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THE CAROLINA' tlMKt SATURDAY, JULY ItSS ' ■■■ ■ » ' ^ ■ I ■■ I .1 II. ■ Editorials a ^iinp6 Comments Cu€a CbK^0 117 S. FMbody 9L Dorbua, Noitb OtnrilM l^MWMd at IhirhuB, North OBrolfaw Ervry SatonUf by THX CAROLINA TTU£S PIJBLISHINO 00., lac PHONESi N-7121 t- E- AUSTIN, EDITOlt W. A. TUCIt, MANAGING EDITOR 9Ul»GRiJ*TO>N RATJCS 92.00 Per Year ia Advsnoe; Par Six Moattia ia Advaace; 06c Par Threa Montlu ia Advanoa; Oasada, 13.50; Other Oonntriaa, |8.90 J^Btered a« Mcond-claaa matter at tbe Durham Poatatftce, under set of March 3rd, 1879. Adrertiaiai^ DepaMmeat— 11km« deiiring iulonnati*! «ac«ratnc aationat rates, addreai all communkatloni to CAiiOiLlNA T1M£8, iXurbam, U. C. National Advartiaing ItapraMatativa CALVIN’S NEWSPAPER SERVICE 143 W. 125th St. N. Y. C., Moaaaiaat 2-*7»4 SATURDAY, JULY 23Ti. 1938 SLUM CLEARANCE IN DURHAM Whitt fS this ciiy guiiit; to uo aouiit alum clear«nce7 With all uf tht! aiU the 1 e U u r a 1—government is giving toward eradica ting siuiiM in ottiiT citii's, JJui'iiam has laiieu to ifet in line to »b- laiu Aeip towarus clearing up certain sections of tne city that aie nuining more than crime breeders. K.illini', rob-bery, and bootlegging are some of the results which this city IS reaping as a rewura 'lor its negligence in clearing up certain sections that are woise than hell ti-oies when it comes to vice. It is a tremendous price wnich this ctty has to pay appar ently tu make it easy I'or merciless landlords to reap a harvest on bioken down property that a hog would object to inhabiting. We are bunding playgrounds, new school buildings, streets and appropriating money for various other improvements, many ui wnicn are less impuitant when it comes to providing safety lor tne j^ile and health of* Durham citizens, but we have sadly" n%- giocted to make a move towards making it possible for many of uurh&m citizens to appreciate ~uur schools and playgrounds. We nave neglected to force landlords to paint up and lenovule many of the dives tlHsy maintain which are conducive to crime, a n^ d disease. ^ JJurnam may feel that thuse in high places are not aifected by this negligence of its poor. Durham m&y feel that its aristocr acy can escape the ravages of , venereal disease, tuberculosis and crime which liirks within its vice ridden slums. Durham may as well realize that the highest branch Qf society is so interwoven with trfe lowest tnat an epidemic of de-- vasiating disease knows no bounds. We should have learned this trutn during the influenza epidemic of W years ago. TUlil CAKUIjINA TIMK^ has always done wliat it could to ad vance the cause uf all Durnam citizens, it proposes in this fight on slum^i'Q Ifdrham to publish pictures of filthy tenement houses. ^^the namas of-th» owners of thaap houses and the amount of money they are receiving fr«m their miserable tenants for them. We are doing this J>ecause we be lieve Jthose owners to be as much a menace tS" decent society as the criminals they are responsible for .breeding. * In our fight on the slum sections of Durham we are suggesting that"our readers lend us their support in order that thin city may be made more beautiful and a saier place in which to live. r ' SUNDAYFUNERALS One of the greatest evils of modern times is the tendency of Nejproes to hold their funerals on Sunday. Hardly a Saboath passes in the average city of any size, but what the day is not broken into by a slowly moving long line of automo'biles that ties up traffic for several blocks in what is known as a funeral proce9s- ion. ^ The CAROLINA TIMES would like to see a law enacted against holding funerals .on Sunday, except in cases of ahsoulte necessity. Such a law would do much to discourage the a, t t e m p t to ■put on a show by undertakers and bereaved familes, as well as provide more time lor Sunday worship for employes or morti cian*.. Other persons who-are called upon to interrupt their bunuay rest to attend a funeral show and parade would uiBO ocnefit from such a law. In lact we have never seen the,necessity of funerals anyway. Most of those we have been forced to attend, in our judgement oiiiy serve to quicken the ^rief of the bereaved, instead of niemyriauzing a worthy persons who because bf death has be«n removed Iroia', society. Il ls our Opinion tbat it would l)e far better to have a person who has Jived a worthy life come to a church or other public place while he is living