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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-05
cops uSht. iaI5. by Zelda Popkin
N,.Itt lied BY knx tva;ur,1 Syndicate
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
COREE1~r CROPPED in his pocket
for cigarets. Before he could get
his lighter out. she struck match
held it for him. Give ME one OF
yours. I'll try your poison" He
held out the pack. The room filled
up with their smoke. with the
humble and grind OF the train.
Nina stared at the blank green
window shade and then lerked il
up. The gold of the sunset swept
In. They both blinkcd. She said:
IF you care. we're going through
Georgia. See the boards on the
trees"
He looked over the polished
dark. sun-gilded wings of her hair
without interest, yet relieved by
the distraction of merely seeing
not talking or listening or think
ing, at swamp waters as brown as
mammies. at jungles of cypress
and oak. fcstooned with the ecrie
gray draperies of moss. at forests
OF notwithstanding pine. at piles
Of cut yellow timber.
They whiZzcd through a hamlet
and on shacks near the depot he
caught a sign: JESSUP'S PRESS
ING CLUB :. and another: ROE
ERT c. COLEMAN: CIGARETS
GIG y r s. ICE CREAM AND
SNOWBALLS-eating and smok-
ing and tidying your clothes.
He looked down at his wrist.
watch. Its nearly SIN Are you
hungry? Shall see if the diner
Is OPEN"
She shook her head: I'm not
hungry"
He thought he detected n petu-
liant note. Look. Nina. I'll be
darEeG If Ill cut out my heart TO
h'.mor a female"
Her eyebrows went w as if she
Was hurt by his vehcmeuCc.
You've got me- AL wrong" she
SAID. Il thought was helping
you 10y making you talk yourself
out. noticed before this morn
ing. earlier TINS afternoon. that
Whenever we mentioned the war
your experience. even your pilot"
lie said: Shall tell you about
HIM ,"
If 1t will make you feel better
10 tell"
Like thunder it will You
asked for 1t. You can have il
The guy that raised flowers. that
KID Who raised roses. he was the
plot. \ 20 nm. shot eli his head.
blew II clean Oft ms neck"
She bIaAched under her tan.
raised Goth hands to stave o.. the
horror. Through the bars OF red
hngcrnalls ne could see her ewes.
enormous ard CLASSY. Yet he kept
on, watching the misery in her
race. with a grim satisfaction that
VAS almost SlGISt,c.
She put her cold hand fat on
his mouth. She whImpCred: No
wonder you're sick"
He slumped back IN the seat.
she let ne: hand stay on his
mouth. rhe triangle of unccr-
tainty settled over her nose. II
was sti!i there when she finally got
up, walked across the room.
snapped on the sIde-!:ghts at the
BASIN and the ends OF the sofa.
she swung the door shut. TN
dong It tins time she said point
eddy. She sat down IN her corner.
selected a cIgaret While she lit
II. she turned grave face tc him.
LOOK. Don. I'm not kidding.
you're SICK. Very SICK. Much more
than you think. noticed It first
when you came in here this morn.
ing. You had the darndest trick
OF rubbing your thumbs, as If they
were dirty"
He shot glance at his hands.
Won were iittorv and iumpv -
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-05
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she went on. "But this whole af-
tcrncon. Stree NC left Jacksonville.
you've been almost normal. You've
talked III paragraphs, not single
words. halt SENTENCES. You've let
your thumbs bc. You were getting
things out OF Your system"
He jccrc!: Doctor Gilmore!"
She shook her head. the way 4
dog shakes Oft water. This morn
ing YOU talked about combat IA
tigue. Almost rs If you We're
ashamed that YOU had IT. You
We're scared green all the time ?
Is that IT."
His chin came up. He said tart
ly: WHO isn't? You're a liar or
1 dope ii you say you're not.
We're not Superman. Were pco-
pie. Remember were people"
And all the while they were
pinnins those meals on yuu. You
felt like a hypocritc. fallcr?"
Il did not"
What them" She sounded cha
grircd. Hcr diagnosis had missed.
Il thought only Of time. count
ed. Twcnty-onc. 30. - How
many more missions"
How many"
There vas n pause. almost
breathlcss. before he reptile q:
"Thirty-hve."
Il see" She looked away. out
of the window again. The sun was
a RED hemisphere. burning through
pine and cypress. smcarIng the
swamp pools with scarlet. When
the last arc was gone. Its glow
stayed in the sky. ;iutInG a ciouG.
4 pink fleece on clear cobalt that
changed. while you watched. into
cbon tipped crimson and merged
with the darkemng sky.
While the night grew, Corbett's
angry voice iaSpcG ~ her ears.
tore at her skull SO you think
I'm queer. reched III the head.
F!ak-haHpy. We call it-tMcrc's a
new one tor your book-NNrll. I've
been treated like everything else
on this train. Listen. my sweet. a
soldiers a guy who's dong a dirty
JOB for his country He mas no
choice. We're N and hes II. and
it's Kill or be Killed Hes not
going to de. II he can ncip II.
He wants 10 1--we to come
back. He Knows what il means
when you lose 20 rCjo or Hitler.
So he's no; gong 10 lose He isn't
thinking in nroIG !!coloCIcS. He
leaves that to the statesmen. Not
because he hasn't the brI.uS. | as
sure you. Not because he doesn't
give a moot. on no. darling. but
because all he hears. all ne reads
-Darlan and Cirlut and BadOglio
gives him the cramps. No. baby.
we'll take FlattoD and PruHcfaCc.
Well take Mandrake the Magi-
clan. Give us OUr phant IA Y
straight. Where backs black and
whites white. tbs guy : bad:
that guy Is good. Get what
mean? Labels Hl1.n and clear and
tii'la'N'N ~ .l'tN. "a ; NI y.4Et
let yourself think about tire rCam-
ing were going 10 set when it's
over. you'd slit your own throat
They tell NE the Russians
don't get combat fatigue. Don't
even know what II means. because
they know what they're fighting
for. Mcbbe so. mcbhc so They
tell me the guys In the Pacific
don't get It a. We DO. Because
they know what its for. The Japs
shot up Pearl Ha-hor. They hate
the Japs. It's plain 4. r. &. /
wish we knew too. bat We don't
and that's that"
Her hand ran the length of his
sleeve from shoulder to wrist.
That's better she said soothing
ly. ITS all out Of your system"
He shook her hand off. There,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-05
NEW MEAT ITEMS

