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0 Tthe future outlook -CrrMi.boro Necro New spaper. ':' | . PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1 . *Se Per Copy' $1.50 Per Year v"7 J. F. Johnson. Editor & Publisher Gertrude Bribes. Social Editor 7r. L. A. Wise, Contributing Editor. rfc J. B. Williams, Adv. A Cir. Mgr. Business Office: 915K E. Market *&,f* Address Ail Communications To ?Av' ' THE FUTURE OUTLOOK, I V. V v' 9,5W East Market St. j ' > Make All Checks Payable To Ifr, / THE .FUTURE OUTLOOK . .SATURDAY, APRIL 11. 1912 ^ BUS SERVICE. a The shortage of rubber tires for dfr .wlllan use In all parts of the United .T*?lSl\tes has had many effect* upon transportation habits of the peot7>Sp1e.? Among them have been the inp^lcreaaed .use of the has by hitherto unrelated elements 'of the. population, (by* It Is common to hear the remark fic that this Is* the first time that T . iA .have been on the bus, etc. .The war ^' has already begun to change things. The major benefit of this new g*v amalgamation has been to increase ?*' our knowledge of the habits and con?V. dltions of our population: If we take 14V.. for example a trip to the Eastern ^'section of the State as a standard. C^Some of' the following conditions might.attract onr attention from V-feXaurlnburg to Greensboro. WfovFlrat,' the busses are usually crowdfinR^ed, to'tho extent.that people are oftHPen>standing, in the aisles. A close ^B'Jaamlnatioo of- the passengers will ra- sAow. long-dintanee travelers better ^B-lddessed.than those traveling locally; or< of ten'-times, It la possible to de^Btect a, person's occupation by the type clothing that he Lb-wearing. ?!'' - Second. / one / can catch from the 1 passing .remarks of the travelers, n R bit of ihelr philosophies of life. The OmJ^CatUGf. comments show, local pride,! " |M/Boclal-difficulties. loves, home eondlB^tions'and race feeling for being overfly crowded In the rear of the car. There Imls the ^advice, of the local philosopher gB to "take 10 easy' 'when the first tlmm era arrive in Washington, Baltimore, fflor New York. All of this Is usually 21given In bad English, especially recarding the use of verbs and proUi|noutjiC The occasional well-bred traveler shows It by keeping quiet. In KSail one may listen for some expresX%isIon of Intelligence to off-set the: Hueemlngly unending display of bad jrafftaste, hut It seldom can l>e heard. .For the most part, the drivers are ggynatlent and pay little attention to yfjlhe unending druma that he is carryijaErjng. 'They seem to sense the funda^Hnenta) wrong of the State law segreHKatlng the races, but they would not Hgllkti'lo be the driver of the bus the nHnrat dav such a law was renealed. 9SG The busses always sound as though Whey need repair or replacement. If BEone of them does not shake you llt^^rally to pieces, then, parts of It la + x "continually rattling so that It appears to be In one continuous accident. llld$ 1 log over the wheels and crowding on j.the last seat are two things hated *^'lby every Negro traveler. In spite of his dislike of this type of treatment, there Is little open revolt against It. Maybe his automatic movement to the rear Is due to the ?'.>l^mg training*-program to which the ' .Negro has been submitted In Amerl \-can life or perhai?, It Is due to the fact'that those ^hn know the techv nlques of protest or battles for rights ..in the courts, are not willing to submit themselves to those experiences in order to know first hand the meaning of the under privileged. The War may change this soon. " *?" / While the but services for the . Negro are dob-nil that they, could be .in serving all alike. It does retnarkably., well under the'dnal system fodder which:lt 'must operate.* ^ .* *' (A** ljFran~ the Negroes point of view, It f<-jrc6uM~ improve", a**follow*:, First, all K't^Btatlons should be clean and conveu^ff^Y^fci'a' matter of public Rood will j^T; aprf 'sanitation., ^ iVjrbe Neffro aectlon of /the bug stab, vtloh In: Oreep8horo la a disgrace tr t.i. modern man. Everything about It 1* dlaeouraRloK to the ?pro traveler? ;V consider, flta out-of-the-way location; ^jH*.J?e*Cr-often cleaned toilets; Its jE^inethodg of.selling tickets and Its un ' j THE^ comfortable seats. Let us hope that the new station will he an improvement. Second, eating and other accommodation for Negro passengers should be made attractive from the bushim* point of view and attendants should be forced to keep up a high standard of good appearum-e. Hood services will be aprj>eclatod by all people. Third, the spirit of pood will should be exhibited b"y all attendants 119 1 tnntter of policy and personal courte sy should he shown the worse look lap, most uneducated. Impatient poison has all the rights to he nerve* as any one else. Business has w ruled. Whenever the highest type of treat ment Is not given In the least travel er. It should lie protested vigorous!