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Nej£ro Judde
Democratic Party
COMPLAINS OF “DO NOTHING”, “SAY NOTHING” AT
T i l l DB OF
n e g r o .“
BOOBBVBLT TOWARD
New York — Judge William H. Hastie, dean of the law
school at Howard University, and one of the race's most out
spoken liberal leaders, has apparently reached the end of the
road with the New De.d, the split coming over what he calls
the “ do nothing,” and “ say nothing” of the Roosevelt admini
stration on the Negro question. A letter which the former
Federal judge would not confirm nor deny writing, gave Sid
ney Hillman, chairman of the National Political Action Com
mittee (F A C ) reasons why Judge Hastie was resigning from
Pfc/¥,REASIVE
NEGRO NEWSPAPER
PRICE l*r
M M BEK *
The Bremerton Apology Backfires
AN E D ITO R IA L
Mrs Mary B. Seymour, assist
By C C. Crow
ant director of nurses at Freed
man's hospital. Washington, D. C. (Reprint from Augunt 15, 1*44, lUtx of Crow's Pacific C m * Lumber
Digest, Portland 5, Oregon
is now a visitor in this city. She is
Theme
who
listened
to President Roosevelt's speech made
accompanied by (iladyce Badger,
director of nursing services for the at Bremerton, Washington, last week at the conclusion of his
Pacific area. She was the honored battleship boat-ride were, regardless of party affiliation, left
guest at a reception, given at the in a very confused state of mind. It was not what he said so
home of Dr. and Mrs De Norval
much as it was the way he said it. It was obvious that he had
Unthank Tuesday, Sept. 5.
either written the talk himself or chosen to digress from the
She spoke at a meeting in Van-
manuscript of his shadow-writer and interject ad libbing with
port Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Mrs Seymour is making a coun very sorry results.
To begin with, the entire theme of his talk was distinctly
try-wide survey on ways to extend
Re«l Cross home nursing training, an apologetic effort to make a vacation trip appear to be a
recruit
•cruit nurses and develop great
ftr* at v |tH||v important official duty in connection with winning the
co-ordination of the work of Negro
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nurses throughout the country.
w a r- N o
wwuld dt’n> the chief executive of our nation the
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that body.
She
is
a
graduate
of
Freedmans
Judge Hastie, one of the leading spirits in the N AAC P, was .
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\trs
hospital school of nursing.
airs.
formerly Civilian Aide to Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- Seymour did post-graduate work at
son, but resigned that position in protest at the War Depart ! Columbia university and at Catho-
ment’s refusal to stop discrmination against and segregation lie university in Washington. She
of Negro service men in the armed forces. When Judge Hastie is a member of thi Ameruan
resigned he gave his reasons and thus won national approval Nurses association, Association ot
Colored Nurses. Citizens Commit-
for his stand in meetiug a pertinent issue four square.
i tee on problems of Negro nurses,
right to a holiday from the trying responsibilities of his
j u j u
oil ice even under ^ present conditions
and
had he come out in
.
the open and so labeled this vacation not even his worst ene-
mies would have had any criticism to offer, especially in view
0f ^is jX)or health.
Roosevelt’s Hremerton speech distinctly emphasized sev-
r
/
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eral points. His personal force!ulness is gone. His value to his
party and his threat to the future of his country more than
eVer before are in the hands of tlie vicious element that uses
^ a Charlie McCarthy to dramatize the words which
they put in his mouth. His Hremerton speech was an un
grrammatical conglomeration of platitudinous
nlatitudinous generalities
generalities
grammatical
must have made Judge Rosenmau’s face red, if he wrote
even redder if he had nothing to do with
His purported resignation from injustice in the armed services
and the board of directors uf the
the CIO’S PAC is a major blow to The Department of Justice finds
National Nursing for \Nar Service.
the Democratic party which is be- it inexpedient to move against per-
She was a Veteran of the Army
ing supported by the PAC in its sons who have openly violated the
Federal criminal law statutes by Nurse Corps in the first World
drive to re-elect Franklin D. Roose-
denying the primary ballots to Ne War. Mrs. Seymour was one of is
ve!t for a fourth term as Presi
groes in several states. Neither the Negro nurses in the corps for rec-
dent. In his letter to Sidney H ill
Interstate Commerce Commission ognition of her services the war
man, Judge Hastie declared:
nor the Office o f Defense Trans department sent her with a group it at all.
