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The Phoenix index., 1941-03-15
We Believe

IN ORDER TO FORM perfect Union first of ALL
believes If believe in that formation stand ready
all times give fullest of devotion that union
perpeae it, both in and out against all enemies lie they tor
egn domestic
When this government orefahers decreed
that they believed and thus the formation which led to this
powerful nation into being. This nation has
the powerful earth Her citizens have become the
the Universe The wheels progress have turned with
ceasng Every conceivable has been utilized its
fullest Wealth has poured from the mountains 1t
has poued the crust of the earth The have Welded
wealth great inesmabe quantities. The the tor
est fields even the air have been given and continually
feing given to the Golfers of this mighty nation
In the great panorama of eternal the nation tailed
guard her internal life should have Immigrants from every
land ayd welcome TO partake of the wealth without h
drane Many who and rich never ceased to cherish
their native lands Their ideas many instances still
perneate their thinking Thus without Americas observation
iss foreign from the mechanism of the American way OF
life into existence and continued to grow until America
had to pay heed.
America found herself infested within By pes traitors and
others TO whom the name of fifth conist applied The
latter required federal investigation which uncovered information
fully told the general public 1t has been so shocking thai
live lest the morale of the nation becomes weakened
possible has been pressed into
service to help curb these activities
1t is happy and convincing privilege that the Negro has been
found parts this great nation free from ism which was
detrimental this nation however in some tew instances there
been the part Of those who would DESTROY TO
plant subversve the minds OF Coored Americans D ~
Even though we may of the workings of
Nation would be and will be traitors to that Wh1c
has norished Us long but WE DO BELIEVE that this soc
be convincing proof OF loyalty and should merit representation
in all branches Of this nation.
Today that destructive element working to under
mine Our defense becomes the solemn duty OF every
America eternal vigilance fire which might easily en-
veloD the whole mass if allowed grow be eXtlnghshed
The Negro proved his loyalty and aid greatly in ITS eX-
tinguishng. .
There can appeasemen halfway measures used TO-
day There is altogether much stake, and by partte
measure nothing will be gained
We in the words of the refathers believe that in order to
make more perfect union rid the nation OF all those
whose minds infested with ideas contrary to this american
democracy All those who have professed to beeVe IN ND care
o no( ideas or ism Of another government should be removed
completely from this of activity They are the ones VINO 90
not bu would destroy.
This does not apply to the Ooored AMERICAN
whose LOYALTY 10 the AnerCan) remains steaas as
always ready sacrifice in order to crm more Per
feet union" because 1--WE Believe
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TEN THOUSAND years ago
there was not a Nordic as sucn
upon the face of the entire earth!
Within this brief space, he has
appeared, and now dominates the
twentieth century world. In my
Atlanta address before the Baptist
World alliance in 1889, I made
statement that the domination OF
the goth century world by the
white race was the outstanding So
cial fact of modern times. This
statement was predicated on the
three characteristics of the white
mans culture, namely the spread
Of color consciousness, the spread
of science, the spread of the Chris
tian ideal and the ideals of democ-
racy.
Neither the white mans great
ness nor his domination can be
DISPUTED, doubted or gainsaid. For
better OF worse he holds the throt-
tie of the train of ages that glides
away" as William Cullen Bryant
SO aptlv told in this immortal
Thanatopsis. From the present
generations must be Wrung the ad-
mission that the white man has
played a major role in the ad-
vancement of civilization and world
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BETWEEN THE LINES

welfare. If the Noddic did not
gloat over his past and present ac-
complishmentS he would be less
than human.
NORDICS AT WAR
However it seems that Cor the
present at least the Nordics have
attained embarrassing positions
among the races of mankind. II
S true that he helped to dissen-
mate the democratic ideals but
they seem bent on destroying the
same. They have played a con-
spicuous part in the spread of
Christianity but they are playing
a major part in destroying it. Some
of the mightiest contributions Of
Christianity stand to the Nordic's
credit: some of the greatest shame
brought upon Christianity has re-
suited from the Christian things
N0rdics have done-oftimes in the
name of Christianity.
1t cannot be doubted that to-
day the Nordic is "in reverse" bent
On undoing all the good he has
done and DESTROYING what has been
built through the years in sweat
and tears and blood The threat
Of the scourge of Hitlerism is one
of the glaring illustrations of the
Mordic in reverse, From all indl-
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Tractor Operator
Wanted By U. S. !

