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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
DCTWCCM TIE IMCV (By BHANCOCK
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II is true that the kingdom comes slowly but speed
Is not always the prime consideration. There Is
certainty and eyerlastngness in righteousness that
are FAR more important than mere speed The right
eousness OF Russias cause outweghs the swift and
transient conquests OF hundred Hitlers Race
laions sunday found me at Roanoke, Va where
race relations improving under the consecrated
leadership OF white and Negro ministers. The
things that most impressed me on the occasion was
the singing of the white high school chorus. They
assumed responsibility for the music and right mob
ly did they rise to the OCCASION
When a grOnp Of 80 young white girls and boys
In their teens betake themselves 10 a Negro church
10 sing for an lnterraclal occasion definitely
heading for something better In race relations. The
possibilities growing out OF such occasion ire
mendous. Then too. there were little white girls and
Negro girls passing the collection plates together.
They sat together and mingled freely without any
strain or awkwardness. This Is even rs have often
said that II let alone these Young whites and Ne.
groes can come 10 amlcable agreement on interrac-
ial matters.
1t Is the older whites who are determined 10
die trying do thing that cannot be done-keep
the Negro down. The hope of the future resides not
in these die-hards but in the inerracially minded
whites. however prone may be to minimize their
sacrifices and their efforts. The white man who
turns out inerracial meetings runs much great
risk than the Negro. He therefore needs en-
enlargement and not disparagement In this Race
Relations Sunday the church is making very pow
erful counter-attack. Not In the distant future
these Race Relations Sundays are going to be the
most important events OF the year This will come
sooner than most of expect II keep up our
fight
Ny only fear Is In the small numbers Of whites
that attend these meetings Whether their numbers
are increasing decreasing Is serious matter. II
would not matter much II II did not involve the
younger generations OF whites In whom the future
Of race relations Is mlrrored. THE CHURCH is
COUNTER ATTACKING on the RACE RELATIONS
FRONT.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
Fight tuberculosis

NEGROES are fighting brayely against enemies
~ bloody battle fields and also helping to win vic
tory the home front We likewise must fight
mics the health front
According 10 tatistics issued by the Michigan Tu-
berculos association az Lansing. the Negro death rate
from tuberculosis is times higher than the white
If theSe figures correct the situation is indeed
alarming and should lose time in setting about to
reduce the ravages au'ed By this dreaded disease
Some doubt that tuberculosis in Michigan claims
Negro victims 70 white but the fact still remains
that our death rate is too high
Any racial group in any land, which finds itself at the
bottom of the economic pyramid find ourselves here
will naturally suffer from privaton and disease than
favored groups the economic stucture Tubercu
losis breed best environments and it
is under these conditions of prvaton squaor that
many Of our people forced TO live This particularly
true in many of the large congested cities where the
masses of Negro citizens obliged to live in crowded.
poorlv ventilated unsanitary houses
When men and women unable to find profitable
work in normal times and forced TO half nourshed
insuciently clothed and when they have undergo all
kinds of exposure in and rain while seeking live
hood and then return to shver poorly heated homes
Il Il any wonder that such unfortunate people be-
corae victims Of tuberculosis!
or course Jobs are available during this war
crisis but this favorable condition did not generally pre-
vail prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Tuberculosis does not attack overnight The major
itv of unfortunate Negro women and children
sering from this grim disease, became tubercuar VIC
Tins months ago when jobs we're scarce and where they
had little with which to provide the bare necessities OF e
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
Save Your War Bonds

