Brownsville Weekly News

After she had delivered a stirring address.to the {| made as Bishop w. A.
graduating class of Morris Brown College, Mrs.
Mary McLeod Bethune became a member ex_officia,
of that class. when she. was awarded the honorary

day morning,

=" of doctor of laws. ~ a ~was

Resignation Of Chief Justice:: Termed Severe Blow To Race.
ae Winey 29, ane ey

ee. der His A disikGhation

Washington Bureau ole
Associated Negro Press

WASHINGTON, D. C.~-(ANP)-~The resignation of Chief Justice
Charles Bvans Hughes is-being received with regret by thousands of
Negroes throughout the country,
who have come to regara the

Pewhiskered ~Chief justice as the |

bulwark of justice for the -underprivileged minority groups in this
democracy.

it has been under~ the jurisdictiorf of: Hughes that many important deeisions regarding the civil
liberties of Negroes in this country
have been rendered. And in the
past four or five years, these defcisions have occurted with ~frequericy~:

The passing of Hughes leaves a
void on the bench which many believe will be hard to- fill.
with his passing there will be two
vacancies on the highest tribunal
in the country.

JACKSON MAY BE NAMED

There are many who believe that
the President will name his friend
of many years, Robert Jackson,
now attorney general, to succeed
Mr.~ Hughes. Jackson, while only
49, has a brilliant record and has
been a staunch supporter of the
resident and the New Deal. Hailing from. Jamestown,. N._ Y.... his
liberal attitude on many questions
do not~ make his appointment offensive to Negroes.

However, there is another vacaney to he filled, and it is believed
in gertain circles that the President intends naming-Sen. Byrnes
of South.Carolina to this important.past. Although many protests
have been made to the President
pain such an appointment, those.

clos@ to. the. White. House believe
the ~appointment will be made
regatdless, although Byrhes himself publicly:and privately deciaxes
that.he des not want the job,

MURPHY. MAY -
Rr ime e, tt panare is. a de
And |

cided rumor that the President is
urging~ Associate Justice Murphy
to retire from the bench to take
over his former post as: governor
of, the Phillipines, which will make
for. another, vacancy.on the bench
also to be filled by Mr. Roosevelt.
My. Murphy, a former governor of
the Phillipines, made an enviale
record there and Mr. Roosevelt is
anxious to have him return. since
the present administrator, son-inlaw cf former President Wilson,
does not ~get along tco well witn
the Phillipine president, Manuel
Quezon.

~Phillipine independence has beeil
voted for.the. islands and unprotected ag they will be, there is
considerable agitation that.Japan
is merely waiting the chance to
absorb the islands, which in

United States. as far as produce
and: productions are concerned.

This will, if it goes through, make
for three vacancies on the ~suDreme court bench. and never before in the history of the country.
has such.a condition existed.

With these. appointments, Mr.
Roosesvelt will have accomplished
his purpose~picxing the members
of the supreme court bench and
~liberalizing~ the famous court!
FOUR ON BENCH

On the bench at present are four
of Mr. Roosevelt's selectees.. The
first was Hugo Lafayette Black of
Alabama, - appointed. August - 12,
1937, and confitmed by the senate
On August 17, 1937. taking his seat
on October 4, 1937.,No appointee
ts the bench who was confirmed
by the senate was ever.so bitterly
attacked as. was Mr. Black, and
since his appointment ~no appointee has. so completely reversed
himself as has; Mr, Bieck, ~te the
surprise and gratification cf~- those
wes oe nae fought: Es Se

At smi time

chancellor, handed Mrs.
exercises. were held at Big. Bethel chrch ~ Se
(SNS Staff Phote.)

the |.
past ~have been a gold mine to the

liberalization
make poor choices, in~ the: future.

Founiain, Merris Brown's
Scthane her diploma, The

greet. ie

born gis ome eae
Austria, but appointed from
Massachusetts, where he had heen
professor of law at Harvard university for a number
Nominated.on. January 5, ~ 1939,
enfirmed January 17 and seated
January 30. Justice Frankfurter
has been often criticised by his
associates -it is said, for his pedagogical manner. on the _ bench,
which according - to some, lowers
the dignity of the court.

