THE cAiwMiHA wm * mi PtnUUD WBKI.T BT THE 0A9OUMA TOfBS PUBUBHIira 00. 117 & PBAIODT BT. DU*HAH, K. 0. raoim W-71H m Mooni claw v«lt*r at tte Pnrt Ofic« at DirhMi, V. 0. ndar tha Act of Marck 3rd, 1179. L. B. AUSTIH, PUBLI8HEB WILLIAII A. TUQK. Iiuiaiiic Editor HEEBEKT B. nZjLEBT, Btwaaai Maaagar ■ I OHABLOTTE OFFICE 4S0 1-2 -BA0T SEOOND STKEBT • SUB8C«IPTION &ATEB IS.M—Tear, |1J5—« Montba, 76c—S lionths. CKEOIT TO WHOM CREDIT 15 DUE P*Mmge of the Coaacriptioa BUI with the amendment providing for indoaion of 'Negroea in all braochea of the national defenae, ia a victory for Nagroca, iron aimoat su)«rle-iuwided by the Pitt^urg Courier, iUMvica’a laiyeat race n»w8p»p«r. No doubt there will ria* up in the next few daya a number of ao-called Negro leaden who will lay flaSm to having accomplished the deed, but this newsp^r feela credit ought to be given to whom credit is due, and we ■f wiUiag (a take off our hata to Eilitor Kobcst h. Vann of the Courier, who conceived the idea of making the fight to obtain, for the laice, rcapectaMe representation in all branchea of the federal anaed foneaa. Although the Carolina Times, together with several other Negro newQtapen, sustained the Courier in ita fight, we want no credit for the victory, aa we were merely following its lead. The one n»iiig we want most ia that our rea4en shall be guarded against aome poUtidian®or self-styled leader^ fooling them into believing tiiM as4 n#t a hffpo newapap’er, waa responsible for the anesdmeDt to tito Conacription iiiU. il)e excluaioo of Negroes from all branchea of the nation’s defenae waa ahout the aorrieat copdition that could exiat under a democratic form of government. The Courier and ita intrepid editor have done the race a great service, but they haVe done their country a greater one. They have made it harder for prejudice to dominate ainy branch of the national defense, which is a deed aa patriotic aa abouldering a gan, _ , ^ . L- BETTER BUS STATIONS ,W« aadorM moat heartily the nwvement now under way by the DoriMm Junior Chamber of Commerce to aecure a new bus atation for Durfaam. Negroea who ^patronize the bua companiee haore suf fered vntold disadvantages and hardships because of the in^equate faciiitiea provided for their race i» the local atation. If the white people have found caoae to kick about the poor acoommodationa they ought to take a look at those ^forded Negro passengers. What ia true in Durham, relative to secommodationa furnished Negro hua paaaengers, ia true all over North Ctoolina. Kaleigb, Greeoahoro, Saliabury, Winston aelem, Chariotte and other cities faava iflflt caoae to complain about inakiequate faciiitiea furnished Negro paaaeagen eapecially. Th® treatment afforded Negroes in tka DuiiHai and Grcaa^oro atations ia outralgeoug."'*” ^ The Carolina Timea ia glad to extend a word of appreciation to the Durham Junior Chamber of ;ommerce, on ibehalf of the Ne gro citiaenry of Dujham and the state for the effort it is putting forth with ragarda to a new bus atation for this city. We trust aiaiilar movementa in other cities will be started wherever they are needed. We are satisfied that the jlecent white people of Durham and North Carolina will not permit the erection of another bua atation with accomodations as deplorable jno^t of them in st^ tMaa already exiating. So a better bus station for white people wwia a better bua atation for Negroea. The example a«t by the Durham Junior Chamber of Commerce IB a good one to be foUowed by Negro orgitlnizationa whoae funcv tiooa are about the aame in their irace. We suspect tlwt most of the mtmbetM of the local chamber are owners of automobiles, and patro^ leaa frequently the local bua station than those who wUl benefit from the erection of a new one. In spite of the awful con dition exiating in Negro bus waiting rooms, Negro leaders, most of whom own