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A FOOL AND HIS MONEY

The Washington Administration prepares to pour 400
million: dollars into Greece and Turkey to combat rising tides
of Communism. As usual the ~man on the street~~ has not
been considered, nor will he be consulted.

One dispatch states that ~There is now a shifting of emphasis of the Truman Doctrine from a negative, anti-Communist idealogical campaign, to a positive drive to bolster the
There is a
Biblical. phrase which states
parted.~

That 400 million dollars would be of more help to the
people right here at home in the form of housing and better
educational facilities.

~A fool and his money are soon

BETWEEN THE LINES

By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK For ANP
THE ADOLESCENT SOUTH

The south is seething with unrest and discontent. It is
no niore the ~solid south~ but the south divided against itself
morally and intellectually. The south of Ben Tillman, Hoke

~Smith, Heflin and Vardaman is fast passing and with it are

passing the fetters and bonds that have hampered the south

~in its race for economic survival. A new south is growing up |

and at present adolescing -grandly, and there is every reason
to believe that beyond the south~s adolescence of today is a
south whose maturity will see the full liberation of the Negro
millions who reside here.

The current stirrings of the south are prophetic in ways
few take time to understand. The better element of the white
south is becoming too vocal for the south ever to revert to
the days of Ben Tillman and his clan. The slow processes of
education are becoming more and more evident and the intellectual growth of the south will make the south more and
more inhospitable to the Bilbo-Talmadge tribes. The south is
fast adolescing and it is no wender that serious students of the
color question are wondering if the Negro is ready to take the
full responsibilities that will. soon rest upon hit. This is the
more serious question of the hour..

One of the more hopeful signs of the times is seen in the
changing attitude of the northern Negro leadership towards
-the liberal white leadership of the south. To this writer this|.
is one of the most propitious signs of the times. Within recent
months this writer has listened to Carter Woodson and Charles
Houston; both of Washington, and it was thoroughly surprising to hear these two stalwarts speak words of commendation
of the liberal white south.

It is true that~ a few so-called Negro radicals who hail
from the ~~north~~ are still trying to be lesser editions of DuBois and strive therefore to be known as ~fighters~ but the
major spirits of the Negro leadership of the upper south and
north are trying to see the south:n its tru~ light. The sincerity
and constructiveness of the better elements of the white south
are no longer matters of debate but matters of fact.

One of the finest evidences of the south~s adolescence is
moral bigness of ~some of its white leaders. A few months
ago Virginius Dabney of Richmond took the advance position
that segregation on the common carriers should be abolished.
Editor Dabney~s pronouncement reverberated throughout the
nation. Strangely enough not another, white editor of the

south followed Dr. Dabney~s lead.

Negroes hailed him as a great southern statesman. The
nation took serious notice of the white liberalism in the south. ~
But when Mr. Dabney found that he had ~~outrun his interference,~ he slowed down in sheer self-defense. Then the

' Negroes turned upon him with the fury of an avenging angel

and for his liberal gesture I doubt if ever a white southerner
took such a roasting, for he was bitterly maligned, ridiculed

and _ misrepresented. His high motives were disparaged and

disdained.

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| By GEORGE F. McCRAY For ANP)
THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND NEGRO LABOR

Great Britain, that center of Anglo-Saxon civilization, is
still fighting to keep alive as a world power. [In her struggle
is the fate of 100 million Negroes living~ in Africa, the West
Indies, Central and South America.

In| the years immediately ahead Great Britain must rebuild her economic strength. She must do this not only to
stave off starvation but to regain the military power to hold
her own against or in cooperation with the United States and
Russia. | |

Great Britain~s labor force in many of her key industries,
particularly coal, is of comparatively low capacity. Compared
with the United States, England's miners are well along in
years, are tired~'and worn down, They do not have the latest
labor saving machinery with which to. work. The need also
is for energetic young people but she is not finding them, Yet
every month brings her closer to an inevitable period of bitter trade competition with the United. States in all the free
markets of the world, perhaps within. the British empire itself.
Russian, political and economic rivalry ~on an extensive scale
is also looming on the horizon.

