Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 27]

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~THE BRONZE REPORTER

Saturday, May 22, 1954

Book Review...

NO GREEN PASTURES
By. Roi |Ottley

lhwhite this~ book is based largefon Mr.. Ottley~s experience
oad aS\a foreign. correspond- |
between 1944 and 1946, its
tents on.the whole are valid

today.
'"@he author deals with the situpfion. of the Negro in Europe as

he found and as it was reported.

to>him. The attitudes and prejudices of the white population and
the sopportunities available for
the Negro are reported for the
countries Mr. Ottley visited: England, France, Italy, Germany, the
Batkahs, and the Middle East.
~Comparisons with American attitudes under similar conditions
are always underlying bases ~for
discussion.
| Mr. Ottley found that the American Negro should not consider
his treatment in Europe typical
of the treatment of all _Negroes
there. The visitor usually is a
well-educatied, often talented,
and prosperous~ man and as such
is not the victim of the open and
lgss overt discrimination suffered bythe Negro residents.
| To take a tew countries for
examples: England though critical of white America~s attitude
of the Negro | discriminates
against him in.employment, housing jand society whieh forces
many to live in the slums near
the London docks engaged in
dubieus occupations; France offers a better chance but the attitude is one of sentimentality;
Italy has a genuinely liberal attitude, but the Negro fared best
of all in the Middle Fast.
| European countries which have

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Dick colonies resort to. discrimination ~ racialism ~ to a
greater extent than those with
out. The native Negroes from
these areas are considered primitive or savage and thus opportunities for advancement and = well
_joeing are denied them. However,
when an individual does succeed,
~ he is no longer restricted in his
social activities and is. judged
solely on his own merits. The
entertainment field is still the
one most likely to offer Negroes
the surest way to success in most
countries.
| It is as an American Negro,
ditizeh of the United) States, that
the author was treated as a whole
~eing without having to adjust
intimself to racial. prejudice as
manifested in the United States.
Justified as criticism by Europeans is of the United States~ attitude there is much. to be desir~d in Europe for the* Negro from
the standpoint of social and economic equality.
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@REAKTHROUGH ON THE
COLOR FRONT
| By -Lee Nichols

| This yather detailed account
tells how the color barrier was
breached by ~the -military and
thus served as.a demonstration
of the reversal of traditional atem regarding Negro segregation. There had been a long hiscory of ill feeling in the armed
services from the Revolution to

World War II when.~ the Negro
nd division ~was branded as. unreliable.~ With

~thoroughly

the late President Franklin Roose| velt began thé gradual ehange to
| integration..in the armed forces
| followed by the |Nevro~s admis| sion into the Air [Force and then
'the Navy. Former President
Truman~s Civil Rights: Program
was another step |forward in the
procéss but it was/not until Korea

that the Army too accepted integration. Specific episodes are
cited to show thé. pattern that
was emerging.

This is also thé story, accord
ing to the author, ~of men, of

courage and foresight who could
see that military efficiency and
demociatic ideals | go hand in
hand~ as shown ih~ the past by
our two former presidents; by
James. V.. Forrestal, Wall Street
financier and forhier Secretary
of the Navy; by Stuart Symington as former Secretary of the
Air Force; by Christopher Sargent, a navy lieutenant who con~vineed officials t@ attempt integration; and by 4 host of others
both inside~ and dutside of the
military who played important
roles to bring abput -this racial
ie

- Nichols points out that the
seal to achieve this goal, had:
not always been ~asy for there
was powerful resistance from top
officers and from politicians who
would not see the value of change

an spite of the fatt = that times
and attitudes had | reached the
point where both |Negroes and

American whites were trying to
get along together.)
The author feels~ that ~perhaps, most of -all, it is the story
of the coming of age of the American Negro; of| Negroes who
battled through neprly two centuries for the ~right to fight~ for
their country; of Negro men and
women who, despite grave abuse,
generally kept their: sense of national loyality. and) dignity and,
when the white ranks of the military parted to iecéive them,
marched in and took their places
~ proudly, and for)the most part
quietly.~;
It is a heartening
ism, courage, and success in the
realization of racial equality in
an important arm of our government which is serving as a spearq | head toward non-segr egation.
throughout the United States as
a whole.

tale of ideal
Excessive moisture and humidity
which frequently bedevils tightlybuild houses: and causes expensive
damage to the structure can. often
be banished in a very simple manner. When the glass in windows or
mirrors is ~~~dewy~~ with moisture,
open windows slightly on the opposite sides of the house. A ome
inch crack will do -_ trick.

Bituminous coal thpiectntat ae
per cent of all the energy produced -
from mineral fue and water
power in Virginia ihe year and
85 per cent in West yireinia.

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Four members of) the efephant
family once lived North and
South America. They were: mastadon, mammoth, c bian. and
imperial. Largest was the imperial,.
which grew to a height of 13% feet.

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POLIO TEST.... Gregory Murnock, 7, of Highland, |Mich., grijad while being vaccinated ~ta-nation-wide test

test of Salk anti
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Frankly Speaking...

By ARTHUR J. EDMUNDS

Executive Secretary
Urban League Of Flint

Two important principals in the
recent congressional hearings on!
Communism here were Beatrice|
Churchill and Herbert H. Donnelly. These hearings, presided over
by Rep. Kit ~Clardy, were given
wide press and radio coverage.. As
you probably know already, Mrs.
Churchill was an FBI undercover
agent who posed for many years
as a member of the Communist
party: Donnely was a member of
the party for a few years and voluntarily severed his eonnections
in~ 1951 after his marriage. <A
couple of things said by these
individuals during the hearing are
worth discussing here.

In a speech before a local service club, Mrs. Churchill commented on attempts by the Communists
to gain a Negro following. She
told how they hoped to capitalize
on the race discrimination and

second class citizenship to which}

Negroes are subjected. She went
on to say in essense that, these
inequities ~should be eliminated
immediately and that these differences only add fuel to the
Communist. propaganda. She felt
that these inequities should be
done away with if we are tio render this menace impotent.

DISGUST OVER
DISCRIMINATION

When Donnelly was asked what
made him join the party, he gave
as his answer his disgust over segregation and _ discrimination of
Negroes. Furthermore, it was
his opinion that the Communis!
party was the only group. doing
anything constructive about this
problem. So he joined.
NEGROE~S LOYALTY
UNQUESTIONED

The failure of the Communist
party to woo Negroes locally and
nationally provides a graphie illus-.
tration of the loyalty of the overwhelming. majority of -this group.
This very design on Negroes makes
us realize even more the importanee of race relations: and. the

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