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The Phoenix index., 1941-11-08
Practical Dreamers
By RUTH TAYLOR

The present decade may be age of realism and the
Tune may call for realistic thinking, men saw But
TOO o1en realism has meant STOPPING to the me refectnp
only the ugly rather than reaching upwards toward the
beauty OF the stars Realism has it's vaue-but tho great
things of life have been done by the dreaers-by those
who looked ahead and then made their dreams come true
Thoreau sad IF you have built castles in the air
your work need not be lost that is where thew should he
Now put foundations under them"
This is the task confronting the practical dreamers Of
today They do not deny the evil and ugness abroad in
the world They do, however, look through and beyond
and build even if only in Visions the world it should
bea place where all groups and individuals can and will
recognize each others rights they recognize their own
oDgatons, where all peoples regardless race or cree
or color work together in spirit cooperation and
live together in mutual trust friendship brotherhood
The dream of a world such as this MUST be fulfilled
Firm foundations must be built for it. if the world is to
emerge from the chaos which envelops it, We
begin to dream and build for foundations are
not built all at but stone by sone slowly and labor
lousy There must be defective material used nothing
that will not stand the strain and stress the winters
gales The foundation must be absolute justice toward al
not Justice according to mans DESERTS but justice which
affords to every living soul the opportunity to build his life
without fear, and with freedom from want to worship
his own way. and to hold his head up free man.
Such task will require the selfess devotion on the
part OF all those who honestly desire permanent peace
based international understanding In our common re
lance one another in time of crisis linked to-
gether before Not only is there national
developing steadily, but there is unity of thought and
purpose among those whose interest include the future
well the present Now is the time for all dreamers
get together and work out firm foundation under their
dreams for q better world for all mankind,
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Happiness Is Not News

1T IS BECAUSE this is
tragicaDy true, that I was more
than surprised to see in in one OF
our nationally known pictorial
news reviews recently the photo
graphic chronicle of the life and
love of a typical middle class
family in that most Americans of
all sections of America the CEN
trail west. A family of four it was
"a sort of ideal family group.
mother father, sister and brother.
Their income placed them al
most midway between the mini
mum and subsistence and the be-
ginning Of comfortable security
lines. They could with careful
handling have enough and maybe a
little to spare. The struggle OF
the father to provide for his lit
tie brood, and the cares, anxietieS,
and endless hours that made up
the day of the brave, resourceful,
capable young mother were
graphically and indelibly portray
ed. Here were two healthy Ameri-
can people in small midwestern
town. unknown and unsung, meet
ing the problems of living together
with courage, faith and intelli-
gence, and founding and main
tanning home that should be a
haven of refuge from the storms
and tempestS of circumstance and
a bulwark to their nation and
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g. L Will Repay, Z"

DOWN AT MEMPHIS, May 2, 1892 Mrs Stanley
Puryear, white and her syearol daughter found
hacked to death they lay in bed Will JamisOn, Negro
found torn pieces with shot gun, in the back
yard of the Puryear home
Puryear the husband and father told investigating Off
that the Negro had killed his wife and child he lay
asleep in adjoining ROOM
The innocent and defenseless Negro lived long enough
to humble out to the officers from his death bed that Pur
had ured him to his home under preense of giving
him employment and shot him effort to place the crime
of killing the wife and daughter him.
Shrewd, farminded white officers believed the Negroes
statement did the Shelby county attorney general
year tried before white jury for killing the Negro and
acquitted The determined attorney general did give up
the fight, in the face of the jys verdict but
charge killing the wife prosecuted vigorously
sultant in conviction and twentyye pen sentence
third indictment of killing his daughter pending in
courts of Shelby county
On Monday of this week, Puryear died with a heart
amen in the penenary at Nashville after serving two
and One-half years of his twenty-year sentence.
Innocent of killing the Negro voted the Jury Guilty of
killing The wife in subsequent trial DEATH PENALTY
the verdict of the ALL SUPREME POWER who long ago
warned-"VENGEANCE Is NINE WILL REPAY,
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CONVERSATION PIECE

