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SECOND SECTION HODGES'CLAN SHC A' TNG ' - r YT IS THE TALE OF 1 SIX CITIES | PERRY J, THOMPSON Well, here we are again after the span of a fortnight without a line on “The Tale Os Six Cities." A few days ago I picked up a weekly newspaper in Washing ton, D. C., called, “The Capital Ties." whose general manage, is North Carolina's own native son, Alexander Barnes, a widely known newspaperman and promoter. He wrote a spicy editorin' captioned, "An Earnest Prayer," which so impressed me that I want to pass excerpts of it on to our readers. He began his article by informing the Lord. “This is a prayer coming up from the editorial room of the Capital Times." He con tinued assuring the supreme being of our awareness of the fact that He is busy with the many things that have to do with "Your first hand information of what is going on down here in America, kingdom and the ea in.” “But,” prays Barnes, “We are making this prayer to give you thi country that was founded to be the home of the brave and the land of the free. It has turned out to be the land of the sp and the home of Bwrna Shave," Then with all the earmarks of heart rending patnos, Barnes almost bet the Lord that He wouldn’t know the old place if He were to come back now-, as he gave Him the inside information that the bigots, the race haters and the demagogues had taken ovr.. 1 can see Alec', row, as he gestures to drive homem the point “First I want to tell you about the church that You died to saw. Lord, the white folks have changed thing.- around so that wo have to have our pwn churches in order to worship You. “1 did not know that Your religion was founded on color, Lord." Getting deeper :-nd deeper in the spirit of his prayer Barnes told the Lord of the ghettoes w live in. how we are barred from many decent places to live because of covenants, and if we do, in many cases buy in so-railed restricted areas, the KKK imperils our lives, burning crosses warning, “Danger lurks in and around." lie tells the Lord that we are not given de-ent schools in svw sections of our "fair 'and,” but rather give us schools in the mud. half equipped, poorly heated and understaffed The Lotd wa.- in formed of the differential of more than SSO per child, in -ome section of this “so-ca'Vd democracy ." As if the Lord didn't know it “p-aying Barnes" told Him, They have a law where they claim to provide separate, but equal odu cation. They are so set in their ways that thev •'■ ill get Uncle Tone and Aunt Hannahs to head these schools and make us keep cur mouths shut about the treatment our children are getting." The Lord then heard about the two major political partes He was reminded they were both controlled by our white broihc.s which didn't make much difference in their attitudes and actions. The point was made that the Republicans gave us Lincoln who "Freed us to save the Union ” Although Lincoln has been dead since 1865, Barnes injected, “the Republicans think w>e should still vote for him" Referring to the late F. D. R. as the “Great White Father," the greatest politician we over had who could inveigle anybody, the writer mentioned that Roosevelt told us to let the Lord lead u and he, Roosevelt, that is, would feed us. Barnes continued, "the most of my people decided to do that and as a result we were lulled into the most slothful position any race has ever found itself “Now 1 Lord, we are in a quandary. The Democrats have nom inated Harry Truman, who has just recalled Congress to do some thing about oust rights and the high cost of living. Lord, you know something needs to be done, but 1 am asking You to please reveal tu me whether he is in earnest or whether he is playing polities to get the northern Negro to vote him back. Lord, you and only You know. Lor-d I 'el! You what he has done, however, he has split the Democratic party down the middle and he has scared tiv devil out of the Republicans." Mr. Barnes, then brought attention to Tom Dewey- who seeks the presidency, as he rsked the Lord what he thought of him. Then he spoke about the south being “all messed up over the voting question." “Some of them got so mad the other day in Philadelphia that they walked out of the Democratic Convention." Continuing m this vein Barnes admitted he was wrong for what he was about tc say, but asked the Lord to forgive him in front, as he