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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
A Wheatley Innovation

the history of the Phyllis Wheaey Com
local Dr. W. D. Brown native
of this city, will deliver the principal address.
special the people of the city,
While speakers other cities have
desire to hear what the Individuals who live
and right here with them have to
Wheatey House operating of the vital factors IN
cultural life the
definite field and prepared today to stick to
things inviting the Negroes community leaders to
this the Wheatey Auxiliary evidence OF day
relationship between the community house and the public
seeks to
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09

of the picture could rest our idea
as to whether we'd want to see the
picture or not.
No doubt many people upon
knowing the true nature of this pic
ture would remain away if reports
about it are found to be correct.
Others, and it is their perfect right,
would go to see it regardless.
But to our way of thinking, be-
ing insulted, even in technicolor, is
not ideal at all. And that gracious
gesture of the producers, wise guys
they are again, to eliminate the OBJ
jectional terms used, you know,
those that begin with an IN" and
sd" is something else that is
smelly, to say the least.
For after all, a skunk dressed up
in high hat is just a skunk. To
change the wording from an OBJ
jectionable epithet and leave the
true meaning or sense makes no
fundamental difference. If Holly
wood has to make a concession to
the South, especially that part
which is most inimical to Negro
aspirations and progress, if Holly
wood has to break over and pat it's
southern brothers on the back with
G.W.T.W., it seems logical that Ne
groes would refrain from paying
any part of the bill.
We know that many people will
see "Gone With The Wind" in spite
of hell and high water. There are
Negroes, thank God only a few,
however, who agree with Bilbo's in
sane rawlings about Negroes, those
who feel that Negroes should not
want to enter M. U. or any other
Southern institution, Negroes who
feel that fighting for an anti-lynch-
ing bill is mere foolishness, but
such is a part of the struggle of
any people battling for place in
the sun. America had it's Benedict
Arnold as had every nation it's folk
who "sell it short"
We are thankful that there will
always be that small but powerful
minority that will even make per-
sonal sacrifices for the good of
their people. So far as we are con-
cerned personally, instead of "Gone
With The Wind" We'll take Mickey
Mouse" or "Popeye." And we have
a sneaky feeling that "Gone With
The Wind" is going to be no great
shakes in Negro theatres.
For when we think of 81 900 900,
technicolor, Hollywood's substitute
for a story and acting, and then
those rebel yells from that Atlanta
premier, well, it's just too close to
1863 for this corner to want to sit
in for four hours.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09

A nationwide Catholic organiza-
ton has put a, definite ban on
"Gone With the Wind" that $4,-
100000 epic which glorifes slavery
so much that on it's premiere in
that hotbed of Southern thought,
Atlanta, that it was greeted with
rebel yells and huzzanahs galore.
And this Catholic ban means
this: that for the most part chill
dren of the Catholic faith will not
see this picture of loose and fast
Southern morals. It means that q
million or more folk, all young and
of the coming generation of lead
ership, will not, have the vicious
propaganda of "Gone With The
Wind" added to whatever list of
prejudices they might have already.
Aside from being slandered and
held up to ridicule in this so-called
super-colossal picture made to out
do any other extra super-colossal
feature, in the parlance of a Holly
wood press agent, the most blowsy
of them all, a commercial angle ap-
ponds to G.W.T.W.
David J. Selznick, smart boy he,
producer of this film, and his Wall
street associates sunk about $4,-
100000 or more into this picture.
They are DESTROYS of making this
sum back plus another neat million
or so. And if Negroes even go to
see this Immortal thing" or the
other and contribute a million or
so dollars in doing so, despite the
fact they might get mad, hold pro-
test meetings and sign innumerable
petitions against this film, their
hard-earned dollars will have gone
into the till to further tighten the
moose of prejudice around their
neckS.
And a million dollars spent in
movie going might we'll be given to
those earnest folk who are trying
to put over a good job of making
all-Negro pictures.
If we want to be smart about this
"Gone With The Wind" picture, if
despite what has already been said
and written about this so-called
epic of these Southern parts of
America, we want to string along
and see this picture, let's be fair
and do little investigating on our
own, as loan company does be-
fore it lends it's money and takes
too much risk on loss.
Why not get as impartial a COM
mittee as possible, made up of Ne
groes and a few liberal whites if
necessary, have it view this picture
and then make public report as to
its findings. Upon such a review
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
Poetic Thoughts
By Morris Gibbs. Sr.
What Has Youth to Offer?


