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Guest Editorial

By Richard H. Dixon, Jr.

We are in the midst of a

we call ~National Brotherhood Month,~ a project) set up by,
the National Council of Christians and Jews. The many
articles we have read and the many speeches we have
heard, have been for the most part, directed toward men
of different races or religions.

We have heard wonderful
prescriptions for the cure of
racial and religious prejudice,
if taken and applied would
heal ~the many sick minds that
suffer from this illness. But,
I often wonder if this really
does the job sufficienly?

When I was pastoring in the
State of New York, I had a

and suggest that, in observance
of Brotherhood Week, he and
I exchange. pulpits for that one
Sunday. I told him I wasn~t too
much in favor of it.

He asked why. I told him,
~Really I didn~t think it did
too much good, or rather I~m
sure it didn~t accomplish what
we were aiming for.

~You see,~ I told him, ~if
you preach the facts of your
_congregatieon~s short comings,
end I preach the facts of my
congregation~s short comings,
tell them the truth about the
matter every Sunday from our
pulpits, I believe, eventually,
every day would be Brotherood Day.~

I believe if there were bare
facts and real truths told by
every Negro minister and every
white minister, to our respective
congregatons, it would create
the respect and dignity from
both races.

There are many times I spend
pointing out the faults of the
white man, when I should be
pointing- out the faults of my
Negro brethren. There are many
pointing out the faults of the
times the white minister spend
Negro, when he should be pointing out the faults of his white
brethren.

All of the faults in this jigsaw puzzle of racial difference,
are not found in the white man;
all is not found in the Negro;
is a fact 2" give and take, on

Some of these facts are, as: Rev. Richard H. Dixon, a.

SEE
IT

By

Pastor, |
Trinity Baptist Church
Pontiac, Mich~

A New Approach
To Brotherhood

particular celebration, which

I tell my congregation, we need

a deeper respect for the Negro
race; we need a deeper appreciation for the contributions our
race have made and are making.

In this business of Brotherhood, I think more sermons~
on ~Man~s Love Toward Man~
should be preached and he also
owes an allegiance to his Negro brethren.

Another fact that I have endeavored to get my people to
accept is to create an idea that
there are many people among
our race that.can do as good a
job, on anything, as anyone else.

Many of us won~t buy our
groceries from the store around
the corner because we say a
Negro operates it: We won~t go
to a doctor because he is a Negro. We won't buy froma realtor
because he is a Negro.

I~ye heard time and time
again people say, if you want
something messed up, let a Nesro do it, but this is wrong, the
wrong idea.

I think this is where the
new approach of brotherhood
should come in ~ fo give a
man respect, not because he
is white or a Negro, but because he is a man.

If 4 man does a bad job, it is
not because he is a Negro, he
just does a bad job. If a man
makes a mistake, it is not because he is a Negro, but he just
makes a mistake.

Let us stov running down
our own brother just because
he is a Negro.

We have in our community
Negro owned and operated
service stations; buy your gas
and have your car serviced; if
he can do the job. We have
Negro doctors; go to him if he
can do your case good. We.
have Negro newspapers; buy
the newspaper if it brings news.

I am not saying support a
business or|a profession just because it~s a Negro, but if he can
produce and deliver the goods,
support him.

My idea of Brotherhood i is that
we need to defeat the feeling of
race. We need to realze. that
Negro inferiority in our own
there is a job of education that~s
needed on the idea of Negro

Appoints
Chairman

UN CF

James E. Stamps, whose acceptance of a vice chairmanship
of the 1957 United Negro College Fund Appeal was announced last week, has a distinguished record of volunteer
service with the organization,
according to -W. J. Trent, Jr.,
Fund executive director.

It is regretted that the original
announcement erroneously described Mr. Stamps~ 1957 appointment as his first assignment with the UNCF~s natonal
campaign committee.

Mr, Stamps, a regional director of the Social Security
ation, was the found.
iderit' of ~fhe UNCF~s

also been active as an officer
of the Chicago Inter-Alumni
Council for many years,

Mr. Stamps has served on the
UNCF Board of Directors under

|| the Fund~s president, Dr. F. D.

Patterson, and as a member of
the UNCF National Council
aa by. John D. Rockefeller,
tT.
Experienced Campaigner. An experienced campaigner,
Mr. Stamps was appointed vice
chairman of the Fund~s third
annual appeal by 1947 Campaign
Chairman Frank M. Totton. Mr.
Stamps~ appointment as an officer of this year~s UNCF Ap
tol, president of Bristol-Myers
Co., who is the Fund~s 1957
~National Campaign Chairman.
Goal $2,000,000

during the current year.

tc meet their operating costs
~Contributions will be sought

from individuals, large corpora
hundreds of cities throughout
the nation.

Publisher's Mail

Dear Editor: i

I want to thank you for giving the women of Flint a wonerful society writer, Darcy DeMille.

