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Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
NAACP YOUTH WEEK

Since it was the Boston NAACP Youth Council which gained the Ike Smas National Award last year. the an nual observance of NAACP Youth Week (April 28-May Al has peculiar significance for New Enganders VT course youth with eyes inevitably focused upon the future inspires all the generations of mankind as they hopefuy endeavor attain with prosperity ana security Today's young people, who have borne the main brunt of military struggle which resulted m the defeat of Herite and Japanese Fasclsm are steeed Ill orim develop without the cramplng inn taton of low wage and living standards Youth nas the world in mortal combat the forces of liberty conteh ing against barbarous cohorts of Fascist tyranny
 Negro youth has broken sharply and completely Wltn the mast The tempo it's vigorous advance toward the endowment of the full citizenship still denied the entire Negro peope has been heightened by it's wartime exper- ences on the fighting and industrial fronts Even the most superficial study it's character will reveal grow mo of old ways of thought and action in trying to help solve the problems of our country in nf with the democratic ideals expressed in the or Independence and the Constitution The youth or Tne NAACP many places and on many occasions nave pol9 lv unfurled banners rampars which ther elders he tated to storm For example, they have a allied themselves with organized labor whose recent strike struggles they supported despite the frowning s approval of officaldom More power to them! May inc NAACP Youth Councils grow in numbers ana m- fluence!
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
Hearst Pays NMU
 $1Q,OQQ In Libel

New York-Joseph Curran, President of the National Mari time Union, has announced that a check for s1O,o0O was received this week from the Hearst Cor poration, thus climaxing a six year court fight by the Union against Walter Winchell, the Hearst press and the Andrew Jer- gems Company for statements de- flaming the NMU and it's members.
 The Union said that the Hearst check brings the total damages won by the Union in this libel action to $19,OOO. It stated that it's suit was the first ever filed and won by an American trade union against a broadcaster and column iSt.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
MAIL BOX

To the editor:
 As the nations struggle to find way for an everlasting peace it is with disgust that one reads of the Ku Klux Klan being allowed to register as "fraternal" asso- clation with one aim in view: To "intimidate" Negroes in Democrat ic primaries, and as a white man is sad to have exulted on a street in Birmingham, Alabama, to teach n--ers to stay put in their place. If they don't, we'll stack lem up like cordwood. Did our gall lant men and women fight and die on the field of battle for such an organization to be granted a charter?
 There can NEVER be an ever lasting peace for all with such an organization an ever-threat to justice, freedom, and liberty of loyal race. So, let us hope the de, partment of justice "cracks" it's whip, also the Supreme Court stands by it's ruling. Nelson S. Rodgers
 Groton, Mass
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
STRIKING OUT JIM CROW

Every Negro who pioneers in field of endeavor from which his people have hitherto excluded by preJ- udce has heavy responsibility to excel Often super human feas are expected of him. He is the exposure or all eyes some staring eagerly for him to make mistake which will justify their bigoted allegation that Negroes are not ready for the simple justice of opportunity l- agne the joy of far-minded Americans of all creeds coIors and national origins (he overwhemng majority of he nation when Jackie Robinson hit batting of 800 Thursday April 18 for the Montreal Farm Club of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Class Triple nterna- tional League
 Jim Crow struck out when the first Negro to play big league baseball smashed three-rln homer which brought victory to in Jersey City The crowd which thronged the clubhouse to congratulate Robinson exhibited kind of fundamental decency manifested in the cooperative spirit of his to which he paid tribute: "The thing that cared way"
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
BOOK REVIEW

However, the book essentially re- cords how half truths, misunder- standings, and overt viciousness breed race hatred. One feels that these particular boys have some hope of escaping the worse fea- lures of this national cancer of racial prejudice, but then can they successfully withstand the exter- nal pressures that will come to bear upon them throughout their life times.
 MT. Jackson has done a fine job in depicting the boys and their environment. There is deftness and skill, no heavy-handed preaching and moralizing. Charley is 8 fine boy as we'll as Tom, and even George when he realizes how un- fair he has been. Thus, a portion, small as it is, of our society has managed to establish a working democracy, and there is no reason why the rest of the country can not follow suit. There is much to be done but through our young people, who are devoid of prej udice, great progress may be made.
 Carmen 4. Ramsey
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27

