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P Let. The South Rebel ^
A POLITICAL furor spread over the rebellious
South this week over an announcel
rneut by Governor JamesyF. Byrnes~that he
i> t would not-uupport President Truman, if the
latter gains the Democratic nomination in
,1952, and a general statement that if the
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U. S. Supreme Court throws out segregation
in public schools, meaning of course the
fflarendon county case, the South is liable
to turn from tlie Democratic party next year
and work to defeat it.
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As to the first, Mr. Byrnes' statement is
of news to no one?not even those: who last
^ year were saying that all he wanted was t<v
hold the office of governor, to round out his
; service in governmental offices. He wasn't,
these said, going to dabble again in national
*V;- polit.icsv ? _
Before considering seriously the import
of his "support" to Mr.. Truman, one should
* find out how much support the president
has had from Mr. Byrnes thus far. And it
|_ should also be remembered that the South
Carolina chief magistrate was set aside by
- the Democratic high command in 1011 for
~~ Mr. tVuman." Had this hot been done, there
would have been a President Byrnes.
As to the second statement, we chuckle,
/-for several times during the past weeks we
*" -have been asked by certain people to write
and print an editorial declaring that should
gv the 0Supreme Court rule against Negroes in
-j the Clarendon case. our race would turn on .
the Democratic partv at the polls.
; mit the general circulation ot a falsehood,
f- and to have played into the hands of those
fighting to retain the thing America must
iminate from its laws. But, more import
antly,
it would have disgraced our people
who thus far have never tried to play th
; role of the "brat" and master-ruler?never
? lost faith In decisions of our courtr. m-vcr
met- i
top ... tfowed to destroy them and the whole go\
1 ernment of these decided a case against us.
We believe in our courts and accept them as
&? final word on issues before us.
E So. the white leadership now foresees a
political reprisal on the party?if the U. S.
Supreme Court decides the law prohibits the
.segregation that same court once gave the
South. And the declaration i's/mude at the
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?precise moment it ts-thotighl -the-eon-nt-wiH
be looking-into the matter, ( lever isn ? Or
is-fche timing in good taste?
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We think the South should be allowed to
p~-?- itit! Dumni'nim in 'i;>nj.. ir iiiIm m tin1
thing it wants. It tried it in 1918"; in fact it
has been trying since 1036, not on its own,
of course, but with money expended bv the
* Republicans, American Fascists, hate mongerers,
the Ku Klux Klan and every tiling its
jj#- political leaders could suck a dollar out of. It.
is time now for a showdown. We still think
""Vthe true South will do its own thinking, and
p. is prpuder of its heritage as a part of this
IN* great country, thnn'that it live* in ono s-i*?
I'.: ion of it.
ife Must Be Allergic
b , j Mfi'nMq fhn scores in two frames Played
last weekend in Florida by Allen University
p and Benedict College, one is tempted to say
U ^ that football players at the two colleges arc[>-'
cilery,ic lu Florida's publicized sunshine."??
Changing Church Music
UAST Sunday evening we lapsed into serious-thought
while listening to one of the radio
religious programs beamed at a "Negro"
^audience, the like of which can he heard in
every community from Ideal and nearby radio
atatlona?_? . . -
rr; TCKIf^thinking was on- the apparent change
|^v. , in the type of music now generally used du
Wt"'-??ring religious or church programs among
fv Regroes. or which seems to he the more
'f popular. In brief, it is the Carrie in rhythm
and pulse, the same in vigor and vim as that
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heard at any dance or on a juke box, the
slight 'difference being in the lyrics. In fact,
it is common to observe "religious" tunes
"listed on -juke'"boxes nowadays and custoTners~TahHa>uiu
( nnTTjfid their-feet in t b.^p
while sipping beer or something wilder.
