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City, Farm and Housing
Facts in a report which the Committee on Negro Hous
ing of President Hoover's Conference on Home Ownership
and Building presented at the conference starting in
Washington, Doc. 2, are of vital interest and significance
to the Negro everywhere.
During the 10 year period from 1920 to 1930, the Ne
gro city population increased 32.3 per cent while rural dis
tricts lost 3.3 of their A framerican citizenry. As a result,
new problems have arisen to take the place of the old and
these have been furthe r aggr: vated bv the depression.
The Negro who treks to Lie city loses a large portion
of his economic independence. He is, with the exception of
an enterprising few who establish businesses of their own,
at the {mercy of industrial corporations and such institu
tions controlled by others and works or loafs only at the
whims of the leaders in business. He is often turned off to
make room for white workers.
High living expenses go on whether he works or hunts
a job. He is faced with the problem of paying high prices
for the necessities of living on the same plane as his
friends. As a rule, it takes all he can earn tn live. The process
of adjustment is difficult for the Southern rural Negro
who moves to a large Southern city: if this same rural Ne
gro moves to a large Northern city his problem of read
justment is multiplied many times.
The Negro in urban centers cannot produce what he
needs. He must buy the production of the farming popula
tion with what wages big business decrees he shall receive.
Given, as a rule, the poorest paid jobs, he must live cheap
ly and yet as well as his income permits. As a result, even
where the city does what it can to provide proper sanita
tion and lighting facilities, he must exist in the cheapest
of houses and amid bad conditions while paying exorbitant
rent for even this privilege. In hard times, the Negro is
heaviest hit and as a result his scale of living falls. Poverty
stricken areas abound and the extent of his suffering is
revealed to any observer who passes by.
Although The World has repeatedly asserted that a
wholesale return to the farmland now growing weeds be
cause its former caretakers left for the bright light's and
intimate daily contacts of the city would go far in alleviat
ing the acute suffering of urban Negroes bearing the In tie
of this depression, we are not unaware of th ■ i Security
and handicaps of the black farmer, mrt rly in the
South.
That the Negro 1- a larger chance for inde-
pnpa «»•> (, v .n *r- - v W-j-to is evident. He is not sub
ioct to hue wnims and caprices of the leaders of business.
He can grow’ his foodstuffs, sot his own hours for work,
sleep, relaxation and play, and if he chooses live in a world
to himself and of his own creation.
By keeping his eyes and ears open to what are the
needs of world markets and by rotating his crops and farm
ing his land in accordance with them, the Negro farmer’s
chances for financial success overwhelm those of the black
city dweller.
But on the other hand—and this helps explain the trek
to the city—the Dixie farmer stands more chances of being
victimized by racial prejudices and hatreds. The recent re
port of the lynching commission showed that this evil is
more prevalent in thinly settled communities as farmlands
must of necessity be- His chance for education of himself or
his children are comparatively slim. He must send his off
spring away if they would learn. Unscrupulous landowners
take advantage of the uneducated Negro tenants and foster
financial hardships they have not the knowledge to com
bat. At the same time, the Negro must combat the gigan
tic ignorance of poor whites who also live in the area.
On the other hand, the very number of Negroes in a
city gives members of the race protection not to be obtained
on the farm and the educational facilities are so superior as
to be beyond comparison. It is for this reason that many
have let the land grow weeds and the dwellings decay even
though their fortner owners may be reduced to fighting
for a meal a day in city breadlines.
*****
With great advantages and staggering disadvantages
seen in the argument's for living on the farms and going to
the cities it is well nigh impossible to reach a conclusion
that would benefit the race immediately.
About the only remedies possible are those which can
show results over only a long period of time. For country
communities, let the states provide proper educational faci
lities and ample protection to its Negro citizens in order to
keep them there and curtail migration to the cities and the
North; for the urban centers, let there be an equitable dis
tribution of work and jobs fitting ability, while at the same
time let* the race pool its funds and start businesses of its
own employing black men and women.
Meanwhile, we await the findings of Hoover’s confer
ence to see what course it will take and in what wav the
Negro American may expect to benefit.
