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fae S. Schuyler gurcs position celebrating tne 20Qth rfttie founding of colorful Le. the teeming, gleaming capi lz tho maznuicenc narrjor ior theirstriK qis by na their courts, i broad, as jover Uned jthepro 'palmand trees, tne jjnuscment fith their of the their all A ine sxuiuig uuuu Mr. Schuyler THEB SOURCE OF pride is the (Sod3 of promotion by which iseeking Haitians are bringing fair to i the attention of the York they have employed KfcsB Peter Hilton agency which" i the group of newspaper and folk representing the Associated i United Press, the International Cn Reuther's, the Ladies Home fie NewYork Daily News, Es I Negroes. 2UNGEMENTS WOULD have 1 to nations much bigger and i Haiti, and they demonstrated icSdals promoting this great ex ktat learned all of the up to date iThev did the job as it should by Mr.

and Mrs. Peter Hilton Stivers of the agency staff, by special limousine to the ial Airport at LaGuardia Field. boarded a Pan American Airier which flew them to San Juan, where they were greeted by manager while pictures were uea escorted to the I Clipper Club. Htm. ERS SAYS: ROGERS' U.

UAAA i Jr.er, a cellophane envelope brought down that morning from the Chatelet des Fleurs at Kenskof 5,000 feet up in the cool mountains, twenty miles away. IN GLEAMING CAES provided for the occasion with, English speaking drivers, they motored, to the gleaming white Hotel La Citadelle, high on a hill overlooking the city, whose unique architecture and excellent appointments and cuisine delighted the pests. It is just one of the many fine hotels in Port au Prince and managed by Mrs. Elizabeth Roy, charming white wife of Captain Roy, handsome commander of the Haitian Air Force. From thence onward the exacting schedule was carried through with dispatch! The group went first to the office of handsome Jean Fouchard, Commissioner General of the Exposition; then to see the newly appointed Foreign Minister, Dr.

Vilfort Beau voir, French educated pedagogue and for mer delegate to tne UN: then a drive jroud of the achievements through the cool hills to Boutilliers Government. which immense ijoi ei te its euiHveties is tsf m1 was nammr reealiee. ft. R. fyfOTON.

from heisrht one sees tliA vn st heieht one sees the and breath taking panorama of the capital and the Cul de and finally to an elaborate luncheon at the Swiss like Chatelet des Fleurs which seemingly hangs from a "mountainside. Returning to the hotel there was just time for dinner before a big press party at the Maison Magloire, Tourist Department guest house, where a Haitian orchestra, singers and the best drummer in Haiti entertained while tray laden waiters moved in and out among the nriiAotfl Tm s3 3ZZ a tt.ii: In guests. addition to Haitian officials. wev Yorker, the Metropolitan, the American Ambassador was present and CDionet, Parade, The, Christian many of his staff, including Giles Hubert, Alitor, The Chicago Defender and Negro agricultural attache. argh Courier.

Thanks to the. imd insistence of shrewd, amiable NEXT DAY CAME the tour of the ex Vice Consul of Haiti in New position grounds escorted by the architect, representatives of the i two Negro August F. Schmiedigen, of New York who 3 were included. As his Govern has designed many fairs. Thence to subur yesentative, Mr.

Desir shepherded ban Petionville and the biege colored I to Haiti. The inclusion of Negro" country residence of President Dumarsais tin the party won the immediate Estime for a press conference while the iol Haitian officials from Presi economic and social problems of Haiti were sb on down because they are discussed frankly by the polished executive, iss to obtain the patronage of Returning to Port au Prince there was a tour of handicraft shops. That night U. S. Ambassador DeCourcey lavishly entertained at his residence.

It was a brilliant occasion with beautifully gowned ladies, white clad naval of ficers from the U. S. Carrier Philippine Sea, Haitian staff officers and diplomats. i The party ended up at the Cabane done. Our folks are learning noucoune, a giant imitation of an African with dinner in the East Room New Yorker, the journalists," hut with native entertainment and an ex cellent orchestra playing dance music until four.

