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Tt seems that there are some
labor elements bent of selling our
nation into the hands of the Ger
mans. What is more, they are
"selling their nation short" as the
late Arthur Brisbane SO long urged
us not to do. Judas sold his Mas
ter for 80 pieces of silver; but
these covetous and designing Ia
horites would sell our nation for
so much per hour.
Selling our great country by the
hour is ahuot as despicable as bar
gain as it is humanity possible to
make. What is far more impor-
tant, when these elements would
sell out their country they are also
selling the lives of the thousands
of young Americans who have
been called to the colors. Out of
fairness to the defenders of our
country whose lives are laid upon
the alters of sacrifice, these strikes
should cease Immediately.
A SERIOUS BUSINESS
Even our forebearing President
cannot further temporize with
those who would sell their country
at auction at $50 much per hour.
Selling nations by the hour should
be made a very serious and costly
business. There is some remedy for
this situation; and if there is not,
then orderly government may as
we'll abdicate and turn the reins Of
government over to the Nazis and
Communists. We hear much about
the alliance between the Com
muni3ts and Nazis in Europe; but
We have paid entirely too little at
tention to the same alliance in this
country.
Sen. Dies for some months has
been telling the country about the
Vaccinations of the Communists
and he has been branded as the
nations number one witchhunter.
From what has recently transpir-
pired and from what is transpir-
irg at this moment on the West
Coast, this nation owes Dies and
his committee a public apology It
is hard to avoid a conclusion tina
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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

has described adequately the Ne
groes about whom ] am writing to-
day when he wrote that:
"The moment the Negro passes
out of the servant class, lifts him.
self in the property owner class,
becomes a business man or be-
comes a leader among his own peo-
pie, by that very process OF lifting
himself up he passes out of the
knowledge of white people, so that
the strata of Negro life that offers
the best of what the Negro may
become, is not known to the white
people. There is among many white
people the assumption that every
Negro is an uneducated Negro"
There are just such Negroes as
described in the above quotation in
Birmingham and every other
Southern city. Their numbers are
increasing steadily. However, they
shut themselves off from the general
community in order to enjoy their
improved status free from the irri-
tations that ordinarily afflict Ne
groes of refinement when they touch
the white world. Their acceptance of
the American standards of decency
and self respect is very likely 10
cause the local white word TO feal
least these Negroes have gotten out
of their assigned places"
ISOLATE THEMSELVES
The upper strata Negroes shut
themselves, equally successfully, off
from their less fortunate brethren
The Negroes that white people er-
roneously think they know They do
this because they want to avoid the
humiliation fixed upon these isolat-
ed, dependent and utterly defense
less Negroes.
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Sharp Protest
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answer questions and give aa-
vice on job placement.
The treatment of Negroes in the
armed forces will be handled by
judge William H. Hastie, civilian
aide TO the Secretary of War. Del
egates are aroused over reports,
Just now seeping out, of the mis-
treatment of Negro soldiers in
several army camps, and the re-
ports that Negro doctors in some
camps are being treated as hos
pital orderlies.
Speakers for Youth night of the
conference will be DR.. Buell. G.
Gallagher, president of Talladega
college. and Madison S. Jones, DR.,
director of youth work for the as
sociation. A complete program
On youth problems will parallel
the adult conference, and will be
held in Bee Bee Temple church.
MEDAL TO WRIGHT
The day sessions Friday the 9th
will be devoted to legal de1ense
and education, and to NAACP IN
ternal organization problems.
The 26th Spingarn medal will
be presented to Richard Wright,
author of the novel Native Son,
cn Friday night, June n, by E-
mer Carter, of New York, member
of the appeals board of the Ne"
York State Unemployment Insur-
ance Fund. i,
Sessions will be held in Gooo
Hope Baptist church, Wilson and
Saulnier streets, Of which the Rev
A. A. Lucas, president of the Hous-
ton NAACP, is pastor. A rouno
of entertainment has been arranged
for the delegates who Will come
from thirty-two states and the
District of Columbia.
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Stinson, Knox
Call Randolph
For Conference
Jobs For Negroes
In Defense Plants
To Be Discussed

