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THE HOUR OF DECISION.

In the life of everf hurhan being there is a time when we
must make a decision that ~s likely to be a determining factcr
This is also true in a business enterprise and is very much true in the life of the nation, or the
In the life of aa individual, he

in all of his future life.

communiiy. that we live in.

will pessona'ly have to make the decision.

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ARNALL-ISM IN GEORGIA

Gov. Arnall of Géorgia has
been on the political scene for
oo short a time to rate more
chan passing appraisal. But. if
this young southerner keeps goig at the pace he has set, we
sre going to see a man lifted to
nigh places by the exercise of
2 moral courage that is a moral
tonic to a world ridden by polities-often of the cheapest kind.

Ye simply cannot get things

done in Washington these days. |

unless it is something that Bilbo end Rankin want done, The
nation is at a standstill with
thredtened. strikes to break the
back-bone of the.nation~s economy and possibly the, backbone of democracy, It can scarcely be doubted that a revolution is~pending in these Unitad~States of ours. The time has
come for political firmness and
everybody is so bent on getting

In the life of our

nation we choose ~the smartest minds in our nation) to decide

for us the best course to follow.

to us in our local community.

we don~t we can get all of the desired information from repu- |
table c tizens living in the community.

Cur best advaritages accrue
Here we know everybody: If

Therefore we are able

to secure the facts that will enable us to make the decision that

more important when we stop to realize that the. health, well
being, prosperity and security of that community is dependent

upon whatever decision we make.

s

mY. ~@ '
We are to decide whether pett~ness is to be transcendeni

over lofty deeds.

Whether we are to have men to represent us

who can meet any man in the community on equal terms or
whether he goes to the side door with hat in hand for a hand
out.

We are to decide whether we are going to demand the

blessings of the American way of life of self-de:ermination, of
having our representatievs to give us an account of the'r stewardship or whether we are going to be d ctated to by conniving
charletans who have but one interest and that is the maintaining of prostitution, vice and the dealing in illicit liquor in the

community.

Se

Sometime the best way to answer a quest~on is to ask one.
Should we choose a man for the City Commission who has

failed in everything else?

Does it seem reasonable to choose '

a man who is repudiated by the men in his calling; men who
are the very personification of the highest ethics known to man?
Shall we support.a man who is wlling to be a cat~s paw for
other men, who would stamp out everything that is wholesome.
so that they might get a greater return on vice and licenticusness

that has too long keen the order of the day in the Third Ward? |

This is your hour of decision.
paign are just as clear as crystal.:: oN
The issues in this camNo one needs to go wroné.

We must stamp out everything that will ~mpede the progress of
this community. Let us use a saying that was used by the Pha
roahs thousands of vears ago.

of the Pharoahs shal be ground in the dust.~~
of the Third Ward shall be ground in the

If we can successfully revel our enemies now all fu
clog the whec's

dust.~

~Those that clog the wheels
~Those that

- ture Senerations will be served. This is your hour of decision.

Let that decision be for a greater city and a Third Ward that
any ctizen will be proud to [ve in.
- One way; and that is by supporting the candidacy

This can be done in only
of George

Friley for Third Ward Commissioner.

INDUSTRIAL LABOR RELATIONS

e By George E. DeMar

Calvin~s News Service

Those of uS who operate in |
the field of industrial relations |

frequently discuss race relations

es it affects Negro employment

and question whether or not we

are making a dirert attack upon |

the problem of better understanding among peoples. While
T have selected this field for
work, I do not hesitate to say
- that, in seeking fair employment
_ practices and jobs for all at fair
pay, we are taking an easy way
out.

