Atlanta world. (Atlanta, Ga.) 192?-1932, December 11, 1931, Friday City Edition, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextFEATURES ' • . il.j. i;^ ATLAI^aIW^ORLD ecK«m«3 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS W. A SCOTT Editor and Publi»her Frank Marshall Davi. Managing Ed.tor ' PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, AND SUNDAY 210 AUBURN AVENUE, N. E. TELEPHONE: WALNUT 1459 SUBSCRIPTION RATES — 1 Year, $6.50; 6 Months, $3.50; 3 Months, $2.00; Weekly, 15 Cents "ADVERTISING REPRESEN TATIVE W. B. ZIFF CO., Ch : cago, New York, Los Angeles Buying Now Those of us steadily employed whose incomes hat e not been reduced ly the depression should find these days the best for buying in contt jnporary history. The necessities of life have fallen in price to rockbottom prices; cars, ra dios and other luxuries are being < ffered at savings never before dreamed of. Economists have asserted that in hard times when prices are at the lowest is the period to buy. whether it he a home or a hairpin. Those who have money defe at their own purpose by holding on. for if they wait until prosperity Returns they will be forced to pay many extra dollars over today’s prices. Such buying today would, incidentally, has ten the departure of the depression since an economic crisis appears when comparatively few purchase. Meanwhile, the Christmas season is here which means that temporarily, at least, the business of buying and sell ing is stimulated. This part of the year will find many a purse string loosened which has been closed all year. People buy at Christmas who have 1 een stingy before. It would be of much more benefit to everyone if the tendency to buy at Christmas were carried over throughout the year for when people buy. more money changes hands, more goods go to consumers, and more people must be em ployed to grow the raw materials, make them, and finally sell them to others. Touring the World Opinions expressed in this loninm, «hi<h will appear ocea fionally, are not necessarily shared by Ilie World but are purely those of 4 lie writer. FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Monday nig.it 1 read "Slaves Today.” a story of Liberia written by the prince ol Atramerican Lad Hoys of Letters, George Schuyler. Schuvler. you remember, spent thine months in early 1931 in the African republic, and wrote a series of articles exposing virtual slave conditions t. which caused a verbal war. “Slaves Today” is propaganda fiction It paints anauseating and vivid picture of the slave traffic winch Liberia calls a more eu; h> mist-c name. 1. ;.ite eth g.\ m sc.ic.es native life ai.d customs, iuu feel every word is true. The picture should be accurate since obgeivations were made first hand. Sidney Cooper Johnson, presi dent of Liberia, sits in Monrovia, capital, trying to make govern mental ends meet. It costs a lot to run the nation and at the same time give himself and members of the Consecrvative party a good fat living. .Much money is owed to other nations. Imports exceed exports The way out is graft Sell the natives to work abroad at so much a head. Force them to work for nothing on governmental projects. Demand and get exor bitant taxes. Punish severely First, be sure that each district had a hard man at its head. Change David Jackson to the First District. Takama is a small village in the jungle. Bongomo, its chief, won ders about the marriage of his 15 year old daughter. Pameta, to Zo. In the dead of night he hunts out Tolo, ancient witch doctor. The signs show the marriage to be good. Next morning, the village learns by an ingenious method of theirs that Pameta went to marriage bed a virgin The tr" takes a day off, feasts, celebrates Much palm wine is consumed. To lo advises a dance in the daytime to ward off evil spirits- Meanwhile, Jackson, along with three concubines and a small de tail of soldiers, comes to colled overdue taxes of rice and palm oil. Black and cruel with a college education, is Jackson. He is drunk when he reaches Takama He gets in an argument with Bon gomo, gives the venerable leader the supreme shame bv a publm whipping Bongomo. insane with rage, attacks Jackson. The chief ami many villagers are killed in cold blood The town is fined. Jackson sees Pameta likes, teal he’ - . Takama thinks it a curse b- - cause someone has done wrong. Tolo. who is. incidental!v. .