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNS)--.
The whole of the Negro population
of the country is aroused and the
March on Washington takes on
tremendous significance and mo-
mentum as the date set for the
massing in the nations capitol Of
thousands of Negroes draws near.
er.
July ! will see the cavalcade
rStrading through ttle streets Of
Washington carrying banners and
signs protesting discrimination
against Negroes in the national
defense program.
The NAACP is wholeheartedlg
back of the movement. has con-
tributed financially to it, and
branches throughout the country
have been urged to give it un.
qualified support and participaI9
ton.
Last week, A. Phillip Randolph.
director of the March, received tel.
egrams from Secretary OF War
Henry l.. 5timson and Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox, request
ing that he come to Washington
for a conference. Mr.. Randolph
consented only on condition thst
other members of the COMMITTEES
also be present.
There will be huge mass meet
ing before the Lincoln Memorial
at which time marchers will be ad-
dressed by Mr.. Randolph and
Walter White, NAACP secretary.
who will express the impatience Of
the Negro people with continued
L:. - I;eo,.i,,, IN q tiOY1
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MAID BUCKS JIM CROW

WASHINGTON, D. CLAMP
Because she is personal maid to
John l.. Lewis family, Daisy will
lett. a Washingtonian, felt she had
right to dispute the state laws of
Virginia and therefore, refused to
accept being Jim crowed on n local
bus operating in Virginia. Taking
a seat in Washington, Miss Willett
refused to change when the coh-
ductnr ordered her to do so and
consequently when she got to the
Virginia side, she was placed un-
der arrest.
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Negroes Whites
Do Not Know
BY WALTER r.. CHIvERS

FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE weeks
I have discussed a news article en-
titled Judge Alb Knows Negroes by
Heart" I entered into this discus
sion because the philosophy in the
story represents one of the basic
blocks" to the ultimate achieve
ment of really better race relations.
1t is illustrative of how unjust it
is for one racial group to base its
evaluation of another racial group
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For this attitude | severely GEN.
sure the privileged Negroes. Belong
ing to a minority group naturally
exposes one to insults from the pow
erful majority groups. There are
so many inescapable insults that
all members of a minority must
encounter until even the privileged
ones among them should be insult
proof, racially speaking. One more
insult in defense of his brethren
should not matter.
The privileged Negroes out of
self interest must work to ease the
lot of their underprivileged bre-
thren for after all the majority
group views the race as a whole. To
do this they must not inSulate
themselves against insult in the
manner which they are doing-mu-
tual exclusion.
NEED INTRODUCTION
The privileged Negroes of Jeffer-
son county and Birmingham. in
particular. need 10 make n special
eIIOTb 10 utiIlOIiStIdlc WHO tllCN are
and what they are TO the white
people Of the community. They
must introduce themselves. be-
bieve they will receive surprisingly
cordial acknowledgement.
II seems to me that the Birming-
ham News. out of a sensex of fair
ness To its Negro customers and In
its avowed spirit Of service TO ali
of its area OF coverage. should
carry a feature article entitled, THE
Negroes that White People Do Not
Know"
The two articles could stand side
by side as a genuine balanced study
of race relations.
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Still A Mystery

