Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-01-26
EDITORIALS VIEWS REVIEWS

occasions. So the level of business is small. don't
know if Mr. Hawkins could start a line of suits either
doubt if he'd be able to the Negro living close to his
salary like lot of the white Government workers, away
from the department store charge accounts Unless he's
good he compete in anybodys market No. Pm afraid
it's Just one of those darn Dreams"
There We're two three other Negroes around Wash
n9ton who spoke about also and attempted bete the
venture before it gets started This reveals the type of
thinking among leading Negroes which keeps from
getting places economically we'll racaly If left
them, would always be in position of gorfied beg9ars
and ams-seekes living the largess of the white man.
but thank God there enough little Negroes with the Wis
on courage and the enacty of purpose make them out
liar by going ahead and doing what they say cannot be
DONE
Instead of encouraging ventures, people like Houston
and the others who interviewed have philosophy in
tarng down everything that would be constructive and
practical if given the support it needs Some day Negroes
will wake up and get rid of lot of baggage in high
places and go ahead by leaps andbounds result of
the repressons this natural inclination has been placed und
by Negroes who pupo to lead and speak for the best
interest of the group
To show how basicaly sound Hawkins plan u.s. we can
quote from the New York Daily Mirror of January 10TH in
which Charles Lo Pccoo general manager of the Pcard
Plane Service announced at its Ossnng headquarters that
expects to start its air commuter service in the Metro
poltan about March lst
1t is almost certain that, at the end of the war, this
country and in fact the whole world will embark on mass
production of planes of all types revouonzng almost
night the ordinary transportation know today. Hello
copter small planes cabin cruisers Fairchd 24s and
other cabin planes float will crss-cross the country with
greater network of transportation seups than ever be-
fore or ever dreamed of by Jules Verne.
In the New York area for example, Metropolitan Air
ways plans four main lines operating out of Manhattan
Stamford through New Rochelle and Port Chester to White
Plains through Yonkers to Newark through Jersey City,
and to Hcmpsead L. Shuttle service will be maintained
between Manhattan and LaGuarda and Idewd airports
if present plans 90 through
Whether Hawkins gets plane off the ground is not
the question here The question is the has vision the
courage and the desire to do something for his people, In
connection with this he is willing to pioneer and endure the
angus gibes insults and dersions of the highly educated
Negroes while doing The fact remains that with the
five passenger plane Hawkins make money by flying
people back and forth between Washington and Phade
phia Washington and Richmond, Virginia. which shows
that the venture is not entirely pipe-dream.
Had Charley Houston and the others seen the thing in
its proper perspective, they would volunteer to Jump in
and help the set the business sound basis and
even help him raise the funds necessary to establish first
class airine'for certainly need for racial diet
than the constant hoer that is raised about eating in
white mans restaurant or sleeping in his hotels