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the child must compete for par
entail attention.
Other children are being reared
and treated as adults instead of as
what they are. The consequences of
this is seen in the vulgar concep-
tions of sex, and the ready accep-
lance of various forms of depravity.
The instability of the mental out
look among our youngsters can be
clearly discerned from a study of
the records of Selective Service
Boards in Negro communities. The
number of AT Negroes of IS years
of age and over is appalling.
There are many Negroes of great
learning and standing who will say
in answer to these statements that
the white man has made the Ne
gro what he is. They will contend
vigorously that white children are
worse than ours on an average;
they will cite figures to prove that
more juvenile delinquency exists in
poor white neighborhoods on a per-
centage basis than is present in
the all-Negro community. They
glibly say land the spread of such
theories is having an opposite and
regrettable effect among the Ne
gro masses) that when the white
man allows the Negro more free
dom, then will be the time to
straighten out this and that. Mean
while prisons throughout the land
are showing an alarmingly high
percentage of Negroes incarcerated.
The street corners, the poolrooms,
candy stores, theatre Hobbies, gin
mills, dancehalls, alleys and gaming
rooms are being filled with our
neglected young people, both boys
and girls, busy weaving the net
that will ensnare the whole race
before long.
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Sgt. Paul Smith
Writes From France

Editor: 1t was a pleasure to re-
ceive two of the home town papers
today. All of the boys enjoyed
reading what was going on back in
the States.
I'm the only one in my outfit
from Minnesota; in fact after meet
ing Dick Travis on the boat have
ran into no one from home.
Here in France we are quite we'll
treated and it gripes us to read of
some of the things going on back
home. Still We would all like to
be there.
Pm hoping to head from some of
my friends and renew our CORE
spondence. Wishing you and the
paper continued success.
Sgt. Paul H Smith 37283193
ALA ON. Trk. Co.
A. P. o. 513,
CO Postmaster, New York.
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BY Geo. L. Lee

which discharge In
change address, the requires application dup
cate license be made within 80 days
The drivers of
conviction of driving while influence noxcans
driving other Safety Responsibility Act
vdes that where license revoked for shall
unless and until financial responsibility
maintained
Operating vehicle by license
suspended revoked under the Safety Responsibility
mdemeanor punishable up year
jal.-Hennepin County Review.
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White Supremacy"
(FrOm Antioch NOtes)

With many Americans and Eng
lishmen, white supremacy is an
absolute dogma, not to be ques-
toned. That attitude is a sure
cause of world war.
Today less than one man in
three is white" Each years in
crease in India alone equals the
total combined population of Dem
mark and Norway. Because of
relative birthrates and sanitary
progress, in two or three genera
tons men of non-European de-
scent may outnumber whites six
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
Soldier Latimer
Writes to Us

Editor: Just a few lines to let
you know that l am still receiving
my weekly issue of the paper. /
could never tell you in mere words
how much | look forward to these
issues.
They have furnished us with
vast store of knowledge, on what
you on the outside are striving so
diligently to do. Your continued
successes show US both here and
abroad of the job that you have
undertaken.
We are both fighting for cause
and we both are winning, but have
a long and tedious battle yet ahead.
We are fighting for the peace of
nations and to insure security for
you and loved ones at home. You,
there on the home front, are fight
ing a greater battle. You are try
ing to make the United States a
better place for your husbands,
sons and daughters, who some day
shall be returning. You have many
social and economic barriers to
overcome, but you are relentlessly
keeping at the job.
We are watching your progress
with interest. We know that the
fight you are waging cannot be won
in a short period of time. Your
continuous successes are paving the
way and making it easier for us, the
younger generation, to succeed
when we return.
One day we shall all be able to
look back on these times and talk
about these double achievements.
l shall close now. Keep up the
good work and shall we all pray
for a speedy victory?
Sincerely,
Pfc. Charles Latimer.
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Cops Won't Help Do Job

