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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-09-03

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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Ford Approves "POrgy"

Speaking public meeting the Minnesota Union this week,
Guy the University of Minnesota expressed
approval Communts fight against the showing of the
Nation but disagreed with protests about Duboe
Heywards play "Porgy" being presented on the
the record straight and in order that
heartily disagree with him. write this edl-
just possible there be people in the Twin
the the President of the University
art worthy of consideration.
film which has perssenty provoked
feeling almost place where has been
falls the Glass; although it does not
does tereoypes Negroes
stereoypes immoral full of murderous
passions generally below the line of human decency
feels such illustrations of Negro life give
successes he much misguided How
stated that he had denied forum
problems promote religious anagonsm and acentuae
religious prejudice through and the promotion of racial miscon
ceptions via the legitimate stage
president in his Speech stated that should try to
get the other fellow and look from it
things had followed his advice he would have
tired of pictured the
the They of hearing vulgar
the lips of characters the They
tired the who Negroes fairly reek with
disguised with the paradng of egitmacy and
ignorance in the of dramatic portrayal
address last Dr. Ford stated that
eactonay rights equally with the
would them To this would add the foowng
that Negroes would love the things which
equally with the bigo who devises
the instruments with which prejudices concoced"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Poetic Thoughts
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.
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
done
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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Our Honor Roll

very about rghting Negro rights and
the people who complain
opportunity something about those complaints taking
real stand in public view, it's another story entirely
and Others who organized the effective
hundred the theatre show
Birth Naon found that of those who shoot
big lacking real The which
community offered well-nigh
ridiculous
Admitting that pckeng tehnic local Negroes
still legal logical and effective combat The
cities utilized this method for
With Birth Nation attack the Negro
would that the citizens would rallied around
legitimate halt the film Pketng of those at
whites who joined with the coored
kept many dollar from the offending theatres Golfers
the white who walked the picket
their colored brothers right We honor those
Negro walk that picket line
Minneapolis community honor roll will have in
bright colors the of Rev. c. F. Stewart Mar
gute Harold Combs Frances Brown Herbert Howell Curtis
Chvers Noses Robert Belon Sirre Brown Mil
Strad William Frances Williams, James W. Semmons,
Smith, Thompson De Vema and Oscar
Skinner Eunice Brown Timothy Mills, Gertrude
Preston and Elmer Chldres JOS D. Ware,
Harvey NASH Al Swayze, Sam and Pauline Alexander.
we'll done we're mighty proud of of
mother, father, daughter and son.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Why Are We
Ashamed OF Our
Products?
By Lucius 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
'"tripped" and sheepishly wander
back into our racial fold. Very
often after this rehabilitation 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 a 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 about
it-and, on the other hand, ashamed
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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 hui
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. It 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 banquet, was sold to a
slave trader. Criminals who would
have been executed for serious or
trivial offenses were spared for the
same purpose. But it was in the sea
transit to America under condi-
tions 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, 1777. The exploit
was much commended at the time,
as its results were highly impor-
tant.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, 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 (the Eastern slave-trade)
and victims for the human sacri-
fees and cannibal feasts of bloody
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
Marvin Kline Lives Up to Best Traditions

Minneapolis halted the scheduled indefinite show
breeding fm Th Birth of Nation after it
and picket lines Acting Mayor
alderman the Eighth Ward stood the high
that
halt loss of its license
No he exercising political expedenc because his
families population of $4,000 souls
simply the best traditions of Minneapolis which do
the exhibition of propaganda film which has its
the racial dscord Alderman Kline left
"hotsea Mayor Geo. Leachs absence at Texas
convention clearly indicated that he high of public official
fairmnded believer racial
understanding and tolerance.
City Attorney Richard Wggn lived his lifelong reputation
fairness and mpary all sides strengthening Mr. Kline in his
right Minneapolis Spokesman.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

attainments. The white press sell
dom caters to this sort of news.
Our people get thrills when their
likenesses 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 interest
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 ut Pays to Advertise"
in the Negro press.-From the Chi
cago Defender.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

systems of espionage, this is no
time for America to invite these
monsters within our gates by max
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 it's Wall
Street went wild and plunged us
into 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 it's 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 Nation"
by letting Hollywood know that we
consider it "The Curse of a Ma
tion."
Write to Will Hayes, Hollywood,
California, today.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
THE CURSE OF A NATION"
By Ralph Matthews
From The Baltimore
AfrO-American

