PUBLISHfiO WBEiLLY BY IHE " CAItOUNkA TUiSS PUBUSHING Ca MAIN OFFICE 117 £. PEABODT ST. „„ DURHAH. N. C. PHONES W-7iai. J-Wl L. S. AUSTIN, PUBLISHER WILLIAM A. TUCK. BUSINESS MANACEII CHABLOTTE OFflci 4M 1-S EAST SECOND STREET WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Mmmfiag E*Ut«r SUBSCRIPTION BATES $1.00—Y«»r, —6 montha^ 76e--4 |C«ntiui- ^ , mattw At thi p«it ofilMAMrtd aa Mcond*citM »t Durkvu, N. C., nndar tlu Act of Marcb *n X»Ut" SATURDAY, DEC. 2^4 19S9 DO YOU WISH TO L!V£ F£AR? Do you with to live in •orrow! Ho you wun to live in perturDation? By n© mean*. No one WHO u in a st«i« oi tear or aorrow or perturbation is iree; out waoever a aeitverea irom torrowi And fearv and perturbationa, &e la at Ue M»ai« mu« ai*o ttttuvered irom aervitui«.—^HipicMtuit. • I'JLACE, it is truly WOt^DERFUL” iii« Un^iaj/ oi v»ar uiin Ji,ur«pe and paru oi Aaj» cry out Uitu au«:u.iie oi ptsMe ou eariii and goodwill to men hx'jugbt to ui% wvr^a nudity iwo (fiuuMincii y«ara ago by Jeaaa oi Nazareth. A; i~;ii a%A6ua Uie peace tiiat ia America’a u truly won- aeri^, luart: waiiucriu^ tiieirVe in inia country can realize wlio nave Qui seen lue deep sorrow wnicn XoUows in the wake of war. instead ot t>iaclcouts every byway and highway in America, where tne name of Jesua ii known, it aglow with fhe spirit of the aeaaon. Peace reigns and hearts are happy thajt war haa not entered the picture.to besmear its radiance and beauty. Critics may cail Him an imposter, fools may laugh at His doc trine, but none can deny that wherever it is practiced that man kind is blessed. This lowly carpenter’s son ume to the world without money, land or houses. No~ltireat army encamped about Him to broaden His donuin or crush His enemy. Instead of hatred He preached that men should love one anoither. Instead of greed He taught that men should freely give of their substance. Insist* of contrary practices and teachings His kingdom continues to increass and the world is beginning to Realize as never before tha futility of putting ttieir lzuBt in m^ht rather than right. ^ — At this Chjristmas tina« with peace reigning in America we would have this, nation utt^r a prayer that t^iose in Europe and other lands will soon turn toward the simple truths taught by Jesus in stead of the sword for a solution of their problems. We pray that they will learn to love instead of hating; for in doing so they will find a peacc that is truly wonderful, *'a peace that passeth sU understanding.” NOTHIM; TO WRI TE HOME ABOUT We fail to see anything to write home about because large mo tion picture pro.ducers have taken serioualy the matter of having * Negro censor board for motion pictures. Although we have looked with disdain upon the slurs hurled at the race on the screen trom tima to time we have no,t worried half aa much about it as we have the fact that Negro actors of unusual ability are seldom given an opportunity to get in the big earning class. Now we know there are many who will say that so long a« the race is disrespected and not considered seriously by those who control the picture industry Negro actorg will continue to be given only light parts for which the income is low. On the other hand we do not believe a Negro, censor board is going to help out in the onempioyment situation unless thft board is going to have ttie power to get Negroes into better paying jobs ita the motio^a picture industry. . It appears to us that there ia being too much signifkance attach ed to non-essestial things. It is like riding on the front seat in a no^hem troUey car, but never getting an opportunity to drive the car or take up the tickets. The only consolation that we see k tiiat the froBt- seat is closer to the man who does drive car. Freedom to spend without freedom “lo earn so,on enslaves the cpend- er. Freedom to cut out distasteful scenes to the Negfo in pictures is a fine thing, but the freedom to work and better. SALVIN’S L. BAYNARD WHITNEY THE BUNGLING BUND Race hatred and white auper- Sority are aynonymoua in the Geraian NazL creed which labels Negroes leaser men or lower l^ian men—untoranenechen. In^ suit was