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The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

even force them to attend Sunday
School. They expect the Sunday
School to reinforce their moral
teachings, assist in developing the
leadership qualities and teach
their children practical democracy.
Thus is placed upon the Sunday
School leaders a heavy RESPONSE
bility.
The question here is whether
scme of the veteran Sunday School
leaders have ever sensed the i'm
portance Of their tasks. Are they
fitted by their philosophy OF
Christian leadership to train
youth in the processes of Chris
tian democracyH Are youth entire
ly to blame for not attending Sun
day School?
NOT SENSED CHANGES
Varied observations and in
quiries cause the writer to conclude
that too many Sunday Schoo
leaders Of today have not sensed
the changes in our democratic So
ciety in its thinking and action
toward youth. They cannot accept
the fact that youth of today are
much better educaed, and nllrish-
ed than they were at the same
age. They cannot accept the fact
that numerous social forces are
assisting youth in maturing at an
earlier age than when they were
young. They will no accept the
fact advanced age, alone, does
not qualify grown folk to be the
advisor or leaders of youth. Nev-
ertheless, these are proved qualifi
cations for grown folk who would
be Christian leaders of youth.
Further the writer has discover
ed through reading, conversation
and observation that too many
would be leaders of youth into the
ways of Christian life have no
well defined philosophy for thei,
leadership. They feel that years
of Service" have entitled their
to be the ones to determine with
out dispute what is best for
youth. They defy questioning ot
their assertions by youthful &C
tive minds.
YOUTHS ACCUSED
Too often when youth ask tor
explanations of statements made
which probably conflict with what
they have learned in school or
challenge the ability of youthful
minds to understand, the puzzled
leaders save their faces by acccus-
ing youth of being impudent, dis
respectful. or condemning educa-
tion as not being true to the
church. This type of recreation
toward the students creates re-
sentiment in them toward the
Sunday School naturally causino
loss of interest,
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Cham terlain's. With outStretohed
hands Ethiopians cried unto God
and Britain's League of Nations for
help in her distresseS, but she
found herself forsaken and her
allies in federation with her
enemies.
This was the boldest stroke of
international hypocrisy ever wit
messed before the bar of public
opinion. .
Today we read that Great Britain
with her back to the wall is &C
claiming Ethiopia as her ally. The
Ethiopia that was sacrificed a few
years ago is not hailed as her
comrade in arms. Great promises
which she will never fulfill are be-
ing vouchsafed unto Ethiopia in
the hope that even the little help
that Ethiopia may render in her
PROSTATE condition, may relieve
some of Britain'S pressure. When
a so-called mighty nation like
Britain seeks help from poor
Ethiopia whom she betrayed before
the startled gaze of wondering
world, things must be serious in
deed.
GERMANY NOT ONLY DANGER
1t all goes to show what Eng
land is at heart. Aside from its
great protestations about its Con-
tributions to western civilization;
aside from its pretenses at inter-
national paternalism, the fact
must be faced that Britain has
done her share of the dirty work
in this world. Germany is not the
lnly internationa4 danger this
world must deal with.
After the French bore the brunt
of the fighting on the First World
Wars western front, England i'm
posed upon Germany shameful
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
How To Get In Jail

muddy Mississippi river at 1t NOV
ed slowly by.
Old Mississippi loaded with cat
fish and driftwood, rolled along
minding it's own business.
The woman walked into the
water. She kept on wading. The
Shiny river water was up to her
shoulders when nearby fishermen
realized what was happening.
Fished from the water, the VIC
tim was identified as Mrs. Fannie
Carruthers, 4O-year-old widow. She
had no relatives, earned her nv-
ing by cooking for a white family
and received most of her enjoyment
from picture shows.
No one knew why she took her
life, at least, no one but Mrs.
Carruthers. And like Old Man
River, she had kept her secret to
herself.
MRS. MARY JOHNSON was
praiSing the Lord in her usual way
last Sunday morning in Weeping
Willow Baptist Church, Montgom-
cry, Alabama. For years she had
given vent to her feelings by moan
ing and mumbling during religious
services.
Sister johnson was moaning in
her usual fashion when an un-
seen hand struck her. She toppled
over in the lap of her neighbor.
Mrs. Johnson was dead.
Many of us would arrange to
be in the house of God if we so
much as knew when the Grim
Reaper was planning to strike.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
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THE REAL TROUBLE


