The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-03-16
A NON PARTISAN
NEWSPAPER
KILLING OUR GOOSE.

Had rabbits been as brave az lions there vel,
be no rabbits left TO sing the saga OF rabbit survival
Nature endowed the smaller animals with n ennn.a
denied the larger stronger animals The Iior ~, e
on his strength and so he roars as ne royes ths o.,
ess and the plains. The smaller weaker srir W..
prowl around by night as noiselessly as thev co.
with fear that the more predacious aninals r
prey upon them. The survival OF the smaller ra a'
animals is a tribute TO their strategy FOR wh~s
strength Is limited there be strategy II snrv.
is 10 be guaranteed.
II is with weak and mroritv o
The Jew has survived the btterest persecnt,or,
history because he employed a strategy ana ,sos -
nque that compensated for his lack of n,,nho
Had the Jews Wanted their strength and ~
courage Tor ighting TO the bitter end Jews onr since
would have persisted from the earth The lev, ~
shown in strategy what he lacked in strenr,h .ns
has lived 10 see one after another OF his nersac,,t
perish from the files OF time
The Negro In this country has survived moi \,
reason OF Wanting his great strength hut ,v ,o., ~
his adjustment TO circumstances over which b. 49,
no control. Even today, the Negroes hone ri s,r,ti
rests not H. his superior numbers nor in his snne,
strength, II Is 10 he found in some kind Of srs,a
Out numbered ten to one numerically and +ho.s
TO one financially. the Negro without soma ~,
strategy In his attack on the surrounding nrohI,
Is doomed. one OF the great dangers hesotting ,h
Negro is this sefsame attempt to vaunt his strsr ~
which IS pnny besides exigences Of the siflailon
Negroes generally talk too much about what tbsv
are going 10 do in many instances bevond yr...s.
or the situation The Negro vote becomes oFoc,.
IN proportion as II is welded without bossfinc -,
when the white mar becomes too fearful 10 Know.
now To circumyent any power the Negro vote NAV
have When the Negro vaunts his political powsr
IN such way TO array the white vote aeains, h,,
he Is going TO be lost ''H
Saving wood saying nothing" Is the most 81,
fectve way 10 gain the ends we seek when ~
AME Bishops council would censure Roosevelt -,
not making statement on the anti-lvnch rim thsv
would throw strategy to the winds and kin tho gooss
'ha' lad the golden egg for Negroes Roosevelt pas
eltSted and reelected by such overwhelming woes
mar u cannot be said that the Negroes arc resnor,
thle for his election. Yet this man has gone on, .,
his way hundred times to show that no n,e-
es'ed IN the Negro and is the Negroes frierd Mr.,
Roosevelt has time and again made herself under
stood as a friend OF the Negro
Never before IN the history Of this roanirv M,
me Negro heen so prominent about the White House
as under the Roosevelt administration Never before
mas ne Negro shared largely in the affairs " tho
nation nor has he been sgrally honored rs under
Roosevelt When Roosevelt startled The nation bv|
declaring thar the backward South was the nations
number one problem. he was indirectly sayinv mat
me Negro was the nations problem number ono
MS nolnt vert home 10 the heart o. the Maroon and
me world The South is busy and the Negro Il going
10 share IN the prosperity OF reawakcned and 70.
juvenaied South % tomorrow
Nhat has been spent for schools alone fo- Ne
EroeS throughout the country would eniiile Roo<e.
Velt 70 the undying gratitude OF the race ser he
hlshops would put such friend as Roosevelt on me
spoi They would have him make a statement that
would do the bill no good but harm Tho Nesr5s|
cause In other words the bishops would deliver
lneir irerd true and tried over his enemas
WIN congress that has always pulled against h i'm
lot ms liberal policies towards the forgotten man
win pniocracy yearning for his political head and
wiih heoklers OF divers persuasion seeking occasion
70 emhaffass him. the bishops want him 10 put his
mead ont | hope he will not
II Negroes do not know by now that Roosevelt
iheIr friend. statement the Gavagan biz viii rot
convince them We sincerely hope that Republican
politics Is not motiyatng this demand for ihe pres
dents statement. 1t looks mighty like Il other
words Il resembles the ingenIus tactics Of tho COP.
Lots not gill the goose that laid lis golden eggs