Brownsville Weekly News

ane itn ns A _ intrigue between the provinces not having dominion status _ and that part of India which has been promised independence. ~It is a long slice of credence in a-nation to, accept a promisory note in place-of cash, as it were, for the bloody sacrifices exacted by a cruel war upon:its inhabitants. It is said to be the most noble thing of a man to lay down his life for his ~friend: But India must first have the friend~Henry G. ~nee... Hard-Headed_ ~a2 We.-drive: quite a bit during the week-ends and we have ~~the-chance to know personally how hard-headed so many of ~our people are.. We mean our ~American People.~ _, We have been asked by those who know what itis going to:take to win this war to cut our speed of driving to 40 miles per hour, and. help conserve rubber. | It is disgraceful to ncte how little regard is paid to this request. We set our ~speed at around 40 miles per hour and then notice how many cars pass us and the state license they carry. - ~*\By that we get somewhat of an opinion as to how thany people ~are taking our situation seriously. We-haye by no ~ ~ shes iy Phone 9-7871 eee ese er ee of ~~ No Race Discrimination In Russia | -. I-would like to join my. colleague,: Editor W. O..Walke 6f the Cleveland Call, to ~second the motion~ that Negro soldiers be sent to Russia where they will be heartil ceived and weicomed as equals in opportunity and extended |. every. courtesy which men can pass One to another., -aNegroes are accepted in every branch of the service in Russia. They are treated as fine and as fairly as any men on earth. There is no discrimination, no limitation in the branches.of army, navy, or air forces. ee ~Russia is the one great nation which recognizes the huMan race as one people; every man equal. As a member of the Allied Nations or the United Nations, Russia is the logical member to which to send colored man power. There is --NO RACE PROBLEM in Russia. Why should our government wrack its brains to find how to use the Negro, or where to place him in this Armageddon? Why should the Negro _ be deferred from immediate services in every branch of our armed forces? Why be so particularly jealous of him in the air forces? Is it because it is too informative?) Will the experience make the Negro an equal reservoir of aeronautical skill, something a great part of this nation seems to frown on? Send the Negro soldiers to Russia and you will be rid of his ~competition, if this is what you are putting the brakes against. him for.~Henry G. Reynolds, Editor. ~ ~The English-India Proposal The English proposal to India that the latter shall have, after the war. dominion status, does not click with any accelerated enthusiasm here in America among the colored peo ple. Promises by the British are always attended with ligature, as it were, a string tied to the thing, and having loose ends conveniently placed for easy retrievement. The whole thing sounds like a conditional proposition. It shows the reluctance.in the English to-divorce themselves from the overlordship of 6ther people for the purpose of material gain at the expense of the more spiritual dark fellowman. * The idea of allowing some of the smaller provinces, to remain out of the proposal for dominion status seems to us that these provinces will furnish possible trouble for the main India proposed dominion. It could be that a civil war in India might arise from such an ~arrangement. thus paves the way for the divisioning of India (through civil disagreement) with England provinces to thé detriment of ~the Dotninion of India. _ This could easily be done. The age-old practi seems to.be well provided for in Sir Stafford Crisp~s newest India proposal] It does not seem clear to us that the proposition for dominion status after the war carries with it sufficient foundation for wholesome unity and cooperation for the entire age a: ~ a seem clear that ee aning truth and ~human brotherhood are wrapped around | -ecche: this ~Babe~in swaddling clothes~, as it were. "| Tenehed a membership of 25. One can see in this ~after the war~ stuff a subtle bid re h the possible means of diplomatic for retrievement throug England backing the non-Dominion of divide and rule. a r= means ~come to realize the gravity of our situation in this: crisis and we fear that it might be too late getting into most of our ~hard heads.~ Report Shows >. (Continued trom Page 1) ~workers with the rest scattered ~throughout tha ~lent. bs to The aircraft division of Pullman: ie Car ts of Thinols hired } workers for the C new. firming hiring 7 ffersonville Bolt and egroes' is J 3 ee { cent of jts entire personnel. ~ The 4 company also asked for Negro de shank guiders, snag guiders: ~. and. maintenance supervisors. National Malleable Iron and Steel. Castings ~company, Sharon, Pa., previously not hiring any, now. hag 48, all of whom are engaged in production work..