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Incorporated Under the Laws of Pennsylvani, 1910 All tnqvlrloa and all eommunlcaUona pertaining to national adTtr Ualng, ratat, data and gttntral national advertising information, ihouW be, addressed to I IL B. CROHN COilPANY National Advertising Jfpnntattw 545 WWh Avftirae, New Tork Cttr VanderbUt 158 WOTWm TO BUBBCKtBMRM: OdfV firHn 9f ytmr tubieription taind on, your 44ret wppir taek wok. TAfi or nurpot fflviny yen ootwiont woMce date vr jHr. Petal Jtff vlaMotM Kooutrm hymt it AvaM mf Buwvpnonm. Ttoo Ptttaburgh Coorlar doe not guarantee etUMr.tao ue or return of nnaoiieitea manuscriFu SATUlD, AY, APRIL 1, 1939 DUCKING THE ISSUE The Missouri state legislature is ducking the issues raised by the U.

S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Gaines case: It is "preparing to act on a bill to appropriate $200,000 to provide, at tocolni University, the state's colored "college, with graduate and professional schools for Negro students to order, to avoid admitting them to similar schools already established at the Universityof Missouri, It is amazing to what lengths some of our white people wiltgo tp violate the letter and spirit of the law where we art If this bill is passed, it will not only require more than $200,000 but' many1 years before the graduate schools at ILauicolliil.tJniversily illtbeequal' the University of HissourL It takes more than buildings to make graduate schools Jhe Missouri legislators know this but they hope tht this inadequate provision 'will close 'Jtfegroes mouths and enable the state to continue to. flout, the Federal tribunaL 'v. The enlightened Negroes of Missouri and elsewhere wiH not be satisfied with this makeshift. Missouri Negroes help to maintain the University of Missouri sud they have a right to its facilities in acquking the education' they.

SlYITCU BLADES AlWEllUAUTY New York Estate" legislature has tmanimoas)j psised a bCI Introdaced by Negro member to outlaw switch Uade knives bj claaifying them as xteparsi' 'v the' switch blade lmife" is a drtrcrctis wapen and that there has been far too much iIth weapon, althoush snch homicides are; by INCE the BEGINNING of time THOUGHTFUL men and women have pondered and speculated on a Ii? 1 a tne muiupxe nature oz man. 1 Today PSYCHOLOGY hr nearer to solving the RIDDLE, hut not MUCH nearer, because psychol aaBSBaBBsBaaBsssesssssBssBaas I rr ill i nr i I I i I mm 4 reUe i oiUiorte opinion of TX I 1 I MllllW 111 what VOU REflLLV are what VOU THINK ijon are ogy is NOT an 'EXACT science like mathematics or chemistry. The peculiar nature of each person, the SUM TOTAL, of his or her characteristics, mannerisms and thoughts is not only unknown by the public and close relations but" frequently by the INDIVIDUAL. We may for CONVENIENCE over simplify the problem by saying that EACH person, is actually THREE persons. He is first what he ACTUALLY is, and that MAY be or MAY NOT be known to himself or to the public.

He is, again, what he THINKS he is, and that opinion MAY conform to REALITY or it may NOT, and certainly there are usually wide differences of opinion between what the PUBLIC thinks of a person and what HE thinks of HIMSELF. He 'is, still again, what PEOPLE think he is, and what THEY think may or may not CONFORM to the realityj or to what HE thinks about himself. Because of these THREE individuals in EACH individual, we are aH of us MANY PERSONALITIES, often unknown to each' other, hence there is good ground for the belief that NO PERSON can actually KNOW another person, i and FEW PERSONS actually know THEM SELVES. We KNOW, of individuals ONLY from what we have seen and heard of them. It is virtually impossible to know EVERYTHING; about 1 ANYBODY, and consequently we can never have a COMPLETE PICTURE of anybody, so that when we DRAW CONCLUSIONS about a.

person and git in JUDGMENT upon him it is difficult, if not impossible, to appraise him justly. Moreover, NOBODY is solely responsible for his ACTIONS because we are creatures of our social But the same legislature refused to even consider the seven measures sponsored by the Temporary Commission on the Condition of Urban Colored Population which would have outlawed the wholesale state wide discrimination against Negro workers practiced by public utilities, the civil service j. and other private and public organizations and institutions. The New York Assemblymen are not worried about Negroes starving to death but they pretend to be 'much concerned about them knifing each other to death. There is a close connection between crime and unemployment among colored citizens, 'since denial of economic opportunity, is known to encourage crime and delinquency.

