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Deal has done more to incorpor-
ate the Negro into the life of this
nation as a citiZen-and not as an
alien-than has been done since
the race was emancipated and
those memorable amendments
were written.
1t must be admitted that these
are times of great confusion and
uncertainty. As when a horSe-race
is in the offing, and so many fine
blooded animals pass in review, the
bettors are often confused; SO with
a world of complicated issues, the
voter is confused. When bettors
become too confused over the
horses they lay their money on the
jccqet and this proves the safest
plan in the long run. So in this
campaign it is not so much the
Democratic or Republican party,
which are mere horses for the poll
teal races. The main thing is the
jockeys Roosevelt versus Willkie.
None but the Negro political in
curables" are oblivious to the mag
nificent job Roosevelt has put over
these seven years; to the large
share the Negroes have had in these
rightly results. The POLITICAL
INCURABLE IS PATHETIC.
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-05
By ADYL REYOH

In these times of stress and un-
certainty, when hearts all over the
world are beating a laundering
ache of terror, uncertainty, and in
many places, horror should come
the thought of UNITY to the bless
ed people of the United States of
America.
There should be a slng.eness OF
purnose for a UNITY of LOYALTY
in this land of ours, this beloved
land of stars and stripes where
symbolic "Uncle Sam" keeps a
watchful care over his children of
the United States of America.
There should be a UNITY OF
PURPOSE in all our thoughts, &C
tions and deeds and a seal upon our
lips to keep careless criticism and
unthoughtful repetitions of propo-
ganda from in any small way be-
ing repeated and passed OH.
Now, as never before, should the
rolored Neople strive to keep their
groups in an unbroken and un-
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BETWEEN THE LINES +

Roosevelt is rather a lamentaOle
admission of the Republican par
ty's moral bankruptcy. Instead OF
making the Roosevelt attack
trump card, Mr.. Willkie is leading
with it; and to lead with destruc-
tive criticism will politically bank
rupt the man before the campaign
gets we'll under way.
Fortunately for Mr. Willkie there
are those in these United States
who need no arguments and states
%aniike displays of political acu-
men; all they want is label and
they are ready for the ballot box.
To these, it matters not what the
Democrats have done or what the
Republicans have not done their
vote is labeled and has been label
ed for nearly rs years.
DePRIEST BROKE TIES
To Oscar DePriest must go the
credit for breaking the solid Re
publican front of the Negroes in
r1is country. There has been a
no more portitious sign in politics
than the Negro's willingness to
look away from labels to results.
And the very moment this solemn
fact had been impressed upon Ne
groes they broke the solid front OF
Negro Republicanism.
Before the coming of DePrlest it
could be said truthfully that the
Republican party owned the Negro
vote of the nation. Although the
party broke with the Republican
principles of Lincoln through which
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Bv ROBERT M. RADCLIFFE