TAKES SEAT 4PRIL 17
~The fourth appointee,. William
Orville Douglas, borne in Maine,
educated in Washington state, was
named by Mr. Roosevelt on March
20, 1939, confirmed by the serate
on April 4 and. took. his seat on
April i7. Mr. Douglas had served
in several offices before his appointment by the President.

Frankfurter,

was Frank Murphy, former governor general of the Phillipines,, and
Teter attorney general of. the United States who was named Janvary 4, 1940, confirmed by the
senate January 16 and took his
seat on February 5.

INow Mr.
the problem of naming two.men
to the court. one as chief justice
and another associate - justice,
bringing his total nominees and
appointees to the bench to seven.

Also serving on the bench at
present are Justice Harlan F.
Stone of New York City, appointed
in 1925 by President Coolidge and
Justice Owen J. Roberts, appointed by. President Hoover in 1927,
LOOK TO APPOINTMENT...

The whole couniry awaits. Mr.
Roosevelt's new.appointments -and
especially the Negroes of the cdyntry whe leok to the Supreme ccurt
for. the rectification of every evil
which fbesets and bedevils them
in this land of the free.-The President has an opportunity to. further liberalize tne court. in his new
appointments and it is ~thé sincere
hope of.all_ who profit by- the
that he does not

"Tarver, Democret,

ae a ae:

of years, |

The fifth and last appointment |

Roosevelt is faced with |

Million To Train |
al Men~

All Land Grant
Schools to Share
Under Measure Per

poet } in, rn fe ed
yA ara is in tiine for
$7,000,000 in additional funds under the National Defense ~Training
appropriations (fer engineers, teclenical exoerts and supervisors, ace
cording ta Edgar
rector of \the.Gevyernmens, Em-.
ployees and, the Natonal Negro
Council tions.

Mr. Brown Said 17 Negro land
grant colleges~ and.seh@olg stand

to get $100,000 ~ach under the

same setup.
The funds would come from the

proposed $125,000,000 appRropriation
measure for~. the edu and
training program of defense workers now before the House of er
resentatives.

Should the measure.pass _ the
House and Senate and get.the
President's signature, ~ it would
mark another victory for Mr.
Brown..:

TARVER APPROVES MEASURE

The committee which studied
the measure passed on it Monday
after Congressman Malcolm C.
Georgia, gave
his approval. It was pointed out
that the congressman has opposed
appropriations to Howard University for nearly two decades.

~Through the efforts of Mr.
Brown,: the committee. wrote into
the measure several lines which
give equal rights. to Negroes.

The proposed law includes professional and skilled ~American
workers ~without regard to race
and color~, and would be controled
by. the United States office of Edueation, Federal Security Agency,
headed. by Commissioner John
Studebaker.

portunity law for ~sks in the
all gut, total. preparedness campaiga, of Presidents, Roosevelt.
CALLS. FOR) EQUALITY.

Appropriation bills are invarianly
passed. as recommended by this
committee and its chairman,.wao
in -this case. is, Congressman. Tarver. ~The $#125,000,000 appropriation
for National:. Defense training
specifically calls for equal buildings, equipment and instruction; in
states and cities. with separate
public schoo] systems both on a
college and non-college level.

~This is.the greatest step forward in the equalization of. school
funds,~ Mr. Brown declared, It
was understood that some quiet
but irisistent back-of-scenes wire
pulling went on from ~the offices
of the National Negro. Council bi
the U.G.E.

Negro editors, educators. and
other, leaders., from. all over the
country, gave strong support,.. too.

~The. ee tneerida: school.at. Howard will. become one of the leading
institutions. of the country by
sharing in the million dollar appropriation,~ was the statement of
Mr. Brown. He further said, ~For
the first time in history, our Negro land grant colleges~ and schools
in the South will get their full
quota.~

WORDS OF MEASURE

Written into. the.
Méasure are these words:.

