The New York Age from New York, New York • Page 12

Ptje TwciTt lUKSCKIFTIOa KATES IT M4U. POST AU ONK TEAR IZ.00 SIX MOUTHS kIS THRBK MONTHS SINGLE COPT CANADA POR ONK YKAI IM FOREIGN COUMT1IES ONK YKAK IN tater tectM Cteu Matttr, Satatr 112. a Pom Oftct at Nrw Vera Uaarr Act i Nana 1. i MiiM Trim THE FRED R. MOORE CORPORATION OAc PaHkatioat 1M Wrat llfcb Swat I TELEPHONES: KDftcamb 4 MM BROOKLYN OFFICE: 4M SUMMER AVENUE TELEPHONE: tKmtm VUMt Werteoemr 0k: Wiarea Amur, HeckcD.

ST. T. TELEPHONE: New RachcOt MM Ntw Jerery OStc: Ut Parrm Sttwt, Mmt City TELEPHONE; DEtawat 17IS littrtttta Ueted atwsaaam, lac. Natioaal kintwnt RtamcautivM, Hi Fiha Area at, Mew Yark AUrtn all autttta aad mail all caeefca sad aiaaCy atdtf Hrabla THE NEW YORK ACE VOL. 54NO.

42 SATURDAY, MARCH 16. 1940 Notice To All Subscribers Date of expiration of your subscript ion is. stamped on your address wrapper, each week. This is for the purpose 'oi giving you constant notice of the date your subscription expires. Postal Regulations Require Payment in Advance of All SPEAKING OUT IN COURT 7 HILE MANY PEOPLE may regard the joint statement of Ben Davis; jr.

and Pat Toohey of the Communist Party, which was read by Mr. Davis before the Senate Judiciary Sub Committee on March 5 as intemperate and calculated to harm the anti lynching bill, it was nevertheless so frank and out fpoken a protest of the attitude of both major parties as they affect the Negro, that Davis, who read the statement is being hailea a hero in Harlem. When Davis referred to the shameful tactics of Senator Connally, Senator EUendeiy Senator Bilbo and other reactionary of the bill, he was taken to task by Senator Van Kuys, co author of the bHI, as being disrespectful. Davis replied: "Senator Connally hasn't been particularly respectful of the Negro A few minutes later he referred to Vice President Garner as an "evil old labor which was later expunged from the record. Davis was constantly interrupted by members of the committee and at one time was threatened with ejection.

Nevertheless, he. proved that he has physical and moral courage of a high order. Instead of backing down on his statements, he became more outspoken in assailing Democratic "reactionaries' and Republican "hypocrites' who are trying to kill the bill. If more of our leaders showed the courage that Davis displayed they would get more respect for themselves and the race. "NATIVE SON" TJEGRO AUTHORS have been riting iui man cais, uu wine ut wicm have been acclaimed for their literary merit and genera excellence of style and composition but 1940 sees the Negro author, for tho first time, producing a best seller and being generally lionized as the literary find of the year, He is Richard VHght, one time WPA worker, and his book is Native Son.

The book has been characterized as a murder mystery and at the same time it presents the problems of the Negro in tins country in the best light they have ever been presented before. Critics have acclaimed "Native Son" an enormously stirrine novel which dos (tw Vis Were ailiif TtAtif ft i VO a. E1V IIVVUVl V. AV3ti fj "American Tragedy did for the bewildered inarticulate American white a book of deej compassion. It was the Book of the Month Club selection for March and is said to have been a complete sellout three hours after publication.

It, is now in its third printing, an achievement unprecedented for a Negro and seldom attained by any author in such short a space of time. Richard Wright has through this book placed himself in the vanguard of young authors and won recognition for himself and race undreamed of a generation igo. migrant wnnvrtxa 1 HE STATE OF CALIFORNIA is much concerned over the problem of migrant 'farm workers since publication of "Grapes of and other books on the subject. The California delegation to the House 'of Congress a petition to' the Rules Committee for a hearing on a resolution to "investigate the inter state migration of destitute citizen." The problem bas been characterized a national one, and is said to imposo an extra burden on certain states through its "relief roles. The East can appreciate the attitude of the Westerners but wonders why the problem is only now receiving consideration from the solons.

