PAGEFOUR Northwest Clarion PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY By NORTHWEST CLARION PUBLISHING CO. 2736 N.a Rodney A,·eo.ue. Telephone MUn::!odt 3071 ~d Mail to P. 0. Bos: 4201-Zone 8 AR'Il-lUR A. COX, Sr., Ornn-PubliJhrr CHESLEY E. CORBETT', Editor ,md /tfffftarcr MRS. ETOILE COX, Manaicr of Cirnilation trnd Di,tribution ARTHUR A. COX, Jr., Staff Photoiraphrr WAYMAN F. HICKS. In Ch'"gc of Colltttion, Jfnnbrr of the tfnociatrd Negro PrcSJ and Ttd Yaus PHblication, Inc:. ThU nn-spaptr rtstn'cs the rirht to print for public11tion all pres.s dispd.tchrs, fcaturts •nd photcn /or-warded by thrse agf!ffdrs or othrrrUe crcdit~d to thtTn. NATIONAL ADVERTISING ,REPRESENTATIVE /,ctrrsutle United Nn--spoprrs, Inc., 546 Fifth AYc., Nrw York 17, N.Y., Telcplronc /,furr,zy Hill 2-H52, .,j1h of/ices in Chicazo and Dff'f'oit. RATES BY MAIL~ mos. $2.00--0ne Yc.:ar $3.50 in Advance Sing{e Cop>· l O cts. The Pacific Dispatch Published ""eck.ly On Friday By THE PACIFIC DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO. 210 23rd ATenue No.. Seattle . • - Phone E.Ast 2.893 MORGAN"'- TANN Editor and Publisner l\0\$_ l\l. TAI\'.N Cin.ulation HELEN Sl\"YDER KRISEL Society -RATESTEN CE :TS PER COPY YEARLY BY MAIL SJ.SO SIX ~!Ol\7"HS BY ~!.\IL S2.00 Ct-usrvrr.o Aova.ns1NG R,TE.) 30c Heading-Jc Per \Vord. First Issue---l\1inimum 50c 20c Heading-2c Pe-r \\"ord. Second Issue Rate.) on Three or !\1ore ln.sert1ons Dcadlin<"-\Y ednesday 'oon Ad'"ertising Rates Fumished Upon Request \Yhen ,vntt.,.n for on "letterhead statlonary." An Appeal to Seattle For mouths. prior to the appearance of the Pacific Dispatch. .there was an W1dertone grun1blc about the things a good com- :nnmity publication could do for colored people as a whole. There had been some attempts made to establish a ··Free Press" that dared to open up with liberal Yiew points and at the same time. keep its policies clear of entanglements which :vould curtail its power of speech when il is most needed. To th1, end crune the birth of the Pacific Dispatch. Thls publication h_as grmrn rapidly since its ad,·ent in Seattle. The general public has responded to tl1at which 1t has had to offer with unbeliernble loyalty. Tod.av the merchants Of o·ur community rely upon c;uch mediums as the Pacific Dispatch to take their commercial nl(~::- sages to the readers. The very continudnce of these neighborhood merchants depends largely upon the amount of patronage ~,·en them. and -their ability to meet comp+"titive prices and qualibes. Only ihrough solidarity ~an we ac_hieve econo_nUc securit_,-. and maintain the status quo. Smee the signs of the times sho,Y an increase of unemp~ovmenL en•ry ntilit~nt Ne~o ?rganiz_ation bas swung into act.wn. Let us not be satisfied_ ,...-1th JU?t ?~mg a reader. or member. let"s all get 111 there and pitch! Lets JOm the N.A.A.C.P. and \\Ork for it, and "ith its leaders. Let's get belund the Federal F.E.C.P. bill and stay with it until it is passed. 1Rt·s fight cancer and share "ith the Red Feather' But let's remember, The continuance of •·Free·· publication,;; depends upon thP cooperation that they get from both the merchant and the reader. Let us not fool ow·sekes. TI1e 1ndustnal and rnerrhanllle interests of Seattle are a solid and determined block. who do not ,-..·ant to share with littlc businesses. They do not care ,Yhelher you have a publication that can help make employment. and improve comn1Unitv bfe, or not. But. YOL' oo· CARE . . . Except there is a rnice. there is no enlightn1cnt. Any 1..:onununity which doe~ m?l support the• businesses ,,hich are \\-ithin it. becomes au econonuc reproach \\'hen you c;ee a merchant"s ad in th<" Pacific Dispatch. he is asking for your tradP He de... erYe.; it. His busine,s depend,;; upon your patronage. '.