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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Poetic
Thoughts
If You Do


If you play the game of life
With the idea you'll never knife
Your brother in the back by word
or deed, .,
You have set an example for others
to heed. -,
If you do just as you say,
Never allow excuses to get in your
way,
Attempt to keep your word at all
cost,
Then friendships will never be lost.
If you do not just think right,
You'll never reach the Horeb
height,
Which is set for each on high,
It's goal points upward to the sky.
If you do not care for those who
labor,
One requisite of being a good
neighbor,
Why our problems will just never
end,
Then on what will we depend?
If you do not care to do certain
work,
Place no obstacles that may Turk,
In the pathway of honest endeavor,
Then there1l be no friendships to
sever.
If you do not like the way things
go,
Think certain changes are too slow,
Here's your chance to help make
change,
By not acting backward or feeling
strange.
If you do speak, say the best,
Treat everyone like you would a
guest,
Dwell not on the worst for only a
pest
Speaks of things that people de-
test.
If you do your Christian duty
You are too busy to get moody,
For one so engrossed is always
cheerful,
In helping others they demonstrate
they're grateful.
Morris Gibbs.
Editors Note: The poetic department will
receive original poems from individuals
who wish to try their hand at writing
poetry.
You may write on any subject, but no
poem should be over "a lines in length.
All poetry sent in will become the prop
eTty Of the newspaper and none will be
returned unless q self-addressed stamped
envelOps accompanies same.
Send all poetry to the Poetic Editor,
Morris Gibbs, Sr., CO this newspaper.
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Your Views and News Important

This is Mr. and Mrs Average Citizen and it's
it. said nothing than the first
the point this editorial would full of the
feel prompted to get to the public
For there people who appreciate their right
articles editorials which
supposed be living the ideals free This that
the healthy thinking citizens with honest opinion
often goes unexpressed.
often happens also that interesting happenings
public notice because the individuals connected with them fail submit
these happenings the 1t policy
remember that the thing which interests also be of interest
to other people
In these censorship and other action which have
muzzed the countries Americans should realize
advantage right say they please print long
it is truthful and not libelous
The rights of neither inherent static these days They
aside the few and
diminished number One of the sacred rights that which
have mentioned and good thing practice by
csing it.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
WELCOME HALL JUNIORS IN
SURPRISE WIN

The Welcome Hall Juniors closed
their 1889 football season with a
win over the strong Margaret
Boosters Saturday, October, %, at
Dunning Field. The victory was
more of a surprise to the Hall boys
than anything else after having
been defeated the week previous by
Klein's Grocery and also due to the
fact that Margaret had suffered no
defeats all season. Gotten again
proved the undoing of the oppo-
nents with his running and passing
which kept the league champions
constantly on the watch. A pass
from Tabors to Nash set the stage
for a twisting run around left end
for the lone marker of the day.
The following boys are members
of the junior heavy team at We'll
come Hall: Rudy Ellis, Harold
Brown, Sam Lynch, Junior Cron-
quist, Jimmie Allen, Ted More
house, Clarence Lewis, Chalmers
Zabrok, Ronald Pollen, Stanley Ia
bors, Phil Archer, Lloyd Gamble,
Johnny Gotten, Curtis Nelson, and
George Stone. Leslie V. Warren,
coach.
Grand Slam Club: The Grand
Slam Club met Friday at the Ster-
ling Club. Prizes were won by
Mr.. T. D. Reed, James Lee and
Mrs. o. C. Hall. The club will take
up duplicate bridge soon. A series
of talks by bridge experts are also
planned.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Listen to
This
By Hobart T. Mitchell

White Horseback People
The rain fell, the wind blew, the
mud was ankle deep in Pennsyl-
vania Avenue; but the people came
just the same to the Inauguration
of President Lincoln, March 4,
1866.
At the reception that night thirty
thousand people passed through the
doors of the White House. Crowds
were pressing the door of the room
where the President was to receive
his guests.
Hold on! You can't go in now.
1t is not convenient" said the
guard. How is that? l see others
passing in," smiled Frederick
Douglass. Someone spoke to the
guard - THIS is FREDERICK
DOUGLASS" Never mind. l do
not want to go in as Frederick
Douglass; but as a citizen of the
United States"
Here comes the President, with
his arm extended over the heads of
the crowd. why, how do you do,
Frederick? Come right in"
About an hour after the recep-
ton had started and the President
was receiving his guests, a Negro
woman approached the marshal
and said, Il wish to see President
Lincoln" "Well, the President is
busy, think, and you can't see him
now" stated the marshal.
Eyes, must see him. If he knew
l was here he'd come down and
see me-"
Finally, the marshal went to the
Presidents room and whispered to
him. 81 guarantee that she is So
journer Truth. Bring her up here"
When Sojourner AIRED the
President he smiled and said, so
JOURNER TRUTH! HOW GLAD
AM TO SEE YOU"
She gave the President one of
her books. Then handing him her
photograph, she said: "It's got a
black face but a white back; an
I'd like one of yours with a green
back"
The President laughed loudly.
Here is a ten-dollar bill. There is
my face with green back"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Higher Education

