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CAROLINA COLLEGE MAKES PROGRESS UNDER SHEPARD Durham, N. C.—The notable pro gress which North Carolina has been making in an educational, commercial and civic way has brought to the fore many outstanding developments and individuals. Notable among these are the North Carolina College for Negroes, located at Durham. This institution, whose history has been closely associated with the rise of the city and state, first opened its doors in 1910. Dr. James E. Shepard was its guiding star then as now. Starting as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, it acquired under its leadership and so licitation property worth $135,000 which in 1921 because of financial stringency and the excellent work it was doing, the state took over, re naming the institution the Durham State Normal School. Copyright—A. N. P. DR. JAMES E. SHEPARD Later, when the North Carolina legislature decided upon a state col lege, this same institution was se lected and Dr. Shepard chosen to head the work which plans in process of development are expected to make one of the greatest educational insti tutions serving the race. In addition to his school work, Dr. Shepard finds time to serve as Grand Master of the Masons of the state, the richest jurisdiction in America, with 20,000 members, and Patron of the Eastern Star. Country-wide attention is being at tracted to the conference which Dr. Shepard, in conjunction with C. C. Spaulding, and W. G. Pearson, as members of the executive committee, is calling to meet in Durham, Decem ber 7th. It is expected to bring to gether the leading business, educa tional, and religious leaders of the race. SOUTHERN VISITORS LEAVE FOR HOME Mrs. Charles A. Stewart, accom panied by her daughter, Evangeline, and son, Charles, A. Jr., left for their home in Wilmington, N. C., Wednes day, after a delightful six weeks’ visit with relatives in Omaha. Mrs. Stew art is the sister of Mrs. John Adams, wife of the Rev. John Adams, pre siding elder of the Omaha district of the A. M. E. church. However, the Stewarts are as staunch Episcopalians as the Adamses are strict Methodists, and there is no jealousy about it. Miss Stewart is a student at Fisk Uni versity, where she is majoring in so ciology and Charles, Jr., may enter Fisk this fall. The Stewarts made many warm friends while here and were the recipients of many social attentions. These genial southerners expressed themselves as delighted with Omaha and Omaha ns who met them were certainly delighted with them. URBAN LEAGUE REPORTS ON INDUSTRY FOR JUNE Bulletin No. 16 of the Industrial De partment of the National Urban League Summarizes Em ployment for Month General Conditions Despite the seasonal unemploy ment and much that has become chronic in parts of the middle west, evidences of improvement in the gen eral occupational status of Negroes were reported for June. Because warm weather was late arriving sum mer resorts did not offer the usual relief to students seeking work; some of them accepted employment as help ers in industrial plants or elevator operators in clubs and hotels located in the east or middle west. Gaia* A significant achievement was the passage of a bill in the Illinois legisla ture placing a unique penalty upon schools which fail to accept students because of their race or color. The bill, which was introduced in the House by Representative Charles A. Griffin, one of the four colored mem bers of the legislature, provides that no school which bars persons of any race or color can be considered in good standing by the State and that graduates of such schools cannot be admitted to take examinations for licenses to practice their trades or professions. Illinois accomplished another triumph in the appointment of David Hawley as assistant super intendent of Armour Station in Chi cago. This is the first time in thirty years a member of the Negro race had been so honored. In Boston, a young Negro was made manager of a store operated by a chain grocery system. A student from the A. and T. college in Greens boro, N. C., was employed in the Richmond, Ind., plant of the Inter national Harvester company, the first to be employed for several years in the tool making department of that plant. In Milwaukee, a colored girl became cashier in a large key fac tory, and the Family Welfare Society of that city employed its first col ored visitor in the person of Miss Anna Howard, a graduate of Fisk University. Here also the return of three foundries to full time work schedules provided employment for more than 200 men in jobs formerly occupied by them. Baltimore wit nessed the innovation in one of the city’s offices of two typists and one other clerical opening was reported. In Kansas City, the packing houses and the American Radiator Company hired more colored men than at any time recently. I In St. Louis the shift from