~No trainee under. the approprietions provided for in the foregoing. varagraphs shall be discriminated against because, of sex, race,
or. color,, and, where separate
schools. are required by law for
separate population, groups to the
extent needed for trainees of each
such groups,., equitable _ provisicns.
shall be made for facilities. and
training of like equality.

~Selection of trainees under the
foregoing...programs of training
shail be.based upon the existing
and anticipated need for defense
workerg in. occupations ~essentials to
the national defense.~

The membérs of the Sub-com
preposed

_ ask Shes the Pr
n ne a 3 ide rs PP ost, ~
is his intention to prove his
liberality, and as he has done in
the. past, make. éppotitmeiits - of

G. Brown, di-+ |

Chester A. Franilin, publisher of the Kansas City and St. Louis
Calls, with pubication offices at Kansas City, Mo., accompanied by his
charming wife, are visitors in Atienta, the guests of Br. and Mrs, J. Q.
Yanieey on. ~Simpson, road, One ~of the first places ~the: Franklins ~ Visited

on ~arriving was the office of the Atlanta Daily WORLD, where this
photograph was made. Pictured } to r are Mr. and Mrs. Franklin, Mis.
H..M. Braithwaite, Mrs, J. Q. Yancey, Mars, C. A. ~Bacote and C. A.
Scott, general manager = the WORLD.

(SNS Staff Photo.)

Har

co

Dr.Reddick Conter.) Lenaye.. to the
seesiocd, sae equa}, rights
and equal edt 1 training~ 9p
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti~
(ANP)~On Sunday ~afternoon, June
I, Elie Leéscot, president of the~ re
publit~ of ~Haiti; gnd"Dr. L. D. Red-| the

dick ~of the ~New York Public ~library. ea Siacdincs ways and means

of promoting closer cultural rela
tions between the people of Haiti
and thé: Negroes of the:
States.

For some time President Lescot

has been interésted in a ~closer tit=

up between the. black republic and
the Negro people of the, United
States. He outlined concrete Pro}
pt js accesa an ay

United~
| Wilkins. was named to the place

ects to bring this about. The details | '

of the.conferehce will be published
when, Dr. Reddick returns to the
Unitéd States around: the Bescon of
month,:

WALKINS SUCCEEDS PIORENS:

cee eee ~ aes

NEW YORK.~(ANP)-~Roy wil.

~kins, editor of. the. Crisis, was ap.

pointed a..member of Appeals
Board No. 5 of the New York Se.
lective Service last week. Mr.

which William Pickens, well known

leader, resigned when he- aecepted -j

the post to which he was recently
named in thé U. S. Treasury~ de.

owe a duty to the Lo

Draftee Says He ~Owes ~
Duty To Nation And Lord~

WAHALIA, S. ~C~(ANP)The attitude of James
Robinson, selective service registrant, is indicative of
the way thousands of young men feel about the draft..
On being questioned as to whether or not he was a conscientious objector, Robinson said;

~I have never killed any
but 1 feel that I owe my country | a duty as well as I

ly and don~t want to,

St. a
fe RA ae

SORORITY HOLDS; aannanns aia
REGIONAL. gh penne ey oe sae
_JHRSEY. CITY.~(ANP)~leven | 6 ~Weaver,. adsistant to. Sidney

chapters of Phi. Delta, Kappa,
teachers sorority, convened here for
regional conferences last Saturday
and to observe Founders day. Alpha ~chapter was hostess, and the
meetings were conducted in the

Belmont YWEA.~

partment,

The Globe Trotter ee:

eds tt

(By C ~if Mackay

Bood Neighbors?

YOUR UNCLE SAM;. knowing. that an effective defense of America means a defense of the
entire Western Hemisphere, ever since. Hitler be
| gan marching, has been making friendly overtures

to those nations to the South of us.

Every boat sailing the Caribbean and LatinAmerican trade routes that arrives at New. York
unloads more and more ~visitors~ from those
countries -whoge friendship. arrogant. Americans
under thhe bayonet policy of past presidents have
~60 foolistily ~Scorned.