Now that she writes for the
BRONZE, you can count on
my ~buying the paper every
week~Thanks again for giving
us Darcy DeMille~s Social Whirl.
Mrs. James Roach

s2* 8

Dear Editor:

get your paper when I want it.
Quite often when F try to get/
one and the people at the drug |,
say that they have sold out
or they have not come in as
yet. I was at a party once and
the man from your paper took
(sic) our pictures and I wanted |
to get a paper to see the picture |
and the story. My friends said
it was pretty (sic).

Sincerely yours,

H. E. Eppels.
ses
Editor~s Note

He Editor:
How about putting a. little

respect to Negro.

BRONZE REPORTER, SAT. MAR. 2, 1957(,

St in those editorials of
eS vv. BD

mnj Council. He has.

peal, was made by Lee H. Bris- |~

A goal of $2,000,000 has been |
set for the 1957 Campaign, the}
amount needed by the 31 UNCF |
member colleges and universities |

tions, small business firms,
foundations, unions, clubs,
lodges and church groups in:

Why is it that I ~
y i ay} cant ver | NAACP Board Chairman Chess

ining H. Tobias to
NAACP
11954, a few days after the Su
school ~decision, cautioning:

end, Roy Wilkins, ~NAACP

this week.

Supplementing his ~ealtitriety
before the commttee on~ behalf
of 25 national organizations, Mr,
Wilkins, on Feb. 19, warned the
committee members that he

could not ~predict what ~mood
would be engendered~: among
Negro citizens if Congress. failed to pass legislation assuring
them~~a minimum safeguard of
the constitutional rights~ which
have been so long denied them.

Mr, Wilkins testified on behalf of pending civil rights
measures which would~ prowide civil remedies against in
~NEW -YORK:;

ache as was alleged this
week by Dr. Omer Spey pe
superifténdent of hgols: i
Louiswillé, Ky. aoe

Dr.. Carmichael made his alleigation at a luncheon of the
~Education Writers~ Association

~in Atlantic City, N. J, on Feb.
19..

Conceding that the NAACP
had been helpful in Louisville
school] desegregation, Dr. Car' michael nevertheless charged

that ~part of our turmoil in
| the. South comes from the over
eagerness of the NAACP to
push too fast.~

Answering. Dr. Carmichael~s
~charge on the same day it was
made, NAACP~ Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins asserted:
~The ~choas~ which Dr, Carmichael cites, stems n6~ from our
activity but rather from the open
defiance of some southern
spokesmen who declare -that the
South will never, never comply
with the ruling of the nation~s
highest court.~

Mr. Wilkins said the NAACP
is ~prepared to be helpful
everywhere, as it was in
Louisville~ and is willing to
wait for ~careful preparations~
to be made for school desegregation,

~Elsewhere in the South,~ he
noted, local NAACP units have
~offered to their respective
school boards the same kind of
cooperation as that extended to
the Louisville board.~

He recalled a message sent by

southern
officers on May 22,

'preme,Court~s anti-segregation
~It
is important that calm reason~ableness prevail, that the difficulties of adjutaent be realfized.

| ~Tt. is ~in this spirit that the
\NAACP has operated,~ Mr. WilKins declared. ~It has been met
by rebuffs, calumny. and violence.~

ie me tS * T.s:, -_@ e ae
Negro~ S Patience Ebbing
WASHINGT N ~ The Negro~s long: patience in
-|the face of#~continuous violence~: may be nearing an

executive secretary, told a

subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee here

~terference wth the right to
vote, authorize the Department of Justice ~to inifiate civil suits on behalf of persons
deprived of their civil rights,
vision in the Justice Departset up a special civil rights diment, and establish a bi-partisan commission to investigate violaiions of civil] rights..

Queried by Senator Sam J.
Ervin (D. N.C.), the NAACP
leader agreed that the voting
rights~ of Negro citizens in No.
Carolina are more secure than
in Mississippi or
However, he pointed out, there
afte only about 145,000 registered Negro voters in the state
out.;ef.a.potential of. 550,000.
This is far below the national

-| average, Mr=~Wilkins said, and|'

would seem to indicate restraining factors which kheep nearly
three-fourths of Negro. citizens
of voting age away from the
polls.

Outraged But Patient.

Recalling that ~the. period
from last September up until
~by almost continued violence
last week has been marked
directed at Negro citizens and
groups in the South who seek
the elimination of discrimination and segregation,~ Mr.
Wilkins told the senators that
~Negro citizens have been
outraged, but they have been
patient.~

Thus far, he said, ~our people have maintained their- hope
in spite of specious talk, rebuffs, and violence. Under advice Of some dedicated men
they have followed a nonvioislative, executive and juditreme provocation, Under. ad--
vice of others, notably the NAACP, they have placed their
trust in the iaw, the courts, in
legislative bodies, and in the orderly processes of government.

