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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-30

Eisenhower gives law 10 Ger
many" was headline news TINS
week. Threatening the firing
SQUAD for those who disobey, Eisen-
hower's announcement said, The
Allied Military Government had
decreed German laws involving
on grounds Of race.
religion or political opinion are
abrogated. No discrimination
in Germany - Americans are going
TO see to that. What fine place
Germany should be for black
man to live in when Americans
move into Berlin.
Why be so much nicer and so
much more considerate away from
home than at home? If we are gong
10 insist that there be no discrlm-
ination no segregation ard the
like in Germany (Which IS a good
thing why not decree hat such
evil practices be broken up here
at home?
Think OF the absurd.y Of the
thing. We are bankrjp'ln9 our
government and sacrificing the
lives Of our best men 80 destroy
discrimination and race hatred IN
Germany - but nothing effectively
is being done to DESTROY i in Ar
kansas. Tennessee - Mch gan and
New York City. We can ma
a way to free Germany Of dlscrim-
ination - but not NJ Mississippi. .
We can guarantee the four free
doms 10 foreign lands but not 10
Georgia. How silly 4 all sounds.
The hypocrisy OF these crusaders
for freedom in other lands - but
not in America gives me a laugh
and not me alone - God must
laugh al such huge joke
X y x
Nobody connected with the
United Negro College Fund asked
me TO plug the College Fund Drive.
In fact, no one has said any
thing 10 me whatsoever about the
Fund" But because | think
IL definite sign of race progress
am giving il the blessings Of this
column The duty Of supporting
and controlling or o"n seats OF
learning should be the Obligation of
those who have proiicd by the work
OF these schools With tens OF
thousands . Of graduates making
good all over the coul'rv our col
leges have no need - safer .
Ingratitude has always beer con-
sidered one of the bascst OF our
faults.
II seems 10 be human nature 10 be
ungrateful; and the more We prac-
tice the love Of sel.ishucsS the fur
Their we get away frOn the duty
we owe those Who have done so
much toward shaping odr lives IN
the right direction.
One o. our greatest obligations is
tina, II making il possible for others
10 get the benefits sc have OBJ
tanned - by contributing 20 the
support OF our instit,, Ons We must
So. riticc. II necessary, that those
who build character and prove
brain. may be adequately supported
and encouraged I'M the discharge OF
Their work. We often hear II said
that Il is better 20 give than to
receive - but IL IS syn bol.c II the
greatest virtue ~ give - those
from whom we have already re-
ceived.
X * >:
In the midst Of present world up
heaval racial and 1tional groups
are pressing their cls rs for a place
Of security and recognition among
the earths people. -. TIE Jews
are insisting on a homeland in
.estIue 49,. India demands com
p.e'e freedom for ,ldia."- All
arc insisting tha' the Atlantic
Charter must spi,y ~ them. il il
Is 20 really mean anything What
Will be the status OF the world
Negroes ~ tn, new world se'-upT
We need 10 give serious thought
20 this question Our leaders
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-30

Heard that when the newsreel Of
Dewey's Philly speech was shown
al theatres here. the audience booed
when young Tom said that the ad-
miniStration was keeping the CT
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-30

II is an interesting fact that no
wars Of significance have ever been
waged over medical problems. Peo-
pie have fought over about every
other problem imaginable. Wars
over religion, over commerce. trade
and industry. over boundaries, over
races and sects. over royal and legal
DEGREES. over social and economic
questions but never over medicine
In fact. medicine has been through
out the centuries one Of the great
unifying agencies TO bring the peo-
Piles Of the earth together.-David
J. Davis, VI. D., Diplomatic, Jan.
1914.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23

his speed and his deadly place hitting, he batted lead-of, an un- heard of spot for a catcher. One of his favorite tricks was to rush up on the pitcher to get at the ball before it broke. Once he ran head on into a fast ball thrown by Mor- decai Brown and on his way to the hospital received the last rites of the church. But he was back behind the bat for Matty the next after noon.
 After leaving the Giants, the Duke managed the Cardinals and the Cubs for awhile. Then he bought the Toledo Mud Hens where bad luck began to hit him. He lost his money with the Hens, served for a while as a cop, a semi-pro manager, returned to the Giants
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23

