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PAGE POUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY. JUNE 18, 1943 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year One Dollar '-T—3'- J ■ .. - - Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Randolph Circulates Axis Propaganda NEGRO “LEADER” STIRS RACE HATE agents '.vith the slogan: “ ‘The Japanese are brothers'of the Negroes and the Negro race will be better off under Japanese rule than under white rule.’ “This kind of propaganda has at tracted little support among Negroes —yefc. “But already many sincere and in telligent American Negroes are thinkimg in the terms expressed in a dialogue recently reported 1 between a Negro teadher and student: “Student: I hope Hitler wins this war. “Teacher: How can you make such a statement? “Student: Because I am convinced that it ils the only thing that will teach these white people some sense —their knowing what it means to By Lester M. Hunt in The Interna tional Teamster When the Japs moved on Burma they got a lot of help from the inside. They got it from Burmese who be lieved they had been discriminated against by the English. The Burmese fell—like the suckers they were--for the Jap propaganda against the white race which con veniently ignored 'the fact that Ja- pani’s greatest allies in brutality are the white-skinned Germans. But the Burmese didn’t stop to think about that. When they listen ed to the Jap propagandists they weren’t even as smart as Little Red Riding Hood who exclaimed to the disguised wolf—“What big teeth you have, Grandma.” The Burmese didn’t even notice the big teeth of the Jap wolves. All they noticed was the soft seductive hiss that came through those teeth. They convinced themselves that they were being mistreated by the white race which denied them ‘equal ity.” They let the Japs convince them that they would be treated bet ter by their Asiatic brothers when all the white throats had been cut. They Got Jap “Equality” So thousattids of them threw in with the Japs and threw off their yoke of fancied persecution and “dis crimination.” The Japs conquered Burma and the brown-skinned Burmese, wel comed them as brothers and rejoiced in their reunion. What has happened since? The Burmese want the British back. They want anybody who will throw out the Japs. They have had a sample of Jap equality. They have seen their relatives hung from trees for infractions of Jap military rules. They have seen the fiendish tortures of the Japs carried on in public 'strike terror to the hearts of the Burmese. Some Burmese who resented the fact that the British didn't sit down to eat with them have found that the Japs donH either. In fact, the Japs won’t even let them eat. They have commandeered the food and when a hungry native is caught stealing any, his hands are cut off and he is (proudly exhibited in his agony as a warning to his friends and relatives. All of this is by way of comment on a recent pamphlet which came through the mails addressed to la bor publications. Sows Seed of Insurrection The pamphlet is published by the “March on Washington Movement,” a Negro propaganda organization. The national director of that organi zation is A. Philip Randolph, who, as head of the Sleeping Car Porters, poses as a union leader, but whose remarks about other unions are more unreasonable and vitriolic than any which ever came from the National Association of Manufacturers. The pamphlet issued by Randolph carres the shocking threat that American Negroes may be hired by the same propaganda the Japs used on the Burmese. It sows the seed of insurrection by inflaming tire black race against the white. It diverts their attention from the foreign foes of America to magnified grievances at home and arouses distrust of the army now fighting on a dozen fronts so that all men' can be free from the threat of slavery. It deliberately plants the fear in Negro soldiers that 'they will return to race riots after the war. And will the Negro soldiers see it? Leave that to Randolph. He plans to circulate one million copies of his hymn if hate which concludes with the following plea to passion: “After this war we will he lucky if the army’s racial policies inflict nothing worse on us than race rkvts. A new and sinister kind of political doctrine has arsen since the last war which feeds on racial antagonisms. . . “Unless the present policies of the armed forces are greatly liberalize!, the veterans of our imerow army and navy will make the best possible post-war breeding ground of a new native fasesm. Not Traitors—“Yet” “Nor is the danger confined by any means to the white veterans. The ‘Pacific Movement of the Eastern World' was launched by Japanese be oppressed. "Teacher: But don’t you realize that conditions would be even worse under Hitler? “Student: They can’t possibly be any worse than they are for Negroes in the South right now. The army jimerows us. The navy lets us serve only as cessmen. The Red Cross se gregates our blood. Employers and labor unions shut us out. Lynchings continue. We are disfranchised, jim- crowed, spat 1 upon. What more could Hitler do than that? “When this dialogue was reported to a Negro audience recently it was greeted with cheers. On the basis of jimerows in uniform to date, it is not hard to understand those cheers." Such statements are obviously in tended to fan the fire of racial an tagonism. If the pamphlet succeeds it will be another great propaganda victory for Goebbeis. Goebbels will gleefully view it as proof of his theory 'that the German race is su perior to all others and that Negroes are as