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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Ford Approves 'POrgy"

Speaking public meeting the Minnesota Union this week,
University Minnesota
approval the Commun fight against the showing the
film Birth of Nation but disagreed with protests about Dubose
Heyward's play "Porgy," being presented on the
record straight and order that
Ford heartily disagree with him. write this ed
possible that there be people the Twin
that of the President of the University
worthy of consideration
of a which perstenty provoked
antNegro feeling in almost place where has been
falls the although it does
stereoypes
the immoral full of murderOu
passions, generally below the line of human decency
illustrations of Negro life give
successes then he much misguided How
he had denied
problems promote and
religious prejudice the of racial mscon
ceptons via the legitimate
president his speech stated that should
get the other fellow and look from
he had followed his advice he would have
able tired being pictured the
the the They hearing vulgar
family the lips Negro characters the They
who Negroes fairly reek with
morality. They disguised with the paadng of egmay and
ignorance the of dramatic portrayal
address last Dr. Ford stated that
eactonay would rights equally with the
To this would add the following
that Negroes would love the things which
dislike equally with the bgot who devises
the instruments with which prejudces concOcted"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Our Honor Roll

very easy rghting Negro rights, and
of the people who complain
opportunity do something about those complaints by taking
a real stand public view, it's another story entirely.
Others who organized the effective
picket kept several hundred people of the theatre show
Nation that of those who shoot
off big gate lacking real The which
LEADERS" of the community offered welngh
ridiculous
Admitting that pckeng technic among local Negroes
logical and effective to combat The
cities have utilized this method for several
years. Birth Nation, attack the Negro
people, citizens would have rallied around
legitimate attempt film Pcketng of those at
with the coored
kept a dollar from the offending theatres Golfers
the white who walked the picket
line brothers right We honor those
Negro citizens the walk that picket line
perpetual Minneapolis community honor roll will have in
coors the of Rev. c. F. Stewart Mar
grte and Frances Brown Herbert Howell Curtis
Chiver Noses Robert Ben Srre Brown Mil
dred Srader Srader Williams James W. Sempons
Helen and Clarence Thompson De Vema and Oscar
Brown, Timothy Mills Gertrude
Boldly Wade and Elmer Chidress JOS d. Ware
Harvey Nash Al Swayze and Pauline Alexander
mighty PROUD OF every OF you
mother, father daughter and son.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
IMAGINATION

We can always imagine what we
would do
If we were in the other fellows
shoes,
But still there's nothing quite so
right
AS for the same experience to put
our imagination to flight.
Sometimes conditions don't allow
US to think,
Catch US off guard and we can
hardly wink,
At what happened was said or
Because unexpected events just
won't let our mind run.
When in trouble or in financial dis
tress,
We can think of more things that
don't give us rest,
Imagining what we should have
done
To forestall the sad condition that
has begun.
Don't let your imagination run
away with you,
And not allow yourself a chance
to think,
For stable thoughts are only re-
ceived
When the mind or the individual is
relieved.
Let's imagine frequently how
much good we can do,
For that's the best way to occupy
our time,
Not thoughtlessly laundering here
and there
So cultivate a right imagination
and to yourself be fair.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Marvin Kline Lives Up to Best Traditions

of Minneapolis halted the scheduled indefinite show
breeding film, The Birth of Nation after it
picket lines Acting Mayor
alderman of the Eighth Ward stood the high
that the theatre where the film
showing, either halt face loss of its license.
exercising political expedency because his
Negro families population of $4,000 souls.
simply carried the best traditions of Minneapolis which do
the exhibition of propaganda film which has its
primary stirring racial dscord Alderman Kline left
hoseat Mayor Geo. E. Leah absence at Texas
convention clearly indicated that he high of public official
commentator minded believer racial
understanding and tolerance.
City Attorney Richard Wggn lived his lifelong reputation
mparay all sides strengthening Mr. Kline in his
Harvey Nash, Reed and Pauline Alexander.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

attainments. The white pres sell
dom caters to this sort of news.
Our people get thrills when their
Hkenesses are produced on the
front page; they gloat and rare
back" when editorials are written
praising their efforts. Individuals
are extremely interested in reading
about themselves, but their interes.
is not sustained and their interest
is not deep enough to provoke con-
centrated efforts to aid the pub
fishers. The Negro papers are
thing removed when they are not
engaged in special effort and for
that reason the papers have not
made themselves felt in their i'm
mediate communities as they
should.
The chief revenue comes to the
publishers through the medium Of
their advertising columns, and bust
ness that thrives from the money
of our people, both white and col
ored owned, has not looked favor
ably upon the Negro press.
If the general public of ours is
interested in interfering their or
gans of expression; if they are in
terested in robust, forceful conten-
ton for their rights and privileges,
then support the Negro papers,
boost them, patronize their adVer-
tisers, tell the business people their
value and the general progress and
advancement will be stimulated.
If the Negro press had to depend
entirely upon Negro business to
support it from an advertising
standpoint, it would witness many
poverty-stricken days. In both
North and South the Caucasian and
the Jew are slowly but surely
teaching the Negro leaders of bust
ness that 1T Pays to Advertise"
in the Negro press.-From the Chi
cago Defender.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