World Readers
Say:
“THANKS FOR THE TURKEY”
Editor, The World:
I appreciate it very much being
one of the lucky five contestants,
co much so until I gave thanks
over my turkey and kept it for
J^mas. I will all ways speak a
good word for the World.
Mrs W. C. Williamson,
598 University Avenue,
Atlanta, Ga.
E< ’oi. The World:
1 v.' -I: to thank you for making
mv thanksgiving a real one by
• u ur presentation to of a fine
turk- v. [ shall always be a boost
’s you and am looking for
war-f to many years of phaant
leading of The Atlanta World
Mr . Elizabeth Freeman,
97s Michigan Ave.,
Atlanta, Ga-
Store, that advertise in The
j World want your trade. Patro
aixe them.
EDI T ~ "I I AL
What Sam u
Avenue
^A^/iiSays^
I.P-REYNOIDS
MY MISTAKE and my humble
■apology for the gross mistake I
made in my write-up of the pro
gram last Sunday sponsored bv
the SILENT SIXTEEN CLUB 1
said it was a friendly rivalry be
tween he WHITE ROSE CLUB
and the SILENT SIXTEEN CLUB
I was in error. The rally was in
interest of the AUGUSTA WOOD
MANS SAVING CLUB to boost
their treasure. MR. STANLEY E
GORE made an excellent appeal
for the collection but supported
the REDS who were victorious
Again I eg the parties involved
pardon for making an error in
the write-up. but in the first place
I was ill, had no business out the
next I am not infallible and ■■
nake a MISTAKE and forgiving
people will accept an apology.
BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL exe
cises at t h e Hanley Fune-at
Chapel to the deceased Mr Wm
H. Hanley brother of Mr J H
Hanley who departed this life one
year ago. While the writer was too
ill to be present fri n all reports
the exercises was a beautiful tri
bute to the departed one Rev
Dorsey preached the memorial
sermon.
lI.L HEALTH is keeping nm
away from a lot of Social affairs
just the other night । Mon-Uy
nighti I ventured up to the enter
tainment of the Hanley's employe;
jolly bunch at the invitation of
Mr. S. E. Gore. Mrs. Credeil and
others. A fine affair but illness
prevented me from getting the de
tails. as I did not stay over a min
ute or two. The affair was staged
at the Savoy Club.
“( LEAR THE D E C K " say
SAUL of all articles in the hous<>
at prices that have really been
marked down, keen Layers w l 1
save money by scutimzing the 'ad'
in the papers of the wonderful
bargains that are listed CLEAR
THE DECK says SAUL
I WONDER WHO will be victor
ious in the game between Tus
kegee and Morris Brown no moia
"'.X i ; ■a,- ' "
auudl "su’e L
things" in the —-A/.
lUtcome of this f '
and' iCs ZU © T
the dope unset. \ XzJ
Things will cer- t
tai n 1 y b e j
scrambled I F
Morris Bro w n
defeats T u s
kegee. I'll b- JML I ;
there. I a m I |
catching on right
along. Hulling-
sworth will be pulling along with
SMITTIE. I guess SMITTIE will be
in the ‘‘trenches” for Morris
Brown.
MR. GEORGE WHITE, funeral
ized at Congregation Church Wed
nesday evening. Mr. White ha:
been a retired letter carrier so- a
numbers of years, in fact the first
carrier to be retired under the
law in the Atlanta Post Office. In
tribute to the veteran carrier or.
his retirement he was tendered a
handsome gold watch by the em
ployees the writer happened to be
the chairman of’ program when
the token was given him. He wt
the father of Mr. Walter White, se
cretary" of the N. A. A. C. P. be
sides his other children hold
prominent positions in the United
States. The city loses a staunch
pioneer citizen. David T. Howard
had charge of the funeral and all
funeralistic rites of the under
taker carefully carried out.
A FIRST CLASS show meeting
the desires of people who have
wanted a place of entertainment
on the ‘'Avenue" where they
could spend an hour or two of
pleasure First class pictures are
being run. the house is cozy and
the best services that goes in the
theartical line is available Take
A LOOK IN THE ROYAL THEA
TRE under new management.
