St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-09-27
Personalities!
By Nellie Dodson

came all the way up here to Uni
versity of Minnesota to play foot
ball. The athlete is Horace Bell,
brother of Bill Bell, the Ohio State
gridiron flash in 1881 and 1882.
Horace is quite a husky lad, and
is intending to go out for a guard
position, believe. He told me that
he picked Minnesota because he
thought he would have a better
chance to get a square deal here
than at Ohio State, where preju-
dice is pul-enty thick. Nice looking
boy, he is, too.
Incidentally, a few days ago I
received letter from Ozzie Sim
mons, the University of Iowa back
field star, and in the letter Or
wrote something which should def
nitely blast all rumors that he is
holding a grudge against Mime
sofa because of the injuries he re-
ceived in the Minnesota-Iowa game
last fall. The cullud downtown
quarterbacks have been all pre-
pared to see Ozzie go out and take
some revenge on the Gophers, par
ticularly on Fullback Sheldon
Beise, for the stiff neck that Or
brought out of the game last Octo-
Der. BUT Ozzie writes: 81 am
glad to say that Pm not angry at
anyone on the Minnesota team.
Beise is great player and I hope
he has fine year. I am sure he
will have, because believe Min
nesota will have another great
team" And that, my trans, ap-
pears to be Ozzie's side as it stands
now. AS soon as school opens on
Monday, I'll get hold of Shell Beise
at the first opportunity and find out
what he has to say about the sit
yee-a-shun.
Beise, as I know him, is peachy
fellow. He's friendly, very like
able, and has a WOW of a person.
atty. It's only when he gets into
a football uniform that he turns
into 200 pounds of dynamite. It
was the 200 pounds which landed
on Ozzie's neck last fall, and caused
all the whooping and hollering
among sepia football fans.
Anne Horris called to confirm
the report that Harry Landers has
been appointed head of the Physics
department at Wiley College in
Texas. Thanks, Anne. If only
everyone would cooperate so
readily!
Our people are certainly queer.
They howl when the white folks
segregate them, but they do a darn
better job of segregating them
selves than the white people would
ever think of doing. The Negro
students on the campus stick to-
gether like glue, in the library, but
when it comes to sticking together
on the subject Of something worth
while, you can hardly find three
of 'em willing to team up. When
the fight was going on to break
down discrimination in the mems
dorm last year, there were about
six students who attended the
meetings and took an interest in
what was being done.
With the jump in Negro enroll
ment out at the University, hope
there won't be that silly voluntary
segregation in the library reading
rooms. There are four large and
comfortable library reference and
study rooms, but in past years
when there have been many colored
students on the campus, all of 'em
tended to study in the same library,
in the same section, at the same
group of tables. A lot of folks
out there get mad at me when l
suggest spreading out and not
grouping up so conspicuously.
After all, Negro students at Min
nesota have the run of the school
and campus. They are not segre-
gated in class rooms or in other.