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YOU!
by Ruth Taylor
It's up to you! W hatever the question be, whatever the
crucial problem confronting the country today, the solu
tion is up to YOU. For in either a republic or a democ
racy the power is vested in the individual—that means
you! When we speak of national unity, we mean national
oneness—a cohesion of all elements into one. YOU .ARE
THAT ONE!
Through your vote you have the power to effect what
ever changes you wish. Your vote is as potent as that of
any man in the country. But if you neglect to vote—do
not Complain of the government that is elected.
Yours is the responsibility. You can't expect cooper
ation if you are not cooperative. Yrou can't expect fair
play unless you are willing to play fair. You can’t prate
about discrimination if you discriminate against others.
You can't whine about taxes and then complain when you
don't get the service you expect from the government of
your choice.
Y OU have to be kind. YOU have to be fair. Y’ou have
to be tolerant. YOU have to work. It all begins and ends
with YOU.
Neither industrial disputes nor international problems
can be settled from the top. You have to begin with your
self. To achieve cooperative action, you yourself must be
willing t ocooperate in the problems of every day living.
But YOU must stand firm on the ideals in which you be
lieve. YOU must be articulate for the right, aad—if you
are—YOU can be a power for good in yourself.
W hat the future holds depends upon you—upon me —
upon each and everyone of us as individuals. That is
what a republic means. That is what democracy stands
for. It is a personal responsibility! It is up to you—
and me—and all of us who have pride in our American
citizenship—to do our individual best.
OVERTONES
—(by A1 Heningburg
THE UNO BOWS:
Tin* recent decision made by UNO to permit Russia to
settle her difficulties with Iran through direct mediation is
no surprise to the pessimists of the earth, and no great
surprise to the realists. This is likely to repeat itself
whenever a small nation finds itself pitted against a power
ful nation. The little fellow protests to UNO, which after
lieatcd deliberation tells the little fellow to work it out with
the big guy.
This story reminds me of a nauseating fight which I saw
down in Mobile, Alabama when I was a boy. A black man
was permitting a white man to beat him unmercifully, al
though the Negro was by far the stronger of the two. But
the black man wanted to live, and he had seen the officer
standing with gun drawn and pointing in his general dir
ection. Since he wanted to live, he lay as quietly as any
living flesh could lie while the other fellow kicked him: in
the face, in the stomach, in the groins. When it was all
over the “law” and the brute went away1 together, chatting
as if all the human decencies had not been invaded.
MAKING A CLEAN BREAST:
One ol America's better known popular writers often
puts some strange double talk into the mouth of a bishop.
Says the bishop to the lady: “Let's make a clean breast of
things.” According to one famous Holly-wood designer,
American women are going to do just that with their even
ing gowns next winter. Already one can imagine the
struggle which portly females will put up to carry out this
edict, and one can imagine too liow many drawing room
accidents are already in the making.
ENTIRELY OUT OF FOCUS:
Uven the amateur cameraman knows that a picture out
of focus is not pleasing either lu re or hereafter. Well, a
few nights ago. in a beautiful liigh-school auditorium in
New ^ ork City, I saw a true-to-!ife picture all out of focus.
All of the Negroes who sat on the platform during the
commencement exercises in this all-Negro school were vol
unteers. laid all of the whites were paid to be there. Shall
ve buy a new camera, or just do some repair work on the
LABOR ON GUARD
liOU'sville (L R.)—According to
j he L'ursville Courier-Journal, in
[ 'or^cratio 1 papers have been filed
in Kentucky for “Ihe Mason Dix
on Sodtpv, Ire.” The organization i
boa s the subtitle, “National Ass- j
ociation for the Advancement of
, White Peool'>.” The front men for
, the organization is its president.
; Pop"’ e- H' og of Norwood. Ohio
j a suburb of Cincinnati, who for
) ma ly years has b en a represen
I taMve of industrial firms in that
; region.
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Street. Covington. Kentucky, and'
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Editorial: The Frankenstein is Getting Out-of-hand!”
racial
COLOR
HATRED
old one?
AMD SO THEY SKATED:
Sahra Holbrook, Executor Director of Youth-builder*
tells an exciting human In. erest story in the forthcoming
issue of OPPORTUNITY’, Journal of Negro Life. In a
northern city, a businessman built a skating rink to which
Negro ehildren were denied admittanee. The issue was
diseussed freely for several days in school, then one day
several white children accompanied by Negro boys and
girls went to the rink—demanded that they be admitted
“Oh, no,” said the proprietor, “all the customers will walk
out if they eome in.” The white children then entered the
rink, canvassed the entire crowd, and discovered that not
one person objected. Result: the Negro children were ad
mitted, and both groups have been skating peacefully in
that rink ever since.
