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Observations on Domestic Workers

Wholesale domestic
made the problem pressing
the development of defense and war industry.
the domestic workers white The Negro
chauffeur and butler have been present in
the Twin Cities Eighteen months there
but today due to white workers leaving
defense plants the demand for Negro help heavy
shortage of available white help the frantic
employers domestic help have uppd and have dis
something which the back
couldn't job for love
households also defense job Many of
the folks with problems who
consideration for because their other servants
left, for what they believe be fields.
opportunity and
fitted for the skilled and unsked defense jobs to
placement in the domestic field at good wages
During the last Negroes went into domestic service in
north who because of their acka
jobs lost those jobs the
would idea those who domestic
well that they keep them after the
All honorable Not every who wants
Some of have make
productive and that there
domestic field where naturally going is
those who fitted for that work capitalize
the shortage of and in that
Domestic labor has always been the paid and working
don including hours have often been terribly unfair the
poyes this domecs would not have left house
hold employment precptay Employers of this of labor
y should do their make this class of workers like their
jobs 1t can't be done by paying S. week
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Victory for Constituted Authority and
Democracy
Democracy

Wednesday Negro
who stopped weeks by organized mobs from
into the SOouner Truth low housing project Detroit began
moving successfully their furnishings into the buildings
They guarded police. They hardly
needed the this time because the three leaders of the
mob had previously been indicted by Federal Grand Jury charges
conspiracy citizens from occupying deray owned
ies for which leases had been executed Uncle Sam led by Peden
tal approval and Attorney General Bdde struck with lightning in
Detroit the dsgracu the forces who
such wanted of battle with the u S.
Government.
Results obtained after the Government stepped proved
uvey what said and time that the Federal
Government if minded could of the abuses
petuated against the American Negro
Much of the credit for the final of this important
oversy the German controlled and the
press both of which hored with whites
and American blacks fought another the the capital
of production effort Their laughter useful in awakening
America to it's danger
Negro press pulpit
aroused white majority led by few of the daily who
realized with shock that such manifestations the Detroit riot if
allowed to spread would cause wide national disunity
We forget the Detroit Negroes and liberal whites led
by Negro editor and Epcopaan minister that city worked
feet of the national housing authority and the city and officials
the fire. All of these forces did job the entire country
its efforts when they whipped the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-01
OPEN DOOR OF CHRIST

St. James A. NJ. E. Church: Rev.
B. N. Moore in his Sunday morn
ing service brought to the atten-
ton of his congregation the door
through which our race has come,
freedom, education, health and
economics-all made available by
the "Open Door of Christ"
On Sunday, May 8, Rev. Moore
will preach the communion serv-
ice on the subject Breaking of
Bread"
Flowers on the altar were pre-
scented in memory of Dellah Ford
Mahan and Marvin Ford, mother
and brother of Mrs. Bother Gum.
The following visitors were noted:
Rev. R. C. Davis of Atkinson,
Kansas, Rev. Boyd Patrick, Mr.. f.
Newsom of Duluth, Mr.. Albert
Black of St. Paul, nephews of the
late Mrs. Minnie Archer.
A guaranteed roof has been
placed on our first floor church au-
ditorium and new ceiling will be
put on. Due to governmental pri
ority on building materials, st.
James will not be permitted to
build on our superstructure for the
duration.
The Danes Club of St. James
presented a splendid program at
the 8 p. m. service hour on last
Sunday with talent from the Twin
Cities. Mrs. Cudellus Jackson is
president.-Chas. Miller, reporter.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-01

heard the reports of the 73rd ses-
sion of the Lexington Annual Con-
ference, held in Detroit, April IS
10, given by Mrs. John C. Few, lay
delegate, and Pastor Clarence T. R.
Nelson at the morning worship
service last Sunday. A consecra-
ton service for the officers for
1942-43 will be held during the
morning worship service Sunday
morning. "Consecrated Volunteers
Needed for Service in the Lords
Army" will be the subject of the
sermon for the service by Pastor
Nelson. The form of the Com
munion Service held at the annual
conference will be used in the serv-
ice. The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service will have charge of
the evening worship service. The
senior choir was we'll received in it's
recital at the Gustavus Adolphus
Lutheran Church las Sunday
night. Miss Olga Anderson per-
formed excellently as the organist,
in the absence of Prof. r. Nelson
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With the Churches

