Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-03-25
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WASHINGTON SAID:
RIVER INQUIRY.
Cecil E. Newman

All the Negro race asks Is that the
door which rewards Industry, thrift,
intelligence, and character be left as
wide open for him as for the for
eigner who constantly comes to our
country. More than this he has no
right to request; less than this a Re-
public has no right to vouchsafe.--
Booker T. Washington.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
backed by intelligent black and white
citizens finally got the Wagner bill
through Congress. The bill provides
for Senate investigation of labor con-
ditions on the Mississippi river flood
control project. Despite the passing
of the measure all is not well. OPP
position to the bill has effectively
strangled its purpose by allowing
only the appropriation of $1,000 with
which to conduct the investigation.
This rIdiculousIy small appropria-
ton will scarcely pay the salaries Of
competent stenographie forces, much
less, employ the services Of expert
enced Investigators or transport wit
nesses from the south to Washington
to testify before the senate inquiry.
In the past ten years the Senate
has spent thousands upon thousands
of dollars for various Investigations.
Some of them were important and
some were not. 1t would seem that
as soon as a inquiry affects the Me-
gro, the Senators grow suddenly eco
nomical Minnesotans interested in
helping thousands of southern people
now being feeced by contractors on
the river projects should immediately
write Senators Henry Shipstead and
Thos. d. Schall Ask them to use
their influence to have the appropria-
ton for this particular investigation
increased to at least $4,000.
Roy Wilkins writing in the X. C..
CALL, expIodes the oft repeated
theory that the southern Negro is far
ahead of his northern counterpart In
the business field. Said Wilkins In
part:
What have tried to suggest Is
that there is not as much Negro
business in the south as the south.
erners would have us northerners
believe. In retail businesses deal
Ing with the necessities, where
one would imagine Negroes would
be active, they are missing. There
is more small Negro business be-
ing done in one block on Market
street, st. Louis; Vine street,
Kansas City; East Long street,
Columbus; U street, Washington;
WyIie avenue, Pittsburgh; Gen.
trail avenue, Cleveland; even
Seventh avenue, New York, than
there is in any two towns In Mis-
sissippi
AdoIph Hitler, Germany's new die
tator reveals himself as bgoted and
intoIerant leader by his program of
persecution of the Jews. No intelIi-
gent and honest statesman would to-
day seek to build government on
the faulty and rotten foundations of
race persecution.
Germany will lose much of the
worlds reviving respect and coopera-
ton if it allows Hitler to prosecute
the Jewish-Germans. The Germans
of Jewish extraction have contributed
much to the progress of the German
nation. There should be no place in
the civilized world for the injustice
which the Nazi faction seeks to visit
upon their Jewish brothers.
Nazi's seem to seek the unenviahle
reputation of America who treats its
black citizens like the Hiterlites want
to treat the Jews.