~. Puséy and Jonés Shipbuilding working in the plant and plans to use them in machine shop and welding when training courses are Eastern Malleable Iron warks in the same Deleware city, has 375 On its rolls; representing 50 per fense workers as fast as they -are.:: 4 corporation, Wilmington, has 100]! th: / A. H. Vandenberg. * e re Communication To U nmitte U. S. Committee Mr, H. H. Clark, Chairman Mr. R. L. Rivers, Secretary United Citizens Committee ~$33 E Gillespie St., ~Flint, Michigan ~Gentlemen: *I am in receipt of your letter of March 8th and attached Resolution which I read with consideramn poet anal 2 am in accord with ~ sentiments expressed in your resolution. | Certainly no one crn question the fact that the American Neg.o and his family have proved their loyalty in the building cf this nation. It will be a pleasure for -|me to take up your Resolution with the proper authorities here in the hopes that something may develop in your favor, and that a more equitable treatment may be extended to you. Do not. hesitate te write me. because I am very much interested in fair play and impartial treatment to all. ~ With kindest persone! regards, I remain, Very sincerely yours, Wm. W. Blackney, M. C. craft company has Negro production workers for the first time. Standard Steel works has also hired, 25 for the first time in that city. -_ In the East. Bay area of San Francisco, there are 340 engaged in shipbuilding. Before a few weeks ago, no Negroes~ were employed in this section in these yards, They work as chippers, boilermakers, painters, welders, and ~in~ general work. Moore Dry Dock compatiy employs 254; Rich~mond Shipbuilding company hes 50 and Todd company 36. In this area, it is interesting to note that a Sepatate local was set up which at first ~had only 10 members. Since the splurge in hiring Negro workers, this local, No. 26 Boilermakers, affiliated with AFI. has WORK WITH CONSOLIDATED has 305 in -its:San Diego. plant, which includes seven stenograph~ers. Upgrading of workers in this Plant is in progress. ' Lockheed Vega has 350, mainly in production work. This company is now hiring women and Negro women have started taking aircraft training courses being offered on the coast. In Detroit, U. 8S. Rubber combany employed 450 with an ultimate sum of 600. Vickers, Inc, of Detroit, has increased its Negro personnel from ~85 to 125 with an upgrading program under~ way. with 35. employees in one plant, lists 15 power machine and one forelady.and in their plan: number two; they have 15. more, all of whom are ~power machine operators. ne - Goodyear Aireraft company of Okron, O., has 265 in anodyzing, heat treating, packing and transport work. It has placed 60 in aircraft riveting and~ assembly training courses, - Ravenna arsenal at. Ohio has 518 General Motors Forge plant ~at ieraey Hype some reports of civilian authorities reaching for their revolvers, an aot which always drew a ring of army rifles. The men reaching for their revolvers have always had to reach for their hats and scram. Because the U. S. Army is not to be trifled with. Our boys in uniform belong to the U..S. Army! Nufsed! Conyers Man Is ~ (Continued from Page 1) colored soldiers and one _ white military policeman and the wounding of five other soldiers. Major: Aage Woldike was quoted as saying the white military policeman attempted to halt an argument near the telephone booths end had words with a colored soldiet who allegedly lunged for the M.P.~s pistol, tipping the holster, but failing to grasp the weapon. The soldier is suid to have run cutside and the M. P. fired a shot after ordering him to halt.., The shot brought forth a fusillade from the barracks near the amusement centel! where the trouble started. LASTED 15 MINUTES ' The gun battle lasted 15 minutes and finally was halted by colored and white Army afficers. Young Hall will be funeralized from the First Baptist church at Lithonia as soon as funeral artangements are completed, his father said. Corporal Hall was weil knowm: in Lithonia, and was. an honor student and star athlete at Henry County T~aining School. He- enlisted in the Army: in May~ ~while stationed at & CCC camp in Greensboro. P: Two sisters reside in Atlanta. They are Miss Beatrice Hall, a student at Clark College, and Miss Lucile Hall; formerly connected with the NYA office here and now employed at. the Atlanta. School of Social Work. ~There are three other sisters, Mrs. Carolyn Hall-. Long, a New- | nan school teacher and wife of John~ Long, former: athlete -of- At-: lanta; Miss Parra Hall, an instructor at Fort Valley College, and Mrs. Long, of Panama City, HAD: TWO BOTHERS | _~Two-brothers, Kenneth and Joe, reside iti Conyers with their par ents. The disturbance at Fort Dix was the ~first manifestation of any ill-feeling among different races at the post,~ according to Major Woldike, who serves as public relations Officer there. ~ It was pomted out that colored and white soldiers mingle at the amusement center, which contains a bar, lunch counter and amusement and bowling. alleys. Killed during the battle were -Hall,: Private Isaac W. Brown, of Henderson, Tennessee, and a white military policeman, Private Manie W.. Strough, of Honeycamp, Va. Three Soldiers ** "(Continued from Page 1) ferent races at the post.