Entertains Poinsetta Club
The Poinsetta Club consisting
of 8 members were entertained
at a lovely luncheon by Mrs.
Brevy Lilly on October 6. Com
plimented were Mrs. Zeola Ham
mond and Mrs, Lenore Roberts.
Other guests were: Mrs. Vesta
Harris, Mrs Fawntella Baker, Mrs.
Marvin Winston, Mrs. Pauline
Ivory, Mrs. Doris King, Mrs.
Pecola Davis and Miss Mary
Sampson.
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Mary Bethune Club
To Meet
The Mary Bethune Literary and
Art Club will hold its first reg
ular meeting for the fall season
<bn Thursday October 17 at the
Lincoln Urban League. The
meetings will then be held twice
a month during the Fall and
Winter months. Mrs. Jennie R.
Edwards is president.
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To Hospital
Mrs. Virginia Lewis reentered
St. Elizabeth Hospital Tuesday.
Mrs. Lewis has been ill for sev
eral weeks.
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Pastoral Appointments
Rev. John Humbert was ap
pointed to fill the pastorate at the
* African Methodist Episcopal
church at Beatrice, Nebraska.
Rev. M. L. Shakespeare was
appointed to Hastings for the
fourth consecutive year.
A new building was purchased
in Hastings October 9, which will
be the home of the A. M. E.
Church, of wh:?h Rev. Shakes
peare is pastor.
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Dark Merit
by Kathryne Favors
Often we forget that one out
of every ten Americans is an
American Negro. This tenth of
the nation has contribute much to
the building of this great country
in which we live and cherish.
Many people are born and die
knowing little or nothing of the
actual contributions of his darker
brother.
It is sad, but the day is far in
the distant when boys and girls
are taught that there is only one
race and that is the race of man
kind. The day is far in the dis
tance when people are taught that
the only difference in man’s skin
is the degree of color.
The day is far in the distance
when people are taught to appre
ciate the beauty in color and
when we begin to look for the
things that we have in common
rather than the petty physical
differences that exist between
us. We must be broadminded
enough to know that all other
races have achieved as much
intellectually according to their
opportunities, as others have.
Until the day finally come that
teachers all over the world can
tell their pupils that God made
us all because he loved us all,
and that he gave us all a great
variation of physical and mental
characteristics because he would
make the population of the world
more beautiful and worthwhile,
we must use other methods to
show the people the merits of
people who are slightly different
than we are.
Because of the fact that the
merits of the Negro are often
left out of the typical history
books in our public schools, I
have decided to write a column
to inform the readers of some of
the merits and the history of the
dark man.
It is certainly true that the
Negro is mentioned a few times
in history books but the Negro
people, as other people, do not
merely want to be referred to
once in a while. He wants to be
made to feel a part of our great
society in America. In general,
Negroes are so completely left
out of history books as far as
merits are concerned. As Langs
ton Hughes once said, realizing
that the Negro should not be
made to feel ashamed of his race,
“A Negro child needs to learn of
his beauty.”
The Philosophy of ihe Race
Problem
Harry Coleman
I thank an all-kind Creator for
this tremendous possibility, that
my skin, though black, may cover
a heart as pure as any that beats
within a Saxon’s. I thank Him
that my hair, though kinked, may
cover a brain which can think
and reason clearly as profoundly
as that of the fairest white. I
thank Him that the bulge of my
lips and spread of my nose need
not forever be the inevitable
token of my disgrace; that they
may become my badge of honor
if, after fifty years of education,
I can show the rudiments, at
least, of the mental and mocal
development, to acquire which
the Anglo-Saxons has taken a
half-score of centuries.
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News From Hastings
By Mrs. Ted Smith
Mrs. S. V. Henderson and dau
ghter, Carolyn and Miss Davene
Cannon returned Friday night
after visiting a week at Denver,
Colo., where a family reunion was
held at the home of Mrs Hen
derson’s mother, Mrs. Ann? Can
non.
Mrs. Jennie Gates celebrated
her 81st birthday October 4, her
guests were Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Gates of Grand Island and Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Smith and family.
She received lovely gifts and a
beautiful cake baked by Mrs.
Gates.
Daniel and Lowell Smith spent
a week end recently in Concor
dia, Kansas at the home of their
aunt, Mrs. Viola Smith and fam
ily.
Mrs. Rubie Shakespeare spent
Wednesday in Hastings conduct
ing business. She visited at the
Ted Smith home.
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Receives Position in
School System
Mrs. Anita Miller Smith was
recently employed as assistant of
fice worker to Miss Ona Wagner,
Director of Adult Education in the
Administration Building at 22nd
and J. Mrs. Smith is a graduate
of the University of Nebraska
and is now doing work on her
Masters. She has been teaching
in Phoenx, Ariz., for the pastil
years and in Flagstaff 4 years
prior to this.
The appointment of Mis. Smith
under contract to this position
should lend encouragement to all
Negroes of the city. The fact
that she was prepared when the
opportunity came made it a re
ality. This is only the beginning
and I feel certain that we can
look forward to greater oppor
tunities. Let us prepare for any
eventuality.
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C Births
:
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Brown. 5024
Rohns St., Detroit 13, Mich., has
announced the birth of a baby
girl, Janis Sherril, born Sept. 16.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown formerly
lived here. Mrs. Brown was
Jacquelyn Young.
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