The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-28
THE REAL SOUTHERN CRISIS is IN
THE MAKING

The MANlNS
The new dealers are storing up trouble
for the country and, particularly, for the
South, with their Gavagan bills and other
legislation designed to give the federal adj
ministration additional stranglehold on this
section. The Charleston News and Courier,
certainly in position to understand condi-
tions in the far South, presents the situa-
ton in this light:
'"The southern members of congress who votec
11S to l against the Gavagan "anti-lynching bill
meant it. they were sincere. That is not saying
that they will fight TO the last ditch for their states
and their people.
1.-THE 'anti-lynching bill was supported by 1879
northern Democrats, so it is Democratic meas
ure.
"The southerners made their gesture They are
'on record They must know that the national
Democratic party is now negro party iending
ear to Walter White, able negro leader of the So
ciety for the Advancement of the Colored People
the society to which Secretary Ickes said last sum-
mer that President Roosevelt favors the enforce
ment of the 18th Amendment
"The anti-lynching bill will probably pass, in
that event President Roosevelt will sign it, and
most of the southerners in congress, senate and
house, will submit.
"Reminiscences is now southern Blessed are
the meek for they shall inherit the earth Allot-
ments, subsidies relief.
1.-THE vote on the bill was sectional. Almost to a
man, and woman, Democrats and Republicans of
northern states voted for it. They are the great
majority Why should southern congressman fight
when there is no fight left in them?
THE Gavagan bill is only the first offensive.
Walter White, Dufie, Earle, Wagner, Vann, Far
ley, Van Mugs, Rainey (enumerating them why
draw a color lne)? will press on-for federal su-
pervson of southern elections, for abolishing sep
aration of the races in the cotton mills and viii
lagos, for admission of negroes into southern state
colleges-that attempt has begun-and finally for
mixed racial common schools The campaign Is on.
1t is Democratic campaign
''FOr time the southern Democratic New Deal
ers will have no trouble in controlling the negro
VOTE The handouts will last for time. 'Tieless
Joe Tolbert's day is done-he has no aotments,
"Soon or late there will be rebellion among the
southern whites. It will come from the poor, the
humble people, who are humble hellcatS they
are aroused. They are the people threatened. Your
rich southerners, the SNUG politicians, can take
care of themselves. They can run away-and they
will.
The northern sectionalists in cOngress-and the
southern submtters are brewing trouble for
themselves and their country. For too.
"The breed of southern politicians in power now
will take it all lying down. They are puny breed.
At the last our white people, the farms in the
villages, won't take it lying down."
The present attitude of indifference of
many southerners, and the Willingness OF
others to sell out for political patronage,
for government subsidies, to part with
their birthright for mess of new deal pot
tage, should hold out to the federal gov
eminent no assurance that the time is ripe
for using the power of the central govern
ment to wreck the economic and social or
der, to destroy the customs of the domi-
nant race in this section.
There is dynamite in this movement and
the explosion is certain to follow If rad
ical government in Washington, bent on
establishing it's alien socialistic and COM
munistic ideas of social and racial equal
ity, persists in continuing on the course
which has clearly been adopted as new
deal policy in dealing with the South.
The proposition as a whole, of course,
is political move. The Gavagan bill and
similar legislation is framed to pay the
new deal party's campaign debt to north
ern negroes and to cinch their votes in fu'
ture elections. 1t is part of the jim Far
lev & Company campaign to Tammanyizt
the United States.
The attitude of the South for the pas
four years has convinced tire new dealer