EURy VICTIMS of PREJUDICE Calvin's News By Verna Arvey j Los Angeles, Calif—They buried little Barry Short on what wouia have been his 9th birthday, on the 29tn of December, while the gifts that had been awaitn.g him and his little seven year old sis ter, Carol Ann, and his mother, lay unopened under the Christmas tree at nis aunt’s home. Barry and Carol Ann and their mother, ly ing side by side in Los Angeles’ Holy Cross Cemetery, will never be able to enjoy those gifts nov , for they have gone far from the pleasures of earth, and the man ner of their death has aroused the nation. Almost all of the peo ple who have heard of it believe firmly that it was caused by pre judice, and that the only crime the golden-haired children com mitted was that of having some Negro blood in their veins. Some months ago, their father, O Day Snort, a reirigeration en gineer, had a dream He wanted: to bring his little tamiiy up on a farm- Accordingly, he Dought some unrestricted land in Fon tana, a part of Southern Califor nia in wnich it was generally un derstood that Negroes were to live in a certain secuon. Mr. Short's land was not in that section, even though it was not bound by any restr.ctive residential covenants. Mr. Snort then set out to build ‘ his house, carrying materials out to the place regularly and work ing hard to get the house ready for occupancy. At last it was ready, and he and his family then moved in. No one had asked him wnetner he was colored or not, but of course, as he worked about tne place, his unmistakably col ored mends and relatives visited him, and were duly noted by the neighbors. Soon arr. snort oega*. to receive threats. He was toid to give up his place. He sent back a message to the effect that he would oe glad to discuss the mat 1 ter with anyone, at any place, at any time. But of course, the peo ple who made the threats were not manly enough to come out in tne open tor an honest discussion. JLn the meantime, Air Short had re ported the threats to various newspapers in Lcs Angeles, and to the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP Then, as the relatives in Co&( Angeies had finished their Xmas shopping and had gone out to bu> a large Christmas tree to ceie forate uieir good fortune, tradgedj stiuck at tne Fontana home or tne snorts. The reiauve in Cos Angeles came home from then shopping to the loud ringing of the telephone. What they hearts shocked them beyond words. The> quickly got into their cars, ant j tisnea to the hospital in ro^jtana. The: e th^y saw the Shorts— father, mother, little son and the daughter—almost completely cov ered with bandages. There had been an explosion in the little house, and the four were burned to a horrifying degree. The doc tor reported that all had asked about nir. Short when they weic brought in and that Barry had added, ‘ Take care of my daddy first. Get to me later.” The tradgedy had happened at around 6 o clock in the evening. At nine thirty that night, as the family was going down the cor ridor, little oaroi Ann died, sit 2:10 the next morning, Barry had passed away. Then at 10.30 the following morning, the mother, Mrs Helen Stokts Short, said “Oh, dear”, and then sne passed “The i'dLher, although in a serious condition, is expected to live. He is stiil in the hospital, and doubt less wdi be there for many mon ths to come. They havn’t told him yet that his family has been wiped out, and every day he asks for his wife. “Why doesn’t Helen come to see me. I tried to save her and the children, and the least she could do is to come to see me. Where is she? Where is she living now?” At the family’s insistence, there has been an autopsy, during whicn it was determined that tne mo ther and ht-r children had died from s.'.uck, and mat parts of their bodies were charred. There has also been an inquest, at which neignpors told of finding the chil dren iymg on the tloor and scre aming in pain, and of finding the mother lying over one of the chil dren, to smeld it from harm with her body. At the inquest, a sen sation was caused by Marian Downs, sister of dead Helen Short, wno demanded repeatedly to know why there had been no investigation of the threats. Pro bably as a result of tms question ing, and because of the fact that people ah over me country had been aroused by the case, the ver dict at the inquest was that the deaths had been caused by the fire, the origin of which was un known. Later, an arson expert said that in his opinion, it was arson. Because of the interest in the case, and the indignation aroused over the prejudice that it uncov ered in Southern California, it is expected that there will be fur ther investigation. It is hoped that eventually that the public will be informed, whether the ac codent was a simple one caused by the explosion of a lantern, as the Fontana authorities would have us believe, or whether it was carefully planned murder of 3 In nocent people If the latter, it can only be hoped that the person or persons who caused the explosion will be found and punished, so that anyone else who wishes to try such methods will think twice before he does so In the meantime, little Barry Sho.rt, Carol Ann and their mo ther had a big funeral at St. Pat rick's Church in Los Angeles. There was a large crowd of peo ple, and there were beautiful sprays of flowers. Now