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George AW (, about rPfld it il 1 times ana i nothing tould mdi Mr. White for Ne 2 hanze to S. Sc falh w. it ior JHADE too. De been ''orld rn 'l Venn.

riV5.dust"l na that Ex and othl. articles once Europe a nd tha the lso tha huyler amndl; Kiev 5fiws (till 4dft n( 4ka Water vvllp, i ncy i rcupiu nh.mii repr senta tha personal opinion of Mr. Schuyler and In no war redact tha column opin0n.oX The PltUourgb Courlar. Tha Editors) ornt "outrage" of many PParenl, Walter White's re WnC.a" rrfrazine dealing with iT which turns dark skins re5of the biggest examples of i in many moons. As an 5 of hokum, fraud and char rfSel the.

necessity of throwing 11. i i uoVitnd. jUn'Sans 3J I 3 shade. He George S. Schuyler rf the chcinical and used.

the rehearse the indignities heaped i iL aht to use it. The want to use it. iVmi'ht have aroused ynM never have arousea more ouldJf vPt manv Negroes th. remote lo. that! White Apparently whatever sense of cnn rATED "outrage" is hypo s.

pvtreme because everybody rental asre of six years" knows K'is the favorite color (if white xr) in Aframerica. Everybody also tfcatin the past half century Negroes ant tens of millions of dollars in to lighten pigment and straighten indeed this business is one of the itive in Atramerica. it nas enaDiea nf rnlored damsels "and matrons lie the washtui) and attain a genteel of To deny this is to irate in the countenance of truth, oy abjection to "an implied view mirnr flnnlf tn hnv a f4ipmirnl Would remove all pigment from their Jj quibbling over a matter of degree. Ysas anyone buys a lotion which 1 knv wav liehterr skin, this action js anv complaint against advocacy compieieiy. you are B'i'ui ine iiKeness mat uoa gave, do not criticize Him by trying to appearance in any way.

Per I iave long been fed lip with 'iio mouth pride of while sacnea skin and straightened ACTUALLY is the "nitrfi" in lis not what Mr. White wrote, but say anything publicly about the rr cn tViAc a al cnoice jumpcrd with fiendish Pl trf Rut 1. for the pound. De the hi 4W ter or I Sh to Mr. Rogers iteulk.

The area iManCs is 93.371 or and a half teuhatof Texas iMv.er. that S5t i 5 tierpfore not but must, draw nn the irWarfthofJer that the il "5 nations ar b.m I had ap 1 nlr7U. caused between Enrii mar; AfiLh con lWf WhTfifth of er tNff rV trade Raw iH4 ts. a aeariy as Profit used il i Says By J. A.

ROGERS: glee upon the innocifous Look article. When people are too cowardly to cite "the" reason, they cite reason. It seems to me that the real man' or woman who dislikes or differs with a person will forth rightly state the real reason for difference and not hide behind some excuse or euphemism. Amusingly enough, in this case there was no "interracial" marriage. Using an anthropologist's color chart, the keenest eyed observer could discern no difference between the color of the bride and erooni.

Most critics of the union on this ground merely brand themselves as gullibles who uncritically accept the Ku Klux Klan "one drop" racial fiction. SOMEBODY ONCE commented upon the ungratefulness of democracies. The same thing could be said of groups. For the, last thirty years the more articulate colored Americans have been praising Walter White for his uncompromising leadership of Negroes in their fight for civil rights and full equality. In increasingly greater numbers they have followed his leadership and joined the NAACP or supported it in some way.

Walter is just as much a champion of the Negro today as he was in 1920. I have been critical of some of the NAACP policies, or lack of them, and I am still critical, but this does not alter the fact that Walter has a contribution of. which the overwhelming majority of Aframericans approve. Why then the hitting below the belt? Why pick out one article for hysterical criticism when it is perfectly obvious that vast numbers of Negroes would avail them selves of the chance to get whiter if they had the opportunity? Who could blame them? They would merely be expressing outwardly what they feel inwardly Such feeling is inescapable considering the conditioning Negroes have received "for 300 years. Even white folks have been struggling for more deeply tanned skins for the past twenty years, although for different reasons, and they are supposed to have a superiority complex.

