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HENRY G. REYNOLDS
BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS
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Manager of Circulation. Adv. Manager

Adv. Asst.

ds There A ~Negro Problem~~

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By RUTH TAYLOR

| Dr. J. W. Moore

Editor and Publisher {|
Editor ~
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sical artist as well as a splendid

lected as the principal speaker at
the Morris Brown Aiumni Home
coming in Atlanta is exceptional
because there has been only one
gathering of these Alumni each year
Since the inauguration of the As
| ~~ 50 years ago.

Read the~ papers carefully today and somewhere, in some connection, you will find the words ~Negro problem.~ i
Little incidents are played up. Whenéver a Negro commits

~ crime~his being a Negro is stressed~and'so the ball grows. Dis~ erimination, injustice, and a gradual fanning of the flames have

képt it growing.

What is back of this raising of the cry~Negro problem? Who
is fanning the fires of hatred and blind and senseless race prejudice? Who is it that benefits by the application of the slogan ~Di
ie: Negroes in America are citizens of the United States~subject to the same Constitution as other citizens, entitled to the same
right, and responsible~ for the same obligations. That is the law
of the land~regardless of how selfish and self-interested individuals may interpret it.
The existing status of Negroes is one for both races to change.
The totalitarian states have solved it by relegating the Negro to a
state of lowest inferiority. T hey believe in driving him all the way
down. ~Faulty though the application of democratic principles may
be unjust and unfair though many of the restrictions and discriminaticns are, the trend of our democracy is to raise the Negro to
the full stature of citizenship. Consider the gains that have been
made over the years. Negroes have gained their rights far more
rapidly than the women, of the nation did theirs,
The larger responsibility for the solution of the | bles. lies
with the majority but what is needed is a common denominator
by:which both groups can live in the same country and respect the
rights of both~honoring~ the individual as a man.
There are ways in which Negroes may greatly aid in bring
ing a better day in race relations. Let them strive to sttand out and

be cownted as individuals.

Let them show by every act and

word that they~are citizens in full cooperation with their government. Let them publicize the good their leaders have done and
do~even more than the injustices done them. George Washington Carver has done much for Negro advancement by being the

man that he is.

Let every Negro count himself as an American~and live up
to that high standard in every way. By the force of his own intitiative and integrity~he can compel the respect and acceptance he

desires and the equality as a citizen that is his under the Consti-!

tution.

~The Irony Of Hitler~s War

FEW, IF ANY, Negroes hesitate to hope for the final destruction of Adolf Hitler, whose murdering of innocent children,
women and old men in his attempt to subject the world to German

rule, has no parallel in history.
brief for non-Aryans anq has classified them as clothed apes.

They know that Hitler holds no

They

are, therefore, volunteering their services, doing their share ae
hasten this destruction.

~ Tt is, then, ironical that Negroes are indebted to Hitler for
many opportunities now being opened to them. The fear this war
has aroused in countries, supposedly free but in reality, partial to
the black minority, has focused more attention on protecting the
country and thereby removed. sme of the pressure hitherto applied
to the colored group.~ Without attracting attention Negroes have
thusly become more free in such countries as England and America and are finding slight preference to them than German threatening. More privileges shall come as further preparations are
tade and_these shalf not disappear once peace is restored.

Hitler, indirectly, has been

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a

boom to race efforts.

That is,

if one can measure privileges in terms of destruction. of human

life.

But while we wish for Hitler~s removal it might be wise to

hope at the same time that he continue for a while, so lang as the
democratic countries have his destruction under control.

~BRITISH WHIP THEMSELVES

~By MACK C. NANCE

|THE BRITISH PEOPLE made
their greatest mistake when they
' placed Lloyd George,
~Chamberlain,. Gort and Churchill
at the head of their military adventures and besought God to follow along file cleser, Great Britian,

the champion of

the late

freedom and
so

was

India, Greas | the figiting ~

ment of nonwhite
Great Britain, caused her to refrain from training such an army
from her chattel
fear, bigotry ang greed, Great
Britain, today, is fighting a rear
guard action instead of an offensive, This Great Protector of
wiak and oppressed, today,
cringing like a rat caught in
flour barrel, instead of. giving blow
against a common enemy. British
whips themselves, In Libya, Egypt,
and Ethiopia. We hear much of
Australians, New

twerps of the British army, but
{ they would have excelled in these
qualifications, But no, the treat
subjects by

slaves, Thus,

the
is
a

Stee teks ta woken; | Zealanders and English Tommies.

