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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

physical and emotional needs. We
realized that imsginations. as well
as muscles. need stretching"
Today the program al Laurel
Falls includes painting. sculpture.
music, creative writing. creative
dancing and childrens theater.
as we'll as outdoor sports.
But the most interesting. per-
hapS. of all the camp activities are
the psychology classes. Miss Smith.
whose knowledge of psychology is
as wide as her interest in children
is deep. does not restrict her class
eS 10 the tWenty-Six councillors, ali
OF whom are college graduates.
I've never understood" she said.
why grown people should read
about child psychology. and chill
dren should not be taught anything
about il. Here. we teach the chill
dren themselves. It's easier" Miss
Smith added. smiling. than teach
ing the parents, or even the coun-
cilors. Children are much franker:
they have less resistance TO new
ideas"
The seventy girls between six
and sixteen years OF age who
passed this summer al Laurel Falls
are all Southerners. They come
from the most substantial homes
in the South. Their fathers are ten
tlle-mill owners. induStrialists. doc
tors. ministers, plantation owners
lawyers and bankers. Several OF
them are writers and one or two
a.e labor leaders. Most Of the chill
dren are Protestant. eleven are
Catholic and nine are Jewish.
Parents Approve Activities
While Miss smith said that none
of the children Is highly indoctrin-
ated against the Negroes, about
half Of their parents. Ii may be A..
sumed. do not agree with Miss
smiths views on race. They them
selves would never upset the status
quo, but they send their children
tn camp anyway. Partly. perhaps,
because IL Il the fashionable thing
to do. and partly because they APP
prove Of the physical and psyche
logical care their children receive,
F-3lthough Il seems highly i'm
probaole-a child were w gain
nothing else al camp. she could not
help finishing the summer a more
tolerant girl than she started
There are 10 disciplinary problems
az Laurel Falls because. as Miss
Smith explained whenever any
thing happens every one wants 10
know why i happened With the
understanding, the children devel-
op sympathy and tolerance for
each other"
An example OF how this works
was unwiiungly acted out for this
reporter A small child. seeing her
with a camera. unaccountably burst
into tears. stamped her foot and
ran away. shouting. Il WON'T |
WON'T" Although most OF the other
campers witnessed the incident.
nothing was said az the time
Later that afternoon at one of
the psychology classes which Miss
Smith holds informally each day
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

For Al Barnes story was diff
ferent. He talked about his per-
sonal experience with discrim-
ination in employment. He Of
rered no secondhand account of
what happened 10 somebody
else. He was that other person.
Sitting in the public hearing
room in the Senate Office Build
ing, he calmly and clearly ex.
planned to the Senators of the
Subcommittee how he failed to
secure a job as a truck driver
for Detroit concern. The blame
for this, he accurately placed at
the door of the Transfers
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

yellow Japanese. 1t has also
seemed important 10 stress,
again and again, that war is war
and not a game OF baseball or
tennis or cricket, and that GER
tain things may be expected In
war where millions Of men
and billions OF dollars are ar
rayci against each other
SO, from the beginning, we
have attempted TO point out that
brutality knows no color line,
that Germans IN a war can be
and ayc-quItc as brutal as
JauanCSc.
TN, s'Ory Cf Iuhlin has lust
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

t..an - dtgrees IN the house and
dress IN ordinary clothing with
appropriate heavier garments When
they 60 outs &c Those who Work
outside should wcsr enough CLONES
for comfort while woralns out
charge 10 lighter ones when they
come into taclr heated homes. Sem
sitlveness 10 weather changes is
LARGELY emotional or have you no.
ticed the general discomfort that an
urtavorable weather report can
cause or how comfortable the aver
age woman can sc IN seemingly
Inappropriate clothing II g, : fash
ionable. Try ~ remember that 20
degrees j. no colder i'm winter than
IN The summer ard act and dress as
II this : 50 and thus enable the
body 20 make Is accommodation
ard maintain rs resistance
Above al things. II YOU have
cold keep IL 20 yourself
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

rent political friends will forsake him when il be-
comes expedicnt The Negro, they assure you, is
race and politically conscious never before He
intends. they add. 10 surrender Of the benefits
of his solidarity. II II comes 10 shooting, he'll
shoot That his right to vote in the South is slowly
being achieved. does not rlacate him. The Negroes
demand that all political barriers he razcd They
see equality" ahead and do not intend to take
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
THE WEEKLY DIGEST

