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the hour for patriotic men.~~Wendell L. Willkie.

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830 Pingree - - Phone 9-7571 Flint, Michigan
HENRY G. REYNOLDS.................. Editor and Publisher
BESSIE ANN REYNOLDS.................. Associate Editor
WILLIAM ENNIS, Jr.............;.:.. Director of Photography

HENRY H. CLARK......... aes... Manager of Circulation
MES. CORA L. TURNER...................-+.. Ady. Manager
iR. JOHN H. TURNER Adv, Aast.

Hi-Speed Program Eulogizes Moss,

de: But Omits Carver
~~ Just to call attention to the way in which colored people
are shaded in things worthy of mention on the radio, movies,
and white press by the commentators and others, let us point
out that on Wednesday night, March 11, the Hi-Speed program~s commentator went to great length to eulogize the
specific accomplishments of Dr. Moss who has developed ~an
exhaust compressor useful on aeroplanes, telling of how the
learned man came by his schooling and later found employment to further his pet studies on this invention. He told
of the successful use of this inventino on an aeroplane in an
encounter with present warships, and told the world that
the U.S. is now constructing two. mammoth: factories to
make this vital improvement device for our aeroplanes. Dr.
Moss is a white man. |
Then this same commentator went on to say (to the
effect) that due to the shortage coming up in the supply of
fats for shortening in foods, the lowly peanut will serve as
a source for substitutes. The discoverer of all of those thirty
or more by-products taken from the peanut is a Negro, equally lowly in the minds of the white folk, as is the peanut. Anything that a Negro does, whether it is heroic bravery in
actual combat in the war, or the most useful discovery of
something the benefit, of which all humanity can enjoy,
white people do not. give open encouragement. That commentator said nothing about the discoverer of the wonderful products coming from the peanut, Dr. George Washington Carver, a former slave, who had been sold for a horse,
grew up without a mother or father and had a far greater
struggle for his education than did ~Dr. Moss. No mention
of the great Negro scientist was made-by that radio commentator. His omission is in line with a policy of long
standing not of him alone but of the whole American system
where Negroes aré concerned. We don~t like it. This is how

history leaves out of it the records of Negro work.

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Death-Bed Repentance

Sometimes it takes horror, with all its impending uncer
tainties to bring countries and individuals to a common sense
of plain justiec. Death-bed repentanee is better than no repentance at all. {his is shown in the case of the dying thief
on the cross. So there is hope between the stirrup and the
ground.
'. - The Jong struggle of India with her British masters
through all the ages has not brought to those banighted
subjects the recognition and grave concern now hovering
ever them like thunder clouds.:
It is stated that Sir Stafford Cripps -has been:sent on a
special mission to treat with the Indian people. England no:
doubt by this time realizes the necessity of genuine good-;
will and hearty accord with the struggle she is forced to put
up in an effort fo save her yast empire.

~ Let us all hope that the mission of Sir Stafford will be
effective. But it would have been a finer thing if England
in good times had inquired of the wishes of the Indians when
it was necessary for the Mahatma to go on periodic fasts
for certain requisitions for his people.:

The move will not be in as finer faith now, while Great |
Britain may be in dead earnest, with honorable intentions
of carrying out her promises.;. The.sad_Jesson comes home to all republics that the
minority should be justly treated. There should be in no
country or organization any group held in subjugation,

spurns redress.
~ [Injustice never pays:.It is that insidious property that
swells masters to believing that they can hold down a minority and disregard their wishes from a viewpoint of superior advantage. It is foolish to imagine that people mistreated and cried down by every subterfuge~imaginable can
be counted on to fully defend hard masters in the time of
peril. |
However, it is: to hoped that the Indian problem, complicated. as it certainly is, can be ironed out at the earliest
Further delay may prove unprofitable to both the
British and the Indians, considering the speed with which

i... > Fhe Great Developer

~-- One of the great Strengths of the agricultural cooperptive marketing plan is that it gives each member farmer
a@ sense of responsibility for the welfare of all. And fesponsibility, as the late Supreme Court Justice Brandeis once said,
~is the great developer.~.. = =i
_-~ The principal keting co-ops ate owhed and operated
by their members. These members pay their share of operating costs and equitably divide the returns. There is no
~remote control.~ Co-op managers are accountable to the
bee et ~and their jobs depend on their getting results.

hat is the kind of organization which goes places, and which
has hleped-to-build our country. ~ 4 be

AR a a The Day For Tough Men

Tf you happen to come in contact-with any military information of any kind, keep it to yourself. The government
is how pushing a determined ~serve in silence~ dirve. =~
eves ~Millions on millions are on the march with fanatical]
zeal and ruthless determination to blot out-forever the ways

our resources are mobilized immediately and directed wisely: The. time for petty political opposition and negation is
over. This is the day for tough and resolute men; this is

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the latter returned from: Scott
caunty, and declined to say whether, the matter would be put. before the FBI, which made an investigation of the lynching.

