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AUGUST 8, 1931 SOUTHERN INCONSISTENCIES. The student of social and political conditions in the South has often cause to wonder at what appear to an outsider to fce ftriking inconsistencies in the treat want accorded to Negroes by the ruling Despite well authenticated in stances of oppression and injustice, there are frequently noted examples of liberal tut sympathetic treatment accorded the weaker race by the stronger. For instance, when th State of Texas erected a new Capital for its gcrvernor and legislature a few years ago, the first time it was I granted for the use of an unofficial gather fng was for the annual convention of a fraternal order of Negroes. When a Texas millionaire divided a certain sum inoney for. educational purposes, he in eluded a colored college in his donation.

"These inconsistencies encountered in the $outh in the treatment of its Negro citizens are set forth with elaborate accuracy ma'weent volume entitled "Jim and Mr. Eddie." written by Dr. Algernon S. Jackson," in what the author called "a Dixie tftfttorlogue," being the account of some a bservations made during a trip by motor ear in 1928, through various parts of, the Southland. The motorists' first surprise was the friendly and courteous treatment reeived from white travelers and the harmonious relations observed among white and colored workers after he left Washington.

These workers were seen eating anj drinking together at luncheon with frictiftn and all apparently But insolence and insult for the Negro tdurist were found at times, especially in Virginia, where a rest room at an oil station bore a big home made ignorantly printed placard reading "For White Ladies Only." Segregation was prevalent in niost public places as indicated by the signs "For White." "For Colored." This caused the author to reflect how unhappy those few Southern white folks, who squeeze by St. Peter and get to Heaven will be, unless they find these signs there Pr. Jackson contrasted the Northern attitude" concerning segregation with the Southern as follows: "In the South segregation is a definite entity calibrated to a mathematical nicety according to Jrule and law as Inflexible as those of the 'Medea and Persians. In the North segregation smacks of indefinite and apologetic sophistry, usually outlawed but pugently forceful and pregnant with embarrassing Surprise." The author denounced both attitudes as "ingloriously cowardly and medieval" Vut wouSd have preferred that of the South if it were not for the terrorism and viciousness injected into it. He found the whole mood of the South so inconsistent, that after much observation and careful consideration, he as a medical man diagnosed the condition as "one of psychas thenia, of photophobic tendency akin to childishness." After having relieved his feelings, by this cryptic deliverance, the doctor observed all the evidence of a and more familiar association between whites and blacks than anywhere In North.

He asserted that nowhere in the North can we expect to find such warm genuine affection between master and servant as is common everywhere in Ihe South. He said that the two races work together, play together and that one s'eeffls uncomfortable if the other is not near. And yet in a municipal park in North Carolina he observed that the babbler type of drinking fountains sood In 'pairs, labeled one for white the other for colored. A penny in the slot amuse ment arcade had its concave mirrors in two groups labeled the same way. The telephone directory in a thriving industrial center had after each colored subscriber's name the abbreviation (col.) In a little Georgia city the town newspaper printed two editions, one marked with one star and the other by two.

The latter in intended for Negro readers and contain a section of colored news, in which the people mentioned are dignified by falling them Miss, Mrs. and Mr, despite A the unwritten law as to the use of such titles. This two star edition is said to please the Negroes, sell papers and is forbidden to reach the eyes of whites, so everybody is supposed to be happy. In one Georgia city the motorist noted that they even had distinctive electric lights. In the white section he saw elaborate fixtures with the standards painted white.

In the colored part of the town the fixtures, were cheap and painted black. Dr. Jackson has given us a volume of some two hundred pages of acute and lively observations made during jiis motor trip, some pathetic and others tragic in their implications. He has analyzed the various elements in the South which are struggling for expression, and finds hope in the attitude of the young educated group of Southern whites. A PARADOX OF PROGRESS.

Analyzing the visible results of the progress attained by the Negro in this country, Andrew G. Paschal in an article printed in the Journal of Negro History for July, styled it paradoxical. The writer of the article, which is entitled "The Paradox of Negro Progress," claims that the chief impediment to racial progress is the tendency to be American. He insists that the 'Negro is more national than racial, because he is trained to be that way, though some may insist that this quality is innate. Even if it is, the writer thinks that circumstance and training would change it.

