PUBUSHED WBEKLY BY THI
•AAOLINA TIMES PUBLISMmC OX
Mf B. PIABODT St. BURHAM, V. C.
PHONES N-rill «r l*7t71
Cirta«l M Mc«nd da«i »at«r at th« Pert Ofle* DarliMi, N, G-
' and*r th« Act of Ifftrcli trd, 1179.
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L. E. AOmN.FUBLISBBR
WILLIAM A. TVCK, lUnagliif tMUr
a ft. WniiAMBON. N««i
chakix>tte office
4X0 1-S EAST SEOOND STREET
Jeffersen Gatherford Ish Talks Of
Supreme Uberty Life And Other Things
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EDMORIAI
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
You read in the daily newspaper* of the Comitaji of Yugo-
sia^ia, ancient death-defyin^r organization, that fought the
Turks/or 400 years in Guerrilla Mftarfare, in order t|iat jflieir
country mig-ht be free. The Comitaji, acfpordjng^to the duly
press, TOlue their lives as nothing when the freedom' of their
eountry is a stake. Hitler win have this organization,'^whose
mem^ are numbered by reveral hundred thousands, to reck
on tnth if and when he marches his troops on Yugoslavian soil.
You have heard ofter that, “No man is fit to be free who
» afraid to die”. Weak men and cowards will not understand
the language of the Gomttaji, nor the reason the organisation
TOntmues to thrive after several hundred years of existence.
Htowever the language will easily be understood 1^' those who
know and desire freedom, and value it above material pos-
aeasions.
This is the tsrpe of leadership that enslaved groups are go
ing to haw to produce all over the world, before they will be
aWe to gain the respect of men already free. It is useless to
•Kpect bpnest leaders from a segment of a people w|u> not only
are afmid to die, but who are so enslaved tlijat they are even
afraid to ^ght.
The Germans may overrun Yugoslavia. The Germans may
dMroy every semblance of material weatlh within its boundar-
lea, but there is one thing certain the Germans cannot over-
nia nor destroy the wealth of unquerabie spirit of A people who
are not afraid to die for their freedom.
THE SWREME COURT APPOINTMENT
Wh« t .'i record of Sbuth Carolina's SMiatctt- James P.
U t iken under consideration he is not a fit candidate
for the United ^tes supreme court. No man is qualified for
a hi^h office who has consistently demonstrated his hat»
*®d for a part of the people of this nation merely l>ecause of
race or color. '
The protest against the appointment of Senator Byrnes,
■^e bgr.the National Association for the Advancement of Color
ed Peoi^e, cerUinly meets the approval of the Carolina Times,
^ we trust Preaident Roosevelt will take the record of thei
fcuth Carolinian under careful consideration befoite he names
him to tive Supnsme Court bench.
If the President is desirous of honoring the south with an-1
•^r appointment to the nation's highest tribunal, we think i
te could find no better represenUtive of the hiffhest type of
^zenAip. as well as legal aWlity, than North Carolina's |
Cauef Justin W. P. Stac^. Mr. Stacey has served as head
^ the supreme court bf this sUte for many years, and has
Wini^Hlisled himself as one possessing unusual judicial ability.
We think the presfcfent would make a serious blunder by
, pbeiogr on the Supreme Co^rt bench a man of Senator Byrnes
I and we recommend instead the consideration of Honorable
jr. p. Stacey,
ROBERT P. JERVEY
TIm iMsinx of Robert p. Jervay, publisher of the Cape fW
MSMI, riiQOi^^ from North Carolina one of ita most ^uiet,
citizens. The Neffto* Newspapers of this 9Uite
one of their finest and most noble c^raetws.
