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The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
AmE Leaders Coming
From Every Section

Curry, Philadelphia, manager Ct
the AME book concern; DR.. j. H.
Clayborn, editor of the Southern
Christian Recorder, and DR.. S. S.
Morris, secretary of the Young
Peoples Department of the church.
More than 70 ministers are known
to be seeking the high offices. State
and district leaders already en-
dorsed include the Rev. D. Ward
Nicholas, New York (first district:
DR.. Charles Steward, Portsmouth,
Va. (second diStricr); the Rev.
Joseph Gomez, Cleveland (thlrd
district; the Rev. w. H. Griffin.
Chicago Fourth district); DR.
Frank Madison Reed, st. Louis, and
H. M. Colling, California (fifth
diSUrict); DR.. j. L. Butler, Savan-
nah, Ga. (sixth district; the Rev.
T. j. Miles, Columbia, s. c. (sev.s
enth district; the Rev. j. w. Hair.
Mississippi, and the Rev. G IT.
Stinson. Louisiana eighth districD
and the Rev. Prince Jackson, Dali
las, the Rev. j. B. Butler, San
Antonio, and the Rev. G.. w. VIII
liams of the tenth district.
The Rev. j. S. Johnson, Florida,
has the endorsement from the state
where the Reverends C. A. Gibbs,
A. B. Pastel and A. I. G. Richard
son are also in the race. DR.. J.H.
Clayborn, Arkansas, is the state
endorsed candidate for the twelfth
district.
The Connectional will look into
the records of the following OUT
standing leaders before electi:g
the bishops:
The Rev. w, T. Babcock, Attain
ia; the Rev, r. A. Scott, Jack-
son, Mississippi, the Rev. j. W.
Hall, Memphis, Tennessee; the
Rev. A. w. Word, Chicago; the
Rev. A. j. Allen, Cleveland, Ohio;
the Rev, A. D. Avery, Greensboro,
N c., and the Rev. T. j. Davis,
Americus, Ga.
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improving the status of educatiore-
from the nursery through high
school. 1t is simply incongruous to
see person in an otherwise beauti-
full apartment who knows nothing
of the cultural things of life-not
the frillS and furbelows, but the
common things, such as thoroly
clean quarters, wellmatched furni-
ture, fitting pictures and draperieS.
This Is not too much for family
of working people to know, and
such a school as is suggested should
make all possible attempt to dove
tail into the lives Of the people
by offering essential knowledge in
addition to general elementary
training. We trust that such a
school would not attempt to combine
hell and Uptopia as is so often
done in our higher education ef-
forts.
But more and better adapted
schools will not Just come to our
people of themselves. Here, as else
where, We shall be forced to strug-
81 for the satisfaction of our needs
as we see and feel them. Let us
remember that bond issues are in
the offing for the improvement Of
Atlantas schools, and to get these
things We come right back to the
one essential: register and vote!
There is no panacea for this one
i'll except voting.
We should like to suggest, how
ever, that the advisory committee
working with the Atlanta Housing
Authority remain intact as a neu-
cleus for putting this matter before
the people. If reports are true, no
better beginning could be imagined,
and We are certain that they could
get the support of every civic group
We have among u.s.
Neither blessing nor problems
come singly. With the attempt to
destroy the slunls must necessarily
go the constructive effort to use
the human every released from some
part of the struggle for existence
when housing began its upward
march. To attempt adequate educa-
ton for these people is not only
amiss, but to leave them as they
are places them in the position of
my son John" in the nursery
rhyme, who had one shoe off and
one shoe on.
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WHEN KIDNEY TROUBLE CAUSES
YOU TO GET UP NIGHTS

icine has been helping people for so
years-to relieve their aches and pains
by helping conditions caused or aggra-
waited by excess uric acid or other cir
culating poisons such as is so often the
case with sciatica, neuritis, neuralgia.
lumbago and rheumatism >
So if you have such symptoms of
kidney trouble as backache, nervous
ness. getting up two or three times
during the night-scanty, burning or
smarting passage leg cramps moist
palms or puffy eyes get 35 cent pack
age of this grand and harmless diuretic
at any modern drugstore--it starts the
first day on it's errand of helpfulness
Don't be an EASY Mark and ac-
cept a substitute Ask for Gold
Medal Harlem Oil Capsules
right from HARLEM in Holland.
GET GOLD MEDAL-the original
the genuine. Ook for the Gold
Medal on the bOx-35 cents.
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DIR. C.. D. Hubert OF
Morehouse To Speak
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-(SNS)-

