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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-23

tFRANK ". BLAIR
President. Union Joint Stock
Land Bank Of Detroit
EMORY ". CLARK
Dehou
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Willkie Speuls Out

Wendell Wilkes practice Of re-
garding a straight line as the
shortest distance between two
political, as well as geometrical
points is one of the assets that di-
vides him sharply from the COM
mon run of political speakers.
He used this direct approach Sat-
urday in radio address that pro-
vided the sequel to a broadcast
dramatization of the Detroit race
riots, placing large part of the
blame for the color problem upon
it's oblique handling by both politi-
cal parties. The Democrats, he
charged, seek to retain political
power by denying Southern Ne
groes the right to vote, while
assuring those in the North of
their special friendship. Republi-
cans, he declared, are still asking
for the Negro vote as an express
sion of humble gratitude for Abra-
ham Lincoln's signing, 80 years
ago, of the Emancipation Procla-
nation. Both parties, he implied,
are still afraid to touch the real
dynamite in a situation that
threatens internal peace in no I'M
certain way. Unless the fearful
housing conditions forced upon
American Negroes are remedied,
and unless they are accorded full
political rights, the threat will
materialize, said Mr.. Willkie.
He speaks with the authority of
a man in whom millions of Ameri-
cans have publicly registered their
confidence, and his treatment of
this dangerously sore spot in
American life ought to help in
sparkling something like intelligent
action against the ignorance, politi-
cal cowardice, social apathy and
fatuous, Nazi-like sense of racial
superiority that are behind the
steadily growing momentum of
real trouble here at home.
Another American, Undersec-
rotary of State Sumner Welles, re-
Gently threw the same subject into
telling relief when, in an address
to a college audience, he declared
that, in any postwar world worth
fighting for, there twill be no
room for that accursed phrase,
racial and religious minorities."
He is right. It is to be hoped that
enough Americans will take his
words seriously before they, too,
find themselves in minority; for,
as Wendell Willkie also took pains
to point out, two-thirds of the
people allied with US in fighting
this war do not have white SKINS
Pioneer Press.
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Church Notes

CamphOr Methodist Church
Notes: One of the largest audiences
of the year was present last Sun
day morning and was inspired and
thrilled by June Hawkins, the guest
soloist for the service, who sang
two numbers. Miss Hawkins who
is member of the cast of "Porgy
and Bess" was accompanied by
Mrs. Celestine Douglass. Spiritual
Prosperity" was the subject of a
timely sermon by the pastor, Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson. Several Wis
itors were present. The out of town
visitors included Mrs. C. Robert
son, of Toronto, Canada and her
son, Sydney Harris of Jamaica,
B. W. l.; Mrs. Mary Arinwine, of
Oklahoma City, Okla; Mr.. A.
Grigsby, the brother of Mrs. Opal
White, of Somerset, Wis; and Rev.
Elmer Faulkner, of Kansas City,
Kansas.
A very interesting meeting of
the Brotherhood was held in the
evening, with Mr.. John Douglass,
acting president, presiding. The
next meeting of the Brotherhood
will be held on Monday at the
church at 7 pm. All men are in
vited to attend this meeting. "Rea-
sons for the Detroit Riot" will be
the topic for discussion.
Facing the Truth" will be the
subject of the sermon by the pastor
at the II am. service on Sunday,
August 1. The Communion of the
Lords Supper will follow the
sermon. A favorite hymn service
will be conducted at the evening
worship hour beginning at 8 pm.
Come and join in singing your fav-
orite hymn.-Church Reporter.
st. James A M e Church News:
Our anticipation of a successful
Mems Day II a. m. service was
realized. A large congregation was
present. The meeting was spon-
sored by the Mems Club of the
church. Mr.. Ewell Galloway is
president. Mr.. C. B. Archer was
chairman.
Beautiful garden flowers adorn-
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"Of One Blood"
University of
Life Subject

