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Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17
NEW COLORED c. c. c. CAMPS

Two new c. c. camps for colored enrollees are to ba
established in Mississippi County. These new camns wero
secured by MesSrs. J. G. Pipkin. State Welfare Commission
err; j. w. Meyer, drainage engineer; Fred Bethune. G.. c G
selecting supervisor, in cooperation with 1t Col. P, r Haf-
1ner. c {. c. Director for Arkansas: and ant. Joe Natas
sarin of the &C. c. Each camp will have 200 colored enroll
ees.
Of the 1878 Arkansas boys selected for the r {. G
nv the state v elfare Department during the last fiscal
year, only Al were colorcd. The d@crartmont has $40 oc.
I'VE coIored applicants or its rolls for enrolment in the
l; I. e.. This was one of the selling points used bv Mr. Re
Intlre ard Mr.. Meyer in obtajninr arnroval of the canng
they explained that many white enrollees are findino en-
pIoVmcnt, N the defense program, while colorcd Young men
have little or nothing to do. ~
A large share Of the credit for obtaining these carns
IS due Mr.. Clifford f. Minton. executive secretary of +be
ttt,e Rock Urban League, who took active interest in no
matter. The League called the attention Of the State Wei
1Rre ard the {. c. c. authorities to the pressing need for
more coIored {. c. c. camps in this state. and stressed fbe
comparatively small number of colored c. C. G. pnrollnes
moro than a year ago. We trust this is the BEGINNING Of =
more nearly equitable adjustment between thc nrr1Lor or
colored and white enrollees. ~ "
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17
BY Larry LeValle
Guest COlumnist)
On UnOrganized
organizations"

Permit me, firstly, to clarity
somewhat, the controversial cap
ton of this article following. I'm
organized organizations are those
Of which we frequently hear, but
whose actions and results are in
tangibly lacking. Allegedly, there
are in existence In this city, sew
cral benevolently inspired groups
Of thousands of persons, bann,L
together for the purpose of racial
uplift and advancemens. And too,
there are actually some of these
groups that do exist. The ones
Of which | now speak, are those
"unorganized ones" or in other
words, the "rackets,' whose mem
bership is tailed in the thousands,
and whose active participants us
ually number one or no more than
several and these precious few,
posing as Presidents, General
Chairmen, Founders etc. of these
aforementioned organizations, use
the principles of racial advance
m mt to swindle money from
Weather Negroes or good, phil
a%ntropic white people, and pock-
ct same. Time and again, they
break into print with stories of
what they intend to do. But moth
ing-Not Ona Single Worthwhile
Result. can they point to.
Gradually, and of a natural
course, those civic spirited citi-
zens among us who have been
bitten by this racket, become
skeptical and refuse to contribute
to any cause for fear this second
or third contribution might go the
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17
RUTH TAYLOR SAYS:
THE RIGHT OF THE MINORITY

The rights of the minority are the rights of the ma
Jorlty-no more, no less, for if we would look at the problem
realistically and not IN the spirit of sentiment, we should
see tnat each infringement Of minority rights" is really
an infringement of majority fright"
- any attack upon the rights of a minority whites AWAY
~ lshts OF all. History has proven this again and again.
t tmu carry paIballans who ravaged the outposts of ciyIiza-
an oulu NOT hold the countries they conquered because.
"oth aney ,aestroyed all rights except their own, there was
~ "i' ~ take root and so stabilize their conquests.
t+ach country which has tried to legislate religion, and
10 wipe out AL creeds but one, has fallen from mower. no
m"t!er what the creed-for religion, like a tree constrained
III d marrow space, dies of its own restriction. For. like a
Ivy lelleloh must nave space and freedom to grow. de-
life. ' gu" VI Splfll lor
Such hA. Ken tne experience Of evory ,div;d,o, 49,
toup VINO ever l. Led to hold power by wiping out the rights
~ a minority lhe" have found that they have cut their own
the murdered zee. '"''" " "e"'h aS Goes
europe me mlnoLItios Of today are hunted and har-
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17
COLORED STUDENTS ON LEADING FOOTBALL.
TEAMS

