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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

MAN WANTED - Good nearby
Rawleigh Route now open. If
willing to conduct Home Service
business while earning good liv-
ing, write Immediately. Raw
leigh's, Dept. NCI-249-45, Rich
mond, Va. 9-12-1t
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Sale Of Land In Ashe Co. For Taxes

Roey Hunt, 80 acres 6.22
Lee Hunt, 48 acres $40
Mrs Bette James, 70 acres 1924
Maggie Jenkins, 10 acres liza
Mrs. Eddie Belle Little, Is
"a acres 2.79
Lois Long, 80 acres 8.24
Ola & Mildred Long, IS
acres 1898
w. l.. & V. H. Miller, 1872 IL
acres 1888
Mrs. Jennie Miller, "a acres
2.2O
Mrs. Nancy McNeill, 1872
acres 1923
L. T. Reed, 100 acres $40
Wiley Reeves, 3 acres .84
Earl Reeves, Is acres 1883
Wiley Senter, 40 acres 3.54
Rudd Sheets, 10 acres 800
Mrs. Ada Sheets, Is acres ITO
E. T. Sheets, 106 acres 7.48
Mrs. Roscoe Sheets, IA acres 1888
Mrs. Bessie Sheets, % IL
acres I'll
Worth Shepherd, 2O8 acres 1882
r. J. Shepherd, 4 acres 1896
Ella Shepherd, Is acres 2.58
D. L. Taylor, 48 acres 1892
S. M. Transou, Est, 10 acres
1892
c. L. Upchurch, z acres 1.O2
Oscar Viers, IL 6-1O acres, 4.98
F. E. Viers, 20 acres 4.O4
o. E. Woodie, q acres 3.44
c. E. Woodie, 81 acres 9.O6
Spencer Wyatt, 81 acres 854
Thomas Wyatt, 18 acres 2.58
J. w. Younger, sc acres 9.78
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

SETTLEMENT OF RESULTS
OF SPECIAL ELECTION HELD
IN THE TOWN OF WEST JET
FERSON ON SEPTEMBER 3rd,
1910.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

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West Jefferson. Write or see
Raymond Blevins at Rural Hall,
N. c., clio Cox Dairy. 8-29-3tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

FOR SALE-A good typewriter
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

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]. E. ROLAND,
Sheriff and Tax Collector of
Ashe County.
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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
LOOKING AROUND
and BEYOND
By
FRANK R. CROSSWAITH

territory where the barber lived and
that two other Deputies were slso
members of the Khan. It was also
established that these three DENNY
Sheriffs, together with other Klanc.
men, had in the past galloped throuOb
various suburbs burning crosses and
threatening various citizens in a crn-
SADIE for 'better living habits" tis
interesting to note that the suburbs
through which these Klansmen gal.
loped were all of an industrial charac.
ter, and the Khan campaign there as
we'll as in the textile regions of tbe
Carolinas is obviously a part of The
plan to keep the workers in those
areas from organizing in the union
of their trade. Some of the Kans.
men are said to have boosted openly
that many of the big local industrial.
lists were in favor of the night-riding
and other Klan activities, and that the
persons whipped or driven out of their
homes were mainly "labor agitatorsn
UNION OFFICIALS HAVE charged
that the National Labor Relations
Act is being wantonly violated in GER
tain parts of the South and that the
Ku Klux Khan plays an important
role in these violations. Recently the
Department of Justice sent some FBI
men into South Carolina to invest.
gate. The investigators are said to
have returned with a report indicat-
ing that there was no violation Of
Federal laws. However, men and
women who had been flogged and who
were afraid to talk to local officials
finally came forward to tell their story
to the Federal investigators.
FROM THIS WHOLE story we
should draw several conclusions. The
first is, that beneath all the noise We
hear about race, color, religion, etc.
is the economic motive predicated
upon the class struggle. The second
is, that local police authorities in the
South cannot be relied upon to enforce
the law impartially. And the third
is, that we need a Federal Anti-LynCh
law with a provision that no member
of a Federal or State law enforce
ment agency can belong to any secret
order. If the recently adopted
Hatch Act is sound social Legislation,
then a law to bar from either Fed
eral or State payroll one who is an
officer or member of a secret organi-
cation is even sounder social legisla-
ton.
This article was written before pub
lie announcement was made of Federal
indictments of the Klansmen involved
in the death of white Georgia bar.
ber-F. R. C.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06

