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The Negro Looks Back and Ahead
With the passing of 1931. the world in genera] and iht
Negro in particular can look back on one of the most disast
rous and unfortunate years in peace-time history. The <T
pression. which many “experts” said could not last through
1931, still has its pall about us and it seems as if many
days must pa-s before tile country recovers from its fin
ancial illness.
The Negro's economic bulwarks, never yet strong, have
been assailed in all manner of ways. Banks in <'meat o,
Philadelpha and Xew York have crashed, loaded to the top
with Negro savings. The race has bet n displaced in .jobs
and has been driven from many of those which through
many years he has claimed as his own. The I iggest busi-j
ness enterprise of Afrarm Hca. the National Benefit Insu
rance Co., has tottered on the brink of ruin. A host of
smaller businesses have passed into history and tbday peo
ple are begging for alms who in t ears gone by gave liberal
ly themselves to the cause of charity.
Interracially, the Negroes of Atlanta have witnessed
the holding of an Ecumenical conference when l the city
camouflaged its bogey men of racial animosity and paraded
them before international giants of church thought as
emissaries of Brotherly love to the Negroes. The electro
cution last February of sew n men for a murder and the
imposing of the deaf h sentence of eight boys in Alabama
are atrocities which even Georgia's clean lynching slate
in 1931 cannot quite counterbalance.
Politically the Negro lias found new grievances against
the Hoover administration hut has shown more interest in
his government, with a distinct partiality for the democrats,
and the end of the year finds the republicans making seri
ous effort’s to regain their lost Negro support.
But the fundamental interest of the Negro in any
year is economic—and financial success must be his own
product. He cannot obtain this politically for if he could
great Chicago would not have its thousands of starving
brown men and women as there the Negro has risen to
his greatest pilit'e.-l heights. As soon as our economic
footing is sound, we may expect the respect of other races,
even though they secretly bate ns. as a perusal of the his
toiw of the Jews will show.
Years like 1931 and its hard predecessors should s’
all Negroes that the success of one is bound on v-'t'
other as long as there is any attempt to cl"- people to
gether because of the accident of col ’• "" Negro doctor
lawyer, dentist and others of t prosper only in
pro’^rtion t* ■w " ’ '■ - ■ Jay Ldpr . r or house
pore. '-■• i (• . - ; one of the aver; Negro and the
physican's chances o f getting his fee -..r the minister’s posi
sibilities of raising larger ^’.'iTctions are immediately
lessened. '
—- " lYr& ’r*ssoM 01 'j?/3T and the lean years before is easy to
see but its following is unlikely. Since the Negro depends
mainly upon whites for employment and since black laborers
are turned off and whites hired in their places when hard
times strike the nation, it is obvious that the race, to be 1 as
sured of work in times like these, must found and support its
own business enterprises, and that the leaders who suffer
indirectly from unemployment should take the steps to be
gin worthwhile institutions.
If the race can but learn this primary lesson in econo
mics, then the depression as witnessed in the last few years
will work toward everlasting good and the Negro will be
able to face the next cycle of financial instability with the
certainty that he will not have to give up his job in a white
concern to needy whites.
Are you willing to lugin immediately to build up Ne
gro business and give your support to sound propositions?
How about making that your Number One resolution for
1932?
Touring the World
Opinions expressed in this vohiimi, which will appear occa
sionally, are not neceLdarily shared by Ilie World but are purely
those of Ilie writer.
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
Of the scores of idiocies which black Atlanta cherishes
and preserves, I doubt if any has come closer to utter stup
idity than this weird and utti rly senseless complex of "mah
family name" which an amazing proportion of the city’s
half-backed upper crust always keep handy.
I get the ; dea that many of the^
town’s good people run around .
night and day with their no ... a : j' v \ tunk- . f unped greed bread
to the ground trying to scare up anG '"""yi objecting to the lull
new excuses for parading their I '' ,en: '•> their aristocracy against
family background befon new 1,1 daughters proposed ina
acquaintances or old friends who l,,n ionial mate no matter how
have been lister ng to it -im-e they d be or he may he. if that
knew the difference bewetn milk I e> ''»n doesn’t have “lam'ly
and corn whiskey " ~
it ms sort of s Hv when you
Most of those who shotr the that, two or 'three gene-
loudest are a sort of reflection on ration- ago, the ancestors ot the e
their ancestors. It sort of seem- "I'* l ' "ho bray the loudest a
as if thebe has been evolution ‘^ut family were doing thing-
all right but it went to work in a ™ m Pl ancent ly for Marse John
backward soit of way and did a "hile the forerunners ot mam, ot
fine example of reversing those they condemn were doing all
they could smash the shackles of
If they're the cream of Atlanta h Every,
society. then may heaven help the
skimmed milk Tho who made what is called
th- “family name” were probab
ly too busy trying to get ahead
There are plentiful in^ances to worry about family; their otf
of Maw and Paw. barely living on „pring think too much about
M 9 M 1 Fri., Jan. 1 ig|
YEARLY TOPICS
! There was a time we call to mind
Most of u- had plenty,
Just about eleven years ago
In N.ncteen Hundred Iweiity.
