Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 29]

EDITOR IN CHIEF

total up the deaths caused by accidents..

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' paign against one of our most viscious'killers..
~passing...

A few simple rules, if properly observed, could wipe:
out this menace.

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Saturday, sor 5, (1954 |

| The Bronze Reporter
18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT FLINT, MICHIGAN
Editorial Address ~ 202 E. 13th St. Phone 3-8481

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JOHN W. CALDWELL
MELVIN E. BANNER.. IRMA M. WILLIAMS
JOHN GIBSON, Jr.

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~The editorial policy of the BRONZE REPORTER is to present the news as seen through the eyes of its staff members,

we see it...
American.

No attempt will be. panes to ~grind axes~ as the saying goes.,
THE BRONZE REPORTER IS A JOURNALISTIC VENTURE, |
not a scandal sheet and its articles will always uphold the traditions of true journalism. |

Our staff is composed of: men and women, very competent
~in their fields, and with variable backgrounds which will enable):
them ~to cope "with the many problems that one encounters on
a newspaper which renders public service.

Our main objective is to be of PUBLIC SERVICE where.

It~s scope will be national and its perspective truly:

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THE STAFF OF THE BRONZE REPORTER

as aecurately as is humanly possible. iT
In like manner, it will be a reflection of Negro thought as |}

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DEATH AND COMMON SENSE
The Memorial Day Week End is over... we can now.. drownings. fails... but mostly from our good friend the auto
amobile.

Every year it~s the same story... new record death!
rates... more people killed, maimed and injured....
~more suffering... more orphans... more business for
the hospitals.

~While a few of these horrikle accidents are unavoidable... most could be stopped with a little common
sense. Modern cars very seldom cause ~accidents...
even those would not -happen if a-small amount of care
were taken to keep them in proper shape... Good brakes
and safe cars are easy to acquire... most accidents are

caused by the defective ~nut~ behind the wheel.

Knowing that our most serious ~~accident period~ lies.. while highways are crowded -with' vacationers
the State Safety Commission has Jaunched.a.cam-. illegal. cause of most head-on, high-injury accidents.
~ They are:

Don~t pass on a hill,. Don~t pass on a curve.
Don~t pass at intersections... Don't ~Cut-in~ too soon.
Be careful when passing several cars.
Don't pass unless there's room up ahead.
~Watch when passing a roadside~ business,; Signal when pulling out to -pass.

9. Be extra careful when passing near a
_ playground.

10. There are special hazards when passing at
_high speeds ~ Be careful.:
These ten rules.can be summed up by the Safety Com
~mission's slogan, ~Share the Road ~ Keep.in Lane.~

~Remember a The life you save may be MINE ~ It

CAN happen to you. = PBA

THE BRONZE REPORTER

By

[LAFF OF THE WEEK | Jo The

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OPEN THE DOORS
Within a few weeks, thousands of ~High Schoal and

College graduates will remove their caps-and gowns, and
get down tothe serious business of finding employment.
Some -will ~be ~seeking seasonal jobs that will enable them~
to earn money for additional schooling. Some -will be
drafted into the armed forces, but the big majority will
be seeking employment~employment that -will give them
some guarantee of a secure future.

Our Negro High School graduate -has no alternative
~but to seek employment on the assembly lines of our lo
| cal factories, or. menial employment in the shops down

town. They have no alternative because we have failed in:
our responsibility to them. We ~have put forth only a
token fight against the discriminate hiring policy, that local business and industry practice.

This June's graduates will swell.the ranks of: those who
are opposed to these practices. Perhaps now, we.can get
something done to alleviate this deplorable un-American
condition.

ma vbr McGUP_ By John Jarvis

Im A bepOn rR, 14 sails | mecue 1s-72008! wisn:
~FAKING A PUBLIC- |] IS THE GREATEST | | CouLD VOTE es)
OPINION POLL:OF. |] PUBLIC FIGURE |. HIN FIFTY ia
MAYOR MSGuUPS ~ |'] WE'VE-EVER HAD. |

T'VE ALWAYS
do tiKED Him!

A WICER *
LUCKY HE'S OUR MAYOR.: E'S eae~
| WAY, HE COULD

i subpeona |
4.| ~known ~to-me ~this -day.

Mr, Editor: ~

One hundred years ago Abolitionists like Frederick Douglas,
Wm. Lloyd Garrison and other
heroic leaders were persecuted
by mob violence for their beliefs..

Elijah ~ P. Lovejoy was even
murdered on the city streets by
one such mob for daring,to advocate full freedom for the Negro=
slaves. Nowadays one is persecuted, not for criminal acts, but for
a associating or ~belicv
~Lately, ~Kit (Clardy swung ~thru
Michigan.on a free election eampaign paid by ~the laxpayers. K.
Clardy~s reeord isyso disgraceful
that his only hope "is to create

al')}jand aide aware of ~Red ~hysteria.
So. the
4 }-with ~the help at ~Generdl ~Motor~s

Un-American committee,

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supervision anil ~the ~local ~news-.

4., spapors succeetied in inciting mob
i] |\widlence samrong ~union menibers.

Many;peaple unfairly suffered ~
~the eests.of ~these vigilante.ac~

Mf \itions. Por xample: wihere zaxe + ithe

~FACTS in my -own ease:
1. The -exact reasons tae amy
~have -not been -made
Siete ait del yeitebbiines oe!

}vangone + -~lse smentioned my name

tin ~the hearings sat all.
&. The ~local ype
munber:of.

r yprinted a~
statements

sail. if ~about:me anil tthe thearings.
~ter;your.. ola lence -in ~the other plants.

4. 1 worked gor several days
~after the.campany:incitell -vio
4. I was finally ~barrel from
my job by Chief of plant.protection Cornéll, who, acting by order
of Harvey Adair, superintendent ~
of plant No, 6, ordered me ~don~t
~come hack!~~

Those are the facts in my ease.

I think that this case reveals
~to every citizen and union.member the real~ threat against our
democratic freedoms. The real
lear and present danger is represented by ithe Un-American
committee. r:

James Coleman
925 E. Taylor, Flint, Mich.

Voice of a Negro
~By Charles A.:Charles
White~ brothers, white friends;
I drove your \itanks dnd fired
your guns.
No special privilege ~I ask,
Nor to ~be treatéd any better
than one.
J-orily ask to be accepted as the
-true American,
When ~I apply for a job or something "technical to do.
You turn me down for some other
Nationality, just anything
To:keep me from going ~through. -
~Bach day I.continue ~to read the
want ads,
And some of the*things I read
makes my heart sad,

~Such as, ~Wanted "White ~Lady,

you so apecially specify ~

|.Down below I read, ~Wanted:

Colored ~Woman.

It seems you are doing all you
~can to keep ~her from being
vated as a ~lady.

Though -it makes my heart burn,

It makes me realize in war I
fought and saw my comrades
die for this ~kind of scourn.

But I go home sad.and blue, |

Yet, in my heart I remain an
American true. F

When I go home I gaze at my ~
young ones staring up:at me.

And I say, will they grow up and
be treated like me. ~

No, I say to myself. We must try
and try and strive that they
will never be,

Each night when I fuck them-i in
bed,

T teach them always to earry in
their hearts what I said;:

American true Democracy is the
only right, way.!:

No matter what others may contine to say.

~The coals i aulp at tb onubl
oldest national;