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hV' th. N'f. i no The Pit'tsbwifi Courier's fODAY'S TALK BV A. N. FIELDS, ifJL emasciil.

ition and destruction of its usefulness." In delving into the subject Randolph intimate, that nnio a result me and influence of cs1 fascist 1 a fasi by kx order tad only the vuiL" tibial A. N. Field LX status I u.n.rv.viT Commission was rm it ri l.xecuwve oraer P5 r.r th VKPC ihp nH'T failure of the ipnt df his own race. fli. ml interpret the sril imrul of the Negro i i men nnruisnpn t.i kn.lu I itiirr.niriit on which Negroes rii'ixt resist this ac i ami intelligently, with niitlif ''nil vigor." urging restore It to Its Client rcFponsible to nlone," observes i'loposed expan iyinc.

about as Ul. rOSi "'lift oi. ayna nl'8 desk for a it contained i f' he. AdmFnistra rr. concern morale among T' v.

ir Last 'n ntice that "i not as con of morale 'in else, as we of late. OIT FUNDS JI Con ine rnem tte, 'vcd. a tter that the CommitU IT IS further argued that the President has favorahly responded to every protest from labor, business, and farmers, when they consider their business threatened and injured, and that Negroes in all walks of life should write and wire the President their condemnation of this action, showing him the neecssity of reversing the order, which is the only move made by the government for the elimination of discrimination In defense industries. It is honest to say that the Fair Employment Practice Committee has done and is doing a splendid Job. It has a future, if not destroyed, and has the support of Negro public opin ion.

FEPC PROVOKED THE SOUTH Its forthright opposition to all forms of discrimination and in tolerance so prevalent in industries throughout tho country has, of course, provoked the wrath of certain vested interests which have always been opposed to the ad vancement of the economlo life of Black America, However, it Is in the South, whero the hvsterla of prejudice to Negro progress is the chief culture of those who direct political affairs, that it found such champions as Governor Dixon of Alnhnma, who refused to accept a contract for his State because it carried a clause renuir ng the employment of workers, re gardless of race and color. SOUTHERN SAY SO BY M. S. STUART ir beaded ftn the V.d racial if WART of i hooka linos As i I v. to sin I Ml" rtr.H' Sir.

Stuart to pick up an idea i i from the racially Tel mouths of the unoom found on W. a ir.d in.e. rvl. 1 1 Tii'rrvi If George W. Lee's ALONG, chewing cud, their ftn what Chandi, Asiatics think and Dlx thought about hich Ameri i'" coming up.

'curs, was anyway, height would It was an his chair i i 'I. rt.nt end liaptlst ts r. rcutrnlity, ft i A sub bee, I ty v. matters 1 i unintoxicnted 'a vnm of leader Hi i was find. in is pi "sconce as in of a pat tree on a j' He I would tlnd rest in the refresh r.

simple philoso i.y ti.e friction of lie was a pic turo of perfect peace, for he slept. a soiomn'Houi softly snoring, sheltered in the shadow of the church Morpheus having unflexed his feeble grasp, his thumb stained bl ble had fallen and lay on the pages of The Courier on the ground Dosiie him. His rather long, snow white hair in beautiful contrast to the rich ebony of hia smooth skin, was faultlessly parted on a bee line with the ridge of his keen nose just under which, like two tufts plucked from a swan's breast. his mustache, disciplined through decades, stood out at rigid right angles on cither Fide. An austere.

celluloid, ecclesiastical collar about his neck, stood proudly erect and defiantly unrumpled by the copious streams of perspiration which descended upon it. This was "Uncle Bcel Streat" in person, fifty two of his seventy six years spent in Mis sissippi, tho others in Memphis. A KEEN MIND Such senile serenity, It seemed a pity to disturb. But I needed an idea, and here it was, needing only to ho awakened. A gentle shoulder shaking sufficiently served the purpose.