| trained

stitution. These brown end
woulg not only have

lareh ae

soldiers, iu

the

every | Nothing is said of the multitude
Wf ln ed geared iv- ~of Africans being fed to the mablack chines of war, to save the cowardbeen ly hides of the so-called invisibles.
efficient, just as brave, In the theater of war just n:entioneffeminate ed, with the ~exception

of the

~ JAMES MADARAZ

Raney Groceries and Meats

3020 St. John

Beer and Wine
Street

Phone 9-1820

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- Phone 9-1021:

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Consumers

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of all, If our churches had been
preaching Jesus Christ-on Sunjay and teaching their members
how to live it the rest of the week
oy rendering service to each other
we would have been much further
ahead, After all is said and done
you can only serve God by serving
your fellow men. i
Next week I will deal with the
aistory of Consumers Cooperatives.
* Bear in mind that the lives of
great men should help us to make
our lives sublime and departing
leave behind us our footprints on

_ sands of time.
~Peter warguete

Dr. Weaver Reveals

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icy of the Office of Production
Management, *. definite efforts
shculd be made to give Negroes
~their equitable opportunity for referral frofh,employment offices.~
EXPANDED ACTIVITY

Dr. Weaver cited a recent report
from the Michigan State Employment Service to show that expanded activity on the part of the Bureau of Employment Security
agencies was facilitating the integration of Negroes into the de
fense production. The report de-!

clared:
ie. ~ 2,360 Negro placements
were made during the first quarter of this year as comparéd with
940 for the corresponding period
last year. Placements of Negroes
during this first quarter constitute
75 percent of total placements
| while during that period last year
they constituted only 4 percent of
all placements.
~Every. week placements are being made of Negroes in occupations in- which we have never before~ been able to place them.
Screw machine operators, lathe
operators, electricians, gear hobbers (machine shop), welders, and.skilled foundry. workers such as

bench, floor, and hand molders as
well as coremakers of all kinds.

~In. two instances, increased
hiring of Negroes has been reported. In Muskegon, a foundry and
machine company is now placing
colored men on some skilled jobs
although formerly they have been
used ohly as unskilled labor. Similarly, under the stimulus ~of increased orders, two establishments
in the Port Huron area are now
hiring both colored and Mexican
foundry workers.~

Ultimate Victory

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ers,

Green, gold-~and red native flags
decorated the houses, The emperor
entered the city in an open car
guarded by local troops, and immediately: preceded by Ethiopian
police mounted on white horses.
African guns fired a 21-gun salute
as Haile Selassie later received the

cony of the royal palace.

published. With the proper forethought, less fear and cheap arrogance, the British government
should have had so many black
and brown birds in the air, that
Germany and Italy would be unable to see the sun for weeks. If
the British should have, in time
of peace, properly trained tne
millions of her non-white subjects
in the arts of modern war. there
awould be no axis, as a military
power. In this, she (Great Britain)
missed the boat that would have
carried her to victory.

Newspaper men _remembering Obie McCollum formerly of
the Amsterdam News in Harlem are advised that he-is doing all right down in Richmond, where he is managing
pred yvet od edition of the |

BACKACHE?
Tae Kideere

| The South Pays

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Seeing and Saying - By William A. Fowlkes

A Grand Day

Today is Mother~s bay, and there never was a
grander day set aside for observance by mankind.

Despite the wars and rumors of wars, few men
are little enough to forget the significance of mother
and her part in the home and the community. Few
try to forget it. God pity those who do.

IT have always been a great lover of my mother.
Most children are, oftem over aganst the paternal side ox the family. It is so, perhaps, because
children. come in greater contact with mothers and

s: are the ~objects of their sympathy,
m the extreme acts of kindness and
& understtanding.: OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW
E: Well, a little _girl was born in
~: our domicile the other month. A
~4 swell piece of human flesh she is.
I have had ample opportunity to
see and ~rate the pains that are re.

the gums~ sa sy ~mather ~pot: king ~sMtii te btm
the reportedly fat cheeks,

And so, today, I pay tribute to my and other
mothers for everything and know that mere words
and deeds can never ~ express ali - my
gratitude.