\lake a habit to watch the,e ad, for thev tell you "hat. anrl who is helping lo suppnrt YOUr free pre,;s. and when~ ,·our dollar means the most (Next week. Your Dollar and Sense. Those English Babies \Vhen news flashed recently that approximately 10.000 children. who are olTsprings of Amencan Negro GI"s and English girls, would be brought to America it immediately became a national topic and discussions pro and c_on_ C<;>ul1 be heard from far and near. Congressman Rankins, :\1iss1sS1pp1., came out m a tirade against such tactics on the ground that our country shouldn't be infested with mongrels. Throughout the country the reactions were different for instance when it was called to the attention of Herbert '.\fonroe, head of the information bureau of the state department ' 1 · is whal the pres,; says \'\as his comment: Quote "STATE DEPT. OFFICIALS CALLS COLORED BRITISH BABIES 'APES'" "WASHINGTON. D.C.-Herbert Munroe. head of the information bureau of the State Department's visa division, last Thursday referred to the English-born children of colored soldiers stationed in England during the war as '·little black apes." He used this contemptuous appellation when questioned b_y telephone as to the possibility of five thousand of the children being admitted into this country. Asked whether or not, authorities would ha,•e difficulty obtaining passports for the children to enter this country, Munroe said, "Oh, you mean those little-black apes." The quesl!on, he said, would have to be answered by the chief of the visa division. Munroe·s disparaging reference to the children was a marked exception to the attitude of officials of the Child Welfare Bureau, the British Office of Information and other officials of the State Department. These agencies, while making every effort to keep their THE NORTHWEST CLARIO AND PACTFIC DISPATOi Monday, M:.y , , 1947 · · · · d ·1 d · I · ] di .· · · d ·ession ca11 be attained only in moYcments from becmrung public arc givmg ela1 e attcnl1on racta sci 1111111a l.Ion an oppt . . f . . . to the proble1n presented by the c~lored children in England, il a society where the civil and political hberli_es o n,monlies a_rc was learned." fully protected by government. We vcw v,,1t~1 u_lmos~ conc~1 n, u t therefore the proposal of a member of the I residents Cabmet nqDo~vn in Little Hock Ark men1bcrs of ow· group were out- to ncgal~ the fundamental democratic preu~iscs of our nalton • • • • • J b b · · ·1 n·cal party with whose program spokenly oppos('d to bnngmg these babies over 1cr(' as con e y suppressmg ~ rrunon _y po 1 1 l seen from the following. the government m power is at odds. Quote I The rise of fascism in Germany teaches u~ all too well the ··NEGROE \\'ILL OPPOSE COMING fem-ful ends to which Secretary Srhwellenbach s proposal would OF E GLAND'S BROWN BABIES" lead. Hitler first outlawed the Commumst Party. 1hen, under "LITTLE ROCK-(ANP)-Vigorotls opposition will be the false guise of "fighting communism," he destroyed the trade gfrcn b)r "inlellig('nl Negroes of An1C.•rica," to Great Britain's u11ion movcm('nl and all other dcmocrnltc assoctation~ of ~he pro_posal to send approx.imat:ly 10.000. children, who arc off- Gern1an people. _There followed the bruta l and systematic pc, sespnngs of ~nencnn 1egro GI_s and E~1ghsh girls. to this country, cul101: and ann1!11latJon of _tl~e wh?l~ J~wish people, and th en declared Bishop Et~1ory J. Cam, pres1d_enl ~f the George \ V n,h. a terrible wa_r to secure Nazi 1mpenalist interests al the expense ington Carver hospital and hmne at \Vnghtnlle lasl week. of other nallons. . ·· 'The intelligent Tegrocs of An1erica are trying to dis- Our Goucrnmcnt mus_l ,_101 play into the hands 0 / th~sc coui·age the mongrel in our race," he declared. "\Ye ~eel there fascist-imperialist forces imt(un our borders who would cherish is something about our race we wanl lo preserve. \Ve hftf'd our- a similar prcgram;or