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Hurlem Trouble

Everyone predicting Harlem long that
bound When people waiting for something like that
happen they loose
much whether the real fancied.
did be called
except really plain
ordinary Harlem the Negroes there
every other similar place of congestion are edge
only happy
wild and do little lOOng the midst of the confusion and
have the factors that produce violence
Apparently the trouble started when policeman attempted to
Negro for of disordy conduct Negro
military policeman tried to interfere and was shot crowd followed
the soldier the hospital threw bottle and the disorder
spread This the carried by the Associated Press On the
surface the fault lies with the military policeman had conducted
his duty would whatever complaint he thought
justified the police station He have known that by his inter-
ference with he could accomplish nothing what did
happen But hard judge such things and complete nf
nation might show that there blame on both sides.
of this kind has be looked against the
background general problem Some insist Jogging
the issue by talking about this problem social They talk
intemarrage particularly But the thing
that really causing the feeling Of resentment Negroes
discrimination against making way life
What Negroes is equality educational
opportunity that will enable Negro have just fair chance for
good life white person. This their right Too
cannot get portion of it. Even when they finely educated
they find doors closed them that applicants whose skin
is different color.
certainly help planned
in nter-raca culture Certainly nation with many
racial situations America has should give adequate
questions its educational system
from the next generation the silly pudces and unscenfc notions
that poison the citizenship of this older generations prob
lens cannot be washed day. may be late people
who have into fixed attitudes. But
future and since have long future
making that will be better than Paul
UP TO WOMEN
Negro will be the first to be fired in the period
unless something
maintaining the gains they have made employment The
of the firing however will depend largely how well Negro
able to adjust themselves their present obsWima in the
Chicago Defender
FULFILLED OR FORGOTTEN?
In South Africa well the United reality
Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms under Asia
and in Latin America well Africa
people skins
learn whether the United Nations promises of equality political
and economic freedom for all peoples will be fulfilled forgotten when
victory the pressure.
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Editorial CogitatiOns at 40

hit forty few days and about that
"life begins at forty" stuff we've read about.
yesterday that hopping bells at the
working part-me Owen HOwes Northwestern
Bulletin Appeal.
realize years when
wenyfour bohering E Perry the printer death
trying get newspaper started Our opportunities ended in the
which THE for At twenty
thought everyhg-a forty that We'll
enough early Will Smith editorial side
able writings shape
print remember wildly Glesner attorney
squcng ebunce that only
embryonic newspaper
that have lived eighty
record Raroadng added
knowledge visited states Pull
porterng gave a opportunity know people and
psychology which aided carer it
be called that.
weekly newspaperng get to
the folks and the phones the ambi
the anticipates the good and
early the forty the
made cynical have developed
understanding There division of opinion in
humble has taken
Juvenile delight have people change from
calling addressing Mister We didn't
designation due
harn than anything else but suddenly
that radical editor
forty appetite still good There still plenty of prob
which there opportunities for
many predecessors enjoyed Living and
working greatest the world the greatest state
among the finest people, black white reach the
conclusion that done life may begin forty
WILL rIUav
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Church Notes

Pilgrim Baptist Church News:
Last Sunday after an inspiring
sermon by the pastor, Rev. S. E.
Ware, to an appreciative audience
both the congregation and the
pastor were further rewarded by
the announcement that approx
mately $1,7OO had been pledged to
the "Victory" drive to iquidate all
local mortgages.
Next Sunday at the morning
service Rev. Wares subject will be
eff the King Would Come" Mrs.
Mabel Small of Bennington, Ala,
sister of Mrs. Ware, will be the
guest soloist.
At the evening service, 7:45
p. M, the pastor will preach on
"The Devil Takes a Holiday"
On the third Sunday, August Is,
following the IL a. m. worship pc
Rod, baptismal services will be
held. All candidates are request
ed to get in touch with Rev. Ware.
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Card of Thanks

