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_ Saturday, Joly 10, 1954 2

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A Reply To The Editorial:
In The Weekly Review

Mir. Ms rshall Boor, Editor
The Flint Weekly Review
412 Buckham.

Flint 3, Michigan.

Dear Sir: |
~ 1 ti
Will you permit an interested
~observer to comment on the unsigned editorial which appeared

in the July 2, 1954 issue under|/

the columa ~Out of the Tower~,
and the subject of which was ~Uncle Tom Is Dead~?: My interest springs primarily
~from the fact that the views ex~pressed constitute a~ scurrilous at-j
tack upon ~the integrity and loy~alty to the Negro, of one of my
best. friends, Dr. Jesse Leach; the
statements~ made are completely

unfair and utterly ~without foun-|.|

~dation: in fact. Because they refer to a professional man, such
statements. whether true or not
~ntight be believed by many and
thus could) possibly do,irreparabie
sharm to ~Dr. ~Leach~s business.
Being - ~very familiar with your
~personal (editorial | accomplishmients, and understanding your
spolicy~ of /fair play, I feel certtain that you will permit my.comjments to! appear in your fine pub~cation. Justice, I am sure you
~will agree, dictates no other equi~table course.
} Pia editorial, I note, is unsignamatéurishly written, and
saloon br and rhetorically in4accurate, go I know it was written
y someone other than yourself.
Editorial anonymity, -especially, is,
Fnot your forte.
4 ~Now my comments:
~ The title ~(Uncle Tom Is Dead~,
~which appeared in an issue. of
~EBONY ~ on poses several years
~ago, and the remarks in the first
~three paragraphs of the letter are
~trite, meaningless, much: over
sworked, ahd not worthy of further mention.
a ~Paragraph four states ~Let~s. discuss a man who has been
riost uncd- -operative toward the
progress of the human race.~
Ridiculous!: How can. a man
who has practiced medicine for

ace?~~
Dr. Leakh has ical contribu
xine right | ere in Flint. He servlied as the ifinst Negro member of
the Genesee County Board of

| quested service, which was refused

~Flint, -and he is considered, mony

Supervisors; as a matter of fact,
he and Dr. Moore will be remem
liered by. all fair-minded Flint
residents as having done more to|
improve the lot of Negroes here,
before the advent of such agencies as the NAACP and the Urban)
League, and even the FEP Committee of the CIO, than ~ANY!
other people I know.

In this same paragraph, ~the
writer (?) refers to Dr. J.) L.
Leach as the ~so-called Presédent~~
for the Flint Branch of the NAA
CP. - There is no such title in any
echelon of the NAACP, as ~socalled President.~ A person is
ELECTED to the office and is
the President, and IS so pecogntey
ed by the parent national body. -

~Paragraph 5 does not deservé
any comment. ~

In paragraph 6, "the writer
states that he would like to ask
Dr. Leach to name one thing he
has done for the promotion o
civil rights in the city of Flint},
What may I ask is gh diagrie
him: or her (the writer). from do
ing just that? There is no padlock on the door of Dr. Leach~s
office,. and his telephone bill is
paid up to date, cir was, when i
talked to him necently. Sine
the writer is apparently afraid ta
do this, allow me to state what 1
KNOW personally, about some of
the things Dr. Jesse L. Leach has
done to promote civil rights in
Flint.

In 1938, I beliehes| a Negro was
denied service at a. prominent restaurant in downtown Flint. When
Dr. Leach was told about it, he
went to the establishment and re
for the usual reason. He person:
ally\ brought suit, obtained a con
viction, and the practice was dis+
continued in that particular res+
taurent,\and naturally led to sim+
ilar results in others, This was
one.of the FIRST tests of the
Diggs Civil\ Rights Law in the
entire state, and I am most positive that it the first andl
test in the City of Flint.

