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PUBUSHEO WBEKLY feY THl
OAILOUNA TIMES PUBLISHING CO.
I? B. NUMDY St. DURHAM, N. C.
niONBS N-71S1 or J-7871
« Mc«nd dup mate; it the P«wt Oflc* at Durham, N. C.
nnder the Act of March Srd, 1879.
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Let Us Go Back
To The Bible
Bly Beir.WUl B.douffhton, D.D.
Pmident of Moody Bible Inati'
t«te, Chicafo
Many of an older generation bore their irmj
if
SUBSbRlPTJON RATES;
.25-—^ Montk«,
The Platform of .
THE CARO UNA TIMES
mcJ'ides:
Eqiuu alaries for N^ro Teachers.
NefT toUcemea.
NeffP Jaryveii.
Equal educational opportnnities.
Hiarlwr wafes for domestic senrants. ^
Full partacipatioii of N^roes in all branches of the
NatiefMl defense.
Abolishment of the doable-standard wage scale
in indnstry.
Greater participation of Nefroes in political affairs.
Better heesiiyr for Negroes.
Necro representatim in city, county, stfite and na>
tio^ fovemaimits.
will remember the famoui lee
ture, “Acres of Diamonds,"
which Dr. Conwell delivered
thousands of times. His thesis
was that men miss the oppor
tunities for success at their
own doors, while they wander
the world over, or wish them
selves in distant places. Dr.
Conwell multiplied true inci
dents of men who journeyed to
the ends of the earth in search
of fortune, only to find it bur
ied in the very ground on which
ihey had rolled their marbles.
Ours is particularly an age of
novelties. We like search bet
ter than research, and we pre
fer the new to the true.
or six Kuhawitf
house «Mipas traisiaf >
Hie eeUsfe there will
opeaiofs for s^aiioeabip fvH
int«tn«g «hip with full erail^
gi)/en for (iiese leaiu by a^ac
period. This angle of the aeh#ne
aitrikei firs in tbe liudenks’ ja>
aginations. They ^ill also es|tlors
new svenuss of rare sod stracf*
demands, sod by dhesr mint
througfa s»d.be
yond Kseial bsnriei*.
New Worids to eonquer.
Is tine.
A Labor Of Love
Uafinished... Dr.
Chas. Stelzle Dies
BY B. ft. WBIOET. JR.
Bishop of fhs AME Ohnreh
My phone rang, and a voiee jB
N«w York laid to me in loifiis
iville, “Dr. Okarlas Steaele is
dead.’
periment rather than experience ^ wm
counto hiffh with us. To say several second, before I recover-
that a thing has been tried and ^ ’“y composure. I was
proved is equivalent in the 8®»ur©d that it wag the Doetor
minds of many to saying it is Charl«s Stelzle, my friend and
musty and mildewed. We have humanity’s friend,
experiments in morals, in phil- Had Dr. Stelzle died two yeairb
osophy, in economics. We ob- j would have, of course, ex
serve entire nat^ d^iberate- pressed de«^ regret, for I would
ly cutting loose from the mooi- ^ perwnal loss. While
mgs of the eentun^, and m j
„Tr/Ex*S.-‘''Ther - ™ •«» I
EDITORIAC
giving allegiance to a new com
mander, named Experiment.
Now while men are in the mood
for trying things, may it net be
the best time to remind them
they had better try
new which is yet old
in the G^d Neighbor League in
1936, and Had every day conta*t
with him, that I came to value
his friend«jhip and> trust his ad
vice. Many hourti we apertt m
something ther disciuming the Negtx> laee,
the Bible, itg history, its hopes, its aspii^
ITS EVERyBODVS JOB
PERTINENT
FACTS ...
□
rAVORITE TEXT:
"Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.”
yo’-'- ■ .Tohn, vi., 37.—Suggested favorite Bible text of
:>nd W. Cooke, Methodist Minister.
