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FLINT-BROWNSVILLE NEWS.

830 Pingree Phone 9-7571 Flint, Michigan
HENRY G. REYNOLDS................. Editor and Publisher
_BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS.................. Associate Editor
WILLIAM ENNIS, dr................-.. Director of Photography
RICHARD BURKS...... 5 awerkes cae Manager of Circulation
MRS.-CORA L.. TURNER...<...... aba Kates e,. Adv. Manager. Adv. Asst.

MR, JOHN,H. TURNER

| Race Leaders In Flint Silent
On FHA Ostracism

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' THE BURNING ISSUE which has been brought about
on account of the unfair practice of the Republican Bankers
in the matter of refusing to let FHA loans to Colored people
here finds the Negro Moguls silent. The matter of ignoring
our group in the question of FHA loans has been going on
ever since the Federal Government allotted that money to
Flint GOP Bankers...

-.Those of our group who might have done something
about this ugly anti-Democratic way of life has beén interested in things more selfishly remunerative. This matter of
breaking that vicious circle of economic denial is a challenge
to the statesmanship of the leaders in our group. It has
been observed that we have not had a man in Genesee County
big enough to tackle this problem. We think we know why.
We believe it is because such a man does not or rather has
not been living in this City or County; and we are not yet
sure we have one such man now.

Men who aspire to the leadership in any community
should be made of the proper material; their slant on life, for
the purpose of leadership, should be focused on things of this
kind; things, which in principle, are of vital economic importance to the masses of their people. Can Flint claim to
have enjoyed the citizenship of such a man or of such men?
Do we not have those here among us ~who have bent every
effort to forestall any attempt on the part of certain other
individuals who have come here and have proved to possess
the sort of ambition needed?

What was behind the torrent of fire engendered and
fanned to exterminating proportions against the continuance
of the Mayor of Brownsville Organization? It was not the
desire of that unholy individual (who made himself a onemon show while fanning the flames of prejudice among the
masses of you Flint people against that other individual) to
allow an organization, like the Brownsville Mayor~s, to live.
That organization would have been able to do TOO MUCH
GOOD for the masses. It* would have been able to pull the
veil off the:secret behind the FHA-GOP brand of democratic
use of our Federal Funds here. It would have been able to
put up a solid front for our division of the population here.
Against this, is really what the motive for HIS fight was;
and it was primary. It would have SHOWED HIS HAND
if he had attacked the organization per se. No, he was too
smart for that; and while the thing was red hot and still
aheating, the man he was shooting at could not show the
-people this point on account of his being the unfortunate target.

_ This is a way-of-doing, your ~master opponent~ has
borrowed from the slaye masters of.o'd: and from the:clever
politicians of, today. The masses of the people just simply
allow such people too much leeway. Today, we have no united
~organization or generally accepted leadership. At the present time the function of those guilty of the things we have
just mentioned, is to spread RUMORS designed to NEUTRALIZE and make of no efefct, the efforts of honest persons to establish a leadership honest enough to be statesmen; courageous enough to initiate issues which wil] do us
good. and enlightened enough to carry them through when
they have succeeded in getting a sufficient following of the
masses.

SELFISH LEADERSHIP has always been ~bought off~
~when som@hing good for the masses was in the fore.. Indeed, it is this part of the game in*community life which
~entices any of the wrong class of men into the VAN of our
citizenship affairs. We should now have enough of STINGS
from their practices to make us sane enough to avoid their
kind in the future.

The proper men should now take hold and clear up the
matters which block us in borrowing FHA money; matters
which allow certain unfavorable emphasis on Negro slavery
jn the schoo!s; bring to the attention of the public the practice of indifference accorded our children in the schools and
many other practices which ought not to be.