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-(SNS)-
DR.. ChaS. D. Hubert, acting pres
ident of Morehouse college, will
serve as installation speaker for
Trinity Baptist Church next Friday
evening at 7:30. Officers of all de-
partments of the church will pe
installed at that time.
1t was also announced by Rev.
w. H. Perry, pastor, that DR.. HUI
bert would speak at the II o'clock
hour next Sunday. An invitation to
the general church people of the
city is extended to attend both
services. A special invitation Is
extended Morehouse students and
graduates to attend The Atlanta
College head will be guest at the
Trinity Parsonage while in the
city. The church is located in
Smithfield, corner Fourth Court
and JOIN st.
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Seeing and Saying BY William Il. Fo.plke;'

This old timer said that present day Negro lead.
ers and those in control are more prone to exploit
their brothers and to exact things of them which
the "marsters" would be fearful to attempt thar
the Negro in his peculiar position forty years ago
He blasted those colored leaders who commit high
crimes of felony and misdemeanor against their race
followers and underlings and expect them to "xeer
quiet for the sake of the race"
Of course that was mans opinion, but il
represented long years of experience and fight and
seemed. therefore worthy Of hearing at least like
to feel the pulse of those warehouses who have ex.
perienced and fought for the things that we young
colored Americans must lock horns with or die
sooner later When our conversation was over
asked myself: What will you say forty years hence
or will you be able to say much?"
WILL WE AID THE NAACP HEAD?
But, back to Atlantas new NAACP president and
the problem he faces. In his promise to delve into
the heart of the problems that befron the colored
Albanian, will he be let down by those who would
benefit? Or will the things said by him and the
other speakers be forgotten and the year roll on
accented by police brutality, gross application OF
Jim Crow and general insults.
Colored Atlanta wake up this New Year! Let's
dhat means all of us: alleybats and Avenue-cats
high and low, mighty and humble) make 1910, the
18th year to pass since Lincolns proclamation be-
came effective, a year of re-Emancipation.
There are so many problems facing colored At
lanta at the beginning of the new year that it be-
hooves an immediate awakening. Several requests
have been made OF this column to ald IN the 1gnt
to get permission for married teachers to stay in
the city public school system for aid in the fight
against brutality and injustice exhibited by
those in charge of administering protection and
justice to the people, for better and convenient
transportation about the city and at less cost; for
more public schools less double sessions; for more
Fairgrounds recreational facilities and trained
workers; for more jobs and for less restrictions in
scores of other activities involving both races.
One fight which needs to be stressed above all
others is that against dishonest, selfish, greedy
leaders who sell out" and manipulate any deal
that might bring glory or money to themselves.
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selves respect the law. Anarchy
would sound the death knell of
our boasted liberty under law.
"If you are willing to permit
mobs to substitute themselves for
the officers of the law and the
courts, then we admit that we are
not capable of governing our
selves and thereby invite the con-
gress of the United States to
enact the anti-lynching statue to
deal with mob violence in the
federal courts. I have pride of
state. I still believe in states
rights. I do not want to see the
federal government take over the
enforcement of state laws. But
this will surely come about if the
states, by their lack of determin-
ed and immediate enforcement of
their laws, admit they are power
less to cope with the rule Of the
MOB"
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EDITORIALS
Annual Farms
CONTINUED from Page u

Continued from Page IL
the various proposals Bubmitted
the department for disposition OF
cotton, bringing about discussions
and objections, were gladly receiv-
ed.
The new program went into ef-
feet on July q, and provided that
exporters would be paid is cents
per pound Oil the exports of raw
cotton and a somewhat comparable
amount on the export of cotton
textiles.
rThe AAA seeks the two-fold
objective Of soil conservation and
crop adjustment The program ad-
vances the two ends inseparably.
On a large proportion of farms in
the United States, crop rotations
are the most effective weapon the
farmers have against both soil de-
struction and improbable sur
pluses. Accordingly the AAA pro-
gram encourages improved rota-
ton methods consistently with
local, regional and national ad-
justments in the total acreage of
soil-depleting crops.
TN 1910, the AAA program will
put Increased emphasis on soil
conservation, provide increased op-
portunities fol participation by
small farmers, and give greater
administrative responsibility to
farmer committees. There will he
no major cnange from the 1889
p-ogram.'
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
Five Lynchings
In '39, NAACP
Report Shows

