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~UY. S. Department of Agriculture~s~ Farm Security Administra
tion called to Washington last week the heads of its Tenant- Pur
_~chase supervisory force in four. southern regions to atudy progress.

being made in making loans to Negro tenants and sharecroppers for
the purpose of buying farms under the Bankhead- Jones Act. Figures

_ show that 3,055 Negroes have purchased farms under the program

and 1,000 more will) buy farms this fiscal year, They have 40 years
in which to repay the loans. Representatives from the regions are

Leans To Negro Farmers Discussed By Ag riculture Experts

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Pic conferring with Washington executives. Left to righ; they
are: W. C. Davenport, Raleigh; N. C.; Giles A. Hubert, assistant to
the director of FSA Rural Rehabilitation, who called the meeting;

William E. Street of Tuskegee Institute,

Ala., ~is shown checking

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sume figures with Paul V. Maris, director of ~the Tenant-Purchase -
Division, behind them is T. B. Fatherree of Little Rock, Ark.; G. C.

Ellisor, Dallas, Texas; C. Carter Chase, Raleigh, N. C. +~ and Joseph
H. Dean, Jackson, Miss. (FSA photo.) ~

Race Army Cadets

Praised By Major

" TUSKEGEE, Ala.~(ANP)~Major James E. Ellison,
commanding officer of the 99th Pursuit squadron, addressed
a group of students and citizens of Tuskegee institute in the

lecture hall of the Trade ~~A~~ building Monday.

Fer his

theme, Major fllisgn chose the topic ~Civilian and Military
Aviation~. ~From his remarks, it was apparent. that the ma
oft firmly believes in the success of the 99th and the growth~
eaprorhinities for Negroes i in civilian and military avia
ere are Gaels positions
which will be open to the Negro
whd has prepared himself by the
preper training. Among these are
listed such positions has aerial
cayperaman, armorer, aero engine

Fireman Passes

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FRANK SLAUGHTER

20 years a member of the Ena: prtewd 28, St. Louis, Mo.,
and a World War Veteran, who was
buried Saturday, September 29. Mr.
Slaughter, a native of St. Louis retired. from active duty in April..

NAACP Student
MeetAt Hampton

NEW YORK ~(SNS) ~ With
three full days of activity planned
for gel tes, the youth division of
the CP has just issued its call
to the third student conference,of
the Association to be held this year
at | ipton Institute, -Virginia,; Oc-~

31, and November 1 and 2.
Principal speakers Edward _ C.
Lindeman, noted members of the
faculty of the New York School
5 Social We; Malcolm -S.- Mac--

mechanic, athletic director, sitet

ney, civil engineer, physician. In
the administrative set-up of the
é~quadron there will also be open-,
ings for. women as, civil service
clerks: and stenographers. ~

As for the most coveted position
in the squadron, namely. that of
flying officer, Major Ellison left no
doubt that the attainment of this
rank requires~ the all-out effort of
the aspirant. The records of the U.
S. Air corps show that in the majority of ~as-outs~, the unfortunate cadet lacked one or more of
the following qualifications: (1)
Inherent ability to fly. (2) Proper
attitude toward flying or toward
the service.: (3) Sterling character
required for officership. Is easily
seen, therefore, why the requirements for the appointment as &

the cadet so vigGrous

Lean, president of Hampton Institute; Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP and Dr. Flemmie P. Kittrell, dean of women at
Hampton, will develop the general
conference theme, ~Current Problems in America for Negro Youth.~
The subject for Dr. Ledeman~s
~- address is ~Human Welare.~

ADD NEW TEACHERS

ber 15 when classes began at Talladega College, several distinguished
new teachers were on hand to greet
the student body.

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TALLADEGA, Ala. ~On Septem- |

A~ ~A, GA,

<6 eee ee Sent

~WOMEN, GIRLS.

ern facts and a 61-year
of popularity ~invite~ your

pee in CARDUI. ~By its

ousands of undernourished
have ~been helped -in -two
-way Relief! ie

for the japwoved strength and en- |

ergy and the relief of periodic | ota
functional distress of sO many. users.

Another way such functional
distress is relieved for many is by

Appointed Army Hostess

CHICAGO, LIl.~Appointment of Mrs. Carrie

Lee McClain

(above), Chicago, as junior hostess at Fort Custer, Mich., home of
18th Field Artillery, was announced by Maj. Gen. peek, M. Cummins, commanding Sixth Corps Area. The 184th Field Artillery is an

all Negro regiment. (ACME)

Comes Out For

FDR~s F oreign
Policy Stand

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~
Reversing. previously~: announces
intentiod to lead a Negro wing oi
the anti-administration America |
First Committee, J. Finley Wilson
exalted ruler of 500,000 colored Elks.
this week branded 'Ex-Col. Charles
Lindbergh as the proven ~enemy of
all oppressed peoples, including ow
own colored people who are fartherest down.~

Just ~where this left Perry Ww.
Howard, another Republican bigwig who was to serve as co-chairman of the Negro America First
committee, was not made clear
mre the ON ee of the formation of the -crGw t of the
Litibersh ~te Rote ae criticism
had been heaped on the heads of
both Wilson and Howard by the
majority of Negro leaders, who are
openly hostile to the isolationist
group.

