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St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25
Facing
the
Facts
By VIM. L. Sheriff.
Pointed Paragraphs

Public Opinion is considered a
powerful weapon, great asset, an
invaluable force. History is full of
the things it has done and helped
to do. It is the aggregate definite
opinion of the majority of the peo-
pie. 1t is the voice of the people,
the vox popui when they have be-
come one in mind, purpose, aim and
intent.
But the public opinion of Ne
groes is at present in our minds.
What does it really count for? Is
is potent or nil? Does it carry
weight or does it fall like a feath-
er? Is it considered dangerous or
harmless? Is it club with which
we can get action or is it gesture
that merely provokes contempt?
We Can Foresee that the Negroes
struggle for full and complete par
ticipation in this, his America, will
be long and tedious process, and
impossible of accomplishment in
one or two generations. We know
the white mans ways; that he nev-
er stops; that he never rests. What
he cannot do in this generation he
will do in the next or the one after.
Knowing this, our duty to posterity
is clear. Not only must we make
a united fight against present day
evils which beset us, but we must
plan and build so as to safeguard
and strengthen the position of our
posterity who must carry on the
struggle. ....e
The White Mans Effort to de-
grade the Negro and reduce him to
mental, moral and economic servi-
tude will only result in developing
in US racial character with which
others will find themselves unable
to measure arms. Just as physical
effort creates Drawn and muscle, so
will mental and moral struggle de-
velop manhood and strength of
group consciousness.
In his effort to keep us from
sharing our white brother may
deny us many things, but he can
not take away our right to think,
our right to have character, our
right to be brave, our right to have
faith in ourselves, and our God and
hope in our future destiny. These
essentials, if practiced, will eventu-
ally bring the race those things for
which we struggle.
There is no virtue in being a
black man, white man, brown man,
etc., any more than it is a sin to be
either of these. Race is just an
accident of nature. Proving worth
is an individual job. No matter
who we are by birth we are build
ers of our own fortune.
The Only Time to act is at the
right time. Too late is but little
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25
This World
National Scene:


Americas first and only Negro
woman Judge, Jean BOlin, is ex-
pecting the stOrk. A Negro
soldier in uniform, Pvt. Felix Hall
was lynched near Fort Benning,
Ga, according to release from
the Southern Negro Youth Con-
gress. The Congress said the
lynching was ''the logical conse-
quence of your president RoOse-
velt's) official endorsement of the
Jim Crow policy in the armed
forces" in a letter to the chief ex-
ecutive. Emmett Scott, G. O..
P. publicity chief, says, "the Jim
Crow unit in government employ
ment is a device invented by New
Dealism." The Marian Ander-
son mural has been commissioned
to 25-year-Old Washington artist,
Mitchell Jamiesen. The D. C. youth
won in competition with III other
artists the coveted commission and
the 1,70O dollars that go with it.
=. Ruth Taylor now conducts the
syndicated column, formerly writ
ten by the late Chas. Stelzle,
which goes to Negro and labor pa
pers preaching the gospel of de-
mOcracy and racial understanding.
More National Chaff: The sixth
edition of Who's Who In Colored
America will be off the press on
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WELCOME HALL NEWS
The Variety Hour


The Wide Awake Girls and Girl
Reserve Clubs are featuring "The
Variety Hour" Tuesday, May 27,
at 8 p. M, at Ober Boys Club. This
delightful program will consist of
Drama, and special music. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
The Adult Pageantry Group to
Present "The Mansion"
On Friday evening, May 2, "The
Mansion" pageant in four scenes,
will be presented by the Adult
Pageantry Group under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Eva Taylor at Ober
Club. Admission 25c.
Much time and effort has been
spent in making this production
worth while. The story centers
about man who had spent the bet
ter part of his life believing that
earthly treasures were all that
counted toward making life worth
while. The part is very ably played
by I. r. Hagan, with Miss Helen
Smith playing opposite him. Other
members of the cast are: Marion
Brown, Mrs. H. Edgar and Mrs. ].
Kemp.
Sundays Assembly
Sunday, April 27, there will be
no 800 o'clock service at the Hall
for Adults, but will go to Camphor
Methodist Church at 300 P. M.
Parent Workers Council
Thursday, April "a, the Parent
Workers Council will meet at the
Hall at 8 P. M. Please come early
as a grand surprise is in store for
everyone.
Willing Workers
Attention everyone! The Willing
Workers Girl Reserves of Welcome
Hall are now selling flowers for
Mothers Day. We are asking for
your help, please purchase your
flowers from the girls.
Cosmopolitan Girls
The Cosmopolitan Girls are now
making plans for their Mothers
Day Banquet" to be held at Ober
Boys Club Saturday, May 10.
The public is urged to make res
ervations by purchasing tickets
now!
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A Lesson in Accom-
pliShment

