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SATURDAY DE^. 18, 1937
* * SMART THEATRE OWNERS
The Theatre Ow-ners of North and South Carolina, Incorporated,
in a recent mcuUng held at Pinehurst last week let it be known
that its members are still fighUng the Civil Wdr. It may be that
4iie influence of the South Carohna nrenAeis caiised the North
Carolinians to join their bretheren from the sister sUte in issuing
an edict agrainst Negro and white persons appearing in movie
scenes on an "equal sockd basis,” #fasrtBYer that itt
Stop laughing^ dear reader, you must not make fun of old people.
The tneatre owners of North Ca.olina and South Carolina were
only foi ,wing in the footseps of other Southern states like Missis
sippi, Arkansas and Tennessee. You know with the federal govem-
menj, threatening to pass an anti-lynching bill every minute some
thing has got te be done to keep Negroes from acting like whit«
fo&ji. Why don’t you know gentle reader that if Negro actors are
allowed to rehearse their parts and then act them on the screen
with white folks that they will be getting divorces like white movie
actors, using dope like while movie aclorp and even breiHcing into
the daily new^apers with scuidaleue love, affairs like them.
W'hy suppose a Negro actor like Richard Harrison had come along
about the same time as Wallace Reid ainSTbeen allied lo Mcializd
on an equal plane with him, on the screen or off it Who knows but
they might have become so intimate as to even refer to each other
as “Wally” and “Dick”? And who knows but that'Dick would^not
have died from the dope haibit just like Wally? No Siree, our white-,
folks are not going to taJce any chance like that. This scandal, di
vorce and dope business belongs to white frfiks Und^‘the theatre
The Special SessioeOf
Congress And The Negro
(By* Bart LofanT
At an open hearing on
conducted
the
oTOhslKuUon that mQit*be pre
served in order to maintain civi-
tlie tiuuth:
that no
'4iaulluii m'
an inluh to the
South
Wafe-HSur
Charlotte by the Chamber of southerner should forget. We m
Commerce, the spokesmen for hav# many things to
the industrial interest* made for proud of but our starvation
their main argument against the ^^ges and lynching* i* a dw-
bill the fact that it would raise if £hlley were, a i«a«
wages of Nejpfoes. One manfuac- g^ytj^erner or a real
turer said “there ain’t no Negro woijld know it
worth 40 cent* per hour.” The
Calvin’s
Dig^est
•vTjr^Kln
Waraiag t» WPA
Ameri!an
puijtose of this line of atigument
was to convince the white work-
that the manufacturers had
We note with amazement that
the head of the WPA fai_ya»hin-
gton apparently accepted with*
out ao much as » second thought
the' “sugar-coated" report of the
ei3 tnat tne manuiac.u.«= .v.., the ‘ lar- Louisiana State WPA Admini^
no objection to paymg them * ° po- ^orations 8H*w«d an in-1 trator that colored citi*«n» ao
d.»o„t but the, w.nUd to .itu.tri M to b.
rn.tat.to ■•wMt, ‘'I;'.'’".. ol „„ ..,ol„„t«r«)” t. (0
the same period
Wall Street is doing every
thing possible to discredit the
President and the C. T, 0- In spite
fhvtt$rgfh,
That the vibration of steamship whistles cause great bergs of ice
to fall off the Taku Glacier, a portion of which Is shown above?
Taku Glacier Ii In Alaska and Is one of the great lee fields of the
world. It is to be teen from steamships plylr»fl between Vancouver,
B. C., and Skagway, Alaska, the water at the foot of thTi glacier being
deep ta alU.v beat* to cruise within two hundred feet of the
lee field.
Last Weeks Two Best
crease of 21.C per cent m TJr.v
Spokesmen for the C. 'l. O who' t^^ wmt period* of into the ccnebrske for emergen-
W.™ tut.d tbi. old Me 19SJ ”7; tb. •.,.bulo«." pri..