■ people that owned a hull e an<l lot
Borrowed mom \ just lot tun.
The time is chang'd a little bit
Hi Nineteen Hundred Twent.v
(>ne.
'The boll weaviT done such deadly
harm,
It was just only a few
Paid for their provis'ons
( In N-rdeeii Hundred Twenty-
I wo.
' Thing.' birin to be so seriou .
L\ cr\ b i<iy begin to see
Vid f. ■ 1 the tightness of the ime
In N neteen Hundred Twentv-
Three.
. Some thought the President could
change it.
But they didn’t seem to know
The same God would rule th"
world
In Nineteen Hundred Twenty-
Four.
Next year there was a terrible
drought
Not much grass was left a live. I
'The City had to haul u- waler
In Nineteen Hundred Twen: v-
Five.
Every farmer was so d^eouraged
It seemed they would never get
fixed.
The merchants' were not w : lling- to;
furnish
In Nineteen Hundred Twenty-j
' The time continued to tighten
। down
Till the whole lump were
leaven.
i You could'nt get much assistance i
I In Nineteen Hundred Twentv-
Seven.
I Some did'nt seem to trust the
Lord.
For bless ngs they could no'
wait.
'They begin to rob and steal
In ppeteen Hundred Twenty-j
Eight.
i Some people began to realize
They could not dress so tine
And money was not so plentiful ’
In Nineteen Hundred Twenty-,
Nine. i
Some of us have been s’ mean i
Our ways have been airty
I Th ■ time it got still worse
In Nineteen '.andred Thirty.
i The Goveroment lent the farmer I
money.
' > I'fter all's been said or done
•■Vs "H n t 'me I'ke
hO.
In Nineteen Hundred Thirty-
One.
\V . k mi by you see no rain,
Plentv mornings not even a
dew.
So it only takes a God to tell
Wha r w'll happen in Tlvrty-
Two.
Co mposed by A. FARLEY.
MMIM GM
OOOTOR ASSERTS
COLUMBIA, S. C.. Jan. 1— 'AN
Pl — Examination by Dr. C. Fred
Williams, white superintendent of
the state hospital, has disclosed
David Dunnham. convicted of the
murder of David Sterling, white,
and sentenced to be electrocuted, is
an imbecile with the mentality of
a child six years old.
The examination was made after
an appeal from a death sentence
which was to have taken effect
November 13 was made by Dunn
ham's white attorneys. David Gas
ton and C. W. McTeer.
Dunnham is reported to have
confessed that he killed a woman
and child in Baltimore, Maryland.
i before coming here.
i family to have any t me left in
which to get ahead.
i The Negro has no time for
j such tomfoolery. This aping of
white society nrght come more
! near to being pardonable were
enough Caucasian vertues intro
j dueed into Aframerican life to
counterbalance the family com
plex afflicting white idle rich
transplanted to dark .Atlanta.
When a darkness Atlantan—who
j might any day lie killed by some
; of these sharpshooting policemen.
। who cannot go to the polls and
vote for those who control h's
। immediate government, who must
face segregation ami be reminded
of his color whenever he comes
1 in contact with Nordics, who has
I made Pttle or no attempt to guide
' the race to economic success, and
whom the most churlish of mo
ronic whites may insult at will
without interference bv our gov
ernment-spends his time talk
ng about his family name in
tend ot bettering conditions for
। h'mseif fr "”d ami children, then
th : s individual deserves all the col
'ee'iye di >esp<ct a national con
. i vention of anti-Negro agem 'es
could master.
I might become pessimistic or
disgusted if I did not hope and be
! Sieve that some day these people
• w’th the family names would eith
er d>e out or accidental!v dig un
a mighty tine specimen of a well
preserved family skelton.
What Sam_
j^^^uburn
Avenue
11.P.KEY MOLDS
I.ooking backwards over differ
ent accomplishments by people in
'he last year and their resolutions
. loi t!ie nev. year: Beginning:
MU R (OLUMNIST (I. P. Rey
: nolds) accomplishments ''nothing'’
j Like a ship in the middle of the
l.ea, seems to still be in the same
i place, don't know whether 1 am
■ tipping back or going forward as
all haven't sighted port yet, two or
three more storms and the S. O. S.
will be thrown out. pray for me
Ju. ing the New Year.
