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The Phoenix index., 1941-09-20
By MACK c. NANCE

1 am informed that President
Roosevelt has signed legislation de-
ferring military service, all men
vino we're % years old or older, on
July first.
Here, l am reminded of King
Herod when he ordered all chill
dren of Bethlehem, from two years
old and under to be slain. Both
schemes were Matched out in the
shrivelled minds of those past 2e
years of age. The danger zone, for
human improvement, begins at and
past % years of age. The older the
more dangerous. Review the history
of man kind, from the time that
God created Heaven and earth, up
to this date; with a few exception
all cases, all the unpleaSantneSs, all
the suffering and sorrow, all the
bleeding and cruel death, visited
upon men; was provoked, stimulat-
ed and Encouraged by those past %
years of age All our hopes for a
better world to live are in the pos
session of those under % years of
age. We certainly cannot depend
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Lux ct Veritas

THAT is THE motto which
greets the visitors entering the
gates of Harvard University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Amer
ica's most ancient and renewed in
stitution of higher learning. For
three hundred years, or more, it
has been the motive and the OBJ
jective of our entire educational
system.
It has been at once the boast and
the glory of our democratic way
of life, that along with the other
freedoms sought and guaranteed
should be absolute freedom of re-
search and of presenting to an
eagerly awaiting world its results
and benefits. This policy of en-
couraging unfettered scholarship
has raised our American Univer-
stiles in a comparatively brie1
period of time to place or recog'
milton and respect the world over
Our scholars measure up favor
ABLY with those of the most ven
cradle old world seats of learning
in the honors won for achieve
ments in individual investigation
and research, and in the contribu-
tions made to the actual further,
ance of knowledge, science anc
culture. Light and truth" have in
very fact been the object of all OF
our magnificent adventuring in tht
field of education.
A PROFOUND SHOCK
It is a shock therefore, to say
the least when the chief executive
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Of the dynamic DR.. Austin as he
faced the boisterous, undisciplined
Baptist convention election night,
pleading his Innocence of the rum
ors which had been rife throughout
the whole convention.
Charged with having dabbled in
the unBaptist doctrines of Rev.
Cobb of Chicago as we'll as of the
unorthodox and sensational Fa-
ther Divine, Rev Austin affairmed
ther he was as genuine Baptist as
he ever was. Said Dr. Austin, 81
sat for an hour in the throne room
of Pope Plus with a coptic priest as
my guide, and through them tired
to see the great objective of the
Catholic church.
have conversed with Kagawa,
the great leader Of the east, and
with outstanding men such as F. w.
Grown, eX-president of the South
ern Baptists, and George w. Pruitt,
eX-president of the Worlds Alli-
ance. + have even gone into the
kingdom Of Father Divine and have
corresponded with him SO as to
know his mind. However, I am
convinced after research meditation,
and prayer that the religion which
holds the key of hope for the world
is the Baptist denomination"
Enabled to get the noisy unruly
delegates to permit him to produce
letters proving his innocence of the
charges they had been shouting, he
withdrew his name from the nomi-
nation. However, his supporters re-
NAMED loyal and stayed with him
throughout the halloting which
carly forecasted a Jemison victory.
The final vote was 1874 for Jemi-
son to 1913 for Austin.
OFFICIAL OHIO WELCOMES
The governor of the state, Gov.
John Bricker, came from Columbus
to extend his welcome to the group
and both he and Mayor Blythin
give warm words of praise. Both
attended the dinner held at the
Statler hotel in honor of A. L.
Boone, vice president of the con-
vention and the entertaining pas
Tor.
The convention came tC a close
as President Jemison delivered his
annual sermon in the public audi
| torium Saturday.
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Baptists Ask
FDR To Protect
Race Soldiers
Ohio Governor
Welcomes Throng
To Buckeye State
Ry TASCHEREAU ARNOLD


