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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26

adaptability and the fortitude of a
pioneer. The st. Paul Recorder
in giving you the news arranges
it in such a way that the high
points can be read easily by the
hurried reader. Neatness of this
paper is quite apparent; it looks
clean for the patch quilt" is not
there.
The life blood of any paper is
advertising and, of course, sub
scribers. The more subscribers and
readers a newspaper has, the more
"coverage" an advertiser receives
for the money expended. Interest
ing news for all readers and not
for special clique builds circula-
ton and hence more advertising.
Mr.. Editor, 1 think both groups, the
reader and the advertiser, benefit
when they do business with your
paper.
You have a model newspaper
and know you will enjoy with the
passing of each year the just re-
wards of progressive concern.
Hobart T. Mitchell.
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full short sermon in which he
pointed to some splendid examples
set by the young person whom all
came to mourn. There was scarce
ly dry eye in the church as he
pointed to the fine life she had led
among US. There were some so
overcome with emotion they could
not carry on. There were few who
were not moved at the moment by
a new appreciation of what this
sudden call meant to US all.
Slowly and solemnly we filed
from the church. Only as we
reached the pavement did some of
US forget and drift into our every
day attitudes and do those things
which caused you and others like
you to express a bitter regret.
But don't be discouraged. We
are making progress. We shall go
forward faster as you and other
forward looking persons assist by
cultivating patience and under
standing.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26
Here
and
There
By w. M. Smith
By w. M. Smith

My friend and I were leaving ST..
Peter A. M. E.. church, Minneap-
oils, where we had been in attend
ance upon the funeral of a mutual
friend.
81 wish l could induce you to
write something / have in mind"
said he, as we took his car for our
journey to town.
1 had an idea of what his COM
plant would be for 1 myself am
rather regular church attendant
and I knew about what was caus-
ing his uneasiness.
Then he told me his story and
to many who will read of it 1 real
ize it will seem nothing to grow
excited over.
For he had tried to get out of
the church after the service and
just couldn't make it. First one
person or group after another
would get in his way and stop for
a conversation and he would have
to wait until they elected to move
and let him by or he would have
to be rude and push by regardless
of unkind words or unkind looks.
That's an old story at any of
our churches and one to which most
of US have grown so accustomed
that we can see nothing in it to
grow excited about.
But it's like a hundred and one
things in which we have accus-
toned ourselves to act differently
from other people. And to expect
that other people will see nothing
peculiar in our actions.
1t wouldn't be so bad if after
considering the actions in which we
are constant participants and show
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26
Trials Act Like a Milestone

national weekly said recently that the trbulatOns
have the their remarkable
progress thought Adversely always aid
according individual The troubles which
his knees whmperng self pity drive another to do his best
all the individual the responds For
which has struggle against prejudice it from
all said still captain of
Calculating with employment
take rights still pluck wins wins for resoute
group a it wins for an individual.
dead level of ability exists of environ
accomplishment bound But for each there better
which is his free choice That choice his responsibility
the world he makes the
what he has, be his talent FIVE
While tribute others for the comforting
their example, simple truth that Negroes here America have
wonderful things The washub and the shovel the
that children school, bought homes and
developed seustaning czenry day when freedom
new it might have been put tt mistaken
well afford be proud of his peoples material
accomplishments is for the straggrs them that
did, all would have DONE had difficulties been used
whetstone.-K. C. Call.
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those who look other sections of the country
that New York City and state
sed lands overlooking with opportunity The New York State Tenn
Urban Population
recently, published the following items:
factory Yonkers which employs 5000 workers at
employs Negroes and is said to have
poyed so The States largest public utility
employing personnel than all the States departments
combined included perhaps dozen Negroes on its payros
New York employment Negroes in the large
retail establishments practically
Rochester example, showed that
employees private firms only 10 Negroes
staff furnishes nconroveribe evidence
that the Negro family in the State of New York generally
higher other racial religious The
similar accommodations from cent
SO per higher rental for Negroes"
learned these quotations. Wherever
the United they subjected various
Usually this unfair
nomic expressed which the
lynch people
certain nbohood We neither solve problems
the another We dig
that which around before the general
be made
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26

