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LONG OVERDUE Senator Allen J. Ellendcr of Louisiana, has introduced and the United States Senate has just passed a resolution to investigate the Various types of discrimination in the federal civil service. Such an investigation is long overdue and should un cover a host of malodorous practices, not the least of which 'is color discrimination. Senator Ellendcr, erstwhile champion filibusterer gainst the Wagner Van Nuys anti lynching tbill, did not have the Negroes specifically in mind when he introduced his resolution, but rather seemed most concerned with the 'act that certain government offices were discriminating gainst brunettes in favor of blondes. Nevertheless this investigation offers Negroes a great opportunity to supply evidence of gross discrimination against their people over a long period of years.

Not only have Negroes been discriminated against in appointments, but regardless of their fitness they are absolutely barred from vast categories of work both in Washington. and the country as a whole. Negroes are almost never seen in clerical positions serving the public in post offices and other government depart mens. The most shameful discriminations are in Washington? D. right in the shadow of the White House.

The pernicious system requiring filing of photographs twiut applications ior examination was designed especially jto keep Negroes out of the more desirable civil service obs. Senate hearings will be held in Washington late fchis. month and N. A. A.

C. P. officials will appear with joccurate and factual information proving the most vicious ciscximination against Negroes by the federal civil service chine. Pittsburgh Courier, urges every Negro possessed cf such factual information (not hearsay) with names, addresses, letters, ratings, to send same to the N. A.

A. C. P. office at 69 5th avenue, New York, N. at fcoee.

UNCLE SAM is SHOCKED by the miserable plight Df persecuted EUROPEAN minorities and pauses in the midst of "solving" the Negro problem to invoke the traditional American RIGHT OF ASYLUM. And for 1 fear Jthat he cannot accommodate ALL these unfortunates, Uncfe Sam asks the OTHER so called democracies to follow HIS example. This is a STRANGE INTERLUDE in Uncle Sam's daily routine. In Austria, Germany, Poland and Rumania, present centers of rabid ANTI SEMITISM, less than five million Jews are involved, and counting the persecuted Catholic, liberal and radical leaders, the grand total of persecuted folk probably does not exceed six or seven millions. In the United States there are thirteen millions of colored people, or approximately TWICE as many, who, are natives of long residence, and yet NO OFFICIAL VOICE has been raised advocating an end to THEIR persecution.

Central European Jews are being subjected to economic discrimination, political disfranchisement, residential segregation and social ostracism, and this so OFFENDS big hearted Uncle Sam's SENSE OF JUSTICE that he is offering them asylum. But the subjection of his COLORED children to economic discrimination, political disfranchisement, residential segregation and social ostracism," does NOT offend Uncle Sam's sense of justice. Hundreds of Jewish and liberal Christian college professors, many of them world famous scholars, have been DRIVEN from totalitarian universities and scores. of them have found a READY welcome in American universities, for which all fair minded people are THANKFUL. But what chance has an outstanding American NEGRO scholar of becoming a professor or even an instructor in ANY American university except those for colored youth Even colored public school teachers are commonly paid 50 LESS SALARY than equally qualified white teachers and compelled to teach MORE pupils with INFERIOR facilities.

Protestant and Catholic clergymen have been hounded from their PULPITS and jailed in Nazi Germany because they stood for Christianity as against Paganism, and THIS has torn Uncle Sam's heart strings. But numerous COLORED American preachers have been hounded from THEIR pulpits and from their HOMES, been beaten up and sometimes LYNCHED because they Here is an ODDortunitv at last to tpll OTIR st civil service discrimination. Let's do a good job. 'V KILLED BY REACTION With the recommitment in rnmmirf nf Admin istration's Reorganization Bill by a 204 19G vote in the House or Kepresentatlveti last Friday, the forces of reaction in this country scored another victory. This bill was designed to mnfornlr ma chinery of the Federal Government in the interest of Rreat er efficiency, but reactionaries onnosrcl tn President ii velfs program of help for the masses, made it appear to be eft 1.

eV A tf A a mo uruv against uiciaiorsmp. Enemies of the Administration immnli9tilv riri that 4Ut iu uncai ior nr. itooseveit. Actually it was a defeat for America. The same crowd that fought this effort to make government adminis ration more businesslike is composed of the same people who are forever criticizing government inefficiency and red tape.

