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York's officials and police were not
quite so ready 10 dismiss the Incl
dents as kid stuff" there were
more arrests in New York than in
Boston, and one can gain a clearer
picture OF the people responsible
for the violence.
OF the vandals examined by Her
lands, many were from Christian
Front or Christian MobiliIer homes.
or had friends who were. Almost
without exception they were under
privileged children: all but one
were stupid in school: many bad
records Of juvenile crime and sex
aberration; ofsen their parents were
chronic ''reliefers": eemmAn.law
marriages were frequent among
the parents. and . low scale of In
telligence, social responsibility. and
economic well-being Was charac-
teristic.
Christian Front
Powerful In Boston
With some local differences. the
same thing happened in Boston.
and with even greater success for
the agitators because of the strained
racial situation. The meeting place
Of Boston's Christian Front. until IL
was closed by the police. was H!b-
ernian Hall, in Roxbury. no; very
far from the Jewish district where
the trouble was conferred AT those
meetings, attended usually by Ca
pscity crowds. anti-Semitic stem
ming from that Flanders Hall Pub
fishing House which was the organ
II George Sylvester Viereck. Nazi
agent worked upon an audience al
ready receptive 20 race poison and
the Scapesoat urge,
Though IL is impossible 20 get
accurate figures, three observers
cl Dse 10 thS Boston Christian Front
have estimated the local circulation
OF Social Justice. before il was BAR
red from the mails two years ago.
at twelve thousand. Perhaps three
or four times that many people read
il. When the post Office banned il
from the mails the local Front tried
defiantly 10 distribute the latest
issue BY truck. A Boston Traveller
photographer. trying 10 nail this
picture. reported that he had his
camera smashed by the truck
driver. while a helpful! policeman
p.onioned the photographer arms
Christian Froniism was powerful
enou.h among Boston Americans
10 import Father Edward Lodge
Curran. Father Coughlin's Eastern
apologist, 10 address the annual
South Boston Evacuation Day ever
cises on s.. Patr.ck's Day, l94i. The
next year il was still poten; enough
20 ask Father Curran back. despite
vigorous protests. and with him
Hamilton Fish. Both Of those cele-
bra,ions were paid for by the city
OF Boston, At both the inherited
OF the local Irish was
vocal.
Father Coushlin's deception Of
his ecclesiastical superior in regard
10 the proprieiorship OF Social JUS
tice and his failure 10 enter a de-
tense at the Washington hearing
on the publication. have no; dim
med his local prestige Speaking in
{ Gorge Brown Hall Of the New Eng
land Conservatory If Music on
March IL. 1914. Father Currsn is
exported by the Boston GLOBE 10
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icon dsnssd from
PEOPLES voics)

In q short time the spirit
Of Bert Williams will ride the
high seas against the world
forces Of fascism, giving cour-
age to the men who will sail
that ship.
Born Egbert Austin Williams, In
New Providence. Nassau. BWI. on
November IL, 1878. he was nick
named Immediately, Bert" by his
grandfather. Because there has
never been the social attitude to-
ward mixed marriages In that part
of the world that we have here In
the US. "Bert's" grandfather who
was white. married a quadroon and
was the Danish and Spanish Consul
for Bahama Islands
Moved TO America
When he was four years old, his
parents moved 10 New York and
later 10 Riverside. Calf. II was
here that Bert after finishing high
school. worked during the day as
= bellboy. and continued his studies
at night II was his ambition to
study Civil Engineering. but be-
caus his gift for mimicry was so
pronounced. local theatre managers
persuaded him 10 join a travelling
minstrel company.
BY force Of his genius and his
stability OF character. he blazed his
way from the minstrel houses to the
legitimate theatre.
In 1911. Bert" signed a ten-year
contract with Ziegfeld for the
famed ZieEfeld Follies. Between
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-08-19
WilberfOrce In
Unity Program
At Board Meet
wILBERroRcE o-rhe .r.c,,