Serious inroads for integrated
employment on the better jobs
will not be made until the: pattern of housing of minorities is
broken up, The Italian, the Jew,
the Negro, the Chinese are limited in job opportunities through
living in ghettos, This limitation

-of residence does not make for | 24,671 Registered

understanding but rather susPicion and lack of confidence in
one another. It allows the my.
ths that have been concocted
with reference to any one grour
to be perpetuated, The idea of
~loving thy. neighbor~ can never.
grow if in fact one is not a
neighbor. Economic and cultural
Jevels determine in ~classless~
America where white person
reside. The amount of mony,
the amount of culture; the amount of education and training
are not factors that predominate when a Negro is looking for
a place to live. He must live in
a given section, Restrictive covenants in deeds bar his becom~ing an owner of property in

the more desirable ~neighborhoods:
~ Covenants and _ restrictions

Serve to keep the average white

dtanding the average
There are places whete certain
white and certain Negroes meet
and get a little more light upon
the subject of no differences in

1 races, When these, meeting
places do not extend to the
church and. to the next door

neighbor, no matter how many
persons are employed as houSehold workers, nothing much is
being done about the whole
problem of integrated peoples
On Jobs... ~

There is a strong appeal to

the American sense of decency
when we say that the right to
work is the right to live. The
~ight to a house in a respectable
neighborhood for respectable
people would aid materially the
quest for jobs, and in fact would
contribute. much to interracial,
intercultural understanding.

|: ported last week as eligible to:

~n Fulton County
ATLANTA ~ ANP~ Twenty
four thousand, six hundred and
seventy-one Atlanta and Fulton county Negroes were re
vote in the 1946 state primary
and general elections. ~

Rise in registration of At,
lanta residents of color from
slightly more than 5,000 last
fall to nearly 25,000 was the
climax of a record-breaking
drive by the All-Citizens Registration committee which emboded the efforts of professed
Democrats, Republcans and_independents,

~nation as

| strikes, We hope that Bilbo and

is for the best interest of all concerned. This decision is made |;
Lexi sectioned eerie) idagaalan | Rankin will do something a
octed that the welfare of the
a whole is left to
more chance and the caprice
of the self-seeking moguls.:
Congress can find ways and
means of destroying utterly the
~EPC but it séems utterly help--s befcre the~ shallenge of

soul
Teer

sea

Soe

4out the interminable _ strikes
vitn which this nation is afflictd. Since tey are in the political. saddle we hope they may.
find a way to save the country
she agencies of a revolution that
is definitely tied up with the
strikes, actual and potential. -
Within the recent weeks and
months, Gov. Ellis Arnall of
Georgia has been lifting one of
the most positive voices in A~mevica, He is fast redeeming the
name of Georgia from the pit of
shame that lynching has been
digging for 50 years. Arnall
rescued Georgia from Talmadge

Negro.

and brought about the political
revolution that saw an end of
ithe poll-tax. Now comes Gov,; Arnall with the positive state| meit that he will do-nothing in
lan attempt to~ thwart the recent
iSupreme court decision that any
hindrance to the free exercise
| of the ballot would be prose1 cuted by the federal courts of
the land, ~Arnall further -said,
and rightfully so, that any attempt to thwart the decision cof
the United States Supreme court

Between The Lines

By Dean Gordon B,. Hancock,
For ANP

{. ~TAKES A CHAMPION MILKER
5 HOURS TO MILK 20 COWS.
By HAND soe 00e

N.

THANKS TO U6.
MANUFACTURERS, BY MACHINE
HE DOES THE SAME JOB
IN 1 HOUR, 20 MINUTES,

ARGEST AND FASTEST ARMY HOSPITAL
UTILIZES T

45,000 SQUARE FEET OF T

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SHIP
LE. / A eee;
HARVARD
PROFESSOR CALLS
OVER-EXPOSURE ~
- TO SUNLIGHT
~A CAUSE OF,

BALDNESS ~

redeeming the name of Gorgia,
No wonder someone has said a
~48 presidential ticket with Wallace and Arnall as.) running
mates would see one of the
greatest political landslides of
the century. Arnall-ism in Georgia is making a most favorable
impression on this nation at a
time when we are in the: political wilderness crying for deliverance. Georgia that was once
regarded as the Nazareth of the
nation is fast taking its place
among the progressive states of
the union. A little more Arnallism in the south and we are going to see the south rise and
shine and give the nation glory.

