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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Citizens Picket
SearS-ROebuck
In California

Santa Monica, Calif.-Plans for
stepping up the picketing Of Sears
Roebuck and Company's Santa Mo-
MICA store were announced this
week by Frank Barnes, president
Of the Santa Monica Bay Area
branch Of the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored
People.
The branch has been picket
ing the store each Friday and
Saturday in protest against the
discriminatory hiring policy Of
the management since November
IA. Beginning Tuesday Of last
week the branch arranged to
have a token picket line every
day and mass picket demOnstra-
tons Fridays and Saturdays from
4 to 8 pm, Barnes said.
He added that the latest develop
ment in the campaign to secure hir.
ing of Negroes by Sears without
discrimination was "the failure Of
Stern or any other representative
Of management to keep an appoint.
ment to meet with p committee Of
the Santa Monica branch of the Los
Angeles County Human Relations
committee last Thursday to discuss
the matter"
Barnes said: Sears certainly
is not building up the kind Of
goodwill in the company that a
new store needs by such actions.
Among the leading citizens of
the committee who were left cool
ing their heels when Stern did
not show up last Thursday were
Judge ThurlOw T. Taft, Rev. John
GabrielsOn of the Venice Com
munity church, Rev. Teel Of the
Santa Monica real estate board,
Robert McCIurken of the AVG,
Mrs. Leta O'Brien, Mrs. Oscar
Fletcher, and Mrs. IsadOre Pos
ner."
Barnes said that the NAACP hal
distributed about 10000 leaflets OF
the controversy with Sears in San
ia Monica, and plans to distribute
another 5000 this week.
I'VE have been encouraged b!
the sympathetic response we hav,
met in the community and in tn,
entire Los Angeles area" Barne
said. I'VE have also received I
very encouraging letter from Noal
Griffin, NAACP regional directo
in San Francisco"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Humphrey Sponsor
Of Feb. IL Nutionol
Urbun League Meet

New York City.-Mayor Hubert
H. Humphrey, Of Minneapolis, will
serve as a sponsor Of the first joint
annual dinner of the National and
New York Urban leagues.
The dinner will be held Feb. ~,
in New York. Its purpose is to
focus attention on the leagues
achievements, and chart its future
development.
Tentatively, the program OF
speakers includes James V. For
restal, secretary of defense; Charles
E. Wilson, chairman of the Presi-
dents committee on civil rights;
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey; Carl Sand.
burg, poet and Lincoln biographer
The invitation to Humphrey was
rendered by Lloyd X. Garrison
president Of the National Urban
league.
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Prospect For
Sales Jobs in
First Meeting

Ihe hrst OF what will be a series
Of meetings was held last Wednes-
day, December II, 1947, in the
Library at Phyllis Wheatley House
to begin the orientation Of workers
into the job Of retail merchandis.
ing.
For some months now an organ
lied effort has been under way in
Minneapolis to obtain positions in
the retail field for persons now de-
MED these opportunities to have
quafifiedn applicants available
should it become successful.
Mrs. Carolyn Peery, 1929 Fourth
Ave. So, a member of the depart.
ment store organization committee
and William Seabron, industrial
secretary Of the Minneapolis Urban
League and a member Of the de,
partment store committee, planned
this first program designed to &C
quaint interested men ard womer
in Minneapolis with the techniquel
Of retailing.
Miss Helen Ryan, Director Of
Training for the Powers Dry Good,
Company, Inc, was the speaker
and an informal question perioC
followed her remarks. Miss Ryar
stressed the fact that there were
many non-sales jobs that were al
attractive as sales positions.
Another meeting will be SEIZED
uled for February at which time
an authority in this field will re
view the field of retail merchandise
ing, and a sound training film viii
be presented. Mr.. Seabron said
at is hoped that the cOmmunit!
will avail itself Of these oppor
tunities."
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Wallace Places
Full Approval
On PCCR Report

