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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
No Segregation Policy
From Start
RULES FOR TOLERANCE

First Never derogatory terms; think them If
possible permit them be used in home. Ne
is simply that he's colored person. Jew is Jew,
like sheeny An Italian is Italian. not wop
An lrshman is hat-not a mick. Pole is Pole-not a
hunky.
Secondly: Don't discriminate in your casual converse
on II you know Jew. don't refer TO him that Jew. II
Irish
Thirdly: Don't suggest religious differences to
ask Johnny whether the boy is Baptist Catholic;
Johnny will find enough and he thinks it Of
Importance he will tell you Don't try to isolate Johnny
he's going live country of Negroes Jews Italians and
dozen other minorties and he wouldn't play with their
children il he didn't think they were fiji associates
"Fourthly Don't bear the anti-Negro antSemitic
antCathoic story in embarrassed silence talk up holly and
nteligenty. and il II losing friend-and a
worth while oneit also shaping your listening chill
dren into better human material"
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
Negroes Guard Germans

Obs correspondent Larry Lesueur
reports this about German prisoners
on the beachhead:
Gone are the fine looking Jack
boots that every German soldier
once possessed. They wear battered
shoes now with canvas leggings in
many cases. Many Of them Just sit
watching Allied supplies come
ashore. their hands clasped foriernly
on top Of their cropped heads.
They are no longer ordered 70
keep their hands In that position:
they just seem to do Il automatically.
Many Of the herrenvolk are guarded
by Negro soldiers. The Germans are
extremely polite to these big boys
with the rich Southern drawl."
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
PISTOL PACkIN' LUDWIG

PISTOL PACKIN' LUDWIG: The
Canadian and British troops were
singing . new song on the Caen
front last week. The words were:
Lay that Luger down. kid. you
haven't got = chance.
Luger Luggin' Ludwig. you're all
washed up In France
Lay that Luger down, kid lay that
Luger down.
Luger. LugEin' Ludwig. lay that
Luger down.
II was set, of course. to the music
Of that American favorite, Pistol
Packin' Mamma"
N. Y. Times
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22

Celia was more fortunate than
Harold in that she had better cul-
tural opportunities. Her father was
. brilliant scholar. She was sent to
Peabody in Nashville. Tenn. her
home town. then to the Sorborne In
Paris. and the University Of London
and to do special work In several
American schools. She was educa-
tional director Of Bronx Settlement
House and taught At Columbia uni
verSity.
She was called 10 the Soviet Union
ana 20 Scandinavian countries 10 or
ssr!ze nursery schools and kinder
gsrtens. Because Of her indifer-
ences 10 ooogies and fears and her
absorption n progressive education,
she returned 10 America 20 Ard her.
self left out Of educational circles.
She wrote and lectured until she
married PreeSe.
New Vision on South
When she returned 20 the South
she says she saw IL with new
vision Now she watches with m
NAAN VI kAAG OlI
miStress-Servsnt relationship be-
tween Negro and white women
Negro women who have gone into
war factories FOR the hrsi time are
learning TO know what definite
duties. hours and pay mean THIS
phenomenon IS PROBABLY going 20 be
me biggest factor IN breaking down
the doubly backward attitude Of
Southern women. black and white
She agrees with her husband that
the rise Of southern industry II
bringing an attending rise In edu-
cation and racial understanding. She
points out that the south has the
lowest academic level Of any part Of
the country. This she ays Is .
menace to industry that needs
skilled workers. and won't be toll
GRATED
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
RIDING COLORED

HOUSTON. Texas Quite con-
fused. . train conductor looked 1t
. group Of white persons here who
were waiting 10 board . train 70
New Orleans.
There Amt no seats on this train
for white folks" he shouted, but II
you want to 90 into the colored
Before he could finish his state
ment, there was . stampede for the
train and the colored coach.
AFRO American
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
WASTING Time

We like the story about the sentry
who heard . noise, called: who
goes there?" A voice from the dark
ness answered: Lieutenant Jones.
Let me through" Il can't let you
proceed without the password. sir"
"Drat II, man. I don't remember II.
You know me we'll enough. Let me
through" Sorry sir. but I've got TO
have the password"
Just then came an impatient hail
from the guardhouse: Don't stand
there arguing all night--shoot him."
This Week
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
QUOTES

