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~THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION~

_ President Truman devéted a section of his ~address to Congress on the state of the nation to the conditions of minorities
in this country., He had definitely in mind the large Negro
population in the south who are the greatest Sufferers of disfranchisement and discrimination. | He told the Republican
-~ontrolled Congress that he hiad appointed a committee to make
a careful study of the conditions complained of, anid upon a
report of this committee he would make definite recommendations to Congress.

In this matter the President has gone further than any
President we've ever had. It is now up to the committee to
make such recommendations that would lead to legislation that
would forever abolish such things as the poll tax, white primaries and other ills from which the ~south suffers. It would
also be a heartening thing for this committee to recommend the
reduction of the southern Representatives in Congress until the
poor whites and Negroes are permitted to vote.

-. Mr. Truman deserves a vote of thanks from every well
thinking citizen in our country for his courage in meeting a situation head on. He places the Republicans in a very un-enviable situation. It looks as though some good will come to the
Negro population out of last fal]l~s elections.

CHILD LABOR LAWS

To protect our children in the state of Michigan in the
coming years, labor laws, which have long been ~a, chief topic
of the Michigan League of Women Voters, will doubtlessly be
changed.:

' Our basic law, involving child labor, was written in 1909
and has had but a few minor changes since. Michigan ranks
fourth trom the bottom in respect to child labor legislation in
the United States: Much better laws are needed to protect
children whose parents fail to do so. eo

The present law permits a child to work as many as ten
hours a day at a fifty-four hour work week and does not take
into consideration the number of hours spent in school.

It is necessary that the number of hours in school and the
number of hours at work be taken into consideration of the
child's total vitality.

Creation of such legislation will be of great value to thousands of children who otherwise might find themselves handi_ capped in the future by lack of schooling or failing health.

A TIMELY DISCOVERY

A discovery that some claim as the ~Miracle of the Age,~
was the fsolation of the almost pure [INFANTILE PARALYSIS
ViRUS.

Credit for this discovery goes to Dr. Hubert S. Loring and
Dr. C. E. Schwerdt of Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif.

For the first time in the history of this cripling germ, scien
- tists know the APPEARANCE, SiZE AND CHEMICAL
PROPERTIES of this virus. With the advent of this discovery
a the possibility of producing a successful vaccine against
polio.

The virus is a round object so small that its diameter is
estimated at being 25 billionths of jj meter. It was through
the generosity of the PUBLIC in its aiding the MARCH OF
DIMES that finance was raised to ward otf the epidemic of
polio,- which strikes without notice or warning at EVERY
RACE, CREED-AND COLOR WITHOUT PREFERENCE.

It is up to us the PUBLIC to see thigt the current MARCH
OF D:MES will be a successful one.

SENTENCE SERMONS

(By Rev. Frank Clarence Lowry for ANP)

1. Resolutions made with mental reservation don't contain enough mettle for a year~s preservation.

2. Resolutions that are quickly and carelessly made are
often as quickly forgotten when circumstances beconie grave.

Too many men and women swear off in a fit of emotion, then take on even more stronger liquor and start greater
commotion.

4. Resolutions only keep the man who has himself already pretty well in hand.

eer Resolutions on paper last about as long -as_ vapor
where there is no strength of heart, to keep up a good start,
6. To most people, resolutions are like tarcet practice;

if they happen to hit the bull's eye, all right ~ if they miss~
they don~t sigh.

j. Resolutions, certain times of the year seem to be giv.
en special attention, but slowly as the year grows old, they
hardly receive any mention.

8. Man of himself is too vacillating and prone to sinning
to even expect for his resolutions the very poorest heavenly
rating.

9. What worldly men and women need most is not the
force of language to draft striking resolutions, but the power

of decision to draw near to God who offers His perfect solutions.

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be headed AS I SAW It for the

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purpose of* giving a bird~s. eye
view of my experiences while in
Washington during the attempt
to seat Senator Bilbo (The Man).
from Mississippi.

There were thousands of Negroes and whites from all over

Atlanta ~Y~
To Take Over.