automobiles in which they travel, h^ve not felt it ne- ocaaary in moat cities to make a definite attempt to aecure better ao$ommodationa in bos stations for the great maisa of Negroes who do not own automobilea. Negro leadera, if there aie any, have got to become more unsel- fiah. They have got to learn the way of true leadership. They have to be willing to aacrifice a little of their time, money, and energy that the hamtdeat Negro may have an opportunity of living abovc^e plane of afhog. A Short Story .. By HENRY CLAY DAVIS ••••♦»••»• It waa ETeaven’a periodie%rs gala day comiDemorating tha ra> turn of tha Prince of Peace from wicked EUk’th. The highwaya wvre congaatad with banda of Joyful and q;>otleady clad angeia who preferrad to march together ra ther than fly in order to reader their great happineaa even great er thiougb fraternej interchange. Hie capital city of the celestial empire waa crowded to overflow, ing and the air waa rent with tne eeaaeleaa ainging of hymns of praiae and the ahouting of loud hosdinaa. The heralda were every where aounding angelic notes on tlieir glistening golden trumpets and directing the ever iiicreasiug hoat toward the proper placo assembly. On one of highwaya U'.fre trudged along a decr^it, deJcct- ed, lone angel whose robe was not spotlesii' md whose wiPga ware in need of repair. An herald who waa on duty at the Sar.cia- ary of the Recording Angel aight> ed the forlorn creature and re marked excitedly to his superior, “0 Holy One, there goes a soul which evidently does not belong here.” Betw^ The - Liii6s (Br paaa B. NEGRO'S BBW FPONTIER “Not ao, my inexperienced son^” replied the Recording An gel, *‘That Soul doea belong here, but on ^obl^ion aa it were." "And why on probation in tliia of all places?” queried the herald. “That Soul,” replied the Be-, cording Angel, “lived on Earth in the place they called America and in the City of Ourhaoa, N. C'., where the strong felt itjilf duty bound to diaal^vantage the weak, where cleanlineas and can dor were forcibly overabadjwed by the misrepreaent|iiiHU» of »”i-joeiovriSa, bitious moral turpitude, and where the Gods of fashion, fi nance, aocial poaitipa, and aeW- iahness were worri»ipped ia froijt of our Heavenly Fatiier who is the King of the Universe and *iie Creator of all things. That Soul, jny son, was not bad enough to bo consigned to Purgatory and not good enough to enjoy the comp^toinship of folWladged an- gek here. Its grei^st fault w«s its willingness 4o do things be cause the Joneses did them re gardless of the effect ou other helpless motals. Therefore, my son, tiiat Soul Bn»?t suffer iso- lations here for a tiiousand years or ao in O'der to altone for its terreatial lack of courage and magnaaanity. Do you understand now^” “Yea, I understand, O Holy One,” aighed the herald aa he turned to face the oppoaite 4’- rection. j ' ^ The decrepit .^igel aUo heard and uBdaratood and trudg**d a- long more despondently than ever and alone. Fm more thire* acora |^ad ten yaara fight far the Vs- gro'a fuller freedom haa baea centered about Wajdungton. Thia haa been e^ecially true sioicc the oonjing of tha NAACP which haj* beaa the «pear-head of the attack on Um fnJufticea and in- equalitiea wWch have haunted the Negro like aome g^oae ^ Banquo. So long aa the Negro’a omancjpatioB case directly from WLohingtos we ware emboldca- »d to look longin^y towarda Washington when too hard-preM- «d in the battle for exiatano. With th ecoming of Oacar De- T'rieM there baa come into Negro thought a vote-conaciouaneaa un known before with the result that Negroea are taking local po litical flitaationa more iaio ae- rownt. Negroea are gradually learning t^t the kind ofmayor who presides oyer southern cities is more important in many ways then who is president of tibe U. S Preaidenta can do but little to help local eituiltiona but saaycra can do much. In the last analysis however, we carry our fight to Washington where before ^ su- preme court we have woa victory after vietory that haa maide tHe struggle for exirtence leaa fierce. 