The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-10-31

terracial good will and understand
ing.
not flamboyant and boastful. He
was something of campus leader
in those days. l remember num-
Der of times going to him to get
things done for the rather large
group of colored students who at
tended the University. There new
er was a time when he didn't help
us get what we were entitled to
so far as campus activities were
concerned
Landon was one Of those fellows
that inspired confidence. There
never was a time when l felt that
[ couldn't tell him all my troubles.
He frequently would help the Ne
gro students get work both inside
and outside the University. I have
met him a number of times in the
twenty-five odd years since both
of us have been away from Law
renee He always had the same old
cordial handshake and the friend
ly smile, characteristic of him as
student in the University.
More than that, Landon has tre-
mendous courage. l have seen
him leading the fight for the Uni
versity before the legislature and
even the politicians couldn't make
him quit. He has determination.
He's like bull dog hold of a root.
| Since leaving college, he has
built up good income from be-
ing an Independent oil we'll opera
tor in Southern Kansas and Nor
thern Oklahoma-and he has done
all this fighting the competition
of the Standard Oil Company, Sim
clair and Henry l.. Doherty who
own the Cities Service Company
| I was amused the other night
to hear Honest" Harold L. Ickes,
secretary of the Interior, berate
Landon for proposing stateowned
gas pipe lines for Kansas. Let
me tell you the story of that. Hen
ry L. Doherty is a rich New York
public utility operator and a very
close personal friend of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. In fact, it is Do
herty who puts on the presidential
balls every winter
Doherty was literally robbing the
/ people of Kansas with the high
prices which he was cha .ging them
for natural gts. Landon and the
Kansas City Star were waging a
fight to get these rates reduced
Doherty, the presidents friend,
was using every means at the dis
posal of rich man to block this
reduction in the cost of living to
the people of Kansas and Kansas
City So, in order to help the peo-
pie Landon asked Ickes If the Fed
eral government wouldn't help
them build a pipeline owned by
the people of the state to distribute
the gas which came out Of the
earth of Kansas to the citizens Of
that state. OF course, Ickes refus-
ed. Naturally Doherty, the per-
sonal friend of Ickes' boss, didn't
want it. But Landon finally lick
ed Doherty in the courts Of the
state and he had to cut the price
of gas. The people won in spite
of Ickes.
The election this year is In a
great many ways like the election
of 1860. The issue is freedom.
The congress Of these United States
is in the hands of the descendants
Of the slave owners Of the south.
all the Roosevelt leaders are South
ern Democrats. They have all the
important committee chairmanships
and they'll make sure that nothing
will be done to free the Negro Of
the South.
David Lawrence, the we'll known
editor and author writing in the
Detroit News recently called atten-
ton to very significant fact in
this campaign.
What is going to happen to the
Negro after this election?" asks
Mr.. Lawrence" In my opinion he
Is being traded down the river.
Farley Is making many promises
to get his vote and after the cleo
ton is over, the northern Negro
will be the forgotten man as the
Southern Negro is now"
There isn't any question but that
Is what is being done. II Farley
can line up the Negro votes OF the
North to vote the Southerners back
into power this year, he won't
need us any more.
over a period OF seventy-six
years, the Negroes Of America have
prospered and been protected un-
der the Republican party. We have
been allowed to take our place In
the United States In competition
with all other races. Only under
Democrats have we been segregat-
ed and told we had to keep to
ourselves.
Whot I'D tho Democrat Wood