DR.. Winnifred A. Jordan, con-
sidered, by some, an authority on
blood" will be the guest speaker
at the University of Life meeting
at st. James A M E church, St.
Paul, at 8 pm. Sunday, August 1.
His subject will be "Of One Blood"
This will be their final convocation
and the public is urged to attend.
DR.. Jordan who began his formal
training in the Philadelphia pub
lie schools and later attended st.
Paul's Episcopal School at Law
renee, Va, Tuskegee Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala, State College of
Washington, Pullman, Wash, and
the University of Utah, Lake City,
Utah, holds B.S., OWN. and MS.
degrees.
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Pilgrim Baptist Chuch News:
Last Sunday morning, Rev. s. E.
Ware, pastor, preached an impress
sive sermon. An appreciative audi
ence was present. Many visitors
were also in the church auditorium.
Next Sunday, August 1, the
pastors subject will be "The Law
of Retribution." In the afternoon
he will preach at Bethesda Baptist
church, Minneapolis, on the sub
ject 'Is Religion Valid" Sunday
evening he will deliver a sermon
cite. An old-fashioned testimonial
service will be the main feature.
The members are urgently re-
quested to attend the Musical De-
luxe" given by the Deaconesses.-
Mrs. C. D. Milligan, Jr.
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ing the altar were placed there by
Mrs. Gertrude Boldly. Music by a
mems chorus was directed by Mr..
John H. Hickman who was also
guest soloist. The Reverends M.
Boyd Patrick and Calvin Parker
conducted the regular order Of ser
vice. Mr.. Sidney Williams was at
the organ. Introduction of the
guest speaker, Governor Ed. j.
Thye, was by Major Samuel Ran
som.
Mr.. J. E. Johnson presented the
Mayor John J. McDonough, Com
missioner Milton Rosen, Com
mander elect, Fred P. Jord-
an of the Fourth Dist. Ameri-
can Legion and other visitors:
Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Boyd, Des
Moines, Ia, Rev. and Mrs. A. j.
Parks, Cedar Rapids, Ia, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cecil E. Newman, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. B. Walker, Major and Mrs.
S. L. Ransom, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Mitchell, Los Angeles, Calf, Mines.
J. Mitchell, N. Y. City, Ermia
Shamwell, Washington, D. c., Es-
tella Houghton, Waterloo, Ia,
Mamie Tucker, Des Moines, Ia,
Frances PEBBLES, Minneapolis,
Misses Carolyn Palmore, Okla
homa City, Okla, I. Myrtle Garden,
Messrs. J. Louis Erwin, Dan Wag-
ner, Grand Forks, N. D., Corp.
Walter and Mrs. Branson. Rev. B.
N. Moore, pastor, offered the usual
invitation for membership and Mr..
Preston J. Guilroy, married here
recently, Joined the church.
At our 8 pm. service, Rev. B. N.
Moore presented a vivid outline of
his experience among the Sioux
Indians of mixed blood on the Low
er Brule Reservation, S. D. This
was a part of his research work at
the University of South Dakota for
which he received the excellent
rating of A and B.
Rev. A. J. Parks of Cedar Rap
ids, Ia, a "foster child" of St.
James who has made rapid prog
ress in the ministry, will bring the
message at our regular commun-
ion service, Sunday, August 1, at
10:45 am. Give this worthy young
man your moral approval by your
attendance.
Dear Members: We are setting
forth the rationale of paying your
money and conference claims now.
Avoid that last minute or uncon-
cerned attitude and assist your
gratis secretary with his registra-
ton and compilation.-Chas. Miller.
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There Is q War for Freedom Going On