Our National Defense
y
iders of our prreat country ar
’ 01 V a t the question of preparedn
fenie. »tir dailies are filled with colum:
to ih gitrar.tic spending program underway;
the eternal Word of God. tions, str^gle^ disappointmrati^
In t^ light of the demands successes, etc. He came to that the Column he started so
and failures of the present day, America as an immigrant of po6r brilliantly in Negro and Labor
the reading of Psalm 78 would parents. He knew the hai^dehip* newspapers all ovtif Amei^oa will
^ profitable. It demonstrates y^rk’s East Side, poT€*t7 be contiaxaed by dcmeone w4»o
the permanence of the Bible ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
message. In this historical . iX * a u- l ^ j 7 v u
psalm we.see God's ancient peo- ^ T, u f
pie placing all their problems on ^ ^
an economic basis. “Can God fought side by side with his finished.
supply a table in the wilder- workers for better condi-
ness?” was one of t^ieir troubled ti^ns. But he was interested ia^ ««
questions. God replied, Til the souls of the workers as well. OflYGF SllOllld
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Business Activity Qose To Peak
By Gui Dyer
For 30 Years Professor of
Economics* Vanderbilt
Universitf, Nashville
TemMsnt
I ^^ 1
Strikers Qualify As
Fifth CMumnlsts
The increasing number of
strikes in defense industries
shows that the organizations
fostering the strikes are con
spiring to obstruct and defeat
the essential defense of the na
tion at a time when a nationarl
crisis faces this country.
The government has adopted
a hands-off policy towards the
strikes, at the same time charg
ing industry wSth fhilure to
hurry up production of iftater-
ials necessary for defense.
At the time the draft for sol
diers was set up, provision was
made for exempting individuals
whose employment was neces
sary for produtcion of goods re
quired various depart
ments of^^ government. Now
that these same individuals are
refusing to work unless given
large increases in pay, the gov
ernment might with propriety
schedule them for induction in
to the defense force and let
some of the soldiers and sailors
now drawing thirty or forty
dollars per month go back into
the production of g0ods.
Fifth Columnists intent on
sabotaging industry at this crit
ical time, must rejoice at the
success along those lines result
ing from the strikes. The whole
cost of defense and other gov
ernmental expenditures must be
borne by the taxpayers of this
take up the
Stelzle has
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Domestic business activity as dollars. Income last year was 10
a whole continues at a high lev- per cent, below the 1929^ peak;
el, with only minor fluctua- but, since prices were lower in
tions from week to week, states
the current issue of The Guar-
1940, the income figure is be
lieved to compare favorably
nation, and all increases in
wage rates at this time adds
just that much more to the cost
the taxpayefs eventually will
have to meet.
reat hue
itiVnal de
attention
atid the titans
er. He or-
church, the
of th» buj-iness world are indiscriminately passing on bits of
advice a' tc how the lagging wheels of industry may be speeded
lip to in'^t tie greater demands of increased defense spending.
Or ,he surface, the country seems to be passing through
iiiovhtsi cycie of prosperity, and tli|e apparent ills of the
early thirties seem tot have vanished in the mirage of this vast
federal spending program. Statistics point to the decrease of
unemployment within the ranks of labor, and to the corre-
Q)onding increase in wages. Economist point with pride to the
increased national income, and we all seem to agree that we
■re in for another boom. There is no mistaking the public’s
chant, "We are headed for the promised land. But where do
we, the Negro group, fit into this picture of national pros
perity.
Are we not Americans too? Are we not part and parcel of
I mtry inch of this great land? Have we not played one of
the most important roles in the building of this, the richest
nation in the world? Have not our sons shed rivers of black
Uood in her defense? Have we not been ever loyal to our flag?
What ought we as American citizens expect of this vaunted de
mocracy, that repudiates on every hand, so far as vte are
eoncem^, the cardinal principles of democracy? These potent
questions are well answered in the discriminatory practices, sanc
tioned by our president, evidenced in our army and navy; the
barring of Negro workers fronc err;~'cj^er-t in some of the
country's mejor defense plants; and the continued disfran
chisement of miilions of Negroes in the South. These are the
premiunui of our 1941 democracy. Yet, we hiave the audacity
to pity the “Ghetto’’ jew.
