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Eaa7fJA" ~~Saturcir.Vrjan. 16. 1943' OCR 15th YEArTNoTTs “ City Edition. 5c Copy
**Eacial Discrimination Constitutes the
Weakest Link In Our Democracy,’. . .
Says F. Wilson Elks Grand Ex"Ruler
To Consider Negro Role In V-l Program
Honored For Thirty Years of Service with N A A C P
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NAACP HONORS RICHETTA
RANDOLPH
New York. N. Y.—For 3o years
of efficient service in the National
Office of the NAACP .at 69 Fifth
Avenue, Richetta Randolph, office
manager and secretary to Walter
White was the recipient of an hon
orarium of two one-hundred doi ar
war bonds, a jewelled brooch, and
an eighty dollar purse at the or
ganization’s annual meeting on Jan.
4th.
Mlss Mary White Ovington. treas
urer and one cff the founders of the
Association, paid tribute to Miss
Randolph and spoke of her long
association with Miss Randolph
who in 1963. four years before the
organizing of the NAACP, came to
work for Miss OvingfOn as person
al secretary and sometime, later
was persuaded to give her services
to the newly formed NAACP.
Active in church circles Miss
Randolph is the first woman to
serve on the Trustee Board of Mt
Olivet Baptist Church. She is. in
addition to being office manager,
and secretary- to Walter White .ul
so secretary to the Board of Direc
tors.
Acknowledging her gifts. Miss
Randolph said: Tt is enough to say
that were I now at the beginning
of these thirty years and were it
left to me to choose my work for
these thirty years, this work would
be my choice”
Shown above is Miss Randolph
receiving the gifts from Miss Oving
ton.
MR. HARRISON A. COLBERT
FOUND DEAD
Mr. Harrison A. Colbert, ago 58.
1203 1-2 Pacific Street, was found
dead Sunday J; r.uaiv 10th- N*»ita
bors had not seen him around for
over two weeks and thought per
haps he had left t°wn for the holi
days. Mr. George Long. 1219 Pierce
street, a friend, went to his homo
Sunday morning and found the
body. Authorities say that Mr. Coi
bert had been dead sixteen days
He is survived by two sisters Mrs.
Etta Chenny and Mrs. Annie Bean
of Fort Scott. Kansas. The body of
Mr. Colbert is at The Thomas Funer
al Home pending funeral arrange
ments.
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SEEK CONGRESS PROBE OF
DEMOTION OF SGT. REED
New York—An investigation by j
the House Military Affairs Comjr
ittee of the circumstances surround
ing the demotion of Samuel Reed
from the rank of Regimental Ser
geant Maor to private, and his sub
sequent transfer to a station for
immediate overseas duty, will be
asked by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, it was announced here this
week.
Private Reed, a native of St.
Paul, Minn., graduate of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, brother Of
| Dwight Reed. Minnesota All-Amer
ican end. and former president of
the St- Paul Branch of the NAACP.
was accused of “destroying” a pa
j per containing an application of a
private for the Officer Candida re
School.
Just prior to this alleged "crime"
the then Sergeant Reed had been
the chairman of a committee which
had presented, through regular mil
itary cannels. a petition to the
commanding officer citing certain
grievances and asking redress. The
| petition charged color discrimina
I tion and mistreatment of Negro
I soldiers at Camp Lee. In reply t o
Ian inquiry from the NAACP. Major
General James E. Edmonds wrote i
that the fact that Sergeant Reel
had been chairman of this cOmmit
t tee was "only coincidental" with
his demotion and had no relation to
it.
Th- matter is being pressed by
the St. Paul and Minneapolis bran
ches of the NAACP where Reed and
his family are held in highest res
pect- His fater. Dwight Reed. Sr.,
is a graduate of Dartmouth college
and has been a civil engineer in St.
Paul for more than 25 years.
