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Editorials 0^51' Caro Comments €im^ PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE CAROUNA TIMES PUBUSHING CO. MAIN OFFICE 117 E. PEABODY ST DURHAM, N, C. PHOMES N-7I*I. J-7S71 " ■ ' ^ -' ■' ■ 1"-^' II ■—» L. E-'AUS11N, PUBLISHER WIUUAM A. TUCK. BUSINESS MANAGER CHARLOTTE OFFICE 420 Uk EAST SECOND STREET WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Manaciag EAler SUBSCRIPTION RATES J2.00—Y*«r, $1.26—6 monthij Monthi, Entered m lACond-clau matter at the post oifiM at Durhm, N. C.,^ ander the of Marcb «rd 1879.” SATURDAY, NOV. 25th 1939 THE HEART OF GOD: We have known and believed the l»ve that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelieth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.— 1 John 4-16. GOD IS UNIViERSAL AMD NOT RA«TISAN: For tha Word of the Lord is right; and all his work* are dona in truth.—Psalm 33:4. NO DISCRIMINATION? The recent announcement of Assistant Secretary -of Commerca David K. Nrtes that there will be no racial discrimination of ap plicants tor j'ibs with the Census Bureau is worthy of only con servative commendation on the part of f^egTo leaders in America. Jttst how well the Census Bureau will ,be aible to carry* Jut tha "no discrimination” edict remains yet to be aeen. We think it i« one thing for the heads --of o“r government de partment in Washington to make such declarations,- andi another thing for them to carry them out locally. Too often we'have aeen rank racial discrimination practiced in federal projects and de> partme'nts of various cities without any actitin being taken orr the part of federsll authorities to cur4) them. Hence we cannot ittach very much significance to the statement of Assistant Sec/etary Niles that there will ibe no racial *-discriminatio» in the Cenaus Bureau. Unless the federal government can take the Census Jabs e'htirely out of the hands of local political bigots there will jbe racial dis crimination the same as is found in the army, itavy, post oificea; rebel agencies and othei^’federal projects. Assistant Secretary Niles cannot eleminate discrimination by merely declaring that there wjil oe none. Instead it is guing to take, drastic and definite action to destroy the practice of southern states to keep Negroes trom get^ng well paying employment. This newspaper is' too well icquainte^with southern resourceful ness in keeping Negroes from federal Employment to hang Tiut^tha victory sign merejy because there has been a declarction of war We would rather “see a sermon” than to hear one. One glaring example of the determiiia^rdn^'o^ the South to Negroes from federal employment is the deliber^e refusal of " the p^tmaster qf the Charlotte post ottice -to hire a Negro Bs mail carrier after he has successiuly passed the examination. Thtf friyolpus excuse given is that the hiring of the Negro will disturb the harmony (Si -the white mail carriers. From all indications federal authorities have endorsed the action of the Charlotte post master, b^ause th^ Negro aipplicant is &till packing the sidewalks in quest of other employment. BETWEEN THE LINES BY CORDON E. HANCOCK NOiU>IC DEFLATION « Within the pr«*«R tgenera- tion the Nordic doctrine has r»^ » tramandcwa,. inflation though the propagandized preach' manta of Madiaon Grant, Lath- eop Btodddard and William Mc^ Kougal. On the curfc of world opinion «nd appraisal the Nor dic stock has reached imprtssive hfeigihts. Nordic ideala and Nor- die ideals and Nordic rotions and peoples who have not Jallen down to worship at the shrine of Nordicjun. In, my Atlanta address before the Baptist World alliance I tried to make clear theB fact that the outstanding historical of the 2'Oth century is the do mination of the world by the white man and that the white man’s world domination is char acterized by three things name ly, the spread of the Chrixtain' ideal the marvelous advance of acience and the quickening of color consciousness. The white man takes great pride in these three thing and well he n.ight, for they hold much of premise for the ultimate triumph of man kind. ■> No intelligent man will dis parage the achievements of the white men even though we know that lie is a favored in the family 6f mankind. He has inhevited a rich legacy from all the past but this does not