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The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
POLICE SHOOT
BOY ON Way TO
JAIL HOUSE
MEMPHIS Tenn-(SNS).

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-(SNS)-
Steve McQuirk, %, of TIC East
Georgia was shot by Patrolman
j. w. Summer early Saturday
morning as the officer and his
partner, Patrolman Dinkman, were
taking the youth to police station
for investigation, according to ac-
counts in the Sundays edition of
the Commercial Appeal
His condition late Saturday night
was reported serious by attaches at
John CASTOR hospital. When the
hospital was called Sunday evening
regarding McQuirk's condition, the
World was informed that McQuirk
was not a patient there.
In his report to Chief Seabrook
Officer Summer said that he and
his partner saw McQuirk tinker
ing with an automobile in the vi
cinity of Lucas and st. Paul. They
placed the youth in their squad
car, and when McQuirk attempted
to escape, Summer drew his pistol
The officer alleged he shot Nc
Quirk when he attempted to snatch
his gun.
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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

cipal and county political admins
traitors and the citizen-voters Of
Atlanta and Fulton County, I
should like to propose what would
be a more effective aid in lower
ing the Negro homicide rate than
the proposals made by the grand
jury.
This proposal is being made in
harmony with my philosophy of
race-relations to the effect that
the majority Of Negroes are part
and parcel of self-generated Sec
ret self-defense society. This So
city has no formal organization,
no membe~sElp roster or dues and
no meeting place. Except for pur-
poses of self defense many of it's
members are bitter enemies.
The society's only form of
recognition is a colored face. Its
fraternal board is made firm by
the need of these distinguishablo
Negroes for protecting themselves
by varied StrategieS. These forms
of strategy are at times highly in
dividualistic and at others they are
group activities. For the most part
they have grown out of experience
an operate unconsciously.
GOVERNMENT PROOF
The long and costly excursion
which the federal government has
,,,o 10 into tn field nf rolipf ad-
ministration has proved to many
doubling Thomases' among white
people, particularly Southern
white people, that Negro social
workers work more effectively
with Negroes than do white social
workers. This is true because ever
the few highly privileged Negroes
are still attuned to the Negro self
defense society and rush into its
protective bosom when racial COM
flict arises.
Negro social workers can "af-
ford" to go into the novels of Ne
gro slum-dwellers and appear to be
| comfortably They can en-
gage in easy conversation abou
their common sufferings-for they
are all, regardless of position, dis
criminated against, exploited anC
classed as "1igger or Negras" by
the majority OF white people with
whom they deal.
The increased use of Negro socia
workers by Southern department:
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BETWEEN THE LINES

American Nazis to abuse Negroes
whose lives are in jeopardy for the
safety of the country goes to snow
how daring this American Nazism.
SYMPTOMS DANGEROUS
The various outbreaks against
Negro soldiers are not only dis
graceful but is a symptom OF some
thing more dire and more DANCE
rous. 1t shows that the Negroes
past loyalty and sacrifices are Tor.
gotten or taken as a matter OF
course; it shows that there are ele-
ments in this country unalterably
opposed to granting the Negro the
rights and opportunities that he has
bought with sweat and tears ana
blood; it shows that there is an
utter lack of appreciation OF what
democracy means by a large seq
ment of our American people.
The Negroes are utterly exposed
in some American camps that they
must leave the army without per-
mission because their lives are
threatened; that office of the army
helpless to protect them, constitutes
the most amazing disgrace this
country has known the first gen.
Grafton of the Goth century. 1t hap
pened here. Not in Poland and
Czechoslvakia, or Greece or Ger
many, but here in "the land of the
free and home of the brave"
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Policies Remain
CONTINUED from Page ~

