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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN |

- FLINT-BROWNSVILLE NEWS

830 Pingree Phone 9-7571 Flint, Michigan

HENRY G. REYNOLDS.................. Editor and Publisher
BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS.......... Associate Editor
Wee PO a i oe iiss,. Director of Photography

RICHARD ee ek. Manager of Circulation
~ SERS. CORA Lo TURNER....:..... cesecs +++.ee.. Adv. Manager
Adv. Asst.

MR. JOHN H. TURNER

= _ A Prophet Without Honor At Home

~A Prophet is honored in all the world save in his own
Home.~

Negroes in most American cities own and publish their
home town newspaper. That fills the need for distribution
of community intelligence among the home people. The idea
~springs from Pride in the folks at Home. Detroit has its
newspaper, and the people of Detroit are proud of it. Pontiac people appreciate their paper and give evidence of community self-respect by eagerly supporting their home newspaper.:

Now when you come to talk about Flint people showing their community self respect, and appreciation for their
own Home paper, why, you simply hesitate to give expression on the subject. 1 wonder what kind of people this is
that have peopled the Colored Community in this city, Can
you imagine them preferring White Newspapers and
out-of-town Colored Newspapers to their own Home Town
Newspaper? The reason cannot be for lack of clean constructive news. Nor can it be for lack of variety of news or
wide news coverage. The Flint-Brownsville News is Flint~s
own Newspaper, created and kept in circulation by Flint
Citizens. [t is the only Newspaper listed in the United States
Bureau of the Census for Flint. The fact is that the FlintBrownsville News is the only Real Flint Newspaper the
City has ever had to run regularly and is the only one recognized by the Flint Chamber of Commerce, the Public Library and the Department of Commerce at Washington,
Te C. We believe that the hidden reason for the indifference~
among some of the ~:higher ups~, so-called, is ~littleness~ in
them; the ~I want-to-be-itness~ in them. Indeed the caliber
of our peon~e here from an intelligent point of view, is at a
low tide. We hope that the young people coming up will be
of a finer standard. Such an attitude among those who
turn a cold shoulder to their Home Newspaper, is reflected
in many places and in the minds of some our White Neighbers. What to do about this is puzzle, Can-it be that, a large
number of Flint Colored people are like the ~ proverbial
crabs? If this is so, then our young men who have heen to
war and those who now are going to help preserve the Democracy which such people enjoy, are receiving scant appreciation, Another thing, one hears on every hand, in
Church gatherings, and places where good advice is disseminated arguments to the effect that voung people should gc
to school and learn to be somebody. What about those young
peopie who now returned from such places of learning and
are here among us seeking to practice what you older people have been preaching? A certain young man is now in
your Town. making strenuous efforts to contribute something to the unbuilding of the community. Your indifference and undermining activities are all that vou have to
back up your earlier admonishings, Shame on ll of you who
- are guilty of such doings. ~

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Two Ways of Life

This second World War is a war between two philosophies, two ways of life, two diametrically opposed systems
of government.

In every land which the Axis has conquered, all liberty
has been ruthlessly abolished. The free enterprise system,
where it existed, has-been consigned to the rubbish heap.
Dissenters have faced the firing squad or have been sentenced to living death in a concentration camp. A whole
continent has been chained to the Nazi chariot, and the
peoples of a dozen nations, many of them once democratic
and free, have been reduced to the status of slaves. The
individual is nothing~the state is all.~

". Our part in this war then, whether or not we eventually
become: active belligerents, is to prove to all the world that
free enterprise is superior to Slave enterprise~that democracy is superior to totalitarianism. And we can prove
~that in only one way. That is by encouraging the private enterprise system, under fair and suitable government regulation, to produce as it never produced before. That meansthat we must encourage privately-owned industry~whether
~it deals in electric power or coal or oil or manufacturing or
anything else to do the greatest job in history. It means
that we must consistently oppose state socialism wherever
it appears whatever its manifestations. We are fighting for
the right of free men to engage freely in legitimate business under a free system. If that right is lost, we will suffer an irrevocable defeat, no matter how great our military
prowess.

Private enterprise is ready to meet the test. The record
~of the past is the promise of the future. It is up to all men
to prove now that the American way is the winning way~
and the. way to eventual peace and security of all the peo~ple.~Industrial News Review.

