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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20
BOOK REVIEW

chise racial animosity served its
purpose in keeping the whites and
free Negro lsborers divided and
later in dividing them from the
emancipated Negroes. This pro-
cedure has been the boon of dema-
gogues from that day until the pres
ent time.
DR.. Shugg gives clear picture of
the position of the different classes
in Louisiana society before and after
the Civil War, but he makes no
statements about the probable flu
ture OF the different classes after
tracing the poor whites rise down
to the present. DR.. Shugg fails also
to explain sufficiently certain state
ments he makes about the Negro
during reconstruction. In one place
he writes that had the emancipated
slaves been given land it would
have been taken from them soon by
the Southern whites. The author
offers no other solution for the
problem which existed after the
slaves were freed He deplores the
fact that Negroes were given the
ballot though not educated to use
il with the result that hey became
he tool Of any politician. Much the
same criticism might be advanced
on the granting OF the vote to il
literates wherever they may be, yet
1t would not seem to be the spirit
OF democracy to deny the fran
chise until a man was educated
Rather, it would seem that educa-
tional opportunities should be such
that no man could reach voting age
without being informed on the bal
lot and its use. II this had been so
in Louisiana emancipation would
have offered peculiar problem for
only a short period. Yet today in
the South even ignorant whites are
at the mercy Of any rabble rouser
and Negro batter.
DR.. Shugg implies too that it was
unfortunate that those whom he
termed radical Republican leaders
in Congress defeated Lincoln's
original plan OF returning the state
to home rule. However Louisiana
was placed under the Federal rule
only after a bloody rio in New
Orleans in which IS Negroes and a
few white sympathizers we're killed.
II is too late now to say what might
have happened but il is apparent
that the ex-slave would have found
little mercy at the hands OF his
former master unless he had been
willing TO return 10 the plantation
and knuckle down as he had always
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20
THE NEGRO

President. Afro-Amercan Institute and Federated
Firesde Groups

profit therefrom. ITO err is human"
There are few of us who have not
been guilty more or less OF making
grave mistakes. But the men and
women who have left their foot
prints on the sands OF time have
been those who have used the mis-
takes Of the past as a stepping
stones for the future.
X X X
When you read Race newspapers
you are getting a kind OF education
which cannot be gotten any other
way.
We have egotistic leaders whose
greatest ambition seems to lead
them to do the most idiotic things;
but they are always brought to their
senses by influence and common
sense OF the great throng OF people
who never forget that the good OF
all must, at all times be conserved
to the exclusion OF those who aim
to exalt themselves for personal
ambition and self laudation.
X X X
Some Negro leaders who have
lived all their lives off Negro sup
port and patronage and who feel
themselves financially secure, boast
that they don't have TO depend upon
Negroes or that there Is nothing
Negroes can do for them. He who
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

~ - ,ho Iewt ook where he Is
10, 10 controls the money mar
ra+ ~ A,,erica and that's wnv thew
rasnec, hin, lot ne do like the lew
+ ~ 90 into business and finance
~ cor,ro, tho money" All okthis.
~ course said Win an air of tri-
n,,nh and evult,tion hecause thew
figrre mai thew have "at last found
re solntior 10 tho nroblem,
The whole theory OF Jewish DOW
,,r.5r7,, -r,rrzt1ivr through economics
,s f.Ise The. theory Of the lew being
tho money lender Of the world
grows ont NJ tradition that we will
evnIain further on in this INSTALL
nent and which is based on certain
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20
The writer's thoughts necessarily represent the
and opinions OF this paper.
By RAMON A. MARTINEZ

