Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 31]

PAGE SIX

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Truman Gibson Tells of Army~s
Progress in Race Relations Since 1940.

~CARLISLE,:Pa. ANP
graphic picture of the army~s
progress in race relations since
1840 was painted here Monday
by Truman K.- Gibson Jr.,
former civiliary aide to the secretary of war, before the army
information and education school
here.

~During my service in the war
d2partment, I witnessed radical
changes in the approach to mor~ale problems,~ he said. ~From
> essentially haphazard, hit
énd miss method employed ia
the 1940~s there developel the
highly scientific and specialized
rrethodology that you now consider at this splendid school.

~The fact that the army has
moved so.far in six years is an
encouraging indication in these
days of rapidly expanding citizen army,~ he remarked.

~He called the army~s improvement within a six-year period
~balanced. progress,~ then added that ~this necessity fo: balance applies in the field' or race.
No problems have perplexed the
department any more than those
arising out of how and to what

extent Negro soldiers. Should be].

utilized.~

Gibson warned that ~the surestway to run into trouble is to
assume that you ~know how~ to
handle Negroes. Such officers in
the army are lumped by Negro
soldiers~ into one big category,
~the. know how boys,~ who assume they can treat all Negroes
like their parents or relatives
treated southern Negro farm
workers.

~Negroes do not constitute a
single homogeneous group,~ he
told his listeners. ~The only
thing they possé~ss. in common is
colér and tlrat varies so greatly
that even it could not be said

to be a common feature. The
umtutored Negro of the~ back
woods of Louisiana is wholly

unlike a graduate of a northern
university living in an urban
center. Any generalizatior or
a mind set to lump such whelly
dissimilar men together can only
produce trouble.~

Several official war department studies on the porformance
of Negro troops were made prior
to 1940, he ~revealed, which accounted for the army~s. anti
A'Negro premises on the utiliza
tion of Negroes, Gibson stated.
Here is how the Negro soldier
fitted in the nation~s mobilization plans six years ago:
~Negroes should be s2gregated into separate units (a) because ofthe statutes of the late
1860~s authorizing the formation
of four (4) Negro regiments,
two: )2) of infantry and two
(2) of cavalry; (b) because ~this
policy has proven satisfactory
over a long period of years~ and
-(c) because any other policy
would have social repercussions
and the army ~get ahead of~ the
country on this question.

~Negro soldiers are not adaptable to modern combat conditioms because of certain racial
characteristics, the pre-1940
premises stated. ~As fighting
troops the Negro must be rated
as second-class material; this is
due primarily to his inferior intelligence and lack of mental
and moral qualifications. Negro
troops aS combat troops under
modern war conditions never
rose to the standard of white
units even when led by white
officers.

~Negro officers have failed because of their lack of character
and the inherent distrust of Negroes for Negro l2adership. The
regimental commander (that is
of the 368th Inf.) showed that
the principal cause of the failure
was the incfficiency of colored
officers.

~The g2neral conclusion that
has resulted from these studies
has been that the army should
use Negro troops only in segregated units; that as few Negro
organizations as possible should
b2 established and that these
should be mon-combatant. The
following consistently appeared
in all plans prior to 1941, ~the
largest unit of any arm or sérvice to be organized of Negro
personnel is the regiment.~

~The basic approach that had
been evolved was that charge
should occur only in the face of
pressures. That this was an officially epproved course was
recognized in a~ study which
candidly admitted that a reappraisal.of policies was nec2ssar y
as a result of ~continuous and
increasing political and_ racial
and greater representation of the

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Staff of Baptist
Christian
Education

NASHVILLE ~ ANP ~ The
department of Christian education of the Sunday School Publishing board of the National
Baptist convention anrounced
last week the addition of the
Revs. Percy Williams, ~Los Angeles; and V. A. Edwards, Fort
Valley, Ga,, to its- staff.

Rev. Williams, who holds the
bachelor of arts degree from
Chapman college and is a candidate for the master~s degree
in th2ology from the University
of Southern Califorrria, will serve
as diicctor of the field work
program.

