Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 31]

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EDITORIAL POLICY
The editorial policy, of the Bronze Reporter is to
<-veflett the thought of the "Negro, to expose those per- $08 and conditions whith prove contrary ~to ~the~
_ Almétican way of life, to protest acts or policies which
dény the Negro his full constitutional rights as a true
American.
The Bronze Reporter is a- non-partisan newspaper.
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Editorials
Police Or Goon Squad?

Many*Northend- residents, both Negro and white, are
~Shocked at the treatment meted out to Cornelius Jenkins,
~a shell-shocked veteran, who was beaten by police Saturday night.

Granted he should not have been drunk on the street,
if that is the case. He should not have resisted an officer if
such is the case. However these facts could never justify
the unmerciful beating he received at the hands of the law
enforcement officers:

2 R LY 12, 1958

One wonders how much resistance a handcuffed man
could offer to four ablebodied armed policemen.
Such vicious acts do not increase respect for the law, but
tend to increase tensions in the community. The community is deeply shaken by this cowardly act.

The police are demanding larger pay. Perhaps an increase in salary would attract a:higher calibre of men to
the force, which would be of benefit to all.

There are many ortficers well known and well Jaxed in
their community, who carry out their duties in a firm respectable fashion. The public is thankful for their protection. However, incident like this one can~t help -but reflect
on the entire department.

Another Levittown.

Although the mafter was obscured in the hue and cry
that arose over Little Rock last fall, the state of Pennsyl~ania was forced to call out state troopers to guard a Negro
family that purchased a home in an, all-white city built
-hrough governmental assistance by William H. Levitt. ~

Mr. Levitt now plans another all-white city, also, indi.
rectly subsidized by the federal government, to keep company with the two all-white cities he has previously ~built.

Federalsubsidies and assistance come in the form of
FHA loan insurance and VA loan guarantees of funds which
Levitt secures from private lenders to underwrite his construction. Without that loan insurance and those loan guarantees, Levitt would be unable to find the necessary financ~ing. Under the FHA and VA plans, the full credit of the
federal government is pledged to insure and guarantee the
lenders against loss. Levitt snpy refuses to sell those
homes to Negroes.

On the face of it, the government should have no part
of Levitt~s Jim Crow schemes; it has no business pledging
its credit to further racial discrimination. Both FHA and VA
have it within their power to nip the Levitt scheme in the
bud. They have but to require that as a condition of loan.
insurance and loan guarantees Levitt covenant that he will
not discriminate in the sale or rental of the housing he constructs on the basis of race, religion or nationality.

~Calif. Eagle

The Truth Hurts

Two southern Congressmen, returning, to the United
States from an airline junket to the World~s Fair at BrusSels, Belgium, are ~hot under the collar~ because a portion
of the American display at the Fair deals with the matter
of racial segregation in the United States.

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Obviously, they can~t deny the accuracy of the display,
but they are ~burned up~ because the ~dirty linen~ of their
beloved Southland is being washed before an international,
audience. é

i + yes ct bel tae? ~sh a ead pci

Enlarged: exhibits ~of: pictiires~ emianating'~fiom Little
Rock only served to further embarrass the Congressmen,
although there are in the display references to gains made
by the nation~s 17,000,000 citizens of color.

a. If we were in the Congressmen~s positions, representing the States they do, we would feel a sense of shame. What
they should do is alert their, fellow members to the fact
that this kind of publicity does not help the United States.
Means of communication being what they are today, one
does not need the Brussels Fair to make the ill-treatment
accorded Negro citizens in a large segment of the U.S.
tnown the world over.

~ Phil. Independent

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Mr. Gibson: -

| had been accused by

~from. the Bronx offi:

public. You are our |only voice.
You are doing a great service.
The people are with you.

Mr. James D. Hawkins

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We, the Jolly Social Club members think that~s a
job. We think you. K
good work.
The Jolly
Saginaw, Mich.

