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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
Freedom Of The Mind
Bv RUTH TAYLOR

Last Monday when was going through the great mass
of papers that my desk the first of each week,
found in the Whitesde County News mast head slogan
which impressed me greatly 1t apt that cut it
and stuck it up on my desk thought about often dur
ing the week that I'm passing to you Stating the pur
pose Of this excellent paper it read ITO WakeUp rather
than Makeup your Mind!'
If that isn't the function of both a newspaper and
writer then don't know what is! Not to tell you what to
think but to stir up your thoughts!
One of the disadvantages of being free people is that
have to think things for ourselves Our thoughts do
ed when want to them Of course thinking is hard
work. and must be most cautious in the proper evaua
ton of what we hear and read.
If this is too much work. we could get around it by
shutting out the world and believing what the oudes speak
tells 1t be dark if you shut your eyes and
quiet you plug up your Notice how the people who
say why didn't the government tell of the danger
n the very who shut their eyes and their
ears to the forces raging in the world about them.
We need to wake up our minds with setting up exer
cSes. We need to look around and what is really
not what is told We need to look for the purpose back
of bold definite statements to show courage
enough to say WHAT is your proof?"
Herr Goebbes put across the most successful propa
ganda campaign in history the theory that if you shut
off all but avenue of news and then repeat lie often
enough and loud enough would be believed Unfortunate
for the world his evaluatiOn of the worlds mentality
correct He would have succeeded in his the greatest
spracy of all time had there been in the free countries
free people bold enough to ask for proof and show that
he lied
Here in America believe in the freedom of the self
governed thinking citizenry. There is need the
Gestapo in America We enlightened citizens will do our
thinking, curbng prejudice do our tongues be-
we believe in decency and in the responsibility of free
thought.
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Britain Based
CONTINUED from Page u

building an airdrome here where
once stood only wooded swanny
marshland filled with mud ard
SlIlSh
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
New Delta Chapter
Is Set-Up In Waco

WACO. Texas.-(ANP)-The 18th
chapter in the southwestern region
Of Delta Sigma Theta sorority was
established in Waco, recently. Beta
Rho Sigma, q graduate chapter,
was set up by Chrystine S. Shack
les, southwestern REGIONAL direc-
tor, assisted by Myra D. Hemmings,
grand vice-president Of San An
tonic.
Beta Rho Sigma is composed of
sorors from Bolton, Temple, and
Waco. Those present OF the i'm
presSive ceremonies we're: julia
Faye Abecrombie, RUBY o. Aber
nerthy, Gladys Alley, Vivian
Brown, Geneva S. Connally, JEFF
fie o. A. Conner, Renette Dog
gett, Jewel NJ. Graham, Elizabeth
H. Harbert, Lola w. Hicks, Mar
garet L. Huffman, Bessie Jordan,
Lula A. Kruger, Vera f. Malone,
Laura Paige, Katie B. Pierre, Mar
gorie Z. Robinson, Myrtle L.
Shepherd, Willie Bea Thomas, and
Crystine S. Sh2ckles, Mable
Echols, Marie Alexander Of Aus
tin, and Myra D. Hemmings Of
San Antonio
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
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Continued from page II
iungles of the Pacific, it is time
" and right to hold up now the
right of a free ballot as a free
right. This idea and ideal must
90 side by side with the different
practical things that have to be
worked for at every polling place.
The enemies of the poll tax bill
have never denied it's effectiveness.
They have never passed up an OPP
portunity to delay or defeat 1t.
They have worked tireleSsly and
they have never said 'it doesn't
matter" They have seen it is not
ANYTHING less than the common
people on the march.
When the anti-poll tax bill IS
passed by the Senate-and the
swelling support of its passage can
make that inevitable-the most
skillful hidden weapon Of those
who would disfranchise the peo-
pie is gone. No longer will a mi
nority in each state be able to hide
behind state constitutions. They
still will have other means left,
true. And against these we must
continue to fight We must fight
them everywhere until we have the
right to vote.
FIGHT WILL BE EASIER
But the fight will be easier after
passage of HR Z. Tt will be easier
because the ideal of voting Will
be clear and bright. 1t will be
easier because the federal govern
ment will have reaff1rmed our
democracy. It will be easier be-
cause the unity won in working for
the repeal will have brought about
a working alliance OF democratic
forces and an intelligent interest
on the part of new masses OF clt1-
ZenS.
It will be easier because the Ne
gro, who has been in the forefront
of the fight to enfranchise 4,000,-
600 of their own people and 6,000,-
900 disfranchised whites, win have
shown beyond question that they
have in the halls of Congress q
strength that must be reckoned
with.
(And if it isn't reckoned with,
brother. the polls in November
1914 is the place to register your
protest-those of you who are not
shackled by poll taxes, white
primaries. and false literacy tests.)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
ATLANTA, Ga C5NS) .

ATLANTA, Ga C5NS)-
John H. Calhoun, well known
businessman, church, civic and fra
ternal leader, announced late Mon
day that he would seek the Re-
publican nomination for congress-
man from the Fifth Congressional
District.
This is probably the first time
since the Reconstruction Period
that a Negro has sought this hon
or from this district.
Mr.. Calhoun's formal announce
ment of his intention follows:
Upon the advice of number of
my friends, and in the interest of
developing the tWo-party system in
Georgia, I propose to seek the Re-
publican nomination for Congress-
man from the Fifth Congressional
District of this state. 1t is our firm
belief that this will permit articu-
late expression of the thousands Of
Republicans in this district, and
give me an opportunity to render
distinct service to my fellow citi-
zens. would appreciate express
ions and support from my friends
and possible supporters in the dis
trict."
Mr.. Calhoun is connected with
the realty firm of Cornelius King
and Son and the Calhoun Furni-
ture Company. superintendent of
the Sunday School at Big Bethel
A. M. E. Church, he is an outstand-
ing layman in his connection and
will serve as a delegate to the 1914
general conference of his church
in Philadelphia. He is president of
the Atlanta Pan-HelIenic Council
and has long been active in the af-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
BUILD FINE AIRDROME

Tackling their task with char
actpristic efficiency, the boys set
out to make something out of
nothing, and from this nothing
ness which they found. there slowly
came to life a fire airdrome, one
So necessary for us by the USAAF's
mighty Flying Forts which now
batter Germany without pause it
seems. Daily the battalion trucks
rolled through the mud CRIME
covered engineers toiled night and
dav. "bulldozers" reared, chugged
and showed their way into smooth
paths amid the trees and under
brush. Concrete mixers churned
cement, sand and water into an
absolute mixture, which skilful
bands guided into the places where
precision workers on fine instru
ments had first laid out plans on
paper, and gradually the fielc
| took shape.
Men, who under normal condl-
tons would have goen to the hos
pital from injuries, stuck to their
rosts and refused to quit because
the "eight- two seven as they call
| II, was on the march, and rolling
like a highpoWered football team
in enemy territory seeking touch
downs.
| NO SLAVE-DRIVING
There was no slave-driving. 1t
was all the cody calculated effl-
cheney instilled into the outfit by
its leaders, well-trained officers
who knew ther jobs and who
worked with theil men in a spirit
Of comoanionship realizing that the
goal ahead was one which meant
much for the common good Of Off
GERS and men alike. That made it
easier. and the boys Of the "eight
tWo-Seven" responded in a way
that made their souls ring, and
records fall from aloft And nearly
three months before the time set
for completion the runWays were
all poured and finished.
Oh yes. These lads know their
Job. and they do their job, too.
They do it so well that they might
well Law claim to being one of the
best engineer outfits in the ETO,
The "ETO" is the European Thea
ter If operations. If a postscript"
were to be added here it would say:
"Thev organized a 15-piece dance
orchestra, and turned out stable
of some of the best boxers to ever
appear in fights at London's
famed Rainbow Corners, the
islands CT boxing Madison Square
Garden. All this while building
that airdrome.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01

