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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1941

PEEKSKILL, N. Y.~The oldest and the youngest New York guard officers meet at the officers~

training school at Camp Sntith,

At the ieft is Major George W. I, Dwinell, in. civil
ian life an attorney, with officers

Peekskill, N. Y.

in Brooklyn. He

gives his age as over 60 Major Dwinell enlisted for
the first time in the New York National Guard: in
1909~elevett~ years before | Lt.
(right), the youngest officer, was born, Lt. Rohlehr
works for a New York Realty Corporation, which

John A, Rohlehr

was mobilize] into federal service. (IIN)

Lindbergh Termed Dangerous
Enemy Of Negro People ~

"Men Of Vision~
Are Called For
By Dr. Scruggs

Lincoln Prexy
Stresses Need _
Before Faculty.

_JEF _CIrry,
peg <oh D. Seruges, president of Lincoln university, address~
ing his colleagues in the first general. faculty meeting of the year,
cere them ~men of vision,~- and,
in a message whose scope was not
limited to the campus, impressed
upon his hearers the need for such
men ip the world today.

Speaking of the men who advance dnstitutions by their unstinted efforts in behalf of the cause of
which~the institutions stand, President Scruggs said: ~Men who see
the worth and values for individuals ih ~particular and society in
ceneral in these causes are men of
vision.)

They have eyes and they see.
They have ears and they hear the
appeal which the cause makes.
they have faith in the -possibilities
of its achievement; they believe in

- its principles and tenets; they give

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their strength and expend their
energies in dignified attempts~-to
attain these goals; they muster
their courage and fight to achieve
the ends.~

He stressed the need of an intelligent optimism and faith, by saying: ~Only men with vision are
ever called to the struggle for high
purposés.-Problems, of the human
family and: their challenges are
only seen by men of vision. They
are moved to solve the problems
which are before their eyes, believing that never is a problem pre~sented but what the solution of it
is near by and at hand,~

Mo.~(ANP)
1ggs, + fal Said: ~We

WASHINGTON, D. GC. (SNS)- ~
Ex-Colonel Charles A.. Lindbergh
was exposed. this week by the
Journal and Guide, influential
weekly paper, as the most dangerous public enemy of the Negro
peels and all other American people.

In its issue of September 20, the
paper publishes an __ editorial,
~Lindbergh A Menace,~ which calls
for his removal from public life.
Describing the ex-colonel~s. recent
anti-Jewish radio speech as 2 type
of ~brazenry~ calculated to. give
real~ comfort ~to Hitler, the: editor.
hope that: he will
keep on talking until after the firing begins, so that he can be put
where he properly belongs,~

Despite the grave situation which
the country faces today, a situation
which President~ Roosevelt outlined clearly in his speech of September 11, the paper declared, Lindbergh ~undertook to further confuse and divide the nation by
dragging in the racial and religious

questions.
~Colonel Lindbergn attacked the
Jews,~ the. editorial declared,

~much in the same fashion that
Hitler did in the earlier stages of

his reign.~
Making it clear tidet Senator
Nye and other members

Ex-Colonel~s Views Found: -
Very Similar To Hitler~;

American First Committee who express:d agreement with Lindbergh~s
views, will find no disciples among
the Negro people, the editorial

stated: ~We. also doubt. the ~sincer--

ity of anyone who thinks _ that.Col. Lindbergh is a. patriot, that
he is really actuated in what hes
doing by any desire to aid anyone
save Hitler.~

125 NAMED ON: DRAF4 BOARDS.

WASHINGTON~(A N- P)~Following the general trend of administration of selective service af
fairs, the govetmor of ~Texas has:

just named: 125 Negroes, vrominent in various sections of. the
state, to serve on the scélective
service draft boards of that state,

NEGRO AND DEFENSE

SACRAMENTO, Calif.~B; Frederic Morrow, co-crdinator of
branches for: the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, delivered the. principal address on the Negro. Day
program at the California State
Fair, Sunday, September 7.

