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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

Morris and Janet Armstrong, form
erly members of the Zion Presby-
terrain Church. Miss Esther Gil
more, of Muskogee, Okla, was a
visitor.
The congregation adopted unani-
mously the plans for a 81, 900 rally
presented by the pastor, Rev. Clar-
ence T. R. Nelson, in a meeting
after the worship service. Most of
the members present pledged ten
dollars each to be paid by Nov. l.,
for the roofing of the church, re-
pairing of the furnace and the coal
for the fall and winter. Most en-
couraging was the response of the
young people, several of whom
pledged ten dollars. Rev. Faulk-
ner preached at the 8 PM, service
also.
"She Brought Her Children With
Her" will be the subject of the
sermon by Rev. Nelson, Sunday at
the II am, service. Babies and
children will be christened after the
sermon. Rev. Nelson will preach at
the 8 pm. service also. He will
give a brief report of the Chicago
District Conference which he at
tended at Pontiac last week, during
the morning service.-Church Re-
porter.
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Victory Is the Thing

chief today should be victory for
fighting problems however vital Americans nd
general should be subOrnated to the main
ending this quickly and completely
group American life has just grievances the
While dissatisfied things Negroes will be
the battle win the The Negro
fights and defense of democracy
he does fully enjoy The Negroes
adversely from
brothers who do recognize admit his
These factors of adversely and
oppression patriotism of the Negro remarkable
He face to face often
pognany with hard cold facts Of the hypocrisy Of
democracy, than in the country
American Negro recognizes that under the
democracy his lot under Fascm would
certainly certain sections of the United States he
under domestic Facm. He knows,
country him better treatment Notwithstanding
has shed his blood the battle feda
should establish his right first class citizenship
Today his critics, they honest
his WORTH America million
times n toll, and tears
the Negro hopes that destruction OF
will help bring about the eradication OF the
homegrown variety abors plants offers his life
country and buys bonds to do the number
job reminding America that it cannot
humanity abroad unless brushes Fascsm
death here at home.
Victory Thing let have total victory for freedom
of humanity both abroad and at home
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CARD OF THANKS

The family of Mr.. Leslie Burnett
wishes to express its appreciation
to all who sent expressions of SYM
pathy, donated the use of their
cars and sent flowers at the time
of his demise.-Mr. and Mrs. Felix
Fogg, Mrs. Frances Burnett, Mr..
Thomas w. Burnett, sisters and
brothers, Mrs. Myrtle Taylor,
niece.
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CARD OF THANKS

In the recent passing Of our
daughter and sister, Marcellaine
Thomas, we wish to express our
gratitude and appreciation to our
many loyal friends for the beauti-
full floral offerings, donations and
cars. Especially do we thank Rev.
Clarence T. R. Nelson, Rev. C. B.
Wheeler, Peter McFarlane, children
of the neighborhood for their con-
tribution, the boys and girls pail
bearers, and also little Alice Law
son, who gave the Welcome Hall
girls resolution.
May God bless all of you.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thomas
James Thomas, Jr.
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Harvey Nash
Writes From
North Africa

