St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-09
This World
News Reel
March On D. C.
Saved So Lives
Buying Power Wasted
Coughlin & Anti-Semitism

News Keel: Earl b. DlckerSOn,
one of the nations men OF color and
a Chicago alderman, is coming to
Minneapolis May 1S. Rev. T. ].
King, pastor of one of the largest
and most influential Baptist
churches in the country, will come
to st. Paul Sunday for a weeks re-
vival. The Red Caps are receiv-
ing nationwide support in their
fight for a living wage. Out in
Seattle, the Northwest Enterprise,
21-year-Old paper, conducted at a
loss for the past two years by a
former st. Paul man, Edward
Robinson, a druggist, was saved by
Is public spirited citizens who were
called together by Bernard Squires,
Seattle Urban League secretary,
who is a former MinneapOlitan. Its
continuance according to a 'front.'
page statement is now insured. The
Enterprise is a well printed in
formative paper and if Seattle does
not appreciate its value, we way
down here in the mid-NOrthwest
do. 1t has not been widely pub
hcized by the daily press, but the
Indian leader, Jawaharlal Nehru,
subject of long article in LIFE
Magazine several months ago, is in
prison chiefly because he sought
for India the things for which
Britain is supposed to be fighting!
A. Phillip Randolph, Walter
White and others have issued a
manifesto urging the Negroes-at
least 10000 of them-to march on
Washington on July l, to see the
President, Congress and others on
the matter of race discrimination in
the defense program. A st.
Louis woman willed the NAACP
5000. Negroes operate Is life
insurance companies which employ
$4,000 men and women. The bulk
of the life insurance carried by Ne
groes, however, goes to the Metro
politan Life Insurance Co., which
as far as we know hasn't even got
a Negro on its huge payroll as
janitor! The Is Negro concerns
have, according to the ST. LOUIS
CALL, $3.50, 100000 worth of insur-
ance in force!
According to Basil l.. Walters,
chairman of the MINI. Editorial
Associations "Save 100 Lives Com
mittee" which has staged a news
paper war on traffic accidents, 6S
lives were saved between Sept. 1,
1910, and March 81, 1941. A letter
sent out by Mr.. Walters urges the
editors to keep at their "war" on
death on the highways. :. Mrs.
Roosevelt will speak during Sun
days broadcast of the NYA Phila-
delphia Negro chorus over the Red
Network of the NBC Sunday after
noon from $3.50 to 4 p. m, Central
Time. Which reminds us that
the Twin City WPA chorus is fine
musical group. It has been sadly
neglected in a publicity way by
both the dailies and this sheet!
The editors of the Philadelphia
Tribune point how little the Negro
uses his immense buying power. We
quote:
"Here is one situation that illus
trates what we are trying to point
out. There are a number of colored
weekly papers which are superior
in circulation and news content to
most white weekly and some daily
newspapers. The inferior news
papers carry big cigarette advertis-
ing accounts, while the colored
newspapers carry practically none.
Remember that millions of ciga-
rettes are smoked by colored peo-
pie. Why then, does none of this
advertising copy reach colored
newspapers? The answer to that
question is the lack Of respect
which business generally has for
the colored buying power. The
power is present but is not used
properly"
Many southern whites boast that
they understand Negroes" or that
they are the Negroes best
friends" Similar is the reasoning
of SOCIAL JUSTICE Gather
Coughlin's magazine). To prove
how misunderstood it is on the sub
ject of Anti-Semitism, the publica-
ton let forth with this twaddle in
a recent issue, "In nOwise is so
CIAL JUSTICE magazine anti
Semitic in the sense that it is OPP
roSod IN mr. hostile t0 the Semitic