Fifty nsw meat items were dcvc,-
oped during the war. Included -
mong these, the Encyclopedia Anne
icana lists such foods us meat nn1
rice, corned beef hash. and pork. MI
dchydrated, and canned pork ani
apple sCucc, cannsd ham and SWEEP
potatoes. and canned meat balls and
spaghetti
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-05
HENDERSON IN. Cy DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY JULY s. 1ele

g Which National League base
hall team was threatened with Il
strike last month?
.. The jewels of which royal fam
ily We're struggled out of Europe in
10 the us. by two American army
officers?
10. Whisky is, or is net, 4 mcdi-
Caliy approved antidote for snake
n.tr"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-05

For the Job with Il futur. good pay.
.u;crcsting work. and security. the
;ecular Army is a good deal for
,ualif:cd civilians. Il 10 81 years q!
tup inclusive.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-05

Wyoming. in 1890. was the first
state 10 establish full suffrage for
women.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-05

1t is the general impression of
the public today, with the dis
continuance of the O. P. A.
that prices will advance
enormously.
Prices at Leggett's on goods
now in our store will not be
increased above the ceilings
which the 0. P. A. established.
1t is the further hope of the
management of Leggett's that
we may be able to secure
our goods in the future at such
prices that we can continue
to ''hold the line.''
Our
n Tudays:9 10
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
WORDS WELDED WITH DEEDS

Dr Thomas Patrick IT, is fInIo B0s5o1,ah fhe Pubc
 School Harvard College, and the University 4i per f lin Medical School attaining Hmnsnee @ % f end H5 who founded the Patrick School of Pharmacy m his career Patrick has exemPlifled the m + service He has acted h ff9 @ tRS RD diF w Nearly 100 miles from the hustle and hustle of New Yors teemg millions Dr. Patrick is % % G1 coiors and faiths The youngsters taught how to together behold how pleasant it is for brothers to t1we together in unity! Dr. Patrick points out that chdren are born without prejudce and that they quire that vice only through adult indoctrination: Children learn under Dr. Patricks tuelage to respect one anothers differences, whether physical tepera
 mental Of course since Gas Plato observed long ago) the small boy is devil there fights but these have nothing to do with race ambitious halfpin might be- come the aggressor larger lad merely to test his mettle but often the combatveness of the pre- adolescent is sub1imated in competitive games
 Dr. Patricks camp is democracy in action, words welded deeds under the capable supervision of who student in Germany when Hitler to power, knows what Fascsm did to the German youth and prevent it from harming American children.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
VFW ENCAMPMENT

