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Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
PLAIN TALK
By John M. Lee

witnesses to his cheap act, because most of the residents in the com munity hate the police, or just don't care. In the interval between their foraging expeditions into the petty side of crime, Negro hood lums congregate in the streets and make suggestive speeches to the ladies who happen to be passing. An over-abundance of saloon and pool-room are crowded into the Harlem community and most of the patrons or would-be patrons feel it is their duty to decorate the places from the outside. None of the good citizens of Harlem, of whom there is an overwhelming majority, feel that it is their re- sponsib:lity to protest against the mounting disorder that is fast be- coming a public shame.
 When in the course of his duty, a policeman finds it necessary to rough up one or two of the pesti- lent hoodlums, a general protest Is raised against police brutality, and threats are made to have the cop transferred to the policeman's Si- beria. None of the Negro news papers in the community have un- dertaken a serious campaign to aid the police in cleaning up. While it is true that some of them will report the crimes emitting none of the lurid or gory details, it is also true that they do not exert the full moral force which they potentially have.
 Too msny Harlemites are cus- toners of the hot market. They will buy hot, or stolen goods with out a quiver of conscience, and thwart every effort of the police to track down the crooks. know of a case where the lady bought quantities of hot clothing only to have it stolen back, presuma ply by the same crooks who sold it to her.
 It is eminently unfair to say that Negroes are a race of thieves and murderers, but that is just what we are letting ourselves ir for unless we ally ourselves witf the police and help put the petty criminals out of circulation. It is true that there are various SO
 biological and psychological fac tors that operate to make a mar lawbreaker, but that is no ex cuse to hide and protect him, thu: permitting him to go from pocket book snatching to murder. The Negro has not done himself proue with his behavior toward the DO lice in most communities. Unles: he soon changes his tactics, he vii
 find himself the chief victim od his own folly. Already he cannot live in an apartment building 1T any part of Harlem without hay ing for his fellow-tenants the crooks, pimps and panderers who are only awaiting a suitable op' portunity to prey upon him. It is time to wake up and act.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
CANDID CORNER
By Maurice L. Smith

as Republicanism can produce. He has always captured the public imagination. I know of nothing he has done that stands out far enough to F5e pointed to with pride, still if Walsh c3n be beaten he is the only Republican in Massa- chusetts who can do it, and I would not be surprised if he did.
 Coolidge vs Dever. This is the Republican blind spot, it's Achilles heel, Coolidge that is. Why any one should be expected to vote for Coolidge who has to work for a living is more than I can see., The p2rty boys are banking on the magic of the Coolidge name. Chances are good, they will go bankrupt on it. Everyone likes Dever, Why? Ask someone else, not me. I even remember some breath of insurance scandal out Canton way. But if there was, it has been forgiven. If the magic does not stand up we will have Dem ocratic Lieutenant Governor.
 Barnes vs Kelly. Barnes has only done his duty, tut it is turn ing out to be a duties labor lost. Certainly if labor heads can man. age it, Kelly is in. Of course labor was supposed to be against Barnes in "A. Somebody was against him because he barely squeezed in. Don't be surprised to see an upset in this ball game.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
Sheldon Hoskirls Is Leading Ballet
 Master
By John M. Lee

New York-A full-fedged Bal let Master with the poetically
 beautiful dances of the record breaking production of Carmen Jonts to attest to his ability, is the distinction that 1.-the, athletic Sheldon B. Hoskins enjoys at the moment. Comes July, and he will have added the medium of motion pictures to his achievements, for at that time he will travel to Hol- lywood to stage, originate, super wise and direct some special dances for picture at RKO.
 Hoskins, who just recently over whelmed the devotees of the dance and music in Baltimore with a re- cital that set a new high in talent, wears his laurels as the nations only Negro Ballet Master with charming simplicity. He has worked hard and studied zealous- ly, having begun his training with George White in Philadelphia when he was mere youngster. Having served his apprenticeship with White, Hoskins became a member of the Lafayette Stock Company is New York City, thus getting the dramatic training so necessary for successful understanding and interpretation of the art of the dance. While associated with the Lafayette Players, he continued his studies at Columbia University.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
COLOR CRAZE TURNS FOR BETTER