A^ia, we repeat, the first line of bur national defease is
the elimination of antiquated prejudices and diserimination
from our r' '^ional life. t
supply all your temporal needs, He became a prea
but you have greater needs’*, ganiaedjn woa^ed
How strange, and yet how true haityr
to human nature in every age, interestikr ’IiTWWf in all phaeW
to read in conjunction, “He of labor iniljjrovement. He be-
brought streams out of the
rocks , . . and they sinned yet oTu^il of Churehes 6f C^ist
more against him." Agam,
“And he rained manna and flesh
atny Survey, published by the with that for 1929 in terms of
Guaranty Trust Company of real income. With allowance
YotV and Kii^W Rules Of Road
And Use 'H>em
the Federal
i» Speaking the other day to a
America on labor condition i group of drivers, Ronald Ho-
Then he became interested in cutt, director of the jflighway
the Good Neighbor Ij^gue, and Safety Division, paraphrased
that was when I met him, and the song title, “It’s Not What
soon discovered something in You Do, But the Way That You
which I fell in love, 'He was ^ It."'
quiet, so samole, so ^ind, so gen^ driving a motor vehicle,"
nine, so rau'cib intereted in the Hocutt said, "it’s not what you
know but the way that you
New York.
The FiANtal Bkservjp seasonal-
for the growth of population,
income per capita last year is
The cuto little coed is the
girl who put the “leg” in col
lege.
ly adjittt^idHifdex of * industrial estimate^ to have been j»bout,
productiorTi'tands at a prelimin- equal to that eleven years ear-
llie trouble with moat hicl|^>
towns is that they have too
ary figure that is the highest Her. As a result of the rapid many hicks,
on record, and such figures as expansion in industrial and
are available for recent weeks commercial payrolls in the sec-
upon them . . . For all this they
sinned still, and believed not
for his wondrous works.” The
more they got the more they
wanted, and the less thankful
they were for what they got.
They blamed conditions, but
God blamed them, and over and things in which I was interested. , . , ,
over we read, “Yet they rebell- Long hours I spent telling hiim county
ed against the most High God." the story of my people and long
CALVIN’S
DIGEST
&
By L. Bjumaind WhiliMy
Case of the Durham Housins: Association
We are informed that the Durham Civic Housing Associa-
r.i, an (Hvanizatien seeking to secure the establishment of a
|b^ Housing Authority in Durham, is schediiled to appear
fere the City Council next Monday to request a repdrt from
kt body's Public Works Committ^ on a petition for the ere-
of such an a^ithority for Durham.
We are are this time, unaware of what action the Coun-
n may take regarding this petition; as we understand
the city's Real Estate Brokers are bitterly opposed to
a progressive step by the Council. Yet, w© aver that the
s is just, and are firmly convinced that our Councilmen
Id think twice before denying this group’s petition.
flUwHon. in our estimation, is one of the most burn-
r to thai august It’s not the question of op-
imI estate interests. It is the question of
hotuing^ for the hondreds ef lewer-income
the imjority of the ren^g public, and
imiiiliwTy- exposed to tbe avarice of heartless land-
tc Quesljon of proeidUig for the bo^ of eitixens,
type i>rhottiing eommensuntte with mod-
ti)e itwpet sta^^dards of pubKc
VMftfon of destrojinsr the despicable eye sores
iTMiWMi midentinl sections of our city. Fur-
of providing a better commoQtty environ-
/ of onr future citlzenst tto children of
ffmOiM*
' oae of the most progressive cit-
^*iHfi*s enli|4itie^ cities in this matter
ife aw«ie tb*t tbera tmy be many
' the letter, jbt, tkin tottering,
» .^..jle in* fU sections, stand as mute
Tbe Durham Housing Authority; and
of tbofe indinduals op-
WHO’S NTTTTT NOW?
Nict since Booker T. Washing
ton set tihe American standard
for education ^ared ito pracfti-
cal living has any system quite
equalled it for originali'ty and
effectiveness, until the coming of
Hampton Institute’s fifth presi
dent, Dr. Malcolm S. MacLean...
