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Be Sure This Does Not Apply Herel


ing and nong clippings illustrating the bad
duct Of far cd people New York high school teacher
told time that annual football games between certain
high school with predomnang coed student body another
high school largely white student body ended
the bad conduct the coored girls The latter
brought liquor the drunk and threatened the opposing
with pop bottles resulting
in several white students being injured principal of Michigan
high schoowho certainly preudiced against Negroehs
asked for advice curb the hoognm provocative
Of coored high school lads.
choosing white people who happen against them crowded
Streets buses and trolley In San Negro sliced white
with apparent
sentenced threatening civilian
Mason with butcher knife contributing factor the increasing
w between white and colored localities
the begent attitude filthy of small minority rough
uncou Negroes the coming
points all be false biased apparent
coord folk around with chip their shoulders
white people knock This effective method of erasig
whatever gains making
The usual solution" this problem
mttee of people of pupored goodwill who viewing with
alarm" and guzzng probably
right far they truth tell accomplish little
often the Negro leaders that all
be done by the whites Of the
angels that would solve the prom would feed fuel
the fame Of racial prejudice often being
One of the curious phenomena connection with this conduct
change that
from Bogausa Dublin Birmingham Angeles New
Detroit Where their habitat they
their attitude toward white people, Immediately they
North West they
shate the earums of white
before the slightest prete Many of outside
South this period tension parade
their hOOganism They become quite offended indeed other
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and that they are improving their
Buildings while this wartime pros
perity is on. This is truly a good
suggestion for all Negro churches.
On Saturday, January Is, 1 at
tended services at the Seventh Day
Adventist Church in Little R k.
The pastor of this church is Elder
S. A. Douglass, who was pastor of
the Beacon Light Seventh Day Ad-
ventist Church in Minneapolis for
five years before going to the Little
Rock church in 1912. Elder Doug
lass is quite we'll and sends his best
regards to his many friends in the
Twin Cities.
AS l said last week in my obser-
vations in Nashville, Negroes are
being treated so much better on the
railroads in the south. When left
Little Rock on Sunday night, in
company with DR.. w. H. Williams
of Detroit, we rode in a chair car
to st. Louis. The car next to ours
which was occupied by white pas
sengers was not a chair car. A
white passenger seemed very glad
to come into our car and to take
vacant seat when we got to Pop
lar Bluff, Mo. DR.. Harris told me
that Negroes are served in dining
cars all over the south now. This is
but a single bit of evidence that
the old South is slowly changing in
its prejudiced attitude toward the
Negro.
Prejudice Grows in North
This is good, but the thing that
worries me is the fact that preju-
dice seems to be increasing in the
north, east and west in our coun-
try. Ny friend, Irving Blumberg,
told me that Negroes are being
segregate d and Disseminated
against by being forced to ride in
the back of buses in the state of
Washington. The management of
the Hotel Saint Paul had little
enough regard for the equal rights
bill of our state to refuse Roland
Hayes accommodations!
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ability to vote. We know, for ex-
ample, that the poll tax prevents
10 million Negroes and whites from
voting. We know that registration
is not always freely permitted to
many of those who pay their tax.
The policy of the CLIO is unmis-
takably clear on the poll tax ques-
ton just as it is clear on the SOL
der vote issue which affects more
than a half million Negroes in
arms. Mindful of all this, we say
with complete assurance and conf
dence that the Committee pledges
itself:
l. To urge every laboring Negro
who is able to do so to pay the re-
quired poll tax.
2. To seek protection both for
the registration of Negroes and the
casting of the ballots of those who
desire to exercise the right Of fran
chise as American citizens.
8. To ask the support and well
come the cooperation of all Negro
groups and organizations who's e
programs at any point parallel our
own in terms of issues - and this
we believe approximates 100 per
cent - to the end that the respec-
tive programs may be fulfilled to
the greatest degree possible.
In the prosecution of this job,
we shall have the constant advice
and guidance of Willard S. Town.
send, President of the United
Transport Service Employees of
America, and of George L. P.
Weaver, Director for the CLIO Ma
tional Committee to Abolish Dis
elimination.
Today we are engaged in a total
war. Nothing less than total Or
ganization for victory can assure
US of a successful conclusion. La
Dor sees it's task and intends to
meet it. Negro people are sharing
the burden and must share the VIC
tory. To this the CLIO Political Ac-
ton Committee is squarely COM
mitted.
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STATEMENT OF SIDNEY
HILLMAN, CHAIRMAN, CLIO
POLITICAL ACTION
COMMITTEE

