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I i 'i if? i 1 Jit 'ft r. 'I' i i'i '7 i V4 I 1 EDITORIAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: H.00 Per Year in Advance; StJO Per Si Month in Advance; Single Copy, 10 Foreign St.SO 15.00 Entered second class matter at the Pittsburgh Poet Office, May 10, 1910, under the Act of March 1S78. Incorporated Under the Laws of Pennsylvania. 1010 minorities. INTERSTATE UNITED NEWSPAPERS, INC.

National Advertising Representative 645 Fifth Avenue, New York City Murray HID 2 5452 The Pittsburgh Courier doe? not guarantee either the uee or return of unsolicited manuscript and photograph. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1942 MADE BY MINORITIES No one in the world today excels President Roosevelt in the art of turning a phrase. In his greeting to the 33rd annual conference of the N.A.A.C.P. in Los Angeles, he quotes the conference theme, "Victory Is Vital to and then points out that It might well be reversed to read "Minorities Are Vital to Victory, because "We are in a sense a nation of minorities By race, by religion, by color, by ancestry, each constituent group is a minority when viewed in relation to our total population. But it is the essence of our democracy that our very differences have welded us into a nation.

And the democratic way of life within that nation can be de fended successfully only with the help and support of all groups with in its borders." How true this is every student of American history will agree. Those who came to these shores were in every ca The Pilgrims were minorities, the Quakers were minori ties, the Huguenots were minorities, the Dutch, French and Swedes were minorities, the English and indentured serfs were minorities, tne unmese ana japan se were minorities, the captured Africans were minorities, and so were the Jews, the Germans, the Poles, the Italians, the Czechs and others. In some cases these minorities were flee in cr from politi cal and religious persecution. Others were kidnaped and nold. both Europeans and Africans.

Still others fled from hopeless poverty and the evils of taxation without represen tation. But all were minorities, and together they worked to make America what it is today. This nation is still far from perfection, for neither complete democracy nor complete economic security has been achieved. But there can be no doubt in anybody's mind, here or abroad, that this country is, with all its faults and imper fections, the greatest nation in the world for the little man. Because tne united states was maae Dy minorities, there is here the greatest opportunity for the individual to attain that freedom and security.

for which all those minorities strove and still strive with a spirit unparalleled else where on earth, FOR WOMEN Lr" rt rrs Ctrattd la the T8f HE ABOVE PICTURE drawn by the artist is UNUSUAL because few people have succeeded in caging their tempers. A bad temper is a MENACE not only to its possessor but to all who come into contact with him. It causes much more TROUBLE than either ignorance or stupidity, and there is much less excuse for it. It stirs up fights, feuds, ill will and tragedy where none need exist. It scars the soul and distorts the mind, eventually changing one's whole temperament and sometimes RUINING one's life.

Numerous marriages are SPOILED because one or both partners havet net learned beforehand the art of controlling the temper. Where KINDNESS, tolerance and forgiveness might hold two people together for decades, BAD TEMPER may drive them apart in a short time. The minds of more children have been DISTORTED by wrangling and quarrelsome parents than by anything else. Some of the world's greatest FRIENDSHIPS have been split asunder by bad temper. BUSINESSES which might have lived long and prosperously are now gone and forgotten merely because men were unable to control their tempers.

ORGANIZATIONS have been split up and destroyed because of a few ill tempered outbursts. And yet, even at this late date in human history, there are very few people capable of holding their tempers. We ALL get mad at times and when we do we say and do things for which in most instances we are afterward sorry. PRACTICE makes perfect, and the way to hold one's temper is to practice doing it. 40 colored officers in a total of 440, In accordance with the theory of racial proportionalism.

First physical teste in the New York area revealed 50 per cent of the total examined as being physically unfit, and of the 45 finally selected from the district, six were colored, a much larger percentage than the proportion or. coiorea women in the area would justify, according: to the theory. Suppose) candidates were selected solely on the basis of mental and physical fitness, and suppose a larger pro portion of colored women successfully passed: tne tests tnan did white women a result which is not inconceivable. According to the theory no more colored women could tt commissioned than the proportion of colored folk In the U.S. population, and some would nave to be rejected solely on so called racial grounds.

Racial proportionalism and racial segregation go hand in hand, as is evidenced in this instance by the announce ment that two colored AAC companies trained at Jrx. ues Moines. Iowa, and commanded by colored officers will be sent (you guessed it I) to Fort tluachuca, Arizona, tne an Negro (except officers) Army post where the all Negro divl slon is stationed. The speed of this trend Is increasing, and no one has vet been able to show how we are going to build national unity by practicing disunity based on racial theories as false as those of tne isazis. What is most denressinc about the whole business that the Government itself is inaugurating and enforcing it while waging a war allegedly to end this sort of thing else where in the world.

