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The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

gro newspaper channel was
opened through which the opin-
ions. the aspirations and the
achievements of America S rapid
ly rising tenth man could find
sympathetic and factual express
sion. AS their editors and prolnot-
ers gained courage and resources
they became more direct and
militant. not only in publicizing
the Negroes achievements especial
" in the fields of religion, educa-
ton, fraternal interests and en-
tertainment. but also in politics
and business.
Outstanding characters were
pla,ved no. the doings Of the local
social elite We're chronicied. the
EXPLOITS ana powers Of athletes
and sportsmen were displayed IN
rictures as well as In words, and
the progress of the entire group
in home-cWnership and general
culture was relayed to a surpris-
Cd but interested public. No insti-
tuition contributing to the marvel
Gus advancement made by our
racial group il the past three
generations can be credited with
more genuine concrete service than
the Negro press.
In the face of all but insuper-
able obstacles it has become a
powerful force in our national
life. AS a race we can depend on
it to tell a listening world when-
ever a Negro has achieved a signal
riumph in any field of labor OF
Of art that "a black man did it,
More power to the Negro press.
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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

work hand in hand. The public
school teachers there have found it
rather to their advantage at times
to have as their state president
an official of some cne Of the
private colleges. Alabama has re-
Gently elected as president Of the
state teachers association a facul-
ty member from Talladega College.
This spirit of unity has worked in
the best interest of both groups of
teachers but especially the public
school teachers.
LEADERS DICTATORS?
Do the Georgia Negro public
school teachers mean to continue
teaching in inadequate school
buildings, working for starvation
wages because misleadership con-
tinues to tell them that the time
is not ripe for them to contend for
their legal rights? The life of this
democracy depends upon the free
dom and right Of every citizen to
appeal to the courts for sanction
Of what he or she believes to be
due him. Leaders who attempt
TO tllWart this inalienable right are
at heart and in action dictators.
There is the possibility Of a pro-
gram consisting. mainly, of funda-
mental and attainable needs of Ne
gro teachers and students capable
of keeping state agent for the as
sotiation just too busy. There are
nearly dozen Negro leaders in
Georgia in the field of education
qualified by birth, training, exper-
ience and achievement to guide the
6estinies of the state teachers as
Program leaders will be
discussed subsequently.
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FROM MY STUDY WINDOW

the Negro press. and the signift-
"ant place it has attained in the
life Of the notion and the race.
That place was wen because
through the past two generations
it has been the most potent me-
:um throueh which the world has
learned "that a black man did it."
Prior to the birth and phenom-
email maturing of the Negro news.
paper, the black man was pre-
|sented to the public only as his
enemies and detractors saw or
pretended to see him. He was a
clown, buffoon. a lovable min
STEEL or Il rapist and beast whose
luStful passion fer the women of
the white race could only be held
in check by rope and fageots.
Little was known or nallght
concerning his loyalty, his patient,
often unreultited toll, his struggle
to educate his children, mis- skill
~ JIIG u GI4CS. IlAO
less gift Of song. and the intrepid
leaders that were emerging from
his ranks
Black hands and black backs
were building an empire for which
white men were getting the only
credit, and in which black men
we're to be held as slaves, some
times with and sometimes with
out. Shackles OH their physical
limbs. The world was showing it.
self increasingly willing to accept
the Negro as he was presented by
the white editors. authors. artists
and song writer's.
BECOME MILITANT
With the appearance OF the Ne
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
We Garry Ours To
Law, The Law
Comes For Them

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
1T DLSGUSTS me to hear color
ed people on every corner talk
ing about the coiored pastors and
the management of their churches
The church is the colored mans
salvation and if it's not run in 9
Christian way, get into it and help
put it in order. Regardless OF
what you say about the colored
church, it reflects on you as well
as the colored church.
I'll say of all churches,
whether white or black, some of
them have trouble, but with
the cOlored man anytime a
church has trouble or dissatis-
faction, the coIored man Jumps
all of his churches in the same
category. The cOlOred man
says: For us to stay out OF the
courts" but he forgets the
courts or its police officers go
and carry white church officials
TO Jail instead of them some
times going to court.
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BETWEEN THE LINES