WITH INCREASING FREQUEN-
CY the infamous Ku KluX Khan is
finding a place in the daily news
events of the Country. This fact in
dictates that the Klansmen are again
preparing the stage for the role they
usually play in certain State elections,
as well as in National elections and in
all Southern industrial disputes.
ACCORDING TO VINCENT Ro-
gers, a well informed and reliable re-
porter, the Khan is resurrecting its
ghoulish activities among labor or
ganizers throughout the South. Last
year, the Khan began its whipping
and numbering proclivities in South
Carolina; then it moved into Florida
and New Jersey, and is now organic
ing midwest Conference" AS far
West as the State of Washington,
trade union officials are said to be
receiving threats in the form of deco
rated handbills containing the picture
of a hooded idiot astride a rearing
horse. The rider is brandishing a
firebrand and beneath the horse is the
caption "Ku Klux Khan Rides Again"
A WELL KNOWN Philadelphia
newspaper recently reported that
careful investigation had revealed
that outbreaks of terrorism have been
most frequent in recent months in the
Piedmont district of South Carolina
That area is one of the South's chief
textile centers and the object of an
organization drive by both the A. F.
nf I lo ( n
camp maintained by the National
Youth Administration was raided at
night for Colored boys whom the
Klansmen ordered back to the cotton
fields. Soon thereafter, a young white
mechanic was logged because he ex-
pressed himself in favor of trade
unionism.
ON THE NIGHT of March a bar
Der was taken from his shop in Fulton
County, Georgia. The Klansmen
drove him to a neighboring field
where he was severely whipped and
left to die in the snow. The Fulton
County Grand Jury later conducted an
investigation of the BARRIERS death and
implicated several known members of
the Khan. The investigation also dis
closed that several months before. a
group of robed and masked men had
visited the barber and threatened him
because they objected "to his habits
of life"
DURING THE AFORESAID inves-
tigation, a Deputy Sheriff of the
County admitted that he was the
Exalted Cyclops of the Khan in the
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
Hundreds
Hear WOOdsOn

DR.. Carter G. Woodson, historian
and lecturer, spoke on the History
of Colored Americans" at Columbus
Avenue AME Zion Church last Sun
day afternoon before an audience of
several hundred.
Alfred Baker Lewis, secretary of
the Board of Observation-Disclosures
Foundation, presided and introduced
the speaker. Others on the program
included Miss Edwina Bryant vocal
soloist; Mrs. R. H. Hamme and James
Curwood. Misses Rita Campbell and
Ethel Stewart were in charge of the
ushers.
Julian D. Steele, executive director
OF the Armstrong-H emenway Founda-
ton, under whose auspices the meeting
was held, stated that the foundation is
planning to present from time to
time prominent speakers as a part of
It's regular program, and will welcome
suggestions from the public as to
speakers.
DIR. Woodson commended the Arm
strong-Hemenway Foundation for the
public program which it is develop
ing, and expressed keen interest in
the Cooperative and Savings Bank
Agency established by the Foundation.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
ANOTHER RACE
BUSINESS
OPENS In HUB

