The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-06-19
Peoples
Daily Doiings
BY ISAAC JONES
News From the Home-Front
Sailor Disgusted With Navy
Ending Segregation BY Law

DIX vnlte real estate man mere
in Detroit climbed on the Better
Homes4For ColorRd Folks band
wagon and made his plans known
last Thursday before members 81
The Detroit Real Estate board
When this gentleman had con-
cluded his speech about the hous-
ing problem. he announced that
he favored Jim-Crow housing
protects. He believes that colored
folks desire 10 live by themselves
and he knows that white people
don't want 70 live in communities
thickly populated by our race
DOM want the readers OF
this column nor the gentleman
in question ~ he should read
ihsl 70 get the wrong impression
am not blasting the white real
estate man for what he has said
because some of the points
brought out in his speech were
good MANY 81 them we're true
Bui believe that II is time for
both white and colored people 10
realize Thar as two races In the
same country. We have heen liv-
Ing 100 far apart We should live
together we should associate
with one another more that Is
the only way that better race
relation between colcred and
white VIII he established in this
country. There's one thing that
has always puzzled yours truly.
ard he has never been able 10 get
he correct answer from members
r. the Other race That Is why
~ II that colored and white folks
can rub elbows in class rooms
from the kinderearten through the
doors ~ college; can ride torcih-
or in street cars trains. and 9TH
or pubic places, but when Il
comes down 70 eating and sleep
ing together that IS out OF the
question
In nv opinion the majority ~
Detroits 10000 colored citizens
would desire living IN The neigh
borhood or community Of their
choice II wouldn't matter II 9TH
or colored people lived there or
rot After all our skin may be
a biz darker but color doesn't
make the man.
Down a. the R L. Polk COM
pany who once thought color
ed and white girls couldn't work
together) several colored girls
were made supervisors last week
The company had employed col
ored supervisors prior 10 these
Appointments. but those supervis-
ors had only coIored girls under
their supervision Since the coll
ored and white girl typists have
heen working together II mean
peacefully tool some of the white
girls are under the directions OF
colored supervisors promoted last
week II Is the duty 81 the super
yisors 10 see that all work IS
gotten out correctly. and return
that which is not right Accord
Ing 10 the latest reports. the
white girls are accepting the coll
cred supervisors with q smile and
never hesitate 20 ITO them for
the desired Information. That is
proof Of how the two races can
work together.
ABOUT FIVE JAPANESE girls
were hired at the r. l. Polk and
company last week as typists.
They are American-born Japan
csc. One OF these Japanese girls
told how she has been seeking
employment for months but was
turned down at all other places
because OF her nationality. They
arc said 10 be fast typists.
Well. guess you read IN the
papers about the long lost hook"
anyway II was returned 70 the
library here IN Detroit last week
II was borrowed from the library
ia wears ago Pshaw' the writer
would hate for one Of his debtors
10 forget bill that long because
even my grandchildren az there
be any, may not live long enough
20 collect H.
A sailor writing in an Eastern
publication declares I'VE don't
want any favors from the Navy
We want only he right 10 serve in
the capacity In which we enlist
ed" Their color has kept
them out Of that service. A dis
grace for democracy like
America.
Carey Mcwilliams white in his
hook brothers Under The skin
feels that segregation can be
ended by law. lie suggests IN his
book the government shall esiab-
lish as It's national policy the
/ principle that there shall he no
discrimination against individuals
because Of race. color creed or
country OF national origin.
Such a law should end segre-
cation. but the possibility IL re-
mote Congress and the House Is
filled with southern congressman
and representatives.
this massage REV 4fN. "'rhou