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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-11

The Third District representative
was against the Rankin measure
and ignored party lines to cast a
ballot against the coalition of
southern Democrats like Rankin
of Mississippi and northern Repub-
licans.
Both Walter Judd of the Fifth
district and Melvin Mas of the
Fourth lined up with the Rankin
faction.
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MRS. RANDELL
AWARDED DIVORCE

Mrs. Dorothy Randell, 1912 Bry-
ant Ave. No., was granted a
divorce from Wilbur F. Randell,
1911 Olson Blvd, Tuesday, Feb. s,
by Judge Paul Guilford.
She was given custody of the
three children.
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Baha'i Meeting

Leon Bohanon and Judge E. F.
Waite will speak at the Baha'i
Center, 1915 Nicollet Ave-, Tues
day, Feb. Is, at 8 p. M, on inter-
national affairs. This meeting is
open to the public.
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limited and unsullied allegiance to
the nation" and asserted that 1--WE
have a right and a duty to share its
blessing, it's sacrifices, and it's suf-
ferings."
The statement deplored "any and
all forms of disunity" and offered
"to join hands with all Americans
in the crusade for liberty for all
peoples"
PARAMOUNT OBJECTIVE
The paramount objective of
Negro Americans, the state
ment declared, ''is to help win
the war and establish a just
and enduring peace under
which all men may achieve hu-
man dignity and equality of OPP
pOrtunity."
1t asked for a cessation of the
second class citizenship now i'm
posed in many ways upon Negroes
in America" This second class cit
izenship was held, in the statement,
to be a violation of the principles of
the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution.
Such inferior citizenship status,
the publishers declared, prevents
full utilization of the material and
moral resources of our country at
war and destroys all possibility of
just and enduring peace"
WANT FULL CITIZENSHIP
1t was emphasized that "the fed
eral government should begin now
to use it's authority and powers of
persuasion to end abridgement of
the Negroes citiz en- S h i p" and
pledged to work "for the abolition
of employment barriers, for equal
education, unrestricted suffrage in
national, state, and municipal cleo
lions, including primaries, for the
enjoyment of all civil rights and
liberties established in law for the
principle that government should
not impose, enforce or sanction
patterns of racial segregation, and
for full protection and equality in
the armed forces and the re-
spect which the uniform should
command"
The statement urged the ex-
tension of the Atlantic Char
ter principles ito all colonial
and other exploited peoples, not
only Europeans and Asiatics
but also Africans and peoples
of African descent throughout
the world" and called for
''full participation by the Unit
ed States in establishing and
maintaining such international
machinery as may be necessary
to establish a world order in
which economic equality, pOliti-
cal self-determinatiOn, and So
cial justice will prevail"
A brief additional statement was
made verbally by Mr.. Lewis after
the prepared statement was read to
Mr.. Roosevelt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-11
Elizabeth Briggs
Daughter Elks' Civil
Liberties Chairman

Mrs. Elizabeth Briggs, 725 Olson
Blvd, was recently elected chair
man of the Civil Liberties Dept. of
Minnehaha Temple No. 129, Daugh-
ter Elks.
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TO the People
Of this Community
YOU ARE IMPORTANT

There is no such thing as a
little" investment in the Fourth
War Loan.
Your SOS or $50 or 500 Extra
War Bond may not have great
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-11
Henry Wallace
ArmOry Speaker
Monday, Feb. II

Vice president Henry A. Wallace
will wind up very busy day in the
Twin Cities Monday, Feb. IA, with
an address at the Minneapolis ar
mory. The meeting will begin at
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-11
Publishers Lay Negro
Aims Before F.D.R. In
White House Conference

WASHINGTON, D. Con- behalf of the millions of
colored Americans periodically supporting Americas
effort the home and fighting fronts the Negro Newspaper
Publishers Association conferred with President Roosevelt
Saturday. Feb s. at the White House and laid before him
point statement of the aims post
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-11
German War Prisoners
Treated Better Than Negro
Soldiers In Deep South
Church Council President
Who Toured Army Camps
Makes Sensational Charges

