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Religious Atmosphere in the Home

NELlGlON is essential to the healthy life The houSeh Id
that has religious atmosphere likely to be healthy harmonc
and full of the "joy of living"
Religion the which we refer is belief in God
knowledge of His Fateood feeling of His security and rev.
errce for worship.
Religion of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ bulwark to
character 1t sanchy sets UP standard and says This is right
that wrong and this standard creates regus
atmosphere Children grow and develop and their religion grows
and deveopes according understanding Of God the aver
and preserver Of life.
fortunately to Degree religion been neglected
Our schools and many of homes have followed the example
SET by the educators and have reared generation which has
never brealed the Clean healthy wholesome atmosphere of
LIFE ITSELF from the Fountain Life Because this
knowledge many lives drift along with the of Modern
Ism into the evil communications that corrupt their moral and
spiritual welfare
Good health and security the integraton of sound
body and sound spirit.
The spirit thoughtful element and the body is an active
one Zach waits upon the other dull unnored spirit
depeSSes and slows down the body While thus thoughts
poison it whereas good thoughts religious atmosphere
stimulate and nours both body spirit Good thoughts
quality and inspire action into good deeds.
Prayer the home of the essentials creating this
gious atmosphere 1t is the communication of the spirit with God
Prayer from the mind enables one go forward
with the work of each gives hope and faith in the
future.
To-day as we need religious atmosphere
homes Its need spread the home the churches
and communities and the city country the
nations of confused world establish peace and good
will the the Prince of Peace Let the praying Soldiers
of the Cross and the followers of Lamb and spread the
religious atmosphere of the Spirit of Christ faith We need
faith; need the faith that need the faith that
will give that spiritual ssasfacon times like these the
of millions of mothers fathers go from the homes to
the different training camps Whatever has been the amoSDherc
of their homes has What kind sending out! 1t
send, let send something worthwhile!
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to white men advising Negroes to
render service without thought OF
pay, They are even audaclous
enough to face audiences OF Ne
gro men with families to support
and children to educate, at the
current high cost of education. and
tell them that they should be glad
of a chance to serve their peo-
pie and that the pay received
should be secondary to contrast
the situation of the white adviser
and the Negroes to whom he Is
speaking.
The adviser looks rested, well
fed, comfortably clothed and usual
ly rattles some loose change in his
pocket while advising Negroes to
work mainly for the love of work.
Is there need to say that the ad-
vised Negroes look bad in con-
trast? Well, many Negroes, who
believe that their own salvation IS
Ill OIL OklIlS biIC WllAOC AOAno A-oAA'
hand hand out the same type and
quality of "baloney' to the Ne
gro groups that will or must listen
to them. Their leadership depends
on how accurately they obey their
masters voices"
When a Negro leader. above all,
starts to advising Negroes that they
should be glad of the opportunity
to serve even at starvation wages,
every man in the audience should
get up and walk out unless of course
he can prove that he practices
what he breaches. The chances are
one hundred to one that he can
not do that.
An excellent New Years reso-
luton for Negroes to make and
follow is this: Resolved that Ne
go leaders will prove their worth
tc Negroes under the most severe
tests or they will be publicly dis
claimed. Happy New Year to you.
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of fiddlers in this country who are
watching Roosevelt to hold him
down instead of watching Hitler to
hold him back. Instead of watching
Hitler the slogan seems to be
watch Roosevelt The American
Student Unionists are out to see
that Roosevelt does not pull a
Wilson" on the country. They seem
to be oblivious to what Hitler is
pulling. We have a great Glamour
going up for peace but no attention
Is being paid for the price OF
that peace.
We nave great hue and cry
from parents who did not raise
their boys to be soldiers; but these
same parents are not saying what
about raising their sons to be
slaves. Being a soldier is far more
honorble than being a slave But
we are afflicted with fiddlers and
is becoming increasingly doubtful
whether England can hold out
until we talk" our fiddlers into
the notion of doing something
about the plight of democracy
CAN'T BE RALLIED
I am beginning to suspect thai
after all, faScism has such a hold
in this country that the country
itself cannot be rallied to support
Britain in it's last stand for de-
mocracy. We may call it isolation
ism, pacifism, conscientious objec-
tionism or what not; but it all
amounts to fascism, for fasciSm
could not have ADLER advocates and
supporters.
We are told that a house divid-
ed against itself cannot stand. Our
house is seriously divided. Can we
stand is the great question of the
hour. To try to adhere to certain
democratic principles such as free
dom of speech and freedom OF the
press and personal liberty While
these same things are DESTROYED
before our very eyes is the height
of folly. There is no surer doom OF
democracy than when it fiddlers
take advantage of it.
Nothing should be cleared to us
at this time than that in peace
tunes we can observe democracy
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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

