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Between The Lines

forts. The actuation of these ef-
forts is without and not within
Men are giving In This war not be-
cause they want to but because
they have to give. The big stick of
national necessity must ever be
drawn and the difference between
ours and Germany's is one. of de.
gree not kind. The "as usual slo-
gan in Americas heart is the in
dex to our unpreparedness ind oul
apathy. 1t is business as usual
money-grabbing as usual, labol
strikes as usual, speeding as usual,
drunk driving as usual, hold the
Negro down as usual, lynching as
usual, beat up Negroes as usual, be-
ing tough with Negroes as usual,
politics as usual, putting personal
interests above national interests
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Can Britain Afford To Abandon India Now?

We have considered the and of Indian free
dom long period And in utter rankness and friend
ness would like to ask just what is that stands in
Brtans way to prevent her from granting to India the
freedom she is asking for in this crucial time of crisis
India, with population of 3500000O0 is vast re-
of man-power which, if utilized by the United
Nations might be the difference between victory
feat for us.
Felix Morley, writing in the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin said: Sin the past, speaking of world war,
have really meant in which fighting among white
nations, using native evie which took place the Seven
Seas We have not meant in which every people
and every deeply involved and in which the event
ual outcome might therefore be decided by factors which
the long dominant western powers would not be able to
control"
England tenaciously clings to the view that NOW is
NOT the time to grant India Dominion status Such
rangemen would permit India to have voice in the des
tiny of its nation and it's people.
Pandit Nehru, Indian Nationalist leader describing the
"vast revolution ending epoch of history and
ushering in order which will be entirely different
to be speaking the will of people who not impressed
by the phrasing of objectives which have
ing application to them.
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Georgia Leads
Continued from Page One)

u d6C OLCJ
and returning to and holding in
a condition of peonage Miss Lon
ME Mcqueen, pending payment
of a $50 debt.
According to complaint fileG
by Miss Mcqueen, she was forced
to work 1-2 months on Adams
farm in 1941 to pay off a $50 note
made to a local bank and pur-
chased by Adams. Although she
was supposed to receive $500 per
week and so cents a day for work.
ing in the garden, these sums to
be applied to amortizing the note
the $50 debt had not been "work-
ed off" at the end of the five
months, she charged.
Penalties for violation of the,
Fedora lanti-peonage statute are
Imprisonment for not more than
five years, or a fine of not more
than $1,000, or both.
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Arkansas Vote
Continued from Page IL

tions.
For the court to rule on state
elections, it was pointed out would
be tantamount to an infringement
on the rights of the state conSti-
tuition, which under the law is IL
legal.
Should Negroes be given a
favorably decision the present
practice of holding joint elections
for federal and state offices would
end. State elections would be held
separately.
SOUTH is BITTER
Political observes declare the
south is bitter over efforts OF
"outside political and social-mind-
ed leaders" to make it possible for
Negroes to vote in alls elections
While the southern democrats are
expected to wage a hard battle, II
has been predicted they Will lose
in this dynamic age OF social ana
economic change.
Judicial circles are asserted to
be convinced that the move to Sc
cure the vote for Negroes in Ark
ansas with the aid Of New YORK
lawyers "fs a deliberate, seltlsh
move on the part of outside IN
terests to break up the Democratic
SOUTH"
Similar vote test cases have been
tried in state courts, but were lost'
results of the recent primary re-
veal that Brooks Hays, former as
sistant director of the Farm Sc
c,,ritv administration, has been a
successful candidate for no1nlna,
tion from the fifth congresslona'
district.
During the campaign Hays was
castigated by his opponents for pc
inc present at the 1899 convention
Of the Human welfare association
at which an anti-jin crow resoiu. u.
tion was passed. Hays denied III, ne
was present when the actlon 'oo"
place.
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MISS MERCEDES ]. HOPKINS
has recently been appointed on
the staff of the u. S. o. Travellers
Aid Service, Battle Creek, Mich.
Miss Hopkins was formerly employ
ed as case worker with the
Family Consultation Service, Gin
cinnati, Ohio and was active in all
Community activities there. Miss
Hopkins is a graduate of Spelman
College, Virginia Union, Chicago.
She is member of A. X. A. SOrOri-
ty, American Association of Social
Workers and National Conference
of Social Workers. She served on
the executive committee of Nash
Community Center City Wide Girls
Reserve and was Secretary of the
Walnut Hills COOrdinating Council.
Miss Hopkins accepted her present
position unaware that she had been
accepted as a successful Candidate
to attend the w. A. A. C. Officers
Training School at Fort Des MOines.
However, Miss Hopkins feels that
she can do a great service for the
U. S. A. in her present position
which serve the Fort Custer area.
She is the daughter of Rev. and
Mrs. j. A. Hopkins, Atlanta.
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We Will Gain By Winning