to attend a testimonial in his honor, than to wait until he is dead to eulogize him. Certainly such an oc casion would do more to encourage those among us who are still flving to try to make a contribution towards' bettering the con- ditipn pt_mankind, than all the empty worda attared after ones Kellj illerSajs -oOo- WHY FOR NOT A THIRD TERM F. D ROOSEVELT? itoes ^oint straight upward. Jiev. Miles Jdark Fieher, alert an distinguished minister of White Rock Jteptist church, started a crusade against Sunday funerals in Durham several years ago, but doubtless Rev. Fisher discovered that he was too far ahead of his time. Several months training may do much to taipe a lower animal, but it takes years and even centuries tq get fiuman beings to d.iacard ancient and UaLlVill/.t*^ ruatj>mfi fhatigivg fchpiti nn even at a funeral. Will Franklin D. Roosevelt be chosen for a third tenoT Read thf answer in the Stars For mortals do not know. No Presi dent knows at the middle of his term whether or not he will stand for re-nomination, whe ther for a second or third term. His political mind is not his own but ia controlled by political eventualities. With the political horoscope he m^st consultt the ^.,the planat^ln the political Heavens. Hypothecatj^ STojPd * health, the decision whather to run or not to run is dictated by the welfare of his country and the exigencies of his party. Pijesi- denlt Roosevelt has made the New Deal the ideal of American democracy a»Kd the objective of the nation's political and econo mic program. His * iuccesa in formulating a new doctrine and his ability to impress it upon the nation as a program of prac tical action stamps him as the greatest political genifls of this generation. Having taken hold of the plow of this political and economic gospel, he dares not look backward. He is the only American with tl^ rugged in dividuality, intrepidity and courage to push this pj'oposition to full fruition. So long as the ultimate success or failure of the New Deal 'hinges upon his 4eadership he is in duty and ho^or bound "to keep the rein in his own hands. If within the next years, prior to the nominating conventions if a lieutenant emerges upon whose shoulders he can safely transfer the mantle of leader ship. he would^ undoiubtedly be glad ito be relieved of this super human burden. 'But so far no such leader looms the horizon with the requisite grasp, pow er and personality. He must for a while longer bear the cross, alone, for jn the popular estima tion besides him, there is no other. The American people are ir- TcvDcably cominitteed to a pro gram of liberalism. Conserva tism and reaction have been thoroughly discredited as be- longinj* to the horse and fauggy age. President Hoover, the apotheosis of conservatism is most highly honored and res-^ pected as an ancient and hon orable statesman of the d&ys gone by. Frannlin D. Roose velt is without a doubt the most dynamic liberal and con- strucjtive statesman since And rew Jackson. This can be said with all due respect to Grever Cleveland, Theodore RoosevAt and Woodrow Wilson who laid the fundation upon which Roose velt erects his .superstructure. Dr. Glenn Frank, Chairman of the ^{ational Republican Policy Makinj:- Committee,, has frankly declared himself a Reluctant Re bel against the New Deal. In substance, both parties effect to endorse liberalism oft which F. D. Roosevelt is the most cbh- spicuous exponent. Unless condi tions vitaHy change within the next two years te liberal senti ment of .the nation will demand the re-nomination and re-elect- tion of Franklin D. Roosevelt regardless of partisan affiliation. The bug-bear of the third term traditions has no terror fof the genuine liberal. The example THE DAISY I^CARBORROUGH NURSEHhT An .institution that is destined to play an ^important part in the development oj Durham is the Daisy Scarborrpugh .fjur^ery, established as. a memorial by J. C. . Scarborrough, prominent businesii' man of Durham, in honor of his wife the late Mrs. Daisy Scarborrough. Although,'the nursery has operated only a short while pn its pre^Qt scale it has for several years been an important factoi^' in caring for small children whose parents have been forc^d^ to leave them t* provide food, shelter and clothing. ' The attempt of the board of,directors to have the home made tax free ought to meet with the''approval of all of Durham cititene of both races. Certainly North Carolina, nor the city