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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
BY RICHARD HIMBER
CHAPTER IL

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

August II, 1914
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-13
TUSKECEE AAF
EQUAL TO ANY,
PARRISH SAYS

BIRMINGHAM. Ala Keyroarz
the public session OF the TWO day
National Council Of the Southern
Negro Youth Congress last Sunday.
Col. Noel F. Parrish. commanding
officer Of Tuskegee Army Air Field,
declared that the training program
al Tuskegee rigidly adheres 10 tire
same rules applying 10 all others
and that Tuskegee. though frst con-
sidered experimental, has held up
to the same standards as all other
schools.
At Tuskegee. the Colonel said, the
first class OF Air cadets trained un-
der a burden-they were expected
10 succeed or fail as Negroes rather
than ne individuals. In aviation. he
added. each man fights alone against
the forces OF nature and his success
or failure should be judged OF an
individual basis
Declaring that the present word
wide conflict is not a race war bu.
Mar 10 destroy Ease SIN, Col Par-
rlSh exploded the myth that Japan
IS friend Of "colored' peoples
pointing 20 the japanese rape Il
Ch,na as an illustration Although
there are many conflicts between
Negro and white In this country. he
said. there exists no war between
races here and through a process OF
education and understand the
principles ~ democratic govern
ment can work in America.
Col Parrish pointed 10 the cX-
cellent record which the cadets
trained AZ Tuskeeee are making
overseas as evidence Of the n gh
standards maintained az TuSkegee,
and the fact that the laws OF learn
/ ing apply equally 10 all peoples.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-13
BYE, BYE RACE BOGEY

Among the popular stories around Washington
some years ago one about the visit to this coun
try of former president Of the Republic of Haiti,
who, upon leaving Washington, was feted by
Marine band which played as its final number the
selection "Bye, Bye Blackbird." We reminded
of this incident by the election news last week
which reported that Congressman Joseph Starnes
of Alabama, one of the stalwart white suprema-
cists" was defeated in his race for denomination.
The racial DOGGY has been kept alive in southern
politics by just such demagogues as Starnes who
regard racebaiting the surest and quickest route
to political renown. Congressman Starnes will be
long remembered by Detroiters for the role he
played in hamstrnging the Federal Public Housing
program by his insistence on segregation as ma
tional housing policy and by criticzing the employ
ment of Negro advisers in the housing field Negro
war workers might have been able to live at Willow
Lodge where there are now plenty of vacancies if
it were not for the needing of Congressman Sarnes
who charged that the housing officials believed in
race equality. The housing officials who scared
that their congressional appropriations would not
be forthcoming often assured Mr. Starnes that they
We're not advocating equality
The custer of Congressman Starnes by the Ala
bana Democrats is as encouraging as the announce
ment that both Senator'S Pepper of Florida and Hill
of Alabama won their contests against race-baiting
opponents. We believe that the South could hardly
make greater contribution to the war effort and
national unity than by killing this DOGGY of race
which makes southern politics one of the most re-
voting aspects Of American life
We do not overlook the fact either that many
Of these po-tax demagogues in Congress get great
deal of support from their colleagues the Repub-
lican side who hail from northern states Congress
man Starnes was always supported in his attacks
on the racial policies of public housing by none other
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~ BOOK NOTES *
GERTRUDE SCOTT MARTIN

An article in The current Spring
1e4p Journal o. Negro Education.
The Philology OF negro Dialect by
Earl Conrad. Is m excellent state
ment OF what is Involved in the
use Of Negro dialect and lis abuse
by some white writer's. Mr.. Con-
rad points out that "neo-Confedcr-
ate writer's report the Negroes
speech in dialect and the white
persons in STRAIGHTFORWARD ira
dltional English. Kings English, If
you please
Margaret Mi.chell's Gone With
The Wind" is the classic example Of
this policy in vi Ting and Amos
and Andy" follows the same pattern
on the radio and has probably done
twice as much harm as GWTW Mr..
Conrad believes. He cites Richard
Wright. Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
LangstOn Hughes and Dan BGrlcy
rs writers who are able 20 indicate
The Negroes val d contribution TO
the language without using the jim
Crow technique ~ MaFgaret Nit
chell or Dan Burley Mr. Conrad
writes Here Is true native son
oi the ro-Amcrigan language. VI
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-13
GHANDI FREED

