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• THE CAROLINA TIMES
DKI.UDBS;
Equal, salaries for Negro Teachers.
N^rro polic^en where Negroes are involved.
Equal educational opportunities.
Negro jurymen.
Higher wages for domestic servants.
^ , Pull participation of Negroes in all branches of
^ tVe National pefense.
Abolishment of the double-standard wage scale in
industry. ,
Greater participation of Negroes in political af
fairs.
national governments.
Negro representation in city, county, state and
Better housing for Negroes.
PROM THE BIRTJ; -- . . -
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“Bat when the Comforter is come, whom I will send anto
I
yoD from tlie Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceed'
eth fron the father, & shall testify of Me:
*Aad ye also shall h^r witness', because ye have been witk
Me frwi the begianlng.’’—John €h.A5^-29i, ^
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DR. SHEPARiyS RADIO SPEECH
The st^eech delivered over the radio last Monday evening by
Or, James E. Shepard, president of the North Carolina College
for Negroes, on the Negro questions, is perforated throughout
with notes of discouragement, in spite of its author's attempt
to carry on his program of interracial good-will in the face of
overwhelming fiu:ts to the contrary. Dr. Shepard is by nature
an optimist, but those w'ho have known him well for twenty-
five years or more will discover in the speech a bit of waning
hope juid a morsel of discouragement,
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More than any other leader of the race in the state, it has
been.‘the North Carolina College president who has risen up
agaict«nd again to halt those who would throw this whole mat
ter of unequal teachers salaries and educational appropriations
into the courts. Again and again they have listened to his
prom^ that in a short while the teachers' salary differential
woul4 sood be wiped out by legislative action.
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We thinic we s^ in this latest speech of Dr. Shepard, a last
effort to quell the rising tide of restlessness among Negro teach
es and younger leaders of the race in the state, who want
immediate court action. His appeal to the legislature to erase
the teacher salary differential in 1943, as well as his plea for
grea^r participation of N^roes in defense industries and the
.anned forces of the nation, are both indications that Dr. Shep
ard is‘losing hope for a peaceful settlement of these questions,
if not faith in those who control the affairs of State, and Na-
1^; ^tional governments.
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H 4* characteristic of Dr. Shepard tot praise the state for
t it has already dxme. He would have done that, had it
It is not characteristic of him to admit e\en, by*
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irection. that the Intentions of those who administer the
of the state and nation are unjust.
There is a time in the affairs of men wjhen the wisest and
of ttt can endure no more. There is a time when the most
tive of us will consider caution no longer a virtue. In
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dpi^ hour man submits to the inevitable, and places his
into the hands of the-gods who turn the mills that
!.«lceediQxly fine..
A^maUf it was a great q^^ch delivered by a wise man,
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jHlfeiiiiil II nlly worded to be labelled courageous,: but sound
Th^e Is in it much to be obtained by both
exaetly s warning, but an admonition to "eschew
to tliafc which is good.** Negroes soi^e
; iliM Br» Sb^wrd is very smart,, white people have knc^m
losir tiiBfc-
FMR WARNlNfe: 4OTSE BOOM TIBfES WON’T
There is definite upswing in the business life of tho nation.
We are in the midst of ano^er vf»r boom with all of its “illuso^
accessories.” The curve of unemployment is definitely on tJie
downswing, and a good tme fs about to be had by all. The
like has happened beifore^/4jike a man on a drunken ^ree, i|a-
tions revel in war^line^prosperity only te> wake up with a terri*
ble headache in times of peace. Unlera signs' fail, we have a
“headache” coming if ^be present boom sweeps forward with
its present cresceiidoj^The danger it not in the boom itself* but
in our disinclination to believe that , another depression like A
headache after a gay night, is on thewiay.