Dear Friends:
am saying hello to everyone.
I am we'll, hope this finds you the
same. Sorry l haven't written you
before now. 1 am doing my best
for my Country and you whom
left behind. Hope you'll do the
same.
don't have very much to say,
pray for me, I'll do the same for
you. Good luck to all of you. Write
whenever you can. This leaves me
in North Africa.
Yours truly,
H. Nash.
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When employed at all, they are
on the economic fringe as laborers
and servants. The problems of
Negro poverty, illiteracy and dis
ease are merely the by-products
of this exploitation. 1t is the same
in Egypt, China, Kenya, Jamaica
and Harlem.
Can the white people be COM
pletely civilized? Of course all
problems can be solved in time but
colored folk would greatly delight
in seeing some solution before
they are utterly debased and per-
haps exterminated. Contrary to
Hitler and the thousands of Negro
phobic propagandists who pre-
coded him, colored people, too, are
human. Our white people sorely
need mass education. 1t is not
so much the majority that is re-
sponsible for the perpetuation of
the white problem, but the ruling
minority and it's sizeable fringe
of middle class men-at-arms. Those
few, representing those whites who
pass and interpret the law; own
and publish newspapers, magazines
and books; manufacture and dis
tribute motion pictures; control
and regulate the radio; administer
educational institutions; own real
estate and enforce residential seq
regation, interpret and administer
religion and the church, are to
blame.
The majority of white and
colored folk-poor folk without
money or property-would get
along amicably and without fric-
ton if it were not for the few who,
since the 10th Century, have had
an economic interest in perpetual
ing the color line. In order to
justify their sin, they have invented
the myth Of race and used all the
powerful propaganda forces at
their command to make the masses
share belief in the myth of white
superiority and feel that they
possess some advantage in its per-
petuation. The few understand but
will not change. The many do not
and Because Of that
they will not change.
The fact that laws have had to be
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pieces we are familiar almost to
the point of nausea. They analyze,
exhort, prophesy, deplore, view
Withdrawn, suggest, insist.
Implicit in all these theses is
the assumption that something
must be done for, to or with colored
folks in order to usher in an era of
sweetness and light here and
abroad. Precious little is said about
what must be done for, to or with
white people to achieve the in
terracial Utopia. One would i'm
agine that Negroes were respons-
IDLE for initiating the problem and
for perpetuating it.
Actually there is no Negro
problem. This is both an invention
and an evasion. The real problem
is one of educating white people
so that it will be possible for
colored people, here and elsewhere,
to live in peace and security with
out being Inundated, appropriated,
exploited and prosecuted by white
people on the basis of mythical
race. 1t is not Negroes who have
invaded white folks lands, carted
them off into slavery, destroyed
their cultures, ravished their wom-
en- and stolen their manhood. 1t
is not Negroes who have passed
jim-crow laws, perpetuated jim
crow customs, maintained eco
nomic discrimination, established
racial ghettos, and carried on
observation-disclosures propaganda to
strengthen the fiction of white
racial superiority. The Negroes in
creasing racial chauvinism is but
a normal human reaction to similar
prejudice on the part of whites.
1t has been a thousand years
since a Negro wrote anything to
prove superiority of black over
white. No colored nation has any
white colonies. The international
capitalists who control the lives of
a billion colored folk in Asia,
Africa, Australia and the Amer
icas are all white people. Colored
people do not belong to this select
group, and, in the main, are not
even permitted to serve them as
technicians, lawyers,
men, artists and the rest
Of the intellectual gendarmerie.
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opponent is convinced that he is
right, 1t is the purpose of propa-
ganda to either convince or intro
duce doubt. Such a program as
that of the Association for Toler-
ance in America can supplement
and aid other efforts for the i'm
provement of race relations, and
for this reason it should have the
support of all groups working TO-
ward this end. It is certainly
Christian program, and there
seems to be no more fundamental
and scientific alternative so far
proposed.
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streets Of Harlem. When their as
sault was over, 800 colored men
and women were in hospitals, 500
in jail, and five, possibly more, were
dead. And in addition $4,000, 900
worth of property has been de-
stroyed.
If the worst enemies of the
Negro had deliberately planned to
disgrace him and to prove that he
is not sufficiently self-cOntrolled to
be granted complete equality, they
could have found no more effective
demonstration than the disgraceful
orgy Of robbery and looting in
which scores of Negroes, young and
old, INDUCED late Sunday night and
early Monday morning of August
l and 2 in the great Negro area of
the worlds greatest city. The
speed with which vandalism spread
seemed to indicate that it was
being subtly directed and this pos
sibility deserves exhaustive investi-
cation.
THE EXPLANATION
Negro leaders have given the
daily press a multiplicity of reasons
and explanations for this outbreak.
Discrimination in the army and
industry, lack of sufficient recrea-
tional opportunities, overcrowding,
and a lot of other reasons which
come easily to the lips of those
who speak for the Negro when
ever he is charged with anti-social
behavior. But these reasons seem
strangely inadequate as one looks
into the Dashed in windows of cloth
ing stores, jewelry shops, pawn
shops, grocery stores, shoe stores,
toggery shops and walks over miles
of broken glass were hemmed in be-
fore, now the lines will be drawn
tighter than ever and that the
stigma of lawless, irresponsible
community will be fastened upon
it for a generation.
1t is easy to ascribe this shame
full outbreak to social conditions
and to resentment provoked by
racial discrimination and segrega-
ton. Granted there are tensions
created by the war and by the
bitterness which almost every Ne
gro feels about his shabby treat
ment in the war effort. But even
these things cannot excuse or
condone the wanton destruction of
property by the mob, even a black
mob.
We might as well face the cold
facts. And the facts are that law
lessness in Harlem has been given
impetus by the inability or the
unwillingness of police officials to
curb it by swift and stern mea-
sures; that smarting under the
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criticism of police brutality in the
report of his own commission in
1885, the Mayor, great as his ad-
ministration unquestionably has
been in all other aspects of NUM-
eipal government, has been curious
ly ineffective in the direction of
police administration of Harlem;
that his instructions to the police of
Harlem, in order to check and
eliminate police brutality, have had
the effect of making them hesitant
in the enforcement of the law,
particularly against youthful Of
tenders and this hesitancy and I'M
certainty has, on the part of police
officers, served to encourage law
lessness among Negro youth.
Were shackled" has been the
answer of scores of patrolmen
when asked by various citizens why
they did not adopt sterner measures
in the suppression of lawlessness
in Harlem neighborhoods. AS a
result, for years colored women
have been afraid to go unescorted
on certain streets because of fear
of robbery. And even on the
avenues, or main thoroughfares,
they have been constantly subjected
to lewd and insulting remarks from
corner loafers. Unchecked, these
Grant youths have grown holder
and defiant. They know Harlem is
inadequately policed.
THE FUTURE
A few weeks ago l suggested a
plan for the mass renovation Of the
business places on the great arterial
highways which run through Har-
lem-Lenox, Seventh and Eighth
Avenues. The plan called for a CO.
operative effort of colored and
white business men, the banks, the
postwar planning committee of the
city, the state and the federal
government to make these streets
beautiful and attractive. The
twelve-hour rule of Negro hood
lums of Harlem has made this plan
vastly more difficult if not impos-
sible of attainment. For banks
don't loan money on property that
is in constant danger of being de-
stroyed by riots. And insurance
companies won't take business
risks in communities where the
spirit of vandalism runs unchecked.
Before we can advance, we've
got to reform our lines. We have
got to eliminate the enemy in our
rear. Negro social organization did
a magnificent job in aiding, in re-
storing order after the riot had
begun. They must now utilize their
resources so that such a thing can
never happen again. They must
end the reign of hoodlums.
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The Education of
White Folks
By George S. Schuyler
In the Interracial Review

