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R rid ay . N o v tm b « ! 30. IM S PORTLAND INQUIRER LISTEN By FRIENDS ... Margaret Taylor Goss for ANP LABOR VIEW TALENTED CHILD PIANIST By George F. McCray for ANP THE LABOR-MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE big-headed It is highly commendable that AND NEGROES Townsend has publicly adnqitted that his par In Washington a 'few days ago Willard S. ticipation in the conference is by no means Townsend, president of the CIO’s United an adequate n\gasure of the importance of Transport service employes of America, got the conference to Negro people. Also in his some pretty plain talk off his chest while ad statement is the clear indication that he him dressing a group of newspaper men stationed self needs closer contact and cooperation with in the nation's capital. Townsend is the only other national leaders interested in the prob Negro delegate to the dead-locked labor-man lems of Negro labor. We certainly can use agement conference now meeting in Wash more common sense of this sort. ington in an effort to workout a solution for N otw ithstanding Townsend's complaint the the national labor situation. Negro point of view has been well represented Townsend complained of the little atten at the conference. When the CIO sought un tion Negroes generally seem to be giving to successfully to hav the question of endorse the conference. He based his statement on ment of FEPC put on the agenda, both man the fact that of the many organizations send agement and the AFL voted against the pro ing recommendations to the conference, neith posal. Townsend's own statement to the as er the Urban league, the NAACP nor any sembled conference, strong as it was, fell on other ostensibly Negro organization had up to deaf ears. The Negro issue, to to speak was that time submitted a proposal for considera thrown out of the window in the forlorn tion. hope that such a sacrifice would enable Townsend’s complaint is significant from management and labor to reach an agreement several points of view. In the labor movement more eosily. Townsend probably occupies a position far Beyond expressing the Negro minority group superior to that of any other Negro. Man point of view, it is very unlikely that Negro for man A. Philip Randolph is undoubtedly civic organizations have much of value to his equal, but the AFL stubbornly refuses to recommend. This also holds true for the many make any openings for Phil of to cooperate non-Negro organizations which have sent in with him. In the labor movement Randolph lengthy and involved solutions for present has been checkmated for years while Town labor-management difficulties. Perhaps the Ur send receives a recognition in CIO far out ban League and the NAACP and other Negro of proportion to the membership of the organizations realized this. It is high time transport service employes union. Philip Mur that congressmen and the public realized that ray, CIO president seems to want the Negro laboj; management relations are highly techni in on things. cal and require specialized information just Such contacts and advantages have often as building a bridge, fighting a battle, or made lesser Negroes unbearable, not to mention dredging a harbor. MAKE SPAIN THE TOMB OF FASCISM Remember the civil war in Spain? That seems a long time ago that France the Butcer with the help og guns and bombs from his henchmen Adolph and Benito put down in blood the aspirations of the Spanish people for a demo cratic way of life. Spain was the cradle of facism, the testing ground. I remember that a group of American boys went out there ta fight on the side of the people against the France militarists. In that group were Negro boys, who have fel the last of facism and knew what a monster it was. Some of those boys never came back. Asleep on Spanish soil, they too, deserve purple hearts, for they were aware and they sounded the warning. Remember the embargo which prohibited the Loyalists from receiving supplies? Many brave voices were raised demanding that it be lifted. This plea went unheard. If Fascism had been scotched in its infancy, how many good young lives could have been saved. How much tragedy could have been averted. Well, we missed the bus that time. Now with the big- time fascist licked, we had better turn our eyes toward Spain again. France is still there. France is still in power. The Spanish people are still under the yoke of fascism. And this is closer to home than we think, for the German capitalists having scuttled out of Germany before its fall, are arriving in South America on Spanish boats bearing Spanish passports as well as their fortunes to inest in spear heads of world fascism. As long as we continue to appease Nazi Spain, we are sowing the seeds for a third world war, we are digging our own graves. We should write our senators and con gressmen to support the Coffee resolution urging the im