Ifc. rem«sented the old school of business
~ fae obtitttted in hi« printtii® establish-
b WMnBgion is indicative of hia sound business judge*
U |»U| abflity a» a printer.
bnsjoeei wiuipDed him
of mannjing a Dri^tiiHr business and
he nsds use of it;. H«4 he hem a
IB sMldffbod the Cape Fear journal, it
tim# Msfb outstripped any other rmec
^ Mhivw « shy witii a anuill
* " '* I bttsioMf enter-
toiay, lie Ini
ft MKMtle of honefti
^-TH. He pitclwd
a lMt CftlM
^9'Mfki Md m«4c
BT WZLLIAlf PIOKZarS
I saw "Jeff” the othw l»y in
St. Loois, iu one of Supreme
Liberty life^ baranch offiofls, —
and me tsiked. How I liked to
hear tjiat iMgr t«lk> altbo 1 beard
biai talk Usat tioM SO years ego
in Little Boek> Ark> > At that
time we were three kiddiee, hii
older brotiwr Stanley, now the
beet pAyswisn in Arkaoaas, and
Jeff and. I. I 'was the oldest* ’
few years older than Stanley,—
and Jeff was the kiddie who was
yocngesti only three or four
years old. We were all talkative
and mjigHt aay,, bright, extra
bright bids. But 3Mt and I were
more talkative, I 'think, than
Stanleys Stanley was j«8t one
elasi, behind me, in gratainiar
gradee, in hifh school, at Tail
ed^ college and at Yale. Nei
ther of us ever loat a step. Then
there waa Hattie between Stanley
and Jeff, so that Jeff was sever
al years behind Stanley in eoll-
ege.
But I really am not thinking
about theee boya ef the past, bo
mneh as about what Jeff told me
the othv day, — something al
most uiAeaid of. But I know
it's true, -for I have known these
hoyat for a half hundred years*
and they alway told ^ truth.
Jeff is now a high officer in
Supreme Liberty Life, leading
Negro insurance company with
beailquarteni in Chioago. This
is the extraordinary statement
from Jeffetifon lah: That in
Supreme Liberty Life are top
offlfters, all Negroes, who “actu
ally pull together, each trying to
help all, standing loyally by
eh.” HeavM be jpraised.
But "whttt Slaved this com
pany: A few years after the
InsuU blow up, the £tate
Illinois got hot on the trail of
all its ooirporations, letting the
“water” out of tiieir stock, and
unless they measured up when
so 'cteflated, killing the stock.
Many went out of existence, and
when ittie state attorneys ^t to
Supreme Liberty Life, it was
found bo be $400,000 under par,
when its aaM>ts were measured
against!^ its- outstanding insur-
aiiee liability. Just as a foiina-
Mty, the company was given
three months to make up the
difference, nobody, including the
emnpany itself, expecting them
to be able to do it. Then Jeff and
oithen, young, bold, daring—
and honest—^proposed an unheard
of jjroeedure: To get 'tihe colored
poUey holders to lend the company
3400,000. It “oouldn't be done,”
•^as the general opinion, —but
witb nothing to lose anyway,
set out to do it—and actually
DID IT. Wait a minute, tihey did
not collect any more money from
the already scared policy hold
ers, wbo had watched the collapse
of other N^:ro inmrance eom-
panies, but they got each policy
bolder to “dMiate” to the com
pany enough of the face value of
hia policy to bring (he outstand'
ing liability down to meet that
$400,000 differential. niink ai
it They campaigned from dis-
triot, telling the TRUTH: that
the company was on the l«ekai
all sM to go te lueces in 90 daya
and that this was one (untried
and nnheard of) way to save it
-skaybe.
The iJoU^ holders bad not4i-
ing to lose, and tmulating the
company leaders, they gavs ill
and signed, enoofi^ of th^ to
make the grade. Now, hold your
breath: the company was not
saved, but EVERY EX POUOY
HOLDER HAS BBBN PAID
BACK HIS “DONATION*' IN
FULL, after 10 years of strug^^e
and devotion on the part of tfte
company leadership. The state
attorneys called the process of
salvaging (this company “illegal”
and tried to prevent it, but with
de^rmination tbe company took
the case to t^e Illinois Suprenw
court, whieh got down to REA
SON, like thia: Well, ^tihe eomr
,mny will go* into the hands of
and. Said (9ie court, in sveFy
such caae most of the money
goes to the “examiners" and
and accountants and otdier de
ceivers." Therefore the court
allowed these Negroes to tiry
something that even the court
allowed these Negroes to try
something that even ttie court
ad never seen tried.
