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CHARLOTTE, N. €r Y, MARCH 13, 1930. NEGROES SHOULD HOLD ONLY ONE CON VENTION THIS YEAR AND THAT SHOULD BE A JOB-FINDING CONVENTION By Nannie H. Burroughs (For The Associated Negro Press) Unemployment among Ne groes inrougnout me country is on me increase. «joos tnat were ours nave gone to inacnmes, gone to wnite people, or gone out oi siyie. vve are not going to get tnem duck, vve win nave to raise some new joos. no not waste too mucn tune mscussing tne cause, n we want to Know me w^oie trutn we are tne cause ox entirely too mucn 01 Tipa loss ol occupations. vVe aiu riot improve; we were too unre iiaole; we were too wasteiui; we had to get oil too often to tend to a little business;' we hact to attend too many luner als; we were too mdepenuent; we gave too many of our em ployers pieces oi our minus; we over-dressed; we got rich and bought cars and showed btt'; we talked too mudh^ahd too loud all over the place andNxn pub lic carriers. We told the world how we treated our employers. White people got tired of it. They got to thinking it over. While we were laying off, talking big and laying them out, they were pooling their brains and their money. As a result they have produced all kinds of machines and labor saving devices. Now they are pressing buttons and getting tlieir work done while we are pressing bricks and getting our shoes worn out. They are sitting pretty and making money while we.*re sit ting distressed and making complaints. We (brought a whole lot of this on ourselves. Unless Negroes get down to brass tacks and use their brains “it ain’t half as bad as it’s ’gwine to be.” • Our occupations are gone, ine Only thing that is left for us to to do is to stop some things, and start some other things. “ First, cut out waste time and hot air. We keep our hard work ing people up too late in lodge rooms; churches and dance balls. Negroes are (burying too much money. It is time to pop ularize inexpensive funerals. A church show costs more than a- home funeral. Too many Ne groes get off to attend funerals in which they have no interest other than morbid curiosity. Our “ ’spect” for the dead costs more than our respect for the living. Funerals among Ne groes are expensive things when you count the cost of what is put into the ground and paid for gas and the time we ‘put in reviewing the remains— the latter has cost many of us our jobs. Sometimes the worse the man, the bigger the turn out at the funeral. Let’s stop it. Negro fra ternal organizations should pool their money and convert some frozen assets or one of their old dead weight halls into a huge factory and make all their regalia, uniforms and supplies. That business combination falone would give employment to several thousand capable men and women. A business 'Combination can ibe formed if the heads of Negro fraternal Organizations would only look at their opportunity from an unselfish point of view and "Stop getting theirs” long enough to help their loyal and devoted followers. It is time for Negro organizations to use less money on funerals and more on fundamentals. Cut out unnecessary show and build some shops. We have spent millions for vulgar display and those from whom we buy count the shek les and laugh at our folly. If Negro leaders have any sense at all, now is the time to show it. Another way to help is to go back to the farm. - .Laborers wno nave large i amines and are out of employ- j ment in cities luce Cleveland, Detroit, N ew f one, Chicago, rniladeiphia, Pittsburgh, bin* cinnati, should go back to the larms and go to work. They certainly can raise enough to j nve on and get a plenty of fresh air and save their children from the demoralizing influenc es of overcrowded lodging; hous es The Negro health record is Dad. The fact of the matter is that there should be a well planned, properly organized oack to the farm * movement among Negroes. Do not wait too long because' all of the-, farms will be gone or we will be so demroalized by the-strug gle against vice and_ poverty in the city that we will be unfit for the new day that is-certain ly coming among the people- m the open country. Negro womr en in those cities are actually killing themselves trying to "get work enough to take care- of ■■ their families while their hus bands and sons arc walking around trying to ‘find some thing to do. There isn't-any-* thing to do and they know -it* But they keep on walking,'took-? ing for a warm plaee to paiki •Our manhood' ES'tfofng” tdv’piec^ es morally and physically. If you doubt it, look into the dives* pool rooms, vice dens, on street corners, and you will see^hat is going on. We are resorting to number playing and boot-leg ging. That means death and mo ral destruction. It is