CHICAGO.-German war prisoners are treated better
than American Negro soldiers in the Deep South!
That sensational charge was made last week before
Assistant Secretary of War John McCoy by the Fraterna
Council of Negro Churches Based tour of 10 army
camps in Dixie by the Rev J. l. Horace president of the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-11

import lance
in your mind
in making up
a 5h billion
dollar total
for individu-
ais.
But multi
ply yourself
by 100, 1000, 900
and then YOU
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-02-11

SUMMARY Of STATEMEN
The NNPA president, in in
Producing the members of the
delegation, thanked Mr.. ROose-
welt "for your courtesy in see
ing this committee from our as
ISOLATION, which is working
daily to do everything that it
can to help win the war and
the peace that follows"
The statement of war aims and
post war aspiration, read on behalf
of the association by Mr.. traits.
opened with a declaration of "un-
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
EDITORIALS :.
d y n a m lite
By George H. Davenport

Bishop j. A. Gregg of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church visited Africa Italy and india and according to
Press reports he saw many things he liked and many things
he did not like "At the proper time he said he would
talk about the things he did not like The proper time to
ta.~ when things are happening Bad things hap
penng to our boys right here at hoe the Bishop didn't
have to 90 to find that out We presume Negroes
are being treated overseas maybe the Bishop didn't
want to see much and probably is MORAL COWARD II
such is the he should be ashamed to face the Negro
public Maybe the Roosevelt Administration paid his way
Maybe he promised to evihear no evi-and tell
no evil There three monkeys like that SO we are told
Contrast the Bishop to Rev. Horace of the Monumental
Baptist Church. WHO PAID HIS OWN FARE and saw
plenty evil and the proper time to things was mme
datey upon his return Some of the things he saw and
mentioned were told this writer by soldiers camped in the
South so we know he telling the truth Someday an
aroused Negro public will take of the leaders who pre-
tend to be leaders, and obtaining money by false pre-
lenses and vote them out Of office Then maybe they will
stop drawing big salaries leading their fellow to slau
gter In the last the late Pro- Motion of Tuskegee was
used by the Wilson Administration to talk to Negro troops
abroad advising them to be doce when they returned to
this country Maybe Gregg will be the with the ban
danna this time. But according to estimation of the
length of the war, Gregg will have to wait four five
to be another Uncle Tom We sometimes wonder what
white people think Of Negroes like Dawson, Brilliant I
Gibson Jr. (The Negro Exposition guy, Gregg and
all Negroes who have eyes and do not and will
not hear and mouths and dare not talk Obtaining money
under false pretenses putting mildly This writer would
be ashamed to be heard any rostrum to tell
Negroes he bad things but will tell you after the
perhaps.
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31

j. A. S. --- received by Guide
for which ! am very thankful. |
also received a letter from you
just as was fixing to do some
thing that ! probably would have
been sorry for the rest of my
life. After reading your letter |
reconsidered. ! cannot thank you
enough for attracting my at
tention at the particular moment.
| am praying that 4 sweeter
mind. disposition and career will
be very much in tune with high
er and happier way of living for
me. gain / thank you. Signed
J. A. s.
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
RUTH TAYLOR Says.
SEEK THE TRUTH!

The other day well meaning visitor to shores
showed me the front page of metropolitan paper
pete with stories the differences of opinion between
various groups and agencies With sorrowul shake of
his head he said: us this how democracy works. Did you
read the terrible they called each other? Somebody
must be right If there is such difference of thinking
something must be wrong with this country Democracy
doesn't work, after all!'
He completely missed the point If he had turned
few pages, he would have clearly explained
in an advertisement regarding of these disputes.
Imagine Hitlers kept judges Tojos military courts
permitting Polish Jews Korean patriots to testify in open
hearings concerning the njustces and the ouages which
have been perpetuated upon them"
This is democracy This what is meant by the rule Of
the majority.
In its encouragement Of the search for truth lies the
value of freedom of speech and expression The Founding
Fathers knew that fthey ensured free speech - the
bthrght of all Anglo Saxon nations they could
truth seeking The danger have to guard against how
ever when freedom of speech becomes unbrded speech
when extends beyond tn bounds of good tas and Justice
Democracy is safe only so long continue to seek
the truth The basic fasty Of the Naz theology is that
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they try to square the facts their theories desires
They do not seek the truth because may contradict what
hey wish to believe They not willing to accept truth
because of it's verify alone
The danger is not from loud people, but from
clever people, The minute you bring problem out into
the open the moment you freely discuss any subject
essened Men hate each other because they do not under
stand each other The more know about thr neigh
bors either in shop store in street in state the
work together.
Bring out the facts Seek the truth-and the truth will
set YOU free!
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continue on here as ! am?

