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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
Rev. Nelson to
Preach on New
York Sunday

''The True Lights of New York
City" will be the subject of the
sermon at the II a. m. service, un-
day, January "a, in the Camphor
Memorial Methodist Church, by the
pastor, Rev. Clarence T. R. Nelson.
In this sermon, Rev. Nelson will
tell of some of his experiences and
observations while visiting seven
great churches in New York City
last Sunday. Among the churches
visited by the Camphor pastor were
the st. Marks Methodist Church,
a half million dollar building re-
ported to be the most expensive
church building built for Negroes
in the world; the Abyssinian Bap-
fist Church, reported to have the
largest membership of any Pro-
testant church in the world; the
Cathedral of st. Johns the Divine,
the worlds largest church building
of Gothic design; the Riverside
Church, the church to which the
Rockefellers belong.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22

Shearing operations during the
current season in New South Wales,
Australia, have provided a magnif-
icent demonstration of organized Ia
Dor established and improvised I'M
der war conditions. In this state
whose SO million sheep comprise
half the sheep population of the en-
tire Australian Commonwealth, 3d.
900 workers are employed. With the
peak of the shearing season passed,
sheep ranchers have reported I'M
usually efficient operations. A big
factor in this success was the graz
ers' willingness to cooperate in al
tering normal shearing dates, and
the fine national spirit shown by en-
ployees belonging to the Australian
Workers union, one of Australians
biggest and most militant labor Or
CARNATIONS.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22

for demanding just that thing. All
they needed these so-called hber-
als) was some Negro into whose
mouth they could put these same
words and sentiments in a cam
paign, conscious or unconscious on
their part, to censor Negro news
papers.
Of course, enlightened self-inter-
est should show white people in this
country that the privileges and pre-
negatives of living under a demo-
cratic form of government must be
given the Negro if America is to
win the war and certainly the peace
to follow land I've said that so
many times before). People like
Pearl Buck, Edwin Embree and
others have pointed out the dan
gers which face America in the
coming world order if the problem
of race (they say color, the un-
finished business of democracy is
not solved and solved soon.
Ignored Other Liberal Journals
This reactionary Negro advises
the Negro masses not to raise vital
questions involving their status
while courageous white persons of
influence and power are attempting
to awaken the social consciousness
of the majority of white Ameri-
cans. Brown should have included
with the Negro papers Marshall
Fields PM, the Nation, the New
Republic, the Survey Graphic, and
the rest of the liberal enlightened
journals of public opinion pub
lished by white persons.
Yes, it's too bad that we don't
have some social mechanism, such
as these Chinese, for putting the
undesirable people out of the race
so that they could no longer pre-
tend to speak for US. When we do,
have a little list and DR.. Brown
will surely not be missed.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
TRUE TO A FIGHTING TRADITlONT

st. James A. M. E. Church News:
Many of the faithful braved the
frigid temperature and attended
our 10:45 a. m. service, Sunday,
Rev. B. N. Moore, pastor, delivered
the sermon. Mrs. Frances Hughes
joined church. Messrs. Edward J.
Nichols and William Rodney Of
Duluth, MINI. were guests.
The pastor will be in the pulpit
Sunday morning, Jan. "a. At 8 p
m. a community program is being
sponsored by the Anderson Circle
Numbers by the senior choir and
the Barber sisters will be presented
DR.. ]. W. Crump will be the guest
speaker. DR.. Crump will cover the
physical and mental condition OF
our race in this world conflict, the
necessity of the double victory OF
democracy and show that a major
operation is necessary on that part
of this country predominating in
race hatred. Mrs. Cora Grissom
will preside. Mrs. Villa Barber is
president.
At the $50 meeting of the Uni
versity of Life, last Sunday, Rev
NJ. Boyd Patrick reviewed the popu-
lar novel and moving picture, Zone
Foot in Heaven" Next Sunday the
subject will be "Are War Marriages
Practical" Mrs. Alverta Coram will
be the guest speaker. Young and
old are invited to attend these meet
| ings,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
Exams for
Fire Dept.
February n

There will be a Civil Service ex-
animation for Fire Fighters in St.
Paul on February 81. Men 21-35
years of age should apply for these
positions. The salary range is
from $168.35 to $197.1O a month.
The st. Paul Urban League has
assisted candidates for this exami-
nation previously and has agreed
to conduct a training class for
those who file applications for the
examination.
The last day for filing is Feb
ruary goth. The date of the train
ing class will be announced later.
All men who are interested
should get in touch with the st.
Paul Urban League office immedi-
ately. A special appeal is being
made to those who are now work
ing in defense industries to take
advantage of this opportunity.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
Educator Claims Children
Not Dumb but Just Slow