The CLIO Political Action Com
mittee has as a primary objective
the organizing of labor's vote. The
Negro working man and woman are
important and necessary parts of
this group. No drive of this ma
ture, therefore, could be undertake
en- without an awareness of tn s
fact and a determination to make
it count.
If re-emphasis be necessary, we
state now that a genuine effort will
be made to win the support of the
Negro trade unionist and the trade
unionists of all minority groups, for
it is with labor that minorities
have their biggest stake. To this
end we shall place our arguments
with the Negro people in the
South as we'll as in the North, and
with equal vigor.
The Committee knows that in
readily identifable sections of our
country, unfortunately, there ar
still certain hazards and obstacles
between the desire to vote and the
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letters to the editor

land once more and enjoy health,
liberty and pursuit of happiness.
We're putting our all into this
great job with the hopes of ending
malice, hatred and greediness
among nations forever.
1 hear from S/Sgt. Maurice o.
Howell, who is now somewhere in
North Africa, also hear quite often
from Buzzie Brown of the United
States Navy, as we'll as from the
many friends left behind at home.
The adventures and experiences
I'm now going through shall al
ways be something to remember.
For instance, one morning bright
and early, one of my buddies found
a snake 8 #. a in. long from head
to tail and they killed him immedi-
ately. They say it was a baby Boa
Constructor.
I hope that every one enjoyed
themselves over the holidays. It
was a rather dull affair for US, but
we can take it. I'd like to hear from
some of my other friends. We're
still in there pitching and will keep
at it to the end.
Yours truly,
Sgt. James C. Martin.
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schools in the south for Negroes.
There are many incidents of the
fine relations between white and
Negroes of the city that I could
relate out of my experience as a
special correspondent for a white
daily paper, The Arkansas Demo-
crat. The Arkansas Gazette, which
was started in 1919, is the oldest
daily paper west of the Mississippi.
Great Business Center
Little Rock is a great center for
Negro business. Before the depres-
sion the Mosaic Temple, the four
story office building at Ninth and
Broadway, was outstanding. This
building was the home office of the
Mosaic Templars of America, a
large fraternal order, organized by
the Bush family. At one time a
theater was in the building, along
with the offices of many of the law
yers and doctors. But the depres-
sion took its toll and this monu-
ment to Negro business was lost, as
was the three-story Taborian Tenn
pie on Ninth and Gaines. The Gen.
fury Life Insurance Company build
ing, on Ninth and Arch, is now the
headquarters of most of the pro-
fessional men of the city. The late
Judge Scipo Judge, who presided
at times in special sessions of the
Court, even in cases when all
involved were white people, had his
office in this building. There are
three Negro hospitals in Little
Rock. The laws Of segregation and
discrimination Of the south simply
forced the Negro to establish his
own places Of business and that
they have done in Little Rock.
There are two first class drug
stores, two hotels, several grocery
stores, and Of course many barber
shops and restaurants owned and
by Negroes in Little Rock.
Little Rock is an educational CEN
ter. I have already mentioned the
city owned Dunbar Junior College.
There are two church related col
leges in Little Rock and one in the
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committee in the Columbus area.
While in Little Rock l had the op-
portunity of seeing my oldest sis
ter, Mrs. Anna B. Hamilton; my
oldest brother, the Rev. ]. W. Mel
son, and my youngest sister, Mrs.
Maurice Waugh. My brother is the
presiding elder of the Helena Dis
trict in the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church and delegate to the
General Conference of his denomi-
nation which meets in Philadelphia
in May. His son, the Rev. Harold
Nelson of Muskogee, Oklahoma,
and his son-in-law, the Rev. A. ].
Lowrie, of Camden, Arkansas, are
also delegates to the A. NJ. E. Cen
eral Conference.
City One-third Negro
Little Rock, which is the capital
and largest city of the state, had a
population of 5000 in 1910, of
which about a third are Negroes.
1t is a beautiful city and Negroes
have their share of beautiful homes.
I think that Little Rock is the most
liberal of southern cities as far as
the relation Of the races are con-
cerned.
DIR. NJ. L. Harris, president of
Philander Smith College, who has
travelled extensively over the south,
agrees with me in this opinion. In
1927 the fair name of the city was
besmirched with the brutal lynching
of a Negro. He had been falsely
accused of attacking a woman and
his body was burned, after being
hung, in the center Of the street at
Ninth and Broadway in the very
heart Of the Negro business section.
was then a student at Philander
Smith College and remember very
well how the well thinking white
people Of the city tried to make
for that horrible crime.
It was soon after this incident |
that the $5O0,0OO.O0 Dunbar Junior |
College and senior high school was
built for Negroes by the city of
Little Rock. The Dunbar Junior
College is one Of the finest public
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Soldier Writes
From New Guinea
New Guinea, Jan. Is, 1914.

