Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-06-07
lew Racial Policy Urged For United States Security
Elks Ask Congress Probe To End Army
Bias; White Supremacy Defeating u. S.
In Bid For World Leadership

WASHINGTON, D. c. (DSN)-
The Independent Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks of the
World has announced a nation
wide effort for a campaign to Sc
lcure a congressional probe into
a long standing institutionionalized
and legalized racial segregation an
color prejudice in the U. S. armed
forces it was disclosed here last
week.
The movement headed by Hob
son R. Reynolds, grand director
|of Elks Department of Civil lib
critics is designed to bring about
the declaration of a policy as to
distinctions based on race in law
land in administration.
In petition placed before the
Senate Armed Forces Committee
April Il the fraternal order asked
for searching inquiry into the
status of Negroes in the U. S.
Armed Forces.
INCREASINGLY CRITICAL
1t held that the situation fac
ing the Negro personnel in the ar
my is becoming increasingly more
critical each day"
"Herded like cattle into the
labor branches of the service, Ne
gro troops have become the targets
of bold, vicious, and unwaranted
attacks by persons big in the mil
1tary and national life. Negro SER
vice units face evacuation from
European occupation areas. Of the
$4,000 officers necessary to com
mand the regular army, it is pro-
bable that only 100 will be negroes.
Rumors are to the effect that the
air corps may even be liquidated.
Trained observers are all of the
opinion that army Jim Grow has
been military failure both at
home and abroad"
Speaking Of the recently pub
licized Gillem report, the petition
cited it as being a ''staff study
which more or less crystalizes on
paper the army's general policy
to make segregation the rule
and Indignation the exception.
1t pointed out that military in
quiries concerning the welfare of
Negroes in the Army have been
superficial so far, with no critical
anlysis being made of the social
and moral implications of army dis
elimination.
Army segregation was the only
problem of the war peculiar to
Negroes; yet Negroes have done
nothing specifically to correct
it save talk. Do we want a repeat
performance of Alexandria, La,
Selfridge Field, Mich. 1t is later
than we think.
RACE FOR HEGEMONY
The United States and Russia
are neck and neck in a desperate
bid for the hegemony of the world.
In this bid for hegemony of the
world, the IS million American
Negroes will constitute the big
gest trump. A crusade against the
t1on, which is already in the max
ing could unity the worlds dark
er people who have long since tir-
ed of being the whit mans bur
den These represent a 10 1 sup
eriority in manpower to the Anglo
Saxon world.
The balance of power is in
eVitably operating against the Uni
ted States Southrn fascist dogma
of white supremacy cannot and viii
not guide our country successfully
through this crisis. Our time limit
for free and democratic America
has already dawned. Americas Sc
curity depends upon the establish
ment of a bold new racial policy.
She cannot live longer in a fools
paradise listening to the swan
songs of the Bilboes, RaRkins, Ell
lenders, and the Georges. America
must waken and act now