I wish to express my sincere
thanks and appreciation to friends
and neighbors for their kind ex-
pressions of sympathy and for the
beautiful floral offerings in my re-
cent bereavement at the death of
my husband, Gershon Ewing.
Thanks to Rev. A. J. Irvine for
spiritual guidance and to the choir.
Mrs. Halle Ewing.
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Chicago, and Mrs. A. Neal of
Arkansas.
Favorite hymn service was held
at the evening worship hour at 8
pm. Mrs. Celestine Douglass at
the piano and Esther Zachary at
the pipe organ were the accompan-
lists.
An organ solo by Miss Zachary
and a duet by Sandra and Lydia
Nelson were special features of the
service. Among the visitors were
Mrs. Perkins of Kansas City, Kans-
as, and Mrs. Henderson of Kansas
City, Mo-, Mrs. C. Coyer, Mrs. N.
Southworth and Mrs. Ruth Gage
Colby, all of the Highland Park
Congregational church.
Rev. Elmer Faulkner, of Kansas
City, Kansas, will be the guest
preacher at both the II am. and
8 pm. services next Sunday
Church Reporter.
st. James A.M.E. Church Notes
A large congregation was thor
oughly imbued with appreciation
as they attentively listened to the
sermon by one of the 'foster" sons
of st. James, Rev. Andrew r.
Parks, of Cedar Rapids, Ia, at our
10:45 am. service last Sunday,
August 1. His subject, "The Pow
er of the Cross" was taken from
Cor. 1:18. Rev. Parks described its
symbolism and effect in a firm
and mastery manner. This was
communion day and a large num-
Der participated in this service. At
the close of the service, many
hearty congratulations were be-
slowed upon Rev. and Mrs. Parks.
The Pastors Aid Society, an or
ganiZation of loyal women, pre-
sented cash gift to Rev. and Mrs.
B. N. Moore, in appreciation of
their earnest endeavors and sterl-
ing excellence of character" The
following visitors were present:
Mines. Mae E. Yeager, Columbia,
Md, Cecilia G. Bell, Little Rock,
Ark, Maggie T. Martin, high school
teacher at Annisten, Ala, Han
nah Murphy, Dallas, Tex, Mary
LETTERS, New London, Conn, Sally
Cartwright, Nashville, Tenn, Hell
en- Cartwright, st. Paul, Messrs,
DR.. C. H. Williams, st. Paul, James
]. Billups, Pasadena, Calf, 1t. AL
bert r. Burgess, Base Gen. Depot,
Los Angeles, Calf, Corp. Floyd
Blakey, Camp Livingston, La.
The University of Life closing
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convocation at pm. August l, was
enjoyable and instructive. Rev. M.
Boyd Patrick was master of cere-
monies. Miss Juanita Schuck was
guest soloist. Mr.. Douglas Lewis
accompanied her. Mr.. o. C. Hall
presented the speaker, DR.. Winni-
fred A. Jordan. His subject was
"Of One Blood" The speaker gave
a descriptive analysis of the fluid
which circulates through the bodies
of the human race, sustaining the
gospel of Acts. 1925. Miss Gloria
Williams is the president. Mrs.
Bertha L. King conductress.
The women of St. James are on
the alert and all agog. Sunday,
August 8, is Women's Day.-C. H.
Miller.
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Chief Hackert's Death a Loss