the path a bit easier for the car
rier of the gospel. 1t is not claim
ed that any of the Negro propon-
ents of the back to the farm
movement are dishonest. Their
danger to the race is probably
their naivete-they want to dc
something, no doubt to relieve the
obvious unhappy lot of their kinds
people.
BLIND FAITH .t..
Their chief difficulty is blind
faith in the Greeks who. bear
gifts, which they accept without
analyzing. Even Negroes with farm
back grounds would do we'll to
think hard and long before return
ing to the farm.
Trap number two is set by the
professional white politicians, the
quadrennial friends of Negroes.
The Negro leaders should be shy
IF them on the relatively simple
grounds that they are professionals
and the Negroes at best are only
good amateurs. Of course it is ad-
mitted that these politicians are in
a position to offer gifts exceeding
lv hard for many folk to refuse.
Then, too, they offer brief period
of fraternity which, judging their
constant mention of it, publicly
and privately, is much appreciat-
ed by the Negroes who receive it..
The majority of these Negro
political leaders are silent between
elections. For instance where are
they now? The real issues affect
ing Negroes are being fought by
school teachers, labor groups and
pressure organizations such as the
NAACP. It can be said with con-
fidence that Walter White, is too
suspicious to ever be caught in this
kind of trap.
SERVICE is TRAP
The third trap is labelled Serv-
ice. Often has the writer listened
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"MARGINS" FOR SAFETY

THE pilot of the big ferryboa the North East River
i'll New York instead of heading straight the Slip usually
takes his boat beyond the ferry slip because he knows that when
the propee slowed down. the boat will be carried with the
tide beyond the pier and he his boat farther into the tide
before he allows it drift.
10 those who do not know about the in the river
this seems like wasting time and effort But this precisely
every successful man is called upon do in his struggle out
lie must give and work harder than merely enough gev
across He must always allow for the margin and nef-
fectlveness in every plan
He can't say that to build house will $50 much -
enong the exact cost of labor and materials and then lay
aside Just enough these If he's wise he'll
add about and prepare for the Same with
running an automobile 1t always than the figures
en- by the salesman.
But IT. especially in the bigger things of life that we'll have
TO think the margins Most fail in business because they
haven't allowed Tor the exaste necessary margins for safety
There are always extras about which you know when
out.
Margins for safety and aren't always expressed in
terms OF ca-tor pose and decision and ceeulneSs and
mostly characer-count for than money putting things
across That's why poor who hasn't much money
wrs ont It's because his margins for safety consist of
which money cannot buv ~
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BY DEAN GORDON b. HANCOCK
For AMP

FOr AMP
STILL FTDDLING.
It was said of Nero that while
he fiddled Rome was burning.
When Belshazzar was feating a
thousand of his lords and ladies
the Euphrates was being turned
out of its course and Babylon was
already falling. 1t is strange how
men can ignore the Solmen facts OF
momentous events and dance on
the eve of death.
This is about what we here in
the United States are doing today.
We are busy with pleasure and
profits and chasing our ''favorite
phantomS" and seem impreviouS to
the portents of national disaster. If
Nero could have been persuaded
to put his fiddle down, or BelShaz-
Ear to halt his impious feast, both
Rome and Babylon might have
been spared, but alas! Will it be
said of our own great country thai
while the enemy battered at our
gates we we're busy here and there
on pleasure and profit bent and
were needless to the call Of oul
imperiled nation? We have in
America have been finding 10
these many months since totali-
tarianism got on its rampage in
Czechoislovakia.
With London being laid waste
and France buried in the tomb OF
time we are still fiddling. Congress
is afflicted with too many fiddlerS
and our great nation instead of be-
ing mustered in the service of saw
ing democracy is faced with the
irksome task of trying to pIacate
and out t-Uebate fifth colulnniSts,
isolationists, peace at any pricerS
and all the rest. 1t is verse than
shame, it is a pity! Roosevelt has
known these many months that
this country cannot remain aloof
from the affairs of Europe. He has
tried earnestly to inspire the nation
for it's task. His recent radio appea.
was pathetic and the reactions 1t
begot in some quarters were tragic.
Only a miracle can save democ-
racy from doom, We have a. bunch
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Seeing and Saying BY william * Fo~lke;

