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The Platform of .
 THE CAROLINA TIMES
indudes:
E^aal olwim fw Negro Teaehers.
NefTO iPNp iiirn.
N^tro jurymea.
Equal ^Hcmtional opportunities.
Higher ii^ifes for domestic senrants.
Full paiTOipati«m of Negroes in »li branches of the
Nafia
National defense.
Abolishnent of the double-standard wage scale
in iadostry.
Greater participation of Negroes in political affairs.
Better housing for Neproes.
N^rro representation In city, county, state and na
tional governments.
GRIN AND LIKE IT! . ' '
is editorial is written with the hope of arousing in the
ttr of decent white people in Durham the sense of fairness
uught to exist in the breast of every man who has beer^
ised to the teachings of the Bible, rather than to the phil-
phy of tyrants that “might makes right.” It is written
'th "the hope that a peace loving, and for tKe most part an
t minority group, may not be forced into the courts
iettle a simple question of the righteous and just allocation
funds for the erection of a vocational high school in-tbeicity
Durham. r ' (
■ 111
This eternal bickering and begging, this continuous plot-
ng and maneuvering, this forever sidestepping and compro-
■ ing, this unholy grinning and apologizing, this dastardly
ing and scraping to wring out of the public officials a
er's share of public funds to be spent on this side of the
'ence has become so humiliating and distasteful that one of
rham’s largest Negro institutions has declared and avowed
at never again will its Board of IHrectors permit its president
click his neck out to be chopped off. Never again will he be
rmitted to act as an appeaser or a go-between in the thankless
'k oi promoting a better understanding between tie races
this city or county.
Durham Negroes have grinned and grinned. They have
aed at inadequate equipment in all of their schools, they
« grinned at no gymnasium in the entire Negro school sys-
while there are nine or ten in the white ^hooils; they
grinnej at makeshift cafeterias in most of their school
'dings; they have grinned at school buildings erected with-
t auditoriums; they have grinned at the refusal to give them
entation on the Board of Education; they have grinned
the unequal facilities in the new bus station to be erected
have humiliatingly withdrawn from contending that the
late but equal" law be applied to its erection, when they
:vered that those who enacted the law never meant for it
be enfonsed..' They have grinned at poor police protection
Negro districts of Durham; they have grinned at the twenty-
hour defei^ training given white boys and girls at the
ral High School, without the same provisions being made
Negroes. _Phey have grinned at muddy streets, at starva-
and»1e88.t^he.^parenttplea8ureH^^tiuniBh
ing''it*
Be it aa^'Whiteiaa virginKinow,or as blMk. as ^oal, tar the
human body«uBt(have food,|clothing, and^™lter^ to Continue
;iti existence WdWh^var tltee vitfcl n«ei«^ «san«ot be ob
tained hoaestly*tBeT« trill ais|te,in any hu^mbeing^ natural
^and human teifwhcy to cAtAiriHftem anyhdw.
The story is told of an honMt, God-fearing Negro, the head
of a family of scfven, who l6st the job henh&dwvery^efficiei^ly
held for Several lyears only becau^ he was, a black man and a
(white man^had^demanded and^got' the place, NolariaUunt of
tseai-ch.artd pleading yifelded .another jop for the-.unfortunate
man and, with the evet-present: knowledge that hisrf^ily de
pended on him urging him to desperation, he finiuy^ stole a
sack of meal with which to feed them and was caught, i
He was sent to the, road where his state of mind caused
him to violate some of the chain gang rules and earned for him
an additional sentence. His wife, being unable to work even
if she had had a job, was forced to resort to her only means
of survival—unfaithfulness and prostitution. The young daugh
ters followed the mother’s footsteps as soon as they were old
enough. The sons, being deprived of parental supervision, soon
followed the father to prison. Who cared enough to try to find
out why that sack of meal was stolen? Who is the real criminal
in a tragedy of this kind?
