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hueS should resent such action as
was demonstrated Monday. 1t was
clearly Shown just how and what
supports the rise of dictatorS- the
weak sinews of the people, their
refusal to think and vote at all
times. Scores of white GeOrgians
who passed by me leaving the
Capital loudly expressed disgust
at the comeoff- they constituted
those who think and see things
clearly.
Negroes in all Georgia should
awaken to their name and living
being used as a means to low end
by politicians and others, who re-
fuse to encourage the people to
think. Mondays capitol show was
but side-t tent demonstration of
the low respect and esteem in
which the Negro race is held and of
how the white group allows itself
to be driven before the dictator'S
whims and fancies on the race
equality scare.
Faltering Geo1gians of all hues
awaken or. help defeat democracy
] in our land!
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in a dynamic society.
In critical times, like the pres
ent, group safety calls for the
most dramatic displays of loyalty
patriotism and willingness to
sacrifice. Negroes must demon
strate courage in the face of dan
ger and ability to pay the price
of defending democracy. Race
relations are not bettered by SYM
pathy-they react to expediency.
COOPERATION ANTAGONISTIC
Cooperation between races is
inherently antagonistic. There are
plain evidences of antagonistic
racial cooperation in even the
most harmless and humane appear
ing efforts at cooperation between
races. Antagonistic because no
more disturbance of the scales OF
racial inequality is ever allowed, al
one time, than is thought expedi.
ent to the welfare of the majority
racial group at the particular
moment.
This antagonism is not necessari-
ly conscious of responsibility for
any brutality nor do all members
of the majority racial group recog-
nize it's antipathetic action. Such
feelings are more and more SUBJ
dued as the ruling racial group be-
come aggressively conditioned to
their concept of the total term
Civilization.
This cooperation possessing a
bare minimum of philanthropy, at
any one time, may be conceived of,
at least, by the privileged members
of the minority racial groups as
being antipathetic and a brutaliz-
ing process. One writer has said that
"the black man has two worst
enemies; the over-zealous advocate
who claims too much for him, and
the execrable creature wearing a
white skin who says II hate a
Niger.
(TO be continued next Sunday
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against the narcotic effect of that
kind of preachment. The bill of
rights unqueStionably is most speci-
fic in guaranteeing to all citizens
of the democracy, it creates, the
basic freedom without which a
democracy would be impossible.
But the mere stating of these
principles however beautiful and
immortal may be the words, will
not insure to a people, or any seq
ment of them the privileges which
are their heritage. They must be
free to enjoy their freedom. They
must be free from fear, or they
cannot enjoy their freedom of
speech.
MUST BE FREE OF HATE
They must be free from hate and
suspicion or it is futile for them to
have freedom of worship in keep
ing with the dictates of their own
consciences. They must be free to
work wherever there is need for
the kind of skills they possess
without being Disseminated against
in pay, or there can never be free
dom from want.
But thirteen or more millions OF
black men, constituting as they do
the most CONSPICUOUS minority in
our American culture, have got
to be ever mindful of the fact that
"he who would be free, must him
self strike the blow" The basic
freedom guaranteed to all citizens
in the bill of rights will include us
in their benefits only to the extent
to which we make use OF the
strength and rights which are
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MONDAY, JULY IA, will prob
ably go down in history as one of
the darkest days in Georgia's his
tory. Not because Dean Walter d.
Cooking, of the University OF
Georgia school of education, lost
his job After all, the dean is but
one mere man. But, how he lost 1t
al d why.
The dean was eccuSed Of advo-
eating racial equality in the south
ern empire state. If he ever did I
never heard Of it and being In the
position of a neWspaperman, ]
would have head of any such prop
osition in the states educational
circles. And, they certainly didn't
prove in any instance that he ad-
vocated any such thing. 1t was a
cut and dried political show in the
states capitol building, over which
the lady of justice is supposed to
stretch forth her hand.
It was my first time to see 8
dictator in the action. I'd read of
'em, seen 'em played in the movies
heard 'em talk over the radio and
even written about 'em, but Mon
day 1 saw one who might exchange
ideas of running things" with
Hitler.
DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE
DIR. Cooking didn't have a
chance, even though the press and
the floor and gallery of the House
of ReDreSenta tives were largely
with him. The prosecution read
from books. a few pamphlets and
showed a cartoon Or two, all writ
ten and drawn by others, but in
some strange manner or the other
alluded to be his CDR. Cocking's'
philosonhies and works. Nobody
even proved that the ousted dean
was connected with any Of the in
dividuals whose better American
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by ANNIE L. McPHEETERS
Books For Defense"