The willy British believe that the disobedient
little brown saint Of India is about to die and in
order to obviate increased unrest among the Indian
people, with the spectacle Of their dead saint in a
British jail, the Mahatma has been given his free
dom. The sympathies Of the colored peoples from
one end of this earth to the other 60 out to this
great Indian leader who has won Immortality by
daring to aspire for the status of free man in a
colored country where only white men can be free.
The British have issued many white papers on
the Indian question and have zealousy sought to
ratonalize their domination over the Indian people,
Ghand became in the eyes of the British mperialists
a traitor, but he will live forever in the hearts of
his people as patriot. He believed that there were
higher laws than those made by Engishmen who
have heavy investments in India to protect. To
these higher laws Ghandi has remained loyal and
true, for these laws spoke of human dignity, of the
rights of man, every man regardless of his station
or color
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than Congressman Wigglesworth from Massachu-
sets. AS matter of fact it the team of Starnes
and Wigglesworth which kept the housing officials
explaining their tongues out at Congressional COM
mittee hearings around the time for appropriations
Thus while we are happy to record that some
hope for racial progress contained in the cleo
ton news from the South last week. we must not
forget that the liberal majority in the North still
has a big job to do in eliminating the Republican
hate-mongers who have been making Darkroom
deals with the .potax. boys from Dixie. In trying
to rout the racial DOGGY from American politics, we
may often have to cross party lines. According to
this last report, the southerners are beginning to
realize that the chest-thumpers who pirate about
white supremacy may not always be desirable.
Add to this the fact that few Negroes, at least,
voted in the Democratic primary in Florida, as a
result of the recent decision of the Supreme Court
on the Texas white primary, we have few reasons
to tell those who say that the Grace problem is in
soluble to stop crying in their beer
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Me-o 1be.
Negro
oY WILLIAM L. SHE RRiLl.

G LAST Gods representatives
arc stepping TO the front in the
fight against discrimination and
segregation. Their protestations are
making front page news :. 1t
appears that they have decided that
this is not a fight 10 be left ex-
clusively TO the Communists and
labor unlons-but that the church.
Gods union, should lead ALL in
the fight against injustices toward
Gods children Just this week
the 1852 delegates TO the General
Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal church meeting in Kansas
City, requested the elimination Of
discrimination in their own ranks.
against their 100000 Negroes, which
are segregated into one jurisdic-
ton and urged the repeal of dis
criminatory legislation"
Recently Michigan state con-
ference Of ministers was urged by
one OF It's leaders TO set in motion
in each OF their communities a
project TO fight some phase OF dis
elimination being practiced against
Negro citizens. II was proposed
that the fight be financed by the
members OF the church carrying on
The fight Ii is highly signifi-
can't that the Negro is being called
by name by these crusaders.
The North Carolina. Council OF
Churches. at It's recent annual ses-
sion, voted unanimously 10 accord
10 the Negro denominations OF the
state the privilege OF participation
in the council on an equal basis
with that OF the white member
ship,
These news items report the only
logical step the Christian church
can take in times ike these 3.
How illogical II is for Gods church
folks in America % call upon Him
to destroy such spirits as repre-
Sented by Hitler and his henchmen
while they do nothing about the
same spirits which possess the souls
OF millions here at home. How
ridiculous il is for the Christian
church 10 exhort US 10 prepare for
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-13
DETROIT'S DILEMMA

