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The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24
MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL TEACHER

read. and when she was no longer able her
small daughter read Bible stories and chlldrens
hooks 10 her
Interrupted Education To Help Her Mother
My earliest ambitions were to get all the
schooling possible 10 teach IN Eastern womcn'S
college 80 write a grammar. recalls DR.. Chand-
lo,. Soon because Of ihwarted ambitions
vartcd ~ help others realize Their ambitions
and thus avoid some OF the suffering which had
been rlne
Although she wa, valedic.orian Of her high
school class and won scholarship 10 Simp.
son College. il took Zilpha Chandler IL years
10 her B.A degree She used 10 have 10
keep running home after a semester or so of
college 10 take Of her invalid mother and
help her father. sister, four brothers. an aunt
and several other relations with the "womens
work"
With still more perseverance she realized
some angles Of her ambition. In 1928 she re-
ceivcd her Ph d at the State University OF Iowa
She is the author OF An Analysis of the StyliStic
Technique Of Addison, Johnson Hazhtt and
Pater," and co-author with j. Hubert Scott Of
"Phrasal Patterns in English Prose She has
taught in Coe College, Beaver College for
Women, Keuka College and Upper Iowa univcr-
Sity
Or Chandler enjoys her life AZ pJncy Woods
She derives real pleasure from the southland
beauty Of the campus. But most Of all she likes
- talk about her pupils and their accomplish
r'Cnts. She tells about the heSa secretary Mr.
Jones ever had, who began working IN his Of
fec when ha was IN the eighth grade and was
"0'2Stcr Of tvNInC. nng and shorthand we'll
as CXrcrt operator Of tho addrcSSoeraph and
Craphotype. Another student. while al Piney
Woods. learned 10 play every instrument IN the
orchestra. She is now a teacher Of band music
in college and is also an artist in costume de-
signing and eSthetic dancing. A Pncy Woods
graduate, who learned cooking al the school, Is
now chef on Great Lakes freighter and
spends his vacations teaching cooking at his
Alma Mater.
She tells of an armlesS boy who played base
ball and typed: lceleSs bov who makes living
as musician; blind gr' who teaches in Piney
Woods.
DR.. Chandler says her hobby is raising
money for the new PineY Woods Library. II.
which the students will make the bricks with
their own hands and also do most OF the car
penirY work. During the past year she has
raised S23 600 Of the necessary $4,000 II will
be the only library in three counties open to
Negroes.
DR.. Chambers biggest thrill in hfc is seeing
the pupils and the school develop She finds
pie taSurC' in tho Saturday night Socials indoors
and outdoors: taking an occasional trip TO New
Orleans or Baton Rouge; attending Negro
conrcnc~. crt. visiting a negro college: watch
ing tho "Enelish rlc,ureSquoncSS OF the Ayr.
shire cattle grazing on the campus,
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24
WE'VE Discovered AMERICA
(War Writers BOard)

These past years have turned each of US into dis
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the people who make up America
For long, many of held false pictures in minds
of our fellow citizen Our aAmercan girl likely to
be blond, blue-eyed snub-nosed with like Jane or
Mary Ann Actually she might just we'll have had dark
hair bright black eyes olive complexion and name like
Rosa. Our typical American boy broad-shoudered.
strong awed Stawar of AngoSaXon ancestry white in
color Protestant in religion.
Now we've discovered that there is typical American.
Pfc John Smith fighting alongside boy named Correli
and another named Derounian and tended by efficient
Army called Sylvia Schwartz found that out fast
His folks back home had their eyes opened too
pie from other places to work in neghboeng war
plants They were of many different ancestres different
faiths different racial groups. They Americans.
Personal contact taught that might have learned
long ago. if looked the black and white statistics The
facts that less than oneha of population white
Protestant and Ango-Saxon The statistics show that 553
per cent of Americans either foregnborn Negro,
Catholic jewish Of other racial or religious back
ground including every every religion and every ma
tionaity on the globe.
Former Secretary of State StmSon said il we'll when he
announced the name of the onehundredh nfantryman to
receive the Congressional Medal of Honor He mentioned
some of the other heroes who had already the highest
honor Kelly. MARTINEZ Banch Sadowsk, Tominac. Baker
Werdorer. Fourner, Lopez, Bjorand, They these
United States" he said
This great asset. But il can also be of
weakness as our enemies have known only well During
the they tried differences in ancestry
and religion of making weak and disunited
As il turned out that underhanded divide and conquer
strategy thrown right back in der fuchrerS face.
Every political racketeer who tries TO spread bgoty in this
country and split Americans apart will batter his head
against the stone waaS long hold firm to the
discovery that has brought The very mixture Of
ca and religious groups which compose the American peo
rle is the of our strength
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24
Reprinted from the N. Y. Post)
By MARY BRAGGIOTTl