the brightly painted cabs and the
driver asked, Are you a civilian
or soldier?" Not waiting for an
answer he stated, IT just wanted to
know because we always charge
more for soldiers because soldiers
are not permanent as civilians and
We soak 'em whenever We get a
chance"
After questioning soldiers con-
cerning prices, a soldier stated he
missed the last bus to the Fort
the night before pnd attempted
to find lodging at one of the bet
ter lodging houses and was forced
to pay So for a single bed or if he
was found on Fayetteville streets
after l am, he would have been
jailed by white Military Police.
Following the recent bus tragedy
many Negut troops dressed in
civilian clothing to avoid the con-
stant dogging of white Military
Policemen. This was soon noticed
by the white M .P.'s and thereafter
all buses carrying Negro troops
were stopped and all passengers
were questioned whether they were
civilians or soldiers. They We're
asked to show their socks or under
clothing. Most of them were wear
ing G.. I. Government Issus)
socks and underclothing. Reports
were that these that were found
were made to dismount from the
bus and walk back to their units.
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WHEN T LEFT WASHINGTON
A FEW DAYS AGO the official
reports clearly indicated that
Great Britain was greatly disap-
pointed in the result of the con-
ference. Apparently the British Ma
ton expected declaration of war
to follow from this sea conference.
You will recall, however, that the
constitution gives to Congress- and
TO Congress only, the right to de-
clare war.
MOBILIZATION PLAN. The Ad-
minlStration is now considering q
mobilization plan, which will pro-
vide stringent regulations over in
dustry and capital. Never before, in
peace times, has this been pro-
posed
I AM RECEIVING HUNDREDS
OF LETTERS from nv constitu-
ents of the Sixth District, express
ing their loyalty to America and
their desire to build up a national
defense in America, second tC
none, even though taxes greatly
increase.
THESE SAME WRITERS, HOW
FVER. with rare exceptions. still
insist that the United States should
not become a participant in the
European war, and that our Amer
lean boys should not again be sent
to Europe, as they were in 1917 and
1918.
Very sincerely yours,
VIM. w. Blackney, M. G.
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Seeing and Saying BY William H. Fon1ke'

propaganda isn't doing us any goodr And it isn't
But it will probably arouse thousands Of Negroes
to the necessity Of registering and voting.
CLERK TALKS. ALONE!
I was making purchase from genial old clerk
in of Atlantas better stores the other day Tne
verk was telling me all about his friends among the
colored people and especially the of high stand
ing in the community. They were many. All tnlS
talk came after 1 had made my purchase and
couldn't be classified sales talk to influence me
in buying He went far to compliment the char
acter and fine contribution to the general COM
munity of some of the leaders.
AT least" put in, you don't things all
the way Governor Talmadge is painting Negroes,
do you?"
around to any of the other clerks were near
by Then in a low voice he said:
Listen, Fowlkes. there's any one sin Iii
answer for when I meet my Maker it will be
for that vote 1 cast for Gene Talmadge's re-eiec-
tiOn 1 wouldn't vote for him again, if he was
tine last EARTH"
Just then another clerk came nearby and the
conversation changed to something else. 1t always
does whenever controversial issue is being dis
cussed "above board" by persons of different color
I've found out. There's fear of being branded"
IN NORTH CAROLINA
The educators meeting in North Caroina last
week didn't bite their tongues to condemn the race
batting of Georga's chief executive who to it
that no professor from his state would attend lib
eral meeting. 1t was expected that they would do
SO. for the Governor is out of line with progress
and good will, so necessary in these times
DOWN IN WAYCROSS
Wonder where Talmadgesm will strike next?
Last week down in Waycross Ga, the city COM
mission ruled that whites and colored could not live
in the same block any more. The chief OF police
and his men were instructed to order out of blocks
those persons of color who numbered in the minority
and to use the order whites in blocks where
they were in the minority. sort of idea most re-
Gently promulgated by those bad men of Europe:
Of course they say the colored residents asked that
the segregated block practice prevail because of con-
fljcts arising from proximity in dwelling places Of
whites and Negroes. There may be something to
this And. I suspect, there's something else All
due of course, to 'that man" of Georgia,
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81 Am Afraid To
Sit On My Porch" ="
Says Mrs. Hooks
RIRMTNGHAM Ala-(SNS)-