Ans: Swallow your pride and
return to your husband and child.
The separation gave you a chance
to think things over and realize
that YOU we're not neglected as
you had thought he also has
thought things over and wants
you lack. Your daughter needs
you both very badly, so return to
them as quickly as you can.
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31

Is easy,
Italians are a nationality. Ital-
ians are of many different racial
strains, the typical" South Ital-
ian is a Mediterranean, more like
the Spaniard Or the Greek or the
| Leyantine Jew than the blond
North Italian. The Germans. the
Russians, and all other nations of
Europe are nations, not races.
They are bound together, not by
their head shape and their color
ing. but by their national pride,
their love of their farms, their To-
cal customs, their language, and
the like.
RACIAL MIXTURE
AS far back in time as the
scientist can go he finds proof
that animals and men moved
about in the world. There were
different kinds Of animals, and
many of them went great dis
tanees. But wherever they went,
the different kinds could not
breed together. A tiger cannot
mate with an elephant. Even a
fox and wolf cannot mate with
each other. But whenever groups
of people have travelled from one
place to another and met other
people. some of them have mar
ried and had children.
At first men had to travel by
foot. 1t took them a long time
but they got almost all over the
world that way. Long ago when
people knew only how to make
tools out of stone, the Cro-Mag-
mons lived in Europe. Waves OF
migration came in from the east
and southwest. These new peo-
pie settled down, bred with Gro
Magnons, and their children were
the ancestors of modern Europ-
cans. Since then there have beer
many migrations from Asia and
Northern Africa.
Later men tanned the horse
They built carts and rode horse.
back. They built great boats
which were rowed by hundreds
of men. They could go faster
and travel farther than ever be-
fore. The Phoenicians went on
tradin expeditions through the
Mediterranean. The Romans
went to Spain and up along the
coast to the British Isles. Then
the Huns swept in from Asia
through central Europe and de-
stroyed the Roman Empire. The
Tartars came in from the east.
They threatened to conquer all of
Europe but were defeated in one
Of the greatest cavalry engage
ments of all time, The Mo
hammedans captured all Of North
Africa; they took Spain and went
on up into France across the Pyre-
nees, Thousands Of Negro slaves
have been brought into Europe at
various times. Where are they
now? Peoples have come and
gone in Europe for centuries.
Wherever they went. some of them
settled down and left children.
Small groups We're absorbed into
the total population. Always the
different races moved about and
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
/ GIVE IT
AS
| GET IT
BY Emory 0. Jackson

TILTS OVER TRUTH
Some disturbed over anti-truth
issues raised in the Alabama SEN
atorial race by challenge candl-
date anxious to unseat Alabama s
liberal U. S. Senator, have unload
ed their unhappiness into my ears.
| / fail to get excited over the mat
ter, although Albert Deutsch'
writing in the newspaper T. NJ,
says, "The spurious dogma OF
race superiority is the very ker-
mel and essence of Hitlerlsm.
Deutsch describes "Aryan suprem-
acy" and white supremacy" as
twin ideas of fascism and asserts
chat both are anti-human and
anti-scientific."
My unexcitement grows out of
the belief that the bulk of Amerl-
can people are being swept on
ward by a tide of truth that will
drown out the wave of racial hate.
The idea of white supremacy
is based upon white superstition.
No where does it find verify in
science, nature, Scripture or rea-
son. In the South the false race
doctrine is put forth as Southern
ism. Southernism then would
come to mean anti-Negroism.
white supremacy" and the idea
of social equality" are not the
same. Members of the Negro
race believes neither in white
supremacy" nor social equality"
Definitely the Negro does not
want social equality" He can
not see how he can embrace
white supremacy and oppose
Hitlerism at the same time.
Congressman Andrew j. May
3D.. Ky) chairman of the Military
Affairs Committee, is 50 alarmed
over the pamphlet Race of Man
kind that his committee has
forced the War Department to
back off its idea of using the book
let in orientation courses, al
though a considerable number had
been purchased for such distribu-
ton.
have read Races of Man
Kind" price 10 cents, Public At
fairs committee, 80 Rockefeller
Plaza, \. Y. c.. 10, and find in
OF truth that frees. | invite
white and black, prejudiced and
unprejudiced, politician and voter,
Northerner and Southerner to
read that booklet. The way Of
the truth has always been hard.
that's why the anti-truth bloc IL
fitting over "Races OF Mankind. "
Read It and set yourself free.
to their old ways and keep apart
from the rest Of the population
and develop so-called Jewish"
traits. But these are not racial
or jewish; they disappear UNI
der conditions whore assimilation
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31

