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THOUGHTt '
ITOWERi ‘'Bat tkat fnajr fkaow tha ton of Man
pmwt aa ta forgira «ia«> (tliaa |»aitli Ha to tka iiick
ml |Mbr. Ariaa, taka ,an tky bad, andgo nata i tUaa
/ Jbaaaa.)”—Saiat Ma^tlbair 9it. ^
WMb prajrer asd eiyinc: mtrong.
Bold OB (tlM faarful
And kit tba l».raairing dmy prolong
Tka wiaaUint ot tba nifht.
IW kfBUa aooa will Ideld,
if tfcott tiijr pMi fulil;
Vor atroDc aa is tfaa hoatila shield,
fRty awond is atron^r atilL
Thin* armour is divine,
Tliy iaat with yiafLorf idtod;
And on tby haad abaU }uickly shine
Tba 4iiadam of ?od
AS TIME
MARCHES ON
BY WILLIAM STRUDWICK
(r
Author Unkaowa.
(SUPPORT OUR COMMITTEE
Tba spleadid abowinc made by the Colored VQt«r8 in the primary
laat &tarday deserves the praise of all Ne^rroes in Durnam, and
(oaa to abow wli^ can be done with an otiganiuttion. We take off
auf hata to R. N. Harria, politieal chairman of the Conunit^e on
iNagre Affaira, who ao i>eMfected the orfanization’s political efforts
that varr littia could be ^itcompliaiied by those wliose sole purpose
ia selling 1i>eir efforts and iliie votes of the race for the highest
Hia local Cooiinittee on Ne^o Affairs is doin«r nvuch to erase
sotna of the wrongs suffered by the race in I>urham, and certainly
tba work H has dona in halting the political crooks amonc Negix>-
aa ia eDoocb within itaelf to iustrfy its existence and suppoit.
Mo man or group of men can meet ,ajl the demands of all the Ne-
groas. Ia q>ita of some of the criticisi^ which the committee is
raeaivinf from aeveral chronic knockers it is doing more than an)
othar aganey in Durham ito fight the many injustices of t^e race.
Tlta Dnifaam bii^ch of the Committee on Negro Affairs should be
aiiMportad.
IN the Sanctum
—To you who would seek sur
cease in communion with
Creator—Seet him not where
hwsys are overun, or men
lift thejr voices loudly and cry
out 1>^ name.
But| go out some place alone
with your tboughta, tur-
raund your being with the thinga
hs Jiss manifested to all man
kind, in the voices of nature;
und wait quietly there, or
somewhere (n your own inner
sanctum, and M floodgate of hope
Mneti» shall come; subch as you
have never known^Jbsfore.
■—Then the feeling comes that
makes the vforries that were
youru, however pressing they
W«f#, ffMn 't>ut petty things
compared tg th« n«w raailent
hopeful Arength you feel; then,
the Cieator hJb answered your
prayer.
THOUGHT: The fellows ^e
usually lika t>eit are just a little
better than the woi^ and a jnite
worst tlifin the beat
COMMENCEMENT
COMMENTS
—Amid mucTk sparUlnc of teeth
pid abundance of words milHons
of high school and college gra-
dutes all over the world are be-
ii'ir launched oat into tha show
seeming. —We pauae, we re
flect; and solemnly pray a con-
tilte prayer for some of them.
They \Junched « program
)omewhere two yeara ago to do
away with eommencement fesitt-
vities. Result, 50 doting mothers
swooned outri^rht and the com
mittee went into hasty confer
ence and revened tha dacicion-
Of the bright bespactacle lads
who make the cum ^ude speech-
eR and such, the world seldom
heara what they say and often
nover read of what they do after
they leave there II
DOWNSTREAM
In the silent {fetches of the
night the spirit sou) of you
comes and haunts me, Reason
fles away on he wings of tha
MORE RECOGNITION NEEDED
The callioc of three N«^oea for jury service in Durham last
araak, aven though tbey did not ge ta cbsnce to serve, marks a step
in the rifM diraetion. Tba ultimate gofU will be reached only when
l>acoaiea a common custom for members of the race to serve as
Jurors in Durham couoty.