MK. T. A. TAYLOR. American
Woodman official accomplishments
was attending to his own business,
entertaining no idle gossip, a re
put.ition he has always maintained
ami when enterviewed about his
resolutions for the next year "has
nothing to say." A very good re
solution.
HONORABLE BEN .1. DAVIS
by his powerful contract with men
in all stations of life in the Unit
States has caused his name to I
heralded in near all the newspa
pers in the country whether they
shared his views or not. don’t
know his New Year's resolutions,
but know he will be found "break
ing out in a new” place as a lead
er of the race trying as he sees to
benefit his people.
JESSE HANLEY lea in bin vim'
the dead and giving to charily and
resolves to make a substanti.il in
crease in business during the New
Year 'I hope I don't help the in
crease in his business).
MRS EVA KEID the sweet smil
ing young lady who is office girl to.
Dr. A. B. Cooper the dentist, ac
complishments have been to give
satisfaction to his many patients in
her line of work as Dr. Cooper h.'s
done in his line ami her resolution
is to still ple.se during the New
Year.
PALMER PEAS who is nlwa\s
with us instead of singing DOWN
BY THE RIVERSIDE he resolve:
to sing during the New Year
COMING THRU THE RYE.
A-yjONO THE force in the
WORLD S coinpw inroom tb.e
major accomplishment during the
last year was made by David Earl
who was named Little CAESAR,
and the composing room force re
solves to make less errors in their
makeup of Ue.' paper >WE HOPE
SO) and the linotype operators re
solve they will cuss me to my lace
instead of behind my back for
turning in such illegible copy, es
pecially Richard Wilson t..c
operator from Chicago.
MR. J. T. JAMES of the JAMES
HOTEL accomplishments has be.
j to show the world a first class ho
’ tel could be operated without
j crookedness and resolves to con
tinue to operate it the same way
the New Year.
DAVID T. HOWARD been ac
: complishing every year for over
fifty years so there's no use to talk
’about what he has accomplished as
his good business tact and solid
citizenry in shown on every hand
so he don't need to make any
more resolutions.
PROF. WAITER 1.. (ASON a
cheerful fellow thought a deaf
I mute compliments me on my art
icles and says he wishes every-
. body a prosperous New Year.
THE ECONOMY Delicatessen
wishes all the patrons a prosperous
New Year.
WRITING THIS column New
Years Eve -going to take in all the
parties tonight and they "ain't"
going to be church parties either—
as "Butch" says in the BIG HOUSE
if I didn't start something every
now and then I would rot in this
stinking hole" so it is with your
• columnist "If I did not get a bit of
excitement every now and then I
would rot in this solitary life I am
living, so "yours ti uly" is going to
attend parties tonight rough and
ready tell you about them Sunday
Officer Attacker
Receives Sentence
MEMPHIS Tenn.. Jan 1 —
Willie Hill who attacked Deptitv
Louis Kahn on Southern Avenue
1 two months ago when the officer
sought to ar'est him as a hobo, left
for the penitentiary Tuesday ah ne
' with seven other offenders whe
were sentenced in the vrimin i
courts some days ago. Hill took Le
putv Kahn's gun away fromhim
and almost severed the deputy's
little finger with his teeTti. He wil
be in escrow tor three years.
heldVor car theft
Sumter. S. •• Jan. 1 — iANPi
William Hicks. Atlanta. Georgia
was held in the county jail here
Thursday, charged with the theft
of an automobile from Augusta
Georgia.
Boy Scouts Stamp
Out Bad Fire
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Jan. 1 —
In addition to donating one dol
lar ami some clothes to the needy,
the Boy Scouts of Troop 109, Con
gregational church received the
privilege of climaxing their Christ
mas good turns with a brave act
last Monday morning when the
youngsters succeeded in stamping
out a fire which was rapidly spread
ing its way through a portion of
Vance Woods where the scouters
were spending the day.
In Many .Activities
Troon 109 spent practically th?
entire day in tb.e open carrying on
such activities as cooking, test pas
sing. playing football, and hiking.
Scouts Pinkni ' Hayes. Hal Smith.
Earl Brake. Shelton Hill. Calvin
Mayfield. Charles Smith. Clarence
Wiiliard. and Robert Woods, and
Scoutmaster Robert Ratcliffe par
ticipated in the day.
