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.u:. TJa oucirfbuiMb Editorials WHf/’ Cammenit tkCari ■»— i— hit^iitriBM ianffl'wi 11 / F r^*hnd> vf. nnrhkm-. North r«rohn^ PnM»hi‘d *i Umhira. North C«rnii»« Evrry Saturday by FHE CAROLINA TIMES PUBI-TsHING CO., inc. Plie«M i-7871 L>t42t L .£ . AUSTIN. EDITOR Raik L. Royitvr Fufrnr Tatum. Manafing Ediilor AdvartUing Manager SlfBSTRIPTfON BATIiS , Piir Vcjii »n a 4 v iu*; $1.26 Per Si* Month* In Advant'P; 86c Per Three Monltig in Advance; Canada, I3.S0; Other ^ountr^a. $3.00______ Entered as gpcond-clasi piatter at the Durham Poetoffioe, undrr #ct of Mareh, 3rd, 1879. . Adv^rtiatng Department— Hrase df'iiring inffirtnatlon •aocerainfKfU^Jonal a<*«rtf»lnf f^ea, atWreaC^alJ communfoatlona w " CAEOIJNA TIMES, Durham, N. C SATURDAY DEC. 4. 1M7 Ttie lortli Carolina College lledicalion Exercise ^ Do Yon Know? On Sunday, Deceml>er the 6. nine naw baiidings recently erec- ted at the North Carolina Col- lege for Ne^oes will be dedi^at- e<r TThe profrrani wilT mark tfie bejnnningr of a new development and importance of the local col- leg*, which Im-I fe*d 25 ye&ts phe- nomenal growth. R4iiw4fi niHAT In oriar t* Mtlat In aavliif tha foraata from daatructlon by fira, . X tha Canadian Watlawal Rallytaya maintain foraat-fira flghtlng a<|ul|h flim at atratafiaAi palnta ttiraugh tha haavHy wa«<|*d araaa of Canada? Sueh a plaea af a^ipmant la ahawn in action ai>oya. Praaaura la au|i- ^ a< by,pumpa In Ma loaannMlva which la attaohad to tha tank eaf oontalntng Iha watar. It la aatlmatad that alnoa thia equlpmant haa baan In aarvlaa mllllafM, af dollara ha>M baan aavad tha com|>any by preventing tfamaga ta Ha^ praparty and In aavlng from daatructlon, theiWMide’a# aerea af ttrnit that will^latar provlda freight traffic in m k Calvin’s D^gpest -t-gY HPiiOVP ir KELLY MILLER SA Y S. . terms of a man’s bank account, Dr. Jamer^ fl. Shepard will go down to his grave an utter, fail- jire too pauperized to be honored . 9 ^^ If. iV4 » sured in the terms of sacrifice for others, and a desdre for all that is noble, then Dr. Shepard will approach his grave “Hke one who wraps the drapery of his No one who knows about couch aiwut him and lie^ down North Carolina Coll“ge can se- to pleasont dreams." He haf parate the name of . the institu- been able to live an idealisti3 life tion fron?'!Rai of Dr7_ Janies E. in a materialistic world, hating Shepard, ita founder,, and -ipcessi-1 no man, begrudging no man and dent. Whatever is< wid through* | helping all men. This alone out the dedication program .Sun-1 his^ealth. day, about the rise of the school Here is inspiration for all men from a small unknown education- those who a re . fortunate enough||jj al institution- to ' its present to ‘£ome in contact with the man. | placc will have to include the He is a livinir exaihple that th e^ | man who ha^ stood behind it and ' still is a place in the for driven it to success, against a-1 things that are really beautiful. ji,e returns most insurmountable odd?i ITi^ ^ and noble. Visitors to the col- [ ggnt favored such action by' the Dr. James ’T?r Shepard uii ji^At Sunday will pause ' natiotfgl— govcniniWit,-^ while 29 to dedicate buildings of bricklper cent opposed it. It'wiwFiomc- mortar and stone to the purpose ^ what surprising, although great- of education. What they do will Sy gratifying, note that 57 per be shortly remembfered. and de-^cent of the Sootheraers reached cay with the buildings them- by this poll upheldthe interveh nslves but the dedication of tion of national «uth«rity to ones life to the task of unsel- out thU national evil. fjsn tou can never decay. TTie time will come when the building which will be dedicated Sunday will be replaced by even bigger, and better ones, (but tlie time will never come when the Stfro paople and their citi3«n- ahlp rl|thta. t:ATHOUCS.AGATN We^are pteaaed to nota an hr Mr, l^eoi^ua liwin in tha current "Amaric*", natio- nal G»thelk weekly,' oh "The lU re €M*rt of Nepro Fiction.” Wa are not «o much concerned with Mr. Lewis’ phUoaophy on Hagro fietion; hut w* w e con* eemcd to see a Figh elaaa Catho- lic ffl]^<lne like “America". a«- cept a contribution ftbm a Ne^ Colored Woimii •iB r WilHfcUi ytafcat AW»» either Excuse me ft>r telling this. I on!y tell it as the truth, and thin were so^jeei«d to I have tten or, wHhoulL waitin# for particular truth m»y not do ‘ fj„„iy m nhltu ‘km m» ffood, but the tailing of it will ..you do no harm, at leairt aarm that 1 care a ^ /dioat , : passengers: I in here. There's a ^M>fcer,' YM have t«ne-tilepe-<P^e*|F1|»— fro. Per many raontha, now, the CatiMlks have been foing on ra- or man,—or for The colored woman has at smoking.'’ laat aucceaded ia making some* I And to thihk that in Mtig worse, which I had alwsya paat, I- have aaveral tinfa* -MiidH suppofed waa already aa had as being shot by foreing any human thinr could be; bha'white men out of » ekr 16»s succeeded 1« adding to th e‘ colored women were filfil**- horrora of jlm-crow travel in tha j somettmti cominUInc south. Sinee ah* acquired the | ductor and traMmin to social half-sani^on of smoking,the presence of a IcAe woman by ceasing to ~ e»rd here and there, in favor of eoititraetiTe pdieiea on the ra«e 4|«eatioa. Some people atlil are tn daubt ibout the aincerity of _ Aeaa Catholic j|f*dm, or thb is the work of a few indivi- duala and not Catholic leader* Mbip «s a whote; but aa one who haa fallowed *a«h and every move of thia group, we think they mean‘business. First, it is. single matter of good huaine£{s for the Catholics to he riacere. If the CatheUc)^ are to* grow in America, a like- ly direction ia in the Negro group, because it is in thia group that they are almost unknown, popularly speaking. Many Nagro- e:l aUU ragurd Gat^licism as othar women. In a little jlm er«w ear—and ef 16 4M|t h7 ? feet wide, she will light «p- and fill the pll^^ with her mfenud Once in Alihuna ' S" feci|ih0M Uireatened to riioat * stopped 11 ^ hg. time in the aaaw j(ta*% t asked the trataiaan nct^umcmh* are i because there waa oiw H«l#a!l I LYNCHING IS A EVIL AND DEMANDS A . NA.10NAL REMEDY The Institute of/Public Opinion poll the attitude of the American people oh the advteab- j ly of Prfe-al remedy for