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hands squeezed tightly shut
The team jumped to Cleveland, and the
Indians knocked them over. But they went
on around the circuit and came back home
with good hold on second place. The train
was late, and Dantry didn't reach the depart
ment store until three. He was 50 eager to see
her again that he elbowed his way roughly
through the crowd.
IHEN, as he stood before the desk, he could
not remember what he had meant to ask her.
He opened his mouth and closed it again.
His eyes turned CLASSY. He felt his face grow
red
Her glance touched him with thin glitter
of amused irony. 1t kept touching him, coolly,
mockingly as she answered questions that
kept popping all around him in the crowd.
He felt like turning and burrowing way out.
But he didn't. He stood his ground, his mouth
clamped shut, dark anger mixing with the
flush on his face. He could feel the perspira-
ton starting to break out.
And her clear, sure voice went on answer
ing questions, her hands remained folded on
the desk, her glance kept passing over him
lightly and with its faint needlepoints of
dersion. Side by side with his mounting
desire for her, was the wish to make her sweat
and suffer the way he was right now.
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baseman in sailing slide. "You amt
paratrooper any MORE" the third baseman
said Take it easy"
Dantry's geniality was hard and forth
right: Don't hide the bag in your pocket,
Mac"
In the next week he stopped at the depart
ment store every day - question day.
Miss Thorne delivered on a toggle, frkin,
pedometer, an awl, bivalve, and a plumb
er's friend Despite the fact that he was deter
mined not to give up until she cracked, his
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admiration for her continued
to grow. His competitive
spirit had always been tough
and relentless, and he adj
mired it in others. >.
The following Monday he
stopped by at ten in the
morning. II don't know why
l never thought of this be-
FORE" he said. Shop early
and avoid the crowds. He'd
get her this time, all right.
Where do / buy cudbear?"
he asked offhand.
HER hands were folded
lightly on the desk. Her blue
eyes, of unreasonable depth,
regarded him with calm de-
liberation, and he thought he
saw the corners of her mouth
tighten. He did not for a
minute suppose that she mis-
understood his purpose. He
could almost feel the tension
between them, but it exhila-
rated him. Everything in his
life he had fought for - hard,
with grim humor: his health
as a child, his schooling, his
early days in baseball, his
paratrooper's assignment, his
convalescence, his return to
baseball. He knew no way
but the hard way.
''Cudbear," he said, and
spelled it: 'tC-u-d /"
"B-e-a-r," she finished.
Drugs and chemicals: First
floor, east entrance, SIR" Her
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Birthday Greetings

Birthday greetings in st. Paul: Oct. IA
Mrs. Aurelia Grissam, 663 Aurora Mrs.
Anna Blair, I'll st. Anthony; Boyd Col
Inns, 698 W. Central. Oct. I5-Herbert
Foster, Jr., 916 st. Anthony. Oct 18-C.
Anderson, 707 Iglehart. Oct. I9-Pete Hill,
5l7 W. Central; Mrs. C. B. Wheeler, 522
W. Central.
Belated birthday greetings to Mrs. Lenora
Allison, Chicago, Ill, Oct. 2.
Birthday greetings in Minneapolis; Oct
14-Harry Neal, 535 Emerson Ave. No. /;
]. e. Patterson, 604 7th st. No. Leroy
Hall, 1925 Fourth Ave. So. Douglas Moses,
4Sl Bryant Ave. No.; Grace Mason, 1852
Bryant Ave. No.; Mary Ellen Mitchell,
2O25 Riverside Ave. &c.; James Austin,
9S7 Aldrich Ave. No.; P. G. Breeder, 1909
Olson Highway; Frances PEBBLES, PA w.
olst St. Oct. 15-Audrey Miller, 724 Ere
mont Ave. No.; Lazarus Harris, $500
Fourth Ave. So. Oct. 16-Emma Truman,
2721 Portland Ave. Oct. 17-Bertha Jobn.
son, 500 Olson Blvd. Oct. 19-Judge VIM.
Anderson, 1885 Morgan Ave. No.: Doris
Escue. 1924 Fourth Ave. So; Thomas Jack
son, 80 Bryant Ave. No. Roosevelt Sim
mons, 526 Girard Ave. No. Mrs, Courtney
Wilkerson, 2423 Fourth Ave. So. Oct, 20
Lucille Woodland, 1103 Lyndale Ave. No. ::
Margaret Banks, 1924 Fourth Ave. So, ;
Evelyn Miller, 52S Colfax Ave No, and
Dorothy Jones, 514 Bryant Ave. No.
Out of town greetings: Margaret Ashby
Oct IA, Kansas City, Mo. Audrey James
Kansas City, Kan, Oct. 16, and Margaret
Landrum, Owen, Wis, Oct. 16.
Belated greetings to Truman Pierson
1884 Nicollet Ave. So. and Lucille Roach
S9l7 Fifth Ave. So, Oct. IL.
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Phyllis WheotleY
Notes

