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nie Platform of .
i THE CARO LINA’ TIMES
indud^
E«Ml Bilwies for Neffro Teaekers.
NetT9 pofcceiaeii.
Negro jntymen.
Equal c4i|atk»al opportunities.
Hislier i^ces for domestic Borrante.
Full partlfcipatioa off Negroes in all branches of the
Na^nal defense.
Abolishment of the double-standard wage scale
Greater ^rtlcii»tion of N^roes in politicai affairs.
Better housine for Negroes.
Negro r^jrwentation in city, county, state ana na-
tiMUil rovemoients.
|[seDr0ia ^ickens Cwne Home To Roost
^ Down in Gieorgia where there is little or no camouflage
%jout the hatred for the Negro, chickens have begun to come
e to roost. Georgia white people started out hating ana
irsecutiog all Negroes, next th^r started hating and perse-
ng poor whites of the “Tobacco Ro^’ type* ^
Last week the hatred and persecution emanating from the
lijfhest citizen of the state, the governor, entered the sacred
s of the University of Georgia and found a resting place on
shoulders of its president and dean. Georgia's Governor Eu
gene Talmadge ousted both the president and dean because
hey are alleged to have i>ermitted interracial gatherj^pgs at
university. Thtts Georgia “chickens hiywi eoMe Jbwe to
but this time they have not perched on shouiders
humble Georgia Negroes, but the highest type Bf Svhite citi-
ihip the stote has to offer.
Three Georgia dailies, The Atlanta Constitution, The At-
Journal and The Macon N?ws have gone to the rescue of
9ie ousted university officials and the state of ^jeorgia by print-
several editorials condemning Taknadge. Now the governor
ns the three , newspapers with all the hell and damnattion
his office if they don't retract.
The Georgia affair ought to be a lesson to other southern
where race hatred abounds. It proves conclusively that
it gets loose there is no vrtiy to confine it to race or indi-
Georgia chickens have ^ come -home to roost*
It Couldn’t Happen In Durham
Last week the Observer, i»werful and influential newspa-
of Charlotte, published a picture of two newly appointed
policemen of that city. Thus the Queen city has again
red that it is not only the largest city in population of
th Carol |ia, but that it has enough real big city sentiment
-4m the first in the state to aiipoint Negroes to its police
«
Such could not happen in Durham. In the first place Dur-
still a small country town controlled by a group of small-
country men. In the second place Durham has no
}us Negro leaders who are willing to take a stand for
al advanceloent that is going to incur the ill-will of
opposite group. Whenever such a combination is found in
r#0uthem city you may expect to find the Negro masi^ lack-
in many spmmon advantages that are found in cities where
are willing to “suffer the slings and arrows of out-
>us fortune” to obtain them. f
We have said in these columns before, and we reiterate
, that the leadership of an oppressed i>eople cannot main-
friendship with the oppre^ors without becoming puppets*
► leaders of Durham, for the most imrt are mere i^uppets
higher order, and can only tal^ a stand when that stand
not interfere with that taken by thdr white overlords,
^fte denial of an industrial high school tot Durham Ne-
The denial of an industrial high school to Durham Ne-
the erection of incomplete school buildings for Negroes,
/^Sblure of the school board to provide adequate funds for
equipment, libraries, athletics* bands and the refusal
board to provide even one gymnasium for Negro schools,
nine or ten are provided for white schools, are some
iBTOstEBes the ¥legro masses are suffering in Durham
M^gro leaders ai« too afraid of losing their personal
mth the opposite group*
BUS STATION VAGARY
ttir ilcnry day jPavia
Whenetwr it Is poHible for us to do so, we Negroes should
advertise our reaenttnent of the many unnecessarily embarraa-'
sing situations vm a»e constantly subject^ -to, but we should
always be mreful to do it in a mnncr indicative of majority en-i
doraemCDt and intelligent forethought. i
We cannot help but know that the lawfs which govern and
incidentally restrict our privileges are symbols;of an undying;
tradition and an unspeakable misrepresentation qf the word
honor, and we should know by now that we will be governed
by unjust and undemocratic legislation just as long as such tra
dition and such a misrepresentation of honor continue to govern
the san^r judgment of law makers.
The pitiless travesty of justice and equity which we are com-
Ijelled to recognise as law makes it disgustingly plain that for
the two races living here together there shall be separate
schools, separate diversion facilities, separatte temples for wor-
, ^hipping the same God, separate living conditions, separate'
assemblage at inter-racial conventions, and separate but equal
accomodations for travelers with rigid emph^is on the separ*,
ate and redundant flexibility for the equal.
Since no amount of solicitation or entreaty from us will ever
be able *o change what tradition h^ so firmly established, it
makes the presumption of any of us who Msigns "himself to
such a futile endeavor seem like an act of adolescent folly.