Many, many Negroes have gone to prison, to chaiii*»ang8,
to destruction,, and subsequently to Hell because of “crimes' no
more serious than this one and all because our race is believed
to be 75 percent criminally inclined. The majority of us are
fundamentally honest but some of us will earn a living by sell
ing “numbers” tickets because they see even church people sell
ing chances to win a ton of coal and they are therefore 1^
to believe that lottery is lottery whatever may be the form it
takes. Others of us will earn a living by risking being shot to
death or incarcerated for long periods for selling whiskey be
cause they see the counties and municipalities selling it and
v^hiskey is whiskey no matter where one buys it.®
Although a vast majority of us will never condone such
practices because they are called illegal and criminal, none of
us can deny that they are far less reprehensibM than the plan*
ned acts of robbery and wanton murder which we are constant
ly exposed to. If agents of the law can apprehend “numbers”
Writers and bootleggers with so much ease why do they not ap
ply the same tactics in the apprehension of vicious burglars and
murderers?
Countless homes in our section have been marauderedi during
the past two years and our women and childrep have been ter
rorized into sleeping with bolted doors and windows because of
this condition, even on these hot nights. Although pleas for
protection have been made in almost every instance the mar
audering continues. Wanton slayings continue, making possi
ble the impression that murderers are not being sufficiently
discouraged in their practice,
In spite of what people who call themselves criminologists,
socialologists, and psychologists have to say about it our petty
violators of the law will be elinunated When they are given
work to do and the chance to earn a decent, honest living.
That will leave only our vicious offenders which every lace is
cursed with, but, as their number among us is few, they too
will be eliminated vrtth our hearty sanction and aid.
Give us employment and fair play, and we will give our com
munity citizens as decent and as honorable as can be found
anywhere. • *
, f ■ K Hgu'TrO f1 HhifUMjS |WAiY{t
fraURSOAY.1 AUGUST* 7^ 1941 
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BaOad'Oi -
‘Some-Ghanges Made’ ^
•- ~ —
By LaUfBton Hughes ^
I had a gal
She was driving alone* ^^
Doing eighty
In a twenty mile zone-
Had to pay her ticket.
It took all I had.
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What makes a woman
Treat a man so bad?
Come to find out ^ ,
(If I’d a only k^w it!)
fc>he had another joker ,
In my Buick!
So from now on,
I want tlie world to know,
That gal don’t drive my ■ .
Car no more.
To iThe Editor
wages paid domestic servants, and now they are being
to grin at the expenditure of $240,000 for a vocational
I for whites-without providing the same type of school for^the-federal agenries.
2. All contracts grandted after
* A JOB FOE ALL OF US *
* Now that this President has
* put up the stop sign on all *
* discrimination on account of *
* race, color, creed, or national *
* origin to industries with gov- *
* enunent contracts for national
* defense purposes, it is the job *
* of all of us to see that his *
* edict is obeyed. First there *
* must be a elear understanding *
* of wh»t the order meaaa. - *
Briefly it amounts to this;
1. All vaeatioual training pro
grams for defensse operated under
government supervision mu:4 be
open to ail persona desiring train
ing. for defense industries, regard
less of the Persons, rae, eolor,
creed or national origin. Thia in
cludes all courses in industrial
skills operated under the supervi
sion of the WPA, NYA, U. S.
Uffiee of Education and loeal pro
grams receiving assistance from
We think ttiis cannot, be. The two main grinners among
in Durl^m will stay their grins, and peaceful but
ite steps by others will be taken to resurrect from the
common idstice and fairness, in the expenditure of the
snal schqei.money. This is a last resort, all others have
and Negroes iri Durham are being forced into an unpleas-
task, one thit they iieither relish nor are able to financial-
•apDort through the higher courts without the aid of the
‘I AssocUtion for the Advancement of Colored People.
»rs ago Negroes had to fight for funds for train-
1 arts and sciences, as it was the common belief of
peopks that ml of them should strive to make good farm
***P®^ters, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, m^hin-
itMUMfitters, tinnera etc. Along came Booker T. Washing
a nskm of dignifying the ti«di» and now Negroes havfe'
t for funds for vocational training,
jSvriag theaB tisiea’of national emergency each citii^n ought
mthia hia pow» to advance tb« theory of d©«aoewitic
.meat, A§d *ny citiim or group of citizens who denies
Kgaai share in the benefits that are to be derived
flsqMpubtwrea of pei^lie funds because of race, creed
w jttct M ffi'vst a menace to the American- «pay of life
iqgeigm eaw M ^ audst. Such persons\present a
to free. Awwiftin of all races to prot^.the strongest
W«ir gammmmt wtich is **the equal dispensatioB of
-CRIME**
Bf WimrT Okt Dtfi«
of ours where the vqords Negra and
CTBOt^rmous it seems that Iaw> mak-
■ocM «cenGi»i. tnd yrbatsot would
June 23 when the exeentive order
was issued, by the U. S. governl
nient (including all its depart-
laehts and agencies like the Army,
Navy, Marine Cox’i>s, Oflice of
Production Management and
others) must have clauses in them
which state that the company or
companies getting the contract
will not discriminate against any
worker because of his race, creed,
color or national origin.
