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VOL. LIV. 4AND YE SHALL KNOW THETRUTH, CHARLOTTE, N . C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, ANOTHER NEGRO CONGRESSMAN IN SIGHT By Dr. Kfcliy Miller It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. La Guardia swept the city of New York and thereby took himself out of the race in the Harlem Congression al District where his dynamic personality made impossible the Negro’s aspirations for Congres sional honors. Just as no Negro could hope to come to Congress from the First Illinois District as long as Martin Madden was in the field, just so stood the case with LaGuardia and New York Negro aspirants. But now that this august personality has been removed from the local equation by the fortune of politics, the ease is entirely different. The Negroes form the over whelming majority of the mi nority party in that District. In recognition of this fact, the pre •edent of a colored nom inee has already been set. As long as Tammany controlled lo cal patronage it could dictate po - litical policies; for no other po litical organization in this coun try knows so well how to manip ulate patronage for partizan ad vantage. Tammany has never nominated a colored man for Congress for the simple reason that it was not necessary. It was easy to elect a white can didate backed up by the persua sive power of municipal patron age. But now that this has been taken away, the Tiger will be forced to rely upon some other form of political strategy. While the Negro may not constitute the actual majority, nevertheless race loyalty outweighs political fealty. A Negro candidate on either ticket would draw a suffi ^aeaLnnmfeR JtoracigyL votes, from the other side to give the colored candidate the victory. Mindful of this situation Tam many has stood ready for a number of years to foster a col ored candidate if conditions made it expedient. That time has ar lived. Nothing can frustrate it except the usual imbecility of the Negro leaders who are wont to destroy each other’s chances by internal wrangling. On the Republican aide, the Grand Old Party for the past four or five Congressional cair paigns has stood willing and ready to sponsor a Negro candi date, if one could be found, who v'as otherwise qualified, and waa able and willing to assume the legitimate financial obliga tions. We may reasonably look for lw0 Negro candidates—one on tne Democratic and one on the Republican ticket. The race as a whole, on the outside, will look on in the impartial attitude of the wife watching a fight be tween her husband and a bear —she didn’t care which whipped. The essential thing, from the broad, comprehensive racial standpoint is to have Congres sional reenforcement of Oscar DePriest. Perhaps it would be a little better if he were on the op posite side of the political fence. Then the race would have some inside touch with legislation in both parties. New York is the only city out side of Chicago from which the race may expect a Congressman for an indefinite period to come. In Philadelphia, while the num hers are sufficient, the race is so) scattered among several1 Congressional Districts as to make racial* domination highly improbable. Judge Henry tried it in the last campaign with the easily foretold result. The next city in the order of probability is Baltimore. Here the total number of Negroes is just about half the population of a Con gressional District. But the lack of political* experience and lead ership on a national scale too easily subordinates the Negro contingent of the Monument# City to the manipulation of both Republican and Democratic po litical bosses. He would be a reckless prophet who would dare predict a Negro Congress man from Maryland during the next hal'f generation. No other city has a sufficient number of JNegroes to bring the issue of a Negro Congressman within the purview of probability. The First Congressional District of Illi nois, from which DePriest hails, does not contain a major ity of Negroes, but the race has the political* unity and sagacity by virtue of which it dominates the Republican machine so im pressively as to sweep the whole Republican strength, black and white. The white Re publican contingent is so weak numerically that it must needs fall* in line with Negro headship or be eliminated altogether. The Ilarlem District presents quite a different situation. The Ne groes are politically divided. The national game must be played across party linens. (If existing tendencies continue, a Demo cratic rival may rise up in Chi cago to threaten DePriest’s su premacy, but he does not seem to be in sight. He must know his Democratic oats as well as De Priest knows his Republican on one. The hopes of the Harlem Ne - gro are greatly enhanced in the fact that LaGuardia is perhaps the most conspicuous and out - spoken friend the race now has in public life. With the 'great power and prestige of his great office, he will undoubtedly favor the political) fortune of the Negro aspirant, in contrast with the insincere and sickening