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The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
"In The Army Now"

THESE WERE THE WORDS of one of company Of
young coored army prospects they emerged from elevator
which took them the floor of the War Department in the
eral Building
These staFVart fine looking young fellows and they
an air OF merrme1 they pushed from their underprvege
toward venture.
The lad was right.
We in the army
One Of the basic fundamentals Of the American government
and the democratic ideal that only congress can declare war But
Che world has old and and the Constitution has
she elasticity OF getting round this open declaration by passing
ease-end bills and thereby deegang this authority
the President of the United States.
More to kill dog without choking him on butter and
to kill
We now practically war 1t has been an open secret
that our sympaes the side Of those struggling save
ihe last vesige Of liberty left on earth
The world has been drawn verable neghborhood and
side of the continent naturally affects other side
To the wisdom wisdom course is no
now lhe die is and it is thing see troop
trans and soldiers marching the days OF the first world
The country has reached the roads it has
cision and whether like it nowere in the army
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WALTER CHlVERS SAYS:

SO much for the parent-child re-
iationship. When one looks at the
roster Of state and district leaders
of the Parent-Teachers Association
it is easy to recognize the names
of the women leaders of women.
These women can work with other
women most effectively. The. ma
jority Of Negro Public School
teachers in Georgia are women. So
Wcmen's organizations can influ-
ence a large part of the teaching
profession throughout the State.
ISSUES CHALLENGE
Mrs. Reese of Albany, Mrs. Butler
of Atlanta, Mrs. Morgan of Carriers
vile, Miss CAN'T of Macon-just to
name a few of the moving spirits
in this great effort have fully
demonstrated their abilities to or
ganize women into effective Or
ganizations and to put over a
program. May they see fit to look
into the merits of this challenge
and get into the thick of things
when the two organizations meet
in Augusta several weeks hence.
Ladies you want your children
educated to live according to
American standards, you want their
country to be proud of them as
citizens, you want them healthy.
strong,-you want them to have
the courage to fight for the de-
fense of and development of de-
mocracy. If this is to ever be so
they must have well-paid teachers,
comfortable and adequate school
houses and equipment with which
to work.
AT least let the country know that
you are not satisfied with the in
effective State Teachers Associ-
alton.
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Continued from Page y
we'll on their training at Piarco
Zone of the islands present mill
tary centres).
SHOW ETHIOPIAN FILM
Of interest here was the showing
last week of the first film picture
taken of the operations in Ethiopia
and on the Ethiopian bor-
der. incidentally, this border is not
more than a long line of barbed
wire in the flat sandy desert. When
kaSsala was taken from the
Italians that meant the removal OF
all danger of any possible attack
by them on the Sudan.
Excellent SnOtS of tanks and
other chariotS of war appeared.
then Halle Selassie, looking very
fit and strong. confident, as well he
may be now, in the reconquest Of
his country. South African troops
in this brief but impressive news
reel show that some, at least, are
African; till now one had always
thought of South Africans as
"Whites only"
South African Negroes photo
graphed in the reel appear as regu-
lar troops as we'll as auxiliaries,
such as camel-drivers. etc. The
shots of the Ethiopian uplands
show them as a terrifying sort of
perpetual No Mans Land
FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE
This past year of war is de-
scribed as an eventual one IN the
military annals of the British
commonwealth. The year of fight
ing that has passed since the ever
increasing arrival of empire troops
On the innumerable battle fields
says that much action has been
seen by East and West African ma
tive troops, by Indians, South
Africans, Rhodesians, Australians
and New ZealanderS.
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more reckless.
Maybe it is because woman's
role in life finds its basic Satistac-
ticn in nMturing human beings
from birth into adulthood, while
q mans ego expansion is along the
compromising and conciliatory
path of a successful" career.
Whatever the cause may be, the
fact is, that the Georgia Negro
Parent Teachers Association is a
live functioning and effective or
ganization.
Since many of these ladies are
the mothers of young men and wo-
men now teaching in the Georgia
public schools, it is clear that they
have a vested interest in the teach
ing profession and its welfare.
They have made sacrifices, often
bitter sacrifices in order that their
children might be prepared to earn
living; wage. Their ambition has
been and still is to have their
children live on a higher level than
they as parents could provide.
PROTECT INTERESTS
The success of these young men
and women is often the only old
age benefits that their parents can
look forward to. The challenge
here is for them to step in and
protect their vested interests.
These ladies have influence over
their children, they know how to
hest urge them on to action. They
have the confidence of young folk
which means. that they can guide
the action which they want and
know to be best for youth. Through
exerting this influence they can
force a complete reorganization OF
the now weak and wobbly State
teachers organization.
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Statesmen Strike;
Unfair Treatment
Charged To Firm