One of the favorite topics selected by American writer's
and scholars for endless discussion the Negro problem
plethora of pamphlets books articles studies and editorials
have been pouring from the public at astonishing
rate for several generations with not too great effect on
the of relations With the burden of all these
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ANOTHER YEAR

IA W. - AAAAAS - SAA nv
ninth Anniversary
Who considers self divine
That he may say "Ths year is mine,"
The web of time is spun so small
Its Intervene belongs to all.
Whoever seeks year alone,
Claiming all its days his own,
Must find when birthdays celebrated,
He might well have hibernated
Looking back on times swift fight,
A circle mixed with wrong and right,
Your sun made bright stormy weather,
Because all days were ours together.
From one momentous year into fitful new,
With rocky road and troubled world in view,
We take the memory of days we speak as gone,
To wait with confidence tomorrow's dawn.
We could not count the heartbeats Of the year,
Or photograph each smile and every tear,
But we have kept an tuned to your breast,
And prayed God give you much Of all things best.
We welcome melowness of one year more,
We may not see all things as once before,
But may never grow too old to bend
Too Grabbed to champion every great new trend.
We do not share the fragile dream of some
To build brave world upon the year to come,
But if the structure of our hopes comes true,
It's cornerstone must read ITO You'll"
james T. Logan.
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PLAIN TALK
By ELMER CARTER
THE REIGN OF THE HOODLUM