Things going bad for the United Nations along the
war fronts We are still osng many cargoes OF ALL sugar
Too many of ships still being torpedoed and sent
to the bottom in waters And coming out of Rus
sa is not the kind that offers much comfort cheer
But inspite of the bad from abroad and despite
Talmadgesm at home thinking Negro Americans are all
agreed thing Hitler and his gang must 60 No mat
ter how the pain how the sacrifice Negroes
must resolve to stay in this until that job is
pished.
Hitler and all that he stands for is to be feared and
fought other enemy know His utter contempt for
all darksknned people, including the Japanese is bad
enough His cruel treatment of the Jews of his land is shame
full and notorious His refusal to allow Roland Hayes to
der concert in composed by German authors the
grounds that he belonged to inferior still fresh
in memories But of these ofenses, notorious
they picture accurately the slavery the darkness
and the horrors of Htsr victory to darksknned Amer
leans
Therefore Negroes should make every reasonable and
possible sacrifice required And when say sacrifice
sacrificesacrfce in comforts in necessities and
in every which will aid the program and destroy the
enemy.
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The
SiideIine
Ii Took Death
To Change Joe
BY ROBERT RADCLIFFE

1T WAS A LONG time before
Joe Bodywork saw the light, but
now that he's seen 1.-THE hard
way-heS buying War Bonds and
War Stamps with his extra dough.
Was a time when Joe gave very
little thought to War Bonds and
War Stamps. He read about them
in the papers, heard about them by
listening to radio announcers, and
even stopped to glare at them in
the post office. But he didn't buy
any.
Joe, like other guys we know,
figured the fellows n the other
side of the fence should do the
buying. He figured it was their1
war; that he hadn't had a fam
chance. He figured this thing CALI
ed democracy wasn't what 1t ought
to be, so, what the heck.
Now, Joe wasn't really a bad egg.
He rated very well, indeed. In
fact, his social rating was what
you might call the upper crust of
the middle class. He had a decent
job and earned around $3.50 a
week. He had nice little apart
ment, lovely wife and a little
boy. He went to church once and
while and even took in some of
the civic meetings.
And he was very proud of his kid
brother. His brother was in the
Navy. We mean by that, he served
meals to and waited on the ship
officers. OF course Joe would have
none of it, but he thought lots of
his brother just the same.
JOE HAD enough extra money
to invest in War Bonds and War
Stamps, but he had other means
OF getting rid of that little change.
He liked to get around a table at
the club with the boys and drink
fermented juices and try his luck
with cards. He'd win sometimes and
sometimes he'd lose.
Joe was having fun, but he
wasn't making any headway.
He'd tell the boys: Have yol1r
fun now because it may not be
like this If Hitler keeps on gain.
ing ground"
SEVERAL NIGHTS AGO. Joa
walked upon his front porch around
2:SO o'clock in the morning. There
was nothing unusual about that.
Ihere was nothing unusual abo,A1
seeing his wife crying when i,s
walked into the house, either. She
used to clout him on the head with
candle sticks and the like when he
came In late and when that failed
to do any good she took I'D the
crying habit.
Crying because I've been out
with the eoys and having little
fun?" he asked. ''o
Read that telegram" she said
Joe took the telegram from the
liable and read it. He sat in a chair
ana stared into the dark night
me contents of that telegram
changed Joe'S way of living. II
started MIN buying War Bonds and
war Stamps. He's got a bunch
OF them now. Nearly $50 worth
Inat telegram was from the
United States Navy Department
IL informed Joe that his Lja
DTother had been killed at sea
When his ship was torpedoed bv a
japanese submarine.
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Army Valves Fee
On Post Exchange