With the rise of Arnall-ism
in the south and the murder of
the FEPC in Washington we
muct admit that the case of the

Tillmans and Koke Smiths and
Tom Watsons and Cole Bleases
and Talmadges of poor extration, trampled.those more humane and more intelligent men
and women of the south. ~Thy
have been abusd and crushed
quite as much as the Negroes.
Arnall-ism may pYove to be the
rescue of these better Imnts

which they have been ruthless
ly released,
The late Dr. Shelton Horsley,

ternational fame. once arose in
an interracial mecting in the
governor~s office in Richmond
and made one of the finest pleas
I have ever hard. H was pleading that segregation be abolished on the common carriérs in
Virginia. He was a-man of arstocratic blood and did not flinch as he demanded the abolition

for such a time as this, The south

was unworthy of anyone believing in democracy..

It would be a mighty fine
thing if we had a man like Arzai in congress. When we are
being afflicted with wishy-washy
politicians who are. afrad_ ot
heir own moral shadows, a man
jike Arnall would redeem the
name of congress, even as he is

-has always boasted of an old
ar"steeracy that never counienanced the brutal subjugation of
Negroes. These old arittocrats

Negroes. These old aristocrats
hopeless. Who knows but that
Arnall has come to the scene!

| of

segregation, A poor man
coula not have done so. Who
knows but that Arnall-ism may
mcan the resurgence of southry aristocracy..which did not

have to derive its pride from

have

always been kindly dis-'
pos:d toward Negroes, The Ben |

hopeless Negroes abused

ae no
CUssig

and insulted,

THE DAY IS COMING

Dr. Tobias Heads
Stokes Fund

NEW YORK ~ ANP. ~ Dr.
Channing H. Tobias, who assumed full duties as director of
the Phelps-Stokes fund here on
May 1, will represent his organization at the West Central African Regional Missionary conference in the~ Congo during
June and July, Dr. Tobias is
slated to leave the country the
latter part of this month for
Africa,
| His elevation to director of
the fund marks the first time a
member of his race has been so
honored. He succeeds Dr, Thomas Jesse Jones, who retired after
more than 60 years of service to
the cause of education and race
relations in America and Africa. Dr. Jones had served as field
agent, educational director, director and trustee of the Phelps,
| Stokes fund.

Dy. Tobias, former. senior secretary for race relations of the
international YMCA, has served
on many college boards, committees and interracial and advisory commissions appointed by
the federal, state and municipal
governments. His full biography appears in ~Who~s Who in
America.~ He plans to visit various parts of West African, es
~turns to the states,

Pig Brooders_,Electrie pig brooders help to
Save one extra pig per litter and
give an earlier pig~ crop, especially
in the colder sections. The brooder
orovides a warm hover for the pigs

|

~man from knowing and under
e

Jelected dirctor of the General

~| with its work, the announce
pecially Liberia, before he re
The Rev. Ansen Phelps
Stokes, president of the fund,
will be succeeded on Nov, 1 by
Dr. Jackson Davis, an announcement from the organization revealed. Dr. Davis was recently

Education board. Both he and
Dr, Tobias have served as trustees of the fund for a long period and are well acquainted

when not nursing.

es

ment said,

By Eric Hass
Two union armi~s are moving
into the South, They~l! soon be
marching ~through Georgia, not
to hunt down rebels, but to
round up duespayers. The main
objective of what is called ~Operation Dixie~ is the vast southerr textile industry with its
500,000 unorganized workers. But
the organization drive will als0 be carried into lumber, oil,
chemicals, tobacco food processing, utilities and service industries. Its repercussions will be
felt widely and it: will shake
violently, athough it won~t destroy, the racial pattern in vogue in southern industry,
Negroes are certain to become deeply involved in the
bitter intraunion rivalry for
power and duespayers, The main
~drive, however, -centered as it
is on the textile industry, will
pass them by. The reason is of
course, that Negroes are. denied
jobs in the textile industry ~except at menial labor such as
cleaning and sweeping, and at
the hot, dirty work of opening
cotton bales in the picking
room,