The entire program and, Mr.
Morrow~s address were built around
the theme of ~~The Negro, His

of the Place in National Defense.~

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Estimated Total
Cost Is Placed
At $222,243

WASHINGTON, D. C~(SNS)~
Presidental approval of five additional Defense~ Public Works projects to provide community facilities, and services for Negro civilian
defense. workers and military personnel was announced last week
by. Federal, Works. Administrator
John M. Carmody. These five new
projects, with a total estimated cost
of, $222,243, are. distributed over,
four. States, ow

Included among the latest projects announced area recreation
building at Columbia, 8. C., to cost

Columbia, S. C., to cost $34,200; a
health clinic at. Hinesville, Ga., $13,390; an elementary school at, Moss
Point, Miss., $30,000, and an addition to a high school at Newport
News, Va., $119,000... Funds for the developments are
ohtained from a Congressional ap| propriation of $150,000,000 for. the
Defense Public Works program. Local authorities sponsoring~ the projects will bear part of the total
costs of the elementary school at
Moss. Point, Miss., the school addition at Newport News, Va., and the
clinic at Columbia, S. C..

In, each case the amount of the
sponsor~s fund will be fixed by agreement, between the local authorities and representatives of the
Federal Works Administrator. The
remaining two projects will. either
receive 100 percent Defense Public
Works grants, be Federally constructed or built under a combination of the two.

TO HANDLE CIVIL ~
COMPLAINTS,
~NEW YORK~The National Asso
ored- People.. received information
from Lawrence Gramer, executive
~Secretary ot the President~s Gom-<mittee on Pair Employment Practice, last. week, that bis committee. is. authorized to receive and inRg complaints of discriminary a

FIVE DEFENSE COURSES
PRAIRIE VIEW, Tex.~Director
J. J. Abernethy received notice that
Prairie View hag again been approved for offering Defense. courses
during the vear 1941-42. The
authorization calls for courses in

ition, Engineerirjz, Engineering
Drawing, Internal Combustion Engines, and Radio Engineering.

Half the cotton gins in. the State

of Bahia, Brazil, are overage the

$25,653; a venereal disease clinic at)

ciation for the- Advancement of Col- }

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By Chiff Mackay |

Movie Propaganda:

NO SMALL AMQUNT of interest has been created
among Negro citizens in the investigation of the motion picture industry currently being conducted in
Washington by a group of isolationist senators bent
everything

on frightening producers into omitting
the movies that might be offending to Mr: Hitler.:

Personally the writer agrees with
Messrs. Roosevelt and Willkie that
little could be found in current
films that might be labeled ~warmongering.~ If in attempting to
cater to the tempo of public opinion, which is definitely in the ~stop
Hitler~ mood, can be termed ~warmongering~ it might be true that
the producers are guilty of just
that.

But the interest of Negroes centers nov so much
on whether: or not the motion pictures moguls are
adjudged guilty of Hitler-baiting. Our interest
largely concerns just what affect this questionable
Senate investigation will. have on future produc
tions.
NEGROES HUMILIATED

And: our reason. for watching is not because Negroes are interested in the cause of the isolationists,
They clearly are not. But they are interested in
discovering a technique that will be effective in
~restraining. motion picture producers from exercis-ing their persistent habit.of libelling, humiliating
and degrading Negro people on the silver screen.

A tacit understanding seems to have been reached by producers which holds that Negroes are never to be vresented in roles that will ~picture them in
@ favorable light.

Along. with the white

| stances no attempt is even made to resort to subtle
ty to put across: this program of playing down the
Negro. It has in most instances been open and

> plentiful supply of black faces in the center of
to the world that there is a
among American Negro
NO NEGRO SOLD

which. are being produced, even those shorts

army. If you depended on the motion picture as your
source of information, you would never know

is designed to. display |
large criminal element

And on the. other hand watch the series of war|. |
purportly depicting the. growth of Uncle Sam~s. new *

that there wak 2 single Negro enlisted in the army.
The directors are careful to omit the, black faces
that are so liberally shown in the prison films,

This is but one isolated instance of \the studied. design movie producers are using to give an inaccurate
picture of the American Negro. to the. world~s vast
theatre-going- public. There are hundreds of others.

~The motion picture technical advisers. write lengthy
articles about how careful they are to see that the
background, scenery, etc., of the pictures are checked to see that they are ~true to life.~ This might
be true of everything, except the roles assigned to
Negroes. ~

To most scenario writers for the movies; Negroes

have advanced but precious little from the days some

seventy-six years ago when they were released from
bo

ndage.

