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Malnt Paul. Mlnnaaota, under tha Act of March I, 117*.
Th® RECORDER baUavM no man ahonld bn dented th® right to
contribute hl® boot to humanity. A® long a® that right la denied any
man, no rnaa'a right® ar® ®af®.
Eleanor Roosevelt;
A Shining Example
Millions of non-white® in the world look upon Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt as a shining example of the United Htatea at ita best.
No other American has a® big a place in the hearts of people in
Europe, Asia or Africa as the wife of the late president. This
is especially true in the non-white countries where Russia, with
some success, has used some of our shortcomings on the racial
issues to spread distrust of our purpose as a nation.
Mrs. Roosevelt, and a few others have been the chief fac
tors in our keeping alive in the hearts of countless millions of
the colored people the belief that America is essentially a na
tion which is for fair play, and has no desire to exploit other
nations.
The non-white® arc a little hit puzzled when Russia tells
them how prejudiced all American whites are when they see
the great interest Mrs. Roosevelt take® in people of nil colors
and races and hear her calling for the need of equality of all of
mankind.
If the United States is anti-colored they ask, how does it
happen that Mrs. Roosevelt is not! I® she not a good representa
tive of the United States is the natural question, and nothing
the Red propagandists may explain overcomes the fact that
Eleanor Roosevelt in the minds of millions represents the
America that they want to admire.
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Congratulations To Ronald Hughes
Colwell Press, Inc., a Minneapolis printing firm, last Eri
day, Octobers, paid tribute to nn employee. Ronald Hughes, for
40 years of faithful service at a banquet at the Minneapolis
Athletic Club.
I him increased their anxiety,
strengthened their lack of confi
dence in themselves as human be
ings The reports, with their
graphs and statistics, may bestow
an aura of scientific approval to
a delusion that has misled all too
many people in the past 25 years
I refer to the delusion that sex is
an indoor sport and, like contract
bridge or scrabble or canasta, it
can be mastered by studying the
technique and practicing as often
as possible with as many partners
as one can induce to play
The victims of the sex delusion,
however, learn that the experience
which they have been led to be
lieve la so exhilarating exciting
and ecstatic turns out to be a
somewhat mechanical and lifeless
act. often bringing uneasiness and
bitterness In Its train, instead of
the mood of serenity and fulfill
ment that should follow an erotic
experience
But without love thia expected
mood, which leaves you with a
sense of emotional fulfillment, can
never occur Unless the movement
toward sexual Integration la an
Our congratulations go to Colwell Preus for its recognition ' f ,or th * "’her
of a fine man ami to Mr. Hughes for doing his tasks of the past , t „ y Th,, „ paradoxical but
40 years so well that all his fellows could join in saying. “Well true I define love as an intense
done, Ronald.*’ ( awareness of the other person, a
For all of 40 years Ronald Hughes has been a familiar fig
ure in the street* of the Twin Citie*. For years he drove through
the streets on a motorcycle with a aide-car delivering the pro
ducts of Colwell Press. Perhaps the circumstances which at
traded the attention of so many people was the fact that Ron
aid had only one arm, but operated the vehicle with safety and
dispatch. In later years he has driven the firm delivery truck
with that same dispatch and eare.
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He became known as the “Colwell press fellow" and
wherever he went through the busy streets, pedestrians, fellow
truck driver*, printer* anil other* greeted him with a smile Al
way business-like, yet friendly, Hughes has been a moving,
living picture of a man who wouldn't allow a physical handicap
to interfere with his determination to become both a competent
worker and a contributing member to society.
When 44) of the Colwell Prens employees who had worked
with Mr. Hughe* 15 years or more joined the executives of the
firm at a banquet honoring Mr. Hughes and his wife last Fri
day, they were |>aying tribute to a working man who has been
giving hi* employer a good day's work for many a yaar and
who haa been a credit to the firm and the community.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1968
It wns very foolish for the Eisenhower administration,
which is ostensibly interested in the building and maintenance
of the United Nations as the chief means of preventing a World
War. to have dispensed with the services of Mrs. Roosevelt as
a UN delignA". th# one person whom the Soviet dele
gates feared to hear speak in UN assemblies because of the
great admiration which even the Russian man and woman in
the street has for Mrs. FDR. She represents in the minds of
the world's little folks a fainninded great-hearted human
being.
It would have been an excellent stroke of good sense to
have kept her a delegate to flic UN. She did not need the honor
for the recognition that she remains the most admired woman in
the world, even today, was perhaps as much honor as she will
ever need
To her credit she has continued her interest in furthering
the work of the UN. As a sparkplug for the United Nations As
soeiation she has utilized her great talents to sell the I N to
thousands of Americans who are b< aroused to the dan
ger of too little support for the UN.
