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INTELLIGENCE AND INTEGRITY MAKE MEN
AND RACES GREAT
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1981
BACK TO THE SOIL
We know that it is unorthodox and, perhaps, offensive in some
quarters to try to discuss the problems of Negroes in terms of
anything that has the remotest connection with honest-to-good-
ness hard work of any kind. But these are perilous times, and
we must think deep and much, and give every reasonable sugges-
tion respectful consideration.
Like in everything else Negroes have imitated white people in
their mad rush from rural life to city life—that is, this imitation
has played its part where more compelling reasons have not been
present In great measure, however, the migration of Negroes
from farm to city has been merely an attempt to escape the peon-
age or semi-peonage conditions which Negroes have faced in ru-
ral life. His inability to get a settlement at harvest time, and
the grim discovery year after year that, regardless of the amount
of the crop he never did more than break even, has made the Ne-
gro choose whatever fate might await him in the town or city,
rather than remain almost a slave.
Now in the city the relentless movement is on foot to drive the
Negro from gainful employment In Atlanta this movement has
succeeded in displacing most if not all of the Negro bellhops.
There is less and less security for black men and women in the
economic system of this nation as the days and months and years
come and go. What shall we do?
One possibility for some of us may lay in serious consideration
of a back to the soil movement The economic crisis through
which the nation is now passing will leave millions of acres of
land as unprofitable investments in the hands of the money in-
terests of the country. They will be glad to get a fraction of
former values for this land. It is wholly within the realms of
reason to predict that a great amount of this land will lie in places
where Negroes can work out a destiny with peace and prosperity.
In such an event The Informer and Freeman thinks that it will
be wise for Negroes to consider the possibilities, not of becoming
plantation owners over night, but of developing intensively and
scientifically small tracts, each of which can be worked by one
family in such a way as to guarantee first of all a living for that
family, (to be grown for the most part from the soil itself), and
in time some of the luxuries of life.
As a race we must in the years to come either become more
productive or pass more and more out of the picture. In this ef-
fort some of us must find our way back to the soil.
POOR JUDGMENT
The rapid strides that Howard University is making in develop-
ing its physical plant makes every Negro in America happy. To
walk through those beautiful dormitories for girls just now being
completed makes one’s heart leap with joy for the fine opportuni-
ties for decent home life for the black girls who will attend there.
Then, as one views the comparatively new medical school plant,
and contemplates what is planned for the other schools which
make up the university, he feels that here is something worth re-
joicing at
And then, as one comes back to Texas, this great empire, and
remembers the fact that if a poor black boy wants to study medi-
cine that he may come back and improve the health of the state,
or to study dentistry that he may come back and help to create
clean mouths and good teeth for one-sixth of the population of
the state, he must somehow, in his poverty and like the poor
Israelites making brick without straw, find the means to cross
the continent almost in order that he may equip himself thus to
serve his state.
Then one thinks what poor judgment the state of Texas shows
in this matter of providing useful education for its black citizens.
Think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars which are being
spent right now to educate black boys and girls upon the soil of
other states, when Texas needs the money here at home. Think
of how much more in sympathy and understanding black boys and
girls would be with their home state if they could get their need-
ed educational advantages right here in Texas. Think of how
much more profitable it would be for Texas, in dollars and cents,
and in things worth more than dollars and cents, to give its black
citizens, as it does its whites, home training in all of the arts and
sciences which determine the real stature of the Lone Star State.
Finally, think of this. Negro teachers right here in Houston
must go outside of the state of Texas to fit themselves to meet
the requirements which are made upon them.
WHAT WILL IT ALL MEAN?
In educational circles the news of last week included that of a
gift of one million dollars to Atlanta University, the meeting of
endowment requirements by Morehouse College, and the accept-
ance of the presidency of Dillard University by Will W. Alexan-
der, executive director of the Commission on Interracial Coopera-
tion, with headquarters in Atlanta. As one compares these things
with what has been going on at Fisk and Meharry and Howard,
at Hampton and Tuskegee, and at Wiley and Bishop, in recent
years, he necessarily gets a vision of great educational centers
in Washington, D. C., Atlanta, Ga., Nashville, Tenn., Marshall,
Texas, and New Orleans, La.
