Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 3]

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SATUBDSY: ~APRIL 5, 1947

THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

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THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK FOR 1948
President Truman's proposal to send financial and other
assistance to Greece and Turkey is recognized by everyone
as establishing a new American Foreign policy. What is not
so clearly recognized is the impact of this new foreign policy. upon our domestic politics. Last November we elected a Republican Congress and gave it a clear mandate to remedy
certain glaring disorders and irregularities in our economic
and social system. We were overburdened with taxation. We
were experiencing shortages in all kinds of consumers goods.
Labor-management relations were strained. Bilboism and Talmadgeism were on the rampage. Racial intolerance and religious bigotry were on the increase. These evils cried. out for
remedial: legislation. The people expected action from the
Congress. But up to this date the performance: of the Congress has been far from impressive and. with the country taking on a new international role the Republican program for
improving our domestic situation will more and more be
relegated to the background. If we have to send millions to
Greece and Turkey on a continuing basis it is obvious that
there will be no relief from the burdens of taxation. Our
veterans wil] not get houses if materials and supplies have
got to be furnished the poverty-stricken countries of Europe
as a first call. And so the political pattern which will carry
into 1948 is definitely taking shape. Doubtless, the President's
new foreign policy will be supported by the country at large

and~ the- Republican Congress

will have to fall in line, with

the consequent scraping of its plans for industrial stabiliza
tion and social amelioration.

Whether or not we should at this time be adopting a
new foreign policy may be a debatable question but the fact
stands out that by those means the present administration is
cleverly out-maneuvering the Republicans. Already the President~s stocks have risen perceptibly from an all time low last
November. With continuing emphasis on foriegn policy and
with the consequent subordination of domestic issues it is
obvious that the Republicans will be stymied in their domes
tic program. In that event, the
returned to power in 1948.

present administration will be

Can negie Foundation Adds Negro
Colleges to New Method Teaching

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ Twelve
Negro colleges and universities |
in five southern states have been
added to the five-year program
designed to improve college teaching, launched -in 1946 by the
Carnegie Foundation fo rthe Advancement of teaching, Dr. O. C.;
Carmichael, president of the

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foundation, announced Friday,
oe expansion brings to 45 the
otal number of southern _ coleet and universities participating in the Carnegie project.

The program in the Negro institutions will be financed jointly
by a foundation grant of $215,000 and by contributions of $60 -000 from the cooperating colleges, making available a total
of $275,000. It parallels the previous foundation grant of $700,000 to 33 other southern: institutions which have added $200.000.
Thus the overall investment in

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To The Editor:

While Secretary of State Marskell is making a grand-stand
tay for democracy in Germany,
caliing for civil rights yor all par.
ilies in Germany and for stronger
trade unions, why does~nt he put
in a plug for American democrecy back home?

Congress is on the verge of
tearing down all which the trad?
unions have spent years in building up, After a hundred years of
struggle, the trade unions have
built up a system of legal collec-.tive bargaining, but now the
empioyers are going all out to
smash it. Democracy is in grave
@anger here in America while
Marshall is preaching democracy
abroad.

At the same time, the un-American Committee has peen going
<o work on the Communist Party. This ties up very well with
the citort to smash the trade unions, tc deprive the Negro people of their rights, and to weaken sre-dom of the press and freedom cf movement, i

It is about time the Anidsicdn
people woke up to the realization of what is happening around
them. ~It Can~t Happen Here.~~
has been said. many times, but
hes one stopped to thiUrnx that
it is happening here? Hitler started first on the Trade ~ Unions,
Communists an dthen the Jews.
Truman assisted by the GOP
and other Reactionaries, are doing the same thing here, only
the Negroes will pear the brunt
of the racist attack.

Those of us who love democracy, must stop this attack on
the Bill of Rights and the Declarletter or telegram to President |~
Truman and Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach protesting
fascist tactics now being employed by them.

Mrs. M. S.. Richardson.

this present five-year program in
the south will be $1,175,000, of
which the 45 participating colleges will provide $260,000 and
the foundation will contribute
$915,000. The funds to cover the
foundation~s appropriations have
been made available to it by the
Carnegie corporation of New
Carmichael said.