Amenca! . . . . selves out of slaYerr in 80 years and are proud of such leaders We know ful well that a tr111mpha11t fascism "' Amenc" as Boo~er T. VVashington and George VVashington Carver. \Ve 1l'011ld doom the alr!'mf)'. oppressed Negro people to_ the hornble couldn t be proud of these clnlclren and neither could the white fate of the Jewish muwnty 1n N~1 Germa,:ir- t:Ve w,ll resist imth race.'" all our power every step taken 1n that dzrect,on_! . ' 'To combat the proposal. Bishop Cain announce.cl that As Negro Americans, we ~mmot be unnundfu_l thal this speakers would be sent throughout the south to organize op- proposal to outlaw the Conunurnsl Party comes precisely when position to any inclination on the:: country's part to take charge our Federal Go,·enunenl profcssc~ grave concern ovrr the ele-mor the childrt:n. both am01~g the white and_ Negro races. On~ of ?Cratic rights of p~ples 1n far-d1stant _parls of ? he world, but the speakers 1s th_e Rev. \\. B. Luster of Little Hock, recngrn~cd is st..r~ngely apat!1~llc a~out th~ mountmg attacks ~~on the ccas onc> of the leadmg orators of the south. who loured Fort Snuth. ononuc and political n~hts-mdecd, t~c very li,es--of the Ark.. Fayetteville. Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Frederick. Okla., egro people of the Umted States. ThIS fact aggravates our and Wichita Falls and Dallas, Texas:· concern. Unquote \Ve call upon the President_ and Congress promptly to \\"e have lrnd enough of the other side of the picture of enact legislation lo guarantee _fair employmcn_t pracllces, lo cohabitation of 111aster and slave and the southern Caucasian n1en abolish poll tax and o~er barru?rs to free elec~1'?ns,_ to oulla~ with Negro women, with thousands of these so called ,Hongrels lynching. and to c~ta~hsh a national_ code of_ c1VJl nghts. Th~s born where state laws forbid n1arrying. Now what should be done program. we s~1bn:11l, 1s far 1norc co_nsistent with the democr~b.t "itl1 the many thousand of w called ,\fongrefs (Mulatloes)? ,deals and aspirations of the Amencan people tJrnn the fascistSend them to ·Ew·ope? like proposal to illegalize the Communist Party. None of those who are so strenuously opposing the entry PAUL ROBESON F. ,v. JACOBS of tJ1ese babies into America has looked at or discussed the other DR. w. E. B. DUBOIS RALPH JACOBS side. They have nol argued or ,ie"ed it from the standpoint of ROSCOE DU JEE EDNA JOHNSON cause ana effect. They have only stressed what effect it will FAY E. ALLEN M. S. JOHNSON produce in the future. The Clarion is of the opinion that whatever BISHOP C. C. ALLEYNE .\LVIN H. JONES is best, proper and beneficial for those 10,000 children-from HO '. WILLIAM T. ANDREWS OR. DAVID D. JO ES their standpoint alone--should be done. From a standpoint of AUGUSTINE A. AUSTIN REV. HERBERT KING "hy should they be banished or ostracised. JOSEPII D. BITT DR. RAYFORD W. LOGAN equity and fair play. It \\asn't their fault that they are here, so/CHARLOTTA A. BASS >1AURICE A. LEE They are war babies: tl1eir parents were brought together, AARON D. BOWLING ANTHONY R. MAYO not on their account bt!t because their fathers were picked up- RE\". SHELTON I-1. BISHOP DR. BENJAMIN E. MAYS drafted and forced to go away to fight and die for something DR. CHAROTTE H. BROWN REV. H. T. MEDFORD called democracy. ;\Jany of those boys came from southern stales IL. M. CHRISTOPHE GEO RGE A. PAHK ER where state statutes prohibited them associating with Caucasian JOHN T. CLARK EMTL REMIREZ women. \\"hen they got to England. conditions were dilTerent TANDY w. COGGS ATTY. WILLIAM B. RANSOM and e,·en then_ in thousands of cases, when these boys learned RE\-. A. J. CL'FFEE REV. J. M. REED that tJ1e girls tJ1ey had been associating "ith were expectant HON. BENJAMIN J. D\VIS ~IYRTLE HOPEH mothers, tl1ey expressed a desire and "illingness to