added to injury, there fore, when Feuhrer Frit* Kuhn, head of the Jew baiting Ger man American Bund was hand cuffed to a Negro by bunt one man on his way to Sing Sing prison for stealing funds of the Bund. Quhn bungled the Bund. The beat and fierest fighters in the World War (1) of 1914- 18 were Negro soldiers from America, Fr^pice and other possessions. The blustering Rudolf Schickgmber (Adolph Hitler to you!) remetubers this in hia devilish efforts to slay two sparrows with one rock. At the opening of the ecent con flict (now termed World W.»r 2} on the Western Front Hitler pa-oteated to France concern- ing^.her use of the black Sene galese l3:(K>ps. _ » 1 Am far the Nazi'* Aryanisjn, it ia generally conceed^d in most ttnbiued scientific circles that Aryan heritage in Europe is philogical and not racial. “The name was first - quite generally associated with the people o^ Ancient Iran,' says a noted authority. “li fact, these people called^ themfelves Aryans, and theii^ language was known as Aryan. These Iranians were Irelated to consanguineous tibes of India, who were alsd said to be Aryans. The Aryans as a race or single group ,f people were extirpated in the wars with the Egyptiana and HittHes, and their remnants were finally bbosorbed by other tribes. No phre Aryan Jjlwod, at leaae not anywhere near as pure as the Semitic strain, has come through the ages.” ANOTHER JULIAN JOKE So Julian stole the show from Father Divine I Well, that is NOT news. He whom the laughing white press gaire the unearned name of Black Eagle seldom misses his cue. Herbert Fauntleroy Julian ia a real life actor for the first disorder. Foti ever rushing »n where Wisdom feara to tread the Colonel of Haile Salassie’s one plane air force never fails to walk off with the laurels of publicity. He ia certainly no Number Two press agent for Julian. A master of l-Love-Me, Julian years ago fooled the Negro piess into believing he was go ing to fly to India. Sometime later he confessed to be piivate- ly that he never had any inten tion of risking his neck across the ocean for the Negro race; and added very forcefully that his chief concern was, and would always be, the personal welfare of Hubert Faunierleroy Julian. ' ^ On various occasiona, and among various organizations, it haa suddenly appeared that Julian was going to do some thing magnaimous or beneficial for the Negi^. He is a good salesman and geta believed; but generally the final outcome sums up to one ■* thing only— more poblicity for Julian. H'a technique will always make Him good copy for the white p'esa. Christmas Comes Again fiY DiAiNiJiiL W. CHASE earn in pictures la What Negroea need to fight for is the right to vote, the right to ' what it would have meant serve on Juries, the right to work for a living, and the right to earn equal pay for that work. They need to fight for equal educa tional opportunities, equal public health service and equal protect ion under the law. These aeem to us a darn sight more important than what some narrow minded nitwit says about the race in pic ture, A man, be he white or black, with a go°d paying jo,b, a healthy body, a comfortable home, an interest in the ^«* public life of his community and country, and training enough to understand a little history of the riae a&d fall nations doea not worry about he who. laughs first. He knows that he who lauglu laat geta the better laugh. Again the thougrht of the world tuma toward the celebra tion ^ the greatest birthday anniversary Jn ita history. And even now ns of old the time is ripe for the world to follow the Star, which indicates or will ij^ow the resting place of PEACE. If there ia any reason more than another that makes men and wom'dn take a different view of that is, think ot things on a higher planc~it is Chriatmas. And Christmas be-' cornea as personal aa a birth day. One’s mind turns back over a |»p«n of years, and one wonders to wit,a the of them alone is HEYWOH> BROUN The passing of. Heywood Broun will certainly be regretted by JS^egroes all over America. As a defender o^ the under dog Mr. Broun poMibiy had no. peer among white newspaper men in America. His column appearing in the New York World-Telegram, _ in our opinion, was read by more 'memibers of the race than any that one was coming, ©tiier in or out of .