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Ncctb jnfyBKii.
Equl edocatioiial omHMrtanittes. ^
Oglwr wages for doamtic aer^nts. i.
FaD psrticlpBtioa ^ Nefroes in aU branch^ of the
NatiNial defense.
AboysluBeBC of the doable-standard ware scale
in Indnstiy.
Greater pnrticqMtion of Negroes in ptditical affain;
BeUer hoiuinc for Negroes.
Necre representatiMi in city, county, state and na-
governments.
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SATURDAY, JtlLY 19TII, 1041
KDITORIAE
it !• ^(heUe *0 note the con'
fosion that ia delating onr coun
try. At a thne when clarity of
purpose and haste ia aetioa are
prime requisites to oar 8e£B»e
efforts, We are appartattly daTisd
before one of the mii|^»t ohal-
lenges that wiH tv*t fafe maa-
kind.
One of the bsat crfuments
that Bn^and is oar
battle is our jeeming incftpanity
to bestir ourselves to the exi-
fODcies of a critical situation.
We Isck unity of purpose an«l
action. We are squabbliiig among
oUrselves and were it not for
Qreat Britain we could be &eiK'
cd and bound by Germany, for we
are utterly unprepared tfr meet
such a competent foe. We owe
England a great debt for holding
the Germans back while we teiii>
porize with events that We should
handle with fivmness and dis>
patch.
As has been said iu £bis column
many tmies before, demoeraeies
cannot compete with , dictator
ships in an emergency. Tmfy are
too slow and unwieldly and hu
man selfishness is given too
great leaway in nation affaire.
ments notice to this effect should
be served on U9 at once. If we
are hopelessly lost we should be
BO informed.
If Lindbergh and Wheeler and
|JohB Lewis can strangle our na-
,tion iflto suliiaiwion to Qertuany
'then tie futility of our efforts
should be madls clei^r. Perhaps
after all, we iriko have boasted of
a great democratic ideal have
been dupes and dullards, while
“Lindbergh and Company” have
been sages. distressing thing
about the whole affair is that we
■have been eleetji^ and payii^
j^*|oW i^ational officers to save us^
from the plight in which we find
onrselves; and today we find
ourselves in a "super mess” with
confusion more confounded.
Our nation is paying the price
ol a w^retched choice. It chose to
circumscribe its Negro elements
and advance its foreign elements
with the result that the latter
have a strangle hold on the affir
of the nation while the former
are standing by helpless as our
defense efforts are being paralz-
ed in a* time of great natiolial
danger, ft is going to take ten-
Aside from sqtoabbttpg Wd
revealing to our enemies our weak
ness, we arc Sofll' help
less and futile aTig femocralic
ideologies when coitiitMted with
the effieucy of a distatorshi^.
What wc arc doing {lues is
commending dlctaiNli^ip i«idi3»8t
ly whiife We are tryib^>^ ^fToy
it directly. We have' «t the
tWilfti' nations. When relegate himd
Ted i>ercent Americans and elev-
of this nation one of’*the,'gre»>* fr*®.
ad
tLB QUOTATION:
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^then is the acssaEe wlitch we have hiard of Him, and
—ta jnMu that God is light. Mid in him is no darniess
-4 John 1:5. ^ ^ _
_5E SAYING:
Wien a man wants to do something good for other people
I't have to wait on a committee to meet, debate, dis
and forget to function.
His life Fmt The World, \Tolui 6:5t:
T am the living bread which canie down from heaven;
nw eat of this br^uf, he Shall live forever; and the
d which I will give is My flesh which I will give for the
1 of the worfci."
if
pst men of al! time hufr he
fettered by some 'political min
ions of“stupicr propensitiies.'
Reduce# to ife fintrt analysis
this countrj’ k being pBJnlyzed
by certain elements whose de
signs are beeomiog mM;fa«and
more ^)vious. Unless this nation
finds some way to pHi^^ itself,
we are lost i^yond r^Taijti*' The
nazls and fti^cists have a Strang
le hold on our great and it re
mains, to be sera just thpy
are going to 4o with |t, tnlfy|s .iite
nalipn nius^s enough epurago
t^ dbaLr'witA theiAj J^a i|eoMye
rasnier. W we are gofaig to
abcMcate to these jierveraiy^ ele^
tide of nazfsm if indeed it is
stemmed at alL The football coach
who prefers to keep in the line
u^ players who give away the
team’s signals while reliable
Ore of the ta^ discussioD of r&-
wreeka is its failure to ro-
veal any clear outlook far ma
terial red«K!tio«s in- nen>de#«nM
^pending. Demands for such
redNictiom haw been made both
in and out ofilCongress. Secre
tary Morg6i?E]^u told the Ways
and Means Coipmittee last
Inaonth that the Government
{continues to spend in noi»-do-
Ifense and nwH-relief fields “as
if we had no emergency defense-
program, as if we could super-,
impose our hnge rearmament
effort upon government as us
ual and buiMness as usual . . .
