This great calamity, however, has
been fortunate for some people. It
is caused primarily by the war prof
iteering in all the factors which en
ter into the building of homes. Now
those who happen to own buildings,
that stand up are reaping a golden
harvest and city marshals are mak
ing big money serving dispossess war
rants.
Homeless by 1922 and foodless by
1924 seems to be the goal which the
politicians offer the working people* of
our cities.
SOLID SOUTH THREATENED
Our next congressional session must
take up the matter of reapportionment
of congressional districts, and Repre
sentative Isaac Siegel of New York,
who is chairman of the reapportion
ment committee, declares he is going
to press the issue of reducing the rep
resentation where the constitutional
right to vote is denied.
Based on the census of 1910 the pre
sent congressional district Is made up
as nearly as practicable of 211,877 peo
ple. Our growth since, as shown by
the 1930 census, makes it necessary to
enlarge the districts or to reduce the
number of congressmen.
In refotance to Siegel's promise one
naturally thinks of the negro of the
South and of Republican desire to
break up the so-called Solid South.
These things are talked about so much
that the disfranchisement of the
whites of the South generally escapes
attention.
In a northern state, sfcch as In
diana, one person In four is the aver
age for voting. In the whole South
the average is one to seventeen. Not
only the negroes but less than half
the white men of voting age are ad
mitted to the polls as the Constitu
tion provides. In South Carolina and
Missisippi only one in thirty vote.