4Mt h0 caa ifeiate hi»- fK.ll t§d •eaUave a |re«4 |etachod Pfm genend f«ad. Aa I Preaideat Rooaeyelt aaid aome month* ago and tiie |riu»rtsighted eoagreaanaen sMde f*tn«t that the frontier of tUp country ia on the Rhine/’ l>ut eves those atupid con^rreaapaein atniat that even if ou rfrontier ie ao^ on i^e Rhine it undowbtedly jis on the Thamea wliere LMs4oa ia- P^lhd'B frostier in CiMch- tier waa iii Ethiopia, DennaarV'a frontier waa in Polan4i Norw»y'a frontier, ifaiMigjb veaj( U «wii WiM in Denmaz^t; Belgium’a frontier waa in Norway and Frana#'a frontier waa in Belgium and Ba- gluid’a frontie r waa tn Frai»ce aftid the frontier of these United States is in England. Woe unto K3)at nation that refuses to note and safeguard its frontiers again- Ht aggressors! Some montha ago it was ’)iy privilege to addreta the atadrfnta at the Univer^ty of RkhwLOod, a wMte inatitutioo, and I chooie to speak from the subject, “The Fallacy of laolationism.” Subae- quent eventa have abundantly corruboralted my fundamenial theais tiiat theae naiona and racea and indivldwala committed to iop* iation are doomed- The faHaey of Nordicism is ijp commitment to a q^Wfciea of i5.9* lation. 'flie grwve dauge* which inheres in Ae egro’e tJunlpni ‘ffr AS WS PASS THIS WAY *»• g By Charlei £arl CeU> thev*Tv ^ I that everything I enjoyed ttefi^t relationship one could expect from any group of people. aiomiDg It waa my pleaaure to enjoy Sunday School with % of St, P«u Baptist Church, and church services at B>enezer Baptwt Church and it was while there that I became more eonvinced than ever that if the Negro in Charlotte is to solve Mg problem the ehusch la the place to start. We Negroes, and other reaea too, abould let the church be our “Carter’s Little Liver Pills” it; beeauae the duuach doea the work of force, arms and coercion with- out the oae of force and arma, ^ eaoperatioa and a true apirit of fellowship ahould be our , •IWliitt* my ftim^ but thea# d»ara«teriatics ahould not make ua the faulta of our brothers; if they do wron^ they or we reprimanded. Brawla like I have aeen in theae aeven daya aren't neceaaary and the blaune for- them cannot all be placed upon Negroea have problema too aimiliar to set our- UPfaMS ao far from one another, as we have had a tendency t© do JMIft, aad vnkia we bind ouraelvea together we cannot aur- ia good for the aoul and aometimea expression is dfjaldJig or brawlijjg and jt ia those typea of ex- detrimental to ua aa a group, the Carolina Timea , W Magro comauinity of Charlotte of these things. Un- ’^4'il|Wyws, Poctoni, and Buaineaa men and frienda I be- 'W tein haiida with your thrj^e most po^nt factors for the ' of 9ffr coaoinwitjr, the church, the achool and your Ca- ^nma aiid aee we ean do to imj^ve Charlotte, our ciigr «f iJortb i>roliaa. IN THE MAIL BAG Company 5423, CCC Can«) a. C. SCS-24 Forest City, N. C. Mr. Lewia Austin Carolina Times Durham, N. Q. , Dear Mr. Austin: We have receied your paper in the past and h^ve found it to be very enlightening and inter eating to the snentbers of the Ccnupany. We are glad to note the expansion of Your paper. I am asking that you bugin this week mailing the weekly publicataon. Make the auibsciip- tioo for aix months. Thank you very kindly, B. H. Thornton Oamp Educational Adviser NeiHMHiaven, Conn Dear Mr. Auifen: Congnat^latioais cm the 16 page Ca|.