wILBERfORCE. O.-The execu-
tive committees Of the boards Of
trustees az Wilberforce University
met in j'lnt executive session on
Aug 10, and adopted plans for the
academic year, le44-l9i5, and for
the future development Of the in.
s,itution. Those present included
Bishop Reverdy c. Ransom, chair
OF the university board OF
trustees: Bishop John A. Gregg.
chairman Of the board OF directors
Of Payne theological Seminary.
and Attorney Ray z. Hughes.
chairman OF the board OF trustees
OF the College OF Education and
In .ustrial Arts: Dr.. Charles H.
Wesley, president OF the univer-
si,y. together with the following
members: Bishop D. A. Sims, who
presidet; Bishop D. Ward Nichols,
Bishop r. r. Wright. Jr.. Bishop
Frank Madison Reid. Rev. WILDER
A. Page, Attorney Augustus G..
Parker. Rev. B. U. Taylor, Rev. I.
N. Patterson and Rev. G. ]. Pow.
ell. Other board members present
were Miss Halle Q. Brown and
Rev. Joseph Gomez.
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italians Like Negro GIs

NEW YORK-Eric SEVERED re-
porting from Rome for the Column
biA Broadcasting system last sun
day said Americans were liked .
shade better In Rome than our
Allies among the Americans" he
went on. none Is better liked than
the Negro troops. The Italians like
men who smile and have q gentle
way with children"
Pittsburgh Courier
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and white boys is the air arm.
The other day was reading a
dispatch by Ollie Harrington,
creator of the famous 'Bootsie"
cartoon. who is a war correspon-
dent for the Pittsburgh Courier,
and as I read his tale Of what
our boys are doing in the air
over Italy and southern Europe
I went back over the whole.
heartbreaking struggle 10 get
our men admitted 10 the air
corps.
Four years ago in this same
month OF August the War De-
,,r,r,apt wptild hardly even
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placement, or training And even in this limited
field FEPC cannot investigate an employer or
union on hearsay evidence 1t is not valid COM
plant to FEPC when someone calls up and charges
discrimination on the basis that he thinks il hap
pened to somebody else.
On the contrary. any person who wishes the
assistance Of FEPC has to personally contact one
Of its representatives, such as Mr.. Swan or Mr..
Wetz in this region, with offices at 1915 Penobscot
Bldg Ra 2808. Having made charge Of discrim-
inaton because Of race. creed. color or national
origin against specific employer, union or gov
eminent agency, the person complaining has to
sign the written complaint
After complaint is received. FEPC representa-
tives secure additional information from other
sources about the party charged After this, con-
tact is made with the party complained against.
Sometimes no further steps are required to secure
ever, there are many conferences required with
several persons. including government. union and
management officials. In most satisfactorily settled
cases this leads to closing.
When, however. a case cannot be settled by this
usual procedure OF the representatives in a re-
gion il is referred 10 FEPC's Director of Field
Operations at the central Office in Washington.
d. c. He considers further steps on the basis Of
the information provided him by the regional
representative. In some instances he sends his
personal representative TO attempt disposition OF
. case II this too fails. then the case is likely to
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have opened his remarks by bring
ing greetings from the greatest
American priest and the greatest
priest in America. Father Cough
lin" There were no advance press
notices OF that dinner; yet seven
hundred people attended and hum
dredS more we're turned away.
Both Father Coughlin and Father
Curran have insisted publicly that
hey are not anti-Semitic. SO has
Francis p. Moran. former local
leader OF the Christian Front, with
whom Father Curran has several
times shared public platforms. Yet
Moran, according 10 the Providence
Journal of November 10. 1899.
charged President Roosevelt with
treason" called him a Jew, pro-
nounced his name "Rosenfelt." and
rallied against the Communist.
riddled government OF the United
States. On June 10, lS4l, accord
ing to the Boston Globe, he Issued
a pamphl-t calling the war "just q
racket for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Lehman families and their asso.
ciates." Twice he showed in Boston
the German propaganda film, VIC
tory in the West. and hsrsngued his
audiences on German invincibility.
As for Father Coughlin. his TRADES
against the international Jewish
bankers" the comnuniytic Jews.
and the British are too well known
10 call for explicit quotation.
Vicious Propaganda
In War Plants
For the past two years vicious
propaganda. much of Il couched in
the vein Of raw humor, has been
circulated through war plants. navy
yards. oarrooms. beauty parlors.
and subway stations Much of i;
is calculated 10 give the impression
that all the heroes Of this war are
irlShnen. all the chiselers Jews.
Consider the snide little libel, cir
culaied in various printed and
nimeographed forms. called The
First American"
First American killed In Pearl
Harbor--John J. Hennessy
First American to sink q Jap ship
Colin p. Kelly
EHst hmSTICAu 70 sink y Jap MID
with . torpedo-John p. Buck.
lev
Greatest American air hero
Butch" O'Hara
First American killed At Guadai-
canal--John J. O'Brien
First American to get four new
tires-Abraham Lipshitx.
Irish Americans
Sensitive 10 Criticism
The large eodv Of the Christian
Front is made up Of the dregs Of
The Irish community. Is leaders
are politically ambitious dema-
sosues: but the lon history Of iso-
lation and discrimination in Bos-
ton has bull; into the Irish Amer
lean mind such sensiiiveness 10
criticism. and so automatic an i'm
pulse 10 defend anything Irish and
anything Catholic. that the vast
majority Of respectable lriSh-Amer-
lean citizens find themselves used
as a shield by the breeders Of hate
and diSuri;y. their inherited perse-
cution complex deity manipulated
by people whose whole purpose Is
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master company. which also went
ashore under fire. sa.vased most
OF lis equipmer; ard within three
days had 90 per GER; q Is vehicles
operating on a twen;y.tour-hour
basis Americans NH1 are not OF
the Negro race may De proud OF
these men. too
Nor should there be surprise a.
the record. The Negro furnished
more than 100000 Uea 10 the Army
III the first World War Nearly half
" these soldiers worked as steve
cores. performing their tasks faith
fully. sometimes under Are. but
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American Negroes may be
proud of the citations Cen
eral Eisenhower has just
given 10 two Negro units
which took part in the D-Day
operations in Normandy. One
was an anti-aircraft battalion
which landed under artillery,
nachine-guu and rifle fire and
despite losses carried out lis mis-
sion with courage and determine
ton" The other Mas quarter
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TEXTBOOKS SHOULD Be REVISED Part Il
Bv MARIE &. CARPENTER

