St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-02-26
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS


Symphony orchestra viii cele-
brate its return home from the an
nual winter tour with concert
Friday night featuring as guest
Dame Myra Hess. noted pianist.
Final Concert: Arturo Rubin
stein closes the University Artists
Course season with a concert on
Tuesday night. March 8. Rubin
stein has been coming to the Uni
versity of Minnesota campus an
nually for Is years, either for the
Artists Course or the symphony
and is a popular concert figure
here.
Freedom Fulfillment Day: DIR,
Claiming Tobias, chairman of the
NAACP's national board says the
one-day Freedom Fulfillment Con-
ference on March 10, In Washing
ton, may well mark a historic
milestone in our long struggle to
achieve a truly democratic So
ciety."
We don't know what a one-day
conference will definitely accom-
plish except that it will be good
public relations for the NAACP
program. A topflight program has
been arranged with President
Eisenhower himself as a speaker.
TOO POOR: The Minnesota
branches are too poor to each
send delegate to the d. c. Con-
fab, so have cooperated to send
Frank Smith. st. Paul NAACP
president to the sessions.
The shortage of cash prevalent
in the local branches is due largely
to the stupidity of the colored
brethren who do not have enough
sense to support the fight for
their rights with even paltry two
bucks a year.
The next time you hear some
brother spouting about his rights
ask him that s64 question: Are
you a member of the NAACP ?"
If he can't put up-he ought to
shut up! Talk is too cheap!
Black Haiti: TINE Magazine
for February %, had an extremely
interesting cover page article on
Haiti's President, Paul Magloire,
with fine coverage of the nation
and its history as a whole. It's an
enthralling piece.
Friendship Baptist: The tipoff
on the racial identity of Annie Lee
Moss, War Dept. worker who was
subpenaed by Sen. McCarthy's
senate investigation sub-commit-
tee was her statement she was
"a member of Friendship Bap-
| fist Church" In almost every city
of any size in the nation there is
a Friendship Baptist church and
most OF them are predominantly
Negro congregations.
TV Program: Tuesday nights
wCCo TV program on Brother
hood was reported very good by
viewers. Appearing on the show
was Arnold Rose, Shelton Granger
and Louis A. Radelet of NY. City
of the national staff of the Ma
ional Conference of Christians
and Jews. Cedric Adams was the
program me.
A matter of minutes after he
had left the studio a fellow stop
ped Tony" Granger on the street
and asked: Aren't you the fellow
I saw on TV just awhile ago?
Everybody's Saying II Now:
Read some old February issues Of
this sheet Of 10 years ago. The
paper was editorializing on the
need to practice brotherhood every
day Of the year. In a later issue
some nice lady gave the editor
Hail Columbia" for being so IN
grateful TO people who were try
ing TO show their kindness and
Christian Brotherhood-at least
once year. The papers reply was
that the once year observance
was fine-yet 10 be real and Last
ing II had 10 be translated into
every day dealing with the fellow
man This year all the speakers
are going all out on the theme:
brotherhood must be practiced
every day in the year"
Tuesdays St Paul PIONEER
PRESS had crackerjack editor
ial on the brotherhood is every
day theme"
UNBROTHERLY ACT: TIL e
latest hush-hush happening in the
Sanity City is strictly not
brotherhood" A rIrnor which is
really a bit more than a mere
rumor has II that more or less
prominent member Of certain
social set not only has left for
parts unknown with lodge
brothers" wife but took along the
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