«liaa Timca. It’s a mighty fine pubJioation and deserves ,*.he full support of all the coldred people of North Gian>lina. Keep up the good work. Paniel Y. Stewart, President, Colored { ^ Rupubli- League ia liUa eolusin tiiaaa l^l£iw>«t niiua^r tiiat tiM wwlfare and Ifae futuM of lie Magro is Ikound Of with the welfare of Uda iatioo and if tfaja nation fva^aa, tba Neyro will proaper ill a iiaia dcguee and if thia aa- tbuM anffaia, tba Negro will aaf- fer ia a greaier degree. Thia ia fa \Nr^y fact hut a atuhborn fact ^•yefllialeaa. Today tina country f*eea a grave eriaia. "Tha Ame rican way of life” ia aerioubly ehtdleaged and tiiia ia a challen^ to the aorvial of tdic Negroea in iMa foontry. What has happened to mino- . Hfca* iaad f.ran hitppen here, and will happen here ualeaa the tide of Hitlerism caa be ^mmed. H)« coming e- lection will be one of the moat moBientoua in the history of our counti’y. Negroes have 0S mighty ,ata)(e io Uiis election. We are not going to aay that President Hoo- aeveU ia indiapenaable to the safely of thia country; but we are going to aay that he haa been true and tried ^nd has a grasp OB interaational affairs that it will take Mr. Willkie aeven years to acquire it A lot of things can happen i^ aeren yaara for I^itler ^us far haa ritown tha,t he la not a aeven-year man. l4’egroe« must know that their frontier haa moved from Wasi)- in number Ten Owning Streat is more important for ^e prc> aen^ than the .discrimination Ne groes suffer in a hundred waya in thif copntry. Ijo aensible Negro THE SWORD OF DAMOCIK alda'a froa- %nore the prpblema that Ifegroes face in. tijia country; but aeithar wjll intelligent ^srroea deny the fact that the Hitilerisa- tion of our nation wovld compli cate our problemjB. It muat be obviQva to ua ^1 i^at the real problem today ia whether thia Amejrican awy of life cSn aar- The N^ro then muat vote thia year not ao ijHicfa witl^ an eye on WaahingtOQ aa on Lond'tn' Mattera in Waahiperton c^n wait aa they have w«|^d for T6 yeara, but mattera wiH not wait in Lon don. Sometiiing muat be done and done now. The question Negroea muat uk at the polb ia not whether ttiey like evtry de tail of the Roosevelt administra tion; whether or not Negroea h#te realised thier whole hope ioi Uve^r aecond emajicapa'ion but wiiether or not Ifr. Roose yelt cap be trusted with the dc- atioy of this nation. Our new ^rpntier i> in London! n More Help Offered To Flood Famies Increased aid to low-income farm, families hard hit by r^ cent floods haa been announced by Misa Ruth Current, director of home demonstration work at the State College Extension Ser vice. The mattress-making program By supplyinjg tha affected' low income famiJips with free mat tresses, and ffivinsr them ot^her possible aid, it is hoped they lyill recover from the floods’ ravages much sooner the State G>llege home denionstration leader said. Miss Current also reported that the mattress-making pro gram for the State as a wiiole is now turning out more than 1000 finished mattresses a week, ^milies who are to receive these mattresses assist in the makipg, supervised by home a- gents of the Extension Service Wfl know any number of men and women who can tell you, in an offhand conservation ex actly how to straighten out the world. Correct this sentence: “I am not pro-German but yoti know the British are not to be trust ed; they are always looking out for themselves." which formerly limited families or trained voluntary leaders, with an income of less than $400 last year to one free mattress has been broadened to allow one mattreajs to each two members of a family in 17 flooded coun ties. The counties are: Ashe, Avery, Bertiev, Caldwell, Halifax, Hay wood, Jackson, McDowell, Mar tin, Northampton, Polk, Ruth erford, Swain, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin and Yancey. Five other counties were affected by the floods, but will not be covered by the new provision either be cause their damage v^as slight or because the mattress program if not in effect th^ere. ) ^)iy; ^aniiHeii MVe ■ t ^{Bost dj^titute in the wake ef these floods, Miss Currei|t ,sftid. Hot)sehold belongings as well as «rops, iiy«ftpc|f;, an4 Uai on hand were swept away or ruin'* ed jbjr the wiAext N. C, State Fair Have Vocational Aj^ture Day Raleigh, Sept. J9.