THROUGH our editorials articles and feature adj
i vertisemerfs during the past year The Detroit Fri
bune has urged M readers help the Government finance
the war and preserve freedom by Investing generous
" in war bonds MANY have needed this advice and are
purcha ing bonds and stamps regularly We have also
urged people not 20 cash their bonds except IN
cases OF real emergency for the bonds buying to-
day will come in mighty handy during the rainy days
which sure 10 follow the war
All who old enough 70 remember World War No
J. or the SpanshAmercan War VIII recall the hard times
which followed hory after the tation Of conflict De-
pression- almost always follow and experience has
taught that when economic depres~ons Negroes
suffer most, for he first 10 be fired and the last 10
be rehlged
In recent weeks The Tribune has received numerous
reports that large numbers OF our people as well as white
citizens lining up the oca postoffice and cashing
their bonds as fast they buy them In ,erhcation Of
this FACT OF the Detroit dailies carried picture last
week in which coloYcd men and women were shown head
ing the line Of citizens cahng their war bonds al the
downtown postofice
Tai. practice tends to r4llfy the purpose for which
the bonds purchased. II ii continues TO II is
safe preae, hat the Government viii eventually change
MS policy q permitting war bonds TO be cashed within SIX
IL DAYS after their purchase.
For ex.mfle ,appOe citizen employed by a bust
ness conref Is pledged 70 buy war bond each payday,
two bonds eal month. A. NE end of the second
month suppose f ,a.ho the two bonds he bought the
first month The he end Of the third month. suppose
he cashcs The tW ba purchased the econd month and
Ill the gear A. the end OF he twelfth month
instead Of having bonds his credit he would
have ouy tno. although ne had bought bonds every month
during the ear
Taere ara rlet ~ ies for all who want to work and
wages higher han efer. Int il spend money that
do not ~ spend during these prosperous times,
the timc WI come When may need things cannot
bus The bonds We ,atc todag H protect from to-
morn $ orcau.hc AThernore, the Government cam
not h.ild aitlehips and oonhers with he money in
vest In bonds If We axe back the money
we invest II bonds CONTINUE 10 be Dashed as they
Sc bought the GOternmen wil certainly find other ways
raise the funds needed carving the war if
1t has @ take more and more Of earnings in taxes.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
THE LABOR FRONT -.

claimed that so per cent OF all war workers in the
country are members OF various clio unions. In
sharp cosrast to the position taken by Mr.. Orn-
burn of the AFT. he stated the CLIO believes a pow
erful FEPC with authority 10 enforce its decisions
against both unions and employers is absolutely
necessary.
In evaluating the importance Of this marked diff
ference in the views OF the clio and the ALL upon
the future OF FEPC remember that organized labor
is the most stable and dependable political support
Mr.. Roosevelt has left. Both the clio and the ALL
know this They also know that in the present
congress organized labor and Mr.. Roosevelt are
hghting with their backs to the wall. IL the ALL
sticks to its "persuasion-educationr policy. FEPC
Is in for a trimming.
BIDDLE ATTACKED
RlLL TOWNSEND also did some line plungIng for
the delegation which included such experienced
stars as A. Philip Randolph, Lester b. Granger wal
ter White. John p Davis, and p. r. Young Town
send singled out US. Atty Gen Bidde. who was as
sisting McNutt at the conference for special crit
cism for failure Of the US. Justice Department TO
protect the Interests and legal rites Of Negro work.
ers employed in the railroad Industry In self-de-
Tense Bddle claimed that many complaints which
Townsend said had been directed TO the department
Of justice actually hsa been brought to his at
tention.
A CI0-AFL PROBLEM
FINALLY, don't expect a great deal from FEpc in
the future. Given the present political situa-
ton In the country no government agency can do
much toward Kidding the nation of discrimination
even in vital defense employment. However, we
should expect more from the organized labor move
ment for getting rid OF discrimination always has
been the task OF organized labor. That task weighs
more heavily upon the ALL and the clio today than
ever before.
Moreover II is high time the Negro Worker him
SELF realized that prejudice and discrimination will
vanish az Negroes overcome their timdity and self
consciousness and make a place for themselves in
more OF our labor unions. In most unions the doors
are wide open.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06

