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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1942-11-13
EDIT Q RAILS

While the southern states
will probably wish to keep
segregation of public facl-
lities for many years to
come, all those must be
made equal for both races.
IS. Abolish the poll tax.
Remove restrictions on
Negro voting. Full rights
will come to any group on
~ II it has that voice in GOV
ernment that in democra-
cy comes through the ballot
The few basic steps to-
wards democracy that /
have indicated above re-
duire action by the controll-.
ing authorities, chiefly
white. Meanwhile there
are some steps that / recon
mend Negroes be taking for
themselves.
! lJoin labor unions. Insist
on the right to join unions
wherever there is any ques-
ton. Join farmers organ
izations and tenants unions
In every way identify
yourselves with the. great
tidal movements of the com
mon man.
2. Take advantage Of ira
ming facilities in industry
so that you will be ready to
step into higher and higher
skills as these are opened.
Don't wait for the OPEN
ings to call and don't say
What's the use of train for
what | can never get?
Openings undreamed IT
q few years ago are coming
every day. Get ready for
them and demand them.
3. Patronize your stores.
your own insurance COM
panies, your own doctors
and lawyers, your own
writer's, musicians. and art
lists. | know that this is in
itself kind Of segregation.
| know that in a true demo-
cracy racial choices of any
sort are out of place.
This is another of those pr
agmatic compromises.
With discrimination as it
is today, Negro business an
professions cannot expect
success unless they are zeal
ously patronized by their
own people.
a Take pride in your dis
tinctiveness. Negroes have
made notable gifts to A.
merican life, especially in
music, dance and folklore,
IN literature and drama.
A few colored snobs-on
" a few, thank God seem
ashamed of anything that is
distinctively Negro, and.
want to ape the drab con-
ventionality of the dullest
of their white neighbors.
Other racial groups in
America glorify their back
ground: Scotch thrift, Ger
man throughness, Irish wit,
Latin color and verve. A
merica needs variety ana
certainly it needs all the
zest and rhythm that can be
contributed by any group.
Keep on laughing, singing,
dancing, making jokes.
Make fun of the white ofay
il you want to, but anyway
keep making fun. Keep
on eating good food and
wearing gay clothes, and
enjoying life. Keep swing
ing.
IS. Keep moving out Of the
! South. There is no decent
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Baptist Women
Hold Meeting

The Women's Convention of the
Minnesota Baptist Association met
October % at Pilgrim Rest, Mime
apolis, for its first quarterly board
meeting with Mrs. A. B. Lewis
leading the devotional period.
Mrs. Martha ]. Lee described a
model Missionary Society; The Red
Circle Girls, junior missionary So
ciety, had an active part in the
meeting under the direction of Mrs.
C. Griffin. Other highights of the
program were echoes from the Sun
day School Congress by Mrs. R.
Glanton and a report of the Ma
tional Baptist Convention made by
Mrs. Mamie Burrell, president of
the Women's department, and Mrs.
U. Bolts, State director. Mrs.
Susan Gaylord and Mrs. Dessa Gre
sham sang several gospel solos and
Miss Gwendolyn Schoffield played
a piano solo.
Mrs. M. j. Lee was elected to in
struct a course in Missionary lead
ership. Mrs. Mary Crump will as
sist her.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
~ Public Affairs
Com. Endorses
Poll Tax Repeal

After listening to an address by
C. W. Washington, executive sec
rotary of the Minneapolis Urban
League, on November 2, the Pub
lie Affairs committee of the Min
neapolis YWCA took action to
write Minnesota Senators urging
them to support the Pepper Bill,
now up before the United States
Senate.
Mr.. Washington stressed the i'm
portance of outlawing the poll-tax
as a qualification for voting in
eight southern states.
On October %, Mr.. Washington
spoke to the Household Employees
club of the YWCA on the subject,
"Recent Trends in Negro Employ
ment in Minneapolis"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Mixed Brigade
Subject of Youth
Rally Nov. 6

A discussion on a mixed Negro
and White Brigade in the Army
and how it can help to break down
discrimination in the armed forces
will be the feature Of a rally spon-
sored by the Victory Youth Club of
the Young Communist League Fri
day night, Nov. 6, to be held at
1850 Chicago avenue, at 8 o'clock.
This rally will be the opening
gun in a campaign of the Mime
sofa YCL to collect 5000 sigma
lures on petitions to be sent to the
War Department requesting the
setting up of mixed brigade.
Invited speakers include the Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, pastor of
the Camphor M. E. church, St.
Paul, Swan Assessor, Organizer of
Hotel and Restaurant Workers No.
665, and R. Augustine Skinner,
President, Minneapolis NAACP.
Collection of signatures for a
Mixed Regiment is part of the
Minneapolis YCL's War Services
program for the young people
which includes such activities as
blood doning, collection of books
and records for the USO, sending
of Christmas gifts for the boys in
service, collection of money for
Russian War Relief and other ac-
tivities.
The public is invited.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
st. Paul War Relief
and Community
Chest Successful

