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MRS. CORA L. TURNER
MR. JOHN H. TURNER

We Must Practice What We Preach

AMERICAN NEGROES who plead and fight day. after day 4

for justice and tolerance must constantly strive for the maximum

practice of these virtues in our dealings with our fellows. To

these must be addec the exercise of good judgment in the methods

+s ta attack evils about which ye find grounds for com
aint.

EDITORI: Praying As News

Editor and Publisher her, During my stay here I have dis
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Plans on returning home,
Empress stated: ~I plan to work 24

the

~My great ambition 1s to see
ality between men and women.

~cussed the question of giving the
franchise to women, and I will be
very happy when they are members of the Abyssinian Parliament.
I also intend to organize education and have a school for every
village.~::
~The Empress has been follow.
ing the campaign with the aid of. As an example of what sve mean is the recent case of dismissals of mess attendants in the Navy, because the enlisted men,
having alleged grievances and evidences of discrimination, wrote
articles to the public press, which the Navy Department contends
Was in violation of disciplinary regulauons and calculated to break
down morale in the service.

In all fairness and.patriotism, we are boung to admit. that
the. contention has merit and deserves our respectful consideration.

That there is discriminaion in the Navy Derartment no. sensible

persen will dare deny. But if these evils are to be corrected they
must be attacked by the orderly processes, and not by means which |
may he akin to insubordinaticn and destructive discinline, which are |
no more to be tolerated than the things of which we complain.

Every Negro is tully aware that in all areas of/our experiences
there ate white men and women, who are absolutely devoid of

crimination, destroyed, who have feught with us in all the battles
we have waged cn these matters-. It follows then, if we are to continue the gins we have made through the years, we must forever
and increasingly exhibit the justice, forbearance ang tolerance.
which we are demanding in those whom we contend are lacking in |
these qualities. In a word, we must come into court with clean |
hands. We cannot make wholesale and indiscriminate charges,
but must present each~case on its own merit.

And we must find the way to give credit to those who have
Stood with its in our crusades, so that their hands with ours might
be strengthened for continuance of the battles until we shall have
Won a cnaplete victory ~The Star of Zion.

oa Giard Farm Independence. Addressing the Northeastern Dairy Conference, Dr, H, C.

marketing cooperatives and other farm organizations of the dangers |
of too much agricultural regulation by government, |

~Udo not think the government should be used to unify farm |
efforis in auy direction,~ said Dr. Byrd, ~if such unification can |
be achieved through farmers~ own voluntary efforts.~

Excessive government regulation has made rubber stamps of
the owners and niatagers of many industries. The same thing can
happen to the farmer if he looks to Washington and the state capitals every time some problem presents itself, Political ponver tends ~
always to increase, never to lessen.:

Farmers, through such organizations as the marketing cooperatives, can solve.most of their problems for themselves. Government should be called in only as a last resort, Otherwise, our much

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The Newspapermen Know

It is significant~ that one of the greatest waves of applause at
the President~s recent speech before. the White House Correspond
not be tolerated.

_ -The Washington newspapermen know better ~than any other
group to what extent labor racketeering has been interfering with
the defense program. They know that.the total defense we are!
after can never be attained so long as a few unscruptous labor
leaders seem to have no othed ambition than to exploit the emergency to the limit.

Honest labor should keep this in mind. The man who delays
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' the size of the Uniteq Kingdom.

large-scale map and flags. News
of the Italian defeats were sent to

her by the Emperor, and every |

time a messenger brought a tele.
gram she held a family party. In
che message the Emperor had
stated he/ hoped to reach Addis
Ababa before the end of April.
The Empress is grateful for the
help g'ven in liberating the country and hopes ~Britain will con.. tinue to give aid and advice in the:
creat task of rebuilding.~
GOES OVER: TO BRITAIN

Within a few hours of the capture of Asmara the black-bearded
Ras Seyoum; whom; the Italians
have been trying to push forward
a& a possible puppet Emperor in
place of Haile Selassie, rode through
the British lines anq offered his

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Hour Is Struck

| IN MOST PARTS OF THE "
to speak of a policeman as ~good
~That probably won't bring smi

have known one whom I would pu
he died the other day. That man
Malcom.

