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The Phoenix index., 1940-01-27
BETWEEN THE LINES By Gordon B. Hancock

civilization. Self-respecting south
erners have had to hang their
heads in abject shame because OF
the mobism of the mObocratS who
spurned all reason and refused to
learn the high lesson of self
correction.
When the auti-lynching bills
were just entering the scene 1 was
little opposed for I knew that
unless a bill was supported by an
enlightened public opinion it was
worse than useless and might even
work harm to a worthy cause,
Later on was indifferent, today ]
am not only strongly in favor o.
the bill but enthusiastically plead
for its passage because 1 am con-
vinced that that enlightened pub
lie opinion prevails and that the
time is at hand for the nation to
take hand in Il matter that dis
graces 1t before the civilized world.
We all are sick and tired'' not
of bil.S and measures to bring an
end to national and human dis
grace, but of the disgrace itself. I
am sick and tired not of attempts
to Danish lynching but of lynching
itself and so am well tired. What
is more, the better South is "sics
and tired" Of the octopus of law
lessness which is a threat to the
safety of rhe entire nation.
Strangely enough the Gentleman
from Georgia" did not wait for
any particular reference to the
South.
He was like the monkey at a
meeting of the animal conclave
when someone proposed to play
making ugly faces The monkey
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objected on the ground that The
proposed was directed at him per-
Sonally. No name was called but
he alone felt the affront. It is
strange that any attempt to Danish
lynching from the country should
be an affront to the South.
The bill is not confined in its
implications to the Sor't'' but to
lynching anyW! ere. When tho
"Gentleman from Georgia" accepts
full responsibility for lawlessness,
he is giving the South some Nigh
ty poor representation. To make
the South alone opposed to the
anti-lynch bill is to make the
South alone guilty before the
tribunal of world opinion! "Sick
and tired" Yes, the nation is sick
and tired of having its name dis
graced before the world by bar
barities that would make even
primeval men blush with shame
Sick and tired!
Yes, the country is sick and tired
Of having it's Negro citizens in
their defenselesSness done to death
bv mobs that are fiendish in their
passions and appetites. Sick and
tired! Yes, tie Negro citizens OF
this country are sick and tired of
being treated like step-citizens of
a country FOR which they have
poured out their life's blood IN
war and their energies in peace.
Sick and tired. Yes, the better
white South is sick and tired OF
few semi-savages making the false
representation that they are the
saviors of the South and its
chiefest exponents of chivalry ana
manhood. Sick and tired We oT the
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-27
EDITORIALS
THE PRE-FALL
OF MAN

Satan, the Devil, fell from grace,
his former habitation, a holy place,
Heaven, a place occupied by the
living God and angels.
From the presence Of God,
Christ, I saw Satan falling from
Heaven. His influence, the source
of power dragged down one-third
of the stars.
MAINS Pre-ENample, falling to
earth, Gcd's footStool. Out of har-
mony with Gods plan. Mans fall
follows in rapid succession, occu-
pying a Heaven namely the Gar
cen Of Eden-as holy as the place
where God dwells Earth, the
mechanism Of God and all that
was good and very good. Man in
the image and likeness of God
Though a little lower than the
angel, and yet greater than any
other existing creature upon
earth. And in whose hands was
trUSved the steady ship of Gods
store house, to Feep and have do
minion and subdue He stumbled
over the body of the devil, who
fell from heaven many thousands
of years to travel too and fro, to
seek uihm he might devour Mans
stumble was great, but his fall was
greater! All the way from heaven
to hell-a mighty fall.
Out of heaven into the Garden
of Eden, the first division to
change crews and again open the
throttle for the final destruction
and i'll hell he lifted up his eyes,
tormented in the flame to behold
a division passed to behold Abra-
ham and Lazarus in His bosom.
Woe, woe, woe is the fall of man.
Stepping from the deck into the
sea, the only hope, Jesus, the Re-
deemer walking On the watei, a
present help, a Savior of mankind.
Caught a sinking man, a falling
man. Oh thou Of little faith. The
fall of man whose faith hopelessly
stumbled and left body swaying
to evil doctrine and was pulled
down by grs vitation.
Without a savior, a redeemer, a
governor, a prince of peace, to
speak to wind and water that they
should obey. Mans fall lowers to
the bottom pit.
Oh the Hell! The lake prepared
for the devil and his angels and
all that have forgot God.
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For AMP
"SICK AND TIRED"

