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"PUBLIC RNANCE AND CHRISTIAN
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National defense.
Ab^isMMiit of the doublMtandard ware scale
in indostiT.
Greater participation of Negroes in political affairs.
B^ter hwisinc for N^rroes.
Neero repmentation in city, county, state and na-
tiwial Kovemments.
By WILLIAM L 8TXDGER
I think All the People of the
church haye become a bit un
easy about the lavish spending
of our Boverntnent. Instinc
tively, we f^l that there is a
moral issue involved in this mat
ter. The foyenunent bus a re
sponsibility to us «i «ittxens and
taxpayera for the wise use of
money.
There may be those who say
that this is no affair of the
church. But if the issue is a
moral one, the church has a
right to be heard. For the
church is the guardian of mor
als, both public and private^
I maintain, with all th6
weight of my pioneer American
conscience, that the church
should not—can not—stand idly
by if there is wasteful and prod
igal use of the nation’s re
sources and earnings by legis
lators unaccustomed to frugal
ity.
a diseasod member of the body
or a cancerous growth. But the
bankruptcy of a nation is a mor
al as well as financial l»nk-
ruptcy, M'hich saps the fibres
of the nation's soul.
People say to me, “I realize
that a lot of theae government
al expenditures are unnecessary,
but I’m not qualified to arguo,
about it. I don't know enough
about these Various subjects.
I'm ignorant."
of our innate conviction that
thrift and frugality are essen
tials in public finance. On that'
basis, neither our ignorance nor
'our individual weakness can
prevent us from prevailing.
In fact, our union in » great
cause will give us wisdom in
place of ignorance, for there is,
no wisdom like the wisdom of
the common people when it
comes to matters of basic pub-
n* or private morality.
‘Union of tht! Little People" in
a great cause is the only way
It is old-fashioned, I have to solve “insoluble” problems. jU
heard, to preach economy. If solved the problem of slavery,
PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH
There i^isomething wrong with any Negro who lives in
JDurham fo^-,^ny length of time when he does not catch the
spirit that has made Ehirham a center of Negro progress. There
is something radically wrong with a Negro who does not catch
the spirit of Durham after one of its leading Negro btisiness
institutions .in the course of 20 years has been able to trans
form him from a raw, green, awkward backwoodsman to a
respectable' gentleman, and an official of'that institution.
There may be found somewhere in the realm of actuarial
flcience justification for all kinds of ingratitude, but until
such a science becomes better understood by the man in the
atreet there will be no way under high heaven to explain to him governmental extravagance leads
so, I am proud to be old-fash-
ioned.
In a year when our national
government will spend a sum
equal to 40 per cent of the to
tal gross income of the nation,
it would seem that watchful
economy should be emphasissed
from the housetops.
Emergency spending cannot
be avoided, but certainly every
expenditure which is not direct
ly connected with the national,
emergency should be curbed to
the limit.
There is a moral basis to botn
personal and public frugality.
Wasteful spending is obnoxious
to the basic instincts of the
American conscience. I have
preached as many as ten ser
mons in a single y^r dealing
with such subjects as thriffa,
insurance, savings, economy,
budgeting—all those activities
which constitute the financial
side of responsible living.
We all know where the road
of unbridled personal extrava
gance leads. Well, unbridled
a so-caHed Negro leader who has risen to his place of lead
arship on th« k)a{^ of-the ^M^o working can’t use
K^ro painteri^on.Jiis irface oi|:’4*micile. ' /y.
The spirit of cooperation handed down to the present gen
eration by o^r'beloved and departed forebears, Merrick, Moore
and Avery ilf the spirit upon which Negro Durham has been
built and it is the spirit that is going to carry us on to greater
heights. We propose to perpetuate that spirit and we are
opposed to tho^ who would destroy it.
If a few years in northern universities are going to de-
atroy every vestige of race pride in a Negro, then it is far bet
ter to let him remain in the backwoods wtiere he will not be
come 80 educated that he can’t tell a Negro painter from one
of the on>osite group.
Either we ought to stop pretending about coopeiation in
Durham or we ought to practice what we preach. This one-
“ded cooperation will never be winked at by this newspai>er,
however unpleasant the task may be to the contary.
LET^US HAVE THE TRUTH
down the same road. It leads
down hill, eventually at top
speed, to Inflation. And Infla
tion means the breakdown of all
moral standards and values!
In Germany, a long period of
didn't it?
Yes, a united effort is the
way of Christian democracy. It
is teh way we in America have,
faced al life’s fiuzzles. "All
things work together" is a very
important part of the text
which closes “for good to them
that love God"
I heard a very effective ser
mon from that text once, w^ien
I dropped into a country church
on a sumemr Sunday morning.