&eap«el«l>le Negro cftixena in Durham, and all over the sout^,
ara juucioua to do what tbey can ito make the communities in which
tbay live MU»r placea Giving them the right to serve on Juries,
aapec;iaJly wban Negroes are being tried in our courts, places Ittiem
i& tba position to render a district service in helping to rid the
communitiea in which they live of violators of the law.
The same applies to other positions in which the common cuatom
ia to baar Negroes. Our boards of education would do a far batter
in proTkiing education for Negroes if they would include on
(tbam a rapreaeatative of tha race. Many teachers who are unfit for
waili in Negro achoola becauae of ahortcomings o^r than scholas-
tie^ couid be elimimSted and replaced by persons better fitted
aerva aa insttuetora.
are in North Carolina aeveral Negro collegea with mixed
twwtaa boards, and aa far aa we l^e been able to learn the plan
baa ahraya woriied to tbe advanl^lga of tha colleges. Certainly if
Magroas are capable of aerving on college trustee boards, they are
sppabla of asrring on l>oards of education to advise concerning the
aflahiB of Negro public scbookk
What appliaa io Juries and boards of education applies to other
iaipoztaalt boards and positions where the (ITairs of NIegroes are
coMamad.
Hm Negro ia entitled to more recognition in the affairs of govern.
memt ft b« it going to be expeoibed to pay for the maintenance of
govanunaat
GARVEY'S GIFT TO HIS RACE ^
Marcaa Garvey ia datll. Tliua pasaea a man. whose work endures
thfgk daeadae l^va gone. No hii^r tribute to the soundness of
vMaats coaki be paid. Thia paper said in Garvey’s life /(ama that he
VM- • aeaatrucliTa force in the Negro race, and we say it again.
rac« coaacioaaaeaa which many of us talk glibly about now
waa krad and bom lasgely in his Univenal Negro Improvement
Whara ofcar Negro leaders were ^tempting a solution of the
IM* prcfefaM by soma sort oi union between t{ie rscea, Ciarvey
|MCM timt being a Negro was to be heir to one of tbe greatest
MMaabrtea o> aSrtk. Under fantastic uaiform4 he organized gronps
li maMf esBtifs id population. Finally tbe U. S. government
wigplfsn Uaa tbat tbe ideals of the organizations were
Lia tmtmnwt, deported Galrvey, though not once did
«t ^bat ainea tba bund, the silver shirte imd a lot
4tmM»eUd wkitaa have atcually done.
ttieic ti tiwir color And tbeir bair |b bat^i
tha *9Unsaa city Call," May •26th,^
nlrltt and though I know deep
with in myself if may be hope-
lfe«s hope, it keeps on coming and
I make the feeling right. Sad
frrrbodings l^ed on expeniences
of yesterday fill the night with
dreaded anticipations of bitter
dinappointments to come, yet
time marched on.
PRATTLINGS *
It seems that accidentally or
iiitentionally they mt^.Taged to
burn them alive at Mlis.
One report Is that the curront
war !s costing Great Britain
lie,000 per minute, which is
$300,000 per hour etc. So as the
melody goes—“You tell u* your
dream ^.hd I’ll tell you mine.”
There is one atory of a man
who was listening to the war
report via his short wave set nd
became so convinced we would
decljtf e war in the next few
hours that he packed his few
belongings, wrote his relatives,
and started down town to ei|-
liit. But juit aa ha reael^ed the
door a contrary report c«lme 'n.
So i,e relaxed and let time march
on (OUT OF TBE MOUTHS
OF
NATCHEZ
The wrath of the eternal time
keeper one shall erase from
the face of the earth a civiliza
tion which dares boast of its pro-
gresB and yet harbours a
N(»fccihezn . ..
The tragedy at Natchez is but
one of the soul-ptirrini? catasitro-
phes which from t^e to time |
bring these conditions to the ^
forefront of progressive thoug:htr-|
The feted stench of the sordid ^
existing on ma«s for a peo^ple in
some of the lower line states.