WHEN ITALY went into Ethlo-
pia a few years ago and slaughter
ed it's defenseless inhabitants. it
had the tacit understanding With
England and France that its course
had their approval. Two years be-
fore Mussolini ordered his armies
to strike, he had the date marked
on his calendar; and France and
Britain knew it was marked. Ethlo-
pia was a member of Brltaln'S
League of Nations and appealed
for help, but no help was forth
coming; and so the little empire
was subjugated by Italy that tried
out new methods of modern war
far upon tribal people and gloat-
ed over it's success.
1t is true that France and Britain
talked about sanctions, but this
was hpyocritical gesture to ap-
pease the international indigna-
ton that their treachery rightly
incurred.
SELASSIE'S MISTAKE
Halle Selassie made the grave
mistake of taking serious the
pledges of the League of Nations
and while he should have been oc-
cupied with the defenses of the
country he was drinking from
golden goblets, wearing his white
trousers and carrying the while
his inevitable umbrella.
Umbrella-carrying SelasSie was
duped and so was umbrella carry
ing Chamberlain.
We hope that our statesmen viii
not take to their umbrellas tor
whenever the statesmen take to
their umbrellas, their nations must
take to the bushes for protection
It is true that the French did not
have their umbrellad statesmen
bu' , hese walked in the shadow OF
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
By ROBERT RADCLIFFE

ONE WAY TO ATTRACT atten-
ton, and get a free ride to jail
too is to stand on an American
street and praise the Hitler man
of Germany.
A man tried it in Louisville, Ken
lucky the other day. He chose a
l1)pular sNeet corner and then
yelled:
God Bless Hitler"
A policeman came along. He
didn't use his blackjack and fists,
as some officers would have done,
but advised Brother Dewey White
Eagle to close his trap.
Brother Eagle, being an Indian
and probably taking advantage of
the occasion since the policeman
was a colored man, yelled again.
He cried, Hell Hitler"
That was too much for Officer
John Hayden. He simplified the
matter by sending the vociferous
Indian man to Jail.
Several hours later in police
court, the fond admirer of Hitler
was in a different mood. He offer
ed his apologies to everybody. The
Indian said he's a true American
and hadn't really meant any harm
in uttering Adolf's name.
The judge let him go after con-
sidering Gle Indian might have
had little too much fire water.
II WOMAN STOOD at the foot
of Memphis historic Beale Street
one day last week and gazed upon
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
Sunday School Leadership