MAYBE you wonder why il took long
AVA To say that Judson's Negro
I'm going TO invite repetition
In bar downtown There gang Of fellows
Sitting around fable drinking beer.
And when they saw me standing alone at the bar
And a.ys hs ss s sa Of .D. s ;
About the wars eye witness stuff
To home front problems. all of US solemny stating
Ideas so old you could get them dime dozen.
Well one OF the fellows said Il want to tell you
It's going TO take while. after the
To To shove back into their places bunch Of nisssIs
II at night and didn't want to get stuck
In an argument-bui couldn't just let that pass.
So started to tell the story of Carrier Judson:
Who did a flying tackle and pulled clear
OF BOBBY trap. owe my life TO that Negro
And that was as far as got. Across the table.
A man lifted his glass with half sheer:
Il move drink TO a regular Gunea Dinl"~
Suddenly l saw oh no you dontl
You don't dispose of him that way Carter Judson
Wasn't Gunsa Din
Was white mans fiction TO bolster white man pride.
Its easy TO shed pint of crocodile tears
Over dead Negro who has saved your life
And who. alive. has iroed to do your bidding
Like an obedeni dog
To have a Negro risk his life for your own .
And then light you eisarei with his hands steady
Its something else when you see him narrow his eyes
These KTauis smart We'd better through
Never heard Gunsa Din use the pronoun We
In that SO that the two of them stood
Equal before problem
And Gunsa Din
ObignslY died and furnished good sob story.
But Judson lived and he went doing his job
In the Signal Corps and il wasn't the kind of work
You let an inferior tackle: too many lives
Had to depend his skilled fingers and mind
I was mad. by then that il seemed safer
To be way. So showed back my chair up.
The men just sat there. uneasY-all except
Who looked with smile said. ok. Corporal"
WALKED the streets for hour before
Working my anger off, And made up my mind
hat aft nat vhen 10 AbOu Carrier udxon
I wouldn't spill the beans my first sentence.
I would try. first. show what of
This country stands TO lose when a fellow like him
Sees good for thinking that liberty
Is q word that has meaning. If a mans dark.
Outside of this Land of Liberty than in il
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
S. AFRICAN 'SATCH'

Soldiers in the South Pacific have
been teaching the natives American
customs. One OF the islanders has
become an expert balipiayer. He
runs the bases in his bare feet.
catches without gloves. generally
hits the ball on the first pitch. and
hit Is home runs in three success
sive gameS.-N. Y. Times.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

their eyes of it. That's what their Spokesman tell
you.
They lay their housing woes TO segregation
Crme-hreedng congestion in Harlem is not the
will Of the Negro. IL is the white mans work.
Right or wrong, Harlem swears by that.
That's what the Negroes spoSerlen tell you.
Most Of the cops talked to agreed-reluctantly,
perhaps-but they agreed.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
The ChronicIer
Continued from page 81

IVOhtInued from page 81
DEC prelude to making him No.
2 General? Or is Confucius just
being too suspicious Not but that
the lad doesn't deserve il -.
X X *
Don't get apologize about your
rights in reference to housing and
jobs, etc. Remember you're fight
ing not only for yourself but for
America. The stronger your fight
for one is, the stronger the other
will be. And don't you forget III
, Our v-day won't be the day OF
! armistice! Keep fighting.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

MR. AL BARNES is no ordinary young man. Al.
4'A you recall, is the young Detroiter you read
about in last weeks Michigan Chronicle When he
went to Washington to testify in favor of a Cong
resSional bill to create permanent Fair Employ
ment Practice Commission il made front page news
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