| Handsome Captain Maleom was
~one of those rare officers who did
everything within his province to
~help the lowest down understand
the workings of the law and to respect it. More often, policemen
take it upon themselves to enforce,
with all the ~brute~ show at their

that is as far as the Negro is con
believe he had opposition, you've
coming! He reasoned and said,

majority of the injured and fata
the streets where and when to wal
HE WAS CRITICIZED

shculders when the little Negro bo

patrol belts and blowing whistles
near the school buildings where re

srevices to the British Command.
Ras Seyoum, who is the hereditary ruler of Tigre Province and
father_in-law of Abyssinia~s Crown
Prince, has been working secretly
for the Emperor~s cause since he
was- forced to submit to the Italjians two davs after Haile Selassie
iflod the country.
- The outward submission com.
rletelv- duped the. Italians, who!
made him Governor of Shea and
gave him large quantities of rifles.
whieh he secretly cent back to the
Patriots of Tigre. When the Britich troops advancing southwards to
Fritrea swept throush Adowa Ras
Sevoum gave the Italiane the slip
end rods north ta echamnion open. '|
lv the cause of the Emiperor. '

PHENOMENAL ADVANCE

and of the good: job they were do

SOUTH, it is taboo

les to members of the

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force who read these lines, nevertheless s gate
Captain Jack

command, every law to the letter,~

cerned. Education of the ignorant
to the meaning of the law and their application has
never appealed to them. Like bad. teachers, they

Captain Jack was a believer in letting the

To demonstrate his belief in this factor he orfanized through Andrew Lewis, the colored. school.
boy patrol~voung colored policemen with authority
to stop and start traffic to permit the flow of school
children at dangerous intersections!

~The colored people of Atlanta. constitute a large

Why chouldn~t they be taught in the schools and on

Critic'sm upon criticism hit Captain Jack~s broad

men -hould have been stationed in the first place, but
he grinned and boasted of how proud his boys were

Whenever the patrol was to receive its yearly
tour to New York and other centers for inspiration
ard as a reward for faithful service.

Seeing and Saying ~ By William A. Fowlkes

and ~loved~ MeEN.| Laid for.

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was
stances and in
were inspired.
cclored and ate

any other citv i

He helieved

in traffic. Ther

know the use of the word ~don~t~ but little about fic violations.
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public know what to do.

What he lik

in his boys.

If you don~t
got two thoughts
time and again:

lities every year

kc dnd ariver~ the other day.
and arive:

and burial.

tality towards
ys wearing white
took the streets
fular city police- It will-be a
com.
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rlication of the
Captain Jack

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Once ha arranged a safety
ruc and the old ~Fourth
were there. There were traffic department cars bear. |
ing cards with instructions of how to walk and rive.

Tulences wiih traffic b
his best to call attention to the horrors liable in. traf_

FELIEVED IN SELF-RESPECT

would grow up to be great men with hearts of helpfulness and direction for their fellowmen. He in- |
sisted on the same program for both white and colored patrol groups, because he said they were equally
inv- ved in traffic problems.
~Those boys were grieved upon the captain~s death

most beautiful of the large number at the bier. They
formed an honorary escort during the funeralization
Yes, the burial of an officer in a town
where policemen are said to frequently commit bru.

All because thev loved and respected the genial,
helpful personality~ of th

another ~straisht shooting~ officer like Captain MalIt wovld do well to nroduce a lot of men like
him. and grow to he > really greot city in the well
heing and general welfare of its citizenry where ap.

ay \

saw to it that there was a goodly number of coloreg '
representatives~in fact More than the money sub. |
scribed by colored citizens and.companies have ever
Said he:
And, in ~grand style~ they went to New ork, Wash- |
ington, Baltimore, Annapolis, West Point, by train,
by boat, by bus. i
colored patrol moved under the best of circtim. |

style.~;

~They'll go and-in

And every time they moved, the

the best of spirit and its members |
They stayed in the best hotels for
-the best. The captain used to boast

that Atlanta had more colored represenatives than

n the country including the greatest |

cities cof the East..

in _education of the adults, too.
parade for Auburn Ave >
Ward.~ His patrol boys

e were floats, wrecked cars and am. |
~victims.~ Captain Jack did |

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e4 most of all was to talk about the |