Tn TIE PINE woods OF Mississippi % miles
south OF Jackson there lives siIm little
W. an. with brown haU and H,uc eyes. Who
e. lcS school When DR. Zilpha Ellen thand-
lel ,lISt arrived more than tWo years ago ~ take
TT her duties as head of the English Gc~3rtNcnt
Of the Pincy Woods Country Life School Tor un-
dC -Ivi.ged Negro children, one teacher Vas
h,i 70 describe her 70 another She's Young
srd stylish"
isn't So" sand Dr. Chandler vixen this
d. .~tion was repeated TO heg i III almost %
an | haven't time TO be stylish MaNoc >hc
loo>s So Young because Shc 5 DONG eNdc''N "hd'
she wants 70 do IN lfc And maybe She StNiiSh
because .he's been making and making over
clothes for people who couldn't afford ~ buy
nov ones ever since she small child ana
her father, an Iowa farmer and former livery
stahle proprietor, taught her how To use sew
ing machine
Until Laurence G. Jones founder and princi
pa of Pncy Woods wrote 10 hex al Upper Iowa
university, where she was teaching asking her
10 deliver the commencement address at Plncy
Woods in the spring Of lq43.N she had only known
Of the school through having heard group of
Plnev Woods singers give 4 program at the
Methodist Church in FayettC, Iowa
She accepted the Jones invitation. The re-
suit was that she fell so completely under the
schools spell that she returned in the fall TO
become the only resident white teacher Of the
more lucrative position in low. She is now
dir-cior of all academic ins'rueii9n.
The experience OF giving tho commencement
address al Pincy Woods and meeting great souls
who fclt no color line and no bitterness made
me decide to return to Pincy Woods and offer
my services" says Dr. Chandler Both faculty
and students deserved help. and ! had had edu-
cstional advantages that none Of them had been
privileged TO enjoy If could give to them some
Of the advantages that had been mine. nothing
il seemed TO me- could be more worth while.
Parent, Of Her Students Are Mostly Illiiersis
Also. had Theory that M ch, much more
could be taught than is taught IN most schools
system and Standardization hinder progress
That my theory was true Is abundanty proved
al Pincy Woods | have taught more to llth
grade students here IN English than to any col
lege class | ever had
DIR Chandler has a right to be proud ot this
particular success The great majority ot the
parents of her pupils are ilhtcratc. In the old
davs she saws before the age limits for students
were set at from four to "a, parents and grand.
parents used to 60 to school with the children
Zilpha ChandlerS own childhood was unusual
Born on a farm in Kcllerton. Iowa, her earliest
memories arc Of mother who couldn't talk
Due 10 an illness which was never rroNcrN di-
agnosed her mother gradualv lost one faculty
after the other. former teacher, she loved 10
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24
New Haven
News
Bv ELSIE PARKS


Ensign Peat GeatteS has received
his honorable discharge and Is
making his home IN New Haven
with his sister. Mrs Robert Hersh.
Miss Thelma Coates ot Cleveland.
o. is visiting HIM here.
Cpl. Morris Chapman has also
received his honorable discharge.
Edward Bean is visiting here as
civilian after serving five
years and four months In the
armed forces.
MIR. ard Mrs John DoZier. Sr,
have moved INTO their new home
on Northlawn avenue IN Fernda.e.
A formal ArmiS;ice day turkey
dinner was given by the Sunday
School union. Some Of those seen
enjoying themselves were Nr. and
Mrs. Syster Davis. Mrs Leola
Parks. Miss VI. Lee. Miss HortenSe
Snowton, Miss Mildred Carter,
Miss Elizabeth Pas, Miss Elsie
Parks and many others
Mrs. Fannie Harris, her daugh-
ter and niece. Mrs Fannie Hol-
lard. were guests over the week
end in Berea and Cleveland, Q.
While there Mrs. Harris attended
the wedding OF her niece. the
former Ruth Richardson.
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