There's no-doubting but that in the last
lit) years-or so there"has been a significant
swing from the original church music among
our people?a departure frc.n 1 n?* sdlduod.
soulful tunes which were appropriated l'?.-m
the white iliurcli. \el, in the orthodox "Negro
< 111tt eh iees there ;J yet thr?ttsv or
those I lines, by "pivl eivnce a'lid ad I'M re net** 1 < i
that which Was original In the~sinaller and
t he ieSs"ort.hotlox sect s tiie departure is not
short of- tlie revolut ionary, oft inic.s to l lie
extent ol ootids, drums, etc., whose arrangements,
and renditions are almost identical
with those of tli-o professional jazz or (Jaiue
o-rchestra. And the departure is earned out
and down to quartet and choral groups. """*
We look the subject to some more qualified
persons?to several ministers?and find
thai they agree that', our .church music has
undergone, and is undergoing a reformation.
However, they attribute thi schange to the
influence of several writers and publishers
of music for Negro churches, such Us the
Horsey firm out west, to the more popular
singers of church baUads, .an example, being.
-"Sister" Rosetta Tharpe, and to .another
fact111 we hadn't thought"nn.
? 9 one
minister plants out that our church
music has been.undergoing an evolution, that.
while the Negro Spiritual was the ballad, of
the enslaved, the i reed man. strives for new'
tiusic to express a feeling ditTefent from < mo .
ongs of a htjYidred years back. Too. he rev\-\
i ?\i l o 4 U .? \T/?*?? 1- <- -- ? - -1 ' '
t**i"h? ijcvi'r Tiitu any cnurcn
music of "his own and that what \vc may ho
experiencing: now is formation of music we'
will finally adopt,, or discardAnd
Who Cares?
WHEN one can yet such nei've-wractrr^y
excitement as in..the t'.Ml finislv^in the national
leairue, especially the battle between
the Uodyers and the (bants,. who cares about
the World Series baseball yatn.esV In
fact, who has enough eneriry and nor\es
It'l l for t ha seriesV
A Jury Supports
IT WiVl* n?a inimnii ; n .j ; i iii 1i uuuu
. mohste I's in Cicero, Illinois in 'July; it was
not enough that the shame and regret of it
reverberate around the world to embarras
us abroad. Fur all the ugliness of it. it now
has become more disgraceful.
A Cook Comity (Jrand Jury looking into
the matter closed its eves to what 4lie
and more rioters did. looked some four weeks
afterwards to -indict a man it said distributed
"Rod", literature in the town, indicted ail
apartment building owner, a real estate ain.nt
Iwitli ctiirl lw> invnlvnd in t rnnsjirt ions
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Harvey Clark, and of all things, it indicate*! a
lawyer employer! to represent Clark after
'Mho rioting and melee. All are eharmed with
iii the neighborhood, presumably because
they aided a Negro to obtain housing spare
for his family and himself in the land for
which he had fought abroad, and protected
against seizure.
None of some 100 suspects arretted was
considered guilty, by these talismcn. There
is nothing wrong, it appears, in committing
the kind of acts Cicero witnessed, so long as
they are in behalf of white supremacy. And
that, is the indication of the jury's work.
The Cook County grand jury has given its
endorsement tfr the .forty- episode. It ha^lent
encouragement to violence and intolerance.
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To Master Self
By Bishop JFulton J. Shec"
No saint ever found it was
easy to be good. Thin is the
great mistake most people make
In judging them.
John the Evangelist, for in?stance,
why is praised for hii
charity, once induced his mother
to use political influence,
and on another occasion, when
tlie city _ul tlie Samaritans 1 re-_
jected Our Lord her and his brother,
James, asked Our Lord to
ram down fire from the heavens
and destroy the city. This
was not charity.
In faj.'t, there must _ have
"been* a tendency to hate ;n
John, for "not" without atifoc- >
did his Master culL
wanted to send down lightning,
a Son -of Thunder:" But-some tune
or other in John's life, he
seized upon the weak spot in
hi.> character, namely, want of
kindness to fellowman, and
through cooperation with grace,
ha became the great Apostle of
i 'rarity.
MOSI S CONQl i\kei> AXCiJ'K
;.r iv ;i!i> -tlx r cxajr'.])' **.
The mora} cjU ?* it > a! way- anoint
M<?sc> was not barn nuek.
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lie. prti!>aUy wns very hothead
.!. (iiiii k-b mprvcrf a n .1
iv He k:M: a:-4 .Eitvni
In. and .that was nut the mark
~~H a meek man. ~
He w.'i- t-o fir ? . ra to
iR."" the Ti n . CommnnMmer.N.
