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SONG PLUS PERSONALITY SPELLS ELLA Meet and know any of the standing persons worth meeting and knowing two things you will always find-ability to some one thing will add personality. EDITOR'S By ROBERT DURR Unity Will Save Us If I were asked today--what our greatest need in America is, I suggest total unity. Maybe we can survive, divided in spirit in matters that fix our positions under the stars and stripes as employers and employes, blacks and whites, protestants and Catholics, Northernes and Southerners and what have you, But I don't believe it. There are groups among us who are bent on dominating all other groups. There is too much of this and that group getting ove into their vaious camps and setting themselves up against other goups and prosecuting this "setting up" against on a basis of "all's fair in war and love." What is fair and what will save us against common fies are two very distinct things.

When we are threatened from filthspirit, deed and direction on a basis in or without, total unification in of goodwill to all men of goodwill is our only salvation. For many years, there has been enmity between a great majority of people in the North and the South, between blacks and whites, between high yellows and dark browns, 1 between the ups and the downs, and between the ins and the outs. The day is far distant when there can be total unity in spirit and deed of all these opposing factions. No black man can consistently argue that equal opportunities be extended to the worthy and the unworthy among his own people alike. No white man can hope to further a better understanding and wholesome coopeation between all whites and blacks as long as we have members in both groups who by their deeds and attitudes make such arguments silly.

Disunity, like weeds, needs no cultivation, but those things which make for unity, fair play. and helpful cooperation, like fine shrubbery and flowers, must be cultivated with patience and care by those who get pleasure and soul satisfaction out of trying to make a contribution to develop those who WANT to be developed in order that they may make the greatest contribution possible, to the end that the deserving hay have a richer and fuller life and an appreciation of all that has gone into developing everything that makes it possible for us to progress, be it little or much. The Negro faces a double handicap in his effort; I mean the few who make the effort, to win for the race a better beak in all walks of lite. In the first place, in many instances where a few cry, pray and work for larger integration into Editor's Digest Suggests Solution For Disunity Problems Negro Church Denoms Flourish -Why? Ala. Owned And Edited THE An Alabama Newspaper CLEAN ALABAMAS GREATEST.

A NEWSPAPER HI WEEKLY REVIEW VOL. 7, NO. 51 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941 PRICE FIVE CENTS Alligators In Creek Near School Training For Wings For Uncle Sam At. Tuskegee AND SCENES FROM THE 99TH PURSUIT SQUADRON AT TUSKEGEE (Tuskegee graduate), with his engineer, Rufus Jackson, his building Upper left 1: Maj. Gen.

Weaver, southeastern air corps training center, commanding officer addressing flying cadets at inauguration of 99th Pursuit Squadron. Seated back row, left to right: three officers from Maxwell field, Capt. B. O. Davis, and Hilyard Robinson.

Front: Pres. F. D. Patterson, Dr. E.

H. Dibble, Geo. L. Washington, Capt. E.

H. Holland, Chaplain C. W. Kelly. Upper right 2: Eight of the 12 flying ts who make up the initial unit of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, listen to Gen.

Weaver as he tells them of the great inspiration they should receive from the life of Booker T. Washington during their commencement exercises. Left center 3: National Defense class in aero-mechanics, learning to repair ribs in airplane wings. Project for high school youths. Center 4: Charles Foxx, Tuskegee-trained primary instructor.

Right center 5: Aeromechanic Humbles points out the ABC of the airplane engine to an eager group from the class. Lower left 6: In the field house on the Tuskegee airfield now under construction for the training of elementary military flying cadets, Contractor A. A. Alexander (right) discusses a drainage problem with his superintendent of masonry, Arthur McDonald Impressive Rites For Mrs. Mahala Mabry Very impressive funeral rites were those for Mrs.

Mahala Mabry last Tuesday at the Sixteents Street Baptist Church. She was the wife of the late Professor Charles T. Mabry. Mrs. Mabry was born in Birming.

ham; the daughter of Anna and Frank Diffay. Her father was one of the pioneer citizens of the city. She was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, and active in all its alumni activities. Surviving are a son, Charles of Detroit; two grandchildren, Gertrude and Byron Kigh, two sisters; three brothers; and a host of friends and relatives. Active pall bearers were: Messrs Robert Ashe, J.

Petarman, John Anderson Mose Scott, Y. J. Setsles, D. V. Guice.

