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EDITORIAL POLICY
_ The editorial policy of the Bronze Reporter is to
tefléct the thought of the Negro, to expose those persons. apd cofiditions 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.
~ > The ~Brense Reperter is a non-partisan newspaper.
Its main olijedtive is to render a public, service through
good journalism and to this end, The Bronze Reporter

i fajthfully dedicated.

~BRON REPORTER, SATURDAY. AUG. 16, 1958] f)

What is 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
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 ieee 6
tist Churches.:

Next. we learned that, a Bickel 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find out why_ the pickets were withdrawn, what promises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: to reveal the
names ~of:: the people who met because they ~had | too~
much to lose.~

The Bronze Dencster 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 dignity
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 told that satisfactory Agrecineht had been
reached. aad to whom?. To: the: good.people who
believed ~ii Yustite and cancelled their charge accounts?
Or was it. ~satisfactory~ ~only to. the secret. group of ~Negro leaders~ who met and made their Drivate erenge
ments?~

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

Failure Can Be
Stimulus To

Children. ANN ARBOR ~ ~Failure to one child is traumatic,
but to another it may be a necessary challenge,~ says
Stanley E. Dimond, professor of education at The Unt
versity 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
ve individual ~ geared to a speeitig child,~ he states.

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~policy. of 100 oe cent. rdunotion hevia

tiplicity: of. standards. >All available individual factors
should. be considered, including. the wishes -of othe pupil.
and the parents.

~Studies have. shown repéatedly thiat "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 sroup as if he is* not
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ears of |.
its existence in Flint. Apparently many people felt as we}

as much as an automatic. failure of. 10. per|
cent. Promotion should be flexible and based on a mul-|.| Sping

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RANCE To JAPAN. / HE, ~he
$0, SEA IN ISO siiPs wir, |
9 /HE OFTEN RODE'A | =|: WHITE ELEPHANT ORAPED IN SILK AND hi |

ootn/ne DIED OF SMALL- POX,

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>and I want to apologize for it.~
~|from, other Pacific nations she

~ |of what ~the Japanese had done.~

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tives. rom a day on I had a|:
in my heat |
have seep

here~ that~ my hate was ~wrong
Through meeting. delegates}
said she had learned.the cost

welcoming them at the Moral Re
Bitterness, she said, ~the destroyer of families, nations and

earved.in. -the.
same. mista again,~ she.
will now be engraved in. her. own

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man for the way he had includ-}
ed the Japanese in the~ family

ake a4. a meisnente SANTOS

of nations after, the war ~hy

By Jim Wilson~

land, Ohio, July 8-13.

marked ~the last: mass meeting of
the NAACP convention.) Police

thousand additional people who
tried to gain entrance |to the
building.

At this meeting,. Thurgood
Marshall, Director- Counsel NAACP~ Legal Defense and Educa;

address.

ee

so Bert as the result. of iaction
by the mob, as it was inaction
~of the people of good, will.

He continued:
clear by now that the or
recalcitrants of the South.

are not

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

We call upon all Americans
interested in individual rights to
hack up their sympathy for and |,
advice to us by urging affirmative action from our poverty
ment.~

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

Mr. Marshall received ai stand-.
ing ovation with applause of almost a full: minute.

The awarding of the eee |
arm Metal to the nine students
who defied the mob to attend
Little Rock~ Central High
School ~and Mrs. ~4.~C.: Bates, |
-president. of Little Rock. NAACP was presented by Dr, William ~E. Stevenson, ~president,
of Oberlin College::) ~ - 4

goed will of both: races; get together in ~determination to, maintain law and order, I am convinced_ that school desegr gation
will procééd as~ sméothly as it,
~did~ in: Louisville, Austin, Okla~hema City. and in -
other communities
the South.~

This was a. ~anid inspiring evening. The nine~ brave
students. who received | the
arn Medal ~ represented
their race and in a larger) sense~
their country in a ad tot that;
made me very proud to

-| Negro...|.: If you,are sincerely racernedl
} | with making,this community 4},
# ~\better one in whigh fo five, give~
~:}- your moral and financial support}

F

to. this.

tion. Join~: the ~NAACP ~ right

jdaire Sales Corporation of Em
Association.. 4
Back the ~attac ck on discrimina-~; ~This is the last. in a) series\of four a1
light of ~the: 49th Annual Conyeerioe: of the

The evening of Friday, July i, =

were forced to turn away one |.

tional Fund, gave the- Keynote

~It. should be ty
ganized }
fighting a delaying action; they |.

~ He coneluded. his: speech by |.
~In the meantime, with- |,

Mrs. Bates said: ~If people of":
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SAN FRANCISCO~The Frig: |

* ") eryville was accuséd this week}
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SAN FRANCISCO~Negroes in
~San Francisco ~have a harder time
finding good jobs in that West
Coast City than any of three
other minority groups, a coniprehensive study. of. local. entployment practices has~ revealed.

- Although equal fob opportunity
for Negroes, Orientals and other
groups is vigorously wpHeld in
principle in San Francisco, it is
widely disregarded in ~practice,
according to the survey conducted under auspices of the Council
for. Civil Unity from the Ford
Foundation. ~

ORIENTAL, ~LATIN: ALSO _
FACE BIAS.

The report concltided. that ~Negroes face~ the~ greatest. ~hiring

sing the? hieh~held in. | Cleve
d Job. Ec quality
~Name Only

Latin
order.

athe ~354 pose report, the protion, attempted: to draw no divec} comparisons with other cities. ~But it commented that our
data do. not appear to support
the frequent boasts that employers here are ahead in merit employment,~

Although San Hatieisco gener!
ally frowns: upon. discrimination
by reason of race, ~ancéstry ~or:
religion, the authors noted that
twenty-six -of the 100 companies |!
studied made no claim:to a ~merit, policy~. in employment. In
more cases, statements of non
~with her husband, the postwar
mayor - a * for: eight} ~~
| | years, said, ~E lost, through the}

the world.~ The graphic words. sea

all not make the {
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heart: ~Sach decisions will bring j
about the bright world,~ she com}: >

Mn: Hamai thanked Dr. Bich:

job.

pan and Jews in that

~need to apologize to the PhilipNy

The Hamais are: as of a 73 -ime Japanese delegation at the
conference. A. spokesman said, ~Through the ~ideology

pe nA ime: will: Hive, os

Reporter as I: ants aa invalid
Fand 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

Cassie: Westbrook
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0 the Bronze~ ~Reporter Readers:

ft~ have mir Sy - the. progress
cf the paper for appromamately
two years.
160 per cent ond: I ~pelieve that
all~ the Negroes in Flint and
surrounding communities
should support the paper; after all, it is the only newspaper
of its kind in, Flint.

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