The Rev. T. J. R Nelson, presid
ent of the St. Paul branch, and Irv
j in Blumberg. a vice presid-nt of
the Minneapolis branch, conferred
personally with Walter White here
January 8 and with Congressman
Maas of Minnesota. Judge William
H. Hastie and others in Washing
ton on January 11. Congressman
; ’WtESnh! .iwi**irw«
Maas has written the St. Paul
branch of the NAACP that he is
“not satisfied' with the explanat
ion of the M ar department in the
Reed case, and will be glad to place
the matter before the House Mil
-itary Affairs committee for inves
tigation.
UEI) C ROSS DENIES JIM CRAM
SERVICE CLl'BS IN ENGLAND
REAFFIRMS BLOOD PLASMA
SEPARATION
New York. N. Y.— All American!
Red Cross service facilities in Eng
land are for the use of all service
men both white and colored." stat
ed the American Red Cross this
week in a communication to the NA
ACP in answer to the NAACP s re
cent protect against segregated re
creation clubs
"But" continued the Red Cross,
the Army itself has units compos
ed entirely of colored soldiers. For
the particular convenience of sucn.
units, the Fled Cross is establisn
ing with the approval of the Com
manding Officers, recreational clubs
for their use. but the privileges of
these clubs are extended also to
white soldiers.”
“As to the blood plasma project"
the letter concluded. “I believe
that you are familiar with t-ie rea
sons for the policy which lias been
established. Frankly, there appe v
to be no present prospect of chang
ing it-"
NAACP PLEDGES DAWSON
SUPPORT
RENEWS ANTI-LYNCH,
POLL TAX FIGHT
Washington. D. C. On the open
ing day of the 78th congress Con
gressman William Dawson of III
I inois district was visited by Walter
White. NAACP executive secretary
' and Leslie Perry, administrative
| assistant in NAACP Washington
Bureau. White and Perm- offeied
: the new congressman the coopera -
I tion of the NAACP and i.articulai
: ly the Washington Bureau it was
>) New York—Consideration of the
questions asked recently by th^
XAACP concerning the treatment
of the Negro in plans affecting col
leges and universities to be used
in the Army specialized training
program will be given by the Joint
COmmittee-Army-Navy War Man
power Commission, Major General
J. A. Ulio announced this week in
a communication to Walter White,
executive secretary of the XAAJCP.
White had asked Stixnson and
Knox of the War and Navy Depart
ments if the Army and Navy in
tended to impose their traditional
limitation based on skin color, up
on northern and border state col- j
leges to be used in the V-l program ;
of training Army and Navy men.
The NAACP has asked that it he
informed of the decisions of the
joint committee regarding utiliza
tion and commissioning of Negro
educators in the implementation of
the training program and what
practices will be required by the
War Department with respect to
the training of Negroes in the pub
lic and private schools selected in
the South and from which Negrot-3
are excluded. Mr. White reiterated
the Association's protest against
the introduction of patterns of se
gregation and discrimination in lo
calities where up to this time no
such patterns have existed.
Jailed for Not
Giving Up
Tram Seat
■
Washington .D. C.—The Washing
ton Bureau of the NAACP asserted
this week that the arrest of two
Negro girl clerks for occupying non
segregated seats in a bus at the
instigation of an Arlington-Fairfax
bus driver is a violation of an a
greement the NAACP has with the
bus line carrying government work
ers to federal buildings, in nearby
Virginia and announced it is con
templating legal action. It had
been understood that such passeng
ers would not be segregated.
The young women Carolyn K.
Tohnson and Mildred I. Turpin,
clerks in the machine and statistics
division of the Navy department at
the Navy annex building. Arling
ton .Virginia, were arrested short
ly after midnight January 7 for .i
leged failure to observe the Arlin
gton Fairfax bus Jim crow seating
arrangement. Leslie Perry of the
NAACP Washington Bureau dis
closed this week. Perry, who went
to the Arlington courthouse as soon
as the girls' arrest was learned of
made an immediate investigation of
the facts and the record of the
court
Miss Johnson and Miss Turpin
boarded the bus which was waiting
to pick up the Navy employees
just outside the government ground
As had been their custom, they took
seats in the front of the bus. Otn
er colored passengers are alleged
to have been sitting throughout the
bus. It is reported that the bus
learned this week.
