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SECRETARY MARSHALL ~OUTMARSHALLED~ _

Secretary of State George é
~~Marshalled~~ by Prime Minister Stalin and ~Soviet |Beecher, William Lloyd
foreign Minister Molotov. The failure of the Austro-German

pletely out

talks bear evidence of this.

The question to date however is
draw the blueprint for a new/|ferring to-them as real humans,

ica, or communistic Russia~
Europe.,

Perhaps there was wisdom in appointing a former general to the all important post of Secretary of State.

C. Marshall has been com
*~will democratic Amer
Yet it

will be read along with such

A Giad ~table a F apeleae for the ~aa Mehitena of F lat:
bush. Whatever else is said and done, there remains a place
in history for Branch Rickey for his act in bringing Jackie
Robinson, the first Negro in modern organized baseball. Yes
sir, and I am sure that long ~after Jackie has passed from the

scene as an active player in the
national game, Rickey~s name

groups. (I am still talking about
Negroes.) But just the same, I
might add, that is all the miore
reason why they should give up
Some of their advertising to Negro papers and magazines.

Let's gather up some live-wire
salesman ~and fetch along some
statistics about how much we
drink. _ Not that the distilleries

names as the Rev. Henry Ward
7arrion, Wendell Phillips and Abe
Lincoln. All of these men were
what histerians have chosen to
all reformers. But I believe re
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who regard humans~would best|~

appears the Russian Bear has been thrown a delectable piece
of ~Marshall~~ steak. It is surprising that such a person should
have been sent to cope with the number one diplomat of the
world, Stalin. Vandenberg, long in years of diplomatic experience would have been, and should be even now, a replacement for the diplomatically~ defeated, Marshall. Each to
his- own, has been the foundatiédn of American Governmental
servants. One may be a general diplomat, but hardly ever a

diplomatic General. \

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ABOUT THE LOCAL NAACP

A national organization founded for the advancement of
colored people has done a splendid job nationally, but some

&

of the members and officials of the local branch have inter-|;

preted the name to mean ~Advancement of Certain People.~

How in the world are we ever going to be able to look
upon, respect and accept the leadership of men who forget
that. they progress only- as the race as a whole progresses?
Continued bickering and dissension within cannot make. for
unity and harmony without. It is time for these men to realign their ideas and principles with those of the organization
that they represent and enter into the full spirit of the aims.
and purposes. These men are constantly in the public eye, and
right now it is the concensus of opinion that they are ~~retardrather than ~~advancing~~ the cause of their organization.
We in Flint want to advance~we need the leadership~
not of the kind to, that has been displayed so far. If these
ren cannot perform their jobs correctly then they / {should be
Leaders whose aims. oF
ing

replaced with leaders more competent.
are not selfish but who have the best interests of ~the race ~at
heart. The reason that our race moves so slowly toward a
better day is that our so-called leaders let their own selfish
interests dominate the good work they could do.

Until the day that leaders will rise, who will subjugate
~their personal desires to the cause of rescuing our race from
the ~well-set~~ entanglements that have formed around us, we
will be doomed to the slow advancement that only the tides
of progress would naturally bring about.

Common Stake Chief Factor
Behind American Unity,
Lester Granger Tells Confab

PITTSBURGH, Pa. ~ APNS~

Acknowledgement of a common stake ~ one of the chief
factors behind American unity
during the war ~ must = be
brought again for the attainment
of real democracy, an authority.
on race relations asserted here
last Friday night.

Lester B. Granger, executive
secretary Of the National Urban
League, addressing the twentyninth annual meeting of -the Urban League of Pittsburgh at Central Baptisé Church, stressed that

national life.:

~The American people ~ both
Negroes and Whites, still believe
in miracles and instead of digging down and working out their
problems, they are looking for
~a leader to solve everything,~ he
declared.

Mr. Grnager said he ~was against the Communist because
he wants democracy, -however
that he does not engage in witch
hunts, and that ~~~those who. generally have a knife up their

-What~s the matter with the
go-getting salesmen of Negro
periodicals? What, no national-.
ly-known ads? Not even a bev-;
erage ad? Yet, there are more}
saloons and places to guzZle in
Negro sections, than there are in
any other part of the various.
cities throughout the: nation.
What does that mean? Figure it
out for yourself..
Yes sir, it~s a sad commentary
but it's really true. Don~t forget,
all the large and small distilleries are thoroughly aware of who
is ~drinking the most of what. which by the way is ~not
too much credit to-a group~ of

describe then? For they were
indeed men who believed in de- don~t know, but to just show
mocracy for all the folks. them we arg conscious of

the fact that the
being made in their. organizations for those who are cgnsuming much of their spirits.: is no place

eye utterances heard on
Capitol Hill. Representative Mendel pion thinks Henry A. Wallace has done the United States
a great disservice by his antiTruman policy. However, that is
beside the point. What I would
like to ask the good Honorable
Rivers is if the blinding of a
Negro Gi in ~his~ own State~
South Carolina ~ without any
punishment of the guilty has not
done this country a greater injury than any of Mr. Wallace~s
utterances?