One must give in order to receive,
Is admitted by all people today,
For the time is past when deceive,
And think work be done anyway.
What has Youth to offer is the cry,
Echoed all the land.
When Youth gets employment they must realize,
To give little than they planned
Some have had special training,
To do certain jobs just right,
But they're still complaining
There's nothing for them in sight.
Gratitude should fill ones heart
For any educational advantage
For when opportunity gives you start
Advancement is quicker at increase in wage.
One without educational advantages,
Should not be made to feel,
That his services require low wages,
AS he needs subsistence besides a meal
Let the mental attitude of Youthful nation
Remember true ability from God
And all express limitation
When supported by His divine rod.
Such reasoning will free you,
Make you master in any attempt,
Adjustment is easy in any work you do,
Let ingrattude cause you not to be exempt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
Friday, February 9, 1910
Shows What Organized Effort Does

Persons who Halle O. Brown Building and Improve
men closed last week. went out to raise $4,000 IN
the Negro community and got over $6,5OO
This was 80 500 over what they and shows this
commended that things which we'll organized
are people and into which the spirit put are bound
to succeed.
One striking things about the drive the volunteer work
Sa Mrs John Patton John NJ Culver
civic drives Mrs Mary
and their coworkers represent part OF
the community know they have
their work and its results speak for
themselves.
The people Paul. Minneapolis should learn from
drive that with of their bust
ness institutions might have startling results Business
done for their profit which,
turn, would help the advancement of the community
of Halle Browns and those who
going out $4,000 needed should have ample
arguments to max their efforts a
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
REVIVAL BEGINS FEB. IL

Elder John La Grone of the
Church of God in Christ, 234 Fair
field, st. Paul, announced this week
the beginning of a religious re-
vival at his church on Feb. IL.
Elder Lizzie La Grone will con-
duct the special effort. Public cor
daily invited.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
DIRECT FROM AFRICA

In the year 1748, in Pennsyl-
vania, so many of the toes, ears
and fingers of the slaves were
frozen, unable to stand the rigid
winters of the North, being
brought direct from Africa, it was
considered more profitable to buy
the second generation from the
West Indies after they had been
acclimated.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
N.A.A.C.P. To Meet

The st. Paul branch of the
N.A.A.C.P. will meet Tuesday,
Feb. Is, at Halle @. Brown
House. All members are urged to
be present.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09

chairman and Florence Green, sec
Rotary. The group will meet the
first Friday of each month at 6
p. m. at Phyllis Wheatley. John
Thomas is advisor to the group.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
JULIUS ROSENWALD

357 Negro school buildings, locat-
ed in 883 counties of Is Southern
States, were constructed with Ros-
enwald aid.
STEWARD AT NAVAL SCHOOL
A law was in force in Maryland,
in 1847, that no free Negro should
enter the state.
Our Naval Academy, at Annapo-
lis, the school that trains our ma
val cadets to be future admirals,
and from which no Negro has ever
graduated, had in their employ in
1847 Negro steward Steward of
the school) that had been there
for over twenty years.
The steward asked permission to
bring to Annapolis his wife and
children. This permission was CIV
en- on condition that his family
should not leave the city, and could
remain so long only as the father
should be steward at the school.
Eliza, the heroine of Uncle
Toms Cabin, full name was Eliza
Harris.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
SENATOR BORAH