’’Co wo t\rud'%":^rm.rn«-»' o' -«•/
mean W wages for all worker^, people oulof worfc Ral^h course, is such« may
” • “News and Observe^.” has den- ed whore noHumana, «8p«ci*iiy
Senator (E'ailey, speaking in corre«^tly as a sit in large numbers, normalljc 4iva.
the Senate, said that the Wage-strike against
|Hour ibill and tha Anti-Wachin^ street is saying tft
Congres3 that in «rder to avoid
another depression all social lO"
gislation must be killed and tho
tax burden put on the -bac^i of
the common people.
Pi
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i;.
bWiiers are hot ^oTng to l^v^^egroes a chance at it Why, wfco Js
going to have Negro actols acciised of a crime like Fatty Arbuck-.
• le? Not our white folka They believe in keeping Negro actors in
their place where they wdn’t learn ways of white folks.
Brethern and sisters you should have heard the speech nuade by
Brer Montgomery Miir frohi Green^oro. Boy when that Mill start-
_ grinHinp' he “RhnK-” j-ij-lhh.T ....i —uli.. 1l..i j.i. tj—IC r-^
, V. , 7T g^i-ouiJJ uut Boine hot Stuff albout Kegroes
and while folks socializing together, ftig hearers could not stand
such a stirring speech. Immediately after he sat down a vote was
taken and white folks from Miss., Arkansas, South Carolina, Ten-
ke^K^l I!? Carolina “jined” hands like their forefathers to
^ p Negroes from acting in pictures on a social plane with white
folks.
Glory be. This solves the problem of race mixing that haa been
goin^^on in the South for all the«e inany years. Just wait until all
s th. rs; o';'
If these owners had just come along before Thomas Jefferson
mixed on a social plane with his Negro concubines, the father of
JeffersonisxL I^ocracy would not have also been ttie father of ao
many Negro children. And Brer George Washington the Father of
our would not have spent so much time with hi« N-grc
fcuaM^^' lit ^oyiejnen have solved the problem of “social
S eive them a hand. They have
done uhat the« fqre fathers could not do. They are smart
— — oOo-i"
THE NCCNA MET LAST SUNDAI^
The North Caioliiia Committee on Negro AflPairs, at ita masa
meeting held ^ Raleigh on last Sunday, ^oted to cooperate with
tiie North Carolina Negro Teachers Association i^ the matter of
equalizing the salaries paid white and Negro teachers in this state.
The action-of the committee places the teacher salary question
right where it was before that august body convened at the state
capitol.
The Cifoiina Times does not like to be pessimistic aitout actions
^ taken in meetings like the o^ held in Raleigh last Sunday, blit we
e wii-ing to bet pur last dollar that unless some other persons or
organizations become interested in teacher felaries that nothim
will be done ajbout them next xear thia time. A« we see it the meet
ing-of the NWNa was about the biggest failure we have had the
Pleasure of witnessing in many a dAy.
In the notices sent out to tJie Negro press a week prior to the
date set for the meeting we were made to brieve that it was
eing called for the purpose of discussing the several candidates
for ^election to the United States Senat#Hnd the House of Repra-
.sentatives,.and th. National Housing Act as it effects Ne|^o« As
far as we were able to see those present at the‘ meetog dij
^ r mattertTor which the meeting whb
™ n“ ;tae„ld bf^“ 1 *” «
■oi. poserved by the molt o^ thqse pretent,
4->, Committee finally did get ailaund to taking a vote on the
t .acher Mlary question an^ Vto the. surprise of those present per-
hankerchief head bickering
Jr ^ ^o«n doing anythin* defini
About thp nothing.
pre«at. After '“r^Jtf
high
THINK SERIOUSLY ON THE culty in our.grammer and
NEGRO’S~VALUE TO SOCIETY schools.
