The Omaha guide., 1945-03-24
tee has much hard work ahead"
EDUCATION

tee has much hard work ahead"
EDUCATION '' ~ ="
1. The Negro does not want equality of ident-
lty; he wants equality Of opportunity This was
Il. l. Brigham, instructor in English at the Univers-
lty OF Missouri, speaking at a Sunday afternoon
forum Of teachers and students, some from Lincoln
University, at Columbia. 1t was another in the SER
les OF discussions and polls aimed at ending the
wasteful and farcal policy by which the State per-
mits university discrimination against the Negro.
st. Louis University and Missouri Bible College
have reminded the people Of the State that on moral
grounds, as well as intellectual and democratic
grounds, they must eventually meet an obligation to
give fair educational opportunities to ALL"
tt Louis Post-Dispatch, January 20, ls45)
MISCELLANEOUS
1. "Members of the Mississippi Congressional
delegation met last week to welcome one of their
States war heroes-Lt. Van T.. Barefoot, Of Garth
age, Miss. Barefoot told some of his experiences
In comabt and tried to answer questions. One of
them finally came from Sen. Theodore 1.-THE NAM
BllbO on his favOrite subject. Lieutenant Bilbo
asked, did you have much trouble with Negroes ov-
er there?' Bilbo was set back on his heels when the
lieutenant drawled: Mr.. Senator, / found out after
/ did some fightin' in this war the colored boys
fights just as good as the white boys. / have
changed my IDEAS a lot about cOlored people since i
got into this war, and so have a lot Of other boys
from the South. We've found the colored boys all
right Then LIT. Barefoot quietly volunteered this
information: Coming up to Washington on the
Crdln, L went mJO Jne QI0or ana fOunQ IL 1ul. Inc
waiter told me I'd have to wait, but / could see, be-
hind a little curtain a colored Army captain sitting
tain and we had a fine chat Senator Bilbo then
launched inc a long peroration about what a great
friend of the Negro race he is, telling, among other
things, how he proposed transplanting American
Negroes to LIBERIA
philadelphia Record, January IS, 1915. Column by Drew Pearson)
2. ''The Greenville News could, or we hope
that it could, stop it's distant rumbling about basic
philosophy and tell it's readers whether or not the
federal government should be an insurance comp
any, buy up state colleges in South Carolina, seize
Santee-COOper which is now referred to as state
owned abolish poll taxes and sustain Mr.. ROOse-
welt in demand for all artificial restriction on vot-
ing. Artificial restriction Oh voting has always pre-
vailed in South Carolina except in Reconstruction
If South Carolina shall adhere to the Roosevelt
party it will adopt democracy and that means adj
mission of negroes (sic) into all the industries in
Guiding Greenville's cotton mills and finally, into
the state colleges. The Roosevelt administration
is democratic, and in a democratic South, white peo-
pie cannot live in the coming generations and stay
white"
Charleston News IN Courier, January Is, 194)
3. Counties Of South Carolina in which are
most Of the obese textile corporations and in which
the white population outnumbers the negroes (sic)
seemingly do not produce the tall qualities of state
Graf ha grow luxuriously in counties more given to
agriculture and in which negroes (sic) predominant
in the population. III. We believe that it is a safe
affirmation, found on observation Of the present
set-up, that Collton, Charleston or Barnwell will
grow three statesmen to the acre to one that any
Piedmont county can accouche. 1t may be that
fertilization is better understood and practiced in
the southern districts"
Charleston News and Courier, January H. 1s45)