AN OPEN LETTER TO
PRES. ROOSEVELT
Vr. President, your first term is half over. This is a good time
to take inventory. JSist now. when your adm'.nistrrAion has scarcely
passed its halfway mark, you are the object of all eyes and the source
of almost every question. People are asking: ?.-V President, what
aow ?
* * *
Along with cither Americans, your colored cons'jtuenc ?s
asking the same questions other citizens are asking. " hen
you went before the people as a candidate, your program fair
ly bristled with the things in which the common people were
then interested, and they are interested in those same things
/today. You spoke of the man farthest down. Vou referred
to the common people as the owners of Ihis great country
You talked of a square deal for everybody. V ou said that the
resources of this great country belorged to the people.
You have spei<t two years of religious devot.on to your ideals
and program. You have stood steadfast, almost immovable, to the
tune of popular applause. To use a popular phrase, your batting
average has been high, almcst as high as you expected to rr,a|ke it
You have the American people follow.ng your lead with confidence and
with pride.
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If your success during the first haif of your administra
tion is any encouragement to you, let that encouragement
stimulate you for the trials ahead—and i.iere will be man —
during the next half of your first terr.i of office. Pressure is
being brought to bear to destroy your influence. Much of the
pressure is hidden in strategic places within your administra
tive tamly. Dotted here and there, dt ermined to contribute
to your failure, are persons employing the advantages of the
office they hold in order to bring about the complete failure of
the Roosevelt administration. It is ajtogther possible that you
know who these persons are. . If, Mr. President, by any chance
you know who these men are, accept the advice of Hiram
John on, who said, long ago, that his only mistake was tem
porizing with his enemy. Mr. President, it is just possible
that you are laboring under the impression that your kind
attitude toward certain men you have allowed to remain in
office will convert chose men to your cause and ’.nake disciples
ot them. Mr. President, ;fou were never so mistaken in all
your life. No amount of kind treatment toward these men
will ever convert them to your cause, they are against you
and your party. They are against lour liberal attitude to
ward the common man. They are against four program for
relief and reform. They are against your known attitude to
ward the “lUtle fellow.” No amount of indulgence of these
.Tien by you will alter their attitude because, with jfhem, their
convictions constitute their religion. You cannot change the
leopard’s spots.
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The colored people of this country voted for you; and they did
it in the face of every conceivable argument against you and your
party. They were accused of ingratitude to Lincoln and yet they
voted for you- They were 'told that John Garner, if macVc President
of the Senate, would destroy the last vestige of constitutional pro
tection now enjoyed by Negroes- And yet, they voted for you. They
were told that the South would be in the saddle, if you were elected, j
and that Negroes would be lynched by the wholesale and trampled
under foot like so many wornis. And yet, Mr. President, they voted j
for you. The colored people of this country voted for you. not so much
to punish the Republican party for its neglect and exploitation of I
them, as for the purpose of giV.ng your party an opportunity to trails- j
late the principles of Jefferson into action They expected you to
make Jeffersonian democracy articulate. They still believe that you
can do all of these things if you harve the courage to do them. They \
b|cl?eve that ; cu can charge f!he attitude of some of the men you
have in your adni.nistration; or, if you cannot change their attitude,
you can get other men. The Negroes of the pivotal States voted the
Democratic Ticket with the expectation that your party’s apprecia
tion would be reflected in a better attitude toward the'lr brothers in
the South In many .instances, a better attitude has been reflected
in the South, but there is still room for improvement. For example,
the inequalities practiced against Negroes in the -South by some of the
so-called Relief Agencies require your personal attention. Another
example may be found in the AAA. Sharecroppers are not getting
the benefit of the New Deal, in many instances. Many tenants, con
trary to ctntracts between cotton planters and the government, have
been dismissed as tenants and re-employed as day laborers- Your
Mr. Chester Davis, administrator of the AAA, should be requested to
pay a visit to the White House. In the matter of the Housing Ad
ministration policy, Mr. Moffett’s attitude toward the colored citizens
should be remodeled. Mr. President, the Negroes of the pivotal States :
who voted the Democratic ticket must not be discouraged by men in
your administration who cannot see eye to eye with you. The pivotal
States’ voters are expecting an improved condition in the South and
they expect to see it reflected by a more tolerant attitude exhibited
by men appointed by you to carry out your policies. This is only a
fair and reasonable return to expect for support already given.