completely with capitalism which
has everything. is the height Of
folly and stupidity.
Theoretically. man should die
for his rights but common sense
dictates that a man should employ
strategy of survival ga la educat-
ed Negroes'C in order that he may
live for his rights. It Is true that
somebody must die for rights; it is
also true that somebody must live
for them. Science may prescribe
heat for the BODY by electrical ap-
planes; but common sense alone
can tell when it is hot enough.
TURN TO WASHINGTON
News accounts have it that a GER
tain learned man of the race has
advised that the Negroes 'forget
Booker r. Washington's teachings" :"
In reply to this we might say Ne
groes have tried to do just this
thing for so years and find them
selves unable to do so. Booker T.
Washington did not tap the foun-
tains of popular acclaim in his in
dustrial education preachments.
Because it did not fit in with the
pet notions of more learned men,
he was denounced and laughed out
| nf pOlFf RJt thic nation hoe t1,rIo-
cd to Waehington's teachings and
find therein the basis Of one of the
most pretentiOus vocational pro-
grams mankind has known. Theor-
lists and scholars" have spuineo
The common sense plans of Wash
ington and have time and agair
misconstTued his basic teachings:
but evidences are multiplying that
we are about to witness the renais;
Sance Of the ideals of Washington
In spite Of many pet theories
history does not record a nation
or race that began at the top. AL
0f the glorious stages of human
achievement are rooted in the les
glorious stages. The present stag
Of Negro development is rCCted ii
2 very humble past. This IS tru
Of 9ll greet peoples. Manuel labo
whether of field or factory is bas
icel1v the same. When Washington
vas trying to get his people to Sc
the virtues IN the accomplishment
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
"A Black Man Did 1t"
Il. REV. JOHN c. WRIGHT

SOME YEARS AGO Robert r.
Motion, the principal of Tuskegee
Institute. was standing on the
corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty
Fourth Street in New York City.
The traffic, as usual, was flow
ing in one unending stream. All
Of a sudden white woman, ap-
parently utterly bewildered, step
ped off the curb directly in front
CT rapidly approaching auto
mobile.
Quick to see her danger, DR..
Motion made plunge and jerking
the woman completely off her
feet, catapulted her back to the
curb and to safety. Scores of
pedestrians who witnessed the
gallant act gathered around the
doctor to add their praise to the
embarrassed expressions of graft
tude from the woman VINO had
been the main character, as he
had been the hero in the drama
which came so near to being a
tragedy.
From nowhere, as is the usual
thing in New York. reporters ap-
peared. They wanted to know DR..
Moton's name. where he came
from and all the details so essen
tial to "Story'. He waved them
all aside and told them it didn't
matter who or what he was, but
lust TO say "a black man did it".
POTENT MEDIUM
This week, attention is being
centered by one Of our college
organizations upon the history
ano marvellous development of
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
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The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
OUR SEVENTH SENSE

THAT MAN IS endowed with
five senses is one of the fundanen-
tai axiorns of physiology. Our most
elementary education embodies this
almost self-evident truth. Persist
ent attempts have been made to
establish a sixth sense but to date
nc convincing headway has been
made and we are left with the five
special senses through which come
al our knowledge. Some have call
ed them the windows of the soul:
fer through them comes the light
that men live by.
This writer is beginning to won-
der if there is not seventh
sense" and if there is. it must be
commonsense. Some years ago I
lectured before a learned audience
from the anomalous subject, 1.-THE
Renaissance Of Common Sense,
and the more I reflect on my au-
dacity the more / am convinced
that l must have been inspired.
In a world shot through with a
hundred theories about everything
with academicians bewildered in a
! labyrinth of contradictions and
with research oftimes making con-
fusion more confounded, it seems
7bout time for common sense tc
get a rehearing.
SIDE-TRACK COMMON SENSE
One Of the unfortunate happen.
ings in the world of today is tht
tracking of common sense TO,
pet theories. There could be n
greater blessing than the resur
gence of that old common sense il
which were stepped the ideals ant
ideas of the pioneers.
Theoretically, submerged group
should align themselves with radi
cal groups: and the Negroes. there
fore. should be aligned with CON
mntnists, the most radical of tn
present crop of groups" Bu
common sense dictates that for tn
Negroes to cast aside all discre
ton and slavishly adhere to com
naunism which has nothing for il
self in this country, and to brea
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| AM AN american

this statement carries some signi-
ficance. I am an American, am
an European, I am an Asiatic,
carries no significance.
One may visit Sing, Sing, Flo
renee, San Quintine and even AL
catras, and find inmates using this
common expression, I am an Anne
rican. Jessie James, Harry Tracy.
Jip- the-Rlood and Dillinger prob
ably expressed themselves as, I am
an American. Such an expression
falling from the vile lips Of a
bunch of moral regenerates, is
far from being complimentary.
The seemingly, odious expression,
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Attention. Again
Georgia Teachers
BY WALTER Il. CHIvERs