New York. Dec 2l-EXDlaininR
that the NAACP inmirv Of No
vamber 1Atb had mot been called
10 his attention until December 18th
because Of his absenee from the
citv. Henry A Wallace unreserved-
" endorses the recommendations
~ the Presidents Committee on
ClVh hights. Inns ehuorseneh'
was contained IN a ie'Uer " water
Wmte mace PUBIC 'Ooay' n SIM
lar le''et a@C OeT" 0eNs " -. "
dividual who mas been mehtioheu as
possible preslueh'ial "0e VI
either major pohIlcSi party l1Aet'
Replies or 1allures 70 reply h"'9
been previously PuoilSheu'
I have commented fayorabIy
nm the rsDort in fully n dozen
sDaacbas in both the North and
a. south" Mr. Wallace writes.
"Mv orIv odverse comment on
the reDort has been to the effect
tbot II upderestimated the num-
Der OF lynehings' 1 lCuhu At Se
tain places IN Ihe 0ou'n '"a'
there are many murders no" IAN
ing place "hlch reahy Snouiu "'
CLASSIFIED as lynehlhgs'
rLo NAACp has renuested Mr.
woIIooo % oive II the cases he re.
sors ~ 20 nermit Investigation Of
49, Sd.
NJ. WALLACE further urged anc
nuonai.od continuance ~ his effort,
20 socura "prompt action with re,
gard to the Flrst ana rourOee"'i
Amendments, lor Ihe purpo'1 :"
ending jim Crow' lyncnihg anu 'n'
poll tax, as wen as 10 oO'alh q pei
manent FEfC' l nave uiSeu '""
Federal 1unds 1or euucA'lon De %
allocated as 10 assure equaHtS u
opportunity IN the southern S'"'e'
regardless OF race
"Roth narties have been guilty
~ f.;Iurs 70 end fiIibuster in the
Soroto NV invok;nV cloture. and
thot in the coming session of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Owen Howell
Reelected Mems
Club President

The Mems Club Of st. Peter Cla-
yer Catholic church, reelected
Owen Howell, pioneer st. Paul bust
ness man, president, at its meeting
held last Sunday, Dec. 81.
Other officers reelected are:
Thomas Franklin, vice-president;
Charles Milan, treasurer; and Hugh
Schuck, secretary.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Helen Smith Gives
Headline Highlights
OF Yeor Of l947

In this issue Helen Smith de-
votes her column Chatter Pat
ter" to reviewing the headline
highlights Of 1947 as culled from
this newspapers files.
Helen's column is fast becom-
ing popular. 1t gets a lot Of
bouquets and some knocks
which is all in the life Of a news
paper scribblerI
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
StasSen Calls
Rights Report
Superb Document

NEW YORK, Dec. 1--(NAACP)
Few Of the individuals who have
been mentioned as possible candi-
dates for the Presidency on the
Republican or Democratic tickets
have been willing to date to answer
the request of the NAACP for
opinions on the Report Of the Pres
ident's Committee on Civil Rights.
On Nov. II, Walter White, NAACP
secretary, asked each of the aspi-
rants "Do you approve of the Com
mittee's recommendations? If not,
will you tell US which ones you dis
approve and the reasons for your
disapproval."
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of
Michigan and Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon have replied that
pressure of work in connection with
the special session Of Congress has
prevented them from giving the
recommendations contained in the
report as thorough study as they
wish to give. Both Senators have
promised opinions at a later date
Charles DAZZLE, Assistant Press
Secretary, has acknowledged the
NAACP letter on behalf Of Cover
nor Earl Warren of California and
promised to call to the Governors
attention the request for a COM
ment "at the earliest opportunity
Harold E. Stassen has made
the only fortnight comment in a
telegram dated Dec. 5 from
Columbus, Ohio, reading: I'm re-
Spouse to your letter of Nov. II
consider the Report of the Will
son Committee on Civil Rights to
be a superb document (stOp) l
give it general support now and
intend to speak on its reeOmmen-
datiOns in detail in the coming
months"
Governor Thomas f. Dewey Of
New York made no direct reply
James C. Hagerty, Executive AS
sistant to the Governor, instead
wrote his opinion as follows: "A
careful reading of the recommends
tons leads me to believe that th'
State Of New York, under Cover
nor Dewey's leadership, has already
taken many of the steps which the
report recommends" Mr.. Hagerty
calls attention to the New Yorl
State law against discrimination il
employment and to introduction II
Congress by Senator Irving M. lvei
of New York of Fair Trades EN-
ployment Act" which is presumed
to mean the Fair Employment
Practice Act. Mr.. White hal
thanked Mr.. Hagerty for his opin
ion but requested that GovernoI
Dewey give his views.
General Dwight D. Eisenhowe
has replied through an Aide that a
long as he is Chief of Staff Of tn
U. S. Army he is unable to expires
opinions on this and other matter
involving legislation.
No reply has been received +
. date from Senator Robert A. Taft
, General Douglas Macarthur, Con
gresham Joseph W. Martin, Jr., o
Massachusetts,, Henry A. Wallac
and former Secretary Of Stat
James F. Byrnes.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26