Dr. Leach was influential in obi
taining the appointment of the
first Negro Deputy \. Sheriff in

than any other one person, respon
sible for the appointment of a
Negro to the Flint Police Depart:
ment. He must share in large~
measure the credit for the e
ted impending appointment of

(Continued on page 6)

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TO THE EDITOR

~+.--..$3.00

July. 2; ~

To the Editor of the

BRONZE REPORTER

' I eertainly did enjoy my *
in Flint. It has been a real pleasure meeting all of you. After
going on to St. L. we have at last
returned home. It made my hus
band: agd~ me feel mighty good to|'m
| know that in some part

world~ we have some nice reporter of our own race. You are, doing such nice work. Here in~ our
city we. only have white businesses. I know as big as our ~city
is that it could do better. I am
hoping that our ~people will do
better.
May God bless you both. Hoping to see you all again.
- Mr. and Mrs. John Bond,
1449 E, Somganon St.
Decateur 2, Illinois

De Yeu Heve

~all mail to:

|A Problem?

The -BRONZE. REPORTER
has been fortunate in securing
the services of Mrs. Ruth Blake.
She invites you to send your
problems to her. Please ~~

Mrs. Ruth Blake |
The BRONZE REPORTER
202 E. 13th St.
Flint, Michigan
Only your initials will be baal

jwhen your letter is published.

| where to turn. '
| over with my friends.

_ Your Friend in Need ~ Ruth
~Blake.
Dear Miss. Blake:

I heard that you were planning |
~| to write an advice column in The

BRONZE REPORTER newspaper.
I am sending you my letter hop
|ihg that you will answer as soon
as you start your column. I have

a\ real -problem and I don~t know
I have talked it
They are
sdrry for mz, but as yet have not
olifered any answers..

~My husband, Willie, and me
have been married for a little
over two years. We havea 9| mo.
old baby girl. During the first
six months of our marriage, we
had fun. We were real happy.
Then I~found out that I was go
ing to have our baby. At first,
| Willie. seemed real happy. My
pregnancy turned out to be a

difficult one. I was often sick
and had to go to bed. For a while
aftér our baby came, Willie was
-eal good to me. Then he started
ganibling, and staying out ~til all
hours of the night. He doesn~t
even work regular anymore. =I
don't know what to do. No mat~| ter what, I have a baby and I

need my husband. What can I
do?.
Sincerely,
Mrs. L.AwJ.
x om ite

Dear ~ties. LAS. |

I can readily sympathize with
you.| You say that you and Willie
were happy for the first six
months of your marriage. During
vour pregnancy and after, your
husband began to pay less _and
less attention to you. You do not
mention other women in your
list of grievances. Perhaps you
have| made the mistake of becominb more and more of a mother
and less and less of a wife. Your
husband may have as a result bscome quite jealous. It happens
all too often.

By all means, do try to isave

your! marriage. May I suggest the

Ao hung techniques:
1.'Make yourself as attractive
as ppssible.
2. Cook his favorite meals.

'3.!Plan your day so that) you

will have time to spend with him

in the evenings,
4..Let him know

still pretty important to you.

5. Show him that you have not:

forgbtten how to be a good wife.

For all of your sakes. Good
luck?Sincerely,

Ruth Blake.

of the

that he is

By. Jolin: Hightower

~Every since I wrote an. article
in the Flint Weekly Review
newspaper Friday, July 2, 1954,
(Title ~Uncle Tom: is Dead~)
any people have called my home
and ~Local 569 UAW-CIO hall
offering their appreciation and
giving me useful information
abowt Dr. L.. J. Leach. =:

With all due sincerity, I want
to thank the: general public for

their support, but let me make]

myself clear. I am not in any: personal fight with Dr.. Leach. ~ Itcould have been you if you held)
the highest position in the organization, set-up as a symbol to.
express. its. desires. and. determina-|:
tion to bring to bear its full
weight to help win first class

and- child in. America.