Mr. Wilson made the statement
in connection with his announcement of the publication of ~The
Colered Elks add National Defense,~
a fifteen-page pamphlet, which outlines the broad program his organization will follow regarding the ful)
participation of the colored people
in the national defense program.
Written by himself, the pamphlet
represents an extension of a speech
made by the noted colored Elr
Jeader at the sixty-first convention
of the Nationa] Baptist Convention
Inc., held in Cleveland recently. It
contains a- foreword by Grand
Daughter Ruler Elizabeth Gordon
leadc; of 75000 womer in the Elk
organization.

Expressing, his clearcut oppositior
to those why regard Lindbergh as 4
patriot, the noted Elk leader said~

~We colored people can see clear
through Lindbergh and all his kind.
I remember well when a fine young
coiored man, James Allen, a member.
of our organization, found his dead
child in the New Jersey woods.
Lindbergh didn~t lift a finger to
give even decent recognition to
what Brother Allen had done, What
is worse, he deliberately had Allen
fired from a circus where he had
gotten a job because he had no
money and was trying t, support
his wife and a large family. That's

|all I ever heard of Lindbergh~s re
lation to my pecple. He has done
his best to bar the door of hope to
the colored brother, and to keep
thumbs down on Allen who found
his baby.

~T am for America first in Natidnal Defense and for everything that
will make the world safe for democracy and all. her people including
the unbleached Americans of my
group. But I cannot, at a time like
this, do anything that will give aid
and comfort to the twin brutes ol
Europe: Hitler and Mussolini, by
dropping a monkey wrench into the
President~s machinery for Nationa]
Defense.

~Col. Lindbergh | displayed his
fine Italiad hand when he grabbed
the opportunsty, after the President~s defense speech September 11,
to speak out against the Jewish
people. When he did this he proved
himself to be an enemy to all oppressed people, including our own
colored people who are fartherest

down.~

Episcopalians Of Nine States
Get Ready For Charlotte Meet

Rev. Satterwhite of LaGrange >
To Respond to Welcome Address

CHARLOTTE, N. C.~(ANP)~

The 15th confer Tence of Episcopal
church workers*~ among colored
people in the province of Sewanee

BRIGHTER |:
LIGHTER

iS PRETT!

Plake off iy
~dull, too

will open with services at St.
~Michael and All Angels~ church on
Tuesday, Oct. 14.

The address of. welcome will be

delivered by the Rt. Rev. E. A.
oo hishop of the diocese of
orth Carolina. The Rev. J. K.

Satterwhite, vicar of St.. Elizabeth~s
LaGrange, Ga., will respond. The
conference sermon will be preached by the Rev. Robert J, Johnson,
vicar of All Saints Church, Warrenton, N. C.

For the next two days papers will

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groes are in this province.

More prominent laymen will take
an active part in this conference
Sa ee ee past
several years. j

The: vicar of the host church is
the Rev. John W. Herritage.

Officers of the conference are
The~ Revs. J. K. Satterwhite, president; St. Julian A. Simpkins,

Bell, Chin, ~S.C. tre gg
BOWELS sLuGGISnT

ote

ersity~s
of 1 hoo iN

could support a hairy epidermis, That included mus
enticing ttahen _goatees sa
ain Robert Cobb bids. goodbye to
Zi p@beys his coach~s| gave him that distindtly.
ungsual ruling that. no member of this year~s squad| rules and they must. be 0

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State Surprised To Find

Fenn, State President Is
~ Praised by Governor Cooper

NASHVILL E~(ANP)~Budget Director W. M. Duggan,
in an incomplete audit of accounts of State Agricultural and
Industria! College for Negroés here, xeported that the school
had a surplus of $317;500. ~This fund was discovered by the
state auditors in.a routine check of the institution~s financial
structure made at the request of Education Commissioner B.

O. Duggan.

Gov. Cooper declared, ~President, yry, would have to await the audi
317,500 School: Surplus

ment. on the findings of the auditors other than to.say ~The audit
will speak for itself when it, is comgpleted and I feel that otr~ record
will-be excellent.~

~In the meantime, Commissioner
Duggan disclosed plans of the~ state
board of education to expand the
institution to the standards of ~the
Univesity of Tennessee

Negroes.

SOLDIERS FORCED TO

dergraduate and (graduate. ie work ~~

Ww. J e is to be congratulated
on accumulation of this fine surplus. ~I'am pleased that the discussion over A. and I. is about a
surplus and not a deficit.~ The
chief executive said he did not know
~what disposition would be made of
the excess amount, but he intimated
that he would like to see it spent
in expansion of the school. Financial ~disposition of the fund, how
tor~s findings as to the source of
the money.

