Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 27]

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city whatsoever.

YOU CAN~T WORK ALONE
There are many organizations in Flint who.are under
the impression that they can exist solely without.any publi
They think that their actions,

laws, and

ideas are -just for their own particular group..

diately given the
But when a prevalent issue comes to the front,

If you are not a member of this group, you arg: imme~tight lip~

and cold stare treatment. 3
they

with much pomp and pomposity set about to settle this: issue themselves, I.
The only organ they use to propagandjze the issue is

the

~mouth~~.

They? publicize by

E. members only.

~~word of mouth,~ when

their best medium of expression would have been ~the press,
and the radio.

less teach them anything.

There are still

larged upon!

some people you can "t tell anything, much
~Words~. of mouth are always en
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sfoens TO JACKIE ROBINSON

Many basebal

1 fans of Pontiac and country were very

proud to hear and read of the Negro star, Jackie Robinson,. of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
It was certainly a well-earned title.

the Year.~

being selected as the ~Rookie of

Robinson has~ played all around baseball during the
season, and serves an excellent example of what Negroes
can accomplish and achieve if given the opportunity.

He has suffered many hardships as a pioneer in the
field of big league ball and all Negroes and baseball fang
should praise him for the wonderful opening wedge he has
made for other Negro ball~players.

The Jackie Robinson Day cclebration which is to be
sponsored at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn is indicative of the
appreciation shown by many of Robinson's followers.

Because of the excellent sportsmanship and _ athletic
skill exhibited by the popular Rookie of the year, many Negro ball players will get a crack at big league ball next season.

The Commentator~s: hat is off to Robinson and other

Negro ball players who are now proving theraselves worthy
of being big leaguers.

One of the greatest achievements in the field of sports
will be to watch, read, and listen to the first world series
ball ever pitched and caught by a Negro player.

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Bi tes of our ~reading public in

sb of new writets who have toili over their precious. manuipts and cultivated them into
sentences, paragraphs, and
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bred ~ least so their efforts.

With increasing | regard. to the
fiialice of racial labels, today~s
hors are writing about peo
Mecinies these: beste are flay
ér Anonymous; ~the~ intensity of |
their problematic affairs, their
laughter and sadness are felt and
understood. Expertly so, Willard
Motley, Frank Yerby,and; Ann:
Petry (to cite a few) are bringifg their, vivid talents ~to. face.
and equaling pride and profits of

~| sutH established. favorites as Er-.:
a nest. Hemirgway, W: ~Somerset
ro Maughami, and. Pearl Buck,

In forthcoming weeks, this
column will detail two or more
revi of the week's important
irae.

RYDER~S VIEWS

By Morrison L. Ryder

LANSING CENTER USED
AS INTERCULTURAL
LABORATORY

An often asked question~
~Can ethnic groups with varied
nationalities and cultural backgrounds get~ along together?~
is being answered daily at the
Lincoln Community Center in
Lansing, Mich. ~

Staff members and volunteer
workers -alike have combined
their efforts and talents in affecting the integration of children. of many ~racial~ groups
into friendly units; each individual, irrespective of his background, is. molded into our
small,. democratic society.

We hope that through the
various projects carried on at
the center to sow the seeds for
~a healthy community. Our staff
has been carefully trained in
methods of aiding children fo
adjust to, cooperate with, understand and respect one anoth
fer.

It is interesting to watch
these various nationality groups
at play and study in various
arts and crafts classes at the
center with never a thought of
culural, differences.

Our center acts also as a
training ground forstudents doing field work in various areas
of social work; however, some
of these pupils work in a purely voluntary manner, from a
spirit of altruism. Again, this
is a venture in making the
most of life in an interdependent society. The college~ students and our children each get
a chance of, knowing one anoth
er, thus, form~pg a basis in
may cases for lasting friendships.

Our field work volunteer

workers are: from the social
service department of Michigan
State College, Department of
Effective Living of Michigan
State College, college YWCA,
and ~YMCA. Consequently,
many of~ us get a chance to dis
| cover. how similar all groups

are, too, it is surprising how
quickly and readily all persons
quickly catch the spitit of brotherhood which permeates the
center.. All benefit from participating in our activities, for
each, sees and soon learns the

advantages of participating ~ in

a ion-segregated society in
which all projects are carried

rying on reciprocal relation
ships.

