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Self-Conscious Community

The part Minneapolis Negro community has been
very the parade of Negroes through the
white slave charges The illogical acceptance OF
Negroes everywhere the theoretical responsibility the behavior OF
other Negroes the of the community
self-consciousness.
MINNEAPOLIS Negroes are no Negro criminals
who are being United States than whites response
BILE for the similarly tried and convicted.
community to the burden Of
criminal group the white people take the
blame Dgers Pry Foyd and the thousands
of other whites jails and penitentiaries.
there those ignorant Whites and others not
ignorant the entire Negro
muny hang collective head shame when crmnay
oense especially against white We
also awabng Negro feeling of shame
other Negro has been found guilty of despcabe
However, should understood that the responsibility
by blacks whites lies the entire community
law enforce
judiciary white people, the larger part OF
responsibility be divided along lines should be borne by
the white community.
While most thinking Negroes criminal of the law
breaking minority they also that the chief contributing
committed by Negroes back the
muniy In found economic educa
political discrimination against Negroes which hundreds
antsoca beings This understand
ing an behavior has brought about
tolerance
stood believe that Negroes
criminal element Feeling they d. they arrive at the
influence make the punishment fit the
pattern rather than the of the individual
criminal.
Negro generally the unfair
practice assigning the of fellow members to
group whole therefore, bhooves each Negro discourage
civilians criminal activity by members of their
Negroes part by working with those who trying
change crime while helping bring
social change they should educational for
the nformed whites who transfer the OF the individual
Negro to the group whole.
other nationality legitimate
accusing having monopoly criminals
when statistics will offer verifcaOn of such claims
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
AN UNDERSTANDABLE DIFFERENCE

War Department has revealed that while only white
CT ten anticipates moving another ate after the
Negro CTS about onehd them plan
other than those which they the This
understandable difference The central clue this difference
the finding of the that he main stream of the Negro migration
will be from the South to the Northeast"
Men in the Armed Forces have had extensive opportunities
of the country and the world After the they
naturally settle down places which show the greatest
for them which them and their children the fet chance
Since the records show that white youth numbers
through other sections where better opportunities
await should understandable who
inviting places will think of migrating for the
Tribune.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
Birthdov Greetinus

Birthday greetings IN Minneapolis: April
I-Alonzo Buddy Bum, 94s Aldrieh Ave.
No. Mrs. Odessa Moppins, Ssle Fourth
Ave. &c.; April ELLA May Mccoy, S69
18th Ave. No.: April s-Riehard 7. Nor
row, 706 Girard Ave. No. April 4-Mrs.
7. B. Stovall, 3741 Fourth Ave. 3d.; Russell
Smith, 364s Fourth Ave So, h. Z. Ander-
son, Railroad Retirement Beard; April 81
James Sims, 2201 Fifth Ave. So. April g.
Mrs. Gordon Granger, 1924 Fourth Ave.
&c., Charles Mayweather, 1916 e. Frank
lin Ave-, Mrs. Florence johnson, $3.50 Cltn-
ton Ave-, Tat Crockett, 626 Girard Ave.
No., Margaret Ford, 529 Dupont Ave. No. /;
April flames W. Ward, 1851 Fourth Ave.
So, Mrs. Robert Kelley, s12 9Th Ave. No,
Rev. Henry Bolts, ST., 867 18th Ave. No,
Talmage B. Carey 8704 Fifth Ave. So.
Out of town greetings: April Mrs.
Marvel Jackson Cooke, New York, n. Y. /;
April 6-Marian Hoard, Kansas City, Kans.s
Marie Allen, New York, N. Y. and II. Stall.
lin, Duluth, Minnesota; April 6-Michael
Melloy, New Brighton, Mimi; April =
King Kennedy, Chaska, Mimi, and 1t.
James Greer, U. 8. Army.
Birthday greetings in st. Paul: April l.
Raymond Williams, 6s7 RondO Ave. !;
Archela Perfect, S17 W. Central. April p
Ella Curry Hickman, zee st. Abans. April
5-Dorothy Whitmore, 800 Rondo Ave.
April 6-Dolores Walker, 722 W. Central
Ave; Carolyn Pemberton. $40 N. st.
Adams.
Belated greetings to Janet Armstrong,
796 Rondo, March 81.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30