Negroes Urged.Continued from Page 1)
Executive Order on defense employment took cognizance of the
tnmaining problems of minority
groups. Section One of the order
stated:

~All departments and
of the Government of the
States concerned with vocational
and training p for defense
~production shall take special
measured appropriate to assur:
that~ such programs are administered without discrimination be:
cause of race, creed, color, or na:
tional origin.~

SHOULD ENROLL~ IN
CLASSES ~. Meo
Declaring tgat this section will
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Power to make you victotious in ei!~
you y to do? Power to
make people admire you. Power to
~earn money? - Power to gain popularity? Power to make any one follow you? I will send you informetion which is the result of scientific
research by one holding a degtee of
Ss. 8S. With this information and directions in your possession you must
become ~inore masterful and exert

greater influence. You will be abie ~Field investigations by members
0 eine TO HELE rou. 1 {| of my staff indicate that this hes
YOU ARE NOT DELIGHTED You: ~| not been done in many communi-/| 9
MONEy IMMEDIATELY REFUND- ff} ties~ he stated. ~Civic, socjal and
ED,.Just send me your name and labor leaders in these communities should combine their efforts
to see that available Negro workers are enrolled in these classes.~
The Chief of the Negro Employ
~}ment opportunities

Flint Editorial
Observation ~

1710 8. Sag. Street
Flint, Michigan. July. 12. 1941.
TO THE BROWNSVILLE NEWS
~As I See It~

By PETER JACQUETTE

Good. Society all around us
seems to be on the wane. What is
Society anyway? It is association
in social relationship. I am thinking of the more favored class in
relation to my group. In turning
back the pages about fifteen years
I found that there were a goodly
number of people living here when
I came with the ability to demand
some respect from others, but that
goodly number now appears to be
just one or twe here and there.
What has become of them? Are
they all gone to other lands or to

ground? And to me the sad _ part
about it is that the one or two
remaining seem to loose sight of
the fact that they owe it to themselves and our society to speak out
against wrong dcings. Some say
what of it, I have no children, let
those with children do it, others
Say we. have.the law to take care,
of it all. I have also listened to
some who say we have nothing to do
with those because each of us will
have to stand our own trial on that
last day and a thousand other
reasons which to me seem frivolous.
Believe it or not, this race of ours
will not long strive on the refuse
which it feeds upon. Permit me to
say that I am not at all perfect
and am not demanding it of anyone, but I do think that we can
at least respect ourselves and safeguard. our societv. We must face
fact. I am very much inclined to
believe that when we did put an
end to the RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
we started the ruin of our favored
seciety. Think and say whatever
you want to but I Know and you
know that there are those who
love and cater to. that kind of life
and living, since we cannot stop it
we should find a way to make it
safe and that calls for the RED.
LIGHT.

THE LINE OF LEAST
RESISTANCE

The desire to get money and to
get it quick regardies; cf who
suffers is running too high among
cur young people. Gambling is on
its rampage. In gambling some
must win and some must loose but
that~s not the end of it all. The

{winner is always jubilant. but what

ehout the looser? The answer iS
that when these voune married
men find cut that all thei~ little
earnings are in the hands of their
companion a thousands things appears to them. With two or three
children and a wife to care for, it
neems to me that they would need
every penny of that fifteen, twentv, twenty-five, thirty or thirty_five
dollars that they make each week.
Just a few of the things that they
must have: warm clothing, coal,
food. light and gas, and houserent are things that he can~t get
around, as a loser he is bound to
be full of grief and anything may
take place. Don~t vou think that it
would have been much better had
the chanee for
existed? Yes, I do and you do too,
but we are in a sense too. busy
with self, As such, we fail to see
this growing force of evil which
is sucking the very life out of our
favored society. I am calling upon
all respectable citizens to let~s
work for those things that mean
the most to all of us, those things
that we love most dearly fhen live
for the heaven which shines above
us and the good that we can do.
As for me I am ready and willing:
to ioin and crusade for the defense
of cur favored society. Let~s go
ladies and gentlemen, let~s go.

Ccnsumer~s Cooperation will go a
long way in solving the problem
because a race that is economically weak cannot successfully defend
anything.

~Peter Jacquette.

ment and. Training Branch cited
recent developments in the aviation industry in support of his
statement of increased employfor Negroes.
Aircraft manufacturers now training and employing Negro production workers include CurtissWright factories and affiliates in
Buffalo, New York, Columbus ani
Cincinnati, Ohio; Bell Aircraft in
Buffalo, N. Y.; Brewster Aeronautical Corporation in Long Island City, N. Y. Grumman Aeronautica] Engineering Company and
Republic Aviation Company in
Farmingdale, L. I.