time. Newly used sources OF the period point to
necessary revisions in the teaching of it.
The life OF Negroes in the nation since that time
Is written into the textbooks by way of mention
ing the progressive trends and the determinations
which affected them. But third element is missing
IL nothing Is said about the thought OF Negroes as
minority group, an item necessary 10 an under
standing of recent developments CT is interesting
TO note that the amount Of space devoted to refer
on the Negro varies from no lines to about
1879 lines)
POOR ILLUSTRATIVE
MATERIAL ON NEGRO
OF illustrative material. which exerts definite
influence of its own, that relating 10 Negroes
ordinarily depicts slave life shows them during
reconstruction. 4 rare find 10 picture Of free
Negroes during slavery times moro recently
Some examples of illustrations found just once
twice are . picture Of the memorial TO Booker
T. Washington. q class in shoemaking at Tuskegee
Institute. some bars from Negro songs. and q map
showing Negro migration within the United States.
Pictures of Negroes soldiers. of the intricate
shoe lasting machinery invented by Negro and
effective in lowering the price OF shoes. would
give more balance 10 the illustrations.
In the matter of references, hardly more than
half the authors suggest books by and about Ne
groes The most popular author is Booker T. Wash
ington with Carter G.. Woodson and Benjamin
Brawley as second and third choices. The textbook
references are, Of course, not important as the
requirements of the teacher the OF good
library facilities.
Publishers. textbook writers. and teachers must
be made universally aware Of all these points.
Unfortunately. teachers have received much Of
their Information from textbooks which do not
give enough Of the right type Of information about
Negroes. This is being corrected by courses some
teachers take voluntarily and by work such that
done with teachers by DR.. Rachel Davis Dubois
through the Inter-cultural Workshop. Teachers
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its subsequent growth.
For persons who believe they
have beer Disseminated against
this pamphlet outlines the steps
TO take In order to file a COM
plant. II likewise explains the
Methods followed by FEPC after
a complaint is received.
Some OF the general notions
about FEPC are at the same
time debunked. The agency is
not, for example, authorized to
deal with all types Of discrimin-
alton; II is only concerned with
discrimination In employment
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-08-19
BABE IN the WOODS
lEsprinted from