-kepti ca^of his own witchcraft, gravely was the whipping test Zo is sin ged out. Disgraced- he leaves for Boloba to rescue his bride. He gets into the governmental ouar t'TH, finds where his bride is hid den enters there jmt as Jackson drunk, goes to her room. He fries to escape with her. is caught. b>aten. has his wounds rubbed Mt'fh salt, is placed in prison. When Jnekso” goe to Pameta a enrond time, she hits him with a Wf wounds him. He admires Jm- f : re. Zo is sent ostensibly to rnrrv tax- Fr to Monrovia, the wonder citv to the natives, but really to he sold into o vear slavery- With him ar* others. become® friend: With Soki They try to escape but are :.i- when Zo stops t > ■ from a swamp. Tak , ’ Monrovia, they are rushed j o Fernando Po. Spanish cocoa! and coffee ettlement in a stink-1 ng sh.p. Formality keeps si a by another name. At Fernando Po, they work f a tew dollars a month, have hal taken for the “protection” given by Liberia’s consul. Pay day, th bosses send around women and trinkets to get the native’s m ey. Zo saves his rather than deal 1 with the diseased prostitutes! Trusted, he finds a sensuous wo man in the town, plans to escape spends money and is caught supposed friend. He then has a! woman each payday like the re t Fever gets him and he goes to the hospital where he finds bad treat ment. mates afflicted with vene real diseases. He recovers. Comes the day to return home. Soki “insults” an overseer, is forced to remain. Zo leaves, ar rives in Monrovia with better than $35, his savings. He is picke. by police, fined every cent. Bit ter he leaves to hunt Pameta. Taneta has fallen a victim to Jai k-on and social disease- Jack son’s wife, educated in an Ameri can Negro college, realizes she is bttle more than head concubine. She takes out her spite on her ser vants, actually slaves Pameta be comes deathly sick Jackson has been commissioned to build highways. With no mon ey he forces the natives to labor Zo. leaving Monrovia walks acci dentally through camp, is arrested, put to work. He escapes. Jack son, drunk, ha- - sought out Pame ta. sobers when he learns she has a dread disease, leaves her on the roadside Here Zo finds her. dy ing. Insane, he steals to J-u-i ->on’s home, stabs him to death, is him eif killed by a rifle bullet. Saunders, editor and leader of the opposition party which is nev er -uccessful because of the crooked elections, is seek ng an in vestigation by other nations. The a’orn'y general, disgu-ted, final ly come.- to his side. Exposes of condit'ons are always carried in Saunders’ weekly paper. President Johnson, re-elected is glad of Jackson’s death Jackson had been boomed as a rival for the presidency. He appoints ano thi r to Jack, on’s place and busi ng gm on as usual. Th" author minces no words in h's 290 page volume. Me writes •dim Iv and well and gives a vivid portrayal of the horrors and in justices and slavery under a gov ernm-nt founded by free black Am r . in to perpetuate freedom. If what lie says is true then Li bera is a disgrace to nations, her exploitation of weaker peoples something to be learned by eve i the mo t brutal countries, and her government n discredit to Ne , grogs everywhere. It is a book that in nurpose an i content ranks with “Uncle Tom’s <7 W W' J* < H B B 1 * r '” ^ ec ’ B What Sam ^Auburn Avenue ,Vy::Saysj;T' I.P.REYN/bLDS 'HIM SOME OF the equipment re cummemfed lor a Deacon attend ing a conference: ] A bullet proof vest, 2. A machine gun. , L I Two good revolvers. j 4 Al Capone as a bodyguard. 5 A supply of tear gas bombs I tl Dynamite in case of being ganged " 7 Have teeth fixed by Dr \ I. Kelsey so you can bite in a tight place for Dr. Kelsey's dental work can be depended on. 8 A hat that you can get hold of in case you leave in an emer gency. 