Bronze Reporter [Volume: 1, Issue: 51]

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THE

BRONZE REPORTER

Saturday, November 6, 1954

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- Hello Folks...

It~s| all over but the shouting~.. the election: we mean.

you see us walking looking as if we had been in a ring with Joe tole
in his prime, just remember that our crystal ball told us that it made

sense do support our president and the Republican Party.

VOU that is the Democrats

interest of the country that the Dems be returned to power.

cept your verdict.

Of course,
felt that it was in the best
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itt is our endinstebiding the Clark School has another young ~

man on its rolls as a teacher. ~

-~His name, Rolland Alums,

He

hails from Madison, [Indiana via Indiana State Teachers~ College,
Terre Haute, Ind. Mr. Alums was working on his master~s de
gree in elementary education when called to Flint.

and teaches the sixth erade.

He is single

Editor John Gibson Tr.., just re-discovered the whereabouts cf a

long
informed that Mr.
prother and sister.

her brether~s address. Mrs.

g-lust former classmate at Howard Unversity.
Booker Stafford and Mrs. Charles G. Prichett are

Mrs. Prichett was most ~o: Jia] in giving Gibson
Prichett is teaching at Fairview while

Accidentailv he was

Me. Stafford teaches ir. a high school in Georgia.

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having been educated in the public
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Pennsylvania. He is a member
of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
and has had sales experience with
the! Louisiana Life Insurance Co.,
New Orleans, and the Montrose

Looney of Philadelphia.

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WEEKS - OCT. 20~ NOV. 11

DORIE MILLER No. 306

| Pilint, Michigan

ee Robert L. Walker, Post Commander

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~Money
By ROY L. CLARK

~Money-Honey~ flagged me
down as I turned off Leith into
Industrial Wednesday evening. I
could tell by the expression on
his face that he was angry about
something, so I pulled over to the
curb to see what was on his mind.

~You have messed up,~~ Money
said. ~You have scandalized my
name, disreputed my reputation,
and put yourself in shape to get:
run through like a doSe of epsom
salt.~~

~Calm down, Money,~ I said.
~Just take it easy and tell me
what~s bothering you.~

~What~s bothering me!~~ Mon~ey retored. ~~~Ay my friends, enemies, and some folks I~ never
heard tell of;is botherin~ me, I
have been quoted, unquoted, misquoted ~and requoted. Drive to
the nearest bar, buy me a cold
one, and explain to me just what
you meant by puwhblicizin~ our barroom conversation.~

~It~s like this; Money,~ I said
as we headed for the Grey Bar,
~For a long time we~ve ~been trying to put our finger on the
thoughts and feelings of the typical men on the street. When I
ran into you at Eddie~s the other
night, you appealed to me as a
good representative. By that. I
mean you work in the shop, you
drink a few ~beers once in awile,
you mingle with people that I
don~t have direct contact with, and
you don~t mind voicing your opinions. Now ean you see anything
wrong with letting others know
what you like and dislike through
a medium that is far more effective than ordinary conversation?~

~You tryin~ to snow me now
with them big words,~ Money said
~but I think I dig the play. Do
you mean to set there and tell
me that I~m gonna speak for all
the mens on ithe street? Roosevelt Money-Honey Brown speaks
for nobody but hisself. An~ if I
say that the moon is green cheese,
that means that Money thinks the
moon is made of green cheese, not
the man on the street.~

~I see your point,~ I said, ~but
apparently you don~t see mine. If
you will notice the title of last
week~s column, it said: ~Money~
Talks, and any intelligent person
reading the column. would know
that ~Money~ was voicing ~~Money~s~ opinions, not anybody elses,
Frankly I think some of the things
you said made sense, while there
are others who think~ you were
talking through your hat. No

those who agree, and those who
disagree, but that wilk happen
whether what you say is printed
or not, so what is your objection
to your views reaching as many
peopel as possible?~~

' ~My objections can be overruled with a ~~Bud!~? Money said
as we entered the Grey Bar. ~~Now
what~s on the rail for the lizard
this time? Ask:me while I~m still
sober, ~cause I ain~t responsible
for what I cutters whilst in my
beer.~