The logical, indeed, the ever more insistent question which
comes from the Negro community to those involved in bringing
these educational centers into being is, what will it all mean? The
community knows pretty well what this process is meaning to the
folks who go to these centers and come back with degrees and di-
plomas. It knows for one thing that these poor, deluded young
people, outside of the field of trying to do to other unsuspecting
youth through the teacher-pay-check route what has been done
to them, are for the most part unfit for the making of any con-
tribution to the solution of the problems which the community
faces, even in the places where they have served helpfully and
profitably before they went off to college.
And, as these centers of education begin to shape their perma-
nent programs, and before it is too late, they should realize that
in the future the community will no longer accept as justification
for either extending its support or withholding its discredit the
fact that one of these institutons of learning graduated so many
people last year, or has so many alumni, or is about to grant de-
grees to so many more. Nothing short of definite, concrete,
measurable, and understandable contributions to the solution of
the problems which face the millions of the masses of Negroes in
community life will suffice.
William Pickens
SAYS
CANP
NEGRO BABY CROP FAILING?
Some one in the Census Bureau has
sent me a summary of the 1930 cen-
sus. I have compared some of the
facts indicated by the figures with
some previous facts indicated by pre-
vious figures—and the disclosures are
very interesting. The trends disclos-
ed in the age-composition of the Ne-
gro population are most interesting.
By themselves, figures are the dum-
mest-looking things. But when you
apply a bit of “gray matter” to well-
ordered figures, they begin to tell
charming (or alarming) stories. The
total Negro population has increased
a bit, of course, even if we do not
count the many thousands of Negroes
who pass over into the white race ev-
ery decade, to escape the terror of be-
ing “colored."
But the proportion of younger Ne-
groes is growing smaller and smaller
in the total Negro population. On
the other hand, the proportion of Ne-
groes over 20 has grown larger, but
not proportionately larger. Let us
compare 1910 with 1930, and vice ver-
sa: ,
In 1910 the Negro babies under one
year were 2.6 percent of the total Ne-
gro population, and in 1930 only 2
percent. Similarly, children under 6
were 12.9 and are now 10.3. From 6
to 9 they were 12.7, and are now 11.5.
From 10 to 14 they were 11.8, now
10.6. From 16 to 19, were 10.8, now
10.6. From 20 to 34, were 26.3, now
26.4.
We have combined the figures for
these ages. But this section, so com-
bined, shows first stage in which 1930
figures are larger in proportion than
the 1910 figures. The superior health
and longevity of the older sections
seems to start up at ten years. Also:
from 1 year to 19 years of age in
1910, the figures declined from 12.9
to 10.8, a decline of 2 percent. But in
1930 the figures for the same sec-
tions rose from 10.3 to 10:6—a rise of
two tenths of one percent.
The figures for both censuses, for
the 20 to 34 years old group, are near-
ly the same. But from 35 to 54, in
1910, 18.2, and now 22.8. While from
66 to 74 we still die fast;the figures
for 1910 being 6.1 and 1930 only 6.7,
CAPITALISTIC WISDOM
General Smedley D. Butler is quoted in recent news dispatches
as saying that there are fourteen multi-millionaires, representing
five billion dollars, who are ready and willing to submit to “volun-
tary taxation” of one half of their wealth to relieve poverty and
widespread unemployment, provided the money is spent accord-
ing to Butler’s plain. We hope that this proviso is not a bug un-
der the chip. But the significant thing about Gen. Butler’s state-
ment is one to the effect that, if some such plan as his is not put
into effect to breach the chasm between the rich and the poor,
“the mob will rise like it has in other countries.”
Let us hope that there is enough capitalistic wisdom in Ameri-
ca to prevent a revolution in this country. By voluntarily shar-
ing in time the taking of all from the rich in wasteful conflict in
the future may be prevented. ‘
A BIG SOUL
One of the side-lights upon £he last days of the late Prof. I. M.