men in the armed services have debated the
race question in barracks, around campfires in
wardrooms, on deck and on leave and liberty.
They have written letters to Stars and Stripes.
TO Yank, and to their papers and magazines back
home.
Hundreds OF thousands of workers in the fac
tories and offices on the home front have also
worked with Negroes for the first time in their
lives and they have an opinion on the question
Deep Are the Roots that moving play on
Broadway now playing to standing room only,
is testimony not only TO the recognition of
theme by its soldier authors, but to the deep
interest OF Americans in inter-rscial justice The
play cuts through the usual crust of playgoers
and inspires cheers Kisses, booes applause, and
tears in the audience II this thinking on the
race problem had brought nothing except Deep
Are the Roots We should have cause TO be
thankful
But there has been more There has been
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

Senator Bilbo and has rantng against FEPC and
against the whole Negro race, his blatant white
supremacy talk which he and his kind do not
sense is now out of step with the times AS
shocking as his speeches and letters have been,
they have served to sharpen up the general
question and have forced the attention of the
public. We have Bilbo to thank for dramatizing
tt millions of whites the absurdity and injus-
tice of the white supremacy idea hard after the
death of Hitler
Another manifestation of this awareness Of
the problem is to be found in the signing Of
Jackie Robinson by the Dodger management. No
Negroes were signed in 1920 or 1885. Why in
l945? Simply because there is greater feeling
on our side-about justice than there was then.
Similarly, the announcement that the Navy is
ready to receive Negroes for training as combat
pilots is another cause for thanksgiving This
is the last bastion in the Navy Navy flyers are
the aristocrats of the aristocratic Navy. When
Negroes receive their gold wings there, then
something has crumbled. In the Navy, unlike
me Army there can be no Negro" flying units
When colored boys are let in, they are bound
to be all the way in-integrated with whites
truly serving side by side. II hasn't happened
yet, and my fingers are crossed, but il has been
announced and that means it is on its way.
The Detroit election, like the Bilbo speeches.
must be counted on our side FrankenSteen did
not win, but he lost principally because of the
vicious hatred propaganda used against
him. II the race were not important, if it were
not marching forward il would not be used in
a critical political campaign. Ofttimes the size
OF the opposition is a measure of our progress.
Finally there is the charter of human Liberties
drawn up in Chicago which dares TO declare
against residential segregation by restrictive
covenant. Yes. in l945, with all that is still not
right We have much for which to give thanks.
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24
AN AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE USSR

training in an all-Negro outfit.
We gave him questioning
glance.
Il know what you mean" he said.
I've read about il and I've been
told what 10 expect. But thus far
I've been fortunate. ! didn't run
into anything unpleasant in any
Of the camps l stopped of al in the
Middle East"
Then he added, In the Soviet
Union there is no problem with
race. I guess that's. why there Is
no superior people In the USSR.
The White Russians and the
Ukrainians were the most ad-
vanced. 50 the government has
done everything 10 advance the
Jews and Georsians and Eskimos
and the Oriental peoples, % they
could catch up"
How had he got to the Soviet
Union in the first place?
My mother was school teacher
in New York City. She went on a
trip TO the Soviet Union in 1923
and took US along-me and my
brother Neal. She thought il would
be good thing for US 20 come up
without race problems, so when she
got ready 10 come home the same
year she left US behind in Moscow.
! was nine years old
In \ Russian School
His mother left Neal. who was
six. in kindergarten Charles she
left al the Moscow Experimental
school. This was the laboratory
where the best Russian educators
were formulating the Soviet sys-
TEN Of education. he said. Charles
was the only foreign child in the
school. There were $50 children en-
rolled. $50 Of them lived in. In two
months Charles could speak Rus
sian.
y, was a fne school," he said.
In the fifth grade We studied
German, French and physics. In
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24
do EF'!}|

COMEBODY is always trfling with the morals
~ Of our statesmen. John L. Lewis the boss
o. the miners, called former Vice President Gar
ror "a wicked, whiskey drinking. poker playing
evil old man" Roosevelt got in hot water when
he tried to use voting machine at Hyde Park
and let 60 with, the God-damnned lever won't
work" Now this week We learn the Baptists
are jumping on Presiden, Truman for his free
and easy ways with his poker PLAYING cronies
from Missouri. The Baptist General Convention
o: Texas has passed resolution cenSuring him
OLD TIMERS insist that JACKIE Robinson IS
not the first Negro in MAJOR league baseball Il
seems that there was another Colored gent in
the game who vas passing as hlackfoot In
dian Everything went all night while the team
was on tour. When the team returned home for
short series, the colored gent vas met at the
railroad station by brass band and mob Of
his colored friends The jig was up, if you get
what mean.
SOME OF THE sisters who take their culture
seriously shuddered when Miss Hazel Scott
tot,ed out that Jazzy trio AT the Masonic Tenn
pie the other night Despite what that daily
critic said the audience did not pat their feet
One matron did. however remark, Reverend
PowclIs wife sure has got this Joint lumpin.
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

