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The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

WASHINGTON. ID. C.--(SNS) -~
WPA workers who have left ma
tional defense vocational training
programs for private or govern
ment employment now number
more than 100000 Seventy-four
hundred of those who have thus
qualified themselves for and oh
tanned wartime jobs are Negroes.
Of the 10000 WPA employees
who had undergone training or
we're still in training in December,
courses in public vocational schools
accounted for $4,000, including
more than 2O,500 colored persons.
The others had been assigned to
factories for ''in-plant" or to air
ports for training as ground sery-
icemen,
The defense training program
for WPA workers began in July
1910. in cooperation with the Unit
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Nazi Race Laws Not
Like u. S.---Embree

ment, the establishment of an air
school for Negro pilots. the atti-
tude of the supreme court in up
holding Negro rights.
While the evidences of progress
are encouraging, Mr.. Embree in
sists that much remains to be
done in giving this important fni-
nority larger share in national
life. He demands for them the
minimum requirements that all
citizens have a right to expect in
democracy: the right to earn a
living at work for which they are
fitted by merit and ability; the
right to equal opportunities ir2 edu~
cation, health, recreation, and
similar public services; the right
to vote: equality before the law;
courteous treatment by their fellow
Americans.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Vocational Campaign
To Be Held In March

1T is important that Negro youth
be trained SO that they will be able
to take their place in defense in
dustry and to that end, the cam
paign should be carried OH with
vigor. Every publicity channel-the
radio, conference, public meetings,
labor unions, contacts with employ
ers and printed material should be
Utilized
Under Miss Tanneyhill's guidance.
the National Urban League office
1888 Broadway, New York City, will
help campaign participants in the
preparation of printed materials
radio and public meeting programs
and in organizing the entire cam
paign week,
The campaign III its nine years
Of existence has stimulated Negro
youth to train and prepare for Jobs
and spurrsd Negro 1.11I1nities on
to find Jobs for trained youth. Last
year tbs campaign reached over 75,-
900 young people In high schools
and colleges.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
By cliff Maekey

imperial ambitions, have carefully
cultivated the support and goodwill
of the rugged natives of the Dutch
East Indies. They have been enlist
ed in all branches of the armed
forces, without restriction. They
serve in the Royal Dutch Navy,
they fly Dutch planes, they man
heavy Dutch artillery. They have
been made to feel that they are
Dutch first, natives second.
Today this investment IS paying
good dividends in valuable source
Of nanpower, ready and willing 10
battle to the death to support those
who have befriended them. ~
AMERICA FAILS TO HEED
Even, an America, stunned by the
rapid course Of events, has not at
this late date taken realistic View
point of this war. It refuses to heed
the terrible lesson of Singapore. 1t
clings tenaciously to its old taboos,
it's old prejudices, its antiquated dis
ordinations.
ManpoWer will win the war. Lack
of manpoWer Will lose IL. a raplQly
expanding navy pleads for recruits.
The marine corps plasters the whole
countryside with billboards begging
for enrollees. The air corps needs
men to man the 185,000 planes the
President has called for.
1ronic is this constant plea for
men, while denying the right to
serve to a large segment of this ma
tion's manpower. We have come to
the point where an inevitable de-
cision must be made. .
To be decided is whether all
Americans, regardless of color are
to be allowed to participate on
equal basis in this war for "democ-
racy" or whether we are to risk a
possible defeat merely because few
are too stubborn to sacrifice hide
bound color prejudices.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