CALL ME CHARLEY. By Jesse Jackson. New York: Harpers.
 $2.0O
 This is essentially a juvenile book for boys, but many parents of both races can find within it's covers the details of the unfor- tunate race relations which exist in this country. All boys, no mat ter of what race, have the inner ent wish to belong to the gang They go to extravagant lengths to do so, and conform to all the trap pings of dress and mannerisms set by the other boys. In segregated areas the white youths associate with their group and the Negro boys with theirs. Superfcially, there is no difficulty. However, what happens if this unnatural practice is broken, and Negro youth thrown into the company of white youths? This is the sit uation which the author has suc- cessfully depicted in this first book.
 Charles Moss parents are do- mestics in the service of a white physician. There are no colored families in the neighborhood. There are no colored children at the local high school. Charles has not al- ways seen the happier side of life, and there is already an ele- ment of fatalism in his outlook. His mother is ambitious for him and has tried to rear him in the best manner possible. His father is rather non-descript and non- progressive who sees no point in the boys trying to better himself because he is a Negro. Charley and Tom Hamilton become fast friends, and Toms parents treat Charley with every consideration. Tom cannot comprehend race prej- udice for he has never met it in his home. Therefore he and George Reid are bitter antagonists, Tom upholding his friendship for Char ley, and George innocently but vii ciously mouthing the race preju- dices ingrained in his personality by his parents.
 The boys go through many and adverse adventures, some happy, others sad, and even some that are funny. There are warm under tones and excellent characteriza- tions of the various points of view.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
MAGAZINE RACK
By Samuel P. Perry, Jr. (Continued from last weekl

(Continued from last week)
 With such personnel, the s2nd was expected to hold a 35-mile front against the enemy. while white outfits, the s5th and ea+b eiVlslons were holding a six mile front. 'AAe , ne,atlve to istless patrols aa MT. Welllver calls them wo,,15 ike to quote a letter written h.- Maj. Gen. Willis D. Crittenberpa,. commanding the 4th Corps, to the @ reglmental commander of ths oIlst Infantry, dated II, May 1o 4o. The letter stated in part. MTha contribution made by the 371st Tn. Iantry, reinforced as part of tba 4th corps, during the spring of- 1enslve, from April II, to Anr;1 zo' l945 inclusive, merits recoen;- tlon of this headquarters and r do desire hereby to commend you Of nclaIIy, the officers and men of your command for effective ner- 1ormance of duty during the nar;- od Tn question" The General tba, praised the outfit for it's aperas- slveness in maintaining contact With the enemy by vigilant na- trols, (patrols penetrated enemy territory for as far as ten to twelve miles), for preventing the enemy from making a possible threat to the main supply line of the 4th Corps, and for informing higher headquarters of the mo ment that the enemy began his final retreat in the Mount Belve- dere sector of the Fifth Army front. Incidentally, despite the re- quest of the regimental comman- der that the letter be read to the men of the outfit, one battalion commander conveniently laid his copy in the top drawer of his desk where it was discovered by an en- listed man. The officers of the out fit were more fortunate. They each received copy for their personal file.
 (Continued next week.N
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
PLAIN TALK
By John M. Lee