The Sgottsboro case w^ one.
The dastadily attitude toward
the Anti-liynch Bill is another.
Yes, we are yet children cry-
iiig in a wilderness of ill-housing,
ill-health ,i(nd illiteracy.
We have come a long ways it
is true but on masses we srtill
flounder in a sea of_^ economic
and political cl^s.
THE POCKETBOOK
^ KNOWLEDGE
OMOUt (MH.flOiM>
nmWMV* Kwo OUT
M aMkV OMmOC
OP A
POTi
nor ReuATiD
TO TMB
tmm p^mro
Ptrr IT (jf RBLATeo
TO TH« Ptm/n
Too*y
THAH
WOllSTSy WPIHT
I9S9 OM nefiCAH
JomSAMOMATW,
iMPttove ixistiha pnoouert.
aix^
God Goes
I'own
To
BY WILLIAM PICKENS
The Negro Tenant
Share Croppers
Plight
A happy angel, standing near
the banquet table, at the new
hcilven on Madison Avenue, in
May, said: "BleM you. Father. 1
love you, lYither. I used to think
you lived up in the aky^or in
some other far-off place, bat
new, thank you. Father, for lett«
n>e know you’re in town!''
Six Vassar college girls with
one of their professors, I
were guesta of Father Divine at
OT.p of hia regular afternoon
bunquets, which begin a tabouit
1:30 p. m.i and last until tbey gat
through. The profsaaor and I
hud places of honor, at the Fa
ther’s own table; the girla were
acattered out there, half way
d( wn the hall, among the ang«ls. 
About 126 of us were seated,
and the rest, a throng of ^T>out
2&0 angels, were packed against,
Ute raidling, and around the
wall, alid in tbe approaching
.hallway, singing the praises of ^
I “The Lamb” and the ‘God", all
through the hours of the ban-
j qi'et. Some of the son^; "Be
hold the Lamb,” ‘Fther, I love
you so,” "March on. Sweet
Fsther," “I love you, jBod,'
"Aren’t you glad?” ‘So glad, o
giadt’ The chorus was great,
Conducted by
ALBERT LOUIS HYPPS
WHAT IS ADVERTISING?
Advertising, in a ^ry true
senae, ia the “spreading of in
formation by meaiis of printed
word and picture.” The adverti
ser is merely the person who
uses these written and printed
words and pictures to promote
a business or service. The great
est difficulty the Negro in busi
ness experieiKes today is khow-
irg when and where and how to
iJJi'ertijie, and how much to
sj^nd. Mereyl having a place of
business, in a good location and
being able to render a desirable
seivlce does not make .d success
ful business. He must realize
that business never comes to any
ore, anywhere, uninvited.
Advertising must'* be used to
keep a shop name, location and
service identified and conatfkitly
alive in the mi&ds of new and
old customers. The modern busi
ness man or woman does not
need to be toM this. They are
wej] aware of the fact that &d-
vertising is the moat powerful
force in the promotion of a busi-
neu or service today. They
know they must advertise. They
see reat advertising luccess -
niong other business firms aJid
veason, that if other business
fi'.ma can increase profits by ad-
vertiaing, they can too. Their
problem, therefore, is not one
of "shall 1 advertise?” but, ra-
Uier, 'how can 1 Advertise profi
tably?” ■ ...
A better knowledge of what
advertunig ia—wbat advertising
can do—and what advertising is
doing for l^t^e and small busi-
ntsses alike is what the Negro
in business should know. This
knowledge will let down the bars
for thousands who never thought
tl’ey could afford to advec^se,
yet who need it most. Advertis
ing has built about itself a
glamour of bigness thii.i has scar
ed off the little business man.
The business man with only $10
or |20 a month spend for adver
tising, seldom starts because he
not dare to start or, if he dared
he does not know where to stfl't.
