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'.K w Biiiffil HaBcsck M>M i»A*A Tndf •ew THT" >!»■" I SATtTRDlAY, MAY 23rd, 1942 ^ A (Mm Sbould Not DMce PUBUSiqp WEEKLT BY TBE CAROLINA TDOBS PUBU5HING OOMPAlTr U7 B. PeaMy Stiwt Darfaui. K, N-7U1 or J-7871 C. Eotered u seeo&4 clus matter »t the Post Office at Durham, N. C. uadw the Act of March 3rd, 1878.> U E. AUSTIN. WILUAM A. TUCaC» O. A. IRVIN. Managinff Edilor Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION S2.00 a Year RATES: SL25 lor Six Kontiis FOROINO THE ISlra U. Ileve wHt advocates. SOME weeks ago negroes were If. as some *mj, Kegroes are in- admonished through this eolamn di^^erent, it Is because Negro not to “FORCE THE ISSUE” in leadership has made them so, race relations. Qiute oaturally 'Negroes are as loyal as ever; I Romc misunderstood the admoni- am hoping that his loyalty will tion to mean ceaie our fight for never be called into questiop^ our full fledged righta. As a that in the future, as in the past« matter offset, we were metely the most glorious chapters in the warning Negro leadership against chronicles if patriotism of this na- roiiditiuning our loyalty and co- tion will make mention of N«- operation in the war effort on the iroeu. But if the N^o is'Weigh- natlon’s cent^fllonc to the de-. ed in the balances and found raands of Negroes for full citiren- wanting, the fault is not, In the £^isti|»jty. Q Ip cloaiitl lit me gi«p you a few of the reafjMN I am o|qpoaed to a Chri^iai) 4«Deing: 1. ^ wrt dance with a clear eonseienoc, and therefore I shall sbstain. 2. The true Christian churches as sacrcd it an Not all who attend the modern danecs of our day are morally ruined (none are helped); but many are caught in the deceiver's have condemned the dance net and have not the will power to carnal and immoral, overcome the temptations that na* turally arise after dancing. A former chief of police of New York City said, “Three fourths of the abandoned giirls of that city were started on their way to ruin by the modern dakioe.” A Bomtn Catholic Priest declares,, "the confessional reveals that nineteen POOLE’S MEDLEY -p Worthy boarded the twelve jurors and their officer. We slept in a large room on mattrese on the iloor, and I lay next t> the door and I told that jnrjr if any of them attempted to noeept a bribe, Q it would be aeroea my dead body. books of immo^'al name for pro- and dishonors sliip recognrtion. Negro masses but in Negro lead- twenty girls who fpll Tht article was inspired by the ei^ship.^If Negro massea are luke beginning of their fact some Negro leaders had come warm, It is because Negro leader- the modern dancc. dangerously near saving that wn-t ship is Juke warm. If we are going • ♦ o lesf Negroes were granted full to dwell firever on what we dp passion ou o citb.enship recognition they ought not have and never on wtgt we j 3. Even the Pagans declare amusement. 4. It has a bad fessing Christiafts the cause. ii. The best and most ^iritual Christians DO NOT engage in the modern dance. 6. Most church members that fiance are very weak, spiritually, if Christians at all. THE PLATFORM OF . . . • THE CAROLINA TIMES INCUISEa: Equal salaries foi Nerro Teachers. Negro policemen where Nearroes are involved. Equal educational opportunities. Negro jurymen. Higher wages for domestic aervants. Full participation of Netrroes in all branches of the National Defense^ ' Abolishment of the double-standard wage scale in -iadfivtry. ^ Greater participation of Negroes in political af fairs. Negro representation in city, connty. statp and national goyemmeuia. Better housing for Negroes. tlOt fight. I kne^ then and I know have; if we over emphasise ' this now that such would be a most nation’s shortcomings and mini- (Inngerous position both for Ne- mire its virtues; if we forever gro leadership and the Negro dUparago the Jong way we have masses; that such position would come by magnifying present ob- pliiy into the hands of those intol- stacles then we are going to have 7. It i? the favorite amust'ment with the sinful everywhere, sinners have -b: v^ry liKle anHelnp; Separate the male from the fe- in religion of the church members male and let men dance With men who dnnce; and sinners literally People used to save- If they hadn't they would have.starved. A man who lives some miles above Carthage accumulated a foitune, for his day, selling ginger cak^cs at 5c each. Millions have be^n made from the sale of Coca Cola. The ginger cake man reared a large family of hale, hearty, thrifty worthy citizeng. Rye and peas grow on very poor landj and some Sandhill farms were poor, and the owners did not have the money |o buy fertilizers, so they sow'ed more land in those two crops. Gathering s^ch crops ■ "Who no confidence’ is work, but I knew pCople had plenty of peas and rye to have everything else they needed. We Haven’t