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-.. Manager of Circulation
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*; ~The Colored Group And The World~s

Supreme Crisis
_ It might be well said that the colored group on the

loyalty

ican continent is the most outstanding example of.
in. the annals of histcr~'y. Coming upon the scene as

captives, thrust hither from their native land, they picked
up the tongtc, patterned the customs and endured the persecutions and privation known to minority groups. The hope
for a brighter and better day of more tolerant understanding is the glittering thread that runs all through the fabric |
of ~their behaviour. We do not mean to say that the group
has been without its radicals and fanatics at times, but it:
is implied here that it has been foreign to the natures of the
whole people to present at any time a spirit of disloyalty.
~The world today faces the testing winds of tragedy
gambling with an unforeseen condition of international dis-:
turbance. Playing across the pages of history, is the reckless drama of the mechanized substance of a misguided and
exploited people, whose drunken ruler rages like a herd of
- wild. beast.- His lust blood, net power, for power has made

him drunk.
Our country under its

sober preambles has cast its lot

or the side of those opposing oppressing and misguided ex
ploitation. It is therefore essential to our success

in this
struggle that a solid front be presented so that no internal
sabotage may set up that disintegration that routed those
conquered countries now dangling from the belt of a mod
ern Attilla.

- ~ ~Phose acquainted,with many of the

past inflictions of

penalty upon loyalty marvel at the fortitude and sincere
devotion of those affected most. Their devotion is the most
powerful weapon in the great struggle that has come. to

~ surface,

* On every hand may be seen the fruits of the efforts of

our ~ peoplo

in this defense program. In the recovery

~movement, there was never at any time the absence of the
- efforts of our people. In another era in which their freedom
hung in the balance, there was no effort on their part to
betray their trust at home or to prey upon their charge.
- Without this the War Between the States could not have proceeded. But God heard, their cries and understood all and

delivered them.

- So God lives today. He has kept the record and it becomes every American citizen in this hour of trial to. lay
aside all petty differences and strike for the principles of
our country in earnest. It is feared that the surface has not
been scratched in this bloodv orgy. History has not told
and time has not seen such variation of chicanery and shrewd
maneuvering to set up sabotage within our ranks,

i Our

people will be loval to the last. Reward will come

to the-faithtul unto death and the only democracy we know
anything about can in this dark hour of peri] trust the black
hand~the hand that rocked the cradle of fhe new world.

NOTES AND COMMENTS
| FROM OUR CAPITAL |

~By CUNGRESSMAN WILLIAM
W. BLACKNEY
~+ ~ (Sixth Michigan~ District)
XEOMARGARINE. GETS

PAUL McNUTT IN TROUBLE. | pe

Dairy farmers of the United States
are up in arms against Federal
Security Administrator, Paul McNutt, He fins the dairy producers angry because of the Government~s recent activity in boosting
A~yitamin-enriched - -_oleomarg}i~Wine.~~ idjmethiig ike 200,000
farmers in 22 states have gone on
recerd against this action of the
Government. - ~ -...~sBOREIGN BASES MULTIPLY.
Quietly, with as little public notice as ible, the Navy is proceeding rapidly with the esbablishment of zirplane bases ~on islands
in the South Pacific. These bases
are to safeguard the routes to the
Suteh Indies and Australia.

DO YOU KNOW~.

THAT World War No. 1 cost
the United ~States Government

approximately $30,000,000,000. Our
present defense cost, as scheduled,
(including the new Lend-Lea:t>

Tequest} amounts to more than~

$66 000,006,000 and the
grows ~Imost weekly.

_~ THAT wuethe. you own an automobile costing $25 or $3,000, you
will pay a tax of $5 for using it,
2 the new Federal Tax Bill.

estimate

than 16: feet.

of $97.03 fsr every man, woman
and c-ild in the United States.
Stste and local Governments will
take an additional $69.62 per

rson,

THAT acccrding to the most recent repcrt of the Department oil
Labor, the cost of living in ~the
United States has risen about 7
percent since the start of the
European wr. 9

THAT the Brookings Institution
says that the wholesale prices of
maufactured goods rose about 21
percent bstween August, 1939, and
August, 1941. During the same
period tne prices of raw materials
entering into manufacturing rosr
33 percent.