Isn't it perfectly obvious that if some mysterious force should turn the skins of Negroes 50 "per cent darker overnight, the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth would be audible on Jupiter? Tim DESIRE for full civil rights implies the right of freedom to marry as one chooses, just as it the right to vote as one chooses and to live and work where one chooses. For Negroes to object to anybody's choice of husband or wife therefore undermines the whole campaign for civic equality and makes them appear inconsistent and hypocritical. How can we deign to criticize the Ku Kluxers while accepting their basic premise? To me this whole incident illustrates that we need to do a lot of house cleaning. So long as we harbor "racial" prejudices, how dare we criticize Njegrophobic whites? If we would have Negroes "stay within the race" why object to jim crow laws? What has Herman Talmadge got that we and Japan further cut Into British trade in the Indian Ocean As proof how England has fallen is the case of that British gunboat caught by the Communists in the Yangste recently. Great heroes were made of its crew because it ran away.

The captain was decorated by the King because he got out. Well, you don't have to be fifty to remember when Britain would have sent battleships to blow living hell out of the Chinese. No one twisted' the lion's tail then and got away with it. WE ARE BEING told that one way out of Britain's difficulty is for her people to work more. But with so much rationing the workers are underfed, which in turn causes lassitude and apathy.

Americans work faster than perhaps any other people because they are the best fed in the world. A traveller In. almost every other country notices how slowly the people move comparison, es ficLijjr in lauua nuciu Mion. Starving they have Deen half starved for centuries. I recall how in Casa blanca, Morocco, I saw native workers carrying stones for a My Desire l.

If I 'could summon the future, dear And place my hand on the past I'd put us both 'neath a crescent moon Aad make our happiness last. I'd call the day you danced into my life On that white sunlight beaqh by the sea A flower not worthy sat In your hair God sent you just for me. We sat. conjoined 'neath the lone palm tree From morn 'til far in the night The keeper's steps, tha break of dawn We frowned at the flood of light. And.

ohrmv dear, wc should have wed vul Instead fnuoht nira Most Momentous Happening Of the Year Is Devaluation Of Great Britain's Pound L. ww wwrvow T1 EUllUliai vm.u ui ini uisuurgn courier i cuitoia happpninjr of lerability of England became ap 'U I the devaluincr Unce the kmc of it bow at in fur People spin their own cloJLh. Great fJ plfbiaa dollar, twhich numbers of workers In England ia ay cents in 1933 were inrown oui or worK. India yjkr and how very slowly they moved. I thought them lazy but when I saw what they ate I was surprised they did so well.

Devaluation iru England, like that in France, is going to call for still more ot iC British labor, already underpaid, is certatnly going to demand higher wages which will mean higher prices. Britain, like Spain, which faded out in the 1890's was able to build up such great wealth and power because she seized or dominated so much of the world. Now this huge expansion has become a weakness and might prove fatal as it did to the dinosaurs and other colossal beasts. BRITAIN HILL SOON be getting less of American WPA, too. With her Marshall Plan, her immense national debt and annual deficit, America is like the cashier of a bank who has been using its funds, to play the horses.

For him will surely come a cold, gray dawn. Isolationism, so called, now a' cuss word, having been invented to lead us into the last war, will become a virtue. In its fim.1 analysis: It Is really an intelligent looking out for one's own. country. Think what good that three billions alone siphoned from the American taxpayer and given to Chiang Kai shek after the war could have done, say if spent in the South, COURIER VERSE beast To cease what I thought was a folly.

Ah! foolish I was, so silly indeed At love It was my first endeavor But now please look Into my "heart1 see there forever. GEORGE ARNOLD Columbus, Ohio Remembered Pain The willow wept in the wind's 9 embrace I felt your tear drops caress my face. The willow swayed in the storm's dark wake I saw you reel beneath wild heartbreak. The willow wailed with the wind's swift lash I heard you call through the lightning's crash. OLIVE V.

APPLEGATE Los Angeles, Calif. OHB OF AMERICA FORBMQST SOCAL HAS SPENT 47 YEARS OFSPlEti PIP SERVCE IN THAT FEL9. PUCTEP AT 71SKEGEE NSTTCTE, HE WAS LATER TS FIELO WAS ALSO STATE SUPERVISOR OF NEGRO ECONOMICS, NEW yOJW; examiner in charge of ms. employment Service; fielp secretary naYl urban league; fouaipsr' of tub Atlanta school of sodiAi work; Pelegate to inter national conferencb of social work) paris, france, 1928 anp 'other He is now public relatHdns consultant of the american rep cross. native of aiccomb, No L.