untmey Of Chief Clinton A Hackert ST. Paul
police department grave loss to the city
Chief Hackrt outstanding public servant His record is
the finest made metropolitan police force He gentle
emulated him marked degree His
good firm officers who performed their duty with
courtesy whenever they could.
community the loss of Chief Hackert He
followed the letter the theory that constituted law enforcement
agencies should all alike big little white black
Officers his supervision that Chief Hackert would
allow the color mans skin his religion be used unfairly against
As result they careful to perform their duties in such
they could be accused of religious prejudice
This newspaper along with the community feels keenly Chief
passing. He with promising future
Paul will miss Chief Hack and public official of
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for racial minorities within the In
terror Department. We need ma
tional fair racial practices act, pat
termed after the machinery of the
Wagner act; the Administration at
least should begin the fight to get
it through. This Congress would
almost certainly kill it, but the
groundwork must be laid. We need
strong Administration support of
the anti-poll bill; not this con-
temptible hands-off policy. We need
a propaganda technique by which
the Owl can enter areas like De-
troit and attempt to cut away the
mounting tensions by open propa-
ganda and educational campaigns.
We need a program like the Farm
Security Administration to lend
Negro families money to continue
to leave the South in large numbers
and to supervise their settlement
in other areas. The concentration
of the Negro population in the
South has caused the caste system
to develop a fiercely self-perpetu-
ating tendency. The Southern poll
tax cabal in Congress is one evil
dence. 1t seems to me that the long
range solution of the race problem
depends largely on continued mi
grafton of vast numbers of South
ern Negroes.
There are many, many things to
be done. The mildest of them will
meet with violent political reaction
from the South. But Mr.. Roosevelt
must accept that fact. The condi-
tons which produced riots in
Mobile, Beaumont, Los Angeles
and Detroit continue to operate,
and his present negative policy
cannot possibly forestall other
riots. Poisoned and fostering sit
uations like a race crisis don't
solve themselves. Mayor Jeffries
can bear good witness to the fact.
Sometimes late at night in the
New York broadcasting area a
Freedom House radio program
signs off with choral recording of
the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
mine eyes have seen the glory"
"a stirring, nostalgia piece of
America, reminiscent always of
Abraham Lincoln and his war.
There is a rare quality that exists
in the memories of those times.
Reading back over Lincoln's hon
est, open speeches on the race ques-
ton, reading back over Whitman's
on-rushing eloquent democratic
poetry, and the clean, high courage
and morality that lived in Emer-
sons thought wonder, what is it
that has gone out of American life,
when we can sit by for three years
and behold a mounting race crisis,
with never a major protest by large
numbers of the Northern members
of Congress, with never a bold and
affirmative act by the national gov
eminent.
Thomas Sanction.
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Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our friends
for their many expressions of
sympathy, for the beautiful floral
offerings, the donation of cars and
other acts of kindness during our
recent bereavement at the death
of our mother and sister, Mrs.
Anna Mitchell. We appreciated the
comforting words from Rev. J. W.
Graham, pastor, and the solos by
Mrs. ]. Lynn and A. B. James,
Mrs. Camella Hickerson, daughter,
Cornelius, Gilbert, Edmond and
Warner Rice, sons; Mrs. Nettie
Allen and Mrs. Matte Landers,
sisters.
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In MeTnOriam

In loving memory of our dear
sister and daughter, Bernice Brown,
who departed this life August 6,
1912.
You cannot say and you should not
say
That she is dead-She is just
away!
With CHEEKY smile and a wave of
the hand
She has wandered into an I'M
known land.
Think of her faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love
of Here;
Think of her still as the same, to-
day;
She is not dead-She is Just
away!
The Brown Family.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-06

Throughout the history of Amer
ica's race problem there has eX-
listed a breed of weak and made
quate government officials who,
like this mayor of Detroit, have
fallen back upon the hush-hush
method of dealing with the prob
lem. Of all the alternative ap-
proaches to a dangerous situation,
this approach is the one which re-
quires absolutely no CUTS. 1t is
the approach which inevitably fails.
Here in Detroit Mr.. Roosevelt
may view the image of his own
supremely negative policy toward
the race crisis; and here in the
tragedy of rioting and sullied ma
tional prestige he may witness a
preview of the inevitable failure
of his policy. Mr.. President! 1t is
time for you to say something and
do something about this crisis.
Throw off the negative advice of
the hush-hush men about you and
see this thing for the living open
danger that it is.
Msgr. Haas recent announce
ment that his FEPC committee
would come to life and undertake
an uncompromising investigation
of Detroit discrimination was well
coined news, but it was not enough.
Educational programs on race toll
erance by committees, unions and
other organizations are not enough.
The American Negro-maturing
socially and politically; thrust up
ward through economic strata by
the war economy; smarting at the
mockery of a Four Freedoms war
and a caste-ridden homefront-is
challenging for new social basis.
This is one of those evolutionary
currents of humanity, which no
amount of high-flown white oratory
will ever divert. And white Ameri-
ca, North and South, driven by the
subterranean fear and ignorance
in our culture, is beating back at
the Negro with open violence. No
committee, no legion of commit
tees, is going to be able to sub
due this crisis through piecemeal
efforts.
AS an emergency stop-gap
measure we need a great out
spoken speech by Mr.. Roosevelt,
discussing the race problem, point
ing out its dangers to the war eff
fort, appealing at last to the
springs of simple idealism which
have all but dried up in our ma
tional life. And then, for the first
time since 1876, we must tackle
the race question with broad ma
tional policy.
We need a cabinet office for race
relations, as Carey McWilliams
suggests in his book Brothers
Under the Skin; since this is a
maximum and somewhat optimistic
hope, we should at least expect to
see created a powerful division
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TNDEFINABLE

