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Country Warned to Guard Against Race Disturbances Insecurity in Reconversion Period May Be Cause for Smouldering Resentment; Minor Incident May Start Trouble. By BAUKHAGE /Veu's Analyst and Commentator, WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. There is a small group in Wash ington very much concerned over a matter which is a part of recon version and about which they can do very little. That is the question of race riots likely to accompany de mobilization. I was surprised to learn how pre dictable these clashes are, from the following statement by Alfred Mc Clung Lee in a pamphlet produced by a non-profit agency, the Ameri can Council of American Race Re lations. It was this: "The federal office of facts and figures (later called the office of War Information) had a confidential re port 15 months before the 1943 De troit race riot that included this sentence: 'Unless some socially con structive steps are taken shortly. Mic icustuii mai ts ucvciu|Jiii(( ia vcijr likely to burst into active conflict.' " The day after the rioting began, the Detroit Free Press stated: "Two months ago everybody in De troit familiar with the situation knew that race riots were inevitable." It is worth noting that the profes sional observers were much farther ahead than the newspaper ? and newspaper reporters are pretty highly trained investigators them selves. And they did know what was coming well in advance. But the fact remained that nobody did anything about it. And that is where you and I step into the picture. Now nobody but a very small class of professional incitors of riot want race riots anymore than any one but a very small class of profes sional criminals are in favor of crime. But most people do not realize that these clashes can be avoided and very few indeed realize that they are symptoms and not the disease itself. The basic cause of the group ten sions which burst into savage flame, destroy property, interfere with business and nearly always cost lives, is insecurity, just as insecurity Is one of the basic causes of wars. A maa with a job and Arm pros pects of keeping it who lives in healthy and decent surroundings does not want a riot with anybody. It is the man who Is unhappy and because he is not able to do any thing about it, who looks around for a scapegoat upon whom he can blame all his troubles. He na turally turns against a group whose member* have a different annear. ance and different customs from his own. The long-range cure (or this disease is better living conditions, housing and employment. But it is not of the long-range treatment I want to speak, but of the imme diate, simple things that you and I can do to stop these tensions before they break. Seven Sfeps for Breaking Tttuion First, there are seven things you must know about. One of the first signs of trouble is the rumor crop. You begin to hear a lot of stories most of which later will prove to have been untrue. They may be started by subversive groups; some 1 will have a grain of truth In them. < They will include tales of planned, > imminent violence; of some group 1 arming itself for attack or outbreak. 1 Then come stories of violent as- 1 sault, crime and murder. This creates the beginning of tension; the I group accused becomes frightened 1 and shows it. This lends color to 1 the tales. 1 Then come the "incidents." Incidents usually begin to occur in 1 crowded places. They might be | passed off and forgotten if a back- i ground of hate, fear and suspicion i had not been built up. As one ob server said to me: "Riots always I start when folks get out and bump l into each other." I The third point to look (or when it 1 la clear that rumors have been i thick and incidents have begun to < happen is some subversive group ; which may be promoting the trouble for its own ends. Some of these groups will have very high and mighty ideals and very frequently < they will be wrapped up in the Bag. | (Ku Klux, Black Legion, etc.) The fourth point to watch is crime reports because it Is really the hooligan element which Anally steps in to do the actual rioting. The fifth is the police attitude. If there is evidence of increased . friendliness with the hooligan ele ment and of a distrust of the police by the minority group it usually means that the tension has reached a high point ? the forces of order and the forces of disorder are mak ing common cause against the al leged threat of the minority. The two other danger points are congestion, of which I spoke before (bumping into each other) which may grow out of crowded housing, and labor conditions where the minority protests or appears to threaten to protest discrimination in hiring and firing. With these points as a guide any citizen can learn to recognize the symptoms of danger. There are plenty of people in any community who know what Is happening ? the people whose work takes them into the danger zones, like social workers and police reporters. A school teach er can learn a lot from what the children say and do. But long before the situation reaches even the rumor stage there must be emergency planning in the community. A program must be set up in which certain groups have cer tain definite things to do the moment the "observers" see the danger sig nals. Hera they are: Be sure the mayor knows exact ly what steps to take to get the help of the state militia. Have the clergy men lined up to use their influence and if necessary appear in person ?mobs respect the church. Work out school programs, radio pro grams, newspaper campaigns?the veterans organizations and the boy scouts will help, the civic and pub lic utilities, labor and business will co-operate. ? ? ? While President Truman was still on the high seas en route for home, he and his staff began the careful brieAng of the correspondents, tell ing them many detais which were not for publication but which will gradually find their way into the public prints. They also gave out specific news items for publication, one of which stated that it was largely the sug gestions of the American delegation which made up the agenda. This President Harry 8. Tram an may or may not have been aimed it comments in Washington by anti idminlatration spokesmen who charged that the communique of the Big Three seemed to reflect chiefly Russian demands. I believe that history will show that the President's claim will be literally true. This may not mean that America got the majority of the things she wanted but rather that what could be agreed upon was largely the result of the President's policy of insisting on a solution by compromise rather than a stale> mate. The great test of America's posi tion will come later. We are the most conservative of the great powers. We are the only one in which cepitalism is threatened by attack from within more than from without I mean that the ma jority of the nation undoubtedly fa vor capitalism whereas the present British government (the only other large democratic power ai we ac cept democracy) is socialistic. Dan ten to the American capitalistic sys tem, most observers in Washington agree, come from a small group whose selfish interests are the greatest threat to the system at private enterprise. BARBS . ? * by Baukhag* 1 They call the counterfeit aquad the mince-plee and I auppoee since money talks you could call the grant from a buffalo penny mint-sauce. ? ? ? It is easier for a man to get Into the army than it is for a dog to Join the famous K-8 corps. Q.I J sometimes get Into the booeego* but The census bureau says the aver a(? father is 44 years old. Aver age wife's age (confidential). ? ? ? The bast epigram en the victory of the labor party in England eras made by Sir WUmot Lewis, veteran London Times. He said, "My coun try, may rite always be right, but my eonntiy right or left." II n ?? i ? So This Is, or Was, Hiroshima An aerial view of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, an important in dustrial center and military base, which was the first target to be hit by the new atomic bomb, announced by President Truman. The following morning the Japs admitted extensive damage done by the new "bombs." Only one bomb was dropped and sixty per cent of the city estimated destroyed. With but One Single Thought Admiral Lord Looii Moontbatten, left, and General of the Arm; Douflaa MaeArtbor are shown as the; chatted at General MaeArthur'a headquarters, dnrlng the visit of Lord Louis to the Philippines area re cent];. The; laid plans for fast and complete victor; over the Japs. Moontbatten commands the Southeast Asia area against Japan. Ready for Mikado's White Horse Recalling Admiral William P. Halsey's (Inaert) Intention to rldo the Mikado's white horse down the streets of Tokyo, the Reno, Ner., chamber ef commerce decided he shooldn't be riding bareback. This tllver-moented saddle, which cattlemen acclaimed a masterpiece and eostisf $t,M, has been forwarded to the Admiral to ge with Ids recently acquired spars. Japs Wanted Atomic Bomb Data Tfc!-, picture stows three Japanese aeteatista who went to Berkeley, Calif., la IMS, and tried vainly to ferret ent American secrets of atomic research. Dr. Ed. McMillan, University of California physicist. Is shown feediny them accurate bet worthless inferssatien. The Inal lessen was liven by cre.rs of seperfortresses recently ever their cities. ..-.M,- -ff ---- -.?????? -1 > SO.'. Atomic Bomb Expert To Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist of the Univer sity of California, goes the credit for achieving the implementation of atomic energy for military purposes. Working with a staff of scientists throughout the nation "the impos sible" was accomplished. Major Bong Killed MaJ. Richard Ira Bone, 24-year old flier?top ranking C. 8. ace with M Japanese planes downed in com bat, was killed as he straggled to escape from the P-M Shooting Star he had taken np tor test at Bar bank, Calif. His paraehnte was part ly opened. Player of Jai-Alai Jai-alai may never take the place ot baseball or basketball, bat it has treat plenty ot followers in the Unit ed States since It was introduced a year ago at Miami, Fla. It holds the top spot among sports in Span ish and Latin-American countries. Congresswoman Acta ! Preparing to play the leading role la "Candida," Congresswoman Clare ?Loco Is shown in her eoo taaM for the George Bernard Shaw play opening In Stamford, Com. | - n II [ jftaaiii .rtd lfv.iVika "i - -.?? NO DUKE CHURCHILL When Winston Churchill turned down a knighthood this week, his son, Randolph Churchill, probably heaved a big sigh of relief. For it meant that his father, in turning down this lesser honor, probably would not accept a duke dom or any other high reward. Should the elder Churchill accept a peerage, he would move into the House of Lords, which would mean that his son, Randolph, upon his father's death, automatically would become a lord, thereby forfeiting the chance of a fighting political career as a commoner. To