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-(SNS)-
"I am afraid to sit on my porch"
said Mrs. A. R. Hooks, 113 Ave. G.,
S. W., Tuesday as he came into
the office of the WORLD exhibit
ing in bottle a small alligator
taken from the creek in Tittusville
near 13O Avenue c., S. w., within
stones throw of the Washington
elementary school.
She said that a petition signed by
more than eight per cent of the
taxpaying home owners had asked
the City Fathers to work on this
creek hazard but that no correcting
improvement had come.
Two or more years ago small
girl was drowned near this spot
where the alligator was found. She
playing near the banks of the
creek, accidentally fell into the
stream.
Mrs. Hooks say "a man killed it
(alligator) about IL o'clock Sunday
morning." She did not know his
name.
She said that Commissioner Nor
gan told her, after she had shown
him the snake, It'll try to do lit
tie something about it."
She said that there is still a very
large alligator in this creek
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of public welfare is proof that
the old belief prevalent among
Southern white people that they
know Negroes has exploded IN
their faces. Negro social workers
get best results from Negro clients
at less cost. AS unfair as it Is we'll
trained Negro social workers may
be hired at wages which would be
spurned by white social workers
with the same training.
PERSONAL TOUCH
without the agitation necessary,
in many northern cities, one sees
steadily increasing numbers OF
Negro representatives of white
businesses in Southern cities
store clerks and managers, filling
station operators, insurance, auto
mobile and accessory statesmen.
This is further evidence that the
personal-social t touc h OF
Southern white man has realized
Negroes with Negroes provides an
advantage in race-relations that Is
denied him by traditional barriers.
In sum total Negroes are just more
efficient in dealing with Negroes
than are Southern white people.
This all stands to reason that
Atlanta. if not Fulton County,
should employ Negro peace offic-
ers. Just as the government has
profited by costly experience IN
relief work, just as Southern busl-
ness has learned through heavy
direct and indirect financial losses
other Southern cities neither as
large nor as important as Atlanta
have learned the positive values OF
using Negro peace officers.
HIRE NEGRO OFFICERS
So Atlanta can use the great ad-
vantage, it should have in lntelll-
gence, to profit by the costly ex-
periences of others and hire Negro
peace officers. AS matter OF 1act
Atlanta has paid a princely prlce
in loss of reputation because OF
murderous lawlessness. The s1tua'
ton demands the trial of any logl'
cal suggestion and 1 believe that
this proposal is logical, reallstlc
and practical.
(To Be Continued
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Midwives School
TO Be At 'Skegee

of the State Health Departments
Bureau of Hygiene and Nursing as
an instructor ir the school
The school will be conducted
Jointly by the State Department OF
Health, the Macon County Health
Department, the ROsenWald Fund,
Tuskegee Institute and the Chill
dren's Bureau of the United States
Department of Labor.
The John A. Andrew Memorial
Hospital, of which DR.. John A.
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
Don't Be A Killer!

There are many "trick ways of approaching sermon
on driving care There which surpasses the simple
Injunction Don't be kller! ,
AS the nations continue to be frayed over the
events of war-torn Europe traffic tatates RECORD
mounts Death at the crossroads is by now familiar part
of the American
Refusal to consider the arguments for driving SANITY
as directed toward each of us individually perhaps
th heat Of orr national failure in curbng automotve
murder We get the absurd notion that some sort OF per
sona deity watches traffic ana
utilities the danger of the tte chances which we take
in our daily driving Only when close friend or ms mem
her of the family struck do fully realize the peril o
the highway And then, of course is too late
The lifOrn
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A Needed Benefit Game

SUGGESTION has been put forth that benefit base
ball game played by of the industrial league teams
for the Crippled Childrens Clinic That to US is needed
benefit game
Few of the Community Chest public agencies have
been fair to Negroes the CCC 1t is operated along
coraca lines and tries perform for all the children in need
of services without attention class politics.
Executive Secretary E. E. Cavalier Jr, is very anxious
to have such game sponsored annually. White high schools
have an annual game for this work If such is not
possible this year with baseball teams it that such
might be promoted among the prep football teams.
Present outlook of the infane paralysis epidemic is
formidable warning Of the need for additional aid to tnlS
work
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala
Is N S)-A school for Negro
nurse-midwives will begin Septem-
Der Is, at Tuskegee Institute ac-
cording to an announcement to-
day by President F.. D. Patter-
son.
Miss Margaret w. Thomas. a
native of Baltimore and until re-
Gently assistant director OF the
Maternity Center Association OF
New York City, has joined the Statl
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
Atlanta Needs
Negro Police
BY WALTER r. CHIVERS