Terrell, according to our information, is that, solicitous to the last
of the future of his race in Houston, Prof. Terrell asked that he
be removed to the Houston Negro Hospital. It is said that in
making this request Prof. Terrell stated that, while he realized
that he had had every care and that hospitalization would do no
more, yet as proof of his interest in the future of the Houston
Negro Hospital, of his desire that all Negroes give their full sup-
port to it, and of his confidence in the service- rendered there, he
wanted to spend his last hours in the land of the living in this
place.
Prof. Terrell had some unpleasant experiences in connection
with his efforts in bringing this fine institution into the life of
Negroes in Houston, and his spirit as indicated above in this mat-
ter shows that he was a big soul and deserves to be held in lov-
ing memory by all of the citizens of this community. Let us live
. by his example.
ENCOURAGING
Even though it does not go all the way the Houston Post-Dis-
patch is to be congratulated upon its courage to expose the fact
that the illiteracy of Negroes in Texas is due to the inadequate
school facilities which this great commonwealth has provided for
its Negro population. Says the Post-Dispatch:
“The fact that many of the illiterates (referring to the total
number of illiterate persons in the State of Texas) are Negroes
connot be used in extenuation of the state’s relatively poor show-
ing on literacy. Most of the Negro illiterates are native Texans,
and they should have been given educational advantages, at least
eonugh to make them able to read and write.”
The Informer and Freeman says that they should have been
given educational advantages equal to any other citizens in the
state, but we also say that it is encouraging when the Houston
Post-Dispatch will take the stand that all Negroes in the state
should at least be made literate.
BAPTISTS AND METHODISTS
One does not have to be very old to remember the time when
such cooperation as is now being practiced between Wiley and
Bishop would have have been entirely impossible between any two
groups of Baptists and Methodists in Texas. And for this rea-
son all the more are President Rhoads and Dr. Dogan to be con-
gratulated for their courageous program for the uplift of the Ne-
gro youth of this state.
Whether there is any real difference between Methodists and
“ Baptists, or, if so, whether anybody knows what that difference
is, may be left for another forum; but we must all admit that
Methodist education and Baptist education, if they are worth the
time it takes to impart them, are both the same.
WE ARE GLAD HE IS OUT
The Informer and Freeman is very glad to see President T. M.
Fairchild of the Watchtower Mutual Life Insurance Company out
again after his serious automobile accident. Aside from his splen-
did physical stamina and moral courage and nerve, Mr. Fairchild
has had in the interest of his recovery the very best wishes of
the entire community.
T. M. Fairchild means so much to the business life of the Ne-
groes of Houston and Texas that we need his presence and his
business vision and capacity among us for many, many years to
come. We are happy that he is back at his desk again.
IN TEXAS, TOO
Even the staid old Charleston, South Carolina, News -and Couri-
er, which seldom makes any concessions which are favorable to
Negroes, now concedes that “the primary as a system has outliv-
ed its usefulness.” The primary as a system, of course, through-
out the South has never been anything more than a device of the
white majority to directly prevent Negroes from exercising the
ballot without discrimination on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude, and indirectly of denying them adequate
school facilities, adequate police protection, good streets, lights,
drainage, and the rest of the civic benefits which flow from the
state laws to citizens.
But the News and Courier’s interest in the matter at this late
date is not because of what has happended to the Negro under
the white primary system, but rather in spite of it. This guard-
ian of South Carolina liberties is willing to say in 1931 that “polit-
ically, South Carolina is a bankrupt state,” because the primary
managers have manipulated it not only for the exclusion of Ne-
groes, but also for the purpose of entrenching a few in political
power. In other words the whites themselves are beginning to
feel the pinch of the shoe in the form of high and unequal taxes,
crime.and poverty.
Not only has the primary as a system outlived its usefulness in
South Carolina, but it has likewise outlived its usefulness in Tex-
as, too. Let us hope that the Supreme Court of the United States
may soon settle this question once and for all for South Carolina,
for Texas, and for all of the rest of the Southern states.
slightly better.