God knows the battle is tough enough is without
having to divert forces to beat off attacks from the
And that what happened in New York the other night when
for twelve hours no six as the papers say the Negro front
savagey attacked from the by rotous gang
hoodums who carried death and destruction through
Evening star., 1943-07-11

Dr. James Ford Harvard socologst and former president
of Better Homes in America already has house which points
the to what the weather do when they team
up with the architects Taking advantage of the fact that the
higher in the sky in than in winter he has
sort of eyebrow overhangng the big windows the south
side of the house This shades the windows through the
but lets in the full the winter On the and
west Sides he has trees planted that they shade the house
summer when the leaves out and again let in the
light in winter In this way he cheats the but
makes help him heat the house in winter How much help
gives him proved month last winter when he had
be away and left the house with the shades drawn
thermostat set at SO degrees keep the pipes from freezing
When he back he found that his furnace had more
fuel to keep the house up so degrees with the shades
drawn than did to keep 70 when he capturing
the suns heat
Exciting New Materials
Win all the building materials that shall be using
after the pastics and aluminium and glass and all the
rest the architects will have plenty of weapons with which
to tame the weather and the weather will show them
how.
They will show how it lot of other ways too.
The prospects of and ongange fore
casting look very bright the conservative
SCIENTISTS and this will give the experts of the future still
potent hold the weather Farmers will be able
plant the crops that will benefit by whatever weather
ing whether wet dry hot cold Storage lakes will simply
gobbe waters which disastrous foods and the
water will be put work. when needed rgate crops
in dry and to provide power which will heat and
condition houses In Short the weather will be made to
fight itself to standsti
You and l will be able adjust affairs to the
weather in countless ways - from planning busi-
activities to planning meals and wardrobes.
Actually there phase of human activity which the
weather does not have some bearing Dr. R. H. Wheeler of
the University of Kansas has chart of civilization
400 based wars high points in idealistic activities
mechanical activities and other gauges of human behavior
Dr. A. E. Douglass of the University of Arizona has another
chart based study of tree rings showing the long
weather cycles One day. Dr. Douglass brought his weather
chart and laid Dr. Wheee human behavior chart
The cycles fitted each other almost to perfection.
When the weather with the sociologsts, begin to
probe deeper into just how the weather makes behave
whe with the DOCTORS they begin probe deeper just
how it affects health when with the businessmen they
begin probe deeper into just how affects economy
then may get results that will make the
engineering projects trivial by comparison.
The march of civilization, says Dr. Parr, has finally
brought face to face with weather and climate
largest remaining single hazard We have domescated the
animals We have hanessed the We have conquered
many of the deadly diseases and from them learned
of herety which have made possible raise better live
stock and plants
The weather is the frontier And youthful army is
about to move in.
The End
Evening star., 1943-07-11