lynch- ( ing. The returns showed 72 per NATIONAL^Nktion does not destroy lawless- TSSIHW and N. C. College are synony- mous Is is> impossible to think without thinking of »the other North Carolina College, liko other great institutions repre- sents the iv>ul, the vision and the character of a nobIb 'spjrit in tune with things diving and ettmal. It stands as a beacon, lightening up the pathway of humanity i^^ a world darkened by p ee d , itelfishne«». relentless I influence the spirit and tha'char” ' . cruelty, pride, roW>ery and de- acter of James E. Shepard will " • t replaced. It i« eternal in the II BRicceas is to be measured in heavens ceit.. Lynching is m peculiar Ameyi- caa atrodty «hich prevails now- here elae among civilized or se- micivilixed people. Its preval>- ence ia not due primarily to the of a large number oif Negroes in one section of the Brazil and in the ness, of w>.at lynching is the master crime, lawlessness will destroy the Nation. THE ANTI-LYNCH’BILL * We note t^ t Virginiuft Dab- ney, editor ot the Riehmond Timea-Diapatch, predict* In an article i»-1he current Nation, tWat an anti-lynch bill win hi paaaed during the afflsiou of Con- grea . We hope aoj. However, the filibuster led by Seiiatbr Tom Connally of Texas looks like the aame old tactics that de- feated former effort# to make lynching a federal erhne. iimt there is one heartening fact In the eurrent anti-lynch fight: This time it is* a Democratic ad- ministration which is attemptint to paaa an anti-^radriiMr bill. Heretstifore, it waa ail^arentlt Ute able prerogative iht B*- poblieans to do the p«ninnlal btafire dance aromnd a homlin eorpse^-facetioi^y or tiacer^, the individual may deeWe for himself,-to keep the e«dor«d vo- ter vHtiiin the 60P fold. Now, however,, thanks to a Stviaion of the vote, BOTB admiaiatimtions are doing the dance of the de- rvishes. Maybe htiCween the two of them, an will actuall]^ beconye the law of the land. BUILDINiG HOMES ^ ^ We widi to commend the N. C, i,tfe TnmraMt Co. for its program of building small something to fear, for they have homes in Durham. It ffmB i>ar ^grown up under the superstition good fortune to see at first hand that certain practices of the re- aom of these homea a few we^ks ligion are inimical to the ri|^»ts comfort of othen, unlesa. back, and it WM, to us, an omen of the tadividual. Today, how- I compelled to do so. The * of better days to come, to see a ever we have a n u n ^ r of out-• , them' . * ^ ..ahW A . to go to the moker, there ^ ^On tiie other hand, it is a fact,a»e loud and persistent com-j^j^j^^ surplus funds in a manner which religion 1« one of the P»^t«, for wlute trainmen carelesa colored surplus funds m manner whica p^j^jiced against persons ^ t «are w hatjorter^ Begregat- of color. The prijudke^ts un-, Negros m-l^ t ^ ict upon cach us j»ow «»* usually mean, hard aM crael, b*- J besides, their anImaUike | j^y althb all windows cleaed in wtoter^r- i»!thotit ao Jwoman of the bach wii Ml*4lu44as* much as politdy v|cii^ whether t known to me, preaeot in tha Jimr any of the other men and women * crow coach, the tr|ii&man offttl4 crowdhig the ^rtf littie etll ar#lto fight me, and I hadt to alaiM going to <be tortured kV her as«» I np in the ide to Im fh3^ 'flMdf less peroformance. |for the attack b«fer«\ ha Jtjvialii down. Waii( a minute! No, it's not be- j cause the railroads do' not fur-j Now I begin to woodcc. nish a smokiny eempartmont for tin the thonder 1 waa colored smokers; there’s a amok*{life for. iSlnce the eolorad * 1^ ing cubby-hole aftwut the saih9 man has started private fcusinesa conceiti cf the standing colored Catholics, group, with the foresi^t and j courage to step cbt and invest > aise as this woman smoking hole . doean’t care a bang right there in front of her, and ^ non'-smoking male4 ot*Hw ' there’s not a single soal in it. It colored women. Often ^iPta ia emfdy, solely «nd eKclu-^vely ^ are figh^tg in htfiiiiiR becai^se it has never occured lo we reaHy don’t know these ordinary members of the fighting for; we are fm group to have any re^^ect forcing a formula. I had always said tkai»<fliajffla crow car waa such 4ui would benefit many time:) ovc^ the groo|t whliit made possible 1 J ' tlMt»ereation of the surplus. Not. ., , , , will be lyneh-free. They must, ^ of economics and socio- logy, where the race is concem- into stock? and bonds. Some of , ^ ».aunti it. right, ou(^t to be placed thercforCi ftdo^t ©ffsciiv*! lu^itns t. i j in^reioic, k « where the people who helped ^f briniring about this consum | uiiitKKs make it possible can enjoy, it, mation, devoutly to be wished. •' • • f ^ and improve their civic status |i’br ftfW ymis we have quibbl^j^ tt ^—5 ------- r—--------- 3 ---- -- . aiWHtv he-. Too long have some of. our 'disre^W of each other bocomes|o, the an added excuse to the .whites for keeping Negroes together, if , ^^^^ed paiWiVna* over divided responsibility be tween State and Federal Author- ity while over three thousand American citizens, wl^te and black, men and women, have fal- 1 ^ prey to the blood-thirsty-mob State action has proved itsejf to i>e utterly ineffective to deal with lynching, as with human slavery and Mdnapplng. When ed. For instance, many of the trade unions, dominated in the Worth mainly by Jpkh C?»iholiflai southern business| concerns in»> vested the dollars of Negroes in the propagation of enteeprises which, safe financially they might be, had rules* or policies which forbade any'(benefits ac- cruing to the Negro, eriept on the profit end. We refer to such Investmentk as in Muthem muni- cipal library buildin|: bonds,' are not only Itfy-white, but fe- funi to concede one inch in tol^ erance to the Negro. Thi^ same j is true in civic affairs; for it is almost an axiom that wherever a 'white Catholic is in power, po- litically, unless he ia "touched” ) by some “higher power”, the Ne- gro might as well fold his tent and steal silently away' if he is ITS MEAMWG AMD “ TO YOU i. .. CE <By Cora J. GUmo * fer ANlF) The- value of Astrology is be- yond measure. By trying to un- derstand your self, you soon be- se advantage if an nnderatandtof of his impluse is explained to hii» while young. Thin chnd majr bi rash, but he can be r*Mone4 with. He may be eneoW ged t* protect his weaker plafnurca to* stead of bullying thcnu K come aware of ^ e need of wj-1 comprehends now hta J » irt-f5»rtc I v-aircai i2ui»xjr uutiuuiK QoiiQBt i 1,1 |... 