It should make no difference to us where our entrance to
the new bus station is placed as long as it bas to be a separate
entrance, and our resentment should be directed against the
fact that we ar-e still considered debased, unintelligent, uncul
tured, and dishonest enough to have separate entrances any
where.
Those of us who elect; to make sOch requests are those who
will probably never have any occasion to use a bus or railway
station themselves, and they apparently do not give a single
thought to the damage they might do to those of us who will
have to use such places.
If we are sincere in our feeble efforts to change existing
conditions let us make an honest and intelligent use of the one
effective weapon at oUr disposal-4he ballot. Let us discour
age by force, if n«:essary, the practice of some of us of selling
our vote to the highest bidder at election time. Let us organ
ize, develop, and maintain among ourselvas « forceful com-
mittee which includes representation from all of our many so-
shoufd^te foS^"*“’
Nothing at all seems to be as impressive as the disolav of
^wer and strength, but these potent factors will remain just
beyond our grasp just as long as we refuse tV rwoS Se 1
rue value of unity and cooperation among ourselves If by
the *r.ce oj w. can ever ac,uire WtS fa.
battle for securrty will be as good as won.
HEY. LOOK BEHIND YOU!
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THURHDAY, JULY 24Ui, 1941
I News Hi-Spots |
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Days of shortages and higher
prices are at hand, Henderson
•
reports.
British bar cbmpetition with
our goods in foreign markets.
•
La Guardia says Hitler is plot
ting a peace drive in America.
Knox denies pack with British
•
for joint naval action.
Our output of war goods is
said to exceed that of 1917.
Number of airports in the na-
•
tioh is liut at 2,277.
Strikes on defense projects
cost 2,458,150 man-days. ”
Troops in Iceland are
by the citizens.
feded
policecaen «annoi ha^»ea in Durham ^>ecause there
jandew in THiHifi who arc willing to make an
ior Hegro PbliceajMii. It would ke a fine thing
!Bi ftirbain Kegit lea^eri would have sense enough
^ tw fuctiire and support from behind the scenes
llMllip a» wiOiog to ps^ tbe^rice of leadership. It would
tiung if tiKy would x^ltce that Negroes are tired
loMiMn Ihe river for tke persosal advaaccmenl
are ajuootu to 4o somi^iiig to t>ei
'(ketaes*
of
t)en6»
rf oUwr peiwiw.oblii^tOd to the oppres-r**® machine; yet af-
to stop,4;}ie damoa-
onfy ix> ti»:k
r*nd
: ^ fa fiSMt we padt» — _
ir-1b0l' aai admper for cover idien the' ♦hon^ giving way liere and there,
^iirtoc Upg to •cnt it put. “ 'there is aotWng to jwove that our
If a rose by another nauie
smells just as sweet, it is even
so wfih a mess, which is just as
"messyby any other scientific
name. Wheu all is said and done,
the situation in which we find
ourselves amounts to a mess or
superwesKB. International mora-
ality collapsed at Munich and
esiiedieoscy becrfta® tile motivat-
tiug pritfciple thereafter. Today
the voice of right is hushed or
muifled,. and only the Voice of
m^ht can be heard in the coun
cil of the naitions. We call it
social chaos and economic uncer
tainty; we call i cultural lag and
biological maladejustment; we
call it conflict of cultures and the
evolution of ideologies. But it
in fine, amount to a gredt big
super mess.
Civiization like a ruauway
horse is rushing mankind on to
some inevitable doom. We have
built great laboratories, mighty
uniersities and temples of wor
ship have toped our landed peaks
but like the house built upon the
sandsj we are threatened with
destruction. It seems to matter
not that we have tawed the
streaking lightnings, and muttled
the gruiiibling thunders, the fact
remaius, we are face to face with
circumstauces that are fcver-
whelming. Oiir uiightiest minds
are bafl^^ and our confusion is
becoming more confounded. Like
the weary discipks on windswept
Galilee, we have “toiled all nite
and caught nothing.
The liussia that Geruiany spurn
ed was later accei>ted as Ally and
comrade; Germany has turned
that ^me Russia today Avith the
fury of an avenging angel. The
Russia that Et^land and the
United States have maligned and
disparaged is not their faithful
ally in the serious cause of steni-
ttiing the tide of Hitlex'ism. As
many lies have been told on the
Russians as have been told on
the hapfisss Negro race, and yet
todayy, Russia is fighting on the
side of those pho have maligned
her.