Rev. Edwards, a graduate of
Morehouse college and Drew

~university, begins his new duties

on October 1 as director of rural church division. He was
formerly. director of ~religion and.
rural life at Fort Valley State
college.

Addition of the two prominent

'clergymen~to the staff of the

department of Christian education~ is in keeping with previous
-ly announced plans, said A. M.

Townsend, secretary.

Pig Srooders' ~
Electric pig brooders help to
save 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. i]

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Negro in ~combat organizations.~

Receiving Gunnar Myrdal a
Six-points of rank discrimination
in ~An American Dil2mma,~
Gibson said that the Negro soldier ~wants to be treated just
as any other soldier. He wants
to be accorded the same privileges, opportunities and recreations facilities. He does not wart
to be.singled out: for
treatment.~

special

_ He endorsed the Gillem report
as a st?p forward in the direction of according equal treatment to Negro soldiers.

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Fisk Appoints
Nine to
Sociology Dept.

NASHVILLE ~ ANP ~ Dr.
Charks S. Johnson, director of
the department of social sciences
of Fisk university. announced
last week the appointment of
nirfe new staff members.

They are Dr. Joseph H. Bunzel, who received his doctor~s
degree from the University of
Vienna and has done additional
post-graduate study in Paris;
Emmett G. Kellogg, a graduate
of Kentucky State college and
Atlanta university; William Herrry Grayson Jr., former supervisor of ~Negro schools in Charleston, S. C.; Vashti Grayson,
who ~has done _ post-graduate
study in Puerto Rico and the
University of Madrid; Miss Louise Johnson, recent horfor graduate in seciology of the University of Pittsburgh; Miss Eug?nia
Martin and Miss Camille Patterson, recent -honor graduates of
Fisk university; Edward F. Burrows, Duke university arfd Miss

Miriam Jean Horton, sociology],

Urban League Backs AFL, CIO
Drives; Urges Better Housing, FEPC

major of Adrian college, Adrian,
Mich.

Dr.Bunzel will teach social
theory and will also present the
first course offered at Fisk in
the field of housing. Kellogg
will- serve as instructor of economics and busirfess administration. A veteran of World War}:
II, he studied with J. B. Blayton and the group which has|'
been responsible for the great
business development among
Negroes. in Atlanta.

Grayson's duties will be ~secretary of the annual institute of
race relations and coordinator
of area institutes; while Mrs.
Grayson will be in charge of
the: summary staff. Miss John
json, Miss Martin and Miss Pat
tersor have be8n assigned to
the xesearch and statistics department. Departmental fellows
are Burrows and Miss Horton.

To Hold Cross
Country Race

At Lincoln U.

JEFFERSON ~ CITY,~ ~Mo.
ANP ~ The eighth annual Missouri State High School CrossCountry race will be held here
Saturday, October 19, as a special feature of the Kentucky
Staéte-Lincoln urtiversity (Mo.)
football game. The race will be
over a 2. 1-2 mile course and
will -tinish between the halves
of the football game.
~~Trophies will go to the first
and second place teams, according to a statement by James D.
Parks, commissioner, Missouri
Negro Inter-scholastic Athletic
association, and the individual
winner. Awards will be presented the boys finishing second,
third and fourth and certificates
will go to all boys finishing in
the first 10.

War Vets Group
To Fight
Un-American
Activity

COLUMBUS, Ohio ~ APNS~

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Announcement was made this
week by Johr E. Wright, Col
~! umbus attormfey, of the organi
zation of a war veterans~ group
to fight un-American doctrines
and activities. Mr. Wright formerly was head of the Intelligence Section, Allied Military
Government, ETOUSA Staff,
Londorr. Known as the War Veterans Bipartisan League, it

plans to make comprehensive |

studies of ~fifth column~ groups,
to scrutinize the records of persons in public life and those of
candidates for office, and to publish findings. The orgarfization,
which will have headquarters in
the LeXeque-Lincoln Tower,
will include representatives of
all Veterans, groups, and it also
will accept non-veterans.