NEW YORK, N. US n s.
COngresSWOmar Mary Norton,
chairman of the House LaNor Com
mittee, was asked this week by the
Notioral Urban League 30 call n
public hearing on the ScanlOn-
Dawson Bill for permanent
FEPC Committee. The Bill which
is one of several proposals for get
ting fair employment practice III
the postwar period, has been sup
ported by a number Of organiza-
tions, and is sponsored chiefly by
the Council for a Permanent IEPC.
Writing to Mrs Norton, Lester
B. Granger, executive secretary OF
the League, declared: "SOme action
on the federal level is necessary to
implement our American conVlc-
ton that fair employment oppor-
tunity is implicit il our constitu-
tioraI guarantee Of civil rights. The
Scanlon-Dawson Bill, warrants
thoughtful consideration by pro-
ponents of our point Of view ]
am writing to urge that the House
Labor Committee bring this bill up
tor consideration at an early date,
and that a public hearing be ar
ranged as part of the Committees
action such a hearing will afford
individuals and organizations sup
porting the theory of federal ac'
ton, but having questions regard
ing the practical nature of this
particular bill, an opportunity to
make alternative or supplementary
suggestions"
The League communication prals-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
Calhoun Seeks Nomination
To Congress From 5th District

fairs of the Omega Psi Phi Fra
ternity, now serving ) Seventh
District representative. Prominent
as civic worker, he is a member
of the Board of Directors of the
Butler Street YMCA, the Atlanta
Civic-Political League and served
in 1943 as co-chairman of the Red
Cross Membership campaign. He
is a member of the Young Mems
Republican Club. His other COM
munlty activities have been many.
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Report Famous
Continued from Page II

as the 370th Illinois, won high
hOnors in France, including many
medals and citations, for it's COM
bat work as 3 part of the French
Amy.
A nation wide outburst of j. dig
nation followed Secretary sim
sons letter to Congressman Fish
and this anger is expected to
mount to new heights when Negro
Americans understand that two of
the four Regular Army Negro regi-
ments, the 9th and 10th. have been
added to the list of those made
over into service troops.
NO REPLY RECEIVED
The NAACP, which led the ma
tor wide protest in 1882 on the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01

breaking up OF the 10th cavalry
into three units stationed at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, West Point,
New York, and Fort Myer, Vir-
ginia, where they became grooms
and hostlers attending to the
horses of white officers, has taken
the lead in the protest to Secre-
tary Stimson on the present
demotion of the famous old regi-
.aents.
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Plans Laid For
CONTINUED from Page u

will sponsor it's individual class
room program and invite the par
ents. Lecturers will speak to most
ly parents in the following schools,
Mary Jones, Sallie Reynolds, Jim
Hill, Martin, and Smith Robinson.
A maternity Medical conference
will be held at William johnson
Bethlehem Center, at $3.50 p. m,
Wednesday, April 5, and an infant
and pre-schooI conference at st.
Marks Clinic, at 10 a. m, Thurs
day, April 6.
The weeks observance will be
brought to close with an address
by Prof. ChaS. H. Wilson, of AL
corn College, at the Ritz Theatre.
in a public program, Sunday. April
9Th, which will also see the award
ing Of the Annual Poster Prize.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
League Endorses
Federal Action

ed the work of the present FEPC,
but declared, 1T is in accordance
with sound governmental planning
that tbs authority of Committee
operating in this field should be
conferred not merely throukk
the wartime emergency powers OF
the President but through actor
of the Congress itself
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1944-04-01
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by IhoMAs JEFFERSON FLANNAGAN Na&Yn
A Call From The Trenches
z EERsON FLANAGAN

They answered from everywhere the big drums rolls,
They la the draft boards but AZ the pol
Yondr where they're bleeding blood rppes play the
They're good enough dying, but fit %
Can't tell unendy qutlngs hars Democracy them thar hills
When them felers doing the fighting complain voting ills
And claiming they follow the big rolls
They Ia in the drafting to be Al the polls.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07
WALTER WINCHELL p,, On

oners Is the feature Of the Allan
tic Monthly.
Gen. Robert Johnson's first
b o o k. But General Johnson"
princeton Univ. Press contains
a chapter titled, The News, the
Columnists and the Commenta-
tors"
TTIE mellow voices of Radio
City guides. Most of them
hope to become radio an
nouncers Intellectual infor-
nation clerks at the Fifth
Avenue library. They read books
between giving out bits of in
formation.
Swanky Park ave. shops ca
tering TO an international trade,
where many Of the clerks are
linguists Gypsies inhabiting
musty- Third avenue stores,
crystal-balling for a living. They
eat. sleep and bring up children
in those stores.
Out-of-towners park ed in
hotel Hobbies, avidly absorbing a
part OF the big city's hustle-and-
hustle show Tired. heavy
hipped Tenth ave. housewives
fighting a battle that never ends
with peace-the battle for exist
ence.
Copyright BY Daily Mirror. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07

