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Contribition to this paper will b 2 g 11- lg received when the sime deals with m ut- ters of general interest, and is @22 npa- nied with the autior's nimz, asa jear-- antee of good faith The editor cannot be responsible for the views of his correspon- dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. Totlten Writes About Tae Fail- urz Os The Grea! Gavvey pioveme:il. . FOLLOWERS OF ORGANIZATION IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, SHOULD CAREFULLY STUDY WHAT MAKES GOOD LEADSRSHIP, BY THE LES- SON IT TEACHES. By ASHLEY L. TOTI'EN. New York City, (Concludzd from yestzrday's Avis.) Thouzh one might deduet their own conclusions as to just what all this meant, yet it served to no great harm to those on the outside who regarded it as a source of great amusement. B3at others who Fad invested their mon-y linto the bus ness ed of it,and espzcially the many P> rihardworkinZ scrub-women who in tneir admiration for Garvey c¢ould not gee their m s‘ages, there was another view to the situation. ‘Ihe parades, and maintenance of an elaborate army was an extiavagance th t ate up thousan 1s of dollars. -~ Tuae Black Star Line, a dismal failure at the very start, want mors rapidly to its doom, whena Garvey refusad to aliow his ship to bring cargo for any white con- cern. (I write this ~yith emphasis, because it is the sam? stupid blundzr beinz made in recent years, why the Virgin Islands are face to face with starvation now.) Ganvey went turther. He oceupied the Madison Square (Garden in the heart oi New York, for the spaciiie purpose of hurling ABUSE at the WHITE RACE, and sugzested that a WHITE MAN be No. 157. - ] W A 's%?’}B % g@%j“’g ST. MAER LVi i Tuesdey, July 10, 1923, 8.15 P. M. aive B i 7 i Clara Kimball Young IN “The Hands of Nara” The Hands of Nara 7 REEL. DRAMA. FRICES: Batervold BOBIE .\ ..0 ciiiihii i deere i sis 008 Generzl Admission . Suibicn Adabeaihan sy iowe bB T lynched in Afvica, for every Negro lynched in America. fight here he sowed the seed for his own downfall and contributed to certain hardships that threatened to hurt the colored people of this eountry. * Several places began closinz their doors of em- ployment against persons whom they suspected were connected with this movement, and the Federal Government began its slow grinding, seeking some loophole with which to conviet him, And so, while there are few persons . 10 believe Garvey ever robbed a penny .rom anyone, he nevertheless has to serve five years in the Federal Jail, and pay a fine of one thousand dollars, unless an anpeal is granted, and a jury will find him not guilty at a second trial, While in confinement, Garvey makes the saerifice, not for his race as many contend, but for the erooks and secoun- drels whom he entrusted with the respen- sibility of ma2nangeme t, and who used all kinds of methods to fleece the public. We take for an instance his paper the Negro World, whose columns were dis- tributed free to thousands in the islands, so that they might sea the display of gallantry in the writer attacking the present form of government, and the naval personrel there. 1 had the pleasure of taking the mat- ter up with Garvey myse'f, aud asked why was it that h.s pcper only printed one side of the story and only from the writer’s viewpoint, and I also inquired by what right he took all other correspon- dence on the islands and turned it over to this wrier. It was then that I learnedl that these things were done without his k: owledge or consent, and so clevery that it had (aken him months (rying to trace who on his editorial siaff was res- ponsible, with no results. As the cpace necessary to publish these articles must cost quite some money in any American newspaper, one may judge just what Garvey's experi- ence must be in dea¥ng with men of a similar type whom he entrusted in other . departmen's. : In eonclusion,l b:lieve that the race has nothing to reioice over in the sad plight of Marcus Garvey. As a man who stood by the eourage of his convietions, and . believed that there lies the dawn of a | very great future for his race, he stands | supreme, ' His mistake lies in the fact that he is | selfish, for he denounced any movement | appiicable to the race, as inferior to his, He stood on a baughty platform that . could not be equailed by any dictator of olden times. | He hoted the w'ite man, and eould not see the that the annual salary of ten thousand dollars which he earned from . the sweat of his followers, was made - possitle throuzh work provided by the - very WHITES whom he despised. v' tarvey believed that he held a2 man- date over the destinies of all cotored peo- pie in the Virgin Islands, and thousands -of dollars from the pocket books of Vir- . gin Islanders sank with the Black Star } Line, In this lies the great lesson of a mis- guided people su easily convinced that | the redemption of Africa meant so much more ‘o them, than the starvation that ‘ faces mothers, sisters, brothers, d-rect- ly akin 10 them in the jand that gave | thez: birth.