By GEORGE F. McCRAY
~TRUMAN~S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS DISAPPOINTING

To the. millions of Negro workers in the United States,
President Truman's ~state of the union~~ address to the. 80th
congress on Jan. 6, is a distinct disappointment. Except.on proposal dealing with what he regarded as abuses+of labor unions,
the Presidtnt confined his remarks to unconnected generalities.
And on matters relating to Negroes he was either silent, or so
General as to be evasive. - Wa Sen

On. sbdcial legislation Mr. Truman said_ congress ought to
make it better, but-as to how. this could be done he had _nothing to say.-Also he wanted to stabilize farm prices at their present levels by exporting. so-called surpluses, but he said not a.
word.about: details: The country. should do something about
breaking the eancentration of economic power in big monopolistic industries, the President recommended, but his general.
idea is to lend money and-give encouragement to small bisiness men.;:! oar - ) Ww a

This last. suggestion. sounds like a joke when it is remérnbered that Mr. ~Truman's administration has given~ nearly~ 18
billion dollars worth of war surplus property to the big~cotporations in, the country. for,'a bare two billion dollars ~ ~-even
while veterans and others were.clamoring to buy the goods. The
prefabricated housing.program, a small business at the mom-}
ent, was also thrown out of. the window by Mr. Truman.~
This sort of general and~at times evasive reasoning continued throughout the massage. But on labor the President was
more specific as to what he wanted, namely, laws not punish
labnr but to correct the abuses of certain unions. He would outlaw jurisdictionlal. strikes, the secondary boycott; and would
settle iabor management disputes over the terms of a contract
through compulsory arbitration. He also would etsablish a 20
man commission composed of representatives of labor, man:
agement, and the congress to work out means of controlling
through legislation, nation-wide strikes in vital industries and
to work out means of improving collective bargaining.
There is not one word in the whole Truman message about
a fair employment practices committee nor about the closed
shop, nor the abuses of the closed shop. it is callous and hypocri.ical to talk about worker insecurity when nearly 25 per cent
of the workers in the nation are the victims of discrimination
at the hands of employers or the prejudices of local or national trade unions. a iy <
In previous messages Mr. Truman has recommended that
congress enact FEPC legislation. Why he omitted~ reference to
FichC at this time would be interesting indeed. Perhaps he
thinks it is a dead issue.
Even on a vital matter like civil rights and the right to
vote in federal ~elections, Mr. Truman had no specific recommendations. The denial of civil rights, the right to vote because
of racial and religious bigotry is as old as 14th and 15th amend.
ments to the constitution, but Mr. Truman, in spite of a year in
office still has a committee studying the mat.er and will make
recommendations at some future date.
The loudest praise for Mr. Truman's message comes from
Republican politicians, old line Democrats, and conservative
newspapers. [These groups praise it as being moderate and constructive. How times do change!

Democracy for All Is Creed of

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~to naught,~ since.: nobody

THE SHAPE OF
THINGS AS.
THEY ARE...: By Layou"
Even the powerful FBI working out *of..the Justice Department has failed to secure sufficient evidence to~ indict those
persons taking: part in the
quadruple lyrching ~in Monroe,
Georgia. Attornéy. General Tom
Clark statement: of - tracking
down. the" criminals ~have come
in
Monroe,~ Georgia, is. willing to
give -information: Having driven
these night:: prowlers. to cover.
much good however-*has been
done: - feneee cete ~

The quick and unanimous approval of Gén~eral, Marshall to
succeed Mr. Byrnes as Secretary
of State. by the Senate is evidence of. the.unity, of the Legislative and. Executive. branches

USO Services

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ATLANTA ANP The
Butler Street YMCA on January 1 took over the duties of
the. famed Hunter Street USOService Men~s center.

