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Page Twenty-One »> NORTH BADIN Timely Topics Buying Homes ■ejoice to see the men of our beauti- ;own acting wisely, as they are at time. I remember quoting Booker Washington, in an article to the .ETiN some time ago, as follows: I best right to citizenship of any is the ownership of their homes.’ have, at last, awakened to the fact the offering of homes to the citizens adin by the Tallassee Power Com- , on the easy payment plan, is a re and helpful proposition. The s were so easy, and the proposition ded so good in the beginning, that uld not appear to be true to many !• This one fact alone caused many lesitate. I have walked among ps of my people over here, during early days of the life of this op- inity, and have heard them whisper- -autiously to each other, “Boys, you '*■ keep your eyes open; that sounds ?ood to be ‘thoro’”; but since then have slept, dreamed, and thought the matter; and the same men have 8ed opinions, and bought homes. '®y now see that the proposition is H while, and the best ever presented people; but I believe the deed ^ we have in our possession now property owned by Badin Stock P^ny is doing more to convince than ■^6 speeches we have been able to I spare no chances to have it ’ As they see it is absolutely square, good as any deed can be made, ®re converted. time one of our race buys his another voice goes out to all ‘^'''ty, saying, “we are casting our and are making permanent our ^''ship, thus establishing our rights. ^ ^*^t fair to us to have our citizen- ^ *^®nied us until we have done some- ^ establish it, and all we should h ® man’s chance. I say “citizenship,” I mean *hip in the truest sense of the liv f mean merely the right any particular section of the I mean the right to live equal privileges and rights, k Public accommodations, equal pro- !j^ the law of our lives, liberty. This is what we are work ing for, and nothing will prove our worthiness of the same better than to say we are citizens by buying and own ing our homes. If it is only a two- roomed cabin, be able to say, “it is mine.” The Stock Company Many of our friends as well as our enemies have asked why the Badin Stock Company has been so slow in its pur pose. I may answer, the reason is the same as has been stated above. All were afraid. Few would be convinced that the whole business was not crooked. Many doubted the stability of the Tal lassee Power Company, and some doubted my management. Some would not go because they did not originate the plan and organize the Company; others did not go because they could not see where they could get two dollars for one at the start. I would not tell them that we could get rich in two years, for I would have been lying to begin with, so I only suggested to the boys that we put our little money together, and see what we could do. I am still suggesting this. I am pleased now that we are really beginning business, and we must, in time, do “big things.” We are suc ceeding in getting the eyes of some of our business negroes turned Badinward. Now is the chance of our lives. Let’s lake it. Among the home buyers now, “buy or move” has become the slogan cf the town. An>i 1 might say to all men, “you may as well buy, for you never will be able to move your families from Badin.” To get one drink of this water settles it with you, and if you do nothing more you saved that much. Saving is our salvation. It is not and will never be what we make that shall determine our value as a race, but that which we save. Our Growing School We are growing, and our demands are being met. Coming to our educational side of Badin life: “We are climbing; all 'are climbing, the black and white together.” Our superintendent and friends seem to think that our school system and sur roundings get better each passing day. Its growth has surpassed our most ardent expectations. We have had to open another house for school work, and it now has three more in it than its seating capacity demands, two other grades have above fifty, each in regular attendance. This means that we shall ask for another house and another teacher very soon. We are never denied by our good official friends when our demands are reasonable. We were fortu nate to have the principal of the white school, with three of her teachers, pres ent to judge the exhibits of our school on the bazaar which has just closed in COMMUNITY BUILDING, WHERE BAZAAR WAS HELD
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