Negroes. and unemployed whites have been migrating from the South to th Kft fWn for the past twenty five years. Some. of them make good citizens and are honestly seeking to "better their economic and. social conditions, but there are others amonz the group' who are restless and shiftless and come to the more prosperous states in order to get more relief rather than' a job.

It is this lal ter. group that it responsible for much of the overcrowding in Harlem during the pit! ten years. We Rfci 'that the arising out tnigrMion are oi national importance. Bui tf also believthat these problems are tied up with immigration problem. Since there is already a big surplus of labor in this country now, it is our opinion that immigrants should be barred altogether until such time as there is a labor shortage.

Sympathy for th Jews of Germany, the Poles of Czechs shouitf not cause us to let down the immigration bars and thus decrease the job' opportunities in this country. So long as the migrants ere Negroes, very little attention was pa'd to the problems arts mot Jti Vir mlMrsliAn' fnm I 4 Etta TO OUR PARENTS JOO MANY PARENTS neglect to train their children at home and shirk the responsibility, preferring to pass that duty on to the school teachers. It is to our parents that this editorial is addressed. We intend to point out some faults of their children and we hope that they will take the hint and do something about it. Hardly a day goes by but that we do not look out of our oftice window and see scores of our youth being escorted to the police station because they have been caught cither stealing rides on trucks, trolley cars or automobiles or have tried to get into the subway or elevator stations without paying car fares.

For the most part these youths are taken to the Juvenile Aid Bureau where there names arc recorded and they are lectured against the dangers. After warnings, they are allowed to go. If, however, they repeat the offense'then they are taken to court. Hardly a day goes by, too, but that we do not see on the' accident cards where some youth, was maimed for life, killed or badly injured by hitching and stealing rides on vehicles of one sort or another. that many parents are poor and on relief, that still does not excuse them from their obb'gations, if they have children who must.

use transportation lines to go to and from school, they should provide the necessary car fares so that the youths do not have to endanger ther lives by getting to school as best they can. Life is too uncertain for parents to allow their children to take their lives into their hands every time they go to school. And while we're on the subject, there is another responsibility which parents have neglected the matter of. advising the children how to act when they do use the transportation systems to go to school. We know that children ill be children and that they must enjoy life.

But while enjoying life it is not necessary that they act like hoodlums and rovvdiei The other day we rode on a train on which several dozen girls were coming home from school. They acted like so many rtom boys" and not at aU girls. They ran 'and jumped and shouted in the train to the amusement of many of the white passengers, but to the embarrassment of the Negro adults who were also on the train. Parents should advise their children to act like little ladies and gentlemen, whichever the case may be, whenever they are on the public, streets or in public places. The time to start training our children is now while they are still children so that when they do grow up they will know how to act.

Home training is one of the many responsibilities parenthood and should not he forgotten. WRfc FED UP yE'RE JUST abaut fed up with the various "Confucius Say" gigs going around town. We've heard so many of them that we go to bed nights thinking of. how best to quiet the next person who approaches us arid asks: "Did yon hear what Confucius Maybe the wags are right at that when they retort "Cormicius'i wife ay 'Omfiiciu too much. TUB tt7 OBK XGtf DOTTINGS A IWir Jwt'ec MMvast ntsstsn ata to tt afwttn a te feltow tt erwC Aa far xaaiU toa fefrtoa rain iia "tt.

worfct's UUW cm Eirl m4 tstyyan af tie Uctt fuUttfe lac tkara va war wmmg tt, tv wareat mteea its caemr. Am a suttacaf fat ceattaaai ear aKUiaaal tKk wm wawwt, vmara, 4a aaiaJan HariaaVa aaaat taoraam RUI klUMI. KM tkMh Ik unif lincc nj nuiia ic now on luc ruau, aryc ar it is getting more consideration. N. C.

MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. OT ONLY SHOULD the Negroes of the South feel proud of the record of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, but Negroes in all parts of the coun try should likewise take satisfaction in the achievements of this all Negro business, as revealed in its 44 st ennuaTstatement tor this company is fat becoming a national institu The company 'is now operating in some eight states, and recently invaded the North through qualifying to do business in the tState.of Pennsylvania. President C. Spanlding reports that the company added 182,576 new policy holders during 1939; that during the past 41 years the company has paid to policy holders and to their beneficiaries a total of and that during, the past year payments to policy holders amounted to $972,010.61, which amount includes $170,294 paid to living policy holders.

Total assets of the company amount to close to $6,000,000 and the total income for the, year was $2,801,170.10, an increase of $291,261 over the previous year. Employment part and full time is given approximately 1,000 men and women. On the whole, President Spaulding reports a year of financial improvement in all phase of operation. That so large a business can be operated at a profit in these times is a tribute to the wise and conservative leadership of President Spaulding and his associates. They prove that the Negro can handle, big business when given a Skauaar lar VtStaniac Uka It.

aar 9nmnm" tU ia nF.iarT lie ween oy ntmif to tae Horm ca tit Hirdart hoar oa jyuadar Wa Uk ta. wUsi almeeritr tb Xa aid auur of taea ara WY.Btrtimi A for tkrtenarttri of tl TortB ea a 'waW profTm oa WHaetaay erenjats. Wo iU it Porto Bko't bocAOM bo iW fwtara, tot wrtUBjiif. Ito ataaters ofraoaies are mi. ally loa, aid coataitaata aprltiTly At oaa tlaia bad aa.

atter tais tttfti aatatear wc IVoufht it bo wra rprfcaUtir.0f nbejtaloata. of Negroa: Nowaday wo look opoa it wilb afeaadoaed bopf ea'ld f. iu oiiroaJBit. It ii'a trarcaty or oar of tbe Sn, art, aoca aaly" XffTOoa eoaW guilty of. Wkea Ka aren't attoadiaj a aeotiar of tbe 'CUaaiqae Eisht," aaUical ersaaizAtioa we lend aa tr to Ua Major ob Tbnraday avoBiBp.

Here oi otyttrxf trne eoneeptloa amateur' Uhjnt. Ma ay pereoaa with exproed dUira to aebievo Mmething ia the arta. OecaiioaaUy aoae Xegro gtt the wrot foot with his ida of what'a "fuaay." On a recant ThaxMUy aretxUf a eolora4 aUa au aaioag the eontaaUBtA. She utt tte oar, anjayaum got oat of Ufa erne through her "auduL" She UnKht her "the her only vocal training, ahc the Major. Hovarer tho bai ding siagor went Into Malette'a "The Lord'i rrayer" gava aa splendid am aeeourt of herself as auay of tho aaaaeaod stag, en of her group, Tho eratioa which foUoaod.vu ooauBononr.

ato. But, aakod by MAjor Bow, what was her mmbttioa, aao replied: "I want to work for ary audaa) th, root of my Ufa." 11 BKO'S KEG EST Theatre, at Serenth avenue aad USth aUet, eonduem amateur program oa Friday This program do's not enjoy too beae6t of tbe airwavei, but it affords aa hour of good entertainment. Jordan's orchestra provideo the nasical back ground. Buddy Bowser hae what It takes to be a good master eere moaies persoaality, command of English, and quick on ad lib. The lack of broadcast is aa asset to the program rather than'a handicap.

A radio audience would be unable to appreciate the' appearance of trained pets, liady hoppers, Irish jiggers, and the like, who help to mke ap the contestants. Perhaps, a radio audience couldn't appreciate the perpetual singing of "Sly Prayer aad of tn Border" either, bat amateurs will bo Amateurs. Occasionally the m.e. maaagea to. lure a professional from the audience to the stage to oblige with a aumber or two.