lens concerning the lower class
folks and create the desire on their
part to give to your organization
and to cooperate with and have
confidence in you.
Spread the network of your ac-
tivity, increase your working staff
and see to 1t that it works Eff
FECTIVELY. Become indispensable
in American Negro life and make
numerous INEFFECTIVE organi-
cations UNNECESSARY and dis.
pensible.
MAKE CONTRIBUTORS
FEEL WORK
Make contributors to your cause
feel your action in their behalf
not necessarily see and hear OF
your protests. Make every Negro
KNOW that it is his DUTY to sup
port you and YOUR duty to SUP.
PORT him. LET'S get busy and
help make this democracy real
Let's give to American democracy
and GET something from it, be-
ginning this year.
Leaders of the group who were
called upon to give Emancipation
Day addresses might pool their ideas
and consolidate them into a work.
ing program for my people. Simply
stating personal convictions once q
wear will not get us anywhere.
Leaders must be LEADERS in
every sense of the word and they
must satisfy their followers with
results
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IF THERE rs one fact that was
emphasized more than any other
at the splendid Emancipation exer-
cises sponsored by the Atlanta
Branch of the NAACP on the first
of January, it was that all our
racial group had done up to date
for the securing and safeguarding
of their rights as citizens in a free
democracy was not enough.
It is true illiteracy has been re-
duced phenomenally; billions of
dollars worth of real and personal
property has been amasSed; recog-
milton has been earned in the fields
of business, art, the professions, re-
ligion and higher education; and
on some fronts significant victories
have been won III the struggle for
manhood suffrage and civil rights.
But in speeches, characterized
more by brutal frankness than by
moving eloquence, practically all
the speakers on last Wednesday
warned their hearers that 194I
must see the Negro, as a minority
group in American culture, making
a more determined and united eff
fort in the direction of those
things now obviously lacking If we
are to survive and conserve the
gains already made.
TELLS OF OTHERS
Forester B. Washington in his
appeal for funds for the local
branch of the NAACP released
some startling figures to show how
minority groups of other national-
ties in our midst were willing to
sacrifice for causes which vitally
affected their status as individuals
and members of their national
group. In most instances those gifts
we're shown, in comparison to their
numerical strength, to be not hun
dreds but even thousands of times
larger than the Negro is willing or
able to give for similar purposes
He pointed out, for example, that
there are only thirty-three Chinese
nationals in the city of Atlanta,
twenty adults and thirteen chill
dern. They have sent a fighting
plane to their beleaguered breth-
rem in China and have pledged
themselves to raise from one hun
dred twenty to one hundred fifty
dollars q month for the cause OF
China's freedom. Thirty-three
Chinese raise more in year for
what is dearer to them than either
possessions or life, than one hun
dred thousand Negroes raise in the
same length Of time.
Twelve hundred Greeks in At
tanta have ten thousand dollars in
the bank towards one hundred
thousand dollar fund they are
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was president of the. Merico-
Chirurgical Society of the District
3f Columbia.
He brings to ten the number Of
specialists in clinical branches of
medicine on the Howard faculty
who have qualified according to
"ieid standards established in re-
"ant wears hv the various especial
ty board Other Howard speci lists
are Doctors Edward L. HoweS, Sur
oerv: Alonzo D Smith, Roland B.
Scott and w. Warrick Cardozo.
pediahricS: R. Frank Jones, Ur-
ology: Julian w. Ross, Obstetrics
and Gynecology; James l.. Mar
tin and Charles H. Kelley. Radi-
ology, and Ulysses l.. Houston and
). t'nncla Dyer; oto-Laryll09ology'
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years" all the vestiges of democ-
racy and that the American Negro
should get busy with other groups
of our great land to see that these
ill-aimed PHILOSOPHERS shall not
dominate.
Further in his Emancipation
Day discourse, the speaker said
that the group must "save and
build for themselves a strong and
secure economic life" These as
sertions were, to my mind, good
advice to our minority group.
Another speaker of the day urged
support of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Col
cred people in it's militant action
in seeing to it that the group re-
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Traps To Be
Avoided BY
Negro Leaders
BY WALTER r. CHIVERS

