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ERNE fee ENO OS 6 ek ee cet ees Editor and Publisher
' BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS.................. Associate Editor
WILLIAM ENNIS, Jr.............--.. Director of Photography
~IGHARD FUGRD.. nee ces cee cees Manager of Circulation
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MRS. J. H. TURNER Asst.

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A Crucial Period

ACCORDING TO THE heads of our government, the nation is facing the most crucial period in its history; a time which
has not been experiericed since Civil War days. This serious stage

~is brought about not by the domestic affairs of this nation,~ but the
affairs of nations ~across the seas.~

It would seem that with this vast expanse of land, this untold
wealth ~ this mass of resources of every kind, and his more than
one hundred and twenty millions of people, America could |close
her eyes to the rest of the Universe, and be content to continue
her peaceful pursuit of life without taking any part in strife foreign
to our own continent, but sad but true~this is not the case.

America finds herself almost engulfed by spies, saboteurs, and
fifth columnists, whose sole purpose is to underinine the structure
of American Government and implant some ~ism~ in is place.
These unholy groups have been given the right to free assembly,/
and have been nourished by this. American Dmocracy, and protected by the CONSTITUTION.

America did not dream that these to whom she gave NOURISHMENT and PROTECTION, could possibly harbor ideas contrarv to her own. Yet this has been the case. The Communists.
the Nazis, the Facists have all been given protection~freedom of
speech, the press, and assembly and needless to say~they had no
great difficulty in snreading their propaganda until America jwas
slightly awakened and began to realize her grave and, w hat jcould
easily be, fatal mistake.

With the passage af ithe unprecedented piece of legislation~
the lend-lease bill~by the nation~s congress, America has opened
up a lane which might lead to some of the greatest upheavals and
disorders in her long and glorified history. Those who would destroy iwill not hesitate to do anything which might retard American.
aid to the democracies. It is their solemn duty to destroy all
within so it may riot be sent without. Knowing these facts, America must keep eternal vigilance. All her defenses, munitionis factories, armories, posts, etc., must be kept under the ever watchful
eyes of TRUE AMERICANS.

At this stage of American history there must be no hedf-Ww ay
measures used. Those knervn to be detrimental and dangerpus to
the American cause should be eliminated without any further ado.
This period calls for no soft pedaling, but serious and quick action.
The fate of a nation rests on America~s mroving her ability to rid
herself of ~THOSE WHO WOULD DESTROY.~

Today, a LAME, WEAK, HUNGRY insignifi~ant nation of
(part of a nation( is France. Her present slump in position as a
dictator~s pawn, can easily be traced to her past ~stupidity, She
Was content to laugh, to dance, to play her wav into an abyss of decay.. She cainfully and tearfully regrets her folly, but ~that which

We Carry Ours lo
Law, The Law
Comes For Them

ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~

IT DISGUSTS me to hear colored people on every corner talking about the colored pastors and
the management of their churches.
The church is the colored man~s
salvation
Christian way, get into it and help
put it in order. Regardless of
what you say about the ~ colored
church, it reflects on you as well
as the colored church.

Vil say of all churches,
whetier white or black, some of
them have trouble, but with
the colored man anytime a
church has trouble or dissatisfacticn, the colored man lumps
all of his churches in the same
category. The colored man
says: ~For us to stay out of the
courts,~ but he forgets the
courts or its police officers go
and carry white church officials
to jail instead of them sometimes going to court.

Just a few years ago a glaring
headline came out on a white
church official who embezzled
thousands from the Baptist
crganization. The ink has lately
dried on a ~good~ white church
official who was a Sunday School
teadher and connected with ~a
bank near Atlanta, and the
thing. he left wes the bank nearly
minus all.the money in his reckless
life; yet the colored people claim
the colored ~church is the only
church that has trouble.

might have been cannot stay the pwheels of time~, and the fate of:

France hz; been sealed. She cannot regain her lost glory. |

From _the fate of this nation America should ~take increased~
watchfulness lest she fall into a like channel.

Through this publication it has been stated again and again
that the colored American stood as always true to his. colors~the
Red, White and Blue. He is no slacker. He is no fifth coumnist.
He is rc{1y to giye the FULLEST measure of devotion to the
cause of the nation. He stands.ready to serve wherever and whenever duty calls~the field, the factory, the army, navy, air, the
~ffice. The colored American is ready to do his share, especially,
when the fate of the nation is at stake. This is trulv a crucial
feria, and one nyhich must be faced at ev erv point with action.

