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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-22

Another gentleman with tn,
interest of the Race" al
heart has come forward with
a panacea for solving once
and for all the American
Negroes dilemma. He is a DR..
William A. Brown, LA Casa Vii
ladora," Cave Junction, Illinois Val
ley, Oregon.
don't know DR.. Brown and ]
don't know whether he is white or
colored but his program labelled
"Washingtonia: Land of the Free
Born" came to me in u mimeo-
graphed tract and that is the rea-
son for this piece. Westinghouse,
according to DIR. Brown, rs en-
visioncd as a living memorial t.
the great American Educator, DIR.
Booker I. Washington. II takes
the form of vast cooperative
Negro Community Enterprise il.
Cameron Parish, Louisiana, oppo-
site Port Arthur, Texas. As pro
jected. II contains 400 square miles
within proposed city named
Westinghouse and 600 square miles
contiguous thereto, this area to be
reserved absolutely for every sort
and size Of Negro Initiated IN
DUSTRlES to be Negro Owned and
Negro Managed. In developing
Westinghouse the Gulf Of Mexico
is to be made the Mexico America
Inland Sea"
DR. Browns Westinghouse haT-
Dor would be made large enough to
provide for all the shipping in the
Mexico American inland sea and
establish ample anchorage for the
American Navy.
In 1850, DIR. Brown wants to
stage Golden Jubilee of Booker
+. Washington's launching Of the
National Negro Business League
with IA most iittingly inauguratcd
international, interraclal exposition
of the 80 ColOred nations: thus
making Westinghouse the cultural,
commercial, hducial, industrial,
recTeational, educational, musical,
spiritual center of the 900 200, 900
Colored people of all the wide, wide
world. Brother Brown wakes fur
Their eloquent in discussing this
brand new dream of racial advance
ment by concentrating on two
names -George Washington, the
first President of the United States,
and Of course, white man, and
Booker I. Washington, Negro
Washington who adopted the name
of the white man and later became
world famous for his endCavors in
racial advancement through the
race working with their hands. DIR.
Browns program is sOlidly ma
tIOnalistic and was set up within the
American system, the monster
black belt sent to the reservations
of the West upon which the Indian
braves are allowed to roam, in the
most prejudiCed section of the
United States outside Of Florida
and Mississippi. The Jim Crow
Washlngtonia would be hemmed in
on three sides by various mixtures
of the cracker redneck element,
with Uncle Sans Navy manned
as per custom by whites anchored
at "A business-likc distance of shore
50 that all that could happen in
Westinghouse would be loud hosan-
mas, hand-clapplng, singing of
spirituals, picking cotton and other
activities the white man aScribcs
to US as our purely racial inherit
anCe.
His scheme calls for the acqui-
sition, development, disposition and
control Of all WashingtouIa prop
erty, with the approval Of all enter
priscs and personnel To be vested in
Board of Trustees composed Of
nine business and professional men
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Washington
Spotlight
BY Louis IAutier

British imperialism and colonial
policy deter colOred Americans from
supporting the proposal for nm anti
Communist AnglO-Americhn ALI.
ance made by Winston Churchill,
former British Prime Minister, In
his Fulton (Mo) speech. The rule
Of people by other people II not
the freedom that c0lOTed peoples,
who fought with the United Ma
tiOns. fought 10 preserve.
This country could he made %
look less ridiculous IN the eyes 81
the world II House and Senate
rules were changed 40 that men
with Rnti-EeRro and anti-Jewish
attitudes like Rankin and BilbO
could not hold hey positions simply
by reason Of seniority. And what
IL said u Rankin, Bilbo and their
ilk may also be said Of reaction.
airy Republicans. Fitness and not
seniority ought 70 govern selection
Of committee chairmen.
No tears will be shed over the
decision Of Representative Hstt1n
W. Summers, ~ Texas. chairman
u the House Judiciary COMMITTEES.
not 10 seek reelection. He has con.
sigtently sought 20 bury anti-poll
tar lsRiElatiOn In the Judiciary
Committee only 10 have II ulti-
mately emerge when The House
voted 10 discharge the committee
from further consideration Of the
msasursJ and be passed by that
body.
senator Wayne morse, Republi.
can, Of Oregon. Who fought valiant.
Iy 10 break the hlibuStsT against
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-22