marry them, I HILDA A. DAVIS A'IJY. C. I.EBRON SIMMONS but this request was refused. It seems tJ,at there were hw1dreds DR. 11\A DE A REID COUNCILMAN JAMES B. of officers from southern states and they couldn't and wouldn"t RE\'. HENHI :\I DEAS SIMMONS. JR. stomach it; that it was necessary to secure the commanding 1 \\'lJ.LIA.Vr N. DEBERRY REV. STEPHEN GILL officers concent firsl1 before an enlisted man could marry and RAYMOND DENNIS SPOTTSVVOOD these southern officers flatly and bluntly refused to grant this DI\. ARNOLD DONAWA MILAS S. STEPHENS permission: hence tl1ere couldn't be any marriages. ~IOZELLE c. ED\\ARDS A. ELLIS STEWART It is the purpose. aim and intent of all probate courts and JA'lll·:S IV. EICHELBERGER \TTY. C. FRANCIS STRADFORD teachers and students of domestic relations lo put safeguards llll.1.1.\RD El.LIS Ill\. RAI.PH H. SUCX around infants and, as far as possible make it possible to remove .\RTIIUR I-ll'FF FAUSET \!ARY CHUHCH TERRELL any barriers of illegitimacy. in order that thev ma,· face- the A. I.. FOSTER ERNEST A. THOI\IPSON future free from taint. ARTHUR GAR\"1'1. JR ROBERT A. THmJPSON DH. CHARLES G. G0~111.LION EDWARD TOLAN They Petition the President and Congress EDMONIA ,v. GRANT HARCOGBT A. TYNES Last week seYenty-four well ki10,Yn educators. lecturers. "riters. ,cholars. profeSsional and la.rmen from ,·arious parts of the Gnited States sent a petition to the president of the L'nited States a11d to congress under the heading •·\Ye ::'\egro AmerREV. ARTHUR D. GRAY llISflOP P. A. 1\"ALLACE DR. S. L. GREE1'E. JR DR EDIV,\RD K. WEA\'ER HE\'. ELDER G. HAl\'KINS DOXEY A. \\1LKERSON ATTY C. H. HOliSTON ROBERT E. WILKERSON icans·· which we are publishing below. RE\' R. B HtlRT FHANK WILi L\~IS A fe\\· weeks ago when Paul Robeson and a few othf'r leaders ro,e up and protested against the efforts and rccomme:1M. '11cDONALD ISAM:. JR BISHOP l\OATI IV. \\'ILL.IAMS BER:-:AHD J.\C:KSO:-: IJ11 'IIAX YEHGAN dations of Secretary of Labor Le"is E. Schwellenbach Lo bani•h ,Re ol f · and outlaw the Communist party they ,Yere branded a,; "Rrds/ 5 U .Ions · · · and mc>mbcrs of the Communist party. (Cont1mwd Jrom pag,· I \\"hen the Clarion carried an editorial on this rnatlcr and \\'I rr::REAS tlu-. ..,y._,t,,m of ""~rl'g,1 cited comments from the Peoples \'oice and quotC'd se\"C•ral well lion u1hQuwl c.1u.-.1ng ap.irlnwnts tc, known nc1tional lC'adcrs ,·iewc;_ n1an_v people ,nmted !o knc),\' n·1rn11ri out Qf us,' whilP th,• w,,,,1 fm if we too. ,Yere sympathizers of their ,·.ipws. One 1oca11ty, pc:p·. tlwm ,., Rrl';1t S,1id \·,1,,1nry causf'., t.icularh· the Seattle district. for rC'ac;on<. better known to I h<'ni- an innPasP in 01wr;itmg 1 ,'1,t-.. Di-fie ih c;cln"s. ·seem to tak<_. this matter c;prious and an" rather touchy in Public Hous111p: Arlmirnsti.,tmn ;m• on this subject. Aftc>r our article '·\\ ho is Right'' some of the '>ub,idized out of 1,1v-, ,.,,.nlmdy\ SeattlP citizen,; had our good friend, thr editor or the Pari(ic nwm·y.J; ,rnd Dispatch. ).Jr_ Tann, "brandC'd." In our issue of April 7. he I \\'!!ERE.AS 1t is hoth ,1 111c1ttPr of came out with a 'ilatement in which he made his position dear 1Pc·onl anrl of wid,-spn•,id agn·1•m1•11t about not bPing a communist and that he doesn't hope ever to among ,·xpPrh III r,ir_, r••l.itaon-, 1h 11 be one. trouhl.- ilf'twPf•n whitP-, ,md non '\;o\,-just a fpw wePks -,ince 7·1- mf>n and women recog whites i,wariably occur-. i11 tho-;P com nized IPaders and persons for whom we have had the highest munit1Ps m s<•ltion~ of citiPs wlu.•rr respect and estc>cm. whom "·c have listed among the most cul- '>t'gregc1tio11 i~ th•• h,hit p,,tt.