The New York Age from New York, New York • Page 17

v. ts t.V ALL MARCH 3: Members of the Oab Zodie fcve completed rsoKement for their first annual costume carnival ball which will be held at the Renaissaaeo Ballroom Friday night, March S. Member of the cponaorinK club are Clarice Pickard, Anna Rector, Rafina Wilson, Mabel CricUow, Dorothy HudKeaa, Amelia E. Loriek, Babe Dyer, Julia Cables, Bebecca Collins, Mabel Johnson, Daisy OgUvie, and Cleo M. Waller.

MIAMI Well Joe Maxim, the new lightheavyweight champion, is back and I understand the first thing be said was: "I want to fight Joe I think champions should do fend their titles as often aa they meeting all contenders. who seems eager to fight, should tackle Archie Moore aa soon aa possible and then If ho wishes to enter the heavyweight division he win bo by heavyweight boldo several declil Maxim has Joined the gretriaf Bst of feDoWB wmo cmim they to fight mo (after I haTO my otlromoat) there ad laStano, Reeky I the eominc Gold tm Glove champioa left to bo heard from. There are so many tbingo happening haven't the space to dia cuea them. They are going to make this new bomb and the able Prof. Einstein oayo it will blow a whole lot of women, children and men to kingdom come.

The new year had very little effect on the people because they continued ROY no great little backstop of Dodgers, who was with the llTSM salary Rickey offered him recently for fho 1IM season. Bated tehee the MI Campy is ry anderpald whoa and see catchers like Birdie Ten et the Bed Sox haaUng md other less talented elvers gotting the good loa What olso most Boy do to to Btokoy that he's worth ho waat it? 1 ,1,. 7 re the same way they did la the previous I was shocked when heard that a boy killed his father because he woo too old and another youth killed his mother for no apparent reason and another killed hie wife and child. I am Just wondering what is to become of as? In the baseball world they are saying that my favorite pitcher Don Newcambe may rack up 30 games this season end the Giants will become a threat, in the National League. Boston expects to set the base path afire with Gam Jethro and Cleveland's Luke Easter will send a few in the bleachers.

And if Orest Minoea comes up to Cleveland he will also add a little speed to the IMS champions. Larry Doby in expected, to have a big year with the Indians and should come into his own this year. Well lefs say a little about Brooklyn, wo win Just mention Fee Wee Beeee, Boy Campanel In and the mighty Jackie Bob Need we say more? ifil 'Al III BSnXIANT: Brilliant is the word they are use around Flak University, Nashville, Team, to describe TUma Howard of MS W. 158th Street, New York. Miss Howard Is one of the 11 Fishkites listed bt "Whet Who In Colleges, is secretary of the Flak Debating Society, Is a leader in ike eampuo NAACP and Flint eamsnltteo of the.

lateral Student Body. She Is studying religion and literature, and Is a senior at the untversW. PERSONAL HALF CENTURY OBSERVATIONS: I don't know' how you feel about it but I'm more' lntereeted in a National Let's Get Hold of Something Week? than in a Negro History Week because Tm for today and tomorrow, to hellwith yesterday, rve heard so much "Lawd, Have Mussy," singing "(spirituals, etc) "that I'm almost convinced the beboppers really HAVE something in that flatted fifth'stuff which jdoesn't weigh you down like eating chitterlings, pigs feet, pork chops and hogtaiis. If the education they're tossing around conditions our top folk no more than to acquire the ability to observe piously with great aanctimonity each year, "We've Come a Long Way," then I'd advise 'em to stop fooling around and get acquainted far earlier; with the mop, suitcase 'and sheeshine rag." And looking 'at the art they're coming out with, I get Jittery because all I see are chains, some of which I must admit, are shown being snapped by some Indulgent and worried gray, but chains nevertheless. They've "ttmdisd" tkm Negro front uptide to down, from crU to cross, staVaNtyf, oetlisjsj frontwmyi mmd ttraight aeroM.lhe board and they're still "studying, him in tueh monitor as to nggett they ain't "ttndying him trntV when come to hooding out tomething more wowrisfcrng than rice and gravy and epportanities to flown, thickon thieves, mnd eyebmU rolieri es careers.

