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•a I i Capitol Conunent PUBUSHED WBEKLY BY THE OAB(MJNA TIMES PUBUSHIHG CO. IIT B.^PB*BOi>r St. DURHAM. N. C. PHONES N.7I1I *r J-7871 iEatered m lecoad cluas mater at the Post Ofiee at Durham, N. U Qnder the Act of March 8rd. 1879. L. E, AUSTIN, PUBLISHER WILLIAM A. TUCK. Manaffing Editor HERBERT R. TILLERV. Bi*inM» Manager CHARLOTTE OFRCE 410 l-J EAST SEC30ND STREET "subscription RATES: $2.00—Year, $1.SS—6 Month*. WASHINGTON — At dinner in the YW IViday nighA, Dl*. Jolwi W. Davig president of the West Virffini» St«t« oo.llege, di»cuMiiig 8om« lifhi, maiters with Dr. Car- tor G. Wood«OTi wml Dr. Alain Le- Roy Locke. Dr. Woodaon had al ready (fiven Smitty, th« waiter a cBTpfnl bit of ins'trnction as to ;bc lairb chf*ps, “and don’t bring me nnv with leather either, be ?iire they are tender,” The Platform of . THE CAROLINA TIMES ind ii.des: EqdsI niaries for Negra l^achen. Nerro poUcemen. Negro Intymen. Eqiul ideational opportanities. Hirfaer wajres for domestic aerraiitfl. Foil participation of Neg'roes In all branches of the National defense. AboiiriHBent of the doablenrtandard waffo scale in industry. Greater participation of Negroes in political affairs. Better boasing for Negroes. N^rro fvpresentatimi in city, «punty, state and na- tiwoal govemmenta. Farther in the evening:. Doctor Oavk said anything Dr. Mordecai Tohnwn wai4 about that famous Pootball team at Morehouse vherc both pla>”ed, was just the opposite. .Johnson was quarterback on the tonm and Daivis was half ba«ic, but ,Davis says they just told .Tohnsooi to call the «i|rn«Js &nd then gv't out of the way. Charles M. Honeon, visiting from New York, says his personal opiji ion is that Dr, 'Willig Hugginfs did commit enicide after all—and Hanson knew Huggins wtll. I^ing Of.,. New Orleans KDITOE’S NOTE:—The follow, ing poeuM were taken from tha forthcoming puWica-tipon, “ I SINXi OF NEW ORLEANS” a collection of poems by Leslie M. Colline, of the English fac ulty, Bennett (3oUege. I sing of New 'Orleans, Colorful port of gaiety. Where strong grew 01’ Abe’g colve To loose the shackles, the chains of slavery, I sing of New Orle%n8, )f sawdust Te6taul*ntg and al- chohol inns, Of cloistered nun« a praying Next door to devil dins. I sing of New Orleans Of a quadroon in the French quar ter Who invitingly smiles With unjau^t Ups for the one who bought her. . THE LIGHT THAT MUST NOT FAIL! • HENRY FORD SPEAKS For some reason or another we almost find ourselves agree ing with Henry Ford's statement made this week in ai^ exclusive interview witl^ ^ staff writer of the Atlanta Ck>nstitution • . . that theye is no righteousness in either cause of World War number IL ^d>fr. Ford: Both are motivated by the same evil impulse, which is irreed. It is‘ not the little people who are doing thp fighting and the suffering who are the greedy ones. They are innocent of Their only guilt is idleness* Idleness has made them stupid and stupidity Ivas made it easy for -the big ones, the greedy ones, to lead them into war. If we can keep both sides fighting long enough—until they cannot fight any more, then maybe the little people will open their eyes, 'aen they can see that they have befen.the dupfe of these inteiTtiational cliques of greed—Wid vi^ ha^ ^ts mem- bers^in this ^untry too—who have trickSff-'WiteAS'Inlo war* “Mayte then th^. will r^olt and free themselves and save themselves from being led into destruction again as soon as they ha^ rested and recovered for a generation or so. When both nations finally collapse into internal dissolu tion, thep the United States can play the role for which it has the strength and ability, “It can help them both make a just peace and help them to begin to- build again.” ‘Toothing that ever happens — to a nation or a man, is 'purely evil. Not even war . • . “Even out of war some good comes. If this war that is raging now results in the exposure of the men behind it—so that the people will see what has happened to them and re solve they will never make war again—then it is worth what it cost,” We think Mr* Ford is absolutely right when he says that back of the war is greed. If it will be remem'bered, the British Empire has always preyed upon weaker nations by slic ing off parts of them under various pretenses. The empire up on which the sun never sets has not been built, nor is it main tained, with the full satisfaction of all those who compose it. While the English have used more tact, the end sought has been the same as that sought by Hitler and