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It Would Have Helped
Had the mob which formed in Tate, Ga., threatening
to lynch the chief of police of that community for what they
considered an unwarranted attact on a white citizen had
itd way, it would probably have paved the wav fer ever
lasting benefit to Negroes thrcughout the South. _
Nobody can fully understand the brutal horror of a
lynching until he or his friends have been victimized. The
more responsible those whe have been the prey of & mob,
the surer the chance of legisiation heing passed to prevent
such atrocities in the future. Twenty Negroes burned or |
shot or hanged by lvnchers cculd never result in the anti- i
mob legislation obtained were one police c¢hicl made the
victim of mob lusts. ‘
The fact that the citizens of Tate had the apparent |
intention of lvnching their chicf of police shows what may '
happen when the peonle, [y long practice, are trained to
consider the law of the mob hicher than those made by !
shate. A psychology had develeped which might have |
resulted in the death of a white man of responsible posi
tion, for the lynching spirit¢ cannot always be checked. ‘
At any rate, the civice officials of Tate and the police
chief in particular are now better able to appreciate the
terror of the Negro who is hustled to safety only a step a- |
head of the man pack cof blood-thirsty lynchers. 1
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- . Parole for Dr. Mitchell |
Having granted Dr. M. C. Mitchell, the Negro doctor !
of Macon, a parole from the life imprisonment which he was
serving, the governor ought now to go on and parole him
from the sentence of one vear on a forecery charge from
Macon county.
It is an odd circnimstance that nobody, except officers,
Was apparently aware of the forgery charge against Dr.
Mitchell. Thre was no record of it in the papers that went
to the governor. Apparently there was no record of it at
the state pri=on. Iiowever, both the murder charge and
the forgery charge grew out of the death of Dr. Mitchell’s
nephew. Dr. Mitchell has never for an instant ceased to
contend that he was innocent of the charee. Whether ir
nocent or guilty, he has served ten yvears. The stoto b
forgiven him and the governor intended to rectere him to
society.
No great harm would he : if the oovernor
par()]r\(]_hin'x on the ferorwe ’ [ndeed. te forgive him
#ho m- o - v 0 s L im to serve on additional year
m a maor charge is to practice cruelty. The people of
th(; state are satisfied with the penalty Dr. Mitchell has
paid, even if he were guilty. There is no reason why he
should be called upon for an additional day’s service 1n jail.
—Macon Telegraph. ‘ .
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Cpmions espressed in this column_ which will appear occa- !
' sionally, are not necec sarily shared by The World but are purery !
. those of the writer, '
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t FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS :
i
I have often wondered how many millions of dollars
are wasted annually by whites in Ameriea in an effort to
keep segregation, prejudice and discrimination on the level
which they desire,
It is more than a coincidence
that those states which lay the
costliest offerings at the fect of
their god of race prejudice are the
most backward, possess the larg
est number of paupers, and in
general bring up the rear of what
we soberly call “civilization.”
Begin with the schools. In
stead of educating the youth of
both races together. the more
backward states erect separate
buildings for whites and another
set for Negroes. This calls for
additional expense in both build
ing and teaching staffs. On the
other hand, the achievements of
Negroe: are painstakingly erased
from school books at more ex
pense. Then the Negroes go t
the cxpense of putting these deed
back ‘nto books for use in Ne
gro schools
When the races worship. they
go to separate temples Whit
Baptists and Methodists don't
mingle with Negro Baptist: and
Methodists except on very rare
occasions. Maybe it': again:t the
white man’s religion.
When 't comes to traveling,
ga.rticularly in the South. plenty
f good spendable cash goes into
jim-crow waiting rooms and
means of conveyance. It's waste
which does nobody any material
good.
When it comes to amusements,
can the Negro enjoy himself with
the others? Into a special the
ptre section he must go so that
there will be no mingling. If
the races sat together. some white
rerson m'cht find out that Ne
. groes werc not all they'd been
low-rated to bhe. Therefore more
expense for jim-crow sections.