1 . derstandhsiF otIjers.-'You will ioon iPulsef will fit into ii t •# / I J T ^ " • »« •»*»«<' .^5, pr.fen.ml, ^ ^ . poi» U>«« 1>« will J» i» * ln d W 'T w 'N .'” ,™ . «■ »»i«ii«i - a ," "'f' ,ni .nui^ii, .n w . from the ground there is little time or patience for quibbling over constitutional jurfsdict'.o'-i. North Carolina Commiltee On Negro Affairs We hate just r|ceived from the y^te chairman of the North Carolina Committee on Neijro Affairs, a release for publication setting forth the work of that the West Indies the N^gro con- jThe malady Is nation-wide; the disease is systemic* aftd the re- medy, in ored to be effective, must be as deep-seatd and wide- spread as the disease with which tingent constitates a larger pro- pociion of the general popula- tion than in the Unitfd States. They alfo represent , a lower ave- rage status ctf education ahd~cul ture, and yet, in th»e countries There will be a^ only jim-crowed, but the very exe^tives who buy the bonds past fifty years over three thou- sand Ameriaan citizens h«va been practice is unfair and , murdered i^y blood-thria^ mobs. Ttls~caWed to c o p e . : W ^ t ^sleeping accomodfr authority is unequal to the ta&k,' ***? * 1 . 1 .* lynching is unknown and the'then Federal inteivention be- f **’ publ c ishitbitants learn of it only f^om,comes inevitable, else our states-♦ ^ the ^tonerican press. During the nipnship and patriotism must ° ^nter 'stand appalled and paralyzed. P^yaniMfinn, aod . caJliHg atte«---ffoni the public schools of the tion to a atat.e wide roeating of the committee to be held in average in a single A grade e^^ Sunday, December 12> As we understand it, the meeting is being lield fo r the purposes of discuaaing the several “qwjdi- dates for election to the United i py bl » delibrate^ crime against both At hast ttfteen hundred white the Negro teacher and the Ne- men and w«men have been vic- tims otf the rope and torch. If not a amgle H e ^ hod been lyn- che^l thia atooeioof -iniquitgr would still stirin imd—stig^ntixtf gro student The average Negro graduate jtotfi, (*annnt maintain a—rwspee- college anywhere. A check . on Negro high .-Jtihool graduates will disdOi?^ a deplorable’ defiee- ency in scholarship, as well as a lack bf knowledge of ordinary States Senate, and the several things. The North Carolina Com- positions to bei fUled for the - mittee on Negro Affaira .should It i r f House of Eepresentatives, “and other important subjects. 1?»e Carolina Times wishea to add ita word of approval to the action af the chairmanl of 'he NCCNA for not . waitmg until the last minute to call the meet- ing, and for including in the program subjects of vital interest to all Negroen of the nation, as well as the state. The gathering should M well .attended. We would like to suggest how- ever that the committei- find time during it* deliberations le- di^cuas, and take some jbctitm on the matter of tochers not only discuss these conditions but take definite action towards remedying them. In many pait« of the gt4te Negroes' are still denied the ri^t of franchise. A ,<^udy 6f this condition ought to be made AnJ definite action j taken. Hhe right to vote Is a jeonfctitutionall one, and no human being living ■under a democratic foi^ of government should be denied the right to say who shall him. govern , If, rol .has years Noi^ Ca promified'’ 'tb make the fair name of our beloved country fa the eyes of the world. Neither «an it be elai«»d, as is too often attewpted, that ching is e^ffaed to em States. If not * ctagle per- son, w l^ or Uaek, 'had ba«* lynebed in the Sosth daring die paat fifty years, Inurfreda of victims in «tikcr aeeiionii of the country wtmid eame the Nation i^ o u s coBcem. ®evry State in the Union, viHih the exception of five New Bngtand Stetes, has had; its soQ stained with .humari bloi There seems to be a disposi- tion op the part of politicians. North ahd. South, Democratic and Republican, to exploit "this tragic situation to woo Ne.«;ro vote bn {Re-pne hand, or to ju% tify its suppression on the cthe^ Bbth—fOf—these—attitudea are such as streets and lights, which ed by the more enlightende Cat- greater sympathy and tolemacii do not reachtheN«^ro nieighbor-1 holic leaders, like George K. | towardls |otl|era, c(Air«<luently, hoods: railroadstocks andbonds,! Hunton, secretary of the Catho^ you’ll find yourself becoming on roads where Negroes ar 3 not, He Interracial Council of _ New ' more charitable and kind. * York, and editor of the Iiiterra-1 The constructive use of your cial Review, and Father John La-,«wn inherent powers compels some real impression is . the respect and^ admiihilion of being made, not yet on the Cath-. ’thofe who may have been antag- olic masses, but more important, [ onistic to you. ’Hie 4^velopment on Catholic leaders, who make !^^ self-confidence induces the the masses think and act aa ‘1®®**’® *<* he confident of your much or nw>re as a unit than any friends; and your n^ral strength other group in American life. , | out a like quality in them. I The immediate sdccerp in little There may be little hope that things is a forerunner of bigger the current CatholicF| high in po- ^success. Astrology pointst the litical and economic cirde#, can ^ay which you may best use bia touched and softened in their your speeial unit of powers racial at^tnde, but the next gen- j ©id you know that such habits ep:ation, due the work of the of domineering your family; an- The tune has come for our busineu execu- tives to think twice — w«tch more carefully the dollars of their grroup, and pla<^e them where the group oan^ benefit every time the dollars tii’m over. That, alone, is race statesmi^n- ship. It i« no lohger a credit to n^ry irovincial politicians who are now sjeeking to defeat th-3 pcnd^ ing Anti-lynching Bill on equallyr reprehensible. This fa Wegiy, company to boMt of but plkying ^politics* with human soundness unlees it ia known, its acutest form. The J* ^ « «P- preciable part of Its Qirplns fonds are serving.the race, not the **** service plea of. States’ Rights and local