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"FALUS POPULI, the welfare of the people, is
the supreme law of all laws and even that iron law
which we call NECESSITY itself is subservient to this:
rather than a people should perish, anything shall be
held necessary, and legal by necessity".
—Henry Parker
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THE HOME STATE: Speaking
about Oklahoma boys and girls
and Oklahomans generally, of
which I am rather fond of do-
mg. I saw a story in the Sep-
temoer issue of Reader’s Digest
that hit me right between the
eyes. Here it is: "A favorite
subject for debate in tile army,
navy and marine camps is the
age-old ouestion as to which of
tin- 43 states is the most glo-
rious in every respect. As the
discussion in Barracks 290, Cha-
nute Field, Ill., began to lag,
one lad from Oklahoma drawl-
ed, ‘Well, fellow.-, my home state
ence save for the timid voices
of one or two whose tenure in
office may be determined by
Negro votes. Only the feeblest
effort has been made to exam-
ine the policies and practices of
the United States Army, and
Navy and Air Corps. No ques-
tion has been posed when these
departments have sought appro-
priations. no attempt has been
made to introduce legislatfbn, or
even attach riders to these ap-
propriation bills designed to
protect the Negro in his rights
as nn American citizen. A half
dozen committees have been ap-
pointed to study and analyze the
causes of failure of the produc-
tion of the machines of war.
But no committee has has been
apopinted to analyze the causes
of the terrifying growth of ra-
cial tension and bitterness and
disuair. Northern senators and
tepresentatives have as a whole
capitulated to the reactionary
and bourbon South and they
who sit in the seats where the
mighty once sat are timorous
and fearful less they offend
•hern colleagues from below the
Mason-Dixon line.
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Had I not been in the hospital
this week, probably I would not
have had time to read Mr. Van
Devanter's article tn the New
Y k Post. : elat.vc to Mr. Bid-
dle's i reposals to the Pre-: lent
The autl. a of this article men-
tioned above cum eyed the same
point of view found in my ill-
scribbled column of last week.
I ve never met Mr. Van De-
canter. nor discussed any mat-
ter wit it him through corres-
pondence hence apparently
the eyes of the whole Ameri-
ca” family .are open and vis-
ualize the dire necessity of Na-
tional Unity among races.
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FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY
I BUILDS SCHOOLS. HOSPITALS,
/ HEALTH CENTER^ AND OTHER
OUR SUPREME TEST: If we
can do that and at the same
time maintain the integrity of
our fundamental institutions,
the church, the home ano the
school, and continue their unin-
terrupted operation and devel-
opment. we demonstrate that we
have become a full-grown, ma-
turn nation worthy of the price-
less heritage and privilege of
self-government, and as our boy
and your boy and all of th”
other American boys and girls
start to school this fall, or go
tack to school, as the case mav
be. let us be tremendously grate
ful that our forefathers have
eveloped here a system of free
public schools for tall alike that
our children may attend, and
let us resolve that e shall at
any cost continue to maintain
and develop our system of free
public schools for every Okla-
homa boy and girl now and for
the future.
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ONE STEEL MILL on the East
Coast burned 105,227,000 gal-1
Ions of fuel oil during the first
three months of this year.
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BILL STARTS TO SCHOOL:
Great events and some consid-
erable commotion are taking
plt.ee nd going on in th” Kerr
household by reason of We fact
that nor youngest (whom my
wife sometimes affectionately
refers to as "our little least
one"> 's getting ready to tsart
to school, he will be six in
the early part of October.
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is a swill, sine lest of common sense til n lime win ii
American forces are doggedly seeking'a decision on inc
battlefield til llie cost of life itself. If yon are one of
those Americans who has noi yet bought a bond. Uiere
is something wrong with yon in your refusal Io pul an
extra rifle or tin < xlra dip of bullets into (he hands of
the men on llie bailie field. If you arc a parent, those
bonds will cdticale that child for whom you are respon-
sible. help you maintain your sclf-resped dining llie
rainy days ahead, and help keep down prices during
the period of inflation.
Those who have given some
thought to the question have
long been disturbed by the fail-
ure of liberals to accept the im-
plications of thtelr own alleged1
philosophy A striking if not
“hocking example of this is
the attitude of the Board of
Trustees of Hampton Institute
relative to a Negro president.
