TXPED BY EMILY BORGUS^ ROBENA DANIELS
AND-GERALDINE lORGAN.
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Boy Saouts of America '
Troop # 101 Holds Court-of Hp-ncJ
On March 23rd-, ..the Henders'oh Bo'V
Scouts Troop-.lOl held its ^
periodic Court of"Honor,. The
Court was presided over bj?" the [I/'
B,_V/estbrook, chairman ^ t
the''
the Troop Committee, Seven Scouts
Swo^JIceived the^StrSt^O? badpd, ^HIS PAGE V.AS TYPED BY EJHLY JANE BORGUS
ana twenty-th^ellto?? Badsts wefi®
ShleM^anf toeir^eoeived d“f
flvP • The Troop now has Gwendatta Pra^tt
live Otar Scouts cjore .than any other
Northern^arL°^f^ TYPED BY ElfTLY BORGUS,
Council? Oconeechee . jqhNNIE TAYLOR BEATRICE DAVIS.
The new charter was predented at thig^^GE 5^S'"T?PED'’B?GERALDIl'/rmGAN
meet ing. Also, the new Assistant % ? BY_GERALDINE x-mGAN.
Scoutmastter Lloyd L. Peace was invested Selected drawing by Delia Scott
??'^g?l?ed''up t?"?ar??®out Ihl BY .(^.LNDETTa PRATT
slop-an nf ftmono-hon Selected drawing by G. Pratt
and "carry On tI Victorv® ^ ^ WAS TYPED BY B/ DhVIS aI® LONIWE
“ PEAQE—
Selected drawing by Delia Scott
”We are Fighting, For L'hat?”
Uhat are we •.fighting for? It is
very easy to say what we are not
fighting for. ' One thing I do know
and that Is that we are not fight- ,
3-ng for the v/hite man's supremacy.
If thej^ think are inferior to
them, the3^ thr3»" have, another
thought coming, Thejr can tell you
v\/hat thej’- are fighting for. The3'"
have said over and over since
V/orld V/ar began that thej*' are
waging a v;ar not only in self
dsfense, butifor freedom from fear
freedom from wants, freedom to
worship and freedom of soeech. In
short, the noble proposition that.
'all men are created equal and'free.
But do the^; think we are created
equal? H- KoL If so^v/hy was, a
troop of Negro soldiers from Fort
Lewis used to clean snow from the
streets of Seattle V/ashing^i*,while
none of the white soldiers at near-
bj'’ Fort Lawton was detailed for
this work? VJhy can^t negro avia
tion cadets be trained at all air
bases and in all branches of the
Army Air Force without discrimi
nation? Why must Negroes be segre
gated into 300 units of the eight
mj.lc Road Housing Project in
Detroit and run entirelj^ from the
V/'illow Lodge Project at Ypsilantic?
if we are created equal, whj'' must
W3 be dragged out of jails in the
and shot, hung or tied on backs of
cars and dragged up and .down the''
streets? Whj'’ must we ride in the
backs of buses and trains when we
pay the'Same fare as our white
brothers?
So, this is supposed to be the land
of the free and the home of the
brave? The only free ^nd brave
thing I see about it is that thej?’
are free to do wh^t' the'''’ want and
have enough bravery to do any un-
justlce that come to their minds.
justice that come ..to their minds.
Are we supposed to be men or
beasts? They tell me that a man
is distinguished from a beast in
that man's brain is highly
developed. And if they.don’t,
think our brains are developed,
let them do a little research *
work and they v;ill see such men as
Brigadier General "Benjamin '1* Davi
highest ranking Negro officer,
Mrs. Bethune, president of
Bethune Cookman College., Justice
Paige, a member of the court-of
special sessions in New York,
congressman., Arthur Mitchell of
Illinois;
k.
Lester Geager, s-ccr^tar3'- of the
■Nat‘ional■'Urban League, Willard
■Townsend, head of .the United
^ Tra-nsport Eraplo3^ees,. Hugh Nulzac,
captain of the new 10,000 .ton Lib
erty vessel, and Hooker T. V/ash-
ington, educator and orator. l
could name many more. OhJ no, it
is not because we are not educated,
it is that the3'- think we are infeiv
ior to them. The whites condemn
Hitler for persecuting the Jews,
but iff they would onl3’’ look at
'■it&emsb'l-Ve''S,"- "First, -smite the note
from thine own eye before smiting
it from th3ifc.brother's eyes,
Joe Louis doesn't talk much, but
he- talks' truly. He talks for
13,000,000 Negro Ainerican citizens.
Joe_sa3^s and I agree with him when
he sa3rs, "V/e are goir^ to do our
part and we'll win ’cause we’re on
God’s side."
Di|vid Oj,Harrison Harmon
Henderson Institute
■He nd e r son,,, HQ? t h^I Gar ol i na