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v Gathering place in all USO clubhouses is the soda fountain.
Besides clubhouses outside of Army camps and naval stations the
USO, a member agency of the National War Fund, operates mobile
units for Hi? boys stationed at remote outposts.
DRINK “PEPSI COLA” AMERICA GOES WITH PEPSI.COLA
Negro Servicemen to Benefit by Nat’l
War Fund and Combination Drive
More than a million visits a
month are made to the 118 USO.
Clubs by our men in uniform.... to
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letters, or just to laugh and loaf.
And this number includes only
those clubh exclusively for Negro
es. There is now way of taking
count of the thousands more vis
its that Colored servicemen make
monthly to clubs in Northern areas
-which cater to all races.
Thus spoke Henry W. Pope, con
sultant for Negro services of the
United Service Organization, in
connection with the launching of
the first drive of the newly formed
National War Fund which is gett
ing under way.
The USO is one of the sixteen
war relief and service organiza
tions which have recently combin
ed their fund raising activities in
the National War Fund to keep
things going on the war front, the
home front and the United Nations
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POST GRADUATE COURSE FOR PHYSICIANS
Physicians from all parts of the
south were in attendance at the
eighth annual postgraduate course
for physicians held last week at
Flint-Good ridge hospital of Dil’ard
university, New Orleans, at- which
leading white and Negro medical
authorities served as lecturers.
Those attending included..
FIRST ROW LEFT TO RIGHT:—
Drs. B. J. Covington, Houston, J.
L. Procope, superintendent of the
Flint Goodridge; W. Roderick
Brown, consultant, medical divis
ion, OCD, Washington; Major Har
old W. Thatcher, lecturer on syph
ilis, Fort Huachuca; Capt. Vance
Mullen, Camp Livingston, La.; 1st
Lt. James E. Guinn, Camp Living
ston; M. A. Clark Wynnewood,
Okla.; R. C. Bryant, Tulsa, Okla.
SECOND ROW: Drs. R, M. Bal
ance .Baton Rouge, La.; O. V. Coo
per, Alexandria, La.; IV. C. Hayes,
Lake Charles, La.; C. M. Smith,
Hattiesburg, Miss.; O. H. Smith,
Ardmore, Okla.; O. W. McPeters,
Texarana, Texas; M. W. Foster,
Monroe, La.; T. H. Mims, New Or
leans.
THIRD ROW: Drs. M. L. Smith.
Hattiesburg, Miss.; S. D. Hill, Mon
roe. La.; X. A, Hill, Prairie View,
Texas; J. H. Murray, New Orleans.
FOURTH ROW: Drs. A. W. Du
mas, Natchez, Miss.; R. F. Spears,
Meridan, Miss.; A. C, Terrance.
Opelousas, La.; C. B. Christian,
Jackson, Miss.; T. L, Welch, Port
Arthur, Texas.
FIFTH ROW: Drs. B. E. Roberts,
Blytheville, Ark.; S. B. Banks, For-,
rest City, Ark.; H. Horne Huggins,
Baton Rouge, La.; J B. Matthews, j
Port Arthur, Texas; P. G. Byrd,'
Beaumont, Texas; E. N. Ezidore, J
Gramercy, La.; and J. Wesley Lang |
ford, Houston, (ANP)
front
“Negro leadership, together with
leadership by other groups, is giv
ing its best to the common task
of fortifying the heart and soul
of men in uniform,” continued Jfc
Pope “Together we seek to ach
ieve victory and a lasting peace to
follow this global war.”
More than 53,000 persons volun
teer their services to the USO. he
explained, and it is up to the pub
lic to see that these services to our
men continue and improve by giv
ing to the National War Fund; for
it eliminates duplication, reduces
administrative expenses and con
serevs the energy of community
leaders in the huge task of collec
ting funds for the support of these
agencies.
