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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-16
Guest Pastor

Rev. Jay MorningstaE Ypsilanti
will conduct services at the Ann
Arbor Calvary Evangelical Church
Sunday. in the absence Of Rev. NJ
r. Jewell pastor OF that church.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-16
Rites To Be In Church

Rites To Be In Church
Funeral services for William
Hutchinson. who passed away Thurs
day, will be in the Brown Chapel
A.M.E. Church, Monday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock instead Of at the Lucille
Richardson Funeral Home. Rev.
Henry Simmonds will officiate and
burial will be IN Alban Cemetery.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-16

Joseph Roster, backed by the ad-
ministration, has won West-Nir-
ginia's "spht-second'.~~se Senatorial
contest by senate vote Of 40-3s.
Roster, appointed by former Sem
ator Matthew Nicely CD, won
over Clarence E. Martin, appoint
ed by former Governor Homer A.
Holt Cd, whom Nicely succeeded
as governor. The contest hinged
on whether Nicely or Holt was
governor when the appointments
were made.
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The Greater Slavery
By RUTH TAYLOR

Slavery of the body of man is horror to the slave
and degradation to the master. But there is greater
slavery than this-the slavery of the mind
It was against this that jefferson went record We
he said II am opposed to any tyranny over the mos u
men,"
And it is this form of slavery which the toataran con
uuerors of Europes helpless people have enforced on mil
lions
It is the slavery of fearfear Of each new act OF ag
pressOn of the dcators whose diseased minds make them
exut onv in the groveng of serfs 1t the slavery OF
suspcion-suspicion that makes man lose 1alth IN ail
kind even in his and dearest lest they turn against
him to save themselves.
II is the slavery of terror-terrOr lest some new evil
come upon terror lest he lose all that ne SUN mas "
these overors of unreason It the slavery of hatred
hatred that warps and twists the mind turning into dark
paths into which ray of sunlight can ever enter
That is the greater saveryfor it is poison that cor
rodes and DESTROYS the mind of weakening not only
the man himself but the succeeding generation
And it is into this slavery that the dctaor have plunged
not only the countries they have conquered and
bv fair means or foubu even their own people,
yes even the children Them they have made slaves to
false ideoogvone direct contrast to every feglon e
world has ever known Even the old Teuonc gods Whon
these new barbarians worship could raise their hands IN
horror at the work done in their name.
1t to keep this type of slavery from our shores 1o
ever that we are busy reaing and against whlch we are
marshalling all our forces-both military and civilian
Lincoln said: "A nation cannot endure half slave ana
half freeand the country groaned in the travail OF war
for four long years to establish physical freedom
In the fight against this greater slavery there is none
of us who is not the battle front The fight against this
ideology is our fight This greater slavery must never
come to pass here!
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crime average, Chief Hornsby of
the police department said, 1--WE
are improving every year, but you
can't keep Negroes from gambling
and killing each other over women.
Atlanta has the largest percentage
of Negro population of any other
city in the nation. That's what
runs our killing up"
The grand jury and the chief
are certainly right in their observa-
tions. Atlanta's crime record is
astounding, and the contribution
made to it by members of our
racial group should make all of us
who want to see our city clean
decent, safe, laW-abiding communi-
ty hang our heads in shame, if
not in despair. But the setting up of
special patrols and investigators to
keep an eye on vagrant Negroes
and to detect SubverSive activities
will not go very far in the solution
of this Immediately pressing prob
lem. There is deeper cause than
innate blood-lust for the disgrace
full toll of honAcides among Atlanta
Negroes. The blame can be placed
pretty heavily upon the shoulders
CT those who, through the years,
have crowded Negroes into insight
ly and unsanitary ghettoes. Who
have believed like the governor of
the state and at least one jurist
on the bench, that the lowest white
man is better than the most highly
educated and cultured Negro; who
have fought against adequate edu-
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dormitorles are being made in the
shop. The drafting department OF
this shop not only does work for
the local plant, but for all the
shops in this area.
With the remodelirg, moderniz'
ing and rehabilitation of the old
power house, it has once again
come into it's own. Furnishing in its
new role. different kind of power
power in the form Of young men,
trained and efficient, to man the
nations defense industries power
in the form of inspiration it gives
every American who visits this
beehive of industrial activity-pow-
er in the form of incentives to staff
and students to do bigger ard bet
ter jobs for National Defense-anc
power in the knowledge that
place may be found for many OLD
buildings in our present-day pre-
paredness program.
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Education
Versus Crime
BY WALTER r. CHIyERs