proceeded to confide in the Lord, that ho wished that they had walked straight to hell. After praying over a few other faults of our white brethren Baines settled down to tell the Lord of some of the shortcomings of the minority. He prayed this prayer and rightfully so, "When You send Your fire down to burn up sin. You will have some burn mg to do among us." The ardent pray ir included a plea to help give light to some of our group who dc n't respect the Lord, their parents or any body else, adding that the churches, the schools arid other insti tutions don't seem to do much about it. Climaxing the prayer with. “Amen, amen, amen." The dear brother who must have been in tears by now-, assured the Lord that he did not prav 'he prayer, asking Him to remove these handi caps, but to give Him an idea of what a Christian country is like. ‘T am asking You to give me and the rest of the people of America who believe that wc deserve a better break, the courage to fight the strength to stand firm and faith enough in You to believe that You worketh togethm with those who love You,” New School Lunch Law Benefits Explained WASHINGTON < ANPt More than half a million Negro children j going to school should benefit from the federal school lunch program Last week the department of ag riculture allocated $58,800,000 to the states for the program. Congress had appropriated $75,000,000 for the I school lunch activities. Schools participating under this I program will give children free or : at very little cost a more nutritive lunch. Negro children, particularly in the south, should benefit because j the law says: "If a state maintains separate j schools for minority and for mn- ; jority races, no funds made avail- i able pursuant to this act shall he i paid or disbursed to it unless a just; and equitable distribution is made ■ within the state, foi the benefit of such minority races, of funds paid j I/O it under this act," SPONSOR NEEDED What does a school do to be in I eluded on this program? Any inter ested community group svich as a j parent teacher association, service \ club or other civic group may worn with school officials in starting; one, A school board or official must 1 be the sponsor. The sponsor must operate the I lunch program at the school. lie! provides facilities for preparing j and serving the food as well as! {tolling the additional funds! : needed for the program. Fund: | spent on these details will be ; matched by federal money. If children are able to pay, a small amount may be charged, but no child shall be refused or dis criminated against because he can jnot pay. Money collected here may jalso go toward matching the feder ial funds. To be eligible a school must b' a non-profit organization, public or ! private, of high school level or be j low. Schools should apply for the | benefits of the program through | ’he state agency designated by the ; governor. REIMBURSEMENT I How are schools reimbursed for | the program The amount receiv :ed depends on the type of lunch ! serviced, the money spent, for food, I the need for aid and the number of | lunches served to children. Food | served teachers and other adults 'may not be included. The sponsor makes an agreement iwith the state agency Food is pur- I chased monthly by the sponsor and he is reimbursed monthly ac | cording to the provisions of the 1 program. j Three types of lunches are serv led, type A, type B and type C. ! Type A lunch is the most com j plete lunch and will bring the i greatest reimbursement. It pro f Continued on page 6. 2nd Section * THE CAROLINIAN IMP AS THE TOBACCO COMES IX—At the rilght tittle Cassandra Hodges holds a hand of ihr to bacco which brought he 110 and hustle to thr Cumberland County area ibis week ns the Pavel ovule tobacco markets opened. “Sand m," as members of h > r family rail her. is a member of thr Hodge family which operates one : ■ -:■ ■:•■, :; ■ -v-y.vlt-- \.. *'■■-.■■ ■>••*■■ .-...•• *>•• ': ' '•' f. : t'f ' . '. ' ■ ' ’'' FARM MOM! SHI S At the right Samuel and Alexander and Miss Gwendolyn Hodges point out o a visitor the site on which the new Hodges homesite will he i constructed in the fall At the left is shown the home of a member of the Hodges family which is lo cated across the road from ;hc site shown in the left. The fam ily land holdings total more than 1,2000 acres. ! -Carolinian Photos hy Shephard lx peri 250 Agents ! For Mme. (. i. Walkn Annual (’.on vent ion Indianapolis (AN?) Mor :* than 250 agents, beautician.