LANSING, Mich-(WNS)-The
Oldsmobile Sales and Service men
went on strike Monday morning.
Pickets marched in front of the
place with signs stating that un-
fair and discrimination to the
workers, but in a conference with
Mr.. Seeberger, it was learned that
the union had filed it's intentions
Of calling a strike, with the media
ton board but had not given the
comrany notice of their inten-
tionS.
He also stated that true demands
had not been made to the company,
and added that he held the men
In high esteem. Mr.. Seeberger stat
ed that the Company had given
the men raise of $1,000 last year
and given them bonus of $1,000,
also weeks vacation with pay.
The service department. las en-
ployed men of our Race for
great many years.
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SCHUYLER TAKEN TO TASK

Il
ONE OF THE sorriest spectacleS
nation has known within recent
years was the obstructionist tactics
If Sen. Wheeler during The current
crisis. It is difficult to believe that
chis great nation of ours is afflicted
with men VINO eVince such short
sightedness as that displayed by
Sen. Wheeler and his political sate-
ties. The peace-a -at-any-price poll
ician of whatever persuasion is a
distinct menace In a time like tlllS
4itlerism could wish for no mors
Elective proponents. The Inan OF
y3man who cannot see in Hitler
S,n a menace to the liberties OF
mankind is fact-blind. There are
fascist and nazi sympathizers IN
his country without doubt; and il
S hard to avoid the conclusion
hat Wheelersm is The tail to fly
heir kite.
MINORITY WOULD BE VICTIM
One can see why white Wheeler
ties would take a chance; for in the
last analysis they would become
he king pins in HitleriZed United
States. 1t does not matter whether
.lnder Hitlerisln or Communism OF
democracy, the white man is going
20 reap the greater reward Of any
changes that may follow. 1t is the
minority groups that are doomed
to suffer.
1t is all the more distressing to
see a few Negroes subscribing to
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niZed a Jim Crow division in the
national program. That is, they
have to make the national program
their program, instead of slicing
out a small view and saying this
Is good enough for Negro youth.
MANY ARE MOTHERS
Maybe the spirit shown by these
ladies is due to the fact that many
Of them are mothers and others
IRE or have been substitute"
rnothers for derendcnt children
Maybe it is because they are, Ne
gro women and have had to ex-
perience suffering and deprivation
in such intense degrees just be-
cause they were, has made them
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welcome that awaits all whose
journey ends at their portals.
Nothing, believe makes so pow
, erflu a first impression on the
mind Of the traveller, as to the
kind of city he is entering and the
type of people who control and de-
termine its life, as the terminal
through whose gates he Is ushered
into it.
NOT MEANT FOR HIM
What then must be the black
travellers estimate of the sincerity
of the familiar welcome South
Brother" as he alights from his
train and starts for the terminal
station in Atlanta. He finds him
self just one Of many pilgrims until
he reaches the end of the con-
course leading from the tNir1Shed
Once through the little wicket
gate" he finds with a snock, which
may Or may not be rude, according
to the number Of times that he
has experienced it, that the "wel-
come south" was obviously not
meant for one of his kind. For at
| the gate the path leads him away
from those for whom the welcome
was meant, to dark and smoky
| cavern over whose entrance are
the words familiar now to eight or
more millions of dwellerS in this
land of hospitality "Colored Watt
ing Room"
The very entrance to it forbids
rather than invites. White tile walls
made alternately gray and black
with thick greasy SCOT; dirty win
dows opening into dirtier lunch
counter and dining room";; floor
Uttered with peanut shells and
fruit hulls; can for refuse in the
corner, half empty with the sweep
ings, perhaps of days, piled on the
[ floor behind it; light receptacle In
the ceiling with no light to relieve
the darkness made gloomier by the
dirty walls.
LONG NEGLECTED
Through this Stygtan cave the
traveller is ushered into the wait.
ing room" Hospitality provided foI
his welcome to Atlanta. A large
room evidently meant when built
tc accommodate with some degree Of
comfort three or four hundred
travellers, it now shows evidence. of
years of studied neglect. Poorly
lighted and worse ventilated, one
has sinking feeling of disgust as
soon as he enters it. AS he looks
around at the walls, dirtier df that
We're possible than the one In the
entrance; the much fairly packed
under the radiators: the snudgy
windows; the sockets without lights:
the lack of adequate and sanitary
toilet arrangements for either sex;
the utter lack of decent facilities
for the, purchase of a lunch, light
refreshments, candies or souvenirs.
or for the sending of telegram or
the securing of information, the
black traveller learns before he even
passes the gates that the welcome
is not meant for him.
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
FLUSH KIDNEYS OF P0ISONS
and STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS

