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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
TELLS LIFE STORY
OF JOHN REED

BY Reed Club Member.
Several days ago there appeared
in your paper in the Message Center
a question:
Who was this John Reed about
whom we hear so much?"
You replied with a short note.
The John Reed Club, organized in
the name of the man about whom
this question was asked, will appre-
ciate your permission to give little
sketch of John Reeds life.
John Reed was born in Portland,
Ore, Oct. %, 1887 and died in
Moscow, U. S. S. r., Oct. II, 1920.
He was graduated from Harvard
and Immediately entered the news
paper field. He rose quickly to a
f1rst-rate newspaper correspondent,
and was sent by various papers to
a number of different countries.
His career as a newspaper and
military correspondent, which he
pursued up to the end of his
thirtieth year, provided him with
numerous opportunities for excite
ment and adventure. Among the
countries he visited during the
course of his journalistic expedi-
tons were Mexico, during the revo-
luton; Germany, before the war;
Poland Serbia and Russia during
the war, and he was in Russia dur
ing the october revolution.
He wrote a number of books, one
called Ten Days That Shook the
World" which is one of the most
authoritative documents on the So
Wet revolution.
His life in the United States and
other countries before he came on
the scene of the Russian revolu-
ton was a life of adventure that
recalls that audacious spirit which
was at one time one of the most,
attractive qualities of American life
as seen from abroad.
But his life after his sojourn in
Russia during the Soviet revolu-
ton was quite different. His con-
tact with the proletarian revolu-
ton was more a grip than a con-
tact; it held him in It's grasp until
he died.
During "The Ten Days That Shook
the World" John Reed received
the immense stimulus that sepa-
rated him forever from life of
mere adventure, and cemented him
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defend to the death your right to sag it-VoLtaire.

are apt enough to punch an adding
machine, upon graduation. Rather
than actual sincerity to any cause,
the radicaliSm of college students is
mostly for impression than for any
of the absurd yells raised by red
baiters.
The so-called love of culture is
merely a social whimSy to impress
the eligible girls in the same man.
ner as an adroit prom trotting
foot.
A year after the cheer leading is
over, the college graduate has SIM
mered down and becomes as dull as
any other convention-loving person.
Colleges, it has been said, are eX-
plotted by capitalists wishing to
keep alive the spirit of stodginess.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
MY CHOICE

BY EFFIE L. WORKMAN
Of all the gifts life offers me
I choose the will to smile
When trials come my way.
The courage to accept
My lot, nor question why
Dark be the day.
I need not care
What may come after,
If I but have
The gift of laughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
COSTLY METHODS

bending in congress are two resolutions
= authorizing Investigations by the federal
trade commission into the nations food dis
pensing system. One is the Kopplemann reso-
luton, calling for study of the milk costs in
severallcities; the other the Wheeler resolution
appropriatng $4,000 for thorough study of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
BELIEVES ROBINSON
WILL BEAT MINTON

BY C. P.
This is a first time contribution
to the Message Center by lifelong
young Democrat.
The f1asco, called a Democratic
state convention, held in Cadle tab
ernacle, makes my blood boil, so I
have just got to get it off my chest.
Governor McNutt as usual bags
the show, and Hitler like, nomi-
mated his man Friday, a man prac-
tically unknown and certainly with
no record emitting him to be United
States senator from Indiana. The
McNutt political machine candidate,
Minton, did not get the nomination
because he was the peoples favor
tie.
Governor McNutt'S attack on Sem
ator Robinson for his K. K. K. &C
Invites will get him no place because
his organization is almost as unpop-
ular as the khan.
Earl Peters has done more for the
McNutt ever will do and certainly
deserved the nomination without
opposition and would have gotten
it if the people instead of the state
house gang had been nominating.
Louis Ludlow should certainly have
been second because of his marvel
GUS record in congress.
AS unpopular as Robinson is, he
probably will defeat the McNutt-
Greenlee political unknown in No
Vember.
The convention should have been
called 1.-THE McNutt steam roller
exhibition"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16

