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Dr. M. Betliune Speaks as Bennett Dedicates Student Union Building GREENSBORO, N. C. (ANP). Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, one of the nation’s great women lead ers, addressed the women of Ben nett college here last week as the school dedicated its new stu dent union building. Mrs. Bethune praised the school’s president, Dr. David Dal las Jones, and the administration of Bennett for building the new Student Union. She also praised the college for living up to what she called the two primary pur poses of education: 1. To bring to modern man an understanding of his past. 2. To equip him to live with his neighbors. She advised the students to utilize the building and to help make it the success it should be. Foster W. Coffin, director, Wil lard hall, student union building of Cornell university, explained the growth and purposes of these buildings. He said the Associa tion of College Unions was founded in 1919, and has grown to an organization of 203 members with 124 members active (having buildings) and 79 associate (still planning). The one common denominator of student unions, he said, “is the development of a program that will contribute to the leisure time of the students in a way that will help him become a bet ter citizen of the world.’’ In closing he recommended that the students play a big role in the operation of the union, and that the faculty and student body work together in running it. Bennett’s student union is di vided into five areas—game, food, service, activity, and social. The social is a center for in formal concerts, meetings, lec tures, and similar activities; the game, bowling, table tennis, and other small table games; the food, snack bar and soda fountain, din ing hall and kitchen, private din ing rooms, and teas, luncheons, and banquets. The activity area will include student organization offices, trus tee room, and other offices, and the service area will include non resident students’ lounge, book store, post office, information service, and public telephones. The building is divided into two floors and a basement. A board of directors will run the union. It will include seven per sons from among the trustees, fac ulty, alumni, and community, five students from the upper three classes, a non-resident students, and a student at large. The col lege president, director of stu dent activities, and manager of the union will be ex-officio mem bers. From this group will be chosen ■ --: Philadelphia to Honor Dr. Bunche gglJ PHILADELPHIA. (ANP)—The city of Philadelphia will honor Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 29, with the annual Philadelphia Citizens award. The presentation will be made at the annual Christmas cotillion in Convention hall, according to Judge Herbert E. Millen, general chairman of the Philadelphia Cotillion society. Dr.* Bunche has already ac cepted the invitation. Judge Wil liam H. Hastie of the Circuit Court of Appeals will present the award to Dr. Bunche. * Mr the board of managers which does the work of operating the union. Six committees will oper ate—social, cultural, recreation, food, activities, and services. Chicago’s 1st Negro Carrier Station Chief CHICAGO. (ANP)—J. Wesley Jones, 66-year-old postoffice em | ploye, has become the first Negro | superintendent in the city here last Wednesday when he was named by Postmaster John Had erline as chief of the south side Hyde Park carrier station. Jones, in the postoffice since, 1914, was formerly assistant su perintendent of mails in charge of the scheme examination section. The Hyde Park station is one of the largest in the city. Its annual business represents half a million dollars. It has 93 regular routes and a force of about 235 employes. Jones replaces William A. Hol bing, white, who retired on pen sion last Sept. 30. The new supervisor is well known throughout Chicagoland as director of the 1,000-voiced Negro choir of the annual Chicagoland Music festival. He is director of the music department at Metro politan Community Center church. Ensembles Sings At Sliaw Univ. RALEIGH, N. C.—The One World Ensemble, an inter-racial, inter-cultural, and inter-faith vocal group, will be presented in Shaw University’s Fourth Annual Community Concert Thursday night Nov. 10, at Raleigh Memo rial Auditorium. As expressed by the Manager, Mr. Dick Camp bell, democracy is truly evi denced in this group. An assimi lation of raees will be heard— English, Negro, Korean and Jew ish. The stering and promotion committee for the concert, held its initial meeting Monday after noon, Oct. 9. Dean Strassner, chairman of the University In terim Committee, in his opening remarks at the meeting, empha sized that Shaw and its many supporters are fortunate to have the opportunity to present and enjoy such high quality musi cians. Bake Sale at Hardy’s The second annual bake sale by Quinn Chapel AME missionary society will be given Saturday, November 18, with Mrs. Margaret Williams, president, in charge. The committee is expecting a sell out as before and they have been at work for several weeks. The Rev. J. B. Brooks is the pastor. The Voice Salutes Mr. and Mrs. Felix Polk, 544 No. 22nd street, have recently returned from a month’s vacation visiting relatives and friends. The Polks motored to Louisiana and Arkansas where they made visits at Demott, Ark., Bonita, Alexan dria, Opelousas, Lafayette and Abbeville, La. At Bonita Mr.! Polk worshipped at the church of his childhood, where he had not attended for 22 years. The Polks are busy people. They came to Lincoln 28 years ago after being engaged in busi ness in Alexandria. In 1924 Mr. Polk opened a barber shop and has enjoyed a prosperous business since that time. Mrs. Polk is an excellent homemaker and she spends about three months dur ing the summer at a girls* camp at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Polk are members of Quinn Chapel AME church where they have served in vari ous departments. Mr. Polk is at present a member of the usher board and Mrs. Polk is a member of the stewardess board. t^+storians Want Story of Negro Taught in Schools, Elect Logan Living Pictures At Urban League Living pictures will be a fea ture event at the Urban League Wednesday evening, November 15. The program will be spon sored by the Mary Bethune Lit erary and Art club with Mrs. Helen Randol as chairman. Special lighting for the pic tures will be arranged and han dled by George Randol of the Rose Manor Studio. Members of the club will participate accord ing to a statement by the presi dent, Mrs. Nondus Washington of Beatrice. The program will be gin at 8 p. m. Church Launches Loyalty Month Newman Methodist church will launch a loyalty month program Sunday with the purpose “of creating a greater church pride in the community as well as among Newman members,” ac cording to Rev. R. G. Nathan, pastor. Subjects for the month are “Feast of Re na e m b ranee,” “Family Sun day,” ‘'Guest Sunday,” and Rev. Mr. Nathan <<c o ’* /'dun- Courtesy Lincoln (aun state Journal day of Sharing). Weekday ac tivities will also emphasize the loyalty theme. l\.Y. Man Promoted To Captain KITZINGEN, Germany—(ANP) —First Lt. Charles H. Borican, Jr., Staten Island, N. Y., was promoted to a captain at Kitzingen Training center headquarters last week. Capt. Borican, who holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard university, Wash ington, D. C., was inducted in the Army in July 1942. Chicago Suburb Gels First l^egro Fireman , EVANSTON, 111.