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Although we read very little about it in the daily press,
the Inter-Asian Conference now taking place at New Delhi,
India holds more promise for the peace and security of the
world at large than the conference of Foreign Ministers at
Moscow or our own foreign policy with relation to Greece
and Turkey. Regardless of how successful the Moscow Conference may be: in resuscitating the economic and political
life of Europe, the fact is that that continent is on the de
cline and will never again assume the position of importance }

it once held: in the affairs of the world. For five hundred
years Europe bestrode the world like a colossus. During that
lime it contributed much more so to the disruption of the
peaceful relations of the peoples of the world than to the
cause of world harmony and concord. Now, the European
sun is setting and the Asian sun is rising. Implicit in the
Inter-Asian Conference is the prospect that at long last, after

(Meeting Discuss.
~Racial Problems

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PHILADELPHIA. ~ (ANP)~
The 150 Community Chesi agencies are carrying out<their work
without regard to ~race, creed
or status,~ E. A. Rokerts, general chairman of the 1948 campaign, assured the Pennsyivania
State Negro Council Conference
on planning here Saturday.

Roberts spoke during a pane!
discussion ~of race rélations problems et the Friends tnstitut2
here. bo
American Negro problems alsc
were distussed at the 257th
Yearly meeting of jhe Race
Street Society of friends, also in
this city.

A formal committee report
signed by Emma R. Sidle and
W. Walker Cheyney, as co-chairmen, is under consideration. The
report, calling the present situation critical, urged better edu
2ational opportunities, fair em
ployment legislation and im- |}
proved living standards.:
~In many sections of our

country, including Philadelphia,~

centuries of European domination and oppression, the peo
ples of Asia are~ arising in their strength and preparing to

make themselves felt in the cause of world unity and peace.
Under the inspiring leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, who

~is beyond question one of the great men of all times and
whose sister recently did such a grand job before the United
Nations on behalf of the oppressed of all countries, delegates
from twenty-five countries representing more than half the
population of the world and comprising over a billion darkskinned peoples have assembled on a non-political and unofficial basis to ponder the social, economic, religious and cultural problems common to them and out of which they hope
to achieve their essential unity. Even as we grant. the sincerity of all our present-day efforts to build a lasting peace
through world organization, we are still convinced that these
stirrings of the people on the Asian scene are the surest and

~ most, reliable signs we have today of the promise of a world
which some day will be rid of mass oppression and exploitation and in consequence will be free to erect an honest and
enduring peace. Not Europe or America but Asia is the land
ll the future. It is well that we bear this fact in mind.

BETWEEN THE LINES

By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK For ANP
JQURNALISM A SACRED PRECINCT

The Negro press is growing. Its power is amazing. There |
is no sphere of Negro life that calls for,more careful protection. The opportunity to record in our press one~s opinions
is a holy one. I take my columnizing seriously.

If there: is an older. columnist among Negroes in this
country | do not know him. | have never sought to tear
down, but always to build up, somebody. In all my writing
in all these years nothing can be found that savors of smear
ing. i am an anti-smearist. Negroes have too few able men

and women to have any of them smeared without good and
sufficient reason. _"

It is so difficult to build a man and easy to tear him
down. This largely explains the position | took at Bishop
Davis~ recent trial in Richmond. I had never seen the bishop
and all | knew about him was what I| saw in the papers and
I must admit he had been pictured as a vile sort of fellow.
I was quite unprepared~ to meet so amiable a man as he
proved to be. He impressed me as one of those moral giants
of whom we have too few in the Negro race.:

IT said in my release that it was difficult for me a Baptist
neutral to tell where the prosecution left off and persecution
began. And if the modified accounts of my release are an
indication by trepidations were well, founded. For instance,
ine my ANP release read in about 10 papers, there is this
headline to my ~Between the Lines,~ ~AME Church Needs
House Cleaning.~~ No such headline caption in the original
copy. It would be the height of indignity for a Baptist, even
though he: is a writer, to speak thus about the AME church.