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The Democratic party can remain In power with the con
sent and assistance of the Negro voter of this country only
if its attitude toward the colored citizens justifies their con
tinued support. ..The radical departure of the colored citizen
from the Republican party in 1932 was just as human and nat
nral as it was radical- Just as the Negro changed his party
affiliations in 1932, as an experiment, just so he can resort
to other experiments if he finds he has made a political mis
take.
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If the Negro changes again, you may attribute that change to
some of the men who are now safely ensconced in strategic positions
in the various departments of government. Be not deceived. You
are go.pg to be told in 19oG that yoair administration was an “emer
gency administration” only. You are going to be told that the emer
gency is over and that there is no further need for Franklin D. Roose
evelt and his policies, lour political enemies are now forming and
shaping every conceivable weapon with which to attack your admin
istration In 1936. Mr. Presid<*t, you cannot employ a more effective
weapon in behalf ol a continued Democratic government in this coun
try than a complete ferreting out of enemies of your policy who are
today enjoying high government positions, to say nothing of your
executive confidence
* * *
'l ou are only half the way of your first term. It will re
quire your second term to complete the job. Stand by your
guns. Make them as effective today as they were when you
_were but a candidate. Your second term is now in the making.
NATIONAL DENTAL ASS N.
EXECUTIVE BOARD HOLDS
MEETING IN WASHINGTON
Washington—(CNS)—The officers
and executive board of the National
Dental Association gathered here list
Saturday, February 23, in an all day
mid-winter session, at the Dental Col
lege of Howard University. Dr Q. B.
King, of Washington, presided over
the deliberations of the board, the
sessions being attended by Dr. Benja
m r Boyd, of Tuskegee, Alabama,
acting chairman of the executive
board at Nashville, July 1934; Dr. C.
Dorsey, of Philadelphia, Pa., presi
dent; Dr. M. D. Wiseman, of Wash
ington, ex-president; Dr. W. N. Beek
raan of BrookpTi, N. Y.; Dr- L. Baxter,
of Neward, N. J.; Dr. R. L. Thompson,
of Westfield, N. J; and Dr. E T. Mav
ritte. of Washington.
After the approval of the report of
the Twenty-first annual session held
at Nashville, Tennessee, July 13-16,
1934, the board approved the draft of
a constitution and by-laws for the
approval of the national body, at its
annual meeting in August 1935. Ar
rangements were perfected for the
coming twenty-second annual session
of the general body at Louisville.
Kentucky, August 13-16.
Of major importance at the ses
s'on was the consideration of the
feasibility of adopting a plan whereby
local and State denial societies may
be granted charters thereby becom
ing constituents of the national body
During the noon recess the mem
bers of the executive committee were
the luncheon guests of Dr. Russell
H. Dixon, Dean of the Howard Dental
College. In the evening the officers
and members of the executive board
were the special guests of the Robert
T. Freeman Dental Society of the
District of Columbia, at its rgular
monthly meeting at the Y. M. C. A.
building. Dr. Adolphus Walton, pre
ssed and Dr. Dorothy B. Ferrebee, of
the Howard Medical School, read an
interesting and informative paper on
“Prenatal Supervision with Emphasis
on Dental Care”.
At the close of the local meeting the
officers and executive committee of
the National Association and members
jf the Robert T. Freeman Dental So
ciety, Maryland Dental Society and
invited guests were entertained at
the residence of Dr. M. D. Wiseman,
151 Thomas St., northwest, where a
repast was served; Doctors Wiseman,
Foster and E. Gaskins being the hosts.