The program titled Among Our,
selves" is a production Of the
CHS Documentary Unit, which has
presented such important programs
as ''The Eagles Brood" a study Of
the nations delinquency problem.
Each of the four central Incl.
dents, selected after intensive re-
search in the field Of race and
minority relations, will point to a
growing reservoir Of good will and
decency among Americans that ad-
vanced the cause Of understanding
during this year.
The script, written by Sol Panitz
and to be directed by Albert Ward,
with a score composed and con-
Quoted by Ben Ludlow, will recon-
struct four experiences shared by
Americans in 1947.
One of them will deal with q
Japanese-American war hero whose
combat team rescued a lost bat
talon Of Texans in Europe and who
found himself the victim Of poison
pen letters aimed to drive him of
his Texas farm where he had set
tied after rehabilitation.
The embittered veteran wrote to
a local newspaper, recounting his
outstanding war record and ex-
pressing disappointment that the
democracy for which he fought
should be denied him. Publication
of his letter, accompanied by ar
editorial, aroused a storm Of in.
dignation> on his behalf in the
county.
His neighbors called on him t.
assure him that he would receive
no more threats. The writers Of
the threatening letters were known
they told him, and had been called
on by a committee which conveyed
the community's sharp disapprova
Of their conduct.
The widely publicized incident o.
the Negro farmer, Harvey Jones
whose money for a rattle ticket wa
refunded by an Ahoskie, N. C.
organization to disqualify him Al
winner of an automobile, will ais,
be dramatized in the script, will
emphasis on the principles Of fail
play that were applied to correc
the situation.
Also to be recreated is an ex
pertinent undertaken in California
in which school children wer,
brought into direct contact witt
Mexican-American students from
nearby school, with a resulting los
Of prejudice and pre-conceived at
titudes.
The final episode will be base,
on an assault upon an American
Jew in Iowa, which resulted in al
intense denomination of prin
ciples by the citizenry, schools
churches and newspapers of tn
entire state.
Contrasting these constructiv
events in the years record wit
the backlog of unfinished bushes
in the work of eliminating rae
and minority tensions, "Amonl
Ourselves" will point to the Ney
Year as a fresh opportunity TO
positive expressions of good vii
between the neighbor-groups tina
make up the whole of every Amer
lean community.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Daughter EII0s
Organize Como
Drill re q m

Pascal Todd, chief official Of The
EIks' uniformed units in Minnesota
announced Monday the formation
Of Company A, Second Battalion Of
Como Temple, St. Paul.
The company has a membership
Of q. Officers elected are: Flor
enee Gooden, captain; Katherine
Gresham, first lieutenant; Ancinst-
Ia Ruffner, second lieutenant; Anna
Seroggins, first sergeant; Mac
Lark, quartarmastor; Sara Nichol-
son, officer Of the day; and Bsulah
Nae Jones, company CLERK.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26

