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Leans To Negro Farmers Discussed By Agriculture Experts
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U. S. D epartment of Agriculture’s Farm Security Administra
tion called to Washington last week the heads of its Tenant- Pur
chase force in four southern regions to study progress
being made in mai { ' n S loans to Negro tenants and sharecroppers for
the purpose of buyii l ® farms under the Bankhead-Jones Act. Figures
show that 3»055 Neg.’’ oes have purchased farms under ther program
end 1,000 more will bn v farms this fiscal year. They have 40 years
in which to repay the Ic >an s. Representatives from the regions are
Race Army Cadets
Praised By Major
TUSKEGEE. Ala.— (ANP) —Major James E. Ellison,
commanding 1 officer of the 99th Pursuit squadron, addressed
a group of students and citizens of Tuskegee institute in the
lecture hall of the Trade "'A” building Monday. For his
theme, Major Ellis/n chose the topic ‘‘Civilian and Military
Aviation”. From his remarks, it was apparent that the ma
inll firmly believes in the success of the 99th and the growth
of opportunities for Negroes in civilian and military avia
tion.
Tliere are innumerable positions
Which will be open to the Negro
who has prepared himself by the
proper training. Among these are
list eri such positions has aerial
■cameraman, armorer, aero engine
Fireman Passes
FRANK SLAUGHTER
. .for 20 years a member of the En
gine Company 28, St. Louis, Mo.,
and a World War Veteran, who was
buried Saturday, September 29. Mr.
Slaughter, a native of St. Louis re
tired from active duty in April.
NAACP Student
/
Meet At Hampton
NEW YORK —(SNS) With
three full days of activity planned
for delegates, the youth division of
the NAACP has just issued its call
to the third student conference of
the Association to be held this year
c.fc Hampton Institute, Virginia, Oc
tober 31, and November 1 and 2.
Principal speakers Edward C.
Undeman, noted members of the
faculty of the New York School
of .Social Work; Malcolm S. Mac
WOMEN, GIRLS
2-way Relief!
Modern facts and a 61-year
record of popularity invite your
confidence in CARDTJI. ily Its
ust thousands of undernourished
•women have been helped in two
important ways.
Taken as a tonic by directions,
it usually stimulates appetite and
increases the flow of gastric
juice. That’s probably the reason
mechanic. athletic director, attor
ney, civil engineer, physician, in
the administrative set-up of the
'■quadroon there will also be
ings for women as, civil service
clerks and stenographers.
As for the most coveted position
in the squadron, namely, that of
flying officer, Major Ellison left no
doubt that the attainment of this
rant requires th e all-out effort o'
the aspirant. The records of the U.
S. Air corps show that in the ma
jority of “as-outs”, the unfortu
nate cadet lacked one or more of
the following qualifications: ai 1
Inherent ability to fly. (2) Proper
attitude toward flying or toward
the service. (3) Sterling character
required for offlcership. Is easily
seen, therefore, why the lequire
ments for the appointment as aj
cadet are so strict and the life of ,
the cadet so vigorous
Lean, president, of Hampton Insti
tute; Walter White, executive sec
retary of the NAACP and Dr. Flem-» j
mie P. Kittrell, dean of women at ;
Hampton, will develop the general
conference theme. “Current Prob
lems in America for Negro Youth. 1 ’
The subject for Dr. Ledeman’s
keynote address is “Human Wel
fare.”
ADD NEW TEACHERS
TAIiLADEGA, Ala. —On Septem
ber 15 when classes began at Talla
dega College, several distinguished
new teachers were on hand to greet
the student body.
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SO-GOOD CHEMICAL CO.
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for the improved strength and en
ergy and the relief of periodic
functional distress of so many
users.
Another way such functional
distress is relieved for many is by
taking €ARDUI as directed,
starting three days before “the
time.” Why not try CARDTJI?
flown conferring with Washington executives. Left to righ t they
are: W. C. Davenport, Raleigh, N. C.l Giles A. Hubert, assistant to
the director of FSA Rural Rehabilitation, who called the meeting!
William E. Street of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., is shown checking
some figures with Paul V. Maris, director of the Tenant-Purchase
Division, behind them is T. B. Fatherree of Little Rock, Ark.; G. C.