of Durham does not need one cent for taxes from an institution that is going to help some unfortunate child, be he white or black in having opportunity for full develop^ment. . Tbe CAROLINA ^ mMES believes it voices the sentiment of most of Durham’s thinking element when it says that the state ought to elimin ate the home from paying taxes so that it can better serve the eommonftjr. Tbn* are af large number of crin^inala in all our cities today who W0»U not be criminals if they had had the care of parents dur- (PLEASE TdRN TO PACE EIGHT) of George Washington in de clining a third term has lost its sacresanctity. There was gen uine reason why George Wash ington should have refused the proffer of a third tei'nt, but no such reason exists today. At that time there was genuine danger of a life tenure of the President, which -^he sanction of the august personality of the father of his countoy might have made a fcpr uf,; the Con stitutional procedure ‘more bind ing than the Constitution itrelf. But after the lapse of one hundred and fifty years the American people ftfel plerfectly free to eleJt calculated to pro mote the national welfare re- gardlesa of the third term tra- ditionr l" "Tltew^'was no national necessity for Washington's elec tion for a third term. His con tinuance in office would not have settled the issue between Jefferson and Hamilton which continues as the divisive politi cal principles down to the pre sent day. ^ ' The third term tradition doubtless would have been brok en had Abraham Lincoln not fallen victim to the assassin's bullet in the issue growing out- of the election in 1867. Theodore Roosevelt would havd bfeten re-Dominated and re elected for a third term had he not misplaced confidence in his leutenant, William Howard Taft, to carry on and carry out his progressive policies. But even so his defeat in 1912 was due rather to the fact that: he- bolted his pai'ty and did not allow himself sufficient time to perfect his new political or ganization, rather ithhn to the hobgoblin of a third tern). Had Woodrow Wilson's, health not bioken down in the midst of his second term, he doutless would have been nominated and elected for a third term, with commission from the people to bring" the United States into the League of Nations. Never be fore in the history of American politics had the continuance of President in office for a thiijd term l&een so cfearly demanded by political, economic and social conditions. ^ President Roose^lt has as tight a grasp upon our foreign as upon our domestic problems, should represent forbodi^a lead this nation intd' war the cap taincy must needs -continue in his hands. For the homely philo- so^y of Abraham Lincoln still hoias good, it is dangerous to swap horses in tbe middle of the creek. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the «aily American President whose ithird term is demanded by the trend of events. From the present posture of political and economic affairs, it is a safe Calvings Digest BY Flovd J. Calvin i NEGRO BUSINESS Negro business was recently * Let Negro executives con- lectured at Cleveland by one wf | tinue to push forward, particul- its prize exhibits. We say lec- arly in thi ’insurance I!e!^, as venture .to predict that if the.. P«"ta»it a part in the success of which he boasted-politics. Hard ly any business man in his right mind would appnove of politics to make the cash register ring, although sometime it is the long shot that wins. Presidential election were "Irelil today instead of 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt would be chosen for a tliii;3 term by an. impress ive majority comparable with that which he received for his first and second terms. But who dpes,predict what ch^jses the fwb‘ Jhtefvenlng "years^ iflair * bring forth'?^^, ^ So far as the colored voters are concerned they are as large ly in favoi^ o± Eaoseveltls ift- election as they were in. 1932 and 1936. "kELLY MIliLER BY PU Meeting the in- a group teachers (Spacial to the Carolina Times) Courses will be under EDiENTON, N. C. July 21,— structional guidance of The Baptist State Sunday School of specially selected Convention of North Caroling who are experts in their fields, meetins: jointly with the BYPU Convention, will' hold its Seven- fty third annual session beginn ing Tuesday the Ninth of A^ug. ^obgh Thursday the Eleventh. M The Conventions will be held in the Providence ^ptist church of Edenton. Hie evening session will bo given over to Inspirational Ad dresses affording an opportun ity to hear some of our leading thinkers, on religious subjects. Addresses bs. Judge WJ M. School and BYPU. T h e a e Harrison of Chicago, aild Dr. R. P. Daniel, President of SJfaw University. ' Two otitstanding features ot’ the convention will be a sym posium on WedneiWay evening, £overing yie work of the uni fied church, and an Oratorical 4%ntest - on Thursday evening classification as * at .