-. I salesmen, principals and in | structors are expected to attend I tee 15th national convention <<\ I the Mmo. C J. Walker cosmeti. ; firm in Indianapolis Aug. 23-25. j John Johnson, publisher and | editor of Ebony and Negro Digest | magazines, will head the list n{ j speakers at the meeting. Other guest speakers will include Mr,- Toki Schaik Johnson women' editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, Wi miner Lancaster, United Spates Drn-irtment of Com merce; Dr. Paul A Batties. Virgil Martin, genera) superintendent William H Block comp an v; and ! Fr i t MeCamrnon, sales expert. ; Principals >f v o ious Walk"; : colleges ->f beauty cu 11 ui r j throughout the. country will g; .< ; demonstrations of the latest ; beauty trends. I ;. i .sag t J ?SSHl^®Bfe ; ' ; THE "GRAND’ COMES TO RALEIGH -- ,f. Finley Wilson, ! Elk Grand Exalted Ruhr, is shown as he spe.n, an informal : few minutes with Elks of F.ast i era North Carolina Lodges dur iKI iMra SHflwPrel :Mq Ski: i y l ’ xmttae& yb# a' . of the largest Negro farm-, in their section of he state \t the center Samuel Hodge t.ike ime out from his Sunday activltic' to inspect < l.atnful of file tobacco which he i> curing for the Fayetteville market. Tin barn which he is inspecting is rne of the two which now i mains on the Hodges farm since Support Civil Rights, Southern Negroes Ask WASHINGTON Thr-pi ■'vm ! !-o contention of Dixicrat p-'tlli ciar.s that southern Negroes am; satisfied with existing cc-iadit i rm.-, NAACP hrar.che' in Alabama ami Florida have sent communication* j.) iir- !; respect!ve venators asking for passage ot the anti-poll lax bill and other civil right measure In identical tcl-crarr.s I) S Stephens, preside!'.; of ih« Burning ham branch, called upon Senators i n.ier Hill and John J Sparkman ‘to support President Truman's program including civil rights bilb. Civii rights are needed now lo bolster and enrich our democracy. Urge that yon uphold the .-pil'd of democracy by insistinr* and -.cork ing for the Senate to have oppoi tunitv to vole on civil rights mea Congrcs'-ma* Baurte C BaMlc who mire sen;' - the Bn • i nr distiict. v is informed that mure than “170.000 Negroes logethoi with a übsfantial number o! de cent while people in Jefferson County de-ire to ,-ce democracy proi-ecled hy such basic measles . recommended by o'»r Presid- Urging support i! ri ;1 rigid' legislation, Harry T Moor'-, '-xc Co live secretary • I :hc Florida c-» i, >•r .. iv A A / 'T> ,1-rrklp S t!° Contcrencc'. a/\ali . A * ,u to Senators Claude Pepper and Spcss. rd 1,. Holland: "Florida No $ ing a convention held in Raleigh : on Saturday. Shown rvith hint in the group at Raleigh’s Elks’ Rest are: Har vey 1.. Harris, Commissioner of the Shrines and Grand Inspec- one was burned down h<-t Tune while it was loaded with wheat. At the left Wsss Gwendolyn Hodges stands in a field of the tobacco from which tier father expet* s to realize approximately s - r.Ofl this season >I hough he is not, as he puts it. ‘placing any great emphasis on tobacco ibis year". sroes are heartily in favor of tls* legislation recommended by the Pivsidm!'- C'omn i’t- e on Civil Rights, and we rerpet'l fully urge you to support such hills in this sessio.- .-;; C'orirgJ •■;- We alsr- urge you aeiu-clv opp - e any at tempt to defeat those hois by fili h-.,0 , -j tic way Negro citizens vote :ii future elections wiil be de termined laidv by t'a action ten;- an on civil rights legislation N A \ Award Vi on B\ (’oloiado Branrh BV CHAPI.ES HHHNGS COLORADO SPRINGS -ANP)- Thc- parent NAACP body present ed i; : -, r,*t; n-rl award, the Thai t-ieim. 1 prize, to the local branch Fere •-ccenHy. and tlic branch in turn sent ■card to the Ingram Dctense fund ‘ > aid Mr:, Ingram and l>er ■■■<.. to vs gain the liberty they lost m defendinr* theii home | against aggression and tyranny Phe award "as presented a' ser .ict", conducted by Community center, t.v :hr R°v T .1 Tnwnrcnd. state ronferenee vice president, Pueblo in making 'tu presentation. :e .stated that the national associ-'- tmu Rad awarded the branch the (Continued on back page) I ' i«r of Ww elms ter County, N. Y.; j Edward Littlejohn of Oxford, N. j I Mr. Wilson. Jasper C’arpten- 1 i ter, State Deputy: and W. t». ! I Brown, of Ahoskio, I 1 jjli \ is Jf :*M%Sg§a& t I MMW % • j asgifr g§|g*- Jt jSgiR ifpEfe ifeS%;'-' E iiiM 1 m < rfm- . l I&KgM 1,200-ACRE FARM IS OPERATED AS FAMILY VENTURE | BY JOE SHEPHARD : FAYETTEVILLE "The fanner! i is no longer a countryman." That statement was made to me j I recently bv a friend of mine as we ; travelled down the Fayetteville- | i Lumbertoit Highway a f. w days prior to the opening of the Fayette- i voile Tobacco Market. Its truth, however, was borne out j a few minutes later when we j turned into a sand road a few miles below Fayetteville and entered the i farm holdings of the Hodges family j ; who are the owners and opera tots i | of one of the largest farm tracts j ! controlled by Negroes in their sec- j j tion of the state. The homestead, comprising ap-; proximately 1.200 acres, has been in j | the family for mor than sic years • land has been operated by three; i brothers and two sisters of the Hodges dan since the death of the i father of the family about a year ■ f go. < ASH < ROF After turning into the sand road we travelled for more than a half mile between lorn* rows of coin, ' sweet, potatoes, cotton, tobacco and other cash crops The road finally widened ou' ■ Continued on page 8. 2nd Section' BRONZEVILLE TO GET NEW LOOK IN SHOPPING AREAS CHICAGO (ANF j Fifty-four merchants in the block on 47th Street between South Park and Vincennes Avenue have agreed to remove the iron bars from then ''■torr windows. In taking this so i ward step the merchants state they .are attempting to do their part to ward making Bronzeville as beau tiful and as wholesome and appear ance as that in airy other part of ! Chicago The ownei., of the properties in I this block were so enthusiastic ; about this program that they agreed at a cost >f some $25,000 to them j 5-elves, in install as their contribu tion the most modern street light ;mg system in the city This new i white-way will be illuminated I with two 1000 watt bulbs on each | post lining the street, replacing a single 500 watt bulb. The posts v ill be the newest and most ornamenta. yet designed. The lights will b< larger md brighter than the system; now in use in the loop on State Street In addition, many property own ers end merchants are making | plans for new. modern store fronts ; A seven point code of ethics was I drawn up, involving national j brand merchandise of standard | quality at. standard prices, court | nous service, plus an active inter-! est in a well organized program of j co mm unity wel fa re. COUNCIL HI LPED The city council has done its pari I I toward making 47th Street one of the most beautiful shopping cen ters iii the world by recently ap-; (Continued on page 8, 2nd Section) j Home Os Governor Os Sierra Leone Robbed i j FREETOWN, Sierra Leo ti-e i (AMP) Thieves entered Gov. : j Richard O. Parr,age’s second of ; ficial residence (called Governor’s ; Hedge) and made away with aj [number of articles valued at ap - i , proximate!v $l5O, it was disclosed j | here recently. The lodge is on the j European reservation at Hill sta- i | lion, about four mmiles away. ! Police arrested, a man named j ; T ish Kissie as one of the culprits I ! nvolvod. Kissie is charged with | burglary. CIVIL RIGHTS BODY RAPS MARSHALL’S STAND ON FEPC NEGRO CHSIRMSN PICKED IN MIXED TEXAS PRECINCT BI AMONT. Texas (ANP) At the primary elections held here recen.lv. Aaron Jeffer son vs as elected precinct chair man of Precinct 15 to become the first Negro to be elected to such a position in a mixed area in several decades, lie was elected by a vote of 167 to 108 over white VV. S. Let’, who had held the position for cfgh. years. The area contained 492 Negro voters and 339 white voters. In the past the usual practice has been to allow white voters In predominantly colored pre clnets to vote uv a white area. Airplane Frarkup Makes Hero oi Vet DAM VS i ANPi Being in jured in an airplane crackup in Germany during the war ha- made veteran J. D. Johnson a life saver today. Ihis crash is so important because it led medics to the discovery that Johnson was one of the few persons who had the rare RXI n-g.a ive Flood. Only one Negro in 5.000 has this type of blood, Johnson has learned This Mood is fsperial- Iv valuable in transfusions in cases ot pregnancy and new born babies. After his accident Johnson was confined to several hos pitals before he was finally helped after two years. He wears a silver plate in his