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The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16

1t was for Roosevelt-not the
Democratic party = which is of
course significant. Significant be-
cause some not very nice things
were said about the Southern
States where the Democratic party
has religious standing. Bill Robin
son, the tap dancer, presided and
Mayor Fiorella H. LaGuardia was
the principal speaker and chief
attraction
Some weeks ago this column
talked about those who have,
those who seem to have, and
that great army Of those who act
ually do not have''.
Well, according to old-timers
this was the largest assembly of
Negroes, those who "do not have,
ir recent memory. Their wild and
prolonged demonstrations left no
doubt as to their loyalty to Roose-
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
From Ny Study Window
By REV. JOHN CLARENCE WRIGHT

Tor failures to keep faith with
those who sleep,
AS thousands of tAlglers sound
taps in their honor, the dying
notes should stab our sluggish wills
to renewed activity for the kind OF
world for whose creation they paid
the last full measure of devotion"
How restless is their slumber, if,
in the silent halls of death, they
know that the babes, who bade
them goodbye twenty-five years
ago as they marched away in the
flush of their young manhood to
premature and useless death, arc
being slaughtered, by the thousands
upon the same battlefeldS which
ran red with their blood. 1t seems
to me that from their narrow pri-
son houses, 1 can hear a never
ending, soul-searing chant: IF
blood Us the cost of bungling; if
blood is the cost of bungling; then
Lord, God We have paid it all"
Il SEE THEM AGAIN :"
Thoughts toe deep for human
speech struggle for utterance as I
sit here by my study window
thinking of this and that first
Armistice Day not so long ago, yet
apparently way hack in a forgotten
past. Boys-ny boys-file past me-
again, singing, jovial, reckless as
they march up to positions in the
line. see them again as they first
landed in that strange, foreign
land, bewildered hofnesick, fright
enea. I weep again for them as
they are deliberately taught to hate
an enemy they have not seen, do
not know and against whom they
have neither charge nor grudge. I
see many of them long to bear
arms, to have the status and the
rewards of real soldiers of the re-
public.
1 see their dreams shattered and
their spirits crushed under the twin
burdens Of menial toll, and small.
mean, tyrannical, inefficient preju-
Giced tasSnasterS. I see them pa
tient, patriotic, brave under cir
cumstances and in situations CAL
clllated to try mems souls. And on
the very morning of that first
Armistice Day. even while the bug
ler sounded "cease firing, some OF
them, my boys and yours, laid
down their lives for their country
God speed the day when across
the charred and twisted remains
of the worlds fairest fields and
cities, may again sound the long.
long awaited call ''cease firing.
And may there arise from a crush
ed but chastened people a new
world in which government by
their enlightened consciences and
disciplined wills shall not perish
from the earth.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
By WILLIAM PICKENS

A GENERAL NATIONAL elec-
ton in the United States, where
over % million people disagreed
with over 25 million, and. yet we all
stand united behind the choice of
25 million. That is because we are
a democracy. No totalitarian state
could stand such a division of
votes. Nearly half the voters of the
great republic were for Wendell
Willkie, and slightly more than
half were for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt wins, Therefore, and is
the President of the Republic. That
IS order, civilization, democracy.
If there were proportional rep
resentation in this government,
Willkie would have received near
ly half the electoral college; there
would be about 40 Republican SEN
ators in the congress, and nearly
nalf of the representatives in the
house would be Republican, For
an outsider, working against relief
psychology aid War-scare, Willkie
did as much as any human could
have done.
LOOKS AT FIGURES
But what interests us now, and
what will continue to interest us,
is the sinister exhibition Of de-
mocracy. Look at those election
figures: Alabama cast just around
100000 votes in all, and Alabama
had II votes in the electoral COL
lege.
Iowa cast about 100000 votes.
nearly one million MORE votes
than Alabama,-and yet Iowa had
only II votes in the electoral COL
lege.
Alabama's IL went. to Roosevelt,
IoWa's IL went to Willkie.
That is: Two people in Alabama
outweigh IL people in Iowa.
There are other comparisons of
the same sort: for example, Con-
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
EIGHT LAWYERS NAMED