Post nan preliminaries, yawning, eye rubbing, stretching over, we exchanged names. Byway of igniting tho conversation, I said, Mr. Strcat, I notice your Bible and Tho Courier here. Do you read a treat deal? A chuckle, an infec tious chuckle, was at first hia only answer. Noting my puzzlement, hp sa d.

"Buddy. Just leave that mis ter business off. The white folks carries on so 'bout that little word and other Httl things during a war like this, I get3 tickled every lime I hear It. Just call me "Uncle Heel." I. BEGAN TO fear that even he was also radical minded.

But de cided to sro on. Well "Uncle Beel. do vou Vead only the Bible and The Courier? I queried. "Daily pap ers, ivu, wiien tmi iscfc replied. Oh! the daily papers.

And what did vou find interesting to dav? "Them German sobber tears them sobber tears. Buddy. Ain't vou seen where 'bouts that Su preme Court done took three whole days to do what everybody knowed in the first place they was going to do with them anyhow?" Yes, iMannower Commission, it win ni longer be directed from the Executive Offices, but will come under tho Immediate supervision of Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the WCA. For futuru appropriations it will have to consult with Mr.

McNutt and the Budget Bureau and ultimately will have to accept whatever Congress doles out, rather than receive Its funds directly from the President's Emer gency Fund as xormewy. CUFFICIENT FUNDS are al located to provido for the Com mittee's continuation inrougn first. three months of 1943 on Its present basis. This frozen budget was handed to the Committee two days before a meeting at which it planned to consider personnel fnr ati exnanded program. Tne Committee has been given to un der.tand that for the investigation of complaints of discrimination It In to avail itself of the services of the field staff of Dr.

Robert C. Weaver, whose office has Deen transferred recently from the War Production Board to tne war Manpower Commission. LISTS REASONS FOR OPPOSITION There are at least four reasons why this action by the President is untimely and unfortunate and why we should De opposed it. First, we object to the summary armor In which It Was done. Ths President did sot ponsult the COMPLETE DESTRUCTION tp RANDOLPH, National Director of what was once the March RANDOLPH SAYS SUB5LERK ING OF FEPO AMOUNTS TO ITSl Jflvcnicnt.

pointed with critical finger to President Roosevelt's recent order, submere vvvc in "the Man Power Commission, which." savs Randolnh. "ammmr. "FIRST FRONT" IS HOME FRONT It Is regrettable and a sad com mentary on our "Four Freedoms" that 15,000,000 black American citizens, countless thousands tnem racing the dingers of the Axis Powers on land and sea, that they may give their all In making the "Four Freedoms" a reality for other nations, find that they them selves at home cannot be a party to the fruits of the "Four Free doms." It has been well said that the "First Front" is the home front, the daily life of the nation. where advances are being made which, In the long run would be greater in importance, than the advancement on foreign fronts. THESE ADVANCES mean the rise of the economlo cower of me worKeraj au workers regard less of their racial identity the unity of the people in the Inter ests of the success of their home lands, with their minds and hearts unparched and withered by lndif rerence of their own government inis war must be rought and won by the united effort of a satisfied and sympathetic nation.

It Is not a Democratic nor a Republican war. It is a war In which all Americans, striving as best they can xo preserve their homeland and on the field of battle. Bullets do not discriminate between races SEEKING UNRACIAL THOUGHTS, IS TAKEN FOR A RACIAL RIDE BY "UNCLli BEALE STREET" riS PEARL BUCK at Howard university, a race institution, reputedly advised Negroes a try to siop mmKing aoout race, uoui a we almost as well cease to think about the Cher" Or convicts, their stripes? However, since justifiably vou mieht be bored read only interracial snarling this hot weather, I tried to explore some apparently neutral is the quest of tinraclal sub ir.4 mutter that might prove WMffor this piece. It was tfjcrpss. t.vt;ry lead in one or I had seen that.

"Well, ain't that enough to tickle anybody? White folks sure Is cu is. 'Twant no use of 'em going through all of that now was it, Buddy?" RKSPECT FOR THK LAW xes. you see. "uncle Beer' i ex plained, in a democracy we have to keep up the form or the law. That shows to the world hat we Americans respect the law.

