Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-15

Frances Jones, Ceclna JACOBS,
cidentally it is this loss of adver-
Using revenue due to the war that
has caused some big scent maya
zines to go to ten cents.
Imagine Pegler believing that
Negro newspapers strive to segre-
gate their people! They need not
strive to do what Pegler's kind has
already done. From the Atlantic
to the Pacific racial segregation
has long been the rule in almost
every activity. Far from striving
for segregation, the Negro news
papers have been the only publica-
tons in America to consistently
fight AGAINST segregation. In
deed, it is their spirited fight
against segregation in the Army,
Navy and elsewhere that has
stirred up certain fascist-minded
politicians in Washington to at
tempt to curb them. And this fight
against segregation is what seems
to arouse Pegler's ire the most,
causing him to place the Negro
newspapers in the same category
as Social Justice. If the Negro
newspapers had remained mum
about color discrimination and
racial segregation in the Govern
ment and industry, and concerned
themselves only with urging a war
against fascism abroad, no one
would be concerned with their writ
ings, their advertisements or their
gossip columns except Negroes.
But they have challenged Ameri-
cas- least reputable but most per-
sistent "way of life," so Pegler and
his ilk want them suppressed.
The Negro press does not have to
"race-angle" the news. The white
press and white America does that.
Nor is it the Negro press that has
undermined the loyalty of Negro
soldiers. The Negro press has
merely reported in big type on
Page l, the unbelievable crimes
committed against Negro soldiers
which the white newspapers have
buried in small type on Page "a, if
they carried it at all. 1t is unneces-
sary for the Negro press to seek
to arouse Negro soldiers and sailors
when white superiors, fellow
soldiers, police and civilians are do
ing such a thorough job. 1t was
not the Negro press that shot down
and beat up Negro soldiers from
Fl. Dix to Camp Claiborne. 1t is
not the Negro press that has
fought for continued discrimination
in the Navy and segregation in the
Army.
Men like Pegler and his asso-
ciates who reach millions of white
people daily could do much to end
racial discrimination and segrega-
ton and thus make America truly
democratic. They know what is be-
ing done to the Negro "a hours a
day, in and out of the Services, but
they cravenly remain mum, leaving
the battle for democracy at home
to the Negro press. The fight for
equality of rights and opportuni-
ties, without which democracy is a
hollow farce, is carried on consis-
tently and persistently by a de-
voted band of angry, eloquent men
and women without the money and
influence of such fascist fronts as
Pegler. But they cherish the con-
viction that they are as right as
the Declaration of Independence
and the Bill of Rights, and the de-
termination to carry on until racial
Separation is ended in America.
WOMEN SUPERIOR TO MEN
There is no way of getting
around it-Negro women are just
superior to Negro men. 1 guess
the same thing is true as regards
whites, but right now 1 am talking
about US. Our women are more
alert, militant, sacrificing and hard
working, and yet they have more
combining duties. Even if they
don't work, their duties in the
home, club meetings and church
affairs add up to a rather full
schedule.-Adam Clayton Powell.
Council of Negro