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16  THE CRISIS

H. Pace, establishing the Pace & Handy Music Company, which boasts of being the only colored music publishing house in existence today, and which has published all the later compositions of Mr. Handy and compositions of several other colored composers.

A HERO
William Dyke, principal of Goode Public School, Bedford County, Virginia, has been awarded a silver medal and $1,000 by the Carnegie Hero Fund. 

When the home of Peter Bryant, a white man, was burned two years ago his little four-year-old child was caught in the burning house. The roof was about to fall in but Dyke rushed in and brought the child out alive. The building collapsed just a few seconds after he emerged. The money was added to the medal in order to pay off a mortgage on Mr. Dyke's house.

A NEW COLLEGE PRESIDENT
This month Fisk University inaugurates its fourth President in the person of Fayette Avery McKenzie.

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DR. F. A. MC KENZIE

Dr. McKenzie is a Puritan and was born among the Underground Railway group in Pennsylvania. He was educated at Lehigh University, at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Ohio State University. His doctor's thesis was on the Indian problems and as a teacher he has interested himself in racial problems of various sorts. It is fortunate that Dr. McKenzie comes to his work as a young man with a prospect of many years of useful endeavor

AN HONORED PHYSICIAN
Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey was born in Louisiana, August 3rd, 1885. He was educated at Straight University and Northwestern University of Illinois. He received his medical degree at the medical school of the latter institution in 1906 and afterward served as assistant in anatomy at the same place, as ambulance surgeon for this health department of the city of Chicago and as associate surgeon of the Provident Hospital.
At the last meeting of the National Medical Association, which is composed of colored physicians, dentists, etc., Dr. Dailey was elected president.

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DR. U. G. DAILEY

OPINIONS

THE ROTTEN BOROUGH

THE SUPPRESSED NEGRO VOTE

Savoyard, a staff correspondent of several southern papers, is complacent as to the result of the Supreme Court decision on the Fifteenth Amendment:

"It is folly to suppose that the decision of the Supreme Court upholding the Fifteenth Amendment will have the slightest effect on the political situation in any State of the Union. In the boundless economy of time, history may record the name of a Negro Senator in Congress from Massachusetts as soon as there is another Negro Senator from Mississippi."

He then delivers himself of the genial philosophy of the Negro race:
"It is the most docile of the races--the Negro. It enjoys the day. As a peasant class it is altogether admirable, and if the day of wrath comes, and capital and labor shall fly at each other's throats at the North, the man of property at the South may sleep in peace, for the Negro loves the southern white man and will be true to him to the end."

We don't want to disturb anybody's nap but we venture to suggest that the before-mentioned southern white man would better do some of his sleeping with at least one eye open. We admit that some fire-eaters like the editor of the Houston (Tex.) Chronicle use the stentorian tones which sound like convictions:

"Fanatics may howl, politicians rant, demagogues declaim, conventions enact platforms, Congress pass laws and courts enter decrees, but the fact remains that the blue-veined and white-skinned man is going to run and rule this end of this nation. He always has, he always will. He has never divided his dominion with any man, and he never will and the sooner the Independent comes to know that fact, the better for it."

Nevertheless there is evidence that the North is continuing to think. A writer commending an editorial in the Buffalo (N. Y.) Express says:

"You should elaborate on this latter point and also call attention to the fact that having found it so easy to eliminate the Negro vote, the southern politicians have turned their attention to the white voter, with the result that anywhere from 40-50 per cent, or more, of that vote is ,likewise disfranchised in the states of the 'southern South.' Mississippi, for example, which has eight congressmen, casts just about the same number of votes as are cast in the congressional district in Chicago in which I am writing these lines. The education test does not apply to white voters in those states, so have been eliminated by making the payment of certain taxes a prerequisite for voting. You could not do a better work than in pointing out the workings of these laws which have made of these southern states simply miserable oligarchies."

If the proverbial proud southerner has really got it planted in his chest that this public is going to tolerate these "miserable oligarchies" another twenty-five years then he has more faith in human ignorance than we have.

IN FAR FIJI

THE NEW LEADER APOLOSI

R. S. W., writing in the New York Evening Post, gives a vivid account of the rise of race consciousness in another dark people half way around the world. We quote some parts:

"Coincident with discussion on the Australian press of a report that after the war the Fiji group is to become a direct dependency of the Commonwealth has occurred references to Apolosi a remarkable native of the islands. As the white community in Fiji does not know a great deal concerning him, Australia knows still less. The authorities at Suva

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