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Editorials 0 PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY HII CAROUNA TIMES PUBUSHING CQ MAIN OFFICE 117 E. PEABODY ST. DURHAM, N. C. PHONF.6 N /I2I. l*7Sn L k AUSUN, PUBLISHER Wii.LIAM A. TUCK. M«B«(iag E«tM- HERBERT R. TILLERY, BbMbm. Mauyar CHARLOTTE OFFICE 420 I-2 EAST SECOND STREET SUBSCRIPTION RATLS *2.00—Ye»r, fl.L'5—6 rauntni^ 76c—3 MonUii. JiBtored «• s*coDd-claM mattci at the post oAica •t Durham, N. C., under the Act •£ Mati« ^ «rd 1JJ78." YOUR FAVORITE BIBLE VERSl^ "PEACE 1 LEAVE WITH YOU; my p«ac« I gU* unto jroH; BOt •• tiM worM giTathi aiv* k mato jroa. Lat aot yevr k«art b« troaUad, neithar lat it ba kfraid."—Saint^ Jelin 14:27. “Uixi faoids ibee in th« hollow of Uis hand”: ' iw q>ake a voice beyond the veil of night; iieyond the stars; irom realms of unseen light iireafetitng this me^>sage to my shadowl«nl: 'Xiod hokia thee in tiie Jiolk>w of lv>>>d, F«ar not,’' As cometh to wild waters pe«M;e, Ur to a prisoned hird the glad release; ' 6o to my fevered he«rt thia deep command. Yet still the cloud ithapes gather where 1 stand And lightning’s flashes thwart an angry sky; 0U11 the sun's radiance may not glorify Theae p«tlui mysterious of sh^owtaad; £ut'I have heard a voice—a still command Of mess«ijCTs ume®n: •*Kear not,” it akftlt, “‘I'he light is near, w/-*-k on in steadfast faith, God holds thee in the hoilow of His hand." BETWEEN THE LINES J^atharina Coolidfa. , WELCOME MR. McELRATH “The ne^ principal of U.iliside will have a hard time until he becomaa Accustomed to the bi>ys.” These worda was aipoken by one of the male students of Uuriiani's Negro high school, and tell m certain terms that the new principal of Hillside ia in for a hot reception when the school opens next fall. Jt has never dawned upon this particular youth that the boys at Hillside high school might have a hard time until they become ac customed to their new principal. This particular boys’s version ap- ^wreotly is that of a majori^ of the students of HiHside, and be speaks the deploraible condition existing at the school. There is no need of “heating around the mulberry bush” about the situation at Hillside high school, and we prefer to speak •tiiLight from the shoulder concerning the miserable condition ex isting there. There are a large numlber of students and teachers who arc going to have to be dismissed if the school is goin^; to raise its standard of mor^ and morale. Prof. McElrath, the Board of Eklucation, 'no person nor group of persons can change a leopard’s spots. The only w.ily to clean up the situation at Hillside is to get rid of the leopard. The CAJlOLINiA TUHBS doe« not attempt here to dictate to the jHnncipal how to run his job. We do not profess to know ^ythin^f ■iKtut running an educational institution. However we do know that discipliae once lost in a school cannot be regained by mush room methods. Prof. Mofilrath is going to need the support ^nd sympathy of every civic minded citizen in l>urbam. Im addition the Parent- Teacher Association of the school should lend its support to the new princip&il in cleaning up one of the nastiest situations that has ever existed in « piAilic schoot 7%e CABOlitNA TIMBS welcomes with sympathy and hope the new principal to Durham. It is our purpose to do everything in our power to make his work att the school a success, and we urge every citieen df the city to cooperate with him to the fulleab ex tent in building a better high school in this community. BY DEAN C. DEMOCRACY IN RETREAT The plight of Franc* YUla one with profound distrMsI With her armies vanquished on the bsitle field, and with bar pride huintiied before an expectant world, we ^re witnesMng one of the few decent n^iona of modern timea prostrate in the dust of defeat. „ Betrayed within and . without, Ftance became easy, vicitim of the mighty legions of Hitler that would not he denied. Having had to fight the b|iittlea of England for these miny years, it is in- terestlhf to Hote the courae the British will pursue in her France less fight against Hitler. Those bold assertions of Churchill are hardly more than gestures for the historian of the future; aftid it is hard to imagine how Britain will escape with her national intact, It looks as If the ol3 order is passing in Europe And wfth H the English hegemony * hund red year*. For lO these many years