St. Thomas Notes: Last Sundays
service was rendered as a memorial
to the late John Cunningham. We
were grateful and pleasantly sur
prised to have as our guest speak
er our former rector, the Rev. FIR.
Edward James. His message was
truly inspirational and seeing our
old friend brought back many
pleasant and fond remembrances.
There was a meeting of the
Ladies' Guild last Wednesday aft
ernoon in the undercraft of the
church.-Katherine Mitchell.
Pilgrim Baptist Church News:
The anguished cry of Christ on the
Cross, "My God! My God! Why
hast Thou Forsaken Me-" was the
theme of a stimulating sermon
Sunday morning. Miss Elizabeth
Moore sang Mozart's "Alleluia"
and DIR. Weber sang the words of
the text. The coup" award went to
the Earnest Workers Club for the
largest amount reported for the
month.
Next Sundays guest soloist will
be Ira Dorsey at the organ. Rev.
Ware will preach in the morning
II thirst" and the evening subject
will be "The Race of Life"
Pilgrim anticipates with great
pride the visit of DIR. T. ]. King,
eminent pastor of Ebenezer Bap-
fist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa, who
will preach for one week in revival
services.
Every able-bodied member of
Pilgrim should be present Sunday
morning to partake of Holy Com
munion, the supreme Christian
privilege.-Wanda Owens, report
err.
CamphOr Memorial Methodist
Church Notes: A large audience
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Women Stand Up for Democracy

important the maintenance of and striving for demo-
cratic has the activity of the white
womens organizations.
From and other saunh Amer
and other mnorties have received
slant support assistance in becoming full citizens
Womens International League for Peace
and Freedom has during the few
wears that ognzant problems affecting the u S. Negro
deep interest by taking active
part every effort the interests OF the Negro both locally
andn nationally.
recently April the Twin City boards of this great
ganizaon by ordered officers address letters the
following subjects:
l. uphold Negro leaders who March 20 Wash
ingon said the steps njustices
against and opportunities them of serving
their country a before enthusiastic Negro
O the be expected
2 To approve Pepper Geyer bills to abolish poll tax
g. To approve Cellar Anti-L ynching Bill
of Importance to the u s.
population the Women International League for
Peace for their action
supporting tending strengthen democracy at
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-01
Father MarkOe
Conducts May
DevOtiOns Friday

Father w. J. Markoe's friends
in Minneapolis will be happy to
learn that he is temporarily in
charge of st. Peters Claver Church
of St. Paul during Father Keefe's
absence.
Father Markhoe will conduct the
May devotions Friday, May LIST, at
St. Leonard's Church, 10th and
Clinton Ave-, at 7 p. M, and at St.
Martins, 9Th and Bryant Avenue
North, at 8:15 p. m.
Father Markoe is from St. Louis,
in which city, his splendid work
among Negroes is a matter of pub
lie record.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-01

NlIlASl.
We urge the State University to
not only correct its own policy in
line with democratic procedures,
but to take positive leadership in
educating public attitudes toward
better racial understanding. This
could be done in several ways. Uni
versity example and influence could
be used to overcome discrimination
practiced by the owners of private
rooming houses. Or, why not plan
a real international House, with
the cooperation of the Cosmopoh-
tan Club and the Negro students,
modelled along the lines of such
successful ones as those at the Uni
versity of Chicago, Columbia Uni
versity and Geneva, Switzerland ?
Surely while the University is
striving in every way possible to
fit its students, both men and wom-
en-, for constructive service in the
chaotic worldwide struggle ahead
it is increasingly important to
clear their minds of prejudice and
all false racial doctrines which are
considered characteristic of the
way of life we are opposing. We
cannot defend democracy by deny
ing its elemental privileges to Ne
groes.
Sincerely yours,
Anna Paulenn Graves,
State President.
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Few People Seem To Understand

