Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-17
RayfOrd Logan
Hits Jim Crow
ID. Practices

Washington, D. C. (NNPA)-
"The sheer futility of talking to
separate meetings of teachers on
the subject Improving Human Re-
lationships' should be apparent to a
child in the first grade" DR.. Ray
ford Logan. head of the Depart
ment of History at Howard Uni
versity, told DR.. Robert L. Haycock,
superintendent Of the D. C. Public
Schools in a telegram last week.
DR.. Logan had been invited to de-
liver an address at an institute
meeting for the Negro teachers of
Washington's jimcrow school sys-
tenn. The white teachers were hold
ing a separate meeting-as is the
usual custom. However, in the
past, the same speaker has ap-
peared before both groups at their
separate meetings. DR.. Logan was
not invited to address the white
teachers.
Inconsistency Sensed
Sensing the inconsistency in his
subject and the arrangements, DR..
Logan wired the school superin-
tendent, in which he said:
81 hope that you will read the
following message to the teachers
of Divisions / to TX (white) in their
meeting today. The sheer futility
of talking to separate meetings Of
teachers on the subject Improving
Human Relationships should be
apparent to a child in the first
grade. / trust that this is the last
year that this travesty and mockery
will be repeated. Walter Reed Hos
pital and hundreds of other hospi-
tails are full of the manned and the
blinded and the psycho-neurotics
who have been sacrificed on the al
tar of race prejudice, and the great
monuments of European civiliza-
ton have been destroyed for the
same reason. Are these not too
high a price to pay so that you
may continue to enjoy and parade
your prejudices? 1 am reading this
telegram in my address to the
meeting of Divisions 10 to Is (col-
ored). hope that may be able
to read also your reply"
No reply was received from DR..
haycock. Efforts to reach him at
his office in Franklin School and
at his home were of no avail.
Small Nations and Big
DR.. Logan read the telegram to
the colored teachers as he said in
the telegram he would. The ap-
plause was deafening. He then
delivered his address in which he
pointed that the smaller nations
are demanding more power under
the proposed United Nations plan
for world security organization. He
pointed out the necessity of exam
ming closely what is a big nation
and what small nation.
France and England are big ma
tons not because Of their power in
Europe, but because of their en-
pires, he said. There is no neces-
sary relationship between the
smallness Of size of a small nation
and its virtue or morality in either
international or domestic affairs.
Some of the small nations have
been as guilty of land-grabbing as
have some of the big ones. The
attitudes Of the peoples of some of
the small nations have been as I'M
democratic as some of the big ones,
he declared.
Independence to Colonies
He proposed the reduction of the
power of the big nations by giving
independence to their colonies; the
Decentralization of outlying
strategic bases such as Gibraltar,
Malta, the Suez Canal, the Panama
Canal, and Hawaii; international
control of cartels; and that the rich
peoples of the United States will
ingly pay higher prices for sugar,
rubber, bananas, etc., so that the
producers of those commodities
would get a higher wage. AS a
guarantee that the increase would
go to the workers and not the cor
porations, he proposed an interna-
tional labor organization and demo-
cratic labor organizations in the
dependent areas.