On October 23, Mrs. Roosevelt will address Minnesota wo
men at the Minneapolis Auditorium at an afternoon meeting.
The chatgc is very small- 35 cents to defray the expense in
Volved. It may be the Inst time for n long time that our Minne
sola women have an opportunity to ago and hear this great
woman in person Eleanor Roosevelt is (»!> years old now, amt
has given unselfishly of her strength and mind in the cause of
humanity. Rhe sooner or later will have to reduce her heavy
schedule in the interest of her own health. This is only one
reason why every woman who believes in freedom, peace ami
humanity should try to hear her when she speaks here on Oc
tober 23. The other reason is that the women must become ac
quainted with the need to give a larger everyday support to
United Nations without which the world might now be engaged
in a destructive war.
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No Double Time For Hill
We aee where the Minneapolis board of public welfare
want* the resignation of Dr. F. J. Hill, city health commissioner.
The board bases its action on what it calls hi* poor health. We
do not know anything about Dr. Hili’* health, but we’ve seen
him working all day Sundays for weeks at a time at the Public
Health Center when the rest of hi* staff was enjoying the Sab
bath. If he has poor health it could be that devotion to duty and
the ignoring of city hall politics might have contributed to it.
We haven't heard of many city employees or any other
kind of employees here or elsewhere, a department head espec
ially, working on Sunday, unless they were in the “double
time’’ on Sunday classification.
It’s possible that every hour the board of public welfare has
granted Dr. Hill for sick leave ha* been returned in full with
the late nights and Sundays he has worked at his job. We have
an idea the Dr. Hill has not told the board this story.
Editor'* Note: Rev. Gordon Hancock, A«*ociate<l Negro Press
contributing editor I* a mlniat.-r of the (impel but he doesn't be
lieve prayer substitute* for action. Writing of the recent World's
Series, Dr. Hancock had this to say:
Negroes and the nation for the fine part Brooklyn haa played in
«> integratlngqftfegro player*. Brooklyn * blast at baseball segrega
tion stir* the soul* of nobly-inclined citizen* of the nation anil
and the world Hut It doe* not seem advisable to bet or pray
against those Yankees
It will be wiser to keep our prayer* in our hearts and out
money in our pocket*, laying off the while all betting and praying
Moreover those Yank* so Invariably win. that the faithful souls who
dare to pray against them are ashamed to admit It. It is safe to
say that praying for the Dodger* is general but the success aver
age of the prayers and that of the Yankee player* will not support
the thesis that praying Is more Important than playing
And so it has come about that Negroes must do less praying
in their athletic* and sport* contest* and do more playing In the
long run and the short run. too. earnest praying and poor play
ing will not make a winning combination.
In the great game of life, how we play I* far more important
than how we pray. Praying is prayer in action.
Thinks Kinsey Report Should
Have Asked About Enjoyment
room bewilderment* of the American female, the only angle in the
whole problem that 1* of any real Importance to human being* ha*
bean completely overlooked: Namely, doc* one or doesn't one enjoy the
momenta of making love? Thia la the crucial question that Dr Kinsey
always falls to ask hl* women, just a* he failed to ask it of the men
queried in hi* previous report.
The Indiana inquisitor seem* t
letic contest. In which frequency <
of lovers ones batting average. »<
the quality and intensity of the exj
that Dr Kinsey may be a profound
himself ?
1 believe that both Kinsey re
port* are misleading and harm
ful books which have confused
men and women already *uf
fkentty diaturtx-d about sex
"Don’t Comb Thoee Lock* In Such Public Place*!"
PRAYNG AND PLAYING
It would not be surprising If "secretly" moat Negroes did not
pray for a Brooklyn victory in thi* 1963 serie*. But Negroes must
learn that It Is never safe nor sound to pray or bet against the
New York Yankee*. Prayer may be all right for a prayer-meeting
but It haa not hitherto been effective in a Yankee-meeting; or so
It haa not been theae year* Negroes have been rooting for the
Dodger* out of sympathy for a team that dared to operate with
Nagroe*.
