Atlanta world. (Atlanta, Ga.) 192?-1932, December 04, 1931, Friday City Edition, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text[FEATURES - | Y ,'.'ie'v-.. D A ‘A \'2’—,'“.'{':‘&_,-_5}‘_;: “:Qf«;,4,,;§-;_~. - | D SIS 5 AT ANTARD) ) 3&&‘?‘""“- ( lﬁm " MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS W. A. SCOTT Editor and Publisher Frank Marshall Davis Managing Editor PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, AND SUNDAY 210 AUBURN AVENUE, N. E. TELEPHONE: WALNUT 1459 S S BICRIPTION RATES — 1 Year, $6.50; 6 Months $3.50; 3 Months, $2.00; Weekly, 156 Cents SR Al)\ERll\I\T(—.— }‘}':1'“’]:5;\_ !‘:‘\"I‘A'I‘VI \'EV W. B. ZIFF CO., Chicago, New York, Los Angeles . " . City, Farm and Housing Facts in a report which the Committee on Negro Hous ing of President Hoover’'s Conference on Home ('h\'hm”sh@p and Building presented at the conference starting in Washington, Dec. 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 Aframerican citizenry. As a result, new problems have arisen to take the place of the old and these have been further agersvated bv the depression. The Negro who treks to t.ae city loses a large portion of his economic independence. He is, with the exceptivn of an enterprising few who establish businesses of their own, at the 'mercy of industria] 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 (v 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 tarming popula tion with what wages big business deerees 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 arcas abound ond the extent ot his suffering is revealed to any obscerver who passes by. - % % % 39 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 lights and intimate daily contacts of the city would go far in allevi:t ing the acute suffering of urban Negroes bearing the hrun of this depression, we are not unaware of th~ {i:ccurity and handicaps of the black farmer, pert'cu'urly in the South. That the Negro farmeor boo o larger chance for inde ponderen then 4hs el Niepo is evident. He is not sub iect to tne wnims and caprices of the leaders of business. He can grow his foodstuffs. <t 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 fag his land in accordance with them, the Negro farmer’s ehances for financial success overwhelm those of the black city dweller. But on the other hand—and this helps explain the trek te the city—the Dixie farmer stands more chances of being vietimized by racial prejudieces 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 former owners may be reduced to fighting for a meal a day in city breadlines. % ¥ % & ®» With great advantages and staggering disadvantages seen in the arguments 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 res_u_lts over only a long period of time. For country cpr_nmumtms, 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 #nd 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 way the Negro American may expect to henefit, : Say: y. “THANKS FOR THE TURKEY” Editor, The World: “ I appreciate it very much being one of the lucky five contestanus, .¢0 much so until I gave thanks over my turkey and kept it for Xmas. I will all ways speak a good word for the World. Mrs. W, C. Williamson, +i: D98 University Avenue, Atlanta, Ga. ' Fditor, The World: I wish tg thank vou for making my Thainksgiving a real one by vour presentation to ma of 1 fine turkev., [ shall always be a boost er for you and am looking for ward to many years of pleasant reading of The Atlanta World Mr.. Elizabeth Freeman, Uix Michigan Ave., Atlanta, Ga. l Stores that advertise in The ’WOPM want your trade, Patro dize them. ST AT B AOLRRSAREIT S v.._____ i l 'hQ(;FSGLn\ d—pAudurn @ 7. Avenue A Says| e e/ ] | I.LP.REYNOLDS HINSELF" i MY MISTAKE and my humble apology for the grogs mistake [ made in my write-up of the pro gram last Sunday sponsored by ithe SILENT SIXTEEN CLUB. | said it was a friendly rivalry bs: tween the WHITE ROSE CLUB and: the SILENT SIXTEEN (1118 I was in error, The rally was in interest of the AUGUSTA WOOD MANS SAVING CLUB to boost their treasure, MR STANLEY It GORE made an excellent appeal for the collection but supported the REDS who were victorious Again [ eg the parties involverd pardon for making an error in the write-up, but in the first place I was ill, had o business out. the next I am not infallible and ~or nake a MISTAKE and forgiving people will accept an apologs BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL exc: cises at t h e Hanley Funera! 