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FLINT-BROWNSVILLE NEWS

- 830 Pingree Phone 9-7571 Flint, Michigan
SAUER SR EPO |, Ww ee en es. Editor and Publisher
BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS.................. Associate: Editor
WHAGAM- ENNIS, FE. 2406.6 ene eee ele Director of Photography
| ee ge i ee See Manager of Circulation
MBS CORA L. TURNER....:......5. 0665005... Adv. Manager
MR. JOHN H. TURNER Adv. Asst.
You Can Help Your League Grow

A civic enterprise that merits the support of all Jaxons is
that of the local branch of the National Negro Business League, an:
organization which stands for better Négro business, and support of
business enterprises of the race.

More businesses jn the race means mere jobs for those young
people you are educating-to do whatever may be left after members
of the other race have taken the cream. In other words, your educated children, for whom you sacrificed so much, get the crumbs.

The Fusiness League, headed by the alert and business genius,
George W. Powell, local and well known realtor, js in the midst
of a membership drive.

If those upon pvhom calls are made can,be made to realize that
the Business League is a helpful organization in that jt brings jobs
to the jobless, food to the hungry, and security in gl4 age, there
would be bt: few who would say ~I am sorry, but I can~t~, for first
One reason and another.:

The Business League is an organization; affiliated with the
National Business [League, whose oforts are devoted o community

a improvements that benefit ang help everybody in the community.
Jacksonville is one of the nation~s fastest growing towns and The
Press prays for a large success for the League. It has the men
and the women to carry the movement to high heights and with
all of us working to bring in just two new members at the next
meeting we will certainly enjoy that growth and a fine development as We go along,: A Social Obligation To Our Soldiers

4 hue IS the pot pouri of the soldiers quartered at
Camp V Every night the city takes on the aspect of a

1eeler.
- huge cantonment as they converge on old Broadway. Hundreds
of others turn out also, and in the great milling from one end to
_ the other one sees the need of adequate social and recreation centers so necessary for the employment and enjoyment of nobler
+. _ minds than those who delight to waste their times and lives in an
unwholesome and:worldly fashion. d
s. When a citizen sees thé running wild of. youth, the little
flapper who comes out at night to offer all that remains of virtue
im an effort to prey on the soldier~s scout pay, he feels keenly his
responsibility to these fine young men who have left their homes,
good jobs, schools and all to enter the defense lines of their nation.
~- Unlike Columbus where Fort Benning is located with its Y.
M. C. A., libraries and public social centers for soldiers, Macon
affords nothing of a constructive factor for the development of

the higher human instincts of the young men brought ~here.
v _. Sometime ago it was advanced that a city the size of Macon

*. should have a large Y. M. C. A. for the benefit of its local cit-: izenry. Being in a magnificent cultural center and a great railToad pivot, it would do credit to. this middle Georgia area even in

peace time for a Y. M. C. A. to come into its life.;, In an interview with some of the nobler minds among the
young draftees it was said that things at Camp Wheeler for Colored
soldiers were all but wholesome. and inviting. They say they have
No decent social activities; no good picture shows.

cs Newspapers As Aids To Teachers

For some years past, progressive teachers have used
their daily papers in connection with classroom instruction.
But never have ~newspapers been such important text book
Supplements as they are today.

Gratitude: to papers for. furnishing them up to date
maps of the changing-world was expressed by School Marms
attending a recent South Carolina State Teachers association in Columbia.

It is difficult enough for the average adult reader to |

keep himself informed on changes in the earth's geography, but teachers who must explain these boundary shifts

to inquiring pupils would be hard pressed without the con- -

stant supply of maps furnished by their newspapers.
Nowadays a teacher must know what~s going on in his
own day as well as what happened back in 1100 B..C., and: 1492. Even the youngest pupils want to know what the head
lines mean. they want to know something about the chang- |

~ing world, presented through maps, reader material and
other. sources of information furnished through the press,
and it is up to the teacher to know all the answers for the
ones they must teach each day.