for brief spell as a coach, and wound up as turnkey at the Toledo State prison.
 The Duke was a broken, sham bling figure at big War Bond game in the Polo Grounds last summer. With some other old timers, he had been brought back to the scene of his glory to catch Walter Johnson when the Big Train faced Babe Ruth. But mis- fortune and illness had taken it's toll of his once great physique and he could barely hobble to the plate. And after the game he sat alone in the shade of the dugout until some relatives came and took him away.
 Few baseball fans of this gen. eration recall the name of Bresna- han. But the thinning old guard remembers him we'll. For his name belonged to baseball when baseball belonged to the Irish-to McGraw and Arthur Devlin and Turkey Mike Donlan, to Big Ed Walsh and Silk O'Laughlin-to the Duke of Tralee and the Giants.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
NINETY Y-FOURTH

Sec. K won hard fought game with Sec. c 44-21. The score is no indication of the closeness of the struggle because it was only in the last quarter that the winners showed any marked superiority and this was due to the fact that Sec. c played the same five men throughout the game. The out standing player on the floor was Erwin who did just about every thing one man could possibly do until he was taken out of the fray in the last thirty seconds because
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
1914 Army Sports Expend. Treble '43

Brass hats in the United States Army have become as sports con- scious as Brooklyn Dodger fans. And from now on you're going to see a lot of sports activity in the Army-both within the US. and abroad.
 According to the War depart ment, the army this year will spend about three times the amount laid aside for GI sports equipment last year.
 The army also has set up a spe- cial command to carry out its new sports programs in order to place more emphasis on sports in the training of soldiers.
 Here's the way the WD explains it's new plan:
 Hitherto, exigencies of combat training have neecssitated empha- sizing physical conditioning with competitive games limited to leisure time. As the tactical situa- tion improves, army planning can be expected to encourage the natu- ral desire of the soldier for com- petitive athletics. Clamp Clal- borne, La. News.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
Fighters to Meet Suffolk in FAF
 Tourney Opener

The fast breaking, sharp-shoot- ing Bradley Fighters will tangle with strong Suffolk five ::t the
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
Different Ideas

The reason for six-man football, according to the realistically mind- ed War Dept, is to condition American fighting men. This prob ably will be the ultimate goal, but we like to think of the program as being good, clean, competitive fun with a game most young Ameri- cans like to play.-Harbor De- lenses Golden Gate Guardian, San Francisco, Calf.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
BATTING THE BALL WITH BOB

look into the sports called the Capt. B. FSC basketball championship rep1ace Saulsgiver and  Wrght-hiS first the C1men en-d defend their bo1Cing title NCO Club-a and pocket billiards tourney each Eegler by February Chdrley legitimate spades Whch to pedal her oelored
  Capt. J. Frohinghan,-that very e1usive ho1ein-one BHl Schumaker-g good hunting softbaH championship .s Reichert-more venison to EAT beloto 100 WITHOUT THE HAND MASHIE opportunity snappm0 the sport shot of the
 
 Jimmy Ma1oot-ome gear picks of the grid correctly
 Burton Briggs-a par mail a*d dts tribuion ,a.. ~ees electrtcaly heoted uniform r a h. Ochmdnskidn ice skating rink for his xse successful mtrasquadron basketball leagne .ta ,t 3nf F This column wishes to take this opportunity to wish everyone
 at Bradley Field very Merry Christmas taes
 tp-H 4
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
o3d and Section K Elves
 Openers in Base Loop

The Base basketball league is we'll under way with four games already played. In the opening setto the 94th took a sound trounc- ing from a bigger and more expe- rienced 93d outfit. Singer and La Cicero regular members of the fast Base team banded together for the winners to score twenty of the 93d's forty-three points. Mu- dick was the only man able to find the hoop for the losers scoring eight of the ten points for his team.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
Blue Plate Special