Now.under President Roosevelt and as a result of the trend of events abroad, the United
me States drops the old ~dollar diplomacy~ of Harding-Coolidge-Hoover regime and substitutes
the. more. sensible ~Good Neighj bor~ program.
However im its program to

hemispheric solidarity, our state
department continues.to_ overTook one of the most effective
sways of ~creating goodwill between this nation and the LatinY American republics.
Totally ignored. for some unex
are the possibilities of cementing

lained reason
irm friendship

between these nations through the large. Negro |

populations that reside both here and to the South
of us.

Actually it was the prejudiced attitude of
Americans ~toward darker-hued officials in these
Latin-American countries that did so much to
create suspicion and distrust of the United States.
AMERICANS DISPLAY
PREJUDICE

Many Americans harboring prejudiced feelings toward all men of color. visiting in Rio de
Janeiro and other South American capitals make
no effort whatsoever to concea] their disapproval of Negroes holding high positions in government, They sought to imaugurate their own pet
ideas as to how Negroes should be treated. The
result was naturally disastrous to @ program of
friendship.

It~s just not. human to develop ' # fondness for |

a bully who comes into your house, tries to tell

t

are sabeenly mierenel tas

you how you should run it, and ~plainly displays
eontempetuous scorn for those of your children,
who chance to be of darker hue than the others.
Most puzzling to ~those Wwatehing América~s
move to ~cement friendship bétween nations in
this hemisphere is the state department's attitude
toward collaboration between Ne s of the variots countries and the United States. From past
seat is, those who design our
foreign Dolicx are decidedly agai an Re 4
bean is fs as \big- majority ~of the Central
and South. *American: republics. Insoriie of these
people - ty

~bring about this sbadly needed |

willing to bet you that all of the South Americans

~one of them knows there is
ard University~unles they, Factehs ~slipped. up.

parts of the work~,
PRESENT WARPED PICTURES

It has been no secret that for years there
has been a studied effort to keep Negroes in South
America from knowing too much about. Negroes
in the United States. ~Textbooks supplied by, the
United States to schools in Seuth America tend
to burlesque black Americans, ~Negroes in the.
states are pictured gs half-civilized specimens of
humanity that are to be religiously avoided.

And in like manner a warped. pictire is given the Negro American of his brother south of the |
equator. Spanish is virtually the universal language of the Latin republics. But just stop. and
think how many of our schools offer Spanish. Not
many. Instead French is the foreign lariguagemost widely used in our high schoo] and college
eurriculums.. One wonders how many of us have
been aware that there is a design to this; and that
design is to keep the black peoples of Notth. and
South America as widely apart ag p

How our state department keeps
termination not to permit dark-hued BP

South America to get near their blood ethics

here was told last week by a Negro worker in that
unit of our..government.

Speaking of the influx of dusky visitors
from ~South of the Border,~. this worker says:

~They come in, darker than usual, bulbous nosé,;

want to visit certain sights in this eountry. I know
they are regarded as Negroeés,. and. they have
every indication of being colored folk, but hot in
the.state. department,
NEGROES ARE AVOIDED

~Brother, they are herded off so. fast it isn~t
even funny. The officials bow and. scrape to them,
and take them, on. certain carefully arranged
itineraries, where they are sure not to come in.
contact or conflict with any colored folk., I~m

of Negro mixed blood and
a thing as How
on it. The state folk see that they meet _none of
those Negroes, nor any others of: ~onsequetice.~
The writer believes this igo capremele
licy. Closer ~ beie anal of the two homsberee
oser ties be the white

short-sighted
tween the

ig as necessary as

ap. if real. witty te 6 be. Rellevek. ogee

~L. D. Reddick of the New bi
rary, now on tour of Haiti, dis that there
is @ great hunger in that hack re ~ hews,
literature abou age A:

books and

Hillman of the Office of Production
Management, arrived
Monday supposedly
with the matter -of
against Negro workers in local de:
fense shaman a rare:

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