Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 1]

4: Saturday, November 21, 1953

THE BRONZE REPORTER

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Page Seven

Frankly Speaking

By ARTHUR J. EDMUNDS
Executive Secretary
Urban League of Flint
~A short time ago the Urban
_ League was busily working to
bring about equal employment
opportunities for Negroes.in one
of our public programs. During a
_ conference with one high official
of this particular; program, a: League staff member stated that
*~the restrictions placed on the employment of Negro - personnel
represented a serious denial of
the principles for which this program stood. He felt that Negroes
should be assigned jobs for which
they were best qualified
where there was a need. This official, in defense of the discriminatory. hiring practices and: while
trying to be. sympathetic, said
that ~~the time isn~t ripe.~

This attiude has been one of
the defenses ised in many instances to ~support all forms of
discrimination. It is most difficult
to understand ~. particularly
when it is found in public programs that have a great deal to
dé with shaping attitudes and
mores. Perhaps it would be undérstandable if there could be
faund some accurate measure for, determining when ~the time isn~t
ripe~ to practice democracy. In
the absence of such measgurés one
can.only presume that attitudes
of this sort are based on unfounded fears or prejudices of the individual or small groups of. self
' styled experts. Because of their
fears a theory of gradualism is
elevated to take the place of-a
~sound principle.
Actually when is the time ripe
to practice our revered demoeratic principles? Was it ripe in
the early 40~s when Negroes first
worked on production~ jobs in the
auto industry? Was it ripe over
a dozen years. ago when = the
Junior ~Chamber. -of ~Commerce
and other civic organizations
opened their membership to Negroes? Or was the time more
proper nine years ago when the

YWCA employed a Negro to di-.

rect a program involving girls of
all races? Or when a Negro first
began teaching and _ training
Flint~s golden. glovers?. Or when
our hospitals employed Negru
nurses jand interns to minister to
sick people of all races? Was
~Jast year the proper time for
~employing a colored citizen in a
city hall job above the custodial
*Jevel? Such. a chronological list~ing as these and the other local
and. national, advances certainly
refute a time theory for. practicing democracy.
Progress does not just happen.
~~It is made! ~The time isn~t ripe~
fnly when we do not have the
courage to act according to God~s
teachings and our, democratic
convictions.;

County Maps
Now Available

Books of maps of the counties
of Michigan are now ~available in
the 1953 annwal edition published. by the conservation department.

About 1500 copies of -the 11x17
inch map books are now available

- to the public at $2.50 each, the
approximate~ cost of publication.

The maps, one ~and in;some
cases two for each county, aré in
two colors, show lakes and streams

highways,.railroads, state forests
and park boundaries, game and
~ be. ja ~es
recreation areas, and public fishing, access sites and are marked
off by section, town and. range.

The map books are annually
brought up to date and have proven a popular department, publication, land workers say.

The 4,000-year-old palace of King
Minos at Cnossus, Crete was as
latge as London~s Buckingham
Palkce.

and |.

~GOV. WILLIAMS

LANSING ~ Estimates of the
money needed by state agencies
and departments for the next fiscal year are $96 million more than
this year~s appropriations.

This is: far out of line, and I
have asked the Controller:to make
it clear again that we cannot afford anything like that level of
expenditure. He is telling the
agencies they will have to reduce
their expectations drastically.

The requests of the agencies to
the Budget Division of the Department of Administration totaled $583 million as compared with
current appropriations aH _ $487
million.

That total of $583 ~million jis

ity of ~the Michigan ~taxpayers to
pay.

HOLD LINE:. This is what I
wrote, to the Controller, who is
supervising the task of drawing
up the budget to be presented to
the next legislative session:

~It would. be wonderful if we
had the money to do all these
things~ and I am sure the state
agencies are motivated by a desire
to give better service to the public.

~But the amount. we can spend
in the ~next fiscal year has to be
circumscribed by the available revenues,

~The Legislature has levied a
new tax on Michigan business.
Many thousands of business mer
are beginning to pay that tax for
the first time this fall. I am determined that the budget recommended for 1954-55 shall be withing the state~s income~ as: augmented by the business receipts
tax.

~Our policy must be one of rigidly ~holding the line~~at least until the long range picture~of the
state~s revenues and needs _becomes clearer.: * ee. %

NEW FARM CHIEF: The State
Agriculture Commission got some
criticism for its action removing
Charles Figy as Director of Ag
riculture. ~
Commission members have insisted that the firing was> for

cause and that they were not motivated by politics, and
come up with a capable successor on the basis of merit alone.
They. have now come through
on that, promise by naming the
former. deputy. director, George
~. McIntyre.. ~
Mr. McIntyre ~is a career man
in the Agriculture Department.
He knows the operations of the

~wealth of experience.
Michigan. farmers can rest as
culture Commission~ and-the new
director ~are going. to make this
department, a more~ effective instrument for. Michigan agric~ulture.

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_ POLISH CONSUL: Last week
I: wrote to Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, again urging
that the Consul General who represents Communist Poland in Detroit pe recalled, -

The State Police have been instructed to send directly to Secretary Duiles~a considerable mass
of information..they have assembled showing that the Polish Consul has been conniving with. local

Communists, *
Ti Also I sént ~to the Prien

wiateriad on ~several cases in which
the Consul~s office has heen used
to turn over to the Red: government estates of Michigan resi
far, in excess of. our anticipated |
revenues and far beyond the abil
would |

department intimately, and has al

sured that the reorganized Agri-|
Another view of Dr. Weaver's new office showing, left to right.

Mrs.

the new establishment.

Ezra Broadnax, Mrs. Alexander Burrell,
Wilson, Mrs Gamble and Miss Doris Jones inspecting: the ~interior of:

Dr. and Mrs. J. D.

dents having reijatives behind the
Iron curtain.