time for Negro leaders in all fields to plan together a nation-wide campaign on education and a crusade. The masses have lost their jobs and the leaders should not wait until the people lose morale and heart before they pool their interest^ ^and tlreirs brains and find a w&y dut‘ Pr make one. ' "i.. ' Our convention season—tne most wasteful and worthies luxury for which the masses pay—will soon open. Several million dollars will go to rail roads and big cars. Not for real business, but for show, to rival the Joneses, that’s all. As hard pressed as we are—^without jobs, our homes for ^ale, our churches bankrupt,our. schools dead broke and on the verge of collapse—our leaders are go ing to comb the country for nickels and dimes and throw i away our last dollar gasing around, dispensing . hot air at the expense of the jobless masses. The whole race would be better off if we hold only one convention this year. That should be a “Job Finding Con vention.” Only the heads" of every convention or one of "its representatives who has vision and constructive ideas should be allowed to attend. We do not need too much talk now. We have talked ourselves put. We need all kinds of work And plenty of it. We need practical advice on how to hold what wp have and get what we needk M The streets and • hOtfses'-ltre full of idle Negroes. “ Charity organizations are planning - to carry us when we should be planning to carry ouhselves. Ne gro leaders should plan to en lighten the entire nation on conditions, and never cease their crusade until . sentirhent for economic justice is-working effectively. * (Continued on page 4) THE HIGHER FORM OF GREATNESS (From The Charlotte NjePwAi Those who . have agc£ie,Tjthje greatest work for the' worl4> who have dedicated their tal ents to helpful and construct* ive ministries,- wha iljs^e utils? ized their capacities^ for-the. ^Df; richment and gloripfe^ion of life are still -those siaongr^is wbo.!«|tB usually fosgbtten. Ehe monuments in this^Qwn,. for instance,— what few., -of them there angr-for whom Have they been erected? Who is the citi zen of;today who wiljj jbe- the more remembered by posteri ty? Is; he some, man who iar, spending his fortune in ' raojfey or his resources in mind for the alleviation of the untoward conditions of jtye ^e , of . fellowman? Not/' unless we should change our entire sys tem of the life of his felloe man? Not- unless we should change our entire system of valuation along this line, ' You:can lift a monument to some: .destroyer. ok life without any great amount of . trouble or embarrassment,,, bwt, let some* body suggest the erection of . a shaft pf, granite ,to fb&giempry of oiiejwho has devdted himself to the ..salvation of lifej and, the reaction ofsociety is dull,* uninteresting^ ijtnd indifferent,*., The ,j(ast of the 18th and th$ first of the 19$^ centuries were distinguished periods in the' history of the wo^ for the wholesale desiruftMp^ of.^hur man life that was marked' within those egtochs! r^nd< istoric destruction are s have *lje6< about thehi"; iil ‘ the hundreds and ‘ Virtually; every formed school ibpy ; can tefrvydu at once who these men -Were: Monuments; of cdtirse,'f haf£ been buijdecf for .them.' \ Yet they \ve¥e 'butstaiidihg' troyers of human life. deS Contempdraneus with' .. them was a man whose talent^ ';;and: capacities went in another ! di rection. He was! concerned about the ■ o|hdr .greater and more important" ' business *";df saving lifd}—Edv&rd: 'flnheif. Mention that name to;; the; •school children dnid they, wilj look :.at youf ‘ woii^^yhienf: They probably nbver hedrd'!16f him. The history books dismiss him with a '-paragraph. Jenner, born in 1749, was the* son of a county clergyman, life grew op in when small pox was the most dreaded dis ease ..known. One out of 1 every four people in Europe apd Eng land either died of smallpox or carried its disfiguring scars throughout life. Medical science was utterly helpless 'before it. Jenner studied medicine and resolved to devote his life to the problem of smallpox. He had noticed the current belief in his native country district, that milkmaids find farmers who had contracted the mild eowpox were immune from smaUpbx, and he set to work to find out about it. Many years of study and ex periment followed—until, in 1800, he was able to present the results of his researches to the world and get the endorse ment of 73 prominnt physi cians. During the years that ensued Jenner himself vacci nated more than 600,000 per sons, and vaccination became recognized by medical men everywhere as the great weap on against smrillpox. The battlefields of Europe were bloody during these years. Armies moved ap'd fought al most without eeasing, generals built vast reputations, the un wieldy ships