Jack Doyle, the horizontal Irish killer of few seasons back, has threatened to return to the prize ring, a threat that turned Tom McGovern's complexion from white to apoplectic red. McGovern, who managed Doyle's ill-starred ring exploits in the U.S.A., has threat ened to crown canvas loving Jack with some Irish confetti should he return to the States. Faith" says Tom, ''he owes me $30,000-the spalpeen!" The sporting world just learned how Lt.-Col. Tommy Hitchcock was killed. He was ex- perimenting with blind dive-bomb- ing above low clouds. Finally he went into a cloud that was lower than he expected and then couldn't come out of his dive. . Addition of Judge Landis' name to the scroll of honor at baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y., came a week after his death. Landis had baked at the honor during his life time >. St. Thomas, heavyweight fighter and follower of Father Divine, walked up to cop in New York the other day and gave him. self up. "I robbed a man in 1941," he said. "And I'm repenting." Police shipped him to Philadelphia, scene of his "crime" but the Quaker City cops couldn't locate the crime he claimed he committed. "The Lord be praised," said the Saint. Only unanimous choice for the Pro Grid Leagues All-American team was 33-year-old Don Hutson,
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
.GIs' 6,666 Situp.s'. $.
 Set New Record

A new worlds record for situps was claimed recently by Pvt. Billy Harrel, 18-year-old GI from Nash vile, Tenn, when he repeated the stomach toughening exercise 6,666 times at Chanute Field, III. It took the 6 foot 3-inch Private seven hours and 15 minutes to reach his new record.-Fort Bliss, Texas News.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23

Due to the advent of Christmas there will be no game on Monday but the following schedule will be in force from the twenty-sixth on: Tuesday 26 December 1914
 94th vs. Weather
 Wednesday 27 December 1944
 93rd vs. Sec. K
 Friday 29 December 1914 !
 Sec. c vs. Weather ,
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23
The Duke of Tralee

The Duke is dead, Roger Bresna- han, the Duke of Tralee, who caught Matty's slants on John Me- Graw's team when Big 6 was the greatest pitcher in baseball and the Giants rode arrogantly at the head of the National League parade, died in a rooming house in Toledo, Ohio, just the other day.
 The Duke joined the Giants in 1901 and soon became the best catcher in the league. Because of
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23

Base gym on Thursday, December 18th. This will be the opening tus- sle in the First Air Force Basket ball Tournament and the home team will have it's work cut out for them.
 The tentative starting lineup includes D. B. Johnson, at center; Singer and Kresge at front ard Gutkowski and LoCicero at the guard posts.
 All personnel are invited to att tend this and any other basketball games played at the Base gym.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-23

of a pulled tendon. Kresge and Russell were high scorers for the evening totaling 24 points between them. .>
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
A Tribute To Wendell Wi|Ikie

For this because he trusted them and they
remember.
Because he trusted the people Because he
trusted the people not In form OF words. or for
the length Of . campaign tour, or as part OF q
political strategy. but trusted them.
Because he believed literally. and word by
word. and intending the meaning of each word.
the great American Proposition that the people
not the American people only, but the psspls-
that the people can govern themselves, and Of
right ought to.
Because he believed, believed literally, be.
lisved in sober earnest and without reserve, that
IL the great American Proposition is true for
part Of the world it Is true for al OF the world.
Because he believed that the people are in
Invisible in their quality a. the people. in their
rights IS the people. in their humanity IS the
people.
Because he believed this not for his own ad-
vantage, but at the cost of his advantage; not
for his own preferment, but at the expense Of
his preferment
Because he believed this with such intensity
OF conviction that he rejected the support, and
refused the favor. Of those who would not be-
liece il, Of those who doubted the Proposition. Of
those who reserved the promise of the PROPOSE
ton for themsslves-for their friends, their kind,
their country: because he rejected their support
and favor. no matter what their influence or
wealth power the clamor OF their printed
or their spoken words.
Because he believed in the people.
Because he trusted the people.
II Is not strange that the people heard the
silence Of his voice so far. The words he spoke
were theirs. And they remember.
These words they remember. These are the
words of Wendell Willkie:
II soldier in the last war. and after that
war was over saw our bright dreams disappear,
our stirring slogans become III. jests Of the cyn-
cal. and all because the fighting peoples did not
arrive At any common postwar purposes while
they fought. II must be our resolve 10 see that
this does not happen again
while they fight the people of the world
must come 10 a common understanding Of what
they fight for and what they hope for. Millions
have already died in this war and many thous-
ands more will 60 before II is over Unless Britons
and Canadians and Russians and Chinese and
Americans and all our lighting allies, in the COM
mon cooperation of war. find the instrumental
ties and the methods OF cooperative effort after
the war. We, the people. have failed our time and
our generation
I'VE must establish beyond any doubt the
equality OF men, And We shall find this equality,
not in the different talents which we severally
possess, nor in the different incomes which we
severaly earn, but in the great franchise of the
mind, the universal franchise, which is bounded
neither by color. nor by creed nor by social
status Open the books, il you wish to be free"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
BY ROY WILKINS

