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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-07-15
N AACP QUERIES HARRISON
ON MISSISSIPPI LYNCHING

NEW YORK, July s.-The lynch
ing Of Tom Green, 48, at Rolling
Fork, Miss, July 6 brought forth a
sharp telegram from the NAACP to
Senator Pat Harrison Of Mississippi
calling attention to his speech in the
Senate last winter filibustering
against the federal anti lynching
bill.
The lynching of Green was the
first during 1888 and significantly
enough, it occurred in the state Of
Mississippi, which Of all the states
IN the nation, has the worst lynching
record, having put to death nearly
600 persons through mob violence.
Last January in long speech in
the Senate, Senator Harrison assert
ed "most of the mobs that have
lynchcd persons in the South did so
TO protect her women"
The NAACP telegram pointed out
that Green was lynched after having
had an argument with planter over
work and wages. In the argument
the planter and Green exchanged
shots and Green killed the planter.
The NAACP also pointed out that
the double Iynching in Mississippi in
April, 1887, in which blow torches
were used on the victims, followed
a holdup of a storckeeper and did
not involve women. The NAACP
called upon Senator Harrison to use
his influence to see that something
is done about the lynching Of July
:. Since the question involved is one
Of law and order and justice in the
courts and does not involve any sex
crime which, while not justifying
lynching By any means, might bef
used as an emotional and moral
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Allen Temple
Well Represented in
State, International
Religious Conventions

CINCINNATI - Allen Temple
Church School was ably represented
at the goth International Conven-
ton of Religious Education in Co
lumbus, Ohio, by Jesse M. Childs,
general superintendent Of the school
and Mrs. Madeline G. Robinson,
superintendent Of the Young Peoples
Division and chairman of the COM
mittee on Leadership Training; Mr..
Chiles was in the section on Orga-
nization and Administration Of Re-
Hgious Education and Mrs. Robinson
attended the section on Work with
Young People; being the only two
Negroes attending the Ohio State
Cooncil meeting and also participat--
ed in the AME UNCONVENTIONAL
meeting, Mrs Robinson conducting
the deyotions and Mr.. Chiles led the
discussion on Stewardship and Sound
Church Financing, presided over by
DR.. S. S. Morris, national director
of Religious Education of the AMF
church at who4e invitTtion lr
Chiles, Mrs. Robinson ard Miss
Florence L. Heater were present at
this important meeting. The Tem,le
representatives attended Is many
luncheon and dinner meetinrs as
possible SO as to get the gre test
benefit from the total sessions Of the
convention which had registration
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ity expressed by university officials
IN facing the problem honestly.
Afterwards Mr. White was inform
ed that the university officials have
acted against some Of the discrim;-
nation and will eliminate all of it
eventually.
Questioned by Professor Smith,
himself a native southerner, on
whether he believed the fear of in
termarriage between white and COL
ored people, on the part of certain
whites was the result Of instructive
racial antagonism, White replied:
"The fact that eighty per cent Of
colored people have an admixture of
white blood shows one of two thing,
either that there Is no instructive
antagonism between the races or that
there has come among us some latter
day imaculate conception"
The conversation discussion also
dealt with the economic and political
problems of the Negro and many
phases Of race adjustment. Follow
ing the. two-man panel, persons in
the audience asked questions for
more than an hour.
Following discussion period which
lasted more than an hour after the
conversations, the NAACP secretary
was the guest of deans and Other
faculty members at luncheon held
at the University Club. Here he
discussed further the solution TO
racial problems.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-07-15
CALVIN'S DIGEST
BY FLOYD j. CALVIN
Listed by Editor & Publisher)