Editor: From across the sea
comes the heart of a local boy all
the way from New Guinea.
We are enjoying, or l should say,
putting up with the heat of the
tropics and living in the heat of
the jungles, sort of a "jungle para
disc" for those who like explora-
ton. We have all the fruits of the
tropics. 1t rains quite frequently
at night here but seldom gets cold
during the day. All the natives
dress according to the customs as
you often see on the screen at the
movies. They are quite clever and
intelligent. Long before our ar
rival here, they had been taught to
read and write, and are very pleas
ant to talk with.
Our fellow allies, the Australians,
are also a friendly group of chaps
and are marvellous toward US, very
hospitable and friendly. I still miss
the good cole U. S. A" with all its
modern conveniences and hope that
some day may return to our home
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1875 VS.. ALA

Read em, dear brother, read and weep,
Your two-bit gigs might've bought jeep,
No-hit drawings make you look quite somber,
Well, your 4-11-44 could've been bomber!
Nothing in the first five, nothing lower down,
number more or less, you'd have gone to town,
War stamps need no saddle yet never draw blank,
And you're saving money while you buy tank
All your dollar spiders set to beat the racket
Put some Numbers Baron in a higher bracket,
A dollar a bondll put you in the chips,
But you only weep thin white paper slips.
Dream about black cat shouldn't make you fdget,
It's something that you ate, correlated digit,
If you must believe in hexes like old Smokey Joe,
A fifty dollar bond puts spell on Toxic
The mustached little runt, hiding in Berlin,
Every dollar wasted just helps to make him grin,
Every dollar in a bond quarter in a stamp
Can help to make him choke on his Mein Kampf.
James T. Logan.
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Negro has the emery them to be ladies and gentlemen
very these Negroes who planning
Indies America
that have adjust themselves
the behavior their communities Cussng people and
threatening them with bodily violence certainly build
ing accepted equals
ladies gentlemen
judged by actions by propaganda We fight
without obnoxious will likely
them.-George S. Schuyler in the Pittsburgh Courier
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO THESE FOLKS

Birthday greetings to Mrs. Arvie
Ware, 719 st. Anthony Ave-, St.
Paul, Jan. 20; Pvt. Wilver A. Lee,
Buckley Field, Colo, Jan. 80;
Aaron Shauntee, Evanston, ILL.,,
Feb. 1; Stafford E. Lott, $40 Girard
Ave. No., Feb. 8; Rose Tillotson, Is
N. 9th St., Feb. 8; George S. Lewis,
110S Aldrich Ave. No., Feb. 10, all
of Minneapolis.
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In MemOriam

In loving memory of our dear
mother, Mrs. Matte G. Adams, who
passed away Jan. 20, 1912.
Dear mother, you are not forgotten,
Though on earth you are no more,
Still in memory you are with US
AS you always were before.
Mr.. and Mrs.
Matthew G. Evans.
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When the Chips Are Down

prominent Paul who is known be highly objective
in his criticisms paid this compliment the other day
said in during it h
paper) chips people
find that there pitching; which
of thinking good recommendation
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Observations in the
Southland
Little Rock. Arkansas
By REV. CLARENCE T. r. NELSON
Staff CORRESPONDENT