AIrO-Amerlcan
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
Nation" as 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 it's 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 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 its national unity to food
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
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
BARTER IN HUMAN FLESH

1825-In the dim recesses of the
Congo basin, naked savages began
to realize that there was a world
outside their encircling ring of
gorilla-haunted forests, a world
which would barter for war-cap-
tives. Hitherto they had made war
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
DOMESTIC TROUBLES

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.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

to praise anything black, though
they were spending their own
money to aid it's 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?
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. It 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
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12

Hear Eta MOten April 26, st.
Paul Central High SchOOl.-advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-04-12
"Listen to
This

By Hobart T. Mitchell
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-02

of the funniest features OF the
current season.
Having seen Barrymore a
number of times on the legiti-
mate stage and having fol-
lowed his, shall we say. hectic
career for many years, the
production impresses me as a
page from the real life of one
of the most unusual indi-
viduals.
The supporting cast, Mary
Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff
and Anne Baxter in particu-
lar, does an exceptionally fine
job of keeping up with the
gypsy of the footlights e.
and that. my friends, is no
trivial compliment! Anyone
who can stay in the same
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-02

block with Barrymore is no plker.
So much for the Barrymore riot now a word about
"Down Argentine Way
II is a technicoor feature with Don Ameche. Betty
Cradle and Carmen Miranda in the lead roles. Musl-
cal extravaganza describes il well term your
reviewer think Of at this moment
1t coorfu offering of music dancing and romanclng
isn't much story and there isn't much plot but there
rhumbas congas girls by the hundreds moon
:. a very big. bright and flowers everywhere
The writer would fever watching Don Ameche
but the picture entertaining if like that sort of screen
fare.
Lucky Mtzeyi
Mtzey little black and white Springer spaniel is very
lucky lady and the DR. NJ NJ Dodge family is just happy
MitZey lucky because the hayward tenale is sale
and sound . and back home again where she belongs.
Ii may have been Wednesdays thunderstorm or II
NAV have been just a dogs desire to see the world
In any case. Mitzey bolted the home corral and was
wandering amlessy downtown Broadway when
she was spotted BY Mrs. O. H. Hadley Of the Speedom
eter Service That Mitzey's first good break,
for the Hadleys love dogs few people love them.
Mrs Hadley took the wandering girl" home with her
Wednesday evening and then called your newsboy early
Yesterday morning ask for bit of story this column
for the purpose of finding Mitzey's folks.
hurried search of the classified ads revealed DIR.
Dodges notice that his pet was missing and a phone
call to Mrs Hadey brought the incident TO a close
Mitzey is home again and Thursday was a good day
for yours truly any time the writer assist IN finding
home for lost dog that day is successful one indeed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-02
Sea Yarn Opens
AT Roxy Today
Captain Coution"
In Local Premiere

