PAGE FOUR THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1930 THE WORKMAN. 60 20 on. mad as it should appear to even the least discerning eyes is Negro Business and Negro Patronage so universal, and seemingly compelling, the conclusion that it is the thing will necessarily be popular. But is it the thing? Surely, at its best, pleasure place in life should be the fringe, the outer The subjoined article taken from the editorial column of edge, certainly not the core and purpose of it. But that is prea recent issue of the Negro World is reproduced here in the hope cisely what is so eagerly, almost anxiously, sought after. Even Published on Saturday Ly WALROND, at the office No 72 that it will be read, marked and inwardly digested by those of our in its present aspect, it is nothing more than a perpetual whirl of CARLOS MENDOZA Street No. 72, Panama, group who make it a point to carefully pass by the business excitement, an intoxicant, a drug which, we are sure, like drink Bus 74, Panama Box 1102, Ancon place of his fellow Negro and give his patronage to the other produces its thrills while it lasts, with the inevitable reaction of fellow. This, practice is so noticeable among Negroes in Panama RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION regrets, and often, we fear, sin. If the most zealous votaries of that it calls forth not very complimentary observations by many ONE YEAR. 40 Cy.
pleasure were consulted as to the consequences, to themselves of the other communities, here. We repeatedly hear the remark alone, of their constant quest of pleasure, we feel certain that, SIX MONTHS. 20 If the Negroes here would stand by each other and get together, if the truth were told, their experience would only prove the reTHREE.
what a solid and formidable front would they become for their sult: Dead Sea apples alluring to the senses, but bitterly disap own protection and economic development. This fact is visible ONE MONTH.
pointing to both mind and heart. As we see it, there can be no to everyone else except the Negro himself. How lamentable!
other result. Whether it be the dance hall, the picture show, the How sad! Will Negroes ever learn to patronize Negro business?
The Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of our rights JUNIUS football match, the bathing club, or what not, the result is bound and thereby assist themselves to develop industrially?
to be the same, a moment or two of exciting thrills, and the pall The article follows: THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1930 of emptiness and hollowness as the fruit, if not worse. After Negroes must realize that if this race is to rise to the hard toil, mental or physical, body or mind or both require re CONGRATULATIONS laxation and recupération for the resumption and continuance of prominence and prosperity which we so much love to vision, every life work. But to make recreation not to speak of (what is one of us must become racially conscious; must see justice for al We wish to day to address some expressions of sympathetic called) pleasure life objective is not to benefit, but to waste life men, but Negroes at the first table; must rally to the great and strenuous efforts which Negro business men are making, all over and its golden opportunities for the uplift of what is best and pleasure to the teachers of the Canal Zone Colored Schools, their noblest and most glorious in humanity. Not that we would ban the land, all over the world, wherever our kinsmen dwell, and pupils, and the parents of those pupils, and to offer them our pleasure; as an adjunct and auxiliary to life, it is all well and support the enterprises, commercial and industrial, which they are felicitations on their recent demonstration of effective usefulness good; but there it should remain, if it is to serve a useful or bringing into being, and help them on to success.
in their work. The teachers have taught, the children have learnOnly when we have this thorough understanding of our ed, and its a cinch that the parents have co operated to bring beneficial purpose; but to make it life purpose is equivalent to the prostitution of life most important gifts. Recreation, if it obligations to this proud race of ours, only when we live up to about such happy results. The teacher, child, and parent have tach discharged their duty in a satisfactory manner, using such means anything at all, means rest of body or mind but no one those obligations, and enhance the power and glory of Negro material as were at their disposal to the best advantage, thereby in his senses could dream of denominating the intoxicating whirl Business will the race be ever able to attain to that place in the giving evidence of what happy mediums can be struck as the re of a night spent in a dancing room, with all its modern concomsun, which we are so hopefully dreaming about today.
sult of intelligent co operation.
itants, rest of any sort. Yet, it is by masquerading as recreation Negro business is the bedrock upon which all our schemes and rest from work and toil, that the dance hall succeeds in un and plans for future betterment must be built. Negro Business is This act of co operating for the common good is a pleasing fitting its victims for their normal occupation on the day follow the buttress against which the activities of this race group, scatiaculty, and its aptness is at once apparent it is precursory to ing the rest and repose it is proclaimed to afford. If we look at tered as it were all over creation must lean, for it is the profits the establishment of happy achievements, and it is a positive exchildren at play, we shall see what pleasure means. Diversion and from Negro business enterprises which will pay for the projects pression of good will.
excitement are the dominant features. Never one thing too long. which Negro minds have conceived, and will ever be able to think Our pleasure in this connection is both general and partichange, constant change, and that because of the unrest of in the days to come.
cular. General because of the wholesome effect which this de necessarily iconsequent the unformed mind and It is therefore the bounden duty of every Negro, wherever monstration must have upon the public mind, dark or enlightened, undeveloped reason To make of pleasure the purpose he may happen to be, to give our unstinted support to the indusand particular because it came at the time when an Ass had of life to the subordination of all the higher and real purposes trial and commercial undertakings, launched out among our peo barely ceased his playing at the lyre for public amusement, conof existence, is only a reversion to primitive methods. It is ple. We must see to it that they are run on honest efficient, cerning the Colored teachers and the children of Canal Zone indeed evidence of a peculiar kind of atavism, in which beings, modern, and progressive lines. Our demands upon such activities schools. But the public was not amused. No one is amused at who are supposed to have reached the highest plane of a boasted within the race must be exacting, and in the spirit of race pride, the exhibition of ignorance, nor at the monkey trying to shave civilisation, by the influence of some unexplained, but certainly so that these undertakings will measure up to the needs of the with his master razor. It is natural for the Ass to bray, and calamitous impulse, suddenly revert to the mental stages of untimes in which they operate, and become a source of pleasure, for the Wood Pecker to drive its beak against the trunks of trees; pride and prosperity, for the present and future safeguarding of but it has never succeeded to do any developed childhood or savagery. Because it is only in these more than to bore a hole large enough to contain its little body wherein it hides itself from stages that we find this unquestioning devotion to a course of all our projects of the race, and for our ultimate good.