There is evidente that the heirs
in Poland have heen forced thru
threats and_imprisonment to sign
papers giving the Consul contro]
of the estates of their Anierican

relatives.:
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INSULT: The - State - Police
have never placed the Polish Consul under surveillance. But in
the course of their rautine investigation of Communist activity.
which goes on, all the time, they
have run across his trail time and
again.

The law which created the State
Police Subversive Activities Squad
says material obtained by the
Squad shall not be made public.
Tnat is why I had it sent directly
to Mr. Dulles in confidence.

Michigan citizens of Polish descent who have been demanding
the recall of this Consul and the
closing: of the Consulate are certainly -right in feeling that the
continued prescence of such: an
officer~ is ~an insult to thet democratic traditions.

Personally I don~t care to have
Michigan unwillingly: harbor an

there isn~t the slightest excuse
for his presence. This is a matter

of Polish descent who don~t want
a bogus fepresentative of their
homeland, but also to all Amet?icans who don~t want to encourage
~the Communist conspiracy.

Nearly ~5 per cent of afl the
heat and mechanical energy produced in this country from! 1800
rough 1950 was derived ~from
@cal.

game.

agent-of world Communism when}

of concern not only to Americans |

Got The Bird...

ROSCOMMON ~ Al Harger, |S

biologist at the Houghton Lake

Wildlife station near here, recent-.
ly caught a goshawk, one of Mich- |

igan~s rarést birds, with his hands, |
the conservation department re-|
ports.

Harger saw the bird one day
while making his rounds through
brush and woodlands near the station. The goshawk, noted for
speed in flight and sharp eyes,
was resting on a stump.

Harger~s fellow workers | Heport |
the biologist, can, if necessary.
move through the woods ~like a
bashful ghost~ anyway, and in
this case he had to creep and
crawl a considerable distange before ~making a final dash ~4 grab
the bird.

Goshawks have beén usede n the
past in falconry, the ancient ~method of hunting birds and -sniall
Harger hopes. to train his~
hawk*as a test of this hunting
method and,in the mean timé will

be able to study the bird~s habits.

The northernmost post office i
the United States is Penasse, Minnesdta; on American Point, a 50:

acre island in Lake of the Woods. |

Most of the typhoons that thrash
the coast of Korea ~and Japan in
late Summer and early fall originate in the China Sea east of For
mosa.

For 60 years, England successfully: guarded the secret of casting
crucible steel, a process discdvered
ra English watchmaker about

LAFF OF THE WEEK

~Give me the $5 one~the beat is none too good for my wife!~ |

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~Rev. Robert H. Harper

fasson November 22: Matthew |: 35-36; ceark 1: 32-342; 1: 1-9.
"Golden Text: | John 3: 17-18.
Christidns can but feel compas-|
sion for a needy world if they are|
true followers of their Lord and}.
shdre in his spirit. For, through-:
out his ministry, Jesus showed)
compassion toward all the needy;
persons. he: niet.

Many instances of his cies
are recorded in the Gospels... Mat-;?.

| thew tells us how Jésus went about!.

| all the cities and ~willages, teaching:
ibe he synagogués, preaching the,
pel of the kingdom, and héal-;
ing on manner of diseases. And|; when he saw a multitude, on one!
occasion, he was moved with com-:
passion for them, because they;
| were scattered abroad, as sheep) ~
| ndving no shepherd, And on a not-!
| ate evening, when the sun did
set, In old Capétnaum, the wholé:
city was gathéred at his door, and~
he healed those that were sick,
wit has been said that the world:
ake a beaten path to the,
dae sa a man who builds a mouse-:
trap better than his fellows. When;
a man renders a greater cit
{ than that to his fellows, the*world) ~
will find him out. In the course oft
time, Jesus could not be hid, thoughi
he retired for a périod of rest to
a sequestered spot on the north
eastern shéré of Galilee. The mul
titude found him there, and at thei
close of the day of preaching and
of healing, Jesus fed five thousand
~men, beside ~women and children,
as he ~multiplied five loaves~ an
two fishes endiessly. The ~few loaves| |

hands, fed ~a Mililtitude. It all de-'
pends upon what you do with a:
thing whetlier it has value or not.;
gifts we truly make to Jesus;
~take ~bn an infinite value and!
do much toward relieving the pains~
of a sorrowing worl

Get Booklet On
Deer Cleaning

The firearm~ equipmefits com-..

panies and the sportwear. outfit~ters will tell you what.to do: before you shoot your buck this fall,
Mr. Nimrod, but.what happens
after you are standing in, ee
| snow looking down at you prized,
| but very dead deer?

If you~re an old hand at the
noble sport of deer hunting, you
already know how to. ~lean the,
carcass, drag it home, cut it up
and cook it ~ withéut wasting
any important parts of~ thé _animal.

~json~
may answer a lot

prepare your deer.
ferent recipes also are contained
in rear pages of the~ pamphlet..
The bulletin may be obtained
by dropping a card either to the

| Bulletin Office, Information Ser| vices at Michigan'State College ini
_| East Lansing or. to the conservation department~s education div-~

ision, Lansing.

Within the last 25 years, hydrocarbons from petroleum and natu
| ral gas have become @ sourcé of

raw materials for more than 2,500
different chemical products. ~ ~

CHESTER H. COBB, Mer.

Michigan State Agenty
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300216 St. John St. Flini
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Ebrisaw Compassion for a Needy);

and fishes, given into the Master's}

But if you're a neopiyte, en iS
a handy little bulletin called ~Ven-.
is yours for the asking and.
of questions.~
about how to clean, butcher and~.
Several dif-*

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