This traditional racial employment pattern is bolstered by the
legislation requiring -complete
segregation within the mills of
Negro and white workers. Before Negroes have even a remote chance to break throug
the textile job calling, therefore, one of two things have to
be done. Either the legislation
must be repealed or the mill
cwhers must be persuaded to
install dual washrooms and
other accomodations. There is
no likelihood that either of
these ~solutions~ will result
from the twin A, F_ of L-CIO
unionization drive. Here are the
reasons:

THE DAY IS COMING.

job discrimination; white. textile workers are also hostile to
any change that would open
mill jobs to Negro workers,
While they express this hostility in ~racist terms, behind their
prejudice is the fear of Negro
competition. The union organizer who tries to reason with
this fear isn~t very likely to get
a warm, reception. -

The A. F, of L, is frankly not
interested in organizing Negroes
in the South. Dominated by a
~practical business-union philosopny and a positive aversion to
disturbing social relations as its
finds them, the A, F. of L. will
not recoil from the use of prejudice as a weapon in the intra-union war, It will try to

put the CIO on the defensive
by charging it with being ~proNegro.~

The CIO on the other hand,
while officially denouncing: race
discrimination, will soft-pedal
this line in the South. It will
point~ to southern mills already
organized by the CIO. Textile
Workers Union of América. The
same discrimination prevails in
those mills as throughout the
South and, while Negro. workers yholding menial jobs are admitted to the union, except in
a very few mills they are seggated irlo separate locals.
Herbert R, Northrup, in his
~Organized Labor and the Negro,~ writes:

~The adoption of the separav2 local for Negroes means
that the Textile Workers Union
has accepted the racial employment pattern of the industry,
It is difficult to understand how
it could be otherwise.. 10
advocate an alteration in the
status quo at this time would
ensure the Textile Workers Union, or any other labor organization, complete defeat in the
southern textile mills.~

It is not just the textile em
ployers w&o are responsible for

An so it would. No union that

is merely out for duespayers. ae

| ~n the wilderness.

from the shame and disgrace io |

the great cancer surgeon of in-|

This Is South
Africa ~

By Julis G. Mali
COLOR POLICY

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DOMINATES ALL.
JOHANNESBURG, ~South African political scene is just now
~harged with a heavy air of
axpectancy.. From the beginning of the present session of
parliament it.becomes~ evident
that tempers would rise and
men lose their reason.:
Some of the measures before
parliament, particularly the}:
"ndian Land Tenure and Rep-|
resentation bill, went deep in-.o the fundamental color policy
of South Africa, As for as the
African people are concerned
the deliberations of white parliamentarians in a house of parliament where only four white
people represent eight million
blacks, do not offer much attraction. Laws are made and
passed without ever the African people being consulted and
when their white representatives raise their feeble voices in
protest, theirs are mere cries

2

LABOR AND
THE AFRICAN
It is a known fact that South
Africa. is not as. industrially
developed as she should be and
industrialists; realizing the)
great potentialites of the count
try, have from time. to time~
hinted at-the necesSity of train-.
ing Africans as artisians and
skitied operators in factories, so:
as to take their place in the development of the country~s
secondary industries,
The urgency of training Afri.
cans for skilled jobs has not
been felt so much in the inlusirial field as it has been
in the building trade, The
world wide shortage of. housing is aS acute in South Africa
as anywhere else, and exv-orts
reckon that with the present
trained man-power (whiie) ~it
will.take South Africa very
many years before she can
complete her housing program,

\

|

CHARLIE CHAPLIN _
BACK ON S~REEN |

make his first picture in six

1

years when he
appears in his
own production
~Comedy

will
clude Martha
Raye. Chaplin~s |

last picture, released in 1940,
eae was ~The Great
W. H. BONDS Dictator.~

7 *: *

\HE AGREEMENT OF
PRAYING SOULS.