It would seem that the ultimate
purpose in the education of
colored people is to prepare not
only men and women who can
earn a living and become worth-
while citizens but men and wo-
men capable of leadership. And
above all their people the trus-
tees of an institution of learn-
ing for colored youth should
not be afraid of putting a quali-
fied Negro to the test of leader-
ship. But the trustees of Hamp-
ton are motivated by the same
type of fear and apprehension
that has paralyzed the liberal
movement in America. They
must seek to mollify the feel-
ings of the white citizens of the
town of Hampton and the re-
actionary citizens of Virginia.
Therefore they may not select
a person who does not acquiece
intellectually and morally Tn the
relegation of the Negro to in-
ferior status and in the princi-
ples of racial segregation and
discrimination. For these rea-
sons and one or two others
years,
we sought too much for st®rt
cuts to what we wanted,
let our wishes govern our
tions. We hunted madly
Aladdin's lamp which we simp-
ly rub to make our wildest
dreams come true. We indulged
in snap courses. “Learn with-
out effort.” “Reduce without
exercise or dieting”. "Easy jobs
at good pay” were our slogans.
We didn’t want to give up to
succeed — but success comes
only through self-sacrificing, not
by sacrificing others.
Now we have again learned
the habit of work. All of us
have something to do these
days, and we are finding out
that the more we do the more
we can do. We are developing
new skills — from the white
collar men who have gone into
the factories to the homekeeper
who has gone back into the kit-
chen. We are all learning how
to work — and above all to
work together.
When the war is over, will
we be satisfied to go back to
our pre-war attitudes? Or will
we put (he new knowledge into
making this world we have
worked to save, the world in
which wo want to live, the ’
world we want to pass down to
the future generations. If we
work so hard ior peace as we
have for war we can win the
victory of peace and set up for
al it he time the kind of a world
we have dreams, a world of op-
portunity for work, for services
for all mankind.
"POWER DIVE"; Bill learn-
ed to swim this summer and
" hen I iourn, ved back North
the last week of August to bring
him and tr.e rest of the family
Lome I was informed that he
had learned 'to "power dive”
and that by all means I should
see him perform, in his own
■nimitahle m-nner. litis amazing
feat. Now frankly I was quite
active as a swimmer and diver
myself in years gone by (many
years ago) but I never learned
to "power dive”, nor could I
remember that any of my com-
panions had achieved this dis-
tinction. I was therefore nat-
urtlly Quite interested in the
proposed performance by Bill.
I took my place out on the bank
near the water and stood with
great expectancy as he got rea-
dy. ran out to the end of the
dock and jumped on, rather
than into, the water, hitting it
in just about as perfect a "bel-
ly blister” as I ever saw, and
then it was that I learned that
what Bill was so proud to refer
to as a "power dive" was noth-
ing else than what, as a boy.
I had Known as a "belly buster”.
Labor Or-
in Muskogee,
snug fervently, "Solidarity For-
ever”, referring to the tenacious
unity of a certain organization:
hew much more do we Ameri-
can brothers need to carol this
retrain — and absent of hypo-
criiy'
I agree that riots
gainful
One of the most pathetic and
at the same time revealing as-
pects of race relations during
C’esc war years had been the
precipitous retreat of the so-
called American liberals from
the firing line. Not since the
nre-slavery era has the question
of ‘he status of the Negro had
such monumental importance to
the future of America and the
world as the present time, but
the liberal movement in Ameri-
ca has met the issue by studied
evasion, weasel words. If there
were any words at all. and in-
nocuous gestures that were as
ful de as they were meaningless.
Nowhere is it more apparent
than in the Senate and in the
House of Representatives of the
United States where the almost
complete absence of any cour-
ageous action against the wretch-
ed treatment of Negro citizens
in the armed forces of the na-
tion and widespread racial dis-
crimination and segregation has
hardly evoked the notice of the
elect c J representatives of the
people. Where the sonorous elo
quence of Wendell Phillips a-
roused an indifferent nation,
and the powerful denunciation
of Joseph B. Foraker stung an-
other Roosevelt there is now sil-
are not
nay ,on the over
ha-id they are purely destruc-
tive to all concerned . . but it
sectionalism a cure for this evil?