But on the other hand the figures
show that in 1910 we died much fas-
ter from 36 to 64 than we now die.
Health in the critical age, the score
of years most productive perhaps, as
a rule, in intellectual and economic
goods, has greatly increased.
Again: the smaller proportion
which the young bear to the total is
due in part to the great life-span of
the older people. That is, the phe-
nomenon could be due to both these
causes: a lowering birth-rate and a
lowering deathrate. Either or both of
those causes would tend to make the
proportion of the young smaller. But
the figures seem to indicate that the
birthrate has fallen more rapidly than
the logevity rate has increased, ex-
cept in that one span from 36 to 64.
Fewer babies and more gray heads.
Which is preferable?
It is also the first time that I have
noticed a set of census figures in
which the Negro babies were a small-
er proportion of the Negro race than
the native white babies are of the na-
tive white race. The Negro who was
once supposed always to have large
families, is now outdoing the white
people in “race suicide.’ He cannot
keep pace that way unless he equally
outdoes the white race in longevity.
But it is impossible for the economic-
ally worseoff race to outdo the eco-
nomically better-off race in long life.
The previous superior birthrate was
what enabled the American Negro to
hold his own. If that is now lost, we
will leave it to you to do the guess-
ing—the guessing as to speed and
date. But there need be no guess as
to the final result, which would be
the disappearance of the Negro and
the absorption of his blood through
“passing" mulattoes into the so-called
“white’ race. What difference will it
make?
PICKENS—“THE MOST
MAGNIFICENT VOICE”
New York City.—(ANP)—Local
travelers, returning from Europe, tell
of visiting the “Hygienic Exhibit” in
Dresden, Germany, where are hung
the pictures of people chosen to rep-
resent the highest attainments in va-
rious excellences of personal powers.
Among the selections made from all
over the world hangs the picture of
William Pickens of the United States
(Die Vereinigten Staaten), as an ex-
ampel and illustration of “The Most
Powerful and Magnificent Voice.”
ARCHITECT CHOSEN FOR ,
COLORED GIRLS’ SCHOOL
Baltimore, Md.—(CNS)—H e nry
Powell Hopkins was chosen last Fri-
day as architect for the $150,000
building planned to house the Mary-
land Training School for Colored
Girls. This school which is a part of
the state’s penal system is to be a
model reformatory unit. The com-
mittee of citizens appointed by Gov-
ernor Ritchie to decide upon an archi-
tect and the site of the building in-
cluded two colored persons: Mrs.
Hurst, widow of the late Bishop John
Hurst and Mason A. Hawkins, both
of Baltimore.
What Others Say
ILLITERACY IN TEXAS
Houston Post-Dispatch:
When the states of the union are
ranked according to the amount of il-
literacy among their respective popu-
lations, Texas has not much to brag
about. This state is not at the bot-
tom of the list, but it is too far down
for patriotic Texas not to feel asham-
ed when the comparison is exhibited.
To come to the point, Texas is thirty-
sixth in the illiteracy lineup.
According to the census returns
secured in 1930, there were in Texas
in that year a total of 308,121 per-
sons who could not read or write. That
was 6.8 per cent of the entire popula-
tion of the state. Imagine it If all
the illiterates in this state lived in
the same community, the population
of that community would be almost as
large as that of Houston today. Be-
cause the illiterates are scattered over
the state, they do not come to public
notice as much as if they lived to-
gether in large groups.
It may be pointed out that the num-
ber of native born illiterates is not so
great, the total in 1930 having been
46,878, or 1.7 per cent of the native
white population. The number of Ne-
gro illiterates was given as 90,225.
The remainder were classed as for-
eign- born whites and included Mexi-
cans.
The fact that many of the illite-
rates are Negroes cannot be used in
extenuation of the state’s relatively
poor showing on literacy. Most of
these Negro illiterates are native Tex-
ans, and they should have been given
educational advantages, at least
enough to make them able to read and
write. This showing is a reminder that
not as much as is needed is being done
to compel attendance at Negro schools.
So, it is no excuse to say that the
rate of illiteracy is high because of
the large Negro population. Negroes
as well as whites should be literate.
