Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 9]

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THE BRONZE REPORTER

Saturday, Hanns 16, 1954

The Bronze Reporter.
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT FLINT, MICHIGAN~
| y Editorjal Address ~ 202 E, 13th St. Phone 3-8481_

EDITOR IN CHIEF i eats ee ~JOHN W. CALDWELL

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-The editorial policy of the BRONZE REPORTER is to preésent the news as seen through the eyes of its staff members,
as accurately as is humanly possible.

In like manner, it will be a reflection of Negro thought as

- we gee it... It~s scope will be national and its perspective, 4ruly
American.

No attempt will be made to ~grind axes~~.as the saying

~| pie a yo sheet and its articles will always uphold the tra-.
i zu 9: ue j rnalism. %
f We Seas 1s compen | of men and women, very/ competent,
] in their fields, pic with variable backgrounds which will enable
_ them to cope with the many problems that one encounters on
~a newspaper which renders public service. _.
j.. Oubemain objective is to be of PUBLIC SERVICE where
| sales a need is felt, and to that end we faithfully dedicate our
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THE STAFF OF THE BRONZE REPORTER

I WAS THEIR TEACHER

iheve taught in the Junior High Schools for five
years. During those five years ]-have given homework

toa thief, a boxer, a moron, a minister, and a killer.

earnest, eager eyes. Searching for something.
tainly was a great help to them, my pupils, as ] taught

The thief.was a smiling, friendly boy with eyes that
sang a song of the joy of living. The boxer sat in the
last seat which creaked and groaned as he poured his
huge bulk into it. The moron sat right beside my desk
and brought me lilacs in the springtime because. he loved
me. The minister was president of all the clubs he belonged to, and had the respect of all: the girls. The killer
sat beside the door, being the first one to leave the room

* when the bell vang,

At ~Christmas time I received a lovely carved. candy
dish from the man with the eyes that once sang a song
of the joy of living. It camé from.San Quentin prison.

The boxer carries a white cane as the result of an unscheduled street fight without a referee.

~ The lilacs do not smell quite so sweet to me anymore
because he who used to bring them to me, was scraped
-off the pavement after a fourteen story dive where there
~wasn't any water. ~

A good sermon was preached lest Suniduy, but my
minister didn~t hear it. He had entered that mysterious
realm of the dreamless dust of time.

And the killer, well he failed te negotiate a hail of
lead | coming his way, thereby making headlines because
he carried~ two good men of the law with him.

Ican not forget, however, somehow,, that they sat in

their little seats a few years ago, and looked at me with
I cer
them how to divide poetry into metres.

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LANSING ~BLS During the ~past

week we;have. been engaged in|- Hl
own, a home where he can carry the woman of his choice

intensive work in preparation for
the return] of the Legislature this
Wednesday.

On ~Thursday I will go before
them to deliver my annual message reporting on the conditior
of our stete and making recom.
mendations for legislative action
to solve the major pr oblems which
confrent. us,

BALANCED \BUDGET: Early
last fall CRD we began to prepare our budget, I instructed-the
Controller to enforce a policy of
~holding the line~ on state expenditures, I was determined that
the rage should ibe within the
state~s income as increased by the
new business receipts tax.. In
these efforts we have succeeded
while, at the same time, providing
moderate, dvances in those areas
in which it was imperative that
we meet the most urgent needs,

INDUSTRIAL. CENTER: Last. alah: I welcomed the second an
nual meeting of the Great Lakes
Industrial | Development Council
which met! in East Lansing. Représentatives ~from our sister states
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, _ and
Wisconsin | were present.. As I
told this group, the Great. Lakes
region has, everything needed to
be a great industrial area,

Through our Department of
Economic Development,,we are
doing our best 'to point out to industry in the United States the
main advantages to locating in
the Great Lakes region, especially Michigan..We have: 1) an
industrial market second to none;
2) the ~know how~ of both management and. labor; 3) abundant
raw materials and excellent transportation. facilities; 4) a good
supply of pure water;.and 5) an
area where people want to live
and work. |

Last year twenty new industries
located in Michigan. convinced of
the soundness. of our state as. a
good spot in which to operate,

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MENTAL HEALTH: There is
an important gap in our state
mental health program the
lack of a children~s psychiatric
hospital to treat distur bed youngsters.