MEET MR. COBBS Get acquainted with Mr, Hamner Cobbs, editor of the Greensboro (Ala.) Watchman, because Mr. Cobbs, who lacks the polish and subtlety of the Southern white "liberals," speaks the true sentiments of a majority of the pale brethren of the South, and perhaps of a large percentage elsewhere in the country. In his issue of June 25, Mr. Cobbs pays his disrespects to the Fair Employment Practice Committee meeting in Bir mingham, scores Mrs.

Roosevelt and other "carpetbaggers. "rcauwisv i Arsjb'X 1 i ill ii ii ii ti i i Jitf BAD TEMPER BEWARE Main Office 2623 Centre Avenue at Francis Street Telephone: Mayflower 1401 i PitUburrh, Pa. Published at. Pittsburgh, Fa ovry Saturday by TOT PITTSBURGH COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Inc.

ROBERT L. VANN, EDITOR (UEUORIA IN AETERNA) The great trouble with MOST people who want to hold their temper, but fail to do so, is because they do not really try. They LACK that greatest of assets self control. Very often they blame their FAILURE to control their temper on some one else when it is really their OWN fault. Then, too.

much more emphasis is placed nowadays on HOW to use the English language than on WHEN to use it. SILENCE has caused far less trouble than talk, and the mark of self control is the ability to remain silent in the face of provocative circumstances. There are too few people think of WHETHER to reply and too many thinking WHAT to reply. One way to keep one's temper caged up is to consider the SOURCE of provocation before making reply. It is extremely foolish to QUARREL with those who know no better.

Such people need INSTRUCTION rather than censure, or they need to be left alone. It is still true that a "soft answer turneth away wrath" but how few people whose tempers have been aroused think of the NICEST thing to say. Instead they try to think of the most cruel thing to say. Losing one's temper is really a mark of INFERIORITY, demonstrating as it does an incomplete soul and a disordered mind. The greatest ENEMIES of bad temper are tranquility and tolerance that stem from good health and wide understanding.

Is YOUR temper caged? Or is it roaming abroad, a menace to you and to others, inviting ill will, conflict and tragedy? dominant philosophy of the white South today. He scores the FEPC hearings as "dominated by Negroes and left wingers, they were designed to embarrass the South and to use still further the war crisis as a cloak for the advancement of their social aims." "Some of our people," he says, "are fearful lest the left wingers accomplish their purpose, but we are not. WE KNOW THAT 90 PER CENT OF THE WHITE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH ARE IN ACCORD OVER THE PRESENT SYSTEM, AND THAT'S ALL WE NEED TO KNOW. WE KNOW THAT THE SOUTHERN WHITE MAN, AS STRONG AS HE IS TODAY, CAN REPEAT WHAT HE DID IN THE 70's WITH HARDLY AN EFFORT. WHAT DISTURBS US IS THE PRICE, AND A HORRIBLE PRICE IT WILL BE, WHICH SO MANY INNOCENT NEGROES WILL HAVE TO PAY.

THE WHITE MAN HAS IN SISTED UPON RULING THE SOUTH, AND HE WILL KEEP ON INSISTING. IF THIS DISTURBANCE CONTINUES THERE WILL BE TROUBLE. THE NIGHT RIDERS WILL BE OUT AGAIN. THERE WILL BE HANGINGS, SHOOTINGS, BURNINGS." Because it is criminally negligent to underestimate one's enemies, it would be a great error to ignore Mr. Cobbs and a greater error to assume that Washington is going to run counter to the wishes of those for whom he so force fully speaks.

CHURCHES, BRANCH SEND $281.41 TO NAACP WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16 AddlUonal contribution totaling S2S1.41 have com to the NAACP within the laat two week to help carry on the work of the Washington Bureau. Bishop W. J. Walls of the A ME Zion church ent contributions of 1131.41 from the Indiana New York and New England conference of the church. Tha Bavonne.

NJ. NAACP ha contributed 1150 toward maintala aadeo forth, and generally outlines theing the naacp wahintos Bureau. EDITORIAL xmrvr "Any man who is good enough to offer his life in defense of his country is entitled to a square deal from that country. No man should ask for more. No man should receive less.

Ronim i LAMS KJEEIP HIT CAGE! Illustrated By HOLLOWAY iff 1 WliUKLy rrOJ II if ST. I I i By GEORGE S. SCHUYLER (This column rtpresente th personal opinion and in no ay reflects the editorial of if Ths Pittsburgh The Edii With the end of the current war nowh r. only few military gain to the credit of the rd numebr of American and British intellectuals ate of the peace and the outline of the post wnr wn, mildly, is the height of optimism but chara ftoplanlsm so prevalent in. the Anglo Saxon challenger in a lS iound championship prizrtftht he is to cash in on the championship although two rounds.