These multiple births have brought out the
record of a woman in Poland who gave birth
to thirty-six children at one time. Nothing is
said about the father, probably because the
children must have mobbed him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16

If Great Britain doesn't find way out Of
paying the installments on it's debt to the
United States pretty soon the United States
will have to find one
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The Message Center

fTtmes readers are MUtted to cypress
their OietoS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all ca; have chance.
Limit them to ESQ CORDS or tess.J
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Some convict has been picking the pocket
of guard in Joliet prison. Since it is an in
side job, the police might lock all the doors
and find the crook
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There seems to be an unusual demand for
coins of all denominations says Secretary
Morgenthau, What's so unusual about that?
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The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04
DIGGING UP HIDDEN HISTORY

During the past, psychologists in various
parts the world have been actively engaged in scientific
excavations unearth ancient ruined cities and buried
civilizations They have made astonishing discoveries in
Egypt and other Africa, Europe, Asia, and
the Americas, especially in Central America.
Excavations in the Dark Continent, within rela-
lively years, have revealed many startling
which prove Ethiopian ancestors were the found
of the oldest civilizations earth This
also substantiaed by the written testimony of certain
cient historians, whose tmeworn volumes but seldom
read by the busy and women of our day.
Volney, French writer, who contemporary
of Napoleon Bonapare is the author of fascinating lit
tie book, entitled Ruins of Empires, which contains
some interesting citations regarding the ancient Ethiop
ans achievements in civilization Arthur Brisbane, his
bookreyiew in the Hearst newspapers Sunday July o.
discussed this Illuminating volume of Voney's. He quot
ed severed extracts which he recommended for their liter
airy beauty and stimulus to lofty thinking but Mr.
Brisbane for failed to allude the refer
about the Ethiopans
Lest we forget, let quote the following excerpt
from Voney's Ruins of Empires He writes:
Those piles of ruins, which you in that
valley waered by the Nile, the remains opu-
lent cities, the pride of the ancient Kingdom Ethiopia
Behold the wrecks of her metropolis of Thebes with her
hundred palaces the parent of cities monument of
the caprice of destiny.
There a people, now forgotten discovered while
others were yet barbarans, the elements Of
sciences race OF rejected from society for
their sable skin and frizzled hair founded on the study Of
me laws OF nature those civil and religious systems which
still govern the universe"
Nolney substantiatcS the foregoing statements by
inc following quotations from Diodorus, an ancient
THE rhebans consider themselves as the most
ancient people OF the earth and assert that with them
originated philosophy and the science Of the stars
The Ethopians conceived themselves to be of
9ie"er antiquity than any other nation is proba-
De That born under the path the warmth NAV have
rpened them earlier than other men The Ethonans erc
the prs who invented the science of the stars and gave
es 70 the planets not at random and without meaning
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04
WILL MISSISSIPPI ACT?

