The uplift [serial] . * * BOYS CHRISTMAS FUND For many years, since the opening of the Stonewall JacksonTraining School for boys, this little paper has carried what is knownas the Boys Christmas Fund. It is not necessary to explainwhat this fund means, for the friends of this institution know thatin this manner they are priviledged to contribute towards a fundthat is used to give to the underprivileged boy a happy is easy to understand that in a crowd of 500 boys, approxi-mately the number we have here, there are some who have neitherkith nor kin to remember them during this Yulet
The uplift [serial] . * * BOYS CHRISTMAS FUND For many years, since the opening of the Stonewall JacksonTraining School for boys, this little paper has carried what is knownas the Boys Christmas Fund. It is not necessary to explainwhat this fund means, for the friends of this institution know thatin this manner they are priviledged to contribute towards a fundthat is used to give to the underprivileged boy a happy is easy to understand that in a crowd of 500 boys, approxi-mately the number we have here, there are some who have neitherkith nor kin to remember them during this Yuletide season. We feelsure the interest in the underprivileged boy has not waned, there-fore, we start off our Christmas Fund as usual. We thank ourfriends for their generous contributions in the past and feel surethat the Boys Christmas Fund of 1940 will equal, if not surpassthat of previous years. .-. - $ Mrs. T. L. Ross, Concord, .... Miss Lena Leslie, Concord, L. D. Coltrane, Concord, , THE UPLIFT NO NEGRO DOMINATION By H. E. C. Bryant in Beasleys Farm & Home Weekly My first knowledge of politicalstrategy came when I was a tiny ob-server. After the negro was giventhe ballot—long before he was readyfor it—men like my father had tofind ways to prevent his dominationin areas where the colored populationfar outnumbered that of the whites. In our township we had more negrovoters than white voters but, as arule, colored people preferred peaceto political strife; they yielded topersuasion to refrain from exeicisingtheir suffrage privilege. Now andthen, however, some outside trouble-maker would drift in and organizethem for a show down with white vot-ers, a majority of whom were land-owners. That happened one yearwhen election contests were hot andclose. A strange negro, Richard Bryant,came from another state, and arousedthe colored population. He commenc-ed by holding secret meetings inchurches and halls controlled by ne-groes. Before Dr. Rell, Capt.
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