Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1932-10-08

KEEP ON
UNANSWERED QUERY
pE PRIEST
MRS. ALMA THOMAS
Cecil E. Newman

II
Borrowed from George A. Single
tons column, Pointed Points" in the
Louisville Leader, is this thought:
IL may not reach what pursue
Yet will l keep pursuing;
Nothing is vain that l Gan do,
For soul-growth comes from doing.
A correspondent writes to ask our
opinion ON the length of the depres-
sion. What task the writer gives
me. Not even the master minds of
the world seem to know what my in
.quisitive correspondent wishes to
know. l suggest that he ask some of
these speechmaking candidates for
office. Most of them have cure-alls for
most everything. Some of them ought
to be able to enlighten the world on
such an important subject.
az Your Business is not worth Ad-
Vertising, Advertise It for Sale."-
Preston Times.
Some of the Negro weekly news
papers are criticising Oscar De Priest
for his espousal of the Republican ma
tional ticket. They point to his non
partisan conference held last year
and his previous constant advocacy
of voting for men rather than parties
in local elections. We do not coin
eide with the critics. We believe De
Priests present stand is perfectly
logical. De Priest, first of all is a po-
litician and good one. Being Con-
gresham, and Republican makes
him the logical leading Negro party
member. He recognizes fully that
the Republican party has not played
perfectly square with the Negro but
he is also sensible enough to know
that this is primarily the Negro Re-
publican's own fault. Negroes have
allowed Republican white party lead
ers to name colored complimentary
leaders" Instead of the people in
many communities naming their own
leadership, their leadership has been
foisted upon them, bought and paid
for, it has acted only during political
campaign. In many cities Negroes
were absolutely unacquainted with
precinct and ward caucuses. None of
the fundamentals that control party
machinery were known to them. De
Priest recognized this, that is the rea-
son he travelled all over the country
telling the Negroes how to get into 20.
litics and work from the ground floor
up. His non-partisan conference was
not called to form Negro political
party as some Negro editors would
have the people believe but to for
muiate planks to present to all par
ties and to keep alive Negro interest
In politics.
De Priest himself is not overly
popular with his white party leaders.
He is too Independent to suit many
white G. o. P. leaders but they need
him to keep the 100000 Negro vot-
ers in the border states with the par
ty. De Priest knows this and he may
be expected to use the debt the party
leaders will owe him after the cam
paign to further the interests of his
own people.
Life and death puzzles all the world.
Death especially is the one mystery
unsolved. It is always so close to us,
! yet, whenever it comes, we are sur
prised and hurt. The death of Mrs.
Alma Thomas shocked many of us
who knew and respected her. She
was good Christian woman Of simple
taste. Seldom was her name in the
papers. Yet, she was in her quiet
earnest way power for good. A
fine outstanding wife and mother.
Kind and considerable. Dead, in the
prime Of life. A pity, yes, but all of
the hundreds with whom she came in
contact feel comforted by the life she
lived, knowing that Greater Reward
must surely be hers.