VOL. LV.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1934.
' NO. 43.
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CATAWBA SYNODICAL SOCIETY
By Mrs. Ha'Jie Q. Mayberry
The annual meeting of the
Woman’s Synodical Society for
National and Foreign Missions
in the Synod of Catawba was
held on October 11, 1934, in the
John Hall church, Carthage,
N. C. The meeting was pro
nounced a success from the
standpoint of attendance and
the work accomplished.
Mrs. R. E. McNair, the Pres
ident, in cooperation with the
Executive Committee, succeed
ed in carrying out an excellent
program of work. Each session
was full, instructive and in-1
spiring from start to finijsh.
The general theme cjf the
meeting was, “Having j gone
deeper, let us go forward:
Looking unto Jesus.”
The service of worship was
conducted by Mrs. W. A. Haw
kins. This period was marked
by a spirit of prayer, consecra
tion and rededication.
Greetings
Greetings from the local so
ciety were given by Mrs. Hazel
Phillips. The generosity ex
pressed in this address will
ever linger with us. The spirit
of warm welcome was evident
everywhere.
Mrs. E. G. Miller responded
to this \rfery gracious address
of welcome with fitting words
of appreciation.
Registration
Registration cards were
passed and 38 delegates were
registered and introduced to
the Synodical. All of the four
Presbyterials were represented.
laReports
This year, as in previous
yaers, the Secretaries had their
f reports id poster lom- with,
charts on the walls, which were
valuable assets in helping the
women to see more clearly the
importance of these phases of
work in each local society. The
two large charts giving statis
tics and money, and the third,
giving all the apportionments
for the four Presbyterials, at
tracted attention and the wo
men said they did a valuable
service.
The reports from all the Sec
retaries were received and the
recommendations were adopted
with words of praise and com
mendation. After each report
was made a few minutes were
given for general discussion.
The reports were interesting
and showed much hard work on
the part of1 the secretaries dur
ing the year.
•• At the close of the morning
session memorial services were
conducted in memory of Mrs
J. P. Johnson and Mrs. J. A.
Bonner. After prayer by Mrs.
R. L. Hyde, Mrs. L. M. Onque,
who was very intimately asso
ciated with Mns. Johnson,
spoke of her beautiful charac
ter, and of her conscientious
work in her home and church.
Mrs. G. C. Shaw gave a beau
tiful picture of the simple, ear
nest, devoted Christian life lived
by Mrs. .Bonner.
We closed with prayer by
Mrs. R. E. McNair.
Thursday Afternoon
At 2:30 o’clock the afternoon
session opened by singing:
“Just As I Am, Without One
Plea.” The Service of Worship
was conducted by Mrs. Mary
Wood. Theme, “Lifting Up
Christ.” Mrs. Wood emphasized
the fact that as Christian wo
men we should lift up Christ in
our hojnes, in our local soci
ties, and in our churches and
communities. Many people
should be brought to Christ by
JUS.
Mrs. S. J. H. Dillard made a
fine contribution to our after
noon program in her address on
the subject, “Our Spiritual Ob
jectives.” She said we should
dedicate ourselves to a truer de
votion to Christ, and our lives
and words should witness to
the love of Jesus Christ. We
should show a greater loyalty
to the church by a greater at
tendance on church services.
Mrs. H. W. McNair, of Ingle
side-Fee Memorial Institute,
Burkeville, Va., brought to us
a very practical and instructive
address from the subject,
“Some Plans for Enlarging Our
Missionary Society.” Take God
into your planning, said Mrs.
McNair. Encourage the young
people to be missionary-mind
ed. Have programs that are
worth while in your meetings.
Use playlets, dramatizations,
etc. Keep everybody busy. En
courage the women who have
dropped out to attend the
meetings.
Mrs. G. C. Shaw gave some
helpful plans for reaching our
financial goal. In this excellent
address she stressed the need
of training our local societies
to send their apportionment in
quarterly. Inform the people
what the money is for and
where it is going to be used.
Appeal to the young people
and train them to give system
matically.
We next entered into a Round
Table Discussion on “Making
Use of Our Opportunities.” This
discussion was introduced in a
fine way by Mrs! H. L. McCro
rey and was ve?y instructive
and helpful to_all present. Mrs.
McCrorey said: “In making use
of our opportunities our minds
should not only go out to ma
terial things, but we should be
gin to evaluate the real opportu
nity to do missionary work. We
ehwld oppoi-tuhity to
bring the greatest dignity to
our cause.”