~Just tell me what people have
been saying to you since you~ve
suddenly hit the limelight!~

~Mostly they wants to know
how I votes,~ Money said. ~And
when I politely tells ~em none of
they cotton-pickin business, they
wants to know what I: means by
tryin~ to tell other people how to
vote.~

~An~ when I ask ~em to name
me one time I tryed to tell any
body, anytime, anywhere how to

run~they personal business, they
starts talkin~ bout last week in
the BRONZE REPORTER, I was
tellin~ folks not to vote for no
Negro in general an~ Floyd McCree
in particular. Now I read that

~eolumn you wrote bout nine-hun
dred and thirty-six times,, an~ I
did not see MeCree~s name mentioned once, neither did I see
where I said don~t vote for ~no
NegToes. And when I points -this
out to the folks that is criticisin,
they says, "but you said somethin
about Negroes runnin~ for Commissioner, an~ everybody knows

McCree is: runnin~ for Commis
matter what you say, there will be]:

Talks

sioner.~ ~What can you say to
folks who twist up what you say
and make~ whatever they jwant to
out of it ~

~I~m sure I don~t inte Money,
but I don~t worry about it, because people who do a lot of criticising very seldom put forth any
constructive effort on their own.~

~Ain~t it the truth. I know
I voted for McCree, and if every
other Negro in the Ward had
voted for him instead of yau-yapin~ he would of won. Why you
reckon don~t Negroes pull together?~

~Human nature, Money. People pull together for mutual gain,
not just because they happen to
be members of a certain group.~

~But it would be for what-ever
kind -of gain you just said, for
Negroes to pull together.~

~Of course it would, but why
relegate it to Negroes, it would
be of mutual gain for all peoples
~of all races to pull together.

~But I am only interested mainly: in the Negroe race, because just
in case you hadn~t noticed in these -
soft lights I happens to be afflicted with that particular race.~

~You~re just overly race conscious.~ 7

~I: would be unconscious if I
were not. I have been a Negro
three times: I was a Negro boy,
an~ now I.am a Negro man. I
have ibeén abused, misused, and
refused because I am a Negro.
An~ if I don~t look out for myself
an~ my people, who is gorina do
it for me?~

~TI can see your point, iis I
can~t see the necessity for beating
a bass drum about it.~

~T ain~t beatin~ no bass drum,
at the present moment I am merely ~beatin~ my gums, but if somebody did some beatin~ where it
would do the most good, this deal
could ~be remodeled. It~s hard
when the other folks is against
you an~ your own folks too.~~

~Lack of active support doesn~t
necessarily mean that everybody
is against us, Money.~

~What do it say in the Good
Book?~ iMoney asked. ~~If you ain~,
for me you is against me.~

~Alright, so everybody is
against~ you. Now I imagine you
feel that you got a rotten deal by
being| born a Negro.~

~Naw, it ain~t that,~~? Money hasitened| to correct me, ~I don~t
think it~s no disgrace to be a Negro, but at times it~s mighty doggone inconvenient.~~

Hatchery Ponds
Will Get Pike,
Aind Muskellunge

Thirty-three of the 55 fish
ponds at Michigan~s three southern fish hatcheries will be used
for walleye, northern pike and
muskellunge rearing experiments
during the next several years, conservation department workers announce,

Water, fish and plant life in
the ponds is being removed this
month to prepare for the expermental | warm water fish work
scheduled to get under way on an
expanded ~basis next spring. Thehatcheries are located at Drayton
Plains, Hastings and Wolf Lake.
The southern hatcheries have
done considerable pike, bass and
bluegill work in the past, but the
schedule next spring will call for
more emphasis on pike and muskies: and ~less on bass and. bluegills.

This winter, the ponds will be
dried,.cleaned and repaired. In
the spring, they will be flooded
and made ready for the chore of
raising fish from the egg stage
up to the fingerling size. Then the
fingerlings will be planted in specific waters chosen for the experiments.:

~Michigan fish researchers. have
done considerable spadework on
the. notion that fingerling-sized
walleyes, pike and muskellunge,
reared and relased under proper
conditions, will take hold in lakes
and streams where until now they

have been absent.