This Time a Dream May Come True
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. Johnny mense publicity, however, and of masses, protection in petty group selfishness and bigotry. We have in tin. Davis the natives in the organization of education the our mid-morning heavy rainfall. for group to scientific and Lenn.e Pearson. Roy Partlow', the brilliant South he recalled “It made it easier the call from d:*ease and the grasp an opportunity given to no other generation. W# white many a player from Africa." Pan-Afr:can Congress in treatment permanent The h">s —with Negro southpaw, is ready, as are Lem Hooker •vas a good beginning, but we lost another of crime A have at hand the material prerequisites for success. The the ep South -won the first game, 5-4. and London and Lisbon in 1923 Pan-African Congre*s. he believe*, D< and Sammy Byrd. Rov. Campanella. a really out on our hopes of a permanent Congress or ’* The last Pan-African help to bring us nearer this final success failure lies in the minds, the hearts and Weir leading the second, 2-1. when darkness organization can fine catcher, will be back of the plate. converted in New York City in goal. the souls us. guvs (:om In 1919, during the Versailles of all of ft Tiit : < were Alabama and Geor- Last week’s games weie honeys and the ma- ’.927. with an African chief and Conference. Dr Dußois convened gia an i M.ss ssippi and many other Southern jor leaguers really went all out to win They other noted colonial representa- And, his second of' v rt. a Pan-African pom's pla\ing with the whites. of course, thought the Negro pitching was top drawer Congress of Africars. West In- tives In attendance but Dr Du- give up bis dream of tile e’hcr team was all Negro. and. but for a bad case of early-inning jitters, Americans and other colon- -80-s didn't dians. permanency. At lea*t two addi- T s Si r lay there'll ho a repeat performance, he might have heattn them. ials There were few American Pa rert ts-Teache rs RED FACES Negroes tional abortive attempts to ernvene 1 present however. Genrgie i w ..t that good a week ago. Now Iw as in'.rr- The umpires are white and black and the tbe delegates were made in 1929 Jessel took Leri “The State Department wouldn't Home a swank only r-u i in ‘¦•e.r.c how this would work out. be- chatter back and forth between players is as and later were halted to nitery, to give u« passports." he reminisced be stopped at the door and rn" you often the story that w ordinary as a hot dog. big league white Plans for the October 15 con- hoar hite The Thev thought we might embarrass began asked 'Have you a reserva- be found the to a good word for play ference in London earlier Dr. Hester wouldn't dead on same stars are quick say a America's position at Versailles.’ Heard players this year when a large number of tion''' Jessel said "Yes” but the guy get field with Negro stars by the other and they never do put it on a Dußois. alreadv famous trades union delegate* at- i water scampered to morale Dr. colonial support from the maltre’d hotel. Well, brother, that's the teal hoke Matter of black and white basis. then as an author and recognized tended the preliminary World Inks'er Parent-Teacher* associa- a balanced love for the child was ; who asked the same question. do thir.k ,* pitching against the A base hit is a great equalizer a Negro leader, heat State Dept, Union Congress in London t on met last Tuesday in the Lin- far greater than riches. A balanced ' ; f..ft. who you and it's the Trade ! hemming those ban. He merely signed up as a Working with the league of Col- coln school auditorium. The love of sympathy and understand- After much and haw- r cored club Sunday’* Why. none other but that shame who run baseball don't realize it I ing they directly newspaperman George ('reel's People the West Afriran "Parent-Child Relationship.” was ing. she pointed out, affords oppor- around asked. fireballm. Mister Virgil Trucks wish there was some wav to make them all «.oe on ored and •Who made the reservation for cam’ Yankee tunity for - presa ship, and was well at sea Students Union, they contacted Dr briefly discussed by Dr. Kathleen growth in any home. ' from Birmingham. Alaham, recently of the that double bill Sunday It would be better than Hester, you'’ And Jessel quietly the assistant professor of edu- ‘ " before the officials identified Dnß m* against teaching - navy, of Tigers. any seimon they possibly could hear. Michigan She warned a smirked Abe Lincoln now the reporter for Crisis Mazarine as Discuvses Causes of War cation. State Normal. child blind obedience and said The red pusses belonged to There's a