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~: ~*) If iepitins baffles the premises of reason, it is the man
- Who-shouts of his pride for free government, offers and enlists his services to defend the principles of free government
~@nd at the same time sponsors:any move to subterfuge free
expressions on questions of government. He: would see those
- ~Swho~hold ~office, levy and expend taxes and pose as repre-,
~sentatives of the people, starve off free men and hold them
in virtua) political slavery while mismanagement, embezzle_ment. and all forms of maladministration and false representation bleed the country to death.;,. For many. years @ poll tax has been required as a con
~sideration for voting. This is one of the old states~ rights

~and it is highly noticeable that it hangs over only in the

same states that once lined up in a measure to divide the

Union. Losing the slave cause, they would engage in another
_ cause equally as pernicious~the fettering of free men into
political bondage..

~. Voting is not altogether an inherent right, it is a conferred right by the state. The state can withdraw this right
from: citizens for sundry causes and there can be no appeal
~to the national government except in cases of fraud: In fact,
the refusal of a citizen at voting is generally~final and
thousands accept this at face value and as a reswt the minority sets up the machinery of zovernment. A late Southern
dean of journalism often said in explaining his defense of
a. poll tax, it keeps thousands of blacks from the polls. He
held out as a bugaboo that there are twelve counties in
Georgia in which the Negroes outnumber the whites when it
e to voting eligibility.

~The disfranchising of voters has worked both ways~

it i phaved whaley with thousands of whites as well as blacks.

It has kept down the wholesome discussion of issues in favor

of petty quarrels and family political feuds. It has sent up

to the national house of representatives some men who do

not believe in true democracy. It has cut down the popula
tion of the southern states to the extent that representation

has been lost in the national congress. It has driven thousands

of citizens to other sections of the country where they can

have an expression:at the ballot box on election day. It has

made elections in the South mere forms and fewer people

vote in the actual election in some of the states than in one

~~ @ounty in the North. It has driven industry out of the South
/. and established a system of poverty wards, wanton illiteracy

' ~gand crime.

Young men like Senator Claud Piper himself q southerner, have seen the terrible blight and are moving to free
their section of the political gag of abject slavery and poverty.

It is right that southern men begin the fight to repeal
the poll tax- It is indeed fortunate that the Senate is holding
hearings at this time when our enemies are hunting down
every means of showing up our country as a land of priv-. ilege, denying to millions of tax payers the simple right to
vote.

This country has in its own making the opportunity of
its life to serve its sacred cause by arene of pernicious
primaries and subterfuges.

_ Let every believer in true democracy join this fight to
today and ask his. aid in perfecting democracy,

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tent Negro workers. Every available source of labor capable of
producing defense materials snust
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cy.~

President ~Roosevelt gave im
{ petus to this drive on June 25, 1941

when he issued Executive.Order
$802, banning discrimination in
defense industries skilled and unskilled worker in ship construction, and Negro~ civilian employmore than 100 per cent in the year
ment in U. 8. Navy yards increased
ending September 30, 1941. Where
only 5,934 skilled, semiskilled and
unskilled Negroes were at. work in
these yards in September, 1940,
that number was increased to
13,401 during the ensuing twelve
month period.. Negroes. were employed in thirty-seven different
crafts, including first class machinists. in U. S. Navy yards.

EMPLOYMENT EXPANDING

Employment for Négroes in the
shipbuilding industry is still expanding. rapidly. More than 300
Negro voilermakers, chipvers,
caulkers and other skilled workers
have received jobs. in WestCoast
shipyards since Pearl Harbor following the action of the Labor Division and the President~s Committee on Fair Employment Practice
in removing union bans against
clearance for colored werkers.

Negro employment is also increasing in scores of other industries in which colored workers had
gained a foothold before the defense and war emergency. In automobile, rubber, steel~ and other
fields, the skills of Negro workers
have long been utilized.

The recent conversion: of the
automobile industry to war has
brought.important changes m the
occupaticnal status of Negro workers who once were confined to unskilled, ~anitorial and foundry
work in many plants. Through
the cooperation of management,
labor and the Labor Division of
WPB, hundreds of these unskilled
men have been upgraded in recent
weeks to positions once barred to
them in the industry, Dr. Weaver
reported..

NOT ALL UTILIZED

The Kelsey Hayes Wheel Company, for instance, now employs
Negroes as punch and drill press
operators, assemblers,.picklers and
in other capacities. The Chrysler
Tank Arsenal has ed Negro
janitors to washing machine men,
materiai handlers and foremen.
The Murray Corporation is using
Negroes as aircraft riyeters assemblers, and aircraft repairmen.
The Oldsmobile Company recently
upgraded 18 Negro janitors to precision: workers on: milling mahines, ahd the Briggs Manufactur.
ing Company enrolled Negro
trainees in its aircraft school.

