EDITORIALS COIIEITS PUBLISHED WEEKLY EY THE CAROLINA TIMES PUBUSMIMG CO MAIN OFFICE 117 K. PEABODY ST. PHONES N>71X1. DURMAII. M. C. I-7«71 L. E. AUSTIN, PUBLISHEE WILUAM A. TUCK. Mmmc«C E«tw HERBERT R. TILLERY, B««iaM* Maaapw ciniutLOTTE OFFICE LaROY M. WASHINGTON. M«DagiBf EUtmr 4X0 1-2 EAST SECOND STREET ^ SUBSCRIPTION RATES j |2.0V—Y«»r, ll.Iifi—6 month*, ^ ^ 75c—3 Months. Eotored u Mcond*elaai matter at th* post oSlM at l>arbun, N. C., under the Act ef UucA «rd 187»." SATURDAY, AUG. 2*. 1»40 BE COURTEOUS, CONSmERATE AND PATIENTj “A *oft answer tameth away wrath: but grievoui word* atir up anser.—^ProT. l€:l. Afoot and lifht rearted I tafce to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The Ion* brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Hencaforth I aak not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth 1 whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothin*, Done with indoor complaint*, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strons and content I travel the road. WPA DISCRIMINATION The Federal Bureau of InvestigiWon ought to look carefully into /the WPA setup in North Carolina, as it perUins to Negroes. The cooitajit grumbling among Negroes against the many unfair pi»c- of WPA in thia sUte will not remedy the condition. Tl» CAROLINA TIMES attempted several weeks ago to inTesti- flSta the reason far the many complainte now going the rounds, hat foHud WPA officials in Raleigh and elsewhere experts in ^^aaiveneaa, when questioned concerning the discrimination againat Nagro workers in the WPA setup. • If WPA officials in North Carolina are discriminating agaiMt Nagroes, or any other group of American citiaen^ ■ 'the federal ■overnsnent ought to see to it that such officidis are put out of aoBtrol of their offices. W* do not feel that any agency will be able to get an actual picture of what is going on in the state office of WPA, unless it >a th# FBI. Our attempt Kt the job has taught us, that even though we ^re almost assured that something is going on wrong, ^ was inpoBMble to get definite proof from WPA, officials i* l^tidgh, because of their refusal to disclose information th&'t. the j^Uc ought to have. \ Wbat ia needed is an investigation of WPA in North Carolina, top to bottom. We believe some interesting facts, if not wuaaltional ones, will be revealed. BY HENRY CLAY DAVIS Aa «h# appiaiial of aneta and Hty and y«t thaaa unmiaUkable liabUitlaa and the fixing of r*l^.'“»or«l credit* wara not aUowad Ing are baaed on an InyiolaUa ••mblanca of a cbanea lyatem of debit and credit in natten of morality. In every human lifa rag!^d> losa of aocial *tatu* there are debits of indiscretion and vary. Ing -degree* of profli^cy. and tredit* of commendable attribu* tas Aid attainment* which, wh«n properly posted to the moral ledger to determine the prepon derance of one over the other, ■'Kotnd afto determine our worth t3» the community in which we liva. Since our acts of benevolence *o often pasa unnoticed while our n^ost insignificant. «actB of indiscretion are vociferously made public and dccorded the worst possible interpretation by fchose w(bo call themselves our friends, we are constrained to dcubt that such eelments aa cul ture, Justice, and magnjfaiimity csn exiM amid such questionable intelligence. » SUCKER TOWNS We have before us for |:uid- anc-e tihe great Divine admoni tion to cast the first stone if we, ourselves, tl-e withowt blemish but it seems to have no moaning for the stone casters or scandal mongers of today who enjoy notiiinir better than an oppor-^ tunity to cast stones asper sion upon reputation cleaner and better than their own. A very popular young person in this community was recently •aid to h*ve committed an act of indiscretion which the stone casters lost no time posting ei^ainst that person as an unpar donable moral debit. So far as we know that young person has always enjoyed a life teeminz with an Itbundance of sweetness, | HIM (OR 'hope, ambition, charm, persona-] WITHOUT to counter balaaca that ona on fortunate debi| by the atoae casters, the Judases, the scum of decant aocial intercour*e. Tha a«t in quaation mu*t have been bom of desperation, and desperation doea not fall to make its ezirtenoe manifest therefore somebody jeould have insistently traced the