When I am asked what time the 7:45
Leaves for Riverside,
And say merely, "Quarter until eight
The stranger walks off satisfied;
Rut if bv chance asked me to explain
Democracy l fear that he would miss his tram
Democracy is that accompaniment to lne'
The flutes and harps,
When the voices rest, the instruments go on
In perfect blend of flats and sharps'
Thus Democracy when squared, must become
Such great condition,
It makes a lifetime word that none can sum up
In some ten-second definition.
Is it your lathe and mine set side by side
Our laboring together with the seltsame price!
Perhaps, it is if each believes within his heart
That there is no less greatness in the others part.
Is it Democracy when you wake in upper nine,
And make no because the lower berth is NINE!
It is if YOU accept with dignity the worst,
Knowing we'll must have bought my ticket first.
Is it Democracy when you enter darkened row
And when the light goes on, alas, you know
That I am there and have urge to "scram,"
And by your pleasant attitude you show
You just don't give damn
Is it Democracy when you give me domlclle
Bv rent or SALE in deal that makes it worth
Your while,
Assuring me that I shall have neighbor-trouble,
1t is not-when the price comes double.
There is no end to all things might cite
Concerning Liberty Pursuit Of Happiness, Justice,
Opportunity, and Right,
But, unless you have an eternity to listen
While my heart explains
Democracy-Brother you may miss a thousand trains.
james T. Logan.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-06

CamphOr Memorial Methodist
Church Notes: In spite of the hot
weather, a large attendance was
registered at the morning worship
service last Sunday. In sermon
on the subject as 1t II" our pas
tor, Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson,
pointed out that not many of US can
point a finger of scorn at Judas
for his betrayal of Christ, because
we betray Christ so often our
selves. Warren T. Baker, formerly
a member of the Haven Methodist
Church, Dennison, Texas, joined
the church. The Communion of the
Lords Supper was held after the
sermon. Out of town visitors at
the service included Mines. McCrae
and Sarah K. Sublett, members of
the st. Mark Methodist Church,
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SOUTHERN-BORN WRITER
CHARGES ROOSEVELT PURSUES
NEGATIVE POLICY ON NEGRO
RY Thomas Sanction

Mayor Edward Jeffres of Detroit likes ito work in
quiet unobtrusve way rotson the theory
that that's the best way This of the mayors
era extraordinary observations made in PM interview June
g. Publicity the mayor said would only aggravae the
situation and defeat the very thing sought to
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-06
Satisfaction to Ethiopia

Muson great satisfaction Ethiopia
MISSY had allowed Halle Seasses helpless
country a world might have been avoided.
Iays in bung the Nations and humbing
her England and others encouraged Hitler and his cohorts
page the smaller nations
Europe.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-06
Evil PropGgGtes Itself
Thomas Sanction.

Evil propagates ITSELF Two good apples have
neighbors, but bad will spoil barrel 1t be that evil
keeps busy order from That thought
when for the drive behind prejudice 1t
small minority this that insists that live divided
pie But because these anything
poison into community e the better principles of the majority
unheard.
Good afford be calm. always
to lame truth in the end-K c. Call
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-06
New Deal Friendship

The Gallup Poll which is hardly than overstued
straw reports that the New Deals simulated friendship
has done nothing like the damage feared be doing the South
recent Gallup reveals that only negligible degree
fourth opposition Dixie New DeaNego
Which to is astounding revelation!
1t has long been contention that the administration
little else but gigantic of politics in its dealings
with the have succeeded
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-06