Tommy Schoolboy may not be as
dumb" as his report card indi-
Gates. because Tommy's dumb
ness" may be traced to either the
home or school, says DR.. Emmett
A. Belts, director Of the reading
clinic in the school of education at
the Pennsylvania State college.
Parent-teacher diagnosis Of
"slow child has revealed that the
pupil generally is victim Of in
sufficient guidance or parental de-
velopment, DR.. Belts said.
Heavy homework, irritated par
ents, and mistaken ideas Of how a
child should be prepared for school
has built up many emotional
blocks" DR.. Belts warned. Home
work for some elementary school
pupils has made school life a living
hell"
The Penn State reading expert
pointed out that parents sometimes
contribute to the homework plague
by ''nagging," or educators force
children to adjust themselves to a
questionable school program. Shift
ing Of Institutional problems to the
homes makes out-of-school teachers
Of parents, he added.
Educational guidance IS a pro-
fessional job" DR.. Belts said. ut
is the duty of educators to show
parents how to prepare the child
by developing his play ability, shar-
ing informal story hours, planning
trips with the children, developing
child personality, encouraging phys
ical fitness, and teaching self SUI
f1ciency," he urged.
The home and school must work
together for education Of the child,
DR.. Belts said. He suggested home
visits by teachers, parent-teacher
discussion periods, and personal
conferences aided by a complete
study of the child's background.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22

plete social and economic isolation
from his community, family and
friends-it is one way which these
Chinese employed to maintain
morale. Though not sadist at
heart, l would like to recommend
this treatment for certain Negroes.
A Disgraceful "Sell-Out"
The offender which / have in
mind is one Warren Brown, who
calls himself Director of Race Re-
lations for the Council of Democ-
racy. In the January issue of
Readers Digest, Brown gives the
most disgraceful performance of a
"sell-out" Negro that l have ever
encountered. The story he wrote
was entitled "a NEGRO WARNS
THE NEGRO PRESS" and was
condensed from the Saturday Re-
view of Literature. In this piece
Brown states that he knows the
Negro Che alleges to be one) and
that he has information to the eff
feet that "sensation-mongering Ne
gro leaders" and especially the Ne
gro press have a "drive to embitter
him 1.-THE Negro) which began dur
ing the depression under Commu-
nistic auspices (and) has been ag-
gressively promoted in the Negro
press since America entered the
war" Mr.. Brown (or should / say
DIR. Brown as he affixes a Ph.D.
to his name) continues then to
castigate Negro papers for COM
planning about the lynching of Ne
gro soldiers, police brutality in
New York, and the activities of
Rev. A. Clayton Powell Jr. He
finally ends up with this gem.
"But the kind of justice for which
the Negro strives is undoubtedly
delayed by the Negro press. Its in
dammatory attempts to indicate
that the Negro never gets fair
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
Says Paper Showed
Disrespect to Dead
By Use of Word
Minneapolis, MINI.
January 10. 1913

Minneapolis, MINI.
January 10, 1943
Editor: In referring to the death
of Mr.. Joseph Young in your issue
of January 18th 1 for one thought
it unbecoming to you as an Editor
to refer to him as character.
There are no more characters, they
went out with the last war.
Everyone was put in this world
to live his or her life as sees fit, and
who are we to judge a mans Life?
As far as the public was con-
cerned, and what we are no one
cares in these days. We all try to
live so that our fellow man will
think well of US. And to speak de-
spairingly of the dead, when they
can't speak for themselves shows
lack of respect for the dead.
Mrs. E. NJ. Fassett,
5136 10th Ave. s.,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Editors Note: The New Century
Dictionary, page 238, Vol. l, defines
the word character thusly: &c"
a Distinguishing mark or feature;
a characteristic; also the aggregate
Of characteristics or distinguishing
features of thing; peculiar quail
ity; also moral constitution, as of
person or a people; often strong
ly developed moral quality, also
reputation; often good repute; also
an account of the peculiarities of a
person or thing; also status or ca
pacity; also person considered as
exhibiting certain qualities"
The suggestion that the use of
the words "well known character"
in the news story mentioned in Mrs.
E. M. Fasset's letter was intended
to cast reflections on the subject
story is far fetched and without
foundation. A moments check of
the dictionary as is shown above
will indicate how erroneous such
deductions are. A common news
paper term, the word character
may be used to describe a variety
of persons and the word alone
does carry an unfavorable como
tation.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
No Rails NOrthward

Lake Chad Situated in north
central Africa about 700 air miles
from the west coast Gulf of Guinea
lies mostly within the Free French"
territory of French Equatorial Afri-
ca. It extends slightly over the
border at the point where that col
ony meets British Nigeria and
French West Africa, whose govern
ment has been loyal to Vichy.
The nearest railway station to the
lake is more than 200 miles away,
at Nigerian Nguru, whence rails
stretch southwestward to the Gulf
of Guinea port of Lagos. There are
no railway lines from central Africa
northWard.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
POOR BUTTERFLY