Political
Roundup
by Arthur Naftalin

Former Governor Harold StaB-
sens decision not to run for Office
in 1916 is one Of those historic
actions the pros and cons Of which
will he discussed for many years
to come. His critics regard II Rs
u confession Of weakness and in
sist that he In running away from
a hcad-On clash with Henrik Ship
stead. They believe It has weak
ened his chances for the Presl-
dency. The majority Of his loyal
supporters, however, are cnthusi-
astic about the decision. They feel
that IL increases his stature as a
statesman and thRt-while there
will be some anxious moments until
Thye's victory Of which they are
confident Is assured it strengthens
Stassen's Presidential possibilities.
Some Stassen supporters, how
ever, are critical Of the move. They
are fearful that, with Thye out
Of the governorShip, the stability
Of the state COP organization may
he threatened. They have great
confidence In Associate Justice
Luther Youngdahl as the favored
COP successor to Thyc, but are
worried about possible upEcts.
with the big question ~ who
will oppose Shipstead In the COP
primary settled, the state political
spotlight now shifts to the Demo
cratic Farmer Labor state COnven-
tion which meets Saturday, March
80, in ST. Paul, A first class fight
for party control IL shaping up,
and upon the outcome Of this will
hinge the party's strategy for the
1916 elections.
The so-Called left wing, supported
largely by the CIO-PAC. is de
termined 10 defeat the forces led
by Elmer +. Kelm. state DFL chair.
man who is TeEiRning after his con
frmatiOn as Collector of Internal
Revenue. LEFTY wing leaders insist
they are not seeking party control
hut their vigorous OTRHniZAtIOnRl
efforts have aroused bitter oppOsi-
ton reminiscent Of the heated fac
tiOnalism Of the old Farmer Labor
days.
The right-wing il confident that
IL will control the state convention
and It's leaders maintain that the
left wing influence, In terms 81
strength at the polls, has 30 di-
minished that the party will be
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Juvenile Delinquency in ST. Paul

Negroes always embarrassed when their
a In hav
been many good
Negro children in the city of st. Paul We
of the hghghts this excellent
Negro
involving
However l945 only thirteen Negro children
deinquen This many years
below normally to be expected community Of this
OF the thirteen Negro children three girls.
girls and the third involved "A In
the Negro
the better than
figures.
somewhat difficult definitely indicate
excellent record As far be determined
of operating this The
available the Negro limited and social
part minimum delinquency among Negro
children"
City Paul the ST. Paul law enforcement
Negro children themselves
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Schwellenboch ON FEpc

There people who will deny that there moral
obligation all Of and particularly government 20
inaenAbe right Of American
work regardless his color creed national origin This
ri9h il basic II denied then right life liberty
meannResSecretay Labor
the New York rally for FEPC
Congratulations Rabbi Stephen Wise for ntung suit
sgunst Columbia University either
their well Of racial and religious discrimination
Cop1atulations fling
70 the University While his fling rot break the policy
University Texas regard IN Negroes viii
force the educational facilities for the Negro
II Is be hoped that NEXT that Negro
University other than the Law school
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-22
The American Veterans Committee

The American Veterans Committee unlike the American
and the Veterans of Foreign Wars limits membership
of World War H. Unlike the
discrimination the Negro
regard
The American Veterans Committee has
Of the civilian life from different
of the older
basis that he citizen first and veteran second The ave does
would
solve the problem confronting the The
record favorng the full employment bill Incl
dentay the support bill
have aided Its support
Legislation be called leftwng
denney to the left of the VIEW and the Legion.
will undoubtedly AVG
will worthwhile organization
that expected WELD influence
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South Speaks

