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EDITORIALS
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CREED OF “THE SOUTHERN
COLONELS”
(By William Pickens for ANP)
Perhaps the reader will want to
read the “creed” at the end of this edi
torial, and then read what I write here
in the beginning. The sane will agree
that nothing more inhuman and un
civilized has appeared even in Hitler
Germany. And this is the 20th century
A. D. in which men are flying arcund
the world in less than 4 days.
Yet here are beastly thoughts
from the dark ages, appearing in Ohio,
propogated by “Southern gentlemen,”
in the neighborhood of CoBumbus. Of
all the 12 items of this creed there is
not one that deserves human respect
not even number 10, which calls for a
pitiful one dollar a year to finance
these pitiful beliefs on their way.
In number 1, the poor fools sub
scribe to a lack of beliefs in ‘ a hybrid
race,” not knowing that there is no
other kind of human race on earth,
and that those that are nearest to non
hybridism are the low savages of lone
ly islands, where the white race has
not vet tarried for a day.
But creed declaration number 12
sums up the whole pitiful mess: “I
WILL IN GENERAL ASSUME THE
CREED OF THE OLD SOUTH AND
TRY TO MAINTAIN THE HONOR
AND RESPECT OF A TRUE
SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN.”
Indeed there were and still are,
true Southern gentlemen, but none of
them fit into this hellish creed. The
“gentlemen” spoken of here are those
who raped colored women for 12 gen
erations and made that “purity of our
blood,” which these idiots call for, for
ever impossible,—if indeed it had not
been already impossible before those
gentlemen made contact.
Those “gentlemen” tried to carry
their arguments in the nation by hick
ory sticks and guns, and had to be
beaten down to earth before they could
be prevented from destroying the pro
mising nation of the west, and so ruin
ing the New World. They put on a
great masquerade of “gallantry” at
their own parties and then in the ‘pur
ity” of ther own blood, and they creat
ed a million mulattoes.
But I do not need to speak for this
“Creed,” bulletin number 10432 of the
“Southern CoBonels.” It’s the best ar
gument against itself:
“Co'mmision in the Southern Colonels”
“We the members of the white
race, whose fathers have crated this
great civilization of the West, do re
solve that we will preserve that purity
of cur blood lines forever against any
contamination thereof.
“We believe that that which our
fathers sacraficed their lives to obtain
is our sacred heritage and is ours by
divine right, to be protected in its pur
ity that our posterity may not be be
quethed the irrevocable sin of a mixed
heritage. WE STAND AND WE
ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE TO
OUR CHILDREN FOR THAT SAC
RED HERITAGE OF A PURE
BLOOD LINE.
“We feel that our race is super
ior in mind and body to the other races
of the earth and as a man dominates
the animals, so shall we dominate the
lesser races. We dd not advocate to
harm thorn, but we do demand that
thqy recognize by act and deed the
superiority of our race.
“WE STAND HEADY TO PRE
SERVE BY ALL LAWFUL MEANS
THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF
THE WHITE MAN AND THERE
SUBSCRIBE TO THE FOLLOWING
CREED.”
“Creed”.
“1. I do not believe in a hybrid race,
and will personally be responsible for
the purity of blood, in my family.
“2. I will not attend a mixed social
function nor allow a member of my
family to do so.
“3 I will not partake otf food in a
clientele or where such a clientele is
served, nor allow a member of my
family to do so.
“4 I will not lend my political sup
port to any candidate who promises
to concessions or privileges to another
race.
“6. I will not employ a.member of
another race fdr other menial labor
nor allow anotherd member of my
family to do so.
“6. I will not allow a member of an
other race to become a public offical
without protest.
“7. I will demand a respect of all
other races and see that it is given t<
others of my race.
“8. I will never support a member of
another race against a member of my
own.
“9. I will extend both my moral and
physical support to any man who at
tempts to further the interest of my
race.
“10. I will dend by financial support to
the extent of $1 per year to further
the enactments of my belief.
“11. I will support the repeal of all
laws forcing the members of my race
to tolerate race equality.
“12. I WILL IN GENERAL AS
SUME THE CREED OF THE OLD
SOUTH AND TRY TO MAINTAIN
THE HOINOR AND RESPECT OF A
TRUE SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN.”