THE FULTON County, Georgia,
grand jury which has just adjourn
ed seemed quite concerned about
the abnormally high rate of homi-
cides among its Negro citizens. Its
members would have been justi-
fled, I think, if they had ex-
pressed genuine alarm. I say this
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
Dan Bankhead
ASpires To
Outstrip Paige

CHICAGO, III. -(SNS)- Bob
Stanton of the Chicago Daily News
published an interview of Dan
Bankhead of the Back Barons and
Leroy (SatchelD Paige of the K.
C. Monarchs August 80, limiting
that the 19-year old rookie pitch
ing sensation would likely become
the successor of 'balseball's great
est pitcher"
The Phoenix index., 1941-09-13
HEALTH and
WEALTH
BY r. EARL BLAND, M. ID.
SPECIAL CONSULTANT U. s..
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

Sinus headaches
have only recently
been assigned the
important place they
deserve. inflammation
IF the nasal SinuSeS
nth blocked drainage
is one of the mos
frequent causes Of
headaches of a typ:
often attributed tC
pther causes. 1t is Of
times very difficult
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hands because Hey would have known them.
II sent---- up to Atlanta and gave some
of the tenants orders to shoot any other molesters
that come down on the farm understand that they're
still intmidating them from the road
I'm conducting little investigation of my own
to determine who did it. I think know I am
hiring lawyer to look into the matter Meanwhile
the wife and children of this hand they beat up
still on the place They're pretty scared though"
let the visitor talk on, for 1 figured this was
pretty good story from any angle He continued.
Nov the good white people of Rockdale County
don't uphold such tactics. We know what's back
of OF Genes wild talk. He just wants to ride into
new Governors term your peoples backs But
he's hurting you people and the state in general
trying to do it, Just like there's lots of trouble down
in my neck of the woods right now there's going to
be plenty of trouble next year when the politics
star. I"EW
There aint bit of to it in the world
he went On. Tive worked darkies all my life and
my old man before me and what Oh Gene is preach
ing is nothing but Tom Watson stuff for votes
Then he asked if you Negroes vote Some
Of us" I had to admit.
'All of you who are eligible ought to 60 to the
polls and vote for every elected officer. They'd re-
spect you then"
The visitor left Thought 1: "The Governors
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AMAZING FEATS. EASY

Then IN simple style Rutledge
remarks upon the most extraordi-
nary abilities of five of his Negro
henchmen, Sambo Green, over go,
Gabriel Meyes for SO years a
handy man, pushing 80, Phinaes
McConnor, who has a strain of
blood from the Seminole Indians;
Alex the ferryman, and Lewis
Colleton, master carpenter.
Mild Sanbo'' surpasses the
modern worker in building with
elementals tools wooden floodgates
to harness the tides, and walks
four miles to work each day. Old
Gabe. the hand man who also is
an expert wood carver, in two days
cut and hewed cypress stills, four
of them 16 feet long, two of them
20, all ten by ten. Alex, an artist
with a heavy spade, raises a bank
in the rice field by heaving heavy
mud blocks accurately into place
like some magic remote-control
building Of a wall, with the
bricklayer twenty feet away. "
Henchman Lewis Colleton is only
"a "his versatility is amazing. -.
even the Biological Survey calls
on him to mend its boats and build
it's wharves."
Phineas, son of "West McCon-
nor, the greatest alligator hunter
the Santee River has ever known
is Rutledge's chief advisor on all
matters relating to wild games,
hunting and woodlore. Phineas,
who is a great hunter and trapper,
has built a kraal for his family
his three sons and their families,
in a cleared area on some 300
acres of land which Phineas owns
on the borders of He'll Hole Swamp.
MERITS OUR RESPECT
Obviously Rutle6ge thinks OF
work for Negroes only as manual
labor for he classifies the inde-
pendent-spirited Phinaes as among
those who get along without work =
ing. But Phineas' family raises
their own crops. poultry and stock
and "all are quite matchless hunt
ers and woodsmen. However, the
writer is loud in his praise OF
Phineas family because mot one OF
them has ever been on relief, that
system which has well-night ruin
ed their friends and neighbors.'
Concluding his article, Rut'
ledge says, "My henchmen nigh
be called specialists. native gen
ius. g. akin to the ancient crafts.
men of the past. men who die
perfect work because they loved 1t
Any race that can produce sucf
workmen is a race that merits oul
respect, and instinctively has oul
admiration.
Beyond this we'll deserved prais'
of their black henchmen, it i
both sad and bitter to see wha
short distance the plantation Rut
Lodges of the entire South ar
willing to go in giving the Negr'
his simple Constitutional right
and sane human liberties.
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. Visitor AT The Desk

