The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-02-13
Peoples
Daily Doiings
By ISAAC JONES
For the Records In worldly Affairs

For the Records In Worldly Affairs
ACCORDING TO reports publish
ed in a national publication last
/ week. when photographers snap
ped pictures OF President Roose-
Welt and winston Churchill during
their recent North African confer
ence. the two executives were ask
ed 10 remove their hats. The trop-
ical eun was shining hot MT.
churchill complained about the
sun and refused 70 take off his hat
President Roosevelt ignored the
heat OF Africa sun and obey
ed the photographers request with
this following statement: 1 was
born without a hat and can take j
of whenever I want to-
DEMOCRACY at an early age.
IS the purpose Of New lork's Little
Red school house. where small
children OF many races, including
colored children. meet together.
They are given an insight INTO
cultures, languages and customs
different from their own.
THAT Is THE ONLY WAY 10
make democracy work at home for
all the people. get acquainted ana
know al about one another.
A REPRESENTATIVE OF the
state government was in the writ
ers office last week. Although he
vas no doubt well in his sixties,
ne had never seen colored news
aaper before. He seemed 10 have
been amazed with our big news
u42ers The writer showed him
DOZENS 81 copies OF different coll
ored newspapers. He sat al my
desk for thirty minutes asking
questions about these race publ
cations. He left my Office with
lt,le more knowledge about our
group and with copy OF The
Detroit Tribune and several other
national weeklies.
WELL. SEE by the papers.
where white citizens OF Shsrkey
county. Mississippi. held mass
meeting last week and decided
that they would not attempt to
lynch Harry Sias. a colored man
held in fail there charged with the
fatal shooting OF a white poiiee
chief az Rolling Fork.
i, seems like the indictment OF
number OF whites by the Federal
government eeyeral weeks ago on
charges az lynching a member oil
the race IN 1892 may have done
some good. II the citizens OF TINS
county Keep their promise, let's
hone that other counties ~ Missis-
sirpi and al. other southern states
Win be inspired and follow In that
wav lynchine Will soon pass INTO
history as other evils that our race
have encountered Ia this country.
IL A LETTER from a soldier.
published in an eastern newspaper
who IS IN government hospital
he complained bitterly that he hal
submitted 10 five operations. Inc
phvsicians declared that he VIII
never be normal again.
There are hundreds OF other m'n
both colored and white in the same
hospital with ailments that render
them useless TO the Army. Yet
thew are not released. This SOL
der wants TO know why cant they
be released 10 work in defense
plants. | wonder who has the cor
rect answer 20 that one.
LAST WEEK Tennessee be-
came the forty-first state n the
union in which no financial con-
sideration Is required for a GU
zen 10 vote. The House and Sen
ate passed a bill repeating the
non lax laR. Governor Prentice
Cooper favored the repeal ana
signed The BIZ. az once. thus max
ing tennessee the home state OF
secretary OF state Cordell Hull.
The frs. southern state 10 take
sep in the right direction toward
giving all citizens the right 70
vote.
THE REV. Mr.. Charles Young
Trirg minister OF the Salem
Methodist church. OF Harlem. told
the New York Methodist Preacher
Forum meeting last week tnat II
Hitler could change the whole
ideology OF millions OF people
during his ten years OF leader
sh,p. that Il would be impossible
for the church 10 abolish dis
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