THIS IS THE TIME OF the
year when editors imagine they
are going mad, especially the
boys who sit within arm reach
of telephones.
Fridays and Saturdays, long be-
fore the sun fades into the west,
those phones start jangling on
their hooks.
It's one time of the year the
"boys" in the newsroom know why
the bells are jingling. It's a sure
thing someone on the other end
of the wire is going to ask for
football score.
And SO it goes, way into the
night, hungry gridiron fans
keeping the telephone wires hot,
asking if alma mater whip
ped the socks off of old Osh-
wash College.
The scores of all the major
games are there in front of the
editor. There's really no trouble
at all. He merely stops editing a
piece Of copy. picks up the re-
ceiver and halfway yells into the
mouth piece.
A feminine voice on the other
end of the line wants to know if
Morris Brown beat Allen. She
screams a cry of delight after re-
ceiving the answer and hangs up.
Then the editor, frown on his
forehead, turns to that piece OF
copy he had been working on. The
phone rings again. He picks it up,
and says, "Yeah?"
1t turns out to be long distance
call. Some rural school teachers
down in Hockingposh, Georgia are
paying for it.
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The writer being a Negro and an
American by birth and tradition as
old as the United States, certainly
hopes that these dissenters are cor
rect and just not lazy optimists.
There are, however, uncomfortable
signs gaining visibility in the dis
tance that should be noted here
for whatever value they might
have.
HATRED SPREAD
The undesirable spread of anti
semitism in these United States, in
other words hatred for Jewish peo-
pie in this country is showing it
self in formidable, dynamic move
ments. These organizations have
reached the alarming proportion of
several hundreds. The Jewish peo-
pie are a large minority group but
not as numerous as Negroes. They
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"We want all of the scores you
got" one of the teachers says
The frOwn on the editors
forehead grows deeper and
ugIier. He gives a deep sighr
and then calls out the scores.
The teacher thanks the editor
and he in turn thanks the
teacher for calling.
Then, the poor man, picks up
that piece of copy he had been
trying to edit. But the phone
rings again. And, so it goes, way
into the night.
Dishing out scores over tele-
phones is a treat indeed, consid-
ering the fact that immediately
after local game has been play
ed, all of the wise guys stop by
the office to replay the pigskin bat
tie right there in the editorial
room. These drugstore COWBOYS
don't mind how loud they YELL
They don't consider the poor news
editors at all. Maybe they think,
newsmen are deaf, or, noise in
any form or fashion does not
bother them.
These men who find them
selves giving out football re-
suits frequently get a cOmpli-
ment or two. Those nOw-and-
then courtesies, in most cases,
come from flirty co-eds.
They usually say: IT like your
voice., or Your voice sounds
familiar"
But, then, too, you learn some
new "cuss" words, mostly from men
who are informed that their money
was on the wrong team.
It's a great life if you don't
weaken
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themselves as the result of pure
envy and maliciousness. These
characteristic expressions often
arise from the outside" prompting
of other groups. who find it to
their advantage to effect division
among minority so that it may
be ruled we'll. The hangover of old
Southern class customs, traditions
and cultures counter to "po' trash
is another contributing factor,
Some are prodded to be quick on
the trigger towards "uppity' big
ones of the group and to pull down
those who appear to be going too
fast or too far from their accepted
place"
Then. too, there are the expires
sions of violence that come direct
ly from the gang idea. Numerous
social clubs and cliques are found
to be merely gangs, formed not
only for the good time" of their
members, but for their mutual
protection" 1t has been reported
that some actually study the laws
which lend themselves into justi-
fable homicide and are ever ready
to testify for members of the
clique that the deceased or MANNED
had knife or some other weapon
with which felony was about to
be committed upon the defendants
person, and that the act to protect
was natural and within the law.
COURTS ENCOURAGE 1T
In this same connection, there
are courts which actually encour-
age Negro murders. BY the permis-
sion of deals between defense law
yers and solicitors general, many
a solid murderer has gotten off
with a plea of guilty to voluntary
or involuntary manslaughter and a
short term.
The so-called dignity of the
courts which permits the word
"N-r" to be hurled back and
forth and the Negro races alleged
but far-from- faults to be
slanderously paraded in trials is a
serious evil. Allegations about the
known" habits of Negroes that are
blared forth to win the sympathy
or disregard of jurors are mostly
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the Negro received his freedom and
franchise, the current Republican
party had only to flout in the Ne
gro's face the label Republican"
and the Negroes would stampede
to the ballot box.
AS a reward for this 1oya1ty-this
unquestioning loyalty-one or two
Negroes got jim-crow political
plum such as collector !of some
second rate port and the registry
OF the treasury. No attempt was
made to help the masses of Ne
groes. No attempt was ever made
to . We the Negro a place in an in
iegrated program of national ad-
vancement. BY and by the Repub-
lican party went "lily-white" but
the Negro still danced when the
Republican campaign band began
20 play. These were the "incurable
Negro Republicans"
PRAISES NEW DEAL
During long period the Demo-
cratic party was not even making
gesture for the Negro vote and
were not therefore hypocritica1 in
the matter. When the Democrats
manifested political repentance
and began to bid for the Negro
vote they brought forth fruits
meet for repentance.
They attempted not only to re-
ward the Negro in a general way
but they sought to make him u
part of the whole scheme of things.
Every, program for social advance
had its Negro number, The New
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ed and held in the city of Atlanta
week ago. The idea was initiated
by the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America, with DR..
George Edmund Haynes of the
Committee on Interracial Relations
Of that body in direct charge. The
object was to effect a greater unity
of purpose and method among the
denominations attempting through
institutes, retreats, correspondence
courses, ETC., to offer "underprivi-
legged" ministers an opportunity to
deepen their knowledge, broaden
their outlook and to raise their pro-
fessional status in their chosen
field.
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Ihat however,
does not pre-
went their ad-
journment often
with nothing hav-
ing been &C
| complisined eX-
oept the enjoy
m e n t by the
conferees of a
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d i S c o uragingly
1 true if the con-
ference happens
Ito be one of "re-
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Such a con-
ference was c91l-
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Leaders Confer