and peace heause war and
peace are aspects of their political
relations; and men can recorder
their political relations. can
change them utterly, radically, SO
that their energy and ingenuity
shall be oriented toward the COM
mon welfare; it derives from the
concept and practice Of the COM
mon welfare; it derives from a
political relationship oriented to-
ward power the the domination OF
man over man.
Human liberty. equality of men
and the fraternity Of peoples are
the necessary conditions for civiliz-
ed life, for the true human climate.
Without these, bitter is the life of
man and brief is the span Of his
life in the earth. ."And he whose
soul Is flat, the sky will cave in on
him by and by"
SOME QUESTIONS
What is happening to man, the
individual? What has happened to
the concept of individual worth
and personality? Is it final in
blitz welfare? Can man continue
to live ii any ser,blance of civiliza-
ton without reinvigorating soon
end consciously the concept of the
dignity and worth of individual
life?
And must not the concept OF the
dignity end worth of individual
life eschew the sudden and vulgar
:mperiulnls which threaten to cave
the sky in on us? Embrace prac.
tically, effectively and equally
Chinese and Jew and Indian and
Negro and Pole and Engllshman
and italian and Russian and Ger
man and all the varied peoples of
the cart. DisoWn utterly the
than surprised tc see in one of
master to the slave of any .,ther
race Or nation?
It is this concept of the in
herent dignity and worth of the
individual that has foStered the
best in the life of the world; it
is this concert re-enforced ana re-
invigorated that must save our
world, if indeed it is not already
beyond saving!
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THE BOOK
SHELF
BY ANNIE L. McPHEETERS
NE WONDERS SOMETIMEs

ONE WONDERS SOMETIMES
why teachers, librarians, bookseller.
and publishers make so much 1T
do over Children's Book Week
Why the exhibits, parades, anc
other fanfare? Their reason is {
good one, based on genuine inter.
est and the desire to develop strong
minds among our future citizens
the children. g.
Since it's first celebration in 1915
supporters of Book Week have felt
aware of their responsibility &c
children and have done their ut
termost to stimulate their reading
interests. The satisfaction which
comes from having fulfilled this
obligation is more than recompense
for the extra work and preparation
War, defense, democracy, chaos,
propaganda are words that our
young people are bearing daily
from every nook and corner. The
discord and strife of 1941 it seems
will push over into the next few
years at least, and this group must
be prepared to meet the oncoming
years with courage, loyalty, and
above all understanding.
Too much emphasis can not be
placed then on the Importance of
books and reading under expert
guidance. walk into any public
library and see one secret of this
countrys greatness. There, seated
around the tables you will sec
children reading. 1t is the law OF
this country that children shall be
literate-not that they shall be
kept in ignorance. When those
children go to the public schools
and libraries they are privileged to
use the boon of literacy in learning
how to take their places as citi-
zenS."
November 2-8 are the dates Sc
lected for this years celebration.
The theme is Forward with Books"
and it challenges both parents and
others interested in children of
the place of books in living.
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MANY MORE LIKE 1T

MANY MORE LIKE 1T
There are many more homes
and families like that in our land,
but we don't hear about them, for
happiness is not news. 1t is that
one home in every six established
that goes on the rocks that press,
and pulpit and radio in screaming
headlines, announcements and
sermons tell us about. 1t Is the
scandal of infidelity, and the shock
and sensation of supposed felicity
turned to the bitterness of gall
that the public feeds upon.
If the press OF the country
would emulate the example oi
that news weekly, and give pub
licity, not on rare occasions, but
often, to the courage, faith, loyal
ty. thrift. industry and fidelity
which are making Of countless
homes wells of living water in the
arid wastes of our common life,
there would be more inspiration
and greater incentive to our Young
people to make of married life the
guarantee of productive happiness
and security that it was meant to
be.
Would it not be better, too. TO
give little less space in the pub.
lie press to all of the lurid details
of the latest divorce scandal, anG
a little more to the stories Of peo-
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in these meetings is the quality OF
tomorrow's children.
The evident sanity and sincerity
of purpose displayed in these con-
ference have convinced the most
skeptical and conservative laylnen
that they are thoroughly practical
and highly beneficial. This is a
compliment to the conference be-
cause the South, today, IS more
sensitive to analysis. criticism or
even friendship from "furriners'
than at any time since the Civil
War.
OUTLINES PURPOSE
The executive chairman of the
conference, DR.. William E. CCle,
Professor of Sociology in the Uni
versity of Tennessee, aptly express
ed the guiding purpose of the con-
ference when he wrote that, now
it seems to me, the time has come
to explore further and to make
some attempt to discuss what kind
of a society will be the heritage of
tomorrow's children. At this cru
cial time the future of many of us
is clouded and uncertain Yet, it
is up to us, who believe that free
dom is the essential ingredient of
any civilization worthy of name, to
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The Faded Leaves And |