Educators have long since cen
cluded from their experiences that
1t has been mistake to try tc
develop youth into active perso-
nallties by constantly saying to
them that they can't do this"
and "they can't do that" AS IA
matter of fact many possible
leaders have been turned into
flabby, inactive personalities be-.
cause the activities that are inno-
cent to them have been forbidden
by older folk without explanation
So now the educators are inter
ested in conditioning children 10
the things that they can do" anc
not be called bad. In other words
modern education is trying to de-
velop freedom of expression in
young people and at the same
time trying to construct an en-
vironment in which they can ex-
press themselves freely and feel
that they are good children.
BECOME INDIFFERENT ~
The lack of democratic proce-
dures in many Sunday Schools
makes it easy to see why so many
teen-agc young people are be-
coming indifferent to Sunday
School. It has already been point
ed out that tl.ey have a right to
resent the negative type of mentai
discipline that the leaders attempt
to force upon them. Let us look
into the way the Sunday School
is operated and see if students
have a right to resent the admin
istrative structure of many Sun
day Schools.
The writer Las visited many
Sunday Schools and what is to be
said In reference to adrninistra-
tive procedures is composite
picture. It seems to be a foregone
conclusion that the Sunday
School superintendent must be a
man of advanced age, an officer
OF the church and very busy
earning a living during the week
That is he must be man who
has arrived both in the world ard
in the church. He is selected and
elected by the church, the STU
dents having no voice.
The students may suggest who
the assistant superintendent are
to be but the church has the sole
right of the final election. Under
no condition can this be called
democratic. The writer knows OF
an instance where such procedure
applied in the matter of an Of
ficer. When the officer wanted &c
resign because the Sunday School
suggested what it thought would
be improvement in the conduct
of his office he rendered his
resignation to the Sunday School
ARE NOT HEARD
However, this matter of giving
the Sunday School student some
voice is only theoretical because
actually the administrative power
that is delegated to the Sunday
School by the church is executed
by the officers and teachers. In
none of these procedures do the
students have even an advisory
note. Here again education has
changed its attitude. The same
students who attend Sunday
School are members of education
al institutions where they are be-
ing taught practical student gov
errnment.
The majority of the members
of the church were born into the
church. therefore, if the Sunday
School does not pay more atten-
tion to the children of its members
by building Sunday School with
program in keeping with the
highest ideals of the times, they
will not have sufficient young
people interested in going into
the church to replace the oldet
folk who die,
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
CONVERSATION PIECE r

achieved though the social tech
niques of race discrimination anu
cheap traditional passing OF the
buck by men in responsible posi-
tions wnen questions involving the
safety and rights of citizens, most
of whom are Negroes, are brought
forward.
One wonders whether our de-
mocracy is not already relegated to
the realm of the "unrealized ano
the imperative" and whether ats
promise will pass beyond the shad
ow that surrounds it.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

writer securedBishop Fountain
the services of Bishop w. A.
Fountain, who will deliver the
anniversary address, and MIR.
S. w. Walker of the Pilgrim
Insurance Company, has given
his word that his company will
cooperate in making the affair
great one.
Mr.. G.. DeLorme, manager of the
Atlanta Life Insurance Co. Branch
Office, in commenting on the af-
fair, said it would not be complete
without the Atlanta Life partici-
pating, as the Atlanta Life is part
of Auburn Avenue. Mr.. John Har-
den, owner of Harden's Filling Sta
ton, gave the proposition the OK
In fact, everyone approached prom
ised to cooperate in this affair. A
fine program is promised
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
BY MARC MORELAND, Ph.D.
"THE LAND NOT OF DEATH,
BUT OF THE SHADOW OF
DEATH"

BUT OF THE SHADOW OF
DEATH"
w. H. M. LEEKY'S OBSERVA-
TION that history has a way of
making every living faith part OF
"the land not of peath but OF the
shadow of death, relegating the
outmoded to the real OF the "un-
realized and the inoperative,' comes
to mind as one reflects on the intel
lectual and moral bankruptcy of so
many of the worlds leaders TO-DAY.
Everywhere one turns there are
men shouting, as if to convince
themselves of their own Importance,
the outWorn shibboleths of pacif-
ism, isolationism, neutrality, and
a hundred other attitudes of MIND
with which men have faced the
world of their experience. Men like
Paul Favre and Lion Jouhaux IN
France preached pacifism and OF
isolating France from war in Eu-
rope at a time when pacifism was
no more realistic a way of dealing
with a mad-dog Hitler than was
trying to push the Atlantic Ocean
back from the shores of France
with a broom.
In England men like Chamber
lain and Hoare and Simon were
babbling about peace in our time
in a day when ruthless aggression
was making such talk criminal. Just
the other day, in our own country,
Oswald Garrison Willard severed g
42-year-old connection with the
liberal, progressive weekly The Ma
ton because, in his opinion, The
Nation no longer is pacifist
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
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telegram last week to DR.. j. M.
Robinson, state president of the
Arkansas Negro Democrats, of Lit
tie Rock, accepted the invitation
to address the night session.
Although the procedure has not
been revealed, tip has been CIV
en- that if the formula expected to
be used works, it will evolve a So
luton to the closed primary and
bring about the political emanci-
patton of the Negro in the South.
An all-leaders, all-faiths, all
organizations, and all-concerned
pay-your- -poll-tax campaign is ex-
pected to be mapped at the dele
gate-citizens mass meeting at the
final session.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