All kinds of lies have been
told on Russia. Our military ex
perts have disparai^ her armies
and yet these same armies are
making one of the most valient
Wnds. Our social philosophers
■flaid the Russians would fall a-
|«re under the first impact of
^hile Europe commits suicide,
we her ien America arre quarrei
ling ourselves to death. We are
wasting one of onr greatest op
jmrtunities to save civilization;
siuabbling among oareelves
Koosevelt our man of Seaitiuy ia
handcuff^ ««iigress that is
looking as iituci to the ballot box
in 1941 as to the battle front in
Fratonal And Y(»th
(kxprate h
ffetMO-WWe Boycott
Of NoxMm G^s
New ,York, N. Y. — The Na
tion-wide boycott against the
Noxzenia company, of t Baltimore,
received real impetus ^this week,
when the International Workers
1941. If Hitler wins there'wili 'Order, announced that its' more'
ter three werics the Russian arm
ies are rally«»g*gl4>jo«sly. '*A1-
. TWHfiamy or Britain’s couM 4o 4ett-
iflie«u*oro and other citim in North Of the guinea pig nations on
mora CfVU^nc^ of honest which Hitler has tested his blitz-
liilSO polK^sen kriegt he is meetiag a sterner
test Epsja tkw eiseifhere.
no ballot box in 1944. We talk
about bottle track in this defense
effort, but congress is a super-
bottle-neck by itself. The great
est argument for a dictatorship
here in this countrj- is the atti
tudes and tactics of oAr presenit
congress.
Thp tjuestion that begins to
well up in the minds of thought
ful men is, does a country with a
Congress such as our really de
serve a democracy? Would not
the iron heel of Hitlerism bring
us to our senses! So long as we
refuse to learn the easy way,
suit us iK’tter? Democracy has
bred a bunch of money grabbers'
that are obsessed with a doUar-
mania that is about to prove our
'nation hangs in'the balance.
Politicians are likewise gambl
ing on the outcome of bloody
events. Some wee(ks ago we re
leased an article ciptiond “Fum
bling and Grumb|ing” as it ap
plied to the Negro race; tut it
could in truth be applied to the
USA which is fumbling one of
the finest oi>i)oi-tunities that ever
presented itself to a nation; Poli
tical prefereiwe and the “dollar-
almighty” are plainly too large a
part of the motivation of our so-
called democracy. In faet, this is
one of the weaknesses of the de
mocratic ideology.
The only hope is that the door
of this world of overwelming con
fusion, this world of glamoi*oas
ihy|jocri«Jetrt this world of faJ^-
faced hatreds, this world of pros
trated ideals and this world of
auper mess, stands the Christ of
the ages si>eakiug, scarcely heard
amid the tlin of battle saying
“Behold I stand at the door an
knock!’’ This is but the beginn
ing of super-messes unless maii'-
kind makes room for Jesus with
brotherhood ideals of life. OUR
SUPER-MESS! /
It is amusing to notice how
many activities are now con
nected with vital defense proj
ects*—last year they had nothing
to do'with defense.
• • • •
Many brave French soldiers,
of an earlier day, have probably
turned over in their graves as
Petain and Darlan became asso
ciates of l^tler.;
than two hundred thousand mem
bers would be asked to refuse to
purchase Noxzema, Ice Glo. Nox-
zema Shaving Cream, and Nox
Ivy, products manufactured by
the Maryland Chemical firm.
The annouoncement was made
by Moran Weston, Secretary of
the National Conimissiou for Ne
gro Work of the Fraternal Insur
ance Company, nvhose branches
extend throughout the country,
and hwlude representativea of
every racial group in conducting
boj'cott. ^
Several weeks ago the Naxzema
Company’s credit managaev, G.
T. j^ian sent out to scores of the
firm’s customers, a collection let
ter that ridiculed and insulted the
Negro people. Following a confer
enee with Congress offlcialls, Vice
Presient George Lloyd Bunting
dt»clared that his company would
refuse to make a public retrac
tion and would contiinue the ser-
services of the credit manager.
Bunting also refused a third de
mand, when he made it clear that
the.company would not employ
Negro' women (the majority of
the compnny’s employees are wo
men) because “I don’t thin/: the
races have advanced sufficiently
to work side by side.” Inagura-
tion of the boycott followed.
The Dooklyn New York Youth
Federation sent the following
letter Ho the company, whose
•offices are located at 32nd Street
and Falls Cliff Road, Baltimore,
Maryland.
“Our organization, represent
ing thousands of youth of this
city, has received notice of your
slanderous letter addressed to
contacts of your company, ridi^
ouliug the Negro people witli the
phrase “N—r in the Woodpile.”
.“We'^are canvassing our mem
bership calling for them to boy
cott your jwodiicts. All the
the pharmacists in Brooklyn will
receive our information on your
practice and will be' urged to take
these products off their counters.
