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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Kelly 10 Open
War ART Exhibit

Gov. Kelly will formally open
the Army at War" art exhibit at
the Detroit Institute OF Arts on
Nov. 30 al $50 p m.
Col. William II. McCsrty, COM
handing officer OF District No. i.
Sixth Service Command, will head
the military ceremonies at the
opening. The 725th Military Police
Battalion band is scheduled TO
play in front of the Woodward
entrance from $50 10 $50.
An honor guard OF $50 soldiers.
sailors. marines and serVicemen
will serve as guides 10 the exhibit.
Newest models of the army's
fighting equipment will be dis
played. while u United Nations
flags will fly at the entrance.
The exhibit will show in Detroit
for two weeks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Fulton Lewis Jr. Sees:
Peril in Compulsory
Peace Youth Training
BY FULTON LEWIS JR.

And aside from the military
value OF such a program, the
mere existence of those trained
filters would be a tremendous Stim-
illus 10 civilian flying.
TRAIN TANK CREWS
The same sort OF an approach
could be adopted for training tank
crews and artillery gunners. and
all the rest of the technical oper-
ators essential 10 a modern army.
The compulsory military train
ing program could well provide
that boys who are educated in
accredited military schools and
colleges, al which army instruct
ors could work on them for four
full years. would be exempt from
the further year OF compulsory
training after graduation.
Military training, yes. II makes
sense for an America that too
many times has been caught
blandly. day-dreamingiy unpre-
pared.
But compulsory civilian train
ing program, under social planners
and political propagandists. no,
regardless OF what school of politi-
cal thought is TO do the propa-
gandiZing.
Copyright. 1874 by king Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
IHP.Votes Monday
OnLiquor byClass

Highland Park will hold a spe-
cisl election Monday on the ques-
ton of whether the sale of spirits
by the glass shall be permitted
Harmon ID. Martin, manager OF
the campaign for the sale. is urg-
ing all OF the city TO turn out at
the polls.
why should a minority con-
tiDue To rule and enforce some
thing" he said, (which the en-
tire nation has repudisted
Why should the people Of High
Land Park pay the taxes Of 60
suburban Detroit bars by pat
roBizing them, when our taxes
would be lowered III we per-
mitted the sale OF spirits In our
local establishments
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
Fulton Lewis Jr. Sees

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25-I
have two kids, a girl 10 and q boy
9, so my interest in the proposed
postwar compulsory training pro-
gram Is something more than
academic.
II the President wants a COM
pulsory military training program,
for straight military insurance and
security reasons, I'm for ii. For
the first time in American history,
/ believe the general public is
for it. I believe Congress will
voted il for him.
But If the President sticks TO
his recent tack that it's 20 be
just a training program. without
the military, and based solely on
the theory that every boy and girl
owes q year OF his life 10 his
government. and that the years
training would be good for Amer
ican youth, the whole cause is
headed for defeat.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-26
SOLID OPPOSITION

Confidential surveys OF congress
sional opinion show almost solid
opposition 10 the idea, and the
same thing is true OF general
public opinion.
In the United States. the mill
tary is uaditionally nonpolitical,
IL has so demonstrated itself,
pretty reliably. in this war. For
that reason, there is reasonable
public confidence that compul-
sorry military training, under the
military, would be fairly safe
against political misuse for prop
uganda and indoctrination pur-
poses.
But II the program Is 10 be
under civil administration, IL Will
of necessity be in the hands Of
a political civilians. 1t means that
! every boy and grim the most
impressionable and formal We
stage Of life--wjil be exposed for
one year 10 the particular ideolo-
gies Of the political party that
happens 10 be in power.
Whether the President preached
this nonmilitary idea as a means
of backing into a straight military
program without TOO much Of an
abrupt shock on public thinking,
or whether he really means IL, is
not clear as yet.
He has however twice made the
pitch that every boy and girl owes
a year 10 his government. and
that under government supervision
would greatly improve a national
health standard which Selectiye
service experience In the present
war has demonstrated TO be dis
turbingly low.
A STRANGE PHILOSOPHY
The latter advantages would be
achieved as well or better under q
military program, as they would
under a civilian program.
From a practical standpoint.
there is every indication that r
compulsory civilian training pro-
gram would be unconstitutional,
and that Congress has no power 10
enact such a thing.
The powers 10 set up COM
pulSory military training program
come from the constitutional pro-
vision authorizing Congress 10
raise and maintain IN army and
navy. To that end, every able
bodied boy probably could be re-
ouired 10 devote a year OF his life
10 training as soldier
But comb the Constitution as
sou will. you can find no remote
authorization for Congress 10 de-
mand n year of civilian service
from every boy and girl. and. how
ever. glamorous the scheme may
seem from a social and health re-
form basis, IL seems 10 be abb
solutely devoid OF any conStitu-
tional underpinning.
As a matter Of fact. even the
military training scheme has one
indirect danger. in that the public
may very possibly overVslue il as
far more of security insurance
than IL really is.
FRENCH WERE DELUDED
Military strength does not lie
alone in the existence OF a large
and well trained army. and q
contented security behind such an
army is suicidal delusion. Ask the
French. They had an army of
4,000.0 900 men, the best trained in
the world, but they were over-run
in three weeks.
This war has established the
fact that in modern warfare. the
nation that is superior in aviation
il the nation that wins.
The pilot program would keep
us with half a million trained
combat pilots at all times. and
along with il should go the con-
comitant training for bombardiers.
nsvigators and the rest OF the
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Armisiice Outline
Ready 10 Be Handed,
Out When Nazis Quit
BY PERTTNAX,