uIlCdI 1dlCu.
For such a purpose the Arkan-
sas Negro Democratic Asso-
citation is following up its let
ter to the State Democratic Esx-
ecutive Committee which was IA
vorably referred to the Arkansas
Democratic Convention asking that
color bars be removed against
Negroes, with a two-session state
wide meeting of Negro Democrats
here August g..
One meeting is slated for two
and the other for eight O'Clock
PM.
RANSOM TO SPEAK
Bishop Reverdy G. Ransom,
chaplain at the recently-held Ma
tional Democratic Convention, in a
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
BETWEEN the LINES

peace, and it is this that largely
Adolph Hitler possible. 1t is safe
to say that Hitler was "made-in-
Britain When Britain recognized
Halle SelasSie as the ruler of an
empire that was sacrificed on the
altar of international dupicity, we
get an idea of the real trouble
with the modern world.
For quite hundred years
Britain has ruled the waves and
the miles and the modern world is
largely of her making. The heart
of Britain can best be seen in her
recent transactions with Ethiopia.
To proclaim as ally one recently
betrayed by her is the height of
information hypocrisy. In other
words, Britain can USE Ethiopia
now and she so proceeds. Britain
used France for many generations
to bear the brunt of her fighting,
and now the France is no more, she
turns to puny Ethiopia whom she
stood by and saw deSpoiled. She
stood idly by and saw cripple
struck down by a giant and Of
fered no Succour.
THE REAL TROUBLE
It is this kind of spirit that has
brought damnation to Europe. 1t
is this kind of spirit that will ever
make the nations mourn. 1t is this
kind of spirit that will keep this
world peopled with Hitlers. SO we
are justified in saying that the
real trouble with Europe today is
that it has been largely ruled by a
nation that will USE even those
whom she has betrayed. Britain is
not interested in the restoration Of
Selassie's kingdom but in the
preservation of her own hegom-
ony. THE REAL TROUBLE.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
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The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

He started to railroading
when the going was hard-Mr.
George Vaughn came from his
home town, BarnesvilIe, Geor-
gia, to Atlanta thirty-seven
years ago, after finishing the
public school there. Two years
later he married and get posi-
ton as fireman on the railroad
when the going was hard; en-
gines did not have modern
equipments. He remained on
the road as fireman for thir-
ty-five years, hard worker
and a good husband to Mrs.
Anna Kate Vaughn. He was re-
tired. Last Sunday he was fu-
neralized from st. Paul church
and was laid to rest at Lincoln
cemetery. I'll say he has made
his last run, as the HaugabrOOks
Funeral establishment laid him
to that eternal rest.
JUST F'UN-How in the worlc
can a couple get along when tht
wife depends on the right and thu
husband on a fight?
A woman can dish 1t cut, but
Ii takes a man to fork it over.
Instead of singing Dead AM
Gone" over Elmo, my BARRIERS body
''MoCurdy" says they should SIM
Dean and Gone, Full of Corn"
A wife used to help man
with her smiles; today she
breaks him keeping up with the
styles.
He asked her papa for her hano
Her papa gave him his foot.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
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w IledU OIL ecu
Baptist Church
Sunday night,
August Is, on
the return of
r e v. William
Holmes Borders
from a six-week
vacation at New
York, N. Y.
Rev. BOr-
ders, before
leaving for his
vacation, and
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
BY WALTER r. CHIVERS,
Professor of Sociology,
MorehOuSe College