palp«Jbl« dtaperation to ite origin and thereby possibly placed them selves in position to make the commission of such an act an- necessary. A reputaition would have been saved a well thought of young peraon could have continued a useful life among decent people wiUiout head hang irg and ahame. We do not hold such alzts should be condoned .buib we do believe that steps taken on time to preclude the possibility of any such tragedy will achieve far beitter results than all the bitter condemnation and reproach in the world. We do not know w hat caused, this tiling to happen and we should not be so quick to lend ^urselves to fallible and derogatory conjecture lest we do irreparable harm to someone we might better have tried to help. Stone casters evidently^do not have the intelligence to realize that a pound of lead cannot possibly be made to weigh tiny more than a pound of feathers and likewise that their merciless and malicious gossiping which often occasions th* complete de setruction of a reputdltion and the hope of recovery, is no leas reprehensible than the aota about which, «they gossip. l4El^ HER) ’ WHO IS SIN CAST THE /’m Against All Sorts Of Discriminations, Segregation 3rd Term Would —Wendell Wilkie Transform Gov’t Beyond Recall lity, cordiality, talertt, and hum! I FIRST STONE« Editor's Mail Bag CitarlotU, Winston Salem, Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh, Rocky and a few other cities in North Carolina have been labelled “suck- ,ar towns’' by big dance orchestras from northern cities, who boast of tfaeir ability to play a one night stand in any city in thia atate, and mop up a thousanjd or more dollars. The money cornea from the poefceta -of-' smtill-town hicks who have been known to pawn tlMir clothes, shoes, hats and even steal to get the price of admis** ion, whi^h is usually from three to four times as much tfi the orchestraa are able to get for paid aiBmiesions in northern cities. I Tt»e northern booking agents, who are experts at the game of playing auckers, usually starts the “det-t” by sending a telegram te tile head sucker, who has styled himself a promoter. He adviae* him (hat such and such . an orchestra can be held for a thousand dollars guarantee for a one night’s stand. Of course the head sucker is swept off hi® feet by skilful wording of the message ■ which makes him feel that uhleas he hurries, all of the dates will be taken or a bigger offer to play elsewhere the same night'^8?y keep him from closing the “deal.” _ The head sucker, finaJly through hook or crook, raises a deposit of from one third to one half of the thousand dollar guarantee with orchestra and the great deal i* on. The self-atyled promoter then begins to whoop it up antU the fual night of the damce when rain, empty pocketboote or other attractions cut his crowd and the promoter auddenly awakena to the fact that he is not a promoter but a sucker. Further down the road he ilao discovers that what he thought was a square deal, is truth a raw deal. Instead of accepting its part of the loss experienced, the or chestra management closes in on its prey and the sucker promoter is forced to fork up the remilinder of the money or become em barrassed to the extent of disgrace. As soon as the naoney is obtained the orchestra goes on its merry way, the management feela “hotay-totay” smacks its chops and wonder when it can come back for more. One anight think the sucker-promoter would have enough by nov, bot instead he goes back for more, sometimea before he can pay idt the note on which he borrowed the money to pay the orchestra, he is in it up io his neck agstin with a one in five chance to win. The orchestra never loses. Smart business men, c^lege professors, physician* and even ainistera have been played for suckers by the management of the*e Mrthern orehestrais who have found North Carolina a fertile field for foola. Few, if any of these men, would invest one dime in a worth- whil« community project. But they will continue to dump their perlectiy good money into a losing propoaitiM. It ia hard to deter- ■dn* who ia Uie bigger sucker, the socaUed promoter* or the poor 4»rilM who pay from seventy-five cent to dollar and ten cents to keep the racket going. FABCNTS WOiUUt BE SHOCKED if they know how much their efaiUrea know at the age of five. AS WE