i Because we have a number of
JTIR Maero’a value to* society thorowgHly intellect-
is not deteriorating, .as some folk and morally, teachers in
jeem^’to think. The minimum val* i schools in tjns country, who
ae cf an American citizen to so
ciety is not less than ^600.00 an
nually. Since the Negro is A-
merican citizen and he has al-
are ambitious in making Negro
youth good and intelligent citi
zens, we must not countenance
having among them tgaicherB who
Bi’-l was an effort to ruin th
• South. When Bailey and his
kind speak of the South it is
very clear that ■ they don’t mean
the people of the South. Higher
wages certainly will not injure
the working people and if the
workers are making more they
will /be able to spend more, so
thia surely will not hurt the m«r-
chants "and farmers. If Bailey
didn’t mean the working peopl-j
nor the middle class of people,
who did he meanT-i'When he
speaks of the South, evidently he
has in mind the big industrial
ists. How many big induRtrial
plants in the South ai*e .owned
by SoufRe)
knows that industry in the
South is owned and controllcQ
by northern interests and that
soutiiem industrialists are more
and more becoming mere office
ijoya oFWall street. In speaTtin?
i^inst the Anit^Iiynching bill
•EWey made the most Ibrazen de
fense of moib murder ever made
in the Senate. According to Sen
ator Bailey, lynching is a gran i
ways proven his loyalty to the i otherwise. More than that
con(it»'iution of hi^ country a I must help them in no uncer-
member of his race was the first' xhis fact enables one
to die for ^the independence of ^ believe th^t the Negro’s valne
his couifEity on the Ifctoston Com- society is not deteriorating. A-
mons "he has certainly sustained | one must, for the good of
his value to his country and its society, strive for the best inter-
Chriatian ideals. Since this is ggj one’s community- gyen if
true, the value- of the present- strikes at those among ^ who
day’s Negro to society should not aUo^ certain conditions jto pro
be devaluated. I vail and are apathetice in main-
This is why we must endeavor '~ f«nla>«entals, for the
not to undere^imate the esson-! the school/ community,
tials for making our youth desi-.
rable, citizens. The State rficog-1 Thjnk seriously on the. Negroes
nizes this fact by having schools value to. society, Christopher Ai^-
to train youth so they can render and a host of others of the
unto society thj things making race proved their worth to so-
for the good and prog^-ess of a j,elp to make it pord-
Christian nation. S», those res-1 i-jjg the Negro to continue to
pionsible for the training of our jjg ^ desiiable citizen—they be-
youth must fully realize that
they are morally responsible for
the opportunity given them iRS
principals and teachers. Merely
tea!tiing' for an economic objec-
tivewr^drawing a salary each
montli—is not sufficient.
The principal of*a school is
queathed
keep.
unto us a -charge to
—Cape Fear Joiitaal
Wall Street is making its voicn
heard in Washington through
I'he distressins thing about
this situation is that the Washin-
grton authoritiea attenrpted to
paTm it off to the preis—even
the Negro preai—aa the true
story of the battle to save the
rich Louisiana ’'lantera heir $8-
OPO.IDOO cane crop.
and kin of the lynch .'r» and they
are decl!>red enemies of the
Churin and the antagonists o( >
Catholic ideas and principles—
We believe that the Catholic
press of America should be arti
culate and forthright at«- .this
juncture, and once again draw
the lines between the forces of
prejudice, hatred, mob Afiolence
and paeudo-libcrali.-m on the on?
hand, •fld'tfie Catholic principle*
in regard to religious and raciill
teleranoe, the prescryatibn- i>f
l»w and- ^^aerTaiiuPffie sanctity
of huiQ^n life, and'again declare
thats ‘Lynching must go!’ ”
V Federal Education Fund
The fiffht to secure a just
diare pf the l^ederal education
funds for Negfroes of the South
is vigorously being pushed, ac-
I cording to a report submitted by
The truth of tho matter came | the Committee on Findings -if
such people as Congressman Bui- to light in a colored paper in N. the Conference of Presidents of
winkle and Senator Bailey. It fS
up to the common people of ouv
state and country to let the poli
ticians know that we want law3
passed to benefit us no laws to
increase our tribute to Wall St.
