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''i i I l. if THE NEW YORK AGE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 1948 by Harper Brightens Path of Every Day Life Reg. U. 8. raUat Utrtea "lay all things we stand together Americans" WD R.

MOORE, FB.Iisher. Mfl IMS ftbtlshed Weekly by THE NEW XORK AGE. INC P. BOUENE VANNECR President and PebUsber VICTORIA BOVRNE VANNECK GEORGE E. BATES DAN SUBLET SUBSCRIPTION BATES latatdMtorr Ufw .11 WNll I I Bewsstaa fries ft eeyr JIOTBi All raUs atova aaal.

la Ik Daltt Btattt MAIN OfTICE OP THE NEW XORR. AUK: EM Wcat lUU Street, Naw Xark St, N. X. TeWphtna: ADtreedack 4 9211 Halt P. In Cleveland and in five other cities, a number of citizens employed by the Government of the United states are lacing suspension ana dismissal irum uieir jws in the Post Office on charges of alleged disloyalty.

For at least two fenerations Negro postal employees have been among our most stable citizens intelligent, trustworthy, dependable and loyal to race and country. They have been pillars of respectability in the church and in all of institutions and organizations for racial advancement They have reared their children in decent homes, sur rounded them with wholesome Christian influences, ana ai forded them oDoortunity for education and personal develop ment Perhaps no other single tributed more to the Negro postal employees. Now a concerted attack more militant of these faithful has marily because they have dared challenge, fearlessly and uncomprisingly, the vicious practices of racial discrimination in the Post Office Department Because of the activity they have been branded Communists or Communist sup Ktrters. The Federal officials who have been directing the yalty purges have, either stupidly or maliciously or both, confused the fight for equality with Communism. Not only is this too high a compliment to pay the small band of Communists, but it also does more to undermine loyalty and make recruits for that party than all of the Communist prcpoganda.

These postal employees, facing the loyalty purge, are fighting in the American tradition for America's highest ideals and within the constitutional framework. They are agents of no foreign power; Americanism. Unon reouest of the accused men, the National Associa tion for the Advancement of case. The association has offered the services of its legal department for the defense of the purge victims and has greed to undertake the responsibility of building community support for them. Many of the accused are not only members of the NAACP but have also participated actively in the association's program as officers of the local branches.

Manv also are members of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, the organization for equality of opportunity witnin tne rost umce. As in other Federal agencies, charges have also been made against white employees who have been outspoken in the demand for equal treatment for their Negro fellow work era. The loyalty boards have consistently shown prejudice by considering as evidence of racial association. A white government employee wno enter tains Negroes in his home is suspected. Likewise, a Negro who has white guests is under suspicion.

The vicious effect of such based judgment is to widen the chasm between the races, to extend throughout the nation the outmoded pattern cf the South. It is time to call a halt to this type of "loyalty" purge, if the government is to retain in its employ intelligent, capable and independent men and women. The postal employees and other government workers have demonstrated their loyalty to this nation. They deserve our support against this attempt to intimidate and penalize them for standing up like men and fighting for basic American rights. Every American who believes in equality, fair play and decency in human relations should rally to the defense of these unjustly accused postal workers.

for World Government Holding their second national assembly in Minneapolis this week end are the United World Federalists who hope. to win the support of the American people and other nationals for a world government plan as a means of averting another i i ii worm war. Aiaraieu uy me earnest group oi intellectuals seexs tne estaDiisnment oi a world Federal government with authority and power to make, interpret and enforce world law applicable to individual citizens as are the laws of any nation or community. To many persons the concept of world government is Utopian. These hold that differences of religion, culture and ideology among the various nations and faces raise insurmountable barriers to the establishment of a super government.

Supporters of world government, while not Ignoring these difficulties, maintain that it is a question of survival Either he will find a way to permanent and real peace, or civilization will be engulfed in a holocaust Time, they hold, is of the essence. We can no longer afford the luxury of debate while stockpiling atomic bombs and developing new and most mass destruction. Action, the World federalists insist is needed now. Tomorrow may be too late. i Exploding a Myth Landlords who insist on state developments have repeatedly maintained that their white tenants would not stand for mixed occupancy, indeed, this is Dreeiselr the arrument which Frederick H.

