PUSUSHSD WKKLT BY THE
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pt |U PSAWPr St. DURHAM, M. C
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At t^e PoM Oflet mt Oortia«^ N.
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. L. B. AlDSXlN.FfJBLiSHER
msilkm A. TUCS. IlMMiiiw Editor
*«. VlLUAHCm, News Ediiw
CHAELOTTB OFFICE
EAST SEOOMD STKEIT
MASCitirnON RATSSi $2.00—YMr, MmUh,
The Platform of •
., THE CAROLINA TIMES
indd|i^ r>
Biul f«r Nem Teachers.
Nigie peBrffn
Ncfi* jnnnHen.
appMtudties.
BltflMDirafw far demiwtic terrants.
FhB nKtkvKtiMi 9t N^roes in all brtncliM of the
NaiiMHri tefaaaa.
AhalishMit af tha douhiestaiidard wage acale
ia UNmIit.
Gfertvr participatioii af N^:rae* in political affain.
Bettct hawiMg f«r NasraM.
ffcfi* rqpreaaptatieii in city, cooaty, sUie »90
SOTcnuaoits.
mRSON DOING A
FiNflSk
the
Durbtts ought to feel proud of its Health Department, not
use of the expansion program it is besrinning, but ^aure
le great work the department has already done tfhder the
leadenihip of Dr. J. H. Epperson. We believ^he head of
Durbus County Health department is doing everything
his cotomand to saf^uard the health of all the citizens of
^am without respect of race.
Hie tatensi^ campaign |>ut on several weeks ago to clean
lestavi^nts, cafe*, markets, hotels and dtWtt -of
inft»itanc« to the health of the people inmiitfd Negro
aa well as white.
In many instances places of business too dangerous for
%elfare,of the community were forced ottt of bu^ess. In
citie* in North Carolina Negro places of a si^ar nature
been allowed to operate without regard to cl^nliness, ap-
itly because they 6d not cater to white patpiiage. On the
hand, white plac^ of the same been forced
up or close up. In Durham the clean-up or close-up
appli^ to both races alike, whiph is as it should be.
the CAROLINA TIMES and all of Negro Durham should
:rate with the Health Department in its effort* to make
a cleaner and healt^er place in which to live. We
Dr.. .
MOB (VIOLENCE IN ROXBORO
c^n
That tpph pi human hyenw which stormed the Person Copn-
; in Roxboro last Saturday in an attempt to get an
N^ro zapist, has again dragged the name of North
I through the stench and filth of mob vibl«ace. The
done the Person County courthottse is small in con?^
with that done the people dt 'Boxboio and viettiity,
who .lost theii^ reason and set themselves 0|l as Judge
~§axy to try and convict a fellow human IwinK without the
jMveeaa of, law. -
SVe hi^ mo'b violence, v^ hate lynching, and we hate
AU'thijBe are cowardly, and most repulsive to law-alMd>
citizens, .and those who engage in any one-of them should
to the full p^alty of the law-.^e Hoxboro case
^eepticm..
i^iASt that mob which stormed the Person County
an aciwat the I^crro bojrn if they band-
fogrther aad marched into' Roxboro for the pur-
ta fuftiwr BM>h Tieleace. We are agaiilst the
he ^coyopmitted the crime for which he
'A|^ fiqiytar. ippe nre asainat Governor Brough-
M»> Ijavpal^pikita into the march of the
ln^«ati|E»tioa to determine who were
[jmolr nMeh rttm»ed the court house before
(hfir allied taai^h.
Sbarifl T. Clayt^, an^ tJif other
Ix^hiag, are abqut the only
affair who have up to this
^ oC e!iq}tnon pense. We think t4^e
rlu^'^|B«4t a thr^base hit and should be
' in arych.they handled a very difrt
jj^ale a home ran if they will identify
Mn^ tkan immediately for their
kKp«4 fo gQ tkm •« Ihfia .vv-
|ix the putt t^va montha l^^o,
luive b«iB
prowd the chi^«a ta be hu'
BETWEEN
UNES
By Dtaa l»rdOB Hancock
rooxjira roucst
jBXovAirs wiflBBsei
AXS TSBXKIRO
Within the last five years i^
has be«n my tare fertaa# to at*
t«ad three »diiito«8 con
claves. The Oxford "group which
met in Oxford, England, f®or
years ago attracted delegates
from the four eom^B of th®
^rth. This group impressed me
as one of great iBtelleetual eali-
tare and eompoeed of the best peo
ples. More recently I attended
one of the great meeting o{ the
Seventh Day Adventists at their
earnp groand in Michigan and
what a meeting it turned out to
be! The group impfrreMed me as
belongiim to a hardworkinf farm
er class with a good representa
tion of inteUeet«ala>
Last week whll visiting in St.