most cut out the profits Of the rug
ged indiyidualist. America no long
er needs capital for reinvestment for
industrial expansion. The desert and
the forest have been tanned All the
rugged individualist would do with
profits would be to employ them to
make more profits, or squander them
in riotous living. Suppose the new
econoics does stop skinning the little
fellow, and start skinning the big
fellow. On the whole, we think it
is a good thing for the country.
Negro Literature
The recent death of two eminent
figures in Negro letters, A. A.
Schomburg and James Weldon John
son, has served to focus attention on
the literature Of the race. These two
men-one by making collection,
and the other by writing pointed
the way to greater dignity and self
respect for the group.
It was Schomburg's love of the lit
eraiy works of his people that made
him amass the great Schomburg
Collection. How many Negroes love
books by Negroes to the extent that
they have fair collection Of the
works Of modern Negro authors?
How many Negroes, who can afford
10 buy books, and who do buy books,
make it a point to buy, consistently,
! the works of their own people?
How many Negroes who have went
for or extolled the virtues of Mr..
Johnson, own one or more of his
books How many Negroes even
know how many books Mr.. Johnson
wrote? How many Negroes know
the title Of the last book written
| by Mr.. Johnson? How many of Mr..
Johnson's own people know that he
wrote history as well as fiction and
poetry?
We mention these things because
it is the Negro intellegentsia that is
romiss in it's duty Of supporting the
literary efforts of the group. Negro
literature is today where the Negro
press used to be. Educated Negroes
used to brag about their failure to
read the Negro press. Fortunately,
the Negro press has grown in power
i and iY,1rarf apna fa uybapn IL now
commands respect. There are edu--
Gated Negroes today who buy books,
but they make it point not to buy
books by Negro authors.
Do not the lives of schomburg and
Johnson mean more than this to the
Negro group?
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Subscription Rates
Dayton Police
Brutality

The alleged unWarranted
killing Of Jack Francis by Pa
troIman G.. f. Baumgardner
has aroused the ire OF all lair
minded citizens.
Francis, an alleged boot
logger, was accosted by two
officers In cruiser while
driving on Lakeyiew Avenue.
Francis, who was also driving
turned his car and attempted
To get away. After driving
several blocks, he abandoned
the auto and fled on foot. He
was pursued by the officer
and shot four times. He was
dead on arrival at the hospital.
The officers knew who
Francis was, had his car and
license number. Thus they
could have picked him up at
will. He had not committed
felony, was not armed, and
had not resisted the officers,
but was merely running away
Therefore, the Wanton killing
Of Francis was nothing short Oh
murder and patrolman Baum
gardner should be punished
accordingly.
The local branch Of the
NAACP has taken up the case.
1t should have the support of
all citizens who believe in fair
play. Police officers should be
condemned for killing, even
lowly criminals, who commit
city crimes. Their duty is to
arrest law violators, not to
punish them.
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The Profit System

The New Deal is causing some
serious thinking on the Profit System
Of economics as we have known it
under the old idea of rugged in
dividualism."
The theory of the profit system ir
the past was that when capital way
employed in business enterprise, it
was entitled to return over and
above the investment and expense of
conducting the business. But the
rugged individualists took advantage
of this theory and pushed the sys--
tenn to where it was virtual exploi-
tation Of their fellow citizens. Like
wise, the rugged individualists took
little or no note of the social welfare
Of the people who were exploited,
except wherever the milk Of human
Kindness, perhaps by accident, hap
pened to rise to the surface of their
natures. The thinking was in terms
of gain, and not in terms of welfare.
Of course a few super-capitalists
attempted to ameliorate conditions
/ by huge gifts, but many other capi-
|! talists, or their families, made nau-
seating spectacles of themselves by
not knowing how to use the wealth
piled up by them, or handed down
to them.
Now the public has a leader who
sees wealth as something that should
be divided up to make life mere
bearable for the average man. To
bring into realization this ideal, the
Government has gone into the cleo
trio power business, has stepped IN
to help organized labor, and has set
up strict regulation for investments,
and levied increasing taxes on in
come.
Some economists claim that the
profit system, under the New Deal,
is being liquidated. The rugged
individualists, however, get scant
sympathy from the public when they
| cry that their rights are being vio--
lated. The New Deal, in the matter
of housing alone, has pointed the
way to a brighter day for all Amerl--
ca. Under the auspices Of the
Federal Government, the masses are
getting decent homes and having
their lives enriched far beyond what
rugged individualist would even
admit was right and proper for g
!, poor man to have. And this is being
done at a price to the poor mar
that he can afford to pay.
| Suppose those innovations and re-
forms do cut into the profits or al
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|NAACP SECRETARY TELLS
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
1T CAN STOP jim CROW