The USO building will continue to be used by the Booker
T. Washington High school. It
is located orf property near the
school building an don the same/that Bilbo not be seated. Senacampus. tors Taft, Ohio; Morse, Oregon;

Warren R. Cochrane, executive | and Meyers, Pennsylvarfia. assecretary of the Butler Street |surcd the Committee that they
YMCA, welcomed the oppor-|along with other -anti-Bilboites
tunity to serve servicemen still | would put up a fight second to
in the armed forces, who come|none for unseating Bilbo. The
to Atlanta for recreation and| Writer might inject here, that:
stop at the center for counsel| Senators especially Republicans
and directior., expressed how impressive the
~ aggregation of people, wéarirfg
~Oust Bilbo~~ buttons were. Al
Insurance Head so with the large number of

the country moving the nation~s
capital. I am sure, from the
brogues, that the south~emphasis on Mississippi~was_ full
represented. A
During my stay in Washirgton: I, with other. representatives from the Elks and the Civil Rights Committee, visited
offices of Senators requesting

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requir
ing patience and good~ will, He
was willing,he said, -to move as
slowly as necessary. ~~I'ask~ orly
one thirtg: that we do move ~for
South jis a complex one~

ward, that we do: not: turn! ~back
the clock; and I will vigorously
resist any attempt to moye ~in
the opposite, direction, the direction of ill will.~ 1 peas
~Mr. Bilbo has moved in that
backward direction. He;, has
toured his state stirring up. racial hatred, inciting white to
hate black and causing black to
hate whité."! \He, Taylor, also
stated that such activities ~xitt
in other parts of the South to
keep poor whites and Negroes~
on a low economic~ level>'' for~
their own selfish purposes.~ **~!
Taylor moved, on: with; foreg; ~
by referring to the, late Gene
Talmadge. in Georgia. His conz
that it is most fitting that.

cluding words in essence w b.
first post-war Congress. sho.

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Takes Optimistic

View of 1947

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ~ ANP
An optimistic view on what the
New Year holds for Negroes
was taken here Tuesday by Jas.
H. Lewis, president of the Natioral Negro Insur2nce association, as he noted the unpreéce
dented increase in the volume
of insurance carried by Neroes.

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He expressed pride in ihe upswing of efficiency of the personnel of the field and office
forces of Our comparries: as they
bend their energy in tireless
efforts to render worthwhile and
effective service to our people
through well-directed - agencies

forces. The Negro~s thrift will
fortify him in an acknowledged |
changing economy, he said.
Lewis praised the work of

every company Of the Natiorral
Negro affiliation for the splendid
increase in assets and profitable
investments reflected in financial reports.

Thermometer for Hay
An electrical resistance thermometer has been designed for recording the temperatures of hay in '
mows. Its measurement range igs
200 degrees below zero to 600 above.

Indian Summer Haze
The haziness in the atmosphere
in Indian Summer is due to floating

of the government. The~ choice
is certaitily a good: one. In~ fact
we believe General Marshall is |
a decided improvement over
Secretary Byrnes at least he
is not plagued by the racial prejudices with which the forme
Secretary Byrnes was plagued.

It may bé an interesting thing
for some citizen having the
time and money to go into the
courts and question the right
of the Senate to pay Mr. Bilbo
his salary and the salary of:
those appointed by him not serving the people. |

We have been~told the A & P
at Jefierson~ and Eagle street is
practicing a form of discrimination that ought not to be continued in Buffato. It -is repor~ted that all the best cuts of meats
are kept in the back and are
sold only to favored white eusto>
mers who are permitted to go
back and make their choice. If
this is so a_ vigorous * protest
should be made to those who are
in. charge of this store. This
paper will be thappy to secure
further information relative to
this new type. of discrimination.

While this paper ~ is doing
everything in its: power to pro
Edwin R: Embree, Says Fisk Head

10. It was the decision made by Daniel for Shadrach,
anl Abed-nego to eat pulse rather thian the king~s meat, that
furnishej the power that airconditioned the fiery furnace and
brought their enemies to humiliation and defeat.
me Then the enemies of Daniel held a decree signed by
_the Medes and Persians, but Daniel's decision to remain true to

his God, shut tight the mouths of the lions.

Lights Buoys

' An ingenious device, developed
~some years ago and now widely
~used, is the sun valve that lights
~gas or electric lamps in lighthouses
~and buoys at sunset, even when
~fog obscures the rays of the sun,
sand extinguishes them at sunrise.
The valve or contact is worked by
a delicate mechanism extremely
sensitive to heat rays of the sun.
Monel and other nickel alloys are
~ysed to prevent salt water corrosion of important parts which would
result in failure ~of operation.

