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THE BRONZE REPORTER

| Saturday, February 25, 1956

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THE BRONZE REPORTER, INC.
Is Published~ Weekly
~ Editorial Address ~
| 1301 Lapeer St.: | Flint, Michigan! 58 Weeks (1 SOS ES ana Wet ddd nasos Bois~
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EDITORIAL POLICY

The editorial policy of the Bronze Reporter is to
reflect the thought of the Negro, to expose those persons
and conditions which prove contrary to (the American
way of life), to protest acts or policies which deny the
Negro his full constitutional rights as a true American.

~gf. The Bronze Reporter is a non-partisan newspaper:
Its main objective is to render a public service through
| good journalism and to this end, The Bronze Reporter
is faithfully dedicated. |

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Letter To:
The Editor

The Editor
Bronze Reporter
Flint, Michigan

Dear Sir:

~ A friend of mine made. me promise to write you. We want to tell
how much we appreciated you having one of your reporters at the
Wilberforce Choir~ Concert last
Sunday. We were proud knowing
that your newspaper had enough
interest in our church affair to
have a reporter on hand. We think
it is time that more of us take interest in our little paper.

Keep up the good work and
please know that you:have many

~|friends who are pulling for you.

A member of Vernon Chapel

Ed. - Thank you for
letter.

your kind

The Editor

The Bronze Reporter Newspaper
1301 Lapeer St..| ~lint, Michigan

Dear Sir:

I read your paper every week.
But there is one thing that someching should be done about. Sometimes you have so many mistakes
that it is hard to understand just
what is the true meaning of a
story. It seems to me that you have
just too many mistakes to call

better?

J. S. Saunders

1d. - We deserve.your criticism,

however, without going into the
reasons, may we assure you that
che errors will be kept at a mininum in the future.

~| Oditor-in-chief

che Bronze Reporter

~301 Lapeer St.
lint, Michigan

Jear Editor:

I have been reading every- paper
you: have put out. The news you
have been printing lately is scandalous. It would seem that you
would not print all those stories
on rape and robberies. How can
you say you have the interest of
the Negro at heart when you print
all those bad things about us instead of the good things. If you
don~t stop, you will léose at least
one reader. I am a race man who
is proud of my folks and it makes
me mad to read all that bad stuff
about us.

scandal sheet, I~m going to look

something bad to write.: A Race Man
Ed. - Thank you for-that long impressive title and your letter, Race
Man. We dont make the news &
Circulation fi-ures prove that people are findi.: this ~little scandle

'|sheet~ interes.ing. Let~s hope for

the good of ail concernd that your
name: doesn~t appear in this newsPaper - We are frightened, Race
Man - down scared of your subtle

threat. Tell us, Race Man, if you
reading the paper how are

sa a going to know when and if
i rl jour name appears in it.

~not properly controlled or ignor
vourself a paper, Can~t you do any|.

If you ever put my name in that.

you up and you will really have| '

~unless that two- headed monster is

Power And
Authority ~

Gunpowder, nitro-glycerin, and
dynamite are known agents of eruption and destruction, but the
force of power and authority can
be more eruptive and destructive
shan any other force known to man

They can be devastating because
they are social force which, when

antly used, become the trigger
nechanism to powerful human em.
otions.

Fear, in the sense of helplessness, is a human emotion which
when triggered by some catalyze
agent, is capable of shattering human intellect and will. It will reduce a man to a creature of violence and horror. | -

When man_ delegated police
powers to others for the protection
of society, these powers and authority carried certain obligations
of duty and restrant for the benefit of the innocent. City fathers

-re charged with the responsibility
f maintaining.a police force that
can be respected as the protector
of the innocent. A police officer
is also entitled to protection from
citizens who would abuse himthus Assistant City. Attorney Wade
Withey is prepared to take action
against Eugene,~ Bob, and John
Tucker.

On the night of January 31,
1956, at the I.M.A. Auditorium,
a group of Colored people had congregated at. the first floor lobby.

Eugene Tucker, three time Golden
Clovs champion, had won his semifinal bout and was being congratulated by friends and admirers. It
appeared that a ~blue coated~ officer aproached them to perform
his duty by asking the group to
move On, when some unidentified
person made an insulting remark
to him. |

Power and authority were present - fear and helplessness were
also present. Intelligent lawabiding
Negroes of long standing in Flint
became victims of power and authority.

All reliable information point to
the fact that the quiet retiring
Eugene Tucker, hero of the hour,
did nothing to provoke the police
officer who brutallly assaulted him.

Reasonable people may differ as
to what followed,: but. the twoheaded monster of segregation and
discrimination knows what happened. Le

Whether Assistant City Attorney Wade Withey sustains the police officers in their BREAGH OF
PEACE charge against the Tucker
brothers, or Attorneys A. Matthew
Buder and Edward Neighercut
sustain the Tuckers~ position in
and of itself is unimportant in a
broad sense. What is impo t is

contained, we may witness racial
violence and destruction right here
in Flint. |

It is painful to imagine what
might ~have happened had the

We are sorry to report that Mr.
Williams is still in McAlester, Okla,
His mother Mrs. Etta Vaughn,
Passed away, - she was 72. Friends
join in offering Mr. Williams their
heartfelt sympathies in his hour
of béreavement. t

Forecast of Traffic
Toll Proves Right

According to ~provisional figures
a prediction made last May by

-Orrin M. Lucas, State Police traf
fic analyst, that Michigan would
have, 2,000 traffic deaths in 1955
fell short by just one.

Lucas made his forecast on the
basis of trend that had then set in
and the experience of previous

ears. |. g
The newly compiled figures show
2,001 deaths.-In addition, last Oct.
ober Lucas estimated there would
be 193,000 reported accidents;
there were 193,927.:

Provisional. figures are subject
to change as delayed reports are
received,: but Lucas~ prediction
that Michigan -would have |
one of its worst traffic years
was accurately borne out. Injuries
and accidents reached new highs,
while deaths were the third highCSG le

The highest death toll was in
1937 with 2,175 and the second
high in 1941 with 2,133. The 1955 |
figure was an increase of 12 per
eent over 1,793 in 1954. |

Injuries increased nine per cent
over the previous high of 55,300
in 1954, and accidents gained six
per cent over 182,850, also the
previous high.

Rural areas acounted for more
than three out of four of the 1955
traffic deaths, which ~increased 17
per cent over 1954. U.ban deaths
decreased ~six per cent.

Of the total deaths, 44.8 per
eent occurred on rural trunk lines
and 30.6 per cent on county roads,

Increases in deaths were report- |
ed in 44 counties, decreases in 33
and six had no change.

Reaching a new high also was
mileage traveled. Latest figures
available show that for the first
11 months of 1955 it exceeded
26.5 billion, an increase of two
billion, or eight per cent over the
same period in 1954. The death
rate of 6.8 per 100 million miles
of travel was up five per cent,

The cost of traffic accidents in
Michigan in 1955 approximated
$240,000,000, according to Nat--
onal Safety Council estimates.

The 1955 figures were compiled
following a tabulation of reports
for December. During this month
deaths numbered 184, a decrease
of 16 below the total for the same
month in 1954, but injuries in
melee. involved persons with the
chip on their shoulders instead of;
th quiet Tucker~ brothers.

creased to 5,917, a gain of 457.
There were 20,973 reported ac.
cidents, an increase of 1,112.