^hich time a prize will be modern Sunday j awarded to the young man .or The Theme of the Goiwen- tlon is “Training for Service," and built upon this theme a well rounded program has been ai ranged. There will be tnree full days of organized' study courses divided into depart- mentis and seminars covering the divisional taught in the tured because that is £he word for it, although the speaker was listed aa guest, since he was not indentified with group (in surance which he addressed. The text bf the address was laiter published, so that those who were not sure they heard aright had an opportunity to remove their doubts. While there some good in the address, there was through it the spirit of disdain, based primarily on the supposition that much stock is sold without the payment of dividends. • We are familiar with the history of American business, on both inspirational and prac tical side, an(^ we say it is a fact and ^not a theory that iHisi- ness is a gamole at'best, andj there is no rule by which it can be insured absolutely against loss. There are good, bad and indifferent business - managers^ there are hbnest and dishonest executivs, but in tbe field we would wager that there is no less a proportion of success based on opportunity than there is among any other set of business men. O f course some Ne|ro business enterprises have not paid.- dividends, but that is no ar^ment against Ne gro business, nor is it an argu-' ment which might properly be made the theme of discussion an insurance meeting of na tional executives, since- insur ance is, admittedly, the moat successful division of Negro business. Reference might properly be made to mismanage ment of some Negro business enterprises, but only to point out what should be avoided, and not to imply or to' indicate a trend. The speaker took time out to pioint to HIS OWN success in paying dividends. But the speak er was addressing p^ple who had no personal knowledge of how his business grew. The speaker would not like it known that for years some of his em ployes learned oyer backward for their pay, to put it mildly, while he paid dividends. Nor would he mention the extreme speculation that played so im- they have done for the last forty or more years. They have won first place in the place in the group on that line of promotion-the slow but aafe line-not the mushroom line rep resented by the speaker. NEW TECHNIQUE APPROVED ; We are leased to see that editorial reaction in the white press to the exposition on the new technique- of fighting our economic battles as was made recently in the Saturday Even- ini^ Post in favorable. The St. Louis Dispatch says: In Saint Louis, 45 Black Belt hlocks have been organized by the Urban League into units, each unit containing 60 to 100 per cent of the residents of tbe block. When a chain store doing busi ness with Negroes refused to employ Negro help, .the block uiiTts went into action with a boyc^t wihkih acoomj^Jished their purpose. When a milk com pany refuead to employ Negro drivers t^ serve Black Belt rout the Urban Leaghe went to a convpetitor and got six Negro dri vers employed. The competitors salee soared 4iO per cent. The origjindl company^ capitulated. Similar pressure techniques pre vented the discharge of Negro coal trujck drivfel's Jsrought about employment of N e g r o salesmen fo r bakeries, Negro girls in a 5-and-lO cent store, Negro motion picture ■ operators. Even more ingenious is the campaign to be started (already be^n fh Harlem against the public utilities. Unless they agree to give Negroes their share of jobs, the utilities will have to deal with the Co-Ordina ting Committee of _,Empl°yed, backed by 178 Negrro organiza tions. TURN TO PAGE SEVEN DEFENDANT SLEEPS (Contim^ed f^rom Paga 3) very life, and it was whilg in an eflPort to slay. her. that he met his death.” Several witness for Mrs. vBlrown told of the cruel treat ment and beatings that Jcnes had directed toward her during the seven years they lived