It is granted that there is nothing wrong about the Negro being American but the fact that he does not get just compensation for it. His gTeat reward must come from his racial progress, which must be fundamental. The writer contends that the Negro ideal has been Amer icanism, but because of the adverse racial sentiment within the nation, this ideal'has been impossible of direct attainment. It can be gained seemingly only through fundamental and worthwhile develop ments among the race. To do this he must ding to those things wherein he excels and build upon those for a foundation.

In the field of economicc development the Harlem district' of New York is charged with being. even less forward than the corresponding district of Chicago. The writer claims that in Chicago will be found Negro enterprises of all types from a laundry to a bank, but that they are not operated upon a large enough scale so as to make themselves much felt in strengthening the community. Of Harlem he says: "The people of the community are without large stores, without banks, without insurance companies, unless they are the establishments of white capital. Though sometimes insulted and mistreated in white business institutions, the black patrons go luckily on, spending freely; they are never excited to the point where they would rather save their dollars than spend them where they are not wantedcertainly not yet appreciated." While this picture is somewhat overdrawn, there is enough fact in it to give cause for reflection.

Viewing 'the various races in their industrial pursuits in the cities, the writer finds that the Chinese dominate laundries and chop suey houses; the restaurants; the Mexicans, chili parlors; the Italians, spaghetti houses. The Jew is a recognized trader, excelling in any business his skillful hands and shrewd rrtind may undertake. The Negro excels in no particular business, not because he has not the innate ability, but because he has made but little effort to establish himself in the line for which he has special aptitude. This, according to Mr. Paschal, is in music and art, both cf which he claims have unlimited industrial opportunities.

But he deplores that the Negro has not learned the secret of monopoly and cooperative business. Hence the success of white Jazz bands and Amos and Andy on the radio. "Mr. Paschal has pointed out that these shortcomings of the Negro are seemingly largely due to the expression of his tendency to be American rather than Negro. GANDHI AND HIS GOATS.

The Associated Press sent the momentous news from Bombay to New York, that Mahatma Gandhi will take no baggage to London, to which city he will sail as a steerage passenger, except two goats, a spinning wheel, an extra loin cloth and a copy of Thore'au's essay on "Civil Disobedience." While the goats might be taken as emblamatic of what the Mahatma has done to British authority in India, by means of civic disobedience and non resistence to violence, it was stated that the animals were given to him by one of his admirers, to furnish a supply of milk during his three weeks on shipboard and during the sessions of the London conference. It was stated that a. score of Indian THE NEW YORK AGE princes and other delegates would travel in special suites, but Gandhi travels as would the lowest pariah, with a hardwood deck as his bed and the sky as his roof. The steamship company will build a special guard rail around his straw mattress, so that he will not be swept Overboard, If the weather becomes chilly, he will wrap a homespun blanket around his frail body. Notwithstanding the simplicity of his traveling equipment, Gandhi wh6 declined a firstclass passage at the expense of the British government, will have a Brahmin chef to accompany him, because his orthodox teachings forbid him to touch food unless prepared under certain conditions.

I Gandhi is going to London to work out the detail of the plan agreed upon between him and Lord Irwin, Governor General of India, when the Mahatma was released from jail for that purpose. The plan provides for a entrai government of the federation of Indian states, to consist of a viceroy, with a legislature of two chambers and a cabinet of ministers responsible to the legislature. This government will eventually have the status of a self governing dominion, with the same freedom and powers of other British dominions. There will be a transitional period before full dominion status is reached, which will be definitely determined at the London conference. And the man most retponsible for bringing this revolution about is Mahatma Gandhi, a mystic and phophet, but above all a leader.

PROHIBBITION AND PROSPERITY. The unforseen collapse of prosperity and the consequent depression of business, together with the vast numbers of( workers thrown out of employment, have been attributed tomany diverse causes. The ultra dry advocates were inclined to give credit for the prosperous condition preceding the collapse, to the adoption of the Eighteenth amendment, claiming that the wages that the working man formerly spent over the bar, was invested in new furniture, radio seta and in admissions to the movie. The wets on the other hand asserted that almost as much money was expended for liquor as before prohibition, the prices, being higher and the quality worse. Whatever the conditions may be throughout the country, and they are admitted to vary, according to the local sentiment in favor of enforcement and the viewpoint of the observer, both wet and dry leader seem to agree that New York is at present the wettest city in the United States.