SOME ARE FIGHTING |

it is a pity that sons of mothers today are engaged in deathly conflict in other parts of the world.

Some say that the German War machine is efficient because it is made up of youths, produced
for the most part only to be cannon fodder. Alleged
production of illegitmacy, they reportedly fight as
machines, devoid of sympathy, understanding and
feeling for those they oppose for life itself. Ruthless
slaughter. to thefr ranks means nothing~they move
forward and have gunned their way to the capitals
of most of continental Burope.

They must be minus the influence of sympa- |
thizing, loving mothers or they would contend with
mad Hitler to ston this conquest that ane and fate i

on ase

FORT VALLEY, Ga. ~

executive~s car moved down

getting too many votes.~

must eventually destroy.

quired to carry a
tance
called life.

FOWLKES
Being the bread winner for the family, I can

give but little time to the many

nrocesses that must go on to make that little girl
ep-=w inte a woman and, subsequently, a good mother.
I know the hours that must be spent in doing the
little things~ that will help that little girl come up

looking up. I can sympathize with

mother, much more than perhaps when I ~showed

in this tremendous maze

child any dis
necessary home

the duties of 2

CHALLENGE TO RACE MOTHERS
Younes Negro mothers of today and tomorrow
might reinforce and retrench themselves with a determination to raise the level of their race to that
of any other civilized groun. It is such a tremendous
rroblem they face. it wevld be well that they~ ~rgan.
ize-over the length ang breadth of the nation and;
studv what is needed to raise ourselves by our~own
_ Fertstrans, That's auite an order, but is a needed
end worthw one, Thev must Work harder to make
Mer out of their pgahnGers boys.

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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

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MINORITY RACIAL ~~ groups
never really attain full equality
with majority raciaj groups. This
fact is world-wide in application.
The effcrt, to go do, however,
keeps the processes of civilization
moving along essential exiperimental pathways, These processes
are a ~~ those powerful
elemental forces
self preservation
and self-maintenance. So the
fear of. minority
peoples gaining
total equality is

t Without logical oF
| scientific found
ation.

The. culture
histories of a

'be wih white and Negro

crowd~s acclamation fromethe bal-!

Africans, there is not enough of!
the others to whip a cat. |
Of course, this must not be

major ~Oup and
a minority race
occupying thie same

CHIVERS
{al group
geograpica] division and sppaking
an identical language can. become

so thoroughly interwovert until
ene of them cannot achieve without assistance from the other, that
is without letting the other achieve. So it is and shall continue 0 |
peoples:
inhabiting the Southern regions of
these United States,

HISTORY IS PROOF

The history of the South 1s proof
of the above statement. first, the
South instituted the tenant-farm
system, primarily to keep the Ne.
gro ~in his place.~ The Negro was
in his manner to be kept the
~hewer of wood and the drawer
of water~, Something went radicallv wrong in the operation of this
system and as a result: the white

| sion with the late Associate Jus
tenant farmers today outnumber
Negroes in the same status by
more than two to one.

It is true that each time a white
farm owner is reduced to tenancy
that a Negro tenant farmer becomes a casual laborer. It is also
true that both the farm tenant and
the frm laborer are at the bottom
of the economic scale. After all
the bottom is just the bottom.

The white democratic primary. is
an instrument originally designed
to ~keep the Negro in his place.~
I agreed with Dr. Rayford Logan
that a ~voteless people is a hope~less people.~ Again the system went
wrong and as a result white people,
in at least -a half-dozen Southern
states. Are for the. most part disfranchised. Another result has
been the loss by the South of its
voting advantage in the National
Democratic Convention.

GREAT HUMANITARIAN

~Mr, Justice Hugo Black, when he
was serving Alabama in the Congress, lost his politica) value to
Alabama and usefulness to the
entire South because.he championed the cause of labor. In all probability he could not have been. reelected to the Senate because of
his liberal views and actions.