Honorary pall bearers were: The members of the Cosmos Circle, including Mdes. James Kelly, C. J. Harris, Dick Lane, Leggett, B. H.

Hawkins. Mrs. Mabry was an active member of the Cosmos Circle. There is not death, the Stars go down To rise upon some distant short, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine forever more. Child Deaths Reduced One-Half in 20 Years BEATING UNDER AGE ONE PER L000 LIVE BIRTHS DEATIO AGES 1-14 YEARS Infant mortality has declined by in the United States since 1920 and the death rate among children 1-14 has been cut according to a study prepared for the American Institute of Actuaries.

Deaths in the first year of life per 1,000 of live births have dropped from 86 in 1920 to 44, while deaths among children ages 1-14 have been cut from 4.8 to 1.9. This improvement is primarily due to higher standards of living -better food clothing, and shelter which have built up resistance of children against infections and the progress of medical science and public health administration in controlling acute and infectious diseases. (Institute of Life in Bronzeville By the Roving Reporter ALLIGATOR FOUND IN SOUTHSIDE DITCH FITZGERALD Being white, black, blue or brown has less to do with making one outstanding than ever. One must have ability and one must have personality. the whole scheme of things, there are evee present the many of our own group who move in the opposite direction.

In the second place, he knows deep down in his heart of hearts, that the majority of our people are not sincerely interested in doing what they can do, to better their conditions and prove themselves deserving of better opportunities. The white man who is sincerely interested in the promotion of bette opportunities, stands in fear of being penalized for said. interest by his own people, because of the many things they often charge against the wholet Negro goup because of the action of some few of that group. Very often, if one Negro does something that is low, the majority of whites immediately blame the whole group. The Negro is just as guilty along this line, for the most part, as the whites for the most part.

We must have total unity at any cost to survive. And at the same time, we can not urge that the powers that be, indiscriminately let down bars that would license the don't-give-a-damn among our group to tear down the progress they have made. The better class of Negroes can not longer permit the other element in his group to hold the whole race back on the same score. We must lay aside every weight that so easily besets us and run the race fearlessly, with patience, honesty and 1 courage. Here is the approach that I think will net the greatest good for the geatest number of both groups, as it elates to progress.

The better class of whites and blacks, employers and employes, Southerners and Northerners, and what have you, should sit down together, and in fairness, effect an understanding and upon that, proceed with a unified front in total fairness with each other. When black leaders make pleas for their people, those pleas should be only for the deserving. When black leaders make pleas fo therir kind, those pleas should be fo that which is actually due them-1 -nothing more and nothing less. On this score there should be no compromising within or without the group. When whites of goodwill feel urged to make a plea for greater opportunity for blacks, they should be careful to make that plea include only those Negroes who are deserving.

There should be no effort on the part of either leadership to cram anything down the throats of the other. Pleading for that which is right, for those who are right, is a cause to which any man can subscribe, without fear of losing a final victory, even though many battles may be lost before the victory is won. The Negro leader or pleader can only hope to do a good job, if he goes into the courts of progress with clean hands. The white powers that be can not in justice to themselves deny justice to the just, within the jasper walls of the black race. This thing we call the Negro problem, which after all means the white man trying to keep from giving deserving Negroes an even break, simply because he can not afford to give that break to unready and undeserving Negroes, can be solved if he can approach the solution of this problem by giving the breaks to the deserving as a re(Continued on Page 4) Out in the southwest section of our fair city, well within the corporate boundary, there is a ditch that runs past the city jail, cuts across Avenue and snakes along through the yards of some dozen or more Negro citizens.

This is not the only ditch in Birmingham-but this is a ditch with a record. About two years ago an eight-year-old child attempted to cross the rainswollen trench. Her small faltering feet slipped from the slick narrow board that bridged the gap, and she tumbled into the swirling stream below. The crumpled lifeless body was washed up against the fence of Ms. A.

R. Hooks, who lives at 113 3 Avenue C. After this incident, a delegation of citizen spaid a visit to the City Vommissioners, and petitioned that the ditch be covered. Now city fathers have a lot of work to do. They are very busy men.

And sometimes it takes a little time to get around to such unimportant things as covering a dangerous ditch that is within 100 feet of a public school. And city fathers have no way of knowing that said ditch contains live, two-year old alligatos. That is, not until one of the pets crawled up on the porch of Love Hollin's home, and was annihiliated as it attempted to get into the door. Even then they did not know until Mrs. Hooks carried th ereptile down to the office for them to see.