Of course, it is important
that all groups realize that we
live in a world in which each
individual is respected for what

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on to assure the high stand- light. ards that can accrue from car
he contributes to ~society. Ob
viously, one of our goals is to
respect the dignity of the individual.

Our intercultural club, headed by Dr. Solon Kimball of the
Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Michigan State
College is another example of
pooled efforts to bring all
groups together in order that
they may understand and respect each other.

The Boy Scouts; undér the
able leadership of Mr. Schuyler Miller, can boast of a Cauceasian member in their ranks.
Our swing band ahd athletic
teams are represented by various nationalities; therefore, _it
it can be séen that the Lincoln
Center does operate as a. laboratory for demonstrating that
goodwill and intelligent guidance in dealing fairly with all
groups reaps vast dividends increasing friendships through
understanding and_ respecting
each other.

YOUR EYES

WHY WELLS FAILED
ARITHMETIC
Children with visual defects
often have a hard time at

school. Perhaps you may have
heard about H. G. Wells,
famous

the
In school he
failed miserab
author.

Writing in
life, he
scribes his

arly shortcomg in scholar~Ship to neglect-ed. eyesight.

- *Qne = thing,~

my arithmetic wrong vas a defect in eyesight..My two eyes
have not quite the same focal
length, and this often puts me
out of the straight with ~a column of figures. But there was
nothing in my school to discover that, ahd my school never did discover it.~

The condition of eyesight
which the author writes~ about
is known as aniseikonia. The
image in one eye is larger than
the image in the other. This

~is not a very common short
coming. Most vis isual errors arise
from nearsightedness, Yarsightedness, and astigmatism, Since
these are shortcomings in focusing the rays of light upon the
retina, they are corrected by
proper Tenses placed before the
eyes.

There is no mystery ~about
how glasses work. A person~ $
vision is scientifically measured, and lenses prescribed and
ground to counteract exactly
the visual defect, so that the
trays fall in, sharp focus
on the retina of the eye.
Eyeglasses have contributed
much to the sum of. jhiuman
happiness, Before they were invented, only a few, centuries
ago, a person with poor vision

was hpi to a half-seeing

in arithme
then. ~

LIFE AT A

payid Meth é

Well, {aos like beth a
whose state is on Uniele Satn~s
payroll will ~be - ~investigated | th
with the finest tooth a fy
determine it the tint) of
speci fias blemished it. hed |

they staft; liberals who think
nothing of Russia; ~never
thought about it, will be victims. if just. half the money
was spent in propogandizing
freedom. and democracy as Jefferson, Lincoln and ~Franklin
Roosevelt saw it, the Governtient might not have to use $6
much of the taxpayers~ money
to investigate the same tax payers.:
The dollar is worth about fifty cents today. I wonder what
it will be worth later on, when
~the meat packers turn on -the
heat. Hear, you may have to
fork up as much as two dollars
for a juicy steak. Well, there
is a lot of vitamins in a good
pot of beef stew.

I am afraid this country is
suffering from a defeated dose.
of anti-Socialism. The~ are so

terprise and competition that
they are making it possible for
-both to seep in.by way of inflation. Government controls
would have been a fair method
to check the hiking of prices,
but the big shots yelled ~Dictatorship.~

They cried DICTATORSHIP
during the depression, when |~
the WPA was in vogue, But
there couldn~t have, been a better thing for the Negroes. It
at least found him on a ~level
with his white brothers. There

ployment Practice Committee
Etonomie circumstances
took cate of that. ~The way)
things ate sHaping up now
among landlords and tenants
produter and consumer, industrialist and ~unions, - some sort
of WPA may come without any
competition among political parties. The Negro ~will, be waiting
again to match his skill with
the whites. in the jobs | competicolor line when the dole is
handed out.

A een ines white ~pishdb,
the Right. Reverend Wm. R.
Moody of. the. Episcopal Diocese
of Lexington, Kentucky thinks
people. of the world are sick

weasel words of leaders and |

might have something there, |.
for it seems almost inco: eiva-|
ble for the church to as}:
hamstrung in the affairs of the
world as they are today. Of
course the trouble

bé in the purpose of e chureh

existence. aE fier Siddldies sat
pert NS rt oe ae

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bent. upon retaining free en-, into the deep South where the

~| Senatoré who. advocated elimi-.

was ho need for 4 Fair Em-]

tion, for there will not be any]

of. politicians~. dotible-taik~ and | a

preachers, The ~Rey. Dr..Moody|.. =.

