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The RECORDER believe* m man should be denied the right to
contribute Ms best to humanity. As long as that right Is denied any
man, no man's rights are safe.
Danger At Your Door-No. 2
Reaction to thia paper’s suggestion Inst week that the Negro
cotnmuniliea of St. Paul and Minneapolis will have to take the
initiative against narcotic peddlers in their midst was received
generally with approbation.
A question which is naturally posed is how far can a group
—a minority group—go in “polieng” its own members. Our
anawer haa always been that when the actions of a few affect
the welfare of the many it is necessary for the many to protect
themselves in self defense.
Dope peddling is closer to community homes and families
than many of us have suspected. It therefore becomes incum
bent upon the substantial citizens to take action against the
dope traffic wherever it rears its insidious head.
One of the hurdles the Negro in the Twin Cities had to con
quer to gain anything like real op|>ortunity in jobs was the
overcoming of the identification of moat Negro males seeking
work, in some manner, in the minds of employers, with the
white slavers who formerly, in large numbers, plied their ne
farious traffic here.
Of course it was unfair to penalize the responsible law
abiding Negroes for the crimes of a minute minority, but it
happened just the same. When it was established by a program
of education that not only was it unfair to penalize the majority
of law-abiding citizens for the crimes of the few, and that the
responsible Negroes neither condoned or were happy to have the
white slavers among them conditions begun to change.
It is important to reiterate that many men with families
were for years kept out of good jobs because of the bad pub
licity which accrued from the acts of a few men engaged in vice.
In those days the community was guilty to a degree of
tolerating its hustlers, the panderers and their ilk because it
perhaps felt that many Negro men engaged in underworld
activity were victims of the frustration which most Negroes
have had to face in securing opportunity for gainful liveli
hoods. This toleration ended when World War I came along
and there were jobs aplenty for most who wanted them.
When the FBI drove most of the panderers out of circula
tion around the Twin Cities, the substantial citizens were happy
for it created a more pleasant atmosphere and those employers
who feared to give our men jobs opened up.
In the present dope peddling situation the problem is dif
ferent because the community today recognizes that almost any
man who wants to can earn an honest living. It also recognizes
that every dope peddler is a threat to the homes and the chil
dren in those home* Those who do not realize this must lie
made to understand that every dope peddler who lives and
thrives in the community is a continual menace to the children
of our homes.
Dope addiction is as bad a disease as cancer. We must
drive the marijuana and heroin sellers out of business It is up
to us to assist the federal and local authorities to do this job
for the danger is at our very doors.
Now, maybe we all—employes and bosses too- can go back
to work. The World Series is over.
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Earl Browder, the former American t'oinmunist leader
whom the Beds ousted may have something when he suggests
that Soviet Russia is not anxious for Red China to be admitted
to the UN.
Browder said this week that as long us Red China is kept
out of the UN it is isolated from all other countries except
Russia. Could be.
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Parents who pamper their children disarm them and ill
prepare them for the realities which they will face in later life
President Eisenhower is all for peace and prayer in the
world of today, but also suggests that we keep our sights keen
and our powder dry.
Wes Feeler is said to have remarked over the radio iu a
post game broadcast that Leroy Ridden, the M ichigAn State
player was not such a hot back field man Well, well, Wes, that
puts our Gopher* on the s|x>t. It a so so back can run three
touchdowns against the Gophers, it looks as though you haven’t
got much of a team fellow!
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the people in the Rondo-Dale area regu..
vote.
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Congratulations to Addie Few. Allie Hampton and the St I
Paul women who an out to rn m- money for the XAAt'P Free someone mov»-
dom Fund I hey want A met tea t. ■ !>< <\\ eit i/ett hv
the IfHith nnnit . isarv of the Ematie.p it!■•'! Pi. clnnrition in BERDES FOOI
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Snooting Th. roliiicione "™ >,
A recent Minnesota poll disclosed that 70 per cent of our adults ' __*** W AAASXA gr, m |
would like to see their children stay out of politics. ;
The politicians, which includes of office holders, were barred from
the two Minneapolis Aquatennlal parades this year. f SNOA ANO SAW AT J TT*/ v
All of when might be rather‘ amus.ng were it not so.trap.- Why I WARD'S FOOD MARKET UIMIICIMIK
do so many people in this age lo«.k down their n. sea at politicians* I W«sts - Pouitrv - IhUr, Product. I o . ■IR R t AfVU)
Who do they think they are. anyway, these people who look upon th. 1 SaVltlO MWMMSm/UAM ASStOAMMI
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who snoot them Heanepsi County (Mian.) Bevtew laaaaaoeeoooeoMeaeeeeeoeoooeoeooooeeooeeMoeeoM Ii
Uongiatulations to the St. Paul group who are out to get
the people in the Rondo-Dale area registered so that they can
vote.
