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€ht Ca c. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE ■* • OiUlOLlNA TIMES PUBLISHING CO. 117 E. PEABODY St. DURHAM, N. PHONES N-7121 •r J-7871 Entered as b cond class mater at the Post Ofice at Durham, N. C. under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. L. E. AUSTIN, PUBLISHER WILLIAM A. TUCK, Managing Editor HERBERT R. TILLERY, Bu»ine»» Manager —-— CHARLOTTE OFFICE 420 1-2 EAST SECOND STREET SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00—Year, $1.2S—6 Month*, CALVINS DIGEST By L. Baynard Whltntjr I lOLEL^OU BO THE IxATE Col. {.’harle* Young don't lei la forgtt that th« J p i • tactiea are being practiced right j K3|*r0(| rfOHl Alf jat hoiB*. Our '‘Pil’th Coluam"| starta hj foowntii^r hatred* in HniVar/l midat. It foBianta r«ce or religioui | llvTTttlll one remarked, it is reported, tlut ‘"dmdaal,OlUUeill 0U6S agaioft ladividual. Ita real |wr- pose ia to break down our Demo cracy. , ' Now, ot ill times, we mmt b« GOOD ADVICE FROM THE SIDELINES he knew no greater hell than a Npfjro oflficer to be placed over white soldiers. A retired army man, one Li-1 or w times, we mu« Thizzah, scattered hornets in sun- Continued from page One passed th# physical examination by army doctors at Bolling Field last July. Williams says he met - - 1*11 requirementi for application dry bonnets throughout the coun dislikes in one conc«r|for appointment as a flyinp cadet try when he recently charged that ^®ep America a free made out his application and N^Trro soldiers perferred to sene "^tion—free not only in govern- transmitted it with all required under white officer. It drew this and records, to the fiery comment from Brigadier would sap ita life WMiimanding officer of the third General B. O. Davis; ^blood through hatred among oPr- eorpa Area on November 20, 1940. I “I’ve always had Negroes «»* der me. They’ve been accepting fntfr ^ i CANNOT ,„g to the me for the last forty years, and I I don’t know why there would be^ ' Essential To Better The Platform of . . THE CAROLINA TIMES includes: Equal salaries for Negrro Teachers. Negro policemen. Negro .jur>men. Equal ^ucational opportunities. Higiier wages for domestic servants. Full participation of Nesrroes in all branches of the National defense. Abolishment of the double-standard wage scale in industry. Greater participation of Negrroes in political affairs. Better housing for Negroes. Negro representation in city, county, state and na tional g^ovemments. I I would not accure General Dav'is of approving America’s traditional practice of se^ega- |tio:'. yet it is unmistakably clear tha£ he realizes the beneficial realities of segregated Nef^ro army units staffed by Negro off’icers. — ' A few months ago this column urged more Negro army units officered by Negroes. I also sug gested having one battleship, or any other type of warship, staf fed completely with my readers a- [The Health Of Our Negro Population NASHVILLE, Tenn. the standpoint of national health it is essential that we intensify our efforts to improve the health of our Negroes population" writ es Surgeon General Thomas Par- ran of the United States Public Negro per- Health Service to Dr. EdWard I> sonnel. Many of my readers a- T„mer, president of Meharry With me. Au ' XI.- i. , Tr X « • « Medical 'College m this city. I ^e.er.j,. of the First Werldj ‘"Thi. group (th. Dr. n .r talking off th. r.cord, r.P p,„,„ ata that Negro ,„Mier, Frwee , rrfnsed Jo serve onder white',,, f„„ ” ^ -r causes. To improve the health of Tribune Editor G. J a m e s'*i,„ ^ 1-,, ■ , J • 1 T - Tv_- I ” Negroes, it is important o Fleming burrowed into L^I^iz- more fully the sVrvices of rah s allegations, and found that' jditional Negro physicians, den- expenenced Negro army men, nurses.” terans an denhsted all avx>red| Dr. Parran, who is a member of • serving under colored officers, and H,. national committee sponsoring that whatever op,^sition there tfae current endowmenrprogram irht be IS not r^ial but based Meharry Medical College, hold, upon a change in the setup which theory that the Ne- mar deprive certain figures ^ ^ace, U hi. whitd