proposal great beakwaer juttng the sea from
Newfoundland to divert the Gulf Stream and up the
North Atlantic coastal similar possibility break
water at Vladvostok to bring the warming of the
Sea of Japan.
These may sound fancifu but Boulder Dam would have
sounded anc generation ago So would the Central Valley
project in California where engineers actually made
backward After the shall certainly begin build
ing and greater Boulder Dams and Grand Couees and
Panama Canals changing the face of land wherever
needs changing doing impossible things And they will be
combined operations in which the weather will up
with the engineers and other experts
Boulder Dam created huge made lake. and residents
of the report that in addition providing for
irrigation and power has changed their weather Winds
the lake cooled off, bring lower temperatures
When we begin planning projects, weather experts
plan the weather effects They might for instance,
cenrate enough manmade lakes in the Great Plains
if they find way to do without robbng other
of too much water rains the Dust Bowl
The postwar weather experts will have a big job do
in reconstruction. Great cities like Rotterdam, War
saw, Coventry and London yes and Berlin and Toxic
will have to be replanned and rebuilt In America too
shall have great surge of building and rebuilding And
build weather plan the cities
This suggested to group of young meteorologsts
graduating from the University of Chicago few weeks ago
by Dr. Albert E. Par the young. dynamic Norwegianborn
Museum of Natural History Dr. Pa suggested that
be laid that instead of becoming gusy wind channels
the winds could be moderated by buildings placed to act
windbreaks He suggested rejecting acades buildings
that the instead of being absorbed and attracted into
stuy streets would be thrown back; and similarly, heat
generating facades where needed capture natures heat
I'VE all know from experience. Dr. Par pointed out to me
aerward that change the weather conditions when
build cities It's always several degrees cooler for instance
the surrounding countryside than it in the city during
periods The challenge weather experts of tomorrow
is to make the weather work for instead of against US
Whole Cities Aix-Conditoned
CITYPANNc authorities with whom talked agreed that
tecs agreed that be done They already know how
white glazed brick for instance to capture of the
sunlight they know how capture the suns energy for
stored heat tropical at least with rootop apparatus
now widely used in Florida they know of all about
windbeaks IF add what the weather experts know
what the architects and engineers and other specialists
know said leading city planner, I'VE can make cities
really attractive places to live"
Ar-conditioned houses in arconditioned cities!
OF course and houses will be conditioned but
that after all, isn't making of the weather it's COM
batting it. That Dr. Pa points out, about all that
have doing about the weather since the began
of tomorrow be satisfied let houses be refugees from
the weather Working with their architect colleagues they will
make the houses the weather.
Evening star., 1943-12-27

When the war is won no doubt the
Club de Jeudi will expand into an
outstanding gourmet society dedi-
Gated to the study and enjoyment of
fine food. These rationed days are
challenging the membership of four
men and their wives in their effort
to produce. turnabout. an interesting
dinner for eight every Thursday
night. And, as is we'll known, in this
club the men folks do the cooking.
Starting modestly with simple dishes,
this latest dinner showed indications
of what is to come when there are
no shortages.
ConSOmnle With Italian Paste
Chicken in Cream Crazy
Savoy Potatoes Succotdsh
Cold Artichoke, MaponndtSe
Frozen Ecldirs
Coffee
Happily, there was but one item in
the entire list of ingredients which
was hard to get and that was cream
but enough was found and brought
together 1t is interesting to note
the heights to which small dinner
can be brought in spite of rationing
In the preparation of this dinner,
| the chickens. which for this recipe.
must be fresh-not storage birds
were obtained the day before-for
eight persons. four were bought
young and tender. Each chicken
WAS cut into pieces, but the backs
and wings were set aside and cooked
into a splendid broth in which bits
Evening star., 1943-12-27
Oysters Make
Fine Fritters

In a certain section OF Balti-
more, Md, called Highlandtown,
the natives have midwinter
feasts called "oyster roasts," at
which, oddly enough, the hardest
thing to find is a roasted oyster.
But they do say that this is be-
cause years ago the Highland
town fritter" stole the interest
of the feasters, so now they don't
roast oysters for their feasts,
they make them into fritters.
One Of the champion fritter
fryers, a man with some 40 years
of experience to back his words,
tells me that here is the way the
finest "Highlandtown fritters'
are made:
Use smallish oysters of the
Blue Point variety and figure
about two cups for enough frit-
ters for four. Make the batter
by mixing four cups of flour, two
eggs, two tablespoonfuls OF
chopped parsley and two table
spoonfuls of chopped onion, four
teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
one teaspoonful pepper and two
of salt. Stir in the oysters. Drop
by the spoonfuls into deep hot
fat, cook brown and drain on
brown paper. Or - add some
oyster liquor and a little milk to
thin the batter and fry as one
fries pancakes on a hot griddle.
Serve with salad or picked
beets and cups OF coffee or bottles
of beer.