would be many nervous folks
walking about. The British government is determined to curtail
money used for the acquiring of
cigarettes. Note this, the Chancellor of the: Exchequer, Hugh
Dalton, has just announced to
the House of Commons that for
the next fiscal year Britishers
will have to fork up something
like sixty-five cents for a pack
of cigarettes. Whew! Boy, if you
had to pay that much for a pack
of whiffs on this side of the Atlantic there sure would be less
smoke around to fill the small
rooms and the air.

Jobs are going on the disappearing list. They are getting
more scarce for the Negro. Remember, I mentioned in these
columns shortly after the war,
that such would be the case. In
fact, I warned you before V-J
Day that it was very un-wise to
spend your shekles too freely.

~What about FEPC? Well all I
can tell you is to try to. make
friends with your arch-enemy~
Rankin and his Un-American
Committee. They are investigating everything else, they should
beable to find out why certain
industries have let Negroes out
because they are Negroes.

Yes sir, maybe one of these
days America may come around
-to what the rest of the world

people whose economic standards are far below those of other

If it, ever happened here there

thinks it is.

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DR. DAVID.
__PETEGORSKY _

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Jewish Congress,
dorses~ Measures by Republican
Leader,
Executive _Director,..American
~warmly En
But}.Asks for Amendments to Increase Help for
Southern. States.:

American Jewish Congress,

it is primarily intended to help
states with the least resources
and to stimulate greater expenditures form state and _ local
funds. The bill would bring the
expenditures for schooling for
every child in the nation to no
less than $40 per year.

~ Declaring ~that Federal. aid to

the country.~
The:executive secretary was

the speaker at the meeting
which concluded the second annual unit conference and the
twenty ninth annual meeting, under the theme ~America Teamwork Works.~

This theme was broken into
four workshops: Teamwork thru
the Church; Teamwork thru the
School; Teamwork thru the Social Agency;. Teamwork thru the
Social and Civic Group. They
) were respectably led py Mr. Willis Jones, Rountable of Christians
and Jews; Mr. Alex Stein, American Service Institute; Miss Dor
C. A. Mrs. Lillian~ Frieldberg,

sleeves too.~ He continued by
saying that ~the native Fascists
are twice as dangerous to democrocy as all the Communists in

there are ~~~insidicus enemies~
still to be fought, that the United States is not unified and that
~~racism~~is an infection in the

Jewish Public Relations Counei.:
Mrs. Eunice ~Cook, presided
over the unit conferenee and

Thomas P=srton, president of the

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Urban League of Pittsburgh, presided over the evening mecting.

A WORTHY FRIEND
By Louella Winfield

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How good he was no one could
tell 2

It happened at last one day

I took the train and rade away.

~ well

Now I reside in Ohio

more,

My thoughts flash now and then,
Upon this very lonely friend.

I think. that I may never see
This friends who was 80 dear to
me

told
To make new friends and keep |
the old.

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Jubemres

othy Guinn, Centre Avenue Y. M.,

And bids them: in to sup;
when

Dr. David W. Pecks: executive diivie of ~the &
~warmly endorsed~
(S. 472) for Federal aid to education at a hearing last week
before the Subcommittee on Education of the Senate Commit
tee on Labor and Public Welfare:
Dr. Petegorsky urged enactment of the Taft Bill because

~the Taft Bill

education was not a question of
what we would afford but what
we could not afford, Dr. Petegorsky asserted: ~Ignorance and
illiteracy are expensive luxuries
which. this. country cannot afford. We must spend whatever
is necessary to abolish them.

~Although by American tradition the substance of education is a-matter of local responsibility, the problem today has
become one of grave national
concern. In an age when distance has been virtually eliminated, educational. standards, no
less than any other, must be
either national or meaningless,~
Dr. Petegorsky stated..

Pointing to the inequalities in
educational opportunity throughout the country, Dr. Petegorsky
told the. sub-committee: ~Geographic inequality of educational
opportunity: is the result of in~ equality of financial ability and
not of inequality of will to educate.~ Citing the case of Arkansas

TO CHEER

/A COMRADE

A friend's a friend though rich

_ or poor,

Ia plenty or in need.

The name is but an idle word,

if flattery pens the creed.
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A friend will drink from hardship~s glass

Aé well as victory~s cup,

And back a comrade when he
is down,:

Not only when he fs up.

they run

A conqueror home to cheer;
Growds always line the streets
to see

Some ~ man appear.