tune a few years ago. How
ever. she still lives In luxury be-
cause she became a bookie! Her
clients are Park Amenities.
Music lovers who take SYM
phony scores to Carnegie Hall
and read the music while It Is
being played F.. A famed matt
nee idol being rushed by gals at
the stage door. Few know that
the only lass who means any
thing in life is a chorine-who
ignores him.
TIVE Intelligentsia-Paul Ken
4 nedy of the N. Y. Times
cinema staff is en- route TO
Spain to report the imminent
blowoff there. His ancestry is
Irish-Spanish.
Bennett Cerfs new book OF
quips. TRY and Stop Me-" IS
due on the third IS ! m On e.
Schuster). It's a bargain. Cert
is quitting Esquire - and vice
versa.
David Kay, ex-Fox camera
man, is using his own cash
$3.50, 000) on They all Want to
Get Married" a show now on
the lower East Side. Yiddish
actors speaking H'engnishO
with Irish chorines!
Henry c. Cassidy's piece on
what to do with German pris-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07

THE barber who asks patrons
4 II they want their locks
clipped with or without CONVEX
sation .. Statesmen in hoity-
toity shops always elegantly
attired. Without spats they
would feel naked.
The creamy-voiced barker at
a penny arcade well-known
Shakespearian thespian a decade
ago, until he discovered that
shilling provided a steadier in
come The white-haired gent
who startles newsreel audiences
by changing q cowbell when his
favorite presidential candidate
appears on the screen.
Clusters of political debaters
In Central Park every evening.
Any one can join the verbal
free-for-all Fl. Sepians at cleo
trio shoe-shine parlors convers-
ing in i've lingo which battles
people who can understand only
English.
The Society Set. which claims
10 be sophisticated. but is the
easiest pushover for all types of
phonies. Societyites have gushed
over fake dukes, counts and
other spurious mobiles for years.
No matter how many are ex-
posed there are always other
phonies to take their place.
The dowager who lost her for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07
WASHINGTON Scene
By George Dixon

Tobin with the information
and he will cancel my honorary
membership I'm the teamsters
union. MIR. Tobin does not like
people to have busted ribs I'M
less his boys do IL.
However, the thing was 80
painful l was unable to take q
bath. In consequence I became
a bit gamey. as we say in the
Political Action Committee.
II was wondering how to
overcome this difficulty when
the secret servicemen arrived.
So I said to them: Gentlemen,
III you will be so good as to
strap me up So I can take n
bath / will be glad to tell you
ALL
They were quite obliging.
Then one of them said:
Secret service work IL so
interesting. You get a chance
to bandage the most delightful
people""
THE United States court Of
L customs and patent appeals
has just handed down this dras-
tic decision:
THE United States W.. Little
Joe WiesenfeId Co. opinion nv
Associate Judge Oscar w.
Bland: Bare saddle seats were
assessed at 25 per cent as
manufacturers Of leather. The
importer protested they were
properly defibsle at go per cent
as saddlery. The court sus-
tanned the protest"
OF course the seats would be
more if people were in them.
TIVE Democratic n ational
L Committee had large
order for campaign material az
a printers when the printing
strike was called.
Naturally. the order did not
come through. so a big shot at
committee headquarters called
the printer. The latter said he
couldn't deliver because there
was a strike on.
THAT sort Of an excuse won't
gow below the big shot.
Don't you know there's n cam
paign going on?"
THE elections over tomorrow,
L thank goodness. and hope I
have heard my last campaign
gag.
At the Banshees luncheon in
New York the other day, Larry
Spivak. the magazine publisher,
got of this one:
Fellow is asked IL he Is going
to vote for Dewey. Fellow says
no, and is asked why.
Because" says the fellow. II
am unalterably opposed TO this
Idea If o first termw
Distributed By Kins Features synd., tns.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07