DANCE OF THE DOLLARS.
General Leonard P. Ayers, who
was then and is now in charge oi
the War Department Statistics, has
summarized the expenses of our
last wr with Germany by saying
that from April, 1917 through
April, 1919, it cost us in direct
expenditures. considerably mr Bye
than $1,000,000 an hour. This
came to approximately %30,000,000,000 and was more than twenty)
times the pre-war national debt

Compared with this average of
of $1.000,000 an hour, our defense
expendittires today already are
nearly $2,000,000 an hour, and
unde~ or present progvam, they
will be. a year from now, over
$4,000.000 an hour. Our total authorizations for Gefense vrnoses
to date is about $66,000,000,000,
mcre than tvice our entire ex:
penditure in the last war.. If we
ectually -evtered the war today.

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~} the expenditures soon would reach

six or eight million
pur,

A FACT WORTH KNOWING.
Trere afre those who preach the
fatalistic doctrine that America

dollars an

i depends for its existence and its

safety on the ood foztune or the
good jn~entions cf some Europear
or Asiatic power.

But what are th

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facts? Is) -: this
Nation is threatened by direct -in
lenging

By L. BAYNARD WHITNEY
IMISSING YOGA?

blasted into the land of fairies Lou
Nova~s fantastic theory that Yoga
and the prize ring are bad company. ~ re ee ae

~Nova proved himself to bea ri
diculous fool.by dragging ~occul- |{

tism~ into the fight, and the humuliating results only spotlighted
his abyssmal ignorance. ~The
result will~ be,~ said John Kirran
in the.New York Times, ~a blow
to the study of Yoga in this
country. And the United States
Army will get an. undefeated
heavyweight champion ready for a
private~s life in the squad tent.~

~Before Louis knocked the crown
off the dome of Braddock, the
latter publicly said he believed
the championship ~should be held
by the white rece only; while before this. fight Nova is quoted as
saying that if he shuuid win the
title he would refuse to ever fight
another Negro.

WHAT SAYS OLD WALDO

Wise old Waldo (Emerson = to
you), himself ~ white guy, called
the turn on white supremacy away
~hack there wnen he s:id> ~But
compare the health of the two
(white man and.a New Zealander)
and ~you will see that his aboriginal
strength the white m:n has lest...
Strike the savage With a broad
axe, and.in a day or two the flesh
will unite and heal as if you struck
the blow into soft pitch, and the

same blow shall send the white to

his~ grave,~

Riding to work on the subway on
the morning after the fight, it
seemed that every pale face was
glum, for most of them were positive that Nova was a ~great
savior~ who- ~could return~ the
heavyweight crown, to where they
consider -its rightful place. But
alas, and alack and yet again alas,
poor Nova went the way of all
prejudiced fools.

RGO CANCELS FITE FILM
Day~s end found me in the Boro

of Queens; territory a_ little
KKKlanish, anti-New Deal ~ andl
America First, ~vhere I saw ths

Lotiis-Nova fight pictures adver
tised. After sitting - thru two
shows ~of ~Citizen Kane~ with
Pathe.News without. seemg the
fight film, I investigated and

learned that,t had been bcoked,
all right, but withdrawn. When I
came out, they had taken dow: the
ad from the. lighted marquee,
Looks like the white folks are

~hecoming the poorest of sports.
|ARTIE SHAW SHOW'S EM

Soon after our own Marian Anderson cancelled an engagement in
the South because of race
nation against he.~ own race in an
auditorium where she wag to appear, Artie Shaw, popular white
band leader CAICELLED THIRTYTWO ENGAGEMENTS:throughout
the~ vuth when he was asked to
get rid of his colored drummer during the Southern tour.

THAT required professional courage of the first water, When a fellow digs uito his pocket like that
to make Democracy work by giving
old Jim Crow a blitz _brushoff,
brother, that~s news. Also, Shaw~s
drummer HAD to be good,. talent
in the same category of commercial
value as Buck Benny~s Rochester
(Eddie Anderson).

These cancellations aiso hit ~the
other fellew~ in the pocket, too.
The dollar sign is a yniversal language, and those no speak that
language usually get plenty of
action. And it seems to be the
only kind of language that will
make some people think. (Ask the
labor unions about this..)