AAIBIECI LuuNdEIUN
The valuation of property used
for higher education among Ne
groes in 1866 was 100000. In the
nation as whole, in 1928, there
were 1T Negro institutions of
higher education, enrolling over
$4,000 students of collegiate grade.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
November Memorable Events


Nov. l, 1917-Julius Rosenwald
Fund organized.
Nov. 6, 1918 - Charles Young
served at Camp Grant.
Nov. 8, 1662-Slavery in Vir-
ginia made hereditary.
Nov. 9, 1732-Benjamin Bannek-
er, Negro astronomer, born.
Nov. IA, 1915-Death of Booker
T. Washington.
Nov. Is, 1932-Charles Waddell
Chestnut died.
Nov. "a, 187O-Birth of Robert
S. Abbott, editor.
Nov. &c, 1883-Sojourner Truth
died at Battle Creek, Michigan.
Any information concerning this
column or the facts stated therein,
write Hobart T. Mitchell, 1912 FL
liot Ave-, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
A 52-WEEK GIFT

Send former residents this paper
for a Christmas gift. Fifty-twO
copies, one each week, will be a gift
that will keep for a whole year.
Adyt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Father Divine

Father Divine
Jack Alexander has just COM
pleted a piece on Father Divine.
It's due in the Saturday Evening
Post within a week or two and is
reported to have more laughs than
well, read the story.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Service to Negroes

Service to Negroes
In West Virginia, a State law re-
quires all libraries receiving pub
lie funds to give service to Negroes,
and in Texas the law requires COM
missioners' courts to make proper
provision for library service to Ne
groes through branches of the
county free library.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Woodland Is Named
Head of Bankers
Continued From Page One)

bility goes to those who manage the
banks of North Carolina. Deposit
insurance, courageous supervision
and regulation, constructive legisla-
ton, proper restrictions in charter
ing all these factors play their
part, but in the final analysis the
ultimate responsibility for failure
Oh success lies with management.
Therefore, if banks have been
sound during the past six years it
is largely because good management
has made them so, and if this condi-
ton is to continue for the next six
year or sixty-year period, as we ear
nestly hope it will, it will be by rea-
son of the fact that the officers, di-
rectors and employees of North
Carolina banks fully recognize their
responsibility and determine to equip
themselves and their, institutions to
meet all the trials of depressions and
all the temptations of prosperity and
to discharge their obligations to
stockholders and the public, fear
lessly, capable, and with a proper
understanding of what lasting help
fulneSS means.
cooperation EmpnaSlZeU
"A splendid spirit Of cooperation
dominates the relationship. of bank
ers throughout the state. There is
keen competition between banks,
but in all movements for the good of
the business as a whole and in all
matters where the advancement and
progress of the State are concerned,
the bankers are united
Government Competition
"We frequently hear the question
raised as to whether or not banks
are meeting the credit needs of bus
mess. From certain sources there
continues to come a hue and cry for
more credit as a stimulus to bust
ness, and Immediately some one sug-
gests that another government lend
'ng agency be established-a peren-
NAL suggestion despite the fact that
the government already has more
than 40 lending agencies, many of
them competing directly with our
banks.
II believe that any business or in
dividual having a legitimate need
for credit and showing a reasonable
chance to repay can quickly find
some bank ready to meet that need
In their efforts to adapt banking
services to changing needs, many
commercial banks are making per-
sonal loans repaying in monthly in
stalments, they are cooperating with
the FILA, they are making term
loans-running from two to five
years-to industry for equipmen
and expansion, they are making croE
loans to farmers, loans secured by
life insurance policies, and in every
reasonable way striving to fit bank
credit services to the needs of theil
communities.
,"But they don't propose to give
away depositors' money and they
are not operating a relief agency
They are trying to run safe, ser
viceable business, and I, for one
am here to testify. that they are do
ing a good job of it!
North Carolina One Leader
! Here in North Carolina we have
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Judge Kerr Fights
For State Fund
Continued From Page One)


