The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1943-07-31
in both war and peace.


gratefulness to all who lent help
ing hand and with charity to those
who might have cast a shadow
across his path.
Has the Negro done this for no
reason at all?
Has he done this with no long
ings, desires, or thoughts of to-
morrow?
Has he allowed and is he going
to continue allowing this country
to quence her thirst of democracy
with his blood and others whom
she has swallowed, and yield moth
ing in return?
| No.
Then why has he done this? 1t
may seem that he is thinking of
nothing.
This question may puzzle the Ne
gro's fellowmen and keep him
guessing, but no other than the Ne
gro himself can answer it.
No one knows what ambitious
slumber in the breath of an indi-
vidual and his outward circumstan-
ces and conditions do not always
indicate what the mind desires.
Castles erected in the mind may
hnger for years before they take
any kind of visible form. Ideals
often wait for centuries before
they are fully realized. They may
pass from one generation to an
Their and finally the great grand
children will be able to bring into
reality the longing of their great
grandparents.
The truth is, every great battle
whether in the prize ring or on the
battle field is usually planned and
fought long before the COMO. sounds
at the ring side or the commander
gives the order to march or
fire"
Great skyserapers are seen in
magnificent reality before the foun-
cations are excavated or the steel
frames lifted into place.
Such is the activity of the MIND
which cannot be imprisoned by
granite walls or fettered by the re-
strictions which authority might
impose.
Hanging in beautiful and allur-
ing prospect, before the gaze of the
American Negro is beautiful Wis
ion, which the clearing away Of
has been and is today his inspir-
ing pledge and faith that has kept
his restless as he has seen some
OF 1t come true and more appear
WItllIn MS reach.
Although, he has largely faller
short of the ideal, and there are
times of darkness and perhaps
encouragement. Yet as night fol-
lows day and the calm follows the
storm, so surely will the days OF
darkness and disappointment give
place to days Of success and tri.
umph
Before the Negroes gaze is him
self and others awakening in a per-
feet day. A day of peace. A day
when he will have drunk so deer
from the free fountain of knowl-
edge, that the habits of the slave
the sin of emptiness, gossip, spite
and SANDER are dead.
A day when this nation will have
been cemented into one great hui
man brotherhood with community
of interestest helpful to all elements
of our citizenship.
A day when all nations will have
been made to realize that no mar
can live wholly to himself-that il
one man is falling, the other is not
rising and if one man is coins
backward the other is not going
forward.
A day when he will have made
the world see that he asks not fol
pity, but only a guaranteed square
deal and mans chance, that he
might do mans work and fill &
mans place
| A day when he will have beer
fully granted the privilege to carve
Z his own destiny, and to paint such
a picture as his ability will per
NIT, from which the world car
make up a new estimate to his
character and worth.
A day when he will have beer
seen not as a wailing citizen, but
as citizen of this country, who
holds nothing in his blood, belief
conduct or history to deprive him
of full citizenship in this country
! A day when there will have
come over all men a real peace