The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-05-26
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Observation-Disclosures
JAcKSoN-IZING NEGRO
LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP
Billboard Jackson is without
doubt the races foremost economic
evangel crying aloud the message
Of the aDouble-Duty Dollar which
the Negro must heed if he would be
saved We need a revival in eco
nomic thinking and Mr.. Jackson is
doing much to hasten such q revival.
Some years ago in our chapel Mr..
Jackson pointed out that the Stand
ard Oil company, through the Cen
eral Education board, had been one
Of the largest benefactors of the
Negro race. This, he assured our
students, was good reason why the
Double-Duty Dollar doctrine and
practice should be brought into play
and the Negro should reciprocate
with business with Standard Oil. He
made it plain that if Standard Oil
could support education then the
Negro should buy Standard Oil pro-
ducts.
HIS message was convincing for IN
that moment, / was economically
converted and switched from a
fine brand of gas was then using
to ESQ; and since that morning not
gill of any kind of gas has gone
into my tanks except the Standard
Oil gases. More economic examples
like Billboard Jackson might hasten
the economic regeneration Of our
races thinking, and would result in
economic conversion so essential to
our survival. So much then for one
Jackson
Over at Virginia State College
there is another Jackson, Dr.. Luther
p, who is doing most remarkable
work in the field of business. With
in the last few years DR.. Jackson
has revamped the business lie of
the Negroes in Petersburg. Their
annual exposition is thing of in
spiration. Negro business men are
taught the fundamentals of business
pactices and business ethics. Every
BODY knows that Negro busines men
should be taught but who will teach
them is the big question. Or. jack
son answered such questions by
identifying himself with Negro busi-
ness and the results have been mar
yelous. When a Negro Ph.D. gets
sway from the scloisters of his col
lege and aligns himself with the
struggling business men Of his COM
munity, he is blazing trail Of the
Negro's economic redemption. He IS
showing just how fine an educated
Negro can be-
A new day is dawning when Ne
gro decor of philosophy gets out
among the people and lends help
ing hand. Dir Jacksn is bringing
salvation down; for people cannot
be saved by "long distance Those
who save the people must come
among them-a fact too few edu-
Gated Negoes seem to sense.
There is still another Jackson and
the greater inspiration of this ar
ticle! He is DIR. James E. Jackson
of Richmond. DR.. Jackson is reg
istered pharmacist and in business
with his father, veteran pharma-
cist Of the city. He is thus prepar-
ing to carry forward a business es-
tablished in sweat and blood, a thing
young Negroes are entirely too dis
inclined to do. It is heart-breaking
to see great Negro business die
with its founders. Some of the fin
est business traditions of this coun-
try are allowed to perish because
young Negroes have not the vision
to carry on what the fathers have
built through sweat and blood. This
practice alone is costing the race
millions.
1t is not in the drug business that
young Dir. Jackson issmaking his
greatest contribution to Negro ad-
vance: but in aligning himself with
the tobacco workers Of Richmond.
For years and years Negro leader
ship has deplored the lawful condi-
ton under which the tobacco work
ers must earn their living in the
sweat of their brow. Great sermons
have been preached about it and
great speeches delivered and no end
Of articles have been written by col
umnists etc. But young DR.. Jack
son decided to do something about
it so he got among them and organi-
zed them into a solid front organiza-
ton. But best of all he got himself
arrested for them. Herein lies the
burden Of this article. When q
young educated Negro gets himself
arrested trying to help the under
privileged Of his race we are getting
somewhere!
The glory Of this young mans life
will be the arrest he incurred in the
discharge Of his duty to his unfor-
tunate fellows. In the last analy-
sis it is not our race loyalty "per
square mouth on "per square brain"
Aha4 annrtr h,,t thn in.rnIt anar.