Ecker, chairman of the Metropolitan vanced when the issue of admitting Negroes to Stuyvesant Town was first raised. This argument glibly advanced as a justification for discrimination, has been refuted by the findings of a survey recently made by the Provisional Committee to End Discrimination in Stuyvesant Town. A poll taken by the committee meals that 62 per cent of the welcome Negroes as neighbors. On the basis of these find ings, the committee is seeking to re open with the city administration the issue of Negro admissions which has now been carried to the State courts. Experience in public housing long ago demonstrated that Nf and white families could live in the same project in complete harmony.

Likewise, there have been many mixed (Uighborhoods cf private homes in which the two races have Iocs lived and maintained cordial relations. The real estate Merest, however, have stood like a rock against all such democratie patterns, hiding behind the false assumption that Negro and white families could not live in the same project or neighborhood without friction. The Stuyvesant Town iut 1 vey effectively explodes this Vlet PrcaMeat Treasurer and Busine Manager Managing Editor BX MAtfOSTPAID .11 O. Purge occupational group has con steady marcii lorwara man inc been launched against the public servants. Why? Pri they are, indeed, agents of Colored People has entered the which has carried on the fight disloyalty any cordial inter i.

1 al Rroapect vi atuiinc wauaiv, ui'nt( another devastating instruments of excluding Negroes from real Life Insurance Company, ad tenants of that project would myth. CHICK SOLOMON 1 THE QUESTION Ru your conscience ever bothered you? THE PLACES Various spots along Seventh. Eigntn ana Lenox Avenues. THE ANSWERS Cast Edward D. Baker.

S3nd Air 1 born Division, Port Bragg, N. "My con science played havoc with me only a few days ago but everything is all right now. Last week, spent three of my ten day fur lough with my mother in East Chicago, I had to make the most i. of them because I'm on my way to Germany. In making the rounds with my friends, I forgot all about going home until eight hours beyond the time that I had promised.

Mother chlded me about it and my answer was Just a wee bit sharp. Being an' only child, there, has always been a close bond between us. She was badly hurt by my tone. I squared things by apologizing and then taking her to dinner. Now I'll be able to perform my European duties in complete peace." Miss Erllne Washington, factory worker.

191 St. Nicholas it "Mr, you must be a brain picker. My girl friend and were lust' dis cussing the dirty a a i i gave i George. He and cnariie were good MendsT I started I steady. and.

I going with George in 1916. All during that time it wasj very hard for me to love George completely because. I thought I liked Charlie a lot, loo. About tnree months ago, switched from George to Charles. That was the biggest mistake ever made.

I ought to have my head examined for pulling that stunt. George has become a hard working, ambitious, respect able and neat sort of fellow. Charley thought be could make It without working. Tou know what happens to that kind. That's right.

He's out of circulation, where he will have to work without pay." Je Baldwin, arranger, 92 St Nicholas "By the time your paper geu on the stands, my conscience should be per fectly clear. have been feel lng lice a heel Inc last year, when went to visit my brother In Newark, N. J. While there, I met a sweet young thing but didn't have any gold, with which to entertain her. My brother's friend came to the rescue by lending me $10.

I did what mo6t people usually do when they borrow other people money I Just kept away rather than pay the money. To make matters worse. I ran smack Into the guy last Wednesday. The man didn't even mention a single word about the debt. That made ma fed like a sad sack.

I'm going to send nlm that sawbuck right now by pawning one of my suits. It wiU be much cheaper inai way man oonuoue carry that load on my mind Mlas Dokrea MaMenada, cashier, 974 8U Nicholas "Right now. feel like the biggest heel in the world.1 Three years ago, I visited Stamford with my boy friend. nm While there, I young man wlUi whom becamej weU acemted Viiiil A I months ago, became seriously 111 My Stamford friend came to my rescue by paying aU of my medical expenses. Now that I'm aU right, I don't know how to teU him' that there has been another man in my life all along, in fact, he Is eon fined at home with a cold and I havent been to see him.

want to do the right thing but I Just don't know what to da I don't know whether I'm going or coining. 1 bop my sins don't find me out" Eageae Walker, shipping clerk, 2171 Eighth i have a baddy with whom Iv been hanging out for the past five1 years. Lately been viable to look him squarely In the eye. Whenever we get together get that low. Sri down guilty feeling.

It aU started when I began taking out his best girl behind his back. Trof week ago didnt feel any toe welt I started Uunkmg mat maybe. wasn't living right. I stopped seeing tne gin. I realized then that the same thing that she did to my inena ana would also do to Some day soon I'm going to muster up enough courage to tell nun all about It.