We will continue this boycott un
til you meet the just demands of
the National Negro Conogress for
a public retraction of this sland
erous attack and indicate your
willingesR to end permanently a
discriminatory policy by em
ploying Negroes iri yonr plant.”
Letters from Pharmacists in
several states, advising the Con
gress that they ate cancelling or
ders for Noxzema products, in
dicate that the boycott is beginn
ing to have real effect Congress
officials said.
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Navy Takes Over
ChiiKse Junk; Gets
Air Conditioning
Washington, D. C. (Special)—
The Navy will get a bonus when
if takes over Mrs. Anue Arch
bold’s Chinese Junk for $1 (one
dollar) soon.
Whe« the crew takes over, it
will find (luarters arc far more
luxurious than the most modern
battleship. Furnishings, fo? i»-
tance, include a Carrier Room
Air Conditioner designed by Dr.
Willis H. Carrier, founde^ of the
air conditioning industry, for use
IHK'ially in high tropical tempera
tures. Mrs. Archbold had the
Junk air conditioned in 19;M for
a cruise in South Sea waters.
The Navy , will re-christen the
Junk the L'SS Cheng Ho and use
it as at station ship at Pearl
Harbor.
The Cheng Ho in of lo4 tons,
99-1-2 feet long. It was named
foy Admiral Cheng Ho, who sail
ed to Persia in the fifteentn cen
tury with 1'50 junks and, accord
ing to tradition, carried hack the
first giraffe ever seen in China.
Above the water line the'craft
is a copy of fifteenth century
junks. Below the «vater lino are
twin screws driven by 110-horse
power Diesel engines, as well as
air conditioning. >
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I Way of the Poet |
# #
TRUTH
Truth is the trial of itself,
And rieeds no other touch;
And purer than the purest gold,
Refine it ne'er so much.
It is the life and light of love,
■ The sun that ever shineth,
And spirit of that special grace
That faith and love defineth.
It is the warrant o| the word,
That yields a scent so sweet,
As gives a power to faith to
tread
All falsehood under feet.
I —Ben Johnson,
THE SEA
There is no word to say beside
The Ageless «ea;
Silently one must receive
^Pelagic mystery; '
k ■
Beauty has there an unhreathed
name,
With power to press
Its mark indelibly upon r,
The heart joi > loneiiness,j
0PM gives priority to ship
yards in building of new ships.
Victory for Russia il favored
in Gallup survey.
•
Europe must raise its food,
says Nazis at Paris gathering.
Navy expected to deal with
sea raiders as "pirates."
•
Navy commissions Quonset
Point air station, built in year.
•
Army testing gunsifeht cost
ing $5; current modfl is $688.
Motor company payrolls in
creased $125,000,000 a year.
•
Vichy, uneasy on U. S. aims,^
bolsters Dakar’s defenses. '
Donovan is named CJoordinato|f^
of Defense Data. • '
•
Result of home 'aluminum
drive is set at 2,000 planes.
•
Jackson takes oath as asso
ciate justice, filling Supreme
Court.
•
Sale of ofofod din vivdrivBK
Sale of food in vitamin bas
kets proposed at nutrition par-
ley.-
Missicffiary seal., urged on
you^th tflf cfeiSiSfet ’ totalitarii^
1;urged
“Army Air Forces” succeed
corps, get semi-independence.
•-
•-
ABOUT INITIATIVE
The human race is divided in
to two classes—those who go
ahead and do something, and
those who sit and inquire, “Why
wasn’t it done the other way?"
—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The uses of mediocrity are for
everyday life; but the use of
genius, amidst a thousand mis
takes which mediocrity never
commits, is to suggest and per
petuate ideas which raise the
standard of the mediocre to a
noble level.—Edward Bulwer,
The world wants leaders,
thinkers, doers, men of power
and action,/ men who can step
out from toh crowd and lead
insted ^f follow. — Holmes.
To be driven by external mo
tives from the path which our
own heart approves, to - give
way to anything but convic
tions, to suffer the opinions of
others to rule our choice or ov
erpower our^ resolves, is to sub
mit tamely to the lowest and
most ignominiouSi and to resign
the right of directing our own
lives.—Samuel Johnson.
I FUNNY ENUK
Suicide?
Doctor: "I want to change the
death certificate I gave you
yesterday. ’’
Coroner: “What’s wrong?”
Doctor: “I signed my name in
the space marked, 'cause of
death.'''
Not Quite
“I understand your wife is a
finished singer,” said one friend
finished singer,” said one friend
to another.-
And by that deep and secret
sign
Teach a new way
Of listening. Beside the sea -
There is no word to say,
« • « *
If the Russians fight success
fully for another month or so,
we will move |;hem up into a
higher classification.: