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semi-skilled workers, which has In
creased it's number of Negro en-
ployes in this category in the last
for weeks.
4-Consolidated Aircraft company,
which is still negotiating with OPM
for the employment of Negro
skilled workers, but which has at
tempted to escape the scrutiny of
FEP by hiring more than 1876 Ne
gro janitors and unskilled workers
in the last few weeks
TWO ARE ADAMANT
The two plants which the OPM
agencies failed to crack and which
they are reported to have certified
to the FEP are the Vultee Aircraft
company, whose president has not
yet retracted his statement that
"only members of the Caucasian
race" will be employed in his plant,
and the Boeing Aircraft company in
Seattle where Negro workers are
still barred through a closed shop
contract held by the International
Association of Machinists. This
same machinistS' union is bitterly
opposing the integration of Negro
workers into the Vultee plant in
Nashville.
Several factors are credited with
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to defend in this country, the First
Lady continued But she answered
this question by saying that this Is
the country where your commun-
ity could be built as you wished
it and that there should be no let
Up until the community was what
people wanted it to be.
This country, she said, was
founded on an ideal and not on
any race or creed. And while the
ideal had not been perfect we are
moving forward and that in NOV
ing forward the Negro women
were playing an important part in
that particular progress.
Immediately after this meeting
the women moved over to the
White House a few blocks away
where they were entertained at a
musicale featuring Carol Brisco
rontralto; Sylvia Olden, pianist;
Louia Vaughn Jones, Violinist an6
following this, they all, some TOO
strong, shook hands with Mrs
Roosevelt and were served tea
sandwiches and cakes.
The Thursday evening meeting
heard Mrs. Lucille Foster McNIil-
lin, commissioner of the US. Civil
Service commission, Eunice Hun
tor Carter. New York lawyer, and
Lester Granger also spoke.
The Friday session heard DR.
Bouldin Ferrebee and tho reports
of the metropolitan councils.
The afternoon session Paul V
McNutt and a discussion of the
immediate detectives of the coun-
ell.
Friday evening at the Rankin
Memorial chanel, Howard univer-
sity, DR.. Mordecai Johnson spoke
This was followed by an address
bv DR. Rayford Logan. A "Nation.
al Defense Rolndtable" followed j.
which the heads of various depart
ments answered questions as they
discussed their various divisions
included in this array were Charles
Collins, Constance Daniels Of FSA:
William aTastie, war department
IT. Arnold Hill. NYA: Frank S.
Horne, USFA: Campbell S. JOHN
son, selective service; Venita
Lewis, children's bureau; George
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The
Bookshelf
By v. ELISABETH BROWN
NEW BOOKS

We have the book which every
one seems to have been waiting
for, William L. Shirer's BERLIN
DAIRY. Millions of Americans
have heard the dry, twangy, mid
western voice of Mr.. Shirer
bringing to them daily over the
radio the news from Berlin" Be-
cause of the cenSorS, he could not
tell all in his broadcasts. Whet he
could not tell, he put in his diary.
THIS ABOVE ALL, by Eric
Knight is the first important
novel to come out of the war. In
terms of it's poignant and unfor-
gettable love story, THIS ABOVE
ALL brings into sharp focus the
fighting not only to defend It's
ancient liberties, but to bring to
birth the new and better England
that is yet to be.
Harry Lee, author of NO
MEASURE DANCED, has chosen
the department store as mmedi-
ate background for his story of
woman bewildered and salf deceiv-
ed. who is struggling against the
forces of materialism. the story of
many a wom2 n today.
Here ic a novel of modern times,
end ng a few days before the out
break of war in Europe. The
scene is a Virginia tide water city.
The members of the Timberlake
family-mother, father d
two youg women who are their
daughters-are the central char
acters of an intensely dramatic
story. They are true, vital crea-
tions, these characters, and they
make the action, precipitate the
crowding events of IN THIS OUR
LIFE, by Ellen Glasgow.
Other equally entertaining
books at our Public Library are:
RANDOM HARVEST, James
Hilton.
THE BLIND MANS HOUSE,
by Hugh Walpole.
CASE OF THE CONSTANT
SUICIDES, by H. D. Carr.
THE BLUE CLOAK, by Temple
Bailey.
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM,
by A. j Crorin.
FIRE IN THE SKY, by Tarle-
ton Collier.
AND NEW STARS BURN, by
Faith Baldwin.
LETTERS TO MARY, by Helen
Hayes Brown
THE DARK GODS, by Sarah
G.. Millin.
WAS A NAzI FLIER, by Gott-
fried LeSke.
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Why We Should
Not Fight Japan
MACK c, NANCE

The very unScrupulOuS and ma
licious will to fight Japan, is, and
has been cooked up in the stupid
minds of those who struggle to
maintain and perpetuate white su-
premacy" In other words, our
(the American whites) aims are to
extend policy of aggression, ex-
ploitation and finally O condition
of human slavery upon the Asiatic
people, including Japan. They shall
not pass"
Spheres of Influence Must Be
Accepted and Respected.
Today, Japan seeks, will locate
and occupy her rightful place in
the sun. This will be accomplished,
in a total disregard of so-called
race supremacy. Asia for the Asia
tics; is just as essential for the
people of Asia as the lonesome
Monroe Doctrine is to the land and
freedom grabbing Americans
(Whites) China, under the leader
ship of Chang Kia Shek, can Just
ly be called traitor of the people
of Asia. Japan, may justly assume
the role as the savior of the peo-
pie of Asia. The sphere of influ-
ence of all Asia, is justly due to
japanese leadership. Without this,
Asia is doomed to the same fate
as that of Africa, Ireland and
bleeding India.
Western land and freedom
snatchers, have no rights in ia
panese controlled sphere of influ-
ence that the Japanese are bound to
respect. On the other hand; ia
panese have no rights in the sphere
OF western influence that we are
bound to respect. For the benefit
of all man kind; the Status Quo,
domination thru introduction of
opium addictsD must be replaced
by Asia For the Asiatics" guided
by the firm leadership of the ia
panese people. If there must be a
dog in the Asiatic make up. by all
means, let it be Japanese dog.
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concept of education that even
the State Agricultural, Industrial
and Mechanical Colleges for Ne
groes have only stubbornly moved
away, very slowly, from the clas-
sical nature OF liberal arts educa-
ton
The reluctance of white state
public school administrators to
endorse broad and intensive voca-
tional training and professional
vocational guidance for Negro
youth has found sympathy in
many Negro Public College ad-
miniStrators The basic reasoning
for this agreement, however, is
different in that the individual
ism characteristic of traditional
Negro leadership has convinced
most Negro educational adminis-
traitors that each one of them has
the only solution for Negro edu-
cational problems.
INDIFFERENCE SHOWN
Fer this reason they show either
indifference Or definite hostility
to the findings and practices of
modern researchers in the various
fields of education. especially, the
fields of vocational guidance and
personnel work. This means that
they have no definite overall
policy Of voca tional guidance for
their students and that their pro-
gram Of vocational training is
too restricted.
AS a matter of fact, the en-
phasis of their vocational training
is upon training students voca-
tionally to become more useful in
their homes. This is quite admir-
able but a bit On the side of
"wishful thinking" at a time when
the greatest needs of Negro youth
are opportunities for earning
enough money with which to es-
tabliSh a home and training that
will enable them to make use of
su"h opportunities
Negro Liberal Arts Colleges are
even greater offenders than the
public colleges. They have build
ed a seemingly impreqnab!e wall
against possible pollution by
"di~'y hands" vocations. They ere
confirmed traditionalists guarding,
at the possible expense of their
ture existence, the educational
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CHIVERS SAYS:

I heritage handed them by the
liberal abolitioniSt New England
erS.
TURN TO TEACHING
They have turned their collec-
tive heads away f1om the dynamic
changes of OUR materialistic demo-
cratic society. For the most part
they continue to insist upon
emphasizing the teaching pro-
fession as the only goal worthy
of the efforts of educated Negro
Youth.
For instance, "a Negro Liberal
Arts College will report 100 per-
cent employment of last years
graduates. However, an analysis of
this report will reveal an unduly
large proportion of this employ
ment is as rural or small town
school teachers.
Again, many of these youth are
sentenced to teaching by their
college advisers because the youth
can not at the moment enter the
occupations OF their choice and
dreams. To sentence them to
teaching in these underpaid school
systems is following the line of
least resistance and at the same
time giving the college a SNUG
sense of satisfaction of living up
to it's traditions.
MUST LOOK TO FUTURE
No organization can survive In
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OF Joe Louis We must nor forper
what is behind it all. There is
mat democratic theology which is
at present involved in the machi-
natlons and designs of Hitler IN
less there had been the demo.
cratic ideologyl Negroes would
never have had a chance at the
championship.
Dempsey ran around CRYING
champion" for several years: but
ne was afraid of Harry Wills, whose
constant challenges haunted him
Ike the ghost of Banquo. Demp-
sey was never the champion of
the world after he decided not to
take on Harry Wills. He was
thereafter only the champion Of the
white race. Joe Louis could nev-
er have come to his present estate
and the Negro to his present
pride, had not Jim Braddock been
an honest-to'goodnesS champion.
genuine and unafraid.
@No6AA oldOOOSk IIldy nOL Do
so widely heralded as Dempsey, he
should be proud, and the country
should be proud of him, that he
was not a pretender; he was a
real champion and although
Negro uncrowned him, he was
brave enough to fight and tear
from the championship of the world
the sinister color bar that the so
called great Jack Dempsey hid
behind for many a year.
DEBT TO BRADDOCK
It is better to be the champion
of the world for a day than the
mere champion of one race
for a decade. Joe Louis and his
triumvirate owe much 10 great old
Jim Braddock who was not afraid
to fight a Negro The reason
Braddock did not claim the iYnmun-
ity the color bar offered was TIE
democratic ideo'o2y OF this coun-
try. A country that will support a
black man in the prize ring as he
b00OCAo Willie ul1A1 d4OCI
man into pugilistic oblivion is q
great country and is worth fight
ing for.
I am conscious of the fact that
this country is not all it ought to
be; but with all its faults it is the
best country in the world for Ne
groes. We would call this to the
attention of the Negro American
Fuss" Committee composed of a
group of die-hard Negro repubh-
cash who are promoting the ''po-
litiral fuss" set up by white die
hard republicans, championed by
the worlds fallen hero number
one
Joe Louis is Americas unan-
swerable argument for its claims
of democracy nothing but democ-
racy could make POSSIBLE our
great Negro trirmvirate, Black
Burn. Black and RoXboro gh and
Joe Ii. is "VaFnr Al'r~"i
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A Triumphant
Triumvirate
BY DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK


ANCIENT HISTORY tells about
the two triumvirateS of Rome. The
first consisting of Caesar, CaSSius
and Pompey seems to have been
the moe imposing. 1t has gone
down in history as one of the most
powerful and influential combina
tons of political and military
genius the world has ever known
To the glory of the Negro it must
be said, that it too, has produced
triumvirate of historical impor-
tance. Blackburn, Black and Rox.
borough comptise a triumvi1ata,
which for genius, is hardly match
ed anywhere in this country at
the present time. In the man.
agement of ice Louis, they have
crowned themselves and their
race with glory.
The Negro race no less than
this nation owes much to this
triumvirate triumphant And that
it is triumphant needs no verifi-
cation except the record Of Joe
Lous in the fighting ring. This
triumwiratt not only has liFed
Joe Louis to the pugilistic heights.
but the ambitions of the Negro
race have been vindicated and
strengthened There has been not
one jam or mistake in their hand
ling of Joe Louis. When Joe Louis
acceded to power in the squared
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the breaking of the solid anti Ne
gro front on the West Coast de-
fense horizon.
Chief among these has the close
cooperation between the offices of
DR.. Weaver and DR.. Alexander and
the Committee on Fair Employ
ment Practices. Soon after the COM
mittee picked Los Angeles as the
scene of it's first hearing, represen-
tatives of the Negro employment
and training and the minority
groups branches concentrated their
efforts on the West Coast area and
put the pressure on recalcitrant
employers and union officials. The
threat of certification to the FEP
is credited with the quick results in
some cases.
The breaks on the West Coast
front have not been confined to the
aviation field. Recently Negro ship
filters who had complained to OPM,
were hired for the first time in the
Too and Moore shipyards and in
diesel engine shops in this area.
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circle, there arose the question of
getting him q wife. The public
which was to pay the bills did not
ask the question in so many wccds;
but it very much feared there
would be another episode wher-,
the dusky champion might take
unto himself a daughter of Nordic
persuasion.
SETTLED MATTER
This Negro triilmvitate settled
this matter orce for all in getting
the fair Marva and fearless Joe to
get married. There has not been
more strategic stroke for racial
understanding than this one Of
the trilmvirate of Blackburn,
Black and Roxborough More than
once have I averred in this COL
umn that If the affairs of the Ne
gro race were as capably handled
as the affairs of Joe Louis, we
would have little reason to wor-
ry. What the Negro race needs
today is few more triumvirates
in religious and business circles
If an ANTE General conference or
National Baptist convention
had such management as does Joe
Louis, the race would soon DC
ready for a major advancement.
Joe Louis has become a power
full influence for good in the field
or race relations and best of all
he becomes a glorious and brilliant
example to race leadership. He is
short on talk hut long on perform
ance. We have entirely too many
orators and too few performers.
Joe has shown the way.
In reviewing the thrilling career
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tIOIh 80 -
Immediately when she began hel
address. She touched briefly on
the conditions in the country at
present and expressed a sincere
desire to seo them changed.
She said that the poor economic
condition, while partially to
blame. was not wholly to blame for
the conditions, but poor or lack OF
information had much to do with
it.
In the present civilian defenst
movement. she said she hoped for
a bettering of our efforts to put
over the program of nutrition IN
the areas where it was needed.
She expressed a desire that con-
servation would be taught, greater
care of health and better SANTA
tion also would be learned and
that there would be better planning
for the future of farm life IN areas
where this was the way of living
She declared that a better
knowledge of the whole conmun-
ity was essential III that it brought
about q better knowledge of the
problems.
The ability to work side by side
with anyone who has the interest
to work would be one Of the re-
suits of this program In the older
levels, some trouble would be met
and also in the matter of unions,
but among the younger generation,
there would be great hope for
partial or even greater solution
of the problems which surrounded
the nation today. She lauded the
NYA for it's Dart ir brineino about
such changes and said that it was
one of the mediums through which
this change was taking place.
Mrs. Roosevelt also expressed the
opinion that the power was in the
hands Of the women themselves in
the vote and that they should use
their power to their own advan-
tage.
Many persons of the minority
groups are asking what they have
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Power to make You victorious in all
you undertake to do? Power to make
people admire you? Power to earn
money? Power to gain popularity?
Power to make any one follow you?
I will send you information which is
the result of scientific research.
With this information and direc-
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er influence. You will be able 10
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Guidance Should Be
Policy OF Our Colleges

NEGRO COLLEGES, both public
and private, in the main, need to
take a reflective view of why they
are training youth. What is the
collective goal sort? This means
careful development by the col
leges of policy, a total policy,
on vocational guidance of its
youth. For most colleges, public
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PRIEST SEEKS GRAND JURY
ND FOR NEGROES

MINNEAPOLIS-(ANPN - TIL O
Rev. Leonard Hirnan. white. pas
tor of st. Lenord and ST. Martin
Catholic churches in the Negro
districts in Minneapolis, asked the
Hennepin county grand jury this
week to lend hand in helping Ne
Qroes obtain employment. Father
Tiirman said Negroes were having
difficulty in getting jobs and that
some were being victiInized by
racketeers.
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ABUSE OF TROOPS
CONDEMNED

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. LAMP
sponsored by Negro citizens of
Bloomington and Normal. mass
meeting held Thursday drew up a
resolution condemning the mis-
treatment of Negro soldiers in
southern camps, and also dis
criminatory practices of the gov
eminent and industries in the ma
tlonal defense program.
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During the past thTee
months, or thereabouts. neither
the radio nor the press has told
of any large-scale bombings of
the British Isles by the German
Luftwaffe. Where, for months,
Earth's largest city was subjected
to gruelling and gruesome bomb
ings, London is now enjoying "a
quiet that could we'll be associ-
ated with an eastern seaboard
American city. Activity at Brit
ish home bases gees on "normal
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the church we need in a time like
this
They that trust in the Lord shall
be as Mount Zion. which can not
be- removed buS abideth forever
psalm 125:D.
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TO PARTICIPATE IN
ART WEEK