little st >i\ behind the storv of this 'JOE the man had railed the Yps.lanti, who was introduced by CUMMISKEY. same who In With Colonies that punishment should be con- the waiter and the maitre. ; Congress. Relation Dr Fdgar A. Wa-gh of the same Taris Pan-African ~- sistent and not done anger and The leader, who had just cr' r school. in ;! —Down Beat ~ • • • should accompany a true The 1919 erting w n successful, hi* latest indictment of always p’cod reason. rod Dr. Dußois presented its reso- Colonial exploitation, a thin but DR. HF.STFR emphasized the li.’ions r n C More! House after a ent us.asticaliv rece.vcd volume importance of love by saving that “Respect the rights of your chil- v ain a”f r pt to sec President Wil- entitled “Color a”d Democracy dren and they will love and respect A CASE STUDY IN EQUAL JUSTICE «->n. But s-gain the dream of a C Ion:f« a-d Price." encouraged your rights." Dr. Hester sa.d. TITLED LADIES permanent organization wasn t •he idea of a'corgres* dominated A group discussion followed the ;caozed oy working-class colonials and lecture. T.ir clippings reproduced In The dre-m almost became a George I PUZZLER 1 A visiting British lady aha haa (R-'j-: inted ftont the Southern Patriot) plans were con plcted Pad- Ben Gray, a seventh-grade stu- ‘ Cave Study In Equal Justice ’ werr re. lity :n 1921 when *vore than 200 more tbe Am West dent at Carver school, played been twice divorced and now- bear* • encan-educated e-ican of the distinguished 17, Durham, (N.C.) Herald v Sm tted the PATRIOT by a colonial. Brit sh ard A- Indian journalist who •signed the William F. Laurence New Paderewski's “Minuet in G" for the one of the most titles Friday, Aug. 1945. Morning • York Times, who the ef- in w *e soldier from. North Carol.r.a delegates he’d a three-day Pan- ,11 from London, is the r.eohew of observed piano and Jannette Bolden, a grad- England, decided that sho H.s letter said: African Congress in London. Brus- the West Indian ba-rtster who fects of the atomic bomb in New uate of Inkster high school and now wanted to see all phases of New Paris. Mexico and over Nagasaki, stated York life. She rode In the sub- “Two men. one Negro and one sel* and sponsored the 1900 C tigress. secretary to the principal of Doug- a real reeentlv. “Atomic energy is here school, ways, went to Coney Island, toured white, charged with same of- “It was international con- The World Security Conference las sang. "If You Were But Six Months Given the to stas: the question is whether we " Harlem and the lower fense—two sentences for the same gress.” he re.all«. ’ and we received in San Francisco, where Dr Du- a Dream East Side, are." The Nation. and Anally went to a gym offense, one for the Negro one pern m >n ft $n the Fret h Min- B'i* *crved a* an official consultant where and per- prise-fighters trained. Negro On Peeping for ihe while The Negro ister of Colonies to establish a tv the Ur..vd States delegation. There ahe manent headquarters in Par *" A •'lv strengthened his belief that met Jimmy Cannon, the former will he spending the next six League Has Vet sports-writer, Charge month* the road in chains and totally unexpected development too colon*.3l quest.on will no*, be who asked her: “Tell Tom on me who you are?” replied thwarted this plan. ¦ BARE FACTSj “I,” the while man pass the court ro*ts Fellowship the lady, In New York City a messianic organization focuses world f Aid titled British “married and is a free man. t ion ing Kiefer three title*.” . . . “Really." replied Jack Slated “The defendant. Kiefer, \Ve«t Indian leidor named Marcus on the problem. In Oklahoma City, police arrest- although attention NEW Cannon, to shot Garvey suddenly hit the headline* ed a naked woman who refused to YORK—The National Ur*, who then pointed tho To Ix*arn Fate Today not raucht in the art wa* “Colonies are and alwavs have former featherweight lightweight shortlv thereafter and held bx two with an "Africa-for-’he-Africans" been one of the greatest causes put on her clothes for the trip to ban league's Emanuel Maynz Fel- colony-holding and welterweight champ, “so did On Same Charge men until the police rame, In the movement, and the of war." he said, “hut none of the police station >he was locked lowship for study in vocational became quite dt«turbrd cell, buff bare, finally Mrs. Henry Armstrong.” rase of defendant Flowers, polire nations our world eonferenres have done in a still cuidance, with emphasis on prepa- The Paris permission was abruptly mind after sitting a I —Leonard Lyon* were railed to the scene and then am thine about eorrertint the changed her and the British gov- fixture. ration