The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-08
b ct R OFT
Merry-Go-Roun
~ TONY VANCE
EDICTS THAT END
DEMOCRACY
BLOOD WILL POUR LIKE WINE
CONFUCIUs SAYS
W. X. KELSEY COMMENTS
By TONY VANCE



AS STATED IN THIS column
last week bi-racial housing would
not be approved by the housing
commission. the mayor or any gov
ornamental agency. The control OF
a majority by a minority is still in
force. Mayor Teffries in Hitleris-
tic fashion summoned the Reich
stag and told them TO vote against
il. They responded with an over
whelming vote against bi-racial
housing for the duration which
means forever unless public indig-
nation can be aroused to force them
TO counteract their stand. II will
be noted the same forces present in
the Sojourner Truth scandal were
again in the forefront. Hill, Nc
Clendon on one side, alleged Klan
and Fascist-minded Chandler and
Buffa on the other. The mayor
threw the latter a bone, thereby
keeping his political score even with
election time approaching. In view
Of his undemocratic stand it will be
interesting to note at election time
the Negroes vote for Jeffries. 1t
might be we'll for labor and the Me-
gro to rally strong negative vote
for a man that evidently doesn't
feel he needs your support.
X X X
LIFE MAGAZINE last summer
referred to Detroit as the powder
keg In current happenings. This
revelation so disturbed the govern
ment that the issue was confined to
this country and many political Of
ficials and citizens hiding from the
truth denounced the magazines
stand as unqualified. But recent
killing and recurrent fights and the
present strike in the mill and alumni
mum foundries at the Ford company,
seem to bear out this magazines
contention. With the continued in
flux of Southern whites, Northern
whites. following a line of least re-
sistance with his Southern white
brother, will supply the match to
the fuse that is gradually being
shortened by continued friction. No
two forces can successfully clash
without one or the other giving
way. Detroit. any day. could be-
come the bloody path Of those seek
ing the pursuit of happiness and
democracy. Negroes are resigning
themselves to the inevitable and are
repeating under breath. This is
worth fighting for
X * y
THE APPOINTMENT OF George
Johnson to the Housing post in
Inkster, Mich, found Joseph C.
Coles scurrying TO Washington to
find where the wires on his behalf
were crossed. II could be possible
that Coles is too close to the forest
to see the trees and that the root
of his trouble might be found in
Housing Commissioner Horace
White whose voice concerning Ne
gro appointments has become big
one. Had White been informed of
Coles political strength and told to
muster strength equivalent for an
opposing candidate IL might not
have been difficult.
White and Coles have been at
odds for some time. Coles has as
sailed his former political friend on
innumerable occasions. White, when
questioned in reference to this APP
pointment, stated, II am like Con-
fucius, / reward my friends and do
Justice to my enemies" Naturally
being the Judge In this case, It was
for him to decide the fate OF Coles.
X X X
W. K. KELSEY, writer OF the
Commentator appearing daily in
the Detroit News. takes to task one
John Temple Graves III for his
stand against giving Negroes full
rights in a democracy.
Kelsey is of the mind tina. the
South is less a region than state
OF mind and that when a South
erner moves to Michigan he fights
the "reformers and accusers' on
their home ground. He points out
that the height OF southern. liberal
ism is peace makers who make
peace in order to maintain status
quo without friction. They cham
pion the Negroes cause to the point
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