of Lord Nelson sent their broadsides crashing into French, Danish land Span ish ships and Napoleon made . a household word, hhds upon thousands of were killed. But Jenner, son of a country par kas. saving more lives all of these battles were Mps ivlack of distinction which fhe fate of the eminent (cmists of that past pe disregard in which they 3 held, the indifference of toward them, have all down to us as an inherit* from which we have been ,tobreak away. We are Sposed to put those on a who have made their n the field of battle, en in the fearful business destroying as much human possible. day, let us earnestly us entire system of hu evaluation will be changed ?h an extent that we will owning with our gratitude applause those moving sil but effectively among us >long life, to alleviate hu .suffering, to lift society a higher in the scale of and jo bestow life more lantly to those who have it k'so'meagerly. ABE FOR LAW BSBERVANCE p. William Hiram Foulkes, itivo - Secretary of the terian National Loyalty imission, with headquarters Withgqspoon Building, )h^a, has received re widespread results Ifi ,, crusade for law ob ffrqin Mrs. Henry W. if Orlando, [as as|#atice that two wo men, of the United States are in creasing their activities toward e'qi^pepii^g public officials to fulfil Jtj&eir duties iff the sup pressibn, oferime and loyalty to the Constitution. Mrs. Peabody headed up a movement that resulted in pub lic meetings throughout Flori da,.. culminating in a great mass meeting attended by more than 2,000 representing 40 States in the Union and 20 religious de nominations. at which drastic jfjncTihgs w<ere adopted calling Upon “lawmakers of the coun try. who by act or statement yiplate the Constitution they art i^ojpff to uphold, to cease theii seditious acts or resign.” The findings also called upon women of. the nation to observe and Jstippoft the Eighteenth Amend merit for the sake of home and children; ; H Mrs. Peabody, in transmitting the .findings to the Presbyter ian National Loyalty Commis sion, stated that the assemblies had had a profound effect upon the people and upon the minis ters. /*?;r " “It is time,” she commented, “that bur religious press did spme heroic work to meet the ihroads of the wet press on ou” Constitutional government. \ is ;:paft of the life of ever, ^tifericifti Christian, and wt ’cannot continue on the defen sive always.” The findings of the represen tatives of 40 States as reported by Mrs. Peabody are in part as follows: . '^‘Whereas, it is reported that certain members of Congress, solemnly sworn to support and defend the Constitution, ‘are organized within the walls of the Capitol to betray and des troy that Constitution; be it “Resolved, That we the peo ple, loyal citizens, demand that lawmakers who are also law breakers cease their seditious acts and statements or cease to serve as representatives ol this.nation under the Constitu tion. “Whereas, it is alleged that in certain cities the law is brok en in social and business organ izationa, thereby leading to law lessness awl crime; and, “Whereas, privileged women have the power to change these conditions in every State and city; halt . >i-n? _ “Resolved, That we pledge curseLves to observe and defend the law which- protects our homes and children;, and that we further pledge ourselves to decline to participate in social functions where we have reason to believe that the law will be broken.” * ^ . These findings are'being dis tributed throughout the United States, says T)r. Pbulkee, and are being accepted toy local groups of loyal Women every where. ''v:'; ST. JAMES CHURCH GREENSBORO, N. C. By Mrs. T. B. Jones I Sabbath morning the pastor preached fSdfci/'thei text: “Then cometh Jesus with them to a place called Gethsemane.. And he went a little farther. ” Matthew 26:36 and 39. j “From the subject, . 'Gethse mane,” the speaker said: “Not alone is Gethsemane a place, it is something that happens in the life of an individual or even a ination. Though Jesus died on i Calvary, yet He won the initial ! victory in Gethsemane. ' ! It is a lonesome place, a one man's battleground, Jesus found it so. It is true Peter, James am? John were near, yet Jesus had ,to go to Gethsemane alone. | As Jesus nttased through ■Gethsemane, so Ifiust each wp: son, and each must go it atone, so far as human kmcT is con cerned. Not that one man can ,n who has no one to whom he may talk and share his burden. Have you anybody to whom you can talk with freely about youn heart throbs ? If not, go' find some one. Show me a man that trusts no person and I will almost point to you a man who will not easily trust God. Yet, my hearers, the supreme mo men in your life, your Gethse mane must toe faced alone. It may be affliction of self or