If A Man Die...
By DR. CHARLES STELZEL

IF A MAN DIE shall he live again? No... because he shall
never die: There~s something in man that liv es forever.

You are the same man that you were twenty years ago, but
your body has been replaced several times during this period.
your brain is rebuilt twice each year.

But Memory remained with you clear through this transformation.

Nothing is ever destroyed. Coal burns, but the ashes and
smoke and gases precisely equal the original bulk.... they have
simply taken on another form.

Arguing from the indestructibility of matter, can you believe that memory and heart treasure and soul culture perish?

~When a tree has borne leaves and fruit, its work is done. But
not even the wisest man who ever lived had finished his work when, he was just beginning to understand.

Can this be all of life for him? Is there nothing. left but a
hole in the ground?~ Does this seem in harmony with God~s method,
which in everything else brings us on from glory to glory??

Many. of man~s faculties are like unwrapped tools in a chest. unexamined, unnamed.... waiting for use in a future world.

We.know that pertection cannot be realized in the present
world..... there must be something 2head... the immortality nyhich
will permit us to see the fulfillment of our dreams.:

-And this new world would be incomplete mithout those who

Why Democracies Crumble

GOVERNMENT. UNDER STRICT democracy, doesn~t
conipete with ts citizens in business and doesn~t receive an income,
except through taxation. But democracv is flexible and its existence depends upon the will of the people.. If the people wish to
weaken democracy by permitting government to banish freedom of
enterprise, they are entitled to do so.

- | The fact that democracy is so flexible enables any person in
the land to advocate policies which, when adopted, curb the rights
of citizens: thus cating the democratic way to become more and
Strange as it may seem, the very people whose lib
i~i~s. ~ Because no man can definitely say just how far ~democracy~
can~ he submerged by government before it is in the clutches of
socialism, the pennle accent restrictive measures, figuring that ~tt
is-safe to do so-as long as democracy remains in form. even though
in realty dgesn~t exist as it was originally intended. |

~When a nendle forget. how democracy was born. land ignore
the princioles that keep it alive, it is hard to see what will stop the
growth of a bureaucratic svstem which will destroy it. Democracy

is non-existent when socialism vets the unper hand. and the individual~s vote hecomes more of a formality than a formidable weapon
0, reckon with.

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~From The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Observer |

Now In Brown
Bottles

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only |

This week, attention is being.
-jeentered by one cf Our college
erganizations~ upon the history:;and marvelous development

BETWEEN THE LINES

Attention, Again

Georgia Teachers

By WALTER R,. CHIVERS

AT NO TIME in recent years has
the state association of Negro
teachers in Georgia been representative of a cross section of Negro education in the state. Neither
has there been any real effort to
encourage a significant statewide
representation. These are but two
of the weak spots that have contributed to the
increasing ineffectiveness and
disintegration of
the organization.

For instance,
the college section has been
very weak and
received no encouragement. As
a matter vv fagt
the:department
meetings have

CHIVERS
constituted for the most part a
waste of time for the few who at
tended them. The ~not wanted~
~sign has in effect been flaunted in
| the faces of private college teachers
as though they were not integral
parts of the teaching prcfession.:
Every effort has been expanded
to place them in disfavor with the
public schoo] teachers.

This has gone to the extent of
guiding the annual convention

WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:.

swriy tii thik eapital~ cle Going
the years when officers are to be
elected. As a'result what makeshift organization there has been
for the past several years was
largely a sectional group from below Macon, Ga. What this column
is pleading for is a statewide organization,

NEED OBGANIZATION

itiated at the April, 1941. meeting.
This organization should be on a
real statewide basis. It should, also, include the private colleges
and high schools. Right now is the
time for 2 committee of unafraid
teachers) and administrators to
get together for the purpose of
circularizing the state to this effect This will bring hundreds and

- hundreds of discouraged teachers

to the annual meeting.
What are the Negro teachers in

~| Georgia afraid of anyway? Why is

it that North Carolina, South
Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and
Florida can have dynamic e~ggressive, well organized and functioning crganizations of - their teachers and Georgia can not? Does it
inmean tivat the vrank and file of
Georgia teachers are not as interested in their personal welfare
cnd the welfare of their profession
as these teachers in other far
~southern states? Are the rank and
~tile cf Georgia teachers afraid of
something?

In North Carolina the private
college and. public school teachers

A.complete reorganization of the |
teachers association shOuld be in--

sch0ol teachers mean to continue
teaching in inadequate schgol
buildings, working for~ starvation
Wages because misleadership -continues to tell them that the time
is not ripe for them to contend for
their legal rights? The life of. this
democracy depends upon the freedem and right of every citizen to
appeal to the courts for sanction
of what he or she believes to be |
cue him. Leaders who attempt
to thwart this inalienable right are
at heart and! in action dictators.

