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Th« CoMiaian neced«il THuiemAY. stsn. 12.1940 Hitler And Deserves Thanks NASHVILLE, Tcnn. — “The white people Brownsville. Tenn., who Ia«t June lynch>l Egbert Wiltiaais and drove seven otter N«(ToeB from iheir homes b«eao«e tbe Neirroe* of Bn>wn«- ville wanted to exercise their c*nBtitutionaI rieht to vote in the coming prenidential election, thereby helped Hitler a|id de- merwe ■ letter of thtnleii frntn the Nasi leader.” This was the statement, madt* here by Walter White, secre tary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at tin NAACP sponsored mass meetin^r hold here at St- John’* AME church Au^st 29 for the purp«se of raisine funds to continue the fipht to hrini? the lynchers to justice and to broad en the rifht to vote campaign in this state. The lynching of Wiflia,ms was the first death resultinj: from a canpa%n of terror launched by whites in Brownsville apainart members of the NAACP in an attempt to head off the register when two or more persons con and vote drive. The Rev. Buster Walker, preeid«>nt of the NAACP branch, and Elisha Etevis, a mem ber of the executive ciommittee, both of whom worked with Peridinir the whitewash in- veM%ation of the Williams lyn ching by the Maywood ’ounty irrand »ury in a no indictment verdict handed riown August 13, the KAACP secretary said: “The prand jury report that no evidence oould be be found a president and vice president of the United States. We main- tjlin that the conspiracy to pre vent their doing so is a clear and unmistable violation of this Federal statute and vfc insist that the law be enforced to the as to the perpetr:tors of that outrage is ridiculous. I am no expert investigator but in a very few days I was able to K*ther concrete evidence establishinsr the participation of thirteen per sona in the kidnapping and mur der of Williams and the drivin* out of seven other Nejiroes from Brownsville. All this evidence and the names ..6f witnesses will ing and eajier to testify have been , placed in the hands of the bands of the United States Attor ney at Memphis fc'nd the Depart ment of Justice at Washin^on. Section 18 of Title 51 of the States Criminal Code, the con spiracy statute, clearly covers the Brownsville case. It provides for and requires federal action spire together to }eprlve ano ther person of the rights d«e him under the Federal Constitu tion. The sole reasoa' for the Brownsville affair was the asking Williams in leading the vote by these Negro citizens of what drive, were run out of Browns-jthey should do to qaulify and ville and h«ve not been allowed re^ster so that they mi?ht vote to retom. (in next November’s election of WITH SLOWER- BURNING CAMELS Advertisers Live in TT LJL What ttey ptotnise in their advertisement^ ■ Mod they 3eliver in ibeit inerdiandise, are diere for all to see. If diey Heliver wl^ they prmnise, they make fcieads and steady customers. If not they make lose {>attotiage and finally go out of fsbsioess. \ Those ate dw cold, hard reasons why honest^ is Ae best policy—especially In advertising. But the real fact is diat adyertisers as a clasf ^ are humanly jealous of their good names. Th« ^ tcad&macks of manufacturers and the publi^ed ' tecoaunendatioos of merchants are only ac- », cotd^ to products whidi they can ofier you ^ nib confidence and pride. You can trust the ads to lead you to sound fullest extent.” The Brcnvnsville lynching, White declared, gives the lie to the oft-repeated assertions of Southern senrttors that no fed eral anti lynehinf bill is needed because the states can act “vjpr- orously and promptly” to pre vent this crime. Pointing to the obvious giiiH of the law enforce ment agencies of Tennessee, he said: “In 1938 your Senator Ken neth McKellar was one of the most active opponents of the Waisrner, Van Nuys, Gavagan federal anti lynching bill durinjt the seven we«ks filibuster which cost the American tax payer nearly a half million dollars. During the course -long and bitter fi(?ht, Senator Mc Kellar put into the Congression al Record of January 17, 1938, telegrams from the governors o'^ fifteen Southern states, one of them being the then Governor of Tennessee, which stated that no federal ««ri8l.