T%en young Jefferson Q. Ish
suggested anotiher “new thing’
That* the company sell policies
wit*u)ut down paymcnte, ju*rt
^t t^e prospect take the policy
and begin paying, “next week*
and if he had the policy for
years. This waJ, fpund to bring
in a bigger net than the old
method of so much for "initia-
ti(Mi” fee, which, in a lairge way
eontribuitied to the rapid growth
of the company.
H/A/04
NATIOlUL
h)l
ICu
THE BIRTH
OF A BALUD
B(y Arthur Bronson
HOME
'Home is where l^e
how you ibay
build
. f \
Qn foundatiorfs or rock, or of
mud, or of «lay;
With girders of gold that shine
like the sun,
Stud it with jewels, or thatch
it with straw-i-
Or with hardy hewed logs may
your labor be done:
The richest or meanest, man's
eyes ever saw;
Call it a castle, but it matters
not, for
Home is where love i»-4nside
the door.
—Selected.
If the nation ever nee^l 'vol
unteer generals, many citisans,
over 40 years of age, will ba
ready to serve at a general's pay
Nearly every human being
likes to think about the day
when he will have plenty of
money and be able to hdp til
worthy causes.
The only reason why ^e
United Stetes is not in the pres
ent war is the reluctance of Ja-
^ pan and Germany to make the
tstand‘-||attack, just now.
niC POCKETBOOK
■/KNOWLEDGE a
fontMdoujmofmr
MAS tjommfi po
vvrm ow^aiMAi.
pRiCNO, ear
■tAKpS
fsoMvny
Mfer
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a t MAKHI6 cAMpiy -locwy is
MOMUr 40% HmSR -mi M 1918,
Mio a
loeoiip
•Wf U.5. isgycp eiuiS of
25^ c»«MiN»nsN
M 'WE 1860V
“God bless America,
Land that I love.”
Out of the last war came this
war. And out of the last war
came this song. ^
God Bless America." It’s
becoming America's theme song
and it may be our new national
anthem.
Schools, religious groups, ed
ucational bodies and patriotic
organizations have taken it up.
It was the l^eme song for both
Democratic and Republican na
tional conventions this year.
It's a hymn of thanks that'
we happen to be Americans,
that day in ld40. Yet it was
written in 1918, a war tune for
a camp show! And never used!
Buried away in trunk by its
writer, Irvinif Berlin, the song
was forgotten; until two years
ago, when it was unearthed for
Kate %nith.
You won’t hear it over the
radio much because it’s restrict-,
ed. Band leaders can't pep it
up for dance use. It’s free
for any patriotic purpose. And
royalties on aheet sale and other
use—every penny—-go to char
ity.
It's the only Inring Berlin
song that hasn't been plugged
or pushed commercially in his
33 years ,of sonc writing. It
may yet outsell all hia others-
'‘God Bless America'* is a
plain, sentimental title for an
obscure song that was buried 20
years. Yet it's likely to be Ber
lin's monument,
“Stand bei^.her-and fuida
her
Throu(rh the night with
light frotn above. ’’
Berlin wts & meek-looking
fcMck private at C^p Upton in
ldl8. He wr(^ a musical com
edy for the soldiers called "Y'ip!
Yip! Yaphanlc!" Included among
the songs was “Go4‘ Bless Amer
ica." .
Bui I didn't use it in the
show,'* Betiin told a reporter
recently. wasn^ needed.
Breryone was emotionally stir
red and realized we were
up atftinst. It seemed like car
rying coals to Newcastle to
have a bunch of soldiers con^
ottfc and aing it”. So Berlin
laid ^e aside.
Kiate Smith first sang the
song Novem^ 41, 1938, It
sparked the ims^aation of
A^fica immediwbajy.