Brooklyn certainly deserve* the admiration and support of
By Maurice Zoh.tow In the St. Paul PIONEER-PRESS
In all the hullabaloo over Dr. Kinsey's Investigation into the bed
regard love as a competitive sth
of sex adventure* and the number
oto speak is more important than
pertenev. Is it possible, one wonders
lly disturbed and neurotic individual
reeling of respect for him or her
a* a human being, and a* an in
stinctive attitude that the needs
of the other person are as Import
ant to you a* your own need*
So we have millions of people
going through the motions of sex
without knowing any sexual ful
fillment. Where there is barely
concealed hostility and resent
ment and boredom and mutual
disparagement in a relationship
between a man and a woman, no
thing vital is going to happen sex
ually. no matter how frequently
you necked during adolescence and
even if your mother and father
were fanatical atheists and
wouldn't dream of sending you to
Sunday school to acquire anv hor
nble religious Inhibitions
Now this attitude of mutual re- !
spect cannot be forced It can't be
compelled by will-power It can't
be got out of reading the Kinsey i
report* or memorising all the 1
books on sex technique
The couches of American p*y- I
choanalysta are crow-d<*l with
men and women who come think- ,
ing all they need is to be fixed
up tn the sex department they I
think they are 'frigid" or “impo
tent" or whatever and who dis
cover that there la a more funda
mental sickness tn thetr soul and
not until this fundamental sick
ness in their anul la healed are
they capable of warmth and in
tlmacy with another human be
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Letters To The Editor
THANKS FROM UNESCO COMMISSION
Editor: Much of the success of the Fourth National Conference
; was due to the enthusiastic help of the members of the Minnesota
; Sponsoring Committee. You. as a member of that committee, deserve
I the thanks of every member of the U. 8. National Commission for
UNESCO.
On behalf of the Commission I want to thank you personally for
your contribution of time and thought in preparing for and'holding the
Fourth National Conference in the Twin Cities.
The many delegates who have since told us of their pleasure in
tills conference have not failed to not the great contribution made
by the people of Minnesota and by your committee in creating an
atmosphere in which our conference was sure to prosper Cordially
your*. George N. Shunter, Chairman, Fourth National Conference,
United State* Commission for UNESCO, Washington, D. C.
Americans Pay Heavy Tolls
For War Which They Hate,
Grand Rapids Paper States
Editorial In thr Grand Rapid* (Minn.) HERAIJ) REVIEW
Before a citizen commits violence on the officials of local govern
ments for high taxes he ought to know some of the basic tacts of
taxation He ought to know how much the village, township, school
district and county collect. He should understand state taxation.
Then, he should get some information about Uncle Sam and what he
take* and the purpose* thereof. While such knowledge may not make
the taxpayer any happier it may help to produce some resolutions to
Join with fellow Americans and say something in more than a groan
or a whisper.
By and large, three-fourths of the taxes paid in the United
States go for the support of the federal government. This is true of
the taxes collected in Minnesota. The one-fourth of the taxes that re
main In the states are almost equally divided between the state and
the local units of government.
Some years ago the percentages were reversed. Uncle Sam took
a quarter and three-quarters were left within the states. The state
taxes were once little more than nominal. A generation ago, close to
two-thirds of the total taxes collected were under the Influence of the
citizen who could complain to his neighbors. Today, the voice of the
taxpayers Is but a voice crying in the wilderness The command* that
local officials would hear and heed cannot be heard at Washington,
some fifteen hundred miles distant from the average citizen. The
bureaucrats at the national capital are well insulated against public
sentiment. In truth, they do not wish the demand* of the taxpayers to
interefer with the low, lofty or designing purposes.
Information can be carried still further. Only a small part of the
money collected and expended for the federal government goes for
the good, useful and humanitarian purposes of government. Most of
It goes for war. Here are some figures which may shock some people
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THE FEDERAL TAX DOLLAR
Armed forces 58.0 c Atomic and other security 56<
Interest on public debt 8.7 c Social welfare 3.4 c
Foreign Aid 7.7 c Public works 2.9 c
Aid to Veteran* 60c Aid to agriculture 2.6 c
Other expenses 5.1 c
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Look at the figure* The first five classifications of federal ex
penditure* are based in the costs of wars, past, present and possible
future. Think of it. about 86 per cent of the coats of the federal gov
ernment have been created, primarily, by war and about 14 per cent is
founded upon the regular and peacetime services of the federal govm
mnt. The general expenditures of the federal government take five
cents out the the dollar that Uncle Sam epllects. There is serious talk
about the amount paid to farmers to encourage and stabilize agri
culture. That amount is a third of the cost of foreign aid. The cost of
essential and useful public works is about half of the cost of the
atomic bomb program. The cost of social welfare is somewhat more
than a third of the Interest on the national debt founded, primarily,
in the cost of war.
Combine the federal, state and local taxes and it will be seen that
aboirt one-third of the total taxes paid in America goes for the good
thing* which government must do or those thing* which the public
demand that it do. One-third of the taxes go for such eternal elements
as education, highways, public work*, protection of citizens and their
property, the operation of courts and the care of the sick and unfor
tunate.