others; it may be some habits of those we love*; fit may he the home life. So many of earth’s sons and " daughters pass through Gethsemane between the four walls of their home, yet you can not run away? You must conquer or be vanquished. Jesus met his Gethsemane with courage and resignation. Not that, resignation that is fatalistic; so should we. “Apd He went a little far ther,” JesUa always does go fur Ither than awn;, further in sac rifice and;sufferings; further in llove arid mercy. This/ then, is our consolation —Jesus, the Breaker, is gone before usr and although we must pass through Gethsemane, He has left footprints 4>y which we take comfort. Having tasted all the loneliness, the agonies of this mystic garden, He will min ister unto us while we are in our Gethsemane. The Lucy Laney > Circle met with Mrs. W. L. McNair, Jr., Monday afternoon. Aside from 'routine business the Circle J completed arrangements for a Shamrock party on March 17. j The Junior choir will sing for | the regular eleven o’clock ser vice on Sunday, March 16. Also at the Hannah chlirch in the af ternoon. , Beginning last Wednesday night and continuing through May, the church is studying the Book of The Acts. Much inter i est is being manifested. The Christian Endeavor. 9od ' ety, under Hie leadership of Mr. William Twiner, is having a large attendance each Sab ibath at six-thirty P. M. Both j adults and the younger folks ‘attend. EMBLEM AND COLOR FOR NEGRO BUSINESS New 'York City, March.—El dred M. Smith, a commercial ar tist, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Harry H. Pace, President of ihe Supreme Liberty Life In surance Company of Chicago, are co-winners of the $50 award offered by the National Negro business League for the most appropriate emblem and color The contest attracted nation wide interest and more than two hundred designs and sug gestions were submitted. None met all of the requirements set by the judges in advertising value and in color. The judges, therefore, accepted the design by Mr. Smith and the color sug gestions from Mr. Face. Mr. Smith was born twenty three years ago in New York City. His parents moved to Nia gara, Falls when he was a child. He graduated from high school in 1925. At an early age he rhowed an aptitude for drawing and embraced the opportunity to acquire technical skill as a painter 'by taking a high school course. At present he works in the sign shops of Niagara Falls as a free lance. His design is soon to be placed on the win dows of every C. M. A. store in the country. Mr. Pace’s suggestion for the color scheme included the fol lowing interesting paragraphs: “In seeking a color scheme to be used for the purpose named, the front of a system of stores that it is expected will eventu ally become nation-wide, there are several important things to something different from any other color scheme in existence for any similar group of stores, the problem would be extreme ly simple. One only need observe the color scheme of the better known chains and then go off with a color card and evolve a combination that had not hith erto been used. ‘But I take it that the idea is not merely to have something different from everybody else. A scheme might be different and still not be sufficiently dis tinctive to sell the idea that was behind the organization or at least have such little sugges tion of that idea as to make the cost of popularization; of the scheme so great as to de feat the idea of the combination cf these stores into one organi zation. When the buying public thinks in terms of ten, fifteen, and twenty-five cent merchan dise the first impulse is to look for a store with a brilliant red *ront. There is, therefore, a de finite value to all of these stores in tms color scneme, ana me cumulative effect of the adver tising value of these red stores of all the stores of these several chains is so powerful that it enables these chains to practi cally eliminate advertising from their budget, and enables them +o give back to the customer this saving in operating expens es. “In considering the problem cf a suitable store front for the G. M. A. Stores. I have, there fore. concluded that the Asso ciation ought to adopt a color that would at once stamo every store with the powerful first impression thought of every passer-by that “this is a store where prices are cheaper and goods are fresher.” That color, by tradition, is a bright red; a red that is sun-proof and rain proof ; a standardized paint I carefully mixed to a formula that w}JI be the same on every store ih every localitv. the ex acts shade in everv case. “With the adoption of such a color scheme, having its funda mental and basic idea the self continued on page 4)
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