Borahs passing off the OF action
pass getting public life with liberal
liberal do when they against
question the with Senator BoraDes MONIES
Bystapder
FINLAND AND ETHIOPIA
From down, every prominent
help the Fnn eventually involves the
United States in the present European War;
involved the largely because
foad Powers this
country finally closely tied the destiny of the Allies
that were orcedt to the conflict.
the American itself talking about lending
money begerent the ground that fight
ing for democracy and therefore fighting for
that these people had to wait until Finland
threatened
Democracy also threatened when Ethiopia invaded by
Italy little Russia had for invading Finland and
perhaps less
Ethiopia had done nothing Italy both members of the
subdue a nation, then small nation SAFE
take stand for democracy but there
no hint suggestion President Roosevelt
the liberals wudden revealed friends democracy
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
"Listen to
This
d. uoLo,A ~ Ms%
THE ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
(Reading Between the Lines)
BY Hobart T. Mitchell

(Reading Between the Lines)
In Pierce ct al VS.. United States,
252 U. S. Reports 243, Justices
Brandeis and Holmes dissenting:
The fundamental right of free
men to strive for better conditions
through new legislation and new
institutions will not be preserved,
if efforts to secure it by argument
to fellow citizens may be con-
strued as criminal Indictment to
disobey the existing law-merely,
because the argument presented
seems to those exercising judicial
power to be unfair in it's portray
al of existing evils, mistaken in it's
assumptions, unsound in reasoning
or Incorporate in language.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
FIRST ALLIED TROOPS

The Eighth Illinois, colored, were
the first Allied troops to enter the
Fortress of Laon (French) when it
was taken from the Germans after
four years of fighting.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
GERMAN JIM CROW

Polish that Warsaw, recently conquered
Germans is to have jim street for Jews.
Naz No. Jews ineror No. g. Poles and Jews
unhealthy, and have spotted and typhoid fever.
How much like dear old Southland this
the Jews of jobs and schooling
inferior a and dseased.-Afro-A
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
POOR FOOL

the fool who takes his
he daisies the highway life
K:C. Call
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09

United
States be loaned Halle Seasse fight the
vandals of Mussoini.
Ethiopia bigger Finland Finland
was less prepared to defend herself than Finland.
The trouble with Ethiopia people
those of Finland.-Pttsburgh Courier.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-02-09
GONE WITH THE WIND
ITO SEE OR NOT TO SEE"

By Milton Bledsoe in the X. C. Call
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05
LEARNING TO DRIVE

More than one million boys and
girls reach driving age each year.
the Keystone Automobile Club points
out. in a statement emphasizing the
Importance of driver training in
high schools. This great number of
potential drivers inadequately train
ed for motor vehicle operation pre-
sents a serious problem, in the
opinion Of George e. Keneipp,
Manager of the Club,
MANY schools have adopted the
driver training course into their
curriculum" he said. quite few
have actual driving classes to sup
plement the classroom training. The
safety spotlight is being focused
more and more upon the youngsters
in whose hands will lie the safety
of travel ON our highways. It Is our
duty to see that the CHASTITY record
of deaths and injuries prevailing
today is not repeated by the coming
generation of drivers.
"a very large majority Of oper-
ators receive their instructions In
motor vehicle operation from relative
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05
The present program of the U. s.

The present program of the U. s..
for national defense, emissions the
largest peacetime military expendi-
lures in our history. Over period
of a few years, spending for defense
is to be progressively increased, and
the total will run far into the bill
lions.
There can be no question OF our
need for the worlds greatest defense
system. But it will be disastrous
mistake If we adopt a historical,
sNever mind the cost" attitude.
Some of the billions for defense must
be secured by reducing or elimina-
ting the appropriations for other
less important government activities.
All the energies of this great
country must be directed towards
making it secure from invasion. TO
release those energies requires re-
dedicating this nation to the ideals
envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
High-sounding phrases are t
enough. Preparation against the
possibility Of invasion is grim and
costly business. Never in the history
of our country was it SO important
for government to cooperate with
Individual enterprise or for individual
enterprise to cooperate with govern
ment. Never was it so important to
eliminate waste in government, In
individual enterprise and in family
life, in order to perpetuate liberty
and opportunity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05

