St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-03-02
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and LowdOwn-
BY BAILEE THOMAS

sat down ana talk over the civil
rights issue with Adlai Stevenson
when he comes to the Twin Cities,
In California Negro leaders
were brushed off until a storm OF
protest and Stevensons gradual
ism" speech made il imperative TO
round up some Negroes to talk to
the Presidential asph ant.
Here an abortive attempt TO
10 get some Minnesota Negro
leaders on the line for Adlai
died aborning two weeks ago.
Local leaders are cagy and I'M
willing TO be used" so far.
Head OF the women's work in
the state for Adlai has been be-
moaning the fact that leading
minority women, especially in the
Jewish and Negro group have re-
fused to serve on the women's
committee.
Almost every Negro woman In
the Twin Cities who is on any
mailing list has been invited to
the Eleanor Roosevelt luncheon. II
is expected that Mrs. FDR will
make the civil rights" pitch for
Candidate Stevenson, since she
has been busy recently inter
preting" his position on this ques-
ton since California speeches and
the nationwide reverberatons.
One St Paul woman said this
week, Mrs. Roosevelt is al
right, but she isn't running for
the Democratic Presidential nom
nation. Therefore, whatever she
may believe or feel about Mr..
Stevenson's attitudes are not too
important to we Negro women.
We want TO know what Governor
Stevenson thinks, believes and
feels from his own mouth
rnr anniversary OF 1z1kusa6ts
wiz bring Thurgood Marshall to
TIE campus on April 20, to discuss
the school segregation issue. Min
nesotans win have an opportunity
TO hear the story Of the most
decision of the nations
high court in modern times from
the chief actor in the American
drama, aside from the court itself.
Someone ought TO tell that
itinerant St Paul preacher that
people who are true leaders don't
have TO go around announcing the
fact to the world II that were true
he would have been a leader"
long ago. Hes been busy trying
70 impress people with his non
existent prominence for many
many years. but apparently no.
body viii take him seriously!
s
In current LIFE Magazine VIII
liam Faulkner. Nobel prize win
ming novelist and the south's
greatest writer urges the North
to go slow in forcing school in
tegration
Faulkner says the North doesn't
know the South, Mr.. Faulkner
says the Northerner has failed to
realize the lesson of the Civil War.
Faulkner believes that South
erners like himself are like Robert
f. Lee, who 'in 1860 chose civil
war rather than accept alteration
Of racial condition by mere force
or economic threat" -
Bailee believes Faulkner. like
many soul-searching. honest
subconsciously always
on the regional defensive do not
take into consideration that the
time has come for this nation.
their nation, to measure up 10
It's responsibilities TO fellow hu-
mans and the world community at
large.
This group as disturbed as they
are win not willingly admit that
a region or state which refuses 10
obey the law Of the land is no less
a law-breal<er than the individual
and that overt racial
can no longer be
any more than continued
OF the law OF the land.
the u. S. Constitution.
Men like Faulkner. though hon
ast. are dangerous because North
sners are apt TO mistake their
honesty for logic.
The Minnesota DBL forces sup
porting Stevenson have been cir
-ularized nimeographed copies Of
what Senator Kefauver said a
bout various civil rights matters
IN 1913 and 1852, eight and four
years ago.
NEWSWEEK Magazine Of last
week reports that the Negro vote
IN Florida and that Of trans
planted northerners win go for
Kefauver instead Of Stevenson.
Why. ono u forced 10 Inquire
are Florida Negroes for Kefau-
- awaaw GaMwn~aaw a. arfN. -