However, as a Supreme Court
Justice he has read several majority opinions which in substance,
redefine ~the place~ of underprivileged Southerners, Justice Black
is the ~Great Humanitarian~ of
the bench standing head and
shoulders in breadth of sopial vi.

tice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the
~Great Dissenter.~

A recent Washington, D. C.

by Noethéen capitalists. It also
points out, specifically, that the
owners and controllers sf coal
mines in the South are northern
corporations.

This means that the South no
longer participates in negotiations
for the perpetuation of wake differentials, Wage cifferentials is a
device invented by the South to

~grounds with his long legs.~;.Governor started his speech...

~I like coming around this place,~ he said, ~It~s benifit:
ful to me. All of these stately buildings pecan Bet a big.
island of green grass. The pretty girls and young men mov- -
ing about, laughing and talking as if they~d never heard of:
Hitler~s European nightmare.~

He walked on punching

~You know,~ he said, ~me and
Mr, Henry Hunt were good pals.
He was a perfect gentleman and he
really loved this place. I watched
him as he planned this schoo) and
then I watched it grow under his
fine leadership. He was a good
man and a handsome fellow in his.
young days. Tell you the truth, he
reminded me of a. South American
land owner. He really made = a
grand - picture walking over these

The old man was taking hi. time,
shuffling over tc the auditorium tao

keep the Negro ~in his place.~!
Now Northerners invoke wage dif-i.
ferentials jin the name of the?
South, upon white workers. t

Negroes, the majority. of them,
live in the South and shalf continue to do so. They love their | |
communities as any human loves |
the land of his - nativity, Negroes |
are interested in seeking the
South~s wealth~ remain-at ~home,
where it can be converted into
building the level of living of all |
peoplys up to American and scien- |
tifi,, standards..

WANT THE BENEFITS

Of course their interest 1s selfish. They want the materia] and
spiritual benefits that must. come
to them each time the level of
living goes higher, ~

Does the Sovth ar any sound
objections to letting Negroes
cipate in this promotional ett
Really I do not believe that the
thinking white people in the South
want Negroes enfranchised, However, they must want this badly
encugh to convert those white
people who ~ oppose.. enfranchisement of Negroes just because
Southern legend has taught them
that a true Southerner never
breaks awav from Sovthern tradition, Northern have
played this ~Tradition~ legend:

news column reminded the public

that 90 per cent of the material
rescurces of the South are owned

~ie

right and as @ result own 90
per cent of the South~s material
resources,

handkerchief and wiped. the pers
hear ole Gene.

(~This fellow, Mr. Horace Bond,
is a fine gentieman too,~ the
talkative old man went on. ~He~s
really made this school a good
president ~since Dr: Hunt passed.
He~s putting Fort Valley State College on the map. He~s a: man with
ideas and knows how to put them
to good use. They tell me Fort
Valley is rating with the bigger
' colleges now.~

The old man was at his destination. He took out a blanket-sized

i ar ZZ ISL
By ROBERT M. RATCLIFFE ~ i.
his hat lifted, a wide grin on his wrinkled face, when Governor Talmadge and his party drove upon the. campus ot

Fort. Valley State College last Friday,
~Old Gene is okeh,~ the elderly gent said as the
winding drive.

course, I never liked some of the things he said on the me
about our folks when he was campaigning for
guess he made those remarks to keep the other fellow from

The old Georgian shuffled off at a dow pace, hoping te
reach the auditorium and get a back seat by the time the |

ancient walkingstick. Now and then he would wipe tobacco~;
juice from the corners of his: mouth.

piration and dust from his face,
Then he said: ~

ray

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the

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WF iy

office, but I~

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holes in the earth with his

Labs sah yen, ca

~Lemme go in here and. beet
what the chief is going to we
got a hunch it~s going to ve good

The olq man~s hunch was right,
because Governor Talmadge came
out with some strong words. bin

The executive denounced those ~
industrialists who refuse to employ *
Negroes in the nation~s defense industries. He frowned on those who -
belittle the ability of Negro work-.
ers.._He called Negro labor ~thie
best in the world.~ ae

He paid high tribute to colores:
Georgians, especially the late Prof. ~

~

- William M, Hubbard, in whose;
memory he was speaking.