Mussolini. Whatever the basic reason behind this awful conflict, it must be confessed that the world today is in a terrible mess* What Hitler, Mussolini and the rulers of the British Empire need to know is that you cannot shoot nor blast hatred, preju dice, deceit, greed and other undesirable traits out of large or small nations with bullets. All will have to realize that the simple truths of right, justice, sympathy and love are the eter- ' nal things of life and must be given the right-of-way before a lasting peace can be established in the world. NE6R. JURYMEN AND NEGRO POLICE The I acing of a Negro on the petit jury in a case trjed in the Superior Court of Durham 'County is another victory for the race, as well as white people who believe in justice and real democracy. While Durham 0)unty is trailing by far other bounties of the state that have already been using Negroes for the past two or three years, we are glad that the practice was begun before the jury question was raised in a case where it might have set free a person who otherwise deserved punish- ment* Now that the practice has be/pin and the old bed-ridden die- hards have found to their dismay that the heavens did not fall, *&d that the Negro juryman did not turn white nor the white turn to Negroes, let's continue it with the idea in mind placing upon the shoulders of responsible Negro citizens of their share of making this county a more decent place which to live. We think the next step necessary to rid Durham of so many e^ecially in that section of the city known as Hayti, plaee aiiottt three or four Negro poUcemen on Fayetteville Fettirrew streets on both day and night duty. With Negro in the iiayti section, and vnth N^roes serving on it is our opinion that many worthless crooks that now ^ sliDOft unbearable for decent people to live in the eeetion, would not escape the law so easily as they do 'HIk OuolttJi Tin^ would like to see Durhapi take the lead CSi«olina in ^ploying N^ro policemen. The custom r in €he South since it^ias been tried successfully ^ Florida. Texas* I'ennessee and other southern > Charlotte mlsisd emplofing Negro poHce- vote. St is predict^ that when the tUsHHRter again th&t it is certain to vote there ji$ more libem! thought in between the races as American Youth congress—^W0W —and did the fireworics siplutter while they were in town. With am even larger registration than anti cipated, Turner’s arena wa^ too small to hold the crowds attend ing the gatherings. They blasted the heck out of everything when a young colored Washingtonian, standing on the comer, taunted the paraders with “ There'*! not an America in the crowd,” he had to take a socking from one of'gyt this chasion d’amour the members of the congress. It,j^ spirit’s deeiTe to be free, was hot while it lasted. , 1 — There is nothing like raucous phone ring to jangle your Jaded nerves and how these phones in this place of business do Jingle, j ^ Orleans. There are three of them, with ex tensions. I sing of New Orleans, Of noisy Negroes uptown And honey eyed creoles Who dance and sing downtown Where Africa’s gold coast is Bam part Street, Where Bootblack Bennie is m ’sieur I sing of New Orleans, Of lusty voiced vendors of ban anas, I Of dark women who live by pies and pralines, And eternal laughter beneath bandanas. I sing of New«(0rleans, No soWow song, no lyric of the levee, And that restaurant keeper ati i /tflpAf "p I the comer of 14 and ‘Y’ in the I | vll\u I heart of Washington’s little Har-|^^ ■ — 9 lem, which caters to white only, p WTien the youth delegate., 'creol© ^irl ' * i • ered thet only w^hites were you‘dance in the place, they nearly wrecked Spain,— ^he Joint and refused to eat in p clipping casU any of the white establishments, i j ^Peby throwing inany a Creole Girlt in the coff«TS of the Nego eating spots in the district. ~ 'When you laugh John Silvera, travelmg rervre- France,— «ntative for the Tousaint LOver mincing minutes, ture Jewelry company of New York was a visitor to the cityj over the week end, enroute ^ Creole Girl ->ther sections further South. % That guy, Pampke Johnson, messenger to the majority l®*der of the house, Just handed me * "■oem, appropriately fitting to him, called “Over ttie Hill” which is one ^of ' the songs they ing at Dyke's place. m mmm m IMankind Fails God| Vi . Hitler Must Strike Hard At England Or OOTTON During the month of December, coasumption of cotton in the United States broke *11 record r"irr^:“i:,Lose All His Gains the corresponding month of 1939. j j MOST MILITARY expert agree with analysis of the war situation given by I Mr. Winstori Churchill in .