I was hardly prepared for his reaction to thia observation. He broke into a fit of laughter so violent I thought at llrst it was iicigned; but I soon found it so genuine that despite my strongest resistance, I Joined in without the least knowing the cause of it. "Respect, respect, Buddy" He kept repeating these words sandwiched between recurring pa roxysms of mirth and gusts of laughter until he recovered suffi cient composure to speak with coherence, when he said: "Buddy. how can a man keep respect by just washing his face when other parts or him is got so much dirt on them everybody can smell him? The world can smell as well as see can't It? Them Axle nations is hearing from Texarkana an Lufkin and' Conroe and Sikeston and from Georgia and Alaham lust as eood as from Washington Buddy. They can't fool nobody Just going through the lorm witn them sobber tears.

DOWN RACIAL LANE But "Uncln Beel," I protested, "they perhaps wanted to settle the ques tion of the President's power to have ucoDlo tried bv court martial "Maybe so, Bujkly." he said slowly, shaking hishead, "but didn't the President 'point tne judges just the same as them generals and colonels?" I agreed that he did. "Nuther thing. Buddy, if them had been black sobber tears 'cused of social lobber tearin down there in I bound you by this time you could be grazing your cows in the grass growing on their graves. THEN I remembered that, after 1 all. I had allowed "Uncle Beel to take me for a ride down "Racial Lane" just the same.

REASONS FOR TRANSFER Pursuit Of Democracy of co fep not clear; i Wl NEGROES SHOULD PROTEST BY MARJORIE McKENZIE THK Birmingham hearings of CoFEP, there has been much forensic and edi debate as to whether Executive Order 8802 is a social document or a war meas the most pointed differences of opinion existed among the members of I he President's action Jiad De en neraiaea Dy many a At least some of took the and have M.McKenzl I. i i tn 4Va WanCommitte in advance or Intimate tn it in anv wav tnat sucn a drastic change was under consid rAtinn. We realize that the Presl dent 13 one of the most important of a. handful of people directing a crioDai war. aven imm taK scarcely reauires that he dis pose of what amounts to the eco It L.

nomio ireeaom oi one wmn oi i nonulatlon of the country in so hlrh hajided a fashion and with out consulting any of the persons dealing with, this special proDiem, SECOND, WE submit that the function of the Committee does not make It properly an arm of the WMC. There is po dearth of potential Negro war workers; there Is no question about the ex istence of large reservoirs of un used Negro labor; there Is no problem involving the allocation of Negro worKers to cerwun rew wr to certain tasks. It was because the great wealth of Negro man nower continued to be a frozen asset that the Committee was eet un to do the liauldating. The work of the Committee has been to re lease Negro manpower ror use Dy the WMC. by removing the barriers which prevented participation In war production.

DILEMMA FOR McNUTT SEEK DEMOCRACY III DIKING CAR UIIIOII CHICAGO, Aug. IS (ANP) Brooks placed their case this After a flat rejection by officials of Local 351 Dining Car Cooks and Walters union of a petition sub mitted by 200 Negro cooks and waiters on the Milwaukee road, asking for election of system chair men at regular periods, a group of cooks and waiters led by Har sk week in the lap of President Florsy of the Hotel and Restaurant International alliance. In a letter signed by himself and other mem bers of the union. Harrison stated that if the international union did not act within two weeks many of the members on the Milwaukee 'line would take a walk." Four History HIS NAME ONCE APPEARED ON ALL tSPER OF THE AflTEO STATES 2.. HE WAS REGISTER OF THE UNITED STATES BRILLIANT GEORGIA LAWVER HE WAS A PROMINENT FIGURE IN REPUBLICAN POLITICS ''I have been realized by keeping CoFEP autonomous.