~self_respect~ he believed the patrol duties instituted |
He believed that his young officers |

Their floral was among, if not, the
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individuals of the minority group!

man.

long tim. before Atlanta produces

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A Comparision

By WALTER CHIVERS |
I WAS THE GUEST last week |
of the Tennessee Negro Teachers
Association and the A. and I
State teachers~ annual meeting. It
was well organized, orderly and
intensely interesting. At least. 96
per cent of the time was devoted
to treatment of the convention

Abyssinia is the most isolated
outpost of the Italian Empire, is a)
vast and difficult country. It is
more than three and a half times

The speed of the advance will be |
recognized ag the fyreatest feat in
military history. From January 15
of this year, when. the Emperor
Haile ~Selassie returned to his native land to, lead his army of Brit.;
ish-trained Patriots, right up to the
cecupation of Addis Ababa, the |
advance was acceleraed with light. '
ning rapidity.

Bie thrusts were made by che
South Africans from: Somaliland |
by patriots from Dolo, in the ex- |
treme south, by the Sudanese defense force and Free Belgians
from the Congo from the west.

Earliest signs of the beginning of the astoundine campaign
came with the recapture of Moyale, on the Konya border, which
the King~s African Rifles had
evacuated in July, 1940, but_the
advance in earnest did not begin
until the fall of Kurmuk on February 14, when the last Italians
were driven out of Egypt, Konya
and the Sudan. e

Events since then,-as Imperial]
and Allied forces drove deep into the heart of the country from
all sides, make a crowded diary.
Principal stages in the campaign,
marked by the fall of towns and
strongs, culminating in the Occupation of the capital, are shown
on maps which have been appearing in all the London newspapers. Mussolini~s armies began the
invasion of Abyssini on October
8, 1935, and Italians entered Addis Ababa on May 5, 1936. South.
African troops who occupied Addis Ababa April 6, crossed the
frontier from Somaliand on
March 7 last, and have covered
the 700 miles in exactly four
weeks.

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theme, ~Education for Living~. The

general sessions
and departmen. |
tal meetings
were exceedingly well attended.
The Tennessee
teachers have _

coura_ geous and sih~cere leadership
4 to take the profession of ~teaching seriously,

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Not only were there guest speakers for the general assemblies but
the various departments had guest
speakers of authority. On the opening night the audience heard Harper Council Trenholm, president of |
State Teachers College, Mont-'
gomery, Alabama and the Nonsalaried executive secretary of the
American Teachers Association
plead, as an evangelist, the cause
of Negro education and urge organization as the vehicle for promoting, this cause. He is rapidly
becoming the ~human dynamo~ of

|in the Changing Social

the: cause of organized educational
effort among Negroes.

TALK TO ASSEMBLY

Fiiday morning, 1 talked to the
general assembly on the _ topic
~Education of Negroes for Living
Order~.
Immediately following me was the
cddress of Dr. Mordecai W, Johnson, President of Howard University and) a native Tennessean, Dr.
Johnson~s penetzating analysis of
the qualities necessary for successful teaching in secondary and elementary schools and: his plea for
the professional interest in the
profession were appreciated and
discussed in the after-session
groups.;

The annual banquet address was
delivered by Mr. J. E. Walker,
President of the Universal Life
Insurance Company and the National Negro Business League. Mr.
Wailker~s address was most effective because hé was first a teacher
and then a business man, I was
told that he has constantly manifesteqd an intelligent and material
interest in. education for Negro
youth,

Added dignity was given to the

annual banquet by the ~presenta- |

tion of persons eligible to receive
certificates of merit for 25 years
of service in Negro schools in
Tennessee~, The certificates have
standing and are highly valued by
the recipients. ~ i
NO BITTERNESS

In the midst of this full and interesting program there was a

{ friendly, sportsmanlike, competi| tive campaign, for officers, being
waged. There was not the slightest sign of bitterness exhibited and.
no interruption of meetings. One
could not have known there was a
campaign by the objective evidences, for there were none. -

This convention was a rich and
satisfying experience, It made me
wonder whether or not. civilization
had reached Tennessee Negroes and
been embraced by them before it:
got to Georgia, However, I know
that this is not true for there are
multitudinous evidences of. the
fact that Georgia Negroes are highly civilized. They suffer by: comnarison though from the ~illiterate~ actions of their state teachers~ organization.