The jusit of Dr. MaeLean’s
proposed streamlined education
is to break the mold of stereo-
lyod college courses and recast
it to the needs of the student. In
stead of the college s&jring “We
Elaborating On this state-
u —TV* j ^ I.— a „ X,. ment, the safety director point-
I l,^ten^ to hun tell th^ ^ ^hat around 90 per cent
^ggle of Labw, and h» hopes involved in re-
for a better world accidents on North Car-
I went to Africa; we correi- olina streets and highway last
ponded. I returned and saw hia year had more than one year of
name in many colored newspap- driving experience. ,
ers Upon Ws iilatation I ^ent According to the division's
□ to talk with him m his New York records, 5,653 drivers involved
office, and in his quiet way he accidents in tbe state last
told me of his hopes. “I want year had been driving for 11
to help if just some little bit," years or longer*, another 3,62-5
he said, ‘-to inform, perhaps had been driving from six to
inspire: Negroes are citizens; ten years, and 2,3% had been
they are Americans. Th^ 8fa;°uld driving from two to five years,
think American, they should "In other words, what really
act American, make that their counts is not the amount of
habit,” he said to me for pM*- driving experence » person h«
haps the twentieth time. I told lessons he has
him I had read hie articles in
sixteen paper, that week, and -he ^OW to start; and
indicate approximate stability ond half of 1940, labor’s share
with perhaps a slight recession in aggregate consumers’ income
since th)e beginning of last during the closing months of
month. Railway freight load- the year is believed to have been
ings have been well maintained the highest in manv years,
at a level considerably above In Leading Industries
that of a year ago, The Survey The steel industry continues
continues, and the rate of elec- to operate at a level not far be-
tric powter production has re- lov^ capacity, with orders on
mained almost constant and has hand sufficient, apparently, to
been only moderately below the maintain output at a high rate
seasonal peak. Bank debits out- for some time. Not only are
side New York City have run unfilled orders at most plants
Maybe the world crisis will
die down when the baseball
crisis begins.
If you are willing to give,
you will always find individuals
ready to take.
This republic will be utterly
lost when its salvation depends
upon one man.
consistently above last
figures.
year’s reported to be sufficient to hold
the rate of operations close to
Intelligence does not always
accompany the degrees that
some people acquire.
Education bejjfets responsibili
ty, the more one knows, the
more one’s tank in life should
be.
Retail trade reports continue capacity for several months,
to indicate an active movement but no slackening of demand
of goods into the hands of con- for shipments has appeared in
sumers. A report made public any district. Some declines in
by the Department of Commerce the volume of new rders have
estimates total retail sales in been noted, but such orders are
the United State in 1940 at $45,4 largely for future delivery and
500,000,000, which is 8 per eetit are regarded as exerting little
above the 1939 figure a^d only influence on current operating
6 percent below that for 1929, schedules. ' The best recommendation is a
despite the lower price l^vel construction is still be- order; in other words,
.,_j ^ subscription renewal. ^
Some of the people who talk
of tolerance are looking for spe
cial favor^.
svcau Vi. Uie cuueet: B&yiinK
are here to teadi y»u wlw^t yo« ^ no-
stop a car, apply the brakes and
,, . - ... give hand signals are important
am ^^ng the ,,ght things f” ^^at is much , more im-
f * u , “ ^ POrtant is actually doing these
m«ch to help. For I realise things at the riirht time, and in
Ibat there can never be Demo- the right mutner-
that prevai ed last year. The undertaken in comparative-
gr^test relative incases over ,y volume. A prospect of
1939 were reported in the au- farther large expenditures for
tomotiye, toiture and house- housing in connection with the
hold. lumW, building, hard- national defense program ap-
ware and jewelry closes, with j^^red this month, when C. R
much smaller gams m sales of p^in^er. Defense Housing Coor-
storM whose merchandise is pre- ainator. announced that an ad
The individual who accepts
from society what he hasn’t
earned is. at heart, a rogue.
dominantly Tion-durable.
