Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 35]

_ And Report From Convention
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~A Reflection Of Negro Thought~

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COCA-COLA ACTIVE AT NAACP CONVENTION IN DALLAS ~ The

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Flint, Michigan, Saturday, July 17, 1954 ~

William Elmer Sees Tax Relief
Benefiting Big Business

Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta,

Georgia, supported by the. Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Dallas and four members| of the Atlanta Firm~s

public relations unit, was very active during the re-ent ~annual conference of the

NAACP in Dallas.

During the six-day meeting the Coca-Cola people s -rved a continuous supply of their product at the

Goode Street Baptist Church. Special servings of Coca-Cola were made ave:
in a guessing game were awarded Coce-Cola picnic codlers.

Lee Ward, Stiiwater, Oklahoma, G. S. Alexander and Moss H. Kendrix,. of

and outing, while winners
Above, left to right,

available for the annual ball

Washington, D. C., public relations representatives for Coca-Cols, chat with delegates Miss Anne M.

Hines of Bryn Mawr,

Jean Drew Lightfoot, Washington who handles women~s activities

Pa., and Mrs. Isabel Strickland of Ardmore, Pa., icenter left and. right.
for Coca-Cola, was also in Dallas.

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By ARTHUR J. EDMUNDS

Executive Secrdtary
Urban League of Flint

~ Our publigation, THE AMPLI~FIER, will bé circulated to Urban
~League members next week and
in it will be an article by. J.
~Jenkins Peals, a native Liberian,
who is a law student at the University of Wisconsin. The article
is about Liberia and, ~in my opinion, you who will read it will find
it particularly stimulating and informative, a$ it does a good job
of bringing about an awareness
of our ignorance of the achievements of members of our race
in other lanfs;- ~
RACE PRIDE SOMETHING
SOME OF US LACK

One thing! that struck me particularly wa$ yery strong indication of race and ~national pride
evidenced throughout Mr. Peal~s
discussion. And while he did not

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ighe) che in
formed us that one will hardly
find a Liberian who tries to deny
his racial identity or national
origin.~ Such evidence of pride is
something that many American
Negroes might well copy. For
until we do so we will always see
the weaknesses that. have frustrated our struggles for recognition and equal treatment.
ASHAMED OF NEGRO
SPIRITUALS

There are many among us who,
if it were possible, would deny
the fact.that we are Negroes.
Whenever such people are found,
t is very likely that ~they are
very unhappy and unaware of the
Negro~s: contributions to world
These are.usually the
~xeople who are ashamed to sing
Negro spirituals and who find it
lifficult to associate with other

Negroes, fearing that such asso- |
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tiations will taint them.
are so obsessed with the desire
to deny their racial] identity that
many of them will not be seen
~ating greens or blackeyed peas.
And the amusing thing about this

's the fact neither are Negro
dishes.
Regarding Negro - Spirituals,

sur greatest contribution to American Art, the shame with which
they. are regarded by some members. of our race, have had the
most heartrending results. Why
the simple beauty of many Negro
spirituals is lost. They have beén
arranged. and rearranged so that
~heir messages of tribulations
and hope are_ lost. Modern

Flint Branch Of NAACP To Meet

hold an extra) ordinary session
Sunday, July 18, 1954, in connection with the Youth Council,
at the Antioch Baptist Church,
at 3:30 p.m. sharp. The Youth
will meet at 2:00 p.m.

All Captains and Lieutenants
in ~the recent Membership Diive
and all representatives of local

churches and other local. organ
izations are earnestly requested
to>make their final report~ or
send the report in,:

Delegates to the recent Nation
a1 Convention will make~ their. re- |,

vorts and.Membership Cards will
~e distributed to the leaders of
the ~drive for delivery, to their
customers.
Dr. J. L. Leach, President
NAACP, Flint

~hythms have been~ applied to
iany so that-they have become
iust) another melody. It pains me

deeply. to hear -the Negro spiritual}

~just~ messed up~ with- operatic
>y jazz arrangements. It pains
me |more déeply when I see that
Negro arrangers themselves are
responsible for this, It is quite
possible that these arrangers are
sub~onsciously expressing their
desires to deny their racial origin.
I am proud. of my) race. I am
proud of the Negro~s~ contribution.to world eulture and-I react
very unfavorably to any effort
~o |minimize, these contributions.
I am proud of my racial identity
to |Liberans; who, ) according tc
Mr, Peal are ~free men and blaek
men and a people proud to be
both.~ |
Incidentally, we will. be happy
to |furnish a copy of THE AMPLIFIER to, any person desiring
to |read Mr. Peal~s discussion of
Liberia. 1 Oe

Denna-N ettes
Welcome Home

Their President

The Donne-nettes Club met at
the home of) Mrs. Gerald Wright,
#17 E. Pasadena, Saturday, July
70. After the usual business had
ended and the plans for a picnie
in the near future completed, the
members welcomed its president,
Mrs. Albert: Smith, home. Mrs.
Smith had been on jher vacation
for the past) two months. Most lof
her time was spent in Columbus,
Ohio. |.|The membership retired to its
sacial hour, Mrs. Alfonso Donna
emerged from the canacta game
with the Ist prize, while Mrs.