~IF TWO OF YOU shall agree
on éarth as touching anything
ihat they shall ask, it shall be
done for them of my Father
which is in. héaven.~ Bible,

* *

LOU. SWARZ STARS
IN MOVIE ROLE |
~STARS ON PARADE~ which
had its first run at the Comet
~Theatre, New York City,. is
rated as one of the best all
*

Lou. Swarz, famed writer and
actress, is the commedienne. She
is a riot, Watch for ~Stars on
Parade,~ which will be shown
at your local theatre,

* * ~8

SPEAKS FOR VETS

IN<HOUSING SHORTAGE
_ IN SPBAKING ~in interest~ of
housing - for veterans. recently,
Rey. Lyndon Johnson, of Texas,
made the following statement:
~I believe we can provide
sleeping accomodations for veterans at Normandy,, Okinawa,
and Rome, we can use the same

Detroit Anti
In the light of this shortage

of manpower, a_ feeling has
emerged, not without mich
prompting, that in ~native

housing~ as ~much -as possible,
native labor shéuld"bé used.% '

The Labor party, an all
white organization representating the interests of white labor,
only declared itself opposed to
the training of Africans for the
building trade on the grounds
that they would compete with
white workers and undermine
~heir standards of living. In
various conferences where this
question was discussed white
laborites felt that the time
had not. yet come to use Africans in. skilled occupations,
Th>y argue that it has taken
the white man centuries tc
reach his present standara; in
the same way must the AfriCans wait before they are introduced into the secrets of the
Machine age.

A few weeks ago under pressure from the native representatives the Labor party cauzus
in parliament accepted ~ the
proposal to train Africans in the
building trade, It was agreed
that Africans should be used
in the building of hemes~ for
African occupation, The Labor
party, however, placed a condition. in this agreement, namely, that after 10 years the
African trained artisen should
be paid the same wages as
white workers,

The feeling here is this that
whilst nobody is oppa3ea to
the principal ct equal pay for
equal work, the condi-on; proposed by the Labor pa ~ty would,
in the long run, tend to operate to the disadvantage of the
African artisian. If building
contractors were compelled by
law to pay Africans the same
Wages as they would obviously
show a. preference in white
laber if for no other reason
than political, es

could conceivably alter ~ ~the
thinking of the fear-and prejuslice ridden southern textile

at that, it would have to be-a
union concerned, not with duespayers, but with spreading class
consciousness, that is, with organizing the workers to abolish
the social system which breeds
poverty, insecurity and fear,
Only a union intent on organizing the whole working class
for a Socialist reconstruction of
society would have the fortitude
and audacity to come to grips
with prejudice, expcse and root
out its social ane economic

| was not proved at the rally,

workers. For a union to succeed:

Prohibition
Rally Held =~

DETROIT.~ ANP ~.~ The
beer brewers, the whiskey distillers and the tavern owners
here who believe they see the
hand of the prohibtionists moving stealthily behind the beer
shortage throughout the country staged a mommoth = anti~prohibition rally at the Olympia
here Monday night with 18,000
people in attendance.

All the taverns and nite clubs
throughout the ~city and surrounding territory closed their
doors at six o~clock in the evening so that their help might
take ~part in the protest. A
three hour floor show of performers from many of the nite
spots was the main attraction
and speeches were the order of
the day,

Meny. of the speakers hammered home the fact that beer
is not a luxury but a né~cessity, the ~workingman~s staple
beveragé.~ b

While it was said that most
of the big brewers stayed in
the background furnishing most
~of the- funds to sponsor the
rally, the tavern and bartenders union stood out in the forefront and contributed their proportionate share, Paradise Valley, with its numerous saloons
and nite clubs closed for the
Oceasion, was completely deserted: and~ looked like the proverbial graveyard while the big
tally was in progress. |

The claim that much~ of the
grain now being shipped to Europe presumably to feed the
Starving Europeans is being
converted into beer which, it
was said, is being shipped back
to this country and sold cheapér price~ than domestic brands,

though it was oft repeated. and
~Still is the tavern owners~ bone
of contention,

It was openly charged by
Sam Sage of the Wayne County CIO council that prohibitionists. are holding up the barley
which might otherwise be mada
into beer, under guise that it
is being shipped to Europe.

