Brownsville Weekly News [Volume: 1, Issue: 36]

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THE BROWNSVILLE WEEKLY NEWS, FLINT, MICH.. ~

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ys. (Church Cooperation

Noting a cooperative effort. between a group of churches, the
question afdse-in our mind, Why not more church cooperation?
Churches,are simply collections Or organizations of human beings, and ~since cooperation is the highest form of activity in which~
human beings. @an.engage, is it to be supposed that any form of
cooperative effort is too high or intricate for us to oe a church
to engage therein?

That. was a fine gesture toward the highest fons of religious
cooperation when, not long since, two Atlanta churches of different denominations engaged in a joint revival. This is as it should
|. be, for these two ministers were obviously interested in the saving

of men~not the saying of doctrine or polity. ~If men are at all
i and were truly saved, the doctrine would take care of
itsel
We must not let the schools and the secular organizations
outstrip the churches in cooperative effort. No breach has to
\ be considered on account of Baptist arithmetics or Presbyterian
~geographiés for they do not exist as such and most educational
institutions are not as prone as are churches to set up imaginary
|, differencésg,..:.-. --\

Every: church, 3 it is worthy of the name, ought, especially
in its Sunday: school, have a standing committee on church codperation. Most ~of-the churches~ economic efforts draw on the same
group of people.almost all the time. Cooperative effort would not
absolutely prevent this, but it would create an ever-widening circle which would bring in new helpers constantly and would thus

IN DISGUISE

With. flying fists and flying heels
the Negro is threatening to run
away with things athletic in this
country. Having already won a
Place of prominence, the Negro
seems to be bjdding for preeminence in the few fields open to his
athletic prowess.

On the cinder patn the Negro
is a very run-away and in the
squared circle he is a little demon.
So invariably the Negro outruns
and outboxes his Nordic brother
that this writer is afraid least. the
Negro~s physical prowess raises the
suggestion as to his mental inferiority.

It is hardly probable that nature
would endow a creature with great
physical powers and add to these
mental superiority. The compensatory habits of nature dispels the
hop- that supreme intellectual and
physical powers may be combined
in one race of men, If the Negro

excels in things physical then
we might expect other races to excel in things intellectual.

This is one reason why I have
been slow to believe that Negroes
can generally excel in things intellectual. This is one reason why
IT have been slow to beueve that
Negroes can generally excel whites
in any line of endeavor or vica
versa.

It is not safe to generalize and
yet if Negroes keep on ~running
wild~ on the cinder path and keep
on beating up folks in the ring, it
will be hard to avoid the conclusion that the Negro is physically
superior. The white man will tum
to his laboratories and claim with
equal good reason his own intellectual superority. What he cannot prove by induction he may
a conclusively thus by deduc~ion.

HOW TO EXPLAIN

How then may we explain these

increase ~the..income of ~the cooperators. In addition, it would
make best Knoivn those churches which have a true spirit of devotion to human service, and thus many petty- worries of the
present would disappear permanently.

Nothing.can~be lost by cooperation among churches and
when a church has a ~set of officers or a minister who does not
want to cooperate with~ other churches, you need new_ blood ~in
your officia) ranks.

SSS
2.

~ Well Dane, ~Good And Faithful
\. Doctor. Davage!: 4

That was a.great opportunity greatly arisen to, when, on
Monday r. M.S, Davage, president of* Clark University, addressed the Atlatita Rotary Club on What Atlanta Negroes Need

and What.Thkey Think. Such occasions are not new to Doctor
Davage, tho~ this was new to the Rotarians, and even if it were
necessary to put on the pressure of logic or argumentation for
adequat Acfense of a line of thought or a point, when the occa
sion arist *
thew Simpson avage.

Our surprise comes all from the
breadth and depth of the spirit of
the Rotarians~not from the Davage
angle,~we know him only foo well.
If he had gone there witha set

- gpeech and the occasion had de-4
manded what he considered a more
applicable discussion, he would
have quietly folded that formal ad@ress into his pocket and the outpouring of fact end logic and humanitarian pleading would have left
~his hearers none the wiser as to
the previously prepared address.
He has read for fullness; he has