The capacity for deep feeling II
not . thing to be taught. Passion
hides in a secret room only to be
unlocked by the owner. and all that
good teacher can do Is to put keys
IN his pupils hands and arouse In
him the desire and curiosity 10 use
the keys.
Lillian Smith.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
FRuITlESS SEARCH

At Hammend, Ind. policemen
labored for eight long hours digging
for missing parts Of headless skele-
ton unearthed by rain In . wooded
section on the city's outskirts. They
when . medical examiner
appeared. took one look and An
bounced that the assembled bones
we're those Of . bowlegsed bulldog.
Pm.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
DUMB As 4 FOX

In Manhattan. 34-year-old Saliva
tore TOro convinced q Judge that.
although he had gone to school for
eight years. he couldn't even spell
out cat" much less the notatisns
on policy slips that police found At
his home.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
LADIES ALL

A young lady. stranded In . small
town. couldn't And . room. but n
nally was told by An old gentleman,
You can sleep with the station
agent"
She huhaly exclaimed. "Sir, I'll
ha you know I'm . LADY,"
The gent drawled. That's all
right So Is the station agent"
n. Y. Post
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
BY MlLLA z. LOGAN
CONDENSED from Common Ground

interracia
s o
Marin City, the public housing project the other
side of San FrancscOs Golden Bridge celebrated
first birthday last Fall The big show in the main
dtorium where quverng 1--WE orchestra attracted the arg
crowd Saturday night and Sunday the yards
would operating Younger day and graveyard work
coored and white Uttered and swayed cheered from
sdelines onlookers Of all ages and both
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
OLD-TIMER

Sixteen-year-old boys have been
taken prisoner in this war. Last
week the oldest prisoner in this and
perhaps any war was captured on
the Normandy beachhead. He was
a 7S-year-old German private left
behind in the retreat. He COM
mented: y was getting tired Of SOL
diering. anyway"
N. Y. Tines
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22

" the wartime conference Of the NAACP in
Chicago last week in which he declared that Ne
gro troops did their duty excellcntly under fire
on Normandy's beaches in zone of heavy combat
and suffered substantial casualtes' raises sharply
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
By CLARENCE ANDERSON

THAT CoLoRED WORKERS perform lust as
efficiently as whites when they receive equal
opportunities All training was stated in this col
umn several months ago. At the time the state
ment seemed matter of fact and was accepted as an
obvious truth by those in the know
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22
ON THE NEGRO PRESS

tCondensed
The Negro press is fundamentally crusading medium
Its positive influence has been exercised and felt in
periods of great social upheaval as is evident. In
honest fury against injustice to the Negro has assumed
these times the position of being highly infammaory and
often anwhte in it's editorial preachmentS Today
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22

went to the party as an employe
Of the Marin County Housing Au-
thority which operates Marin City.
| had invited some friends, for this
was my chance TO show Oft the
child wonder known in public hous-
ing circles in the western states as
race relations" in Marin City.
Here was eye proof that Negroes
and white people tsouthern whites.
tool could not only live together but
mingle socially in harmony. Would
you believe an evening like this
wouldn't end in race rlot?" my
friends asked each other In this
one room relations between the two
races had struck happy balance.
II there was no trace OF hostility.
neither was there any sign Of forced
intimacy. Although Negroes and
whites were not dancing together,
il was not, one felt, because cor
don sanitaire had been set up The
social pattern had fallen into very
natural design. The. young people.
both Negroes and whites. had come
10 dance in their own small
crowds and they stayed within
their own groups Throughout, the
evening. Marin City Is fair-sized
community population 5,0O0) and
even the 1000 Negroes do not all
know each other.
Marin City Has Gone
Only Half Way
Dances like these occur in Marin
City regularly. We are proud Of
what they sisnify-proud, but not
complscent.
We are not complacent, because
Marin City has yet gone only half
the way in its fight against racial
discrimination. Too many people
observing the determination be-
tween Negroes and whites. have
carried away the impression that
the millennium is here and that
even our white residents from JIM
Crow states have seen the error Of
their ways. The story have 20 tell
is more realistic. but j, holds out
strong hope for solution Of the
problem in our time"
No Segregation Policy
From Start
Marin City consists Of 1900 red.
wood housing units sprawled over
the hills outside the seaside village
Of Sausalto. seven miles from Ssr
Francisco When Marin City wa,
ready for occupancy, its executive
director. Judge Guy A. Ciocca
Marin-City-b born son OF Italian par
ents. laid down the policy that there
should be no segregation. The Re
gionsl ONCE for public housing prof
ects in the western states strongly
disspproves of segregation. bu,
Marin City Is one Of the few local
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-07-22