It would he folly to assume that
yre can continue to spend now
as we did in normal times.”
A somewhat similar attitude
Ion. the part of the President has
been indicated from time *’to
time by press reports. Yet no
definite step toward a substan
tial ireductiojl in non-defence
costs has been tken. On th*
contrary, the Senate has reoentr
ly passed the largest agricultur
al appropriation bill in history,
and both branches of Congress
have approved mandatory crop
loans at 86 per cent, of parity
prices, despite the fact that
farm income increased last year
and is expected to increase
again this year. And, although
defense officials are report^ as
expecting that unemployment
iwill almost disappear by next
autvtom, the President has rec
ommended relief appropriations
^f $886,000, (MX) for the coming
fiscal year, $109,000,000 below
players are sitting on tjje bench
deserves to lose. It is even so |tht>'budget eobimate and about
tovife disaster but deserve it*^
sliotrtd come. • ^
If this country would rather,
turn over affairs to the nazis than
use to the fullest its Negro
super patriots, then does it make
a w^etphed choice- Nothing shows
more conclusively" the unprepared
ness of the nation than this self
«(^ne atteipi^ to adhere to color
pre^dicea' esen though they im-
*^rn the nation. This highhand
attempt to shelve one, tenth of the
-in a: c|isis shows*
how pitifully confused we are in'
rilis country. T^»aMihateY had|
)ctter' revoke *ts ^n'WOTed 'Aoice'
before it is too late.
if ■ tyinii I if trmwrm
ABSSOURl DEMOCRACY
ft is a long accepted fact, noted by historians and students
wtorld affairt, that in time of War, Truth is the first Cas-
That heea true since the dawn of history—and today
ii more apparent €han everi
Suppose we take a look at the record for a week.
On Tuesday, July 8, the white newgjapers were headlining
; Aaoerican aecupation of Iceland. From that bleak and bar-
itlBnd, in the North Atlantic on the very rim of the Arctic
Lief Ekrickson set sail in the year 1000 to discover Amer-
Ezactly 941 years later, America returned the compliment,
Por just what rratson is this icy outpost of civilization,
its 110,000 inhabitants who eke out a meager, poverty-
, ezistemce from the seih, suddenly important to the Unit-
8We»?
The answer is that it is a i»se, a stepping-stone midway on
path between Europe and America. It could be used, ^
by Germany, in the fantastic possibility that Hitler-
decide to advance on America. That, to repeat, is a
iity.
But it is a PACT, now openly established, that Iceland
tfeiiig used as a stepping stone by the United States—a step-
atone to the chaos and bloody horror of a European War!
That war, we are constantly being told by white editor-
is for Democracy—a world democracy free of racial and
prejudice and intolerance,
let us take a look at the record—^the official record.
On Tuesday, July 8thr—the very same day we were being
that Iceland was an outpost of J!}(bmocracy—^the State Su-
Court; of Missouri handed down a decision that clearly
'iriMekingfy illustrated just bow much of this vaunted de
ls FACT.
Blnford, aO-s^r-otd editor of the Kansas City ‘‘Call”
■wwepipec, was lefused enerraoe into the Uniwrsity of
tizadnste School of JbMwilisnt in 1999 because she
Tho stak* ^vuNWtae couvt npheld tiie university’s
lie hadn't triad' to enter £«ncoln Udiver«a9,
fagiytis. *lt is the duty of this court to main-
PoIrv ot Mig0ovtkia ao imir iis it doos not
wkk- tkm fadnral eoiurtitHttonv'' tki nianimoua
JCsain
94 MBr a»«o» W*t«iiiniiiin ii it ia amraised
MM Iwniglitod aowiwmrilfiBa of the don^. This is
BY QEOROE T. McORAt
John L. l^wis, firi^ stern
as ever, finally: wrtfng fi'oi^
southern coal operators i basis
per day wage for ipme\^50,
000 soft coal' mineis this we^n.
Over 150,000*^ Negro miners on
the basis of Lewis’ tpiugiph re
ceived wage increases amounting
to $1.40 per day.
Palling. The South " -
into The Union
This victorj>’"by CIO’s^-#Jnited
Mine Workers is a g«a|^’,'^ohtri-
bution to the fight to destroy two
vicious assumptionu. The first is
that Negroe ^ould not be paid
wages equal td those of white
worked even thoi^h they per
form equal work. The other is
that southern indus^ must be
allowed to^ pay lower wages in
order to competc with industry
elswhere in the United States. In
order to protect their lower wag-
wage lev(^, the south has spawn
ed upon the country some of the
most labor .baiting and Negro
ating congreismen imaginable.