Four white were arrested In MISSISSIPPI ias'
week. for whipping seventy-year-oid coored man 70
death and the refused to bring the prisoners 10
trial until public Indignation against them subsidies.
This time the lynchers were caught ed-handeo'
and unable to the victim of any crime other IMAM
to say he talked dsrespecfuly to them in dispute ABOUT
rent due on farm They could not swear that they
the aged to death in sefdefense Tor ne mao no
weapon and made no attempt harm them Likewise,
because age the brutal murderers could not
accuse him rape attempted assault upon whlte wo
man. for that was impossible under the circumstances
What then will the courts of Mississippi do IN TINS
instance coldblooded and unprovoked mob murder!
There will probably be mock trial Clever lawyers ana
made-t order witnesses will prove that the murder was
justabe and the lynchers will be set free That Is the
usual procedure in the South when white men are charg
ed with numbering a Negro.
STILL there many Americans who contend that
the individual states able to with mobs and that
there necessity for federal anti-lynching law This
is false belief, the ynchng record for the past six
months will show So long the federal government
ms mobs to murder deenseess citizens, whether the vic
Tins be black white, lynchngs will continue to go on
and the members of mobs will continue to unpublished
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but descriptive Of the qualities which they conceived them
to possess. I"
In commenting upon the foregoing, volney de-
clares:
What Diodorus says of the Thebians, every other
author and himself elsewhere also of the Ethopians
which tends more firmly to establish the identity of the
two It would be easy multiply citations the subject
from all of which it follows that have the strongest
to believe that the country neghborng to the trop
cs the cradle of the sciences and of consequence
that the first learned nation nation of blacks for it
is inconroverble that by the term Philippians. the
clients meant to represent people of black complexion
These glimpses into the past history of the Ethop-
ans. given in Voneys Ruins of Empires are indeed
significant and Illuminating Modern white writers are not
enthusiastic about giving publicity these chapters of
the Negroes hidden history. We have a glorious past
which will some day be fully revealed to the world
to people, the history of ancient ruined EN-
pires and civilizations are being revealed.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04
THINNING SOCIAL wORKERs

At the present time seven states
have sent their unframed colored
case workers 10 the Atlanta School
OF Social work. where they are re-
ceiving a six weeks course. Parti-
cularly interesting is the different
arrangements that have been made
The administration relief offici-
ais left the arrangements up to
each state and the state directors
selected the ones 10 attend sum-
mer session. There are registered
in Atlanta 73 such students.
OF this group Mississippi has a
representation OF 16. Investigation
revealed that these sixteen Miss
issippians have never done. days
case work and have not been pro-
missed jobs when they have COM
pleted the work. Ii seems that no
Negroes have been used in Mississ
ippi on the +. r. II. A. payrolls ana
that when the officials were told
10 send their unframed workers 10
Atlanta. they selected prominent
persons" from the various commu-
mites. and offered them the six
weeks training. for which the gov
eminent paid 1920 each. or these
l6 there are school teachers who
will return to their respective
schools in September. prominent
business and professional mems
who have no intention of do
ing case work and several society
all OF whom knew nothing
as to why they were being sent TO
his special summer school.
The Louisville +. T.. Il. A. Off
'ials were very thorough in select
ng their students for the school.
rhe ten that were selected. were
lot only promised jubs but had TO
promised that they would remain
II government employ for at least
he next six months. They were
selected from the group OF case
workers that were daily engaged
n the distribution OF government
relief to the distressed thousands
lere In the city.
The average arrangement made
by six OF the states were to give
the students 500 for railroad fare
and 500 for the expense OF the
school. Louisiana officials are CIV
ing their students more considera-
lion than are the officials OF any
other state. The students from here
we're given railroad tickets. and
are paid their regular weekly sal
iry while attending school. In adj
lition 10 this money for tuition
and books was forwarded TO the
school. Louisiana Weekly.
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tar which gives him the right un-
der the consultation to vote.
The majority OF the Negroes ~
this city came from the soutnsiA
states where they have faced as
reimbursement all Of their lives.
Perhaps they really wanted -
vote down there but could not. In
Detroit and Michigan they CAN
vote but WON'T.
According TO figures In the
hands OF the chairman Of the Civ
ic Rights Committee something
like 5000 persons are employees
In and around the voting booths
on election days. This costs the
city approximately $4,000 for the
days work. Only about so Negroes
are employed TO help In this work.
Whether or not the scarcity OF Me-
groes working In the booths is due
to the fact that not many have APP
piled for the Jobs this column Is
not prepared TO say, but the fact
remains that fifty out OF 5000 Is
too small a percentage.
II is believed that something can
be done about this oversight on
the part OF the election commits
sion. Something should be done
about IL but IL seems TO be no.
bodys business, although there
are civic, political. Christian and
social leaders among the group all
or whom are interested In the well
fare and advancement OF the race.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04