10 killing and hamstrinRinR any
legislation which would COnstruC-
lively come To grips with any prob
lem affecting the Negro People.
For instance, these men who do
all IN their power To keep the Ne
gro down, are the very ones who
fought the life out Of the veterans
housing bill because they could fore
see Negro veterans getting money
with which to build decent homes
and liberatinR themselves and their
families from bIighted and slum
areas.
The unholy thirty odd anti Negro
Congressman want TO keep the
masses IN the slums where they are
devoured by rent sharks. These
C0nRfesEmen are tools Of those who
oppose socialized medicine for the
INDECENT, federal aid 20 education,
fair employment practice, aboli-
ton Of the poll tax and other pro
posed liberal Legislation on a racial
basis.
A Liberal Congressman told me
81 how they try 10 beat them into
line by referring 10 them as "nigReT
lovers" and Communists: told Of
having been told by one Of them
in the presence Of "A number Of his
cohorts that they were a disgrace
10 the South" and ought 20 remem-
her that Negroes 81 today are the
defendants Uf slaves and, there.
fore, should not be accorded equal
treatment or opportunity.
An alert and hateless Congress
man replied. you stopped reading
your history too soon, otherwise
you would have discovered by going
further back that your ancestors
were swooped down upon and for
cibly enslayed in other years"
a voter in his state stood up in
the church where the ConRressman
had been invited 10 speak and
yelled, Il am for white supremacy.
! hear tell that you are a Niger
lOver-whAt about IT,"
Fifty people in the congregation
of 300 clapped their hands and the
white sUpFemaeist sat down.
The wife Of the Congressman on
her way home that night observed
that the incident represented a sign
u hope in the deep South.
This sort Of thing made me agree
with Carl Murphy Of the Afro
American Newspaper that there
are millions and millions 81 Amer.
leans. North and South. who have
not bowed In unconditional surrsn-
der 20 hate, prejudice, ignorance
and a benighted way II life; that
America II n great country: that
the Nation IL beginning 10 recog-
nize that. a. Representative Luther
Patrick and ] agree. the reaction.
aries effort 20 keep the Negro down
represents a greater threat 70 our
country than communion. and stop
ping the forces who thVsrt the will
u the people because Of racial and
religious prejudice IL the most i'm
portant thing before the American
people today.
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LETTERS
Youth Can Help Fight
For Equal Chance, Vet Says

Editor; After what seems to have
been ages overseas, ! have now re-
turned 10 this land which all Gl.'p
call Gods Country" We arrived
here IN the States March 2. We ar
rived on the MormRcEeR, which
left I.cIlavre on February ~.
think ! can say for oil Of IN
aboard, some 800 persons. II was n
very pleasant trip despite two days
Of storm.
want 10 thank you and your
staff for ~ diligently sending my
copy of the paper. Not only my
self. but all Of the fellows in the
company enjoyed reading news
from home, especially those artiCleE
containing the FErC and the
NAACP.
We all felt after reading them
that We did have something 10
fight for We began 10 realize that
you on the home front were putting
up far greater night In trying
10 make this better world for US
returning Negro veterans,
There In little ! can say that
could express my feelings. We all
together have wan mRjO victory
IN defeating the Axis nations, and
with Gods will, We 81 the Negro
race shall win another decisive
yictory-An Equal Chance.
This victory cannot be won NY
guns, but by each individual. He
maV deem hiR contribution small i'm
helping achieve this victory, but
IL In the small things that 20 TO
make up the big.
hope you shall continue your
great work and Try and instiIl In
each young persons mind that he
plays the big part in this tight.
Sincerely
Charles NJ LRtimer,
Camp Kilmor, Now Jersey.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-22

fair employ msnt practice lsEisla.
ton. IL one Of the outstanding pro.
RTessives Of the country. lie II .
former dean 81 the University Of
Oregon Law School.
Representative Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., Democrat, Of New York,
asked Herbert H. Lehman before
he resigned ms director general Of
the United Nations Relief and Re
Mobilization Administration 20 pro
mote Blanchard Baker, New
Yorker, from n UNRRA admins.
trative field officer 10 n deputy field
director. Baker IL serving In tho
office of the UERRA field director
at Lubeck, Germany.
David X. Niles, administrative
assistant 10 President Truman, has
informed Mr. Powell that Attorney
General Tom e. Clark IL working
on the question Of releasing con
scisntiOus war ObjsctOrs from pris.
on. Mr.. Powell asked the Presi.
dent 10 issue a proclamation re-
leasing them and restoring their
civil rights.
The tSi question: Who will sue.
ceed Raphael OHAra Lanisr a.
special assistant, Bureau Of Areas.
USRRA7
Acceptance by Bob Weaver u
the post 81 supply officer Of the
UNKRA UkTainian mission was no
surprise In informed circles. A
schiEm had developed In the Amer
lean Council on Race Relations In
Chicago, Of which he was director
u community services, and II was
a question whether he would stay
with that organization or seek n
job elsewhere.
Now that the hearings on the
nomination 81 Edwin w. Paulsy 70
be Under Secretary Of the Navy
are ended, action may be expected
on the nomination Of Bill HASTE 10
he governor Of the Virgin Islands.
Senator Willard TydinRS, Democrat,
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Dear Joe