to gether as "man and wife. _ A motion for a new trial was filed .by Attoirney Porter anS will be heard by Judge E. G. StooksJbury on Saturdiay morn ing. BETWEEN THE LINES BY GORDON B. HANCOCK (For ANP) THE VIRULENT STAGE It need not occasion aurprise to observe that the Negro race is aflicted with degree-itia in ita very virulent ataj[e. In the very nature of things getting de grees is a comparatively new experience for the Negro race. I stood last August upon the campus of the great university at Cairo, Egypt, founded over a thousands years ago. It was my great privilege to take courses in International Politics at Ox ford last summer an4 to .pass in and out of buildings many of which were mor^ thl^n 600 years old. For hundreds of years then whites have been re ceiving degrees, and only since our emancipation have we been Recipients thereofi * Naturally, degrees are new to us and just as naturally, we are going to overemphasize them. The epidemic of in fluenza that scourged the earth in 1916 recurred the next year and each year since, but tbe latter stages have been less virulent Syphilis, the venereal scourge,, is becoming less virulent and. is not nearly as deadly as when "Columbus and his crew . b^rought it into the New World. Tuberculosis, that possibly had its beginning in Scandinavia, is less deadly in that land, and seems to be less deadly to the wl|ite man among whom it doubtless originated. There is every indication that the deadlines vrith which tu berculosis preys upon Negrees is due not alone to their poorer living conditions, but to their limited iilHiHmity leaulting froffl their more recent contact with the disease. The longer pre valence of any scourge has an immunizing influence. The same holds true of degree-itia among the_ Negro race. We shall gradually become more immune to the notions and obsessions which invariably ac company our degrees today We need men and women with de- j;rees todayt We need men and women- "with degrees, and we sorely need! their ieader&hip; but we do not need the self- importance that too often goes along with our degrees. Al though ‘degree-itis’ is a natural concomitant of our educational endeavors and aspirations, we hope that right soon we may get over the virulence of the attack and get down to the business of using our degrees most advantageously. There will never be any substitute for old fashioned common sense, known BY A. T. SPAULDING PAYMENTS TO LIVING* — POLICYHOLDERS Not only do life insurance compandes pay Kxut enormous sums because of the first Great TTazard^of’ Life, dying too they also distribute enormous sums to living policyholders. During 1937 more than $1,740, poo,00 was distributed among living policyholders much of which went to minimize the discomforts which might have been caused by the second Great Hazaril^of Life, living too long. COMES TO RESCUE Iff EMERGENCIES Life insurance has been call ed upon ma^y times during the past few years of frequent woipan delivering the best ora tion. on some ph^e of church activity. ^ p. The committee on arrange ments, headed by Rev. L. G. Nichols, states that everything is in readiness to entertain tins State-wide body. A large dele gation is expected. emergencies ito save bomjes, to preserve' family entities to hold .business organj:^tions( 'together and many other important dut ies which could not have been sometimes as *mother-wit* Some call it plain ‘ifumptlon’ When a man gets up to address an ence, his degrees matter little; the people want a message, and a message they must have if their assent and support are to be had. Degrees' are fine things to be fbrgotten by those who have them I There will never be a sub stitute for character. And when the thousand of young Negroes faring forth from our institutions of learning with advanced degrees came intoi direct contact with life, they will find that the Old Bachelors of ^^mon Sense 'can teach them mahy things they never could get in achool. This article is inspired by an o);ninonS report that has come from one of the finer churches of the Bast. The former pastor of this church was a man of many degrees. The pastor has gone to other fields, and the vacant church is in search of a pastor with the stipulation, he must not have a degree. Tliey have heard ao much about de grees and learning that , they are anxious to hear aomething about Jesus, and they think their best chance of hearing about Jesus isto set a man without