After weeks of wrangling the public has been
Informed al last that compromise has been reached
between public and private building interests on the
nroposal TO construct several hundred homes in the
Eight Mile Road area 1t would appear therefore
that few war workers will he housed before the
snow flies again. We think it proper, however, to
emphasize the fact that when all the housing that
this area will accommodate is finally built there Will
remain some 1880 unhoused workers. In other
words the Eight Mile Road development will not
greatly relieve the distress of the people who are
sleeping in bath tubs and eating out of their hats
This site is but one of ii sites within the city
limits of Detroit which must be developed if the
homeless war workers here to be properly housed
1t is impossible to describe the plight Of the Negro
workers who are hemmed into the congested ghettoes
with hardly vacant lot for recreation. The sum-
mers sun will drive these sweterng people into the
city streets to seek relief from the heat and squaor
of their narrow quarters. These mobs Of men, wom-
en- and children could be properly housed if it were
not for queer policy which has been adopted by
the city administration. This policy makes the de-
yelopment of the available housing sites within the
city noisy public issue.
The policy of which we speak will be remem-
bered as the campaign pledge of Mayor Jeffries
who insisted that the racial characteristics Of neigh
borhoods must not be violated Here is Detroit's
dilemma, for this pledge must be scrapped in order
to provide adequate housing for war workers. 1t
is no accident that practically all the white war
workers in Detroit have been housed and that the
thousands of homeless are all Negroes. This is the
direct result of prejudice and sheer stupidity
on the part of those who control the affairs Of the
city of Detroit.
We believe it Is time now for the city fathers 10
examine the facts of the housing situation and lay
aside their silly notions about preserving the color
schemes of certain geographical areas These Ne
gro war workers are producing the guns and tanks
which America needs to win this war. They are
important cogs in the whole war machine of the
United Nations and their sons and brothers bearing
guns on every battlefront. If our city fathers
sane they will not hesitate to end this dilemma and
do their duty now.
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Public Health Notes
tapeworm. There Is also o disease
among hogs caused by rats,
By CLEMENT SCOTT, Md. D.P.H.

tapeworm. There Is also q disease
among hogs caused by rats.
California has fought bubopic
plague FOR years. and has brought
down the occurrence from a peak
OF 1870 or rorc cases a year 70 Ave
in the past year.
Al present, Texas has endemic
typhus fever, which is getting out
OF control and spreading northward,
Detroit. so far, has neither bu-
bonic plague nor endemic typhus
fever. but there is an irritating small
incidence OF infectious jaundice and
rst-bite fever among babies.
The rat in this vicinity Is mainly
the big brown species., which Is
nocturnal in habit and lives in bur-
roughs under buildings. In dead
spaces in walls, under sidewalks,
and any place where Il may be
protected from the elements They
produce from three 10 Ave ltters a
year. with eight 10 ten young In
each litter. They thrive and repro
duce in proportion 10 the amount OF
food obtainable. and 10 the Glenn
ency Of climatic conditions Our
mild winters and over-crowded liv-
ing conditions have played UP 10
rat providence. and the town is
overrun.
Every kind OF instrument must be
used 10 destroy the pest-traps. dogs,
poison, removal OF excess food and
water. broken glass sprinkled in
their runwsys. or service with gas.
furnished BY the department Of pub
lie works. The rat Is clever No one
means is sufficient. and destructive
measures must be continuously pro-
secuted. Unfortunately. the hes;
poisoning agent, Red Squill. a drug
not harmful 10 yard pets or 10 hui
man beings. but fatal 10 rats. which
cannot vomit. cannot be imported
from Africa because OF the var
However. there is probably a small
amount still available in this coun-
try.
Buildings must be rat-proo,ed.
and above all. garbage receptscles
must be tightly closed containers.
This responsibility Of cutting of the
rats food supply and destroying its
shelter must be shared equally by
the householder and the public
agencies. Though garbage collection
Is unavoidably far from efflcient. the
refuse must not be allowed 10 stand
in the open.
The Federal agencies are cutting
down 10 a minimum the possibility
Of rat-borne diseases being brought
into the country on ships, either by
I persons or by rats themselves
through very rigid inspection and
J care al ports Of entry.
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the Negro transformation OF the
English language.
II is refreshing 10 find Mr.. Con-
rad stating the issue OF Negro dia-
lect so clearly. I've always resented
the Jim Crow use OF dialect in any
book and have found II most OBJ
jectionable in juvenile literature.
incidentally. Mr.. Conrad Is the au-
thor OF that fine biography OF Har-
riet Tubmsn which was published
last year
X X X
We've expressed admiration here
before for Helen Bowers excellent
book column in the Sunday Free
Press. This past week Miss Bower
made a good point i'm her discussion
Of the Pulitzer Prize awards which
were announced recently. Her
opinionsis that a poll Of book re-
viewers would be a more trust
worthy indication OF the best In cur
rent literature than the choice of
the present judges who are not as
familiar with the field
Miss Bower also takes a slap al
the tendency 81 the Pulitzer Award
Judges ~ avoid the controversial
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heaven which shall be without
discrimination between the races
while it practices every type Of
discrimination here in the place
Of preparation.
The white church In America has
a terrible task upon its heart in the
question OF how II will treat Black
America II Is high time that
il begin doing something about It.
What will be its ultimate answer?
VIII ii seek for rationalizations and
Biblical references 10 justify un-
equal treatment OF the Negro. as
was so widely done to justify slav-
cry? Or will the white church
step out and take its stand for
equal justice and full citizenship
for all Americans-black as well
as white? These bold steps
taken by these leaders in the las,
few weeks are straws pointing in
the direction of the latter.
X X x
A FEW DAYS AGO. in a large
Southern town. Negro citizens anxi.
Gus to help 'their country in the
war effort, staged mammoth base
ball game for IN. purpose Of sell
ing war bonds and stamps
Thousands of Negroes attended that
day, over crowding the park. and
bought bonds and stamps to the
tune Of 100000 worth The
buses were so crowded on their
return from the park that it was
impossible for them TO keep In
the rear OF the bus as commanded
by the driver Because they
failed 20 get in the rear OF the
ous and stay there" they were driv-
en- to the nearest police station.
where at the request Of the bus
driver, hey were arrested and
charged with disturbing the peace.
Their case came up for TRIAL
the Public Service company upheld
the driver-had special counsel 10
prosecute passengers They we're
all convicted and given their choice
~ paying a hne Of SIS or serving
IS days in Jail Now wouldn't
this news item make Hitler laugh.
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Gives Fact In
De ey Letdown
OF Negro People