Last November the National As
ISOLATION of Real Estate Boards
said that a survey of the Negro
housing question by local real
estate boards indicated that the
provision of good housing for Ne
groes can be carried out as a sound
business operation and that the
Negro family that wants good
housing is usually good economic
risk.
Real estate operators, with ex-
perience in Negro housing, reported
to the Association that, as class,
the Negro home buyer meets his
payments faithfully = often more
faithfully than other race groups
in the same economic level and that,
if the property is in good repair
when he obtains it, he takes care
of it after he buys it. AS a tenant
he takes as good care of such
premises as other tenants of his
economic class. This Association,
whose headquarters are in Wash
ington, D. c., recently started a
campaign to get better housing for
Negroes, urging real estate boards
throughout the nation to try to
work out local programs in their
communities for better housing for
Negroes. The Association is also
seeking to develop greater interest
in good Negro housing among
builders and financial institutions.
While it is pretty generally ac-
copied that the Negro home-owner
is a good economic risk in real
estate, this phase of the question
can be relegated to the background
while further study and comment
is made on the democratic ideal of
all people living together harmoni-
ously.
1t is the belief of this writer that
until white and color can live to-
gether in the same apartment
buildings, in the same neighbor-
hoods, attend the same churches,
theatres and night clubs, patronize
the same stores and pool their COM
mon interest for better living con-
ditions for all, the goal which all
profess to seek will never be OBJ
tanned.
The vicious, evil practice of GER
tain white groups in large cities,
particularly in Chicago and De-
troit, of establishing restrictive
covenants in certain areas to ex-
clude Negroes, Jews, and Irish, is
habit that has done much to
spread disunity among the Ameri-
can people because it has been
tolerated and accepted as desirable
by the greater number of persons
who should know better.
This war is teaching Americans
that there is really very little diff
ference among people, save those
of color, religion, and national
origin and, if this reasoning is car
ried over into the postwar period,
the chief abuse of racial discrimi-
nations and prejudices that is sure
to topple will be that of separate
housing and restrictive neighbor-
hoods, based on the ilywhite
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theory. It would be wise If the
lesson of tolerance among peoples,
especially the masses, were made
part and parcel of the agendas of
leading educators, white and col
ored.
While deep concern has been
evinced over the outstanding cases
of Negroes barred from residential
districts because of restrictive
covenants, these cases have, in the
main, been those involving Negroes
with the means to purchase or rent
expensive property and who have
the wealth necessary to keep up
certain standard of living and, in
this connection, their struggles for
exclusiveness is not so important
as that of the longshoreman, COM
mon laborer, or skilled worker who
moves into white neighborhood
inhabited by persons of the other
race whose economic level is on a
par with his. In other words, if
we get more so-called "little peo-
pie" living harmoniously together,
it will more than recompense for
the big Negroes turned back from
neighborhoods where their cases
would be isolated.
Of course, all are familiar with
the celebrated DR.. Ossian Sweet
case in Detroit in which the doc
tors home was stoned by mobs
that resented the intrusion of a
Negro in a ilywhite neighborhood.
Then there are other cases, includ-
ing that of Jesse Binga, the Chi
cago Banker, whose home was
bombed but all these cases were
those of Negroes of means and
standing and not those of the Tom,
Dick, and Harry variety of people
among whom changes in our way of
living will do the most good.
While, as Mr.. Wegg declared,
"the way to handle the Negro
problem is simply to follow the
Constitution of the United States
because the Negro is here to stay"
the fact remains that much must
be done through education. This
educational approach can be done
only by the minority groups which
persist in warning against the Ne
gro and thus playing into the hands
of the small tight minority that
runs this country. If the Irish, the
Jews, and others, who speak so
loudly of friendship, tolerance, and
love for the Negro, would put into
practice some of this love and toler-
ance and not pack up all baggage
and flee from their community, at
the approach of a Negro tenant,
much of the problem would be
solved.
It stands to reason that ten,
twenty, or even forty Negro fami-
lies in white neighborhood can be
absorbed or tolerated if people are
of that mind. However, if they
are actuated by some ancient no
ton that black is wrong and white
is right, nothing will ever be done
regardless of the Constitution or
anything else.
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TWO SIGNIFICANT EDITORIALS
FROM TWIN CITY DAILY PRESS
PERSISTENCE OF PREIUDICE