intermarried.
We are used to thinking OF
Americans as mixed. All of US
have ancestors who came from
regions far apart. But We think
that the English are English and
the French are French. This Is
true for their nationality. Just as
we are all Americans. But 1t Is
not true for their race. The Ger
mans have claimed to be a pure
German race, but no European is
a pure anything. A country has
a population. 1t does not have
race. If you go far enough back
in the populations OF Europe you
are apt to find all kinds of an
eestors; Cro-Gagnons, Slavs, Mon
gols. Africans, Celts, Saxons, and
/ Teutons.
1t is true, though, that people
who live closer together inter-
mary more frequently. This Is
why there are places like Alsaee-
Lorraine, where Germans and
French have intermarried so much
that the children cannot tell
whether they are German or
French and so call themselves
Alsatians. Czechoslovakia in
! eluded old Bohemia which had a
population of Nordics and semi
Asiatics and Slavs, After World
War l the Germans and the
Czechs along the border between
the two countries intermarried so
often that the Germans of this
section got to look like Czechs
and the Czechs began to speak
German. But this did not make
the two countries love each other.
People of every European ma
ton have racial brothers in 9TH
er countries, often ones with which
they are at war II at any one
moment you could sort into one
camp all the people in the world
who were most Mediterranean, no
mystic sense Of brotherhood would
unite them. Neither camp would
have languages or nationality or
mode of life to unite them. The
old fights woul dbreak out again
unless social conditions were
changed the oil dhatred between
national groups, the old antago-
nisms between ruler and ruled
and between the exploiter and the
exploited.
The movements of peoples over
the face OF the earth inevitably
produce race mixture and have
produced 1t since before history
began. No one has been able to
show that this is necessarily bad.
It has sometimes been a social ad-
vantage, sometimes running
sore threatening the health Of the
whole society. 1t can obviously
be made a social evil, and, where
it is So sensible people will avoid
contributing to it by grieving II
their children make such allan
ces. We must live in the world
as it Is. But as far as we know,
there are no immutable laws OF
nature that make racial intermix-
lures harmful.
Ito Be Continued
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Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
HOW ARE RACES
CLASSIFIED?

The Caucasian Race inhabits
Europe and a great part Of the
Near East and India. 1t is sub
divided in broad bands that run
east and west: Nordics (fair.
skinned, blue eyed tall and long
headed) are most common in the
north; Alpines between skin
color, often stocky. broad-headed)
in the middle: Mediterraneans
(slender, often darker than AL
pines, long-headed) in the south
The distribution of racial sub
types is just about the same in
Germany and in France: both are
mostly Alpine and both have Nor
dies in their northern districts
Racially, France and Germany
are made up Of the same stocks
in just about equal proportions
American Indians are MonEo-
loid, though they differ physically
both among themselves and from
the Mongols of China.
The natives of Australia are
sometimes called fourth primary
race, They are as hairy as Eu-
ropeans, and yet they live in an
area where other peoples have
very little body hair.
Aryans. Jews, Italians are not
races. Aryans are people who
speak Indo-European, "Aryan'
languages. Hitler uses the term
in many ways -- sometimes fol
blond Europeans, including the
Scandinavian sometimes for Ger
mans, whether blond or brunei,
sometimes for all who agree will
him politically, including thu
japanese. As Hitler uses it, thu
term "Aryan" has no meaning
racial, linguistic or otherwise.
Jews are people who acknow
ledge the JEWS religion. The,
are Of all races, even Negro ant
Monaghan. European Jews ar,
Of many different biological types
physically they resemble the popu
lations among whom they live
The so-called Jewish type" is
| Mediterranean type, and no NOR,
Jewish than the South Italian
I Wherever Jews are prosecuted q
Disseminated against. they clinl
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31