When Democrats join hands in an
election year" to fight for common
cause, that's news of a kind that Rip
ley likes to glorify!
Yet, with the political pot boiling
over, and the November elections ap-
preaching, that's exactly what's hap
pened in Maryland, as the heads of
the two great parties in the State
found the same answer to at least one
question the voters will be called upon
o decide at the polls.
Governor Herbert r. O'Conor and
former Governor Harry w. Nice this
week put partisan politics aside to
pledge their support to the Constitu-
,ional Amendment designed to i'm
prove the Peoples Court of Baltimore
City.
Governor O'Conor, now actively en-
ragged in the fight to thwart the Sena-
.orial ambitions of former Governor
Nice, and Mr.. Nice, who was defeated
by Mr.. O'Conor for the Governorship,
have, for the first time in their
political lives, found a question upon
which they see "eye to eye"
State Wide Committee Planned
Reuben Oppenheimer, chairman Of
the Citizens Committee for the adop-
ton Of the Peoples Court Amendment
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05


or friends, who may or may not have
had any particular qualifications for
teaching beyond the personal poses
sion of operating licenses. Most OF
the training consists Of learning
the actual physical movements nec-
essary to make car start and stop.
Other factors essential to skillful
driving are largely left for 'exper-
ience'.
Driving powerful motor. We
hicle over today's modern high
speed roads has become more than
knack that is just picked up.
automobile operation has ceased to
be a purely physical accomplishment
but has reached degree where mem
tai attitude plays an increasingly
important part. 1t is up to us to make
tomorrow's drivers mentally alert
to the responsibilities of driving.
and the logical place to do this is
in the schools"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05

THE NATIONS
DRINKING HABITS
Nv THE wv C. r. II.

BY THE w. U. i. U.
NTID-YEAR of 1910 will mark the
Iva seventh anniversary of 80
beers legalization and the start Of
the repeal period.
A sufficient time has elapsed for
a limited survey of repeats social
effects. Such survey of the state
of the nations drinking habits would
be difficult at any time; good, solid
facts are particularly hard to see
clearly after precipitation for such
a short period, but some are avail
able.
Such evaluation is best based on
the few cold facts available, in COM
parison with similar totals for the
prohibition and pre-prohibition Pc
RODS, and by Interpretation of those
straws in the wind which, if their
direction is properly read, will in
dictate the first STRINGS of a new
social movement.
One fact is clearly visible after
seven years. experimentation with
repeal: Neither vets nor drys are
satisfied with administration and So
cial effects of the alcoholic beverage
industry.
Another fact which looms large
to any close observer is: That the
growing dissatisfaction with social
and human results of liquor drink
ing, the still-isolated but increasing
demands for stricter regulation are
basically spontaneous, actually ow-
ing little to any current national &C.
tivities of the great dry organize
tons in the years since 1888.
The year of 1899 brought many
public evidences of this feeling, not
as yet a majority reaction against
alcohol but definitely strong con-
viction that harmful social effects
must be eliminated.
The general public, in between the
wet and dry extremes, hasn't
reached the point of trying to define
a solution. Their strongest criti-
cisms, which now are seeping into
the editorial columns of a prepon-
derantly pro-repeal press, are: of
"Young kids getting sloppy drunk
all the time in those taverns," of
''drunks running over people in the
Streets" of saloon conditions sur
rounding taverns in otherwise quiet
neighborhoods, of the growing fire.
quency of tavern influences in stud
les of causes of juvenile-and adult
crime.
Recognition that this ground swell
Of public opinion against repeal liq-
uor conditions and results does ex-
list and is growing is certainly not
to be taken as prediction that
prohibition is just around the cor
ner." No intelligent and studious OBJ
server would climb out on such
limb.
Viewed broadly the liquor picture
now is a concentrated re-run of the
pre-prohibition period, with a few
new actors on the film. Public opin-
ion is swinging from pro-wet through
a Experimentation toward pro-
dry. Again Demon Rum is the vii
lain, and skeptical audience is
wondering If the liquor-crime-po
tics trio has changed in the slightest
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05
Democrats And Republicans Unite In Drive To
Assure Passage Of Peoples Court Amendment
Governor O'Conor And Former Governor Nice Pledge
Organized Support In Non-Partisan
Reform Move.