THE INTRODUCTION of the
Gavagan Anti-Lynch bill was an
other occasion for an outburst
from one of thtse southerners who
is hundred years behind the
times. fortunately for the South
and the cause of race relations,
they are becoming fewer and
farther between. These few are far
too many for the good of the cause
of national and human betterment
in general and for the Negro in
particular.
The Gentleman from Georgia.
replied to the reintrOduction of the
Gavagan bill with the terse state
ment Il am sick and tired of see
ing the South treated like a con-
quered province. The introduction
of a bill to save the reputation If
this nation and the South from
the pollution that 1ynch-law has
imposed upon it is construed as
treating the South as conquered
province! It is to laugh. The
South deserves better representa-
ton in the congress Of the nation.
Georgia Is to be p!tied if this gent
leman is it's best representative
abroad.
The thing that should make our
"Gentleman from Georgia" sick
and tired is not the bill but the
lawlessness and scandal which call
ed forth the bill. For over half a
century this nation has been hu-
inflated before the tribunal of the
world by a 1awless element who
went on furv hound and made Of
,1obblsm a curse to our fair natio
and a shame before the ideals nt
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Ask Naming
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them are in the lower classifica-
tions.
At the same time that the. plea
is being made for the employment
of Negroes as special agents, the
committee heard another plea
on behalf of the custodial workers
in the department, of which there
are about sixty. All but twelve
of these are colored. Their pay is
$1,000 per annum and it is being
asked that their pay be raised
along with the workers In other
departments to the $1,000 base as
had been done elsewhere.
Funds for this particular raise
were asked Of the committee which
took this and the matter of ear
marking funds for the engaging Of
Negro special agents under con-
siderat.on.
The secret service of the treasury
department has used Negroes to
advantage for a number Of years,
as has the narcotic division of the
same department. Only in the
department OF justice have Negroes
never had chance to show their
ability along these lines.
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PLATFORM

that tee pouu
political
religious questions which face the
especially the extent
that must becom job make we'll seekers
To instruct boys and girls i'm the art of thrift
a. brotherhood OF
S. To build a racial foundation fer posterity
of the colored must compete
technique other
in dealing patrons dependable e
alone will be able
points respect to
in
weekly published in which views
national Such
reflect
way opinion of INDEX.
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HEART BEAT PRINTS

from the normal? (4) What Is the
patients functional capacity tn
withstand operative procedure, do
physical work, withstand mental
stress or meet the articular prob
lem confronting him?
Our patient admits he has had
pains in the joints. He has some
shortness of breath upon eXertion.
He has a mild degree of swelling
of the ankles. However the COM
plant which brought him to the
doctor was the sharp pain in the
center of the chest which radiat-
ed down his left arm. He admitted
that he had some pretty BAD
coughing spells.
One can just draw a mental pic
ture of repeated attacks of a
throat infection (tonsilitis) occur
ring in childhood, with gradual
closing of the heart valves and
later enlargement of the heart
chambers. Years passed by and the
heart infection never completely
subsidies, till in early adult life,
the auricles begin to fibrillate and
heart failure supervene5.
The heart beat prints made by
the electrocardiagraph may sho"
a typical saw tooth or fertilization
curve. If other damage is present
such as destruction of the elec-
trical fibers connecting the auricles
and ventricles, configuration of
bundle branch block will present
itself. This is indicated by length
ening out of the ORA wave and
slurring of the lines.
If q closure of the coronary
blood vessels vessels supplying the
heart) has taken place, the usual
T wave prints become inverted. Or
sometimes take Of" high above the
base line.
Without the above careful type
of examination, it Is quite impos-
sible to diagnose accurately the
many types of heart disease, or II
heart disease exists at all. The
treatment certainly depends upon
the diseased condition which may
be present. If you suspect you may
have heart disease have your ply
sician to request consultation along
this line. -.. p. ..-
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Themes & Variations By Gams,psA Valentine

