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employment pattern followed in the
reconversion period would be vital
ly important TO workers Of minority
groups.
To sum up the situation, Ross is
by-passed on official action in which
large-scale planning is done.
Ross came into the FEPC chair
manship through the backdoor. He
had a mediocre job with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and
had no national reputation of any
kind. When Father Frances Haas
was appointed chairman of FEPC
he took Ross with him with the
understanding that Ross would be
his successor after he became
widely known and he, Father Haas
stepped out.
When he accepted a $4,000 cut
in salary, Ross prestige dropped
This reduction in pay put him on
a salary level with George M.
Johnson, who was then deputy
chairman of FEPC.
There is a feeling among commit
tee members that Ross salary in
crease from $1,000 to $4,000 with
the resultant public acclaim was
more important to him than getting
a great deal accomplished. Mem
bers also feel that he needs the
job. They decided to issue the di-
receive to Capital Transit while he
was in the hospital so as not to
jeopardize the $s,OOO-a-year salary
he now receives.
M. w. TOzier, director of in
formation for the War RelOca-
ton Authority, wanted a Negro
speaker for a Nisei program at
OdnId AHA, Ndh1OEHud OH De-
cember 8. General Joseph Wine
gar JOe) Stillwell was to be there
and to present a Distinguished
Service medal to Nisei girl.
He telephOned Leslie Perry,
administrative assistant at the
Washington Bureau of the
NAACP. Perry could not accept
and suggested Bill HASTE, chair
man of the national legal COM
mittee of the NAACP. Bill could
not go and suggested Charley
Houston, a member of the ma
tiOnal legal committee. Charley
could not go and suggested
Walter White, secretary of the
NAACP. Walter declined and
suggested Roy wilkins, assistant
secretary of the NAACP. Roy
also declined.
The moral for public relations
officers is-start at the top
echelOn and work down.
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bequeath to his young and they to
theirs, what the white man repre-
sents in interracial relationships.
Thus is brought about an impasse
between the races created by false
notions of racial supremacy on the
one hand and by hate and distrust
on the other.
In this situation then can be
found the root of all racial evils
and an indication of the magnitude
of the task faced by those who
would bring about an upheaval of
traditional bias and bitterness by
a new approach based on the demo-
cratic ideal of liberalism, and the
fundamental rights to all human
ity.
Not far out of New York City,
there is a small colony of Negroes
living in a rich Westchester Coun-
ty community peopled largely by
wealthy whites of aristocratic lean
ings in some instances and in the
we-just-got-rich class in most.
The Negroes, that is a sprinkling
of them, are of our middle class,
successful in business and with the
desire to establish comfortable
homes in safe, respectable commun-
tiles where they can live in peace
and contentment according to their
financial status and their cultural
background.
A story was related to me the
other day of a case where one Ne
gro family is made up of a very
dark skinned mother and a father
fair enough to pass for white. This
family has wealth earned legiti-
mately; the two elder boys and the
daughter are in college while the
six-year-old child, youngest in the
family, is in public school. The
home this family owns and lives in
is beautiful; in fact, it surpasses
in looks many of the homes of far
richer whites who are neighbors.
Autoists passing through the
town sometimes stop and inquire
if the place is for sale or lease and
usually ask the dark-brownskinned
woman who sits sometimes on the
front porch these questions. She
tells them it is not and when they
ask for the 'lady of the house."
she calmly and impassionately in
forms them that it is her home.
Sometimes they stop and ask
to see the landlord and she goes
inside for her husband. He places
an arm around her waist and proud
ly tells them that he and his wife
whom ne is holding have no in
tention Of selling. Of course this
does the minds of the curious no
good at all, especially those who
have preconceived notions about
race and the place of a Negro.
The six-year-old boy goes to a
school where he is the only Negro.
He is fair enough to pass but his
schoolmates know he is colored. He
has a fight every day after school.
He is chased and beaten as a mat
ter of policy by his little white
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Noisy Juke Boxes Part
Of Having Good Time

