The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1955-01-22
BLUE EAGLE NEWS
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By BARBERSHOP CHORD
Owner Jockson closes and
opens his emporium strictly in
accordance with the rules ana
regulations of the Master Bar
gers organization. Tonsorial
artists Smith, Davis and KEEL
ley are cooperating magnifi-
Gently Young Elder Smith. the
brush boy, is Watchdog" OF
the door in order to keep out
delinquents who do not read
this column. When the vene-
ton blind-curtains are drop
ped and the powdered barber
polt stops turning, it means
all tonsorial activities for the
day are concluded.
eddie" Barber and "Ro-
mey" Davis have not been seen
in Owner Jackson's chair late
ly. Glen" Curtain comes in
and gets his bi-weekly ton
serial inspection on the dot.
why do pou wait Dear Bro
Their, why do fou you tarry SO
long,, is owner Jackson's
theme song
Maude Trotter Stewart, Elk
ecutive Editor of this publica-
ton is convalescing slowly at
the Boston City Hospital. A
grand news woman is out of
current circulation This stout
hearted octogenarian complet-
ed for nearly a quarter Of 0
century to keep alive the Will
liam Monroe Trotttr tradition
of Equal Rights. She needed
a welcomed rest at an oppof-
tune time of her life to pause
at the crossroads and catch
up with the tangled-web OF
events since her courageous
brothers. demise On her dis
charge from the hospital, she |
can again take the tran |
though not SO strenuously, on
a path of 1000 Dark Skinned |
Equality The seed William
Monroe Trotter sown during |
his tempestuous life is mani
tested as a reolity in the tol-
lowing paragraphs
RACE PROGRESS In
TENNESSEE
In the Chattanooga area oil
Tennessee there has been a
nerceptib,e decline in race
pre Udice and IN imTroven en-
in Job opportunities for Ne
eroes. This is the finding re-
ported by Prof. William H.
Wesson Jr. of the University
Of Chattanooga following
survey ne made for the Com
mittee of the South. This COM
mittee, inciden FLY, is not
composed Of benevolent North
erners but of eighty lone
Southern leaders in various
/ in their area and are trying
fields who know the situation
to improve il.
Professor WeSson could not
say that large numbers of Me-
gr0es were gaining by the
change in foIkaays in the
| Chattanooga area, but such
gains as there were made we're
significant, Manufacturer were
not opposed to hiring Negroes.
Some thought, naturally
enough, that it was better to
follow pratices of the region
ard not try to mix the races
in job cl2ssi6catiOns and work
4 groups. Negroes were admit
ted to seven out of twenty
eight A. F. L. unions of skill
ed workers, to nineteen out of
twenty industrial-type A. F. L.
unions and to ten C. l. o.
! sseelworkers' unions.
The Committee of the South
has made similar inyestiga-
tons elsewhere. What it
seems to be finding out is
are changing for the better.
Laws and Supreme Court de-
cisiOns may have something
to do with this change. but
these latter would hardly be
ported by the fairness and
common sense Of the white
effective if they were not sup
population. The Negro still
needs a lot Of patience. The
white man still needs to do
some thinking to offset some
of the old and thOughtless
emotions. Nevertheless, under
the stress of modern condi-
tons, the South, like the rest
OF the country, is growing up.
On both sides of the Mason
and Dixon Line it is coming
to be recognized shat racial
/ lII-WlIl is an extravo 0s,,oo ~