EVANSTON, Ill - Officials at
Northwestern University here have
it within their power TO sop dis
criminatory practices againSt colored
stadents at this school, Walter White,
ecietary Of the NAACP, told 1000
persons at the First Methodist
Church here July S.
Mr.. White made the statement in
the course Of informal aconve sa {
tons with +. v. Smith, philosophy
professor at the University Of Chi
eago, in the second Of series Of
round-table talks for summer school
students sponsored by Northwestern
University.
The conversations were broad
cas- throughout the church's audi
torium as the university professor
interviewed the secretary of the
NAACP, while the two sat at table
on the platform in front Of micro
phone.
Pointing out that it was the duty
Of university to educate people out
Of their preiudices, Mr.. White said
that dormitory discrimination against
colored students, discriminatory prac-
tices in Northwestern's medical
school, and the barring of colored
students from the university-owned
beach property along the shore Of
Lake Michigan here was the result
not SO much Of inherent racial an
tagonism but Of the fear and tim1i--
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(The Negro Journal Of Reiigion)

y
What a pleasant injunction,
when there is really something
to eat, and one is hungry Or
the olher hand, how painful is
this little word when one has
neither food, nor hope Of its
early acquisition.
Ia these days OF recession
one hears Il lot about eating,
as if people have settled down
to the struggle of getting
enough to eat, if nothing more.
Yet, we find a great mass of
Negroes, whose margin for
acquiring food, through either
work or charity, is fast dimin
ishing. The number of under
fed in this group is quite un-
believable. For them the fu-
ture looks dark.
But it can be frightened,
and Negroes can lend this
light. Negroes, III position
to do SO, can create jobs for
their suffering fellows. Just
think, isn't there something
you can call a needy person ia
to do? Is there painting,
white washing, cleaning or
some other chore that might
bring meal to an unfortun-
ate?
Then, there are larger ways
in which to help. Negroes can
open new businesses. What,
do you ask? Instead OF beg
ging jobs in community stores
run by outsiders, why not start
stores Of your own? There are
SO many little businesses that
would help you to feed your
brother and to eat better your
self. Note the list Of a few !:
Candy shop, laundry, tea shop,
grocery. clothing shop, gift
shop, bake shop, magazine
shop. waffle shop, tire repair
ing shop, automobile repairing
shop, gasoline station, shoe
shop, farming, truck garden
ing. chicken raising and many
others.
Ifs you are ambitious and
worthy you will find way for
your self and those around
YOU. "A depression is q good
time in which to find your
economic feet. Men who can
survive now have the right
Ianettle. They can always eat.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-07-15
NAAcP ON RADIO

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July IL
During the recent 10Th annual con-
ference Of the NAACP, Walter
White, the association secretary, and
the Rev. James II. Robinson, mem
ber of the board Of directors, spoke
at two fifteen minute periods on the
associations work over Columbus
radio stations. s'f
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-07-15

Of 5000 leading educators Of the
United States and Canada. Mr..
Chiles attended the Interracial
luncheon and dinner sections and
heard both DR.. B. E. Mays of How s.
ard university and Dean Luther A..
Wlegle Of Yale Divinity School.
Both representatives attended all the
general sessions and devotional SER
vices and had the pleasure Of hear :
ing DR.. Howard Thurman and the
Fisk Singers, both bringing great
credit to the Negro race.
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FEATURES EDITORIAL COMMENTS
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SEGREGATION
NOT SOLUTION
SAYS HOWARD
PRESIDENT