Even in the face Of the decision
OF the u. s. Supreme Court which
declares the state laws OF Texas
unconstitutional where II bars Me-
groes In that state from voting the
Democratic primaries. the authori-
ties there are carrying out the old
order OF things by planning TO
continue to bar the race voters
from the polls. According to news
paper accounts the national OFFICE
OF the National Association for the
Advancement OF Colored People
has taken the matter up with
James A. Farley, chairman OF the
National Democratic Committee,
asking him TO use his political In
fluence in an effort 10 put a stop
to this Acknowledgement. This Is a
fine move for Democratic leaders
and their organizations all over
the country to follow. Perhaps Mr..
Farley can do something about IL
and a flood OF letters and tele-
grams from Democratic organiza-
tions would certainly urge him on.
There is a splendid Democratic
organization in this city and the
leader happens TO hail from the
very state where this fragrant in
Justice in DISTINGUISHING the group
is more pronounced than else
where. He will most certainly take
the lead. and others will most
likely follow. in sending his disap-
prevail to the chief of the Demo-
cratic party and asking him to
take steps in eliminating this prac-
tice.
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one TO make IL II they try.
One thing seems TO US TO be GER
tain. II could not be worse than
but II will not always be so. We
had better think this over.
There are good schools SO the
man with children has not TO fear
that his children will grow up In
| ignorance. AS to the climate. they
say that you do not feel the cold
any more than you do In Detroit.
The climate is what We know as a
dry cold. In the summer II Is a
paradise. Always a breeze from
the Great Lakes and their connect
ing Straits. The sun shines hot.
and you become black II you stay
out I'm IT, You never saw such a
lare number OF -skin-white
folks" I'm your life.
You are not always hunting a
shady spot. You do not mind the
sun; and at night we sleep under
three blankets. sheet and some
times a quilt added and we sleep
not TO awaken until the morning
sun comes streaming through our
windows.
You folks in Detroit will please
pardon my saying these things to
you now, when the heat is burn
ing you up. do not want to be
cruel Our only desire IL 10 awaken
within us the spirit or the pioneer.
feeling as we do that we can do
what anyone else can do.
We spent a very profitable day
at Mackinac Island Here Is where
some 400 Negroes find employment
for the summer. We saw a few OF
them. They are hidden away at
service. Their service must be of
high order or they could not
stay at place like this where the
most wealthy are for their vaca-
ton.
We trust that some day we will
learn how 10 serve ourselves half
as well as we serve others.
This vacation land can be used
by us TO our profit; a fine place
for ambitious young pioneers.
courageous people who can find
something In themselves with
which TO be content; when there
are no bright lights. no parties, nc
movies; a place for men and wo-
being in Detroit with nothing TO
do Land is cheap up here now.
men who love the first great rev.
citation of God-.nature. IL is no
place for any man or woman who
is small OF soul and timid in out
look.
We cannot come here for play as
do the wealthy, and our thought is
not on them-but we can come
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04

