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Friday. December 21. 1945 PORTLAND INQUIRER Page Two United States Swindle Case Flops; 18 Dining Car Workers Dismissed Readers Digest Branded As Anti-Negro. Anti-Labor by Teachers MINNEAPOLIS — (ANP) — Additional evidence was present- ed to the National Council of Teachers of English here during its recent convention to prove thart the Readers Digest is both anti-Negro and anti-Labor. The fight to bar the magazine from public high school libraries was spearheaded by Mrs. Helen Rand Miller, an Evanston, 111., teacher, and a member of the teachers’ committee on magazines and newspapers. The teachers organization began a probe of the Readers Digest following press criticism about the magazine, which boasts 11,000,000 circula tion in America and foreign countries, in 1943. Each Teacher to Decide “The committee presents no conclusions as to whether ■ We Readers Digest is suitable class room material,” a teachers’ re port said. “Each teacher will have to decide for himself wheth- er or not, in view of the informa tion contained in this report, the Readers Digest should be used in the classroom.” An insight of Readers Digest policy may be gathered from the comments made last year during the teachers’ convention at Co lumbus, O., by Dr. Edgar Dale, of Ohio State university, follow ing an interview with represen tatives of the magazine. Anti-New Deal “ It seems to me that the Read ers Digest question is a simple one,” he remarked. “The editors who talked with me after the meeting admitted, and I wrote this down at, the time, ‘The ma jority of political articles which have appeared in the Readers Digest since 1922 have been against specific actions of the ad ministration.’ "When I said, ‘Then the ma jority of your political articles are against the New Deal’ they replied, ‘Against specific actions of the New Deal.’ I wrote down their statement in their presence, pointing out to them the neces- /s it y for ¡Jdequafe documentation.” ' m L. .„1 „ J --------i U The CIO 1 has 1 leveled more than one charge against Readers Di gest that it is anti-labor. Anti-Labor “Theoretically speaking, the Digest claims to be impartial when it comes to labor questions, but it has repeatedly used the cloak of ‘impartiality’ to hide a one-sided, anti-union bias,” said the Catholic Work editorial last Save 4 White Tots Caught in Fire / ANNISTON, A la.— .(ANP) — Four white children were saved from burning to death in their home here Monday night by T/5 Joe D. Benson, 29, of Water Val ley, Miss., and Pvt. Booker T. Tibblett, 21, stationed at Ft. Mc Clellan. The two soldiers happened to see the fire as they were going back to camp. Benson knocked on the door, arousing Doris Haywood who ' broke out a glass in the front door and then went into a bed room and returned with a sleep ing baby which she handed through the opening to Benson. Then Benson battered the door and went in search of the other sleepers. Parents of the children, Mrs. Hazel Haywood and T/Sgt. and Mrs. J. D. Johnson, were away from home at the time o f the fire which destroyed their four- room home. The two rescue heroes were handed a $100 purse by city em ployes and friends and com mended to their commanding officer at ort McClellan. WHEN DOW NTOWN E A T A T Portland's Only Negro Downtown Restaurant I March. While denying that they are anti-Negro, charges have been made that editors of the maga ine are rluctant to publicize the cause of equality, justice and fair pldy for Negroes. Among the ar ticles the teacher; say the maga zine has printed to promote and foster discrimination of Negroes are “A Negro Warns the Negro Press,” January, 1943; “Sketches in Black and White,” ancedotes, April, 1943, and “How the South Feels Aout the Race Problem,' June, 1944. Relations Council Has Substitute CHICAGO — (ANP) — Neigh borhood controls based on occu pancy standards are proposed by the American Council on Race relations to replace restrictive convenants based on race or re ligion. Amalyzing the effect on re strictive covenants and the cur rent housing shortage on com munity relations, the council con cludes that new housing must be developed on a non-segregated basis to check the pread of seg will have attempted to postpone regation to other aspects of com it. But it cannot be postponed munity living, such as schools without he risk of rising racial isions and possible conflicts.” and recreation facilities. The American Council prepar The council’s analysis was pre pared by Robert C. Weaver, di ed “Hemmed In” after confer rector of community services ences with other national organ and former special assistant to izations and housing agencies in the United Housing authority, dicated the need for a clear, and is published a an illustrated simple statement of the causes, pamphlet titled “Hemmed In— costs and cures of race restric the ABC’s of Race Restrictive tive covenants. The pamphlet can be obtained from the coun Covenants” . “Hemmed In” maintains that cil offices, 32 West Randolph St., restrictive convenants have fail Chicago 1, at 10 cents per copy ed in the very purpose for which (discount on quantities). they were designed, protection of property values. The cove nants force minorities to expand in a series of unplanned break throughs at the points of weak est resistance, carrying w i t h CHICAGO — (ANP) — Negro them the overcrowding that per Business, the new magazine for petuates slum conditions. New housing cilone is ndl Negro business men;, moved irjto enough, says Dr. Weaver. There permanent headquarters here last must be provision for the plan week at 3104 South Michigan ned, orderly entrance o f minor boulevard. Free literature will be sent to ity families into new neighbor hoods. He advocates property businesses on the magaizne’s agreements in these new neigh mailing list from the new address, borhoods limiting housing units said the editor, Theries Lindsey. to single families, barring room He added that a series of articles ers and establishing standards of is being run on “How the new tax law will affect your busi maintenance. ness.” "Hemmed In” outlines the his Negro Business is being sold by tory of races restrictive cove nants, which were introduced subscription only and will not be after World War I when racial available on news stands, he dis closed. zoning was declared unconstitu tional. The pamphlet then pro ROY LIVINSTON ceeds to describe the effect of MOVING the ensuing residential segrega Hauling oi Any Kind tion on the community’s econ MO JOB Ti H > SMALL omy and the psychology of the N ON E TOO L A R G E people who live in it. M U 4423 61 N. E. San R a fa e l St. "Hemmed In” advances a three-point program; abolition of race restrictive covenants, de MME. CAROLE velopment of cocupancy stand BORN PSYCHIC ards, and the building of new non-segregated housing. T h e A sk s no q u e s tio n s ;tella a ctu a l fa c t s , givin g: nam es and da tes. pamphlet concludes with a warn R e v e a ls y o u r in n e rm o s t s e cre ts. S o lv e s b u sin e ss and p e rs o n a l ing that "If we simply create p ro b le m s . S a tis fa c tio n a ssu re d . more and larger segregated areas — H o u rs 10 to 8 — in the postwar peiod, we will 1121 S. W . Taylor Street not have solved the problem; we Magazine Moves To New Quarters DeMars Grocery Just arrived- Williams Ave. & Knott St. Fresh Vegetables 7'>aily We Welcome Your P i . ronage A. E. MOSER Drape Suits and Slacks Stanley's Clothes Shop 435 SW. Washington St. WILLIAMS AVE. VARIETY STORE G O O D EATS 25 N. W . THIRD AVE. Mary Perkins. Prop. 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