HE WAS A BIG, ruddy-faced white man, this
visitor who had been sent back to the desk by the
information lady.
"Are you the editor?" he started. I obliged,
stating that was in charge.
We'll, what l in here about is this l
own 2OO-acre farm down in Rockdale County. Well
the day after Gene Talmadge spoke down at Con-
yers brnging up this against race stuff, they
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which sinus is involved
Sinus headaches vary somewhat
in their manifestations but are
alike in their tendency to start with
mild or Gull pain and increase more
or less rapidly to an almost un-
reasonable intensity.
In most cases, ali A-ray examina-
ton has to be made to tell the
sinus involved.
TAKE CARE OF 70 U r
HEALTH: 1t is your first wealth.
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because being hu-
man beings and
h i G h | y civiliz-
ed, they must re-
coil at the extra
ordinarily / o W
value placed upon
human lives by
these murdererS.
The grand jury
men have family
connections and
therefore, u n =
doubtedly. sympa-
tbiZe with t. n E
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cot all stirred Up down There and
some mean white men down near
my neck of the woods took one OF
my darkies off and beat him up
terribly.
They've been wanting to
start something down in there
for sOmetime-tO beat up or
lynch a n-r-and this was
their opportunity. They took
advantage Of -- be-
cause he was sOrta new on the
farm and couldn't identity them
So xx,Q1I ThaU yUnuIdn,f hokt,o.
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MethOdiSts
Continued from Page -

right of way Friday night.
Success crowned the efforts of
all the committees who arranged
and planned the epic making area
council meeting of the Atlantic
Coast Area. Ministers, laymen,
women, young people, the district
superintendent and Bishop Loren
20 King received praises from
prominent visitors who made the
area council meeting this year.
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connected political party
regardless set rulings Of
the completely mpartay and free from hatred
All matter coming this should be office Sun
M each order in the
side
otherwise We the rights
matter safety convenience unless the
paid for.
contributors they
will published.
PLATFORM
that they feel PROUD
which their views all political social
seIigi0us questions which face the
extent
we as well job seekers
s.. instruct and girls in the art Of thrift
the brotherhood OF
To build a fmer racial foundation for pOsterity
the cOlOred must compete
technique other
Above render dependable ef
that alone will be able
enterprise Therefore realizing these vital
times give heed and to
rendering better service
published in which
opinions and shall not reflect LII
opinion of The PHOENIX INDEX
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Calvin S
Digest
BY l.. BAYNARD WHITNEY
HIS "BLACK HENCHMEN"

"WE KNOW NOT really what
We are; still less what we might
be. But hear faint voices from the
far dim land across the sea-" This
quotation came to mind When
reading BLACK Henchmen,'' a
Saturday Evening Post article by
Archibald Rutledge, a plantation
owner of the South who pays a
very high tribute to his Negro
craftsmen.
Rutledges article is revealing in
many points, but especially indi-
Gates that the Negro possesses a
native genius which flows strongly
past the obstacles, usually without
benefit of any formal training or
education. The writer thought that
no tribute had ever been paid the
Negro WORKER (showing that he
is rather poorly read of that sub
ject), saying, "I believe that my
story will be heartening to all
those who really love the Negro
and wish him we'll"
"Or course" says Rutledge, 81
live in the wilderness, and on my
remote Carolina plantation things
are somewhat as they have always
been. My Negroes. II call them
mine for they are my people: but
more truly am I theirs. are Nu-
bians; that is, their ancestors were
brought from North Africa"