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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1949-09-17

ny Goodman, Buck the pianist,
Artie Shaw, Jack Teagarden,
Bunny Berrigan. Dodo Mondas,
all Of them just side-men at the
time on the way up. AS Billie
says, They were just scuffiing
too
Billie does not intend to scat
or bepop. She will stick to blues
and torch songs, which is all
right with her loyal fans. She
is accompanied by Horace Hen
derson, brother Of Fletcher. Hor-
ace also arrangss for Lena
Horne and has a band in Los
Angeles. So, thanks from. two
grateful college girl reporters to
Miss Holiday and to her press
agent, Floyd snelson, who made
this interview possible.
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many friends are hoping for her
speedy and permanent recovery.
My Marionettes are rolling
again. You can hear them sun
day, December II, at st. Paul
A. M. E. Church, Cambridge.
More about this later.
So often | observe such an
absence of sympathy and under
standing between a performer
and his audience, that / am con
strained to make a remark on
it. Does the performer aim to
entertain his audience. or does
he aim to show his audience.
how much he knows? 1t seems
that the majority of performers,
speakers, fail to reach the audi
ence because of the attempt to
perform, mechanically, instead
Of injecting their own PERSONAL
ity, and performing easily, ma
turally, with the abandon of a
heart-to-heart session. Notice
the radio announcers and you
will get what l mean. There are
persons who do not appreciate
anything that is not over their
heads, having the feeling that
they can do the same as the
performer. Let them try it.
Don't be a pocket edition of your
teacher. Be yourself. Contact
your audience, get familiar with
them and retain the familiar re-
lation throughout. No teacher
can make you an ace performer
If you are not born to be one.
True, teacher may waken a.
dormant talent; but schools can
not put in you what is not in
you. We may all strive for the
top. Many of us think we have
reached the top, and feel a grudge
against the public for~not appre-
ciating us. Work on, students
and performers and teachers, to
improve and progress on the road
to perfection, and don't give UP
or get disgruntled if you do not
seem as good to the public as
you seem to yourself. Many are
few are chosen.
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who participated in half-hour
television preview; Robert w
Gilbert, Central Labor Council
attorney served as counsel and
Herschell Chanln, Director Of
the Anti Discrimination Depart
ment, Jewish Labor Committee
was clerk
TIE most damning indictment
Of military Jim Crow came
from excl Samuel Patterson
who statsd that he regretted be-
ing liberated" by the segregated
American Army because in the
prisoner-of- camp l was
treated like a man"
Formr Sergeant William Boyd
Black testified that he ha /
been court-martialed and had
served an Army jail sentence
for writing a letter Of protest
to the then Under Secretary OF
War Robert Patterson, who had
made a speech claiming that the
Army did not discriminate.
Blacks release after four
months Of a years sentence TO-
lowed pressure by the Workers
Defense League and other
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1949-09-17
INMEMORLAM
NnRMAN IAMEs RICHARDS

NORMAN JAMES RICHARDS
1948 = Sept. 20 = l949
One has stepped across the
border
One we knew and loved so
well,
And is waiting in country
Fairer far then we can tell;
And the glad, sweet smile we
cherished
And the touch Of that dear
hand
Wait to welcome and to greet us
In a lovelier brighter land.
Lovingly remembered by
Mrs. Matte G. Jones, mother;
Walter J. Jones, step-father;
Leon Richards, brother; Mrs.
Celestine Bayne. Doris Jones,
sisters; Norman c. Richards,
Mrs. Thelma McCuney Bernice
Richards, children.
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"OF ONE BLOOD"
NOT NEW FACT