Walter White, present in Wash
ington for conferences and arrange
ments on the introducing an anti
lynch and anti-poll tax legislation
announced that the NAACP will
support an anti-poll tax bill to be
introduced by Baldwin of New York
and an anti-lynch bill by Gavagan.
The NAACP will also push legisla
tion to reduce representation from
states where the right to vote is
denied qualified voters. Plans are
being completed. White said .for the
procedures on vigorous support of
these bills and additional legislat-on
on federal aid to health and educa
I tion.
driver demanded that the girls
move to the seats in the rear to
which they answered that as govern
'ment employees it was their right
’ t osit anywhere on the bus, but
i they would get off entirely if the
: driver would refund their fare.
Shortly thereafter four Virginia po
lice officers arived in a police car,
boarded the bus and arrested the
' two clerks. Th egirls were not per
jmitted to telephone their relatives
or friends and were obliged to
; spend the night in a cell.
Araigned before Judge B. M. Hed
rick of the Arlington County court
i at 9:30 in the morning, the girls
pleaded their innocence and were
fined $5.00 and cost of court. Sent
ence was suspended.
NO CENSORSHIP OF OUTGOING
NEGRO NEWS. C. S. GOV'T.
Washington. D. C.—Byron Price
director of U. S. censorship, answ
' ering an XAACP. query about the
barring of sending from the United
! States news regarding Negro and
I white relations said this week that
j the Bureau of censorship had made
no such rule and that news about
Negroes is sent from the United
States constantly but that censor
ship authorities have “sometimes
suppressed infammatory utterances
regarding racial and religious con
flict simply because of a desire to
withhold this material from the en
emy-’
“Here at home,” said Mr. Price,
“we understand the situation and
there is no barrier to free express
ion. The enemy not only does not
understand it but finds it prime
ammunition for promotion of his
’divide ad conquer’ propanganda.'
The NAACP had also charged that
persons in foreign countries had
been receiving American magazines
and periodicals with all articles!
dealing with the problem of the Ne
gro in America clipped from them.
Mr. Price stated that under instruc
tions issued some months ago no
news stories on this subject or ar.j
1 other, which have had general pub
j location are clipped from outgO'ng
publications.
y Mr. J. Finley Wilson. Grand Ex
alted Ruler of the Improved Ben -
j volent and Protective Order of Elks
j of the World, the largest dues pay
ing organization of Negroes in the
United States, in commenting on
the President's speech at the open
ing of Congress, promised the full,
support of his organization for Mr.
Roosevelt's foreign policy of perm
anently defeating dictatorship r.nc
aggression, but declared that the
speech was weak in failing to sup
port any effective measures to
strengthen democracy at home ex
cept for the proposal to extend the
Social Security Program.
Mr. Wilson declared. “Mr. Roose
velt is a great leader for the nation
at war, and the Elks, of which I
have the honor to be the Grand Ex
alted Ruler, whole-heartedly support
the policy of fighting the war a
gainst dictatorship and aggression
on behalf of democracy and peace,
even though peace time democracy
as it is actually praticed in the Uni
ted States treats Negroes as mere
ly seond-class citizens in many
parts of the country. We are also
whole-heartedly behind his states
man-like proposal to assure lasting
Peace and permanent employment
to all men and women who need
and want to work. For Negroes,
who constitute ten percent of the
population and who are constantly }
discriminated against in industry
because of race, stand to make spec
ial gains from guarantees of em
ployment. But otherwise the Presi- :
dent's speech was a disappointment !