^is bri^dca^^. The British Prlij^^ M^iister discounted the sweeping victories already scored by the Nazi military macn ine deprecated the effects of a and the more dangerous the gen^ ^eral peril of the Naii regire. Hit ler apparently realizes this and is anxious to fortify his position in France, strengthen his hegemony in the Balkans and bolster his Italianally in Mediterranean area. Any PERSON in North Carolina interested in how to prevent, discover, ©r cure tuberculosis may write the Extension Depart ment of the North Caro lina Sanatorium, Sanator^ ium, N. C., and receive the Some Doubt 0{ Attack B7 OEOSaE PEOK The chaiige has been made that the world writhes in agony of war becahse religi^p hM faileA^ mankind. Thig chargei i-" false. W# offer the Counter charge that MAN KIND HAS FAILED RELIOION^ I The world has followed after gods which are not gode. It has tried to eyaJt intelleit and science to a divine position, with a confidence that a scientifica^ and technically efficient woi^ antomoticall^ be S good and n|0^ ftl world. The gods of tsftfcalil#^ ism are the answer to otfT loiousaess. I I These gods now threaten to de stroy Bian who gO unvi^y created I them. Only a miviil of sound * Uthieal religion eiin brin^ aboii* an enduring world peace. I And pray^ iTl^f is sound ethical religion T OiiJ- dtfinition is that it ~ ^ any code of principles and rules of conduct baaed on man’s reiogni tion of God as the Supreme Bemg the Author of Life and Crenter of all things—of God to who.n we ^ are accountable for the conatmc- tive use or deetructive abuse we make of our lives—of God with whom we finally hope to be unit ed in Eternity as a reward for making the proper use of our lives —o# God from whom we may be forever separated as punishment for failure to exploit our oppor tunities Jews, Protestants and Catholics irrespective of how they may differ a.s to ritual and dogma, can hardly disagree with th« dtfin^ tion of religion. If the conduct of the over whel ming majority here in Ainerica could ie guided by such a religion, w« could expect this majority to see that good laws are enacted and enforced. As a* honest, G o d- fearing and God loving people—a people of cour.se and internal good will this nation externally would act with good will toward other nations. We would siet such a shining _ example that other, na- ■t^n^iyould.tve iafluenced thereby- ■ , ,.ij, Bvi,tj.tP!^a^.the TOuth of Ameviri (is de;N’fjo|>i#}p[;iiI jr*reiwnH»nd'ft ni ^ , . .. jirreligiiji^, jatnoQsphore. Quii-fchild- WTiile mo®t military experts ^en are not being taught the Gold agree that Hitler must attach the en Rule. We cannot expect them When you sing Do you think of young Amercaa,^^jjj^. ^ attempt to get by. Grey guns and battling bayonets Nazi sweep through the Balkans British, there is a email minoirty to inherit a love of God, ©s^ieeially and the seizure of Russian provin that he cannot af- when parents neglect their own ces and asserted that-all these ^o^d this terrifin gamble unless relisrious duties, is orov'ocation to shout in anger gains would be of no avail unlees a^«red of the safety of his base No! Religion hasn’t failed us— and* whether you are giving to Germany defeats Great Britain. > operations in Northern France, WE HAVE FAILED RF>LTOTON others wh*t you expect of them Consequentlp, there is g.meral tbe security of his old supply from -WE HAVE TURNED AWAY —an absolutely square deal— agreement that Hitler, to accom- Rumania and the continued resist FROM GOP. Let us start to fill these are some of the things that pli^h his purpose, must make an Italian tinder Musso- our now h:.lf empyt churches, show what kind of a man yoa are. attempt to invade the British Isles olini. synagogues and other places of And when you do this, you can The longer the effort is postponed. Moreover, this minority group holy worship-let u® get our child look every man in the face, with the stronger become British dt-fen- fthat while Hitler’s army ren back into the Sunday schools out apology, tod without using: an ses, te mor^ potent the flow of '» force is hampered let us get back to the old fash- Bupplies from the United States threat of oil ffhortn^vs and ioned dafly workship in the home - - ■ rvP r\0 ^ li vi •-» 4n>A lA7Vint fVi-fkn a*vr jurymen Dr. Carter Woodson handed us 1 ftst one 'toniEpht. got to look >n TW’- Bible to find out what he is talking about. Watta man, wa€ta nan! His Negro History week •I taking hold in a