Twenty-Five prisoners Quentin pententary
forna staged serious riot in the hall in protest against inter-
deeply persseny racial prejudice also indicates the edu
caona task which cononts those who seek eradicate this
tonal hangover from the primitive of humankind
In the the have been shocked by work stopage
for trivial permitting Negroes the wash
the white employees We have fair employment commission
the which that the Negro break indus
and other signs of along political Appr
emily these racial determinations
One would think that penteniary the punitive regulations
imposed all without regard color would create bond
sympathy the inmates that would transcend and submerge such
relatively differences skin fermentation In their
would be assumed that conv would develop unity the
basis of their misfortune which they might have beyond the walls
but evidently cannot count on that.
The problem of racial prejudice is by confined the
United States This world always be white mans world
skins will be obliged to along together
shows how difficult the solution of the problem will b-MnnapOs
Tribune
SIDE BY SIDE
Negro white troops fighting side by side the
of the and Seventh Armies
command finally has misgngs
that long ceased exist the minds of soldiers themselves
isolated circumstance born Of
emergency will be forgotten later Negro soldiers
and white soldiers fighting fight together
Segregation of Negroes into entirely separate units creates prob
mixed commands Commanders
units them the dangerous sectors rbuk
giving them chance they hold them out The separate units
composed entirely of Negroes under unusual and
extraordinary attention that produces tensions and completes the
individual.
Many imagined problems mixed units do not exist Negro
white soldiers combat exposed
unite them sympathy and understanding that the
the into association spite
of high policy group
greater respect for the other.
the problem American armed fOrcest Paul
patch
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Letters
Army Man Thinks
Our Paper Is Tops
March 16, 1915

Our Paper Is Tops
March 16, 1915
Editor: At this Base we soldiers
receive lots of papers and maya
zines from all parts of the U. s. A.
After reading all of them and
analysing the news in each, am
forced to admit that your paper is
the most intelligent, straight
forward and to the point paper of
them all. I want to thank your
writers and reporters" for their
fine work and views, especially
Mary Lewis, James T. Logan, Percy
Villa, and Don De Lieghbur, for
their fine work. Keep up the good
work. We enjoy and appreciate it.
From a Faithful Reader,
Pvt. Winston Weatherall-36791162
924th A.B.S.Bn. A. P. o. 928
c/o P. M. San Francisco, Calf.
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Police Chief Is Kew to Situation