attitude of the old line Republican lead politicians, if they are wise, , will) keep an eye on LaGuardia. The ,Negfco had, as wejll watch out also. THIRTY STATES COMPLETE ORGANIZATION OF EAC The Emergency Advisory Council, known throughout the country by the initials EAC, which has been organized un - der the direction of T. Arnold Hill, Director of the Department of Industrial Relations of the National Urban League, is now functioning ‘in thirty States with the organization of the ether States of the Union pro ceeding rapidly. In St. Louis, Mo., the EAC succeeded in securing the ap pointment of Mr. Arnett G. Lindsay, insurance executive and broker, to the Mediation Board, and Mr Robert N. Ow ens, Counsellor at law, has been appointed to the Compliance Board. In addition to these two men, nine Negroes have been appointed t0 the regular NRA Committee of the City of St. Louis. The Mediation and Com pliance Boards of St. Louis have jurisdiction over an area cover ing about 1,300,000 peoplje. In Maryland, Negroes are serving cn administrative Boards in only three counties and the EAC is making an effort to secure fur ther representation of Negroes to the Mediation and Compliance Boards of the N. R. A. T. Arnold Hill recently ap pealed to Miss Frances Per kins, Secretary of Labor, for consideration of Negroes in the organization of the new bureau under the Department of La bor, which burea,u is to be known as the Division of Service and Labor Standards. Mr. Hill in his letter to Miss Perkins, $ai “I have seen from recent press notices that a new bureau is to be established in the De partment of Labor, to be kno”rn as the Division of Labor Service and Standards. “I can think of no group that will need such a service any more than Negroes, who, because (Continued on page 4) NATIONAL MISSIONS AND THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY (From The Presbyterian) , I It was an English essayist who dreamed of a day when some traveler from Patagonia might sit on the ruins of London Bridge and gaze upon the desolation of the city, which was, to the writ jer’s mind, the sum total of the greatest that man had yet achieved upon earth. North Af rica, which was once the center of the 'moist fvitaj Christianity in the world and the home of Augustine, one of the Church’s greatest statesmen, is now the field for laborious and hardly won small victories for the Faith. It is reported that there is a mis rionary society in Japan which sends a missionary to America to work among the people here. Our Board of National Mis sions is the agent of the Presby terian Church, U. S. A., for meet ing the problem of our own country as a field for Christian witnessing. Scattered all over the land in every State but New Hampshire there are churches, hot one third of them are not entirely self supporting. The great Metropolitan Presbytery of Newarkj, fty exajmple, with congregational expenses of its forty-nine churches listed at ?631,000, needs more than it gives to National* Missions. It receives 111 per cent of its con tributions to National Missions back again to support its pro gram of national missionary work. This fact is brought out to show that even the great metropolitan areas are not al j ways self suporting in this mat ter. This is a problem which 4oes not akme. caw&KButhe praL ries, or the mountains, or the rural sections, etc., but it con c-erns the whole country. National Missions comes into contact witn six primary racial types in addition to the native born American. There are 12,000,000 Negroes, 4,500,000 Jews, 39,000,000 , foreign bcj^n whites, 2,000,000 Spanish speaking people and a third of a million Indians, upwards of 300,000 Orientals, and about one million and a half Mexicans. These total well towards half our population. The Board of Natonal Missions has work out F ide the continental limits of the United States, in the West In dies and Alaska. It has a field in schools and colleges, and a medical work of large propor - tions. Another phase of the v/ork is represented by Sab - bath school missions, the direct itinerating of missionaries to organize and conduct Bible jschols as seeds for future churches, when enough profes sing Christians are gathered for the task. And we must not for get the lumberjack and the sky •pilot in the timberlands, nor the p articular work among the Mormons. The Southern Moun tains are dear to our hearts, be cause of the fact that there is a | reserve of spiritual strength land intellectual strength hidden I among those hills which, Pres jident Woodrow Wilson sai/, had jbeen kept there by God to meet j some great national emergen ’ey. With communism growing so swiftly there seems fo be j arising the need of which Pres jident Wilson spoke, j Inside the Church, if such a ,term is permissible, the Board i seeks to develop evangelism. jWork among the young, special services for soeciai localities and {special situations^ _ These pro grafris—merge mto the regular work of the Church, as indeed all- the programs do, or ought tc do. When it is remembered that one