of really lifting his race and thereby every Negro is in organization. His business will be helped, his professions improved, his respect increased, and his power multiplied by organizing himself.

BOOKER WASHINGTON AND TUSKEGEE

Just as July is the Independence month which reminds us of the Declaration of Independence, Thos. Jefferson and George Washington; and as February reminds us of Lincoln's birthday, and September, Labor Day Celebration; so does April remind us of Booker T. Washington, who was born in this month. Booker T. Washington's greatness grows in magnitude as time passes. The cross currents of opinions about the relative value of what he was doing merged in the one powerful stream of what he had done just a few years after his demise. The whole world now acknowledges and proclaims the greatness of his vision, the greatness of his work, and the greatness of the man. Only a few men in all of the age of the world have been so constructive in building a Race and in winning the good opinion and good will of another Race whose feelings, if not hostile, were at least indifferent to the welfare of the Race to which Washington belonged.

Without Mr. Washington most probably there would have been no Tuskegee Institute, and the town itself would have been unknown rather than the now widely known village which may be termed the Capital of Industrial Education. Tuskegee Institute is a handiwork of Booker T. Washington. It is his monument wrought by himself. You cannot think of Tuskegee without thinking of Booker T. Washington. The world would applaud and right thinking men would gladly assent to the name of Tuskegee Institute as Washington University.

PROF. J. SILAS HARRIS DEAD

In the passing of Prof. J. Silas Harris at his home in Kansas City last month, Missouri and the race loses one of the best known characters of the nation. Professor Harris was one of the first Negroes appointed as letter carriers in the Kansas City Post Office. Later he entered the school room. Then in the latter nineties, he organized and published the Kansas City Messenger, a powerful organ in politics during that period. He was on terms of intimacy with the late