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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
THE WEEKLY DIGEST
Novelist Writes On Jew Gentle Love

was no snti-Semitism In the school
In 1929. but knowing the place.
Gwethalyn could imagine what
would have happened there In 1885.
This book was banned by Hitler.
MET MANY REFUGEEs
She was In London for six months
In 1888 and there met many refu-
gees. Their plight sounded bad
enough over here" she explained.
but there I saw them on the park
benches"
At parties Gwethalyn hated to
admit she was q Canadian. Here
was Canada" she said, "the second
largest country in the world. with
great natural resources and only
eleven million people. Yet our
government refused to admit refu-
gees unless they had plenty Of
money OF were willing TO go on the
land - when we already had too
large an agricultural population"
Back In Toronto she circulated
petitions and made speeches for the
admission Of refugees Gwethalyn
could not stop thinking Of the boat
load Of refugees on the Danube who
drifted up and down and Of that
other boatload who were turned
back from this side Of the Atlantic.
She has not yet forgiven a
wealthy clergyman who refused TO
sign a petition by pleading a nerv-
Gus breakdown. Nor could she for
give the people who listened to her
speeches alphabetically. but said.
Canada dare not increase her .un-
employment" The small country
Of Great Britain. she pointed out
had taken 10000 refugees.
Gwethalyn Graham has not given
UP hope that good things will come
out Of this war. but she insists II
is not enough to talk about democ-
racy without action.
"Oh sure" she has Erica say
Sure. we're going to win the war
so We can 60 on hanging out ouf
own 'Gentiles Only signs instead
Of having the Nazis do II for US"
Miss Graham knows her Canada
its social and political forces. She
has seen how, in the Province OF
Quebec, the uneducated French Ca.
nadians. "a thoroughly lovable PEG.
Pile" have been melted to bigotry
and sepsrstism by cheap pres,
and INSCRIPTIONS politicians.
Her next novel viii picture III,
city Of Montreal and its three MAR
strata OF English Canadians
French-Canadians, and Jewish
people
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
STORY WITH 4 MORAL

There once was . lady named
Mabel Jullup. who had taste. She
bought . lovely vase At An auction
and put II on her table. II was
Ming. and very swell. but Il made
the Grand Rapids furniture look
cheap. She was very sad, 70 she
sold the Grand Rapids and bought
period" That made her Sears Roe
buck house look cheap. So she
sold the house and took an ex-
elusive apartment In town But
the apartment was - exclusive
that II made Mr.. Jullup look cheap.
Naturally she got . divorce and
married . Mr.. Preston Potter. But
here she was stymied. Mr.. Preston
Potter made HER look cheap.
From Dorothy Sims book. Curl
ouser and Curiouser.")
Saturday Review Of Literature.
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Negroes Gain
$4,000 Jobs
In July, 1914
WASHINGTON. D. CA total O

