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The Phoenix index., 1940-08-17
Seeing and Saying BY William Il. Fo~zke'
What to do: what to do?
SOME HATREDS ARE NATURAL

Any person of fair intelligence and sane pro-
portions hates ignorance, filth and inconsistency.
It is no more natural for these qualities to be alb
hored among the colored group than among the
white.
The majority of white refuse to look up
on the Negro men as anything but "boys," regard
less of the age of the latter their standing IN
the community. Some explain that Negroes are
permanently to be considered of the servant ca
pacity, that they cannot be classed as "men,'
never as gentlemen"
Only we'll planned educational program IN
their homes, schools, jobs and press will ever
change this concept. Many do not know that there
are thousands of intelligent Negroes capable OF
living and working as gentlemen and ladies
that there are Negroes holding positions in profess
sions that require the same intelligence quotients
skill and use of the brain the whites.
Millions of them do not know any Negro eX-
cent the hat-in- the hand Uncle Tom Aunt Sue
and only think of him her as capable OF talking
in the so-caled familiar" dialect. The children
are taught that crime is to be associated with Ne
oroes (thev don't call us this), that nothing toe
Good can come "from Sam" recent fascist-tend
ing publication said through a columnlst that Ne
oroes had contributed NOTHING to the advance
ment of world civilization. ...:
These are entirely wrong concepts, to be sure
But they persist and spread.
It is much up to to correct the lingering
of these evily wrong ideas. One race newspaper
used to ask its readers to pass it on to whlts
friend to read so that the Negro SIDE OF Ameticai
life could be appreciated. Race clowns and lgno
rameses" should disappear from our scene at oul
own command. We should quit fooling others
hence dupng ourselves.
This rs an age of understanding through edu
cation by propaganda and machlhes we snoui'
helm correct ourselves and the "gone With ths
wind" concepts about us.
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Striking At Nations Stomach

The people willing and anxious to dig down in their
pockets for the billions which necessary to defend tne
United States hostile world of force. But the people
should not expected to tolerate unnecessary drains on
Laws which deter enterprise and ARTIFICIAL
y boost the cost of living must be reegated to- the scrap
heap Antieffcency" laws directed at modern distrou
ton methods are good examples of this kind of Legislative
negation. =
An army fights on it's stomach The same is true OF
nations We not at war But we are fighting against
time gain the power to survive in the event that war
ultimately forced to hemisphere By all odds one OF the
most essential owcost distribution of food and other
necessities This the stuff which morale is built
and it becomes all the more important time when the
portion of national absorbed by government tax
ing sudden and drastic rise America has perhaps the
most efficient distribution system in the world But pres
groups attacking this system ON the ground
that it too big and too fficent Many states have pass
ed laws which, in effect make economy and efficiency IN
distribution a crime. -
~ What we need today is efficiency, not less we
need more efficiency in people, in ndustresand
in our legislative halls Business and political groups thai
spend their irrelevant snpng at imaginary evils OF
some other group might we'll be looked with favor by
the fifth coumnist.
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tirelv too many. 1t must not ne
forgotten that the economic cppor-
t,,nities which made our progress
possible in the past are rapidly
changing for the worse.
MASSES DOING WORSE
A few Negroes are doing better
hut the masses are doing worse. IL
is fervently to be hoped that one
of these expositions will show how
the masses of Negroes have loSt
out in the struggle. They are Nv
ing even closer today to the ragged
edge of existence than so years
ago.
OF course, we are grumollne
ABOUT our condition; but we must
not forget that many Of The op-
portunities we are grumbling for
have been funbled. We fumbie ana
then we grumblei Grumbling anc
fumbling, fumoling and grumbling'
The day of the vocation is at
hand!
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Flush Kidneys Of
Acid and Poisons
Gain In Health And Stop
Getting Up Nights

