Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 14]

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THE BRONZE REI

PORTER

Saturday, Februsry 20; 1954

This scene at the Urban League~s Dug-Out Dinner shows,
Kimp, Mr. Leo Greene and Mrs. Childress.

| Cobb, Mrs.

_ URBAN LEAGUE DUG-OUT DINNER

~Baseball season in the Urban League~s Drive for members.
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Baseball League To Spark Drive For
- Urban League Members

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on in. World) Series tradition in
which ~National Leaguers have

perennially. come out on the short

end. Helping: him to uphold this

| tradition are the following Ameri~can League teams and team man
agers:~New York Yankees, Mrs.
Otha B. McGruder; Cleveland Th~dians, Mrs. Wrex A.) Weaver, Sr.;
Chicago~ White. Sox, Mrs. Helen
Friley; Boston Red Sox, ~Mrs. Helen Holebrooks ~ Washington Nationals, Dr. Julian ~D.-Fieler; Baltimore Orioles, Mrs. Georgia
'Hyche; Philadelphia
~Leo A. Greene; and Detroit Tiglers, Mrs: Harry Eriksen.,

The BRONZE REPORTER,
'~Flint~s only ~Negro ~newspaper,
| will have its own team headed by
\Jitheir nore Chief, John W.

Cae S

er

Athleties,.

Caldwell.
business enterprise
many minor league clubs are ready
for recognition as top baseball
outfits.. Therefore, they intend to
show that their team, the Montreal Royals, top AAA _ International League Club can out hit,
out score and out field a lot of
so called major league squads.
The campaign will be set in motion by a First Pitch Dinner to be
held on Thursday, Feb. 18 at the
Home Dairy. Attorney B.: Morris
Pelavin, former Board President,
will: be the principal speaker at
this meeting. All campaign workers or players will be = dinner
guests of the Commissioner of

This new ~and growing
is sure that

| Baseball during which time they

will -receive their kits

and instructions.

campaign

land and People of Lafin America

By Philip Taylor

(Chairman Dept. Latin Ainvevices
Studies
University of Michigan

~THE INDUSTRIAL.REVOLUTION PASSES BY

It is likely} that in the seventeenth and ai good part of the
eighteenth centuries the importjant centers of Latin America such
as Mexica, Guatamala, Peru, and
Colombia were) well in! advance
of the Atlantic coast colonies of
_the English and the Canadian settlements of the! French in culture
jand wealth. Yet, at. the close of
eighteenth and- during the. nineteenth centuries the scales tipped
sharply in these respects in favor
fof the United States. Why was
this so. The answer seems te lie
partly in geography~ and partly
in a revolutionary change ~that occurred in Europe and North America. That movement was_ the
Industrial Revolution, which was
basically a shift from the mant~facture of an article individually
by craftsmen to mass production
by assembling interchangeable
parts. Importance tended ~ to
Shift from men to machines; to
construct these machines required
metal and fuel in: plentiful supply and in juxtaposition. Latin
~America has begun to make this
_~hange over only in the past few
Mecades. Why? Geography, in
its broadest sense offers the best
answer. Climate; topography,
and natural resources are as much
an integral part of geography as.the configuration of the lands,
and these are factors. which often
seriously, condition the develop-,ment of peoples and regions. This
theme thas been developed ina
~previous talk...Latin America~s
~agricultural and mineral assets
are many and rich, ibut their nature has kept that region mainly
at a colonial status. Heavy industry requires an ample store of
iron ore and particularly of fuel.
alt is increasingly evident that His
panic America possesses enormous]

~deposits of the first, though they. have been discovered recently,
but of fuel, particularly of hard
coal, they have virtually* none.
Without knowledge of the first,
and with the Jack of the second,

Jand pastoral,

and this situation as complicated
by other factors, Latin America
remained outside of the Industrial ~Revolution. -Economically,
it continued to be agricultural
and
Share in the great technological
advance and increasing wealth of
the more idustrial. communitiess
Thus, the United States, with its
expanding frontiers, forged rapidly ahead, leaving ~its - southern
neighbors far behind in political

~and economic development and

progress.. In throwing off its status~ politically as a colony by the
wars of indépendence with Spain
and Portugal, Latin America has
found itself more completely. in
an economic colonial status with
respect to Europe and North America. Nature marked that region as a supplier of raw materials for the more industrialized
areas of the western world,
only recently is a different trend
discernible.
FROM ANARCHY TO ORDER
The wars of independence of
the second decade of the nineteenth century shattered the
Spanish Empire in America into
fragments of varying: sizes. and
some of these fragments soon:
broke up, into smaller pieces, especially the ~Ceneral,. American
federation which ~became five
small republics. But, while these
fragments entered upon a separate political existence, the texture of each society remained
much the same as when it formed
a part of ~the former empire. A
fuedal society, autocratic government of fused executive, legislative, and judicial powers, strong
personal rule, union of Church
and State, communities of classes
and castes, and scholastic intellectualism, all these were the heritage of each new entity asserting,
its~ individual existence. And
each one of these new political
units was heir in varying degree
to the environmental influences
operating on the former empire.

Tradition and geopraphy hard
ly prepared them for the difficult |

adjustment to democratic and republican concepts of government
or for the adoption of an industrial economy.