Editor: have just finished read
ing a letter in the paper written
by a lady who complains Of the
noisy jukeboxes in taverns. If this
lady wants peace and quiet she
should stay home and knit stock
ings. When people go out they like
to have their fun, and not act like
they are at a funeral. If noise
bothers her, she doesn't belong in
a tavern. Some people are never
satisfied with what they get. No
wonder the waitress didn't want to
turn the box down, because after
all why should a lot Of people
have their fun spoiled for one joy
killerf
Jimmie A.,
st. Paul, MINI.
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Birthday greetings in st. Pauli Decem-
Der 100. c. Hall, Jr., 727 st. Anthony
Avenue Eulah ]. Clemens, 400 Rondo Ave-
nue.. December l7-Earl A. Neil, 726 st.
Anthony Avenue; Pearlie Mae Williams,
597 Rondo Avenue. December l9-Joseph
Harris, S7s Marion Street; Enoch Marshall,
SIS Carroll; Alfonzo Crews, 702 Carroll
Avenue; Margaret Davis, $50 Rondo Ave
nue. Daniel B. Taylor, 462 Rondo Avenue.
December l9-Mrs. Arthur Hill, $50 lyle
hart Avenue. December 20-Mrs. J. A.
johnson, 526 st. Anthony Avenue Joe Mon
roe, 622 Iglehart Avenue. December 81
Sarah Sherwood, 8s4 Fuller Avenue o. W.
Lindsay, 276 w. Central Avenue. December
22-Carmelita Carter. 622 W. Central.
Out Of town greetings TO Noel Harris.
Los Angeles. California, December lS Sgt
Maniey Rhodes, U. s. Army, December 10.
Birthday greetings In Minneapolis 70;
December I6-Wendell Q. Jones. 1871 Al
drich Ave. So. Mrs. Elaine Childress, 1881
Bryant Ave. No. December l7-Jalmer U.
johnson, 1913 Queen Ave. No.; Augustus
Cotton, 4lO e. gath ST. Noah Pateman'
6ll Bryant Ave. No., and Nellie A. stone.
Sl37 Smelling Ave. December lS-Waltesr
J. Murphy, 1900 Stevens So. Ellen Powell,
A7Ol Humboldt Ave. So; Mrs. GeorSine
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psychology, wrote an article in the
November 10 edition of Time maya
zine, part of which am condensing
for reprint here. l believe this
article merits attention and deep
thought in our forthcoming deci-
sions about the United Nations Or
CARNATIONS. quote as follows:
This talk of a world state to
control the atomic bomb is a grave
mistake; the world won't be ready
for a world state for at least
twenty years.
"The minds and hearts of men
are not yet prepared for a world
of law, justice and mercy. Even
we in the United States are not
prepared. Too many men despise
women. Too many women despise
their servants. Too many white
men despise black men. Too many
Christians despise Jews.
1--WE need not be perfectionists,
but we must realize that there
must be a profound change in
human attitudes.
LET the faulty world of 1945
concentrate on lessening immediate
tensions, building up the United
Nations Organizations as an in
term safeguard"
Leonard Carter
1852 Fifth Ave. S.
Minneapolis
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schoolmates.
A Negro girl who happened to be
visiting in the town stopped an at
tack on the little boy one day and
catching one of the six or seven
year old white boys she asked him
why he wanted to jump on the
Negro. Here is what the white child
said in reply:
"My mommy says he's a niger
an that niggers are dirty and should
not be allowed to be around nice
little white children. My mommy
says all niggers are stinky and
have bugs on them. He's a niger,
isn't he? ?"
The girl who told me this said
she had all she could do to keep
from Shaping the face of the little
white lad, but stopped and thought
that here was a possible answer
to why the race problem seems so
remote in solving.
White parents, despite all they
read and hear, persist in inculcat-
ing in their young the common de-
sire on the part of most whites to
despise and to disparage all unlike
them in color. They grow up with
these notions in. their heads and
then after they are married and
have children, it goes on down the
line.
The Negro child probably was
told by his mother that white chill
dren are mean, evil and hateful
and that they are his mortal enc
mics. He grows up with this idea.
There's your problem. Find the
common denominator and you'll
have a solution the world has
sought since it was created.
Yet, in intervening in the Capital
Transit matter, the President has
condoned and given tacit approval
to one Of the callous and fragrant
exhibitions of employment discrim-
nation in the country.
What is more important, and
dangerous, he has sect fit to re-
move the last trembling vestige of
authority possessed by the Fair
Employment Practices Committee
and has done so in a manner calcu-
lated to cast considerable doubt
upon the esteem in which he holds
his own Committee.
The resignation of Mr.. Charles
Houston from the Committee under
these conditions, therefore, becomes
not only justifiable but unavoid-
able. 1t also becomes impossible
to see how the other members of
the Committee, serving in good
faith, can continue as members of
a Committee which has been de-
MED any semblance Of authority to
do the job for which it was created.
It becomes even more difficult
to see how Mr.. Truman and his
party will be able to explain their
stand on FEPC to nearly 100000
900 Americans at the next elec-
tion.-Washington Tribune.
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The Power of Women