“Racial discrimination constitutes
the weakest link in our democracy,
yet on this subject the President
speech was very weak. He console
uouslv failed to endorse the Feder
al Anti-Lynching Bill, for example, j
even though the past year sav:
three lynchings in one week. Lyn- i
ching is not merely a blot, on civil-,
ization. It is detrimental to our
war effort- Immediately after the
lynching of cleo Wright in Sikes
ton Missouri .last year, the Japarj
ese used the incident to pour con
tempt on Amreican democracy by
propanganda broadcasts to the
teeming colored population of -Asia.
The Nazi. toe. have used the exis
tence of lynching to buttress their
argument that our democracy is
mere hypocrisy.
“The President said nothing or
behalf of the movement to abolish
the Poll Tax a's a necessary qualif
ication for voting in the eight Sou
thern states where it still exists.
The Poll Tax is oft ji cumulative,
so that it effectively disfranchises
the economically Unprivileged, both
white and Negro. This is grossly
Undemocratic and results in the
election to Congress of reactionar
ies from the poll tax states. Stren
gthening our democracy by abolish
ing the poll tax would strengthen
our morale in a war for democracy.
Yet Mr. Roosevelt remained silent
on this issue on which a bi-partisan
gToup of Senators, both reaction
ary Southern Democrats and reac
tionary Northern Republicans, de
feated the will of the great major
ity of the people.
“In the poorer states, education
is sometimes sadly neglected. Negr
children suffer especially. Color
ed school children have funds spent 1
on their education in some states!
(Continued from page 3)
....
EDITORIAL
OF THE
WEEK
• • •
WE, TOO. ARE AMERICANS
by RUTH TAYLOR
The greatest danger which threat-:
ens our nation today, the direct I
threat to our liberties, lies not in
the far flung battle line, not in the
jungles of islands far to the south,
not on the snow clad slopes of nor
thern gateways, not on the sandy
wasfces of the deserts, nor on the
sea lanes of all the Oceans— but
here in our cities, our towns, our
villages, here in our homes them- j
selves. It is the danger of divis
iveness among our own people.
Since the first settlers crossed
the seas to seek freedom on our
shores, this has been the threat
that has dogged our pathway as a
nation. It was the weapon of ev
ery would-be conqueror covetous of
our fertile lands and valiant peo
pie- It was the force that harried
: Cinderella Girl
Cinderella gjrl, such is the tUl
being given to pretty Miss Mildred
Hearn Stent. 18 years, of 25 Hamil
ton Terrace. New York City, who is
to leave ihortly for Hollywood, Cal
ifornia. for a motion picture car
eer via ‘ Thanks Pal”, the new all
colored motion picture of Twent
ieth Century Fox Corporation
Lithsome Miss Stent is lovely to
look upon, a feast for one's eyes.
She is a Cinderella girl through the
magic of research and modern m, >
icine. This is especially true wnen
one takes into consideration she
was a cripple with Infantile Parol:
sis. with not too much assured hope
of full recovery when she was i
years old.
“Gosh;” exclaimed this very at
tractive girl. When I think about
it I have so much to been than; -
ful for: I'm well. I have youth, my
figure is not bad. and I have a ca
reer before me"'
^hen interviewed the future m*>
tion picture actress said it was a
boon to her that the hospital had
done what they could for her but
shed have been muc hbetter and
would not have bee nconfined to
her bed for eight long months if
such methods at the Kenny Meth
od now used in the treatment of Ir.
fantile Paralysis had b en used at
that particular time.
“Gee: I thought that I would nev
er walk again!” she exclaimed as
she sipped a glass of milk. ' Lying
in that bed all those months '-vas
SO painful!"
Her charming eyes danced to ; nd
fro. as she gave a big smile that
lighted up her lovely and winsome
face.
She said. "I m glad the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
has found a method of relief and
help for all races of kiddies today,
and I'm really glad in my heart
when people ^send contributions to
President Roosevelt in the "M irca
Of Dims", Oh his birthday. It giv
es hope to other boys and girls who
may be helped sooner than I was."
