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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
NO SUGAR


This comes from Sg; II Ricnman.
in Camp Chaffee. Arkansas. who
says ne and some pals stopped in at
the PIX ore morning 10 get some
black acid and chew the fat Every
oody was taking Il black that day.
when somebody pioed UP for sugar.
No sugar" SAID the gal behind
the counter Sweetly
"Whadda "a mean. no sugar."
screamed the Gil How kin any
body drink this stun without sugar?
Blah. blah.- bah. etc "
Another CT. 10 end the Squawk-
ing. game up with the one about
why didn't she dip her dainty little
finger into the coffee and sweeten
IL for the nice man. The gal gave
tho nice man an angelic smile. she
dipped in her dainty little finger
then she dipped in her dainty little
thumb. she dipped in her whole
dainty little hand - and walked
away.
nM
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
WHOSE MORALE?


one minute. oh" she said end.
ingly. you must play. too You
don't want 10 be the only one not
playing, do youe"
said. Yes" but she obviously
didn't hear me because she Oh, a
card down near my face and spilled
down some counters She walked
around TO nv neighbor. told her
he was unconscious.
oh. that's too bad" she said.
he'll be so disappointed Wien he
wakes up and finds he's missed the
fun" She stood there thoushtfu,ly
for a moment and then her face
orishtened. Il have H." She said
There was a medical corpSnan sit
tngNey the bed, waiting for the man
10 come OF OF the ether The GRAY
Lady pointed at him. You" she
SAD, viii play for him And il he
WINS he'll have prize and he
Won't DC too disappointed in mis-
sing the game"
Everybody PLAYED biHgo They
played for what seewcc hours.
They played binso straight. binso
or four sides. ard several varia-
Hons which were too cSotcric for
re 10 understand. much less play
Miracu louSly. my unconscious
ncighoor did win pri1c-s book
and when he came out Of the ether
he was delighted with has prize
and no, too disappointed tina, he
had missed the fun.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
BY FRANK SULLIVAN
Reprinted from PM

NO MATTER what new act of plain or fancy
~ mcanncSs the remaining days of 1914 may
bring forth. VIC doubt If anything can happen
80 take from the-H River Oregon. Post of
the American Legion tho award for Most Con-
temptbe Deed of tho Year.
A recent news dispatch states that the Hood
River Post has erased from the County War
Memorial the names OF Is Americans of Japanese
ancestry now serving in the u. S armed forces
many of the Is being duty at the battlefield in
Europe
Have the national officers Of the American
Legion done anything to expel these simian dis
graces to the Legon's honor from its ranks, and
return them to membership in the gang they
best fitted by temperament, namely, the Ku Klux
Khan? Have the Oregon State officials or the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
WENDELL WILKES LEGACY TO AMERICA

immeasurable. This burden did not consist
merely in difficult decisions, such as his historic
lend-lease decision, in which his principles COM
PEELED him TO cross party lines TO support prac-
teal internationalism. Nor did il consist merely
in heavy load of articles and speeches COM
posed in those few hours that he could seize
for himself from crowded days I'm fighting
for seconds here" he used to say The bulk of
the burden that he carried a burden of re-
sponsbility to people-people all ove' the nation,
in every State in almost every community, turn
ing TO him day and night. by telephone, telegram
letter and personal interview. No person, no
angle of the cause" was ever too small for bis
attention. The cause was everything. every
where
Thus from Wendell WILKES desk there radi-
ated lines Of force to every crossroads and village
green and into the interstices Of every city.
Everywhere there were men who knew him, or
knew someone who had talked to him. or-at
least-had heard the glad tidings of big man
in action.
II was the philosophy of giant. Very few
could be subjected TO half an hour of Wendell
Wilkie and still vote for Gerald Nye Stephen
Day, or Ham Fish. Most returned home to spread
the doctrine.
In looking ahead from the election of 1914
therefore. il is dangerous TO disregard the exist
ence Of the Willkie lines of force. These partc-
ular lines will no longer radiate. in 1916 or l948
from that particular desk We face the future
without him. in times when we shall desperately
need him. And the only answer 10 our need
now lies in us.-l II we are to hope for level OF
electoral intelligence comparable 10 this Of 1914
we must seek within ourselves whatever fraction
Of his vision and his courage We may possess
He himself believed that we. as people are ir
possession of plenty.
He never won a permanent victory. either fol
himself or his country What he did was to give
us new opportunity. That opportunity take.
practical form in the Seventy ninth Congress
which is so largely his hsndwork II this Con.
greSs faithfully follows out the mandate Of the
people, II will open up a new era in American
affairs.
And Wendell Willke will be sitting in thi.
Congress. He will 60 there TO exercise his new
franchise. already exercised at the polls He viii
exercise the franchise which the founders Of our
Republic won with immeasurabel wisdom
which Abraham Lincoln won with immeasurab bic
pain-which Wendell Willke won with immeas.
urable labor the franchise Of the illustrious
dead
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
By ROY WILKINS