The people of North Car-jiina
want decent wages, better hous
ing, relief for the unemployed.
On of thoise who are able to |
Orleans— the Louifjana Weekly.
It was not a "volunteer” proposi
tion, as the Washin«rton poreas re
lease stated, but a “Cut Or
Starve” edict, which was the
title of the Louiaia}ia Weekly ed
itorial!
We wish to warn the Washlh-.
gton administrators of the WPA
the Negro Land-Kjrant Colleges,
at the anntial session in Wash
ington recently. Chairman John
W. Daviy of the Committee^ pub-
mitted th© report, which carries
as Point No. 2, under “Federal
Aid,” the following:
“Tile glaring inequalities which
exist in the distribution of both
state ah^ federal funds between
that they had .better make a little
pay and •above all an ehdtnjr to j better-use—«^eiaL JbJfe_
the shame of the South, lynching, gro entourage if -thgy iare reafllyf^*" ^^®®*'oes suggelT acfron on
E^ery citizen-should write toCKTs ' concerned about the future of ■ part which would aid in
congressman and senators and let their, country. Negroi^ in this^™*^*'*’ results as follows:
them know the real sentiment of day and time, will not continue * type of federal aid to eeju.-
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LINA TIMES. 117 E. Peabody Street, Durham, N. Carolina.
MY 1938 ASTROLOGY READ INGS
EQVALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
THE denial of equality of op-
pertunity to the Negro through-
the administrator of that particu-‘'QM.t .Ajnerica, andhrespecislljr
lar school. If he is out of tune iorder States, is reat^ respon-
with the requisites necessary to i sible for the pitible social condi-
make his school a source for the i ^ipn of ,the Negro in the South,
procuring of certain enlighten-1 refusal by the white man to
ing and leaving resulta in hi3 Neern emiPloyni
community, he ia a square peg suitable virages - 'as well, make&
crying to fit in a round hole. His underprivileged group Mor91 Aasi Stop worrying ftbout tbU
mal-administrations make him a , dependent on society. A selfish yonng man an^ make some oiher
deteriorating factor in , making society wholly responsilble for nice friendt in yftur city. The
ECW—S^uld I stay on tlie
job that I’Aave now or should I
take the trip that has.ibeen offer
ed nle for the first of the year
An*i Yon eoidd only derive a
few week* pleamre^ from the
trip and I must *ay that it will
l[iTe yon' a lot of joy—to remain
on yonr preient job will intute
yon of regular em|floyment dur
ing |he entire winteir. Make your
choice.
IMJ—> .Does my • boy friend
“nT and good? What should
i I Ansi
boy JUke*. yon biit jnaither he or
yoarf (jjf j>re really eld enough I®
know^the' meaninjr of the. word
lore. ’
the Negro youth what the ttate plight created by it.
and the nation wants the f;uture I For example, the Nesrro eiti-
citizen to be., j zens in New Orleans have over-
It is imperative that we see to“*uibscribed their quota of |50OO
'it th^. iteife should:%iB a whole-''^by $1042. A noble attempt to
ipme atmosphere, for our youlu, care for the indigent people ot j MBIR-- There are't^ women
If the State furnishes the build- our raye. But we could even do (in my life. I have lived wiih one
ings, equipments, , ibooks and the better than... that What’s a goal' for seven years and the other I
finance for our pubUc schools of f5000 to reach out of a popu- | have only known for one year,
the Negro citizen is morrally o- lotion of more-than 152^)00 peo- Do either one of them love me
Bligated to see that Race youth’s jple. Let the whites u» more or am I jurt another fool?
mobile characters are not to be of the better kind of jobs and i An., The- lady that jq* h*»^e
—We wiugt^ p'spare fe meekly subBflt CO
now to defeat in the next elefi- dom which subjects them to dls-
fidn, the politicians who serve criminatory labor treatment on
Wall Street and the KU K'u the one hand, and attepipts to
Klan rather than the masses of cover -4t^. up ,by broadcasting an
the people. “official” report that aiU to well
*>n‘ the ' OttlBT.—
Lynch Fight To Date
'The battle to 0et the Anti-
Lynching Jbill through the Senate
continues aipace. As the show
down of a vote draws near, there
18 much weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth, but there it
also a new note in the dangoiw
white friends who are standing
their ground.
