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Randolph Johnson, sometimes referred to as RiW^nd dr
“reverunt" Randolph Johnson has sunken to about as lov' as it is
possiWe for * human being to get, when he takes upOrt himself I winkfld in charity towards a wcak-
. . j , 1- nf kiiped kinff and an nmbitions woin
the role of a stool-pigeon, a*d makes respecUWe women of his
Betweei The UNES
(By Dean 0ordon B, Bandcock for ANP)
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Hnn>‘BIOHTED IiBADBBSHIP of hope for a nation in distresj.
Just suppoae that their tribe had
beQn greater, what a dangerous
plight would be ours. Opposed to
copscription and its extemion; op
posed to participation in a wav
thnt challenges our nation’s survi
val ; opposed trf Roosevelt and
everything he has done to make
ready for the critical hour that ha^
ttmck, these American Pireters
stand discredited before the nation
and the world. They may not merit
the concentration camp and the
wall al siirtrisp; 1nit they havn
earned a silence that the press
should give th§m. ’ j
If Wheeler and Lindberg with
all thejr opportunity could not see
before hand the outline of things
thflt have’ recently happened then
their foresight fs in too deep «
state of disrepair and for the'r
opinions to be projected lipOn tftp
American public Hindsighted lead
ership should take a blackout that
The doihgg of the duke and
doohMS of Windsor mak« the mont
tiresome news that come to the a*:-
tention of this colmnn. The- at
tempt of these two selfish person^
to hurtle themselves into the spot
light from time to time is postively
nauseating in many ways. In thij
first place the duke was l^g and
he renounced his royal rwpon ibif-
ities to marry a commoner. TUo
world was charifaWe toward the
marriage even JhouRh there was
something'about it that was not
exactly “right and regular.”
But these two persons do n
seem to understand thnt when a
kinp renounces the kingly respon
Hibilities he also renounces >n>
place in the sun. If they would
,ius{;.temfiiil[ ^n thV seHtrtion they
deserve, the world would be happy
to forget an episode, at whieh if-
race the victims of his neftrious trade.
is eternal. This column is nijf ob-
Thatins^ce last week when the “revenmt" wa*
as king the duke lacked the tore-
. , 'nbtoriety and kingship. He seeirtW
sation vrith several members of his own group, to the thonffht thnf ive
impervious to the thought that ...
to place a false interpretation on a remark made by a young jeould not reiiftunce royalty an^ tp-
wo™.., b, which he .b,e .3 run to "de «hi
arfd notorieties of royalty
foresight would have
and report the matter, is so dirty that we hesitate to discus^ it
be
in fliese columns. But in ^>fder that other Negroes may
j i 1 ■ U 4. him nirto the end of hw days;
wari|ed about Riindolph Johnson and his skunkish traits we alas!
taking time out to pay our respect or disrespefct to him- and all
his kind.
It is likewies tiresoihe to hnvip
fitatemdnts from Wheeler and
Wind us to the dangers of hind-
sightied leadership.^ We must not
overlook the fac|^ thUt there may
be “crocodile words” as well as
tears. The leadership of Roosevelt
£Cuaranteed been exonerated; the leade,-
shijL of the Wheelers and Lind
berghs has been ingloriousiy repu
diated. Let us keep this in mind.
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PRAYER FOR THIS YEAR
God'give you FAITH this coming yeart
The faith that will not fail in keenest test;
That trusts anti sings in midst of fire and stotm:
And dares rely upon His Word and rest. ^
God gi/e you HOPE this coming year! ^
The hope tl\at through the darkness sees afar—
The purifying hope that fondly waits •
The rising of the Bright and Morning Star.
God give you LOVE this coming year!
His owtn great love that burns out for the lost;
That intercedes, and waits, and suffers long—
That never fails, nor stops to count the cost. .
— —**«»■*»«?* p. Armstrong.