hCAk 6SooAOu VA NoAAhA Ooog wv
Ives, Republican, of New York
crat, Of Montana, sponsors Of
ing of the Board of Directors
Permanent FEPC at the Willard
Hotel here last Monday evening.
Senator Ives, the author Of the
bill and the principal speaker at
the dinner, said he expected a fill
buster against the bill but he be-
lieved that It could be broken and
the measure passed.
Bailey Walsh, who represented
Carroll Reece, chairman Of the
Republican national committee at
the dinner, told the gathering:
Il believe the Republican party
will be with you"
A feature Of the dinner meeting
was the presentation Of citations
to three members Of the Board Of
Directors for the work they had
done as members Of the Presidents
Committee on Civil Rights. The
presentations were made in the
council by Henry Epstein, former
solicitor general Of New York
State and chairman Of the National
Community Relations Advisory
Council.
Receiving the citations were
Bishop Francis J. Hass Of Grand
Rapids, James B. Carey, secretary
treasurer of the Congress Of In
dustrial Organizations, and Boris
Shishkin, chief economist Of the
American Federation Of Labor. All
three responded briefly.
Oren Root, Jr., Of New York,
who presided at the dinner meet
ing, pointed out that the Republi-
can party was committed in their
party platforms to enactment Of
fair employment practice legisla-
ton, and that both Presidents
Roosevelt and Truman had COM
mitted the Democratic party TO the
same pledge.
with both parties in favor Of
the basic principle" said Mr..
Root, "this bill, sponsored as II
Is by four Republicans and three
Democrats, must surely pass"
In a conference earlier in the
day, A. Philip Randolph, co-chair.
man Of the council, disclosed that
Senator Robert A. Taft, Republi.
can, Of Ohio, had assured him and
other members Of the council that
the bill against discrimination
would be voted out Of the Senate
Labor and Public Welfare Commit
tee next month.
Mr.. Randolph said Senator Taft
also expressed himself in favor Of
fighting any filibuster against the
measure by holding round-the-clock
sessions Of the Senate and forcing
a vote on the measure by adoption
Of cloture to limit debate.
One Of the highlights Of the all.
day session Of the council was q
luncheon meeting with Senator H
Alexander Smith, Republican, Of
New Jersey, who recanted and an
nounced that he would not offer ar
amendment to the bill which woult
permit States to escape the penalty
provisions Of the legislation by q
declaration Of their legislatures
that such provisions would not ap'
ply within such states.
After the luncheon meeting, Sen
ator Smith issued the following
statement:
'Tn a conference today with
leaders Of the FEPC movement
we were united In our purpose
that appropriate legislation be
adopted at the earliest possible
moment.
ave discussed fully the Difficult
problem Of enforcement and agroeC
all Of US should carefully guard tn
proper administration Of the act.
81 am agreed that the bill a. nov
drawn should be immediately ~
! ported on the calendar Of the Sen
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26

tons of the American Jewish Con-
gress.
In making public the results Of q
national survey conducted during
the past six months by the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, DR.. Cook de-
clRred that the findings Of his group
were particularly significant in
view Of the recent condemnation
Of racial segregation by both the
Presidents Commission on Higher
Education and the Presidents Com.
mittee on Civil Rights.
More than 500 of the cOuntry's
leading social scientists cooper
ated in the survey by replying
to an extensive QUESTIONABLE and
providing other relevant data.
OF these, 90.4 per cent declared
that enforced racial or religious
segregation had adverse psycholog.
ical effects on the segregated
groups while s2.s per cent believe
that segregation has similarly I'D,
verse effects on the groups enforc.
ing the segregation. Only 2.3 pei
cent Of the scholars felt that the
segregated groups suffered no evi
results while only 81 per cent wert
Of the opinion that there were NJ
harmful consequences for the grouI
doing the segregating.
No Regional Variation
Commenting on the results Of III,
survey, DR.. Cook declared that I'll
is particularly significant that
there is no regional variation in thu
responses we received.
Experts from the South are as
positive as those from other sec
tiOns of the country as to the
harmful effects Of segregation"
PRODUCES mhthules
at has generally been recog
nized," said the CCI Director, "tha
segregation produces serious psy
Geological and emotional results il
the minority groups. What ha
not been so widely recognized is tn
fact that the harm to the majorit,
group imposing racial segregation
is equally great. Our study make
il unanswerably clear that the elm
nation Of all forms Of enforced ra
cial or religious segregation froI
American life is as vital for tn
general welfare Of all groups, eve
the privileged, as 1t is for the we'll
being of the racial and religion
minOrities."
Equal Jim Crow Facilities N
Answer
DR.. Cook pointed out that tn
opinions Of the scientists as to tn
harmful effects Of segregation wer
based on the assumption that tn
facilities provided for the segre
gated group were every bit as goo
as those available TO the majority
condition, he noted, which wa
yerv rarely the case.
The survey is therefore eve
more valuable and significant" h
declared, because it punctures tn
myth with which many persons q
goodwill have sought to excus
their defense Of segregation. Tha
myth has put over the idea tha
segregation is not a social evil
equal facilities are provided fo
those being segregated.
at is the fact Of enforced sepa
ration on racial or religious basi
in activities in which race or rel
gion are wholly irrelevant factor
which is psychologically and emo
Continued on Page p
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NAACP Questions
Racial Attitudes
OF Carl Gray