I would never think of thus. casting aspersions upon my
~AME brethren, however patent such need may appear in the
premise. Of course such house cleaning might be indicated
and even hinted at, but no denominational neighbor could
afford to speak thus about another. We would courteously:

take un more-indirect and less abrupt method of saying the

same thing.
The story goes that a deacon was on trial for stealing
chickens and his pastor was called as a character witness in
his behalf. The prosecuting attorney queried ~as follows:
~~Now, say, parson, is it your belief that the accused under
~ sufficient provocation would actually and wilfully with malice
The parson with calmest de
the report stated, ~there is little pretense on the part either
of the public in general or its
officials of maintaining democratics princ:ples where Negroes
are concerned.~

Sharp Eyes
Eyes of some eagles and hawks
have eight times the visual acuity
of normal human eyes.

~DEMOCRACY IN GEORGIA!~

Senne es

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BUSINESS FACTS

By S. EDWARD GILBERT his shélves with anything and
(Director, Bigger and Better everything that~s offered him can
Business, Phi Beta Sigma expect to unload the merchandise
Fraternity, For ANP) ~ upon a public whose buying hab
TEN STEPS FOR STAYING
IN BUSINESS
In almost. every community

discriminating.
4. Hold customer goodwill.

its are becoming more and more}

business enterprises are enjoying
a lucrative business caused by a
large consumer backlog of demand. However, once this plush
of full-scale merchandising has'
ended, the pruning axe of supply
and demand will fall. The weak
businesses will be chopped down;
the strong ones will survive.

The dealer whose business will
survive and grow in spite of keen
competition is the dealer who
takes steps now to insure his permanency.

Ten steps through which the
dealer can ~~~ his business are:

1. Cut out unnecessary expense. As a rule the big-expense
items are apparent to the dealer,
and often cannot be reduced, but
the merchant should probe the
smaller~ expenses, cutting them
down wherever he can. Savings
made. on a number of small businesses operations generally will

add up to a substantial total.

2. Set up financial. reserves.
The retailer should build up a
sizeable financial reserve, resisting the temptation to spend money on unnecessary improvements
or to pocket out of line amounts
as administrative salaries or bonuses.

3. Buy carefully. A well mark
_.
ed trend toward more selective

buying already has begun among
manufacturers, wholesalers, dealers and consumers. The dealer
must accustom himself to careful
buying. No merchant who loads

The retailer must work to keep
his old custoraers happy and attract new ones. Even the _ best
dealer must realize that his customer relationship has not been
peak high during the past few
years. Even if the dealer conducted his business on a fairly
satisfactory level during the war,
he~s bound to inherit a certain
amount of customer suspicion
born of the shoddy treatment
customers received at the hands
of many merchants. Sales and
service methods of most businesses must be revamped.

5. Know customers~ buying
habits. More than ever before the
dealer must know the buying
habits and ~brand preferences of
the people in his community. He
must be able to select merchandise his customers will accept at
prices they will be willing to pay.

6. Improve, but don~t over-expand. Store improvement today is
very necessary, but- the dealer
should not go overboard in any
~modernization plan which promises to keep him in debt for too
long a period.

7, Advertise intelligently, thriftily, Advertising should be consistent and effective without being overdone. The dealer must
advertise, but money spent for
this purpose should be allocated
on a carefully planned, intelligent schedule.

~8. Maintain a reputation for
good service. For retailers who

have good reputations and large

liberation replied:

~Mr. attorney, | would not just come out
and plainly say that the accused would steal chickens. But

this is what I would say, if | was a chicken. and: said deacon
was in the immediate~ vicinity, | would roost pretty high.~

So if a Baptist thought that the AME church neéded a house
cleaning, he could not afford to say so for reasons of pro
NEW YORK:~(ANP) ~ In a
few years, the south will be in
fhe vanguard of the interracial
movement, was the gist of a
prediction made by the Rev.
John LaFarge, S. J., at a weekly tea-forum' of the Catholic Interracial council here recently.
He pictured the south as taking
this move toward better race
relations in an effort to halt the
trend toward communism.