r ? ® **“ sovereignty are the heirs and a s - '^ ^ ! " ^ ,7 aaeondary signs of their anti-slavery proto-' type? who sought to defeat the S“ , fundamental rights of h u m a n ^ , nature ninder the -m e p i-. they are focedoomed to faOure now, as then. Senator William £. Borah, who at the hands of the mnrde- ranks jas the h ii^ t constitutional Ifte blot has spread .authority in either Hou«e of lughoat the whole Nation, j^efv*’'is he apea^ead * ■ upon like the “dhmned spot’* on which ow>o8^tion to the pendbig L a ^ Mai^&eth’a hands, will ijot. Anti-lynching Bill chjefly relies ^ f ' ' |He has lent the great wei|^t of If according^ Atoaham lift-,hl» authority again* aH ahtl- coln’s dictum thia Nation could, lynching measures which have not remain hidV-slave and half- bedn before Congress for the . _______ _ ^m# satisfactory adjustment on in day, H cimnoi now past twenty years, on the greund jvice to his count^* Mdlbnma^ty e moffo J 1 ‘'- — ^a»e-heen witii»ttt eon-w4e-wottU-devete--hto^«e»tie- withoQt t lin t In^iring into the attituae of the manage- ment of that concern tomu-d the statesman, has ' cho««a td lend the weight o f hia’Ciraat prestige and authority tow ai^ defeatin| the Van Nuys Wagner Bill, al- though he fully recognizes^ that 3»e eiid aImSd "A % and dghteons altogether. He would ^ renderinj; a far greater se^ 7earit~9«~i^te'naa oOTnniitv^ o-’j ‘ ~f©i rOf Ihe^' irw^ « 'w isi ,(blatant arim» against N ^ o ^a-,tw o sessions of tiie General Atf- chen, by forcing them to keep sembly the matter ha:* been tab- vi% whit« teachers in IIMMlttliillniii, but denying them tiM aataa salary for ao doing, fhia ought n^t be. Negro leach- eer as m rol* must^ teaeh more aM taali, Mid work longer houra f«r lap money in North Caro- led, and Negroes who constitute the most pauperized group in the state are forced to go to'ex- tra expose to maintain their children, de tring professional training’, in schools outside of CMtiir ted Mip*gt tix P<wed to question the genuine^ nem and rincerity of tiiis robust Amerifean’ patriot a n d . Statejii- man. He is known to be as «leep- snoer- ing f o « ^ oM e siKMdd substitu- te "L«nd ot tynehers” for “Sweet land of Ifterty” ' In our national attiltii we would have only ow ilMiiMUM «atioaal 'pas. thne to btl&e. America is the moai li^ e M eotmfary hi lit* civi- ' American inptibje or privato lixed w ^ d . Lyndiing Is but tiie We. It is moit unfortunate, cllma*. of law leteess. If thb therefore that this distinguished W pSinrlire W T ^lfflenr^ di^sing a ineasufe 4y opposed to lynching and lessaefis in ptibje or all to meet constituioi^l objections rather than opposing the 9|ftnd- ing Bill because of its alleged r a 1 crisis which now c o n- prasiwit catholic— interracialiatiii. ynnt» wfll Imve a different we hope. CETTTIN OUT PAPER NO PICNIC ^ Getting out this paper iq no picnic. If we print jokes, people say vi^e are silly. If we don’t they say we are too serious If we clip things from other papers, we are too lazy to write it down ourselves, (t we don't we are "stuck” on our -own stuff,' viewpoint, creating an atmosphere of disturbance; find leaping before you look, or your regret, are but the EiVjBCTS of misat>plied energy which would be valuaUe In life where leadership, initlai- tive and courage are demanded Also, that the misuse of this impluse alyays attracts quch inis- Imps as cuts, accidents, burn^^ grunshot woundoi, illneftes with alarmingly higl| fevers, and th? If we stick close t^ Qie 'fob day,, we ought to be out htu^ting up news. If we do get and try to hustle we ought to be^on the job in fttie cffice> alarmingl]! like?/ AiU di( constitecti' saihe /en< know that the iplication of this toward fitting harmonious ex- If we dMi’t print eontribo^ tions, we don’t appreciat«) true genius. If.n^e do the paper is fill- '4t. Courageous, Mwaa -JdangBr._,^tfke did yo ctlve enei^ one’s self for pressloft'VfVt f|>naility almost oveincdght.? action, initialfve, lovi^ of adventure, courage and impul- siveness are akin to the planet and ther «ign, Aria. We such people. They are quick to see adnultagc and to act upon willing to face siflendid leaders - Ifronts the Nation one otonca of Mrms of lawlessaefls as any constructive proposid is worth a ton of erudite negation. If we make a change fellow’s writ«^up," we are critical. If we don’t, wo are asleep. Now, like as not someone will say we swiped this) from some KELLY MILLEB --- I wu JMMT. WE WD. in a th« courage of men un|dr th^m. too These people are happiest in an active and full life, and without them, the wor|d would be hum- drum. If there is one in your charge whose characterlsticf reftta to Mars, he will he given a>i tmmen- monious avenues 4if ei^tMalon. 'Hiere will be a definite |*rpo« in mind. He iwfll undentasd thct Control of his o»n» spis4i«d na* ture^ will develop his power of control and command over others, because he will uidef> stand his own need wlf-e*- pression; he will refrain from bOaN;fulness, because he will sure of himself. Usually, there is totmesc in some orm of meehsalM. UacMa* ery offers an outlet t» mMaf with strong Martian tendeneiea bccause of its opporttMky develop skill as well 4a tta ate* ment of risk. Some Jnalse surgeonf; others mat;# pS0«MMt* chers, hut in all caaat^ aatlafae* tiqn and harmony MW derived thru the proper rriawii—of this powerful impulse thM 4enuui,da activity in -Dtime forn. '^flir^aal inquiries may be lit lfrilitd Mrs. Cora CHbson, caM A&^ada- ted Negro Prtas, Parkway, Chicago. LAST WEEK'S UST EDITCItlAt LET US GIVS THANKS, In keeping with a custom a# old as the Amerleao jtatlon, President ft^osevelt !»• sued the annual proi^p^nfnr~d^ ^ignatihg' T h u ra ^ , Npveaber- M iJ 4 - a day for ^nrajrer ikb 4 thank ■ Listing the blesalnc that o o j^ to inspire the obaervers th'a year, the President en|phaalse4 the f|^ t of Pggce. ^n ito Ihter*^ national relaMns, tfsitor State's at the presen time is for- tunately situated'. A. gnnat ^eal has been accomplished bjr the ad» piiia IW^iHtfatlon ~in disB^titeir te a S f ~ and suspicion that from the tfTt* of President Monroe, «xistp ed>among the nations.Ahat up Pan-America. Central South America no longer fed that their lirger neither the north has improper ii—t(i|» (CoailMid

