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74     The Crisis

[[image - drawing of the ship U.S.S. NEGRO PATRIOTISM AND LOYALTY. Holes being drilled in the hull by divers labeled: Prejudice, lynch law, and segregation. by Lorenzo Harms]] 

[[caption]] In Spite of Submarines! [[/caption]]


The Looking Glass

LITERATURE

From Edward Young:

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. 

Chester H. Crumpler sends us this symphony:

Let us never swerve from the plain path of duty, nor falter in our struggle upward toward the light; let us so regulate our habits, so dominate our passions, so temper our natures as to enable our nobler instincts to blend into a more perfect harmony, our passion for goodness to overwhelm our petty faults; let us follow the natural impulse, the latent promptings for truth, love, and substantial justice, and enrich the soul with the priceless blessings of unselfish effort; let us trust ourselves and each other- ourselves, at all events- and thus, matching wit with wit, zeal with zeal, strength with strength, meet the world with a hope undiminished by early failures, a fortitude born of sacrifice, an assurance rendered perfect by daily triumph over our baser selves: in this way shall we the more surely attain to that high degree of fitness, usefulness, and power which should be the end and aim of every Afro-American youth.

The following notice has been sent out from Chicago:

"Owing to conditions that are beyond our control and the necessary time that goes to make THE CHAMPION MAGAZINE the foremost periodical of the race, we have resolved to discontinue the monthly publication until further notice. 
"THE CHAMPION MAGAZINE PUBLISHING CO.,
"Jesse Binga, President."

THE FUTURE OF AFRICA

SIR HARRY H. JOHNSTON, G.C.M.G., K. C. B., writes in the London, England, Sphere:

Rightly governed, I venture to predict that Africa will, if we victorious, repay us and our Allies the cost of our struggle with Germany and Austria. The war, deny it who may, was really fought over African questions. The Germans wished, as the chief gain of victory, to wrest rich Morocco from French control, to take the French Congo from Portugal, to secure from Belgium the richest and most extensive tract of alluvial goldfield as yet discovered. This is an auriferous region which, properly developed, will, when the war is over, repay the hardest-hit of our Allies all that she has lost from the German devastation of her home lands. The mineral wealth of Trans-Zambezian Africa- freed forever, we will hope, from the German menace- is gigantic; only slightly exploited so far. Wealth is hidden amid the seemingly unprofitable deserts of the Sahara, Nubia, Somaliland, and Namakwa. Africa, I predict, will eventually show itself to be the richly endowed of all the continents in valuable vegetable and mineral substances.

 But in the political map of the future there must be no region allotted to the German flag- after what Germany has done and has threatened to do. A repentant Germany that has made compensation to France, Belgium, Serbia, and Poland may participate in the wealthy commerce that African products will stimulate, and Germans may settle there as colonists- colonists as valuable as those which began to people the waste spaces of South Africa a hundred years ago. But it must be under the flag of one or other of the nations now composing the Entente; nations who are pledged, it victorious, henceforth to keep the peace over all the Old World and oppress no people, large or small. 

 But this allotting of the whole African Continent as an exclusive sphere of political government to the British Empire, to France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain imposes on those peoples the duty of educating, protecting, and encouraging all its native races. These must have secured to them their fair share in Africa's inherent wealth; opportunities for their talents and their free labor; freedom of self-expression, and even self-government inside the bounds of license. And we ourselves should be so conscious of our tremendous privileges and responsibilities that we should blush to be, as we are, the last among the shielders of vile forms of alcohol which are fast destroying the happiness and fertility of the West and South African peoples.

RACE PRIDE

A Book by a certain Madison Grant illustrates the methods of race worship. This book, as Franz Boaz writes in the New Republic:

Is a dithyrambic praise of the blond, blue- eyed white and of his achievements; a Cassandric prophecy of all the ills that will befall us on account of the increase of dark-eyed types.
 
Fortunately, the supposed scientific data on which the author's conclusions are based are dogmatic assumptions which cannot endure criticism. First of all, the whole concept of heredity as held by him is faulty. The heredity lines that are present in every single race are very diverse. Every race contains excellent strains, a vast number of mediocre strains, and some strains

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