Town land; ~ they could not bear
arms: % and they could not hold
public office. There were other con-
ditions OF a social and minor ma
ture. specially conditions imposed
by the clergy OF these various coun-
tries, and which were directed 70
the prevention OF the spread OF Ju-
daIsm IN these countries. The main
idea is that they had to live under
very strict limitations il they wanted
10 stay.
( The three main limitations above
mentioned added TO others OF sup
Elementary nature. forced the Jew
in Western civilization to seek his
livelihood in the trades. the profess
sions. in commerce ana finance.
That is why the Jew in the Western
lorld shines mostly in the arts, the
sciences, the professions and IN
commerce and finance.
The Jew became the traditional
money-lender OF the world, because
inasmuch as he could not invest
his money in real estate, his earn
lngs and his profits from his bus
mess and his labor were put away
and boarded in cold cash He be-
came the best customer of the banks
but he was never allowed TO control
the banking system of any christian
country. He always had ready cash
to-tend to others but it mostly
ing the savings from his earnings
and labors, most OF his loan business
was reduced to the petty-cash or
small loan field, in Europe with the
pawnshops, and in America with
-pawRshep- and the fiRaHee~eem-
panies. The only Jewish major
banking house OF international re-
nown that the world has ever known
is that of the Roschild family.
Here in America, outside Of the
Julius Rosenwald fortune and one
or two others, the majority OF the
big fortunes OF America, and the
control OF the banking system are
practically all in the hands Of Nor
dies. specially descendants from
Scotch, Irish and English. Scan the
list and we will find Carnegies,
Rockefellers, Morgsns, DuPonts,
Vanderbits, Astors, MELONS. Rey-
nolds. Dukes. Dodges. Wanamakers,
Eastmans, Biddles, Fords. insults,
Briggs, and others. all of Nordic
names, and hardly a Jewish name In
the long list. 1t is out of all sense
OF proportion that less than five
million Jews can control the vast
wealth OF a nation with 100000, 900
whites in control OF the social and
political machinery OF the country,
1t Just don't make sense.
And so far as the Jews being free
from racial persecution in America
any Jew will tell you that that is
not true. Ask any Jew that wants
to be truthful about it. They are
prosecuted as much as the Negro
but in a different way. In our opin-
ion the school of Copy the Jew" is
not only false. but dangerous.
NEGRO HISTORY CLASSES, un-
der the auspices OF the Negro Ma
tionalist Society, are being con-
Quoted personally by Atty. Ramon
A. Martinez, every Monday night at
s O'Clock, at the Y.MC.A. on Eliz-
abeth near ST. Antoine. No admis-
sion charge. The last period OF the
e, ening will be dedicated to a round
table conference on current events,
including the present European war,
and how II may affect the Negro
world. Everybody is invited.
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uses others to fulfill his own ambi-
ton. then sticks his snug nose into
the clouds of glory, scorning or for
getting the prop and support Of
others. which aided his ascension 10
man who will inevitably anIwer
for his notorious selfishness.
\ X X
Every political campaign in the
South is a strong reminder to the
Negro, OF the gravest injustice be-
ing perpetrated against him. And IL
in the face Of this injustice the
Negro cultivates a genuine patriot
sm, or the hundred percent Ameri-
can sentiment, he will prove to be
new political and social element,
a new pattern of democracy, and
different from any yet discovered
in the history OF the world.
Il n 4
Just what are the aspirations Of
the Negro7 The Negro seeks goals
ordained by that divinity which
shapes the destiny of all creation.
We find our people aspiring to
achieve something not matched by
any other races in the past. AL
though our skin fermentation differs
from that of the larger mass Of
American citizens, it is our purpose
to break down all barriers and crash
through all the gates OF opposition
confronting our group. 1t Is our pur-
post to attain mankind's highest eul-
ture, embrace mankind's material
civilization, share mankind's social
comforts, possess all forms Of man.
kinds wealth, become masters Of all
the arts and sciences of the earth's
people and ultimately reach the
noblest standards OF life, liberty and
the pursuit OF happiness.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