third of our churches are (receiving aid from this Board, 'and that all these special racia] i groups are living among us as next door neighbor*, when we j reaMze that all the problems, so dal, ecenomic and spiritual, are problems which are ours in the literal sense of the word, #4|discover that the Board of jftlftfonal Missions is nothing but the|rank and fil<e of church mem beh| and ministers dealing with th#;immedate tasks that are at hand. year the Board had a de fietjj of half a million. This year thi budget was cut by a million an* r more. This year, so far, the in£ She has run even behind that fig re. The work of this Board is 1 work of sel*f preservation so far as the Church at large is rned. How many of the thousand and more par sustained congregation# weather the storm if all were taken from them, is a tion. How much faster es of dissolution and revo n will permeate all these ps of people which are so to such influence if the onary work of Christian jle were withdrawn is some thing which we pray we may not have to see, but to abandon ional Missions is almost itamount to “shutting up p” altogether. bably the program of re nchmOjnt which has already n will have to be carried on thin the Board. We hope this 11 take the form of self sacri fiping denial* on the part of those ii the various headquarters ther than a curtailment of the rces in the field. The last re rt (page 13) points out that sweeping revision in the quarters organization or the 1932 Assembly was ity and efficiency as well as for economy. The very end of the report (page 95) bears witness ro me iact mat mis policy ais covered many new factory of saving and service. “It discov ?red that in a tight place the ideas provoked by ingenuity are practicable and stimulating. This whole depression has re vealed a good many useless cogs in our older methods in every field. As a Church we must support this Board of ours to see to it that our testimony shall* not be stilled, our evange h'zing of the masses shall not cease. There is an inequality between churches which ought, in a measure, to be corrected. Some churches spend too much! on themselves. The inevitable} increase of operating costs is t nothing that is unique in church organization. Indeed, it has been i pressed upon the Church; through the good natured urg j ing of business men in the palmy days of our affluence. But it is no longer in order, wheth er in the individual church or in the denominational Board. Sim plicity and directness, a very small central staff, greater re sponsibility left with the Pres bytery, close follow up by Pres byteries of their gifts, possiblv the handling of the Board mon ieg through the treasurer of the Presbytery, might greatly ex pedite the work. Presbyteries are often long in the dark, and never accurately in possession of the facts about the giving of their churchee until long after the fiscal year ends. Reports ^hat drift back from the central agency or the Board’s Treasur tr are necessarily late, and often do not represent the cur rent state of affairs. Whenever these are read in Presbytery, a half dozen voices are raised to correct or dispute the figures. Why not make the Presbyteries the fiscal agent of the Boards, all* of them., for the receipt of their funds? In our judgment there would be closer co opera t'on. a bqtter check up, more regular payments to the Boards and a general openness about jtbis important business which (would reveal losses and gains immediately and to the people who are responsible. Something like this is the policy in the Presbyter^ societies, we under stand, and we note also that for the first five months of this cur »nt year, inNboth National and Foreign receipts, the ladies were ahead of 1982 for half the months. CHERRY STREET CHURCH, HIGH POINT, N. C. Mrs. J. H. Clement, Reporter We have not .told you, dear readers, but 0 how we have dis cussed them! They came—yes, they came! There were ten car loads, and weren’t we proud to have them ? I say we were! Who were they? The Lloyd Presbyte rinn church’s pastor, his choir and a part of their congregation came to us the evening of Sept. 10, when we were observing Young People’s Day. Dr. J. C. Alston is a deep thinking min ister. He i8 sincere and makes his sermons so plain* that one - an get something to feast on over afterwards. He chose as his text Thessalonians 5:1 11, theme, “The Return of Christ.’’ “What if Christ should come tomorrow—in what condition would He find you?” said the I speaker. Life is sweet. Life is dear. Faith is supreme. We be come united to Christ through ; faith. To k>ve Is to love all. |Where will Jesus find you? Will ;He find you loving your enemy !ss to prayer? Will He find you I watching? 