We search for rest the whole day long,
The faded leaves and l,
Nobody now wants to hear our sonI-
The faded leaves and I
Have lost our youth-and where he chung
The call goes forth to claim the young,
Along wants chilly banks we're strung
The faded leaves and /.
When we had soothing words and aid
The faded leaves and l,
They sought us for solace and shade
The faded leaves and I,
But now, there's naught that we can lend,
And we await the journeys end
Without worshipper or friend
The faded leaves and I.
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Tomorrow's Negro Children

clarity our thoughts or the kind OF
society we wish to give as a heri-
tage to tomorrow's children"
If the plight of tomorrow's chill
dren is the deep concern of south
ern white people it should most
certainly cause thinking Negroes
to pause long and think hard. To
find the reason for this statement
one just needs to look around him
at the plight of Negro children 1t
is sad, to put it mildly. My ex-
perience has been that too many
of the privileged Negroes who
should see these criminal breeding
environments practice looking the
other way. When a social worker
persists in painting the picture to
them they shrug their shoulders
and sneer "alarmist."
SHOULD BECOME INTERESTED
Every Negro pastor, school teach
er, lodge leader, missionary worker
should be forced to linger for brief
periods at regular intervals in the
city residential slunls; on the De-
catur. Beale, State, 18th Streets
and Cedar. Lenox and Fourth Ave-
nues: in the sections where the
produce rows and curb markets
are located. What they would see
is too pitiful to imagine and too
drab to describe.
An idea might be gained II l
mention the Negro children eating
garbage out of the cans on Broad
Street in Atlanta in the early even
ings; the Negro adolescent girls
soliciting on the streets Of Knox
vile, Tennessee, unmolested; the
adolescent couples salvaging a few
"tllunks" of coal and kindling from
the railroad yards.
These are factual conditions but
they do not seem to disturb the
Negro Sunday Schools for those
that I have attended have no pro-
gram for the prevention of delin-
quency neither for rehabilitation of
youth. The Sunday School which
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fine FOR KIDNEY
and BLADDER
WEAKNESS
Stop Getting Up Nights-Feel
Younger or Money Back

Keep your blood more free from
waste matter, poisons and acid by put
ting more activity into kidneys and
bladder, and you should live q health
Ter, happier life.
One efficient. harmless way to do
this Is to get from your druggist
35 cent box of Gold Medal HARLEM
Oil Capsules and take them as di-
rected - the prompt results should
delight you or your money back.
Besides getting up nights. some symp-
toms of kidney trouble may be backachc.
shifting pains, puffy eyes.
Don't be an EASY MARK and accept Q
substitute - Get Gold Medal HARLEM Oil
Capsules - the original the genuine. Look
for the Gold Medal on the boz -a5 cents.
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Two Men Give
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bond.

bond.
Judge warned Andrew Q. Young.
81, Monday to improve his men,
ory" before he returned to the wit
ness stand under penalty OF i'm
priSonment. Reluctant to testify
against Everett I. Watson, he de-
MED secret testimony given before
grand jury in which he linked Wat
son with operation of the Yellow
Dog policy and numbers house. At
ter court sessions, Watson asked
permission to talk to Young and
told him to "tell the truth"
RECEIVED $40
Young admitted he received $40
a week in 1884 to accomla any Miss
Louise Thrower, a defendant and
alleged cashier of the Watson policy
house, on collection trips. However,
Young said he did not know from
whom she collected the money and
denied knowing Watson's connec-
tion with the policy syndicate.
Two other witnesses who testified
Friday, Jimmy McAfee and Monroe
Hunter, admitted that they had
worked as cashiers for the Big Pour.
| McAfee said he had been hired by
AL GaSkill and later promoted to
| cashier by William H. Robinson. $,
The jury was told Thursday by
Roy Mapp, cashier for five years of
Tia Juana and Interstate policy
house, that this was part of the
Big -Four enterprises and that the
| concern did on the average of $7OO
a day. The witness told of picnics
given by the owners of the gambling
ring for employees of Tia Juana
ana Interstate, and also stated that
he was still working for the COM
pany, that they had just completed
the prev1ous days business.
Later testimony of Jimmy McAfee
and Monroe Hunter, revealed that
they had been employed by Claude
Roxborough and that they turned
the money collected over to either
Earl HutchinS or AL Gaskins.
Also claiming employment by
Claude Roxborough was Mrs. jose
phine Hughes who testified that
she worked as a clerk. Dan Ellis,
said he had been hired by John
Roxborough to work as night
watchman in 1882, that he remained
with the company until early 1910.
During the period 1896 to 1910, he
stated that he was elevated to the
position of special policeman, es-
corting the money taken by either
McAfee or Hunter to different
places.
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Here's Happy Way To
Wake Lazy Insides