Rev. LaFarge, who is the
council~s chaplain, expressed the
belief that the ~reactionary
white supremacy elements will
be pushed into the background
while the liberal elements become more. and. more influential.~ As an indication of the
forward-moving trend in the
south, he cited the statement of
the Jesuit provincial ~for the
south which announced its number one work as ~the promotion of interracial justice and
better race relations.~

As for communism, he said,

gram to combat communism is
bringing this issue to the fore
among Catholics. Racial tension
has for a long time furnished a
happy hunting ground for the
Communists.

_ ~The fact that we have a positive race relations program
worked out gives us a wonderful opportunity to show how
our beliefs can be implemented
by action. Our position must be
very correct, since it is being
closely watched. Slackness, prejidice and carelessness on our
part gives. communism. its; chance.~

He emphasized thé hemispheric side of race relations by
pointing to: Prof. Tannenbaum~s
book on ~Slave and Citizen~
which contrasts slavery in Latin
America with conditions im the
U. S. The book shows that in

priety.

Again | originally wrote ~After reading much in the
papers about the meat episode in Baltimore, I was quite unprepared to meet so amiable a man as Bishop Davis; and}.
although the verdict was rendered against him [.am not convinced that he is the diabolical character so flagrantly portrayed in the press.~ I have been amazed at the number of
papers which left out the word ~not~ thus utterly miscon
Latin~ America, the Negro, even
as a slave, had a moral status
and was encouraged to become
free, while in ~the U. S., slaves
were merely chattel with no
rights, fe status and no recourse
of any kind from an abusive
master. He attributed the abolishment of slavery in Latin
America, without civil wars or

~The need for an effective pro- >

Says South to Take Lead in Race
Relations; Solution to Combat
Communism~s Spread Cited

Negro. This is a partial cause,
but to it must be added the
absence of moral status. ~The religious element of human. rights
is a very important consideration.~

Evidence of the growing interest in- interracial justice, particularly among young peoples
in colleges was given by a representative of the Manhattanville college of the Sacred Heart,
who described the work being
done through national college
organizations to give impetus to
the interracial movement.

~Give Me Souls~

He didn~t make black souls
Didn~t make white souls,
Didn~t make yeliow or brown.

And He died for the black souls

The yellow: and the brown
souls,

This God of the thorny Crown.

He~s the God of the white child,
The God of the black child,
The crippled, the halt and the

lame.

And He will answer the yellow
child,

Answer the brown child

Whenever they breathe
Name.

His

He didn~t die for white souls,
Didn~t die for black souls,
All the children of men are His

love..

And there won~t be any per
souls,
Won~t be any brown Souls
In His Home and His ee
above:

THE U. ~ SHOULD RELY HAITI

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P Roe Anes 2 595H19

a+: vit BEN F.:

The refusal of the U. S. State deinathisetk to approve: a
$20,000,000 loan to the little Negro republic of bei: 3s ith
vital concern to American Negroes. -
~ We are smart enough to realize that the success | ~did?

| failures of Negroes in Liberia, Haiti, Ethiopia, and elsewhere

in Africa and the West Indies have a-direct effect upon en.
status of Negroes in the United States. We judge ourselves~
and are judged by others by ~omparison with each cother~
wherever we live.:

As the world is drawn closer together by lg"
travel, cable and ship transportation, the bond between all
Negroes will grow into a strong, vital force.

But Negroes in America, Haiti, Ethiopia,. i hove. | in,
fact all over the world, need capital desperately to finance

| economic and social progress. Everywhere we 'ate~ dénied:

our chance for a better life because _ ~we are He he: ~poor
and exploited.
The nearly three million people | in Hatt. are. ~robebly
the poorest in the Americas. ~They are crowded together. on:
10,000 square miles. A substantial portion of this small arta~
is not suitable for agricultural purposes berema ae il ~

tainous and semi-arid character.~ es af nA
This. small. cowntry where weikihe~ earn: Te thi a 50
cents per day and where 85~ peréent of the people are ~Unable~
to read or write, has a foreign ni!

