The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1947-04-12


CAROL BRICE. up and COM
ing contralto. was featured So
loist on the fourth anniversary
broadcast of CHS Invitation to
Music on Wednesday, April 2.
RED CROSS DRIVE AL
MOST OVER TOP The Red
Cross drive has virtually gone
over the top. although solicita-
ton Will continue until the fl
nal 100000 needed is collected,
(. The goal was 81 1884, 400, to
provide Detroit'S share of the
work with the million men
in the armies of occupation, aid
10 veterans, the community
blood bank. disaster relief, and
services To the community
CANCER CONTROL MONTH
Throughout April, the Ameri-
can Cancer Society will carry
on drive to raise funds for
research education and the early
detection of cancer. In Detroit
last year, cancer ranked second
among the principal causes of
death. Dr.. Bruce H. Douglas.
commissioner Of health, says 1t
claimed the lives Of 2,07l per-
sons and accounted for l45
per cent Of the total deaths
NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
Dr. Mordecai w johnson. Har-
vey S Firestone. Jr. and An
drew w. Robertson will launch
the l947 campaign for the Unit
cd Negro College Fund on a
special CHS Talks" program
THURSDAY April II 4:45-500 pm.
EST. They will speak al a
gathering OF Fund workers in
the Rainbow Room. Radio City,
" "
United Negro College Fun d
helps 33 accredited Negro uni
verslticS. The goal for this. its
4th annual drive. is Sl.300.000
POLITICS Joe Coles. field
investigator for the Mayors In
tcIracial Committee and a
friend of the Mayor, is talking
about putting his hat in the
ring for the City Councilman 5
race. The election is next fall
OUR AMERICA There is
much about isms making over
lures 10 the American Negro,
but we arc not alarmed A few
DAYS ago we read note from
the new booklet THE Challenge
of Hate published bv the FIFE
Publishers Of New York II
summed up om BELIEF on the
subject of the Negro in Amcri-
ca so much that we are taking
The liberty TO pass u on to YOU
Often forgotten Is the fact
that the Negro first came to
the new world not as captive
but as the equal and companion
of white men The pilot of one
of the three ships Columbus
sailed TO America was. history
reports Pedro Alonzo, a Negro
There were Negroes with Bal
boa when he discovered the Pa
Cific. with Cortcs in Mexico and
with those who came TO explore
Guatemala. Chile. Ncnezuel a
and Peru The record Of the
Negro in American life IS no
more record OF complete sub
iccron before the Emancipation
than il has been OF complete
Freedom since
mo matter what his status
and at all times since the DAYS
when he sailed down the rivers
of America. with Cartier and
ChWmplain the Negro has con-
tributcd spiritually and materi-
ally to the living texture OF
America, 60 It's thought, TO its
language and ant So deeply im-
bedded in the American grain
IN his presence and influence.
that +, is impossible as II would
be undesirable 10 filter il out
"llampcrcd by restrictions and
barriers in every other field. IL
has naturally been in art where
freedom rciCnS paramount. that
he has made his greatest con-
tlbuuon For the spirit Of man
cndures no restrictions and the
song that rises 20 his lips can
not bc forbidden. II has been
justly remarked that no more
wonderful poetry has come out
of America than the Negro
spirltuals. the spontaneous song
OF men and women moved by
deep emotion. And from the
spiritual has developed the
Uniquely American rhythm Of
Jazz that which nothing is more
deeply a part Of the movement
and life Of every American. This
music intense alive pushing
with the very rhythm and beat
of modern life, have swept
across the world. changing the
music of other nations and find
ing place on the works OF
every great modern composer
America would be a much
gloomicr place indeed. il il
were not for the great enter
tanners and artists who have
given SO much Of the gaiety and
cXuberanCe that is one OF the
Negro contributions 20 tn @
American spirit, that amalgam
OF the voices and spirits of all
who have lived in it. Indeed.
in what is most characteristical-
~ American, the Negro has
been most prominent. i'm sports
whore his achievements arc sec
ond 20 none. and in all fields
where he has been fully free
to express himself and Ia de-
l.