CHICAGO, 1ll.-(A N P)-The
names of Cook County1s govern
ment appeal agents for elective
service were made public Thurs
day. They are lawyers authorized
to represent the legal interests of
draft registrants who seek defer
ment on various grounds. The
colored lawyers included in the
group are: r. E. WeStbrooks, G..
w. Underwood, E. B. DickerSon,
G. c. Adams, A. L. Bates, P. B.
Prescott, Oscar C. Brown and w.
K. Hooks.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
BY l.. BAYNARD WHITNEY
JIM CROW ROLLER

So, they Jim Crow the Negro in
the army?
The diversity of opinion on the
race question among Negroes
themselves has been one of the
greatest obstacles to our progress
and solidarity. One important
cause of this has been the mixture
of white blood in the Negro race,
creating within it a vicious color
prejudice.
AS a general thing unmixed Ne
groes (and who can designate them
nowadaysO want to remain Me-
groes, while the mixed Negroes
(their number is legion) want to
become white, "and in between on
the misty flats the rest drift to
and fro"
On the issue of segregation this
diversity of opinion often breaks
out like fire. Here, as in most
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
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The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16

Thus, great American democracy
has spoken.
GREAT PERSONALITY
This man Roosevelt is a great
personality. He had to be to shat
ter the third term barrier so
convincingly in the face of the de-
termined opposition in campaign
ing put up by the Republicans.
The COP spent millions in gold
and muscle trying to convince
Americans that their way of ad-
ministration" would be the better
way. The contended, indirectly
that they had the money, among
other things, and that they would
Put it to work, thus taking govern
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
PLATFORM

To that they feel
Of which they their views all political social
religious questions which face the
especially in business the extent
that we job makers as well job seekers.
n the thrift
FatherhoOd God and the brotherhood Of
s. To a rmer foundation posterity
the compete
other
dealing dependable
times that will be able
enterprise realizing vital
points, give
rendering better
published in which views
opinions shall reflect IL
way the opinion Oft The PHOENIX INDEX.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
The People
Have Spokeni

THE AMERICAN people have
spoken with a mighty voice in re-
electing President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt for a third term. AS in
the past, the opposition will bow to
the mandate, regardless of the
issues raised ir the campaign and
the matter of precedence-shatter-
ing.
1t was a great campaign. Never
before in history
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
Between The Lines

, service, but he would have found
it necessary to lay plans for his
reelection four years hence. This
takes entirely too much OF ma
tons energies for an emergency.
However distaSteful may be the
ugly fact, it must be faced, that
democratic processes are too slow
to compete with a dictatorship.
DANGER TO DEMOCRACY
1t is in these slow processes that
We have a major danger to demo-
cracy. When a race gets tight,
as between democracy and totali-
tarianism the fellow who stops It
tie his shoes will lose the race.
Even four years, Uncle Sam must
stop to tie his shoes; while Hitter
and Mussolini are rushing on. This
is not as serious now as it would be,
we're it not for the British navy.
Even the slow processes would not
be fatal were 1T not for the fact that
the people are left divided 1t
may be said that intelligent people
will not nurse the bitterness and
rancor of projection stresses and
strains; the fact remains that peo-
pie are not given to "acting intel
ligently" on matters of politics and
religion, but act rather from their
feelings, and therefore not accord
ing to intelligence. The least
intelligent of human actions are
those displayed at election times.
Hence we are confronted with two
grave dangers, the one of our slow
process, and other of the divisional
nature of election procedures.
F.D.R CASTS DIE
1t is expecting too much to expect
political wounds to heal over night
and while they are healing,
dictatorship is forging ahead. The
dangers pointed out are those sur
rounding the presidential election
in general Had Mr.. Willkie won,
there are peculiar danger in the
Offering. 1t is generally conceded
that the Republican party is the
party of plutocrats. This means
that if Willkie was true to his trust,
ne would have had to serve pluto
cracy first.
The interests of plutocracy have
been in ever large dividends even
when declared against the interests
of the great cause of labor. To
revertto the old ideals of large
dividends at any cost, will mean the
end of democracy here in America;
for with taste of better things,
labor will never submit as in
generations past.
Roosevelt, on the other hand, has
cast the die and mapped his course,
which, unto God, may some great
man carry through! RooSevelt's
task will be simpler in that he has
already broken with the pluto
Gratis, thanks be to Godl
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16