TRAP, NUMBER ONE is the
back to the farm" movement. In
many respects this is the most
treacherous of the gifts that Greeks
bear. 1t is the most modern edition
of the colonization idea fo Negroes.
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Go 1t

DID YOU FAIL last year? Did your efforts fruless
and everything touched seemed fail? Did sit at the
seat of mercy pray for blessing and THE touch
of hand and blessing came? Did ask the Lord
lift burden from only find that awakened
day the burden there? Did heart bleed be-
meath task while other passed by while
cried for help with no help coming?
Maybe the trouble you Possibly you asked in the
wrong You have 4 1t is yours to
rain courage and new zeal You possibly win this time
may your crownng Your prayers possibly
timed for answers this time But YOU must keep going You
and the fault in and approach
You deserve to win You and must win, Go to it,
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ceives less and less of the discrimi-
nation and injustice so often aim
ed for our people in a democracy
that says it Is for all the people.
He, too. urged the group to become
a greater and more pertinent part
of our democracy by registering
and voting a conviction that will
lead to the best expression OF
government by, and for the peo-
pie.
LOOKING TO OTHERS
Ever since Emancipation, Ne
groes in some parts have con-
tinued the bad practice of looking
to the other man with outstretched
arms and omen hands, asking for
something. They failed to venture
and look for something to con-
tribute and get from American life
on their own behalf. They SEEM
ed to want something ''because
they were here" 1t was years be-
fore they turned to business for
themselves, that is in sufficient
and efficient enough manner to
get along. They could do lots
more in the business field by saw
ing. learning to cooperate, render
ing good service and developing
dependabilitv in all activity.
The challenge to the group to
support the NAACP should be
met bv a group challenge to the
NAACP. For the groups sake,
NAACP, expand your scope to in
clude more activity concerning the
masses. Delve more into the prob
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When a minority racial group
becomes ambitious it becomes a
difficult problem. In cities people
live in large groups, Negroes live
in large, compact segregated
groups. This situation produces a
potential strength that is aggre-
waiting to those who would monop-
olize all the good things in life
One of the most effective techni-
ques Used in the attempt to Danish
Negroes from the competitive
scene is to enlist the aid of cer-
tain of their susceptible leaders.
This is usually done by making
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To awaken racial conscience especially in business
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Get Joyful
Relief From
BACkACHE
Stop Getting Up Nights
And Feel Healthier
CAUSED BY SLUGGISH KIDNEYS

Here's one good way to flush excess
waste from the kidneys and relieve
bladder irritation that often causes
scanty burning and smarting passage
Ask your druggist for 35 cent box
of Gold Medal Haarlem OIL Capsules
"a splendid safe and harmless diuretlc
and stinulant for weak kidneys and
initiated bladder.
Besides getting up nights, some
symptoms of kidney trouble may be
backaches, puffy eyes, and leg cramps.
But be sure to get GOLD MEDAL-its
a genuine medicine for weak kidneys.
DON'T accept a substitute.
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The back to Africa
movement failed
so now it's back
to the farm. The
purpose behind
both propositions
is the same and
that is to get
the Negro away
from the city.
City air makes
people feel free
free people be-
come ambitious.
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Timmey after the latter two had
picked up Mr.. Butler at fire sta
ton to take him home since he re-
portedly was in no condition TO
operate his car. Mr.. Butler re-
portedly had stayed in. the police
car after being driven home with
his son. The alleged misuse Of
police radio came when the officers
we're answering a call which re-
quired both of them to be absent
from the police car, it was re-
ported.
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lPX IhOMAS yEEEERsON FLANAGAN NEEA
THE SONG WAS SINGING HIM