projects that started out with an
announced official policy Of nom
segregation.
The Negro problem" was just as
new 10 Judge Ciocca as il was 10
the county in which he was born
and raised Older heads who had
had experience with Negroes and
knew how 10 treat" them said the
Judge was acting with the assurance
Of the ignorant.
White Southerners
Always Object
When white settlers arrive in
Marin City and find Negroes already
established in their apartment
buildings or in the other side Of
their duplex houses, the outraged
head of the family usually storms
into the rental Office. Where ! come
from-"Georgia, Arkansas, LOUISE
ana, Texas. etc I'VE keep the mig
gahs in their place and they respect
US for il, too" he shouts. "Yes.
ma am, they do. I amt goin' 10
leave my wife and daughters alone
at night with no niggahs prowling
around. You get those niggahs out
OF my building or there's liable to
be a dead niggah around here"
We do not segregate Negroes
here" the girls In the rental Office
tell the shocked Southerners. Marin
City Is the property Of the United
States government. and here we
practice the American creed Of
equal rights and privileges for all"
Ir a week or so the complainant
returns Il 60; 20 move 10 another
house he announces. but now he
is on the defensive and il is his
own family. not the Negroes that
he demands be moved Il can't
stand living next door TO those
niggahs"
Are they annoying you in any
wa" the interviewer asks
Il amt that SO much" ne admits.
But my wife. she's afraid 10 live
next door TO niggahs
Stays Because No Other
Houses Available
The interviewer tells him there
are no other houses available This
is quite true-the project is filled,
and the turnover is very small.
Furthermore. even if he could be
transferred TO another house or
building. he might so 10 all the
expense $50 fee for trsnsfe) and
trouble of moving only to get new
| Negro neighbors in a few months
So he goes home, frustrated. Occa'
sionally he comes back to the rentsl
Office and makes few half-hearted
complaints. in the spirit Of one who
knows be is licked before he starts,
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-29

W MARlN E-Second It. Will bur Carl Sxe (above) of Shang. hal Is the first Chinese to be commissioned In the United States Marine Corps. Anerlcsn-. bsTn Lt. SIe is assigne1 ts the avatieu sYeuad sRee[s sehoe1 of tSp MASine s.-& $. Z. $ saai1aS',so.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-29

ClTATI0N 0N-Screen actress Shelley Winter inspects the pr esidential citation awarded to her husband. IL Mack P. Mayer. .H. Aaytkat0S sA . LiberAtoe hs0HGo 6 &As 1sse sati.ssk. marine sssalysa. sessewtas e.
 ,.ss h As Afrsss. Asa'sr.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Celebrated All-Star Orchestra
10 Be Here Thursday, Nov. l6
At Skating Rink
Aggregation Comes Direct
From Popular Hollywood
Engagement