COnending that the sway
art the Chronicle poohpohs the idea that the hand that rocks the
cradle" also pacify world bent destruction.
While rarely find ourselves with the 14h districts
oppornis lady legislator don't mind saying the Chronicles
have something there.
mobng by force What good would there be initiating
between the the particularly when
for the part have the the atomic bomb and
had it, nothing would be gained by it, Nature having fixed
can't get along without the poor dears.
But Mrs Douglas had mind educating and training the
of the generation from then We'll throw in with
her. We all for the mothers day odders ensng
campaign to draw the fangs the male animal be cursed with
from BIRTH he'll be helpless to his poison when he reaches
aduthood.
Hardly any approves nation, world
her community That's why she bitter frustrated and
shrewih trying make the home that ande entire
about which the John Dome sapprobaon But it's time
she stopped attempting for outside disorder by providing
shelter of four wallis and commenced making those four walls train
ing ground for the forces which will and bring order
chaos around it.
in by men,
relatively small h made by individual nfdey the widening
rapidly engung women large
who his fesde
worship the shrine his highly Wanted manhood another
ans ewes two women suffer from it, the wife and the "othe
Does soldier die the battlefield in defense of democracy
other already besmched theology, it: the
woman who bore him and the woman who loves him.
Going and coming women have than
thing unless be the God who made them sheer stupid
W which keeps them from using it. Let the Chronicle call init
mate need extend its farther than the cradle the
the bed brthed" Caesar
poeon Hitler Hroho mention Buebead and
What
brought herself for the all her hands time
another Helen Gahagan Douglas needs launch world wide
force realize that In they
impossible planet
Los Angeles Tribune.
D. A. r.
"he OAR made largely of older people, and it
older people break with traditions they lived
but think perhaps ought have patience and hope that
eventually they will ight"-Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Prejudice Is Immoral
Leo P Cres of Princeton University writing in Public Opinion
Quarterly Myrd author can
Negro Democracy whether
right track when he ad The Negro problem moral ISSUE"
According Crspi Mydas stresng of morality puts the
emphasis the place AS Crpi it, Myrdal would treat
the individual eliminate prejudice whereas society probably
the patient
Cresps remedies would be planning which
would the gain from prejudice He the whole thing
saying that the American Negro Problem primarily
We don't with Cres at all lot Of white people would
like from under the stigma Of immortality that prejudice
them They would like feel that they do nothing
they neghbor that society
not they themselves.
There difference between prejudice and crime Responsibility
both the individual and society All Of this
talk about social engineering merely designed enable of
friends" to free their Observation-Disclosures
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ANAAASoo' AhdL dP-
parently is the
one decisive out
come so far Of
the controversy
b e t W e e n Presi-
dent Truman and
t h e committee
over the issuance
If a directive to
he Capital Tran
sit Com p a n y
ordering the en-
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ST. PAUL VISITORS

ST. PAUL VISITORS
Visitors TO the st. Paul office this week:
Robert Williams, e22 St. Anthony Avenue /;
Mrs. Lena Brown, 349 N. Avon St.. Mrs.
NJ. B. Humphrey. la W. 45th St, Los
Angeles, California; Mrs. Marie A. Tetu,
$40 Laurel Avenue.
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Stronqe AputhY

strange apathy apparent among common population at
time when single citizen concerned with the future should be
his world crisis imminent classes and leaders
not only confused but apparently both ompcen and aathe
Of the United Nations Russia know what
and about getting it. Our country supposed champion the
worlds oppressed wobbed San Francisco and allowed Russia
of chief of the worlds havenots cona
Of not exactly position at San Francisco to
lead the world peoples toward full equality chiefly because
approach solution of problem We then and
still theoretically the leading democratic nation of the world
There still chance that the United States will have truck
with Imperialism and decide become practical its democratic deal
but change The apathy
which mentioned the first paragraph certainly will
our
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OUR READERS SPEAK =. =. ..
White Soldier Blasts
Segregated USO Club