Mentioned lt--Yet The Council Against Intoler, in America has called W*^ )^t tq e^:^|i|tt MixpillI t United States Army. Last week 2000 student attending a Victory Mass Meeting at Washington Square College, New York Uaiver- aity, demanded a mixed brigade. A Clayton Powell, New York's goldiers fFghtirip, living, first Negre Councilman, made a and dying together would put Mr forceful appeal declaring: Jim Crow into a concentration ^ “We are waging a peQpJfi*s_3t&r^Miap. with a people’s army, for a peo- We make significant gains only thjiough mass pressure. If we don H get that Mixed Regiment in Ihe Army within the next month or 80 IT IS OUR 0\tN TAULT— the Negro’s fault. The 30‘2nd Or- diance division is a beginning but it is n«t the answer. A Volunteer Regiment ^o|^|^jNegro and white soldiers fighting, living, working, erant whites who want some ex cuse to further subjuj^ate the Ne- groes; that su*h position and utterance would “give comfort to the enemy” that in the Ions; run such course would be stumbling block rather than the stepping stone to our coveted goal. Of course the time is ripe for some kind of bargaining if there by we mean efforts to improve ourselves in the affairs of”tfte na tion. It is true that in times of war and stress ancl strain the iron is red and waits the falling sledge; but we must be certain that our bargain is a good one; for wherever a good bargain is prestnt there is present a bai one alsOij There could be no worse bargaining, than for the Negri to sjiy or intimate that unless his full citizenship rights are granted hore and now he is going on a ^it down strike- The Negro has every thing to lose by such course and not one, thing to gain. This sbould b4 clear to Negro leadesship and our leadership should make this clear to the masses! I am beginning to wonder if '"■4^10 leadership has not lost is now losing one a bewildered and a divided race; and the said division must be laid at the dem- of Negro leanerahip. If as pr. Young of the Journal and Guide says, our moririe is Rvw but, our loyalty as high as aver, then Negro leadership must im prove our morale if our patrio tism is not Ho degenerate; It tak es mori4e to sustain • patriotjiim and loyalty. What the Negro al ready has is worth fighnng for and preserving even if h£ eould get nothing more. But the preser vation of democracy even in name presents greater hope than fas cism in fact. The hope of the Ne gro. is in the preservation of de mocracy and the sooner Negro leadership drives this point home to the Negro masses then the sooner we are goiilg to improve oitr moral,e~ Riots may conceivably mirror the Negro’s manhqod and his in*--daughter patience with the turn of events; riots may give vent to the Ne gro’s pent up feelings and the ha treds certain pernicious Negro elements may engender and wjiich •the 'wliitc faaA's oppressions have and women dance'with women and it will not be long until society will have to seek another form of pleasure for its recreation. The mission of the dance is to lead lo mor^l, aivd spiritual ruin. It was instigated by the devil and made popular by sinners. It if the favorite pleasure of the most pinfiil of the sinful and eyery bal)- room, every pleasure house, is filled with* the dancing multitudes of the day—dancing to their de- 3:1-7 despise a preacher that dances or condemns it. 9. It is a badge of worldliness; thus destroying the Christian’s usefulness everywhere. 10. The dancing of the sexes togethen, as in modern times, was never practiced by the virtuous in bible times. 11. The dress worn by the wo men dancers is the immorHl in vention of the harlots. 12. It brings virtue in close connection with* ruffled passion— at late hours and under excite- virtues are well struction. Read 2 Timothy and behold how the apostle Paul proi^esies of the evils of las^t day men^ in which of pleasure. ’ nigh powerless. 13. I cannot dance in modern The great Baptist Evangelist gpciety for the glory of tlo^, L. R. Scarborough wrote ;"“WWle I could describe a certain farm I used to know whether they had a place for everything and a “gourd for the gimlet.” That family lived at home, A stoneware pitcher'got broke out the farmer nicely stitched old shoe quarters aroxind that broken’ pitcher so it would hold. He did the job when ho would have been doing nothing else, so he saved. 