This column extends congratulations to the teachers of Tennessee
ond the officers of their association. Special] mention should be
made of President Joe ~Thomas,
Executive Secretary, Dr. George W.

Hale.and Executive Committee
Chairman, George W. Brooks, ~
There is working harmony between the State Department of
| Education of Tennessee and the
Negro teachers which is due, in
~the main, to the philosophy of
race relations held by Mr. W. EB.
Turner, State Director of Negro
| Education, Mr, Turner is~ popular
~among the Negro teachers~very
much so~because he believes in
equal. educational opportunities,
e~qual qualifications for teachers,
equal accomodations for students
and equal salaries for teachers.

BETWEEN THE LINES

By.

DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK

Getting Somewhere >

WHILE THIS IS being written
Negro business men are gathering
in Washington for a parley on
Negro business. This conference is
long overdue.. The very fact the
government is taking into account.
the important matter of Negro
business is doubly significant. If
this conference diverts the attention of the Negro race from. the
purely academic pursuits and centers them on. the great possibilities in the field of business it will
make a substantial contribution
to the welfare and progress of the
race.

- For a long time this area of Negro lift has been obscured by the
stampede into the field of education. Our colleges have failed to
emphasize this pressing need for
Negro business. In the early stages
of our racial development the Negro of high degrees. was assured of
the ~cream~ of everything and especially was he given precedence
in the matter of salaries and live.
lihood. How changed today.

Without effort we can meet daily
Negroes boasting of degrees from
our best colleges and universities
and yet without the necessities of
life. Recently a young white man
was pointed out to me at a filling

station, as holding a Ph.D. degree
_from one of our most famous Eastern universities. This indicates

that the field of academic pursuits

~is being saturated and this situra
tion is being felt among Negroes

as among whites. -

TIME FOR DIVERSION
Tt is time for a diversion and

the

which have greater promise of

economic and financial emoluments.~ _ ee
At first -it was the ministry;

later it was the physician and still
later it was the bootlegger during
prohibition days. Later it was the
teacher. Today the Negro undertaker is the financial man of the
hour, But the undertaker is a business man and his successes only
indicate the possibilities in those

fields where Negroes, either because of race loyalty or segregation, can exploit the trading possibilities of their race.
Everything points to the conclusion that the hour has struck
for Negro business and if the current conference in Washington
will serve no other purpose than
to make us aware of this, it will

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life force us into those fields

jeopardizing this great enterprise.
i The Pittsburgh Courier is exposed
to the same danger. It is fervently to be hoped that these great
enterprises may survive this tendency of Negro business to die
with the founders.

Unfor~{nately many of our best
minds leave no progeny and _ this
complicates the matter. An attempt to build Negro business
dynasties is seen in the Journal
and Guide policies where Editor
Young has trained his sons as executives capable of perpetuating
this great paper. The Murphys are
doing the same for the Afro-American. The Scotts in Atlanta give

tempt to build a good %usiness
dynasty in the Negro race.

GETTING SOMEWHERE

When we are able not only to
build a business but also
to build it so that it will survive
the passing of its immediate found
Furthermore we are getting somewhere when a nationwide attempt
is being made to put Negrp business on its feet. The coming
sphere for financial and economic
~success for~ the Negro is the bustness sphere.

ts worth at times more than his afford
stock of goods. Were these good el ae ae aa
will possibilities exploited, jt would sacrifice.a few Ph.D.

cation for a few A. B.~s in busiimpossib!

ties of a business dynasty are | Negro business

thrown away and so each Negro |the doctrine of the

business must begin anew on-the (nojar~ which in its last analysis
ground floor. pw o ~ 4

Blow Beige sags ged hborarghl re aeaigs that Negroes should
seen in what is taking place
Chicago where the tate Robert s. | ~rade with Negroes or with the
| Abbott built the great Chicago | whites who employ Negroes. This
Defender. It is most unfortunate ss::

that the current _ are ~doctrine will not down!. day and continuing through April

Gore, Honorary President, W. J. |

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ATLANTA, Ga~(SNS)~;

Negroes in forty-seven Georgia
towns -were reached through. = the
activities of the NYA sponsored

State-wide Public Forum Project

for Negroes during the 1940-1941
season which covered the period,
November through Februay, it has
been revealed by William H; Shell,
Goergia NYA administrative assistant on Negro affiirs, ~

Further information released
relative to the.Negro forum shows
that the forty-seven forum centers held 180 forums with a total
attendance of 18,651, en average of
103 persons per mecting. Twelve
thousand of the individuals attending these forums were listed
as youths.