NEW YORK-(S N S)-Ther3
we're five persons, two of then
white, lynched in the United
States during 1899, according to
a report announced here today by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
In one case was the charge Of
molesting whites alleged. The
other cases grew out of differences
between employer and employee,
and an automobile accident. The
list of lynch victims, in chronolo-
gical order, together with the al
legged causes, follows:
Walter Lee Frazier, week OF
January 20, Colorado. Arkan-
sas, shot, alleged for mOlesting
white couples; Miles w.
Brown, white, April L. Panama
City, Florida, shot, convicted
Of first degree murder for
killing employer; Lee Smell,
April 20, DaytOna Beach,
Florida, shot, charged Wlth
fatally injuring white child
with his taxicab; Joe Rodgers,
May 8, Canton, Mississippi,
shot, charged with defending
himself in fight with a lumber
mill foreman; E. Eggleston,
sometime in the spring of
1899, a national maritime un-
ion official, New Orleans. La
drowned, allegedly to have u,.-
covered graft among certain
reactiOnary union members.
The NAACP report added that
many lynchings have not come to
light because of the new technique
adopted by lynch mobs, who
spirit away their victims quietly
without attendant publicity
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
Roosevelt And The Vatican

PRESIDENT POOSEVELTs appointment of 65-
year old Myron Charles Taylor as his personal
representative to the Vatican at Rome is meeting
with criticism from certain white Protestant clergy
men. The President announced that his sending his
ambassador without portfolio, to Rome is for the
purpose of promoting peaceful relations among the
peoples of the world Opposing Protestants OBJ
ject to anything that resembles the United States
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dcCOrC OF tnlS column. Ever since
this feeble pen was raised a few
years ago, it has consistently said
just that. Others have said it, too,
Yet, the race goes on disunited
and disgruntled, while disad-
vantages continue.
l had the occasion the other
day to talk to an old Albanian
who not long ago was in the
forefront of the fight for the
rights and justices promised the
colored man under the Emanci-
patton Proclamation and the
18th, 18th. and 18th amendments
of the Constitution, and I asked
him eonfidentially what he
e IL
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ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
BY REV. DAVID NORRIS

The Bishops and Connectional
Council of the African Methods.
Episcopal Church, scheduled IL
convene here at Big Bethel AME
Church, Feh.dary 14-16, will draw
AME leaders from every section of
the country.
Delegates to the General Con-
ference, which will be held this
year, are expected to set in mo-
ton plans for the conference when
they meet here next month. At
least three bishops will be elected
by the General Conference.
Already three of the general
officers are being discussed as
possibilities for bishopric positions
made vacant by death of some Of
the bishops. They are DR.. G. e.
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
Congressional
Action Sought
On Many Bills

NEW YORK CITY-(ANP)-
With last weeks opening of the
18th Congress the attention of the
nations colored citizenry was drawn
Washington-ward, as leaders OF
both major parties sought the pas
sage of legislation guaranteeing to
Negroes full enjoyment Of those
rights inalienable to all Americans.
Out in front was the American
Civil Liberties Union, pressing its
campaign to secure passage of civil
liberties legislation. The Union
will support or sponor the follow
ing bills: |, /.
I. The Senate Committee on
Civil Liberties to end industrial
espionage and ornaments IS. 19O)
now before the Senate Committee
on Education and Labor.
2. A bill to transfer from the
Post Office Department to the
courts control of matter barred
from the mails. introduced by
Rep. Lee Geyer of California (H
R. 2533.
8. The anti-lynchng bill CH. R
80l and S. 845) which would en-.
able the federal government to pros.
ecute negligent sheriffs and to as.
sess damages against counties where
lynchings occur.
4. Legislation to prohibit private
military organization or drilling OF
arms. Introduced by Rep. Hamil.
ton Fish of New York (H. R. 2645)
and now before the House Judici-
ary committee.
5. Regulation Of the use of state
troops in strikes. Bill introduced
by Rep. John Coffee of Washing.
ton Oh. R. 527O.
6. Bills providing for greater
freedom on the air by freeing sta.
tions from responsibility for libel
or SANDER on public time, and 9
bill to abolish the power of the
President to take over control OF
the radio upon proclamation that
a war . -. or national emergency"
exists.
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
When Bladder is Irritated
When Passage is Difficult
When Backache Results
Flush Poisonous Waste and
Acid From Kidneys
GAIN IN HEALTH

