Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-04-08
This World
Cecil E. Newman

and ST. Paul will lose the Twin City
Urban League. This would be most
discouraging and distinct setback
to those who work to improve the
status of the Twin City Negro. We
must not lose the services of the
league. The leagues chief handicap
in the past has been that Its scope
and aims have not been clearly de-
fined to the "man in the street" This
remains true, but the leading Negroes
of Minneapolis and st. Paul know the
program of the league and what it at
tempts to do-Whether or not it ac-
compIshes its aims is another ques-
ton entirely. The people should not
let petty differences past or present
stand in the way of proper and just
evaIuation of the league program. AS
with all organizations there has been
ground for criticism of league con-
duct and there is still much to criti-
else but there is much to praise the
league for and it should at all costs
be retained as member of the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies in both cities.
To abolish the Urban League in the
Twin Cities would be distinct step
backward and the Lord knows the
Negroes of the Twin Cities cannot af
ford to lose anything they have. The
small, tho important amount of money
used to support the Urban League is
well spent and the unselfish and in
telIieent citizens black and white.
should see that the League is kept.
If and when it is given a fair trial
under proper conditions, it does not
warrant public support, we will be the
first to say "do away with it."
OPPORTUNITY Magazine for April
is refreshingly filled with literary
goodness. Elmer Carter, former loca
Urban League secretary, edits the
publication which is, if you do not
know, the official organ of the Ma
tional Urban League. The highly con
sentative Union League club of N. Y
recently fired, Robert Brooks, long
time employee, ostensibly because he
arrived at work each morning in
high priced car with liveried chauf-
feur.
In praising the national "health
week" observances an eastern weekly
most appropriately says:
MANY PEOPLE pay more atten-
ton to their automobiles than $they
do their bodies. Every five hundred
miles they oil and grease their cars,
but they wait until they are half dead
before they visit physician"
We accidently dropped into a meet
ing of the Minneapolis City Associa-
tion of Colored Women's club at the
Citizens Aid Building Wednesday
About twelve intelligent and alert
women were gathered around com
mittee table. The organization is
slightly over a year old. And the
thing that impresses your correspon-
dent is that it has a program-some-
thing most of our organizations hard
ly consider We hope this organiza-
ton will be able to accomplish some
thing worthwhile for this community
Our women, the Negro women are
our most important racial possession.
They have power for good that they
have never used.
When the colored women make up
their minds that we are not making
proper progress in this country and
then make up their minds to do some
thing about it, then and not until
then, will our real advancement be-
gin. The purse strings of the twelve
million Aframericans are handled by
the women. Concentrates exnendi-
ture, collective buyinu, cooperative
SELLING and BUYING endorsed and sup
ported by the women would almost
OVERNIGHT change the status of the
American Negro. Just as long as the
major portion of the women spend all
of their time and husbands money
"keepinu Up with the Jonesses" in
poor imitation of the Nordics, so long
the future will be dark, uncertain and
most unfair 70 our future generations.