For every dollar that the people of the United States pay for the
good and essential thing* they wish, two dollar* are expended for war
which American* hate. For every dollar spent to serve the good end*
of government and democracy, two dollars are spent primarily to kill
people who deserve to live, to destroy great cities which should stand
forever and to waste resources which should be saved. Two-thirds of
the cost of government has gone to make the world sick, hungry and
sad. While America may arni to stop communism, the destruction of
the wars. In which the nation has been engaged, has helped to make
communists.
Think about this sad fact. Weep about it. Do something about it.
Editor’* Lament: The editor of the LaCanada Valley
(Calif) Sun laments as follows:
“AT LEAST one job in which it’s helpful to hate holes in
the head is that of a weekly newspaper editor. So much stuff 1
and guff is poured into his head each week that if it didn’t run
out. the old cranium would pop. When 1 think of the number of
wastebaskets a weekly editor fills daily, 1 shudder to think of
the barrels of stuff a metropolitan paper hauls away each
night.”
Editorial observation on wastebaskets:
Among an editor's pet peeves is the free space seeker—
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usually a large corporation which can well afford to pay for ad
vertising space but, instead tries to get it for nothing. Such a
free space seeker sent a f<>nr letter to the editor of the Luding
ton, Mich., Daily News asking for specific instructions on the
addressing of publicity material. The editor requested the in
quirer—the National City Bank of New York—to direct the
stuff to the waste basket collector in order to save time. Now
his mail from the bank comes addressed: Waste Basket Col
lector, Daily News, Ludington, Mich.
PUBLISH!® CORNER
A letter in the Minneapolis TRIBUNE by Mrs. Min Himmelman
last week reminded us of the testimonial banquet Twin City organiza-
tions and individuals gave for the writer 10 years ago, October 4,
1943, at the Hotel Nicollet.
As we look back, we realize that we did not have brains enough
to enjoy the outpouring of good-will and appreciation which flowed
our way that night. From the day we learned about the plans for the
banquet until the night when it ended, we were in a state of bemused
contemplation, possibly because we couldn't imagine such a thing
happening to us.
In addition to that feeling, we really appreciated the thoughtful
ness of the people who put on the affair, but we also considered such
an affair should come after a fellow reaches at least 50 years of age.
Here we were only 40 and with such a long way to go, we were over
whelmed with the responsibility of living up to the things people say
at such affairs.
Our trepidation might have also been based on the fact that
ever since that night we’ve had to remember that a good many
people looked to us to continue to work In the community Inter
est, often when we would have liked to have placed our own
legitimate personal interests first.
We must have recognized even that night as our little helpmate
stood by our side, and our parents were close beside, that public ac
claim and approval has a high cost. A ring, a beautiful ring on our
left hand is a constant reminder that there were over 670 people at
that banquet who thought the work we had been doing over the past
sixteen years merited some praise—while we could hear and enjoy it.
As we sat there and heard the eulogies of the evening, all of
them most charitable, it seemed that in some way our virtues
were being extolled, as are those of the departed. We felt we were
going to live many more years and had no desire to hear the
funeral orations so soon.
Yet, there was a merry note during the evening and the Negro
communities of the Twin Cities got considerable favorable publicity
for selecting one of its members for special attention. This was of
course all to the good, and we felt as we accepted the plaudits of the
crowd that we represented many others just as deserving but not
so fortunate as to have their works so publicly acknowledged.
In 1943 we did not believe we had reached our full potential. We
did not believe that we deserved a public testimonial so early and the
events that have transpired since indicated that we were partly
right. We have worked harder since 1943 than we worked before that
night of October 4, 1943. It almost seems that since that banquet
we've been trying to catch up with what people said they thought of
us on that memorable occasion. People often expect too much of
persons receiving public recognition.
We think giving young people public testimonials is all right up
to a point. However, the responsibility which falls on a fellows
shoulders trying to live up to what people appear to think of him is
real rugged. Of course on the other hand the individual who feels
that a large portion of his fellow citizens and neighbors trust him is
apt to exert every effort to justify that regard When this happens,
usually the community benefits but the poor guy, unless he is careful
is apt to run himself ragged trying to show that he is all the banquet
speakers said he was. Testimonial banquets at an early age are al
right but we repeat the cost is high.
Those 100 young Minneapolis men who were honored a few nights
ago by TIME Magazine and the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
will find that they will probably have to spend the rest of their pro
ductive life living up to the reputation they gained by being selected
the Future Newsmakers of the town. As the beneficiary or victim
of the testimonial banquet, depending upon how one views it, we can
speak with some authority on the subject Cecil Newman.
M. J. Caulfield
Orthopedic Shoemaker
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