EMisor, Dallas, Texas; C. Carter Chase, Raleigh, N. C., and Joseph
H. Dean, Jackson, Miss. (FSA photo.)
Appointed Army Hostess
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CHICAGO, 111.—Appointment of Mrs. Carrie Lee McClain
(above), Chicago, as junior at Fort Custer, Mich., home of
ISth Field Artillery, was announced by Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Cum
mins, commanding Sixth Corps Area. The 184th Field Artillery is an
all Negro regiment. (ACME)
Episcopalians Os Nine States
Set Ready For Charlotte Meet
Rev. Satterwhite of LaGrange
To Respond to Welcome Address
CHARLOTTE. N. C.— •ANP)--
The 15th conference of Episcopal
church workers among colored
people in the province ot Sewanee
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THE PHOENIX INDEX. PHOENIX, ARIZONA T ’
will open with services at St.
Michael and All Angels’ church on
Tuesday, Oct. 14.
The address of welcome will be
delivered by the Rt. Rev. E. A.
Penick, bishop of the diocese of
North Carolina. The Rev. J. K.
Satterwhite, vicar of St. Elizabeth’s
LaGrange, Ga.. will respond. The
conference sermon will be preach
ed by the Rev. Robert J. Johnson,
vicar of All Saints Church, War
renton, N. C.
For the next two days papers will
be presented and discussions held
! for the purpose of making the
church more vital and dynamic in
the communities where her minis
try is to be had.
The conference covers nine states
in the south east from North Caro
lina to the southeastern boundary of
the United States and southwest to
the states of Arkansas and Texas.
There is a membership of more
than 10.000 included in this area
which comprises fourteen dioceses
Seven of the nine institutions that
are under the auspices of the
American Church Institute for Ne-
Elks Grand Ruler Reverses
Self On Lindbergh Issue
Terms Him A
Proven Enemy
Os The People
Comes Out For
FDR’s Foreign
Policy Stand
WASHINGTON, D. C.—<SNS>)-
Reversing a previously announced
intention to lead a Nef?ro wing ol
the anti-administraticri America
First Committee, J. Finley Wilson
j exalted ruler of 500,000 colored Elks
! thi s week branded Ex-Col. Charles
Lindbergh as the proven “enemy ol
all oppressed peoples, including orn
own colored people who are farther
est down.”
Just where this left, Perry W.
Howard, another Republican big
wig who was to serve as co-chair
man of the Negro America First
committee, was not made clear
Since the announcement of the for
mation of the jim-crow unit of tin
Lindbergh faction, much criticism
had been heaped on the heads of
both Wilson and Howard by the
majority of Negro leaders, who are
openly hostile to the isolationist
group.
Mr. Wilson made th e statement
in connection vrith his announce
ment of the publication of “The
Colored Elks add National Defense,’
a fifteen-page pamphlet, which out
lines the broad program his organ
ization will follow regarding the ful)
participation of th e colored people
in the national defense program
Written by himself, the pamphlet
{represents an extension of a speech
made by the noted colored Ell
leader at the sixty-first convention
of che National Baptist Convention
Inc., held in Cleveland recently. It
contains a foreword by Grand
! Daughter Ruler Elizabeth Gordon
; leader of 75,000 women in the Elk
1 organization.
I
J Expressing his clearcut, apposition
to those wh Q regard Lindbergh as a
patriot, the ncted Elk leader said
“Wg colored people can see clear
through Lindbergh and all his kind.
I remember w - ell when a fine young
colored man, James Allen, a member
of our organization, found his dead
child in the New Jersey woods.
Lindbergh didn’t lift a finger to
give even decent recognition to
what Brother Allen had done. What
i s worse, he deliberately had Allen
fired from a circus where he had i
gotten a job because he had no
money and was trying t 0 support
his wife and a large family. That’s
all I ever heard of Lindbergh’s re
lation to my people. H e has done
his best to bar the door of hope to
the colored brother, and to keep
thumbs down on Allen who found
his baby.
“I am for America first in Nation
al Defense and for everything that
will make the world safe for democ
racy and all her people including
the unbleached Americans of my
group But I cannot, at a tim e like
this, do anything that will give aid
and comfort to the twin brutes ol
Europe: Hitler and Mussolini, by
dropping a monkey wrench into the
President’s machinery for National
Defense.