The fallacy of the idea that the
police department is equipped and
inclined to raise our children is
terribly wrong. So is the attitude
that the school teachers should
teach our children the fundamental
lessons of good behavior so neces-
sary in developing a sense of good
citizenship.
The police, where Negroes are
concerned-and that goes for the
cops from Los Angeles, to New
York, from New Orleans to Grand
Rapids, guard public and private
property, white business places,
white men and white women. They
seldom evince any save perfunctory
interest in the crimes and offenses
Negroes commit against one anoth-
er. The white school teachers, ex-
cept in rare cases, know little of
the problems we face as Negroes,
nor have too much sympathy with
them. They carry out their jobs
to the letter-mainly preparing
their pupils for graduation.
Thus the job of raising our own
falls back in our laps. We cannot
dodge it. No excuse, no subterfuge
can get around the fact that to curb
the rise of hoodlumism among
young Negroes, mothers and faith
ers will have to stop being children
and give their own offspring a
break. Otherwise, our greatest con-
tribution to these war years will
be a generation of young hoodlums
allowed to run wild.
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Press Comment on Truman FEPC Stond

President Trumans statement to Congress- opposing the abolish
ent OF the Fair Employment Practice Committee will be
minority in this the
that has of the White House months The
left doubt where he stands which
likely shocked southern realization
going to be up against tough proposition force
dent their undemOcrac appears
the White House instead a moue-Caroina Times
President Truman by his has good on his
promise that he would follow the mapped
dent Roosevelt and has indicated that he will
democratic and progressive Amerca-LousvIe Defender.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
Former Twin Citian
Wants PaDer in Oh

Editor: l would like to subscribe
for the paper to be sent to me for
six months. l lived in the Twin
Cities for 10 years and am now
living in Cleveland, Ohio.
| always enjoyed reading the
paper and miss it very much since
moved away. Enclosed is payment.
Mrs. Clara B. Williams.
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QUESTION, YIELD NOTHING
AND TALK

If the present Congress errs in
too much talking, how can it be
otherwise, in a body to which the
people send one hundred and fifty
lawyers, whose trade it is to ques-
ton everything, yield nothing and
talk by the hour? That one hundred
and fifty lawyers should do bust
ness together ought not to be ex-
pected.-ThOmas Jefferson, in a
passage from his autobiography.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
or seven to one.

or seven to one.
Meanwhile, China and India
probably will become as mechan-
lied as Japan is today. Non
whites the world over are coming
to feel themselves as members of
one brotherhood. Russia, having
no race discrimination, is re-
spected. But in general, non-white
peoples are learning by the white
mans example what to do when
they become dominant. White
peoples are having perhaps their
last chance to set an example of
good will, equal opportunity, and
fair play. Race prejudice is a
terribly expensive luxury.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15

wonders and vices Of large cities
worked to the detriment of a race
that can ill-afford to lose control of
its children?
The question is serious. 1t is
grave. Its implications are more
profound than even the fight we
are engaged in for social, political
and economic recognition and equal
ity; for even if we gain these
things, we cannot reap the full
benefits from them if we persist in
turning our backs on what our chill
dren are doing and committing the
cardinal error of not doing some
thing about it.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
Letters
Corporal Maurice
Copeland Writes

Copeland Writes
Editor: / don't suppose you re-
member me, but l was a friend of
your son, Oscar.
received copy of the Spokes-
man last week and the size of it i'm
pressed me greatly. More power
to you and the Spokesman and Re-
corder.
l read that Oscar has been dis
charged. l know you're glad to
have him back. l hope to be back
in the not-too-distant future. I've
been in about three years now and
really miss the Twin Cities.
Let me tell you this, I've been
in many a city since I've been in
the Army, st. Louis, Detroit, Chi
cago, Dallas, Louisville, Indian
apolis, Tampa, Jacksonville, and
st. Petersburg, Fla, and I'll take
the Twin Cities any time.
Until recently, l was with the
477th Bombardment Group Q'm a
flying mechanic on B-25's and
B-26's). l hope to be in st. Paul
some time soon.
Yours truly,
CnI Maurice 7, Coneland
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Now II Con Be Told!