~ Negro and white soldiers reportedly had gathered as before in Sports rand rifles, fired once after suitable | added warnings. Not only was the; light. shot out, but the pega oe ~Teceived a close haircut and ~sha: | modus ~operandi. Differences are % And mine eyes have clearef light, ~They live so far apart. ~such different ~worlds~ until even the blood brotherhood ties of racial kinship have been materially weakened. In public life they reveal fundamental distrust of each. other. This is the kind of distrust that strangers. have for one. another. It is- bred by an almost total lack of association.; ISOLATED AREAS The culture areas where the underprivileged dwell are pretty well isolated from the communities of the ~hill top~ folk. This is not always physically true but most certainly psychologically so. This isolation has promoted the growth of | ~ways of living~ so different from the ~proper ways~ of the more privileged Negroes until they are viewed- as immoral, The people on of the upper class Negroes as artificial: Negroes and often comment that they are trying to be ~white,~ Take a look at some of the funda mental differences in the culture patterns of, these two groups. The houses in the areas where these underprivileged Negroes live are poorly constructed with thought. of necessary utilities or beauty. The streets and roads are unpaved and in constant need of repair, Sewerage is either not there or very inefficient. Garbage is less frequently collected than in other | parts of the city. Their churches are even different, including their 4nterpretations. of the purposes of religion and the duties of Christians -| the bottom rung of the ladder think ] ing little |. fh E 4 He if sf a 8 e g -clothes salesman, the collector, bootlegger and the: bers banker. The interesting thing about this connection is that. these E lar Negroes.a security which they groes who are trying to accommodate themselves to the over-all American culture patterns. They want the social approval that comes~ from act the race SENSE DISTINCTION These upper class Negroes have~ sensed the distinction that white people make between good Negroes and ~bad ers.~ They act accordingly. They stay so far away from -the courthouse. until they. have no idea of what happens to members of the Negro masses who are tried in the courts. They definitely. separate themselves religious ly because they do not want to be. aL E white people offer to these particu- | th 5: z? Felae capacities for laying or dation for financial security. tain amount of recognition which gro proprietors and _ professional): people. Es Before Negroes can ever gain significant financial strength this gap ~must be closed. Before Negroes will ever have political power of con-. sequence they must win the confi dence of the masses. This can only be done when educated Negroés: realize the fundamental fact that the masses will permit them. As a matter of fact there are clear signs of a trend of the masses to d educated Negroes this opportunity becaues they have lost faith. in them. Being a Negro is difficult ~ but it is an investment which if tried with sincerity will {n the long run pay tremendous. dividends... BETWEEN THE LINES ~~ 20 coors moon ~By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK for ANP The Tilt Between Dr. Patterson of Tuskegee and Walter White of the NAACP has some regrettable ~possibilities. The cause of Negro advancement is not going to be helped by any spirit of intolerance. It ~is not going to help -our cause to cry aloud against, intolerance in one breath, and-in the next, invoke it to carry our point. Many of us support the NAACP not because of our~ belief in~ its. omniscience, but because of its motivations.. But ever the NAACP: must realize that there are other points of view. on vital ~matters than its own. So: long Booker T. Washington and Dr: DuBois were opposed. in the thinking of the whites and even in the thinking of Negroes themselves. The followers of DuBois were known as radicals while those of Washington were known 4s conservatives. The pity was, each school believed itself right and the other wrong, whereas the lapse of 40 years proves that both were right. Both. schools were after the same thing, and that was the further emancipation of the Negro; and their ~only difference was their not always a matter of right and wrong. As Ella Wheeler Wilcox once ~T know as my years grow older, That in each rank wrong, some~where pane - MAY BE BOTH a BEE ~ Purgism Among Negroes 1 better than none at all. Negroes of ~Negro the right and the prerogative a cope ice it; but: because he the south, ie Negroes of the north,~and of the world~hRave accepted segregation i rirantios but not in theory. To deriy the southern. to handle situations according his own judgment is~a degree~ of intolerance~ the.~Negro cannot afford to attain.. ~slated to go~ because they dared to use their-own judgment in making decisions in interracial. matters. ~If Pickens ~actually compromised in his statements, he would most cer-_ tainly have @ precedent in the many matters compromised by the NAACP tion of teachers~ salaries is ain question, Were the NA/ comp ~in it would not. aries. sala. but it would. segregated. schools, gards to failure. It is just as unscientific for the Negro to disregard the ~white man~s notion of things Negro~s. PURGISM DANGEROUS | However; ~with its. individual supporters groes to resort to purgism... The ~purge that liquidates.a Wil~liam Pickens is highly | nable, }and strikes us as indefensible. We fare not going to get very far. by itself. The fight for: the. equaliza ae e a tae t at &. ON * By REV. TASCHEREAU ARNOLD "hese Are Perilous-Times,-Folk! - ~There lurks the seed of right.~| psoing. trying to fool ourselves that we-are going to have ~all or none.~' The oe oe ing lime to see where they. are 4 ae ule they do not get as a rule from Ne- | they cannot move~any further -than |: at to | for the white man to disregard the not be forcéd; and if this is true of | ~the NAACP, how much more is it |. throughout the nation. It is -not | going to. be a fine thing for Ne-~ } and is fraught with many irritations |: Amys A a eee Gey TERS

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