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Views

of the

News

OK BOYCOTT GROUP

TUSKEGEE, Ala.
Judge Will 0. Walto
injunction last week |against the
Tuskegee Civil Association which
the. State
boycott of

of sponsoring a mass
white merchants.
2 DRAMAS

BURN KKK CROSS

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif: ~ Dr.
Carlton B. Goodlett, publisher of
the San Francisco Sun-Reporter
and the president of the Jocal
NAACP, the Rev. ~Asa Davis,
were warned by anonymous callars last week to stop campaigning for integration after a fiery
cross was burned on the lawn of
the home of Assistant District

attorney Cecil Poole, a Negro:
ry

WASHINGTON RUMOR

WASHINGTON, D.|} C. ~ Reyorts emanating from Capitol Hill
are that President |Eisenhower
vill nominate Marian Anderson,
ioted contrailto, as either a delezate or alternate to the UN Genaral Assembly for the sessions
which begin Sept. 16:

~IRST NEGRO

NASHVILLE, Tenn| ~ Dr. Jo
from a whité institution in the
South when he received a Ph.D.

lier this month.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.
nent New York Elk le
ed last Friday that Grand Exalted Ruler Robert Johnson ~frau
order~s voting laws in order to
perpetuate himself in office.

Jesse Vann and incorporated in
a dynamic-laden
Vann sent to,Grand Civil Liberties Commissioner Hobson Reynolds in Philadelphia. |Vann, him
Johnson as the first man of Elkdom, broadly hinted. in his letter

|to Reynolds that he | will. carry

his charges into the courts of law

and dealth with.

NEGRO GETS DEM APPT.

Paul M. Butler, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
has announced the: appdintment
of Arthur Chapin of | Montclair,
N. J., as assistant to the deputy
chairman for political organization.

In - announcing Chapin~s ap
with organizational
reased re
deal
including in~

will
matters,
munication, entailing field work
in various states.

labor aud
Executive

service with organized
as a member of the

Conference. Branches of the NAACP:

COP WHO STOLE DICED

faced! Jean H. Jackson, 35 year
old patrolman who admits stealing $23,146 from his job at the
police property clerk~
es indictment of gr larceny
but it iis only for money taken
from the Monhattan office. Ja~kson took anu additional $2,739.
d will
have to face that separately.
Now under $25,000 Jackson
has confessed he stole.
to supplement his

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To The Editor:
Keep the news going out to the 7o

wonderful | &
eep up the eet

Social Club, |:

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n killed an|~

seph A. Johnson became the first |
Negro to receive a doctorate |~

from Vanderbilt University ear- |
EXALTED RULER CHANGES RULES |

~ A promi- {
ader charg: |;

dently and illegally~ changed the |.
Thet bold accusation was made |*~

by Brooklyn real estate broker, |.

letter which |
self a strong contender to unseat | |

unless his charges are| recognized

dointment, Butler said his work
Zistration and inter-party com:},
Chapin~s background includes |

Board of the New Jerscy State

NEW YORK CITY. L: Solemn! 1

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The issue before the Court is clear. Liberty or mob fake 7 as; *

NAACP Leader

Discrimination

Roy ~Wilkins, executive,secre
tary of the NAACP, recently eri: |

ticized the discriminatory policies of some labor groups: and
asked that the AFL-CIO crack
down on -local unions which discriminate against minority group.

He scored the AFL-CIO for ad
mitting two
whose -constitutions exclude Negroes from membership,~ the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen and Enginemen, There is also discrimina:

tion, in varying degrees, in lo-;

cals of the steel, paper and oil

chemical unions, Wilkins cha~ges.
railroad unions|)

Speaking iast week at a, con

~vention of the United Packing~house Workers of America, -at}.
'New York~s- Hilton-Statler hotel,
~he complimented that uunion,

which has a large proportion -of
Negro members, for its fight.to
advance civil and economic right

icf Ne2roes.

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