AT NO TIME in recent years has
the state association of Negro
teachers in Georgia been repre-
sentative Of a cross section of Ne
gro education in the state. Neither
has there been any real effort to
encourage a significant statewide
representation. These are hut two
Of the weak spots that have con-
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CONSTITUTED for the most part a
waste of time for the few who at
tended them. The not wanted"
sign has in effect been Haunted in
the faces of private college teachers
as though they we're not integral
parts of the teaching profession.
Every effort has been expanded
to place them IN disfavor with the
public school teachers.
This has gone TO the extent of
guiding the annual convention
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tributed to the
increasing inef-
fectiveneSs and
disintegration of
the organization.
For instance,
the college sec
ton has been
very weak and
received no en-
couragenent. AS
a matter q fact
the department
meetings have
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

to have them begin at the bottom
where begin they must!
FAR FROM KINGDOM
It is futile to argue that because
Wasi1ington's philosophy did not
cover every contingency of Negro
advance that his basic motions
we're false or falacious. Were Wash
ington living today l,,c might not
teach industrial education in exact
" the same way. but he still would
say that Negroes cannot crash the
door of l-fledged citizenship in
this country. The NAACP has
made a very laudable attempt to
force the issues but in spite OF Its
gallant stand we are still far from
the kingdom.
A few Negroes with their heads
in the trough CT rare privilege"
may ignore those limitations which
ciycumscribe the life Of the Negro
race. but the masses cannot escape
by way of theories into an earthly
Elisian Field. There have been
many since Washington with beau
tiful theories end learned disserta-
tions which have left the race high
ard CRY ana dreadfully suspended
between what we cannot at present
| stain. Washington'S common
sense philosophy is like pillar o1
cloud by day and a pillar OF fire
by night. Let's give our seventh
! sense q chance.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

l am an American, carries several
car loads Of definitions. SUPERIOR
ty, supernatural imperiel heirs
dispatched by Christ, to the Ameri-
cans, so as to instruct the inhabi-
tants there at, how to breath
properly, are just a few Of the
many implications. Immunity from
punishment, imaginary greatness,
than thou are other interpreta-
g. stupid feeling that, I am better
tions.
Thanks, to the presence in our
midst, free institutions of learning
These institutions reveal the fact,
that such selfish and imaginary
ideals are both assinine and false.
The expression, am an American,
will never protect one from luft-
waite Or prevent ones throat from
being slit from ear to ear. Why not
wake up?
With the exceptions of that great
and once noble race, The American
Indian, America, unfortunately. is
the mixing pot Of a few OF the
best and too many of the worst
bloods of the old world. (See His
torv of The American People0
Peru, had its PiZarro; Mexico,
had it's Cortez; the United States,
had it's DeSota. None of the names
mentioned above were coupled with
common decency and honor. Use
common sense. Whenever man IN
the 18th century left his family, his
home and the Nmforts of home,
to prowl around the jungles OF q
country he knew nothing Of, thai
man was either fugitive from
Justice. or he was seeking free gold
for himself and free seduction or
innocent and helpless young girls
for his miserable followers.
Time and space will not allow
me to mention the numerous VII
lians who parked on our shoeS'
when at the same time the guilio-
tine awaited them in the OLD
world. Unfortunately, these hu-
man termites were virile and pro-
duced their kind My conclusions
are. that other than the great In
dians, America, is branch or
rather a continuation Of some OF
the good, but too much OF the BAD
spirit of Europe.
In Mexico, the people are called
Mexicans; Bolivia, BollVlans;
Brazis, BlazI.Ans, etc. Amerlgo
Vespucci, after sailing along the
Eastern shores of what is now
known as South America, express
ed himself as follows; Q509 I'VE
have found what may be called a
new world" The king of SPAN,
from this, called this new land
America. Since them, Canada, the
United States, Mexico and other
independent republic has been es-
| IdDilSlSQ LII NCIlDL OIL S'AANA
America. In various republics ol
the Americas. there are various
methods of application Of democra'
CIV and national discipline. For al
instance, in the republics OF Soutf
America (places I have visited Il
find true and genuine hospitality
an ardent practice of the father
hood of God and the brotherhoo'
of man.
1t is the republics of Souti
America, that I breath deeply, tn
cir Of freedom, justice and God'
humanity 1t is there, that I cas-
my eyes toward the skies an
scream aloud: THANK GOD
LIVE. On my return to the boz
/ der my feathers fall. My hopes al
| blasted. The land where my fatht
died, the land of the Indians prld
, from every mountain side, Atroc
ties ring. I am an American. JUS
what does it amount to?
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
BY MACK C. NANCE

W by MACh =. NANOE
The Press, the Pulpit. our Edu-
tors, the Statesmen and the In
dividual on the street, the high
way and public places are contin-
ually shouting the (to me) mean
ingless expression of thought, ~
am an American" Our way and
other seemingly idle epithets. Just
what is the advantage or Gisad-
vantage of being an American'
America, proper, is divided as fol-
lows: North, Central and South
America. Just which America are
we referring to? Where does the
bite ccme in9 7 ON 2 Chinaman;
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Reynolds To Ride
New Streamliner
ATLANTA Ga.=(SNS)