True, with the odds in produc power on their side, the United Nations stand i emerge victorious, but there are formidable ob eufflclent shipping, dispersion of armed forces mr. fighting on exterior line that would eem to Jutifv 'It aint necensariJy eor Biguincanuy enougn. ir mwrh mnrt ontimistlc than the militarist about fc.v. war will end. It is not surprising that few of these pe to ay about the future of the African and wr world.

It Is taken for granted that Kian. e. Norway. Esthonia Latvia, Lithuania. Polnnd.

(V and all other ravaged land will be restored to (. the Allied victor will guarantee the cataMihni of independent, democratic go ernments. it Netherlands East Indie and the vast ten itot most promising thing we hear is that thee datk more benevolently than in the past and effoits "prepare" them for self government, but iir t'hur. stated that the vaunted Atlantic Charter doc rot nations or "tribes," as condescendingly so called. 'I, And yet.

assuming inceiity on the pait of a it would be no more difficult to restore the free.Wn East, West and South Africa than thoss in Europe. Most of these African nations lost their Its aggression similar to that of the Nazis. familiar etory of infiltration by foreign spiea and V. "explorers." "scientist" and "missionaries." Th io bribing of hungry officials. There was the same V.

i to Justify invasion and with which we 1:. fully familiar since Hitler' and Mussolini's iis African monarch were murdered, "detained" ar. 1 Dolfuss was assassinated, Schussnigg is "detainer" of Norway, Holland, Yugoslavia, Poland and tary exile. Even now Abdel Krim tlf he is not dead on Reunion Island for resisting the French aggre.t There are nations today in Africa that were ar, wa restored, and yet there is no talk of granting ment. Numerous Afiican rations have kings, rajahs but they are mere atoogrs, hirt fronts.

I'ri' their imperial masters just like the ruler of Invariably their rule is oppressively dictatorial i only to satisfy their European masters and are r' their people. If it Is not too early to talk about restoring nations to self government falthoujjh they are oi Italians and Japanese) hy is it too early to talk cf African and Malaysian nation to elf goverr.riiert occupied by Axis troops but are occupied and mr.tn Nations? It is impossible at this tinte to ftee Yui Austria, Norway, but it should be very eay to government of Uganda, the Gold Coast. Nigeria, the re A r. Kenya, the Rhodeslas, Cameroons, Tanganyika. other lands to their Inhabitant.

True, most of the Inhabitant of these lands oif also were most of the Inhabitant of the United Ftitcs ar.J American republics when they gained their indepen lr A 90 per cent of the Egyptian are Illiterate. granted them at least the appearance of Independent, n'. i are far from the reality. If these captive people In Africa and Asia r.yv i.r Nation rule were given their freedom, would this not effect on the enslaved peoples of Western, Eastern and and make them more eager to revolt and throw ol. fascism? Thy would then know that the Allan what It said; for If black folk were freed, then the piorti tion cf white folk could not be laughed off or Ur.x a statement by United Nation head that African nsd A would be granted celf government after th war ouM dous hope in the heart of enslaved Europeans and expedite the Axis downfall.

(CODlDDBniEIffi VEH8SE (Note: Mr. McCorkle wa born on a farm In reared near Gastonla. N.C HI chool are. Ham; ton Jr Smith University and Gammon. He lives in High WHAT SHALL, I DO? What shall I do? They told me that when Xt'A I then would be a man: I sought to win my wy to fI By leading in the van.

But UU the demons from i' Were raging on my track I trove to go. My step were Blow. Their fang were at my back. What shall I do? They told me knowledge to And wisdom' way pursue, I had an aim one grat Great wisdom' face to view; I found the Intellectual K' And drank to satisfy; I tried to lng. The lyncher' Ug.

Was forcing me to die. What shall I do? They said that wealth would ma'e A place upon the oil. where I would be ecure and A I would lng and toll. I bought in acre by Y.t ere. Wealth bowed to me her knee; But a I go, the fiendish foe Hold fast, I am not free.

What shall I do? They're burning hundreds at the I hear their feeble cry; but justice does not yet aa'xt: Th ilniv.l. i The flame themselves hed tears; Although they help 1 nigh; The lyncher have no fear. wnat snail I do? Prayer from all corner cf tire Are rising day and night; the heart forget It Joy a And makes a righteou flght; But tlll the wretched lyncher thrive. While live are burning out. The mob arrive; they burn alive; I hear their helnou houL What ahall I doT 111 aak my race to Join my herd And help In the fight; we'U fortify and firmlys' 1 While struggling for the right Help u.s, Lord! We fc Our heart are bowed In grief, Though strong the gale.

Thou wix prevail. We're waiting for rlif. OEORGE W. ilcCOSK; 1 I 11.