The "good times* we are about to have are just as artifteial
as the “good feelings” we have after considerable wine-bibbiflKi^
There is no greater danger in the presept situation than the
"eat, drink and be merry" attitude that characterized our last
3ra of prosperity following the last W^rld War. It is not too
early now to take stock of what is to follow the present spurt
of prosperity. Negroes of all groups should take stock and set
their house in order and prepare to meet the god of depression
that will come in an hour they think not. *
It is happily true that deors.of opportunity are being open-
en now that before the present crisis were fast-h|arred. The great
(lem»nd for labor is making the Negro laborer one of the stern
necessities of the ipresent. During the last war, circumstances
tmats
Hui-i.
conspired to Uft the Negro from serfdom -to citizenship, from
want to plenty and from congestion in the south to latitude in
the north. Negroes by tens of thousands left their life-long
habitat and and jfound a temporary Land of Promise in the
nort and west, feut after the war closed, th^gs took a cer
tain turn for thetworse; and great pl%ssure ^as exerted on
the Negro in his new-found land of liberty tad how much he
has suffered only God knows.
The fact that he becan^ the largest beneficiary of the gov-
ernmeht relief agencies onfy proves the pojht that the coming
after-war lot of the Negro his in it the makifl'Sr of'a great trag-
edy. There is bound to be an after-war period and what will
be the Negro's lot in that period it is not too early even now
to contemplate. There is bound tO; 1^ a return ofvthe gr&at
wave of unemployment, and the full forc« thereof—asjbefore—
will strike the Negi^, The ^raciaMinU ^t^re appailiitly re
laxed in times of stress will bSS-ebu^ Just as efforts were
made at the conclusion of the last war to put the Negro back
in his place, these efforts will be renewed with a vigor that
will be disheartening to close students of race relations.
Strangely enough it was not until the close of the first
World war that the poison pen loomed large in the press of the
nation against the Negro with all' the “rape stories, etc. Al
ready this maneuvi^ is apparent to even a casual student of
current events. The attempt to portray the Negro as a degen
erate has assumed startling proportions already jpor these “rape”
accounts are alarmingly prevalent in the local and national
press. The fact is, the stage is being set to put the Negro back
in his place-providing he gets out of it-during this war. Negro
leadership will be poorly advised if it does, not keep these things
m tlie foreground of the Negro's thinking. The Negroes must
never be allowed to forget that they are the underdogs in this
terrible economic and social fight of the hour. It is only by
"out-righting” the opponents that we have a chance.
(MOMIUM -
and mmst
Cljt^otnium lipstick case» and
fajttoy compacts, automobile trim,
ani^ ' staiilcss steel skillets—these
and a lot of other common gadgets
that'America has become used ta
ii^he Luxury Age are going to be
much harder lo get. The reiason is
—^romium. We need it for guns
ana-planes and^battleships for the
A«^al»of Democracy,
•;At present 'the tlnited States
chromium supply is enough to meet
all! military and essential civilian
d««rand, but what-happens, in the
fqture depends on “frcedotn of
th# seas,” because we get onr
clftinium by way of ships and
shipping lanes. ,The supply and de-
picture right now goes ?ome-
thi^ like this:
la^^rts ...6&7,689 800,000 (est.^
Domestic
Production . 2,B^2 10,000 (est.)
....560,a)i 8io;ooo
Cortsump- , .
tito'.., .:. 502,000 ’ 7i)0,000 (est.)
the 1942 demand probably
wijl rise 100 to loO thousand tons
oi((W: 194'1, it is plain that any, cur-^
ta^bnent of dipping fac^tiei
w^ld mean a seriocs,shortage
jmsS0; fUMnciimi
Itainless steel an^ one of the^
pe^cipal alloys thatf make /hard
steel for armor , plat*^.’ it is the
m^ widely fisld Refractory for
m llhings 'ft)r steel furnaces;
it is an' 'impoitani iihertlcal. * ’ , „
'The ^additloh 3f ab'dnt 2 per cent
cHrominjn' to stCel results in a
product of intense hardness and
toS^hness> Its w?es are many,' the
most important from a military
standpoint being arijior plate. It
isXalso used in tHe iMuufaclhire of
ax^s, springs, parts of gun car
riage, automobiles, steel for safes,
cutlery, and armor-piej-eing pro
jectiles. ,
When 10 or 15 percent of chrom
ium is added to steel, the're^;^t is
have beoomn familiar in the last
ported eluK>miRm in 3.941;
A/riea
Miilippine
Islands ..,.