3. The Committee on Fair Em
ployment I’ractices composed of
six men, two colored, four white
with an executive secretary soon
to be employed, is responsible only
to the President. Its work is to
receive legitimate, fartual com
plaints of disi»rimiuation in de
fense industries or vocational
training for defense work; inpeeti
gate these complaints, and where
it finds the ehai^ea justified^ to
take steps necessary to see that
the executive older is obeyed.
Mmibers the 'Committee on
Fair Employment Praetioes are
M«k Ethridge, managing editoor
of the Louisville, .0 Coi^r-
Jouraal^ chairn^; tQ^vid' Sa>*^.
president of the
tion of Ameriea, New Yoric, Earl
B. Dickerson, alderman, Chicago
Milton P. Webster, vice presid
ent of the Brotherhood of S.’eep-
iug Car porters, William Green,
president of the American Fed
eration of Laboi’, and Phillip
Murray, president of the Con
gress of Industrial Organizations.
When the executive secretary to
the^ committee is apjiointed^ com
plaints should be sent to him.
How To Make Work The
Execative Order Work
In order to make the woik of
of the FEP Committee mean the
most to us and to prevent any
employer from disobeiiny the or
der, it is the responsibility of
every Negro American to;
1. Send all known instances of
diserinmination on account of
race or color hy industrial plants
with government contracts for de
fense to the Committee on Fair
Employment UPractices in care of
the chairman, Mark Ethridge,
Washington, D. C., until the’ ap
pointment of the eeutive secre--
tary, who should be clearly and
accurately set forth preferably in
the form of an affidavit.
2. Send a copy of the com
plaints to the National Office of
thfe NAACP, 69 Fifth avenue. New
York City, and retain one for
ywr own files.
8. Send all known instances of
discrimination on account of ra^e
or> color in vocational schools for
goKrernment defense work operat
ed by or under a government
agency to the committee. Exercise
thjB same care and accuracy with
these statements.
4 Send a copy of this complaint
to the NAOCP natiwal office aad
retain one for your files.
5. Learn what vocational train
ing courses are offered in the eom
munity and urge that all eligible
p«^itsons register for them.
, 6 Cheek each lant working on
government defense ordera in
yoor locality and make a thorough
Investigation of its employment
policy so that it may be instanly
known if any plant violate the
executive order.
Make use of the five sets of
contract lists sent from the New
¥prk ;o||ttce of thgj NAACP to'tl^e
local branch in determining' phich
plantijiiare in your loettHty and
the amount and kinds of contracts
granted them. Limited supply of
these contract lietg are stiU «ivai^ j
Rateigh D#
Praises Ed Tate
Raleigh, (CP) — The News and
Observer, local daily' newspaper,
praised Ed Tate, local drayman
who. died here last week, for his
“essential quality of absolute
dependability,” in an editorial
Saturday.
The editorial entitled Ed Tate
reads as follows: ^
“The death of Ed Tate, who
for 35 years hauled the big rolls
of news print paper on which the
News and Observer is printed,
was not only a loss to fellow
workers, white and colored, on
this paper, but the loss also of a
substantial citizen of Ealeigh.”
“Tate had advanced in years
when he died. For a number of
years his great pliysical strength
from which has grown legends of
his prowess in moving huge
pieces of freight and rolls of
paper, had been impaired by ill-
health. But his absolute depend
ability remained until he died
and that always, even when he
was a younger giant in the line
of horse drawn drays was his
greatest strength.”
“The coming of' the automo
bile difl not mode him as dray
man. Neither did the coming of
age. His essential quality of de
pendability was one which neither
change from horses to motors or
from Powerful youth to age
could destroy. Other younger hien
in later years moVed the heavy
rolls of paper, but under Ed
Tate’s eyes they were always
mdved, promptly, carefully.”