FICTION, PERHAPS more clear
ly than any other art, reflects the
spirit of man in relation to his
times, and pictures him in his
never ending effort to achieve and
maintain freedom and the dignity
ours to demand, obtain and hold
those benefits.
SOME BARRIERS
Banal laws, iniquitous customs,
outworn sectional traditions, huuni-
liating and degrading discrimina-
tions, studied discourtesy,-these
are some of the bars that still
effectively hold the black man
back from the precious boon of
freedom which our white friend
and champion reminded the mill
tant Negro preacher that America
so graciously offered us.
Let us not be lulled to satisfied
inactivity by the illusion that we
are the freeSt minority in any
civilized country in the world today
We should like that to be the
fact, but if we would transform the
freedom of sort guaranteed us in
the bill of rights, to freedom in
deed, then eternal vigilance and
ceaseless, intelligently directed and
militant action is the price of it
The coin of the "praisers of the
past" is no longer legal tender.
The bank containing what the
Negro must pay for Freedom in
America, is straight ahead and
a little to the left. The road lead
ing to it is one of the hardest a
struggling people have had to
ever travel. To negotiate it re-
quireS wisdom and "guts", a COM
bination against which the gates
OF hell itself cannot prevail.
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Race Nurses
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page y
those states where membership ih
the ANA Is denied Negroes, mem.
bership in the NACGN would be
considered the equivalent.
RECEIVE $40 MONTHLY
Army nurses receive $40 a month
In addition to maintenance, ano
work an eight-hour day except ir
emergencies. They also receive one
months vacation annually.
Several complaints have been re.
glStered with the association thai
local chapters of the American Rec
cross in the south have been re.
fusing to register Negro nurses
Ihese instances are being if1vesti.
gated and proper protest is beine
lodged with responsible authorities
All nurses are requested to report
any experience of Discrimination
they have in this manner to Mrs
Staupers or the local unit of the
association.
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AS THE MAGNIFICENT mastO-
dons of Russia and Germany lock
in probably the greatest battles in
the history of the Earth's clan
nish creatures, reflections on the
survival of an acceptable way of
life are in order. Whether one
likes Cor prefers) one or the other
of the great PHILOSOPHERS of Nazi-
SIN Estates socialized capitalism or
communism knocked out capital
ISM, by now he must be at
least imagining his place in the
world of tomorrow.
Through the nets of censorship
carefully strung by Hitler & Stain
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Two Educators

Continued from Page -
about it, Experiences like this aid
the students in shaking off the
lurking fallacy ="
Don't you know the RosenWald
F'und knew about this, and if they
olo, Dean Cooking knew about it?"
Peters queried and continued :.
What is this fallacy? Race equali-
tty? If DR.. Cooking opposed it, why
haven't we heard him say he op-
posed it,
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come SOIIl6ClIn6S
unfathomable
information as
to the position
of the respec-
tive armies in
t h Ell r titantic
struggle. But,
through t h e
maze, whether
we like to admit
it or not, comes
an indication
that the armies
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The Negro And
Natl Defense
BY WALTER r.. CHIVERS
Continued From Last Week.

I PROPOSE THAT neither mass
threats, such as militant commit
tees, mass meetings, Marches to
Washington, nor any other OBJ
jective pressure methods force the
majority racial group to alter it's
way of life in such a way as to
disadvantage itself for the benefit
of a minority racial group. When
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of the Lenin-W -Worshippers are being
surely, even if slowly, driven back
towards Moscow and the Kremlin
where the Communist way of life
is formed and from whence it is
dictated to the hinterlands.
1t seems that the armies of those
who killed the Russian Cars and
Royalists, taking care to destroy
the total prestige of the govern
ment-catering Russian Orthodox
Church, may fall before a fierceT
combatant. In such a fall, the
masses of the workers of the world
specifically in Russia where their
government is in power, would see
the going down of a system which
though stunned, if not hated, in
these parts, started many of the re-
forms and "Set out" relationships
between international capital and
labor.
WHICH is MORE EFFICIENT?
Which maStOdon can and will
win over his antagonist will formu-
late the majority of the moral, fl
nancial, religious and social ideo-
logies governing the world of to-
morrow. If newly tried Communism
is more efficient than the state
capitalism installed and promul-
gated by the Axis powers, that
type of civilization will faster and
faster become the worlds way OF
life. Through the maze of set
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this is done it
is only as a
matter of eX-
pedience. It is
done at the
stage of societal
evolution when
t h e minority
racial group be-
comes essential
to the survival
of the ruling
classes.
This type OF
cooperation is
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Reconciliation
Continued from Page y