Beginning Sunday, September l. Bos1on an m1 of For egn W Wars until Friday g. pne eHtend CHRONICLE behalf of the Negro conn u be in at
 tendance at this convention National ds of policy +d unon the VFW sessions, and the trenos ol 4o @ +haW reflect will guide many Americans outspe I membership of the organization in individual 'housN' IT. is cardinal duty of all Negro memoets ot e @ va+orans of Foreign Wars to strive mltanty Ioi 4be
 h 1;o1ence to which Negro veterans of Woflo wa t + 1ile Isaac Woodland whose were gougea ou. oS inc
 hiectad in many sections of country Ihere can W no compromise whatsoever on this issue @ c;ve a oe of vehement attacks Marshal Tito o1 a M Ill ;+;zn @ take in vain Abundant will be the tlrades against the Soviet Union; esrtwhle ally of the the Gnea Sta+aS in the victorious against Hltlerte ana Japan
 a Fascism Unless Negro members are v1gllant' now e1er not mumbpg resolution will be passed conoelln n inc onadrupe Georgia lynchngs and other ouas0'' 1ns+ S the Southern reactonaries be offended
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
HANDS OFF THE PRoTECTORATEs

Reaction throughout the world will be 4 if the Union of South Africa succeeds III d ssz; Iro+oc+orates of Basutoand, Bechuanaland ana iand For more than decade the Union has looked wie Ia+ous eyes upon these High Commission lerrtorles ; o no suhiect to it's jurisdiction though contiguous to the major motive a n thi it's s M nocv of eventually reducing all the pach to the cage S t t +eritores are islands the snutty sea or rg1o y Crowsn second not to Mississippi me Dl4I 4Ia e frced to carry at least twelve passes under tne ps
 which restrict their freedom of movement anu m , M ho;r ovnlotation in k-breaking toll al 10" ease Chief Tsheked Khama of achieved he g of
 man ogged 1or by the in order
 him from e1 case o and national who tne I Africans practiced in the Union or o1ut Africa write to Lord d h grant sy, i Kbena nermisson to travel abroad ana prese ba ee of his people before the United Natlons'
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
PLAIN TALK
By JOHN M. LEE

i thy will, but my will be done, OH! Lord. Thoroughly disciplined, su- perhly trained to obey mechanical- ly without reasoning, the army can easily be converted into the greatest mob of all. Arrogant, strong minded men who desire to boss the world, direct the army to maim, injure and to kill in the name of a better world in which to live.
 Even the law of the command ment which says, "Thou shalt not kill" is suspended in difference to greater efficiency of the mob. The great force of Christian believers who chant piously and pray fer vently for the life everlasting are properly aghast when the mob kills, but they are never more ar ticulate. They have surrendered to the negative philosophy of the mo- ral coward. There are Christian men in Georgia and Mississippi, and Tennessee; there aer Christian men in the British army, there are Christian men in the govern ment of the United States, but they have neither the power nor the will, born of righteous anger, to stop the mob.
 You say you are not frightened but do you really know? You are numbed by the chilling terror of reality. The imminent effect of prolonged and growing hatred is perhaps too close to you for you or yours in the dead of the night or because you are on the side ot the mob either by omission or commission, that it can only hap pen to someone else, but brother as the country preacher used to say, sIt is upon you"
 Hatred is one destructive force that is not easily satisfied, nor is it respecter of persons. It runs amuck and finally destroys them that foster it. It is in the august halls where the peace is being con- sidered, it roams about the halls where the United Nations meet and deliberate; it is represented ir the United States Senate by the Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan from Mississippi, it is in your neigh borhood and it will be in your heart before the day is done. It is the pass word of the new world order;' it is the beginning of the end.
 Every time a Jew is slaught- cred, or a Negro is lynched, stop where you are and tremble, for you are next. It may take a little while to get to you, but doubt it not, your turn will come. It's eith- CT the mob or you.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
Health For All

