Arkansas State press., 1946-02-01


leadership. Young. courageous,
yet capable. wise and adept IN
the ways of this. the dawn OF
the new era Of atomic diplomacy
We need men and women At the
helm Of our racial ship who are
attuned to the times: men and
women who are not burdened
with the weight Of old aged. and
outlived usefulness. We need
fighting blood in the veins OF
our leaders in the trying years
ahead, and in their minds we
must have practical knowledge
of things, not gushing theories
a lot of guesswork and half learn
ed principles.
There is a place for all things
and all people, and in our new
leadership we must fuse all eie-
ments. The social worker has
his place; so does the business
man. The preacher must be heard
as much be the politician. The
farmer should have his voice and
the carpenter and mechanic must
arely have representation. The
educator, the professional soldier,
The editor and the athlete. as we'll
AZ the musician should be given
their say. Some Of our present
confused difficulties and cropping
can be traced to the elevation of
one particular category to power
with less or little emphasis on
what the others are doing or can
ds. The preacher has shared
The reins with the social worker
and educator in the past; today
We find the politician also on the
drivers seat. But what OF the
laborer, the domestic, the So
called small fry7
II was an axiom for many years
that the only persons whom the
Negro masses would give an ear
to was a Negro preacher and a
white man. This. more or less,
is still true today. although social
workers made exravagant claims
ds they go about selling the
white public with philanthropic
leanings an estimate of their in
huence and strength with the
great mass OF rs who are identi-
fled with common labor and do
mestic tasks. In the last 20 years,
Negro politicians have surged to
The front and WELD much influ-
ence where the minister once
reigned supreme. Negro labor
leaders, despite the work Of A.
Philip Randolph, Frank Cross
waith, and few others, are COM
paratively new, but are on the
national Negro horizon because
of today's highlighting of the
problems of labor. Musicians.
both classic and popular. have
enjoyed a certain prominence in
our leadership affairs whether
they knew what it was all about
or not, their names looked good
on letterheads and hrow-aways. J
because their work has so much
bearing on the opinion whites
have of us. The same goes for
athletes, including boxers with
bashed-in noses and cauliflower
ears and who speak out of the
side of the mouth in the gashouse
accent commonly associated with
Nat line OF endeavor.
Through power politics, the
atomic bomb development, plus
the ability TO organize and lead,
The white man is going into a
period Of history where the sky
seems the limit To his ascend
ency. The challenge Of the
darker races as presented by
Japan went up in the tragic
clouds Of Hiroshima. The white
mans planes, his tanks and flame
hrowers yenk aside the skits Of
immunity enjoyed BY jungle hv-
ing natives In Africa. the Pacific,
Asia and the comparative safety
the nomadic tribesmen of the
desert have had over the GEN.
turtles. Today nothing is safe
from him. He Is riding the
pinnacies and has warned tina,
he brooks no challenge to his su-
premacy. The white man has had
no magic formula TO reach his
present eminence. There are nc
msmbo Jumbo combinations tina,
are a sure-fire inantation tc
bring about radical and immed-
late changes. He got on tor
through hard work. by the USE
of the same mind that God CAV,