THERE GOES Mr J E. Jordan
on the ''Avenue," the gentleman
who had the "nerve" to open up
a first class department store. The
public has come to the realization
that bargains can be gotten at
JORDAN’S ns well as any other
department store
BASKET BALL sea. n to start
the ending of the football soaron-
Another sport I do not know but
since finding out what I bwa
massing in the football line since
I got a smattering knowledge o'
it I'll just have to learn basket :
ball.
A POLICY THAT mav t j
in handy someday regard less i
■of how much insurance von mnv ।
have A BURIAL POLICY in the
। GULF LIFE INSURANCE COM
■ PAN Y A company backed an b
reliable resources. Call Mr C s i
Cox of the Cox Undertaking Com
pany for particulars You can de
pend on Mr Cox to be connected
with dependable concerns.
Touring the World
Opinions expressed in Ibis column, which will appear "< ca-
•JonaHy, are not ne< tt...ai il, shared by The W orld but are purely
those of the writer. jLJK
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
The Negro's hpptT crust a-- a elm > ''tuue io look upon
red hot jazz ami the spirituals as so.m ti'ing I \ ।-a ally Ne
groid ami then ft re sonu il ing to get awu.v four. So. a> a
result, we find many a number of the .mmlov. n elite scoff
ing at the blues and the Negro folksongs while at ft eting a
delight approaching supreme bliss wlun tiny liver a selec
tion from Faust, a musical creation by ('hop'd or Brahms,
or a composition by any of the other Hip boy of musical
history.
1 imagine that if the white, as
a (da.-, looked upon red hot jazz
and the spirituals as genuine con
tributions to American music lore
instead of freak stuff to be pa
tronized half seriously, our sepia
semi-sophisticates would burst six
blood vessels and anchor their
floating ribs in an attempt to laud
the blues and spirituals to high
heaven. Th ( . college Negro, train
ed as a rule along the lines of
.vh te thinking, generally has the
habit of retaining the less benefi
cial Gaucasian characteristics and
‘io often waits to see which way 1
the white straws are blown before
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eshness
^that’s th* thing!
Camels nre purched or toasted
Have yon noticed the new trend in cigarettes? —
freshness is the popular thing.
That’s because a fresh cigarette, as demonstrated
by Camels, is something smokers have discovered as
better than anything they ever tried before.
Camels are fresh in the Camel Humidor Pack be
cause they’re made fresh to start with — blended of
choice, delicately mild, sun-ripened tobaccos in which
the natural moisture and fragrant flavors are vigi
lantly safeguarded.
See radio page of local neivspaper for time
Lame i n
Made FKESII-Kcp/ FKESII
■caring up i.ii opinion or preju
d ii v
And yet, in pile of it all. cri
tics ami authordi--- have repeat
edly a.serled that the i-irituah
are America's greatest contribu
tion to world music, while jazz i.-
mu ic's most unusual application.
Both are closely combined. «>
much so that many a time the in
dividual of mind musical educa
tion will find it hard to disting
uish between the blues and :ome
• pifit uals.
Some of the upper crust's ob
jections to Negro music is un-
R. ]. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Coast-to-Coast Radio Programs
CAMEL QUARTER hour, Morton Downey,
Tuny Wons, and Camel Orchestra, direc
tion Jacques Renard, every night < xi < pt
Sunday, Columbia Broadcasting System
4^ Don’t remove the moisture-proof wrapping from your package of Camels
after you open it. The Camel Humidor Pack is protection against per
fume and powder odors, dust and germs. In offices and homes, even in the
dry atmosphere of artificial heat, the Camel Humidor Pack delivers
fresh Camels and keeps them right until the last one has been smoked
doutedlv sincere. Of that I du
l.ot .-peak It would be natural
ft r some people to prefer the
classics to spirituals, Mu.ssinet s
"Flegv" to Ethel Waters’ relidl
tion of “Shake That Thing.” My
obj-ction is to those Senelllgatn
bian who affect a throughly Nor
dic music culture when, if the
tiuth of the matter were kno'wn,
they couldn't tell a sonata from
a gigue if they met them both to
gether al high noon and had a
magnifying glass
1 uppo<e I didn’t get enough
education during my college day.--
I la' • a fondness for him-- blues
of the deep, under-the-c<-llar, ul
i । marine kind. 1 have a passion
for hot ia-z the midnight, tropi-,
al tuff Duke Ellington and his
■ \ di h out, or the midday jun
!e lien y of t'ab Calloway and
hi miii- h of in-ane rythm ve.n
-o-i . I am as moved by the pa
bo and oul sear< hing beauty ol
'.-’wing Low, Sweet Chariot” as by
I, male I e tragedy of Verdi's
’!.■ Miserere” in I! Trovatore.”
