THE COMING DAY
Kenvitz, Milton R
THE COMING DAY By Milton R Kenvitz TJHa* fur Hoyoas RECENTLY the National Aasoriatioa for the Ad-vaAcetnent of Colored People Mat out letters to all railroad companies engaged in passenger...
...He is ef s new rare, and should have a title all bis own...
...The banks collected their percentages and the investors lost their money...
...In many instances in-mstes of asylums and prisons themselves draft the petitions for the writ, and courts have the right to issue the writ even en their own motion...
...It is different today, but mainly for the reason, it is interesting to observe, that tha Yiddishists have become friendly to the idea that the Jewish people might well cultivate both languages...
...The Louis LaMed Foundation for the Advancement of Hebrew and Yiddish Literature deserves much commendation for fostering the bi-Iingual approach...
...The Supreme Court Gaff Technical WlNFRED LYNN, a Negro, objected to being drafted for service in the United States army as one of a "quota" of eligible Negro draftees...
...A return to economic nationalism or bankers' imperialism would mean a repetition of the tragedy of the twenties...
...The real friend of the Negro is the Southern White...
...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau stated in his foreword to the Joint Statement of Experts, which formed the basis for discussion at Bretton Woods, that "the United States will not in any way be committed until Congress acts...
...These stocks already were far below normal for thia time of year, but the canners figured they could be sure of more profit on the 1944 pack, and that was enough to get action from food officials...
...But the Court did something which has brcught bewilderment snd consternation to the attorneys working for Lynn: it denied the writ and filed an opinion of several lines, saying that since Downer is no longer Lynn's commander, the question was "moot...
...The "opinion" if the Court must have surprised even the Government attorneys, for in.their brief they did not urge that the case was moot, but said: "»pe reepeef-fully suggest that the ease may be moot...
...With this Issue we i...
...The Court could have granted the writ, which would have meant that the case would then be argued on Its merits, or it could have merely denied the writ, without filing an opinion, which is what happens in hundreds of cases in each court term...
...The English use the worde Baron, Duke or Earl, the French Monsieur, the Spaniard Benor, each a different title...
...Government information chiefs are chewing pencils now trying to find a way to break the news that this wasn't a smart move and that rationing will be back with ua soon again...
...Profiteers Fooled Gov't...
...The writ establishes the basic right of freedom from unlawful detention...
...We have no passenger service and therefore, there is no segregation of the races en this rsil-rosd...
...The re-birth of Hebrew as the vernacular in modern Palestine has done much to stimulate the creation of new cultural values...
...Yet here the Sapreaaa Court has dented relief natbiag to de with his beisuj soft tram Camp Upton to Mew Guinea...
...In Palestine the conflict between the Hebraists and the Yiddishists frequently led to persona) violence, smashing of presaee and burning of books...
...Similar chairs have been in existence for years at Harvard and Columbia...
...The Bretton Woods plan proposes to place responsible international controls in the place of the former corporation controls which failed to work...
...Behind War Food's demand that rationing be taken off was the pressure of canners and cattle raisers...
...Ken-vita is ea the ferelties of Now York Uadversity aad the New School tar Social Research, His work with Out N A ACP sad the ACLU has green hem an insight into civil liberties iesees and minority group problems which he will share with ear readsra threagh bis release fbe Ceasing Aap will be n monthly feature...
...It ia their desire to see the national and international fiscal structures kept rigid no matter how many banks crash or how many workers are thrown into the breadlines...
...THE COMING DAY By Milton R Kenvitz TJHa* fur Hoyoas RECENTLY the National Aasoriatioa for the Ad-vaAcetnent of Colored People Mat out letters to all railroad companies engaged in passenger service in tha South, asking them if they have promulgated rales and regulations covering the subject of race relations, and if they had such roles and regulations, would they please send a copy...
...This scheme may not work...
...The distribution of credits could be used as a threat to governments, parties or financial groups...
...Under it as it now stands Great Britain or the United States would be free during a time of crisis to manipulate their currencies in accordance with any general plan to increase the flow of goods and increase employment...
...One would hardly say tha this statement shows inner conviction...
...At the saase time, however, it is not to be forgotten that Yiddish was the vehicle which carried the burden of Jewish culture for centuries, and is even today the mother-tongue of millions of Jews...
...It is natural that we are, and as you progress we will reap the benefit.' We have given the colored people every advantage they were able to accept as fast ss they could accept them...
...While Yiddish journals review Hebrew books, Hebrew journals do not return the compliment...
...He argued that he should be called as a citizen and not as a citizen of color...
...Ruthless fiscal imperialism could exercise a eonversive power which ran to the...
...The billions which were lent to weak countries were gathered by bankers from the investing public...
...As a* matter el fact the roamsnd rnigtst have beau ibojtgopl %lsaj without Lynn's removal frees camp If the army can defeat the Court's fsufceartmn by merely safftiag Lynn ar his tarn asunder, a msa m service Is wttheet legal pretertiesi, aad the esaetitatieaal gnsrsntee against the suspension ef the writ habeas corpse is Just ¦hOCI* (faBmsWriasml* • * 0 Uso of Hebrew In the Darted Stores ThERE was a ¦ time, not so very long ago, when devotees of Hebrew outlawed devotees of Yiddish, and vice versa...