France has done the fight ing while England made term* with the vanquished.A new order cometh in the which E^glalnd must sit at the mercy seat of another power and her far flung empire is at an end. Wfth the collapse of the Allies may go the ctjllapse of democrwy in the modern world. Totalifarianiatn is proving more vigorous and the efficiency of Germany over the inefficiency of the AllieF may be the startling events in the de cline of the democratic ideal. Democr,&l:y is a (fiing of the spirii and not a thing of the mind merely, and as Dr. Hocking of Harvard said 20 years ago, “Democracy simply will not work unless it hat something like Christiant^ to go along wRb It. We have tried to make demo cracy go without Ha Christian counterpart and we Eave failed, And gredt is the failure. With Germany dominating Europe and abetted by Italy, Bnasia and Japan, there is no way to s4ve Democracy from collapse. Only dictators can compete with die tators luid the sooner we realize this the brtter. Hiis country of our needs toduy more than any thing else a dictator to prepare the defenses of the nation; for we are lamentably unprepared. Some months ago I predicted that the only wja:v this natkin could stand up in competition with the totalitarian nations was THE NEGRO WILL WATCH Negro America will keep a sure eye on the National Republican eonvention now in session i« Philadelphia very little atten tion will be paid wJunt the various srpeakers may say with reference to party planks that promise liberation of the race in this country. What the Negro wants is action and not words. A special plank has been recommend by 100 Negro Republicane representing all the states, and the Republican party will do much to gain Negro support throughout the nation by adopting it. The plank ia as follows: *‘Wa i^ad^a duraalvea tHaS tiM latter aad spirit of mwery ^ protactioB aad gnarantaa wUck a«r' ceaatitBtioa aad iMtitatiaas proasica aach ^itisaa ^ akall be asade aqaally •Ractiva and raal for our colorad cltisaai, last hU contin- «Md axclMtoa froat |w fair aluura in oar ecoaoaiie, political mmd military Ufa iliall otaka falsa aa4 iBslacora Aasarica’s claiat as tka world's ^tadol of tm« daa»oct|Hey.** Whether the Republican party realizes It or not it cannot hope to obtain support of Negroes as it once did without supporting Ne groes. The Negro will watch, think and vote accordingly. WOICBN don’t like women. Down On The Farm B. HANCOCK to proclaim a dictMorsbip. Cur rent event* corroborating my thesis. Democracy is an ideal, the legions of Hitter arc real. Democracy is a dream, tlie domination ^^f Hitler throughout ii^rope is a bruttt fact that is both eminous and tragic. Our country h** watching Japan with the result Hitler has made aws^ with s whole contincint. We must give the devil his due and * acknowledge Hitler’s as the mas termind 0^ the country and this writer is not totally convinced that Europe wiU be worse off under, bis dominion than under the British. Britain has done her part of dirty work in Uie affairs of this world. In the long run the “Blitzkrieg” ia no worse than thdn the “Schnecke krieg’* (Thu former a lightning war and the Utter a snail war) Britain Las specialized on the latter and no body is prepared to prove that its damage haa been less. *The 700 years during which Ireland sweat blood and the century of British rule in Indict are mute testinooniab to the tragedy of British power. The fear thai Hitler may take II fling A this country is not without TOundation, for if Herr Hitler is the genius the worid knows him to be it would be practic^ly eaay for him to con quer our own nation. While our “rabble rousing” politicians tie up congress with peVty politics, it is easy for some shrewd man like Hitler to run aw«y#vith the whole business. E^en at this late dttte and in this critical hour of our national history, there are those short sighted politicians of divers peraauasiona playing politic*. Some of the Republi- cana are not interested in what dtlogers tied ahead, but in the next election and it is Just thia s(^ of thing that spells demo cracy’s dooml .When these political “do fun- were diihbed Trpjisn jack- sRNss. If Hitler does not care to foUow through his present ad- vant^ge and humiliate our na- tien along with France and Ehig- land then he can no longer be rcorded a> the saper-Mero of hislory. __ Demccraey ia in