When kidneys are continually over
burdened they often become weak-the
bladder is irritated--often passage IS
scanty and smarts and burns-sleep IS
restless and nightly visits to the bath
room are frequent.
safe, harmless and inexpensive way
to relieve this trouble and help restore
more healthy action to kidneys apo
bladder is to get from amy druggist
35 cent box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem
Oi1 Capsules and take as directed
Don't be an EASY MARK and accept
a substitute-Get Gold Medal Haariem
Oil Capsules-the original and genuine
Look for the Gold Medal on the box
35 cents.
Rem ember-other symptoms of KID
uey and bladder trouble may be back
ache, puffy eyes, nervousness and leg
cramps
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Cases OF
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white applicants on eligibility
lists;
8. All applicants. Negro and white,
who are duly qualified and who
have been referred to the Com
mission by an Employment Cen
ter, should be assigned to JOBS
upon a basis of strict 1mpartiality.
Second, with respect to relations
between the Civil Service Commits
sion and government agencies:
1. Negro registrants. especially Ill
the clerical and professional ca
tegories, should be assigned IN
due order of rank to any job
in any agency for which they
are qualified, regardless of the
attitude of personnel directors
and, other officials in the agency.
2. So far as it is within the juris-
diction of the Commission, pro-
motions in rank Of all qualified
employees without regard to col
or should be guaranteed.
The commission further agreed to
investigate the cases of discriniIl-
alton against Negro workers cited
in the statement of the delegation
and promised also to take steps to-
ward having Congress amend the
present law which forbids heads OF
agencies from denying jobs to
civil service assignees on the basis
of religion or political affiliatlon'
so as to include also color"
The members of the delegation
were:
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CHICAGO-(A N P)-OfficerE
and enlisted personnel of Chica-
go's famous Eighth Regiment, I
N. c., this week we're jubilant over
the announcement that War De-
partment regulations have been
amended so that the term 'color'
ed will not be used as an in
separatable part of a colored units
designation.
The information refers to the 9th
and to the 369th N. Y. National
Guard, and both fighting units
had been aideG in the fight by the
NAACP, which had protested tc
President Roosevelt, New York's
Governor Lehman and former Sec
retary of War Harry Woodring.
A letter, containing information
of the change in rules, was SEN
to the NAACP by Major General
Emory S. Adams, and also carried
assurance t.lat neither the ILL
nois nor the New York unit;
would be designated as labor bat
Galions, thus scotching rumorS cir
culated to that effect.
Major General Adams letter
to the NAACP, follows:
reference is made to your
recent telegram in regard to a
rumor that the 369th Infantry,
New York National Guard, and
the Reference is also made to
YOUR letter to the President,
which had been referred to this
office for reply.
instructions have already been
issued for the conversion, effective
about September Is, 1910, of the
369th Infantry Regiment to the
369th Coast Artillery (Antiaircratt)
and an increase of the OFFICER
personnel from 48 to 60 OFFICERS
Negotiations are under way 10
convert the 9Th Illinois Infantry
ness 3rd Battalion into 155-mm.
howitzer or gun regiment, CHG
Reserve. Both the anti-alrcraft
regiment and the field artillery
regiment are combat troops.
Regulations have been ameno,
ed so that the term 'colored Will
not be used as an inseparaole rarG
of colored units designation.
"At present there is authofiza-
ton for the enlistment of 3O4 ad-
ditonal colored applicants. AS 1oon
as the number of new colored
units to be formed has been dell
nitely determined, the enlistment
of additional colored personnel
will undoubtedly, be authorized.
serve Secretary, honored Mrs.
Weeden with a reception at the
home of her mother-in-laW, MRS
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Make Democracy Work

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, fully awake to the menace to
our institutions willing to make conceivable ecocmc
sacrifice in the name liberty and security But that doesn
mean the American people going to be satisfied with
mere bills appoprang money and raising taxes lhoy are go
ing that money spent produces resutsthat
bureaucratic red tare is cu-waste edned-delay avoided
1t is thing appropriate billions 1t is another thing
to translate those billions arpanes and artillery and ghs
ships Any e-nl politician vote to spend taxes
but it will be dark day for this country politics permitted
the actual job of making needed weapons Inc
industrial craftsmanship is vital Speed e1
ficiency and economy the essentials.
This is the time to make democracy work Americas ca
pacity produce lessthe American genius tor achieve
proved itself often in other crises to be doubted
for single second And that genius must be freed OF the
political hackes that have been welded onto it in recent years
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By ROBERT NJ. RADCLIFFE