A NATIONS or an army's attack after being at
tackled is called a counter-atack Russia was
attacked hence her magnificent victories are in the
nature Of counter attack Commentaries can
be very devastating as the Germans know too well
The Christian Church hes been often attacked and al
times most bitterly. All human and social advance
is attributed 10 other agencies: and all failures TO
advance have been charged against the church.
Every mbeclle In the streets can tell OH hand
what Is wrong with the church: hut few Intelligent
seem to know what Is right with the church.. Il has
come about that the church seems the defen.
S,e and most Of her deyotees apologize In their
appraisal OF her works and ways. when watch
does not keep good time, the trouble is usually on
the inside and not with the hands. II is even 50
with the world and society. mems troubles are inside
troubles or troubles with the heart. Once these are
corrected savage becomes saint and saints be.
come angelic.
The church then does not deal in things spcctac
uar but in things necessary and tolorless. The df
ference the work of the church and tho work
OF the secular agencies is the difference between the
cyclone and the zephyr or the volcano and the
leaven in the bread. The lifting power of the leay-
en- is just as powerful that OF the volcano but #
Is less spectacular Because the church is commit
ted TO inside work docs not make its work less
substantial The average man is wont TO think so.
Ii the thristian church OF this nation had done
no more than build schools for the Negroes earlier
educational opportunities II would have justified Il.
self. Those who today are foremost In accepting
the challenge OF the color question those train
ed by the church. Say what we WILL more things
can he done BY whites for Negroes In the OF the
church and Jesus Christ than In any other name.
More and more the approach 10 racial adjustment
must he the Christian approach This obllgates
Christian millions everywhere TO face the grim
challenge OF strained race relations that stands
astrlde mankInd's upward way
Race Relations sunday instituted by the church
while not SPECTACULAR is proving wonderfully enec-
tive as It's influence spreads throughout the nation
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06

What can we TO TO help de-
crease the tuberculosis death
rate among our people?
First, we can wage a cease
less crusade against the eco
nomic conditions which are
so largely responsible for
causing this disease. Fur
thermore, all our churches,
newspapers, clubs and other
organizations can cooperate
in urging the masses to take
adequate precautions against
tuberculosis.
tuberculosis associations
all over the nation will de-
vote the month of April to
their Early Diagnosis cam
paign. Their slogan will be:
Follow the example of the
Armed Forces-get a chest
x-ray." Let us cooperate in
this campaign, by having
medical examinations and
checkups TO safeguard our
health, for it is indeed true
that an ounce of prevention
! is worth a pound Of cure.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
The Red Cross War Fund

THE RED CROSS WAR FUND campaign began Monday
j of this week and will continue through March
The people OF America are asked to contribute the sum OF
l25 million dollars al this time help carry the vital
work of this humanitarian organization. Derots quota
is three million dollars.
Because Of the segregation Of Negro blood in the Red
Cross blood bank the probability that some mem
bers OF our may be dsncned to contribute to the
fund bu such action should be discouraged Two wrongs
cannot make one right. Although Negro blood may be
segregated the dollars contributed to the Red Cross ar
Fund b. Negroes cannot be segregated but viii help pro-
vide bandages medicine nursing and medical care Tor
sick and wounded soldiers Of all reed including our own
boys at the fighting fronts.
Negro blood being mingled with the blood Of white
A>crcans the various battle fields Of this war Enemy
h-ct and bombs make no racial discrimination eau
dalcana New Guinea. the Philippines. North Africa and
elsewhere Let therefore be in donating to
the Red cross help III the work alternating the suf
ferng and saving the lives OF brave soldiers OF all coors
who are shedding their blood for us
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
BY GEORGE T. McCRAY
(For AMP
ALL STAND ENDANGERs FEP(

AL STAND ENDANGERS FEPC
THE FEPC REORGANIZATION conference which
met in Manpower Commission McNutts Office
in Washingos on Feb is revealed a situation which
definitely endangers the future effectiveness OF the
committee.
There was what Is likely to become fatal dis
agreement on the vital point as 10 how much au-
thority should he granted FEPC to enforce IFS de-
cision. Even though the hand-pcked delegates.
representing fair cross-section 81 Anegican public
opinion were unanimous in the opinion that the
committee should be continued ahd-*qt II should
be responsible TO President Roosevelt himself. the
position OF the whole group was weakened by the
attitude OF the ALL.
COMMITTEE BUT NO TEETH
l. n. oRNBURN. speaking officially for the Amer-
can Federation OF Labor. and for an estimated
100000 workers. revealed the All. has been en-
gagng in undercover sabotage Of the effectiveness
OF the committee. He frankly admitted that the AFL
did not want FEPC to have authority 10 enforce its
decisions Reaffirming the traditional policy Of the
ALL revealed in various national conventions Of
that organization, Ornburn argued that more
good" could be accomplished through persuasion"
and Education" than through attempts at force
Many OF the delegates were admittedly puzzled
when Ornburn went TO state that the AFT. does
not discriminate against Negroes. Their bewilder-
ment is understandable when II is recalled that FEPC
has constantly caught powerful ALL unions engag-
ing In the most brazen discrimination against Negro
defense workers In this aid-to-Htler practice have
been caught such powerful ALL unions as the car
peners. the machinists, plumbers stesmhtters cleo
trIcans and boilermakers. In the west coast ship
building cases against the Boilermakers President
Roosevelt himself. had TO intervene
CIO WANTS STRONG FEPC
ACCORDING TO reports, Bill Townsend. president
OF the United Transport Service Employees un-
ion. and clio executive board member. carried the
ball for the delegation. Townsend. authorized 10
speak fer the clio By Phil Murray. president Of CO.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06

