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unicable Diseases, of Omaha, artd
Don Warner, Director of Venere.tl
Disease Education, the Coordinatin''
Committee discussed, plans for an
active campaign to help stamp out
venereal disease with educational
measures.
From a medical viewpoint. Dr.
Frary pointed out that syphilis and
gonorrhea still remain our greatest
communicable disease problems, in
spite of the fact that medical science
now has the means to discover and
cure them. The medical examin
ations fo rthe draft show that two
out O fevery ten of the draftees from
this area could n°t serve their coun
try because they had contracted
syphilis. This constituted the great
est handicap to victory and to free
dom of any of the communicable
diseases.
Mr. Warner informed the Comm
ittee that in January and Februaiy
of this year, there were four times
as many cases of syphilis reported
in Nebraska as all the cases report
ed of smallpox, typhoid fever, tub
erculosis, diptherja and pneumonia
added together.
A plan was presented which would
place all the facts of the cause, the
cure, and how to find these diseases
before the public. The plan outlin
ed the facilities available to carry
on the fight against these destroy
ers of our potential soldiers and
workers.
Rev. F. C. Williams, of the Zion
Baptist Church- was appointed
chairman of the speakers’ bureau.
A plan for the training of speakers
on this problem was presented and
all citizens were to be asked to Yol
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Health go on record as recognizing
venereal disease as our number one
health problem.
Dr. S. L. Pearlman pointed out
that the picture was not without
hope, since the medical and clinic
facilities are ready to care for i hr
problem, and the records show an
increasing demand from the public
for treatment with these facilities.
There were 1,219 visits to the clinics
in June 1941, and 2,433 visits in June
1942.
Many people are now having
blood tests at these clinics, so that
they may be sure that they can do
their part in this war effort.
This is the second of a series of
articles written by members of the
local Negro Medical Society to hell)
the fight against syphilis and gon
orrhea.
HOW MANY PEOPLE
HAVE SYPHILIS?
(BY DR. WESLEY JONES)
You may wonder why this series
Of articles on venereal disease is
being published. You have that
right. So little has been said about
syphilis and gonorrhea that many
people assume that they are rare
diseases.
On the contrary, they are too
common. For every person who is
killed ijn an auto accident, three die
of syphilis. If our front page car
ried the news about these deaths as
it does about auto fatalities, the
public would be aroused.
Since we know that all of the
deaths are not reported, and all
cases are not on record, the known
results of the ravages of this dis
ease would be much greater if the
truth were told.
In Nebraska, there is four times
as much syphilis reported as there
is smallpox, typhoid fever, pneumon
ia .tuberculosis, and diptheria com
bined.
You can understand, then, why
this series of articles is being writ
ten. If you realize that there is
one hundred times as much syphilis
as polio, and the results in each
case are as likely to be as terrible,
then you will want to do something
about the control of syphilis.
The best authorities estimate that
there are a half a million new cases
of syphilis each year. The conser
vative estimates indicate that there
are at least 6,500,000 cases of syph
ilis in the United States. This is an
army almost as large as our present
armed force. Many of these 6,500,
000 are 'unable to work, fight, Or
earn for our war effort. This is
the result of a program which has
not made adequate provision for
their care and cure- We cannot af
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they do not apply here.
The draft showed that thirty-five
out of every one thousand of our
young men had syphilis. In some
areas of our city, two out of every
ten of the draftees had to be defer
red because of venereal disease.
That is our problem. That is why
these articles are being published.
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the amount of syphilis and the
number of new infections. How
would you feel if tomorrow’s paper
said “One-half million people killed
or wounded by the enemy?”
Would you sit quietly by and say
nothing? You would not. You
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to win the war.
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syphilis and gonorrhea.
GEORGIA POLICE BEAT, JAIL
ROLAND HAYES
(continued from page 1)
the sidewalk, Mr. Hayes, who had
been in the nearby bank, walked up
and asked: “What’s is the matter?”
The clerk, breaking in just as the
manager was about to speak, shout
ed: "She cursed me and called me
old Hitler.”
“I most certainly did not curse,”
the indignant wife replied.
The proprietor then returned to
the store, and recognizing Mr. Hay
es as an old customer, sought to
settle the matter, urging him and
her family to come back in the
store. "I’ll be glad to wait on you
myself,” he was quoted as saying.