kA AEME@eSN
: : .--1 - Z =
COLUMBUS, O. Colored people.
y considering their role IN the fu-
sufe q america must think labor,
Ss'iu conclude thaa there can be no
sesfegaeed solution g our problems,
iiesiaeft Mofasea! Johnson, Of
toward University, told the closing
mass meeting q The tWenty-ninth
aiihual conference q the National
Assoclatlon ior the Advancement OF
0olofed People here July I.
Nhetfer the poor white man
sfililhs y Or not he SAID, his prob
3ehl q me same as ours. We must
1'lilk q raising tlle econsnic level of
N'llto ana black people
hssaaiihg q recent demonstration
q howard University when members
81 9 ioeai A. of I, building trades
local pieketed the presidents home
because no1l-uilion men were being
employed on construction work, DE-.
johnson sald'
ms Al. Of L. UNION, which had
refused membership 20 colored men
e carpenters, bfieklayefs and "a OH
er cafeRoffes' demanded that we i'm
medlately put of men on Our pro-
Ject because they Wee not members
y tae union. ! fle NsAGP mus
pursue the pollcy af sitting u tiae
couhcls q labor g see that dlselim
hation WRhih unions = cut out,
making = clear tfaa' he would sup
port iabor, l'r. Jotlllsssl nevertheless
fhsis1ea 1ha5 though u VIII support
tilc Asf q z, ana me Clio. with
az my hlgi't, but unless they open
'he fioor to Inc Negro to full mem
aefsllp On an equal plane with all
Nhitss "a the skilled and unskllled
eategofles, ! am going 70 the legis-
iatufe ana hght 70 get out an in
junction 20 deny them to right OF
exclusive bargaining privileges until
lneS 90 raise the Negro to the fuli
iapof STATUS q al whites.
Pol'itlng % tne philosophy Of
Wofhlfg out our future WITHIN seq
fegaled sphere as dangerous and IL
iusofy, pr. Johnson SAID he would
support segregated institutions Just
as long az u was necessary TO keep
Up the tight for complete integration
oI the Negro ~ american NE.
iie praised the foftltade of the Ne
gro women, VINO, during the past
seVenty-thfee years, has stood side
py SIDE with her black man, and
swept aside all the peanut hulls, and
Wasfe paper thrown IN their paths =
II they had stopped to consider
what was In front Of them, he went
en-, these black people would have
Just sat down and died. But they
didn't die. They rolled up their
sleeves ana fought glorious fight.
Concluding his speech with praise
Tor the founders OF the NAACP,
VINO INSISTED Ihat Negroes, aside
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smokescreen.
Senator Harrison was reported on
June 27 as having been endorsed by
the Mississippi Democratic executive
committee as a favorite son candi-
date for President in 1910.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-07-15
James Weldon JcI,rascn
BY WILLIAM HENRY HUFF

Upon the scene he came to take
Al place which no one else could fill,
And ever was he wide awake
He was master Of the quill!
They laid him down, we understand,
Amid the laurels he had won,
With Gods Trombones" pressed in
his hand,
When his allotted work was donei
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EDIT OR S
MAIL. BAG

Columbus, Ohio,
July l3, 1888.
Mr.. ]. H. Rives, Editor,
The Dayton Forum
iii West Fifth Street,
Dayton, Ohio.
Dear Mr.. Rives:.
/ should like to take this oppor-
tunity to express the appreciation
and thanks Of both the local and ma
tional organization of the NAACP
for the very fine cooperation you
gave our recent National Con-
ference.
Yours sincerely,
BARBEE VIM. DURHAM.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
ANNUAL PAY PLAN
HELD SUCCESSFUL
Packer Tells Senators It
Raised Efficiency, Cut
Hours of Workers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A witness told the Senate unem-
ployment Committee today that es-
tablishment Of an annual wage in his
business had brought striking in
crease in efficiency OF labor.
Jay c. Horned, head Of the HORNED
Packing Co, Austin. Mimi. said his
concern began considering the effects
Of hourly wages on labor in 1881. The
company decided the hourly wage had
been designed mostly for the pur-
pose OF passing the effects Of en-
ployment fluctuations on to labor"
he said.
Mr.. HORNED asserted an annual
wage was instituted to guarantee some
workers 50 pay checks over the year.
together with vacation and sick leave.
The system gradually was expanded.
he added, until 1t covered 2,373 Of the
companyS 1000 workers last year.
I'VE don't keep any particular check
on hours except for information pur-
poses" Mr.. HORNED said. The idea
Is that here is the work to do in a
particular department, and when it is
done the workers can go home Mr..
HORNED said his company was started
As small butchers shop by his
father
He asserted that the annual wage
system had increased efficiency from
10 to 20 per cent and that it had
given workers more leisure time.
Mr.. HORNED said his employees are
"well satisfied" with operation of the
company plan.
Il would have my plant tied up in
= strike If tried to go back to An
hourly wage" he said
Mr.. HORNED told the committee that
employees were given one years notice
before they are laid of.
DO you mean," asked Senator
Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina,
that If your business slumps you will
stick out your chin and carry your
employees for a year?"
Yes, Senator" he replied. We
have carried some as long as three
years. We try to be as fair to the
workers as We are to the company ON
cials''
Evening star., 1938-03-03