detract. from his ability to push forward into un explored realms to startle his tory with his scientific civiliza tion. The achievements of the white man are such as to in spire within him an unhocded and pardonable pride. It is no wonder then that the Nordics are human and humans are prone to err and e-^ecially when there is some Ijasis for error. It is to fee expMted *hAt a people situated like the Nordic tvould be ove£^xtravagant and some times oveifcearing in its claim to greatness! This same science that in spired such hopes for a “golden age? is threatening mankind with social and .economic damna tion. Science has utterly failed to work a change for he better in human hearts. Hnmanii are still inordiAately selfish and the world is stHl waiting for-' the tsunrise of righteousness promis ed iby the lo.wly Nazarene. The In The Forum DURHAM—In its flag dccorat- only hopes for the world are auditorium, the North Caro- these inspired by thU un» ienti- l>na Mutual Life Inaurance com- fie Uacher from Galilee. Sci- pany’s forum observed Armis- ence has, like a great run away ties Day at eleven o’cloekpon within civiliiation produced, and the morning of November 11, is producing, 'ii peislmum that with Lieutenant Harry Turner, borders on despair. The white it. , 4^h Infantry Rese ve, man who produced science can presiding. not manage it is fast getting be-' ^ i^corded yond control; and if and when ^^rogram it does, nobody .can propheiy of ^ the future. i assembly. Devotioi^ were Science has run away with by the Reverend N. H. Hum- civilization and how to stop it is phreys, pastor of St. Matthew the puzzle that vexes even the CMIB Church; who read from whii^'^fflafr its creator. Ii must the Scripture, followed by pray- be deflating to the pride and er. Two vocal numbers were getting tlaims of the white man beautifully rendered by Miss D. when the scienc of whioh he M. Btidgeforth: “None But The boasted is fast getting beyond lonely Heart" and "W h^e^n his control for modern history. Children Pray.’*" much recognize the fact that Vice president and secretary, with all its science mankind Is'W. J. Kennedy, Jr. introduced still “in the'Voods.’’ The fcienceithe speaker. Major Charles H. which th« Nordic createtl fails Fearing, Sr. Wjphington, D. C. prove hi% superiority and thus'o^ the 428th Infantry Reserve, has deflating effects of t h e' Hi# subject was “Our Contribu- Nordic cause Science to dale has.tion Th>n and Our Duty Now.” utterly failed to gahcrion the He opened his remarks by pic- claim that heredity is mors im portant than environment rn the Social equation. view our Nordic dominated world with its armies and ravies and staggerinj?;^ war d^ts and outlys we find much here to de flate Nordicism. Thii world to day is largely what the Nordic has madd it, ane what 'lind of a world it is? The Nordic’s science is per fecting in a hundred lai)or&lries through the world more and more destrwctive engines pf ■•ar- fare. And what is. more; these turing the scene on the day on which the Armistice was signed and told of the fraternizing of German and American troops afterward. He desribed the ■udden 'ouiet which followed the orde^fcto "cease firing,” and the question which came Into tftr minds of many of the ecildkrs: ♦‘What iias this war been fpr?” - He spoke of the intolerance, indignities, and injustices met by many of the 400,000 Negro es who served in the “last war and lauded their loyalty, patrio tism, and bravery, notwithstand- engines' are for .the destruction ^ jjg said; '“I have seen them of Nordics. *The destruction of i ^ncl suffer-wlthout others is merely incidental. To ' pg„jpiainti” , , my way of thinking this is one! «what do you Intend to do of the most -humiliatin facts^p- gy^ut of another J war” he that Nordics hav£ been called and expfessed opinion .SOUTHERN “STATESMEN" Steed Rollins, editor of the “Book Page” in the Durham Herald- Sun of last Sunday, reviews the’ feopk, “Dixie Demag^i;ue»” by Allan Micnie and Frank-^ylick. We have not read the .book iout accord ing to Mr. Rollins it discloses the fact that the South today is pro ducing no statesmen worthy of Ihe name. ; While such a declaration may! cause somewhat o^ a stir, aad mayibe resentment, in semi-inielligent circles ^ whit^ psople, U will be, no revelation to the*most uninteilige^ Negro. The south cannot feed white children oguiynchii^g, mob violence, discrimination in the allotment of public funds and-^er prqaucts >.f race hatred and expect its children to make great natesmen. What Messrs. Michie ind Allan have discovyjed about suc5«imen; as Huey Long, Theodore Bilbo, John Namc'e Garner; Bob JBey- nolds.; Josiah .Bailey, Carter Glass, '^lliam Bytd; Cotton Ed Smith; Gene Talmadge and other so-called soutihern statesmen, the. average American Negro has known all his life, ■ ^ The revelatloa^boming from a white writer of note should do much to hasten the end of the reign oi?