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jj jj Use your buying power as you W"1 IT /" 1 A IF lf~lf A if 'i Official Organ Of The Illinois 11 l! use your ballot it is the strong- Lj 111 I m 1 3 | Ir-^ XjL 1 -w W Housewives Association f jj est weapon any people or nation II 1 J JJ JL ''L/ JL % JL JlJL jL^ JL X JL JL^ Don’t Spend Y our Money Where | can use against their enemies. ^ou Can’t Work i •i _ JJ______X- _■- - -—, mJ 118 EAST 35TH STREET VICTORY 5885 .‘“OUR PLATFORM \3I KltKA FOB A Al FBI CAN A' ABOLISH THE WORDS NEGRO, NIGGER AND N EGRESS. SATURDAY JUNE 23RD 1934 I Is Time To Ac: The colored people n Chicago, especially, must learn <_o buy and vote intelligently. Colored Chicagoans should do this because the district in which they live is a city within having more than 200,000 people. A community this size should have some force. The South Side has force, but it is not fully used. It is hardly to be expected that so many people will have much concentrated thought on prob lems of general interest. However, with the colored press making a valiant effort every minute to bring before this vast populate a true picture of affairs, and with the noonle themselves suffering every indignity that can be heaped upon a minority group, it does seem reasonable to assume that they will see the need of fos tering some plan for the actual protection of themselves and their families—a new deal as it were, by which their purchasing power and their voting power may be used so effectively that other groups may readily see the logic and actual necessity oi dealing squarely with them. # Much has been said about the existing evils of this kind in the southside areas of Chicago. It has been vir tually preached by the newspapers and spoken over and over again by street corner orators. In fact, . eveiy method has been used to awaken the people. This part of the program has been done and is being done, but this is not alf to be done. If is necessary for the colored people to act for themselves, in other words, to give themselves a ‘break’ by exerting the greahpower which they "have. This should be their will and tjpir steauxas^ determination. They need to watch the newspapers, they can determine those candidates who kept their campaign pledges and served will and also the mer chants who show a disposition to be fair to colored tiade without subterfuge. The time is at hand now when every man must tight his own economic battle. It should be his first desire to make his money g'> as far as it possibly can for him self ard family, ‘it certainly isn’t difficult for anyone to understand the great force that would be behind 400,000 people who should be thinking in the same man ner about matters of employment and how their worries are made possible by tbe machinations of some unappre ciative merchant or ambitious ungrateful and coloi , prejudiced office holder. , It is time to fight such wrongs with concentiated efrort if we colored Chicagoans expect any respect at all — in fact it is-time for us to foster a sane program along these lines, if we are to remain outside of a new slavery that would be more vicious, terrifying and demoializmg than that suffered by our lore-fathers. YOUNG DOCTORS FIGHT FOR JOBS IN TENOIEETING According to the statements and reports made thruout the country by the younger physicians a battle royal may be expected at the Na tional Medical Association when it meets in Nashville. Tenn., August 13-18. The younger medics express themselves as thoroughly disgusted with what they term the “inane" manner in which the affairs of the national body has thus far been handled. Specifically, these younger physi cians seek an increase of annual dues in order that the official organ might be brought out monthly and thus aid the doctors to more easily keep abreast of the times; the es tablishment of the proposed Veter an’s hospital which thus far is only talk : and they further charge an en tire lack of interest on the part of the present officials. Name Officials They Seek To Oust Inner circles in the National Medical Association have it that several of the general officer* are to be ousted from office by the re bellious voung medics, who are de termined to have a more represen tative, influential National MedicaJ Association. Among those slated to be defeated in case they come up for re-elerlion are C. A. Lanon, M. D., General Secretary; J. A. Kenney, M. D., Editor of the Journal; J. R. Levy, M. D., Treasurer; G. W. Bowles, M. D., Chairman of the Executive Board and various exe cutive board members who in the past controlled and influenced the N. M. A. policies. The youitger, rebellious Medics are determined that another colored Veteran’s Hospital for ex-colored disable soldiers be established since Congress has already appropriated the money and the only questions to be settled or where a location and can be found that is acceptable and the quieting or silencing of orga nized lav forces who want to de prive the colored group of another such hospital, on the basis that such ja move represents segregation. | A Three-Way Organization At present the N. M. A. is compo sed of doctors, dentists, and phar macists. There has been a move I within and without the N. M. A. to separate these professions into three distinct national organizations Those who oppose this separation state that the colored professional man has nothing to lose and every thing to gain by cooperation of the three professions inasmuch as the j neoole of color need numerical and financial strength and that neither the medics, dentists, or pharmacists can muster enough strength alone— except on paper to command the respect of a trulv separate National organization with the necessities of such. Why Does The Relief Discriminate? b~'--. . ,60 0.' O <*vv a $&p. <~ i i* \ *t /'aA' ' ?