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said recently that she finds, in many instances, that white people are
 more worked up over incidents
 showing injustice toward Negroes
 than the Negroes themselves. Per haps Mrs. Roosevelt intended this
 observation to show that the libe-
 ral feeling was growing among
 white Americans, but it shows just
 as clearly that the Negro is becom-
 ing more willing to- accept second
 rate citizenship.
 It is true that a determined stand by the Negro community,
 whether it be in the North or in
 the South, usually brings out
 mob of armed, lynch-minded
 whites. It is equally true that in the face of the mob, Negro deter
 imitation wits, but this is not sign of physical cowardice on the
 part of the Negro. Rather, it in-
 dicates that the Negro has sufi-
 cient courage to respect the law o4 G11C 4d1IO CNCl1 IIIouS1A 4C WIT fronted by lawlessness on the part of the ruling community forces.
 The fear and cowardice lie in the hearts and minds of those in the mob. They gather in numbers to overwhelm the mind and bodies of individual Negroes, because they know that man to man they are no match for their quarry. The forming into a mob and the out of it's murderous pur- pose, is a safety device conjured up by their fear-ridden minds to superiority. They be- ieve that because more whites can ,e gathered together to lynch a Negro than can Negroes to lynch
 white man, they are bigger and ! tronger and safer. They do lot stop to think that some day
 revolting Negro spirit will, in fight back in the same manner in which it has been at ] acked.
 It will be an unhappy day when he biblical law of ''an eye for an T ye is put into operation l. 9 combat mob operation against W efenseless Negroes. Mobs of n white have not hesi- n ated to attack in the Negro com f lunity because the record shows 1e chances of white lives being u ost to be slight. ',
 Secretary Wallace referred to :: t. ne fear of insecurity. That is II II
 fear that is born in every Ne A TO child, and it is one on which ,r- r e is nurtured. It grows with ,e n i'm as he grows, and it is beside . i'm like a shadow every day of 1 1 is life. It is more significant to ., i'm because it can and often s' oes mean security for his very ~ fe. While the American white se1 an is concerned with sustaining 1l is life from day to day, the II -merican Negro has to think of U laintainging his life from hour to a our. A fear such as this is a ost unhealthy circumstance.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
Fear Hampers Both Groups IT
 Purely Economic Struggle

New York-Commerce Secre-
 tary Wallace, speaking at the
 Founders Day ceremonies at Tus-
 kegee Institute a short while ago
 pointed out that the average
 American lives in fear. "When
 full employment is achieved, when
 the fear of insecurity is gone, all
 of the races which make up this
 great country can dwell together in people," MT. Wallace asserted
 during his address. His was not
 a new thought, and it is safe
 assumption that he did not intend
 for it to be taken as such. Time
 and again it has been proven that
 fear motivates the practices that
 are responsible for the white man s
 discrimination policy and the Ne
 gro's acceptance of it.
 There is fine distinction be-
 tween the kind of fear that pla- gues the white man, and that which hampers the advancement of the Negro. On the one hand you have the fear of losing control of forces that combine to give finan- cial security, while on the other hand you have type of fear that is a peculiar combination of res pect for law and order and the desire to live at all costs. Ameri- can historyfreports time and again that the white man has always passionately desired freedom and liberty for himself, and that he has died for them and stands ready to shed his blood at any lime to maintain them.
 While there have been indivi- iual Negroes who have fallen in he great battles for the estab- ishment of American independ- ] ence, there have been few in- tances where the Negro has truck back when violence and ] fiared against him. The Negro is always on the de- ensive because most of his think ng is defensive thinking. This is , 70 because from the time of his { he had had defenders ( nd champions. He has been able l o sit back and watch while the It njustices launched against him :, re adjusted scientifically. t
 From the beginning he has ac- l epted the theory that he is a les CT human who must be prepared t or a gradual elevation to the level 6 f full human dignity. He has S his kind to be intimidated nd lynched because he hoped hat the f'good" white folks would traighten out the situation. How yer, it is becoming increasingly I ificult for fair-minded whites to ( ght the Negroes cause because l he Negro himself will not fight r ack hard enough. It is unrea- | onable to think that someone else ill stick his neck out for you I Then your interest is so slight it h orders on indifference. Tn
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
THE NEGRO IN LATIN AMERICA
By Harold Preece