We got a telephone call from q
friend one evening asking If she
could bring Charles Burroughs, a
young Negro CT. over 10 see US.
Hes been in the Soviet Union for
II years-went over when he was
a little boy" she told us. This is
his hrst time home. thought you
might like TO talk to him"
We told her We certainly would
like 10 find out how the U.S.A.
looks 10 a Negro boy who grew
Up under Soviet racial freedom.
They arrived in about an hour.
Burroughs skin is dark brown;
his hair. thick and wavy: his face.
strong-looking and intelligent. He
was wearing his army uniform.
How did he like being back:
II like change an adventure"
he said. land to ride those big
double decker buses down Fifth
avenue and Riverside drive is
wonderful. love that. But people
must be very unhappy to live
here with the radio nagging all
day: Buy Coca-Cola Pepsi
Cola buy this -. buy that. In
the Soviet Union we don't have
so many gadgets like you have
here. There are not all these
things to buy. so we have time
for much more-for so many real
things"
Long Voyage Home
He spoke slowly and with an
accent. When We commented on
this. he said that most Of the time
Re says the words 10 himself in
Russian first; then translates aloud
IN English
Why had he come back
Well. he said. the American am
oaSSador in Moscow had called him
and his brother Neal up for mili-
tEry service last May Neal has
poor eyeSight and was rejected.
Charles was accepted and was sent
BY plane from Moscow 10 Teheran.
by train 10 another point in Persia.
ty plane 20 Cairo and by truck 10
Port Said. where ne boarded
transport for New York.
Now he vas az the end Of 30
Gay leave. Tomorrow he would 20
10 Camp Lee. Va, 20 get his basic
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

ing into winter. and reaching
down the river TO the bridges at
Poughkeepsie.
The actors in the play are gone
from the stage. The SINGLE stone
among the rose beds. walled with
green, holds the spotlight.
And yet that stone. like the house
and the grounds about il. is still
barred 10 the public. Though the
HYDE Park house and thirty acres
about H. presented 10 the United
States by Mr.. Roosevelt and his
wife. have been set up as a Ma
tional Monument under the care
OF the Park Department as the
agent OF the Secretary OF the In
terror. arrangements for public use
OF 1t have not yet been completed
may not be before next spring.
The place is strictly guarded. I'm
I'll recently the guards were MPs
in olive drsb or khaki. now they
wear the green of the Park Serv-
ice.
But still the pilgrims come. They
come. though they must be con-
tent TO see the collection OF treas
ures which has been assembled in
the low building OF field stone
which Mr.. Roosevelt caused to be
built to preserve and display them
and for the care of the papers
that record his long public career.
This Is the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Memorial Library. II stands so
close to the grave that only the
high hedge shuts off the view.
Every day, except Monday. il is
open-on payment Of fee Of IS
cents-te all corners. And every
day the pilgrims come, sometimes
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

the sixth grade we took up chem
lstry, algebra, geometry. and in
the eighth grade. trigonometry.
Then we had skiing. horseback
riding. and summers we went to
camp on the fine country estates
the collective farms own.
AFTER I graduated I went to
work In the Stain auto factory.
In the Soviet Union, schools and
chiidren's homes are sponsored
-cheffed, we say-by q factory.
We were cheffed by the airpiAne
works. The men financed the
school and looked after US In lots
OF ways. The last three years I'm
school We worked three hours n
day In the shop with them like
apprentices. We did things for
them. too. We ran their political
classes In the plant and we ran
classes for ifiiterate workers"
When war came with Finland.
Charles and Neal tried to Join the
Red Army. Their mother had come
back in 1886 and the boys were
now living with her in an apart
nlent.
When they wouldn't let me into
a combat unit" he went on. ~ got
into civilian defense. worked in
lumber camp at Vologda. 400
miles north OF Moscow near the
Finish front. Then ! came back 70
Moscow to train for my profession"
His Mother'x Work
Charles father was an actor. and
Charles chose the circus as a career.
He entered the Moscow Institute
Of the Circus for training in aero
battles and juggling. When the Ger
mans approached Moscow in Octo-
cer. l9+l, he left 10 dig trenches.
Then, during the siege. the Circus
School opened UP a music hall on
MeyerkofSky Square and put on
performances for soldiers and civil
ienS. We played day and night.
The place was always crowded"
What had his mother been doing
in Moscow those nine years?
She broadcaSts for Radio Mos
cow-EngliSh shortwave TO Minsk.
Britain ard the United States. News
comments and interpretations, he
said.
You can. become anything you
Hant in the Soviet Union" he said
earnestly. whoever you are. The
Soviets have worked 10 bring out
everything each group has"
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