Presentation of the year’s
work and recommendations
ffom the executive committee
were made by Mrs. R. E. Mc
Nair. The discussions that fol
lowed showed that the women
were alive to the big issues fac
ing our Women's Division.
The financial report of the
Synodical, made by the Treas
urer, Mrs. P. W. Russell,
showed that expenses are being
cut down so that we can “Go
Deeper” in our gifts for the
mission fields. This session
closed with prayer by Mrs.
G. C. Shaw.
Thursday Evening
The evening session is always
designated as the popular meet
ing of the Woman’s Synodical.
A very large audience was pres
net—a capacity house.
'lhie Worship Service was
conducted by Mrs. L. B. West.
The Scripture reference was
James 2:17-18. Mrs. West ieft
this outstanding thought with
us: that faith is the big thing
in all the relations of life.
Faith inspires us. Faith is the
assurance of strength.
A very illuminating mis
sionary address was given by
Mrs. H. L. McCrorey from the
subject, “The Obligation of the
Individual Missionary Society
to the Benevolence of the
Church.”
Mrs. S. F. Seawell brought
greetings of good will and fel
lowship from the women of
Carthage.
Mrs. 0. E. Sanders expressed
the Synodical’s appreciation of
this message.
Mrs. H. W. McNair, in her
very delightful way, brought
greetings to the Synodical
from Ingleside-Fee Memorial
Institute. She told of the work
and growth of the school and
of the goals they desired to
reach this year.
Message from Dr. Gaston
Dr. Gaston gave a vivid pic
ture of the work some women
are doing in our own schools.
“If you don’t do anything else
but carry the belst things to*
the lives and hearts of these
boys and girls/' said Dr. Gas
ton, “you have done a great
thing for the kingdom."
Mx(s. <E. L. Hiijes spoke of
the work among our young
people. This address was very
instructive and presented a
special challenge to our young
people.
Kev. xi. r. JMLcraaaen, me
Moderator, gave a few words
of commendation and praise to
the work of the women in the
Church. .
The music for the evening
was superb. Aside from the'
renditions by the choir, a solo,
“Thy Guidance, Lord, I Ask,”
was very sweetly sung by Miss
Mary George Goins.
Officers for 1934-1933
President—Mrs. R. E. Mc
Nair, 429 East Washington SW
Greensboro, N. C.
1st Vice - President — Mrs.
G. C. Shaw, Mary Potter Me
morial School, Oxford, N. C. ~
find Vice-Prescient — Mrs.
R. L. Hyde, Amelia, Va.
3rd Vcie-President—Mrs. H.
Wilson, 17 South Georgia Ave.,
Concord, N. C.
4th Vice - President — Mrs*
S. C. Baskerville, 236 Atlantic
Avenue, Rocky Mount, N. C.
Corresponding Secretary —
Mrs. H. L. McCrorey, Johnson
C. Smith University, Charlotte,
N. C.
Recording Secretary— Mrs.
Hallie Q. Mayberry, Route IQ,
Box 104, Charlotte, N. C.
Treasurer—Mrs. P. W. Rus
sell, Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity, Charlotte, N. C.
Secretary of Stewardship —
Mrs. M. L. Kendrick, Ingleside
Fee Memorial Institute, Burke
ville, Va.
Secretary of Literature 4
Mra. M. 0. McFadden, Louii
hurg,-N. C. •* * ***
Secretary of Westminster
Guild—Mrs. S. J. H. Dillard,
Box 231, Martinsville, Va.
Secretary of Missionary Ed
ucation—Mrs. L. M. Clique,
Box 165, Moeksville, N. C.
Secretary of National and
Over Sea Sewing—Mrs. W. A.
Hawkins, Cleveland, N. C.
Secretary of Young People’s
Work—Mrs. E. L. Hines, 615
Green Street, Wilson, N. C,
Secretary of Children’s Work
—Mrs. J. M. Morton, 1115 W.
Bank Street, Salisbury, N. C.
SAYS CIVILIZATION
FOUNDED ON SLAVERY
Greensboro, N. C., Nov.—
(ANP) — Civilization was
founded on slavery, William
Stanley Braithwaite, author
and literary critic, told an au
dience here at A. and T. College
last week. He added:
“The people who are descend
ants of slaves should not be
ashamed, for all the races of
mankind have at some time
been in slavery.
“Our people have been per
secuted by a feeling of inferior
ity created by the opposite
group. We must exile this com
plex by building a literature
that will change it.”
TRIBUNE CELEBRATES
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. —
The Tribune, of this city cel
ebrated its fiftieth, or Golden
anniversary as a newspaper
with its issue of November 1.