X l»iw4b«i»gfa -wjwa-4liw oaiioii.is.aiL. bold.^
i-anlrAff Tavm»V1 4--*rrr\ «v«a«« 11#%^. ■
Randolph Johnson 1^^, and every other Negro and
person knows, there is no «uch thhig as a Negro fiftk coluninf-
ist or saboteur in America. Fifth column^ts don’t .go about the
country openly advertising the fact that they are against cer
tain policies of the government in time of war. The mere fact
that the young woman had the courage to‘make a statement in j gjj much
the presence of Randolph Johnson, that even had a $emblance
of ind,ependent thought, is evidence that she had no ulteriof
motive; •
There seems to be only one of two conclusions left and that
is that Randolph Johnson was drunk, /M he Uimally is, oi he has
done this m^n and vile act with the hope^ further ingratiat
ing himself into the hearts of the opposite group,, whereby he simply should ^kulk
away into the nearest corner and
can continue to draw pay from the state under the pretense of qujet.
doim^ welfare work,, whije he is only a stool-pigeon. _ _ ^ press of the nation does the
Unless we are radically Wrong Johnson's stOol-pigeon days j ToTS
are about over in North Ca^lina, because no sensible Negro
is going to talk confidentially to him about ans^thing after the
Raleigh incident. If Johnson’s stool-pigeonins ia the^ reason^iie
can hold his job as head o^ the Negro Welfare work in this
tacked by Japan. These two men
cannot tell this rintion a sin"!^
thing,to hejp in fAis crisis th.ilt
fofe$i^ted pien have not told in
the t many anxious months tlint
have passed! Both are asking for
national unity, a unity that, thev
to destroy.
Something has been said abo.it
“crocodile tears,” but when the^e
two men chime in for Vnltionat
unity,” it suggests ^‘erocodile
words.” If these two men cannot
see a national peril until the hour
of doom strikes, they are disnnali-
fied for leadership and foit»“speaW.
state, While his conduct in loffice is often disgraceful and em
barrassing to respectable Negroes, then he may as well be re
tired from that position now|
' So far as his welfare wo^'k is concerned, we would like for
Johnson or his superiors to show one actual achievement of the
Negro welfare office since it was placed into the hands of
present? holder. With Negroes the office has become such a joke
that fn discussing it the quei^tion always asked^ is, how does
belated pleas of these two men for
national unity. Small was thefr
foresight and great seems tHeir
hindsight. They are entitled to
their' hindsight bat it^iaqualifiej
them for leadership in times Jiki
these when foresightTs the essence
L.
, • . , 5 me final decision ot Bose Bow’j
Johnson old his job when he is most always under the influence Negroes to wit-
Those of Us who Imve tried to
our chieftain’s 'arttis
not proud of our present peril/Tiif
we Are proud that we had the fore-
Bight to see the inevitable. We arcs
equally as proud that we had the
foresight to see these political
hecklers discredited before thr*
world. Long live our valiant
Franjslin D. Roosevelt and forgot
be t^e hindsighted leaders wh i
heckled When the emergency de-
man^d thejr helping him. Th’
majority of the Negroes of this na
tion had the foresight to st>e what
was in the offing. With their-half
biscuit, with their slim econom'.c
opportunity, with their discyimina-
tion. What then must we think of
the " Wheelers and the Li.ndberg?
with every advantage at their com
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his first ijofeat at Dunkirk.
Dr.
aggresi^ors. The Aiig war lords
may well pause andj consider the
price they will have |to pay.
But — that end is not yet in
sight and before it i^ we must re-
men^ber Pearl Harbbr ig a lesso j
Ao us. !
After the first cpushing defeats
of the Boer War, Kipling wrote:
“Ivet us admit it fajirly, as a
business people should.
We have had no end of a les
son, it will do us tto end of
good.” 1
That is the kind of remembering
we must do now. We most remem
ber Pearl Harbor — not as a humi
liating defeat, but as a lesson from
which we can learn. •
We must learn to be ready at
all times. Not for us tfe unfilled
lamp or the ungirt Join.; The ow-
ers of darkness against. Avhom we
are fighting do nOt match out in
L. E. Austin, Editor
Carolina Times ^
Durham, N. C.
Dear Editor:
I understand that there have
been yiews, pro and con, on the
Duke Rose Bowl matter as reg;ard.s
the sale of 14^ tickets to Negroy.s
after publici?ing the fact that no
tickets were available.