themselves with the Communist
Party; some colored citizens have
been caught in the current of ev-
cry movement that has swept
across the American scene. What
embittered many to the point of
seeing Red was the memory of
their treatment during the World
War, when Americans advised the
French people not to treat Negroes
as victorious soldiers, but as
pariahs, so as not to "spoil" them.
Hustled home after the Armistice,
they were faced with a nationwide
effort to "put them in their place"
Small wonder that some toyed with
communism.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26
Blatant Illustration

blatant the heartss policies with which some
kick around Negro labor furnished
Johnston of the Chicago office Of the Wagreen
chain of drug stores.
about the dismissal of coored
Minneapolis with the allegation that
organization presumably whe had forced the
to experiment with white porters.
experiment being tried out in cities where there are
rmbngs of working conditions
cording to the official
It grimy humorous of trying out white
experiment kind especially that of porter
job least of the types of employment which Wagreen
can offer that is being snatched away
wonder whether his statement about the test being made
places employees satisfied anything than
thiny disguised brighten working people into accepting brow
beating without complaint,
company may about what Negroes the Twin Cities
think it does about what think in Chicago
Windy City should know about the kind of crackpo
which is being tried out here.
Finally do not believe that fairmnded white person IN
would of the undetermined policy voiced by
necessary should take problem to them
ALL Negroes who normally do not much salary
what will happen white employees who
replace them<
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The Peoples
Opinion
TOMORROW'S NORTH
MINNEAPOLIS

Editor: Little vision is required
to see ten years from today what
the physical structure of the north
side Minneapolis will be. With the
federal housing project already
finished and about one-third filled
with occupants and the north side
of the street being wrecked for the
Floyd B. Olson boulevard, one can
not help wondering what will hap
pen next. A fine market is located
in this section Of the city. The
w. P. A. workers are now con-
structing a fine roadway leading
into the market. This is all very
fine and adds physical beauty. to
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26
Negroes Reject Communism
By George S. Schuyler
(From June Issue of The American Mercur

IlG AuICIlCdu nOECuTyJ
and tails. His consuming ambition
is to become bourgeois himself,
and in this he is carbon copy of
his white fellow-American. At the
same time he is more cut off than
the white man from the pre-Ameri-
can past, and therefore less re-
sponsive to European nostrums.
The white proletarian has a back
ground of serfdom reaching back to
Caesar, Greece, and beyond. It's
almost his native state. The black
proletarian was a free man until
modern times. And, finally, the
totalitarian state is too reminiscent
of the slave plantation.
Moreover most Negroes see in a
successful mob-revolution here the
final triumph of their historic an
tagonists, the Poor Whites. Re-
CARELESS of MARKHAM theories and
soap-box interpretations, the At
ramerican cannot regard the white
proletarian as his friend and COM
rade. His advance since Enamel
patton has been in the face of the
stubborn opposition of the whites
with whom communists urge him
to unite. He cannot quite believe
that any revolution will cause the
crackers and white proletarians up
North to view him with sudden af-
lection. His healthy cynicism in
clines him to doubt that on the day
the, hammer-and-sickle flies from
the White House he will be accept
ed on terms of equality.
White proletarian prejudice
against the Negro was originally as
strong in the North as in the
South. AS early as the late
sixties Negro workers vainly
sought inclusion in the white labor
movement. The Knights of Labor
fell partly because white unionists
wanted nothing to do with black
unionists., The ALL has been the
most effective agency in barring
Negroes from all but manual and
mental labor. What toehold the
black worker has gained in indus
try has been in spite of the white
worker.
After the Civil War, the most
militant proletarian movement in
the South was the Ku Klux Khan.
During Reconstruction, political
power and economic preference
gradually shifted to the white pro-
letariat that had served and
starved under the old regime.
Promptly it legalized jim-crow
cars, schools, restaurants and
hotels, disenfranchised the Negro,
taxed him without representation,
made justice a terror, and forced
black workers to the economic
fringes where they hang so pre-
cariously today. A revolution that
would put these people in die
tatorial position does not attract
the blacks.
It was inevitable, however, that
some Negroes should identify
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made too much money to qualify
for living quarters.
North Minneapolis may be occu-
pied by big businesses ten years
from today, it may have new boule-
wards, railroads, churches, subways,
airports, grain and stock markets,
but no matter how much the phys
ical environment changes, the peo-
pie are the important factors in
this new environment.
Herbert Hewett.
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ing ourselves different from other
folks, we could just say, Well what
about it?
For, after all, the important
thing is to realize there are GER
tain things which we have taught
ourselves in the final analysis to
do differently from other folks. And
if we believe this makes no differ
ence, especially after these differ
ences have been called to our at
tention, we had just as we'll go on
doing as we wish until we get to
the place where these things cause
US the same regretful sting as they
cause other people, then and not
until then, we shall cause ourselves
to change.
So I said to my young friend,
don't take it too much to heart, be-
cause some of our folks don't seem
able to see these things as you do.
Do what you know to be right. BY
and by others will do as you do
and finally all of us without spe-,
cial effort will be doing all things
as you know they should be done.
Take today even for an exam
pie:
The minister preached beauti-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26
SAYS READERS AND
ADVERTISERS BENEFIT