Among others in attendance were
Doctors 0. D. Jones, M. Dolo, presi
dent Maryland Dental Society; C.
Hairston, J. A. White, A. A. Smith,
W. B. Mason, I. H. Young, and C. Al
lane, all of Baltimore. Dr- S. J. Lewis,
Manassas, Virginia, and Doctors W.
T. Grady, G. A. Coles, C- S. Godden,
C. Ferrebee, R J. Scott, (J. C. Brazier,
J. L. Davis, C. C. Frye, G- H. Butch
er, R. B Thomas. A. Harris, W. O.
Claytor, J. A. Washington, E. M.
Gould, W. Taylor, W. N. Hendricks,
W. H. Skinner, G. M. Calloway, T. W.
Cobb, J. C. Carr, C. Edwards, T. Reid,
R. C. Brown and J. C. Nicholson.
OUT OF MY
SCRAP BOOK
By Ho pie
1 am sure you are wondering
why my column has changed from
“Doings Among the Dining Car
| and Ho.el Waiters” to “My
Scrap Book.” First I would like
to bring to your minds an old
saying, “Wise Men Change, But
a Fool Never Changes.” So many
of my close friends have said:
“Hopie, Don’t Be a Fool.” Not
only that. I have always felt
tha I was wise anyway. Smile—
Now to be plain and frank I
feel that I can always carry my
own troubles, but I really hate to
drag anyone else in with me; so
1 am going to wri.e for you in
the same way that brought me
conynent after twenty years, and
what I want to say will not be
behind a billboard, reading, “Do
ings Among the Waiters.” I am
free now to tell you the truth
whether you like it or not, but
if you didn’t know me, and I
was highly tooted by some big
speaker in the Fast, you would
like and enjoy every line of my
writings.
My column will carry the same
as ever, only in a clean and polish
j id form. I still believe ihat if
I we are told of our mistakes and
| wrongs in a decent way, it is a
| real help to us.
Here s one out ot my scrap
book, Listen: “Look upon critici
sm of yourself as a way to bet
treatment.” so true. If you are to
get sore, fight or get as low as
the person criticising you, you are
not bettering your condition.
Listen to this, “criticism does
; reveal the truth, either about you
or the other fellow. True, isn’t
it ? If a man tells you that you are
no good or two faced, look at him,
and if he is the guilty person, he
will show it, so he is telling the
truth on himself, and if he is
telling you the truth, Oh, Well?
You’ll show it or inwardly, you
know it, anyway. You either get
sore and want to fight or just
smile it off. So, Welcome, Criti
cism. It’s always a break for
you. Am I right?
Listen to this. Last week I re
ceived two letters from South
Omaha upon a tip I gave to a
North Omaha lad. Of course this
certain lad, and quite a few
others, knew what it was and
meant. But Miss Albright and
Miss South Omaha, as they so
represented themselves, got of
fended over it, and took it the
wrong way, and felt that I was
comparing the North and South
Omaha colored people. Now, if
they had stopped and considered
this a Waiters’ Column, they
could have easily corrected their
own mistakes and criticism. Yet,
I must welcome it, because it real
ly enlightens, me and I do want
to thank Miss Albright, and Miss
South Omaha. The waiters hav*
no control of the packing houses.
Yet, we do carry some good
butchers in our dining rooms, in
i including myself, but we seem to
be contended where we are at j
present anyway.
We always look at ourselves
through a rosy g ass. Yet, you;
may be .he Judge.
Here is a good one on coopera
tion. It says a confectioner died;
and went .o heaven, and when
St. Peter welcomed him, he asked
to be with the confectioners. This1
was granted, and when he saw
hem, they were so thin you could
see through them. So surprising,
as these people should he fat from
sweets, and behold; when dinner
was served, the sweetest food,
and plenty of it. But an angel
came and tied a long iron spoon
to their arms making it impossible
to eat. Then he visited the rich
people, and hey were so fat and
plump. So their dinner was serv
ed, and the same big meal was
•riven them, hut behold: the angel
came and tied a long iron spoon
to their arms. But when they
sa'. down and, finding they were
urable to eat they simply used
the spoon to feed the one beside
him, and in return, he fed the
next. Cooperation, huh! So he
went back to his people and told
them to feed the one beside him,
but he quickly replied, “What?