OR BUCK Pl0fJ5ER9, WAS ONE OP NAPOLEON'S CKACK FOUGHT IN THE GREAT BATTLES OF THE NAPOLEONIC VWKS. at mm a a a. a aa. jPHIS week the "Grievance Cora mittee" is not in session, and the "Complaint Department" is engaged in assembling "data and "statistics." Our readers will discern no grievances complaints emanating from this corner at this writing. Instead of wailing woes, and outbursts of indignation, we.

will consider the silver linings that 1 i ger behind the dark clouds of our surroundings. Not everything is somber and dismal, in the lives of colored people, There are un 1 deniable and unmistak able evidences of solid Mr. Bibb gains and substantial progress. Twenty five years ago, we, colored Americans, had no members of our race sitting in the Congress of i the United States. We now have two.

Fifteen years ago none of us were sitting on the high benches of our courts. Two jurists of color now wear the robes and ermine of Feder ar judges. THIRTY YEARS AGO we could not count a single Municipal Court elected to office by the people's mandate, in all this land. There are more than eight now sitting in judgment over their fellow citizens. Colored Americans are holding down important public posts during our times, that were Inconceivable during the hectic periods' of the roaring twenties.

i Manifestly, in winning this recognition, Irrefutable gains have been made. Here is a brilliant silver lining behind the dark clouds. Thirty years ago, organized labor had scarcely begun to admit members of the colored minority into Its powerful and comforting folds. That condi tion is' now radically changed. Labor now claims the swarthy worker and he claims organized labor likewise as his benefactor.

Prodigious progress has been made by the colored worker. His status has been lifted several notches. He has secured a lifting 4ever. His wages are higher. He has stronger job security.

He Is more articulate. By virtue eft union affiliations, he is not so easily expendable. COLORED AMERICANS have made 1 far more forward VI? IN IIMLY UNUEKA'; VICTOR HUVaOS rATHEK AND CAPTURED ANOTHER FAMOUS REGIMENT WA9 CORPS D'AFRIQUB, WHICH WAS M01WTED AGRO SOLDIERS WERE ALSO IM 1WB WHlTB REG IAAENTS AS PRIVATES AND MOST FAMOUS OF WHICH WAS General PUMAS, COMMANDER OF ALL CAVALRV; WrllT ANP Skbtchbd from A DRAWING OF A BLACK ponbzp in a 2SQ3.) 1F5 IK'! lie MV rll mKmA mm stride in trade unions than thry hfcve made in party politics. Il this respect, the progress iiade is Impressive, prophetic, and exhilarating. American colored people have more rioney today, than they ever had before.

There is more concentated wealth, more in tiividua. fortunes, more financial security, and more reserve capital" nan even the white man is aware" of. Colored citizens were he incidental beneficiaries cf short manpower during the days of war. They were paid high wages, and much of this good fortune has not been dissipated. The financial out look of the colored American is not gloomy.

Educational barriers have been overthrown. Narrow traditions crippling the opportuni ties of colored citizens in entering state financed schools have been shattered. Time worn precedents have been smashed, and today colored students are admittt 1 to academies, colleges and Universities, where they could enter a few years ago only with a pail and a mop functioning i as porters or assistant jan tors. This is one of the brightest stars In our firmament, by this star the way is poir ted to gain knowledge and banish ignorance. If ignorance is conquered through these portals of learning, the colored American will leap and bound into new freedoms.

There are sound TiinSjand substantial progress. SOM3 FAVORED AND fortunate members of the darker minority nave secured lovely homes and hundreds of thousands i re comfortably housed. Federal housing has lifted the standat is of living for numerous cit zens of color and today they live in modern, comfortable ui.its far removed from the shacks and shambles of yesteryear, i Federal and local programs bode fare to lift the citizen of color oit of the mires and slums of America, and enable him to gain a decent This is a fa cry from the "tobacco road" jattern of thirty years ago. Colored people have more political power than the most sanguine nd confident seer ever foresaw It is neither controverted ior denied that they hold the vaunted balance of voting power the key states of this Republic. This power is of recent acquisition.

It comes about by the: flight of frenzied folk from Dixie. But not only that, they a.e now voting in the South. This is another flashing sign of amazing advancement. i rf HLtV V.JcX. A fig3t nt iullk fist IN THE BUILDING OF NEW YORK ClTy THEN NEW AMSTEZPAM) FROM A PRINT OF THE 1650 'S.