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GLANCE _

t inenti onted last week,. but
n a laxity ~On the part of
pee atten leaders who ~twist

déctrine - of christianity~
i fit. their own Selfish beliefs

and. dogtiias. One has a pretHard: time bein; convinced
hat he has the tight interpre
boa Fr auistigalty, when~ the
leaders of Fae a ad themselves ~ fet it be ~known that
there is such a thing as a
color line in. the church. An
example of that was found at
Copenhagen, Denmark, a few
weeks: ago when certain ministers ~meeting for ~the. Baptist
World Alliance refused to live
at hotels with their~ Negro -brothers ih Christ. They must

with~ the~ camel.

~The powerful Actors Equity
~Association of~ New York has
~voted to not send its actors
~on the jimi ctow stage of the
National Theatre in ~Washington, D. C., until Negroes are.
permitted to attend performances there. This action may
have same far- reaching reper~cussions, even reaching down

legitimate stage is. really lily:
white. Actors Equity is to be
commended for its. tenacious
stand for the ~establishment of
democracy in the focal city of

the wowd.

Stop. Tito iw: of it; those:
nation of ' broadcasting to. foreign nations " might. have had
some Ipgical | reason: in their
purpose,~ Wake - up * ~Unele Sam;|
the rest of the. world is. watchhg yous pnd) 1 eC de may
Fores $ ee Ue é - hn a;
cént of the Jand area ~ South
r Hina~ ang produce forest prod
~valuéd at: more
~lars.a ys ~ In. Kentudky, two-f
of the 4s timberland~10,500,
pe bene: ich supports ae 2,0

wood- fhdustries, in. that state.
Teéxas, usually considered a state of
wide spaces, has a pine forést
belt about the size of the state of |
Indiana, ~ ~

aa. ~ork for

It me, sets Sdnpetod that 632
million American. need filling
_and 238 million nééd extracting.

* huaces Not Insects
Spiders. belong to thé Arachnida
pean Which includes, and
a not ~~lassed

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* < Moré Men Suicides
<3 einesbase in suicidal tendency
was more: p men

Scand age gone at

aa cenee young
and ~civic leader~ of the city;
Isaac c Sirioot, of 246 ~South

among those who will~ try~ to 698
Agé through | the eye of a néedie
and. capabilities,

a:
p43.
ad
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'; a orgnnpiin.
tree sent into Detroit, Muske-|

[ie 7a gitar Aten io fo

very. militant

ais mr ~the UAW-CIO
Steger social

_ISAAC C: SMOOT
Mr. Smoot. who has been en~| gaged in uhion activities for a

period of ten years is an employee of the Wilson Foundry
and Machine Company, and. for
the last two years has served as
a member. of the Wilson Foun:
dry local 658 UAW-CIO. Mr.
Smoot was one of the first dis~| trict: committeemen. at the Pontiae Motor Division. of General
Motors back in the year of 1937,
He has served actively on mafiy
of the committees of th UAWCIO, and has held such_ positions as member of the Education committee and has served

~as district committeeman sever
al times. Mr. Smoot~s work
with the. UAW-CIO has been
for the most part in organizing
union _ activities... At various
times because of Smoot~s excellent ability in the field of -labor relations, he has been. elect
~ed as chairman of the Election

committee. For four consecutive times Smoot has _ been
awarded honors for bringing in
the most members of local 658,

be} Many of the. members of ~local
UAW-CIO - recognizing}

Smoot~s leadership capa'~'i tite s

Smoot was elected as chairnian | ~
of;the. Legislative ~ -comthittee
having obtained. this position in
March of 1947.

~ Tee Smoot~s~ long list -of |
achievemerits may be. addéd the
fact that he is a. former vicepresident~ of: ~Loeal 658. ~Smoot
has many. interesting. duties: 4s
chairman - ~of..the Legislative
committee.

tm The Legislative contmitte e}

seeks to break ' ~down all ~uniot

legislation in férms of the uri
derstanding of ail Union members;. The
periodic reports to its members,
and seeks to advise its members what effect certain legislative pills. will have upon them.
~Smoot and. his committee
Jono had the responsibility of
intetiprting, the Hutchinson bill,
nibus..Labor bill, the
ages bill, and the. Amended
Un ployment Compensa t i on

[Ach The latter act effects, the }.