UNDEB8TAND IT the “Peace be with you” nibvement tnrtTT'*** married people ia ita membership. WHAT PEOMPI^ A PROPEaSOR to travel five hundred miles, win I Ilf iMy, to aay aomething that everybody ha* known for iifty ifimtii AWmion, EM^EAVOB, aad atruggl# are splendid qualities. -^|ii|e'S«WETmNG ITBStfTlNG about « silent woman. X TO WOMIHS whrpeople cried at weddli«l. I* pmOflff find duU, huy friends. of life iaaaraace salesmeo to succeed ioft for widow*. Dear Editor: World’s events are coming upon us ao swiftly that it is very difficult at present to fore tell just what t^is year has in store for us Americjins and still more impossible is it to predict what tihe majj^ )f Europe and Asia will be like at the beginn ing of 1^1. Several events can be predicated upon past events arid present ideologies, not only in tihe eastern hemisphere but in the western as well. It is use leas for us here in democratic country to deceive ourselves and others by proclaiming over the house tops thaa all the 21 American republics, aft united in the Pan American Union, are all equal, free, independent and de mocratic. Anybody making su«h at statemeiit is surely un&cquaint ed with the respective histories I of the republics to the south of I us, for without a »ngie excep tion, their present governments have either been “shot in” aftei shooting tiie former ones out, or they had to flee for their lives under the threat of re volution. Not pnly is that the case, but by far the greatest nun^r of them aire even now under some kind of dictatorship with Iheir sympathies linked to foreign similar governments. Nor need we exclude entirely the fighting Allies in Europe, for their records in the Orient, India, Near East Spain, Africa, and even in this western hemisp here, speak so loud thdt we should not pay much attention to their present declarations. At least Germany and Italy do not claim to be democracies, and I predict that such countries, as they conquer will^. l^se moat of their former democratic pro cedures; and if we. enter this war, we too, will lose most of our democratic government. So why not keep telling them, "no thanks, no tanks, no yaftiks” and stick to it. War t^se recent times is a ttem*ible deetngctive* mons|er, deetroiring victor an| vanquished alike, as ^1 be be amply proven when the vic tors ia this war will be compelled to return to the economy of peilee. Even wHh our tremend ous war preparations, we too will find it very difficult to >retom to the sanity of peace, la order to brine about some tolution for their re^eetive BY EMMETT J. SCOTT prepared to marshil and pre**nt WASHINGTON*—That “the . comprehensively a record of degener^lvion of democracy, and failures not matched by any the devitalization of the people ^ administration in the history of of America” are invovled in th^our Government; Government the coming campaign was the remark of a prominent Republi can at ColortJio Springs, Colorado a* he conferred with Wendell Willkie, Repbilican Nominee for President of the United, “And four years of it,” he de« dared, “will see this Govern ment transformed beyond r^all. Thoughtful men throughouili the country are voicing opinions of the s<ne import. They deeply concerned about the future of this America of ours, Th^y know how laboriously it has been fashioned and how it has been governed during: the 150 years of its existence. They view with jealous eye anything amd everything that tends to whittle away the fundamental tenents of this Republic which everything that tend* to whittle away the fundamental tenets of th» Republic which they ate determined shill be made to work in this land of the free and home of the bravel ‘ economic orders, all the warring nations will be forced to expand their foreign trdkie to countries that still have a surplus produc ing capacity with willing credits Our great nation can command and rfesume that position; but not in case we get either into that devastating war or foeconle hopelessly involved by using our inventive genius and productive capacity in building aa sfsenal for all the nations of the world. There are so many serious problems facing oar ■ country that it should behoove us to study these in the light of is- fory, our Christian convictions, skid our future welfare, if we would continue to be a free America and make our great country a beacon light for other countries' to either follow or reapeot. The Mexican problem is one 0.