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Humphrey Is Logical
Choice For Democratic
Vice-Presidential Bid
The logical 1964 ticket for the Democrats in
next year’s election would be Lyndon Johnson for
President and Hubert H. Humphrey for Vice-Presi
dent Such a ticket if developed should satisfy the
liberal northern wing of the Democratic party and
at the same mollify the more sensible elements of
the southern wing of the party.
Such a ticket of course would not be favored by
the Dixiecrat elements which are represented by the
Barnetts of Mississippi, the Wallace element of Ala
bama and by individuals like Strom Thurmon of
South Carolina.
Nobody of course can be sure that Humphrey,
the best prepared man in the U.S. Senate today,
after one unsuccessful effort to obtain the Vice-
Presidency and another pre-oonvention defeat for
the Presidential by the overwhelmingly financed
Kennedy Presidential machine, would consider run
ning for Vice-President even if asked to do so by
President Johnson. Most certainly he is the most
capable and acceptable candidate whose name has
been mentioned to date.
There are those among Humphrey’s friends who
consider that his chances for the Democratic nom
ination would be good in 1968, providing of course
that Lyndon Johnson would give up the job after
one full term and the balance of the Kennedy term.
Humphrey is tremendously strong with the
liberals of the nation and also with that part of the
business community that has had contact with him.
He was the strong arm of President Kennedy during
his administration, and he was never too fatigued
to do the arduous tasks which the President asked
him to do. There is no doubt that he is always a loyal
and infatigable worker win help President Johnson
in every way he can.
Humphrey stands ‘head and shoulders’ above
all other Democratic Vice Presidential prospects
in ability, intelligence and understanding of both
domestic and international problems of this nation.
His chief handicap in the political wars was his
forthright, courageous early civil rights posture
which became the Kennedy posture, and is now the
Lyndon Johnson position; his residence in a state
with a small electoral vote and his unwillingness to
sacrifice principles for either party of personal ad
vantage.
Senator Humphrey is now only 52 years of age
and despite his intense energy, has not yet reached
what is commonly called the “prime of life.’’ In
1968 he will only be 57 years of age, still young
enough to give the nation the benefits of his great
natural gifts of leadership.
No matter which way the political winds blow,
President Johnson and the country Will be fortunate
if Humphrey Is selected to be running mate for
Johnson next year, or whether he remains in the
Senate and takes his chances in 1968. He is a good
man and Minnesotans ought to be extremely proud
of Hubert Humphrey no matter what their political
affiliations.
The House Discharge
Petition Will Separate
Men From Boys
Minnesotans will be able to tell how sincere
their Congressional delegation is on the matter of
civil rights legislation by the position each Cong
ressman takes on the discharge petition Which was
submitted for signatures in the House this Monday.
Dec. 9.
These discharge petitions always "separate the
men from the boys” on almost every issue. AU of
the blab-blab about supporting rights legislation is
nothing, means nothing, if a Congressman refuses
to use the only means he can to get a measure be
fore the House when it is held up by obstructionist
tactics by an unfriendly chairman such as Congress
man Howard Smith, a Dixiecrat is known to be.
Minnesota expects its Republican Congressmen
to ignore party lines at a time like this and sign the
discharge petition placing prinlcples above parti
san politics.
This newspaper was critical of the Democratic
governors who failed to go along with Gov. Rocke
feller’s proposals at the Governor’s conference earlier
tills year. They placed party politics above the civil
rights issue which should be bi-partisan. They failed
to iw Senator Hubert H. Humphrey stated to place
principles above party. It looks like the Republican
leadership in the House is making the same serious
error. This newspaper hopes Minnesota Republican
Congressmen won’t make the same mistake.
Let’s Have Some Of
That History Now
The pundits of newspaper and magazine are
using the expected line that we shall have to leave
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to history any judgment about our late President's
greatness.
Must we?
President Kennedy was cut down during his
first term—a term during which he had to deal with
a Congress Which has been almost totally frustrated
by the negative power of the southern Democrats
and northern Republicans Who control it. None of his
major legislation has come close to passing. It now
appears that much of it was being sabotaged by a
Senate employee who has resigned in the face of
questions about his integrity.
Despite this towering handicap to his adminis
tration, President Kennedy has turned in a record
that outshines everything since President Roosevelt
and matches anything except Roosevelt’s since the
turn of the century.
President Kennedy has, by his forthright stand
on civil rights, done more than any other President
to lead this country to a mature attitude and mature
policies in this area. He has pointed the direction,
and has made that direction irreversible. He has un
doubtedly shortened the time of our strife and strug
gle on the issue of first-class citizenship for all
Americans.
