North Carolina Newspapers

PUBLISHED WEEtC'.Y B Between The Lines CAROLINA TIMES PUilLIS 117 E. IPEABODY Si. B y Dokan Gordon B, Hancock and statesmanlike displays of po- WG CO. DURHA... PHONES N-712’ or ’ i871 Lniiii-rd ay ?C( i>nd n .iti r ;; ihi- .-.i Ofio.- at Durham, N. ur(i; r t'' Ait ( M }i 3rd. ls79. C. L. E. AUSTIN, -PUBLISHER WILLIAM A. TUC*., Manacing Editor HERBBRT R. T1LL ..RY, Bu»ine«t M«B>|er CHARLOTTE OFFICE 420 1-2 EAST SEUDND STREET SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00—Yc.r $1.2i5—6 Monthf, As We Pass This POLITICAL IK DURABLES j !J \V lilvu; htts bei.u a Sure . j)poi» inent to this writ- " It is tri' • the Willkie bj»oni . "hui up” was rather hur- rii'd, I,... a gave at first iniprcs. -ion of somuUiirijf stabi« :ind worthwhile. As lonif m tJie p>o- plo w«!re tilkinjf for Willkie, ho v.cnt over strong^ but when he I bi'grins to talk for himself there | is a Ki'cat “let down.” Prices Replace Crop Worries For Faimers Need Lai^er Incomes | The advent of the harvest sea son, in ancient years, in this COMING THROUGH litical acunien; all they want is A lobel and they are ready for tfio ballot box. The there, it mnt-*country often told the story of ter* not wliat the the,approaching year, with keen lave done or what the jjjanifosted in the sup- nave not done, thoir vote la .a- i r -• i r j i r i r 1,1. luiij ply of food, feed and fibre of rit'ifd ond h,:!’ hetn labeled fori , nearly 75 years. American people. To O.'^oar DcPricst must ro tl’e ■rcdit for hreakini; th(i .solid xe- The progress of American ag- riculture to a point where the Ipohlican front of the Neprocs in po5>ulation of this nation no Ion' e 11 mocra k par. y las noth-n|,5g country. There has been a grer has any concern over its ■inp t(> gain ct>nte.“tinp: a men .»f|no more porpitious siprn in poli- supplies is worth noting. Fam- jthe Wdlkie caliber. It taki.s|t;(;s than the Negro’.s willmjrnfcss ine, extreme scarcity and want |StronR opor«tns t,i^ make o.pprn-:,^^ ,3. are noti the problems that both- ,ents stronfr. It t.ikes a stronj? er the nation’s farmers. jKe)ublican party to build Way •slronjf Democrats party. The Agrriculture Asks Justice It is regrettable that our far- BY CHARLES EARL COBB life CAX UE L’BAI.’TII'CT.. ?li:'n try apain. Even thouiin I ;i pi'^'-^urc once to li-tt-n ropulsud and condenmed by t • a radio ftaturo of th I iiaiiis my brother, I have not I0.4 fdiU' !^at ]..-,‘{“ning- ta that program it> him becai’sc wc are all Jiunrsn! sult.«». And the very moment this ^ solemn fact had been, impressed ’*’■ ii«)f'n UoKrnes thov bralxe the sn- Ith„t th. ,cp..bli.an p.r- who have mad# »uch »pl- y IS ‘I S * jism. Before the ceriiinff of Dp- cndid success in producitifir crops an He, ^ it couUl be said have not fartil in proportion to paijrn. If Mr. Willkie has Republican party own.'d ^heir labor. For many years, un- thinff at all, that fine phyKiqnenation. Al- inadwjuate and unfair nat- of his could put It over; but in ional policies, the agriculturist snfe of tim Um physique Mr. . principles of Lincoln ^^e na- VVillkie is daily threatenin!? to 1 • i, tv, tvt „ • tion. Other groups, bettor orga- ‘ ... thron|?n which the Ncprro rocoiv- . , , ® 11 bponme a politiral “flat tire’ , nized and more vocal, have re- e,l„p„iit„er ceived the bulk of the favors Haviny In.lorsed nuilh of 7""‘ J“‘Uh»t sle,a froa. l.olMcal actto^^ >nly .to flout in the Nogro s face While tr.emcndous progress h ’ li.nij since pa,‘;.ed name has lineered on. b-t its a subject to err. Tonisrht I not awed at Hit'er, Mus.jolini or AS K PASS THIS WAY let Stalin, we have had them on the !: o if^elvos the qneir\>n, si’onc before and they all hfvo tlie New Peal polilies and pro-' gram oJf RooSHJvelt, Willkie finds