'iieH esPdolH'y
10 give US d po 1i
Hiuld tnd' win
cure US from uie
CduGtl Vi I dGldi
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Ihougn ne laIIs
....ls W 0 T I n
more 10 MS race
tndn the lilui-
v d u a | VINO
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one to be turned on when things
affect the Negro and one to be
turned on when others are affected.
Opportunity. translated in regards
10 us is usually lack of opportunity.
Even the complexion OF Christianity
changes and its teachings lose much
of their meaning when 1t touches
US
\ X n
Render service. Improve your
business and hustle the same as
ether business men. Meet compe-
tition and in the natural course of
events your business will grow, not
because you are a white man or
black man, but because you are
business man willing to roll up
your sleeves and work.
X X X
Let US open our minds hearts and
pocketbooks for the interchange Of
IDEAS, spirit and finance. Let US feet
the urge OF group interest and
organize enterprises that create sup
ply and fulfill demands. Let us for
get the tragedies OF the past, renew
our faith in local possibilities, econ
omize our substance and invest our
surplus in something to guarantee
our own independence and the eco
homie prospects OF coming genera
TORS.
X X X
The future should be looked for
ward to with renewed hopes and
aspirations, letting the bitter expe-
riences OF the past be our guide. We
will remember in the future the
present mistakes. Surely we will
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done.
The South's dilemma today is
tied up closely with the struggl,
which DR.. Shugg describes in HIS
book Glass and race differences
will have to be adjusted before a
way out can be found. On this too
depends the role OF the South and
Of the Negro in the n.tion as a
whole. For trS reason. Origins
OF Class Struggle in Louisiana has
timeliness and interest which
might not be Immediately apparent
Readers will find it extremely
clesy I'D simply written.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20
On the Horizon
By JERENE GURLEY MACKLIN

by JEhENb Othbbt hHNhLiN
Hon. John NJ. Lsngston was the
first ssnitarian OF his race He was
appointed by President u s. Grant,
March IS, 1871. On the Board OF
Health for the District Of Columbia
lie was also the first representative
IN Congress from the "Old Domin-
lon
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20
NEGRO ECONOMICS"

Let us examine a few OF the varl-
Gus schools OF thought in Negro eco
Monies and test the soundness OF
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

On the 23rd day Of May. 1881
President Garfield appointed ex-
Senator B. K. Bruce OF Mississippi
register Of the United States Treas
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

The Lone Star Medical associa-
ton was the first Negro Medical
association organized in the United
States.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

lODS-
So rotten has been the deal Ne
groes have gotten from city Civil
Service that few Negroes bother
to even submit themselves to the
tests. Mayor Jefferies may think
the making OF this appointment is
skating on thin ice but we assure
the mayor that the ice is thicker
than he suspects.
X X X
Listen to this:
THE third term issue is not an
issue at all. 1t is something that has
been set up by the editorial writers
and columnists to talk about, and
they don't appear to have tired OF
talking about it yet.
Time and again the point is made
that II President Roosevelt should
seek third term he would be
violating a tradition. On the other
hand, il this tradition exists, and
it is granted that it does, by what
tradition Is the President required
10 declare that he will not seek
third term?
II our American custom is to limit
the President to two terms, what
is the basis for demanding that he
declare that he will not seek three
terms? 1t doesn't make much sense"
Democratic and Republican strate-
gists are yet jockeying for con-
vention dates. The Democrats are
determined to hold their national
convention after the Republican
national convention. or course the
Democratic strategist can afford to
hold out longer than the Republic
cans because being in power they
are in the seat OF advantage. Jim
Farley prefers a short sweet cam
paign anyway.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

The handle OF a new brush for
cleaning the interiors Of glass soifee
makers gives them a rotary motion
to do thorough work.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Dear Sir:
We feel that the publicity and
support that your paper rendered
Us was one of the main reasons for
The huge success OF our Adopt
Family" plan for Christmas. We sin
cerely appreciate the help and CO.
operation shown US during that
time.
We find that the Chronicle is the
finest Race paper in Michigan and
that the full page OF news events in
pictures on the back OF the paper
is very decided and interesting
Improvement.
Respectfully yours, Mable Smith,
president, American Beauty Social
and Art Club.
Nr Louis E. Martin
Editor Of Michigan Chronicle
Dear Sir:
As a taxpayer o, Eight Mile Road,
I'd like TO express the whole thing
shout this Ne gro City. would
say absolutely no. have been a
taxpayer Of Ferndale since 1923
and don't see why some so-called
leading people are always trying to
pull a thing like this. II these
peoples taxes were paid. we could
demand any Improvements and not
be compelled to travel without
street lights. 1t is impossible to have
more strain on the people Of Eight
Mic Road. I'd like to know what
they mean by saying the people get
next 10 nothing for the taxes we
pay at Eight Mile Road.-A tax
payer Of Ferndale, Mrs. A. Stephens.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