ntigh- bor, and that disease incidence and high mortality rate in the complaint refused to consider the application oip the ground that the plaintiff waa a Negro. Williams says he appealed o the Adjutant General and the (Secretary of War, and on Decem ber 13, 1940 the appeal wai re fused solely because he was Negro. The complaint also alleg- ^ es that during that time and at I. present time the defendant ofticiab? of the War Department have been advertising in rews- papers and over the radio re questing qualified citizens to en- i«t as flying cadets in the Air ^Corp8 of the Army of the United States. The complaint alleges further; “Tbat suoh conduct on the part of these defendants, who, in their official capacity as officers of the privileges. OUTWITTIK& UNCLE SAM Twenty one years in the army group will lead themselves seemed to lend force to Li Driz- j if the Negro can re- zah’s statements, but Editor sanitary protection and WE TAKE AS OUR TEXT: “Corae unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will g^ive you rest.”—St. Matthew, xi., 28. INTOLERANCE BREEDS INTOLERANCE Last Wednesday morning the News and Observer published on its editorial page a cartoon, the title of which w^s Intol- ^an s scaiemenis, out Jiiiiuor mmtniijr i/iui/cunun ivua erance Breeds Intolerance.” The cartoon attempted to show, p^ieming unearthed these benefits “e^i««l treatment comparable to or did show, how the attitude of intolerance has resulted in colored officers: commonenjoyed by the whites, at » pro-Nazi, un-American, fifth column, app^ser, defeatist understanding, better treat co»t within his means, and destructive forces, and warned against such in the j^ents, disipline thru pride, hard i'iiis view of the situation . Ai*u u • u 4.4. 1 4. 4.U 1 J 4.U 4. recognition also taken by Dr. Louis I Dublin Although it is better late than never, we are glad that ^ j * « nr ^ ® . >.1. XT J /M. 1 I- promotion. 1 idrd Vioe President of the Metro- newspapers, suoh as the News and Observer, are awakertme Men, politu. Life W«.«. Company to thedmge^ that attend intolerance m our own country, as j,, ^ well as abroad. Persons in America who do not want to tolerate Negro jurymen, policemen, postmen, equal teachers salaries, equal bus accommodations, equal opportunities in employment, n m 0 0 discovered, altho occasionally a study covering the last 30 yearn white offier would go to the front based upon, the company’s ex- for his colored subordinates. perienoe with millions of indus- equal educational opportunities and many other -equalities are entered insuranoe policy holders, just as much a menace to the safety of the United States as against the T^ar Department Dr. Turner revealed, any foreiirn enemy can hope to be. Aeoordmg to Dr. Turner, proof The white element in America ought to thank God for the ® qualified graduate of the .that Meharry Medieal Collefe is Ne^oes in their midst. No other race can equal them ija'%oI- Aeronautics Schools, oasing‘peculiarly well equipped to play a erating, without malice, the conditions under which a majority ujwn the anti di»critnination |prominent part in the colution of of them live in this country. No other race would tolerate ^he Selective Service jthis phase of our public health 01 xnem live in tnis country, jno otner race woum tolerate these conditions without becoming fertile fields for all kinds of force the army A ^ ^ ^J.1 OlY* AcfoK1lQ-t« O C2 f un-American activities. riiuenunii acLivitaeii. crop» to establish a segr^ated Instea of having to watch Negroes for un-Americanism, Negro unit. And if we ever get it is white 'oreigners, and many native white Americans, en- Marines it probably will joying the Treedom and advantages which this country has to merit, meanwhile keep on offer, that have to be watched. The Negro has withstood all working and fighting to dissolve of the intolerance heaped upon him without one mark of dis- ^^^® racial barriers, loyality being recorded against him, which may or may not show his ^rength of character. However, we think the time has come when the United States ought to make a serious effort to abolish forever the cus tom of being