When citizens raising funds delegation Washing
lobby for the FEPC individuals
help the Hubert Humphrey He
acted S25 his pocketbook worthy
publicity because his used during his
Minneapolis from which he has
Mr. Humphreys attitude didn't his
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
Those Days Gone Forever

Today, however, those virtues
of yesteryear seem to have been
discarded. In fact, they are told of
to people who listen incredulously.
Fierce resentment is voiced and ex-
pressed at the mere suggestion of a
neighbor that a child has done
something wrong. Everybody lives
or tries to live strictly to himself.
There is no common consensus that
the rearing of children is a COM
munity as we'll as a parental re-
sponsibility. Nothing is done to
develop this spirit of cooperation in
meeting a common problem. Home
punishment, when it is admin
istered, is usually the result of per
sonal irritation, moods and whims.
Such irregularities, such tempera-
mental attitudes toward a family
function that is fundamental as the
business of earning a living, are
daily breeding trouble and woe for
the entire race.
The collapse of moral values and
standards among Negroes in metro
politan communities is deplorable,
especially since little or nothing in
an effective way is being done to
retrieve that which is being lost.
Children learn to use foul, filthy
language at home from mothers
and fathers, elder sisters and broth
ers. Parents have been found who
teach or allow their children to
publicly smoke cigarettes before
they are IA years old; and in many
instances, children are taught or
allowed to drink wine, beer and
whiskey at a tender age.
Parents Pleasure Bent
The child's life and upbringing
are subordinated to the pleasures of
living and the personal desires of
its parents. The mother and father
are so busy having a good time or
earning a living themselves, that
they seem to have forgotten their
sacred duty to see through the de-
velopment of their offspring in the
perilous years of adolescence and
youth. The bright lights, the ribald
laughter of the gin-mill, the blare
of the jukebox, the thrills of all
night parties, dances and plain
hinges, are major rivals with which
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
News from Home
Important to Soldiers

Editor: l have been receiving
the weekly copy of our paper
promptly. However, l am in a new
Company and the fellows and my
self are anxious to have you change
my mailing address as it means
receiving the paper a day earlier.
One day means quite bit to a SOL
der when news from home is the
item delayed.
Thank you,
Pvt. LIE Roy Coleman,
Camp Lee, Va.
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Northern Parents Loss of
Control Is Serious Problem
By Dan Gardner

Just how much has the urban Negro lost in the disrup
ton of his family life that in former days his children
being reared in the mould of discipline respect Others and
the fear of God Has the transition of the Negro
stern South to the liberal North brought about less
complete collapse of his family system? Have the dubious
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
Stock Answers Plentiful

The subject is tOuchy. The pro-
fessors and educators who have
made long and laborious studies of
the problem have ready-made an
swers to fit each question. For a
while these stock answers sufficed.
But times move ahead. Still, how
ever, the experts persist in what
should be recognized as an ap-
proach full of holes. Greater rec
reational facilities" they will tell
you when asked what are the major
means with which to combat juven-
lie delinquency. The parents, they
will say, really cannot be blamed
because of the economic inequali-
ties they suffer on account of race
and color" To properly rear chill
dren, to bring up youngsters that
they may dodge the discipline of
the scaffold or electric chair or
penitentiary cell, the experts de-
mand for every Negro a modern
six room house, running hot and
cold water in each room, automatic
toilets, automobile, garage, SWIM
ming pool, somebody to work the
garden, a maid, perhaps, a butler,
and salary of not less than $3.50
a week.
Truth is, the best remedy for
bad" children is the old-fashioned
peach tree switch, or if you don't
live in Georgia, dads razor strop
applied with the same vigor that
grandma and grandpa used so effec-
lively in stopping the young ones
from lying, stealing, cussing, play
ing hooky, fighting, and so forth.
To date, no other remedy has been
as good. In those days the neigh
bors took hand in helping the kids
in the neighborhood and they
would apply the switch or palm of
the hand as readily as ma or pa
and with the fervant thanks and
sanction of the parents who were
not around when the offense was
committed.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
IN MEMORIAM

