Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 36]

EDITORIAL POLICY
~The editorial policy of ~the Bronze Reporter is to
tefléct the thought of the Nezro, to expose those persons. and cofiditions which prove contrary to the
American way. of life, to protest aets or policies which
deny the Negro his full constifutional rights as a true
~American. -
~ ~> The Brense Repester is a non-partisan newspaper.
Its main olijective is to render a public service through
good journalism and to this end, The Bronze Reporter

a faithitally degicated.
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What. ts The Truth Behind
The Smith-Bridgeman Case

On May 24, 1958, the Bronze Reporter ran an editorial~ pointing up the unfairness of the Smith-Bridgman
Store in not hiring Negro sales clerks in over 90 years of
its existence in Flint. Apparently many people felt as we
~did for there. was, immediate reaction.

~Several people, Negro and: white, called the store,
cancelled their charge accounts, and in general showed
sympathy to the, point of view we expressed. There were
speeches given at. Metropolitan, Canaan and Mt. Olive ihe
tist Churches.:

Next we learned that, a. picket had been formed protesting. the store~s hiring policy. Three pickets marched
in front of the store one day and abruptly ceased.

The Bronze Reporter has made diligent efforts to
find out why the pickets were withdrawn, what promises
were made and given and what had been accomplished.

A news release was given us by leaders of the pickets
stating that certain ~Negro leaders~ had met with certain white people and that the- matter had been satisfactorily negotiated. ~

The leaders of the pickets refused: ~th reveal the
names of~:the people who met because they ~had | too~
~much to lose.~

The Bronze Reporter feels strongly that little of val
ue could ~come from the secret meeting where the participants refuse to give their names for fear of reprisals:
a meeting so lacking in mutual confidence and sihedinde
that it had to. be shrouded in secrecy.

We have an Urban League in Flint, we have a Human
Relations Council, ~we have an NAACP. These are proper
channels through which commications such as this may
be channeled.

We are t | that satisfactory gereesinis had been
reachéd. Sati y to whom? To: the: good people who
believed ~i sari and cancelled their charge accounts?
Or was it: ~satisfactory~ ~only to. the secret. group of ~Negro leaders~ who met and ~ their private ~_
ments?~

~Rumors are flying,~ but no one~s ~denying there will
be.no pickets a Smith: Bridgman~s anymore.

Failure Can Be
Stimulus To

Children |

- ANN ARBOR ~ ~Failure to one child is traumatic,
dut to another it may be a necessary challenge,~ says
Stanley E. Dimond, professor of education at The University of Michigan:

~Failure ~is a tool or a threapy. ~It is a part of the
guidance function and not a panacea. ~As such, it should
ae aoinanen! ~ geared toa speeitic child,~ he states.

bad Ar
be avoi
cent. Promotion should be flexible and based on a multiplicity of.standards.-*All available individual factors
should. be considered, including: the wishes. ~of ~the pupil.
and the sarents.

~Studies have shown repeatedly that ~pupils who |
move along with ~their age groups learn as much as pupils
who are kept back a grade. Apparently, the ~failure~ will
learn as well if he remains with:his group as if he is not
promoted~

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~| with. making,this community a
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tal your moral and:} to. this.

_.,.|idaire Sales Corporation of Em* ~l eryville * was accused ~this week}
de ilocos amg Au a |

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sewing hates | Pr sry Rear
here~ that' my hate was wrong |}
oe vit to apologize for it~
rough meeting delegates}
2 YEAR war THAT from, other Pacific nations she}\4{said she had learned.the cost
| | of what ~the Japanese had done.~
welcoming them at the Moral Re
Bitterness, she said, ~the des
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peace. We may Be the-war itto hate people, I have come to

realize how we Japanese

SCE ~need to speloniy to the Philippines, Koréa ~many et
countries.~

~The Hamais ade wie ar a 3.
strong Japanese delegation at the
~conference. A Japanese. spokesman said, ae a the ideology

troyer of families, nations and
SEA IN Iso sup id wit, j|the world.~ The graphic words;
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10 ~We not m es.
/we OFTEN RODE A. \saine mistake again.~ ~she baid|=