Bowling: Do you bowl? Why
not join the Phyllis Wheatley Bowl
ing League which bowls each Mon
day at 700 p. m. at the Y. w.
c. A? The League has four alleys.
If you are interested, call Cherry
1854 and meet US at the Y. w. C. A.
on Monday, Oct. Is, at 700 p. m.
There will be a meeting of the
League at Phyllis Wheatley House
on Friday, Oct. IL, at 1880 p. m.
Library: Phyllis Wheatley Set
Element House is gradually build
ing up its collection of books on
Negro life. The latest addition to
the collection was made by the
friends of the late Lewis Gazette.
Visit our library. The hours are
as follows:
Monday through Friday, $3.50 to
900 p. m.
Saturday, ~ to 500 p. m.
Home Nursing: A Red Cross
class in home nursing is being Of
fered at Phyllis Wheatley each
Wednesday, at 7:3O p. m. Miss Isa-
dore Denike, trained nurse, is the
instructor.
Sewing: The first session of the
sewing class will be held Friday
at 7:30 p. m. Perhaps you do not
need to sew for yourself but would
like to mend clothing that will be
given to others who need them. Mrs.
Margaret Johnson is the instructor.
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Christopher Columbus ond Nino

As large portion of America celebrates Columbus Day. might
be the that claimed that the pilots of the
Christopher Columbus feet Pedro Alfonso Nno Negro
A. Rogers of the abe NegroAmerican historians
which studied him
Nno African Many similar claims which tend sho
the which Negroes played the early history the Wester
Hemisphere credence because all
historians white people They perhaps did the
comphments the slaves the free Negroes material
history.
Knowing the racial history of the Spaniard of the Chophe
Columbus PERIOD could almost be certain that there
souls who had African ancestry the Lightweight intrepid
who sailed and discovered continent Friday
1892 Since friendly historians Nno Negro
string along with them the Nation hon the of Christopher
Columbus and his brave
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INVESTIGATION REVEALS
HOODLUMS, NOT BIAS
CAUSED SCHOOL RIOT

NEW YORK (NNPA)-An in
vestigation by the faculty of Ben
jamin Franklin High school into
the fighting outside the school, at
116th Street and Pleasant Avenue
here, in which a relatively small
number of students participated, at
tributed the outbreak more to hood
lumism than to any race tension
within the school itself.
DR.. Leonard Covello, principal of
the school, commended that there was
no animosity among Negro and
white students, and no resentment
or i'll will toward teachers.
A statement by teachers revealed
that on the day of the incident,
September 27, an argument de-
veloped in the gymnasium between
two boys who dared each other to
fight. After school was out, the re-
port said, white boys, some of
them not connected with the school,
armed with sticks, attacked indis-
criminately Negro boys from
Franklin lined up to board the
bus"
The following day, according to
the report, a group of Negro
youths, some armed, got off a Lex
ington Avenue bus and marched en-
masse toward the school. They
were headed off by DR.. Covello who
interviewed in time to prevent any
thing happening to a white boy they
were pursuing.
ed. Note: Benjamin Franklin
School has, in the past, been
the scene of inter-racial confer
ences and gatherings to promote
goodwill between the myriad races
in Harlem's lower east side.-
NDR)
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Christianity Fostering
Race Bias Is Not Real