It was founded in 1884 by the
late Christopher (“Chris”) J.
Perry. Ownershp has remained
within the family ever since.
The present Editor, E. Wash
ington Rhodes, is the husband
of Bertha Perry, daughter of
the founder.
The Tribune is one of the old
est newspapers now published
by Negroes in the United
States. It has always main
tained a conservative general
policy, supported by a deter
mined attitude on racial mat
ters.
WIN OR LOSE
By Dr. Kelly Mailer
By the time this release sees
the light of print, the election
will be over. Roosevelt and the
New Deal wiH have won, either
by an impressive majority
which will strengthen determi
nation to press forward with
new vigor, or by a reduced mar
gin which will give aid and en
couragement to the reactiona
ries. There does not, at this
time, seem to be doubt in any
one’s mind that Roosevelt will
win. The Republican chiefs
neither calculate nor expect to
win. They would indeed be
greatly embarrassed if some
unexpected landslide should
bring victory to their side. But
why speculate in advance? The
patience of a few days will re
veal the outcome. I am an
avowed apostle of the New
Deal, and am billed to make
an address on November the
first at Harrisburg, Pa., to the
colored voters of middle Penn
sylvania. Whatever the out
come of the election it will not
make any change in me. In my
view, it is the patriotic duty of
right thinking Americans to
fall in line behind Franklin D.
Roosevelt and sustain his cour
ageous endeavor to cave the
nation from threatened peril.
Those die-hard partizans who
take delight in bedeviling his
efforts in such a crisis as this
have their own ghoulish re
ward.
Those who voted for Mr.
Hoover in 1932 may well con
gratulate themselves that their
cause was lost. Had Mr. Hoo
ver won, we may easily see
what would have been some of
the unfortunate consequences.
Now I am an ardent ^prohibi
tionist. The fight was squarely
lost. In his speech of accept
ance Mr. Roosevelt declared
that from that day, prohibition
is doomed; and it was doomed.
Had Mr. Hoover been elected
with his vascillating dalliance
between wet and dry, the trou
blesome issue might still be
hanging over the nation until
the majority of indignant vot
ers deluged the nation in a
flood of illegal wetness. Clear
ing away of the prohibition is
sue was the first step in the
New Deal. This is easily un
derstandable whether we like it
or no.
Mr. Roosevelt has recognized
Russia and thus settled a
vexing international issue and
opened up vast possibilities of
international trade. Mr. Hoo
ver had sett his face as flint
against such recognition with
out which we would now be at
a decided disadvantage in the
game on international politics
as well as shut out from the
trade advantage with our most
fertile and promising foreign
market.
Mr. Hoover left office with
thirteen million able bodied
Americans out of employment
with no hope in sight. He stub
bornly refused to give direct
federal aid to the individual
needy. When starving men,
women and children asked for
bread, he would give them a
theory, of government. What
can you imagine would have
been the fate of these unfor
tunate millions had this fatu
ous policy been persisted in?
It is here Jthat the Negro
American is most keenly con
cerned. The brunt of unem
ployment falls upon him. Fully
one-third of the race, especially
in our large cities, are now on
federal relief, which alone
saves them from starvation. It
is perfectly idle to quibble
about the unbalanced budget
?nd the heavy public debt im
posed upon fufufe generations.
Which is the better, to so
starve and pinch the present
generation that its physical
and moral stamina will trans
mit to the future enfeebled
physical and moral strength,
or to anticipate the necessary
atxittion and thus transmit to
the future an inheritance which
will enable it to meet the heavy
indebtedness. It is needless to
try to set forth the general
plight of the nation had Mr.
Hoover instead of Mr. Roose
velt triumphed at the polls two
years ago.
By parity of reasoning, let
us suppose that the opponents
of the New Deal should Win in
next Tuesdays’ election. The
outlook for the nation would be
gloomy indeed. A split govern
ment in times of emefgency is
a calamity in itself. The Repub
lican Party in its disorganized
shape has no hope of Winning.
But should some unexpected
tidal wave sweep the 6. O. P.
into power in the House of Re
presentatives we would have
the majority party without a
policy or program which would
spend itself in harassing the
progressive plans of the ad
ministration. It were bette)
for both parties and far better
for the country to put full pow
er in the hands ol The admin
istration and hold it responsi
ble for results.
Indeed our political affairs
have reached such a pass that
party lines have lost their
meaning. The American people
are divided into two classes,
not parties—those who upltold
the New Deal and those who
oppose it. Those who uphold
the New Deal Yurely fro* par
tizan motives do so unworthily.