The thing Just keeps preying en my msod. I hop I doot snap my cap. Brotheri VOUR BROTHER mar haO from a land afar. may worship tn a manner to yoa Maam. 7 He may be wrought from clay of different nee tBut the hand that fashioned him.

Tree the hand that fashioned you. H. COOES By 5 I a lit lh mJW' llm feS5p mm THE OPEN LETTER TO TRUMAN Mr. President: hold no political office and I have no high Influence. am Just one of the many millions of little people who believed in you and the things you stand for that all men are created equal and de serve the rights and protection that were written In our ConsUtuUon.

I believe I speak for millions of my fellow men when say, may God guide and protect you in the prob lems that face our great country, foreign and domestic. When stood In that huge orowd of citizen in Dorranca Brooks Square in the world's largest Negro community and saw and heard you. the Presi dent of the United States, speaking to the people, a kind of elation came over me and made ma feel proud I am an American. There you stood, facing an audience of thousands of Americans, black and white, the first President of the United States of America ever to And time, while In office, to talk to the people in language they all understand. We are behind you, Mr.

President, your fight for a better America. May you have divine guidance in the days ahead. We salute and congratulate you, Mr. President, on your overwhelming victory on Nov. 2nd.

We believe you are and will be President of all the people of these United States. May Ood bless you nil kn vmi. Mav all Amniram Innlta hffhlnffl vml fnr a hattor TT A and a peaceful world where all men can live and work together in peace and prosperity. These are our sincere prayers. ARTHUR MOORE, NEEDED: DECENT HOMES BROOKLYN: The New York City Housing Authority broke ground on Nov.

for Albany Houses, the lSUi public housing project to be started in New York City since the end of the war. This project Is Vtmta and CROSSWORD PUZZLE oarzorru. Oaatfftata 4. Dll M. (aaiar SI 11.

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and Park PL I was at the ground breaking and I heard the authority's chairman, Thomas F. say this: "We hope that Albany Houses will be Just one drop In a flood of new housing, publie and private, that will provide all our families with decent homes." WeU, I hope the flood of new housing, public and private, won't be long becoming a reality. My family needs an apartment I APARTMENT SEEKER. MANDATE TO TRUMAN 217 W. 125th Upon a basts of the nation wide returns in the Presidential Election unmistakably expressing the sentiment and will of the people on the Issues discussed during the campaign, a mandate has been given to President Tn man and the Congress to abolish segregation in the armed forces and enact PEPC legislation and resolutely push through Congress the Clvl! Fights Program, violently condemned and resisted by Thurmond' States' Rights Part No longer can a President or a Congress hold that the American people do not want clvU rights extended to aU of the people regardless of race, creed, color national origin or ancestry.

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH. International President. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. MUST PLAY WATCHDOG BROOKLYN, N.

President Truman's recent election to guide the destinies of our nation for another four years was a grand tribute by the voters to a fighting man to a man who fought for all he was worth. We, however, must play watchdog nett warn answim TaUl 1U tmm t. Vaar av aaiit ST. Malt thaaa 1 Oaach IL aaarat ra teal 14 U. RIUr CaandUHaa IT.

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Oa sa. raaad ISMw.i i i i nr lr rj ju 3 lr miu if jar ja BOX If requested. to prevent any appeasement of the Dixlecrats. A OOP coalition with the representatives of the once Solid South will be disastrous to the nation and the program Mr. Truman has outlined.

If the President calls agalt for the civil rights legislation to prevent racial discrimination and he is expected to do so Gov. J. Strom Thurmand's southern democrats who bolted the party during the presidential campaign will certainly try to get help from the Republican minority. PETER ABBINGTON. DISCRIMINATION PROBLEM it GREENWICH Youth builders of the New York City Board of Education from schools hi Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn who have been discussing the problem of "Youths' Responsibility In Building Neighborhood Unity," interviewed Mrs.

Edith Alexander, associate director of The Mayor's Committee on Unity; on Friday, Nov. 5, at the offices of the mayor's committee at the Municipal Building in Brooklyn. In an Informal atmosphere, these boys and girls Interviewed Mrs. Alexander on the problem of discrimination its tause and possible cures. This information, which will be reported back to each of the schools involved, will be used a a basis for developing programs of neighborhood unity.

The schools represented at this Interview were Public Schools Nos. 130 and 17, Manhattan: Nos. 29, 39 and 182, Brooklyn, and No. 82, Bronx. ALEX H.