The young preacher had arrani^-
ed beforehand with the organist'
toj; play, in turn, each paj^
alotne—the bass, tenor and alto
—of the hymn Jesus, Lover of
My Soul. Then finally the oit*
ganist played all together, with
the soprano.
As each of the parts was play
ed the congregation was sup
posed to guess the name of the
hymn. Nobody present could
do it. Yes, even such a well-
knowh hymn ais this one could
not be understood when played
in separate parti
Isn’t there a iruth here to
apply to puUic fiance? Taxes
come to uf pieccdpkeal, and sq
do public ^penditures. And as
a people, unless we make an
effort to piece together our
taxes and expenditures, the un
derstanding that will come with
paoaaa.
The National Youth Adminis
tration and the Civilian Qon-
MTvation Corps take $2 a year
in expenditures for every man,
woman and child in the coun
try. Aids to agriculture speni
anothar $8 for each of us. The
average family with an income
of say $1800 al ykar, pays 4S00 in,
taxes.
Th^ fact that these taites |ire
mostly hidden and even unsus
pected makv them.no easier tO'
bear in the long run.
. When I first began to study
Well, a lot of us ignorant lit
tle people can get together, like
Mowgli’s insects, on the basis
tthe Bible intensively, as a
youngster, 1 was rather non
plussed at times by the bitter
feeling of ancient Israel toward
tax colelctors, or “publicans."
There was no such feeling in my
fommunity. In fact, the tax
'tax collectors, or “publicans",
town went to our church and
was a highly respected member
of the neighborhood. For a
time he was my Sunday School
teacher, and a very good one,
too..
, It was oppression, of course,
that made the tax collector of
Bible times so unpopular. Nev-
ler does the Bible protest against
just taxes, to defray the cost of
iust government. But wasteful
spending inevitably leads* to op-
.pression.
' ‘ Biblical History emphasizes
^patedly and pointedly the na
tional disasters that follow in
the wake of prodiga eztrava-
trance by any ruler. Not eveiv
Solomoo was wise enough to
protect his county against this:
for his golden reign had an af
termath of depression that is
yividly pictured by the prophets
who came after him.
Nations, like individuals,
prosper according to their right
thinking. The idolatrous ex
altation of a material sense of
power inevitably leads to disin
tegration, decay and downfall.
Only through moral right can a
nation survivtt.^
Democracy in America is ai|
expression of the highest spir
itual ideals of the founders.
Jfefferson forged them into the
mighty words of the Deplara-
tion of Independence and t^e
Constitution. Ben Franklin
took these same spiritual ideas
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Inflation was the seedbed which ^jth the whole may come too
The tragedy which occurred at Fort Bragg last wfeek when
two soldiers were killed in a brawl on a bus used for the
of hauling soldiers to the camp, will be iregretted
by all free Americans. As bad as the killings were they are not
half as bad as the first reports of the treatment of Negro sol
diers indicate.
It appears that the practices of permitting Negro soldiers
to be pereecuted merely because they happen to be Negioes had
note to do with provoking the killings than the disorderly con
duct of those on the illfated bus.
sprouted the anti-Christ Hitler.
It was the evil key which un
locked a ^Pandora’s box of un
told disasters, threatening now
to overwhelm the world.
An insidious, yet fairly ob-
ivious, poison is this toxin of
wasteful spending. It is easy to
recognize, yet difficult to com
bat.
How Cna We Deal with it?
Are any of us big enough to op
pose it effectively—when it has
already proved too much for
/the President and the Secretary
of the Treasury, both of whom
have protested in vain to Con
gress?
How can we deal with it?
I ana reminded of Kipling’s
jungle story of Mowgli, the boy
who was raised in the wolf fam
ily. When all the citizens of
the jungle fled from their
homes before an invasion of
wild dogs—whose prowess was
due to their traveling in pac
and restated the whole fabric
of Christian ethics into the
homely terms of everyday pio
neer life.
We need the maxims of Poor
Richard in our government to
day, just‘as surely as we need
the lofty political precepts of
Jbfferson.
True democracy rests in the
bosom of the individual citizen.
It needs his attention and his
prayers, for a true democracy
must be Eternally alert and vig-
ilantsA there is no bettar
place for the individual citizen
to begin employing his alert
ness and his vigilance than in
seeing that Christian morals
rule public finance.