THkre is a surplus of labor, strong, healthy, efficient Negro labor in all the islands of the British West Indies. The
situation of these Negro workers is far more desperate than
anything in England. During the war. some were imported to
work in British mines and factories. Their records were commendable. But today, to ease her manpower needs, England
is bringing thousands of Poles from Europe~not West Indians. from the sprawling isands south of U. S.

Meanwhile thousands of intelligént young Englishmen are
~migrating to, Canada, South Africa, East Africa, and -Australia
as fast as shipping space can be found to carry-them. For
them the gretn fields. lie over the ocean.:

But for the Negroes in the British West Indies, shrep
courses are open to them. Only one is immediately practicable. Thousands again will come to the United States to
work this year, many will never go back. But the immigratin authorities will not try hard to find them.

To relieve the over crowded situation in; the British West
Indies a royal commission is now looking over resettlement
land in the sparsely settled British possession in Central and
South America. On the other hand, various industrial development schemes are planned for the islands, but. such, schemes
are still on the drawing. board. But, industrialization, is a good
idea. Development of the West Indies. and other economically
backward: areas, of the British empire would enable her to
thumb her nose at both Russian and American competition. economic or otherwise. This ~development alone would
give the empire another lease on life for 100 years.

Not only was Editor Dabney gain-said and denounced
but also Mark Ethridge and Ralph Magill, two other jiberal
southerners, were bitterly assailed and their previous records
of fairness and justice were discounted because they did not

o ~all the way~ by saying all we wanted said and by doing
all we wanted done. Some Negroes seemed to forget that

~strategic retreats,~ as the bolshevists called it, are not abject,
surrenders. But if Dabney and Magill and Ethridge had completely surrendered they could hardly have been more bitter
ly derided.

Today things are changed and changing and the foremost Negro leadership of the north is swift to acknowledge
the substantial. contribution-the conscientious liberal southerners are making to the cause. In fact we are at last acknowledging that without the good-will and democracy of this
group the path of the Negroes of this country leads up-hill
and into the dark.

The most heartening thing is the way these rebuffed
whites are standing by their guns. Virginius Dabney now as

always: is lending the weight of his great ~influence for Negro
liberalism just as before and grouching; but he is in there
slugging it out in an endeavor to make a better south for~the

Englishmen, despite the fact, they are badly needed at
home, are offered every inducement te migrate to South

Jan C. Smuts.

For there is also a sieges of labor in the Union of
South Africa. The rapidly expanding indystries there need
more skilled and semi-skilled Tabor.

colored | peoples in other tham unskilled jobs, menial jobs.
Even the prejudiced South African labor unions, were beginning to realize that without a sharp improvement in, the lot
of Negroes, progress even for whites would be limited.
The whole movement to ~upgrade Negroes is being hampered by the hope that large numbers of select white workers
might be encouraged to migrate to South Africa from England. Meanwhile the race situation in the Union becomes
more and more tense.

The adolescent south!

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form Ga) erteqortinany Camtehip sects which threaten fLeir crops.

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Africa by th government of that great pretender to liberalism,

Many manufacturers |
were demanding the right to émploy. African Negtoes and the

White, Negro
Students; Protest
Racial Slur

CHICAGO. ~{ANP) ~ White
and@ Negro students of Herzel
Junior college dramatically

class last week following a. racial slur by the teacher.

The flareup resulted from a
remark made by a Mr. Bergdoff
in a lecture on banking about
~a nigger in the woodpile.~ Protesting students charged the in~structor made the derogatory remark several times in the course
of his lecture..

Action against Mr. Bergdoff
was spearheaded by a student

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by Richard ADAMS}

That 1 we have two wrongs which need to be righted: and: which ~help to.,

hold the race back. I think I just have to cite the following to show you how...

to right the wrong.