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FHE CAROLINA TIMES PUBI-TsHING CO., inc.

Plie«M i-7871 L>t42t

L .£ . AUSTIN. EDITOR

Raik L. Royitvr Fufrnr Tatum.

Manafing Ediilor AdvartUing Manager

SlfBSTRIPTfON BATIiS , Piir Vcjii »n a 4 v'« iu* ; $1.26 Per Si* Month*

In Advant'P; 86c Per Three Monltig in Advance; Canada, I3.S0; Other ^ountr^a. $3.00______

Entered a s gpcond-clasi p ia tte r at the Durham Poetoffioe, undrr #ct of Mareh, 3rd, 1879. .

Adv^rtiatng Department—Hrase df'iiring inffirtnatlon •aocerainfKfU^Jonal

a<*«rtf»lnf f^ea, atWreaC^alJ communfoatlona w " CAEOIJNA TIMES, Durham, N. C

SATURDAY DEC. 4. 1M7

Ttie lortli C arolina College lledicalion Exercise ^

Do Yon Know?

On Sunday, Deceml>er the 6. nine naw baiidings recently erec­ted at the North Carolina Col- lege for Ne^oes will be dedi^at- e<r TThe profrrani wilT mark tfie bejnnningr of a new development and importance of the local col- leg*, which Im-I fe*d 25 ye&ts phe­nomenal growth.

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niHAT In o riar t* M tlat In aavliif tha foraata from daatructlon by fira,. X tha Canadian Watlawal Rallytaya maintain foraat-fira flghtlng a<|ul|h f l im at atratafiaAi palnta ttiraugh tha haavHy wa«<|*d araaa of Canada? Sueh a plaea af a^ ipm ant la ahawn in action ai>oya. Praaaura la au|i- ^ a< by,pumpa In Ma loaannMlva which la attaohad to tha tank eaf oontalntng Iha watar. It la aatlmatad that alnoa thia equlpmant haa baan In aarvlaa mllllafM, af dollara ha>M baan aavad tha com|>any by preventing tfamaga ta Ha praparty and In aavlng from daatructlon, theiWMide’a# aerea af ttr n it that will^latar provlda freight traffic in

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KELLY MILLER SAYS. .

terms of a man’s bank account,Dr. Jamer fl. Shepard will go down to his grave an utter, fail- jire too pauperized to be honored .9^ If. iV4»sured in the terms of sacrifice for others, and a desdre for all that is noble, then Dr. Shepard will approach his grave “Hke one who wraps the drapery of his

No one who knows about couch aiwut him and lie^ down North Carolina Coll“ge can se- to pleasont dreams." He haf parate the name of . the institu- been able to live an idealisti3 life tion fron?'!Rai of Dr7_ Janies E. in a materialistic world, hating Shepard, ita founder,, and -ipcessi-1 no man, begrudging no man and dent. Whatever is< wid through* | helping all men. This alone i« out the dedication program .Sun-1 his^ealth.day, about the rise of the school Here is inspiration for all men from a small unknown education- those who a re . fortunate enough||jj al institution- to ' its present to ‘£ome in contact with the man. |placc will have to include the He is a livinir exaihple that th e ^ |man who ha^ stood behind it and ' still is a place in the fordriven it to success, against a-1 things that are really beautiful. ji,e returnsmost insurmountable odd?i ITi and noble. Visitors to the col- [ ggnt favored such action by' the

Dr. James ’T?r Shepard uii ji^At Sunday will pause ' natiotfgl— govcniniWit,- while 29 to dedicate buildings of bricklper cent opposed it. It'wiwFiomc- mortar and stone to the purpose what surprising, although great- of education. What they do will Sy gratifying, note that 57 perbe shortly remembfered. and de-^cent of the Sootheraers reached cay with the buildings them- by this poll upheld the intervehnslves but the dedication of tion of national «uth«rity toones life to the task of unsel- out thU national evil.fjsn tou can never decay.

TTie time will come when the building which will be dedicated Sunday will be replaced by even bigger, and better ones, (but tlie time will never come when the

S tfro paople and their citi3«n- ahlp rl|thta.

t:ATHOUCS.AGATN

We^are pteaaed to nota an hr Mr, l^ e o i^ u a liwin

in tha current "Amaric*", natio­nal G»thelk weekly,' oh "The lU re €M*rt of Nepro Fiction.” Wa are not «o much concerned with Mr. Lewis’ phUoaophy on Hagro fietion; hut w* w e con* eemcd to see a F igh elaaa Catho­lic ffl]^<lne like “America". a«- cept a contribution ftbm a Ne^

Colored Woimii•iB r WilHfcUi ytafcat AW »»

eitherExcuse me ft>r telling this. I

on!y tell it as the truth, and thin

were so^jeei«d to I have tten

or, wHhoulL waitin# fo r particular truth m»y not do ‘ fj„„ iy m nhltu ‘k m m»ffood, but the tailing of it will ..youdo no harm, at leairt aarm tha t 1 care a ^ /dioat , :

passengers:I in here. There's a ^M>fcer,' YM

have t«ne-tilepe-<P^e*|F1|»—

fro . Per many raontha, now, theCatiMlks have been foing on ra- o r man,—or for

The colored woman has at smoking.'’ laat aucceaded ia making some* I And to thihk that in M tig worse, which I had alwsya paat, I- have aaveral tinfa* -MiidH suppofed waa already aa had as being shot by foreing any human th inr could be; bha'white men out of » ekr 16»s succeeded 1« adding to th e ‘ colored women were filfil* * - horrora of jlm-crow travel in tha j somettmti cominUInc south. Sinee ah* acquired the | ductor and traMmin to social half-sani^on of smoking,the presence of a IcAe

woman by ceasing to ~

e»rd here and there, in favor of eoititraetiTe pdieiea on the ra«e 4|«eatioa. Some people atlil are tn daubt ibout the aincerity of _ Aeaa Catholic j|f*dm , or th b is the work of a few indivi- ’duala and not Catholic leader*Mbip «s a whote; but aa one who haa fallowed *a«h and every move of thia group, we think they mean‘business.

First, it is. single matter of good huaine£{s for the Catholics to he riacere. If the CatheUc) are to* grow in America, a like­ly direction ia in the Negro group, because it is in thia group that they are almost unknown, popularly speaking. Many Nagro- e:l aUU ragurd Gat^licism as

othar women. In a little jlm er«w ear—and ef 16 4M|t h7 ? feet wide, she will light «p- and fill the pll^^ with her mfenud

Once in Alihuna ' S" feci|ih0M Uireatened to riioat * stopped 1 1 ^ hg. time in the aaaw j(ta*% tasked the trataiaan nct^um cmh*

are i because there waa oiw H«l#a!lI

LYNCHING IS AEVIL AND DEMANDS A .