CLEVELAND, Ohio-Gov-
ernor John W. Bricker We'd
nesday told delegates and Wis
itors here attending the 61st
annual session of the Nation
al Baptist Convention, Inc,
that he cared not what a
mans religious belief is as
long as it is used for the bet
terment of mankind. He Of
ficially welcomed around 30,-
900 Baptist delegates to the
Buckeye State"
Last minute efforts by the can
didates for the election Of the presi-
dent of the convention i. quite
evident, and the drive is now SEEM
ingly centered around two candi-
dates: DR.. D. V. Jemison, Selma,
Alabama, md DR. j. c. Austin,
Chicago, although DR.. O. C. Max
we'll. New York City is a candidate
also
RMmor Is that the williams"
Machine" is determined to see
that Dr.. Jemison is elected to the
high post.
Dr.. Austin has campaign
headquarters in the Cleveland city
auditorium, where all sessions arl
being held. It looks like DR.. Jemi-
SON is gaining friends rapidly.
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me by former slaves. 1 am sure they
have been relayed widely. They
have certainly created grounds for
antagonistic legends against white
police. These LEGENDS have been in
tensified by countless unfortunate
and tragic experiences Of Negroes
with officers of the law in the
South.
This tension between Negroes and
white police officers is due in part
also to the traditional concept OF
the white South of a bad niger"
Of course the definition of bad
niger" is narrow or broad in pro-
portion to the urbanization of the
environment In any case it is in
elastic enough as to cause Negroes
to be fearful of contact with police
officers.
Educated Negroes have used their
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-20
BY ROBERT NJ. RATCLIFFE

DON'T KNOW why had to be the first guy to cut a
hog But the dope who knocked the
glass of tea.
While had an empty glass, the gentleman at my right
had wet spot in front of him He at how
by saying ne wasn't expecting to eat the tabecoh
wet dry.
Well while the gentleman with the damp spot in from
of him waiting for his plate of chicken Red CASTOR,
eswhe Tennessee State grdron STAR who giving the
slowpoke walters helping hand up and dropped couple
of servings the foochcen thighs peas salad canded
vans and what not.
Old Red" forgot to clean up the mess and of the
regular walters who knew nothing of the SPILL along
stepped the middle the foored food 1t was worth
a dollar to see his legs swap places with his head
CASTOR got big hand when he dropped the plate but
the boy who stepped in the armyard mixngs in for
several Boy Scout hows
All of this is to say that the coaches and officials OF
the Southern Conference and their newspaper friends had
right to swell time up Chattanooga way last weekend.
TWENTY-TIIREE books ordered removed from
the libraries of Georgia high schools and grade schools by
the State Board Wednesday the grounds that their
teachings were opposed Southern views the Negro
question.
While the Board is purgng libraries of questionable"
books it should have look inside of the coored
children are forced to study is used quite frequent
y in at least one the books coored kids must study
l have been informed.
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adequate police protection.
Negro police, then, would pe
sought after by privileged Negroes
to protect their homes. Thus crimes
that often result in homic1des
would assist the officers in d1scon-
tinuing the use of their neighbor-
hoods as training grounds for pro-
fessional criminals. These unpro-
tected communities 90 serve as
training areas for future profess
SiOnal criminals.
COULD PREVENT CRIMES
Negro police could make more
adequate Investigations of crimes
because they have the password"
necessary for gaining admission to
the National Negro Self-Defense
Society. They would be able to pre-
vent many crimes because they could
work with their people with the
same sense of intimacy, Self-con-
fidence and interest that white Of
ficerS work with white people. The
class lines between Negroes are not
so severely drawn as they are
among white people which is a
decided advantage.
Negroes would be proud of Negro
police and would cooperate to help
them make good. This would be
especially true in Atlanta where Ne
groes have demonstrated pride in
Negro achievements for many years.
This is illustrated by the variety
and quality of Negro businesses
and educational institutions.
Negro police could be elected from
among college trained men with
backgrounds in economics, Sociolo-
gy, criminology and professional
social work The salaries paid
white police would attract some of
the cream of educated Negro youth.
Police records are negative but
convincing proof that Negro college
trained men respect the law. The
military records show that they
make god soldiers. A trial will
prove them to be good policemen.
(TO be cOntinued)
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PiCKENS SAYS
WILLIAM II. FERRIS
Nv WILLIAM PICKENS