Sotith-Spearhead
Of Reaction
Even as * €10 continue ! the
figbt to ^ualize wages north
and south-ra fight begun under
NRA and renewed durijig the
light for a* national minimum
wage law, southern congressmea
were moving/ heaven and earth
to put labor' in a veritable con
centration camp all in the ^same
of national defense. Led by sueh
flowers of southern democracy as
Congressman Connally, .Vinson
and May, they tried and are still
trying to force through Congress
legislation .yhioh, according to
th the ArL igd !I0 Would de
stroy organized labor and estab
lish uivoluntary servitude in the
;United States.
0X0 M tTsited
Phillip iMiirry, president of
■would accom-
togetiier the
plish
PAYING FOR
Officjai MB Hm Tatum that 15 ^ent of the AFL shook their
&r for Defoue — DefMue pf De>
Bend'»
Mrile OnlcM Hunt
to^
•— British -
■4t» mr
ttUfiost ot
wwortl«i there ic noae-jn the Bupreixw
JCIO and William Green, presid- jlocai'taxes about equal to those
finger* at congress ffndicharged
that eaactmaht of tHd'' Vinson
bill or the''^iMSlilftlly-^y ai^nd'
jnents ^e^ee ip«f; cattt. at the eatimatad na»
u-4. :tio^a! income ior the calender
year i940. y
Need of iit^
Defense Spending
The most disapfbinting fear
, ; ./■.
• , j-
act- Would not on^y' destroy de-
an^oCracy in the Uhited States^
fOut the defense progr&m as* well
through destruction of the mor
ale of Amoricaa workers. Taken
The drastic increases in Fed
eral tax rates proposed by the
Treasury Department have con
fronted the American people
with the first definite iridiwi-
itioh of scope of the sacrifices
that must be made in meeting
;the cost of national defense'
states the Guaranty Trust of
New York in discussing paying
for rearmament in the current
tissue of The Guaranty survey*
its monthly review of business
ahJ ftnaocia] conditions in this
country and abroad.^
Although some specific
features of the Treasury plan
have been criticized' no voice
has. been raised against its main
objective-an aggregate increase
of three and one-half billion
dollars in Fedral taxes The sur
vey continues. This ready ac'
ceptance of a prospective bur
den of such magnitude is a re
^flection-of the j)eople’s deter-
Jmination to face the realities of
the task that lies before them
"and their recognition of the
economic problems that the vast
■project necessarily involves.
The higher taxes are intend
ed to produce more than twelve
and one-half billion dollars in
ftderal revenue during the com
ing fiscal year, a figure never
before approached, even during
;the World War period. This tO'
tai represents an increase of,ap-
iproximately oae-third over the
revenue that the existing rates
iwould be expected to yield next
year. Together with Stats and
collected last yedr, it w^uld'
biing total tax colelctions to
idMost fiwenty-two billion dol
ilars, which is equal to nearb'
$500,00^; 000 betow this year's
figure.’’ . \
That an increase of three and
one-half billion dollars a year in
Federal taxes, including an ad
ditional levy on business a-
mounting to more than a bil
lion, will represent a stagger
ing financial burden is too ob
vious to require emphasis. Nev-
iktrk Laughter
«etk>i
*3S
ertheless, the prospect that two- “Thanks'.for the movies an’ a very swell evenin’Mr. Bootsie . . * But I realfy don’t want to
• ■ discuss no war or politics or nothin’,
thirds of next year’s huge ex
penditures m^y be met from
current revenue and that a de
termined effort will be made to
raise as large a share as possi
ble of the r^aining third, by
the sale of G6vemment,obliga-
’tions«io iqdividuai‘and corpor
ate iftrcstors; rather than to'the
banks is reassuring to those
who recognize the grave perils
inherent in the usual methods
of . emergency finance. The
outlook wt>uld be even more en
couraging, however, if the tax
plan were accompanied by signs
of substantial retrenchment in
nonHtnllitary expeadituie.
OM WEEKLY
SERMON
THE
B(X)K THAT SHAJLL
LAST F^EVER
^y Rev. Will H. Houghton,
D.dL, President
llloody Bible Institute, Chicago
What an interesting place is
“ft second hand bookstore. The
dreams of men are here held in
most volumes. Nearly every
bookxwas, a brain child, born Moses givB iaws which are still
out of .pain and labor. It is^ trye, forhiative aild- normative? How
some were stiflborn and others could the prophets tell of na-
died in infancy,,but in bac^ of tiops not y^,,existent and..of
every boblc was'a hopeful par* kiiigif yet unborn? How could
ent. ar r ® book of fine artistry
^^meiRokfaib-Jiiki>e^ks.-iOo^fe inprt^gtlq people?
ew sparse scientif-
mere expresMons of pride and
human strut. Other books are
like^ snakes, earrsring their poi
son wherever they go. Some are
like semi-precious or even pre
cious stones of -varying value.