West Africa ashanti, Dahome,
Benin and the Lower Niger; Lii
IBERIA of the olden times, the Ivory
Coast, Southern Nigeria, the Cam
eroons and the inner basin of the
Congo.) So far as the sum of hu-
man misery in Africa was con-
cerned, it is probable that the
trade in slaves between the CONT
nent and America scarcely added
to it. 1t even to some extent miti-
gated the suffering of the Negro in
his own home; for once this trade
was set on foot and it was profit
able to sell human being, many a
man, woman or child who might
otherwise have been killed for mere
caprice, or as a toothsome ingre-
dent of a banquet, was sold to a
slave trader. Criminals who would
have been executed for serious or
trivial offenses were spared for the
same purpose. BUTT was in the sea
transit to America under condi-
tons several times referred to in
this column, and in the after treat
ment of the slave when he or she
reached these shores, that the I'M
pardonable cruelty occurred.
IN THE RECORD
John Adams, attorney for the
British soldiers in the killing of
Crispus Attacks (Negro), the first
man to die for the country, in his
plea in defense of the soldiers
called Attacks and his associates
"A motley rabble of saucy boys,
Negroes and mulattoes."
John Adams was later president
of the United States from 1897
to 1901.
THE CENSUS OF 1880
The Bureau of the Census, in
1880, reported 3,777 Negro heads
of families who owned slaves.
NEGRO SOLDIER CAPTURES
MAJOR-GENERAL
A Negro soldier, by the name of
Prince, captured Major-General
Prescott of the British army, on
the 9th of July, TIT. The exploit
was much commended at the time,
as its results were highly impor-
tant.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

systems of espionage, this is nc
time for America to invite these
monsters within our gates by max
I ing gladiators out of cowardly
night riders, vigilantes and Ku
Kluxers, as is done in THE Birth
of a Nation"
Let US view these things in their
proper perspective, in their rela-
tionship to the nation as a whole.
The leaders of the South were
not American heroes but rebels
and enemies of the United States
just as was Germany an enemy
in 1918.
Abraham Lincoln was not only
the liberator of the slaves, but the
symbol of a unified nation of forty
eight States, one and indivisible-
of the people, by the people and
for the people. Any section or part
of our body polite which refuses to
accept him as such and reverence
the things for which he stood are
as much an enemy of our nation as
any foreign agent or alien who
seeks to overthrow our govern
ment. Such subversive activities
should be stamped out.
TALE OF THREE CITIES
America has long permitted the
tail to wag the dog by allowing
certain cities to rule the nation.
Once New York with its Wall
Street went wild and plunged US
into a depression. Chicago once
took over dominance, and under
the Capones, the Dillingers and
others spread a reign of terror
over us by gangsterism.
Now Hollywood, with its greed
and control over the minds of our
youth, is dragging US toward an
other national catastrophe of sec
tional hatred and discord.
This new threat must be headed
off now. We must not have a tale
of three cities. We must prevent
revival of THE Birth of a Nation"
by letting Hollywood know that we
consider it "The Curse of a Ma
ton"
Write to Will Hayes, Hollywood,
California, today.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

Hear Eta Molten April rs, st.
Paul Central High SchOOl.-advt.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

for gluttony, to obtain victims for
their cannibal feasts, now they
started forth in war canoes to raid
for slaves which might be bar
tered for trade goods with the in
termediary tribes on the River
Kwango.
The wars between one native
tribe and another, which were car
ried on for the ultimate purpose of
supplying slaves for America, had
existed previously-though not on
a large scale. Eunuchs, concubines
and servants were required for the
Moslems 1.-THE Eastern slave-trade)
and victims for the human sacri-
fees and cannibal feasts of bloody
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Poetic Thoughts
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.

Count that day lost
Whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand
No worthy action DONE"
Selected
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
HAS CHARACTER

March 3rd, 1910.
Editor: The Minneapolis Spokes-
man has made a place for itself in
my reading matter.
To me it is more than another
paper. 1t is and it has a character
that no other paper can fill in this
great Northwest.
Your subscriber,
Elder S. Armound Douglas
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Why Are We
Ashamed Of Our
Products?
By Lucius Harper

ny LuGluS harper
No activity is playing a more
forceful or important part in the
advancement and development of
the Negro people throughout the
world than the group of news
papers published by the dark
skinned pioneers in the United
States. We sometimes doubt
whether the relationship of these
"mouth-pieces" has been intelli-
gently understood by the colored
race, and we are positive that they
have not been appreciated and pat
ronized as they should.
There are Negroes today, mostly
college bred, who will not admit
openly that they are readers of
colored newspapers. They comprise
the class among US who delight in
running from themselves" Down
the line, however, they finally get
stripped" and sheepishly wander
back into our racial fold. Very
often after this re-dedication ven
ture, we find them emerging on
platforms as Race leaders"
Recently a white auto firm seek
ing to attract lucrative trade
among us, advertised a certain type
of car EXCLUSIVELY in colored
papers circulated in Chicago to test
these papers pulling power" The
firms manager was highly pleased
with results obtained, but he was
puzzled and somewhat amazed
over one incident in each of five
transactions.
When he asked his colored Gus
toners where they had read the
advertisement (he already knew
where they had) in each and every
case they quoted a white morning
newspaper as their informer, which
was entirely contrary to the fact.
His bills of sales showed his GUS
toners to be physician, insurance
agent, school teacher, beauty shop
operator and janitor. This white
man, unknowingly, had faced five
Negroes in various avenues of life
who possessed a highly developed
inferiority complex.
They were eager and anxious to
identify themselves with anything
whichever if they had to lie abou,
it-and, on the other hand, ashamed
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
THE CURSE OF A NATION"
By Ralph Matthews
From The Baltimore
AfrO-Americar