^erica’a largest city. HeywQod Bro«n walked with" kings V^ut never lost the common touch. He knew the common people and could apeak their language. H« nnderatood their yearning and fought side by side with them in an effort to have them realized. Onee he had taken op his pen in a liattle for the masses he never Uud it down nntU the victory was won. He »»ked no quarter and g*ve nona and was poaaibly at hia best when ridiculing thesi^ daatazdljr persons in high places who woold tear down the very portala of our democratic form of government to enrich thier own private coffers. That the nation faaa loit • diatinguished Journalist and the Negro a faitMul friend must be agreed with. Not only will hia coliimn be rt bot ita influenced for good will be miaaed. All America’s minority ftoopa hmn poisiWy lost their greatest champion. Let n» welcome all experiences fearlessly, however trying, for it ia oar weakneeses we become strong. Through our mi*for- toBM wa become wise. Through ^e slow atages of imperfection, *11 pnfetl0B !■ Btt*ioed.-^e*BBe G. Peaalagtm IS THE CHIAMPION of Juatiee, and ne.yer ought to eMtaad bat In rigfateooa actiims.—^ictetos. have been numbered three Wise Men. One waa black, and that significant. u year the ctory is legated in the home, in the churr.h, in the shop and elsewhere, and each year there ia kindled a new hope in the hearts and minds of men and women. Was the Journey of the Three Wiae Men a long and tedious one? Waa it fraught with many dangers? Why had they thus left their homes to wander as it were in a desert way? It had been Wld for many yeara “WITH HEJALING IN HIS WI^^GS,” to bring peace to a world tom then, ab now, asunder 1 And the newa had gone abroad that an angel had whis-1BAIXIGH ZETA$— us. Thia then is a good time for reflection. It is a season o* re joicing; it is a time when good will should permeate the very atmospliere. Too bad that there should be any sound of drum beat telling that war is rafin^ in any part of te world, when the MESSIAH came to bring PtEACE! O God, how long. Vital issues are at atake and Che whole course of the lives of' men and women ia likely to be changed. W a r, hatred, selfiihneas, graud, the right ffi the srtonger over the weaK, will be oeld to be old world barbarisms. The pretensfti of nnK>dern civiliza tion will be replaced by real virtues. Men will be brothers, people will be friends; races ither, and mankind will daww wjill sympathize one with ano- from love a principle of emula tion, and the Christ Child bom ages ago, who went gbout do ing good, ia now sifting out the souls of men before Hia judg- ment aeat, and dropping foar ja moment at least, heaite grown weary with a weight of woe, let us sing; “Strife at least is end. Still the din of war; Wearied men are resting Pideged to fight no more. May this vow friendahip Keep us from all ill— PEACE ON EARTH FOREVEiR, And to men good will.” # Give Lim Fir Xmas Since Cbriatmaa ia »o muah the tune for giving, it might >e well to think of giving .■ome- tbing of ihestimable value. We cannot create life, but curioua- ty eniough modern automobile traffic has put every driver in the position of either taking livea or aaving lives. Saving lives ia always a desir able end. At Chriatiaaa time, the aaving of life takea on an added beauty, drawn from tbe ^eauty of the aeaaon. Think what it means to a .Amity to lose a member at cnristmas. When the cause is age, or a lingering illness, there ia at least some degree of .re paration. True, the grie£ may be no less, but it is softened by expectation. How much more tragic is ^(udden «nd violent death. The family group ia in the midst of holiday preparations. Relatives and friends are coming. There will be another of those happy reunions. Suddenly the word comes. The door bell ct the phone rings. An excited voice announces the news. Some family member has been killed or inured. Christmas, the time of good cheer, of happiness, of