Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1943 — Page 10
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Though a Man Die in the Fight for Freedom, He Can Never Yield His Sword—Hihhitt.
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THE WAR AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.
Report on conditions ivliicli have led to juvenile delinquency in many great cities over the nation during the war period are somewhat of an indictment of critics of offending youth. The delinquency problem in many great urban areas is related to the educational, recreational and work opportunities of youth. All these are disarrayed in war time by compulsion *oi many circumstances. In our own city as elsewhere there is n seeming indifference or unwillingness among citizens to face the real issues involved in the matter. The war period reveals that many youths are left on their own. This condition developes out of the economic status ot the parents or otherwise. Again even as among adults, mental conflicts are set-up in teen-age youths by pressure of the war and general unrest. Following the recent unfortunate affair in Detroit teen-age boys made a striking protest to a local newspaper. There was no place in their part of the city for ♦hem to go for wholesome or profitable amusement in the evening. The same condition exists in our city and thousands of urban areas over the nation. In many urban areas some needs of smaller children are met with playgrounds, nursery schools and the like. These children are put to bed ordinarily at night. Again the adults of the teen-age youths or the nursery group are about seeking their own diversion or amusement many times leaving all children very much to their own devices. In this manner juvenile delinquency has increased out of proportion to facilities t<>r counter-action. This has been particularly true of conditions among the under-privileged people of the ill-houstng areas ot the land. . . . An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, it is said. It follows that the restraint of crime breeding conditions should be stressed as equally much as overbearance of law enforcement. In this instance we need to take into colisideration. manners of homes in which most of the nation’s juvenile delinquents originate. Steps might be taken for war period at least to compensate for the worse conditions growing out ol ill-housing evils. It is most likely any practical action would prove less costly than the long run of potential offenses of youth. While one big phase of the matter is the providing ot outlets for youthful energy. The matter as a whole is another post-war problem, but some steps should he taken to counterlet highly disturbing evil consequences at the present time.
MR. WILLKIE’S LATEST RADIO SPEECH.
The Republican Party’s 1040 presidential candidate Wendell Willkie made an appeal last week to people of the nation against intolerance vested in attitudes of racial intolerance or hostility. Mr. Willkie surveyed the lack of political status end the barriers raised against Negro people on the workers front as the striking phases of the so-called Negro problem. Speaking on the radio from New A ork, Mr. Willkie warned of the effects on the minds of the darker races of the world of this nation’s tribute to the arbitrary doctrines of superior races. A grave situation has developed out of the condition. *r its effects, both at home and in the rest of the world, he admonished. W T e must find positive, practical and direct ways to eliminate it, he warned. Reviewing the status of Negro people of this nation he plated, in the spirit in which our republic was established there are certain things these citizens are entitled to, not as a matter of patronage or tolerance, but as a matter of right. Among others these include equal protection under the law, without discrimination in the administration of federal, state or local law. All other matters touched on by Mr. Willkie might tall within the scope of observations heretofore noted. • • • Mr. Willkie suggests that we seek the basic cause of the damaging specter of race hatred or prejudice and proceed to tliminate it, in a practical, positive nad direct way. Again Mr. W’iljkie reveals the nature of the cause of the Negro s plight in the nation, in examining the political status of tho Negro. He states one political party retains political power, by, in effect, depriving the Negro of his right to vote in one part of the country, while seeking his vote in another part ot the country. The lack of political status has contributed most effectively to the general inadequacy of Negro people in tho land. In this instance the common status of the Negro lowest down in the Southland has inevitably some hearing on the status of Negro people of the nation have, lived always in this area. And the basic cause of the Negro's plight need only to examine the political doctrine of the Southland. Two-thirds of the Negro people of the nation have lived always in this area. And again the political status of the Negro in Georgia, Mississippi or Texas has some bearing on the political status of the Negro in the entire It. S. A. The political creeds of the Southland have produced three generations of backward and unfortunate Negroes and white people. This condition has been fostered out of an alliance of the Burbon South with northern industrialism. Today conditions of such an alliance still obtain. While the bases of all other aspects of the so-called Negro problem have their source in the economic design of the South to preserve a form of serfdom, or a source of cheap labor. The political or eivic and social status of an inferior people have been fastened upon Negro people of the South, in order to sustain or extend serfdom in this area. The perpetuation of this scheme of things under the letter and spirit of the U. S. Constitution has necessitated a clamour in defense of “State Rights”. In applying the doctrine of “State Rights" the Negro in the Southland has been deprived of political status. His chances for education have been maintained at a very low level. His chances for common civic or cultural development or expression are little or nothing. The opportunity to work other than as a laborer is limited or denied him every place to conform to such a scheme of things. He is denounced as an inferior individual of little excellence and repressed in fear that he may prove himself otherwise. The evils of such a scheme of things has permeated the spiritual being of the Southland and overflowed Wito the entire nation. It affords two damaging specters which are widely apparent over the nation on this day. Yet there is an approach to a practical measure of relief. In the Southland today there is the near unchangeable exploiter of Negrophobia,
rtu&OVT m~TW0 YEARS AGO TODAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND \ PRIME MINISTER. CHURCHILL SIGNED THE ) ATLANTIC CHARTER." J
Public^ Senttment_ In The Editor’s Mail
WHO WOULD DEFEND
HIS COUNTRY?