—(ANP)—San ders Hicks, 23-year-old ex-serv iceman, became Evanston’s first Negro fireman here last Wednes day—on the same day that Chi cago appointed J. Wesley Jones, its first Negro superintendent of a post office carrier station. Hicks, a native of Atlanta, Ga., is currently on a one-year proba tion, with the rating of a private. A high school graduate, he has had a year and a half at Com munity college. ATLANTA. (ANP). Meeting in Atlanta for its 35th annual conference last week, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History urged more study of Negro his tory in American schools, and elected officers. Negro Enters La. State U. NEW ORLEANS, L. (ANP) — The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State university last week bowed to the dictates of the federal district court here and ad mitted the Negro Roy S. Wilson to the law school which, at an earlier date had refused his admittance. University officials, however, let it be made known that they will appeal the case to the U.S. supreme court. The court denied a request for a stay of execution until the higher tribunal renders a decision, and as a result Wilson is now liv ing in a campus dormitory. He at tended his first class last Wed nesday. Dean Henry George McMahon of the law school received Wilson and his Atty. A. P. Tureaud in his office after they had filed regis tration papers. Aside from being sure that Wilson had qualified McMahon said: “The university must abide by the court’s decree. He can attend classes as soon as he has finished registration, al though it is not completely prac tical to enter law after a term has begun. Attorney Tureaud said that he and his client were cordially re ! ceived at LSP, and that every one seemed friendly. The three-court judge ordered the admission of all qualified Negroes to LSU, but left the way open for an appeal to the U.S. supreme court. Wilson holds a bachelor of science degree from Grembling college, which is not far from his home in Ruston. It will be remem bered that the late Huey P. Long was instrumental in making the institution a state supported school. When the LSU board of super visors rejected applications for enrollment by Wilson and 11 other Negroes, the NAACP accepted Wilson’s request for legal aid and sent its chief counsel Thurgood Marshall, to represent him. Marshall argued that there was no statutory law which denied a Negro admittance to LSU, neither did the defendants allege in their petition at any time that Southern University was the equal of LSU. University officials attempted to show taht the facilities at South ern university was ideal, and that one of the law rooms was air con ditioned. Admitting this to be true, Marshall contended that the air conditioning of the zone room did not constitute the equal fa cilities sought and guaranteed. Lest We Forget Mrs. W. I. Monroe, 920 So. 12. Mrs. Virginia Brown, 930 Short. Mrs. Susie O’Donnell, 623 C St. Rev. Trago McWilliams, sr., St. Elizabeth hospital. Mrs. Lillian Bradley, St. Eliza beth. Mrs. Gladys McFields, 2047 S. Mrs. John Miller, 309 So. 20th. Mrs. Marie Copeland, 2137 R St. Mr. H. Cooke, 2001 S St. Mr. Herman Tapp, St. Elizabeth Hospital. Elected to office were the fol lowing incumbents: Dr. Rayford W. Logan, director of research; Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, president, and L. R. Mehlinger, secretary-treasurer. The administration promised to carry on the work started by the late Carter G. Woodson, most famed of all Negro historians and founder of the association. Highlight of the meeting was the demand by several speakers for the teaching of Negro history in more A me rican schools throughout the nation. Dr. R. O. Johnson of Morris Brown college keynoted this tune when he said: “We must face the fact that most people of the United States are not familiar with the Negroe’s contributions to the. social heri tage which is ours as Americans. “Rather they are victims of a deliberate and vicious effort of long duration to distort the facts in order to prevent not only whites from accepting the Negro as a person and as an equal but also to keep the Negro from re garding himself as an equal of other people. Although this cam paign has been successful, Negroes have individually and collectively been able to refute through their own achievements the theory of inequality. “This, together with the general awakening of the masses of Ne groes and the fact that the out side world has selected the Negro as the barometer of the reality of practical democracy in the United States, creates the psychological readiness among the American people for a new approach to the Negro and the part which he has played in the building of our so- / cial heritage and the part which he can and should play in the future.” UNI SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO DEVELOP NEGRO STUDIES In a report, Dr. L. D. Reddick and C. A. Bacote; history profes sors, Atlanta university, declared: “American universities in gen eral, especially the larger ones, should be encouraged to strengthen their teaching and research staffs with scholars who are qualified by interest and training to develop a program of Negro studies. “This will mean the employ ment of more Negro scholars in so-called white colleges. This recommendation, however, does (See Historians Page 2) Calendar of Events Urban League Nov. 11—Klique Klub Fashion Show Nov. 15—Living Pictures Nov. 17—Youth Carnival November YMC club Overall Apron Party. Nov. 21-22—Lester Granger, Di rector of National Ur ban League Nov. 24—Movie Church of Christ (Holiness) Nov. 6-12—Revival each night Quinn Chapel Nov. 9—Missionary, 8 p.m. Sunday evenings—Special pro grams Nov. 12—‘All Men’s Program Nov. 17—Layrrlen Meeting, 7:30 p.m.