The Mississippi enterprise., August 15, 1942, Image 2

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THE MISSISSIPPI ENTERPRISE
A NEWS SERVICE FOR MISSISSIPPI NEGROES
Published Weekly At Jackson, Mississippi
143 E. Monument Street '
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“There shall be distress of nations, with perplexity; men’s
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things
Which are coming on the earth”—Luke 21:25, 26.
NO HATRED
By RUTH TAYLOR
We cannot kill prejudice by hate.
Hate begets hate. First there is a feeling of strangeness
a lack of understanding; then misunderstanding ripens into dis
like. The three growing therefrom is hate casting shadows
of prejudice, discrimination and peresuction.
No one has ever built a decent society on hate. Today we
are engaged in a great war against the forces of hate. Were
we able to completely eradicate the manifestations of old hatreds
and prejudices in our own midst, we would be able to fight better.
It is one of our greatest weaknesses today that we have not done
so. But we have and still are making great progress in that di
i eciiuii.
Hate is the weapon of our enemy. They stirred their owe
people to aggression by feeding them upon hate. They have
conquered nations not merely by force of their arms, but by first
breking them open to attack through the stirring up of hatreds
of class against class, race against race, religion against relig
ion, so that they could not fight back. We must not let this
poison gas of division and disunity lay waste our nation.
We must avoid hatred as we would the plague. War is waged
better without hatred, without hysteria, but wholly, with care
ful calculation to strike a harder, faster, more accurate blow than
the enemy. We must not acquire the vices of the enemy in fight
ing him. His law is hate. Ours must not be like unto his. We
must retain our ideals of a free world in which justice, freedom
and love may reign. These are ideals that we must learn to
love so well with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our
might that we can fight like Crusaders for those ideals.
“At last we who have been running away must turn
and face it; There is no room left for hate in the
world we must live in.
Now we must learn love. We can no longer escape
it.”
Now is the opportunity. It is not a thing that can be leg
islated. It is not an act of a group. It is conscious friendliness
on the part of the individual.
Here is the place to start realizing our ideals. Here in this
country. Ideals of freedom and human equality are on the
march. In the Bill of Rights, promulgated one hundred and fif
ty years ago; in the Four Freedoms from the President’s Message
to Congress in January, 1942, lies the hope of the world. These
are not declarations of hate. There is no mention made of race
or creed or color. There is no mention of nationality or class.
These are pledges for all the nations, all the people of all the
world.
But we must start with ourselves. We cannot kill preju
dice by hate_and we must not hate.
Mississippi Enterprise Junior Idea Club
Edited by Sister Dottye
Dear Juniors:
Again I must confess that no one
single letter has been written in
this week, what’s wrong?
Well, I just want to tell you that
each day, more and more effort is
put forth to make our 3rd annual
Junior Picnic the biggest and the
best in the history of the club.
Mrs. Elizabeth Moman has been
contacted (you all know her) and she
has promised to join in with us in
making the Junior Picnic one that
will long be remembered.
The soldiers at the Jackson Air
Base are to be invited, so older jun
iors, especially young ladies are urg
ed to plan now to be present and
join in entertaining the soldifers.
Watch the paper for more news
about the picnic.
Yours,
SISTER DOTTYE.
Remember we give a 25c Defense
Stamp to any girl or boy who brings
in five new members.
KNOW YOUR HISTORY
THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN
FLAG.
One hundred and sixty years ago
this country had been settled only
along its Eastern coast. There were
thirteen colonies governed by Great
Britain. But the colonists thought
that Great Britain did not govenrn
them justly so they declared them
selves free and fought to establish
their independence.
The flag is a symbol, just as the
cross is a symbol of Christian relig
ion. Of course the colonists needed
a new flag, so the colonial Congress
decided on June 14, 1777 to have one.