retreat and with it the aacurity of every thing we love and hold dear, bought with sweat and tears and blood! The immediate outlook for minority is by no means propitious. EVERBEARINB BERRIES GOWN IN MOUNTAINS Everbearing strawberries are providing ^n excellent source income t« Weettrn North Csira- luw farmen who find a market in the mountain tourist trade, reports H. K. Niswonger, Exten sion horticulturist of N. C. State College. The hirgest plantiin; in the State is to be found on the fJrm of J. M. Hartley of Lin- viile~in Avery County. Mr. Hartley has three acres of one aiKl two year old plants of the Bastodon and Gem varieties Niswonger says. He expects to nyli'ket a total o^' 5,000 quarts by full from these plantings. An average of 2,000 quarts per acre is norninlly harvested from* the first crop of the new planting. Some of the more vigorous hills will produce from 80 to 120 berries to the plant, 4nd 48 of these will fill a quart cup. C. B. Baird, Avery County farm a^ent, reports that eve*^ tjearing strawfberries are sold to touriata tlid local mountain hotels ut a price of 10 to 16 cents per quart in the summer, and 20 to 25 cents per quart in the fall. Niswonger recommends that BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL OUTLINED IN BULLETIN This is a tough year en the boll weevil, 'fhe cold weather of the winter just past fronze out the main army of this No. 1 in sect enemy of the Agricultural South, and now farmers havu found 4a effective weapon with which to combat the hardy we evils that survived the freezes. These weapons—the new prc- s.cuare mopping and dusting treatment, and the established post-equare poisoning methods ((re outline in a new publication cf the State College Extension Service. It is Extension Folder No. 45, entitled “Boll Weevil Control.” . Any farmer of the State may receive a copy of the folder free upon request to the Agricultural Editor at N. C. State College, Haleii'h. County farm ^ents of t>.a Exteneion Service also have supplier of the publication in t!ieii' oificc at the county seats. J. O. Rowell, Extension entomo legist L:author of the new boll wcevile control bulletin. In it, he gives full information on the 1-1-1 mopping treatment, idiich hats proved very effective in the everbearing berries be grown South Carolina and other States, on new ground, which should be cleared in the fall ^tlnd burnt over to kill out forest weeds and trash. The ground is plowed in March and the plants set in April. Plants are secured from old painting, which is nev«r allowed tb remain more than two years. The plants are set 12 inches apart in three foot rows. All blossoms and new runner p^ilit9 are pulled off until tlie first of June, and the fruit for the late crop develops from August 1 to as hite as the middle of October. The following year, the orgrinal planting produces berries for the early crop, beg inning to ripen June 1, jdad ex tending into July. In this way. and which was used succesefnlly by a numlber of North Carolina growers on an experiment^ basis last year. - Rowell says that boll weevils hkve made only scattered attacns this yeiir, but he recommends v'.gilance in order that the insect ctn be poisoned at th^ first signs of his invasion of the cottosi field. The pre square moppinc; treatmen't calls for the use of ii mixture of one pound of calcium cA'senate, o4ie gallon of cheap molasses, and one gallon of water. This amount is sufficient to mop one' acre. i two crops a year are harrestad from the same planting. Is This Another Lynching? Sermonette PEW OF US KNOW where we are or where we're going. A LOT OF PBOiPL£ prefer to appear dumb as a protective device GBAVY, COPPlEe AND SALADS are beyond the knowledge etid dll of Four out of five cooks. TSUt SUSPICIONS of women, so far as men are concerned are ast vtttMut foMidation. , MO0T OF TEE commercial radio announcers read their stuff as 11io»cl> thej didn’t 4>elieva it then>eKes. BE eternally grstaful that they don’t understand FACING FACTS By Rav. H. M. Moera “M^lrarhal Stover is a very re ligious Negro TruMee In the church. They are having a hard time finishing that church. In the southern part of the town. They need money, so Marshall and the committee set out to raise some money. They pooled their dimes And bought a half gallon Jar of white liquor, and Marshall set shout to retail it, at a dime a drink.” The ^Ibove portrays the com mon level to which the church is dragg;ed, by those who are not in possession of the Christtian religion. This man had a zeal, but not in accordance with the teaching of Qhristr' like m^ny others who are members of the church and whose hearts are not r.i'ht with God. He gambles wtth secred things hoping to win for thn cause of righteouinesa. There are too many ‘pooling of dimes” in flie church, with hope tl^ they may double and treble themselves getting some thing for nothing. Those common S'anday Teas for the church are often, it is reported spiked with liuqor. Moreover it haa been re ported entertainments have been given in the name of the chuKh to pay fof individual house rent. Poor Church I Poor Church! Here is the case where Mslira^all Stover was caught in the clutches of- the law and hailed intio court and was released bei^use he war raising money for the church. Poor Church! Thus you,see why the church sustains a ibad reputa tion. And the whole group suffers for it The church will come to ita own as fi whole when it seeks to elevate ita^memiber- ship to the standard of Christ and not lower its standard for the sake of numbers. Not until the church gets back to operat ing by the spirit Christ, it wifi ever suffer at the hand of such unscrupulous persons. NEW ORiLfiANS, (ANP) — Attorney General Eugene Stan- lejf of Louisiana ^sured in a letter to Leon Lewis of the As sociated Negro Press that it was the intention of his department '•to fully investigate this matter (the Neiw Roads killing of Boos ter Willi^Ans), and to make every possible effort to ascertain the real cause of death.” Investig^a- tions and reports since the body of Booster Williams w*,»i found on« mile' above Morganza on Highway SO, have revealed that the Negroes of New Roads jslnd j that he had met death by an automobile, to make it ^pear that he had met~~deaith by an au||umobile accident, instead of by mob violence. Incidenta lefJdincr up to the notification of the attorney gen eral’s office cast a htt of doubt upon tlie claims of the local authorities in New Roads, be cause it was found through in vestigation that Negro citizens of that city had been threatien«d and intimidated. Local ANP representatives Aind a representative of the Farm Questions STATE COLLEGE ANSWERS TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS Quastioa:—Doaa praBlng lutT* any affoct on the aixa of ^aUia bloom*? Answer:—^Yea. The number and size of blooms* will depend upon the number of a lateral branches you allow to grow. If a very large bloom ia daaired, the center stjflk should be left and all laterals pinched out ex cept the bottom two or three sets or the center stalk may be pinched out leaving about three rets of latei^s at the bottom of the plant. These will be forced out quickly and will give a num ber of lai(e blooms. ^ these bdUrals develop remove all se condly laetriak except the lower pair and continue this practice until frost. _ .. QoaatioB:—^WImb la ||Im bast tisM to plaal TogataUe* for ay fall igmr4»m1 Answer:—This depends upon the l^ttrdiness of the different vegetiUbles and the time required for mataritiy. Tender vegetables must be planted in time to pro duce a crop before killing frosts occur an^ should be given a iittle more time to mature dur ing the fftl months than is re quired- durinff warm weather. Mie latest safe dates for plant ing the dltterent vegetables Morganza have been threatened Southern Regional conference of ar.d Intimidated by white citiasens the NAACP investigated these and police officials of Point reports and found that they wece Coupe Thia information,' true. Etta Mae Williams, a sister together with statements of the ^ to the ‘.murdered boy, gave fi body’s relatives and conditions utstement to the press that her of his body when found on the brother had come ^ to New (te- hiffhway by a white motorist, were sent to the attorney gen eral’s office by the local repre sentative of the ANP. Attorney general was asked i if his department had contemp lated launching an investig^ion iiflo the case to determine whe ther the bo/ met death by an automobile accident, as cltlmed by the police amfchorities of New Roads, or whether he had been lynched in New—Roads or Mor ganza lind placed upon the high way and probafcly run over by an >information that on returnii^ automobile, to make it appeak crops in the