Wright was accused of the attempted rape of Mrs. Dillard
Sturgeon, white, wife of an army
sergeant. She was stabbed several
times, but recovered as did Patrolman Hess Perrigan of Sikeston wh.
was knifed when Wright resisted
arrest. we. Wright, shot three times in his
scuffle with the cfficer, was taken
from a detention cell at Sikeston
city jail. by a mob of several hureared persons, dragged behind an
automobile through the Negro
section of the city, and his body
burned in front of a church while
morning services were in progress.

MASS OF TESTIMONY ~

David FE. Blanton, persecuting
attorney who requested the inquiry, said the grand jury heard
the testimony of 40 witmesses,
among whom were A. E. Jones,
FBI agent; Sgt. Melvin Dace of
Missouri State Highway patrol
and other highway patrolmen.

In charging the jurors to make 2
~fair and homest injuiry,~ Judge
McDowell urged them to avoid being influenced hy mass meetings
protesting against the Isnchin7
and asserted~ ~the good Negrocs
and white people to Sikeston are
as strong for law enforcement as
the good people anywhere.~

Ask Roosevelt

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velt to intervene ~!

The letter to the President asking that he assure protection
against mob violence to Negro war
workers and that he put a stop to
the disruption of unity and production, was signed by Dr. Max
Yergan, president of the Natiopal
Negro congress, and Milton N.
Kemnitz, executive secretary of
the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties.

Within a-few hours of the Detroit riot Axis short wave broadcasts were reporting lengthy accounts of a bloody race riot in Detroit. The letter points out the
tragic seriousness of the racial
issue to the present war, indicating
that the Nazi and Japanese foes
are attempting to use this issue
in the, near and far east, in the
Southwest Pacific, and in India,
and that the enemies of Americe
seek to aid the Axis~ by using the

racial issue to. disrupt national
unity and, roduction.

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Named To Dept.
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to make its resources available to
our farmers, white and colored
alike, so that they may make the
most effective contribution to the
war effort.~

TO BE IN CHICAGO

Mr. Barnett~s headquarters will
be in Chicago and Doctor Patter
~son~$ headquarters will be in Tus
kegee. Both will confer with Secretary Wickard from time to time
and. make recommendations as to
methods of assisting Negro farmers in helping to meet the foodfor-freedom goals. They will also
work closely with various agricultural ~bureaus including Extension
Service, Farm Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Administration and USDA War Boards,

Both Doctor Patterson and Mr.
Barnett have shown vital ihterest
in the farming industry. The-former is president of Tuskegee which
places great emphasis on agriculture and the latter, a newspaperman and public relations specialist, is'a graduate of Tuskegee and
has made special studies of farm
problems for the Department of
Agriculture,

Dr. Patterson, who is a doctor
of veterinary medicine and a doctor of philosophy in bacteriology,
received his training at Iowa State
College ~and Cornell University
From 1923-1928 he was a member

of the fas at Virginia State College, ehemistry--an dlater
heading. department of agri
culture. Doctor Patterson accepted
a position at Tuskegee in 1928 as
veterinarian and bacteriologist. In
1932 he was promoted ~to the position~ of director of the school of
agriculture and three years later
inaugurated president of the institution, succeeding the late Dr. R.
R. Moton who retired. During the
seven years that Doctor Patterson
has-been president of Tuskegee, he
has played an important role in
Negro organizations and national
affairs. Dr. Patterson. married
Miss Catherine Moton, daughter of

Dr. and Mrs. R.. R. Moton, in
1936. They have one son.
~FOUNDED IN 1916

the direction of Mr. Barnett, es
| tablished bureaus in Washington,

New York, London, Paris arid other
centers. To
strategic metropolitan
day it is the largest Negro news.

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~involved.