This is also the Same rrwrl thsit id nnnsicori tn tho Wages and Hours Bill, the Tax Revision Bill and the Regional Planning program. President Roosevelt stands above them like the Statute of liberty above a mouse. They have fought every intelligent and sincere effort to provide a better life for the masses in their desire to protect their ill gotten gains. r0OM4y, stood for Christian justice for their poeple as against Ku Klux savagery, and Uncle Sam has DONE NOTHING about it. Jewish doctors and dentists in Germany and Austria cannot attend so called Aryans nor practice in other than Jewish hospitals, and Uncle Sam quite properly thinks that is terrible.

But COLORED doctors and dentists in large sections of FREE AMERICA dare not attend "Aryan" patients and cannot practice in hospitals, and Uncle Sam has done nothing about THAT. i Uncle Sam is extremely eager to give asylum to Jews who are persecuted in Germany and Austria because of so called RACIAL POLLUTION i. intimate association or MARRIAGE with so called Aryans. But Uncle Sam has made no move to change the laws of 29 of the 48 States which declare marriages between white and colored citizens to be ILLEGAL, and, in some instances, punishable by MORE SAVAGE prison sentences than in Prussia, while intimate interracial association (except where white men are involved) is almost UNIVERSALLY TABOO and often, results in TERRIBLE DEATH. Uncle Sam is OUTRAGED because certain European minorities are victims of ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION in, employment and business, but I does exactly nothing about the SAME THING in hjs own house.

He is' prostrated by news of the RESIDENTIAL to which German Jews are subjected, but his heart is NOT wrung with compassion at the spectacle of strictly delimited BLACK BELTS in almost all his cities. Uncle Sam is reduced to tears because Jews are BARRED from the German ARMY and NAVY and Jewish OFFICERS have been summarily dismissed. But he is INDIFFERENT to the fact that Negroes are BARRED from almost ALL branches of both American armed services and that every effort is made to avoid the "embarrassment" of Negro officers. Uncle Sam has a sharp eye for doings ABROAD, but a blind eye for doings AT HOME, and his sense of justice only comes FULLY into play when human beings THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY are being persecuted. Considering what has been going on here ALL the time, this Sudden interest in fair play and asylum for oppressed alien minorities is, indeed, a STRANGE INTERLUDE.

Perhaps SOME DAY Uncle Sam will see the I While they warn against dictatorship and fascism, they are making these governmental evils more certain by hamstringing every effort of President. Roosevelt to remove the CAUSES of dictatorship and fascism. reactionaries should be and will be repudiated once and for all next November. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE HOUSING The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which doesn't hire enough Negroes to fill a hall bedroom although it has a billion dollars worth of Negro insurance, announces a 120 acre 12,000 suite, $35,000,000 housing project in Bronx borough of New York City, as its.contribution to solving the housing shortage. The Metropolitan boasts that this will be the world's largest housing project and its size "will permit the planning of a completely balanced community containing all facilities for family life, including necessary stores, schools, churches, parks, playgrounds opportunities for recreational and social life.

It will not only help in supplying the existing need for housing at moderate rents, but it will provide continuous employment to the building trades and construction industry for three years." This is a commendable public spirit on the part The Meropolitan Life Insurance Company, but colored peo ple will immediately want to know what provision it mtenas to make for colored workers on the project and colored tenants when the project is completed. Colored people have a right to be suspicious of The EDITORIAL Illustrated By Holloway iui ii i in Thi htmu roprostntt iho porsonat opinion of air. torf wo rtfisots tho oditorUl opinion of TKs ft, ti Thm BdmtorJ cinrww1 nt AiinlinmUms like "recession." iui. today is another depression destined to grow d.vHr Un, a. tinr hv th ratAKtrrmhic stock of October, 1929; Not only are there as many imniiplow now as there were when St.

Franklin entornl thMy House, but excessive taxation necessary to finamr thP i. An HnhlAiia "rlhf" exoei'ments has I ri cost of living up almost 100 per cent. Worse, in additiq, to a debt of 40 billion dollars, the nation is muMVJ unprecedented paternalism which has eliminated almost efrj trace of the traditional American Independent s. reliance until the Valhalla of every citizen is to cif a nt the nubile trouch. In less than a have descended from manhood to mendicancy.

once lauded the spirit of pioneering have now In nunc pa handlers. An increasing percentage of Americans woaty now rather loaf on a WPA job than to earn an htm even if there were an opportunity to do so. On the eve of the 1932 election, I opined (what tho observant) that neither the Republicans under nui in( Democrats under Rooaevelt could restore prosperity, all th Mlai; bunk and ballyhoo to tho contrary notwithstanding. Subs, mt; have borne out this early view. It waa clear to the discerning that the problem of uiM irpliiymfm and the myriad social evils flowing from it could not I.

dealt with and maintain the present framework of our on. thci were too many contradictions in our Individualistic machine living tlon; contradictions which could only be eliminated by iIihmu dniia. In the direction of collectivism which the logic of our power economy demanded and which would sound the death knell of the iIciiiocuim atate we had sworn to heaven to maintain and defend. Or lv lng the machine and returning to a pre machlne civilization ly things drift on to destruction. Or by development of i.iti, ma control of tho means of production and distribution co operatives.