degrees. They are mis taken, to be sure, but there may be aome point to their policy. Unfortunately the-minister who was highly degreed did not commend a degreed succeasor as he easily might have done. He had an big way what for t o.’b many of us in-»-i way. Vfe are^ paying eiiirfery top much attention to degrees and not enough to those who have 4^em. \ Who. has the degrees is far more important than the de grees themselves. The name that goes before ia far more impor- tent than the degree that comes after! The degree also’ needs some distinction, a fact too often minimized. .The fact must never be forgotten that men live through their hearts and not their heads. In its essence, real life is felt and not thought. The ' finer things of life are things of the feelings and not mere cogitations. iBy all means, let us hava more ahd higher degrees by wo- men and men w h o> are big enough to forgtt them in a consuming desire to serve tbeir fellowmen. W e hope now soon the more virulent stage of "de^ree-itis”, may pass away. > w hatl oB lea i Oliver Higgins Prouty, author of “Stella Dallas,” now has written "Lisa Vale.” If you are one of - those wh^want a ;iovel jrhoae. very human and fallible characters draw a quick response froBj_J;jhjf reader then you will certainly want to read, the story of "Lisa Vale,’’ and outsider who successfully adap ted herself to Boston’s best policy enabled a Wilkes Barre, PennsyQvnia lamjOy to rehaMli- tfkte itself after the great flood there a few years ago; and so on goes the sto^ of life insur ance meeting ^ries and provid ing economic security, ji o t accomplished had the policies | from the public treasury, but not existed. ^ storef follows: , ft 1 During the bank holidays the cash value of a policy . was called upon ta release a train load* coal in Detroit In zero whether. It was -carried by a wholesale coal dealer. "2 The loan value was called upon to save a farm. There was a heavy snow on the ground, tax es were overdue and the farm of a, .Minnesota farmer was to be sold at noon the follo\( ing day. The pelicy Ipan was se cured by , wire and the firm saved. ' ^ 3 A - -temporary loan A a |i2i&,t)00 business podiciy Iboughfe foSr protection against death kept 9 business firm alive in Birmingham, Alabama,, and all the families dependent upon it for employment and support, 4 The loan value of a |5000 but of the pockets ~iSf thrifty individuals end far sighted busi ness institutions. The insur ance companies of all classes in this country pouired an increas ing stream of benefits into the pockets of American policy holders at the rate of over $100.00 per second-every second of every hour of the daily, twenty four for the days of 1«37. ^ Insurance in its purely busi ness aspect is a foundation stone in the structure of . our national solvency. Itie United States could have attained- much less hold its present pos tion of financial and commer cial supremacy without life insurance as ^jts great check absorber. And what is true of the nation, is equally true of the racfes, communities, ajid fami-, lies pf the nation. . . social circles; of her debutant daughl:ers and her eigible «ons, smootfi, jntelhgent, ^nd modern, with ideas of their own. Let' us remind you that there are some books pro.bably a bit older than "Lisa Vale” but no less interesting. Sinclair Lewis hasn’t lost his magic name; judg ing from the number of copies of "The Prodical Parents”- sold in one month enough to last an ordinary novel for one year. Have you read it? If not come in and get it soon. -You enjoyed “The ' Good Earth,” both the picture and- .book, now try "This Proud Heart” by the same author. Since we are dealing ^.4his Ayeek almost entirely with good back numbers let us also remind you to'-be^qure to read “Gone’ with the Wind” before the "movie" % released. In tfie|hon-fiction class ‘How to Win Friends” by Dale Carne gie is still well worth* reading. A newer arrival to this field is "The Tyranny of Words.” This book is creating a good deal of discussion. It has caught the fancy of newspaper people and the intellig*ent(Na ^ener^Tly* You can’t afford to miss it. All of the above books ijiay be borrowed from the DURHAM COLORED UBRARY. If you would like a quide to the best fiction mailed to you each mon th from your library please leave your name and mailing address at the desk when you come in for your next book. SBU5NA W. WHEELER,
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