A butterfy's gal with looks
Who always eats but never cooks,
A fragile creature, wings of gold,
Whose luster fades as she grows old,
Though love can't be insurable,
IT is safer when the lady's durable.
A butterfy's gay narcissus,
Who aims to be an idle Missus,
She may be poor and have to stint,
But hopes to marry U. S. Mint,
And when she's wed to some poor sloth,
He finds his little myths moth.
A butterfy's a maid who thinks
A coats the lifelong wish of minks,
AS winter winds begin to chill her,
She yearns to dress like caterpillar,
And flies to Reno when friend hubby
Is minus means to buy the chubby.
A butterfy's little queen,
A cover girl on a magazine,
Of sweeter face than Mona Lisa,
Her company manners, Heavens visa,
But any softly in her grasp
Can testify the chicks wasp.
Cleo, lepidopteron, Al rating,
Delilah too was good at dating,
They, DuBarry, cards and spades
Couldn't win from modern maids,
Outdigging forty -niners-why
Do we still moan, "Poor Butterfly"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22

treatment, it's efforts to use his
misfortune-not to get justice but
to arouse more violent racialism-
make the going more difficult for
that great majority of light and
black who are working for a more
even-handed treatment of the Ne
gro, not as a Negro but as an
American"
Now probably one shouldn't pay
lot of attention to a man who
displays such abysmal ignorance
Of race relations as is indicated in
his article, except that he is writing
in a magazine that sells twenty
million copies a month. The'shoot-
ing and killing of Negro soldiers
and the violence of mob action in
the South and the North is not re-
ported to the general white reading
public. Now comes DR.. Brown to
inform, not Negroes but twenty
million white readers, that even
the complaints of Negroes, as ar
ticulated in their press, are un-
patriotic, unnecessary and danger
Gus.
Press Attacked From Many
Quarters
This is not an isolated incident
which should be considered out of
context. 1t follows up the attacks
Of Westbrook Pegler and the many
sly digs of other white writer's. For
example, my friend Stanley High,
who is on the staff of the Readers
Digest, wrote a pretty decent
article about Negroes some months
ago for that magazine, but slipped
in some few derogatory remarks
about the Negro press. Both Time
and Life magazines have bemoaned
the fact that the Negro does not
participate more fully in our de-
mocracy, but end up by taking
backhand slaps at the Negro press
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
Musician Cuts Out Scales

Scaling and other defects in the
finishing Of ammunition shells have
been eliminated by an invention of
Herbert James, former organist now
employed at the National Tube COM
pany, McKeesport, Pa. He rugged
up a multiple acetylene torch ar
rangement for brazing tool tips to
tool shanks which has replaced the
old hand torch method and greatly
increased the quality Of the product.
Mr.. James has been awarded a
Certificate Of Individual Production
Merit by War Production Drive
headquarters.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
Chopped Hay Saves Space

Chopped hay requires only one
third to one-haR as much storage
space as the same weight of long
hay. To keep well, chopped hay
should be cured until there is less
than 20 per cent moisture; other.
Wise 1t will lose much Of its green
color and will become a dusty, I'm.
palatable feed. Chopping does not
make hay more digestible, but II
hay is stemmy, cows will eat 1t more
readily II chopped.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
OSTRACISM
We Need Some Social Mechanism to Ostrdcize Our
"Undesirdbles
Bv HORACE R. CAYTON

incident where Chinese boy put out OF
his conduct the opinion of the
Chinese community of that city, nbecomng and dsgacefu This poor
in the twilight between the
Japanese Filipino Chinese for before he died Al
though probably cruel type of punhmenhis
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-01-22
Churches Leading
the Way i'm This
City

Utilize the advertising columns
of the community paper to reach
the great mass of church-goers and
the unchurched of the area. In
these modern days, modern Chris
tan institutions have found that no
matter how good anything is, it
must be advertised.
That's the reason why the lead
ing churches of the Twin Cities al
lot a portion of their budget to
propagating the benefits of church
utilization and the Christian way
of life through the columns of the
newspaper.
Hundreds of Twin Citians keep
track of what the churches are
doing through Irwin City Church
es" found in this paper each week.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
Asleep At The Switch