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heart. ~Sach decisions will bring: ~VaNTE GLEPHANT ORAPED IN SILK AND fl about the bright wom she con-|.
P; ~" Eigen. clade:
a of - @oLo/ne DIE OF SMALLPOX, ~Mb Hahsi thanked Dr. Bichlas cakes at mafi for the way he had includ-}, | 4 perres ans; ed the Japanese. in the~ family

of nations after, the war ~hy

By Jim Wilson~

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~This is the last. in a
| land, Ohio, July 8-13.

marked ~the last: mass ting of
the NAACP convention. Police
were forced to turn away one
thousand additional people who

Marshall, Director-Counsel NAACP~ Legal Defense and Educa
in Little Rotk came
so muchas. the result of. action.
_by the mob, as it was inaction
~of the people of good, will.

He continued:

recalcitrants of the South. are not

are fighting against ~the trend
and to win a-reversal ~af the Supreme Court~s. decision) or nullification of its effects.~ |

~We call upon all Americans
interested in individual: rights to

advice to us by urging affirmative action from our ~ ~
ment. ni

saying:
out apology te anyone, we say
we have no recourse but to continue as we have in the past.~ _

Mr. Marshall received a stand-.

most a full minute. |
The awarding of the Spring
attend

who defied the mob to
High

Little Rock~ Central
~School and Mrs. -.~C.~ Bates,
~president. of Little ~. NAACP was presented by 'Dr,. ca
liam ~E. Stevenson, ~presi
of Oberlin College:' +. 4

yood: -will of both Faces; get to
~gether in ~determination to. maintain law and order, I am, convinced_ that school desegregation
will procééd as~ sméothly as it.
did in: Louisville, Au in; - Oklahema City. and in. scores of

the South.~

This was a. tremendously inspiring evening. The nine brave
students. who received the
Medal represented
their race and in a larger sense:
their country in a manner that~
made me very proud. to be a

Jf you,are sincerely concerned,

five, give:
financial support:

Asseciation..
Back the: attack on diasieninas~
tion. Join~ "the NAACP ~ right |

SAN FRANCISCO~The Frig
The evening of Friday, July 11, -

tried to gain entrance to the }!
building.
At this meeting,. Thurgood

tional Fund, gave the) keynote
address. i Ks

me sua: be E
clear by now that the organized |:

fighting a delaying action; they |.

hack up their sympathy for and |,
He concluded: his: speech by |.

~In the meantime, with- |,

ing ovation with applause of alarm Metal to: the nine students: |

Mrs. Bates said: ~If people of*

other communities throughout

From |
Cleveland

series | of four article
light of ~the: 49th Annual Convention: of the~

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ORIENTAL,.LATIN ALSO.

Find. Job. "Equality
In. (Name. Only

SAN FRANCISCO~Negroes in Latin Ameticans; and Jews in that
~San Francisco have a harder time order. mf
finding good jobs in that West
Coast City than any of three ~The 354 page report, the proother minority groups, a.conipre- | tion, attempted: to draw no dis
hensive | study. of. Tact entploy- rect comparisons with other ci-|
ment practices has~ revealed. ties. ~But it commented that our
Although equal fob opportunity data do. not appear to support:
for Negroes, Orientals and other the frequent boasts that employgroups is vigorously upheld in| &s here are ahead in merit employment,~

principle in San Francisco, it is é;
widely disrégarded in ~practice, Although San Francisco gener!
according to the survey conduct-| ally fréwns: upon. discrimination.
ed under auspices of the Council | by reasbn of race, ancestry~ ~or:
for. Civil Unity from the Ford religion, the authors noted that
Foundation. ~
studied made no claim~to a ~meyit; policy? in employment. In
more cases, statements of non
FACE BIAS.

The report concltided that Ne
groes face~ the~ greatest ~hiring
Perse 3 followed ved by nena

to be~ neglected in Reoetge. >.

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twenty-six of the 100 companies |: ~

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Reporter as I am an_invalid
rand have been.for_ the past
year. The paper * keeps me informed. on community news as
well as state and national news
* The paper is doing: a splendid
job,
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-To6 the Bronze: ~Reporter Readers:
_ ~ have watched; the. progress
cf the paper for approximately
two years.:
160 per cent and: ~believe that
all the Negroes in Flint and
surrounding communities
shotild support the paper; aft-,
er all, it is the only newspaper
of its kind in. Flint.

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