The camp. Laurel Falls. mas a
fairy-tale quality about il that comes
only partly from the physical per-
fiction Of the scenery. Pure fantasy
and delightful. imaginative humor.
firmly based in sound child psy-
cholosy. are its most obvious fea-
lures.
Laurel Falls Is like that. A little
disconcer;ing al first 10 the visitor
from the outside world, but en-
chanting once he begins 70 under
stand about such things as BuSs
Eye. Buss Eye is legendary grem-
Unlike figure who has lived on
Old Screamer as long as any one
al camp can remember He is mar
ried now and the father Of tripletS.
and any one az Laurel Falls. camper
or councillor. can tell dozens OF Miss
Lis wonderful BuSs Eye tales.
One mother. IN fact. who dis
approved Of Miss Smiths controver-
sial novel OF race relations III the
South. sent her child - camp any
way. because any one who can
make up BuSS Eye stories must De
wonderful person with children.
Twenty years ago. when Miss
Smith took over the direction OF
Laurel Falls. one Of the South'S mos;
fashionable girls camps. from her
father. wro had started L five years
earlier. x was the usual kind of
summer camp" LOOKING back on u.
Miss Smith recalls that the program
OF outdoor spots. with IS awards
and prizes. was dull. mechanical
and siereo;yped
Saw Children'S Needs
AS the years went by. she sad
we saw camp more Clearly III
terms of children and their actin,
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

IN THIS WAR which from the very beginning has
Il been played up in America with emphasis on
the racial angle il has always seemed important
20 this column that the record be kept straight
and that enemies be recognized as enemies re-
gardleSs of whether they are blonde Germans or
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
PROVE IT!

Don't trust men who take off
their hats in elevators They prob
ably beat their wives when they
get home al night Comment u
an elderly male, in a recent Balti-
more Courtesy urvey.-Magazine
Digest
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
HARLEM: Dense And Dangerous

League believes with much reason that every
small, black hoodlum chcrIShcS a deep hearted
hope and belief that he Is an embryo Jesse
Ovens, Henry Armstrong or Joe LOUIS and would
rather train for such heights than for The depths
OF Sing Sing The Urban League. the National
Association for the Advancement OF Colorcd Poo
pie, and other Negro agencies assure you that the
average Negro kid sets such OF their race rs Paul
RobcSon Canada Lee, Todd Duncan, Bo]anclcS
Bill Robinson. Eddie (RocheSter) Anderson. Rich
ard Wright. LangSton Hughes and on, iai above
all other heroes.
There is large talk of education but II is the
consensus that in the immediate threat that turks
in Harlem II is trinc late 20 school the adults into
new ways of thinking Maybe thc kids. hut not
their elders. The more important OF the Negro
organizations insist that the dynamite that Is ready
for the dctonator in Harlem (and in Detroit Phila'
delphia, St Louis and Los Angeles, tool can best
be described as fear and an aggressive resentment.
Fearful Of the Future
II is fear that the Negro will he the first 10 be
laid of when peace comes TO cut down employ
ment fear that the Negro will he the first 20 suffer
NaRc cuts when the boom bursts, fear that his cur
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
tCondensed From n. Y. Herald Tribune.)
BY FRANCES MENDELSON

High ridge Of Old Screamer Mountain in the foothills
of the Blue Ridge Lillian Smith, author Of Strange
Fruit and editor Of the liberal magazine South Today
directs camp for girls different the
as her book is from Gone With the Wind"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
BUT NOT ON FIFTH AVENUE

Hitler started the war to get Ger
many living room"
Looks like he's goink TO end up
in the Clubhouse. however.-People's
Voice
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
STAND up!

We have leaned on Jesus too
long: it's time 10 Stand Up for
Jesus said c. c Spaulding in a
recent interview.-ANPr release
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23
A Yank Who
w ants To Stay
Over There
BY BoNARo w. ovERSTREET

Corporal Bob WYeih said
/ o tell you about a fellow know
Who doesn't plan TO come home after the
Plans 10 stay there
I wish he felt different
He's friend o mine-and thing a friends
He saved my life.. That's how got TO know him.
He's the of BELOW like-and I'd hate to believe
That he and would never be having again
The kind of talks you don't try 10 have
With most of the people you know
He pull story
That makes think the time its making laughs
And before you've finished laughing he can back il
With something Plato said something that happened
Where a bunch of kids were playing a vacant lot
And he talks about the as the other
l HAVEN'T known many people who measure
L The way he does TO the picture have in mind
When say that a mans American. He even
Had ancestors here before the Revolution.
tneY lived in New York when il was New Amsterdam.
And he's worked at a lot of jobs: has driven truck
Waited table and earned his own education
Right up o a PhD. Before the
He had taken the Civil Service examination
And line when the draft board called him.
He's American skyscraper.
The things he hates the things America hates:
A big showing little around
Or fellow siruting his power the Shiny tricks
OF wise guys who bleed the poor
And the things he loves
Are the things America loves: good jazz band
And songs haunting and lonely prairie wind
The feel in your muscles after football game
The look the face of kid with a toy
And plain men getting together. strong in union.
To say that right is right
He loves all that.
Yet he doesn't want 10 home after the
And il hits pretty hard that chap like him
Has come TO believe he can find more liberty.
And have chance 10 make more of his skill
And a better chance 10 be pushed around.
Outside of our land than in it
You sse he's Negro
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