^terror and disgrace which southern demagogues liave hefiped upon their posterity It should give th# leaders of the New Sputh, mentioned in Mr.'Rollina reviaw, a greater opportunity for deV^Fopment. We believe with the authors of the book that‘s there is fast c^m ing into power all ovcv the southland a new white man who will not let his soul b^ome warped and shriveled by the poison of race prejudice. In .spite of what others may say of^this section of the country and its people, we believe that the future holds in store a betteir understanding of its white and black people, ahd a greater period of developmeAt for fall .its people. Wi^ believe the ' tiitta will soon come when there shall again com« from the south some of the nations greatest'statesmenv upoQ, tq^face in their his tory. Twent years ago , t e>n, million Nordics wre jslatin upon the battle fields of, Europe and today the st^'es is'"s(^ for - t h'e slaughter of another ten m^iilio^ There are charges iand counter charges as to the guilt f.ir the perpetration fd' thisr hellish slaughter of the flower of the worldssjjianhood. The ugly fact must be faced that wherever the blame lies it must lie . at he door ojt the Nordics. The threat to civilization is a Nordic threat! Nordic Deflation! t^t Negroes should not remain pafsive to a,, situation whteh may mean cutting off the lib^ies of all Americans, white ■ and black. America is not safe geogrttph;- cally from attack, he declared, and said further: “We j^hould willingly give up all Mf.e^h^e* for the preservation st' those things which "Ae as a -J^e and as Amfiricftna ^ hold ^ so dear freedom of thought, religion, and action. ^ A* itian who Isn’t loyal to his country in pea?fe and war should not' expect"the full measure of those privileges Ifmless he .w^lUngly ^ gives, of. I himself fpr those thing^s,” Ca|>tain Aaron Day, ’ Jr. of the 428th Infantry Reserve in troduced Lieutenant L. A, Oxley tf the same. Infantry Regiment who also spoke riefly. NOTE:—yOtrj? question vfiU be answered FREE in thif columtt ONLY when you include a clipping of -.tJua wlumn and sigti your tmll name, birtbdate, and correct address to your letier. For » "Private Mp!y”... sebd only (25c) and itself-addressed, stamped envelope tor my new ASTROLOGY READING and redeive by rettifrt mail FREE ADVICE on (3) .Questions. • 4-* Send all letters to; ABBE WALLACE, care of THE CARO LINA TIMKS.-417 Peabody Street. Durhain, N. Carolina. , PS I kave been working on this Job* for two years and I wonder if I would be successful in getting a raise if I asked for it? WHAT IS CONSCIE3NCE? An interior, authority, a noted divine told a large audience of the city's police force: “You must have ability, yes, and discipline; yes; but id)ove all— character. Sim^ple obedience is incomplete; there must be sonJething witiiin to-which you are are personally and in dividually committed; an interior authority of science which must be oA>*yed by each man for himaelf.” DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE LIST OP SYMPTOMS on the dutside of a dollar bottle of tonic? Try religion. May^e ycu have forgotten the' Great Physician. v im WBATB*OF GOD IS NOT PASSION, but Judicial; inevitable, continuous and met only in punishment or pardon. - mmm ■pM*' WISDOM, not chance, evolved the universe: In the beginning was the. World, ind the Word was with Go4, the, word was God—^la him ^as life^ knd the life' was the light of men.