vOItu A@SktCAH NeWbpeVeS AAleuCes
The draft Of the armistice conven-
ton to be handed to the Germans
ON the day Of surrender is now COM
plete. The Washington, London
and Moscow governments are fully
agreed about it. If Germany laid
down her arms tomorrow, the VIC
tors would not have to spend any
time discussing what must be done
to make her incapable of further
resistance to the Allies dictation.
However, this does not mean that
all the problems bearing on the
eventual armistice with Germany
have been disposed Of. There Is
still . full load Of them on the
agenda Of the European Advisory
Commission in London.
For instance, zones of military oc-
cupation have been outlined on the
map, but they have not yet been
formally distributed among the
powers whose troops will garrison
German territory. There cannot be
any doubt about what the Russian
zone will be, but the same cannot
be said of the British, American,
French, Belgian, Dutch zones, etc.
The decision has been reached
that an armistice commission would
be set up. But whether the three
great powers will be represented on
that commission by high commits
sioners or by generals is still a moot
point. And. up to now. Germany's
neighbors-France, Belgium, Hol-
land, Luxembourg, Czechosovakia
and Poland-have not been called
into consultation and given q chance
to pass judgment on the text Of the
armistice convention.
Other Nations to be Heard.
That they viii be heard in the
near future can be taken for grant,
ed. The main obstacle in the way
heretofore was the uncertain status
Of the Algiers Committee Of Liberia
ton in the eyes Of the American
government.
But will those neighbors of Ger
many be admitted to unrestricted
membership Of the armistice COM
mission or will they have to be
content with back seats on some
consultative body? Nothing has
been settled.
To sum up, the United States,
Evening star., 1944-07-20

debated at length Ia the consulta--
tive council on Italian adairA But
ID It possible to make peace With
Italy while Germany u stil In the
war, while Yugoslavia and Greece,
the countries aggr1eved by Fascist
Italy, are still under 0ermon con.
troll and have only shadow govern
ments to speak on their behalf?
The Algiers Committee Of Liber-
alton alone Is ready to state what It
wants. In fact It does not want any
thing more than reparations, since
Evening star., 1944-07-20

Great Britain and RuSEia are Of
one mind - to the conditions to
be imposed on Germany 1t the
outset for the purpose Of depriving
her Of al conceivable means to
counteract the will Of the victorious
powers, whatever 1t may be. But, Is
to the policy Of the armiStice even-
tually to be expressed In successive
"joint proclamations," many blanks
have to be filled in.
Meanwhile. In relation to armi.
stice and peace, italy forces herself
Evening star., 1944-07-20

expect the italians to continue as
co-belligcrents. that IL. to 90 on
sharing In the war effort. Let the
Allies publish the Armistice terms
and the ahsurdity Of the existing
state of affairs win be brought 70
Hight, they claim.
Italian Settlement Sought.
Besides. what aim can be served
by the Allies pretense to help an
Italian liberal regime get to It's feet
II after many months have passed
they are going to enforce . peace
Evening star., 1944-07-20

on the attention Of the Allies more
pressingly than Germany, which
has stin . good deal Of Tight left In
her. Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi
and his colleagues insist that their
country cannot indefinitely remain
tn its paradoxical position Of today.
The Allies must cease, they say,
to treat the Italians q enemies and
co-belligerents ut the same time.
The Allies, II they prefer to stand
by the crushing armistice treaties
imposed last September. can hurdly
Evening star., 1944-07-20

settlement that, unavoidably. brings
about IT. downfall3 Would they act
differently II they intended to plunge
the land In indescribable chaos7
Why not write that peace settlement
without further delay? At any rate,
every one concerned would know
where he = and, of1cially, italy
would no longer rank Is an enemy
nation.
The American, British, Russian
governments are now exchanging
views on that issue which has been
Evening star., 1944-07-20