Chicago - Despite the growing use of hair straighteners and skin whiteners, the majority of the na- tion's Negroes do not want to be white, says George s. Schuyler in an article "Do Negroes Want To Be White" in the July issue of Negro Digest.
 "Most white people believe that Negroes are eager to get white" Schuyler declares. "This notion is almost as widespread as the idea that black folks are sexually su- perior to Cauca sians."
 But while the Negro spends more money to tighten his skin and straighten his hair than he loes for schools and churches, Schuyler states, "The overwhelm ing majority of Afro-Americans prefer to remain Negroes"
 The Negro has recognized the possibilities to be gained by unity, says the writer, and is no longer ashamed of being a Negro.
 What have whites got that Ne groes haven't?" asks Schuyler. "The group continues to march upward, acquiring more economic and political power, more education and self-pride. They have more faith in their own strength and capacity"
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
TT be effective to man.

WI be effective to man.
 Today there is no known, proved short cut to recovery from tuber- culo:;is. The individual who has the disea:e should rely upon the proved methads of treatment. The most Important thing is he'd rest, pref erably in a tuberculosis hospital, under medical supervision. The individual who postpones the be- ginning of treatment by this tried method in the hope of a miracle drug is losing valuable time. By the time such a drug is found it may he too late to do him any good.
 Tn the next article, diabetes will be discu> sed.
 This article is sponsored in the interest of better health by the Hartford Tuberculosis and Public Health Society.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
BOOK REVIEW

THE JEW IN AMERICAN LIFE
 By James Waterman Wise. New
 York; Julian Messner, Inc. S2.OO
 Even illiterates can understand pictures. This brief pictorial sur vey of the past and present con- tributions of Jewish Americans to our common American heritage IS prefaced by a nobly characteristic plea for interracial and interfaith understanding by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. MT. Wise has assembled illustrations which depict Ameri- can Jews, famous and average, en- gagged in enriching our national life. The simple eloquence of his captions provides all decent Amer jeans with arguments to refute the bigoted Fascists who seek to in cite anti-Semitism as prelude to enslaving the entire American people.
 Everyone has met good men and women who instinctively feel that anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti Catholic slurs uttered in their hearing are not only morally wrong, but are also immediately destructive of national unity re- quired for the peaceful reconstruc- ton of a world shattered by the war against Fascism. Unfortunate 1y, such men and women have sometimes lacked sufficient factual knowledge to call the hands of glib hatelers. Tho Council Against Intolerance, under whose auspices this book is published, must be praised highly for providing in contestab1e facts in graphic form. Indeed, even those of us whose op- portunity for study and reading is above the average will learn some thing which we did not know be- fore.
 The late Pope Plus XI, in re- minding Christendom of 'ts origins in Judaism, declared: Spiritually we are all Sen1ites" Anti-Semitism is, therefore, especially criminal in a protesting Christian. It is subversive of true Americanism, on all counts, since our nation was founded on the bedrock of the separation of church and state, but it is particularly to be con- demned because a Jewish patriot, one of the unsung Founding Fathers, Hayn1 Solomon, helped to finance the American Revolution. Without his aid in obtaining the
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
Health For All

Curing a disease may depend upon a number of things-the pa tient, the severity of the disease Ike skill of the doctor and, some times the availability of effective medicine.
 Recovery from tuberculosis is best when the disease is discov- cred early and when the patient willingly and wholeheartedly ac- cepts the proved method of treat ment under competent medical ad vice.
 Tuberculosis is a long-term dis ease. Its onset is slow and usual ly many months of rest are re- quired to arrest the disease. Un- fortunately, there is as yet no medicine which will cure disease in man.
 Scientists have long been search ing for a drug which will cure tuberculosis and which will act as an immunizing agent to protect man from catching the disease.
 The tubercle bacillus, which causes tuberculosis, has remained one of the toughest germs scien- lists have tried to conquer. While they have been able to kill the mi crobe in test tubes and even in experiments with guinea pigs, they have not yet succeeded in finding a drug which will kill the germ in man without injuring him. Nor have they found an agency which can be given man to protect him from catching the dis ease.
 Science is patient, however. The search for such a drug goes on and undoubtedly one day will be crowned with success. No one dare predict when that day will be.
 The drug which has most re- gently offered hope is an aid in curing tuberculosis is streptomy- cin. Scientists who are experiment. 2 with this drug have met with S, me success in treating tuber- eu.osis in guinea pigs, but they point out that man does not re- act to the drug in the same way U st guinea pigs do and it is too soon to say whether streptomycin
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29