The war agencies participating in
the National War Fund includes be
sides the USO. (United Service Or
ganization), United Seaman’s Serv
ice, War Prisoner's Aid, Russian
War Relief, United China Relief,
British War Relief Society, Greek
War Relief Association, Polish
War Relief .French Relief Fund,
United Yugoslav Relief Fund, Bel
gian War Relief Society, United
Czechoslovak Relief Fund, Queen
■Wilhelmina Fund, Norwegian Re
lief, Refugees Relief Trustees, U.S.
Committee for Care of European
Children.
50 YEARS OF SERVICE WITH
NEBRASKA POWER COMPANY
Ed Shields, 3529 Hascall street,
was honored by the Nebraska Pow
er Company last Thursday night,
July 1, at an informal dinner party
at Cesar's country club on his com
pletion of 50 years of service with
the company. J. E. Davidson ,pres
idene, presented him a specially de
signed service pin set with 10 dia
monds for being the first employe
to complete a half-century of ser
vice with the company.
At 26, Shields began work as an
arc trimmer with the New Omaha
Thomson-HoUston Electric Light
company, predecessor of the Neb
raska Power Company. He con
tinued work with ehe local comp
any when it was reorganized as the
Omaha Electric Light and Power
Company in 1903 and later with the
present corporation, which was
formed in 1917.
During the Trans-Mississippi ex
position held here in 1898, Shields
was trouble-shooter for the comp
any. Since 1905 he has been re
moving and installing meters in O
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EDITOR SPEAKS AT LINCOLN U
Jefferson City, Mo., —Mr. C. A.
Farnklin, editor of the Kansas City
Call, addressed the students and
faculty of the 1943 summer session
in a special convocation at Lincoln,
university of Missiuro, Thursday,
July 8, 1943.
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Plain Talk..]
ELMER A. CARTER
And now they know. For Los
Angeles.. ..Mobile-. •• Beaumont
and Detroit have spoken more elo
quently than all the high sounding
vainglorious words about the four
freedoms and liberty and equality
that since Pearl Harbor have been
shouted from these shores. The
millions of India know and the
brown people of the Southwest Pac
ific know and the black of Africa
know that America’s protestations
of democracy are as sounding brass
and tinkling cymbals, and that op
pression and persecution because
of race and color may be found not
only under the swastika of Nazi
Germany but under the stars and
stripes. And they will have a clear
er idea of the perspective which
America will bring to the Peace
table and to the aspirations for!
freedom and equality of the nor- j
white peoples of the world
•
We who are American citizens of
African descent, d edidn’t lose at
Detroit as much as America lost.
It is true that the numbjr ot our
dead and dying is greater bv far
than that of our attackers who
were evidently aided and abetted
by officers of the law sworn to
protect the lives and property of
the citizens no matter what their
rae? or color. But we lost no pres
tige; we lost no respect: we lost no
honor. But America lost and the
measure of her loss is incalcu'.ahi
For to the ends of the earth where
ever there are those who possess
skins that are dark and they are
numbered in countless millions,
I Seven months ago in November
435 men and women were elected
to membership in the House of
Representatives, seventy of this
number were sent to Congress for
iiMiimmiiiiiimiiiiiimiimimiiiiimi
th eluster of America’s name "'ill
be tarnished and faith in the Am
erican democracy will begin to ebb.
For what can America tell Great
Britain of India! And how can A
merican condemn the ruthlessneSs
of Japan. America which sprinkl
es the pavements of her cities with
the blood of citizens whose only
offense is the color of their skin.
In the face of the program at
Detroit and the increasing boldness
if those elements of the population
intent on depriving the Negro cf
his rights as a citizen by threats,
intimidation and mass murder, the
silence of the Presdent of the Uni
ted States is as strange as it is
disturbing. His is the only voice
that can stay a repetition of De
troit in a half dozen American cit
ies including the city of Washing
ion where racial tension is at the
breaking pjint And it cannot b*
expected that Negroes will supine
ly submit to these unbirdled and
unchecked attacks on their person
ana their property.