Colored students are on the football teams of the follow
ing great American universities: Nevada (3), Drake (2l,
California, I. {. L. A. Harvard, n. Y. T.. and Iowa. These
colored students, playing on great college teams. contending
against other great college teams, are potent factors in
the development of national inter-racial comfy and respect.
These players are makers of future public opinion, and the
hundreds of thousands who attend these games are bound
to be ~favorably influenced by the spirit of craftsmanship
exhibited by these educated colored and white athletes.
Inter collegiate football and track meets. composed of
contenders of both races, representatives of the best of
each group, the best in athletics and scholarships, give i'm
petus to the surely growing inter racial morale among
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17
CRITICISM OF THE PRESS

"NchcOI Teacher Beafon nv Slate Tolice"
Officer Uses 'Gestapo' Methods
Visitor Victim of Police Brutality"
Cop Kicks Woman"
"Arkansans Indignant Over Presence of Poo, rraa.-
These are a few of the headlines carried in tbo PRESS
recently depicting the actual happenings Of incidents not
III Germany. as one would get the first idea after reading
m1ocracy: in Arkansas, the land Of opportunity. These ar
ucles were not carried on a presumption of what NAV han
peh' put they were carried after the actual happenings.
After these stories were released. the PRESS vae te
target of numerous criticism, but the PRESS could NOT have
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17
THE DAY WE HOPE FOR

When we can live in peace and harmony with one
interchangeable Of race, color, creed, former servi-
tude or present position IN life. without mythical toler-
ance, but In a spirit Of Good Will, assured 10 the convic-
ton Of our better judgment, that We will remit to every
man the indomitable rights to ue admonhior Of his swn
conscience In whatever hne Of endeavor he pursues for
his religious or material existence. When that day arrives
We will be contented. THEN, we all can boast Of our
DEMOCRACY, and NOT until then. Il. C. BATES.
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17

those upon whose shoulders will rest the burden and re.
sponslblllty of social and industrial and cultural control.
A very definite forward step in this matter is the foot
pan came between Rio Grande (white Baptist college, Ohiol,
and West Virginia State College (colorcd). pio Crando
college plays such colleges as Denison (Ohio). TransvI-
vania (ky), ana Union KY.
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17

BY Larry LeValle
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17

October 13, 1941
Arkansas State press., 1941-10-17
SOMETHING
THINK ABOUT
(By NJ. o. Self

Note; (This column does not
necessarily represent the Edi-
torial opinion Of the Press, but
the opinion of its author,)
El;to,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
gAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:

By-ARTHIR -tBUGS} BAER

You know we are a screwha nation and as batty as
guano twilight.
Come think Of may be right Anyway, there never
has been anything wrong with that good circus
will
Here Europe and Asia are battling like bum and rail-
road shack ships sinking children starving, and
women dying And what doing here?
Why, circus press agent has completely agogged over
whether Garganua should marry Toto And who Car
gantua and Toto? A couple of gorillas.
bride weighs 45O pounds feet and has
any other kind The groom heavier than that and
like tough children Rutown play ywinks
manhoe covers.
Distributed sevs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
Avenging Cent Awaited
IoIiftEranee.s Sword -
BY EDWIN c. HILL

October 6. 1889. when il was de-
cided that the king should come
to Paris. Again Carlyle:
vanguard of national troops;
with trains of artillery: of pike
men and pikewomen.mounfed
on cannOns, on carts. on hack
ney coaches, on foot. LOaves
stuck on the points of bayonets,
green boughs stuck in gun bar
rels. Next, so carloads of corn,
which have been lent, for peace,
from the store at Versailles. Be-
hind which follow stragglers OF
the Garde-du-Corps: all humili-
ated i'm Grenadier bOnnets.
"ClOse on these comes the
royal carriage; come royal car
riages: for there are a hundred
national deputies. too, among
whom sits Mirabeau-his re-
marks not given. Then finally,
pell-mell, as rear guard Z.
other bodyguards, rigands,
whatsoever cannot bet before"
One cannot read Carlyle with
out believing that the superb
drama of France cannot and will
not end in violation of all the
dramatic unitieS, as if the last
page of the script were lost
and the curtain fell on cringing
slavery and ultimate triumph of
cravens and traitors.
THERE are those who believe
L that the flare OF, Carlyle'S
sheet-lightning has revealed too
much of the melodrama of
France-good theater that it is
and too little of the true Gal
IL spirit which always has
seized an avenging sword in its
last desperate hour.
Those ancient vines in the
sunny wales of Provence. in the
high reaches of the Loire
where ragged francs-tireurs
fought TO their death. when
France had fallen in 1873
those vines are brown and gaunt
and leafless now. but they will
burgeon again with another sun.
and their secret magic, known
to no other and. will again in
spire and inform a great and
valorous human spirit. Such may
be your salute TO La Belle,
France. as you sip from your
glass the last drop of the last
Chateau Yquem.
Copyright. 1871. King Features synd., in'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
Army Chiefs
Duck Swank
If Possible
They Shun Officer Dress,
for Several Reasons
(The opinions expressed by
Westbrook Pegier are not neces-
soriiy those of The Detroit
Times.)
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

