The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1950-03-04
Acorns To Oak Trees
Bv JULIAN c. wYcHE

80 Tho most enightening and extensive reports On
tho status of civil rights during the past year was made
lost week in Joint effort by the American Jewish Con-
gress and the Nationai Assoca''o" "a w ""eemen
The 71-page report was meaty and good reading
that the Tribune editors decided to run IN full elsewhere
~ th;s The document wildly pictures the need for
70 oet behind every effort to defeat discriminatory
movements and practices by our votes pressure groups
and cold cash.
Perhaps the most busiest well as the most popular
local disc Jockey in the Motor City Leroy c. White
~o,d,ctor of the air show, "Rockin With Leroy" Be.
sides conducting his broadcast he is aiding the
paign of his wife, Charlne White who Is running for
state representative on the Dem ticket
White has gone about for his spouses election by puh
fishing weekly, the World Echo, which is distributed
mainly in Hamtramck. Incidentally the Midwest Pub
fishing Co. is doing the mechanical end for Leroy
Another promotion for good will is his Press and Radio
party which was inauguratcd last week in the Farban
Hotel lounge with direct White broadcast Planned az
an annual affair to commemorate Negro Newspaper
Week. Mrs White stated that the party may be held
monthly since it was wildly acclaimed by the first night
ers.
Another outstanding feat was recorded last week in
Windsor, Canada, when Alene Adams Junior Pstter.
Collegiate High School, walked off with top honor,
in the cisy-wide Oratorical Contest. Dr. Roy Perry
prominent dentist, recently elected as the first race
City Councilman of Windsor.
The eighth national observance of Negro NeWsnaper
Week that started Sunday and ends this Saturday
yearly reminder of the struggle of the race to gain l
equality and recognition American citizens We have
been hearing remarks about how inferior and intrated
with yellow news reports the newspapers for and
about Negroes since knee-hgh to a duck
These charges were true some ten years ago but the
newspaper by and about Negroes has undergone meta
mophosis that ranks with any similar publication in 6
country " w
The Transformation was possible through chiefly two
advancements both products capital First race
publications have been able to crack the lucrative field
OF advertisement made possible by the giant industries
newspaper business and it must have at lea sixty
per cent of advertisement Tits chief of revenue)
with at least forty cent of continue to OBJ.
crate as profitable public servant.
With such large advertising accounts as the Lever
Brothers Soap Manufacturers national soft drink concerns
and the major cigarette companies the Negro newspaper
has been able to hire educated and experienced reporters
and editors and equipment 10 put out firsclass product
Secondly the whole is receiving better and
hgher education through federal aid This that the
race IS becoming more civic-mnded and acting tht
American scene fufedged citizens who find that The
social column Che dirty dishing" medum) and crime
stories are less interesting" reading
The newspaper printed by and for Negroes has still
tough battle to maintain highest standards and
tinue to be published biweekly weekly as success
fu business But there is denying that it has
viabe record which is known to all of us.
So, why not make concentrated survey of your rae
newspaper this week and anayze it for variety of
and auhency? Let me know if you do not find that
pubic servant has not undergone various Improvement
since the last time you scrutinzed it.
Ironically. the persons that beef about how tn
publication carries only crime stories or gossip
to be the that only support the newspaper whe
their picture is in it. And in most cases they
\ you to give them the publication.