The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-12-05
Peoples
Daily Doiings
BY ISAAC JONES

!
God for His many blessings;
some Americans perhaps had more
TO be thankful for than others.
Yet whether rich, poor. cripple.
lame or blind. II you are living
in America you had something TO
be thankful for. Despite discrim-
inatiou. Jim crowism and preju-
dices. you can still count your
blessings one by one" and shout.
look what the Lord has done"
THE POLL TAX BILL died in
The Senate chamber last Monday
buried with Il in the legisla-
tive graveyard were the rights OF
thousands Of Colored Americans
living in the south. TO exercise
their rights at the polls as Amer
lean citizens.
PERHAPS such senator's as Bill
DO OF Mississippi included the de-
feat Of the poll tax bill in their
messages Of thanks on Thanks
giving Day. or have such men
enough love In their hearts TO
send up a PRAYER OF thanks?
THE DEFEAT OF this bill
should not weaken our faith. We
should fight harder. longer. and
pray more in the future than in
the past Let's remember the
words OF the President issued
several years ago. when the SEN
a,e killed a Federal anti-lynching
bill. in the same manner. when
an NAACP delegation went 10 the
White House TO file their COM
plant over the defeat OF the bill
Gentlemen" said the president
Il know how YOU feel. know
how feel. Sometimes could
scream But what good would
that do.
when you are defeated in
course that y1u know Is abso-
lutely right, YOU can wiring your
hands. YOU can call down curses
upon the wrong-headed obstruc-
iionists. or YOU can 20 back. re-
cruit your forces and come again.
You NAV need to make MANY
tries before YOU win. but event
uallv you will win"
COLORED AMERICANS. the
above statement from the presi-
dent OF our great country has a
great meaning In many respects
for our fights. Let's remember.
"A gutter never wins. and a win
ner never quits"
IN A CROWDED East Orange.
y. !. courthouse last week. Rev.
James A. Anderson stood calmly
before the bar OF Justice. and
heard his sentence announced for
the Staying OF his mother-in-law
i. the verdict life In prison at
hard labor. His aged mother and
some members Of the church's
choir collapsed AT the verdict. No
doubt II Rev. Anderson could re-
live the incidents that led 70 the
shaving. he would agree. II Is
Better To Think Twice Before
Acting At All.
OUT IN Sunny California. farm
labor is so scarce until cotton
pickers are paid 5000 per hun
dred Good cotton pickers among
our group are said 10 be earning
$500 per day. This Is a record
for cotton picking. the usual
rates OF payment is from 75c TO
800 hundred pounds.
In that same section OF the
country our folks are making
good with fruit orchards they are
selling their peaches, oranges and
other fruits 10 the big canning
companies like Del Monte and
Libby Proof again that we can
do whatever the other fellow can
co.
In the southland farmers are
receiving from 10 10 25 cents
mound for cotton after II has
been ginned: cotton seeds $4,000
ton. Those prices are about
the highest since World War No
one. At last. many poor col
cred farmers are getting out Of
the red with their white bosses
and will earn n little money this
season for their labor on the
farm. For thousands ~ them the
coming Christmas will no doubt
be the happiest and most pros
porous In years. All OF this re-
sulting from the evils OF war
Funny old world isn't 81,
AN EASTERN White Daily
carried a Photograph in its pages
last week showing the advance
ments Of Colored folk in the
United States. II gives a COM
plete picture Of our plight In
this country from $50 years
hence until today. The picture
shows that our high death rate
Is going down: that illiteracy IL
disappearing; our enrollments In
public schools mounting: that ef-
feet Of race prejudice on the war
effort and It's effect on our In
fluence in the world affairs
LAST WEEK down In North /
Carolina. a white soldier who was
standing on bus between DAN
willie and Greensboro. demanded 4
that n colored man get IN and /
give him his seat. adding Where
come from No.. stand while
white folks SIT"
The white soldier was flogged
by the colored man and his wife.
None OF the other white passen-
gers seemed to have been dis
turbed. most OF them continued
TO read their papers. Maybe that
will teach this white soldier that
he Joined Uncle Sans armed
forces 10 fight the Axis powers
end not Americans. even II their
skins are darker than his.
IN THE NATIONS Capital last