9 Have prayer with Rev. E G. Clements. 10 Last but not least have a talk with JESSE HANLEY the under taker who you may need it the conference runs true to form. SHERMAN SAID 'war was hell" but that, putting it mildly from leading the last issues of the paper and the doings in some of the lo cal churches. A Bishop in Alabama arrested for bastardy, and a dea con cut to death in church. A sorry example to show the world and if the news is not true then the paper should be taken to task if it is then the members should not '‘holler" but go silently to work aving the lost XMAS HOLIDAYS right on us ami 1 am about as far in the "hole" a. I was the last Xmas but any- I how the merchants are getting | 'their wares ready for the "dea” I public." There's YATES A N D ' MH TON with some article ini stock that will suit anybody .o pocketbook as a Xmas present There's JORDAN with his stock of j dry gods and all accessories that I goes to satisfy Xmas shoppers । CURRY AND HALL also is read', o serve the public like wise. tie-., the diferent dining rooms are pre- l paring to vie with each other ' ' give us good service during tb" holidays. there's the JAMES HOTEI. MRS. SCOTT SUTTON ! THE ECONOMY DELICATAS 1 : EX. THE WATi I.E SHOP an l many olli"’- that are read 1 ' I > .■ o No ex< use to not < njoy ■ ... \ ERV best cia: . >1 at the Royal Theatre on the "Av at all times A cozy place to spend ; the ,:fte n>r 0 Wh'le there the oth j er night 1 saw a sigvifieent udver 1 . tisement on the sc aim w■T "’ Hike this THE ROYAI, W"" COMES YOU THRONGH TH" I FRONT DOOIV In my way o r i thinking that advertising scored o i point. 1 leave this fact with yon '"The best of pictures and you a 1 I welcomed THRU THE FRON’i’ DOOR. FOR GOOD r. ading that con tains beautiful thoughts read U. Ivy Brothers 'ad' in the Sunduv i WORLD. The beaufflt.il thought ' are selected by Mis- Estella Ivy sister to the Ivy Brothers the Un dertakers. A LADY CALLS the office mA says that "I am disgracing TJ, cons' in mv cartoon. 1 disaw - • with her. It is impossible for c to disgrace the church of the t- God or a Christian deacon. If I: ■ deacons or the church can be d graced then she should start in ’! church where a DEACON wi KILLED or take Bishop Gran* Alabama to task for ILLEGIT' MACY and who was arrested m conference. The church criticize' us poor ‘'devils" so we must stam’ silent even it some of the officia’ see fit to walk into our homes a" ! rob daughtei s of their virtue. Wo must not mention it through th > press when a DEACON KILLS ANOTHER IN THE CHURCH BONES THE fish sandwich mm says don't care how manv DEA CONS are slain he is still pre paring the best fish sandwich in town on Piedmont around the co" ner from -Auburn Avenue. TALKING ABOUT accidents and injuries with Dr. J. B. Tram sou the other day he informs me that he can be got at a minute': notice to any Deacon if he happens to get wounded in church warfare From the looks of the "Western front" he can stay late at his office on church conference nights. Jus! call him. From what has hapnene'l lately a doctor should be at chm'Hi gatherings as thev ate football 1 games. ( abin \\ hile it is apparent th; t the author does not "et as much drama out of manv situations a he might and u c few phrases to be long renii'inhvred, he does g. t his nn- sage a. ro-.- and tells a storv not quickly forgotten- I doubt whothi-r anybody could rea l the hook without feeling the ut most sympathy for Zo and the other natives, while at the samo time feeling a desire to giv" Presidetit John on and his aide a good .