Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-10-09
Danger AT Your DoOr.NO. 2


Reaction to this pspsr suggestion last week that the Negro
communities Of st. Paul and Minneapolis will have TO take the
initiative against narcotic peddlerA In their midst received
generally with appreciation,
question which naturally posed Ia how far a group
"A minority group-go In "pOicng' s members Our
has always been that when the actions Of few affect
the welfare Of the many necessary for the many protect
themselves In self defense.
Dope pedding closer community homes and families
than many Of have suspected II therefore becomes ncum
bent upon the substantial citizens take action against the
dope traffic wherever Il Tia insidious head
One Of the hurdles the Negro In the Twin Cities had
quer 10 gain anything like real opportunity In jobs the
overcoming Of the Identification Of Negro males seeking
work, In manner, In the minds Of employers with the
white Avers who formerly In large Numbers piled their
farioua traffic here
OF course II unfair to penAEe the responsible law
abiding Negroes for the crimes Of minute minority but Il
happened Just the same When established by
OF education that not only II unfair 10 penaEe the majority
Of awbdng citizens for the crimes Of the few that the
responsible Negroes neither cOndoned happy have the
white savsrS among TRANSFORMATIONS began to change
II Is important to reterate that many with families
for kept out Of good jobs because Of the bad pub
cy which accrued from the Of few engaged In
In those days the community guilty TO degree Of
toerAtng ts huser the pandeers and their m because
perhaps felt that many Negro engaged In underworld
activity victims Of the Illustration which most Negroes
have had to face In securing opportunity for ganfu ve
hoods This liberation ended when World War along
and there jobs apenty for who wanted them.
When FIJI drove most panderers circula
ton around the Twin Cities the substantial citizens happy
for created pleasant atmosphere and those employers
who feared TO give our men jobs opened up,
In the present dope peddlnR situation the problem diff
fen because the community today recognizes almost any
who wants honest living II also
that every dope peddcr threat the homes and the chill
dren In those homes Those who do realize this
made understand that every dope pedder who lives and
hrvea in the community continual the children
Of homes.
Dope addiction IL bad disease as cancer We must
drive the maruana and heron sellers business II up
TO assist the federal and local authorities do this job
for the danger Is at our very doors.
Now maybe we al-employcs and toocan 70 back
Earl BrOwder, the former American Communist leader
whom the Reds oued have something when he suggests
that Soviet Russia is not anxious for Red China be admitted
Browdsr said this week that long Red China is kept
out Of the uN Is isolated from all other countries except
Russia. Could be.
Parents who pamper their children dsarm them and i'll
prepare them for the realities which they will face in later life
President Eisenhower is all for peace prayer in the
world of today but also suggests that keep sights keen
and our powder dry.
Yves Fesler said to have remarked the radio in
post game broadcast that Leroy Boen the Michigan
player was not such hot back field man Well we'll wes that
touehdowns against the Gophes looks though you haven't
got much Of team felowi
Congratulations to the ST. Paul group who get
the people the Rono Dale registered that they
vote
Congratulations TO Addie Few Allie Hampton and the ST.
Paul who raise money for the NAACP Free
dom Fund They America be free for every citizen by
the Tooth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in
1864