KUifor Tlu* I mli.i n.ipulis Recorder
Dear Sir:
I write this letter of iny own wi!! without malice or iiate I
CONTRIBUTED
VERSE i The Black Cat
By William H. Huflf for ANJ» Why should it be
Bad luck to me
If I should cross ki« track?
A cat’s a cat, Remember that,
Though lie he white or black
I know no luck
But rightful pluck
1 ask this of my country. Am I to serve a country, that is so malicious that. it. would allow its law iuforcing body to prey upon an innocent peope, simply because John Doc. does not wish him to be a part
have been fortunate to have been of a great industry. Am I to defend
in nui n\ t amps, forts and oilier- a eountrv that would posh mv peo- hich cats cannot letard* Wise having been this fortunate, pie aside and allow them to be- Why put a curse
come waste, refuge, to be pushed from vital industries because so called Americans do not feel themselves good enough to Work be-
side them?
Am I to defend a eountry that would see me slaughtered, and not seek to apprehend the criminal if
he were white? Am I to defend — ■ a country that would see those .,, 1(1 Ilis jn^nuity and forethought
greal men give their lives in a q, planning.
living hell, eating their hearts out Those who think that they can
1 have had the chance to see and be a part of many tilings thrown and hinted and otherwise east upon us as a race that is as far as i * an sc ( . laud i am sane and of sound judgment >, is Un-American. We have a war to light. the youth is demanded to give his best and if need be his life for the glory of his country, yet individuals forget that this war cannot he
On him, or worse.
Why make his going hard*
I cross ids path; The aftermath
Is never changed thereby.
Now that his hue Is jinx to you
Is just another He.
won on the Battle Front alone.
hin must also he tongiit on the lor th,. love ot ;i eountry that does see the glory of Ood in many wavs
‘ 1 “C s c‘‘in to he aide to .piell strikes m are inspired to love him
that are stopping the flow of vital materials? Did not we sleep enough at I’earl Harbor? To. win a war there must he wholehearted
homefront by all of those Amerieans and so-ealfi <1 Americans who though they fee! thenisleves of better mold than those who ar,. members of the darker races claim to
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he a part of Freedom and Anieri- co-operation, there cannot he coeanisni. operation wirti strikes, riots, feuds Here a minor hut great group between people who are each a of iteople are taxed to their ut- vital part of th<> great machinery most by those who would degrade of this our country, (five the tlieni. hy those who would tie mar- Armed Forces your supisirt. There row-minded, by those who would is a war to he WON—or have the
PROCLAMATION!!
pul before the cause of liberty: their personal greeds and hates for people \v1h> have trisl to uplift themselves and become an inseparable part of the country in which they live, and of which they are a part. As a member of the armed forces
people forgotten that there was a war? I To. Lorenzo Owens.
YOKE people—GL
the iiiilifferent miliviun.il, in the middle ground and the trmjicrate individual of some liberal inclinations, Tho» liberal Soul hern group have entertained some ideas of alleviating some evils relatedof the status of Negro people. The mission is a delicate matter requiring genuine moral courage and the necessity of personal sacrifice. The movement has lost supporters recently. Some liberals in the South claim northern Negroes or groups and agencies have criticized them too much, because they will not go the “whole
way.”