Congratulations to Addie Few. Allie Hampton ami the St
Pau) women who are out to raise money for the NAACP Free
dom Fund. They want America to be free for every citizen by
the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in
1964.
A recent Minnesota poll disclosed that 70 per cent of our adult*
would like to *e* th*lr children atay out of politic*.
Th* politician*, which includ** of office holder*, were barred from
th* two Minneapolis Aquatennial parade* thi* year.
All of whch might be rather amusing were it not *o tragic Why
do ao many people tn thi* age look down their noaaa at politician*'
Who do they think they are. anyway, these people who look upon the
politician* a* something inferior?
Politicians ar* a croa* section of the people - of the very people
who snoot them -Hewaepa C*smty (Mtaa-1 Review
ST. PAUL RECORDER
"An Independent Newspaper"
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Greater Minneapolis, the C tc C magazine, claims the Mill
<’ity losea over two and one half million* of dollars a year be
cauae the Minneapolis Auditorium is too small and is not ar
ranged to handle certain typea of convention*.
Newspapers are the eyes, the ears and the voice of a free anti
uncenaoretl press. America’s free press, however, does not
belong to newspapers. It belongs to
Everybody —you, your family, your neighbors, your friends.
America’s free press is the property of the American people.
It is n freedom to be protected and cherished.
When you pick up your newspaper you hold in your hands the
work of thousands of people who are working, the world
over, and at at home too, so that you may KNOW.
Some chop the trees from which the paper is made. Others
manufacture the paper. Some make the ink, others type,
others the machinery that prints your newspaper.
Perhaps those are not the glamorous jobs that go into newspa
per making, but without them you’d have no newspaper. No
local news, no comics, no advertising.
And of course there are the others—who gather the news, who
write the news, who bring your city, county, state, country
and the world to your door step.
Pressmen, linotype operators, delivery boys take over from
there to complete the circle- to print the new* and bring it
to you -ao that you may KNOW.
Events at home and abroad must be reported, explained and
understood if we are to act with intelligence. It is everybody*
business to help keep our press unfettered.
Renders also have a responsibility to READ their newspapers
to THINK about events reported, mid to help protect this
freedom that protects all of our freedoms.
Serving as * cog iu the big wheel that is America's free press
is YOUR business, your neighbor's business. It is Ol'R busi
ness, together, to keep a strong, free and uncensored press.
At the recent Governor'* Conference at Seattle. Gov. John 8.
Fine of Pennsylvania. criticised the Federal civil rights laws and the
Investigation* by the FBI of violations of them, on the ground* that
these were interferences in state administration of law enforcement
and state institutions such as jails and mental hospitals.
While recognizing the right of the states to be free of Federal
interference in the administration of soverign states, the Courier
feels that American citizens deserve protection from violation of
their rights no matter where they may be and whether or not they
are In the toll* of the law or held in state institutions
The states have no right to mistreat or mishandle a citizen, con
trary to th Federal Constitution, and the Department of Justice has
every right, In our opinion, to intervene when those rights have been
violated.
The alleged agreement between the New York Police Department
and the Justice Department, recently exposed, permitting the for
mer to handle such charges of violation of civil rights, was illegal,
and the agreement was invalidated by the outgoing Attorney Gen
eral. a* Is properly should have been.
Governor Fine and several other Governors, including Gov.
Thoma* E Dewey of New York, agreed that the FBI should not probe
such alleged civil rights violations, but tn doing so they ignored the
prior right of American citizens to be immune from mistreatment.
It is gratifying to have the Couriers view supported by no less
body than the American Civil liberties Union, which contend* that:
"Certainly the Federal Government ha* the power to protect
its citizens from deprivation of their rights, and when such oc
casion* arise It la Its duty to act,"
America cannot tolerate thi* mistreatment of any of its citizens
even if they are tn the hands of local and state authorities Pitts
burgh (Pa.) CO! RIKK.
That Missing Senator
It ha* been a long time since we have heard anything that ha*
given u* quite the same kind of Jolt as an advertisement about The
WasMugton Star in the current Issue of Editor A Publisher. This
advertisement *ays that "9B out of 96 United States Senators buy and
read The V 4 ashington Star.”
This is a great compliment fo our venerable contemporary In the
national capital and we are glad so to state. But we cannot be proper
ly appreciative of the fact that 95 Senator* read the Star because w*
now know that one Senator does not read it.