~Broadcasting the professor~s
horizon is one of the best ways of
improving the quality of teaching,~ Dr. Carmichael pointed out,
~This program seeks to discover
the extent to which instruction
can be improved through grants
in aid to the teaching staff.~

Stressing that the program is
neither to help teachers obtain
advanced degrees nor to emphasize intensive investigation, Dr.
Carmichael said: ~The purpose is
to strengthen instruction by providing greater opportunity for
individual study and research.~

In the program for Negro colleges, the University of Atlanta

college, Spelman - college, Clark
college and Morris Brown colege. The five other institutions

sity are Dillard university, New
Orleans; Florida Agricultural
and Mechanical college, Tallahassee; Fort Valley State college,
Georgia; Talladega college, Alabama; and Tuskegee institute. Also participating in the Carnegie
program are North Carolina college, Durham; and Fisk university, Nashville. ~

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EXPERTISM LIMITED

One of the marvelous things about the expert, is the
unwarranted awe that he too often inspires. The prevailing
supposition that experts know everything in their respective
fields is erroneous to an alarming degree. A man may study
indefinitely in a given field, and attain unto great degrees in
such study, but when he will have finished, the things he does
not know about his field will make a greater book than the
things he knows.

When William Knox exclaimed ~~O why should the
spirits of mortals be proud?~~ he must have had the experts
in mind. in the first place, experts too invariably differ among
themselves. Almost every expert with his expert theories is
bitterly opposed by some other expert. Every school of
thought has its opposing school of thought, Catholicism has
its Protestantism, the Democrats have the Republicans,. the
free traders have their opponents, the tariff advocates, the
deists have their theists; Malthus, Karl Marx, and Freud ail
have their opponents and so ad infinitum. he confusion in
the counsels of men today is largely the confusion of the
experts. If somehow these experts could be brought to something approaching dn agreement, the troubles of the world
would be nearing an end...

The lithitations of the expert can be clearly seen in the
field of education, a field supposed to be thronged with ~~experts."" Almost every American college has at least one expert with some new theory of education and our larger universities are literally infested with new theories of education.
America is such a wealthy country that any theorist, however
spurious, can. get his theories financed; and this means that
they are advertised and this means that they are popularized
irrespective of their real worth.

One of our most dreadful afflictions today hinges about
this ability to get ~~~expert~~ theories financed. All of our educational theorists failed to call attention to the very germane
fact that teachers were leaving the praieanes by hundreds
of thousands, =:

When Dr. Fine came up with the ipforpeliek that within
the last few years 350, 000 teachers had left the teaching
profession, the nation was stunned. Now the country is stewing in the ~excitement: to increase teachers~ salary as a means
of holding the, teachers that remain and of attracting othe-s

l'into the profession. True to. American tradition, we believe

that we can buy teacher efficiency just as we can buy and
pay for wars that England wants us to fight.

That teachers are too poorly paid is patent, but our experts have utterly failed to make this plain. They have popularized every theory of education but the one that if the
nation wants teachers, it must pay for them. That matters in
this field have so long escaped the notice of our educational
~experts~ is just another outstanding example of the: limitations of expertism. It takes a non-expert in the field of education to make one of the most startling revelations in this
field.

But whether the real trouble in education lies in underour cock-eyed theories of education, remains to be seen. Just
whether our heavily ~endowed colleges and universities are
doing a better job than the struggling institutions that trained

the leaders of the nation of yesteryear is a moot question.
This writer believes thoroughly in a living salary for teachers
as all public servants but he does not subscribe to the belief
that the flushing of big checks by the several departments of
education ig going to bring our school rooms the calibre of
men and women who are worthy as well as prepared to teach
the youth, of the nation.

The best teacher I ever hed was a high school brndite
teaching in. a one-room school house for $25 a ~month taken
in trade such as hams and chickens and eggs which he traded
ar be it from me to advocate a return to the

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McCombs To
Star On April 8~
I. M. A. Card

The big chance Bennie McCombs has been waiting for is
here.