Editor:
would like to agree completely
with the articles recently exposing
anti-Negro prejudice and discrimi-
nation prevalent in the States and
within the Army. This is not a
problem for the Negro people alone
to solve; we whites having an
equal, if not greater responsibility
to see that this blot on our demo-
cratic way of life is removed.
In this light, l was shocked to
find that the Manila USO main
tains a policy of segregation with
regard to its swimming pool. The
funds for the USO were contribut-
ed by people of every race, creed
and color and certainly were not
intended to foster such institutions
as "colored night"
This is obviously a local policy,
since the National USO has no
such rulings. Common decency re-
quires that the local group get in
step with America now, by freely
opening their pool to any GIL, any
time.
Pvt. Justin Vanderlaan,
War Crimes bet.
Editors Note: The policy of segreRa-
ton is one followed in USO set-ups in many
sections of the States and overseas. It is
the rule rather than the exeeption.)
Reader Calls Attention
To Time Magazine Story
Editor: Beardsley Ruml, expert on
taxes, merchandising, and public
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Collins, 1851 Bryant Ave. No. December
l9-Edward Hayes, 3747 Fourth Ave. So.
December 2l-Edward Elliot, 1917 Fifth st.
So.
City, Mo-, December II; Reverend N. Z.
Nelson, Columbus, Ohio, December 10.
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Roots Are Deep
In Our Problem
By Dan Gardner

No story is better known the Negro than that of the
oppression, exploitation segregation and discrimination
shown him, the centuries by the white AS the
white man bequeaths to his following generations ideas of
white supremacy and the state of servtude
thinks all coored peoples should be the Negro
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
Great
AtLafayette
BY CHARLES GENTRY

WE WERE more thrilled than
chilled by "Ramshsekle Inn, the
pSFudO-ComiC mystery which is on
view al the Lafayette this week,
principally because Of the presence
of It's star. Zash Pitts,
George BatSon has authored a
very funny melodrama about a
dilapidated hotel which is COM
pletely furnished with trap doors,
a body i'm every trunk and hot and
cold running persplratlon.
But. without Miss Pitts, Ram
ehacklc Inn would only be an
empty house.
We have read eSoteric raves
on the pantumlme OF Charlie
Chaplin, the inImitable madness
OF ttarpO Marx and the gifts OF
Toto The clown, but our choice
for The comedy genius of our
theatrical era is Zasu Pitts.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
A GREAT ARTIST

No matter what ciap-tTap sur
rounds her this vague and won
derful woman rises 20 heights OF
humor that are indescribable. She
flutterS through situations no
other comedian could cope with,
and, If she resorts 10 tricks, the
observer IS as completely unaware
OF them as the yeliel ~ his first
Sleight-oi-hand performance.
rs Belinda PINde, a SpinSter
from Vermont, she finds herself
owner of hostelry which looks
something like tf1r House of
Usher just before the fali. 1t is
infested with bats i'm the attic and
murdercrS in the lobby. but Pitts
very effectively tumieates the
Disco by sthe -cr7r or third
hilarious aet-'i.tttlA n kind of off
hand attack which catches you off
your funny-bone guard.
EPITOAIE or HUMOR
Whether she tries 10 whistle
out of sheer terror. swing her
reticule at shadow or wistfully
slug a lug over the head with a
beer bottle. she's the cpitome OF
great humor, the wonder woman
of helpless laughter.
7 Although she is the whole show
Miss Pitts has able support chiefly
+ from Helen Mackellar. John
Lorenz and a large cast of people
\ who appear mostly in the roles
Of stoogeS.
It's one-woman show you
|, shouldn't miss
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
Players Select
lenten Drama

THE CATHOLIC THEATER
OF DETROIT has chosen FIR.
Daniel Lords Behold the Man"
for Lenten presentation at the
Players Theater, beginning Thurs
day evening and continuing
through March 20.
Tickets may be purchased at
Grinnell's boX-office.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
Buddy Lester Bows
Into Latin Quarter

BUDDY LESTER. for years a
local comedy favorite, returns
Thursday evening TO head the
new floor show opening at Lou
Walters Latin Quarter.
The ad-libbing MIR. Lester has
blazed an endless trail of laugh
ter since entering show business.
/ His most recent success was at
/ IChicago's Latin Quarter, where he
was booked for two weeks and
stayed, because he was so anus
ing, for p.
When not clowning, Buddy will
be introducing Una Cooper, aero
batic dancer; the Peggy Taylor
Trio filmdom's favorite adagio
dancers: Ladd Lyon, "Hellzapop-
pin comedian, and the Toy
Sisters from the "Vanities" cast
Blonde Madelon Baker con-
tinues to sing vocals as arranged
/ by Sammy Dibert and his orches-
ira. Shows begin promptly at 7
and 10 p. m.
PENOBSCOT CLUB
It's five girls and a band for
the musical makeup nightly at
the Penobscot Club.
Johnny DiCicco's orchestra
sparkleS the hit tune singing of
lovelies jamie Palmer, Jean Boyd
and Sue Faber. Newcomer Nancy
Hanks scores with renditions of
might and Day" and Begin the
BegHiHe
The mll-time melodies of pianist
Jayne BigSby range from sweet
10 swing styles.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
Film Time Clock