NEW YORK City --(SNS) The
Annual Vocational Opportunity
Campaign. which is sponsored ir
the Spring Of each year, by the
Department of Industrial Relations
of the National Urban League, has
been scheduled for March 1922
Miss Ann Tanneyhill, secretary Of
the Leagues Bureau OF Guidance
and Placement, is i'll charge of the
Vocational Opportunity Campaign.
Because of the Importance Of
the National Defense Program, the
emphasis will be on defense jobs
and defense training as well as in
diyidual guidance and counsel" an
nounced Miss Tanneyhill. "AS in
other years, Negro schools and col
leges i'll the South, mixed schools
in the North, Urban League branch
es, community organizations in non
League cities, and interested white
and Negro individuals, are being
asked to volunteer their services in
conducting the campaign in their
own locality.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
The Globe Tr0tter
Prejudice The Saboteur

while Americans SNUG In the
thought that "thesel little, brown
copy-cats will never attack us"
made no effort to stop the flow.
Tear apart many Of these heavy
Japanese bornbers which wreaked
so much havoc In the Pearl Harbor
attack, which led to the successful
battle for Singapore and are al
ready winging death and destruc-
ton over Java and Australia, and
you will find they are powered by
American made Pratt and Whitney
motors
This Is ol.e way IN which the
"white supremacy ideology has
worked to the benefit Of the enc
my. Had not Americans SO belittled
and under-rated the japanese, a
more realistic viewpoint would have
been taken and none of these vital
supplies, for which we are now so
sorely in need, would have been al
lowed to reach the enemy,
OF the United Nations, only the
Dutch have assumed realistic ap-
proach to this problem of integral
ing this balance of dark man pow
er into the war effort.
The British in the midst of their
losing battle TO hold Singapore, re-
fused to give UP their petty racial
preiudices, thus losing the badly
needed support of native manpow-
er.
The English journal, Reynolds
News, tells Of this mistake. thusly:
I'VE spent millions of pounds
to make Singapore an impreg-
nable fortress. But we left out
one, probably the most import
ant, ingredient. We forgot to
make allies of the Malayans and
Chinese who make mp the mass
of the population"
In marked contrast the wiser
Dutch, who have become the most
formidable opponent to Japanese
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

CHfCAGO-(A NJ P)--The Nazi
propaganda trick Of comparing
German treatment of Jews with
American treatment Of Negroes is
entirely uniustified, according to
Edwin r. Eanbree, president Of the
julius Rosenwald fund and author
of Brown America. -
"What Hitler tries to cover up
Is the difference in direction Mr..
E11abree writes in an article in the
March issue Of The American
Mercury. 'sWtiIe he has ccassly re-
versed the clock of civilization, we
in America have been slowly rlov~
ing toward more tolerance and
freer opportunity for al peoples" 4"
The improvement In the status
and democratic opportunities Of the
American Negro since emancipa-
ton has been phenomenal, Mr.
Ernbree points out. The Negro
1iteracy rate has swe1led from 5
percent to IS percent. The death
rate has dropped from 81 per 1000
to ID per Loco. Negroes have ac-
cumuIated more than $2,5G0000.O00
in wealth. ana their total purchaS-
ing power comes to two billion
dollars year. In the creative arts
they have made noteworthy con-
tributions.
Mr.. Eanbree views with opti-
1nism the changing attitudes to-
ward Negroes particularly the
Transformation that has occurred
in the south where increasing edu-
cationa1 opportunities are offer
ed in spite of segregation He
stresses the interest Of the New
Deal administration in this mi
nority: the Presidents charge to
defense industries that there must
be no discrimination in employ
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
DR.. Patterson
Says Air Force
May Include All
Only a Matter
Of Time, Says
'Skegee President
Ry PETER DANA

NEW YOEK-(SNS)-The 99th
and Tooth Pursuit Squadron now
in training at Tuskegee, the Or
ganization Of which has been bit
terly opposed by colored citizens
obiecting to separation of the
races in the military services, "are
giving colored men a foothold in
the air corps, and will, in time,
lead to mixed air units" accord
ing to DR.. F.. D. Patterson, pres
ident c1 Tuskegee, in an inter-
view here this week at the Hotel
Theresa
DR.. Patterson's statement comes
just as it is announced that VIII
liam Ficl.ens. now engaged In SELL
ing defense stamps and bonds for
the u. S. Treasury throughout
the county, has been relieved OF
his position as Director Of Branch
es for the NAACP for his publicly
announced support Of the separate
air training center at Tuskegee.
Dr.. EickenS, on a Leave Of alb
sence from the Association, has
found himself at odds with NAACP
policy on several occasions recent
". His dismissal, according to q
statement Of the Association, was
deemed advisable in view of his
open defiance Of the declared pol
lev of the organization on segre-
cation in the armed services.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Lynching Being Pushed Off Map,
Saws lnterraCiaI Commission