Director, Board of Education Youthbullders, LETTER OF PROTEST BROOKLYN: The following la a copy of a letter we are sending an members of the City Council and Mayor William ODwyer In protest of discrimination within the Juris diction of our union, Local No. 147. Sandhog. "We wish to protest the discrimination in employment still practiced in New York City. "In spite of all the laws on the statute book today, men art still denied Jobs because they an Negroes, Negroes working on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and other Jobs within the City of New York have long been denied skilled and supervisory Job such Walking bosses, supervisors, hydraulic bosses and pip fitters, electrician boesea and elec tricians, tigging bosses and perma nent riggers.

Of late, we are being denied even the semi skilled Jobs while these Jobs an going to any whit man skilled or unskilled, union men or not. In preference to experienced Negro help. As long as the Negro I expected to fulfill hi duties to the eomiriu ntty, we believe the community should ere that the right of all lu ettlsens an protected and It existing laws prove Inadequate they should be supplemented by more rigid and perhaps more enforceable laws. 'Several contractor who performed work under city contracts and paid for with public funds an employers on these Job practicing discrimination. Charges of dlscrlm (nation have been made against Mason and Hanger Co.

George H. Plton Corp, Poerler and Marian Co, Grow Construction Company. A long a an taxpayers and dUxenl, we ask you to tak step to comet these injustice. "We trust you win find time to give this matter your most careful consideration." SAMUEL O. JACKSON JOSEPH TURRACB EDWARD CROSS LLOYD JOSEPH By HENRY The Fascination of Faulkner Whenever I Dick ud a wonder why people read him.

Most of all, I WQs4)r7why'I read him. Yet for me this curiosly introvertecrIisejpiiiari LEE MOON book by William Faulkner, I has a strange and compelling fascination. It is a challenge to read Faulkner to extricate) his meaning out of the maze of verbiage which he contrives to conceal his thoughts, Reading his pages long sentences is like working a complete jigsaw puzzle. The parts may be fitted together to make sense, but it is an enervating and absorbing task. In his most recent work, "Intruder in the Dust" (Random House), his first sir.

1940. Mr. Faulkner, still writing in his in moon volved style, continues the saga of his native Mississippi hinterland. And to write of Mississippi is, of, course, to write of Negroes and their relations with the domi nant whites. With Faulkner, as with most southern whites, the taunting figure of the dispossessed Negro is an obsession.

They cannot escape th Negro; they must endure him. Story of a Near Lynching The story of this novel, which Is far less Important than Its polemics, the story of the near lynching of the intractable Lucas Beauchamp whose great and unforgiveable sin against the community Is his steadfast refusal to be a nigger first. Just for' one second, ene infinitesimal second.1 Instead he goes about his business, head high, hat on and defiant of the regional code which requires every Negro to "mister" any white man. Wrongly accused of the murder of a white man, he is Jailed and threat ened with lynching. Two youths, one white and the other black, and an aged white spinster (aU sharing the community opinion that Beau champ is an "uppity Negro) dig up, literally, the evidence which clear him of the charge and dramatically averts the lynching.

"Intruder in the Dust" has all the suspense and drama of a conven tlonal mystery story. There are two murders and the midnight exhumation of the bodies of the victims. Then Is the pre lynchlng tension of the small southern town and the abrupt disappearance of the entire Negro populace before the impending storm. And then then is the suicide of the white murderer who turns out to be the brother of one pf his victims. Charles Malllson, the white youth, and Beauchamp an the Joint, heroes of this novel.

The story revolves around the old Negro but Is Interpreted and resolved by the year old Beauchamp is a rare character in American fiction although his type is known to exist even in the deep South. For. the Negro reader, he Is a satisfying character Not only in this novel but also In such earlier works as "Light In August and "Absalom, Mr. Faulkner has steadfastly refused to make. Uncle Toms or brutes of all his Negro characters.

An Indictment of the South "Intruder in trie Dust" Is more than a noveL It is an Indictment' of the South more damaging than anything Faulkner's fellow Mlxlsslp plan, Richard Wright, has written. It Is also an apologia ant a con fesslon of the basic moral weakness of th southern libe. al Mr. Faulkner takes his stand with Governor Fielding Wright of Mississippi and Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.