We do not know exactly who de
signed the new flag; but there ai*e
many people who believe that the
first stars and stripes were made
by Mrs. Elizabeth Ross (known as
Betty Ross) who lived in Philadel
phia, and that in making it she fol
lowed the suggestion given her by
General Washington. At first Con
gress added a new stripe and a new
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star for each state admitted to the
Union, but in 1818 it decided to have
thirteen stripes.
The colors of the flag also have
a meaning. The red signifies
strength or power, and shows that
we wish to be a strong nation.
The white signifies purity and sig
nifies that we wish to be a guiltless
honest nation. The blue signifies loy
alty and means that we will be a
faithful nation.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag,
and the republic for which it stands,
one nation, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all.”
Submitted by
JUNIOR BERNICE PERKINS.
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JUNIOR BEAUTY
By Sister Dottye
Every young girl wants a lovely
complexion, for a lovely skin is the
very foundation of beauty. Of what
advantage will beautiful eyes, a
lovely nose, a provocative mouth, if
the skin is dull and sallow ? How
often have you heard it said, ’’She
would be lovely if she had a good
skin.”
First, to have a beautiful skin,
use a good skin soap, washing your
face well in warm water. Very
young girls should use no makeup
and older girls very, very little. If
makeup is used, wash your face well
and you may use a good night cream
before retiring. A correct diet and
plenty of exercise, as well as plenty
of clean water, inside and outside will
do much to make your complexion
lovely.
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ON THE AGRI
CULTURAL FRONT
Here’s something wcih should, make
the Axis pause to reflect: Negro
4-H club boys in Georgia have al
ready produced 70,981 pounds of
beef to help meet this year’s Food-for
Freedom goals.
In Oklahoma, 440 4-H club boys
have enrolled in the shop courses so
that they can keep the wheels turn
ing on the farm.
In Virginia, two surveys of 1,176
farm families in 35 communities have
been made. The first was made be- '
fore Pearl Harbor, and it showed
that 1,120 farm families had poultry
flocks, 1,133 had hogs, 886 had gar- ;
dens, 765 had one or more cows, and
791 had sufficient feed for their live
stock.
The second survey, made a few
weeks ago, revealed that 1,161 had
poultry flocks, 1,167 had hogs, 1,029
had gardens and 888 had feed for
their livestock. It shows definitely
that Negro farmers are all-out to do
their full part in helping to win the
war.
By the way, have you joined the
fat-saving campaign? You know fat,
or grease maks glycerine, and glyce
rine makes gunpowder. It is said
housewives waste enough fat every
year to make 200 million pounds of
glycerine.
Well, the Department’s Extension
Service, in cooperation with the War
Production Board, is arranging with
meat dealers to receive waste fat.
So housewives can play an important
part in hlping to meet the Nation’s
glycerine needs by taking their sur
plus fat to the nearest meat dealer
or freeze-locker plant. The dealer
will pay for it at the rate of a few
cents apound, but don’t take less than
a pound at a time.
And here are some more don’ts.
Don’t take your fat in a glass con
tainer, don’t hold it until it becomes
rancid, and don’t take it to the deal
er on week-ends. It’s also iimport
ant that housewives conserve fats, us
ing it over and over so that they’ll
have to buy less.
While we are talking about saving,
let’s turn to some important foods:
meat, eggs, milk. You must watch
them closely during these hot sum
mer days in order to guard against
waste. To keep them over a day,
you need a refrigerator, or another
very cold storage space. If you have
neither, don’t keep on hand any more
of these foods than you can use dur
ing a day.
Better take care of your paint
brush, because you may have diffi
culty these days buying another. If
your old brush is stiff, don’t throw
it away. Soak it overnight in paint
thinner, or in gasoline or turpen
tine, the Bureau of Agricultural
Chemistry and Engineering suggests:
Shellac brushes should be cleaned
with alcohol, and whitewash and cal
cimine brushes with water. Now
here’s another tip; never let your
brush hest on the ends of the bris
tles for more than a few hours, or
it will become warped and the flow
of paint will be uneven.
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