tEsprinted fre@
The Saturday Review u utsraturs)
A eemely ysuns Wac was walking
along On . dusty read whom she
espisd . shimmsry. lake N Q grsvs
Of heautiful trees. Net Q eel was
IN sight On an impulse, che tech
Oh all her clothes, and had Q flns
swim and sun bath In he altsgstAss.
suddenly abe sac On sGlcsr heahins
purpsssfsliy In her direction. she
made . dive fer her clothes, and
sighed with relief when she gst ne
last button closed before he sntspsA
tn, glade. The slbcer psiA ~ at
tsntion to her whatever. Ne waIhsA
to the edge Of the lake. wheeled
about and bafked. -Csmeuflage
battalion. tsnshuu! Forward march. :"
Every tree srssnd he lake marched
OF.
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pamphlets as q blind or whether
they are an arrogant challenge 10 .
detective problem. not q sociological
one. But Il h clear. from the Sual.
ity Of the printing and the care with
which Oh 'ap, unidentifsbls lsts q
paper wer~ selected, that this We Q
shrewd Job and . jsb win ncnsy
behind Il. One remember that ~.
torney General Bidals has ehasss-
terised the Nasi prspsgands No.
chine In this country - . twenty.
million-dollar industry.
Because il is q multi-million -dol-
lar industry, and because racial
strife his increased rather than Dc.
creased during the war. II Is i'm.
perative that we cast about for
some way Of combating and amel.
ioratinS a situation which shows
signs OF growing extremely ugly.
As a matter Of fact, two or three
promising ways have already been
found. The Springfield Plans, the
Good Neighbor Associations. are at
the very least expressions OF q will
TO tolerance among the large masses
Of Americana.
Catholics Can Dc Nest
To Fight Anti-Ssmitism
Yet in those movements the
Catholic Church In Boston has not
come strongly forward. With all it,
enormous prestige and power, it
has chosen TO speak little and late.
Among Catholics there IL q wide
spread feeling that II the church
fights anti.Ssmitism II lays itself
opsn to the charge Of having fcs-
tered II before. The uneasy relz.
} tons bstween the Irish Catholics
7 and other elements In Boston soem
: to lead the Church ana IL poopie
% interpret any criticism OF reli.
gious intoleranc3 ~ . criticism Of
the Church.
Though one can understand why
that attitude persists. one cannot
agree with any part Of IL. No Prot.
estant minister who throws him.
self into the light against bisotry
and violence Is accused OF covering
up guilty conscience. Even II q
member OF his congregation has
been involved In Jew.baitins, there
Is no stigma which attaches 70 the
pastor. The only stigma II the
stigma OF refusing to do something
ABOUT situation when conscience
and good citizenship demand action.
In Boston the Church Is in q posi-.
tion OF tremendous power. and the
withholding OF that power can only
have the effect OF ENCOURAGING such
Catholics az are involved in anti.
Semit!sm. while ut the same time
convincing people unfriendly TO tho
catholic Church that the Church
Tor some reason finds its Father
Coughlins and Its Father Currans
useful
For the sake Of relisisus peace IN
the city Of Boston. for the ale 81
the American creed Of Aiversitv
without disunity. Il r. high time
Cathelicism In Boston made very
clear that IL Is not In sympsthy
with the prophets Of disssnsien.
There is no doubt In the world that
the prestige OF the Catholic hler.
arehy is greater than any personal
prestige OF Father Coughiin, Father
Curran, or any Of the Christian
Front demagogues But that pres.
tige can never be effectively EN-.
ployed unit. the local Church sees
1T TO assert. and forcibly, its dis
taste for the alterations OF some Of
its members.
The Roman Catholic Church n
not In the least responsible for the
anu-Semitie outbreaks I'm Boston.
But IL could do more than any ether
single agency or institution 70 step
them. IL Il would.
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CONDENSED from Atlantic Monthly

CONDENSED from Atlantic Monthly
s seco o
Lacking adequate and complete official report the
Dorchester Incidents may be excused for turning, in
search OF light to the able reportof investigation Com
missioner William B. Herands of New York the similar
outbreaks In the Bronx In that district the Christian Front
end the Christian Mobizers held frequent meetings Coin
cdent with and following upon those meetings bands of
juvenile thugs began go hunting" Because New
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-08-19
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Sy cLARlNcs ANDERSON

QUESTIONS WHICH are commonly asked about
V the Presidents Committee on Fair Employ
ment Practice are now answered in a new little
booklet put out by FEPC. This little publication,
entitled "FEPC-How It Operates" tells in nut
shell about this agencys origin in President Roose-
ExacIiti,a Order Q3da
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FAIR TRADE?