When Floyd Ray brings his cele-
brated all star colored dance or
chestra of Hollywood fame to jack
son, on Thursday, November Is, at
Skating Rink, local dance enthu-
siast will have an opportunity to
swing it to the popular sepian swing
senation of the nation.
The Floyd Ray aggregation comes
to you direct from Moveland where
it has played for all the screen
celebrities, producers and direc-
tors and special parties on many
occasions.
Floyd Ray, known as the Sepian
Fred Waring, for his bag of must
cal tricks and novelties which have
brought his band to the front with
the name class rapidly in the last
year, established some sort of rec
ord recently in Los Angeles and
Hollywood by playing dance at
the famous Biltmore Hotel one
night at the swing set ''jitterbug''
jamboree in Hollywood, following
the next night with sensational
appearance at the all star swing
concert at the Palomar where they
shared top honors with Glen Gray
and the Casa Lemans.
Floyd Ray and group were the
applause hit of the year while ap-
pearing on the state of Los Ange-
les two leading vaudeville film
play houses-the Paramount and
Orpheum Theatres-for a weeks
engagement.
Owing to insistent demands for
personal appearances throughout
the nation of Floyd Rays band, it
was necessary for them to leave
Hollywood with this brilliant rec
ord behind them in order to take
the talented and versatile musici-
ans, along with Eddie Byrd, sensa-
tional drummer; Ivy,-Vern and Van,
for tour of the country's leading
bathrooms (theatreS)
Remember, colored skaing rink,
November 16. Advance, SIPS; at
door, $3.50.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Work Calmly In
Air Raids; Make
Tonnage Record

With American Forces In France
Men who have worked calmly un-
loading high explosives while anti
aircraft batteries sent up showers
of lax all around them and tracer
bullets pencilled deadly yellow
streaks across the sky are the Me-
gro soldiers of a port company on
Frances coast. Their job Of pass
ing the ammunition" has mounted
into an important part of the big
gest supply achievement in military
history.
Hitting the beachhead in North
ern France shortly after D-Day,
men of the outfit have maintained
a gruelling pace of round the clock
labor, smashing tonnage records
day after day.
They have seen our army hurl
back the front line from point
scarcely forty miles away from
their unloading bases to the Sieg-
fried line, 400 miles to the east.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Farmers Organize
To Help Veterans
Jamaican Presents

Some 1000 practical farmers,
colored and white, in two-thirds of
the nations countries, cooperating
with the U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture extension service, are
checking land values and other ag-
ricultural facts in preparation for
service as personal advisers to re-
turning veterans interested in far
ming.
In preparing for service on Vet
erans' Agricultural Advisor Com
mittees organized by state coopera-
tive extension services, the farmers
are attending land classification
training tours, studying soils maps
and land use planning reported and
surveying farming possibilities, ex-
tension director M. L. Wilson re-
ports.
Information received by the de-
partment from extension directors
in 43 of the 48 states shows that
organization of veterans agricul-
tural advisory committees, begun
at the request of the War Food
Administration, has been completed
in 2,162 of the nations 1910 coun-
ties. Organization of the commit
tees is in process in most of the 9TH
er counties.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Mrs. Bethune Is
Speaker At Sixth
Youth Conference


Esther v. Cooper, executive Sec
rotary of the South Negro Youth
Congress, announced this week
that Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
founder and president of the ma
tional Council of Negro Women,
will be keynote speaker at the
opening public rally of the sixth
conference to be held by the or
ganization on November 80, Decem-
Der 1-3. The conference which has
as its theme: Democracy, the Chal-
lenge of Victory" will convene in
Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Bethune will
speak on Friday night, December
/.
In announcing Mrs. Bethune's ac-
ceptance of the invitation to speak,
Miss Cooper said, I'VE are very
happy to have Mrs. Bethune as our
principle speaker for we feel that
she has been the chief spokesman
for the rights of Negro youth for
many years. Her association with
young pepole at Bethune-C Goodman
and as director of colored division
of the National Youth Administra-
ton has made har very much aware
of the special problems of Negro
youth of the South. AS a leader in
government and public life, Mrs.
Bethune has contributed much to
the advancement of her people and
gained much experience to share
with the youth who will attend the
conference as delegates"
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Agent Shows
Importance OF
Nutrition