AftdA JONs
DO you have u job yet?
Well YOU are not alone. Al the
end OF February there were 1881,
S9I veterans looking for work.
wonder what happened 10 all those
jobs the country was going To save
tor the boys when they came home !
This is Just drop IN the bucket,
Joe, but It may help u httle-thC
Veterans Administration is look.
ing for quahned men and women
TO MI 100 vacancies as special scrv-
Ice chiefs, Tecroational directors
and recreational aides IN VA hos
pitfalls. The starting salaries range
from $3.50 to $6,lsO per year.
Your VA branch office has all
the details about these jobs. Drop
IN and ME your application. It's
not hard TO qualify for the $3.50
jobs, II you were u special serV-
ice officer IN your outht or "A spo-
clAl service non-com, you should bc
able 10 make IT,
The hve grand jobs call for n
little more experience, such as hRV-
ing been u playground director for
three years, or dramatic coach
OF IA recreatlunRl director for the
same period of time.
Don't send your application t.
Washington as II viii only be n
waste of time. Get the habit Of
dealing through your local Neter-
ans Administration branch office
II has all the power to help you that
the office in Washington has.
Joe, II you don't have job, II
seems kind Of foolish to talk u
you about income taxes but the
income tax people are 80 rugged
maybe we had better take u look at
them anyway.
II you were an enlisted man,
you were exempt from filing an
income tax return until your tour
of duty was over, providing you
didn't receive money from other
sources.
When say other sources"
don't mean the deal you made with
that carton Of cigarettes In Paris
OF that Jeep tire you let that poor
Australian have up near Darwin
for 70 bloody pounds. | don't think
you'd better mention those deals,
Joe. when you file your income tax
statements.
However, II YOU were "a commits
stoned officer (sissy in pink paUta-
loonsD, you are subject to tax II
you earned more than $2,00O-Hnd
show me an officer who dIdn't
II you were released in l04b and
are now gainfully employed, you
are expected To MI out Income Tax
form W.. IL Is important that
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North Dakota Reader
Sold After Two Copies

Editor: have received two
copies II your paper, aud am
sold. Enclosed find cheek for $3.50
for a years subscription.
am IN favor Of all means 10 get
the rights Of Negroes recognized
by whites. am white, but have n
lot Of colOTed friends, and am de-
voting the rest Of my life TO a kind
u "cruSade," 10 convince my
white brothers that We are all
brothers, with n common Father,
and that nowhere in the Scrip
lures, the Declaration Of indie
pendsnce, or the Constitution, ~
there any distinction made as 10
the color Of our skins.
Yours truly,
W. r.. In Plante.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-22

best served II the ft-wing Ii de.
ton, The left wing, ON the other
hand. believes that control by the
old Democratic forces will make II
impossible To develop vigorous
ana militant program. More neu-
trail leaders are hopeful that dif
ferenCes can be TocOncIled and "A
strong party, without domination
by either faction, can emerge from
the convention.
Pressure upon Hubert II. Hum
phrey. mayor Of Minneapolis. To
run Hs the DEL candidate Tor either
Senator ur Governor is beginning
to mount. lie IN heavily engaged
IN an extensive series Of municipal
projects aud has stated that he
wants TO complete his job as mayor
before considering higher office. II
appears unlikely that he will file
for state office, but the door has
not been completely shut on the
idea.
With interest conferred ON StnS-
sens decision there has been only
scattered mention Of possible DEL
candidates. Among names certain
10 be seriously considered for either
governor on senator h Associate
Justice Harry II. Peterson. Ic has
not Indicated any desire 10 be "A
candidate but pressure for him to
run ~ certain 10 become intense
before too long.
DEL strategy Is somewhat con
fused by the activity Of the NC
PAC whose Independent Voters Of
Minnesota has declared its inten-
ton of endorsing candidates IN both
cor and DEL primaries. While
the NC-PAC group has been eRthb-
liShed Independently Of the Go.
PAt, both PAC groups draw in
spirntiOn from the same source.
A "A result, there IL n feeling that
their campaign activity may be di-
yided between the two parties with
the result that the position Of the
libeTAI Republicans will be
strengthened at the expense Of the
DEL.
Elections this year are certainly
on 10 an early start. Harold Stas.
sens address In support Of Thye
and YOungdRhl on March II opened
campaign which does not end
until November B. Thus, there will
be- almost months Of continuous
activity. Already the woods are
filled with "A host Of political com
mittecs: The Minnesota Republican
Volunteers, three PAC groups, the
Independent Voters 81 Minnesota,
the Independent Citizens Commit
tee. the Enlisted Veterans Of Amer
iCa, and the United Labor Com
mittee, 10 mention but few 81
the more prominent.
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Their Own Opinion