East year I, recommended the
construction) of such a_ hospital
at Northville. But the Legislature chose instead to increase the
children~s facilities at Ann Arbor,
However, the need still exists in
our state mental health system
and the. Legislature -promised to
reconsider the program at, this
session.

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STATEWIDE MEETING: Last
week representatives of some fifty civil, medical, business, profession and labor groups met with
the mental health commission in
my office to | discuss plans for
building a 120-bed children~s psychiatric hospital at Northville. Al!
of the groups indicated intense
interest in the proposal, and I
hope that the Legislature will appropriate the funds necessary to
start pyatalich vis without delay.-.

The term ~ spanish Main~ orig?
nally referred to the Spanish col-!
enies on the northeast coast of
Souin America. In later usage it
was generally applied to the Caribbean Sea and nearby waters made
hazardous by pirates and = bue-.

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~MARCH OF DIMES

January 2~to 3

A HOUSE

Build within the confines of your mind, a haven likened to your dreaming, before you build a home within
the realities of the city. | | oe

For as you dream of a place to come home to when
the curtains of time begin to draw closely about you, so
does the wanderer in you desire a resting place.

Man~s greatest desire today is to own a home of his

across the threshold. A home that will some day echo
with the patter of the feet of his children.
' For his home will become his larger body, and to him:

it will be a'symbol. A symbol of love, a symbol of joy,

a symiigl of devotion, a symbol of sacrifice, of tears, of
gladness.

Man~s home becomes his castle, made ~en the living bor. -:
the living. | 21 helds' bis saozets and shelters his longings:

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and that of his family.
But the boundless in man resides in the ethereal regions of the soul, whose doors are the mists of the morn- ~

ing, whose windows are the songs of the day and the sil- ~

ences of the night.
People in Flint need homes, decent ii in which) ~
they can leave with a smile in the morning and retur

| still smiling at night.

People in Flint need homes hie they can rear chil- -

dren, and romp and play with them on green, yelvety ~

grass. People in Flint need homes because a home of
their own gives them a feeling of belonging. And if they
ever are going to become citizens of worth, this feeling
must be instilled within them.- A man takes care of that
which belongs to him because ~his home becomes his
anchor, and it takes such an anchor to steady the ship of

the soul whenever the going gets rough, as any mariner

will tell you. )
Now, where are these ~ ~decent~? homes for pean to

~be found? Well, we wish that we knew where they are

to be found. You see, Flint does not have a decent
housing project like Detroit has for-the colored populaIt is hoped that some will see the light, and gear

tion.

their thinking to the needs of this group, and the rewards

which can be derived from such thinking.

The Negro market is ripe for housing, and has been
ripe for decent housing for ten years. A syndicate could
he formed to produce a home for this market, and in
ten years all concerned could retire for life.

The Negro spends more than four and one-half uk
lions of dollars a year in Flint alone each.year. |

' This is divided among the necessities of life, namely,
food, tlothing, and shelter:

With the influx of new faces and ideas, it is just a

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matter of time until such-an-idea-will bebrought in fru--~~
ition, and there are men with vision in Flint wn can do

so, and will do so when the time comes.
But until that time ~comes, people shall continue to

live in homes made by the dead for the living. Therefore,.

until you are able to get into a home of your own, ~build

within the confines of your mind, a haven likened to

your dreaming,... before... you... build... a.. house... within

the realities of the city. For as you dream of a place to

come home to, when the curtains of time begin to draw
closely about you, so does the wanderer in you desire a

resting place.
body, and to you it will be a symbol of love, of joy, and

of gladness.
He who works to build a home, fulfil a part of cans s

f urthest dreams.

Ae 1en-ton plaque which adofns
the entrance_to the Associated
Press Building at Rockefeller Cezter, New York City, was the firet.
riece of heroi~ sculpture. to be
eased in chromium-nickel stainless
raed,

spread of

The Kingdom of Jordan 1s re.
storing the ruins of Petra, an
ancient city carved from the living rock of desert. mountains,. in
the hope of making it one of its
major attractions for visitors from

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