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Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
DO WE SEE FASCISM?

Isaac Woodland, the veteran blinded by the a bru- taty of Carolina policeman has lost his sight but his suffering enabled hosts of Negro and white Americans to SEE THE HORRIBLE FEATURES OF FAS- CISM Strange to relate participation in the peoples liberation from Fascist enslavement did not many discern fully the barbarous charac ter of terrorist dictatorship akin that os by the Bbos Rankns and Talmadges in the South The woe-begone simpletons among the Negro people have found incredible the FACT which going apace against their people throughout the
 on invaryng degrees, is the direct result of the anti Negro propaganda disseminated by brutal dema- gogues who have lost the semblance of men.
 thousand hosannas should be bestowed upon the New Workers who assembled last Sunday to protest against the blindng of Isaac Woodland contrbu- the of $22, 900 toward his future Livelihood Joe Louis and Orson Weles the nation is especially be- holden The former voiced the sentiments all Ame- people not brutalized by American Fascism bent upon keeping the Negro in his place. of second-class citizenship in order to facilitate his exploitation pression by the greedy Dixie plantation sentee Northern ndustriass Unity of Negro white in the organized labor movement among liberals progressves generally will smash reaction in the South and elsewhere: DEMOCRACY WILL WIN! 'sIt's doggone shame to quote Joe, ultimate victory will require much blood, sweat, toi and tears
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
Health For All

lraged to get we'll. He needs an incentive to follow doctors or ders. Only then will he cooperate with the hospital and the staff He needs to want to get well. Probably never before in his life has the patient had so mucl solitude, so much time to think He should be helped to spend his time thinking n S true V e thoughts. After awhile, he will be able to face his new life with renewed hope and faith.
 The fact that a patient must rest does not mean that he can have no interests. He should not be shut from the world. He should be made to feel he still has a part in the life beyond the hospital walls, the life to which he will eventually return. The family can do even more than the doctor in keeping his interest alive.
 The family should try to under. stand that it is important to keeI the patient interested in the world outside. Since the patient is ir a rather helpless position, the em. rhasis should be on happy events The patient should not be made anxious about circumstances he cannot change.
 In the next article, rabies will be discussed.
 l This column is sponsored, in the interest of better health, by The Hartford Tuberculosils and Public Health Society, 65 We thersfield Avenue, Hartford, Con. necticut.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
MAIL BOX
UNSEAT BILBO

To The Editor:
 May I thank you for the splen- did editorial which appeared in last weeks issue of the Boston CHRONICLE entitled "Unseat Bilbo?" You may count on me to do my bit with the pen and every other way which I might find effective to unseat Bilbo and Eugene Talmadge, the two arch enemies of constitutional govern nent. These two men, if I may call them by that name, have clearly shown themselves unfit for the offices to which they have been elected through chicanery. Tn fact, a Communist is an angel
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
UNDERSTANDING THE TB
PATIENT

PATIENT
 The family of the tuberculosis patient can aid him greatly if a sincere effort is made to under stand his problems. Tn entering as anatorium for treatment, the patient may be separated from home for the first time. Natural ly, he is homesick and anxious.
 Since tuberculosis is a disease affecting the whole body, the pa- tient is irritable at times, perhaps for the first time in his life. He cannot understand his irritability so believes there must be some thing wrong with his new sur roundings. He may be worried about his own condition, without being aware of this.
 Such anxiety is apt to show it. self in his general attitude to- ward his fellow patients, those working about him, or his family. His requests may seem unreason- able, but to the patient they are very important and real. Sometimes 8 patient finds Gan escape" in being able to complain to some one about the food, the nurses, his lack of privacy, or the boring routine, and so he pours out all grievances to members of the family when they visit him. These may not be pleasant topics of conversation but if it relieves the patient, it is the duty of the visitor to be sympathetic. The complaints may be we'll founded at times.
 The natient needs to be encou-
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compared with Bilbo and Ta1-

compared with Bilbo and Tal- madge.
 Tho two so-called Christian na- tions, the United States and Great Britain, have no right what ever to upbraid and rail at Russia fo her sins while their sins are written with a pen of iron and the point of diamond. The massacre of American citizens in Georgia and other Southern states simply because they were colored and standing up for their rights, IS national disgrace to our chief executive and also to our secre- tary of state, who is in Paris al the peace conference contending for peace and equality of nations when there is no equality and peace in our own land.
 (Rev.) M C. Mckenney
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
Evu. TN THE HOLY LAND

