Twin-City herald., 1933-12-02
This World
By Cecil e. Newman
WASHINGTON EXAMPLE.
PRACTICE VS.. PREACHING.
COMBS BROS. & Nj. LOVE.

Some of the $4,000 Washington
d. c., Negroes furnished the rest of
the country an object lesson during
the past month. This lesson was re.
vealed last week when officials of the
A. & P. chain stores in that city
agreed to employ colored clerks in
the company's stores located in Wash
ington's colored neighborhoods. The
A. & p. Co. did not come to this de-
cision simply as a matter of right.
but only after group of intelligent
citizens known as the New Negro Al
lance picketed the company's stores
for over a month. Not all of the
Nations cOlored folk are slumberinf
with tools for better conditions rest.
ing, unused in their hands.
Joseph Blackburn Bass, editor O.
California Eagle, Los Angeles, last
week celebrated his Goth year a.
editorial steward of that potent
weekly. Along with his wife, Char
lotte A. Bass, he has builded a strong
uncompromising champion of thi
colored people in his state. AS a stal
wart and pioneer trail blazer in tho
ofttimes thankless profession OF
weekly journalism, Mr.. Bass deserved
all of the good things said about hin
by friends and admirers in the recen
anniversary edition of the Eagle.
Reaction to mention of McDuf
Woodard's grocery and meat store
Our Economy Market, in this column
in recent issue of the Herald, was
both gratifying and amusing. Ac
cordfhg to Mr.. W0edard several SOutI
Side citizens paid him a visit. Som
of them made large purchases. On
very caustic individual wrote you:
correspondent inquiring if we "prac
ticed what we preached" For tn
information of this worthy but criti
cal individual, our readers must par
don our personal illusions when
state, "Our Economy Market receive
a weekly visit from this correspondent
and we usually haul enough foodstuff
back across town to supply us for tn
better part of week." Twenty SOutl
Side families, especially those VIII
have autos, pursuing the same metho
would cause Mr.. WoOdard's store
increase its number of employees anc
increase the respect of many whit.
store keepers for the large amount O.
business which the people of the cit,
give them without adequate return i.
employment opportunities.
There are two other Twin City
establishments which should receiv,
a larger colored patronage than they
do at present. They are Combs Bros.
tailors and dry cleaners, located a
SO9 Fourth Ave. S., Minneapolis, ant
Morris Love, tailor and cleaner, OF
3O6 Rondo ST., st. Paul. There is
hardly a family in either city which
at some tim of the year. does not
require either tailoring, altering anG
cleaning of garments. Combs Bros.
Harold and James, have been in bust.
ness since 1914. A branch store is
located at 406 E. 38th St. Many OF
the leading business and professional.
whites of Minneapolis send their dry
cleaning and tailoring to Combs
Bros, but not fair percentage of the
colored population do likewise. II
they did, instead of having four en-
ployees, Combs Bros. would require
the services of many more and would
be able to expand their business. Pos
sibly some of our local men who have
been out of work for long periods
and who are not considered for en-
ployment because of their race in
other cleaning and tailoring estab-
lishments, might find work as solici-
tors, tailors, bushelmen or delivery
men with either Combs Bros, or M
Love. The st. Paul tailor also has a
large amount of patronage from high
class white citizens who like his work
manship, but not near enough sup
port from his racial brothers. Both
of the establishments are manned by
capable men and work in handled in a
high grade, so there is no excuse in
that connection.
The thinking Negro who really
wants to help improve the economic