One significant statement Raytord Minneapolis
Urban League annual meeting principal speaker that the key to
prevention the chief
police of any given community
Logan pointed that would have possibly been
Washington except that the national capital
has intelligent police chief who has study to the
vention of racial outbreaks and tensions.
Washington police special instructions this prob
ncpent outbreak between Negroes and whites
been vigorously npped the bud Both white Negro police officers
Washington potential
tolerance and kept alert by police chief who knows his duty and
responsibility.
The beangs young Jewish children by young hoodums
other Minneapolis nohsde illustration of Mr.
point police contribute
groups.
has been generally Minneapolis appearance
months of revealing letter the Star Journal from
Jewish CT that Jewish youngsters being
beaten the Minneapolis norde because they Jews! Why
soldier the call public attention the
dsgra manifestation intolerance beyond
Where the leaders of the Jewish community and where the police
department during these months growing trouble another
thing Percy sports
writer and athletic instructor had worked with Professionals and
Catholics the trouble make peace nothing definite
developed until meeting Monday night which
decided something had be done about bad situation
While the entire city has responsibility unfortunate
dene Of antSemtm Rayfod Logan suggestion
that of police the hating
racial outbreaks
time police department had efficient section under
Detective Ed which, by application kept
wartime racial and religious intolerance minimum Suddenly for
unexplained reason the section discontinued.
We realize that the Mill City police department The
people of the city blame themselves
has been pointed out time and time again that metropolitan
the size of Minneapolis needs police officers.
However, be that certainly the conditions which
described at Monday nights meeting disturbing
duty Of the law agencies halt the beangs of innocent
children whose only me that they born families of
Jewish faith.
that-enghned Minneapolis give more time to
vigorous frontal attack the duy who would
against and religion against religion the disgrace
community ant country.
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4OA0 ANAAA5 SOSSOAASA 40 - OAON
and that education will surely
solve that social ailment. Among
Negroes, there are many who feel
that the greatest expression of
American unity and democracy is
to be found in. inter-racial activity,
stressed and accentuated by the
acceptance of the close relation
ships that prevail when two groups
live in the neighborhood or same
building. An element of social
equality enters the equation and,
if the situation is nurtured and pro-
tected, a crumbling of anti-racial
notions on both sides is almost GER
tain to occur.
The subject of public housing is
pregnant today with far-fung i'm
plications. With public housing
the American Negro is undeniably
linked since he is economically in
solvent insofar as property owner
ship in urban areas is concerned
and thus would stand to profit
greatly by federal and state pub
lie housing projects. In this con-
nection the statement by an official
in the annual meeting at Portland,
Oregon, of the National Association
of Housing Officials is pertinent
here. The official, Talbot Wegg,
declared that: "The way to handle
the Negro problem is simply to
follow the Constitution of the
United States. The Negro is
here to stay" he said, pointing out
that "The Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution can and does
work when given a chance"
The return after the war of Ne
groes to Alabama, Texas, Georgia,
or elsewhere in the South will not
solve the problem, as Mr.. Wegg
stated. Involved in the matter is
the question of freedom of move
ment, decent schooling, and hope,
Since the Negro is here to stay, as
is perfectly clear to everyone save
various and assorted die-hards in
the backward South, it is also clear
that somewhere along the line,
plans must be made for living with
him in the democratic ideal of
Americanism only. In this connec-
ton, it is up to the American peo-
pie themselves to see that harmony
prevails. Already efforts along
these lines have been made and, in
most instances, housing shared by
Negro and white tenants has not
developed into impossible situa-
tions. The race riots in Chicago,
1919, New York and Detroit were
more or less the result of segrega-
ton and discrimination.
It is factual that the Constitution
of the United States does provide
the answer to all or practically all
racial problems now vexing the
public attention and conscience. To
admit that it does provide the an
swer is one thing, but to follow it
is another. We contend that it all
depends upon education or a condi-
ton of the mind whether Negroes
and whites can and will live to-
gether tremendously. Those en-
gagged in public housing certainly
have plenty of work ahead.
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Curd of Thanks

I wish to express my sincere thanks to
my many friends in st. Paul and Mime
apolis and also the Halle Q. Brown Service
Club, for the boxes and cards I received
while patient in the hospital, in England.
I received my first Christmas box March 8.
CPL. HUMPHREY ALEXANDER,
Somewhere in France"
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DAN GARDNER ON:
NEGRO" OR AMERICAN HOUSING?
RACES CAN LIVE TOGETHER
HARMONIOUSLY TODAY
DAN GARDNER ON:

Can Negroes and whites live tremendously together?
Answers to the question vary There many whites who
sure that such situation cannot exist at least in me
and there not quite many but nevertheless number
of thinking white people who believe sincerely that harmon
ious living together is situation condition of the mind
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MORE LIGHT ON THE s2ND

For time the 92nd Division figured the both
favorably and unfavoraby From time this organization
acivaed at Camp Mcclellan Alabama until
ndignty the Army segregated policy could nfict
Sensing that something with this outfit the De-
has dispatched Truman Gibson Civilian Aid the
Secretary of Italy where the fighting
of country. his conference
of his findings While findings
the
in training in the states The Army has done nothing
since sending the outfit abroad.
points Mr. Gibson findings )
fourth fifth class
the lowest classification
little education therefore,
the technical training nfanymen ~
combat due the unwgness
fight this question: "What
over here fighting observation Negro soldier
wildly reminded his training experiences in southern
eight hours day and then had spend the Other
Evening star., 1945-01-30
By PATRICIA SIMMONS.