were so many
ballots cast. The
$4,000, 900 esti-
mated voters be-
came the 50.000,-
600 active voters.
Since scattered
returns were still
coming in J the
latter part of last
week, the total
threatened t O
reach IN mn mn
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
HARLEM AND ITS POLITICS
Nv WALTER X. CHIVERS

THIS COLUMN HAS studlously
avoided political subjects during
this national campaign because the
writer is non- partisan. Being Tree
of party alignments leaves freedom
for objective observation on poll
t;cs as a social force. So even
though, at the time this is written
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16

Va ~
not been counted,
certain reflections
upon the cam
paign, or rather
phases of it, are
valid.
The stimulus
for this particu-
lar piece was a
Harlem campaign
rally on the eve
of the election
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
CALVIN'S DIGEST

instances, there is shown our
strong trait Of trying to escape
from reality. We act too often on
a premise of wisllful thinking, and
are constantly being bruised by
things as they are.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16

SCHOOLS GET SECRETARIES
HOUSTON prlrcl-
pals of eight colored elementary
schools of the city will be given
secretaries Immediately, in accord
ance with action taken in recent
meeting of the school board.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16

connected political
the completely mpartaly hatred
matter this office Sun
than3 p. M. OF in
plainly written
rights
safety unless the
is paid for.
Make payable to the INDEX, 1914 East Monroe
Street All articles must be signed by contributors Or they
be
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
By
DEAN GORDON B. HANDCOCh


1T is GOOD or our citizens in
general, and Negroes in particular,
to bear in mind, that the contest
between Roosevelt and WlllKle Is
not one of sin and evil, OF rlgnt
and wrong, and of heathenism ana
civilization. After all, the decisive
influence which shall save or de-
story our nation, is not with Roose-
Welt or Willkie; the future OF TINS
country is in the keeping of the
people. AS long as the soul OF the
people is saved, the nation is safe;
when the people lose their souls'
the nation is lost. So then, IN the
final analysis, it is the people ana
not the president that Will deter
mine our immediate and ultimate
future.
For many months, since my re-
turn from Europe, I have been
pointing out the dangerous turn OF
events which may jeopardlze oe-
mocracy, temporarily at least. l
have insisted that a democracy can
hardly compete with dictatorship
In spite of my avowed and inVete-
rate preference for democracy, l
see it threatened b. forces that Will
not down.
The onrush of the tide OF totah-
tarianism threatens to engult our
own nation as it is threatening TO
destroy democracy in Europe
Nothing proves more concluslveiy
the nature of the struggle aneao
than the clumsiness of the demo-
cratic processes in election times.
said, before November S, that
whether Roosevelt or Willkie IS
elected the ugly fact remains that
the incoming president must unity
a country that is dangerously
divided
BITTERNESS WILL BE LEFT
This campaign is bound to leave
an aftermath of bitterness and
apathy, that will be detrimental to
the causes OF defense. WnaC is
worse, we must go through this
divisional process again in four
more years. 1t takes so much OF
our nations energies, in dividing
itself and becoming reunited, that
we have far too little energy left to
complete our task.
1t is most unfortunate that pres
sing matters must wait until an
election is decided, before they can
move on. While this is not very
detrimental in times of peace, in
times of war, it threatens to be dis
astrous. Had Willkie been elected,
he would have had to spend con-
siderable time playing the politics
of organization before he could
even give himself to the task of de-
tending this nation.
He would have not only had to
organize for four years of critical
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-16
Cease Firinq