I. B Meyers was the first Negro
theatrical manager Of the United
Gaatnr
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20

ury. This was the first Negro man
whose signature made money OF
worthless paper
A Prof, NJ. A. Hopkins OF Frank.
lin, NC, a Negro teacher OF marked
ability, was appointed by President
Cleveland. first term. as minister to
Liberia,
The first AME Zion church cs-
tsblished south Of the Mason and
Dixon line was 81. Peters, New
berns, NC, in 1862
The most prominent layman. so
says Anderson. Of any Negro re-
ligion in the United States was the
Hon. John C Daney. He was held
in high esteem by all denomina-
tons
In 1869 Negro men. for the first
time in history Of the District Of
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1940-01-20
Observing
POLITICS and
POLITICIANS
FIGHTING IN EUROPE
MAYORS THIN ICE
THIRD TERM ISSUE
THE CONVENTIONS
BY VIM. L. SRERRILL
Associate Editor

note that Mr.. Roosevelt in hi,
Jackson Day dinner speech took
time out TO twlt those who think
they see in his every move an effort
to involve this country In the Eu-
ropean war. To those who warn
that they will never again consent to
sending American youth to fight on
the soil of Europe the Presiden,
says. Nobody has asked them to
consent for nobody expects such an
undertaking Spoken sarcastically,
but believe the President means it.
No. it is not double talk. as some OF
the Presidents critics would have us
believe Mr.. Roosevelt is not trying
to slips us partially into war. The
President knows, as all OF US know,
that the thought that we can go
halfway 10 war without going a.!
the way is false and dangerous So
phistry.
X X X
We are yet waiting TO see II our
mayor has the courage to skat, on
what he calls thin ice" in the ap-
pointment OF a Negro TO the Civil
Service Commission. The mayor told
a conference OF representative citi-
zens last week that there were other
appointments he could give is that
would mean more TO us than the
Civil Service appointment. Certain
Negroes who themselves hope to re-
ceive the blessings OF the mayor are
privately shouting 10 him Bravo"
alta Boyr You are right, Mr.
Mayor"
We don't think 50. In giving US a
representative on the Civil Service
Commission, the mayor is not only
giving us a commissioner but he is
unbolting the door that has barred
many capable and trustworthy citi-
zens to fair competition for city
jobs
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Two Gifts Announced
By Corcoran Gallery

Two noteworthy gifts to the Cor
coran Gallery of Art have Just
been announced by officials of that
institution. These are q bronze
relief plaque portrait Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wayne MacVeagh by the late
Augustus st. Gaudens, and an out
standing group of tapestries. All
these items have been on loan exhi-
bition for some years at the gallery
but now, through the generosity Of
Mrs. Margaretta Cameron Mac
Veagh Farrar-Smith daughter of
the late United States diplomat,
they become the outright possess
sions of the gallery.
Of the nine tapestries, all are
10th century pieces. They consti<
tute, according to c. Powell Mimi
gerode, director of the gallery, an
important addition to the tapestries
already belonging to the institution.
The st. Gaudens plaque is bas-
relief portrait of Mr.. and Mrs. Mac
Veagh facing each other and is said
to rank high among works by this
outstanding American sculptor.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Peace Council Official
Asks Naval Needs Probe

Frederick J. Libby, executive Sec
retary of the National Council for
Prevention of War. yesterday asked
for tabling of the V;nson naval ex-
pansion bill pending in Congress
until "the whole situation, including
the size of the navy required to
defend the United States, has been
competently determined by congress
sional investigation"
Mr.. Libby, in prepared state
ment, based his request on the
recent assertion by Secretary Of the
Navy Edison that the super-struc-
ture of warships are vulnerable and
the testimony of Maj. Gen. H. H.
Arnold, chief Of the Air Corps, before
Senate committee that the coun-
try's fighting planes are inferior
in several points.
Mr.. Libby termed these. state
ments frank admissions OF colossal
blunders in the blind spending of
recent years" and requested survey
OF needs before passage of the $685.
O00, 900 Vinson bill.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
j. 5. Race Wire Drive
Brings Big Slump
In Horse Betting
Bookies' Business OFF
IS Pet, Prosecutor
In Chicago Says :.