“Col. Lindbergh displayed his
fine Italiad hand when he grabbed
the opportunity, after the Presi
dent’s defense speech September 11,
to speak out against the Jewish
people. When he did this he proved
himself to be an enemy to all op
pressed people, including our own
colored people who are fartherest
down.”
groes are in this province.
More prominent laymen will take
an active part in this conference
than have done so in the past
several years.
The vicar of the host church is
the Rev. John W. Herritage.
Officers of the conference are
The Revs. J. K. Satterwhite, presi
dent; St. Julian A. Simpkins,
Charleston, S. C., vice-pres. Henry
J. C. Bowden, Atlanta, Ga., secre
tary; and Eugene L. Avery, Ruther
fordton, N. C., necrologist; H. L.
Bell, Charleston, S. C., treasurer.
BOWELS SLUGGISH?
• Feeling like you lost your best friend
headachy dull pepless all because of
sluggish bowels? Why put up with such
misery? Chew modern FEEN-A-MINT, the
pleasant-tasting chewing gum laxative. Chew
FEEN-A-MINT tonight at bedtime. Next
morning thorough, gentle relief, helping
you feel swell again, full of your normal pep.
Millions of folks rely on FEEN-A-MINT.
Just chew it like your favorite gum. Tastes
«ood. Try FEEN-A-MINT-a whole family
The Whiskers Are Definitely On The Taboo
Two of Lincoln (Mo.) University’s enticing
coeds look on worshipfully as Captain Robert Cobb
of the school’s stalwart grid team obeys his coach’s
ruling that no member of (his year’s squad
cculd support a hairy epidermis. That included mus
State Surprised To Find s
$317,500 School Surplus
Tenn. State President Is
Praised by Governor Cooper
NASHVILLE—(ANP)— Budget Director VV. M. Duggan,
in an incomplete audit of accounts of State Agricultural and
Industrial College lor Negroes here, reported, that the school
had a surplus of $317,500. This fund was discovered by the
auditors in a routine check of the institution’s financial
structure made at the request of Education Commissioner B.
0. Duggan.
I Gov. Cooper declared, “President
W. J Hale is to be congratulated
on accumulation of this fine sur
plus. I am pleased that the dis-,
cussion over A. and I. is about a I
surplus and not a deficit.” The
chief executive said he did not know
what disposition would be made of;
the excess amount, but he intimated j
that he would like to see it spent;
in expansion of the school. Finan- 1
cial disposition of the fund, how
ever, which has been set up as a
special account in the state treas-.
The Globe Trotter . bv cuff Mackay
The Great God Jim Crow
THE MOST ILLOGICAL, unreasonable, hypo
critical and nonsensical thing in American life is the
great God James Crow. Truthfully he can boast
more worshippers than the Lord Jesus Christ, for
there are many professing to be Christians who do
not find it difficult to also pay homage to their idol
‘Jim.’
No single thing contributes quite so much na
tional and racial disunity as does this hapless fel
low. within whose shadow falls
those other twins of dissension, WMWWT
discrimination and prejudice. *
Have you ever sat down andj f[ J|p -fjgj
tried to ascribe a reason to somef f
of the customs of “keeping thej
rates separate” in fyff JgK
rious communities? And these
practices are by no means Ii m
to purely Southern localities.
| UTTERLY RIDICULOUS
Some are so ridiculous, if it ’***
j were not for the tragically humili- MACK AY
sting effect they have upon a whole race, they would
be funny.
In Atlanta Negroes are allowed to enter street
cars through the front door with other passengers,
but under city ordinance are forbidden to make their
exit that way. No matter how near the front of
the car you are seated, if your facie is black, you
must walk the length of the car and depart through
the rear door. Are there any laws of logic that could
be applied to this peculiar procedure to make it have
reason?
The Fulton County (Ga.) Courthouse in the same
city, erected with taxpayers money and dedicated
to the proposition of meting impartial justice to all.
has four elevators
One ot these elevators bears the sign, “For Col
ored Only.” Yet, NegTo witnesses and others who
have business to transact on the upper floors of the
building oftimes cannot find room on this lone car
dedicated to the cuestionable ideals of Mr. James
Crow; so crowded is it with white passengers, who
do not believe in signs.