HAMPTON, Inst. Va. The work
Of Negro artists all over the nation
will receive special attention this
year during National Art Week,
1923, it was announced
by President Malcolm S. MacLean
of Hampton Institute, who was re-
Gently appointed vice-chairman of
the National Council for Art Week.
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d1AN pAA'otN3 OA'AN
is tantamount to
requiring a re-
evaluation Q f
original purposes
and finally a
radical change in
direction.
Negro colEetgeH
have been so
thoroughly con-
ditioned to the
Journalism o f
the liberal arts
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A HOAX ?

UNLESS MY SIXTH sense is fooling me
completely l am led to believe that of the
greatest hoaxes of all time is being perpetrated IN
international affairs, The perpetrators appear to
be Britain and Germany.
Except for few aerial nvasicns on the part
of the Raj to the German-occupied coast of Eu-
rope, the actual war between Germany and Britain
is almost at a standstlll
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Sound travels in water about A.
300 feet per second, or four and
one-half times the rate of travel
in the air, the Department of
Commerce says.
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MOSCOW

About thy walls the moving hand
Of destiny across the scroll
Of fate will pen forth times command
Above the cannOns' thunderOus roll.
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faction and shall at all times
NOn present the completely mparialy
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To condense alter all matter safety
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TO give to the coored people that they feel proud
OF and in which they their political social
religious and economic questions which the
To awaken racial especially
shat must become job makers as well job seekers
To instruct boys and girls in the thrift
To promote the FaherhOOd brotherhood
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To succeed in business the
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Editor and Publisher
Associate Editor
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-11-07
State Will Receive
Extensive PubLicitu

Montana's scenic attractions and va
cation possibilities will receive wide
publicity from an eastern large-circu-
lation newspaper, the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, officials of Montanans. Inc,
said
During this winter and next spring
three columns of the paper each week
will be devoted to a Montana trip
taken by v. B. Gray. outdoors editor
during August of the present year
Gray will discuss various phases OF
his trip each Sunday.
Gray was accompanied by Ross
M den, Livingston photographer
Madden secured about 1000 feet OF
color films of Montana's scenery
which will be shown throughout Ohio
and western Pennsylvania during the
winter by Gray. In addition, other
pictures were secured for the use OF
the publicity department of Montan-
ans, Inc.
Gray's trip is the 9th he has made
in the past 81 years to secure material
for the travel page of his newspaper
Up to this year he has concentrated
on Canada, but this summer lured by
Montanas scenery and vacation pos
stbilities, he toured the Treasure state
He expressed himself to Montanans
Inc. as being highly impressed, and
intimated that he would probably
make further trips
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-11-07
Russell Too Modest
About His Paintina,
TQhnhQllser Recalls

Charlie Russell. in the days before
he gained distinction as . western ar
tist. was much too modest about his
paintings
This fact was reasserted in Great
Falls recently when W. r. Tannhauser.
former pioneer druggist In the Electric
city. returned after an absence Of
nearly 10 years to spend q brief visit
with old friends.
Tannhauser. who now heads a Nil
waukee machinery manufacturing cor
poration, recalled an Elks' fair held tn
the downtown district. with numerous
booths showing the industrial and cul-
tural highlights Of the city.
He was in charge of the booths and
had trouble getting enough Of them
set up to make real display. he re-
called. In desperation, he prevailed
upon a shy and budding artist, Char
lie Russell. to install some Of his
maiden artistic efforts in a tent He
recalls he had trouble in getting Rus
sell to display the paintings and put
prices on them. Finally, he said, the
prices Russell set were so low that
Tannhauser arbitrarily doubled them
Most Of them sold, he said.
One of the treasures OF his Nil
waukee home now. he said. Is one Of
these paintings, which he purchased
for $38 in order to aid the modest
artist.