most some OF the qualities Of the
demi-gods (instead Of the denh-
apeS which Hitler says the Negroes
are). We must have courage, ass
much courage as men ever needed IN
any battle. We must have t2telh-
eence. 49, alas. almoes more inteiil-
gence than any Of us have. And we
must have patience. - not the
patience that is a weak vice, bat
the patience that Is an active vir-
tue.
Patience does not mean sitting
down and waiting; II can better
mean up and doing. Patience really
means suffering and sticking 70 H.
one Who gets MS head bloody bnt
keeps going toward his objective.
has patience. one who flees at the
first assault made upon him, Il
really very impatient. We have
corrupted the word patience. as
We have corrupted so many words,
and have sometimes made it mean
suffering with inactivity, when IL
means rather suffering and acting
and going right ahead In spite oil
the suffering.
The man who sees an evil and
lies quiet and will not tackle IL,
because he is afraid he may have TO
suffer, is not patient; he is passive.
But the fellow who sees it, tackles
it, suffers for it. - and then goes
right ahead and tackles 1t again.
he is the patient worker. All re-
formers and professional mar
tvrs are made of that sort OF stuff.
! A PATIENT FIGHTER
But to be a patient fighter is not
the same thing as to be a fool.
Only fool will choose an infinite
ly greater evil to get rid OF
lesser one. 1t would be a strange
black man who would throw away
his right to fight for his violated
rights in the United States and pres
fer a German regime, in which he
would not only lose the right In
question but would lose also the
right to fight for it. There is a
difference there; our rights are
being violated in Mississippi, otu
in a Hitlerized U. S. A., we should
have no rights for anybody else
to violate. Ask the German Jews.
On can lose the right to fight, you
know. He cannot lose the natural
right to fight with brick-bats. until
he gets his own head Dashed in
for good. - but he can lose the
right to fight by publicity, by pro-
! test, by ballot, by court action, by
propaganda and education.
And these are the forms OF fight
lin which it is sometimes possible for
the physically weaker to win over
the physically stronger, - for the
IMAM without a gun sometimes to
win the final battle. These are the
rights that would be lost to the
Negro races of the world, for genera
tions, in a complete triumph for
HitleriSm.
SEEMS so CLEAR
AS long as any country gives us
the right to fight for ourselves, we
are going to fight for that country
when it is attacked by forces which
are opposed to that right. We can
criticise our country, as we can
criticise our family, without any
deadly hostility to it.
The thing seems so clear that it
would seem that all this kindergar-
ten explanation would not be neces-
sary, = and yet we are continually
surprised to find some apparently
sound minds, even some of those
that have been to school, slipping
up between these two plain points
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PagingTheNAACP

THE COMING MEETING of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People in
Houston, Texas, should see the
presence of some of the best-pur-
posed minds of America The
NAACP long has been dubbed
militant organization and. as such,
has supposedly contained the most
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upon LnIOrnldClOn
obtained from
secondary sources
and narrow, sup
perficial contacts.
There can never
be an acceptable
adjustment be-
tween white and
Negro groups any
where in the
south so long as
majority racial
group refuses to
give the status OF
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It's one good way to put more
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be sure to get GOLD MEDAL-.it's a
genuine medicine for weak kidneys.
Don't accept substitute.
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and morale by refuting at
home the very theories which
we are fighting abroad
The practice of discrimina-
ton against colored persons
in the defense industry must
be stopped. the President de-
clared.
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militant of folk
from thousands
of communities
throughout the
length and bread
tn of the land.
There will be
much discussion
about what they"
ought to do for
us in the defense
job situation and
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groups. That is the social status
that should automatically accom-
pany their factual status of human
beings.
A GOOD DESCRIPTION
DR. Edgar Bardner Murphy. a
white Southern author of distinction
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Bishop Russell
Continued from Page -

prejudices of men or nations at a
time when the very life of democ-
rscies the world over is threatened
by the so-called Huns. Let this
ecumenical conference composed OF
all church organizations OF thia
Western hemisphere set the exam
PIE by going on record here against
the continued iniustices heaped up
on the Negro in certain sections of
the United States.
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RAZOR, SHOES TAKEN FROM

w. ]. Jones, operator OF the
Friendly barber shop, located at 2ss
Irwin street was in the market for
razors Monday. He was quoted by
investigating officers as saying a
burglar entered the place OF busl-
ness and removed Is razors and TWO
pairs of shoes.
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Discrimination
(Continued from page

industries.
"It is even more important
for us to strengthen our unity
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in which
national Such
presented personal opinions shall reflect
way the opinion of INDEX
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WASHINGTON LAMP Con-
ditions in the Library of Congress,
which had not been so good ac-
cording to some of the workers, are
beginning to show a gradual i'm
provement under the direction OF
Archibald MacLeish, who sue
ceeded Dr.. Putnam as LIBRARIAN
year or so age.
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Mack C.. Nance
CONTINUED from Page ID

are interested in future welfares.
Every one is living in ard for
the present. Once more I am
thankful for these men. As well
as Mr.. James L. Davis, who has
shown wonderful cooperation with
The Index since its first appear
ance
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TRUTH SO PLAIN