2 If you aren't feeling just right-are
nervous--have dizzy spells and occa-
sional backache-study your kidneys
and learn more about yourself
Through the delicate filters Of the
kidneys. acid and poisonous waste are
drawn from the blood and discharged
from the body thru the bladder
sometimes these filters are less active
than they should be because of excess
poisonous waste and kidneys do not
function properly-they need harmless
stimulation.
One reliable medicine. highly effic-
lent and inexpensive is GOLD MEDAL
Haarlem Oil Capsules. This grand med
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
Unite Or Else!

THE UTTERANCE BY Atlanta's young and
energetic new President Of the branch National
Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie on Emancipation Day that Negroes, high and
low, mulatto and ebony, rich and poor, hterate
and iterate must unite" to meet the ugly DEM
ons Of discrimination and injustice met with full
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
Pickens Says

He had a definite and perman-
ent place in the history of his
race and his country. He will long
be remembered. His death is the
closing scene In a colorful, honor
able, and unique career.
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13

Vatican, which is once more a
temporal state, headed by Pope
Plus XII.
If this country maintains am
bassadors in most foreign coun-
tries, the purpose of such being
to keep alive goodwill and friend
ly relations between such nations
and the American people, the re-
cent move of President Roosevelt
in connection with the Vatican
can't be condemned.
POPE DICTATES ALL
AS head of the Catholic church
the Pope is recognized among adhel
an Catholic church as the ordained
whose decisions are absolute and lin
dictates the home, community, soc
life of more people than any one n
There is no way for any organizati'
to get the ear of the Catholic mass
tered in nearly every part Of tn
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
Themes & Variations By Gume.psu Valentine

through the Pope. Though Catholics may live in
France, England America their whole conduct and
living guided not necessarily by their respective
countries but by the Catholic church. This fact has
always been resented by most Protestants in general
and is the bone of contention of the recent criticisms
of the President.
But this same fact, gives sound reason for the
President appointing envoy to the Vatican if il
is the largest number of people of foreign lands
whose goodwill the President seeks. 1t must be ad.
mitted. though perhaps bitterly, that government
head not even the dictators inspires such willing
following as does the Pope.
The main reason for the attitude of opposing
American Protestants is the fact that this country is
still living under the illusion that church and state
are separate. They believe that their religion or
creeds are kept out of government. This is the
specific argument that Mr. Roosevelts critics advanc'
ed in questioning his appointment of the envoy tc
the Vatican But this writer has a strong 'hunch"
hat Mr. Roosevelt is among that small minority who
knows better than to believe that church and state
can be separate
TWO CATHOLIC PRACTICES
There are two things that Catholics understand
and practice which Protestants have never learned.
They Cd any organized body can't be eftectual
without having One Head, who must be the leader
% It is humanity impossible for man, woman OF
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
Westside School Facilities

THE ACTUAL AND potential increase of Atanta's
westside population is literally png up problems for the
people 1t is always difficult solve some problems with
out usherng in others This rather sudden population
movement with it's attendant campfoowers who all
the people, has made the school problem rise like social
spectre.
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13
REVIEWS THE PAST

This Albanian then reviewed the accomplish.
ments in the city since the first period of Recon-
struction Days. He concluded that racial relations
were worse off today than they were forty years
ago that instead of the two groups arriving al
amicable means TO solve the many problems and
parently widening and more to the dlsad-
vantage of the colored populace He said that de.
spite the rise of few what he termed as indus
tralisS and professionals, the masses of Negroes
being driven back to the condition portrayed
in "Gone With The Wind" If the rackets
taken away from this large strata and the chance
occasionally 'ht the bug' there'd be a
more miserable colored Atlanta, it stated
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13

Importation into Egypt of canned
vegetables and vegetable products
containing copper compounds or
other substances injurious To
health has been prohibited by the
government
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13