Though this globa the FREEDOM
against powerful who think they
ray all other peoples the EARTH the gubernatoria
campaign being waged Mississippi has had injected into
the ISSUE Herr Goebbels breaches.
while this country has its fighting
black white dying foreign battle fields against enemies who
believe superiority have aspiring for the highest
position the preaching the racial hate the
gallant of America fighting against.
pity that seeking such responsible and respectable
position oop leve-and preach
reading for the South Americans the Africans Indians Chinese Bur-
Mans Fnos and other dark skinned people of the United
Nations the Negro made the political football the butt
American democracy There little doubt that spewng
going in Mississippi will strengthen the belief of the dark skinned
people of the world that America the well enned
loudly proclams that she is 1t questionable how much the
dark skinned allies who valuable assistance United
States soldiers in China india Africa the smons New Guinea and
other places would the superiority
They wouldn't be willing give the aid they giving they
thought America believed in the racial superiority theory that
Hitler and TOTO by.
Undoubtedly in governors who are injecting
the racial issue have little knowledge of world Surely
they realize the damage they doing
abroad The axis popagandsts instead having up
take the statements Americas hate spokesman
them that America breaches
but hypotical cOnnvng schemng people trying
dominate the world With such ammunition
the propagands long to make
the millions of dark skinned allies sincerity
They have had nothing yet concusve that
America believes in the Freedom of All People, Equality
Man.
AS long such people supremacy boys
of Mississippi keep showing their ignorance against
the Negro America will continually smaller in the
world America has the opportunity become the leader in world a
fairs but is mung the ball smaller nations
look up to as the place where fair play democracy equality
of and opportunity abound taking place
the home front slowly hatterng the Illusions
There seems to be revival of racial and religious anpaes
certain sections Of the country which
Negroes Catholics Mexcan and other mnores government
Of this action but slow taking
people who creating and tanning these
explosive point Some SO alleged sedtionsts
trial This difficult understand the ad
nsraon has idea Of convincing the world believes
the democracy loudly preaches then better begin praccnp lit
tie of it at home The administration crime to ince
and hafrad
surely wipe racial discrimination gives America too
much in with Hitler.-Louisana Weekly.
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Ralph Matthews
Hits Barber Shop
Gripers & ZOOters
By RALPH MATTHEWS
In AFRO-AMERICAN:

In AFRO-AMERICAN:
I was buried beneath a steaming
pile of towels in a BARRIERS chair
in Baltimore shop, when I heard
him talking-who he was I could
not see.
"This Withholding tax is hell"
he griped. ~ only drew SAB in my
envelope this week after working
two and half days. At this rate,
I might as well quit. I'm not doing
anything but working for the gov
eminent"
"Forty-three dollars for two and
a half days?" asked the barber.
Chow much would you have drawn
had you worked all week."
"Oh, don't know" replied the
groucher, "around ninety or a
hundred dollars, I guess, including
overtime, but what's the use
of working all week. The income
tax people would only take out
more. This country is in heck of a
fix. You work for your money and
somebody takes it away from you"
When the towels were removed,
I sat up to get a good look at the
loquacious capitalist.
He wore a wide-brim, ten-gallon
hat which rode lightly over his ears,
a loud canary yellow sport shirt,
a pair of zoot suit trousers, peg
ged at the ankles.
His belt was drawn tightly
about his hips, leaving the upper
part of his trousers bullying around
his waist. The portion of his hair
that I could see was slick and
plastered. A long chain dangled
almost to his knees. He was in his
early twenties.
A Peculiar Specimen
Here was a peculiar specimen
of American life, a product of the
dark days of depression, when
youth sought an escape from frus-
tration through the exuberance
of swing bands and jitterbug fren-
zy and the sudden opulence of
war boom.
Here was young man who had
no conception of the forces at work
about him. He actually believed,
somewhere deep in his being, that
he was worth 800 week to some
body, and that when the govern
ment imposed a tax on his envelope,
he was being robbed.
Forgotten, too, was the fact that
he himself had probably been job
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less the greater part of his life,
and that when he did work, the on
ly avenues open to him were men
ial tasks in which, with his obvious
lack of intelligence, he could not
possibly earn more than $40 per
month.
No Contribution
Toward this fight he apparently
contributed nothing either in money
or by joining and supporting mill
tant organizations such as the
NAACP, the Urban League, the
March-on-W Washington Committee
or the Committee for Jobs for
Negroes in Public Utilities, or NOR
ally by feeling a sense of response
bility toward his job to the extent
that he is willing to sacrifice
momentary pleasure to prove that
colored workers, given the chance,
are capable, dependable and eff
ficient.
He perhaps never heard of the
Presidents Fair Employment
Practice Committee, which has
caused national political repercus-
sions and which is spending a
quarter of a million dollars to
keep his ilk on the job.
Racial AnimOsity
He is undoubtedly unconscious
of the bitter truth that just such
persons as he-zoot-suited, ignor-
ant and arrogant, with more money
than he knows what to do with
is one of the main causes of irri-
tation which fans the smouldering
flames of racial animosity and
precipitates outbreaks.
He is the races No. 1 problem.
He is Americas problem, and his
name is legion. Thousands of per-
sons lacking a sense of values,
possessing no grasp of their re-
lationship to the mass struggle or
their place in the economic scheme,
go laundering through life &C
cepting all good fortune as some
thing which they created as indi-
viduals.
But here they are, grouching
because a rich and powerful ma
ton in a struggle for existence
nation which fed him yesterday
and probably will feed him again
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a share of his
earnings that it might carry on.
Americas problem is not so
much with the zoot-suit wearer, as
atrocious as they appear, but with
the zoot-suit mentality, which is
more prevalent.
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cages, and the Post War Planning
Committees of the city, state and
federal government in order to ar
range to help the business man or
woman who cannot afford the cash
outlay for complete renovation so
that he might arrange to pay the
cost in installments.
A special committee of archi-
tects should be organized to make
a plan or plans for this wholesale
renovation so that each merchant
will have the benefit of advice as
to the most economical and eff
fective way to improve his bust
ness establishment. It should be
possible to secure the cooperation
of contracting firms pledged to
employ Negroes to give an over
all figure of the cost of painting or
plastering-plate glass windows
and modern fronts under the direc-
ton of this committee. And then,
in the windows of some of the vac
ant stores on Seventh, Eighth and
Lenox Avenues there should be
placed sample window displays
changed every week so that the
merchant on the Avenue, be he Jew,
Italian or Negro, can be instructed
how to display his wares artistical-
ly and effectively.
There will of course be some
bull-headed ones who won't CO.
operate and who want their es-
Establishments to look like a pig sty.
But they won't be able to survive
and compete with the establish
ments that dress up and are at
tractive in appearance. This same
committee could go to the operat-
ors of the Hotel Teresa in the City
of New York which is sadly in need
of renovation and attempt to per-
suade them to do a sand blasting
job and painting of the balcony
and the window trim on the out
side although how to keep some
of the guests from sitting in the
windows in their underwear might
prove a more difficult problem.
What will happen to US after
the war is a question I hear every
where. Well you don't have to
guess. The answer is no mystery.
We will be discharged from de-
tense jobs by the thousands-we
will also be discharged from most
of the other jobs we were able to
get because of the war. There will
be hundreds of thousands of US
out of work.
We can sing the blues and look
for Relief, but Relief won't be so
good as it was before the war. Or,
we can sit down and plan to do
something that will not only help
absorb the shock of unemployment,
but will raise US in the esteem of
those who shun us because we are
different.
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jected to intense missionary work
by the migrants from Dixie.