When it comes to the Mexican il-
literates, the state is entitled to some
allowance. Many of them are immi-
grants who crossed the border after
they were grown. Texas is not alto-
gether responsible for their lack of
education.' Good progress is being
made in getting Mexican children into
the public schools. If Mexican immi-
gration is checked, Mexican illiteracy
will decline in Texas. ′
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UNEMPLOYMENT BALLYHOO
“Mefo” in the Houston Press:
Are we all talking too much
about depression and unemployment?
Do the newspapers print too much
calamity stuff? Are our civic bodies
planning too much for relief and too
little for resumption of commercial
activities? Is there a psychology of
fear as well as of faith? Have we
lost faith because we implant wrong
thoughts ?
That seems to be the idea of M. B.
Davis, who has written a letter on
the subject. He says:
Can’t something be done about so
much unemployment ballyhoo?
There are more fruit and vegetables
being canned than ever before.
Nobody is going to starve to death.
Unemployment is no longer news,
but is stale, out of date and out of
order stuff.
Nobody cares particularly about
those appointed by Monteith, Sterling
or Hoover to serve on unemployment
committees. They are only exploit-
ing a situation and making it worse.
Charity should be dispensed quietly.
What good does it do to sing “Hap-
py Days Are Here Again” and then
preach such bosh about thousands are
going to starve to death in Texas, do-
ing naught but tighten up matters?
Why not face about and let us hear
how the canning industry has sold
more cans and the glass industry
more jars than ever for millions of
containers of fruit and vegetables ?
Why not less exploitation of farm
relief for political and publicity pur-
poses, when no doubt the real honest-
to-goodness farmer resents it, and
more news about fruit, vegetables,
poultry and thrift on the part of
farmers that has brought results?
Why not let the newspapers turn
from being a source of gloom to a
source of optimism, good cheer and
good?
'Why not Houston newspapers be
the first to blue pencil all unemploy-
ment stuff from here on out, and turn
the people’s minds to the possibilities
and potentialities of this great and
glorious garden spot that will reward
honest effort and clear thinking if so
much rot is tabooed?
Let us hear something from the
Chamber of Commerce about the fu-
ture of Houston, industrially, com-
mercially, agriculturally? If neces-
sary, crowd out this unemployment
stuff by giving the newspapers more
good news than they can possibly
print.
That’s what Mr. Davis thinks
should be done. What’s your opin-
ion? -:
We are ready for the change in
methods and for the stories of good
cheer. Bring them forth. We will
print them. In fact, we will hunt for
them.
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PRAISES FOOD SHOW
The Houston Informer-Freeman
Houston, Texas.
Attention J. M. Burr, Manager,
Cooking School and Food Show.
Gentlemen:
I am anxious to have you know how
much I enjoyed your cooking school
and hope it is a fixture in our com-
munity.
I especially want to thank you for
the five dollar gold piece for making
the best biscuits, using American
Maid Flour, Snowdrift, Rumford Bak-
ing Powder and buttermilk. And I
further thank you for the two dollar
and a half piece for having induced
the largest number of persons to at-
tend the school.
I was glad to add my bit to make
your effort a success and shall look
forward with pleasure to your next
show.
Yours very truly,
(Mrs.) MARY L. JONES.
310 Ruthven St., Oct. 5, 1931.
ESTED TRUTHS
By ELLIE ALMA WALLS
BIAS
A song very frequently sung in Ne-
gro churches is “You're gons reap
just what you sow.” We used to sing
it at Methodist class meetings every
week. I never was quite sure of the
words, but they sounded like these:
“You’re gona reap just what you
sow,
You’re gone reap just what you
sow,
In the harvest of the Lawd,
You’re gona get your just reward.
You’re gona reap just what you
sow, just what you sow!”
As often as we sang it, I always
had visions of people being paid back
for evil doings of which I knew and .4
of which I had heard. I doubt seri- 0
ously whether I ever thought of re-
ward for good things. Whenever we 3
came upon the Sunday School lesson 1
about sowing and reaping something
which the teacher said about it always 1
made me remember the punishment of #
the evil doer. Until yet there is burn- 1
ed into my brain a vision of the rich
man who lifted up his eyes in hell,. j
but only with effort can I visualise
Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham.
