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..EDITORIALS..
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Tin* I'niied Slates News recently compiled what it terms
“The New Deal’s ‘Won and DosF Record in the Supreme
f’ourt.’ Two Court terms have been concluded in which admin
istra.io,, mensurts havebeen decided. In 13 tomes the Adminis
trat.Jon has been tustaiued. In 11 it has log .
Cases in which il was uphold include site’ll measures as:
fluid devalua ion, the TVA; Arms Embargo; Silver Purchase
Policy; Second Frazier Lcinke Farm mortgage Moratorium Act
and !h'e Social Security Act. Casts in which OFlost involved
the NR A, AAA, Guffey Coal net, the Rail Pensionact and if e
Aluniiip.*! Bankruptcy Act.
Most fiavo ruble to Ad minis;ration laws ,says the News
was Mr. Jus ice Cardoza, who east 19 votes for New Deal laws
and 5 against. Most unfavorable was Air. Justice Me.Reynolds,
5 for New Deal laws, 19 agains^ It is interes ing to note Mr.
fki.rdozo was appointed by a Republican—'President Hoover;
Air. Me Reynolds by a Democrat—President Wilson.
INDIVIDUALISTS
The gaining of Ihree crowns in the ranks of boxing by
. colored young men aerv<s to emphasize onjee baore t’mxJt ;we
are a rat e of individualists. In each of these instances, indi
vidual or personal prowess won top raling. The innocent of us
might ask, why we can’t gain some of th« larger rewards of
life which '(come through group aeftion. Our answer is. wo are
not, organized. And what is the reasont It isi simply that we
do not know how to work together.
Working together—in unison—is an art which must he
learned. To lear,| this art, there is much that must bo unlearn
cd by the individual. We must change our thinking from self
to “all for one and one for all.” Find the group that does
this and you will find the successful group. Find those who
think in term of self, and you will find those who s'and
Tt. is interesting t‘o note in Negro life, the greatest work
ing groitp, and the group with the most money at its com
maud is the educational group. Thai in itself should he a le«
son to the rest of us, but apparentdy it is not. Our educators
■are our best organized group, and thpy stick closest together.
The result is our most substantial group economically is our
leaching group. Any merchant will toll you that.
When Negro business learns to organize and retallv work
together it will get somewhere. Our religious organiznthins
do fairly well, because of their organization.Oifr professional
classes are gradnlly learning that in union dm*" is strength
Hut it is still true that our shining examples of achievement,
in most eases, are the individualists who help only themselves,
apart.
/National Negro Insurance Collection Drive
President G. D. Rogers of the National Negro Insurance
Association lias {proclaimed December as National Collection
Month, in which all colored insurance companies will make a
determined effort to collect the highest percentage possible on
the insurance they have in force.
Uist May the Association sponsored hi Insurance Week
drive in which $11,000,000 in new business was written. It is
tone thing to put the business on the books, and quite another
to keep it there by collecting for it each week, month or quar
ter. In this drive empjhastis isheing plaleed o|n keeping the bus
iness already in hand.
Because the insurance business is one of the most' inviting
and profitable for trained young men or women to enter, and
"because the growth and development of this business will mean
increased employment as well as iitereased protection to the
group, the publit is urged to lend its cooperation in making
National Negro Collection Month a success.
Mr. C. L. Townes of Richmond, Va., says: “This is the N.
N. IT. A.'s first, attempt at a nation wide collection effort, anil
your enthusiasm and cooperation this time will have a great
toffeet on the results of sufcli drives during subsequent years.
I believe it possible to make the bellection drive just as suj'*
toeasfull as our National Negro Insurance Week drive, which
gave our companies a production of $11,916,051 during one
week’s effort last May. Frankly, I am of the opinion that a
wdll planned collection effort during the month of December
wifi go a long ways toward keeping some of that business on
the books, despite the fact it is now six months old.”