The head of the New York Anti Saloon League maintained that enforcement was gaining slowly but surely, and that the city would eventually be dry, even though it might take fifty years. Opposed to this belief was the view taken by President Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, who asserted that the amendment would be repealed within five yesrs. When the opposing sides differ so widely in their interpretations of existing conditions, it must be left to time to decide which is correct. But whether prohibition is to be credited with the former state of prosperity or to be charged with the responsibility for the financial slump, there is no doubt that the amendment created a new industry, in the business of bootlegging, which although unlawful in its operations, has become one of the greatest industries in the country. Hundreds of millions of dollars are estimated to be gained from the illicit sale of liquor every year in New York alone, while the drink bill throughout the nation must be stupendous.

The Federal government has recognized this fact by starting a campaign to collect income tax from those racketeers in the booze business, whose profits could be ascertained. This peculiar state of affair has prompted students of economic conditions to make the suggestion that as the government has apparently failed to enforce the Eighteenth amendment, according to the strict terms of the Volstead act, the methods of enforcement be amended so as to restore the liquor business to its legitimate basis, relieve unemployment and give the government the taxes formerly derived from alcoholic beverages. While the Eighteenth amendment cannot be repealed, except by a three fourths vote of the legislatures of the various states, a majority vote of Congress could amend the Volstead act, so as to permit the manufacture and sale. of light wines and beer, and also relax the restrictions now put upon the sale of alcoholic beverages for medicinal use. Such modification of the Volstead act should prove a measure of economic re lief, it is argued, by reviving the brewing and wine industries, Jvhicfe were, either.

destroyed or branded as 1 ille workers and wine makers gal after prohibition. Many of through the modification of the the breweries were Closed and restrictions, now imposed by dismantled, while others have the Volstead act, there would been producing near beer, or toft drinks of a nOn alcoholic nature. A few have tried to evade the law, as shown by wine with meals would hard ly induce a state of intoxication, and if it did away with homebrew it would avert much damage to the internal organs of the sipper of the home made beverage. Winemaking is an industry' that cannot be experimented upon by amateurs without risk to "the ultimate consumers. With the additional employment afforded for brewery not only be a measure of eco nomic relief, but in the regaining of the taxes formerly imposed upon these industries the seizure of various plants the government would help to charged with producing a beverage of more than half of one percent alcoholic content If the brewing industry was restored to its former legitimate status, it would provide a mar make good the present deficit.

OneJ enthusiastic advocate of the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment went so far as to say that it will mean a tremendous revenue in dollars ket for the farmers' surplus and cents to the city, county grain and hops, employment i state and Federal governor the numerous workers in ments." It would take the mil this industry and supply the lions now reaped by the booze thirsty with a cooling beverage racketeers and distribute them non intoxicating in its nature. The addition of light wines to permitted beverages might do away with the manufacture of homebrew in many American homes, but it would add to the digestibility of many restaurant meals, while saving the home brewers from the danger of imbibing unpalatable in legitimate trade. Of course, the bootleggers would oppose an legislation tending to modify the enforcement act as strongly as the antiesaloon people. In fact, these two groups are allied in the effort to keep enforcement on the statute books, one to preserve its illegal traffic and concoctions. The drinking oft the other to prolong a vain struggle to abolish a pri meaval thirst by law.

It is only the political hypocrisy of the American people yiat prevents the confession that prohibtion enforcement has been a failure. The legislators and voters who vote dry are directly responsible for the creation and maintenance of the bootlegging industry, with its various ramifications of racketeering arid violence. COMMENTS BY THE AGE EDITORS ON SAYINGS OF OTHER EDITORS Poirting out the unsuitability eftsical entertainment, probably irspired The Streets of Denver" as a chil jiy another quotation that "Music dren's the Colorado hath charms to soothe the savage Statesman said: The streets of any lar city are a school of doubtful value. Denver no exception" to the rule. The most traffic music to be heard by human ears is that of a boy or girl of exceedingly tender years who makes the street a home and pickirg up every slang phrase of the times.

This is one of the unhappy, unfortunate phases of the school vacation season. There are parens who apparently exercise but little control over their children from June to September and yet who expect the teachers to hare the greatest oossible disciplinary towers over these same children during the school term. Some very striking examples of this has come to our attention of late. Little girls who have ro business outside of their Own yards, and small boys as well, put in the entire day running the streets, with apparently no guide or halt upon them from ary standpoint. This is bad enouuh when from necessity parents are compelled to be tway from home trying to meet the bread and butter problem, but when it so happens that the mother can be at home and still allows her young to roam the streets, the condition amounts almost to a crime.