it's not a popular philosophy among the colored majority of Latin America who, remember how they've thought revolution after revolution against "white supre- macy"
 Few of us know that the aboli- ton of slavery, and with it NHwhite supremacy" was one of the burn ing issues in the great Latin American revolutions touched off by our war for national independ- ence. Unfortunately, we've been taught Latin American history as we've been taught this history of our own country-as a succession of battles and generals, generals and battles, with very little being said about the social issues which are the crux of every rebellion. Spain Introduced Slavery
 Human -enslavement of the Indian and then enslavement of the Negro-was first introduced to America by the rapacious Span ish conquerors. During the long centuries of Spanish rule, society was divided into iron-tight castes with people of African or mixed American blood in the lowest" of all castes. Men and women of the African castes, unless they could raise huge sums of money to have them selves declared logically "white'' by grating Spanish gov ernors, could not wear other than humble clothes, could own only a certain minimum of property, and might not send their children to the universities.
 The class which enforced these regulations is the class which came back to power in Spain with the assassination of the Spanish re- public by Franco, helped by Hitler and Mussolini, in 1889. Yes, the grandees of Spain are the blood descendants of the very men who "jim crowed' Negroes in the one time Spanish colonies.
 It was no accident that the | Latin American countries, as soon as they got their independence, l outlawed racial discrimination and then, one by one, emancipated | that minority of slaves who had | not been given their freedom dur ing the wars of independence. Nor was it any accident, as I've point ed out constantly in this column, that from the fury of the struggle | there should have arisen great Ne gro rebels against Spain like An dreosote of Venezuela, Maceo of | Cuba, and More1os and Guerrero of Mexico.
 The debate that takes place i around the UNO council table will | be echoed in every city and coun- try of Latin America. And, some times, nations like individuals, fail | to take their last chances to keep | the respect of their neighbors. I
 We shall have lost all respect | from our Latin American brothers if we fail to exercise our world responsibility by helping the Span ish-speaking peoples everywhere to dispose of Francisco Franco.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
WINGS OVER JORDAN"

Wings Over Jordan" choir re- gently returned from Europe
 where they sang spirituals to our armed forces. Sunday night the choir sang an excellent program of spirituals in Symphony Hall. The hall was about half filled. The choir still remains the worlds greatest interpreters of Negro spirituals, and this is largely due to expert leadership, wealth, pres tige and seriousness of purpose.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
THE COLORED PEOPLE ACCUSE FRANCO

Our Negro-Indian brothers of
 Latin America have sharp eyes and long memories. They judge men with their eyes, which let pass
 nothing and act toward those men
 out of memories based upon cen-
 turies of suffering and rebellion.
 Their eyes will be fixed, this week, upon the council table of the United Nations Organization in New York, and upon the states men of the United Nations called upon by the new democracy of Po- land to judge the bloody butcher, Dictator Francisco Franco Of Spain. For our brother peoples
 know that not only a thing in the shape of a man is being accused before the JUNO but also a whole
 evil trend in modern society - the trend toward "white supre- macy" and continued subjugation
 of the colored peoples to Bilbos and Francos and Churchills.
 Their memories will go back to
 yesterday to judge today. They will remember their own struggle against slavery which resulted in the establishment of the 21 Latin American republics with the first being Negro Haiti. Then they will look about them, as "white SUD- remacy" Secretary of States Jim mic Byrnes thinks up diplomatic double-talk to whitewash Franco, and see what Franco's outft-the Spanish Falange-is doing in their own countries.
 Pants and Bombs
 The diplomats of the United States and Britain - the forked- tongue gentry in striped pants may try to write off Francois dic- tatorship with it's manufacture of atomic bombs by emigre Nazi scientists as an internal affair" Of Spain.
 But the poorest co1ored farmer in a mountain village of Haiti or the poorest colored longshoreman loading bananas in a port of Ecua- dor knows better than that. He knows that whatever happens in Spain is going to effect his battle for complete emancipation - not only because of the historic cul- tural ties between Spain and Latin America but also because Fran co.'s agents from the Mexican section of Texas to icy Patagonia are working with upper class Latin Americans to revive the the long dead Spanish em- pire. Say Colored People "Unfit"
 Under the slogan ''Hispani- dad," meaning a restored Spanish leaders and members of Falange sections, affiliated with the central organization begun by Hitler's Gestaipo chief, Heinrich Himmler, are working to take over every Latin American country and 1 return it to the status of a Span | sh colony. The Negro-Indian who are the majority of l Latin America, are incapable and unfit to govern themselves, so say the leaders of the Falange when | they gather at their secret con- claves in Havana, Buenos Aires, pr Madrid. Nature, so runs the philosophy of Don Francisco of | Madrid as we'll as Don Jimmie l Byrnes of South Carolina, has or 1ained that dark-skinned people l shall serve and be ruled by their ight-skinned "betters."
 It may be a popular philosophy on the haciendas of Spain and the of South Carolina. But
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27

