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The Hartford Chronlclo
MARCH 8, 1947 -
WORKERS DEFENSE
LEAGUE DOES
HERCULEAN JOB
One of the most gratifying
reports of an organizations ef
forts' in human justice is one
that has just been released by
WDL. Only a few excerpt
from that report that conern
current cases are more than im
pressive. The organization has as full
time worker in Arkansas work
ing on a campaign for the re
lease of Tee Davis, a Negro
member of the National Farm
Labor Union. This tenant far
mer was given ten years for
.defending his home against il
legal entry.
Attorneys are also pressing
the .Department of Justice to
prosecute the Florida sheriff
who fractured the skull of Mack
Fryar while arresting him for
refusal to work on Saturdays.
At Fort Lauderdale suits for
$60,000 damages against Flori
da officials, charging them with
imposing involuntary servitude.
They prevented the deporta
tion to Dutch concentration
camps of Indonesians in this
country and secured bail and
release of ten men from im
migration authorities. And
haye prepared a bill pending
in Congress that would suspend
deportation during the struggle
for Indonesian independence.
; WDL has 200 volunteer Law
yers all over the country that
come to their assistance in cases
- requiring legal assistance. They
have been active against anti
labor legislation, anti-semitism,
slave labor and fascism. And
their workers have risked their
lives to see justice prevail for
oppressed Negroes m the South
DISCRIMINATORY ARMY
ENLISTMENT POLICY
SCORED BY NAACP
Washington, D. 0. Discrimi-
natory requirements for the en
listment of Negroes in the U. S.
Army were scored on February
24th by Jesse O. Dedmon, Secy,
of Veterans Affairs, NAACP,
in a letter of protest to Assist
ant Secretary of War Howard
Ueterson. Such a policy, which
would require Negro enlistees
in the Regular Army to make
a score of 99 per cent or higher
on, the Army General Classifi
cation Tests, Mr. Dedmon said
is undemocratic. In his letter
of protest, Mr. Dedmon stated :
"It has come to the attention
of the NAACP that enlistment
in the Regular army for Negro
applicants of the Army of the
United States requires that they
have a recorded AGCT stand
ard score of 99 or higher, if
otherwise eligible and qualified
. for enlistment, without regard
to Military Occupational Spe
cialty.' "Some time ago, our organ
, ization wrote to the War Dept.
protesting the use of any re
stricted basis for enlistment in
THIS AND THAT
by Walter Wendall
As one grows older there are
few customs that jar on the
nerves as they did earlier in
life. This undoubtedly is par
tially due to the fact that fewer
experiences are really new.
However, there are a few
things that no matter how old
you get or how many experi
ences you have, as often as
these particulars show their un
graceful heads, you become of
fended. I, guess my particular area
of vulnerability encompasses
those things that make for bad
manners. An inclination that
does not always come from igno
rance of the correct procedure,
or the deliberate intention to
be offensive. It too frequently
comes out of carelessness or a
misconception of what makes
one appear worldly and sophis
ticated.
Some of this loose behavior
seems to have swept into the
picture along with the advent
of the 'Sloppy Joe era. An
era in which our youth has tried
its darndest to look as undress
ed and indifferent as the law
will allow.
One of the crowning manifes
tations of this era is the star
tling number of young men and
boys who seemed to have forgot
ten when and where they nought
to take off their hats. In fact,
they wear them indoors with
such impunity that one gets the
notion that we are rapidly, de
veloping a generation of men
who are in deathly horror of
catching cold in their heads. I
am sure it is either that or the
fact that they are so impressed
with their appearances with
their hats set at a rakish angle
that they fear their removal
will detract from their person
alities.-
But irrespective of the reason
or the era, it still holds good
that no young man or boy of
good taste struts around in
doors with their hat on.
Then the other even more dis
tasteful trait is the too current
feeling among young people
that liquor and fun are synony
mous. That it is impossible to
enjoy oneself at a dance or par
ty unless they beeome saturated
with alcohol. Then when they
do, they lose all control and
are completely irresponsible as
far their conduct is concerned
Neither one of these unfor
tunate attributes adds anything
to anyone 's stature, in fact they
both detract from one's person
ality and ability to be a con
structive citizen.
the Army of any personnel
based on race or color. If the
present policy of the War Dept,
restricts Negro enlistments in
the Regular Army to those who
have an AGCT score of 99 or
higher because of the fact that
they are Negro, we believe such
a poliey to be discriminatory"
and undemocratic. We request
that such a policy based on
race ... be discontinued.
ROCHESTER POLICE
PROMOTE CRIME WAVE
Rochester, N. Y. The police
of this city' are promoting a
little private crime wave of
their own, and it seems to all
center about the Negro popula
tion. At least the police rec
ords do not seem to indicate
any marked increase in bur
glaries or anything else.