~Despite these many favorable
developments,~ Dr. Weaver reported, ~Megro labor is far from being
utilized as fully as possible in our
war production effort. Objective
factors, however, may greatly facilitate our work.

~It is estimated that 10,060,000
workers must be added to war in
We are to meet our production
goals of -60,000 planes, 45,00C. tanks;
30,000 anti-aircraft~ guns and
80,000,00 tons of shipping. This
vast number of workers ean never.
be recruited unless both management and labor assume their~ responsibility to integrate all groups

of workers into industry including

women, Negroes and all minority
groups.~

dustries. before the end of 1942 jf |
100,000 To Be

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fice of tion,~ the:
Within y Division of
War Prod Board, the appren
Administration, and the Civilian
Conservation Corps. md 3g

Training is given in government
and state-owned schools, scattered

throughout the country. In some~
~Instances, the United States Office

of Education has rented for War
Department trainees the entire facilities of private technical schools.

One of the most. pressing of
present-day needs which the Civilian Training organization ~s seeking to fill is for procurement in
spectors. The training of these has

so far been carried out only for
the Ordnance Department of, the
Army, but is being extended to the
~Signal Corps, and plans are under
discussion for its application to the
Air Corps as well.

VARIETY OF JOBS

As an instance of the tremendous
range of jobs for which civilian
training is being given, in the
~Ordanance Department alone, one
of the Army~s many branches, men
and women are being trained for

~the following assignments:. junior

optical workers, junior instrumeni

~makers, junior lense grinders; ap
prentic machinist and tool ers;
machine operators; senior erks;
auto mechanics; inspectors of gages
cannons and et~.. storekeepers; engineering aids; armament machinists. In addition, inspectors are
being trained for eight different
types of Ordnance equipment.

The Air Corps now has more than
80,000 civilian employees, in 25~
different occupations. Most of these
employees are in large depots scattered through the country.

The Quartermaster Corps has
more than 10,000 civilian employees
at its Philadelphia depot alone, Its
total number of civilian employees
was over 106,000 on January 1, anc

~is steadily expanding.

The Chemical Warfare Service,
which had over 9,600 civilian employees on January 1, will require,000 additional _ chemical plant
workers for two new arsenals.

NEW PERSONNEL NEEDED

The Signal Corps,. which employed
over 20,000 civilians on January 1
constantly requires new personnel
in radio, telephone communication,
maintenance and repair work at
field establishments throughout the
country. *

In all its branches, the Army of
the United States now has under its
administration a civilian army. of
over 500,000 men and women..As the

forces grow, this, force too
must expand, As as result of~ the
Civilian Program, men and
women throughout the country who
thought they would have to play a
spectator role in America~s struggle
are now in the front lines of the
battle of production, and playing a
vital part:

Officer Sutherland
Faces Third Trial

ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~

Patrolman W. F. Sutherland,
charged with violation of the rights
of 16-year-old Quintar South, ~is
scheduled to face trial for a third
time befcre District Judge E. Marvin Underwood in Federal court
tomorrow.

Two other trials of Sutherland
resulted in mistrials when the
previous juries were unable to
agree on a verdict.:

MRS. ROSA GREEN

MONTEZUMA, Ga. ~ Funeral
services for Mrs. Rosa Green were
held Sunday from the Union
Baptist Church with the Rev. D. A.
Green, officiating.

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CHIVERS ry
orbit, in order to win the war~. ~
And everybody pretends to forget that the youth of today and the
adults of tomorrow are being forgotten. This neglect is tragic because it means that the older folks

are definitely dodging the responsibilities-which are so really theirs.
They have made clumsy mistakes
and an all-consuming fight to the
death has resulted. By pretending
lame and
by demanding they wish youth to
correct these errors on the battle
fields without question.

THE MISERABLE YEARS

The agent gs adults of today
might by a bit of real self-analysis discover how plaifly is engrav- |
ed upon the fact of western civization the miserable years of the
depression, and its attendant demoralizing effects upon youth. The
youth of today are in practically
all fundamental aspects the children of chaos.

Periods of national chaos have
been the nursing beds of youth
movements because the inadequate
adults have permitted them to be
born in chaos and grow up into
war which has a direct bearing upon the chaos. The Communist revolution in Russia was closely identified with the restiveness of frustrated youth and their loss of faith
in pretending adults. The Fascist

| of the

\ gthened them to question what

thing be done to remedy the sifua- |

tion?~ ~Why does n-t democracy
work more oie ptaed in the lives
masses?~

YOUTH FORTIFIED

The adults. have sought far too
often to answer these questions
by either pretending that ll is
well but youth is just a failure,
pretending not to understand the
protests of youth or cursing them
with the epithet ~Reds~. They fa
to realize that the improved n
ture and education which they ahd
the state have given to an increasing number of youth have fortif:
them against pretension and at |e
| obviously not effective.