WET WEATHER
BRINGS UP THE -
OLD ARGUMENTS
Years like thia alvvnys briug up
discussions about former wet sea
sons. hut just about evvry one of
the older citizens who can idni-
ember that far back «tiek to their
claim that 1901 was the luost
unfavorable year ou record in this
section in which to 'cultivate
crops. In 1901 the i-ain set in early
in June* and last all summer. In
some sectiions of the country
practically nothing was harvested
that fall except “crab” grass hay
but about the only thing it is good
for is to keep cows *and norses
from caving in./ . .
late—because the pieces may ail
add up to national bankruptcy.
So let’s not wait for judgpaent
to be thrust upon us. In this
matter of public spending and
Christian morals, we can safely
act now, on our fundamental
Christian principles.
We need nothing more than
our tax bills to prove to our own
satisfaction that the time has
come for sharp economies
government. None of us wants
to do anything to curb‘expendi
ture for national defease—^that
is an emergency that must be
met with everything we have.
But the very emergency itself,'
in its terrific urgency, empha>
sizes "the need for the starkest
paring of all nondefense appro
priations. '
No thoughtful Citizen can be
blind to where our tax burdens
are leading us.
When I was a young man, I
PRICES REDUCED!
The Durham Public Service Company announces the following-new
schedule of ice prices'effective Sunday, July 27> 1941.
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DELIVERED ICE
You will remember that he
did not waste time trying to
find an elephant or a lion or a
tiger to help him repel the in-
We think the tragedy should be thoroughly investigated by
thoae who have the courage to go to the bottom of it, instead
f the usual military investigation that is often resorted
:rted to in matters of this kind. To do otherwise is to
ick a da^er through the heart of the democratic ideals and
?iplaB ^r which we are training our army to fight to pre-|vader. No, he used the little
stinging people of the jungle—
We have been told -that the company which owns' the buses
for hauling soldiers to and from Fort Bragg, uses separ-
ones for white and Negro soldiers. If this be true those
permit such condition to exist are doing the very thing
going to undermine the morale of our national defense,
than strengthen it. Qfou cannot train a human being
a courageous soldier one minute and a serf the nex^
all ioitications that Negro soldier who lost hisme
he reaenteil.the brutal abuses administered to a fellow
fej*- beastly military police has made a distinct oontribu-
to otff national ddfmae.
of hundreds—Mowgli decided to\ used to marvel that our nation
stay and fight them.
W MIM *4ihAt the Port Bragg incident should be in-
_ _ 1wi Tl^hiniirrt rnilitrin and civilian committee. One
beclouded with prejudice;
Hp4 citizens ««nt the truth about this'
birt the truth. Only in this manner can we
•t-hgga^ oelbre we become the laughing
ju _ d^Boatmey
4MV guilty of ctirring/,up the trouble
wc are for lettijyr-it be k^wa. If ttiose
ikeeatmeat of all th«^ldiers ia the
»■ McMitioas under which Negro soldiers live
■their have to resort to violence to defend them-
r it be made known. In short let the
and let puoisbment be administered to
the bees, the wasps and the
hornets. None of them would
have amounted to much alone
or individually. But through
the cooperation of millions of
these tiny creatures, Mowgli
put to flight the scourge which
threatened the jungle.
So, if we wish to SHve our de
mocracy from the destruction
of unlimited inflation, it can
not be done by calling the ele
phant, the lion or the tiger,
like Mowgli we must call up-
pon the miillipns of little people
each powi^rle»s alone but migh
ty as a united driving force.
In union there is strepght.
And right now we seed that
strength to deal with oor gov-
«riUBe«ta| units ~ k>oal, st^te
a^d natioaaU and mitke th^
SP^liae the close connection that
exists between public finance
and Christian morals.!
Bankruptcy is an ugly work.
In individuals it can be dealt
with by financial surgery., Uke
was able to purchase govern
ment at so low a price. In those
days, five cents out of every
earned dollar was sufficient to
cover the whole cost of all gov
ernment services, federal, state
and local, leaving 95 cents for
living expenses, recreation and
savings. This seemed pretty
cheap government, when com
pared with the Biblical accounts
of taxes in Israel under the
kings—tithes, import duties,
poll taxes, octroi, monopolies,
licenses, tributes, gifts to the
king, and forecd military ser
vice of a month every year.
The halcyon days m America
of government at five cents on
th^ dollar have gone, alas, for
ever. Government has beoMtne
our heaviest expense. Last year,
if our governmental units had
operated on a pay-as-you-go ba
sis, they would have taken 27c
out of every dollar we earned.
I suspect that no king of
Israel was ever able to achieve
a tax levy as heavy ,as th$t!
The basis of t^a^pn in my
youth was comparatively sim
ple. Today everything is taxed,
not once, but many times over.
Even when death comes, taxes
are hidden in the funeral ex-
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100 Pounds 40 cents
50 Pounds 20 cents
Pounds....^ 10 cents
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