Next morning Captain Roy flew the arty close to the historic Citadel, to Cap aitian and back over Belladere, the new town built by the President for Haitians expelled from the Dominican Republic An elaborate dinner at DuCosaque restaurant with many speeches, toasts and responses, followed by dancing at seashore places until midnight left the visitors reluctant to leave air next morning for Camaguey, Miami and New York. At Miami, to everyone's sur afterward they boarded a PAAT prise, Pan American had a cocktail party City and Port au Prince, in its air conditioned lounge after the usual 'iter's recently completed and picture taking. airport they were greeted by a Yes, the Haitians are overlooking noth i of Haitian editors, headed by Ing in promoting their unique, colorful, "a journalist, Marceau Desinor, of magnificent exposition. One left with the Jnte Roger E. Savain of the hope that thousands of colored folk from apartment who handled local ar the States would avail themselves 6 the 4, and the handsome Jeane low special rates to see and pay tribute to Afa Secretary of State for Tour this valiant and beautiful land, the second Juti' leading poet A photogra oldest free nation in the Western Hemis 7 napped pictures.

Each journal phere. AOG By J. A. Huge To Do Over Communists Trial Was Like Using a. Sledge Hammer Just to Kill a Flea Hyiunq ib uua eorama art tBOM in wrr aa ae set wmwrny npnm ut mkotui epuuon or tm JttUDurfB Courier td Editor.

vuubi oi anu Bd pro Com tht ild lines ar Jihut but UtUa Hrht if1 th Communlit Jt wat fair." So 1 ther wu done with t4 Com 1 TV, I fete Mr. Bocers fgaauniat idea ra if to our tonaer riak Com ur national dig. uwea in law tut uu COUM In. i. 'or iU I inaijnlflcant kill a flea.

What are the 70,000 Communist against the mighty Army, Navy and Air Forcaof this nation? Are condition in America ao much wore than wa ar led to think? I maintain that a healthy economy that believe in lUelf and in which Jus tic is Impartially administered need have no fear of Communist. JAILING AND K1XUNO people or ldeaa is older than Greece Rome. The Romans killed Christians for not holding to the Pagan party line. Later th Christians killed other Christians for not holding; to the dominant party line. The Nasi did it.

too. So do the Soviet. Now we're) well on our way to imitating both. I'm against atatlsnv whether It be that of Russia or of the present ad minis tratlofi, nevertheless, think the Communists serve, on the whole, a healthy purpose) something Ilk crlUcism to a writer. Much of what they say sound extreme, but even that could be used to soma profit.

I suspect, though, that they are) jailed not so much because they tried to overturn the Government but to overturn certain forces dominating It, After all, government Is not what's down on pa per, but what the people ting. 'I. AS REGARDS THE Jury, suppose it had said "not guilty." "The thfclfea Neere refases te eecept the Iee eves he theory' tKat ree preudtee It" seturel ni thet Islief enf i the KII J. kr white mr bleek. Daliy Worker thet It ecqvire ed to the reeett What would have happened to Its members amid all this hysteria? Remember the outcry against the four dissenters in the Alger Hiss case.

As for the two Negroes In It If they had stood for acquittal, 15,000,000 Negroes would have gotten the blame. As it is now' Negroes may carry on as usual. They will still have less civil rights than Communists with white' skins. A for the defense lawyers, they knew they were up against' It from the start, hence they resorted to two legal ruses, first to try to; convince th court their clients only had been working for right and JusUce. Judge Medina, as was his duty, barred most of the evidence Intended to prove this.

Th lawyers then worked to. cause a mistrial. an unjudiclous atmosphere. For the dignity of th court th lawyers could not have been permitted to get away with It But when Medina dishes out such sever punishment to them what happens to his patience of which had been hearing so much? Those sentence were revenge. AS REGARDS THE two Negro defendants.

Tm positive' that but for rac prejudice, they'd never hav been on trial. Communism, as it exists among Its few Negro followers, Is really anti jlm crow Ism. Ben Davis, who started as a Republican, was won to communism while fighting a jinvcrow ease In Georgia, Today, a militant fighter for civil rights, make it uncomfortable for foes of the Negro. Therefore, silence him. rv known Davis for twenty two years and not for a moment would I believe) him a plotter against his country.