To the Editor Of the Guardian:
That the blood of all peoples
is the same, is not a new-scien-
tific discovery. Fifty years ago,
a Harvard Medical School pro-
fessor, Dr.. ]. D. Robertson pro-
claimed the sameness of the
blood of all mankind. He said
he had reached this conclusion
after making blood tests Of
representatives of many ethnic
groups.
The pronouncement of science
merely repeats what the Bible
has taught all along, that GOD
hath made of one blood all ma
tons of men"
(Rev.) F. T. WASHINGTON.
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Broad labor participation in a
Los Angeles "mock trial" of mil
itary Jim Grow reafirmsd re-
Gently the vanguard position o.
progressive trade unionists in
fighting discrimination wherever
II may be.
Included on the Commission
to hear the soaring testimony
of colored and whita veterans
we're Albert T. Lunceford, Sec
retary-T Treasurer Of tie Greater
Los Angeles CLIO Council; Louis
Levy, nGWU Vice-Presidsnt
and chairman of the California
Jewish Labor Committee; Au~
brey Blair, Chairman of the
Church, Civic and Charities
Committee Of the Central LABOR
Council. AFL; william H. Knight,
District Council President of the
Lumber and Sawnill Workers.
AFL; Leonard Levy, Analga :
mated Clothing Workers, C1C;
and Susan D. Adams, Central
Labor Council. The Commission
was chaired by viii Rogers, Jr.,
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OPERA STAR

CONTINUED From Page one)
hit show, 1.-THE Pirate, which
achieved an outstanding run ct
the Matin Beck Theatre. While
rehearsing she took time off to
sing with a symphony orchestra
at Grant Park in Chicago where
1900 people accorded her an
enthusiastic ovation.
She was singled out to play
the title role in Billy Roses
spectacular production, Carmen
Jones' for which Olin Downes
of New York Times paid her the
unusual tribute Of excellent
sensuous, seductive and accomp-
lished in song"
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Billie Holiday


(coat'n1ed From Page one
and regular off stage as she APP
pears to be on. the stage. Ex-
clusively for the GUARDIAN,
we interviewed Miss Holiday at
the spacious Coplsy Plaza Hotel
where she and her company
enjoyed the finest suites ana
where the management of the
hotel served Lady Day with the
height Of cordially in recogni-
ton Of truly great artist, and
perhaps the highest paid col
ored woman singer in America.
We were captiyated by her mag
netic charm and in her inimit-
able style, she impaired to us
some of the secrets of her sue
cess on radio, stage, and screen.
Sang With Goodman
Elenora (Billie's real first
name) Holiday made her iirst
stage appearances at age of five
years at Halloween party
where she was supposed to sing
NANNY forgot the words, and
was yanked OF sage by an EN-
barrassed mother. She made her
first adult recording with Benny
Goodman after much urging
from Buck" of Buck g. Bub-
bles fame. She got mike fright"
and tried to walk of, But they
made her sing. With her that
day were some Of Americas
greatest artists, including Ben
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we're not basic to the attack?
In the course of my education
and orientation lectures in the
army during the war, 1 was
taught that fascism was, among
other things, the brutal DONNA
ton Of he government, through
its police apparatus and officials,
over the working people, and par
ticularly over the ninorities
which stand as a scapegoat in
any system of fascism. The army
taught me this, not the Com
munist Party.
Under a slogan of American
ism and anti-Communism, fas-
cism is riding into power in Am
erica AS in pre- Hitler Germany.
as in MuSsolini's Italy, a con
fused leadership which seeks to
curry favor with the majority in
power, serves to keep the minor
tiles which CAN beat off fascism,
disunited. We've developed SO
peculiarly that half of our lead
ership is spending its energies
and our monies running down
to Washington refuting the
other half A segment of our
leadership, worn and battered in
the struggle, is busily inyestigat-
ing the illusory treatments which
promise fair skin to the beat
en- down colored people. It's
time that we learned to get to-
gether, to fight together, for the
equality which is the concern
Of US all, he lowest and the high
est. Unless we do, wen find
ourselves, like the Jews in Ger
many, deceived and misled into
the worst kind of mass terror
and MISREPRESENTATION which a
decadent group of industrialists
can cook up.
I'll state it more simply.
Share-cropping is the root of the
economy of the South. The ten
ant farmer farms a section of
land which belongs to the land
lord. In return for the use of
the land, he turns over a per-
centage of his annual crop. The
southern landlords, not content
with their flair" share of the
land, cheat the tenant out of
more by classifying his accounts
In the store which the landlord
owns, and in which all the
choppers deal When-a colored
'cropper challenged the land
lords figures, he's labelled "up-
pity, and If he persists, he is
lynched This is TIE reason for
lynching-this is the means by
which a whole population of
wife and black sharecroppers are
held in peonage.
Paul Robson has challenged
the landlords. He has gotten
"uppity" and SO they are calling
for his neck. But Paul, like the
'cropper who challenges his
landlord, is showing all of US
how to fight. Shall we sit back
and let him be lynched? Or can
we follow him, unite behind him,
and show our Landlords" that
we've learned how to count? If
we don't, we'll be pushed right
back to the seIi-slavery and ter
ror.sm which awaits us. This is
fascism. We have the power to
fight back, if we but will.
JACK LEE
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FIRST A. NJ. E. CHURCH
Elm Hill Ave. and Warren st.
Rev. S. L. Greene, Pastor
BISHOP NICHOLS
HERE SEPT. IS

Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New
York City, presiding bishop Of the
First Episcopal District of the
African M ct h odist Episcopal
Church comprising the Philadel-
phia, Delaware, New Jersey, New
York New England, and Maritime
conferences, will be the guest
speaker in the Mems Day Pro
gram at First AM. E. Church,
Roxbury, Sunday, September IS
at lO:45 Am. Bishop Nichols, who
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1949-09-17
Letters To
The Editor
TELLS OF robson RIOT
AN DEN LETTER TO THE


AN DEN LETTER TO THE
EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN:
It was with the deepest alarm
that | returned from New York
City Saturday evening, Sept. 8.
confident that the second concert
of Paul Robson at Peekskill
would be permitted to proceed
without interruption. The police
department and the State police
had announced their intention
to provide sufficient protection
for all the concert-goers The
veterans organizations Of Peeks-
kill had scondemed'' the VOL
ence Of last week, and the Robe
son admirers themselves had
announced their intention
OF taking steps for their own
protection, was shocked, how
ever, to learn that the second
Iiot which took place was far
more vicious than the first, that
the police had joined with the
hoodlums in clubbing down the
concert-goers, particularly the
colored people in attendance.
On Monday evening I heard
frst-hand reports Of what trans
/ pired from the lips of group
Of people from Holyoke who had
driven down to Peekskill to hear
that greatest of American bari
tones in concert. As I listened
TO their description of the at
tack, heard how their car, con-
tanning women as well as men.
had been halted by state troop
ers, overturned in front of their
eyes by young hoodlums, how
their party had been brhutally
attacked (they all wore band
ages and splints when spoke
70 them in front of the acqui-
eScent police, my blood ran cold.
! read the report of Shirley Ora
ham, outstanding colored au-
thor, describing the attack upon
herself and her 76 year old
mother, the detailed report of
James Hicks, Afro-American cor
respondent. who himself, was
routed by the hoodlums, and
many others. l wondered where
we in America were heading
where We, the colored citizens
Of America, were destined.
Let there now be no mistake
the attack upon the concert was
not just an attack upon political
minorities, but a vicious, planned
attack upon the colored and
Jewish people who attended.
The slogans mouthed by the
hoodlums proved that. Not alone
the burning Of cross, but the
singing out for special brutal
ity of those colored people who
were in the audience, proved
that. The Tuesday edition OF
The Daily Compass, which ran
a photograph Of a sticker which
hoodlums had plastered on bus
ses and cars, proved that The
sticker, printed In quantity well
in advance Of the concert, read
Communism is Treason. Be-
hind Communism Stands p the
Jewl TheFefore-for my Coun-
try Against the Jews Can
anyone believe that these things
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plause. The performance was
sponsored by the Women's So
ciety Of Christian Service. Mem
bers of the Clover Leaf Quartet
are Robert Faux, bass; Frank
Hill, baritone; Maurice Davis,
tenor, and Fred Jeter, leader.
ushers were Tharo Jones, Cla-
rissa Jessamy, Lillian Golbolt,
Fannie Bell, Martha Meredith,
Irene Gordon, Maryann Lake,
Eula Wright, Eleanor Perry.
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Card Of Thanks

+ Mrs. Lucinda Johnson and
daughter wish to thank the many
friends for their kindness express
Sed in the beautiful flowers, do
nations, kilograms and symp athy
cards at the passing of her nus
band, Mr.. William G. johnson Of
Boston, Mass, on August %, le49.
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Boston Baked
By MABE KOUNTZE

