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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1846

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NEGRO HEALTH WEEK.

Commencing Oct. 27, progressive communities throughout the country will be observing Negro Health Week. It is an
annual observance, designe,] to call public attention to thie
relatively poor-health conditions of the Negro group as compared with that of other groups of the population. [na democratic society, it is anmalous that the health conditions of one
racial e!) men: should be so generally under par as to be a matter of special concern; but such are some of the imperfections
and shortcomings of our social order. Statements have been
advanced from t~me to time by those in authority!:xplaining.and often excusing this sorry siate of affairs: but, regardless of
causes, explanations or excus?s, the fact remains that the incidence of the Ni gro group to certain disease conditions. is
generally much higher throughout the nation than in other
groups. Such a situation is a menace to the entire population
and cannot be the concern of the Negro group alone. It is a
public hi:alth matter and comes within the perview of the public health authorities, of the community, state and nation.. ~

In this area the public health conditions of the Negro
group aré admittedly bad. Something must be done about
them. In line with the nation-wide effort to okiserve Negro

~ Health Week a committee is at work on arrangements for the
improvement of local conditions. It is to be hoped that the
public and private agencies directly. concerned will cooperate

_ fully with this committee in such endeavors. The problem is
a large and difficult one involving many questions of,policy
and procedure. There will be questions of financial appropriations, medical procedures and appropriate personnel. But.
withal, it isa human problem and offers a unique opportunity
for cooperative effort in achieving better community relationships as well as better health conditions.

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

Ours is a representative government, that means that we,
the people, choose certain men and women from among us and
give them the authority to make and enforce the laws by
which we are govern:d. The power to make and enforce the
laws is a v~ry important power. It follows that it is also very
important to choose the representatives who will make and enforce the laws. We choose them ~by voting for thtem in elections. Voting is therefore, one of the important keys to the
whole problem. Where the voting is on a popular and general basis, the likelihood is that the representatives selected
will represent the true interests of all the people. Indeed, so
-important is the privilege of voting and taking part in choosing those who are to represent us in the government that selfish interests and special groups are constantly striving by hook
or crook to limit its exercise to as few persons as possible while,
on the other hand, democratically-minded individuals and
groups are ~equally anxious to see that every qualified person
exercise the right of the franchise.

One of the chief complaints of minority groups is that
they de not have proper or adequate representation. If that
is a fact, and we feel that it is~it becomes all the more the
duty of every member of such groups to take an active part in
every election and by their vote to insure the selection of proper representation. There is a definite, casual relation between
unsatisfactory representation and restricted voting. This is
clearly illustrated in the southland.. There, we find all kinds
of restrictions on the right to vote and it is also there that we
saw such misfits in public office as Blease, Vardeman, Tillman,
Hoke Smith, Bilbo and hosts of others~all spawned in a single generation. Such ~misanthropes could be produced nowhere but in communities where the sacred right of all the
people to choose their representatives has been reduced to a

_farce. However, improper or inadequate representation is
brought about not only through the schemes and designs of
evil persons but quite frequently results from the indifference
or wiliful neglect of otherwise well-meaning persons. in our
community, there is absolutely no attempt on the part of anyone to restrict the right to vote. Everyone qualified to vote
can vote and is encouraged to vote. Yet a large number of
those who are qualified fail to register and vote. Quite often
those same persons will spend time and money helping their
brothers in the South fight for the right to vote and will thrili
when they see pictures of them lined up before the voting
Booths often at the peril of their lives. But when it becomes

their turn to exercise the right, they will neglect to do so even
when their friends and associates beg them to. Well, we cannot eat our cake and have it too. Those who will be free must
strike the first blow. Further, we must be consistent. If we
are not properly represented we should stop whining and take
the obvious steps to secure better representation. This we can
do by registering and voting. in less than a month, we will be
choosing representatives for important positions in our local,
state and fedsral governments. We cannot take part in the
choosing unless we register to vote. We havertwo days lefi
in which to register. If we mean business we will register and
vote. If we do not mean business then, for heaven's sake,

let us stop complaining.

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RALEIGH, N.C;.~- ANP: ~
Local police arrested the Rev.
J. Leon Pridgen on the alleged
charge that the minister refused
tc occupy a seat in the r2ar of
ban outbound bus, operatei. by
tne Carolina Coach company, at
-| Union Bus terminal here last
Saturday night. The cleric who
| gave his address as Shaw uni~versity, was booked on a d~sorderly corfduct charge, but was
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arrest on his own recognizanve.

According to a warrant taken
out by W. A. Green, representing

the bus company, Rev...Pridger

~willfully refusing to. occupy
space in the rear of a bus in
compliance with rules and- res 1 -
lations of the ( erolina Coach
'-" company, aS ordered by the bus: driver, A. F. Collins.~ In defense

said to have told arresting officers that he possessed an interSlate ticket, and was entitled to
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By REV. FRANK. CLARENCE LOWRY

Multitudes of men daily demonstrate their faith in horses,
but don~t even use horse sense when it comes to trusting God.

