Economic Hi-Lights
Happenings that affect the Dii'
npi* pails, Dividend checks and
Tax bills of every Individual. Na
tional and International problems
Inseparable from Local Welfare.
As this column pointed oi<t
last week, American industrial
production in many fields has
suddenly shot upward even though
consumption has remained at
about the saime level. Obvious
reason for the rise is the expec
tation of big war orders from
Europe, plus the supposition that
raw material prices are due to
go up and stay up. Manufactur
ers have figured that they’d best
buy heavy stocks at once, while
prices are relatively low, and be
prepared for big business when
Europe begins calling for sup
plies.
But, going by some significant
recent indications, there is a very
good chance that the manufactu
rers who have been planning on
a major war boom taking place
soon will be fooled—and that the
"war prosperity” balloon may be
rudely deflated.
In the first plac:, it is a cer
tainly that our only major war
customers will be England and
France—B rittania rules the
waves, and the German merchant
marine has been almost entirely
driven to cover. Britain has b:en
preparing for this war for a long
time. She didn’t say much about
but has been laying in abnor
mally heavy supplies of basic ma
terials for many moons. The re
sult is that considerable time
must go by before sh? will have
to face a shortage of any impor
tant material asset
In the second place, the allies
must husband iheir slender gold
possessions. They haven’t any
money to spend foolishly. Every
penny expended must dlo two pen
nies’ work, if possible. That
means Britain will exhaust to
the utmost the resources of that
empire on which t'he sun never
sets, before she makes any big
purchases elsewhere. And the
British empire (taking it for
granted tl^it her ifleeit will be
able to keep the trade lanes open,
and hold down losses from Ger
man submarine, battleship and
air attack to a minimum) is ex
ceedingly rich in almost every
thing that is necessary to the
maintenance of a country in
cither war or peace. To a consid
erably lesser extent, this is also
true of the French empire. And
what the French lack will, as
long as possible, be supplied
them by the British.
The effect of the war so far
has been harmful to American
business. England and her posses
sions nortmally constitute our
largest single foreign customer.
The outbreak of hostilities caus
ed an immediate drop in British
imports from this country. Where
for instance, we used to have a
fine stable market in England for
perishable fruit, thafc market has
(dwindled—and, think some, in
the near future it may disappear
entirely.
There i" one obvious exception
to this—and the exception is
arms. If the embargo is removed,
we may confwtently except the
munitions industries to boom.
Britain is not able to prouce
adequate war materials, even
though all the resources of her
great manufacturing establish
ments are today being given to
supplying her soldiers with the
weapons of destruction. If you
have airplanes, rifles, shells, or
machine g|uns to sell, you have no
need to worry about your future
business—you will probably re
ceive more orders than you can'
handle, if the war goes on. But
producers of other materials
cannot ba sure of a sanquine
outlook as yet. And those who
are buying raw materials on a
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big scale in anticipation of sus
tained and growing foreign de
mand, may be sadly disappoint"
ed. The truth is that if the war
Lasts long, all of Europe will be
practically out of gold, and won’t
be able to buy hero no matter
how great the need, unless this
government permitted belliger
ents to obtain American credit.
And the temper of Congress now
is almost 100 per cent against
that.
There is one big catch in r,he
cash-and-carry plan which would
l'crbid American ships to trans
port cargoes to belligerents. And
no one seems yet to hav figured
out a way to solve the problem |
presented, and at the same tii'C|
safeguard our neutrality from 1
b ing imperiled by untoward “in-1
cidents.”
That catch lies in the fact that |
Ameriian ships can no longer go j
to Australia, Canada, New Zea
land, the Britesh West In1, res
in brief, any number of coun
tries near or within this hemis
phere. These countries are part of
■..he allied empires. They ante for
mally at war with Germany.
German U-boats would be per
fectly justified in capturing or
sinking shins 'trading with their'.
And, if that trade is stopped, the
American merchant marine might
as well shut up sho-p and call it
a day. Most of the major ports
| would be closed to our vessels.