THAT WAS the order which
twenty-five years ago electrified
the world, and turned a thousand
cities into carnivalS of unreStrained
rejoicing. Weary soldiers threw
down their arms and enemies of
moment before, fell into each 9TH
erls embrace as friends and broth
ers.
The deluge of blood had been
checked; a beam of hope had
penetrated the black, angry clouds
of world conflict; the cannon's
roar had ceased; and even if
swords were not to be beaten into
plOwshares, men had decided that
for season, they would study war
no more. A raean of praise and
Thanksgiving assembled from the
heart of a scared and tired world.
Mothers, sisters, wives and
sweethearts prepared to welcome
back those men and boys who had
escaped the harvest Of death. No
heroes in the worlds history came
back from the carnage of war with
greater or more sincere acclaim, for
everyone believed that with that
memorable order to "cease firing"
the first step had been taken to-
wards ending all wars. HaterS OF
tyranny and dictators fondly hoped
that the sacrifice of life, wealth
and property in civilizations worst
conflict would pay rich dividends IL
a world safe for the rule OF the
people,
WE ARE DISILLUSIONED
On this Armistice Day is it nee
essary to remind you how cruelty
disilIusioned we have become in
two short decades? This is no time
to discuss the causes that have
led to the world in which this
years celebration of that precious
day will be held.
Every Main Street statesman and
barber shop political philosopher
can adequately state and explain
them. 1t is ours on this Armistice
Day to solemnly rededicate our
selves, "orlr lives and our sacred
honor to the pursuit OF those
personal and national ideals OF
character and integrity that alone
will lead to the ultimate overthrow
of the forces of greed and selfish
ness which plunge nations and
peoples into mortal combat. 1t is
ours to contemplate anew the
horrible waste and destruction OF
war. 1t is ours in that moment OF
silence which is the highpoint IN
every Armistice Day observance, to
listen for the voices of the millions
from their now desecrated graves
in Europe, charging as under GOD
Evening star., 1940-06-09
GILDED CAGE
Cont;nvsd from poee five

radio blaring. On the other side, the
demure little French governess of the
Van Houton children was swearing. in
French, because her curriers' wouldn't
work. To Beth and her crowd the
Harden House was the Harden House,
a fine address, place for people living
on top of the world. They wouldn't
know anything about Rooms 3Ol
to 342.
They wouldn't know that forty-two
rooms in the Harden House were
small, cubby-hole affairs, set aside for
those people who arrived with servants
and said. languidly. "And. also, III
want room for my maid" These
rooms were as cut off from the rest of
Harden House. by social and economic
barriers, as though they were miles
away.
Dur Beth and her crowd wouldn't
AAOW NndS. AuCy \OOldA \Otl\ClSCI
that, a month before, in an agency
which was proud to advertise that i'll
provided domestics for the finest
households in New York, the very best
English Wallets and japanese house
boys, Kay had stood before a shrewd,
harassed young woman, who said
There's an opening for a companion|
"a Miss Windrop. She wants some
body to read to her and stay with her
and she's turned down at least twelve
girls we've sent so far. You might try
that. She's at the Harden House,
Room 14O2."
A half hour later she was standing
before a wiry little old spinster with
faded blue eyes. In just eight minutes
Miss Windrop gave her cross-exami-
(Co1tjsvsd On pogs 12)
Evening star., 1940-06-09