intolerant of the Negro’s struggle to become a full-fledged American citizen. This country ought to realize that even iron will eventually wear oiA It ought, not demand of the Negro that he forever remain a loyal citizen, tolerant; of the treatment he receives in America, while there are peo- greatest terror into the minds and pie and forces that are intolerant toward him enjoying full hearts of a whole population to- ^«itizen&hip in this country. “Intolerance Breeds Intolerance.” the bombs tbat fall in the night upon the city or quiet countryside, nor even the swift torjiedo or lurking mine that s^nks the unarmed merchant ship. Such i methods of attack have been anti Our Secret Enemies By Dr. Charles Stelle The thing that strikes the problem is to be found in the fact already} WELCOME SOUTH AMERICANS It is with a bit of irony that we welcome the South Ameri can visitors to the United States and North Carolina, who have . , , » , „ come to the University of North Carolina to acquaint them-!"P^‘^^ me^usures of defense selves with American ideals and customs.. We sincerely trust'*?'® ’T" Pi-epared to meet them that your stay in this country will be a happy one, and that air-raid all of you will be able to fathom the many pecufiarities that will mask* or life-boats» confront you from time to time. If you are able to do so you 1 •rill indeed be smarter than native-born Negroes. ivention come back—one that is as If you should happen to investigate the source from which history—but which outlaw- the mony comes to maintain the univeraity to which you have civilization and renounced eome, you will find that this country which claima to be a forever by all tha belligerent fortress of democracy, forces its Negroes to pay taxes for the at the Hague Conference, university's maintenance, yet prohibits them from enjoying the "Fifth Coluhm” ar the tenefits therefrom. j Trojan Hors€t—the relentless bor* Should you happen to vi^it one of our white churches you within, like temiltee . ^ many of the supporters of this type of democracy wor- at the foundation rfntil ^ppmg God with all the zeal of a saint. Should you happen whole structure is I'otten. This legislative halls, national or state, you will '**®'^^^ Column” consists of trai apeech** about defending democracy and the liberty '^’bo have come not like gitizens in America. thief in the night, but as h when you discover Negro cooks, maids, (“friend” at noonday, until the domestic servants working from 10 to 18 hours time has come to strike. And lot irom two to five dollars a week. Ajsk no questions when they do strike, they prefer Mw’ies paid white and Negro teachers in the stabbing in the back. ©0 become alarmed when you discover | This is not the kind of war “I for Ne^oes in this and other cities. Don't that men have gkmfied for cen- •re ejtcluded from various branches of the turies—as open fi^t between re- or ftn aight embarrac your host. The kind'Cognized opponents. This is, dM> now studying is not the kind that is lived pite our horror at it, something a J glory in the man to man con-, Other •hortcomings you may flict. But the new tactics are' those of gangsters, of bank lob- ^ 11 • y f centuries may bers, of parasites that live on the of the kmd of democracy you have come work and honest labor of other * SCHOT AMEBICANSi , men. In oar righteous indignation lagai^t these tactics used abroad, that this institution is training more than half of all Ne gro medical students enrolled in Grade “A” medical schools in the United States. Under its current endowment progi-am, in connection w^ith w’hich the General Education Board of New York has made conditional grants totalling $3, 700,000, it is expected further to increase the efficiency and the scope of service rendered by the college, he adds. Government and of the Army the United States and charged with the duty of preparation for national defense in a period when the Nation, according to its Chief Executive, the President of the United States faces the gravest emergency in its history, is a violation of the duty and obliga tion of these defendant^ to the citizens and government of the United States and contravenes I the fundamental principles of the American democracy.” I-- - _ The complaint asks for a>e-' jWHfflPf Jfl T narlA^ claratory judgment to estabUshL»UdllUllC the rights of Williams and other,' Continued from page One Negroes similarly situated, and irt‘^fLht''^la!r^ Continued from page One To"; — W » C.Mt,l “Lr,.