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128 THE CRISIS

leader. He was a man of unusual force and executive ability, and in many respects rose above the environment of race. In my opinion, his efforts toward the development of his people have been of great benefit to them and to the entire South. Born a slave, living a life of earnest endeavor. and at his death the chief executive of an institution of nation-wide reputation, created by his own brain and energy, demonstrates to the world and the unbounded possibilities open to those whose purpose is to accomplish something, and marks him as one of the able men of his time."

MISCELLANEOUS

WE trust that the members of the African M.E. Church are going to read with deep thought the leading editorial of Editor R.C. Ransom, in the October number of the A.M.E. Church Review. We quote a single paragraph:

"Petty chiefs, struggling for the ascendancy in Mexico and Haiti have brought anarchy and bankruptcy, with their attendant ills, to these two unhappy republics. Are we to round out a century of denominational life by Mexicanizing or Haitianizing the A.M.E. Church? Certainly the stage is well prepared for he enactment of such a tragedy. The principals are preparing their roles, and many actors are ready to step from behind the scenes even before the curtain rises on the next General Conference. Shall the A.M.E Church go the way of the Black Republic of Haiti, and thus give added evidence to the wide belief that the Negro is incapable of self-government in church as well as in state? Office, honor, authority, power; to attain these things strong men both in Mexico and Haiti have sacrificed their country upon the altar of their personal ambitions. At bottom it is just this sort of thing that is transpiring in the A.M.E. Church. There is no question of division among us on doctrine, on the best methods of propagating the work of education, or missions, or over the grave moral, social and political questions of the times. There is nothing about great constructive movements for the social, moral and spiritual advancement of the people. No; it is principally about who among us shall be chief. By some of the bishops we hear the cry of 'sectionalism' and 'politics' raised. But if the cry of sectionalism has been raised, and political methods pursued to place men in the Bishopric, we should not be surprised to find them reporting to the unworthy methods by which they attained their high position."

Persons who wonder at the "conversion" of the northern press to southern ideals, should read and reflect upon this extract from the Tampa, Fla. Times.

""Hurrah for the Dixie highway!"

"Under this caption the Chicago Herald, published by James Keeley, presents a leading editorial in which a beautiful truth-giving tribute is paid the South and southern people.

"The Herald editorial contrasts so greatly with the venomous attacks on the South and southerners by the Chicago Tribune in its rabid discussion of the lynching of Leo Frank that the Times reprints it in full and urges all Floridians to read it and then thank the editor for his display of fairmindedness. Mr. Keeley, who was an editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal before he began his career in Chicago, knows the South and southern people, and therefore respects their traditions."

The Lagos Standard, published in Sierre Leone, West Africa, quotes and strongly commends the "Immediate Program for American Negroes," delivered before the last annual meeting of the N.A.A.C.P.

"The program as we have before said is not only for the American Negro but for the African Negro as well. It will serve the purposes, aims and aspirations of the race in this part of the world to such a marked degree producing at the same time such appreciative results, as will bring the race to inter-racial recognition on all lines."

What is the cause of the unrest in India? S.R. Wagel thus explains it in the New York Times:

"It is unfortunate that throughout the world the nature of the British connection with India has been misrepresented; and well-meaning neutrals have been made to believe that Indians are guilty of unpardonable ingratitude in even thinking ill of Great Britain, which has