'The sermon was en joyed. U was one that put us to .thinking. What will we be doing when Jesus comes ? There were 15 members in * heir choir who sang the sweet °ngs of Zion, and the echoes oi ire still ringing if our ears. I Dr. Alston asked Mr. Feam ster and Mr. Frank Brown - to assist him in lifting the offer ing. They were from his church Dr. Alston started the offering i/itn two dollars, giving the helpers one each. Then Dr. A1 d;on made his offering one dol br more That meant three dol lars for the Doctor. The mem followed £<nd when they had finished the gifts had grown to a collection of $21.15 for our young people. Thanks to the oastor, choir and loyal members of Lloyd church. We are always glad to have you and will come to you when you call. Our minister, Rev. C. H. White, has not been installed at our church, but he is doing real pastoral work; therefore, we call him our pastor. September 24th he preached a splendid ser imon. His text as talkten from/ the 6th chapter of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians: “Therefore, come out from among them. Be ye separate, saith the Lord.” We as Chris tians, said the speaker, should not mingle with the sinners. Every Christian should join some church. To be a member of the church is the highest honor the world can afford. A real Christian who refuses to join the church dishonors Jesus Christ. We have had Promotion Day since you heard from us and als0 Rally Day. On Promotion Day a good sermon was delivered by our pastor. He spoke to us about wandering away from God. Several children were pro moted. Rally Day program was very interesting. Little Miss Wava Robinson, age 6, entertained [the audience with a Bible sto rv, and Little Pauline Turtilefr j age 6, played a piano selection The Junior church service was as usual, conducted by Mrs. S L. Fox who is a splendid work er among children. There wen 36 children present during thu service. The pastor spoko to th< Juniors on the duties of th< church. Rev. J. P. Johnson came to u! filled with the Holy Spirit t< conduct a series of meetings. We were aware of his coming^ so we kindled the fire within our own hearts and kept it burning and had the hearts of men warm when he came. His first sermon Ungers with us yet. “Every man round about the camp in his place’ll was the theme. Circle No. 2 of the Missionary Society gave a successful Hal1 lowe’en party at the home of (the leader, Mrs: C. W. Robin son. Mr. agd Mrs. C. R. Robinson are improving nicely. Mrs. Marie Carpenter direct jed the Junior church sevices during the absence of Mrs. S. L. Fox, who, with Mr C. W. R6b inson and Rev. C. H. White, at {tended the Synod at Charlotte, i Miss Zola Black taught at the Leonard Street .school several idays during the absence of Mrs. i W. D. Ingram. Mr. and Mrs. jngram spent several days h. Chicago, 111., at the World’s Fair. Sunday, November 5th, Rev. C. A. Washington, a former pas tor of our church, filled the pul pit at aH the services—11, 3 and 7:30 o’clock. The congregation and members seemed glad to see and hear him. He received a very hearty welcome and de livered three very able sermons. Mrs. Washington accompanied him1, and carried the same sweet smile as always. The Junior church attendance was very good. Mrs. Clement spoke to them on the subject of attention and letting their lights shine. She told them they are being trained for the future church. Rev. C. H. White and Mr. C. W. Robinson were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. /Andrew Stevenson Sunday jtffternoon for dinner in honor of their pasttfr ^ and Mrs. C. A. Washington. Monday evening at seven jo’clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thural Ingram a delightful dinner was served. Mrs. Ingram always makes things inviting. This dinner also was given in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Wash ington. Mrs. S, L. Fox and Mrs. J. H Clement were the city guests. On the fifth Sunday evening the Qu.jrterfy program of the Missionary Society was ren dered. The program was well at tended. Mrs. C. B. Harris, act. ing chairman of the program committee, is being commended for her attitude in working to make it a success. Mrs. Fox and Mrs. L. Tidline sang £ lovely duet. Mrs. Annie B. Turner gave a reading entitled, “The Negro Mother.” Miss Zola Black sang a solo. The Singing Four Quar totte of the! city sang several selections which were enjoyed. Mrs. Fred C. White was the principal speaker. She spoke from the subject, “True Love and Friendship.” Her subject was very fitting for the occasion. Mrs. White has made a gate way t0 the entrance of the soci ety. Many are anxious to hear her again. The ladies wish to thank her fcjr her service. The sum cf |10.20 was realized. Circle No 1 brought in $8.10; No. 2, $2.10. GREEN STREET PRESBYTE RIAN CHURCH, MORGAN TON, N C. The Tuxifl Girls and the Boys’ Pioneer Clubs opened their an jniyersary program at Green St. j church Monday night, Novem j her 6. On Monday night Miss Arnett Tucker and Mr. J. A. Bristol" were in charge of the ’ program. 5 Tuesday night Miss Lessie Chambers and Mr. H. L. Bristol; ’ Wednesday night. Miss Georgia ; Berry and Mr. W. A. Tucker; j Thursday n|ght. Miss Effie Mae 3 Smith and Mr, J. C. Johnson; \ Friday night, Miss Lelia Wilker ' son and Mr Paul Clark. , Sunday, November 12th, our > (Continued on page 4)
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