Editor: Writing column on Ne
gro history for the various Negro
newspapers throughout the United
States, my attention was called to
the st. Paul Recorder with notice
as to its makeup and general neat
ness.
For a newspaper of its size, it
is leader in it's field. It embodies
first of all reader-interest. To ac-
complish this paper must pos
sess alertness, open mindedness,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26

The failure of communist propa-
ganda in the United States is most
strikingly attested by its fruitless
missioning in Aframerica. Super
ficially it would seem that to the
Negroes, who have the lowest eco
nomic and social status in the Re-
public, bolshevism would have the
strongest appeal. No other Ameri-
cans, not even the malarious South
ern crackers, appear to have less
to lose and more to gain from revo-
lutionary overturn. Most Negroes
generations after Emancipation,
enjoy today less economic, social,
and political rights than the Rus
sian moujiks under Nicholas IL.
Still subjected to systematized eco
nomic spoliation and race discrimi-
nation, there is bitterness in their
hearts.
Naturally the communists re-
garded Negroes as sure-fre con-
verts, and have proselyted them
these twenty years. They have
tried every bait, device, dodge, and
argument to win black adherents.
But despite this prodigious &C
tivity, the American Negro re-
mains cold to communism. With
the communist indictment of ira
ditional mistreatment of black
America by white America, he
agrees. But he rejects the Mus
covite cure. During his three
century struggle to avoid extermi-
nation, he has developed certain
special techniques of survival, and
most communist methods run
counter to them. He is suspicious
of any program that over-simpli
fies his problem by ignoring shad-
ings and nuances, and recommends
identical tactics in Birmingham
and Buffalo.
After a century of listening to
black hustlers with Valhallas for
sale, the Negro has become wary
of schemes for instant salvation.
Even the Negro clergy no long
er Yields it's old-time influence.
And whereas two dollars was once
sufficient to buy a black ballot,
Nose now talks knowingly about
patronage. In short, the Aframeri-
can is perhaps the most cynical fell
low in the Union, and is less likely
than the white proletarian to sign
his death warrant in a moment of
emotional intoxication. True, he
has only his life to lose, but he
wants to hold on to that.
The communists started out by
ignoring the fact that propaganda
which might split the ears of the
Muscovite groundlings falls hol-
lowly upon those of Sam. Like his
white brother in the U.S.A., the
American Negro is a proletarian by
compulsion and not by choice. He
regards the bourgeoisie with adula-
ton rather than antagonism and,
like most other Americans, cannot
see culture" except in white tie
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CONTINUED Next Week.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26
Poetic Thoughts
Watchful Waiting
By MORRIS GIBBS, .Sr.