The signal success of the United
Bus Committee, composed of three
principal Negro organizations,
should be cheering to every one of
the 100000 Negroes in America.
This victory consisted of forcing
the New York bus companies
which in 1887 had frankly ad-
mitted to practicing a lily-white
policy of employment, to hiring
Negroes as bus drivers, mechanics,
and as maintenance of way men.
To the Transport Workers Union
(CIO) which aided the Bus Com
mittee, every Negro should be
thankful for without this aid such
a victory would have been unlikely.
More than anything else this
should be an inspiration as we'll as
a lesson to Negroes in other cities.
An inspiration in the sense that
this victory was won after four
weeks of picketing and boycotting
the bus companies, and that it is
Indicative of what can be achieved
through mass organization which
is willing to fight with the legal
weapons that they can in all fair
ness employ.
A lesson in the sense that it
points out to the Negroes of
America that a real democracy,
political and economic, can be
achieved through the trade union
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Coast Guard segregated and Disseminated and
viciously Disseminated against industry that the
costing the Negro than anybody AmeaPs
burgh Courier . .....
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25

September Is. Only three Mime
sofa Negroes were listed in the
1910 book. Malcolm Mclean,
president of Hampton, told the
American Committee for Democ-
racy and Intellectual Freedom in
New York last week, "nearly the
whole American process of han
ding its Negro problem is a viola
ton of both tenets of this commit
tee." Maxine Sullivan, song
stress, will divorce husband John
Kirby, whose band plays the
smoothest rhythm that comes over
the ether. Tuskegee Institute
is preparing for it's annual relays.
:. NAACP attorneys are in Hous-
ton, Texas, to begin court fight
against white primaries. For
ty-seven branches of the NAACP
plan to picket industries with de-
fense contracts who refuse to give
Negroes employment on April 26.
The mother of Odell Waller,
condemned Virginia sharecropper,
is making a nationwide tour.
When Mrs. Waller came to Mime
apolis, she spoke to an audience
of four Negroes and 1913 whites at
a meeting sponsored jointly by the
NAACP and the Workers Defense
League!
Last Lines: "Native Son" is still
playing on Broadway and Burns
Mantle, veteran critic, thinks it the
best play, now on the N. Y. The
atre RialtO. HOrtense Love, a
little publicized soprano, made her
debut at Town Hall last Sunday
at 8 p. m. Several couples of St.
Paulites purchased tickets to see
Count Basic at the new Prom Ball
room in st. Paul. Inside, they were
told presumably by the manager
that it was against the house poll
cy to admit Negroes. The Prom
management probably never heard
of the Minnesota Civil Rights law,
and maybe the folks who were en-
barrassed and humiliated, never
have either-at least their resent
ment, has not yet resulted in ac-
tion against the out-of-the-state
firm which operates the dance
hall!!! The National Urban
League, 1888 Broadway, New York
City, is making a nationwide ap-
peal for funds to carry on its
fight Ito secure a place for the Ne
gro worker in our National De-
fense." The organization will ap-
preciate anything you send from
quarter on up.
Important Trivia: The popular
tune, walking By The River" was
authored by Una Mae Carlisle. Of
course you know the revived
''There'n Be Some Changes Made"
was composed by sepia Benton
Overstreet, pianist, and Billy Hig-
gins, old-time comedian, who died
five years ago. Folks from down
around K. C. remember Billy Hig-
gins.
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25
Pilgrim Baptist,
"The HOme-Like
Church" News
By Miss RevOida Smith
1868 st. Anthony Ave.

Behold, make all things new,"
from Rev. 21:5, was the text
chosen by the Rev. Mr.. S. E. Ware
for his sermon of last Sunday,
April 20. We were led into the
spirit of his very timely and very
inspiring message by a congrega-
tional song led by him: "When the
Storms of Life Are Raging, Stand
by Me-" This song, a sermon in it.
self, and the desire to experience
''new heaven and a new earth"
while we live should surely serve
as stepping stones to our goal.
There was a record crowd, in
cluding many of the older Chris
tians, out to enjoy the service and
also a number of visitors who wor-
shipped with us.
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25
Under Surveillance
By Morris Gibbs, Sr.