Many of US do not know that be-
yond the Straits OF Mackinac lies
another State OF Michigan land
rich In minerals. forests and lakes.
We took our journey from st.
Ignace on the south TO Sault St.
Marie on the north. You find a
modern cement highway for the
entire trip OF fifty-one miles.
You pass through considerable
Saulte st. Marie the farms In
crease in fertility. and you are
surprised at the large hay harvest
that is now being gathered. Great
fields OF potatoes are now bloom
ing. You do not see much of any
grain crops. The climate is en-
tirely too cold for such.
AT Saulte st. Marie the great
sight is the system OF locks which
lift ships from the low waters OF
Lake Huron TO the high level OF
St Mary's River. thence through
White Fish Bay on their way 10
the giant OF all lakes Lake Super
ior.
There are five locks In all. The
first was finished in 1855 and the
last in 1915: the entire cost being
10 million dollars. Through these
locks pass more ships than
through the Suez and Panama can
ais combined.
Negro labor from Ohio had much
to do I'm their construction, but de-
ched not 10 stay after they had
been completed. And you can trav-
el all day and not see more than
one or two who live within our
house.
You wonder why some of us who
cannot find job in Detroit would
not come away from the city and
seek a home In this wonderful
land.
You see the small farmer Just
starting. There is no evidence OF
wealth. He, his wife and children
are working in the field trying to
get start. The house they live in
Is a mere shanty. You 20 in his
yard and Look around and you
find he has cows, pigs, chickens,
horse or two, and possibly a
'fiivver" He can and will sell you
fresh cream and milk. buttermilk,
eggs, and now red raspberries. He |
has a fine garden and he is not |
,n tho Welfare Department.
With our government coming In !
between him and foreclosure on
lis FARM with all the inducement
'eing offered for people to take
such opportunity-with a chance
low TO secure long term contracts
" cheap money II is possible for
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04
LAWYERS

There are approximately 400
colored lawyers in America. Many
OF them have given of their time
and money in an effort 10 secure
civic equality for their people.
Like any other professional
group there are shysters among
col0red lawyers. But on the whole
they are. an excellent class of clti-
zcns serving always the highest
and best interests OF the communi-
ty I'm which they live.
Because Of the old-fashioned le-
gal ethics many Of their exploits
are unheralded and the general
public does not know Of them.
Then. too large number OF color
ed people continue 10 believe. IN
face Of contradictory eyidncee, that
colored lawyer can not render
them effective service.
The records show that the col
ored lawyer achieves as much ana
/ In many instances more for his
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04
House OF Correction
Hires Colored Guard

Thurman Wilson, a local citlzca
and IA graduate Of Lincoln l'niYer-
sity, Jefferson City. Mo. was APP
pointed last week as guard at
the Detroit House OF Correction.
He was recommended for the %
sition by John G. Dancy, president
OF the House OF Correction COM
mission
Mr.. Wilson is the FIRST membcr
Of the race to hold this position
ne was formerly employed at the
j. l.. Hudson store.
The tribune independent of Michigan. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1935, 1934-08-04
- -Ta-
Strickland Is Fired
Fro IN Hamtramck
p olic e Department

Patrolman Thomas Strickland
was dismissed from the Ham
tramck Police Force last week. by
stephen Majwski. commissioner OF
public safety
Strickland Is the first OF three
colored officers. scheduled TO be
fired. along with twenty-two
white. TO Keep within the budget,
II Is said.
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ATTY. JuDsON Is. POWELL
fO5 Grutiet Ave


STATE OF MICHIGAN. In the Cir
cut Court for the County OF Wayne. In
chanccry.
MIRNERY CATER Plaintiff Va
JOE CATER, Defendant
Al session OF said Court held at
the wayne County Court House s.s.the
city OF Detroit on the 50fr Ssof OF
July A. ID. 1881. Present: Hon. James
II. Chcnot, Circuit Judge.
II appearing from affidavit on file
that the Defendant Joe Cater. II not
a resident OF this state but resides in
Chattanooga. Tennessee.
1T Is ORDERED that the said De-
PENDANT enter his appearance in said
cause on or before three months from
date OF this order or said bill Will be
taken as confessed:
And that the said order be served or
published as required by law
JAMES E CHENOT
. Circuit Judge
a true copy
FRANK y. BONKOWSKI
Deputy Clerk
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After you get what you want
you don't want It" is the title OF
an old song which fits so well TO
many of the Negro voters in this
city. Texas isn't the only state
which bars Negroes from the polls.
Nearly all southern states are
guilty OF the same offense. For
years and years Negroes have
wanted TO vote and have attempted
to vote in the south. but tine south,
that Is, most OF it has always
been opposed to Negro suffrage
and as a result the Negro is bar
red from the polls. although he
pays his head tax In order to live
In the state and his school. or poll