1 know of two citizens who li terally broke themselves up enter taining. They extended a warm welcome to all friends and they Ou Tuesday of court week a neighbor and I went to Carthage, but not to court. Thousands of men went to Carthage and Troy the first three days of court week, and nearly everybody trad ed horses, swapped and j^ought while they were there. I found the young men of Cath- age very affable and easy to get acquainted with, and one of them —or rather several of them— served as policemen in an effort to, preserve order, and one fiot August day they found a fellow near the Presbyterian church who AVHs oil a razee, so he was taken in tow, and literally carried to the county jail a hundred yards or more west o£ the court houje and locked tip until he sobered. By the time the officer carried that drunk from the Presbyterian church to the jail, he was tired, and whtn he went to put him in jail the fellow broke loose and started to leave. He was caught and another police man eame to his help and they scuffled with that fellow for two hours, and a third officer came to their assistance before they could got him jailed. That young man refused to serve as a policeman again. . It was a sad piece of news which brought the information of I was pastoring my first chutch I was asSed to conduct the funeral of the daughter of a Methodist .steward. I drove out to the pala- tial home and after been escorted to tlje private room the family tqld the detaik of the' dauglitefs death- The mother said, ‘‘We sent off to a so called But 14. The Bible tells us to shun the very appearance of evil. 15. Jesus and His disciples ne^ver went to, or taugljt eqgage in worldly pleasures they dFd teach us that “if the love of tlje world is in us the love of God was not.” 16. They that live alter the the flesh. jdfi’s peace. The key to victory ean be learned from the Chinese people who are fighting a people’s war, from the glorious Red Army who are fighting a people’s war. Let us demand a regiment of Jkmerican people, Negro and white •like, fighting a people’s war so 'tlut democracy the world over shall beeome a reality.” ' The University of Pittsburgh campus paper ran an editorial ealling for a mixed regiment and all male students interested were It most opportunities. Has not too nuieh l»een made of the misguided outspoken Negro who says he has —no country to fight forf—Have we not over emphasized spotlight isn’t as if we were fifjhting hunting Negro and his mania for the dance. Last Sunday morning of its supre are^^^ going ^ pastor preaJshed a great ser- Christian school, hoping that she would there beeonae “It useful Dancing is carnal. Christian but when she returned 17^ j ^oujd not'Oike to die on a she had learned to love the plea- dance floor or be found there st^s of the world and especially ^jjen Jesus comes, would youf fed them well Their land became or, imP°v«rished (everybody wore ouj ih7“^Vhlnr^ the‘ih^'-v *0 land in those days) and they got defenders just smothered so they made less than expense account remained high, so they were sold out. One 6f them died in the poor house thirty days af ter he was carried there (he had no children.) The other moved to n new community and he and his four sons entertained all who came, and they came. But after several years’ hard labor, he and the boys learned to make more, and they just couldn’t be broken any more. just under an excess amount of devil. I believe if would" have cost less to have recruited the Bataan Penin sular force sent them aircraft the Navy and everything else needed to smash those Japs thaq^to dis possess them now.i * a 200 year old tradition. We p.re not. In the archives of the colon ies during the late 17th and early JSth centuries we find slave and free Negroes in the local militia. Here Negro and white soldiers drilled and served together iti de fense of these tiny settlen'ents. During the Frenrfh and Indian War Nc*groes were among the forceso f General Braddock in the decisive battle around Fort Duquesne. Deborah Gan”«ft, a a- □- to indicate their willingness Negro woman disguised as a man, to gerve in such a unit by filling but the blanlis being circulated by the Council Against Intolerance. W^at have students at North Carolina College for Negroes done in this effortT What have 'he Ne^o Youth of Durham done in t 'this eoiwection t How is it that we sever seem to be * We to get to the -Seiner witil t]ie parade has We’re always crying for our .BIOHTS but we seldom really “WORK for our rights. Who fought far and are still fighting for the ■ freedom of the Scottsboro boys f The International Labor Defense, an organization of liberal whites dedieated to the job of the defense of the defenseless. Who fought for and freed Angelo Herndon (j^ease don’t ask who he is) from the..Cleorg^ Chain Gangf Certain ly |w>t the Negro people—^the ILD bandwagon and its supporters. THE MILLS OF THE GODS Bgr Heniy Clay Davis served as a private in the Re- voluntionarv Armies from 1782- 1783, and later appeared oa the pension lists. In 19^t6-38 there was the Abraham Lincoln Biigade of American Negi’oes' and whites who loved 'democracy and hated fascism fighting .side by side with Spanish youth in defense of Loyalist Spain. JL-aae Rattle of Howard University was a member of this battalion. It has been done before and it can be done a a In. If we want to got rid of .Jim- crow in the