Woman Returns

(Continued from page 1)
found it after they was. gone
and I didin no what to do
about it till the Governor rote
me today. So I hope it will do
the United States some good
in this war.~;

Signed: Emma Johnson

the silent abode of our city burial-.

gambling never.

+ scrutiny. The limits of racial toler-. that we reflect on the fact that

| WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

The Negro And
Nat'l Defense

By WALTER R. CHIVERS

TO PLAY THE role of a normal
memter of any society and we a
member in good standing in a
minority racial group within that
society at the same time requires
an extremely
keen sense of
balance.

If members
of the minority
racial group
happen to. be
marked by a
different color

this sense of
Valance operates under continued pressure
and consequentty in constant
ly. subjected to. CHIVERS
severe stresses and Strains. Such is
the case in times of relative peace
How difficult this balance: must
be in times of war when the lives
and culture of the ruling classes
are threatened with extermination?

The seriousness of the situation
of the American Negro in the present crisis as it effects his native
country is dramatized by this mark
of color. His color differentiates
him and thus subjects his behavior
to more minute and analytica)

ance are set by the majority racial
group upon a gauge which records
the intensity and apparent sincerity of the Negro~s patriotism.

The closer then the country ap-~
proaches war and thereby, * more
certainly endangers the state of
self-preservation of the majority
racial group the narrower becomes
the limits of tolerance by white
people. The important thing to
fe remembered here that white
people set the limits of tolerance:

them, regardless of the invitations
invoked, if they,are to survive.

HATE IS ORGANIZED

Preparation for war institutionalizes hate against the enemy~it has
to. For people can not fight fiercely unless they hate intensely. Modern warfare is prepared for in
advance. The seeds of hate ~ are
sown early and carefully nurtured.
When the~vitriol has reached ite
adolescence and is full of energy
and sap it begins to strain at
restriction. It must be used for
ts purpose or it will, as any thwarted emotion, find its own outlet.

A most logical and ~ convenient
outlet would be Negroes because of
their distinctive marking and the
lack of social stigma attached tc
the destruction of another race
You see the other race is not quite
human anyway~never is. The destruction of Jews is a good example of this, even though they
are white people. The same answer
is arrived at by substituting minority culture for race.

EXAMINING SOME ERRORS.Let us examine some of the errors
of Negroes that are likely to sub
ject them to the penalties for violating the limits of racial tolerance
in times of crisis. For instance, the
recent accumulation of threats
aimed at the national defense, tc
force concessions from the moras
of the overall ~ societal culture,
which might be simply translated
at ~white culture.~ What are a
few of these threats?

One is the National Committee
on Participation of Negroes in
National Defense. The leader of
this group has recently createg a
slogan which reads, ~the white
man~s misery is the Negro~s gain.~
Certainly such a slogan is not
calculated: to encourage the white
political administrators to want
to move in order to make room
for Negroes in National defense
It is in reality a challenge to
racial conflict.

MARCH ILL-CONCEIVED

and Negroes must measure up to

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as @ means of forcing that neighbor to admit him into his intimatesocial group

fighting for self-preservation~a
threat of sabotage of national
unity. In the first place not only
100,000 Negroes but thirteen million
cannot successfully force upwards
of 120 millions of advantaged people to do anything. The thought is
particularly ridiculous when one

realizes the importance of Negroes.
Hitler has taught the world that a
bluff is worthless unless it can
be backed, if needs be, by action~
action sufficiently strong to counteract violent reaction. White. people control all of the implements
of war, if you get what I mean.

BAD STRATEGY

It is equally as bad to advertise
broadly, in a spirit of braggadocia,
the belief that the threat of ~ the
~March on Washington~ forced
the President of the United States
to make concessions to Negroes by
issuing an order to the office of
Production Management to the
effect that Negroes must be employed by defense industries. The
truth is that the war can be fought
with Negroes~ in ~concentration.
camps. The military
Fascism has been attuned to its
high state of efficient operation on
the emotional current of antiJewry. There are upwards of ten
millions of ineffective Jews in
Continental Europe. In this relationship, the significent thing is
that American indignation has
produced no feasible plan for
rehabilitating those Jews who may
leave the walled in ghettoes.

noise as this organization makes

(To Be Continued Next Sunday)

BETWEEN THE LINES.