In addition to the italiane
surplus, it was said that $100,000
appropriated for the fiscal year endea June 30, 1941, had not~ been ex
-pended and was returned to the

state treasury, together with approximately $25,000 which had been

LEAVE
' FORT BRAGG, N.C~(ANP) ~

In the. small town of St. Paul, N.
C., a city ordinance was passed or--.
dering soldiers off the city stréets
by 9 o~clock p. m. Negro soldiers
said the rule was enforced only
when Negro soldiers were seen.

| However the town has a pomiatan

ever, which has been set up as a
special account in the state treas
impounded from the previous fiscal
year~s appropriation.
President Hale declined to com- groes.

of 2,000 and only about 500 Ne
(T he Globe Trotter

By Cliff a a

The Great God Jim Crow

THE MOST ILLOGICAL, unreasonable, hypocritical and nonsensical thing in American life is the
great God James Crow. Truthfully he can boast
more worshippers than the Lord Jesus Christ, for
there are Many professing to be Christians who do
not find*it difficult to also pay homage to their idol
~Jim.~

No single thing contributes quite so much. national and racial disunity as does this hapless fellow, within whose shadow falls
those other twins of dissension,
discrimination and prejudice.

Have you ever sat down and
tried to~ ascribe a reason to some
of the customs of ~keeping th
~rakes. separate~ prevalent in various communities? And _ ~fthes~
practices are by no means limited
to purely Southern localities.

UTTERLY RIDICULOUS

Some are so ridiculous, i~ it;
were not for the tragically humili- _. MACKAY
eting effect they have upon a whole race, they would
be fuany.

In Atlanta Negroes are allowed to enter street
cars through the front door with other passengers,
but under city ordinance are forbidden to make their
exit that way. No matter how near the front of
the car you are seated, if your fade is black, you
must walk the length of the car and depart through
the rear door. Are there any laws of logic that could
be applied to this peculiar procedure to make it have
reason?

~The Fulton County (Ga.) Courthouse in the same
city, erected with taxpayers money and dedicated
to the proposition of meting impartial justice to all,
has four elevators.

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One of thesé elevators bears the sign, ~For Col- -

ored Only.~ Yet, Negro witnesses and others who
have business to transact or the upper floors of the
building oftimes cannot find room on this lone car
detlicated to ~the questionable ideals of Mr. James
Crow; so~ crowded is it with white passengers, who
do not believe in signs.

NEGROES REBUFFED; Negroes, however, who seek to ride the three
other élevators are loudly rebuffed and embarrassed

] by the plainly hostile white o

perators.
The most humorous worship of the God Jim
Crow was observed the other day by the writer,
watching a crew of workmen repairing a

UF | stretch-of track. Conveniently placed on the repair

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rel~s interior to divide the water. Yet Negro workmen under the.asinine ruling of Jim Crow must
draw their drinking water from the spigot on the
side painted black,.while white workmen drank the
same water, but drew it from the side painted white.
DHE ARMY FAILS TOO

' And if ~you think that is silly, a young man employed at the Fourth Corps Area quartermaster depot told the writer of a practide that even surpassed the above in idiocy.

How far some officers of the United tes
Army have fallen beneath the siren call of this
strange god, Jim Crow, was divulged by this ~young,
intelligent worker, who askéd this very puzzled
writer for a possible reason.

It seems that the quatermaster~s office at Atlanta provides buckets of water for thirsty workmen
and each bucket has two dippers, one for white, another for colored~thereby satisfying the dua-racial
requirements of Jim Crow. But the joker here is that
workmen of both races dip and drink from the same
bucket.

Equally as silly to this writer~s way of thinking is the ruling of the American Red Cross that
no blood of Negroes can be used for deposit in the
~ylood banks~ being built up for transfusions in the
event this country enters the war.
~YSYCHOLOGICAL~ REASONS

Army and Navy Medica] officers, according to
Red Cross officials, are responsible for the ruling
barring for ~psychological~ reasons the acceptance
of any blood from Negro donors, though wide
appeal is being made for persons ~to. donate this
precious life~s fluid.

The ~psy~hological reason,~ of course, is just another and more subtle way of stating this widespread
deference to James Crow. Inconsistent is the plan
to use this ~white~ blood for transfusion for Negro
soldiers, while at the same time holding it
wrong to use ~Negro blood~ for white transfusions.

And just as inconsistent is this entire business of
Jim Crow. One just can~t ascribe any rhyme or

reason for it..

its workings are for the most part
stupid and illogical, one who all his life has been a
victim of it, canriot fail to see the sinister motive for
its creation and maintenance.

Clearly it is an~ asinine ~and clumsy, ae ~xtremely effective design of the majority to
~embarrass, humiliate and harrass the less ~tunate
and often politically powerless minority.

Born in the morass of decciminatics. and and hint

in the distorted atmosphere of prejudice, the~
god Jim Crow today is unquestionably the ci
tleneck in the path of national unity and se
cate quicker its utterly senseless practices are
ed from the American scene, popeertiy
America setle down to it eat tak of '
the remainder of a rapidly