“ I think you will agree with me
portation is exercising any control of 57 Gold Star Mothers to Paris,
To take part of our navy out of the line of battle for a
that in the eyes of the liberal over the intolerable discrimination
as adviser and counsellor. She has j 0y-ride right while needed in thf most active and vital period
forces of America the performance
which Negroes are suffering in in been a public health nursé in •Nevv Gf the war cannot be condoned by any reasonable process of
of the Democratic National Con
terstate travel at this tir’ e.
vention was bad. Negroes in par
thinking. To use millions of gallons of fuel oil and waste the
“ I mention such specific matters York C‘t,y’ 8.upf nnt^V ey ° . . j ”
ticular recognize that the weak
time of thousands of men on whom the government has spent
to indicate how much there is that nurse supervisor in Long Island.
weak little plank in the Democratic
the Administration in power can do
millions of dollars training for fighting, not sightseeing trips,
platform on racial justice is no
and ought to be doing now in con
i is inexcusable and in contravention with the very demanda
.good. . . . Moreover, the repudia templation o f the war’s ending,
service unit, which, with poised car- ¡ our presdent has been making upon the rank and file of our
tion of Vice-President Wallace, a f
which will show where it stands on
bines, leaped from a landing craft country. He has asked of others and received a full measure
ter he had made the only forth
matters of racial justice and equal
into i—
kee-deep water, and
scrambled 0f restraint from vacations, and a curtailment in the use of
right statement for racial justice
Qr,', «"»»"hied
ity, and what issues it will contest
up the beach with one o f them
during the entire convention, stands
despite reactionary forces inside
petroleum products. It is no wonder that he grasped clumsily
shouting:
as a repudiation of Mr. Wallace’s
and outside of the Democratic
to find a hypocritical excuse for an expensive a^d needless
stated position.
Okay, Master Race; Here comes
Party.
jaunt that unquestionably had as its hidden objective the
“ The Democratic Party Is the
“ Yet, present indications are that some guys from Missouri!”
majority party in Congress and
He cursed his luck when no N a hope that he could, as he did, call military heads from their
political strategists contemplate a
vitally important posts on the front lines for a pink-tea con
controls the executive branch of the
‘do nothing’ policy of the Conven zis appeared about and then join
Federal government. The immedi
tion. The danger that such counsel ed his unit and moved o ff to his ference and some photographing that could be used to create
ate need fo r legislation addressed
the impression that his boasted position as Commander-: in-
will prevail seems very real . . . I f assignment.
to problems of transition from war
Invasion generally working ac Chief of the Army and Navy means that he is actually out
this apprehension proves to be well
in
to peace is now evident . . . . “ In founded, and i f no constructive cording to plan. Troops and equip
the
field
directing
our
fighting
men.
this connection, Congress has be
legislative and administrative pro ment pouring in.
(Continued on page 2)
fore it pending bills to establish gram is undertaken by the National
a permanent Fair Employment
Administration now for the pre
Committee, to abolish the poll tax,
election period, I , for one, cannot
to extend public housing, to give
work for the re-election of that ad
Federal
protection
to soldiers
ministration, and will not be able
against wanton violence in civilian
to remain a member o f the Nation
communities, for Federal aid to
al Citizens’ Political Action Com
education and for major extensions
mittee.
and improvements o f our Social
“ I know there are other Negro
Security System.
members o f the National Citizens’
‘The Commander-in-Chief has
taken no steps to eliminate racial Political Action Committee who
share my belief that affirmative
\
legislative and administrative ac
TO THE NEGROES OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY
PORTLAND, GUILDS LAKE, AND YANPORT CITY
Registration Is Now Open at the County Court House, Fifth Ave. and
Salmon Street, Room 141
tion is imperative now. Of course,
each individual
must decide for
i himself what position
he
In order to VOTE in the November Elections you first MUST register. In
order to register you will have to go to the County Court House.
should
take in the unhappy event of legis
lative and executive non-action.”
“ W E’RE FROM M ISSOURI”
John Jordon
Journal and Guide War
Correspondent.
August 16— The startling ease of
the Southern France invasion gives
rise to two opinion trends; (1 ) that
the Germans are about ready to
fold, and (2) that the Nazis may
try Anzio strategy.
One sidelight involved a colored
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