Miss Stent is tall and rather
large for her age. she work.- , v
| ery day .goes hore back riding,
1‘lay- tenris and is an ardent swim
mtng fan
Wnen querried about her favc ite
motion picture star, she juswered
that she bad none—all seemed to
: impress her just the saute.
tier favorite current best seller
is •3ifhe Sunnis my Truioifir- whim
she averred was thrilling.
“When 1 go to Hollywood—f I
<--a nmake just half the sucess Den i
II' me has made. I'll be nappy.
■ She is a lovely Denson and she
:s still Lena Horne tven if sne has
■ fen to Hollywood.-'
Friends who khjw the ycung
lady who hails from south Cg- jl
ma and who works as an artist mi*I
el for cue of the leading artist f
New York, say that Cinderella s
wish will come true. Her hat siz
wii Retrain static when she returns.
ASK NEGROES TO CONTRI
BUTE TO PARALYSIS FUND
many of oUr people from their
homes across the seas. It was to
withstand that force that they band
ed together to make a nation. And
it was to conquer that force rha;
they fought a civil war to make
ALL the people within our borders
free men:
Now another tyrant seeks to use
this weapon. New Hitier s agents,
the slavery party of the present
day. both professional and amateur,
are seeking to disrupt our unity, to
divide our people. They are fann
ing tempers, starting rumors, feed
ing resentments. Separating our
people into groups who hammer
constantly at each other for their
•Tights”, trying to legislate broth
erhood and to enforce friendship.
But we. who have struggled to
freedom .will not fall into the trap, j
We .too- are Americans no matter
what our background. Whether we
fled from Europe to escape slavery,
orfro m Africa into new bondage,
whether we be Nordics, Latins or1
Negroes whether we worship or
God as Protestants. Catholics or
Jews—we too. are today Americans
living under a greater measure of
freedom than anywhere els on
earth, and possessed of the right
to enlarge that freedom through the
orderly prossess of law and r asou.
Le tus present a United force a
gainst all this divisive chatter. Let
us prove that we. too. are Americ
ans .loyal to the ideals of broth-f
hood and democracy and *aith-'U
members of a United Nation’
^ I . K- a VM>a A...... .. Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe!
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The Omaha Guide, A Paper with A Purpose. Founded on the Principles of Service to Our Race, to Our City, to Our State, and to Our Flag
NEGROES ASKEI) TO SEND
CONTRIBUTION'S TO THE
PRESIDENT S FUND FOR
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
Negro throughout the Uni-e.i
States, along with all other Arm r
ican citizens, are being asked and
urged at this time to make liberal
contributions and join the "Mai h
if Dimes' ’to the President to con
tinue the fight against Ittfan-fle
Paralysis. Negroes afflicted with
Infantile Paralysis benefit from
these contributed funds as do ail
other Americans so afflicted.
President Roosevelt has author
ed. for the tenth consecutive year,
the use of his birthday. January 30.
1943. for the raising or funds tr.
continue the nation-wide fight a
gainst infantile Paralysis. t
Committee for the Celebration >{
the President s Birthday for th'
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis is asking all to send con
tributions to the President on his
birthday.
The fight against Infantile Paral.
sis is carried on throughout the
year through the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis and
its 2.900 chapters. All funds con
tributed or raised during th. Pres
ident s Birthday Celebration are ad
ministered by the National Found
ation and its 2.900 Chapters. Each
chapter assists those afflicted with
Infantile Paralysis, regardless of
race, color creed or age. Negroes
receive hospitalization and treat
ment for this dreaded disease ^hru
out the nation.
NAME SKTESSOK TO CARVER
Tuskegee .Ala..—Jan. 9—Austin
W Curtis. Jr., for g years assistant
to the ]ate George Washington Car
eer. will succeed the noted Negro
scientist at Tuskegee institute.
Curtis is a graduate of Cornell
university in 1932.