giff:s and laughter. All is wiped out. There will l^e but little cheer, little tbappinea^ no iadgliter. Death is an unwelcome visitor at Christmas. A broken,'crush ed body makes a poor addition to the holiday spirit. The little son or danghter^awaitiijg that strange ecptasy of Christmas morning. Older sons and daugh^ ters full of cheerful plans. Father and mother with hearts full of happiness at havinu the children home again. Give lives for Christ,ma&! For nnlesa yo|i do, Mr. Driver, unless you are careful. Hr. Pedestrian, during this_ month, over 90 families will have tragedy as a guest for Christ- maa. Kinety people will not see Christmas. It is depressing to think of the criminal car'ess- neu of it all. One ounce of care ^nd caution,. one ounce of Cbristmas cheer expressed aa courtesy on streets and high way, one ounce of good bunaor- ed patience will save livea not only at Chriatmaa time, but every day. Give lives for Cbristmaa. No other gift will do So much for everyone. Make this a Merry Christeaa. • A MSIf WHO WIL£» STSAND any othar tauilt ia fuijoua If you crfl U*i • eoward. It aaema as tt you dialled him wtl^ every wtf ^ -PbilUpa Brootai. pered to a virgin that a child should be born, a Savlous who is Christ the Lord! There haa been much dispute as to the time of the birth of thia Wonder Worker, but there e no dispata u to why HE c»ma into the world. Three men, termed Wiae Men of the Blast, believed in aigna and in one eapaciall, and aaeing a. Star, they fallowed it, 'till they came to the place where the young child lay.’ It was JiiSUS OP NA2SARETH, bora in Bethlehem. But strange aa it may feem, ' things have happened that try the very souls of men, to take in a msaanre acme of the aweetnen of tha Yuletide trcm Continued frjim page 3 tioijs for the Christmas Scaven ger Hunt each group was direct, ed to meet at the Home of Miss Mae E. Ligon where the hunt would be concluded. Within the half hour, groups stormed the homes of their friends looking for auch things as a picture of Santa Clause, Christmas Card (etching), fruit cake,' colored dolU, and many, many other items in the ipirit of Chrlsfmas. Groups headed by^ Miss Itouise Latham, Miss H. Nora Evans and Miss Sallie, Sills won the prizes. Each peraon choota a number ed slip" thereby selecting her Ohristmaa presenit , from the “Santy Clause Basket" Census To Begin Jan. 2 NEW YORK -r Dr. C. B. Powell, First Vice President of the Victory Life Insurance 1o»- pany, publisher of the Amater- dam News, President ot th^ CommTinity Peraonal Finance Corporation, and one of Har lem’s foremost business men, pointed out this we%k that the cooperation of colored trades men with *the enumerators who will take the 1940 Censuij of Busineai will be absolutely ne cessary if an,^,undistorted pic- Pleaae turn to page five M^iTTER PEJIISHBS BUT SPIRIT NEVE(R: “As many as are led by the Spirit pf God, they are the aona at God.”— Romans 8:14. Maving into the specious din ing room where the table was crowded With delicious compon ents of a real Christmas dinner, the guests proceeded to serve themselves from the plattera of sliced turkey, asparagus aalad, cranberry sauce, buttered rolls and eaffee. Home made vanilla ice cream completed the ser vice. Hostesses were Meadsmes J. H. Coleman, H. C, Perrin, Misa- es Mae E. Ligon and Beulah Jones. It was truly a Christmas party. As Time Marches On BY 'WUXJIAM jSntUDWiCK R. B. Eleaaer in hia study of “Otatasiona and Incluaiona” that make for misunderstandings made the following observa tions. "At the requeat of the Tenn. State Department of Education, Dr. U. W. LeaveU of Peabody College made ah analysis from- tweirty t e X t- booka used in pubUe schools of that state, lie stated, “Hie material found in these booka is entirely too limited to a fford the future citizen of Tenn. a n adequate baaia for judge- SfTRm>WICK ment and the development of a wholesome attitude ffTT-egard to this qoestion...” ^ “Of 1:he many ~ ^ntributiona the Negro Soldier has made to the sl»rs and stripea, some of the n^t glaring omissions from the annals of history are the following; The gallant defenders of Bunker Hill in the army at Cambridge, the free Negroea of the colony had their reprecenta- tives and their name may be read on the pension rolls ox the country, side by side' with those of the other soldiers of tie re volution.”