Mrs. Dalton came into the room?"l
Bigger shook his head and rub
bed his hands neryously acrossl
his eyes. In sense he had for-|
gotten Max was In the room. Hel
was trying 10 feel the texture Oh
his own feelings. trying to tell
what they meant.
"Oh. l don't know. was feel
ing little that way. Yeah. |
reckon | was. / was drunk anal
she was drunk and ! was feeling|
that way"
but. did you rape her."
Nav. They say black men do|
that. SO It don't matter II l didI
or II ] didn't" u
How long had you known
herr"
"A few hours"
Did you like her.
"Llke her?'
Bigger's voice doomed so sud-
denly from his throat that Max
started. Bigger leaped TO his fee,,
his eyes widened and his hanus
lifted midway to his face, tremO-
ling. =,
mol No, Bigger =" Max sai1.
"Llke her? hated her! SO he,p
me God, ! hated her!" he snou'
ed.
"sit down. Bigger!"
81 hate her now even though shs
dead! God knows. hate her ris"'
now. ..." al
Max grabbed him and pusneu
him back into the chair.
Don't get excited. Bigger hsre'
take It easy"
Bigger quieted but his eyes row.
the room. Finally. he lowered n'
head and knotted his fingers ~"
lips were slightly parted
you say you hated her!
yeah; and amt sorry sne
dead"
But what had she done to you
You say you had just met her
II don't know. she didn't 90
nothing TO me-" He paused ana
ran his hand nervously across
his forward. "She. =. II was 80.
He'll. don't know. She asked m.
lot OF questions. She acted anu
talked In way that made mo
hate her. She made me feel IKE
dog. I was so mad wanted 70
cry. -" His voice trailed OF ~
a plaintiff whimper He llcKea
his lips.
Confined next week.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
Native Son
CONTINUED from page az

said. They don't treat union
folks like they do me-"
"Oh. yes. they do. You think
that because your color makes II
easy for them TO point you out,
segregate YOU. exploit you. But
they do that TO others. TOO. They
hate me because I'm trying TO
help YOU. They're writing me let
ters. calling me dirty Jew.
"All know Is that they hate
me- Bigger said grimly.
Bigger the States Attorney
gave me copy OF your confess
SION. Now. tell me, did you tell
him the TRUTH
Yeah. There wasn't nothing
else to do"
Now, tel. me this. Bigger. Why
did you do it?"
Bigger sighed. shrugged his
shoulders and sucked his lungs
full OF smoke.
Il don't know" he said; smoke
eddied slowly from his nostriIs.
did YOU plan it,"
Nav"
did anybody help your"
"Naw."
Had you been thinking about
doing something like for a long
timer
Nav"
How did It happen?'
1T Just happened. Mr.. Max"
Are you sorry?'
What's the use OF being sor-
ry? That won't help me none"
You can't think OF any reason
why you did it?'
Bigger was staring straight he
fore him. his eyes wide and shin
ing. His talking to Max evoked
arain In him that urge to talk. 10
tell. 10 try TO make his feelings
known. A wav1 OF excitement
flooded him. He felt that he ought
I" be able to reach out with his
bare hands and carve from naked
space the concrete, solid reasons
why he had murdered. He felt
them that strongly. II he could
DO that. he would relax: he would
SIT and walt until they told him
to walk TO the chair: and he
would walk.
Mr.. Max. don't know. was
oil mixed up. was feeling 30
many things az once"
Did you rape her, Bigger"
Nav. Mr.. Max. didn't. But
nobody'll believe me.
Had you planned 20 before
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-03-06
A NON-PARTISAN
NEWSPAPER
ODE TO THE NEGRO PRESS
By MARCUS b. CHRISTIAN
(For AMP