hiinaelf compelled by the cxiscn- cies of the situation to ray somt the label "repuhlican” and ttie has bdon made, in recent years, Necrroes would stampede to the toward the equalization of in- bollot bor. ' come, with the farmers getting reward fo rthis loyalty- , the agri culturists are still far from the How can life be beautiful forp; -ied off, me, an American Xegrro? and fi r enemies but Today I mado no I did cultitato a a brief moment probe into its friendship. Today my racial rride Ut pths. How in a woild so t rn swelled because my brother ex- thinpr, rather .than having: some-1 otm ±0. i, n.v; tl injr to say. He is losing ono of this unquestioning loyalty, one g.Q,^j parity, and jiarity, in the the greiCest opportunties e/’r ‘-wo Negroes got a iJm-crow opj^ion of many thinkers, does offered an American candidate. Politioal plum such as t-ollec.or represent full justice to far- The obortive attack on RC'OSi?velt of some second rate port and mers. is rather , lamentable illmissioir the registry of the treasury. No asunder, by groups or individu.iis celling in his oc^jupation, Toaay . republican nartv’s m^oral attempt wa» made to help the ' Trup, there has been, in this think ;»id subsequently im- life is beautiful becf.Jise I know 1 1 i—.' Instead of making niosses of Negroes. No iflttenpt ‘ „ non of want and plenty, but this vh pose the idea that they are the tbst all me are not beast, that bankruptcy'. eh,„oa destined one,, ean when the smoke ha, cleared av„f, 'Xce“ta'.riaflmted' pro-' f "■* 'J" I, * f TT * 1 vu *1- 4. card. Mr. Willkie is leading with Rro ^ place in an iniegraiea pro farmers. They have ti led the one „,ake h.s hfe beautiful? low,that only those things that are . deatructi.e gram of national advancemenc. .oj, ^nd produced the crops. The can one make his hfe beaut.i-il good have survive,d. 'criticism will politically oank- By and by the republican oavty economic policies of the nation in a society where een his own .'lo mv fnend?, as we thinK ^ before the cam-i'vent “lily-white,” but the Negro that allowed people to starve in to an extent ostracise him? in conne^^^^^^^^ ff'paifrn gets well unde way. j»till danc Foitun,:tely for Mr. Willkie |Cfimpaign ubiiu blamed for much of there ore those in .these United These were the ‘ incurable Ne-ro no arguments ifepublicons.” J i: ones life be berfitifn! when pre- e-M be beautiful, let us not for jndic®, hunger oppression grows get those things that rise up to nt his very strinjr? How can breed contempt, chacs and con- life be beautiful when instit.i- fusion but try in our own .3niaU tions which are so vital struffglo, way to fontribute something ga&p and die in our very eyes? for the alleviation of these eondi- Life can be beautiful, I’ly'ticns. And when night falls and friends inspite of sV'l this. It is we think of out djfi- may it be more than beautiful to be abl? our priviledge to sa^, today I to say al the elose of day that, ,have done no wrong, my broiher today I have done no wrong, 1 offended nje but I forgive him. hm-e worked hard with little today I was "^^pressed but I'll gain but I am haPPy because I struggle a new tomorro"'. Then have done by^ best. Today I met friend life can be and will be disappointment but I have not beautiful, lost my €onrage for tomorrow Ij Our Religions States who need Calvin‘s Digest BY L. BAYNARD WHITNEY 'Pn.; idcnt AVarren G. Harding, “Show me the man flid Fll:because of his “colored blooJ.” of mother, wife or sweetheart who dominated a man’s lifa. In •BY HENRY CLAY-DAVIS fine, she simply paraphrased the. Our profoundest cc,ntemplanio.T ignorant of the real significance'old but true saying, “The hand of aie oniverse with its myi ad'r,i Christianity. We have not that rocks ,,the cradle rules the. unexplained phenomena, our im- IciV'ned yet to love our brcther;> w rln.” perishable faitji in the rtransniui- and our neighbors as wc love Current history furnished u.t ttion by death of the Soul from [ourseh'es, therefore we cannot lcrt^t two dramatic instanres of the secular to the celestial, nnU have very much love for our God. female power behind the thi'o.ie, t)ie many manifestations of in- We have not learned that a clean dispensable solar, lumr, and heart is,a much bigger a.'jset astrM] the incontrovertible truth than a clean bank account, or a that there necessarily m.ust and clean home, or .a clean shirt. And doea exist an all-powerful Deit/, worst of illl we do not seem to a Master Creator of all things. | bellfeve that a .true Christian will 'Hie great religious divisio’is! give to rather than take from the misery of the past. Production Not A Problem Farmers for gensrations, up to a few years ago, sought ea gerly to increase production, the goal of success was the pro duction of morei and even more. Regardless of prices, the farm ers returned to their fields, each Spring, imbued with the idea that individual prosperity de pended solely upon what pro name the type of weman behiixl .THE GREAT ELEANOR duction the individual could coax him,” said a woman friend o£ | Today we have the most pleas-|from the reluctant and at times mine recently, declaring that she jing, contra.ft of the great Mrs. rebellious soil could aPpraise the vorious success |Kleanor Roosevelt, going abo-itj Qpaduall^v, into the minds of and failure of type of men by |tho country doing everj-thmg she :4'curatcly des-criblng the kind | possibly crm do in favor of J intelligent and better able to SWAPPING SERVICES by dr. CHARLES STELZLE There was a time when some men the socalle^ privileged C(LEVELAND, Oct. 2.,—By Q. and advised his brother to come cUsses believed that the rest of r. ANP-“Tlie Negro Pic.s North.” e was careated or their Ballot are the two great | Assorting that in the year ’18 weapons of the Negro in these .when Mr. Cci^^vey came to these '^''.United States,” said Clarence L.^shores bent on conferring with Reviews Progressive Trend Of The Colored Press special benefit. All others wera made simply to serve them, mtlke life soft and easy. tice and progress for the Neuro,,understand the sweep of great aiul for ffreater intcrracial ,un-^economic forces, there came the derptanding. it often appears fs conviction that soma regulation thoup'h Mrs. Roosevelt has bo?n of production was necessary if tryin;? to ma'lce up for the pr ?- the farmer was to expect a liv- jndice a.nd mistakes of Mrs.. return from his labor. The Wilson whose bitter errors had realization that the children^ of done So much to injure the De- American farms were being] mocratic Party. Mrs. Roos.ve?t . . iSiiiimons, veteran newspaper ?n'in,Mr. Washington,, who died dur- r mu addrcss~uere recently to a ing 19T5, Mr. Garvey turned to , .. i3ca\ere a le gil.hering of Garveyites of the only real souroe of securing capable^^of better Youngstown and War- “clods” were things. Amazing was ithe degi'ee to which “the man with the hoe” ren at Clevel'ahd’s Liberty hall. a picture of the deceased educa tor—the Negro press—only to ,, , . , , . , Simmons interested and im- 'find a group of conflicting stor es could attain, when he was given' ^ j. i i.- t. iv- e i , ,, , Pitssed his vast audience by his,which were tne outcome of yel- hmf a chance. That he could 4 , ,, ,, j, presentation of the review of|low journalism. “But regardless to those con flicting stories,” Simm'ons blaz ed, “Mr. Gttrvey launched his dream, the Universal Negro Im- a?soiciatio,i, Iprovement assoeiation, adiuidst namely, Edwarh and Wally Eng:land, and Carol and ‘ Mac;da itffidition. of KomAnia. The Negro in America has suffered from contrasting infl’i- cnccs of female dominance, the first bitter and unjust, the sc- ;ccnd just, humane and pro.