—John 1:1, 4. WHY NOTt Be ye iind to another, tender-hearted, forgiv- iqg one another,—^ph. 4:32. CHS OUSTERS SHOW IN our prayers—tte show Wt y * ' tAns: No as the business ^oes not get enough money whereby your salary could . be incfiTased. It would be to your advantage to look arountr and try to find better payi^' employment but doV»o cautiously, Be sure that you have sbmething better be- let a few of your friends know that ybu would like , tomeet some nice girls. I Learn to dance, play cards, and other thiagi' that make youn^ .people popu lar, and within the * coming six month you . will be nnJoying more friendshiips than yju have ever had in-your life. / .. ' CG—Will I succeed in paying r my home? Will life he aHy better for me in the future than it is npw? fore giving up youri^presput Job.' Ans; Conditions as a whole RC-^s he a stumbling block have been somewhat beltjir ifor in my life? Sometimes I feel-1 you this year than in ■^Tmmbei! like quitting my job and sitting' of years in the past, and 1 see dowii so tell nae what to do. ijno reason why you can not keep am anxious to have a piiVate' up'^e payments oii your '•’ome. message with you so ple.use ex- j Som^close relative of yours plain. ^ will make his appearauc't, in Ans: Hold to your j.ote for-you your hdme before very long and would starve if you 'depended on ' jiart ,oi your burden will be your husband for * living. You ' shared With him. must keep fiie payments on i RC—-5>s.gm thinking seriously youx home so that you don’t of giving upSny job and going lose it. Yes you may write me' out of the st^ for thIS winter pfivately Send a ^quarter for [and wonder if it would be all- one of my NEW 1940 ASTRO-'right or not? LOGX READlNiGS and I will be j Ans: A change would - ha an glad to give you my free oplaion asset to your case*and I stronc' Slaying y ■■ ■ Continued from page 3 mitteewoinan from Miss. _ When Isaiah Montgomery died some years ago, , liis daughter, Stella, who was recently killed by f^olice, charged Booze with poisoning him to death ai^ had him brought to .trial fiti the charge. B»>oze was ejfonerated, but opinion in the cammunify was divided h«twe^, those who actually though him’ guilty and those who believed him inno cent. The feud between Booze and Miss Montgomery flourished so greatly that the polftical leader got a court order prohibiting her from entering his hotne after sh# allegedly perpetrated '"several illegal land deals here. — on your problems. BC—I am a man of the’ age of 8Z and have neyiBr found love. Sometime I a'U blue and lonesoime and I don’t know what to do. I 8ai not bad Uoking Ifave dark ibrow.n skin, am 6 ft 2 inches tall and weigh 179 pound. My life is empty I have no one to live for. tAns: 'niere is no reason for you te !>• lonay why don t you peopl# }y advise that you make t h e ^ chance around the first part of, December. The state of Florida j would be the best place for you as you have had connections I there before., You will get im-. mediatic work. . 1 OW—I have betfn married for, three years and, I want to know what to do to make my husband, want to buy furniture as other! Ans:—'He prefers to spend his money on good times the logi#*l thing for you to do is to get Work and take. youlf money and buy furniture for, . the house. Make him support ^bu and pay the rent, ^bod biH and* other incidentals aroundthe V house and by doing so, you csn get what you want. PC—There is a boy who- is an undertake^ and'he told /^y cou sin that he love^ me and I am excited and don’t know what to do. I didn’t love him but if he loves me than I ,can ^ove him too. . ■ An: You are working yt'uwelf up in a pitch over nothing If the boy was in ^ove wltH yi'u he would have ft>2d you and not ytour cousin. Control your etn^ otioBS: for you are jn for a big let down/ Look' Kfound *no- thtf £ri*nd. ^ . N. J. Approves Negro White Housing Proiect NEWARK, N. J., (Special)— cretary secretary here.'^Pnor to At a meeting held here last November 9 the Authority has Wednesday, the Newark Housing | received awlications fr^m white A^ithirity unanimously approv ed the opening of the Penainc- ton Housing project here to white and Negro tenants alike. The Housing Authority’s ac tion was the culmination of a six weeks’ fight conducted by more than th1?ty Negro an white organizations here to provide decent housing for Negroes in an area where they have lived for nrtSre than twenty years. The fight was launched again st certain interests of*' this city, who wanted the project te be renDed to whites exclusively, despite the fact that the prodect, located in an industrial