stupid as the Germans have proclaimed them to be. Certainly the pamphlet just issued cannot be considered by anyone, no matter how friendly to the Negro race, as any evidence of ordinary common sense. It is diffilult to understand the mental processes of a man who de cries against racial discrimination and then does his utmost to Stir it up. It looks like he wanted to create racial prejudice in order to prove he was right when he charged it existed. Maybe it .does exist to various de grees in various sections of the country. • But the kind of propaganda the self-appointed Negro saviors are now circulating can do nothing but in tensify it where it exists and arouse it where t does ot exist. Consider this, for instance. The pamphlet supports the action of a Negro draftee who refused to serve in any black military unit, probably considering himself superor to his race. Whatever his motives,' this man de fied the government of the United States in war and refused the call to service. That’s good stuff, according to Randolph. He says the defiant Negro is as serting his rights in refusing to sub mit to 'prejudicial treatment. But is any white man permilt d to say where he will serve and where he will not serve? Is he permitted to defy the government if he does not receive special consideration ? He is not- Yet Randolph claims this privilege for Negroes. He demands special privileges which are denied to white men. That isn’t racial equality or any other kind of equality. That’s what Randolph asks the labor press of America to support. Labor iis not' sympathetic to such ap peals. Almost two million members of labor are in the armed services. They went where they were assign ed' and did what they were told to do. They did not ask or receive any pre ferential consideration. They did not refuse to serve with their own people. The pamphlet cynically quotes an other Negro who refused to fight bet cause, he said, “this is> a white man’s war and it’s no damn good.” It is our opinion that the purpose cf quoting this Negro is to give oth ers the same idea and it suggests they can defy the government without pen alty because “you can’t send 13 mil lion people to jail.” When Randolph says this is a “white man’s war” be must be color blind. Our allies are the yellow-skin ned Chinese, tne brown-skinned Fili pinos and the black-skinned people of every locality that has come in con tact with .he Japs. Our military success in the South Pacific islands has been greatly aid ed by the cooperation of the black residents of those islands. Every black tribe that has met the Japs and the Americans is the loyal ally of the Americans. Let Randolph bear that in mind when he tries to arouse the Negroes of America against their government in its struggle for survival against the yellow barbarians of Asia and the white bairbarians of Europe. And let Randolph remember the warning given him by President To bin at the American Federation of Labor convention in Toronto last fall. At that time President Tobin spoke bluntly to answer a speech by Ran dolph which jvas so full of falsehoods threats and racial incitement that it could not be permitted to pass un challenged. President Tobin told him his act ions were undermining the future progress of the Negro race. He sai l his remarks were an abuse of the rights of free speech. “Sooner or later this kind of stuff will have to be stopped,” Tobin warn ed. It would stop very quickly if the Negro people could see what is going on in Burma under the Japs. And bow the Japs treated every black tribe they conquered. And they should not forget that it was Hitler who said the Negroes were half apes. It is Hitler’s policy :o ex terminate inferior people and accord ing to his theory, Negroes are not ev en people. If Hitler wins they will be treated like beasts he says they are. Why doesn’t Randolph tell them that? Maybe, like Goebbels, he thinks they are not so smart. Our own opinion is that they are a lot smarter than Radolph. That’s why so many of them belong to the Teamsters’ Union and listen to President Tobin and not to men like Randolph ACHING-STIFF SORE MUSCLES For PROMPT relief—rub on Mus- terole! Massage with this wonderful “counteb-ibritant” actually brings fresh warm blood to aching muscles to help break up painful local eon gestion. Better than an old-fashioned mustard plaster! In 3 strengths. MUSTEROLf I .1 Here’s the clincher for me This is my kid. He’s a pretty good kid. I always used to figure he’d get along all right in the world, the same way I did. But a war starts you thinking. Nobody knows for sure just what kind of a world my kid will have to grow up in. But whatever kind of a world it is, a little money behind him will help. That’s why I’m salting money away for him now. I’m not taking any chances with his future. I’m guaranteeing it in the best way I know how. Every pay day, nearly a quarter of what I make goes into War Bonds. Not just when I can spare it. But every single pay day—week in, week out. It’s taken right out of my pay, on the Payroll Savings Plan. That way, I hardly miss it. But it mounts up fast. And every one of those War Bonds will pay back four dollars for three. Pay it back when my kid may need it most. Sure, I’d be buying bonds anyway. I know the Government needs money to win the war. And, it’s the least sacrifice a guy can make for the country that’s been good to him. But the clincher with me is my kid ★ ★ ★ Chances are, you’re already in the Payroll Savings Plan—buying War Bonds—doing your bit. But don’t stop there. Raise your sights! 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