They can, il they have
common sense, and the gap is
not too wide. OF course, they
may never have been really in
love. but have only gone through
romantic dream together.
After the dream they waken TO
find each had taken the other
in by some few physical attrac-
tons. or some appealing man.
nerisms or dress. This nearly
always happens with the heir
ess-and-chauffeur marriages. If,
however. the parties have pretty
similar backgrounds and poised
temperaments, they can, with a
little give-and-take. fall back in
love harder than ever.
2-No, not even Hitler. His
feeling Of inferiority and disap-
pointment at, not becoming
famous painter has been the
driving force In his life. We are
all inferior 10 every one else in
some way-often In many ways.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07
THESE DAYS
BY George E.
Sokolsky

by the Republicans in 1914, I
should, I am certain. have voted
for Norman Thomas.
But I would have voted and
voted for some one.
I would have faced the de-
cision which I am obligated to
make as long as I am an Ameri-
can citizen and live where vot-
ing is possible.
Perhaps I feel this obligation
so keenly because from 1917 to
1882, / lived in parts of the
world where Americans can
never vote.
In the elections of 1882, I
voted for the second time in my
life. the first being 1916-and I
approached the polls in rever-
ence ecause perhaps there
being no familiarity, there was
no contempt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07

TIVE Federal Register for Nov.
l. / page 13,004) m axes a
startling disclosure concerning
OPA. 1t has placed a ceiling Of
81 ton on all garbage and swill
sold on the Island of Kauai, in
Hawaii.
This is beautiful and inspir-
ing, like moonlight on the beach
at Waikiki. II has inspired me
10 write this lyrical tone poem.
with its haunting memories of
the islands:
Cont you hear those ukuleles
STUNNING love songs Sweet
AND ioiC.
There's ceiling on the garbage
Where they sing aloha oe.
4 COLUMNIST, whose name
"A is either Westbrook Pegler
or L y d / a Pinkham Il am no
good at catching names - con-
fided he had undergone quite an
experience with the l.. S. secret
service.
II seems Mr. Pegler-or Pink
ham - had something 10 COM
municate TO secret service. A
date was made for a meeting.
But, in the meantime. Mr.. Peg
Ter broke couple of ribs.
81 have no Intention OF re-
vealing how bust the ribs"
said Mr.. Pegler, because you
will go running right to Dan
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer =

/ have pointed out that nominate presidents
in June. And then blame it on the heat
We elect them in November when things have cooled
off But then naugurate them in January when every
thing is frozen tighter than
Some day will get rational about this business
Then will concede the American public is just
liable in April as it is in October
have voted in barber shops steam laundries and in
the backrooms of undertaken shops But what resented
most of all at the undy old age of 50 they made go
back to school.
have never been sure just what happened to my
ballot made the old reliable X in the circle with the
square Then dropped it into box. One night
hung around to what they did with the box.
Two watchers along and carried the box away
to mysterious destination not noted in the Four
Freedoms. am under the suspicion that they made a
channel buoy of it in the harbor
We nominate in June, register in October, vote in
November and inaugurate in January That's staggering
the load when the average citizen would prefer to load the
stagger
~ Copyright. by Feature
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-07
Letters From
A Soldier

wasn't so much irritating detail.
Over there. things are done for
a reason. Here they are done
to get you into a habit, and you
can't recognize the reason.
Pfc. Lew Hoalcraft, from
West Virginia, just laughed
when I asked him whether they
griped as much when he was up
in the Aleutians. when we
were living on a boat. we sure
did. And later. we weren't good
for much of anything for the
whole week before a boat would
come in :"
Up there. they didn't have
anything except what came in
on a ship every month or so.
Sgt. Charlse Peterson, who
spent a couple of years in New
foundland. longed to get home.
At first they had no living quar-
tiers except the ship that took
them there. Eventually they
built shacks on land. But what
he wanted was to come home.
He even passed up a promotion
to get home. Now that he's
back in the States he thinks
back to what fun he had in
Newfoundland
In the army everybody looks
either forward or backward.
Probably not one man in thou
sand is sorry to leave Mcclellan,
I've known only one who was.
But as soon as they get some
where else, France. Italy, Africa
or even some other camp-even
the Officer Candidate School at
Fort Benning-they start writ
ing letters back.
boy, II you think Mcclellan
Is rough, you should be here
.. :"
That's the army.