It is well to remember, that
the spending of laTge sums of
money is not the anewer. It is
not how much you spend but
how you spend it. Advertising
to be successful mu/ft have a de
finite aim, purpose and follow-
up. It most have a theme that is
purposeful ^nd one that will win
the respect of the people who
road it. On the other hand, ad-
vertisiui without a definite plan
and follow-up will prove ineffcc-
tiv^and costly. Nert week I will
list 20 reasons . why successful
business men advertise.
DELE6ATES
Continued from Page Three:,
ticket with Dr. H. C. Gibba of
Greenville and Willis Peake as
alternates on the same ticket.
Contests are noted in Louisi-
arui, Florida and in South Caro
lina, but thus far all of the stat
es which have held their conven
tions have named Negroes on
both tickets,' regular and the in
surgents.
As as their names are
certified' to the Republican Na
tional Committee, they are listed,
in the official roster of delegates
and the liat handed out the com
mitteemen throughout the coun
try.
I Washington, D. C., although
, voteleas, jgds its political organiza
I tions and on Saturday last nam-
^ ed J. Franklin Wilson delegate
and 1^. Francis as yclternate.
j Wilson is a well known lawyer
'and haa been, active in American
^ legion affairs for years.
BY EMMETT
WASHINGTON — Attention
has repeatedly been called to
the distress iind misery eacisting
among the neiirly 2,000,000 ten
ant families in the South. While
approximattly two-rthirds of tlu^o
are whites, the renvaining one-
third, that is, about 660,066
Colored families, is face to face
witji’ conditions, intolerable and
sou] and body destroying.
J. SCOTT
A veritable tyro at figures
car. advise as to how long it will
take to help the 2,000,000 ten
ant farmer group, if, after 2
years, only 6,181 loaiiis can be
made with 146,000 applying.
Worst of all in situation,
the Negro farmer, exposed as he
bowls that h^^ coma first, on
throu^ the half chiekena and
grea stetlks, down to that final
icc cream, were paaaed • second
or more, timea, aa long aa any
angel or visitor would consent
to take another helping. And
this food, Mil of it, was the best
food that can be had anywher*
on earth. I have paVd six dollars
for a dinner at the Aator hotel,
fCnd the only difference between
that and thia free banquet of
Father Divine’s ia that Fatbef
Divine had MUCH MORE OP IT.
The food was as good, ten times
ni plentiful, a.nd the dinera and
angels at least 1000 timea as
happy as any group I have ever
seen anywhere in ct'l my life.
And that service: Singing, aliig>
ing, singing, all the time sing
ing. Handclapping, ahouting,
none of it seeming to furnlsb
tiie least bit of disturbance to
the clock-like prosedure of this
banquet. One of the great an
gels (both to size and atatlon)
read one of Father’a aermons.
All ears listened, but there wars
ahouta of aplausa here and
there, even the Father himself
often leading the applause.
Then the F^4ther spoke extern-.
acme of the solo voices wonder-' poraneoualy, a strange languags,
ful. but seemingly perfectly clear ts
I the angela, who shouted and ap-
And there sae God; striped ]ggded continiyfily, as said
shirt, striped tie, plain gray suit ^^inge like this: “For the first
and a bald head. A little brown i *u_ i • —
man, tall and a short woman,
who means more to these people
than any mystic gods from jiAiy-
where. And nearby sat the three
time we have the true gospel on
earth; I have left the world of
imagination, I have entered tbs
world of recognition, I hae%
•As tenants, share-croppers,
working on shares,” as it is call
ed, they are victims of an alr-
chani ecconomic system which
has not appreciably changed dur
ing the 76 years of so-called
physical freedom.,
They e caught in a vicious
circle which denies them practi
cally every ino.f^n to live, or to
ci/'wer ain notions ).at they cun
e.icape from it. The fate of tha
white tenani, .‘'ttiniei- is ine.rtri';-
al^ly bound up with that af the
Negro peasant. They “ride to
fate abreast.”
, No ill has escaped these ten
ant farmers. A'ter a year’s hai'J
work, instead of having small
surplus, they find themselves
held by landlords in a state, of
peonage with overhanging atnd
successively increasing debt, ra
ther than rewards for the labor
they have performed and the
privations they Haive endured.