General topics discussed during
the season included subjects on
nationa] defense, world affairs,
citizenship, economics, edu: ion, -
pelitics, social problems ard mat
_ ters of current significance. In al.

instances, the various ceriters in-. dicated pronounced interest in the

discussion of subjects which affect
them directly in their community

' life.

For speakers, the cénters drew
upon civic, educational and profes
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estimated average of 114 persons

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members of the
Negro affaifs. ~
Since the inception of this proj- =.
ect in November, 1938, it has
reached 44,793 Georgia Negroes,
carrying 392 forum meetings to~
more than fifty towns and communities during the three four-month
forum seasons. This represents an

per meeting for the Georgia project, while the average attendance
for the Natton-wide Federal Demontration Forums, which were -
sponsored by the U. S, Office of ~
Education in 1936-1937, was 94 persong pet meeting.:
During the three years that the +
projecbe@as extMed, a numb'r of
wholesome gains have pvecu attributed to its influences. Among
fhe gains are iisting outstanding -
developments in interracai] rela-~
tions, citizenship, education and
health. teh |
Mr. Kendrix and Frank A. Dodson, of the NYA division of Negro
affairs, are responsible for the
promotion of the project. Dr. N..
P. Tillman, Morhouse College, ig
a former director of the project.

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Business
ALBANY, Ga.~(SNS)~

Delta Chapter, Iota Phi Lambda
sorority will observe National Ne
gro Business Week, beginning to--

26, with a series of contests, for-_
ums and a public meeting: This
special week is designed for the
purpose of stimulating interest in
professional advancement amcng
Negroes generally, to aid in giving
professional status to a large number of women who are gainfully
employed in various occupations in.
the field of business, and to encourage youth to secure specific
training for those phases of business in which they ate interested.

Mabel A. Gatewood,

Work, and Sarah A. Lewis, secretary to BE. M. Martin, Atlanta

Life Insurance Company, serve a8 |

President and Chairman of the
Program Committee. respectively.
They announce that Typewriting
Contests in which prizes will be
awarded to the winners will be held
Monday and Tuesday at Booker

T. Washington Htgh School, Mor- |

ris Brown College and Washington High Evening School. Through
these contests the members of the
Sorority hope tu encourage greater
proficiency on the part of those

writing, and to reward those who
show progress.

Wednesday evening, April 23, at
the Atlanta Life Insurance Company Recreation Room a meeting

be held, at 8 o~clock. Wm. Henry
~Shell, administrative assistant,
NYA of Georgia, will be the principa] speaker, using as his subject, ~The National Defense Program and Some of Its Local Practical Phases in Relation to the
Negro.~

Group meetings and discussions
on various phases of business prob--:
lem are also included in the program for the week, which. will he
closed Friday night with the Annual Spring Dance of the chapter.

The Iotas are grateful to those
who have cooperated with them jn
the planning of a program which
they expect to be of. benefit to the
jally to those individuals and
progress made by Negroes in the
business profession.

another striking example of an at-.

ers, we ate getting somewhere. |

fe to think of
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registr: ar,
Atlanta University School of Social ~

persons seeking training in type-~

te which the public is invited will |

otas Announce Nat'l
Week Plans ~

Maxine Tells Of

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~was clearer and go Miss. Sullivan
took the initiative to dissolve
the marriage:

_. They.were. mafried in March,
1938, and have no children. Mrs
Kirby asks no alimony, and there
appears to be no defense of the
action. It is expected that the
final decree will be handed down
in about three months.

Present Condition

is the Bug under the chip.
Reynolds is being used as the chip.
80 as to cover up what Leach de
We have here -now, a very ener-_
getic personality. In fact there are
severa] capable younger men who

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