doesn't give you gentle, borough,
satisfying relief.
BLACK-DRAUGHT is made from
purely vegetable ingredients. One
of them is tonic-laxative that helps
to tone lazy intestinal muscles.
You get Is to 40 doses in the
familiar yellow box for Csc. Look
for it and get the genuine, time
tested BLACK-DRAUGHT
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Is the second o1
these confer
enceS that ]
have had the
pleasure of at
tending. This Is
where sociologi-
cal principles
are applied to
the most basic
of all population
problems. The
chief concern OF
the participants
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A map in MAJOR Campbell john
sons office listing the people Of
the United States showing their
places of origin. All whites are
shown as coming from various
countries; Czechoslovakia, Great
Britain, Germany, Ireland, and SO
on. The map rs a picture map with
figures on it. Throughout each
section of the country, these fig
ures are shown engaged in all
kinds of work. And under the fig
ures are printed the country from
which they came. But when they
come to the Negroes, they give no
country, just write the word. Ne
gro, under the figures, instead Of
naming scqne country. A list Of
leaders in several fields arts, litera-
ture, science and so forth is also
shown on this map. And names of
the leaders are followed by their
place of birth. Marian Anderson
heading the music group is slated
as not being from any country,
merely as Negro. DR.. George Wash
mig Carver, heading the scientists,
is also listed similarly.
What Negro regiment has three
colonels? Two white and one Ne
gro? And what does the war de-
partment nave SO say about that?
Carter Jackson, a Washington
ian, we knew him in Harlem
though, bent friendly elbow with
US Sunday evening. We adlibbed al
.ength.
Funny that most Of the rejected
Negro selective are classified as
being mental detectives. This city
has the largest proportion of re-
jects in the country among Ne
groes. Are all Negroes mental de-
fectives? Or is it imaginary?
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attainments and that he will add
luster to the municipal bench.
Born in Mississippi in 1905, Mr..
Jefferson was educated in Los
Angeles public and high schools
and at the University of Southern
California from which he holds
his degree in law. He has beer
practicing law in the city for al
most ten years during which hs
has been associated with Atty
Willis o. Tyler.
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political
faction times rulings regua
On the completely mpartay and hatred
coming in office Sun
not later order the
written side
Of sheet otherwise We the rights
70 condnse alter all matter safety convenience unless the
is for
Make all orders payable to the INDEX 1914 East Monroe
they
will be published
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Year in and year out spicy, aro-
matte BLACK-DRAUGHT has been
a standby in thousands of Ameri-
can homes. Your drug dealer will
verify that!
The reason? If constipation has
you logy, uncomfortable, take some
BLACK-DRAUGHT tonight by the
simple directions and see if it
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Down in the Library of Congress
the other day, reading up on some
ancient stuff, found book of verse
by Frank Marshall Davis. published
by the Black Cat publishing CON-
pany in 1895, already in the RARE
BOOK DIVISION. How come,
Frank?
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I HAVE JUST arrived in Nash
vile for the purpose of participat-
ing in the third Southern Confer
ence on Tomorrow's Children. This
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By MARC MORELAND, Ph.D
(FOr Calvin Servicel
THE SUMMER CLOSES