Turkey
Cuba
New Caledonia
44 percent
37 percent
16 percent
8 percent
6 per cent
As is the case with a number of
other metals and materials used
for military production, our de
pendence upon foreign sources has
resulted in the establishment of a
re»«rye lupply in the United
Stotes. All chromium over ei"Ben-
tial militilry and civilian demauds
is added to the Nation’s stockpile
for bnergency use. The size of the
stockpile depends, of course, upon
the nnmber of ships available to
brin^ the ore across the oceans.
Because of the necessity to build
up our chromium reserves, the
th& metal has been pJtoced under
mandatory priority control. A Oen-
eral Preference Order of July 7,
wd an .mendment of August 22,
1941, places restrictions on its use
and provides that defense orders
mnst be filled first.
Unfortunately there are no sub
stitutes for chromium in several
of its important 'uses. Maganese
can be substituted in some instsn-
oes, but as it also is an important
metal in steel production little is
gained bf tfsing it in place of chro
mium.
There is no lack of chromium
ore in the woTld, South Africa in
];^tieul«r possMsion immense re
serves. The solution of America *3
problem all depends upon the ships
that sail the seven seas.
The fact of tjie matter jg that
chromium and sea lanes and bat
tleships and merchant vessels and
eivilian gadpets are all mixed up
together. We have to conserve
chromihm for defense, and at the
same time, if the sea lanes ate not
cldsr f or j, Ainerican ve«s^,, we
few years. It is nsed wherever
corr(»iou must be avoided, in val
ves, airplane and marine- engine
parts, and for chemical manufac
turing equipment, particularly pil
refineries and chemical plants.
In the form of chromite this
metal is widely used in the chem
ical industry. Its pigments of yel
low, green hnd red are. in great de
mand. Jt also is used for the tan
ning of leather and for many oth
er chemical purpos'ca. . ,
The fftmiliftr “chro^ie'finish”
of recent .years, used to decorate
automobiles, refrigerators, a n d
many other industrial products, is
an electroplated coating appiled to
any metal, usually steel. It pro
vides a brilliffnt-stainless stirfjice
and adheres more cl^ly to, the
base metal than any other similar
finish. This use of chromium is
important commercially but uses a
negligibly araovint of the metal.
As a lining, for steel furnaces, _ _
some substitution for chromium isjjjight be in 4 touljih ^k>t. even. for
possible, bjji most of the possible nee^s, •'
Wsid Ifsiw Word
Wie'ouly f»oH bi ShcMIQtn'i
of war fc ilhat !t%ft oo
adeqaite term to dsfide the a^ter«
'math. — Sehnectady GaBeWeT*'
f.h
IdWratr Kots
Italy hM banned my^r^ nov
els ai "harmful to Fascist J#(Ah.’'
The boys iqast stiek to fktiitb by
Vii^inio Ga^da.—ClevelsAd "Wain
Dealer. > ’
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What n ]fev«r Wa» t>
The Neutrality Act wasn never
an act of netrality, aaymje. It
•imply gave °P freedoraiof the
seas, for whic^ our iath^ fnk^^ht
and died.—^Buffalo Evenia^ilfews.
Hint To Bachelors .
A icienti«t says anogtr ittipairs
the vision, which Is a .good thing
for a young man to before
he marries a vision' with'’a' bad
temper. — Toronfco BUt.
■a:- (>!
Poor lde»‘‘ '
Retail jewelers assert that every
man should earry two watches.
Put a man with one watch tnows
what time it is, and i* man’ with
two watches could netfer be* sure.
—San Di«^ Union. j
They Were The Days
Another Americanism is feeling
proud of your income, ’ thinking
wistfully of the old &ys wl)^n you
ma^*^ lesa.and didn't owe any
thing, San Francis6o Chornicle.
AmsricaA Plase Naoies
Introducing; Ethel, Va.; Eunice,
Mo.; Gwendolen, Ore., and Irene,
111.
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When hush money talks it is
vociferous. — Toledo Blades
subsUtutes are equally impoitant
to our defense production,, anprox-
imately 30 percent, of our annual
demand being consumed for this
purpose. About 50 percent goes in.
to- various chromium alloys and
the remainder is used by the chem
ical industries,
V ^wo New Plants Opening
^pmestic production of chrom-
feS'e dftnand4"bto |lt‘l?««Kot“ho»i>'#
olltth'e basis bf'present known de
posits, to supplly al United States
consumption. Deposits are in the
Western States and Alaska.