We know this to be true in more than one instance and the work of uplift societies ard welfare organizations will in no sense be lessened as long as this condition is permitted to obtain. Insisting upon the necessity for breast" Touching upon the observance of "Kegro Trade Week" in Oklahoma City, the D'ufauh made the following assertion: The average Xegro business man ha a black complex. That is to say he toes in business with the idea and notion that he is going to sell solely to Negroes. Such men never know that hundreds of Negroes have through methods of efficiency, buying power and various superior characters of service, risen above race, and as a result ef such contact with the public number their customers amorg men and women of all races. J.

T. Armstrong, at Luther, is our of this type of merchant. For a number of years Armstronsr has beer the leading merchant in that community. A large portion of the white merchants of his town buy much of their stock through Armstrong. Ir Armstrong's store, on Saturdays one will often find as many white as colored customers.

T. J. Elliott, dry poods merchant at Muskosree. is another one of these forward lookirg Xegro merchants whose store the world makes its bargain counter. Right here in Oklahoma City "Jay Kola." bottled by Xegro.

P. H. James, it every year gradually creeping intu the homes and business places of other races Sometime ago fifty cases of Ta Kola went to one of the leading white home traininfl" withlr and without hospitals of the city. the school year, the Denver editor LTrldVe the o.k.. ii this week, firds many of the Negroes emphasised the pitfalls and dangers in busins.

and who have alwav of the streets in such manner, as tolonerated as individualists, plodding suggest that parks "and playgrounds lftn ignoring the program, under for children were unknown to thisth impression that they are Western metropolis, seem possible. That does not Crediting to Daniel O'Connell the saying, "Let me write the songs of a nation ard I care not who makes its laws," the Louisiana Wnkty of Xew Orleans, said: The corroboration of this truth is evidenced wher the Star Spangled Banner it flayed. Every American stands and raises his hat; the very strains of our national arthem inspire patriotism, and promote unity of jetting out of the eommuritv all that it is possible to get. and with the additional initiation that they have a patent on common seme, needing ro advice as to methods, ideas and plans. The Oklahoma editor pointed out that the Trade Week observarce was intended to furnish lessons for both buyers and merchants for the reducing of unemployment and increased buying power.

Stressing the truism that "Colored Voters are Human," the Xewark Herald alleged that a variety ot cir But' what happens when the Vol distances have combined to create stead Act. or the Eighteenth Amerd ment are mentioned? Almost every American to the man. scoffs at the travesty of the unpopular Wws. Our own Xegro National arthem, as well as our country's or the South's "Dixie are indicative of what the strains of music will do; such being the ease it would be a logical thing for our municipality to encourage the developmert of music as a recourse for a higher regard for the constituted laws ot our city. Open air concerts where all may attend without any admission, might serve as a stimulus to produce more useful citirens in, the various communities.

Already we have a large military hard that would do justice to any a strong feelirg of unrest among this group. It continued: Implied promises made in the last presidential ard gubernatorial campaigns have been apparently forgotten by the powers that et in the rush to look after 'hometown friends." This neglect it being capitalired by the Democrats, Irdependents and non partisans from mixed motives. A small coterie of sincere race leaders feel genuine resentment at the so called" Parker vote." while others are stressing this incidert for selfish reasons not unconnected with a re Ported "slush fund" to be furnished by the Democratic "boss." To densurce Baird and the Repub inaoor or Twtdoor festivity. Onellican Party has become a religious thing is lacking they have no place Iduty. though the majority of the to play.

If St were possible for the protesting group have no clear ides eitr municipality to erect at a nom inal cost, a rough wood pine bard stand, in the Shakespeare square whiph is mostly peopled by our people, there is no telling just how much good might be derived by the venture. Surely if between the hours of seven ard nine during the week and from five on Sunday to nine the same evening, it ean be made possible to help in the makirg of better citizens for our eiey. there should not be the least hesitancy ia granting the re Quest here made. That 4 ag ingenious plea for rnu of what are the issues involved. Social and fraternal organitstions have come under the sway of this prone earda and are being used to further thearowing mob spirit of revenge.

There is yet time for the wiser heads of the G. O. P. to stem this rising tide as was done in Delaware nd West Virginia by making ovt itandinjr appolrtmenta of colored Re Publicans to. positions of trust and responsibility.