HAVE REPEATEDLY suggest
ed that an increasing number of
southern white people, Georgians
included, are beginning to study
race relations more analytically and
with more open minds. They are
learning the necessity of looking at
the welfare of the whole south and
understanding that to do so they
must view the Negro with more
human eyes and interest. This is
happening even in political circles.
New instances, even though still
infrequent, are happening regular
ly enough to warrant attention.
The most recent instance in
Georgia is this rather frank state
ment accredited to Mr.. Royal K.
Mann OF the State Prison and
Parole Commission by a leading
daily newspaper which reads I'm
explaining the segregation of the
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cational opportunities and health
facilities for "the largest percent
age of Negro population of any city
in the nation; who spend the
peoples money for seventy one
parks and squares and swimming
pools and golf courses comprising
nineteen hundred of the city's acres
for two-thirds of the population
while the one-third charged with
the bulk of the city's crime are pro-
vided with only one park and a
few school play grounds.
Dirty, dusty alleys; crowded tena-
mentS, reeking pool rooms, and
seething juke joints are bound to
be the recreation places of people
for whom no provision is made for
enjoyment in wholesome clean en-
viroment. When you add to this
the Sub-subsistence wages of many
thousands of Negro workers, and
other thousands denied, the privilege
OF rendering skilled service because
OF their race, and you begin Mr..
Police Chief, Mr.. Superior Court
Judge, and honorable gentlemen of
the Grand Jury to see who may be
to blame for Atlanta's continually
mounting crime average. Yes, the
Atlanta'S Negroes will to kill may
have a far deeper seated cause than
mere gambling and quarrelling over
women. If we are wise, all of us,
black and white alike, we will
earnestly seek and courageously
face the truth. That alone will
make us free.
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BETWEEN THE LINES By Gordon B. Hancock

that no mortal tongue can tell.
/ There should be sacred seasons
when these songs are sung. Thess
| songs should characterize our Pass
overs and not out "put-OverS" when
We are trying to put over" some
thing on somebody.
NEED MORATORIUM
George Schuyler is right we
need a moratorium on our jazzi-
fled Negro spirituals. With only
remnants of beauty left, they
are worth conserving. Instead of
singing to death the few already
popularized Negro songs why some
of our artists do not go into the
rural districts near Augusta.
Georgia and Savannah and really
! hear some spiritual singing? The
best rendering of Negro spirituals
is by the Negro ruralities near the
southern water coasts such as the
Gulf and the Mississippi and Sa-
vannah river basins.
The current jazzified Negro
spirituals are not sung to show
the songs but the singers, and
herein is the greater misfortune.
Those appreciative whites who
make so much of Negro spirituals
should be treated to some real
spirituals that are spiritually sung
instead of the jazzified stuff OF
which we hear such abundance
over the radio. Having heard both
types of Negro songs I am in a
position to know the difference
between the real Negro songs and
their jazzified counterfeitS.
1 have heard Caruso and Farra1
and Shumann-H -Heink in their
palmy days ard other celebrities of
yesteryears; I have heard in person
the present crop of artists both in
this country and Europe; but
must adssit that never have l had
greater musical thrill than when
heard Negroes near Savannah
and Augusta, Georgia, singins
spirituals the spiritual way, in re-
vivals when there was no thought
of white men or sophisticated Ne
groes listening in or recording"
Negro songs have music in them,
but these jazzified versions do not
reveal it, For once Schuyler is
right, We need moratorium on
Negro spirftuals of the jazzified
kind.
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Colossal, indeed, was the stunt
staged last week by the Right
Reverend Grace. Stunt isn't exact
lv the word for a religious event.
But. in this case, we can't think of
anything better.
Up in Washington, D. c., Broth
er Grace snatched front page head
lines from Finley Wilson, Congress
man Mitchell, Jack Johnson and
whoever else is capable of making
front page copy, when he baptized
100 converts with one big sprinkle
at the expense of the Government.
Surely the bishop knows some of
the big shots in Washington. He
had to know them to do what he
did. At the appointed hour, the
1CO white-robed believers march
ed to the designated spot. They got
close together in sardine fashion,
and waited. A fire truck rolled up
to a nearby street hydrant. Con-
nections were made and fireman
aimed a water hose over the heads
of the waiting group. A stream of
water shot high in the air and
then fell in heavy drops on the
heads of those who had been sin
ners. The bishop carried out
striking ceremony land thus, the
100 were baptized into member
ship of the United House of Pray
er.
"Clap your hands for the city"
cried the bishop, "for the fire de-
partment is helping you get saw
ed"
The bewieldered believers clap
ped their hands.
Bishop Grace tossed his shaggy
hair backwards and yelled:
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Jazzing Negro
SpiritualS