THEY SWEAR BY Sonora Donsia Main (she color
ed down in Cuba Recently group of epers threatened
riot unless given her treatment cure for eprosy cameo
v the woman the doctors of Cuba wondering according
to a report coming from Havana
Sonora Mains treatment is applied with two medl-
cines one save for external and the other qud
solution taken internally They made with sc different
herbs.
Physicians the San Lasaro Hospital of Ell Rncon ad
NIT that patients taking the have improved On In
srcon from the President of Cuba the hospital doctors
are experimenting with the medicine and hope to announce
definite results in six eight months
Sonora Majin says she has experimental with lepers
and that after eight months the microbe disappeared COM
petely
IN SPITE OF THE KU KLUX Klan and other anti
Negro groups coored Georgans forging onward II by
no other process than by speaking out their desire to have
Ia part in the states political set-up
The nations press coored and white, carried an ac
count of what down at Log Cabin Center several
days ago. Race of the state let the world know they
are against white primaries that they opposed to any
form of discrimination that may creep into the present ma
tonal defense program. .
The ambitious editor of the Charleston South Carolina
Lighthouse and nformer sat in front of his typewriter and
necKed out an editorial auding the Georgia leaders Tor
their stand and shamng the Big Shots of his state Said
he "Those Georgans have put to shame the Negroes
South Carolina Where in all South Carolina can one
find men of the fortitude of those Georglans?
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Bv DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK


WHEN A PLAYER drops the
baseball it is called muffing; when
he drops the football it is called
fumbling. II is the same error by
different names. Great games Of
baseball have been lost through a
muffed ball and great football
games have been lost because OF a
tumble. When a team is waltlng
for 'the breaks of the game in
football, they are largely waiting
to recover a tumble. "Following the
ball" is technique largely calcu-
lated to recover fumbleS.
Footballs are not the only things
that can be fumbled. Generals in
the army can also tumble and lose
battles. Business men can fumtle
and lose bargains. Educators may
tumble and pass up opportunities
for larger services. Youth may
tumble and ruin chances of future
success. Nations may tumble and
relinuuish advantages which would
have guaranteed survival. Races
too, may tumble when they refuse
to face the ugly facts Of life and
set themselves earnestly to those
tasks by which they live.
WE FUMBLED BADLY
It cannot be doubted that the
Negro race fumbled sadly when a
deaf ear was turned to the doc
trines of Booker T. Washington
Had the Negro been able to grasp
and apply the teachings of Booker
T. Washington: the race problem
in this country would have not
been solved, but the increasing
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BETWEEN THE LINES

the Negro tumble SO years ago, but
it is tragic to see him tumble now.
Had we seized the opportunity
that vocationalism offered so years
ago. the Negro would have posses
sion of every job that the new
white man" is preparing to take
over tomorrow. The determined
way in which the new white man"
is taking to vocational education,
spells doom for the Negro who is
still inclined to take such educa-
ton lightly. OF course, after the
new white man" corners the mar
ket on things vocational, the Negro
will awaken with a rush; but it
will then be too late!
To remain a few PAGES behind in
our thinking is just like the smaller
nations of Europe waking up to
what Hitler is doing when he starts
his blitzkrieg. Those Of great hind
sight can never compete success
fully with those of great foresight.
Negroes cannot survive by cutting
one anotller'S hair and feeding
one another and taking in
one another's washing. The mere
multiplication of beauty parlcrs.
barber shops, restaurants and in
surance agents will not compensate
for the Negroes frlmbling his voca-
tional opportunity.
The emergence from our colleges
of armies of degreed young men
and women will not atone for FUN
bled vocational opportunities. We
had in progress this year two
great Negro World Fairs" one in
Chicago and one in Detroit-en-
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WHAT DOES HISTORY SAY?
We have been reading and re-read1ng history
to find out if any situation has been exactly SINH
lar to ours And, if minority groups, where a
color difference exists, have been able to totally
erase from the minds of the powerful majority
the prejrdices, the hatreds that accompany tne
memory of previous condition of servltude' tne
"glory that once was the masters" !.
We would not go into long recitation Oh
history here, but careful, analytical research
shows that freed men have been able to eradicate
hatred and disrespect of themselves by 1ormel
masters only by becoming so efficient along GER
tain lines as to make their respected services in
dispensable, or they have become SO attractive
physically and spiritually, that amalgamatlon OF
the races has resulted. The latter has been care
fullv Iegislated against bym is overalls ana "nose
lowed in the wake of the hate-throwng CIVIL
WAR Inequality in services and reward has re-
suited throughout the double-standard system
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PLATFORM

