Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 22]

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EDITORIAL POLICY

The editorial policy of the *Bronze ipower is to
reflect the thought of the Negro, to expose those pers
sons and conditions which contraty to the
American way of life, to profest acts orpolicies which
deny the Negfo his full constitutional rights as a true

American. | niles <e

' The Bronze Reporter is a non-paftisan newspapet.
Its main objéctive is to render a public sérvice through
good journalism and to this end, The Bronze Reporter ~
is faithfully dedicated.

SRO OE ATT
~EDITORIALS
~A Reminder of a Few Highlights on Michigan

This is Michigan Week. And we who have the opportunity of making our home in the. ~Wolverine State,~ the
chore largest state east of the | Mississippi, should feel
- prou

Some of the outstanding features of the state are as
follows:

Manufacturing

The value of manufacturing far outstrips that of all
other economic endeavors in Michigan. Happily situated in.
terms of raw materials and transportation, the state has
developed into one of the most important industrial areas
in the country. Detroit, Lansing, Flint, and Pontiac are the. principal cities involved in the ~production of transportation
equipment for which Mchigan is world famous. In Michigan,
automobiles, trucks, trailers, buses, and boats first rolled
off assembly lines to be shipped throughout the world.

Education

Michigan has long been known for its progressive edu_cational system. School attendance is compulsory FOR ALL
CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF SEVEN AND SIXTEEN. In addition to the usual high| schools, there are rural
agricultural schools, many of which carry on: vocational
trade, industrial, commercial, and home economics programs. Michigan led the east and north-central group of
states in making provisions for the instruction of handicapped children and now has special classes for the blind,
deaf, crippled, and speech defective,

Michigan established the first state university in the
country at Ann Arbor in 1837. The University of Michigan,
the FIRST STATE UNIVERSITY TO ADMIT WOMEN (1870),
is one of the largest and most important in the nation.
Michigan State College, East Lansing, Mich., founded in
1857, was_originally called Michigan Agricultural College
and is the oldest agricultural college in the country. Michigan was the~ first state west of the ~Alleghenies to establish
- a state normal school. Today there are four teacher. colleges:
Central Miehigan College of Education, Mount. Pleasant;
Michigan College~ ~of Education, Ypsilanti; Northern Michigan College of ~Edutation, Marquette; and Western Miché:
gan College of Education, Kalamazoo.

Other institutions of hither learning are the University
of Detroit and Wayne University, bo~h ~at Detroit: Michigar
College of Minine and Technolo*v. Hoychton:; Adrian Col.
lege, Adrian; A'bion Collese, Albion: Detroit Institute of
Technology, and Western Theolovizal Seminarv, Holland

There-are ten public junior colleges in the state, situated
in and supported bv the cilies of Bay City, Benton Harbor.
Flint, Grand Rapids, Hishland. Park, Ironwood, Jackson,
Muskegon, Pontiac and Port Huron.

Although Michigan ranks seventh in naiional population, it is third in the number of students enrolled in institutions of higher learning.

~Institutions

~The Michigan State. Welfare Commission, established
in 1921, supervises the operation of several state institutions
and licenses and oversees agencies not directly controlled
by the state. There are state prisons at Jackson and Marquette. Mental patients are kept in state hospitals maintained at Kalamazoo, Pontiac, Newberry, Traverse City, and | ~
~Ionia. The- Michigan School for the Blind and the Michigan.
Crippled Children~s Commission, both at Lansing, and the
Michigan School for the Deaf at Flint, are administered by
the state to aid handicapped children.

Government

The original constitution. of the state was adopted in
1837. A second one was drafted in 1850 and the present
constitution was.adopted in 1909. The state legislature is
composed of a Senate of 32 members and a House of Representatives of 100 members. Sessions are held biennially
in Lansing, the capitol. The governor, however, has authority
to call the Legislature in special sessions.

History

The history of Michigan is jE by legend and
tradition. The name, itself, an Indian word meaning ~Great
Lake,~ reflects the origin of the earliest inhabitants. The
region was visited early in the seventeenth century by fur
traders and Jesuit, missionaries. No settlement was made,
however, until 1650. In 1668 Father Marquette established
a mission at Sault Saint Marie. This mission was burned in
1671 and was rebuilt Jeter on a much larger scale. In 1671,
also the mission of Michilimackinac at St. Ignace was
founded. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who previously had

been in command of Fort Michilimackinac, founded De- P Th

troit in 1701 to aid French control of the fur trade. After

the close of the French and Indian War, Michigan and thé. ne

nch to British control.

Great Lakes region passed from |
GAN WAS AN ANTI
At the time of the Civil War,

SLAVE STATE and contributed heavily to the Union cause. | ct

Since the Civil War, Michigan and Detroit (one of the
oldest cities in the midwest) have developéd rapidly. Detroit

has - along the lines of industry and the state
has ped agriculturally.
*NCompiled by B. cocaves Ellington)
G00. THOUGHTS TO REMEMBER
give thanks urito the call upon his ware:
~make mF nk his deeds among poy

~ ute him, ~sing psaline unto him: talk ye of all, nn ogee ea ra haa

Pept rt oN ra:

jginning July 1, the Legislature

in her windows, then rocks and
bricks come crashing through
her home, and a flaming cross
is placed on her~ porch.

But when the NAACP representatives came to our @ we
knew we had friends and protection. It gave us-cotirage and hope
for a better day. Thé ~Bronze Reporter did not bury the casé; they

let everybody know what was hap-| &
| pening -
The NAACP is is Having its tein. | Set

to us. e

bership drive i we. wWatit |:
to help them: We. want to say
to every Negro in ~Flint that we

of this great org ioh. eW
think every Negro should belong
and support it. If -you aren~t a
member you have. no- right to
talk about: equality or freedom,
because you don~t mea. it. This
meatis it when they say they Ste
fighting for equal rights.