A packed hoate alttsyi Attends this Regent amateur program. Tbe listeners are tolerant. They determine the winners br the meagre of their applause at the conelusioa of tho program. Their judgment ia generally beyond reproach. But' on a retent evening tho men section let their eyes rua away with their judgment and gave a good looker second prue for her butchering a Mea will dumb like that.

Jobs the Baptist hsd bit ministerial head severed from his body for tbe same reason. Aavatcar programs aeea to oata'A way back. AcrossiDesk By LUDLOW1.W. WCBKSK Hattw I 1 i 1 1 (ore. a atat last week when she became tho tret Kegro to bo honored with aa Award by Uo XoUoa Ptctart Academy of Arta and Scieneoa for being tho best supporting actress rim nude ia 1139.

Her role as VMaauu' ui tho MnsaUeml $nd highly rubUHsed "Ooae WiU The Wind" wee for her tho coveted Award. I nu4 that I eat to te With The Wind" because there bid beea so much agitation against it by Com munists and some aciUtioa which that Ua film was anti Xrgro sad a gleriicatioa of the South and upholding the slave traditions of the South. Tba agitation was A result of criticism 'of the book of the same name beta use the book, itself, cauined parts ch showed the Negro in a bad light, They eay hAt. when yeu're looking for trouble I ou'n find it, aad. that when you're look ng for something to criticize you can generally dad aeme thing to eritjeue.

It was ia'this frame of mind ifcat i wCnt to see ''Gone With the Wind." But tboogh I may be jut as aenaitire at aar nth Xegro, for the life of ne. I coaidat find anything wrong with tho aim eseept that it takea aome three hours and A half to see it, aad' thea you can only see it if jou've nude rMerratioas far ia advance Lwllew w. Werwr or 1e tUoi 'e for heart aad boon, la my opinion, the dim ia beautifully done and pictures a diKcalt atery without effease to aaronea task diTicelt with such a subject matter. But to the credit of tbe film e.Kcetives, it must be said, that la Goao With The Wind" they turned oat one of the best pictures 1 hare aeea. To the credit of th nrodueera.

I. th. 4k. inbject of slavery ja hsndleoV. delicately.

Aad; Ue tola MeDaniel aa 'Mammy" is one af the atsllar rolea. fact her acting is so superb that "Mammy'? has stolea the show, from. Scar lett O'flaia." le it JiUle With the Wind" wonder, then, Negreoa hao aeea ar, almost uaMimoas ia their 'praise of it? Is it any wouder, too, why Hattio McDenieJ won' the coveted1 award made aaaually by the film industry? Jo it any wonder. thea, why I do not heeitate to advise readers of Tho Xew York Age to see the picture if they possibly can. Tbeatreo which hae showa the picture hare oftea beta picketed by agitators and those Negroes who bar, taken someone 'a word for it that th pictar.

ia sati Kegra aad contains a subtle. propaganda agaiBst Xegroea. I would be willing to bi, that if all the Xegroet who hare picketed theatre showing the picture were 'aahrt if thfy had a'aa the 11m they would, if tratbfol, be foreed to answer ao. Rarlomitet hate waited for tho pirtare te come optowa eaa see tho picture oa 123th street, at Loew'a Victoria Theatre, begia aiag AprU They eaa go to tho theatre aeeare ia the knowledge that rather tbaa'a picture which iaaulu Negroes, Ooae With The Wind" ia a 'hlelo which hae brought aatioaal and lasting fama to a Xegro actress, Hatti, McDaaieL A Vrtd" WM Ust week whoa tte' Deaartmeat of Welfare 1 ha4 a pla.ne dedicatory eeremoay oa tte toata feor conference room of th headejuarteTs at M2 Broadway. Tho alM was dedicated to tho acmoay of tho Uto Bapaaal geloatoa aa ia ertigatar, who was shot and killed by holdap avea Harlem last year.