THIS IS THE euphonius head
line which has become familiar in
our Negro press. Etymologically, at
least, it would lead the reader tc
infer, that not only had they come
together, but they had cotton to-
gether. Matters of momentous sig
nificance not only to our own ra-
cial group, but to struggling minor
tiles everywhere often form the oc-
casion of these conferences.
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EVANSTON, 1A.-(ANP) - Two
Negroes Will wear the Purple ana
white of Northwestern university
this football season, Jim Smith,
senior left end, and Danny Will
liams, sophomore right half. Smith
is starting his tlhaI at the blank
post while Williams, who has look
cd good in practice, is being spoken
of as another Bernie Jefferson,
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citizen vas done to death for the
enormous crime of attempting to
register so that he could vote in
the Presidential election November
s. Brownsville, Tenn, is picture
of our democracy in a nutshell and
will remain so until our govern
ment does something to punish
lynchers."
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a single dagger
thrust, but that
In this, oul
largest city of
the southeast,
they do it in
such wholesale
fashion. Long
ago, I set about
trying to find
out the reasons
The Phoenix index., 1940-10-05
By WALTER Il. CHIVERS

THE TEMPTATION to write OH
the totalitarian state seems to be
too great for many pen-pushers to
resist today. The writer has just
about succumbed to the lure after
developing a real concern over the
possible fate of American Negroes
should our country find itself SO
unfortunate as to drift into some
form of dictatorship that used the
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PLATFORM

that they feel proud
their views all political social
religious questions which face the
especially business the extent
that must become job makers well as job seekers
g. To instruct boys and girls in the art OF thrift
brotherhood OF
To a rmerr foundation for posterity.
the cOlored
the technique other races
Above all must render dependable
that will be able
business enterprise Therefore realizing these vital
respect to
rendering better service
published each week in which your views
local national Such views
reflect
way the opinion Of PHOENIX INDEX
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myth of racial
purity as the
major cement
ing force of its
power as we'll as
compelling rea-
Son for exist
ence. Right away
many readers.
being compla-
cent Americans.
will say "that
happen here
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WhyKiII Brothers?

SINCE BEING WAY down in
Georgia" this writer has been
somewhat appalled, by the COM
parative ease with which his ra-
cial neighbors kill and main each
other. Not that right up Tennessee
way, my native land, they don't
snuff out each others lives with
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PHOENIX INDEX connected with political party
regardless rulings
eions the completely mparaly from hatred
All matter coming this should be in office sun
p. M.
plainly written only side
the rights
safety convenience unless the
is paid for.
to the INDEX 1914 East Monroe
Street All articles must be- signed by contributors Or ney
not be
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Seeing and Saying BY William 4. FeaD1ke'

as far from truth as the distance
between the earth and the North
Star. Such untruthful accounts
help free guilty defendants many
times, but more often add to the
opinionated damnation of the whole
race in the sight of many attend
ing the trial. Persons who have at
tended many trial hearings must
have experienced the sneers and
looks of resentment that are cast
towards the back" by those who
sit by custom and law "up front"
when slanderous expressions flow
The persisting practice and Gus
,om of all-White grand and trial
juries is definitely to the disadvan-
;age of the race. Few white men
REALLY understand the Negro
MS problems and peculiaritieS.
Some don't care to understand his
problems. Others do care to under
stand and lend an interested ear,
but are often misled by tricky.
race batting smart" lawyers and
become so confused that just bal
lot in the jury room IS impossible.
Oftimes, also, the state or prosecu-
ton has warned them that "This
is a Negro case; all the principals
are colored." AS if to say: weigh
the case lightly, there's nothing
much to it." When the plaintiff or
deceased is white, however, the
case is flaming hot and merits
grave consideration.
PUT CoLoRED ON JUR1Es
One or two sensible, level-head-
ed colored men in each case would
change things and attitudes might
be different in the jury rooms. The
law says that one shall be tried by
his peers and by ones Seers it
should be. Certainly trial alone by
those who do not consider them
selves as Negroes peers, is far from
the intent of the English law.
Last but not least, the attitude
towards life by many within our
group could stand change. Some
killers and aSsaulters care no more
about shooting or stabbing fellow
being than if small domestic ami
NAL were involved.
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Key Solons