The offer was declined by Mr.
Hayes who with his wife and dau
ghter continued on down the street,
considering the incident closed. Mrs.
Hayes had walked into a nearby
grocery store and Mr. Hayes arid
his daughter were strolling up anli
down on the sidewalk when a big
uniformed officer approached.
Walking up to the noted singer
without saying anything, he reach
ed out with his right hand and
gripped him b ythe belt of his trous
ers, dragging him backward to the
store. The frightened daughter,
still clutching he rfather’s arm be
gan screeming.
"Is this him?” the policeman ask
ed the shoe clerk.
“That’s the man, but it was the
wench who cursed me and called mo
a nold Hitler,” the clerk whined.
“My wife didn’t curse you,” Mr.
Hayes asserted, witnesses said in
describing the sidewalk scene.
Before Mr. Hayes finished his re
marks, a big fist smashed into his
face, knocking him to the sidewalk.
Two other policemen quickly appear
ed and pounced upon the noted aii
ist, who is of slight build. Throw
ing his hat over his face, as if to»
hide his identity, they began pom
meling him on the ground.
Mrs. Hayes ran from the store
and began begging the officers n._.t
to molest her husband any further.
The driver of the patrol wagon
which arrived on the scene came up.
Two of the officers grabbed the bad
ly bruised singer by his clothing and
dragged him to the vehicle. Lift
ing him up bodily, they threw him
head first onto the floor.
Another policeman quickly round
ed up Mrs. Hayes an dthe daughter'
an dput them in front. Two police
men got in the back and pounced
on t hehelpless figure of one of the
greatest tenor the world has ever
known.
Wrenching his arms backward,
they clamped handcuffs across his
wrists. Another sat straddle across
his body .while the second began
brutally beating him in the face
with his fists.
The daughter kept screaming,
drowning out the heart-breaking
sobs of the badly frightend wife:1
The big driver shouted, ‘If you don’t
shut up I’ll give you some of the
same thing.”
Arriving at the city hall, in which
is located the jail, the Hayes were
rudely hustled to the lower floor
cells and stuffed into a hole with
another occupant. The daughter
was left seated in the corridor.
Mr. Hayes’ chauffeur came to the
cell window and was told to find Out
how much bond was wanted and
what were the charges. Returning
to the police chief's office, he was
told the bond would be $50. $25 iOr
each prisoner. The chauffeur was
turned down when he asked for tile
release of the little daughter.
After slightly more than two hours:
the jailer came down and told the
couple the chief wanted to see them.
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Los Angeles, Calif., July 14th —
At the opening session of the Presi
dent’s Committee On Fair Employ
ment Practice, in Birmingham, Ala.,
and in an editorial in his paper the
Louisville Courer-Journal, Mr. Mark
Etherdge states, referring to the
fight of Negro leaders against rac
ial discrimination and segregation
%at the ‘‘Negro must recognize
that there is no power in the world
—not even in all the mechanized
armies of the earth, allies and axis
—which could force the southern
white people to the abandonment of
the principle of social segregation.”
If by social segregation, Mr. Eth
“You know I’ve been talking with
the FBI about what your wife said”
the chief began, “and they tell me
if she had,just said it another way
the government would make a case
against her.”
“I see ycu nave some cash,” the
chief continued holding up Mr. Hay
es’ billfold, whcih had been taken
from him by the police before he
had been locked up. "But I've
looked you up. You can save your
cash. Just give me a check for the
990.
The bond made, the famed singer,
his face badly swollen and suffering
severe pain in his back, accompan
ied by his wife and daughter, walked
from the Rome jail.
Rumors were being whispered a
bout Rome Tuesday that the police
chief during the interim when the
Hayes’ were in jail had called long
distance to contact Gov. Talmadge,
reaching him at the state capitol.
“I haven’t got time to be bothered
now,” the state chief executive was
quoted as replying, “You’ll have to
handle it up there by yourself.”
Efforts are being made by prom
inent Rome city officials and busi
nessmen to have the whole matter
hushed up. The check given by the
famous singer for bond was myster
iously returned uncancelled.