Cominn down front th "
M?win re he had spoken
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LETTERS T
r>a( ks toiun letter
To The Edit ?r:
This to inform, vou of tiio
c )'.ie. tiyt." opinion of many State
-College .-hudenhs in rep-aid.s tAli'.
Sidney Tobin's letter to tieKdlh
; >\ Ssi.t, .HI. T I'll ?
so vniieh lrut h?lu?i.... > iifonai
that many heart- wore ov.-rrun
with, elation inv-n ri-TIdinp it
wniut others must haw ,-nrunk
from the stab. of the eoid hi > >c?ed
truth.
TV.of US wi; : k\ 0 hoed
hoyc toy three and four years
!vvo often *W:<! 0 \o .deplorable
situ ?f <?xwliicii exists
and how little or n i effort at
IHCE8I
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My 11 lend. . -v.. ... }-Ik
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fellowship fifFTau.-r T; ,v,
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dream of it. r-r : v. i i ,
?-Poet's
< n HI l>R At, nF'T.KAKMMi'
By Letty
Whi't a ?t latent at .Ala n Clovers
: ty " m an .v ~crrM i
quired, "What arc you d"nng at
Allen? With your brains, you
belong in a better school." it
i- to those nullvidual.s this
?ration tr?made. :
"What of Allen"' a collcagut
quired;
"Think vp of our -q it> ' ?
Radiant expi css'.on masked
iny face;
Concensus pcfvjjrted the pat-'.
Observe Fnstifut am -ei inwrt
from world,
With transitory stay;
Aims, pnals,' high ideals; pur
port in us the >woy.
Campus, irivlfing; surt-uindipgs
pleasant; conducive
to erudition;
With application Alleniten
sh aTT retain
prudrni decision
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It Takes Stiong Character
with God, he found his peoole
adoring the Golden C'.df< anc in
a fit of anger smashed the Tablets
of the Law,
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Apparently, the weak spot in j
Moses was hot-headedness. But
he took hold of the worst in him
him, and later on, in hi>- atti-'*
tudo toward the fickleness of
Pharoah, the ingratitude and '
waywardness of those whom lie _
delivered, is patience to his sister
and brother# and his final
disappointment at not entering
the Promised Land, we find
him described in Sacred ScripLire
as. "a map exceedingly
meek." " ' '
TEMPTATIONS ARE
OPPORTT-NITfES
Tie acquired meekness by
fi."1,tirn' it! ti'inpiT TTn rnr.tr.rt
out the worst in him, and with
God's help became one of the
bryt of men.
Trie temptations .of the saint-. ...
were for thorn .opportunities for ^
solf-'tjsc every. They revealed
the breaches' iP> the fortress of
1 ho-ir s nils v Inch needed to be
f ft ;fi< d. until, they Ikm a me the
f: oi.e-t' int.-'. T". - explains
the < ilTo'i!4; favl .Vhoo, -r any
i:;if"people, tea. teey, often
!v.-r. pu# the' opposite of wita*
thoo t,v bo. . \v f
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oc-rt-.in " u' . ( in first V'-ai.Tiun
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' t:,< "tlun" ; i n 1 t'-i "n >\vM ^
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has int-orvuTVv' 1 'battle. In {'
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t\yer ait iva-inu malfivneb u .1 u
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a d<i*i- tii do-snrnet: :*
the 1m t'orrtioht >? C'no s n.i'i
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and 'no eaep. ave tap ma:?i
l-.andanp/. <>f any m m m..n!
f'j...' the iVdTiT di.v t ' I'm t iv ^
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with fownri.a, jxm p!o in jndifT- p
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a nan:Ci will b" nuicd if v\
t' > ttcj boca.1*- "A"! v.uumu- \\
i. -tflfBWr fhd"*. . sua: ,?r pe<f- }?
tit'ion; of ft'iy kino mud bo up- ; <
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fresh fi c!Ti ! he Una c .111,
Adopt in deliverance; >;,tiat
ed with personality _
tl'mn HesTTt-. behrt. _H
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Library equips a ..storehouse;
books invading numer- _
as Holds;
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From it- portals sight Bourn
tor, unprossioned ?