Colored voters art after all human and will reset as readily as ether groups where recognition it tiver in a timelv manner. Such steps as have been taken by The Dafly Mirror Editor ef The Xew York Age: Xo decent race loving, reading and thinking Negro of Harlem can read the articles now appearing in the Daily Mirror concernirg the dark, side of Harlem without having every drop of manly and womanly blood stirred. The close observing and decent Negroes of Harlem know full well that Harlem is far from beirg what it should be, and, on the other hand, many individual Xegroes and constructive agencies are at work to stem the awful corrupt tide now sweeping through Harlem. It is a ibig problem, all the thirkers admit; nevertheless, the Negroes themselves, must, somehow, meet it. Of course, the truth hurts sometimes, especially when it shows up dirt and debauchery, but no race or community can rise until it sees its weakness as well as its points of virtue, and is willirg to face both courageously and fighj to reduce its faults and likewise, fight to strengthen its virtues.

It is the truth alone that shall make individuals free, and the same is true of a group or a race. The Xe gro, in gertral. has not learned as vet how to use his liberty constructively and therefore, must make many seri ous blunders. Liberty doei not mean to do as one pleases; on the contrary, it meara to do as one ought Liberty to go to school, night or day; liberty to stop stealing, lying and supporting speak easies; liberty to build up decent and beautiful homes; liberty to make all marner of sacrifices that our chir dren should be educated and their future planned for, like the best of the whites do for their children. Liberty to know that the worst enemy a man or a race ean have is himself or itself.

Liberty to think clear and live dean. Liberty to re spect the saeredness and dignity of our female sex. Liberty to appre ciate that no race can rise any higher1 than its women; for our women' must.be the mothers, and wher womanhood is in the gutter, and manhood is in the gutter, our children must be defiled, sickly disfigured and handicapped. Liberty to be honest, upright, courageous, fearless, irdustri ous, race loving, race cooperative fr race proud. Liberty to live one's life above reproach, above prejudice.

above jealousy, envy, hatred and the like. Buzzards, hyenas, were created for dirty living, but not man kind. The Holy Writ asserts, "faithful are the wourds of a friend," and the writer read not long since this ex pression after one gifted in wisdoms ways, "He who points you out your faults has pointed out to you an in estimable treasure." Every ore who strives to make the Xegro see between right and wrong. between misuse and proper use of his liberty, and oooortunities to improve1 his condition in a world ard a coun 1 try like this I have mv doubts if such a one should be looked upon as I an enemy of the Xegro race. And more.

I think this same paper carried. about two years ago. a most splen did article about Harlem, depicting the best side of the Negroes of Harlem, and it was strong and inspiring As good sports, we should not com plain, then, of having the same friend brirg our defects to our attention. 1 the Republican Party in the interest of the race group in Xew Jersey have not been given publicity equal to that given to the errors of the party. The Migrart Commission and the Colored Battalion appropriation were outstanding acts by the Republican Legislature snd Governor, involving the expenditure of $55,000 for the berefit ef the group; yet the party has not been farsighted enough to canitalize these measures by way of publicity.

'The same can be said such acts as the appointment of colored men in Camden County to positions never before held by the group. The Newark editor warned that it was high time that the Republicans "wake up and step on the gas" before the rank and hie of the colored voters become "eontamirated" by this political unrest. Noting some significant changes cf sentiment among Episcopal churchmen in the Southern diocese of Virginia, H. E. Barnett wrote of them in the St.

Lukt Herald of Richmond, as follows: A change has come over the spirit of their drtam. and turn hina occurred recertlv that will soften the teeiings ot tne colored people of Virginia in particular and the colored people of the country in general. The first is the election by the Sesqui centernial of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, of Archdeacon James S. Russell, founder and principal emeritus of St Paul X. I.

School, as one of its vice presidents. If the writer had been told at the time he was makirg his speech in the presence of Bishop Randolph in Petersburg a few years ago this would have happened in Virginia so soon." he would not have believed it. But such is a fact as a letter to Archdeacon Russell from Dr. W. A.

Goodwir. ilhamsburg. Virginia. Secretar will evidence. The second thing that has occurred within the past three months in Virginia, which gives hope Of briffm? Aam ma Dominion, but in the rtrm.

Ca.v. II ttu irfism 4I.A Saturday, Anrast 8. 1931 THE AGE READER'S FORUM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Communications addmsed to the Editor will be printed In tUi column they bear the name and address of the writer. The opinions or theories advanced are those of the writer, and are not to be consideted as reflecting the policy of The New York Age The Editor also reserves the right to 'cat down" letters that he considers of undue length, Another Veteran 1 Subscriber Heard From Editor of The New York Ate: 1 want to let you know that I have been a patron of your paper since the days of T. Thomas For une was the editor, and the cfrice was in Cedar street I still look forward to (tettinR it.

althouRh 1. don't pay my subscription very; promptly. It is neuleet on my part. Find $2 for 1W2, and you will kind ly ehanie address to R. H.