-^tion agajnst lyneh ing was neded as the states could and would act vigoroiisly, promptly and honestly to pre vent lynchings.vandirftttHish lynch- ersr-'^‘T*ig__^rc(wnsi{il}ft 8jlyn*ing clearly shows how Tnuch fai4h oan he paced in those pledges. As fEt as the public record shows the State of Tennessee has done absolutely nottiing to punisfi Williams’ lynchers whoee Identi ties are k^own, and obvio'usly ^es not propose to do anything. It is therefore fmpera»tive ihat the fight for federal legislation must be renewed and doubled in iiijfcensity, Sinoe oncdf more t'he importeri'Ce' of the states has been demonstrated. Dark and. ^yil(^» 4«ys ahead of A^rfila. IfUf of totalitarianism sweep ominously down upon the shores of what some orators eS'll mainin(5 democracy’ BY G£0. D. LIPSCOMB NKW YORK — Now as ever, since the bleased di^ of fr«« Jerusalem, the Jew is bein^: whip ped out thp house of human •ociety. With the riie amd spread of Nati power the JewJ» being driven witnout the p«]el>f human brotherhood and Jui^Hce. In Eur ope his very existence is deprM- ated. He i« forJbidden to practict the profeMona in which he hat excelled; he ia discriminated and segregHted. Decreet have go»i« forth annulling all marriage bet ween SemHe and Aryam In all Nazi-held territory he is robbed, beaten, mobbed, and thrown into ccnoenbration camps. All of the ills and sufferings which the Ger mans called down upon themselvea as a result of the last war .now laid upon the Jew, fle is an evil genie; he is problem. He must be extirpated. The present plight of the Jew in Europe is so like th^ nationid ly endorsed plight and universal ly prescribed place of the Negro in America! that the two peoples are now being ttientioned in the same breath. Hitler has frequently retorted: “Jew» and Negroes!” when called to task for, hi» treat ment of his Jews by hnnianitarian Americanf. He haa, I hal>re BO doubt, meant to assure oor White folks that, if he had any Ne groes, not even his famed genius foir cruelty could Contrive more humiliation and abuse, that to which Negroes are consigned, confined, find tftmped down into in—well, to pick "a sample below The Line, l«t us say Georgia. Or perhaps Hitler meant that his appetite would be satisfied with the treatment of Negroes in most any of our northern a*ate—oh, say Indiana. Or, yet again. Hitler might not have meant to point hi® finger of counter-accusation my farther than the Distfict of Cblurtibia, where Negroes are segregated in schools, where they are excluded from hotels, re- taur£(nts, theatres, et cetera; where Negroes are not permitted to try on hats and shoes in stroea where are crowded into Riwttoes in the verj;^ shadow oi the capitol; where such is the opprobrium attached to the mix ing of white and black that even the mulatto Negroes hal/e drawn a line on the blacks; where the greatest contralto voice of this world’s time ■ isi not allowed to swell in patriotic halls because it comes from the throat of a Ne gro woman. So the Nazis of Americsl un able to repulse Hitler’s poignant rebuke—old original Nazis, who ’the last re- We ask America if she wants the twelve million Negroes of this country to believe in their (ciout^tiry’s honestly when it says it opposes i were that before the name was race hatred and bigotry and die-'coined, before the swaetiKa was tatorfehip. If so, then America misused, before men heard of must wipe out of the kind ' of HitJer—sfre now, here in America Hitlerite bigotry for which the raising their vituperative voices which the Brownsville tragedy to utter in one breath: “Tbe stands.” ' Jews and the Nigger! Th^ Nigg- with the Jews than with anybody eke. Negroes are ** difment "H I I I I 11 I I H i ■!' l.l-l-l-i. 1 I 1 I I I 1 1 ers and the Jews! Why, lat^y I heard • freckle-fi^' cry; *'A1I Nagroea and Jewa oufht to be cajMlrated." But IliA Jew does not wi|it this. He does not wtoh to be mention- ad In the same breath With the N^gr^ nor e«strated in the same iplace s(t the same time or with the same instrusnent. He main- tain* that he Is not ofvly aj^ white inan hot a#so God’s Mott ehosen. He