Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-01-28
This World
BUTLER SPILLS BEANS.
JAPANS SPIRIT.
WHAT KIND OF WIVES.
FROM A WELL FILLED NOT
BOOK.
Cecil e. Newman
Cecil e. Newman

Out of the Marines, trying to earn
a living as professional politician
and lecturer, Gen. Smedley Butler, ex-
marine grows frank with This public"
Recently he admitted in statement
before an eastern audience, that he
had helped "enslave Haitians to raise
sugar for the National City Bank"
Such frankness is remarkable, to
say the least. Coming from marine
it is most remarkable. Our Depart
ment of State has from President VIII
sons time until the present, main
tanned that Americas interest in
Haiti was purely altruistic and not
mercenary as w. E. B., Du Bots, The
NAA,C.P. and others would have
the American public believe. Now
comes one of the leaders in the pill
lage of poor little black Haiti and ad-
mits, at this late date, that he led
American marines in the virtual en-
slavement of the Magic Island. The
truth will out!
Japan's imperialistic ambitions long
suspected become more open and pro-
nounced each day. Japan's War Min
lister Sedao Arai<i had this to say re-
Gently: "The spirit of the Japanese
nation is. 4by4its nature. a thing that
must be propagated over the seven
seas and extended over the five con-
tinents. Anything, that may hinder
it must be abolished even by
force" Strong, definite words,
far cry from the provincial half afraid
Japan of 1852 which opened its doors,
only to outside force represented by
the uuns of Admiral Mathew CaIbraith
Perry's fleet of U. S. warships. Amer
lea may. yet regret having awakened
slumbering little Nippon.
Asks sincere reader, j. M. Boldly,
what kind of wives, will many young
ladies make; and what kind of moth
ers will they be; when now, during
the formative period of their life,
their second home is the street; at
some dance; or night club; or party;
when they also pass up the local lib
raries and refuse to spend a little
spare time on cultural or economic
subjects in their homes.
q All we remember of indianapolis is
its Y. M. C. A. Portland Oregon con-
tains one of the smartest Negro wo-
men in the U. S. and a most excellent
library. Louisville during an interna-
tional X. of p. encampment acting as
"chaperon" for "Buck' Freeman, J.
w. Mcmillan, "Foots" Ruffner, C. H.
Ross and others. Our chief duty was
to protect them from designing ieze-
bells! Six weeks in New York made
us appreciate the large nothinsness of
the Twin Cities. Further it Illustrated
that all of the hicks do not reside out
side of the big cities. The biggest hiek
Is many times big city dweller.
Stood for two hours gazing at the
statue of Fred Douglass In Rochester.
Found Buffalo, N. " city without a
redeeming feature. Ditto, Grand Rap
ids. In Detroit for four months and
remember the name of only one street.
Billings, Montana town we love to
hate. Spokane, good meals at low
prices with an excellent library.
Drinking from the famous Shasta
Spring in the Shasta Mountains and
\ finding the water indistinguishable
from other aqua pura. Rubber-neck-
ing around the Mormon temple in
Salt Lake City. Riding street cars
all around Los Angeles. Crossing the
ferry from Oakland to San Francisco.
Finding that city one of the most de-
Iiehtful communities in America. In
numerous small towns In the west we
found ourselves the object of much
curiosity, being the only Afro in the
town. At one time the best known
Pullman porter in America was Eli
Miller, Minneapolis man. In tWen-
ty large cities visited If conversation
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