The situation reminded me so
Neiiman who was thrown
iiitQ_^a ctocentratiiig camp foj
writing to This mother in Czecho
slovakia aid later was released
and escapTO to England, is now
making lecjfujes in an effort to
pet. Theirs the knife in the baclr,
the thrust in the dark, the tactics
of the peak thief.
We must learn caution. Not for
us the moment of carel^snees, the
assumptiop of loyalty, the repeated
rumor, the personal pride in atat
ing news. We must be perpetually
on guard. Not suspicion — but
caution
to eoBw to America.
.Describing Berlin afi the
“GREATEST SLAVF MARKET'
in the world,iDr. Neuman declar2d
'“th^ German people don’t want
to fight but aye being driven to it
by Hitler. Thd German people are
slaves and always have been. They
wouldn’t know what to do with
liberty and they’re afraid to buck
Hitler,” ho sajd.
Dr. Keumaji w’as reared in th»3
same neighbor! lOod in which Hitler
grew up and l;new him intimately
faid he knew Hitler
related that Hitler
his work in school
recipe dating from 1394 says the
original pie ^as 9 feet around and
weighed 108 pounds. It was neatly
fitted with a ease and four small
wheels, and it was rolled from
Ifuest to guest at table.
All Christmas dishes are heavy
with spioes, symbolizing , the gift
of the Wise Men. The turl^y gob
bler is a strictly American addition
to the festive board.
To set a bough or branch in watr'
er is an old custom, and inde^l
this may be the real origin of tne
Christmas tree. It ig suppose(|.^ to
be symbolic of love of the ouA-bf-
doors and the mysteries of wo!iu-
land. The Christmas tree that has
become a tn;inkling fairy j palace
started Qj»t as a little tree Ger
many arid was loaded wittf ooolrios
and candies and*made‘'^ight by
candlelight.
mand and with the great advar.-f t experiences ot
—x .... my youth thatl thought vou midit i ^
tags ■af color on t^ieir’sidef yet un
able to see thh^Y days ahead? Had
this nation been cursed with too
much {of this hindsightednesis today
ours would be'a vassal nation with
its jwta of Quisliags and Darlani.
Hindsighted leadership is a curse.
Negro leaders be warned!
By HBNEY OLAY DAVIS ^
of klcohol.
We think Johnson and noti the young Negro wonlan who
the victim of his fiendish acti needs to be W^hed. Ailj
irro who is low enough to attempt\to impress S. B. I.
f
was
N^
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ities that there is such a t^ng in North Carolina as a^egrcf
columnist, or saboteur is disloyal to himself and his awn'race;,
«nd needs only to be paid enough for him'- to become dislolyi 1 td"
his country. j
Johnson’s usefulness as 9 welfare worker in North G4rq tina
at an'end. He has set his jown- sail,' ^and frolB»-n|n^> on his
course will be reeky and stOrmy. Negroes will keep a| watchful
eye and a closed mouth when tihey are in his presence!.
ness the gan>e after our intelli
gentsia had prepared such an cliil)-
brate but unintelligent protect d-
gainsl! the discriniiuatioh of Ne
groes only, i« the emptiest 'of rtll
the empt^ victories we have ever
wpn. No Negro in the world will
be any worse off because of not
having attended the game but ouv
collective morale cOukl easily Icf
affected- because of such unprofit
able iiSsistence by some of ug in
negngi|ble jinstances of thip^ kind.