Editor: We speak of "the Negro
problem; we should speak of "the
Negro possibility" The problem is
not in the Negro, but rather in US
who, by our prejudices and fears
have made him a problem instead
of a possibility. White Christianity
needs a baptism of the spirit of
Simeon to make our religion into a
revelation of possibilities of people
lstead of into something that Dol,
tiers up our prejudices. Christian
ty is double revelation-of Goo
nd of man-and when it does moi
o that it is not Christianity, but
4 religious bolstering of racialism.
We need a religious faith that
brings faith in people as we'll as in
God.
Your friend,
Franklin W. Turner,
Minneapolis.
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LIVE WITH WORLD OR DIE
WITH DIE-HARDS

If the day ever arrives when we
can no longer get along with the
other nations, we shall find that
we can't get along with ourselves,
either. For it is a peculiar fact
that those who favor our using our
power to squeeze our former allies
to the limit are also the intransi-
geants in home politics-and, in the
fullest sense, we are offered the
choice of whether to live with the
world or to die with the die-hards.
Grafton in the New York
Post.
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will affect human relations for
many years and will excuse con-
tempt and injustice toward colored
skins. It will set back the time
of the emancipation of the majority
of people in the world.
a. If the military RECOMMENDATION
of living will retard civilization, it
means the training of men through
long and costly years for murder
and destruction and then after
wards to use these same men and
the same methods for cultural up
lift. The whole proposal is impos-
sible.
5. And finally, we have seen in
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Metropolitan Lies Token Endowment

headline In last weeks
Life Insurance Company has employed Negroes four women and
one white collar workerthe Negroes to be
by the Metropolitan in capacity Ordinarily
would be for rejoicing be Indicative that the
most powerful insurance in the United finally seen
ne nsht and had decided that Negroes should opportunity
70 earn money from the company which they support heavily
unfortunately however, glee that
changed policy might have occasioned the equally
admission OF w. Taylor president Metropolitan that the
company has employed five Negroes only want to
guilty OF violating the Iesuinn Estate in En-
pOyen Act and thereby face prosecution the Commission
Against Discrimination
honesty the old lsm always the policy the
honest statement of w. Taylor Meopotans vice present the
honesty disappointing because because rather
SION that the has finally employing Negro
workers on their merit and because policy keeping with
democratic practices the statement bandy only
Negroes are being employed is because the shall
discrimination in employment
For that reason there be rejoicing Negroes
another victory in the fight discrimination The
employment OF five Negro white collar METROPOLITAN
opay own admission done
denly become enlightened but law Under those
those five workers represent token employment
because of the law
that an indication of the industry play then
Is up for Negroequafed for empoymen-to force the issue with
industry In New York State through Commission
Discrimination The educational process does not
The law does and Metropolitan Life clearly thaN Y Age
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army and of segregation in army
circles which will form and have
formed a basis of similar segrega-
ton in civil life. This segregation
is not simply separation of human
beings in their ordinary life: In
order to make segregation effective
it has been found necessary to sup
press ability and deny opportunity.
3. The defeat and humiliation of
Japan marks the tragedy of the
greatest colored nation which has
risen to leadership in modern times.
No matter how we explain and as
sess the damage, the result of think
ing along the lines of race and color
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Shop Tolk: More News Thon We Con Prin