The late President took office at a time of dan
gerous deterioration of our foreign policy, when the
strange mixture of bluff and appeasement which
marked the Eisenhower administration was literally
blowing up. The Kennedy administration even in
herited, and took responsibility for some of the ex
plosion. In the years since, a complete overhaul of
our relations with other countries has taken place
Concepts like the Peace Corps have pushed concepts
like “massive retaliation” out of the headlines. At
the same time, firm dealing With our enemies has
developed a mutual understanding and respect tha'
is even making it possible for us to trade with them
In our area alone, the challenge to the Russians on
Cuba. President Kennedy showed a remarkable qual
ity of greatness. He dealt firmly with Khrushchev
and forced him to back down. At the same time, he
kept the door open to the Russian chief of state
allowed him to save face, and eventually brought
about the easing of tensions which promises more
hope for future peace.
In his speeches and writings, President Kennedy
has emerged as a man with great understanding of
the world in which we live, and a deep appreciation
of the American people, their drives, capabilities
and needs.
By all means let us leave to history the measure
ment of the late President’s greatness. But let’s
have some of that history right now.
New Mayor’s Commission
In Minneapolis
The makeup of the new Minneapolis Mayor’s
Human Rights Commission announced last week by
Mayor Arthur Naftalin, and subjected to confirma
tion by the city council, should be satisfactory to
those who want the city to move ahead in solving
the problems which bigotry, intolerance and pre
judice present to every city in the nation.
Most of the new members appointed by the
mayor, as far as we can ascertain meet the basic
requirements of individuals who are the inspiration
and backbone of similar bodies, Which in our mind
is a willingness to work at reducing the virulency
of race and religious prejudice and discrimination
in Minneapolis.
Mayor Naftalin is to be congratulated on his
success in obtaining the acceptances of such a fine
cross section of the city’s populace to serve as first
members of the new city agency.
Confirmation of the group should be pushed
along as quickly as possible by the city council. The
agency should have adequate funds to launch and
effectively pursue a municipal-backed plan to reduce
the incidence of discrimination and prejudice in
Minneapolis.
Prior mayor’s councils and commissions working
under the uncertain and difficult financing by priv
ate sources did a fine job in keeping the racial and
religious climate in Minneapolis at a fairly decent
level. Now with full support as a regular city and
municipal function with a fine and well selected
commission and a decent budget we may expect the
group to meet the challenge which a’l northern cities
are facing, the amelioration of race problem, creedal
and other human relations differences Which can so
easily poison the mainstream of a community’s life,
unless resisted by a well informed community.
Is This How Barry
Would Meet The Civil
Rights Revolution?
If you listen long enough and attentively enough
you can hear some of the most outlandish things.
The bast recent example to come to our attention is
what the co-chairman of Youth for Goldwater at
the University of Minnesota said about freedom. He
(John Greenagel) said: “Freedom is best preserved
by placing restrictions on dissident, non-assimllible
minorities with revolutionary Intentions.”
THE FUTURE AND
MR. JOHNSON
“Perhaps now the new Presi
dent can persuade the dissident
I Senators from the South that their
country comes first and civil rights
are the rights of all men.”— Miami
I News.
“The parallels between the as
sassination of John F. Kennedy and
of Abraham Lincoln, which have
been so often recalled in the last
few days, are obvious enough. But
some commentators are, we fear,
letting their innate optimism get
out of hand when they say that
Kennedy, “like Lincoln,” may ac
complish more in death than he
could in life.
"But it may be worthwhile for
us to remember that, good as
President Lyndon Johnson's pros
pects are, the future course of the
country is by no means certain.
Martyrdom is frequently distorted
by hypocrites after the fact for
ends alien to everything the martyr
died for. Lincoln's death was In
fact so distorted. His assassination
marked the beginning, not of a na
tional rededlcation to the Ideals
for which he lived and died, but of
perhaps the worst three decades of
national government in our history.
“As we have observed, the
omens are more auspicious for
Lyndon Johnson than they were
for the earlier Johnson. But lot us
not forgot the dangers inherent in
the aftermath of an assassination.
ISSUES: GOOD
AND BAD
BY P. L. PRATTIB
Will President Lyndon B. John
son succeed where President John
F. Kennedy ran into a roadblock?
Has President Johnson any re
sources or skills that President
Kennedy did not possess? Will the
fact that President Johnson is a
southerner compromise or jeopar
dize the interests of twenty mil
lion Negroes? If President John
son ip a square shooter, at what
does he aim?