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 from all reporis the exercises was a beautiful tri bute to the departed one Rev Dorsey preached the memorial sermon. ILL HEALTH is keeping m¢ away from a lot of Social affaics just the other night (Mornday night) I ventured up to the enter tainment of the Hanley's employes jolly bunch at the invitation ot 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. “CLEAR THE D E C K” says SAUL of all articles in the house at prices that have really been marked down, keen buvers wil! save money by scutinizing the ‘ad’ in the papers of the wonderful ' bargains that are listed CLEAR ;'I‘HR DECK says SAUL i I WONDER WHO will be victor }iuus in the pgame betwcen Tus kegee and Morris Brown no mor ‘\ “iRpaaaaseat : ‘» Lo dbual sue ﬁ “things! i85 the y i t wutcome of this N | L amic a5 there L3 | | vere laut | wee I | and then have @ % ‘ the dope upset £.7 Things: will car- \\..___ 4 t ‘ E oy b e /‘ | ‘ecramblvd I e & I Morris B'r o w n @ f ! defeats - T u s s | kegee. I'll be == - ‘therv. 1 a m S ' | catching on right y } along. Holling- o sworth will be pulling along with SMITTIE. I guess SMITTIE will be in t h e "trenches” for Morris Brown. MR. GEORGE WHITE, funeral ized at Congregation Church Wed nesday evening. Mr. White ha: been a retired letter carrier for 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 on his retirement he was tendered ¢ )handsome gold watch by the em ‘ployees the writer happened to be the chairman of program when the tcken was given him. He wa the father of Mr. Walter White, sec cretary of the NN 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- Itaker carefully carried out l 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 Ipleasure. First class pictures are being run, the house is cozy and the best services that goes in the ".heurti('al 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 as well as any other department store. | . BASKET BALL :scason to start the ending of the ftfootball season \.-\nnther sporl T do not know but since finding out what 1 bowa nessing in the football line since I got a smattering knowledge n‘; it I'll just have to learn basket! ball. " A POLICY THAT nav oo in handy someday regardless | 'of how much insurance vou inav have A BURIAL POLICY in the GULF LIFE INSURANCE COM.- | PANY. A company backed un b reliable resources. Call Mr C S Cox of the Cox Undertaking Com pany for particulars. You cin de. pend on Mr. Cox to be connectey with dependable concerns. Opinions expressed in this column, '\\hirh will appear oceias sionally, are not necowsarily shaved by The World but are purcly those of the writer, , :‘m FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS The Negro's hpper erust as a class come to look upon red hot jazz and the spirituals 4s something typically Ne groid and therefcre something to gel avway fiom. 5o, as a result, we find many a member of the sundown elite scoff ing at the blues and the Negro folksongs while atiecting a delight approaching supreme bliss when they hear a selee tion from Faust, a musical creation by Chopin or Brahms, or a composition by any of the other Big bovs of musical hiztory. I imagine that if the whites as a clas: looked upon red hot jazz and the spirituals as genuine con tributions to American music lore instead of freak stutf to be pa tronized halt 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. The college Negro, train- | ed as a rule along the lines of yhite thinking, generally has the habit of retaining the less benefi cial Caucasian characteristics and ‘io often waits to see which way the white straws are blown before : S i b $ R B g e 4 b2 e gl i, l L % S, i g B . R R ‘ B ‘ S S PR '& "JSZS.\‘:»,«:»:---' g SO C&i 5 3 e e 3 R B B i - .,;;;5:’ R X R :_1:,'2::_:_.: iy o s w2 i e R g ' " A R % 5 ; e B S RSO .. BRSO T ) e CESEREIRT g N ' S - By o 9 < i . G A R e g b N . ! b § R RN A '}f‘:ijzi:i e R R i PR R R ) . 8 : ; 1§ BEER R % B :':- 2 R R 55 3%: £ X S e RN N R 5% foy <A 7 4 R R N OO N B b/ 8 g, e e e e me T R R R ERRRE s . R 2o b %5 ; % R A R L o ; ST AN T B SRy % B k n o w ‘ a m I : T B e % {% R0 L 7 L SRR ‘ R o vty S 5 -.._,\;. i e 5 v AR -sﬁz, e o SR B g I e s l s > 5 P ._:;:;:;:;';';:;:5-_:1:;:;:;:3‘.;.;.¢,_.. e g -‘);.:-;':-'3\‘.'-:;.; ad : 7 B e R e RS ; : : o R . 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R e s T B g : T R . : S i AN S ’ ; S .,,%.3:-'& - e : - S S LU 3 i 5 2 B ] S : ¥ SRR e g _ e e - T i S . -";3;- “‘,';3.:“._1;. 