St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-04-01
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

NAlIONAL SCENE: The Ne
gro Press screamed betrayal when
the southern senator's aided and
abetted by weak Demo leadership
and cooperating Republicans, kill
ed chances for civil rights legis-
latiOn. This same press did not
do a grass roots job in the state
and national elections to urge Ne
groes to send good men to the
U. S. Senate who could be depend
ed upon to keep promises made in
both party platforms. During cleo
ton years too many Negro papers
are more interested in the paid
advertising they get, as crumbs
from the party tables, to do a real
good job for their people in help
ing them select real friends for
Congress.
Senator Hubert II. Humphrey,
tireless, energetic, undismayed,
and sound, introduced a Federal
anti-lynching bill in the Senate
last week. Co-sponsors of the bill
are ailing Senator Robert Wagner
dem, N " and Senator Wayne
Morse (Rep., Ore) Humphreys
statement said, The heart and
core of the presidents civil rights
program is a law to outlaw lynch
ing. Unless a man is free from the
fear of and threat of unlawful
bodily harm, and even death, at
the hands of some cowardly mob,
all of his other civil rights are
academic, meaningless '''."
At Evanston March 21-23 the
World Council of Churches map
ped out a broad program to help
improve human rights in the us.
and the rest of the world Con
gresham William Dawson recon-
mended to Virginia listeners that
the best way to gain detectives
was smart use of the ballot. In
New Orleans, George w. Snow
den, a Negro labor leader, broke
tradition when he was elected to
the AFL New Orleans Trades and
Labor Council. San Francisco
Negro physicians and some white
doctors also blasted a new hospi-
tai foundation set up by city Off
Gals, which would build a hospital
where Negroes and other minori-
ties can feel welcome" Opponents
called it ill concealed jimcro."
North Carolina white ministers
praised Rev. J. ii. jackson, Chi
cago Baptist minister. for his ser
les of addresses delivered to a
statewide N. c. conference on
evangelism. The SOUTHWEST
REVIEW Spring number con-
tains Segregation and the Church
by Aubrey Burns. The current
edition of CORONET salutes the
National Urban League The
One World Ensemble composed
of four singers of different racial
strains under the management of
Dick Campbell scored in its New
York debut last Sunday night.
The NAACP has entered the case
of six New Jersey men convicted
to die for the murder of a furni-
ture dealer. The SIX men were con-
victed on confessions which they
claim they were forced to make
by police methods. ..
The NAACP's GIoster Current,
director of branches, has been
granted leave Of absence on &C
count of health. At 40, THE
JOURNAL OF LIVING says it's
time to stop many of your old
habit. For instance, saith the
magazine, men should stop living
for their job. No man should be
Indispensable to any job and no
Job Indispensable to any man.
Amencan men, particularly, are
apt to underrate the Importance
of love and overrate the impor-
lance of work"
For the first time in the history
of the American Contract Bridge
league four Negro players were
among the 90 teams wing for the
championship. Offspring of Eng
hsh mothers and American Negro
soldiers are better off in England
than they would be in America.
This is the opinion of Ivor Cum
mtngs, top official Of color in the
British colonial office. Guests
hOnorng BOston's first Negro
Judge, G. Bruce Robinson, paid IS
a plate to attend a testimonial
dinner in his honor. The Colored
Methodist Episcopal Church will
have its General Board Confer
enCet in Detroit May 4 and 5.
The Ohio House Of Representa-
tIvcs passed a FEPC bill after
four hours Of bitter debate by a
margin Of 20 to 81.
LOCAL: Sixty Minnesota high
school editors and their faculty
advisors will be guests in Mime
apoHs April 81 on a Minnesota
Centennial Student Press Indus
trial tour. q. . New hospitals are
planned to care for the aged If a
bill introduced by three state Sen
ators is passed. The bill provides