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces an open
competitive examination for the
position of Operator, Tractor
(Wheel Type) Gasoline, $1,000
Year for filling vacancies in the
War Department, Quartermaster
Supply Depot, AtlaEta, Georgia,
for which the receipt of applica-
tions closes March 81 1941. Apph-
cations must be on file with the
Manager Fifth U. S. Civil Service
District, 327 New Post Office Build
ing, Atlanta, Georgia, on or before
that date,
Applicants must have had at
least months of experience in the,
operation, adjustment and minor
repair of wheel type gasoline trac-
tors or of gasoline grading equip
ment propelled by wheel type power
unit
Full further information con-
cerning this examination and ap-
plication blanks may be obtained
from the Manager Fifth U. S.
Civil Service District, 327 New Post,
Office Building Atlanta. Georgia.
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Bv DEAN GORDON b. HANCOCK

cations we are about to witness
one of the most brutal and devaS-
tating attacks on Britain that the
world has ever seen Or dreamed OF.
Germany's "all-out" promises to
be the bloodiest episode that hu-
man malice could devise. In
preaching the gospel of Jesus
Christ and spreading the ideal OF
democracy and science, the white
man is at his best and Nordicism
seems geered in high; but when
the Nordic engineers periodic
world wars with their bombs and
mustard gases he is patiently ''in
reverse.
CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED
1t is hard to conceive a thing
more shameful than warfeEe that
visits death and destruction on
women and children, helpless and
unprovoked. The slaughter OF the
innocent marks the high tide Of
human brutality and brutlshneSS.
Strangely enough, the NorG;c is
leading in this deviltry and DAM
nation. In spite of all his honor
able endeavor, in spite of all his
missionaries and spread Of science
in spite of all his building up
throughout the world, he seems
bent on destroying himself and the
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EDITOR IAL s
Negro Education,
General Welfare,
Have Suffered
BY STAFF WRITER

MONTGOMERY-(S (SNS)- Pag-
ing back through the recent history
of Alabama it is discovered that Ne
gro education and welfare have
suffered four vital circumventions
Horace Bond in his book on Ne
gro Education in Alabama" tells
how. through voting for cleverly-
worded suffrage laws in this state.
the Negro actually voted his dis
franchisement.
At the last meeting of the Ala
bama State Teachers Association at
Tuskegee institute in 1887, a conf
promise was forced On the leaders
seeking to have Negro History placed
in the curriculum as a basic sub
iect in the public schiols. Instead
of their request, books on Negro
life were added to the States library
list.
A few weeks before the meeting
of the ASIA in Birmingham las
year the State Department OF Edu-
cation announced its step" TO
comply with the decision OF the U
S. Supreme Court Oil sUate provision
of graduate and professional train
ing by "enlarging" the program at
State Teachers College at Mont
gomery and with use of Tuskegee
Institute. But what has resulted
is little more than an extension cl
work upward at the Montgomery
college and that at tn summer ses-
sion.
just three weeks before the
meeting this year of the ASTA in
Montgomery, the State Department
has announced It's salary "equaliz-
ing" schedule in conformity with the
ruling of the Federal Courts. Sdch
schemes have always marked. THIS
last one is number -four and by
far. it seems, lacking in clevernesS
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world along with him. Eye hath
not seen nor ear heard n0r his at
entered into the mind of the or
binary man the suffering and death
and disaster the Nordics are pre-
paring 20 mete out to one another.
The domination Nordic pa
tientlv in reverse and seems ab-
soiutely incapable of reasoning
with his fellowman. Because OF
him the road of mankind leads up
hi1I and into the dark. He who
might have been the worlds great
est blessing is threatening to be-
come its greatest scourge. He is
fast making of civilization a species
of refined barbarism and savagery.
The Nordic at his best is great; but
the Nordic in reverse is a gigantic
peril and sccurge. The Nordlcs
should bestir themselves before it
it too late and snap out of the
moral stupor that is threatening
mankind with earthly damnation.
NOrdlcS in reverse is the WOfluS
number one problem.
If Hitlerism is the Nordic in re-
verse what about 'Wheelerism" in
our own United States of Ameri-
ca? IF Senator Wheeler truly repre-
sents Nordicism, the breed has
come upon iamentable times in
deed. If I were pro-Hitler in this
country I would never say so: I
would play the role of a Wheeler,
Just as it is called facism in ITALY,
and nazism in Germany. it would
be called Wheelerism in the United
states. The Germans nave given
Iindbergh medal some times ago;
we are wondering Row they can
lorcer overlook their good friend
Wheeler, Nordic in reverse.
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Seeing and Saying By william Il. fon1ke,