In memory of our mother and grand
mother, Mrs. Mary Frances Williams, who
passed away a year ago in Moberly, Mo.
One year ago June IL, 1914, you slipped
away from us.
We will always be lonesome and blue
for you, your advice is needed so much.
Your love will always be cherished.
Peace to your memory.
Your Children and Grandson,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15

1OuTS truly,
Cpl. Maurice L. Copeland.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-06-15
Russia Outdoes Dale Carnegie

Character Of its population.
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Another Cowles Foundation Contribution

low. il can be told
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26
PARIS SCHEDULES
FASHION FARLEY

PARIS, Feb. Is. - (P - Paris
spring fashion shows will open to.
morrow despite severe shortage Of
fabrics and dyes and a wartime
ban on expectation of French mo-
dels.
Determined to reassert Frances
former leadership in fashions, de.
signers representing an industry
giving livelihood to 100000 per-
sons have called on all their inven-
tiveness this year.
Silk is extremely rare and Is
supplanted by "rayonne. Wool
exists only in light fabrics or mix.
ed with rabbit hair. Normally
French dressmakers have 300 dyes
to work with; today they have just
seven.
Prices for forthcoming ens9m-
bles will be high. The average cost
of a tailored suit in first-rate
house will be about $500, compared
with $50 in 1888. Paris fashion
houses before the war had an
annual turnover of $4,000, 900, but
they cannot expect to make great
profits this year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26
Refugees From Vichy Plot And Hate
Among Selves In German Sanctuary

culated in Berlin. In the capital,
railway stations, waiting rooms,
staircases and train sheds were
damned with homeless people.
They were people without hope or
future and with fixed express ms
of desperation on their cold and
worn faces. They huddled there
with small bundles in a dreamless
trance-Waiting.
In all these refugees Berliner9
saw some consolation for their
lot.
Anyway you can secure all the
things you need. All you have to
do is hop into plane for Sweden.
But what will become of us? We
can't fly away. We have to stay"
How many times have I heard
this bitter complaint in Berlin!
from the rich man who had lost
everything but his bank roll, with
which he could buy nothing. From
the poor man who barely escaped
with his life.
That remark can be regarded as
characteristic Of the feeling gen
orally in Berlin-hopelessness and
resignation at the same time. And
yet you can not actually speak of
apathy but rather fatalism. De-
spite it all the Germans obviously
still are prepared in general to de-
fend themselves and the few poor
possessions they have saved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26
WITH THE AEF
Pingponging With The KING

know he was around, and was I'M.
mediately invited over.
H. M. studied Cherry's style and
has developed successful often.
sive game which ranks him high
IN Persian pingpong circles which
are pretty high in world table ten
mis- standards.
The King, Cherry, T-3 Waiter
Beqriust of 1863 Wellington avenue
Cranston, R. l., and five Iranians,
including the national champ, 49,
year-old Farhang Mohtadi, orce
played a 4-hour tournament in the
royal games room.
Cherry beat the King, 21-15, 21-14
21-14; the King extended Mohtadi,
who plays at the palace almost
daily, but lost 8-21, 21-11, Is 81,
20.22. At doubles, Cherry and the
King defeated Berquist and M9h-
tadi in straight sets. Then the two
Americans beat the Shah and
Mohtadi three sets out of five.
Cherry's main job was to pro-
mote the Army recreational pro-
gram in this remote American
command, and now he's got one out
of every four banging the celluloid
ball. He helped promote inter-A1-
lied competition at Tehran last
wear and the port of Khor RAM
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26

shahr this year, drawing around
$50 competitors representing the
U. S., Iran, Britain, Iraq, Paies-
tine, Russia and India.
The U. S. Army Expeditio.'ary
station at Ahwaz broadcast the
finals play-by-play over the whole
command.
Cherry holds the inter-Allied and
Middle East singles titles and the
doubles with Sgt. Walter Bourne
of Springdale Golf Club, Prince
ton, N. j. Cherry started playing
at IA. He was beating most Euro
pean competition when he star ed
his wanderings. hop ahead OF
Hitler, which led to Brooklyn via
Luxembourg, where he coached that
grand duchy's national table ten
mis- team.
He managed table tennis clubs
around New York, including the
Broadway table tennis courts, and
toured the East, South, and Mid
west on exhibitions until he was
drafted in January, 1912.
After the war the little man, Who
never owned pingpong table of
his own, plans to open place in
New York, with a picture of the
King of Persia and Cherry on the
wall
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26
La Guardia To Adjust
Curfew For Few Spots