area, has been TnhiMted for the beet two decades alipost exclu?ively by Negroes. The campaign for openi:ig up the project to all personj with out regard to race, was lead n the Housing Authority itself by Harold Lett, Unban League se- persons only, but on that date during a meeting of the board, a ’ reeolution, introduced by Letts, and passed by the group, made It mandatory for Negroes to be accepted for investiga tion aa possible applicant. This meant that the applicant file, referred to when the project s completed, will contain names of Negroes as well as white. This was the opening gun fired by the Authority itself on behalf of Negro tenants. The Pennington Project is scheduled to open January 1. Last week the National Awocia- tion fo,r the , Advancement of Colored People sent a telegram to Nathan Straus, United States Ho\ising Authority head, sett ing the facts in the casf of the Pennington Project} and calling fof*action on behalf bf the Ne gro tenants. „r:. Appointed To Press Staff Of Census Bureau Your HEALTH And Mine dr. s. C. PYLE, NEW YORS—T b e appoint ment of Edward H'. Laws' n. Jr., Managing Editor of QPPOR- TUiNITY Magazine,' as a consul tant .on public relations In the Bureau of the Census was an- noiinced this week by thu Na tional Ui^btin League publisher of OPPOR’TUNITY, Mr. Lawscn will be 'stationed' in New York amd will continue his ^ork with OPPOR’fUNlTY^ spending only as much tmie in Washington aS re^quired' tj carry out a progrjim. .designed t» ip., iform ‘Negrdii ail over the Unit ed States o? the nation wide Census to be. taken .lext year, ««td'-+o impress -upon them the importance of full and honest cociperation with ‘‘'^densus enU- meratorsL \ It wiHyj* remembered that In Some' previous Census counts many perSon refusetf^^i^To'' give' enumerator accurate information >a!bout themselves and tTi e i r families, feafTItg. either that the information would be disclosed to the general puiblic or that it Woul^ be used against them in case of a -national emergency such as a war draft, ■ In some sections of the coun try, it was charged that enumer ators did not execise care i:l in terviewing each- Negro family but frequently relied upon hearsay information. Thid was aticularly true in rural areas and in certain prts of Negro communities where there were bad streets and unsightly neigh borhoods. This method undoubt edly left uncounted a consider- a'Blte number of Negroes with the result that many tables of statistics compiled by the Cen sus Bureau later iJifeved inac- gurated during the depression had to be based upon these figuresr aAd in cases where figures were wrong^^ help could not be extentfefl on tile basis of need. Mr. Lawson will use newt re leases,. magazine ~ artic)es, and other means io stress the con fidential nature of all Census information **aiTd the precau tions taken against the po sibi^ Ilty of its misuse. He will also see to it that Informational ma terial preparet^r by the Census Bureau for general distribution r^^jhes colored, persons through ’'out the country^, During the latter pait of 1918, extending into 1910 and again in the early weeks of 1920 li wave of intluensa and influenzal pneumonia swept the world and caused as great mor tality aa any other epedeuic io the worlds history, Anothc-i' se vere epedimic occured In 19SS, and case# as late in 192d and early in 193i3 seem to have been of the same type. Once in about •very ten years there seem to be an epedemic of this disease. Each famil/ should be taught that girippe is an Infection, that it is contagious, that it spread* rapidly, that it haa serious com- plicatioiM and that it frequently leads to pneumonia, which haa become in. many region* of this country the most frequent cause of death. As a patient with Influensa may have a chill or at least fee> chilly, anything that makei him warm ^proves his condition, the temperaturerisea an4yl» ofjten quite high, asso;tfted with severe headachea, backachea and irr^ular paint in other parts of the body. Little food is needed i during the first twenty four j houre, plenty of water should vbe. had however the bowels kept open, lots of fraah air and sun-, light. Some form of Iron ahwild be given during con^lescaace. The moat frequent complica tion of influenza is pneumonia fecoveiry from which is al^aya slow. Lung