It is reported that tibe 835 colored inmates of Sing Sing prison constitute 31 per cent of its population although Negroes are only about one thirtieth of New York's 13,000, 000 inhabitants, and the proportion in the; other state correctional institutions is approximately the same. If 'there were no economic discrimination practiced against New York's Negroes, the proportion of colored in mates In penal institutions would be approximate to. tne Negro' ratio in the If the New York legislators were sincere in wanting to curb crime and delinquency among Negroes, they would have as quickly passed the seven bills outlawing economic discrimination as 'they did the switch blade knives. Happily, the New York Senate has not yet taken np the seven anti discrimination bills, so there is yet time for. New York Negroes and their white friends to mobilize pressure in favor of this needed HOW IS THE TIME The amendment the Air" Corps expansion bill providing that one colored school shall be lent equipment for; the training of rcolored pilots is a.

very small beginning towardl obtahiinj' equal risrht for Negroes in national de and biological HEREDITIES, and shaped like putty by our ENVIRONMENT. Many persons THINK they are different than they ARE, and most of them never awaken from the DELUSION; so we have people struggling to do things for which they have no TALENT or aptitude; making themselves MISERABLE when they could be HAPPY; making OTHERS miserable, too. Few people ARE as they THINK they are because no person is OBJECTIVE enough to look at HIMSELF with the eyes of a STRANGER. We all have our EGO, the emotionalism that so often supercedes INTELLECTUALITY and it blinds our vision so we cannot see ourselves clearly. FEW PERSONS are as they think they are, or vice versa, for THIS reason, and yet, KNOWING ONE'S SELF is the first step to WISDOM.

The man or woman who does not fool his or her self about the true nature with. which he or she has been endowed, is MOST LIKELY to be accepted by society at FACE VALUE because it will be the REAL value. A person may be a FOOL and believe himself INTELLIGENT, the public will not LONG accept his valuation, whereas the intelligent individual who THINKS himself a fool will. not. long be able to conceal his WIT from the world.

Men and women are COMPLICATED MACHINES, are many personalities in ONE: good and bad, loveable and hateful, merciful and murderous, sinful and righteous, superficial and profound. Let us therefore be CHARITABLE and tolerant and MODEST, and try to understand how difficult it is to be FAIR to others as well as to ourselves. If you seek WISDOM and perfection try to bring into single focus what you ARE and what you THINK you are with the impression the PUBLIC has. You will NEVER COMPLETELY SUCCEED, for man cannot be perfect, but you WILL be happier and more SECURE. fense.

Colored people must now redouble their efforts to get a real square deal. Negroes are still barred from the army and navy air from the Marine Corps, from the coast artillery, from the engineer corps, from the signal' corps, from the field artillery, from the tank corps and front all service in the Navy except as cooks, and dishwashers. Now is the time to sit down and write letters to Preji dent Roosevelt and the Senators and Representatives from the various states and districts. Every Negro organization, institution, business and fraternity should make it a point to immediately send memorials to Congress demanding the end of the color bar in national defense. A flood of such letters and memorials going to Washington NOW wilT get results.

Get bus and write! CRABBED WITHOUT A SHOT Austria, Czechoslo'alda, Lithuania' and Rumania have capitulated to the Nazi war machine without firing a shot, although, each of these countries possessed substantial and well equipped armies. IIow different is this action from that of Ethiopia and Haitit These i Negro countries refused surrender until, they were forced to do and thousands of Ethiopians and Jlai tians took up arms and laid down their lives to fight off the Italian' and United States forces, although they Inadr quately armed. Perhaps' these' white countries were more discreet, bat they certainly made a sorry showing in the face of a erisis. In iew of all the anti Nesro propasanda, it Is IrotUcal that it should be only Negroes and Chinese and Arabs who are. wfflins to fizfrt for thehr independtneeva i .5 outnenoeuyered end dUcnjdlUd by the of' the Waehfngton D.

C) cnoo poara, we oiundmn, "loaders" emerge from the Marian' Anderson incident v.r. vm sorry crew, mumbling their empty alibis "down by the big gate whii the local Crackers snicker derisively and exchange knowtng i09kv These were, all "smart Negroes, many of them humpb.cV.d ith degree from sundry academlo department stores, and an 0f thtn, "outstanding representatives of their race," and yet I'm Ur. that an equal number of washerwomen, cooks, stevedores ni hod ttf rie'rs chosen, for the same task would, acquitted th with igreater honpr. They would not have had oompromlM thilr minds from the start, as did tha "intellectuals," end thy wwy at leaet haye saved their faoe by courageous eoneletnpy tnl cldentally saved the face of their group. Washington, J.