T ALWAYS, about this time OF
year. write a piece under the
heading, 1.-The Summer Closes. y
For no special reason except that
I like the title and the mild
nostalgia it conjures up. Perhaps
it is because such a variety OF
things usually occurs in the sum-
mer and the mind just naturally
turns to get last fleeting glance
of such a number of things ere
frost falls.
Summer! Oh laughing year! as
the poets say. Spring smiles and
summer laughs, they say. And
they say rightly.
AS the summer closes, another
summer, one looks back and
notes how unlovely has been life of
man in the narrow corner which
is the earth amid war and slaugn-
ter and the insufferable indigni-
ties heaped upon individual man
and the human spirit. A ghastly
frown covered the face of the
summer: it was as if the season
was sicklied over with the agoniz.
ed pallor of DEATH the death
of men and women and children
dying by tens of thousands OH the
batrlefields Of the world that now
embrace the home, the hovel, the
village, the town, the city street
IN the theatre of slaughter and
pilIage.
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Item from the estate" dated,
Richmond, Virginia, September 81.
1893. 1.-THE Negroes Will Resist
photographed today to the State)
Lexington, KY, September 27. The
colcred people of this state have
fDrNled a powerful organization
and raised $4,000 to fight Separate
Coach bill r. G.. Ingersoll and ex-
Governor Hoad]ey have been re-
tanned to fight the measure.
Nora Holt Ray, chic and charm
ing, is now resident of WASH
ington, In her own words, It have
lI3ed in every sther capital Of
the world, so I thought I ought
to be right here in Washington,
since this seems to be the worlds
capital now"
Truman Gibson. war department.
executive, back from an extensive
trip which took him as far south
as New Orleans.
Uneasiness in three or four de.
partments. The proposed NYA and
CCC merger has started qestions
in both spots. The NYA has lots
of colored employees, the CCC not
SO many. but a few anyhow. Then.
in the housing situation the USHA.
the defense housing, the PWA, all
mixed up in building houses in the
present emergency-with many Ne
groes employed in the departments
also in a dither as to what is 60
ing to happen next.
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WALTER CHlVERS SAYS: rr4.prn R on,vrn.

I attend even frowns upon the
mention of such a disagreeable side
Of life.
AVOID CONTACTS
The majority of the school prin-
cipals who I have contacted at
one time or another regret" the
unhappy state of affairs but do not
feel that they can risk their too
good' regulations by "dealing in
dirt" They salve their consciences
by feeling that the students from
their schools who go bad were just
naturally depraved. OF course
there is no such thing as natural
human depravity.
could go on and on in this vein
of criticism but what 1 have al
ready said is sufficient to point out
the bad plight of tomorrow's Negro
children. Those now living are be-
ing given very little helpful atten-
tion for the most part They are
being allowed Ito just grow up" as
Topsy did.
Such a state of things is proof
that there are more Negro children
born than individual families or
the Negro community are able to
provide with a chance in life to
be decent. The remedy seems to
be two-fold, first, family regulation
on a scientific basis and second,
broad and intensive program of
Adult Education in the proper way
to raise a child.
MUCH SOUND WISDOM
There is much sound wisdom in
the quotation which reads, "raise
child in the way it shall go and
when it is old it will not depart
from it,
DR.. Henry H Walker, Clinician,
Negro Maternal Health Clinics
Nashville, Tennessee, will report on
Friday morning On the Nashville
Negro Experiment in Family Plan
ming" I hope he gives me some
thing of value, to bring to you. At
least Nashville is at last conscious
of what Cedar Street is doing to
tomorrow's Negro children.
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PLATFORM

give that feel proud
and in which they their views political social
religious economic questions which face the
in
that job makers well job seekers.
instruct girls In thrift
FatherlOod the brotherhood Of
5. To build frmer racial foundation posterity.
compete
with those other We technique other
with Above render dependable ef
cient imes that will be able
business enterprise Therefore, realizing these vital
points, shall give
weekly shall he published week in which views
question local national Such
way the opinio nofT The
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And who is going to get the
post as secretary to Jesse o. Tho
mas, new assistant to Dean Pickens
in the treasury department?
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SEASON OF GROWTH

1t is not good that men should
defile the summer thus: for it is
the season of growth and flower
ing, not the season of death and
decimation
The climate of mans life has
been SO extremely bitter through
cut the year, summer and all; and
this, Mark Twain, is a condition of
weather men can do something
about. The only question is, will
they do something about it!
Men can do something about war