Have you heard Dewey's new
anthem for the Allies--"Do Moth
ing TIL You Hear From Me-" -
PM.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

Copyright: 1914: By Field Pubiications-Reprinted
BY Permission Of The PM Picture News.)
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-09-23

AS the years went by. she said
we saw camp more Clearly III
terms of children and their ac:uo.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Identification Of Injured
Child Proves Difficult

After a five year old boy had
been seriously injured in an &C
cident Thursday and rushed to
Saratoga Hospital, two Warren
Township police officers spent
four hours obtaining his identity
so his family could be notified.
The injured child was Walter
Mathis, Of 6l83 Voerner, Center
Line. He suffered head and in
ternal injuries which rendered
him unconscious when he re-
portedly walked from in front
OF a school bus on Mound near
l0-Mile road and was struck by
a car driven by John Hebik, 43,
Of 4636 Lovet, Detroit. Hebik
was released pending full de-
termination of the child's condi-
ton. He stated he was unable
to avoid striking the child.
Patrolmen Albert Gascow and
c. j. Jole, after taking the child
to hospital, secured the neigh
borhood in an effort to learn
the boys identity. They inter-
viewed dozens of children and
adults, and finally encountered
a group of young boys who
helped trace the family.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Camp Fire Girls
Mark Birthday

NEW YORK, March II - up
Camp Fire girls today marked
their 32nd anniversary with
greetings TO the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt on the 39th ami
versary Of their marriage.
Representing 100000 mem
bers in the United States, 10
vear-old Margaret Cory of Arl-
ington, Va, wrote a letter on be
half of her Potoma Camp Fire
group of Washington, d. c., say
ing:
II thought it would interest
YOU to know. since you arc
both honorary officers of the
Camp Fire Girls, that your wed
ding anniversary comes on the
same day that the Camp Fire
Girls birthday does. Our 1914
project is serve by sharing and
we want TO share the birthday
celebration with you
In his annual message, the
President lauded the Camp Fire
Girls War Service program OF
combating the black market,
serving as farm and hospital
aides, caring for children Of wal
workers. collecting salvage ma
terial and cooperating with the
Red Cross and other service or
CARNATIONS.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17
Steps from Bus;
Struck by Car

A 24-year-old East Detroit
woman was seriously injured at
5:45 pm. Thursday when she re-
portedly stepped from behind a
bus into the path of an APP
preaching car.
The accident took place at
Nine Mile and Wellington, War
ren Township, and the victim
was Nus. Lucille Tocco, of l4017
Hobart, East Detroit. She suf-
fered hip and back injuries.
Driver of the car was An
drew Poponyak, 35, Of, 1850
Camden, East Detroit. Deputy
Sheriff Mike Helmlinger who re-
ported the accident said he had
questioned the driver and in
spected the car and released
Poponyak pending full determi-
nation of the woman's injuries.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17