TT WAS MORE than hundred years ago
III When black men set their willing hands
To cases of type and printers ink
And the printing press
10, the work slow
More than a hundred years ago.
The worl. was slow. but dark-skinned men
Set themselves down to work and think,
And girded their minds for hopeless job;
Their brothers were tangled in steestrong bands
So that slavery could cheat and MAIN and rob
Them of all their labor's just demands.
II Out of this zeal and kn's distress
Came the birth of the Negro press
Born of their brothers deep pain and woe
More than a hundred years ago.
They set to their work with willing hand,
Pleading their dumb black brothers cause
IStressng the Biblical command,
Or the constitution or kindly laws
That specifically said that no man of good
Should batten upon his brothers blood
Should take his ease from his brothers toll,
Or sleep while the latter titled his soil.
When sectional hatred palled the land
The voices of these black men grew higher:
"Woe unto we of the grasping hand,
For shall fight fire with consuming fire."
Men in the fog of the years pass by
Walker, Cornish Russwurm, and Nell,
Forten, Douglass, and Garnett ply
Their pens with Harper and Brown and Bell
Fortune, Delaney, and Greener fight
For black men shackled in slaverys might
Plying their pens in cause that was just,
Freemen and ex-slaves, sideby-side,
Went to their graves and eternal dust,
Fighting for brothers who denied,
And forks of lightning lsaped from their press
AS they fought for brothers in distress
Brothers in anguish and pain and woe
More than hundred years
Black men with presses and printers ink,
Theirs the task to work and think
Endlesly work and thinking blind
Fishing words from each tortured mind
For brothers whose anguish would never cease
Until their bodies knew sweet release
From the chain and the collar from hounds and the eel
And existence that was living hell.
These men, toing, clouds rise
Until their shadows had filled the skies,
And the laundering thread of marching host
Broke like the rocky coast,
And free men echoed the slaves cry of woe
! Nearly hundred years ago.
This the inspiring heritage
OF the Negro press of another age.
Still come the cries of men distressed,
OF men exploited and men oppressed,
4 OF men who are ynched and robbed and cheated,
OF men insulted and hourly defeated,
Jim-crowed, disfranchised, and beaten each day,
And treated still in the old way
That man always treats his weaker brother
This be the task of the newsprint page
In every country and every age
To fight and wipe out brothers woe
AS the Negro press fought long ago
To preserve the rights of the common man
Against greed and hate and the Ku Klux Khan.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-15

teer group will eventually be plac-
ed In charge Of the entire training
program for Negro Marines, the
commander stated.
TO PROVIDE RECREATION
Under the expanded program for
the recruitment of Negro Marines,
recreational facilities will be in
creased at Montford Point. At
present, the all Negro section of
Camp Lejeune has o theatre where
motion pictures are shown nightly
without charge, and a library with
more than 5000 volumes. The men
have organized 40-piece band, a
glee club, baseball, basketball and
boxing teams, and other amusement
units. The nearest USO Center,
however, is at Wilmington, N. c.,
some fifty miles away. Present
plans call for the erection of a
hostess house in which it is hoped
that facilities will be provided for
a USO Center.
The expanded program also will
include the creation OF the Ste
wards School and Cooks and
Bakers School. Graduates from the
Cooks and Bakers School will auto
matically receive the rating and pay
of master sergeant. The Stewards
School, first of its kind in the
history of the Marine Corps, will
offer training to approximately
1900 of the proposed 10000 Negro
Marines
Last November, the Marine
Corps started enlisting 500 addi-
tional Negro recruits to be train
ed as occupational specialists for
accountants, telephone operators
radio maintenance and repair men,
electricians, warehouse men, machin-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-05-15

0ouiiclI ii c. Harper, Assistant
state Secretary, Negro YMCA work
jackson, Miss, M M. Hubert Me-
gro District Agent Cooperative Ex
tension work, Jackson. Miss. Special
guests representing the Federal
Government were: E. A. Miller.
Assistant Director, Southern Divi.
sion, Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
mlnistration, Jackson, Miss. r. M
Patterson State Administration Of
flcer AAA Jackson. Miss C. L
NELL, Chairman, State AAA Com
mittee Ellisville, Miss H. G..
Forbes Assistant Administration Of
ficer, AAA Jackson, Miss, C. F..
Clark, Agricultural Adjustment Ad.
mlnistration Washington. w. AM
mons, Field Agent state of Miss.
AAA and James P. Davis.