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HOPKINS CITES FIFTH YEAR OF
GROWTH IN WPA EDUCATION
PROGRAM; SAYS ILLITERACY
REDUCED 25 PER CENT
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In spite of economy reductions in
the teaching staff and the number of
classes, enrollment under the education
program of the Works Progress Ad
ministration during the 1937 - 1938
school year showed an increase for the
fifth consecutive year, Arministrator
Harry L. Hopkins 'announced' today.
Total enrollment was 1,586,211 as com
pared with 1,569,529 a year ago.
At the same time, he added a five
year goal of teaching one milllion ill
iterate adults to read and write has
been reached and passed. The WPA
program, he said, had reduced illiter
acy in the United States by approxi
mately one-fourth during the 5 years
of its existence.
From a report submitted h(y Dr. L.
R. Alderman, WPA educational directr
or, showing the accomplishments of the
program during the school year just
closed, Administrator Hopkins cited
gains showing a consistent growth in
the scope and value of the work.
“Proof is now at hand,” he said,
‘That a large segment of adult Ameri
ca is hungry for educational advantag
es which it missed in its youth.
“Until the inception ot the emer
gency education program under the
Federal Emergency Relief Admini
stration in 1933, publicly supported
adult education in this country was
limited to a small number of states. As
begun then and continued under the W
PA, educational opportunities, geared
especially to the needs of the lower in
come groups, have been extended to an
ever-growing number of people.
“Partcipation in these classes is,
of course, voluntary and without cost.
The fact that more than one-half mill
ion persons of all ages, creeds and col
ors were enrolled during the last school
year is convincing proof not only of
the need for such a program but also
that those who have lacked in educa
tional opportunities ar« eager for a
chance at self-improvement.”
The gain of 16,782 enollments dur
ing the past year was spread over all
phases of the program, Dr. Alderman’s
repot showed .The gain was made in
the face of a twenty per cent decrease
in the number of teachers and a simi
lar decrease in the number of individ
ual classes. In April of this year, 26,
271 teachers were offering 101,602
classes as against 34,230 teachers and
139,756 classes a year ago.
“Outstanding among the accom
plishments of the year,” I)r. Alderman
declared,” has been lhe achievement of
a 5 year goal of teaching 1,000,000
men and women, hitherto illiterate, the
fundamentals of reading, writing and
arithmetic. Efforts to eradicate illiter
acy will continue undiminished, how
ever, for there are at least 3,000000
more adult illiterates in the nation.”
The report is based on compara
tive satistics for April in tha years ’37
and ’38. Cumulative totals for the en
tire year, allowing for new enrollees
and drop outs, are not maintained, Dr.
Alderman explained, adding that the
April figures are representative of Oie
net enrollment for the ycar.
Enrollment in illiteracy and nat
uralization classes totaled 278,440 in
April, an increase of more than 37,000
over the same month last year, the re
port showed. The literacy education
program will not close dowh for the
traditonal summer vacation this year.
On the contrary, plans are being madc
in many local'ties for its expansion. In
at least three states—North Carolina,
Georgia and Louisiana—the program
is being augments by the use of sup
plemental state and local public funds.
Classes in home-making, cooking,
household budgeting, sewing, hygiene
and care of the sick—were attended by
133,562 wives and mothers during the
month covered by the report. Sixty-five
thousand others parlicpated in classes
re!ated to child welfare and family re
lationships. So popular has this typo of
instruction become with low income
families, the Education and the Apart
ment of Agriculture to provide a high
er type of trainin’ for the homemaking
and parent education teachers during
the summer.
Closely associated with the above
are nursery schools for children tw^o
to four years old. Fifteen hundred of
these schools, with enrollments total
ing 44,190 w-ere in operation during
the month studied. In addition to furn
ishing healthy invironment for play
and recreation, the nursery schools
gave nourshing and well balanced lun
ches which, in many cases, the report
points out, proved to be the only ade
quate meal hundreds of children re
ceived during the day.
One of the most significant educa
tional fields which the WPA has en
tered, Dr. Alderman declared, is that
of furnishing corrtspondence courses
for persons living in remote farm and
mountain regions. While only eight
states conducted programs of this sort
enrollments were distributed ov«r the
entire nation and increased from 23,
409 in 1936-37 to more than 30,000 last
year.
