St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-11-01
Dear Joe
PUT THE BLAME
ON MAMEl
By JAMES Z. HICKS

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Joseph Albright, special advis-
er to General Omar N. Bradley, who
just returned from a tour Of twelve
southern states, says that the plight
Of the eolored veteran Is all that
people say it is-and more. Joe puts
the blame squarely on eolored lead
ership In the south. Why not put
the blame on Mame1 The point is
what Is the Veterans Administra-
ton going to do about it7
THOSE BIG JOBS AGAIN
Murray Miller, personnel director
OF the Veterans Employment Serv-
ice, says he still does not know
whether or not any eolored vets
were hired on any Of those $1,000
jobs as veteran employment repre-
sentatiRes Of the Labor Depart
ment, but this columns publicizing
Of the vacancies brought an ava
lanehe Of applications to his office.
As far as can be learned, only two
colored veterans received Jobs out
Of the 400 offered.
What can you do, Joe? The very
office that is set up by the Labor
Department to see that veterans are
not skipped over In job applications
starts itself out by skipping over
colored veterans.
THE WHIRL
A salute to the veterans editor
Of the local edition Of an out-of-
town paper daring to run a story on
how one Of its big advertisers was
giving eolOred vets the brush off.
The happy ending is that instead Of
pulling their ad out Of the paper,
the advertiser called the VA and
said he was ready to play ball in
the on-the-job training program.
Attention DR.. Frederick Patter-
son, president Of Tuskegee Insti-
tute: As special eOnsultant to the
Unemployment and Rehabilitation
Administration can't you persuade
that agency to hire a few colored
veterHnsH Thank you sirl At
tention Franklin Williams of the
NAACP: II Isaac Woodland gets
that pension you are talking about,
It will be $50 a month instead Of
$50, as you stated in Washington
last Monday. All pensions to vet
Grams have been raised 10 per cent.
Best example Of recOnversiOn
to reach this column is the case
Of veteran GeOFge MeDemmOnd
OF New Orleans. When MeDem-
mOnd, a business man, entered
the Army In 1912, he lost 40 per
cent Of his business. He came
back eighteen months later and
not only regaiRed his old business
but doubled Il five times. His was
one Of the success stories at the
second annual conference on col
ored business, held here recent
ly.
1t will be denied down south in
Alabam' but the Veterans Of For
eign Wars of Birmingham has writ
ten to the VA here protesting col
Ored veterans being in the same
hospitals with white veterans.
If Howard University would per-
NIT the VA to set up a guidance
center there it would mean an ad-
ditional $4,000 yearly payroll for
colOred people. Every university
in the capital has one except How
ard. DR.. johnson says he doesn't
have any place to put it. How
about putting a temporary build
ing on the football field, Dr.. John
SON? It's only being used for prac-
ice anyway since Howard win not
build a stadium.
That report which the Whirl
spread six months ago that General
Bradley might resign at the VA
and become chief Of staff Of the
army is echoinR around Lafayette
Park. No, no, no Joe, there is still
no coment on what might become
IF General Ike.
Lieutenant George Norford Of
The War Department Bureau of
Public Relations is awaiting orders
'or a hop to the Virgin Islands.