On June - it, single political claim
on italy has bean made good. At
that date . decree. which swept Oh
the board Ill italian privileges IN
Tunisia was pubNshed In the "o6lcial
Journal Of the French Republic"
Evening star., 1944-07-20

Areund.ths.elsck bembing re-
suires arsand- -the-menth War Bend
buying!
Evening star., 1944-07-20
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Evening star., 1944-07-20
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-17

Formerly, the Detroit Schools like others in the
country, took little direct action. There
purposve attempt to substitute facts for prejudiced
notions about minority group Americans Little
was done to combat anti -semitism. No light
thrown upon the distorted ideas acquired by chill
Clren at home about Americans of the Jewish faith.
What they learned about colored Americans was
equally limited - except that Negroes were once
slaves. Their great achievements were neglected.
That they are no different than any other Amer
leans except for skin pigment was never empha-
sized That members of the darker race have shown
q proficiency equal to that of persons of any other
race when they had equal opportunities, was never
revealed to white youngsters. Little wonder that
this silence the part of the schools has permitted
the rank weeds OF prejudice TO flourish That much
Of the responsibility for the present situation is
Chargeabe 10 the past neglect Of American schools
j. now being recognized.
1t is recognized locally by the Detroit Board of
Education. For the past year. its Committee on
1ntercultural Education has been experimenting
with school programs to teach children the real
meaning Of democracy in reference 10 minority
groups. Special programs have been hello in a few
selected schools. Lectures have been held for
teachers. lntercutural Committees have been or
ganized in ajority of the primary schools.
Lending community support TO the Boards pres
ent activities and trying TO stimulate an overall
effective program is a citizens group known as the
Committee on lntcrracial Understanding in the
schools. The specific purpose Of this group is 10
further nercultural education. lnterracial in men,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-17

bership, II is composed largely of representatives
OF other organizations which aim to promote DEM
ocratic unity and understanding among all Ameri
cans. Space permits only few to be mentioned,
among whom Mr.. Current of the NAACP, Mrs.
Deweerd of the League of Women Voters, Mr..
Franck of the Jewish Community Council, Mr..
Hatcher of the Urban League, your columnist who
represents the Metropolitan Detroit Council on
Fair Employment Practice, in addition to repre-
sentatives of unions and other groups.
During recent months this group drafted three
resolutions for the Detroit Board of Education.
Starting by commencing what has already been
DONE the resolutions, however. call for more in
tense and large-scale planning. For instance they
urge the adoption of intercultural education
throughout the Detroit school system. Presented
to the school board members at their last meeting
these resolutions were favorably received, and
were referred to the superintendent for action.
Summarized, the first resolution calls upon the
Board to adopt policy of fair employment prac-
tce through drafting of interracial code similar
to that adopted by the Council of Social Agencies
Most of you have looked in vain to find Negroes
in responsible school administrative positions The
aim of the first resolution is to rectify this
The second gives the Board another tough job
1t calls for the development of teaching materials
to be used in instilling democratic attitudes This
! called tough job because there is comparatively
little agreement among experts about the best
things to teach kids TO make them more democratic
In addition the resolution asks that such teaching
material be required so that all teachers in all
schools, rather than just few, will use it.
That teachers also need tC be educated is implied
in the third resolution This calls for program to
teach the teachers That teachers who themselves
may be blind cannot teach others to be enlightened
is obvious
After these resolutions had been read TO the
School Board members by the Committees chair
man. Miss Claire Sanders there were many persons
ant hn cyNOl-a ~ katr nrn
of these was Mr.. Victor Reuther of the UAW-CIO
That he should be there seemed fitting and proper
His superior, President r. J. Thomas you will re-
CALL is recognized by his deeds one of our coun-
trys greatest champions for democracy and human
rights.
The favorable acceptance Of the three resolu-
tons is one of the most encouraging developments
he relations scene in Detroit II indicates
progress. II shows that the school board officials
in Detroit have such genuine understanding of
democracy, that they taking no suggestions
from the Bbos and Rankins.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-17
THE WATCHTOWER B, ROY WILKINS