Teachers who do not seek this information for the benefit of their pupils are poor teachers, and have no right to
be drawing checks for doing something they. are nat prepared to do. And we find hundreds of them right here in
Jacksonville trying to teach what they don~t know anything
much about themselves.:

Open Letter To.
Citizens
To Cit ee oterested tn: tev:

If you are interested in Flint

boy welfare, may I recommend an
unhurried reading of the ~Kids and

Crossroads booklet?~

>You will be pleased to learn some
of the results which the Flint Y.
M. C. A. has been securing in its
work with unadjusted boys through
the use of modern group work
methods, This work with unadjusted boys is a new project for the
Flint Association and only one
pert of the Associations board program fcr boys. It is one of growirg significance, hwever, and one
which should not be measured in
terms of number of boys alone.

The total Flint Y program
for boys under eighteen years of
-age reached more than 3,000 individua] boys in 1940 and consisted of the following different projécts not including the one described above. ~cnior Hi-Y, 20 Clubs;
Juritr Hi-~, 15 Clubs; Boytown
and Torch Y, 40 Clubs; ~Y~ Indian Guides, ~ Tribes; Camp Copnéconic, Summer Fun Cluo, Y. M.
C. A. Building. Membership group
and Learn to Swim Campaigh.

The Association is a member of
the National Council of Y. M. C.
As and of the Flint Community
Association. It invites your understanding and persona] interest.

~Earl M. Dinger,: General Secretary

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Bishop W. E. Fuller -
Presides Over
Great Meeting

ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~.

THE WRITER - attended last
week-end the Sisters of Charity
Convention of the Fire Baptised
Holiness Church, Bishop Fuller, the
bishop, which convened in Orlando,
Florida. This was a great corvention which was marked with sincerity by the members along with
good reports which sounded sucbess to everyone.

Bishop Fuller must be congratulated on the way he is
acting as leader in guiding
these people, te success. I'll
have to say the Bishop is 2
leader who knows his people
and believes in helping those
who help themselves,

The writer will have to admit
that regardless of the many meetings over the country, the Fire
Baptized Holiness Church Conven_
tion is one of the best he has ever
witnessed. The Rev..D. H. Stanton addressed this meeting during
the session and received loud ac.
claim.

In conclusion, Ill say from~.
the. reports of the difierent
auxiliaries of the churches,.
this denomination is; in a
healthy state, both spiritually
and financially.

ERAVELING BETWEEN -
JACKSONVILLE AND ORLANDO

Nature~s scenery is grand this
time of year in Florida. From the
train window I passed orange
groves and the trees loadeg. with
oranges, the foliage and. the overhanging moss, the lakes all seem
to invite you. The train I am rid_
ing is a local whici gives you
plenty time for a view between
Jacksonville and Orlando.

There are plenty Negro huts
with the occupants seemingiy
satisfied and happy though
they hold no hope in life
of ever getting away from their

surroundings as they will live

ang die in their lowly way of

living, but after all I guess they

are happy in their surroundings.

Our porter on this local is Mr.
T. J. Walker, who seems to take
pride in giving service with a
smile and though he is busy all
the time he never loses his pgzasant
manner to the patrons. The race
needs more public. servants like
Mr. Walker and our loi might be
easier.

The train is now nearing my
destination, the city of Orlando,
and I am loathe to end this
wonderful journey through this
lang of beauty to go in a con_
ference to sweat over getting a
story of our Bishop Fullers~
great meeting.

EDDIE SMITH, better known as
~Fats,~ is going some. Always
sought after as an announcer~
master of ceremonies; he is ~to- ve
master of ceremonies at the Elks~
entertainment &t Sunset Tuesday
night. 4

HIS name was James Geerge ~
Washington Harding and he
was the train porter of the
Kansas City Special last Thursday night. I'll say that~s some
name and. he is nicknamed

~Snake~ for short.

I DON~T smoke but I~ve been in_
vited. to the Elks~ Smoker to be
staged et the Royal Hotel _ this
Monday night and I'll be there.

AND again [ say a nest egg
produces while a love nest reduces.

A MAN~S work ~is from sun to
sun, while some woman stays at
home to keep him on the run.

YEARS ago a wife could be
led; today she is led with lead.

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE

As everybody slept on the fast
Kansas City Special enroute to
Florida the o*her night, the train
came to a sudden stop, the driv-r
on the wheel had broken and the
railroad men marveled as to why
we all were nob hurled to dis.