NEW YORK, n. Y,-Revealing
that Governor Dewey would do
nothing" in support OF the Anti
Discrimination bills because he
did not care 10 run the risk OF in
curing the displeasure OF the
southern Republican organizations
DR.. Claiming II. Tobias. writing
in the May issue OF Congress Vue.
monthly magazine published by the
National Negro Congress. predicts
that the forthcoming national cleo
ton will find the Negro people Of
this country more discriminating
in their choice OF persons whom
they will support than has ever
been true since they have been
active participants in the choice
OF public servants"
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Our periodicals urge destruction
Of rats. using as an incentive, main
ly,their menace 10 our food supply
In storehouses and victory gardens.
But the rat as factor in spreading
disease must not be under-rated
Rats are hosts TO fieas which may
spread bubonic plague and typhus
fever. not only TO man but to other
rodents. thus increasing the reser-
voir OF infection Rats may become
carriers OF infectious jaundice and
rst-bite fever. the former disease
being transmitted by the contamina-
ton Of food by their excreta, and
the latter, obviously. by their bite.
They mechanically transfer germs
from the alleys and refuse dumps
to our food-stufYs. They have i'm
festival parasites. particularly the
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-13

In literature as in 1910 when they
did not consider Ernest Heming-
ways For Whom The Bells TOLL"
because the Spanish question was
you know what. Miss Bower raises
the question OF what the judges will
do in 1915 when faced with
Strange Fruit since the Negro
question is also controversial-an
interesting question.
A new biography OF DR.. George
Washington Carver for children has
Just been published by Julian Mess
ner, Inc. The authors are Shirley
Graham and George d. Lipscomb
and the book Is illustrated by Elton
G.. Fax. The current trend toward
biography in the field OF Negro lit
erature is a good one. The Negro
has been examined and studied ad
infinitum, but the field OF biogra-
ply has been more or less neg
lected. In the last few years. how
ever. Langston Hughes. Fora Neale
Hurston, w. r. d. Dubois and Ro-
land Hayes have contributed auto
biographies and Earl Conrad, Rack
ham Holt. and Edwin Embree have
written ofthe lives OF Harriet Tub
man. George Washington Carver
and The Thirteen. respectively.
=; X x
The new issue Of South Today has
as a subtitle, The Earth: common
ground for children. Included are
two fine original plays by Lillian
Smith. a good story about color and
child by William Jennings
O'Brien who writes the Dear Joe"
letter weekly for PAD. excerpts
from books about children and the
usual excellent editorial comment.
this time about children and their
world with emphasis on the world
Of color which they must face. The
photographs. a new departure for
South To-day are good too.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-05-13
World War
Veterans Meet