If you are busy housewife, you can
save a whole hour of your valuable
TIME by calling the Sun-Kiss Fruit and
Vegetable Mart and ask Edward
Sonny" Barber to have your entire
fresh fruit and vegetable orders deliv-
cred daily or weekly at your home in
plenty of time to arrange the family
dinner IL. Mr.. Edward "Sonny" Bar
Der, formerly of Blair's Foodland, an
nounces the grand opening of the new
and beautiful Sun-Kiss Fruit and Veg
etable Mart on Friday, April u, 1910
with a well stocked budget priced dis
play of finest quality fruits and veg
etables it will be located for your
special convenience for personal or
telephone shopping at 1O5 Humboldt
Ave. in Roxbury near the corner of
Townsend st. in the heart of the color
ed merchandise district. Sonny
Barber invites you to come in and com
pare his quality produce, economical
prices and prompt delivers during the
opening day of business his past
experiences of fifteen years of square
dealing with the buying public has en-
couraged him to establish his own bust
ness where he will welcome all custom
ers new and old his slogan may
well be "Sonny Barber Saves His Pa
irons by Shaving His Prices" see
you there -. . open all day and even
ings.-By Paul Jordan.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
BYARS SHARKS
GROUP to PRESENT
GOUNOD'S FAUST

Grand opera-conscious colored
Americans in greater Boston who
witness Faust" Friday, April &c.
presented by the Byars-Harris opera
tic group, will receive the musical
thrill of the present generation. Mu-
sic lovers know that Faust" is an
operate tragedy. Goethe, the great
German poet, wrote the original text.
Of all the grand operas Faust is the
most simple to understand by the
ordinary person, regardless of artistic
temperament. The continuity and
rhythm of the musical score are allur-
ing. The dramatic climaxes are
superbly invigorating. It's tuneful
melodies can be adapted to the ear of
all who sing, whistle or play an instru-
ment. Although a classic, it has an
every day appeal to gallery god" as
well as a balcony or orchestra seat
holder.
The story is founded on the brood
ing of the author regarding the mys-
teries of human life. AS the world is
suffering today, the same tragic Incl
dents of humanity, with unbelievable
truthfulness, of another generation
are depicted. What a transformation
and lifelike diversion it will be to wit
ness this story unfolded in bronze!
The leading characters, Margaret.
Martha, Faust and the great Mephis-
topheles, all are known in a legend
that will never die. Nobility. states
men and citizens in all walks of life
have listened in enraptured suspense
to this grand melodic fantasy of in
augmentation and song. It has
brought truly wonderful peace of
mind to thousands. Conductor-im-
pressario, concert master and baton
wielder, James Byars will 90 under
spiritual control with Goethe before
curtain time to inspire his soloists and
chorus and also assure crowded Jor-
dan Hall an operate tempo of melody
never before revealed in Boston bv
colored artists.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
WATCH TOWER
BY William Harrison

There are few of my fellow-colum-
nists whom / read with more profit
and pleasure than NJ. Beaunorus Toll
son, who conducts Caviar and Cabbage
in the Washington Tribune. In the
language of the prize-ring, Mr.. Toll
SON never pulls his punches, but hits
fully and squarely, though never be-
low the belt. However, he is one OF
our best-informed writers, with a
forceful command of English prose
Recently he had some remarks which
have taken their place in my note.
book; they are as follows:
Nothing is sacred during a war
War is hell. War destroys art, litera-
ture, love, responsibility, home, spiri.
tual values. War means the blackout
OF civilization. War means depres-
sions. War means the uprooting of
youth. War destroys ideals"
The complex twists and turns of
international politics and diplomacy
seem never to confuse the Indian
nationalist leaders like the Mahatma
Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,
l had the honor and privilege while in
England to meet the latter, who has
twice served as President of the Indian
National Congress, in which his in1u-
ence is still great. His article in the
April number of the Atlantic Monthly
should be read by everybody who
wishes to learn the motives which
lmpel" the Indians to separation from
the British Empire, if | NAV borrow
a phrase from our own Declaration of
independence. His autobiography is
indispensable to a knowledge of the
workings of one of the ablest political
minds anywhere in the world. De-
lightful and instructive, also, is the
book composed of letters written to his
daughter, Indira, while he was in
prison; it is called Glimpses of World
History. How apt is his quotation of
those lines penned by the Anglo
American poet, Mr.. T. S. Eliot:
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang but whimper."
Dining Car Worker is the monthly
newspaper of the Joint Council of Din
ms Cli GllpiOyeSS OHlOnS, now IN It's
second year. 1t is well-edited Jour
nal, which is the voice of expression of
organized workers in that craft. It's
programme advocates, among other
things, enactment of a Federal Anti
Lynching Act and enforcement of the
18th, 18th, and 18th Amendments.
At the end of the month will occur
what will easily be its most important
event: the annual convention of the
National Race Congress. A distinc-
tive feature which has not been suffi-
GENTLY emphasized by most of my
colleagues is that the place where this
gathering will be held is the auditori-
UNI of major building of the Federal
Government, the United States De-
partment of Labor. Woodworking
John P. Davis, national secretary, is
a graduate of Bates College, Lewiston,
Maine. 1t is now a good many years
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06