errers particularly to permit its victory over peo-
pie which began liberation of mems bodies ana mlnos
centuries ago and which has continued 10 give tne
eritorious "a chance" For that reason, am AFRAID
that victory the European continent for those
who must have a scapegoat to make their followers
think they have an ideal and heavy economic pres
sure upon the Americans would lead to READY ac-
ceptance by certain elements of the master race
tenetS.
In Germany and Nazi-overrun nations today Ne
groes are denied jobs of any kind except IN the most
serve capacities. In the past few years. mas not our
South adopted rather similar program! Don't we
have to fight mighty hard for jobs under the govern
ment civil service and defense setup and doesn't prl-
vate industry put the ban halter on us?
"Over there" it may be particularly noted that
rothing good gets into print about colored peo-
pie and their accomplishments for their fair reading
consideration of the masses of the majority. Can
we say much better for the tendency over mere
among newspapers and periodicals of our section!
There is little difference between, the laws of
segregation and discrimination of the two regions
being compared and the purpose is the same. Rules
of politics and government there and here certainly
are the same. The practice of the ghetto in Germany
is with the same view of the restricted areas in our
country Sole consideration of race as the basis
for not granting of privileges and nmunltles over
here has a similar odor to consideration over
there.
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"MASTERS OF ALL" BAIT

For these and other reasons it MIGHT not be too
hard for Americans to transform their thought
ideal fyom liberty lovers to the masters of al bait
which Would be thrown by Hitler They would be
encouraged" in their ideals many of which are al
ready in practice.
Therefore this argument for getting into the con-
flict and wounding Hitler and his hordes fatally.
Remember. the present war is one of IDEAS, more
than anything else. Something got into the minds
Of large number of Frenchmen who easily capitl1-
lated and became friends of the German people 1t
rav be true that they had inferior armed forces
which led to the walk of the Hitler hordes but too
napv of their generals and leaders had transformed
ideals Today, they are not rebeng too much
against the people they hated, "every French
man all Not near as much the Dutch, who are and
have been always just plain stubborn, nor the Poles
who have been locked upon as big and dumb
1t seems here wise move to help those who still
have presence of mind to strive for liberty for all
people to fight Hitler and his ideas both with
the sword and pen Remember, Hitler has good
81 glment for those Americans who will to be mas
ters of ALL regardless" His argument stinks with
those who love mankind and human freedom how
ever.
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to save themselves the embarrasS-
ment of 1910 in Waycross, Ga.
These Officers have positions
paying salaries that afford a de-
cent standard of living. However,
while they vacillate the rank and
file of Negro teachers are not
earning enough to keep soul and
body together for a calendar year.
Then, too, the majority of these
teachers are women. Because OF
certain public lhandicaps Negro
women need the leadership of
their men in any struggle for legal
rights more than do the women OF
the majority racial group.
EXCUSES EMPTY
The excuses offered for not hav-
ing a strong, aggressive Negro
Teachers Association in Georgia
with constructive program, are
known to the teachers. They arc
empty and shallow. Georgia is nc
worse in racial attitude, than say
Alabama. 1t is probably in the
sum total bit more liberal. How
ever, Alabama has recently made 6
concrete gesture, in the way o.
salary increases, towards equiliza'
ton of teachers salaries. Why
Because it has a well organized
state organization officered by
men and women who display the
courage of leadership. The interes'
shown by these Negro leaders II
the welfare of Negroes has gained
them the respect of the white pub
lie administrators.
The white people of the new
south no longer appreciate beins
"stroked right" by Negroes. TheJ
want intelligent cooperation from
Negro leaders in building the New
South up to its rightful place il
the national picture They realize
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Will Fight
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meeting.
In his opinion Justice McCook
pointed out that Father Divine
has on occasions collected large
sums of money which in some
fashion has been salted away in
various pieces of real estate
"Were this a poor preacher the
Justice said. II might be disip'
clined, in the exercise of discre-
ton, to authorize so drastic a
remedy as civil arrest. Being con-
vinced, however, that he has ac-
cess to money or property sui
ficient to satisfy his creditors,
but has succeeded IN evading col
lection of his debts, a quite DIFF
ferent situation is presented.
The ends of justice in this event
require that every weapon of the
law be employed TO prevent con-
tinued flouting of the mandates
of the court. Should the judgment
debtor prefer to go to jail rather
than submit and pay, that will be
his affair"
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BY ROBERT NJ. RADCLIFFE