-hooting. In this book Schuyler does n lauch for the subiect is grim I reads with the smoothness and truth of a star reporter writ ■ : facts Every Negro should it. "Slaves Today” is published b' Brewer. Warren and Putnam o f i New York, sells for $2 50 and wa 'released Nov. 13. Cherchez La Femme BY WILLIAM I’K KENS (For The Associated Negro Pjpss) Theodore Dreiser, under tin au.. pices of a committee fo' the <i> lense of political and labor-case prisoners, went down into Kentucky to investigate the awful murdei and denial of legal rights which have taken place during the miners' strike. As a result. Dreiser and a woman, who was doubth ■ on 1 same mission, have been md: *"d by a Kentucky "grand .mu m. charge of associating together in a Kentucky hotel Just w:i’t D and the woman did. or just how th..> "jury" found out what was done, has not been explained to u.- s tar. But what interests us. is that Dreiset is finding out what ex ary black man of the south knows ti’.u when you get after that section about its savagery and murder and lynching, it will do its best to "red herring" the trail and to "change the subject," by injecting, or ever, framing, some entirely irrelevant matter. Wnen Negroes try to exercise civil rights, they are met by: “We propose to defend white woman hood!" or some such irrelevant non sense When t^?groes cr y out against lynchers, they are met wun a pretext about that rare Ni-gio maniac who may have attacked a white woman sometime soniewbo ", When colored people object t-> di-> t^arched or toasted? Bio, sir! I OIKLS are Fresh: The bedrock of Camel popularity is the inhei’cnllv fiiH‘ quality of! hr tobaccos that go into our cigarette. These tobaccos are notably inihL fnll r.n Hou. . <!<‘lieatelv flavored by nature — the 1 iiiu^l l urkish and mild, sun-ripened DoincDlic tobaccos that iiioik v can buy. To saieguard th<‘ essential goodness of these fine tobaccos we exercise' every care to conserve' their natural ine>istnre and natural flaveirs. a MMIMIw II I' l|l 111 M ilk'll You needn’t tell me — I know Camel is W the fresh cigarette!" -A' > I wC. dr - ii w : "'^h 1 i—। Will Cam e ls Made FRESH —Kep/ FRESH jim-i: ■>w carx and ti v to doman I Pullm.m arconmdala ns when they have to iMe 24 hour- or more on a southern tram tl > y a.e opposed by the < i ■ I.- (ip. o' idle yof talk about equalit.'- as it any white p< n '.'.l ie i\| ■ । ted to ride in tie < ■ i p-T-am - be' th. Wb. n We e-. p the .\l' ' ;I he eoloi e I child on- . "liar to t!-■ while child's t<m 1 '! ■ -i edir i". ' funds, we are t e::' ■ a d . a of "race s::p. r io. :i, ■ i n’ t' m 1 cior hid b i>, .0. . d i: :.1- to keep him inferior. D:, ; . ■ \. ent r .'. n to mv. i t'gate the w hob ale . -. <ie: im, and m: pri.-onm ol Kentucky working peo ple amt behold* the "grand jmy is tryim.' to "hist th ■ mutter to : trial .) 1 ti'ei er pe; sonal moral and mami. r. The "grand jut a'; who haven’t md.cled anybody for the horr'ble murders and beatini'i administered touis own "poor white" workers, hav/ hurried to indict Dreiser for a nlativelv trivial some db.ing o f which perhaps everv "grand" juror was long since guilty Perhaps however they will help :us ta beat it into Dreiser's head, what we mean when we tell him and others no' Io carry communism and polities into the defense of those nine Negro boys in A'abam i The Ku Klux elemi'd of the s iuth would ,:i::-t love to have the ba‘i shifted from th ■ qiios - in as io tin oil! or inn. i'। ih of the I"V I■, th” question of "radicalism" a: I 1 her such blah-blah! If they could tu t prove the boys guiltj tn '■ 1 easily prove to their fi dov. cl. ’ that "lommumsni" is guilty and therefore kill those nigger:' ' Hot ' Theodore Dreiser and I.incoln Stef fens, bright as they seem to be m some other matters, have "gone "it half cocked" with the commum on the Scottsboro cases, and seem entirely incapable qf understanding the average colored'man's olnwt h . to having this dangerous political handicap added to the almi . t i: sufferable racial handicap of the nine boys while in jeopardy of their lives. Of course, the fi ,- st fair pledges of the Communist caused others besides these two gentlemen to In. fooled is 4o the real mtenti.in of their p’opaganda. but Dreiser and Steffens seem to stay fooled When you get hot on the trail of the guilts, they will run off into other usips if you leave them anv woes iblo loopholes Perhaps Ken tuck'. may teach even Dreiser or Steffens to beware of this trick. BIRMINGHAM. Ala . De I 1 Persons convicted in the Recoid '■i s court this week for violating the liquor law are John Henry Mosely. Palm Leaf Hotel, who had two pints of corn liquor in Ins bootblack stand. 