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Don't be an EASY MARK and ac-
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cure for Imperialism. The racial ami
mosities of IIitlerism are far more
dangerous TO the Negroes than i'm
perialism. Our own country has i'm
perialistic tendencies, but I would
not want Hitlerism to cure these.
A MATTER OF CHOICE
We are going to grant that Eng
land is the international hypocrite
but we would also have to admit
that Hitler is the International bri-
gand. AS between Imperialism and
brigandage I prefer the former. If
We are going to sit and wait for
everybody to get right we are going
to be lost. We must fight for the
privilege of getting right.
IF Negroes in this country are
going to sulk because they have not
had all they have wanted and ask
ID for, it is not going to profit them
to turn the world over to Hitler.
Under democracy we at least have
some rights left. Urder Hitler we
would have none. WheeleriSm among
Negroes IS dangerous and tragic.
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Wheelerism and the tactics thereof
minority group to gain if Hitlerisln
is defeated; and more than any
other group 10 loose if HiGleriSm Is
victorious. In his persecution of the
Jews the Negro knows in advance
what to expect of Hitler.
In all probability the Negroes
plight will be more aggravated; for
there are Negro-bairing groups in
this country already waiting fol
the go" sign, Hitler will give this
,ieni
A BATTLING QUESTION
Just how my good friend George
Schuyler can cOnScientiously align
himself with Negro Wheelrites"
is a truly battling question. Whether
they are tails to fly his kite is not
apparent from news accounts
Schuyler should know better. There
is nothing new in opposing war. We
all oppose it. War is a hellish thing
as night, fierce as he'll and terrible
Milton said Of it: ''Black it stood
as ten furies." This is putting it
mildly.
Sherman said "War is hell" We
all know it is mankind's greatest
Scourge. The most viliainous human
hates war; but unfortunately man.
kind has not outgrCwn war anC
there is no indication he will out
grow it in the Immediately comm,
generations. This is one Of those
ugly brutal facts that must be faced.
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
THOUSANDS STAND READY

There "~e thousands of Negro skilled workers
ready, willing loyal and able to take their places
in the nations factories turning out goods to defend
This America and other denocracies, but their badly
rfeded services are lost because certain foolish en-
players would put his preindices before national
safetv.
That this loyal group of Americans is not given
chance merely because of its color bespeaks vol
unes as to the sincerity of those who giving
such fervent lip service to the sacredness of the
democratic cause
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
By cliff Maek@y