‘Add to these a thousand and
one other costly ways of segrega
tion and the pay of a host of po
licemen and others tH see that
these rules of diserimination are
rig'dly enforced. and vou see what
becomes of a large part of every
body's dollar, the proportion in
creasing as the observer makes
his way from Scattle. Washing
ton. to Miami, Florvida.
It is obvious that thosi:e who
spend a large part of their dol
lar to keep the races senarate
cannot have =0 mueh left to eith
er educate or advance themselves.
By the sume reasoning—-and
the facts bear it out—where there
is less attempt to treat the two
races a< distinet and different en
tit‘es. there is more progress, a
chievement, weather and inter
rac al goodwill. Who could rlass
Atlanta. with its racial bumaboos,
with ("j;(~;)g'() or New York: with
their comparative freedom from
Nexronhobia?
The more interracial bars are
Aore gwyr with the better the
foeling botween Negiro and white,
(Cortact on enual footing killz nre
judice. The white learns to for
.m0t myvthe ahout the Negro and
tho Neoro oots a different concen
i tion of whites. But it must h-o
rontact or .’\nu.'ll fOOt:n" The
{ hosseg v d-amployee fombinatior
car't do if
. Mavbe come great leader with
lan economic turn ‘of mind will
i eventnally comn alone and sch-»
“America from its prejudice-drunk.
Wed., Dec. 30th 'y
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What Sam .
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L ST gy A R
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1.P.REYNOLDS HiNsELe"
AND THE ‘Rev. Dawson pulled
the “cover’ off of me. He said I
W going to k e e p hanging
around Bethel church until I got
s religion” [thought I hadreligion as
my name is on the “books” at Lib
erty Baptist church but I some
time wonder and have to search
myself pretty well when I visit his
church, listen: to Rhis instructive
ermon and he goes to throwing
ricks” at the enes who do not
“toe’’ the christian line. There's
more truth than fiction in his
atement to me. A person gets in
spiration to visit Bethel listen to.
‘Rev. Dawson and then that won
derful choir. Their voices as clear
as bells. specially when they sinz
his favorite selection 1 think the
title is something like this “WE
WILL BE HAPPY OVER THERL.™
Rev. Dawson introduced me as
"Deacon Jones” and a singular
coincidence when t h e visitors
stood — I'll leave you to GUESS
THAT? Any how I heard a good
Xmas sermon at Bethel A. M. E.
Church last Sunday morning.
F ONG” JOHN Rush -on the
“‘Avenue” — 1 don't see “SHORT"
iM:ns.on Johnson. I bet they will
meet in a few minutes.
} WELL THE reaction has come
A sheriff hustled from a small
ltown. to a jail in this city for safe
'kcopin;{ to dodge a threatening
'nmb. If America does not put a
stop to this mob business of mob
bing colored folks, the mob will
!snon be mobbing white people. [
don't expect that sheriff when he
would read in the papers about a
jcolored man |Iynched by ‘un
iknown” parties would think some
iday he would have to take refuge
iin jail in another town to dodge a
mob.
A BIRTHDAY party to, and on
a. Cheistinas . night to "JESSH
Hanley who was born on Christ
mas day, tendered to him by his
emploves. Well I guess the old
*Soul” felt funny to have a party
GIVEN him as he is so used to GIV
ING the other fellow. Ye old
seribe was not present as he gof
1 et tao wiato - bul q F()¢
Liine was repoited and it was. 2o
at MRS SCOTT SUTTONS dining
reom so 1 know the service was
supethb.
BEY. S5 M. LEE that wide
awake Baptist preacher from Ma
ietta, Georgia dming at the ECO
NOMY DBEUICATESSEN its g
popular place to eat.
I REALLY DID not know he
was an Atlanta boy. suave, com
manding and dignified, sporting
spats long heavy overcoat and lit
on side. I thought he was one of
the hoyvs fpom acioss the ‘line’
from State Street Chicago o »
Seventh Avenue, New York my
curiosity was aroused so [ summoi
up courage and asked him who
was he? - How long had he been
here? He replied his name v
Ralph Perry and “Bear’ Perry v
his ‘“daddy” Atlanta born and A
lanta raised.