ADAMs-"Blondis i1:s7 m. 7;42
$50. s:55 .. m "A Song to Remember.
BROADWAY CAPIToI.-.Tall IN the Sad
die" 1907 =. m, alt, 5.2T, s.sI p. N
I'm BE Seeing You" 12.36, Sac. o:o6
1905 p m.
DOWSTOWN-"The Biz show-Off" 1870
3;O7. 5;l9, 1891. 9:43 p. M Dante, th'
magieian, on stage. i;32, 4;i9, 6'sl, s:4S
FoX-"Winged victory" io:34 a. m; l:is
A.O2, sac, $50 p. M
MICHIGAN - To Have and Have Not
Mas5.a il,s2 a m. 2.Si. S: SO. s.se p, m
MADISoN-"Janie" II q. m, 2.40, 8: 20
10 .. m. The Climax" i;l4. Asa, s:94
d. m
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
Baseball Fan

William BcudiN. one Of the stars
of Two Years Before the Mast, ="
rs an ardcnt baseball FAM Hc re-
calls hls FIRST ambition iu life was
10 bc a bah player and be once
had a Job as bat boy for the New
York Giants
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
Collegiate

JEAN HEATHER, who plays a
,ubnormal hillhilly IN Murder lie
Says" actually has an unusually
high 10. She studied st the Uni
,CrSities of California and Wash
ngton and, also, Oregon state
'1lIcrp
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15

probably seen the canine star in
various films.
Holding over in the show guided
by jester Mel Snyder are Virginia
Kim, exotic dancer; Billie Rich
mond, dynamic songstress, and
the fascinating Cover Girls.
Benny ResheS' dance music
starts at 7 p. m, followed by a
complete dinner show at tbs
o'clock. There's also matinee
dancing every Saturday and Sun
day, beginning at 4:40 p. m.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
PENoBSCOT CLUB
CASANOVA CLUB

Joe Green puts HeHywood's
doggiest actor. Bebe, through ar
amazing repertoire of tricks tc
top the entertainment at Bern.
hardt'S Club Casanova. You've
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15

PALMs-SIAIE - An American RomAnee."
lz;oS, ST. s;,si: s.4s p mk so,hins sEs
p m.
UNITED ARTISTS Main street Aftss
DARK" ll'2o a. m. ass, b.4o, gas p. m:
Meet Me In St Louis" l2;22, S97. ga.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-15
THE DETROIT TIMES
Msreh le45
Z Korda Films Shown

THE REISSUE showing OF Two
Alexander Korda films, The pl-
Vorce Of LADY y and Dark
Journey" begins today az the
CiuCyna ThCatcT.
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Miss Pointer and
Mr.. Irwin Wed
i'm Nashua Service

NASHUA - Miss Nora Pointer,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Pointer, became the bride of John
Douglas irwin, son of MI. and Mrs.
j. D. Irwin. at the Queen of the
Angels church at 9 Saturday morn
ing. The Rev. FIR. Foley read the
service.
The professional was played by
Miss Laura Mae Hassler, organiSt.
They were attended by Miss Anne
Pointer, sister of the bride, and
Robert Irwin, brother of the bride
groom. The bride was dressed in a
floor length white chiffon dress,
wore a tiara of seed pearls and
carried a bouquet of sweetheart roses
and lilies of the valley. The church
was decorated with potted plants
and garden flowers and the altar
was decorated with peonies and
white snapdragons.
Mrs. Irwin graduated from Nashua
high school and has been assistant
postmaster for the past year. Mr..
irwin is also a Nashua high gradu-
ate, is employed by the Great
Northern and also engaged in ranch
Following the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the home
of the brides parents. Immediate
members of the families were the
The table was decorated with
a three-tiered wedding cake and a
border of garden flowers. The couple
left on a wedding trip which will
include a visit to Yellowstone park.