Bourbon whiskey, scarce enough
itself, has entered Int The hAAAing
for hard-te-Get housing aeesans-
dations In the capital ares, - vit-
ness this oRer In tsday's Wsshias-
ten Post: Exchange rent % fur-
nished T-reom house. new: baths:
four quarts % Old Chsrtes.' end
gas furnse-. In Lsxingtsa. ~. Ter
comparable house ~ near wssh.
ingten."
IN. Y. rimss
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BOOKS EMPHASIZE "MIsRULE"
OF RECONSTRUCTION

In dealing with the period of Reconstruction
the main theme Of textbooks is that inexperienced
Negroes were exploited by white people OF the
North and South and this resulted in period oil
misrule for the South: that the South, problem
on It's hands in the presence of large group of
Negroes who were irresponsible. passed the Black
Codes in order to cope with the situation; that
the Federal government set up the Freedmenfs
Bureau and passed civil rights acts IN order to
insure Justice for Negroes and that when the
white people of the South finally gained control,
Negro voting power was restricted. The authors
of more recent textbooks do not view Negro law
makers with the extremely unfavorable attitude
of some previous history books although one
author clings to the title Negro Rule which is
erroneous. different light plays on the situation
when attention is called to the fact that freedom,
as Il came TO the Negro, presented problems for
him as well as for the South few authors ex-
plain that the newly freed slave was empty handed
and inexperienced at personal management be-
cause of the life that he had lived slave. The
dark side of southern awmakng is softened TO
some extent by those few authors who convey
ideas OF the progressive legislation passed at this
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lowed in the footsteps of the literary delneations
but know that they are awakening to their
mistakes when witness picture like "ln This
Our Life. Newsreels of the life of nation leave
the impression that this is q country In which
ihsrs are only white men and women Since one
person in every ten in the United States 10 . Ne
gro. these pictures are very misleading.
At time when national unity. truth in history
and democratic ideals are being stressed. II is
essential that every kind of information be offered
that will further these ideals, and thus encourage
these trends.
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NEWSPAPERS AND
LITERATURE MISLEADING

Textbooks only one source o. ideas and esti-
nations OF Negroes. Newspapers are given TO head
ing stories Of the burly Negro who attacked or
stole or killed, and not always using releases on
the merltoriuus things about Negroes tthe Dorie
Miller case. for example). American literature has
the whole successfully portrayed the child
like. supersttious, ignorant Negro and failed 10
point out achievements. Motion pictures have fol-
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-08-19
HATTIE, JR.

When the genial. colored forty
siN-year-old actress, Hattie Nc
Daniel. was questioned about the
name OF her baby. due i'm Septem-
Der. Hattie blushed and replied.
Hattie Mcdaniel Jr. II Cobina
Wright can do IL. so can l."
Cal York in Photoplay
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NATIVE TALK

The war Il setting new standards
for terseness. Latest example Is the
communique of a New Guinea ma
tive who was asked TO describe an
American bombing attack on a Jap
encampment. His report Plenty
dead. plenty wounded, plenty good"
This Week
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50 SILLY

Farm say. boy, shoe them there
flies out OF the dairy.
Boy: Aw shucks. I don't see
nothin' wrong with lettin EN- 60
around barefooted.
Chicago Bee
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SHORT SHORTS

New seeds ar, sown In Arkansas
= white supremacy Yields 10 law:
The seeds will flourish and take root
0utStrtpping the tree that bore
strange fruit
Eve MerriAm-PM
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THE WATCHTOWER

DESPITE EVERYTHING they have had to take
~ because OF their color our boys doing all
right for themselves and for their in this war.
70 say nothing of doing magnifcently for their
country
The most thrilling Of the services for both black
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In L. & n. territory. over 1000
establishments handle timber prod
uct Of every description. this out
pu, in 1912 exceeding $500. oo0. 900 in
value In le43, the L. 4 n moved
3699,ell tons Of lur Der and lumber
products
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BY MARIE z. CARPENTER
tcondsnssd From Infsrracisl Review

What students don't learn about Negroes In
their history textbooks. This IL the second OF
two parish
UHE GENERAL. IMPRESSION given by most
Il textbooks is that Negroes were used only for
agricultural and domestic work. although few
authors show that there were Negro tradesmen.
Their Importance as an agency in the rise OF plan
tation manufactures and the distinct aid they
gave TO infant industry in the South fatty con-
tradict the inference that Negroes were good for
nothing but field and house work.