they are together in death, and nothing we ban do can undo the harm that has been done. But we can try to make their deaths a lesson to the rest of the world. And if we would like to help in a concrete way, we can give blood to the father, O’Day Short, so that he may get better and make a new start in life. Gibson 7Gives* Again By Charles Jackson The eminent Mr. Truman K Gibson is in the news once more. As we recall, this is the same gen tleman who formerly held the fat job of civilian aide (Negro cover up boy) to the Secretary of War. He was supposed to be looking out for the Negroes and seeing that they got the best of every thing in their Uncle Samuel’s Jim Crow Army. We remember that last year he executed what was his conception of that job by publicly accusing the all-Negro 92nd in Italy of having too much yellow running down their backs. Although the leading brass in this theatre re ported the opposite, Mr. Gibson stated that the colored troops fell back in mass in the face of the enemy fire. Now again, on the 27th of Dec ember, speaking before a conven tion of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fra ternity in Columbus, Ohio, Gibson came out in support of a universal military training—a proposal that has been openly opposed by the NAACP and by every sensible Negro in America who has ex perienced or has heard about the Army Jim Crow. Attempting to ‘explain’ his sup port of such reactionary regimen tation, Gibson states: “When I say I believe in such a system I certainly do not state a belief in a Jim Crow plan of putting such a system into execution. The two certainly don’t logically follow. They have been needlessly con fused.’’ In all seriousness, how could Mr. Gibson even remotely expect such a set-up under the present admini stration to be anything but Jim Crow? We have Jim Crow in the Army, the Navy and the present Veterans’ Administration, inclu ding hospital facilities. The Army brass hats and tne reaetio .a-y congressmen who fashioned this enforced separatism then, are still in power now- uthermoro, Big Business, which is the real rul!"-' fo’ce in this country today, is still in the saddle and is stnl a interested as ever in using the Ne gro as a scrapegoat Official Government separatism under the Jim Crom Army train ng cairns was the greatest pur veyor of prejudice that this cou~ ry his seen in th:s generation. Yet Tn’.m8n Gibson calls for an extension of this system when ho knows full well that the authors of the present arrangement are , still at tile helm. Furthermore, even a larger is sue is involved here. An analysis of the facts wid prove that the present plan for universal train mg (military), even if not Jim Crow bodes no good for and must be opnosed by the Negro work ers. Why? Because of the react ionary use to which these trainees would be pat bv the Ufc> Govern ment whose policies are dictated by Wall Street. Big Business wants and needs universal military training which amounts to virtual piussiamza tion and a large standing armed force mainly for two purposes: 1. To use against the rising labor movement as strike-breakers; and 2 To send against the fighting colonial peoples in an .attempt to keep them in their present state of bondage. The Negroes in this country are overwhelmingly working people. The two-thirds of the earth s col onial slaves are largely members of the coloied races. Thus from both angles the colored people stand to lose by the adoption of compulsory military training here in capitalist America. Is such analysis of this question i news to Truman K. Gibson ? Has | he just thoughtlessly overlooked this angle in his buboling zeal for universal military training? The weather vane of events points the ! other direction It is saying No! I Gibson, in coming out with this I present stand, is only following out the same Uncle Tom tactics that have characterized his claim to fame. He is merely playing up to the ’big brass’ and selling out the interests of his own race and of all working people, all over again. In Italy instead of denouncing i Army Jim Crow and resigning j from his post, he denounced the I Negro soiuier in a slanderous at tack. His purpose then was to more firmly grab the coat-tails of the brass hats and rub their hair the right way. His motivation in this case can be no different. By knowing all the 'powers that be’ are favorig compulsory training, he is jumping on their wagon. He is saying what he believes the boss ! man would want him to say. Gibson has, we admit, reesta blished his legitimate claim to the grand championship of all Negro sell out artists. He is now the un disputed Uncle Tom Cat who reigns supreme over all Tom kit tens. BARBARA BALKS AT LOVE!!! A short, short story, proving that film kisses, it n-o-t torrid must at least be warm! In a scene for Warner Bros.’ romantic scandal ‘My Reputat tion,’ George Brent was to kiss Barbara Stanwyck in a deserted cabin on the shores of Lake Ta. hoe during a blizzard on Stage 7. The cabin door was open, snow’ was blowing in, the wind was | appropriately cold to everybody except director Curtis Bernhart, whose critical eye noted that the breath of his players wasn’t show ing. ’Bring the ice machines,' he shouted. ‘Chill the stage. 