minority group. in many ways.
~Smoot stated to the reporter
that an attempt is being made
to get the latiet: act repealed.
moot stated, ~There are some
Negroes employed at Wilson
me am. very proud
every active

a 5 ina I 8
ht the at t said,
gee act gave

on to say, Union seniority
clauses oi in a contract
covering Negro workets giving
them the first opportunity to

job~ securities. It i. a.

many ways: gator

iy Standat ~bth z
of life. ~Be
fore passage * this bill, oné
had to take what the employer
gaye,. and consequently minority - groups found adanidives in

among
ian women last year. For the first a bad position.~
on Back in the year of 1938
> when ner vs AW-CIO: was at
- tO. organize - in fhe

| Ford. plant; Smoot was one of

the active members engaged in
rganizational drive. He.

the drive a suc
oot
| very ~ie interested in the
Taft-Hartley bill; but~ he felt *
the bill was very ~~

as though
one-sided. Smoot ~stated,
Taft-Hartley bill is going to retard the progress of labor a~
freat deal; and I feel that all
labor should be keetily inter
| ested in the cases which are

a northwést of Pontiac to

bas a

saw to it that:

committee makes

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~The ~~

to come. before the | NLRB.
Smoot. went on to state, ~The~
Wagner Act has been acclaimed
by. labor as a rénaissance, while ~
the ~Taft-Hartley bill tends to
sound labor's ~death knoll.

One of the most. lasoriant
offices held by..the energetic ~
labor leader, Smodt, is that of
sec~y-treasurér of Region 1B;
1C,. and, 1D of. the unions which
are affiliated with the National
Foundry council. ~This region
covers all of Oakland county,
and. all other industrial cities
the

state of Wisconsin. All: totaled,

The Siting of in ~secretary.
treasurer is to keep. up. with
the minutes on all meetings

to keep each individual foundry
employee | informed _.as.to. the.,
wage rates of. each particular ~
foundry; classification,throughout the nation. In many regions where. you - find that.
~there are wage scales. which,
are _ lower than the. average
wage scale of all. foundries,
then it is the duties of.the. sec-,
retary-treasurer to
bargaining. committee in order
that they may | negofiate | for
wage scale commensurate of. the
national pattern for that particular industry.:

It' is the purpose~ of ~the mational Foundries council
bring about better ~working conditions, and for the bringing
about ~ of legislations ~for ~ the~
creation of a National Bureau
of Foundries. It would be the
sequel to John L. Lewis~s bureau of mines. The purpose ~of!
this ~organization would be to~

it that they are brought up to~
minimuni national~ herrgrh
quired b the | ry
L erlor. r. iat i+ fy +:

Sitibot & i fabok, atid ee

chairman. of the Pontiac branch - =,..;

of the NAACP, and chairman
of the FEPC of the Pontiac Union: council,

Industrial which -

council

~a council which works ~all ga aa

all policies of ue. sae Apr the
tity~ of~ Pontiae- eae

Smoot was - bors: ~th Hollendale, Mississippi, but rece ed
practically all of his schools g
in the Pontiac school syst
~haying igraduated from Pot
Senior High ~Sehoel.: Aftey iin
ishing high school, Smo iat.
tended ~thé Detroit Ins~ me of
Technology. A

While in high sctiool, 5p
was winner of 4 se
ay, ~dntest which was; );
sored by ~the * * Féderal Hoh ng
Administration. Smoot hag;
en on several radio propyams
Which have been~ sponsored | ~by
the Pontiac Industrial ci.. Smoot and his very oie
wife who is an employee of: rine
American Forging ~&. et
Works. enjoys such hobbig s fas
swimming, and,:al all king j bof
sporting activities. S ic st

yery active in social ~givic
organizations in town, i$ a
ve

member, of the et
Men~s Association and i
ves. as president of thé,
and Queens Bridge Chuty
city.

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~mis ae che me
| wave ~# "Helective~ etteet

Sets in aeaall fraink: but if put on

reductions. in the grain yield as
well, according to the Wyoming experiment station. They found that
2,4-D spraying of weed-free barley
re wget,
24D 0; on a vee ee stand of grain
outweigh its depressing effect. dn grain yields in most cases.
Sprayin Becatise: of

weedy
otra tnd pe paeanny agg
less reduction i grein siete.

wi
tivély

| this region represerits ~approxi-: ro
mately 35, 600 ~foundry workers.

and the Pause:,

at the wrong time, it also may give ~

Bah
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diiaceet

and. of all regions and, also..

neat ae
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inform the....:;

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police all foundries and ~see to = ~

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