* these, that is forcing itself upon us, not because they caoi’t settle their own problenw with in tiietr ' own boundaries, but because our investors have gone there with their business adven tures and are now insisting upon our government protecting such exploiting privilege. Urtfortuiy ately the Mexican constitution compelled Cardene^. to stop aside; in the recent national election Camacho was declared to be over whelmingly elected to carry on the plans of Car denas. However Almazan who is back ed by the old conservatives in cluding the Catholic clergy, money interests, liquor and gambling joints. Dies tlid Gar ner of Texas, has also been proclaimed as elected, and his t*e threatening trouble if votes are not properly counted ufnd Almazan declared President on or before Sept. 1. Anoong Cardenas’ outstanding foUowers are &0,0ft0 Mexican youths who have pledged them selves to abstain from smoking, drinking, gambling and other hdd habit*) and always to be ready for labor ' and* defense. From reports, we learn that the moc|t threatening fifth column-' ists down there are the stool pigeons hired by the foreign oil and mining interests. I have the greaitest respect afcid admiration for Cardenas, for last year I crossed into Mexico at £l Faso 4nd ygain at Bouthcrn HOW NEW DEAL HAS FAILED AVERAGE M^lN As we come once again to ap praise the policies, philosophies and actual resul'ts of the New DetU administration, under our two party system, the opposition is called upon to stiate wherein the New Deal has failed to meet the needs of every day men and Women who Jove their country, and^who wish it to provide for them the full employment of our men, our money, and our mtJier ial*, g progressive rise In our living standards and increased security of our people. In stating its criticisms, the opposition is called upon to be constructive. It must not simply register captious f^lt findings. It must be exact and factual. It must document its citetions of those policies which it believes threaten the future of the ted and point out in clear cut, unev&bive language those disastrous consequences and menaces which it think are ii. store for us if New Deal policies are continued. Under Wendell WUlkie, its new leaders, the oppoution is budgets remain unbaltinced; xui- bulanced; unemployment con tinues after nearly eight yean of trial and error, ^th 1>0,000, OOO men desperate akid in des pair because they cannot pro perly care for their wives and children; the national debt and reached tin astronomical level and women I even before we began our de fense preparations; mounting taxes, direction and hidden, are higher than ever before in our history; the- Federal Government is “on the road to btlnkruptcy,” to use President RooseVelt'a own words; and finallyi chaos and confusion attend evei^ deaperf ate expedient and experiment of of New Dealiam. COLORED CITIZENS This recital come* home to Colored citizens probafcly more closely than to other gmips made up mainly of low ineoane group*. All of these tilings wherein our Government i^as so kuaent- ably failed, are of deepest con cern to them. Their future is~ more clearly menaced for they halve also racial and economic discrimina> ;tionfiv>^nd prejudices to ovet^ come w-hile they strug^ for their place in the sun. The buMens of depression, as Glenn Frank Committee Re port pointed out, have fallen “with an ’ extraodutarily heavy l(mpsei” upon them. Relief pro grams are playld by the ad- ministraltion as the chief solvent of their difficulties and salva- ticn. The future of the Negro peo ple in America is involved in this contest of the two parties. It will be for them to decide if they wish further to acquiesce in the disciminatory treatmeiit- son racial grounds now meted ou to them. They cannot permit themsel ves to gamble with another four years of New Deal promise* and failures, which during the past seven >ne half yea* hakre brought them only a deadening sense of hopelessness and des peration. Their course of action is'clear sind unmistakaMe. WASHING1>ON, — Charles P. I representatives. Howard, Editor and Publisher On being asked if be de*ifti of The Howard News Syndcate, to *ay anything with referceif