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The Phoenix index., 1940-10-19
Seeing and Saying BY William 4. Fowlke;'

declared Axis alignee, 10 the west and aiding
Britain actively to the east.
2 That the forces of eviP the dctators and
totalitarians. bOund to rule for a day with
their destruction and carefully mapped out war
but that the decades will see the democracies on
tor in the end.
s. That the English Empire in its present form
will be materially weakened in colonies and pro-
teca rates from the present conflict since the
thrust of the entire cbunter-warfare is being
thrown against her domination of the world a
position she has held clearly since the sixteenth
century.
q. That the Axis powers machines will not be
able to conquer the spirit of the free peoples
BEYOND PREDICTING POWERS
But, what will happen to the black peoples of
the world still remains mystery to the predicting
powers however sheer they be-, of this observer
Perhaps it's because we are one of those concerned
We shudGer to think of reinstatement OF
black peoples. How often has it been said that since
the democracies do not treat 'entirely fairly and
the toalitarian states and their dctators promise
rothing but death and suffering to the mnorities
and non-Aryans. that American Negroes along with
others mqht be forced into MOTTO be-desired state
of servitude-savery or serfdoml
1t is for this reason that American Negroes are
to get into the fight with Hitler ard all he
represents Nobody loves war, for it is what it has
been described: Hell" Few men would clamor with
others to 60 out to face the guns, the gases and the
bombs of modern warfare But the insstence by
some of the majority group that only their
shall be used in combat meets our determined re-
siStence
Never will it be said of the colored man that he
refused wants to refuse to help defend land he
helped found and to perpetuate in every particular
through the scores of years.
E3ver will the black say to the others: go
ahead, send your best blood and manhood to the
front and let it be killed shell-shocksd manned and
crippled in body and mind. Well stay at home and
win the wPr on the home front"
We are gracious that the president has order
ed the War DEPARTMENT to go ahead with utilization
Of Negroes services in every branch If the edict
is carried out to the letter of the law colored Amer
1ca VIII be happy and all America will be its way
toward unity the dictators will never divide or
conquer
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Preserve Our Heritages

Coored people of all nations should take notice of what has
happened France the most liberal nation all before the
Since the German occupation Black Frencan and Black
A m e have ceased to enjoy any free
knew. Notably among this group is Josephine
Baker-the of Paris and leading of the famous toleS
Begere Now she has been egaed insignificant
little of Brve and her has been completely eclDsed by
Naz edcs obddng black actors French stage This must
be bitter gall who has been long used to the adaon CT
a nation
We the who felt bad because her American
was not successful and blamed lot American prejudice
We quite pleased when she returned France and
her We enved her little Bit and
wished could be there also How things have hand
she longs for good old u S. A. and all of here
glad be hee-n this with great many 1mDeectOns
and safeguards to freedom
The lesson taught that should fight to cooDeae in the
preservation OF the Eerages handed down Nav God
and protect and permit the righteousness that is
proVlng about Europe to set its feet this soil Of
Prom the IO7oa (DeS MoineS) Observer
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stations the German occupied
coast of the English Channel. Hitler, by now, must
have Rumaria ficm within his palms Che had been
playing her keyboard with ease all the time). IhoSe
of US hopeful of a quick letdown of the mustached
Force of Evil" are disappointed
We may not he disappointed for long. however
The machines of Hitler and similar warriors WILL
give out of gas sorneday and be cast to Junkp1le
from which ploughshares will be cast out of rustine
metal
Machines propelled by the soul of must and
will finally tire their makers in the increasing in
tensity of warfare and the falling bombs and their
obstruction. Comparative calm is needed to secure
oil and make gasoline and grease for machines. What
has happened to synthetic oil plants already will
happen to others in the future Htlers oil will give
out The goes for his machines.
FEAR OF SPECULATION
AS the Second World War enters the second year
and the fire and birthstone fury spreads, observers
fear to speculate on what the future will bring the
cnce civilized, but now maddened world.
With the fall of Ethiopia at the hands of MussC
lins hcrdes this observer began predicting that
general world was nevitob'e. It was too clear
that once the forces of sheer power end brute
thrust were allowed to get storted there was
stoppng-Off place for the nations who could WELD
the largest air forces armies and naves. This pre-
diction true despite the LAUGHING sleeve
of some who dubbed us "war ,hOugh-nopger" We
Ventura todav more pred;ctions
l. That the u S. will be in the within
six months, probably fighting Japan, the newly
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Negro Business And Negro Welfare