think and this is what Mr.. Goightly has done. But
this brings us face to face against the same stone
wall of vainly believing that he can drive uni
versal society according to his will This can not be
done 1t hasn't been done spite of all the trying
and will never be done. Before man can select whaf
is true from that which false, he must have before
him yardstick He is unable to think out
a true standard, because he created by some
one ese and all humanity is the work of another
I repeat that man must find out where he comes
from what is his purpose for being here and then
his only hope is to live according to the plan of this
force that made the world and the human race.
The Bible of Mankind that Mr.. Golghtly dreams
of becoming a reality is already reality. 1t is en-
couraging to find a young intelligent man, search
ing diligently for a solution of the worlds ills. He
is far more concerned than the swarm of preachers
who pretend to teach their members about God
that can deliver but who isn't delivering them
neither their flock: 1t is amusing to see how silent
the preachers are on Mr. Golghtlys essay. dare
say that very few if any, understand just what Mr.
Golightly is searching after,
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When Lazy Kidneys Gauss
ST u B B O R N
BACKAC H E

If you have persistent annoying back
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get a 35 cent box of the famous Gold
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rected-
Besides backache, other Symp-
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be swollen ankles, puffy eyes, leg
cramps, getting up nights, difficult
and scanty passage.
But be sure 10 ask for Gold Medal
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Don't be an easy mark and ac-
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antee Of purity
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Cruelty
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the plight of these folks.

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Continued from page y
the plight OF these folks.
People have to learn to lead
themselves in the South" he said.
''This. is the first time In the his
tory of the country any delegation
of this kind and size has been TO
Washington, And it is not an ef-
fort to put the government on the
whole have been fine with one ex-
ception.
1--WE are trying to organize three
groups. First, the migratory work.
ers of whom there are now 10000
on strike; second, the sugar-beet
workers in the Rocky Mountain
area; third the larger group in the
South engaged in agriculture!
problems.
because OF certain officials III
the Farm Security administration,
three have been no evictions this
year like there were last January
From East Texas, MRS. Moliie
Robinson, of Rust county, a fraii
dark brown skinned woman, SEEM
ingly unequal to the teglS to which
she set herself, was the next
speaker.
NEEDS ATTENTION
"The problem OF the South needs
immediate attention. she said
tenant farmers. haIecroppers and
farm lahorers are being swept
from faIolS to relief. Farmers are
disper sing with their services
ranidlv. Families which formerly
worked the farms are being sup
planted by tractors and mach1n'
erv''
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HIT EDUCATIONAL Dis
ELIMINATION

"The educational program for
reducing inequalities of the mi
nority group will of necessity have
to be of long duration. 1t will
be based on the conviction shared
by this conference that the de-
nial of opportunity to any child
on the basis of race, color, or creed
is undemocratic and dangerous to
the welfare of all children. The
effort to eliminate race prejudice
and accompanying discrimination
must be made in home and school,
local and national organizations,
public ard private agencies.
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South are sick and tired of having
to ap ilogize for certain conditions
which are as distasteful for our
selves as they are embarrassing to
coming generations. II the Gent
leman from Georgia. were as
"sick and tired" of lynching itself
as he is of efforts to Danish b
there would be hope for the South
and thc naticnl Sick ald tired?
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CHRISTIANITY HAS BIBLE