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Flint Children Need |

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least in principle.

ple.
There are about five leading persons in Flint who are cronic kickers.:
They find cause to object ~
everything they themselves-do not
start. Their argument springs from
evil and their tactics make use of
the destruction of the means of
livelihood belonging to those who
try to do something good for the

One of them was heard to say,
once upon a time, that if you tell
him who the officers are of any
project he can tell you what it
shall~ become. Such a statement
was made in a barber shop to. the
~man in the street~, as you call it.
Well that is where mis jtanding gets its widest range.@f play.
It is among the masses that such
fellows sow their seeds of disruption; and they do it purposely. ~They
are little, very little..They do not
deserve to have. the respect _ of
anybody. They are ~fifth columnists among the leadership of the
Race.

LET~S HAVE A CAMP -

The camp association wishes to
know if you all will support it-in
a drive for the funds to build a
camp. Will you telephone or write
any member of the Association~s
committee:

Henry H. Clark, phone; 4-6200,
Henry G. Reynolds, 9-7571, Mrs.
Charlotte Franklin, phone 2-2639,
Mrs. James Elder, phone 3-3823,
Mrs. Odell Broadway, Rev. T. L.
Ballou or Rev.-R. R. Turpin. There
are others on this~committee buf
you may reach them thru these
already given.:

Please write or telephone us if
you will help with this project. The
money is in sight to use for the
camp. It can be done without any
direct cost to you. s

Thousands of youths can then be
sent to camp; and we are not offering to construct a segregated
camp. It will be open to any race
or color. Colored people might as
well own a camp the same as. the
other folks but it shall~ not be
closed to use by any of the citizens who wish to take advantage
of its facilities, whether white or
black..

This camp organization wishes to

assert, too, that it will aid those
groups among us who are already
Sponsors camp privileges ~\ for.célored children thru the YMCA,
YWCA, and others, but we want the
cooperation of all of you, while
we shall give ours likewise.:
We may mention that a part
of our program for raising this
money will be the sponsoring of
musical entertainment by. outstanding orchestras, celebrated personalities and popular subscriptions.
This is ~where you can do. your
part, just attend those affairs-when
you learn where and when they will
be dated.
This Newspaper will devote space
for the information the camp Association will be needing. Watch these
columns for the announcements
from time to time. Let~s havé a
camp. ~
* It may become necessary to use
it for an evacuation center if the.
city is bombed. Children may have
to be taken to the country for their
safety.;

New Disturbance

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whites, and~ Negro stoned and they
tried to protect themselves. Biddle
also alleges that the Ku Klux Klan
had encouraged it members to picket the development and that a
large cross was burned nearby one
night in the week prior to the
scheduled moving in.

Frank Patton and Frederick Fulsome special assistants to the attorney general, will present the evidence gathered by _ investigators
since February 28 to the jury. Dist.
Attorney Lehr stated that further
investigation would be necessary
and the conspiracy charge wouid
be brought under Sec. 19 of the U.
S. Criminal code of offenses against
civil rights of citizens.
In Washington, representatives
of the National Negro congress and
National Federation of Constitntional Liberties have asked President Roosevelt to intervene, on

~Charges that riots were inspired by
the KKK and other fifth columnists, disrupting national unity ahd

war production. Lehr stated he was
unable to say whether the KKK was
ps i. A delegation; headed by Dr.
James L. McLendon, president of
the local branch NAACP,
upon Mayor Edward J. Jeffries,
Jr., to present a six-point program
which seeks ~a peaceful solution~
to. the problem.
~We suggest to you that, if:neces
to.
Sojourner Truth Homes,~ he said.
other move in the: fight to see

the. project
would be for Negroes. a
justment Administration engaged

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they depend heavily upon either
private philanthropy or public
taxes for support since their en
downment funds,,

if any are very
inadequate during. normal times.
The meagre sup
by pre
employment practices
and increased
costs of living.

It is a well advertised fact now
that the major philanthropic
agencies are steadily withdrawing
from the field by lieuidating their
capital structure. It is to be reasoned, and logically so, that individual philanthropists will because of the war situation increasingly devote larger and larger
shares of their fortunes to war service organizations such as_ the
Red Cross and United Service Organizations. Each day that ~the
war moves on hundreds of incidents
happen which draw on all _ that
is humane in a person and make
him want to give primarily for the
purpose of relieving the ugly conditions resulting from war.