It was the frst time that a pViqee bed We' dedicated by the partment ia memory of say employe aad to my, way of thinking sts a precedent 'whh bodes no good for Harlem. was af orte) Sat thai' Mr. Solemoa abet and killed ia Harlem, bat that is not saf leieat cause for tho community to bo forever otigenatieed through such a conitaat reminder aa a pleqa, erected to aa iadiridaal aloae. If the Welfare TJepartaeat employees were considered ao having haanrdoua Jobs ach aa poUeeaea or Iremea, thea eoald bo etood why the pUque might appropriate. Bet tbiag' trmalaat wioeatr le reepoaeiUe tr harlag had the platrne eteeatod ia airaory Of the alaia inreHigator should be (Ires'1 to aaderrUad that there are thoee of ITarlem' who will, aot deeds, er rd that reflect oa as la aar way.

The plaque ia' a eonttant reminder of ttAna.kt. 1. 1. I i.h.i awe reipwiuie a eroaomie erofr wbck f.rc rl)r youlh revrl hoMep and stealing g. bread bnh I is the staff of life 7.

a i mm By. TAX flAIiOWAT ThrawsV tht of readera we havf a' 'hand aome earplot artieke which may be had ier the asking. Aayone' khowiag Of aa expect aat mother "who Is ia need of a layette or articles thaf go to make up one may. be g1ea the aeesrary itema" by eemmoaicatiag with aaT Ther oary 'requirement that the expectant mother be' able to, get.orttakff a layette. Aa iaafTrpriag mattresa.leaa and ia perfect condition, ia offer, ed to someone who baa a siagte bed.

Also available ia a large cheat of drawers. Baiaamaaaa Benders whe wish to commui cate, may. address letters to Val Gallowor. co The1 New Tork Age, 230 West lMth atrfeti Xe York Ot7. et the BreoklTB office, 1 434 Sumner nrennc, Brobktyai DDlYOniM By BAK0NA LOWE Thot there were 17873 Xegro troops ia the Uaion Armr during the CivU War, eompritiag 200,000 Xegro eoldiere? A special bareua was brgaaited ia Washingtah to handle their aaTairs.

That General Lavd Hunter, com. manding in Itouth. i'arolina, despite oppoaitioB orgaatzed. the Xegro regiment for the Union" in 1S6 Not until the Emancipation Proeksmatton ia 1SS3 did Lincoln officially sanction, th, raisng Of Xegro troops. That in' the last daya of the Civil War ther Confederate Cob greae authorired the arming of tbe slaves? Free Negroes had already beea orgaained iato troops ia the Confederate Army 'in Tennessee and Louisiana.

That because Xegro soldiers were discriminated against ia tbe matter of bounties by tre L'a on commond, Sergeant William Walker caused his company to stack arms before the company 'a lent and was eoart martiaUed for this method of demanding equal rights? That the 54th and 36th Massachusetts Xegro regiments in the Civil Wat would aot accept their pay uatil it waa made eqwal to thar of the white aoldiers? ITCANBEDONE By KAXPK O. OOTRABJ) This column under the same caption, originally appeared jathe Xi GCO WOULD, Marcus Uarrey's bow defunct which may or may not hare contributed to it demise. Tbia waa in 1931 or '52. Much water has gone; over the dam since that time. It ia interesting to aote that some of tbe very same problems aad conditions we discussed thea exist today, while others have changed remark, ably, for the better or worse.

There' was ao WPA thea, aad no ERB. held a few scattering jobs downtown aa porters and elevator operators. Tare, you may remember, a Xegro was rarely li ever seea behind a counter ia Harlem. The CM A (Colored Merchants. Assoelatiea) the Harlem Business Men's Chib and the House wives'.

League aad tbe Universal. Xegro Improvement Association were the militant forces of the day, carrying oa. aa a a remitting fight aupport Xegro owned business enterprise. This column believed then as it does, now, that Xegrves have the capacity to help themselves but they did aot thea aor 'do they know now HOW it. can be, done; that we have been trained to be BKliGARs instead of CREATORS sad mosf of oar' present suffering eaa be directly traced to this fact.