A meeting Of the Second World
War Veterans will be held Sunday.
May II at o'clock at the Civic
center, ia Erskine. Purpose is to
seek employment. provide recrea-
ton and help further the cause that
they are now fighting for. All men
and women honorably discharged
from the armed forces Of the United
States are urged TO attend The
speaker will be the state president,
Miss Jerrie Jeromin.
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Rev. Brady Will
Address Y Dinner

The Rev r. L. Brady o. Second
Baptis; church will be guest speak
or az a Victory dinner at Central
branch YWCA on Tuesday. MAY TO-,
al $50 y m. The Rev Nj Bradley
VIII speak on Vitality for Victory,
and Preparation for Peace" This
dinner closes the annual member
ship campaign Of the YWCA and
final reports from oil branches will
be given.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-15
Tells OF Old Settlers In Third Article
On History OF Jackson, George Counties

Greek, was a justice of the peace
,or the shortlived Mobile county
in 1912 and for Jackson county
the same year, was judge o. the
probate court in 1922. The rela-
tionship between this man and
the George Davis from Ocean
Springs who was a Confederate
veteran and member of the legis-
lature in 1892 has not been work.
ed out.
Samuel Davis. Matthew Carter.
and William Goff. These three
men are given together because
they were brothers-in-laW, Davis
and Carter having married Gofl's
sisters, as did Henry Fletcher.
Samuel Davis later became the
clerk Of the courts Tor a period Of
eighteen years and voluntarily re-
tired. His descendan 5 en- the east
side o. the river are represented
by the Davises and CunninghamS
and on the west size o. the river
by the John Ramsay family.
Matthew Carter. Was tae father
OF Griffin, John, and Bill Tone
Carter, Mrs. Capt. jim Byrd Mrs.
Sicero Broom. ana one daughter
who married a John Carter.
Among the Carter descendants
today are Knox and Stewart
Broom, Inman and Jim Byrd
Ramsay, John Lovett Carter, and
Upton David.
William Golf. A daughter, Pol
ly, married James Roberts and
founded the Mt. Pleasant family
of Roberts. Their children were
Garner, Thomas O., Erwin, Ran
dali, Alfred, Mrs. Charles Ravens,
Mrs. jeff Ravens, Mrs. John Car
ter, Mrs. Griffin Carter, Mrs.
John Graham, and Mrs. Ed Tay-
Tor. William Goff's other chill
dren are yet to be listed.
Edmund Golf. Entered land as
early as 1912 and was taxpayer
for many years. May have been
a brother of William above-what
have you?
Aaron. Hubbard. and Lewis
Parker. Evidently connected with
the Parkers of today as a Hub
bard Parker, a veteran of the
Civil War, was member of the
Board of Supervisors for many
years and his relatives live
around Benndale.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-15
NONRESIDENT NOTICE
No. 9I38

-
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
To Jesse May Polk Austin, Chi
cago, Illinois.
You are summoned to appear
before the Chancery Court of
the County of Jackson in said
State, on the second Monday of
January A. D., 1945, to defend
suit No. 9138 in said Court of
Earnest Austin VS. Jesse May
Polk Austin, wherein you are a
defendant, and wherein COM
plainant seeks a divorce, as fully
set out in bill on file.
This Both day of November
A. D., 1914.
FRED TAYLOR,
Clerk, Chaneery Court,
Jackson County, Mississippi.
At 1878, is, %, 90
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-15
NONRESIDENT T
No. 9i35


THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
To Jasper O. Burrus, Tula
homa, Tennessee.
You are summoned to appear
before the Chsneery Court of
the County of Jackson in said
State, on the Second Monday of
January A. D., 1945, to defend
suit No. 9l35 in said Court of
Mrs. Jean Taylor Burrus vs.. Jas
per o. Burrus, wherein you are
a defendant, and wherein COM
plainant seeks a divorce and res
toration of her maiden name, as
fully set out in bill on file.
This 30th day of November,
A. d., 1914.
FRED TAYLOR,
Clerk, Chaneery Court,
Jackson County, Mississippi.
At 1873, is, %, 80