—Bancroft, vol. IV, page 614. the revolutionary pa triots who Qn that day the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 171®) perilled life for their country. More than 700 black Am«rkkns fought side By side with the white”—Bancroft vol. VI, page 142. Altogether about 3000 Negroes saw setvice in the American Revolution. Watch this column for more ilistoricat Facta. i •*«***• i “And in that day the lion shall lay down with the l»mb.” The sleeping lions have been aroused with lust and greed -n their haerts and &re ripping viciously at the very vitals of the small but valiant lamba. Peace on Earth and goodwill towards man seems to be a farce to those in the British Black Out and the French Blue- Out. Nevertheless hopeful men will stand firm with bpwed heads and pray that a medium may ibe found to bring back the peaea of former years and destroy the orges who persist in this dread war. ' There are many of us who wiTl Tell of thne w?ien a man whose head was bloody but unibowed stood before a p»v'udo- tribunal they called the League of Nations and predicted the very day they are now experienc ing in Europe. That mnn was Hailie Salaisse the King of Ethiopia, the first victim to be offered up. Ethiopia was vaA- guished and taken over but to day her blood still cries out for Justice, v ! TODAY—those of us who are on thia side of the Atlantic give thanks that we are far from these sceniM of scientific but barbaric violence; that we can appr(^a0 tl^e coming seaion celebrated M the birthday of the greatest peacemaker it h e PoetKerner THE MASTER liACHER By W. W. -1- Str«lwie|| werld ever known'—The Master —with our hearts filled witii goodwill towards all men atid a prayer for thoae poor souls over there. “The quality of mfcrcy is not strained,” but falleth at the gentle rain from heaven it to twice blessed both to him to him who received and ho wl|o gives aocording to Shakespeare. And ao it ia to all ua who take part to the Yuletide. aea^ son by giving as much a« wo are abla te aid thoae who are leaa fortunate ttia|^ we are in) Maater. AiND LEST WE ’JXMKSET We need all our talent. Sad, broken, unkemp, rotten deaolation greetta the companion tf a country doctor again and again: little shriveled, youngold bodies at' tached to little innocent, un knowing heads who sh^l be the back bone of the nation twenty yearn hence. Why? What have I done to deserve thia? Little sad, under- nourshed eyea ask mutely again and again. Crying for what? Freedom!! Freedom from ignorance, superstition, and m i n a meals. Freedom from lack of opportunities, and true, loving eare of healthy, clean, sanitary hands and .neala by right every child’s birthright. .What IbalB aU^thiA to v|il>h|| you and me? {Of f\ro*els method, unheard of then, About two thousand yean ago-> Lived » man we’d have longed to know. Walking the Shorea of QalUea Giving aU and all to set a peo ple free; , Taking ^ part for you and me. That was many yeara ago. But He ia one we still know: “The Master Teacher." —1— His manner of teaching has ‘ Never been aurpasaed; And shall stand aS lon^ af time laata; , He taught by parables simple and true; Clear to all who heard like me and yoa His maaterful dscoursea are storiea dear To which we still pay homage here “The Master Teacher.’f —8— think I can aee Him gentle and kind; Always with people's love on >Hia mind. The kingdom He talked of atill atands in Tfme A glorious kingdom high op above 1 Bunt on a pattelm, bf love, Free of all malice, nothing smug: “The Master Teacher.” 