The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-03-25
THE WORLD is
SHRINKING

oIlRlAN hIINU
Thirty-four nations are now
united in a common cause
victory over Axis aggression,
the military d. FRICTION of
fascism. This is the greatest
fighting alliance Of nations in
history. These United Ma
tions include the most differ
ent physical types of men,
the most unlike beliefs, the
most varied ways of life.
White men, yellow men. black
men, and the so-called "red
men" of America, peoples of
the East and the West. of the
tropics and the arctic, are
fighting together against one
enemy.
Every morning in the newspapers
and on the bulletin boards we read
OF yesterday battles in Russia.
in China. in Italy. in The Solomon
Islands. and il New Guinea Or
days hop in plane can carry us
across the oceans Our supply ships
go 10 every corner Of the globe On
the radio we hear men reporting
on the spot from Cairo and Austria
LA. Burma is much closer 10 us
today than New Orleans was 10
Washington az the time Of the War
q 1912. Distance then vas a hard
fast; il had not been scaled down
by the triumphs Of human inven-
ton.
This -wat-far- the frs. tiiifa4e,has
brought home 10 Amer cans the fac.
thaAthe whole world has been
madeSone nei ghborhood. All races
o. man are shoulder 20 shoulder
Our armed forces are in North
Africa with its Negro, Beyber. and
Near-East peoples. They are in
India. They are in China. They
are in the So,omons with its dark
skinned. strong" haired Melane-
slams. Our neighbors now are peo-
plies OF all the races o. the earth.
For Americans this is not so new
an experience as i is 10 people
OF most nations. In our country
men 81 different color. hair texture.
and head shape have lived together
since the founding Of our nation.
They are citizens OF the United
States. Negroes and whites, IN
dams. Mexicans. Chinese, and peo-
pie from the European nations are
all taxable, subject 70 the draft
and TO the other laws OF the land.
They are part OF cur great national
community. History today is only
bringing together on a world scale
races which have been brought to-
gether on smaller scale here in
America.
Americans know better than most
how much hard feeling there can
be when people Of different races
and nationalities have to live to-
gether and be part Of one commu-
nifty. They know that there Is often
conflict. Today when what we all
want more than anything else Is to
win this war. most Americans are
confident that, whatever our
origins, we shall be able TO pull to-
gether 10 . final victory. Fitier,
though. has always believed we
were wrong; he has believed that
hard feeling would break out and
leave us defeated. He has been
sure that he could divide and con-
quer.' He has believed that he
could convince non-white races In
Asia and Africa that this Is
white mans war" He has be-
lieved especially that America was
. no mans land, where peoples Of
all origins were ready to fall TO
fighting among themselves. He be-
lieves that this Is . front on which
we are doomed to lose the battle.
Il Is certainly . front no less i'm
portant in this war than the pro-
duction front and the initiation
front.
Science and the Race. Front
In any great issue that concerns
this war we turn 10 science. When
we need new fuels. substitutes for
rubber. lighter metals, or new plas-
tics. We ask scientists 20 tell US
what is possible and what Is inn
sossible. The chemists tell us how
w llldhC NilC PldSllNs VIC daid
the physicists tell US how 20 build
better fighting plane. When we
are faced with war shortages. they
tell us what essential materials we
have been throwing out on the
dump heap.
We need the scientist Just as
much on the race front. Scientists
have studied race Historians have
studied the history OF all nations
and peoples SocioloCiSts have
studied the way in which peoples
band together. Biologists have
studied how mans physical traits
ARE passed down from one genera
ton 10 the next AnthropoloGistS
have studied mans bodily measure
ments and his cultural achieve
mentS. Psychologists have studied
Intelligence among different races.
All that the scientists have learned
is important 10 us at this crucial
moment Of history. They can tell
us: this is So" this is not So"
this OCCURS under certain condi-
TONS" or this occurs under oppo-
site conditions"
This booklet cannot tell you all
that science has learned about the
races Of mankind. bu; il states facts
! that have been learned and verified.
We need them.
One Human Race
The Bible story Of Adam and
Eve. father and mother Of the
whole human. race. told centuries
| ago the sane ,7a1,h tret science has
shown today: that all the peoples
Of the earth arN sir lie family and
have common origin. Science de-
scribeS the intricate makeup OF the
! human body: all lis different or
cans -r--''-g in keeping us
alive. is curious anatomy that
couldn't possibly have Just hap
pened" to be the same IN all
men " they did not have COM
mon origin. Take the structure Of
the human foot. for instance. When
YOU lis, al the little bones and
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