Actually it is in those industries where the Go
has made the most progress-aircraft and automo-
biles-tha the color line is drawn most rigdy. Ern-
ployers have smugly defended their actions in not
employing Negroes by using the patent excuse that
Negroes and white workers just can't work side by
side, and not single of these CIO unions, par
tcuarly those in the aeronaucs industry. has raised
its voice to disprove this contention.
Instead of relaxing these color barriers many
unions are moving to further restrict the employ
rent of black Americans. The Brotherhood of Lo-
comotve Engineers and Firemen, which has persist
emily clung to its color cause not satisfied with the
gradual replacement of Negro train firemen by its
white members would now force train operators
to speed up this ugly job of putting economic
squeeze on Negro Americans
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
BY WALTER r. CHIVERS

e AFTER SEVERAL years of rath-
cr close contact with the Negro
Parent Teachers Association of
Georgia, the writer has become
convinced that it's superior achieve
mentS over the State Teachers As
soCiation is to be credited to
superior leadership. These women
have shown courage, ingenuity and
aggressiveness. They believe in the
The Phoenix index., 1941-04-05
UNIONS LOSING SYMPATHY

Public opinion under the impetus of a whipped
up editorial campaign conducted by the larger ana
more influential members of the nations press is
rapidly turning against organized labor. Charges
of rackeeering of exhorbitant fees squeezed out OF
anxious to obtain jobs defense construction
deliberate efforts the part of union officials 10
stvmie the too-rapd increase in the number OF
skilled artisans all weaving away the 1uil sym
pathy of the public unions have been enjoying for
the past decade.
Labor unions are in need of friends and sup
rorters now more than before. Yet bhnd
leaders are standing in the of securing the
friendship and ardent support of proportonate TO
their population the largest group of workers in the
nation--the Negroes.
With all the progress and PRIVILEGE which labor
has enioved under the Roosevelt administration, not
a single local or affiliate of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has lowered the perncious color bar
rers which have for years kept black workers from
sharing the advantages of organization
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Live a Healthier, Happier, Life

Thousands Of men and women Won
der why backache bothers them -
why they have to visit the bathroom
often at night why flow is scanty
and sometimes smarts and burns.
Any one of these symptoms may
mean that your kidneys and bladder
need attention now before these minor
symptoms may develop into serious
trouble.
To flush out excess waste poisons
and acid from kidneys, soothe your
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Reactionary legislators in both
state and national bodies are seiz-
ing upon the present situation to
press for a return to the pre-NeW
Deal era when labor had but few
rights an employer was called upon
to respect
Mutterings have begun to come
from such well-knoWn and con-
firmed labor baiters as Repre-
sentative Smith and Senator Carter
Glass of Virginia proposing federal
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purposes of their
organization
they try hard to
see that these
purposes a r e
made real for the
bxnefit of Negro
children.
AS opposed to
leaders of the
State Teachers
Association these
women leaders
have not recog-
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FROM MY STUDY
WINDOW
<WeIcome South Brother"
By REV. j. C. WRIGHT

UNDER THAT TITLE, fairly
dripping with melhfluent hospital
tty, a periodic radio broadcast pro-
claims the glories of the South, and
extends a ''come-hither" hand tG
the entire nation to see for itself
The big hearted generosity of it's
people; the wonders of it's noun
tains and streams; the fertility OF
its plains, and valleys; the beauty
OF its cities; the cinderella growth
of its industries; the wealth of its
traditions; the limitless opportuni-
ties it affords for love, work, play
and worship are all held out as an
inducement to come south broth
er."
The broadcast is interesting and
entertaining, its sponsors sincere
and its purpose legitimate, I am
sure. But I never listen to it with
out having vividly recalled to mind
another picture with which the one
painted by the broadcast is most
difficult to reconcile. 1t is the pic
ture of the type of welcome South
Brother" extended to thousands of
black travellers who annually en-
ter and leave the gateways of this
enchanted land.
WELCOME EXTENDED
Atlanta is the South's boasted
Gate City," Through her portals
pour annually streams of folk from
every land. Every effort is made,
as it, should be, to extend the open
I hand of greeting and hospitality as
soon as the tourist steps off the
tram, or as soon thereafter as is
hlunanly possible.
Because wise Chambers of Com
merce railroad administrators and
city governments recognize the eco
nomic Importance of this fact, huge
sums of money are expended in
cities that are railroad centers to
build and maintain terminal stations
that will proclaim by their beauty
convenience and comfort, some
thing of the genuineneSs of the
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The Globe TrOtter
Unions Need Friends