that many Of these !ynched were
innocent. Though commonest in
the South, lynchings have taken
place in all except six New Eng
land states. Several states outside
the South have had from 40 to 30
lynchings each. sr
"The principal agencies CAM
paigning against lynching have
been the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, heading up in New York, and
the Commission on Interracial Co
operation, a Southern organization
with headquarters in Atlanta. AZ
filiated with the latter is the AS
sociation of Southern Women for
the Prevention of Lynching, which
was organized in Atlanta in 1881
and now has signed membership
of $4,000 Southern white women"
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
74OO Negroes Fill
Openings

ed States Office of Education.
which in turn cooperated with
local school authorities in provid-
ing teachers and facilities. The
WPA itself does not operate train
ing schools.
Fifty per cent Of the vocational
trainees under this plan are usual
". allotted to the WPA, with WPA
project employees selected on the
basis of previous experience Tor
training III such fields as me-
chanics, Welding and machine
operations.
Those from the WPA rolls re-
ceive WPA wages while fitting
themselves in vocational classes
Tor wartime industrial jobs or
other employment created by the
defense program. WFA workers
who are trained at airfieldS are
selected and paid OF the same
basis.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

In spite of an occasional out
break of barbarism, as at Sikeston,
Missouri, few days ago, the
lynching habit is being steadily
pushed off the map, and there is
reason to hope for its practical dis
appearance in the early future, &C
cording to statement from ths
headquarters here of the Commis-
sion on Interracial Cooperation.
The statement points out that
the 194f record of four killings
classed as lynchings by TuSkegee
Institute marks decrease of 95
percent from the average of 70
lynchings a year for the sixty years
just ended, and q decrease of SO
percent for the high record Of 231
1ynchings reported in 1892. The
average for the last ten years. the
Commission says, has been ten
lynchings a year; for the last five
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

In a letter to Secretary of War
Henry l.. Stimson last week, Roy
wilkins, NAACP assistant secre-
tary, said. eve believe that if ou1
country is to have 100000 men II
the air force. with at least a quar-
ter million Of these as pilots, more
than the mere handful Of Negroes
now in training should be admitted
to that branch Of the service"
The War Departments new
nlans call for the establishment OF
the Tooth Pursuit Squadron to be
set up at Tuskegee Institute, Ala,
to train Negro cadets, using grad
uates of the training course for the
18th Pursuit Squadron as instruc-
tors.
The NAACP told Stirnscn "Tn
recent weeks we have received
numerous statements from beWil-
iered and disappointed young
colored men who say they have
been accepted for the Army Air
Corps, and in many instances
have received their physical ex-
aminations, but their actual en-
istment in the Air Corps has been
delayed so. long, because of the
greatly restricted quota system,
that they are now being called by
their local draft boards for gen.
eral military service.
''In the meantime, they see white
applicants for the Air Force being
accepted freely, and in most cases.
promptly. They have noted the
turn of events in the Southwest
Pacific war theatre and they have
read the announcement of the
million man air corps. In the
face of all this they are told that
they cannot be inducted into Air
Corps at this time"
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Says Encyclopedia
On Negro To Be Off
The Press Shortly

HAMPTON INST, Va. --(SNS)--
In q recent interview given at
Hampton Institute, DIR. w. E. Burg
hardt Dubois, author of numerous
volumes and articles on the Negro
stated that the basic report Of ma
teria1 on which he has been working
for an encyclopedia of the Negro
will be released sometime early this
spring.
Material for the encyclopedia is
the result of research done by the
famous Negro historial and scholar
over a period of many years.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Defense Worker
Walks Fifteen
Miles To Work