The announcement that five proposed amendments to the state constitution are put off two more years, due to the fact that someone neglected during the two year interval between the 1941 and 1943 legislative sessions to advertise publicly that these proposed amendments were to be made, may be termed just an error, but it certainly was an inexcusable one. After all you just can't put five constitutional amendments to one side and forget all about them.
 It isn't as if they were unimportant and not worth being considered any further. The mere fact that the 1941 Legislature took the proper action on them indicates that there was merit in the proposals and that the proper steps should be taken to assure ratification This is lengthy procedure. The amend nlentS may originate in one Legislature, but another must meet and third come along before passage is finally obtained
 At this current legislative session the proposed amendments would have been ordered referred to the voters of the state at the next, general election. If ratified by the voters the amendments would have then returned at the follow ing legislative session for final approval. This process is now apparently postponed two more years. All of which isn't good government by any manner or means Just mistake, to be sure, but a costly one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21

beets, or some other vegetable. You may at the moment think that peas would be nice. But peas are scarce and there is relatively plentiful supply of corn avail able. You have a fixed number of points" to spend on canned fruits and vegetables. Because peas are scarce, can will cost you more points than would a can of corn. You take your choice. Probably you select the corn, or some thing else that won't use tip too many points. Thus the OPA will be enabled to conserve the scarcer items to concen- trate attention on the more plentiful, without frequently changing the value of the overall ration ticket-as has been necessary with gasoline, for which there is no substitute. Meanwhile the house. wife is free to exercise her choice. Un- like the British woman, she can trade wherever she wishes She is reasonably certain that, month after month, she can obtain all the fruits and vegetables she really needs. The system is not perfect, the OPA admits. But experience in oth- CT countries, with refinements that will suggest themselves to every consumer, has involved an amount of red tape that the American people never would stand. Let's give point rationing fair try be- fore we get excited about the irritations that will crop up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
Ration Book No. 2

Point rationing is scheduled to be inaugurated soon, after the present ration book has been replaced by more com prehensive, more flexible substitute. The new No. 2 book may appear complicated at first and its use with a point system undoubtedly will lead to temporary mis- understandings and irritations There fore, it is important that we approach the revised rationing setup with com prehension and tolerance, recognizing that the scheme takes full advantage of mistakes made by other nations who were forced to precede us in broad-scale rationing.
 Much of the apparent complexity really is on the surface. After the first week or two of use there should be nothing left to gripe about except the shortages them selves, and neither the OPA nor your storekeepers created those. Blame a paperhanger named Hitler, a stuffed shirt named Mussollni, a phony god named Hlrohito. The expression point system" means just this: There are great many foodstuffs which are inter ehangeable. For instance, lt Is matter 0f taste and convenience whether you Lave corn, peas, ssringbeans, spinach
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
They're In The Army Now

Since President Wilson created general consternation some years ago by breaking a precedent gradually there have been many a one broken as the years rolled by. This year of 1943, in fact this week, West Point Military Academy graduated over four hundred cadets who enter the service immediately. Instead of a fair day in June and all the pageantry that summer skies and lovely countryside overlooking the Hudson can add to the impressive cadet review, there was bleak landscape, added to this gray skies and rain.
 However, the four hundred and more had "bandbox" review in the barracks quadrangle. Slightly out of season, the event coming in January, was nonethe- less impressive. Even now those in the finishing class are commissioned second lieutenants with the required number or bars. The review was Monday and the graduation Tuesday, so there was no choice in days. No sun broke through the clouds to give brighter aspect to the Hudson River country.
 However, Sousa'S stirring stars ana Stripes Forever" sounded a bright note as the cadets marched into the central barracks area Yesterday and the day before were, despite the month ot the year and weather conditions, replete with festive programs, and ice show, the dance and thousands of visitors. But today is something again for the boys from West Point. They're in the Army now!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-21
New State Office

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin has moved quickly to place his former execu- tive secretary of two years ago, James Lowell, in commanding position in his present administration. MT. Lowell has just been named executive assistant to the governor, new position, not previ- ously filled. Increase in gubernatorial duties, plus the great demands made up- on the office during these war times, has caused the governor to add to his own Staff The announcement will be vari- ously received, as it should be.
 It isn't very many days ago that the governor was advocating the elimina- tion, completely, of the State Public Works Department on the ground that there was little work for it to do during the war. One Democratic senator made enough of this to inquire why the State Highway Department wasn't similarly ruled out of existence inasmuch as its work for the duration is likewise very much curtailed. Of course that would probably be scored up to political talk on the part of the Democrats, which 1t is, but no more so than some of the Re- publican arguments these days
 It's a bit difficult to follow some of the COP line of reasoning that finds it necessary to drop many state services that can't be performed these days, yet sees the necessity of increasing execu- tive power and scope by such means as naming an executive assistant to the governor or creating new War Coun- cil. Ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley man. aged very nicely without an executive assistant and did pretty good job, too. We don't think that Governor Baldwin can hope to surpass the Hurley efforts, but certainly he is making lot of efforts, it would seem, to remove any traces of worthwhile accomplishments that the Democrats claim for the past two years. That doesn't fit into the war program.