the this
and national its desks deadne print
That sound funny readers but when they realize
the number and columns depends
Versg and circulation revenue receive the is perhaps
clearer.
Of advertising during past years
phenomenal increase was due to the war
fact that readers had money spend
The increased the why
give Cities regularly readable six
eight column for the past year
local has able splendid cooperation
advertisers and readers makes it possible the nine Negroes
who work the Recorder weekly pay checks
from the addition persons Negroes
and DID, fold and mail this Thursday sending
several thousand Negroes whites to many
subscribers in the armed services
Such popularity the has u.s.
the largest portion expense columns of reading
material and photographs subscribers paper
What we are trying point that only print
the advertising and circulation receipts Every time
one OF readers gives of his advertisers
it helps increase the possibility larger community paper
Every new subscription operates in the Many
realize this and cooperate very fully
AS them realize partnership the building of strong
community medium we'll much advertising
to cut item down the bone interesting
news and comments that would space money
available.
We thought know about this particular
problem.
Russia will always be threat peace Britain and
the United States long the Reds democracy Bull
and Uncle Sam simply preach about it.
Congressman Walter permanent FEPC presents
US with the prize enigma of 1945.
Congratulations Credawn Club on its eighteenth ami
versay there organization in these record
worthwhile endeaVors with that Cedjafawns
we haven't heard about It'll
Service men who want to business should
move cautiously Going business just
what it's cracked up to be.
Wen wage SO cent of the Daughters American Rvo
ton (DAR) never heard of Crispus Attacks
Attacks, some historians will remind Ladies D. A. r. was
Negro who the Boston Commons bv the
British. y ~
mat ought to nte of his Negro
Anderson Hazel Scott exempt auditorium Consti
uon daI In washington D. C., the D. A. mean
Constitution Hall not the publicity resulting the D. A. RS
refusal rent Hazel Scott its auditorium going to hurt Miss
SCOTS draw at office
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Rev. Floyd Massey. j.
Will Participate Tues.
In Carleton InuuGurul

Rev. Floyd Massey, Jr., pastor of
Pilgrim Baptist church in st. Paul,
has been invited to participate in
the inaugural services of President
Lawrence Mckinley Gould of Garlic
ton College, Mortified, MINI.
A few weeks ago, Rev. Massey
received a letter from DIR. Edwin
Mcneil Poteal, president of his
alma mater, with the request that
he represent the school, Colgate
Rochester Divinity of Rochester,
N. Y, at the Gould inaugural Tues
day, October 16.
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this war, to our amazement and
distress, a marriage between science
and destruction; a marriage such
as we had never dreamed of before.
We have always thought of science
as the emancipation. We see it now
as the enslaver of mankind.
Six Gains Listed
We turn from this sad picture
to six gains which have come out
of war, not necessarily because of
it, but in most cases despite the
organized destruction:
1. The world of culture has been
compelled to make a re-statement
of democracy at a time in our de-
velOpment when we are beginning
to distrust and ignore democracy.
We have been compelled to come
back to the basic idea that the gov
eminent and direction of human
beings must in the long run rest
upon the wishes and the will of
those who are governed and guided.
2. We have been compelled to
admit Asia into the picture of fu-
ture political and democratic power.
We can no longer regard Europe
as the sole center of the world. The
development of human beings in
the future is going to depend large
ly upon what happens in Asia.
8. We have been compelled to
admit China as great power.
When China was first attacked it
was because of attack by Europe.
When the attack continued it was
through the acquiescence of Europe
and America; and when finally
against the will of the white world
We were dragged into the great CEN
ter of Asiatic war, we took up and
espoused the cause of Chinese free
dom and independence because we
knew we'll that the Japanese cry Of
"Asia for the Asiatics" would be
turned against US unless we helped
China maintain her independence.
Russian Recognition
a. We have been compelled to
recognize Russia as an equal coun-
try in spite of the fact that her
economic organization is directly
and categorically opposed to the
profit-making industrial organiza-
ton of the Western world. And
moreover because of the prominence
given Russia today in this war, her
backing of China and alliance with
China means that China will not be
at the sole direction of Western
Europe. The dream of Europe as
the profteer of China and the con-
troller of her destiny through its
efforts, falls before the menace of
Russia.
5. More specifically there can be
no doubt but what India and the
Dutch Netherlands and French
IndO- China are going in our day to
achieve something approaching
autonomy in government.
6. And last there is upheaval
in Pan Africa: among the people
in Africa itself, north, west and
south; but also and just as signif-
cantly among the people of African
descent in the Caribbean area, in
South and Central America and in
the United States of America.
1t cannot be said that, balancing
these losses and gains, the war has
been either a vast success or ter
rible failure. It can be said that
civilization after this war has
chance to go forward and no group
of civilized people have better OPP
portunity to forward the advance
of human culture than American
Negroes.
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Page st. Paul Recorder
Friday, October IL, 1915
DR.. James TOuchst0ne,
Methodist Lay Official,