Great Caution is being exerted
by the federal government to keep
accounts of the racial disturbances
m American cities from Negro sold
iers on the fighting fronts. Bet
there is no way on earth to com
pletely suppress the news, and un
less tnere are assurances from
those high m authority that the
Negro at home will be protected
by his government, there is grave
and nnmedate danger that the bit
terness and resentment of colored
citizens In America will find ex
pression in the t„nks of colored
soldiers whc now face the enemy
across the seas. For how can ore
rigni an enemy abroad when be
fears for his kinsmen at nome
knowing them to be at the merej
of enemies just as savage and
brutal as the Germans or the Ital
ians or the Japanese.
The Japanese rodio is probably
hr: tiing with accounts of the iaep
terror in America. And it won’t
make the task of the American
foiues in the tenth west Pacific any
easier. In a ore of native ton
rues and directs ihc Japanese
propaganda machine is probably
broadcasting wit hsuitable dress
ing Up the bloody story of Detroit,
pointing ridicule at America's pre
tensions of democracy, sowing the
seeds of distrust and hate among
30,000,000 brown me nand women
who are in the path of America’s
armed forces.
It may well be that Detroits
greatest contribution to the war ef
fort is to make it enormously dif
ficult if not impossible for Amer
ica to Conquer Japan. And that
would indeed be a high price to
pay for racial prejudice—govern
mental apathy and incompetence
and moral cowardice.
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the first time, most of them from
northern states .where the colored
vote is a factor in the outcome of
the election. A dozen or more of
the 33 members elected to the U.
S. Senate at the same time were,
also, nw members from above the
Mason-Dixon Line. In the House
40 of these new members were Re
publicans. Congressman William
L. Dawson, the second colored
Democrat to be elected to Congress,
was among the dozen or so new
Democrats elected for the first
time.
Of all the legislation introduced
in Congress .since January 6, the
anti-poll and anti-lynching and
Civil Rights Bills are of the most
vital importance to the 13,000,000
colored Americans and their 700,
000 sons and daughters serving,
fighting, bleeding and dying with
their ten million comrades for de
mocracy and the four freedoms,
Congressman Marcantonio led the
fight with GOP. colleagues.
*****
The anti-poll tax fight ,was chief
ly sponsored by Congressman Mar
cantonia .independent ffrom New
York, Congressman Baldwin, Rep
ublican of New York and Congress
man Bender, another Republican of
Ohio. The Bill was finally taken
from the House Judiciary Commit
tee, headed by Congressman Sum
mers of Texas, the outspoken lea
der of the Democratic opposition
and brought on the floor for a vote
by a nation-wide campaign, which
secured the necessary 218 signat
ures of Congressmen. The anti
poll tax bill was then passed by
285 favorable votes of members of
the Huose, 170 of this number be
ing Republicans. The anti-lynch
ing bill .introduced by the late Con
gressman U.S. Guyer, Republican
of Kansas met a similar fate at the
hands of the Texas Chairman and
was buried in a pigeonhole, because
of the Texan’s prejudice. Just be
fore the untimely death of this
distinguished champion of eiiual
justice he filed a petition to re
move it from the jurisdiction of
Chairman Summers and it is now
on the Speaker’s desk, awaiting the
necessary 218 signatures to auto
matically bring the anti-lynching
bill before the House for a vote,
over the solid Democratic southern
leadership in Congress.
NO HOPE IN DEMOCRATIC
CONTROLLED CONGRESS
The further revealing truth and
incontroversible proof of the fact,
that there is absolutely no hope for
colored Americans in their all out
struggle for their constitutional
rights in 1943 or 1944 .than in I860
and 1861, as long as the southern
democrats dominate all the comm
ittee of Congress, as they do today,
in the 78th Congress may be def
initely confirmed by the Congress
ional Record. Let it speak for it
self.
1 Despite the passage, over
whelmingly of the anti-poll tax bill
in the House, because of solid Re
publican support .nearly two mon
ths ago, Senator Frederick Van
Nuys, Democrat .Indiana, and
chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, to which this legislat
hearings and favorable action has
ion was referred for immediate
for all practical purposes killed it.
