Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 15]

PAGE SIX

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Gov. Dewey Says N. Y.

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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

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SATURDAY, JUNE 29.. 1946

Discrimination Is At Low Ebb

ATLANTIC CITY ~ ANP ~

- New York~s anti-dscriminat'on

a= point. never

law, the first in the nation, is
a success, Governor Dewey declared last week, Discrimination, he said, has dropped to
befor= L-i:ved
possible since SCAD was_ initiatzd.

The statements were part of
a Mressage sent to the 750 delegats from 400 lodges through.

_ out the country here to attend

the 59th annual convention of
the independent order, Brith
Abraham. Continuing, the governor said:

~Despite the ill consequences
prophesied by opponents of the
measure before it was_ enacted,
employers are now acknowledging that tne commission has
been a yenuine help to them

~We are heading, I confidently believe, toward a prejudicefree era in this beloved nation
which was the cradle of liberty
in modern civilization and now
is t~#~ trustee of the hopes of
the world for the institution ~of
human freedom,~

Dr. Stepien S, Wise,
dent of the Ame.~

presieen Jewish

congress, noted ~hat the Jewish;

people have li:tle to hope for
from the British government,
particularly its Labor governmert. Dr, Wise urged President
Truman to exert his power to
enforce ithe British government to fulfill a pledge to allow entry of 100,000 refugee
Jews into Palestine.

Status for the Jewish people]*

in the council of the United
Nations was requested of the

in eliminating employment prac-| minister of foreign affairs of
tices which the statute made un-| the ~Big Four~ meeting in
lawful, Paris shortly. |
Urban League Urges More
Opportunities in Skilled Labor
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key cities, released last week
iby the National Urban league,
showed a-dearth of opportunity
for Negroes in the _ building
traces ~and predicted more exclusion unless employment and
apprenticeship training is faciltated through labor unions and
contractors.

Julius A. Thomas, industrial
secretary of the league, declared that the demand for more
than 1,00,000 skilled workers
for the emergency housing program _ should increase use of
Negro workers ~ in coming
munths,

Singling out the International
Brotherhood of..Electrical workers and the United Association
of Plumbers and Steem Mitters

to established ~jim crow~ practices, Thomas said the number
of Negro building~ mechanics
haa decreased steadily~ in) the
past 20 years. I

Ia New York City only six
Negroes are known to be among
30,000 members of Local 3,
IBEW, Thomas _ declared,,and
pointed out that there are only
22 licensed Negro electriang in

the city.
Unions in Newark -.bar Negro
apprentices, it was disclosed,

Negro members of building,unions in Newak_ include = 100
bricklayers, 40 painters, 25 cartia 15 electricians, 10 plas
ters, ~five plumbers 17. lathres,
15 stationary engineers, and one
roofer,

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RICHMOND, Va ~ ANP ~
After one week~s operation of
interstate buses through and
in Virginia following the momentous decision in the Irene
Morgan case invalidating jim
crow travel in interstate buses,
no outward incident had _ occurred anywhere in the state.
The first incident to attract
much public attention occurred
at Suffolk on June 10.

Twenty - three Nansemond
county, Va. white. youths enrote: to Richmond for the induction center got off the Greyhound bus at Suffolk rathen
than sit with Negro passengers, They complained that Negro passengers had _ occupied
more than half of the bus seats.

M. P.. Spivey, who had
charge of the Suffolk inductees
ani Melvin Brinkley, leader of
the county group, who joined
the Suffolk group, backed the
youth in their decisicn to leave
the bus, Spivey icpu:ted tha:
men left the bus of their
own accord and that he and
Brirkley followed their action.

Spivey said, ~we are waiting
for the next but, but if we
have to sit with Negroes, we

wil! keep on waiting,~ >

When two more buses ur~ived, the whites faced the same
dilemma but refused to sit beside Negro passengers. When
told about the court~s ruling,

Negro mechanics were found
Thomas. said. Those having
trained Negro mechanics available were as follows: Baltimore,
20 carpenters, 14 plumbers, nine
bricklayers, 15 plasters and 19
electricians; Chicago, 400 brick:
layers, 300 carpenters, 300 painters, 150 electricians, 20 plumbers, 20 steamfitters,and 2,000
trained for small repair and
construction jobs; Cleveland,
32 carpenters, 57 bricklayers,
80 ~painters, nine plumbers, six
electricians, 40 piasters,

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al statement. But finally at 11
a.m,, four hours~ after the inductees were scheduled to depart, they took a bus in which
there: were fewer Negro pasengers. who occupied rear seats.
Negro passengers refused to
double up in the first three
buses, although there were sufficient seats for all if they had

followed the old jim crow cus
tom,

Immediately after the supreme court~s ruling on interstate
~bus travel, the Grey hound and
other bus lines in Virginia operating interstate travel took
down their jm crow signs.