> ^ '■>> J. I*~\ /"V Appeal to Give Aid to Liberia The rising tide of interest on the part of colored Amercans in the tangled web of Liberia’s affairs, be gan to make itself felt in Washing ton this week. Letters and tele grams are reaching President Roose velt and the State Department, urg ing that the United States take some initiative in helping the little African republic. Evdences that the women of the country are going to enlist in the cause became apparent when the President received from Dr. Fitz butler Waring, president of the National Association of Colored Women, thej following telegram: The Telegram “Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pres., “The White House, Washington D.C. “The Negro Women of America are intensely interested in future of Liberian Republic stop repre 'ent ing the National Association of Colored Women comprising more than fifty thousand members we ernestlv appeal to you to aid our sister republic comma bound to us by historic ties comma by initiating for Liberia an Amercan plan of Assstance stop (Signed) “Dr. Mary Fitzbutler Waring, President National Asso ciation of Colored Women.” Dr. Waring who reports that she has, found an overwhelming senti ment among the outstanding wo men of her organization in favor of Liberia, said that the body would make this one fore of the civic en deavors which it engages in on a grand scale. Baptist Join Drive Dr. L. K. Williams, president of the National Baptist Convention, whose church under the lead rship o. Dr. J. E. East, is doing extensive missionary work in Liberia, called attention to an interesting fact. “Liberia”, said Dr. Williams, “is practcally the only country, where Negro missionaries are privileged to work. In the rest of the conti nent dominated by the white Euro pean nations, Negro religious work ers are not tolerated. The minds of the natives are being shaped by white influences for white purpo ses.” Wants Liberia On Record Dr. Williams said that he believed however, that Liberia should make the first step and made public a cablegram which he had dispached to President Barclay Saturday. The cable read: “President Edwin Barclay, Monrovia, Liberia. “American Negroes intensely con cerned in Liberia’s future respect TOWN PERSPECTIVES ‘RED HOT SATURDAY NIGHT’ J Raucous voices lifted in obscene songs and profanity. Sirens scree ching as “squad cars” careen thru Fourteen and fifteen year old boys and girls “swinging out down the avenue.” Cops strolling indolently by twirling night sticks. Ladies of the evening slinking furtively along in the twiligh.t It’s the beginning of another “Red Hot Saturday Nght” in Chicago. Back of State, where love is fleet ing, life is fast and death comes swiftly, there is a sort of pause. A tensity. It is the beginning of their swift, murderous week end. Here it is the police patrol in squads or at least pairs. Here it is the bored coroner’s physician will fill out the ' inevitable D. O. A. (dead on arri val) slip that writes finish to the week end as well as the life of some of these habitues. It’s “back of State Street” where life is cheap and death comes swiftly. At 47th and South Parkway, the little “cuties”, bathed and perfumed powdered, mascared and piquant, take up the parade. The drug store “Cowboys” are on th ecorner and high adventure becons. What mat ters it that in a few weeks, the “af fair? 't;a9 '(befcome slavery from which only death can release the victim ? What matter it that love nests are but forerunners of stark trgedv and misery? It’s “Red Hot Saturday Night” and young Chicago is out to take a fling at life. Here she comes, the “belle” of the district! She looks straight ahead. The dress she wears (cut on the bias) cling revealingly to her figure as she “strolls the turf”. At the mearest hint of a puddle, she min cinglv lifts her gossamer skirt to reveal the sheer chiffon sheathing her er-er-er limbs. In her wake beads turn; old men feeling young again, try to straighten but the load of years won’t permit it; while young men wonder how Alexander the Great ever got the idea that there were no more world’s to conquer. fully urge you ask American Gov ernment plan of assistance stop (Signed) L. K. Williams, Presi dent National Baptist Convention, Representisg Three Million Bap tists.” Other religious, fraternal, civic, business and