adequate recreational facilities for
them and their children, better
quality and more police protection,
more courteous street car operators
more traffic lights. more just por-
ton of public funds for education
and social service.
These are merely a few of the
good things" that organized Ne
gro business and professional peo-
pie might seek for their clients
They would be required to put
very little cash into a program of
this kind but the returns IN trade
from grateful people would be
increased manifold.
But no they are too busy. A few
years ago certain Metropolitan
community was organizing for its
annual Community Fund drive-a
certain very busy white business
man had accepted the chairman
ship of the Drive and requested
an influential Negro business man
W dSSlSU 1llll. lHC 1NCSAO UuOlllCoo
was too busy.
TOO BUSY TO HELP
His firm had some thousands of
dollars. incidentally collected from
Negroes, to be invested at once. In
another instance, a group of Ne
gro professional men were too
busy to appear before city council
in an effort to have school
building turned over to Negroes.
Examples of this sort could be null
tiplied manifold.
The time must come and will
come when the masses of Negroes
will "get wise" to this situation
and make the proper demands OIL
the privileged Negroes.
1t might serve Negroes well TO
study the group organization of the
Jewish people. Their solidarity re-
gardless of social and financial
position has been their salvation.
A hint to the wise should be suf-
ficient.
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Passing Of Woman
Doctor MOurned

LPHIA-( CAMP DR..
Melissa E. r. Coppin, widow of the
late Bishop Levi Coppin of the AME
church, and we'll known practicing
physician here, was buried last
Thursday afternoon following
funeral services at which the lead
ing citizens in the church and the
professions we're present.
Dr.. Coppin born in Columbia, S.
c., was a graduate of the Womens
Medical college here in 1910, and
uractised in her native city and in
Boston before settling down here
She was married to Bishop Coppin
in 1914 He died in 1924.
Bishop d. H. Sims preached the
funeral sermon, the choir of Allen
AME church, where therites were
held, sang three hymns. DR.. Coppin
died on September 81.
Surviving DR.. Coppin is one
daughter, Miss Theodisia Coppin,
recent graduate of the University
Of Pennsylvania, and is now di-
recting the Womens Christian alli-
ance, a work founded by her
mother,
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Negro business and professional
people to declare that Negroes won't
trade with them and granting that
there is too much truth in their
the masses of Negroes means that
claim that educated and monied
patronage as they should the fact
remains that Negro business is
ouilded on Negro trade. The ad-
mission that the majority of the
patronage they do get comes from
the responsibility of Negro business
institutions and professional people
IS that much more serious.
These privileged Negroes have the
power to make an ever larger group
Of Negroes eternally grateful to
them They have the voice that
speaks loudes5 and most effective
in these United States. What makes
his voice? The heavy state and
federal taxes they pay, the large
volume Of goods they buy, the ln-
vestments they make and their
knowledge of public affairs gained
through these advantages.
Why do not these fortunate Ne
groes take more interest in the well
fare of the masses? The writer has
often asked this question and with
few exceptions has been told
by these people that they ARE too
busy" That is, too busy receiving
the cash of their non-vocal and TOO
often either illiterate or only par
TALLY literate customers to nave
time to give them some puolc
service.
FOUNDATIONS OF SAND
So busy improving their own lot
until they are 100 busy to realize
that they are trying to build sky
scrapers on foundations of loose, dry
sand. Too busy to realize that their
ature security depends upon halt
being placed on job displacement OF
these underprivileged Negroes. I'M
proved health for them, better hous-
ing, more nutritious food, free ana
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From Ny Study Window
BY REV. JOHN CLARENCE WRIGHT
Not A Contribution
But An Investment