NEW YORK, Feb. "a. - (P) -
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia and reg
ional War Manpower Commission
Director Anna Rosenberg announc-
ed jointly today that the midnight
curfeW on entertainment places
would become effective in New
York City at midnight tomorrow
but adjustments would be provid.
ed to meet Individual cases during
the week.
The two officials said, however,
that full and complete compli,
ance' with War Mobilization Di-
rector James Byrnes' request
would be expected by Monoay,
March 5.
'The directives contained in the
(WMC) order are SO clear as to
require no amplification," they
said, violations will be reported
as provided for in the ORDER
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26

girls, day in and day out, raced
along the roads around Sigmarin-
gen to the great annoyance of the
German populance. The gasoline
they had brought with them finally
gave out. No additional ratinns
were granted and now you can buy
as many fine French-made cars
as you want at moderate prices.
After the invasion several waves
of political refugees arrived from
France, Belgium and Holland.
Other collaborationists swarm
ed into Berlin. Among them we're
many newspapermen. The German
propaganda ministry's press club
soon became known as the Club
of DOOM because many of the
Frenchmen were on Gen. de
Gaulle's black list and will ACE
death tribunals after the war.
While travelling from Berlin to-
ward the Baltic recently, 1 pass
ed mile after mile of refugee col
umns. Every village was thronsed
I recall a Berlin housewife who
returned empty-handed after an
early morning shopping tour Tut
who was overwhelmed by the sight
of a tWo-mile long caravan of reffu-
gees plodding through the capital
from the east.
Stories of thousands of refugees
freezing to death on the roads cir.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26
BY JERJE GRANBERG
Swedish Newspaper Correspondent

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 25. - P) -
The Little Vichy'' of Sigmaringen,
SWabian city of the Hohenzollarns
in southern Germany 80 miles from
the Switzerland border has 1e-
generated into a first rate comic
opera.
Descriptions Of life among the
French refugees who have settled
there are absolutely grotesque.
The area around the state castle
of the Prince of Hohenzollern,
where Marshal Petain now resides,
has been granted form of
French sovereignty" by the Nazis
on the theory that this gives strong
er authority to the DEGREES and
proclamations which pour out from
Signaringen.
The white-haired old marshal ,iv-
ing in the cold, Impractical palace
stubbornly regards himself as a
prisoner of the Germans and stress
es this standpoint by ince5tant
protests.
Pierre Laval, Immediately after
his arrival at Sigmaringen, was
said to have gone on strike be-
cause Hitler refused his offer to
have his son-in-law attemp" to
negotiate peace between Ger
many and the United States.
Marcel Deaf, jacques Doriot,
now reported dead, and other
French collaborationists were re-
ported to have quarreled violently
among themselves Immediately al
ter their arrival at Sigmarlngen
from Vichy. 1t seems they just
could not agree on just disfri-
button of power and splendor In
this comic opera state.
There has been endless sulkine,
plotting and hating. All the French
leaders brought their own :ssaffs
with them, mostly youngsters who
in turn drove elegant AUTOMOBILES
and brought along their beautiful
fiancees and mistresses from Pa
ris.
These s'staff boys" with their
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-02-26
Jail Prisoners Slide
Down Elevator Rails
To Effect An Escape

SEATTLE, Feb. Is. - up - Six
male prisoners slid II stories d-Wn
creased elevator shaft rails to ef-
feet a successful break from the
King county Jail today.
After the daring slide the cix
forced the elevator shaft doors INTO
the main lobby and escaped before
the jailer who they had bound in
their cell block could summon aid.
The prisoners first had pried
the casing from their cell locks
with an 18-inch length of steel
mop handle and then lured The
jailer, Ed St. Pierre, SO, into their
control on the pretext they want
ed him to shut some windows.