To give people they feel proud
views all political social
ande questions which face the
become job makers well as job seekers
8. instruct and girls in the art OF thrift
promote and the brotherhood or man
8 To a firme foundation for posterity
of the colored must compete
technique other races
I'm Above all must render dependable e
alone will be able
Therefore, realizing these vital
times give heed and respect to any sug
regard rendering better service
published week in which your views
question of local national scope such views
shall not reflect IN
especially business to the extent
vayth opinion of PHOENIX INDEX
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TWAS REARED IN SOUTHWEST
GEORGIA

was reared in southwest Georgia where the pes cedars stand
And the blue pine sings requiem the avned redeemed land
And the sun beat August like dripping ghwood blaze
And fodder field calling all across the Silly ways
Oh loved best the and the middle of sweet July
For heaven sent the mellon and the of apple pie;
And twas prayer meen time in Georgia ard We never Oeen
deceived -
By the precious promises made the hour first believed
They still light those old churches with kerosene at night
The smoking lsnp-chinneys let the rays of my delight
And still those old wander that the ancient sexton sprung
When he tilted glory where that cappered minstrel hung
was reared in southwest Georgiagong back there when die
And as the old saints taught meshou salvation as ty
And where the knol1is reddes they'll SETTLE down my clay
And the willows won't weeping until that rising day.
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DEVELOP RECREATION

DEVELOP RECREA1ION
The church would find it good investment to
develop a number of attractive services for YOUTH
WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY
The Sunday School has wonderful opportunity
for practical training in the Christian principles OF
cooperation. The members of the classes in one
Sunday School might visit or even exchange Vslts
with members of other Sunday Schools regardless
of denomination for when these young people are
matured they must learn to live agreeably with
people of all faiths and people of no faith For II
Christianity is to live it must live through human
beings who believe thoroughly in its ideals.
These same young people might develop a
non-denominational Sunday School union in which
they may think IN terms of the values of universal
peace. universal brotherhood among men, and the
responsibility for their neghbors, without the
barriers which might come from the consciousness
of denominationasm which would most definite
Iv he present in an -denominatlonal organlza-
ton.
A well equipped gymnasium would offer wholesome
recreation of kind that most youth enjoy. Ill most
urban communities well trained volunteer Leadership
could be secA-ed for training in the gymnasium
In conjunction with the gymnasium there might
be full program of competitive athletics, such as
volley ball. soft ball. bowling tennis, and hand ball
There is much serious work to be done in most
church communities among privileged youth
Well organized and directed clubs of young women
especially might find this type of work fascinating
1t would also be an excellent way to build up
the Sunday School membership. The young men
might also do an effective job of club work with
the boys who form the neghborhood gang. Some
very fine youth movements have from gangs
re-organzed under good leadership.
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War Dept Rules
0utW0rdC0l0red