Continued from Page y
Evening star., 1940-06-16
. Rich Solid Color Grounds
. In Tri1 or Double Bed Sizes

A charming new spreod thot will transform
your bedroom from L" poce to sleep in" to
the showploce in your home. The multi
color motifs ore Of unusual beouty. The
solid color ground comes in rose, blue, green,
peach, rosedust gold and rosewood Cotton.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
STUPENDOUS
FISH STORIES

Continued from Page One)
cation with her parents, she
rowed upstream from their camp
on Big Indian Creek. baited her
hook and prepared for an hour
of quiet fishing.
Abruptly, a 13-inch bass leap
ed out of the water and landed
with thud in the bottom of the
boat.
Miss McGrain simply took off
a slipper and dealt the fish a
fatal blow with the heel.
She told her story to an un-
believing cousin, Jeanette Rowe,
Is, and offered to show where it
had happened. AS the two rowed
to the spot, Miss McGrain said:
1T was right there.
The words hardly had been
spoken when another bass of al
most the same size leaped out of
the water and landed with thud
in the bottom of the boat.
Used to the routine by this
time. Miss McGrain took off the
slipper and dealt the fish a fatal
blow.
Now maybe you'll believe
me-, she told her cousin.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
TRANSPORTATION
s. 6. CUBA

P. & o. Steamship Companys
Steamer Cuba arrived from
Tampa els a. m. Thursday
morning with one first and one
Second-class passenger for Key
West and II tons of freight for
this port. Also aboard were 20
first-claSs passengers for Havana.
Sailing at 10:45 that morning,
the vessel carried % first and six
second class passengers to the
Cuban capital from Key West
and four automobiles.
The ship returned to this port
$40 p. m. Friday, bringing Sc
first and one second-class pas
sengers, Is tons of freight and
two automobiles for Key West.
Leaving $40 in the afternoon,
the Cuba carried 81 first-class
passengers from Havana to
Tampa and three firSt-class pas
sengers for the latter port from
Key West Freight for Tampa
from Havana totalled IT'S tons.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
CRIMINAL COURT
JURORS NAMED

Continued from Page One)
Park, Harry Dongo, Harry H.
johnson, Alvin T. Sawyer, Law
renee L. Higgs, ]. B. Pinder, J.
P. McDermott, John F. Black
we'll, Jr.. George w. Albury,
Vicente Molina, Chas. Gibson, E.
w. Manuel. Gabriel De Armas.
Floney Pellicier, Florencio Bello.
Aurelio Lastres, Herman L.
Roberts, Carl Taylor, John J. Ro-
nero. Jr., Emelio Cascade. Million
c. Roberts Elwood Carbonell,
Jose Gonzalez, Robert Lee AL
bury, Paul o. Roberts, Leroy Rob-
erts (Blackey). Whitney R. Papy,
John w. Roberts, Ulmont E. Rus
sell, Leon Peacon, Leroy Roberts.
Alfred A Atkinson and Louis
Edwards.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
TO AMELIA
By FRANK c. SCHNEIDER

From strips of tissue paper,
Soft wire wax and thread,
Miss Amelia fashions flowers
Yellow, pink and red.
Buttercups, zinnias, daisies,
Blackeyed Susans, colored phlox,
Pinks, carnations, roses, - .
Sweet peas and four o'clockSi
Poinsettias, peonies, peoples,
Morning glories, violets blue,
GardeniaS, asterS, goldenrod,
Orange blossoms, wandering jew
With infinite care and percision,
Her touch as light as dawn,
Each petal stimulates nature
Gifts for those who have gone.
When here her life is over,
We know she will surely go
To that place high up in heaven.
Where all these flowers grow.
Into the eternal garden,
Where the flowers never fade,
To relax amid rainbowS of color,
Fast colorS the Lord God made.
Key West, Florida,
1917 Petronia Street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
Navy Wives
Met Yesterday

