Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 35]

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THE BRONZE REPORTER

Saturday: July 17, | 954

The Bronze Reporter

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EDITORIAL POLICY.The editorial policy of the BRONZE REPORTER is to present the news as seen through the eyes of its staff members,
as accurately as is humanly possible.

h In like manner, it will be a reflection of Negro thought as
' we see it... It~s scope will be national and its perspective truly
American. |

No attempt will be made 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
ever a need is felt, and to that end we faithfully dedicate our
selves.
THE STAFF OF THE BRONZE REPORTER

This week I wish to emphasize the importance of
~information.,. knowledge of what our vote means....
what we do when we cast our ballot... what the results

of or vote can be.

We have had a perfect example of usithinking voting in Michigan. We have had. a Democratic Governor
anda perdominately Republican pcos for the past
<3 terms.. Result... confusion and chaos... the gov-: ernor~s pout meets opposition at every turn.. legislature meets opposition on everything they do...: every decision i is based on politics... on who will get the

+ credit or: blame. for progress or delay.
While I! believe implicitly ~in the ~ tinddpedeht'~ votthe person whoivotes for the best man available. reality forces me to accept the fact that party politics

- enter into: the situation and must bé*taken -into consider-. - ation.

Pact

_ government works.. who the candidates are... what

_ they stand fbr and bea they intend to accomplish their
+ mission. The League of Women Voters is one such

* source, non-partisan and interested only in good govern-; ment.
4 formation.,. newspapers and magazines are another: source open to all. There is no excuse for any voter be-: ing uninformed... interest t is all that is needed.

While politics are not my forte.. dous interest in the problems isilabinleh

i f@ havel.I have a tremen-. Just as you
New higways, schools, taxes, ~unkmployptent
F compensation, workmen~s compensation, conservation,: j exen, such mundane things as garbage collection... all
is and more are some of the problems we ask our officials
ie to ) solve. ~The time to think is NOW... not to faise a
if i big stink after WE elect incompetent officials: Remember! Bad Public Officials Are Elected By Good Citizens
* Who Don't Vote! Let~s get informed and vote on the
ein of Angubt,. sie iat Re a

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The Brorize Reporter >
Flint, Michigan

Dear Sir;

I was much interested: in reading the.story.in the July 10 issue)
of your paper under the ~heading
~Dr. Leath answers Critics.~ I
would like to put in my two cents
worth in ~this controversy.

In the first place, to identify
myself, I am white, the father of
six kids: | I -was the -first chaivman. of the FEPC committee.of
Saginaw (~Malleable Tica, Lozal
455, UAW-CIO and the Co-editor
of the Local 455 paper. I have
been.a member -of:the UAW-CIO
since 11936. I have long been a
believer in an end to all forms. oi
racial discrimination, ja fact that

minority groups friends in bot
Saginaw and Flint.
ently employed as a millwright
in the Buick foundry.

elimination of. racial discrimination, I ha~e made it. a poirit to
follow the) progress of the Local

interest.
It is my consider ed opinion that
the Local

can be attested to by my many

I am_ pres
|

Because
of my feeling on the question of

599 FEP (Committee with great

'599 FEP Committee}

has made more progress during)

the past year than has-been done
heretofore in the past 10. This
committee thas succeeded

ending of racial bias. in ~

To meantion only one, we now have memnbers of the Negro race employed as millwrights in Buick. I am
~Leach had nothing
whatever to do with this accomplishment.
Sincerély yours,

Carl Thrasher,

6209 Birch Run Rd.

Birch Run, Michigan

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2006 ~C3>cker
Flint, Mich.
Dear Editor:

I~d like to answer Mr. Hondon
Hargrove~s | letter
~Dr. J. L. Leach~s character ~ first
I want to say character
thing and reputation is quite another thing..
who if ~their character met their
reputation on the street they
woauldn~t recognize each _ other.
Nothing can be said or done to
hurt one~s tharacter, anly the person concerhed can do harm to his
own. chara~ter, but his reputation
which I stated before as being

wrecked.

~Mr. Hargrove practically callthe writer a fool or dumbell because he didn~ t have a college degree or a) | professional ~claim ~ 1
want to say right here and now
Mr. Hargrove, Sir, Flint has thou
who do not have college degree:
and who might use

they are no fools. I am sure they
resent yqur implication.

