St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-08
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS

every now and then in local Ne
gro newspaper newsrooms Is the
one about a snooty, neurotic dam
sci who moved here from Chicago
a few years ago.
An airy creature who looked
down her nose at these provincial
Minnesotans" for some reason,
she kept her tongue waggtng a
bout the crudities of the COM
munity in which she had chosen to
live gu
Nobody, but nobody escaped
her acid tongue. She accepted in
vitauons by the boat-load, but
found something wrong with the
entertaining habits of each hos
tess.
She finally met her Waterloo
when she phoned irately to a local
newshen and demanded that she
never print her name in another
guest list, in the social columns.
A few months later said dame
was a guest ut a swank affair,
which featured some well known
names. When the affair was re-
ported on the social page her
name was naturally omitted
because Of her previous loud
objections.
Imagine the surprise of the
lady newswriter when this party
called demanding to know why her
name was omitted. Bailee was
not around when the call came in
but he understands said lady heard
some of the choicest cuss words
ever visited upon her ear.
After ten years, the newshen
in question, stin tries to satisfy
the lady's original request by
keeping her name out and off all
guest lists she happens to pre-
pare for publication. As far as this
one newspaper woman goes, the
lady is still Mrs. Twin City An
onymous.
Two days after the Negroes in
Tallahassee began a boycott of
the local bus lines in protest a.
gainst bus driver brutality and
mistreatment of Negro passen-
gers, a northern Minnesota banker
sent this papers Boss Man a
check for $50 to be sent to Florida
to help the bus boycotters!
Republican editors are highly
sensitive about photographs of
Ike" which seem to show the eff
fects Of his coronary. The neces-
sity for keeping his weight down
naturally reflects in the cast of
his face and the are unmistakable
signs in his face that he is be-
low his old weight and has been a
sick man.
Presidential election or no
presidential election 1t seems
that 1t is just darn fooIishness
to have a man who has suffered
severe heart attack only a few
months ago deliver three major
speeches all in one night as
Ike" did recently.
Is il true that the potent Min
neapols ST papers are going in
dependent politically from now
on? That's the rumor going a.
round the two towns.
A poll OF University of Florida |
white students show 4 out of 5
favor school indignation. Parents |
are against having their college
age children attend school with |
Florida Negro students by a big
majority.
Considerable heat is being put
IN Congressman william L. Daw-
ION, vice-chairman Of the Demo
ratio national committee for his
seeming reluctance to discuss the
,ivil rights facts of life with party
eaders.
People, no matter how popular
md fawned upon in their hour Of
uccess will find that friends viii
disappear like snow in July the
minute they get in trouble. A Chi
ago magazine editor has found
hat out recently.
Archbishop Joseph Francis
aummen denounced race segregs-
ion as morally wrong and sin
NlrT in a recent pastoral letter
Faulkner, in current Har-
,er's Magazine says the biggest
disappointment in the current de-
ate in his native Mississippi and
he South has been the failure Of
he church to face the situation
md Join the side Of right and so
ial justice
Mr. Faulkner writes:
Where is that voice (the
hurch's) now which should have
'ropounded perhaps two but GER
ainly one Of these stin-unAn-
wered questions
@(Il The Constitution Of the