3 RS s o T P S : B s T ; : b A SR 4 Qe EmE X SR R ' R e R Yoo BTRUTTUENSER : e B oaa : R ._ 5 e TR R T 2 A e e ., 5 W 3 R P S SRR s S % : o AR --‘.::?:?;“. g 3 e S LR TS 3 h B e > 3 [ e L e " R S o 5 \’; SonmEBe CiaE ' s B o L e SR R R e B S e 5 £ B R E o e - B O O . B : R SRR . el p BB R e R G B N B R e e R OO 2 3o s PR A e T S - that's the thing! CAMELS are never parched or toasted HAVE you noticed the new trend in cigarcties? == Jreshness 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 flavers are vigi lantly safeguarded. C . See radio page of local newspaper for time Made FRESH— Kepit FRESH searine up danoopnien opr prejus dice And vet: in spite of it alll el tics and authoritics have repeat edly asserted that the spirituals are America’s egreatest contribu tion to world music, while jazz i: music’s most unusual application Both are closely combined. so much so that many a time the in dividual ot mind musical ecduca tion will find it hard to disting uish hetween the biues and some spirituails. : Some of the upper crust's ob jections to Negro music is - unh R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s Coast-to-Coast Radio Programs CAMEL QUARTER HOUR, Morton Downey, Tony Wons, and Camel Orchestra, direce tion Jacques Renard, every night cxcept Sunday, Columbia Broadcasting System ‘ Don’t remove the moisture-proof wrapping from your package of Camels after you open it. The Camel Humidor Puck is protection against per fume and powder odors, dust and gernis. 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 doutedly sincere, Of that 1 do Lot :peak It would be natural for some people to prefer the classics to spirituals, Muszinet's “Flegv” to Ethel Waters' rendi tion of “Shake That Thing.” My objection is to those Sencmgum bians who affect a throughly Nor dic musie culture when, if the truth of the matter were known, they couldn't tell a sonata from a4 @igrue if they met them both to gether at high noon and had ~a magniiying pglass. I suppose 1 didn’t get enough cducation during my college days. I have a fondness for blues—hlues of the deep, under-the-cellar, ul vi-marine kind, 1 have a passion for hot juzz —the midnight, tropi al stuff Duke Ellington and his woys dirh out, or the midday jun rle frenzy of Cab Calloway and tis bunch of insane rythm ven iers, T am as moved by the pa hos and coul searching beauty of ‘Hwing Low, Sweet Chariot’’ as by e majestie tragedy of Verdi's L Misporere” in 11 T Foviitore ! tiowever, my friends of the up per crust ido not ebhject to all kinds of jawgz application. After t ha: been washed and boiled iid thoroughly Nordicised by, Paul Whiteman or Vineent Lopez vl is then considered clean nough to go into the parlor of| “Miss Anne,” who's husband i::{ the town's Leading Citizen, then! Yoo cducated sons of Ham (who ve up to their parentage in more than ene way) think it just the] thine for their own home. ’ Well, give me the blues and PRINCE ALBERT QUaRTer HoUR, Alice Joy, “Old Huneh,” and Prince Albert Orchestra, direction Paul Van Loan, every night ex cept Sunday, N. B, C. Red Network | ql ‘ | Grant an Indefinite Injunction Against . » . ’ ‘Birth of Nation MEW YORI Dec 2 An appli tion for injunction brought by the State of Kansas to prevent the shoing of "The Birth of a Nation” film, has been indefinitely con piritual I'mm proud of both, tor of what other brain children can musical America boast? Are they not contributions from a peo ple who are your and my race? What white American has writ ten o picce permanently popuiar a4s the “St. Louis! or "Memphis’ bluesblues? Or “Some of These Days,. composed around 1902 und sold, so the story goes, by Shelton Brooks to pay g drink | bill in a Chicago cabaret? What ' American white has ever written a niece as moving as “‘Deep Riv ecl! If the Negro intellectual can 'be ashamed of musice like that, he needs a good drowning. The tobaccos in Camels are never parched or toasted -~ the Reymnolds method of seientifically applying heat guarantees against that. That’s why we say with so much assurance that Camels are truly fresh. They’re made fresh — not parched or toasted —and then they’re kept fresh in the Camel Humidor Pack. Try Camels’ freshness for a change. Switch over for just one day, then change back — if you can. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, N. C. TOPICS %Q e Q,i_ - % \|[‘ ) SNy BTN P ;- x e A8 i \~§ e s ﬁ@ '/‘;; ‘ﬂﬁ"y;‘i‘:ﬂigﬁ; s ,‘33'2\ s > | ‘ﬂ S Ptk 2 (i) i Pl % i “'sf.,ev.:!*mgw{}:f&m' g [ < et L i N Q b ,“;I*ml,«.,,,g\{' ;; ’ i I Soeoie 2 4 o] ﬁ_ﬁ_ 77\/. c:'?-a«'f’m' tinued in district court of that state, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple learns from the Topeka Plain dealer. The Plaindealer reports that the court action tollowed rejection of the film by the motior picture censor board, and says: “This makes it impossible for it to be shown without violating the law. Ii 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 Hars ry H. Woodring of Kansas * November 23, wrote the followin letter to Roy Wilkins, N. A. A. C. I’., Assistant Secretary: . “As you probably have been advised already, the Board of Re view at 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 wns 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. JF YOUR MERCHANT DOES NOT ~ ADVERTISE IN YOUR NEWS ' PAPER, ASK HIM ‘WHY’. © 1931, B. J. Beyasids Tobaseo Compasiy