1 want to see Brent’s breath in a long plume-’ It was done and all seemed pro per until little icicles began form ing on Brent’s mustache. Barbara positively refused to osculate under such conditions. So, they warmed up the stage again and the scene was secured j after Mr. Brent's kisser thawed I out. I k. • V/ • » » • I til Ml K/ I V I • Wit- I _ I Pittsburgh, Pa.,—Blowing thru two straws, this young lady shows how the serious handicap of foam ing oil has been eliminated in high speed motors. Oil in the bea ker at the right, treated by anti foam agent developed by a com pany here cannot be made to foam or bubble over. The beaker at the left demonstrates how air can make untreated oil froth out of motors like foamy beer, some times causing shutdowns of tanks trucks, ships, power plants and machinery. Overcoming of the foaming problem, considered seri ous by various Government agen cies, was announced recently. DIMES AIDED ME! Clifford Marshall, two-year-old polio victim from Bowling Green, Ky., has made progress in a year. With the aid of a brace, he now walks about nonchalantly and is beginning to enjoy his childhood. When he was first admitted to the Tuskegee Institute Infantile Paralysis Center, he could not I stand on his own two legs, even with the aid of a physical thera pist. Clifford’s care, his brace, muscu lar re-education and other treat ment are provided for him at the center by the Kentucky State Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, through contributions to the March of Dimes, January 14-31. Address your gift to the March of Mmes through your local chapter af the National Foundation and help provide aid for other polio sufferers, regardless of age, race, creed or color. * <7 I’s SAY JACKIE ROBINSON DOESN’T HAVE TO PLAY TO SATISFY HIS RACE New York—From what I can I gather, our boys who are sweating : it out in Army of Occupation Un ■ its overseas are trying to forget I their plight by taking an active j interest in things athletic on the ! home front which they read about in the few papers that get to them and aiso in letters from friends J and relatives. These boys are con j demned to the loss of months and even years out of their lives thru no fault of their own, but circum : stances which they could not es 1 cape, having a burning interest in ! the long but successful fight to break down organized baseball’s j 70 year old color bar against Ne. j groes. A letter to this column is j a case in point. The writer, Tech j Sargeant Mitchell Goss of Camp | Pittsburgh, somewhere in France, j became the spokesman for hi3 | group on an argument over Jackie Robinson’s coming affiliations with the International League Montreal Royals of the Brooklyn Dodger Farm system. Tech. Sgt. Goss jumps on Lud low Werner, managing editor of . the New York Age, for a com i ment Goss says Werner made in 1 the Sporting News of St. Louis. | Baseball’s Bible, last Nov. 1. I aid I not see the article and admit tuu . is the first time I have heard of it. If it was in the Sporting News, j Spink outfit, but meanwhile, Goss’ : findings make good reading and also bring up a point of view' unu sual in sports discussions. Dear Don DeLeighbur, says the sergeant. In summing up the dif ferent excerpts concerning Jackie Robinson in the Sporting News, the fellows in this locale think Mr. Werner of the New York Age took too much for granted in his article in the Sporting News is sued Nevember 1, 1945. He didn't by any means represent the fel lows in th ETO in his 15,000,000 Negrohs- They feel and think dif- j ferently about the matter. We j could not let him get away with ! that. j Mr. Werner’s unjust comment j relative to Jack Robinson's ath i ’etic ability to please his race in 154 baseball games a year not only I strikes me as something hypolhe-1 tical, coming from him. but exem. I plifies that he is not cognizant of the intellectual progress of the Ne* i gro in the Sporting World. I am afraid that he jumped the i gun when he said 15,000,000 Ne-! GI Vet Workers Demand Special Session On Their Problems EXPAND HOSPITAL New York City—The fight against all crippling diseases af fecting children will be accelera ted on a nationwide scale thru the 15 Shrinersf Hospitals for Crippled Children, it was announ ced here by William H. Wood field, Jr., of San Francisco, Im penal Potentate of the Shrine ol North America. Photo shows Dr. John R. Moore, (left) chief sur geon of the Shriners’ Hospital in 1 Philadelphia, explaining a new type of brace for treatment ol i crippled children to Imperial Po-1 W- Freeland Kendrick, chairman of the hospitals' national board of trustees. Paul Lawrence Dunbar Prophet Calvin’s News By Verna Arvey __ I Hollywood, Calif—When we to- \ day speak of the Negro soldiers who fought and died for demo-, cracy, only to have that ciemo j.aey withhold them on their re turn, do we think we are saying jomething that hasn't been said; before ? When we lament the fact j that even distinguished Negroes. ueet bhnd Kace prejudice where j yer tiiey do in America, are vvci /oicing a thcugnt that l.as never ocn me .tionea before? And the I Tiaory that racial mixtures may, uove advantageous—is this new?j No these things, and many others , were said beiore by none other than the poet Paul Laurence Dun bar who lived from 1873 to 1906. Jor while Dunbar could be tender in a poem like ‘Lines to Louise’,, or merry in ‘A Coquette Conque- 1 red’, and go into