The regular business meeting
Of the Navy Wives Club was
held yesterday at the American
Legion Hall with President Den
man presiding.
The principal subject discussed
was the results of the Bingo
Party given by the Club on
Thursday, August 30. After all
expenses had been taken care of,
the net profit was $44.45. The
club again wishes to thank all
whose cooperation enabled the
club to make such a success of
their first venture.
Mrs. Renee Reynolds was
awarded the prize for obtaining
the most new members during
the month of August. This prize
was donated by President Den
man.
A few more matters were dis
cuSSed among them being the
proposed food sale to be given
on Saturday, September 81.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
Bankers Are
Visitors Here

Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin ]. Barker
and two sons. Edwin and Jack,
of Miami, are visitors in Key
West for a week.
Mrs. Barker, who was formerly
society editor of the Miami Daily
News, is a niece of Senator VIM
H. Malone, former Key West
mayor. She is also active in the
American Legion Auxiliary, hav-
ing served the Department of
Florida as state Secretary-treas-
urer and vice president several
years ago.
The Bankers are located at the
Roberts Tourist Home on Flem-
ing street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
NEW PLYMOUTHS
ARE ON DISPLAY

Pre-showing of the 1871 Ply
mouth is announced for today,
tonight and tomorrow at Ma
varro, Inc, Duval and Southland
streets.
This 1871 edition of Chrysler's
fastest selling product is avail
able this year in a variety Of new
'colors including 2-tone jobs with
2-tone upholstery to match.
Plymouth this year has what
is termed the most beautiful
front ever placed on an auto
mobile, is longer and larger with
much more room due TO the
wider bodies.
Dan Navarro invites the public
to call at the showrooms for a
demonstration and insists that "a
trial will convince you.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
CHILDREN'S WORKERS
TO MEET TOMORROW

Workers with children xrz
all four Methodist churches w-II
meet tomorrow afternoon Szn-
day. al 400 O'Clock n F@--E
Street Church
An interesting dIScussEn uf
Children's Wol& NIu follow me
devotional period. Pastors chuucr
school, superIntendcn-s- -ezc5E
and all Others interested are
urged 10 attend
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
THE LOWDOWN
FROM HICKORY GROVE

Down in Richmond, Virginia,
for years the firemen have been
doing a good turn for the young
sters in their neighborhood, Civ
ing EN- haircutS-between fires.
And everybody had fun.
l know they had fun, because
when our boys were smaller
and before they commenced to
wash their neck without being
told had a lot of fun myself. l
maybe clipped an ear now and
then. but [ have had an ear clip
ped. myself. by some of the very
best BARRIERS of our nation.
But in Virginia, the firemen
must desist. No more free hair
cuts. They are violating some
kind of ordinance. Something to
do with sanitation-waShing
their hands. or maybe their own
neck, l don't know. It sounds
fishy.
But for being sanitary, you
could cut a boys hair in a glass
lined and sterilized operating
operating room, and one-half hour
later you would find him stand
ing on his head in a puddle of
pollywogs. No pollywog is more
sanitary-maybe less so-than
any Richmond barber.
If l was a Richmond barber
and my house got on fire, 1 would
not expect too much from the fire
department.
Yours with the low down.
10 SIERRA.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
END OF WORLD
TO BE DISCUSSED

1.-THE End of the World is the
subject selected by A. Van Ryn
of Miami to be given at the Cos
pei Hall, 720 Southland street, to-
morrow night, 800 o'cock.
Special subjects will be given
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Sunday nights of next
week.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
Edna Cato And ]. Y.
Porter, ", Engaged

E. H. Cato, Jr., announces the
engagement of his daughter,
Edna, to J. Y. Porter, w, son of
DR.. ]. Y. Porter, Jr.
Definite date for the wedding
has not been decided upon as
yet. u
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-07
NYA MOVES TO
~. NEW QUARTERS

Continued. from Page One)
large gas range and an electric
refrigerator.
The principal aim of the home
making training is to teach all
girls to keep a home in absolute
cleanliness and order and anyone
entering their quarters now will
readily see that this training has
had its, desired effect.