The Menace Of Self Pity

By RUTH TAYLOR

SELF PITY-IS FAR DEADLIER in its effect than any
poison gas ever invented. It has destroyed whole nations as
~it grew and spread its devastating smoke screen.
Over ten years ago, on the train from Bremen to Cologne, a German woman spoke to me of this. We talked a
mixture of German and English with the aid of a pocket dictionary all the way down the Rhineland, past the smoke
filled industrial town that have learned in the last months
~the force of the R. A. F.:

She said~~There is something wrong growing: I feel

~it. ~I have two boys. One of them when he misses with his
ball just laughs and tries again. But the other~he is my
trouble. When he misses he always says the sun was in his
eyes or somebody pushed him. That is what is happening
to our people. They wilPnot laugh and try to throw the ball
wight. They keep thinking it is not their fault. I can stop
-4 with my boy~but I cannot stop it with my people~and the
~end will be bad.~ eel
~es What self pity can do to a nation we have seen in the
-rise of Hitler, We are face to face today with the problem
wof-how to keep from our shores the forces he has unleashed.
~Rut we must also keep out the source from which his power

_\s ~Phere is no self pity here? But there is! The young
d say, ~There is nothing for US today~we can~t live
mal lives the way your generation could.. There is no
e The adults complain of the taxes they have
2 oking that these taxes are a small price to pay
for freedom. A howl goes up when the slightest restriction
~/isplaced on the-people as a whole, for the good of the. people as a whole. tee

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*** We do like to complain. And our freedom to do so is the
amwritten codicil to the Bill of Rights. But we must take
~care not to'lét natural grousing turn into self-pity. This is
~Phe atatt upon which the dictators feed~a fungus growth
~that can choke 4 healthy nation, sapping the unity of pur[pose that is the cornerstone of our democratic way of life.

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One of the youngest chapters

March 18, 1940, the chapter joined
ization in Oc

Beauty Culturists~ League has the largest delegation
attending the twenty-second annua] session being
held at Atlanta~s Butler Street YMCA. Organized

er of the same year and became
affiliated with thé national just this year. The chapter was hostess to the nationa] president, Mrs, Cordelia Greene Johnson of~ Jersey City, when she J
broadcast over ~Wings Over Jordan.~ Its members

of the National

Elizabeth Hines,

the state organ
Had Largest Delegation At Beauty Meeting.

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also brought in more than 100 memberships in the
Knoxville NAACP drive. Pictured } to r are Mrs.

financial secretary; Mrs. E. M

Hartswell, Mrs. S. Blevins, Mrs, Hattie Arnold, Mrs.
Annie Smith, Mrs. Julia Cody, Mrs. Ruth Griffin,
corresponding secretary;
treasurer, who is manager of the Lad@y Alyce School
of Beauty Culture; Mrs. Pearl E. Franklin, president;
and Mrs. Mattye Briscoe. The photg was made in
the WORLD plant~(SNS Staff Photo.)

To Hold 17th

CHARLESTON, S. C.~(SNS)~
The National Colored Spiritualists Association will hold its 17th
annua] convention in Charleston,
September 2-7, with representatives from many sections of the
country scheduled to attend the
sessions which will be held at
the Veronica Spiritualist Church,
286 Ashley Avenue. It will mark
the first time the association has
met in the south and is being regarded as a novel experience ~among
members.

The organization~s official publication, The National Spiritualist
Reporter, in several articles, speaks
in glowing terms of Charleston~s
hospitality and the many things
to be enjoyed by members who attend. Mme. Rev. Veronica B. Williams, a national officer and pastor of the Veronica churc ports
that she expended much in

Emily Post
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One very stringent ~don~t~ is
on this matter of reaching. One
never reaches across the front of
the fellows on either side. He might
get a fork through his hand. If
something is wanted, the tongue
should be used. 4

~~Pjease~ is always said for anything, or it isn~t received. On the
other hand, if a man says, ~Thanks~
when the chow is received, he may
be marked as a green recruit.

A soldier, it is said, is always on
the alert. The also applies to the
mess hall table. It~s just too bad
if someone at the far end of the
table quietly mentions that he
would like to please have the peas,

the peas practically under his nose,
That~s. too bad, because someone
much closer will take the requester~s side of the affair, explode the
same demand in the nearest, ear
and then savagely snatch the peas,
whip: them across and under the
surprise nose and send them on
their way.

