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facing the question forced
81 Italy, the the 92nd
Aa southern Italy
segregated club for white officers and will accept competent
officers his will
to key positions.
These observations Mr. Gibson
Ay policy dealing with soldiers. beginning
original National Guard units indicted regular Army,
of Negroes The South has been permitted full sway
resulted fragrant abuse Negroes rights wu
needed millions dollars
for thing and then changing them other of
The South has been permitted humae and kill
Negro soldiers without the War Department bOthg bit about
when armies leave the American shores for bateeds
these southern practices persist The results the Negro soldier is
free from the humons of because of his
his wish and desire be patriotic and good soldier thwaed
by these evil forces.
President Roosevelt and
overlook conditions
policies thousands white soldiers gone
necessary and the rights seriously mpeded
through no fault of
army fighting with Allies handicapped
Hes policies the United States Army. Yet the
nation that be taking the leadership for world democracy
From all the have received from the other battle
the findings Mr. Gibson Italy, will be wherever Negro soldiers
CHARTERED.
While glad the War Department Mr. Gibson Italy
find what's with the 92nd further
vegaons The all known have this
nation first modified its Army for What the American people
know when the War Department going these
conditions?
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SeH-Conscious Community

part Minneapolis Negro community been
during the of Negroes through the
everywhere the theoretical responsibility for the behavior of
Negroes the of the community
Inconsistencies.
Minneapolis Negroes Negro criminals
whites
bic the white similarly tried and convicted.
silly for the Negro community the burden Of
would be for the white people take the
the Dnger the Pretty Boy FOyd and the thousands
o. other whites who fill our jails and penitentiares.
We admit that there those ignorant whites and others not
ignorant who expect the entire Negro
muny hang collective head shame when crmnay
Negro especially against white We
aw-ang Negro feeling of shame
guilty despcabe
However should understood that the responsibility for crime
blacks whites lies the entire community
truth that since law enforce
judiciary white people, the larger of
responsibility be divided along lines should be borne by
the white community.
While most thinking Negroes criminal
breaking Negro minority also that the chief contributing
back the
political discrimination against Negroes which hundreds
young antsoca beings This understand
ausa factors ano behavior has brought about
by Negroes which is msunder
persons. They believe that Negroes
Feeling they do they arrive at the
influence make the punishment fit
biased racial rather than the act of the individual
criminal
Negro communities generally of the unfair
assigning the of fellow members to
whole It, therefore behooves each Negro discourage
activity members of
Negroes their by working with those who trying
conditions that breed but while helping bring
change should educational for
whites who transfer the criminal of the individual
Negro 10 the group 5 a whole
other nationality legitimate moral right point
accusing monopoly criminals
when crime statistics will offer verifcaon of such claims
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-03-30
AN UNDERSTANDABLE DIFFERENCE

War Department revealed that while only white
CT anticipates moving another sate after the
Negro Gs about oned of them plan
other than those from which they into the Army This
understandable difference The central clue this difference
the finding of the that he main of the Negro migration
will be from the South to the Northeast"
Men in the Armed Forces have had opportunities
parts the country the world After they
naturally settle which show the
for them which offer them and their children the faes
Since the white youth
migrated through the other sections where better opportunities
await he should understandable that Negroes
inviting places will think of migrating the
Tribune.
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Police Chief Is Key to Situution