NEGROES REBUFFED
Negroes, however, who seek to ride the three
other elevators are loudly rebuffed and embarrassed
by the plainly hostile white operators.
The most humorous worship of the God Jim
Crow was observed the other day by the writer,
while watching a crew of workmen repairing a
stretch of track. Conveniently placed on the repair
truck was a water barrel.
One side of the barrel was painted white, the
other black. 1 learned there was nothing in the bar
tachcs, goatees and whiskers. Captain Cobb sadly
bids goodbye to the chin decoration that last year
gave him that distinctly foreig nlook. Well Jules are
| rules and they must be obeyed.
ury, would have to await the audi -
1 ! tor’s findings as to the source of
the money.
! In addition to the accumulated
surplus, it was said that SIOO,OOO
appropriated for the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1941, had not been ex
[ pended and was returned to the
j state treasury, together with ap
! proximately $25,000 which had been
impounded from the previous fiscal
year’s appropriation.
President Hale declined to com
id's interior to divide the water. Yet Negro work
men under the asinine ruling of Jim Crow must
draw their drinking water from the spigot on the
side painted black, while white workmen drank the
same water, but drew it from the side painted white
THE ARMY FAILS TOO
And il‘ you think that is silly, a young man em
ployed at the Fourth Corps Area quartermaster de
pot told the writer of a practice that even surpass
ed the above in idiocy.
How far some officers of the United States
Army have fallen beneath the siren call of this
strange god, Jim Crow, was divulged by this young,
intelligent worker, who asked this very puzzled
writer for a possible reason.
It seems that the quatermaster’s office at At
lanta provides buckets of water for thirsty workmen
and each bucket has two dippers, one for white, an
other for colored —thereby satisfying the duo-racial
requirements of Jim Cfow. But the ioker here is that
workmen of both races dip and drink from the same
bucket.
Equally as silly to this writer's way of think
ing is the ruling of the American Red Cross that
no blood of Negroes can be used for deposit in the
“blood banks” being built up for transfusions m the
event this country enters the war.
‘PSYCHOLOGICAL’ REASONS
Army and Navy Medical officers, according to
Red Cross officials, are responsible for the ruling
barring for ‘psychological’’ reasons the acceptance
of any blood from Negro donors, though wide
appeal is being made for persons to donate this
precious life’s fluid.
The “psychological reason," of course, is just an
other and more subtle way of stating this widespread
deference to James Crow. Inconsistent is the plan
to use this ‘white” blood for transfusion for Negro
soldiers, while at the same time holding it terribly
wrong to use “Negro blood ’ for white transfusions
And just as inconsistent is this entire business of
Jim Crow. One just can’t ascribe any rhyme or
reason for it.
Though its workings are for the most part
stupid and illogical, one who all his life has been a
victim of it. cannot fail to see the sinister motive for
lts creation and maintenance.
Clearly it is an asinine and clumsy, yet ex
tremely effective design of the majority group to
embarrass, humiliate and harrass the less fortunate
and often politically powerless minority.
Born in the morass of discrimination and raised
in the distorted atmosphere of prejudice, the great
gc'd Jim Crow today is unquestionably the chief bot
tleneck in the path of national unity and security.
The quicker its utterly senseless practices are
removed from the American scene, the sooner can
America settle down to its great task of proving to
die remainder of a rapidly disbelieving world that
democracy is the practical, workable and only hope
of life.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 194?
ment on the findings of the audi
tors other than to say “The audit
will speak for itself when it is com
ipleted and 1 feel that our record
will be excellent.”
In the meantime. Commissioner
Duggan disclosed plans of the state
board of education to expand the
institution to t'he standards of the
Univesity of Tennessee in both un
dergraduate and graduate work for
Negroes.
SOLDIERS FORCED TO \
LEAVE
FORT BRAGG. N. C.—(ANP)
In the small town of St. Paul, N.
C., a city ordinance was passed or
dering soldiers off the city streets
by 9 o’clock p. m. Negro soldiers
said the rule was enforced only
when Negro soldiers were seen.
However the town has a population
of 2.000 and only about 500 Ne
groes.