THERE is NO doubt in the
writer's mind but that the Chris
tian Church is the. most successful
institution for social control in
the democratic world. 1t gets more
cooperation in establishing its
supremacy than any other social
force. Parents begin when their
babes are born to teach them what
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

At1antans and
Americans may not be too aware of
it, but we've got continuing crisis
right here, without stretching our
imagination to the atrocities of the
Second World War or even to the
prospects of the coming national
election. Despite all that's been
done, the majority of the colored
American minority still lives with
little money and consequently too
few of the economic advantages
made available through machines
and men. One doesn't have to go
far from the well travelled lanes of
city and country commerce among
the colored populace, with some eX-
ceptions, before he runs across the
shadows and baroness, if not the
squalor, of economic poverty and
despair. At toe frequent intervals
he will be able to witness the out
breaks of delinquency and power
ty-madness that accompany eco
nomic degeneration.
I see it every day.. I also see
what appears to be the highest in
class living, luxury and laughter.
Few will deny that the former is
in greater evidence than the lat
ter.
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
Bishop Fountain
TOAddreSS The
"Auburnites"

ATLANTA, (SNS@-
WHAT IS DESTINED to be one
of the greatest events of the times
is the First Anniversary of Auburn
Avenue. that is to be staged at
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

is good and
what is bad.
The young ones
are rewarded
for doing right
and punished
for doing vrong.
Many parents,
who do not feel
that as adults
the need the
church as an in
Stitution, urge
their PhiIdron
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
A Savior Will Come

SOMEDAY A SAVIOR is going
to come along who will solve the
economic problems for the masses
of our still-suffering colored people.
I'll venture to wager that he'll in
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03
Bishop Ransom
To Be Speaker

LITTLE ROCK Ark.--(SNS)-An attempt to bring South
the tradition breaking wrought when the National Democratic
Convention nominated Roosevelt for the tirdme
The unique started here to push the doors of the clos
ed Democratic primary open Negroes of the
The Phoenix index., 1940-08-03

troduce the prac-
tice of the CO.
operation, one Of
the oldest, but
least practiced
of economic aide
to the underpriv-
ileged and poor,
in the history of
mankind.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-29
SLIPPERY ROADS

Most of the country has seen Sc
we're storms during the winter just
passed. and conditions on many of
the roads have been hard for auto
mobiles. In many localities sleety
rain has fallen ON the roads, reduc-
ing them to glazed and icy sur
face.
Slushy roads in many places have
felt about like a coating of grease
under the car. If many automobiles
have had TO go to the repair shop,
and some of their occupants have
needed repairs, no one should be
surprised
On many days and nights the best
place to drive the car was straight
into the garage. Those who had TO
take it out stood far less chance OF
trouble II they drove very slowly.
II the weather makes the road sur
face like the waxed floor OF a dance
hall. a little speed may make your
car do a form Of waltzing you won't
enjoy.
Milford chronicle., 1940-03-29
PEACE HOPES

The world longs for peace, but the
lighting powers don't seem TO want
Peace unless they get it on their own
terms. When Hitler and MussolinI
met at the historic Brenner pass near
the boundary of Italy and Germany,
people hoped they were talking peace
terms.
When two boys get to fighting,
somebody's nose is usually rubbed
in the dirt before either Of them is
willing to quit So far no European
noses have been rubbed in the dirt,
except poor little Finland's. That
was not like two boys fighting, but
like one small and heroic baby try
ing TO contend against a mighty
giant.
If a government could be created
in Germany which would make
promises that the allies would trust,
a basis for peace could be found. The
and French say the prom
Ises of the Nazi government look
about like the worthless stock Of GER
tificates which people buy from some
Get-Rich-Quick salesman.