By Morris Gibbs, Sr.
Negroes are constantly under
surveillance,
1t has been so for years,
Which breeds contempt and class
hatred
And it's insidious fears.
This stigma, another form of
prejudice,
A barrier used by the other group,
Which we have to constantly
hurdle
Proving our equality, as we'll
never stoop.
It's unfair to Americas largest
minority
That this situation should exist,
There are many ideas for its
solution
But none seem to persist.
Since we know this condition
Individuals should walk
circumspectly
For one least mistake, we're
maligned
Which hurts all directly.
Friends of ours know these
conditions are unjust
But what can be done about it?
Continually protesting is one way
Allowing all to do their bit.
Sometimes severity brings us
closer
Working to our own advantage,
For strictness has its reward
Infallible is this adage.
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25
IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of my mother,
Mrs. Dellah Ford Mahan, who died
six years ago, April "a, 1885, and
my brother, Marvin A. Ford, who
died two years ago, April 26, 1889.
Remembrance is a golden chain,
Death tries to break, but all in
vain,
To have, to love, and then to
part
Is the greatest sorrow of ones
heart.
Mrs. Ollye A. Gum.
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25
MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. C. B. Wheeler, Pastor

Pastor C. B. Wheeler and Mrs
Ella Golden returned from Fort
Madison, Iowa, where they at
tended the spring board meeting of
the Iowa, North Dakota, Nebraska
and Minnesota Association. Rev.
Wheeler stated that the Associa-
ton, meeting with the Mt. Olivet
Church in August, will be the larg-
est Baptist gathering ever held in
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25

Pilgrims annual business meet
ing will be held Friday, May 2, at
8 p. m. at the church. Following
the meeting there will be a fell
lowship and social hour with re-
freshments free.
St. Paul recorder., 1941-04-25
State Rights!

Mississippi must have Federal aid pay equa
salaries M Bryant assistant state superintendent of education
We thought Mississippi for State Rights all the but perhaps
that applies only to ynchng Samuel Pittsburgh
Courie
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-14
TIDES

(Sun time, July 15)
 High tide-508 am, 13.2 feet. Low tide-11:2O a.m., 2.7 feet. High tide-5:48 pm, 14.5 feet.
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of live ducks-and then took 'em back because he decided they were to pretty to be killed.
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pretty definite ideas about the mod crn game-not all complimentary. Says he:
 There just isn't as much base ball played these days. Not as much inside ball. They don't run the bas- es as much and while the game is faster mechanically there is too much reliance on long hitting"
 The games still fascinating, shcugh, Mike aserts, despite recent
 rcwd-getting maneuvers of which le doesn't exactly approve.
 He was the last American As scciation magnate to yield to night baseball and doesn't believe in kiss ing babies to keep mothers coming to the games.
 Modern players are as tough as the old-timers, but they're coddled he says. Clubs carry too many men. When players come up with minor injuries substitutes are there to re- place them. Not so in the old days, he recalls, when nothing short of a broken leg kept a man out of the lineup.
 Tough? Hard hearted? Well, not exactly. You might think so if it weren't for incidents like the time Mike gave his groundskeeper a brace
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-14
MIKE KELLEY EN BASEBhLi,
 FOR 47 YEARS
Quit College 10 Get Info Permanent Business
 -Minor Manager
AP FEATURE SERVICE

MINNEAPOLIS, July IA - Forty seven years ago young Michael Kel- ly cornered his father and told him he thought he'd quit college and make baseball his career.
 Michael his father said, "what ycu want to do is your own busi- ness. You can take up baseball if you ike, but I was hoping you'd get into something permanent"
 That was three years short of l half century ago, and Mike could e excused now for wondering just what his father meant by perman- ency. Mike, owner of the Minne- apolis Millers, has been in baseball sver since that day.
 He might be called the (say 1t slcwly, please) Cornelius McGilli- ,uddy of the minors. Connie Mack $ the oldest man in the majors in point Of service. Minneapolis Mike, at 65, holds that distinction in the minors.
 Mike doesn't do any scorecard waving from the dugout, though, or make any appearances on the field. Nest of his club work is confined to the front office, but he has some
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-14
5 Arrive On DenaIi from
 South Ports

