PAGE EIGHT ARMY SERVICE FOR YOUTH IS STRESSED BY COL. HAMILTON ik m " LANGSTON, Okla. (AN i '' • Tiii- - cream < f mi.- voip: . ■• i ’ b* encouraged to join the armed of the Uni ed State,-, Cot. Wt; . A. Hamilton, former --.Uroi-toc 01 the HOTC and AST Uamii:;; at Prairie View Collet- wr-to in in-: current issue of he Southwestern Journal of Lang'ten University In making his proposal, C > Hamilton stressed the importance of Negro participation in the cu - tense of our na ion. He criticized the old "Ain't goin’ to stucH war no more" attitude that Negroes hud in the pas This attitude, the odoml 1 lias lietd the Neg‘ > back in t . ser vices ever since the Civil w, r Speaking of the armed foie* at the beginnings of .he world wan. b< wrote: NO PAHTK I.’ATION “Whereas then \v " a real t.itc lens the teeuiai arru.v and na tionat guard - upon which to ex pand our multi million army an navy, the Negroes of America prac tically did not exis except t r the vat: l untrained raw levies which iliev were called upon to turn - It ■'Thus the Negro segment ot «• nation were practically drangei to the armed services and vase verm In other words over three quarters of a century had been spent > Ice ping, and Nt woe had defaulted their right as free men to a full or at least rear- liable pal t.dpation in a transcendent ally > n portan phase of our nation’s life. “The pattern had been ■et W*' were no! used to the set vice: and the services were not u ed to us Col, Ha mil on pointd - tit that Negroes had made a numhei of rains during the past wat Hr gave two reason for the shortage ot Negroes in the armed forces m tin past: RMASONS 1. The American government tie neglected to consider the claim.- ot the minority group tor a rer,son able participation. 2. The American Negroes as w>.U as their leaders and spokesmen have been aslet p on tills topic "The job a.’ll tint b< • : ksb id by wistful hinkitig, by execu tive r.rder. legislative eiiactnv-nt nt judicial pat. 1; will be accompli cd by the combined effort- .1 us all extending Plough several genera tions. "We should encourage our youth, the talented, the educated ones, y enter r.e army in reasonably cre ditable numbers We rmst devote a reasonable proportion of tire ‘cream of cur youth’ to this very neces sary program.*' Th* officer aim advised the Hressnu* of education and public health to raise the overall level -t literacy and heal h among Negro youth. "In this way he wrote "we can alleviate the tremendous d;sad vantages which we have faced thus Charlotte On The Beam With Gene By EUGENE S. POTTS Greasings io my readers wherever you may be Good luck, good health, and success, 1 wish you all throe — Many are called by few are chosen You can't wear your garment until it is wovtn. You get out of life what you put in. You can't finish you. l ) tasks until you begin. The paramount topic of today is politics It you don't play em right yt