One sure way to bring signs of
horror to the faces of table waiters
is to leave a dirty plate on the table when the meal is finished, light
a cigarette, get up, puff and cloud
the smoke in the O. D.~s (diningroom orderly) face, and amble out.
The effect is much the same as
spitting down the back barrel of
an exploding 155. howitzer.

Cigarettes are never lit in the
mess hall, and plates aer always
carried to the kitchen where they
are scarped and piled by the eater.
On the matter of table talk, besides discussing the levity of the
problem of a soldier~s day, there
are intermingled demands for food.
Here enters a certain amount of
picturesque slang which Emily Post
would love to know:

~Butts~ That~s' like buying the
next share.

~Side arms.~ Otherwise known as
sugar and cream. ee

~Somebody get a broken arm?~

nature.
* ~Slum.~ Soldier~s version of English stew. ~

National Spiritualists

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convention depart
practice of
and

having the
from its customary
meeting in northern, cities.
come to Charleston, this year.

Unmarried Canadians earning
$1200 annually pay a flat rate of
7 percent on gross income, the Department of Commerce says.

Weather forecasts decrease rapilly in accuracy after 12 hours, according to the Department of Commerce.

SERVE PENN RR.NEARLY
88 YEARS

PHILADELFHIA~(A N P)~
Two employes of the Pennyslvania
railrotd were retired last week
after serving nearly 80 years as
messengers, William. W. Jackson,
65,, was retired after serving 39
years and six months im the~ accounting department snd was the
recipient of a travelling bag from
the other employes of his department.:

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~ Olive oil is being used as a lubricemt for~ mpchinery in Algeria
instead of mineral oils.

An auxiliary loop antenna to
improve the reception of portable
radio sets have been invented.

and he isn~t heard by the man with |'

As See Better

MYRTLE BEACH, 8. C.~(ANP)

~Negroes not only have better
eyesight at night than whites but
their hearing also is superior according to Lt. Col. Riley E. McGarraugh, commanding officer of
the 77th coast artillery, commenting on the fine target -records of
Negro anti-aircraft regiments at
the Windy Hill range near here,

The anti-gircraft target. pracored troops anywhere in the countice, held through Friday, was the
first shooting of this type by coltry, he said.:

The 76th and 77th regiments
commanded by white officers, were
organizeg a year ago as the firs
anti-aircraft units in the nation.

Says Negroes Hear As Well

Than Whites

For practice, an airplane flies
over the ocean, trailing 2,000 feet
behind it a huge sleeve target of
unbleached canvas. Three inch
guns fire at this target.

MEETS IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO~(A N P)~The Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa, a fraternal order
operating chiefly in the middlewest, closed a thrpe-day session
held at the Good Shepherd Tommunity house here Saturday. Crittenden E. Clark of St. Louis was
reelected grand master; Mrs. Ida
Garner of Chicago was elected national grand queen.

Coleman Faces
Life Sentence |
On Mayhem Bilt

Charged With

Night Watchman

ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~

Eugene Cozeman, apprehended
recently in New York where he was
revorted using an alias, Saturday
faced life imprisonment as the result of an indictment returned

grand jury.

~he indictment charges that
Coleman beat a nightwatchman 50
severely, the wounded man was
blinded in his only good eye. The
bill of indictment alleges that Coleman beat the night watchman
with his own blackjack and then
cut him with a knife.

According to testimony, the night
watchman, William C. Lynam, of
Capitol avenue, was attacked while
making an effort to arrest the colored man.

Having Blinded

against him Friday by. the Fulton}

| Education And

Mrs. Lillia A, Wrighi.

| Disparaging reports

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FLUSH KIDNEYS

OF POISONS

AND STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS

Live a Healthier, Happier, Life | irritated

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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

Race Relations.
POLITICAL EVENTS in Georgia

for the past few weeks have kept
me in an analytical frame of

been done. Since,
however it is
the case, I have
been amazed at
superficial
CHIVERS
ship that ~the conflict has exposed. What. are some of the factors
which have produced this
leadership? to oe
I shall open for discussién what
seems to me to be basic_in producing the misleadership of which I
now complain.. An excellent place
to start is with America~s entrance
into World War 1. This crisis has
had profound effect upon the lives
of Negroes of all classes. The particular emphasis hére, However, is
upon educated Negroes because it
is generally expected that they
should furnish the sane, reflective
and calculating leadership for the
disadvantaged Negro masses.