It is fervent.y hoped this. strong
$. language will be spoken more
and-more boldly against Old Jim
Crow, who remains a most. powerful influence in keeping the South
America~s No. 1 economic problem.

~no responsible Military or Naval
man has dared to take isstie with
Mr. Baldwin's statement..

REDUCTION OF. AUTOMOBILE
PRODUCTION. The Sixth District

of Michigan, including the two
automobile cities,. Flint and
Lansing, is in grave danger of

serious unemployment unless defense orders in sufficient quantities. gan~ be secuced from the
~Government to take up the slack
of unemployment.

WALTER CHIVERS SAYS: _

College-Student
Teacher Relations

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with my co-worker and former stu
not the easiest thing to get him to
talk at length. For this reason he
is tagged with the nickname of
~Tombstone~. Because, I do find
serious conversations with him on

his favorite topic ~boys.to be fertile~.: isd I have developed techniques of

provoking him
into unfolding

his philosophy
on student
his chosen fields
of physical education
~friend
- - youth~ have
been most gratifying for a former
teacher to watch.
SHOULD BE CAREFUL 4

The kernel of Professor Forbe~s
philosophy of student-teacher relationships is that a teacher should be
exceedingly careful lest. his final
judgments of students personalities
and capacities are based on too inadequate knowledge of personal
and environmental histories and,
therefore, superficial. Every teacher
when wondering about a student~s
problems should ask himself, ~Why
did this particular person act in
this particular manner?~

This is a fundamental question
and no college teacher can be of
the best service to students, who it

I LIKE to nold ~bull _ sessions~ |!

dent Professor Prank Forbes. It is | phy

cally and sentimentally. The rela
tive values of the Old Republican |

Party and the Democratic Party
of Civil War background are only
legends to them. T were born
and live in a world of political confusion and instability,
A BROKEN MORALE

broken morale
which is characteristic of Negro
families today.

These Negro Youth are children
of @ money economy in an era when
it is increasingly difficult for them
or their parents to get money. They
not only need money but more
money than the majority of their
parents ever hoped to have over an
extended period. Negro youth under
this situation must, if they are
to prepare themselves for & place
in the world, have increasing sums
of money at their disposal for the
cost of education is ever going up.

is his duty to advise, unless he at
They even have to buy most of

cations.

I have endeavored to. give a brief
outline of the complexity of the
lives of each of these youth. It is
easy to realize then that they need
individual treatment by persons
whose lives are devoted to training
youth and whose fitness is demonstrated by the confidence they inspire in youth.

I started out discussing Professor
Forbes~ philosophy of teacher-student relations. This is his philosophy with elaborations by me. He
acts upon his philosophy and consequently is a most valuable teacher
and friend of youth. His boys believe in him and he is devoted to
their cause.

I realize more and more what the
late President John Hope meant
when he insisted that he was in
terested in a sthall college And
teachers whose great love was téaching youth.

CONVERSATION PIECE

MARC MORELAND

Washington
And The War

I HAVE BEEN reading Carl
Sandburgh~s ~Abraham. Lincoln~
The War Years,~ volume 4. This is
one work every American should
read, the volumes on ~The Prairie
Years~ as well as-those on ~The
War Years.~ The figure and charactor of Abraham Lincoln - never
fail to inspire and to instruct.

3 Politicians and plain people will,
auring the present war crises, find
& guide in Lincoln and the foremost example of Americanism
meeting a crisis on record anywhere.

But it is not of Lincoln that I

primarily want to speak here. It
is cf the Government at Washing
deepening war crises. In this connection one could certainly wish
to -see something comparable to
Lincoln~s realistic facing of the
actual situation, to his shrewd understanding of men and motives,
his constancy of purpose, his willingness to follow the right as he
saw it-no maiter who was in
convenienced by so doing.

TOO MUCH APPEASEMENT

Now, it seems to me that there
is too much concern. in the present Adiministration over appeasing
persons and groups whose ambitions
and demands will contribute nothing to building a strong democratic
front here in the United States
fand nothing to aiding the nations
which are now holding the front
against the professdd anti-democratic of Hitler, ~Petain, Franco,
Mussolini and the Mikado.