-^res Our race would do well I0 give more attention to the wivc^' of political candidates, especijilly because of inadeciuate farm in come moved Americans as nev er before. Crop Control Vital Then, into the national laws , were placed programs for crop bold his ic.wn with many of those x. „ Vn™,. wp* /, |tlie Negro press After .paying tri- who formerly regarded them- to tT.e memory of the late ."^Marcus Garvey, founder-presi- “bluer” blood, of finer grain,Universal was discovery which came as a Improvement ?reat surprise. expressed his confidence in ithe opposition of publishers who Be i^ ^0 t e cie i o future of the orpranizalion Idid not understand his purpose most o t cse w o once ue h.^nds of Jamej 11. or platform. Therefore, the merely to be servei by others successor of Mr. Gar they weloomed the reveurion that the common people wei'e madi of: the same material tha.t they were | In his addi ess, Simmons men tioned t-hrse woman’s views on the race ,‘'‘T?*,' '-*''1-,v/..... — — --- , question. It must be rcmembP-od control It should be cbarly un- ,i,ic results of living in a Demo-,He intimrited ' . 4^1, 1 X 'r.1 derstood that these law's are de- that we are the only racial nun- . , n .... • , signed to expand, S’S ^well as to on this E«.£ih, in iepi'e of their j the poor. . . , ^ differences of opinion or method • We are still hypocrites, tvav-'sive. I have in mind the wives of lority in America whose men and acreage. While the situ of Worship, are all based uponje]|in(^ by day w’itb pious action jPresidents Woodtow Wilson a'ldjwoTnpn n.i'o thought of as^ be'ng ation that confronted agrieul the sincere reverence of one Su-'and by night with- depre.vities preme Being an dthe words Gofi,'blacker than the night which Allah, Ta>. C^.nfurius, Buddha,'covers their indulgence. Wc atill •or whatever He may be calied,j^annot foeus the spotligh', of may well be accepted as Just 'ngrmful publicity upon ournchss is said, but Mrs. Wilson woaid held of Negroes by the average words having a common interprj easily as upon others, and we'not hear of it. Her hatred of the ' tatiuit. Also there is but one are still ever ready to bretlk the •vine abode, one paradise, Commandment among our- , -vrhether we call it Heaven, NV-^gejveg ag readily as we’d drink VaJU-4 or Happy Hunting Grounds ^,ater. it eternajiv remains the one and j ^ jrreat many of our rclii?ious only abode of the Heavenly ]'at-.|jj|.^jjjji2j|(^ioiig gre forever colle;;- her. Of the many religions in the I tin? money with missionaries to which t() send Africa but, if Christian religion, which claims ,j,g Senegalese who were in the Christ as its HeiH, .seen; to be prench Army .during the la?t Franklin D. Roosevelt. ,311 laborers and domestics by with unwanted surpluses resident Wilson, gref>, chnr>i-|vast majority of American white piled high everywhere;, called pion of Democracy, really dosir- people (yes, and foreigners). .for restriction, it is possible that e,i to do better by the Negro, i.t This is the peasant conception sorne day, the world outlook may ■ ■ ■ ■■ ' " — advise expanded production. Mexico ousts Japanese fisher men in favor of cooperatives. brought, through the nol cy white nf womf fi. course certain hijrhly of her husband’s administration, Ipublicised inciderts concerning rlrnost universal injustice to the the activities of some of o tr Negro deprived the race of inany hard won gains. The Capi tal itself became a literal hot bed cf prejudice and discrimina foremost race members had had ;i tendency to cmold the white