REDUCTION IN SIGHT

A harsh and even painful but
cold fact which must be faced is
the probable drastic reduction.in
size of student bodies. This will
have two very vital effects. The one

will be that the football team will
absorb too large a proportion of the
student body. The other is that
a sizable reduction in enrollment
will be felt in less income for
operating expenses.
Even those institutions of higher
learning for Negroes, fortunate
enough to possess some endowment are not facing a bright future in so-far as the outlook for
returns on their investments is
concerned. At least the picture is

CHIVERS

"WALTER CHIVERS SAYS

Foe dropped intercollegiate foot
| automobile ~licenses fees and _ the.

|lenghtened because of the need of

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~Such extraordinari
large institutions as Chicag 0,
Coluriibia and New York -universities -have made certain.

Chicago and New York universities

State supported schools of higher learning are facing a potential
crisis which may reach an alarming state in Negro institutions because the appropriations for their
operation are already away below
their minimum needs. The reference is to the large significant loss
in taxes diréctly attributable to
war business casualties, the terrific
decrease in gasoline and oil taxes,

rising cost to state governments of
civilian.. defense _ organization.
Georgia, for instance, derives 32
per cent of its income from auto
taxes. In addition the civilian defense organization is rolling up a
larger bill each month.

A REALISTIC PICTURE

This is a realistic picture ~ of the
economic status of Negro education. I do not believe that it can
be called speculative. It is - of
course general. However it _ is cited
because the average American~s basic concern is his economic present
and future. It is an attempt to
show ~the fundamental necessity
for stripping down all of the peace
time extras which have attached!
themselves to that most charitable
and receptive of: institutions~ the
college:

There are other- considerations
which to me are just as important.
In the first article on this subject
stress was laid upon the need of
using all available time on the
business attached to or growing out
of our all-out war effort. Much
stress should also be laid upon the
necessity for teaching Negro youth
new habits of living for national
politics. are going to be decidedly
different, social relationships are
going to have new values~in fact
life is going to have considerably
altered goals.

Already the school day is being

more time for training youth to be
more useful to the national war
machine and the, home. defense
structure. ~The chances are. ~ that
the day will be further lengthened
for this purpose. - bec,

rearrarigements of budgets on this account. |

mobile licenses, gasoline and oil |'s~

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(The measure of tizenship,
though seriously limited, enjoyed by
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cratic principles and to thus guarantee the continuance of democatic energy. This is a task requiring all hands-on-deck to do a full
days work without unnecessary diversions.

CONDITIONING NEEDED

| There should be recreation: and
physical exercise. Such activities are
more necessary now than at. any
time but they must be planned for
the entire group, the time allotted
to them must be in relation to the
national need and they should be
free. The experience of the draft
boards has shown the fundamental
need for such conditioning and
have- related it to military needs
and efficiency. ~

A busy people need not be a
glum people. An intelligent people
must find joy in living for a purpose which I hope is larger than
any seasonal sport. There should

be joy among intelligent people. in

trying to build - a_ civilization
strong.enough to.guarantee the
humblest citizen the right to live.
There should be ~ joy in being
strong and faithful to principles.

~Democraty demands a h degree
of self-discipline. -

Negro colleges are faced with a

humber of things that seem on the
~surface to be first things. They

must now re-examine these most
carefully to determine which are.
really first things. First things
must be placed first. I do not believe, that from the standpoint of
Negro colleges, intercollegiate football is a first thing. Rather it is,
at least, for the..duration of
present crisis, an. inconsistency.

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By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK. i> we

Tragedy Of Race

Tragedy of Race Prejudice 18T
STUART CHASE~S book, ~The
Tragedy of Waste,~ could easily be
matehed by another entitled, ~The
Tragedy of Race Prejudice.~ When
race prejudice has been psychological explained, when its intrica-'
cies: and fallacies have been, expesed,, and when its ubiquitous
ramifications have been explored,
the stark fact remains that it is a

~great tragedy, a colossal calamity!

It is just as detrimental and disastrcus when foun@ among Negroés_as when found, among whites.