The lowa Observer, De* Monies; ti the Hegro Question, Mr. The Tri State Observer, Daven port; and The Waterloo Obser ve, Waterloo; has sent a »port to Republican National Com mittee Headquarter* of certain explieit statements made by Wendell Willkie, Republican Nominee ' for President of • the United States, on the occation of his visit to Des Moines. Mr. Howal'd’s report follow*; DEB MOINES, Iowa, Wendell Willkie, Republican Presidential Nominee, emphasised in Des Moines last Monday that he be lieves that “Negroes are Just American dtlzens,” and th£t' “the approach to them for tkeir political support should be the same approach as to o^er American citizens” Mr. Willkie wa* in De* Moines August ‘6, for tf conference with "Mid.-.- Western Governor* and farmers. • During the day however he was interviewed by other i»- tarviewed by other intereste. His attitude on the Negro was dis closed at a Press Conference attended by more than one hundred Iowa newspjiper edHon, among these were three Race Willkie immediatoly repllfd: “I don’t think there i* My man in Ameriea who has spolMB or written more stroni^y on Negro Question than 1 havy itod I did it at a time w4m I h^ ao idea bf odcupyiag jmy px^nflj positon.” Mr. Willkie iras later aaked if he had any n^ciA plan foir getting the Negr^ vote. He re plied : “I don’t believe in any |dan to get the Negro TOtfj 1 think they are all Anericaa citisens.” Following the Press Confer ence, Mr. WilHrie hefd an )n> formal hitervicw with « tmap of Negro RepubHcan lealletf froA the state of lowa, wherehi he Mid; t "If I am elected, I will carry out the platform of the SepolbU* can Party as it dealt with tbo Republiciln Platform on thta Plank 100 per cMtt” PurthM* inquiry was made of Willkie as tg whether or not, aa President of the United Statea’ he would soe that the National GcTemment led the way in elimiitating disorinitntltion and Please turn to Pag* Five Musings...On Uneitipfoymeiit Race Farmers To ✓ , Be Organized California. I hired a taxi at El Paso and asked- the Mexicein driver to show me the gambling Joints and' beauty palaces in Juarez, but he informed me that these hdd all moved across the border into El Pasm I visit ed Aqua Caliente where Ameri can gamblers had nvested mill ions in one of the finest gambl ing and beauty pMUices in this hemisphere. This 'bad been turn ed into \a self help college for Mexican ^otiths, chiefly Indians. I was informed taait^ no “beau ties” nor drinking gai^%rs~1rel% allowed in that section now under orders from Cardenas. I also have before me a recent report of the Pioneer Mission Agency of Philadelphia and from it 11ieam the “glad tidings" tlu^t never have Protestant Mi*- sicnaries been so welcomed as have these by Prudent Carden as to come to Mexico. P. O. SCHALLERT Winston->Salem. WHY DO RADIO Pragrams seem better after midnight? NO HUSBAND can please wife she chooses to fight. his A GOOD DEED get* about the same attention these dslH as a homely face. 20 ORGANIZERS TO COVER SOUTH MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Twenty farm hands were scheduled to leave Memphis Sunday, follow ing a six week period of train ing by the United Cannery, A^icultural, Packing 4nd Allied Workers of America, to or ganize the farmers of the South. Work of the unionists will begin first in Arkansas, Mis*., Missouri, Oklohoma and Tenn., the States from which cstme the 20 fanners to be trained, but will spread rapidly into all see- tions of the South. The union wm once affiliated witii ,the Southern Tenant* Fi4rmers’ Union, but now its rival, it furnished free transpor- tatioB and board to 20 laborers Sq that they could loam the the rudiments of union organiza tion. 