They agreed that (Continued on Page 8) FOP DEFENSE BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS AND STAMPS ON SALE AT YOUR POST OFFICE OR RANK AMERICA ON GUARD! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department's Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of the original "Minute statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank or post office, are a vital part of America's defense preparations. BAPTISTS OFF TO NATIONAL MEET Lane MONDAY ON JEMISON SPECIAL superintendent from Des Moines, and his secretary, Mildred Harris, who holds a private pilot's license. Mr. Alexander is one of the speakers at the 13th annual meeting of the National Technical association.

Lower center 7: Hilyard Robinson, the first Negro to be granted a contract to build a government airdrome, the 99th Pursuit Squadron base adjacent to the campus of Tuskegee Insttiute, presents his technical staff and assistants to President F. D. Patterson. Right to left: Conrade A. Johnson, draftsman, Percy C.

Illill, draftsman, Booker T. Washington III, Haydyn H. Craigwell, structural engineer, all of New York; Phillip Retz, site engineer, Washington, D. C. and Omaha, Edward Miller, chief draftsman, New York and Tuskegee; Claron B.

Hutchinson, St. Louis, Wilson S. Allen, specifications writer and estimater, Tuskegee Institute; W. G. Madison, mechanical engineer, Des Moines, Iowa.

In the foreground, Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute, and Hilyard Robison, architect-engineer, Washington, D. C.

Lower right 8: President F. D. Patterson learns from G. L. Washington that not just "any old brick" will do for the construction of a hangar for Uncle Sam's airships that Tuskegee will use in the elementary military flying program.

U. S. STILL Isms Still Unproved Theory According to government statistics, out of every American industrial dollar available for distribution between workers, management and stockholders, labor gets 83c, management 3c, and stockholders 13c. Labor is able to keep for itself most of the 83c that it receives; government through income taxes, takes away a large portion of the 3c paid to management; while stockholders do not reap their full 13c in dividends as part of this has to be put into reserve for future needs and expansion. IN NO OTHER NATION IS SUCH A LARGE SHARE GIVEN TO THE WORKER, AND FOR THAT REASON, THE UNITED STATES HAS THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE WORLD.

The idea of distributing the wealth among the workers may not be primarily an American one, but here, most certainly, we have developed it to the highest degree. It is the basis of America's phenomenal growth by which the wilderness of 160 years ago was transformed into the leading nation of the world today. One does not have to be the seventh son of a seventh son to divine how this remarkable achievement was accomplished. It did not just happen. It came about because American workers were given the money with which to buy the products they created.

In doing this, the market for those products was so increased that they could be manufactured in ever-increasing quantities, thus, making them cheaper and cheaper, and further increasing the workers' purchasing power. Due to a world-wide, mal-economic condition over which we had little control in 1929, this process hit a snag. Our American System faltered and, to our shame, many of us turned our backs (Continued on Page 4) (By R. N. Hall) Cleveland Ohioans will be hosts of the National Baptist Convention U.

S. A. where more than 25,000 messengers and visitors will assemble in its 61st Annual sion September 10-14th. Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois and Alabama will have special trains on special schedules. Alabama will go on President Jemison's Special with 500 messengers and visitors out of Alabama alone.

They will mobilize in Birmingham (Continued on Page 8) Out To Get Jemison's Scalp Negro Church Denominations Now Number 45 Why? 12 NEW NEGRO CHURCH DENOMINATIONS SPRANG UP IN THE PAST TEN YEARS Take away a man's religion, and you no longer have the man. Some fundamental weakness in the individual demands a greater strength on which to rely. With all man's bigotry and self-assurance, he has always been conscious of forces outside himself that were bigger, finer and more intricate than anything he could produce. This realization caused him to develop an attitude of worship- or a religion. There are comparatively few steps- as time goes--from the worship of trees that of ancestors, to the acceptance of Christ, and to the revolt of Martin Luther.

These changes in themselves are probably not so important as the urges that brought them about. A man's faith (Continued on Page: 4) Dr. J. C. Austin, militant minister of Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist Church, is one of the foremost candidates for the presidency of the National Baptist Convention at its annual meeting in Cleveland, September 10-14.

He has been endorsed by city and state denominational organizations and has support from leaders throughout the country. (ANU Photo).