Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-08

THE DOCTRINE OF the Double
Duty Dollar will not down! When I
conceived and enunciated the
doctrine nearly 20 years ago, few
were they who gave it more than
passing thought. The late Maggie
L. Walker was the first person of
note to give encouragement. She
threw open the columns of the st.
Luke Herald and told me to pro-
coed with my motions" Later the
Journal and Guide offered assist
ance and encouragement and the
doctrine gained slight attention.
The learned Negroes criticized
the masses were Indifferent to it;
the practical Negroes utilized it.
The doctrine briefly is this:
Trade with Negroes and with
those whites who employ Negroes;
for by so doing the dollar spent
not only secures the goods and
services desired but it gives a Ne
gro a job, thus doing double
duty" When the dollar is passed
around among the Negroes. them-
selves before returning to the
Golfers Of the white man, it Trill
have done not even doubie-duty
but multiple duty. The doctrine is
here to stay because It IS economi-
cally sound. It is not as some have
alleged boycott against the
white business man. So long as
| the Negro retailer must ordinarily
buy OF the white wholesaler,
there can be no boycott for the
dollar ultimately returns to tie
white man whence it came. The
big aim is not TO boycott the white
man but to help the Negro get on
his economic feet.
LESSON is LEARNED
Just how we'll the Negroes are
learning the lesson. of the Double
Duty Dollar can be most wildly
seen from recent report of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture on insurance companies
owned and operated by Negroes.
Here it is pointed out that Negro
insurance companies have in the
aggregate more than $36000,0GG IN
assets with nearly half-billion
dollars worth of insurance in
forces. These are staggering fig
ures when we consider the actual
meaning and their mightier i'm
plication.
When we consider that the great
city of Athens, Greece, at the
close of the second Peleponesian
war had total revenue of only a
million dollars, We get some idea of
the prophecy these figures forecast
IN the possibility of the Double
Duty Dollar It doth not appear
what We shall be, when we shall
have realized to the full the
possibilities inherent in the
Donble-Duty Dollar
There are two effective WAYS to
fight against the determinations
and segregations which have been
foiSted upon the Negro race.
One is the fight Of words and the
other is the fight of the Double
Duty Dollar. The Negroes future
is no brighter than his willing
ness to cooperate in his business
endeavor. Hail to Negro in
surance companies throughout the
nation! Their growth and achieve
nent strengthen our fighting
arm. 1t matters not what tomorrow
may bring forth, it is hardly
probable that cooperation among
Negroes can be suprlanted. 1t is
true that segregation hes forced
it upon us; but it is also true that
we are making the most of an un-
fortunate situation in an heroic
way. The Double-Duty Dollar doc
trine will not down.
THE HARLEM TEST
Because Harlem in New York
City represents so much that the
Negro loves and holds dear its
welfare is Of more than ordinary
concern. Negroes in Harlem claim
Eubanks, one of the leaders, who
was driven to the police station.
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