Home demonstration agents are
attempting to improve the health
of Mississippi families by showing
what foods can be grown in gar
dens and on farms and how these
foods should be used in well bal
anced diets for children and adu-
It's" So said Miss May Cresswell,
state home demonstration agent,
home extension service, naming nu-
triton as one Of the states most i'm
portant health problems.
Asserting that most Of the foods
needed for good nutrition can be
produced in Mississippi gardens and
farms, Miss Cresswell stated that
the following should be eaten each
day to insure balanced diet:
green and yellow vegetables, citrus
fruit or tomatoes. milk. an egg, a
serving of lean meat, and whole
grain or enriched bread.
"One important part of the home
demonstration program is the in
struction of our club members in
the raising of chickens, the pre-
servation of fruit by canning or
drying, the production of pure
and abundant milk supply and the
Importance of whole grain or en-
riched cereals in the diet" said the
state agent. Pamphlets covering
these subjects may be secured from
the home extension service or from
the county demonstration agents
office"
In these days of food rationing
a garden is both a welcome sup
plement to the family's menu and
a patriotic duty" declared Miss
Cresswell "a. widespread garden
program will do much to raise the
nutritional and health status Of
Mississippians."
Working together. according te
Miss Cresswell and DR.. Virgins
Howard, director of maternal and
child health division, state board Of
health, home demonstration agents
and public health workers are en-
deavoring to give special aid to ex-
pectant mothers through prenatal
conferences at which emphasis is
laid on extra food needs during
pregnancy.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Christmas Pkg.
Mailing Deadline
In lJSA Dec. lst

Post office authorities have set
December ! as the deadline for
mailing Christmas packages for de-
livery in continental United States,
with assurance that they will be de-
livered before December Is.
Postal and transportation offici-
ais expect that the 1914 Christmas
gift mailing within the United
States will top 1943 by Is per cent.
Furthermore, they believe that not
only will more gifts be sent, but
also that they viii travel greater
distances owing to wartime popu-
lation dislocation.
Transportation and delivery OF
Christmas packages at time when
postal and transportation facilities
are already burdened by wartime
demands present major war prob
lem and you can render a real
service by mailing your Christmas
packages early.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Bust of Roosevelt
At White House
Art Exhibition

Alvin T. Marriott, Jamaican soul
ptor who has been in the United
States since April helping to Gull
tivate and harvest important war
crops, presented a bust of Presi-
dent Roosevelt which he made dur
ing his spare time to Maj. &c. Ed
win NJ Watson who received it for
the President at the White House
Wednesday. November l.
Presented on behalf of the 10000
Jamaican farm workers in this
country, the bronze finished, over
life sized bust which stands 26
inches was made by Mr. Marriott as
a token of his appreciation and that
of the other Jamaican farm work.
ers of the opportunity to come to
America under arrangements made
by the War Food Administration to
help cultivate and harvest vital
war crops.
1t is belived that this excelleEtly
sculptured bust, which is a remark
able likeness of President Roose-
welt, will be placed among his other
effects at Hyde Park. Mr.. Marriott
points out that he used a special
technique in chiseling the bust, one
which he says has been highly de-
veloped by Balkan artists.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-11-11
Turkey Order
Still Needed
Says VIA

Turkeys for Thanksgiving, Christ
mas and New Years Day dinner al
ready have been shipped to SER
vicemen and women in the more
remote war theatres. Nevertheless,
the turkey set aside order, under
which all turkeys produced an mar
keted in specified areas must be
held for or delivered to the quar-
termaster Corps, cannot be revok-
ed until all holiday turkey require
ments for all military personnel
have been met, the War Food Adj
ministration has announced.
VIA officials expressed the hope
that turkey professors would speed
their offerings to the armed for
ces so that the order can be ter
minated as far in advance of
Thanksgiving as possible. The en-
barge order, under which turkeys
for the armed forces were obtain
ed for 1894 holiday dinners, was
terminated last year on October 25.
Because military requirements are
considerably higher this year, how
ever, and also because there is a
shortage of labor in many process
ing plants, it is taking longer to
meet military needs for 1944-45
holiday dinners, the VIA said.
AS a consequence, it is anticipat-
ed that turkey supplies for civilian
Thanksgiving dinners will be short
of demand, even though the turkey
crop this year is expected to be
the biggest on record. Civilian sup
plies for Christmas and New Years
Day, however, probably will be
considered larger.