The Census Reports for 1940
are bound to chronicle a disniai
picture of Negro farms lost by
those who had partially emcMged
from the sharecroppcrs stulus;
of incre^ed numbers of share
croppers, and worst of all, of
enormously increased nupibers
who have been shoved off the
shnxe-clropper level to the farm-
laborer class, at pitifully smalU
w^es. .. _
The prolonged depression ha.s
accelerated the low-descending
is to the general privations of ^ world, and I have never **en M)
much of it and j^s much of it and
as freely given. This Heaven wag
evidently captured one of the
best angel cooks thrt the pro
gression has ever developed. The
Father sita at the center of the
head table, and there are two
If'ng tables reaching out from it,
Ukc two legs, to the £ar end of
the hall. All food, every dish and
e\ery cup of it, passes by him, he
- "J o""™ come into the world of realtm-
an^el scrAes; M.ss Good Nature, .hUta of B|»roval
M.m Sweet, and Miss Sunshine pronouncement
Pr.de, wriUng writing, jn-iting
every word l^t came through; New Deal . mile i.
ti.e Fathers Itps. atd every word ^^e solution of tha economic
*** A *wfknn? * 'problems of hia 'constituents;
And the FOOD! I will not
blame you if you do not believe:
I have never seen better food
at any banquet anywhere in the
t'»e lot of tenant shalre croppers,
finds hinvself face face with the
complicated formula of making
an application, and securing a{
loan, with democratic political
bosses in charge of deciding t^
whom. loans shall go.
Whait show has a Negro share
cropper iii a situation of this
character? All of the latent,
racial prejudices . of the South
ern ^tion hedge him about gnd ‘ouchea the dishes wiUi his hands
deny to him he recogniion and
benefits he should properly re
ceive.
Ne^ly 7 1-2 BILLION DOIiL-
ARiS, or one-half more than the
Government’s total budgets, for
every, purpose, during the corres
ponding 7 year period ol 1911-
17, have been poured into at
tempted solutions of the Fai'm
problem in Americft. A check up
indicates that ^6 new Falrin
Bills have been introduced seek
ing some kind of^a solution. Ap
parency* we are further than
ever from anything that appro^t-
cl es permanent relief for this
group, blacks and whites alike.
A generous Government, pro
digal beyond all bounds, has
pl.iced at the disposal of the
New Deal appropriations for the
benefit programs requested by
tlie U. S. Agricultural Departs
ment. Only a trickle of these
thus blessing the food, and sends
one dish to the right anS ano
ther dish to the left. Bach diner
serves himself and passes the
grt^U platttr on. The silver, the
dishes, the great pitshers and
the coffee and tea pots, doien
or more of them were all ol
good quality.
Firat the vtge^bles; ipce,
mashed potatoes (with much
butter in them), stewed qRl-rots,
steamed cabbage, hominy, stew
ed corn, etc.
Then the meats: the great
platters paraded by, each per
son taking out to his liking,
stuffed sausage, tenderized ham,
halves of chickens (young and
tender chickens), great incb-
thick steaks from the tendered
of beef, breaded veal, and So on.
Then the drinks; all drinkn
except alcohol, iced coffee, iced
tea, then hot coffee, hot te,».
economic scale of these people, the farming sections of
M.U4LIONIS and BIIiLIONS have' then postum (Father poured the
reached the Negro people engtig- water for the postum, thus bless
ed in farming in the South, jir.g every cup of it, and each
The .Colored group who have! cup, as each platter, ptssed a-
migrated to the North have come round the entire leni^h of all
and, like the Joads of John
Steinlbock’s gripping story, thou
sands and thousands of them
have becoome members of thi.lt
shifting, drifting, wandering,
dii'couraged group of dispirited
nt^nads to be found in all the
Southern States, and, of course,
in California, to which many of
the white “drifters” hfr/e gone.”
NEGROES RANK HIGH AMONG
“FORGOTTEiN MEN”
It is a major social situation
%nd problem not yet solved that
is not flattering to rich, boast
ful, imperious America.
