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Why is the United States
Afraid of Communism?
by Joseph W. Adams
In the discussion of communism
you never hear about the slavery
that goes on in R u s s i a.—
There are over 4,000,000 of her
people held in such hondage.
Why then should we The Negro
want to shackle ourselves with
such a government while we still
bear the marks of our own in
slavery?
They do not have the comforts
of a humble home or the thing
that we hold most dearly “pri
vacy”. Our government does not
uphold the Klu-Klux-Klan but in
Russia the secret police have
backing of its government which
terrorizes its people into obedi
ence.
In a communists’ home you will
not find your daily convenience
such as refrigerators, radios, or
cars; those things which we ac
cept as the fruits of our labor
would not be ours.
They tell us that there is equali
ty there but would you be will
ing to accept equality on the
basis mentioned above?
I WOULD NOT— A veteran of
World War II.
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New Father Divine Mission
Gives 25 Cent Meals
Meals cost only 25 cents to
persons eating in the new Father
Divine peace mission cafeteria
which recently opened in Seattle,
Washington.
Opening day menu of the non
profit cafeteria consisting of
chicken fricasee, fresh peas, rice,
mashed potatoes, cole slaw, bread,
butter, beverage, and strawberry
shortcake with whipped cream.
That was for 25 cents.
The next day’s menu offered
baked ham or hamburger loaf,
string beans, salad, potatoes, tea
or coffee, and strawberry, short
cake with whipped cream. And
that was for 25 cents.
According to Mrs. Beatrice De
neal, operator of the cafeteria and
mission, “We hope to break even,
but if we do not, the spirit of God
will find a way.”
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Personal Mention
Mrs. John John has just re
ceived word from her cousin,
Miss Mary C. Nelson, that she
left Shanghai, China, June 11 and
would arrive in the states shortly
thereafter.
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by
Kathryne
Favors
—taken from “The Negro In
Our History”-Carter G. Woodson
In 1859 there were 3,000 manu
missions and 803 fugitives. The
census of 1860 shows that probab
ly 20:000 manumissions were
made during the decade between
1850 and 1860.
The statistics of the Negro
population between 1790 and 1915
suggest as an explanation for
this decrease that the free people
of color were much older and
therefore subject to a higher
mortality rate, that they were
less normally distributed by sex
and, therefore probably charac
terized by a martial condition less
favorable to rapid natural in
crease. Among the Free Negroes
at each of the five censuses, from
1820 to 1860, there were fewer
males than females, whereas the
distribution as to sex among the
slaves remained about equally
divided between the two. While
this does not altogether account
for the disparity, it doubtless had
something to do with the situa
tion; for the Negroes were manu
mitted were, as a majority, men’
and those who contrived to escape
were largely of the same sex.
Furthermore, masters controlled
the slave supply so as to add what
number they needed from which
ever sex seemed deficient.
The customs and regulations re
straining the slaves did not gen
erally apply to the free people of
color even when so provided by
law. Some of them were closely
connected with former masters,
who gave them more considera
tion than that shown by many
othef-s who sold their own flesh
and blood. In spite of the law to
the contrary, a few such benevol
ent masters maintained schools
for the education of their mulatto
children. When that became un
popular they were privately in
structed or sent to the North for
education. Charleston, South
Carolina, affords a good example
of the interest manifested in the
free people of color by the sym
pathetic citizens. They winked
Negro Population 1790 to 1860
Free Decopnial Increase
Census Per Number Per cent
Year Total Number Cent Slave Free Slave Free Slave
1860_ 4,441,830 488,070 11.0 3,953.760 53,575 749,447 12.3 23.4
1850.. 3,638,808 434,495 11.9 3,204,313 48,202 716,958 12.5 28.8
1840 _ 2,873,648 386,293 13.4 2,487,355 66,694 478,312 20.9 23.8
1830_ 2,328,642 319,599 13.7 2,009,043 85,965 471,021 36.8 30.6
1820_ 1,771,056 233,634 - 13.2 1,538,022 47,188 346,660 25.3 29.1
1810.. 1,377,808 186,466 13.5 1,191,362 78,011 297,760 71.9 33.3
1800_ 1,002,037 108,435 10.8 893,602 48,908 195,921 82.2 28.1
1790_ 757,181 59,557 7.9 697,624 _ ___
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at the efforts of the free blacks
to educate their children in well
organized schools indefiance of
the law. In the stat of Louisiana,
where many of these mixed
breeds were found, their fathers
sometimes sent them to Paris to
avail themselves of the advant
ages of the best education of that
time.
These free Negroes were not
all on the same plane. In the
course of time they experienced
a development of social distinc
tion which largely resembled that
of the whites. There were freed
men in possession of a consider
able amount of property, others
who formed a lower class of
mechanics and artisans and final
ly those living with difficulty
above pecuniary embarrassment.
Among those in large cities social
lines yrere as strongly drawn as
between the whites and blacks,
and the antipathy resulting there
from was hardly less.
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Acquitted Lyncher
Gets 30 Days or Fine
Evidently feeling secure in the
knowledge that southern justice
would wink again at the white
man’s reprisals against the Ne
groes, Hendrix Rector, 32, cab
driver acquitted with 30 others in
the recent Greenville lynching,
went out and shot a hole in the
spare tire of a car driven by a
^Jegro.
However, southern justice did
not wink this time, for early last
week the hackie drew a fine of
$100 or 30 days imprisonment
from City Recorder J. M. Richard
son.
According to the testimony
given by Wesley Arthur, and sup
ported by two others, he had stop
ped his car for a red light. A cab
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with two men in it, pulled up be
side him and blew its horn. Ar
thur crossed on the green light
and the cab again pulled along
side. One of the men in it pulled
a gun and said, “I ought to kill
you. Arthur then said the man
shot and punctured the back tire.
Rector denied he had done so,
and said he was not in the cab
that night. Woodrow W. Clardy,
taxi dispatcher and also a defend
ant in the Wiille Earle lynch trial,
testified that the cab company
had only three machines of the
model usually driven by Rector,
that Rector’s cab was being re
paired on that night. He also
said that Rector was in the office
at the time of the shooting.
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