~~ written for exactness; and his ccntact with other great:souls for forty years makes him exceedingly
ready for any fray; =~ hence the
complete, satisfaction of the Ro
~ Let us (peay that the day is now
over for unprepared colored men to
represent us at the bar of public
opinion ~ whatever the occasion.
Those Rotarians appeared to have
wanted the truth. It appears that
they got ~it, ~and not a little of the
satisfaction is due to the type of personality ~and the eed ove of on
telligence. that presen even W.
Ralph McGill is pleased to call
_ ~disturbing~ facts in a most undis
Southern declaration, ~I know the
Negro,~ is totally untenable now,
and while that statement was becoming hoary with age, we were
raising up three generations of fine
Negroes~each superior to the
other. ~I know the Negro~ is useful now to only a type of white
man and Negro~neither of which
has yet emerged from Slavery.
' But what does such an, occasion
mean to us as a group? Two things
stand out prominently. First,
there is the happy fact that the
South is discovering that we are
human and due certain treatment
beyond a gingerly conceived formality accorded us after whites
get theirs. Secondly, we must learn
that this is MERELY a discovery
and not a realized privilege.. This
means there is much to: be done.
Men can easily talk parks and
schools on the mezzanine floor of
a great hotel, but that is a long,
long distance: from city hall, the
court house and the ballot box.
These occasions point that way:
It is up to you and me to make the
people: vote-minded, to have them
register at the. proper time and
place and when voting time comes,
so register their wills or their protests as to make schools and parks

a reality.

Proposal Fought

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running propensilies of Negroes?
In the days of slavery the rinaway
Negra was never hunted by. the
white man on foot. If the runaway
Negro was to be breught back the
white man had ~to go after him
with horses and hounds. This was
fine development for the ~horses
end fine practice for the hounds,
but it was not teaching the white.
man the art of hasty locomationrunning, Let us suppose then that
*he Negro was perfected in his
running arts and hahits.

Tt is Jogical then~ to~

that if the white man chine et
the: Negro oh the inder track be
zet horsee and
hounds. Not the white man Pons
self, but only his hbrses and
hounds. have a chance with ~Boricen, Jesse Owcns, Eddie ~Tolan,
Metcalfe, et al, The chase which
the slave-owners gave to their
run-away slaves explains the cinder path run-away Neg*o~a bless~
ing in disguise?

A few days ago E.read in one
of the local papers that a Negro
had been arrested. and.there was
found upon him nitro-glycerine
and a cold chisel and other implements used in-cracking a safe. I
felt highiy encouraged.to read the
acccunt. and there was a sullen
~pride~: of race when I reflected

from stealing hams and chickens
and is going in for safe-cracking.
For many generations the Negro~s name has been connected
with chickens and. watermelons
and it has besn whispered that the
Negro~s propensity for misplacing
other pegme~s chicken was undeniable. While white:men: were
blowing safes and wrecking banks
and getting away with light sentences, the Negro was sticking to
his chickens and a ham new and
then for a change, and was drawing long sentences and bearing. a
bad name in the press of ~the nation.

Texas Reprieve
Victim Finally
Given-To- Chair

HUNTSVILLE, Tex.~(A N P)~
Early last Mondey morning the
hands of the clock in the warden~s
office at the penitentiary indicated
the ~zero hour~ for condemned
prisoner Winzell Williams and. 4
short time later-he died in -. the
électric chair for the nurder of 2

that the Negro is getting away.

Ry FREDERICK S. WEAVER

Race PT Is
Lauded By

Professor

the Citizens Trust Company,- At
WASHINGTON, D. C~ Thai lanta, president of the Atlanta Ne
smal] Negro business compare favorably with small business houses
operated by any other group, was
the conclusion reached by Jesse
B. Bilaytyon, professor of accounting in Atlanta - University, in an

atidress delivered at Howard Uni-/

versity last Wednesday, under the
auspices of the Department of
Commerce and Financing of Haw
ard University.

~Negroes are largely handicap
ped by lack of capital,-but it ought
te be added,~ he stated, ~that had
many of these persons ~ had. adequate capital, and no knowledge of
scientific business - management,
they would not have had it long..
Perhaps it is just as well to allow
these people to acquire their capital as they acquire the training and
experience to direct that capital.

Again, Blayton emphasized that
Negroes are not alone in the handicap of insufficient capital. Small
concerns of other racial groups are
also handicapeq thusly, he pointed
out, largely because government
agencies are not equipped to handle,loans of the size and security offered by the-smal] business concern,and local banks must get their
money back in a short time after
it is loaned, thus making it impossible for such institutions to extend capital credit to the operators
of smail business.

HIGH QUALITY MANAGEMENT
The fact that Negro business
has manageg to exist amid the
competition of white business in
Negro neighborhoods, who put on
a show of greater respect, ~hypocritically,~ and in spite of the fact
that a large percentage of Negro
labor has been displaced because
of institution of machines in certain industrites, is evident of the
general high quality of management extent in Negro business, the
speaker pointed out.