NA.10NAL REMEDY

The Institute of/Public Opinion poll

the attitude of the American people oh the advteab-

j ly of Prfe-al remedy for lynch- ( ing. The returns showed 72 per

NATIONAL^Nktion does not destroy lawless-

TSSIHWand N. C. College are synony­mous Is is> impossible to think

without thinking of » theother

North Carolina College, liko other great institutions repre­sents the iv>ul, the vision and the character of a nobIb 'spjrit in tune with things diving and ettmal. It stands as a beacon, lightening up the pathway of humanity i a world darkenedby peed, itelfishne«». relentless I influence the spirit and tha'char” ' .cruelty, pride, roW>ery and de- acter of James E. Shepard will "

„ • t replaced. It i« eternal in theII BRicceas is to be measured in heavens

ceit..

Lynching is m peculiar Ameyi- caa atrodty «hich prevails now­here elae among civilized or se- micivilixed people. Its preval>-ence ia not due primarily to the

of a large number oif Negroes in one section of the

Brazil and in the

ness, of w>.at lynching is the master crime, lawlessness will destroy the Nation.

THE ANTI-LYNCH’BILL *

We note t ^ t Virginiuft Dab­ney, editor ot the Riehmond Timea-Diapatch, predict* In an article i»-1he current Nation, tWat an anti-lynch bill win h i paaaed during the afflsiou of Con- grea . We hope aoj. However, the filibuster led by Seiiatbr Tom Connally of Texas looks like the aame old tactics that de­feated former effort# to make lynching a federal erhne. iimt there is one heartening fact In the eurrent anti-lynch fight:This time it is* a Democratic ad­ministration which is attemptint to paaa an anti-^radriiMr bill.Heretstifore, it waa ail^arentlt Ute able prerogative ih t B*- poblieans to do the p«ninnlal btafire dance aromnd a homlin eorpse^-facetioi^y or tia c e r^ , the individual may deeWe for himself,-to keep the e«dor«d vo­ter vHtiiin the 6 0 P fold. Now, however,, thanks to a Stviaion of the vote, BOTB admiaiatimtions are doing the dance of the de­rvishes. Maybe htiCween the two of them, anwill actuall]^ beconye the law of the land.

BUILDINiG HOMES ^

We widi to commend the N.C, i,tfe TnmraMt Co.for its program of building small something to fear, for they have homes in Durham. It ffmB i>ar grown up under the superstition good fortune to see at first hand that certain practices of the re-aom of these homea a few we^ks ligion are inimical to the ri|^»ts comfort of othen, unlesa.back, and it WM, to us, an omen of the tadividual. Today, how- I compelled to do so. The *of better days to come, to see a ever we have a n u n ^ r of ou t-• , them ' . * ^ . .a h W A .

to go to the m oker, there ^^On tiie other hand, it is a fact,a»e loud and persistent com-j^j^j^^

surplus funds in a manner which religion 1« one of t h e P»^t«, for wlute trainmen carelesa coloredsurplus funds m manner whica p^j^jiced a g a i n s t p e r s o n s ^ t «are w h a tjo rte r^ Begregat-

of color. The prijudke^ts un-, N egros m-l^ t ^ ict upon cach us j»ow «»*usually mean, hard aM crael, b*- J besides, their anImaUike | j ^ y

althb all windows cleaed in wtoter^r- i»!thotit ao J woman of the bach w ii Ml*4lu44as* much as politdy v |cii^ whether t known to me, preaeot in tha Jimr any of the other men and women * crow coach, the tr|ii&man o ffttl4 crowdhig the ^ r t f littie etll ar# lto fight me, and I hadt to alaiM going to <be tortured kV her as«» I np in the ide to Im fh3^ 'flM df less peroformance. |fo r the attack b«fer«\ ha Jtjvialii

down.Waii( a minute! No, it's not be- j

cause the railroads do' not fu r-j Now I begin to woodcc. nish a smokiny eempartmont for tin the thonder 1 waa colored smokers; there’s a amok*{life for. iSlnce the eolorad * 1^ing cubby-hole aftwut the saih9 man has started

private fcusinesa conceiti cf the standing colored Catholics, group, with the fo re s i^ t and j courage to step cbt and invest >

aise as this woman smoking hole . doean’t care a bang right there in front of her, and non'-smoking male4 ot*Hw ' there’s not a single soal in it. It colored women. Often ^iPta ia emfdy, solely «nd eKclu-^vely are figh^tg in htfiiiiiR becai^se it has never occured lo we reaHy don’t know these ordinary members of the fighting for; we are f m group to have any re^^ect forcing a formula.

I had always said tkai»<fliajffla crow car waa such 4ui

would benefit many time:) ovc^ the groo|t whliit made possible

1 J ' tlMt»ereation of the surplus. Not. ., , , ,

will be lyneh-free. They must, ^ of economics and socio­logy, where the race is concem-

into stock? and bonds. Some of, ».aunti it. right, ou(^t to be placedthercforCi ftdo^t ©ffsciiv*! lu^itns t. i jin^reioic, k « where the people who helped

^ f briniring about this consum |uiiitKKs make it possible can enjoy, it,mation, devoutly to be wished. •' • • f ^and improve their civic status|i’br ftfW ymis we have quibbl j —tt ^ —5------- r—--------- 3------

. aiWHtv he-. Too long have some of. our

'd isre^W of each other bocom es|o, thean added excuse to the .whites for keeping Negroes together, i f , ^^^^ed paiWiVna*

over divided responsibility be tween State and Federal Author­ity while over three thousand American citizens, wl^te and black, men and women, have fal- 1 ^ prey to the blood-thirsty-mob State action has proved itsejf to i>e utterly ineffective to deal with lynching, as with human slavery and Mdnapplng. When

ed. For instance, many of the trade unions, dominated in the Worth mainly by Jpkh C?»iholiflai

southern business| concerns in»> vested the dollars of Negroes in the propagation of enteeprises which, s a f e financially they might be, had rules* or policies which forbade any'(benefits ac­cruing to the Negro, eriept on the profit end. We refer to such Investmentk as in Muthem muni­cipal library buildin|: bonds,'

are not only Itfy-white, but fe- funi to concede one inch in tol erance to the Negro. Thi same j is true in civic affairs; for it is almost an axiom that wherever a 'white Catholic is in power, po­litically, unless he ia "touched” ) by some “higher power”, the Ne­gro might as well fold his tent and steal silently away' if he is

ITS MEAMWG AMD “ TO YOU

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CE

<By Cora J. GUmo* fer ANlF)The- value of Astrology is be­

yond measure. By trying to un­derstand your self, you soon be-

se advantage if an nnderatandtof of his impluse is explained to hii» while young. Thin chnd majr bi rash, but he can be r*Mone4 with. He may be eneoW ged t* protect his weaker plafnurca to* stead of bullying thcnu K l»

come aware of ^ e need of wj-1 comprehends now hta J » irt-f5»rtc I v-aircai i2ui»xjr uutiuuiK QoiiQBt i 1,1 |... 1 • . derstandhsiF otIjers.-'You will ioon iPulsef will fit into ii t •#

/ I J T ^ " • » « •»*»«<' .^ 5 , p r.fen .m l, ^ ^ . poi» U>«« 1>« will J» i» * ln d W'T w 'N . '” ,™ . «■ » » i« ii« i - a , " " ' f ' ,n i .n u i^ i i , . n w .from the ground there is little

time or patience for quibbling over constitutional jurfsdict'.o'-i.