WASHINGTON, D. CA total Of
is6.s04 non-white Job placements
were made out OF l.0e2.5i3 place
ments in July. 1914. by the United
States Employment Service. the Re-
ports and Analysis Service of the
War Manpower Commission re-
ported this week
These non.whlte placements were
1913 per cent above the previous
month and al per cent above the
similar placements for July. is<3
They also represented the highest
total placements OF non-whites In
any month since the outbreak Of
the present war.
Classified oy industries. The
le6.So4 job placements included
$3.50 Jobs In manufacturing: food
and kindred products. 1854: ship
building. 7,o2s; aircraft and parts.
1897.
Among the civilian industries. the
wholesale and retail trade Tot
20. 7Se non-white workers In July.
and there were 1880 household
and domestic placements Regular
Government Embellishments had
s.o53 placements for the month. tba
report showed.
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social bssriers persist Readers
might and IL difficult to believe that
Erica brakes otherwise civilized
and free-thinking father could have
gone to the hysterical lengths he
did 10 prevent her marriage to Marc
Reiser, were il not for q father
daughter attachment which would
have made any prospective hus-
band, let alone q socially unaccep-
table one, persona non grata in the
Drake household.
Young people whose parents try
to order their lives for them "for
their own good" in one way or an
other, will understand Erica's pre-
dicament, and her rising anger
against her fathers poxsessiveness
and against the injury he has done
man he has refused 10 meet and
Judge face TO face.
CALLS IT A PLEA
when people have asked me
what my book is about" the author
said. II have usually ended by say
ing that it is a plea for the individ-
ual, that he or she may be regarded
and respected as such and not
judged arbitrarily according to .
category"
But her book IL a novel and not
a tract Through il runs q love of
justice she inherited from her fam
lily Her father, a barrister, IS q
man OF many interests, and her
mother is an undesirable indi-
vidual whose enthusiaSms range
through people and books and mu-
sic 70 many organizations"
Gwethalyn recalls her grand
father, 4 student Of many languages
and q genuine internationally
She remembers him, rushing GU,
angrily from his study one day tc
deal with some boys who were
dancing about yelling "sheeny" tC
an old Jewish peddler.
In 1929 Gwethalyn spent . yeal
in a girls boarding school in Laus
anne. Switzerland. where the forty
eight girls represented twenty ma
tionalities. Her first publishe,
novel, called Swiss Sonata" wa
laid in that girls school and Gov
cred . span Of only three days duI
ing the Sanr plebscite, which ha
widespread repercussions. TheI
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14

Of military training to prepare
them for the defense Of the
country and to guard against
any military nation springing
APP after the war and plunsing
an unprepared world into war.
The question with colored
Americans is not whether We
should do our share to pre-
pare our country against war.
We have always furnished our
share of men TO fight We have
always fought, and bravely,
even though at the moment
there seemed to be little TO gain
from, 6chtino and diving The
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
NO ROOM FOR BIGO1s


Just at curtain time 1t Carmen
Jones the other evening, . younx
sailor stalked out Of the house and
up TO the box ONCE. He laid down
his ticket stub. Il want this ticket
changed" he said. You've got me
sitting right next 10 some coiored
people"
The box Office man said. you're
In New York now. son. In New
York you sit next to anybody"
Not me, don't" the sailor said.
The man In back Of him plunked
down three sixty. picked up the
stub and said. I'D be honored 70
purchase your ticket"
The sailor asked for . different
seat. Sorry said the box once
man. "All sold out"
Pm.
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CONDEMNATORY LETTERS
INVITATION TO
White SUPREMACY

Among the invitations in the
mornings mail 10 . post card that
reads In part ~ follows: II yen
are . Native born. white, Protestant,
Gentle. American eitisen ee geed
character ana believe In eur prin-
ciples. an opportunity - 3sin . -
eret organization that stands pri
marily for WHITE SUPREMACy
awaits you. Our ergAnixatiez
stands for: Christianity. America
First. White Supremacy. Upholdins
Pure White Womanheed. American
Lesdership q American Labor
Unions. Closer Relatisnship BE-
tween American Capital and Amer
lean Labor. Opposition 70 Com
muniam, America For Americans,
State Rights. Separation Of Church
and State. Freedom Of Speech and
Press, No Foreign Immigration. Ex-
cept Pure White, Law and Order"
II Il 1t such times that one regrets
not being Of Good Character.
The Natien.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
EB0uE:: A Man To Remember