} to, the proper authority. Under niosi clrcurastunces. It Is often unfair t< blame the drtrer for ninny of thi Indignities suffered by the huiubh travelers. See the managers. aiu stock holders, see the public utility commissions. A SENSE OF JUSTICE. One sometime wonders what renllj constitutes the basis of fair play This speculation continues ever though the basic conditions hnv* been set forth,In the tenets of ever} tgreat religion. . ^ ! The idea of fair play Is doing un to others as you would have then do unto you. But because big udc little men fail to believe these thingi I many are made to suffer. It worm then, that nothing short of perfectloi will satisfy man's longing for Jus tlcc. In spite of this Intimate Ions ing for Justice, In the hearts of tin majority of us, occasionally some om in power tries to shift his sins to 1 weaker brother. There was the re cent case of poor Negroes suffer!ni for the mis-deeds of Influeotla white men. . Such coses are common. And oftei times the Negro Is blamed fo crimes which he has no Interest. Thl does not mean that some Negroes ar not criminals. Too often, howevei their association with crime is found ed upon the interest of others. A1 parties should know better, but t!? truly guilty should be made to pay li each case. Everything should be done to In sure fair play to all parties Involve In each criminal case. If Justice is t live up to its name, it must appl; alike?to poor or rich, Negro o White. When such becomes the prac tlce throughout our land, the peopl of this nation wlli l?e approachln: that ideal which is the very soul o men. CONSISTENCIES. The ability to understand situs tions not in harmony with what 1 termed the sensible view of llf should be acquired early If one is t enjoy any peace of mind In the world I Let us consider some of them. I the realm of the present war efforl selfish groups' fall to give their bes yet, in doing so. run the risk of lot ine alh'lllro th? Ium.Wq r.t Won/ before the German lnTaaloa. Ther are in the United States groups wb keep Negroes and other workers froi defense Jobs, when now as never tx fore, there Is need for each cltise to do all of his very best, and to d U in a hurry. There are also grotij who are thinking of the' good to t found In the axis rulers when tl experiences of all the conquered pe pies of the Europe and Asia proi what will happen In a world doir nated by dictators. Their records ai matters of history. Then, flnall there are the speech makers of fa and hate who hare little works t hind them, yet they know foil wi 4hat only works will stop those w] threaten us 1th total destruction, a nation. v . ' . . . jThese samples! make It Increasing cleartyiat jtbe minds of men as th arjr ndw understood, dd not fcr?s consistently to "real .conditions.* J sdch a state due to' loate/human J ability to comprehend th?*Voiutsl world, or la It just plain stupldlt; Let ns examine a few of them. T matter of unskilled employment largely In the hands of those y1 : promote exploitation and competltli among groups and they are not.po FUTURE OUTLOOK. GREENSBORO. white people. Compare the wage standards among Negroes In unions and those who are unorganized. And only controlled unions bar Negroes. 1 In agriculture, the large land owner 1 is always associated with slavery and ( low standards of living, because they t are not going to pay heavy direct taxes to support their community I projects. Ill Industrial centers, Xe, groes were often assigned to the dirt lost and weakest Jobs until they Join . the unions. In the expenditures for - education, who appropriates the funds I and administers the budget? If Ger> many can l*? dominated and ruled by gangsters on a large scale, so can groups of American people. Nearly every American coiutuunlty hits lt? | gangs who work against the Negro, j As explosive as the |a?orer whites , seem to be toward the Negro, the > most unkind cuts arc delivered by I those In power. PREJUDICES. There Is a feeling among n large iiuintter of Negroes Ihnt nnwt of tl?o unfair conduct towards them Is exhibited by the poorer white people In , contrast to the richer ones. This * question offers n chance for much debate. Anions the many conditions which i give rise to this l?lief are the phllI antrophy and the dignified respect 5 often shown the Negro by the upper * bracketed whites. Among the' Intel1 lectual whites there has been some effort towards Inter-racial co-operap tion that has also helped to make ? this impression upon the Negro's , mind. Then, too. "there is the primary fact of the great contact of master I* and servant because of the large I number of Negroes engaged in domestic and personal service. ? i II On the other hand, among the poorr c-r white people, who Indtate the ups per classes, there is little opportu* nity for these contributions to Negro i!1,fe,j This type of conduct and^tliiuking e lias closed the issue in the minds of i, many people Interested In a more - WHS. 1 Should tlifs l?e the case? It Khould 0 not be hard for serious students ot r social history to see that ordinary r people might Ik- the most expressive In the matters of race relations, but e 5 they are usually relatively uulnif portnnt In formulating those policies which do most harm to Negro groups. STEWART SAYS: gi ITS SPEED TODAY 0 AND NOT PRICE ON . WAR PRODUCTION n V ' u By CHARLES P. STEWART. ^ Producers of stuff for the govern^ ment compete with each other as g strenuously as ever they did, but It's ^ a new kind of competition, as to all n sorts of war supplies, which Uncle D Sam nuturally Is buying now at about f_ 1,000 times the rate of anything else a he's in the market for. ^ Before the world conflict started, whenever he needed goods of some sort he called for bids on prices from all available sources and the lowest ^ bidder got the contract, provided he re gave satisfactory assurance that hU I merchandise would come up to spec! re flcatlonn. Today price Isn't the main y consideration In connection with an ^ order the government Is In a wartlriif hurry to have filled In jig time. Th? jj present question la, "Who'll make th< ao quirket Job of ltT" M Production Manager Donald M Nelson changed, the rule, on the rea , sonable ground that speed's the mail Item In an emergency like the exist rt lng one, even If If costs 4 little more *The new system works out, too ^ rather unexpectedly, to the advantagi de of am all Industries, concerning who* . fate there's been so much worrying: he Price competition had this merit, ^ the pre-war era, of guarding agalnsi any favoritism In the swsrdlng oi 0 contracts..; ".political pet of eoro< 90 Washington official or department 01 or bureau couldn't make juicy bargain* I .. !