South Africa, too. An AMP re-
lease says coloreo pupils Of a color
ed school in Newclare, Johannes
burg, South Africa, went out on
a strike as a protest against the
appointment of a white principal.
Dixie AMEz'S are mourning the
passing of Bishop j. w. Brown, of
New york. He was struck and
fatally injured by an automobile.
Good news from Charlotte, NC.
A man who made known his cam
didacy for the City Council in the
forthcoming municipal campaign,
declares he is interested in the re-
duction and prevention Of crime
among Negroes and advocates the
employment of colored policemen
where they are needed.
Not good news from Louisville.
KY: Louisville Hospital Plans
Separate Door For Negro Stu
dents
Well, if it does happen, the COL
ored students will have plenty Of
white company, because white folk
pay little attention to signs.
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WALTER CHlVERS SAYS:

that the Negro population must be
given more advantages if the total
South is to begin to move forward.
They realize, also, that they do not
know the problems of Negroes and
must depend upon educated Negro
leaders for guidance.
The State Teachers Association
should represent the five thousand
Negro teachers in the state. IT
education is what it is touted to
be then five thousand educated Ne
groes should be able to conduct
an intelligent, balanced, firm fight
for their legal rights without
causing any kind of interracial
calamity.
REORGANIZE PROGRAM
There should be the largest ag-
gregation of Negro teachers, pub
lie and private, high school, COL
lege, and elementary school pres
ent in Augusta next month ever as
sembled in Georgia.
They should go there determined
to re-organize the association
new constitution, new program, en-
tirely new official staff. Each new
officer should be selected and
elected on a basis of fitness tol
the jobs. Forget personalities ano
work for the good of us all. One OF
the main reasons why the organi-
zation is in its present chaotic
condition is the fact that the
members have placed personality
"appeasement" above the genera
welfare.
The positions of weight have
been distributed as honor for Ions
years of service in the teaching
profession and they have, in jus
tice, been performed as honorary
positions.
Next week we will continue this
conversation.
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AS WE STAND AGHAST, al
most bewildered by the herculean
preparations which are being made
for possible assault upon our
hcerished institutions and an ac-
tual invasion of our native land, we
ly in terms of billions of dollars
in money to be expended for arms,
munitions and the training of
millions of men for military serv-
ice. These are truly the major OBJ
iectiveS in our program OF national
defense. They may be rightly op-
posed by some as inviting rather
than warding off armed combat.
But the most rabid pacifist CAN
not but discern some of the re-
suits which might be considered
of even greater benefit to the
nation than an inpregnable mill
tary position growing out of the
present passion for preparedness.
One of the most obvious by
products" of the defense program,
is the putting to work of millions
Of people, who for the past six or
seven years have been idle. True
the Jobs themselves, and the wages
received may be but the fleeting
blessings of a wartime prosperity.
But the fact is that for a time,
ct least, there will be fewer empty
stomachs, fewer potential anarch-
lists. and fewer suicides graves be-
cause a people, aroused by a
threat of real disaster, have de
cided to grid themselves for any
emergency that may arise.
| MORAL DEFENDER TOO
A second by-product, and one
that will perhaps have more last
ing and leavening effect upon the
nation than all the guns, and SHIPS
and tanks that can be manufactur
ed with the billions of money ap-
propriated, is the gradual awaken
ing of America to the fact that
she must be the moral as we'll as
the military defender of democ
racv: that before she can eXtrac
the mote from her brothers eye
she must consider the betm that
is within her own eye. America is
more conscious than ever before in
her history that she must clean
| ,,n her own back yard
High sounding platitudes about
"au men are created equal and
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PORTLAND, OREGON has it's
first colored letter carrier in 25
years. Dixie is way out front in
some respects.
National Negro Newspaper Week
will be observed March 1922. The
worthwhile event is sponsored an
nually by journalistic society
composed of college students. The
newspaper guys who actually get
out the colored papers are too
busy gathering news and selling
advertising to even think OF
sponsoring such a Week. So it
seems.
The Detroit, Michigan, branch
led all others in the country in
money sent to the national office
Of the NAACP in 1910. The motor
city reported $3,627.38.
Noble Sissle, band leader, has
consented to join other prominent
stage, screen and radio performers
in entertaining soldiers at a
Georgia Army camp.
Thev have student strikes IN
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When POiS0nS Slow
kIDN EYS
and Irritate Bladder
Flush Them Out for IS Cents