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U. of C., White Realty
Owniers, Lambasted
In Mass Meeting
Chicago, Nov. 11 (AN I’)—A
boycott of the avowedly liberal
University of Chicago was threat
ened Wednesday night at a mass
meeting of colored citizens in Du
Sablo high school for the purpose
of launching a drive against vicious
,nd inadequate housing conditions
in the section. White property own
ers’ associations bordering on the
district which preeent Negro ex
pansion through restictive residen
tial agreements were lambasted by
spokesmen, led by Alderman Wil
liam L- Dawson of the Second Ward
Two days later, Dr. Robert M.
Hutchins, president of the univer
sity, issued a statement purporting
to tell of his own and the institu
tion’s opposition to segregation but
which, southside leaders feel, mere
ly point out the school’s duplicity
in the matter. The university, lo
cated near the eastern limits of
the ‘ black belt,” is charged with
financing white organizations now
bitterly opposing Negro expansion
beyond the present overcrowded
district.
In defending Chicago U.’s stand,
Dr. Hutchins said, “We feel the
local community should be encour
aged to develop its own policies of
improvement, and the university
should cooperate in every legiti
mate way. To this end, the univer
sity, in recent years, has supported
a number of community efforts to
improve existing conditions and
make the area a raoro likely place
of residence. It takes satisfaction
in doing these things as a good
neighbor, but it does not attempt
to dictate local policies as a condi
tion of its support.
“It is in pursuance of the policy I
have stated that the university has
contributed to neighborhood as
sociations. One of these associa
tions to which the university be
longs has defended restrictive
agreements. These agreements
were entered into a long time ago,
and although many people doubt
their social soundness, they are le
gal in this state and the associa
tion has the right to invoke and
defended them. However unsatisfac
tory they may be, they are thought
to be the only means available by
which members of the association
can stabilize the conditions under
which they live.
Prior to the mass meeting Wed !
nesday, a Citizens' committee, work
ing with the NAACP and the Peo
ples’ Press, a liberal white weekly !
newspaper, covered the southside
with a special edition on various
aspects of the housing situation. I
It pointed out the danger of racial ,
friction that the situation, had en l
gendered, dwelt at length on the
part played by the University of
Chicago and its cohorts in blocking
the building of the Southside Gar
dens Housing project, the federal
project that has resulted in demoli
tion of a large portion of the South
side and he further accentuation of !
a serious situation by throv ing
over 2,000 persons out on an al
ready overcrowded community.
Minor Loses Race
For Muny Judge
Cleveland, Nov. 11 (ANP)—In
Tuesday’s election which saw pre
dominantly Negro wards vote the
Republican ticket, Councilmen
Lawrence O. Payne, and Dr. Leroy
N- Bundy were re-elected by heavy
majorities, and Harold T. Gassaway
prominent local attorney, was elect
ed to the city council for the first
time from the 18th ward.
Norman S. Minor, candidate, for
the unexpired term on the munici
pal court bench lost his race but
polled the largest vote of any Ne
gro who has sought that office.
Harry E. Davis, aspirant for the
school board, also lost.
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GOV. GRAVED -
ABUSE BY SHERIFF
New York, Nov. 4—A promise to
take prompt and thorough action
on a complaint that the sheriff of
Monroe County, Ala., is guilty of
habitual cruelty and abuse of Ne
gro prisoners, has been promised
to the NAACP by Governor Bibb
Graves. The NAACP complaint was
made to Governor Graves follow
ing the receipt of a letter from a
white person in Monroe County,
Various aspects of the entire pro
blem and possible solutions were
presented by speakers. Horace R.
Clayton, who has for a number ol
years been connected with various
research departments of the Uni
versity of Chicago, presented sur
vey of the situation, showing how
a desire for expansion because of
inadequate housing resulted in the
Chicago race riot in 1919. He sket
ched the role played by the Uni
versity of Chicago in throttling
growth of the Negro community by
helping erect and maintain arti
ficial barriers in the form of res
trictive agreements.
Governmental officials were de
scribed by speakers as lying down
on the housing projects for Chi
cago because of the pressure brou
ght by white residential and im
provement associations. Secretary
Harold Ickes had been invited to
the meeting as had Director
Strauss of the Federal Housing
Bureau and PWA Administrator
Gray. None of these top officials
came, but Dewey R. Jones, form
erly of Chicago, now assistant to
Robert C. Weaver, Advisor on Ne
gro Affairs, was sent as an unof
ficial observer.