OUR CITY IN very short time
through the annual Community
Fund Campaign will offer an op-
portunity to the citizens to make
an investment in the noble busi--
ness of ministering to human
need. That it is a business is evi-
denced by the huge sums which
are expended constantly through
out the length and breadth of the
land in carrying out its purposes
and planning it's programs.
Atlanta alone expects her busi-
ness of alleviating human suffer-
ing to require for the next twelve
months something over five hun
dred thousand dollars. The esti-
mate is based upon careful studies
made by well prepared and de-
voted men and women of the pro-
grams, present and projected, of
the various agencies through which
this huge sum is expended.
A FEW OF ACTIVITIES
Recreation, care of the aged and
infirm, day nurseries, family well
fare, the handling of Juvenile de-
linquents and the education of
the blind are few Of the activi-
ties which are carried on and SUI
pervised by the agencies which
participate in the Community
Fund.
Since the work they do vitality
affects the life and welfare Of
every person in the community, it
is meet and proper that the right
to have o share in it should be de-
MED to no one. The task of car
ing for the weak, the outcast, the
sick and the needy within the bor-
ders OF our city is a privilege and
not a mere obligation.
There is an inner satisfaction in
having mad even small part IN
bringing relief, happiness or re-
newed hope to a human being less
fortunate than ourselves, that lifts
the amount we give, whether in
money or in service, above a con-
tribution to charity to the high
level of an investment that can be
counted upon to yield a dividend
in values real and changeless.
WELCOME THE SOLICITOR
When the Community Fund
Campaign, then, gets under way,
let us welcome the solicitor who
seeks us out for our share, 1T Is
not lust another assault upon our
already long suffering purses for a
contribution to just another cause.
1t is call to enlist in the work
of Kingdom building in most
practical way. 1t is a challenge TO
put our Christianity to work. 1t Is
a summons to open the doors OF
our hearts to the knock of the
Master Himself.
We of the minroity racial group
in our metropolitan population
must be particularly careful not
to permit our stock grievances,
however we'll grounded they may
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Between The Lines

the greatest UNKNOWN CANDI-
DATE of history. Reports have it
that the people whom he wishes to
support him for the presidency
have never before voted for the
man at any time on any issue. q
president should know the people
and should be known of them. No
body knows Mr.. Willkie and Mr..
Willkie knows nobody.
Besides being unknown, Mr..
Willkie is untried in matters of
statescraft. Instead of being man
who got in on the ground floor and
worked himself to the top, we are
called upon to consider a candidate
who is wholly unknown and un-
tried with no record for public
service and no record of a peoples
confidence.
Nothing could more clearly show
the plight Of the Republican party
in this country than the fact that
they had to put up an unknown
and untried man as candidate for
the presidency of the United States.
Then Mr.. Willkie is a weak man.
Those who vote for him will be
voting for a weak man and if by
miracle he is elected, weak man
will be president of this nation in
one of the most critical periods Of
it's history. Those who vote against
Mr.. Roosevelt give him credit for
being a strong man and if defeated
it will be the defeat of strong
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be in fact, to deprive us of the
privilege of investing in the great
enterprise of benevolent goodwill.
BY refusing to give, ours will be
a greater loss than the Funds
Moreover, in proportion to our
ratio in the population and the
amount Of benefit coming directly
to our group, our gifts in the past
have been rather small.
We say this, too, in full cogni-
zance of the fact that many of
our investments in the Communi-
ty Fund were credited, in the fin
al accounting, to other groups. HUI
man need draws no color line.
Wherever it exists there is an
opportunity to make an invest
ment in love whose ultimate divi-
dend is community of God.
SHARE IN FUND
If more selfish appeal is nee
eSSary, then remember that there
are nine or ten strictly Negro
agencies which could not carry
on the magnificent work they are
doing among our people, if it were
not for their appropriations from
the Community Fund. To mention
only few, there are the Urban
League, the Young Mems and
Young Women's Christians Asso-
Citations, the Carrie Steele-Pitts
Home the Herndon and Burch
Day Nurseries, the Atlanta School
of Social Work, etc
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Continues Fight
For AdmittanCe
To Tennessee u.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-(SNS)-