courage In his heart, and skill in his brain and In
his hngertips? i was the Old Year and he was
the New Year. nodding his head at the past,
cheerfully acknowledging the dangers hesitat-
ing impatiently over the failures and pains of
others gone before, but champing to get on with
his life-with the New Year
All youth is like that, the world over. Our
colored boys and girls like that the ones that
count / some times feel. a little smugly, no
doubt, that they are a bit better than the others
made of bit better stuff. They have to be
because they start from behind taw and have
so many extra barriers in their paths.
They start from behind taw as all the young
people in the world are starting this New Year
The world is shattered and bathed in blood Its
people are cropping toward peace and security,
with indications on every hand that they may
be cheated again and have the same terrible
road to travel once more. But youth faces the
New Year and the sober challenge of it with the
same hopes the same dreams, the same vigor
and courage.
AS dark as is the tragedy of colored peoples,
as bad as has been their lot, the tragedy of the
world is darker. The first task is to make a
better world and from that task our brown
young people are not shrinking They are bitter,
some of them, but they can't stay bitter long.
They want to be aviation engineers. They want
70 ny the worlds skyways They want to build
skyscrapers and dams, to sail the seven seas to
paint pictures, write books, sing songs. heal the
sick, turn the good earth, contribute their wis
dom and compassion to the governing of man.
kind
Who shall say to them that 1914 has been thus
and so, that l945 will be no better, that because
they are not white they must go into special
corner and eat their hearts out or blow their
brains out? Not l. Nineteen hundred forty five
will need them, every mothers son and daughter
of them. Because of them, no matter what else
obtains. this time every year is Happy New
Year"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
NANN Conference
Opens Here Friday

speaker from the subject, The
National Association OF Negro Mu-
sicians" Remarks will be made oy
J. Wesley Jones, executive secre-
tary.
Other national officers expected
10 attend are Roscoe Polin. first
vice. president: Alpha NJ Holmes,
second vice-president: Clara X.
Hill. recording secretary, and Le-
roy H. Goldman, general counsel
lor
Board OF director members ex-
pected are: Herman Billingsly,
Chicago. H.: Kathleen Holland
Forbes. Cleveland. Ohio: Helen
Moses. Columbus. Ohio: Edna E.
Redmond. Jackson, Miss: Ethel
Ramos Harris. New KenSington.
Pa: Alpha VI. Holmes, Kansas
City. No: Blanche X. Thomas.
New York. y. Y. and Josephine
InnesS. Chicago. H.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
HISTORY PREWEWED

One moro question. Daddy.
What finally became Of this ter
rible Hitler"
For long while. my child, no.
body knew. There we're stories He
was hiding m Spain. Japan. Avsen-
tina. Fire You took your choice.
Then. in 1860 rug collector
named Donnerblitz died Of indl-
Ses;ion IN Chicago That was Hit
Ter. He had been living there Is
years
Blu, didn't any one guess,
Daddy"
NO You see. excepAbr chang
ing his name and shaving off his
nusische. he went RICH; on being
himself. damring Russia England.
democracy. the government at
WaShinston and nc USA IN gen
eral. So the neishborS took him
for just an ordinary American
crackpo, and never gave him a
second thought" N Y Times
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
BY MIKE LEVIN
(Reprinted from D0wnbeat)

