The Omaha guide., 1946-04-06
PLAIN TALK-by Dan
Washington, A Racial Panacea.

Another gentleman with the 'interest of the Race at
heart has come forward with a panacea for solving once and
for all the American Negroes dilemma. He is a DIR. vii.
liam A. Brown, 'La Casa Willadora', Gave Junction, Hin.
OILS Valley, Oregon.
1 don't know DIR. Brown and l don't know whether he is
white or colOred, but his program labelled wv Westinghouse:
Land of the Free Born came to mt in a mimeographed
tract and that is the reason for this piece. Westinghouse,
according to DIR. Brown, lis envisioned as a living memoir
ial to the great American Educator, DIR. Booker t. Wash
ington. 1t takes the form of a vast cooperative Negro
Community Enterprise in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, op-
posite Port Arthur, Texas. As projected, it contains 400
square miles within a proposed city named Westinghouse
and 600 square miles contiguous thereto, this area to be
served absolutely for every sort and size of Negro-Initialed
INDUSTRIES to be Negro-Owned and Negro-Managed. In
developing Westinghouse the Gulf of Mexico is to be made
the Mexico-America Inland Sea.
DIR. Browns Westinghouse harbor would be made large
enough to provide for all the shipping in the Mexico-Amer-
lean inland sea and establish ample anchorage for The Am
erican Navy.
In 1850, DIR. Brown wants to stage a Golden Jubilee of
Booker I. WashingtOn's launching of the National Negro
Business League with a most fittingly inaugurated internal
tional, interracial exposition of the 90 colored nations;
thus making Westinghouse the cultural, commercial, fiduc-
il, industrial, recreational, educational musical, spiritual
center OF the 900, OOO,O 600 cOlored people of all the wide,
wide world. Brother Brown wakes further eloquent in
discussing this brand new dream of racial advancement by
concentrating on two names-CeorgeW Washington, the first
President of the United States, and of course. a white man.
and Booker T. Washington, a Negro Washington who a.
dopted the name of the white man and later became world
famous tor his endeavOrs in racial advancement through
the race working with their hands. DIR. Browns program
is solidly nationaEsic and was set up within the American
system, the monster black belt sent to the reservations of
the West upon which the Indian braves are allowed to roam
in the most p~rejudiced section of the United States outside
OF Florida and Mississippi. The Jim Grow Westinghouse
would be hemmed in on three sides by various mixtures of
the raker redneck element, with Uncle Sans Navy manned
a Der custOunh nv ~bitaSa rchOra 81 q bus;noS. I:Io J;etacao
Oft shore SO that all that could happen in Westinghouse
would be loud hosannas, hand-clapping, singing of spirit
uals, picking cotton and Other activities the white man
ascribes to us as our purely racial inheritance.
His scheme calls for ''the .cguisition. development,
disposition and control of all Westinghouse property,
with the approval of all enterprises and personne! to be
vested in a Board of Trustees composed of nine bust
ness and professional men well known as thoroughly
capable and trustworthy, incorporated under the laws
ut the State of Louisiana and a Washington National
Bank of Commerce with 81 900. 900 paid up capital,
organized and managed by experienced men seic ted
from Negro banks in various centers of population
The Westinghouse Certificates of deposit maturing in
1881 a tthe time of Brother Browns international, in.
terrdcial exposition would show $3.75 purchasing a SIS
bond; $3.50 purchasing a $40 bond; SIS, a $40 bond;
$3.50; a $50 bond and SIS, a 500 bond which at
compound interest would yield about so.
Westinghouse would TEEN with institutions. ID ctor
Browns elaborate vision encompasses with one full
sweep the University of Westinghouse (he Brown
Mans Oxford) with professional studies equal to those
common to the greatest universities anywhere in the
world. He would have Marian Anderson School of
Music; a cappella choir, symphony orchestras, military
bands, artist courses, pring and fall festivals, tours of
Metropolitan cities IN permanently equipped streamlin-
ed trains which MIR. Brown neglects to say, but may be
presumed to be a strictly cOal-car proposition since Mr..
Brown has yet to indicate in his prospectus that Louisiana
will allow trains to run through their state without custom
airy Jim Grow regulations. He would have in Washington