mediate breaking off of diplomatic relations wiih Fascist Spain. - ' k ^ A U N T (T E LIA > I \ j | S N € K N O W S E V E R Y T H IN G / | ALL RIGHTS RESERveOR.E FlTZ-GlBBON Schopenhauer—a hundred years ajju—stated that “a roan becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity from which he seeks to free himself.” Few men, though, achieve the distinction because their noses are affixed to the grindstone: they daren't stop work long enough to do any or very much thinking. Most women, on the other hand, have practically nothing to do whatsoever. Yet they don’t be come philosophers either and simply because they're fresh out of what it takes to think with. Aunt Stella is the one, only and vivid exception. Cursed with the average woman’s natural curiosity yet blessed and endowed with an exceptionally acquisitive and an encyclo pedic brain, she freed herself from every imaginable and human per plexity in infancy. This makes her, today, the worlds greatest philosopher. She’s an authority not only on love, courtship and marriage (if any) but also on bandinage and ballistics, or what have you? We invite readers, who are perplexed, to question her on any subject under the sun. Her answers—when printable—will be found bunched up hereafter or scattered as fillers throughout these inform ative and valuable pages.—Editor. Dear Aunt Stella: Why did peo ple in the Dust Bowl complain so bitterly about the late summer weather ?—Sunshine & Shadows. Sunshine & Shadows: Because— particularly in August—an hour of pelting rain would do more good there in five minutes than a month of it would do in a week at any other time.—Aunt (Freak Of Nature) Stella. Dear Aunt Stella: He's married but I’m nuts about him. Do you think I’ll make a mistake if I en courage his attentions ? — Grass Widow. Grass Widow: Could be; if a married man seeks surcease from sorrow away from home, it’s a pretty good sign that his wife un derstands him.—Aunt (Fingers Crossed) Stella. Dear Aunt Stella: When we were married, she made me prom ise everything. Do you think it wise or proper for a wife to bur den her husband with her business troubles ?—Conscientious. Conscientious: Yes. Provided, though, that she does it before— and not after — he goes on a buy ing spree.—Aunt (Wage Earner) Stella. Dear Aunt Stella: There are plenty of things I’d like to do but my conscience tells me that they are wrong. If you were me, what would you do in a case like that? —Night Sweats. Night Sweats: I wouldn’t be lieve everything I hear.—Aunt (Green Light) Stella. • * * * * * • * * * • • Dear Aunt Stella: I’m on a pur chasing mission for Britain and, in my spare time, am reading up on American history. In the olden days, why did the noble redskin wear feathers on his head?—Lord Helpus. Lord Helpus: To keep his wig wam.—Aunt (Achoo!) Stella. Dear Aunt Stella: As soon as f can find me a job, I’m going to one of them free night schools and study up all about business. Don’t you think that’s the best way to learn how to get the most out of your money?—Ain’t Got None. • * a Ain’t Got None: Sure. But the hardest thing about making money Dear Aunt Stella: She has pro last is making it first.—Aunt (Re posed that we elope. Do you think verse English) Stella. it right or proper to take a girl Jesr Aunt Stella: Why is it that horticulturists and tree sur geons and such aren’t received in the best society?—Grubby Fin gers. Grubby Fingers: Because, broad ly speaking, they’re just a bunch of grafters.—Aunt (Nature Lover) Stella. * * * Dear Aunt Stella: I warned her that I’m pretty quick on the trig ger and then she ups and tells me that her Old Man is the best shot in the county. Unless the infor mation is irrelevant, just what does that make me?—Target Prac tice. Target Practice: Probably, her husband.—Aunt (Bull’s Eye) Stel- la. W V * * Dear Aunt Stella: Mother says that the modern girl doesn’t make a good marriage because she’s bold and forward. Just how modest was the old-fashioned girl?—Rug Cutter. Rug Cutter: As a rule, she was so demure that she wouldn’t do improper mpropi fractions.—Aunt (Blush- ng) S'tells. from her parents without any warning?—Amen Corner. Amen Corner: Not at all. If there’s anything about a daughter that parents want to warn a guy about, he should be perfectly will ing to lisen.—Aunt (Above Board) Stella. « • • Dear Aunt Stella: He tells me that I’m the sunshine of his life; that my smiles drive every cloud away; that, with me at his side, he could defy the storms of life. What’ll I do when he stops right there?—Bulb Snatcher. Bulb Snatcher: Why not ask him whether that stuff ia intended as a proposal of marriage or a weather report?—Aunt (Come Clean) Stella. • • • Dear Aunt Stella: We don’t serve nothin’ but cheese, zupp an’ biff stew at our lunch counter but drunks always is asking for some thin’ else. What’ll I do with the guy who comes in every Satterday nite an’ says he wants two tuna fish ?