debt of $6,500,006,.,..White,
American

~financial advisors,~ acting for foneigty creditors,

i

ei

| supervise the collection of eustoms and other: governmental

revenues. They algo gee that interest~ and ~imnstallrventy ont the
foreign loans are paid before anything goes to the government for its operations. This: is a, price Haiti, pays. fox. other
loans which were of no benefit. to-her. -: 651 02 viisen ton
All business in the island ~worthy ~of2 méntibniis Gor
trolied by foreign interests who enjoy various ~special, privileges that rob the country of its wealth, In, ithe: interest ~of
these foreign groups, corrupt. Negro politigaatig, have, kept
wages and the prices of Haitian products: down ~to ithe: lowest
levels in the West Indies. Yet the prices of imported godde
~have been allowed to soar unchecked. ~In~ ~the ~face of ' sis
foreign economic control one wonders how. much, A ~$20, 900,,
000 loan would benefit the Haitian people,.. i te {Re0qe uA
Certainly before a $20,000,000 debt: burden: in pheaweg
on the backs of Haitian workers, the what, when;snd how
the money is to be used should be ~most carefully ~CO! ons ideted,
If this vast sum was to be used primarily to. fill, the Po
of politicians or primarily for the benefit of; foreign: biisiness
interests, it is fortunate that. the loan was refused.:
If the loan was to be used to improve eke! ~so-called
social services such as health, social welfare, hospitals,~ educational, transportation, communication and. similar, economic
and social services, without. pursuing.a far-reaching ecomomic

development program, ~it is also fortunate. that~ the lean. was
refused. PUL 3

aqguory

This is a harsh statement and seemingly. unfriendly to
the three million Negroes in Haiti. But Negroes all over -
world must keep in mind the basic fact that there i is.no genuine or lasting social and political. Progre
economic~ development to sustain cthe
the population and possible the standard ~of livitig.. C
large foreign loans cannot be ae be: witlioft siich,
development.. j

~

Haiti, like dther Neat cibuintrikes must try
as much as possible without debt jand forei in~
thus Keepo out, of the clutches of foreign:

On the othts hand if the ~mndiey. was;
a balanced social and economic.
been granted. Unfortunately ~the itian ~
realize the necessity. of | informiiig ~he - Am pl
her plans, problems, and. needs before applying oie loan.

And because of this ovdaieds, we..who.are..Haiti's
natural and traditional friends, had no., opportunity tbj-use
whatever influence we have to help her. per.

SENTENCE SERMONS

thing ~thofe & atettae? that
for ANP.:: r

omy

3 ate i

~ 1. Advertising in business is indispensable, but in personal religion most, despicable, | ia
2. When Christians resort to ad
You haven~t a yellow soul
Haven~t a brown soul

Though the East or the West be

your home.

Savior they display all too plain.

You haven~t a white soul ly the wrong kind of'behavior. ~
You haven~t a black soul~ 3. Christian religion is 4 matter

But a soul that He made like | that doesn~t lend, itself to. noise|

His own. jand clatter, nor any kind of vai
Anon. show to curry favor. %
(From Catholic Interracial
4. Men in Christ~s day desived, Bulletin)

a~sign~ but He gave then some
vertising their devotion for their|

Him. only ~they:-cowld find.

5. Christ had bread to. eat ~that
mén knew~ not ~of, ~and~. without
} any advertising. or noisesbrought
it mysteriously, from abewe.

6. He proved. t6 roe that
power was poise, a at all
powerless things star out with
noise. gcse
oo Ta,Hd never soeclat t0&bdvertise ~
his, rich possessions, byt.ook cr: of. his, itime str
- faith saa eT et ee

aginations.
8. So far ~

aforethought, steal chickens?~

Lose Vitamin C

Foods rich in vitamin C should not
be cooked too long. Neither should
foods that are rich in vitamin C be
allowed to stand too long before
serving. If they are allowed to stand
for very long, they will lose their
vitamin C content. Orange juice,
cut tomatoes, or a dish of Caulifiower will lose all vitamin C while
standing. They should be prepared
just before serving.

_ ~Milk Industry

In addition to fresh milk, now
much. more widely used than in prewar days, the country~s 58-billionquart yearly supply goes into butter, cheese, ice cream and a wide
variety: of other foods, Milk and
the other dairy products create an,
~output valued at approximately 7

'

Aquatic Animals

The world~s largest and smallest
animals live in water. These range
from one-célled microscopic amoeba
to multi-tonned whales. Many terrestial animals such as frogs, salamanders, and cértain insects spend
part of their life cycle under water.