This has been the experience | of
the American Youth Movement.. It
has been sneered at, preached at
and maligned by adults who should
know better. Aggressive, courageous,
intelligent, and honest youth leaders have been assaulted by powerful forces as public enemies. This
strange action though has simply
served to bind the ties of youth
stronger and to gain them the
cooperation and. sponsorship of
many thinking adults of authoritative position. The call to arms has
revealed to youth their real
strength for they recognize that
this is a young man~s and young
woman~s fight.

The outstanding tribute to youth
lead is ts proven abilty to
~make youth problems transcend racial problems. This is a feat that
the pretending adults have never
been able to actually achieve. Here
is their inherent strength and renders them formidable antagonists of

respectability jumped

in the boat and began to ride the
waves.

_ Today the National Adult Ad
of the Community ~Pund. ~It is my
belief that the urgency of our national life has shocked many of
these ~folk into facing the realities

fed of the youth movement. Now. that

they have met organized youth
they find them charming and fascinatingly adventuresome,
youth may yet relieve the pretenders of their fears and inhibitions.

MUST RALLY TO CALL

My appeal then is for Negro
adults and youth from every walk
of life to rally to the Fifth AllSouthern Negro Youth Conference
when it meets at Tuskegee Institute on April 17, 18, 19, 1942 for
the stated purpose of working out
Ways and means for making prac
tical these four proposals: ~(1) to}

give full support. to. the government~s war effort; (2) to stimulate
participation of Negro Youth in
Civilian Defense; (3) to strengthen
the.war effort by increasing opportunities of young Negroes to
serve in all of its phases; (4) to
place special emphasis on securing
training and job opportunities.. in
defense industries and to maintain
signed opportunities which ~already
exist~

~Appraising The Democracy Of America

By EMMETT J. SCOTT

THIS WORLD WAR II has
achieved one significant: result. It
has led to a franker appraisal of
the quality of the democracy we
practice here in America. Also,
pitilessly it has turned the spotlight of truth on our allies. Their
past performance in dealing with
their subjugated and oppressed
nationals has become a subject of
world-wide discussion.

More important, however, is the
fact that we-~here. in the. United
States, and public opinion thruout. the rest of the world~are
reaching the belated conclusion
that something must be done about
it...and soon, very ~soon.

CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL

Some ~of.our most influential organs of public opinion here in
America are no longer silent. In
language, forceful and unequivocal, they are declaring, as a powerful mid-Western publication e
our country did recently, that..
~Western civilization, in the profoundest sense, is not going to
survive -unless it makes reformation the basis of its: war and its
promised peace.

We are not going to wis with

59 per cent, of cur human re
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DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK
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WORLD WAR II is fast enter>
ing a phasé of dreadful possibilities. The military plot of the
world is thickening and dire enactments are in the offing. We

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times is not our losses and defeats
and the awful price we are paying

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India to win this war. White
~America should bear in mind that
the Negroes of this country are not
trying to break into their parlors
but into this war of survival. As
long as this country~s thinking is
not clear on this point, we are
neither ready for war nor peace.

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No less impressive is the editorfal expression of the powerfully influential St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
which analyzes the deterrents
which operate to prevent 13,900,000
Negroes in America from throwing the full and potential effect of
their energies into the equation
mhaking for the success of our arms
on far-flung ~battle fronts,

NOT MINCING WORDS

It does not mince words. - It
makes clear its complete understanding of the plight of this importantly large element of Americen life,.and declares that it is
important, in this: dream world in
which so many of our people are
still living, that the Negro must,
under the compulsions of ovr.
mere definitely be made an integral part of the national war effort, for, it says, ~Negro Americans

pro- jare just as patriotic as White

Americans,~ and just as ardently

are seeking every ty to

his following after the blandishments of skin-game workers from Japan | or ~
else.~

So. much for America.

OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD | -

Like conditions prevail in other
parts of the world. At the eleventh
hour, some of our allies are discoverine that they have not yet
won the. full and complete loyalty
of great <nasses of non-white, non
European peoples under their do-| W

opportuni
do their full share in turning back | minion.

the aggressor assault on our liberties and freedom. It has no sympathy with a somewhat regnant
thought that. some Americans
should be denied such
ties pecause of their color, their
creed, or their politics at a time
when the country meeds services

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ALEXANDER TESTIFIES le

- Dr. Will W. Alexancer was
the law from the statute books. He
said he felt the racial

The racial ~angle, he
would be used as it always is,
would serve merely to obsecure
~issues at stake.

It was pointed out that
the repeal of the poll tax had in-~
creased the white vote in Louisiana, the Negro vote had fallen off
approximately one-third of what it

teachers, who moved from one state.
to another in higher institutions of

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GET POWERFUL ~ Feel cneusboantel
spell on you? Want POWER for suc

welfare of th2> submerged, under-_ igus,

convinced they have a stake in the
victory for which their masters are. As Owen Lattimore, the

| President~s umofficial adviser to

ChiangKai-shek, wrote more than
& year ago:.

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of those who asked the lifting of -;