by his teaching, And make other lives worth while living, He'd tighten the burden in the hour of need, With a helping hand and kindly deed. To fill ones heart with hope and gladness, To relieve ones life from worry and sadness, Then he'd never be alone in Gods beautiful world, For He shall have Gods mission fulfilled.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
PITTSFIELD LASS IN BENNETT QUARTET

Greensboro, N. C.-Miss Alethia Walker of Pittsfeld, Mass, is first alto in the Bennett College Quar- tet which left for Columbus, Ohio, today. Saturday, April 27, to sing for the General Assembly of the Woman's Society of Christian Ser vice of the Methodist Church.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-04-27
Say It With Verse GODS MISSION
 Ry A. Ruddman

If each man would think himself an act of God, And believe in his sacred Holy word, To spread his teaching which IS ever right, He would begin to see God,s h0iy Light.
 If each man would act and live
The Valley settler., 1946-11-14
r LOCAL. Co3oP (cont. from page 2)

Your LOCAL. co4oP Cont. from page 2) Board, direct check on finance can bo ! made at any timo by the Board. Thi sl also osstros the members of moro democrat ce1 ] ly controlled As sociotion besidos being sound business prime iplc. It again is check to- prevent one person from gain ing control of the affairs of the assoc iotion, The Editor of tho Valley Settler was placed directly undor tho Board to afford 0 froor press. Tho Editor rather sits on tho stdo lines cnd is moro froo to express opinions on any part of tho Associetio ion without tho foer that his or hor job might be at stoko. Cooperative papers arc moro or le ss TO- strictod in the mottor of political opih- ions. They arc noee ssarily cooperative since they arc the organs of tho co-ops end arc sot us cs part of tho cdueot ionol part Of the Cooperative.
 This then, is tho general organization of the Mctenusko Valley For7ncr rss Cooperating Associct ion. It cannot be changed without the consent of the members md action by the Bocrd of Directors: It my not bo tho best plan in the world, but it should not be discarded or changed vi thout careful consideration cnd tho assurance thct on- other p1cn would bo better. It has it's faults cs any mnn-mndo plan always has, Wo, ccnnot expect porfcc ction, but thnt does not moan that We cannot strive in that direction. That continual looking ahead to somo thing better is what mnl1o progro ss, and it will bo tragic world whom mon ceosos to dc, that. Yours for bigger and better Coop. The Editor.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-04-27
Eager Eggers Have Big Time
by Gertrude Raumaker

by Gertrude Raumaker
 The school grounds stood it's strictest inspection Easter Sun day when over 200 pre-school and grade school children search ed every nook and corner for tho eggs hidden by the Kodiak Busi- ness and Professional Women's club. Despite club members a. vowals that eggs were not hid den in the mud puddles at the bottom of the hill, even these were subject to minute scrutiny, much to the detrimeDt of some new Easter apparel.
 The prize to the one finding the most sacks of eggs went to Sam Nelson. This was a large basket, with real eggs, topped by a big stuffed bunny. Runner-up was Iver Malntin, who was awarded cash prize. Many of the sacks contained small slips of paper which entitled the finders to ten cent pieces At the end of the hunt, there were more dimes left than were accounted for, which led Lillian Lamme, vice president of the club, and prize disburser, to believe that some of the children inadvertently swallowed their tickets while eat ing their eggs
 Crowed Vi Sipprell, eggs-ecutor of the hunt, "With the success of thls years hunt, we are laying plans for a bigger and better one next year, foul weather or not. " Fleeta Oh istopberson and Georgla Norman were instigat- ors of the hunt.