~|test of the

Alabama.

From - Hcntgcenady:~ ~ada. to
Johnannesburg, South Africa
the word seems to be ~Azikwela~, which means, we. will not
ride. For the past. six months
Johannesburg~s Negroes walked
to work. Not because there ~is
ho transportation but in ~proLater OSIRIS mee
have suffered.

* Mississippi: would an utopia
to these people for the government issue police passes, search
Negro homes and hotels and~

_|arrest Negroes who are on

the road walking, herding them
into jail-like compounds. ~

But the tan African claims.
~The boycott is our political
weapon, and no.law on earth
can make us. ride if we want
to walk.~ -

* ss: The Rema Club of Pontiac:

ALWAYS
REMEMBER

By~
William Rutherford

FE. 5-4645

{. This week I would like to
have a heart to heart shat with
the parents.

Oftimes parents are -the last
to admit that their children are
~bad.~ Therefore he last to offer
that proverbial helping hand.
What kind of a. home life. does
your child have? What are they
being taught in their home?.

At the beginning of -a new
day does your child get up
with only a. few minutes to
get to ~sthool, no breakfast,
jus so mother or dad can get:
some extra sleep?

When they come home in the

- afternoon can they come to you

end tell you: about schoo] that
day? Remember, it is important

jto them; or do you tell them

you don~t have time to listen?

Do you. knee] with them at
bedtime and teach them to
pray and be thankful for the
blessings the Lord has -bestowed? Or is it a ~go to bed
now~ while you sit propped
up in front of the TV?

Your children pattern themselves after you. They do what
they see you do. If we had better parents we would have less
juvenile crime.:

Stop and take somé | tithe with
your children; it pays in so
many ways.

ALWAYS REMEMBER, your
child learns from you, ~so give
them a good start in life.

ALWAYS REMEMBER...

Lis ten Flin

~ane

~By Herman Hamilton, Jr.

Due to circumstances beyond his control, Mr. Hamilton~s article will not appear this week, but wil resume

next week.:;/his achievements.

ya Charles M. Tucker, Jr.

~under - chairmanship ~ of
Everett chi has. invited
Mr. Edward Turner, State President of the NAACP, to address
them at ~a dinner next week.

A ne of thanks ~to Vera
Dobson (of the Pontiac: Herald)

| for her arranging in placing

us.on the program of the CityWide - Choir ~ Union. _méeting
which will be. held; Sunday,
March 3 at Neufhan, AME
Church. Rev. J. A: Parkér~ (the
Pontiac School Board ~~~

jis the j pester.

me ed

Hats off. ~Buttonairs tad salutes to the men who: diligently
worked for the ~securment~. of
Negro cashiers in three of Pontiac~s chain: stores.. Three~ Pontiac girls are now ed
respectively by Tom's Market,
Wrigley~s and -the A & -P. ~A
job well done géentlemen~and a
public thanks 'to.youall

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The welcome mat is out for
new columnist for our ~Pontiac
edition, the Rev. Richard~ H.
Dixon. Jr., who will bé ~ ~writing
a weekly~ column: Young; dynamic and forthright, we perdict
that this man will gain loéal
and national recognition ~for

To be featured ~next week
itt, our eight editions is an
article on ~The Negro and. ~Hotising~ by Everett Spurlock, Ex
_|ecutive Director of the ~Pontiac

Urban League. Many of ts néver realized: that ~most~ of ~ the
Negro~s problems stém from
housing restrictions which prevents him from. evolving. from
a ~compact circle~. A~-circle
which has been ~made and. kept
by. banking nd@~ lenditig - instii| tutions, real estate brokers: afid
ggents* and employmént.* managers...and'a few~ sélfish Negroes.

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A. plug for our adbertiners: this
remember they make your paper possible. The men. Who advertise in your paper appreciate
your patronge.'..BUY FROM
THEM. Rte

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Reports from writers in ~the
Pontiac section that the "Don~t
Buy Where You Cannot Work~
theme has really. gained hold
in the community. Spreading
to Flint where the editor is receiving many letters asking
~WHY ARE THERE NO NEGROES EMPLOYED IN CER-.
TAIN STORES?

ses

Two new ~Negro businesses
have opened in Pontiac recently. Both restaurants one being
located at Bagley at, Wessen
(Glady~s Place) the other ~on
Franklin Road and is owned
by Mr. Jesse Burrell. Well wishes to you both.

* *#.

A Negro has been. named to
head France~s new and all out
development of the Sahara desert which is rich in oil. iron ore,
coal and uranium.

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A salute to Sam Whiters who
was instrumental in acquiring a
mens club in Pontiac (The Joy
Boys) to offer saving bonds
end stamps to the children at

Whittier school. as. prizes in
their brotherhood week celebration.

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