Go to your druggist today and get
tLis harmless diuretic and stimulant
- ask for Gold Medal HARLEM Oil
Capsules and start at once to flush
kidneys of waste matter saturated
with acids and poisons.
That's prompt and effective way
to help bring about more healthful
kidney activity and relieve that blad-
der irritation with its scanty passage
with smarting and burning as we'll as
restless nights.
Remember the kidneys often need flushing
as well as the bowels. and some symptoms of
kidney weakness may be: getting up often
during the night-puffy eyes-backache.
But be sure and get GOLD MEDAL
Haarlem Oil Capsules - the original
and genuine - the price is small (35
cents). Just see if your expectations
aren't fulfilled, Refuse substitute.
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Year Term Is
Given Killer
ArI.ANTA G-a-(SNSl

ATLANTA. E.a-(SNS)-
Jim (Sun) Lightning, 20, of Nc
Daniel Street, Friday pleaded gull
ty to voluntary manslaughter in
the Jan. staying of Frank Lewis,
%, who resided at Smith Street
address.
After listening to lightning 6
testimony, Judge Hendrix of Full
ton Superior Court, gave the slay-
er a. sentence of five to ten years
in The penitentiary.
The Staying with the outgrowth
of a penny crap game, according
to Lightning.
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Mrs. Wilson Dies
OF Severe Burns

ATLANTA, Ga.--(SNS)-
Grady Hospital attaches Satur-
day reported the death Of Mrs.
Sallie Mae Wilson, 38, who resided
in the rear of l67 Clifford Place.
The woman suffered severe burns
one week ago when he'd in which
she was sleeping became ignited.
One relative offered the opinion
that the woman might have been
smoking while in bed, while an
other relative told police it was
possible that an enemy fired the
bed.
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THERE ARB ATROCITIES

More and more daily are receiving dispatches
telling of atrocities to black people under Hitler
German youths have been propagandzed successfully
to believe that Negroes haf-apes little above the
lowest animal stage, and that they fit only to be
completely enslaved destroyed Witness the de-
structon of the descendants of the African soldier
blacks who settled the Rhineland following the close
of the first World conflict as soon that section
was overrun. Current history tells they were
shot down on the spot when captured in the fall of
France transported to experimental camps for
further proof" that they animals
Presently too. there are releases from generally
considered reliable sources that the Germans fast
propagating philosophy of race hatred among the
conquered nations, such once-far France toll
Grant Norway. Sweden, Denmark, Holland and the
nations of the verboiling Balkans Each nation that
has acceded to the might Of the German conqueror
has been forced to accept the cursed standard of
pvemacy Of one race another and the idea of a
master strain. Their ctzenry wishing ever to be
the right" side of the conqueror is going head
heels with the hate program involving blacks and
Jews il is said
It is this propagation of superiority and dom
ination philosophy that should make willingly
prod the rulers of erstwhile fair land to get into
, the conflict 'all out"
KINDRED PHILOSOPHERS
The philosophy of Hitler is too much akin to that
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have been side-stepped by first
one ruse and then another. The
matter of equalization of Negro
and white teachers salaries has
been avoided as though it were
a contagious disease.
LOST LIFE BLOOD
Since the last meeting in Colum-
bus, Georgia, the association has
lost life blood so rapidly until it
died from. lack of life energy at
Waycross, Georgia, a year ago. The
small attendance at Savannah the
year before was a fairwarning of
what was happening to the or
ganization, but the officers either
could not or did not want to exer-
else enough aggressive leadership