SELASSIE PLANS ARMY

NEW YORK.~(ANP)~Now that
ithe British forces have helped
Haile felassie regain his throne
_to organize a::
Expeditionary force to serve- any
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where in Africa or Asia ~with

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~FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

Pollyanna Legend
By WALTER ER. CHIVERS
FOR MANY YEARS, as 3
matter of fact until very recently,
~I have agreed with those work.
ers in the field of interracial relations who have maintained that

Negroes. and educated white
people were
properly introcuced to eacn
- other they could
and would solve
the most troublesome problems
of race relations.
Abit of reflective thinking and analysis of practical

CHIVERS:
situations: has leé directly: to the
conclusion that this point of
view is to say the least, naive.
Those students are workers who

4+ think like this are super-optimists

like ~Pollyanna~, the story character, who saw gcod in everything
ill that happened to her.;

Why do T venture to say that
mere intruduction of the ~better
elements~ of the wh'te and WNegro racial groups is of little value
in producing good will and real
cooperation? Well. it is. a majority-minority racial complexity,
similar tu such relationships all

once educated.

ese have known each other for
centuries and apparently their
hate for one another, as races,
has deepened. To ~date each think
of the other as inferior and wun
civilized,
The Jtalians adc. English, Germans ald French have been closely associated for a long, long
time but the hate that exists between them has inflamed the
second war in less than a quarter
of a century, Regardless of~ close
contact and many common in.
the ~sense~ of Nordic supperiority that flows in common
through English and German
veins has never permitted them to
accept the French and Italians as
their fraternal equals.
~ All of these tionalities have
known Jews. Je are minority
nationals within their borders.
Jews have made valuable contri--
butions to the cultures of each
of these countries. But they all
show public evidences of disdain for Jews The essential difference in the German attitude
toward Jews and that of the English is one of degree.
Just recently a most refined
voun? Jewish woman, of wealth,
~has told |me of.the ~ difficulties
that her family has in its relationswith the gentile white groups. They
lived: for instance, five years in
a wealthy resort district before
anv one recognized htme. This rec.

ognition came: in a vatronizing
form because her parents had ren
over the World Chinese and Japan dered first aid to. - 1A
Jewish white child.who belonged | |

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future to: the American white
man~s way of life? Can.a
build a permanent.place in the
society of another race upon such
transitory attachments?

cause they need to try to vision
themselves living in a society more
totalitarian than democratic for a
long time to come. Tt takes. regi.
mentation to win a total war. It
takes regimentation and military
authority to reconstruct a country
~ter it has been vicimized by the
total destruction of a total war.

Is our acquaintance with white
people enough? ~}in we trust
our future to the introduction of
the ~better. elements~ of each
racial group to each other? Or do
we need additional security? If
so fwhat? I do not pretend to
know.

FROM MY

STUDY WINDOW

Beauty Business

Rev. John Clarence Wright

ABOUT TWO WEEKS ago, along
with hundreds of other interested,
if not to say thrilled, Atlantans, I
witnessed the graduating exercises
of our local Apex College of Beauty ture. With academic ~pomp
and ~ circumstances~, sume one
hundred and forty women of varying ages, garbed in spotless white
gowns and mortar board caps,
marched proudly. down the aisle of
Big Bethe] church to be addressed
by Col. Roscoe Simmons, one of
Amrrira~s mest noted platform
speakers,

These women had completed a
brief, but intensive, course in cultivating and preserving the assets
of beauty, whether small or great,
possessed by all women. They
were being inducted into an everincreasing army of experts whose
business ~or profession) is.to
make the world a more liveable
place by making it easier and more
inspiring to look at the men ana
women who are perennial actors
in the drama of daily living.
WORK ESSENTIAL

That their work is at once eSsential and highly esteemed is
evidence by the phenomenal progress and expansion over a period
of a single generation of this
~beauty business.~ It hos made in~dividuals in the race wealthy, and
given dignified and lucrative employment to thousands of others.
Tt has, in some cases, miraculously
transformed the women of our
race. It would not be too much

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to say that these apostles of beauty
have discovered the Negro to himseif.

He has found that in addition
to being a study race, capable cf
bearing almost unbelievable physical hardships and survice, he belongs to a race of rare physical
charm and beauty-a race quick to
sense and to make the most of
personality assets of which it had
heen almost totally unaware.