A THOUGH some of the SOL
"A diers of the new army and
some OF the young navy flat-hats
are setting new standards in
bearing and dress which follow
the influence of the Sloppy Joe
army of France. the high-rank-
ing officers of the staff are in
no position to pull any shoots at
any of them.
George Marshall, the chief OF
staff, a general who could go
around with four stars on each
shoulder, is so bashful that he
doesn't wear his soldier SUIT
regularly, and any officer who
should dress up in the quaint
costume of his trade in Wash
ington, except for fancy-pants
party atAtheLMAite- f4etse or a
high-class scuffle at the home Of
some refined millionaire, would
be accused of insufferable swank
and might be sent back to the
soldiers for making himself con-
spicuous in public.
In a way these officers, OF
whom it seems that there are
some huge number in the capital
and in New York, recall the
stories of Adolf Hitler's tourist
invasions of Norway and Ru-
mania, in which swarms of Nazis
masqueraded as statesmen. buy
ers and fugitive intellectuals,
and suddenly emerged fFeffi tifeif
hotel rooms attired for the fray.
.GAPPY-WELEsS, the press Of
~ fieer who made football pub
licity for West Point in the days
when ii was decided 70 let the
public know that those young
men in gray were cadets and not
letter carriers, has been brought
on from Louisville. where for
several years he exercised his
rank of major over two enlisted
men and a lady civilian clerk.
Boosted TO lieutenant colonel
now, the cap still goes around in
multi and. now that / think Of
il, | believe the only time | ever
saw him with his stuff on in all
these years was one day at Gen.
eral Smiths garden party in
June Week.
Philip b. Fleming. graduate
manager of sports at the acad-
envy then. is a brigadier now,
but serving in wages and hours,
so perhaps he may be excused
for not putting on his gear and
clanking as he walks.
But the Col. Robert {. Rich
ardson, who was commandment Of
cadets. is now a major general
and director of the armys
bureau of public relations.
And he wears a black suit
and looks as if he were fixing
to clear his throat and say,
Brethren, let us bow our heads
in two minutes of pious medi-
tatiOn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01