^"£ P.H ^ the application of Williams on its %*»t, it is averred, was the out- Ti^nificaS^a^r t^aV ^^^Jith merits growth of an argument over $8.00 , ^ ^ip^^cant lact tnat, witn 'which Dreher claims relatively few exceptions, life Alleged Flim - Flam New Out-break Of NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL HOLDS ' 42nd ANNUAL POLICYHOLDERS AND DIRECTORS MEETING JAN. 13th. Livingston’s History Professor Passes [which Dreher claims Edwards had After surance values have remained nni- paired. Policyholders and benefi- Clyde Donnell, M. D. J. L. W^heeler, A, J. Clement, Sr. W. D. Hill D. C. DeaSs Ak T,jSpaul(Kng. One ' ifdHitional member was added to the official staff by the SALISBURY oe, profes*or of History at Living the flim flammed him out of. meeting Edwards in the street '. . .r.. ,, .. . , , added to tfle official staff by the late Friday evening, the accused of directors in the person asserts that he accompanied him matured endow- ^ Spaulding, Jr. to Mason’s Log Cabin, where he surrender values, and again plead for his money tu no contract obligations on the Edwin J. Pier-'avail. Still pleading, he followed heretofore- roster now con- ‘Con specialist’’ around the . commenting upon the life _ _ -oil speciausi, around me . °. w. j. itenn stone college, died Sunday morn- corner to Caldwell Court, where companies owned and ^ent-Secretarv ing at 2«. m. following an opera- the victim supposedly drew a Negroes, President _ - - _ ^ tion at the Leahy Clinic, Boston, knife on him. Whereupon, Dreher, stated: Mass. I,vith celerity went to work with insurance in hi= stabbing the sur- The official sists of: C. C. Spaulding, President W. J. Kennedy, Jr., Vice-Presi- it/ii Vitriol w Since 19.35 Professor Pierce his own blade onrr> Mc.Mck, Vico Presideut- These com- R. L. Mt’Dougald, Vice President Clyde Donnell, M. D., Vice- over 1 300,000,000, total assets over $23,' ^ ^ ^ ’ nnnonn P^esident-Medical Dirertor had taught at the college in Salis prised victim thirtee ntimes m TJ' •"'i hi>,the regioi, of th,- ohe.t, Bnofling "2""’ W. D. Hill, Asdst.nt Secrot.r,- study for the doctorate in the mit « hnm.n Uf» 8,000 m«tl «nd wmnpn rw.nninr ^ » J out a human life and writing ’•®"«“’^"K.Comptroire7 finis to the career of another den-, M. A. Goins, AasisUnt Secre- ized of Charlotte's-- underworld.tary Immediately, after the crime, Dre I Cl-W. Cox, Vico Pre«ident- the doctorate in the field of History. While at Liv ingstone the young instructor distinguished himself as a pro minent educator and historian. Born in Nashville, Tenn. he earn ed his A. B. degree from Fisk I the Horton M'otor "Lines? his“ plaice truthfully say that' University of that city. Then he of employ, to call the police and Carolina Mutual has loaned | j ^ ^ Assistant Direc matriculated a t Northwestern | notify them of the crime. How- «“°re money to Negroes on their ^ ' ■* fiAP.Il'i'lf lAa rnan on\r ain«vlA ® . . . , . . . \jr, v» , V.OX, VI her,j aocordins to hU ow« rendcrmg, th,» »oay, went ‘h. w.rho.ae.rf ^.TariruTMIyty th.tl "^orrtlino TkTftfiia) Jiocr A^6I1 S M. A. do-ever,'he was surprised' in th7act other single [pnt,oninr Pnvate agency or corporate in university where the ^ee was conferred upon him. Mr.!;f“VeIe^o’iIing”“br officers HerZ Fierce also studied at the univer-lnn,i Aii«.. yp j^j^jStitution followed I WiSim Herbert jSALCULATED fOR THE WEIK OF SIW Assistant to JANUARY 27...7.I#’ ^ANUART JANUARY M...7.I2 JANUARY SO...7. II JAMUARY 31 ...7.10 FEBRUARY I ... 7.09 PEIRUARY 2 .. .7.09 . ■ A. T. Spaulding, or corporate in- „ ^ 1 . I .J-w»-vym«**p '•• • ■? Alu • o0d'cttfti*V“xV'Ctiiiarv Fierce also studied at the univer-1 and Allen whn America—an amount » t \\n -n 1 n i. - sities of Illinois and Harvard. He I trail in Brooklyn, had followed $15,000,000 during the j g Hughson " iu4tanV’"’' was a General Education fellow,him to the warehouse. twenty-five years. ^181,093g , ■ t ~ this week Drehor waived'™ ‘'7* I'ol^JhoW"* “ c. C. 8|»„ldi„g, Jr., A«i»t.