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In Memorlam
PAUL DICKSON
1889 1935
MRS. PAUL DIC KSON Editor
Entered as second-class mail mattei
it the Post Office at Raeford, N. C,
under act of Ma'ch 3, 1870.
Till RSDAY, FEB. 4th. 1943
A Negro To
His Fellows
By El DEN R. LIXDSEY
(The following is an article clip
Ptl from The Christian Science
V'"iiU'r which strikes us as one of
(be fa 'rest things in regard to the
present Negro situation we have
seen. It is worthy of th consider
ation of Every white and colored
Sn herper and t'nitrd States citi
tet. I'ditnr).
'iert tlie present d.s us.-ion cf
t" Arviran Nct:o sitnat'on. it is
r- -;f-i iics-i! le tti.it Warren H.
3--wn, Ph. D.. cx-collego professor
?r ' hie h-r ""king Ne-go. has done
ro- is '"acc so'rrthing that no white
nan ha : b?en able to do, namely, ex
; tSo fijT ( v 1 1 being done toward race
hs'wut," by the 'n-atioiialisni of.
t'p Yeg-o press; and calling for re
f'.TTS, with a rra-omible chance that
s c" M will lie heeded. I'l his ar
t.cl? ' A Negro Warns the Negro
prrs ; oiitvring recently in the
Sat,,"ay F.pvi-w oi Literature. Pro.
fess-r Biown lays much of the em
tittviort of r. s rare squarely at
'.he cf 'or of the Negro pi-ess.
It is in 'lortai't that such an article
by a esj onsible Negro, has appear
ed, ft fits into a pattern that poten
tially bod-.?s much good to interracial
accoM, ce ring, as it does, close on
the heels pf the first charter ever
drawn tip by a representative group
r.f So' thern Neernes, designed to
promote interracial co-operation in
the K nth where 77 per cent of all
A'-teri'V'i Negroes live. About the
r!v cri' ipjsm expressed in the Sou
riTi n-pes concerning the charter
jt-s be t summed up by Ralph Mc
G'H. evecutive editor of the Atlan
ta Constitution, in his widely-read
v Itimn, "One Word More," when he
aid: ''T would have liked for the
proposal to have indicated, or affirm
ed, a definite disagreement with
certain Xegro leaders and elements
cf the Xegro press in the East, but
:o have done so would have sub
jected the proposal to a violent at
tack froi'i the powers-that-be in Ne-r-o
polit'cs and economic. "
Professor Brown does what the
framers cf the charter probably
a:
HARD TO
-EASY TO RENEW
It is patriotic to improve- the livability and comfort of
a run-down home! Yon serve the war effort by keep- C
ing up your home.
McLAUCHLIN
RAEFORD,
Remember
I could do without having the Negro
! nrpss cnntrnlleH :ic it ic ulim-wl ov
ciusively by Northern Negro money,
whether published in the North or
South pull down the house on his
heads. All too frequently the Negro
press has busied itself with playing
up the bizarre, the sensational, the
criminal, the race-hated stirring ele
ments of the news.
In oalling for a new deal in Negro
journalism, Professor Brown points
out:
Most Negro newspapers are
what they condemn the most prej
udiced whites for being. They are
Negro first and American second.
They foster segregation by aiming
to make all Negroes race-con-conscious
beloie they are Ameri
can conscious. They prosper by
sensationally playing up the Ne
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gro at his worst. When they pub
lish news of the white community,
it is generally an account of the
white man at his worst.
After amply substantiating these
charges with facts. Professor Brown
offers what might well prove to be
the remedy.
"Is the larger centers of popula
tion," he says, "Negroes of high in
telligence and skill are available to
establish and publish newspapers
that will be worthier representa
tives of the real mind and character
of the American Negro. There is no
greater opportuniyt before the Ne
gr ocommunity than to undertake to
esatblish such a press. Meanwhile
every Negro with any pride of race
has a moral obligation, by protest
and pressure, to demand less hate
and sensationalism, more fairness
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and honesty in his press."
There are many fine things now
being done by Negroes that deserve
reporting, and more and more of
them are beginning to appear in the
daily press dispatches. Among them
have been the stories of the Negro
band playing to keep up morale
while the transport President Cool
idge was being abandoned, not an
easy thing to do; Dorie Miller, Negro
Navy mess-boy at Pearl Harbor, ex
hibiting bravery that won him the
Navy cross; Negro troops winning
the praise ot officers in the African
campaign, to name a few. Not the
least of these were proposals made
for' local betterment by a group of
Negro citizens to the Chamber of
Commerce in Valdosta, Ga., as re
ported in the Valdosta Times, Nov.
What better
The Things He'd
Want To Know
(This little story applies to every
mother who has a son in the ser
vice: Ed.)