albscesees are also fiptalent. i 1%e meaaurea adviaed for prevention ^ of influenza in brief include, staying aw«y f r p m crowds, insolation of the sick wiiea poseible, avoidance of hand to mouth infection, ot aun iifilltw^d fresh air, Ute avoid ance oKdampnese and undue ex posure, ^rly rest in bed In warm room during th* first atag«a. Hy'L. Baynard Wbitney THE MOUND BAYOU MURDERS \A vivid, syi]^olical oil painty ing of contentious Negroes, in th^ nude, hung in the American Contemporary Arts Building at the New York World’* Fair. It aroused a strange, nioibid fascination, but the ■ truth of it was more sickening than all. It made one fe%l like slashing it or tearing it from the vail.' It w5fts too true! Briefly, it was a story of selfishness, ■ greed and murder.. The slaying of Eugene P, Bopze, the famed ^Republican poiiitician of Miss., made me think of that picture at the World’s Fair. The slaying of Booze’s sister w law by white pesice officers auegedl^ summon ed by Booze, only a month prior to Booze’s murder appeal* to haVe been an anti climax to what came late^ Booze said be fore he died "political je«^ lousy” causM his assassination. Both tragte incidents set-m to have been the shameful out come o£. protracted, fierce hat reds wb'icb finally liquidated two of cliief participants. .The ^miifKa^ions and signifi cance of thtte'" deatht reach deeply into the Negro charac- Ur. ■ ’ On the' other hand, fifty two years of exemplary ail Negro Government ^ of a Mi»Is«ippi town remains a record .of which our race caA be pruod I NEGRO WOMEN SCORE HIGHLY Jane Bolin, America’i first Negro woman Judge, gava tup- reme. lustre to the briTIiant meeting* j>f. the Natlbnal Couq; cll of Negro .Women, Inc., held recently in New York City. Ita .meimlberij^ip ||Ot|^tandingi feminine lights in many profea- sions revealed the very 'flower &f' our accoplished womanhood. Traditional male dominance of female is largely cetponsible for the “career woman,” she who seeks thru every channel of human expression,' to d«- 4nonstrate woman’a equality. The early Christian Church, at one tima danied that had a Soul l^er Spirit was declared to be a dependent .segment of the male Soul, and all angel awere stric^*^ ly male. Today we , recogpis* Go'd ,as Father-Mother, a ' n jd women and men as_^ negatija and positive expressions IffPUiv- inity, coequal and mutually de pendent. ' The year oahered in moi^ t)ian mere *'ao(:iali*t''■ {>olitiet. Re gardless of political Wise Sa;ing$ I— AFTER AliL, a towb is what its cititens ma'Be it. . .t DO YOUR Christraaa shopp ing' early—if you have t h • t i S_ jjf | f lADD POLI'flCS to the list of things thit afe^ever prea4nt, one form or another. It la much better to at«rt at the bottom and aacend than to start at the top and deacend. This is perlTapa the first year in its historjh ;1vhen the United States was uiVtded on the ob~ servajjce of ~'THAN«iSGIVING DAY. , ! ■PHEl average newspaper would need several ft«nt 'pages if it carried all the reading matter on the front page' it' ia aak«d to give front ipage position. time wa ripe for a great expiui- sion of woman’s place in world affairsi this^ regardless of race, creed color or geography. Negro women today recognize no, u^ conquerable barrier to equality of opportunity.« - ' A PLEA FOR COLLEGE CULTURE Rowdyism, according to news reports, broke uut among rival factions of th* A St T CoM«fV foo^aH team in « men’a lorini-, tory lollwing a recent game with JMtltapton Institute. ‘ During .tb* free for all one player w a a dangerously, slashed Vl^ith a ntor' blade and required '27 atitehea. i^e are accustomed to think of college men as ‘‘gentlemen” .(a word of elastii; definition these daya.) ^ No matter how touch, CoUegft Football V^layera are eJcpeeted to act like gentle men, college gentlemen. In variably do. This ua^ppy exertion sug gests a “harmless” method of allowing young hotheada to figbt it gut—like, genlemtfn.'" Lat tiie two fellows fwho harbor t h • maJpr ^ievance put on boxtng glovee and go *o many round* to a dacislon or a knockout. In event on* «( the eoatett- anta ia 'unevenly matchod, a more^fuitable opponent shall be s^eicted >by mutual agreement. May the best m»n win, and the losing aid* taka their laoing' lik* -r^ntltmiiil j
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