Two-edged Sword.
By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK

For ANP
IT IS WITH pardonable pride

the doctrine of the Double_DutyDollar was first exponded in this
column many years ago. As was to
he expected, there were those who
attempted to gainsay the principal
in question; but the lapse of only
& few years and the stirring events
rapidly transpiring have about
convinced the most incredulous that
we hed something.:

Everywhere Negroes are subscribing to the doctrine that Negroes who spend their money with
Negroes make their dollars do
double duty. The doctrine went
further than holding up the mere
advantage fo trading with Negroes;
but also set forth that the same
objectives could be atttained by
trading with those whites who
-employ Negroes.:

~This made it broad and less likely to antagonize the fundamental]
erinciples of inter-racial cooperation. It is obvious that the Negro
cannot live merely by doing business with Negroes, but he must in.
clude within the scope of his.
Patronage those whites who employ Negroes.

A MEASURE OF RELIEF

This doctrine was never proposed and propounded as a solution te all of the problems confronting Negroes; it was merely
positied as a measure of relief to
a serious situation. Some of the
more ~learned~ Negroes began to
decry the doctrine on the score
that the Negro could not have a
separate economy for the race..

Nobody ever said that he could;
but it is becoming increasingly ap
varent that intra-racial cooperation such as is set forth in the
dottrine of the Double_Duty-Dollar has become one of the bulwatks of Negro advance. Those Negroes who are enjoying. most of the
blessings of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness find their
security in the application of the
goctrins ~of the Double-Duiy-Dol
Taking this same doctrine, Dr.
Luther Jackson of Virginia State
college coined the phrase ~share
your trade~ with Negroes. This was
a worthwhile amendment to the
doctrine and was designed to
thwart the ~attempt to use the doctrine in a way thet might be detrimental to Negro advance. Just
the other day I saw a placard posted by someone who had seen the
value of the -double-duty_dollar
principal, but who did not fully appreciate the dangers that lurk in

the unchastened enthusiasm which

might take hold on unsuspecting
devotees.

The placard read in essence
~Trade only with Negroes~ and
the context of the placard showed
unmistakably that an attempt was
made to create prejudice against
the Negro who trades with anybody else. This was a dangerous
position to take with regard to the
double-duty-dollar doctrine. If
Negroes are going to confine all
of their trade to Negroes, then the
whites must be expected to do the
same.

ECONOMIC SUICIDE

When whites admonish all whites
to do business only with whites, it
is going to be a sad time for Negroes in this country. If Negroes
want whites to share their economic opportunities with Negroes
then Negroes must share their
businéss with. whites. To do other
wise is economic suicide. The doctrine of the double-duty-dollar is
a two adged sword or may become
such when promulgated: by the
thoughtless. If Negro leaders would {
give more attention to the matter
and indestrinate the masses it
would reassure the situation.

What ig more, the employment
cf the doctrine should be inspired as & measure of self-defense

~Tather than as a weapon against

the white man. In other words,
the motives behind the doubleduty doctrine should not be vindictive but cooperative. As a self-help
proposition the double-duty doctrine has limitless possibilities;
but as a fight weapon it has greater possibilities for harm. Negroes
leadership should therefo~e see to
it that the doctrine is not prostituted by designing or simple persons who would. gain immediately
for themselves and cause ultimate
loss to the- race. Negroes cannot

~lift themselves by their boot- straps

neither can the Negro rise economically on the race alone.

Let ~us remember that the doubleduty-dollar doctrine may be a twoedge sword in the hands of those
who do not fully understand. What
was designed to be a stepping
stone must not be made a stumbling block. Negr..es must never frrget that whites can read placards
as well as Negroes and that these
whites have as much racial pride
and loyalty as Negroes. While the
principle behind the douhble-duty
dollar is fine, the application of
this principle may be detrimental.
The Doubdle-Duty.Dollar doctrine
may become a two-edge sword.
Then let us beware of carelessness

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| By AL WHITE:
WASHINGTON, D. C.~(ANP)~

Digging up You street seems to be
the favorite past time of several

only redeeming feature about the
whole thing is that they employ
hundreds of Negroes doing it. But
it~s. awfully uncomfortable to ped-.
estrians.

A bit of New York~s East Side at
the corner of llth and S Sunday
afternoon. A Jewish merchant, his
family and friends, seated around

| a table~on the street, eating water
melon and throwing the rinds in~
the gutter. So Negroes find watermelons fine eating, eh?