<f\& N. C i TAKE YOt i ?MB iiii JMmf ? m i \ i In his or Its particular Interest, be- i cause u a pet ted .rivals could underbid i the favorite, and get away with It. i t Plenty of Orders. / ' 1 Now, though, there not only are euough orders to go around, there's a 1 congestion of them. That's why speed Is so essential in the mutter of getting them executed. But the entire benefits of the Donald Nelson system to small business? Well, a huge* industry is apt to he able to produce more economically, to Itself, thnu a pewee. Consequently It can make better terras to Its customers. A pewee, by reason of its geography or some such thing, may be able to hold Its own against the monsters, In Its immediate neighborhood, but the latter can easily outsell it to such vast^ buyers as the government On top of that governmental .contract makers prefer deals with mass producers. It's more convenient for , them to make wholesale arrangements with a single vast concern than to negotiate, separately, with a lot of teeny-weeny ones. The result was, for awhile, thnt the whales were scooping off all the government's orders and the minnows were threatened with being starved to death. There's a limit, though, to even mass Industry's productive capacity. The corking big outfits presently became po loaded up with Uncle Sam's contracts that they began to delay deliveries, imavoldahly. And there, simultaneously, were the little ones, sitting on the sidelines, in danger of going into bankruptcy, for lack of something to keep them busy. Hence Don Nelson's Inspiration" to get them at It . Kssentlally he wanted their output but undoubtedly he also hu<f in mind the long-run desirability of preventing them from bursting with all of the ultimately disastrous economic consequences. Inconvenience Overlooked. ' So he gave hi* order to War Production's personnel ? to "never mind some slight Inconvenience in dickering with so many different small unlta,7 i but "to go ahead and give them coii. tracts," getting them Into action 'in , Uncle Sam's behalf and saving their . own lives. Incidental I v. " Individually they are little, yeah*, but collectively they can more or leas I tie nio Industry. The trouble La that a little Industry I generally hasn't the financial re. source# to readjust Its equipment , from peacetime to wartime produQ. tlon. It simply CAJJNOT do. lt" wlth^, u out charging more than-the big fel v lows.' V. '- .t ;4 ;V,ry5 i "O. K.", agrees Donald. "Pay them ? a bit extra,' for getting a wiggle." *Va?j Whether or not we'll ever get back > to a system of figuring on price, rati? t er tha^ on speed, remains to be stem f Some economists surmise that thi poet-war public will switch to thai governmental production phllnsoph^ i rather than back to the old one. Tb?l? | ? SATURDAY, L>RlI?f|/lMr 1R PICK? .---V. -.* dope la that we'll be so hard up for everything usable "at the war's end Lhat we'll continue to reckon In terms t>f time rather than price. I'd scarcely think so myself, but It would be a rash guy who'd forecast what this v war will lead up to. Etiquette " PRESENTING DISHES . Serving dishes are alweays preseated at the left, but If more convenient, they may be removed from the right, three-fourths full. The hostess la never served first. The woman who may be guest of honor, or the oldest woman present Is seated at the right of the host ^ She Is served first, and service continues around the table to the right Dishes are presented on the flat of the hand. Every hot dish should have a folded napkin under It Each serving dlali la supplied with serving spoon or fork, or both* If the dish ( requires them. Each plate Is removed as soou us ' the fork is laid upon It showing that the dlnef has finished. By the time the last fork has been laid, the ( table Is ready for the next courseClearing the Table.' The table Is cleared before the des ert course. If a salad course has followed the meat, the salad plates are removed from the left with the left hand, the bread-and-butter plates with the right hand. Caused silver, salt and pepper sets are next removed. Crumbs are brushed off with a folded napkin ootor a tray held below, the table's edge. ' ? The required spoon or fork is brought In with the desaert, on the plate. The finger bowl, half filled with water, may be brought In before or after the deRsert. ? - Coffee at the tahle may be served by the hostess, or two cupa filled at , a ume ana Drougni . in rrom tne r kitchen.- by'} the maid. . Cream ' and , sugar may then be brought In on a tray . with dolly j on It to keep the small articles from slipping. y 'y r'J ' ^lit^may. be paradoxical but we"?o , noticed moat big league sluggers are . not able to fatten their batting arer-.* ages unless they take off weighty - -The , ban on . typewriters will , be easier to bear If It canals a shortage ^V\. of amateur spring poetry, y. i',: .4jy
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