The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-07-17
NOW is THE TIME


Because we are always DESTROYS of sharing with our
readers everything that consider uplifting and of ben
eft to race, this week for Editorial comment
the following excerpts from the topic Now is the Time
article that appears in the July quarterly edition OF The
Worker"
Every day some space and time is used in our daily pa
pers the daily Radio Programs for plans and
for the postwar world And because this is feel
that the following is especially timely and should be of the
greatest interest to all Negroes
Negro people the county over-in every city, town,
hamlet and in rural communtiesshould start to work
NOW on point postwar program We, above all
should be down to the business of postwar planning
NOW Everybody else with any is at it. Believe
or not Our postwar planning should include seven def
mite points:
Acquisition of real skill for job and the right
attitude towards work of all kinds
2. Purchasing of all the War Bonds SO that
will have financial stake in this government.
Locating little available land for proper living as
possible to the kind of industries in which can
get employment Negroes must stop ping up cities and
going off to work.
A. Laying by little with which to make necessary
repairs or to recondton homes We learn to take
much better OF the property in which live and we
must stop running down communities NOW is THE
TIME to put much emphasis the standards that will be
set up for rebuilding the world
B. Help young people to become more interested
in making a life than in merely making living.
g. Study the Cooperative Movement thoroughly and be
ready to join the right kind Remember the Cooperative
movement is going to have great big place in the
omic scheme of things when this war is over.
Take definite intelligent practical interest in Causes
that promote human betterment
1--WE are making little money now, but there is every
why should get excited buy up all of
the frls and furbelows that eyes fall upon Some of
live in perpetual WANT We want this and want that
and we get we want something else Carnal
minds and eyes fit from desire another Nothing
satisfies long though often say IF get this I'll be
satisfied" Il want" has become our National Anthem We
have not yet learned to get what need first Il want
takes all the JOY out of living for many We want things
that not able to buy and could happily do without
II we only had and sef-control Il want
manages and all of affairs She presses the life
of Il need" We should know the things that
to give balance and comfort to lives and get those
things first We feed eyes and not minds-our
judgment-our Our faces stomachs,
feet and bodies have absolute control minds
The mind is the standard of If minds weak
our standards must be correspondngy low That is why
many people buy face powder perfume when they
tualy need soap and good wash cloth
"The home and school should spend much time teach
ing people put first things first We have given
sufficient emphasis to this in teaching and upft work
Because making little money the majority of
our people clothmad-peacocks parade Too many
of them do not know what to buy-the practical the be
comng-the necessary Yes, should all be we-dressed
but being clean and free from body odos and being
erly dressed first
There are millions of Negroes who are spending and
investing wisely They not stingy They not hoard
ing They not excited. They know what they need
and what necessary for comfort and happiness and they
get It. But are Interested IN the great Of Negroes
who have ben taught and do not therefore
kind of sense that they need in time like this.
while talking about clothes, it might not be
say that spend much time improving our
conduct and controlling voices We should forget
to dress up our manners while we are dressing up our bod
les We afraid that Negroes do the that
millions of new people from other lands will be looking
for opportunities and jobs after the We need
not be surprised if dsodged Efficiency con-
only hope and with these we must
watch subtle deeply entrenched prejudice Remember
too that the day of living relief gone forever
letdown and the etout coming just and just
soon Hitler is licked.
Every home school, church and welfare organization
should devote their time to selling the seven-poin post
program suggested herein to Negroes everywhere If
the has real leaders, NOW is the for them to
lead into the right way think and these vital
problems. Big meetings and big talk will not do it This
not the time for showmen This the time for showing
the people, WHAT, WHY, and HOW in planning practical