One thing you notice, the more
you hang around places where
service men come after hours. is
that far more OF their dancing is
shagging. Lindying, jtterougglng,
etc, and etc. than you see in civil
ian life.
And not just the teen age in
ductees either Older men. Wacs
and Waves who can look back on
thirty. seem 10 get big boot out
OF shaking the foot in looSer and
more violent fashion.
Not that il doesn't result in some
fairly rotten dancing. You all have
seen the rather wild character,
bent into several impossible angles.
moving along much like Toto the
chimp. Or the long. tall drink OF
water who insists on racing wildly
around the floor throwing his heels
out al the odd intervals even dur
ing waltzes. and nickerirg too.hily
10 his audience.
Then there is the little gal who
has looking legs and who
wants just everybody. every body
mind you. 10 know il Comes much
spinning. twisting. and What have
you for proper elevation Of the
skirt. previously selected for its
altitude during :wirling
The couple that carefully pick
their spots and go into a full break
away just as YOU are two-stepping
along nirdins your own business.
thus giving YOU bel, that your
ribs won't forgive or forget is an
other hazard
BUT that does not mean that
these Kids represent The lost gen.
era,ion-ard the fac: that service
people seem 10 be taking a stab
at more involved kinds OF footery
IS ENCOURAGING During the post
war years and in the early twen-
ties when this country was really
dance-r1ad YOU saw solle very
classy dance work running waltzes
r ght through the Jazz ard rhumbaS
90 that time Came Lombardo and
KirE--eX.i good dancing The WHY'S
and whe-eforeS Of that ! don't have
that are supposed 10 be the best
dance bands in this country are
often the worst. No; even az ele-
phant can dance 20 sugar dripping
slowly ard unsteady
From that time on. until The rise
o. Goodman dancing in this coun-
try was very smooth. very uniform.
very easy. very nfeleSS. and very
uHrhythmic Came BIC and the rise
OF swing The kids discovered that
they could try improviSns with
their feet and bodies. instead Of
just listening 10 somebody else do
il with "a horn Thus the different
crazeS Of various types Of steps that
have swept over this country in
The last ten years.
Thus the vast improvement in
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30

The National Association OF Ne
gro Musicians. Inc. board Of di-
rectors will meet here in a confer
ence Friday. Dec. 29 10 Sunday.
Dec. 81. The meeting is prepara-
tory 10 the coming in August. l945
81 the national convention. and
will be held al Bethel AME
church. corner ST Antoine and
Frederick streets Clarence Hay
den Wilson. national president
will preside
There Will De luncheon and
round table discussion Friday, led
by Mrs Ruth Penn. teacher Of
music IN the Detro!; public school
system The subject OF the panel
discussion will De How Can We.
As Music Teachers. Best Contrib.
Ute 70 the Culture OF the Commun-
itye"
Resource people will include
Clarence II Wilson MANN presi-
dent. 81 Louis. Mo: Mrs. Helen
Moses, Columbus. @; Mrs Lillian
Lemon. Indianapolis. Ind. and
Mrs. Alpha Holmes, Kansas City.
Mo. Local members Of the panel
Will be announced later Mrs Yo-
lande Maddox Will De the narra-
Tor al the so!ree 10 be held az 900
p n
The three-dav meeting will DC
c,ImaXed SUNDAY. Dec. 81. by a
song festival Mrs Jereue Mack
lin. president OF he Detroi; chap
ter o. the MANN VIII preside
Participants viii include Benja-
min J. Wales. tenor: Fredricka
Flsck. con,ralto. accompanied oy
her sister. PAMELA FIsck-Funston;
Grace Wales. organist; William
Ross. bass baritone. with Thomas
.ASkew accoUpanlSt; ). Liberia
Chisholm. soprJho Also
on the program VIII De the Great
e. Bethel .AME senior choir and
the combined choirS
NJ. Wilson will be the principal
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
OFF TO The HUNT