If I did IM be one of the first to oppose him. The trial will certainly bring him many new supporters. Political trials, especially one so fllmaity based as this, ar bad for any nation. And they usually boom erang ea their Instigators. V) jJT fr III II tows Haiti Going All Out to Make Her Exposition a Success! rr rVT0 I Dales BABoui tCottm Field in LCooih.

i liutations ay to retuixx Inen Presented with was men tirpapnfoH TmfVi wek ena see we great l14, made in completing lhe kai nv "When tev.GmfflS ii2i) most famous of the earlv new ewgund divines was so. devout he talked as if he had swallowed the Bible whole, was presented with a negro slave, he called ita singular blessing mghty smile from heaven on ms family willingness to LV mora pic v. i nor should Xor get why we wanted the pic turti in th first place. of Our hope, was that the tremendous impact of th movie on American customs and attitude could be trained on prejudice and would bolster the slower, less pervasive methods of education that have been at our disposal. Unless made with this objective constantly In mind, movie about Negroes can be dangerous.

Reinforced stereotypes, sensationalism, distortion none of thes thing will improve racial under standing. PERHAPS IF PINXT? had been the tenth or fifteenth movie In th new era instead of th third It would hav commanded a not so exact scrutiny. But when line up "Horn of th Brave, "Lost Boundaries" and "Pinky, th most obvious fact about th group is that two of these three picture ar devoted to th problem of passing. The problem Itself ha nothing 'like this' importance in reaped to th total relations scene, nor to Negroes themselves, and It would be too sad if whit Americans, while learning more about rac, should get such an lrnpr sion. Consider "Ptokys story: A fair Negro girl Is sent North by her Ignorant, laundress grandmother to be educated.

She finishes high Ml em ceevineeei myself thet ther ts ee mere evil thtsa In this present world then race prejudice. None et alL I write deliberetety. It 1 the worst single thief life eow. It lestiflet end holds togither more eteeess, cruelty end ebominetioe thee eny ether sort error ts th Democracy By MARJORIE McKENZIE school and then presumably on her own. or mostly so, completes her training as a graduate nurse in a Boston hospital where she passes for white.

At first th passing was without Intention, but when Pinky fall in love with a young white doctor she cannot tell him the truth about herself. picture begins with her return to the grandmother's Deep South shack. She ha run away in the face of the doctor' proposal of marriage. Quite, obviously the grandmother had counted on and prayed for Pinky" return. But Pinky has a terrible time.

She i sickened by the behavior of the brutalized Negroes of th neighborhood, slapped around by white policemen, almost raped by drunken white men and forced I Jl) il WX Wl II I II II rK yJ ini ffh in 17 1 tv i BORN OF $LAV PARENTS IM836, WAS PERHAPS WE MOST NOTEP SILK GROWER OPfS 7ME. TMPORTAG WHITE MULBERRY SEEPS PROM FRANCE HE PLANTED THEM ON HIS I7 ACRE FARM AND REARED SILK THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSTON WOAI FIRST PRIZE OVER IB COMPETITORS, INCLUDING THOSE FROM CHINA, JAPAN, FRANCE, ITALY AND MEXICO. AT THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION HE WON ANOTHER FIRST PRIZE: ZOHIERY AD PREVIOUSLY BEEN A CHAPLAIN IN THE CIVIL WAR AND PRACTISED LAW AT NASHVILLE, TENN. lfeJJ of aristocratic s4vb mm mis Pursuit ay negroe9i.L A YOUNG WHITE DAUGHTER OF GENERAL ROBERT HOWHa732 178WOFPEV OUmONARV. WAR FAME, HAD TWo'CHILDPEN BY A NEGRO StAVEOF THE Copyright, Thm Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company Reproduction Xxprely Forbidden Movies About Negroes i Can Be Dangerous If Not Trained on Prejudice (The views xpfMSt4 la tbls column era thoa of th writer sad do aet Mcuwrllr xprM th dltorUl i oplnioo of Tb PilUburgh Courltr Tb dltora.

A LOT of people aeem to be pleased witb Pinky, which mean Ufat the; pressure on a dis enter to let the matter rest 1 fairly compelling. We have waged a long campaign against Holly wood's indifference to racial injustice, so that 1 along with it first efforts we are faced with a policy decision regarding the wisdom of a too close criticism. We des'i want to stifle Xi ouy wo oa M. McKenxlo by her grandmother to nurse a bad tempered and decadent old Southern gentlewoman who has nothing left of former glory but a run down mansion. The doctor how up and though he reacts less drastically to the Information that Pinky is a Negro than was th case in "Lost Boundaries' to uch new, he wants Pinky to go away with him and forget about being a Negro.