since his college debating team took
the Oxford University debating team
in its stride, largely because of his
forensic skill. AS many reactionaries
can testify, Mr.. Davis is very for
midable opponent, resourceful, I'M
compromising, alert.
The Town Meeting of Youth, which
took place recently under the chair
manship of Henri Deas at Robert
Gould Shaw House, departed some
what from its theme of unemployment
among Boston's colored youth as the
| omnipresent question of Finland OBJ
truded itself. Of course, there is a
close connection between war IN
Europe and jobless young people in
ductive industry which engages the
best energies of a nation to the enrich
ment of a few "hard-faced men who
look as though they had done well out
of the war;, to quote Mr.. Lloyd George
However, the idea of Town Meeting.
something so essentially suggestive OF
New England's democratic traditions
is good, and Mr.. Morris Taylor, the
director of Shaw House, should be
congratulated for giving it his bless
ing.
Nowadays civil liberties are violated
in so many countries that the victims
are rather hard to enumerate. A case
which attracted some attention when
it first occurred, though it has now
been relatively forgotten, is that OF
Isaac T. A. Wallace Johnson, organlz-
ing secretary of the West African
Youth League in Sierra Leone, VINO
was arrested few years ago on
charge of sedition because he wrote
an editorial in which he ventured 10
suggest that British betrayal OF Etni-
opia caused Africans to wonder
whether they worshipped the same
God to Whom the British statesmen
like Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and DIT
Samuel Hoare of the infamous Hoare-
Laval pact claimed to owe allegiance
Mr.. Wallace-Johnson's refusal to re-
tract what he had written led to MS
arrest and trial and subsequent SEN
tence in the local courts, which were
and are dominated by the satraps OF
empire who believe that native Atrl-
can has no rights which a British
imperialist is bound to respect. he
appealed his case to the Judicial Com
mittee of His Majesty's Most Honor.
able Privy Council, higher court
just below the House of Lords. Last
year that body found the leader OF t :i
Trinidad oilfield workers in the strihe
of 1887 innocent of the charges LOT
which he served two years in prison
but the verdict gave little comfort 70
Uriah Butler, for it was rendere1
after his term in prison had endeI,
Such are the laws delays, wniGn
Shakespeare excoriated in Hamlets
soliloquy. In Wallace-Johnson's case:
however, the Judicial Committee OF
the Privy Council found him guliIy,
thus giving a blow much below tne
mid-riff to freedom of the press IN q
British colony.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
Eltzahrth GnrttH