The chances are that, although
President Johnson will never suc
ceed in satisfying extremist Ne-
groes (even common sense Ne-
groes can't do that), he will be
able to twist arms where Presi
dent Kennedy had no leverage. (
It must be admitted that most
members of the Congress, on
both sides of the aisle, failed td
recognize or admit the genuls of
the late President. In the verna
cular of the street, Mr. Kennedy
was just "a young squirt,” an
upstart who had the audacity to
seek out paths of glory where
his elders feared to tread.
When Mr. Kennedy was a Sen
ator, I listened to him make one
of his most important speeches be
fore (behind) the Senate. I write
‘'behind” because Senator Kennedy
occupied a seat in the last row of
the Senaite chamber. The Kennedy
speech was on foreign affairs. The
next day the newspapers all over
the country picked it up. But while
he spoke, there were barely a half
dozen Senators who remained to
listen to him. What could he tell
them?
With President Johnson the
situation is different. Although
he may lack some of the aspects
of genius now perceived in Mr.
Kennedy, he won and carried
much more respect in the Senate
and the House than the martyred
President. He was and is what
YMCA leaders call “a master of
men.”
As majority leader of the Sen
ate, he commanded the respect,
obedience and cooperation of his
fellow Senators, Democratic and
Republican. He sat in the front
seat in the Chamber. From both
sides, Senators came to him to get
things done. President Johnson has
a much better chance of removing
Congressional roadblocks than
President Kennedy had.
President Johnson does have
resources and skills in handling
men, friends and foes, that Presi
dent Kennedy did not have. John
son may never get all he wants,
but he’ll get something. He’ll
never be stymied. He won’t be
the man who’ll be guessing what
next. That shoe will now be on
the Congressional foot.
The fact that President Johnson
is a southerner can lead to com
plete emancipation for the Negro.
Most members of Congress from
the South oppose the legitimate
aspirations of Negroes, but it is
also true that most of them are
the long-suffering victims of their
constituencies. Free them from
such imprisonment and you may
free them from public stands based
on bias.
Justice Black of the Supreme
Court Is the classic instance. But
so is Justice Tom Clark (of
Texas). What stands out in the
record of President Johnson is
that he took a strong position
when he still had a southern con
stituency. It was because of his
liberal attitude that President
Roosevelt invited him to join the
New Deal team.
Is he a square shooter? At what
does he alm?
President Johnson is Immensely
proud of himself. That makes him
a square shooter. He can’t betray
others without betraying himself.
In any bargaining or negotiating
situation, he aims to get the most
he can.
He will always get something. It
may be a half-loaf or a three
quarters loaf, but he'll always
come home with something, and
he’ll never give up on getting the
other half or quarter. l "
Let us not forget, either, that it
was Abraham Lincoln’s unfinished
program of justice under law that
still occupied the principal ener
gies of John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
nearly a full century later.”
Arkansas GAZETTE.
“We do not expect that the unity
and common understanding which
has been forged in this hour of
sorrow will endure without some
weakening In the weeks and
months that lie ahead.
"But some 'of the gain in na
tional spirit Is bound to stay with
us and strengthen our national
life. The president’s death has
brought us closer together. It is
up to us to see to it that the old
divisions and the old bitterness do
not once again drive us apart.”—
Denver POST.
"President Johnson’s message
yesterday was more than a reaf
firmation of the Kennedy program
—Civil rights included. It was a
sign that the past torch still
flames.” Boston HERALD.
“Although Mr.' Johnson has
Do’s And Don’ts
At Home Or Eating Out, The Correct Way Is Always Proper.
Letters To
U.S. Steel Birmingham
& Mr. Blough; Record
In N.E. Minnesota
Editor: Your newspaper has al
ready reacted to statements of
U.S. Steel’s board chairman Roger
Blough attempting to whitewash
the corporation’s segregationist
policies in Birmingham.
Blough in reply to criticism of
U.S. Steel in Birmingham said;
“For a corporation to attempt to
exert economic compulsion to
achieve any particular end in the
social area seems to be quite be
yond what a corporation should do
and quite beyond What it can do.”
He said the doctrine of what he
called "economic force” is repug
nant to him.
While Birmingham should be of
utmost importance to all of us, we
in Minnesota have a long history
of experience with U.S. Steel. That
history from the acquisition of the
natural resources of Northeastern
Minnesota, the harsh and intense
exploitation of the people of that
area up to their present demands
for a Taconite Amendment to the
Constitution of Minnesota, is a
history of Economic Force! While
U.S. Steel attempts to draw for
itself the image of benevolence, its
only motivating force is the ev
traction of super profits and al)
else is incidental.