But there is one book, called
the. Bible, which is tlw dia
mond of jewels, the lion of
strength, and yet it ia the-bread
of nourishment.
The Bible is entitled to, live,,
if for nothing other than its
daring and unrefuted claim—
its claim to be the Word of
God. According to its own eval
uation, revelation is its con
tent, inspiration its method,
salvation its goal. Who but
God could conceive such a plan
and theme? And wlio but He
could achieve it so gloriously?
Those who would deny inspir
ation to the Bible are under the
necessity^of explaining difficult
literary phenomena. How could
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Ev6n the
ic references in the Bible s^m
to be 4Q anticipation of recent
discoveries. One race said the
world rests on the shoulders of
Atlas; another said the world
rests on four turtles. The Bi- | vantage that is ours in our
I physical and lingual unity.,
Tbe second definition is **Un-
ion, AS of constituent parts of
elements; harmony, concord. ”
These United States of ours
torial, it is well to consider just
what “unity" really is.
The dictionary gives several
definitions. First is “the state
of being individbly one." It was
for this ideal » unity the Civil
War was fougR—^that this na
tion might stittch from ocean
to ocean withcpt barrier. We
ought not be hypercril^ical or
over censorious of that mad
checkerboard we call Europe*
when we think odf the great ad-
ble -says, “He hangeth the earth
upon nothing." .The^word noth
ing" is literally “thinness." ^ Do
you know of a better word for
ether than thinness? And while
the cultured but heathen races
discussed a flat earth and won
dered how far the sea could be
traveled without reaching the
dropping-off place, the Bible
held hidden in its depths the
simple statement, “He sitteth
upon the sphere of the earth."
Harvey is given credit for the
discovery of the laws of blood
circulation/ but- one many cen
turies before Harvey said, “The
life of the flesh is in the blood."
It is everywhere evident in
the Scriptures that the writers
are on the side of truth. They
abominate lying and deception.
They advocate veracity, and
glory in integrity. If these
ideas are according to their
standards, are they then liars or
deceivers?
The Bible claims to be with-
have that type of unity — its
peoplo drawn from all races,;
nationalities and religions, join
ing in one common nation—re
taining the best of their own
background and yet giving alle
giance to this country where all
are individuals, yet part of one.
The third definition is “the
number one; the ratio of two
equal quantities.’’ The Ameri
can ideal of unity is definitely
one of equal rights for all citi
zens alike and of equal respon
sibilities on the part of all citi
zens to loyally and wholeheart
edly support the government
which they have elected. It is
not a unity’of force—^but a uni*
ty of choice.
The fourth and last definition
'is “Combination into a homo
geneous whole, exhibiting one-
out a rival. It is not only a ^-ness of purpose. ” National uni
word from God,' it is the Word
of God. /There are other reli
gious books, but there is no
other divine revelation. The de
tractors .will one day be retrac
tors, but too late. The men
who now say Jo >the Bible “You
are wrong,"- will one day—too
late—say, “I am wroiig;" “For
ever, O Lord, thy word is Set
tled in heaven."
What Is National
'By Rnth Taylor
•One of the leadiiig coBomen
tators recently said over the
air that there ought to be a
neWi dictionary to express the
unusual interpretations put up
on phrases in common usage.
But perhaps what wte need
more than a new dictionary is
to .consult the ones we already
possess, in' order to find out if
we are expressing exactly what
we do mean.
, Now that we are being ad
monished to close rank^t and
the,need for national unity is
stressed-in-every^speech a&4 edl-
ty must be based on the firm
foundation of commOn ideals
and purpose, and of fair deal
ing for all regardless of race or
creed or color. National unity
calls for an equal opportunity
for each individal citizen to de
velop according to the best of
his ability. Above all, it de
mands that we pass on to each
succeeding generation a better.i
more prosperous, and more tru
ly democratic America.
This is the unity we are ask
ed to briiig about—this is the
national unity which is our aim.
Is there any American worthy
of the name who does mot de
sire this unity—^today and for
ever—and who is not willing to
work and sacrifice to maek it
a living reality?
HITLER
Military gains are reported as
constituting Hitler’s strongest
hold on South American re
spect.
National' dlnve is planned to
collect aluminium ware,.
Voters say a vast U. S., air
force is vital, Gallup survey dis
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