various sections of the state lire given in> Extension Circular 122 and copies of this may be obtained free upon re quest to the Agricultural Editor at State Colle^. Qnestion:—When should I st-leet my tobacco seed plaints?.. Ane:—Seed plants diould be selected just before the tobacco is topped and ftH plants so select ed should be typical of the var iety planted. The lefikes must be well spaced on the stalk and the plant stand out above the aver age. The p^lits should be bagged in a 14 pound paper bag Just be fore the first bloom to prevent cross pollination. Bud worm bait should be applied to »eed pods before the bags are put on. When the tobfkco is matured, the beet seed plants should again be se lected. • • leans to s^tay with her about three weeks before his death, and told of his halting worked for ,a white man in Morganza^ and that tiiis man had run him out of town, thraiRening his lifa telling him never to return thert again. „. . iSbe said her brother had told her this man suspected he had informed his wife of an affair the husb«fad had «had with a colored girl who was in his ei»- ploy. It was assumed irom this fiom New Roads, Booster had met violent death by disobeying the (threats of this white nwtn. Attorney general Stanley statei fuptfier in his letter, "I wrote to the district attorney of Point Coupee parish aometimes ago^ and received a letter from hint to the effect thtit he would make full inve.4tigation and report all facts to me as soon as this. in vestigation was complete. If you have iny Information in our possession which will aid me, ax attorney general, in ascertaining the real facts in this c4se, please submit the information to me, and I will have the matter thorou^ly investigated, so thtit in the event it should be dis closed this man wA murdered, the evidence warrants the charg ing of any Individual or individ^ uals with the crime ot murder, the proper charge magr b^ im- Continued on Pafe 6 — NAACP Confab Hears John L. Lewis Rap F DR i>HSLADELPlHlA, — si^riat ia( President Kooseveh and his New Deal administration for making “depression and unem ployment a chronic fact in American life” while offering “involvment >r intervention in ttie EuropeJn war” as a way out, John L. Lswia, chainudn of the Congress of Industrial organisa tions told IfiOO delegates and visitors attending the opening meeting of the NAACPs 81st annual conferMce here Tuest^, June 18, that “It is time for all Americans to taka stock of the problems which face them to day." .... Pointing out that tht salvjsl- tion of the Negro People ia America today “lies in the same measure as does that of labor a* a'whole” he told the meeting, which was held in Tindley Tem ple, Broad and Fitawater Sts., that “Two great rights guar antee the condition of lalbor and the N\egro in fL democracy. The first is the right to organise in a union as workers. The second is the right of polttieal expresa- ion freely and unhampered.” He analyzed the work of the Congress of Industrial OrganiM- tiona and Labor’s Non-Partisan Lea^rue in their program of guaranteeing the “welfdka and the rights of all' Americans who work for a living.” With thia as a prelude to a» offer of cooperation between the CIO and the Na&.ional Aasocia- tion for the Advancement of Colored People in an effort tb work otit common proldema ffoch as the fight to pass the Aatt- lynching bill aiMi the Aatl-Pell Tax bill, the CIO ehainMB i»- vited the associ^.loa to Jain hands with Labor’a Non-^artisaa Lt-agua and tha CIO. Of tida ka said: ...... “Labor, through Labor’a Non- P^iaan League, has abaadf offered to tha National Nagro Cengress the hand o^ ceofaratian in a common caosai To tha Na tional Association for the MA- vancement of C^rad Pao9)«» who offer that ebo^ratian. Tha ClO^said this asuoeiatioa have • common interaat in' many Wktlr ers—in tha aStolition of the poll tax, in the wiping out of IjsA- ing, in the praaervatioB of tha righta of collectiva civil liberties, in the ‘ satafcUsh- Continuad on Pj^lga IWot PA3TOR CHISERVES THIRD ANNIVERSARY OHAPBL HILI. — Tha Saeend Bapitist Church of whish Bov. i. H. Jonas ia pastor, rocaitUy etoo- ed a highly suceesaful eeldMUon of tha pastor's third annlvor- sary. At the close of tha aariaa of meetings which wera port ol this celd>ration the BMmbon presented a puna of flM.OO to Eev. Jcoea. Not , only did avary member of tha Second