Cn Is one of the biggest Jim crow towni the country. It boaste at the same time of having more Kfrrt college graduates than any other Senegambian ghetto. Perhapi it not far fetched, to suppose that there is some connection hwM the two, for I have found an overwhelming disposition emong eur ll beat" people to avoid principles, to duck the mala iaua and seek safety In the sequestered saiona oi segregation wnue anlrkerio i Sambos who come td occasional grief for discarding th ihrouj of slavery and acting like free men. The point. Is that with all Washington insulting discrimination, with all its' college graduates, with all.

its little black undarlmp proudly parked on the "government payroll, It lias prohahiy jnn, less than any large Negro community to bring about a lxrgrr m. sure of. democracy in town. In the first place, Washington. Negroes, through the yeaia, should have been keeping up active and loud agitation for equality in the shadow of the capitoL they have with a few, and very ttw, notable exceptions, laid down on the job until Washington today ij like a hundred, towns in the Corn Pone Belt.

critical though sensitive But I find that the avfrag ucated" Neyro is averse to "causing trouble," although troub already caused when he is barred out of every place the raiiroaa station, tne library and the capltoi. Here erp all the representatives of all the nations before, whom AmciJ'a mty queiaaea as a aemocracy. wnai Dexter city in wnicn 10 kcpji up c. tmuai disturnance until white folks lower the color bar in every put lie place? Here of all places there should be a big and artivf bran of the N. A.

A. C. with a paid and capable Negro agitatoi bead to keep the pot boiling. But here, of all places, the Np sunk silently about like mongrels, afraid to enter a single doomj. save within their congested ghettoes.

What a thrill it would give the minority of red blooded U. 1 Negroes and how it would make headlines in all the domtjtic wd foreign newspapers if several hundred Washington Negroes ctoW the entrances of the first class theatres, hotels, restaurants and loons, dressed and with money in their pockets, demanding ice! And what pate scratching it would cause if this happened wiia monotonous frequency. The first reaction of the Neanderthals would be to call up the police. But the police had carted away tbi first contingent, another woud take its place until every local jail and police station was In the meantime business would disrupted If not halted. The next step would be to have every arrested Negro to sue for false arrest and if any men or omta were beaten by the bulls, the police department would be also rati This activity would be supplemented by two or three page advertise ments in the local press setting forth the Negroes' aide, by wvh 9' circular letters, by throwaways and placards, and by formation if interracial committees of Influential' colored and white peopl'.

TTklfl atA1lM mil ha Asm mi i ii Vi cu 1ft uvii a wbk it sr. iur Baas si nan side a month or ao the Negroes would win concessions and six months they would be patronlxlng any place in Washington chose, and be served. If the campaign flopped (which I dou 1 tbrj ubt would), Negroes would have lost nothing but their present eplri cowardice. They would have the supreme satisfaction of having up a hell of a good fight. And It is my contention that unJeM people has a good occasionally It gets stale, weak and eowari' and decadent, a.

pushover for any bully who comea nlonj. shortly slave. In this HUler and Mussolini arc entirely in stressing struggle. When IK Duce blare "Live his mob. he.

is savins a mouthful. 7.w mi.ii have backbon they wish to be free. What I sav hr of WniiniAi nf a hurM other towns across the country. It would be hard to think of where the Negroes havent taken dlacrimlnatlon and segregation Tn. i.

veti Mca. yeair toe caste system grows more rigia ana the NesTrh' "lemders" (rrn tma as "race sUteamanship." Their Meducatlon' have so ma le them lspect the inaUtutions esUbllshed to perpetuate their inferior they are actually reluctant ami mntlr about attackinr.wn institutions. Embarrassed every hour of their lives by rievilW rim 111 At foil And flm rrnlnM t.Aga a the system that enslaves them. It would be humoro i if Vj not so pathetic to sea theut i who worsH erything said, dono or emealvMt nr.ni lust" beaui 1 are white peoole. 9 ar 9 aa ucv Ul "Tl ajaai aat and democracy, and othar rackeU while complacently economic, Bocial and spiritual Chechoslovakia.

Any half way competent Negro agitator free of the and with even half hearted co operation from a mWJ courageous and far alrht lfioru imvry.) In. the treatment of colored people in almost any community country.1 including aJm i tragic," thing Is' thit such Ntn rar. Wore yet. tM lalmoat'ntivf to 4 ujr organizations presumaDiy quai ngnts. There Is always a fear that such Negroes A dlplomaUc, Irreaponslble and" embarrassing:" I.

tMt thr.J be awed by white, people, not afraid to call a sPde ffliJ afraid to create a "disturbance." and not afraid to speak the the maase. of Negress undersUnd and are eager to hear. only sort of languaga llkelv to arrest white folks' attention. won't do What wa could do In Wsshino other town Vr aTe rraapirtaWa'1; and too tujd..