—More than 10,000 stuxlenta of vocational ag riculture win participate in ex- hilHts as guests of the State Fair tfhich opens at Raleigh, Octobef 8, t[. 'ftiomas, State Superyftor^f-v^ational agricul tural education, announced to- “Vocation.al Agriculture Pay" will be October IQ, and all stu dents yirill be admitted free who are wearing traditional “skull caps" designating their member ship in a vocational school. Dr. J. S. Dorton, Fair Manager said. T^n booths featuring projiect work of students, liver stoc]^ and livestock judging con tests will be features of the vo cation^ program. Two, large silver loving cups, to be award ed in the judging contest, will be presented by Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerf* Scott. Displays by Future Farmers of America will be judged on the basis of educational value, at tractiveness and simplicity. The vocational exhibits will be ex panded this year and for the first time students will enter swine, dury and beef cattle. “We expect the program pre sented by vocational students and teachers to be an outstand ing contribution to the agricul tural and educational displays of the 1940 State Fair," Thomas said. Home economics, rehabilita tion and industrial education programs will also be featured in the vocational education de partments. While the 1940 exposition will paramount agricultural, educa tional and industrial progress through displays, the Fair man agement has also ‘booked" pro minent entertainment features including nine grandstand acts and a revue furnished by Geo. Hamid;'the World of Mirth Shows t>n the mile-long midway; Lucky Teter and his Hell Driv ers; auto, harness and motor cycle races. New Paper Mill To Be Bnilt lo Geor^a At Cost $2,000,000 Norfolk, Va. — Georgia is to have a new paper mill accord ing to Ml announcement by Warren T. White, General Indu- 3tial Ag^t 01 the Seaboar^ Railway. This mill for the |>ro> duction of kraft paper from southern pine, will be construct ed by the St. Mary’s Kraft Corr poration at St. Mary’s, Qa. Estimated cost of the new plj^nt, Mr. White said, will jbe several miHion dollars a*),dwlien completed will provide emp^y- ment for more than 300 men in the null and additional h«ad- reds in the woods. Dvring the construction period a large num ber of men wUl be given em^- ployment folr about nine months the time estimated necessary for the completion of the mill. the SeilNarf uiUer Mt J The Indus^ri^ Department o£j r^^hit^^ direet)3U^ hits iem res^nsibw for the locating of manjr indus* tries in the states served by the Railway. h J The Voice of Wifdom mmtiQHT8 ON THE «UNDAT mSBOQL UMfDK Our nev/ bases in the Atlantic add greittly to the future safety of this hemisphere from inva sion; when the ^o-ocean Navy is ready, we will be ready. 1^.4pjSfBj9yf '^es^ not ' iFunctipn to suitth^ who think they should be those to govern. Many writers are sp ftniiojujs to author smart things that tlipy say untrue l4uog8( If you have rolling land, then soil erosion is your chief prob lem. Conservation is r the biggest word in the Southern farmer’s dictionary. Preservers' ' B ioo ara 6rii4 n«xt tima yea are in a ihop L'wfaUU tima yea are in a mp t: By NKWMAN CAIflPWIX f UTha International Uniform" iLeaaon on the above topic for Sep- Itambar 2t ia Provarba 4, Uia Golden Taxt being Proverte 4:23, |'‘keep thy heart with all dili gence; Cor otA oi it ana tba iaaaea of life.”) BOOK of Proverba la- generaily assigned to Solomon, .who flourished about the year 1,000 B. C. No geographical place lia mentioned in the cht^ter. I in the flrat of thia fourth prov- arl) the writer picturaa a happy hoaie, with mc^er and fa^er tenderly watching the growth and development of their