inherit a title is the last thing young Churchill wants. His future career lies in the House of Com mons, like his father. Knowing his son's ambition, the prime minister used to hold a sword of Damoeles over Ran dolph's head. When the mer curial Randolph got oat of hand, his father half-jokingly would warn: "Tut, tut. Be careful or I'D take a peerage." ? ? * DATTI r AVt>D OIPWI um AUKi VTClIV OXCiElU One of the hottest fights in the whole hot history of the War Pro duction board has been raging back stage regarding the future alloca tion of steel to industry. It is a fight affecting almost every business in the country ? large and small ? and if the big industry boys get their way, civilian manufactur ers will get less material even than during the third quarter of this year, when we were still fighting a two-front war. The fight is over how sheet steel shall be allocated. , Basically, this boils down to whether the big automobile companies will get it all, or whether other manufacturers will be given at least a little. It is exactly the same fight, in re verse, which occurred before Pearl Harbor. At that time, the automobile industry was using up most of the sheet steel. War production was held lip until their output could be curtailed, and the auto boys pulled all sorts of wires to keep on pro ducing cars. Now, the same wires are being pulled to let steel be completely free, and not allocated to anyone. This is just another way of saying that the automobile companies will get it all, because they are the biggest peace time buyers of steel and the steel companies naturally like to please their best customers. Big Business WPB Today, the War Production board, under chairman "Cap" Krug, U more big - business - controlled than ever, so the automobile boys may get their way. Their fight inside WPB is be ing led by Vise Chairman Harold Boeachenstein, whose glass com pany sells headlights to ante manufacturers. He and other WPB moguls argue that the present "controlled materials plan" should be "open-ended," In other words, after a steel mill has completed Its "most" gov ernment orders, it can sell what ever steel Is left over to any one it wishes. Hitherto, farm machinery, hardware, the railroads and va rious war-supporting industries got definite steel allocations from the government. They were al ways assured some steel. Under the new proposal, however, they would have to scramble for it in competition with the auto mobile companies. While die railroads, farm imple ment companies, et al, doubtless can look after themselves, a long list of small manufacturers also would be affected ? those making hardware, electric ironfc, washing machines, etc. Hitherto, they have been able to get a certain amount of steel al located to them by WPB. But under the proposed new plan, they would bave to scramble for it And in any battle with the auto companies, it is not difficult to guess where they would come out. Actually there will be very little steel to scramble for. After war needs and war-supporting needs are met, it is estimated only about 1, MA AAA trine ft# eKeat v* wuvv* B bvCl WAU UV left over. If WPB moguls have their way, however, the scramble Bill begin in the fourth quarter of this year. NOTE?It will be ?? te new War Mobilises John Snyder te make the Snal decision. ? ? ? MERRY-GO-ROUND 1 Every mother's son west of the Mississippi river ? and some east ire making moves to get the cabi net Job of the toughest, moat fear ess member of the FDR cabinet? Harold Ickes Jim Patton of Dea rer, head of the farmers union, is me of them. Another is genial Gov. Sob Kerr of Oklahoma, who led the twitching of delegates to Truman hiring the Chicago convention. . . , However, "Harold the Ick" may fool Upset Stomach SNAPPY PACTS | || IIU1B1E 1/417/000 airplane Htm war* built la 1944-703% Mr* *L n ? ? -I ? -J | __ t^^SS tb?ii wfv prravcM in mil Corbam block I* ? pi?aMat which, when mixed with rah s*^ilief^src^is t^i^s in^slocol^is of rubber?similar to tbo way *bt or pebbles ore iismI la reinforcing concrete. It Is tbo third aiost - faipu* luat osote rlal that goos lata a tiro. I - i Shortages of carbon blade, tex tile* and who are largely respon sible for the pre lent critical short age of tires. Over 125 feet of steel wire ore used hi the construc tion of an average-she passenger car tire. ^2 ? [^Goodrichj A Dab a Day keeps P. 01 away! pUmdrarm HnpkvHom Odor) J&Sf YODOM IEOBORRIIT CRimn ?ian't stiff of sticky I Soft?it spreads Uks is cs cream. ? is actually soothiogl Uss tight sftsr ahaving?will not irritata. ?hss light,pleasant scsot.No sickly smsll to cling to fingsra or clothing ?will not spoil dslicsts fabrics. Yst tssts in ths tropics? mods by ntussa ?prOTS that Yodors protects under try tog conditions. hhfaearfwt?o 25* Mt Nrffssssa??.Hfcalsc.?rt^.?wtCsan ?Buy War Savings Bonds? Tour Baby May Have Good Reason to Cry After a nl*ht of lost deep, it is hard to be pad est with baby; but maybe poor baby suffered from sting and burn of diaper rash. Sprinkle on Mexaana, the soothing, medicated powder ? ratters this iniswj. Family favorite for itek of minor ekin troubles. Demand Mersena iSiiiwS^f1""1"" jM' (wOMEN'3lt?52'| 1 ? Lhotfimhes?! MffUf you ante from hot flaoba% ? WMoiTSa^t^toStMS Mom^-mlrtinoy o?rtoa p?euU?f J? ^mpound^iKHM^woia. Man! tho^ hat^tooro^in?dkgMii^f? Mi WNU?4 S3?til And Yon* Strength end < Energy la Below Pa* 4 -yssiTEfSLSirwas &WTZTM2Z jas?ssars? DwI'^to!^ jfrn ??e
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