to the Maryland Constitution, an
nounced this week that Statewide
organization to help assure the pass
age of the measure is being formed.
A State chairman will be named,
and each of the % counties will be
actively represented in the non-par-
tisan group. y
Mr.. Oppenheimer pointed out that
the amendment will transform the
Peoples Court from an unwieldly,
costly, inefficient Magistrates Court
into a real court. He also stressed
the point that the amendment would
eliminate politics from the election Of
judges and from the appointment Of
ccnstables and clerks.
"The passage of the amendment will
inflict no expenses of any kind on any
county of the State, or upon the State
Government. The expenses Of the
Court will continue to be paid by the
taxpayers Of Baltimore"
The amendment also clears the way
for any other city or county In the
State to set up a similar Court by
simply securing the consent Of the
Legislature. However, such action
must be initiated by the county or
city seeking a Court. It is in no way
mandatory.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05
SOIL EROSION CONTROL

BY means of two terraces con-
structed at cost Of approximately
$4,000 Willard Derr succeeded in
controlling soil erosion on his farm
in the Middletown valley at time
when other farms in that section
were badly washed.
As there was no terracing machin-
cry available in this community, Mr..
Derr used v drag and plow to
throw up ridge which conducted
the water to the side of the field. He
had an engineer of the Soil Conserva-
ton Service of the U. S. Department
Of Agriculture lay out his terraces.
The two terraces had a total
length of 800 feet. The v drag
cost only $1.95. Other items of ex-
pense were for gasoline. oil and
labor.
Mr.. Derr Ii one of the supervisors
of the Catoctin Soil Conservation
District, one of the five districts that
have been formed in Maryland under
Q law passed by the General Assem-
bly, In 1887. The purpose of the law,
he states, is to enable farmers to act
comparatively and as group In con-
trolling erosion in their area.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05

What this country is beginning to
do is to change from peace econ
omy to military economy. That
involves readjustment which appar-
emily few as yet throughly under
stand. When the Nazis came to power
in postwar Germany the slogan was,
"Guns, not butter. The result of the
ruthless application of that slogan
was a steady declining standard OF
living and, according to unprejudiced
authorities, serious decline in the
general standard Of public health.
More and more of the national in
come went for state purposes--less
and less was left in the hands OF the
people. To lesser extent, all the
European nations, which have been
on war footing for many years,
have undergone the same experience.
And now it looks as if we are to
undergo it too.
This doesn't mean that the United
States will follow the same road as
the Nazis. We are far richer coun-
try, possessed of resources which no
European power can equal. There
is no question now Of devoting so
per cent of our income (Which is the
proportion being spent in Germany
for military purposes. But it does
mean, unless the commentators are
wrong, that all factors in our nation
al life will be called upon to make
serious sacrifices to the end that we
be made as secure as possible from
successful invasion. 1t means that
we will have fewer luxuries, fewer
dollars to spend as individuals, in
order that we may have more air
planes, tanks, battleships, and other
implements of defense.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-07-05
MARYLAND FIRST STATE TO
ADOPT SIX-YEAR FINANCIAL
PLANNING

Maryland's major financial PLAN
ming will be done on six-year
advance basis hereafter, according
to general plan to which Governor
Herbert R. O'Conor has just given
approval. No other State in the Union
plans so far in advance at the present
time.
Authority for such long-range
planning, given by the Legislature
of 1888, was resurreced by Governor
O'Conor some months ago, in con-
junction with the functioning of the
Department of Budget and Procure
ment created by the General Assem-
bly, of 1889. 1t is expected that
advantage of this new planning set
up will be taken for the first time
in connection with the preparation of
the new budget beginning October /.
The program provides for the
listing by each State developing
agency of needed projects, with their
priority and estimated cost, covering
a period Of at least six years; the
assembly and review of these pro-
grams from a State planning view
point, and their use in connection
with the preparation of the next
budget. The advance programming
is expected to result in the prepar-
alton of a schedule of probable future
capital requirements for the two
biennial periods beyond that to be
covered by the budget, subject to
revision and extension every two
years.