cerned with personal ambition: his AIM like that
OF the Indian leaders. Gandhi and Nehru. was
to contribute to the emancipation Of his people.
AS young civil servant he refused to live in the
comfortable quarters reserved for the official
group isolated from the people he was to serve.
He travelled into the interior Of the country PEN
etrated veldts and forests which Europeans had
never entered before. He came to know the
African people intimately, their languages. their
culture, their aspirations, and their needs. Prob
ably no one ever has kpown Africa and its people
as well as Eboue His wide knowledge in many
fields brought him membership in the principal
learned societies of France. The people whom
he governed, including the african chiefs, all
OF whom he knew personally, were devoted TO
him; and the white subalterns, who at first re-
sented subordination to Negro came TO respect
and admire him for his quiet and yet powerful
personality and his great accomplishments
APPOINTED TO DEcAuLLE's
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
In October 1910. Eboue was appointed as one
Of the nine members of General De Gaulle's Coun-
Gil OF Defense OF the French Empire at Brazzaville,
the first do faefo government Of the Free French
month later he was made governor general Of
FEA the heads of the lieutenant governors Of
the other provinces of the territory. The climax
of Eboue's career was his role OF leadership in
the Brazzavie Conference of Colonial Admins
traitors. which was called together by General
De Gaulle and Rene Pleven early in February
Of this year TO map the future OF Frances over
seas territories. AT that conference the recommen
dstions of the Negro governor general. based
upon his successful administration. were accepted
as the guiding principles for the new orientation
Of French colonial policy.
French Equatorial Africa, including the Came
rooms mandate, is . vast area Of well over a mil
lion square miles. II extends from the Atlantic
Ocean northwsrd and eastward between Nigeria
and the Belgian Congo. to the Anglo Egyptian
Sudan.-H is the heart OF Africa. land which
includes desert, rich farm land green savannah.
and lush forest.
With Eboues severance OF allegiance TO the
vichy government, the Chad province and then
the whole OF FEA became free 20 60 forward
under the leadership OF q man who had the abil-
ity and vision to take full advantage OF his op-
portunity.
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|PraiSe The Lord And Pass The Poison Leaflets

the Chicago Trsbsns for sslf-ex.
preston.
CANNOT NJ DISl0SSED
While namarSsally lnlssSee - -
niilisas - IsyAl ADsgiean vsaen
whsee seas snd Ass6an1s - -.
ING fassas1 Al wAsss loyalty q
ths war ebert = snQusseisos6. q
Dhsay Ds(Asss gre1ps - 49,
satellites are nst - y ninamlDo1.
nee their wssk ai3ispoa q -
crsekDsG" They Wsek fanalIoany
day anA sight sprsaAan1 go
peasensus Leaflets n hsu.eS. -
urea esess, railway statlenat street
cara indefstigsbly plsyine HiSIer,s
game q diviAe-anA -csnauer. sevinS
sseds q hate aDd discerd. q de1Hl
AMI distrust, u dsfeatis1 - ~.
ssnsasn - TIE hsane frsat n srAer
- prevent . unined anA whele.
hearted prssecutaea q Tie VA.
They cannot be dismissed n mis-
led women when they continue to
flood the mails with poison leaflets
which violently denouncs and seek
to sabotage the recruiting Of WACs.
WAVES. SPARs, Red Cross and
Civilian Defense workers. They
merit the earnest attention not only
OF Federal and State authorities.
but OF civic leaders Of the commu.
nifty when they continue to props-
gate In reprint form the seditious
utterances Of such magazines a
Social Justice and LibersAasa (Pel-
ley's organ).
MENACE Is
COMMUNITY PROBLEM
The menace Of the enemy on the
home 'front.' waging psychological
warfare here while our boys isht
Hitlerism on the battlenelds. IL \
community problem. Il demands
that community leaders COURAGE
ously brand as traitorous In time Of
war any defeatist measure which
promotes Hitler's cause Of Olsen.
sion and delays victory for all OF
America. Treat the bad actresses.
in your community a. your com
munitys special problem. Seek out
the defeatists, the hate mon gers and
promoters Of whispering csrnpai vns
Expose them mercilessly In public
az the dupes and stooges Of Q fas-
cist hierarchy which, under the
guise OF Christianity and patriotism.
10 scheming 10 stab Democracy IN
the back and delay the day Of
Victory.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
THE WATCHTOWER 8, ROY WILKINS