pay her other bills and obligations
amounting to another $4,000 to
$4,000 annually
The six flat building where Marva
lives was purchased for $21 900 and
given to her and he spent another
$21 900 in redecorating and furnish
ing her own apartment and the
building. She receives another $500
in rentals from this building which
is hers to use as she sees fit.
Joe also denied ever having
struck Marva, said she had not
acted kindly and affectionately"
toward him nor had she conduct
ed herself las a true and virtuous
wife" He did not elaborate on this
statement nor upon his denial that
he had ever stated to his wife 'or
intimated to anyone that he did
not want a child or children" He
asked for dismissal of her suit for
divorce
When the allegations in Joe'S en-
swer were made known, it was
Marva's turn to express surprise,
especially at the aspersions on her
wifely conduct.
NOT JOE'S WORDS
"Those aren't Joe's words i" Mrs
mouth by his lawyer or his mana
gers. I'm not mad or irritated. All
/ want is a reconciliation. 1 think
it can be Strengthened out when
I see my husband next week."
Louis signed the answer to his
wife'S bill last Tuesday in Detroit
where he went to attend the ALL
Star baseball game instead of COM
ing to Chicago as had been anti
cipated Atty. Temple flew back
with the papers Wednesday morning.
Although many friends would
lie to see a reconciliation and
Marva wants one if the champion
will promise to spend more time
at home and give her the attention
she desires, it is understood that
Joe would be most happy if he
again received single blessedness
since he considers his glamorous
wife too expensive" to keep
For over two years Joe has not
spent muCn time with Marva and
nine months ago she seriously con-
sidered filing suit for divorce, ac-
cording to those in the know. How
ever, had she done so she would
have been forced to change her
dates OF alleged acts of cruelty
from January and April of this
year when, she says, the champion
slugged her and stepped on her
ankle.
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WHAT PLACE TOMORROW?

backs before 100 percent lucky
Hitler, it has long been propheSi-
ed by materialists and ideal1sts
alike that the Man with the Hoe
will be the most powerful one fac
tor in future world change and
domination. His efficiency at ELI
minating the weeds" from the
worlds garden of life will figure
most prominently. And, eff
cheney on tomorrow will count.
1t is this old, but new, efficiency
angle that concerns Negroes OF
America and the world today. What
our place will be in the new order
is the most important thing con-
fronting the race, in the opinion OF
the writer.
With the infiltration of politl-
cal, labor and ordinary war refugees
without color" from the Old
World, the social and economic
place of Negroes in the United
States is increasingly threatened
1t seems that his leaders should in
form him that neither the old nor
the new Uncle Tom" way of ex-
pecting and accepting the tokens
of the majority whites cannot per-
Sist. Further, that Serfdom is a
position in society is more rapidly
being approached by a growing
majority of our people-that we
are being considered less and less
in a conscious civilization,
which is more hinged around finance
and the things it controls Chats
practically everything) than hu-
man understanding, love and
sympathy. advocated by Jesus of
Nazareth, the Christ. And, that we
must fight for ourselves and fight
we'll.
A DEPRESSION MAY COME
Unless by some peculiar quirk of
our national economic processes
our national leaders are able to
solve the mounting problems sur
rounding the production and dis
tributiOn of things necessary for
existence, if not comfort, the
period following World War II will
see depression, the like of which
has never been known. Unemploy-
ment, occasioned by the mass influx
OF machines, mounting costs of
materials and labor and bad dis
tributiOn, never solved in our
capitalistic economy, is likely to
return to power not long after
close of our period of war prepar-
ton, participation in the conflict
and the slowing up in work, if not
shutdown, of industries now geared
to partial or total defense produc-
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From Ny Study Window
By REV JOHN CLARENCE WRIGHT
Freedom---Of A Sort