professional leaders of the race have joined in the nation wide movement, callihg on tne American Government to give Li beria a plan of assistance. Through it all she nochalantly swings along fith the sinuous, mo bile walk of Mata Hari, while a sound wagon advertising a dance, wails out Ethel Waters’ ancient ver sion of “Shake That Thing.” Look out! He’ll run over you. He’s the political boss of the dis trict. See the cop grin ingratiating ly as his wheel nearly struck that pedestrian as his high-powered Lin coln swung up on the curb. Shhhh! they all show their teeth when the boss is around. He only shows his teeth just before election, when he is kissing he neighborhood babies and making fulsome promises that were never meant to be kept. Soon he’ll be across the street #in that tavern, where grinning, bow and scraping statellites will gawfaw heart ily at the jokes you and I squalled when they were related to our grandparent while we were in cribs. Why not, it’s “Red Hot Saturday Night” and how the heck can you have a good time if the “boss” is riding you. A lurid stream of profanity that would do credit to a veteran sailor comes from the lips of the girl in red. The two girls with her are young and painted. As they pass you, you learn of the losing battle that cheap perfume has fought against B. O. Don’t be too hard on her, maybe she can’t read or at least doesn't read the soap ads. It’s “Red Hot Saturday Night” and she and the world (through loud "pro fanity) knows that her man is com ing home with her tonight. The stoplight halts a car with a Mississippi license. Six red-neck crackers therein stare insolently at the crowd. A few of the drug store cowboys drift aiilessly to the curb and return their insolent stare with compound interest. The crackers’ eves shift, seek the floor of their car Their faces turn as red as their necks. As the light flashes green, their carl eaps forward as if spurn ing the district wheite they were comoelled to stop for a moment. Next week, back home, some bro ther will feel the weight of thier fist, as a momento of Chicago’s “Red Hot Saturday Night.” So a reporter plods his wa,r h-'.-pe. Around him all is gavety and noise. It’s the week end safety valve of teeming workers, who shortly will again take up the mill. It’s Red Hot Saturday Night” to them but the reporer knows when he gets home, he must take a bath. i READ IT OR NOT ll H. GEOItGE DAYENPOltT -- ___J; HOT POLITICAL NEWS Oscar is out to get Bob Jockson. Stanton is to be put up as a can diate for Alderman of the Third ward and Warfield is to be used as a bumper to get votes from Bob Jackson. It this statement is true, and it came from very good author ities. this would be an unpardonable sin on the part of the voters of the third ward. I his writer is in favor H Geo. Davenporf of a young man running for Aider man, but to accept Stanton De Priest who has done nothing con structive to build up the organiza tion is almost a crime. If tnere is no fit young man in the organiza tion, then the organization should disband and pick one who has been instrumental in keeping it intact. For years the public has support ed Oscar and his family. His son has lived in luxury, was sent to col lege and studied law. This same young man if thrown upon his own resources could not even earn a living, this same young man has been seen by this writer standing on street corners wasting his time instead of applying it to some good use. This same young man has nothing to offer except that he is the son of your famous Congress man, this same young man cannot tell the voters or show the voters one thing he has done to merit their suppqtft then, thikTeing the die Fake' why in haeven’s name should you let Oscar put a ring in your nose and ask you to vote for Stanton. Lots of the voters have given Oscar their support for years. Many voters have raised families while supoprting Oscar and his hench men. These youngsters are more de serving than Oscar’s boy, and they should tell the big bad bully so. >Vhat Has Oscar Gotten Out Of Politics When Dever ran for mayor. Oscar told the voters to vote Democratic and they did. Did the voters get any thing? No. But Oscar didn’t do that for nothing. Recent disclosures have been made by Samuel Insull claim ing to have given Oscar thousands of dollars for your vote. Do you think that such a man is worthy of your supoprt who would sell his people to a rich man for a few thousand dollars? Oscar hasn’t de nied that he got this money but claims he doesn’t know who gave it to him. It was supposed to have come from a jack pot. If the people insist on sending Oscar back to Congress in face of his actions in the second ward, his daring insult at vour intelligence to run his son for Alderman, his recent acknowledgement of the Insull slush monev. his past indictment records, which Dawson promises to have renewed if he fails to come to certain terms, if after all of these charges you cannot get rid of De Priest then you deserve to be made fools of and that is just what Oscar is making of you. Oscar has but one purpose aside from