IT WAS THEN UNPER THE PUTCH. NEGROES HELPED BUILD THE ClTV, THE FORTS, AND IN THE DEFENSE AGAINST THE INDIANS. SOME WERE SLAVES OTHERS WERE FREE WORKERS AND MECHANICS OTHERS, LANDOWNERS AND PLANTERS; AND AT LEAST ONE WAS A THERE WAS VERY LITTLE COLOR PREJUDICE UNDER THE PUTCH tyXiVfi Copyright, 193, by Tha Wttaburgh Courier Publishing Company Reproduction Expressly Forbidden Lamentations By JOSEPH D. BIBIU Voices of Negro Americans Speak With Authority and Reflect Political Growth (The vtewa expressed In this column are hose of the, writer and do not necesaaril7 expre.ia tha editorial opinion 61 Th Pittsburgh' Courier Tha ditorrf i sr It. foretells of greater: Influences, more recognition, and far greater respect.

i ADVANCES IN BUSINESS are evident and apparent all over the country. A few days ago the Golden State Insurance Company dedicated a million dollar ihome office Ini Califor nia, Other mercantile institutions are forging ahead. In business pursuits. colored Americans show acumen, Intelligence, and vision. Herein is a gratified source of pride and inspiration.

Above all of these blessings, and achievements stand the new friends" acquired by our people. They s.peak with authority and conviction. Their voices ring around the world. These en lightened and enthusiastic friends of the colored people are indicative of achievement and accomplishments. They are the most precious of the silver linings hiding behind the over hanging clouds.

BUSINESS REVIEW By William A. Occomy Corporations (Continued from tast'Week) LAST week we discussed some of the advantages of the corporate form of business organization. There are several other advantages which shall now be mentioned, together with some of the outstanding disadvantages of this form of enterprise. One'other prominent advantage Is that he corporation can command larfce aggregations of capital. haVe a partnership band ling huge 'amounts of capital would be to unwieldy for the number of partners would be too vast.

Too, manjr complications would arise if thire Vere fifty or a hundred However, fifty or lOO.or'severf.thonsands of share holders pten litfte difficulty in a corporation, Ar thV direction of the is. centered in the board of directors. V. ANOTHER CJ N. NIENCE of the corporate prmv IS that there is centralized control.

The shareholders elect, board of directors, while ttit board of directors select the chiei executive officers usually consisting of the president, secretary 'hd treas rarer, The i board of directors may shift the responsibility of the total actual operation of the concern to the chief executive officer, the president. The president may be required to submit reports to the board of directors or to present certain proposals for action. The relationship between the board and the president is normally set forth in an elaborate list of functions and duties. 1 WITH ALL OF these conveniences attached to the corporate form, though there are several serious disadvantages. One of these faults concern, the limited liability of the stockholder.

In the single proprietorship the owner was responsible for the liabilities: in the partnership, the general partners were responsible for the debts. In a corporation, though, no Individual stockholder can be held liable for all the debts. This at times makes it difficult for a corporation to secure adequate credit, particularly in the early stages of its existence. Too. "another drawback is the fact that the scope and activities of a corporation are limited by its charter.

If it is engaged in manufacturing, the charter usually limits its activities to the specific activities connected with manufacturing. If the corporation desires to engage in other activities then it must have its charter amended." FOR RACIAL ENTERPRISES there are several serious draw backs. stockholders who generally have limited funds to Invest are impatient about getting returns on their outlay of money. I recall hearing the following report on a stockholders and directors meeting. At.

that meeting the primary thought of those present was "when the dividends were going to be paid." One stockholder rose and made a lengthy speech the gist of what was: "Gentlemen, I have sacrificed and placed my money in this concern. It money that I worked hard to save and accumulate. This business has been going for three years and I haven't got one dime from it. That man over there (pointing' to a salaried employe) has made more out of It than I have and he hasn't put one red cent In it. He reports' that we have 12,500 in the bank.