Who on earth is that one holdout ? Surely it is not the Senate's
only independent member. Wayne Morse of Oregon He is too well-in
formed to brush off newspapers entirely Mrs Margaret Chase Smith
of Maine is the only woman Senator, but there is no reason why the
one feminine member should rule out the Star. Senator William
linger of North Dakota runs his own course on most matters yet
why would he resist the eventually inevitable in Washington’ The
Junior Senator from Wisconsin must make it his business to nee who
is in the headlines from day to day And so on . . .
Come 2000 years ago a shepherd counted hi* flock in the field and
found that one sheep was missing Whereupon he went out into the
night on the hills and found the lost one. The least the Senate should
do is set up a committee to hunt cut the wayward brother and bring
turn safely to shelter under the Star— St. Uouis Poat-lMspatch
Just about the time you think you can make both ends meet,
•onu-one moves the ends Frederickstairg (Tex.) Standard
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It Takes All
Kinds Of People
To Make A World
By Roy Wilkin*
Every man has to find a way
to ply his trade and make hia
mark in this world and io It u
not so strange that S. J. Phillips,
founder-president of the Booker
T. Washington Memorial, decided
that as for himself, he was going
to speak up in 1953 in favor of
segregation of the races and
praise the white man for keeping
the Negro "in his place" all these
years.
Mr. Phillips went even farther
and declared that practically all
the economic progress the Negro
has made has been due to segre
gation.
This is the kind of nonsense
Negroes have to endure. We are
fifteen million strong and tn that
number there are bound to be all
kinds of people.
Some believe only light Negroes
should get ahead. Some believe a
college education or a Ph.D.
makes them a special kind of per
son above the masses, whether
they have anything else or not.
Some believe the white folks are
always right and Negroes always
wrong.
Some believe in fighting and
others believe in kissing the white
folk’s feet. Some believe in group
action and others In individual
effort apart from any group
Mke Stinking Slums
Some believe in praying and
others tn scheming. Some will
give you the shirt off their backs
and others will steal your eye
brows If you blink for a minute.
Among the fifteen million Ne
groes there are at least fourteen
million ideas on how to solve the
so-called race problem.
Mr. S. J. Phillips has his idea.
He says the Negro is better off
because he has had to live in
If the white Protestants of the South aren’t careful, they are
likely to let the white Catholics of the South steal their candy. While
the white Protestants of the South are dilly-dallying with the issue
of Integration (witness the exclusion of Negroes from the theological
seminary at the University of the South, an Episcopal school at
Sewanee. Tenn.), the Catholics seem to have adopted a deliberate
policy of integrating Negroes and whites in the Catholic church as
rapidly as the tactical circumstances will permit.
The city of St. Louis, Mo.. wa s selected apparently a few years
ago as the first guinea-pig of the new Catholic policy. There, in a
city with an official policy of segregation in the schools, the Catho
lics have forced Integration in all of their schools from the kindergar
ten to the University of St. Louis, and there is also a policy of Inte
gration in the Catholic churches of St. I-ouis. When the process of
Integration was first announced and undertaken in St. Louis, there
was some squawk by some white Catholics, but the highest Catholic
authority told them either to stop their squawk or be excommunicat
ed
The latest tactical move in what seems to be long-range Catholic
policy was the order of the Catholic bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina,
that the white and Negro churches in Newton Grove, North Caro
lina be integrated. Newton Grove is a community in Sampson
County, tn the Southeast part of the state. The county has a popu
lation of about 48.000. with about one-fourth being Negroes. Newton
Grove haa a population of something over 2.000, with nearly a third
being Negroes There were some 300 members in the white Catholic
Holy Redet mer Church and less than 100 in the Negro St. Benedict's
Church. Here are some interesting quotes from an Associated Press
dispatch from Newton Grove about the merger.
"Father Timothy Sullivan, pastor of Holy Redeemer Church
here, said he is not anticipating any trouble Sunday when Negro and
white Catholics are scheduled to begin attending church together.
The Right Rev Vincent S. Waters, bishop of the Raleigh Diocese, re
cently ordered members of the St. Benedicts- a Negro church to
begin attending Holy Redeemer a white church with no restrictions
on seating Members of Holy Redeemer immediately protested. Bis
hop Waters has declined to rescind his order despite telephone calls,
letters and petitions.”
"Church members said that four members of the congregation
called on Bishop Waters, but were refused an audience with him. . .
Members also reported they received a mimeographed letter bearing
the signature of Bishop Waters in which he stated he would not sec
any member of the church until hia 'command' has been obeyed.”
If white Protestants sit idly by until this becomes established
Catholic practice as well as policy all over the South, then the white
Protestants will have surey lost their candy—Houston (Texas) la
former
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zation within them, but an administration that doesn't count on some
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alums. He says the Negro is ec
onomically better off because he
has had to work on segregated
Negro jobs at lower pay for the
same work, with no chance for ad
vancement and fatter pay envel
opes.
