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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1945 THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE - - X RELIABLE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PAGE SEVEN j dop data hjj loUlfr' jt11• I That famed Chicago journalist, Luciua Har- and permit a more popular member of the per who has a big appetite is worried about his Labor party to run. Mr. Attlee who won with waistline. Patting his banker’s bulge, he grew a landside vote wrote back: “It was nice of you philosophical the other day. Sighed he: “You to let me know your opinion of myself.” know, life is hell, everything a man really wants * • » to do is either immoral, against the law or fat- A Philip Randolph who is sponsoring anew tening.” news service, American Press Associates, wrote * * * a letter to Negro publishers announcing the Carey McWilliams out in California, author of opening of the service. He wrote: “During the “Brothers Under war Negro editors and publishers faced a diffi- Time A May True the Skin,” This Come writes to tell us Dream that 2000 reprints of the Chronicle’s recent edi- cult job. It was not easy to balance the stories torial on Gerald which were morale-building material and those K. Smith were distributed (A forty-five year •truffle by among organizations around Los Angeles. which indicated real progress in the condition tor Pan- The Negroes Dr. W. E. B. Dußols a reprints were issued by the “Mobilization for of and other underprivileged people. It African Congress may ba suc- MAYREALIZE DREAM OF 45 YEARS Democracy” group to which Mr. McWilliams be- was not easy to present the many cases of dis- cessful this year.) longs. Here’s hoping that big-mouthed Mr. crimination and insult so as to inform the pub- \ WE MUST REBUILD THE WORLD By Smith talks only to empty halls. lic without undue sensationalism. Some of these TED POSTON stories were very But the Poat) ' * o a o the essence of sensation. (Reprinted From N.Y. By LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACR jj J the Negro press did a job which, considering Dr. W. E. Burg-hardt Du- It's nice to know that not all of the Daughters the trends (Reprinted From I**bor Report* )( of of the American press during the Bois, author, educator, and the American Revolution are supporting the war, was a creditable job.” (L.R.) —“Bigotry,” said a famous statesman, HQ DAR color-bar at Constitution hall. Mrs. James * * * authority on world affairs, is head and cannot think, no heart and cannot feel. Whofl ih4 A. Small of Rochester, New York, called a meet- Virginians ing are all agog over an inter-racial a man hard to discourage. moves it is in wrath ; when she pauses it is amid ruin.'* of local daughters to protest the action of football game at Camp high Lee. It seems that the peoples of the world have had an unforgettable expert enc# the DAR command. This reminds me of authorities were apprehensive over For exactly 45 years out of i this venture. wwtnßmr- the bigotry. We must not forget it. And, the late President Roosevelt’s speech to a DAR Reports indicate, however, that the experiment his 77 distinguished years, with wrath of confab. Mindful that we must determine most of the daughters were was so successful the people are clamoring for unauccesifully, as we stand amid the resultant ruin that Deal, he has been trying v conservatives and opposed to the New the another. Whites cheered their lungs out for one bigotry has not merely paused, but is banished. *„ President to organize a permanent Pan-Af- smilingly admonished them: •‘Remem- of Negro players •'»— We must not forget and become complacent merely the who shared field honors ~ ber, ladies, you ncan Congress, a functioning are the descendants of revolu- with a white star. cause we have met and defeated the forces of organised They group which would mobilize world tionists.’’ didn’t laugh either. * * * mindj the political m > bigotry upon the field of battle. Bigotry is of the tt o * public opinion against if* o Speaking of southerners, the late Irvin Cobb Jv is not destroyed by physical The horrors of the con- Professor Harold and economic exploitation of force. Laski, leader of the vic- of Paducah, Ky., won the heart of the nation centration camps were physical expressions of warpedi and torious British Labor is many of peoples. party, being attacked for his silly sallies. Objectionable as some colonial RE twisted minds. And, unfortunately, neither Fascism by some Catholics who took exception to a re- of his stuff W'as. everybody appreciated his wit. Thi» morning—if the British jfK no* h" 7T: any other organized brutality a monopoly upon this cent speech he broadcast on Spanish affairs. I remember him for an epitaph he wrote for a government will grant him a visa »v/S'? ifI C/'-5-V; f jjMviP{\^Sf•7/ £ :’• has evil. a Prior to the British elections Mr. Laski wrote lass who conferred her favors willy-nilly.Cobb —he will board a plane for London Bigotry lurks in the minds of men. When scapegoat U a letter to Clement Attlee suggesting that he wrate: “Hera lies Polly Simpkins: asleep—alone in hii hi» eighth attempt to get a needed, when the ills of a class or nation must be simplified* withdraw as a candidate for Churchill’s job —at last.” permanent organization going. the unscrupulous loader plays upon this shadow, nurse* it, “And I think we’ll succeed thia gives it substance, and turns its wrath upon the unfortn- time,’’ he said in his book-crammed nate victim. When that victim is destroyed, the mob turxn office at 55 W. 42nd street, “for our in search of another. delegates will be mainly from the There is but one weapon against bigotory, *‘Lov# thJJ colonial trade union movement. A neighbor as thyself.” Love of neighbor is not negative. It AND THEY STILL SAY IT WON’T WORK OUT large number of them right now is no mere defense. It must be a positive part of our dally are attending the World Trade virtue, Union Congress in Paris, and lives. When we cease to practice this when we cease in Y7GU MAY have missed it the world sene* week's double-hill. Three or four of the major thev’ll meet us in London on Oct. to be our brother’s keeper, bigotry rushes into the result- * shuffle last Sunday when Newhouser was leaguers—like Gregg. Lombardi, and Rosen—- 15. ’* ant vacuum. Dr. Dußois’ attendance at the hanging it on Borowy and the Cubs, but there to must tightly had leave for home. opening of the new Pan-African We hold to the lesson of mutual understand- was something doing in Brooklyn that day, too. Mrs. Essa Manley, who promotes the Negro Congress depends on the British ing and assisting for which we have paid so dearly. Majesty’s JVd it hardly Stop visa, however, and His must recognize that bigotry no Now comes as Press news to All-Stars, wanted to call off Sunday's game be- looked bears national group OR Government has not always racial brand. must unpleasant hear there's something doing in Brooklyn, but cause she thought the opposition might be in- kindly on his dream. We admit the fact that it is individual, wnat did happen may have been the big step ferior and she didn't want any alibis cropping The British first encountered the with us and every other man. And, in that officially up at dream in 1900 when knowledge, we must constantly practice love- of neighbor, rro ss.iiy to wipe away that daik shadow that some future date. petition only Quern Victoria received a DR. W. E. B. DuBOIS lest we too 1 is over the national pastime. I refer, of course, But when she heard that not Trucks has for a Pan-African conference called slip into the frame of mind of the master to the color line. been aided, but Tommy Holmes. Kewpie Bar- m London by Dr. Dußois and Buchenwald. Tommy and Bob Chipman, she a West Indian colored, fans—- lett. Brown Harold Williams meanwhile. Anyway, the Brit- pen for the most part to be The days ahead will be critical ones. We have a world Last Sunday nearly 11.000 basehall agreed barrister, by regarded with alacrity. Also with Diessen. Not and addressed the ish agent became a good friend must be as having tbe ru.nw many mote white than black turned Bishop of London and Col- right the to rebuild. Science and technology have given us the phy- only that, she added Pitcher Billy Ricks and Lord leopard and capacity to *hare in cut f-»r a double-header at Ebbets Field be- eridge Taylor. of mine and sent me a sical means of bringing relief to all those in need, and Third Baseman Whitey Snow to her aggrega- human progress and to become co- for tween Charley Prrssen’s All-Major League stars Dept •kin on his next trip to Africa." partners in that democracy which building a just an tion. already mighty strong with such stars as: State Refused and abundant life for all mankind. Ths in i the Negro National Lc-ag .e All-Stars. That Pass Ports To Negroes The 1921 meeting garnered im- alone can insure peace among men only real obstacle to success lies in the lack of true Showboat Thomas. Willie Wells, Frank Aus- by poverty, the charity, cr< a i up despite ’ \\> protested the treatment of the abolition of showed scattered showers and Bob Harvey, Monty Irving.