~ AFTER CHRISTMAS. a good
time to shop. Mr. Abe Saul of
SAULS on Whitehall Street say:
the shrewd buyer will take ad
vantage of his marked down after
l(,Zhristnms sales.
' HOME PRODUCTS but sold the
country over and results attained
to the satisfaction of the most
critical—the exquisite DRISKURA
PREPARATIONS for the ladies
scalp —and- skin: These products
manufactored by Mrs. Wm. Drisk
ell help nature bring out that
beauty.
' THERE'S SOMETHING fascinat
'ing about a bass horn player.
Though he is not featured like the
smaller instruments in The band or
orcnestra but next time you listen
to an orchestra place yourself near
the bass horn player and see how
those . "bBoys' do work = Quillyv.
serenely do they “puff” out those
notes coming in on time. laying out
at particular times then at the
right moment back again on time,
the whole band depends on them
yet when the applause or the
praise . is | gmiven they are in
variably left in the back ground
by the spectators. such is the lot of
Wilcox and modest Johnnie Wil
liams. the gentleman bass horn
players of Atlanta. Georgia.
. BONT UL ML oiie now
“can’t go over big on the “Avenue.”
' The Royal theatre is ‘“packing’
them in this holiday week. The
reason a good show, first class
pictures a n d the management
leaves no stone unturned to please
| their patrons. This depression did
not have to force Mr. Bailey to
cgive his patrons the best theatrical
features. Its been his policy ever
since he founded his theatre. Many
|
| i s
| But until that time. count <0 much
of every dollar wasted in o grand
pattempt to keep burnt offerines
bafore the great shrine of racisal
' hatred,
Democratic “Ill Success”
" By William Pickens
(For The Associated Negro Press)
“Ill success' sounds like a contra
diction of terms, but the congres
sional Democrats are about to give
us a perfect illustration of the pos
sible relationship of those two
ideas: success and ill. To get con
!trul of the House of Representa
tives is certainly ‘'success;” but to
Iget into this position just a few
{months before a presidential
'elcctmn campaign and just in time
{for the Democrats to expose their
i\\'(‘:lknt';\'.\' before the vote of the
'people is called for, certainly bodes
!"1“" for Democratic success next
{ November. With their character
istic pig-headedness and ob
structionist tactics the Democrats
are now in position to be loaded
down with responsibility for all
the evils that may befall these
United States for the next ten or
eleven months. The rival parties
will not hesitate to make them the
scapegoats, and Democrats strategy
has generally shown itself incom
petent in such a situation: domin
ated by the south, they are likely
to offend the money crowd and the
whisky crowd, the radcals, and
will hardly miss the chance of
alienating the Negro sentiment
that has developed in their di
rection in the last ten or twelve
years.
It would have been better for
the Democrats if some wise old
solon of their party had persuaded
a score of them to pretend sickness
play “hooky"” or stay home and al
|low the Repubiicans to organize
the present congress and keep the
'r't-spunsibi]ity, or the appearance
lof rsponsibility. for our sore condi
’tion until election day in 1932
There is still one line of shewd
action open to the Democrats of
the House: they could proceed to
pass some legislation of a high and
BUSINESS
INDUSTRY g3
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l {As Compiled by the Associai. |
'.\Iw:m Press with the Cooperatio. !
of the Department of Comnere: |
‘ the National Negro Business ] cag™~ |
and other Reliable Sources ’
FINANCIAL OUTLOO i
By William Occomy
For The Associated Negro vy |
i Markets 7
1 The Presidents message log i
| with the dropping of the gold sta
| dard by the Japanese governmer |
| coupled with the railroad labor di
! icu'ties. has lett the business wor?
unusually depressed. In view of t |
improvement in sentiment. reports
some time ago, these urhenvel: g
as a deterrent to ar™ lanen.
covery.