He is dead. He was scholar, a
great philosopher, but not at d,
suited to practical life. He coulo
not manage in economic life; ne
needed a place where his life woulo
be free of all economic eXactlons
and where he could think, talk ano
write only Philosophy. His own race
could give him no such place,-and
Yale and Harvard would not. yale
and Harvard admitted him as
student to their highest courses IN
philosophy and burdened him with
their Phi. DIS. Then they were
through with him.
One great professor of philosophy
at Yale in 1903 told me that Ferris
was one of the best students he had
ever taught. He said nothing about
taking Ferris on as an associate
professor or even as an instructor
in the department of philosophy.
BECOMES EDITOR
And so Ferris wandered abroad
among his own people, who had no
niche for his impractical genius. He
tried school teaching, and accident
ally blew up a part OF the chemical
laboratory equipment. He wrote a
book-"The African Abroad =
cumbersome, full, scholarly, but not
SO attractive to the hoi polloi. He
became an editor of GarveyS "Ne-
gro World"; and wrote editorials
that were good, except when they
were dictated or too much influenc-
| ed by Garvey.
Since that he has wandered about
trying to live in a world for which
he was Observation-Disclosures hi:
own race had no place that fittec
his genius and preparation and tht
white race would not admit hi!
genius. He could not handle none.
or manage his own personal econo
my. He should have had a profeS
sorship that would pay him so mucl
per month for his life,-So that h,
could not spend, waste or be robbed
of all of it at once. What he receiv
ed one month, he would be certain
not to be in possession of mex
month. If a whole years salary hat
been paid him at once, he woult
probably starve for the last clever
months of his year.
FINDS NO PLACE
But he could have filled grea
place uSefully, if his race had beel
able to make a place for him. Nal
adjustment is not only quality o
the person but is a quality also o
the environment.
He makes us remember anothe
great misfit-Hubert Harrison,-on
of the fullest two-legged cyclopedia
we have ever met,-who ought t
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WHY SACRIFICE YOUTH?

upon those past % years OF age
for human advancement. 1 am IN
total sympathy with the National
Defense Program. I shall go as lar
as my physical intellectual ability
will permit, in furthering its cause.
Today Europe sacrifices her youth
Here cities are crowded with WON
en-, children and old men.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE? l am
strongly in favor of those past 2o
years of age, while coaching, cook
ing up evil intrigue, revenge and
the total destruction of other gov
ernments and their people; that
they too, contribute their share.
with that of youth, in the dying.
This is fair and wholesome pro
position. Such scheme would
ipede rather than stimulate war
On the other hand, why not a law.
providing a painless death; FOR
ALL MEN (The writer first PAST
THE AGE OF. Since war is the
product of those past % years of
age; such a lew will have deleted
the origin or cause Of war. Way not
try it?
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FROM MY STUDY WINDOW, REV CLARENCE
U

Of a sovereign State of this repub-
lie, by official order, should at
tempt to deny to hundreds OF
youth access to certain sources OF
light and truth, because in his
judgment, they run counter to GER
tain sectional prejudices and COM
munity mores which he would
have preserved even at the price
of interfering in the orderly pro-
cesses and methods of American
education.
There is, however, an element OF
humor in this latest tragic ex-
hibition of bigotry and blino, un-
reasoning prejudice on the part OF
our extraordinary state chief exec
utive. HOW he thinks he can ex-
tingiush the light of truth by ban
shelves of the Libraries of our
schools and colleges is really more
than can be comprehended.
compreherded.
Crushed to the earth truth will
rise again and more often than not
to damn those who tried to impede
its progress. Nothing will give the
hooks condemned in the recent
purge" more appeal to the inquir-
ing student than the fact that they
have been banned. They will be
read, if for nothing else, to find
out why they should not be read.
The truth they contain, and the
light they shed upon the manifold
and vexing problems of human life
and relations; the mystery of mans
origin and the nature of the world
in which he lives will go on waxing
more brilliant and potent in spite
of all of the rawlings and DEGREES
Of misguided politicians who In
their greed for power would even
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fettel the minds Of youth.
OVER LOOKED BIBLE