Looking when we were fearful of what might happen if we should come right out aad 'T buy where yoa esa't work 1 aad comparing that "attitude with our present militant one, it would seem come far. Since we hava sen the cconomie riot of March, IKi, and the. later unemployment situation due to the continuance of the. depression, we wonder how we could have beea so spineless. Obviously the job ja far from complete.

We are just begia aiag to understand the power we have as' consumers, thanks to Arthur Beid, Sufi, Ira Kemp, Clterea Blehardsba had aaay ethers whose soap boxes dotted tbe avenues whenever the weather permitted. Those in high places will not agree with me, but whether they do or not, lb rlem would aot be the place it ia without the guts these men displayed ia talkng to the COXSl'MKBS, the real power ia HARLEM. Tho writer frele thst now," (s never before, the time is ripe for COLLWTIVE ACTION; that a new approach tan now be made to our problem, aot based apoa tare loyalty entirely, but aa uU. vi oar poa'iiiiiiiee as I'XITED ed la oar own welfare. Let aa admit we have made appreciable progreea in seBrinf a few collar jobs ia the retail stores ia our communities, but se far as our geaeral aaempfoymeat problem is eoaeerned, we hare BARELY 8CHATCHED THE SURFACE; Wo mast realise aad anderrtaad that, as eoBsamers oaly we are DESTROYERS of wealth we CREATE nothing.

On, sade must be towards catering the eld of 'MAXTTACTL'RIXO aad PBOiX CTIOX; thst we ela CONTROL the hi ere.Te, ur purchssinr mm ht eaa we da? ww.i ther fimtvmttt doo with their power ia erestinje inCstria aad outlets for thW produ.U cee snt mMtiiu raio fisaiwe to oar ae trritife? column. win be aa. discus ear problem from week to week, ia the light Of four year of research la tho fold of eonenmer. cooperation, wits tha hope that out of will rome a brtUr anderntaada' or alone' of rollaetl u. Josef Fatreaise the CLABirn0 nafa tannsdim raoalta eaa 7 EC TIOW of The Kew Tertt Ago haHVntKK 16, 1W0 ttKd of The Noble Free" By uyle lank hurried Jthe pace' of crty living that a day old paper is.

quietly while a book which does net cam the tmjprintjofithe current year is out of date. Dopite this, I cqtnnicnd theTfdinjr' of two year old I inl Without Cltarles' Curti The author and raised in the South and for a number' of years earned bis. living as a writer for the Houston Chrorticle and the Houston Tost Dispatch. He tnow jhare cropper's only ne with an artibt's mind can; with a edge not only of the miserable material conditions under which, the toiler lives "but of the degradation of mind and spirit that: accompanies Conditions." Munz' writes with compassion of the sharecropper, struggle but with such honesty, aho that the picture. is a terribly disturbing one.

"Land Without Moses," as the jacket states, "is the story of Kirby whose independent spirit and impulse toward a Tichet life are rite itretruuirnts of a powerful drama." But it isr equally the story of his Lamp Motem; and the father's hopelessly poignant struggle with. debt." A dramatist could tvrite'a powerful one act play of the chapters which show the between white. and black croppers and the landlord Lacking, the dramatit' ability I. shall let the author's present their own drama. Characters: Aaron; L'ongnecker.

plantation owner. "He had long powerful arms and strong square shoulders. His face and his hairy hands' were red. His mouth was thick lipped but firm, his nose was high and. straight." He was both cruel and ruthless.

His plantation' situated in the bend of the Little and Big Macatee the richest land of any. in that Yet Aaron' Longnccker's one hundred and fifty sharecropper families were always hungry." "Lamp. Moten was one of Aaron Longnccker's booklick1 ing tenants; He had to be, for no matter how hard he work ed, each year he was a little further in Longnccker's debt." Tall, thin, and bony he was frequently in pain from a gnaw ihg in his stomach for which he was unable to get medical care. Ludie Moten, his Avife, was also tall and thin with weary black eyes and a tired drooping mouth. it seemed she grew' more thin and bony each day.