Pressure , of defense denmnds
wil result in* aubstantial increases
in 1942 domestic production, chro
mium experts eatiinate, and the
Unit^ States, h^. bAlt fwoi new
plant# in Montana which will get
into flill production around the
first of the year. Domestic produc
tion }iiay reach 30 percent of de
mand by the middle of 1942, which
will help, at least, in tailing care
of e^ential demands in case for
eign supplies are cut off.
This leaves the country largely
dependent upon imports, coming
That is why chromium is get-
so much attention now, and
why things that happen thousandf
of miles away in distant lands and
distant wafers mean so mricS to
every American,
stainless steel with which we all^ prinripally from Afri». Theite are
Ihc rpsjBtries from which we im-
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BY RUTH TA
There is a cloi^e analogy between
sacrifice and thanksgiving. If you
look up the word thanksgiving in
your Concordance of thej Bible,
you will see how great is the con
nection between the two—for in
tiie early days thanksgiving im
plied the offering of sacrifices in
gratitude for the mercy and lov-
inglfindness Qf God,
Thanksgiving began as a reli-
.gious festival—but we have too
often made it just a day of feast
ing only. It should be a day of
happiness and rejoicing, but it has
a far deeper significance for all of
us. We should, .more than ever, on
Thanksgiving Day this year, offeh*
our sacrif^es in' return for the
goodness Hiai has; been ours, for
flie fireedom that has been vouch
safed to us.
The ^aprif j(}e^we; .should make
are not just, offerings—but
the sjiosifices of the spj^jt^ and of
furselv'^5. Our-»e|fi^h desire?, a,j^d
aapir^iiK>ns lor oui^elvet a.lQ»Ma
should he sgcrifitiefl fpr. th^ gpod
of all. Our ^nreasqniny prejudit^es
q^ajpst peojpjle „beJ4ii8e. race,
Cfeed, .or ,nationality s^ojild, he
sacrificed the fpirit rf b/o^Insr-
hpod. ,.0t«-, genejf^^ii^s
should he sacrificed to a kinder,
more tolerant ongue. lur bitternefis ord^
against change should b^ sacrificed
to a willingness tp try as individ
uals t obring His Kingdom to reign
on earth.
We niust sacrifice impatience
to patienpe, pride ,to forbearance,
indifference to kindness, hatred to
lo%'e. We must face thiis day of
Thanlisgiving,1941,. not oqly 'n the
same spirit of the first celebrants
did over three :hundred .years ago
^with gratitude for the mercies
of the past and with faith 'n the
^ntinuance of those mercies,: say
ing as they did, in the wjjrds of
Psalmist; “0 give' thanks unto
the God of heaven; lor His merey
endureth for ever,”—but with the
fervent prayer that, God willing
and we. toiling, we can conti.iue to
eelebrate as a united people in a
United States with all' those'pfec-
nottes.
. The average movement per day
fpr all freight ear§ Qwn^d by the
railroads this yea^, has been the
highest on record, •
Calces, cookies and other home
delicacies from p^ents and friends
of i soldiers predominate' atooi^
shipments received at Railway Ex-
p>esB offices in or near the'varioug
training camps.
Claims .resulting from theft of
freight paid hy the railMads in
f^*f.?.irst half of ,1^1 anioun^d to
$177,153, the. snjalle^t -amount for
any corresponding period on rec-
YOU WOULONT
DRiVe Of f A TEN
3T0aY BUILDING
BUT/
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JU5t ABOUT THE 3AMC
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IMPACT
JfT NtfiMT
ITMOUT TRAFFIC
\ftry LIGHtlNfi YOU
OBSTRUCTIONS TOO
TO'-kiT tNem At Gnmm
?€CD5^ WITH MORE DEADLY
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thick and BUS*-*-
Owfers UrgedSPiM
Fi Qn^tionnaires
North Carolina’s tr^ck and bus
owneds were urged today by Com
missioner of Morto Vehicles T. B.
Ward to make complete retups
this week in the national defend
truck and bus inventory launched
a week ago by Governor Brough
ton. Prompt returns will save save
the exp>ense of further inquiry.