'The Southern Tenafcit Farm ers’ Union and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Worker* of America split last year after a dispute over whs# the "Souttiern Ten ant Farmers’ Union said was dictatorical control by the CIO. The UCAPAWA is a CIO affili ate and the Souihem Tenaitt Fanncn Union is indepeedent. BY J. F. SCOTT JUST MUiaiNG as to what a paradoxicaL^^^ntry we live in s^nge un^^dicteble and un- believeable. This thought comes to me over and over. The liibest attack I had was the other day when I tried to get - a job at Sparrows Point, Md. As I was driving into the employment arei I saw white men going in the office and some of them came out with caads, others were coming out smiling. Need les to say,'I entertained a hope of getting a Job, but the man were so lined up ao that the whites were in front and the blacks were clustered together ir the reclr. After the whites had been served the colored re ceived the attention of the ra- ployment agent who came out personally and told them it was no use spying for thece was nothing doing not only for that day but the rest of the week. He told them to g^ home if they htlJ a home or go some place Just so It was off the company’* property. Many of tl^e fellow left but still a larger group stayed and formed little groups to discuss the situation over. I joined one of the groups and they said nearly every di4y It was the same, the whites were taken dn and the colored were told there was n, work. There wa* a de mand for whites and in fact tha company wtta trying to get more from other places. Paradoxical no? Some of the colored fellow* bed worked for the company for as much as 18 year*. The employment agent did not tfflc* time to interview colored appli cants at all, therefore, he did not know whether he had men qualify for any of the job* or not. I went up to the guard and talked with him and he said that there wBs nothing doing; but while I talked with him a white ■pan came up and he told him to go liHiide probably he could get on. One of the un intsview* ed men upon being told to go home had the preaence of aind to remind the the employment agent that Hitler will be over land. It aeems that such mater ials are not be to contaminated by blaek hdbds, for in many of the plants no colcHred are employ ed. I went to one of the plants and the employment agant said they do not hire colored save porters and that he had two Uid there were fiv« on the waiting list. America prepares for natieaal defense in such « strange demo- cnvtie wtfy. Whethei; the ^^eat Thompson Product com^my whkh nianufactares aircraft parts employs any N^roea in skilled or even uasfcilled ei^cl* tie* I do not know. 1 Weat to tUa en4>k)yment line nnaay tkMa but 1 never sAw any working ia the plant ner did I see any being employed. I suppose the company *till believes in that old Ameri can doctrine that the blaek man can do nothing but the dmggaijr type of work. The awrape American white man never thinks of the Negro a* being educated to do many of the l^oba thaj^ the ordinary white noin just picked up, he doesn’t raad enough about the thing* tlii* Negro has aocomplished to b‘e well informed of' the wonderful potentiality of hi* mKlve etoek, he would rather take a chance on a foreigner who is Just a apt to be a fifth column man a* not. Just tiiini; wihiR eoald fee dow by men of color if the doors that are thrown open wide to Germans, Poles, ete, were just cracked a little so that the N«- gro can put some of his ingen* ity to work for Uncle Sam in theaa days of treachery. Who kaow* but if another *et of BUUaekeis might not lay out more beawtifal cities than ^aaib- ington, a set of Ga*sals, Bi^bia> SOM, Williams, ^te., may desiga mfore charming” buildings for people to live in, a set of Cairer^ «xtract more products from the the mommon peUiut, ete., yet e^%n snothW set of Faidiw Divines to feed and house peo ple which the government’s pro gram fouQd hard to*^ do! Oft time* the black man Criea out to the white emjployer and soon—a rather slgnificdnt thing ho the law givers to r.efwat th* to sugget at this time when the country is making such a head-> line effort to get the country prepared for ntfUonal defenss. IN CLEVELAND (Spent some *20 days in and tiraund Cleveland trying to^^gkt a job so I could do my iit hi helping the country prepare it self agsin*t • Curapean or aone of ‘the moe aggre**ive hemiqriieri csl invation*. 1 found the ihdns tries buzzing witii activities Jmaliitig war miit«rials for '*0 caUed fint lino defense,' pledge of aUegiance to th flag and repeat'dowly and madi tatively the closing jtease “with liberty and Justice for hill” JUet «aeh American jthink of these words «iid may iis strive to be a better American each day by giving each nativ« bom AMerican tha benefit of the eiodtig ptease of th* plati^. The Nefo wants the help of country ia tiia service for wUflii he knows he can the of his talent m GIVI '