Consonant with the ragtime character of American civi lization, we took no bold course, but straddled and couiiro mised, with the result that we are just about where vi started in 1929. The masses of American people had beti too Ignorant and indifferent to prepare to meet the cxigi min of American machine civilization. Less than a tenth of the nation's workers were organized for collective bargaining. Less than a hundredth of the nation's consumers were organized for collective buying. Organization except for the froth of life was just naturally repugnant to the average American.

Consequently Americans were less prepared than the inhabt tants of any other industrial state to meet the challenge ol the depression by co operative democracy. A return to a pre capitalistic society was unthinkable except to a few pundits undeluded by the Progress hokum. So there was no alternative except to leave the situation to the politicians to patch up. They did the job In a characteristically political manner. As usual they opined that nobody must be hurt, or off entire), so th' proceeded to give everybody sometbing, the amount deprndins upon 'M degree of political pressure exerted.

This helped retain the lU ticn of Amerlcanlsm as usual to flatter our prejudices and allay our frait while saddling us with the greatest politically controlled buir. nirury outside the frankly collcctlvlst states like Russia, Germany snd Italy. And this bureaucracy, which grows like a anowball rolling down hill, Is becoming a more and more potent factor In shaping our aim though it be to American soil. There is no now to get rid of this bureaucracy bicuu. ill those feeding at the public trough are possessed of the ballot tnd naturally vote to continue the source of their sustenance.

Whnru before the first depression (1929) there were about a half million eral officeholders parked on the payroll, there are today nearly lion organized in a hundred and one alphabetical agencies to reginifnf American life. In addition to these are the hordes of relief rerlpimtl and workers In the WPA, CCC arid boondoggling outnts who hivi organized Into unions to perpetuate their pap. As H. L. Mencken once wrote in The Ct isia, "The Anin lcsn peep" are not hunting for liberty, they are hunting for cover." They want the security of sure thing collectivism while retalninf the traditional American way of life which, reflects the pinnctrinl individualism of the Foi nding Fathers.

This simply cannot be dose As my good friend, I K. Coles, la often wont to say, "A man r.innot be a hero and a brggar at the same time." The American people have chosen their course, not bold ly and definitely as they should have done, to be sure, hut however blindly, they have nevertheless chosen it. We are empnaucauy on uie nignroaa to complete collectivism. time individualism is frowned unon and. indeed, is ll nigh dead.

Not only is the State essaying to do everything for us irom the cradle to the grave, including thinking, HOMO AMERICANUS is almost unanimously clamoring for it to do so. The whole course of American society during the past lorty years indicated such a development: as witness mo crowth of Dublic schooling and social agencies, the trend to social medicine, the decline in the size and influence of the familv. the decline of the hams ah an economic unit and social center, the bankruptcy of marriage, the gradual ul suiuiiuii ui oiaieism ior iurisuamry as a "1U striking decline in the amount and caliber of thinking. This is more obvious to those who are in middle age than it to those born since, say, 1910. I can sympathize with those who yammer for the old individualistic America where people shunned handouts and rpfimpnt A tinn lint I Lnniv oil vn ih.t "Tlioni hSS mwv nvii ti.otv gone forever." And so do they.

The transition period will per ha pa last for soar" 5 vf tuallv America will becam't collect Ivlst Htmtr rnntrnllAfl nn.l v. i hi n'' l' nuiitnitflLci Aiirill BQJimglvU. Willi "Yes" on election day, or else. Wa ahall all be organized in 1bflf Continued on Feature Page Metropolitan Life Insurance Company because it has consistently maintained an anti Negro policy not only i'1 Tt" fusing Negroes employment in its numerous offices but also iri issuance of policies. On the other hand, Negro oavned insurance compan' having only one quarter as much Negro insurance as tne Metropolitan, hire over 5,000 Negroes in every capacity from clerical to administrative.

invest it in housing from which Negro tenants will barred, or does it plan in thia Bronx project to rever? i previous jim crow policy? Colored people would like to know..