Political stalu> a< conceived tor all eitizens murr the P. S. ('onst.il ut ion if instituted in the Southland partakes of the neeessary action with likely the lea^t despair to the lilierai individual of the South. While the ’'whole way" in tin* South or elsewhere to the sane and practical Nccto means only a com
moti semblance of equity in tb
all the more because of the fine designs seen in the natural world. This view of trying to see the Divine in the world gives the modern man unore strength than tiie readings of books aud much of the ancient religious philosophy that still rules the minds of many. Modern man is ever seeking God in new and strengthening ways. Some have found God revealing Himself to them in nature, in the current deeds of courageous and honorable men and women everywhere. They have found little to inspire them in ancient deeds but everything to encourage them in the present world which fs) the only one they live in. So God is not dead and the sky is beautiful
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LE T.US REASON TOGETHER IN WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING'
ON THINKING OF GOD. Editor The Recorder:
Some modern skeptics have ex-
claimed that God is dead, that and revealing rather than a bowl
the skies have turned to brass, of brass.
This does not seem to be the truth Yours truly, with thos t , who have come to see Ed. Peterson, God revealed in nature In ways .‘£»42 Carroll, Chicago. 111. that illustrate His lore of beauty
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1. We Were Hopeful Too Soon. 2. Why? ‘‘Colored Attorney.” 3. Training Policemen For
Emergencies.
4. Thanks, Ladies of the Court.
(hid didn't give us heads simply to carry around: lie •rave lower animals tails for that purpose. 'When men get drunk they don't know heads nor tails. »#r ••••• & * » * -7f
Kyes were not given to to see through things.
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us simply to look at things, hut
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Kars are not r'^^gmsihlc for what goes in, but you are your own switchboard operator and can control what goes out. i a * a ■» * -* * * '# A first ‘grade h-sson for any man's mind is to first learn how to mind his own business. Then he will he an example to those who haven't yet learned this lesson. * ->•= o «■ # « ^ * o » -jilt was Benito M ussolini'*s miiul, that let his mouth got away willi him and then his feet had to hurry him to safety. o 0 if ■ .■ - o fe l -• When one’s moiilh runs faster than one's fcp it must he the light head that gives the lyad-start.
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It is marvelous and almost mysterious how all the parts of man are kept under control when God enters 1 he life attu
sets up His Kingdom in the soul.
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f The Honorable ^ The Secretary of the Treasury > C Washington, D. C» Uy dear Mr. Secretary! k
j Both you and the country are to be congratulated on the striking success of the Voluntary Payroll, ^ Savings Plan* Through it twenty-seven million irage , ■ ^— y earners are regularly investing in Government bonds more J 1,^/than $420,000,000 a month to meet the cost of the war* This ie of primary importance as an aid to ■sinning the sar and as a safeguard against inflation* But it is f | also important that so many of our fellow citizens are I - t reviving the forgotten art of saving from earnings. One ► I ; S v way of securing freedom from want in the future is by
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saving semething from the plenty of today.
MR.—-t iiiiirricd ii soldier. He seems to he-idec ,iiid I like him very much. Will he m.ikc out :ni :i I lot moil t to me? 1 h.-ive four children, if he (Jon'* tun ) hem on it. I don'* i n re. I jnsl wjiiiI to know if lie |ove< me enough. Did I fiuike u mi.sluke? A us;— Fur from it ... . you did very well hy yourx ll nttd t he kills. If your -oldier hnshmnl did not love you. nuike no mis-i.-tke nhoitt it ... . he hever would ■ h;i V(* me t ried you. He wi ll (hr the right thing hy you linum-i-nlly if you tu.iko him u loyal 1
wife.
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I DH I :tm iu I he tent it grede :ind I W;I lit to tillDll high veltool hut I li.ivc such n luifd time. I Inive to work .-ifler school ami I don't,like that. Please loll me whet to do? I am so unde ided. A us,- This D war little lady and we all have to do more and herder work then ever before. Think of the soldiers ovNc. in Sicily - working, lighting end dying - - _‘4 hours e (lay. These things worth having are worth lighting for. Now you stop pitying yourself and do your work cheerfully and with a will. Be thankful thankful that you can contribute a little work after school hours.
