Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-09-12
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Out of a total of 74S,538 students
enrolled in WPA adult education
classes during April of this year,
165,O86 were Negroes. UnemplOy-
ment dropped 100000 in August ac-
cOrding to reports from Washing
ton. What the dailies did not
print concerning CatOe, the attack
suspect in Washington, was that
the man is definitely insane. Min
nesOta editors helped save IL traf-
fic lives this year. They will re-
double their efforts to "Save 100
Lives" in the period from Septem-
Der 1871 to September 1912. Give
them a hand!
Twenty-six sheep sheared of 1879
pounds of wool are necessary to
clothe one of Uncle Sans soldiers
for his first year of service. Practi-
cally all of the nations Negro
newspapers carried the story of
Gov. Harold E. Stassen VS.. the
Minnesota Negro Defense Commit
tee. Our governor will be very well
known to Americas Negro popula-
ton if the controversy keeps up.
According to George Washington
Hill, president of the American To-
bacco Co., claims a stout colored
woman figured in the "Reach for
Lucky" theme and slogan for his
firms Lucky Strike cigarettes. Ne
gro publishers wish Mr.. Hill would
remember that when his firm
makes up it's advertising budgets!
The two soap manufacturers are
beginning a huge advertising cam
paign. Negroes use more soap than
any other racial group. They not
only buy plenty of soap for their
own use, but Negro dOmestics and
personal servants control the pur-
chases of soap by their white en-
.plOyers. Yet, not one of the Negro
newspapers in the country will be
found carrying soap advertising
copy.
The anti-F. D. R. CHICAGO
TRIBUNE chides Mrs. Roosevelt
because her husband did not force
Southern Democrats to support
anti-lynching legislation. The Ne
gro BUFFALO AMERICAN, F. D.
r. supporter, asks the TRIBUNE,
what about Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover?
Federal Works Administrator
John M. CarmOdy halted discrimi-
nation against Negro carpenters
who were working on 500 unit
defense housing unit at Mobile,
Ala. In a wire to the white union
CarmOdy cited Presidents recent
order and the union decided to for
get its preiudices. Archie L.
Weaver of Chicago, in a circular
letter, claims the NAACP national
office and its board of directors
have ignored his request that some
honor be paid William Pickens.
The J. C. Penney Co. recently
discharged its only Negro employee.
Ben Peery and Webster Stovall are
reported button-holing citizens CIV
ing them the "lowdown" on Frank
Alsup, chairman of the Minnesota
Negro Defense Committee. Messrs.
Peery and Stovall, and others not
so vocal, don't like the way the
Defense Committee boys and girls
have been going out after Gov.
Stassen. A part of their line of
argument is that Frank Alsup
comes from Alabama! They don't
say anything about the obvious fact
that a great number of both the
whites and Negroes in Minnesota
came here from some other state
or country. We imagine that Frank
Alsup and his committee are much
too busy trying to improve the
status of Minnesota Negroes in the
defense program to spend time an
swering Peery and Stovall. How
ever, citizens ought to be prepared
for a smear campaign against the
committee and its chairman. We
know Mr.. Stovall doesn't hold it
against Rev. Thos. B. Stovall, his
illustrious dad, because he was
born in Kentucky, and if we're not
mistaken Ben Peery was born in
cole Mizzuri," our home state
Cecil Newman.