The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-01-27
a EDITORS DEBATE
ON NEGRO, WAR

NEW YORK CITY. - Before a
capacity audience, one of the larg-
est of the season, editors of the
Chicago Defender, the Survey
Graphic, New Masses. and Annals
of the American Academy of Poll
tical and Social Science, debated
"The Color Question and the
War" last Thursday at the book
forum of the Schomburg Collec-
ton Negro Literature of the New
York Public Library.
Explaining the point at issue,
Harry McAlpin, chief of the Wash
ington Bureau of the Chicago De-
fender, stated that the Defenders
Victory Edition of September 26
was designed to unite ALL ele-
ments in the country even the
Westbrook Peglers and the COVER
nors of Georgia and Alabama. His
assertion started a cross-fire of
questions and comments from the
audience and other editors.
A B. Magil of The New Masses
disagreed. He held that there
could not be any worthwhile unity
with Peglers or other "quislings."
The New Masses, he continued,
considered the question of Negro
rights as important as the open
ing up of the second front" and
for this reason put out special
numbers on both of these topics.
DIR. Alain Locke, who spoke for
the Survey Graphic, said that his
magazine represented "construc-
tive liberalism" and that their
special number of last November
had received wide circulation out
side sc the nUited States as well
as in this country.
DIR. ]. B. Shalloo spoke for The
Annals. He said that their spec
ial number of last September was
barred from shipment abroad on
the ground that Axis propaganda
lists would pounce upon the ac-
counts of discrimination in this
country. He insisted that scholarly
sober, restrained articles in The
Annals did the most good.
Members of the audience ex-
pressed amazement that four peri
odicals with such divergent points
of blew and political tendencies
could agree so completely that
the extension of full rights to the
Negro and other mi norities was
essential to victory in the war and
real peace afterwards.
disease, infantile paralysis - a
disease that is no respector OF
race, creed or color.
When the battle lines are
drawn and the assault begins, the
Negro people are never found
wanting. They love a good fight.
They survive by fighting. Whether
it be a foreign foe, that threatens
the nations shores, prejudice that
threatens the race within, or
flood, famine and disease that
come as a common enemy to all
- the Negro battles valiantly.
They will support the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
because it granted $207,366 to
Tuskegee Institute for a center
to care for Negro victims. since
it controls no hospitals nor their
policies of discrimination. Negroes
will give their dimes, and dol
lars because the FOUNDATIONS g.
900 chapters throughout the ma
ton give aid every day to infan-
tile paralysis victims of every
age, religion and color. hey will
give too because one half of what
they donate will remain in the
community to be spent on the
work of the local chapter.
Colored people will drop their
dimes and dollars because they
know that the Foundations Iron
lungs" stand ready to be rushed
to aid a stricken child or adult
of their race, wherever they are.
They know if the disease attacks
their family or neighborhood, the
Foundation will give their doctors
and hospitals the benefit of its re-
search, technique and informa-
ton.
The so per cent of the funds
collected that go to the Founda-
TONS headquarters is used to
keep medical scientists searching
day and night for causes, reliefs,
cures and perventions of this great
human malady.
The s3,0S4,O00 that has been
spent in the fight against mans
enemy has not been spent in vain.
The 1900 chapters set up all over
the country to administer to the
helpless who have been struck
down ami to vrevent further raw
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