What is the evil force troubling the Holy Lana! It 4s British mperialsm which is determined to malntan it's overlordship by pittng the Arabs against the Jews
 d to rule both for the greater profit of the City of fdon counterpart of Wall Street That is the essential factor responsible for the terrorism uneashed against every race creed and national origin hate oppre son and so they not merely humble their protests within the privacy of their family circles They must De- come vocal in public condemnation of the terrorism to
 which the Jewish people in Palestine are being currently shiac+ad They must that immediately cease, uronp our State Department wied it's influence not only stopping the terror but also securing the adsson into Palestine homeless victims of HItlerlte Fascn on the continent of Europe. - N Solution of the Palestine problem will always be postponed indefinitely long Britain holds the man date to which there longer legal basis since the League of Nations is defunct Palestine should therefore be placed under United Nations tuseeshlp
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
MAGAZINE RACK
THE NEGRO ON BROADWAY
By Samuel P. Perry, Jr.

THE NEGRO LIN BROADWAY
 By Miles M. Jefferson (Phylon) The role of the American Negro and his portrayal in the stage is an unique and complex one. At the outset, the playwright who wishes to use Negro talent is confronted with two problems: CD the theme whether it is consonant with the period and with the mores of society; whether it is escapist or drives home a social messages message of protest; and (2) the portrayal of the theme-the quest tion of experienced rather than the two problems are interrelated. For the purpose of a social play can be lost through the inadequate characterization of it's roles, the lack of realism.
 In recent years, we have seen many plays with a social theme and invariably the problems cited above have appeared. Relative to themes, the playwright has had to decide what he was going to do with Negro actors-(a) cast them in stereotyped roles: musicales or domestics in mixed casts-or (b) portray them in the relation of the Negro to modern society, with a second-class citizenship, facing the plaguing problems of segregation, | discrimination, and restrictive con- venants. In the first instance, we have good box-office appeal, perhaps even "good theatre" In the latter instance, the question of whether the social theme is consonant with the thoughts and feelings of the public arises Nonetheless, the theme has to be realistic, not ideal istic. The realism of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty" serves as a concrete example of social struggles as presented realistically on the American stage. No less realistic must be the portrayal of such themes. Only professional talent experienced in careful delineation of characters or exceptional anna teurs with adequate training or background should be entrusted with such important themes and the portrayal thereof.
 | MT. Jefferson's article deals with the social plays (1945-6) which have appeared, featuring the public on "the horrid evils of race discrim- ination and prejudice" MT. Jeffer- son agrees with George Jean Nathan, who has stated his aver sion to the steady flow of plays depicting the white man as a heel where the Negro is concerned-par- ticularly from those dealing with the problems of adjustment to con- ditions in the Deep South faced by the returned veterans of World War II. I believe he failed to analyze the problem in its proper perspective relative to the theme and the realistic portrayal thereof. Intentions were honorable in all the plays produced and served but craftsmanship was faltering. Social significance stormed the boards; the voice was frenzied rather than soberly mature..... Mature sobriety i is always more affecting (and marketable) than unbridleG rant ing"
 In conclusion, the author well comed the good signs in the Negro theatre-the fresh, vibrant young actors and actresses now appearing in the stock companies in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Hampton Institute, and other places.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
The Living South
By HAROLD PREECE Copyright 1946 by New South
 Faa fI1rns