-rn of tu red. erudite. fearless Joyal race leaders, and tenacious char• hou'iing on up,mc-y. <111d th;1t such acters-come out and endorse the very same utterances and trouhl<" <loC's not occur m mll'q:;rated condemn the labor secretary and petition the president ;111d the ,1n•1.1., whf're pt·opl1- li\'e :ts 1wighbors; congress of the United States. No doubt these 74 men wil1 also be WIIEREA5 th,•rf' is ;1mplP "'"i called communists. d1•nc.- in St·,1ttlP nnd \',111rnuvcr. It's a crying shame to think the city of Peoria, Ill, refused \Vr1.,h111gton; and in S,m Fr,111<-i~rn. to permit Paul Robeson to speak in their city--declaring that he Marin County ;ind Los Angt•l(•<;. Cali js a communist specially when the right of free speech is fornin. of tlw nh1lity of An11•ricAm () f guarantPPd even.- one by the U. S. Constitution, because Mr. many hac-kgJ"Oun<k 111clud111K N.-. Robesrm condf:'mns rv-ils that hcsel us as a race and fights for µ:roP-. and Southern white,;. 10 lin• the n1iuorities in harmony M neighbors under enThe time is ripe-now, not tomorrow-for Negroes, Jews lighlC'ned public hou<,ing manageand other minority spokesmen, to do like Paul Robeson, Julius ment; now Thomas. A. Phillip l\andolph, J. Finley Wilson, Congressman Therefore t,,, ;t RF.SOLVED. Thnt Adams PoweH and others-to continue lo fight and contend for the Housing Commission or Portlund. right until we obtain the things we seek. "Eternal Vigilence is Oregon, be rNJuestcd to reaffirm thC' the price of success." right of ull 1• ligib!(• 11pplicants to Here is the petition mentioned above, "We Neip-o Americans e<tual access on th,• basis of fir,;t conw. to the President and O:>ngress of the United States.' fir~t sen•ed to nil public housin~ opWe, the undersi~ed Negro Americans, respectfully urge er,1tcd by tllf' Housing Authority or you to repudiate decisively the fascist-like proposal of Labor Portland, O,·rgon. Secretary I...ewis B. Schwellenbach to illegalize the Communist Ili- it funlwr HESOL\"ED. Tht1 t tlii> Party. Housing Commi'.ision rlin•fl 1hP I'll We submit this petition in the interest of the demorcatic tirl' p11id staff to .,ff,.rt this: polity rights of the Negro peoJ?le and of all other Americans, not as an sinc1• many staff worke~ mmt thut endorsement of the philosophy and program of the Communist th,, present discriminatory practic,·s Party. an• rulings of the Commission. It is clear that the Negro's historic goal of freedom from is/ DeNon·ol Untl,nnk, M.D., 1s/Edwin C. Bern·. ~ J Er1•rut/l1c S,·cretarr H,Jitor, .'VtJ/1•: \\ r c-ommcnd the Lrh,111 Lt•,1,:.;m• for th1..• f01·thright and uncompromi,ing ,;t ind Qll this vitol i,,un. Tlw Clarion h,1s: long been inler('stt~cl in ,rusading: for more cq uitable trr•.itnll'nt of Nl'gro wnr work• ('r-, nnd Vt•lt>rans. who ,1r(' rcs.iding in 1he wni· housing villagt:'s of Van port and Guilds I.11kl'. Every cnse or discrimindtion should hf' reported prnmpth· to tlw Urhan Lt•ague. Th(' B.\ TILE for r'f1ual1ty and dt>cenc-y mar n1Jl h1• won today or tomorrow. II HAT IS A PANCA? To bf' culll'd a PANCA is a tributi• of high l''>lL'<'m. A PANCA is on m clinrlwd mtt•n•sll'd m tlw program a,; outlUIC'd hy the N.A.A.C.P. PAN CAS on• thO<;P who occ1•pt nn inch vidual gonl in obtaining mcmbcn,hiJ>" for their local branc-h nnd rcnch lhnt goal. Ye-., tlwy ore prinrnrily respon s1ble for the success of the Brnnch in rcachinfe its ROal m thc- Annunl Ml•mbc-r~hip C1111paign. Tl1ey work lwrd, rmd givt• much or thei1· valu 11hlf' time to l'llrn the titl(' or PANCA. but just osk ,my one of the Scnltle Pa11N15 if it wn5 not P11joy11ble work with a r1•wnnl much more gratifying than money or socinl prestige. Ungnrhlcd, PANCA ,;pells N.A.A. C.P. You Arf' invited to join the Seat tll• PANCA Club. To join, you sin1 ply hnvP to pny youi· m('mhcrship iu tlw Branda und secure }0 ndditiomil llll'mhcrs. Sign up toduy as a worJ..cr or cop t11i11 in the 19·H Membership Drive und earn the distinguished title or PANCA, Dial EAst 14-68 or PR01pect 7050.
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