One does not hesitate to turn the radio to the desired program on the air, but how faithless is the average person in listening anl talking to God in prayer.

Men mutt realize that they are as helpless and useless without a God upon whom they can call,:as is the radio without the
plug in the wall.

The radio only has dimly lighted tubes to prove that is
mechanism is in order, but God has the sun, moon and stars
shining constantly as a sign of His omnipotence anl almighty
power.

But, most men even put more trust in postage stamps, than
faith in the Creator of these eternal lamps.

Yes, how strange it man doth very clearly appear; he can
go to sleep in a train behind an unseen engineer and have no
fear.

He will brave the God made elements in a plane mace by
his own hand's, but won't lift himself that near to God in faith,
nor take Him into his plans.

Couples contemplating marriage seem to have implicit
confidence in each other, but all too seldom fail to have the
same degree of faith in Christ who sticketh closer: than an
brother.

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This would be a happier and more promising earth, if parents before marriaie would receive of Christ, the ~New Birth.~~

~The head of this troublesome old world is sick, because
the heart of man toward God wilil not stick, and is in conttant
conflict.:

God reaches down to man and offers him heavenly tr~asures rich and good, but man pulls away from God and finally
succumbs to black-market. God.

But God never tires at pulling men away from eternal
fires and even grants them an estate and the title of heir, and

starts them to singing ~on land or sea, no matter where, where
Jesus is, *tis heaven there.~

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LABOR VIEW. By GEORGE F. McCRAY for ANP

CIO-POLITICAL ACTION GROUP
EYES NEGRO VOTE |

The CIO Political Action Committee has just completed a
nation-wide survey of the power of the Negro vote. Peolitically the Negro need not go begging for favors and handouts: The
vete of Negro workers dominate over 58 congressional districts all over the nation. But this vote has kieen so poorly organized and hed that many of the congressmen who depend upon the Negro vote actually vote against the interests of the Negro worker. Thus 23 of the 58 congressmen who could not be
elected against solid Negro opposition failed to support the

FEPC. salleiceas inet pe

According to Jack Kroll, successor to the late Sidney Hillman as chairman of the PAC, ~~Negro voters in cooperation
with organized labor and other progressives have an opportunity to defeat representatives in congress who have joined reactionary forces in sabotaging ~he program for full and fair employment. The job is to get every potential voter registered.~

Many districts where the Negro vote has always been a
vital and even dominant factor have been excluded from the
survey because they were won by safe majorities.. They include
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit. The potential
vote figures, based on the 1940 census, represent minimums, -as
population increases have added to the totals.

NEGROES ALERT

As an example of how an alert and well organized group
can be effective, the survey singled out the defeat of Rep. Roger
Slaughter (D.-Mo.), who used his strategic: position on the
powerful House Rules Committee to keep the FEPC bill off the
floor. Elected in 1944 by a margin of 5-193 in a general election, he has 20,150 Negro citizens of voting age in his district.
Once mobilizel, Negro voters were an important factor in his
defeat in the August primary.:

On the Republican side, the report shows, Rep. Robert L.
Rodgers of Pennsylvania who oppozed FEPC was eliminated in
the primary elections by a margin of 1,627 votes. The potential Negro voters in his district, which includes the cities of
Erie, Sharon and Meadsville, number 3,520.

~The Negro~s political potential is greater today than at
any time since he hecame a posilive factor in American polities,"~ the PAC report stated. ~The area of his political influence, only largely confined to ike great industrial cities of the
East and North, has been expanded and extended by wartime
migre~ion into the Pacific states and into many of the smaller
midwest cities. And significantly he has reentered the political
arena in the South.~~ Noting that the Texas ~~white primary~
case decided by the Supreme court in*1944 opened the door
to Negro voting through participation in the Democratic ~primarics, the report stated that although: oprosition had been

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War Between the States.
gratitude that _

tion in general owe the Abolitionists a debt of
becomes more colossal as the generations pass.:
tionists not only fought and died for their ~cause~ but they.
saw to it that schools were established for the education of the~
freedmen; and it is these schools thae are affording the leadership of the Negroes of today.. ets

slaves to free themselves were the efforts of these Abolitionists,
imbued only with the spirit of brotherhood and. good-will.
When | consider how these Abolitionists sacrificed, with no rewards in sight but the cause. of human betterment; when I note
the absence of anything that savored of pecuniary considera: _
tions, I am convinced that good-will among men is not a hollow
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terracial matters. [t was a vital thing during the days of
slavery and it is a potent thing today. Although at times the
good-will that prévaile lacks dramatic~ implementation, it is
nevertheléss a definite factor in the struggles of the Negro race.
Without a sufficient number of whites of goodwill our future
would be considerably more uncertain. What is more, Negroes should see to it that this goodwill be rightly heralded in
deepest gratitude. _ ogres eo:;. The private schools that stud the South are mute testimoniala to the goodwill of ~northern whites of a former generation.
The~e i~ no corresponding material manifestation of such good:
will today; but there are nevertheless unmistakable signs that

and South. When a southern white woman reads the story of

| Carver's life and. decides to send'a Negro boy through Spe

it is. difficult to see anything but a display of goodwill. E

it is it the field of sports and athletics that we see hopeful signs~
that there are whites who care. ey
"Uncle Mike~ Jacobs, whose stranglehold on the Madison
Square ~Garden concessions is too well known to need recounting
here; but. Joe Louis and the Negro race owe much of this big-.
time sports mogul. When Jack Dempsey had the ~Negro eva-:
sion habit,~ that left Harry Wills at the post, Jim Braddock
was found broad enough to take on all comers, Negroes inchud- -,