MET FIRST TIME

As a direct result of World. War
1 northern: white people and
southern Negroes had mass contact
for the first time. They. ~were
people of decidedly different cultures and outlook upon life. However, since Negroes had been constantly preached to and taught that
the northern white man was their
sole friend and that his way of life~
political, religious, economic~was

-order that they might use their.definite advantage by their ances
absorbed.
~way of life~ that lets him ~
more nearly like a man and extendae ee

FORGET MASSES z

The unfortunate thing is that in
enjoying individual comfort these
privileged Negroes should permit
themselves to become so oblivious
to the conditions under which the
vast majority of Negroes live. They
must know that most of them anyway must live among these people
in the South and. live by them.

I appreciate the opportunities
granted me by the philanthropic
foundations to study in the North
and I am grateful for the opportunities these agencies have given othe1
Negroes. It was a decided stroke of
good fortune. Good fortune provid-.
ed the Negro students remained
level-headed and sane enough to
keep a clear vision of the philosophy of Southern race relations in

superior training to manipulate the
disadvantages of the South to theix
advantage. ie
These Negro students too soon and
too often become ashamed of the
techniques of survival used to

tors. They refuse to analyze the
techniques of ~Uncle Tom~ to discover. what is there that they might

use advantageously. ~Uncle Tom? |.
is a phrase for cursing, undignified

jokes, and traitor ~branding~. All
of this notwiths there are
monuments to his success in a2 hostile

the only one capable of léadirig
them into salvation, they natural
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| BETWEEN: THE LINES By Gordon B. Hencoch,

Re-rating Russia

THE WORLD HAS for the most
part been prejudiced against the
communist experiment in Russia.
~ts have emanated from varied sources.and we
have been made to. feel that7communism was a passing event gee
life of Russia. Not, only is #% not
a passing event ~but the deévelopments in international affairs - of
recent times convince observers that
Russia is a going concern and that
communism is about as robust: in
Russia as democracy. is in Britain
and America.

No public commentator has been

ism in Russia. The fact was I was
not so much interested in the communism in Russia as that.communism striving fer the mastery in
this nation. Communism may be.a
fine thing for the Russians; but it
must not be concluded thereby. that
it is a fine thing for this country.
The background and ideologies of
Russia and America are different.. While the so-called democratic nations were playing the Pharisee towards Russia, Lenin and Stalin were
laying the foundation for one of
the most verile movements of
modern times and it remains to

| be seen whether Russia is less

stable than the rest of the nations

ALL HAD PURGES
Much had been made of the

bloody purges in Russia; but what
nation has not had its

~purge? Could the War of Secession

through many years? As appalling as

| a better place in -which -to: live, -his
~slans stop the German army

bloody | Smolensk sector and the German

many parallels in history ancient
and modern. Certainly the French
revolution was a ~bloody purge of
~the bloodiest type. If Russia ~ by
reason of its bloody purges becomes

thats have. eee~: Serato~ Garoal
ms have orgiven h
the centuries: The success of communism will be its exoneration, believe it or not. ~Successful sinners~
have a way of coming back in the
world~s estimation. - Z

For. seven weeks the armies of
Stalin and Hitler have been locked
in a death struggle in western Russia: Newspaper and radio commentators have predicted calamity. for
the forces of Stalin. They said that
it was traditional that the Russians were not sol
not fight and would*not if they.
could because they were chafing
under the burden of communism.
The Russian morale they said would
not stand the strain of sustained
warfare. Moreover, Russia was not
prepared. Stalin has smoked his
pipe and had slept over his rights
and Russia therefore would be mereeo
er.

GERMANS STOPPED

The possibilities of Negroes have
never been more rudely disparaged
than the possibilities of the Russians against the Germans. Behold
these six weeks have seen the Rusas
conipletely as any could have wished. It appears that the ~Stalin
Line~ has been pierced only in the

armies that enter the breach. are
seriously imperiled.

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