There is the possibility of a program cOnsisting, mainly, of fundamental and attainable needs of Negro teachers and students capable
of keeping a state agent for the asscciation just) too busy. There are
nearly a dogen Negro leaders in
Georgia in the field of education:
qualified by birth, training, exper-'
ience and achievement to guide. the
Cestinies of the state teachers association. Program leaders will be
discussed subsequently.

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FROM MY STUDY WINDOW

~A Black Man Did It~
By REV. JOHN C. WRIGHT

SOME YEARS AGC Robert R.
Moton,: the principal of Tuskegee
Institute. was standing: on the
corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty
Fourth Street in New York City.

The traffic, as usual, was flowing in One. unending stream. All
of a sudden a white woman, apparently utterly bewildered, stepped off the curb directly in front
ef a rapidly -approaching automobile.

Quick to see her danger, Dr.
Moton made a plunge and jerking
the woman completely off her
feet, catapulted her back to the
curb and to. safety. Scores of
pedestrians who witnessed the
gallant act gathered around the
doctor to add their praise to the
embarrassed expressions of gratitude from the woman who had
been the main: character, as he
had been the hero in the drama
which ~came so near to being a
trazedy.

From nowhere, as is the usual
thing in New York, reporters appeered, They. wanted to knew Dr.
Moton~s name. where he came
from and all the details so essential to a ~story~. He waved them
all aside and told them it didn~t
matter who or what he was,- but
- just to say ~a black man did it~.
POTENT MEDIUM;

[the Negro press, and the significant place it has attained in the
life of the nation and the race.
That place was Wen hecause
thrcugh the vast twe generations
it has been the most potent meium throwgh which the world has
learned ~that a black man did it.~

Prior to the birth and phenomenal maturing.of the Negro newspaper, the black man. was _ presented. to the public only as his
enemies and detractors saw or
pretended to see him. He was 2
clown. a buffoon. a lovable minst-el or a ranvist and beast whose
lustful passion for the women of
the white race could only be held
in check by rope and faggots.

Little was known or naught
concerning his loyalty, his patient,
often | unrequited toil, his struggle
to edticate~ his children, his skill
in the building trades, his matchless gift of song. and the intrepid
leaders that were emerging from
his ranks.

Black hands and black backs
were building an empire for: which
white men were getting the Only
credit, and in which black: men
were to be held as slaves, ~sometimes with and sometimes without. shackles on their physical
limbs. The: world was showing itself increasingly willing to accept
the Negro as he was presented by
the.white editors, authors, artists
and song writers.

BECOME MILITANT

gfo newspaper a channel was
opened through which the opinicns; ~the aspirations _ and the
achievements of America~s rapidly. rising tenth man could find
sympathetic and factual expression, As their editors and promoaters gained courage and resources
they became more direct and
militant, not only in publicizing
the Negro~s achievements. especial-,
lv in the fields of religion, edtucap
tion, fraternal. interests and entertainment. but also in _ politics
and business.

Outstanding chafacters were
plaved up, the doings of the local
social elite were chronicled, the
exploits and powers of athletes
and sportsmen were displayed in
rictures ag well as in words, and
the progress of the entire group
in home-ownership ~arid ~ general
|culture was relayed to a surpris- |
ed@ but interested public. No instttution contributing to the marvel.
ous. advancement made by our
racial group in the past three
generations ~can be credited with
more genuine concrete service than
the Negro press.

In the fee of ali but insuperable obstacles it has become a
powerful force. in our, national
life, As a race we can depend on
it to tell a listening world whenever. a Negro has achieved a signal
riumph in any field of labor or
of art that ~a black man did it.~

of

With. the appearance of the Ne--

More power. to the Negro press.