Woods Fractures Wrist
Clarence Woods, patrol leader amt
troop publicity agent, fractured his
left wrist when he attempted to
jump from a dirt bank to the side
of a highway while on this hike.
He fell on I: : ; wrist and according
to Dr. C. M. Roulhac. it will re
ouire from two to fb ' weeks be
fore the injured arm heals.
The troop's next l>:y aim is to
register more boys. At p-esent oniy
ten are members A "new boy" j
eontest has been st-'gi ’ between
tiie two patrols. Liom and Falcons/
respectively, and I 'lring the latter;
nart of January .th" winner of j
this event wil! be tendered a lunch
eon bv Lawyer W. II Bentlv. chair
man of the troop ci." 'mittee. and!
other scout heads. Commissioner J. |
A Hayes, local scout leader, after;
witnessing an interesting meeting!
'•onducted by the troeo. very will- ।
ingiy consented to banquet the
boys at any desired time.
Thos. E. Young
Says
THE SCALES WONT BALANCE
UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT:
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Jan. 1 —
'The Bible says they shall lie
down alike in the dust ami the
worms shall cover them. This
verse m the book of Job tells us
no matter how rich or poor you
may be, how you persecute one or
any race that you may have ail
vantage of- or take another's life,
you shall lie down and die like
them in the dust ami meet the fate
that is due you. j
ONE FROM TWO
In wishing you a Happy New j
Year you know that it w 11 be the ,
.vear of 19/2 The last figure is'
. ..o, when any two ones are added
legedi 'ig the total is two ami will
stay tmii \.u,v unless one is sub
liamed. We rape to see the tune
v. hen all citizens of the United
States w 11 subtract one from the
two and come together as one un- ,
'dec the same flag and opportuni
: ies. When anything is good for
j one- it must be good for all, m
; 1932 a iot of things that are in
j two ones must be subtracted to
i make a success for all, but if the
two one.- that make two are div’d
ed by two, the result will be noth
ing.
REV. LARRY BINGHAM
Rev. Larry Bingham is one of
the most popular young ministers
of N. Memphis- Everyone who lis
tens to one of h's sermons says he
s getting better all the time which
shows lie is studying the Bible to
' perfect his calling. Rev. Bing
ham. we wish you success and a
tu.ppv New Year.
RESOLUTIONS
Every one knows New Year’s
night is a night of re.-olut’ons but
before you make them, see how
many of the outgoing year’s reso
lutions you have kept. One reso
i lution all should make and stick
। to it. do unto others as you would
I have them do unto you.
ST. JAMES CHURCH
St. James Methodist Church is
one of the oldest churches ’ll N.
Memphis- Many incidents and
events of note have taken place
there The first free school as
they were called in those days
started in this historic* church.
MR ROBERT OWEN
Mr. Robert L. Owen of Wash
ington. D. C.. son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. II Owen, surpr sed them with
a visit Christmas. He will spend
the holidays here and then return
to work in tlie capital city Mr.
Owen seemed full of glee when
standing in the door of h s parents
residence at 671 Wmhington.
gree.ing old friends ami play
mate as they passed.
ONE CENT
The one cent piece is much in
demand these days but a few years
back, none wanted to be bothered
with them but get on a street ear
with six cents and if you don’t
hrive <"e cent more, you will be
put off.
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND
THIRTY TWO
The year 1932 will f nd econo
mic conditions different from any
year because of the fact of the
condition that was shown every
one who is employed bv some
firms that usually give the r em
plovees an amount of money each
Christmas and were unable to so
thL Xmas on account of th- low
volume of business- After the
holidays, the heads of industry and
businesses will «»et together or-d
trv ‘o formulate some plan that
nvrht keen vou emnlnved and
keen the bus'n«sses open on a
-noil! margin of profit.
This mav me«n n reluct*nn of
the number emnloved. the division
of time or salary cut. It behooves
Digesting The News
By Gilford C. Mitchell
The Advantages of Co-operation!
The year 1931 taught the Negro
many things but none of more im
portance than the advantages to be
gained through co-operation. A
few major, and a great many min
or, organizations have come into
being as the result of this co
operation and when the principle
lias been thoroughly sold to the
masses we can expect great tiling
from them.
In co-operating there is entailed
a definite obligation on the part of
all concerned and just to the extent
that each fulfills the obligation
will tlie success of the undertak
ing be assured
Right now the Negro i: chiefly
concerned in building up his eco
nomic enterprises. He has learned
that it is impossible to support his
churches, schools and social or
ganizations without a definite
background of revenue-producing
concerns.
