Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-12-12
News i'm Brief
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(With Editors COmment)

ceived what we imagine will be our
last copy of THE JAPANESE
AMERICAN REVIEW. Founded
in 1900, published in New York,
and entered in the New York Post
office as secOnd-class matter, it has
been sent to most editors ever since
Nippon joined up with Herr Hitler.
Filled with propaganda which re-
tailed Japan's great love and ad-
miratiOn for the u. S. the RE-
VIEW was in complete (treacher-
Ous) character.
Negroes who have just griev-
ances against Americas treatment
of the race as a whole will now
"close ranks" and work for COM
plete unity and an about effort to
repel Japan or any nation which
declares war on the U. s. Is it too
much to ask that anti-Negro, anti
democratic demagogues like Gov
ernor Talmadge of Georgia be
silenced for the duration?
You don't have to take our word
for it that Talmadge is what we
called him and worse. Take the
word of three white sOutherners,
all patriotic men of standing.
Said Virginius Dabney, editor of
the Richmond (Va.) Times, ut is
~ an anomalous circumstance that
the South, which seems more clear
" aware of the Nazi menace than
any other region of the U. S.,
should have produced Talmadge
whose bigotry and reactionism tend
to negate the very things which the
South as whole shows it is will
ing to fight for"
Herbert Agar, editor of the pO-
tent Louisville Courier Journal, had
this to say of the Georgia Governor
who recently boosted he was fog
ger, eve know where Hitler stands.
It is up to the citizens Of Georgia
to make sure that Gov. Talmadge
does not put them on the wrong
side of the fence"
Silliman Evans of the Nashville
Tennessean and publisher of the
new Chicago Sun asked, "Was
Apostle Paul ever member of the
Ku Klux Klan?" Some readers will
remember that red gallused Gene
Talmadge has compared himself
with the Apostle Paul!
Writing on Talmadge, Robert G.
Spivack, a member of the Eight
for Freedom" Press Committee,
comments, paul was bad and re-
formed. Gene was never any good
and hasn't reformed, anyhow.
ct may take a Gene Talmadge to
awaken Americans to the realities
of life on the home front, every so
often. We have been getting
little snug of late. Hitler has been
such a bloody bully that we've
tended to overlook our own variety
of petty-tyrants who hold public
office. But Governor Gene the
man with the shell-rimmed glasses,
the mOrOnic look and the whip in
his hand, won't let us forget that
this is a twO-frOnt fight. We can
thank him for that"
As we Americans prepare to de-
fend our country, it might be well
that we take stock and make
start toward making every citizen
glad he is an American and glad
that he must make sacrifices for
the preservation of America. Our
leaders in civil and military affairs
wherever they can will do this
country a favor by ending as much
of the Jim Crow in civil and mill
tary war preparations as is pos
sible. Mind you, the Negro is not
going to let previous mistreatment
affect his loyalty to America but
that loyalty strong as it is would
be much stronger if in the nations
hour of extreme need there would
be a cessation of race discrimina-
ton.
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It is no accident and it is no
credit to Twin City defense plants
like Minnesota Mining, Minneapolis
Honeywell, Northern Pump, Dia-
mond Iron Works, Flour City Orna-
mental Iron Works that they have
ignored the Negro who has wanted
to work in the defense industries.
Now that we are at war it's time
for the operators of these plants
to wake up and recognize that the