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I<; —f enjoy reediun y<>ur column so I have a question. It's about a soldier I have been ilceiviug letters from. He claims he's in love with me. Is he any good.’ Will I sooner or later get the right husband if I just keep on lifting up Jesus, do Ilis will and wail on the Lord. I am l!3. J have missed till tlie good oppnr-
t unit ies.
Ans. —There will he plenty more opportunities so don't he alarmed. Your soldier friend is a good egg. Encourage his friendship -nit] heeome better acquainted before getting loo serious. You a re a good girl and you will lie rewarded with a good husband. Have patience and choose your hoy friends willi care.
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A.'I’. I went willi a hoy Hie same age I am for on,, year. lie fwe<| me and I loved him until we
schooled in appraising and handling a delicate situation. Even though the Military Police may had no right to interfere with the civil ac-
tions of the local police.
A couple of weeks ago I men\VE SEEM to have been a little Honed such special training for lo-
— — —-—— too jubilant with the fall of Musso- cal policemen everywhere, along . .’. lini, our forces were not quite ready with appeals to all citizens to am u'^ins piactieitig medicine (0 advantage of Mussolini’s adopt a very courteous and toler* . \ V e i "'V' , ol , 1 , "I’* 11 downfall. Had the American and ant attitude towards each other, 11 . ,! . l< *' 1 l ' 11 ^ He is snniit British forces completed their con- especially in the hour of crises, ami shruwd and when he mar- qu0?t of Sicily hefore Mussolini ■i‘ > ' sot out. Italy would now be out of WE all can be friends, and we all
the war. This illustrates how a need friends—and I can truthfully few days' time may affect the whole testify to that fact, for my good war strategy. This loss of a week's friends and God have kept me ahd
lend him social prestige and maybe tinancial assistance. So don’t let your faneies lead you astray. You once enjoyed tlii- hoys love and friendship. Let it stand at that. Better to go on enjoying life pleasant memories of the past when you were both young and carefree than to become mixed up in'an affair that can .only drag your name through the mild. Have no more to do with this medical student. Only iron
time may add three months to the war, and many more lives. Those two or three days you or I remained off the job may have caused this unfortunate situation
for cur Armed Forces.
my family, thus far, and I can never thank them or repay them— they do not expect it—true friends they be.
Thanks a thousand times, Mrs. Aluma B. Davis, and the other sweet and fine women of the Grand
hie can result hy renewing this pt pers have omdted the use of the [ a st' week ( Mr* and 0 Mr^ Raleigh u-ovdu Ol “Vooro” from "CCK. Air, ami MTS. KaieigU
During the last two or three years, several of the large daPy
friendship.
words “colored” or “Negro’’ from
_ _ their news columns, when such
usage contributed nothing of news
Dii k— I want to know from you v due to the articles. Why? “Negro can you send me something that ioctpad.” or “colored attorney,” I can get every woman I wish? the answer is obvious. Those pa- gaden
““ 1 pets -•» —
W. Lane. Mrs. Estella Hunter, Cordelia Garnett, Rev. Lawson Gibson. Carrie Robinson. Malissa Cannady. Marie Porter. Mollie Roman. Gary. Ind. Nannie Waddy, West
Cordelia S. Moore, Mary
best time with tiul'fc sweet little dropped these two words, have con- Pm Dodson. Elizabeth ' hibuLd immensely to the lessen. F -“«- P «»-' M Carter - D ™ cnla
If so. fix me so I can have the
which haw curtailed or
girl Lillie,
it quick.
Hurry, I really need
Ans. That's a pretty Jiig order Dock and a snappy one. You should know at your age that this conjure business is just a bunch ok poppy-rock. It is a racket my friend, whereby the gypsy and the fortune teller bleeds Hie gullible public of its Itjird-carned money. So Dock, if you want Lillie's love, you'll
havo to win it. ami without the of the ilisturhance
aid of black magic. Sorry old
man.
