The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-02-17

well, VELOUR Ola 1TlenQ IN
arms against us). Senator Robert
A. Taft, Ohio Republican. is back
in there pitching against the peo-
pie This time he wants an FEPC.
oh yes, but voluntary onel Va.-
untary-just like his taking our
side whenever he wants 20 but
never does. Seems like we always
let these good elected men whisper
sweet nothin2s in our ears in No
vember and ,then forget us the rest
OF the year. Well never learn.
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Something happened recently In
a sphere a little less important re-
Gently but IL still made us mad.
Did you ever listen to the Mildred
Bailey show over CHS on Friday
nights at 1880. II you did. then
you know now that the Bailey
show has been taken of the air be-
cause they couldn't get sponsor
for II. And just guess why! Miss
Bailey followed a perfectly good
American policy Of treating all
races and creeds alike-she had
Teddy Wilson on every Friday in
the Solid Sextet." then she lad
guest stars like Earl Hines. BENNY
Carter. and other Negro names"
on often. So no sponsor, and then
on top Of II all CHS takes II o. as
. sustaining show, when other ones
Of not half the popular interest are
kept on indefinitely. Wish you'd
write CHS and tell them you want
Bailey back! She's straight!
North Carolina university's How
ard W. Odum. received the $1,000
Edward l.. Bennays award last
week for outstanding achievement
in the Negro-white relations. The
award was given by the Federal
Council Of Churches.
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Want TO read some sweet nouble
talk? That recommendation was
not based upon any conclusion that
our manpower program has failed
but upon a recognition of the fact
that at this crucial period of the
war We must be sure that there
will be no failure in our ability
70 man urgent plants promptly
Spoken by War Manpower Com
missioner Paul V McNutt in rec
ommendlns immediate passage of
the May-Baley job draft bill. Mr..
McNutt is only the guy who has
been in charge OF manpower ali
this time. and through the period
when our production has zoomed
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Speaking of jobs and no jobs.
brings to mind the figures just
released by the JAWS George
Adde's which are that employment
in Detroit fell over is per cent
last year. Job drafts. II Is
to laugh.
Did you get out and hear one OF
this nations most important and
provocative women. Lillian Smith?
/ Her analysis OF the hurt. children
Of all races. minority and majority
/ suffer from Observation-Disclosures.
segregation. prejudice-laid bare
the whole framework Of our So
ciety. And she took care of the
ever present inter-marriage buoa-
boo, too. with finesse After speak
ing for people marrying whomever
they want she said. They're going
20 do what they want. after all,
ySu know | mean. really
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Canada Lee who has been getting
! mixed reviews in The Tempest
is getting top. or next TO it, billing,
anyway Vera Zorina and Canada
Lee in The Tempest That may
serve TO soothe his mind over some
of the less kind. critical COM
/ ments
X X !.
We greatly respect the medical
men who are standing IN for the
rights of Japanese American citi-
zens to proper health care, even
going TO the, lengths of resigN!ng
from discriminatory hospitals over
IL. But we should like to ask shy
! " Where in the hell have
those same doctors been when Ne
! groes were being kept out Of pub
Tic hospitals. and segregated in
them; when Negro doctors couldn't
get in the doors except as janitors;
when Negro nurses were unheard
Of in any self-respecting Aryan in
stitution Just where: And lest
We forget whore also was the great
humanitarian Detroit daily. the
Free-Press. whose editorial col
umns reeked Of dismay and scorn
for such un-Americanism as keep
ing Japanese American citizens of
color out of hospitals? Crazy world
isn't it,
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The armed services are saving
they don't need a nurse draft now
about the only kind Of draft they
don't, want. DIR. Harvey Stone.
yice-chairman of the VINO pro-
curement division. said al a Con-
gressionaI committee hearing last
week: "TheS. has never been a
consistent sustained effort TO enlist
I nurses by voluntary methods Is
he telling us.
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The head OF the Women's Bureau
in the Labor Department. Miss
Frieda Miller. says that Al least
so ger cent OF the women now gam
fully employed will want TO re-.
main that way after the war. Con-
gress better stop playing with
drafts for now, and work out some