\ ND many yesterdays crowd
= in on this hurrying today,
as they always do in any fate
full hour. Most wildly, most
poignantly, we remember and
cherish our past when it seems
forever lost. Your host remarks.
as he serves wine from a tall,
slender bottle, This is the last
of the Chateau Yquem. pretty
nearly the last anywhere. There
will be no more Chateau
Yquem."
An empty bottle is an empty
bottle, of little note in Heart
break House, but from this one
there has been drained sunlight
and dreams, the work and song
and glory, the secret and benign
conspiracies of brown earth and
blue sky, older than the Odes OF
Sappho and for centuries long
the golden alchemy of a great
civilization.
Is France lost. and will there
be no more Chateau Yquem, and
no more dreams? Or will some
avenging genii spring from this
stark and empty urn of golden
Moons and singing years. and
will he summon a host to lift
again the sword of fallen
France?
Again, today intrudes. AS l
write ] do not know whether
the sinister Laval. the one
time butcher boy of Auvergne,
will hold dominion over France
by her conqueror's mandate. My
last news was that old Marshal
Petain is still holding him at
arms length.
NEVER before has there been
~ single man who might
deliver France to her foes. In
Napoleon's last hundred days,
Talleyrand and Fouchet were
dealing secretly with the en-
emies of their country. There
were defeatests, betrayers. sly
careerists, brutal aggreSsors,
questing for power and loot, but
no single liaison of slavery and
defeat.
There were hunger and chaos
in Napoleon's last hundred days.
and then and before there were
darker nights and deeper gloom
than even the tragic pail of to-
day. Only the smoldering. vol
canic, violently eruptive Carlyle
can tell the tale of that darker
hour. The monarchy was sink
ing in anarchy and blood.
$50 sink the shadows of night.
clustering rainy and all paths
grow dark" wrote Carlyle.@"O
for the Tyre of some Orpheus TO
constrain. with touch of melodi-
Gus strings, those mad masses
into order. For here. all seems
fallen asunder. In wide yawning
dislOcatiOn. The highest, as in a
down-rushing world, come in
contact with the lowest; the ras-
cality OF France beleaguering
the royalty of France.
with dark denunciations Of
bloodthirsty anti-national guards
are heard dark grOwlings
against a queenly name. The
court sits tremulous. powerless;
varies with the varying temper
Of the Esplanade, with the vary
ing color Of the rumors from
Paris. Thick coming rumors;
now of peace, now OF war.
Necker and the ministers con-
suit: with a blank issue: We
viii fly to Metz; we will not fly.
The royal carriages again at
tempt egress-though for trial
merely"
WE HAVE quoted from Car
w lyle's History of the French
| Revolution. There came that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01

GENERAL TOOEY SPOTS
~ OF the air corps. recently
back from London. goes around
wearing some tweedy thing that
he picked up over yonder and
the town is full of rank and I'M
portance, and any one less than
a major is practically an Dixie.
But they all go around pre-
tending to be grocers. morticians
and veteran clerks at the De-
partment of Commerce, and the
odd part of il is that, although
they look pretty imposing in
their soldier clothes. army off,
GERS in multi. as a rule, look az
If they had Just crossed the con-.
tinent by day coach in a slow
train and hadn't undressed for
a week.
They say the main reason for
this is that they don't want 10
give Congress the jumps strut
ting their rank around the gep-
eminent buildings. And the
second reason given is that they
like to be able to drop in for a
dram at the hotels without
creating an impression that the
whole United States Army has
no occupation other than Just
that.
There is a little more truth 10
the second excuse than 10 the
first. but the real reason. as this
keen, trained bserve has
discerned, is that in multi they
can go baggy or half shaved and
don't have 10 pull in their ears
as an example of fine military
bearing to the laity and the en-
listed personnel.
But that is life for you, amt
it? They fret and grind through
school and eat their hearts out
for slow. gradual gains in rank.
and when they get up there they
go around posing as suburban
taxpayers and leaders of the
PIT. A.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
Quiz Answers

California and Montana in de-
scending sequence.
Carnegie Tech is co-educational.
Harvard and Johns Hopkins are
partly so. Princeton is strictly
for men.
For boring or grinding.
Alternating current and direct
current.
The Hawaiian Islands.
An epitaph. An epithet is a
descriptive adjective expressing
a particular quality of person
or thing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
One Airline
To Lisbon
Held Plenty
Proposed Subsidy Gets
Johnson's Criticism

(The opinions sxpressed by
General johnson are not neces-
sariiy those of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
DEfR0|Ts1 FINES

Subscription rate Din advancel by mail
to any place in the United states, Canada
or Mexico:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01

You know we are a screwball nation and as batty a
guano cave at twilight.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
Connolly Answers

|. (a) Swedish food; (b) part of
ocean Astounding in Gains and
battling winds; tc) shrimplike
animal.
,. ta) Turneth away wrath: fb)
gathers no moss tc) is worth
pound of cure.
}. Ia Telling name of author:
tb) self-respect; (c) TO ex-
purgate.
/. (a) Delicate lilac; tb) blue: (c)
red.
). Superior. Ontario. Erie. Huron,
Michigan.
J. (a) "Pinafore": tb) Pirates of
Penzance"; (c) "Mikado."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01

WE HAVE quoted from Car
w lyle's History of the French
Revolution. There came that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01