WASHINGTON, D. C-(SNS)-
Proceeds from sales by Army Ex-
changes of such items as money
orders, postage stamps and War
Savings Stamps will be excluded
from the computation of gross
sales for the purpose of determin-
ing the Army Exchange Service fee,
the War Department announced
today. The fee, one half of one
per cent of the gross sales, Is re-
mitted monthly to the fund.
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SAN FRANCISCO-(C)- Henry
Armstrong, who is trying hard to
make spectacular comeback,
scared a seven round knockout over
Aldo Spoldi here August 3. This
was Armstrong; fourth victory In
a series of five fights.
Henry made a punching bag of
Spoldi and won every round from
his comfortable margin. He
scored three knockdowns in the
last round and had Spoldi bleeding
badly around the eyes when Refe-
rec Frank Carter stopped it.
Spoldi got a big hand for his
gameness.
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ted the attack.
CLAIM LONG TORTURE

The three soldiers testified 10
the effect that they are innocent
of the charges, declaring that tney
signed confessions only after haV-
ing been tortured for three weeks.
Bordenave stated that he did not
know anything of the alleged at
tack until May Is, sixteen days aft
erwards. The other soldiers were
arrested one week after the alleged
raped. 1t was not explained In
court why the delay in reporting
the incident.
The New Orleans NAACP is IN
vestigating the case. 1t is believed
here that the organization may Of
fer aid, for the mother of Borden
ave declared "the boys did not
get fair trial"
According to the commanding Of
ficer. H. NICE. Pendleton, the
white soldier involved in the case
has married the woman since the
alleged attack. Efforts to find
out who he is have been fruitless.
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Randolph Sees
Continued from Page ID

ali Of their might and vigorously
demand that the President re-
store r. e ?. c. to !ts Independent
status. responsible to the President
alone declared Randolph.
The President responds to pro-
tests from Labor, business and fa@-
mers when they consider their in
terests threatened ana injured. he
will respond to protest from an
aroused Negro public.
sNegroes in all walks of life
should wire and write the Presi-
dent their condemnation of this
action and demand it be reversed
in the interest of the elimination
of discrimination in Defense in
dustries and the Government,
continued Randolph.
''The Fair Employment Practice
Committee has done and is doing
splendid work. It has a fine future
if it has the support of Negro pub
lie opinion. 1t is because of the
fact that it is making progress it
proved the wrath of Governor
Dixon of Alabama who hysterical-
ly blew up and refused contract
which had a clause requiring the
employment of workers, regardless
of race, color creed or national
origin.
'sThe opposition Of Governor
Dixon is sufficient reasons alone
why Negroes should go down the
line F. E. P. G. from being ham
strung and sabotaged" asserted
Mr.. Randolph. who was largely
responsible for the Executive
Order No. 1902 and F. 8. P. @.
Randolph concluded that the
March On Washington Movement
would use every resource at its
command to set F.. E. P. G. free as
an independent agency under
which condition alone it will be
able effectively to function for the
integration of workers in defense
industries and government regard
less of race or color.
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the two races. He explains now ne
appreciates our having kept the
issue out of the hands of colored
rabble-rousers as he has done among
the whites. So interested is he
that he expresses encouragement
at the reception his people are
giving. My reply to him includes
these words: "Why be forlorned and
disappointed after less than three
months effort. My family has
worked increasingly for more than
rs years, occasionally wary in the
effort, nevertheless, never dis
couraged or forlorned."
There is no sense going through
life here bitter and denouncing our
south because it draws verbal ap-
proval from somebody we have
never seen and who wouldn't make
any difference if we did see them.
Call us ."uncletoms". That's all
right. "a rose by any other name
is lust as sweet" Were there a
land of freedom, different from
what we know the price would be
worth the while. AS it is 1t is
far more pleasant and safe to
plod on, cultivate and bring the
fine white people in sympathy with
suppression and achieve. Being
called an "uncletom" because we
love our place of birth and the
earth which has fed us won't hurt.
I have never seen Negro starving
to death in the SOUTH, for all its
bad points. I couldn't count the
ones I saw in New York City on
my last visit.
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are receiving a justice denied to
millions of Negroes whose patriot
ISM constitutes one of the most~
glorious chapters in the annals
mankind.
When saboteurs receive a con-
s1deratiol before the courts of this
country that is even denied Ne.
gro citizens whose blood has been
poured out in defense of this coun
try, We have the display of a spirit
that Is calculated to damn this
nation. We can cry tradition" If
we want to; We can make excuses
If we want to; we can offer eek
DlanationS" if we want to, but un-
less this nation hestirs itself and
comes to itself like as the Prodigal
som. we are facing national dis
solution.
MUST GJRD SELF
Nations in the past have nursed|
and nurtured their pct sins; but
one by one these nations have
nerished from the earth. Unless
this nation girdS itself for a clean
ing, the dav of our doom is only
matter of time. THE GREAT AS
SURANCE FOR NEGROES RE-
SIDES IN THE FACT THAT
AMERICA MUST SAVE THE Me-.
GRO OR ITSELF Pc LOST! There
can be no two deStinies Of course ,
il is gcino to take time for this
solemn fact TO -ncrneqte tfe hearr
and mind of the nation but come
it must or national destruction,
which God forbid.
Let NEGROES be assured that we
inst Garnet lose. Nations paw for
their gins no less than sinned
apainst OUR PFT OWED AMER
ICA MUST PAY WHEN 1T
GUARANTEES THE RIGHTS OF
SABOTEURS AND LET GO UN-
REDRESSF'D THE IsYNCHING OF
HER PATRIOTIC NEGRO CITIT
zENS. America paysl 4.
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1t is no picnic at times, to live
down here. Sometime we feel
that it is just short of hell but
where is the land of picnics? Where
in this America is a Negro any
thing but a Negro, publicly or
privately scorned? Certainly, we do
not improve our lot by running
away. Nowhere is a battle won by
retreating from the scene. Soon,
or late, the enemy must be faced
and I believe those Negroes who
stick by their south, fight it and
defend it are far more gallant and
worthy than those who catch the
train, land up north and from
behind dingy corners hurl trades
which reflect unfavorably on Ne
groes left at home.
The newspaper in question plac-
ed "Scorching editorial" behind
Mr.. Hayes. On its front page was
the picture of 81 year old woman
domestic who had been beaten by
her white employer. A beating is
a beating, whether it's in Georgia
or Ohio and talk to the contrary
is that of the rabble-rousers. In
every issue of papers published in
the north and circulated among us
are accounts of Negroes having
The Back Home Problem" Many
of them are worse than those we
know. So why kid ourselves.
Before me now is a letter from
a distinguished white man of South
Carolina, who behind the scenes
has worked on an issue affecting
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Clarinet PLAYER