big fashion her®. Creole Girl, When ynu cry Do j-ou think of Africa,— Blue nights and casual caaaonets. Creole Girlf Cut Out Alibis A charming lady dTOpped into ^he office ito tell about women’s ■'olf club, the Wake Robin club, Meeting officens for the yeair. The vairous members of the club have 'n their poissession- some M tro- 'vhies of various kinds won in competition. They play at the ""olf couppe over by Langston Terraco homes, where Joe Louis played when he visited the city. □- -□ By Dr. Charlss Btelzle IT’S EASY ENOUGH to prove an “alibi” when the job should have been done—but alihi» never get you anyw-here—^they’re gener ally framed up to prove that you “werMi’t there.” When the roll is called, they won’t ask you where you DIDN’T go, and what you DIDN’T do, but what did you “get across.” One and one don’t make two— when you try to add things that aren’t equal. The belief that it Loud hand clapping and ap- [does is re.sponiblo for much of plause greeted the announcement'tiie trouble in the world today, that Rochester’s latest film would .one man ever exaetly equals play W”ashington at an early date any other man—we’re all differ ent in ability and character—but Defense Program Increases Federal Economic ^ntrol All Amcrifii is pondering the future of our country. Prophets from upon England. Maine M California have lifted their voices in a mass chorus of the necessity of patrollinar the What we need more than any one Russian frontier and tlie far flung other blessed thing is a reuai'ss- areas of conquered nations. ance of religion. Let us achieve . Weighing the «(.iiguments on that and all the other good tfcings both sides, we cannot see how we desire to come to pass, will Hitler cnn long delay an attack follow in its wake. Certainly what discordant opinion. But no one can possibly predia with any degae« of accuracy what shape the future of the United States will assume. One voice, however, demands a special hearing. It belongs t* Stuart Chase, by far one of the keenest American students of current world affairs. For the February issua of Cosmopolitan Magazine he has compiled a list of events which he rates as certainties, probabilities He is one*of the few favorites of this town. genuine Just finished reeding an article 'blished in 1932 written bv Ed ward Arnold on Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Mr. Arnold and Dunbar were clotse perswial friends and hip alwve all others. He frequent ly talks about the nunw*w>us great men he hag met ,^d l>)pfriend Among them was ington, w’hen that was in Philadelphia^' ^VWh the Ameticio gre^ adjotrmed «n4 most of the Mr. Aa-nold, now a refired govern ment^ Tfrorfcer. prizes this friend^rj^ jnate good on a Job which isnt some people want to put us all in the same mold and treat us all alike and make us all live and work in the same way. They don’t allow for individuality. Perhaps you are doing this to your.self. Maybe you are using an “alibi” because you «r© failii^ your kind of a Job. And this goes for all men—regardless of their race, creed, or color. You can’t expect to make good, if you got what it takes. Find yoti can d© beat—* n d then go to it! tt i» usually ih tke little things tli«t most wen fefl down—in the dele^tes f?ottc to their resjwctive hones, Washington again calms *day by day test of character. Wlie beUere* the time is ripe to push the matter itself down to a steady pace until ther you can get on with others. bEAncb of the Committee on Negro Af-|the next outbreak, Iboob. which is due give credit to whom it belongs, and speak in an even tone w^en there m Stuart Chase and possibilities. First in the cate gory labeled “certainties," is the prediction that no matter what the outcome of the present struggle, America will continue to be the strongest nation on wrth. Our vast supply of raw materials and indu^- trial products make this possible. “No combination of powers,” Chase writes, ‘‘can outproduce us if we turn seriously to our gigantic indus trial machine for quantity produc tion.” Furthermore, America will not "go bankrupt.’ We have the' men and materials and this requir^ent surpasses the need for money. Chase points to Oerniany, a country with out money or credit who built in seven years tha most powerful mili tary machine of all times. America, he says, can 4o the same thing. As the defense program expands, fed eral government will increase con trol of our economic life. If the TJcitiiji Sities actually enters the mi War, government control will expand to the point of making the nation almost a totalitarian economy. Proof of this startling statement can be read in the M^Day Program long since prepared by thfe War Depart ment. Self-sufficiency looms large all over the world and will continue to increase, Chase prophesies. World trade, for instance, will undergo drastic revisions. Among the events listed in the article as probable is a hemisphere trading post or cartel to prevent the totalitarians from cashing in on the economic distress of Latin America. According to Chase, America must help clear these southern surpluses of wheat, coffee, beef, nitrates, and so on. T>. cope with this, another probability is a “hemisphere dollar” handled by a central trading ^ency. Invasion, states Chase, is not like ly for at least two years. Even the", it is highly improbable, because by that time our defense will be built to a point where invasion will haw almost no chance of succesr. “Unless some extraordinary new method of transportation is invented.. North America will not be invaded in our time, but if the United Stat^ goes to war as an ally of Britain it will not save democracy, liberty, capi talism or anything on the msral agenda. It may save England trorA a military defeat, but nothing can save her from going 100% socialist,” Chase prophesies. The ruling class and “old school tie” according to this observer are things of the past. Concluding his article. Cnafie' writes, “Another possibili^ is that after one or two disastrous wars be- ^appens in the Balkans and the time passed, it was found that Halkanfl and tbe Mediterranean larger tftnkers could carry the areas will represent temporary gasoline from the seacoast, where gains until the is®ue is decided it came by water, to the bulk between the two mdst powerful plants at less coat than the rail- antagoniste. * roads. And today, millions of Of course, it iT possibln for gallons are being transported in Hitler and Mussolini to stand on this state every day over high- their gains, attempt to consolidate ways along which speed passenger the territory and *poils that they W-fs, motor busses and school have acquired and adopt a defen- busses, filled with men, women sive role while airplanes and sub and children, marines attempt to starve ofit tJie t* • i i* /• T. r c , . It IS not difficult even lor a British. Such a long drawn out ,i lu- u i. , , . . -1 » I. child who knows anything about strategy contains peril for both . . , • . ^ . i 1 , • „ gasoline to picture in his own totalitarians states and especially for Fascist Italy. Gasoline Tanker Capacity Limit Is Uiied mind the horror of being involved in a wreck with one of these big tankers, filled with a fluid that is highly inflamable. And thousands of persona during the pa^t week end saw What could be the terrible results of such an aocident. Judt across the line in Anson county, a tanker hit a bridge and burned up, doing serious damage to the bridge as well as the railroad THERE are few families in the track which ran under the bridge, state whioh do not use gasoline in > anker and a tractor truck met one way or another. Even if they L tractor truck met head on- do not own automobiles themsel- ggth truckk were destroyed by ves, they either hire taxis or ride with friends when ooeasion ne- f'l^, and two men and *■ girl were cessitates it- For that reas)>n, the burned to a crisp, people of this state ^re vitally j Right here in Albemarle there interested in the availability f have been a number pf nan’ow gasoline when and where they escapeg fiom terrible tragedies. happen to need it. I For a long number of years. such as the one in Tvhich a loaded nker backed into an apartmcilt tween the new continenUl blocs moved m trairf tank building. Had it caught fire, the which are forming, mankind take the final political step, a b!ot of blocs, the federation of the worM^ with one official language, one cur> rency, one larifflesa world market, and one powerful air force to keep the peace. You and I will not live t» see this, hut sometimes in the dead of night I glimpse its shape, far away in the misty futtue.” cars,^ but at highways as n,ore powerful improved, results might have l.'een too terr- trucks were jble to imagine, built, and as man’* ingenuity be- ■ Gallup survey finds 79 per- with jgan to fnwetion, the trucks tanker I wag deviig^ed. First, these tankers cent of voters disagree carried only small quantities of Lindbergh, gasoline from the bulk plant to, Ford advocates defense work I the retaii* di.stributoir. However, s . without profit if all do same. ,>1 f mitm