The Governor~s speech in Fort.
Valley will be broken down by.
critics who possess that habit of.
trying to determine whether or net,
the~ speaker spoke sincerely. ie
_ It is possible that Mr. ~Talmadge
was sincere in what he said because
politicians don~t care. for
their white friend and supporters.
to know of their interracial doings. -

Coloreg and white~
agencies sent the Governor~s speean
over the State Priday afternoon. |
And old vive~ knew about it, too...

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LOVE~S GREATEST GIFT

TODAY will be a gala day! From
morn until the shades of évening
fall, men, women ang children wil!
be thinking off and paying tribute
to their mothers, and through
tnem to all mothers. Probably the

BETWEEN THE LINES

By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK

AMERICAN QUISLINGS

WHEN THE HORDES of Hitler
arrived in Norway, they found
Quisling, a ~Nazi figurehead waiting to welcome them. It is useless
to try to describe the ignominy of
a man who would turn his country over to a Hitler. No commen:
tary will write the full record of |
such treasons and traitors. Judas
sold his Master for 30 pieces.of
silver but these Quislings would
sell their native land for a mess
} of Hitler~s possage.

The most pressing problem of
this country today is not its prdp
many decades this country has
been welcoming immigrants from
Eurcpe and most of these have deserved the opportunity that they
found in this New World. But it
is becoming more aNd more evident
that these foreigners breed our
Quislings which afflict us like the
Mlagues of Egypt. There is no use
smoothing matters over, this Quisling problem is getting serious.
These strikes and blasts and Lindmene meetings are getting serious.

ROTTEN
There is something rotten about
2 situation where a crowd ~
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hent on doing his utmost to hamper our defense program. Some
of us are becoming most impatient
ay things are going.
our Lindberghs and ayy are
vcing to run this nation
time notice to that effect
gviven. If Roosevelt is
nation, then it is high
our Quislings be put in
~Nd that is behind the '
thev cannot hamper us in
depth struggle with Hitlerism.

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elected Roosevelt last fall to tide
our country over one of its roughest. places.

Roosevelt has told us on more
than one occasions that the threa+
to our national existence is the
most serious in our history. ~The
signs of the times point to an
unparalleled crisis for mankind.
Our country is called upon or will
be. within a short time to throw
overboard a Hational heritage ot
freedom and democracy and N)erty that only recently were purchased with sweat and tears anda

blood. For on our fine heritage we | -

are asked to substitute a heartless
Hitlerism. 2
HITLER STOOGES
Our Quislings with their defeatism are preaching non-resistance
Ry ready acquiescence. Our: Hitler stooges are ~ready for the
question~ of exchanging democracy for Hitlerism with its racial
persecutions and mass murders and
blooay purges and a hellishness that
cannot be described. Lingburgh, our

hero and idol seems bent on gnak
ing the long and perilous leap
from fame to shame. He who was
standing upon the world~s topmost
pedestal of fame is about to crash
into the depths of sham:?.
surrounded with a group of what
used to be hero-worshippers but
who are today merely ~she-ro
worshippers. ~ i

One of the debacles of democracy

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true that we do not need to. stick
up our hands just because Hitler
and his Quislings have the gun
on us. Some of us are about decided to make him shoot. Let Negroes wield their razors if they
will; let Negroes go on with their
higher incidence of crime and: illegitimacy; let them plead guilty
of having more syphilis if they
must. Bad as these things are but
they are better qa thousand times
than producing one Quisling.
There is hope for a group that
does not bear Quislings!

CAPITAL
COMMENT

By AL WHITE

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(ANP)~
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attend 3 social worker~s confer
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manner of observing the day 4%
is tune making of;
a trek back to
the old home
beheld

enfolded us

of parents when the ~tearifly. ~cirele
tS broken and those whose ~

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_My, oh my, Rayford Logan, Dr
Bob Weaver, Major Campbell
Johnson all sitting at the head
of the speakers table at the social
workers conference Saturday.

And Logan~s speech was slightly incendiary-so said the staid Virginians who heard it in amaze~

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mother, makes ible an ~~
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