Mtlimimriew-M. N Velt Has Wisely Tried to Make Pro-Negro in the PARK Published Bnry Thurtday by Border States and in the North
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1943 Independent Editorial Page of TH E MICHIGAN CHRONICLE tion. One concerns the terribly explosive Negro problem. This is destroying the Democratic party, HIGHLAND which is anti-Negro in the South and which Roose- MtlimiMriew-m. n velt has wisely tried to make pro-Negro in the PARK Published Bnry Thurtday By border states and in the North. But in Ohio the CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY With plans to observe Negro His- THE MICHIGAN Republicans have been solicitous of the Negro vote a MAIN OFFICE: 768 Eliot Detroit. Mich TErople I-M7B tory Week completed, counsellor LOUIS EMANUEL MARTIN Editot since Mark Hanna’s day. Only Roosevelt has ever for the Highland Park Youth Coun- cil of the NAACP has been the Entered as second class matter May I. 1940. at the Poet Office at been able to take it away from them. And now' the cause of much conversation in and Detroit Mich, under the act of Marih i. 1879. Negroes are increasingly resentful because the ad- around the Park this week. 1 erms of Subscription (payable in advance) * * * One Year. 9.V00. Six Months 91 75: Three Month*. |1 00 ministration’s wartime performance in their behalf DR. GUY O. SAULBBERRY hasn’t kept pace with F.D.R.’s promises, and be- SCHEDULED TO SPEAK Dr. Saulsberry comes to us well MR. DIES LIES AGAIN cause labor is too oten violently unwilling to give recommended as an authority on the Negro a chance in industry. Negro History. He is a resident of The cheek-kissing Judas frorruTexas, Congress- Ecor<e. and has a large medical “Ohio Republicans note with glee that Demo- practice in the southwest part of man Martin Dies, who plays "hall with native fascists the city The doctor is scheduled cratic leaders, like Senator Lucas of Illinois (a state Sunday defending Amer- to speak afternoon. Feb 14. and at the same time pretends he is with a tremendous Negro vote), followed their at St. Luke A.ME. church, the of hour 3:30. He is aponsored by the ica against the Fifth Column made another one southern brothers in voting against the poll-tax re- Highland Park Mothers club and in He “ex- the Taxpayers association. The mu- his silly speeches Congress last week. form bloc. They note with alarm that their bete sical inspiration of the program against Congress charged that cer- noire, Wendell Willkie, has been outbidding every will be the popular Junior Class posed" a plot and Sextette of Inskter. tain important individuals, some of them in the contender in sight for the Negro vote; and they Miss Dorli Miller and Bernard conclude that only the Ohio machine, with its Gregory are among the fine young administration, were trying to destroy the prestige long, people whose heads ache because successful record, can show' U. S. Republicans how of the lagging interest on the part and power of the United States Congress by smear of the youth council, partly due to bag the entire northern Negro vote ‘without in- to the lack of a counsellor. sinister Here is the * campaigns and propaganda. citing them as Willkie is doing.' Here again the * * greatest smear artist in the nation posing as a vic- "CHALLENGERS" Republicans have a point. A solid Negro vote A group of young women who tim, along with other Congressmen, of a campaign and in 1914 the Negro vote will almost certainly have vowed to do their share to help to entertain the soldiers are of calumny. be solid can swing any close state." sponsoring a dance at Willard school February 12 and a trip* to The above remarks —- The Dies committee has turned up more duds of Eliot Janeway indicate Camp Custer on February 14. These THE WORLD TODAY how closely the Negro vote is being watched and how girls are connected with the down- *.GETTYSBURG YESTERDAY- than any similar Congressional committee in history town USO and should be commend- calculating are those who seek to bag it. More than ed for their very fine spirit of ap- and has made more false and malicious accusations. of the of that, we can see how important our vote willbe, how preciation worth our men North End He baits Negroes, Jews, labor and left-wingers, all in uniform. much it will count in the coming contest which is * * # NOTES News are pushing the war effort, and sticks his LATIN AMERICAN STUDY BOOK of whom sure to be close. It is obvious that the time is near COURSE INTERESTING Bv MRS. MARIAN C\ McGIIX Klansmen, Cough- The Study group under the head in the sand at the sight of when our entire Negro leadership, not