ed set-up for local Negroes in
marked, with some heat, when ]
think of how our people are treat
ed here in America, and especially
in the South, 1 sometimes wonder
if we could be any worse off under
Hitler rule"
CHALLENGED BY LEADERS
He was Immediately challenged by
a white leader who justly reminded
the group of his lifelong interest
in, and struggle for, the welfare OF
the Negro people. He warned the
speaker that in the present state
of world affairs, he would prob
ably be unable anywhere else to
make statement of that kind, par
ticularly in Nazi Germany, and
escape death of the concentration
camp. "MinoritieS" he continued
with great emotion, 'are nowhere
freer than they are in America to-
day"
In principle that is most GER
tainly true, but in practice it is far
from reality. Negroes have, par
ticularly, to be on their guard
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political
regardless rulings
impartiay
ALI matter coming this should be in office Sun
than of
plainly written side
rights
convenience the
Is paid for.
INDEX 1914 East Monroe
signed by contributors they
will not be
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UNCONVERTED WHITES

UNCONVERTED WHITES
One famous sociologist recites the
following truism in a statement of
the operation of interracial rela-
tionS. In our Southern States, be-
fore the Civil War, whites and
blacks had formed habits of action
and feeling towards each other.
They lived in peace and accord and
each one grew up in the ways which
were traditional and customary.
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PLATFORM

that they feel prOud
all political social
gelgiOus economic questions which face the
especially
we job makers as well as job seekers
s To instruct boys and girls in the art Of thrift
brotherhood
% a foundation posterity
the cOlOred must compete
technique other
dependable
will able
realizing
give heed respect
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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

The Civil War established legal
rights and left the two races to
learn to live together under other
relations than before.
The whites have never been con-
verted from the old mores. Those
who still survive look back with
regret and affection to the old
usages and customary sentiments
and feelings. The two races have
not yet made new mores. Vain at
temptS have been made to con-
troll the new order by legislation.
The only result is the proof that
legislation cannot make mOreS
There is a new trend in the mores
now as they begin to form under
the new state of things. The strong
point in the new code seems to
be that any white man is boycotted
and despised if her associates with
Negroes =. Some are anxious to
interfere and try to control.
s. They take their stand on ethical
views of what is going on The
results will be such as the facts
call for They do not depend up
on ethical views. The only
things with which we can deal are
those which are "
THE WRONG TIME
Mass appeals to the majority
racial group for action that would
eventually inconvenience its way
of life" belong to times of peace
times when the limits of tolerance
have grown flabby and elastic.
This does not necessarily mean that
they will be effective in the way
Negroes would have them be. They
probably would not. A people,
minority or majority resists strong
ly any attempt to change theil
way of living.
However, such organized pressure
methods are essential to the pro-
cesses of Civilization. They keep
them in the state of flexibility
necessary for proper performance
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shall published each week in which your views
be national
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antagonistic and therefore is as
stingy as the seriousness of the
need will permit.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-25
Vichy Regime Seeks
To Stop Executions
Pepper Urges
Blockade
OF Japan

Washington, Oct. 25.-(AP)-
An immediate American block
AIDE of Japan was proposed to-
day by Senator Pepper, Demo
crat, Florida, as an answer to
TokyO's expansion plans-plans
that Secretary of the Navy Knox
said might lead to a Collision"
in the Far East.
Agreeing with Knox state
mcnt that the situation in the
Pacific was Extremely strained"
Pepper told reporters he be-
IieVed the time had come to in
stitute a blockade cutting off all
war supplies that might be con-
signed to Japan from any
sOurce.
we ought to sec to it," Pep
per declared, that Japan gets no
materials from outside sources
that Will fattcn her for further
conquest.'
This could be accomplished, he
predicted, by hating all exports
to Japan, closing the Panama
canal to ships bound for Japan
csc ports and launching a naval
patrol of the Pacific S%ealancs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-25
Japs Say
Knox Bluffs
Japanese Press Char
acterizes Secretary's
Assertion as Attempt
at Bluffing.