In Richmond where the Greyhound maintains seperate waiting room for the races, all passengers have for a long time
bought tickets at the same. windown. It has also been the custom here for Negro passengers
to occupy available seats in the
white waiting room, whenever
the colored waiting room is
cvercrowded, The Negro waiting

room is small and uncomfortable | -

in hot weather with undesirable toilet facilites; A ~small
hole in the wall provides. the
only means of securing sandwiches and ~pop for Negro passengers,

Law Against ~
Discrimination in
Employment

Is Urged

WASHINGTON ~ ANP ~De
clanog that resins to establisn,

a permanent fair employment
practices commission are doomed
to failure, Rep, Hoffman (Rep.
Mich.) last week urged instead
a permanent law making discrimination in employment illegal,

In support of this he is author
of a bill which would make it
unlawful for a.person to refuse
to hire or work for anyone because of race creed, color or
naiional origin. Anyone violating
the law would be entitled to
~actual damages~ resulting from
the discrimination.

Observing that the. Republican national convention endorsed an FEPC plan in 1944, he said
the convention also promised ta
create no new agencies. Present
legislation before congress would
create a new agency,

Angier Fish
The angler fish car swallow fish
bigger than itsélf because of its
~elastic~~ stomach. This remarkable
fish gets its name from a long movable thread projecting from its.head

which it uses.as a lure to attract'its.

prey. The angler fish is able to walk
along the bottom of the sea on spe
rially formed fins

WINS PHI DELTA KAPPA
SCHOLARSHIP

MISS WINIFRED V, PARKER,
16-vear-old honor student of Indianapolis~ Crispus Attucks High
school, was declareyl the winner
of the $400 national Phi Delta
Kappa scholarship award last
week, thereby eliminating 153
contestants from 23 Phi Delta
Kappa chapters... Miss Parker
has already applied for admission to Cornell university where
she plans to embark on a scientific career. ~ ANP,

PHI._DELTA ~KAPPA Sorority
Horors Dr, Bethune ~ Alpha
Gamma chapter of Phi Delta
Kappa sorority entertained recently at the home of Soroz
Maggie Carter in Jacksonville,
Fla, in honor of Dr. Mary MeLeod' Bethune; fourier and
President of Bethune Cookman
college ~also founder and president of the National Council of

as an hnoraty member of Phi

Negro women. Alpha Gamma
chapter presented Mrs. Bethune

Delta Kappa at the national conclave in Baltimore in 1945,

The sorority pin is being presented to Mrs, Bethune by Lucile J, Shropshier while the sorots look on approvingly. Reading from left to right (seated)
Julia Robinson, Ina Ruth Law
rence, Ruby P: Benthone, Bessie
Smith and Wilhelmina Rutledge,
Loft to right (standing) Lucile
J. Shropshier Mary McLeon Be
| thune, Basileus Elizabeth Myers,

Former Basileus ' Adriana: Wes
30n. Ruth -McLaughlin, Thelma |~

Hall, Beatrice:Vaught: Gerelieve
Gardner, Maggie Carter and~ Marie Broome, ~ ae a

Nigeria Joins
In Empire~s
Victory

LAGOS, W. Africa ~-~ANP~
The empire~s victury celebration
for World War II struck Nigoria last week by special ~service Saturday in the Cathedral]
church~ of Christ here and
special church services last Sun.
day,

Victcry festivities were marked in various pails of the colony by feasts for school children:yport events and other forms
of enteriamment. A Nigerian
army contingent, consisting of
164 men.took part in the~gala
victory pavade in London last
week, They catried tie king~s
regiment! colors and the Nigerian flag in tne line of march
with other colonial soldiers,

The Nigerian army contingent
left here on May 5. The entire
West African mililary -contingent was under the command of

Lt, Col. R. M, V. Pensonby,
DSO, 9th Gold Coast regiment,

Tree Disease.
Costs Cocoa.
Farmers Millions

ACCRA W. AFRICA ~ ANP

Cocoa farmers in this area
have lost approximately $5,000, -
000. within a year by the deadly
~swollen shoot disease,~ which
kills cocoa trees.