The inventor of a hinged frafce
to be fastened to a window casing
to surround a window cleaner out
side a building asserts that it af-
fords more safety than the bel5s
usually used. =.
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PHOENIX INDEX with political party
faction shall all regardless rulings regula
on the completely mparaly from hatred
matter coming this office Tues
appear in the
plainly side
the rights
sam S paid
money payable to the INDEX 1914 East Monroe
contributors they
will be
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13

news, muchly news of the Atlanta
Premier" of this film
The book and the publicity made
great gate for this show, as it
started off, but to many it will not
be worth the cost,
The Phoenix index., 1940-01-13


whole, in the American civilization. At first he
wouldn't the question, but upon my insist
he replied: Il still have faith that he will
vive and finally reach the heights of justice and
tolerance. but L admit that at present don't
see it."
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Fear Renewed

Continued from Page D
Evening star., 1940-02-23
Three Probes Being Made
In EIkton Explosion
the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELKTON, Md, Feb. 23.-With
operations suspended and guards on
duty at the gates, a three-Way in
vestigation was being made today
into the explosion that killed two
men, injured Is persons and destroy
ed four small buildings at the
Triumph Explosives, Inc, plant.
The cause of the blast remained
secret, at least until completion of
the investigation by company Off
cials, Federal representatives headed
by Maj. John P. Harris of the Phila-
delphia Ordnance Division and
county authorities.
The explosion that shook windows
a mile away Wednesday apparently
originated in the powder magazine
OF the plant, which until recently
was a fireworks concern. However,
high explosives have been manufac-
tured under Government contract
for some time and it was understood
those killed and injured were max
Ing anti-aircraft shrapnel.
An inquest, to be delayed until the
injured have recovered sufficiently
to testify. was called by DR.. j. B.
Slicer, Cecil County medical ex-
aminer.
Edward Kneese, IS, of Glasgow
Del, and Charles Gatchel, 80, CT
North East, died in the explosion.
Company officials announced
few units would return to work to-
day, but that full operations would
not resume until Monday.
Evening star., 1940-02-23
Missionary Society
Gives 100000
To SibIey Hospital
Presentation Announced
At Freshmen Nurses
Dinner to Seniors

A gift of 100000 from the Wom-
ans Home Missionary Society to
Sibley Hospital was announced by
DR.. Lewis H. Taylor, hospital presi-
dent, last night.
The contribution, largest ever
made by the society, reduces the hos
pitfalls Indebtedness and brings ex-
pansion "measurably closer" DR..
Taylor said.
The hospital. he declared, has been
running at capacity for months and
during the past year has frequently
had to turn patients away because of
lack Of space. Expansion of hospital
facilities, he went on, is necessary.
The missionary society's gift, he
said. cuts the Indebtedness of the
$l,800,000 institution to less than
100000.
Announcement of the gift was
made at the annual dinner given by
freshman nurses for the seniors of
the hospitals Nurses Training
School,
Another feature of the dinner was
the presentation of plaque to DR..
Mary Holmes, Washington physi-
clan, upon her retirement from ac-
tive practice.
A letter notifying DR.. Taylor of
the Missionary Society's gift con-
graduated him on the splendid
piece of work which has been done
not only in the hospital itself,
but in the Nurses Training School,"
This has been reported to u.s."
the Missionary Society letter added,
mot only by board members who
have been at the hospital at differ
ent times during the last few years,
but by persons living in the city of
Washington who, until recently, had
not known anything about Sibley.
The reports from professional men
OF our own church have been espe-
cially gratifying"
Sibley Hospital is one of about 80
institutions operated by local boards
OF directors under the Missionary
Society, subsidiary of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
Evening star., 1940-02-23
MacLeish Receives Ii. D.
From Johns Hopkins
By the Associated Press.

0y Lnc ASSOClateQ freSS.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 23.-Archibald
MacLeish, librarian of Congress, re-
ceived an honorary LII. D. degree
from the Johns Hopkins University
yesterday at exercises commemorate
Ing the 64th anniversary of the
founding of the institution.
In an address, Mr.. MacLeish as
serted the librarian of today can
not be a mere custodian of books"
but must be prepared to meet "the
challenge of the times and fight for
cultural traditions and integrity of
the written word"
"Mutilators of the word" he said,
"are not only dictators who have
suppressed intellectual freedom, but
United States citizens who are hunt
ing and bounding those in this
country who insist that certain
truths be told and who will not be
silent.
These things are commonplace
They are common to such an extent
that they no longer shock us into
anger"