Steel Tonnage

Nearly 1,910,000,000 net tons of
steel ingots and steel for castings
were produced in the United States
from January, 1901, through August,
1946. Almost one-third of that large
tonnage of steel has been turned out
since January 1, 1938. Twenty-seven years were required to produce
the first 50 per cent of the total tonage, while only 18 years and 8
months were required to produce
the second half of the steel. The
one-billionth ton was made in th?
latter part of 1929.

25 years of aggresively pushing
for equality in human relations,
Edwin R. Embree is still out in
~ront as ~champion among pro
ponents of democracy.

In an article in a recent issue
of Phylon magazine, official organ of Atlanta~ university, Dr.
Charles S, Johnson, newiy. elected president of Fisk university.
characterized Mr. Embree as
being~ ~more interested in democracy, equal human relations
and national morality. than in
solving race problems and rey
lations" oe

The. sketch. entitled ~Phylor
Profile, X; Edwin Rogers Em
bree,~ reviewed the life history

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ After{of the noted author and presi
tent of Julius Rosenwald fund,
from his birth to the present. In
Paying tribute to Mr. Embree,
Dr. Johnson revealed much about
the noted scholar that was generally unknown, by most. pedple who know or have heard
of him.

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Land geatoe ~
Excepting the continents~which,
in order of size, are Eurasia, Africa,
North America, South America, Antarctica and AGstralia~the world~s
land is comparatively scarce, notes

the National Geographic society..

The continents cover a little more
than one-fourth of the earth~s surface. The myriad islands cover less
than one-fiftieth. The globe~s sur
face is 71 per cent oceans, 29 per

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mote Negro business in this
community, it is very significant that Negro. business men
are not willing. to pay for advertisment. Nearly every white
propriztor ~on William _ street
has at-some time -placed advertisement in this paper or other
Negro. papers. We want to say
to these Negro business men
that we.can not continue to
serve you unless you are willing to make it possible for us
to do so. It takes both hands to
keep each other clean.

-Since taxi-cabs. owned and
operated by Negroes have made
~their appearance in Buffalo it
is very significant that -the
white cab drivers are shownig
a greater~ solicitude toward the

dust particles which usually vanish
in the more rainy and windy seasons, according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica.

* COLD NO~S -

If you must follow something closely, follow
the safety principle that it takes: from 3 to
11 times more distance to stop on snowy or
icy roeds than it does on dry pavement. You
just can~t stop on-an icy dime. So keep ovt
of trouble by keeping your distance. Give
yourself living room.

munity. If every Negro business
place would carry the telephone
number of t>~se struggling cub
drivers, they will be
remain in business, since under
terms or trem license they can
oniy receive passengers from
portal to portal. Most of these
men are war veterans and
should be encouraged. We are
suggesting also that every church
would place in its _ bulletin
board the telephone number of
these cab drivers so the pegple
of the church that use cabs may
secure their services.

It has come to our attention
that many of these cab drivers
all too often take ther = girl
frievds when trips are made.
If this be true we suggest to

| pedple who use cabs in this com.!

of their program immediately.

spectators, there was nothing but
dignity filling the halls of. Congress and the Capitol.

opert with a great battle for thy fl
extension of our freedom. ere...
at home, a battle to strengthen,

of systematized and -cooperative |~

| constitute the greatest moral potantial of the race.

No, chum~yovu wouldn~t have o chance.

ahbie to

these men to drop this feature |.