“Ed Tate was no rich man but
by all the worthwhille standards
he was a sueoess. And young
white men as well as young Ne
groes can leam much from the
inper strength which grew in him
when his great muscles grew old.
Hi was a man stronger in age
than he had been even in his
giant armed youth. And the
strength he had was of such a
sort as .can not easily be spared
on a newspaper—in a town any
where in this modem world.
songs .. .k, ^
Of peace and joy and gladness
But not with those who’re steep
ed in wrongs
And running*wild with madness;
We sing for “justice which must
win.
—William Henry Huff
HEBE IS WHERE I STAND
I cast my lot with those who
strive
T© make the old world better
And not with those who flog
and drive
Or halt and jerk and fetter
A portion of their fellownieu.
I sirig with those who sinfir the
able At the New York offite.
Caution: John ^ill be ooj^ened
faster and the FEP committee can
function more effectively if cach
copipWint -which is sent a clear,
concisip, ■ co^^ete statement of
facts, and facts only. Accuray
is' of the utmost importance since
the work of the PEP Committee
means jobs for thousands of Ne-
groes.
Tfonessee Avoiding
Adioittiijg . N^oes
,Xo Graduate ^hool
Nashville, Tenn. — To avoid
admitting six applicants now a-
waiting admission to the graduate
and law school of the Univeisity
of Tenn., it is rumored that a
committee from the University
has been working during the
summer on rurriiula for graduate
work at Tenn. A and I State col
lege to be^ put into effe^t^ in the
fall, it is also reported that i-lans
are underfood to estblish n law
school for Negroes in Tenn. in the
fall of 1942.
Leon A. Ransom, NAACP na-
tiional legal Committee, who with
Z. Alexander Lobby of this city
is handling the cases to open
Tennessee graduate school to
Negroes, also announced a rumor
that the six applicants will be
ottered an opportunity to have
all their expenses paid to any
school they desire to attend dur
ing the next academic year. Mr.
Marshall stated that this attempt
to forestall the pending cases
will not deter the NAACP in its
fight for equal educational oppor
tunities in the state of Tenn.
*
Among the church oliicials pre
sent when the receiver turned the
property over were Bishops foun
tain, Tookes, and Davis; Dr. A.
S. Jackson, Waskington, D. C.,
financial secretary; George At
Singleton, editor of the Christian
Recorder, Philadelphia; and the
Revs. W: R. Wilkes, R. H. Por
ter, Atlanta; W. A. Lew'is, A. L.
Pinkston, F. D. Coleman, N. B.
Morgan, S. S. Morris^, Jr„ F. D.
Coleman, Jr., and C- H. Boone
all of Nashville. •
Governor Spares
Life Of Joseph
Samuel Miller (17)
“ ^^Rafeigh, (CP)— Governor J.
M. Broughton Thursday spared
the life of Joseph Samuel Miller,
17, of Charlotte, who was to be
put to death in the gas chamber
at Central prison hree Fdday,
for murder.
. In commuting th ed^th eent-
en!e to life Imprisonment the
Governor referred to the 6ase as
one in which justice will be more
completed if it is tempered with
mercy.
Prof. Newsome
Gets College
- prop. W.
Bannecker
Cincinnati, (!aNP)
E. Newsome of the
High school of Cythiana, Ky, was
awarded the degree of bachelor of
scienre at the University of Cin
cinnati recently. Prof. Ntwaome,
who is 79 fears old, hag studied
summers for a number of years.
He is wiedly known in Kentucky
and one of the active members
of the Kentucky Nigro Educa
tion association.
Nobody’s Business
By Ciee 9fc(3ee
□ □
MY FIRST JOB
—I spent 6 months in a railroad
office in a small town learning
the art of telegraphy. I didn’t
get much book learning, anl had
to start almost from the scratch.
I was a rul^ then and am ^^'rpbe
now: it’s might hard to overcome
being what you start oif as.
—On day a telegram came oiler-
ing me a job at $30 per month at
t>^g run,
to leave
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Hm torieuM Bacnily Buraao was MtabHAMl by Hm
Godafroy Manvfaeturing Company to tivdy imiriiodi
of prM«rvlii0 wonMn't natural beauty, and lo maka
tba raivitt of tbb rataardi avaUobla lo lha pubtk.