Baptiat clrarch tako ^hotiva part in this anniversary celflteation but all the churches erf the commuatt|r did their share to make it m_ success. .. -• At present the Second Baptiat church is geitiog well ondar w«4r with wotV on the basamaai. Dr. Louis Wriglit Receives 25th Spingam Medal FHiLADBLPHIA — The twenty fifth Spingarn medal waa stwarded here Wednesday nigVt, June 19, at the 31st an nual NAAOP conference, to Dr. Lou^ T. Wright, of New York City,^4alned surgeon and chair man of Uie board of tiie Nation al Associaftion for the Advance ment of Colored People. The medal was accepted by Mrs. Corinne Wright for her huaband who w*A unable to bu preaen^t beoause of illness. The presentetion of the metlal was made by Dr. Russell I. Cecil, professor of surgery at Cornell medical schooL Accep^t- ing the medal, Mrs. Wright read the following stalement from Dr. Wright acknowledging the award: .... “I feel highly honored to havn been awarded the Spingarn Medal. My Inability to ba pre sent to receive it in person ha't cdUsed me deep regret. One cannot refrain from having a feeling of sati»faction in the acknowledge that one’s work has been considered worthy, by some competent persona aft leaat, of an awarded of such great di#rtinction.” “To be a Spingarn Medalist puts o»e in excellent company. My precedessors in this raspect comprise a group of men ilnd women of the best caliber. They have made distinguished re cords for themselves in their '-'■cen professions and have used their best enegerics to help in the advancement of their race." - "My life has been devoted to the study and practice of medi- ^ne, with tlte emphasis o» *ur- gery, I have helped as best T could to elevate the standards td medical pr«l>tiee and to help in thp education of those who csme under my supervision. In addi tion, I had devoted much time and study 1o that knotty pro- blpm, the health handicirtps of Nefrro Americans. It should be dear by now that health dis abilities created solely because of skin color constitute a vicious disregard for human life and in the long run for America’s health. It is impossible to im prove the health ^f colored peo ple and r.eBt>^i^t the training and pi^ilctlea of their nurses and^ doc tor*. There are no moral or logi cal grounds to snpp^ tha prac' tica of raca diaerimtaatioB by any medical school or hospital.** “Americsil can Hi afford to cri ticize certain. Earopoan nation* as long as it continaM to mkt~ treat in such ftagrant fasiUon colored citizana who wish to study medicins ind noitiag. No- gro doctors and nurtaa hovo do* monittrated tliair profaaaloMl competency many tloMa, and they ara efficient ia diract pror portion to their trainiag oad educ;i.ion, in tha saaa ratio as members of all other noiai groups.” ' “Tha National Associatioir far the Advancement of ColorodyPeo* pie has wsti* » constant and steady fight against racial il|gro- gation. Segregationistav irklto and bUf.'k, have attemptad on occasiona to spoil thia effort kif showing the immediate appereet advantages that m«iy be abtaia* ed if the colored paopla af thia consttry would accept asgragat- eJ set upa. 1 am sorry to aor one of our greatest obst^loa in thia' fight has )>oan oor own “fifth columnisits.” We havo bean aided greatly, however, ky tlio publicity given those aaaavory intra racial elements by flM No- gro press, which iMta anllifiod most of their Oletivitlas.” r “At thia time of worid anrsot, it seems fitting for mo to pokit out that tha Association^'haa al ways been ganuindy ^trlotia, and that. H haa nover s^portad Communism or any other 'Ians/ exceplting Americ^ilsm, Jdirect^F 'or indirectly. We hovf i)^rkad to make America aafe for ail. Americana and ot |M aaiM time I may arty we will woric equally’ as hard in tbo' dotauo of American—^from eidpNraal at tacks. One might Aink that tba struggle of a minority. ^*0 social Justice would be of littlo importance to tiio naUoa but if common aenss is broogfat into play this is belied b]^ tho aHi* tary history of . the Aiaarl««« N^o. If the prewnt mM criade becomes mora acnto, tho minority group thpt .the oatioa qip safely depend o|H>n ia American Nsgro. ^is miUti^ tahint, and um|aestiflif>«4 layalty is kistoric. On the other haa^ white Americans slvdald daatljr sep by this time that ia to litcir own pononolt solfi^ Ad a*- ^thia«d on Faj|o
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