significant made by Rayford Logan Minneapolis
annual meeting principal speaker that the key to
the Of riots and after the the chief Of
police of any given community.
Logan pointed would possibly been
trouble Washington except that the national capital
intelligent police chief who has given study to the
vention of racial outbreaks and tensions
Washington police special instructions this particular prob
npnt outbreak between Negroes and whites has
vigorously npped Both white Negro police officers
Washington the potential dynamite of
alert by police chief who knows his duty and
responsibility
The beatngs of young Jewish children by young
Logans point police between
groups
1t has been generally Minneapolis appearance
months revealing letter the Star Journal from
youngsters being beset
Minneapolis norde they Jews! Why
soldier the first call public attention the
the Jewish community where the police
during these months of growing trouble another
understood that Percy Villa the
writer and athletic instructor had worked with Professionals Jews and
developed until the meeting of Monday night at which time
decided something had be done about bad situation
While city responsibility such unfortunate evil
dence of mm Ryford Logan suggestion
that the chief of police the key hating type of
racial outbreaks.
a time police department
Ed which, education alert application, kept
wartime racial and religious intolerance minimum Suddenly for
unexplained reason, the section discontinued
We realize that the Mill City police department understafed The
people Of the blame but themselves for that because
metropolitan
the size of Minneapolis needs more police officers.
However be that it certainly the conditions which
duty of the law enforcement agencies halt the beangs of innocent
children whose rme" that they born into families of the
Jewish faith
hat-enghtened Minneapolis give
vigorous frontal attack the forces Of duniy who would
against and religion against religion the disgrace of
common community and country.
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theory, 1t 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 a
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 a 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 lilywhite 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.
1t 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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Rirfhdnv GREETINGS

Birthday greetings In Minneapolis: April
1-AlonEo buddy Bum, S49 Aldrich Ave.
No.; Mrs, Odessa Moppins, s9ls Fourth
Ave. So; April 2-Ella May Mccoy, $50
18th Ave. No. April 3-Richard T. Nor
row, 706 Girard Ave. No.: April Mrs.
T. B. Stovall, 3741 Fourth Ave. So; Russell
Smith, 3649 Fourth Ave. So, H. X. Ander-
son, Railroad Retirement Board; April s.
James Sims, 2201 Fifth Ave. So. April g.
Mrs. Gordon Granger, 1924 Fourth Ave.
&c., Charles Mayweather, 1915 4. Frank
lin Ave-, Mrs. Florence johnson, 1882 Clin-
ton Ave-, Tat Crockett, 626 Girard Ave.
No.. Margaret Ford, 500 Dupont Ave. No. I;
April flames W. Ward, 8787 Fourth Ave.
So, Mrs, Robert Kelley, sl2 4th Ave. No.,
Rev. Henry Bolts, Sr., 867 18th Ave. No.
TalmAge B. Carey 3704 Fifth Ave. So.
Out of town greetings: April Mrs.
Marvel Jackson Cooke, New York, N. Y.;
April 6-Marian Hoard, Kansas City, Kans.,
Marie Allen, New York, N. Y. and M. Stall
lin, Duluth, Minnesota; April 6-Michael
Melloy, New Brighton, Mimi; April T.
King Kennedy, Chaska, Mimi, and 1t.
James Greer, u. s. Army.
Birthday greetings in st. Paul: April L
Raymond Williams, 687 Rondo Ave.
Archela Perfect, SIT w. Central. April 2
Ella Curry Hickman, 296 st. Hlbans. April
dorothy Whitmore, 800 Rondo Ave.
April 6-Dolores Walker, 722 W. Central
Ave-; Carolyn Pemberton, $40 N. st.
Adams.
Belated greetings to Janet Armstrong,
795 Rondo, March 81.
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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 a good economic
risk.
Real estate operators, with ex-
perience in Negro housing, reported
to the Association that, as a 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-
cepted 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
a 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 lilywhite
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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-
tons. The race riots in Chicago,
1919, New York and Detroit were
more or less the result of segrega-
ton and discrimination.
1t 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 harmoniously. Those en-
gagged in public housing certainly
have plenty of work ahead.
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MORE LIGHT ON THE s2ND

For time the 92nd Division has figured in the both
favoraby and unavoraby time this organization
acivaed at Camp Mcclellan Alabama until has suffered
every ndgny the Amys segregated policy could nfct upon
Sensing that something with this outfit the War De-
has dispatched Truman Gibson Civilian Aid the
Secretary of Italy where the fighting the northern
of that country In his first conference Mr. Gibson made
statements of his findings While these findings
significant the complained while
training the The Army has done nothing them
since sending the outfit abroad.
points of Mr. Gbsons findings ~ The 92nd Div
composed fourth and fifth class Army
These the lowest classification in the Army
little education and therefore, unable
the technical training nfantymn receive (2 The
lack Of motivation unngness
their conscenc this question: what the hell
fighting confirm this observation the Negro soldier
wildly his training experiences southern states where
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March 16, 1916


