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mMi PAGE TWO TfiE CAROLINA TIKES SGPlill&1^27th IMi Cb^Can PDBfJSH^p WEEKLY) BY IBE CAROLINA TIMES PUBUKHING COMPANY 117 E. Fabody Street Doiiuini» N. Phones N-7121 or $-78n nEkaterel^ C. Durhi X ts second class matter at the Post Offira at N. C. unller the Act of March 3rd«, 1879. L. E. ; AUSTIN. Publisher WILLI4M A. TUCK, Manaffing Editor & R. WILLIA2490N Nows Editor CHARLOTTE OFFICE 420)ft East ^ond Street subS^uption $2.00 a Year RATES: $L25 for [ BETWEEN?HE LINES : Six Months THE PLATFORM OF . . . • * THE CAROLINA TIMES INC1.0DES; Ecjmal salaries for Negro Teachers. policemen where Negroes are involved. educational opportunities. N^o iweytam. Hii^er wages-ioj;^domestic servants. Fun participation of Nefirroes in all branches of *. the National Defense. Abolishment of the double-standard wage scale in .. industry. Greater participation of Negroes in political af fairs. Better housing for Negroes. Nefero representation in city, county, state and national governments. Bus Stations and Negro Leaders This editorial is written after we have completed an inspec tion tour of several cities in North Carolina where bus stations have recently been erected, under the new program of the Pub lic Utilities Commission to force the severaJWous companies oper ating in the state to provide ample station facilities for all their * t patrons. . On a vf^ole we can{^t endorse the-very poor accommoda tions provided Negro patrons in the new stations recently erect ed, and we warn Negro leaders of Durham that unless defi nite cautiod is used they will awaken to find themselves the goat when the new Durham bus station is completed. In one.city, we found the toilets far too small, with the lunch counter in the colored waiting room built as close to the men’s toilet as it was possible to get it. In addition the counter and its surroundings were dirty and uninviting, and the Negro attendant was lazily leaning across the counter in close conver sation with a young woman who apparently was his girl friend. There was no sign of a newsstand or any of the other com forts providi^ in the white waiting room. Instead of nice leath er bottom plush seats, as were found in the white waiting room, thd Negro side is provided with wooden bottom seats of m much inferior grade. There were other inequalities far too numerous mention here. So, the^e bus companies operating wiith the backing of the law in North Carolina make no pretense at measuring up to the foil requirements of the laws of the state, which say there roust be sej>arate but equal accommodations provided for mem bers of the wbite and Negro races. The conditions will continue because those who are vested with the power to execute the law are hypocrits wlhen the law ai^lies to a Negro. The condition will continue because Negro leiiders in Durham are not honestly interested in bettering the .condition of the unfortunate Negro who, because of financial is forced to use the bus as a method of transpor- ^on. When powerful white folks get coupled up with so-called »rful Niegroes in a movement to exploit or throttle the of the lowly Negro to rise above his level, they can Hitler and his gang look like novices. Thii system of an understanding between white and Negro uiiilerstanding arrived at the expense of poor and e Negroes 0]%rates not only in the erection of bus stations in tbe providing of school buildings, school equipment, lights, jobs, etc. It is the ever ugly spectre that stalks IfceiAi. It is the most humiliating persecution to be found Meffroes ia Durham hare already compromised on several teadsratni: the erection of a new bus station. Unless enetmg the station follow a different line from that ^IbAHtere they are going to have to compromise more ^Iftn heretofore, or they are going to liave to thrdoffh the courts, a course we do not li ^ongh m«iinhood among Negro leaders in Dur- If, as has been said, language conceals thought, then scholarship just as often conceals knowledge. There are somi^ things we seem tot understand until our scholars explain them; and then we are bewildered and coAfitted with explanations tha^ need explaining. The human mind in the ra# has a grasp of situations that eannot be gainsaid. Whien m take our world of science w4iere everythihg is subjected to scientific formulae, we find that we have nothing new, and what we are doing today only represents improvements on what the elders did without our modern equipment. The man who arrives in an oxcart is just as much there as he who arrives ovtfr the air lines. The most that can be said of science is that it saves time; but what we do with the time saved is another question. We are breaking our necks to go nowhere in particular and to do nothing in particular after we get there. I lived once near one of the south’s finest agricultural and technical colleges where farming was carried on with all of the scientific knowledge and equipment available. Nearby was a great Negro farmer whose farm was always better than the college farm. At the college they used charts and graphs and index numbers; the old Negro farmer drew on experience and studied the weather and the "moon” etc. ... The old colored farmer became-a man of con;i manding importance in the community where many people often repaired for farming information, rather than to the experi mental farm. Scholarship knows more but does it accomplish more? ' Is the important question. When we measure me« by their accom plishments