"The minute we heard that Bill
was a prisoner, most of us in
our
small town hurried to his mother, j 'he days of their childhood, I would
That's the way it is in a small town. ee to their building strong the
Bill's mother was out in the barn, ! structure of memories. I want them
helping a cow to "birth" a wobbly ! to remember that in our little house
legged calf. No, she didn't want any-; we tried to be kind to one another,
thing, she said. They told her she j that we knew the dignity of hard
could get a letter through to Bill : work, and the silver sound of laugh
soon. Yes, he'd stand it all right, ter asd the Tightness of respecting
she thought. Her boys stood things one another's privacy, and the im-
without much to-do about it, she no -
ticed. Got it frcm their father most
ly. she thought..
But I watched that woman's face,
and I knew better. It was not all
from his father. Much of Bill's
courage came from that gaunt wom
an standing there tending to the sim
ple, everyday, age-old problem of
birth. No tears in her eyes, but on
her face the terrible, strained and j to light his way in the present dark
curiously peaceful look of the brave; ness. So may my own children, if
who have struggled with sorrow and
are not afraid of it anymore.
She'd write Bill, she said. She
wanted to tell him that his cow had
calved, and that the boys had clear
ed the new ground and put cane in
the bottom land. Those were the
things he'd want to know, the little
things that had been woven into the
fabric of his life. She knew, with
an ancient wisdom, that these were
the things that would help Bill; the
knowing that the way of life he
fought for was safe, and going on,
like a river rusning forever to the
old, old sea, in spite of storm and
earthquake.
And suddenly J knew how right
she was. That letter she would
write, with fingers gnarled and
cramped with the churning and the
milking and the picking of butter
beans in the garden, would be a re
newing of Bill's covenant with life, a
re-affirmation of all that his child
hood had meant, for out of that
chidhcod with its simple things, its
facing up to realities, the dignity of
its work, and the shining beauty
its dreams, had come the courage
face what he was facing now. I speaking for him.
He would be remembering the J It is encouraging to note the in
pink mist of peach blossoms in the i terest shown in organizing a Farm
spring, and the new creak of his Bureau in Hoke County. Names of
dad's Sunday shoes going to the lit-pnid subscribers will be found in
ue wnue cnurcn on si.na.tj, me
ture spring, and the way the wagon
wheels cut into the white sand when
the horses turned into the gate, his
sister's playing on the old organ, the
night sound of crickets and cows
lowing to be milked, and his father
25, and widely republished through
out the South. The report points
out ways they see to increase the
output of Negro labor; to reduce il
literacy and disease among their
race, and to improve housing con
ditions. Such proposals made in true hu
mility and deep sincerity, are some
thing to seize upon for interracial
co-operation. They should be even
more widely published, discussed,
and acted upon by the majority
race. At the same time, if the Negro
press concerned itself more with
constructive stories such as these
ana ir.ere must oe many more oi
them if the trouble is only ta to
dig them up a great step willVr-l
been taken towards promoting Beir.
ter understanding between the races.
t 77 71 T.'
time than NOW to attack old paint jobs? New coats of paint
mean "Duration protection!"
And Hew About That Apartment You Have.
Been Promising to Repaint
THURSDAY, FEB. 4th, 1943
saying grace for food. He would be
remembering the whole way of life
back home, and its preoiousness.
And holding on to those memories
would give him courage in the dark,
ness, and a bright flaming anger at
those who would destroy his way of
life.
I came home to my own children.
And I highly resolved that now, in
' portance of belonging to one anoth-
er and living the days as well as we
could. For I know now that the
gentle, patient courage, and the
fierce loyalty to their way of life of
all the Bills we know is born of a
lot of memories of leisurely years
and simple ways of living.
From the shine of quiet yester
days Bill carries a gleaming memory
ever the need come."
BERNICE BROWN MeCUlXOUGH,
In Christian Science Monitor.
DIVIDED THEY FALL
Surrounded by big government,
big business and bigjlabor organiza.
tions, the farmer who tries to strug
gle along by himself today is rather
helpless. He finds agencies on every
side telling him what to do, what not
to do, when he can do it, and when
he can't do it.
Planting a crop, milking a cow,
raising a hog or selling a steer have
all become acts which virtually re
quire a lawyer's advice.
So today more than ever, a farmer
needs the help of cooperative mark,
eting organizations. He needs the
advice of experts. Adting individ
ually, he is sunk. Acting collective
ly, he can compete with the power
and the influence arrayed against
him. ,
It is up to the farmer to solve his
ofrown problems by intelligent action
to through his own farm organization
tms issue of The News.JouriuiL J. M.
McGougan and A. S. Knowles want
it understood that the campaign for
new members is now on. A.B.D.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Hoke County's latest ginning re.
port, issued as of January 16, shows
prior to that date 13,500 bales of the t
1942 crop were ginned, as compared
with 11,203 bales at the same date a
year ago. J. R. Shaw, Census Bu
reau agent for tiie county, states that
the next and final report will be
made as of March 1st.
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