only (maybe thatr flrat) chUd. “FVjr I waa my father’a aon, tender and mly be loved in tha aight of my mother," he aaya. It is a wonderful thing to be bom into a family that lovea one tenderly from the atart. And even more ao to be a member of a fam ily in which both parenta are hon orable, upright people, who are good neighbora and good citixena. as well aa good, kind and loving parents. Such parenta aet a atand- ard for their children, and even j though auch children may do ! wrong for a time, they will ael- dom, if ever, aink so low that they cannot right themaelvea. / Thia falher "taught"me’alao,** aaya the writer, “and aald unto jjne. Let thine heart retain my I words; keep my commandmanta and live." I "Oat wiadwn,* ttie proverh ! atatea, "get underatanding.” And again: "Wiadom ia the principal I thing; therefore get wiadom: and I with all thy getting, get under^ I atanding." When you study In ; achool, you are trying to get wia- : dom out of your books and the teaching your inatructor. But if you do aot undaratand the problem in arithmetio * or the .thing you are reading, you will not gain much, will you? A good teachar ia alwaya glad to anawar 'queatlona and explain the leaaona, land if you underatand, you will ‘gain the sort oC wisdom fw w|ilch >you were aent to achool. I But there l« another kind of wiadom whi^ ia more Important for the children to le^mi than jwhat w» call b^ learniag. It la .the wiad»n that rtcognizea the right and good wajr ta live. That kind of vriadom often la poaaaaaed by man and women Nwe very little education from achoola. : • Of wla4oqt tM w4ter aajw: ‘ "Bxalt 'har, and aae ahall pro* jttote (hfe: ahMl>1^ thae to honor, whan t&ou doat miArace I ^8ha shall gtva to thine heed ^ utrnmimmsmmm omamaat of graee« a OEawa oi, gUnv she dalivair ta h Than thia wise fatlMr aaira hlaaon: *1 have taught thee In IMie way of wiadom: I have M tiiee Ul right padia. f ‘'Whea thou goeat, thy atq^ ahall not be atraltaried; and when' thou rvam0t, thou riudt not atumhle." , TMs meana that the peram who walka In the way of uprightneaa and wiadom ntay walk freely and proudly. He need Mt ha timid and afraid. Hla oonadanee la elear. ); "Enter not into Um path of the\ wicka^ and gp not in the way of evil nea. , “Avoid it, paaa not by It, turn from It, and paaa away.** | ^ Avoiding Evil ' *31 Ih other worda, avoid evil com* paniona who might tempt you to go wrong. Children brought up in good duiatlan homea are leaa likely, I am convinced, to find thoae leaa fortunate in their moral atandarda congenial. iSut evtt cpmpanlcMU aometimea have faaci* nating peraonalltlea and exerciae conaiderable influence over thoae whoaa mlnda are not grown enotij^ to aee the flaws beneath the ateactive exterior. Wn?h*~path''of"th»*1rtSitwEri8ri aa tha daiwnlng Uc^t, that diineai more and more unto the pecfacA'' dajr. The way ot the wiekait la a« i darkneaa: th^ know not at wliat, ^y atimihJe.»^ ' _ ’ u ■ isn’t that a~'vlvld^flgure' oft! apeech? Whan we wa^ in tha ' light of day or teUUaaUy Bgtatadl paths at eighl, wa aaa whani W are going and do not atumble. But! If wa .walk li^ darioteai, i»a n$9t not even aee Qia (dmalM over which wa fUL^ ^ "My aoB, a|«and t« mw wiordi? incline thtae ear ifUto my aaftaga.' Let them not dajpwrt from ttdne! ayM; keep them in tba midst joi Udne baart Wot U»ay «re Ilia tpla thoae tiiat ind tha^ antf healcii to all tbeir fleah.**, “ — We who are ours^vea rem#m)bedng tHagf ow^ paranta—iiow gone, iaayba-veak$ wlw^.’ wa were >diillran.j8ome> tlpaea th^ wtoola late W at' critical times In our ^earpar* eata who have lived a^ courageenaijr qavar icpa fluence over th^ children. Let ua ba thankful for auch parents and ^ vm i^mi^MJMlte llipfiil. if po^blej to those who have not bed our advantaiia. Aadlat w **ifoap our haarta nMh

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