public view. All this happens as a matter of course, while a too action that is beyond all reasonable acceptance. The pursuit of Every Negro must come to the understanding that in helpbusy world passes on and gives but a glance at these little animals pleasure, as such, is absolutely and irremediably suicidal. Society ing his fellow race man, who is today engaged in any line of busias they enjoy themselves with that which they regard as dexterous will go to the dogs, and that inevitably, if pleasure, as such, is ness activity, he is helping himself to a surer footing in the world performances made life objective. We hope therefore, that this mad condition of humankind, and stand like patriots, behind every such underEvery now and then, one of these nameless nincompoops of the average mentality, just now, may soon change, and that taking, carrying them to big successes, since they are those who bobs up from obscurity, and tries his luck at performing stuntsthe conduct of sane men and women who are, as they should be, will have to find employment for ourselves, for our children, and to hew down the Oak tree with a pocket knife. This obviously, proud to be followers of Christ, will be such as to stem this mad for our children children. Let us therefore help to build the is impossible. It is a case of the fool rushing in where an Angel tide of madder pleasure that is threatening to flood society with struggling Negro enterprises of today into great and dazzling would fear to tread. It is merely a passing wind and the praccertain disaster. Catholic News.
successes, for our own good and welfare.
tice of little stunts for which fat heads possess a fondness, and which must intelligently be dismissed as imprudent impudence.
CONDOLENCE These demonstrations of handicraft have not only been fitting reprisals to the impudence of the observer who observed Tribute to nothing after all, but they have distinctly registered the march of intellect which observer said did not exist. What fools we Whittingham mortals be, when we indulge in the expression of absurdities (By Solomon St. Rose. concerning matters whereof we are not informed? Such expressDear Friend and co worker, ion can only be taken as placing a mark upon the adversary of realize that the sad event which improvements, who, as Lord Brougham puts it. moves on in a nami AT befell you recently cannot be asmarch, with the pride, and circumstance of glorious war, banners suaged by the commonplaces of conflying, shouts rending the air, guns thundering, and martial music dolence, nor do care to further open pealing, to drown the shrieks of the wounded, and the lamentaafresh the sluices of your affliction: tions of the slain.
but must write to assure you of my But during, and in spite of all this buffoonery, the schoolheartfelt sympathy in your grief.
masters pursue their peaceful vocation. They meditate and prepare in secret the plans which are to bless mankind; they gather Tried myself in the school of afflicaround them those who are to further their execution the chilO. CARDOZE Co.
tion by the loss of every form of dren. and they quietly advance in their humble paths till they connection which can rive the human open to light the recesses of ignorance. In this, they progressPlaza Santa Ana, No. 32 heart, know well, and feel what a progress which leads to a brilliant triumph, and to laurels more you have lost, what you have suffer imperishable than the vagaries of the destroyer of his species, and ed, are suffering and yet have to endure. The same experiences have the scourge of the community.
The Community is deserving of congratulations for its We are, offering to the public an opportunity of taught me that for ills so unfathomapossession of teachers who teach, children who learn, and parents ble, time and silence are the only buying first class goods at Remarkable Prices, such as solution.
who co operate to the end that knowledge might supplant ignorance, and to make possible the displays of which we have heard Whilst mingling my tears with MEN SUITS and read, from La Boca to Cristobal for its inheritance of peryours, will not say a word more, sons of the high and holy calling of teacher, the fame of whom where words are vain, but that it is has long since become the property of Communities, Races, and all kinds, sizes and colors, ranging from 00 of some comfort to us both that the Nations, and whose renown will fill the earth in the ages to come.
time is not far distant at which we Then, when they rest from their labors, they shall bequeath MEN are to deposit in the same cerement SHIRTS their memories to the generations whom their works have blessed, our sorrows and suffering bodies, and sleep under their humble, but not inglorious epitaph. They and to ascend in essence to an ecstain whom mankind have lost some friends; but no one an enemy.
all patterns attached and detached collars ranging the meeting with the ones we have from 75 loved and lost, and whom we shall still love and never lose again.
PLEASURE God bless you and support you unMEN UNDERWEAR 40 der your heavy affliction.
Ed. NoteThe above communication The word pleasure is, just now, breathed in the air, flashed should has appeared in the eyes and heard in every sound that catches the ear. Its ALSO COMPLETE LINE OF last issue but same did votaries are legion, and devotees clamour continually for admisnot reach this office in sion to its perpetually whirling environment. Unsophisticated Socks, fancy and plain 1ies, Pajamas from 00 time.
youth, catching the infection, is ready to break asunder all bounds and flout the holiest sanctions in order to secure its right of entrance into this arena of the world present objective. Yet PALAIS ROYAL for when we come to analyse what is the pleasure sought after, and ALL GOING AT BARGAIN PRICES what it really means for humanity, we are appalled by what we SUITS cannot but see must be the fatal consequences of this mad quest, whose universality seems to give it sanction. It is, unfortunately, LA this very universality which is its most dangerous feature; beBUY FROM THE WORKMAN cause the world is ever ready to accept as correct and binding the ADVERTISERS AND GET findings of the majority; and in as much as the quest for pleasure SALALALA TERLALTERER VALUR FOR YOUR MONEY Great Bargain Sale LA NUEVA DALIA up Wallets, Garters, Links, Hats, Caps, etc. etc. NUEVA DALIA