The idea behind this. giant
mass meeting was to arouse
public indignation against what |.
is believed to be an unnecessary beer shortage and to create
Puble sentiment against the
expanding Prohibition move
colored films produced to date.|.

| age.: ~

fiable homicide.~

ingenuity and imagination to
provide roofs fot ~them int*Manhatian, Central, Texa

s and Cal- _

fornia.~; Seetiregys; ~ t -s eS

REAL ESTATE LOBBY
SELFISH MOTIVE

~ET CHARGE THAT the mo.

ES of| tives of the real estate lobby
' Murders,~ which| are to perpetuate the housing
also. in-| shortage in order to continue to
gain speculative profits, at the
expense of Veterans,~ stated
Wilson Wyatt, housing expediter, recently, pr OLE fe 3

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DOROTHY MAYNOR TO
SING AT AUTO JUBILEE
DOROTHY MAYNOR, soprano, will be featured, together
with Lauritz Melchoir star of
the Metropolitian Opera, in the
Automotive Golden ~ Jubilee
community rally to be held
June 9, at Briggs Stadium.

*

Sentence
Sermons

By Rev. Frank Clarence. Lowry
for ANP

1, Love, the greatest thing in

the world, when deceitfully prac
ticed; throws -even. the ~strong

and mighty into a whirl. -

2. Love, one of the shortest

| words in the English language
| has been the longest misused,

and caused the greatest dam
3 Old.deceptive: Judas, posing in a love scene for hell~s
photographers, kissed the son
of God in bold array, and Set
the world on edge until this day.

4, Caesar, who didn~t come to
die for fallen man, yet by. the
same deceptive love, met his
end at Brutus~ hand.

5. Since these, and other terrible betrayals without \end, the
love of man, few will trust behind a hand

6. But real love can cure any
human disease and set a world
| like this at perfect ease,

7. For when love is shut. out
of the human heart, then things.
begin to go wrong from. the
start. 5

8. It is then the sum total of
Love~s sad neglect begins bearing down with its atomic effect,

9. It was just such as this
that finally convinced the strong

out real love is no good at all.
i0. It was then he began to
write ~love thinketh no-evil,~ is
not easily provoked,~ then fervently prayed forgiveness for
every Christian he had choked,
11. He then counted everything of less value than his
troubled and poor soul, and began to qualify for his heavenly
role,
12. Thus it so happens with
every individual, every group
and every nation; when love is
allowed to do its perfect work
of elevation, then the - whole
earth begins to rejoice in the
God of their salvation.

Jury Fails to -
Indict in Street
Car Slaying

' ATLTNTA ~ ANP ~ Efforts
to secure indictments against
T. H. Purl, street car motorman, and Arthur Friedberg,
railway mail clerk, both white,
in connection with the slaying
of Madison Harris and ~ Phinizie Summerour, Negro youths,
failed last week when the Fulton County Grand jury returned ~no bills~. favoring the accused.
Summerour was killed ~last
fall as he was leaving the
Pine - Forrest bus. Friedburg
was released on copy and later
bound over to the JanuaryFebruary grand jury which failed to indict~ on the murder
charge, The white man claimed the Negre.cursed at him
and shot him as he was leaying the bus,
Harris, veteran of World
War II, was slain. April. 10 on
Miichell stteet,-his motormanSlayer being released on copy
and freed at Reeorder~s court
heading when Judge A. W. Cal
ut,zr

loway ruled it a case of ~justi
ves Tooth Cleanser

apple for dessert in the school
child~g lunch is a most. effective
tooth cleanser and breath sweeten.

cause,: ment.

er.

~ne:

headed old Saul, that a life with- -

a