SEL LE TT aT

By, DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK
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OUR SEVENTH SENSE

THAT MAN IS endowed with
five senses is~one of the fundaimen-|tal axioms of physiology. Our most
elementary education embodies. this
almost self-evident truth. Persistent attempts have been made to
establish a sixth sense but to date
no convincing headway has been
made and we are left with the five
sPecia] senses through which comé
al our knowledge. Some have called them the windows of the soul;
for through them cOt~s the light
that men live by.

der if there is not a ~seventh
sense,~ and if there is, it must be"
commonsense. Some years ago I
lectured before a léarned audience
from the anomalous subject, ~The
Renaissance of Common Sense,~
and the more I reflect on my audacity the more I am convinced
that I must have been inspired.
In a world shot through with a
hundred theories about everything:
with academicians bewildered in a

labyrinth of contradictions

sonssapiaimeiaiaemenns ribout time for common sense to

Flush Poisons From
Kidneys and Stop
Getting Up Nights

Be Healthier, Happier~Sleep Better

When can can get for 35 cents an:
ettsint Lal tatoueks aimnant and~
~diuretic that should flush from your

~kidneys the waste matter, po and:

acid that are now doing you

why continue to break your

sleep by up thru the night?
Don~t be an ac
~cept a i

| and genz fak forthe Gold Medal

on box ~ 35:.~,

and bladder may -

ache, puffy eyes, shifting pains, burn
ing of acanty passage.

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completely with capitalism which
has evervthing, is the height of
folly and stupidity.

Theoretically, a man should die
for his rights but common sense
fictates that a man should employ
a strategy of survival (~a la educated. Negroes~) in order that he may
live| for his rights. It is true that
somebody must die for rights; it is
alsg true that somebody must live
for| them. Science may prescribe
heat for the body by electrical appliances; but common sense alone
can tell when it is hot enough.

TURN TO WASHINGTON

News accounts have it that g certain learned man of the race has
advised that the Negroes ~forget
Booker T. Washington~s teachings.~
In reply to this we might say Neproes have tried to do just this
thing for 50 years and find themselves unable to do so. Booker T.
Washington did not tap the foun~teins of popular acclaim in his industrial education preachments.. Because it did not fit in with the
pet notions of more learned men,
he was denounced and Jaughed out

2d to Woeshington~s teachings and
| find therein the basis of one of the

we are abcut-to witness the renais
history

or race t

nf the gloric

achievement

elorious stages

of Negro i

@ very humble past. This {s true
of 2il greet veovles. Manuel labor
whether of field or factory is basicalty the same. When Washington
was trying to get his people to see
the virtues in the

of court: But this nation has turn
of the manual arts he was trying
to have them begin at the bottom
where begin they must!

FAR FROM KINGDOM

It is futile to argue that..because
Washington~s philosophy did not
cover every contingency of Negro
advance that his basic motions
were false or falacious. Were Wasbington living today he might not
teach industrial education in exactly the same way, but he still would
say ~ Negroes cannot crash the
door of full-fledged citizenship in
this country. ~The. NAACP has
made a very laudable attempt to
force the issues but in spite of its

the kingdom.:

A few Negroes with their heads
in the ~trough cf rare privilege~
may ignore those limitations which
circumscribe the life of the Negro
race, but the masses cannot escape
hy way of theories into an earthly
Elisian Field. There have been

tions which have left the race car
and dry and dreadfully

gallant stand we are still fer from

By ROBERT M. RATCLIFFE

always something going on in the Gate City. Good and bad. ~
Maybe that~s why they call it the ~New York of the South. ig

Atlanta~s Terminal Railroad Station has aos some-~
thing that colored people should be thankful for. The Term- ~
inal Station, you remember, is where Miss Marian Anderson
was insulted because white friends carried her through thie~
wrong entrance. Well now, the Terminal has fixed it so

waiting room after leaving taxicab or the family car,

colored entrance, so all you have to-do now, is hop out of.
the cab and dash into the station, whereas it used to be a:
matter of about 10 minutes of walking from a taxi to. the
colored side of the building. Of course, you could rasta
jump over the rail~a distance of about 15 feet.:

weeks~and at what a price. We asked one of the promoters.
if <a was pay ing sts $1,000 to show in the Gate City. i:
} reply:

~Geez, that man is awful.~

It will mark the famous tap dancer~s first appearance -
in the South. ~

~~Yott can hear a pin devies on Atlanta streets any nity:
after the clock strikes twelve. Police have received orders
to put an end to a current wave of burglarie:. Consequently,
early morning pedestrians and prowlers are feeling the
sting of the law.

group of white Atlantans at Ar
niston, Alabama.

Mr. Reynolds will be the only
Negro in the party of Atlantans
~invited te make the trip. The

streamliner will make the demonstration trip from New Orleans
to New York. The Atlanta group
will leave the train after it
reaches this" city,:

EDWARD SLOGOR
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LET~S HAVE A LOOK at Atlanta this week. _ There's

Negroes won~t have to walk a mile to reach the colored~

They~ve put some stone steps right in front of the

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Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, celebrated colored enterteiner, is coming -to Atlanta~s City Auditorium in about two