Basking alone of the feathered throng,
Sliding from linn to linn
The last mockbird, lost in a song
That took to singin him.
His comrades ere the fros' had flown,
TO more congenial springs
and the soul sweet song just wanted him to own
"A bill and flashin' wings
So there on Indian Summers breas
Eatin' what the wind woul bring him,
He held himself at the muses. crest
Where all the songs coul' sing him.
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give something TO
this great democ-
racy of ours as well
as accept its bene-
fits. He warned
that there a r e
forces in the world
which are battling
with all t h e i +
might to Danish
from the earth
"fOr q thousand
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Leaders Advice

A MINISTER OF THE gospel
the other day gave our people one
of the strongest and best bits of
advice rendered in these parts, to
my mind, when he urged them to
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The doctor said her husband
needed iron in his system. She
couldn't get the iron so she fill
ed him with lead.
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I had the pleasure of renewing
friendship with DR.. E. w. Taggart,
a dentist of Birmingham. DR.. Tag
CART is one Of the leading citizens
of Birmingham who is prominent
in every civic movement in the city
l had the opportunity to meet
the Rev. j. w. Goodgalne, Jr., and
his wife in Birmingham the other
day / had heard of his father as a
great pastor of a great church. His
father has now passed on to the
great beyond and the son is in his
footsteps as pastor of this great
church. DR.. F.. w. Taggart sent my
wife and me to his (Rev. Good
game, Jr.,) home to stay over night.
A fine parsonage and large
church, friendly wife who seems
to be an ideal helpmate. Rev
Goodgame seems to be man who
will give anyone an ear. His church
has done over forty thousand dol
lars worth of undermining and only
is in debt under twelve thousand
dollars. And again say, I am GLAD
I met Rev. Goodgame, Jr.
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Memories OF The
Steel Bowl Are
Lingering

WE MUST GIVE Birmingham 9
zig hand for the way they enter
aimed the out-of-town visitors at
tending the football game between
Morris Brown College and Wilber-
force University. The whole city
roth cOlored and white, joined to-
getfer to make the occasion a great
success.
The policemen of the city
seemed to stretch a point to
give the people the benefit of
every doubt to make them feel
the cOrdiality of the town; in
other words, they did not use
harsh words, to let you know
they had police authority, and
again I must pay tribute to
these policemen.
The daily white newspapers ol
Birmingham broke a tradition by
giving front page publicity to the
colored game, by publishing pictures
and write-upS of history of the
schools to boost the project.
1t was Il great example of a
city promoting the welfare of
a minority group of its citizens,
and things like these go further
to improve racial relations than
group meetings of few in in
terracial meetings of empty
words. Birmingham, we dOff our
hats to you and if other cities
follow your example the south
will start on a boom of pros
perity and good will which will
be an example TO others who
who dare do good things for
their cOlOred citizens.
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SOME FUN-A preacher can tie
a knot at an altar that can fit you
tighter than halter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-31
Noel Coward
Fined in Britain


LONDON, Oct. 31.-Noel Cow
ard, he of the biting wit and re-
puted ability to whip up play
overnight, couldn't think up a
wholly convincing excuse for vio-
lation Of British war finance regu-
lations today. so he was fined 200
pounds $4,000 in magistrates
court.
wards attorney explained
that the playwright and actor was
bored with business" so was UNI
aware OF the regulations, and
therefore morally innocent"
Magistrate Harold McKenna--
who could have fined Coward as
much as S250.000, said that Cow
ards negligence had cost the Brit
ish government $4,000. but 1T is
only fair TO say that the loss has
not gone into Mr.. Coward's
pocket
Coward was fined expressly for
falling 10 surrender $57 SAT in
United States currency to the
British treasury, after selling
stocks in various American con-
Germs.