But that is not the point: the
choice is not between these Ameri-
can evils and something better, nor
even between these evils and some
thing else just as good (for
change. In a showdown between
Germany and America, the choice
is between America and something
infinitely worse, - so far as the
Negro is concerned. Even so far
as the Jew is concerned. Even so
far as the "Aryan" Americans are
concerned. This truth is so plain
that it sticks out like the nose on
a pigs face.
Our ordinary human weaknesses
will not stand us in good stead in
such a fight forWard We need al
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political party
regardless rulings of regua
completely mparaTy hatred
coming should office Sun
day later Of n
current matter plainly side
the rights
unless the
Is paid for.
money the INDEX 1914 East Monroe
be signed by contributors OF they
be led
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tablish confidence in one another in
order that we may reach the peak
of our ability.
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PLATFORM

the that they feel promo
which their views all political social
selig0us nd questions which face the
especially extent
become job makers well as job seekers
To instruct and girls in the art of thrift
and the brotherhood
To build firmer racial foundation pOsteriy
of the colored must compete
Of technique other
In dependable
will able
enterprise realizing vital
times give heed and respect to
in
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Nv WILLIAM PICKENS

1T IS STILL just as mucu
mystery to me that sane coloreo
Americans should find IL difficult 10
take their choice between the Ger
mans and the Americans, or be-
tween the Germans and the britAsh
for that matter. as IL was q mystery
two years ago In September when
the war broke out. and when 1
expressed that mystification IN
mass meeting In Los Angeles. so
that all with two brain cells could
understand me.
II is no mystery that sane Ameri-
can Negroes will eontinue 10 tight
against determinations. OF al
sorts. In this country: they have
been doing that since long before
Frederick Douglass. those who have
courage In their hearts are sim
doing II today. and their posterity
will be fighting the same on similar
fights for generations In the future.
for IL will take generations 10
break up or TO seriously modify
many of the tough American COM
plexes. OF course.
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CHINESE:
For Britain

One of the most unusual dis
patches, never confirmed, but never
denied, emanated from Tokyo, and
told how the Chinese nationalist gov
eminent was sending a million Chi
nese men to Britain's Malay posses
sions to serve as soldiers.
The men, according to this story,
will be armed and outftted for the
Far East defense by American ship
ments of arms and ammunition.
If true, the idea challenged mag
ination, the Chinese will have to be
marched over the Burma road into
India and thence to Malaysia by
ship.
The Chinese, properly equipped
and trained, and given good food,
make excellent soldiers. Indeed, if
Britain could use them, observers
feel that there would be no difficulty
in getting 1000, 900 volunteers, for at
home they receive almost no pay
and little food.
The plan, if worked out, would
provide serious barrier for Japan's
aims in the South Pacific.
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According to reports brought to
Belgrade by neutral diplomats, five
ships day have been coming into
southern ports in Greece, and have
moved forward to take positions in
the central part of the country,
readily accessible to the northern
frontier.
Die Is Cast
The move by the British meant
that they had cast the die, that
they were going to move in full
force to the aid of Greece, and
hence that if Germany wants to
force separate peace with Greece
it will have to be a real military
victory, and not merely diplomatic
pressure.
This move, together with the land
ing at Salonika, was not without a
powerful effect on Turkey, which,
unlike Yugoslavia, seemed to have
some ability to stand out against the
Nazi inroads, and to hold herself in
alliance with Greece and Britain, in
accordance with the wishes of the
government majority.
While Berlin refused to confirm the
reports, and refused to comment on
them in any way, it was considered
ominous that the statement should
be made in Nazi communique that
"the moment had now come for a
decisive act in German-Greek rela-
TONS"
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SPEECHES.:
T1Uo Leaders