Louie I ran into the annual con
clave of Jehovah’s witnesses led
by Judge Rutherford. I spent »
whole following up every lead
that I thought would help me to
understand this great movement.
At the end of my seeking I had
found nothii^. T had thought I
might find something different”
but my (lisillusionBtent was eom-
plete when I had spent a part o
two days among Jehovah’s wit
nesses. The imjwwsion I gained
wag that ^is group is no differ
ent from hundreds other cults
great and small. Tfc^ all have tWe
same technique and the same fin
ancial obj«€tive8.
If Jehovah’s witnesses excel in
anything it is in their beal to sell
liteature which is propaganda of
the moet effective sort. Through
out all their mesei^s is the sub
tie inference that Jehovah’s wit
nesses are right and all the other
people are wrong, there is the as
sumption tha tthey have a mono
poly on the Bible and its teach
ings there is always the fundamen
tal assumtion that all who are not
Of their group are thei^ “ene
mies.”’ They use tb^^t^rm ‘enemy’
frequently.
Of course it was intriguing to
watch the Negro “witnesses” who
w«re “in l^e ring even if they
did not make a thing” 0 it
it safe to eonjeetare that they
did Bot. • Theae dark akianed
“witaaseea** did their part tell
their share printed merekan-
dise. Hm thfa^ that inter^tad me
wa% tiiat at one oi the meetings
I wMt to a rather important aec-
tion of the sfwcioua at^itorium
of tte arena and l^took mysrif
to ««e «f the prominent rows o#
seats and eat in the very middle
of the nnoeeupied rrow. I Mt
th^ fiw three hoor^ aad al-
my section be^we ^vd'
ed, these wUneawa iefCwoeeapi*
ed tttree «»t» on my lelEtllM
on ^ i%lit which 9^ t« ahow
thfli ttey were »ot too hw
witneasiiig’' to foiget the "olor
line.
-jnrypicfit been mc4 Iwth wight
■^leooe. Boabaro citieena fa^iy
w« tfa«r’«cwxts »a4 sot
mm
r QwelW
■sp,4nite
tea.
Rooiu wa$ at ever so great a
premium before one of the old
witnessed dared to sit beside me;
and since I was tjred of tt»e
whole thing, I moved out *nd
^ruck a bee line for home think
ing within myself that .Jehovah's
Witnesses .like the other rel^ous
witnesses, do not throw away
their prejudice i)^en they emhrao
a religious faith-
On Sunday there was a great
baptizing some new “witness'
es” made during the conclave in
St. Louis. The new Negro witness
es were sent to the N^j YMCA
^for baptism; while the whites
were baptized in the great pool in
Forest park. 4-»d so Jehovah’s
Witnesses ideclined tl> Ite their
eelored br«h*«n be baptiaed in
the same {tool* This all goes to
show that Negroea are.^ their
own %ht who think that any of
tkeae sects are “different.” It
matters na| whai.k^ ^, n«w re-
ligioa eotap along, "the Negro
tries it oacif in tka ko{Hi that it
»^t reeaiva l|i« m real prh
thw, Aad alt}k^ng|| we '^ways
fiad the.iie|p>Oi w? also find that,
there is adwais that attita# of
anCeranee en the part of their
aAita
When grea( q|d .Bi««4r4 4iUen
Jaafc toi^ 4^ Wfby .*h* hflrna and
w«»t ««t mi hailt|||ii
ke had sowatiriw! ■ fha^ia^a
gf’eat N^o ruA today into ev*^y
i^w religious sect bnt- it only
ixfeans the Negroes are trying *to
he ‘‘different” aad that is* alL
Tke K^aet alw*y» flpd ,them-
selvM fooled 09 aU these pew r«-
lipiMMi. ^^vah’a HHtaesses like
all the iwl win 4a|y “aufler"
tke Megro, but they de so know*
iiy Uiat he is not Ml integral
part of tiiem. Whea therefore
Nt^oel^ torn to theie now white
cult« they may as wdinsieapcb out
and find the jin» crow coa«h for
they will wind up in one by and
by. If our white religioniHts insist
on fooling us, let us not leoi out-
selves.
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YOUR FOOD PLAN
IN USE^...
The Right f'gofc E»ffj D«y
Every farm family wMita to
do its share in the National De
fense program. , ' ‘
Health of all the people »# •
very important part of defense.