Me feed my competitor, and
starve myself?” See it? Well ,that
is really what Ls wrong in the
Dining Rooms. Don’t he afraid
to help the man next to you, and
you will find a spoon in your
mou h. So true.
Here’s a good one. Nine out of
ton drunks that get arrested al
ways tell the judge that he only
had iwo or three glasses of beer.
Isn’t that strange? The brewers
should get them out, because even
with the government whiskey
back and what this county has
craved for years, the 3.2 makes
it take the back seat. Think of
it. It’s never a highball or side
car when i lie police ear comes.
Oh, gee. Poor Beer.
I am told that the Fontenelle
isn’t so hot. Sick, yet this came
to me hat several of the waiters
quit last week. Too bad. Yet
one business man said he cashed
some cheeks and he thought they
were tips. Oh, well. It may be
better later. Still, I guess the
boys hate to play '.he stock mark
et and gamble on it. Well, 1
guess Johnson didn’t play such a
bad card when he threw his hand
in early. O. K. Johnson.
Here’s one from my scrap book.
Listen. If every person wou'd be
compelled to mind their own busi
ness, ninety per cent of the people
would rather have died at birth.
There would be nothing to live
for. How about it, Huh? Sure,
haven’t the war lords go, moth
ers? They surely wouldn’t put
their mothers in prison. Well,
there would be a sure cure. Stop
having sons. What? Smiles—
Did you ever see a Negro hero
in a war picture? Ye;, I am
reading here of the good work of
Bert Williams, Col. Wm. Hay
ward, Dr. G. MeSweeney all of
whom are wearing Frenech CroiX
De Guerre and other medals. Oh,
AI guess they just felt sorry for
themselves. We always get our
horrors hv doing a 101. There
were 100,000 Negroe over seas.
But the United States forgot it
when the war was over. Still
they «ay we haven’t a flag. Oh,
me.
Here we are. I was sick last
week, and they tell me that my
friend, Win. Johnson called Lewis
and asked him to come up to see
me. Oh me. A friend for you. I
am glad they didn’t buy the
wreath ,anyway. 1 could have
smelled the roses. Consolation,
huh ?
May 1 close by saying while
you are having a good lime,
think of tomorrow. Remember
last week: “Between Yesterday
and Tomorrow,” huh? Well, it
is true. Don’t waste your time
and money wi h fortune tellers.
Tell your own by preparing for
the future. You know the past,
i and now is present. If you have
! money or protection for the
future, hat’s all you want any
I way. Am I right? So, I will close
! with one of my poems, and I
I hope you like it. It is really true.
■ So scratch it down and learn it,
| and see if it isn’t true.
i “A lot o’ fellers loaf around
i And wait for luck to smile on them
; And hope a fortune can be found
B puffin’ on an old pipe stem!
But somehow, fortune fails to smile
j They’re always ‘out of luck’ and
broke
The busy fellers make their ‘pile’
While ‘pipe dreams’ fade away in
smoke!”
Remember, “Work is play when
it pays.”
And remember, what the actor
said, “No pay, no play,” Right?
O. K.
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TOLD V(\Jy
LABOR UNION MEMBERS
PLEDGE TO FIGHT FOR
NEGRO RIGHTS
Pittsburgh, Pa.,—CXA — Four
hundred delegates, representing
seventy eight lodsres of the Amal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers, at a recent con
ference here, pledged themselves
to fight for the admission of Neg
ro workers into their union.
The conference also stressed
the necessity raising special
flemands for Negro steel workers
at. equal pay and no discrimina
tion.
When we pray to God witt en
tfre assistance, it is Himself who
lias given us the spirit of prayer.
—St. Cyprian.
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