THIS POINT in the generals
book is worth a calm analytic
study. For most scholars of
world history know that there
is no real basic difference be-
tween that condition of mental
and physical SLAVERY, which
colorad men have suffered, re-
gardless Of whether it is called
Nazism, Communism dixocrat-
ism, imperialistic colonialism
and all the rest.
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we believe individual lib
erty rooted in human dignity,
Is mans greatest treasure.
Gen Dwight d. Eisenhower.
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ARMY JIM CROW ON TRIAL =
By A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

eochaiman Committee Against Jim Crow Military Service and Training
international President Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Pore AFL
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We believe individual LIB
erty rooted in human dignity,
Is mans greatest treasure
Gen Dwight d. Eisenhower.
!" -
CRUSADE IN EUROPE, the
famous war book, written BY
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
was Christmas present which
] Just got around to reading dur
ing my recent vacation. At this
writing, the General has just
highly commended the loyalty
of colored troops in a Congress
sional investigation,
- - -
GEN. IKE win always be a
priceless part of this column.
We engaged in his stormy de-
fenseD when he candidly cast
the blame for army jim crow
upon the laxity of the civilian
population, upon "gentlemen's
agreements" and upon tenden-
cies to limit colored education
and opportunities. He pointed
needed reforms which are just
beginning. 1t cost him many
votes.
MILITARY preparedness alone
Is not an adequate answer to the
problem of communism, states
the General in his new book and
he urges the Allies to fight COM
munism with democracy. He
writes: IF the men and women
OF America face this issue as
squarely and brayely as their
soldiers faced the terrors of
World War II, we would have no
fear of the outcome"
- ~ -
THERE HAVE been times when |
civilian and political leadership
has seemed less resolute fight I
ing communism than we and the /
military forces were in the fight
against Hitler. We utilized all I
our best weapons against Naz-
ism. We are not yet using our
whole democratic effort of
brotherhood and equality in
eombatting communism. This
would defeat it.
ss
THE POWER of democracy, in
terpreted In the standards of our
Constitution, has not yet been
wholly utilized even in some Of
cur own states. A practical APP
plication of our democracy and
the adherence to western re-
hgious standards would almost
automatically counter commun-
ism throughout the world. This
Is a basic concept stressed by
the General in his book.
aa ~
1--WE WHO SAW EUROPE Ii
berated know that the Com
munists fear that men will cling
to freedom is well founded
writes the General, 1T is pos
sible that this truth may be the
reason for what appears to be
an aggressive intent to tear
down all governmental struc-
lures based on individual free
dom
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and physical SLAVERY, which
colorad men have suffered, re-
gardless Of whether it is called
Nazism, Communism dixocrat-
ism, imperialistic colonialism
and all the rest.
~ !"
THE CONTEST to destroy free
governments did not begin III
any one nation. Historians VIII
someday discover that ever since
the decline of rulers and kings
there has been a continuous
plot to return to the "one man
rule which has even allied the
capitals of Berlin, Toyko, Mad
rid, Rome and Moscow. Tie
movement has allies in every
part Of the globe.
- - t&
THE DIFFICULTY in our CRU
SADIE for democracy is that not
many people realize that there
is close relationship between
our own forms of Dixie-cratism,
i'm crowism, and the other isms
which we term foreign. Yet it
is the same thing as South Afri-
can colonial slavery and other
forms of government
which exploit other people. 1t
simply has another name.
!" +" -.
WE HAVE HAD men Of our
Jim Crowism doctrines who al
legedly we're perfectly willing
to hook -up with the European
sponsors Of the "isns" nosa-
bly, the alleged close ties of the
Khan and the German Buad.
And, impressed with Hitlers
theology one man sponsored the
Columbians. There are other
societies who hope for dictator
rule. All are not communists.
#* ~ -
THE KU KLUX KHAN Is as
much an enemy of the Catholic
faith as the communists, but far
more subtle. TIE possibility Of
the Khan joining the commun-
lists is not remote There We're
Dixiecrats during the last war
who were seemingly more in
sympathy with Hitler racial
ideologies than winning the war.
The democracies must correct
these weaknesses at home.
THE COLORED PEOPLE are
far more cognizant of the
threats Of slavery than some
Congressman think we are. They
think they need to school us
/ in a system we know from eX-
perience far better than they
will ever know. They think W.
are deceived by the new modern
names for slavery. But like tae
people of Europe and elsewhere
we pin our hopes on democracy
Nobody needs to have the least
bit of doubt about that.
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GOD OF THE AMERICAS