OF all the so-called great religions, the Christian
religion is the only that processes that God maker
of heaven and earth sent His Son to earth to show
man salvation, the spiritual life of which Mr.. Co.
lightly writes. Christianity is the only religion thar
explains the beginning of creation, the salvation OF
man. the doom of sinners, the office of Jesus and
the power of God. Christianity has Bible. known
as The Holy Bible which teaches and explains that
force that created man. heaven and the earth. The
Holy Bible further explains to man his purpose on
EARTH how must live the rewards of the right
eous and the punishment of tie unrghteous. The
Holy Bible is colossal volume of sc books and it is
appalling to know how few folk understand the great
and beautiful truths under its Like any other
book of instruction, the Bible must be STUDIED and
PRACTTCED before it be understood.
Mans intellect is powerful for good only when
man submits to the commands of his Creator. Man
can't God without intellect. But the finest
intellect is able to understand God only when the
personality gets the spirit of God Animals of the
kind understand another because they pos
SeSs the spirit of animals, or of one another man
can't understand his pet German Police dog until he
learns the spirit of his dog. Likewise, the dog doesn't
love his master until he (the dog understands the
spirit of the
God is Spirit, and His teachings deal with the
spirit of man, hence Gods Word must be spiritually
discerned.
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Angel" Tells
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When he wore the last one out
tending furnace IN a heaven he was
given a pair Of overalls and two
suits OF underwear.
While on the witness stand,
Mr.. Universe" offered to dance
"the rag' which he said the
angels performed when they
became happy. His offer was po-
litely refused by the judge.
Brown also told of how he and
his wife allegedly gave Divine sums
of money to be stored in his
heavenly treasury for safe keep
ing, only to discover that it was
used to buy real estate in Ulster
county, New XorE,
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GoIiehtIy's Bible

HAVE JUST FINISHED reading Cornelius L.
CIolightly's essay What Influence Would Bible
of Mankind Exert on the World of Tomorrow which
brought him first prize of $500 offered by the New
History Society. Mr. Goghtly is graduate of Talla-
dega College graduate student University of Michi-
gan Ann Arbor, Michigan and the son of Presby-
terian minister Ghe author has done a splendid
job, according to the rules of philosophic writings
and assembled with great skill the material he chose
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His essay is an attempt to find a
standard of human conduct, select
ed from the mine great religions
of mankind, and compiled into A
Bible of Mankind. which would in
fluence the entire world to change
from disorder. exploitation and spir-
itual starvation to a New Art of
Social Living"
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NA@'NA SNAA ~
Reasoning like building is able VALENTINE
only to construct ideas beliefs only from the data
used. Mr.. Golightly, therefore, compelled to
travel the same route all philosophers and scho-
They all attempt to deliver themselves. They
ignore the One who created not only the world but
If man didn't make this world; was born into
the world without his knowledge and passes
out without his consent whatever force there is that
controls the world, the birth ard death of man, it
can't be denied that this force Must first be under
stood and reckoned with by man before he can hope
to solve his problems The laws of such force
would have to be known before say if
New Art of Social Living in this world is possible.
Nevertheless. the author of this discussion dS-
covered the following truths concerning religion,
among the most important % Religion has not
solved the problems of today. co Organized creeds
must be discarded CD The Kingdom of God is in
the earth. and (4 is not fundamentally a
tional creature One of the writer's outstanding fall
lacies is his constant belief of the power of the hui
man intellect and Imagination to deliver humanity
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4AAAOOs ONAANN
like to call your
attention today
to an impression
which the heart
gives each time
it beats, because
the heart when
it p a S S e S
through e a C h
cycle acts as a
small dynamo. 1t
generates a min
n u tie electrical
current. T h e
waves produced
by the heart can
be measured and
photographed on
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INDEX political party
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On present the completely mparay and free from hatred
All matter coming this should be In office Tues
to the
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VOOdO0 Adherents
Continued from page II

Stander until one Of his employers
told him it was all right to do so.
Smith entered StanderS automobile,
which drove away, and was seen no
more.
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Rv MARK A. THOMAS

NO DOUBT MOST of us have
heard of finger prints used for the
purpose of identification of per-
sons by the impression of thumb
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Equality Asked
Continued from page y