—Draw One. Draw One: Tell him he’s better stick to pianos.—Aunt (Off Key) Stella. TRAVERS and BLAGG CLIPPER SERVICE STATION General Overhauling by Expert Mechanic We Specialize in . . . BRAKE SERVICE . . . WASHING . .. POLISHING LUBRICATION . . . WAXING WE NEVER CLOSE — 24 HOUR SERVICE — For Service Call* Phone TRinity 1446 Now Open Under New Management 2707 N. VANCOUVER AVE. T klM Emmline Jane Kemp, Chicago's child prodig/ whose brilliant performance on the piano has attracted wide attention from critics and educate.«. Sportt red in concert at Holiness Community temple last Sunday, for the benefit of the Young People's Recreation center by Miss Ida L. Jackson, (picture in insert) fromer supreme basilious of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and prominent in California's educational circles. CIO Urges Atlanta Emmelino played numerous heavy classics with faultless memory and execution. A dozen of School Improvement her own compositions were also included on the program. ATLANTA—(ANP)—The At lanta Industrial Union council— CIO last week adopted resolutions | calling attention to the fact that Atlanta invests only one-sixth of total expenditures for buildings and land for Negro children, al- By Alvin Moses *h( ugh Negro children constitute LONDON — (ANP) — T w o Ne one-third of the Atlanta school groes have .been elected to the age population. ALONG THE DAWN PATROL rank of major in the British army. The council noted the oppor Dear Champ: Harold Mosely, eldest son cf Dr. tunity offered in plans for post It’s Sunday morning and I am so very, very tired and Harold Mosely, president of the war school improvement to cor sick at heart . . . however, not too tired nor ill to drop League of Colored peoples, who rect existing inequalities. The ac tion urged that “any and all plans these lines to my favorite reporter, a writer who has earn joined the forces in July, 1944, for school improvement in At ed the plaudits and respect of thousands of Harlem resi is serving with the Royal Army lanta include as a minimum an dents. I know from a long reading experience that your Medical corps. He was recently amount for Negro school improve column deals with only real, living personalities, whether promoted to acting major. Dr. ment proportionate to the exist they be children, women or men. I wnoder, “Champ”, Moseley's second son, w h o is ing need.” An Atlanta Negro C i t i z e n s would you be able to find space (as well as the time to serving with the First Caribbean committee presently is engaged regiment in Egypt, has alho been rearrange my mixed-up writings) to tell your readers promoted to major. in an all-out fight to wipe out school facility inequalities. something* about a perosnality who never seeks publicity, NIGHTLIFE IN NEW YORK British Promote Two Negroes you’ll know him the moment you get down to this line, for “the show must go on” and—“laugh and the world laughs he’s big, smiling, nut-brown skinned, Bob Armstead, isn’t with you, cry and you cry alone” are life truisms. he a swell guy, Champ, out o fthe same mould as is popu The first slogan on the agenda is patently true. We lar Laurence (Sonny) LaForte, another one of Harlem’s carried on after every tragedy in our American lives as a “nati\ e sons”. nation. FDR left us but others took over, owever, this slo Well, Champ, I’ll get to the point realizing that you gan is invariably linked up with the theatre much more are a man of action. I had occasion to go to Bob end relate so than it has to do with the life politic. a story too strange for words. Most persons being of a J maintain that dwellers of ghetto-like districts like doubting Thomas complex would have weighed the matter new York’s upper Harlem have scant few escape avenues. .over before making the decision Bob did. Looking squarely We must face realities in the nude. The patterns of pre into my troubled eyes, the big he-man of upper arlem scribed living run t o. a blueprint that has changed my placed his arms around my trembling shoulders and in little (socially and economically) in this, often called the three-little-words (“dorYt worry anymore”) lifted my bur world’s most liberal city. At the Red Rooster one nite dens as if some magician of ancient times had waved his some weeks ago, a party engaged me in serious conversa magic wand over me. Champ, I only want you to move tion. The talk ran something like this: “Why do the police over one seat for another champ, Bob Armstead, if you go so far afield as to halt white women and their escorts please, deserves a seat right alongside your type of citizen. coming into Harlem when the wink-their-eyes at the male The world of nitelife, theatre and sports, know Bob (white) ‘freaks’ and thrill-seekers who infiltrate the com Armstead as boys of 1930 knew Babe Ruth. I merely munity along about midnite?” danted the nation (thru your widely read column) to know “Is prostitution, a sin as ageless as time itself, encour Harlem’s Bob Amstead, a real man and a hale fellow , well aged in the ‘black belt’ in order that white communities ! met . . . Thanks awfully, champ, my best to your family... can remain respectable?” Do certain fascists work to the I Yours, Margie Chisolm. end that Harlem, like old-world Israel, eternally answers At Joseph Weils’ swank Bar and Restaurant we found to the charge . . . ‘What good can be expected to come out small groups discussing that three-decker-birthday cake of Israel?’ ” Joe presented his mother with on her 75th anniversary. Hard questions to answer correctly. Living problems The story behind the news in connection with Wells’ suc from which you and I never find an avenue of escape. cess as a restauranteur has rarely been seen in print. He I am grateful that so many millinos of my race are pos is one of the few men who have never forgottn members sessed of the right sort of courage, faith and stamina. We’ll of his own family on the employment roster . . . A lot of never cease fighting our common problems and the right to folk say family and business just can’t be teamed under enjoy the fruits of liberty. Were there avenues of escape, the same harness. Well, Joe Wells has achieved this and we, the fighters for democracy—would walk right past them we’ve seen it pay off handsome dividends. Jack Carter into the thickest of the fight. smiling with a host of friends just outside of Dick Wheat- en’s and then walking over to us and whispering “I’m smiling and gabbing but my mind is away ou tin Cleveland where ANDREW BISHOP, former great actor, lies near death” . . . Isn’t that the way of life, readers? While some of us are doing a boogie-woogie, the other half of us have things to mourn about. A1 Douglas, the important juke box king of West 145th street, has not sold his Heat Wave nitery to Art Parish as one writer reported a week ago. Margery Miller, authoress of the book “Joe Louis: American”, is put together like a ollywood brick penthouse (if you savy my lingo), boy, has that girl got an elegant torso. As for her book, I’ve just completed reading it and I might say to you— go right out and buy a copy, it’s all that good . . . Ted Here are the fart». Over Yates is living downtoWh they say somewhere near his 300,000 wounded need our office located at 275 Bleecker St., equipped with a photo help. Fighting men over studio and darkroom to facilitate better service to mem sea» must be brought home. bership newspapers—good luck to you Teddy. Fainiliez of men loit must Elks Rendezvous has 6 show you’ll enjoy, we think . . , be eared for. We owe it to We sat tHhru the midnite show called Fall Fantasy and them all to go all out in I thought Charlie Morrison produced a good show for his A m erica’« G re a t V icto ry ! Murrain owned niteclub. “Cornshucks”, a real comic if ever Loan. For th eir good, buy we saw one, comes in for rounds of applause during the extra Victory Bond« now. show; Kay Jenay contorts herself into figure eights until ! you hold your breath wondering if she’ll come out okay; Let’« be sure that American J Dottie Rhodes dances well; Rita Genja handles the song- boy« and girl» get the very department and quite well we thought; Ra> and Ray are best care in the world. clever dancers while Sam Fouche is holdover-emcee, he is that good. Jimmy Wright and his “Diplomatic Five” do| some nice jamming and the “Rendezvouettes”, are dancing ■ girls not too hard to lamp—four or five times. Here’s why EVERYONE . must back A merica ' s G reat V ictory L oan ! AVENUE OF ESCAPE Many of those who nightly live in a world of fun and! laughter try desperately to sell me on the matter of escape avenues. They hold to the opinion that such slogans as FOR PEACE AN D PR O SPE R ITE _ THE VETERANS LIGHTHOUSE In a recent address before a pressijon of your faith and grati “welcome home" program given tude. * * * by the Campbell A. M. E. church in Washington, Col. Campbell Agitation continues for the con- Johnson, our own administrative gretional establishment of a U. S. assistant to the selective service Department of Veterans affair*, director, pointed out two very whose director would be a mem significant things to the veterans ber of the President’s cabinet- who were present on the com This matter will come under the mendable occasion. The f i r s t advisement of the American Le of these was both an injunction gion, and will undoubtedly be and a warning which had to do considered by other veterans or w i t h vocational rehabilitation ganizations. Worth considering, training, in which the popular ex too. • • • ecutive urged vets to take full advantage of the liberal training Rep. Eberharter of Pennsyl opportunities provided u n d e r vania is threatening to demand a Public Law 16 (78th congress), congregational investigation of and further, once having been the entire surplus property dis provided with the training, to fin posal procedure. (P. S.: This col