i9o THE CAROLINA TIMES ^kt Carw^Chigg PUBUSHEO WBEKLY BT THE OMMUMA TIMKl PimLlSHIMG CO. II. DURHAM, N. C. mown N-Tiai «r J-Ttri M wttiri Itllrtl m‘**“ ** **** >’»«»• *t fanrliMB. W tT nader tiM Aet of MmrA 1879. "PUBLIC RNANCE AND CHRISTIAN MORALS” ARE CLOSELY IKLATED L. B. ADR1N,PUBU8HER mtLUAM A. TDCaC. SBMctaK Editor & tL WILUAIBON. NfWi EMtur CHAW-OTTE office 4tO 1-a BAST SEOOMD STMEBT SUMCKirriON KATES: $an»—Y«*r, (1.1 Maatiw, The Aitform • THE CAROLINA TIMES iaclu4w E«Ml nlmwhm tm fiegro Teaefcm. N«ff« Imwmm. E««a MhKStiMUd opportaatiM. ngkar wagm far teMttc MHrruils. PhD iMirticipmtloii of Nefroes hi mil brMdwa of tm 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 One Traffic Cop Would Be Better! VBSWHS GO RAlSB^C0StS WASJSS_ HFTPHS6WkbPP\ sfoP mKBSW t>RICES DOWM pfiooucnoM STOP itUUMdiON CURTAII. rovMou ' 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. '>11 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- 25 300 Pounds $1.20 100 Pounds 40 cents 50 Pounds 20 cents Pounds....^ 10 cents ALL SALES FOR CASH ‘ ^ r: ' Mimmum Cut 25 pounds for 10 cents Special Delivjery Service Mmimum Cut 50 pounds for 20 cents Platform prices at our Vivian Street Plant and the East and West Dur- haiji Ice Stations are the same as delivered prices with the exception of pounds or more at the platform which are at rate of $1.00 for 300 pounds. In return for these reduced prices we will appreciate your cooperation in the matter of paymenlt upecial delivery service, and greater use of ice. For Better Ice Service Phone F-8961 Durham public service ... i i.H

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