Continued from Page One)
funeral arrangements had been
made at the time.
Details of the tragedy were bar
rem.
Widely known news of Green's
tragic death spread like a prairie
fire.
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Vigorously, it attacked him and said ne
should have moved himself, earth and all
north, being the character he is.
If Mr.. Hayes is an "uncletom,'' so am
l. So are millions of other Negroes who
live in the south and to whose credit rest
all of the historic contributions of the race
to American history. If we are "uncletoms,"
so was Booker T. Washington, DR.. R. r:
Motion, Kelly Miller; so are Mary Mcleod
Bethune, C. C. Spaulding and the North
Carolina Mutual, the Pilgrim Life 1nsur-
ance Company, the Afro Life Insurance
Company, The Atlanta Daily World, the
natinn,s only daily and the great number of
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Wasting
ManPoWar

WEEK AFTER WEEK, the action
By principals in our democracy
whereby the vast u11tapped and
apparently unwanted reserve Of
Negro manpower either wastes or
is thumbed down confuses me
more and more.
Two pictures, one of which came
to the editorial desk and the other
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which appeared
in a white At
lanta daily news
paper during the
past week, told
me a distressful
message.
The latter pic
ture showed a
long section of
persons b in g
AH4 sl e. :
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FEPC CHANGE SHOCKS
CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, (ANP)-The
capital has not gotten over the
shock it sustained last week when
the startling announcement was
made that the FEPC in the future
would operate under the direction
of Paul v. McNutt Of the Man
power commission,
Several reasons have been given
for the sudden transfer, none OF
which can be said to be truthful.
MUST WORK WITH MPW
Tt is understood under the new
arrangement, the FEPC will for
the time being continue to funct-
ion as an independent agency but
with the cooperation and coordina-
ton of the Man Power commission
Threatened designations by the
members Of the FFPC were
thwarted when the committeeman
learned that the unit would fu1c-
ton as it did in the past in the
matter of racial discrimination.
However, there will be certain
restrictions imposed on the Com
mittee with reference to pro-
ceedures.
In areas where there isa unit Of
the Man Power commission al
ready setup, the FEPC must work
with that unit and cannot go into
the area unless it does cooperate
with the commission group. Thirty
days notice must be given the COM
mission units these spots before
any hearings may be held, No in
vestigations will be made by FEPC
personnel in these areas unless the
commission agrees, it is reliably
reported.
TO HANDLE DISCRIMINATION
While there will be an overlap
ping of the duties of the two it is
pointed out clearly that DR.. W.eav-
ver's group is not concerned par
ticularly now with racial discrim
ination; his group is concerned
with seeing to it that all available
manpower in districts is put to
use and to see that Negroes are
included in the work plans in in
dustrial areas. On the other hand
cases Of discrimination are to be
taken care of by the FEPC.
Governmental agencies practic-
ing their usual discrimination will
come under the inspection of the
FEPC just as in the past.
How the proposed expansion of
FEPC will be affected by the order
transferring it to Man Power
commission has not been discussed
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By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK
as usual.
AMERICA PAYING