ish the course as, in the world of umn told you so, remember?) * « • the future, none but the thor oughly prepared can expect con The University of Southern sideration. Col. Johnson’s second California is boasting because it piece of timely advice dwelt upon had 2,500 vets enrolled as of Nov. national service life insurance, 19. Negro colleges take notice. • * • and the utterly foolish manner in which too many Negro vet A recent civil service decision erans were relinquishing this fi ¡•--apt to be of considerable im nancial opportunity. Veterans ev portance to a number of veterans erywhere had better heed the at some future date. The decision colonel’s sage counsel. states that any veteran, who has been denied restoration because • • * he was not given an honorable One of the most encouraging discharge at the time of his re features of veterans’ rehabilitation lease from service, but who later is the manner in which many is given an honorable discharge organizations are launching vet by the board of review, must be erans’ assistance programs. While reinstated. And it did say “must.” it is true that some of this ac ♦ ♦ * tivity will be just an effort to The shortage of housing for attract the favor of veterans, in veterans is not improving. John the main the sincereity of these B. Blandford Jr., National Hous groups can not be questioned. The ing authority administrator, has Veterans administration encour repeatedly voiced the gravity of ages all such attempts. If your this situation, and somebody had organization has an idea that better lisfen to him before the might require some counsel and explosion comes. This column guidance, VA will be glad to help. predicts that a continuation of Drop a line to “The Information this condition will force congress Specialist, c/o Col. Richard Mc- to act, and that, furthermore, once donnel, the Veterans Administra that action is instituted, the en- tion, Washington 25, D. C.” ire low-cost housing program will ♦ * * get a shot in the arm. Flash! As this goes to press, When the Catholic bishops of the United States fired their re Rep. Patman of Texas has intro cent blast at current world dis duced a bill to alleviate the en sension, they sounded a warning tire housing situation, giving vets of the utmost concern to vetreans. housing priority. Now for some This column makes particular ref congressional action.) erence to that part of the state ment which said: “We must be true to ourselves. We must hold fast to our free institutions. We must resolutely oppose the few amongst us who are trying to SAN FRANCISCO — (ANP) — sabotage them.” Amen! We did not successfully fight an enemy The San Francisco FEPC Regional from without, only to stand by office, scheduled to close Dec. and see any enemy from within 15, despite a mounting load of destroy us. Negroes died in that employment discrimination com world struggle, too. We shall not plaints, was handled more than forget the crosses that mark their 1300 such complaints in California, graves. We shall keep the faith, Oregon, Washington and Nevada since it was opened here in Sept., constant and forever. 1943. Forced to close its doors be The veteran going to school cause of a drastic reduction in will receive a higher subsistence the congressional appropriation allotment. It is getting better all for its work, the San Francisco the time, buddies—how’s about office of FEPC, headed by Ber finishing that schooling n o w? nard Ross, received 44 substan (Note: Like pharmacy? There is tiated complaints of employment lucrative opportunity in this discrimination during October. Citing an increase of such com- field.) I plaints during the war-end months from July through Oct., R o s s To ihe Public I warned that in 1919 failure to Wounded veterans do not want establish a fair employment prin- pity. They are not "problems.” I cjpie contributed to the 26 post- They are men to whom this coun- war race riots in the U n i t e d try owes a debt of gratitude be- states. During its more than two yond calculation, and this debt years of operation, the FEPC ha* can best be paid by treating these worked to eliminate employment men with manly consideration discrimination on the grounds of rather than the handouts of piti race, religion and national origin. ful sympathy, he most effective Failure of congress io appropri way to assist them in overcoming ate funds sufficient to continue their handicaps, is to let them FEPC’s work, Ross said, places know that you do not believe upon every community the re they are handicapped. Vocational sponsibility of insuring that min rehabilitation will provide them ority group workers are not ex with new skills and employment; cluded from job opportunities be you provide them with the cour- cause of race, color, creed or na agement and ambition to utilize tional origin during a period of these skills by an unwavering ex- mounting unemployment. 'Frisco FEPC to Close Offices