something else again. This has brought
sharply into focus the whole question of segre-
CATION and Americanism. Negroes have been
thinking and talking about It never before The
men in the armed services have been thinking
for his country. if all men, white and black, are
TO wear the same uniform and be called up to
serve in the same manner. il all to be taught
the same methods, why should they be trained
separately? Why should white flier and Ne
gro flier, who are to fly and hght the same air
planes, be trained apart? Why should Negro
and white boys, destined TO sail on the same
ships, be separated?
More progress has been made, ideologically
on this question Of separation in the armed forces
in the present war than in any previous time. II
peacetime conscrption is TO freeze, for all future
time, the pattern OF segregation in the armed
forces, then Negroes are against It. We cannot
progress toward democracy il we are to say
that Negroes and white people are to be trained
separately in our peacetime army. Millions Of
white young men will be taught through this
device that separation is the correct method Of
dealing with Negro Americans, Instead Of making
for better Amsricansm and more democracy this
system will make for more division and more
suspicion.
Against this is the education our men get in
the army-the training in sklls and neatness,
and good habits. Our young men need all this
training, but the great question is whether We
shall trade this training for the stigma of con-
tinued second class citizenship in Q day when all
the world Is moving toward closer relations be-
tween peoples Of all colors and nationalities.
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have conversion filters. No
high-sounding talk here. He
told of what is under way and
what is being planned.
Said he: I'VE think we have
two battles to fight, two battles
for democracy. One is on the
military front; the other Is on
the home front. Both are
equally important; for If we are
not careful We may win one and
lose the other. Furthermore,
we think the home front battle
must 60 right on, even while
the military engagements are
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His union, asserted Mr.. Reuther seeks to real
lie in practice its constitutional provisions against
discrimination because of race. creed, color or
nationality. It stands for full employment and
for the establishment of permanent FEPC.
All of which is, of course, of no immediate in
terest to any one who may happen to be of
the upper-crusters.-one of those economically
comfortable persons with bank accounts stocks,
bonds properties, boards of directors at their
bidding, and SO forth. Or maybe they don't own
these things. Maybe they just act and think as if
they did,-and consequently turn up their noses
at union organizations, as il they had no relation
to their own welfare. Maybe they think they can
20 it alone, and need no one to protect their
interests.
On the other hand. Detroit industrial workers
who know the score. perked up their ears at
Reuther's talk. Those workers who are them
selves member of minority groups knew what he
was talking about when he said: II am proud that
our union has made the fight and has sought to
stamp out discrimination in plants. We have no
Glass B or Glass c members. We have only one
seniority list for all"
That statement was particularly appreciated
by persons who have worked in other parts of
the country. in industries, where they are only
admitted to Jim Crow locals, If allowed any union
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
BY ALPHEuS HUNroN
CONDENSED from; THE NEW MASSESl
This II the First of Two Parts)

IN MOURNING the death OF Felix Eboue, the
Negro governor general of French Equatorial
Africa fighters for democracy everywhere paid
tribute last May to a man whose life was died.
icated to the advancement and liberation Of the
people Of Africa.
This war introduced many changes TO the con-
tnent of Africa. but nowhere were the changes
more pronounced or far-reaching than in French
Equatorial Africa (FEA) under Eboue's admins.
tration. II would be difficult TO find Better ex.
ample Of how the liberating character Of this
peoples war has brought social and economic
advances tn those who have been fully enlisted
in the effort for victory over fascsm The fact
that this colony, through Governor General
Eboue's decisive stand against the Vichy capitu'
lation became the center for the organization OF
Free French resistance accounts for its remarkable
wartime progress.
But first let me review briefly the life OF this
man. Adoph Felix Sylvester Eboue, who holds
the distinction Of being the only Negro to attain
the post of colonial governor general He was
born in Cayenne in French Guiana December rs,
1884. In France he made brilliant record as
a student He took masters degree from the
Paris Law school and earned the title OF Colonial
Administrator at the Colonial Institute in Paris.
WENT TO AFRICA IN 1911
AS CIVIL SERVANT
He had always been attracted to Africa and
Il was there to Ubangi-Shari, in the territory OF
FEA, that he was sent in 1911 on his first assign
ment as a French civil servant He remained In
FEA for twenty years serving in various admins
trative posts From 1891 TO 1885 he served as
secretary general of Martinique. In the latter
year he returned TO Africa as governor of the
French Sudan, this unprecedented appointment
for Negro having been made during the ad.
ministraton of Leon Blum. After another interval
away from Africa from 1885 to 1898 as governor
of Guadalupe, Eboue returned once more as gov
ernor of Chad province, TO the territory where
he had first served
As member of that small class of the educated
colonial elite in French society and a civil
servant. Eboue departed radically from the pattern
Of conservatism and conformity customarily
found among both these groups. He was not con-
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
MISTER POPE
PRECEDENT. T.