The st. Paul Community War
Relief Chest collected a total of
$1,172, 130.43, exclusive of the $780,
900 received from the sale of scrap
iron collected on Sunday, Oct. 10.
The quota was set at $1,10O,000.
Harold A. Ames was general chair
man of the drive.
Team 16, Mary D. Mcfarland,
captain, went over the top with a
grand total of $1,OOO.33. The fol-
lowing solicitors reported: Mary
Bradley, $40; Bernice Duke, SAL;
Oppie Emerson, So; Cora Belle
Banks, $1,000; Frederick Williams,
$27.OO; Mary Rogers Eddings,
$4,000; Viola Munson, $500;
Claretta Jackson, $72.OO; Louise
Hargrave, $4,000; Evalyn Kelly,
$11; Leah Mae Minor, $4,000; Wan
da Owens, $75.25; Hazeldel War
ricks, $500; Josie Williams,
1855; Kitty Taylor, $11.O0; AIDE
laide Sykes, 1915; and Mary D.
Mcfarland, the captain, reported
$251.68, making total of 81, 000.33.
Miss I. Myrtle Garden, Director
of the Halle @. Brown Commu-
nifty House, and Mr.. S. Vincent
Owens, Executive Secretary of the
st. Paul Urban League, donated
their cars to several of the solicit
tors to assist with the speedy col
lection of pledges.
Another group of workers, cap
tanned by Mrs. Harry Brown,
brought in the following amount
of moneys: Ardelia Allen, $4,000;
Junauld Brown, $61.50; Susie N.
Tudos, $57.25; Viola Alsup, $4,000;
Carrie Stokes, $43.25; Emily Har-
grave, $31.0O; Aldonia Anderson,
$27.25; Allie Balenger, $24.OO;
John M. Whitaker, $3.50; Hazel
R. Butler, $685.; Margaret Co.
dette, $14.00; Viola Butler, $3.50.
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mo Jim Grow
In Britain" Says
PadnOre

London, Nov. s (Censored)-
The following incidents are typical
of the varied sociological problems
with which colored troops on this
side of the Atlantic are confronted.
They are mostly concerned with
inter-racial relations between
themselves and their own white
compatriots. The British, with
their traditional tolerance and
skill at compromise, are doing
their best to bring about harmoni-
GUS relations between the two ra-
cial groups while they are in the
British Isles.
Example Of British TactfuIness
When there were differences be-
tween white and black u. S. troops
at dance hall in Derby, the pro-
prietor, Mr.. S. Ramsden, went to
the microphone and explained to
the white Americans that it was
not customary in England to dis
criminate between races.
A British visitor to the u. S., he
said, would not think Of interrupt
ing the procedure adopted at the
dances there. Ramsden expressed
the hope that the white troops
would not try to influence the con-
duct of the dances in England. We
respected all visiting troops and
were fighting for the same cause.
There were 35 white o. s. soldiers
at the dance; three black soldiers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Delinquency and
the War, Forum
Topic at Halle

Though the city of st. Paul had
a lower rate Of delinquency than
any city in the country during the
first eight months of war, delin-
quency among Negroes has in
creased.
Reasons for this rise in delin-
quency will be given at the Halle
@. Brown House Forum, Sunday,
Nov. 8, at four p. M, during a
panel discussion on the subject
Delinquency and the War"
Because this is q common COM
munity problem, every parent and
older boy and girl is urged to hear
this discussion.
Mr.. Maeeo Littlejohn will pre-.
side. Others participating will be,
John Doyle, Chief Probation Off
GER; John Patton, Public Welfare
worker; James Griffen, Negro po-
liceman; Miss M. Stone, Commu-
nifty Service for children.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Gopher Lodge
EntertainS New
US. Soldiers