Russia is fighting war; Germany
is fighting war; Japan is fighting
war; Britain is fighting war, China
Is fighting war. The question arises
is not American playing war? The
long and laborious trial given the
eight saboteurs does not look like
fighting war. How can We con-
vince the nation and the world
that we are fighting war whilo
handling the saboteurs SO gently?
These saeoteurs brought from
Germany a dagger to drive to the
heart of this nation.
These saboteurs were the agents
of our enemy with whom we are
locked In a death grapple, the
enemy who is doing to death our
citizens upon the high seas and on
the battlefield. Yet these saboteurs
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ENEMY MARKERS ERADICATED

MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y
oSNS)-The First Ground Air Sup
port command disclosed SUNDAY
the existence of ingeniously con-
Structed markers which pointed the
way Tor enemy air attack on vital
eastern air fields and airplane
factories. All of these guides have
oeen erad1cated and the danger TO
the war bases averted.
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other enterprises that daily write indeib into the
ord history which and America will be
proud We too love Georgia. South Carolina and the
SOUTH home from it has sprung the northern Ne
proes From it springs future
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RUSSIA WILL BE SAVIOR

I must repeat here what 7 have
said oftimes before, if democracy
Is saved Russia will be the savior!
It is heartbreaking to see Russia
bleed while the united nations
seem utterly unable to get start
ed. Some weeks ago in his address
before the southern Catholic con-
ference, DR.. P. B. Young said that
the morale of the Negro was low
although his patriotism was strone
as ever. This could have been
said with equal truth of the en-
tire United States.
Some weeks ago it was necessary
for me to drive 60 miles through
the rural sections of Virginia and
I can truthfully say that I was the
only motorist driving 40 miles per
hour as the war regulations stlpu.
late If there was any change OF
speed since the regulations ] could
not detect it. Car after car passseo
me. while I observed the war time
regulation which the others were
flouting.
It is difficult to decide whether
we are fighting war or playing war
The heart of America is not IN tnis
war in spite of our Herculeah Il
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PLATFORM

weekly shall be published each in which
Such be presented personal opinions and shall
reflect in the opinion of The PHOENIX INDEX.
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The need FOR CHANGING
By JOHN McCRAY
RabbIe Rousers

I take exception to a northern newspapers Labelling
Roland Hayes an "uncetom because he refused to de-
nounce all of Georgia for his uncomfortable and embar
RAISING experience at the hands of police at Rome eOr
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sro's not being allotted defense
training equipment and opPortu1i-
ties.
THE AUTHORITIES WORKED"
It OUT
I remember how the committee
working on bomber plant training
for Negroes had to make reprint
of the application cards, which
filled out, were sent to the authori-
ties in the process of trying to be
patriotic and useful. After the
authorities saw to it that the train
ing equipment for colored was
rather late in arriving, or that it
would not arrive at all. ct hadn't
arrived Saturday., somebody con-
cocted the scheme that Negroes
were trying to get training on
the equipment located in places
where whites are being trained.
The proper" authorities i'm
mediately made it plain" to the
public that Negroes and whites
could never, because of the state
constitution, go to school in the
same buildings, and indicated that
no matter if it was for the war
effort, they wouldn't get bomber
plant training on Atlanta's equip
ment