countless other moods, he also possessed a mind that was at once penetrating, pro phetic and protesting. Some of the things Paul Lau rence Dunbar said more than 40 yea.s ago are just as timely to day as they were then. This, ci course, is also a severe indictment of our social system, that such conditions can continue to prevail over such a great length of time, i If Dunbar had not been a col-1 ored man, would he now be known I as America’s greatest poet—or at I least, as one of America’s great est? That is something that we may never know. Certainly he is one of the most widely quoted | (among all groups of Americans) i most spontaneously loved of all I Vmerican poets We often hear the line ‘Ships That Pass in the Night' repealed. Yet few of us re alize that it was Dunbar, a colored poet, who first said it, when he mada ’t the title of one of his peoms. Moreover, Dunbar was race-conscious, history conscious, aware of all events of his own time, and even sensitive to what lay ahead. Time and time again he railed against prejudice. ‘The Haunted Oak’ is one of his poems, and it is one of the most severe tirades against lynching and hypocracy of lynchers that has ever been penned. And what of the long poem, called ‘To the New South, on its New Slavery?’ In this he spoke of the crime of brother fighting his own brother, and out of it came only a new slavery for the black man; ‘A newer bondage and a deeper shame.’ He called upon the South to repent, to re turn to its past glory and take thy dusky brethern to thy saving breast. He prophesied that there would be no gladness until this blot was erased. Many times he wrote of the col ored soldiers. In ‘The unsung He roes’ he extolled the glory of the brave men who fought and died on the battlefield when their coun try needed them. In Black Sam son of Brandywine’ he honored the colored hero who swept his way through the red ranks armed with a scythe. The black troops of Cuba came in for their s' r of fame, when he immortalize them in ‘The Ccnquero 's’. r>" phesying that their daed3 woul l.ve far through the cycle of the years and of lives that shall come. Then there is that significant poem, simply, ‘The ' Colored Sol diers’, ten verses of noble senti ment about ‘The Sons of Ham’, the gallant soldiers who fojight for Uncle Sam- Dunbar chro. iclec the battles in which they fought bravely and died,, and said theii blood had cleansed completely every blot of slavery’s shame He spoke of the trials they had shared with the white man, and how the* verc ‘comrades then and brothers’ but, lest the reader think that this 8 a tale of unalloyed happiness the poet added this meaningfu line: Are they more of less today. The stereotype a id its impiica tions did not escape his penetrat ing insight. In two short verses ca led 'The Poet’ he told of his own bitterness at a world that praised him only for his dialect peoms when he had other things much greater to his credit. Fam ous though he was, he still felt a prejudice against him bream of his color, especially when he went to strange places. This he noted in the bitter sentence: ’My position is most unfortunate. I am a black white man.’ But, as a famous Negro, he was not selfish. He gladly praised the work of other outstanding Ne groes. He celebrated the deeds of Frederick Douglass, and of Book er T. Washington. Of Harriet Beecher Stowe he wrote: ‘She spoke to consciences that long had slept and at one stroke she gave a race to freedom and herself to fame.’ Looking far into the future, He wrote a letter to a Mr. Rollin on' the sobject of race-blending, which ■ today is still controversal, altho' | .t nas long existed and gives evi -| dence of continuing to exist. Said | Dunbar, I can see how the cosmo-, polite of the future might be the : combination of the best in all the [ divisions of the human family— i each race supplying what all the others lacked The timelessness of his philoso phy is shown in such little poems as the one called ‘Keep a Pluggin Away, and the one called ‘For the Man Who Fails’, 'when he accused the world of being a snob and of courting success, but he found it time to sing an ode to the gallant man who fails fighting for what he believes is right- The world, he indicated clearly, isn’t always the best judge of what is success and what is failure. When Whittier died, Dunbar was overcome with remorse at the passing of a colleague, and wrote this line ‘ Great poets never die”. Let us hope that it will be as true of himself as of the man of whom he wrote- For Paul Lau rence Dunbar was a man with a mission, a crusader if there ever was one. He was also a superb whose lines gain beauty and sig nificance with each re-reading. gToes would expect Robinson to perform adeptly every day and if not, he would incur the displeasure , of all concerned. After reading the different articles in the paper con cerning his playing in the Inter national League, one fathers or surmises that Robinson may be used as an infielder, preferably, shortstop. Assuming that he does make the grade and is fortunate enough to play with the Dodgers, do you think that he is supposed to set that position afire in all de partments? If so, I would appre ciate your naming me one short stop in the National League who can powder the pill and field ef fectively at the same time like they do