has, up to and including now in thia ooontry, had a pro*- peroos time, in comparison with the Negro, a most privileged tima. The Negro, of courae, is far too numberoua and virfle to sub mit to castration since he has got through slavery without that horrible privation. And, serious ly, the Negro should no more be mentioned in the same breath inyboc ifwe; from Jews as Jews are different from their pemecuters. The pepular chdrge a^inst the Je^ is that he makes Mg living by dealing in the surface of hi>- ouin enterprise. He is a banker and trader by nature. He live* by his wits, they say, akid he lives only where he can turn the pro duct of his wits into immediate profit. Hence he does not become rooted to any groand in any country. He is an in^ematioiRlist, they aay, i^is countt? h«in|g that in which he can reap best profit from hia tnVe. The N«gto, on the other hand, beoomes fixed to the soif on, which he finds himself. H« fells the forests, he tills the ground, he raised crops and reape crops, he puts his rivoulder uniter the levers of g,Jl industries, and in vest hi« whole life aand energies into holdng a plot of grotind and having life upon it. Although he has 'little else, he becomes so roote^ that to remove him from, the placf where he is planted would be to taal* up tt>e very bowels of indtwtry. Of course the Jew will sur vive this new outburst of persecu tion, and the Negro has no fear of there being ^ anything worse than what he has suffered. The world has a way, alifter a itime, of becoming' nauseated with its own excesses and spleen. HOW TO TREAT YOUR TOWN l^aiie it. Improve it. Talk about it. * Trade at home. I Be public spirited. i I Take a home pride in it. ’ Remember it is your home. Tell of its natural advantages. Trade and induce others to trade here. ^ Don’t call your best citizens frauds and imposters. ^ Support your local institutions that benefit youi^ town. ' Look ahead of self when all the towh is to be Considered. ^ Help’public spirited officers to do the most good for the most people, The foregoing was prinljed 25 years ago. A quarter of a century has made no change in its importance. N«gros and Jews By Mare Morclaad, PkD. Thousands of people tihro\igh' out the country, perhttpe today more than at tbe time of his death, miss the warm humor, the sharp and kindly intelligency of Heywood Broun. One wonders what things of wit and wisflom, whait things of straight away analysis and enlightening com ment Broun wothd be saying to- !ay if he were «till with ue. It is only natural that Broun should conve to mind as we note tihe passing of the annivenary of the execution of Sacco and Van- ae^ti-^thirteen yetlm ago August 23, 1»27. We remember We fine f^htin^ words written in defenee —Pittsburg Gazette. of these humble Italian workers, I*®”* to their death by the stub- 'born old Swiss Guard of Mass. remember, and note tihe e*- tablishing again of jthait anti- ali-e>n,antl k?)or, anti civil liberty hysteria among us in which the sad eyed cobbler and the mild- mannered fish peddler were done to death. Export* E^orts from the United States in June increased more than 48 percent over the saine mont^ in 19S9, rising from $236- ,164,00Q to $350,468,000, the Jump being caused b]( movement of war supplies. Sudden changes in temperature are harmful not only to the finish but to the tone of a piano. Never place • piano opposite doors or windows which expose it to draughts or icy wind. It should be kept in normal temperature, and free ftom dampness. : EYES EXAMINED! Household Hint When yon taake taisin unlBnfb'^t fob the jraisitui with glynrine. iTkay will cook m whole raisfaiL and those at the top at bott(«i os the do not bon. ClduthJtlAPn^ STOOb THE TEST OF TIME \ North Carolina Needi More Cova* .Cropi SPloM. Cwtlesy Natioa'i Bu$Uutt Percent of cultivated q IQ33 crop acreage seeded ™ . ec to winter cover croDS ^ ^ ■ 67 to 100 to winter cover crops Qc'^ed on 1939 tstimotes A9«C'STUC«T AOIifNiSTAAnON As shown by the map above, a considerable portion of North Carolina’s cultiyated farm land Is left bare during the winter, subject to destructive erosion and leaching- It ia estimated that North Carolina fanner* partkiipatins in the AAA farm program seeded C20,000 »cres of cover crbprt In the fall of 1989. The state AAA cominittes points out Ihct farmers can prevent a largeywrt of the annual loss of soil fertility by farther incrcasinK their acreage of prctoctive winter cover crops?