He Is for states' right, hurling his defiance at northern "interference." Through the country lawyer, Mr. Faulkner makes his confession: "Someday Lucas Beauchamp can shoot a white man in the back with th same Impunity to lynch rope or gasoline as a white man; In time he will vote anywhen and anywhere a whit man can and send bis children to the urns school 'anywhere the whit man's children go and travel anywhere the whit man travels as the white man does It But It won't be next Tuesday. Yet people In the North believe it can be compelled even Into rext Monday by th simple ratification by votes qCejnrfrited paragraph." And, he continue, what th southerners are reljysjjfend lng Is "the privilege of setting him (th Negro) free ourselves: which will have to do for the reason that no one els can. This Is th philosophy of a man who properly diagnose Jils ailment as cancer, but insists that only he can perform th necessary operation. This Is th fatal dUemma of southern "liberalism" this conviction that cancer Is self curable.

All th advance mad In th South In th are, of race relations an directly and demonstrably traceable to outside pre suns, they have been made, of course, In cooperation with enlightened southerners, but primarily In response to non southern insistence Real progress in the South cannot be made under th banner of regional lib erallsm. Only the southern radical (not necessarily Communist) who thinking breaks completely with the southern tradition and pattern can make a real contribution to solution of the race problem in that region. Mr. Faulkner is not ready for that break. Caribbean By ELLIS A.

The West Indies are girding themselves for their third West Indian Conference. The convention, which started as the Anglo American Caribbean Conference four years ago, has grown now to include Dutch and French islands as well. This time it is being held on the French island of Guadeloupe on Dec. 1. TRINIDAD Port of Spaln City Council Is being urged by Honorable Victor Bryan, member, to give singer Paul Robeson a lusty welcome when he arrives for a singing tour of the island on Nov.

2t Vic Consul Rafael Velaaques of Colombia was convicted and fined $5,000 when he was caught attempting to tak 1.800 bolivars out of the colony Illegally. The sum was about $3,000. Both Trinidad and Jamaica an reported doing a big traffic In marijuana. Th intake la growing to hog proportions, according to police. In fact, they uy the stuff Is growing in back gardens although government officers an jn th hunt for a big dope traffic ring operating In the Caribbean.

The seeds com in In chicken feed bags they say, but they can't stop all of them. Th pocomanl sect a Unless, sleepwalking group amok th weed at revivals. Murcurapo Stadium crashed on the night of th fight between U. 8. middleweight Bert Lytell and Trinidad's Easy Boy Francis.

One man wu killed, several wen Injured. a BARBADOS Th West Indian Cricket Board of Control Is catching It from critics aU over th Caribbean for omitting famous bowler Hmes Johnson. Ken Rickards, Irving Iffla and flashy young professional batsman Frank Worrel from th West Indian team now touring Indlr Th W.IC.B. a countered by saying that the prices asked by Johnson and Worrel for their service wen much to high. ST.

LUCIA The British Government has gtvn a grant of $110,000 to this fire rav. aged colony as a help toward re Potpourri WILLIAMS habilitation for IU suffering thou sands. E. V. M.

Lewis, a farmer Royal Navy officer and Palestine Police chief, has been appointed senior superintendent of police for three yean. Hon. L. C. Hannays and Hon.

Garnet H. Gordon have been nomU nated by the Legislature to repre. sent them at the Caribbean Conference. AUen M. Lewi will repre sent th Windward Islands.

JAMAICA Haiti added "finis" to IU series of victories by clubbing Jamaica championship soccer team 4 nll In the last gam of th OoodwUl Football Oames played her, PEOPLE AND THINGS Dr. Erie WiOlasaa, formerly pre feasor at Howard editing research survey for th 'Caribbean Commission. All, aad Mra, Eastace Brayvdng an her on vacation. (H I prominent Trinidad barrister and unci of Harlem's Dr. E.

F. BrayaJng.) Daily Harney, sister of Antigua Attorney General Egbert Haraey hen to do graduate in eoemetology. a Rakr of Ban Fernando la study lng music at Juilllard. Van The) of Fort of 8paln geU out of Howard pre med, acooU to Aber deen. Scotland, for medical achooL Owes Matharto, formerly of St, Lucia and ex Trinldad Guardian features editor, on his way to th Inner Tempi to study law.

Victor Bryan, strong man of Port of Spain' City Council on way here. Dr. Cited Deabew.of O. and the League el Colored People also due a c. s.

i a. h.i former east medical chief frjanud ea. has been appointed directovtof medical service in Trinidad. Funny thing. Feat wu graduated from Aberdeen and Harvard, US trained medic are not always welcome in th Island.

And with that tak oat bow. Thank for your letters. Until next week, TO. be seeing you. Buene tardea.

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