Elks, Gopher Lodge, 1. B. P. o.
E. W. No. 1O5, st. Paul, will enter
tain members of the organization
who will be indicted into the
United States Army on November
IA at a party Sunday afternoon,
November 8, at three p. m. at Pho
neer Hall, 5SS Rondo Ave.
This party is the third in a series
given by Gopher Lodge for in
ductees. All Twin City service
men in any branch of the service
are invited to attend and a special
invitation is being extended to
mothers of all men now in the
armed forces.
Sam Swanson, field representa-
tive Of the United Electrical and
Radio Machine Workers, c. I. O.,
will be the principal speaker on the
program. Dancing and refresh
ments will be free.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
White Class
Elects Negro
AS President

Washington, D. c., Nov. g.
(ANP)-The election of a colored
youth as president of the Senior
class by his white classmates of the
Rock Island (IllinOis) high school
was lauded this week by John W.
Studebaker, U. s. Commissioner Of
Education, as a concrete demon
stration Of democracy at work.
The election Of the youth, James
Holland, one of six colored students
in a class of 402, was called to DR..
Studebaker's attention by Earl
Hanson, superintendent of the Rock
Island public schools, in a letter
which stated, "The faculty, I have
been assured by a principal, had
nothing to do with the election. It
was purely a democratic act on the
part of the students"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Urban League
Auxiliary Sponsors
Radio Broadcast

Mrs. e. L. Sims and Mrs. N. ].
Hunter; Co-chairmen of the Mime
apolis Urban League Bond and
Stamp Drive Committee of the aux
iliary, are appearing on a radio
program sponsored by the Auxili-
airy of the Minneapolis Urban
League, Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Ais
p. M, on radio station WCCO. This
committee is now urging friends
and members of the organization
to purchase bonds during the COM
ing week and will press the sale
during the radio broadcast. Infor-
nation concerning the sale of
bonds and stamps can be obtained
by calling the two chairmen, Mrs.
Sims, Pleasant 1885, or Mrs. Hun
ter, Colfax 1916, or the Leagues
office, Atlantic 6917.
Mrs. Frank Edmonds, vice chair
man, Minneapolis War Savings
Committee, Civilian Defense Pro-
gram, addressed the Auxiliary of
the Minneapolis Urban League at
its regular meeting Tuesday, Nov.
3, 1912. Mrs. Edmonds, who is en-
Enthusiastically interested in the sale
of bonds and stamps, spoke of the
urgent need for the promotion of
these sales and explained the man.
ner in which clubs and organiza-
tions could help in this vital en-
deavor.
On Sunday, Nov. %, the Auxili-
airy will sponsor Bond and Stamp
Rally at Phyllis Wheatley House.
Mrs. Wendell Jones, newly ap-
pointed member of the Minneapolis
War Savings Committee will assist
in this rally.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06

Plant at New Brighton, MINI.
She will serve as assistant to
Cecil Newman, director of Negro
personnel.
Mrs. Williams is a graduate of
the University of Minnesota with a
MA. degree and has been in social
work in the Twin Cities for many
years. Her most recent post was
as a member of the faculty of the
Atlanta School of Social Work in
Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Williams is married and has
one son in the armed services. .
She is a member of various civic
organizations and Eta chapter
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Mrs. Williams position is one of
the several responsible posts held
by Negro citizens at Twin Cities
Ordnance plant.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Americas Lynchers
Help Hitler Win War

Evansville - Startling facts of
how Axis powers are using stories
of mob violence, lynchings, rape,
discrimination and segregation of
American Negroes to convince
South Americans they cannot ex-
pect justice from the American
white man have just been released
by the Peoples Institute of Applied
Religion, Rev. Claude C. Williams,
director.
This report of action and for &C
ton under the caption Fifth Col
umnist states that only the United
States, Canada, Argentina and
Chile in the Americas have a ma
jority of white population. These
have large minorities of non-whites.
White people who cannot behave
civilly toward their non-white
brothers and minority groups are
the real fifth columnists in Amer
lea.
The writers prove it by relating
incidents printed in Spanish and
French by Axis powers and distrib-
uted in pamphlets of 200, 900 lots to
pro-Axis agents in South America
as work of fifth columnists in
America. They include the riot
over the Sojourner Truth Housing
Project, Detroit; failure to COM
plete the Sugar Tree Project for
Negroes along with the one for
whites, at Southeastern Missouri;
and the lynching of Cleo Wright
due to a charge of rape which Gre
ated high sentiment.
The institute declares these fifth
columnist activities comprise the
gravest problem in America today,
and calls upon religious leaders to
work together to oppose anti
Semitism and jimcrowism from
platform and pulpit; stand against
every act based upon religious or
racial prejudice, and calmly correct
every intolerant statement.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Band Stand
Behavior Ellington
Crew Raped
By JOHN ESQUIRE