• • A Reader—Would it lie wise for me to change jobs for more money? Would I he able to hold the one I have in mind? I would like for these questions to lie answered in your column as I enjoy reading it.
ing of racial tension. Committees on racial good-will, would undoubtedly render a good service. L' they could persuade all newspapers to eliminate or reduce the use of these much abused adjectives, also along with this, let radio announcers anl newspapers alike stop playing up or calling every fracas or flare-up a race riot. The Mayor of New York should he given due credit for playing down the race angle
in Harlem this
week.
THE New York trouble count have been prevented, had the policeman, who instigated the trouble, been
Mae White, Anna Daniels, Ada Abrams Jones, Ardelia Yancey, Virgil Fletcher, Carleister E. Finny. Viola Pope. Gertrude Parker, Lucy Carter, Laura M. Long, Cora Lee White of Indianapolis; Agnes Chavis. Lillie Mar Ricks, Ester Mar Robinson. Mesdames Hopkins, Brown. Hudgins, Warfield, Kelly, Wallace. Hobson of Fort Wayne, and others, for your kind remembrance. Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Hunter for the beautiful red roses—
my favorite flower.
JOE HEPCAT: “Transpiring events prove the President right: There is no difference between the war
front and home front.”
Ans.—Go right ahead and change jobs. Certainly you can hold
Furthermore, you call pass your old job along to your daughter . . . . with your help, she can
fill your shoes with ease.
BACKGROUNDS AND BACKWATERS
By Ruth Taylor
Tito trouble with most of us is Hint we don’l stop to see what we are looking at -we completely miss the background of the picture in our first hasty glance. The bold
had some t roii hie and qiiit. Then out lines in front-are all that catch
down this better paying position, came stagnant the same thing hap-
pened all over again. Only the names were changed. The liberals of one generation have always been the radicals of the past and will r>o doubt, be the conservatives of
the future.
Let us try to see what is happening in its whole and true pirspectiv’e. This does not mean Ignoring any new tidal wave of oppression, aggression and prejudice. It does mean realizing that whatever happens is not new; others have suffered, others have WOti through. ?Jan is better off with
and tend to their knitting. - There 'have been changes he-
fore. The tide of history rises and . llt ebbs—as immutably as the tides pa( '. h generation and will continue
of the sea. Little by little man to be -
learns to progress. Little by little But this Historical perspective
I nit.i another hoy atid married «»i' eye. We ignore the Tact that he demands more from life. There must not lead to a fatalistic ajti-
l,ini. I now have a baby six what we see stands BECAUSE of
months old. A hoy. Every! line what lies behind it.
I see him he asked me why I *p] 1P world crisis, this global war. didn't name him affer him and j s o^at picture which we cannot when 1 don't have ihe baby he understand unless we examine the
asks me where's his baby. He packi'gound
Slill loves me and I I-ve him. ‘ K ay 1 hat history repeats ........... hut the bale, is no pail of his. , ( ^ if Aft ^ a]] af?ainst 1he bacl{ the tidal march of man. Again ami He often calls me oil the plmm of time what has happened again they have appeared in his-
are eddies and backwaters in his- tude. There is one thing we can tory. of course, hut they are tern- and must do. We must build levees
Harlan F. Stone, presiding justice of United States Supreme Court, addresses letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., praising record of 27,000,000 American workers in buying war bonds at the rate of $420,000,000 a month as an important contribution toward winning of the war.
aiid tells me In* hives im
wonts to imirry me some # lhat everyone makes
aud
of democratic action and thought heavy and high to hold the curstraight tiVaTo, “JV ing up of backwaters of hate and prejudice and fear. If we do thU —we can avert the destructive
flood for all time to come.
porary and never block for long Hie onrush of the main current
ter in what color they cloak themselves. are but the backwash of
q."” to us is not unique. Nothing ever tory to be overthrown by a revo- ,
SuWSS’EtS SSSrSS
to get manied. olutions would only realize the turn eddied into nothing and a APOLIS RECORDER. 0*
A completes M* college "^‘cation wouirprobably stay at home succeeded It. When prosperity be-
only realize the turn eddied into nothing and a APOLIS RECORDER, fate of those who preceded them, period of steady hard working life duty anc j se nd It.