ed to know what the army engineers
proposed to do about rivers and har-
bors projects in North Carolina.
North Carolina, as you know,
has an ocean frontage that is ex-
ceeded, I believe, by only four other
states in the Union," he said to Cap
tain James Marshall, of the corps of
engineers. "What have you been do
ing down there on our rivers and
harbors in the State of North Caro-
lima? l have asked many times about
it. We have four large rivers. there
that enter into the sounds that lead
to the ocean. What have you to say
about that?"
Captain Marshall pointed out that
there were a number of North Car
DINA projects, referring particularly
to CaShie river, the Roanoke river,
the Neuse river, Contentnea creek,
and Pamlico and Tar rivers.
No new work has been authorized
for Cashie river, Captain Marshall
said, but he pointed to a proposal to
spend $4,000 in 1910 to improve the
Roanoke river. This project provides
for a 12foot channel from Abe
marie Sound to a point near Ply
mouth, N. c., a distance OF ten miles,
and thence other channels varying
from ten to five feet to Weldon, N
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
NAMING WOMEN TO
VESTRIES OPPOSED

Raleigh, May 1O.-(AP)-A pro-
posal that women be allowed to serve
on Episcopal vestries met opposition
at the opening session Of the 123rd
annual convention of the Episcopal
Diocese Of North Carolina.
A committee on canons, to which
the proposal was submitted, recon-
mended that it be rejected. The COM
mittee suggested, however, that wo-
emn throughout the diocese be allow
ed to vote in elections of vestrymen.
Both recommendations were set
as a special order of business for to-
morrow The proposal that women
be allowed to serve on vestries was
in the form of a resolution, submitted
last year.
The committees report was read
by Rev r. B. Owens, of Charlotte.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
LIQUOR CASES TRIED
IN GRANVILLE COURT
Man Charged With Driving Drunk
Ordered To Pay $50 Fine Or
Serve Four Months

Oxford, May 1O-Jim Thomas
Mitchell, charged with operating an
automobile while under influence of
whisky, was sentenced to pay $50
and costs or serve four months on
the roads yesterday by Judge Ben
K. Lassiter when found guilty in
Granville county recorders court.
Other cases disposed of were Gill
lad Lyon, Negro, possession of nom
tox-paid whisky, eight months on
the roads; Roosevelt SatterWhite,
Negro, possession of whisky for the
purpose of sale and aiding and abet-
ing in the transportation of whisky,
not guilty: John d. Washington, Ne
gro, transporting whisky, four
months on the roads, suspended. for
two years provided he show good be-
havior during that time and pay the
costs. Sheriff Davis was ordered to
confiscate Washington's automobile
and sell it. The prisoner was per-
mitted to pay SIS down and the
balance in two weelzs) Roger Driv-
er, operating an automobile after
his license had been revoked, six
months roads; and Walton Currin,
nCn-support, called and failed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
BELK STORES APPEAL
TO u. S. SUPREME COURT

ha1elgn, May IU.-Ihe attorney
generals office was informed today
that Belk Brothers company Of Char
lotte has appealed to the U. S. Su-
preme Court from a ruling by the
North Carolina Supreme Court that
the company must pay chain taxes
on 46 dry good stores which bear the
Belk name.
Briefs showed that the company
has asked the U. S. Supreme Court
for writ of certiorari, which would
bring the record of the case before
the high. tribunal.
The company contends that ap-
plication of the chain store tax to
the 46 Belk stores violates the 18th
amendment of the federal constitu-
ton in that it "abridges the privi-
leges and immunities of the petition
err. -. deprives the petitioner of its
liberty and property without due
process Of law. and denies to the
petitioner the equal protection of the
laws"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10