Other Business Trends
The level of wholesale com
modity prices continues to fluc
tuate within a narrow range.
ditional appropriation of $156,-
750,000 for housing would be
asked of Congress, together
with an amendment to the Na
tional Housing Act designed to
Never assume, when one asks
your advice, that the questioner
is interested in your opinion.
ougtt to know,” the new Hamp
ton will ask: “What is it YOU
thing about Chrbtiamty, unlen "Itfiving experience may en-
^ all people have the OPPORTTJN- able a person to aeqttire a great
want US to teach vouf ’ ’ inclination to do their deal of dlriving skill, but unless
for this l«iev caU the new p«xy And the colored People e« learned to obey the
. tat,tude,u ,th j '■“>- ■" ■”•‘•0'.s;
Dr. f«ib^' courtesy, caution and common-
pn-
vate industry in the defense
housing program. The bulk of
Dr. HacLean is inclined to the
helitff that our educstional ayv net mude him s
tern has beerate senile and bri#- mt» the Nef» gQQ^i
tie, grinding mt edncated iiiirfitf vf®
somewhat like a factory turning * A + Wreoi*tibB fiYHa Ke- “Ejparienoe Iff ^ best toach-
ont obaolete fUmanls for modern ?**’. er," he ik^dedt "only when the
thinprs. wa§ b^mmng to thou’ pupil is tilling to and capable
A OLOnOAL tSTUF iSsuds of Negro readem with his ef applying the leesonp learned
hope -to develop a tlinic ^ from that experlliice. ^
at Hampton,'’ jfaid Dr. Mactean ^ I »ay I regnet mo*l
‘-through w%ich we will leatti he pasg^ at this
the ambitiCns, potentialities and ^e showed a renwkahle
other featuieg of our s(lude»ts! aspects of
which will cnafcle us to assiflt “d an uodc^nstiaQdi'Bg
them in deciding upon a c^er ^ich few
and ouUinio*r courijes that will outside the grwp JwH'e.
fit their needit’^ ^ cannot refrain tbeeefere
President MaLeim also intwide writing these words of ap-
to toss out the traditional 4-yesr P^et‘i*-tion of him, who loved
l>ericd, having some courses to huiuaraty—on^ of God’s tfoble*
ruo lasf a^d oiSjCs to fl}oa,~*aad to e(^eea t^je Jjiopie
Stelalfi talked with me
sense iilong with ekiti, his
I
Quotation
I
After rising to 80.8 per cent, of expedite participation by
the 1926 average, the highest in ‘ ‘ '
three years, the index of the
Bureau of Labor ^atistics de- the contemplated expenditure
dined three points in two would be devoted to construc-
weeks. The recMsion occurred tion of 37,000 dwelling units in
mainly in prices of farm prod- 60 defense areas for families of
ucts and foods, with smaller defense workers and enlisted
declines in hides and leather personnel,
products, ^ building materials. Automobile production has in-
»nd chemicals and allied prod- creased almost without inter
nets. Advance wew rejwrtedm ruption since the beginning of
tMtale products and in fuel and the year. Operating schedules
hSfhtmg matenal0, while prices February and March were
0 metals an metal products, increased as a result of unex
house - furnishing goods and p^ctedly favorable sales reports,
miscellaneous commodities re- Tfiis action has been taken in
No candidate becomes wiser
through the lucky incident of
getting a majority of the votes.
Too many human beings are
waiting for the milennium be
fore attempting their good
works.
Debates would improve if
speakers frankly advanced their
real arguments against a pro
posal.
The U. 3. h|as three-fourths
of the world’s gold, but and
get some of it.
mained unchanged.
spite of reports that dealers’ in-
An Mtimate made public re- ventories are at record levels, a
cently by the ^retary of Com- situation that apparently is re-
merce places total mconae pay- ^thout misgivings
Democracy must have much
more than political equality if
it is to bless the people of the
world.
ments to individuals in the U.
in
view of the large retail demand.
PORTUKE i0 stable in
one thing-Hriw decs net
love faint hearts.
—Rofc^ Blatchford.
S last year at $74^309, OM, 000 the approach of the spring sell’
the larg^t since 1980 wd 6 per ^nd the possibility
A? +L for the tJjat future output may be in-
p^edmg year. At the end of terfered with by the require-
the year, income ^ being ^^^ts of the national defense
paid to consumers at an annual nrooram
rate of approximately 78 billion »
Incidentally, what has be
come of the gridii^on stars who
captured the headlines a few
years ago?
The person who does not read
is not educated; conversely, the
one who reads is making prog
ress.