CdLuICS
 Athens, Tenn. Vs Athens, Ala. Down in Athens, Tenn, a crowd of white southerners took Iup guns to overturn a crooked po- litical machine on August 1, and just missed stringing up a lynch ocrat deputy sheriff who shot an aged Negro for trying to vote. The quiet, courageous, old man, wounded because he was against the machine, was the first casu- alty in the Battle of Athens and predict that he will go down in history as the Crispus Attucks of Dixie.
 Down in Athens, Ala, a crowd Of white southerners chased Ne groes off the streets on August 10 injuring probably 100 colored cit izens according to County Judge L. D. Rosenau, who reported sec ing many aged and crippled Me- |groes knocked down and trampled upon."' Many more peaceful, hard-working citizens, who had committed the offense of being
 born black, had to leave town and leave the homes for which they had paid by hot, breaking work in the North Alabama cot ton fields.
 The mob, composed mainly of teen age hoodlums liquored up by
 the North Alabama landlords, was out for black flesh. A wholesale
 massacre of the entire Negro pop ulation of Athens was prevented
 because a few decently-minded white people like County Judge
 L. D. Rosenau and real estate
 man W. c. Starkey, saw to it that
 the local state guard company was called out and told to shoot
 down the drunken buns like a pack of suck-egg dogs if they did not quiet down.
 As a southern white man, l
 want to congratulate Judge Ro- senau and MT. Starkey of Athens,
 Ala, as I wish to congratulate
 the ex-GI leaders of Athens,
 Tenn, for acting in the spirit of
 their revolutionary forefathers
 and handing walking papers to
 one of the most corrupt political organizations that ever ruled the
 roost by stuffing ballot boxes. MT. Starkey was slugged three times when he tried to persuade
 the mob to disband after it had
 come to the jail to force the re- lease of two of it's leaders. Judge
 Rosenau is rallying the decent
 white people of the town against
 the mob, is swearing in extra po- licemen to keep order when he tries nine hoodlums on August 26.
 Mayor R. H. Richardson, Jr., a none too brave man, turned the two leaders out of jail when the
 mob gathered on August 10. But
 Judge Rosenau has declared pub licly that when the trial comes he 1 will turn the lire hose on any imob-nobody with wet clothes wants to lynch anybody"
 Signs of Revolt
 Now, Pm stating only whats plain as the nose on your face
 when I say that Athens, Tenn,
 and Athens, Ala. are both signs,
 but different signs, of a revolu-
 ton that is going to sweep like
 an East Texas cyclone over the
 whole South. It will be a revolu- ltion, fought with ballots where
 the people can get decent count,
 to restore democratic government
 guaranteed in the constitution to
 our part of the country where we shave the lynchocrat form of mis-
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24

rule Dy terror ana d1ScrlmlnatOn. Athens, Tenn, where a Negro sat in the front row of the meet ing to set up a democratic and or derly local government, is a sign that the people are going to stop at nothing to take back what be- longs to them. Athens, Ala, where the landlords rule like Bel shazzar over crumbling Babylon, is sign that the lynchocrats will stop at nothing to hold on to what belongs to the people.
 Both together are signs that there will be no middle ground
 even when the timid Southern liberals try to keep the South, with it's sharp extremes which cannot be patched together, in the middle course. Lynchings and mob violence will mount si- simultaneously with the political and social awakening of millions Of Southerners of both colors. There will be white Southerners who will die for Negroes because they will know that there is no life for the South so long as the Negro is excluded in the South. There will also be white South erners, mobilized by the Klan and the landowners, who will kill Negroes. But the balance, if Ne groes keep on making Southern white people respect them by lighting in the front ranks and not Uncle Tomming in the rear, twill be even enough so that col
 ored Southerners will be able to help tip the scales for a democra- cy which will not appease Jim
 Crow by sprinkling the salt of conventional Southern liberalism
 on his feathers that need to be pulled.
 talk with many Negroes in the South, with professors and tpreachers, mill hands and cotton ihands. I'm proud that they talk
 to me just man to man instead of
 colored man to white man and
 that they tell me exactly what is
 on their minds. Their frankness
 is to me still one more sign that
 there's a new South a'coming.
 Whites Vs Whites
 | I find that, increasingly, South
 ern Negroes are losing their old feeling that all white men are alike. I find that they believe that there are now two white fac
 tions in the South and that they are lining up with the faction which believes in progress and ad- vancement for all the South's people. I can say, too,. that the progressive white faction realizes that it is whipped at the start un- less it brings it's Negro friends
 outo f the bushes and the Jim Crow alleys and on to the front lines.
 Which is going to make that much harder for the lynchocrats to turn the new peoples revolu- ition of Dixie into an old time race. I strongly suspect that the Dixie bosses staged what hap pened in Athens, Ala, in order to offset what happened in Athens, Tenn. Because the two towns
 have the same name, they helped that they would confuse the Southern people and make them think that the good folks over at Athens, Tenn, were gunning for Negroes at the same time they
 were gunning for crooked "white supremacy politicians. I think that they especially wanted to scare and confuse the South's nine million Negroes since col bred citizens played a promising, if still minor, part in the up- surge of the people of Athens,
 Tenn.
 We'll, I think all of us are get ting too smart to be fooled by any
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24