Westbound the steamer Denali, Capt. Hans Odsen and purser Frank Roeder, docked in Juneau at 9 o'clock this morning with 35 pas sengers for this port The vessel eoi'od for the Westward shortly before noon.
 messengers arriving from Seattle were Mrs. H. Ellington, Gladys Hudson, MT. and Mrs. w. R. Jef- frey, Mrs. Pearl Johnson, MT. and Mrs. R. B. Le Coca, MT and Mrs. l.. C. Nevius, MT. and Mrs. Byron Peebler, Constance Pfund, Lucy Pfund, Mrs. s. R. Pfund, Mrs. Lena Porter, Billy Poncia, Ms. Garry Poncia, Mrs. Jens Satire, Mrs. F. Seltenrich, c. o. Shepardson, MT. and Mrs. M. H. Sides, Lester Tinker, Harvey Williams, c. A.. Brooks and Donald Troutman.
 From Ketchikan-Peter Gilmore Jr. and Walter King.
 From Wrangell-Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Cowling, Mrs G. B. Calvin, H c. Dunlop and Martha Person.
 From Petersburg-Erland Groth.
 Passengers sailing for Seward were Robert E. Hanson, c. D. Phil lips, Fred Turner Jr. George How ard, Robert B. Walsh, w. J. Larg, Jee Slaby, M. s. Williams, William Tewksbury, Ward Vickers, Clyde Rockwell, A. w. Jeneivein and L. H. Price Jr.
 For Kodiak-H. K. Johnson and MT. and Mrs. E. V. Jenny
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Subscrrpe to tic Daily Alaska Empire-the paper with the larges paid circulation.
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two excellent volumes entitled Der ing's Voyages which were published by the American Geographical So ciety. These are now available in relatively inexepnsive reprints. They make fascinating reading. They re- call the brave days when men pio- neered and endured privation and hardship for the sake of knowledge, in the hope of advancing their per- sonal fortune, and for the greater glory of the flag under which they sailed"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-14
MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
NORTHBOUND


 . North Sea scheduled to arrive , tomorrow afternoon. . Princess Charlotte scheduled . to arrive tomorrow after . noon or evening. . Mount Mckinley due to ar . rive Wednesday. . SCHEDULED SAILINGS . Prince Rupert scheduled to sail | , from Vancouver 9 tonight. . . Aleutian scheduled to sail from ( , Seattle 9 am. tomorrow. ( . Princess Alice scheduled to | , sail frmo Vancouver July 16 | at 9 D. m. , Tyee scheduled to sail from [ , Seattle July IT, . , North Coast scheduled to sail . } from Seattle July Is at 10 ( am. . Prince George scheduled to . } sail from Vancouver July 21 . at 9 pm. . } SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS . Princess Louise scheduled to . arrive at am. tomorrow . and sails south at 9 am. . Baranof scheduled southbound . am. tomorrow. . Northland is scheduled south . bound at noon tomorrow. . Taku scheduled to arrive We'd . nesday . Alaska scheduled southbound . Thursday. . LOCAL SAILINGS . Estebeth scheduled to sail . every Wednesday at pm. . for Sitka and wayports. . Dart leaves every Wednesday . at pm for Petersburg, Port . Alexander, Rake and way . ports. . ,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-14
Alaska Discovered 200 Years Ago; Boring Day Designated
 By Proclamation of Governor

Continued from Page One)
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Mckinley Now
 Juneau Bound

SEATTLE, June IA. - Steamer Mount Mckinley sailed for Alaska ports Sunday afternoon at o'clock with 294 passengers aboard, includ- ing 146 steerage.
 First class passengers aboard the Mount Mckinley booked for Juneau include the following:
 D. D. Hull, G. O. Moore, John Hawks, K. z. Dorland, MT. and Mrs. V. L. Hoke, B. J. Squibb, J. M. Woodmore.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-14
Children of Free Frame Helped by
 Amer. Red Cross