We were afraid something like
this would happen-we mean, that
the success of Gone With the
Wind" financial and otherwise,
would give rise to a series of pic
lures based on the struggle be-
tween the North and the South.
That is exactly what has hap
pened, and already Hollywood is
busy making plans to revive "The
Birth of a Nation"
If ever the public should get up
on its hind legs and rebel against
the trash that Hollywood has been
ramming down our unprotesting
Threats in the name of entertain
ment, now is the time.
No film caused more racial
strife and rancor during the last
quarter century than "The Birth of
a Nation" as a silent picture, and
only the arrival of the talkies rele-
gated this evil and vicious race
batting propaganda to the grave of
Anticipated relics.
But so keen are the appetites of
the descendants of the defenders
of the lost cause, and so anxious
are witless Yankees to sop up the
maudlin sentiment of the Old
South, that this atrocity has been
rugged with sound effects and like
an ugly ghost is now stalking the
earth rafting it's chains of intoler-
ance in the ears of a people who
would forget that human slavery
once held America in its grimy
grip.
STOP THIS CYCLE
With the cash registers Changing
to the tune of profits from "Gone
With the Wind" another hate-pro-
voking epic, it is not surprising
that the greedy eyes of cinema
moguls have turned again to the
Birth of Nation" and plan to
revive it on a grander and more
colossal scale. Hollywood moves in
cycles, but this is one cycle that
MUST be broken, now.
This is more than a racial ques-
ton; it is a matter of grave ma
tional concern, and the white guar
dams of the Ship of State should
appreciate the danger.
With half the world on fire with
national and racial hatreds, this is
no time to reopen old sores at
home.
With the great powers of Eu-
rope threatened from without by
international gangsterism, based
on the myth of racial superiority,
America will be doing a grave in
justice to it's national unity to flood
the motion picture screens of the
nation with themes clarifying the
advocates of disunion and draping
the leaders of rebellion in heroic
garb.
With the world already crushed
under the heel of Nazism, Fascism
Communism and Imperialism, with
human rights disregarded, civil
liberties denied with autocracy
rampant and personal freedom
over-ridden and crushed by the
mailed fist of dictatorship with the
aid of secret police and vicious
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

Negroes flock to newspaper Of
fees offended and aggrieved when
the Race is publicly insulted; they
come in droves when there is fla
grant discrimination and segrega-
ton; they come when they have
been assaulted and maltreated.
They come whenever they deem
that they have been mistreated
within their own ranks. 1t is evil
IDENTIFY believed that the papers
have some latent power and stand
in position to make general resent
ment forcefully felt.
There is an inherent respect for
the printed word in times of
trouble. Individuals enjoy the serv-
ices of the Negro press when there
is personal gain involved; they love
to read of their achievements and
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
DOMESTIC TROUBLES

The Negro suicide rate is nearly
two-thirds as high as the whites.
The rural Negro seldom commits
suicide, but this cannot be said of
the Negro who lives in the city
more financial and domestic
troubles,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
CALCIUM
The Great Human
Need

People of all ages need calcium
and few today get a sufficient
amount of it for the greatest or
most abundant health.
The best and the cheapest source
of calcium is in dairy products.
The lower the income for food,
the greater the need for more of
dairy products is the regular every
day diet of all of us.
Fresh fluid pasteurized m k
daily in some form should be used,
either as a beverage or in cooked
food.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
''Listen to
This"
BARTER IN HUMAN FLESH
By Hobart T. Mitchell

1825-In the dim recesses of the
Congo basin, naked savages began
to realize that there was world
outside their encircling ring of
gorilla-haunted forests, a world
which would barter for war-cap-
tives. Hitherto they had made war
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to praise anything black, though
they were spending their own
money to aid its progress.
The entire Race should awaken
to the fact that their newspapers
are indispensable to their welfare.
These papers are the veritable
guardian angels of our rights as
citizens, and the watch-dogs Of our
liberties. They defend, inform, an
ticipate, explain, analyze and dag
nose the intricacies of life among
our people. There is no other
source or means for the Race to de-
pend upon and the man who is in
terested in his own welfare is being
driven to the recognition of this
stern reality.
Because of the fact that our
newspapers are in their embryonic
state and have only recently taken
on the garb of modernity, they
have been regarded as struggling
experiments, but in late years the
power and Importance of the Negro
press has been demonstrated in
positive fashion. What would we
do without it?