The infected tree never recovers fiom the disease. It sickens and dies, sometimes at slow
speed, An infected tree infects
other trees around it, a govern
ment report revealed. The rem- }

edy against the spread of the
deadly disease is to cut down
the infected tree in order to
save the trees around ~it.

Cocoa farmers in Nigeria have
been warned about the necessity
to combat the disease, which has
cost Gold.Coast: farmers around

$5,000,000 annually,

College Professor Says Language
Barrier Misunderstanding Basis

ATLANTA ~ ANP ~ That
the barrier of language has been
the basis of much -misunderstanding among the.peoples of
the world is pointed out in the
current ~Phylon,~ Atlanta university~s review of race and culture, by Edward A. Jones, chairman of the department of: romance languages at Morehouse
college, Dr. Jones believes that
language is the key to an understanding and appreciation of
the cultural heritage of those
who speak it and of those who
record tneir thinking in it,

~The Washington News~ Beat ~
also in this issue of Phylon written by Ernest Johnson, former
chief of the Washington buréau
of the Associated Negro Press,
reveals how the nation~s capital
found itself on the gefensive
each week on matters concerning - Negro soldiers. The ANP,
Johnson Bays, it was labeled by

the: war department~s bureau of
public relations ~lousy,~ because
of its constant needling of the
department on the use and treatment of Negro soldiers. Negro
newspapermen, according to
Johnson.~~~se~ek no. medals and
ask: no praise, Their only hopes
are for sympathetic handling of
copy by editors and: a~ conscientious reading public that will
keep reading public thet will
daily life,~

A profile of the great biologist, Ernest Everett Just, is wrilten by: S. Milton Nabrit, of Atlanta university. Just, Spingarn
medalist in 1915, was: a membzu |
of the corporation of the Marine
Biological laboratory and of the
editorial board of the Biological
~Bulletin and of Protoplasma_ of
Berlin, He was author of over
60 _Papers and of two monographs,

Reveal for Firestone Assists

Rubber Planters in Liberia

By Jacob Browne

MONROVIA ~ ANP ~ From
1940 to 1943 when G. H, Seyboid was genera] manager of
the Firestone~ Plantations company in Liberia | all used implements were given to. rubber
planters free of charge, Mr.
Seybold had rubber nurseries
made of the best seeds available on the planta.ons, which
when the plants we-< ready tor
transplanting, he g.ve to. Liberian plantas fre> The total
uber of stumps from t! ese
nurseries were 600,000 which
cos; ~the Company $12,060. He
also had experts on rubber
planting and cave come ~y Liberia to giv: edvice,

The
given to planters te
their Firestone
plantations to whereever their
farms were located at a very
low cost. All budgrafting i
struments we.-e supplied the
farmrers freely; in like manner

emyany~s tiucks were

iransport

stumps from

Indianapolis High School Girl

INDIANAPOLIS ~ ANP ~
Winner of the $200 national Phi
Delta Kappa scholarship award
is Miss Winifred V. Parker, a
16 year~old graduate of Crispus
Attucks High School were, who
entered the contcst by tie local
Tau chapter of the Pri Delta
Kappa. Sa

Miss Parkev; the daughter of
Mrs, Frieda Cumpbell and Frederick, A Parker,. was on honor
roil at Crispus Attucks High
school for every report-card period since her entrance and was
the number one student in a
graduating class of 276, She
hopes to study science at Cornell university where she has
already applied for admission.

Miss Parker is one of a fa

| Wins Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship

ily of six Her mother. a graduate of Wilberforce university
is employed as social worker at
Marion County Welfare headquarters, Her father, a graduate
of Arnherst college, heads the
mathematics department at Attucks. High school.

Contestants who won honorabl: mention in the Phi Delta
Kappa national contest, which
attracted a total of 153 contestants in various parts of the
country, were Olive Roach, Theta chapter New York City; Sylvia Vincent, Theta chapter, New
York City; and Ann Laws, Zeta
chapter of Philadelphia.

Twenty-three Phi Delta Kappa

chepters participated in the
scholarship contest,

were tapping snait-.- Ws supplied,
Second-hand pick-ups were supplied tappers on a credit basis,

payment to be mad. by insiz -
Iments.

