St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-10-09
Danger AT Your Door-No. 2

Danger Al TOUR DOOr.INO.
Reaction this paper suggestion week that the Negro
communities Of St Paul Minneapolis will have take the
initiative against narcotic pedders in their midst received
generally with appreciation.
question which naturally posed Is how far group
Ia minority groupgo in policing its members Our
has always been that when the actions of few affect
the welfare Of the many is necessary for the protect
themselves In self defense.
Dope peddling closer community homes and families
than Of have suspected II therefore becomes ncum
bent the substantial citizens take action against the
dope traffic wherever II its insdious head
One Of the hurdles the Negro in the Twin Cities had
quer TO gain anything like real opportunity in jobs the
overcoming of the Identification of Negro seeking
work. In some manner In the minds Of employers with the
white savers who formerly in large numbers, piled their
farious traffic here.
OF it unfair penaize the responsible law
abiding Negroes for the crimes Of minute minority but II
happened just the When II established by program
Of education that not only unfair penaze the majority
Of lawabidng citizens for the crimes of the few and that the
responsible Negroes neither condoned happy have the
white slayers among demonstrations began to change
II important to reiterae that many with families
for kept Of jobs because of the bad pub
Lefty which accrued from the Of few engaged in
In those days the community guilty degree of
toerang its hustler the panderers their m because
perhaps felt that many Negro engaged in underworld
activity victims of the Illustration which Negroes
have had TO face in securing opportunity for ganfu ve
hoods This federation ended when World War along
and there jobs apenty for most who wanted them.
When the FIJI drove Of the pandcers circula.
ton around the Twin Cities the substantial citizens happy
for created pleasant atmosphere and those employers
who feared to give men jobs opened up
In the present dope peddng situation the problem diff
ferent because the community today recognizes any
who wants to honest living II also recognizes
that dope pedder threat the homes and the chill
dren in those homes Those who do realize this
made to understand that every dope peddcr who lives and
thrves in the community is continual the children
Of our homes
Dope addiction is bad disease as cancer We must
drive the maruana and hcron sellers of business II up
to to assist the federal and local authorities do this job
for the danger is at very doors.
Now, maybe aemployes and bosses too-ean so back
to work. The World Series is over.
Earl Browder the former American Communist leader
whom the Reds ousted have something when he
that Soviet Russia is not anxious for Red China be admitted
Browder said week that as long as Red China is kept
out OF the UN II isolated from all other countries
Russia Could be.
Parents who pamper their children dsarm them and ill
prepare them the realities which they will face in later life
President Eisenhower all Tor peace aud prayer in the
world of today but also suggests that keep sights keen
and our powder dry,
Yves Fesler said remarked over the radio in
postgame broadcast that Leroy Boldeu the Michigan State
player such hot back field Well we'll wes that
puts Gophers the spot back can run three
touehdowns against the Gophe looks though you
got much Of a team fellow
Congratulations TO the ST Paul group who are out TO ge,
the people in the RondoDae registered they can
vote.
Congratulations to Adde Few. Allie Hampton aud the st
Paul women who raise money for NAACP Free
dom Fund They be every citizen by
the Tooth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in
1864