When the case came up for trial
Monday, no one appeared for the
prosecution and it was indefinitely
postponed. Many in Rome are giv
ing odds that it will never come to
trial. The charges, it was later dis
covered, were the usual blanket,
“disorderly conduct.’
Meanwhile neither, Mr. Hayes ncr
his wife would discuss possible ac
tion. Just what steps he will take
to secure redress for his humiliat
ing experience have not been an
nounced. The proprietor of the
shoe store, the clerk, and the police
men, it is said, are fearful that a
damage suit might be instituted.
NegTO citizens expressed the opin
ion that it was the most disturbing
thing that had ever happened to the
delicately balanced racial relations
i nthis North Georgia community.
eridge means all fotms of racial dis
crimination, segregation on and Jim
crow, he has taken in an awfully
wide territory. Moreover, how does
he know? The South is not omni
potent and Mark Etheridge is not
ominiscent. The old slave masters
said the same thing about slavery
but slavery was abolished, observed
Mr. Randolph
The Negro’s reply to Mr. Ether
idge is that Jim Crowism is wrong
and un-democratic. It is of the
same cloth of Hitler's nazism, Mus
solini's fascism and Hirohito's mil
itarism and it is booked to go.
Mark Etheridge should wake up.
Ths is a new day. We are living in
a period of saciol acceleration. So
cial changes, amazing and unpredic
table, that might have taken decad
es and centuries to happen may
The old order of southern jim crow
now occur within a month or year,
can, must and will be destroyed. He
is evidently blind to the fact that
the Negro has changed. The Old
Uncle Tom is dead and gone for
ever.
Mr. Etheridge should also know
that if as he says that all of the
mechanized armies of earth, allies
and axis, canot force the South to
the abandonment of segregation and
jim-crow that it is also true that all
of the power in the world—not even
all the mechanized armies of earth,
allies and axis, could force the Ne
gro to the abandonment of his fight
for the destruction of racial discrim
ination, segregation and jam-crow,
stated Randolph
And since Mr. Etheridge feels this
way about the fight of the Negro
for his legitimate fight for his de
mocratic rights ,he should have the
decency to resign from the Presid
ent’s Committee On Fair Empljy
ment Practice, concluded Mr. Ran 1
olph.
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS TO
CONTINUE DURING WAR
^Continued from naee 1)
laid down the issue for us,” said
the speaker.
The NAACP keynoter declared Ne
groes cannot abandon the fight for
their rights—all of them—because
the predicament of the races for
ces action for redress of wrongs, be
cause the tradition of the great pio
neer fighters of the race drives
present day Negroes to act, and be
cause the struggle of the Negro is
identical with the ideals and princ
iples of the Declaration of Indep
endence.
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effort!” Wilkins asserted. "It is
nonsense for anyone to say that
this convention and this association;
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gainst the Axis. Victory is vital to
minorities, but, as our President has
said in his greeting to this conven
tion, minorities are also vital to vic
tory. The objectives we seek are
not at variance with the war effort.
These things that we feel in our
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hearts, and these things that we
yearn for, and these things that we
are determined to fight to enjoy in
spite of edath itself... .these are
the things the war is about.”
Wilkins cited the lynching in
Texarkana, Tex., July 13 as a prime
example of why the NAACP must
carry on the fight until every pro
tection is won for the race and ev
ery right secured.
‘‘This is the time o fdecision,” he
said, "a time whe nthe destinies cf
men and nations are being remold
ed. We here in 1942 cannot fail
the Sojourner Truths, the Denmaik
Veseys, the Nat Turners or Fred
erick Douglass, or the victims of
lynch-mobs, or Dorie Miller and Joe
Louis and our other boys in the uni
form of the country. We cannot
turn our backs upon the Declaration
of Independence and say we believe
we are not entitled t0 life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, the.t
we are not created the equals of
other men. No man can ask this of
us. No power ca nforce us to so
stultify ourselves. So we cannot
sell out. We cannot step to one
•ide. We cannot and will not re
main silent. The fight goes on am!
on, until we win.”
Greetings to the conference were
extended by Mayor Fletcher Bow
ron for the city, and by George A.
Beavers, vice president of the Gold
en State Mutual Life Insurance
Company, for the Los Angeles
branch. Thomas L. Griffith, Jr.,
presided.
Fischer and Fischer, attorneys
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