Even in maturer years as I in turn
have tried to teach this same lesson,
I have made use of the story told in
a novel, The Broken Law. This story
is about a man who in middle age was
prevented by pneumonia, which end-
ed in death, from doing a great work,
because in youth he had squandered
his health.
At a recent Sunday School teachers' J
meeting, after the usual discussion of
this type of lesson, one quiet unas-
suming teacher remarked, “We reap j
good deeds also.” The remark was
simple enough but it called us back
to the realization of the fact that we
had had a one-sided discussion.
Upon another occasion when the
matter of a name for the Negro race
was being discussed at an interracial
meeting, one of the colored members
said, “I have no objection to the word
Negro, but somehow the word Neg-
ress irritates me. I would just as-
soon be called a tigress or lioness.” A
white member immediately replied,
“Why can’t you think of Jewess,
princess, duchess, or baroness? It is
after all just one’s manner of think-
ing.”
There is undoubtedly much in one’s
manner of thinking and it is easy
enough to fall into a pessimistic bias: i
with regard to the world about us. .
Paul evidently sensed this situation |
for in the midst of great trials he j
wrote to the Corinthians: 1
“We are troubled on every side, yet 1
not distressed; we are perplexed, but
not in despair;
“Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast
down, but not destroyed.” I
A looking on both sides of the ques- h
tion will make us agree with Burke- 9
that “Virtue will catch as well as vice 9
by contact." 1
DENTAL TALKS
By DR. WALDO J. HOWARD
Houston Dentist
WHEN DENTISTRY IS
EXPENSIVE
Ofttimes we hear individuals say
they would have their teeth put in a . j
healthy condition but the cost is so
expensive. If you would for the mo-
ment remember the correct maximum,
“A stitch in time saves nine" you
would not neglect the importance of
mouth-care.
Delayed dentistry is not only ex- 4
pensive to your purse (for that is the
insignificant item as compared with
the expensiveness of your health.) It s
is far easier to keep the mouth in a 1
healthy condition than it is to put it ■
back in a healthy condition after it U
has been allowed to become unhealthy- W
And it is also less expensive.
Dentistry becomes expensive when
we fail to keep the teeth clean both
at home and by our dentist, also hav-
ing them examined at least twice a
year. Neglect of that small cavity
which could be correctly taken care of
but allowed to develop to the point
where the nerve is exposed not only
costing four times as much but the
danger of subsequent development is
greater. Ofttimes these cavities go to
the extent until the teeth have to
be lost, the removing and replacing
of these teeth are costing the individ-
ual now about ten times the amount
it would have cost to correct the orig-
inal small cavity.
Let us not say dentistry is expena, ,
sive but rather say delayed or neg-
lected dentistry is expensive. You get
about what you pay for and pay for
about what you get or are supposed
to get. Neglected or delayed dentis-
try begets expensive dentistry both to
pocketbook and health.
PROGRESS SHOWN
IN SOCIAL WORK
SCHOOL OF SOUTH
Atlanta, Ga.—The Atlanta School
of Social Work has opened its 12th
year of operation with an increase
of 66 per cent in full-time enrollment
—the largest the school has ever had,
according to an announcement by the
president, Prof. Forrester B. Wash-
ington. Fifteen states are represent-
ed in the student body, which includes
alumni from twelve colleges and uni-
versities.
The opening was featured by ad-
dresses by Jesse O. Thomas, secretary
of the National Urban League; Dr.
Will W. Alexander, director of the
Interracial Commission, land Kendall
Weisiger, assistant to the president
of the Southern Bell Telephone Co.al ,
It is announced that Miss Frances
Douglas, a 1931 graduate of the
school, has been employed as case
worker with the Associated Charities 1
of Charlotte, N. C. Miss Douglas is a
the daughter of Charles W. Douglas, 3
well known business man of Macon, 1
Ga. 8
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