Now take for instance the battles we have to obtain work in places thi

where heretofore only white worked. And how after we have mastered this.

job we branch out and start
one of our own founding. Instead of beginning. a liberal
policy of hiring everybody
capable we. restrict our employing to that of just hiring
Negroes.

The second ~ol the two
wrongs is committed by a Negro who ownes a store and
who moves or sets up business
in a neighborhood which has
had nothing but stores owned
by just. whites as long-as the
community has been founded.

It is expected of you by
(although you've had~ no differences with the white %torekeepers) to discontinue _service with them in order for his
infant business to survive. He

with scorn ebaeieies they pass
his door to purchase from the
long established white firms.
It~s really very silly and it~s
really very simple. why this is
done; but you wouldn't think
so with all the fuss incidents
like this cause. For years long
before. this ~baby business~
was ever thought of customers
were buying from these adult
businesses and although they
would like to help. the newlyfound firm, they nevertheless
see no reason for breaking. off
their relations with their first
friends.. But whenever the
older business is closed or
doesn~t have the products you
want or maybe the proprietor
becomes discourteous to you

looks upon his fellow Negroes

business with the new place of
business.

ventures into a new field and
a new territory which up un
who owned such a place
there, should not expect the
Negroes to come a runnin~ to
his place just because he's a
Negro; but come whenever he |
can satisfy their needs.

If you are like the above
and share the above views~
~~why don~t you do right~~ and
~straighten up and fly right.~
~Ponder over the above facts
and you'll have a better outlook of your fellow man, and
he in turn will have a better

then usually the buyer does

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Why are we so mean, narrow, jealous, envious and}{
down right callous towards a
person's ambition. When they
tell us, I am going to strike
out for myself. To develop
the God given talent. We begin to discourage them. If it
is a member of our family,
why then the derisicn, sneers
and discouraging yemarks are
heaped on them.

It seems only natural to
turn to those nearest to you

It is frsigtc in talking with so many, many
thing, know how to do. something, and are willing to do something, but they~ -
never do anything or reach their goal. or have the happiness of doing soul
satisfying work, because ninety per cent of them either never begin or else
fail because they are never encouraged by the ones closest to them.

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SEARCHLIGHT |

_ by Bernice HEREFORD}

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fout on your own,~ if

But very few people are
prepared forfi or are able to

ment of ridicule and: discouragements hurled at them.
Small wonder then, if they
never accomplish anything or
reach their heart's desire.

Be not surprised if they in
their extremity confide in
other people. And when they

when-you desire to ~launch

stand: up under the bombard-|

do succeed, in spite of our

unbelief, don~t holler: if they
do not include you. in their
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If we can't do anything to

help them, don~t discourage
tthem. Let us say ~~you can
make it. y, have faith in pt
Go to it.~

~Then instead of so many.
failures, and unhappy frustrated people, we will see
more successes and_ general
happiness everywhere.

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committee, headed by 22-yearold Harvey R. Thomas, who reported the racial slur to other
students during lunch period. A
score of white and Negro students rallied around him and
they lodged a,complaint with
Prof. Auble, head of the social
science department, who expressed belief that the teacher
was not prejudiced to Negroes.

Mr. Bergdoff, who was present, said he was lecturing from
notes, and that the remark was
a slip of the tongue. But the
students dramatically walked out
of his class as) an indication of
their resentment. He knew why.
they were leaving, he said, and
apologized for the remark.

A board of education official,
John F. Delaney, confirmed the
students~ walkout and promised
to probe the eause.

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~Soften~ ~een.
If a room is ~~~dead~ add metal
fixtures just enough to tune up the
sound. Hardness of surface aids in
making rooms noisy, and this is always likely to. occur where smooth,
hard wall and ceiling linings are
employed, as is the case in what is
known as the wpianexine gallery: at
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I was talking to a man who
owns a factory in the Midwest. I
' know him to be an honest man.