~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 4.-The horse
race betting market has suffered q
terrific slump" United States Dis
trict Attorney William j. Campbell
reported today, as q result of the
Governments campaign to cut off
the flow Of turf information to
gambling rooms.
Mr.. Campbell, directing the coast
forecast drive to end the use of
interstate wires for the transmission
Of race results to handbooks, esti-
mated that wagering in gambling
parlors had dropped rs per cent
since M. L. Annenberg's Nationwide
News Service went out of business
last November.
He attributed the sharp decline
to Government opposition and the
difficulty in obtaining prompt in
formation from the tracks. Prior
to the dissolution of the Nation
wide network, the prosecutor said,
the total wagered annually in hand
books throughout the country ex-
ceeded $4,000, 900 0OO-almost three
times the sum gambled at the Ma
tion's race tracks.
Betting Volume Dwindles.
Since the Government began its
campaign, he added, the volume of
wagers in the bookies' shops had
dwindled to less than $500, ,OOO, 900
year.
Annenberg deserted the race in
formation field after q grand jury
indicted him and a number of his
associates on charges Of conspiracy
to violate the income tax and lottery
laws.
A wildcat" service was estab-
lished subsequently to supply race
results to bookmakers, but last
month the Western Union Telegraph
Co. and II men who allegedly op-
Grated the new system were in
dicted by another Federal grand
jury on charges of conspiracy to
operate a lottery. :
Indicted for Using Radio.
Six Chicago bet barons, including
two former leutenants Of AL Capone,
were indicted on charges of violat-
ing the Federal Communications Act
by setting up miniature broadcast
ing stations to relay turf data to
their gambling rooms after their
wire '1ife lines" had been cut of.
Government attorneys contended
that the race entries, odds and re-
suits sent to bookmakers were
lists OF prizes awarded by means
OF lottery scheme" and, hence, the
Federal anti-lottery laws were vio-
lated. That construction of the
statutes was upheld recently by Fed
eral Judge James H. Wilkerson.
Investigators predicted that the
turist's decision would have far
reaching results. They said it gave
Government prosecutors elsewhere
Evening star., 1940-05-05

. powerful weapon TO WELD against
the gaming trade.
The investigators said that bookies
continued to operate, although on
a restricted basis. They figured that
approximately 70 per cent Of them
were forced to depend solely on
radio broadcasts for information
from the tracks.
Evening star., 1940-11-16
Coventry

The name OF Coventry from yeSter-
day onward so long as the speech OF
England shall endure must bear
different meaning than that which
1t possessed in previous times. It will
have connotations of horror to gen.
erations of Britains as yet unborn.
Even when the ruins Of the blasted
buildings are cleared away and new
homes, schools, churches, factories,
shops and stores have been raised
against the Midland sky, the implica-
tions of the night Of November 14-15,
1910, will remain tragic, sorrowful
and, in certain respect, definitely
provocative. The human mind never
has learned how to forget catastro-
phes which scar the soul.
So Coventry, destroyed by German
bomberS, is linked to immortality be-
cause of the chance which trans
formed a quiet medieval town into
a thriving metropolis of the auto
motive industry and, subsequent to
the beginning Of the second World
War, the center of the English air
defense establishment. The planes
which guarded all Britain and many
of those which carried the heroic
fighters of the R. A. F. on raids over
Germany were built in the shadow
of the beautiful st. Michaels Cathe-
dral which John Ruskin praised as
the best of fourteenth century per-
pendicular Gothic. Men and women
also who toiled in the production
plants did their marketing in the
streets through which the Lady
Godiva rode naked to win toll free
dom for their ancestors eight hundred
years ago. Americans have known
the place well. 1t was near enough
to Rugby, oxford, Stratford, Warwick
and Kenilworth to have been con-
venient for them to visit.
But, perhaps due in part to its
ancient celebrity, Coventry has not
perished in vain. Her citizens may
have been slaughtered, her monu-
mentS wrecked under pitiless moon,
yet her sacrifice will spur the re-
sistance the enemy desired to crush.
In the United States as well as in
Britain a determination to replace
the machines and materiel lost
already has been declared. The
German dictator merely has angered
his foes and their friends. His prede-
cessor, Kaiser william, could instruct
him in the futility of terrorism.