Thus the candidates for certificates as beauticians as they.

of their friends and relatives, the.
other night. were, whether~ they
were conscious of it or not, missicnaries in one of the most important areas of human service,
NOT A LUXURY
For beauty is not @ luxury in
whatever form it may be sought.
Man has an instinctive longing for
it. and Ged has provided him with
the five senses through which its
constant inflow will reach the
soul, The more highly civilized a
people, the more completely will
utility be wed to beauty in all, the
preducts of his hand and bran. And
even the savage in the bush
finds himself moved by an urge
ts ~paint the lily~ in his personal
edornment, and in his crude efforts to cheer, brighten and decorate the places where he resides.
So it is reassuring to see a great,
emerging people like the Negro in
America rating among his most
successful, and lucrative callings,
the business of Beauty Chilture.
And we somehow. believe that it
is not to mere vanity that its

marvelous growth and expansion
can be attributed, but rather to the

proudly assembled for the plaudits '

Negro~s inherent love of beauty
whether it is of form, color ol
sound;

We can only hope that a passion
for beauty of thought ane of action will hold just as:..compelling
a place in his quest for ~he ideal.
S~ we salute the growing- numbers
who are making the creation: and
preservation of beauty their life
werk, What: higher, more exalted~

| calling could be theirs for

~If you have spoken. some
' ~ peautiful,;

Or touched the
life,

Or made the enld stone to speak~

You who know the secret heart ~of
beauty 2

If you have done one thing

~that has. made geritler the churlish world, '

Though mankind pass you by

And ioe arid clothe you grudging* farm oe

Though the world starve you,.

And God answer not your nightly
prayers, oe

And you grow old hungering still
at heart wet se

And walk friendless in your way,

And lle down. at last forgotten~

Tf all this befall vou who have
created beauty,

You shall stil} leave a bequest to
the world

Greater than institutions and rules
and commerce:

And by the immutable law of human heart

The God of the universe is your
debtor ~

If you have made gentler the
churlish world.

By Max Ehrmann.

dead canvass to

BETWEEN THE LINES.
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK
DEMOCRACY AT ITS WORST

IT IS BOTH dangerous and dis
tressing to see the plight in which
the democracies find themselves.
that rugged individualism~ from
which democracy stands unfits
the citizens for the sacrifices that
ritual times demand. There are
those this country tay more
bent on making profits out of the
series than in _ seeing
righteousness prevail, At its best
democracy is a might blessing; at
its worst it @s a great danger. In
times of peace the democratic
ideology is inspiring and full of
praise; but in times of war it is full
of dangers and detriments:

In other words democracy is at

its best in times of peace; but in, times of crisis it cannot meet the

needs of the fast changing emergencies, Democracy has never functioned in any emergency, for invariably dictatorial powers must
be delegated to some powerful personality who can accomplish the
desired cnds.

During the first world. war WilSOn Was aS real a dictator as Hitler is today.. So in this second
world war Roosevelt is being
clothed with dictatorial powers, not
because we like it so well but because: it is the only answer to the

} threat of nazism and fascism.

Our country can conscript.
men for the army; it can levy

various utilities an ferce communities to evacuate their interests and make room for can
_ Ponments. Today we have thousands and thousands of persoms
made homeless by the govern
the ~ye shall

ments edict that certain areas

truth shall make

| freely and

~is one of the principles of Jesus

| that is generally accepted by men

_everywhere, The best way to know
the truth is through free speech.
Consequently we in democracies.

This is as it should be except in
times of emergency. Knowing the
full trust~ is not always essential
to survive! It is quite possible to
know the truth by more subtle
means. There is a time to Speak
a time to hold our~
peace. Tl~re is a time to speak
ourselveg and time te let somebody better prepared speak for us.
There is a time when the individual~s right of free speech
must give away before the
larger right of the nation for
survival. So long as free speech
is not a danger to a nation in
its struggle for survival let
there be free speech by all
means; but when free speech
Jeoparamzes our naton, it 1s
time that free speech were
sacrificed for the common
good, ~.