He says it now takes 1500 men
to to dp the: work that 1000 used to
his factory in the same

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occurring during changes in
society. There are stimulants
for the pleasant as well as for
the unpleasant conditions that
arise. Realizing this premise,
praise or sorrow feelings can
be afforded to persons on
either side of a giveh situation. For instance praise
should be found for the entreprenuer, stock holders and
workers whose _ participations
lead to success of an endeavor. Likewise, sorrow can
be advanced both for an unfair agent or dealer as well as
for unfortunate sufferers. Regardless of how unjust a part
the KKK plays in society, one
can feel sorry for each member as being ignorant and uncivilized. Their actions are

~|| symptoms which demonstrate

mal-adjustments in the local
or national pattern of affairs.

Knowing that the wrong deal| er is ignorant. does not neces
sitate reason for others to become inconveniénced in life.
In realizing that all- persons
are gifted with human values,
one will not ~necessarily be
apt to jump on a4 band wagon
to condemn or mock another
regardless of surface reviews.

A short while ago, a race

while Negro and Caucasian}
prisoners were eating in the
same' dining hall. Supposedly
the Ceucasians took exception
to eatine in the same hall with
fellow. Negro prisoners. The
~event has allowed the public
to learn that the Federal Gov
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helps make prices ia;

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than they did a few years ago. ernment the gin some ism

aif thise tide te aed tae in that racial groups ate sepa
here is the chief cause for rated in different cell, units.

the gher prices that these very || The officials. possibly claim

men don~t want, for themselves || they have no power to effect

as well as for = learnings of democracy. Yet

i mainly highly. suggestive.

prisoners on the separate units
with sad stages of life remain

upheaval took place in a Fed-| veterans~ organization.

eral Prison. Surface conclus-} ~The American Legion is
ions are readily reached. Re-|furnishing transcribed _proports show that it started|&tams, professionally pro
This week in our stride for sincere understanding of human welfare,:
may be suggested that there are influences and inter-relationships between
different homes, community and international activities. The realities of social
conditions may be compared with the mixtures of different chemicals leading
to several resultants. Our thoughts may be directed. to the many ramifications

This, actual criminals as well
as the anti-Negro and antiCaucasian leaders have
chances to advance their acceptable feelings. The individual prisoners suggestive mode
can result partly from actions
of over-powered officials not
acquainted with their duties of
authority as servants of tax
payers.

AMERICAN
LEGION
NEWS.....

RADIO ACTIVITIES

American Legion radio programs are now being broadcast every week by more than
750. stations in the United
States,

This was disclosed here today by Commander Whit Miller of the Sportsmens Post
No. 913 of the American Legion as he revealed the record-breaking extent of the radio. activities of the largest

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duced, to an increasing number of stations sate a; week,~

~Commandet Miller said. ~The
name of the 1947 Legion radio sewues is ~Decision Now.~
The
portray how the decisions of
today set ~the pattern of Amer
|
is a vital need for all prison

officials to have training in understanding real conditions of
society and human welfare,

a strong view to the effect the
U. S. peoples can become civilized when they do away with.
prisons.

While one may feel sorry
for the ignorance of most
prison officials, ones can still
take an active stand for their
advancement to the welfare of
all human beings.

record,~ Commander
said. ~Last year~s series, ~This
Is Our Duty,~ was broadcast
by 640 stations. New sta

are being added every week", ~

~Decision Now~ scripts are~
being authorized. by the a Og

World War TF radio staff. of pnd

the American Legion headed =

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tries to build up a business in. ~

til he came had no Negroes ~

Miller;

by Robert Shinn of Warsaw, ~

Ind., according. to Command.~ ~
er Miller.: Sit

The new American Legion~

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programs are finding ~ favor...

with radio programs because
of their excellence,~ ~he: said. -

programs dramatically |

ica~s' future.~
~Decision Now.~ "cede
made

to Colpeelas ~Miller,
its debut on the mations~ air
ways durine the first week, of
February 1947.

~The starting list of 735

stations for Bey program set a

new Legon radio

~The finest talent of radio,
stage, screen and music is being used by the NBC in producing these transcriptions~ for
the American Legion.~

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