There's times to speak and times for meditation,
When this advice is good for individual nation,
For answer may not psychologically be true
When intent good in what to do.
Often there known at hand,
When we let circumstances just stand
Just they and problems worked out,
To complete satisfaction and doubt put to rout.
Conditions don't arguments at all times,
Sometimes a soft answer is what finds,
To be the proper answer under strained relations
Especially when you're maneuverng for certain positions
Make study of your fellow man,
By close contact as best you can,
For it'll help you decide whether speak
Or hold your counsel and act deep.
In making decisions advocating a course,
Try silence your guide, than words of force
Events lots of times work out best,
When we put watchful waiting to the
Don't be discouraged because people don't turn,
At to your thinking maybe they'll discern
That your knowledge and foresight true
And you were helping them in what to do.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-05-26
WILLIAM ENGLISH DEAD

William English, a resident Of
Anoka and Minneapolis for many
years, died Tuesday. No details of
funeral at press time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
New Coolidge School
To Play on Court
Only Next Year
Will Enter Public High
Baseball, Grid Series
In l94l Campaigns

Hope that another school football
or baseball team would be added to
the 1910 interhigh schedule was
blasted today with the announce
ment that the new Calvin Coolidge
High School will not open until next
September and that only a basket
ball team will represent the school
next year.
In 1941, however. Coolidge will
have representatives in football.
baseball and basket ball and will
compete in the eastern division
under the new setup. Gymnatic
classes will be part of the schools
athletic program next fall.
A large, modern gymnasium will
be built andsready for use by boys
when the school opens. The girls
gymnasium will not be constructed
until later. The boys will be planned
to seat about 800.
Material for teams will come from
students now attending Roosevelt.
Central and Paul Junior High. Some
1000 students from Central are ex-
pected to enroll next September
when Coolidge opens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
Crack Basket Talent
Sought by Brewers,
Bidding for Flag
PoIeho Of Troy-CeIties,
Sphos' Robin Wanted;
Bio Games at Hand

The most colorful American Bas-
ket Ball League team in Washing
tons history was the goal of Spon-
sor Chris Heurich, jr.. today as his
Brewers awaited outstanding games
during the holidays.
On Sunday afternoon at 2:30 the
Brewers will entertain the powerful
Baltimore Clippers. with their SEN
sational scoring star. Bob McDer-
mott. while on Monday night at 9
o'clock the New York Jewels will
provide the opposition.
Heurich. who last week contem-
plated breaking up his Brewers
following dismal performance
against the Philadelphia Sphas, to-
day decided to build up his second
place team.
Making a definite bid for the pen
nant, Heurich today was dickering
for the services Of either Phil Rabin
of the Sphas or Joe Polcha of the
Troy Celtic>. He declared he was
ready to 60 the limit to obtain
Rabin, currently fourth among the
leagues scorers. Polcha is second.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
Tennessee Sees
Ace Back Kew
To Success
Warren, Butler Train
For Emergency; Team
Heads West Today
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. Oh
Tennessee's undefeated, united and
unscored-on football team arranged
to head for CALIFORNIA; Rose Bowl
today amid a lot of fuss over the
injured knee of Halfback George
bad News Cafego.
Whether Cafego would be ready
to rumble at top speed against
Southern California in the New
Year Day classic at Pasadena re-
manned big question.
Coach Bob Neyland rates the
great halfback. who injured his
knee in the Citadel IS. c. game
November II, as "a player without
a weakness"
He is making his game prepara-
tons on the assumption Cafego will
be ready. but just in case, Buist
Warren and Johnny Butler, the
sophomore flash, have been groomed
for the tailback spot.
Johnny Butler is doing so we'll
1 may not even get in the Rose
Bowl game" Cafego commented.
why, that Johnny is threat every
time he gets his hands on the ball"
Butler sprinted Sc zigzagging
yards for the first touchdown against
Alabama and repeated with a 40
yard thriller to conquer Auburn,
TO. in Tennessee's final 1899 game.
The orange-shirted Volunteers,
IS strong. will leave for the West
Coast by train this afternoon and
arrive in Los Angeles Sunday. En-
route they will stop at Greenville
and Ell Paso. Tex, for brief workouts.
AS for Cafego, Tennessee fans say
the fact he wasn't around in three
of Tennessee's major games seems
to have been overlooked
The Volunteers trounced Wander
bilt without him and he played less
than minutes each against Ken
lucky and Auburn.
The records also show he rode the
bench when the Vols three touch
downs were chalked up against Ala
bama and that two in the Louisiana
State conquest were pushed across
while he rested.
What the records don't show is
that George softened up the oppo-
sition considerably with his devas-
tating smashes against Alabama
and L. S. u. setting the stage for
fresher teammates.
you can't overestimated Georges
value to the team" said Capt.
Sammy Bartholomew. We've all
got more confidence in him than any
other player and that's not taking
anything away from the others.
They'll all tell you the same"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21