fettel the minds Of youth.
OVER LOOKED BIBLE
They might be advised that in
purging the school and college
libraries of all books that shed light
upon and teach the truth con-
cerning race relations and equal
ity, they overlooked the Holy Bible
Surely it should be banned from
schools, colleges, churches, the
courts, the halls Of the legislature
and wherever it is read, studied
and sworn upon, for its basic
teaching that of zone blood God
created all races for to dwell upon
the faith of the earth is contrary
to "Southerns principles.
If Jesus, the proponent Of that
philosophy were on the faculty OF
the University of Georgia he would
be gotten rid of as a dangerous
"furriner," and for being seen eat
ing with publicans and sinners"
and may be (perish the thought
even with Negroes.
The destruction of books and
the persecution of their authors
smacks dangerously OF system OF
tyranny against which the whole
enlightened world is now in revolt.
Shall We in free. democratic Amer
lea be the victims of it under our
own chosen leaders? Shall we stand
bv and see freedom of thought re-
search and expression sacrificed on
the affairs of political ambition and
expediency? Shall not LUX ct
Veritas" still be the motto of Amer
lean Education and culture even IN
Georgia? The answer to these ques-
ticns can be registered most Ell
fectivelv at the polls,
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WALTER CHlVERS SAYS:

developed intelligence to devise
vays and means, often subtle, Of
staying clear Of police officers. The
police authorities, therefore, con-
centrate most of their efforts upon
bad niggers"- changing their
concept with the changing times
Their work would have been easier
were they able to realize the fact
that the bad niger" of today is
generally a more literate and SEN
sitive soul than Negroes of yeSter-
wear. These officers have refused to
see that in almost every southern
community the definition of the
"Negro's place" has broadened. The
result is that often they mistreat
a Negro for doing things that the
community -at-large permits.
This conflict forces the privileg-
ed Negroes to isolate themselves
from the masses out of sheer self
preservation. Such a hands off
policy deprives the white police Of
ficers of valuable cooperation in
solving and preventing, at least,
such major crimes as homicides.
STRENGTHEN BONDS
The conflicts defined here have
resulted in strengthening the bonds
of the Negro Self-DefenSe Society.
1 have been told that this is vivid
ly demonstrated in the reticence of
Negroes to testify against one an
other. They are often such difficult
witnesses as to completely thwart
the ends of justice.
Negroes living in the better
neighborhoods are frantically pro-
tecting their homes with burglar
proof guards. An observation tour
through the same class of white
neighborhoods has shown me that
such is not so generally the case.
These Negro neighborhoods are
more liable to be burglarized be-
cause of the infrequent police pa
troll. The important fact, however,
is that these Negroes use burglar
guards in preference to seeking more
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Don't be an EASY MARK and accept a
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Austin Runs
Continued from Page y

CONTINUED from Page y
by a recognition of the spirit OF
the living God and nationwide
homage to him"
AUSTIN MAKES PLEA
Nothing could have been more
stirring and dramatic than the fu-
tile fight which Rev J. c. Austin
waged in his battle for the presi-
dency. He flung himself into the
battle with all vigor, but it SEEM
ed as though the very shadow OF
the late l.. K Williams, who had
SO often held him in check, still
stood in opposition
"Here me, here me-" was the cry
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have sat in a lecture chair, at
Columbia or New York University,
where many a lesser scholar has sat;
but instead, had to lecture from
step-ladders on the streets OF Har-
lem and try to live from selling
pamphlets and books. Harrison, too,
was incapable of any practical eco
nomic management, and should not
have been burdened with it. He had
lectured on Wall Street to wide
eyed stock manipulatorS and famous
financiers; he had spoken to crowds
at City Hall; he had served the
City forums. He had entertained
the rabble and the radical. He knew
every book from Alice in Wonder
land" to 1.-The Decline of the West,
and his family was always on the
move, from place to place and from
flat to flat, because of unpaid rent.
William Ferris and Hubert Harri-
son,-theSe two black men of genius
are perfect Illustrations of some
thing we may some day overcome in
the difficult situation OF Black
Americans.
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JemiSOn Fires
Continued from Page Il