A Johnny -come-lately. rolling in
war profits. was advised that people
who really belonged went in for
quail shooting in the Carolinas
You'll need a dog for bird hunt
ing" his social mentor informed
him The winner Of the most re-
cent field trials at Aiken was for
sale; our nouveau richie friend
promptly paid ten thousand dollars
for the animal
After the first days shoot he re-
turned 10 the clubhouse with one
miserable three-ounce bird: other
members with ordinary dogs had
the limit. What's the matter"
asked his mentor DO you mean TO
tell NE you bag2ed only one bird
with that champion dos?" Cham.
p!on dog" was the heated reply.
The only thing the COMPOUNDED
fool would do all morning was
stand still with his head stuck out
and his tail pointing. 4 few good
swift kicks where he felt them
most soon got him over that ha-
oit!'-Saturday Review Of Litera-
ture.
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craft engineer, with emphasis on the electrical
side. like electricity and .hink / am begin
ming to know something about it. l figure avia-
ton is the coming thing and / want to be in on
It, The white boys can do it and so can l."
He knew all about whiteness and blackness
He knew America and its crazy colorphobia
but he wasn't letting il stop him. He was young
and smart. He had helped set up an electrical
exhibit at the New York World Fair. The West
inghouse people had said he was good. He was
in the top tenth of his class at tough" tech
meal school He was, at that time, eager to
get into the air corps
He is flying for his country now giving his
natural talents and his learned skills for victory
but all the time learning more and more in his
chosen field.
Why shouldn't he be an electrical engineer
In aviation? Why not, indeed? Who was TO
tell him he might not make the grade? Who was
] to say that America can be overwhelmingly
mean to a colored lad with hope in his breast
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
OPpOSITES


On a Saturday little colored kids
just started school play outside nay
window. One day. one. q little
older taught them her word match
ing exercises she had learned in
school. Her young pupils were apt
and the game went swimmingly.
Then she tried them with word
opposites. Big" she would call. and
little" they shouted back shrilly.
Tall" she said. short" they
answered.
Boy" she said. and girl" they
came back.
Finally she said pretty" and
believe II or not Ia q child. her
faithful followers came hack tri-
umphant'y. black"
Alfred 2. Smith In
The Chicago Defender
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Be NOT BITTER WITH THE UTTER

dancing that you see today. You
don't see whole ballroom moving
sedately around in the same direc-
ton with the same stepe-ice- skat-
ing style. You see some very good
and very bad stabs at really orig
inal styles. good not only for the
development OF dancing. but be-
cause il will make the bands stay
on their toes playing varied styles
OF music for the different types of
dancing.
Servicemen are probably more
willing TO try jitterbuggina because
being in uniform and looking like
every other man in the place. they
feel less self-conscious about losing
their dignity. very important male
commodity. They relax. and dis
cover that there are a lot OF things
new under the sun.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
ONE UP

A patient came TO q field hospital
with the complaint that he was
unable to sleep at night The doc
tors advice was for the soldier
TO eat something before going 10
bed.
But. doctor" the patient remind
ed him. two months ago you told
me never to eat anything before
going 10 bed"
The good doctor blinked. and
then In full professional dignity
replied, MY boy. that was two
months ago. Science has made
enormous strides since then"
The Butcher Worker.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30

AS for the jitterbugs being dis
gustingly indecent. when remem-
Der some of the potbellins I've seen
jogging around the floor in what
they remember Of the Bunny Hug.
I wonder who's being indecent. And
the way most of these kids dance,
they are seldom less than four feet
apart-which permits Of far less
1--WE than remember in the dreamy
Lombardo days.
It's strenuous, it's often original.
sometimes good. sometimes bad. bu;
it's here to stay-and lots more
apples seem to be picking it .
every day. Maybe it will forr'
nightclubs to put in decent ST 7
dance floors in self-defense. A.
when that happens. brother. | psi
sonally will kick in my ten bucls
to the Big Apple League.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30

to new heights. The failures
Of 1914, the Disappointment
OF 1913 and 1912 are behind.
The bright promise Of l945,
dimmed only partly by the
tragedy Of war, is ahead.
= Something of this must
have been in the mind of the
young lad who sat easily and
'confdentially in the chair
before me. He wasn't swag-
gering. He was-just conf
dent, with the confidence Of
youth. with a fresh world out
there before him.
Eyes, I'm going to be an air
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
CHURCH OWNER