But friendship is a deeper trait,
It wears through thick and thin;
It stands by comrades when they
lose;

Not only when they win.

Some turn their backs on shab
by dress,

And pleas of need rebuff;
The scorn of pride in post and

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purse,

Is truly bitter stuff.
But friendship elings to friends

of old,

~E. Perkins.

whieh, while spetiding a:

Some call it: friendship when]

greater portion of its state income on education than.New
York, nevertheless spent on the
average only one-third as much
per child as New York, Petegorsky stated that ~any plan of
Federal aid which would allot
to New York the same amount
per public. school. child as to
Arkansas, would be inequitable
and unfair and would not constitute the most efficient use of
the money expended. For this
réason, among others, the American Jewish Congress prefers
the Taft Bill (S. 472) to the

McGrath Bill (S. 81) and the
McCarran Bill (S. 170),~ Dr.
Petegorsky stated. ~These latter

bills,~ he said, ~are not true
equalization measures.~
Dr. Petegorsky, however,

urged that the floor of $40 per
child per school year, set by the
Taft Bill, was grossly inadequate
and recommended that it be
raised to ~at least $100 per year.
~The average throughout the
country in 1944-1945,~ he pointed out, ~was $125.41 per child.
Any bill whith sets as low a
floor as $40 may improve the
situation slightly only in the
most destitute districts. It would
make only a very minimal contribution to the total national

~gilerma.~

Dr. Petegorsky particularly
praised the provisions of the
Taft Bill which guaranteed that
no racial discrimination will be
practiced in conferring its benefits, While the American Jewish
Congress, he stated, was categorically opposed to any system

race or color, he nevertheless
declared that ~until the day
when we can abolish this system, we must continue to make
certain that any benefits conferred by the Federal.Government shall be expended without diserimination on racial
groun

-Airborne transmission of diseases is being studied on the
Berkley campus of the University of California and U. S. Navy
scientists.

Failure to solve complex per.
sonal situations may cause stompch ulcers, says a Univegsity of
California psychiatrist.

NEW "YORK.~(CNS)~Unemployment is on the increase here
with the total number of those
out of a job at 300,000. Layoffs,
which have been doubling since

the first of the year, are reportéd mostly in the department

It) and stays the stores, amusement and _ enterfriends are down, tainment trades (night clubs,
As well as when they @re up. |festaurants particularly) and

|women~s garment industry.

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OTHER PHASES ~

event possibles. In

reactions or thoughts, about

the future trend.
-Behind personality clouds,

un-noticeable good qualities
can be found. Startling events
should spur efforts of real understanding in order that statisticians and reporters may not

too readily label ~embers of
society.

Therefore, in this column,
shall we measure ~ the good
qualities of citizens both in

and out of trouble? Shall we

It may be obmeryed i in all walks
gest, what will another individual

Aiken Bill (S. 199), the Green-.

of segregation on the basis of

consider every person as a human being with good balances
of fine habits or traits and
that there is reason for each

_ Itracting or using good features

onse to the

or stands of life that one ~stay well sugor group do next in life~s span?.

Social contacts and surroundings lead to both favorable and unfavorable
query of what another will do next, it
is suggested that deeped understanding of others can lead to most ~pleasant,

titled ~OTHER PHASES~ |!
should like to draw attention
to the Physical Science Fields
where much effort and expenditures are set forth to understand materials and elements
of nature. Scientific devotions
of this kind have advanced
the materialistic world. There
attention to the good qualities

ized society.

On the physical ~science side, '
needs have been found for ex
In this my first in a series |

fore, we seek now to attract)

of all human natures for the:
advancement of a more civil
of materials and items regardless of their appearances.

A few years ago, | met with
Lorado Taft, an internationally known caucasian sculptor.
He allowed himself to remain
of common ~ appearance~ in
clothing, but. yet he had produced well appreciated artistic
work. The ordinary passerby
on the street undoubtedly con~sidered him as being just an
average citizen. This he was.
His work shop was a regular

\double garage in Chicagd.

The noted individual, | as
well as the ordinary individual
each have excellent \human:
|qualities.

behavior activity?