A bit of Harlem at 14th and ~
You streets, 1 a. m. Sunday.
Street loafers cluttering up the
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Beatrice Edmonds of Richmond and
seeing several of the folks we~ve
known for days d days at the
sessions. Little Jeanetta Welch did
herself proud with that conference.

Wasn~t Walter White opposed.
to a certain organization appearing before the Truman,
committee when it was first
proposed? Well, a group got tegether the other day and ask-.
ed Walter*to appear before that
committee too.

Edgar Brown and two cops escorted three Negro golfers about a
white course here Sunday: because
the facilities at the colored course
did not compare with the white.

They report another cut in the
number of CCC camps effective this
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For years, Mrs. Sharpe had neither information nor visitors from
home, until during the World war,
she was visited by a relative who
wasn~t even a at the time of her

about the family~but the way she
was located was the story. This.

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Se @)__ 22 JOLT

Lionel Hampton turn out a masterful exhibition on the
rdrums the morning.of July Fourth when a~ white writer
sided up to me and reminded me that Hampton-used to be.
a big cog in the white band directed by Benny Goodman. | -
~During the brief conversation i asked a rather straightforward question. ~Why,~ I asked, ~does Goodman use co
ored men in his orchestra when good white musicians are
available?~ ee

~ The white man did not have to.
answer. Hexhad his personal opinion already formed:
~Here~s what I think,~ he said. ~Benny Goodman is a native of Chicago and I believe when he gets old he is going:
to stop directing his band and turn politician. I really think
Benny would like to go to Washington as a congressman..
Chicago has a big batch of colored votes, you know.~

Of course, it is only one man~s opinion. But it sounds.:
logical.:
bandwagon when Lionel Hampton and Fletcher Henderson
and other noted colored musicians joined up with the celebrated white orchestra. Benny Goodman will long be in
the minds of colored people. ~;

President Roosevelt, the master politician, elevated
colored army officer to the rank of General several weeks
before he was re-elected Chief Executive of the United:
States the third consecutive time. After all, there are mil- _
lions of colored votes scattered over this country.

Political bargaining has been and always will be. South.
ern Negroes would be considered in the payoff if they had -
any real voting power. But -we don't have it, yet. I think
we are beginning to see the light, though. is
Walk through state buildings in the South and try to.
find some Negroes at work. They are there, a few of them,,
standing in corners, wearing white coats and holding brooms.
in their hands.
Colored persons would have better state government jobs
if they~d learn the real power of the ballot. ei
Youngsters coming along now are receiving proper political and civic advice in the schools and coleane: Favsong -
the ministers sermonize the power of the ballot, now.

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Ministers could, if they would,
members and qualify them to vote.

our main hope.

MESSRS. HITLER

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~The church stands as

By WILLIAM PICKENS | AnoU
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IT WAS TO be expected, but it
came about earlier than most of}
us had expected it. We expected it
when (and if Hitler should win the
present war against democracies,
or should fight it to a draw. But
Hitler cannot wait.. Why? For the
same reason that Hess ran out of
Germany: because of desperation.
~Wheat and oil needs will not wait
on Hitler.

endship between Germany

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incia, But Churchill is~ right:
Russia is to be preferred by the rest.
of us to Germany in this fight and
at this time. We cannot follow
Lindbergh or Wheeler: we must
use our brains and follow our horse
sense. We do not think that either
Russia or Germany offers the
world any great gift.~but we most
decidedly prefer to see _ Germany
defeated, ~ even by Russia, Germany is such a menace as Russia
has not become, and perhaps
nevér can become.
REAL SITUATION:
This is a REAL situation, not
an academic subject for academic
deliberations. Decision and Action.
Roosevelt and Churchill are idealists of a sort, but are realist when
it comes to realities and the need
for decision and action..

We prefer to help Russia against
Germany. We could never prefer to
help Germany against Russia. We
of this life in this world are always
choosing. between EVILS. We ourselves are an evil. We know it.

If Russia can noid Hitler for
90 days, Hitler~s-days are numbered.

am sure he has, he -can show letters revealing a versatility seldom
seen in writers. He has covered just
about every subject under the sun!
Now that the dead line for the
appointments under the Ramspeck
bill has passed, a number of appointments were made in order to
get in under that eS seed
a tees are very, very happy
Bn the service where they will

any honest

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I WAS STANDING THERE watching Orchestra Leader |

search his mind for an. a

Thousands of Negroes climbed on the Goodman |

register all of their ~