This northern New Dealer first
appointed a sub-committee, with
Senator Tom Connally of Texas,
bitter enemy of the BiP. as one of
the Democratic majority members.
Of course .nothing has been done i
to advance this anti-poll tax bill in 1
the overwhelmingly controlled Sen
ate.
*****
OPPOSITION OF NORTHERN
DEMOCRATS, TOO
Now with Congress about to quit,
Senator Van Nuys announces that
the summer recess wil> not permit
the committee sufficient time to
take up this measure. Senator
Connally and Senator MeyFarland,
another Democrat from Arizona
and sub-committee chairman has
made it ’.c:rt to two against th#
Republican members of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee to side
track the issue. Thu.t. the colored
People’s hopes of a frP« and un
abridged franchise for which they
Acid Indigestion
Rrfieved in 5 minutes or
double your money back
I
g'aa'.y give more than half a mil
lion of their own preciou i sons in
the name of 'he Four Freedoms
have been jgain blasted by the
combination of Northern and Sou
thern Demo<>-£t.ic enemies of the
Race in the Senate. It is extreme
ly important to point out that the
once great champion of the anti
poll tax legislation, Senator Claude
^epper ot Florida and inside adm
inistration spokesman has been as
siiPnt as the President Roosevelt
himself, in this session of Congress
After •»•*• months he still -o' s
e.* ic re-in■ c. uce his orevr-a" nnti
Eoi* tax le gislation and at the iarr .■
time, because of Senato: iai court
esy keeps any other Se .ator frt m
taking ’.it) the fight for fear of bp
ing accused of trying to steal his
thunder. This was done in the
case of Senator Wayland Brooks,
(Rep.) Illinois last Fall, after the
GOP. leader had been successful in
securing an anti-poll tax amend
ment to the soldiers vote law.
It will be utterly impossible to
pass the anti-poll tax legislation in
the U. S. Senate, until more than
two thirds of the membership is
Republican .instead of Democratic,
as at present in the 78th Congress.
2. Congressman William A. Ro
wan, 1st Distrit of Illinois, compris
ing 100,000 colored voters, at the
instance of the National Negro
Council and United Government
Employees introduced a Civil
Rights Bill for the District of Col
umbia. Congressman Jennings
Randolph .Democrat ,WTest Virginia
and chairman of the House District
Committee to which it was referr
ed. He re-assigned it to a sub
committee, headed by Congressman
McGehee of Mississippi, in an ob
vious and vicious effort to make
sure of its death. The NNC and
UGE urged upon Congressman Ro
wan .followed the expiration of 3C
days as provided under the rules
of the House, that a resolution be
served to discharge this committee
from further jurisdiction over the
Civil Rigths Bill. This, Congress
man Rowan carried forward suc
cessfully.
*****
WHY DOES CONGRESSMAN
DAWSON REFUSE TO SPEAK9
The 13,000,000 colored Americans
and their 700,000 sons and daugh
ters in armed services ,who may
some day visit their nation's Capit
ol .regardless of race or color, and
desire to get a sandwich or a cup
of coffee on Pennsylvania Avenue,
the same street, the White House
is located on, will be interested to
learn that the Petition which needs
218 signatures, after a month’s evi
dence on the speaker’s desk con
tains less than a dozen names. The
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general excuse of this shying away
and failure of hundreds of disting
uished Congressmen, to publioly
register their professed friendship
for the colored citizens was ex
plained by the sponsor, as due to
the Unwillingness of the House to
go on record at this time, while so
many outbreaks of racial strife
have been manifested in all Sect
ions of the country. It is plausible
to expect a great deal more inter
est in this Civil Rights petition to
expedite the securing of the nec
essary 218 signatures of Congress
men for action. If it were possible
to get Congressman William L.
Dawson, the only colored Repres
entative in Congress, sufficiently
aroused to make his third speech
in seven months in Congress, whe
ther he knows more about the sub
ject matter than any other member
more by this time .about dlscrim
or not, certainly he ought to know
ination in Washington, DC., the
nation’s capitol, where the colored
people look to him, almost in vain.
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