*fheiimajority of tts^ho! jar^ wW-
ing tojpa^ $4.40 for the JirivilCfje
of beiqg tijeated as lepers have hiltl
sortie cplle^ training and isacrifir-
ing N^gro 1 parents Have the right
to exptet their college trhinod ofS-
spring^to function with inpre pride
and dignilty in, nt Icastj all of their
PHWLES WHILE RWifE BURNS
Much has been said and little done relative to the appalling
ierime rate Which maintains ^*n Charlotte, North Carolina. * i public acts. '
This article the first in a series may be a nieaningless one to! When we fight honesfly and dil-
added to the'miles of valuable newspaper space and radioJim^i’^®”\\^^.‘’^ payticipnt.-
, . . ^ leciuallv in all branches of the na-
already sued to give-expresslbn to some psuedo Negro leader Who | ( ions armed forces, or for eqnil
ttae this method to damn the race, thereby selling his or for equal chance for and not the customary chosen few,
Ikrtfariffbt for a mere mess of pottage. i** ‘Jf Organisation, cooperation, and eon-
^ ^ ^ 1 VT- e , . |we are unquestionably speuduiK Lfidence . in each other can almost
Ohe, would little think that in ChaVlotte, a city of more jour energy in a worthwhile effoit |jguaranfee the satisfactory solution
a thousand tliat there is neariy . two itttHions of op^Hl.v and delibcr- rof our many problems and a little
iHWMfcMLin mM 1, ..J ^ ^ j ately wage fettle fro acquire thi* linvestment in one or all of thesn
l*ereafional centers for white peo-1 privilege of pnrchaBirig, a share oi! lelements will render a far nobler
Otoe Brow#’ peilli^ favest^ in this ntanner for Its Cd-' traditional jiin-crbwiSm at #.40’jaervice to the Negro race than the
my youth that J thought, you misjl:
like the analogy. t
Once a larger brother had !i
beautiful apple — probably the
finest I had ever seen. I asked for
a ixj^cc of it, reminding -him tluii
I had always shared with himc,
but he ■ refused. Fmal^ however.
big conscience must have bothered
him and he offered ma a measly
piece of the peeling. Being a little
boy, I threw the darn peeling back
into his face.
I wish that there were 140 little
boys in this situation rather than
the ealiers of Duke’s peeling.
Very truly yours,
R. If. Harris
Predicts th9e Sam
To Take All Public
Works fw Duration
Washington. —(ANP)— Discu ■
sing the recent transfer of the em
ployment division of the Social Sn-
curity board to federal administra
tion, Thomas N. Roberts, special
assistant to the director of person
nel in the department of agrieul-
• ture, sees in this the step of the
•1S2.20J How long will we eontini.e government to administer all puu-
Jfight.:
many of our flagrantly unwelcome
Rose Bowl patroris would have
been willing to donate just 25c of
that $4.40 to the r^ie^ of the un
fortunate widow. Ho^ many o"
them would pay .*^1,00 per annum
for membership in the NAAC'P
which has fbught so valiantly and
so long for our rights ?
If jwe just had to see a good
post-season football game it wouM
seem 1 far niSre dignified and fit
ting for us to have arranged a
game between two d)utstanding N"-
gro cpllege teams n-hich ire prob
ably could attend with entire
isfaijtioh and comfort for only
—at least, he
as a boy. He
always failed
and later couldn’t hold a job bj-
always starting n
□-
By rut; I TAYLOR
The I’allying kry for American
armies has always been “remem
ber.” We are a people slow to
wrath. We have been incapable of
understanding th5 driving jjorce
that mofriv'ates aggressors. But —
once our anger was aroused, the
pent-up rage has had explosive
^alTtle?^ ' '
“Rember the Alamo”—and for
every life loet in that Texan court*
yard, Santa Anna and his men
paitt^ a hundredj-fold. “Remember
the Maine”—and for that sinkin”
the Spanish Empire went crashing
down. 1 r
“Remember Ifearl Harbor” —
what will its fiial cost be to the
Tn winter,“wlen ViosT’pU
is dead or dormant^ evergreer.s
W6re used ^ decorat^ns to signify
light everlasting. Pants which ac
tually bear fruit a( this time are
mistletoe and holly, ^nd they w(»r3
used for that reascO. Decorating
with mistletoe is an old Englisn
dustom and it is supposed to have
“healing” properties., BiTaybe h
does—for the early folk festival?
We ihust learn patience. We | permitted kissing under the mistlfl-
must stick by the job long after i . gjjj a boy kissed a
we are tifed. We riiust be at he plUfeked a berry] fr«m the
Whin
posts waiting for endless hours oi| ^
guard against danger.'W^ must
able to wait fox' dlws and rtot
be tired by waiting — thankful 'f
we are not needed, hut there when
the need comes.
We mu&t learn to Jeaetve judg
ment. Now is npt the time to de
cide what* should or should not
have been done. lentil the facts
are in — we must not make arbi-
trary criticisms. We must do onr
work and not the tasks of others.