I do not propose nere to argue
because I think we ought to argue

ten today and its handling of the~, whether the United States should

enter war or not: and mainly be
| cause I think we ought to make up

our minds first what we are willin
t> fight for,.

Considering the State Department's solicitude for 'Vichy, France
and Japan, and for the large number of known and working profacists and fascists who enter and
leave this country at will while
known anti-fascists are barred, one
could wish for light in -this dark
corner of American. policy. Nor < is
ag President blameless, for he must

e~ presumed to control the:
Department. ee

AID TO RUSSIA

In regard to aid to Russia, which
ig surely doing a great. and heroic
service to this country by sapping
the strength and reserves of Hitler, the Administration has apparently taken the lead in raising the
question of religious liberty in
connection with granting aig to the
Soviets at a time when sensible
and practical men are surely more
concerned with defeating Hitler
than they are with whether the
Russians will permit the education
of their young people to be taken
over in part by priests. The British,
according to CBS~s Edward Murrow
broadcasting from London, are
merely annoyed by this country~s
gratuitous attempt to bring up a
religious. quarrel with Russia,
Britain, and the United States so
it says, are trying to stop Hitler.

And then there is at Washington the matter of production management for our defense effort.
Each day we learn that some vital
material for defense is lacking, or
soon will be lacking, because some

dollar-a-year industrialist has been
more interested in pushing up

vrices and making larger profits
for industry than he has with getting thig country prepared to defend itself. Doesn~t the Administration know at this late date in history that there isn~t any such thing
as a ~dollar-a-year~ industrialist?
Men like Knudsen and Stettinius
aren~t in Washington for their health
and certainly not for any salary
of one dollar per annum. And if
they are interested in the defense
of a democratic society, they: are
determined that such asociety shall
yield the largest possible profits to
them and their kind.:: EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY

One final ~bservation for the
present. This has to do with a
matter fundamental both for democratic aspirations and effective defense of the country, It is the matter of equality of opportunity for
citizens of color in the armed services of the United States. No unctuous spologist for..our military
establishment can ever justify to a
democratic conscience the recial discrimination practiced in the armed
fokces of this colintry.

_Nor is the behavior of those responsible for our military affairs
tc be explained except as an attempt fo preclude a great section of
the narion~s population from the
province of democratic rights and
duties, =]

Suppose, new, Russia, just by
way of a bit of disingenuous ~digging~. were to say to the instigators of the religious issue:. ~The
Soviet Union ig prepared on
theoretical gand practical grounds,
to defend its treatment of institutional religion preventing it from

projecting ecclesiastical concerns
into the vivid sphere.:

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BETWEEN, THE LINES

By GORDON B. HANCOCK
(ANP Feature Writer). THERE IS NO institution of
learning in this country with a
higher, holier tradition than Hampton institution. Although such education as I have received has been
of the liberal arts type, my admiration of veneration for the jHampton tradition thoroughly interested,
and deeply concerned with, the fortuned of Hampton and Tuskegee.

For I verily believe that from
these schools must emanate certain

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forming in Hampton~s reorganization. It grieved me to believe that
in this fine reorganization plan, a
glorious tradition was about to be
sacrificed. And thus in an misunI vigorously criticized a

ledstandin sly
ought inimical to the

| news account and my conversation

one.of the dismissed students were

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aristocracy and I am tremendously
glad that I was wrong; for it would
do ea Calamity for Hampton to deviate from the faith of the fathers in such fundamental way as in
erroneous conclu
personal
} sion on our part. The truth is wha

we are after and - not personal. and we. are glaa to get it
om Dr. MacLean himself; and 1