but one result has been that Lieut. Gen. Mark
w. Clark, commander Of the Fifth Army, feels
that there 10 no problem Of race relations within
his forces.
This combat team has q white colonel and
Lieutenant colonel, and although there are many
Negro company ofIicers captains and ieutenants.
none ranks white junior officers. Moreover. all
current officer requirements are white. The col
onel, who 10 Q native Of Connecticut but has
lived long In Virginia, does not foresee the time
when his outfit will include Negro Junior officers
outranking white junior officers"
There il il. This Is the fall of 1914 and the War
Department has exactly the same position on the
race problem" within the Army that it an
nounced to assembled Negro editors in Wash
inEton the day after Pearl Harbor The Army
has had riots and killings and every other kind
of difficulty over the color line and yet II con-
tnues to close its eyes and say 'this Is military"
and that Is sociological"
The same holds true for the omcer promotion
policy Evidently in italy, as 1t was at Fl. Hua-
chuca and elsewhere in the United States, white
officers are using Negro troop assignments as
promotion mill, as stepping stones to higher
rank, while Negro officers are kept always in
the lower grades, frequently doing the work Of
the whites for which the latter reap promotions.
This means that Negro officers are frozen" at
a certain level and that no matter what their
experience or performance, even In the front
line fighting, they cannot be advanced to point
where they will outrank some white junior ON
Ger.
And the War Department and the higher ups
continue to wonder why Negroes are dissatisfied!
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11

This 10 the dedication 10 Wendell Willkis.
written By Archibald MacLsish. Librarian OF
Congress. which was delivered by Raymond
Massey II the opening session Of the Herald.
Tribune Forum.)
WENDELL wILLKIE was to have spoken from
W this place-on this day-in these minutes.
He will not speak here. He will not rise from
chair, arrange his papers, look up at you under
that familiar forehead, speak.
Nevertheless. there is not one Of you that does
not hear him.
The people OF this republic-not of this city
only but OF all the cities-a the towns, villages,
crossroads. and in every state-and not in the
states alone bue beyond them-beyond the Paci.
hc-beyond the Atlantic-in small places in the
interior of the farthest continents and at the
river ports and the caravan-rests, where the air
fields have been constructed-the people hear
him.
For nine days now the people have heard him
n they have heard few others who have spoken
TO them in their history.
They have heard his silence They have heard
The stopped voice-the uncompleted sentence.
Do you think II strange they should have
heard this! Do you think II strange that the
people here and in other continents and coun-
tries should have heard this silence!-should
have listened1 Are you sstonished that the still
ness Of a voice should be heard so far-the
silence Of a man-and Of a man. moreover. who
had no title-no ofhce-who had never held an
ofice-whose campaigns for Office had failed
who had not carried his own countrys suffrage
or even. at last, the suffrage Of his party!
Or are you not astonished! Does il seem natural
20 you, Do you think perhaps there is nothing
strange in this at all-nothing to wonder at?
Do you think perhaps the answer is simple
that Wendell Wllkie was man OF character
and courage; that the world has recognized his
character and courage and so mourns him! Is II
this you think?
Men OF courage and OF character have died
before and the people have not mourned them.
Or do you think the answer may be only this
that Wendell Willkie undertook 10 represent the
people and the people are grsteful7
No The explanation is not simple But It II
not strange. either. Nothing the people do by
their hearts. by their deep instincts, is either
altogether strange or wholly simple. When the
people mourn they do not mourn for a reason
but for q man. Their own grief surprises them.
The mystery. IL you wish to find mystery, IL
this: that the people know this N is lost 10
them; not TO his hopes or to his future or his
friends but them. 1t is not Of Wendell Willkie
we must think but Of the people If we wish to
understand this
How do the people know that he is lost to
them!
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
COLONEL MCCORMICK Of The Tribune