by l.-s seal. r
( hnpcl abounds learning
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rare, type alf may 7VM
adore;
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Life tar ncrt evade;
Truth does not abhor. p
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Vision there, youth of tomor- ^
row's reign;
" With indulgence.great will e
will he your gain. tl
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;Where^His Doetnn^
" .John II. McCray
, Aren't We Bein
ion pn^vraiii to the t<-?lev
t han the televised slo\\% j
La the J2-uuaitcd nicmuraiulum the NAACPuo
ttiaf white people seeing this show art? gi\
10 impression that- all N eg roe- are like those
To characters?shiftiest-, irresponsible, that
cgro lawyers, doctors, etc. are held before I
hito people as lacking in professional ethics.
TO .MK. such reasoning i.>f too presumptive, t
at a very weak and debatable co.ne?usi
i the'first- place, people listening-'to,,-, or see
'i tr.rt:' u!ar show. in which"the .chnxactcrs ;
>!<vr i. are no more apt t > draw decide that
cyt-s ire like the.se fietoinal characters ti
.icy draw about the 'other minority ' rarix
i {Kuirav t critiui iu,if5.
nvcrngr white ritircn knov; there is a
nlph Hum ho, ;i \f:iri.an- AnHcrson, a .Tor Loi
Perev Julion, a General B; O. Davis, a Jut
Tm. Ha-t;o a ^Thurgood Marshall, a v.Wal
[ihitC' ? C-. C. Spaulding. If t'l^v know these, h
it probable that they could or would draw 1
mclu.o <n_s claimed? And if there are those w
oulrt trv to say s- , th?.y are so-far gone alreai
a ! or It.rmcd as not to be worth w rryinj?
V/ "flllS tf"?."d\?<rh?tv?hi?;vhirh N ':;i"
u'.d paled, v.-ert it a novelty. we oould und
. ni _tf. over :t. Put Negroes are n
i ttavio ui shows daily and all neoes-arv is
v iteh channels now and then proof.
What u- most, however, is the obvious
: M. ! .-o to misrepresent the-"Negro. If we
ale to the undertaking. w<- .-j,rr ".irk inc. to v.
le notion that the Negro.as d race is a most
larknhle croup. replete with, educated and \\
ohaved. :n iustri;nP pers -ns. No race on e
. | ko t: :* ':- t make ethers ho'ievo. d
" " 'rj r:ola t - iir nv r<- -;np"rtrfnt
r ^toss ^en^r^x
i The Spirit Of B'
i,"?" * "tond to improve the NT<
' >' ' ! a ? nferoner which wns h
' It ?"'i. August 23-24, 190ft. Business per
r -ti thir'v s'a'i's reshonded to the call and
lahond Negro Rusines. League wa- formed.
f'K( iM 'ho inception of the NNHL until 15
Washington. was its president TTpnn hi?
LoJ. J^C. Napier of Nashville, the Leagued \
resident. assumed leadership. A former regis
f the Treasury and founder of the Pcnnv S
fs Bank at Nashville. Nanier had a li.t of b
?e?* nrvtnfTFo" wh>. headed the League do
hrough the years.
Only Napier's Immediate successor. Major
!. Moton. who followed Washington as--pros id
f Tuskegre. earned ?>i< keens from endeav
4 her than business. Moton 'became president
he League in 1921 remaining in that Dositi >n
il 193ft. Ut> to 1949 in order. C. C. Spaulding
!. Wnlker. Rascoe Dungee and A. G-. Oe?.
ended tho League.
IN 1048 at Atlantic City, the membership
he League elected as its 8th president, Hor
ludduth, a native of Covington# Kentucky, x
- a boy moved across the state-line into Ci?
iati. Thore for forty years he has engaged
enl est, le. For thirty years he has been prestd
f the Industrial Savings and Loan Company.