New York, Dec. 20.--President
Harry s. Truman today thanked
the NAACP for calling his atten-
ton TO the racial attitudes Of John
Broome, Carl Gray and J. NJ. DON
aldson about which the Association
wrote the President on December
LIST, and pledged that administrative
appointments viii be made con the
basis Of the ability Of the man TO
do the job"
The NAACP had cited the ques-
tionable attitude towards Negroes
Of the three recent appointments
and urged that particular attention
be given hereafter TO insure that
no man is nominated for key adj
ministrative posts unless his record
towards minorities Is above re-
proach.
Carl Gray, Of st. Paul and Min
neapolis, new veterans administra-
tor, has had very little contact with
Minnesota Negroes.
A former St. Paul leader has
charged that Gray, while serving
on a Ramsey county grand jury,
indicated an unfriendly attitude
toward Negro aspirations in gem
eral.
This newspaper, queried By ma
tional organizations about Gray's
background when his appointment
was made, could find no Negro hold
ing a responsible position in St
Paul who knew anything about
Gray's racial attitudes.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Important Note to
Correspondents ond
Advertisers

This edition was printed Dec.
"a, Christmas Eve. Our next
edition will go to press New
Years Eve. This means that
all copy must be in our Mime
apolis office by Tuesday noon
Dec. 80, to insure publication in
the Jan. 2 edition. Better still,
your copy will have the best
chance If it reaches US by Mon
day.
We will appreciate the CO.
operation of correspondents and
advertisers. Thanks!
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LORRAINE HORRIS is
SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR

Correction: Miss Lorraine Hor-
ris, 1881 18th Ave. S., is a science
instructor at Tuskegee Institute
and not a student as was stated in
last weeks paper.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
GL's Are Given
Important Dope

James L. Hicks, whose weekly
column &c. l. Joe" is q popular
feature Of this paper, gives vet
Grams the low-down on the end
Of free medical service to some
veterans after Dec. 81 on page I,
this edition.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
WccO to Broadcast Proof
Minority Problems Can Be
Solved, tuesday at $50 PM.

Proof that and minority problems in America be
solved will be presented special broadcast WCCOCBS
Tuesday, Dec go at $3.50 pm The half hour program will
dramatic four reae incidents revealing how racial and
minority tensions successfully relieved in 1947 through
the exercise of intelligent good will
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Senator Ives Contends
FEPC Bill Can Pass
Congress i'm Year 1913

WASHINGTON, d. G., Dec. 25--(NNPAD-The blu
against discrimination in employment be passed ia the
next session of Congress- declared both Senators Irving
Ives Republican of New York, and James r. Murray Demo
of Montana sponsors Of the measure at dinner meet
ing of the Board of Directors of the National Council for
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
American Scientists Call Race
Segregation Harmful TO All
Groups, Survey Report Shows

NEW YORK.-American psychologists socioogists and
anthropoogts overwhelmingly believe that enforced
cation racial religious lines has serious and detrimental
psychological effects both the segregated groups and those
enforcing segregation it revealed today by Dr. Stuart W.
Cook Director of the Commission Community Inerrea.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-12-26
Brooks Attucks
Commander Puts
Perry on Pom

Alvin Harmon, commander Of the
Attucks- Brooks Post, in a letter to
this paper this week, attacks an
article by Ben Peery, staff CORE
spondent, which appeared in the
Dec. 10 edition.
The letter is interesting and
gives some background on the plan
for Indignation in National Guard
heretofore not revealed.
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