Every time you look around, they've appointed some new "commission' to "study" the Negro, dissect him, slice him up, bare his 'guts to the public, letting the world know that there are some "chitterlings" that don't need to be cleaned for drying and using as strings on the violins of oppression, suppression and depression, if youH pardon the rhymes. Yep, see come a long, long awry, bmt whereinett ere se going Whoeo loading ma and mho mnU mm to go wherever they're taking mat To date, sm haven't come up with bmt two or three Negroea who could state in one sentence what we thonld have and they included old Marcus Gervey who maid In three words something that got one out of ovary three Negroes mot on Georgia chaingangst "Back to Africa'. Fred Douglas said "Let My People Co" and Booker X. "Drop your, buckets where yon are, or something to that effect. Ask one of the heavy thinking brethren who warm put In front of us mainly because of a chean fcs clean shirts and a record of failures in trying to work omt his earn future, state what wa want oT should, have mnd you'U gat something like thist "We want more participation, greater Integration, equality of opportunity, wider freedoms and added facilities to the fundamental concepts of the democratic ideal that would establish the fusion of folkways whereby our common destiny might be eventually fused into one general conception of the task at hand." He couldn't say something like this: "We are going to free ourselves." That would involve him with sponsors who pay him 75 a week or $3,600 a year to keep the pressure off them by acting as a go between.

The smIm lessons wa can leant from ear history moor, the half century is ts he from the failures. Such as net preparing' for the return of thousands of Negroes superbly trained, possibly by mi telte or' fear, by the armed forces during the recent war. These were potential leaders i the man with the real training, experience and bock ground. They included surweyars, airplane mechanics, chemists, physicists, automobile mechanics, meteorologists, scientists many branches, military trained policemen, meeomntants, firearms experts, pilots, blacksmiths, masons, foresters, dieticians, and a hundred and ana other skills which are not found In nmmbers. among these who wore left at home.

Included among the returnees from the war mere ever a million young Negro boy who had learned, although under force, hew tm say "We" instead of "Me" This "We" in place of "Me" is probably the greatest advancement we made in the whole 00 years from 1900. Up to then, you heard more Tm going to do" something or "I or "I battled" than anything else. Everybody thought in terms of his own wants, to hell with yours and mine. A man built a house for himself and family and thumbed his nose at those who didn't or couldn't do likewise. The only time he said "We" was when the Km Klux Klan or the deeply religious crackers or northern counterparts, mama to burn hi house Thorn you heard lot of what "We're got to do about these people oppressing 'US'.

The army changed that. The individual bad men in the corner who'd knife hi own brother in a fuss ever Satchel Paige or whether the pigeon would dip twice before kitting for the courthouse roof, wa forced to use his knife on behalf of the guy next to him mnd so on down the line or get' sliced or blown up a an individual award. Among those GI returnees was our answer a of tomorrow's destiny. We had the pick of tomorrow's army all set But what happened? That one was muffed. Too many "I believe" boys and girls were on the home front pushing their own buggies and knocking on doors to get admittance for themselves and damn the Just as in' other years of the past SO.

As a result, the whole thing is in a meat. Don't let any of the hocus pocus stargaxers and necromancers, and rabblf in the bat boys and girls kid you otherwise. You ain't nowhere! They're still putting you in the backs of busses, handing you your hamburger out the kitchen window, sending you to isolated and unscreened outhouses where the snakes will take a snack at your heels; they're still putting you in the" buzzard roosts of theatres and breaking up the dishes after you eat In the so called better 'restaurants. They still move out wholesale when one of. you moves into the lUywhite neighborhood or settlement They still have cotton picking holidays for you in the South and your vote still doesn't count for over one half.

They pica out whet book to publish, what your children shell leans, make your clothes and sheet for you, put yam In fail under law they establish, mot yomrst regard yarn, as "SEPARATE," pick out your prettiest women tm exploit or have Just for themselves prostitute your men to the place where they have tm eett whatever tout they have on the alter of the flask in Mrder tm continue walking around In pant. yew have a few high positional they sue yewr ideas in invention, research, and creative arts, bmt year paymff is still in nickels mnd dime white the folks who took 'em go tm Europe, yen een't get South Worry. SO, DONT YOU GET ME TO TALKING I 3 73 7 GV cr.