Dy II S11y, JAs
 THE HOUSE ON 92d STREET Carey McWi1Iiams (Nation, June)
 Cognizant of the fact that strict, rather than loose or Hb- eral interpretations of state con- stitutional law can do much to hinder the progress of the Negro in American life, MT. McWilliams, the author of BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN, has endeavored to place emphasis on the importance of the restrictive covenant cases now pending in several states, in particular, Michigan, Missouri, H. inois, Ohio, and the District of Colun1ia. The objective observer of race relations will readily re- call the steady and sometimes dis heartening battle in the courts for the rights of the tenth man rela- tive to labor unions, educational facilities, forced confessions under duress, unbiased grand juries, and of late, transportation facilities All of the above-mentioned facets of everyday life fall under the scope of MT. McWilliams' discus sion of the California Laws case and it's implications.
 Mention is made of the fact that the L1ws family was imprisoned for violation of a restrictive cov- enant and an injunction issued for the enforcement thereof in spite of the efforts made to secure a new residenc in the over-populated Los Angeles. The unexpected result was that the public opinion was rightfully incensed in favor of the Laws family. A committee, under the guidance of liberals, for the defense of Henry Laws was formed; competent lawyers were hired to furnish legal aid.
 As MT. McWilliams put it, "This House on 92d Street may make legal history. The case represents the elimination of a fight against restrictive covenants carried on by Negroes in Los Angeles in the past several years. More suits con- testing restrictive covenants were filed by Negroes in the courts of Los Angeles County in 1945 than in all the rest of the United States. At present some forty of these cases are pending" Reference was made also to the Hattie McDan- iels case in which it was held by the lower court that restrictive covenants violated the 14th Amendment. "In Hill vs Barbe the Negro litigants seek broader in- terpretations of the doctrine of changed circumstances as applied in restrictive covenant cases."
 CContinued next week.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
LAWLESSNESS IS A DRAWBACK THAT SERIOUSLY FINDERS
 PROGRESS

PROGRESS
 Because of Murder, Inc, and sundry other crime organizations, Brooklyn, New York is known throughout the nation as a tough spot where life is held cheaply. That much of the lawlessness that infests the community is due to an alliance between the under world and some dishonest police men cannot be denied, but the majority of the policemen are true to their jobs and are rapidly clean ing up a foul mess. The police records of New York, Chicago, or any large city will show at a glance that the ambitious, big-time crooks and murderers are repre- sentatives of the Caucasian branch of the human family.
 There have not been any Cap ones, Lefty Louie's, Dagoe Franks, Dillingers or Bonnie Parkers pro duced by. Negro community groups, but notwithstanding Ne gro crime gets more space and at tention than the depredations of all of the big mobsters put to- gether. Primarily, the Negro law breaker is a creap crook and a most unimag;native murderer. Mostly they kill in a flash spirit of self-assertiveness, and their stealing is more of nuisance than t is a matter of great profit or loss.
 When Negro snatches a pocl- et-book that contains three dollars and some change, he can rest as- sured that he and his race will be hot copy in almost every large community in the nation. When a series of two or three petty steal ings are recorded against Ne groes, the entire race becomes g menace in some eyes. When 9 sweet man carves up his lady love for unfaithfulness, the stigma od his act rests heavily upon every member of his group.
 At the moment, the whole coun try is suffering from a postwar crime wave. The Negro hoodlum not to be outdone by his white brothers, has increased the tempo of his petty pilfering, and wher you read the metropolitan press you might easily get the impres sion that the whole mess is Ne gro affair, Much of the blame cal be placed squarely in the lap 0: biased or sensation-hunting whit' editors, but some of it must go t' the Negro community where apa thetic indifference to law and or der is almost a ritual.
 In New York City, five-and dime thief counts on the hostilit, of the Harlem community to thu police s one of his chief aids. H' can steal and fade into oblivion without ever fearing to be iden tified though there were hundred
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
MAGAZINE RACK