chances are that they talked about
war exactly as our business men, at
our Chamber of Commerce gabfest
have talked about it in the last few
days. But by the time the World War
broke all that was forgotten. No
body then alive had had any war or
postwar SUPPLEMENTARY a few
historians. And historians don't
count in the business field.
At the present writing business
does its own remembering. In anoth-
er 20 or 80 years, with a fresh in
experienced generation on the Job
possibly things will be different. But
this generation has had enough. If
1T gets an additional dose, it en-
phatically will be against its will.
Business likewise senses that there
won't be any even temporary profits
next time; the government will COB
BILE them all, and perhaps more, too.
In 1859 or 1869, who knows? I'm re-
ferring to right now.
Anti-NeW Deal.
BUSINESS, as represented by Unit
ed States Chamber Of Commerce
craftsmanship, Enthusiastically was
- lillioIiIly dIlIl-INoW DGdl.
IL adversely criticized taxation, de-
1lclts' relief, labor legislation, all
sorts OF New Deal policies. But most
especially it hoWled over President
Roosevelts interference" as the
critics called it, in foreign affairs.
The President, of course, takes the
position that he's trying to stave off
War-ln order to keep us out of it, if
1t starts somewhere else.
The Commerce Chamber, however,
doesn't want us to except as
TO this western hemisphere. Senators
Gerald p. Nye and Hiram w. john
son and Representative Louis Lud-
low haven't anything on the u. S. c.
OF c. as isolationists.
That chamber simply has filters at
the mere thought of war.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
APP WRITER HOPEFUL
OF AVOIDING STRIFE
James A. Mills, Foreign COrrespOn-
dent For % Years Is Optimistic.

Boston, May 10-(AP)-Nearine
the end of a 50,000-mile tour thro-
ugh many of the worlds trouble
spots, James A. Mills, foreign COR
respondent for the Associated Press
for % years, said Monday he felt
there was no immediate prospect of
a general European or world war.
Although touching upon poten-
tialities in widespread areas where
political unrest and extreme ma
tionalism" have been evident, he said
there were heavy economic factors
that weighed against war in Eu-
rope. In addition. he said, the people
of almost all countries were against
war.
In all parts of the world" he said,
Il have heard people in the street
express horror and dismay at the
prospect of war"
Mills arried here Monday on the
American Export liner Exeter, en-
route to New York from Palestine,
Syria and Mediterranean ports. He
had spent year and a half in Japan,
and many months in Soviet Russia,
Manchuria, China, India, Egypt,
AbySsinia and Europe.
The concenSuS of observers in the
area of the Sino-Japanese conflict,
he said, was that this war would go
on until China was exhausted or
Japan ran out of money, and that
many feared the scope of the con-
tlct would expand.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
WORKER SHORTAGE
PREDICTED BY LYMAN
Santee- Cooper Project Expected to
Create Demand

Raleigh, May 1O.-(AP)-Con-
struction of the Santee-Cooper hy-
droelectric project may result in a
serious labor shortage in South
Carolina during the next two years,
w. Paul Lyman, assistant manager of
industrial sales for the Carolina Pow
er and Light company, said last
night.
Speaking at a meeting of the Ra-
leigh Engineers club, Lyman said
common laborers of the project
would be paid a minimum of 40
cents an hour, compared with an
existing minimum of 25 cents in the
Santee-COOper area.
Lumbermen in the Berkeley coun-
ty, South Carolina, vicinity he add
ed, face two problems desertion by
their laborers and a serious price
drop as a result of overproduction
The overproduction, Lyman said
may be brought about by clearing
the timber from 169,999 acres to be
flooded by dams.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
States Bank Resources
Reach to New High Mark
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drawls are made around the first of
the year to wind up affairs of the
preceding year.
Governor Clyde r. Hoey, informed
of the healthy conditions shown by
the banks of North Carolina, said
that the statement confirms his belief
that business as a whole has been
improving in the State for some time
Commenting on the fact that bank
resources practically held their own
from December to March, he point
ed out that the State alone withdrew
some $6,500,000 from North Carolina
banks to meet 1888 obligations.
Principal item that increased total
resources was leash, balances with
cess of collection, which jumped
$32, 49, 74.73 to total of $129, $780,
1853 from last March's slightly less
than $1OO,OOO,000.
Insurance deposit resources were
up $136, 769.08, while income earn
ed, but not collected, amounted to
$768, 1924, against nothing for the
same item year ago.
Demand deposits of individuals,
corporations and partnerships were
$113, ,724.52, which was decrease
of 3,19759 from last March; but
time deposits roses So, 1861 ,63314 from
SOL 1928, 749O6 to $64,29O,3 1920.
On the industrial bank side, the
picture was much the same. Loans
and discounts were $15,873, 1884, as
compared with last years $14,723,-
1850, an increase of $1,150, 170.54.
Cash, balances with other banks and
items in process of collection increas-
ed $412,174.78 from $1,124,857.61 to
81 ,537 ,O32.39.
The industrial banks held $685.
949.69 in pledged installment invest
ment certificates, against $5,174,5 48.-
70 last March; while the correspond
ing figures for unpledged installment
investment certificates $6,857 ,932.70
and SAIL, 47198, the increase here
amounting to $2,446, 460.72.
Summing up the banking situation
in the State, Commissioner Hood
said that his department is cab
solutely unworried by the situation
of any North Carolina bank with re-
ference to assets" He added that the
department has misgivings about the
management of not more than
three banks and that one of these
situations is already clearing up.
Eleven Year Comparison. Resources
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
DISMISSED GERMAN
TO SPEAK AT u. N. C..
Dr. Hans Baron, Former Berlin Pro-
lessor, To Appeal In Chapel
Hill Tomorrow.