their hot dishes Here in New York and in other
large and cosmopolitan centers like Chicago. New
Orleans and San Francisco, one can buy the food
of nearly any nationality.
But Negroes, who created southern cooking, con-
tent themselves with running holes in thewal off
in some Negro" neighborhood. Do you want some
delicious corn bread? You will have TO 60 TO a
joint. Some real fried chicken? Some collard
green's and bacon rind? Some beaten biscuits? You
will have 10 crawl into shanty some side street
and listen 70 4 lot of live talk with your meal
Apparently we have never thought Of selling our
cooking on big scale to people who want good
southern cooking Here in New York the restau-
rants that feature southern cooking are all run by
southern white women who hire Negro cooks. The
cooks are shaving and sweating and going home 10
Harlem every Saturday night with their little pay
envelopes, and the owners charging $3.50 per
meal and banking the profits. On Central avenue
in Los Angeles, on the South Side in Chicago, in
Paradise Valley in Detroit Auburn avenue in
Atlanta, in Deep Wylie in Pittsburgh. on South
street in Philadelphia, along Market street in St
Louis, off Beale street in Memphis. and in High
Harlem you will find good cooking. good you
will find anywhere But il is small scale. The
waters or mattresses are not polite. The place
may be clean but il looks like dump.
Take barbecue. All. take barbecue-not this
gas flame barbecue in New York. but the wood
fire barbecue of Kansas City. st Louis. Memphis
Miami and Atlanta. Did anyone like the Chinese
and the Italians, think of a barbecue stand
where one would make 5000 day profit instead
Of $50 day?
said nothing to my friend There was nothing
to say. / ate my hot sausage and gulped my
spaghetti and slipped my wine
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-17
The Color Line In Music

feels that the colorline which once protected him
from invasion. has been hit so hard. After work.
ing with such square shooters as the above crowd,
I've realized the mutual improvement TO be OBJ
tanned from such intcr-racial contact
In time. the Negro arranser will emancipaie
himself. Men like Calvin Jackson. Billy Moore.
Jimmy Mundy. sly Oliver and Billy Sirayhorn
have improved the situation. To comprehend this
progress, the analytical must adopt q point of
view. much like ours as possible. The move
menf should be 4 group blending. as the two
groups of musicians do look at life through differ.
enf eyes.
The color line will remain as long as signs, For
Whites Only continue: the movies characterize
the Negro who calls his fellow white workers.
"MiStuh,' and arranger can't show his face in
a Dixie town if white band is playing one of
his jump tunes.
Joe Louis once said TO me. "a colored man hasn't
got chance unless he's tops" While all of us
can't be great, there's nothing 10 stop us from
trying
The Negro moves in a widely confused circle
that would do justice grseiouslY. ably. to any
group Of iniellsefuas. He reads and discusses the
oldest and latest books. attends the legif. prac-
tces medicine. writes song hits. studies af the
Sorbonns. builds comfortable homes wears q Phi
Beta Kappa key. produces film stars and holds re-
sponsibls positions Why. then. should there be a
color line any time in modern muse7
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-17

the family TO them, is. in their ewes.
the one man in the world who has
stood consistently for his principles
throughout the years
BY way of getting some expe-
rience as a newspaper woman, Lekha
S serving as student correspondent
for the Wellesley TownSman, the
village weekly. She writes a col
+amh on college activities and has
great fun 'inventlng something
when there's not much happening"
Tara. who will soon become a
sophomore, came 10 Wellesley with
the idea of maioring in sociology,
and she still aims TO carry on social
work among India's needy millions,
but she has now decided it's not
necessary TO major in sociology in
order 10 become a social worker
She is still debating over her major,
meanwhile enjoying Spanish in par
t!cular-au but the grammar.
Tara gives Lekha credit for great
er academic achievement and mod
eStly skips over her own election
as secretary Of Forum, one OF the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-17

general public, but our race just VIII not 90 So
Although am nearly always quick in defense OF
nv people whom love in spite of all their faults
! was stumped In my mind ran over my expe-
r,ences, from end Of the country to the o'her'
IN Negro" restaurants. My memories brought only
sad reflexon Although n race we have cooked
.nd served for more than 800 years, the restaurant
business has escaped us. We cook all right for the
white folks. but we don't cook for ourselves-in
business. We cook in our homes, but not IN res
taurantS.
Italians come over here and cook the dishes OF
their fatherland for anyone who wants TO buy.
Chinese come over here and cook anything Amer
leans will pay for. The SwedeS have made fortunes
on their cooking The Germans have transplanted
their famous dishes The MeXcans have served up