of the old lynchocrat tricks. And I think, too, that all of us are getting smart enough to choose our side in this peoples revolu- tion and to stick with it.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-22
Truman Reveals
His True Self

On this particular day of which l
am speaking, I think we heard Tru-
man revealing his true self. He be-
lieves that the White House should
be enlarged. He resented the OPP
position which he suspected was at
least in part personal and political
rather than the product of sincere
conviction. I thought l heard that
in his voice.
But I also think l heard in his
words, a similar expression of his
own philosophy, when he said that
he thought the present industrial
strife was a struggle for power be-
tween labor and management. In
other words that basically it was
not the demands of the men who
work for more pay nor was it an
objection on the part of industry to
pay higher wages. as much as it
was a pitch battle between labor
leaders and the top men in manage
ment to see which could beat the
other down.
To one who brags about being
middle-class, without even drop of
blood of an Irish king in his veins,
it sounded like good, sound (call it
stuffy if you want) middle-class re-
sentiment. Then the President add
ed that he thought that both labor
and management had too much
power and it was time for the gov
eminent to step in and assert the
power of the people which govern
ment is supposed to represent.
But when we asked the President
if and how the government was 60
ing to assert itself to exert the pow
err of the people" to settle the mess,
all he said was that he had done
all that he possibly could do.
He could have called out the
army and the navy, the national
guard, the FB1 and the United
Marching and Social Clubs, and TAX
en- over the steel industry the next
day. But step like that. which
was no more than the wave of a
tapering cigarette holder yesterday,
was one which no cautious middle
class, middle-western, middle-of-the-
road American would like to take
except under duress. Il say that
as one such.)
And so congress, part of it respond
ing to the pressure of management
and part of it under the pressure of
labor, fiddles and filibusters while
industry contentedly lives off its fat,
labor on union funds or relief and
the people" with all their alleged
power" wonder how long, oh Lord,
how long!
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-22