iiowiv.r, my friends of the up
per । ru. t do not object to all
k:n>is of jazz application. After
t ha. been washed and boiled
a.J thoroughly Nordicised by,
Paul Whiteman or Vincent Lopez
i .1 is then considered clean
tiough to go into the parlor ol
"Miss Anne,” who’s husband is]
he town’s Leading Citizen, then
! e -ducated sons of Ham (who
'ice uu to their parentage in more
'han one way) think it just thei
th : n->- for their own home.
Will, give me the blues and
fHIXCE ALBERT QUARTER HOUR, Alice Joy,
"(•Id 1 lunch,”and Prince Albert Orchestra,
direction Paul Van Loan, every night ex
cept Sunday, N. B. C. Red Network
PEBfOBMINCE Of
PREJUDICE FILM
(uant an lade finite
Injunction Against
‘Birth of Nation’
NEW YORK Dec, 2 An rippl. a
tion for injunction brought by the
Stute of Kansas to prevent the
shoing of "The Birth of a Nation”
film, has bwn indefinitely con-
pirituals I’m proud vs both,
lor ol what other brain ehiblrell
< ~n mu.acai America boa. t ? Are
they not contributions from a peo
ple who are your and my race?
What white American has writ
ten a piece permanently popular
as the "St. Louis” or “Memphis”
bluesblues? <)r “Sonu- of These
Day.i,” composed around 1902
rind sold, so the story goes, by
Shelton Brooks to pay a drink
. bill in a Chicago cabaret? What
1 American white has ever written
it niece as moving as “Deep Riv
er?"
If the Negro intellectual can
' be ashamed of music like that, lie
needs a good drowning.
The tobaccos in Camels are never parched or toasted
—the Reynolds m<*thod of scientifically applying heat
guarantees against that.
That’s why we say with so much assurance that
Camels arc truly fresh. I hey’re made fresh — not
parched or toasted—-and then they’re kept fresh in
the Camel Humidor Pack.
Trv Camels’ freshness for a change. Switch over
for just one day, then change back — if you can.
K. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, innsion^Sa^m, N. C.
TOPICS
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B€w^sSO^^ V\
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"fv! ^r / °s> y^sC^
tinued in district court of that
state, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple learns from the Topeka Plain
dealer.
The Plalndenler reports that tha
court action followed rejection of
tiie film by the motion picture
ceimor board, and says: "This
makes it impossible for it to be
shown without violating the law.
if an attempt is made, the injunc
tion can be pressed to stop it.”
In connection with action against
the film, aided by the N. A. A. C.
P., National office, Governor Har
ry H Woodring of Kansas ofL^
November 23, wrote the following
letter to Roy Wilkins, N. A. A. C.
I'. Assistant Secretary:
"As you probably have been
advised already, the Board of Re
view nt its meeting November 9
when the film. "The Birth of a Na
tion.” was given a reinspection,
voted not to approve it for ex
hibition in Kansas I am sure this
will meet with the approval of
your organization, and it certain
ly meets with mine.”
The film was shown in Topeka,
Kansas, last October and after pro
test by the Topeka N A A C. P.
and the National Office, the Gov
ernor ordered a reinsnection which
i was held November 9.
Ten cities and states have barred
the new version of "The Birth of a
Nation" which was issued last
January with sound effects.
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