With Victor Mature and Louise
Plat sharing stellar honors and a
strong supporting cast featuring
Leo GARLIC. Bruce Cabot. Nivi-
enne Osborne. Robert Barrst and
Miles mander. Hal Roachs sweep
ing sea epic. Captain Caution. 20
will have ITS initial showing al the
Roxy theater today
The new film production was
photographed from the famous
novel By Kenneth Roberts and vas
transferred to the screen from a
scenario written BY Grover Jones
Thrilling Story
Captain Caution" was directed
by Richard Wallace and its action
filled story unfolds against the
background OF the War Of 1912
when many exciting battles We're
fought on the open sea. It's story
focuses on the American merchant
vessel Olive Branch. which Is
homeward bound from the orient
when the war breaks and is cap
tured BY the English A great
battle ensues and the captain is
killed. After a series OF exciting
episodes, his daughter Corunna
gets the ship back and takes over.
Under her captainship. the Olive
Branch sails the high seas to
France, becomes involved in a hi
lacking venture through the ma
chinations Of willy slave-tr trader
and Is finally saved and returned
to her American port.
Comedy Featured
Sharing the screen at the Ham
rick house rs The Golden Fleece
ing" comedy eo-starring Lew
Ayres and Rita johnson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-02
Demand Show at the
Club Moderne TONIGHT

Tonight and tomorrow night the
Club Moderne will present IN a
demand return engagement. the
big anniversary floor show which
made such a hit with local night
club patrons.
So popular was the Paramount
Follies that II was necessary to
turn those away who did mot have
reservations. For that reason. the
management has booked the same
show for tonight and tomorrow
night. No change in price policy
has been made.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-02

NOW PLAYING AT
LOCAL THEATERS

hAhNf Hnon NJ
RoNY-victor Mature and Leo Car
rlIia IN Captain Caution q IS.
80. 7-lC 1910 also LeH ATres
and Rita johnson in -Ths Golden
Fleecing u &c 2 30. SIS SIS
RIAITo-Carv Grant Martha Scott
and Sir Cedrlc Bardwi n The
hoWaFds o. Virginia. il S. : 80
90 Z IS. 10 .o5
Nj ~IC BON-Don Ameche ana BETTY
grable in Down Argentine Way
: % 3 SIS 9 05 IO.l5. also John
Barr more and Mar Beth Hughes
IN The Great Profile i 30. 2 40.
RINIERA-George oBrien and viz
sinia Vale IN Triple Justice also
Jean Hershoif and Dorothy Jovett
IN DR. Christian Meets the
Women
BIZ D NOUS E-Wallace Beerv and
Marjorie Main IN Wyoming Il 30.
oo 445. 2 as io.l5 also Dennis
@ Keefe and Helen Parrish in I'm
Sooody.s Sweetheart Nov. ! O5
.. IS 8 90.
RETURN SHOWING
BENERLi-Joe penner and Martha
Rave il The Boys Prom Syracuse o..
also Brian Aherns in The Lady in
Question
COMMIT NITY-Wallace Beer and
Jackie Cooper IN The Champ.
also William Boyd In Hidden
Gold
NAY sTREET-Irene Dunno and Cary
Grant IN MY Favorite Wife also
George O'Brien and Virginia Vale
IN Prairie Law.
LAkENoOD - william Holden and
Fav BANTER in Our Town also
Billie Lee and Richard Lane in
he Biscuit Eater
PARk Mickey Rooney and JUDY Gar
land IN ANDY Hardy Meets De-
butante also Johnny Mack Brown
and Fuzzy knight IN Chip OF the
FLYING L"
fRoCToR-Baby Sandy and Nan
GREY IN Sandy Is Lady. also
Thomas Mitchell and Priscilla Lane
IN 3 Cheers For The Irish"
KIALARI Florence Rice and Kent
TAYLOR IN Girl in 3l3" also Bob
Burns and Mischa Auer in Alias
the Deacon
REN-Ann Dvorak and Helen Mack
IN Girls OF the Road" also william
Henry and Louise Campbell in
Emergency Squad"
Power and Dorothy
Lamour in johnny Apollo" also
Gene Autry and Jane Withers in
Shooting High
81 NsE1-Jane wyatt and Chester
Morris IN Girl From Gods Coun-
try. also Janice Logan and Bob
Paige in Opened bv Mistake
TEMPLE Bette Davis and Charles
Bower IN "All This and Heaven
Too also Jon Hall and Nancy
Kelly in Sailors Lady"