After spending days Nashville Tennessee Jan 1213
tending planning Of the Leadership Training
School for Religious Education in the Central Jurisdiction of the Meth
Church. Little Arkansas
of Board of Education
leaders, person planning
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-19
This Sporting World
Night BoseboII
 "CIieks" Locally
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Considerable patience and con- tinued order was on exhibition by more than 5000 baseball fans be- fore and during Saturday nights baseball presentation at the Muni- cipal Stadium; indicating, from all appearances, that the game under lights is going to be very popular in these surroundings. A number of minor annoyanceS, such as some trouble with the lighting system, late arrival of some of the Brass cos, the absence of PA system which has been planned on the Promoter Fred Davi were taken in good spirit by the fans, who packed bleachers on both sides of the field and behind the home plate. At 9:20 p. m fans were still buying their way into the stadium, not know inf the game had not yet started, though carded for 8:30 p. m. How ever, with initial worries out of the way, the promoter intends to have things much smoother, next Satur- day night, hoping that the local lads will be accustomed enough to the lights to prevent more than one or two inf1eld and outfield bob bles; while the same brand of top notch pitching will be on tap. With Saturday night baseball apparently assured for a while, and more base ball Sunday afternoon at Hamilton Park: softball throughout the week and CYO diamond play on two eve nings, local fandom should not want for much more in the way of out door excitement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-19
B. X. 6. IMP PROVED
 BY SCHOOLDOYS;
 AVIGS 2 HILLS, Q

Brooklyn A. c. entry in the City Amateur League has been a very soft touch" for baseball foes thus far this season, because it has not gone all over the state for talent; and though a loser again Sunday, 1t gave the Tribune A. c. about all 1t could handle in the way of opposi- ton, before losing a 5-3 decision to Packy SheA's club, which has now won all but one of six games.
 Aviglianese were a long time forming a consistent, winning conn bination, but Pitcher Teddy Gra- beck paced them to an impressive 20 shutout of the defending cham pion Washington Hills, who were held to five hits by Grabeck, two by Latino; while Theodore hit 3 for 4 when he came to bat. Gra- becks mound rival, Ray Decker, gave up but seven blows, three of them to Grabeck.
 Hills had good chances to score on two different occasions. but the runners got crossed up on the bases, as in the fourth, Hills had two on from errors, but could not score though no outs were made before runners got on base. Torrington's Carmine Mele made great grab of fly ball of Greatorex bat, when he reached around a tree to make the putout Sumarry:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-19
V V V " V Monday Sports Wash

From baseball information sup piled by United Press today, it would seem the $64 question of the week is: how come the Pittsburgh Pirates waived on pitcher Fred Os- termueller. when they could have had him for $7,500 and then paid $20,000 for him when he refused to report to the International league; after the Dodgers let him go, and every team in the N. L. passed him up? An impressive service will be conducted Tuesday evening at the Sts. Peter and Paul softball league grounds on Beecher avenue, when service flag with 39 stars, one of them gold for George Reach, Navy man killed in action aboard mine sweeper in the first month of 1s44. George had been a member of the league for several years and was one of its best players. President Lester Wheeler will be in charge of the service, will all friends and rel atives of league members in the service invited to attend {. Jim- my Longo, local rider in the Weth- ersfield horse show yesterday had his leg broken by his own horse, ripper" when he jumped from the steed during a MUSICAL CHAIRS event at the horse show ...
 From watching Pete Burke wrestle with the muffles in the Chase plant, foreman Pat Winston has become quite a chef in the hot-dog and hamburg department and can toss pot of coffee together that would not make you run for the nearest hospital. P. J. was oscar of the Waldorf" for a couple of hours last night, as mixed party of Chase golf club members enjoyed them selves after golf play and the heat of the day FIGURE this out, if you can: Willie Pep and Julie Kogon draw $26,232 from 7,760 fans a week last Tuesday. On the follow ing Tuesday, there was a SLIGHT drop of $24,000 in the weekly Hart ford boxing receipts which did not reach $2,000 as HOT fans paid $1,83l to see Joe Bennett and Benny Will Hams slug 1t out It's a FEAST OR FAMINE with Waterbury's Joey Nunzio. In seven bouts, he has knocked out five opponents and been stopped twice, both times in the first round. Tn his first pro fight few months ago at New Haven Arena, Nunzio stopped Red Ford in three; then was caught in round one by Chick Santos; stopped Fred die Mckinney twice in five and six rounds at Hartford; got off the floor to kayo Al Michaud in two; drew with Jackie Connors, then defeated him by decision, stopped Billy Mar GUS in two rounds and was halted in the first round last week by Charley Smith of Newark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-19
Coast Guorders
 Top Brosscos 6-2 Cubons Are Next