rather than by their digrees^ the old Negro staildf somewhere near the head of the Jine. • •• * . » .' * ! . ^ ' I' Recently it was my good fortune to bear an unsophisticated Negro preacher bereft of degire^, deliver a most conVinoIii^g sermon. As he waxed eloquent he declared that a dog knows righ from wVong. Of course I sat back with a degree of criti cism welling up in my mind. I knew he was just saying a thing that he could not prove. I waited to hear him prove thin^ as our scholars often prove them, by some long and tedious line of “research’' and reasoning. If someone had asked a scholar whether a dog knows right from wrong, our scholar would have I done into an “intellectual taiispin” of vdnd-jammin^ to keep from saying he did not know. He would have quoted discon nected extracts from Wundt, Hegel, PaVlov, Freud, Spinoza, DesCartes, Kant and William James. When all this had been sufficiently scrambled he would have called a meeting of schol ars who would propose to do some research on the question through committees and then in some large gatherng our schol ars would hold a “panel discussion” on the sabject “Does A Dog Know Right From Wrong”? A committee oh findings would be appointed and their report enthusiastically adopted by an audi ence which did no know whether men wanted to know whether dogs know right from wrong, or whether dogs wanted to know if men know right from wrong. MANY HANDS MAKE FAST WOR I Wl Wi T it’s A Fact T A democracy's not a place where every man has a valet, but where mep take turns be. ing servltnt and master almost every ot^er generation. How would you fee! if eveigr^i body in town knew how‘ mUeh you put in the collection iot' the church last Sunday? NBWK rllrf: 5tttcenn?ACT»M& spbsabs ofFtfHta t>RODOCTlOM "Co 1P«30SA.»»S OP PLArtrS. ehe rest of North Carolina ; H«cro leadnshtp from the bands of hog-tied and tttwibars sad other state employes who are The minister in question argued thus; When the master gives the dog a bone, he lies at his master’s feet and gnaws it; but when the dog steals the bone, he skulks away to gnaw it. The reason for this different b ehavior on the part of the dog is, he knows it is all right to eat what has been given him ihd that it’s wrong to steal v/hat has not. Thus in 30 seconds this minister was convincing in a way scholars would have taken a long time even to approach. Our elders used common sense in bringing up children and produced the leaders of today. In these modern times we are trying to do it “Scientifically" and our prisons land houses of correction are jammed with the younger generations and with the elders trying to keep up with them. It may “scientifically” to let a child do about as he wants; but common sense tdls us that so long as he cannot do as he please out in the hard and heartless world, why put him under this false impression by letting him do as he pleases in the home? Science holds that minority and submerged groups should ally themselves with radicals. In 6ther words Negroes by this token should be aligned with communism. But common sense dictates that it would be foolish for the Negro to rush into a communism that could not make headway during he great de pression and certainly cannot make it during a period of pros perity. Common sense tells us that we work and all therein must have a creator; athletic “scholarahip" tells us these things alwlays have been and leaves the matter there—unsettled. D News Briefs and Brief Cofflfflent o Businesses seldom expand by miracles and magic; they us ually grow because somebody with brains is working somewhere in the organization. If the world hat you, hated you.—John 15:18. ye know that it hated Me before It There is in the worst of fortunes the best of chances for a happy change.—Euripides.. It begins to look as though when the Russian Bear begins his winter hibernation shortly, the German tiger will be sealed into the cave with bim by Old ^fan W^tfr. The man in trouble is not comforted by the thought that any of his friends oan tell him how to forget it. • • • What has become of the man who, ten year ago, planned to Mdork hard and then enjoy a long vacation? • « • Speaking of thoughtfulness, what about the British bombing of Berlin on the anniversapy of the first big air raid on Lon don? All progr^s, everywhere, has resulted from the victory of un selfishness over greed; this ex plains the howl that rises over most legislation. • • • , , . The smart man who loafs will accomplish less than the dullard who plugs at his task. This accounts for the relative standing of certain people. « * • We see where a young man killed himself because the army wouldn’t let him enlist; others The revolver made men equal and the microphone makes ora tor^ #qual. « « * What about the young lady who expects results tot come with the-harvest moon? Intelligence tells us that cer tain things change and wisdom indicates that it is for the bet ter. « • * The anxiety of some newspa per writers to present news leads them to publish fiction. • « * * We see where several of the “greatest novels of all time” have been published this Fall. m m m Japan’s policies may^ be “im mutable” but there is a way to change the Japanese mind. • It begins to look like the American minority thinks it has the right'to rule the nation. • • • * There is comfort to many in the Japanese insistence they are striving to promote world peace. ■ • • Memory works wonders with the truth. • • * Some Americans are ready to support their cou'htify, halfway. • • • • An honest laborer, when paid for work, gives himself to his work. m m m m This would be a great world if everybody could have their owp way. • • • , 1. LaGuardia foresees end of the gasoline curfew “very soon.” • Army finds many ill men seek to join in hope of later benefits. J Robert M. LaFollette, Wis. Sen: Like any previous tax bill, it ‘plucks the goose that sqawks the least. i Stafford Cripps, British Hitler knew that the Soviet people stood for something dif ferent and better than his pol icy of brutality and enslavement of the common people. ~ • • • • Alexander D. Surles, Army:^ There never has been a serious situation as regards Army mor- !