The invwitory is being conduct
ed by mail in North Garolpa, and
all other States, for the Highway
Traffic Advisory Cianmittee to the
War Department. The purpose of
the irt^^entory, according :to the
CqnunissioneTr .it to set up defiled
centrsl and r^onal reewds ot. all
trucks, busses, and freight trailers
in the country.
With the aid of these records,
plans will be deviAaped for more
effeetiyiBfUse of highway transpor.
tation in the assembly of defense-
industry materials, delivery of mil
itary ,.^§nd civilian supplies, rejlef
of d(H!k snd terminal, c^ngea^iop,
and movement of passenger traf- j #te sufficient
fic in emergencies,
, IJorth Carolina has .apiwpxi-
mately 140,000 tracks, truijk-trac-
tors, freight trailers, and semi
trailers, and about 10|QOO busses^
The owner of each vehicle has been
asked to report its, make, capacity,
kind of body (such as tank, plat-
•form, panel, etc,), time of year tiie
vehicle is most urgently needed by
the owner, whether iip an emergen,
oy he would be willing to hire or
lease it to a Government agency,
and so pn^ Eaeh owner hf^s receiv
ed a qaestipnnaire (;ard on which
to fill out this information!
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Two branches of the .Federal
Works As^ney have, national eop-’
trol tover the inventory^ The P»b.
iJc.Boads Admihiilitration has plan
ned the undertaking. The WPA ifi
assisting maQy of the States and
will analyze and list the returns.
Uncle Sahr .S^nds
98,000 Blankets
To Fourth Corps
. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20. — With
the thermometer j hovering around
the fre»ang point>'. Uw^Ie Sam has
.taken ats^ to ass^ire^ ^complete
sleeping ocrtafort to the maneuver
ing Fourth Army
Corp^-^wt(^li>43tJ?|>ttting in tho
Carolina war games with Lieuten
ant General Hugh A. (Drum’s First
Army. i
Brigadier General James L.
F^ink, quartermaster of the Four-
ih Corps Area, which .embraces
the maneuver area, annoifncod to
day that an additional 98j000 blan^
kets have befn shipped' te the
Fourth Cdrps outfits in North and
South Carolina. Thte issue supple
ments the present blanket supply
of three to each man.
1)he shipment was handled by
liieutenaht Colonel William'.F. Rifc-
er, .supply officer on Gen. Frink’s
staff, as Indian Summer waned
and. ttpops prepared to complete
tbe final phase of their war games
under a#tual winter eopditioiis. ^
The extra supi^ of blankets, it
was reveled, will go to soldiers
who will sleep in “pup” tents.
The regulation issue of blankets
is two per ipaUj but more may be
order hy the commanding officer
of each outfit. Ordinarily, when
sdldiers are in steam-heated bar
rack* or the stove-cheated tents of
permanent campiH, the two blanket
But when mnneu-
The- average tractive power of
st«un locdmotiv^ on Class I rail-* ^
roads is now ai^roximately seven
ty per . cent greater than in 1013.
Women jDonsfitute about three
per ^ent pf. t^e. total number of
railroad employees.
Bitilwiy H^press service is com
pleting the 103rd year of its his-
toryr ' ; '
vers become the order of the day,
and “pup” tents the 6nly shelter
available, three and sometimes
four blankets may Ije required.
The Quartermaster Corps has
made ample provisions for the
coming of cold weather. Uniforms
of finest, wool and heavy overcoats
have been issued to each man. Ten
different kinds of gloves are regu
lar isisue? for the Quartermaster
Corjw. One of the newest develop
ments along: this line is a two-in-
one glove vhlch , gives comple^
freedom of movement as well bs
warmth, The “innerglove is
made ^of wool and is covered by
an “oUter" gJovOj^pf leather., To
gether the two-in-one protpcls the
hiindB in the most extreme,^te^a-
jerature. If fre^om i>f hands is
desired,, the outer leather globes
may be removed.
‘^een animosity is often dis-
jrfayed toward the man at the top
of the ladder by thc^f beneath
him," says a ^usinesb'.man. Es^ci-
ally if he is one of those rather
careless house , painters.—Humor
ist.
From one and a Half abres of
Qlaat, ftringless . beans, Howell
Woody of the Joe community in
Madison-County made a net profit
0^ $136.50, reports Farm An^t p.
B.'Rlam. ' '