Arkansas State press., 1944-10-13
PLAIN TALK
(The expressed in this column those OF tho writer ana
necessarily the editorial opinion OF TINS paperra
WHITE MEN TO TAKE AVA WARTIME ADVANTAGES
WON BY NEGROES UNLESS LEADERSHIP CAN
CONTROL MASSES
by DAN GARDNER

Probably our greatest need today is to give
the lasting lesson in the fundamental vaue Oh me
beyond the routine of getting the Job to earn the
money with which to buy bread pay the rent and purchase
clothes
Without going into the long argumentave passages of
profound sociological vhyoes and Whereores OF the race
problem, it be safely said that the American Negro
stands in danger of losing every social advntage ne mas
won or been granted unless he pulls himself together right
away and gets rid of his own burden That burden Is,
lack of mass discipline lack Of respect for the rights OF
others, and true pride in honest race achievement.
The war is going to end day and when 1t does
many of the temporary advantages have won in the midst
of national hyseria are gong to be taken away from US
by the white flushed with victory and with enhanced
pride in the abilities of the Nordic to rule the world IN
Guiding its darker peoples ,,,
The prejudices which fight at home valantly
going to be vicious and necessary to the white
he settles down to reconstruction of his domestic
social order First and foremost among the that
will be put forward why the Negro must be kept in the
status of second rate citizen inferior being that he
cannot control his own people 1t VIII be claimed that ne
constantly be supervised by whites whether by police
ynchng mobs Jim Grow rules and regulations) to
avoid serious consequences to the overall pattern OF Amer
lean domestic social and economic volues.
The white is going to point to all the outward
manifestations of lack of control basis for his
superior attitude he going to illustrate his with the
increasing incidents of juvenile dellnsuency pointing
out which he will contend stress characteristic racial
tendencies He is going to show that Negro children
es of them are almost completely ignorant the discpn-
airy controls that go with American family life and wild
through thousand streets of many American cities
til they either settle down of their accord dis
IS
going to point out in his argument for his for put
ting increased pressure the Negro that Negro leader
ship is demanding and getting economic and social
advantages than the Negro public is ready to receive
that the Negro Of earlier generations eaed in the fear
of the white taught by examp to accept the inferior
status in which he paced) is typical of the kind of
Negro to be desired to live in the midst of the new white
civilization the white man intends to build in this country
after the war.
WE SUFFER TOO MUCH HASTE
1t is strange indeed that in rapid acquisition Of
better places in American life - the outstanding jobs that
have to in recognition Of abilities the social
prestige attaining the exploits of our Marian An
dersons Paul Robesons Joe Louses Ben Davses George
Washington Carvers, and those leading us haven't
seen the fact that the great of Negroes the 20
million and over Of who make up Americas biggest
minority group being crminaly neglected