One word describes the music of
Duke Ellington's orchestra which
played for two dances at the st.
Paul auditorium last week. That
word is excellent. One word de-
scribes the band stand decorum of
the same outfit and that word is
the old barroom now polite society
word "lousy."
Ellington's band offered as good
example of what musicians paid to
entertain the public should not do.
They loafed all over the band stand.
They drank what was obviously
liquor from paper cups. A from
bone soloist was glassy-eyed from
drink or something else.
They visited with the crowd con-
stantly and several times the stand
was only half full of band members
when Duke began to tickle the
piano.
The attractive little bronze
skinned singer was pleasing until
she sang a risque off-color song
which was completely bad taste in
view of the large number of young
sters present.
Such poor taste and conduct from
one of the acknowledged top bands
of the country is strange to behold.
One. explanation offered the
writer is that when these bands
come to the Twin Cities they are
made SO welcome that they lose
control.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Marian Anderson
Here in Recital

Marian Anderson, world-famed
contralto, will be presented in re-
cital in the Concert Bowl of the
Minneapolis auditorium on Tuesday
evening, November "a. This con-
cert will be the highlight of the en-
tertainment in the Twin Cities for
Thanksgiving week. She is appear
ing on the University Artists
Course, under the direction Of Mrs.
Carlyle Scott.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
WASP" CASUALTIES MOSTLY
49,. NEGROES

San Francisco, Nov. 5 - In a
copyrighted press statement to Roy
]. Gibbons for the San Francisco
Chronicle Tuesday, October 81,
Kline Irwin, white, Seaman, First
Class, said he learned most Of the
casualties on the Wasp, u. s. air
plane carrier torpedoed by Japa-
nese in the Solomon Islands near
Guadalcanal Sept. 10, were colored
stewards. He said he learned, too,
that all but about 200 of the Wasp
crew were saved.
Of 70 colored stewards, to his
knowledge, a final check-up re-
vealed but seven survivors, Irwin
told The Chronicle.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
Negro Greek
Letter Societies
Trail Rest
TRAILING IN

TRAILING In
SCHOLASTIC AVERAGES
Due to the boys going off to war
or some similar reason, the Negro
fraternities on the University of
Minnesota campus are trailing way
behind in the &c" average set as
an average for the academic fra
ternities.
In years past one or sometimes
two of our fraternity groups were
at or near the top. This year the
Omega Psi Phi fraternity is on the
bottom of the list and the Alpha
Phi fraternity was only several
places from the bottom. The Kap-
pas were not listed at all.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
CanphOr Church
Mother Dies
MOTHER OF CAMPHOR M. E.
CHURCH DIES

Mrs. Tena Thomas, who is known
as the Mother of Camphor M. e.
Church, Fuller and Kent Streets,
died on Sunday, November 1, at
Ancker hospital where she has been
a patient for the past six months.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in
1851, Mrs. Thomas came to st. Paul
to make her home with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Julia Douglas, in 1909.
She is one of the original founders
of Camphor M. E. Church and is
known as the mother of the church.
She was a member of the Com
munion Stewardess Board ever
since its inception.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday, November 4, at 2 p. m.
from Camphor M. E. Church with
Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson, the
pastor, preaching the sermon from
the theme "Thank God for a Well
Spent Life" which was very ap-
propriate. The Choir of Camphor
beautifully sang LEAD Kindly
Light" and Crock of Ages" Mrs.
Roberta Davis, Soloist, sang "His
Eye Is On the Sparrow" Resolu-
tions were read from the various
organizations of the church.
Survivors include two children,
one daughter, Mrs. Julia Douglas
Lewis, $50 Carroll Avenue, and one
son, Ed Thomas, 994 Rondo avenue;
seven grandchildren, Bertram Shan
non and Mrs. Inez Bruce of St.
Paul, Mrs. Louise johnson of Min
neapolis, Mrs. Lucille Shannon
Headley of Long Island, New York,
Mrs. Mabel Hardeway, Mrs. Althea
Brent and John Douglas of Chi
cago. She had one sister, Miss
Nora Scott of st. Louis, Mo-, and
eight great-grandchildren.
Interment was in Elmhurst ceme-
terry. Brooks Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.
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lola Young
Is Buried

lola Young, AZ, 423 Colfax Ave.
N, died October % at Minneapolis
General hospital.
Funeral services were held Mon
day, November 2, at Woodland Flu
neral Home with Father Thomas
officiating, assisted by Rev. T. B.
Stovall. Interment at Crystal Lake
cemetery.
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Vow Nonstop Fight to
Jail Mississippians Who
Lynched H. ear-Old Boys