Since Mr. Blough’s statement a
Citizens Committee for Goldwater
was launched in Western Pennsyl
vania. It is not accident that the
chairman of the committee is Ben
nett Chapple, Jr., Administrative
Vice-President of U.S. Steel, who
at a press conference said: "We
want to give the American public
a chance to decide Whether it
wants to be right or left, up or
down or black or white.” Chapple
had a conference with Goldwater
on this "draft move” and Gold
water told him; “You’re free, white
and 21, and you have to take a
stand on your convictions.” Among
pledged to carry on in carbon copy
of Mr. Kennedy, no man can be a
duplicate of another. As time goes
on, the Presidency inevitably must
reflect the Johnson approach rath
er than the Kennedy approach. Mr.
Johnson is a practical man who
seeks the best, but settles for the
possible.
"He called for the earliest pos
sible action on the dvil rights and
tax-cut bins. Thus Mr. Johnson put
himself squarely behind the two
bills, but he did not demand im
mediate passage.”—Chicago SUN
TIMES.
sCan topics
* CAN*r WE STOP AND TELL THE WIFE WHERE •
XAM 90 SHE WON*T WORRY ? *
he Editor
members of the advisory board of
the Goldwater Committee are Rich
ard Sentner, executive vice-presi
dent of U.S. Steel and Harvey Jor
dan, retired executive vice-presi
dent of ÜB. Steel.
Thanks to the Civil Rights Rev
olution, these monopolies such as
Steel are seen in 'their true image
on all questions relating to the
general welfare and our demo
cratic institutions. —Sincerely, Leo
J. Giovannlni, 3833 Park Av., Min
neapolis, Minn., December 3, 1963.
Judge Earl Lyons
Praise Hazel Underwood's
"This N' That" Column
Editor: Please let me take this
opportunity of complimenting your
paper on carrying the column,
“This N’ That,” by Hazel Under
wood. In my opinion, this is the
finest column that I have read. I
hope that you continue using it.—
Very sincerely yours, Earl J. Lyons.
District Judge, Fourth Judicial
District, Minneapolis, Minn., Dec.
5, 1963.
Reader Impressed By
Editorial; Wants To
Distribute To Students
Editor: I was considerably im
pressed with your editorial “Arch
bishop Ireland Pointed the Way
72 Years Ago,” in the Thursday,
November 21 issue of your paper.
May I have permission to dupli
cate it with full acknowledgement
of its source so that I may distrib
ute it, without charge, to students
at the University? I believe this
editorial will be valuable in Stim
ulating discussions among students.
—Sincerely yours, Matthew Stark,
Assistant Professor, University of
Minnesota.
Thinks November 28
Paper Was Great;
Comment Appreciated
Editor: I could not wait to get
to my typewriter to send you a
line or two on the general excel
lence of your paper week after
week, with particular praise for
the news coverage and editorial
comment in the November 28, edi
tion on the death of our beloved
President John F. Kennedy. It was
a great job.
I thought the comment which
your paper secured from citizens
in the community, many of whose
names I do not recognize was top
flight journalism for a paper of
your size. My son who works on
one of the Twin City dailies agrees
with me on my estimate of the
good job your paper represents.—
W.8.W., St. Paul, Minn.
Page 2, Minneapolis
PUBLISHED CORNER
In a few months it will pass'un-noticed, but now it is pleasant to
see. We are writing of the NEW LOOK in some television commercials
in which national firms sponsoring programs have discovered that one
tenth of their consumer’s markets are Negroes and have decided to in
sist that Madison Ave., and its tributary ad agencies include Negroes
in their commercial “pitches.”
The habit of forgetting that a tenth of the nation’s population
Is brown and black or tan Is getting to be a luxury that firms which
sell merchandise nation-wide cannot afford. The new awareness is
getting Jobs for Negro actors and models that they didn’t dream of
obtaining only a few months ago.
We looked at CBS Project 20 the other night titled “Victory at
Sea.” It was a reissue but it brought this fact home again to us that
while Negroes were fighting and dying on all fronts in the World War n
fracas, if one depended upon the films we have seen on the theater and
TV screens ail Americans participating in the war Were Caucasians.
We’ve seen fibn after film of the Hitler instituted war in which
thousands of Negroes were killed and wounded but the absence of
Negro soldiers, sailors and Marines has always been noticeable.
