St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-11-28

Y News" last week brought the following facts
and almost unbelievable they
The total Negro population Of Greater New
York City is 100000. The last $500
100000 figure for the Harlem alone This
doesn't take into the and postwar
influx which has by probably brought the
total figure 10 million mark for 49, -
the district of hafdOzen NE11
miles known Harlem In population count ~ ~
lem would rank 18th u S. Cities OverhadOws three
states Delaware with 2665O5; Nevada with lIO27 Wyoming
with 25O742 Haems Negro population
populations of Birmingham. Ala Sacramento, Calf; Dallas
anta, Des MOines, Jersey City, Richmond
Hartford, Omaha, Toledo
spite people Amsterdam News
revealed that With the lone exception of
mems shop Negroes do not single comparatively commercial
business on l25th Street"
Negroes first floor location from
anything other than babeshop shoe shine paror
which he spends estimated each year given
the token title of manager he actually has supervisory
but works under the thumb of a white man.
The riots" proved happen
when the smOudering
the property
longing white merchants and
there lot of talk half dozen different
formed the daily edtOriazed the exploitation Ne
groes by white As soon as the fuore died down the
same old pattern started again.
In 1915 when the oPA made of prices Harlem
discovered THAT OUT STORES FLoUTING oPA
AND CHEATING THEIR CUSTOMERS
The defense been put up
prOfeers and that the organized drive giving
to those who don't deserve There of
chants the but the oPA evidently
establishment in Harlem has kept comparatively clean record Blum
STEMS hires Negroes sales clerical ahough
the minority the
departments where they be Shown off" to advantage
dupcy charging prices for date merchan
disc has been against Harlem that there little
doubt the practice the rule rather than the Propeors
food and markets have been the
selling to their Negro customers produce left over markets after
merchants catering white trade downtown midtown
picked the choice goods The Negro only the standard
price for this stale stuff but often not double the standard
price
The thing happens large city where Negroes
segregated off from the main of community life The
unfortunate of is the merchants who the offenders
often members minority themselves This responsible
the ntSemsm among
Negro particularly the low which the
brun of such practices The Charlie Cherokee of the
Chicago Defender dealt with these very
Now that the Negro Harlem have taken the
things beginning happen Coumnis Julius opened
last week with this significant paragraph
Zone Hundred and Twenty fifth Street the week has
taken something of the deserted village
hasn't been because of bad weather the people last
have become really serious about the conditions have been
forcd to put up with and determined do something about
these conditions"
Well, time say campaign n works
out successfully be extended to other cities It's good sign
Negroes beginning
ton for the millions of dollars they annually put into the white mans
for which they often get in return only insult chcanery and
exploitation.
guess I'm exactly the dog house as far as my former
Mr. Carl Murphy of the Baltimore Afro American concerned That's
have hit him for job these days After
ago in job
sports editor of his nationally newspapers without know
of the other thought perhaps Mr. M
would be bit med After ALL the Afro has circulation large
of the daes the can't afford
experts who aren't experts Mr. Murphy writes:
Many other have duplicated
reporter dupcity which
practiced
I'VE applicants with salt hoping they
will make good as you did"
Mr. Murphy that pretty
enthusiastic appreciation rather makes
that horrible Thanksgiving Day nine Peters
burg covering which College Virginia
State seet ending fveyear streak There the
field with collection scrbes
mud ankles eopadrpped ensemble looking if it
had been coaxed through for the umpteenh
Wednesday evening December $50 the junior
ballroom Noe the Rev Kenneth Patton of Madison Wis.,
will talk "One Race One World Rev Patton all actu
racehe human the bother pOther
color stupid Technically the good reverend there amt
animal white" unless abnO unfOrtu
inflicted with prOsy What made much ado about
being white is actually peach beige olive everything
But white the reverend the white the only
Teller VIII actually a balyhooed
white" complexion in the color scheme.
Last Sunday night during A. L. Aexanders Mediation Board
Mutual Network, Who'll m) Mr. A took little piece of
participant show had told darky" Mr.
flooded with letters of from all the
country. "a WHlE
that while people considered "darky like
dago jokes and harmless actually
when and neah relations strained
the idea and said there only
after al-he human
Incidentally Luckman,
pulled darky joke public meeting recently and Of his
Luckman president Brothers,
the firm that manufactures number Of products