DR.. James TOuchst0ne,
Methodist Lay Official,
To Visit in st. Paul
DR.. James H. Touchstone, asso-
ciate secretary of the Board of Lay
Activities of the Methodist Church,
will spend several days, beginning
Sunday, in St. Paul.
DR.. Touchstone, who is one of the
Negro general officers of the Meth
odist Church, will occupy the pulpit
at both the II a. m. and $50 p. m.
services, Sunday, in the Camphor
Memorial Methodist. DR.. Touch
stone, who was dean of Philander
Smith College, Little Rock, Ar
kansas, before becoming a general
officer, has headquarters both in
Chicago and Atlanta, Ga.
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MUST FIGHT

Negroes especially must fight the
overall struggle for full and COM
plete democracy at home as it re-
lates to jobs for all, social security
for all, and the right of Bulgarians.
Greeks, Roumanians and others to
be free from the interference of our
government. The fight for Negro
rights is a part of this larger
fight for the enemy is a common
enemy-Chicago Defender.
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OUR READERS SAY
Sgt. Smith Writes

Letter from Tokyo
Editor: 1t was a pleasure to re-
ceive two of the hometown papers
today september 12). All the boys
enjoyed reading what was going on
back in the States.
Pm the only one in my outfit from
Minnesota-in fact, after meeting
Edward Whitaker on the boat,
have run into no one from home.
Here in Tokyo, we are quite well
treated, and it gripes US to read of
some of the things going on back
home. Still we would all like to be
there.
I'm hoping to hear from some of
my friends and renew our CORE
spondence. Wishing you and the
paper continued success, 1 am
Yours truly,
n
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COLONIALIsM A PLAGUE

The fact is, this whole business
of coloniaism is going to plague
the nations of the earth until free
dom everywhere is more than
word.-Chicago Bee.
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Cards of Thanks
Appreciation
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere thanks
and appreciation to our many friends and
nelgh6ors for the beautiful flowers and
sorrow. Special thanks to Rev. Clayburn
for his words of comfort
Signed Mrs. Annie E. Smith, Mrs. Rather
inc Foster, Mrs. Cornelia Burns, Mrs. Jo-
sephine Pullens, Albert E. Smith, Walter
A. Smith, Marian Smith.
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Negroes War Gains
VS.. His Losses

w. E. B. Dubois in the Current Chicago Defender.
Now that the Second World War has ended what have Americans
Negro descent gained? groups
l. War itself always loss which bears harvest the
gated and the oppressed leaving legacy of death
which is almost incaculable.
g We have suffered the disadvantage
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Protests Rest Rooms
In Beer Taverns
Editor: was unhappily en-
barrassed last week when 1 took
out-of-town friends on "tour" of
the Minneapolis and St. Paul beer
taverns. Ny friends were from an
other city where there are decent
places to go for our people. What
was worst of all was the unclean,
unsanitary conditions in the rest
rooms of the taverns we visited.
Can't something be done to make
the owners clean these places up?
Have they so little pride they don't
care how their business establish
ments must look to the patrons L?
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1t is a disgrace to the Twin Cities.
Mrs. Olivia Weber,
St. Paul.
Two Readers Praise
Column by Booker

COlumn by booker
Editor: Come on, folks, let's give
Villa Booker boostI She's headed
for the top. VILLAS coming in and
making a home run, so let's give her
three rousing cheers!
Sincerely,
Bert Johnson,
Mary Swain,
MINNEAPOLIS.
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CARD OF TuANHc

l wish to thank our friends and nei0bbors
for their acts of love and Kindness. the
sympathy shown and the many cards
and beautiful floral offerings, in tribute
70 ;, my dear wife, Edith Bell. C. w.
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This is the greatest city in the
world.
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The finest people in the world
live In this town.
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Synthetic rubber and thousands
more essentials need used fats In
their production. Every drop house
wives save and turn In finds some
essential use. And every pound Il
now worth q red points.
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Protests Rest Rooms

S/Sgt. Leonard o. Smith.