keeping himself well heeled, and that is looking out for that son of his. He gets thous ands of dollars selling you out and once a year gives you a barbecue sandwich. This writer thinks Oscar is a smart poltician. Tt is vou “the voters’’ who are the dumbells. Tn the recent election King brought out that it was possible for Dawson to have certain indictments against vour congressman re-insta ted. revised or what not. and with this threat Dawson forced Oscar to name him for alderman of the second ward. If this statement is true and Dawson was forced upon the people to keep Oscar from go ing to the penitentiary, then politics are filthier than this writer ever dreamed. This action, if true, and there is everv reason for it to be so, because it hasn’t been denied, is equivalent to black mail, but on a much lower plane, because onlv crooks or underworld characters use such methods, and vour alderman is not an underworld character, but he certainlv stoops low in order to get an office. King made these statements and he should know what he is talking about, and if cither of these gentle men ever come up for election again and in face of these disclosun s you continue to vote for them, the opin ion of this writer is you are not true to yourselves and should continue to be sold by your so called lead ers. Warren B. Douglas is contem plating a hook up with King. With the Douglas, Kersey and King com bination, and Jenkins doing the 19th amendment, what chance has De Priest going back to congress in 1936? Whether Douglas comes over or not, it would be a wise move if he did and a chance to rid the south side of unscrupulous politicians and a good opportunity to help some deserving young man. If young men had any guts they would take over the organization and throw all of those moss covered politicians out and select their own candidates, providing they are hon est with themselves and are willing to work without pay on election day, the day is not far off when politicians will be changed as often as you change your shirts if they are not on the square. This thing of being elected for life will be a thing of the past. Pullman Porters There is a lot of talk of replacing colored men with Filipinos in the Pullman Service. This should not worry the real men in the Pullman service, because a real man could not stay in the Pullman service for any length of time unless he is se verely handicapped physically or mentally, and this writer is talking from experience, having wonked for 8 months under a Mr. Reody and found out to his utter an..Jzemeht that a Pullman porter’s joC is the smallest job a man can hoM. He is rtf hq t „ ry of eyer»-- Indi vidual on the train . nd is absolutely the most insignificant object on board. Every insult has to be swallowed ^because the public is always right, and the filthy toilets have to be kept clean and that is as low as tae average person can get and keep the!' social standing. Now some Pullman porter will read this and get sore. The inten tion is not to make you sort but to acquaint you with yourself so you can use the Pullman porter job as a stepning stone to something great er. Some of these men would have amounted to something in life had not the fascination of railroading got the better of them, and another reason is the work is easy and the monev used to be good, but as soon peckerwood started to calling yours trulv. Geo., the gig was up. When it came time for me to re sign, Mr. Reddy said: “Davenport, I think vou are making a mistake”, I said “Yes Mr. Ruddy, this is the second mistake I made, the first was made when T came into the service.” There is still against my record a charge of failing to take a dea-head car to St. Louis and that has been 15 vears ago. Now fellows, those of you who read this, don’t get sore but en courage the younger men to seek something better in life than a Por ter’s job. This writer has ben a Pullman norter, a hotel waiter, a butler, a letter carrier, has dug ditches, driveni mules and is here to tell vou if I had to do it today I would do it, but T would certainly trv to better mv condition and that is the only rp-ionn his article is written. Political Phunnygrams A certain big shot lawyer was in the federal court, and was about to send his client to the penitentiary hv pleading guilty when the judge "ave him a chance to continue. In the meantime a bystander who saw how weak the arugment of the vic tim was, persuaded him to change lawyers, and furnished one at his own expense. When the case came up for trial, the big shot politician was asked to sit quietly by. He agreed and the guilty plea was chaneed and the defendant allowed to take the stand wherebv the gov ernment was unable to prove to the satisfaction of the court the guilt of f,’e accused and the man was pa roled. Th’s Particular lawver started in fn tell the court that he was Mr. C'n and Sn from the needle and threifl district the jl1(|ore kindly Reminded him he was not seeking information as to his political affil iation. he was trying the accused, and it was up to him to plead foi^ his client, I