The-.i’ederal Council of Church-
cs has released a letter ngned by
130 women, to Senator Dixie
Graves of Alabama, in which the
women say they are "greatly di»>
turbed’’ by the Senator’s atti
tude toward the bill, uid in
which the Senator is informed
that the women "stand solidly
back of th» Anti-lynching- Bill
which is before Congress in this
session.” The senator is told, al
so,, that “Your recent talk again^
St the measure was a great dis
appointment to us.” This is from
the great ProBTCBtine federation
of churches.
On the Catholic side we note
ah editorial in the December
issue of the Interracial iR^i^w,
entitled “The Last Round-tji),”
adds this Inspiring jcomment;
“Catholic ‘leaders and the Catho»
lie press of the errantry, already
on record as favor'fttjle to ~ the
ARE NOW READY.
SM-^Who caused my daughter
to ibe in this condition and what
sh'Suld I do about her and will
she ever be well again.
Ans: No one at all i« retpon*
sible for the condition of your
dawjkter. Tho thing you •h'ould
do ugiit away J» to see a yoo^i
doctor and let, him examiwr
your daughter, Ye»—an improve
ment will take place provided
•he geti medical treatment im
mediately.
■ which would
■*
EG
:«£-
Will I ever have
my OAvnL
work?
Ana; Certainly you are going
to h«Te a youngster and before
the next two years have passed.
Gire ^onr husband a lot of en.
chei;, af wl>p»n «> - ward >!«.
ting the time he is under the "su
pervision" of the school.
Tdo many of our youth
poor]^ environed, resulting in
their val^e to society being re
duced to ^ status which is detri
mental to societ^jT. Society has
to produce
BJ—How can I win my^, boy
friend Ib^ck again? Is my ags
really the cause? will I. learn tq
dance soon?
Ans! This i^rticular young man
has ypui
^tter wagBH gnd"we"win past seveii~yrT.^ lovt~~bsHeir thaa he does yfl’tt.
Tiowever, you are going to meet
a mighty nice young man very
soon who, will maun ■ lA-
» eare does love you and would- Ijike
of those of otir ’^oup' who can-•“ere'than anything in the world'
not take care o:
WhAt we want is a working
chance,' not'a beggingTcKance.
—^Louisiana Weekly
ANTI-LYNCHING BILL EN-
j>r thfniy.jnHt«ad of | DOR&ED-B¥.^-—^
th«^. wfco t«.el from citiTs Xre L ABC- ' ~
^ at least have an opportunity to^kt
by mhiOy to remember, or
that is atrongvr ti»Hn tho occasion
i Siuday'« meeting;
xor’ Hre conser-
'vation of society. Iliere ia a
splendid grouip, of our teachers
I in ’this section who ^g„,*trivitig
to make their pupild miat society
, zoiKec,
the soup which was diiriied
out at last
The North Corolina Conferencp
.. striving J of student YMCA and YWCA
delegates meeting at Duke. Uni
versity -here Decembr 6 passed
exacts of them.
We must not be saperfidal in
our interest tot nutintaining actment of a federal
wentials for a well-rounded fa- ing law.
antl-lynch-
young'^dy Isn’t al all interosted
in ybu' pr your love.
VMG—Why is it that home is
it pleasant for—ihe anym
ttnfa"WgBOrf^'K°
'^*7’ added reasons for
urging the enactment of tfie pre
sent bill—because of the enemies
it has made.