Mr Phillips thinks there is
some difference in being skinned
by a Negro retail storekeeper and
being robbed by a white one. He
things it is "progress' when Ne
groes have to pay $lO for a room
in a Negro hotel when they could
get the some room or better (with
courtesy and service) in a real
hotel for $6 50.
He thinks it is Just dandy that
scores of thousands of little Ne
gro children are handicapped for
life by the cheating Jim Crow
schools. He sees nothing wrong
with whites riding to schools in
modem buses and Negro kids
walking miles on dusty roads to
get a little book learning.
His Day Is Done
Nonsense
Mr Phillips claps his hands
with delight every time Negro
oaasengers in buses are ordered
to sit in the rear or get off. He
thinks Jim Crow cars are just
fine. He likes separate waiting
room, separate drinking fountains,
separate parka, or no parks.)
Well, Mr. Phillips had better
make the most of his little place
in the sun because his day is done.
The world is fast leaving him be
hind. No one with a teaspoonful of
seif-repsect wants to be set apart
from his fellow men as though
he were a leper. If he chooses to
use group action (as many groups
naturally do) that is one story.
When he is forced into segrega
tion that is something entirely
different.
There is evidence on all sides
than an ever-growing number of
Negroes and whites (including
in the Phillips formula. He Is
talking 1873 stuff In 1953.
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Every time this correspondent walks though the campus of
the University of Minnesota he falls more and more in love with the
state. This love which has lasted 31 years now grows with the years
and the atmosphere of our great seat of learning serves to heighten
the feeling that when the poet described "God s country he was
talking about the Gopher state.
Last week we participated, as has been reported, in the Min
neapolis public schools United Nations program on the campus.
The fine looking upstanding. Intellegent looking students to whom
we talked were a ready refutation of the rowdy, undisciplined, teen
agers that the newspapers are full of most of the time.
It may be that youngsters who are interested in world prob
lems are not the type who have the law enforcement authorities
from coast to coast worried because of the big increase in rowdyism,
vandalism and worse among teenagers.
Maybe any teen-ager who is interested in Unesco. Human Rights,
and other things that are designed to bring brotherhood and peace
is not t he type of which Edgar Hoover complains.
We talked about the Human Rights Commission of the UN for
20 minutes and the bright eyed, interested youngsters fired questions
of depth at us for more than an hour. They were practical kids too,
because they wanted to know about the human rights problems right
here at home, in the USA. right here in the Twin Cities. And more
than one wanted to know how individually they could in their own
living bring men and women of all races and religions into a closer
fellowship and understanding
The University Short Course for editors was held last week too.
Sponsored Jointly by the University Farm School and the School of
Journalism, it presents an interesting program of talks and panels
on the problems of editing and publishing newspapers. The editors
and members of their staffs received information which should be
used with profit by some of us. With the World Series being tele
vised. we didn’t get to shake hands with some of the fellows of the
press who we have been meeting at the short course for almost 15
years. W’e slipped off to the World Series via TV.
On the day after the Short Course the University threw its annual
luncheon and football party for the editors and radio station man
agers and added this year the legislators to the guest list. As we
used to say in the social columns (more than we do now), “A good
time was had by all.”
Most of the editors wanted Minnesota to win the game, but there
was a little 163-pound brown skinned American lad by the name of
Leroy Bolden on the Michigan State team who ran for three touch
downs. The Michigan Staters had some team.
Thus, three days last week we were exposed to the color, move
ment and inspiration of the “U” campus in weather which was perfect
enough for hundreds of the students to sit on the rolling greens and
eat lunch. If we only had the ability as a w riter to present in words
the scene which the campus offered to Inspire this correspondent we
would be more than happy.
When we think of the countless youngsters who stop school before
they can come under the influence of our university we feel sad.
For, on that campus, in those classrooms, there is culture, learn
ing, and Inspiration that makes the difference between the individual
whose talent of mind is great but not developed by training. And the
fellow who somehow gets through school and is thereby able to con
tribute fully and at his greatest potential to family and posterity.—
Cecil Newman.
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IT’S 2*oo’ INSIDE THIS KILN which is processing
taconite near Virginia, Minnesota! James Lloyd rides a
45-foot long boring bar to break clinkers off the kiln's
inner walls. Inside the kiln taconite concentrates are
being cooked to form nodules or balls, hard enough to
ship to the blast furnace. Processing like this is com
plicated and costly—but it’s an important phase of ore
conservation to extend the life of the industry in this
state. Taconite and low grade ores can keep the iron
ranges working for generations to come. That is. if the
concentrated products can be delivered at the steel mills
at costs competitive with ores from other areas.
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