„l hearing io reorders court and '!■«' «.,*** 1 ^ 4. *u i. t y®®r 1940, making a total of was bound over to the next term «oa • i. j j ' f * r, n $4()3,720 in matured endowments ot buperior court on a charge ofi . xt -iu ,• nr ^ , 'murder ipaid by North Carolina Mutual JANUARY af7...5.13 JANUARY aS...5.lf JANUARY19...5.I5 JANUARY 30... 5.16 JANUARY SI ..^5.I7 PItRUARY I ...5.19 rilRUARYa ...5.30 FIIRUARY2. ¥ime civeh is standard Buiova watch time . ISVOURNAME NlMmrr THIS NAME OMCfMAUY IMS5lfU.ED ufMJi h^rt was a POWUR 16 AMONG THE CARtV NORMANS* SCKSOM MAY K JMAHWWiO BY CUTTING THROOOH me SANDMPCR SfVEMlTMES. COMMWCIAl T£U PHONC' m>^EOP|WED Xr NSW HAYEN.CONM.ara Dr. Popenoe To Address Home- Making Institute GREENSBORO — The Annual . Home Making InHtitute at Bennett $785,263 are guaran- College is announced for MarchOovern- 17-23, with Dr. Paul Popenoe, na- " to its policyholders since organiza tion. Claims paid to policyholders and ben^iciaries since organiza- aniount to more than nineteen million dollars.” The company has a sound investment policy and a well balanced invmtmeat iiortfolix Of the total of $2,534,046 invested in, to Treasurer. tional authority on family rela tions, as the principal speaker, He will be heard on March 22, ment under the FHA Program. ,ftnal reports fer the year were not complete, it was revealed that at the close of 1940, the company »»!.»* i/c liciiru. UIl irXRirCIl taijf . _ X* when high school principals and $6,000,000 in asseta and I ... over $50,000,000 insurance in ■HOCMDAY JUST COTA NtW JOB" 4*- the country.* • YIAH ? WH^ DOES HE DO ?" *HE S A TRUANT OFflCER FOR A CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL I* TIlC KRSON BORN THIS WEEK 15 CIFTFO »WTH A SPECIAL APTITUOE FOR THE FINE ARTS And Wilt SECURE POPULAR RECOCNITION fOK HIS EFTORT5 EAUTY AND BEAUTEOUS WORDS SHOUID CO TOC€THER."- teachers of home economica, will hold 4 conference, and again on Snnday, March 23, when as ves-i pera ^aker, he will close the service pins were over force. At the annual policyholdera Institute. Mrs. Marian Gandy Wyatt, director of the Institute will ter. “Family Relationships in a Time ^ of Stress." lawarded at the 1940 meeting, aiwarded all representative*, bdth on the field and in the home ofiEioe will announce other speakers la- unbroken service recesds t-r Theme for the institute a f Thirty two additional service pins were in- ^creasing the number w’ho have You think IS ia unlucky? See eoveted recognition to ‘IT PAYS TQ ADVERTISE”. ^ u x,. , ., . Directors elected by the policy- at the Chicago university, 1939-39 holders were: and a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Surviving Mr. Pierce ^ are his Wr’ife Mrs., Gladys Herndon l^ierce of Boston, a mother and two children. C. C. Spaulding W. J. Kennedy, Jr. E. R. Merrick R. L. McDougald G. W. Cox M. A-. Goios Statistics, Vital Statistics RALEIGH, (By Crusader Press) ■The North Carolina Budget committee recommended the ex penditure of $1,470,938 for the ‘ix .white institutions of higher learn ing supported by the State and only $274,532 for the five Negro colleges supported by the State in a statement read by Governor J. M. Broughton here Tuesday. The University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill* will receive $675,813, the laigest appropria tion, according to recommenda tions, while the lairgest approjiria tdon to a Negro institution of higher learning, $103,030 will go to North Carolina Colleg at Dur ham. The smallest appriprdation to any of the white colleges was $74, 009 which will go to Western Caroliiia Teachers College, while the smallest approi»riation to a Negro college was miserly $28, 713 which will go to Elizabeth City State Teachers College. A and T College will receive 4>6(),896, Winston Salem Teachers college $44,978 and Fayetteville State Teachers college $31,915. ■ The orphanages, both white and- colored at Oxford, will receive $30,000 each.
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