On top of that, American citi
zens would no longer be able to
go to Montreal, Sydney or Ber
muda, for instance, save at their
ow nrisk. Bombs heaven t yet
fallen on such places—but they
are possible targets of war, and
ai'e on war footing.
Sen' fiment at this writing
seems to favor sacrificing our
shipping if that is pec?ssary to
keep out of th war. Ptrhaps in
the future same system w M be j
worked out whereby we will be
able to carry on trade on a more
Oj. less norimal basis with colon
ies of belligerents, but a). the
moment the outlook for our mer
chant marine doesn’t seem
bright.
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New Bill
Seeks W.
Indies Isle
for U. S.
Washington, Nov. 16—(By A.
E. White lor ANI’)—British a'-'.
French possessions in the West
1 Indies will be cited to the United
States in payment for World
War debts if Senator Lmndeen
if Minnesota, who 'ha.-- introduced
p, bill in congress to that effect
ha* his way.
But should Uncle Sam get
these islands, of primary impor
tance in defending the North andi
South America from European
aggression under the Monroe
doctrine, the preponderant Ne
gro population would in all pro
bality take a step backward. The
nation’s colonial policy has never
been of the best, and the intro
duction of present American pre
judices and methods of dealing
with minority groups would spell
trouble.
Analyzing the situation ana
looking into the geographical dis
tribution, it is seen that the
British possessions predominate
in the West Indies, with a total
area of 10,427 square miles and
a population of 1,386,074 inhabi
tants.
The French possessions embody
1,073 square miles, with a popu
lation of 474,268.
Cheif exports of the islands
are sugar, molasses, cocoa, nut
meg, cotton, mace, lillies, onions,
potatoes, rum, sponges, coffee,
bananas, vanilla, maise and salt
with products being confined to
certain islands as in the case of
Bermuda, which specializes in lib
lies, oninions and potatoes. Ja
maica is famous for its rum and
the other products are distribut
ed among the many smaller is
lands which comprise the group.
The Dutch possessions are the
smallest. They comprise two or
three small islands in the Curaco
group, plus a half interest in the
island of St. Thomas, the other
half belonging to France.
France in turn has two major
groups in the West Indies Guada
loupe and Martinique, the latter
NEGRO DISCRIMINATED AGAINST
IN NEW DEAL AGENCIES
Washington, D. C.—As the
National Conference on the Pro
akims of the Negro, held h ire in
Washington some time ago, there
was catalogued a list of discri
minatory practices by New Deal
Agencies as they affect Negro
citizens of the Unit:d States.
Included in this catalogue of
discriminatory practices, atten
tion was call d to the fact that
the Social Security I.aw, a piece
>f New Deal legislation ,automa
tically excludes 70 per cent of
:ha Negro population from its
provisions, including farm and
domestic labor. It was affirmed
llilar ‘an undetermined number
>f Negroes, particularly in the
South, have been displaced from
iobs as result of this Act.”
With respect to Labor Stand
ards, the Conference stn ed that
the elimination of differentials
las failed of its purpose in that
racial and sectional differentials
cont in lie to exist in '.he matter
>f wages and working conditions
lo the disadvantage of N.gro la
bor.
Even the minimum wage which
was increased throughout the
country from 25 cents to 30 cents
an hour, effective Oetoba- 24,
1939, by the Wage and Hour Law
rloes not do away with racial cl if
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ferentials.
Also, is was noted that: a ten
dency exists to use Federal funds
for purposes of fixing residen
tial patterns according to local
prejudices, and thereby establish
segregated ureas and racial
ghettoes. The Federal Housing
Administration is one of .she
worst offenders in this respect,
the Conference report r, with its
policy of guaranteeing Negro
mortgages only in segregated
Negro neighborhoods.
Tho TVA is similarly culpable
with I * .segregationist (policie*
in both employment and co:n
nvmrity settlement.
The Conference noted failure
of Negroes to benefit properly
from many kinds of Federal ex
penditm'e of funds b cause of
the lack of effective publicity
acquainting Negroes, along with
others, cf the existence of Fed
eral services and their availa
bility.
Requ st was made by this
group of Negro leaders for bet
ter medical care and preventive
medicine for the coloird masses
utilizing the additional funds
which have be n made available
under the Social Security Act.