Mr. Jones did not speak, did not
advise what the present status of
the housing project is, and left the
meeting after the first 2 address
es. .Robert R. Taylor, jr., Chicago
housing expert, who is intimately
acquainted with the South Park
Gardens project and was expected
to give an expose of the present
situation, contented himself with
declaring that housing should be
made a political issue. Later speak
ers lambasted the government of
ficials, declaring that they were
pussyfooting on the isssue and pro
posed bearding them in their dens
at Washington.
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An Echo
From My Den
By S. E. Gilbert
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As I sit here in my den with
pen in hand, meditating as it
were, there comes to my mind
a question of who is the great
est Negro in America today.
Without a doubt, my vote is
Philip Randolph. During
my school life before embark
ing out into life’s school, I re
call reading a, historical fact of
a great Negro known as Hanni
bal, a man who at the age of
12 declared that lie would con
quer Rome, following through
wiijn a conviction, he later
made history as one of the
greatest military strategists of
ancient times. Standing as it
were at the foot of the Alps, a
barrier that was thought un
conquerable by man, so much
so that his cohorts kept chant
ing “it can’t be done.’’ “It
can’t be done;” but Hannibal
stood on his conviction as the
rock»of Gibraltar and cried “Ii
can be done’’ and with the en
genuity of a genius, this! great
man made history by crossing
the Alps, and into the Plains
of Lombardy where he defeat
ed the Romans and the dream
of Hannibal betaine a reality.
Years la.ter another great Ne
gro had a vision when he saw
in the distance, a victory for
the workers and he set out to
lead t|ne Pullman porters out
of a chaos of poor pay and un
desirable working conditions in
to the land of better pay and
improved working Conditions.
Battling as it were against a
billion dollar corporation, his
pa,tli was all but rosy.
Many a day has found this
great man who was born in the
State of Florida, wondering
where his next meal was com
ing from, or if he would be ab
' le to purchase clothes in which
to 'make the proper appearance
as he went about fighting the
battle of 14,000 Pullman port
ers and forgetting himself. As
false leaders all about him con
tinned to shout ‘It can’t be
done,’ with a will to revolution
iV.e the economic condiXion of
the Negro, this man among
men, cried out ‘ It can be done’
and continued to fight even at
the cost of personal (-acrifiees,
a cross current of opposition
and intrigue from without, and
betrayal of trust iwthin. He
was abused, trriticized, but in
spite of it, all his spirit based
on the axiom that greater love
has no man, than to lay down
his life for his. people, and hu
inanity at large; and thus he
crossed the Alps of a modern
corporation to the plains of bet
ter conditions for the backbone|
of ’ Ithe Pullman ■ Company,
Known to the modernized world
as Pullman porters, and he
brought to them a victory \ui
parrajelled in the history of
unionism, a victory that meant
an increase to the coffers of
Mack America of $2,000,000 a
year.
Believing that the economic
talus of any group is the basic
factor in their pursuit of hap
piness and knowing the battle
that this groat stalwart has
waged for its betterment with
an unselfish spirit, I t'ast a big
vote for him a,s the greatest
Negro of modern time, A. Phil
ip Randolph.
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25th. Charles Winter Wood, who
succeeded the late Richary Berry
{Harrison as ‘‘De Lawd” in the
I stage version of “The Green Pas
tures,” is now teaching dramatics
and producing and directing con
temporary drama at Florida A.
and M. College.
Joe Louis Now In Pictures
On the 28th day pf June, 1927,
a sleek, well trained Negro prize
fighter crawled throught the ropes
before a multitude of people in
Chicago, a challenger for the
world’s heavyweight fistic title. A
short time later this same boy
crawled out of the ring acclaimed
the Champion of the World. Has
this struggle from in auspicious be
ginning as the son of an Alabama
farm hand to the top most ring of
the ladder been a vain sacrifice for
Joe Louis?