Armed forces of America this is our chance. Presi dent Roosevelt, Chief of Staff notoriety which he seeks to satis fy through radical utterances? Have we not played down the words and deeds of the loyal unto death millions who see, that the Negro’s onFy hope is in the sur vival of democracy as it is, and as he hopes it will bef When we get Negro leadership , corncerned, they say any indifference or opposition to the cause is to be found among the masses. But the fact remains the masses be- divorce each other because”' they finds his wife unfaithful 6nd tak es her life because he thinks it is right to do so but such things are generally the produA of evil before spendi and, although we may not know definitely what ri|ht is, we can certainly afford to believe that nothing which is evil can also ;e right. Mighty nations and powerful individuals get what they want by taking it on the assumption that might is right and if it happens to be true that what we want and to settld the Negro prob}^. IfoW- ever we may sympathize with Ne gro riot«rs and however wc may be convinced of the justice rf thoir cause, we may as well face the fact now as later, NEGROES CANNOT FORCE THE ISSUE! V nion. When we returned homj and Mildred and I started to cook dinner, she said, ‘Itfother, I came t)anciftg keeps people from serving Jesus Christ with a whole heart and causes them to die out of God’s will. All dancers should get down on I believe I mentioned before a- bout tho time Sheriff John L. Currie made me officer of a jury that heard the evidence in a case Since the Japs defeated Russia in 1904, they have been a bigoted cocky lot, carrying chips on their shoulders, if any people ever did. Our grtfat, pease loving nation had scrapped all war equipment, and were living Up to their Jiigh'ideal of “love your neighbor as yoy^-. self.” So while -we played good neighbor we got shot to pieces. vepy «ear giving nay-heaxt- - - -to- their knees HTfit'reperit ; ana" never Christ yesterday. I had to liter- dance again. If you ;lo this the NEGRO EDITORS SPEAK ally hold onto ray seat to keep from doing it.’ I looked at her and said, “Mildred, Oh why didn’t you do itT That has been the pray er of my life. Oh, why didn’t you do it ’ Then she told me tha,t the clothes were already made for her to wear at the dance , Wednesday night and she couldn’t get saved for she would have to miss that dance, But she said, “If I am at church next Supday I will get saved.” Wednesday night came Associated Negro .and Mildred went to the dance. It turned extremely cold after mid- chureh of Jesus Christ will have ^he more influence in the world betweeu Billie Jackson ^nd Brady Bros., et al, and Mrs. Sandy and you yourself will be saved. QOD HELP you TO DO IT. Navy hero, Eaci from Philip- pincfi, sure we “can lick them.” Wallace forecasts a Japanese attack on Alaska. -P (EDITOR’S NOTE: Author of the terse but pointed editorial in this $eries of pertinent editorials released by the Press is Wendell Phillips Dabney legendary editor of that most uni que of Negro newspapers, the Cincinnati Union. Born Nov. 4, 1865, in Richmond, Va. he finish ed high and normal school there a year at Oberlin cillege whereby his own admiss ion, he “enjoyed the distinction of breaking nil the rules without being expelled.'’ After teat^iing in Richmond several years be mov ed to Cincinnati in 1894 and there taught music at and wrote instrue tors for the JRudolph Wurlitzer Co., having pupils from the blty’s richest set. Later he was the first Negro in thp city treasury, serving A GALLON V are able to acquire by any means Marshall, an^ Secretary Stinxson jg right, then penury and impot- ®s head paymaster and paying out don’t know whether we're a part ' ' of this grtfiving septiment for a volunteer mixed regiment or not. We haven’t mentioned it to them yet. They'll think we’re not in terested. Let u« PRECEDE the ency are indisputable evidence about .$20,000,000 .vearly. Around that their possessor can never be 20 years ago he resigned. H® has right. been publishing the Union 35 The change from night to day, years and describes it as a “strict the rising and setting of the gun, ly old tfme newspaper conspicu- -just once. ous for ality.”) independence and origin- off ense we all desire to have the flowing and ebbing of tides, the change from season, birth and death, and counless other cate gorical conditions are right be cause they are nature’s jaw, and therefore iare coi^stant and immut able Jp man and in our quest for a universal understanding f the “piVIDE AlW CONQIJER” is dom, tjie multitude of his women, meaning of the.wprd right we can a axipm engendered by the genius the wealth that war brought, the --T~ airappi-oaeh v^ry near toi ,t be of eivUization. ‘Tis the w«a- qiagnificenee of his temple* express the same eOtnpelling our individual inte- pou fiV,er i^tdlized , in