1T SEEMS everybody is taking credit for
persuadng Miss Scott 10 cancel that engage
ment with the National Press club, Al Smith, Chi
cago Defenders Washington correspondent,
claims he did II via long distance telephone
while the artist and her Congressman husband
were in Grand Rapids. a local paper also claims
the credit Nothing like blowing your own horn
in ,hIs modest era
DOWN IN Washington everybody is waiting
for Senator Bilho 10 publish that book in which
ne claims he takes the trousers off the liberals
Il is rumored also that some Of these same lib
erals have hired an expert genealogist 10 look
Up the family tree Of the Mississippi Senator.
The boys are gong 10 get real nasty if this
keeps up.
THAT WHITE major who was almost nobbed
for sitting down with two Negro soldiers in a
white Jackson, Mississippi. restaurant last week
is the hero Of the hour. The joint was called the
Jefferson grill II is reported that it was named
for Jefferson Davis and not for Thomas Jeffer-
son as some might have supposed Jefferson Da-
Wis Of Confederate fame not only left his foot
prints on the sands o. time hut almost every
razor hack and hoh-tacd cat IN the South has
been named for him
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24
INDICTMENT

DR.. willard T.. Park, an anthro-
pologist from Yale. has been ap-
pointed to head . l2-man UNRRA
mission TO Ethiopia. He Is annoy
ing to our reactionaries and chances
are they will be happy to have him
as far away as Africa.
We recall that when he was
teaching at Maryland university in
College Park. Md. near Washing
ton. he was hailed before an in
dignant trustee board and asked to
show reason why he should not be
dismissed His offense. he found.
was that he had been entertaining
colored friends from Washington,
in his home in College Park.
Parks heard them through. then
gave them a lecture on tolerance.
anthropological proof that there Is
no race superiority. followed by an
assertion that he intended to en-
tertain guests as he saw ft. The
board members did the squirming
and were glad to forget the whole
thing
Alfred smith In Chicago De-
fender.
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

Ine mouse Where he was born,
to which throughout his life he
came back TO be refreshed from
his labors, where the great ones
came from the ends of the earth to
exchange counsels and gather
courage TO meet the problems OF q
war involving all the world and
the fate Of civilization-the house
where his friends and country
men. little folk and big. politicians
and plain citizens-came TO consult
him about their own affairs. or the
nations or the neighborhood's-
that house stands empty just few
yards away.
II is no longer a family home
and gathering place for the men
and women who played leading
parts in the greatest drama OF his
tory. II is National Monument.
The fallen leaves Of autumn
have laid a yellow carpet on the
lawn under the old maple trees
that cast their grateful shade over
King George and Queen Elizabeth
when they were summer visitors
to cur First Citizen. The ever
greens that have mingled their
fragrance with the smoke of Win
ston Churchill's big cigar, and
thrown their dark shadows upon
the figures of Mackenzie King and
so many ether Prime Ministers and
potentates, still stand sentinel be-
fore the wide front of the mansion
with its pertico and flanking stone
wings. The grassy terrace where
Nine. Chang Ksi-shek stood and
looked at the sunset still cem-
mands its sweeping view Of the
hills across the Hudson new
splashed with autumn celors fad
The Michigan chronicle., 1945-11-24

It would seem that the
greatest cause for thanksgiv-
ing is the recognition by mil
lions of new people of the
Importance in the postwar
world of fair dealing and just
treatment on the race prob
lem. There is evidence on all
sides that people who never
thought about it before are
now disturbed and anxious to
express an opinion and to 90
further and do something on
what many agree is Americas
No. / social problem.
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