What few people understand both black and white
that this policy racial repression all piece;
exclusion of Negroes section of defense industry and the
denial of the right
Navy the level of scuo euphemstcay called
tendant that the limitation Negroes
and the humiliation and insult
Cross stems from the by the national
of relations which is the anhess the
principle.
We who Negroes disappointed but dmayed shall
quit the struggle loyalty country
fighting rights fighting
the knowledge that it will ultimately
for all or for none.-Opportunity Magazine
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LOYALTY

o God how many centuries will pour
Upon our hearts the acid test of loyalty;
Time assays our karats twenty-fOur,
Can gracious hearts meet higher royalty!
All, who could drink life's dregs so long,
Live hard lean days with patience greater,
Love and laugh, and still grow strong
On ills that well might feed the traitor.
Straightaway sail, avoiding shoals of doubt,
And ofttmes distance treble,
Fine things sacrifice, days in, days out,
For fear you'll think US rebel.
The blame for John Browns tragedy we share,
Fidelity over Freedom, our prediction,
We pondered if such liberty could be fair,
When won by insurrection.
Like rain stone the years will carve
A strange contour to our lives,
Young hearts grow restless, made to starve,
Eternitys too long to wait till luck arrives
Because youths strike the iron while hot,
1t shapes them no less true,
The Past bespeaks the Presents time to pot,
Lest Goddess steal due.
Well keep alive the memory of poverty and pain,
Those centuries of abject slavery,
Too cruel, too long, yet not in vain
While we were learning bravery.
Propaganda's weeds will find no fertile field
In u.s. Well neither grow nor sell
His vice, but give the foe bumper yield
Of all the wrath of He'll!
james T. Logan.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-01

ting popular tune and keeping
time with a rat-tat-tat-tat slapping
of the shining cloth. He was happy.
Happy in his world. He had never
heard of the old maxim, HE whose
shoes l shine today might black
my boots tomorrow" No, and l
don't think he ever will.
"Please hurry the shine along, l
must attend the Board meeting of
the Urban League" said the tweed
ed one, moving himself to the
front of the shining stand chair.
Il never heard of no Urban
League, boss, pse heard of the
American League and the National
League and 1 goes to the ball game
every Sunday and l sits on a board
too"
Really, how interesting"
The shoes finished, the whisk-
broom was vigorously applied
while the white face one was fish
ing in his pocket for some loose
change.
Here is a dime and two street
car tokens"
THANK you, boss, thank you.
But what's the two tokens fur?"
For your street car fare over
to the library to find out about
George Washington Carver"
W. T. S.: I've taken a course in
Hair Culture and have received my
diploma. Now l wish to know if
should open up a shop right now?
Should l continue to spend more
money on marching and waving?
Ans: Take job in beauty par
Tor for few months. Do your very
best work and encourage regular
customers. Once you are able to
get customers calling for you, you
can then open a shop of your own.
Yes, continue to take special
courses in marching and waving
it's important that you keep up
with the latest styles of hair dress
ing in order to make the most from
your profession.
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Sabotage Within
"a True Story
By Hobart 7. Mitchell

Il tell you boss, they amt no
good. All Negroes amt no good.
They amt worth the dime you
givin' me fur this shine. You take
my sister, she's got baby but she
amt got man. Look at that brief
carryin' Negro that works for you.
The porter tells me he comes in
the place on the corner, drinks a
highball, and acts like whitefolks.
No they amt"
The white man looked at him
with a contemptuous frown, and cut
him short with, Did you ever hear
Of George Washington Carver?"
mo, sub, who's he?" said blab-
Der mouth, looking up and missing
a stroke of the shining brush on
the shoe.
"Oh, he's just an American.
That's ALL"
You might say who cares about
the narrow-minded, lame Drained,
race-sabotaging Negro about whom
you write. There are only a few in
a million-what harm could they
do?
On each of us as Negroes is
placed a great responsibility. at
this time. The future of the Negro
is being wrought not so much by
what is happening on the battle
fields of Europe and Asia as by the
actions of men and women who call
themselves Negroes. here in the
United States.
If you fail in your duty in this
crisis, you may contribute to the
failure in the future of every Negro
in the country. If on the other
hand, we stand fast and uphold
Cody principles through our daily
actions and dealings with others,
we send forth a stream of influence
which will have its effect in many
ways and flow into numerous
channels.
"BalloOn-mouth" was now whis-
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Conspiracy To Defeat Justice