H. G. Wells was ight when he
said a few years ago that race
prejudice is the most sinister and
appalling thing in the life of mankind today. The sooner we face
his solemn fact the: sooner we
can lay the foundation of a lasting peace. The tragedy of the devastating war that is upon. us is
only. surpassed by the tragedy of
the race prejudice of whigh it
was born.
WILSON. PREJUDICED

At the conclusion of the World
War 1, the spokesmen from many
nations sat around the peace conftrence table ir#*"Versailles
Weodrow Wilson occupying
seat of greatest prominence.

democracy~ had just been
Unfortunately for
son was prejudiced to the extent

that he suffered Japan tc be left
the deliberations of that

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war to ~make the world safe for ||
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cluded with. victory for the allies. ||
the world and |
the coming generations Mr. Wil- |

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Prejudice
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of this country for one of the
mighties cenflicts ~that has - engaged it. If we fail, we can lay our
failure to racé prejudice. Today
when ~safety first~ should be the
slogan of our grimly beset Uation,.
our slogan is ~prejudices first)~

When! we ought to be selecting
men for service upon the basis of
their qualifications, we are select-.
ing then: upon the basis af color.
But this nation is-going to vay
~dearly for the luxury of race: prejudice. The billions in treasury we
are expending today and the burden of taxes that will afflict the
coming generations all might have
been most probahly evaded had
common justice and not prejudice

ruled at Versailles.

| When these billions in money
have been paralleled in the millions of slain youth and the hundreds of millions of suffering and
sorrowing souls of many hations,
we get) some idea of what a high
price the nations are paving for
~their race.prejudi~tes. When we
contemplate how deep-seated prejudice is in the world of the 20th
century we get some notions of the
~WilYing and sorrows thet are

Oe ainly to be visited upon

'~)mankind. It is quite possible that:
~| Mankind: may let- prejudice destroy

all civilization,,
WROUGHT IN PREJUDICE, The Pearl Harbor tragedy was
wrought in race prejudice.. The
Japanese were held in contempt as
inferior in intellect and ingenuity.
Nothing but race prejudice could

| have blinded tnis country to the

strength of Japan! The world and
this country in particular are so
accustomed to discounting men on
the score of their race. that~ the
abilities and capacities of Japan
were discounted. Pearl Harbor and
Singapore are the tragic results.
This is but the beginning..

We are going to triumph in. the
end in all probability if we car.
forget. cur race prejudices long
enough to get in dead earnest and
fight as we can. But an ultimate
triumph in no way can erase our

fimmediate dangers and humilia
tion and losses. Prejudice blinded
our navy and army officials in the
Far East and who are called upon
therefore to pay an awful. price.
Let the Negro get in this war and
fight for the opportunity to help
this nation live down the awfv}
eurse of race prejudice which is
the primary tragedy of this awful
war. Brotherhood and net racehood is the answer to this horrible
question of war!

An
to
whio.

have been one of a group of
daily, for. the past

f the Young Men's C

~om My Study Window

By REV. JOHN C. WRIGHT

Investment In Character
aT HAS BEE an inspiring and reassuring experience

business and professional men

two weeks have been gathering
ad a luncheon table at high noon planning a city-wide
aign to increase the -membership and extend the servhristian Association. ~~

A: GREAT ENTERPRISE
And in very truth, they are

directing a*great enterprise. It is

not ne to enlarge here upon

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heautiful ress, Lucia, in,
Senate, and in the omes of. we;
maneial and intellectual leader of"
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Du aurer < ond Page
match these fresh pages for the
magical unfolding of a great love
story..There is lovely Lady Dona
St. Cloumb, red, dissatisfied
darling of the London Court..her

lace, and ~The Frenchman,~ master of the pirate-ship, LaMouette~
aristocrat, swo' _ extraordinary, and dilettante of the arts.~
THE BRODY IN THE LIBRARY.

- ~Who was the mysterious girl
found pid in ~the library?~
ARMY DOCTOR. Elizabeth Seifert
The hero in this book is ~a
in of 29 snatched by she
career as

to the enlightened, selfish point of
view. that all in the same
boat, this ~boat may go
down all in it unless ae
can put aside racial bigotry... We
oe tiae ons again to call into
conference. men of vision and cour~
age to devise an affirmative course
of action which shall integrate all
elements of our population into a;
program: of offense and defense ~
against a.~ ges)

* Other. include: Elsie
Austin, dent, Deita ~ Sigma
Theta ie Carter,
editor,~ unity Po ec me; ~.
Frank R. Crosswaith, airman,
Cuthbert, of - Board

nt~s Committee on |
Federal: Council
' Christ in America;
~Imes, D.D; Bt.
prian Church; C. R.

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