Although. th™ ¢ 1 T clOul, |
vet there is 5 oss fo g
cast certair . tons of falr
weather ! + ¢ more impot -
tant sign ° ae fact that the
world ha. ' o ‘ous of the
cconomic €. = bending
all efforts to 1 When
this accurs the nillione
of human being : cted to
l one ftask .imprc’ ;00NeY
| or later bound t«
1
I Fin:.
| Business failure the
| high point of 58 n: ¢
| to 4 8more than g :
| market has bee.. : e
drawbacks for - aecined
from $81.89 last v-= $/9.68 this
week Brokers l- -, 3. likew=e
shown a drop ni @ #"nions i
$720 millions of la:' week 1 )
this week.
Tells Louisville of Negro Industrial
Problems
Louisville. Ky., Dec. 28.—(ANP)
—How other communities are solv
ing the unemployment problem of
the Negro was ioid by T. Arnold
Hill. industriai secretary of the Na
tional Urban League ,in an address
Wednesday at the Phyllis Wheat
lev Branch of the ¥. W. C. A.
Speaking on “How Unemploy
ment Affects the Negro,” the speak
er pointed out that Negro workers
izmfl at a ‘“greater disadvantage”
than white labor during prescne in
dustrial eonditions because - white
persons have displaced Negroes in
many classes of work formerly done
almost exclusively by the latter.
In Baltimore. he said. the public
school svstem is attempting to solve
the problem by instituting a special
trade school programme for Ne
croes, thereby fitting them for new
fieids which require special train
1N
? The meeting was under the aus
;pirws of the Louisville Urban Il.ea
gue
!u colored star who draw a salary
of three figures or more a week
'and name is blazed over the news.-
'papers of the country can remem
ber they at one time got their
chance before the public under the
Bailey “footlights.
DEACON JONES, BROTHER
BELL and Miss Theresa DPeterson
are now busy rehearsing ther
new play to be presented to the
public at an early date entitied
Deacon JONES GETS THE INSUR
ANCE MONEY uproariously funn+
and shows the Old Deacon at 1.
best assisted by Brother Dell wiih
his dry humor,
progressive variety. too geod for
Republicans of the Senate to ac
1cept.— and so kep the onus on
‘Republican shoulders. Suppose the
{House should now revise the taviii
ldownward, scale down military
‘expenses, call for eal disarmament,
‘cut government expenditures rad
jically and relieve the terrible bur
‘den of the people’'s taxes; they
,would tend to popularize their
party. Next November the votes
will be close in many states. Al
iready Mr. Hoover, leader of the
| Republican party, has beaten the
{Democrats to the first wire by
]calling for nonpartisan action on
{the economic measures before Con
| gress.
f Suppose the Democrats of the
;House had the human cunning to
'play havoc with the Republicans
INegro vote by passing a real anti
!lynching bill, and voting a resolu-
Ition asking the southern statcs to
|enforce the 14th and 15th amend
!ments,—think of what they would
{gain! And they would not lose
|anything: for in the first place,
lynching would go right on, bill o.
no bill, and in the recrd place the
Negroes of the south n.ve been so
'budly trained political.y that there
lwould be no grand rush into
politics, and in statc: like South
{Carolina, they would si..' be hind
gcmd and prevented b; local Demo
|cratic lawlessness. [3ut think of
jwhat a Democra! @ cu. gress could
‘gain by such a gesturc.
9 But they will not . 1cw any such
|sense as that. They wiil go in their
[traditional way; they will think
that partial success in 1931 means
full success in 1932,
We predict that if they succeed
in 1932, it will be by the narrowest
margin, at their best. But we realiy
expect ~them to fail-—a failure
which will be due chiefly to their
shortsighted procedure following
their bad 'good luck” of a con
gressional majority. :
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NEW ORLEANS, La., Deec.. 30 -
(ANP)--Lula Mae Allen, graduate
purse of Flint-Goodridge hospital,
who will leave December 26 for
La Paz, Bolivia, as the first colored
‘missionary sent by the Women's
Foreign Missionary society outside
of Africa, was given a farewell re
ception at the Wesley Methodist
Episcopal: church: Bishop R E
Jones of the New Orleans Meth
odist Episcopal area presided.