Next Tuesday night the hard
punching Flint Negro middleweight will make his first appearance as a headliner in Flint
professional boxing. ~Bustin~
Bennie is scheduled to meet
Irish Bobby Berry of Cleveland
in the 10-round feature of. Promoter Tommy CusSans~ fight
program at the IMA Auditorium.

McCombs moved up to a feature spot on the Tuesday show
by popular request. He first
gained the fancy of Flint fight
fans early in January when he
knocked out Eddie Green, promising Detroit scrapper, in the
first round of a semi-windup
match.

A little more than two weeks
ago, McCombs came _ back to
send Pete Hammond of Chicago
to slumberland with another
first round knockout. At that
| time Promoter Cussans offered
him a feature spot and followed
through by signing Berry.

Tuesday~s fight really offers
McCombs his big opportunity. If
he can come through with a
sensational performance against
Berry, he has a fine chance of
continuing on up the fistic ladder. Jim Murray, who managed
Jake LaMotta until_a few days
ago, will be on hand to guide
the Flint scrapper in this match,
pointing to the high regard with
which Bennie is held in fast
fight circles. |

Prospects that McCombs~ entrance into fast circles will be a
stormy one is seen in the fact
that Berry, too, is an=np and
coming battler with an imprese
sive record. In~ 39 professional
fights Berry has won 24 of them
by knockouts. In addition he
came up through the tough
Cleveland amateur ranks and
gained considerable boxing experience in the Army.

~Tuesday~s fight stacks up as
a promoter~s dream,~ said Cussans in discussing the coming
fight. ~Fans like to see action.
They like to see knockouts.
With McCombs and Berry in a
ring together something has got
to happen. It~s a case of knocking out your opponent or getting knocked out. This is the
type of fight fans have been
waiting for a long time.~

While McCombs holds the
spotlight on next Tuesday
night~s card, another Flint boy] w
will be bidding for further recognition. Eddie Garland, popular Negro lightweight, is down
for a spot opposite Lou Serna
of Chicago in one of the feature

start in Flint Garland outdistanced Pete Iberri. of Chicago
in ~a fast six-round match: _
Following his sensational win,
Garland, through his - manager,

pectin ~ ANP~E. Simms
Campbell, nationally known commercial artist, will be the speaker at the opening of Atlanta university~s sixth annual exhibit of

paintings, sculptuné and prints
by Negro artists, beginning April
6 and continuing through May. 4.

Many prominent artists of national and internatioal fame are
competing. The exhibition offers
annually $1,400 in cash purchase
awards ranging from $300 to $10
for the best 11 best original art
works in the show, The prize
winners will become part of At+

lanta university~s valuable col
lection, one of the sinenienl of

its kind in the country..

Serving on the jury of.séledtion this year are Aaron Doubles,
professor of art, Fisk university;
Lewis P. Skidmore, ~director of
the High Museum of art, Atlanta, and Julian Harris, Atlanta,
sculptor.

Mr. Campbell will be making
his first trip to Atlanta. He is ~the
creator of a nationally syndicat
ed cartoon and a contributor to _

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| BELIEVE IT OR NOT

By WILLIAM PICKENS
For ANP

Here I am in Tampa, where
DeSoto, the Spaniard, landed
more than 400 years ago; where,~
more than 300 years later, an
American built a great structure) y
popularly known since as ~the
drean castle,~ with 500 rooms;
where Theodore Roosevelt, during our Spanish war, quartered |
his staff while they were training his ~Rough Riders~; where
our rich Americans once paid}
$75 per diem for the privilege
of staying in a room of this
~dream castle~ hotel; where the

in these parts, in attendance.~
All participated according as.his
spirit dictated, and few were
called upon, The whole confer
ence - was. nally te

four STUDY ad
ass ed to a oaks at the

ae to dak "ie "bakt
art of the problem, and_ report
back at a certain hour to the
whole. conference.., The. Srou
were on (1) religious. organization, (2) educational -institutions
at the college level, (3). education at the public, school level,
and (4) special organizatigns.,

- When ~we: iFeported, -hack,.. the
election of. officers, for, the, Sent

tain raiser.

now on sale at St. John Street
Pharmacy as well as the IMA
six round battles. In his last | auditorium box office. They may
be obtained also at Crawford &
Zimmerman, Flip~s, The Stein |
Joe Burke~s Bar.