James Barron copped the 2nd
-| prize,
~Mrs. Albcrt Smith, 735 Jamie
son. will be hostess to the next
meeting.

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William B. Elmer, former state
assistant attorney general and
eandidate for Congress from the

| sixth district -cn the Democratic

ticket, Sunday told a membership meeting of AC Local No.
651, UAW-CIO in Flint that the

~administration~s proposed income

tax bill would deprive-the federal
government of more than one billion dollars in revenue~ without
offering one cent of tax relief
to the ordinary wage earner.

~With unemployment on the
increas? and consumer demand
failing off at the rate of $12
billion a year, the administration
chooses to grant tax relief to
big business and to a_ favored
few stockholders rather than to
the ordinary consumer who needs
it mest,~ Elmer charged.

Ehner, who was assigned to
the legal division of Michigan~s
department of revenue. and tax
commission during his state employment, pointed out that the
875 tax bill was the first real
overhaul given federal tax laws

Carrie Phillips
To Speak Sunday

~The president of Wolverine
State Baptist - Convention,. Women~s Auxiliary, Miss Carrie
Phillips, will be the guest speaker
at Shiloh Baptist Church,
pan:.in. observance of. Women~s
Day..

Flint's own Mrs. Jessie L.
Brady will be the speaker at the
11:00 service. Special music by
the Ladies Chorus. will be rendered. The public is cordially invited,

According to Chairman, Mrs.
Mayola Buford, a real treat is in
store for the audience, as Miss
Phillips) and Mrs. Brady are
primed for the occasion.

~What I Seek"

By Charles Charles
I seek no chariots: to ride in!
No paths of gold, no silver to
store away
Nor any beauty to keep me out
of mischief or at bay.
I seek no philosophy to help
suide me in the right way
I only seek to understand and
know myself
For if J had all these and didn~t
understand and didn~t know
myself i
I still would be discontented
-p>d many unhappy moments
felt;
I only seek to understand and
know myself.

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Make-no. man your idol; for
the best man (must have faults,
and his faults will usually become
vours in addition to your own.
This is as true in art as in morals.
~ Washington Allston.

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| also urged jan

William B, Elmer

since income taxes were adopted
in 1913. ~A little-known provision in this law, which I doubt

most of the members,;of Congress.

have taken the trouble to analyze

would permit. businesses. higher ~

lepreciation. Under this, the tax;
payer could use depreciation ratcs
double those of the méthod now
permitted,--This- will result in-an
estimated $1.2 billion tax Jess,~
Elmer told his audience, os

~I favor tax relief for the
working Man as a proven meuns
of stepping up demand for geods
and I also favor the DouglasHumphrey-Kennedy bill, introduced in the Senate to require a
higher minimum unemployment
compensation payment and a 239 -week coverage periad.~ Eliner
said.

Elmer warned that Congress
should use its few remaining days
of this session to put laws on the
books which can be used to stcra
the growing unemployment siinand cited. a much Jarver
federal higSway aid program
one positive means of halting the
trend and at the same time vet
ee
as

yting our outmoded highways on a

ner with: increased traffic. Elmer
inercase in
~security and pointed out that the
pensioners now are vwnable
meet the high cost of Jiving
present scales.

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LANSING ~ Progress!

State fish workers forme:'y
found it a tough chore gettiry
eggs for. hatchery = cultivativa
from large captive trout.

The big fish thrashed abhent
while workers removed the.evus
into containers. Often, the parent fish injured itself seriously.

Now, however, state workers
merely add anesthetic to the water, the fish become drowsy ard
fish and eggs are separated without difficulty.

Report On Victims Of Henry Willian:s

Shooting Fray ~ Recovering Slowly |

~Erma Lee Stokes, doing well,
but lee has not healed. Recovery
slow. Birthday iast Friday, 815
Leith.

Sammy Lee Cannon, 3 years,
doing well, 837 McCleilan.

Gertrude Sissord, 914 Leith,
ace 58, returned to hcspital Jast
Thursday ~and was back home
again Monday. The dector has

ardered her to spend 19 days in
ned so she will be unavle to updear in Court Monday, She hes
1 girl helpmg her at home. She
must return to the hespital Ang.
1 for an operation to remove a
bullet which is lodge! in her arin
musele. Mrs. Sissord says vhe
holds no grudge and_ sincerely
hopes everyone gets well, including Henry Williams.

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