Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-12-20
HITS AND BITS
BY JOE SIMPSON
THE CONSTITUTION

Preamble: We the people OF
the United States, in order to
form a more perfect union
establish Justice, insure domes-
tic tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the
general welfare, and secure the
Blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity, do ordain ana
establish this Constitution Tor
the United States of America. =,
ARTICLE l, Section l: All
legislative powers herein grant
ed shall be vested in a Congress
of the United States, which shall
consist of a Senate and House Oh
Representatives.
ANNUAL SENTENCES
The time is almost at hand Tor
men to go downtown and make
debts which will tax their earn
ing powers to keep up the pay
ments on for the NEXT TWO
YEARS. For many years this
has been an annual custom, but
taking into consideration the
shortage of money, the scarcity
of jobs, we feel that this is one
year in which those who are not
financially independent should
forego the customary exchange
of expensive presents. If you
buy, buy what you can pay TOR or
in cash, don't mortgage or sell
your labor for the NEXT TWO
YEARS.
THERE ARE DIAMONDS AND
DIME-ONES
Some men who 60 to college
come out more of fool than
they were on entering. A college
education is beneficial only to
those who are endowed with
common, ordinary HORSE
SENSE. The MORE education
acquired by a FOOL the BIG
GER idiot he becomes.
An Individual or RACE void
of a backbone is of no economic
value, they are a hindrance to
themselves and a drawback to
the nation.
CURIOUS TO SAY THE
LEAST
It has been said that hard
ships make for strength in a
race or an individual. We fail to
sec where it has helped the
Negro to any considerable ex-
tent. 1t has also been said that,
to deny an individual or a race a
thing makes it seem to him, or
it, the more desirable. Where
the Negro is concerned it all
depends on who, or what, is
doing the denying. White folks
deny him the vote, he murmurs
not; deny him his vote in the
club meeting, or in his lodge or
church, and that same man will
shake the very foundation of the
building.
NEGRO NEWSPAPERS
If the Negro newspaper will
live up it's obligations and print
the NEWS as it happens, as
some have begun to do, ire
spective of religious ideals and
obligations, irrespective of the
petty whims and caprices of
obsolete cliques and clans, it
will shortly become one of the
most potent factors in the
development of industry among
Negroes. People who are en-
ployed on the staff's of the
newspapers have, or profess to
have religion as well as the pub
lie, this however, does not in any
sense nullify the duty they owe
to the public; they sell the public
a few sheets of paper called a
newspaper and if they fail to
give to the public those things
that it is supposed to contain
they break faith with the public
and drop to the level of
THIEVES AND ROBBERS. If
the Negro will increase the cir
culation of his newspaper his
advertisers will not be limited to
those of his own race. The
opposite race will use his pages
II he has the circulation, to
place their wares before the eyes
of the Negro public. Negro news
papers i'll the main are twenty
five years behind the times, they
must either catch the spirit of
the times or be trampled beyond
recognition, and left in oblivion
by the onrushing procession of
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