^u9aana' aq? 3uunp sbh ’8 •i?:jiunra are almost breaking their necks to keep out of service. The farmers are t>eing urged to incresise their production of foodstuffs upon teh theory that when the shooting ends the peo ple of the world will have to eat. « • • When German torpedoes sink American ships, upon the high seas, where they have a right to be, the Unit^ States is try ing to get into war—according to some patriots. • • • We are advised by astronom ers that a comet is visible, about) ought’ to o^j^t tV un'frir the Big Dipper, if you must know, but we have looked for so many comets in vain that we plan to pass this one up. I You Said It ■w 1 There are some Congreysmen who would like to investigate the rumor that there is a war somewhere about. • Genius may be 90 per cent per spiration but, just the same, try putting a little more than 10 per cent brains in your work. • So far we have received no news indicating that school chil dren of this county are fond of their studies. However, no one we know of is complaing about their morale as in the case of the soldier boys. The Soviet army’s perform ance has reached the stage where one is forced to wonder how much longer it can last. * The views of some Americans are very similar to the viewts of Adolf Hitler and this is no com pliment to the Americans. * No^dy but a fanatic objects to big business but everybody eco- Two classes of people ara, worthless to the preaeni gener^ ation: those who are too bad' and those who kre too good. Some of the beat a^lviee that we have heard lately comes from Marriner Eccles who urges peer* pie to get out of debt. The Jfapan^ have beaten thd Chinese, by all the rules of the military experts, but the nese do not seem to know that they are whipped. Advance Warning: Taxes will be heavy next March, wkich ^11 give you an idea that thia man Hitler has something to do with your spending money. F^»8hien is a strange power in the lives of human beings. Ev en the men follow it, despite their pretentions that they do not. Every minority has the right to live but no sensible rule of human conduct gives it the right to force itself upon ot^r people. The public is generally get ting the idea that tbei^ are top many useless strikita and if the idea sticks, it Will be too bad for labor. ' Russia must not be such a bad place, we doubt if the''Ameri cans would have fought so well for our way of life. And it is axiom that men do not fight well for things that do not have their confidence. Army staff officer declare bombing can r^>el an invasion. Hershey urges employers to hire returning soldiers. Ecuador suspend^ operations of German*controlled air-line. Britain! itn^ Russia join in granting Turkey military guar antee. Soviet ^onomy is geared for war despite loss of territory. Device to “blow” parachutist into air patented by Canadian. Brazil supresses 37 foreign pa* pers that attacked democracy, Latin American unit reports progress in anti-Naii campaign. Roosevelt "intervention” poli cy preserves peace, says White. Stock trading near the small est for an August since ldl8.i Huge air armada to stage a mock war in Louisiana and Tex as. THE POCKETBOOK KNOWLEDGE SeUMp eve/ty (NPUBtltlAL BMPiofee fS aa/ Av0*Me t&OOO roots. Buuomsm> eoomatr I Otm etmsaon a Qumm, ooMHrnoM atmu sumsntoapoum^mtOflKtp AT WORK tMPUVMem M 16 AUIOR INPUSniVS l« HCM/ APpflwiAUTBiy so wawtUAN uwf ywft rv MUSIC If NMBeuJ6 U6SP in aiftuse 10 pfibPUcnM ■msmfKfuitxiRPtp WP1H O^Mt/oeSMl$A —"ww M -tn /wevw— z^iiSSfOKr/ Export markets for wheat and cotton are seen disappearing. War Department orders rei- lease of 200,000 by December 10 Lindbergh, speaking in Okla* homa lot, says air isolates us. Japan still firm for "co-pros perity” sphere in the Orient. Finland intimates limit to her fighting after Viborg is taken.* Atlanta, a new battle cruiseru launched Sept. 6. Berle tells Williamstown for um democracy depends on us. Class 1 railroads earned $2^,- 376,852 in seven months. Duke of Kent says that our arms speed a British victory. Thera never will be an absence of politics in a democracy but there can be a minimum of it.' It is rare for a strong, healthy man to apperciate the plight of those who are in ill health. Defense output soon will make Hitler dizzy^ LaGuardia says. If the calendar is right, and we are supposed to have the cool weather of Autumn, some body ought to let the Sun know. Whenever an editor gets too smart for the people who read his newspai)er, he ought to be promoted, or fired, unless he, or his relatives own the paper. 1 Heads Up I only had one accident in my life, a^ut 10 years ago, I was knocked senseless. Listener: A pity, ^nd you nev erfirecoWriBd. V’ A Li^ttry Well, Jackie, how do you like your new sister? Oh, she’s all right, but there are lots of things we needed worse.
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