MINNEAPOLIS-(A n P)-
Harry Hill discovered during
one of the recent sub-zere cold
periods that the regular bus did
not run to the Twin Cities Ord
nance plant at New Brighton,
outside Of Minneapolis.
As a custodian, Hill's job is
to look after some of the fires
in the small buildings at the
plant. Notwithstanding the Is
below zero temperature that
morning he walked the entire
distance and rang his time card
ION time" Hill is married and
the father Of five-year- -Old
girl.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Press And War Effort Theme OF
National Negro Newspaper Week

pate in the promotion of the Week.
On Sunday, March 1.-TWO radio
addresses will mark the beginning
Of the Weeks activities. At 1890
a m. EST, p. L. Prattis. exec
utive editor of the Pittsburgh
Courier will discuss 'sThe Negro
Press and Americas War Effort
as guest speaker on the celebrated
"Wings Over Jordan program.
This broadcast will originate from
Jacksonville, Florida through the
facilities of the Columbia Broad
casting system.
Also developing the theme Of the
observance, Moss Hyles Hendrix,
director of the Week, will appear
as guest speaker ON the Chariot
Wheels" program, which Is heard
during the period 4:30 TO 500 p.
m. each Sunday from Station
WSB in Atlanta. Georgia. Al
though not network feature,
Chariot WhLels" is heard in ap-
proximately thirty states. This
program OTlSuldGSS 1IUllL UAlC
banquet room of the Savoy Hotel
on Atlanta's historic Auburn Ave-
nue..
A third radio program entitled
rVictory Pledges of the Negro
Press" is scheduled from Chicago
over CHS, Saturday evening
March Z. 1918 to 10:30 Est.
Claude A. Barnett, director, the
Associated Negro Press, is to be
the principal speaker on this
broadcast.
TO HOLD RALLIES
In conjunction with the Week
Negro newspapers Of the nation
have been invited to participate IN
q group meetings call Of Victory
Rallies" to be held IN several cities
Of ths nation. In these meetings
emphasis will be placed upon the
thenae Of the Week which will in
clude tbs discussion Of such cur
rentiy significant topics as civilian
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
years, five per year.
The statement continues;

years, five per year.
The statement continues;
"Higllly encouraging also is the
fact that in two Of last years re-
ported iynchings. those at An
drews, S. c., and Gastonia, N. c.,
the perpetrators were promptly ar
rested, convicted, and given long
prison sentences. It should be not
ed that Carclinians claim that
these cases should be classed as
homicides due to private brawls,
rather than as lynchngs.
'sSince the tabulation of lynch
ings was begun in 1882, the records
show total of 1859 victims, SO Of
them women, nearly 1900 of them
white. Three-foiirth Of u e victims
were charged with hoinicides or
lesser offenses; less than one-fourth
were accused of assaults Oh WOm-
women. Investigations have shown
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
JAPANESE
SIT TIGHT
P q t opinion

IfIAtthAl . OHAAA1GAAS
have long been held by even our
armed forces that the Japanese
could be brought to their knees In
"Wednesday afternoon war, a
brief nine weeks of war, III which
they have found themselves dettn-
itely Oh the losing end, has brought
into sharp focus how wrong we're
these predictions.
And then the old bugaboo OF white
supremacy" has worked in favor OF
the Japanese. Holding such utter
contempt for any whose faces were
not white and whose eyes were not
blue. Americans have generally, II
stupidity believed that one white
American, was at least the equal,
if not the superior of ten men,
whose faces chanced to be of an
other hue.
This white supremacy" belief
went so far as TO make many white
Americans actually arrogant in
dealing with peoples of other races,
This arrogance was best displayed
by the fact that this country had
become SO cocksure of its superior
ity, it made the fatal mistake OF
foolishly supplying the Japanese for
years with all of the weapons OF
war. This was done i'll the face OF
talk that had been going on for
two decades that Americas next
war would be with Japan.
WEAPONS GIVEN ENEMY
The willy japanese, playing low,
and not for once challenging the
American belief in the inherent SUI
periority Of white men, continued
to load their ships at our ports with
scrap iron, steel and high cctare
gasoline Hundreds Of thousands OF
tons of these vital raw materials
were frantically bought by Tokyo.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Urge Army Discard Small Quota On
NumberOfRaceYout ForAiCorps
Mere Handful Is
ChargeOfNAACP