IT SEEMS TO ME...

by Richard ADAMS
~~~~~~~~

discussing race relations.

véry few Negroes ever attend.
Some of these movements
may not ah veouraorpyp! 88
may not have your approval,
nevertheless it is your responsibility to attend so that you'll
know what is going on around
you.

A. Philip Randolph, international president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, spoke to a pitifully
small crowd this past Sunday.
In the first place the church
should have been packed and
jammed so that when and if
Mr. Randolph ever returned,

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That when ever r anything worthwhile i is presented for us, we as a race can~t
seem to find time (as if we were that busy) to attend.

I have been to different meetings and fouxd the place filled with people
and just about two or three Negroes present, although the participants WEEE

The ~Youth for Christ~ rallies might as well be only for white hecause

held in Pitt Stadium.
When the United Jewish

Fund drive opened last Sunday night over 9,000 people
took part in the rally by packing both the Duquense Gardens and Syria Mosque. This
was for. their own advancement and they were solidly
behind it. How many Negroes
woald you get if you held a
United Negro Fund rally?

The most disturbing factor
about this subject is and |
quote the Rev. Cornell Talley,
~Where are our Negro lead
the meeting might have to be

ers?'~ when things of this sort

are presented. They should be
there in force so that ~ they
could _ inteiligently,. lead. us.
Our leaders..expect to-lead yet
they don't even know. what's
going on in ~their own back- _
yard. But ~our ~supposedly
leaders probably couldn't
even be good followers. - No
wonder the followers fail to

attend. Why? You~ ve. heard

of ~follow the leader.~ Need ~
I say more.
Wake up followers and

especially the so-called LEADers; awaken from your ~death- |
ly slumber, for you cant ~do
very much when you're asleep.

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It seems to me by now that we should be tired of what they ~all ~Ci
ored People~s Time.~ There~s no such thing as ~C, P.~ time.
swift, relentless and irrevocable.

We Negroes have no regard for time. If a program is scheduled for eight,
we think we are doing splendidly if we begin at nine o~clock.

m1 ay

SEARCHLIGHT ~

Bernice HEREFG ORL

qt is jue. time,

There~s a Chinese proverb which says, ~lose an hour in the morning: and:

you lose the whole day looking for it.~~.I know this proverb is true, because we Negroes. can never start a program on time. Therefore we
lost the evening and the program looking for- that lost
hour, while we were sitting
around waiting for the crowd
to come.

For once why don~t we begin when we say. If the people- know that you will start
when you say you will, they
will be there.

This thing of starting programs at 9:30 and 10 p.m.
then rushing through them is
unfair to all concerned. It is
doubly unfair to the participants who have prepared a
speech, song, poem, sermon
or address. Ther to have to
lbe rushed or left off the program is both impolite and unjust. t

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I want to call attention to
those persons who are always
late, when they are on programs. If they are not present
when their names are calles
then don~t call on them when
they rush in from ~5 minutes
to one and a half hour late. If
this was done a few times
then the participants would be
on time.
If the program would start
on time~ and when the crowd
arrived, the program would be
half over and then they would
be on time thereafter.

If we can arrive on time for
trains, planes, buses, radio
programs, baseball games,
Movies, operas and all programs sponsored by white
people, then why in the name
of God can't we bé on time
for our own programs.

If we would be. successful
then we must impress on our
minds that success is the child
of two very plain Haren.
punctuality and accuraty.

So let. us start, ~noy
on time. ~And erase
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By William Pickens for ANP

I am sending the following
several poems through the Associated Negro Press, because other
people besides me will be interested in them, especially from
the standpoint of their crigin:

They are poems written by
white pupils in a certain school
in northern Wlinois, and they
have -be2n sent to me by" one of
the teachers of the school, This is

='l how these poems were ~~~born:~~

A teacher of that school was in
Chicago and heard Langston
Hughes reading some of his
poems. She bought one of the

1 books, took it back to the school,

read it to her classes and asked
each student to write some poetry in conformity with the spirit
of those which they were hearing from Hughes~ book.

These several poems are a part
of the crop of the emulated catholicity. That circumstance gives
them extra interest.

The poems:

Though we are Negroes and you
are Whites |

Were all Americans ~entitled to.
rights

We all work for livings ~ we all
should be free

Though race, creed and ~ our
differences be.

We're people too!

We wish the world would see

And give us the right

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Of equality.

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INTERRACIAL AFFAIRS
AS ELSEWHERE

I fear one thing

Not a place nor man
But just a word.

It~s a word of fear

A word of hate

A word that hurts
Discriminate.

For me it means ~
Poverty~ pees
Struggle~
Life in a shack
All this just because I~m, black.
The night is dark~:
The day is light -

Just like you are Saal
And I am white i

As the day needs the night
And the night needs the day,
We need each-otheren..
In that very same way.

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When we come before the es
ment seat ~

The Lord Almighty ain~t ~ r
say:

~You're a Nigger, You'r re a ~Jeu,

There ain~t no place- -up here for

you.~

But He~s going to say,~ 2

~Come Black man, Jew, Red iPrialh

And the rest of you,

In my heaven there is no race, ~

You are all God~s children and.
God~s place.~ ~

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Old Abe set us free
Took the bales off..our backs %

I am a colored man

sium, and salt are as as
the sea and wir toon which they
are drawn. |

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| Took our chains-and our sacks<

He couldn~t change our skins

A-wandering through the,,world ~Cause God made us black.