The kind of food we eat every
day has much to do with our
health. We need milk, eggs,
fruits and vegetables every d^
in the year—not just a few
months in the summer.
Every farm family can have
the right kind of food because
they can grow it. They do not
hai« to depend upon cash to buy
health.
the foods that are necoiaary for
You have made a food plan
for this year which show! how
much milk you are gohig to
produce, how many vegetaWes,
how much fruit, how much
meat, and how much you you
are going to can and store.
In terms of three meals every
day, your food plan should pro
vide your family with the fol
lowing:
An Egg for each person.
Lean Meat, Fish or PoultrF
(every other day if suppli^ are
limited) Do not count salt pork,
fatback or l»con as lean meat.
Fruit at least once — fresh,
cooked, or canned.
Sorghum, a sweet spread, or
some sweet food.
Milk for cooking.
Water.
Three to Five Times a Week
Cheese, dried beans, peas, or
peanut butter in place of meat
To make meals appetising and
satisfying have at least one* of
the followfi^ ^cb tn^4;
Foods that have some bulk,
such as green vegetables, w^li)
grain cereal or fruft.
One fat meat, such as bacon
or salt porkt
A sweet
One Food of decideU flavor,
aach as onions, tomatoes.
Help your family, your com*
munity, and your nation l)(f eat'
ing the right kinds of food each
day in the year.
Florence H. Hamilton,
HM Supervisor.
Two of a Kind
jOne day' Richard Brinsley
Sheridan brought to his wife the
feyful news that they had in-
aerited some money. After dis
cussing thier good fortune for a
while, they decided to keep the
bequest a deep^ dark aeeret.
That evening two of their fri
ends, a Mr. Creevy and bis wife,
eelled and after diunex when the
ladies had withdrawn, Sheridan
eonfided to Creevy that they bad
just come into a fortune
“Mrs. Sheridan and I,” he ex
plained. “made a solemn vow to
each other to mention it to no
one.”
“Then why are yon telling met
asked the puzzled friend.
“Only one circujustance would
induce me to confide in you,’* re
plied Sheridan, “and that is the
absolute • conviction that Mrs.
Sheridan is at this very moment
confiding it to Mrs. tlreevy up
stairs.” ' '
t i M H O F PL E mTy
k*
P0(M.
d of decideU
Save Your Tires
With the Government under
taking rationing of crude rubber,
tire makers appealing, to fleet
operators and individual motorist
to observe a few simple rules to
get more mileagei. Here, foT ex
ample, are the do’s and don’t
advocated ^ f ohh. Ih " Q«|ly«|^
President of p. Q«)^cl»
Company:
Keep tires at the r^ht air pre
asore. ) ^
If .you change a tire check th©
air after a few miles*
Change tires from wheel to
wheel at least every 5,000 miles.
Keep safe tires on aU wheels-^
a blowout destroys a eqi^plete
tire. '
Xwjil ta]^ oornerfi at, Jfigh
speed; that wears tire faster than
anything else.
Never slam on your lirakes ex
cept to prevent an accident.
Have wheel alifomeat, front.
mm
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¥j
V
and rear, cheeked regularly.
Give your tire peraonal inspec
tion from time to time.
Don’t dive too fast on hot
dry roads. Heat apeedi'%ear.
Start gently; don‘t apin weels
and grind off arubber.
Don’t bump curbs. No tire will
withstand suob abuse.
If your ear begiM t#k.»le«f
que#rly, pull off the ro*!
cheek tires.
Pipe Hvm
A* pipe factory at Boone, N. C,
is running two shifts to fill ord
ers for pipe blocks made from
ivy, laurel and rhodod^nrau (jurls,
sinee the war halted shifments of
briarwood from Italy. France and
Algiers. There is >^0 an unlimit
ed supply of natural Iwiaarwood
which is of the same family as
the white heath $laat of sont^
ern Europe. Only that portion of
plant just beneath thg soil ia
used for pipes. i
.WJien In Doubt
When John Hay, American
statesman, appeared before a com
mittee of prominent lawyraa to
be examined for admission to the
Illinois bar, .a member of that
august body fixed a stem eye up
on the young mah> deacribed in
elaborate detdil an extremely
difficult case, and then demanded,
Mr. Hay. what would you do if a
client came to you with such a
ease. )| ' >
Hay had not the faintest idiea
of what he would do, but knew
it would he fatal to admit the
fact. ,1
With great promptitude he re
plied, “I should ask for a retain
er fee of $50, and tell hlfej
to eall again tomorrow.”