We have no idea whether the boys in the UjS. signal corps, the
photographers of the press associations and film companies had orders
not to photograph Negro soldiers Who were almost all in jimcrow units
or not. It is still a great novelty to see our armed services men of color
in the documentaries which are supposed to give posterity a photo
graphic picture of World War H. They are just not there.
It is possible that photographers did train their cameras on
Negro service personnel during the late World holacust and that the
film editors left shots of Negro U.S. armed forces personnel on the
cutting room floor.
This is all part and parcel of the state of mind of custom
firms and their ad agencies continuing to ignore in their radio, TV and
newspaper advertising appeals the fact that one out of ten of every
customer of theirs is a person of Negro descent, most of whom likes
to see the likeness of their men, women and Children on TV commer
cials, too.
The Negro service people who served in World War H didn’t com,
plain much about being ignored in photographic accounts of the war
they helped win. Its bad enough that the documentary films ig
nored their presence, but most war pictures of fictional character did
the same thing. The heralded and widely shown “The Longest Day,”
purportedly recording for romantic history the “D Day” assault on the
Normandy beaches had thousands of "troops” in it, but there wasn’t a
sign of a single black soldier.
All of this is part of the usual ommission of Negroes from credit
able areas of participation in American life by communication media
which is now on the run.
There are still those who want to get all of the money they can
receive from the pockets of Negro consumers, or all of, the personal
sacrifices in time of the nation’s peril but who don’t want such things
to reach the eyes and ears of the total community, which by unwritten
law in the past must always be impressed of the lack of contribution
which the Negroes of the nation have made to the national welfare.
This has permeated every facet of American life where Negroes could
be ignored except possibly in sports where the Negro's contributions
could not easily overlooked, although there were sports writers who did
their best to do so.
When you see a smiling housewife of Negro ancestry on a TV
commercial, or pictured in a full page ad in a magazine, remember that
these new departures are part of a revolution which Negroes and their
white allies are conducting to help make this nation what it has claimed
to be. —Cecil E. Newman.
As if old age were not creeping up on most of us soon enough, U.S.
News & World Report seeks to hasten the process by making these dis
quieting assertions:
87% of Americans now living do not remember When there was no
federal income tax.
71% were born since World War I.
64% do not remember the prohibition era.
64% do not remember the beginning of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
New Deal.
56% were not yet bom at the time of the 1929 stock market crash.
48% are too young to recall World War U.
22% were bom after the Korean war ended.
4% were not yet born when the United States launched its first
manned space shot.
These facts are a dramatic way of pointing out that, in the last
decade alone, 42 million babies have been bom in the United States
(compared with 16 million deaths). And 15 million marriages have
taken place to represent one-fifth of all of the present families in the
nation.
The picture carries a message for almost every element of Amer
ican life. For the politicians, as an example, it means that talk about
the great depression will soon have about as much meaning as talk
about the charge up San Juan hill. For the nation’s industrial com
munity the picture is one of vast new potential customers. For edu
cators, it is one of a seemingly unending tidal wave of students.
The toughest impact of all probably falls upon those who remem
ber all these things—from the first space shot all the way back to the
income tax amendment.
It’S not exactly cheering to realize, all of a sudden, that you are
a member of a rapidly declining minority.—Cincinnati Inquirer.
“President Johnson's initial poli-|
cy address gave the nation and the j
world a large measure of reassur
ance. Mr. Johnson made clear that
the two themes of his White House
stewardship will be continuity and
action. He dispelled doubts that
his priorities would differ from
those of his predecessor. The em
phasis will remain on civil rights
and tax-cut legislation.
He has made a good start.”
Seattle TIMES.
“The declaration by Representa
tive Albert, the House Majority
eader, that he sees no possibility
of a House vote on civil rights in
.his session is deeply disquieting
o all who hoped President John
on’s strong plea for quick action
■ould break the long stalemate in
Congress. Once again the deep-
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Remember When?
freeze tactics of Chairman Smith
of the Rules Committee are pre
venting the House from expressing
its will on a measure which the
nation needs and which, there is
good reason to believe, a majority
in both parties favor.
“The result of this foot-dragging
is bound to be an intensification of
the resentment that has prompted
Roy Wilkins of the NAACP to
warn that his organization will set
up a purge list of Congressmen
hostile to civil rights legislation.
Mr. Wilkins, whose sound judg
ment has been exhibited repeated
ly over the years, must be aware
that purge lists are a double-edged
sword aggravating divlsdons in
the community and often backfir
ing against the causes they are
supposed to serve.”—N.Y. TIMES.