In this connection the Conference
found that little or no progi-ess
has been ttriade to improve the
famous for two things: one the
volcanic eruption of Mt. Pelee
which almost destroyed the island
soma 25 years back, and second,
as being the birth place of Napo
leon’s Empress Josephine
Starting with Jamaica, the
larges., and the two islands of
Turks and Caicos, there is a tre
mendous population divided into
several classes—white, colored,
blacks, East Indians, Chinese and
many other mixtures not listed.
The total population runs well
over 800,000 inhabitants with
14,686 list* d as white.
Bermuda, the perpetual para
dise for tourists, and the Baham
as do not like to be classed as
part of tihe West Indies. The
former has an area of 19 square
miles with a population of 20,127
of whch 7,006 are whites. The
Bahamas, a group of 20 islands,
has an area of 4,404 square miles
and a population of 54,886.
The Windward islands, Grena
de, St. Vincent and St. Lucia
are in a class by themselves as
are the Leeward islands, with
Antigua being the largest. Fol
lowing are the islands of Bar
buda, Redona, St. Christopher
(St. Kitts) Nevis, Anguilla, Do
minica and Montserrat.
Possibly the best known of the
islands is Barbadoes with an
area of 166 square miles and a
population of 156,312. Affection
ately known by its inhabitants
as “Little England,” Barbadoes
has its own university, a (branch
of one of the larger universities
in England. It is also the oldest
crown colony in the islands. And
because of this, the inhabitants
are very proud of their little
domain.
What then will become of the
1,916,864 inhabitants of this con
glomeration if they are taken un
der the American flag?
Long known as a poor adminis
trator of colonies, Uncle Sam
will have his hands full for these
French, Dutch and English peo
ple are not used to the tactics
usually employed by American
administrators of colonial pos
sessions.
In Jamaica, history was made
years ago when the natives re
belled aganst the English gov
ernment. Let by a man who later
became famous whether right
fully so or not, a revolt against
the British was formulated, only
to be broken by the bombing of
Georgetown by a British man-of
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war and the capture of the fort
where this Negro and his asso
ciates had taken refuge. When
brought (before the governor and
the commander of the battleship,
(he man gave his name as “Sir
Samuel Benjamin Quasshie” and
now, according to some who have
related the story, the term
“Quasshie” is used by the natives
in designation of a chap who is
a trouble maker.
But this mixture added to the
United States citizenry will prove
more of a hearache to this gov
ernment than the Virgin islands,
the Philippines, Porto Rico, Guam
and all the other possessions put
together, if the natives follow
their usual customs.
For years, it has been custo
mary for the English and French
to permit the natives a large
share in the government activi
ties. They are members of the
local governing bodies, hold high
offices in the communities and
have be3® inculcated with British
and French and Dutch ideals for
centuries. Whether this could be
changed or not probably never
entered Senator Lundeen’s mind,
nor, it is the belief of imany, is
sified problems which are, the
he familiar with the many diver
West Indian’ exclusively.
Bitter opposition to the pro
posed annexation, which would
ostensibly strengthen the United
States military naval defenses,
has been voiced in many sections
here in Washing-ton and it is
hardly probable that the proposal
will get beyond that stage.
Americans are not anxious it
is believed to annex territory
which would bring into the popu
lation of the United States near
ly 2,000,000 additional people, of
which more than four-fifths are
Negroes or of Negro extraction.
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Federal Employment of Negro
nurses. They continue to be ex
cluded entirely from two Feder
al services, The U, S. Public
Health and the Army Nursing
Service and subject to salary
and work different ials in two
others, the U. S. Veterans and
the U. S. Navy Nursing Service.
It was the conclusion of the
Conference that, aside from en
couraging a program in the tr at
monf of syphilis among Negroes,
“iliero has been no notable
change in the approach to Negro
■heal ih problems,” Also, that
while there has been soma slight
increase in the wmjdoyment of
Negro public health nurses, “in
no sense is the increase compara
ble to the needs of ho Negro
population.” The fact was em
phasized that while many gains
have been definite and distinct
“there is much—very much to be
done. The task has just begun.”