ae^Hal war- That lesson still lingers in the pmps AND POVTj^UEft $7 Wi»iid,ell F. Sabnay, Uditor of Oia.ck)wt;i Uniqii, for AKP “DIVIDE Alb CONQUER” is a axiom engendered by the genius night and next da.v she took pneu monia and we were called to her bedside. Her father and I had four leading doctors at her bedside but she grew steadily worse. She was nnconsciouss. By Saturday she died, never regaining conscious ness.” “Well,” continued preach er Scarborough, ‘ ‘ I conducted the girl’s funeral. After she was low ered into her grave the mother walked around that grave time and time again saying, “Gone to hell and the dance did it! Gone to hell and the dance did it! 1 came away from the funeral an incorrigible enemy of the modern dance and any other pleasure that comes between the soul and God.” Hotv tragic it is that this form of ruinous entertainment is allow ed in some churches; where the gospel should be preached to lead souls to God away from the dance. Preachers and churches we need revivals and not dances; we need prayer meetings and - not Socials; we need more piety and less pie; we need less churchianity and more UmA mu mm. iM. •m fe.'. ■MILBi 1 New light on how speed eate tip gasoline, oil Md tire* is ^ed bjr flgores Just released by *rhe Trav. ; efera Insurance Company, i A gallon of gas whdch at 85 I miles per hour will i^ush a iCaf 20.4 , miles will carry it only 12^8 ‘ at 65 m.p.h. In a thousand miles of travel $6.76 worth of tires will be dissipated at 65 miles per hour; •ftly '|1.80 worth at 25. ttl con- •umption doubles when speed ia iraised from 25 to 65, «id depreci* fttion and maintenanee trebles. \ Avertgei show ft total owt of t»o centi per mile at 35; almost five cents per mile at 65. Few persons can he persuaded to drop down to 25 miles an Hour, it is pointed out, but even at 85 miles an hour the savings are sub. stantiaL And if actual cash sav* ings Me not important to the ave- rage individual, prolonging the life of his tires and his car are of prime iml;>ortanee How. . . Surpriskigly little thne is saved by speeding, the an^sis shows, whereas the costs rise rapidly, in a thousand miles of travel, 18 hours can be saved by traveling at, 65 i|Mtead of 35, but at a cost of $1.86 per hour sav^ ^ Motorists will do well tct study ^ the ^bles and charts shown. ; figures were developed from th«| actuc^ operation ex^Htrience of 31 - light, medium and Jieavy oars, ranging &om brjonS new to sev> eral years eld, and while eadi ih>; . dividual** own ’ cos^ may vary ! /• slightly from can be used ms a f^ ^4^ right done by U® grity and character to become and f*we or whei^ev^r the rights of a ipinds oi and this promotes the belief that remajn 'as; unchangeable as na- minority .group are at stake. “A bat'not always in fact, for je- ipinds of our people, freed by law, bat' not always in fact, for je- chaln is no atrongor than its weak sijjes the slaves that poverty ever n est 'link” and the worth of « peo- ipiikes, we have other slaves, th«n that which should be done* living right than in knowing what pic may be judged'by theicl^s of wiUing subjects for the money or right is and if we eannot agree on their leaders. ■ pasitions that ministers to iheir Quist of ui.look upon right a? b«- ing what ‘me want dope- rather tiire’s laws. ''ftere is mpch ipore virtue IS UOHTf lirakl *‘rlg^t,” when need gmte.ct ethical behavior, Um }Bpf t 'fr^uently used in the English iangu- if alto i(M^e of the most to eatn^y define. Men m^ke aws to govern th^ir paraon asked .will readily fellow-men but the frequency with own uiten>Mtst^n of ti» whieh »uch laws ere changed is of the word iHit it it uo- proof that they are not and h^ive 4ml aojr . -amA int«r- iAeidi^^ itcens pdJed to'be constant-and immut- strict coaionnity t)ie >princi- heaven, the tortures-of‘hell,^ . but. their tMurlal ogimmonion, dreams itioaal able in ordtr to be what thi^upg pie of the Gol^n l^ule and |f such their eyes mw the worahjf).' Pf. of-heaven and the pride of own- * jj^ple believe i* right. . is still not rigtfit-it ii certai^y the gold, Respite tte talk of God! ij^e mg j^ |iUliop^ ,5^ dollars Vation* engBlge'in vcruelv and remedy for Mnman social, politi- B^ tol^ iTOore of the Trisdom ^d ijr^th of aa^xhou^nds '••Hrlare because each * belv*’>‘^^^ tical, and economic ills and is wealth of Solomen, than ot the of shepherds to lighten the bur- thinks its cause right. Husbands g«od enough to make a better poverty and purity of Jesus. It den of the spirit when overladencd 4ud wivet disagree, separate, and world fgf all of us to live io. told of the opulence ol his king- by its eroi§^ of sin. ft* Ji pasitions When the banner of slavery live of fashion, luxury, » display flutt^ed oyer -our ancpstprs, af- and'eaters to their delirium of ter bei«g draped from their home grandeiir. 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