Dr. W. W. Alexander, president
of Dillard university, in discussing
her appointmnt, said that “The
missionary movement was the boest
thing in westen civilization. Any
success that we have had in solv
ing problems at home is due to
knowledge o f human relations
gained in missionary work. Em
phasizing superficial differences is
the main problem today, as down
underncath human beings ar e
lalike.”
i “Healing wounds of the soul as
well as of the body will progress
as this work expands,” Alfredo
Blanco. Bolivian consul said. *“A
better understanding betwen na
tions and races, and a broader
view of humanitarism will result.”
Miss Allen expressed her ap: recia
tion of the opportunity to serve
her people and her religion. She
was graduated by the Gondridge
nospital in 1930, and attended the
Kennedy School of Missions in
tiartford. Connecticut, and Gram
ercy Park School for Christian
Leaders 1n New York City.
RIRMINGHAM Ala.. Dec. 30—
A kerosere lamn figcured nromi
nentlvy. in the trial of Douplas
Rlack. 1623 Tenth avenue. north,
n charres of disorderly enonduct
tin the Recorders court Monday
morning
Areording to T. M. Rarlow. sner
inl nficor a girl with her head cut
aned hleeding ran un to him erving
abent eicht a'clock Friday night
58 he stond at the corner of 22nrl
atrnot and Eichth avennue, north, He
tnnk her to the hospital where she
was treated and discharged.
Miss Sallie Mae Waits., 2117 8th
allev. alleges that the man struck
her in the head with the lamp 21d
that he was drunk at the time. Her
rigtor. Maryv, stated that Douglas
was arouing with her over shme ear
viray and that Cradv Forgter, his
~ramnanion. ralled him off the o'rl
ng thav eclaghed after she had been
struck with the lamp .
Yeouna Forster said that the two
men weent to the girl's home and
that the couple quarrelled over
same earrings that she had let him
have to be repaired .Douglas refus
o4 tn give them bark so she tnscod
lamn at him while he retaliated
b+ ctriking her with the same m’s
o Drnglas testified that he struck
lor aftar she hit him in the fore
hend He was fiven a fine of ten
Anllare and costs for disorderly
onduct,
Kelly Mil;r, Gloomy, Views
- 1931 as Poor Ycar for Race:
i '‘BY KELLY MILLER
| Sizing up the stream of move
ments in which the American Ne
gro has been caught, we are forced
‘to reverse the ancient motto, and
say: “The past, at least, is inse
cure”. 1931 has been a bad year for
the world. Is it merely a readjust
ment from the convulsion of the
World War: Or is it that man's
smartness is again defeating itself
by trying to reach the sky on a
tower of science as it did once long
ago, by the vain attempt to build
the tower of Babel on the plains of
Shinar? Machinery creates over
production, for which mankind hus
not yet found a cure. Is more sci
ence to be the cure or the curse
for too much scicnce?
; The Negro has been the incid
ental. but inevitable, victim of un
toward world condiuons. The bot
tom layer is always pressed thin
nect by the weight superincumbent
upon i1t. Whiie it mmay do no good
to lament after the mauner of
Jeiemich, yet courageous analysis
and a frank facing of fact must
precede any coastiuctive scheme
of reiief.
Our greatest bank has failed.
Our largest insuranrce cnierprise is
now in the hands of the receiver.
'Against these calamities, we are
|h(‘.:n'u-nvd. to a degree, by the man
ful struggle which several of our
|notublc enterprises are making to
keep their head above water.
Therc are over a million unem
|ployml among us whom we have
little ¢ nn power within ourselves
‘th empiov or to give substantial re
liel. 'Th> rcce should everywhere
join in comminmily movements to
swell the Community Chest which
engages to —a'd the needy on the
basis of noed. and not race. We
must still beseech the white race
each day for our daily bread.