The answer is obvious. It is
analogous to a two-floored Mai-
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Overhead, market prices, and llie quality of service
should be the bases for delcrmining llie prices charged
by any business cnlerpri.se. When an order of maca-
roni sprinkled with a bit of slew meal and served on
a table covered will) oil clolh in a place with overhead
expenses are negligible cost as much as a full meal in
tan emporiaum kepi inviting j,y dean table linen and
served by uniformed waitresses, there is something
wrong with lhe method of compulation. Either the
first place is profiteering or lhe second is operating at
a loss, and we have our opinion that lhe first guess is
the best.
In the years since the war be-
gan. we have re-learned one
important lesson — the secret
that made this country great
in th” past and that gave the
world a new goal of nrosperity
ana freedom at which to aim.
This lesson is there is no sub-
stitute for hard word.
A wise man once said that
ninety percent of what men call
genius is only a talent for hard
work. And he was pretty near
right. The grant discoveries,
the great inventions, the great
deeds we acclaim" were done
by men with an infinite capaci-
ty for taking pains, by men
who were not easily discourag-
ed, and who went right on
working even when they didn't
want to keep at it. who just
wouldn't give up as long as
there was something to be done.
There isn’t any other way to
succeed. Success must have a
firm foundation if it is to be
permanent and that firm foun-
dation takes energy and labor
and courage to build.
During our pro / rous
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“Dad, remember! Shoes are rationed”.
a day.
Beginning 'I’bnjsday Home Eronl Volunteers will
wail upon Io urge, even plead will) yon to invest in
your government and in the defense job dial pay-, you
well. Take llial -*‘2(1(1 surplus out of the bank and in-
vest it and then hold those bonds until yon have to
cash them.
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on war
f’lid its way im ' bant'
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may noi have all the gold, sil-
ver and radium tto be found,
hut there is one thing to be
found in Oklahon-,1 and Okla-
homa alone!’ The men sat uo
with renewed interest. With
the same slow, lazy voice the
Oklahoman continued ‘My
moe.’ At once i’Se barracks
was i t complete silence: there
/ was no further ground for ar-
gument.”
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soe him start to school. As I
contemplate “ths American way
of life” T am aware that reli-
gious freedom is our greatest
blessing. Next in line I believe
is the privilege cf every Ameri-
can boy and girl of receiving an
education in our common
schools. A free people mu-/ be
an educated people and an edu-
cated people will become and
paeity to govern ourselves re-
remain a free people. Our ca-
< f war when every physical re-
ceives its greatest test in time
source and power of our people
is devoted to the all-out effort
necessary to achieve victory
against our enemies on the field
ot battle.
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I'very family in Am Tiru has a number, close rel-
ative. or friend in the armed lorces. I heir own flesh
and blood is in lhe thick ol the invasion fighting. Evers
War Bond backs tip these lighting nie.n. helps to pro-
vide a protecting timbrel! i on lhe hatllc field, and phiys
its part in reducing casualties.
It is the solemn dull' of e-ery American on the
home front to back these men on the w.ir front to the
Lilt, not by investing a few dollars that he doesn't need
but by stripping the cushions of hixiny from his own
life and putting everv dollar of his resources into the
common fund for the protection of those who stand
ready to spill lheir life's blood in the* cause which is
our common faith.
Never before in the history of this nation has the
average individual possessed a greater ability to buy.
Bank deposits have risen al the rale of I1- billion dol-
lars a quarter. One out of three families has two or
more persons working and one oul of ten has Ihrec
more working. Fourteen and fifteen year old boys are
making twenty-five mid thirty dollars a wi ck. C.liurehes
and lodges and other organizations have bin’ll up kirge
reserves which should be invested in bonds.
There will he many excuses offered h r not buy-
ing bonds, bid tin's is no lime for excuses. Il is abso-
lutely essential that the •■>15 billion of Bonds be sold.
The tempo of war is rising, and it will increase as lhe
invasion spreuds. More planes tanks, guns, ships,
food and equipment will he m eded. And these 45
billion must he raised within three weeks.
The war is now costing 2(i() million dollars
or more Ilian 1(> million dollars an hour. Every dollar
that is spent on war equipment produces a doll >r of
income wh i, m ■ fm,| >|s w y in.-. :mt: <:!’ hi !:'i :-
uals or i
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goods m ,..u<
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one el .t.