THIRD, THE future of CoFEP with nn a man. Paul V. McNutt. He could assume a "hand off" attitude and let the Commits ta continue to plan its work and exercise its powers under the Or der without interference, un ine other hand, ha has full discretion arv authority and his veto can emasculate the Committee's activl ties completely. These aououui alternatives make pretty much of hot potato for Mc McNutt, wno in the Administration's fair haired bov.

and politically ambitious. It be gives the committee carte blanche action, ne win nave ine ooum on his neck. If he ties the Com mittee up, he Is going to have an aroused and unemployed Negro population on his neck. Especially will the heel hurt nim in inose northern States where the Negro vote can swing a Presidential elec tion. SOUTH MAY BE BLAMED Fourth, contrary to the beautiful mlmeorranhed releases from the various governmant offices on the tremendous prgoress or tne in becoming integrated into tne war effort, Negroes are not getting their proportionate share of jobs CoFEP has accounted for a lot of patient and faithful co opera tion bv Nerro leaders and tne people alike, who have felt that it was the one truiy sigmncani sresture made by the Ad mm 1st ra tion to solve our enforced and costly Idleness.

To strangle the Committee now will create much disaffection and consequent im pairment of Negro morale, to even lower ebbs as lewer jobs are maae available. THE REASONS for the Presl not clear. They may be related to the loud clamor from the South since the Birmingham hearings as to what It will and will not have In Negro white relations. It may be the old refrain the Administration always sings that It Is prosecuting a war Th rommlttee has been con as its major onjecuve ana necun A.ivi of hv most of us as being a co operation, not antagonism, from quasi judicial body, a nucleus which the South. Nevertheless, we ought might develop, wun adequate nui IslaUon, into a permanent post slip without a protest, both to Sap.

dniinitraUva board, similar President Roosevelt oa whata baenj Rogers Says: BY J. A. ROGERS S' VIS SMOKETOWN SILHOUETTE a7 is eBj 9K Darents who could aive him 5 DEEP DOWN Wylie, life ebbs and flows, either like a slowlv movinsr tide or a racing: rivulet. CAPTIVATING CLARA was as fresh and lovely as the morning dew. Just about 5 feet 1, she was surely a "hon." She was definitely a sun tan tinted version of veronica Lake.

Her hair was a luxurious brown, her eyes of the beautirul "Am I Blue" variety, with lips like lovelv rose petals. She had a voice that was soothing and comforting, add a figure like a Coca Cola bot tle, and you have a birdseye view of Clara. AT A party riven for a group of local lads who were signing up with Uncle Sam. Clara unleashed all her glamor on handsome Har old. Harold fell too.

lute an express elevator going down. And he saw that It was mutual when he looked Into those understanding, blue rreen eves, which acaulesced. It was the most ecstatic, thrill packed moment of her life. POETS PORTRAT It as love at first sight. At any rate.

In the few precious days he had left, Clara and Harold were as close as "2" Is to And they crowded every bit of human happiness possible taa, iltAaa Ka4 a MmafiMn fMAfnanff 1U biivev asa ivi, a vuiuwv HAROLD HAD to go to camp soon. The time for his departure arrived. And Clara was left with many heartaches, but with the hopeful promise of his return and marriage. SOCIETY SHUNS women whose families start without benefit of done and to Mr. McNutt on what we want him to do.

Everyone must be sick, of our protests and we are sick of making them, but as long as we are being shoved around, the least we can do is to register our dissatisfaction until we can develop a mora construc tive program ox action. clerev. So when Clara wrote Har old that she was going to become a "mother." the town was shocked Then to make matters worse, the letter she wrote Harold came back marked "refused." BEFORE BABY Harold arrived. Clara made secret arrangements to have him cared for by foster name. This having been done, on one foggy night, Clara disappeared.

ino one knew wnere sne went, uui the folks who guessed that she had moved to the streets of endless shadows, were right. She was disillusioned by love and submerged in shame, AMERICA AND Japan declared war following Pearl Harbor. Clara was sun auunng to iook at de spite her thirty odd years. She was still a namor airi or tnose oaca streets, where painted faces pass like ships In the night. Business in the taverns was booming' because of the war work, so Clara was do me all rlrht br herself.