Here Is another story about
James Buchanan Duke. lie was
staggering drunk along the streets
Of Durham one day. and was re-
buked: Aren't you ashamed Mr..
Duke, 10 be seen this way. After
ALL you belong to the Methodist
church."
II belong 10 the Methodist
church," roared the old man. Hell.
the Methodist church belongs to
me-"
o. Saturday Review Of Literature
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sons who tried to boost his morale)
A lot OF my friends are angry
with me because didn't write 10
them while | spent several weeks
recently in an army hospital not
far from New York City They
seem TO think that all did was lie
IN bed ard that the least could
have done while idllng there was 10
write long. CHEEKY letters boosting
their civilian morale.
Well, did lie in bed for a num-
Der OF weeks. but was BY no means
idle. was far too busy all day
long and good part Of The night.
TOO. getting my own morale boosted
by a lot OF well-meanine citizens
who come around 10 army hospitals
10 make sure that the sick and
wounded soldiers don't &C, a chance
10 become bored and lonely. There
were few times while ! was in nc
hospital that got lonely. bu, many
times when ! was near screaming
rom 2 surfeit OF entertainment.
BINGO!
Towards evening Of the Gay fol-
lowing my operation-it was q com.
psratively minor ono. but Il neces-
Stated a long stay IN bed-four or
FIVE Gray Ladies came into the
ward where was kept. We're CO.
ing TO play binso!" cried their lead
er. her voice full OF enthusiasm.
II was too early 10 get my pain
killer ard was in no mood io play
any games, least Of all binSo. I
have never PLAYED bingo. | always
avoided those neishborhood movie
houses where bingo was formerly
played and / am not a church -gocr
However, most OF the other men
in the ward-there were about
thirty-scemed 10 be delighted. The
only one besides myself who ap-
parently had no desire To play bin
go was the fellow in tho bed rex,
10 mine He was unconscious. lie
had been operated on just few
hours before and he hadn't yet
come out Of the ether.
The Gray Ladies disiribltcd the
cards and the counters | closed
my eyes when one vi them came 10
my bed. but I didn't fool her for
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
lENA'S FIRST
Amt Miss De Hayep-a camp

Amt Miss De Haven-a camp
. Metro who tho, all along they
had discovered" Lena Horne got
a surprise when her The Bronze
Venus pic was re-released. on The
Avenoo. The To-day Pictures made
it in 80 under the title The Duke
Il Tops and was Lena's first-and
Toddy's second sll-sepia produc.
,ion - featuring Ralph Cooper.
Basin Street Boys and The Cats
and the Fiddle.
DOWN BEAT
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
DEDUCTION

Professor-"f there are 20 states
In the Union, and superheated
steam equals the distance from
Bombay TO Paris. what In my agef"
Frosh--"Forty -four. sir"
Prof.-"Correet. And hew aid
you prove IL"
Frosh--"I have . brother whs n
% and he's only half nuts
Los Angeles Tribune.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
The WATCHT0WER.

m A DAY or two the old year will come to an
= end and ls4S will esin. Even in the midst
az war New Year brings hope for newer,
skrighter better things to come. Babies are still
being born, young people are dreaming dreams
men and women are going onward and upward
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
IT'LL WORK ANYWHERE

A Russian psychologist SAYS that
any girl can marry any man she
wants. u she repeats often enough
60 him these magic wards: "Ycv are
so wonderful"
The Butcher Worker
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
By FLOYD TILLERY

EDITORS NOTE: The following
article appeared In The Newspaper
man, q monthly journal written by
working newspapermen. The author.
Floyd Tillery, Is editor Of the West
Point (Georgia) News. We are re-
printing it here In condensed form
because we believe IL represents the
views Of the most reactionary ele-
ments In the South and because we
believe these views should be
known.)
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
HARLEM WOLF

One cutie told me. I'm not vor-
ried about Persian Lamb or Mink.
! Got myself the latest model Has-
lem Wolf huff sed.
Peoples Voice.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
BY LYMAN GOLDBERG
CONDENSED from
The Atlantic Monthly

tThe' following Is an account Of one
soldiers reaction 10 the various per-
sons who tried TO boost his morale)
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ed employe, is one Of friendliness.
Never is there manifest any spirit
OF hatred or antagonism on the part
OF the Superior toward the Inferior.
And the southern white man never
fails to encourage any Negro who is
trying to improve himself.