In assuming the leadership of the Leap
^resident Sudduth declared: "It i* my eaire
Ve.sienf of the National Negro Business Lea;
a mnki the League such an asset to the econ'
* itfr of the race as its illustrious founder. Bo
r T Washington, Intended it to be." And o
he tw*? year period of hi* administration,
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roct?i\'oil a eo'py of the NAXCP's JS-poirit object- 'i
i. eh Amos 'n' Andy sb<>\?|< another parcel of the
t this production, and a^revised attack on thera- J
ion battled years apo its "misrepresenting" Ne"
describes rn orrc-nf t.lie" points as perhaps be^ir
an all-Negro cast affair. : ;Xj3
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rcn forts to establish .ourselves as the equals of alT
in. other citizens. Here, we are superior?a sort Of ^|!gj
all super race. ? ????--???t-t- : v$|
thr- PERHAPS the NAACP helieyes that we might. |
just keep our worse side under the bu?he*l, and ..
m:' advertise, hold up proudly the Benny E. Mayses,
071 the Mary McLeod Belhune, as though these were " \
'n? representative of the race. They are exceptions- ~ .
arr> -not typical"of their "group anymore than Einstein ~J
a- or Harold Stassen typifies their groups.
' P " inn many. hmts tve U'Kvt to hjHe pemnfl thin
coat-tail of Booker T. Washington and in later -:M
years men and women reaching the top. Today* .'jB
^ it^ seems, t we pa^? Preser^ afake front and" M
ior WERE THIS covering up. apprecited and used
1>W to help the struggle by the element benefitting in J
it, there might bp an excuse. It isn't Thc>,e folk 1
,|K, still put on a show on pay day, some of. them yet Jjn
duck honest work, and a whole lot still tries to be
* ? ' dick, and make an e.-.?y living. They have had
no reason to mend ineir ways so far. We have .1
f, excused and nidecl them. Why should wg longer
er? hide them? *
ow W";>.ijj'ink it.better to let it be known, that-we -S
t-> have both kinds of people in our ranks, just as all
other races have. Negroes?the lesser trained and |a
at- informed?don't believe every white man puts *$!
ac- on a bed -heet and rides in klan groups during jf
vc the night. "Why should the whites come to sey^in / "*?
re- Negroes only the frivolous and comic?
el! \Vc also think our maager resources are better
rth ii-cd now for less debatable undertakings. Let's '.1
in i y>t got so, touchy as to strain at a mole hill wmie
of - 'he erupting mountain threatens. ; i
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FW Lives In The NNBL
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? The National Ne^rro Business League is but
at ions originated or fostered" by the Tuskegee77~y|
. Washinprtnn?now this- organization has ej-ossed .4i
national organization of business people would m
i?jrro as a business factor," Washington issued a %
fO "* v ,;J
Cincinnati bu^ine-sman and hotel operator has -.'J
moved towards that aim. i ?*
UNDER the leadreship of Mr. Sudduth, th^
1H4ft Convent inn of the league i'ot action ,1 poi
U5, gram to establish a national headquarters and to
xth^ engage o headquarter'- staff .md?rrgtonftl per- *
'ice sonnet to promote? local nnd state-affiliations to " ^
;ter the nationat body. In July >f this year, the Washav
ington office of the league was opened and ttome1
lus. regional-work has.been begun. - ?
'wr As a result of the work of the league, there are
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more than 200 local business leagues located ..
R. throughout the nation. The league may rightfully
ent take the credit -for having inspired countless num.-..hers.-of
Negroe^ to enter business careers, while??*
of it. can be considered the mother organization of
un several special Interest groups which ramo as its
, J. off-springs.
too ~ AMIONG these may be listed the National
Bankers Association, the organization of Neyro __i__
of banker^; the National "Real .Estate-Djukeis Arface
sociatitm, the American Building and Loan Asvho
sociation and the National Hbusewives League,
which will hold its 14tlv annual convention in oen- ??in
junction with NNBL in Washington, October 10ent
12. These meetings will be held at the U. S. De- ~ *
partment of. Commerce. '. ? '-'a
[ue. Negro business has moved a long, long -way
a* -since Booker T. Washington called the initial con- ...
gue ferenoe of Negro business men an** *vomen to >m
1900. Although the great educator md organizer J_
ok-?would find it difficult tu belle vg 1H pTogrdU7^?
ver made in the area of Negro business since 191ft, he
the would see that his spirit rtffl Itrea in the NlfBL.
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