ment was held at the ~Y~ hono ring
the colored officers now in study at
Fort Benning~s Infantry school. The
Infantry School at Fort Benning is)
unequaled. From every corner of
these United States. come officers
to better prepare themselves for
work in the infantry units scattered throughout the length and
breath of this land by study at Fort
Benning~s Infantry school, In recent months colored officers have
come @here in large numbers. So it
was that a special entertainment
in their honor was given at the
newly constructed ~Y~. |
OFFICERS WHO WERE THERE
Officers who were present on the
honored occasion hailed from many
different points throughout the
country. The colored officer highest
in military rank to attend the affair was Lt, Col. H. D. McQueen
of the 366th Infantry stationed at
Fort Devens, Mass. Col. McQueen
offered the responsive welcome in
behalf of the officers present. Next
of highest rank was Major J. W.
Holmes of the 372nd Infantry. stationed at Fort Dix. | ~
Several officers were present who
hold the rank of captain in the
United State, army. There were
Captains E. W. Lockwood~ and J.
H. Walker of the 372nd. Also Cap-.
tains E. J. Pierce and W. B..Edelin
of. the 366th..
Among the lieutenants presen
was ist Lt. L: A. Parker of the
372nd whom we knew in days. gone
by when he was a student in the
graduate school of the Ohio State

likewise of the 372nd.-wag also pres
ent at the affair..

ONE OF THREE NEGRO _...

REGULAR ARMY OFFICERS

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Interesting among the

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By ARTHUR P. STOKES

University. First Lt. J. H. Hilliard | wag

officer

THE COLORED Army-Navy YMCA in the city of Co-.
lumbus has certainly measured up to every exp VOIC=,
ed by the many speakers on the day of its dedication. In,
such comfortable surroundings as it offers. one can see tne
soldier, sometimes alone; sometimes in the company of his.
sweetheart; sometimes with wife and other members of the:
family. Secretary Farley continues.to perform the best. in:
diversion and comfort for each and every soldier alike. ~~;

tonoetha|

expectation voic-.

guests was 2nd Lt. Jaaen D, Fowler,
graduate of West Poinc ary

in the spring class of this
and one,of the three -

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Lt, R. A.: -
son; Lt. M. W. Stanley; and Lt.
E. P..Waddy all of the 372nd In
tantry~stationed in Fort Dix.

The very popular musical units of
the Fort Benning Reception Center
madé for a very pleasant lg
forall present. The Reception iter, band and chorus rendered several.popular numbers, The rendi-.
tiens were arranged by Sgt. Abner
Jackson and Corp. Alton Davenport
of ~the Reception Center and were
well accepted by the guest. -
Music for the dancing pleasure
of the guests was furnished by the

goes on much more is to be heard
about. this Reception. Center or
musical aggregations to be found
anywhere: on the post. In a later
column article we promise to take

time out t, te of
pe Bi es Soe ~ soldier

No Apology _

(Con~irued from Page 1)

of State Teachers~ College. gave
the ~of the eonference
center around the controveifsial
subjects, the traditional school
versus the progressive school, ~

Approximately. two - hundred
principals registe'2d for the
conf:rence. While,the list af
Tegistrant was not convenient for
from. the Birmingham _ district
Jhnson, W. B.. Johnson, P. ~ B.
Jakson, C. W. Cares, Felix L.
Paul, Lula Dewdell, Mrs. Robbie
C:awford, Mrs_ Addie Arrington,
Mrs. Nona Powell, Paul Ware,
William Hazierly, N. Judge King,
Mrs. Mabel Terrell, Supervisor E.'
Paul Jones, Prof. Gaines, Prof,
Davis, W. B. Calhoun, Mrs. Matholm, Alonza Saunders: and Mrs.
Belzora Ward of NYA..

Restriction

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lation in the West side matter
is Headed by Baxter 8. Scruggs, Y.
M. C. A. secretary and includes Albert Baumann, Frederick - M.
Roberts, J. S. Shackelford and Atty.
Miller and will probably issue a

erty owners on civil rights grounds
and stressing the un-Americanism
of restrictive agreements, It is designed as a preventative measure
to curb such agreements and its
activities will be extended to. other

in. the. offing.:
HOUSING SHORTAGE
Association leaders stressed the
fact that rapid growth of the Negro population has created an
acute housing shortage which is
aggravated by the widespread use
of racial restriction agreements and

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checking, the following priticipals
were spo'ted: B. A. Rudsor, Bob.

pamphlet appealing to white prop- |.

sections where such agreements are | |: osama

plying for work at these places. _
~This ~is all the f

incredible
ih view of -the fact that the. c
population of these. islands
tutes from-90 to 95 per cent -of
the total. Does the British
ment bar these American Negroes

lest the example of qualified Negroes filling executive and other
Official positions arouse too great

The NAACP also said that, as far

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