On the other hand, those whc
antagonize it for political ad
vantage do so ignominiously.
To play politics while the life
of the nation is in jeopardy is
a dangerous and dastardly
game.
The issues which confront us
rise above parlizan considera
tion. There are Republican'., in
plenty, who support Mr.
Roosevelt’s policy, and where
are many Democrats who op
pose it. But the sober, patriotic
mind of the nation is seeing
more and more clearly that the
choice does not lie between the
policies of Roosevelt and Hoo
ver. The kingdom of the New
Deal is at hand. It will be the
New Deal according to Roose
velt or a more drastic deal ac
cording to we know not what.
The people have spoken. This
release is indited five days be
fore the decision is rendered.
Assuming the lee way of five
days of anticipation, I dare say
the Amercian people will make
the right decision.
WASHINGTON ALUMNI EN
DORSE DR. JOHNSON
Washington, Nov.—(ANP)—
Members of the Howard Uni
versity Alumni Washington
chapter at the branch meeting
last Sunday evening endorsed
the administration of President
Mordecai W. Johnson.
Attention was directed to
the “adverse criticism” which
has been published about the
trustee board of Howard Uni
versity and Dr. Johnson, and
to the claim that “the univer
sity has prospered more educa
tionally and financially during
the administration of Dr. John
son than ever before in its his
tory.”
The group, therefore, agreed
“to express and confirm” its
“faith and confidence in the
trustee board of Howard Uni
verstiy and President'Johnson
for their noble efforts and ac
complishments which have
made Howard University the
leading Negro institution in
the country.”
FEDERAL COUNCIL OFFI
CIAL DENOUNCES FLOR
IDA LYNCHING
New York, Oct.—“The pro
found conviction of the church
es that protection and security
of human life and personality
is a paramount end of our civ
ilization” is the outstanding
thought in a letter to Governor
David Scholtz sent by Samuel
McCrea Cavert, General Secre
tary of the Federal Council of
Churches, following the atro
cious lynching of Claude Neal
at Marianna, Fla., last Satur
day. He further points out that
the position of patriotic Amer
icans who desire to protect our
institutions (of law and order
against radicals is greatly
weakened when thousands of
citizens join in such an act of
lawlessness and violence. He
calls on the governor “in the
name of humanity and religion
for which the churches stand”
to exercise all power and au
thority at his command to re
move or bring to other account
the negligent sheriff of the
county; to carry through to a
successful conclusion investiga
tion, iindictmeiit and prosecu
tion of those guilty of this out
rage upon law and order and
our guaranteed protection of
life and limb; and to seek from
his legislature ^additional ac-t
tion to strengthen the State
authority for dealing promptly
with such danger in the fu
ture.”
Dr. Cavert goes on to say:
“The failure of your sovereign
State and your office to take
proper action to prevent the
crime, when the lynchers had
made previous public announce
ment allowing time for thous
ands of spectators to gather,
arouses great misgivings about
ordered government in your
commonwealth, n-hen such an
atrocious event takes place our
whole American civilization
stands disgraced and con
demned in the eyes of the
world as having fallen to the
level of savagery.”
In a letter to President
Roosevelt, Dr. Cavert reminds
him of his vigorous arraign
ment of the lynching evil when
he addressed the Federal
Council’s twenty-fifth anniver
sary meeting in Washington
last December, speaks of the
growing sentiment among the
churchets as evidenced by ac
tions of their national bodies
to make lynching a national
crime and asks the President
to “place the enactment of a
federal anti-lynching law upon
your program of necessary leg
islation in the coming Con
gress.”
In another letter to Attorney
General Cummings Dr. Cavert
says: “We have noted with
consternation the fact that in
the lynching of Claude Neal at
Marianna, Fla., on October 27,
1934, the citizens of [Florid*!
invaded the sovereign soil of
Alabama and by threats and
intimidations snatched from
the hands of constituted offi
cers of the law of that State a
prisoner under theit authority;
conducted that prisoiier across
the State line and killed him by
lawless and violent means. The
case is even more atrocious be
cause they had advertised
their purpose and plan before
hand and a great throng gath
ered to witness the spectacle.
“In view of the interstate as
pects of the case we urgently
request that you investigate
the liability of these citizens
under the terms of the federal
kidnapping law and take such
action as is within your power
as Attorney General of the
United States.”
I have pever advocated war,
except as a means of peace_
General U. S. Grant.
Be not simply good; be good
for something.—Henry David
Thoreau.