But they: can be_ onily ~as
strong as YOU make.it. If the
NAACP is tén thousand strong
it ean~ be ten times~ more effective than if it is only ten hundred strong. So let~s stop talking about Little Rock. and Montgomery and let~s stamt talking
about Flint.

lf you haven't put your money
where your heart is and -joitied
the NAACP yet, then we ~are
pleading with you to do it~not!
next week or next month~but
right how.

If you are parents wanting a
better day for yourselves and
your young ones then you can
understand what we mean.
Sincerely,

Norma B. Richard|

Willie T. Richard |

Mr. and Mrs. Willie} Richards
1034 Stockton Street.

Gov. winsiss

By G. MENNEN WILLIAMS.. Governor of Michigan

LANSING ~ While cutting
nearly. every other. state service
and agency, the Legislature has
~ranted itself about $285,000
nore than the appropriation it
made for its own purposes a year
ago.

During the currént fiscal year,
the Legislature overspent its
Own appropriation, and had to |
make a deficiency appropriation of $130,000 to finish out
the yéar.

For the next fiscal year, be
matehed this appropriat on and
give itself about $26,000 more.
* ~ *

The damage done to state
services by the Legislature budget cuts is véry real. But the
amouhts thus ~saved~. are relatively small.~ They. are big
enough to cause serious cutbacks but not big-enough ~to
balance the budget or Prevent
a treasury crisis.

It's. tragic to have to choose
between solvency and adequate

lature has left things, we ate
going to have neithet solvehcy
nor adequate services.

of the haliiet it.
*
An eclablakies 42500,000 in. additional taxes, mainly in ~delin
be collected, because a request
for $250,000 to hire additional
auditors was rejected. The Revenue Department ~says it could

wonderful help and. samen,:
| they have igpehecad! our

A~ mother,. surrounil by ~ee
sthall helpless chil ~can feel] ~
terribly ~alone when: '

are.mighty proud: to be members |.

After what we have beech, thru};
we thank God for the NAACP.) @

services. But the way the Legis~4,

Here are some of the effects

quent intangibles: taxes, cannot | | Pkg. of Big Valve
a 6POTATO~ Bolt 6%
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Plus Deposit |

peice

By ICU eel Be

fe-niust étiuggle on, Wiativefe batide,
diay and his own strong will.

Hie never murtour in voices forlorn?
* But fi@ch on with head held high.: ind when through faith in self and God.
- Life~s weary battle~s done,

His corpse. shall life beneath the sod,: His sduliit~s sini mies won.

se through the flowing tide,

~ rough, he~ll nevér pe

up and onward
~=, Ha may and battle ~ail, gee oe
_7&{>._ But hi never utter acry. -. oo Met

~

Vater Doniniiansbn to ~make plans
for ~the Seaway.

County health departments will

1
Services to crippled. and afflicted children will have to be
reduced. The appropriation for
this purpose was cut $567,460
below current levels.: All conservation, récreation

and ~agriculture programs will

have to be cut back between 6
and 10 per cent. The total appro
|priation for these purposes was

| reduced by $20,000

*-In the face of the oppectutit.
ties for tourist business~ presented

by the Conservation Department,

has been cut ih half. The work |
of. the Conservation fish division |
has been ctit by $134,000 below |

iclrrent Jevels.: This mats, of |.,tend the Wayne Statee Univer
by the ning of the Mackingc
Bridge; the Tourist Couricil was
eut $8,000. ~

~About 13 law enforcertent po- |
sitions ~will have to be cut out |

and thé reforestation ~prograin |

Witte PLANS ~LAW DAY"
Nearly 300 alumni, sttidents |
and faculty are éxpected to at
~sity Law School~s annual ~Law
Day~ on Monday, May 12.

_A panel discussion on ~The
Warren Court and ~Civil Liber.
ties~ by two~ distinguished law
scholars will begin the Day at
11 a.m. in ~the Kresge Science
Library auditorium.

Participants will be Franvis A.
Allen, professor of law at the,
University of. Chicago,.
Charles W. Quick, associate professor of law at Howard Univer
~School.

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/and |

sity. Moderator will; be John E. \# -
Glavin, associate dean of the Law |;

Downtown

oP get es
through college, yetosteny wit oping of their white. ~eolleagues, and that 75 percent earned. at least a part of their.
graduatee: school expenses; Compared to-56-percent of ~white.
teachers. In addition to the work the teachers did to défray
the expenses of thtir education; over half of them also ~depended upon scholatehtp aid While in college and fellowships.

for their graduaté training

The financial difficulty of *s
ing required for college -

uring ihe educational train-;
ching.-together with inadequate ~
secondary school ' tele. to account for the fact
that only one in 11000 Nedra. college graduates gets the doc- -
-tor~s degree, compared. to bast ~every 100. for whites.;

ie AN
hfe: 2

With salaries of teach in Negro colleges panels lower than in comparablee institutions at large, the struggle may -
not always seem worthwhile to the youth considering @ col- ~
lege teaching career, Thompson. concludes, although Negro
colleges, far more.than white ~institutions ~of mere earning,~
need teachers holding thee doctorate.

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Thitepson stated in on stiteeview that. greater financial: ~
support for Negro colleses would" make. it possible for. them:
to offer increased student did-and more attractive faculty: sala- |

gles. ~The efforts made in this direction by the United Negro ~:
College Fund are especially sg of support,~ he stated,

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