* GLASSES FITTED! ;; Dr. Aubrey L Palmer OPTOMETRIST (Opposite Public Library) 3X7-A N. Tryon St. We maintain a completely equipped office for the exclusive convenience of the Colored People. PHONE 3-8500 ?OOR MOM£ is INfeURED -YES. BUT IS THIS II INSUI^CEC sou n - debshdaQLE ACME REALTY COMPANY RALEIGH, north CAROLINA UNION INSURANCE AND REALTY CO. ; DURHAM, NCHtTH CAROLINA Bamby Home, IStyte ftead makes perfect toast ,. . thia fine Bamby Loaf w» made for And it makes the taost d^hoow, the tich*o'd-toe,home-like tovor. Ask for tWf_B»^y loaf today at yow _ IK mm mfla ro* toajt j MIS MtiS STYIS ROYftl BAKING Cn BftMBf BAKERS RAiFICH, N C NAPPY By Irv Tlrmah MAt4V ROCKS GLOVES. OAT COULDN'T LIFT ME I4AND5 ON A BET/ trainin LOOK AT DAT GMV. WILL VS^? Hf'LCT% HiSStLF GIT BATTfD AROUN'.WIOOWT eviN U^TIN'1 . A PiNGfR Jk V protect * Hi&SeiPf WHAT'SA MATtEH WIT'CHA dummy? WHYVchA PfRTECK SPARRIN % i «nu- The saboteurs of democracy, then as today, «re busy trynng to buttress the bulwarks of privi lege with anti alien, anti labor, anti civil liberty activity. Added to this activity, in gradually in tensifying form, are anti Semi- tiam, the desitfuction of free elections (radical paVties are be ing denied the Constitutional right to be listed on the ballot by courts of law), and a deepening disregard for the rights and li berties of the Negro people. De mocratic rights and government are at stttke, and the antd-demo- cratic .rights »nd governmeniti are at stake, 'the anti democrats are almost everywhere in height and authoritrftive positions. Heywood Broun’s words to the judieial Swjss Cuard j of Mass. come readdly to mind, for we teo feel ,that we have a right to beat our fiats against tight little min^B* and to shout d word in the earsf of old men- These men, these anti democrats have never seem- ^ ed older than today, becausf the/ have never aeem^d so out-of- tim'a and out-of-place, so contr ary to'the true spirit of the American past Und the »pirit of •^binsrs to cOM«' This spirit of which I speak is expressed thrillingly and popu larly in Mr. Earl Robinson’# “Ballard^'lPor Americans” Mr. Paul Robe'son sdngs so well and vfhich Jules Bledsoe sang »o brilliantly alt the lincoln Day Memorial Heywood Broun cele^ brition at Manhattan Center this year. It ia the spirit of total Ameri- non believer; tbe spirit of Greek, grants all, American* «llv so eloquently stated 1)7. President Roosevelt the spirit of Jews, Gentue, Christian, infidel, athedst non believer; the spirit of Greek, Italian, Russian, Frenchman, Ger. man, Negro, Englishman^ Irish mans Scotsmdn; Catholic, Seventy IVay Adventist, Morman, Jehovahs Wiitnesses, Methodists,* Presby- teritoft, Congregationists; Bap tists, and what have you. It is !the spirit precedent to the fine fruiting of the Am«n- can past and precedent to the worthwhile 4ccompli^ments of the American future. Just as real Anterioanism is the product of this spirit, real Ameri canism) cannot, and will not, continue unless this spirit Euf- fuses the whole pattern of life. In America, in the United States, our hope to stand agt^niit fascist madness and Nazi onslaughts against the human spirit ia the intensest cultivation of this true spirit of our past which is the bright hope of our future. Wo will meet the Pilscist-Nazi men- rfce after the manner of our de votion to the true spirit of de mocracy. If we believe sincere'ly in democracy, then - we will de-^ mand respect for the rgihts of all for Negro and Jew, for alien- bom as well as native-born, for men and women of whatever faith or race or creed; we will dem«k>d respect for law, for an ordered wiay of life; for equal privileges for every citizen in the colleetice attetapt to build a better life for all. ' '' '■* THIS IS THE CONDmON PRECEDENT to all attempts to save and preserve and extend de> mocr4ey#
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