Dr. L, J. Leach says, ~We are:
not interested in skating, we are
interested in getting jobs: for. the
Negroes downtown, working in
the department stores and the
banks. |

Let me tell you this, Dr., whenever there is segregation in any
form, be.it at the Rolling Rink,
Bowling Allies, Restaurants and.

the like, the National Association-for the Advancement of
Colored People ~branches have

always taken a fighting position
in every city but this one.
Today, our law enforcement}.
department, from J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI on down,
is offering advice on how~ to eliminate juvenile delinquency and
how can you be a teader of the
Negro race when you sit down
and let skating go on for Monday

nights for our Negro juveniles at}

the Flint Park? Sunday, June 27,
1954, you openly attacked the
ones who took part in. stopping
racial. discrimination at our Flint
Park.

Again, I ask you to come out
supporting civil rights or _ step)
down from the office you now
hold, as President of the NAACP!
Our FEP. committee. is formed to
build a new type of organization
for all the peope and not for our
individuals~ welfare ~ and the
exploitation of the minority races.
A most significant event took
place in our own city, Wednesday, June 30, 1954, over 32 Negro children gathered and skated
together at the Flint Roller Rink.
Remember, Doctor, this is the
same program you would not take
a good position on. You see this
FEP Comittee of Local 599 will
always take the position our International Union directs us to
take.

- Doctor! Eloquence is a mighty
~weapon in the struggle for all
the people. Just demands, but
what is more eloquent than the
struggle itself? The ones who are
against our civil right movements
will move far more ~rapidly when
they sce millions white and colored in the struggle than when they
hear and see you acting as a
clown,

The organization you are now

the President of, is above all the].

organizations of struggle. It
stands for the unity and the understanding of all the people; is
irrespective of union affiliation,

organized and unorganized; for

| Out of The Tower...

- the unity of people: to: work te
gether and for the alliance the
American people fighting for
equal rights. -

By fighting the committee or
me, Dr. Leach,:will only make us
move on, united as the members
of the great Local 599 have emAbie us~ to do, and neither
you, Leach, nor beast. will
turn us back: We will achieve our
fight, without you, for full equality and security.

Don~t fight us ~ But join us!

Dr. 5. kL. Beech
Answers Critics

July 9th, 1954
~Mr. John W. Caldwell, Editor
The Bronze Reporter

v lint, Michigan
citizenship for every man, woman |.

My Dear Mr. Caldwell:

Thanks for your interest in the
matter of the anonymous writer
~who made an attack upon me in
~the Flint Weekly Review during
~my absence from the city,

Many of my friends have call~ed me about the article and many
others.have passed it up as the
act of a~Crank not worthy of
recognition and. still others have
answered the attack.

For me, I cannot dignify the
writer~ by wasting time trying to
~fetter him or her out for I am
convinced of one of two things.
First I must be doing alright or
I would not be attacked. Second,
the writer is either a naive or a
fool or both and-purely ignorant.
of the NAACP and the: progress
Flint has made during the last
80 years. to foe feta

I have long since teakenesd~ ~To
wrestle with a Skunk, even
though you win the contest, the
odor of the Skunk ~will be. left
upon you~~, and again, while I do

not know~the. identity of the.

~writer, I. have strong suspicions,
that ~it wag the hand of Esau,
but, the voice of Jacob.~

So long as the ~ Flint Branch
merits the ~whole-hearted support.
of such men and women like the
Rev, T. T. Newman and the Canaan Baptist Church, who gave
us more than 250 paying members and. other Pastors like Rev.
Pryor, who gave a hundred dollars to our Youth, Rev. Franklin
Jones, Neal, Watkins, Montgomery,. Turpin, Davis, Teague, Tim-_
mons, Courts and many other
Pastors and their congregations,
and the fine White and Colored
Citizens giving us their support~
I will not be disturbed by the
howl of the wolves because they
are lonesome for something to
lead.;

My record in Flint for 34 years
long before the. Urban League,
the NAACP, the UAW-CIO or
FEPC, will sustain me from such
attacks as these, May God help
the poor) soul and give him comfort. '

(s) Dr. J.1L, LEACH

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from, roof to cellar.:

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