“From the mountaios to the
prairies,
To oc«an whjtf with
foam . . . ”
Berlin's pqbl)bhi]^ h/ou99 did
n’t even botpelr to. publish the
song until six weeks after the
brokdcaft, when orders started
to^mein.
Berlin felt that his song had a
rare quality that he wanted to
keep. So the lyrics were copy
righted against commercial ra
dio program use (except Kate
Smith's) and kept away from all
swing arrangers, cabaret and
night club use.
Then as it began to look as
if he had a new American
theme song here, Berlin decid-
ID
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Good grammar, as we get it«
is understandable language.
Wh^ you think of the de-
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FACTS ...
ad to dedicate it to American f«as« program just of Blo
use. He segregated every pen- i#j-.
ly of royalties, formed a com-
mittee of three prominent ‘ ^ ,
Americans •—Colonel Theodore! Whenever anybody offers yon
Roosevelt, Gene Tunney »nd | gon^etbing free, be on
Herbert Mayard Swope—^to ad-! guard
ninister the funds and decided
your
with them to devote the money
0 the Boy and Girl Scout Foun-
1 at ions.
The fund has already reached
“^,000 on the 500,000 copies of
sheet music sold to date. Varie
ty Magazines figures the sum
will go well over $100,000 on
sheet music alone—a record for
Tin Pan Alley.
Other unusual features—there
is a royalty of eight cents on
each copy (On the average pop
ular song it’s three cents.) Pa
triotic sqpgs are never money
makers. This one’s different.
It’s a best seller.
There’s been no plugging of
it on the radio. Any reputable
organization has been free to
use it. Yet sheet sale has con
tinued amaxingly. —
“Ciod bless America
My home sweet home”.
“(jive me the making: o:
songs of a nation,’' on
Andrew Fletcher, "and I care
not who makes its laws." Irv
ing Berlin, who is mighty proud
of his song, has a right to be.
The wail of the synagague is
in his music, the cry of the im
migrant, and the struggle of
the poor boy working his way
up. Irving was Israel Baline
originally, ' his father a rabbi
who fled a pogrom in Russia.
Israel was a kid of 4 wben he
came to the States.
Thpy lived in New York’s
Bowery. Israel sold papers
then became a singing waiter
at Mike's on Pell Street. Then,
in 1909, Israel wrote his finrt
song, *‘Marle From Sunny It
aly". 'Then he changed his name
to Irving Berlin, wrote “Alex
ander's Ragtime Band" in X911,
and up to the top of Tin Pan
Alley came Irving. To stay,
He was asked recently if he
agreed with others that "(5od
BleM America” migh be a new
national anthem.
"You can’t vote a national an
them," eaid Berlin. “I knovy
you don’t sit down and write
one. The people adopt a song,
or they don't.
■‘4 think that ^God Bless Amer
ica" ia the most important song
I’ve over written. Hi tell you
mor^ about it in five year#,"
It’s a funny world, said the
'man, who did not realize how
funny men can be.
Labor and capital could get
along better if there was more
fair play on each side.
Many a news writer explains
his error by the phrase, “It was
a typographical error!"
We are beginning tot worry;
our neighbors seem ta be slotr
in planting spring gardens.
Putting off work until tomor
row is the. same as putting off
profits until next week.
The secret behind newspaper
success is the publication of
newts. It is that sample.
The succeesful farmer, we
have observed, does very little
farming on the streets of the
county seat.
A smart man, and we know
one, doesn't worry about get
ting credit for everything that
he does.
Some wives have the idea that
their husbands ate busy thii^*
ing up excuses to work loni^
hours.
• • •
Life ifl becoming so compleK
for the little women that th^
find it difficult to attend aU
the brid^re parties.
Tke kiiAonf at
ia the hiatorf nt ialuairial'lpirQ*
gress. LlHls progresa iwa i^s
in buiassa from the fhat csa-
^uy |o tba ejftdTeentii eeatoty.