WHEN THE OLD crotchet dies, having been won over by Pinky, she leaves the plantation to the bewildered girl with an exhortation about her confidence In the use to which Pinky will put the property. Pinky is trapped. She goes through a highly charged court battle, send th COURIER VERSE The Grasshopper Defends Himself (A Dlffarrat Version ex Aa Old A grasshopper, out for a stroll One bright hot summer day. Cam upon an ant, on a knoll. Steadily tolling away.

"Well, now, how Is this, he asked the ant. That In th mlddl of July You need must work so hard you And letting fun go byl Put down that thing you'r dragging there! Com on along with Cross th meadow to a glad wher Cool breezes blow In from th sea. "Fool!" th ant scornfully replied, "To even suggest such a thing; Winter will soon com with its frosty glide, A Freezing up Because of th tim you hopprs wast It, win hav yon to Whereas we ants all now mak hast With ua huh! It will be a cinch. Th grasshopper smiled. "Tour logie Is such Strang thinking, though yon may right at that; As for me, I admit I don't know much About ants winter habitat.

Til grant you a plae in th schem. But don't forget we too hav ours. Out to whom does your seal for tod seem' If ore desirous than my love for flowers 7 live our live, each hour enjoy, Pausing seldom to do the chorea; While you worry and stew and fret, silly boy, About those things you think ar your. No, "hopper work littles when summer la here, And car leu what winter may do; But somehow each spring, when th ants appear, THERE ARE ALWAYS GRASSHOPPER, TOO!" "JOSEPH F. ALBRIGHT Decision In what role, dear one, would you cast me Upon th stage of your desire 7 Shall I amusing fester be Or keeper of eternal fire? Is th gift of your smile meant allk for all Who look on your bewitching face, Or for me Is it the exalting call To th haven of your embrace What dare I hop from' your response To my constant, piteous cry? Consent to homag for the'nonce, Or.

to ldv you until I die? Speak, then, dear once, what of my. role? How shall I play my part? With wing on. a soaring, 'gladdened soul, Or with bonds on a fettered heart? JOSEPH FRANCIS ALBRIGHT NEGRO PRESS CREED The Negr Press believes that' Americe can bait lead the world away from racial end national antagonisms whan it accords te every man, regardless of race, color or craad his human end equal rights. Hating no man, fearing no man the Negro Press strives to htlp ovary men in the firm belief that all are hurt so long as enyone is held back i doctor away and opens a com binatlon nurses' training school and day nursery( (segregated and Inadequate, of course). It could happen, but it is pretty unbelievable, The only possible explanation for the decision of a girl, long treated as a human being, to bury 'herself in a backwoods Delta locale, embarked on a venture both educationally and economically unsound, was to be found in the structure of her particular personality.

The relationship of Pinky and her grandmother provides a clue. Pinky had always been told to "be herself," meaning her Negro elf. When she admits to the grandmother that she had passed for white in the hospital, there is an emotional scene in which the grandmother makes the girl get on her knees, commands; her to pray for forgiveness and' orders her never to speak of, the matter again. There isno explanation of Pinky fair appearance; possibly the grandmother carried a burden of guilt for the sins of the fathers. She fills the girl full of guilt and even worse, confuses this guilt with racial pride.

RACIAL PRIDE IS a poor substitute for personal pride and Pinky has been robbed of that, so that sh Is not appalled by th Idea of senseless sacrifice and of throwing herself away. Against th real, the big problem In our lives as Negroes, passing Is a minor drama. Before need movies about th edge of th rac problem in America, we need to explore th heart of the matter and" move toward solutions. America wiU profit from guidance but of th dilemma, not further indbctrin atlon in its horror. Solution ar being reached, and their success make stories.

heart warming Brave" Brave "Horn of th is bealthler, more useful movie then "Pinky because it shows two solutions. In it, a Negro is helped to understand himself In relation to whit people aa being not different. Further this Negro and a white man fight, through the usual barriers to a decision that it is perfectly feasible for them to go into business together. ONE HOPES THAT next tim Director Ella. Kazan will turn' his talent and his lush budgets on something mor worthy of his fforta and th cause of better rac relations than "Pinky." SATURDAY.