in the American League. Marty Marion is as classy as they come when it comes to field ing, but is he a Rizzuto, Appling or Stephens at the plate? You may recall that the defeat of Louis Schmeling inhibited some ot the Negro’s cocksuredness. I feel justified in saying that they are cognizant of the fact that they are not better athletically or other wise than any other race, but they do believe that they have among them individuals who are capable of competing if given the oppor tunity, and you will without any doub?. admit, Mr. Werner, that this is an opportunity. In conclusion, you may be acc urate in your enumeration of the population of the Negro race in the US as 15,000,000, but your conception of the intellectual abi lity in an athletic sense of these 15,000,000 Negroes seems faulty, and your assertion that 15,000,000 will expect Jack Robinson to be a superman is snafu, to say the least. The seemingly endless wave of j strikes now paralyzing reconver sion is putting a dangerously tempting idea in the minds of a growing number of people. It is the idea that government should do by command what management and labor seem unable to do by i conclave, that centralized compul sion could achieve a peace denied through voluntary agreement. It if takes hold, and well it might by the sheer impact of ab solute simplicity, then democracy as we know it has had its ultimate Mickey Finn. There will be industrial quiet. There will be orderly activity among the productive facilities of i the land, too. But the quiet will be I that of the grave. And the orderly activity wall be the hopeless move ment of a giant turned zombi! Beware that sort of quiet. It has been called other things in other lands; Fascism, for one, and Com munism for another. Wherever it exists there is a stink in the nos trils of men born in a tradition of freedom. Certainly, there is industrial ! strife throughout the nation. There are strikes and mounting pas [ sions There is still no proof that voluntary agreement among parties at interest is a failure, or that genuine collective bargaining between people who respect the tenets of a simple contract has i caused a breach of peace. WHEREAS: The present housing shortage is a hardship on the returning veteran and his family and all indications are that this shortage will be a prob lem for many months due to the thousands of veterans still to be dis ced and \77TeREAS: Many veterans are being denied unemployment compensation under the GI Bill of Rights due to being on strike in an atempt to gain a de cent standard of living at least equal to that prevailing before entering the armed services and WHEREAS: Nebraska has never provided a bonus for veterans of either the first world war or the one just brought to a victorious conclusion such as bas been provided by most states and WHEREAS: The United Packing House Work ers of America Veterans Commit tee of the Omaha area recognize the necessity of imediate action to cor rect these issues THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That we call upon the Governoi of the State of Nebraska to convene a special session of the Nebraska Legislature to deal with these prob lems, veterans’ bonus, adequate housing and unemployment compen sation for veterans while on strike to gain a just and livng wage, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. That we give this resoluton prop er publicity and circulate to the pub lic petitions directed to the Gover nor requesting this special session. EDWARD BOBIER, Chairman. . STATEMENTS DRAW CRITICISM f l' HTB—— — . Ml', I. JJ ..« New York, Soundphoto—Center of rising storm of criticism is Sir Frederick E. Morgan, Chief of Staff to General Eisenhower in invasion of Europe, novr UNRRA head in Germany. Sir Morgan, who is pictured here as he appeared in London recently, said that the Jews in Europe apparently have formulated a plan for a mass ex odus to Palestine. Unable to iden tify the alleged organ.nation lor such a movement, he said he be lives it to be cleverly camouflaged and charged that stories of po groms and a3trocities against ihe Jews in Poland are based on less and less fact. He further charged that such stories were by-products of a Jewish plan to force United Nations action to give the Jews a permanent home. His statements drew sharp criticism from Jewish spokesmen who scoffed at his se cret Jewish force manipulating a mass exodus from Europe to Pal estine. Real collective bargaining has yet to operate as a national entit j mainly because labor has yet to grow up to respect the responsi bilities that go with its rights That day is coming. There are signs in the Ford negotiations where, for the first time, the issue of labors’ finiancial liability for unauthorized work stoppages has come to the fore. But anybody who seeks or en tertains any short cuts to har mony through governmental com pulsion is looking for a oneway road to chains. The long view ob jective for our economy is simply its preservation and its improve ment. We are still too close to VE and VJ days to forget that cures can be worse than the deseases they are supposed to eradicate. The boys who are beefing at a guy named Harry for a down-the-mid ’dle attitude could be worse. Sup pose tlhat the guy’s name was Joe? —C. L. B. 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