Elex Hamihon. Mrs Hamilton's
many guests greeted her, Mrs.
Weeden. Mrs. Alex Hamilton, Mrs.
India Ross of Cleveland, Ohio,
Mrs. George Towns. Mrs. Charles
Greene and Miss Celestine Smith,
who formed the receiving line.
Assisting Mrs. Hamilton were
young ladies who had been active
in the YWCA during the year.
They included Mesdames H. r.
Butler, E. G.. Bowden, G.. G. Cater
II. H, Slater. Grace Towns Ham
ilton and M G.. Barber. Others
were Misses Matte Harper, jose
phine Herreld, Harriet Towns, Ha-
eel Shanks, Lula Weeden, Cor
nelia Wallace, Grace Nash and
Alfred Marie Taylor.
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group, we HdVe % e~tuIIrIO ~ VIC SCo
tired of the FIGHT, FIGHT,
FIGHT accounts that flash from
over our democratic land, telling
of this discrimination, that in
justice, this brutality and that
evil. 1t is the kind of thing that
nearly drives the young, ambi-
tious and hopeful man off bal
ance-the hills seem so insur-
mountable. Some oldsters have
long been advising that it is best
not to worry about the thorny
situations, that "everything will
come out all right in the wash"
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in the case of adolescence the respect OF oe1
vnutb means more than the approval OF adults
SHOULD CONSIDER YOUTH
If the church leaders could bring themselves 10
Kermit the youth to select their own general OH
GERS such as superintendents assistant superinteno
erts secretaries treasners well as teachers ana
class officers they would certainly find the youtn
aggressvely interested in such opportunities loi
practicing the art of citizenship
The maturity of the church leaders might very
well serve these young people through an ADVISORY
hoard However the board should be purely ADVISORY
leaving the young people free to reject Whatever
rarts of advice that they find after thinking with
the advisory group is not of definite value IN the
society in which they live Such pracuce IN socla.
organization in a Christian institution can be OF
great service if and when these youth enter the po
litical life of their country.
It might be way of getting the clean politics
we have so long wished for in vain.
Since the young people have to raise the money
needed to send delegates to the several conventions
each year it might be another effective way of put
ting the democratic theory of religion into practice
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Baptist Church
Sunday n i G h t
Aug. 25 on the
return Of Rev.
w. M. Holmes
Borders from a
six weeks vaca-
tion.
Pictured in the
column is MIR. S
w. Walker along
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ficiencies. No one person can sug-
gest a specific program that would
have a chance of working without
varying degrees Of alterations in
any one Sunday School. 1t is true
however, that there are certain
broad common grounds on wnlcn
vo,,tb will meet with varying de-
erees OF congeniality.
Most vo,,tb are desirous of an op-
portunitv to express their ideas
and to attempt to put them into
practice. They want to gain del
i,,;+o n1ace among their age group;
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with others who S. w. WALKER
are cooperating with the writer IN
making this one of the outstanding
events of the season. Several In
surance companies are taking an
active part in the program and the
agents will attend in a body.
Auburn will be depicted in the
role of Yesterday, Today and To-
morrow especially with the enact
ment of Auburn Avenue of Tomor-
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BY WALTER r. CHIVERS
,ssor of SocioIoev Warehouse College

Professor of Sociology Morehouse College
THOSE WHO have been kind enough TO read tne
preceding articles on the Sunday School understand
that the writer does not feel that enough negro
a., schools are developing programs attractive to
outb II woul,J be natural to suppose then that ne
ras done some thinking of ways of erasng these de-
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Anniversary OF
Auburn Avenue
Looms Large

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
TIVE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF
Auburn Avenue ever to be stageo
since Auburn Avenue came INTO
existence is to be at Wheat Street
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row be entertain
ing and prettily
enacted by a
bevy o. young
sters headed by
Little 81 a c k"
F i n l e y, the
youngsters y o u
always see with
DIR. r. b. Jack
son and Little
Miss Nina King
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Don't Give Up The Fight

1T WOULD BE silly for man to give up IN
this life because of the difficulties he MUST ana
WILL encounter. Eeeryeay we near man nntber for
minor gains-smilar to what has been going OH
for countless centuries.
But, as a member of the minority coloreo