; Our public and puivate institu
itons have been Leeping school and
hearing lessons, without any con
structive program for employment
or self help for the proiuct of their
tuition. Our highest iastitutions of
learning have been put to their
’\vits end to justify the munificent
‘grants which the Foundations have
been dumping into their laps. Du-
Bois, the caustic critic, and Wood
son the iconoclast have united in
declaring our edurational regime
a - fajlure without any
of the constructive suggestion. Qur
ireligious life is at a lower ebb than
it has been since the great awak
ening during the carly years of the
Ininctecnth century. Our oldest and
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[ TOPICS
most boasted and boastful de
nomination, in the languages of the
istock market, has reached ‘“new
{lows.” The churches have lost their
'militancy. Their efforts are too
largely consumed in raising im
possible financial budgets, to thc]
comparative neglect of the mis
stonary spirit and morat reform.
The great temperance movement
[which is sweeping over the nation
receives little or no enthusiastic
support from the Negro (‘hurch.‘
{Our youth no longer look to the
{church for moral guidance. |
| We stand appalled at the re
'divivus of lynching, like the man
with the night mare who can not |
even move or scream at the im
minence of danger. The church
land state look on wit® paralyzed
‘energies and horrideous impotency.
. dhe N. A. A € P has been
carrying on its fighi against in
(stances of injustice and outrage,
jand has become practically the
lonly voice warning the nation.
lagainst the just requitement ur|
liniquity and sin. |
| We have all but yiclded up the
1g,host as to our civil service hope.
;The number of colored clerks in
‘the department service of the
[government h a4 s dropped from
{three hundred within the past ten '
|years, and is healed to the in
%(svimble zero point. Lately we have |
theard it triumphantly proclaimed |
%lhat under Mr. Hoover we hu\'vl
154,000 persons on the gévernment
!paymll with an annua! salary of
1$69,000,000. But it was carefully
;vonconlod that these low grade zmd‘g
‘low paid employees for the most
Ipart, were handed down as a le
gacy from the Wilson administra
tion, and during the year just
elapsing, there h as been n o
augmentation in number nor ecle
vation in dignity and rank. |
| For fully a ycar now, Dr. (?;u’t«'r‘3
G. Woodson has been telling us in
mournful numbrs that the edu
cational, cconomic, political and
religious life of the race is near
the brink of collapse. We have the
Lwill to disbelieve him and branded
him as a wild calamity howler, and
yet we know that he tells much
I'disagreeable truth. I have likened
'him to Cassandra, the blind pro
'phetess of Troy,~ who spake the
‘truth but the people were fated to
|disbelieve or ignore her, until it
| was too late. Dr. Woodson is un
idoubtedly serving a useful purpose
:at great sacrifice to his reputation
as a research scholar and as a his
torial. His undaunted courage, in
HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va,
Dec., 30 — (ANP) — On December
seventh, the new Phenix School
opened at Hampton institute. Com
'bining as it does in one building
‘the colored high school of Eliza
beth City County of Virginia andf
the colored elementary and pri
!mary schools of Phoebus a n d
Chesapeake districts of the same
‘county it provides for Hampton
institute one of the largest, most
complete teachers’ practice train
' T h e new building has been
named the George Perley Phenix
School in memory of Dr. Phenix,
the fourth Principal, and the first
one to receive the title of Presid
‘ent of Hampton institute. Dr. Phen
ix for years was in charge of the
secondary group—the so-called
‘academic work at Hampton in
‘stitute; he also controlled the
‘Whittier Training school, In late
years he worked untiringly for a
‘new building to replace the old
Whittier building; when he came
into office as Principal one of the
first things he did was to engage
‘the services of Mr. Warren S.
‘Holmes of Lansing, Michigan, an
expert in the designing and plan
ning of school buildings to prepare
‘a plan for this building.
| KILLED BY TRAIN
~ MARIANNA, Okla., Dec., 30--(A
NP)- -Mrs. Annie Lott, 55 was kill
ed instantly Wednesday morning
by a Missouri Pacific passenger
train on a trestle at Baines spur.
trepidity challenge our admiration
even though we may not be able
to follow out the unmitigated logic
of his evil forebodings.
The Negro newspapers have on
the whole proved to be our best
sustained endeavor, One bright
spot stands out in the history of
the vear 1931 The Non-Partizan
Negro Conference just held in
Washington furnishes the o n e
kindly light amidst the encircling
loom.
| “Looking Forward” will be my
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