more apt to spoil than in cool weather.
 Since milk is often the cause of summer complaint, the mother should be very careful to give the child only milk which is free from all harmful bacteria. The safest thing, after the child is weaned, is to use pasteurized milk. If this cannot be obtained, then the mo- ther should boil the milk herself and permit it to cool in containers which have been thoroughly cleansed and sterilized.-
 Food spoilage can usually be prevented if cooked food is proper ly stored in the refrigerator. If adequate refrigeration is not avail able, food should be prepared in small quantities, sufficient to meet immediate needs only. All food should be protected from flies and other insects. Utensils and dishes in which the baby's food is pre- pared and served should be abso- lutely clean. The mother should wash her hands carefully before preparing food and feeding the baby.
 Summer complaint clear up in 24 hours of the baby has proper care. The safest policy is to con- suit the doctor at the first signs of diarrhea and follow his advice exactly.
 In the next article, TB after 40 will be discussed.
 This column is sponsored, in the interest of better health, by: Hart ford Tuberculosis and Public Health Society, 65 Wetherfeld Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
SUMMER COMPLAINT

Mothers are inclined to dreae baby's second summer because o1 the disease commonly called "sum mer complaint"
 Summer complaint, or infant di arrhea, is most apt to attack chil dren between one and two years of age and it is peculiar to hot weather. It is very serious ant annually costs the lives of many young children.
 The disease makes the baby's bowels move frequently and it may cause vomiting. It is often ac. companied by pain and fever. One of several things may cause in. fant diarrhea. Probably the most frequent cause is impure milk o1 water, or spoiled food.
 The child has greater difficulty in digesting food in hot weather and if he eats anything which is even slightly tainted it may create a poison which his system at. UempTS to throw or and dlarrhes results. Nature should be assis. ted, not hampered, in the effort to get rid of the poison. This means that the child should not be given any food at all during the attack. Only water, which has beer previously boiled, should be giver him. Food, including milk, may cause further upset and must be withheld.
 Of course, great care should be exercised at all times to protect the child's food and milk from contamination. It is particularly important, however, to be on the alert in the summer when food is
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
THE FOUNDATION OF OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD IS HATRED


 HATRED
 Are you a Negro: Are you 9 Jew; Are you human being witt warm blood coursing through vour veins? Whatever you hap pen to be, are you frightened We'll, you should be, for you are living on the brink of a gigantic volcano that is rumbling and ready to pour out huge, destructive riv- CTS of molten, human hate. Yor can run and you can hide, but you cannot evade the awful finality o1 sudden and violent death.
 Perhaps you have been awed by the horrible efficiency of the atom bomb, and perhaps you believe that to control the atom bomb is to control the end of the world but you forget, mans hatred conceived and gave birth to the atom bomb, and mans hatred can produce even greater terrors. Man has tired of the child's play o1 simplifying and prolonging life; he is exploring the powers of God; he will not be satisfied until the power of life and death is his,- absolutely.
 Whether it be in a lonely wood ed region in Georgia, or in. the melancholy mines of South Africa man is in his laboratory, killing for the delight of killing, seeking to know the omnipotent thrill of making a human heart stand still permanently
 The agonized cries of tortured Jews who dare defy the new-day Nazism in Haifa and Te1-Aviv are the echoes of the black Americans who die without resisting, and ir lesser numbers, but who die, nev. erthe1ess. They are beneath the law, these dead Negroes anc Jews; the law was not created fol such as they, nor was 1t created for those who kill and defile them for those supermen are above the law.
 There is no law, really. They are no rules, and they do not ap- ply to the lesser men. The mol that lynches the color of mans skin, and kills his body in the pro- cess, is not accountable to any o1 the so-called decent forces thad have been set up in every com. munity. A mob is an anonymous thing, never identified, but easily recognizable, yet when the mol functions, the law breaks down.
 Mobs are sometimes the army as is the case in Palestine; moi
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31