or look into Pennsylvania billion
dollar textile business. The steel
mills at Pittsburgh with their blast
furnaces roaring should Jingle your
blood. And don't forget to see the
site of Drake oil well, Titusville,
where petroleum, the black gold,
was first struck in the United States.
Everywhere you 60 you'll see fac
tory, mine, a great industrial
plant.
You're a farmer? Lancaster coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, ranks second in
the United States in income from
farm products! Just remember that
the thrifty pennsylvania Dutch"
knew how to till the land, and their
grandchildren do too! Big barns,
fine houses and weu-tilled fields like
those in Franklin county will tell
you more than words. The Penn
sylvania landscape is dotted with
farms and the big city markets
are right at hand. Pennsylvania
farmers do not have to ship long
distances to find a place to sell their
crops, their livestock, poultry or
dairy products.
The Commonwealth leads in the
production of buckwheat. Other i'm
portant crops are winter wheat, rye,
oats, corn, potatoes, tobacco, ap-
pies, peaches, pears and grapes.
Many Colleges, Universities.
Schools? The institutions of high
er education include the University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
founded in 1740; Washington and
Jefferson in Washington, founded in
1880; Pennsylvania State college;
University of Pittsburgh; Carne gle
Institute of Technology in Pitts
burgh; Lafayette college, Easton;
Lehigh university, Bethlehem; Tenn
pie university, Philadelphia; Buck
nell university, Lewisburg; Dickin-
son college, Carlisle; Franklin and
Marshall college, Lancaster; Ale
gheny college, Meadville; Duquesne
college, Pittsburgh; Grove City col
lege, Grove City; Haverford col
lege, Haverford; Swarthmore col
lege, Swarthmore. There are IA COL
leges for women, including Bryn
Mawr. Lincoln university and Chey-
ney training school for teachers are
for Negroes. There are ID state
teachers colleges and junior COL
leges!
Pennsylvania (Penn's Woods)
was named for William Penn, the
founder of the province. His char
ter was granted by Charles II in
1851. The terms, commonwealth"
and General Assembly," were
originated by Penn and remain in
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-22
Truman Labors Under
New Deal inheritance
Congress Seen Taking Advantage Of Presi-
dents Rightist Leanings; Lacks Influ-
ence of FDR to Put Policies Over.
By BAUKHAGE
Ne,us Analyst and Commentator.

fort (begun by. Theodore Roosevelt)
to try to house the Office work OF the
President under the roof Of 1.-THE
Presidents House," but I mention
this controversy simply because 1t
reflects the seamy side Of White
House-congress relations. Many OF
the Presidents friends feel that
trying to make a modern Office out
of a beautiful old American colonial
residence is folly, but they also felt
that much of the Juror raised In
congress was due to a desire to en-
barrass Mr.. Truman.
Why can't Truman get on with
congress? Perhaps because he Is
little too much like them. This is
merely a bunch but am not the
only one who has toyed with the
idea: both congress and the Presi-
dent Il realize that congress" is a
loose term because the legislators
are a collection of many men Of
many minds) inclines farther to the
right than the inherited Roosevelt
program is targeted. Congress, the
part of it that knows Harry Truman
well, undoubtedly feels that his
heart leans just about as far in the
same direction. Therefore, he just
can't get these more leftish ideas
across. Harry Truman has ire
mendous respect for the office of the
presidency, a deep feeling Of duty to
carry out the program which death
placed in his hands-a duty and a
function he never sought. He cam
not toss this heritage into the dis
card. And he probably reasons that
if he feels that responsibility, the
members of the party should do like
wise. But it must be remembered
that it was the powerful influence Of
a personality which could win an
election four times, a task no
American had dared to attempt
even for the third, which kept con-
gress obedient and even then, to-
ward the end, only falteringly.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-22

the state constitution to this day.
The United States was born on
Pennsylvania soil. The articles Of
confederation were adopted in Phila-
delphia; the Declaration of indie
pendence was written and signed
there; the treaty of peace which
ended the Revolutionary war was
ratified in that place, and later the
constitution of the United States was
formulated there.
The Commonwealth has built its
industries largely on basic ele-
ments. 1t produces nearly half the
steel of this nation, shipping it to
all parts of the world. The greatest
metal production ever attained at
one locality is at Pittsburgh. The
bituminous coal annual output aver
ages approximately 100 million tons,
while anthracite averages over 81
million tons. The Commonwealth
produces high-grade petroleum, iron
ore, pig iron, steel for rails and
structural purposes, lime, slate and
other metals and minerals. A list
of products manufactured in Penn
sylvania would fill book!
Traditionally progressive, the peo-
pie of Pennsylvania offer you
warm welcome to visit their state.
Seeing is believing!
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-22
B A RIBS by Bau hage

Farm prices are going up, the
Alexander Hamilton institute thinks.
They did after the last war and
similar trends are evident.
What's slogan worth? The Ma
tional Safety Councils safety first''
plus lot of hard plugging has cut
down death from accidents at a rate
of 85.5 per 100000 in 1918 to TIT in
1914.