Wi h re .p ct to unemployment,
tho Conference felt compelled to
call attention to the fact that 3,'?
per cent of the Negro popula ion
as compared with 20 per cent of
the White population, is still de
pendent upon piiblic relief as
ample proof “that unemployment
continues among Negroes in
severe disproportion to their
number in population." They wish
this condition changed.
These are but a few of the
many and detailed, and, in some
cases, gross examples of tyrani
cal bureaucratic unfairness in
carrying out the clear mandates
of extravagantly publicized New
Deal legislation.
In view of widely published
statements to the effect that so
large a proportion of Colored
voters supported the New Deal
in 1932 and 1936, but wi’lh con
sideraly lessened support in 1938
among the Colored population of
the country there is an insistent
demand that such discriminatory
practices be discontinued by the
Administration, Or that less and
less be said about “united demo
cracy’' and ‘‘united patriotism.’
Calvin’s Digest
L. Baynard Wtvftney
THINK UPWARD
One of my readers complains
that my opening remarks on
color in la*t week’s column were
decidedly InepH, porlyiiPs offen
sive, and that prejudice is an
outworn subject on which
write. Nevertheless, cxerperience
kindred sufferings and a host of
other things keep on proving that,
prejudice is a realistic subject
which must be faced and dealt
with for some time Mo come,
however, we imoist think of what
wo want—justice, (quality, op
portunity—and think less 0f the
things we don’t want. Is is true,
as my header declares, we must
constantly keep our minds up
lifted toward truth and human
understanding. It is rcfr shing
to turn from the dark side of
'the picture and see the bright
ness in our strivings.
SELF-MADE MEN
We are all proud of that fact
tha'o we have many Negro 1 ad
ei's who are self-made men and
women, who came up the hard
way. Thin usolilily augurs well
for their remaining longest nt
the top. R cently I had a peep
into 'ihe private life of Herbert,
L. Bruce, New Y'ork’s first
elected Negro Democratic Dis
trict Leader. During this conver
sation these things came to light:
From the time he go. his first
job as page boy at the Prince
George Hotel until today, he has
maintained a life of rigid per
sonal independence. He has lived
a paradox of liberal spending and
careful thrift; that is to say, he
had a good time as a young man
“Common Opportunity,” “United
Democracy” and “Unified Patriot
ism,” of which they hear so much
demand, they say economic, op
portunity and the full enjoyment
of the same rights granted so
freely to others be granted them
also.
D is not expected, of course,
these leaders pointed out, that
any Federal Administration can
remove all the disabilities of a
race, err group, but there is ex
pectation dhese Colored leaders
contend, that there should be less
bin always made certain that his
bank account increased weekly.
Bruce has never been unemployed
except for two weeks while
waiting to change from a good
job to a better one—and he had
$400 saved from one season’s
work at a Pennsylvania hotel
He was nine years at the Prince
George, a summer season in Pa.,
four years at Penna. Station aS(
a red cap, then into business for
himself for nine years.
This is just one of many per
sonal records of which we can
Ixi proud.
DEMOCRACY MARCHES ON
It was an impressive sight. A
race member of New York'*
‘‘Finest" was being honored with
a Police Inspector's Funeral. II
was Patrolman Anthony Buck
ner, who died as the result of
injure1 • received in the line of
duty. Headed by the 75 piece New
York City Police Band, the
solemn procession that moved
through the streets of Harlem
included 150 uniformed pat.ro-1
men, 40 plainclothcsmen of the
detective division, a corporals’
guard of the 369th Regiment wil
der Sergeant Wallace, 50 mem
bers of the V terans’ Oorp and
1.2 funei&l cars. The casket was
draped with the American flag.
New York City has been for
many years a ci|tadel of Demo
cracy, and al hough there is still
muct to be desired, the Police
Department under liberal Mayors
has given its members every oj>
por,unity for advancement upon
its merits, without regard to
race, creed or color.
and less flagrant color discrimin
ation in relief and the various
New Deal set-ups here men
tioned and the alphabetical many
associations.
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