ses, in brief, the close ties of British and German bankers be-
 tween World Wars I and II, Eng ] lands mistreatment of her colon | ial peoples, ChurchilPs lack of con- i f1dence in the Russians then fight ing the Nazis at their backdoor,
 Churchill's determination to main
 tain Empire trade agreements, and
 Churchill's inability to guide Eng ! land in the postwar period. In the course of the conversa- tions, President Roosevelt stated, believe that if we are to arrive at stable peace, it must involve
 the development of backward eountries....It can't be done, obvi- ously, by 18th century methods. 10th century methods include bringing industry to those colo nies; increasing the wealth of a people by increasing their stand ard of living, educating them, bringing them sanitation, making sure that they get a return for the raw wealth of their commun- ity.
 '"The peace cannot include any continued despotism. The structure of the peace demands and will get equality of peoples. Equality of peoples involves the utmost free dom of competitive trade"
 After pointing out that Church i'll admitted that the peace was dependent on American precepts, MT. Roosevelt concluded, 'FIn Amer ica, there was still a marked com placency - complacency fed by an important section of the American press: the Hearst pa pers, the Washington Times-Her- aid, the Chicago Tribune, and the Scripps Howard papers. Some times in unison, sometimes in har- mony, they sang a sweet sirens song of indifference, placidity, pas sivity.
 "And the tempo of our times is still such that our opinions are not keyed to history but to head line S. They are molded by scare print on the pages of newspapers certain newspapers often fires ponsible in the past and therefore doubly to be doubted in the trem- ulous period ahead of us."
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31

characterize the lynchings as iso- lated murders, Negroes in Marsh all live under the pail of lynch law.
 NAACP Investigators have re- ported what they believe to be two new lynchings to the National Of flee in New York and are continu- ing their investigation in spite of an ominous lack of cooperation by the towns police. The two new victims of the terror, both former CTS, are Richard IF. Gordon, 31, and Alonza Brooks, 25.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31
The Living South
PROPHETS BY THE WATER
By HAROLD PREECE Copyright 1946 by New South
 Features

PROPHETS BY THE WATER
 I belong to the Disciples of Christ Sometimes called the Campbellite) church, but I reckon that Bishop Frank Madison Reid of the AME Church in South Car olina is my kind of preacher. went to school in Texas, but guess that President Lawrence A Davis of the Arkansas Agricultu- ral Mechanical and Normal Col lege at Pine Bluff is my kind of educator.
 I've never met either of these gentlemen personally. But they are still my friends because they fight for the new South which shall not set between men the boundaries of race and color and creed. Celia and I feel in our hearts and minds for all Souther- ners of either color who hammer at the yoke. We feel that we know all these fighters. We see, reflect ed in the battles that they wage the light that the Lord has given them even though we, ourselves, have never shaken their hands.
 We'd feel privileged to worship in any church over which Bishop Reid had supervision. We'd feel that our son was being educated
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-31

and shaped into the new kind of white Southerner that we want him to be if he studied under President Davis. Because these two men have shown that not all those who sit in high places in the South have bowed the knee to Baal who is Bilbo, or been seduced and led astray from the people by the boss white mans gold.
 They have encouraged US in the lght which we have been trying to carry on from this poor little village on this Tennessee noun tain top. For this summer, we have been subjected to almost every form of harassment that the boss whites know how to infict on oth- CT whites who step out of line, and step into the ranks of the South's liberation movement which draws no boundaries of race or color or creed.
 We have had strange and in- quisitive visitors who, suspect. were Klansmen. We have had car loads of drunks drive by our little shack at night, bowling and yell ing. Our house was broken into for the second time when we went over to visit Negro friend in Nashville recently. I h aven't been able to leave my family for a day or two and get around to places like Monroe, Ga., to see what I could uncover on the Iynchings of two young couples there.
 But we have carried on because we know that, in every state of the South, that there are people who think and feel and act as we do. We know that we are a part of them and that they are a part of us in the peoples movement which includes every organization and every Southerner fighting for what shall be the free and living South.
 Preachers And Voters
 We know that two of those who fight with us are Bishop Reid and Dr. Davis. We felt the courage and the mind of Christ breaking through these hills and hollows when we read that Bishop Reid has ordered every preacher in his con- ference, representing more than 100000 of our Negro fellow Southerners, to get the people registered to vote.
 We felt the very pulse of the living South when we read a news paper account of Dr Davis stir ring address to the summer gra- duating class of Tuskegee Insti- tute. For the Spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters of Dixie and that which was without form and void shall take on the shape of that South where no man shall hunger and no man shall be hurt.
 "I want every pastor to register and vote," Bishop Reid told that conference in Columbia, S. c. To us also, 1t was deeply appropriate that the conference should have held it's sessions at Allen Univers- ity, named for fighting Richard Allen, and presided over by my good friend, Dr. Samuel R. Hig- gins, himself champion and spokesman of the iborning new South.
 fFThe time has come," said Bish- op Reid in words that stirred our hearts when we read them," for our churches to take a firmer stand in behalf of our people. We have shied away too long from the civic and social obligations which plague our people,"
 To be continued next week