The commentator on this
page express their own person.
al opinions. Such opinions do
not necessarily express the edi-
toriai views Of this Newspaper.
II Is this newspaper policy
10 use reprints from various
newspapers covering . wide
variance Of current opinion be-
cause II believes our readers are
entitled 10 know both sides Of
given public issues.
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Fergus Falls Reader
Renews Subscription

Editor: Enclosed you will find
u draft for another years subscrip.
ton 10 your good paper. We en-
Joy II up here very much.
Very truly yours.
David W. Tate,
$50 Stanton Ave.
Fergus Falls, MINI.
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Mon Dies

!, age SO, 9l5
led Wednesday
at the home Of
Leila Bannarn.
no has lived in
he past year,
ONE in Phoenix,
ter, Mrs. Leila
Irvived by six
Carver, Jewell
t, Anthony and
nd two great
lents were not
time. Neal
charge Of ar
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mixer
mploYe
Lines Dies

er, died at st.
day. March Is.
Did settler, hav-
Il more than 60
r many years
Place. He was
erer and a vet
the Twin City
in the commits
were held at
Presbyterian
Parker was an
rch 10, IL a. m,
rem officiating.
nd.
a nephew, Mr..
4 niece of Chi
Funeral home
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you complete the information re-
Quested on this form for II the
form reveals you earned less than
5000 you wia be refunded the
amount taken out as withholding
tax.
Don't hesitate to let the income
tax people know you earned less
than 5000 because II YOU convince
en- II 5 money IN your pocket.
Now, Joe, YOU 10 over there IN
the corner ana play with your in-
come tax while talk "A minute with
Gl jill. your ex-Nac sister, who
Is also veteran.
Look Jill, the Veterans Admins
trauon says that pregnancy b u
family affair rather lnan an indi-
uduaI affair and II you are going
to be blessed with bundle from
heaven soon you'd better make ar
engagements at some private hos
ptal because the VA Will not lot
you have Junior IN u veterans hos.
plIal.
In 1888 Congress passed law
which granted capitalization to
veterans with non-scrNice connected
disabilities, diseases or defects AS
long AS there was space III VA
hospitals for them ana II the vet
Gran could not afford TO pay for
medical attention.
Non service connected disabih-
ties are disabilities received which
are not connected with the military
service, and although there Is n LADY
colonel IN the Surgeon Generals OF
nee who Is raising molly he'll about II,
the VA Is standing pat on It's ruling
That pregnancy ~ not a disability,
disease ~ defect and therefore eN-
Macs and nurses cannot have their
babies IN VA hospitals. (Stop laugh
ing, Joe, and yet that income tax
inquired out! lnores nothing fun
ny about this or that elthcT,l
At hTst somebody thought II
was ON to let "a woman veteran.
whose husband was non-votoTan,
have her baby In VA hospitals be-
cause, after all, she was u veteran,
but thon some bright guy asked
what about veteran whose wite
was a nOn.veterAn and added that
since baby IL as much part of
his nou-veteran mother AS he ~ of
his veteran father, pregnant non
veteran wife with u veteran huE.
band has as much right IN VA hos
pitfalls ~ such cases as the veteran
wife of "a nOn-Vetcran huSband--or
something.
VINO came frat, Joe, the chicken
OF the cggH
don't like to tell you how to
beat the law, Jill, but the smarter
veteran gals are stlll getting into
the VA hospitals to have their
babes by amply saying that they
are having complications because
of pregnancy, lhey cant turn you
down on that,
Yours IN the service,
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There were almost sTactly a.
many eOrpoTals a. priyatss In the
Y. s. Army during the recent world
war.
Slightly more q an 10 per cent 81
the total Army personnel were
commissioned officers during World
War II.
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IAN

we'd mother. Aimee
ssed away twelve
Z AND DAVID.
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HANKS
kind friends and
OF love and sym
loss OF my hus-
ratsful thanks for
utes TO my loved