Lucky indeed is the girl with
lovely liair, althoU|;h In most cases
It Isn’t luck at all, but the result of
II)roper care. * Such care takes a
ilttle time and effdrt, but il pays
large dividends In beauty, for beau
tiful hair is a woman’s most flatter
ing possession.
Summer sun, wind and water are
all very line, up to a point. The
problems i>egln when the hair has
had too much of them, and here’s
where an ounce of prevention is
worth many pounds of cure, A sim
ple summer routine for your hair
should include brushing, correct
shampooing, and protection from
the sun.
Grandmother knew what she was
about when she brushed her hair
determinedly every night, counting
the strokes as she went. With the
coming of marcels and flingerwaves,
which we thought we had to “pro
tect,” the brushing routine was ig
nored for a time, but today again we
recognize the value of frequent
brushing. Use a brush with long
bristles and a handle that affords a
convenient grip. Itemember to keep
your brush clean—a washing in
lukewarm suds does the trick in Just
a few seconds.
Befpre you begin brushing, mas
sage the seaip gently with the finger
Ups. Then part the hair in long
atrands, the parts running from the
top of the head to the ear and neck.
l>%in at the scalp and brush
''c^ougii the length of the strand
^;it«ral times, brushing upward and
outward always. Wipe your brush
on a towel every few strokes, to
remove dust and dirt. A thorough
brushing, yon see, helps cleanse hair
and scalp by removing the dandruff
and dust It also polish^ the hair,
giving it that, alliirlng shtne and
glint of highlights. Brush your hair
before each shampoo, and between
shampoos too. If you do It correct
ly, It won’t spoil your wave. Actually
it will make the wave lovelier and
more natural in appearance.
If the summer sun and wind have
caused your hair to lose some at its
natural color, or if you’re beghinlng
to find a few too many nay balrs,
let a responsible hair cmorlng help
you restore It to its natural beauty.
Your balrdresser can gtve yoa ad
vice on this, and your favorite lteal-
er can help you with a suggestion.
A little attention to your hair
now, and when the new hairstyles
come along next fall, you'll be all'
set to try one of them as your new
est aid to beauty and romance. For
make no mistake about It, romance
comes to the girls who make the.
most of their own good looks, and
lovely balr Is the first weapon
off^nis^ ii|;alnst the bearts of .men I
Wf^ art your, beauty prMpns?t (
Write: Marie Downing, Larieuse
Beauty Bureau,'' 3f09 Linddl
Blvd., St. Louis, Mo,, and she wUl
be glad to answei^ them. Be .
sure to enclose a self-addressedf
stamped envelope.
getting a job at such a high
salary! 1 never expected to make
over ij>15 a month. Th^ wag 'big
pay when I wobbed^ int^i the
business world.
—I was instructed to go by the
Dispatcher’s Office and fake »
test. I borrowed $2.50 frorp my
father, put on thfe test clothes I
had, which was all I had, and got
my railroad pass and hoarded the
train for the greatest undertak-
of my life.! 1 finally got to the
Di]>atcher’s office^
—I told a lAan who and wliat I
was. I heard about a do^Sen tle-
graph instrumeuts^ .ticking like
fire, and the call thdt always left
me stiff was “DI,” and the
whole room was full of “DI’s” I
sat down at a little table with a
sounder key in front of me. I
began to sweat and turn red and
get dizzy. The guy on the other
end of tte ;liue was shoving a
train essage to me so fast it made
my head swim. I took it and it
wai» almost deeiphernble.
—i* got tfie jot^ J had never be^u
away from home except when I
went to the county seat 24 miles
ag the snake crawled. I enjoyed
the work. I had to stay on duty
only 10 hours per day except, of
course, when extra trains were
and then I wag free
any time during the
night after “DI” told me “GN"
and not before. But that was back
yonder when railroad employees
had to work for a lifing; now
they stay an duty 8 hours and
quit when the clock says to quit,
in keeping with the Law and the
Order. We, the then employees,
really and truly appreciated our
Jobs. . ’’
Record
Corn projects conducted by
a watermelon station in the low- Martin County 4-H Club boj's
er part of the state. I w.is so will probably make record jields
happy and so excited I mndo a this year, reports A. L. Eagles,
mess of, tha,t wire. Think of me assistant farm agent.
-net-