North Carolina Commiltee On N egro Affairs

We hate just r|ceived from the y^te chairman of the North Carolina Committee on Neijro Affairs, a release for publication setting forth the work of that

the West Indies the N^gro con- jThe malady Is nation-wide; thedisease is systemic* aftd the re­medy, in ored to be effective, must be as deep-seatd and wide­spread as the disease with which

tingent constitates a larger pro- pociion of the general popula­tion than in the Unitfd States. They alfo represent , a lower ave­rage status ctf education ahd~cul ture, and yet, in th»e countries

There will be a

only jim-crowed, but the very exe^tives who buy the bonds

past fifty years over three thou­sand Ameriaan citizens h«va been

practice is unfair and , murdered i^y blood-thria^ mobs.

T tls ~ c a W e d to c o p e . : W ^ t ^sleeping accomodfr authority is unequal to the ta&k,' ***? * 1.1.*

lynching is unknown and the 'then Federal inteivention be- f **’ publ c

ishitbitants learn of it only f^om,comes inevitable, else our states-♦ ^the ^tonerican press. During the nipnship and patriotism must ° ^nter

'stand appalled and paralyzed.

P yaniMfinn, aod . caJliHg ■ atte«---ffoni the public schools of thetion to a atat.e wide roeating ofthe committee to be held in average in a single A gradee^^ Sunday, December 12> As we understand it, the meeting is being lield for the purposes of discuaaing the several “qwjdi- dates for election to the United

i p y bl» delibrate^ crime against both At hast ttfteen hundred white the Negro teacher and the Ne- men and w«men have been vic­

tims otf the rope and torch. If not a amgle H e ^ hod been lyn- che^l thia atooeioof -iniquitgr would still stirin imd—stig^ntixtf

gro student The average Negro graduate

jtotfi, (*annnt maintain a—rwspee-

college anywhere. A check . on Negro high .-Jtihool graduates will disdOi? a deplorable’ defiee- ency in scholarship, as well as a lack bf knowledge of ordinary

States Senate, and the several things. The North Carolina Com­positions to bei fUled for the - mittee on Negro Affaira .should

It i r f

House of Eepresentatives, “and other important subjects.

1?»e Carolina Times wishea to add ita word of approval to the action af the chairmanl of 'he NCCNA for not . waitmg until the last minute to call the meet­ing, and for including in the program subjects of vital interest to all Negroen of the nation, as well as the state. The gathering should M well .attended.

We would like to suggest how­ever that the committei- find time during it* deliberations le- di^cuas, and take some jbctitm on th e matter of tochers

not only discuss these conditions but take definite action towards remedying them.

In many pait« of the gt4te Negroes' are still denied the r i ^ t of franchise. A ,< udy 6f this condition ought to be made AnJ definite action j taken. Hhe right to vote Is a jeonfctitutionall one, and no human being living ■under a democratic fo i^ of government should be denied the right to say who shall him.

govern

, If, rol .has

years N oi^ Ca promified'’ 'tb make

the fair name of our beloved country fa the eyes of the world.

Neither «an it be elai«»d, as is too often attewpted, that ching is e^ffaed to em States. If not * ctagle per­son, w l ^ or Uaek, 'had ba«* lynebed in the Sosth daring die paat fifty years, Inurfreda of victims in «tikcr aeeiionii of the country wtmid eame the Nation i ^ o u s coBcem. ®evry State in the Union, viHih the exception of five New Bngtand Stetes, has had ; its soQ stained with .humari bloi

There seems to be a disposi­tion op the part of politicians. North ahd. South, Democratic and Republican, to exploit "this tragic situation to woo Ne.«;ro vote bn {Re-pne hand, or to ju% tify its suppression on the cthe^ Bbth—fOf—these—attitudea are

such as streets and lights, which ed by the more enlightende Cat- greater sympathy and tolemacii do not reach the N«^ro nieighbor-1 holic leaders, like George K. | towardls |otl|era, c(Air«<luently,hoods: railroad stocks and bonds,! Hunton, secretary of the Catho^ you’ll find yourself becomingon roads where Negroes ar3 no t, He Interracial Council of _ New ' more charitable and kind.

* York, and editor of the Iiiterra-1 The constructive use of your cial Review, and Father John La-,«wn inherent powers compels

some real impression is . the respect and^ admiihilion of being made, not yet on the Cath-. ’thofe who may have been antag- olic masses, but more important, [ onistic to you. ’Hie 4^velopment on Catholic leaders, who make !^^ self-confidence induces thethe masses think and act aa ‘1®®**’® *<* he confident of yourmuch or nw>re as a unit than any friends; and your n^ral strengthother group in American life. , | out a like quality in them.

I The immediate sdccerp in little There may be little hope that things is a forerunner of bigger

the current CatholicF| high in po- success. Astrology pointst thelitical and economic cirde#, can ay which you may best usebia touched and softened in their your speeial unit of powersracial at^tnde, but the next gen- j ©id you know that such habits ep:ation, due the work of the of domineering your family; an-

The tune has come for our busineu execu­tives to think twice — w«tch more carefully the dollars of their grroup, and pla< e them where the group oan benefit every time the dollars tii’m over. That, alone, is race statesmi^n- ship. It i« no lohger a credit to

n ^ r yirovincial politicians who are

now sjeeking to defeat th-3 pcnd ing Anti-lynching Bill on

equallyr reprehensible. This fa Wegiy, company to boMt of but plkying ^politics* with human soundness unlees it ia known,

its acutest form. The J* ^ « «P-preciable part of Its Qirplnsfonds are serving .the race, not

the **** serviceplea of. States’ Rights and local r ? ® **“sovereignty are the heirs and a s - '^ ^ ! " ^ , 7 aaeondarysigns of their anti-slavery proto-' type? who sought to defeat the S“ ,fundamental rights o f h u m a n ^ , nature ninder the -m e p i- . they are focedoomed to faOurenow, as then.