In an address that was carried by
radio to all parts of the world, Presi-
dent Roosevelt called for an Amer
lean total effort" to provide nations
resisting aggression with the war
implements they need. Speaking
before a gathering of the White
House newspaper correspondents,
the President declared in effect that
the aim of the United States is ''total
victory" over the dictators. He said
that this cannot be achieved without
some very definite sacrifices on the
part of the American people.
He called for maximum output
of war materials by the United
States and stressed the high impor-
lance of national unity. He ex-
pressed the thought that the British
people and their Grecian allies
needed ships, planes, food, tanks,
guns, ammunition and supplies of all
kinds. He followed this with the
statement that America would pro-
vide them with all these things.
Day later Adolf Hitler spoke to
his countrymen and told them that
no amount of outside help would per-
NIT the British to defeat the Axis
powers. He did not refer directly
to President Roosevelt's speech.
Germany, according to Hitler, has
been preparing throughout the past
winter for a final drive to victory in
1941. He predicted that this final
victory would come ION land, sea-,
or air or in any part of the earth. !"
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RICHARD C. HOTTELET
Suspicion of espionage"

It was something more than mere
coincidence that close upon the pas
sage of the lease-lend bill the
Nazis arrested Richard c. Hottelet,
a United Press correspondent in
Berlin, on strong suspicious" OF
espionage.
The D. N. B. announcement said
that Hottelet was suspected of hav-
ing conducted espionage in the in
terests of an enemy country. This,
of course, ruled out the United
States, and the Germans them
selves said: Naturally the United
States is not an enemy power"
It was added that the espionage OF
which Hottelet is suspected had
nothing to do with his journalistic
work.
AS the case went forward into the
preliminary hearing stage, Ameri-
cans began to wonder two things:
l. Did the arrest of Hottelet have
anything to do with the arrest in the
United States of Zapp and Tom, the
agents of the Transocean News Serv-
ice, Nazi outfit?
2. Did the arrest have anything
to do with the passage of the lease
lend bill, and was this to be in
terpreted as the start of a series of
Nazi reprisals which could end only
in the entry of America into the
European war?
The very day that the special
grand jury in Washington returned
the Zapp and Tom indictments, the
Nazis arrested Hottelet.
It also might be remembered by
some that Mussolini closed the
American consulates at Naples and
Palermo, and the United States fol-
lowed suit with the Italian consul
lates at Newark and Detroit.
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Birth of Crinoline

There was once Spanish prin-
cess who was ashamed of her hips,
because they were slightly mall
formed. So she persuaded the
court dressmaker to make a dress
that would increase her charms
and at the same time hide her
hips. From that request the erin
oline was born.
For a similar reason, sweeping
dresses became the vogue. This
time the dissatisfied princess was
the daughter of Louis XI; and in
stead of hips, it was feet. She had
very big feet and wore dresses
long enough to cover them. OF
course, the French court followed
her example.
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Jumping Fire Fighters Wear Corses Helmets

MISSOULA, MONT.-Revolution-
airy changes in forest fighting tech
nique resulting from the use of para
chute fighters have achieved wide
spread success. The jumpers were
specially trained and equipped to
fight fires in inaccessible areas until
the regular fighters could be car
ried to the fire by the slower land
routes.
Safety gear worn by the men
proved very effective. Not single
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set. A football helmet and a wire
mask protects his head and eyes.
A coil of light strong rope in 9
pocket of the suit provides the jump
er with a means of lowering himself
if caught in the upper branches o
a tree.
Wear and tear on equipment di
not prove as serious as had been e,,
pected. An early fear about ths
dangers of striking trees failed II
materialize, and jumpers found tha
landing in trees was actually more
comfortable than on open ground.