“The EMn, the Black Legint.
ceu^agement for he cocid get and the forces of racial and re
work if he weren’t so ^^If-coa-
sciouu and wiould. ask for a job.
ligious prejudice are miUtantly
c'piposed to a Federal Anti-Lyn^
chinsr law. These forces are kith
guarantee to Negro schools of
the iSouth an equitable share of
such funds; (b) a proportionate
ly feirger amount of all federal
funds now available to states for
Iiink*CHn>t—Colleges- ,fi>i^ ug(i
the Land-Grant Colleires for Ne
groes; and (c), particularly,
pTioTision for research in our
member colleges though .federal
money as made possible in the
Purnell Act, George-Dean, Hatch
Smith-Jjever, Smith-Hughes, Bank
head-Jones Act and other acts.
The Land-Grant Colleges for Ne^
groes must have money to sup-
iport an educational program that
woyild be planned to serve ade
quately the needt' of Nfegroe^.” .
We are happy to see that our
educators are not giving in an
the profrram of .getting their
rightful share of the Federal
money. What is needed, howovcr
is a highly placed Neccro Federal
educational official, with real
administrative powers, who can
"guard the gate” at all times
and not let“anything be slipped ,
over while others are busy elso-
wherfe. We have a President in
ffie White -House who is quiti
fflvoraib’y disposed toward up, it
is true, but even the President
has his troubles with -^he petty
intfigues of the bureaucrats who
have the^ power to “allocate”
funds in minor divisions. Our
educaitors, on the .whole, have
been reticent aJboiit' feoing after
whWb ^Quld rig^rtfully ^'Comie~t^
them. Money is being spent right
and left now, with a free hand.
It is up to our leaders not to bo
bashful, but to stand up and
fight, for it may be another hun-
df^''X#ars.,bBfore such an era
will 'c^omfe again. After a IHtle
while, it may be too late for
fighting to bring any real bene-t
fits.
MISSOURI SUntEME COURT
UPHOLDS STUDENT SaTi
Jefferson City, Mo. Dec. 16—
Utegro g^iiato of Uneoln ant
versiiy of this state, from the
law school of th* Univeni^ of
Missouri was upheld here this
week by th©
to yoi* tlia« thU p«rty. There
'•®*t '“y reason why you should
not dance—^make an effort each
time you have • chanML_*ad-wh|p .p , , .
"ot pleasant for—ihe anyrp.3i-a '^°‘^t»time *i.-
move-T
Ans. ^our home life could be
made pleasant but it will take *a
lo|' of careful thinking and plan^
ning, but you are perfectly cape- about everything that he
Me of doing it. The condition He loves you bat iis eery
l“*C—Will this man I got
cause me any trouble dr notl
Ansi Not the least bit as Iea|y I
as you coatinue to let him have^
a resolution supporting tha on- tliat exist* now~ is only tempera-
"y and a change will take place ASTROLOGY READ*
before spring with your help. ( ARE NOW READY.
mpgBma
court, which has had the case
under ’ advisement for
■
oufi, has a separate fv^hool system
and a university for Negroes, bnt
that university (Lin
JroIeMiroal tralnui|{;
t was tlie contention of Gainer
and hts 1a^erp7"S. HT Reaimbnd
of St. Loiuls,. Ic.' H. Houston,
NAACP counsA of New York,
that the state was violftMxut the
TO* amendment to the consti
tution by iailii;
ing for all studehta
regardTe^ of color.
netitinn tn
Mn scnool of the
Mo., seat of the unirarsity, to .tate university was the only re-
compel the univeraity officiala * r. ^
tn i 1 . ' open to Gaines to securc
to admit him as a stadent in the hi. rights, it was contended. ’
aw- school. Hia petition main
tained tfiat he wasva ■ citisen of
the state of Miasouri uid was
entitled to graduate and prefea-
sional training in tha.. ta» anppert
^ university of tife at»te. HIim.
Attorneys for Gaines, ibackeil
by the NAiACP, expected a re-
Tersal in thfe Missouri suprem-e
cdurt «nd h^ve announced that
an appeal wiinlje filed to the U.
S, lupraiRe coqctcln due course.