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SMILE 'A-WHILE
Foibles, Fact and Fancy about
the Holidays:
The Christmas Dijiy dinner c?
our forefathers centered around
the pie which has *ome down to
us as mince pie. It should be called
“Christmas Pit, ” the term
“mince” having been given it by
the Puritans who are said to have
deemed it a supersitious abomina
tion. This pie was baked in the
form of a cradle, the crossed bands
at top representing the manner in
whfch a child is secured in a crib.
Beneath the crossed bands was a
tbQ berJ^ee
there was ^p. more
allowed.
The Christmas card custom i«
of rather modern origin, but there
was a eustota ib Poland that mOi'Ji
resembled it. A few weeks before
Christmas, monks took around,
small packages of wafers made of
flour and water, with figures
stamped upon them. They w.’re
sent to friends as we send Chri^t-
peared on Christmas eve, the fam
ily broke one of the wafers and
divided it, a^‘ the same time ex
changing goodi-wishes.
4 ■ ■
Every country has added some
touch to Christmas lore, liut thj
ci|stoin of hanging stockings be
side the chimney originated in Bel
gium or France, whCTe shoes or
wooden “sabots” were set out.
Santa Claus, that jolly old maa
who is so affectionately a part of
childhood began life in Asia Minor.
He was, legend relates, tall auvl
lean and he rode around on a white
horse, searching out needy person?
and secretly helping them—usually
with a sack of gold. Later he be
came identified with Saint Nich-
mixture of flesh, fish and fowl. A ^olas, the patron saint of children.
now long wm we conriniio 7
onr foolish belief that everythint^ ® ®
w1iite| lieople do is so grtfatly su- j “All signs point to this,” he dc-
perioi' to anything we, otirselvo*, clared Monday when discussion
do? ) I I ! the situation, “and it won’t b>)
long before all public works and
War conditions today afford _)0
tfntirtlities for or against us ac
cording to our acceptance and use
of thpm but they can profitably
serve iqnly a united Negro peoplo
itioii.
« fine gMtare to mr that Chariotte is one of the few,
citiM of iMr South tfNnff employment to c(4o|lfed (HfH-
p«li«^ officeM^two of tita.
B«t w^^weiorced to ask Dr. J. S. iTTrDss and oiSVrs who
the honor of this aecottipli^ent if a full measure df sei-
can expected from these two sUndard bearers of the law
tho^aly places of recreatloD for the forty thousand co|or-
(Coatisui^d on pagr %iz)
per capita, should e.tpcet peo- [attendance at any Rose Bowl game
pie of undoubted ci}ltdirc and in
telligence to question ouf sai\ity.
Tli^ f^y same d»y tliirt the No
TO fiomnfittee callto’ at Diike io
iscuW the matter the nieager
ouetiiidld bplotte>>>Es ? df a* strug-
ling, hilf^iijl^fe^Wiibw iHth a
very jromif daughter to r^ ^ere
put out of-a home on Fayetteville
Street for every passer-by to see,
apparently because of her failure
to p»j rent and one wonders how
ever to be played.
Rose Bowl games, etc., belong to
a Caesar who dosen’t care parti
cularly for our preSpnce therefore,
We mttst necessarily learn to “ren
der ulMo Gnesar that which ir
■GrfesarV’ and= dnfo'-ourselTOs, our
posterity, and our God that whieh
is ours and His if we would sur
vive to' become a self-sustaining
people*
agencies will be taken over by the
government. Negroes should get
every exam that comes along with
the idea of, being in on the ground
floor when the change .comes.
The End For
Germany ... .
The entrance of United
States into the war “MARKED
I'HE BEGINNING OF THE END
FO^ GERMANY.”
This assertion was made i’i
Dunn by an Ausitrian Jew, who
fought beside Hitler in the last
war. and knew him when he >v;vii
a boy. The man ,was Dr.' Frederick
Neuman, escap&d ’ fugative who
now a.professor at Edwards Mil'-
tary., Institute at Salcmburg. Dr.
Neuman was addressing the-Dunn
fLion’s Club, at a special program.
AMONp
AM^^ICA