head now At Eedderman's General hospital in San Eraneisco, his physician. Dr. Edgar T. Pfci! working with Dr. Alan Nash discovered that he had the rare RH negative blood Dixiecrats Candidates Makes Heated Tirade Against Civil Rights j CHERRYVILLE, N C. fANP) - | Opening his campaign for Presi dent here at a watermelon festival, I Dixicrat nefninee G- v. J Strom »! Thurmond of South Carolina de j notmeed civil rights in any form ,| as he sharply criticized President • I Truman, Gov. Dewey and Henry . jA. Wallace. He told his audience that he die! i not fight on the beachhead of Nor ■ m - idy to come home and find fed r-v :i anti-lynch taxes. FF.PC and , |other laws broking up the hen , tage of the south. Hr said. "I did not risk my life on the , : beach of Normandy to come back . to this country and sit idly by, while a bunch of hack politicians whittles away your heritage and mine. As for me. I intend to fight' POLL TAX REPEAL ; On pc/l taxes he said. “I have ad vocated that we repeal the tax in my state But. I cannot agree that j the Federal government has the ! right to force my state to abolish ■this tax if the. people of the state i wan’ it." Speaking of lynching, be said. I “Lynching is murder. And murde |is a violation of State laws We do' IMP liiSsW ' - :■ AS THE WEED WENT TO ; MARKET Above is shown on" of the scores of tobacco handlers ; who asshtefl in the unloading I sstkl marketing as farmers of the HELP BETTER RACE RELATIONS - MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK New York (ANT?) —Statements by Secy, of State George C. Mar sh, all and Army chief of staff, Gen. Omar Bradley indicating that they would do nothing about President Truman’s recent FEPC orders in the government and armed forces were denounced lart week by the Civil Rights congress. William L. Patterson, national secretary, and Len Goldsmith, national director, said. "The hy pocrisy and poliitcs-first charac ter of President Truman's execu tive orders were proved by those statements of his underlings. Thev led a "Make the Special Session Yours" march on Wash ington, Aug. 5, to demand more ,-ivil rights action by congress as well as in the executive depart ment of the federal government, "It is obvious that the genera ore in the saddle with Wall c. aching the diplomatic ship,’ the leaders said. “Truman dema gogically proposes and Wall St. disposes. “Actually the policy of or government continues to be or" of iimerow, segregation and dl ; fimination and disenmiltatio >•> rm the federal, state and local levels. It is to smash thi' un- American oclicy and the filihtis ter against the poll tax that tV-"- sands of Americans are preparin'’ t > march on Washington.” LAWYERS CONFAB IB PS PLANS FOR INGRAM DEFENSE NEW YORK Plans for the i continued defense of Mrs. Rosa I,ee .Ingram and her two teen-age sou' will be developed at a conference of lawyers called by Thurgood Mar ; shall, special counsel for the Na 11tonal Association for the Advancc i merit of Colored People which has charge of the case. The decision to call the confer ence followed denial last week by she Ga State Supreme Court of a i petition for a rehearing of an ap j pea! from a ruling of the trial court denying a motion for a new trial. (Continued on back page) not intend to let the federal gov ernment come in and take ovei our state courts." At.ti - segregation legislation, h; is "the most dangerous club ever held over the heads of the American people. If the segregation program of the President is forced, the results in civil strife may be horrible beyond imagination. "Lawlessness will be rampant. ! C haos will prevail. Our streets will be unsafe. And there will be the greatest breakdown of law enforce ment in the history of the nation ' “Let us tell them that in the south the intermingling ol the races in our homes in our schools and In our theaters is impractical and impossible " ! Attacking fair employment prac tices, Gov Thurmond said: "Unless a man is willing to hire the kind of people the FEPC tells him to, he must go to jail. Tom Dewey has already set up the FEPC it: New York State Harry Truman is demanding that the so called civil rights be forced upon every state And Henry Wallace is the daddy of them all.' i Cumberland Comity area moved their tobacco crops into the Big ( Farmers Warehouse on (be Esy i ett#viH«*L«a*4rt#n Highway for 1 fair «n the FayetteviU* Market.