What is: more, 1< seems that m
our great emergency the enemies
of democracy are the ones who

Winchell arose
order~. which was well taken when
he said that although Lindbergh
has a right to his speech when he
would this nation~s despe
| rate efforts at defense, it was also

true that Roosevelt had a right
to call him a ~copperhead, etc.~
There are some folk in this coun-.

swear by the free speéch principle. ~

try who think that the object of
free speech is. merely to hamper
your pclitical enemies.

This country is fighting for its
life and for any person: under the
pretext of free speech to hamper
it, is exceedingly dangercus. What
does it profit our nation if it sends
its sons to the colors and levies
taxes to prosecute the work of defense if its efforts are to be nullified by ~tweedledee~ democrats and
~~tweedle-dum~ republicans? It is
better to sacrifice free speech for
the moment and recover it when
our victory is won than to use free
speech to defeat our nation wher

| By AL WHITE

' ~WASHINGTON,.D. C~(A N P~

CAPITOL COMMENT

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_ By ROBERT M. RATCLIFFE
Divorce Court was new to Miss Appleton, Long as sh
had lived in Atlanta, she~d never even been near the: 3
ing courthouse building. But last Thursday, she
just to see what the folks meant by ~grinding out
She arrived early, about ten minutes before the
appeared on the scene. She was quite ick. She
even looked like a prospective divorcee. Most of the young
women seeking divorces come to court attired in rpler =;
clothes and wearing the facial expression of a sacred: ae
That~s the way Miss Appleton looked.
She stood near the courtroom door
who were nervously waiting their names to
One queenly-looking woman sat on the side of 2 ~
bench and smoked ~a cigarette. She
afraid. Said she had two children and her "
her he didn~t love her when the last child was born, So

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be called. =.

husband told*

she was going to get a divorce, (She got it).

A lawyer had his client over in a corner, telling him the
right words to say. The client who had only one arm, later

told the court His wife nagged

hir

and

accused him of keep
ing company with other women. He said he never did any~

thing of the sort,
A tall, handsome man,

ey.~.? _. She looked up at him and sm
be married in a few hours, Darli
grinds out the right verdict.~

The corridor conversations proved someth

to Miss Appleton. Her ideas
been so high.

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i: standing at the side or a
young lady, said to her. ~It'll be over in a minute, Hon- ~

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iled and then said; ~We'll
ng, if this divorce mill.

Court was called to order. Miss Appleton filed in with
the others and took a back seat where the colored persons
were sitting. A fat man, weighing about 360 pounds, was
cal'ed to the witness chair. He said his wife went to California to see her sister several years ago~and didn~t come

back.

~One thing,~ the judge said, ~you, haven't lost

weight during her absence.~

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Laughter rippled through the courtroom. |
The fat man won his divorce and then walked back to
his seat and sat down by a lady. ~The lady came to court. with

him.;
A trim young lady,

wearing a flowered dress, tipped ~

to the witness chair when her name was called. She ask-.

ed for a divorce, declaring that her
her heels when she tried to leave their house against his _

will.;

Miss Appleton found the session quite confusing, although amusing. She jotted down a

gathering data for~a novel.

husband cut her on ~|
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few notes. Said she was

Aninquisitive gentleman. who was waiting for his name.

to be called, turned to Miss

Appleton and asked if she were:

seeking a divorce. He went on to tell her. about how much

money hé~ad saved and how,
He was beginning to tell her

Miss Appleton turned her beautiful eyes his di

parted her lips and said:

~My dear sir, today~s little session in this ec

washed away all my
ed to follow a career.~

he would like to marry 4;
she looked like the type
direction.

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applause.

Loads of pretty girls in town
celebrating something or other
called the Girl Friends..dances aft
er dances, parties on top of parties }

and what not, The life of a social
lion in this town is hectic to say
the least.

Senator Smathers sent up
patch of his printed bills~about 50
~concerning the introduction of
the civil rights bill in the district
~two days too late.

Visiting with the secretary of
the Interstate Commerce commission and finding that dignity unfuffleg in spite of the supreme
court decision in the Mitchell case.

Testimonial dinners are_ the.
things in this town. They come

right after another and with.

out cessation. They are almost
as common as the famous ~ris-_
ing vote of thanks,~ the only
thing my dad ever got for 40
years of charitable work.

What became~ of that widely

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