public’s conception of us. l>ut this simply provides an added Briefs: Very Brief RFC's defense loans and com- the only one that has^ separ:>tf.l represented the ave-^ — ‘ itofclf into 6 omany sub-divii.»ns, native African, that money - it *e€His to have rendered almost better spent by negligible its influence over is bring some of them ■foUowera. We send niissionuvip? Christi.Eliize us. No raca mrery where with the Ipud coi. dignified and' ^otal $858,959,090. tentiun that our religion is ‘ho .solicitous of each other’sj * only true one and yet wc mt-'ke tban were those stal- ; Shake-up of command is fore- no effort to explan why we mu?t;^g^j, warriors, cast in army’s reorganization. I^ve CatholicB, Baptists, Meth(t-j jj ^hat we call our. religio.i '2|8^'-fipfaeopaliang, AdvenH-ts, y^gte cri-h other - ^i^iitretatiefietist*, Pr«»byt«ryui3, do, do and my -all wan-^ Holy seople, and things against .each mat »on*g^nig the same j.rj-j,er, ^o build a' -new Churc’i elean hearts anu a % li|D#r the guise, of Cbri'^'a"* edifice whtn' wp can’t htlve our purpose. 4^1? prpadiinjr diffeitnt jn the one belong to, to I Solidarity, sincere fraternity, help make our poor people poor-jgood Same>itanism, and morality «#,.and .to w#ih we were anybody'are evidences of true Christianity tion ag^’nst the Negro. It was reason for our watchti>lness and Mrs, Wilson who stood in the jgro^'-er pfforts in interracial fi(mt line of the enemips of understanding, Steel capacity is held adequa te to meet national defense call. I General Strong, j London pradicts war. back from long-fought Nazi press warns us .Britain's defeat ends our role in Europe. Reception of people i n ten hates heartens Willkie. Sentiment to h%Tp Britain ia growing, Gallup survey shows. Nazis claim “cloud-bursting X- ray” for raids in fogs. Canadian Navy gets six of our fifty destroyers. that their ideals of life, the'r|tioned pioneer publisher.? and heart hungers, their sorrows ina |thcir attitude towards the Negro their griefs, their loves and their |Who were very instrumental in joys, were very much like theii'jsecuring better treatment for the own. This was one of the incvit-,racc Just emerging from sla\-ery, that the pioneer publishers had a goal apd a pur pose and went about their work cracy. The normal man in a Democ racy, be he rich or poor, educated through books or thrc.uprh experi once, be he black or white, yellow or red, no matter what his cir cumstances so long as he is doing d man’s Job in the world, is help ing every other man t.« live hit. own life. The poorest mam in the world, who doing his best, may be rendering a real service to faithfully, “Shortly before the birth of some of our leading; newspaper* of todfl,” Simmons said, “a few sheets used ‘yellow journalism' and agitation’ as a moans to pro mote and increase circulation, a' tradition being followed by a few publishers today,” Then the former Associated Travelers say Roich has lost heavily in invasion rehearsals. oneness' of Njwy gets first flying boats, with power-operated turrets. af it all wi* Ke- ^f ; §iui; ^the^ than, ;wh( fisd. oiu’ mtter than en iujyiiiwJ ijm» rwti^sr eaily. om we are, the conspicious absence ^f New tyi)e of array awaits you th of the nation today. Knudsen warns it will take a year to realize arms program, Knox ranks Navy as bast man ned in the world. Ai'my bars automatic draft exemption for married men. Limit of $3,000,000 is set by Willkie for campaign fund. ■would te f*» better off back mjthese qualities from among us 835, Population of 131,409,881 now! shown by census, gain of-8^634,-i President, at U. of P„ puts faith in many rather tJian “e- lite.” our aboriginal h*J'>itetion wor-fg-peaks more eloquently than ihfppinjr ^ £un which, after