“Mr. Hay,” exclaimed, the ex
miner, with a laugh, “you are
admitted.’’
lady nodded pleasantly and ati^
"Won*t you come sit with mm
Mra. Daviif”
Mra. Davis changed her se»t
and then began a mental strug
gle to recall the eluding namf.
Preatntll a cine diaeloaed ItMdi.
The lady mentioned a brother.
‘‘Oh, yea. Your brother,”
Mra, Itevis grasp«4 a stmvf,
"What ia he doing mmV*
"CA, aame old Job, htii «tHl
of the Ulliwt 9tatea,”
in, mdrnm.
Theo^SFeooaevdt.
QnUtufMmt Erait
Mr. Sdiaon, aon of the in
ventor, was asked what event
inhis asKiciatton with hia father
now atood out in bold relief,
“Tke way be took th«
fire of 1914,’* he relied. “It
illustrated to me th^ amaaing
manner he had for meeting cal
amities, and typified hia sporte-
manship and ability to look in
to the future."
The fire on December 9, 1914,
wrecked practically the entire
West Orange plant, c;atising
damage of about $2,000,000.
Edison said that, whiie direct
ing the firemen, his father ran
up to his mother and asked:
“Why don’t you get your
friends down ^ere! It’s a glor
ious sight and th^’ll never see
anything like it again."
Before the fire w^ put, iJdi-
sons aid, his father started re
building plans and had a wreck
ing engine clearing up the de
bris. ■
flower OF FRIENDSHIP
Livtnsr Costs Rise
Living costs in June continued
to rise and were 1,3 per cent high
er than in May and 3.5 per eeat
above a year ago. Pood led the
advance, according to the sur
vey, Food prices were 4 per cent
hightf than in the . preceding moa*
tb -and SJL par eent above the
ijune, 1^0, level. Rents showed
little change, gaining only abgiut
one fourth of one Per cent over
May and 1.6 per cent over June,
19^10, Clothing prices were the
same as in May, hut were 7 per
cent above a year ago.
still president
Mrs. Richard Harding Davis
w^ riding in a Load Island
traln -jWhen an injportant look-'
ing wq^n to9|c a a^at
the aide ftom bar. IHwu
remembered that sodkewhefe she
had met the newcomer, but
what' her name was she could
not recall. To make the situa
tion acutely embarrassing, the
The flower of friendship
droops nd dies
In gossip's gale,
Beneath the heat of hate and
lie^,
! Its petals fail;
The splendor of its sunny cheer
Is lost tot sight,
When falsehood and dishonesty
Its beauty blight.
But friendship's roots are deep
and strong.
And 'live for aye;
Though blossonaa fade, the par
ent plant
Must always stay.
And-flowers of true sincerity
. Will bloom anew.
When wateerd with forgiving
love
And heaven’s dew.
—Cecil Bonham.
Her Choice
A certain man in this com
munity haa an aptitude for af-
ter-dinatr speaking. He has
been heard at many important
functions and has acquired quite
a repntetion for bis eloquence
and r^rtee. ' , ..
At a recent dinner p^y his
fvife Wfs aaked wl^h after*
dinner speech of his she prefer
red.
The lady looked up from the
boullion with a long-suffering
expression. “I thjnk the best
after-dinner speech I ever heard
him give, ” she sighed, “was this:
‘Dear, I'll help you with the
di$hes. Rays of Sunshine.
Hia Dtffl«ttlty
Jkmea Whitcomb Riley onck
attended a party at which were
present a number of would-be
literary people. One budding
author, a young woman whose
success had been considerably
less than sensational, was be
moaning the poor prices paid in
tbe literary_^ field.
“Of course, Mr, Riley,” she
said somewhat enviously, “you
have no reas9n to complain.
You must be a very rich man.
I understand you get |1 a word,
“Ye-e-ea, madam,” drawled
the poet, “I do. But sometimes
I sit all day and can’t think,of
a single word, "—Chicago Daily
News.
OJbeyIng Orders
A visitor was entering a mu
seum when he wag stopped by
the new doorkeeper.
“Pardon me, sir," he said,
“but you must leave your um
brella here.”
“But I have no umbrella,” re
plied the man in s{!trprise.
“Then I'm afraid you must go
and get one,” said the door
keeper firmly. • “That notice
SATTOAY. JggjBif gift 1941
■
Woi^ And
Deeds An^
By WU&am Henry Hoff
You tongue is like an air gun
trigger—
It Bhoots away at everything
But make* tht shooter none the
bigger ' 'j
Nor does It aay fraitage bring.