INCREASING PRESSURE is being put on labor
through public opinion and now by the government
itself to halt the wave of strikes plagmng those
industries deemed vital to the speeded up natlonal
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WILL NEED FRIENDS

The unions will shortly need all of the friends
they muster to forestall the drive reactonaries
are preparing to make against organized labor in
the of national defense. Ironically the union
lists have placed themselves in the position alien
ating large segment of the American body polite
largely composed of workers by their discriminatory
methods
In view of tie abuse they have received at the
hands of arrogant union leaders, many Negroes
actually feel a governmental move to restrict the
activities of unions especially in defense industries
will form the needed loop-hoe.
They reason, and with good logic, that if the
government can take unto itself powers to forbid
strikes it cen assume the power of ordering in the
name of national defense adamant employers to
hire Americans the basis Of efficiency, and not
color.
William F. Knudsen of the OPM has begun COM
planning of the delay in the defense program caused
by striking workers. Before that, delay in the
program charged by the shortage of skilled
workers. If he is sincerely interested in speeding
ny our race for armament to again defend de
mocracy" he should take steps to wipe out third
delaying factor-color discrimination.
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EDITOR IAL s

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that they feel proud
in their political social
seigious and questions which face the
To especially the extent
job makers we'll as job seekers
3 To instruct boys and girls in the art OF thrift
promote FaherhoOd Of God the brotherhood OF
To bull a racial foundation for posterity
the cOlored compete
technique other
dealing dependable e
all times that alone will be able
enterprise realizing vital
times give heed respect
It's in
published each week in which views
opinions shall not reflect
way the opinion of INDEX.
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altogether to force both labor and industry TO
have their differences submitted to a national medl-
alton board with the decisions of this board be-
coming mandatory.
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CIO GUILTY TOO

The CIO which has loudly proclaimed its lack OF
a color bar true has admitted many Negroes on
erual footino with white members in those indus
tries where NEGROES were already employed before
The rnon was formed
But even John ews bows have moi believed
enough in the cause the loudly espOUse to urge
adalnant end preudiced employers the wisdom
and Justice of hiring blacf vorkers in those plants
where CIO contract now exists and where no Me-
gro employees the payrOlls
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Barbados Gives

Continued from Page y
we'll on their training at Piarco
Zone of the islands present mill
tary centres).
Evening star., 1941-01-31
National Parks Officials
Name Eakin Chairman

The National Park Service Con-
ference closed its Today meeting
here yesterday after eleoting J. Ross
Eakin. superintendent of Great
Smoky Mountains National Park in
North Carolina and Tennessee, as
its chairman.
MI. Eakin, employed for IA years
by the United States Geological
Survey and for the last 20 years by
the National Park Service, is a for
mer superintendent of Glacier Ma
tional Park, Mont, and Grand
Canyon National Park. Ariz. He has
been superintendent of the Smoky
Mountains Park since 1880.
Eivind T. Scoyen, superintendent
OF Sequoia National Park, Calf, was
named vice chairman.
Other officers elected at the con-
ference, composed of park superin-
tendents, regional directors and
other officials of the National Park
Service, were Branch Spalding,
superintendent of Fredericksburg
and Spotsylvania National Military
Park, Va, second vice chairman;
Hugh M Miller, superintendent of
the Southwestern group of national
monuments with hearquarters at
Coolidge, Ariz., secretary. and
Lemuel A. Garrison, superintendent
of Hopewell Village National His
toric Site, Birdsboro. Pa, sergeant
at arms.
Evening star., 1941-01-31

boards Of life insurance companies.
Terming Mr.. Smiths reported
statement quite characteristic" 4"
Senator OMahoney told reporters
that he was afraid that like so
many other statements issued by
persons in the insurance industry
over the last six months, Gov.
Smiths speech is based upon un-
substantiated rumor and report"
The chairman added that he had
received assurance from Sumner T.
Pike, Securities and Exchange Com
mission representative on the COM
mittee, that no such "a suggestion
was contemplated by the S. E. c."
During its hearings, the Monopoly
Committee devoted much of its time
to study of insurance, and various
insurance officials and others con-
tended that Federal regulation was
the objective. No legislative recon-
mendations of any sort have been
made by the committee.