4- jrink of the wine of the world, but we forget quicky those little paths still watered with tears. ) We have today in the cities of New Yorit, Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia and others enough what is now five and ten cent brilliance clattering the hotels, munaber racketa and pimp stables to organize an8 release an or ganization that under correct supervision and by a simple pro gram perpetuated for health) ignorance elimination and the creation of sound financial and economic cycles in all places where it ia needed. In a word, the call is a call to arms to perpetuate survival; all concede a chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link. (Jnited in this manner or in any manner against this abvioua de structive cancer that is dehtroy- ing the very vitals of. a people we live.: divided we mfirch slowly fluif truly in the wake of the vanishing Ameri can Indian. O H R 1 S T M The earth has grown ita burden of care But at Chriatmaa it " young. The heart of the Jewel lustrooa and fair And it soul full of breaks forth on the air. The feet of the humbleit may walkf in the field Where ^e"fee* of the holiest have trod This, thia te the matyd to mor tals revealed When"*tho silvery trumpet'^ Christmas have pealed niaA mankind are children of G>od. fPHlULPlS BROOKS." A S old with ia always burns Your Health And Mine BY S. C. PYLE, M. D. ULAREMIA r (RiAlBBlT FEVER) ^TULABEMTA, or as tt is some times called, rabbit fever, is an infectious disease primarily of wild rodents, especially rabbits and hares, secondarily, an accidental infection of man. The disease vfraa first described in 1911 in Tulare County, Calif., from whence it received its It shows itself In four ways, Uleero-glandttlar. in which there appears on the skin a small bump which .later turns into aiv ulcer alccompanied enlargemert of the lymph glands in the raea affected. /Another type effecU the eye, a third type, the glandular, shows no ulceraton but the glands are enlarged. The fourth or typhoid type ahowi neither . primary glands. ulcer or enlarged ■ MiM: The onset of this diaeane is accompanied by sudden head* aches, chills, fever, body pains and vomiting. Tha primar.r les ion ulcerates and glanda become enlarged. The fever lasts two or Ahree weeks, falling about the thi»d day. Convalescence is slow. I I^otective measures are at tha command of everyone. Rubber glove's furnish protec tion to the hunter, trapper and tridnner o^ game. Disinfection of cuts and bits should be prac ticed, as well as the thotongh cookSng of all wild rabbit, allowing Tfd Juice to remain about the bonea. ^ A warning to tha-poor aports- Please turn to page five Of the Herbertian steps, dill in future’a wing Nothing was aaid, not in that day, fhit He tau4i^ ip^nc^les That shall forever atay~ When I think of it now, In my own simple way. My heart thrills as I say— “The Master Teacher.” Meriful God high up above f*roved beyond * doubt Hjl. bountiful love . He sent one strong and stout, To lead his blighted souls out. To free them from pain and the blindness of fear; And to sacrifice His pure lovej So dear; “The Master Teacher.” —6-r- History enrolls it aa a magnifi cent thing Justificably ao drawn by hMvena WtBgS{ : ^ 1 Nothing can surpass it, no on* dare deny, As we all read as tfme rolls by- Of that Bountiful Being sent from on high. In my great heart will forever be The great sa«|rifi&e He mada;& for me; “The Master Teacher.” If ever you read thia little song And fail to tEink yoa go along ^ Of that Phenomenal gift Made so very swift; I say—^we have no rift, Yoa simply, haven’t under-> standing;. i A doubting Thomas demanding. That which needs no proof; “The Master Teacher.” ——8— Times may change, life may fade, But this remaina true age after age, — Quoted and rei>eated by sagas after aage, Of that pain filled sacrifice to set men free By the Holy Phenomenon on the shores of Galilee ..~_ Who gave « new hope to you and me; “The Master Teacher." CHRISTMAS 1941) To a church on Christmas Bve I will go» jAnd there I will kmeel—where Ckindles lit burn soft and low, •^2— 1*11 send up |i4>ray«r to. my God Qliaiiking him for everything. So, What if I have no job? He’ll know. He will know that I mean ao harm Be, That I wouldn’t Titeal even If I waa a-«tavin’ (my head low); 1 I’ll be not aakln’ Him for dough Nor will it Chriatmaa prasant be; All I want ia pfaee, life ’n’ liberty. " I ~aiioiGi] sBSsr.'

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