Our Paper Is Tops
March 16, 1916
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, I am
forced to admit that your paper is
the most intelligent, straight
forward and to the point paper of
them all. 1 want to thank your
writers and reporters" for their
fine work and views, especially
Mary Lewis, James T. Logan, Percy
Villa, and Don De Leghbur, for
their fine work. Keep up the good
work. We enjoy and appreciate it.
From a Faithful Reader,
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Card Of Thnnka

l wish to express my sincere thanks to
my many friends in st. Paul and Mime
apolis and also the Halle @. Brown Service
Club, for the boxes and cards 1 received
while patient in the hospital, in England.
1 received my first Christmas box March s.
CPL. HUMPHREY ALEXANDER,
Somewhere in France"
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DAN GARDNER ON:
NEGRO" OR AMERICAN HOUSING?
RACES CAN LIVE TOGETHER
HARMONIOUSLY TODAY

Can Negroes and whites live tremendously together?
Answers to the question vary There many whites who
that such situation cannot exist least time
and there not quite many but nevertheless, number
of thinking white people who believe sincerely that harmon
ious living together situation condition of the mind
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

a decimal point Q Have We ever had
a reform administration in which
there hasn't been Jumps in the
mashed potatoes? A. There are 80
rings In my bath tub and I'm not a
year older.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

AS Janitor Emeritus OF the Dumb
Dornitories ! ask the questions and
repulse the answers:
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

@ Does anybody live here?
A. No, I'm the lady who invented
the square aquarium so fishes could
scratch their backs.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

O. What does your husband do for
a living, who 20 and when?
A. He was an election repeater But
he got so tired working a whole day
every year that he reformed
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

Q. Where does he play? A. Down
at the Midtown Pinoehle Club. @.
What does he play? A. Pinochle.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

O. Do you think that the Lone
Rangers horse should learn how TO
do a jig?
A. No, but don't know anybody
dumber than Ellery Queens father
He couldn't find the knot in neck
tie.
Q What is your maiden name? A.
Tillie.
q What is your married name? A
Tillie. I
@ Then you must be the same
person, A. Sure. had the same father
and mother
@ What are you using for butter
these days? A. Butter.
@ Then you're the average Ameri-
can family.
A. sure am You can sink me with
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

Q. Then your husband IS a musi.
clan? A. He thought he was until he
tried TO get Job with an orchestra.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

@. VINO is that fellow on the roof
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

We have knob-to-knob canvass OF
the door factory TO discover which Is
the most popular pause for station
Identification.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

O. Why does he wear the derby on
the trombone? A. The derby looks
better that way.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

Q. What do you think Of the high
cost Of living?
A. It's worth II.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

Q. DO you save box tops? A. No
boil them with the breakfast food
O. Is that picture Of your husband
In the derby? A. No that's his from.
bone.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

@. Thank you very much. Now one
last question. A. Shoot
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

Ton OF rare stamps off mail-order
r bungalows.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

VERY May. come wheel
come whoa, the National
Institution of Double Talk
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

@. Are all your relatives living? A.
Yes. @. Where? A. On US.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

l,,, King F4w. Syndicate Ina
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

@. Do you put away the paper
sleeves on lamb chops for rainy
day? A. No we never go on picnics.
@. see you have been married
seven times in row A. Yes. II has
been one long row.
@. Could you save anything on your
husbands salaries? A. couldn't even
save the husbands.
@. Do you miss your family motor
car? A. Not since put horn on the
sewing machine.
Q. In marrying seven men don't
you think you have deprived other
women OF husbands? A. Only the
last three.
Q. II you had your life TO live al
over again what would you do? A
Holler louder when they pulled my
teeth.
-
Q. Who's that? A. That's Aunt Ella.
Six foot, three. and always tying her
shoe-lace.
@. Thank you very much. Now one
last question. A. Shoot
@. Do you get along well with your
neighbors. A. We see them quite often.
We have knothole In the spite fence.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-20

@. Do you miss your family motor
car? A. Not since put horn on the
sewing machine.