THE LEARNED STRUGGLE:
The oldest scholarship society in this country Is the Phi
Beta Kappa, which dates back to 1776. Sometimes you’ve
seen the beautiful gold keys worn by men who know what
it was all about when they were in college, and who have
been wondering what it’s about ever since. These keys
are always easy to detect, for it is axiomatic that a holm
of a Phi Beta Kapa key NEVER wears a double-breasted
suit. Well, there is considerable discussion these days as
to whether colleges which deny admission to Negroes
should be permitted to open chapters of Phi Beta Kappa.
And in very beautiful language those who believe in the
myth of the superior race are saying: “Why of course the
niggeruhs couldn’t go to the college with our sons and
daughters. Why that would spoil everything.” But the
chances are that spoiling everything like that would do a
powerful amount of good among the learned.
IN THE W ORLD OF FASHION:
I had been told that I could meet the prize-winning de
signers after the show, and I had already drawn a mental
image of the Negro boy who took first prize. He would be
small, timid, and would shake hands just like a woman.
All wrong. The boy who had designed the gown worn by
the stunning red-head stood six-feet two, had played foot
ball for two years, and he did not shake hamls like a
woman. Already he has made plans for his own business
as soon as he can save enough to get started.
An Open Letter
LET'S FIGHT HARDER
1824 Paseo,
Kansas City, Missouri.
February 1, 1946
The Editor
Omaha GLIDE
Omaha, Nebraska
Dear Sir:
Let's fight harder against the reactionary and Southern
Congressmen who are trying to return the U. S. Employ
ment Service to state control.
Walter White wrote NAACP’s view to a Congressional
committee on January 20, saying in part “In our judgment
a unified Nation-wide system of employment offices are
urgently needed On the other hand, to turn these of
fices to the States during present critical period would
bring only chaos to labor market and great personal hard
ship and suffering to thousands of working families.”
CIO and AF of L. are also against return the employment
service to the states.
Excepting 2 or 3 stales, do Race people get more con- ]
sideration from a federal office or from a state office? Do j
you know if the states take over the USES the money to
run it will still come from Uncle Sam. with the states not
puting up a penny? We all know how federal tax money
for schools is divided among white and Negro schools by
most ot the states of the South. Now are we going to turn
over more federal tax money to Southern state politicians
to run an employment service supposed to help us?
How about agood article on this, asking your readers to
write their Congressmen and President Truman to keep
the LSES federal forever? FEPC is certainly more im
portant, but we should not overlook the USES, too.
Yours truly,
A. Elgernon Wilson.
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The Common Defense
INTER-GROUP EDUCATION:
(by Rev. William C. Kernan)
Intergroup education is essentially moral education.
For it is constantly seeking to enable men to ac; charitably
and justly toward one another. This is education in the
moral realm—or it is nothing.
And moral education for sound intergroup relatoinships
involves the recognition of certain reasonable moral stan
dards which all can accept and in the light of which some
things can be labelled definitely right, others ;us-. as defi
nitely wrong.
The rise and establishment of Nazism in Europe taught l
us that there is no escape from this propostion, since it
showed us how utterly degenerate life can become when
the moral principles are denied which affirm man's dig
nity, his sacred worth, and the inviolability of his inher
ent rights.
Yet, we canot affirm confidently that Nazism Is wrong
unless we have a reasonable and unquestionable lovalty to
a moral standard by which we are able to pronounce judg
ment upon it.
If there is no such moral standard, how can we say that
Nazism is wrong?—how can we say that anything is wrong?
How—as Miss Dorothy Thompson has suggested—can we 1
establish a justifiable basis for preventing one group of
people within humanity from decreeing that another
group is outside humanity and worthy to be treated as we
treat other things outside humanity—vermin, for instance?
People who will not recognize moral principles cannot
answer these questions convincingly. They cannot build
sound, just, and lasting intergroup relations for the simple
reason that they have no principles upon which to build I
them.
Belatedly it is being more generally recognized in this 1
country than it once was that intergroup education must be
built upon sound moral principles—the principle of the
equality of all men by creation—the principle of the inher
ent rights of all men by the creative act of Gou, without
respect in any sense whatsoever to race, class, or national
origin. This is what we must all know. To these princ
iples we must all be taught to pledge our loyalty. And
from these principles must flow- the results we desire—
sound and just intergroup relations.
BehindThe Play
(by Don De Leighbur)
RICKEY SIGNS W RIGHT AS PITCHER
As predicted here last year, Branch Rickey has signed
the second Negro officially to a contract to play with the
Brooklyn Dodger farm team Montreal Royals He’s
John W right, the doughty young righthander of the Home
stead Grays, who pitched such stiring hall against the Na
tional League All-Stars at Ehbets Field last October Re
cently discharged from the Navy, W right is regarded as
one of the brightest pitching prospects in Negro baseball.