WE SUPPOSE it would bC
w good thing if all our edi-
torial writers could 20 to Europe
though not- necessarily -hA-
bomber-zto take a look around
They are mostly men trained by
long experience in the assay and
appraisal of events.
The testimony of one of them
after observation would be
worth more in the enllghten-
ment of the American public
than the words of any dozen of
the witnesses they have been
examining in Washington. even
including those who have seen
some of the war.
The editorial writers would
give us a clearer and more inn
partial picture. We are eager TO
read TEX" McCrary's views
after he has had a chance to
study the situation awhile.
In the meantime he takes his
place in journalistic tradition
with the great adventures OF the
game. He has put in the records
an experience and a story that
prove that the thrills and
glamour of the newspaper busi-
ness still live. His exploit makes
us feel proud Of our profession
and at the same time little
envious Of TEX" McCrary.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01
War Drivinq
=Brains=Hefe
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

A LII the literary fellows that
have fled Europe and come
to America tell us that it is
impossible TO create" under
present conditions over there.
Their ancestors were, however.
made of sterner stuff. Many of
them, in the earlier days, had no
America to flee to, so they just
stood their ground and wrote or
painted.
Dante. banished from Florence
TO another place just as hot"
wrote The Divine Comedy"
Aeschylus, the Greek tragic
writer, wrote scenes for his plays
while on the march The was,
like most of the Greek writers.
a Soldler).
Sir Thomas More wrote his
"Utopia" while a religious war
was going on. He later went to
the Scaffold.
Beethoven composed some of
his mightiest works while Ma
poleon was ravaging Europe.
GOETHE went on writing his
VI poems and scientific essays
to the music of Bonaparte's
CannonS.
John Bunyan, like Oscar Wilde,
did some of his work in Jail.
Condorcet. tracked every
where as a Girondin by the radi-
Gals of the French Revolution.
wrote his famous Sketch o. an
Historic Picture of the Progress
of the Human Mind while on
the hop. skip and jump.
Chateaubriand. Madame De
Stael. LamennaiS and a hundred
other writers did their work
+ during the dread days of Ma
poleon.
When the great painters and
writer's of the Italian and French
Renaissance did their b (
work the cities in which hey
lived were. quite often, being
taken. retaken and pillaged right
under their noses.
MICHEL de Montaigne did his
vi great essays while a civil
war was destroying France and
while the soldiers plundered his
chicken coops.
The list of men and women
who have done their best work
under the shadow the sword is
interminable.
walt till I've solved this
mathematical problem. gentle
men. then you can slit my
throat" remarked. in effect,
Archimedes when the soldiers
broke down his door. RE fin
ished-and they slit.
Well. not forgetting either,
that THE Star Spangled Ban
ner" was written during the
bombardment of Fort McHenry.
But what is really driving all
the brains of Europe to the
United States of America is the
fact that here those brains are
not restricted. We are one of
the few countries left where the
pen is free.
Pretty good for a material
iStic. capitalistic. philistine"
country-quoi?
Up. s.: p. C. Wodehouse is
writing a comic gangster book
in a padded cell in a German
concentration camp n
Thus times do shift-each thing
his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former
things grow old.
Robert Herrick.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-01

THE air route business is an
i exactly similar case in which
repetition of errors of 10 years
ago in fumbling toward a solu-
ton of the railroad problem was
urged. The present air route
has or will apparently soon
repay the government through
postage what il expends for mail
freight-which is the subsidy
in question.
If that mail load is divided up,
neither company can continue
without great loss.
The present company makes
four outbound trips a week,
which will soon be six. The
proposed competition will make
only one every two weeks for
mail alone for several months
at a much higher subsidy per
trip and proposes a later one
trip-a-week schedule for both
passengers and mail when equip
ment can be secured.
THERE is a question here also
i of eventual American COM
petition with government con-
trolled monopoly air lines of
European countries.
To duplicate and double the
cost of ground service and other
American equipment and halve
the potential revenue of each
American competitor will ter
ribly handicap both, not only
against each other but against
foreign competition. It cannot
help but impair the service the
economy and efficiency of Amer
lean transatlantic service.
As in the case of the railroads.
governmentally subsidized COM
petition as a monopoly control
"should be abandoned as waste
full and unnecessary. Regulation
is sufficient" Better one good
line than two bad ones, espe-
cially as the intended competitor
already has a monopoly OF 80
per cent of the traffic through
the steamship lines of its parent
company.
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