In spite of the bugaboo that the
small business cannot exist or com
pete with the large ones tlie Negro
is finding that when all the neces
sary elements of good business and
good management are brought to
gether and all co-operating to
all to meet your family and dis
vu - 1 ' y m can < urta 1 some of
the ti. i < xpenditures ami eon
-1 uni ;•> Hi? eo iditions your em
l I"., । । । 1 .1- !• s has adopted
food am: ciolhL'g are cheaper
than in ye. । .u a my advice is do
ail you can w, I? on the job and
make every uoib.r you make lie
worth one hundred cents to you.
JAMES MOODY
Mr. James Moody after 3K years
of service 'n the factory of the
Amier on-Tuliy Go. will lie pro
moted to a position of trust in a
few days.
HOTEL EMPLOYEES
Messrs. Alonzo Locke. head
waiter at the Peabody Hotel; John
Brinkley, head waiter at the
Parkview; Wiliam Bartlett head
bellman at tb.e Chisea Hotei; W.
I’. Smlsom head liellnmn at the
Penbody; Garfield Thompson, bell
iiirta n and Jack Powell, head
t-oiter at Peabody employ all col
o ed men in their lines of duty and
gvv" complete >ati-fact on to the
public and owners of these hotels.
We wish tin m continued success
in the New Year.
//'s'' A ywnKA ■
Speak A Language Which Is
Understood the World Around!
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wards one ultimate purpose that
the small business soon begins to
grow into a large one.
Heretofore, the Negro has not
paid a sufficient attention to the
most necessary element of good
management, relying more on an
inconsistent racial appeal, with the
result that a great many of our
undertakings failed or did not pro
gress in keeping with the oppor
tunities afforded.
Some serious and clear-minded
individuals have studied these con
ditions and are now bringing to
gether capital, experience, labor
and expert management and are so
organizing their affairs that neith
er class predominates over the
: other but all must pull together in
I order that they may achieve, pro
gress and share alike.
When organizations are so ideal
ly and thoroughly equipped with
all the necessary human in
gredients then they are justified in
bringing their efforts to all race in
dividuals from whom a willing and
generous co-operation should be
given.
The Negro public cannot b e
blamed for being somewhat wary,
having been duped so much in the
past by those who needed only
their money to solve all racial pro
blems, but once the public learns
that in these new undertakings,
based on actual co-operation, that
they need to spend, give or invest.
Only in exact proportion to tit*
resulting benefits, then the support
of the public will immediately as
sure the success of our new co
operative economic efforts.
If we continue to send our child
ren to school, preparing them for
belter opportunities in life, then
we must also provide the oppor
tunities. and these new co-opera
tive efforts seem to offer the most
practical advantages yet seen.
WOMAN FINED FOR FIGHTING
BIRMINGHAM Ah* . Jan 1 —
Corrine Frierson .708 Short 15tii
Way. who was sent to the Hillmar.
In spital Saturday tor treatment fo'
a pssibly fractured skull and Mary
Hardley, 1503 Alley G. who wore
arrested early the mornnig of De
cember 26. by Officer Duke for
fighting, were both given lines of
ten dollars and costs for disorderly
conduct.
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BUI. B. I. HIIBBH
WATEHESJUNIOR
OFFICIATE
TUSKEGEE ^INSTITUTE. Ala,
Jan. 1 An interested spectator a^JL
the Tuskegee-Lincoln football**'
game was Rev. B. T. Harvey. Sr,
Williamsburg Bridge. New York,
father of B. T. Harvey of More
house College, the well known
football official of the Southern
Conference.
Rev. Harvey, who was graduated
from Tuskegee in 1885, is visiting
his son and daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Harvey, in Atlanta. Georgia, and
motored to Tuskegee with Mr.
Harvey, Jr, who was the referee in
Tuskegee's Christinas Day game.
Rev. Harvey spent an interesting
day at his Alma Mater and had a
delightful time with his old friends,
Dr. and Mrs. Moton. Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Logan, Dr. and Mrs. R. R.
Taylor, Mr. J. H. Palmer and many
others recalling pleasant memories
of Tuskegee in its early formative
period.
Rev. Harvey was a visitor here
about seven years ago and said on
each visit he has made to Tuskegee
since his graduation that he has
noted many changes for improve-
BANKERS RECEIVE CHRISTMAS
PAROLES
RALEIGH. N. C, Jan. 1 -<ANP)
J. D. Reid and H S. Stanback,/* t
former officers of the Mechanics^
hank at Wilson, sentenced to serve
five years for violation of the state
banking laws, were recipents of
pardons signed by Gov. O. Max
Gardner at Christmas.
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25c Stitch Picked d*B
10c I,aces ■
10c Heel Pads
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