Tokyo, oct, 25--(AP)-Tho as
Sertlon by Frank Knox. United States
secretary of the Navy, that a COLI
son with Japan is inevitable unless
She abandons her "plans for ex-
panSion' was characterized by the
Japanese press today as a bit Of
American bluffing.
"KnoN is trying to bluff Japan"
declared an editorial in the news
paper !Iochi. I'VE are carrying on
Japan decided policies regardless
OF bIuf'ng by Americans.'
'knoN'S speech is his usual blund-
ef OF attempting to threaten JAPAN"
sad ChU2i we have to be very
careful with the United States atti-
'0de, as threatening and ~appeasing
arguments 90 on side hv side in order
10 work ont a clever plot
Dome quoted an unofficial but
well informed source meanwhile as
saying that the serious situation to
Whlch Knox referred was caused by
me united States own action toward
Japan.
Japan, this source declared, has
cone all in her power to preserve
peace.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-25
FALLS
3O,50O FEET; LIVES
'Necutions OF innocent nosla

Chicago, oct 25-(AP)-A dar-
ing parachutl>t lcaped from a plane
at $4,000 fest yesterday, tumbled five
and a half miles through space be
fore pulling his ripcord and landed
safely.
The jumper, Arthur StarneS,
exceeded all known records for free
fall.
United States aviation association
recognize no official paraChuting rec
Ords but press reports show Russia
claimed a world record for free fall
in 1884 when a man jumped at %,
SIS feet and opened his chute $50
feet above the ground, a plunge of 40
miles.
Il had only two moments of fear
StarneS painted to the crowd that
gathered around him in the coy pas
turc where he landed. 90 miles south
west Of the Chicago loop.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-25
In South,
Kharkov
Is Captured
German Spearheads
Reported to II a v e
Driver w h i n 20
Miles Of Soviet Capt.
tai; Capture of Khar-
kov is Severe Blow to
Reds.
(BN The Associated prcss)

OBy The Associated prcss)
Masses of tank-led German
troops have launched a new Of
'enSiVe along the whole Moscow
front, Soviet dispatches said to-
day, while on the south, Adolf
liltler's high command announc-
ed the capture of kharkov-
Russians 'P%ittsburg" in the
heart of the DonetS river indus
trial basin.
Roundabout reports reaching
LnndNl unConfirmed elsewhere,
SAID nazi spearheads had thrust
within 20 miles of Moscow, and
German military reports declar-
CO that the capitals zero hour
was near.
IN all HkeIlnhoOd the spearheads
were only aWiIt-stnking tanks which
may have knitted through Soviet de-
tensa lines in isolated sectors and
reported back by portable wireless
that they were within 20 miles of
MOSCOW. There was no indication
that any major breakthrough had de-
Neloped that close. Official Soviet re-
ports sad the nearest lighting was
more tnan 90 miles away.
A dispatch to the Soviet news
paper PraNda SAID General fedor Won
Books control front armies opened
the huge scale assault yesterday after
intense artillery preparation.
The dispatch sad nazi casualties
IN the 1lrst three weeks Of the drive
on Moscow totaIed 300, 900.
German capture OF kharkOV,
a severe blow to Russia'S war
boundaries, gave the nazis con-
troll of almost the entire Ukraine
except for a tiny cOrner bound
ed by the Donets river frcr
kharkoV to Rostov-On-Don.
The rail town OF BeIgorod, At
miles north OF kharkoV, also fell in
the German sweep that now has
driven clear through the Ukraine into
Russia proper, the naZi high COM
mand said.
This might indicate that the Ger
mar armies We're turning north to
bolster the right flank OF the drive
against Moscow, since Belgorod lies
on the main Kharkov-to-Moscow
railroad, about $50 miles south of the
capital.
Dispatches from KuibyShev, aux
Hilary capital of Russia, said vast
numbers OF German troops were
pouring into small villages around
MozhaIsk, 81 miles west OF Moscow,
and that nearby towns had changed
hands several times in the savage
III r
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-25
FORMER
SUNK

London. Oct, 25.-(AP)-The L.
l9O-ton British destroyer BroadWat-
er, formerly the U. S. S. Mason, has
been torpedoed and sunk while on
escort duty in the north Atlantic, and
an American volunteer abroad, Lieut.,
John S. Parker of Boston, Mass, has
been killed, The British admiralty
announced today.
The admiralty also announced that
a British submarine in the central
Mediterranean had torpedoed and
probably sunk an Italian armed mer-
chant cruiser of the 5.4l3-ton Citta
Di Genera class.
A brief communique did not men
ton any survivors from the Broad
water, normal complement Of which
was about l40 men. This may have
been less under the British flag.