partment of labor.
In discussing the needs and
goals in 1910, the general report
states: "The White House Con-
ference on Children in a De-
mocracy speaks to all the people
for all the children. There are
some S6,OOO,0 900 children under 16
years of age in the United States
and about five million more aged
Is and 17-altogether nearly
third of the population. Each year
about two million babies are born.
For numbers alone, if for no 9TH
er reason, these voteleSS fellow
citizens vino hold the national
future in their bodies and brains
are necessarily first interest OF
the nation"
MINORITIES SUFFER
The conference in its general
meeting Thursday morning out
lined the method of discussions
and at two O'Clock, there were II
scattered groups under a discus
sion leader in various parts OF
the department considering the
topics in which the conference
was interested.
"The children In families Cf
minority groups" says the confer
ence report, "often suffer several
types Cf nandicaps. Their par
entS have less chance for employ
ment and economic advancement;
they experience a degree of social
exclusion; they may receive al
unequal share III public services;
schotl, recreation. medical care.
The largest minority group ard
the greatest sufferers from discri-
mination are Negroes, but minori-
ty status is also experienced to q
degree which varies from time 10
time and from place to place by
Indians, Mexicaus, Jews and SCme
foreign-born people. There are
about 100000 non-white children
under IA years Of age iii the pop
ulation and 100000 foreign-born
or of foreign-born parenCage.
Science has made it clear that
strict race lines cannot be drawn
and also that no faotual basis
exists for any assumption that
one race is superior to another.
The reasons for prejudice and dis
criDnination must, therefore. be
sought mainly ir social and eco
nornic rather ti4an in biological
factors. The problem is large one
quantitatively in the United States
and one which must be met if we
are to give all children reasonable
opportunity for health and happi-
ness
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AGAINST A STONE WALL

For years too. had burning desire to study
the great religions of the world for the sole purpose
of selecting compilation of the best among
all, and pattern my life according to my selection
This is the natural procedure of most people who
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ADMITS KILLING

On the Same night but few
hours later, Stander re-appeared
at the gambling house alone, and
was questioned by a relative of
Smith as to Smiths whereabouts.
Stander said Smith had been kill
ed but no one was to go see about
his body.
Mrs. helma Smith. wife of the
slain man, was told by one of the
sheriffS that her husband had just
been killed because he drew knife
on deputy sheriff. Rumors crept
in that Sander killed Smith be-
cause he said something umcompli-
mentary about a Negro woman
Stander was living with. The s.
Bernard parish grand jury discuss
ed the case but made no investiga-
tionS. The local branch of the N.
! A. A. G.. p. was unable to force any
acton against Stander. which is
| said to have prompted the "yoodOo
gods" to take up the Case
WIDOW FILES SUIT
Mrs. Smith filed a suit in the
| civil district court Of Orleans parish,
seeking $25 900 for t. lc killing of her
husband, naming Sheriff q, F..
RoWley, Deputy William Stander,
and the Great American Indemnity
! company, which issued a bond that
it would identify any person or per-
sons who were damaged, injured or
killed through illegal and unWar-
ranted acts of the said sheriff or
his deputies who at the time wei e
acting in tn eir respective Capacities.
RumorS are rampant that STAN
der's case will be pointed out as
| an example of what the "voo-doo
gods" can do. when the courts
fail to give Negroes justice We shall
| get it for them" one of the "yNro-
doc queens" stated, refusing to give
her name.
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IGNORE GOD

In any argumentative treatise, the
u,riter. oar, h,> Con1i)ared to q hIIilder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-23
Political Pressure Charged
For Midwest Plant Sites

PITTSBURGH, Aug. % Rl.-The
Pittsburgh Commission for Indus
trial Expansion, claiming the indus
trial East affords the best locations
for defense factories, charged TO-DAY
political pressure was being used
to obtain Government plants for
nine Midwestern States unsuited to
industry.
In a letter to w. S. Knudsen,
member of the National Defense
Advisory Commission in charge Of
production. Acting Manager Charles
E. Robinson of the Industrial Com
mission said the fundamental re-
quirements for low-cost production
such as raw materials and trained
men were located in Il States east
of the Mississippi and north OF the
Ohio Rivers.
Mr.. Robinson told Mr.. KnuGsen
it was not his desire Ito quarrel with
the good Congressmen who
must bring home as much bacon as
they can or to belittle the nine Md
western States they represent.
Arkansas. Iowa. Kansas. Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska. Oklahoma, North
Dakota and South Dakota.
But, he added, survey showed
the Midwestern States primarily
fitted for agriculture and indicated
clearly that a satisfactory prosecu-
ton of the national defense pro-
gram might well lie in each man.
each district and each doing that for
which it is best suited, whether it
be raising foodstuffs, mining ores or
the production of airplanes, tanks
or guns