Johnson 11 Frank street, our ijewly purchased residence. R. H. JOHNSON. Worcester, Mass.

What the Kesran nf TfirtM. una today is finding some way to get to geiner; we eaucarea ana the ignorant, the rich and the poor, the large and small business man. the best leaders we have ard the masses. i ncre is always a way wnen the will is supplied. It must come sooner or later.

And it would be well, too, for the Xegro to observe carefully that God is the author of constructive lib erty to the end that, all mankind might grow in happiness, knowledge, wisdom ard understanding. i ine ger in oeaa earnest and find himself and live up to high ideals rather than low concepts, and a new earth and a rew heaven will be his portion. J. EDWARD HARRISOX. Xew York City.

Rose's Chain Restaurants Editor of The Xew York Age: In the August 1st issue of The Age. containing the article concern ing the various occupations and businesses of the Xegroes in Harlem, the author errs when he states that The Little Gray Shops originated the Chain idea of restaurants. As far back as 1912. the late James W. Rose was the owner of a chain of restaurants known as the Roje Dairy Lunch Svstem, which had in beginning at 34 West 135th street, in 1910.

Incidentally, Mr. Rose was the firs Xfgro to open a lunch counter in Harlem, and after 21 years the business is still being conducted fully by his widow, Mrs. T. L. Rose.

THERESA L. ROSE. THE STORY OF HAITI" Harriet Gibbs Marshall (The Christopher Publishing House, Boston, Mass.) As the name implies this is the story of Haiti from 1492 up to the present. The author. Mrs.

Harriet Gibbs Marshall, daughter of Judge MifBin W. Gibbs, and well known for her musical and educational activities in the City of Washington, D. has spent years in gathering her facts about the little island of Haiti, and she presents in chronological order the complete history pf the struggle of the Haitians. For three centuries these black folks were enslaved. Differing from the slaves in the United States, who were imported for that purpose, the foreign European powers who fought amongst themselves for the privilege of conquering, ruling and enslavirr, the natives of Haiti.

In this book we learn of the strug gles ot a long une ot vanant Haitian slaves who rose up in fighting against the odds of strong governments in order to bring freedom to their fellowmen. This, eventually, they were able to do and 16fll tVi Hiitin. hru riff th yoKe or Slavery, selling up ineir own This period is then followed by over a hundred years of political intrigue and the overthrow through trickerv, assassinations, scandal and graft of manv administrations concluding with their present treaty with the United States, all of which makes very interesting "The Story of Haiti." CLIFFORD C. MITCHELL Help Send Boy Scouts to Camp! The New York Are is ask ing its readers to aid the Boy Scouts of Harlem by contribute ing money to send some of the boys to camp for a week or longer. Many of these boys' parents are unable to help them.

Any contributions sent through The Age will be turned over to A fallings, director of the Boy Scouts of Harlem and will be gratefully received and duly acknowledged. in Virginia, the Mother of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in granting full canonical representation to Negro clergymen of the church. This significant act of the council which met at Charlottesville in Mav 19 21. 1931. was unanimously passed by resolution.

The correspondent who noted this advance in religious righteousness, hoped that the politicians of the South would emulate the example of the churchmen in the matter of political rights for the Xegro. Commenting on the latest change in the Soviet economic policy, under the headline "Stalin Learns," the Slur ol Zion, official organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, said: On the theory that all mta are created 'eoual. ergo should recent equal wages. Joseph Stalin. of Soviet Russia, undertook to oper ate the industries of his ceuntr).

He has learned that will not work that its greatest obstacle is, human nature tl.i vrA 'iA an iiw ntxn W1IV WUI A lis' I accomplishing something, who stead ily apply themselves to their task, rr bel at beirg paid the same wages the shitfless, loafing, unconcernea worker. Stalin has learned that men who technical or high class work v.w have their initiative ard morale destroyed if they are to be pud the same wages as they who do the most common labor. And so Dictator Stalin has this sage pronouncement "Wf mu be paid according to the wort done ard not according to the nee of the workers." This statement at fords food for reflection, and is worthy of careful eonsiderar'on. It would have been more interesting if the learred editor of the St" had given us the fruits of his reft' tkw and careful consideration of us switch of Sonet policy..