the University of Missouri closed down it school
journalism rather than comply with the decision of the u Su-
handed down the Gaines and admit Miss Lucille
Bluford o graduate division.
the the law and having exhausted
the discourage and prevent Miss Blu
entering cssrooms of the University of
their school of journalism This however, will not
litigation against the university whose officials have entered
conspiracy ustceChcago Defender
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-01
State Organization Con.
dennis University Atti-
tude on Housing

Letter ordered sent from the state board.
meeting Jointly with the Twin City Boards
Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom, Minnesota Branch, Tuesday,
April IA, 1912, at the Curtis Hotel in
Minneapolis)
DR.. Walter C. Coffey, President,
University of Minnesota, and the
Board of Regents,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Dear Sirs:
Our attention has been called by
recent articles and letters in the
Minnesota Daily and the Mime
apoGs Spokesman, Negro newspa-
per, to renewal of anti-Negro at
titudes on the campus, seemingly
reflected from official sources. Ref
erence is made particularly to the
attempt to set up a Jim Crow
University-owned rooming house
for men which was allegedly sold
to the Negro students as an Inter
national House and then white stu
dents making applications were ex-
cluded.
Such situation existing at our
State University - supported by
taxes from Negroes as we'll as
whites-is thoroughly condemned
by every intelligent, liberty loving
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Friday, May l, 1912
Willkie Says

correction of certain injustces be made
which peaceful effort have failed
bring about the discrimination against the
industry labor the armed OF thee
Nation.
consider the realm of social experiment
Thew are wrongs shall
them Wilkie.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-01

Barber, who is ill at Bethesda Hos
pital. The choir will render a twi-
light musical at p. M, in the
church on Sunday, May II.
Evening star., 1942-01-25

Richard Burgess, E. J. Middleton, Robert
Farnham, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Col.
and Mrs. Burnside, the family of Bishop
Paret, family of Commodores Whiting
and Rogers, Col. w. w. Dudley and
family, which included Rev. George r.
Dudley, who was confirmed there. Also,
Chief Justice Morrison r. Waite of the
United State Supreme Court and Sena-
tor Edmunds.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone, whose country
estate included all of what is now Colun-
bia Heights, attended there, and Mrs.
Philip J. Ryan was for years interested
in the work of the parish. Many other
old Washington families have attended
this church, and it still numbers in its
membership some of the foremost people
of the Federal Capital.
The old church could relate quite a
bit of history if it could talk. Indeed, it
would be interesting to know just how
this street looked at the time it was
erected nearly 100 yearS ago. Then G
street was almost the northern boundary
of the city, for there was much vacant
ground, even close to this old edifice.
Indeed, as much as a quarter of CEN
tury, subsequent to the building of this
church, the National baseball club had
its grounds at the corner of Fifteenth
and L streets, so G street, at least at
that time, was almost suburban. 1t was
twenty years before the first street cars
ran on the Avenue, while there were
practically no street improvements in
this part of Washington, and very few
in any other part. Pictures made before
the Civil War show COWS grazing along
< street, three blocks to the north. and
muddy roadways just above Thomas
Circle. The springs in the vicinity of
Franklin Square then supplied much of
downtown Washington with water for
all purposes. Many graveyards were
still in the city limits, for many of the
churches still had their own cemeteries
at this period.
1t was a neighborhood of churches.
Down at Tenth and F streets F street
side) was old ST. Patrick's; below this.
on Tenth street, the Baptist Church,
where preached the Rev. Obadiah
Brown, and which later moved to the
site of the telephone Office on Thirteenth
street. At Eleventh and H was st.
Pauls Lutheran Church; on New York
avenue between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church and just around
the corner on F street, where stands the
Willard Hotel. was the F Street Presby-
terian Church, where DR.. Lawrie
preached and which later became Will
lard Hail.
Nearly all of these early churches have
been removed. but old Epiphany still re-
mains as q monument to Christianity,
Evening star., 1942-01-25