Buying \
Either the proprietors of some of lhe business places
in the Greenwood area have never hard of the price
ceilings scl hy the <)PA or ( Ise they are taking lhe rules
and regulations of the Administration as u joke.
Service men who sojourn in l iilsa are complain-
ing that prices in some ol the cafes, taverns etc. here
are not only higher than those charged in other Okla-
homa towns but that they are inconsistent with the
quality of food served and the service rendered. If
reports are true, there seems Io be a lack of conception
of what constitutes a fair profit.
Being with th’ Board uv’ Af-
fairs, I get a chance someSmes
t’ visit sum uv’ th’ State Insti-
tutions. And I want t’ tell you
about one I visited awhile back.
It wuz th’ State Industrial
School fer Girls at Tecumseh,
run by Mrs. Creighton B. Burn-
ham. At this time thers about
175 Girls in th" school.
You would have though I wuz
Gov. Bob th’ way they treated
me.
I have seen and heard uv’
Southern Hospitality all my life
but never run into so much in
one aftetrnoon. And Clean—
I never saw such cleanliness.
I wuz invited t’ stay fer sup-
per and it didn't take me long
t’ make up my mind to stay.
Before supper Mrs. Burnham
showed me around thru ther
different cottages, where th’
Girls stay. Most uv' th' walls
hav beautiful paintins ’ which
wuz done by the Girls, then
th’ sleepin’ quarters wuz clean
as a pin. Why I rubbed my
hand on every bestid and piece
of furniture ther and* didn’t
get enuf dust on my hands t’
even have an excuse to wash
before supper. They even turn
th’ mattresses ever day, also
scrub th' bedstids and nails
once a week. I wuz told th’
Girls take “a bath every day. I
told Mrs. Burnham as scarce
ns sope wuz gettin’, th^v might
have t’ make it about ever other
day, specially dui^g th’ win-
ter months, whiclXs a lot more
often than most folks take a
bath, or at least it’s that way in
Sasakwa. This would seem like
a ’Believe it or Not’ story t’ the
Arabs, frum what some uv’ th’
boys write home.
Now thers been a lot uv’ pu-
blicity lately about th' Bedbugs,
Roaches and Rats at th’ Re-
formatory at Granite,' wher Ed
O'Brien, former warden, resign-
ed, glvin* this as one uv’ his
reasons fer quittin’.
Now I'd be against sendin’
th’ Girls at Tecumseh out thtr’
t’ clean up somebody else’s filth,
but I’d venture t' say they could
make it so miserable on th’
Pests that in a week' stime they
would be ready fer th’ Bedbug,
Roach and Rat Insane Asylum,
if ther be such a thing. So vi-
sit th' Girls sometime, folks.
All fer keepin’ clean,
Frank Streetman
equally fallacious, an outstand-
ing. intelligent, able Negro edu-
cator such as Rafael O’Hara
Lanier is unacceptable to the
trustees of Hampton. As be-
tween a firsH rate colored man
and a second rate wfhfte man
they prefer second rate white
men. Not that the trustees of
Hampton are not good, sympa-
thetic. Christian Americans.
They .ire. And thats the pity
of it. For their perspective is
the perspective of an age that is •
past. The specter from which
they flee is the specter which
General Armstrong, the founder
of Hampton, banished or there
never would have been a Hamp-
ton.
There are of course a few in-
dividual exceptions among the
liberals but on the whole they
have forfeited their birthright
and betrayed their trust. As
the Negro faces the post war
vears he must understand the
limitations of the American lib-
eral movement. He must evolve
a technique utterly independent
of the widhy-washy. spineless,
and apologetic well-wishers. He #
must seek strength and sup^*^^,
whore common interest not fflF
curie and transient affecj^^
envisions a common goal,
•the work thw makes democracy worki*
surrender their individual free-
dom to autocratic power?
Tis seems to be the time for
us to reread the Declaration of
Independence, the Const'/ tion
end Lincoln’s Gettysburg ad-
dress; to re-examine the fun-
damentals of the American Sys-
tem of Free Enterprise, with its
impelling forces of initiative and
competition. This American
system has accomplished more
for mankind in a century and
a half than did all other sys-
tems combined over thousands
of years.