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
|. P. Reynolds. Atlanta Daily
World columnist, will be on the
Southern Railroads streamllned
train when it make its exhibition
run through Atlanta next Sunday
afternoon, it was reported Satur-
day.
According to the report, Mr.
Reynolds will ride the streamlin
ed "Southerner" at the request
of local officials of the railroad
He is to board the trian with g
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group Of white Atlantans at Ar
niston, Alabama.
Mr.. Reynolds will be the only
Negro in the party of Atlantans
invited to make the trip. The
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The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
BY ROBERT NJ. RADCLIFFE

LET'S HAVE A LOOK at Atlanta this week. There's
always something going in the Gate City. Good and bad
Maybe that's why they call it the New York of the South"
Atlantas Terminal Railroad Station has done some
thing that coored people should be thankful for The
nal Station, you remember where Miss Marian Anderson
insued because white friends carried through the
wrong entrance. Well now, the Terminal has fixed it
Negroes won't have to walk mile reach the coored
waiting after leaving taxicab the family car
They've put some stone steps right in front of the
coored entrance all have to do is hop out of
the cab and dash into the station whereas it be
matter of about 10 minutes OF walking from taxi to the
coored side of the building Of course you could always
jump the rail-a distance of about Is feet.
Bill (Boangles) Robinson celebrated coored entertain
is coming to Atlantas City Auditorium in about two
weeksand at what price We asked one of the promoters
if he paying Bill $1,000 show in the Gate City His
reply:
"GeeZ, that is awful"
1t will mark the famous tap dancers first appearance
in the South.
You can hear pin drop on Atlanta streets any night
after the clock strikes twelve Police have received orders
to put end to current of burgare Consequently
early morning pedestrians and prowers feeling the
sting of the law
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sway from the capital city during
the years when officers are to be
elected. rs a result Wlat make
shift organization there has been
FOL the past several years was
largely a sectional group from be-
low Macon, Ga. What this column
is pleading for is a statewide Or
ganization.
NEED ORGANIZATION
A complete reorganization of the
teachers association should be in
itiated at the April, l941 meeting.
This organization should be on a
real statewide basis. It should al
so, include the private colleges
and high schools. Right now is the
time for a committee Of unafraid
teachers and administrators to
get together for the purpose Of
circularizing the state to this eff
feet This will bring hundreds and
hundreds of discouraged teachers
to the annual meeting.
What are the Negro teachers in
Georgia afraid of anyway? why is
it that North Carolina, South
Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and
Florida can have dynamic aggreS-
Sive. we'll organized and function
ing organizations Of their teach
CTS and Georgia can not? Does it
mean that the rank and file of
Georgia teachers are not as in-
terested in their personal welfare
and the welfare of their profession
as these teachers III other far
southern states? Are the rank and
file of Georgia teachers afraid Of
something?
In North Carolina the private
college and public school teachers
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streamliner will make the dem
onstration trip from New Orleans
to New York. The Atlanta group
will leave the train after it
reaches this city.
March 10. He is known as one of
the first advocates of public hous-
ing N America and he has declar-
ed that his experience as manager
Of the RoSenwald apartments has
shown him that decent housing for
families Of low income could not be
provided upon the ordinary COM
mercial basis.
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AUTHORITY REFLECTS

CHIChGO-tANP) Robert r.
Taylor was reelected vice chair
nan CT the Chicago housing au-
thorlty at it's annual meeting held
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
BY DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK

Of the manual arts he was trying
to have them begin at the bottom
where begin they must!
The Phoenix index., 1941-06-07
Armies Set For
Battle In
Tennessee

MANCHESTER, Tenn.--T'he 9th
division announced today that ap-
proXimately half its units had
completed occupation of their BIZ
vouac areas. Hundreds of pup
tents sprouted on the hillsides, as
though by magic farming, and
troops, tired after their long shut
tle-trek from Fort Mcclellan,
Ala, to this Second Army man.
euver area, went through the
CHEEKY and always colortul busi-
ness of setting up camp.
The 9th, famous New York
State Division, is scheduled to
complete occupation of its initial
positions for the month-long June
maneuvers by Wednesday night.
Soldiers pitched pup tents. laid
communication lines to headquar-
ters and between adjacent units,
then put in time cleaning house,
washing clothes and making their
quarters as comfortable as a pup
tent can be made.
The 9th Signal Company, with
headquarters at Yonkers, N. Y,
arrived at Shelbyville on May "a,
then moved near the Duck River
to get near to water for bathing
Throughout the movement to
the area Haley, the 9th Signal
Company maintained radio COM
munication between Ft. McClel-
Ian and Camp Forrest The COM
peny sent daily reports to head
quarters at FIT. Mcclellan by "a
dio. 1t also maintained communi-
cation between Division elements
On the road. To prevent intercep-
ton of messages, the operators
used code rather than voice
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