jected to intense missionary work
by the migrants from Dixie.
Changes Heaven to He'll"
While the white southerner
wants no interference in his Sec
ton of the country on the subject
of race, he respects no other Sec
ton of the country. He goes in to
change New England into Georgia.
He thinks nothing of trying to
change Minnesota into Mississippi,
or South Dakota into South Caro-
lima. When he sees a Negro in a
trolley car in Seattle, Wash, he
will tell all within hearing how
they handle such matters in Selma,
Ala.
So, in Detroit, the thousands of
southern white migrants resented
Negroes earning the same wages
as whites, riding in the same street
cars, working as bus drivers and
trolley motormen, eating in some
restaurants, attending the same
theatres, etc. They resent it in
other centers. The other week in
New York a white man, later re-
vealed as being from South Caro-
lima, left a restaurant in disgust
merely because two Negro men,
of impeccable appearance and be-
havior, were also having luncheon
there.
Message for the South
If the South wants to be 'let
alone" on the race problem (and
it cannot hope to be let alone COM
pletely as long as the practices vio-
late so fiagrantly our Constitution
a good beginning would be for it
to "do as the Romans do" when in
Rome. Don't try to make Boston
into Birmingham, or Minneapolis
into Miami.
Everyone has to give and take
in easing racial tensions, but the
present formula seems to be to
require the Negro to give all and
get nothing.
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"HOld Your Job"