is a slice of jaundiced cake smeared
with whipped cream and topped with
two or three discouraged-looking ber-
ries. Yet strawberry shortcake, as even
Nicholas Murray Butler can tell you,
is made with baking powder biscuits
and strawberries - and nothing but
baking powder biscuits and strawber-
ries. True. little sugar might be
added. but hate to admit it, for of
late sugar seems to get into more
things than a head of lettuce in a tea
room. Whoever started the practice of
baking the sickening stuff into waffles
and corn bread - and shaking it over
melons - should be sent over Niagara
Falls in barrel of glucose.
A Melon Viii BovqvsM
EAND. speaking of melons, whatever
became of the good old-fashioned
muskmelon of our youth? There was
a fruit - or vegetable, if you will -
with true heart of gold beneath its
rough exterior; a melon with flavor
and body. a melon with bouquet! l
am afraid the answer is that it met
the same fate = and fate worse than
death - that the spring onion did.
Grating horticulturists have mon
keyed with these succulent works of
nature till they changed the one into
smooth-skinned, flavorless canteloupe,
and the other into a slippery, effete
and bewhiskered scallion.
Some years ago when editors, nat
uralists, economists and sportsmen
began viewing with alarm" the deci-
mated f1ocks of our native game birds,
tried in vain to arouse public interest
in the fate of that most noble of
American birds - the roast chicken.
Here is bird that. with the passing of
Evening star., 1940-06-09
You order .hotcoke and what do you get -?

pigeon, the mustang and the buffalo.
In recent years, our government has
spent millions of dollars establishing
sanctuaries for beaver, waterfowl, elk,
bison, etc. As nation, we've become
conservation-conscious. But what have
we done to preserve such sacred heri-
tages as strawberry shortcake, corn
bread, clam chowder, muskmelons,
Evening star., 1940-06-09

time, has become almost extinct. Only
the most patient stalker is rewarded
with so much as glimpse of this beau
tiful, golden-brown bird in its native
haunt, surrounded by pan-roast
potatoes.
Today, this once-glorious fowl,
stuffed with bay leaves and cardboard,
has gone down for the third time to a
watery gravy. And only by bribing
headwaiters and chefs in various parts
of the country am able to give you
the present standard recipe for roast
chicken dressing:
minced erasers
lb. Dreaded blotting paper
Il lb. macerated straw hat
n cup sugar
8 bay leaves
lb. sage
u whisk broom. chopped fine
Salt and pepper to taste
De gustibns non est distut0nduss!
Another cause that enlisted my most
enthusiastic support, but which seems
also to have fallen through for lack of
public interest and support, was the
erection of a suitable monument to the
memory of the person who first put
canary seeds in clam chowder. Per-
haps a marble figure, its mouth stuffed
with caraway bushes. writhinxi,l agony
on bed of broken clam shells and
oyster crackers
And coleslaw - what crimes are
committed in thy name! know of
popular and reputable restaurant that
mixes cabbage with whipped cream
and chopped maraschino cherries and
labels the noxious result coleslaw.
Moreover, they are proud of it = it's
the speciality of the place
Evening star., 1940-06-09
G. d Zsya

waffles, coleslaw. spring onions and
roast chicken? The answer is, we've
done nothing.
Today, strawberry shortcake is prac-
tically nonexistent in hotels and res
taurants from Lubec, Maine, to San
Francisco, and from New Orleans to
Portal, North Dakota: and what you'll
get if you are so foolish as to order it,
Evening star., 1940-06-09
No M0RE STRAWRERRY SHoRTcAxr3
Aninquiring male mind
also wants to know who
fiEst put minced straw
hats in roast chicken
by
Jack Shufflevvoxfh b

~ ONE years ago l had an artist
friend who hired a Negro boy to
~ sit in his studio and watch him
paint. He supplied the boy with
bung starter, and whenever my friend
began squirting at his painting, first
with one eye and then with the other,
touching spot here and noodling a
brushline there. the Negro boy would
bop him on the head with his bar
tenders billet.
That finished the painting. and in
time, of course. the artist, too. But it
was a good idea while it lasted and
was the only way this ingenious brush
wielder could break himself of working
over his canvases till he'd ruined
them.
So, too, most cooks should have
someone standing behind them with
potato masher - good heavy maple
one - to bring down on their heads
every time they start experimenting
with pinch of this or dash OF that.
More good American dishes than
you can shake saltcellar at have been
permanently ruined by such tinkering.
Already much genuine culinary Amer
icana has gone the way of the carrier
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