Chapel Hill, May 1O.-Dr. Hans
Baron, who was dismissed in 1888
by the Nazi government from the
University Of Berlin where he was
professor of medieval and modern
history and who has been elected to
the chair Of history at Queens COL
lege in New York, will speak on
Economic and Social Aspects of
Florentine Renaissance" in Graham
Memorial at the university Thursday
evening, at $50 o'clock, it was an
nounced today.
DR.. Baron, one of the most out
standing world scholars of the Ital-
ian Renaissance and the Calvinistic
reformation, will come here under
the auspices of the university di-
vision of humanities and the depart
ment of history.
Since 1888 he has done research
and lectured in England and recent
ly has delivered lectures at Yale uni
versity, Johns Hopkins, Columbia
Duke, the Universities of Chicago
Wisconsin and Iowa, and at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His scholarship is unique, it is said
in that he attacks his subjects from
sociological and economic points OF
view and attempts to clarity the in
terrelations Of politics, sociology anc
economics with religious and Gull
tural life
Among noteworthy aspects of DR.
Baron's study, it is reported, is the
unusual development of the textile
industries in Florence and their in
fluence on cultural life.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
BUS COMPANIES TAKE
AN UNUSUAL COURSE

Raleigh, May 10.-In an action be-
lieved unprecedented in North Car
Dina franchise cases, the Atlantic
Greyhound bus lines and Smoky
Mountain stages today restrained
Utilities Commissioner Stanley Win
borne from issuing a temporary per-
NIT to allow Carolina Stages to OPP
crate in interstate commerce between
Charlotte and the South Carolina
line.
The action was unusual in that it
was taken before Winborne had rul-
ed formally on an application of Car
DINA Stages. At hearing last week
however, he indicated informally
from the bench that he would issue
the temporary permit
Wlnborne said the writ restrained
him from issuing the temporary per-
NIT or from taking any other action
in the case.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
JAPAN TO HALT RELIEF
WORK IN BATTLE ZONES

Ohanghal, May lO.-(AP) = A
japanese spokesman announced to-
day that hereafter Japanese would
prevent third-power relief organi-
cations from supplying food and
medicines to Chinese refugees in
cities under attack.
The spollesman's statement APP
piled specifically to Ningpo, in Che
kiang province 100 miles south of
Shanghai, and nearby ports. 1t was
believed, however, that the policy
would be extended to other eastern
and southeastern China ports where
aerial commandments continued to-
day.
Asked about the refusal of JAP
anese to permit the landing at Ming
pc of 300 bags of American Red
Cross rice and quantities of medical
supplies purchased with American
funds, the spokesman said: "The
policy of the Japanese navy is to
prevent the landing Of such sup
plies"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-10
Mothers Day BeMemorable
Event In Life German Student

picked up enough bare essentials Of
lhe language to get by
-Four months later" he continu-
ca, my grandmother died, and
faced blank wall" The IMMIGRANT
then attending a high school in Will
mlngton, kept himself in school bv
working IN local department store
and keeping house for an old Ger
man bachelor.
In 1885 Boemanns came to Chanel
Hill to the Boy Scout Jamboree with
the delegation from Wilmington
From then on" he declared. I want
ed to come to the University OF
North Carolina.
Not wishing to go back to- Ger
many, ! decided that l would 90
through the hardest way" he added
Frau Boemanns has permission
from the United States consulate to
visit here for five weeks. Since the
Hitler regime no money can be talk
en- out of the country, it is necessary
Tor his aunt in Philadelphia to post
bond for his mothers expenses.
Herman pointed out.