St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-02-15
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAuEE THOMAS

National Picture: Out in the
City of Angels the California
EAGLE has landed body blows at
the formerly aggressive Los An
geles SENTINEL for the latter's
anti FEPC policy A few Ne
gro leaders are jittery over the
bombings which have occurred in
the past four weeks. Most Negro
leaders, however, in both the
NAACP and the Urban League
are unafraid and philosophical
about the situation.
Five years ago, Charles Hous-
ton, famed special counsel for the
NAACP who directed the early
Supreme court cases against un-
equal teacher pay, disfranchise-
ment and housing discrimination,
predicted that sooner or later the
racists of the us. would attempt
to intimidate Negro and white
leaders who espoused equality for
Negroes by the use of bombings
and other terroristic methods.
II bombing keep up it Is predic-
ted that the candidates for offices
In the NAACP branches will be.
come fewer but those who do run
will have to be pure at heart"
February HARPER's Magazine
has a revealing article, africa Is
Next" which asks the question,
will Americas blind partnership
with French colonialism involve
us in an explosion of twenty mil
lion Moslems and thirty million
Negroes seeking independence and
equality"
Theodore H. White, author of
the HARPER's piece says in the
article, THE educated African
Negro now has an image of the
United States reflected through
the worst prism of our national
life: our racial prejudice. The
tales of lynchings and the whole
body of American Jim Crow"
custom make Africans who know
little else about America tingle to
our name as Jews tingle to the
memory of Hitler.
Wrote White, One of the most
eloquent anti-Communist African
deputies in the French Assembly
was invited to the United States
last year and turned down the in
vitation saying: How can I go?
What will they do to me there?
What hotels can l stay at? What
trains will I ride on?"
The u. S. Junior Chamber of
Commerce. better known as the
Jaycees, are daily striking
blow for American democracy in
many cities in the U. S. A wave
of real good feeling between the
races innaugurated very quietly
by the initiation of a Minneapolis
Negro by the Minneapolis jay
Gees a few short years ago has
spread like wildfire throughout
the northern JayCees eliminating
in the naming by three cities, Bos-
ton, Des Moines and Minneapolis
of Negroes this year, as the most
outstanding young men Of their
respective cities. In addition the
national body has designated John
Johnson, publisher of EBONY,
etc, as one Of the ten outstand-
ing young men of America for the
year Of 1851.
Lawrence Kelley, now of Los
Angeles, former Mill City Jaycee
president, Phil Harris and Art
Becker, also past presidents and
many members of the Minneapolis
chamber all deserve a great big
hand for initiating a program
which has made many of the COM
munity leaders of today and es-
peciahy tomorrow aware of the
Negro-American as an individual
of worth who Is ready and willing
to bear his share of community
burdens, working alongside his
fellow Jaycee on a basis of good
Americanism and complete equal
ity.
Generalization Jaycees, es-
pecially the Minneapolis brand.
You've done a splendid job for
your country's unity!
Prince Hall Masons in Missouri
won a victory in that states cir
cut court when a judge ruled
against a group calling itself the
Afric-American Free and Accept
ed Masons of the United States.
The Missouri grand lodge of
Prince Han Masons protested the
use of the title as deceptive and
Judge Sam c. Blair ruled in its
favor, denying the Afric-American
group incorporation in the state
Of Missouri.
Claiming Tobias, U. S. United
Nations delegate at Paris, told
visiting Congressman, when you.
return 10 America, tell them Cthe
value of every dollar that we
have spent on the Marshall plan
here in Europe has been wiped
out by the bombings in Florida"
The NATION, weekly liberal
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