St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-22
Westinghouse, A Racial
Panacea?
BY DAN GARDNER

well known as thoroughly capable
and tru twOrthy, Incorporated
under the laws Of the State of
Louisiana and a Washington Ma
tional Bank Of Commerce with ST.
100000 paid-up capital, organized
and managed by experienced men
selected from Negro banks in
various centers Of population The
Westinghouse Certificates of de-
post maturing in 1850 at the time
of Brother Browns international,
interracial exposition would show
1915 purchasing a $500 bond;
$3.50 purchasing a $1,000 bond;
SIS, a $40 bond; $3.50, a $50 bond
and SIS, a $4,000 bond which at
compound interest would yield
about 5@5.
Washingtonia would TEEN with
institutions. DR.. Browns elaborate
vision encompasses with one full
sweep the University of Washing
tonia 1.-THE Brown Mans Oxford)
with professional studies equal to
those common to the greatest uni
versities anywhere in the world. He
would have Marian Anderson
School of Music; a cappella choir,
symphony Orchestras, military
bands, artist courses, spring and
fall festivals, tours of Metropolitan
cities in permanently equipped
streamlined trains which Mr..
Brown neglects to say, but may be
presumed to be a strictly coal-car
proposition since Mr.. Brown has
yet to indicate in his prospectus
that Louisiana will allow trains to
run through their state without
customary Jim Crow regulations.
He would have in Washingtonia ex-
elusive publications of Negro music
and spirituals, Negro magazines,
Negro stories, publications, dailies,
book by Negro authors, a 25c
popular library of pocket books for
circulation in all public schools and
appropriate for family reading and
culture. The Washingtonia radio
would reach the entire world and
every program would feature a
Marian Anderson selection (by that
time poor Marian would have sung
herself to DEATH and there would
be hourly news comments from Ne
gro reporters from the capital of
the Nation, where they have yet to
get in the Congressional press roll
despite vehement agitation.
The elaborate panacea calls for
Westinghouse in Texas, some place
near Brownsville and Corpus
Christi. Then DR.. Brown would
invade Mississippi, mping
ground of the Bilbo- Rankin East
land coalition where a health resort
similar to Mayo's in Minnesota
would be built. This is about all
he could figure up for Mississippi.
In Alabama, he would set up a
George Washington Carver Labora-
tory in which much cotton picking
and sweet potato planting would be
very much in evidence since his
plan does not call for any further
incursions into deliberately laid out
racial lines of this birth state of
the late Booker T.
Browns Westinghouse in Florida
"conspires to beckon the American
Negro to his native heath" Here
the Negro would be placed in close
contact with chickens, mules, sheep
and goats, cows, hogs, turnip
greens and other vegetation Of the
garden variety which will lure the
naturally ambitious"
Thus, we have the picture Of our
immediate future. We can rear
back in our swivel chairs and enjoy
belly laughs, as usual, for the self
sufficiency of the race. That is the
natural tendency among us since
few are as brave as DIR. Brown in
the origination of any kind of idea
that might have "a sound basis.