Indos^al progress ha« to wai^
for an eAcient tmnsportatlea
syatem. Thia came witli ihe Steam
railroad. Work on ^le fiiet rail
road built ia America
in lt27 ia the connifso^ slii^
of South Carolina, with the de
velopment of this new, revolu
tionary system of traosportattoa
business mo««d forward with a
speed never seen before.
The railroad proved to be a
great centralising force. Under
this new i^atem of transporta-
Mon the line of eeonomie sdvant
age ebraya led to the eentelr.
The bigger the eity the greater
the opportunities for bnsinsas.
As a result of this eeonmie ad
vantage in eentraliaatioia, great
citiea, great industrial eentera,
and great financial aod eooi>
mereial institutions developed
rapidly at the expense of the
smim towns and rural section .
Viiues in the centers advanced
by leaps and bonnA, while
u«e in the small towns and mr«l
sectioiu declined.
Today* we are ^ in the midst of
a new industrial revolution*
brought about by a new power
in transpoHatloa, this is the
gsMpUoe ebotrie revolntioQ. Tbs
steSm revoIutioB drove bnispfis,
and populatiea to, the esateHi,
the gas(4ine electrte revolution
was a eentrallsii^ fores, tie
fSMline electric revelation is a
decentralising fOree. This atsaos
that new industries in tiie futut^s
will se^ location in the small
towns and rural sections, beeaus*
the line of eeonomte advanta^
bee reversy^^ itself. Talues in
the great emjlers will decrease
values in ^
“sticSs * will advance relatively.
The opportunities for success in
the futore will be in the small
towns, ra^er t^an in thf_ jjfjg
eities. The big eity has *%hot-ita
bolt,” the little town is loading
for the game.
Always remember that the av«
erage merchant considen it a
privilege to serve a customer
who-pays ca^\..
Business ia improving over
the nation, according to reports
This means, suppose, in
creased pay for worknn and sal'
aried employsaa.
Human naturei thfougii the
ages, hss responded very slow*
ly to what iWbrmmrs call tho
uplift and little progress ia
made by applying the pressure
too fast.
Tribacco
According to figurea conwil'
ed by Cl^emson (College agricul
tural authorities, it costs thsi
average South Ciarolina farmer
$92.26 to grow and handle an
acer of fluettred tobaoeo.
Upholiteiy
“Wool* from the soybean will
shortly be adopted for airmo
bile upholstery padding. Just as
pbatic fiber panels, will replace
steel for the bod^.
Paul Robeson
Baired From
Constitution Hail
WASHINGTON — Paul Robe
son, baired from figging In
the DAB Con«titi#doa hall, finds
hiniself in another dilemna, aot
because of any action on his
part, but because the eponeoridg
group has decided llo hold the
concert in which the noted bari
tone ic appearing at the new
Uline arena.
_ C!oDsiderablc agitation has
been spread throi^ %e city on
account of an alleged jim crc>w-
policy adopted by the manaig|e-
,ment of tlie arfflia when it fiiM
opened.
l%ere are those who aay they
went to the arena, and there are
thMe juet aa pceMve who say
th'^ wera refosed admiafeion w
the place. Now, ^e qporsoring
group will find that ttiere ia a
definite ontip^y on the part of
of WaAiington Negroes towa^
going to the arena b^ause of
thia unfostanate misunderstand
ing, as Hie ntanagemeat clauni%
on tha poUey ef of s^raiaUeit.
Only ivoently, wten topnetoli
colorSd f|ght^ were filled lo
appear a* tiie areaa, i^seial a^
were run in colored i^kwapapem
and handbills diatriboNisd^ aktiig
You Street section* aayinf tbe^e
was no color line at i^e p^e.
T Wk Saw
m
A graitt man is a gift,
some measure a revelation of
God. A great man, Hi^ng for
high ends, is the divinest thinjg
that can be seen on earth. The
value and interest of history are
dmivad chiefly from the livaa
and si^CM of the eminent
men whom it commemorate#.
Indeed, without these the^
would be no such thing a« hi|r
toiy, and the progress of a na
tion would be little w^h
cordinf, aa th•narch-ola^;9^-•