only t>ur Adult The m >ses at Sacred Heart WSCS of Berea, began host Sunday By church were largely amended on Christian Fronters, and the whole politicians, make ready Katheel Bright, president, linites, Bundists, must to muster the great with Mrs. Sunday morning There has been and Alice Samuel, chairman political power of Mrs. quite an increase in the alter, anre anti-democratic crowd. When Vice President Wal- the Negro masses and throw their of the program and study groups GERTRUDE SCOTT MARTIN at the 7 30 mass and it’s quite an full weight The class opened with a large at- as on the side of the most progressive and inspiration to see how well *hc lace charged that Dies was doing as much harm tendance and the interest increased children attend the ; r mass at 8 30 liberal political program offered in 1944. A united as the lessons progressed. Mrs. An- agent Hitler, he put it mildly. and ’thev are well behaved too a paid of netta N. Coleman, who is well in- At Negro vote joining One of the best,way.' of carrying Interfere with the general excellence D:3O High M ss w with our strong allies in the the history of these Re- ih Bered’ction Last week Dies declared that among the “crack- formed on out our Good Neighbor policy w ith- of the book. 11:30 is followed wi*h baptism Tne ranks of organized T publics. taught the first period. Mrs labor and w hite liberals can out antagonizing those neighbors to The poems are here in the lan sermon was preachi d by again* Congress were Lottie Lee Hazard brought in re- Father pots” who were conspiring s'outh is thioUgh a appre- guage of the poet. French. Spanish Theifnls together call the tune in ’44. is reli- the broad who also read tlie Fpis-le a goal well ports from the polit.cal and ' This ciation of then* Uiture on tin* part or Portugese as the case may be aiui Gospel Tine William Pickens and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune. angle, and Mrs. Anna Bank- Epistle wa« taken gious - worth fighting for. of large numbers of p< rsons in the and in Engii.-h on the page opposite from the sis’ 1 Sunday after head. the and custom* of the Frvi- He made these same charges last year when he was races United States’. A book which will so that even those with very stanty Phany Co 3 12-17 Gospel. people. The secretary of cnildren's and the be one step in this direction is AN knowledge of these three languages St Matt H 24-30 life for his phony committee. a general geographical trying to win extended work gave OF LATIN-AMFRI- will find it possible to follow the On Americas, including ANTHOLOGY Thursday we will celebrate outline of the (New poem casiy. The translations are We believe that the poll-tax Congressmen and the CAN POETRY Directions. the feast of Our L-dy of the Caribbean Island, and the • literal by intent, and the trans- Norfolk. Conn.. $3 50' edited by m V.’e should devote at leas’ five avn- bloc in Congress are doing the na- infuse church in Latin America. The class lators have done an excellent job Fats. The poetry ute« anti-democratic to con- Dudley included each day ir reading a passage closed with keen interest imagery the an- unity and here is that of the last 25 years of keeping the *f of aerpture ;,nt? offer up a prayer tion a grave injury by thwarting national tinue the course, as it is requested from all the LutiiuArm Mean coun- ! thors For those who know no Span- for boys by the Methodist church Classes our in service sniping program of the administration. tries. ‘The difficulties involved in ish. French or Portugese the trans- On ever, at the liberal evening Tuesday ng to are held each Wednesday collecting an anthology of th.s kind lations are quite adequate. Th*’ Lady part Column in in Fellowship Hall, with the Rev Our o' Perpetu 1 Hi In and This Tory clique is a of the Fifth at this particular time were many i poetry is excellent for the most Bankhead, Blessed Martin follow i by '’’'-ruc- S. W. instructor. but they have not been allowed to part and there is a variety of forms America, jArcTif they gain greater strength, we can wedding tion. Father Henry F. Theifels. To celebrate their anni- and subject matter to suit any taste. pastor *Y WILLIAM L. SHERRILL. verxxry end Mr. Redmond'* birth- goals of this war will a book of kind is Im- the democratic day anniversary, Mr. and Mrs of much delightful entertainment In this it CHRISTIAN MOTHERS’ NOTES possible to pick out one or two for Sunday being Sunday. fascism in America will gain Charles Redmond were hosts at a these aays in the home of her the first be altered and that ANOTHER SWEET MORSEL of darker peoples in parts of the special comment.