Basis for Legend
Stories and legends: about mer-: maids originated in superstitions

about those peculiar aquatic mammals, the dugongs and the manatees. Three species of manatees occur in the Atlantic coastal waters
of America from Florida to Brazil.
Many are wantonly shot.

Household Plants
Household plants growing in sunny windows or strong light can stand
highér room temperatures than the
same plants growing in poor light,
but only the toughest are able to

stand a combination of tempera
tures of 70 degrees and above, and
poor light conditions. \

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struing my meaning making me to éay | ~am convinced, etc.

While | was speaking in the Bishop's favor it was made
to appear that | was againet him and | was not. Further, in
alluding to the bishop's great work at Kittrell college~and
it was his great work here that most won my admiration~
I otiginally wrote, ~He found Kittrell tollege in a $100,000
debt and in a state of collapse; he: paid the debt and the
school is now solvent.~ In nearly all@the papers the figurese
had been changed from $100,000 to $1,000; thus his work
was disparaged in a way that raade my admiration look
silly.

Of coarse these chafiges aré nothing more than journalistic accidents but they do a man a grave injustice. A
man in Bishop Davis~ predicament does not need things
taken away; he needs.more good. things added. This is written in fairness to Bishop Davis, -the great AME church and
tyself. I regard my writing opportunities as too high ard
holy to wilfully disparage-any human or human achievement.
I am still hoping that the great AME church and Bishop
Davis may right soon shine forth in new lustre, The matter
of making and unmaking men is a serious ~ Jour
~violence, to the judicial moral
status of Negroes before and
after emancipation.

~We, as Catholics, ought to
be very strongly impregnated
with this important point,~ he
declared. ~Communists explain |
white supremacy on the grounds
of economic exploitation of the

volum2 incomes from. service
work over are forced to close
their doors.

9. Avoid price cutting wars.
In a price cutting bid for busintss, the dealer who wing loses
es well.

10. Maintain a good eredit
standing. Meeting obligations on
time usually is assurance to the
dealer that ~reditors will: co-opetate with him when some unusual circumstance requires him to

ask for ctedit. Good credit goes

nalism is a sacret ~precinct!

hand with business survival.

*/ Woman Sues
For $10,000

RICHMOND, Va. ~ ANP ~
The Virginia Transit. company
was named deferidant in a $10,000 damage suit filed in city court
here early last week which charg
ed that negligence 6f a bus driver caused a woman passenger to
receive several injuries.

The piaintiff, Miss ~Mary Ellen
Smith, said if the; Suit filed in
law and équity court that she was
a passenger on a NTC. bus last
November 10. The bus ffiade an
emergency stop at an intersection, the. quickness of which
threw her from the fear seat
against a steel-rod, hurting her
back and causing other injuries.

The suit charges the emergency

= was due wholly to the busby the transit company.

ianity with the uF int of PAC i

atid its gaidy@lacard, Christ admonished His followers to ~be

For Fire-Fig iting

$e:; ers fe) of unhe af: ulpmen ~the highest gains in Christi
ae Ala. ANP. ~The| ing pages meditation and
civic league, professional, busin- tian et ~etre Oe fe
éssmen~s and young men~s clubs 10. Contlaidfiy te ae
th 3; e,
of Hopson, Ottythe city wit ay, a| Bives chedinen ad awful jar.

a city ~ has launched a
taising cam for 830" =
June 30 with which to purehase
fire fighting equipment.

~The all-Negro community is loeated within and is completely
surrounded by Oxford, both of
which are incorporated cities.

driver~s pains in operating

the vehicle. 3 co
A plea of not guilty was fled!

Tf) 1~~ Christ ~shdula pads
through here ~He'certainly w
nééd a pair of éar=tiusffs:;
good strong lantern.te..add
tle comfort:on. Bisywanc,

12. The bandwagon
| make-believe - Christfanity;
| advertising show to. text
it stick ~ the prejudice
with a honeeee Hatbers
Just aBBut~ enstigh

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