MARSEILLE, France, July IA More than two and a half million children in unoccupied France, from infants up to 14-year-old boys and girls, have received milk from the American Red Cross, Richard F. Allen, delegate to Europe for the American Red Cross. announced.
 The moral benefit of reaching all of the children of free France is a tremendous thing" MT Allen said. In addition, more than 42,OO0 complete infant layettes have been given to French mothers. The dis tribution of vitamins to children, and of several shiploads of flour, also has been successfully carried out, MT. Allen said.
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Edward, either on Elkugu or Her bert Graves Island. The eleven men sent ashore were never heard from again; it is presumed that they were slaughtered by the Indians.
 "On July 16, Boring in the St. Peter sighted lofty ow-covered peak which he named Mt. St. Elias. He approached the coast and on the twentieth sent a landing party ashore on Kayak Island.
 Untold Hardships
 For the rest of the summer of TAI the two ships heading home cruised westward along the Alaskan coast exploring territory previously unknown and unvisited by white men, and giving names which endure to this day to islands, capes and bays. The crews of both vessels suf- fered untold hardships; nearly all were afflicted with scurvy and 31 of the St. Peters company of 75 died of it. This flagship was wrecked on November 6, 1741 on one of the Con- mander islands, then as now belong ing to Russia; Boring died there on December 8, 1741 of scurvy and ex- posture.
 Fifteen other members of the crew died during the winter, but the survivors of the St. Peters com- pany managed to construct small vessel from the wreckage of their larger ship which they launched on August IA, 1742 and in it returned to Petropavlovsk on September 6, after they had been given up for dead.
 "Chirikov reached Petropavlovsk October 12, TAI, likewise with a greatly reduced crew. Fifteen of these had perished, presumably at the hands of natives off the west coast of Southeast Alaska, eleven in the first landing partly, previously alluded to. and four more in a small boat sent ashore six days later to find the first party.
 Epoch Making
 "This final voyage of Boring, rela- lively little known to the world, con- stitutes one of the really important explorations and resulted in one of the epoch making discoveries of his tory. It has all the qualities of an epic. Bering's exploration in effect constitutes third discovery of Ann erica, if we consider Lief Ericson's the first and Christopher Columbus S the second. It was indeed the dis covery of America from the west certainly the first discovery by the white man. In consequence the maps shortly after TAI which noted Ber- ing's discovery filled in the most important hitherto uncharted DOT tion of the world.
 Thus two hundred years ago, on g succession of dates beginning July IS, our Territory of Alaska became known to civilization, and, though discovered by the Russians, was witt a sort of prophetic symbolism iden- tified as part of our American con- tinent.
 "In view of today's national emer- gency, and the necessity of con- tinuing our work without interrup- tion, it would not seem advisable fol meto declare July Is a public holi- day, but merely to call this memor- able anniversary to the attention oi our fellow Alaskans, to suggest that they recognize the day in whatey CT manner seems to them appropriate and particularly that they display the American Flag and the Alaska Flag.
 The history of Bering's voyages is fortunately obtainable. Some nine teen years ago the historian F. A Colder. after careful research, con- piled all the pertinent material il
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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

SEALED BIDS will be received by the Board of Directors of the Sitka Lutheran Church, at Sitka, Alaska, on or before July 26, 1941, at o'clock pm, at which time they will be'opened for the furnish ing of all labor and materials for the CONSTRUCTION of the Sitka Lutheran Church building at Sitka, Alaska.
 Plans may be obtained either from the architect, Harold Foss, Juneau, Alaska, or Frank Kuehn, secretary of the Board of Directors, Sitka, Alaska. A deposit of 5000 will be required for each set Of plans and specifications.
 The Board of Directors reserves the right to reject any or all bids adv. THE SITKA
 LUTHERAN CHURCH.
 The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL asl,a newsnaDpr
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-20
Coin Game Devices, Vending
Machines Are Reclassified

OLYMPIA-The state tax COM
mission Monday issued a new clas-
sification of coin operated game
devices and vending machines for
tax purposes only which left II up
to the commission to determine II
certain machines involved a bona
fide act of skill In operation.
Under Class A, subject TO a 10
per cent tax on gross income, were
machines which involved skill
alone or a combination OF chance
and skill in determining winnings.
Under this heading were included
iron claw games. mechanical crane
and pinball games in which skill
alone or a combination Of chance
and skill were involved.
Class b. subject TO 20 per cent
tax. were pay-out devices which
depended on chance alone. such as
slot machines although they were
not specifically mentioned. The
commission will determine If a
bona fide act Of skill Is required
in operation of pinball machines.
All that do not involve such skill
will be included under this head
ing.