THE TAVERN was crowded with soldiers that night when a tall and handeome lad croeeed over and spoke In a low voice. LISTEN. LAJJX. COW WOUld VOU like to show a lonesome toldler boy the town? ni spend my mon' we'll have some fun. Ti JL nis la not a I lust want a companion.

I want to tell some understanding woman about my girl. SUDDENLY she drew back, it was queer No, it couidn be. So she accepted. They did have fun. They they they painted the town crimson un til about A before be.

'3fV'V RUINED FORTRESS 0F Lfl FERR1ERE, HfliTT .1 TO BE THE MOST AMA7JNG THING OF MS KIND IN THE NEW WORLO BUILT ZS VEARS AGO BS (SMtmm, HAITIAN ERORJO PEFV 3COO FEET UP ABOVE THE CITV Tngi? OFAATERIAL VENT INTO TOOK 300OO SEVERAL VEAC4 TO BUILD, AND COST MmMWff OF DOLLARS mus Vv LJV GOQD MORNING to the NLRB. This objective might IN DR.W.E.B. DUBOIS. OCTNGUlSH ED AUTU0R AND SOCIOIOGBT, 60UGHT A STEAA5HIP TICKET TO EUROPE THE CLERK WfvOTE CtSSXLo) FOR00U0RED BEHIND HIS NAfAE ON THE PASSENGER LIST THE PWNTER, HOWEVER, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE DISCRIMINATION INTENDED, PLACED THE (SOIL rKvJrfr ON THE LIST AND SOUK. DUBOIS WAS CALLED WiLMWM j)HJIBlJS OH TrIETRIP left, he pressed an envelope Into her hand and told her not to open it until he had gone.

It was some thing he wanted her to have CAREFREE CLARA was found shortly thereafter, sitting in a far corner booth, crying as if her heart was breaking. Deep, absorbing sobs shook her frail form. Her head was burled on the table. She had read the note which follows: "MY MOTHER, dear I have searched everywhere for you. Yes, I knew you the moment I saw you.

My foster parents told me about you and snowed me a picture they had found in your room after you disappeared. For years I have look ed In vain for you. I know this a shock, but I hope a happy one 111 be back on another leave very soon. Here Is my address. write me.

There is still time lert for us to enjoy the life we should nave naa together years ago Please don't run away again. Lovingly, Your son YEARNING YEARS unfolded before the tremendously happy Clara. Years in which sne had yearned to hold him In her arms Years in which she had wondered if he was safe, well, and happy. She decided to wait no longer. The next train to the training camp found Clara on board.

If he still wanted her after she had deserted him after what she had been and he knew these thlnn no power on earth could keep her irom rum. THE TRAIN pulled out and Clara was dressed neatly but modestly. now ner life cad an Deen changed. She was rolnr to be the "mother" which she had always wanted to De. And sne waa on her way see her beloved son! Govenunent Seeks to Professional Aides WASHINGTON, Aur.

13 (ANP) Another opportunity for college students and graduates to obtain good posts with the government will be the new exam for the port of junior professional assistant Application blanks are now available and the closing date has been set for August 37. Graduate La puhlla ftdmlnlrtr NEGRO WRITERS SHOULD BE PROPERLY EVALUATED ACCORDING TO MERIT DECENTLY at a symposium on the Negro press at which the speakers were newspaper lx men, colored and white, one of the Negroes said "that the manner In which Negro newspapers played up articles or addresses on the Negro by noted white writers was putting the Negro writers, some of whom knew more about the subject and were expressing Date beck beyond the cotton fields of the South; back thousands of years before Christ! Copyright, 1934, by The Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company By J. A. Rogers Illustrated by SAMUEL MELAI Reproduction Expressly Forbidden themselves quite as affectively, i the shade." In short, that thes white writers were standing out as the real cham 1 ir A Mr. Rogers pions of the Negro In the eyes of the Negro people.