525 and costs: Flora Cornwell. 4122'4> First avenue, arrested for her first offense and who bad three pints and one quart in a trap m the floor; Annie Parker 2427 Ninth Court, north, four quarts :md one half pint. $35: and Nathan iel Hall. 1120 Bth avenue, north ar rested bv Officers Collier and Per ■ kins, one quart $25 and costs World Readers Say: SHE GOT HER H’RKEY Atl;mt:i World: Editor. Sir: PleiiM■ me, pt tfi. belati'd :n knowk-dgemi pl us my rccript of tliv turkev won m ymir Thani.: :i\ im: < 'ontc. I )ue to our pre vmu plan.- lor Thank..giving the! I !-. । । stru11111:• pi oudly in my vard gobbling with glee over ( .aping Hie block on Thanksgiv ing Day Poor follow! He hasn't I a- .-lightest knowledge that Christmas is jm-t over the way, and at that time we will be just as grateful to the "World" for fin - m: lung our Christmas dinner. Mi- (' H Connally 125 Walnut Street. S. W Atlanta. Georgia. Holdup in Day IHRMINtiILAM. Ala. Dec. 11 — । Three bold daylight robbers i walked into the wall paper store iof W M Haygood. 1920 Fourth i.eniie. north. Tuesday and asked tb.e manager if he would show them some wall paper. As Mr. Haygood wen' Io the ri ar to get some sam ph for the eustomers, the three ' emptied tfie money till and escaped. Dffieer Propts and Lewis investi "ated. Thev are never parehed or toasted— the Reynolds method of scientifically applying h<*al guarantees against that. Thal’s why we say Camels are made fresh to start with — and why the Camel Humidor Pack can bring them fresh to you, in prime smoking condition. If you want to know what a blessing that means in unalloyed smoke-enjoy ment, switch to Camels for just one day — then leave them —if you can. Don't remove the moisture-proof wrapping from your package of Camels after you open it. The ( amel Humidor Pack is protection against sweat, dust and germs. In offices and homes, even in the dry atmosphere of artificial heat, the Camel Humidor Pack can be depended upon to deliver fresh Camels every time £i 1931, R J. Reynolds Tobacco Company TOPICS| R- J- Reynolds Tobacco Company W inston-Salem, N. C. MmeK ^Are you Listenin’ ? ” R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY'S COAST-10-COAST RADIO PROGRAMS camel quarter hour, Morton Downey, Tony Wons, and Camel Orchestra, direc tion Jacques Renard, every night except HHEh Sunday, Columbia Broadcasting System PRINCE ALBERT QUARTER HOUR, Alice Joy, “Old Hunch,” and Prince Albert Orchestra, direction Paul Van Loan, every night ex cept Sunday, N. B. C. Red Network See radio page of local newspaper for time Bp . KI ■' J® CHAUFFEUR EWEN FINE. TIME Oil TWO COUNTS BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Dec 11 — Arrested early the morning Ot November 29. Roman William, J l ’?* 2 Shades Mountain, was brought t«ty trial Wednesday morning before Judge Martin on charges of driv ing a ear while intoxicated and reckless driving on one count and carrying concealed weapons on an other. Williams, who is chauffeur for Mark Hanna, was stopped about two thirty that morning after Ot fieer Gilbert chased him some ten lilocks on First avenue as the man war. travelling in a large sedan with a number of companions at a speed estimated at between fifty and sixty miles an hour. According to Officer Gilbert wno finally caught the fleeing automo bile on Fourth avenue, the defen dant was drui >c and staggering, very impudent refusing to submit to a search when his turn came. A gun was found concealed on him in a scabbard. Mr. Hanna testified that the car had been loaned by him to his driver but that the weap on had been taken without permis sion. Williams was given a fine of fifty dollars and costs and thirty days in jail in one case and a like fine and sentence in the other.