By the Associated Press.
A spokesman for the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers asserted to-
day the Borah-O O'Mahoney industrial
licensing bill would retard rather than
aid recovery.
In statement prepared for delivery
before 4 Senate Judiciary Subcom-
mittee Elmer T. Cunningham Of New
York, former president Of the Radio
| Corp. Of America. urged that the
measure be set aside in favor of =
business recovery program he has
drafted
The Borah-O 'Mahoney bill, de-
signed as an antimonopoly measure.
| would require most industries engaged
| in interstate commerce to obtain Fed
eral Incorporation charters and to re-
frain from trade practices specified rs
| unfair.
Mr.. Cunningham advanced as q
substitute these governmental poll
cies:
Suggested Policies. -.
A moratorium on reform legislation.
A national labor policy in the gen.
eral welfare"
Repeal Of the undistrtbuted profits
| tax
Modification of the capital gains tax
| to stimulate capital movements.
| Elimination OF the so-called third
basket tax, applying to certain cor
porations.
Limitation on Government compe-
tition.
A review of existing legislation with
an eye to modification.
Sound fiscal and monetary policies.
Mr.. Cunningham declared "All ef-
forts at this time must be directed
toward permanent recovery and in
creasing employment.
ITO place hundreds of thousands Of
businesses under licensing investiga-
ton at this time will retard. not aid.
recovery. Regardless Of merit or de-
merit. this is not the time to make
this bill the law Of the land"
The abuses Of few years back
were predominantly in the field OF
finance anad not in the dAy-to- day
conduct of business men in operating
their manufacturing and commercial
enterprises.
| Improperly Blamed.
The public does not recognize this
distinction and the business men who
are responsible for making and selling
Americas goods and services are i'm
properly blamed for economic con-
| ditionS"
Senator Austin, Republican, of Ver-
mont declared yesterday in Senate
| debate on the confirmation of Robert
H. Jackson to be solicitor general,
| that the licensing bill would be another
step in concentrating power" in the
Federal Government.
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, Of
Wyoming. who with Senator Borah,
Republican. of Idaho has guided the
| measure thus far independently of
the administrations monopoly plans,
was quick to defend it. The legisla-
ton would prevent both monopolies
and government. he said, from Inter
meddling with small business"
IN agree that it would stop abuses"
Senator Austin replied, lust as q
hanging will stop q pain in the neck"
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah
commented the measure would dis
organize and destroy" corpora tions
Senators King and Austin were the
only members Of judiciary sub
committee to vote against confirming
Mr.. Jackson, who has been in charge
of antitrust cases in the Justice De-
partment.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Frances ENJOY
TOU. S. NOlu Has
lob He Can Fill
BY the Associated F

BY the ASSoclAteu
French Ambassador Rene st. Quen-
tin, presenting his credentials today to
President Roosevelt, now has q job he
can fill.
For = year and half the 54-year-
old bachelor count has been accredited
- Ambassador to Italy-but he never
went to Rome.
The trouble was that Italy wanted
his credentials TO address the King VI
Italy ~ the Emperor OF Ethiopia ~
well. France baked, refusing to rec
ognize even indirectly Italy's conquest
in Africa.
Neither side has given In, and the
French Embassy in Rome Is still with
out head.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
WESLEYAN u. PRESIDENT
TO BE GUEST OF ALUMNI
DR.. J. L. hcConaughy to Receive
Honors at Washington Club
Meeting Tomorrow.

DR.. James l.. McConaughy. presi-
dent CT Wesleyan University, will be
the guest of honor at a meeting Of
the Washington Wesleyan Alumni to
be held at $50 pm. tomorrow at the
Cosmos Club. Dr. McConaughy is
president Of the Association of Amer
lean Colleges and recently was named
\ member OF Nhe National Republican
Program Committee.
DR.. H. Claude Hardy, chairman Of
the Wesleyan University Alumni Coun-
Gil and superintendent of schools in
White Plains, N. Y, will speak Mo-
ton pictures Of the college will be
shown by Herbert L. Connolly. secre-
tary-treasurer Of the Alumni Council.
DR.. Ralph 8. Pendexter is president
of the Washington Wesleyan Alumni
Club.
Evening star., 1938-03-03

to ihdorse the two-point program of
the Committee on Fair Taxation for
q net profits tax on corporations and
. graduated income levy, after sew
eral members expressed doubt Is to
the backing Of the committee.
First Asst. Supt. Of Schools J. J.
Crane. In charge Of business affairs
of the public schools, addressed the
group. lauding the school construc-
tion in the District. He said he had
visited the school systems in many
other cities Of the country and that
Washington ranked with the best Of
them in school buildings.
The association reaffirmed its op-