Take that money out of the bank and pay us some dividends." After his speech there was a loud applause. Dividends were paid but a few years after they were paid the concern was out of business. i TOO, IN RACIAL corporations there may be much meddling. If has a share in the concern he thinks he i free to inspect the books and to annoy the management and the employes of the company. The enterpriser who Is contemplating on forming a corporation comprised of Negroes must I jY SffieES i tSai B9 JAUOQEfiS Pates Back Bciaoad ike Cotton ReldJ inUuSouth uacK 'lTumsandx of Years Beior IllUtTKATIONI BY A.S.JV1ILAI MAYS Hollis Riles' Slayers Are Whiles and Will Therefore Go Free and Unpunished In South By iWkHW MaYS (Tha view a axprraii in rnlumo a ra those of the writer an do not nrce.ioarlly cxpreaa the editorial opinmn of Tha PUlaburgb Courier.

Tha dttora. I THE radio has just flashed the news that Hollis Riles, 53, was killed by five white men in Decatur County, near Bain bridge. The body was found Friday Sept. 2, propped up against a tree. The Atlanta papers carried the story Sept.

4. According to the Atlanta and i ution. and the Atlanta Daily World. Riles had committed no crime. Riles owned a "0O acre farm and had a Ashing pond on his The land wa posted and it was.

illegal to hunt or fish on Riles' place without permis Dr. Mays sion. The sheriff of Decatur Coun ty is reported to have said that Tliles was hit with thirteen buckshot. The sheriff said he it was "a ense of premeditated murder." The coroner's jury found that death had been inflicted by unknown parties. Whether by known or unknown parties, the results would be the same.

White men killed a Negro and that is tantamount to saying that the guilty parties will go free and unpunished. LAST MAY. RILES' house was riddled with bullets when an unidentified automobile passed his house ajid this happened after' the Negro "had attempted to keep several white men from fishing in his pond." The day of Riles' death, he i and another Negro, named Gordon, went to the pond to fish. When they approached the pond, they saw two whje men lounging under tree. They both had guns.

At the pond they discovered two more white men. One had a string of fish. Riles is reported to have told the whi: men that his pond was posted and that they "must either cct off or pay for the fishing." privilege of The story goes on to say that one of the men pve H'les th I's'n and said they did not know the pond was posted and that thev would leave at once. But shortly after that Gordon reports that he heard shots and when he sriKd up he saw four or five white men "shooting1 at Riles and about rive minutes later two more shots were fired. Gordon watched two cars drive away and one had the license plate covered.

Gordon did not know the men. Even if he knew' them, he would probably be afraid to testify against white men. If he did, he would probably be killed. A FEW DAYS ago I was speaking to a white audience in the South. During1 the fifty minute question period, I was asked to state the difference between the North and the South on the question of race.

After making' it clear that the Kingdom of God had not come in the North nor in the South, II said among other things, that in the North the Negro's chance of getting justice in th courts is pretty rood even when his case involves" white man. But In the South when the Negro's case involves a white man, the Negro seldom, if ever, gets justice. This Is a hard thing to say about my native South hut no honest man can deny it. On th wnole, the wegro person ts safer in the North. He is not likely to be kicked around as much and he is not likely to be killed for nothing.

But if he is killed in the North. or if he is involved with a white man in the North, the Negro knows that he is more than likely to get the justice which the law prescribed. But In the South, he knows that if he gets justice it is the exception and not the rule. The Negro's person ls cheaper In the South. i THEY COULD FIND out who killed Riles but they will not.

And even if they find out, nothing will be done. There is no deep seated desire and no deep seated determination on the part of most of the South to apprehend and punish white men when they inflict Injury and death upon In this particular area, the South, for the most part. Is Fascist and Nazi. I shall never forget Monroe, when I four Negroes were lynched, two men and two wo men. In broad daylight, by an unmasked mob and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Fed eral Bureau of Investigation could "not find out who did It." But there are people In Mon roe who know who did it and I believe some of the FBI and GBI officials know who did It.

But they were I Negroes. So Riles was a Negro and nothing will be done. THE VERY THING that Book er Washington advised Negroes' to do. buy land, be thrifty and toe a good citizen, has often worked against him. The more prosper' ous a Negro becomes In many areas of the South the more pre carious his life and greater the prejudice against him.

take all of these factors into ce4rW sideration. i He must feel ctfnfl dent that he has the adroitness and capability of expeditiously' handling: such difficulties as have been described. ALTHOUGH. THE corpora tion has these drawbacks, yet' it is tne most popular form or enterprise for big; business be cause of its perpetuity of owner, ship, transfers of shares of stock and imperishable Thus we learn that though th corporation is "an artificial being Invisible and Intangible." yet it is a powerful and dynamic force). in our economy.

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