Ligc Hejd, new neighbor of Moten' was 'an upstanding' sort of man, very black, shining always sweating, very littie hair, his overalls' hanging by only one strap, and the biggest kindest smile in all the country around the Little Macatee. His wife, Corah, was a strong young woman not quite black as Lige. They had their cabin full of One day on coming in from his work Lanqi disco ercd Lige Herd living next door. "Goddam hit, Ludie, if we ain't got to liv right next door to a bunch of stinkin Niggers. What the hell has come over Mr.

Longnecker anyways? Later in the evening after tossing around in" his con" shuck mattress for a couple of hours he sprang up, shouting, "Goddam to hell, I kain't sleep for smclliu' n'ggcrs." Ludie "That ain't nigger you smell, hit' mule. Them n'ggcrs is a quarter. mile Lamp "Goddam hit, woman I know mule smell and I know nigger smell and I tell you this goddam stink is nigger. What in the hell is Mr. Longnecker about anyways pultinVthem niggers right next to white people.

I'm going right up in the roornin' to ce him about it." i After, breakfast before he pulled a cotton stalk. Lamp was in' the commissary. Moten "Mr. hit right to ask me to and' live. right' next to.

them stinkin.niggTs. Sure enough. by.God, I kain't sleep for smclliu 'era." Longnecker "Moten, I tried my level, best to a tenant forUhat cabin byt 1 just couldn't do it. I'll move'htra away next season and until I'll tell him to stay aw ay from you. all." roien "But what; am I.

goin' to bout tKat goddam T. v. "rLongneckcr "It won't bother you except when the wind is from the SotithwVst, and I guess you'll haxe to put up with it. i Longnecker judged how Cotton picking was going by thej amyont' of cotton rajme t'o the' "gin! Ai a.ng as the flot" was 'steady, he' never bothrre'd to ride among the cab in. Iibwever, Lamp Moteri, fell sick Lbngticck'er came' was 'the Iroublet'.

Moten fi'rrr dom'' the best I kin, butdainn if I cats pick cqtjp'n when; my. stomach' don't lay till 'Lojrguecker "If you "ain't back' in" the, iiehl tomorrow 111 "bunch of niggeys from Renfro to pick your cotton, andjbv' the time you pay cm therclf be mighty little lett when I'm ick. 1 don't ecir why you: should." don't rcckoh 'your" stomach's high 'as 'sour "a mine, Mr. Longnecker "Well, if (it" was I'd still keep going. Xoiv you get out in the fields and get to work." As he rode away Lamp, bitter and discOuragtd mutter ed, "Look at Lige Herd the goddam' nigger.

He's got h'. eottou all picked and he's got eight kids' and 'a ife as big and strong as' a horse. didn't I marry me a strong woman is somethin', I Hire emtsgh, by God, would like to know. But looks like if a man wants hiself a trnnf woman e's got to take in' a nigger; white' women are veak'si kittens. When Lige Herd saw how much cotton the Motens still had to pick he came over one afternoon to talk to Ludie.

Lige "Miz Molcnw I been lookin' at de ky and pear to me like hits going' lo rain like Noah flood in two, three darj i Ludie Well, Lige. I don't reckon there's nothin' kin dp' about hit the fain comes. I reckon hit 11 duty Up our but we urc enough can't tell Cod to keep the rain if wc way. to him, like" a'v liot he wouldn't 'do fc L'ige, breaVin into a ide you tho is right, we' kain't tell the' good Lord to keep de rain back; but bftt we kin sho nuff get 'de'eof tori in." Lud just stared as it she didn't quite understand so Lige continued "Mi Jfoten, Lbas i wile and eight chiUua je wora aud setHs aroun. gettin' in de devil's own misdiief.

an I reckon we could jus" al out clean up Av. Iij ah hole' field cftnie Ludie awkwardljW'Tbtt ho' ir kir JL of you. Lige." All soon to work and before iong the Herd's were singing. Soorf the Mqteri sijoinrd in with a note VtTVarpi (Coatjnmd Oa Pii Tin).