I used to be sueh little gunner;
I shot at birds I coaid not eat. .
Of every pet I made a runner
Or else I punctured all its feet.
In after years I learned the folly
Of saddening others for my good
Let everyone around be jolly
In everybody’s neighborhood.
In The Editor’s
MAO. BAG
The Editor ,
■^he Carolina Timee
parham, North Carolina
Dear Sir: ‘ , ,
I awure you that 1 read with
a great deal of interest "your re
cent editorial under the eaption,
practice what WE
PREACH.” When I finished
readit^ it. however, 1 was both
enligbtaned and ecwt'used.
1 discovered from the editorial
that it is yoar opinion thert it wes
one Of 01^ Negro business in-
inatitutiona that transformed the
individual referred to from a
“raw, green* awkard* backwiKKis-
man to a respectable genthnan*^
I had no^ heretofore realize Ibjit
the sehook and ccm^es which he
attended, the urban environment
to which he had been exposed for
SQch a loi^ number of years, hia
church iTfe, aesociatei, other con
tacts, bis own efforts and per
sonal eonduct had playel ,NO
part IA this transformatiqa, nor
in fitting him for the position
wbieh he oeeupies and for making
use of the opportunities offered
him by t^e institution referred
to. If iria tru^^riiowever, that hp
w«e nalf’ aff^cl^tf, by any of . these
things, then It ia not starjecisinf
that he has not caught what yctu
referred to as “the spirit of Dur
ham.” . ,
I wa« a bit confused, however,
when I found that your pape#
printed this scathing editorial
without making an investigation
or putting forth any effort what
soever to get the facts and circum
stancs surrounding the case, or
even considering the other side o£
the piotare; that you made no
effort to find out why Negro
painters were not used, and thad
you gave no consideration to the
fact that a Negro eoncem, Union
Insura>iee and Realty Company,
was give athe contract for the’
woodwork and plumbing ncesaary
and that tbi^ amount^ to more
I than half the total cost of tha
says that everyone must leave aot burden
their umbrella
Montreal Star,
at the door,'
The EeanomtviA H)^y
Members of the Mithful little
flock in a town in Scotland had
managed to build a church, Ev^
erything was considered com
plete—until it was discovered
that the church had no bell.
A campaign was started for
funds for a bell, but the pariah
had been well drained, so the
pastor sought funds from out
siders. He finally approaclud
one farmer.
The farmer listened, thought
a moment and asked: “Ye say
ye have a new choorch?”
“Yes", said the pastor.
“An’ noo ye want a bell for
ut?”
“That's right. ”
“Did ye na' say the choorch
heated by st«im?”
]|Yes,”
i ^‘Weel, then, my gude mon,
why dinna ye put a whustle on
ut?"
Qreenviiig —. citizen of
Greenville and Pitt county closed
teir Old North State Fund Drive
with a total of $83.69. it was
reported here Tuesday.
The bulk of the amount was
Contributed by Greenville citizen,
because of the impossibility of
organizuig the county in^eo short
a tiaie. The entire amount will be
tt«»ed over tf ,tfe W|fo«h
S^te Fund,
Member^ of the committee ap
pointed by Gov. J. M, Broughton
were C, M. Epps, C. C McGlone
and Dr. J, A. Battle, who with
the local committee expressed
you with other dbservations whie
are just as Pertinent, , •• . ^ 1
As I though of the “departed'
foreben*,’’ to whom you refewed
and heW out as ideals, and re
called that they preached and
practiced inter-racial cooperation
as well as intra-racial eoopcta-
tion, the real purpose of jour
editorial was not anj the lc«e
confusing. -I
This letter does not come to
try to discourage you in your
purpose to perpetuate the spint
of cooperation handed dowji by
Merrick, Moore and Avery — I
commend you upon that purpose
—but merely to remind you that
critical editorials about people
and their pereoaal affairs iiaeed
on on clueios reached without due
consideration of the whole picture
and other extenuating circums
tances do those people an injua-
tiee withont attaining your pur
pose or perpetbating a genuine
spirit of coopieration.
This is merely my opinion and
I do not deny you have the right
to your own, but as a regular
reader if yoar editorials I would
like to be able to feel that the
opintoos are informative, reason
ably eotrmt, reliable and f^ir ia
their appraisal oi persons an^
situations.
Very truly yours,
A, T. SPAULDING
appreciation for the coanty’a
warm spirit of eiwpciatioiQ..
This is a good time to make
up your mind to save human
life by driving carefully before
you have that accident, ^
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