Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-09-01
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER l, 1928
WORKING WITHOUT PAY"

We have received much matter Tor
rnbIication from the Colored Voters
division of the Republican NaIo""l
C,rr,ittee. No release has attracted
our attention more or caused us
MOVE amusement than one sent out
With the heading, "Working Without
pov" The Associated Negro Press
is accredited with the responsibility
for saving that "Not member Oh
the Executive Committee OF the col
ored group working for Hoover anu
Curtis is drawing a cent OF salary.
We do not know that this declaration
means anything. ,.s
Salary and expenses carry uil
ferent significance, but in this day
of manipulation and saying one thihg
TO convey another, it will be taken 10
mean that these members OF inc
Executive Committee have become
ca loval to the Republican Party tnat
+bev are taking the money that they
should be expanding upon their
Families. wives and children and with
it are paying expenses that the ne
publican National Committee IN par
ticular and the Republican Party In
general should pay.
Why talk about working without
nav? We have scanned the list OF
names submitted, both male and te-
male and we have not been able to
observe one, who could afford TO
"work without pay" in the sense that
they are paying out of their own
pockets money for the expenses Oh
the committee of which they form d
mart. We are of the opinion that
there is enough hypocrisy IN TINS
moral liquor issue to stop at that'
when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt
"winks at" and justifes the eXpendl-
lures in one night for whiskey ana
champagne a sum of money, which
has been aggregated at from nine
thousand dollars to seventy thousand
dollars in Governor Al Smiths city
of New York.
In the meantime, she becomes
highly indignant at the payment to
BENJAMIN ]. Davis Of $4,000 per
month as head of the Republican
Party of Georgia and she wants to
nut Perry w. Howard, her legal asso-
ciate inside of federal prison be-
cause some office-holders in Mlssls-
sippi contributed few hundred dol
lars for the maintenance of the Re-
publican organization in that State.
This was done as spite work at the
behest of the Negotiating "hly-
white organization in that State.
Now comes the announcement that
Hon. John R. Hawkins Department
and its officials are working with
out pay"
This reminds US of story often
told down here, that when colored
preacher was reprimanded because OF
the poor sermons he was delivering
to the congregation, his reply was,
81 don't want the job, no how. Damn
poor pay; damn poor preach" The
late Judge S. B. Witt delighted in
telling a story about an "old line"
preacher in his home county, who
after passing his hat around among
the members of his congregation
upon the Sunday allotted to him for
the collection of his salary, after
casting a furtive glance at the slight
attention it had received said,
Brethren and sisters, | resign right
now. / am convinced, the preacher,
who pastors this church will have to
live on earth and board in heaven"
The Republican Party is now rails
ing a fund aggregating four million
dollars and the wise politicians smile |
when even this figure is mentioned.
The Prohibition Department, which /
that bureau and its en-
ployees in danger is drawing a sum
aggregating forty million dollars a
year from the government. The Ne
groes of this country, so far as recog-
nized political appointments are con-
cerned are without hope regardless
of who is elected. They must get
their financial reward now or not at
all. Recognition in appointive offices
must come direct from the individual
States. Both parties are in favor of
white supremacy and are opposed to
Negro domination. 1t may be rea-
souably supposed that both can