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HONOLULU ~ ANP ~ ~This
is the first place of the many I
have seen that I can truly say,
represents r2al democracy in
action.~ These words were voiced by Jess2 Owens, world~s great
est track star to your correspondent in ar interview granted
recently at the Owens youth
clinic in the famous Honolulu
stadium. Hundreds of youths
came every Saturday for free
instruction and autographs. The
yourtgsters compose every racial
-group ~ whites, Chinese, Hawai
tians, Japanese, Koreans, Portu
gueses, Porto Ricans and Fili-pinos.

Owens is proving the est innoculation for a better insight
and. understanding of Negroes~
of which there ~are so few in the
Pacific. He has appeared before
many civi~ organizations and
groups. Last week, he talked
at Farrington hall. University
of Hawaii, on education and
athieties. He emphasized the im
Jesse Owens Has High
_ |For The Democratic Spirit in Hawaii

| Of sports, the Negro

portance of developing the. irttellicet: with athletic: powers.

Praise. 1 ie

~Owens has nothing but praise
for the Cincinnati Crescents. ~I
have seen no better coordination. arfd team work among any
players anywhere, as we have
in these boys. Our winning of
every single game attest th
fact. Winfield Welch, manager,
is due all the praise for the success of these players. I regret
that the boys will not be able
to stick together. They would
easily become the best team of
bas@ball players we have in
America,~ Owens said, with emphasis.

Owens wert: on ~in the ~field
can do
much to better race relations.
All too few shirk the responsibility.~

~I found myself in complete
agreement with the track star,
when he said ~There is entirely
too much criticism voiced among
nur all too few leaders.~~

The likeable track star and
capable speaker won an 80-yard
dash with a horse last Saturday
everting, before a crowd of 8,000.

ST. LOUIS ~ ANP ~ At the
closing session of. the three-day
~anttual conference of..the. Na~tidnal Urban league in. Kiel auditorium here last. Wednesday, a
resolution: was -adopted by the
group urging full support of the
current. drives to organizations.
In addition, there were resolutions which called for improved
housing: for minorities, protested
thé return. of the USES to state
agencies, urged enactment 6t
fair employment ~practice laws
and better~ administration of laws
for. the~ benefit of wegre veterans..

Industrialization of the south
and equalization~of freight rates

to the end that. the ~eoloniallike~ position of the region might
be abolished, was also contained in the resolution on the south.

~Whereas these are forces that
oppose and terrorize amy close
-fraternity of the white and Negro people and at the moment
~are threatening to disrupt the
Organizing campaigns, and
whereas the social welfare of
Negro people and decent~ race
relations are fundamental concerns. of: the National Urban
league and its affiliated branch
solved -that the 1946. conference
of the National Urban league
endorse and support the currént
efforts of démotratic | ~uniorts to
organize the south and urge' their
full support by ~the Negro com
with those of the north and east.

es throtigh America, ~be: it, re-|.

~munity~ and further urge nondemocratic unions to discontinue
their. practices,~ a portion of the
resolution read. ~

~ Taking the view that a democratic nation which has a record for fair treatment of. its
minorities would be a powerful
influence. and example in the
international scene, another resolution pointed out that the first|~
obligation to. the welfare of
nations is the job of implementing the- American bill of rights
and making America a. place
where the guraranties of the
constitution are without prejudice |
or favor in the protection of

~every ' citizert.

The.world peace resolution
asked that American foreign
policy be suchas to inspire
world-wide conviction that the
nation is interested in the welfare of the common man of all
races, creeds and cortditions.

~ The housing bill also caught
the~ meet~s attention. Speaking

of the hoped-for passage of the

Wagner-Ellender - Taft general

housing bill, the convening body}

proposed a campaign to enlist
public support to have congress
pass the bill.

~The FEPC resolution asked
that American foreign policy- be
such as to inspire world-wide
cdliviction that the nation is
interested in the welfare of the
common man of all races, creeds,}
anid~ conditions.

NEW YORK ~ ~ Criticising the New woes Times ediitorial on the Tennessee mob
trials, C. B. Baldwin, former
Farm Security Administrator,
assailed the paper~s attitude
pointing out the fallacies in its
reasoning.,

The Times had said that ~Negroes in the upper~ south can
still expect approximate justice
from an all white jury~ under
the caption, Southern Justice
Stands Up.~

Those of us~ who have studied
race tensions im the south realize that real democracy will not
come to that section of the country overnight. Yet this does not
mean that we can let up one
whit in our efforts to hasten that
day, or in the meanwhile condome decisions such as this one
and praise ~approximate justice,~
said Baldwin.