CONTINUED from Page y
School CT Religion at Morehouse
College. Atlanta, spoke at the BAN
quet. Guests of honor were the
Governor, Mayor Perry B. Jackson.
Donnie B. Giltrap, Ethel King,
Mrs. M. F.. Washington, Mrs. S.
w. Layten, Judge Lillian M. Wes-
tropp and others.
Henry w. Galbreath and Joseph
P. Bryant, clerks in charge of the
post office in Public hall, revealed
that more stamps were sold at con-
vention than any convention in the
history of Cleveland.
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Atlanta Needs
negro Police
By WALTER r. CHIVERS
lCon+;nuad from last SundaV0

(COntinued from last Sunday.J
THE UNIFORMS AND insignia OF
white police are symbols of fear to
the majority of Negroes. This is
true, in the main, regardless of
the social class to which Negroes
belong. However, it is tragically so
among the underprivileged masses
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of Negroes. The
basis of h i S
fear can possibly
be traced back
to the sad ex-
periences o i
slaves with over
SeerS.
I, for one, can
remember with
bitter vividneSS
the stories of
horror, centered
around slave
nxTnrCnnrc told
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MODERN
SEX MANIAC
r., DEAN GORDON b. HANCOCK


FROM TIME TO TIME the
country is shocked by horrible
crimes committed by some sex
maniac. There are evidences that
such crimes are on the increase
and the contemplation of this TACT
is disquieting to say the least. But
the Bible tells us if we SOW to. the
wind we shall reap the whirlWind. i.
without doubt we are sowing in
this country the wind OF seX-manla
and if we reap whirlwind OF
secmaniacS and their crimes we
should not be greately surprised.
We are living in sexy times. Our
modern dances are Sexy dances and
our popular songs are too often
sexy. Our screens are filled daily
with sexy pictures and our theatres
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Calvin S
Digest
Catoe Is Crazy


most of us were cursing preju-
diced minds for laying the Wash
ington, D c., sex crimes at the
door of a Negro, Colored handy
man named Jarvis Roosevelt
Catoe was arrested and confessed
to sex murders of seven or more
white and colored women of New
York and Washington. He told the
police that a criminal urge seized
him "like a fever" A pSychiatriSt
said that Catoe was undoubtedly
abnormal, probably insane
1t was a terrific let-dOwn
for Negroes, especially in the
South where the innocent have
SO often been the victim of mob
madness. Police from several
states flOcked to Washington
to question CatOe concerning
similar unsOlved crimes in their
localities.
Considering the temper of the
Washington police. VINO had met
with several criticism and a shake
up before "the crime wave' was
solved, it is surprising that there
is anything left of the prisoner to
be placed on trial. We are also
glad that there we're no mob scenes
or reprisals in Washington or else
where when the case ''broke,
We are all wondering when will
enlightment overtake and replace
the American white mans fetish OF
blaming a whole race for the sins
of a few. But this injustice has
caused the whites to make us as a
race their superiors in personal
conduct and restraint.
THE FERRIS STRIVING
1.-THE bliss of dying without re-
gret," say the Trappist monks, "is
we'll worth the pain of living with
out contentment. y
At e., c0ntentment was I'M
possible for the brilliant Prof.
William H. Ferris because of
the thOrny struggle to live,
and the bitterness of unful-
filled desires denied him the
bliss of dying without regret.
When heart failure caused the
lonely death of this early son
of Yale and Harvard, the race
lost still another champion for
Negro self-determination, Black
NationhoOd, "Africa for the
Africans
AS a preacher, teacher, lecturer
writer and editor. and lately identi-
fled with the Ethiopian World
Federation movement, Prof. Ferris
labored long and tirelessly at the
heart of Negro aspirations. Altho
native of New Haven, Conn, ne
was at on time prominent in the
turmoil of te Garvey moVment,
prior to which time he had pub
iished "The African Home ana
Abroad" in two volumns.
7 have faith that in the NE"
Dav of Peace to follow the oarK
days of the present world chaos
men like Prof. Ferris should be
able to live in contentmehC
creatively and productivity, anc
attain the bliss of dying Wlthou'
regret.