a!i,;Words of the real nature of our m wocebippiQg God, but with]religion. Willkia charges New Deal for eign. policy helped bring, war. Federal plan to make loans to simlh industries is ol>posed. Vichy Minister warns United J States that Indo-China is weak. the richest man in the world, Negro Press representative told At any rate, he is making a con- hearers how the Negro press tributicn to the world’* wcu'k| fought Booker T, Washington which enriches dll humanity. jrifid otb^r-ieaders, only to learn The immigrant who doesn’t tbat a wore beneficial purpose of understand a word ^f Enulitb. .the'Jpre,^was to protect and pro \h contributing his share to the’|„jot‘fc th^gcneral welfare of the common good by shovelling' dirtj,.ace in ev^ajy community. He in- in a construction camp. H; iS|timated that outside of a! few making a debt r of the'iiian wl.o.«uncle Tom” publishers, the Ne- will later rid«*over that ra.ilroad lp,i.o press in general was fight- track in his^'comfortable Pullman, ijjij, for the Negro people of the made smooth running because |world in every sphere of life and that immigrant laborer Tftad-? ^as doing a very effective and good job of his shovelling. But everywhere in human life, in t!ie lowliest places, in shc.p and fa-.;- tory, on the street and on the road, everywhere men--ftnd wo men Jlfe hringtng^ their ct)nt*bu proficient Job, “They are putting tl^ situation up to the masses in bold print so that the questlbn as to the Ne gro’s stand may be thoroughly understood, not only by the, tion ,to the great treasure house jNegro, but, other races as well”, to which we all come to havCjbn declared. “It was Fredetijk ^ : ur needs supplied some moi’J, Douglass, through tho Liberator, manner. some moi’J, more, gome less; but he xM.o draws most, becomes tht gr^aL- est d^tor to all mankind, which we jVjfr be^W^e'Tfi' tb^'see to it ^ th^it even * the lowliest of thr^e who ccaitributed to the coinpion good is pven A chance to share in the who fought for the rlbolition of slaery,” Simmons ghouited “‘tnd the late Robert S, Abbott, thru thfe Chicago Defg^^f^who’ fought against pr^juaice’-’in the South .contenjts of to wl)ich great modern emancipator pub lished the Negro World tlid latnr the Black Man as official orgfins of the association and the Afri can tommundties League, “Despite th« opposition of the Neorro press of those day,s the organization advanced and in creased its number, and of fibout 16 millions of us, more than 2 1-2 millions became Garveyites within about 14 months. And it is safe to say that had the N°.i?ro press supported rilther than tried to fight the man’s prgram, hs would have suffered the diff'cul- ties he did, aricl the Rac,e inler- natioinally would not be in its presentpredicanient, “But it is reTreshing and com forting to note the Negro press today,” declared Simmons, “for it is giving iTie rsl’c all it can in supoprt' of the welfare and promotion of the Ne.gi’o people the world over. The Chicago He- ■fender, Pittsburgh Courier, Kan sas City Call, Amsterdam New,?, Louisiana Weekly, the locals rf our city. The Associated Nfugro Press, Csfitol News Service. Ted Yates Service, Southern News 'Syndicate and numerous other publications and servic ;s are sup.porting the ideals for which Garvey gave his life.” In his final remilrks, ,‘;immo.is stated that he Avas glad to see that the Negro Press and a few- white publishers are turning the tide of the former publishers and is pres^nirng TTTe Negro problems to the mtV^es fn a straight for- thereby obtainang the desired results. the treasure house we must all come f(.r the satisfaction of our needs. Woodward urges press to pro tect our military secrets. Roosevelt passes Willkie in '^survey which gives him huge Head.