enthusiasm others have exhibited cohorts
waving the Gettysburg address with minimum of benefit
Negroes and a maximum of benefit to themselves.
On least four occasions since his Inauguration in 1882 the P
had the opportunity of egsa
ton by of his hand He didn't wave.
Twice within the term single spoken word or
of the head lifting the brow from the White House could
the Negro Acknowledgement in the South through
abolition of the depcabe poll tax The White House neither spoke
nodded nor lifted.
soldiers continued and serious effort halt
has been forthcoming from the Roosevelt
headquarters
Farmlabor legislation which devoid trimmings simply made
legal Negro agricultural workers to Dixie pow passed
with much a Roosevetian frown.
Any part the White House would have
Intervention of this would have given
the surface dislike which the confirmed politicians like Bbo
pretend with artistry professional wresers
surprise that the South considers soaed New
fondness for Negroes small for opposing fourth term
The South obviously that in fourth term as the
three the issue would continue in the role OF political
football-Chcago Defender
WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL
By Charley Cherokee in the Chicago Defender
Listen Chum they you fighting for rights for
duration hell Detroit Mobile Camp
Call their attention to the here home who
about the who work 4hour shift giving
Jews, Mexicans and Negroes hell.
fight democracy fronts No matter how
puny South Bit Educate white
week. Talk facts him. show him Negro newspapers excel him IN
play cleaner and talk softer than he his
admiration sock him the jaw Take pick or think up one
yourself but for freedoms sake do something.
Negro and in Washington sitting around
getting their lau shiny Get some Tell
Vna ought be fight
the devil against that socaed child welfare BILL whether
Tell Bill Trent of FW get tough the
thing Tell Bob Weaver of VINO he can still speak for the
FDR advisers and magazine editors then he can force
worker status This time to be squash
hurting feelings chum Leaders worth martyrs
than lightweight
Bethune lot of influential people who wanted to
help save what they regard her failure
to oow-up Let Mabe Staupers of
National Graduate Nurses know that
angered Bolton who introduced the Nurses Bill
several thousand she should
the dirty work incidental to getting the
clause inserted stating necessity of Safeguards
You get the idea, chum. Get going
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-06

Be a booster, knock the nocker!
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1943-12-23
II. E. ChambIiSS Is
Division Manager
For Power Firm

GREAT FALLS.-Frank Bird OF
Butte, president and general mana
ger of the Montana Power company,
announced the appointment OF
Henry E. Chambliss as manager of
the Great Falls division of the con-
Germ succeeding the late Clinton T.
Booker.
Chambliss, who long has been
active in civic affairs and is a
member of the city council, has
been division superintendent of
the Montana Power Company for
several years. His appointment be-
comes effective at orrce, Bird said.
Associated with the power COM
pany for nearly Is years, Cham
bliss has served in various engi-
neering capacities until his eleva-
ton to division superintendent.
A native of ~Hardinsburg, KY, he
graduated with a degree in cleo
trical engineering from Clemson
college, in South Carolina. For
three years following his gradua-
ton, he was employed in the en-
gineering department of the Pub
lie Service Electrical Co. at New
ark, N. j.
A veteran of World war l, Cham
bliss saw foreign duty as an ensign
W the navy. The new division
superintendent has been active in
civic and fraternal affairs.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1943-12-23
Wartime Holiday
Radio Programs
To Men Overseas

On Christmas day, men and
women of the American Armed
Forces in every quarter of the globe
will hear hours Of special Christ
mas radio programs, featuring enter
tainment stars, name bands, and
personal greetings from the secre-
tary of war, the secretary of the
navy, and high officers of the
various services. On Christmas Eve
and Christmas day, the people on
the home front will hear programs
from soldiers overseas, including a
chorus of 200 American soldiers in
the Holy Land, A Christmas-tree
decorating from an island in the
south Pacific, and midnight mass
from some place behind the battle
lines in Italy.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1943-12-23
USO 60 Continue
Here Till Definite
Word on AirbaSe

OBJ" | .Lu e H-a y aA#
Members of the Glasgow USO
committee meeting Thursday night
decided to continue the USO room
in Glasgow ON its present basis until
definite word is received from the
air forces as to operation plans for
the Glasgow army airbase.
1t was pointed out that no in
formation has yet been received as
to continued operation or abandon
ment of the base, so nothing is
available at this time which would
give the committee a basis for deci-
sion.
Mrs. r. L. Irle, chairman of
volunteer services, said a number of
men still stationed here, and other
service men are making daily use of
the room.