He reports to the Montreal club at Daytona Beach, Florida,
March 1, along with Jackie Robinson, and maybe, Roy
Campinella, the catcher-outfielder of the Baltimore Elite
Giants . . Watch for a loud squawk to come from Home
stead, Pa., where Cum Posey, who has resisted all efforts
so far to integrate Negroes into organized baseball, will
speak his piece on this latest instance of “thievery” by
Rickey, Sr.
Sugar Ray Robinson feuding with Mike Jacobs, has op
ened his own office in West 46th St., and has five people
working there Boys on the Street think Ray is going a
bit too far trying to go heads on against the czar «>f boxing
promoters W ith Mike, Ray can't lose; in a huff and
off to himself, he'll have a rough deal The dean of
sprinters, Noarwood (Barney) Ewell, who won the Nation
al A VU indoor 60 yard and outdoor 100 meter titles, the
indoor broad jump crown and who has equalled the 100
meter record of 10.3 seconds, will toe the line Saturday
night at the Garden for the Milrose AA Games Barney
holds jointly or alone the world indoor 60 yard title. IC
4A and 220 broad jump records and the record for being
one of the best liked athletes around today Dave Al
briton of Dayton, Ohio, meanwhile, is also in active com
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petition and is the only 936 Olympic champion still on
the line He'll he in the games Saturday Dave who
was a high jump star in the Berlin Olympics, has carried
on longer than any of his contemporaries who made that
trip back in 1936 Last winter in the Garden he clear
ed 6 feet 4 inches, and a.so tied for first place in the Na
tional AAL outdoor championships at Randalls Island
In this same stadium in tne Olympic tryouts in 1936, Dave
set a world record of 6 feet 9 3-4 inches, which he jointly
holds with Cornelius Johnson.
Dr. J. B. Martin, of Chicago, President of the Negro A
merican League writes tliat ue was Hardly in accdru wita
the statements made hy Commissioner a. B. “Happy”
Chandler at Dallas, Texas, January 20, when the Commis
sioner said, “These conferences, at tne request of the Ne
gro League Presiuents were wim a view toward organizing
the Negro Leagues on a more sound basis,” and tuat he
(Chandler) would hKe to see the time come when all base
bail would be under one head. However, the Negro Lea
gue head refuted two statements inadp at the same time by
Mr. Chandler to the effect that, the Negro Leagues favor
keeping tueir own hoys alter tneir leagues were on a more
sound basis, and that they would expect Negro players to
fc**8tay 111 IucaT unll tiUOOi
Dr. Martin, since reading the statement, has been trying
to determine what was meant by the later phrase: “Stay in
thir own class.” Moreover, he said, that at a conference
with the Commissioner in his Cincinnati office a few dayo
ago, there was no mention of the Negro Leagues wanting to
hold their players if they had a chance to advance, but our
chief objective in the Commissioner’s office, was to foster
plans to place the Negro Leagues in organized baseball in
order that our players would have a greater opportunity
for advancement.
Cleve Abbott, Ross C. Owen, and Capt. R. S. Darnaby
were the Tuskegee Institute representatives at the iOth an
nual convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Assn.,
at the Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis . Herman Taylor and
Raymond Jones are the outstanding amateur boxers of the
Bronx.... They represent the Bronx Community Center
with Tris Cohin, former North Carolina State athletic lum
inary as director.
Hy Turoin of the Daily news, turned in a nice tribute to
Jackie Robinson the other night over Jocko Maxwell’s
WWRL sportseaster He said: “The signing of Jackie
Robinson was a great step toward real democracy and long
overdue. Maybe he won’t be the Brooklyn Dodger’s short
stop because Brooklyn has Pee Wee Reese and Stan Rojek,
and a half dozen other smart shortstops around, but 1
think he’ll eventually star as a second sacker at Ebbetts
Field. He has speed, a fine competitive spirit and a sharp
batting eye.”. . The New York Gothams take on the Tren
ton Tigers in an American Basketball League game at the
St. Nicholas Sunday night Fourteen members of the
W ilcy Wildcats, the national collegiate championship sev
en, have been voted awards by the Texas school ... From
Marshall, Texas, comes the information that Jerry Keyes,
sensational freshman guard of the Wiley eleven, has left
for Chicago to fight as a heavyweight in the Golden Gloves
lournament Willie Cheatum, lightweight from Phila.,
goes into domestic relations court in Newark, I hear, on
Feb. 18, to face charges of desertion hy his wife, Mrs.
Earnestine Cheatum That 6 ft. 1 and 3-4 inches jump
ed by Paul Robeson, Jr., of Cornell in the W est Point Re
lays may auger well for the lad as a consistent point getter
for the Ithaca institution Remember: the winner of
the Servo-Cochrane welterweight title fight this Friday
night at the Garden must fight Ray Robinson on March 24
for the cahmpionship before risking the title against any
one, including a return match with the loser. It’ll be al
most 2-1 that Servo wins the crown and Servo has never
drawn a color line as yet.
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