Most certainly this
system must be
watched and inspected. We must
eve.- be on the alert to detect
f'T.vs as they appear and ever
he repairing those defects. But
just as when an automobile de-
velops a dirty spark plug, we
clean or replace the plug, ra-
ther than throw the automobile
av. ay; we must make corrections
in cur American system —clean
or replace the dirty spark plugs
rather than relegate the system
to the scrap-heap.
The one outstanding lesson to
he learned from the American
.‘.'.‘tern by him who takes the
pains io study it, is that it holds
forth promise of reward to the
individual tor any contribution
h< makes to society. It has
proven indisputably that the
promise and ultimate payment
of such reward for individual
initiative is the keynote of all
progress.
All of the "Cradle to the
Grave schemes that it has been
' ’ 1 pl11® to examine,
wculd remove that stimulation,
•a' incentive to struggle for re-
■ d. which has been respon-
sible for the success of the
> ericau system. The adoption
oi ar. on- of these idealistic
b m.nraet c,-1 propcsnls would
i elevate the so-called “sub-
mcceu third” of our population,
but would result eventually'in
dragging the other "two thirds”
; long with the "submerged
third'. down to a level far be-
low that now occupied by the
latter. There never was a time
in all hitsory when you could
get SOMETHING for N J if-
ING — THERE IS NOT NOW
NOR NEVER WILL BE
The search for security would
seem to be the Number One
Phobia of the day. I- is a world
wide disease but particularly
epidemic in America. This "will
o’ the wisp" quest is very much
like a puppy chasing its tail,
and is a vain attempt to circum-
vent stern reality —it is tanta
mount to burying one's head in
the sand in emulation of the os-
trich, an:l it flagrantly and in
excusably disregards all the
teachers of history.
The "Ham-and-Eggs" or the
“30 Every Thursday schemes,
the socialistic recommendation
of the National Resources Plan-
ning Board to the Congress, the
sillv belief held ty man of our
citizens that a nation can spend
its way to solvency, end a
thousand and one i ther Uto-
pian schemes, too numerous to
mention, are symptc ns of that
old oft-disproved but now re-
incarnated theory that: YOU
CAN GET SOMETHING FOR
NOTHING..
The modern version of this
Srmething For Nothing" busi-
ness originate’ in Italy and
Germany and France. It .gave
1 irth to Fascism and Nazism in
Italy and Germany and the
"Two Hours tor Lunch” idea in
France. One day three years
ago, the French discovered that
the Germans had paid them a
visit while they were “out to
lunch”. The Lallans ar Ger-
’ s su'’■fi.de.ed th. ir free-
• cm ! >>• apromisi d and imogi-
”ct.i':’.y, acid 'r b-
tho.-e master ralc.mcn, Musso-
lini and Hitlei . ■ I tai ar.
rcop’? 1 ave al.cady lem n d tnat
ti’.cv ”s their birthright for
r ( . of pot.: go," and if the
-en’t learning
ssson. tl ey are
i von mor ■ ...iiibie than we Lad
.'ii I., iscredit for.
But, hav< the ten of M / o-
lini — the resultant humiliation
and disaster that have befallen
Italy: and the inevitable fall of
Hitler with th? same deplorable
fate for Germany — have these
Laings convinced us here in A-
merica that a like fate awits
any peonle foolish enough to
son, owned and inhabited by
one family and the older child-
ren forbid the younger to go
to the second floor.
Although Mr. Biddle is Atty.
General, he forgets that I am
his American brother, and as
such should be privi’eted to go
into any section of OUR Ameri-
can Country. His suggestions
are the very essence which gives
impetus to the rise of such
things as racial disturbances . .
they naturally divulge from sup
pressive measures, deliberate or
< therwise.
No. my fairer brother. I would
not suggest sectionalism as a
remedy of racial upheavals, but
instead I recommend that we
begin to look at our LIKE-
NESS as Americans, and not our
DIFFERENCES as races; instead
of confining us to certain sec-
tions of the country and refer-
ring to us as we were very
naughty "Boys”, let us join
hands in a Democratic wav. thus
tonifying our Armed Forces . .
and helping to rid the world of
this Great Detestable Viper, the
Axis, who attempts to pour his
venom over the land to poison
OUR Freedom and the Ameri-
can Principles that MUST NOT
PERISH FROM THE EARTH!
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Hughes, Horace S. The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 11, 1943, newspaper, September 11, 1943; Tulsa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1804101/m1/8/: accessed June 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.