Although I disagree with nearly
eleventh -tenth'' of all that my
good friend George Schuyler
writes, I must nevertheless ac-
knowledge my fI'll accord with
his suggestion, that a moratorium
be called on Negro spirituals. For
the longest I have been wearied
with our current denatured brand
of SpiritualS that ore racioed with
disconcerting frequency. That
George Schuyler lad the nerve to
tackle this popular, but irksome
pastime is gratifying; and makes
it possible that there may be 9TH
ers who are tired of hearing spirit
uals from which every sweet note
of pathos and beauty has been
purged by rigorous process OF
qualification"
Many years ago I deplored the
fact that theSe songs were being
denatured bv singers Wl) were
more anxious to show their music
ianship than to really interpret the
soul Of the f-th9rs. These songs
are sad and soulful, whose BEAU
ty is self-revealing and appealing
But they have become so "jazzi.
fed today that intelligent Negroes
are revolving against them or rath-
er against the way they are being
denatured and jazzified. What is
even more pathetic, there are
hundreds of these songs that never
get on the air Or on the concert
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THE angels in Heaven are TAX
ing down this event in shorthand
and they're taking shorthand pref
ty."
The 100 water soaked believers
tried to smile.
Since starting on this yarn, a
picture has come to the desk from
International News, which gives a
good idea of what did happen when
the fire hose watered the bishops
flock.
It's an interesting picture. There's
nothing religious about it, however.
The photographer got an over
head shot of the ceremonies. In the
foreground of the picture is the fire
engine. stream of water pouring
from its hose, and the victims"
Judging from the photo ninety
percent of those beneath the hose
are women and children. They're
attired in white dresses and robes.
Some of them have white towels
about their heads.
One Of the victims" was caught
as she went into a dance and an
other just as she was passing out
The children appeared to be en-
joying the cold drops Of water.
Standing around the firetruck and
white-robed followers is a big
crowd of onlookers.
All, in all, it turned out to be a
good stunt. Good enough to keep
Daddy Grace in the minds of
American people little while long
er.
Now, it is Father Divine's time
tC. pull off stunt. But he'll have
to go some to beat Bishop Grace's
unheard- of before act.
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: to be of assistance to these unfor-
tunate youth. Their refusal was
based upon the opinion that 1.-THE
children should have behaved them
selves.
This illogical but unbending at
titude of educated Negroes toward
crimes and prisons is basic in
their way of life. Every social force
in the community has cOnspired tC
teach Negroes that crime does not
pay. This is due in part to a
picture of the Negro which South
ern white people hace securely
lodged in their heads. 1t portrays to
them every Negro as potential
criminal with a burning desire to
destroy the society in which he
lives. This attitude is due in part
to the type of preaching to which
most Negroes have been subjected
These sermons have inStilled deep
seated fear by Stressing eternal re-
sidence in a literally burning hell
for laW-breakerS.
LlNlNG IN fEACE
The missionary educators have
emphasized the advantages of liv-
ing in peace, humility and general
accord with society without particu-
lar regard for personality and social
values. The southern states depart
ments of education have made
abiding by the law and getting
along with white people, the CEN
trail theme of citizenship courses
designed for Negro youth.
The lack of aggressivenesS and
fighting spirit in many educated
Negro youth has often worried me.
I have wanted to change it to
these forces which have campaign
ed so strenuously and persistently
among Negro students for peace
and respect for law.
But now I can see the work of
these forces bearing worthwhile re-
suits. At least they are responsible
for the spontaneous admission that
it is the least intelligent Negroes
who inhabit our prisons.
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WALTER CHlVERS SAYS:

telligence are so anxious to prove
that they are law-abiding citizens
until they even resort to ruseS to
avoid contact of any kind with
"the law. They often brag in
public about their ignorance of the
courts and lack of contact with
peace officers. This strategy has
advantages, maybe, but that it
has disadvantages is certain.
DISADVANTAGES ILLUSTRATED
The brief outlines of cases from
my experiences as juvenile pro-
baton officer will illustrate the
disadvantages of this protective
strategy. There was a promising
Negro girl under supervision OF the
juvenile court because she had been
neglected and through no fault OF
her own had become infected with
a major venereal disease. The
Judge of the court, a kind man, did
not want to expose this child to
the evils of the County Prison Farm
where she could get free treatment
1t was mandatory, however, that
such cases should be treated before
the court could be relieved of its
responsibility.
The court agreed to provide
room and board for the child if ]
could secure the volunteer services
of a responsible Negro woman to
escort this child to and from the
offices of a specialist and in ad-
dition raise funds for treatment
My efforts were a dismal failure
due primarily to two reasons. In the
first place women with sufficient
leisure, money and automobiles
could not afford to be seen enter
ing and leaving the juvenile deten-
ton home. On the other hand the
men whom approached for funds
could not afford to sanction the
acquisition of, venereal diseases.
1t was the custom in one juvenile
home to have Sabbath School for
the inmates. I was never able to
secure volunteer teachers from
among those Negroes best qualified
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Abandoned Building
(Contiued from page u

for materials; has made and in
stalled the drive for the shop
planer; and is doing various re-
pair jobs for the Institution. SOME
of the hand tools which will be
used have been made by the stu
dents themselves. The shop has
just completed an order for 70
dudder control brackets, for Piper
Cub Trainers for the Springfield,
Ohio Air Port.
The Sheet Metal Shop is now in
the process of building rs double
lockers for use in the new dormi-
tory of the Center. The Automo-
tive Shop, probably the best-equip-
ped in the state, and recently rat,
ed as Superior, is prepared to do
all kinds of testing, engine and
body repairing and refiniSiling. AT
present, about twenty large and
small repair jobs are handled daily
Additional space is needed and has
been promised for this shop.
The Forging and Welding Shop
has done a number of special jobs
for the Institution; and is now
turning out shop stools, racks, lawn
benches; and is cooperating With
Sheet Metal Shop in the building
cf the aforementioned lockers.
The two-way inter-communication
system, which links all parts OF
the building, is the product Of the
Radio Shop. Not only was the sys
tenn installed by the students, but
the amplifiers and speakers were
made in the Shop.
The Carpentry Shop has four
months job ahead. The pre-fabri-
Gated units Of the new Center
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Bv ROBERT M. RADCLIFFE

YOU'D THINK shaggy-haired Charles M. Daddy
Grace bishop of the United House of Prayer would keep
quiet stay in the background like Father Divine during
these troublesome times.
But not Daddy. He's front page copy Edgar
Brown with his mile of dimes Walter White and his fight
civil liberties Joe Louis and his witty Spouse and all of
those other fellows who have made the front because
of speeches they made letters they mailed to President
Roosevelt in behalf of mistreated coored soliers.
The bishop of the United House is of ideas He
would be valuable in anybodys public relations de-
parmen When things get dull around the House of Prayer
Daddy feels he is losing of his faithful followers
he strokes his hair and stares at the ceiling or the sky
until startling and amazing idea forms in mind
he gets to work and pulls off something stupendous
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stage. An industrious Negro with
Ph.D. pretensions could go into
the Gulf States or the Mississippi
Basin and move among the lowly
Negroes there and find songs OF
as great beauty and pathos as ever
were popularized by the celebrated
Fisk Singers of yesteryear.
Just why our artists persist in
over-singing these songs when a
little industry would reveal others
and thereby bring a relief from
the present over-supply of jazzi-
fled spirituals is hard to ! under
stand. If one wants to be certain
not to hear Negro music at it's
best, let one listen to an ordinary
radio program reputedly offering
Negro spirituals.
A NIGHT IN ST. LOUIS
One night while downtown in
st. Louis, CHANGED to be waiting
for a street cal near a corner
where there were a group of young
white boys who had had about
three shots too many of the good
CID mean Missouri corn. And how
they were singing Swing Low,
Sweet Chariot Unfortunately
they were not singing the Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot of our fathers,
but the denatured jazzified Swing
Low" They were mimicking the
current crop of Negro quartettes
who have detracted nearly the last
veStige of beauty and substituted
there for jazz and Swing" in full
been cast to the dogs; and pearls
measure. That which was holy has
have been cast before swine.
These white drunks were in funny
mood, and chose to sing few of
our over-Sung Negro spirituals
They were getting fun out of it
because when bereft of their
pathos and beauty, these songs are
funny.
Nothing could be more ludicrous
thsn a gang of drunken young
white men singing Swing Low
Sweet Chariot" But Negroes are
fast making these songs ludicrous,
by the sweetness they sing out OF
them and the jazz they sing into
them. These songs were not de-
signed to show the strivings sand
contrivingS of stricken people.
We have set these songs to music;
Our fathers set them to- feelings
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HITS AND BITS
BY MACK G.. NANCE