I'm the autumn OF 1860 I went to
Washington to plead for justice to these
red men. I had letters from j. K. Sass,
president of the Bank of Charleston to a
prominent Southern statesman, upon
whom / called with the Rev. Charles H.
Hall, D. D., rector of the Church of the
Epiphany. In response to my plea, this
Government ofncial said:
bishop, we cannot help you. Mr..
Lincoln will be elected President, and the
South will go out of the Union. South
Carolina will secede first and other
States will follow. You will have to seek
justice for your Indians from the North
ern government
''1s it possible exclaimed, that I
hear a representative of the Govern
ment say that even its trusted servants
are plotting for its destruction?
He smiled and replied: You know
we Southern men believe in the right of
secession"
IF you 60 out Of the Union said DR..
Hall. it will be because God has per-
mitted you to be stone blind, and slavery
will be doomed. 1t will be a righteous
retribution. We have married men and
women at the altar, and have separated
them on the auction block, and Chris
tian men have not dared to call 1t sin.
Two years after this. in the middle
Evening star., 1942-01-25

Of the Civil War, I was the guest Of my
cousin, Gen. Halleck. Mr.. Stanton, the
Secretary of War, came in one evening,
and after speaking with some bitterness
of the secessionists in Washington, re-
marked: I was told today that DR..
Hall is Southern sympathizer.' I re-
peated DR.. Halls words at the interview
in 1860, at which Mr.. Stanton expressed
much surprise and exclaimed: Did you
hear that yourself, Bishop?'
The next day called upon Dr. Hall
and told him that, although I could not
give him my reasons for believing it, I
was confident that he possessed enemies
who had informed the Government that
he was Southern sympathizer. Spring.
ing to his feet he exclaimed: Bishop,
excuse me few minutes. must go to
the War Department immediately This
he did, sending word to Mr.. Stanton
that he wanted to see him for exactly
two minutes" Upon being admitted, he
said: Mr.. Stanton, am a Southern
man. I am a Southern sympathizer and
I should be brute If I were not. My
misguided friends are being killed. I
am Christian and loyal to the Govern
ment which keeps a roof over my head.
When I cannot be loyal, will ask you
to put me in Fort Lafayette. Is that
satisfactory
"Mr. Stantons answer was: DR.. Hall,
have you any pews to rent in your
church, If you have, you may count
on me as a parishioner as long as I live
in Washington Mr.. stanton was
member of the parish of tine Epiphany
until he died"
During the Civil War the church, for
some time, served as hospital for Union
soldiers.
Following DR.. Hall came Rev Thomas
A. Starkey and then Rev. Wilbur F. Wat
kins, DID. Rev. William Paret-well
known later as the Bishop of Maryland
to which high Office he was elected, and
consecrated in 1884-followed DR.. Wat
kins as rector.
Dr. Samuel Hansel Giesy was rector
from 1885 to the date of his death, May
~, 1888, and was beloved by all who
knew him. His successor was the noted
Washington divine, Rev. Randolph Har-
rison McKim, who was called from
Trinity Church, New Orleans, in Novem-
Der, 1888, and assumed his duties the
following month.
Then came Rev. James E Freeman,
D. D., who left there in 1923 to become
Bishop of Washington. His place was
taken in 1924 by the Rev. z. B. Phillips,
D. D.
Many prominent people have wor-
SHIPPED here besides those named, in
cluding Jefferson Davis, George Madison
Davis, James Morss, John B. S. Skinner,