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Mercy stops at race line at Chicago Hospital
When Mrs. Doris Perkins arrived at the Chicago Hospital, 811 East 49th street, a stone’s throw
from the covenant-walled black ghetto, she found staff and attendants almost beside themselves with
courtesy.
Late that same afternoon, fol
lowing an operation for hemor
rhoids, a drastic change took
place. Neglect and studied brutal
ity caused her removal the fol
lowing day.
Hospital attaches had learned
that Mrs. Perkins, white, was the
wife of Robert Perkins, Negro.
Still confined early this week
to her home at 3852 Lake Park.
Mrs. Perkins, a slight, redhaired
woman and mother of a young
son. told of her experience with
fascism, domestic type.
* * *
SHE entered Chicago Hospital
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Tuesday morning, Aug. 27, under
the care ol Dr. I. H. Incuye. Aft
er the operation she was removed
to a private room, Her husband,
a musician, came to see her at
the listed visiting hour of 2 p. m.
He was told to wait until “col
ored visiting hours” starting at
4:30.
Apparently word was passed
around immediately. While still
under the after effects of the
anesthetic, she was brought back
by a nurse who put the tray on
the table and walked out without
speaking. Her husband fed her.
“From then on I received the
most callous kind of treat
ment,” Mrs. Perkins said.
“When I pulled the light cord
to signal the nurse, she would
come from 15 to 20 minutes
later and put out the light. _ She
would wait from two to three
hours to bring water or a bed
pan or other items I needed.
Once she brought in the bedpan
and threw it roughly on the
ed, hitting my foot. When I
asked for help, it was refused".
* * #
ALTHOUGH her physician spe
cified liquid foods only, attend
ants brought her meat, carrots,
beef stew, coleslaw, dry bread
t pudding and for breakfast next
day cornflakes and dry toast. Un
able to eat these things, she con
sumed just two cups of coffee,
two cups of tea and a glass of
milk during the entire two days
| she was a patient,
j Mrs. Perkins was immediately
j brought home although after
such operations the patient is not
| moved for five days. She feared
for her safety and her physician
| also felt in view of the maltreat
| ment, she should be home. Her
I recovery since then has been nor
! mal.
Communist leader
to speak here
Henry Winston, newly-elected
national organizational 'secretary
of the Communist Party, will
make his first public appearance
in Chicago in many years in a
of three neighborhood
meetings to discuss ‘27 Years of
the Communist Party”.
The Communist Party cele
brates its 27th anniversary this
September amidst the growing
struggles of the common people
for security, democracy and
peace. It was in Chicago on Sep
tember 1, 1919 that the Com
munist Party was born.
Henry Winston was secretary
of the Young Communist League
before he left for four years serv
ice in the army. Winston is a
•Negro, born in Mississippi and
has been active in the labor and
people’s movements for more
than 14 years. »•
The scheduled neighborhood
meetings will take place on Tues
day, September 24, 8 p.m. at the
People’s Auditorium, 2457 West
Chicago Ave.; on Wednesday,
September 25, 7:45 p.m. at the
Parkway Ballroom, 45th Street
and South Parkway: and on Fri
day, September 27, 8 D.m. at the
Finnish Workers Hall, 2409 N.
Halsted Street.
IVI announces
more endorsements
The Independent Voters of Illi
nois this week announced its en
dorsement of the following can
didates in the November Con
gressional elections:
Ist District-
William L. Dawson
4th District-
Martin Gorski
sth District—
Adolph J. Sabath
6th District—
Thomas J. O’Brien
23rd District—
Homer Kasserman
(of Newton, Illinois)
Previous endorsements an
nounced by IVI are Emily Taft
Douglas, Representative at-Large;
William A. Rowan in the 2nd
District: William W. Link in the
7th; and Alexander J. Resa in
the 9th District.
In the downstate elections, IVI
has given the nod to Carl Vroo-
. a nr nm VI l BE
This Messersmith carries
a dangerous bomb load
By ALDEN TODD
WASHINGTON—(FP)—The official doubletalk which has been
heard the past two weeks over U. S. Ambassador to Argentina
George Messersmith would be funny if it were not so dangerous.
On Aug. 26 Federated Press carried an exclusive story telling
about a*i off-the-record speech Messersmith delivered Aug. 5 in
a Buenos Aires, Argentina before
an American Legion-audience. FP
was certain of its facts before
publishing the story.
To newsmen, an off-the-record
talk by a public figure is a leg
itimate device for getting infor
mation to pass on to the reading
public without putting the speak
er into hot water. Many times,
this device is wisely used and
helps give the people information
to which they are entitled. Mrs
sersmith’s speech, however, was
designed to stir up anti-Russian
war feeling among his audience,
and purported to be official State
Dept, stuff, from the horse's
mouth.
* * #
AT THIS point, any good
American who is (a) sane
enough to know that war isn’t a
happy camping trip , (b) patrio
tic enough to want to keep the
U. S. at peace, and (c) courage
ous enough to tell high-placed
warmongers to go paddle their
papers—such a person would
protest at Messersmith's abuse of off-the-record courtesy. The na
tion should have such a person around.
At first the Sthte Dept, said that it did not feel obliged to com
ment on an off-the-record talk, even by an ambassador. Later, when
the story grew in momentum, Acting Sec. of State William Clayton
said that Messersmith had cabled a denial of the statements at
tributed to him in the speech. By his manner, one could see Mr.
Clayton wanted to close the whole affair.
But denial of a true story fools very few people in the long
run. The armed forces, for example, used to rush into print during
the war denying criticism based on facts which were common
knowledge to many men in the line. Later, public relations officers
would put out press releases stating the previously-denied situation
had been corrected.
* * #
INDUSTRY, as the labor movement has shown time and again,
can stretch a point of truth when it tries. But in the end truth "gen
erally breaks through denials and coverups, with the result that
people become cynical about anything a proved whitewash artist
tries to say.
When the State Dept, helps Messersmith cover up such an im
portant event as his pro-war Buenos Aires speech, it can lead only
to discrediting itself. A much wiser course for the State Dept.,
which is charged with carrying out the deep desire of the American
people for a world of peace, would be to say: “Yes, Messersmith
made that speech and he should be recalled,” or: “Yes, Messersmith
made that speech and expressed our policy.”
So far, the State Dept, is mugwumping the issue—because it is
embarrassed by taking either course. It leaves the impression that
the Messersmith speech is not too far off its charted course, but
it doesn t want to admit that.
* * #
IT HAS not yet said the reported speech is contrary to Ameri
can foreign policy.
Another dangerous note in the whole, affair is the silence of
most of the American press. The Chicago Sun Buenos Aires corres
pondent wrote Sept. 5 that newsmen heard the content of the speech
Aug. 5. “All correspondents, including this one,” said the Sun writer,
so informed their home offices in confidence because it was an
olf-the-record speech.”
The major wire services and newspapers, therefore, had neither
the sanity, patriotism or courage to give the public the facts.
If America is to emerge victorious into a peaceful future from
the present rumor cloud it needs frankness from high-placed spokes
men of its people, an honest press to carry the truth to its 140,000,-
000 citizens.
man of Bloomington in the 17th
District; Olive Remington Gold
man of Urbana in the 19th Dis
trict; Roscoe Bonjean of Spring
field in the 21st; and Melvin
Price of East St. Louis in the
22nd District.
Franco gets query
BRUSSELS—(ALN) Popu
lar demand in Belgium for a
rupture of relations with Franco
Spain reached an all-time high
this week as the Belgium govern
ment officially demanded that
Franco explain the "escape” of
Leon Degrelle, Belgian fascist
who had taken refuge in Spain.
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