When we speak of “forgotten
men" we must include this group
who r^piik highe.st in the category
of the underprivileged'.
What is the United States of
America doing about this. maior
socisi problem?
It is true that an attempt was
m^kle by Congress ]5 years ago
to provide loans to worthy ten-
aifts to purchase farms. In the
first 2 years there was only
enough money for 6,181 loan;
146,000 tenant farmers had
iliplied for help*
the South. Surely these Northern
groups must be alive to the
plight and fate of their Southern
relatives a!nd friends who suff
er beyond all calculable limits
the ttbles. He had aslo poured
the coffee, each cup of it trave
ling through the hands of all
angels). .. „...
Then bread: egg-yellow corn
bread squares, followed by white
they have plenty and no fe(k- of
the future; they have happiness
and (mental) security; they ars
not plagued by the dimmes
shadow of “race problem”; they
h|Cwe no class war, and no even
any classes.'
Neither Jesus nor Buddlia
ever had more praises sung to
hi.* fsce in three hours or sa
than had this dark divinity, Bai-
dh%’s thick lips Aitd kinky ^ead
were never listened witk
such rapture nor ecftWRcd witi
as much glory. “Inapite of aH
opposition, shouted ths god,
“we are still here on earth I’*
It is said that this man's sngsls
got hold of 125,000,000 in pro
perty in thia country; thftJI his
activities have saved ihe atat*'
>jf New York alone at least ^0,
000,000 in relief costa. No
wonder that one whits man, giv
ing Divine the property across
ttio Hudson from Roosevelt's
Please turn to Psge Five ^
foersftrner
WAKE UP.
By WilUass Henry; Hsff
Wake up tbou slotMul sleeper
Thou art thy brother's keepsri
Wake up, wake up, no longer nap
Help free him from thy loe-
man’s ti^.
Why sit and dream' and slumbert
That will thy aoui encumber.
If thou ara aleap today, waks -mp
And wash ths insids oX ths cup.
while enduring the conditions breads then cracked whefit, then,
set forth in these observations, whole wheat, then rye, then
These nearly 700,000 Negro rye, then doughnuts (sugtred).
tenan farmerts in the Soutb then crackers. ,
with their faniilies, represent' Then came great bowls of gela
approxinYHtely 3,000,000 per- tin.«, of different color and kinds
sons.
Thia is but one of tlie many
failures of the New Deni which
hf.ve directly affected the Ne
gro population. It is cler.ily ap
parent th^4t the administration
and some apple-S|a.uce (and thone
of ua who were not initiate,
thought that this was to be the
aimple dessert). But later came
plates with great slices of c^f.ce,
pasved out by the Father from
A LQYERS PRAYER
By WlltM Tsyler ^ }
O Heavenly one abovs
Seitd down thy gracious love
Clean my heart from all dug«r
of sin
L'*V the spirit of grace and iovs
4j^etr within.
Make me what you would hsvs
I me to
Bide with me cwd keep ms
J Make me a lover qf everyonss
soul
Tcdch and ahow ma a suecessCvl
I- •.
is fumbling with 'a problem far the Father from tht head of the
beyond its ability to conect.
table, to be followed by great
It is needless to look in tint tub-like bowls of ice cream, ice
direction for the solution of this ^ crefim of all kinds and. colors,
ringled in eevr'y bowl. Father
touches these bowls and one
travels toward the ri|(ht tad the
other toward the left. The great
dishes are so heavy that the
J diner can scarcely hold them ^ in
hia left arm, as he serves him
self.
And, reader, all these filled
serviag dishes, 'from tbs rice
problem which is of paramount
in-portsnce to the Colored peo
ple of the South, nearly 80 per
cent of whom are eng^ed in
some form of agricultural pro
duction.
If these Northern Colored
persons who have moved from
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THE DAY AFTER YESTERDAY
By Willos Taylor
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brilliitnt ray
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way
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seen
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movis scrssn
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night away
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ths next day
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dream of romancs
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