to aid returning veterans, the defendant was arrested . . withdrawn evil Thr\ ha\r not even consid- while on an iron Time. The of Victor Flowers The Case of Jack Kiefer Ilow long the police took before ernment assigned a sr*ec»al confi- of has been awarded to Phoebe E. Case v ered am kind representation agent Du- " (White) arriving at the scene is not told dential tw sharow D for 750 900 0(H) colonial peoples Goff of Chicago, the league an- (Negro) ' being hut even If the police station was p *. who? >hev Suspected of no-nccd th.s week. TOUCH SYSTEM He doesn't believe that t e Att- 1 Garvey agent./ Maynz around the corner the defendant >e government do much more COMPETITION I Establishment of the SI2OO had escape it is pos- will col- Peeping Tom cases Jack Kiefer soft drink official time to and Recalls Fffrrtlxe Parleys the regime to halt grant for study at Teachers Mrs. Otto Prunmirr, wife of tha Two sible caught the than Cmirchill lege was an- iv,;r>l tiie spotlight Record- *f Goer street, who is accused ol that the police In I is bon and London Veteran “Id be a wealthy man Columbia university, director. told this story st El Mo- on wrong the woman re- Brit is :t imperialism the eajlier «• man Why for liquor nounced by league this rocco to r > t\v;rt menu yesterday, vvttii ir ng ;nt x the North wood Oir- got out it he or r T. be today, if it wasn't Thornton Wilder and mained “Garvey finally us of P whether year part unidentified is a mx*terv » so drink too as a of its veterans' serv- Gaylord Hauser. She was talking p:v shoes r.der two windows boudoir of an army officer's dilemma hv denouncing us 11 still w vrk for hi* dream and Blond: Oh. >ou lc of course been that ice college to at ng share of ttu that should have a* ex- murh7" program. Teachers co- an excitable Persian a party, r a major w ife, will learn h.s f. te today you even more hitterly than he did roclaim his philosophy allowing cost •*• cleared up How can con- spple- ope-ates by turnon said, te's e\ idence powers.” he said. pressed his most recent book: Veteran: "No I'm in the when a friends “but I didn’t J irige A H Borland. ift< i hear- vict a man hv a phone call from the imperialist t Howie as it* part of the full fellowship you spoke Mr*. V. ; r Flower- Negro vv host "Henceforth the rr ijorifcv of the cider business amp know Persian.* ,ng till evidence, decided to re- an woman who apparent- “But we had lost our immediate grant. Preminger teepu' has-e exit from SIS Me unknown ol earth, wh •» hap- Howitter. answered. “I don’t, but judgment until, today. lv remained unknown even at the chance for permanency in the inhabitants we're talking at M .r.ni ii str«'x-' was atyiried serve Braille and. tho Isn l this what thex call at my whi n Police Officer R L. Barn- The defendant, claiming to be trial. moment, he's waistline.” circumstantial evidence* Contrast •.ill nailed h.m from behind a victim of circumstances, ar- —Earl Wilson in N. Y. Post with the the case of a :!i i fixing tackle. d:ew a six g.ii and that he was giving his dog this facts of TAN TOPICS By CMABLMS ALLiH the a nightly airing. the white man who was seen bv a months’ sentence to roads. " “ lieutenant peering Into a window ; JAZZ ” . . . ii and shot and held THE LAST WORD ON r MULTIPLICATION •’The white man Is acquitted of Friday. August 17. 1945, Durham (N.C.) Sun the charge of being a but is voveur Downbeat) Rabbit noticed with soma charged with trespassing and gain* (Reprinted From Papa Interest that his young son waa his freedom by paving the court It’s finally happened. The last word has been said on lwp Last I.t Bdr looking uncommonly contented r Officer R I. Barnhill Tuesday ton costs for trespass. 303 jazz. Gertrude Stein said it. "Jazz is tenderness and with life. “What makes Junior so •,-’.i • oourt that on Wednet- Sp, are. West Greer street “On the same dav a Negro is sen ti that saw a Gertrude, recognized far and wide as the happy*" he asked Mamma Rabbit i|.,x • -ming nr.ninrl 230 o’clock stifled nc man perr- tenred to 3ft davs on the State high violence!" cried j.slom a when they alone. “He had a 1 Oilicer N H ciodw in an* ii ; into the window <>f apart* wavs, amended to workhouse, for Inyrh priestess of intellectual double-talk. were • V. M M ¦pent 306. and that he retrained treat day in school.” she explained. ¦ trespassing." The momentous event for which jazz scholars have been how to multiply.** • c*M an unidentified Monun at the window about four or the “Ho learned at —Bennett Cerf i.iv.nu railed police headcjuav- minutes Spears said that hr waiting: with bated breath took place a Major Glenn Mil- In “Laughing Stock" :