The first day that eight
year-Old Dolores Falkenhag-
en-, 1914 South Walnut, carried
her new SIS glasses. she lost
them between her home and
the show, we're sorry to re-
port. W. hope the finder will
do a good turn and call at
Dolores home. ;. A story in
this column which we OBJ
tanned from Mrs. l.. NJ. For
man cheered a wounded vet
a great deal, since ii was the
only printed recognition or
comment he has received since
losing both his feet in an
Italian battle. 1t was the yarn
about Mrs. Forman's nephews,
who are brothers, one in Italy
and one in Michigan. They
loaded and unlOaded the same
wounded vet thousands of
miles apart when Meth
er one of the boys reg
ularly does such work in the
army. The wounded vet, now
walking on artificial feet, got
a big thrill out of the item.
WE DON'T KNOW whether
APO. 8 is in England or Ire
land, but that's Corpl. Orval Van
Beversluys address this bright
Patrick's Day. He writes: u
have just finished reading a
couple of ancient Monitor
Leaders which probably came
via Doc LaCroix' fishing schoon-
r or surf board. l read every
line from the dull snow furry
forecasts to the congratulation.
and maternity column - where
the storks seem to be flying in
formations as heavy as the
bombers over Berlin" He notes
several letters from Walter Fen
ton, so takes it for granted that
every dog back home is well
kennelled."
The American boys over
seas have a hard time getting
used to Old-world customs,
Orval writes. Instead of cof-
fee it's tea, and instead of
sports roadsters it's bicycles.
He says he'd like to send a
bicycle via Lend-Lease to
Hank" Bruneel, his Smith
street neighbor. 1--WE presume
he means a bicycle built for
twO.) We suspect the letter is
from Ireland, for he says
next week the old town will
be decked out in st. Patrick's
Green" +. and he advises
this staid, conservative col
umnist to rush down to Hugo
Walters and grab off a "sharp
pasture-green c~ravat." with
a reap pleat and a rip-zip!
A LOCAL NJ. d. driving north
on Gratiot into town the other
day was startled by the road
side advertising signs on a
fence adjoining the highway
I. They proclaim: Steak
Dinners" Fried Chicken
Riding Horses" Things
r certainly getting tougher
every day, he remarked.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17

MEADE-Frederick Tessmer,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Tessmer
left Monday for Sheepshead
Bay, N. Y, for his basic training
in the maritime marines.
Mr.. and Mrs. edwin jain and
daughter Donna motored to Te-
cumseh, Mich, TO visit relatives.
Mrs. Robert SCHNEIDER and
children are staying at the home
OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Blonde.
Barbara Templin is on the
sick list.
70. Miss Jessie McTavish is i'll at
her home at this writing. -
Robert SCHNEIDER left Friday
for Idaho where he will train
for the navy.
Mrs. Henry Bentley and her
daughter Nancy r in Decatur,
H., where she is caring for her
sister, who is i'll.
PFC. Richard Barringer Is
homo on a furlough until April
first.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Schwartz and
Mrs. Sophia 'Neiman of Mount
Clemens were dinner guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Boettcher
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Anna Nunneley anc
daughter Ruth and George Rich
ards were among the guests al
a birthday honoring Chester
Mathers at his home in New
Haven Saturday evening.
Ray John. accidentally GU
off one Of his fingers while us.
ing a plane several days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Schwari
entertained at a family dinne'
in honor of their son Donald:
fifth birthday Saturday evening
The Lenten Tea was held a.
the home Of Mrs. l.. Bril-
Wednesday. Rev. Warren Of the
New Haven Congregatio n a
church was the speaker.
The next Lenten tea will be
held at the home of Mrs. Nellie
Bates March 20 at 2 p. m. Rev
Carl PaetoW of st. Clair will be
the speaker.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-17

all week and took us lods tor
long walks in the country on
Sundays.
Years and years after moth
er was hOnOred by Mothers
Day, someone remembered
Fathers Day, which Is some
time In June . . we forget
what day. Now things r
looking brighter for Father,
and he's coming into his own.
A national organization is
undertaking Fathers Day
essay contest, and Priehs Mer-
camille is the local sponsor.
Local school pupils will be
asked to write on the topic,
What My Father Has Meant to
Me-" and Is awards, topped by a
Is war bond, will be made. The
contest is now open, and will
close April IS. II student
writer's put into it n fraction
Of what a good father really
means to a child, they will have
given expression to a composite
force of patience, love, sympathy
and guardianship which should
be patterned after the Divine
Family.
81 want to pin an orchid, a
great big orchid, on the Red
Cross" reader Bill Fink tel
ephoned yesterday with a sin
cere ring to his voice. "They
have done more for my two
boys than l can even reveal.
Every penny l can afford to
give is theirs, and ! only wish
other people knew what they
mean to the boys in service"
Bill and Mrs. Fink had just
said farewell to son Jimmie,
a cOxswain's mate in the navy,
bound for the high seas at the
age Of IL. He's a powder
passer in a five-inch gun tur-
ret. The other son, Bill, 10, has
had IA months in the South
Pacific, including Guadalcan-
al, and some day well tell
more about him.
WOMEN BOWLERS of the
Civilian Defense League, who
shoot the works at the Bowl-O-
Drome Wednesday afternoons
are not champions, but quite or
binary boWlers. yet they haven't