city of Tampa finally took over
this ~white elephant,~ found it
too expensive to operate for
municipal purposes, and finally
(in 1933) started the University
of Tampa ~ which has now
grown to have about 1,300 students,~all housed in one great
building as a true ~university.~

But none of that is impossible
to believe for all that, and much
more is just recorded history.
But most of the following you
will believe only if you believe
in me:

year. took. place.,.,Preisdent.
wood was. persuaded to ~take, ae

presidency. ofthe. league, for,the
first years.,atleast, to,insure: its
of proper start. The purposes;of
this league, are to work for de~
mocracy, progress and. justice. in
Florida,~an achievement _ which
the. people of Florida gan. Teach
much more quickly, - than, |; any
forces. from. the. outside., ~ 4 n
bring it about in. -Florida.:.

After we had - a ~tind

President Nance ~was ~perstiaded
to, accept the presidency, ~four

On March 20 we had in this
old ~dream castle~ a meeting
which usually occurs only in
dreams in this part of the country: a real American democratic
gathering, of both races, to start
the Florida League for Intercultural cooperation, or ~FLIC,~ in
alphabetics. This was a meeting
to get their heads and minds +t6-!
gether and to make plans: and
effect. organization to see what
Floridians, of all races, can do
together to improve life.and
make progress and life the cul"
ture of all its people. ~

~Segregation~ in this meeting
and effort did not even seem to
occur to anybody. They conferred, made short speeches and
organizedgsimply as the citizens
of Florida. The president of this.
university and the chairman of
the conference was Dr. Ellwood
C. Nance, an-educator, scholar,
and leader of his people. He had
come in as preisdent on V-E

There were: present Protestants and Catholics, Jews and
other denominations. I noticed

vice- -presidents were elected: a
Jew, a Catholic, a Protestant _
and a Negro citizen. At first I
was nominated by a ~white~ citizen, to represent the ~Negro race,
~and President Ellwood. and [
had to explain that my base was
Washington and my present
home New York City, $0. that

we should have ~to ask, om. to
elect_some person \ 0 will ~con
tinue in Florida,~that T was
only an invites guest, bec gi

ers Se, wisee resident ~
Rogers of the Central Life
suringe compalry: Ve 3

this first.
in the %

day.: _* PStates

interest: in our developing fu
one man of India, now lecturing

ture. Look~ out _and listen for
FLIC!:

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ready for all comers in the
lightweight class. Among those
Garland has his sights trained
on is Bill Eddy, -Flint lightweight and a regular headliner
on Cussans promoted shows.

Still another fight with unusual interest brings, together
Clem Custer, Detroit Negro
lightweight, and Art Cooper of
Chicago. This is scheduled for
six-rounds and is a fight that
might well be a headliner as
both boys are regular 10-round
fighters.

Custer, a smooth and clever
boxer, has appeared on four of
Cussans~ shews within recent
months. He has wor six of his
last 11 fights by knockouts,
while Cooper has won three of

welterweight, and a_ popular
fighter here, will meet Eddie
Bogart of Toledo, while Leon
Thompson, Chicago middle- |
weight, and Martin Doyle of De- |
troit will square off in the cur,

Tickets: for Tuesday's ~fgfit e

Vote for John L. Roach for

Bob Rawls, made known he was| Cireuit Court Judge.

forts to increase teachers salaries in this country is fu
mental, or incidental to effective teaching. There is Sone
7 ultrecane cial in effective teaching.

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John BH. Tones, who was to row
back to the dredge.:Brbwn was
tossed out o the rowbow. near
the dredgé. His foot caught in the
seat and he was.earriedunder the
boat, mf

- Jones, who. was, waiting on the
bank, heard Browns:.erjes as he
fell out of the.roy He ranto the Belmont pumpii
an eighth of a mile ~ gill and ~
called: park guards. |

Three park~ panes ~ out
in~another boat*and foun Btown
drowned, his + Sot stilt. caught
in the seat. was pronounced
déad at Presbyterian ~hospital.

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In the four found prelimina-:
ries, Eugene Bell, Detroit Negro j=. te for aliesA. for

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