Miss Elizabeth Margaret Curtis de-
parted this life on Friday, March 20.
1910, 10 o'clock, at the home of her
youngest sister, Mrs. David C. At
kins, 80 Harold Street. Roxburv.
Mass, after brief Illness.
Born in North Carolina, Dec, 25,
1870, daughter of James Henry and
Ellen c. Curtis, she came with her
parents to Mass. when she was an
infant. She attended John Hancock
School of Boston and was graduated
from high school in Maiden, Mass.
Always brilliant student, she re-
celyed an extensive musical training
and always maintained an active in
terest IN current events and highest
standards of literature, and was an
exceptional conversationalist. She
was baptized at Father Taylor's
Bethel Church. Maintained very
liberal religious instincts and found
great joy during her Christian life in
serving others.
she leave to mourn her loss, four
sisters, two nieces, nine grand-nieces
and grand nephews, several cousins
and host of friends who will always
hold her in the highest esteem.
FAIR INES
By Thomas Hood
Oh! saw We not fair Ines?
She's gone into the West,
To dazzle when the sun is down
And rob the world of rest.
She took our daylight with her,
The smile that we love best,
With morning bushes on her cheek
And pearls upon her breast.
The services was held at the Nerris
=; Davis Funeral Home, Rev. o. w.
Childers officiated and Mrs. Elastine
Broadnax was soloist. Interment in
family lot at Mt. Hope. Norris Davis
was the undertaken.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
NORMAN THOMAS SHOULD
APOLOGIZE

Public apology is the least that Mr..
Norman Thomas, leader of the Social
lst Party, owes the colored citizens of
the nation for his most reprehensible
participation in a radio programme
entitled Celebrity Minstrels." 1t i'll
becomes a protesting Liberal, a for
mer minister of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, to poke fun at an under
privileged element by telling jokes in
dialect, thus casting slurs upon people
who have not had his advantage of a
Princeton education.
No less disgraceful was the perfor-
nance of former Governor Alfred E..
Smith of New York; but he has never
posed as a Liberal. More seenly for
both would be public addresses in
favor of progressive legislation affect
ing all Americans: support of the
Wagner-Van Mugs Anti-Lynching Bill
or the Geyer Bill abolishing the mi
quitous poll tax laws in the South
which deprive thousands of white and
colored citizens of their Constitutional
right to vote.
Since the joke which Mr.. Thomas
told was supposed to show how stupid
colored people are, it is perhaps neces-
sary to remind him that he has ap-
peared on programmes with colored
members of his own party like A.
Philip Randolph and Frank r. Cross
waith, whose intellects are above the
average of any race, black, white or
yellow. His action is an insult to
those comrades of his as well as to
the people from whom they spring.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-04-06
PASS THE ANTI-LYNCH BILL

Although the anti-lynching bill has
now been reported favorably by the
Senate judiciary committee, many be-
heye that the delay of the bill in the
committee was needlessly prolonged
and that the representation" played
INTO the hands of the filibusterers. The
longer the bill is prevented from reach
ing the floor of the Senate, it is argued,
the more effective becomes the flibus-
ter1ng technique of breaking down SEN
atoral composure through the bringing
up OF the anti-lynch legislation late in
the session, when other bills crowd for
consideration and senators are impa-
hent to go home 1t then will be easier
to argue that the "other bills are more
Important; and certainly the filibus-
terers will capitalize on administra-
ton desires for passage of major legis-
latlon and thus further delay consid-
Grafton OF the anti-lynch bill.
The stage is set for an anti-lynch bill
hlibuster, make no mistake about that.
Senators Tom Connolly, Bilbo and
other marathon takers are prepared to
take the floor for days during which
they will heap abuse and villifcation
upon all eolored Americans and blat-
emily upbraid the enlightened demo-
cratic sentiment of the North and
West. They will demand to be undis-
turbed In their world monopoly Of
lynching even though it splashes its
disgrace over the rest of the country.
Senators from each state should be
told that no other legislation should
tae precedence over the anti-lynching
bill. This is an election year. Both
major parties therefore are somewhat
more sensitive to criticism. To get the
anti-lynch bill passed, responsibility
must be placed where it will be felt
most keenly Citizens are urged to
write not only to their Sc majors but
also to Postmaster General James A.
Farley, Washington, D. c., who is
chairman of the Democratic National