With lighting and other condi- tions for the comfort and con- venience of the fans and players ex- pected to be considerably improved, Manager Fred Davi of the Water bury Brasscos, announced the sign ing of the New York Cubans for a night baseball game against the Brasscos, next Saturday. The game will be called at 8:3o p. m. at the Municipal Stadium; scene of last Saturday nights first after-dark presentation this season; won by the New London Coast Guard Bears, 6-2.
 For five innings, some 3,200 fans were treated to nice pitching per- formances by Earl (Red Branch, former N. Y. Yankee moundsman, now with the Coast Guard unit; and Johnny GeltD Pezzule of Bridgeport, who pitched himself out of trouble at least three times in the early innings when miscues be- hind him put runners in scoring position. Several ex-big leaguers took part in the game; with the Brass cos getting but five hits off Branch, as Pezzulo held the Coast Guard array to six hits. Branch and Cy Block, former Chicago Cub hit well during the game, while Carlisle's hit in the 8th went for homer when Gene Czaplicki lost it in the glare of the lights.
 off Night?
 Bill Johnson, New York rookie hero of last October's World Series was a disappointment at bat, where he failed to hit safely in four trips to the plate; though Hack, who tripled, scored on Johnson's long fly to :enterfield in the fourth inning. Johnson was struck in the eye with a ball that took bad bounce on a relay from the outfield; previously a ball going through shortstop Cy Block off Branch's bat, Block ap- parently not seeing the ball go thorugh his position. Summary:
 COAST GUARD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-19

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(Reg. U. s. Pat. Off.) nv IACEr CTInnY

United Press Staff COrrespondent)
 New York, June 19. = (UP) = It has come to my attention that the wife of a well-known newspaper man was insulted yesterday during closing play of the $10,0o0 Red Cross Open Golf tournament at the Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle, N. Y.
 The insulter happened to be a snobbish woman apparently a social climber - who questioned the right of the newspaper mans wife uo Iningle with the wives of club netuiers on the grounds that the club fraus were ladies.
 would not mention the incident, tut for the fact that it's "a crying shame" and an illustration of why tournament golf is not more popular ihan 1t its.
 I was not at the Wykagyl Club; I was sweltering at the National Track and field championships. But the incident at Wykagyl forces me to blow off. It seems high time that some newspaper man tells the 11a- tion what is wrong with golf-what always has been wrong with it. That can be packed into a nutshell the snobbishness of members of clubs where big tournaments are played.
 Down through the years I have covered various journeys and 1t has been my experience that the swan kier the club the more the news paper people - to say nothing of the cash customers-got kicked around. The press room or press tent usually was placed in some spot where the reporters were less likely to have contact with the club members.
 And when the male members of the club were given badges to off, ciate in handling the gallery, a re- porter had to kowtow or genuflect to get close to 8 green where im- portant play was occurring. And at the club house the newspaper men were treated with the thumbs. down cordiality that might be accorded a garbage man not that I have anything against garbage men.
 This lack of democracy among social climbers who invite important tournaments to their clubs long has been thorn in the side of the Professional Golfers Association which includes in its membership many of the grandest guys in sports. The golf pros apprecite the press and, above all, they appreciate the customers the golf fans - who pay their way into journeys. But they have been taken advantage of by the country club snobs for years. as the officious badge-wearers and their eyebrow lifting wives alienated public and press.
 l suggest now to the P. G. A. That 1t inform the various country clubs, before closing contracts for journeys, that the potential cus- toners and the potential press rep resentatives will be human beings not dogs.