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FOREST CITY COURIER! LPublished Every Thursday in the interest of Forest City and Rutherford County.| CHAPEL HILL 1 LITERATURE.It has been definitely settled that Contempo, the paper published at Chapel Hill, certain contents of which aroused the wrath of the Anderson editor, is in no way a responsibility of the University, but it appears that there are other publications there, notably The Daily Tar Heel, The Buccaneer and College Humor, and rucus around these publications has resulted in organization known as the Student’sMItS*Vc!' E^ ALCOCK'.Society Editor j Research League, Bulletin Number __I 1 tirViirvVi 1C TPEntered Aug. 22, 1918, at the post-office at Forest City, N. C., as second class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879.C. E. ALCOCK Editor and OwnerCLARENCE GRIFFIN—News Editor . of what isARVAL ALCOCK- Asst. ManagerADVERTISING RATES■Display, per column inch-Classified Column_________lc per word-30cSUBSCRIPTION RATESOne year ------------------—11-00Six Months.50j 1 of which is received at The Observer office. This number contains an attack on the editor of The Tar Heel, requesting his resignation on various grounds, and promising that . if he does not face the charges j brought against him, the Research i League will go on record as declar-j ing them to be true. It is the state-! ment of purposes of the League, how$1.50 per year outside of Rutherford j men^ of purposes comew J i ever, that gives indication of some-County.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931.LANGSTON HUGHES’ IglrTERANCES.B^ast week’s editorial in The Courier, under-the heading “Dirty Communism at th© University” has brought abouf considerable comment among I’he Courier readers. In response to wide-spread demand, we are publishing herewith the full text of negro Langston Hughes’ remarks, as printed in The Conterapto, a Chapol Hill publication, also a poem, also printed in The Contempto:Christ in Alabama.Christ is a Nigger,Beaten and black—O, bare your back.beMary is His Mother— Mammy of the South, Silence your mouth.God’s His Father— White Master above, Grant us your love .Most holy bastard Of the bleeding mouth:Nigger ChristOn the cross of the South.Southern Gentlemen, White Prostitutes.If the 9 Scottsboro boys die, the South ought to be ashamed of itself —but the 12 million Negroes in America ought to be more ashamed than the South. Maybe it’s against the law to print the transcripts of trials j from a State court. I don’t know. If /1 not, every Negro paper in this coun-j try ought to immediately publish the official records of the Scottsboro cases so that both whites and blacks might see at a glance to what absurd farces an Alabama court can descend. (Or should I say an American court?) .. The 9 boys in Kilbee Prison are Americans. 12 million Negroes are Americans, too. (And many of them far too light in color to be called Negroes, except by liars.) The judge and the jury at Scottsboro, and the governor of Alabama, are Americans. Therefore, for. the sake of American justice, (if there is any) j ^ and for the honor of Southern gen-1 *tlcmpn (if tV*oT.a ......... \ ^thing going wrong with journalism at the University. The publishers of The League Bulletin remain anony-j mous, “not out of fear,” for they are | to print nothing that is “libellous or!‘ untrue.” It is declared that “the J most glaring evil is The Daily Tar! Heel,” and the League’s first shaft is directed against ‘the latest American phenomenon—the Campus Racketeer.”The further declaration is that “a group of more than a score of upper-classmen, representing fraternities and non-fraternities, have wit-; nessed the gradual disintegration of student government on the campus, and at last they have organized a program of action. To expose the evils of the campus, in a restrained and dignified way, is their plan.”!t0 One of the arraignments of the editor of The Tar Heel is intimation that he refused to print a letter refuting his “false editorial on Communism on the campus.” Evidently the printing press at the Hill has been engaged in literary activities that irks at least a portion of the upper-classmen, aside from interesting the outside public.—Charlotte Observer.tlemen, (if there ever were any) I let the South rise up in prlt; pulpit, home (and school, Senate JChambers and Rotary Clubs, and petition the freedom of the dumb young ! blacks—so indiscreet as to travel,! unwittingly, on the same freight J train with two white prostitutes . . . J And, incidentally, let the mill-owners of Huntsville begin to pay their women decent wages so they won’t need to be prostitutes. And let the sensible citizens of Alabama (if there are any) supply schools for the black populace of their state, ( and for the half-biack, too—the mulatto children of the Southeim gentlemen (I reckon they’re gentlemen) so the Negroes won’t be so dumb again . . . but back to the dark millions—black and halfblack, brown and yellow, with a gang of white fore-parents—like me. If these 12 million Negro Americans don’t raise such a howl that the doors of Kilbee Prison shake until the 9 youngsters come out, (and I don’t I mean a polite howl, either) then let Dixie justice (blind and syphilitic' as it may be) take its course, and | let Alabama’^ Southern gentlemen amuse themselves burning 9 young black boys till they’re dead in the State’s electric chair. And let the mill-owners of Huntsville continue to pay women workers too little forj them to afford the pi'ice of a train ticket to Chattanooga ... Dear Lord, I never knew until now that white ladies (the same color as Southern gentlemen) travelled in freight trains • • -. Did you, world?. .. And who ever heard of raping a prostitute?
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