New York.-A pledge to continue
the fight to secure punishment Of
those responsible for the lynching
of three Negroes in Mississippi two
weeks ago, until success is achieved
was made last week by Representa-
tive Vito Marcantonio, president Of
the International Labor Defense,
and chairman of the National
Emergency Committee to Stop
Lynching.
The pledge was made before an
audience of more than 1000 in
Salem Methodist Church, at meet
ing under the auspices of the Emer-
gency Committee, the National Ne
gro Congress, and the church
lyceum.
eve will not accept any an
nouncement, nor any recommends
ton, nor any report, as an answer"
the fiery Harlem representative
said. 1.-THE only way to fight lynch
ing is through action. We intend
to get action. We will not stop its
efforts for a single day until the
perpetrators of these three Missis-
sippi lynchings are actually pun
ished."
Only two of four candidates for
the GOvernorship in New York have
answered kilograms sent out By the
Emergency Committee asking each
of them whether, if elected, he
would Immediately move to have
the Conference of State Governors
convened at once to take action
against lynching, Mr.. Marcantonio
revealed today. The two are Dean
Alfange running on the American
Labor Party ticket, and Israel
Amter, Communist Party candi-
date. Both answered in the affirm
ative. Thomas 3. Dewey, Repubi-
can candidate, and John ]. Bennett,
Democrat, did not answer.
Outlining the purposes Of the Ma
tional Emergency Committee,
which came into being only two
weeks ago at a meeting called by
him, Mr.. Marcantonio said:
"This fight will be taken to Mis-
sissippi. 1t will be taken to the
White House, to Attorney General
Biddle, to everyone in a position
of authority. We intend to get
action.
"These lynchings are challenge
not only to government in the
States, but to the constitutional
government at Washington. The
poll-tax, lynchings, and Jim Crow
are doing more harm to the United
Nations cause than 200 tanks and
score of battalions of Killers
army. It is precisely because we
are at war that we insist on federal
action against these lynchers.
ut is time for the Federal Gov
eminent to step into every State
where a lynching takes place, and
take over the prosecution. IF they
can't get jurors who will convict
these lynchers, then let them take
them to other jurisdictions where
juries will convict them.
"The gang behind the lynchers is
the same gang that was responsible
for the rape of Ethiopia and Re-
publican Spain. It is the same
gang that is responsible for hold
ing up supplies to Africa, for keep
ing India and Africa in chains. II
is the same gang that is holding
back the opening of second front
to win the war.
"In this fight against lynching
we must expose and destroy those
who wear the American flag, and
carry the sign of Hitler in their
hearts"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
BLACKBURNS
LOSE MATTRESS

Some person who has evidently
been reading the swap ads in a
local advertising sheet decided to
swap a mattress, but without the
owners permission. w. G. Black
burn, SAT W. Central avenue, re-
ported to police that when he went
to his garage Tuesday, October 81,
he found the garage door lock
broken and a practically new mat
tress was gone. In its place was
an old bedraggled one.
It wasn't even Halloween and
Blackburn isn't at all satisfied with
the swap or with the humor of the
thief.
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Remains of
Mrs. Hill
to Arkansas

Lenora Hill, 40, 518 Fremont
Ave. NJ, died October 80 at Mime
apolis General hospital. The body
was shipped to Pine Bluff, Ark, for
burial.
Mrs. Hill is survived by her hus-
band, Master Hill, Minneapolis,
Mrs. Julia Rabling of Pine Bluff
and other relatives there. Wood
ard Funeral Home was in charge.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06

U. S. Army helmets are of nom
magnetic steel and don't affect
compasses carried by troops.
A 65-year-old Michigander gath
cred $50 pounds of scrap metal and
wheeled it by barrow to the village
collection center five miles away.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06

Travelling 10 miles at 81 miles
an hour takes two minutes longer
than at 40, but two miles of extra
tire life are saved at the slower
speed.
Coffee consumption in the U. s.
in the past 30 years has more than
doubled, while the population in
crease has been only about 45 per
cent.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-06
WALTER MCFARLAND MADE
FOREMAN AT ROSEMOUNT

Walter Mcfarland, 1016 Rondo
Ave-, was made foreman of the day
service crew at the Gopher Ord
nance Plant at Rosemount, Mime
sofa, in line with a reported new
Rosemount policy of a fairer atti-
tude toward the colored employees.
Mr.. Gillespie, a newcomer to the
city and former Dupont employee,
was made foreman of the night
crew of janitors.