Senator William £. Borah, who a t the hands of the mnrde- ranks jas the h ii^ t constitutional

Ifte blot has spread .authority in either Hou«e of lughoat the whole Nation, j^efv*’'is he apea^ead *■ upon like the “dhmned spot’* on which ow>o8 tion to the pendbig

L a ^ Mai &eth’a hands, will ijo t. Anti-lynching Bill chjefly relies f ' ' |He has lent the great w ei|^t of

If accord ing^ Atoaham lift-,h l» authority again* aH ahtl- coln’s dictum thia Nation could, lynching measures which havenot remain hidV-slave and half- bedn before Congress for the . _______ _

^m # satisfactory adjustment on in day, H cimnoi now past twenty years, on the greund jvice to his count^* M dlbnma^tye moffo J 1 ‘'- — a»e-heen witii»ttt eon-w 4e-w ottU -devete--hto^«e»tie-

withoQt t l i n t In^iring into the attituae of the manage­ment of that concern tomu-d the

statesman, has ' cho««a td lend the weight o f hia’ Ciraat prestige and authority tow ai^ defeatin| the Van Nuys Wagner Bill, al­though he fully recognizes^ that 3»e eiid aImSd "A % anddghteons altogether. He would ^ renderinj; a far greater se^

7earit~9«~i^te'naa oOTnniitv^ o-’j ‘ ~f©i rOf Ihe^' irw^ « 'w is i,(blatant arim» against N ^ o ^a-,tw o sessions of tiie General Atf- chen, by forcing them to keep sembly the matter ha:* been tab-

vi% whit« teachers in IIMMlttliillniii, but denying them tiM aataa salary for ao doing, fhia ought n^t be. Negro leach- eer as m rol* must^ teaeh more aM taali, Mid work longer houra f«r lap money in North Caro­

led, and Negroes who constitute the most pauperized group in the state are forced to go to 'ex­tra expose to maintain their children, de tring professional training’, in schools outside of

CMtiir ted M ip*gt tix

P<wed to question the genuine^ nem and rincerity of tiiis robust Amerifean’ patriot an d . Statejii- man. He is known to be as «leep-

snoer-ing f o « ^ oM e siKMdd substitu­te "L«nd o t tynehers” for “Sweet land of Ifterty” ' In our national a ttil tii we would have only ow ilMiiMUM «atioaal 'pas. thne to btl&e. America is themoai li^ e M eotmfary hi lit* civi- ' American in ptibje or privatolixed w ^ d . Lyndiing Is but tiie We. It is moit unfortunate,cllma*. of law leteess. If thb therefore that this distinguished

W p S in rlire W T ^ l f f l e n r ^ di^sing a ineasufe

4y opposed to lynching and lessaefis

in ptibje or

all

to meet constituioi^l objections rather than opposing the 9|ftnd- ing Bill because of its alleged r a 1 crisis which now c o n-

prasiwit catholic— interracialiatiii. ynnt»wfll Imve a different we hope.

CETTTIN OUT PAPER NO

PICNIC ^

Getting out this paper iq no picnic. If we print jokes, people say vi e are silly. If we don’t they say we are too serious

If we clip things from other papers, we are too lazy to write it down ourselves, (t we don't we are "stuck” on our -own stuff,'

viewpoint, creating an atmosphere of disturbance; find leaping before you look, or your regret, are but the EiVjBCTS of misat>plied energy which would be valuaUe In life where leadership, initlai- tive and courage are demanded Also, that the misuse of this impluse alyays attracts quch inis- Imps as cuts, accidents, burn^ grunshot woundoi, illneftes with alarmingly higl| fevers, and th?

If we stick close t^ Qie 'fob day,, we ought to be out htu^ting up news. If we do get and try to hustle we ought to be^on the job in fttie cffice>

alarmingl]! like?/

AiU di( constitecti' saihe /en<

know that the iplication of this tow ard fitting harmonious ex-

If we dMi’t print eontribo^ tions, we don’t appreciat«) true genius. If.n^e do the paper is fill- '4t. Courageous, M w a a -JdangBr._,^tfke

did yo ctlve e n e i^

one’s self for pressloft'VfVtf|>naility almost oveincdght.?

action, initialfve, lovi of adventure, courage and impul­siveness are akin to the planet

and ther «ign, Aria. We such people. They are quick

to see adnultagc and to act upon willing to face siflendid leaders

- I fronts the Nation one otonca ofMrms of lawlessaefls as any constructive proposid is worth a

ton of erudite negation.

If we make a change fellow’s writ«^up," we are critical. If we don’t, wo are asleep.

Now, like as not someone will say we swiped this) from some

KELLY MILLEB

■ ---

I wuJMMT.

WE WD.

in a th« courage of men un|dr th^m. too These people are happiest in an

active and full life, and without them, the wor|d would be hum­drum.

If there is one in your charge whose characterlsticf reftta to Mars, he will he given a>i tmmen-

monious avenues 4if ei^tMalon. 'Hiere will be a definite |* rp o « in mind. He iwfll undentasd thct Control of his o»n» spis4i«d na* ture^ will develop his power of control and command over others, because he will uidef> stand his own need wlf-e*- pression; he will refrain from bOaN;fulness, because he will sure of himself.

Usually, there is totmesc in some orm of meehsalM. UacMa* ery offers an outlet t» mMaf with strong Martian tendeneiea bccause of its opporttMky develop skill as well 4a tta ate* ment of risk. Some Jnalse surgeonf; others mat;# pS0«MMt* chers, hut in all caaat^ aatlafae* tiqn and harmony MW derived thru the proper rriawii—of this powerful impulse thM 4enuui,da activity in -Dtime fo rn . '^flir^aal inquiries may be l it lfril itd Mrs. Cora CHbson, caM A&^ada- ted Negro Prtas,Parkway, Chicago.

LAST WEEK'S U S T EDITCItlAt

LET US GIVS THANKS,In keeping with a custom a#

old as the Amerleao jtatlon, President ft^osevelt !»•sued the annual p ro i^p^nfnr~ d^ ^ignatihg' T h u ra ^ , Npveaber- M iJ 4 - a day for ^nrajrer ikb4 thank■ Listing the blesalnc th a t o o j^ to inspire the obaervers th'a year, the President en|phaalse4 the f |^ t of Pggce. ^n ito Ihter*^ national relaMns, t f s i t o r State's at the presen time is for- tunately situated'. A. gnnat ^eal has been accomplished bjr the ad»

piiia IW^iHtfatlon ~ in disB^titeir te a S f ~and suspicion that from the tfTt* of President Monroe, «xistp ed>among the nations.Ahat up Pan-America. Central South America no longer fed that their lirger n e ith e r o» the north has improper ii—t(i|»

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