...The only defense against such sn international threat was the sort of economic nationalism which was introduced by the Nazis in Germany...
...The proceedings were for a writ of habeas corpus, the right to which is fundsmental to personal liberty...
...But they can be changed—and will be changed—whenever the internal situation of any country requires it...
...These numbers should and will grow, for the Hebrew renascence has only just begun...
...Beckwith thinks that the American whites are the result of mixture of the British and European white 'races.' Does he think that the Southern whites and Negroes represent today unmixed races...
...Said a Negro friend of mine after she had read the letter: "The Southern white folk think the races are happier separated—except in bed...
...While hundreds of thousands read the Yiddish press in America, it is gratifying to learn that there are at least five Hebrew publishing houses and 20,000 regular subscribers to Hebrew periodicals...
...ends of the earth...
...Much will depend upon its wise and liberal administration...
...He applied for a writ of habeas corpus, to test the legalitey of his "restraint" by Colcnel John W. Downer, commanding officer at Camp Upton...
...WASHINGTON.—It is now clear that the War Administration' was responsible for the un-rationing of meats and canned goods, but it is clear also that OPA was sold a bill of goods which it should have rejected, the consumer division of the UAW-CIO reports...
...The fact Is that Lynn is now on active service in New Guinea...
...The International Bank for Reconstruction and the International Monetary Fund are designed to promote these ends...
...National currencies will be stabilised at definite levels expressed in gold and these levels can be altered only in a regular way and by international agreement...
...Insofar as it offers ways of opening up access to credits and ao facilitating world trade the Brettpn Woods Conference is attacking one of the basic conditions which created Nazism and caused the present war...
...The words Mr., Mrs., and Mies are the property of the White in America, who ia ef mixed British and Earopeaa white races...
...Up to the present international lending has been largely in the hands of so-called private corporations...
...e new comas*, far Cssafaw Aap, he a asitos suae f so ill at to New Leader readers...
...The letter was signed by Miss Julia Baxter, Director of Research...
...The White people ef the South are very preud ef Booker Washington, Carver, and Marion Anderson...
...A chair for Hebrew and Jewish culture has just now been, established at New York University...
...Thia means merely that the financial nstional-Ists don't want anything changed...
...Invent one for the Afro-American...
...An Editorial— Breaking the Shackles of Economic Nationalism TlIE international monetary conference is preliminsry to whatever may take place at the peace table...
...Hebraists, however, have not shown the same broadness ef viewpoint...
...About M per cent ef the companies answered, sad ia each case, with but one exception, the rnswers were business-like and to the point The one exception is the fallowing letter from 'the vie- president of the Virginia end Carotins Southern Rnilrosd Co.: Dear Julia: I presume that yea are a colored girl and if yea had a larger percentage ef Southern Men ea year Board ef Directors, I feel that we would be getting nearer to solving a major problem in this country...
...Why do yoa not build np a pride of race as exist with the Chinee nnd the Jew...
...Canners threw the bluff that they would not put up a big pack this summer unless the government would cut down the stocks on hand...
...Every attempt should be made to keep it alive just so long as it adequately expresses the thoughts and ideals of significant sections of the Jewish people here and in other parts of the world...
...There are two distinct races in thia country who are happier separated...
...There will be no peace nor freedom nor security unless international trade goes far beyond any standard set in the past and unless individual countries, •o matter how small or poor, re given elbow-room in which to develop their re-ources and manage their af-' fairs...
...In an article published in The New Leader of July 1, Albert Halasi stressed the need of maintaining some degree of fiscal freedom for the individual countries...
...These subjects yearly attract more and more students, a fact which should please every one interested in seeing America as a great democracy established on a sound basis of cultural pluralism...
...There must be a clean break with the past...
...His atorneys filed h petition for a writ of eertiori with the United .States Supreme Court, and briefs on his behalf were filed by Arthur Garfield Hays, .VAACP attorneys and others...
...with gloomy prospects for success, it seems now that the conference will succeed, and there is every reason for Congress to approve thi- plan to introduce in chaotic international economic affairs a rational degree of real'cooperation...
...Rationing Coming Back...
...Lynn lost his case in the lower Federal courts, although there was a strong dissenting opinion in his favor by one of the Circuit Court of Appeals judges...
...Then you would be in a position te create titles that we will be glad to give yon...
...The borrowing countries crashed—snd we had conditions which favored fascism and this war...
...Beginning...
...All possible guarantees of financial stability were given...
...It may be issued even upon very informal application and the proceedings are supposed to be free from technicalities...
...They pretend to foresee that the precious stabilization fund will be squandered by being distributed to countries which have failed to "put their financial houses in order...
...It is this feature that has become the chief point of attack by tha New York Timet, Senator Taft, and the other congressional enemies of international planning...
...The only objections which are being pressed against it emphasize its chief virtue...
...The plan as finally adopted satisfied this requirement...
...Yours very truly, (signed) J. <L BECK WITH...
...It is the first and essential step toward international political collaboration...
Vol. 27 • July 1944 • No. 30
