Atlanta Daily World

Fighting Men From Harlem

If you would know America for what she is, a glance at
America's Army in Hawaii would tell the story. Cosmopoli-
tan America is here - in khaki. Men of all races, as buck
privates and officers. The picture was made complete with
the arrival of a Negro artillery regiment, with many of the
men from deep in the heart of Harlem.
They are fine, sturdy men, as are those of the Negro
race. They have the dare to fight and the love of fight in
them. In the regiment whose job it is to guard Pearl Har-
bor, there are college men, men who have recognition in the
entertainment field, men who are professional soldiers. They
are the type of men of whom America is proud.
Newsmen who inspected the outfit and talked with the
men, came away with the impression that they were a hard
hitting lot. They find them musical too - as might be ex-
pected. The men have a number of jive bands with which
they entertain their white comrades. They can sing and
dance and play. Watching them work, news-men said men
carrying sandbags occasionally broke into a shuffle, and they
suspected that the bugler found it hard to restrain himself
from putting in a hot lick or two.
That's Harlem. Like the Basin and Beale streets of
Memphis and New Orleans, Harlem is the cradle of the
blues, hot rhythm, torch singing and dance steps that swing
coast to coast. Harlem is the stomp and the shag and a
gold derby perched at the end of a crying trombone. It's
lots of other things, too. Southern fried chicken at the eat-
eries on Lenox avenue, and brown chorus girls, and fellows
like "Sugar" Ray Robinson, who is a vest, pocket edition of
Joe Louis. And there's Bojangles Bill. There is a lot of
tinsel and there is a lot of hard work. In the brownstone
buildings live colored students of nearby Columbia Univers-
ity and New York City College and NYU. There is the la-
borer and the professional man living in close proximity.
And now they are with their brethren in a Hawaiian cane
field.
It's all Harlem and it's all America, too.
-(From Honolulu Advertiser.)