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edge that every colored person wants complete equality and citizenship even when terrorism and lynch law prevent him from making demands publicly.

On the color question, as the AFRO so frequently has said before, the Communist party is the only political organization going 100 per cent down our street.

With 1200 delegates present for the week's sessions, and audiences as large as 4,500 in the public meetings, the congress put over its program with such finesse that nobody raised any question as to whose congress it was. Nobody cared.

So, give the Reds credit for the 1937 congress. They did not pass the hat; they didn't ask for anybody's votes. All they did was to ask the delegates to come out for a week and expose themselves to the Communist program.

## Selling Out the Pope

Despite denial of officers who say they speak for the Pope, the Associated Press has not retracted its October 14th story concerning communications from His Holiness to Catholic missions in the Far East advising co-operation with the Japanese in China.

The truth seems to be that the communications were sent out, but later recalled.

Newspaper men are quick to point out that news is not given out at the Vatican as at the White House by the President or members of his cabinet, but news is viewed as merchandise to be sold to the highest bidder.

For example, Westbrook Pegler, white, of the New York World Telegram, declares, newsmen were recently offered a scoop on the death of the Pope, had he died, for $2,500.

If members of the Pope's household will sell news of his death, why shouldn't they sell information concerning the contents of his letters to the Far East?

## Our Stake in Spain

As Langston Hughes shows in the first of a series of articles which began in the AFRO-AMERICAN last week, Spain has become not only the center of the European conflagration, but a battle ground and a country in which all races are fusing under the heat of conflict.

The Spanish melting pot, into which has already been poured the blood of many races, including Indian and African, is being stirred again, and this time the German, Italian, the French, the English, the Moor and Algerian from Northern Africa, and colored men from America and other sections of the world, are being hurled into the vortex.

As Mr. Hughes's articles, which will be published exclusively in the AFRO, indicate, the Spanish situation is but a prophecy of what all Europe is approaching, and from this angle colored men and women here in America and throughout the world will be interested.

In addition to the profound clash of economic, political, territorial and religious interests, there is also the age-old question of racial relations.

## Lucy D. Slowe

The late Lucy D. Slowe, dean of Women at Howard University, was one of those rare women whose death cannot deprive us of the life she lived.

Thousands of women, young and old, and through them the thousands of men she moulded into finer patterns, will carry on her influence in the years to come.

As a teacher, and more especially as a leader of young women, she had no peer in the field of American education.

It is not enough to say that Dean Slowe had a fine personality—that she exhibited grace, charm and character which set her apart in any presence where duty took her. She had in addition that radio-active faculty of imparting this grace, charm and character to others without losing any of it herself.

## DAY BY DAY

WITH WILLIAM N. JONES

### OLD AND NEW RACIAL OBJECTIVES

IT IS NOT always possible to get the real composite objectives and ambitions of colored citizens through the resolutions, work and expressed aims of the many specialized organizations working in their interest.

Even such outstanding organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Urban League specialize in certain fields. The average young man or woman would not be able to construct a complete program of racial aims that would answer for him all questions that come up in the everyday affairs of life.

In fact, while most of the leaders in our established organizations and agencies have back in the recess of their minds about the same objective for colored American citizens, their organization literature and the statements of their officials on public occasions rarely sound the full depth of this objective,

This is natural for the reason that most organizations are working on some specific program and cannot complicate this program by involving it in the more sharply controversial issues,

It was for this reason that the recent session of the National Negro Congress seemed to have been of marked significance. Here the leaders in specialized organizations not only had the opportunity to rub shoulders with leaders of other specialized organizations, but to become exposed to the most progressive as well as most conservative points of view and racial objectives,

IT WAS SIGNIFICANT that both in private interviews and in public utterances, leaders coming as delegates from other organizations expressed themselves with greater freedom and touched on a wider range of thought and opinion than any of them would have been free to do in their specialized organization.

It will probably be through an organization like this, which brings together leaders with all shades of the race, that the real racial objective will be most clearly set forth.

This will be important to young men and women.

For one cannot talk to the average high school or co-

of what the leaders of the group want him to do.

THE NATIONAL Negro Congress, composed as it is of the varied representatives of thought and opinion, may be able to chart some course which the average man and woman can follow.

At the same time, it may direct emphasis to the value of the specialized work our various organizations are doing and develop a wider spirit of co-ordination.

We are pretty certain that men like Eugene K. Jones, Walter White, A. Philip Randolph, Max Yergan, James W. Ford, Dr. Frederick Patter son, Mrs. Mary McLeod But hune, C. C. Spaulding, En mett J. Scott and other leaders, all have the same fundamental yearnings as to the real place of the colored citizen in American life, but their approach may be different, because of expediency or contact.

AND IT IS JUST this which makes the National Negro Congress valuable. It offers a clear- ing house through which the ultimate goal of all may be expressed.

For it is inconceivable that there is any conscientious colored American who would advocate a goal for colored Americans that would be different from that of white Americans, and this, when properly and courageously interpreted, is about the most that any leader could advocate.

One thing is certain: All organizations and leaders will have to move their approaches up a peg or two to keep in line with the fast-moving events about us.

### NA (mos) A (ndy) CP?

To the Editor of the AFRO:

Public opinion is bitter and running riot in condemning the NAACP for its endorsement of Associate Justice Hugo L. Black for the U. S. Supreme Court.

In the eyesight of many, the association has now become the "Amos and Andy" of the nation, due to its change of front. The man on the street, foe, and friend agree that its "about-face policy" on the appointment of Associate Justice Black hastens a pallor of doom. It indicates weakness and decay. Nothing can become of