I. NJ. -- met a girl three years
ago and eventually be started
living together. We have been
separated several times. The last
time we were separated two
months, She still says she is
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31

l.. c, b - Several months ago
| became so disguised with my
husband that | left him. We have
a daughter nine years old and
she is with my mother who lives
near my husband. My daughter
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
Little Rock, Ark.

willing to do right if we go back
together. Now we have a son 16
months old. Her trouble seems
to be that she talks too much
and she is extremely jealous and
argues over little things. That's
the reason she has not become my
wife. I'm IS. Would you advise
marriage? She's a very nice wife
other than these things. She is a
lovely housekeeper and she is true
to lne.
Ans: If Ills girl you are living
with is good enough to be the
mother of your child, sweet
enough to make a comfortable
home for you and is loyal and
true to you isn't she worthy
Of beco'aing Your legal fe? You
owe ner as well as Jour son, the
right to tear your legal name.
The unter' ainty of her position
causes her 10 talk to outsiders
and to feel insure Of herself.
Marry her now while you still
have the chance.
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
Continued from last week)

Continued from last weekly
COLOR
Finally, let us take skin color,
the most noticeable of the differ
ences between peoples. Few
traits have been used as widely
to classify people, We all talk
about black. white. and yellow
races of man.
In the world today the darkest
people are in West Africa, the
lightest people in northwest Eu-
rope, while in southeast Asia are
men with yellowish-tan skins.
Most people in the world, how
ever. are not of these extremes
but are in-betweens. These in
betweens probably have the skin
shades that were once most COM
mon, the white, yellow, and dark
brown or black being extreme
varieties.
Recently scientists found that
skin color is determined by two
special chemicals. One of these,
carotene, gives yellow tinge;
the other, melanin, contributes
the brown. These colors, along
with the pinkish tinge that comes
when the blood vessels show
through gives various shades to
the human skin. Every person,
however light or dark his skin
may appear, has some of each of
these materials in his skin. The
one exception is the albino, who
lacks coloring substanees-and al
binos appear among dark and
light-skinned peoples alike. Peo-
pie of browner compilations simp-
ly have more melanin In their
skin, people of yellowish color
more carotene. It Is not an all-or-
nothing difference; it is q differ,
! ence in proportion. Your Skin
color is due to the amount OF
these chemicals present in thu
: skin.
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31

writes me all the time to return
to her rs she is so lonesome and
she wants me and her father to
live together again. don't find
things quite as I thought I would
when left. He also has invited
me to return. Should ! 60 or
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
Care Of The State Press,

M. c. /. - am lady of %,
married with one child. am in
dustrious and sympathetic and
help my husband in anything he
does. His work is never too hard
that | won't assist him. | love him
and provide for him in his weak
places He fails to help me. |
fill up and he pours out. Do you
yhink | should 60 away or remain
as | am?
Ans Stick to your husband;
without him you would be DESC
late and unhappy. Prosperity
would mean nothing to you. Your
husband has too many fine quail
ties for you to throw him over
board on account of his inability
70 handle money. You are a nat
uial conservative. Be satisfied
with his earning powers and as
sumo the responsibility Of man
aging the finances in your home.
NJ. Nj. c. -- | have received
help from you before. At pres
Ont, ! am living in the state of
Michigan, would like to put my
fifteen year old daughter in a
good private school up here.
Please tell me how to locate a
school Of this kind?
An: Write to the Chamber of
Commerce in the large cities
throughout your state and they
viii be happy to send informa.
ton on the private schools in that
section BE sure to give your
daughters age and the course of
study she wishes to pursue. 1t
would be well for you to give your
religious preferences If you have
any
Arkansas State press., 1944-03-31
'sThe Races OF Mankind'

From the Pamphlet. THE RACES OF MANKIND. by
Ruth Benedict and Gene WeItfh Published by the Public
Afors Committee. Inc. 80 Rockefeller Poze New York.
by Special Permission from the Copyright Owners).