NEW YORK--Because the enlistment of colored men
Air Corps long delayed account of the greatly
restricted quota system for the training Of Negro flyers and
facilities for the training of whites has been greatly
expanded the NAACP has again requested that the War
Department accept and train Negro cadets the basis of
fitness without regard to racial quotas that they be admit
ted to all training bases and that the induction Of Negro
youths who have already been accepted for the Air Corps
postponed by their draft boards pending the enlargement
of a training program for them.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

WITH THE FALL of Singapore
and the determined drive of the
Japanese in Burma, the United Ma
tions, particularly Britain ARE face to
face with the fact that they can
not hope to win this war without
the stout aid that the overwhelm-
ing man power Of the darker races
can give them.
This is q fact that neither the
British nor, the American Govern
r.ent has heretofore taken very
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Newspapermen To Be Heard On
Two Coast T O. Coast Broadcasts

Included in the program for this
national observance are listed sew
eral features of an informative ma
ture designed to enlighten the
nation regarding the attitude Of
the Negro Press toward its role
in the present crisis.
Negro churches, schools, colleges
and agencies and organizations in
terested in the welfare of the Ne
gro have been invited to partici-
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

''The Negro Press and Ameri-
cas- War Effort" is the theme of
the fourth annual National Negro
Newspaper Week and the celebra-
ton colnmemorating the One Hun
dred Fifteenth Anniversary of the
Negro Press, TO be observed March
IL. as sponsored by the Negro
Newspapers of America and the
Delta Phi Delta Journalistic Asso-
citation.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

defense, buying of defense bonds
and stamps and other matters es-
sential to the execution of the
war
Moss Hyles HENDRIX of Atlanta,
who has directed the Week since
it's inception.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
BEWARE OF orEM CRATES

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, -(ANr)
Miss Mary Alice Jones Of this
city went to Erlanger hospital Fri
day morning for emergency treat
ment. Miss Jones who is e was
suffering from burns of the back.
Hospital authorities said she had
stood too close to an open CRATE
fire warming her back and as q re-
suit had been severely scorched. She
was the second patient to be treat
ed for the same type of accident
in two days.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28
Selassie Receives
E.nvov's CREDENTIALS

LONDCN--tSNS)-R. G. Howe,
British minister to Ethiopia, pre-
sented his credentials to Emperor
Halle Selassie in a colorful ceremony
in Adds Ababa, the foreign office
said Monday.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

SSrlCuS4ys . y y -
countries are now
paying dearly for
making tbs same
mistake as did
Hitler in Russia.
They under-rated
the power, t h e
r G S o u r c G -
fulness and the
military genius of
their opponent.
The Phoenix index., 1942-02-28

Special Prices. Big Type Tom
Barron Leghorn Cockrels, So,
100; $500. 500; Straight Run
Rocks, Reds. Sc, 100. COD.
KIine's Chickery, Strausstown, Pa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-31
POSITION WANTED

WANTED, POSITION. Middle
age lady desires position ir
private home as Housekeepel
or Nurse. Eddie Eastwood. Ills
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-31
FLEMING STREET METHODIST
(Uptown) CHURCH

Rev. w. B. Mundy, Pastor
Church School, GAS a. m. Will
liam Knowles, general superin-
tendent.
Morning worship, 1880 o'clock.
Sermon subject: Humility"
Epworth League, TOO p. m.
Evening worship, 800 o'clock.
Sermon subject: Love for
Christ"
The evening sermon will be
followed by Communion serv-
ice.
Midweek prayer service, We'd
neSday, 8 p. m.
The pastor cordially invites
each and every one to hear the
sermons on Sunday. A special
invitation is extended to all
service men, defense workers,
visitors, friends and members to
hear the sermons. Come join in
the services and God will bless
you.
All young people are invited
to the young peoples class, which
meets each Sunday at GAS
O'Clock. Each one is also invited
to the Epworth League again at
2 p. m.