~led. Braddock could have evaded as well as Dempsey, but he |

did not. When Louis bumped into Braddock he was bumping.
into one of the largest fortunes ever to come a Negro~s way.
Without the good will of ~~~Uncle Mike~~ buttressed by the good
business, sense he evinces so inmistakably, Louis never would
have worn the pugilistic crown. ~

But today the field is full of white athletes who do not hes
ment to outlaw Negroes from everything that looks like a de
cent opportunity. Mike Jacobs would have made money, ~even

if Negroes had been excluded from the championship bouts.

These. white-Negro matches are no longer rare occurrences, ~
and what is more, they are not occasions for riots as some Ne
grophobes are wont to fear. Recently I attended mixed bouts

in St. Louis and Baltimore and in both cases whites and Ne
groes seemed to enjoy seeing their own do their stuff against

all comers. a '

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went to Brooklyn he conceived the notion of opening the doors
of the National League to Negroes. When he employed Jackie
Robinson he was showing himself just as truly an Abolitionist
as the men who skirmished in Boston. fli

The world has marveled at Jackie's first year in organized
baseball and chances are many that next year Jackie will be
found in the Brooklyn lineup. The Negro race owes Branch
Rickey a debt of gratitude that should seriously challenge Negro leadership to discharge. Now comes Bobby Feller doing

-peting. Bobby Feller is more than a strike-out king, he ie a
modern Abolitionist. Negroes should make some national display of their appreciation of these whites of good will. Jacobs,
Rickey, Feller and company doing business in democracy.

Irving M. Ives Asks National:
Anti-Discrimiration Law

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Addressing a lurfcheon meeting of:
the New York State committee against discrimination in education, -in- ~Hotel ~New Yorker
here last Monday Republican
candidate: for the U. 8: -s2nate,
Irvin M.* fves;- declared himself
in. favor of a federal statute
against ~ digcriniitfation in employment, ~He mentioned~ a -similar law~ passed by New York~
State, ahd~ said that the combined efférts 6fboth thé~ states and
the. national government are required to, eliminate discrimination from the Americar scene. _~
~Right now,~ he said ~I feel
strongly that,a, federal statute
similar to our own staté law
against | discrimination ~in ém-|
ployment is vitally néeded. So
far.as New York is concerned,
sueh a federal statute is meeded,
to increase the,effectiveness of
eur state law, extending this
great principle in area and ad~Mr. Ives, who is co-author of:
the.Ives-Quinn law creating the

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Turning his* attention to the
criticism against. the -failure~~ of

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lem of discrimination in emsingle ~task, I-am-~'afraid -that:
dur owr commission members
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Th? educational angle of dis-~
crimination is being ~tackled, the~
candidate for ~the * senate ~de-"
clared, pointing out that the
work row being done by. the
commission on a state, university would turn up valuable ma'terial for the non-discrimination ~
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Then came Branch Ritkeyrfermerly of ~the St.~Liowis CarIn St. Louis Negroés were not until reééntly-allowed tt *~
the grandstand in Sportsman. Park. Yet when Branch Rickey..

the commission to includes~ edu->~
cation in its investigation, he as+ ~*~~

~ployment and in education ag a ~"

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In other words more effective than the efforts of American..! cannot therefote speak contemptibly of good will in in
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itate.to take on Negroes in the facé of a clearly defined move-.'

some post-season barnstorming with Negro and white stars com- 7

ness in other states with: less: ~

~to deal with the two-fold-prob-- ~

even the very elastic tensions of ~ ~*:

there are ~still those of good will among the whites of the North~ se i

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FP~ f'New Yoric State,committee and

assembly majority leader. of the
state~s legislative body, said he
would sponsor the federal legislation and would work_to eliminate filibustering attempts by
opponents to kill it.

~Another reason why a federal act would benefit this state,
~Mr. Ives said, ~is becaus? business in New York, which by
our state statute may be handi
program over radio station 'W."

to be aired from 11:05 to 11:30
p.m., is a part of the 75th anni
O. Yoder, director of public relations, Fisk universify.
The program will be aired
over a nationwide hookup of

capped in competing with busi
130 stations of NBC.

this year and in the Presidential
concluded.

Bee eS renee hy tree

million Negro voters in the southern states by 1948.~ oe:
_ ~As important as was the Negro.vo~e in the 1944 election.. it can be even more decisive in the congressional elections

campaigh in 1948,"" the report ~

S. M. here Friday ~night, Octo-'
ber 11, will be the Fisk Jubilee~
singers. The program which is |

versery celebration for the Fisk.;
singers, acording to Theodore