It seems though that some
one does, not like the fact that
some additional Negroes moved
into Rochester Last summer
from the South, and therefore
permanent residence is being
discouraged.
James Young, one of the vic
tims of this police zeal, is now
lying in the hospital with a
bullet wound in his leg. The
records show that this young
man was allegedly arrested for
vagrancy, though the police say
they shot him as he was at
tempting a robbery.
; In the February issue of
"We", a. news-magazine, the
editor, John G. Corey, charged
that "a crime wave has been
launched by itinerant southern
Negroes . These itinerant Ne
groes that he speaks of ore
those who were brought here
to work in the canneries.
- The editor was even more
pointed when he suggested that
they be run out of town and
added: "The police are willing,
either that or use them as first
class targets for pistol shoot
ing." Thus far the police bul
lets, "have been directed at the
fleeing- man's legs, but as one
police officer said, 'I think the
best method is to place a bullet
in his head. - .
With this kind of race agita
tion it was not strange, when
James White, a white man
called the police for action
against two Negroes whom he
claimed had robbed him of $40.
But when pressed, he admitted
that he had lost it gambling
and long before he had seen
either one of the Negroes he
had accused.
UNIVERSITY OFFERS
COURSES IN CULTURAL
RELATIONS
New York, N. Y. Designed
to improve interracial relations
in communities containing some
mixed population groups, a
credit course in "Community
Organization and Cultural Re
lations" is being offered this
semester at Fordham University
here. George K. Hunton, Secre
tary of the Catholic Interracial
Council, is chairman of the
course, which will consist of
lectures by outstanding authori
ties on the various phases of
community life. Lecturers in
clude: G. Howland Shaw, for
mer Asst. Secretary of State
and authority on youth prob
lems and juvenile delinquency ;
A. Phillip Randolph, president
of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters ; Rev. John La
Farge, SJ, editor of America ;
Elmer A. Carter, of the State
Commission Against Discrimi
nation; and Julius Thomas, of
the National Urban League. .
Adventures In Business
Sy Nichols Field Wilson -
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CHARLES ALLEN WARD
Charles Allen Ward could
have easily been voted the "lad
least likely to succeed" when
fee graduated from high school
at the age of 17. Poverty dog
ged his footsteps from the day
he was born, and with it came
a step-father and endless hours
of drudgery. Little wonder
why he ran away from home
the day after graduation!
The story of the years that
followed sound like something
by Jack London. Ward went
to China and Japan on rough
Pacific freighters and finally
made his way to Alaska. He
spent four years there; driv
ing dog teams, mucking for
gold, and doing anything else
that would furnish a bit of
food or place te rest for the
night.
After he managed to get
back to the Spates he went to
Nevada; from there to Mexico
where he joined Pancho Villa's
revolutionaries as a civilian
captain and quartermaster.
With a sideline m confiscated
hides he cleared $70,000 in two
Would You
300,000 TONS
ANNUAL OUTPUT OF WAXED PAPER.
IN U.S. EQUALS COMBINED WEIGHT
OF 2 BATTLESHIPS, 2 AIRCRAFT
CARRIERS,' 6 CRUISERS, 20
DESTROYERS. TO SUBMARINES.
FIRST SANOWKH WAS MADE FOR
THE EARL OF SA.NOWICH, ENdLAMD.
1678. WHO WAS TOO BUSY PLAYINO
CARDS TO BAT DINNER.
years and threw It away up In
Denver.
He had acquired some very
dubious companions is his
roamings, ana his connections
with them sent him to Leaven
worth penitentiary in 1921,
convicted on a narcotics
charge. While in prison he
worked hard and became su
perintendent of the prison
power plant. He also made
friends with H. H. Bigelow,
aristocratic industrialist, con
victed of income tax evasion.
This friendship netted Ward
a job that opened doors to suc
cess for him. Both men were
paroled in 1924, and Ward
started to work in Bigelow's
multi-million dollar advertis
ing novelty business. Bigelow
taught him every phase of the
industry, and, after a series of
promotions won on sheer mer
it. Ward became vice - presi
dent of the firm in 1931.
When Bigelow was killed in
an accident a few years later.
Ward moved up to post of
president and was made richer
by $1,000,000, bequeathed him
by bis friend and mentor.
The company now has a
gross income of $20,000,000 or
more annually, which is but a
mere shadow of things to
come, according to Charles Al
len Ward, a man who turned a
bad start into a full and suc
cessful life, regardless of his
environment.
There la only one real
failure In life . . . that is,
not to be true to the best
one knows. Farrar.
Believe It?
IN 1892 ONLY WOMEN WIRE
ALLOWED TO HANDLE BREAD IN
A CHICAGO BAKERY. TODAY BREAD
WRAPPED IN WAXED PAPER IS
.UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN HANDS.
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