The individual has rights. Progress two
being what he does for the the other what the
community without either there be
progress be ready for the equality they ASK OF n
rights when will be an empty victory
ORGANIZATIONS like the National Advancement
of magnificent job of establishing Negroes
legal rights the individual make himself welcome where
work. play culture religion bring men togeer
maintained between
down. opportunity will " unless replace
necessity with solid construction of own
designing
Our today dollar great workers. Tomo
rows wages education coperatvenes good
citizenship personality capable of doing We must
fight rights with that bid for work. be failures
preacher teacher and what not being asked to put
make Negroes that the job they have
now is either the beginning beginning their climb
citizenship the their employment at skilled work and
living like other men-K. c. Call
Editorial Notes
Saturday night simply reiterated what Negro
leaders and editors have been saying for years.
1t took courage highly controversial
S a and a real American.
speak the subject puzzles
and disappoints his Negro supporters.
may prove your social security the days fol-
lowing the
Everybody plant everybody work
somewhere.
Newspaper cynical
plain working the working department
And the small Sheets well pals it's
murder. Time and hours don't thing
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fares of the colored citizens of New
York. There may be found the
shops of the small retailers, the
grocery stores, barber shops, the
restaurants, the stationery stores,
bars and grills, the drug stores,
the tailor shops and on the corner
of 125th Street there is the i'm
posing Teresa Hotel. Many of
these small retail businesses are
owned by Jews and Italians but a
considerable number are owned and
operated by colored men and
women.
How does Seventh Avenue and to
a greater degree Lenox and Eighth
Avenues look to those who pass up
and down each morning and even
ing. It looks like the colored bust
ness district of Atlanta and Balti-
more and Philadelphia and Buff
falo and Cleveland and Birming-
ham and Detroit and Los Angeles
and Montgomery and Pittsburgh
and Columbus, Ohio. In other
words, it looks like hell. For the
most part the establishments are
run down, dilapidated, implanted,
in bad repair, with atrocious let
tering on unwashed windows, and
within if you can see through the
windows the same condition ex-
lists.
Is the Negro inferior? Of course
not-not potentially but the Negro
too often acts inferior, lives in
ferior and piles up on his own ac-
cord a tremendous burden so that
it is difficult to reduce the shock
of difference by which white peo-
pie defend their prejudices.
I know that Negro business as
a rule is not highly prosperous
but certainly it is prosperous
enough to seek the improvement
which a little paint and soap and
water can give it. In the City of
New York there is Board of Trade
and I suppose there are similar
organizations composed of COL
ored business men and women in
every large American city. And to
these organizations I offer the out
line of a plan for the Improvement
of the appearance of business es-
Establishments in the so-called COL
ored areas of our cities. I realize
the plan cannot be put in operation
until after the war but it's prelim-
mary phases can be started now.
My plan for New York City is a
mass renovation for Seventh, Lenox
and Eighth Avenues between 125th
Street and 145th Street. A COM
mittee from the Board of Trade
could secure a pledge from each
stable business which has been in
existence three or more years that
Immediately after the war he will
renovate his place of business.
This committee should confer with
the landlords, banks, holding mort
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ROAD CLOSED

Do you believe my face is long,
Because think my race is wrong?
It's rather that I have long face
Because many wrong my
I have too long with patience posed
Beside the sign, "Detour Road Closed"
Tired of blind alleys devious byways,
Pm going to try the long, wide highways.
Upon great stages may stand, applauded as sing,
But when am a patron, that's different thing
Think the whole thing over, does it make much
That can be feature, barred from the audience!
How is it can be the cook, intimate with your food,
But when am a teller you quickly change your mood;
Frankly, don't get it, you grow doggone wary
shall soil money, yet trust efforts culinary.
It's quite beyond you welcome palace,
But if seek bed as guest, God forgive your malice.
Mine is a weary problem that borders the blues
When may black boots but cannot sell you shoes
I'm proud of Government its great OF BY and FOR
Except polls where can't vote but register for
want to make the best of SELF at home, at play, job
Want to climb ladder without the fear of jealous
can throttle down my to a wartime thrty-fve
But heart won't take and keep soul alive;
want to go the Main Road, want to travel swiftly
When destinations Opportunity do less than ffy
can't be slowed by bumps, get stuck in Deour clay
must make far horizons before they away;
Yes the way sometime least that supposed
crash the barrcades every "Cosed"
james T. Loga
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Attention, Young Soldiers!

Young Negro soldiers should be
urged to take advantage of the
Army's Military scholarships under
the new Army Specialized Training
Reserve Program.
Taylor C. D. Hayes, Memphis,
Tennessee, business man who is in
the army has called the attention
of this paper and others to the fine
opportunity for education open to
army men. He himself is attending