The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-09
THE CHRONICLER
By CoNFUClUS


Well, sir. Pearl Buck really
fooled Confucius. We were just
asking where she was and what
she was doing, when she turned
up in Detroit speaking on China.
Still think she ought 10 take time
out and straighten up some folks
on the No. bugaboo Of these US.
THE NEGRO.
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While we ordinary folks are Just
keeping our eye on the rivet guns
and the V-mail, big businessmen
are readying up for business ~
usual after the war. and we do
mean cartels. We all know what
. local or national combination In
restraint Of trade Is (where the
boys get together and agree On one
price--high; and one amount pro-
duced-low) ana cartels are the
same thing ON an international
scale. It's Americans. English,
Dutch. Germans and everybody
else instead Of Just Mr.. Reckefelier
and Mr.. Morgan and few over
here. The Kilgore Committee In
the US. Senate In doing . good
job on this, and we ought TO write
and tell them so. One thing Pearl
Buck said IL that we Americans
don't realize the power we have
here I'm public opinion. Just .ripe.
II you want to. Somebody's listen
ing!
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This city's smooth Beulat1 Whit
by didn't sound like herself last
week. cause she was took with
laryngitis. Can you imagine?
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Talking OF big business. one OF
their former boys is now Secretary
of State. High time Mr.. Hull left.
but we could've thought OF better
requirements than Stettinius.
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Negro brain trusters are busy
analysing the election. and they're
telling us what we already knew:
the Negro Is . hell Of = potent
force today and can elect . Presi-
dent. One. Henry Lee Moon, says
that seven states where Negroes
voted most. gave 165 electoral votes
TO FDR; while the solid IL southern
states only added mp to 127 cleo
toral votes, Seems TO me that
means Roosevelt ought to stop be-
ing ~ mistakenly subservient ia
the south ~ he is out Of the feel
ing that they can make or break
him or his peace treaties. Let's
push. too. for An end Of the Elec-
toral college.
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Didja bring out your white ties.
and your silks and satins and run
down to see Harriet" with Helen
Hayes? The play is dynamic and
yet natural as bacon and eggs for
breakfast. It's about that famous
woman. Harriet Beecher Stowe
who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin"
There are three swell Negro per-
formers in II, too. incidentally why
weren't you out TO hear Todd Dun
can sponsored by the Art Patrons?
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The AT. OF L. seems bent on
making decent people hate II: wit
ness their anti-CIO and National
Labor Relations Board resolution
while in national convention. II IL
must remain predominantly craft
(Which ii really isn't any more)
why does il remain so Jim Crow
and anti-industrial upionist7 They
won't go into the world labor
meets cause the Go and Russian
unions attend. Ho hum....
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BY the time you read this, prob
ably V-P Wallace will have ac-
cepted the Secretary ship Of Com
merce. which he has been offered
by the President. This Is all 10 the
good.
Warehouses prexy Benjamin
Mays is the new vice president OF
the Federal Council OF Churches
which is first President is Bish-
op G.. Bromley Oman. a liberal
white churchman with good views
on race. The men who pray de-
serve a nice hand for this.
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The Steelworkers' Policy COM
mittee has agreed to accept the
new WLB directive for wage hikes
only within the Little Steel formu-
la which shows labor can take il
like a man.
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The boys In the know are saying
things must be kinda raw over In
Europe cause Gen. b. o. Davis has
been assigned to that Theatre for
q long spell. Course now. were
wondering what In hell the Gen
eral will do about II even n u does
stink. Think maybe he'll throw
Patton or Eisenhower out7
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When you get q free moment