St. Paul recorder., 1952-03-28
BRIEF
SCENE
High and L0wdown"
BY BAuEE THOMAS

of Detroit a verbal lashing at the
conclusion of a pre-trial confer
ence for his advocacy of segregat-
ed public housing. The red-faced
mayor is named Cobo!
Politics: Legislator William
Carlson VINO is being urged to
seek the DFL nomination for U. S.
senator to oppose Senator Ed
ward Thye points out that Thye
voted with the Dixiecrats that
weakened the Senate cloture rule
so filibusters never can be broken.
Carlson cites as his authority a
column by Thomas L. Stokes,
syndicated columnist.
Meantime Senator Thye and
Congressman Walter Judd are
sponsoring legislation to trans
fer the administration of the
health services and the operation
of hospitals for Indians to the U.
S, Public Health Service. Thye
makes the excellent point that:
Bringing the health services for
the Indians under the same agency
that serves our public at large is
a step in the right direction of in
tegration of our Indian people in
our common life"
Big Show: That NAACP bene-
fit at Madison Square Garden
which Nell Russell wrote about in
this sheet two weeks ago netted
the organization 10000 simoleons
Cdollars) in cash and pledges.
The total take was close to $50.-
900, but productions costs dug
deep in the till.
Local: In case readers think
they are seeing triple there are
three different photos of Walter
White, NAACP exec. in this news
paper this week. Could be called
a Walter White edition, Ell?
That mumbling, rumbling heard
after the Urban League annual
dinner in Minneapolis Monday was
because the principal speaker in
sisted on his right to be honest
about his convictions. A little
truth even if you don't agree with
the other fellow is OK
This stuff is being written in
Chicago which is still in the
Thomas opinion the d--ndest city
in the country. Coming down on
the train we met an old college
chum in the club car. He was
passing" until he got a few
drinks. and 10 and behold. he de-
cided to return to the fold.
He had ignored this scrivener
most of the way by just barely
speaking. 1t seems that he prac-
tices law in Seattle and out there
he goes for white. AS a matter of
fact, he is white, with just enough
of the "tar-brush" among his an
cestors to make him unCOmfOrt-
able around people who know his
Negro ancestry.
AnnyhOO, after a few glasses of
distilled spirits he came over to
where we sat and we had old
home coming week all the way to
the Windy and we do mean Windy
City.
Our passing" old school mate
told us he didn't recognize us at
first - an excuse we accepted be-
cause we had heard about his
moving over among the Nordics
for purposes of better opportunity
or sumthin. Annyhoo, he told us
long story about his success as an
attorney, replete with clippings
from his bill fold, and we believe
because our spies on the coast
have already told us about him.
He's passing, and why not? AS
a white man he's got a good cor
poration law practice. has an ex-
cellent opportunity to be named
to the bench in his state. He's 900
Caucasian in appearance, environ
ment, associates, and family and
he wants to forget that one drop
of Negro blood powerful stuff,
BubD is supposed to make him a
Negro with the myriad of incon-
veniences and disadvantages that
go with such identification.
BaiIee Thomas wouldn't pass"
if he could, he thinks now, but If
others including his old school
chum want to do it so that they
won't have the heavy load of
American race discrimination to
carry around on their shoulders,
Bailee is all for them. More power
to them.
OF course, we admire a guy like
blue eyed Walter White who
sticks around and battles it out
as a descendent of Ham!