~Twenty-five Negroes were

tried by an all-white jury for
a crime that unbiased observers
have laid at the doorstep of the
white local officials. Are we.to

were declared innocent ond only
two irfnocent men sent to jail?

Can we be proud of a trial
which was in~ the woras of the
Times editorial, conducted in a
calculated ~atmosphere of Bilbnism?~ Does southern justice:
~meet its test~ when it places on
trial.the victims ~ the Negroes

~and is unwilling to place in

~years

similar jeopardy the aggressors,

CALLS N. Y. TIMES
WRONG ON TENN.
TRIALS

in this case members of the
white community?

~Of course not. And many
southerners will be the first to
tell you that when their justice
finally does stand up, it will.
not be at the expense of two
innocent men or in a hysterical
jim crow atmosphere.~

Mr. Baldwin presently is executive Vice chairman National
Citizens Political Action Committee with offices in New
York.

W. T. West
To Leave for
Buffalo, N. Y.

COLUMBUS, Ohio ~ APNS~

Mr. W. T. West, of 1312 E.
Long Street, after nineteer
with the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, -starting his
career as Chef, in Buffalo, New
York State, and Atlantic City,
and was mentioned some years
ago ir the Chicago Hotel Monthly Magazine as being an excellent Chef. ~

~He has just closed a successful
season in Michigan, Topinabee
Hotel, and was the first. colored
Chef that was ever employed in
that Hotel, where four white
cooks formerly employed at Stattler Hotel, in Detroit, and thirty two in the kitchen crew. all
umder the supervision of Mr.

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BEATING THE GUN~

IT~S ONE OR THE~ OTHER;
NEW YORK~(ANP)~There is never room ~for more
than one at the top rung of the ladder. That is the given réason why Jersey Joe Walcott has been thrown in with Eliter -
(Violent) Ray i in the first heavyweight elimination contest, the
ultimate winner getting the uneasy distinction of facing.
Joe Louis: However, a small army of colored sportsmen have
either written to me or ~spoken to me about this odd practice.
The ~one that each era finds the ~:promotors stacking two ~good
colored bruisers against each other for the express purpose of
getting one of them out of the way.

NEVER WERE SUBTLE PLANNERS

White promoters and managers were ever this way. ~Harking back from earliest glove or bare knuckle jousts down: to the
day where we find a Ray Robinson and a Louis, the * ~black
man~s burden~~ was a thing _ not too mythical, in my book.
Langford, Joe Gans (original), Walcott, Dixon, Blackburn,
Johnson, Jeanetts, Wille, Sam McVey, Bobby Dobbs and scores
of other tan warriors found themselves in so-called ~crucial
elimination~ fights, against, good lads of their own race.:

Walcott and Ray: ould ci not now be given the slightest &é con- |
ideration. by Mike Jacobs and his ~men. Friday~ had Lee Oma,
the ~Mad Russian,~~ and Lee Savold, ~the thumping bartender~
carried out the plans left: in, their tender.keeping.

ue was figured as a ~winner Lover Walcott; 32-year-dld
daddy~ of: six healthy~kids...: Walcott upset the applecart! 4 annihilating the unorthodox: spoiler:of the roped.arena.' ~Ray.
slaughtered Savold in what some~ white scribllers called a saree
minal iarira wate we know it was~ not in any sense.