IF ONR foreign policy reflects
the character CT the people (and it
most certainly does) then we. of
the United States may be pictured
abroad, as a bunch Of shallow
pated, supinless rats, little worthy
Of serious consideration.
Mr.. church, missed another
hack, by not invading occupied
France or German proper Per-
chance. there is a written or verbal
understanding, that Churchill, wi l
sin place. mark time" until Herr
Hitler quaffs a few big juicy
bear stakes.
To those whom we bitterly de.
nlounced yesterday; we eagerly
extend the ''bear-hug" today On
again, off again.
Our attitude towards a bleeding
world, seems to be: "Sonnehodv i!
got to whip that cat (the ayisl, but
it's got to be somebody else, 20
us
Mr.. Hedeo Hiraide, of Japan, in
forms us that a dog that barks IS
weak, while quietness is strong
proof of strength. huff Sed."
Under existing so-called civili.
zation, truth, justice and right
become a crime; while villainy
corruption, treachery, freedom ane
land snatching, become a virtue.
If this be ci~i'i7oticn NOV tn
gode hasten its eally, but complete
demise
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Stork Visits Head
Of Atlanta World

ATLANTA. Ga - (SNS) -
c. A. Scott, general manager
of the Atlanta Daily World
and the Scott Newspaper Syn
dicate. and his wife, the former
Miss Ruth Perry, of Social Cir
Gle, Georgia, became proud
parents of a baby girl early
Monday afternoon.
The "blessed event" took place
at 2:45 p. m. at Dwelle's Infirm-
ary. DR.. C. Waymond Reeves
was the attending physician.
Little Jocelyn Perryana Scott
weighed seven and eighteenth
pounds at birth. She and moth
er were doing fine" Monday
night.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-06
By AL WHITE

WASHINGTON - (ANP) -
They say there is first time for
everything and admit it is the
first time l lad ever seen such
thing almost unbelievable,
but this ad appeared in a Wash
ington daily last week: "Cooks
and walters, colored, expert
enced, apply at Seabord Dining
Car department." l do declare.
What's happening?
Speaking of water, Daddy
Grace, one Of the dispensers of
religion famed in this section,
held mass baptizing in the
middle of M st. on Sunday aided
and abetted by two brass bands,
the Washington fire department
and a crowd variously estimat-
ed between three and six thou
sand rubber necks. All of Dad
dy's followers, anxious to be
cleansed of their sins, assembled
in the middle Of the street, garb-
ed in white and permitted them
selves to be thoroughly doused by
a fire house, which rained a con-
tinuous shower on the heaven
bent for half hour. Bert Will
liams would have appreciated il.
Constance E. H. Daniels of the
department of agriculture has
been taking much needed rest
Leaving the running of the Of
flee to the recent benedict, a
Unionman, Jerome Robinson.
Speaking of Union, comes the
news Of the retirement of Peter
]. Henry, or "P. j." as the boys
all called the affable professor.
That's lust like knock ing out the
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races, Mann said
the whites were
more intelligent
than the Ne
groeS and con-
sequently could
lead them and
influence them.
This, he added
sometimes cauS-
ed trouble" j" This
public admis-
sion, that when
Negroes are
given opportuni-
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Who Is To Blame?

In the final presentments of the
current Fulton County Grand Jury
received on Friday by Superior
Court Judge Etheridge consider
able emphasis, as might be expect
ed, was placed upon this city's re-