The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-08-01

WORLD WAR ii has definitely entered a critical
W phase The back of the us. Is against the wall
The fortunes OF the future are hanging In the bal
ances OF crucial circumstances Brutality is being
glorihed while Righteousness Is being crucihed Hu-
man righteousness Is at a premium In our war
cursed world Of today. Another dark age Is upon US
and many OF us know 1t not. The back OF democracy
is against the wall while boodstained fascism 10
crowding hercely upon the forces of progress. No
body can tell what a day may bring forth and de-
struction Is ever in the offing.
This is time to bemoan the fate OF our wretch
ed OF unpreparedness. We must grid ourselves
for great sacrifice and suffering. 1t is just as well
for TO know that "life usual" is, for the mo-
ment, thing OF the past: henceforth we must take
life as we ind 1t. The compulson OF a grave neces-
sity is upon and how acquit ourselves In these
critical times is the measure OF our future.
Just as business as usual in these critical tines
Is the measure OF our future, Is a menace to
war effort So rs prejudice as usual" inimcai to the
supreme sacrifices being called upon to make.
Prejudice must be submerged II victory is TO emerge
from this titanic conflict Let the Negroes look wei
to their great responsibility In this national crisis.
One-tenth OF this country's population can be
mighty factor In the ultimate outcome OF this war.
Victory for the allied cause is not matter of tenths
but housandths, delcately poised the balances
OF war. Gradually this grim fact is percuatirg
through the thinking of this nation: and gradually
the color bans being lifted and the Negro given
more equitable place in the scheme Of things
On the assembly lines as on the battle lines the
Negro acquit himself like the super-patriot the
world knows him TO be. No fault can be found with
the Negroes quarreling so long he stands up and
fights The world knows what the Negro is quarral-
ing about and sympathzes with him in his righteous
contentious. 1t is just we'll for the Negro to know
that the sentiment for the Negroes larger liberation
is now in the making and the Negroes loyalty is
determination OF this sentiment
Democracy has come upon "now-or-never time
and the current crisis calls for nov never 10y
atty. The loyal the Negro Is during the present
crisis the greater shame OF the country that fails to
reward him for paying its price. II the Negro holds
back today It will be the Negroes shame: II the coun
try tomorrow denies him the rights he pays for with
sweat and tears and blood, then II is the countrvs
shame! Somehow or other cannot doubt my coun-
try. 1t has done too much for Negroes for me to
doubt that 1t will do more. At the heart OF this
ton is righteous urge that Is the hope Of Negroes
and of mankind Full cooperation is the price Ne
groes' must pay. AS long we have no Negro sabo-
teuers and fifth columnists can look the world In
the face without wincing whatsoever therefore
would weaken the Negroes morale or his loyalty Is
a traitor to the common cause.
race that outve the establishments
which have vexed the Negros mind these threescore
years and rally himself against the foes OF his coun
try is great race II is only matter OF time be-
fore ALL the living generations will bring him their
need OF glory Greatness cannot be denied and like
the public opinion upon which II must be based IS
truth crushed TO earth, will rise again The glo