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-(SNS)-
Renewed interest in the efforts
of colored students to gain ad-
mittance to the University of
Tennessee was indicated in a letter
sent to the Memphis Branch of
thte NAACP this week, when Quen-
tin Barbee, young journalist, re-
vealed it's contents to WORLD
reporter.
The letter, which is self-ex-
planatory follC ws:
"To the Memphis Branch. NAACP
Dear Friends:
I ami sure you have all been
watching with interest the develop
ments in the University of Tennes-
see cases. We are in for a long
fight and must have a sufficient
defense fund to complete these
cases.
We have just received notice
that the bond posted for cost in
the case IS due for an annual prem
ium of $50 which must be paid by
October IT. Tc date several hun
dred dollars have been spent on
this case in addition to the
amount contributed by the Knox
vile, Tennessee branch.
"Dr. Leon A Ransom of otlr
National Legal Committee, along
with Attorneys Carl A. Cowan and
E. Alexander LOBBY of Tennessee,
is working on the case almost
daily. The only thing necessary at
the present time is the raising of
an adequate fund to finance these
cases and the National Office
must have the help of the local
branches in Tennessee.
will you, therefore, please let me
know just as soon as possible how
much your branch will be respon-
sible for within the next six months
On this case and how much you
can send to the National Office
by October IT on the $50 which
must be paid on that date.
ton.
sincerely yours,
Thurgood Marshall
Special Counsel
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pointing out, Mr. Wendell Willkle
is the greatest! Without doubt MT
Willkie epitomizes as nothing also
could the weakness which iEhereS
in democracy surrounded by dc
tatorships. Today we should be
united on a program of defense
but because this is an election year,
we are divided.
This year above all others we
should expose the profounder issues
of national existence we are en-
gagged in an "issuelesS campaign
and for the most part meaningless
except in 81 far as it illustrates a
weakness in democracy. Mr.. Will
kie is without even one major issue
and his political plight is most
tragic. Trying now to fight a pro-
gram be recently indorsed, MI,
Willkie is running on his personal
ity. 1t may truthfully be called our
personality campaign
Of course, Mr.. Roosevelt has a
wonderful record and it is fitting
that Mr.. Willkie should bring forth
the issues. AS it is, MI. Roosevelt
has the issue and the record ana
Mr.. Willkie has only his personality
as a campaign asset. But intelll-
gent men and women know that it
takes more than personality to deal
with man of Hitler's desourceful-
ness.
UNKNOWN, UNTRIED
In the first place, Mr.. Willkie is
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by DEAN GORDON b.
HANCOCK, Jr., FOR AMP
OUR PERSONALITY
CAMPAIGN


CAMPAIGN
WITH ALL MY HEART 1 be-
ieve in democracy and the Amer
lean way of life. 1 am convinced
that our fine institutions of gov
rnment are not only worth enjoy
ing but worth preserving, even at
he cost of life itself. Democracy
is the only form Of government in
the world today worth dying for;
and the sooner some of our fair
weather patriots" find this out, the
better for this nation.
But I am fully conscious of some
of democracy's weaknesses, and
have been bold enough to point out
a few OF these within recent
months, in the light of our i'm
pending armed conflict with Hitler
SIN. Those isolationiSts who sought
O hide behind d smoke screen of
Monroe doctrine jabber, are fitting
ly withdrawn into their holes and
ere is hoping that they may pull
he hole in behind them. 1t is be-
coming increasingly evident that
We must hang with Britain or
hang by ourselves; and it is a
tragedy that the lightning of i'm
pending peril had to strike us, ere
We saw the dangers Of our doom.
FLIGHT TRAGIC
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man.
Mr.. Willkie lacks the poiSe that
president should have He lacks
political poise and lacks cultural
poise. His own supposed admirers
have had to warn him against his
-profane language with its
"damns' one after another, and
his attempt to turn a serious cam
paign into wise cracking contest.
Mr.. WILKES weakness is best seen
in the number of times he has
been called upon to retract untrue
statements.
WRATH OF POWER
Roosevelt is not a wise cracker,
he is not given to semi-profanity
m his speeches; he does not spec
ialize in personal criticism. The
man has issues and a message on
these issues. Roosevelt greatest
crime has been swearing allegiance
to the forgotten man; and trying
to feed the hungry and make work
for the jobness.
His housing program and his
NYA and CCC work and his at
tempt to make an iniquitous sys-
TEN support its victim has brought
upon him wrath of a few men in
power. The great debt that has
been incurred becomes alarming
only because peorIe with money
are going to be taxed to pay it and
this is as it should be.
Those who vote for Mr. Willkie
are voting ~9r a personality and
for a personality only. There is
something about the man that re-
minds me of Huey Long! 1t is 60
ng to take more than personality
tC stop Hit er!
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Draft Proves
Boost To Cupid
In Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - CSNS)-
Old Dan cupid is doing a rush
ing business these days, according
to Chief Deputy Court Clerk. While
Clerk Albert johnson would not &C
as far as to say that the coming
registration tomorrow for the draft
was direct cause for so many young
men wishing to board the good ship
of matrimony, he did think that II
has something to do with 1t.
Up until noon last Saturday
there had been thirty licenses solo
passing last years total for the
same date by twenty one and the
total of 1888 by twenty eight.
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EDITORIALS
Says Black
Race S Honor
Is At Stake
BY REV. MACEO TURNER