is the kiss Of death 10 q politician,
the politicians are afraid Of IL. for
II fights with tireless and fearless
savagery. II bows 70 no man While
some newspapers critical OF the
President have deferred to the
prestige Of his ONCE. the Tribune
has treated him as just another
schening politician Once the de-
psrtnent store. Marshall Fields. a
big advertiser. attempted to sup
press q story about an embezzler
who had absconded with store
money, The managing editor re.
sponded by developing the story.
originally unimportant, into a
major story and printing II. three
quarters Of a column long on page
one. BY backing no its reporters.
right or wrong. Tribune executives
have developed the feeling in Chi
cago that when Tribune reporter
comes TO your door the Tribune
itself. In all It's might and majesty
has come. This Is the Colonels
policy.
II has been said Of the Tribune
tas OF other successful papers, that
II is read SO widely because IL an
tagonizes so many people. But X
nearly a million midwes,erners be-
lieved IL sinister force. would
they buy il, Hardly The truth
would seem TO be different: the
Colonels huge power in the Mid
west is largely based on the fact
that millions Of midwesterners are
hospitable to his ideas. They may
not 60 ell the way with him. but
his prejudices--his narrow nation
slisTn. his distrust OF foreigners and
especially Europeans and more es-
pecially the English. and his detes-
tation OF many labor activities, Of
federal intervention in economic
affairs and OF liberal ideas gen.
erally-coincide with and inflsme
their prejudices. This fact. added
TO the power which he wields. his
great family prestige. and his sound
business ability. makes him at the
moment one of the strongest forces
In American public life.
II might be argued that Colonel
Mccormick Is one Of the few men
In neutrality-suspicious. the only man
to combine two divergent strains
In American newspaperdom. One
OF these strains Is that OF personal
journalism: II was strongly repre-
sented In the great editors of by
gone times who used their news
papers as weapons with which 20
fsht for their personal convictions.
The other strain Is that of hard
headed manufacturing and publish
ing with sharp eve 20 profits
During the oast generation or two
most OF our big newspapers have
been under the control Of men who
were not journalists at heart 30
much a. industrial operators who
happened 10 manufacture news
| papers instead o., let US say. sirdles
Thev may have had strong personal
opinions on public matters, but on
the job they concentrated on ind
ing the answers 10 one question.
"Will IL paw" No 70 Colonel Nc
Cormick He not only knows what
viii sell and how 20 manage his big
business shrewdly: he also knows
what he believes and is willing TO
60 10 he'll for it,
This is obviously an exceedingly
! strong combination. under one con-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-11-11
We the PEOPLE
Of DEMOCRACY

We. who seek democracy.
And attempt 70 secure our entitled
rights.
We who have fought 70 be free.
And 70 enjoy the rights Of liberty.
We. the Negroes and Americans
Are proud of the rights for which
we fight
We stand united Heart and Hand
To face the problems with deter
minstion and might
There 10 great day coming
Our ideals will be a reality
There Is q better world growing
A rough road but we'll overcome
the difficulties.
Our history is our recommendation
It's not events OF myths or Action
Though we've been race Of
domination
Wen fight 10 Subdue this
persecution.
We have a place created by God
We're entitled to laws governing
man
To convince the world. we have .
Job
With fortltude and determination.
well stand.
Are you with me Negro Americans?
Come. the time is nigh
Remem boring those who died In
Slavery
DISC IMiNATIoN, sEGREGA.
TON. DOMINATION. well
defy.
So when this victory Is yours and
mine
When we have won democracy
We can proudly step forward In
The March of fine"
As the people Of integrity.
There is . new day comingi
. feel il in my soul
With God our helper, we'll keep
striving
Until we have reached the goal
Pfc. Melvin Hubbard.
, U. S. Army