By Samuel P. Perry, Jr. THE HOUSE ON 92d STREET June)
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
1 COMMUNITY CENTER
 NURSERY SCHOOL SPONSORS

The Community Center Nursery School Annual Picnic is being held Saturday, June 29, at Norumbega Park, Newton. Buses will leave 49 Howard Street at 10 and return by 6 pm. Tickets may be purchased at Howard Street through Friday morning. Children must be accom- panied by parent or guardian. wherewitha1 for the sinews of our war for natonal independence the United States might still be colonies in an undeveloped wilder ness.
 WILLIAM HARRISON
Hartford chronicle., 1946-06-29
NAH, BOX
Dear MT. David;

Dear MT. David;
 I thank you very much for hav- ing seen to it that the paper has 'oeen delivered to me every week. l have enjoyed reading it, mainly because it is ours and gives us plenty of Hartford news that is not covered by the daily papers. What males me enjoy the paper also, is that it is not covered with lot of discrimination news about colored people.
 I hope that more of both races will read the CHRONICLE every week.
 Sincerely,
 Pleasant Butler 100 Portland Street, Hartford
The union times., 1946-02-23
Readers Digest" Perpetrates A Fake

In Effort Prove That Unions Have Bulgng Treasurie Magazine Resumes Sniping at Organized Labor
 (From Labor)
The union times., 1946-02-23
As We See It, by The Staff

been serving 8 cuts of pie in- stead of 6 to his customers with out decEeasing his price as re- quested by OPA.
 Illegal Overcharges are serious. They cost each worker and his family more than l weeks salary a year. Every Overcharge is a wage cut and should be reported to the Price Panel of your local OPA board. The board should be asked to inform you what they've done about your reported violation.
 ANTI-LABOR CASE To case-the-jOint is burglars way When planning theft or sneak
 foray.
 In Washington, such plans are
 made
 When bosses plan labor raid. That's why we should show our
 distaste
 For efforts there to have us
 ''CASE''d.
 STOLEN $25 REWARD for information leading to the arrest of the poIecat who stole my rod from my car in front of Cowboy Bar.
 JacksOn's Hole (Wyo.) Courier
 NOTICE l WILL no longer be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife. (Signed) Pvt. R. C. B. PVT. R.C.B. does not have to be responsible for any debts which I might make. He can't even pay his own. (Signed) L. B.
 FGirnlOnt (Minn.) Sentinel
 
 A CLAIRVOYANT s'Constant Reader put a postscript on a wit rioic letter to the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner. It read: s'Hel- To, waste basket.''
The union times., 1946-02-23

increases sufficient to meet approved wage increases and still equal pre- war profits. The catch in this is that price increases are to be denied indus tries or businesses that fail to keep their plants busy at their customary volume of production.
 Price increases are to be high enough to permit pre-war profits UN- LESS this business, corporation or industry IS operating at temporary low volume"
 The executive order sets up a wage-price policy that is not to Bowles' liking. But it does assure him of the kind of authority he has always desired, ,-and the kind he has been denied previously in OPA. This is expressed in the next to the last paragraph which says. ''T h StabilizatiOn Director (BOwles) t. shall have full au- thOrity to issue such orders and di- rectives as may be necessary, in his judgment, to carry out the pur- poses of this Order."
 That sentence gives Bowles pow CT to make adjustments and to is- sue directives if the new policy be- gins veering dangerously.
 OLD FORMULA OUT
 Back of all the delay, hestitation and rumors that filled newspapers in the past ten days or so Is a story oi ] Bowles and how he fought. It cant all be told now, but Bowles did de feat the oldtimers in the White House circle who wanted to keep the old formula and simply give steel 3 price increase by explaining that steeI is an exceptional case. Bow1es knock ed that out by showing that the auto electrical and other industries would immediately want to be made excep- tions.
 Bowles also did battle against the theory that price control should be operated by arbitration-on a piece by piece basis. He sent his resignation to the White House after an explo- sive session with the President. Ther he took sick and negotiations contin- ued at his home.
 The inner circle in the White House was almost ready to take over again, and then Honest Harold Ickes
The union times., 1946-02-23