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Boston, Mass. 1.00P.My-Sunday School
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Zion FBH Church Ave. sponsored by the church
auxiharies. Rev R. j. Davidson Minister
, 1949-04-22

afternoon last summer on a road
near Jerusalem. The Holy City's
water supply had been cut off dur
ing during heavy fighting there,
but UN had been able to arrange
for a convoy of workers to repair
the water lines. When the convoy
left Jerusalem, it travelled with
out interruption until it was out
side of the city, when suddenly
it was fired upon. Unarmed, the
workers scurried for shelter, as
the radio operator went into ac-
, 1949-04-22

work, which became an essential
and efficient cog in the truce OBJ
servation machinery.
Out on the long front lines, the
first glimpse of the communica-
tons network in operation was
the sight of one of a dozen trans
mitter-equipped jeeps, which
could instantaneously relay a mes
sage back to the nearest station
airy sending point. Each of the
jeeps, heavily painted with UN
markings, carried walkie-talkies,
which were in constant use by
UN observers on foot. The walkie-
talkies made it possible for OBJ
servers to communicate with each
other across opposing lines, to pin
point the location of any out
break of firing and to relay the
Information back to UN head
quarters at Haifa and Rhodes,
where responsibility for any truce
violation was established.
The radio-equipped jeeps were
in constant touch with any one
of the eight UN radio stations in
and around Palestine. These were
located at Haifa, the control point;
Tel Aviv; Jerusalem; Nablus; lib
erius; BEIRUT, Lebanon; Damascus,
Syria; and Amman, Transjordan;
and were used to relay messages,
to direct truce observation teams
from headquarters on Rhodes and
to clear the passage of UN air
craft bound for conferences and
investigations.
A typical incident requiring the
use of the communications net
work took place on a dusty, hot
, 1949-04-22

tien JON the communications net
work. In less than two hours af-
ter his message was sent, the at
tackers. were called off with a
new ceaSe-fire and the convoy,
went through to work on the wa
ter system.
The radio crews, a mixed vol
unteer group of about 10 soldiers,
sailors and civilians, were used
to danger on their posts. In fact,
one of them recalled recently, the
Continued on Page AZ
, 1949-04-22

pockets of Israeli troops in
Arab-held territory and vice
versa. It was a tempting situa-
ton, despite the UN-imposed
truce, for military command
ers determined to straighten
out their lines for "precaution-
airy" or other reasons.
And in the midst of the turmoil,
neutral military men from Bel
GUM, France and the United
States were on constant duty on
both sides of the lines to see that
the truce was being kept. The
truce observers, although they
held commissions in the military
forces of their own countries,
were at the disposal of a handful
of United Nations officialS-of-
ficers Of peace, so to speak-in
Palestine and on the Island of
Rhodes, where the slain Count
Folke Bernadotte and his success
o as UN mediator, DR.. Ralph
Bunche, had established head
quarters.
The story of the truce obser-
vation teams and their successes
in supervising the ,cease-fires in
Palestine is now well-known to.
the world as the preliminary
step which made it possible for
UN to help arrange armistice
agreements between Israel on the
one hand and Egypt, Transjordan
and Lebanon on the other. But
practically unnoticed amidst the
rapid political developments was
the technical work of a hurriedly
organized UN communications net
, 1949-04-22
H ETHER AS LINK IN PEACE MACHINERY;
Unsung Radio NETWORK Had
Key Role in Palestine Truce
BY F. H. EDWARDS

New York-The fighting fronts in Palestine during the re-
cent conflict, now halted by the United Nations-sponsored
a1mistice agreements between Israel and Arab states, were
a military observers nightmare, officials recently returned
here from Palestine recall.
Deeply serrated and often confused, the lines were full of
, 1949-04-22
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