PRECEDENT: The els Of World
War II will probably be remem.
bered for their informally as we'll
as their heroism. Last week came
word Of lanky. soft-voiced Texan
who had established something Of q
precedent in that respect. First Of
a group Of soldiers 10 be received by
the Pope. he didn't quite know what
to do when the Holy Father offered
his ring TO be- kissed So he shook
the Pon,ifrs hand and said politely:
Hi yah. Mister Pope"
N Y. Times
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
TO the NEGRO SOLDIER

BY Rev. Kelly Miller Smith
II must be love beyond ell doubt
That makes Q man. though kicked
abcut
Stand up and nsht-withcut re-
nown-
For men who night V keep him
DOWN.
So In these bloody. var-teru days
The Negro soldier merits praise.
-AlsxAnAria, Va
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COLORED AMERICA is apparen

COLORED AMERICA is apparently divided on
the question of whether we should be for
compulsory military training after the not
The question is being agitated now and Britain
has already according to reports mad, decision
that her young men should have year or two
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
(Rsprintsl from N. Y. Herald Tribuns)
BY DOROTHY DUNBAR BROMLEY

Gwehayn Graham, the Canadian girl whose candid story
Of love affair between Jewish and gentle girl
caused end Of controversy among Golfers readers.
town last week. Her book Earth and High Heaven
which sold to Goldwyn-Mayer for the small
OF 100000 will be published next Wednesday by Hppncott
and distributed by the Literary Guild The book Is written
honest straightforward STYLE with psychological
UNDERMINING than left In the serazed version which
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
ADnIRly FLAG

In the 0rsax. Anthsav Dsu1anl
ssspscts1 his wife - hsviag . aals
visitss. eeoplained tha1 Ma Dso-
Nm always slgnals1 - sAn1Pss -
hanging Der kusbaaAAs poaAs . -
elsshss-lins right - - vooo -
was hsDs, beteso ~ - vAaD -
vAs away. -1lno
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
UNFINISHED BUSINESS

VICTOR REUTHER, Director Of the War Policy
Division OF the UAW-CIO. who spoke at the
FEPC mass meeting last Sunday, explained his
organizations program.
More than any other speaker he kindled
new hope in the fear-flled hearts of all who
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-10-14
BY JOHN ROY CARLSON
{CsaAsnssA frsa s.TAs WsnAn-)

srs.,. w.A he
"
at meeting Of typical Fascist group. The wom-
present outnumbered the at least six
toned this to fellow seated next to
Yes" he said shrewdly. 1--WE been watching the women
take over With the men going OF to war; will be
the active ones It's good strategy The Omen won't after
them the way they would 90 after Women 1et
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Cpl. Robert Schley
In SW Pacific Area

NEW CALEDONIA, South Pa
cific-Corporal Robert A. Schley,
a former employee Of Ford Motor
company as crane and rigger opera
tor, OF Detroit. Mich. is now on
duty with q Quartermaster COM
pany in the South Pacific General
Depot. a part Of the forces in the
South Pacific.
Cpl. Schley holds the position as
personnel clerk In Battalion Head
quarters. His duties consist OF pro-
cesslng payrolls, insurance. aIot-
ments, bonds. service records and
an accurate account OF his COM
psny's personnel.
Robert A Schley. S4S2 Roosevelt
street Detroit 8. Mich.
He entered the army January
IS, l943. nj Fort Custer, Mich re-
ceived his training at Fl. Warren,
Wyoming. and embarked for over
seas service May l9i3. as a private.
He was promoted 70 Corporal last
March
Cpl Schley graduated from
Pershing High school where he
participated in track and boxing
Since coming oversees has met an
old classmste and pal. Pvt. Norman
Oden. Before being stationed in
New Caledonia he has visited Pam
anna and the Society Islands His
brother. Sgt. Richard r. Schley
serving with an Engineer outfit
is stationed az Camp Ellis. Ill