The National Theater's orchestra
was in tune last night, so was the
audience. But then no wonder you
just can't help humming along with
things like The Merry Widow
Waltz" villa" and Maxim s. :"
Blame 1t ON Franz Lehar, blame it
on lively, well-balanced cast,
blame it on anything you like,
but the audience still sang The
Merry Widow" particularly one
portly gentleman behind us who
persisted in remaining an octave
below the remainder of the house,.
Last nights operetta was a
modern dress fashion show with
pin-up girls who could sing! We
are sure even Franz Lehar would
have had considerable difficulty in
sticking to the score That array
Of pulchritude parading the stage
could have done justice to half a
dozen model agencies, not to men,
ton the combined efforts of Hattie
Carnegie, Valentino or anybody
else you want to mention. The
women were ooh-ing and ah-ing
especially over the fuchsia slipper
satin gown (prewar stuff, the gold
sequin one dt actually blinded us
every time the lady came in con-
tact with the Spotlight and the
diamond-studded blue velvet num-
Der.
Although predominantIy visual.
the show had its vocal moments as
well, thanks to the widow, Mar
celia Howard; Helene Maye (Nat-
asha) and young Frank Melton,
who sang the prince Both So
pranos have clear, nicely trained
voices. Although it wasn't exactly
the first thing that came into our
mind. 6ynamics and breath con-
troll are not two things that must
be skipped over lightly when TAX
ing into account the leading ladies.
Their voices blended well with Mr..
Melton's. The 23-year -old actor, we
might add. made very personable
young prince, even if that touch of
gray hair did come from the make
up box.
To relieve the stress of operetta
dialogue (Which as you all know is
nothing that would make Noel
Coward sit on the edge of his chair
. bevy OF ballet girls made appear
ances from time to time. And the
things those dancers wore upon
their heads and still danced was
nothing short of amazing. First act
1t was silver wreaths (at what
looked like 90-degree angle), next
came white ostrich feathers to
which Mr. Melton is obviously al
Evening star., 1945-01-30

churl, fellow who looked like raj
stan, kuktestAd.
won't hurt who, mea" Hart
countered.
"I'll write you Z ane obituary, all
about how you died ! hero's death
for your art" voice in the back
Of the (censore0 promised.
Through a couple Of days of not
shaving, Hart pondered the wisdom
Of approaching the man in charge,
keeping every minute under the
closest Of scrutiny trying to deter
mine which was the right one.
When that was productive of no
decision and the situation had be-
come intolerable, he cast discretion
to the wind and bearded the TOP
man in a kind Of frenzy.
Look here" he said. I've got
to have 4 beard and I can't waste
any time"
well, why don't you grow one?"
the man asked.
1T says in the book, 1 can't"
Hart said.
Don't you worry about that" "
the man said courteously. THE
book does not apply to you. II you
can stand yourself in 4 beard, wen
have no trouble"
Mr.. Hart barely could stand him.
self even in a place where there
were few mirrors and man did
not have to look at himself If he
did not want to.
When we saw him in the lobby
of the National, looking like an
actor made up to frighten Basil
Rathbone, he had one request to
make Of us.
Il feel like an idiot" he said,
"but maybe you could write a little
something explaining that I'm not
vain imbecile and that I only
grew this blankety-blank black and
white fun coat because I was fool
enough to take that assignment
Why does a man agree to play his
own play when it has that kind Of
character in it?"
That last question we could not
answer, although we have made a
stab at answering any you may
have had in mind when you saw
Mr. Hart, usually one of the coun-
try's 10 best dressed males, wander
ing around Washington looking like
a disheveled wire-hair terrier.
Evening star., 1945-01-30

writing. quite disturbing to 4 man
confronted by the necessity for
growing a beard. 1t just said:
''Beards-No boards"
my word (Hart's word was not
word" but translates that way in
family newspapers) said the play
wright. 1--WE got to have 4 beard
I've got to have a beard quickly
I'm going out to the (military Sc
creD to play The Man Who Came
to Dinner and that calls for a
beard"
Why" asked a churl, "the play 4
about Alexander Woollcott and he
did not have a beard?'
But Monty Woolley who created
the part and who played it in pic
lures DID have q, beard" Hart said
I'D look like fool playing it with
out looking like sheep dog"
"Woolley would be glad to hear
that description" another of the
churls piped up.
Mr. Hart's reply was unprintable
n 4 Il X
"Why don't you get them to waive
the rule about boards in this placer
the only constructive thinker pres
ent suggested. That seems like q
decent man in charge"
They don't waive rules here, y
Hart said forlornly.
1T won't hurt to ask" the first