Jack Dempsey occupying the
same place that Louis now occupies
came to Hollywood and made a
| picture for a major studio. Max
| Baer alndj IJrimo '(Jarnera while
challenger and champion respec
! tively made a picture in Hollywood
for a major studio that netted each
! of them a handsome reurn. Now
comes Joe Louis to Hollywood to
make a picture for a company new
ly organized for the express pur
pose of exploiting the Negro in
pictures and with a rating that
could not be higher than a quickie
independent producer making ‘‘D”
product. The question that now
arises is—Is Joe Louis champion
of the world or is he the Negro
champion of the world? Why
should he appear in pictures that
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Cfth be produced for less than Max
Haei' received as his salary when
only a challenger for the champion
ship? Why should L°uis enter
into a contract to make pictures on
which the allotted production dOJtjl
could not possible give him a fa
vorable presentation to the public?
Why should Joe Louis be a party
to the scheming of a group of pro
moters to lower the standard of
Negro salaries in Hollywood? As
champion of the world, he should
be a champion of the less fortunate
members of his group and not ad
here to any policies that will tear
down that which has been built
through years of suffering and
sacrifice.
There are 12,000,000 Negroes in
the United States that should re
joice and clap their hands with glee
because there is a Negro that has
through perseverance reached the
spotlight at the top of the ladder
in the fistic world. These same 12,
000,000 souls should also hand their
heads in shame if this young Negro
boy, not realizing the value of a
world championhip, allows himself
to be cheapened in the eyes of the
public.
Joe Louis is a great fighter and
a great champion. He should have
a great picture by a great studio.
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Europe's Interest in American
Neutrality
By Dr. V. Royce West,
Head of the Department of Foreign Languages,
University of Omaha.
American neutrality has grown into a world question
again. Successive undeclared wars in Ethiopia, in Spain, and
| in the Far East have centered attention on the foreign policy
j of the United States anew.
What does Europe think of Unit
ed States’ neutrality policy and leg
islation ?
Public opinion is difficult to es
timate in dictator countries, but
public opinion in all European coun
; tries is influenced greatly, as in
America, by the newspapers.
Europe’s i n -
terest in Amer
ican neutrality
is a direct com
mentary on the
degree to which
neutrality legis
lation will guar
antee American
isolation and in
\ iolability.
Dr. w«it What were the
headlines on Europe's front pages
as President Roosevelt asked for
administrative freedom to institute
embargoes ? What was the editor
ial comment T
After President Roosevelt's neu
trality message, Der Angriff, a
German newspaper founded by Dr.
Joseph Goebbels, German propa
ganda minister, exploded: “Once
before we heard the voice of peace
coming from an American pres
ident. Wilson’s piping sounded
even softer. But that American
■Peace President, through his peace
treaties, did not leave the world
safe for democracy, but prepared
the soil for dictatorships."
This paper emphasized a com
ment from the New York Herald
Tribune that the whole neutrality
message was “political bombast”.
The German Frankfurter Zei
tung was quick to point out that
automatic neutrality means that
the United States withdraws use of
its power to influence world events,
except in a defensive war. This
German paper, and the semi-offi
cial French Temps reasoned alike
that nations dependent upon the
United States for munitions would
make themselves independent of
other countries for war-time sup
plies.
The trend toward economic self
sufficiency and armament-building
accelerated at once.
The French press was reproach
ful at President Roosevelt’s refusal
to make a distinction between the
aggressor and the victim in war.
As one newspaper wrote: “The
United States would make no at
tempt to stop the aggressor, and
refuse its assistance to both the
lamb and the wolf.”
In Italy, editorials mocked Pres
ident Roosevelt's moralizing tone.
The new Uniteo States' policy of
neutrality there denoted open inter
vention in the war, not neutrality.
British newspapers accorded
minor ridicule to the anomalous po
sition of the State Department in
the face of the new neutrality leg
islation. Even the London Time*
put its finger on a tender spot when
it concluded that the United State*
should build the strongest navy in
the world—-to fight for its neutral