The strategy, as set up by the
Republicans, was to have Senator Ferguson, Michigan, make
the speech after Bilbo~s name
was called for the swearing into office~but the Democratic
Senator and orator from Idaho,
Glenn H. Teylor took the floor.
Taylor in the speech on his resolution to prevent Bilbo from
taking the oath, referred~ the
charges against Bilbo to the
Senate House Rules Committee.

our democratie processes,on the, ~
issue of, constitutional rights and,
civil liberties. Hare ee
After much debate a compromise was reached that: Bilbo ~go
home and prepare for an opera>!
tion: ~However; he ~would ~be
paid his salary until his *cape~*
was settled int the Senate? From~
~all indications and ~the | spitit-'
~of Republicans and~ Democrats~
(north and south) Bilbo~s Senatorical days are over. ~;

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BETWEEN THE LINES:
_ By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK) ~~

FOR OUR AGENDA | era} gue oil?
Last May the school of religion in Howard university ~pub- ~
lished a research report on Negro religious life. ~ This ~ report:
called once more to our attention the grave situation: facing ~theNegro church in the United States. It set forth the great. déarth
of prepared and preparing aspirants for the Christian ministry,
of the Negro church. When they reveal that only about 36 Ne-,:
gro graduates come out of the theological~ seminaries of, this.
country a year to be distributed among ~the race's. 38,000-'
churches, we have a sitiation{that.should alarm the leadership
of the Negro race in particular and the nationiin general. +;4 =n
In other words; according~ to this painstaking study: is.only,:
one theologicl graduate for 157 Negro churches or oné trained |
minister for every 68,000 Negro church members. ff we can,
imagine a city of 65,000 persons with one trained minister or
157 churches sharing the ministry of one Negro minister, we-can'
get some idea of the seriousness of the situation. What should:
make this alarming picture more alarming is the fact that even~
in this late-year of 1947, the Negro church and its leadership

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Notwithstanding our fine business beginnings and! our great:
educational awakening, the Negro church represents. the:most::
powerful instrument for good or evil of which the Negrocrace::
can boast. The Negro church has been the incubator for~ alliosthe Negro~s enterprises and. ambitions. The roots of all.the:INe--'
gro'~s promise and: progress can be traced directly: back. to the
church. It would indeed be a dark day is the Negro churches:in
considerable number had: to. close. or be turned over to untrain--
e raisin who were Supnial te the serious,, tasks that ~le: -

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is being fast turhéd over to Negroes themselves. n+
able interpretation of the reports of our foundations in tes.
that they are getting from under the burden of education. ae
delegating such burdens to Negroes themselves. Upon w om,
or what will this:burden fall if not upon the Negro church? Haw;
can the church be expected to shoulder this burden an t led
by trained men who. know the value of training? nae

lt would be ~unteasonable- for. us to-expect anirained oat

to be as deeply concerned ~in this matter as men who have tf,

advantage of training. And this in no way dispar: Ey, |;
work untrained men have done. ~For in truth~ it een be a
that~the major work of organizing_the resources of the Negro
church for the support of education and community betterment,
programs has been done by men who have not had great formal training. In fact our great churches-have for the most; part

been builded by these consecrated men who were short on edu:
cation and long on faith and inspiration. i

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Lo Se %. But in the world of tomorrow the untrained minister will.
find the going harder. This makes it all the more imperative
that the Negro of the United States Riore at the earliést mom=
ent face the serious problem of ministerial shortage that faces
us. This bad condition ig worst among Negro Baptists whose
standards have been considerably lower than other denomina;.
tions, this by reason of their-edemocratic policy. Higher academic degrees among other denominations preceded. these among ~
Negroes by a considerable space of years. The larger numben,of
Baptists in this country makes the situation ddoubly:.dangerous -
for this denomination. ~ ot et

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It has come about that the Negro churches have been
bought and paid for and~ now represent millions and millions in
money. In fact the greatest investment the Negro has made, he
made in his churches, These churches have been built by consecrated men and women who for the niost part Wete denied the
advantages of much learning. They built better than they knew
\Thanks to thoughtful: ministers, because of the flush
times most of our churches are now paid for.. ~__ windiest

~What a potential they now represent. What is going age oe
~become of these churches and their potential ~if we have Say seae
one trained minister~ for 157 churches and for 65,000 a esd ie
bers Well might the Negro pray to the Lord of the harvest that
He would send forth more laborers. It makes a es;

fetiecare hs great diffe:

One of the best ways to prevent
fires is to clear out rubbish regularly from cellars, attics, closets

Today the burden of financing our denominational schools Vea

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