Such courses, of either high school
or college level are conducted coopera
tively wth state universities in Michi
gan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Okla
homa, Oregon and Washington, and
with state departments of education in
California and Ihaho. All \ teaching
personnel is taken from WPA roles
while the universities furnish quarters
and general supervision. Trade and
professional subjects dominate the
courses of study selected by the cor
respondence students, the report indi
cates, yet ‘he most popular single sub
ject is English. Others in ord‘r of
popularity are Diesel engineering, au
to mechanics, mathematics, practical
arts, forestry, history and aeronautics.
Business subjects are also popular, as
are several courses in liberal arts.
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Uther types oi eaucauon onereu
under the program and the numbers
participating are as follows, workers’
education, 38,424; public affairs 56,
754; vocational education, 202,891;
leisure time and vocational activities;
315,282; college subjects, 6.985; gener
al adult educaction, 353,503; miscel
laneous, 60,836.
‘The year has also been marked,”
the report concludes, “by the strength
ening of cooperative relations between
the WPA and state and local educa
tional agencies. In every state but one
the WPA educational program is now
under the sponsorship of the state de
partment of education, while in pract
ically every city and town, WPA tea
ch ei*s and classes are under the super
vision of local officcials.
“The WPA program is thus really
an extension of the sendees of the
public schools into the two relatively
new fields of adult education and nur
sery schools.”
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ROOM FOR BOTH
“No definite stability within the
merchandising field can be expected
until Congress wakes up to the fact
that big business has as much right to
operate in a free country as a little
business will, in the end, gain nothing,
neither for the country nor its mil
lions of purchasers ” s^ye the Bucyrus,
Ohio, Telegraph-Foruin.
“It is easy to sit back and condemn
chain stores and hope that they are
‘taxed to death’, but wfhat about the
economic result of such silly legisla
tion? It is only reasonable to under
stand that any chain concern which is
forced to pay such bounty to the gov
ernment is going to close a good many
stores. The indeppendents would get
more business, perhaps, but how sta
ble would this new business be ? If the
chain concerns are forced to close many
stores it would mean new and large
additions to the nation’s great unem
ployment total. Chain stores contri
bute well to most community programs.
They hire emoloyees who buy or rent
homes and buy merchandise in the
community. They advertise lravily.
They pay heavy taxes. Their employees
drive automobiles and pay toward* the
upkeep of the streets. . .
“There is room for both chain
stores and independent establishments
in every community of any size and
time has proved in these communities
that both can hold their respective
trade.”
That is a temperate, sensible and
reasonabl0 commentary on the situa
tion. Most of the attacks against the
the chains are as empty as the politi
cal windbags who instigate them. Not
♦h° slur t st evidence c<m be produced
to show that the chains are destroy
ing the independent—indeed, statis
tics proce that in recent years inde
pendent stores have tended to grow'
faster in both number and volume of
business than chain stores. The exist
ing merchandising structure, operat
ing on an open competitive basis, gives
a better break to consumer, producer
and all involved.
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THE KEY TO FARM PROSPERITY
Greater cooperation among dairy
farmers holds the key to better eco
nomic conditions, said Fred H. Sexau
er, president of the Dairymen’s Lea
gue Cooperative Association, recently.
He added: “From beginning to end
the milk industry needs an overhaul
ing. Not to throw it into control of
bureaucrats, nor leave it under th*
thumb of buyers, nor to grind farmers
down, but to bring them together and
to give consumers every break to
which trey are entitled.”
That is vital and immediate need
today, with consumer purchasing pow
er at low levels, and with a large milk
surplus on hand. The leading dairy
cooperatives are fighting an aggres
sive battle to keep the industry on as
even keel as possible—but they can’t
win without loyal, undivided support
from all producers.
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POLITICIANS DESTROY PRIVATE
BUSINESS
According to recent news dispatch
es, the government’s vast power pro
gram in Nebraska—which involves
the creation of a great publicly—sub
sidized hydro- electric system that
would virtually blanket the state- and
destroy all or part of the investments
of the privately-owned, privately fi
nance, highly taxed and publicly-re
gulated utilities—is not faring so wefl.
The citizens of Nebrdaska are begin
ning to wonder just what is going to
happen if the program goes through
as scheduled.