With the restraint of a distant

left to. right:

~presented: themselves to

it could not:
|var saw his dream of

~the process of liquid

and | onal and South Americ

_ Mrs.

Frank Corbett,
They were among the members stdrting the

monarth on governing |personnel
removed, vast opportunities now
ambitious
The arisautocratic
the ~~Cauhorseback,

men who were strong.
tocratic viceroy with
power now gave way to
dillo~ the than on

whose only restraint was his own.

will and that of the followers he
eould command. Little men, selfish men, brutal men, with now and
then a statesman, |seized control
of affairs and have oh bata and
rewritten constitution which
quickly became sciaps |of paper.
Oligarchies of large land owners
formed alliances with the Church
and with the army to support the
president or dietator |who will
preserve their colonial privileges.
Each of the fragments) of the
shattered Spanish.Empire in America experienced decades and
even generations of disorder, of
tyranny, and of virtual anarchy
until, with favorable circumstances or more statesmanli e leaders,
they slowly. enierged nto more
stable states. | |

Argentina passed through the
despotism of ~Rosas until statesmen like Mitre and Sarmiento
gave ja truer form to republican
government. Mexico |began its
independent career. with an adventurer, Empores -| Iturbide,
spending the next thirty years
under Santa Anna, the man without a conscience who lost half the
area to the United States. ~ BoliPan-American Union vanish into thin air.

Today in varying ~degrees the
twenty odd republics formed out
of the fabric of the old Spanish
Empire in America are still in
ing their
colonial ~heritage. They still trip
and fall in their march toward
democracy, and their liberal governments all too often succumb

to military coups engineered by.

those elements still seeking to
preserve their traditional privileges.~ At the present; moment
the spectacle of dictatorships and
rigidly authoritarion government
presented in most parts of Cenis proyet many

foundly discouraging,
of these countries are
telligently their grave} economic
and social problems and aut of

these efforts, especially if our
country will lend its aid, may well
emerge a better world for their

own people and for all.their néighbors in our hemisphere,

Irving A: Leonard,

_ Prof., Spanish-American ~
History and Litérature,
University of Michigan.

Next week: The Diversity of
Culture in Latin inatith ined
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The light furnished by a firefly
doesn~t measure up to what science
has produced in artifici illumination. Recent tests indicate that it
would take between 1 to 2000
fireflies, flashing) simultaneously,
to illuminate a room brightly
as the light from a: le candle.
The brightest firefly tested
duced about nine one-t!
of-a lumen. A 60-watt electric incandescent lamp wis Te 825.
lumens.

BEES

Seashore sand at Tih in Japan
is black, hot to touch, and
gives off sulphur fumes J aaueanee
of people go there to for hours, '
even days, covered by pulverized volcanic deb hich they
hope will cure their aimenty

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_|High Spots...

Negro Education Week is end
ting.so I am making an exception

to my rule of informing on night
lifers, musicians and night spots.

Unfortunately, our educational
system points up Longfellow,
Whittier, and Poe as pcets; leav
ing unsung the verse of Wheatley, |

Dunbar and Cullen. LaFayette,~

Grant are among our heros. At-|#e

tucks and Young are forgotten.
Mention is rarely made of where
and how Jazz was born.

Jazz came out of the deep south, |

and migrated~ north just as our
forefathers did. It is an off-shoot
of the spiritual, -retaining the
pathos, with a carefree, happy
air. It was born in. the brothel
district of New Orleans, carried
by boat to St. Louis, shipped by

train to Chicago and heralded by |
It became |}

society in New York.
the rage of Europe,

This is one of America~s only
contributions to culture, It
original, spontaneous, and tells
the story of a race in economic:
subjugation.

The Rocket, first successful
steam. locomotive, built in 1829,
still. is preserved in a London
museum.-Small by today~s standards, it weighs only eight tons,
once astounded spectators by attaining a hitherto unheard-of speed
of thirty miles an hour, running
between Manchester and Liverpool.

Here's a new definition of *tanPayers~~~those who don~t have
to pass a civil service examination to work for the government.

The number of women who work
for railroads in Communist China
has doubled since 1950, according |
to a Peiping radio broadcast. Most:
of the women are train dispatchers |

~and locomotive engineers.

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A bumper crop of castor beans
assures -plenty of castor oil for.1954. Youngsters needn~t get excited, tho, as industry will need:

ley Henry | J. Rossier

is |~

| bombs, rockets

Four huadred tnleeoent pounds

d napalm~and
100,000 rounds of 20 mm. ammunition~were delivered against Com-!
munist targets in Korea by one|
Marine jet fighter plane. This same;
plane later. was turned over to the:
Navy~and flew an additional 96'

missions, Today, it is still opera-;

tional in the Pacifip.

England cletesl the- world~s.

largest sea-going railway system.

The British Railway's fleet of.

steamers and ferries which carry

trains ply the English Channel, ~

the North Sea and the Irish Sea.

It~s possible for travellers going

from the British Isles to Western |

Europe countries to enjoy a combination land and
without leaving their trains.

most of the oil as a _ lubricant
~and as a paint-drying agent.

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1917 Howard

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