Walsh Stadium of the University
of st. Louis, weather permitting,
that afternoon. Leave st. Louis
$50 pm. December %, arrive Fort
Worth the morning of December 20,
where the team and encourage will
be the guests of the Knights of Co.
lumbus at breakfast and where the
team will work out at the Texas
Christian University Stadium.
Leave Fort Worth pm. Decem-
Der 20, arrive Ell Paso $50 am.
December 30, where there will be a
reception at the station for the
visiting players and coaches.
The entire squad will be the guests
of the "Rancheros," an Ell Paso or
ganization, at breakfast December 80,
on the occasion of Old Timers Day,
a traditional Ell Paso holiday. The
team then will work out and will
take up quarters at the Texas School
of Mines. Workouts following their
arrival at Ell Paso will depend on
local conditions, Bergman said.
The Catholic University athletic
head has not been advised officially
of the capacity of the Texas School
of Mines stadium, where the game
will be played on New Year Day,
but believes it will seat around
$4,000 people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
20 Years Ago
In The Star

Connie Doyle. Washington
champion, has been ranked 18th
among the world tennis players
and with Fred Harris 18th in the
doubles. William NJ. Johnston
heads the singles list and Nor
man Brook and Gerald Patterson
of Australia are first in doubles.
Howard Beckett, former WASH
ington pro now in Atlanta. Ga,
says Bobby Jones. hoy wonder"
will top all golfers next year.
Now 10 years of age, Jones has
been prominent since 1916 and
is improving rapidly.
George Washington courtmen
played mediocre basket ball to
bow to Pennsylvania, II to 40.
Played at the Y. M. c. A., the
game was the first of the season
for the District five.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
Arizona Grid Squad
Tolls in Heat for
Clash With T.. u.

TEMPE, Ariz., Dec. 2l.-Dixie
Howell's Arizona State at Tempe
Bulldogs have been under a soaring
sun this week for their New Year
Day battle in the Sun Bowl at Ell
Paso with Catholic U.
The squads only injured players,
Co-Capt. Wiley Aker. a fullback,
and Bill Mcconnell, left tackle, have
about fully recovered and will be
ready for the Cards.
Mcconnell is a 215-pound first
string tackle. Aker is understudy
to Wayne CRipper) Pitts, the Bull
dogs ace fullback.
Four members of the Arizona team
were placed on the All-Border Con-
ference honor team selected by
coaches. Pitts, fullback; Joe Hern-
andez, halfback. and AL Sanserino
and Co-Capt. Rusty Riggs, both
guards, won the honors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
Cards to Hold Two Workouts
On Way to Sun Bowl Came;
Pirro, Shine DoubtfuIs

Following daily workouts here for
the next four days before they leave
for their New Year Day clash with
Arizona State Teachers of Tempe
at Ell Paso, Tex, Catholic University
gridmen face two breaks in the
long train ride to Ell Paso during
which they will work out the travel
kinks.
The schedule for the trip, an
nounced today by Athletic Director
Dutch" Bergman, includes stops at
st. Louis and Fort Worth, with the
80 members of the Cardinal squad
working out at both places, weather
permitting. The team will leave
Washington at $40 pm. December
~.
Meanwhile the C. U. gridders are
hopeful Rocco Pirro's bad back will
mend sufficiently to enable the. fleet
back to put all his drive into the
Sun Bowl game and that Lou
Shines injured knee will be o. K.
Pirro and Shine won't take part in
9scrimmage practice for a couple of
days, but will work out with the
team.
Here is the itinerary for the trip:
Leave Washington $40 pm. De-
cember q, arrive St. Louis. Mo-,
ITO pm. December %; workout at