~If you) recall back a few years
~iyour jancestors couldn't read

them to atternpt-to learn or- for
anyone to. attempt to teach them
~hbut | if they hadn~t had more
courage than some of. our leaders
today~you' Mr. Hargrove, would
not be enjoying the limited free
dom you have today.

The littie ignorant people you
seem to have so much contempt
for. make the professionals rich
and linfluential, some are aware

they can spend the!r money with
anybody and anybody will welcome their support ~ so, you see
~they are important, and are_ beginning to recognize that fact.

ing ~and practice a specialized profession that he has qualified fer
~but that doesn~t give him the
privilege to make a clown of himself unless he pays dues in the
Actor~s Guild. [Illiterate ~~~uncle|

toms~ could at one time be ex-|
cused, ~but a degreed ~Uncle Tom~

different from character, can be

in the}
many | 40
fields that up to now-have been| years was unmasked as an em-:| considered untouchable.

in defense. of}
is. one}

There.are people}

| Camden,

sands of Negro and white citizens}

incorrect |
grammer) or misspell a word but}

| door, for twenty-five cents ~
| five shares for one oy fo a be
To The Editor...

is contemptible ~ especially if
through hook and crook he has
palmed himself off so long as a
leader.

I have heard members of the
white race refer to our so-called
leader.as a ~good boy~, that~s
well and may be appropriate -but
leadership in a great organiza
tion calls for a courageous and}

fighting leader, and not a monkey on a string jumping up and

down, substituting high sounding}
words and Biblical quotations for}

progressive action that might offend those whose action and ~inaction have helped to perpetuate
our miserable conditions.
Nowadays ~fear~ is out of
style.and our future generation
should not be -burdened with the

responsibility of inheriting lead-.
ership of the ~Uncle Tom~ varie
ty.
~We have through a ~third de
gree~ form of existence learned |
to spell out.the hard facts, and |:

it does not take a degree to see

a true picture of what has or has |~
ngt been done to eliminate some [

of the glowing injusti~es prac
ticed right here in Flint. Much |.

of the credit for some of thet
progress made has beén stolen |
from the organization by in
aC,

cently a respectable banker for

bezzler. It. took 70 years for the

~Supreme Court Justices to decide

segregation was wrong,~ that
doesn~t mean those things should

not have been taken care of long |}

ago. So because a man ~has gotten away with deceit and under
~| handed conspiracy so long ~ it

won~t last forever. |

Let us not betray those who
have wept and prayed so long ~
those who have. sacrificed so
much ~ those~ who have been
jailed and murdered that we may
enjoy and benefit from

> BY THE OLD TIMERS

~rom Frank P. ~MeNichal, Camden, New Jersey: I remember
some forty odd years ago, when
the Victor Talking Machine Com/pany was still an infant industry.

I can remember that shares in
ithis, at that time, y
New Jersey,
were being: offered from |

ustries
oor to
share,

lieve it or not, very few takers.

Many New Jersey residents of

| those days, myself included, have

lived to lament our lack//of foresight in this respect~a la entation
that is all the more tragi
the right perspective we could certainly have been in the mi
day.. I remember the
graph horns made of w
Victor people by the old) ~Excelsior

| Drum Works of Camden, later dis- ~

' ters in the old Camden
~North Front Street,

of the fact and very appreciative, | visible indication as to its ultimate |

It~s well and good that a man}|has a li~ense to earn a good. liv-7

with an Indian legend

|
|

But we of those days should not
be too critica! of our shortcomings
in this respect; for our lack of.
perspection in not discerning or:
knowing a good thing when we saw |
it. For our viewpoint at the time |
~was strictly speaking, that of the
typical man in the street, on the

| outside looking in, and) the Victor
| Talking Machine Company from its

seemingly unpretentions headquar
emergence as the mammoth industrial Empire of the| Radio Corporation of America. |

(Send contributions te this column te,
The Old Timer, Community
ice, Box 39, Frankfort, Kentucky.)

Oregon's
of just ten
d is linked
which de
scribes the lake as the home of a
giant fish or water monster, al| leged to surface from time to time
~and destroy any convenient native. |

Devil's Lake, along
eoast, has an elevation
feet above sea level an

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It takes a long time for people Fi
at times to wake up to facts. Re- |

justice f

est of |.

for with |.

ity Hall on
jhowed no |.

Press Serv- |
and freedom as all other freemen
and that we~ may enjoy here at
home the freedom and democracy
we are asked and forced to go
thousands of miles to fight and,
die for.
Signed,
+ WILLIAM C, CLAY

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