Blayton expressed the belief that
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins
had the Negro business in mind
when, in an address, he declared
that ~one of my principal interests
as secretary of commerce will be to
see that the resources of the government are paticularly directed towards aiding smal] enterprises.~
SEES UNDERSECRETARYSHIP
~We can see no reason,~ the
speaker declared, ~why the Department of. Commerce should not
have among its employed executives
a number of qualified Negroes. We
might even dream of an undersecretaryship.~

~Your speaker: has been informed by reasonably reliable persons

iat it is now. difficult for vite
yovernment to engage the Ss
of. the best qualified experts in the
fields of economics anq administration,~ Blayton told his audience.
~It seems. that such persons are
better paid by private industry. 1f
this tendency may be relied upon
as predicting the calibre of techni.
cal and professional personnel in
fhe employ of the Government and
the Civil Service of the States, it
probably is not too much to hope
that these governing bodies will
turn, even to Negroes, if among
them there can be found persons
of training and experience comparable to that possessed by white exrts who have shunned Civil Service and accepted employment. with
the larger industrial concerns of
the Country.~

Blayton, in addition to his pro
gro Chamber of Commerce, senior
partner of Blayton & Co., certified
public accountants gnd grand keeper
of finances for the Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity for the past six years.

Maid. Found
Unhurt After
Disappearance

GIBSON, Ga.~(SNS)~Having
mysteriously | eure from the
home of Mrs.
white, in Sylvania Saturday, Miss
Hattie Moore, 18. witness in the
Chalker murder, was found Monday near here in a cabin unhurt.
Details of the finding Were not
available.

Sergeant Fred Black of the Georgia State Highway patrol made the
discovery of the girl employed by
Mrs, Williams and whc had tes~ified against John Sherman Harris,
white, in his conviction for the
Slaying of Clellan Chalker, also
white, who resided here.

Mrs. Williams said the maid disappeared While she Was away.
Lieutenant W. D. Veal said neighbors stated that two white men
forced the girl into a car and drove

It was stated by Solicitor J, C.
Davis that two white men had
tried to chat with the maid last
week but that she had refused to
talk to them, He said he was told
that she was ~afraid to return to
Glascock county~ where Harris
was convicted, ~

WASHINGTON~(ANP)}~ The
loca~ police are trying to locate the

~thief or thieves who entered.S~.

Augustine~s church here and stole
the. chalice valled at $250.
The pastor Rev. Alonzo Olds, said
the cup was taken from a safe in
the sacristy. It was of silver and
gcii plate, and bore the inscription ~Rev. Paul Griffith,~

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Congratulations
FROM

_ FLINT CONEY ISLAND
SAMUEL McCLARIN

"Newly Elected Mayor of Brownsville
Manager of Flint Coney: Island.

| Mayor, Vice Mayor
Receive. Ovation

FLINT, Michigan~ Both ~Mayor
McClarin atid Vise Mayer Reytolds were very enthusiastically
received~ by the members of Club
~25~ in session last: Saturday nite.
Mr. McClarin gave a brief outline
of his tentative program and
thanked the club for its support.
Mr. Reynolds pointed. out the necessity of the continued ration and support of both club ~25,
and Sportsman~s club throughout
the life of the Brownsville Administration,
The popular men~s Club ~25~
prepares to sponsor a gala formal
dinner dance the evening of April
G6, at.the Great Lakes Country
Club, At the club~s last meeting
the enthusiasm ran high in favor
ef putting on this mammoth affair.
Owing to the fact that this club
is composed of a great number of
the Zenial personalities in Flint,
we believe that. the club will carry = darge crowd for this evening.
It is needless te mention that
many girls: will be busy preparing
for this gala affair. Invitations
will pect out soon.

Recreation Council
News Activities

FLINT, Mich~The Workers
Club. wish to express their heartiest thanks to: the public for the
grand cooperation they. showed
towards the delicious Chicken
Dinner that was served Saturday, March 11, at the St. John
St. Center headquarters. The
committee that worked faithfully to make this a success~ was:
Mrs. Wainwright, Mrs, ~ Broadway, Mr. Theodore Taylor, Mrs.
Don Hopkins, Ethel Broadway,
Rachel Wright and Beulah McGee.

The rummage sale was also
given gt the same time. There
will be a dance next Monday
night, March 20, at the Clifford
St. Center. Music will be furnished -by an orchestra. All are
welcome ~#o come and partici
pate,
Don~t forget the Sewing Classes at the Clifford St. Center
every Monday'and Friday mornings and all day Thursday - aq
the St. John St. Center. Ladies
come and join the Home Makers
group in your community,

DOUGLAS~ CANVASSES TO BE
SHOWN

NEW YORK CYrly~(A 'N F)~
Svonsored by the Negro People~s
Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, the paintings of the famGus colored artists, Aaron Douglas, recently done in Haiti, will be
shown in Gotham. Exhibit wil) be
held: at ACA Galler es, vad W.- heer

ELECT

Former Lt. Governor Ee.

e0 J. Nowicki

Wayne County Auditor

ELECTION APRIL SRD

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