USE THICK DIALECTS

Negro actors, some of the best-educated dramatists
that Hollywood boasts, are always called upon to
speak in ~down-home~ dialects thick enough to cut
with a knife.

-To the movies all Negroes use ~Ah~ for ~I,~ they
all use the expression ~You-all,~ they are for the
most part ali illiterate, the large majority of the
men are depicted as shiftless and lazy, the women
wear large bandanna handkerchiefs about their
heads, the children are barefoot and unkempt.

The movies also fall for the usual run of inhibitions which American white people like to assign
to Negroes. Hollywood~s Negroes all like fried chicken.

all laugh loudly with teeth showing, they are
religious, they all can sing and dance and
love. watermelon.

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all

they. all
of American Negroes
millions of people throughout the

is not @ true. picture; know that it is
of the rankest sort and that is designed to libel an
~it t Senate investigation of
ves: motion pictures. ss pothing else, it wil have served a come
purpose ve egroes a technique that
em gaiors: F nga bl to combat this wave of propa- |:
g a. whick fq. }:;
jl = ie co SS
ied, belitiled propagandized. against. v:
time they. seek entertainment ure
theatre, There is no real excuse
tle. campaign. against: the Negro.
better time. thd@n uow when the wor
itself of Hitler the arch race-baiter,
the true light of the econom
ments it has made since - - They
no more. They seek less..

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As Baptist President Took Over Gavel

\pr. D. V. Jemiso mn ( P mt

es) is: shown as -he took ov@y the gavel. after. his | Missionary Baptist Convention ob Ghai, ~wiih Gee Vt
overwhelming election to the presidency of the Na- | sided over the stormy elect scnsion~ le ee:

tional Baptist Convention, Inc., during the recent
session at Cleveland. Dr, Jemison is from Selma,

g ito left with. glass
standing next to

the new president, Dr. Pinkston, is

from Augusta, Ga,

Fair Labor Unit Is Already
Effective, Secretary Claims

Leak In Committee
Hurting Work,
Cramer Charges

WASHINGTON, D. C.(ANP)
Lawrence Cramer, executive secretary of the Fair Employment
Practices committee, in a _ discussion of the group's work said that
the committee in the short time
it had been in existence had accomplished an astonishing amount
of good in breaking down __ the
prejudicia] barriers against Negro
employment in defense industries.

~However,~ Mr. Cramer continued, ~I would much rather wait
until our: staff is completely. organized. and functioning before
giving out any statement to. the

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press as to what we have atcomplished.

~I feel that the greater amount
of good can be accomplished if we
didn~t try to say too much at present. Then again, we are not in a
position to do much talking~we
-aren~t even organized completely

~My desk is cluttered with correspondence which I am just getting around to and our quarters
are too small When we are settled
in large quarters, we will know
way we are going and can turn
press matters over to a competent
person, whom I believe. we already
have.~ ~

At present, there is much concern over the organization due to
a leak in the committee by which
certain deliberations were given
out before the matter was entirely. settled,

The. usual procedure in such matters is to wait: until all persons
concerned have cleared, aviproved.
and certified before any announceinent is made, Because of the unusual manner in which information reached the public, there is
some doubt as to whether a much
desired worker will be assigned to
the FEP.

However, arrangements are going aheid to fill this post if the

others will be assigned as soon as
the investigations of the civil service commission are cleared.

reception given the committee by
Negro newspapers and feels that
they will exert a potent force to

papers will string along with the
committee until it is formally and

completely organized.

American cultural relations.

Seek Out-Of-State Aid
For Arkansas Students

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PINE BLUFF, Ark.~(ANP)~The Committee on Negro Organigation has made a request of thé governor of Arkansas to {ransfer from, his emergency fund the sum of $5,000 to be sed for
scholarship aid to Negro college graduates now enrolled in pro~ fessional schools outside of Arkansas, 5
The request followed the recent action of Gov. Homer H. Adkins in making available from the emergency fund $450, a supplemental sum, -to be used by the trusiees of the University of
Arkansas in helping provide two full scholarships for South or
Central American students, in an effort to strengthen the inter
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FEP Will Seek

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By ALVIN E. WHITE~
WASHINGTON~(ANP)~

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national in scope, refusing by
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FOUGHT BLACK MARK

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The committee then, at the end

of the two days, sought to. continue
its work by. beving hearings in

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