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THE NEGRO IN DIXIE.
Northern Paper Discusses Progress
of Race in Last 60 Years.
It is now close to 60 years since
the negro of the South became a
free man, says a Northern news%
paper. What has the negro done
through the years following vhis
release from bondage to prove his
worthiness to become not only a
free man but a citizen of the
* American republic?
Certainly the flight of more
than half a century has brought
about u considerable change in the
character of the negro as well as
in U18 conditions oi living. Tiie
old time negro of the South, with
his courtesy and his devotion 1o
his white people, has-almost entirely
disappeared. Only here
and there does one now come
upon one of the old time maumas
about whom still lingers the
- charm, the atmosphere, of the
"quality" negroes of the old
plantations.
Two generations of negroes?
of the "new" negro?have ap,
peared upon the scene and grown
to maturity since the close of the
Civil war. So, too, they have arrived
to meet far different conditions
to those surrounding their
ancestors in slavery days. While
thousands of the "new" negroes
have realized their opportunities
and eagerly seized upon them,
other thousands have not, show
ing an apathy, u shiftlessness al.
together unaceountahle save that
it must come from an inherent
strain running back to the old
days of childlike dependence. Yet
the facts show that the race has
made great progress mentally,
economically and' spiritually in
lhe years since freedom was given
them. Events have demonstrated
clearly that the uplift, the
salvation, of the negro, has lain
in his recognition of educational,
industrial and religious advantages
and his readiness to lay hold
upon them and make best use of
^ them.
A thirst for knowledge,' an insatiable
ambition to grasp the
best within his reach, has been
plainly manifested in the attitude
of the negro of the last two generations.
Not only has he tried
_ to obtain an education for himself,
but he has seized upon every
enducated. Negro children do
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they go eagerly.
Statistics show that the illiteracy
of the negro race has dc1
creased at least 75 per cent since
their freedom was proclaimed.
The "new'^iegro has shown, too,
that he can be both industrious
and thrifty. Fully 1100,000 negroes
of the South today own the
farms they cultivate. The "new"
negro, too, has made creditable,
seme of them remarkable, advance
in industrial progress.
Yet despite these gains, there
are throughout the South thousands
of idle, shiftless negroes, devoid
of ambition, living amidst
the most degruded surroundings
and born to criminal tendencies,
as the cess pool breeds-flies. It
is this class of negroes, insolent,
insubordinate, enemies of law and
order, with vicious instincts mi.
bridled, who have been the cause
of most of those horrible occurrences
that have shocked a nation
and placed so dark a blot
upon the fair name of the. South.
A most distressing feature of
the negro question in the South
is the appalling conditions .of
poverty and the utter absence of
cleanliness and sanitation in the
midst of which so many of thcra
live. The figures of the latest
procurable census report give the
death rate of the negroes of the
South as 31 in every thousand,
while for the whites it is 17 in
each thousand, but little more
than half as much.
Profiteers, like the poor, we
have with us always.
Many a romance has been spoiled
by a kiss flavored with talenm
powder.
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Meeting of Town OovndL
. At a special meeting Tuesday
night of the town council of Fort
Mill an appropriation of $50 was
> made to reimburse Thos. R. Gari
rison for the loss^of a cow, which
died several weeks ago as a re;
suit, is was claimed, of eating
i grass ,which council had hau
i treated with a liquid "weed
i killer. It was stated after the
> meeting that council denied any
legal responsibility for the death
i of the eoworthatanydefinite noiu
, of the cow or that any definite
i proof had been produced that the
i animal had been poised by eating
: the grass, the reason given for
makiiur the ai>Droai>riation heinur
that the body was not disposed
to work a hardship on any citizen
where there may have been
t even a semblance of responsif
bility.
George Fish was elected public
works commissioner to^. succeed
W. B. Ardrey, who resigned a
few days ago. It is expected that
the commission will meet this
week and reorganize by electing
a chairman to succeed Mr. Ardrey.
Council decided to continue
for the present the service of a
night policeman and J. O. Hammond
was elected to fill the place,
i His salary was fixed at $60 per
month.
Tirzah Picnic Minus Politics.
With the Filbert picnic a thing!
of the past, the next big York
county event is the agricultural
picnic that will be bold at Tirzah
Tuesday, August 15. J Skottowe
Wannauiaker oi' St. Matthews,
president of the American
Cotton association, will be the
principal speaker. Short talks
will likely be made by one or two
other well known exponents of
agricultural thought.
The Tirzah picnic is unique in
this section of the State by reason
of the fact that it is strictly
an agricultural affair, politics being
taboo there.
From Stable Boy to Peer.
From stable boy 111 America to
peer in England is the remarkable
story of Lord Ashfield, baron
of Southwell, lie began life as
plain Albert Henry Stanley, and
as.: a boy started to work in the
stables of the streeet railways in
? Detroit, Mich., when horsedrawn
cars were in vogue. Promotions
came rapidly and eventually he
became superintendent of the
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went to London us director of underground
railways. In 1913 he
renounced his American citizenship
to become a British citizen.
In 1914 he was knighted by King
George and in 1920 was elevated
to the peerage..
Eskimos Liquor Crazy.
The northeastern Siberian coast
from Anadyr north to the Arctic
is m a state ol' chaos us a result
of the manufacture by the Eskimos
of raw alcohol, which they
drink as fust us it can be made,
according to v special dispatch
from the Siberian correspondent
to the Nome Nugget.
"The whole region is a vast
distillery," says the corresponu
ujii, who uuus tHat 70 children
have died recently from laek of
food and medical attention and
that the older natives are drinking,
fighting and killing each
other in their orgies.
Hitting the Bullseye.
Another thing that civilization
needs is to become inore civil.
Marriage often proves that two
can live just as miserably as one.
The man who has a single track
mind has to work mighty hard to
keep it fired up.
The maiu trouble with radio
concerts is that the concert usually
is lacking.
Something is always wrong.
Just as automobiles begin to
drop in price gasoline goes up.
It doesn't make any difference,
of course, but what do you supnose
has become of V?ttv A*.
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R. A. Wilson, Prop.
It stands to reason that poets
are born and not made. No man
nonld deliberately make a poet
>f himself.
Some men are gentlemen, and
>thers aet the part during election
year. _
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