Now for my part I don't care to whom goes the glory. The so called race problem is an American social problem and concerns' all Americans, regardless of color. In fact, I do feel that white people ought to do the most towards its solu tion since it was not only they who started It but they who have tne greater influence. I oo wisn mil writers like Mrs. Roosevelt, Pearl Buck.

Wendell Wlllkle. and west brook Pegler could become regu lar contributors to the Negro press. SOME TRUTH IN CHARGE However, it must be ssld the charge was not unfounded. Somehow we are so psychologlted that when a Negro says a thing, how ever good, we are inclined to value it less, simply because it is a home product, not an imported one. Re cently one of our editors speaking of Westbrook Peglers last article on the Negro said that If a Negro writer had said It he would be In dicted for sedition.

Yet I have read in the same paper even bolder articles by Lester Granger and A. Philip Randolph. LIE RE'S another Instance, which caused me no little amusement at the time. After I had seen the movie "Imitation Of Life," 1 waa so disgusted at tne iouywooa twisting of not only Negro life, but life Itself, that I wrote Just what I thought about It and had It published in a Negro newspaper. Like my other articles I forgot all about it.

Then the next thing. I had a letter from my friend Eu gene Gordon, who was then on the Boston Post, asking me how It was that they were crediting my arti cle to Will Rogers, famous movie comedian. looked Into several of the Negro newspapers and there it was credited to Will Rogers. who was being lauded to the skies. WILL ROGERS WAS IN DUTCH What had happened? Some enterprising scissors and paste artist, had clipped It from the New York Negro newspaper in which I had written it, realizing that as coming from J.

A. Rogers It wasn't much, but that coming from Will Rogtm it would be a scoop, had sent it out in his weekly release. THE richest part of it was that 1 at the time Will Rogers had got in "dutch" with the Negroes because he had called them an objectionable name over the radio. So I said nothing further, knowing that Will Rogers would probably have to do some tall explaining to his friends In Hollywood for as article like that. MASSES JIORE RADICAL For the Negro writer ana1 the Negro press this war is crucial.

Reputations are going to be lost and made. In the last war, one of our foremost champions backed down at the height of the crisis and practically ruined himself In the esteem of the Negro people. and his paper as well. On the other hand, a writer like A. Philip Ran dolph.

who stood firm then Is stronger now than ever. it Is my firm opinion that the Negro masses, or at least a large portion of them, are more radical than either their leaders or their newspapers can be Just now. For instance. I was Invited last Feb ruary to speak at a dinner at which the guests of honor were a number of soldiers from a Negro regiment. Around me at the table were several of the soldiers and when I asked them how they liked army life, one of them said that the army.

Itself, was all right. out that the men felt blue at how Negro soldiers in general were be ing treated. To this the others) agreed. WHITE MINISTER WINS APPLAUSE When I rose to speak. I decided that I would say nothinr that would make any of the men feel more discouraged so I confined myself to the facts of Negro his tory, principally relating to what Negroes had done in the wars of this country, and the part thev had played in the founding and building of the American navy.

UOWEVER. about five minutes before I concluded, the minister of the church In which the affair was held, walked In. He was a white man. who had riven his church for the occasion. He waa the next speaker and his very first words brought the loudest applause oi tne evening.

His words were: As the last speaker said 2 be lieve that the man who has been called by his country to serve It, should be treated as a man." MERIT 8HOULD COUNT Of course, hadn't said Just that though I might have Inferred it. But it was what the audience had been waiting to hear. They wanted some radical forceful expression. I have seen the same so many times, a notable example being the Aiaotson square Harden meeting, where not since the daye of the Garvey movement had I seen such enthusiasm. AND so to return where I start ed Slnc the.

present crisis means so much for the future of our Negro some of whom are very earnest, sincere and capable, these writers should be properly evaluated. Regardleu or the big names of other writers they should be given their Just appraisal. In short, let merit count. tion, business administration, economics, library sclsnce, statistics and mathematlca are sorely needed and urged to make appiicatioa tor admission to this taU lii iilii 'II i i i.i 1 1 it! 1 i i i 1 1 .:) I I 1 1 3 1 i.