OCT. 29, 1949 Mays a.I ei lot Atlanta candidates Literally Begged for TheVotes of Negroes At Political Rallies Ej JDUiHIN MaYS Th views expressed la ttila eoluma ar tttos of tha wiitar and do not necea.iaxlly aiprcaa tna cdllortaj opinion of Tna PttUburgn Courtar. Tba EdJtore.) AST month. Sept. 7, Atlanta held a primary.

A Mayor, several councilmen and several aldermen had to be elected. This primary was something new under, the sun. It was the first time In recent decades that Negroes had been permitted to vote in the so called city "White Primary." In 1946 the Federal Courts ruled the "White Primary Georgia unconstitutional. Since 1946, Negroes had voted in the primary for Governor, but they had not for local a Tl A Mata rt govern the city Mr of Atlanta because this was th first city election since the Federal Court's decision in 1946. I want to comment on this Atlanta primary.

The first significant fact Is, some 22.000 Negroes were eligible to vote in the primary. A total of 100.000 persons are registered in Atlanta. With the names of 22.000 Negroes on the list, the Negro population was something to be reckoned with. It had been approximately a half century since Negroes voted. HERETOFORE.

THE candidates kicked Negroes around in their campaign speeches and" racial tension was often stirred up. This was not the case this time. Instead of cursing the Negro and saying all kinds of bad things about him, the candidates were glad to speak to Negroes in their political rallies. They made promises and literally begged for the Negroes' voten. The Negroes got together and formed a coalition, John Wesley Dobbs, Republican, and A.

T. Walden, Demo crat, were the leaders in th Negro political organizations. Their work was effective. Several large political rallies were held in different sections of the Ne gro community and all candidates accepted Invitations and spoke in their own 1 behalf. When on candidate tried to stir up something by making an attack on Mr.

Dobbs" because he was a Republican, the Negroes resented it. And another candidate did help himself when be made It clear that he was a white supremacist. siAtxi it ArrtZAKED Jthat someone was trying to stir up something, the leaders wisely dismissed the Idea of having cane didates present at the last big rally which was held in Big Bethel AME Church. The second significant 'om ment Is the fact that the Negroes held the balance of power and William. Hartsfield was retuxrpeel; to office because the vast Jna Jority of Negroes voted for Mayor Hartsfield.

The press and the Mayor coi ceded the fact that the Negroes cast the deciding votes which made Hartsfield's election Inevitable. Our experience in the last campaign proves again that when Negroes hav what th whit man wants they will be sought. The ballot will not bring. In th Kingdom of God. but it will surely help.

A voteless people is a hopeless peopie. THE THIRD OBSERVATION I want to mak about th Atlanta campaign has to do with th educational qualifications of the candidates. Their educational record prove again that if you ar a member of the white race, you can. go a long way with lit tl training and little preparation. To be SI and whit wfn' tak you a long way.

As I hav said over and over again, the average boy with a high school or grammar school education 'can go farther than the average Negro boy with a college education. Let us rook at th records of om of the candidates who were running for Mayor, councilmen and aldermen. Mayor Hartsfield Is a product of the Atlanta public schools. attended business college and th law in a law office. Another candidate for Mayor, Charli Brown, Is a product of th Atlanta public schools, and th Georgia School of Technology.

Another candidate, Jo Salem, was graduated from th Atlanta publlo schools and holds a law degree from John Marshall Law School. i SCANNING THE RECORDS of ten aldermen, prepared by th Women's Voters League, find no evidence that they ar all college men and no evidence that all finished high school. When only th public schools ar given, th chances ar th candidate did net finish high 1 school. Onlv em is 'erivnn aa a' college man, a graduat of Emory. The records of nineteen candidates for councilmen reveal something similar.

Most of th candidates for councilmen wore high school graduate and th record of only three out of th nineteen. seem to indicate college graduation. of them ar doing th ordinary work of th world: plumber, electrician, lawyer, on or two physicians, clerk of a court, salesman, printer, owner of a barber shoo, vard conductor. Tnlnlt bonlrlrTti TnnHriar. grocer, druggist, etc If you ar 21 and whit you can.

go places In tTnla' riamnirap' ne ami.