With hie eyes on @: Louis dint: and sheik fat loset' s seinen
Bronxite Tami Mauriello; ~~ran-like a thief~ whenever Ray's: or,Walcott~s name was breathed. ~The promoter defends~ himself
with pointing to blood baths like the late Graziano-Tony Zale
brawl; Bummy Davis-Zivic, Bettina-Billy Conn, ApostoliZale, Pastor-Mauriello, etc., etc., in support of an even-Stephen
addup in such a ~controversy. He fails to stick to the script,. the
one which shows good colored fighters knocking off (or weakening) ~each other while: the good white lads. wait around like
does the jackal or the hyena.. do you get me, sors

LIGHTHOUSE F LASHES
Long live football,. but how can we call KING BASE
BALL dtad until after the funeral ceremonies? * Friday~ hite,
Oct. '5;'at- Yankee Stadium, we wete among the 21,294 (paid
fans) Whe saw BOBBY FELLER'S All-Stars, a~ white team, defeat SATCHEL PAIGE~S érack ALL-STARS composed of col-:
ored greats, by 4 to~2 in 10 innings... BARNEY:BROWN, |
who \ was a wasp Waisted youngster when we first saw him pstoly
in 1933 for~ the ~Black Yani cited great balk forthe fulb
10 innings losing when pitcher Bob Lemon, Cleveland Indians (Spud--Chandler's zelief), whalea a home. run int the
lower right field sedts in the eighth to his mtates~scuriug jtwde:
in te venth to put: oe sparkling exhibiiion on ice for. the ~~Fellérmen.~:

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JACKIE ROBINSON, for whom I was pase to suggest -
~~Robinson Sports. Day~ was the Hero in Montreal's winning of
the ~~little world series~ mantle over Louisville Colonels,. RAY,
ROBINSON will be recognized as world welterweight. champ
should he lick ig honey, Bell in a Garden 15 rounder. this.
month. ~

LEVI SAGREON. Wek ~Sblorad football slayer in ~YALE
~UNIVERSITY'S history, is on the tongue of residents of New
Haven, Conn.,~ (his townlpace) Mt. Vernon, and New Rochelle,~
N.Y:, and Harlemtown. As we related two weeks ago, Jack~son was a host within himself in his first game as a Yalesian~
against the hardy Marines of Kings Point. Levi scored two~
touchdowns and carried the pigskin eight times for~ an average
gain of 11.2 yards~holy mackerel, chum.~On Saturday, Oct.~
5 against the razzle-dazzle strategy of COLGATE, Jackson was~
hurt in the second period... However, he came back later in.
the game (Yale won it 27- 6) to figure in a play that set the
38,000 fans sitting in the New Haven Bowl wild with joy -.| despite the 81 degree~ temperature.

This is how it happened: coming out of the ancient Stat

of Liberty~? setup, Jackgon knifed his way t whole
Red Raider saad ne that onlookers t)? dee: the.
word had. gone on Wien: ACKSON 4 rglhe-great._
colored gritider? Hoaghed nal touchdoiyry while, the

stance stood as one man ~sod 34 - a mighty a ta

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~My. Heshicw, ~LAFORTE, hat ~hie $4; 000. 120
sylteihes Cadillac parked:about 15 ft: from ~Boxing Chamption JOE LOUIS~ spanking-new $5,000 sedan when it ~was
~STOLEN. (meanest thief extant) a fortnight ago in West: ~458th~
Street, a swell residential (partly white still)~ section~. The
car number is: 138-4320, with MICHIGAN LICENSE PLATES
~ Let's alP look out for the~ ~person (and car) until it is reported~
that Louis has found it.. Lord help the culpa f should Louis

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| encounter him before hin~ cops do,

RQBINSON, (a white payer, aot Jackie Rebinneed has. |
been.~ ~Goted ~the: most: i ACEI player in the_ ~International
League~ "~Hé plays ~firgt. base. for BALTIMORE.:. ~ JACKIE.

ROBINSON had seven first place ballots in the poll as against
the Baltimore star's.16 first..place. winning; pallets. in the~
2optlar votc,, we'd venture to say that Jackte | of ~Montieal is
the ' ~people's choice '"~yes sir he is.

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ily and Mrs. Elizabeth Williams.

one huridred and fifty~ or two
hundred per day.

_Mr. West has accepted another 5s Aas
position as Chef at one of the | aii atA ERY
leading hotels in Florida, under
the séme management, Mr. Ed.
Maloney, who stated that it
shows that democracy can-work
in the kitchen, in-any -place or
in part of the country. Mr. Maloney, who was a Major in
World -War No. 1. His wife,
Mrs.. Gale West, and daughter

law reside at the above address
He also has two daughters and

son-in-laws in ~~ Falls, N.