With the most devastating wal
recorded in history raging on three
continents of the earth which has
the minds of the war prophets
puzzled as to the outcome and
who will emerge the victor, there
lies behind this great scene of &C
ton 4O0,000,000 black people of the
world whose security and fu-
ture have been left to fate Only
Ethiopia, the last black sovereign
nation in spirit and in certain
parts of the country where the in
vaderS of the Italian forces have
not been able to suppress, is left
struggling to defend the honor of
the entire black race.
Africa is the home of the black
race. The Africans are the parents
of all black peoples regardless
where they may be otherwise AL
so Africa y the second largest
continent of the world as we'll as
one of the richest. That's why
white nations are fighting over it
And it is the opinion of this writ
er that it is the moral duty OF
every African descendant to obi
gate himself or herself to the task
of saving the honor of the black
race.
Just as De Gaulle has organized
the free Frenchmen movement in
order to save France from total
disgrace, there is an organization
of whose head quarter is in New
York City known as the "Ethio-
plan World Federation" founded
by the late DR.. Malakue E. Bayen
personal physician of Emperor
Halle Selassie, King of Ethiopia
and representative of his country'S
government in America, which is
engaged in the great, noble work
Of administering aid to the Ethio-
plan refugees.
1t is only a matter of time be-
fore America will be called upon
to defend American democracy
just as every other citizen which is
right. AAnd if England wins the
war, Ethiopia will win, because
Ethiopia is England's ally and
Halle Selassie will be restored to
his country. But on the other hand
what if Hitler and Mussolini win?
What would be the portion OF
black people? What have these
dictators promised that favors tn,
people of the black race? I am
with England and America one
hundred per cent in order thai
Ethiopia might be spared. 1t is
through cooperation with these
powers only that Ethiopia can be
saved. And the saving of Ethiopia
is the saving of the honor of the
black race. So today the black
races honor is at stake, and let's
save it by cooperating with Amer
ca and Great Britain, and the
Ethiopian World Federation, Inc.
1857 9Th Avenue, New York City
N. Y. The Ethiopian World Fed
Grafton is devoted to the cause oi
caring for the Ethiopian refugees
Just as organizations among white
Americans are caring for refugees
of Europe and especially Englands
refugees.
God save Ethiopia and the black
race!
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PLATFORM

To the coored people paper that they can reel
which all political social
religious economic questions which face the
awaken racial especially in business to the extent
that must become job makers we'll as job seekers
g. To instruct boys and girls in the art of thrift
fne the brotherhood of
build a frmer racial foundation for posterity
the cOlored compete
technique
dealing vih all render dependable e
times that alone will be able
enterprise Therefore realizing vital
the INDEX shall at all times heed respect
rendering better service
published in which
question local national Such views
shall not reflect
Uayth The of PHOENIX INDEX.
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