Credits were 9. cvréd opencd
at. tre United States Trading

company~a mercantile store
maintained by Firestone on the
piiantations, Rubber plan'ters
took advantage of opportunity to
procure food and goods upon a
monthly basis for their laborers and where there was a rice
shrtage, thes2 rubber planters
could always obtain rice~ from
Firestone and thus prevent
thsiy labor changing hands,
Pamphlets containing all information from the clearing and
felling of trees up to the tapping and processing of rubber

plarters. The Liberian Rubber [

Planters association~ was organized and set to work under
the chairmanship of, C, D. B,
King~a large rubber - producer.
This association tendered Mr.
Seybold a send-off party when
tokens of appreciation were
given him for the fine agsistance he had lent in setting
Libgyian rubber planters on their
feet,

With the. departure
Seybold, things have
for the worse. Under the new,
management, planters can get
only. a small quantity ~of stumps,
Farmers who had opened large
farms during the Seybold regime have had to suffer great
inconvenience due to lack of
stumps. There are no free tools
now, and only producers enjoy
a credit at the store on the
plantations, All tapping and
budgrafting instruments ~ must
be purchased outright.

Despite the change, the benefits to be derived have been
great to Liberians,
arz more economically ~strong
now than they have been for

of Mr.
changed

fight between their

Liberians }

Dr. Bethune Gets

Honorary Pin.

JACKSONVILLE,. ~ Fla.
ANP Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, honorary member of Phi
Delta Kappa sorority rec?ived
a pin, embtteni of the organiza.
tion, here last week at a reception given in her honcr cry the
home of Maggie Cert-r.

_ Founder snl 5 ~ ~dent emeritus of Bethune-Ccor:man college
at Dayton Beach, and founder
and president of the National
Council of Negro women, Mrs,
Bethune became a member of
Phi Delta Kappa at; the national
conclave in Baltimore in 1945.

Fight on
Black Astounds

Negroes

ementeto ~ ANP ~Negrces who have hailed Justice
Hugo Black as a liberal are
looking in amazement, at the
idol and

Justice Jackson,
Writers in metropolitan dailies
are saying that the former Ku
Kluxer is not the liberal he is
counted being, Rumors of strife
on the bench have rocked Washington from time to time, but
never before has it had the publicity given the recent outburst,
Mr. Truman is not so well pleased at, Justice Jackson for bringing this matter to a head. That
the public will lose faith in: the
supreme court as~ 4 resul~ of this
internal bick2.a%: is the fear of
many who have regarded court
as incorrupiible and the ~inal
word in justice.

Missing is the strong hand of
former Chief Justice Mr, Hugh.
es who managed to: keep -har
sociates working iogether, ~Tie
appointment of Fred Vinson to
the chief justiceship is an, indicetion that all was. not well
within the court and those who
were aspiring to the chief justiceship are bitter over the bypass and the flare eup of tempers
and charges and counter charges
is believed to be a, result Of the
Vinson appointment.

Oklahoma Crants
$10,000 for Out of
State Students

OKLAHOMA CITY ~ ANP~
Allocation of $10,000 to the state
board of education to pay outof state tuition for Negro stu
den's was. made by Governor
Robert S.~ Kerr this week.
According to a statement

made by A, L. Crablg state
superintendent and bourd chairman, the original appropriat~on
is depleted and the contingency
fund allocation is needed to
pay claims on file, and those
wiich will be filed besore ~Juiz

Pig Srooders
Electric pig brooders help to
Bave one extra pig per litter and
give an earlier pig crop, especially
in the colder sections. The brooder
provides a warm hover for: the pigs
when not nursing. -;

producers in. the country are
largest produciAg acreage Har.
James F. Cooper who has the
ry Morris, son of the late John
L, ~Morris; C. S, B. King Edwin Barclay, C. L. Simpson,
Gr2y G. Johnson, -Ernest Yancy; Benjamin "G, Freeman ~ Albert D. Peabody, E,~H. Shansneu, W. V. S, Tubman, D. Twe,
Richard Price: and Henry R.
Cooper. 14s 34
There are scores of ~ other
planters all over the country
whose farms are ust~ ~coming to production, It cannot be
denied that were it not for. the
advent of the Firestone ~ompary here, these things would
not~ be. While it~ is true that
everything has ~not~ gone smoothly, and that the. management
has not always been. interested~
in the welfare of. Liberjans,
yet somethings good has come

the past 50 years. The leading

out~ tbe their effors in. Libria,

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