Continued from Page One) rate in history-during July, Aug ust and September.
 The SEC survey showed that of the $2,9OO, 100000 jump the cor pOratiOns obtained $1, 600, ,OOO, ,OOO in tax refunds. An increase of $l,- 900, ,OOO,OOO of cash on hand and in banks pushed the total of this kind of assets to a record-breaking total of $27, ,7OO,0OO,OOO.
 HE ain't a horse with a union label but Prince, a big bay horse carrying cloth picket sign, added plenty of variety to picketlines out side the Gary works of the Carne- gie-Illinois Steel Corp. in Gary, Ind.
 P. J. Moreley, a member of Lo- cal 1914, United Steelworkers (CIO), dressed the horse up and brought him to the picketline to join the unionists as they ended their third week on striks for an 1872 wage increase.
 COMMISSIONED to sell three- family house, Providence, R. l., real estate broker ran an ad stat ing the property earned $3,OOO and could be bought for $lO,8OO. The ad convinced the owner he shouldn't sell.
 THE silencing of Rep. John E. Rankin CD. Miss.) for few hours on Feb. l2 by Speaker Sam Ray burn CD, Tex.) was a notable ob- servance of Lincoln's birthday in the House. On the previous day Rankin, perhaps envious of the epithets tossed about in the Senate by his filibustering fellow Missis- sipian TheO. C. Bilbo, took up the time of his colleagues to call Radio Commentator Walter Winchell a "Slime-mongering kike." The at- tack was precipitated by Winchell's statement that if Abraham Lincoln were alive today he would be in- vestigated by Rankin's unAmerican committee.
 l AMMUNITION FACT: Labor's productivity rose one-fourth-25% -during the war. Four workers can now produce what it took five workers to turn out before the war. Increased productivity means the employer makes higher margin of profit on each worker-and can afford to pay him a higher wage. Rep. Hugh DeLacy CD. Wash. ). got the floor and said on the sub.
The union times., 1946-02-23
Union Members Of Legion Hit Its Tory Policy
Legionnaires Bitterly Decry Organizations Ruling
 On Deportation

Chicago (LPA)-The American Legion's reactiOnary and anti-labOr line on crucial national issues was exposed last week by a group of it's own members, the National Conference of Union Labor Le- gionnaires.
 On questions of superseniority, peacetime conscription and deporta- ton of the refugees the Legion has taken a position opposed to the pro- gressive viewpoint of organized la bor, it was shown. The conference bitterly assailed the Legion's depor- tation resolution pointing out that most of the scientists working for the U. s. on the atomic bomb will have to be returned promptly to the coun- tries from whence they came" In addition, said the conference:
 ''Many of our heroes will have to be yanked out of the service or out of civilian life and returned promptly to the countries from when they came.' We suppose the dead heroes buried on Two Jima, Cuadalcanal, Italy, Germany and hundreds of other places will have to be dug up and returned promptly to the countries from which they came.' Chemists and physicians and surgeons will have to stop in the midst of their life saving discoveries, and in the midst of operations, and be re- turned promptly to the countries from whence they came.''
The union times., 1946-02-23

ject of Rankin, 'sI stand here to state that we do not propose to permit that kind of language on this foOr." Further exchanges were ended by the Speaker, who ruled that each was out of order and both were to be silenced for the day.
 THE Stevens Point (Wis.) Daily Journal had this one:
 Speed discharges
 Of Tanks Stranded
 On Chip in Atlantic
 THE State Dept, in righteous indignation, denounces the Argen- tine as unfit to stay in the UNO. The State Dept. could save itself a lot of trouble if it wouldn't keep inviting those stumble-bums to par ties.
 FRANK SMEE, business agent of Shop Iron Workers No. 532, re- ports that the members of his To- cal have sent $2O to aid the LAM. strikers at Yale & TOwne.
 AN indignant reader scrawled a letter to the newspaper PM pro- testing its frequent criticisms of the pro-fascist New York Daily NesUs, which he described as Ca fine newspaper" A P.S. to the let ter noted: ''Please excuse the crayon, but they do not allow us to have sharp objects in here."
 ON THE basis of a report by the Baltimore OPA Labor Advisory Committee, the owner of restau- rant was fined $247.5O. He had