white to colored workmen on street paving jobs began when the temperature mounted to 90 degrees — a system practiced there for several years. In Lexington, Ky., Negro brick masons and plumbers are kept busy on the largest jobs in the city. In New Lon don, Conn., Negro waiters temporar ily replaced white waiters when they disagreed with the headwaiter until white waiters from New York could be brought in for permanent employ ment. The management claimed that the patrons objected to being served by colored waiters. An idea of the occupational diver sification of Cleveland Negroes was obtained from the placement figures of the Negro Welfare Association. This Association found employment in thirty-six different lines of work for males and twenty for females. Seventy-five different employers called for male help and ninety for female help. A new hotel which opened in June employed colored maids and elevator operators. The post office department ap pointed two colored men as foremen in the New York district. A colored woman has been made traveling in structor for a novelty paper company. She will travel in the South. Anoth er New York company is seeking col ored salesmen to handle its wares, a policy it has been reluctant to adopt. Lossei When the management of a theatre in New York whose patronage is 75 per cent colored, discovered the racial identity of its ticket seller she was discharged. Some department stores in Philadelphia substituted white tea room girls for colored. In Buffalo the Pullman shops, one of the largest employers of Negro labor in that city, laid off a large number of men. Many workers have left the city for railroad construction centers. Tam pa, Fla., reported a continuous sub stitution of white labor for Negro. This is true of menial workers as well as industrial workers. Organized Labor Negroes encountered the antipathy of union labor in several instances last month, notably in St. Louis, where union plasterers egged newly plastered walls done by non-union workers. There were instances of harmony, as well, particularly in New York city, where colored motion pic ture operators who recently joined the motion picture union, were em ployed in a Harlem theatre. SLATER FUND PUBLISHES BROCHURE ON AFRICAN RACES AND CULTURE _ I The John F. Slater Fund has just published “Native African Races and Culture” as Occasional Papers No. 2B, by James Weldon Johnson, and with an introductory note by James H. Dillard, director of the Slater and Jeannes Funds. Mr. Johnson gives a brief but comprehensive picture of the contributions to civilization made by African Negroes and dispels the often asserted defense of slavery in the United States that Negroes were brought to America empty handed s-nd received all they possess here in America. Among these contributions are political and governing systems, development of agriculture, contribu tions to music and the plastic arts, discovery of processes for smelting iron, and others of great value. In addition to general distrbution the Slater Fund Occasional Papers are used widely in schools, most of them white and in the South, which are supported in part or in whole by the Fund. It is felt that the spread ing of this knowledge in the South will do great good. STEREOPTICON LECTURE A stereopticon lecture will be given Sunday night, July 31, at the Omaha 3rd S. D. A. church, Twenty-fifth and Indiana streets. “God’s Symbolic History of the World. The Fifth Universal Kingdom. By whom? and Where Will It Be Set Up?” by the pastor-evangelist, J. W. Allison, who is conducting the Bible Prophetic Lecture Series. CHEAPER RENTS Four flats and three store rooms at Twenty-seventh and Lake. Re pairs made to suit renter. Low rents for respectable and responsible rent ers. CHAS. SOLOMON, —Adv. 2615 Maple St. LINCOLN NEWS Mrs. Mattie Swanigan, who was seriously injured in a recent auto mobile accident on the Beatrice road, died at the hospital Monday at 4 p. m. The body will be taken to her home in Louisville, Ky., for burial. Mrs. Lillian Kinney is confined with illness. Remit for your paper. Mrs. Mayme Todd has returned home, accompanied by her mother, from Brunswick, Mo. Miss Olla Haskell of St. Joseph, Mo., is in the city and attending the summer school at State University. Miss Haskell is a teacher in the St. Joseph public schools. Mrs. Katherine Moore, who is con fined in the hospital, is reported do ing fine. The radio program given by A. P. A. sorority at (juinn Chapel A. M. E. church last Friday night was some thing out of the ordinary, but was not well patronized. Mr. Calvin W. Stephens of Louis ville, Ky., is a recent comer to the city, and is taking a law course in University law department. CULTURAL CENTER CLOSES SUMMER SCHOOL SATURDAY The Cultural Center announces the close of its first summer vacation school, with a final exhibit and pro gram to be held in Swift’s employees’ cafeteria, at Twenty-seventh and Q streets, on Saturday evening, July 30th, at 8:15 p. m., and cordially invites its friends and patrons to be present. The school has had an average daily attendance of 80 in its classes, and has accomplished results of in terest to all who are concerned with community development in Omaha. The year’s record shows a total at tendance for the first six months of 9,54.3, with 427 sessions of clubs and classes. SOUTH OMAHA Mrs. Dealia Keaton, who has been confined to her bed a week, is slowly improving. Mr. and Mrs. John Haley and chil dren of McCook, Neb., motored over last week and were house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Moffett. Vacation school at the Cultural Center, 2915 R street, will close with exhibits and a program in Swift’s cafeteria at Twenty-seventh and Q streets, Saturday evening, July 30. Mrs. M. L. Rhone, director, an nounces for the exhibits an enter taining display of work from all the classes. School opened with enroll ment of 60 scholars, and closes with 141. Mr. and Mrs. John Haley of Mc Cook, Neb., and Mrs. Oscar Moffett have returned from a month’s motor ing trip east to Savannah, 111., and Chicago. They report a pleasant trip. | Reid-Duffy jj PHARMACY I r ' ’ FREE DELIVERY ! I | Phone Web. 0609 ;; | 24th and Lake Streets j‘ and 24th and Cuming | OMAHA, NEB. <’ ROBINSON’S SKIN WHITENER and Freckle-Remover improves your complexion while you are asleep. For sale by LIBERTY DRUG CO. 1904 North 24th St. Web. 0388 SHOE REPAIRING BENJAMIN & THOMAS always give satisfaction. Best material, reason able prices. All work guaranteed. 1415 North 24th St., Webster 6084 FOR RENT—Modern seven-room house, 919 North Twenty-sixth street. Near car line. $20. Call We. 0919 mornings. Helps to a Reliqious Life I——•.. » «9,1 Seventh Sunday After Trinity—July 31, 1927 A Prayer Lord of all power and might, Who art the Author and Giver of all good ! things; graft in our hearts the love ] of Thy name, increase in us true re ligion, nourish us with all goodness, 1 and of Thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Think on These Things: I speak after the manner of men I because of the infirmity of your ■ flesh; for as ye have yielded your members servants unto uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to j righteousness unto holiness. For | when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. . . . For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of -God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans vi 19-23. Last Sunday’s prayer was a prayer for love. "Pour into our hearts such love towards Thee.” Today’s prayer is for Growth. For love also. Growth by love and through love. “Graft in our hearts the love of Thy Name.” God’s Name stands for all He is. “In crease in us true religion.” This of necessity if His love he engrafted in our hearts. True Religion must be the fruitage of engrafting into Christ. And that’s what this means. As the graft is bound into the tree, so we by religion—re, back or again; and ligare, to bind—binding back, are united to God; there to be nourished in goodness, in the close ties of serv ice, the bond of our culture. The words of the Epistle emphasize the change wrought in those engraft ed in the Vine, show the change that the Love of God has accomplished. It has transformed servants of sin • into servants of righteousness; where : the fruit of the former action was to j ripen in spiritual death, by the change it is to ripen into a glorious harvest ' of righteousness. This harvest is I from the “Giver of all good things.” There comes an illumination from above which place low and grovelling things, thoughts, acts and deeds in their true light, with the result that shame takes the place of pride. The folly and fruitlessness of those sordid things which once delighted makes one ashamed that he could ever have prize them. Two involiable laws appear: I 1 ) The wages of sin is Death. (2) The Gift of God is Eternal Life. Which do you want, Death or the more abundant Life? Classified FOR RENT—Furnished room in strictly modfern home. One block from Dodge carline. Call during business hours, WE. 7126, even ings, WE. 2480. tf-12-10-26. FOR RENT—Neatly furnished room. Modern home. With kitchen priv ilege. Call Web. 6498. —tf. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. Web ster 2180. 2616 Patrick avenue. WANTED—Working girl to take a room in my cosy apartment. Web. 1186. FOR RENT—Six rooms, 1148 North 20th street; five rooms, 1152% North 20th. Modern except heat. Webster 6299. % FOR RENT—Furnished room in mod ern home, with kitchen privileges. Man and wife preferred. Call WE. , 0919 mornings. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. 2516 Patrick avenue. Tel. WE. 2180. NICELY furnished rooms. All mod ern. WE. 3960. FOR RENT—Nearly furnished room in modern home, kitchen privileges. WE. 3308. 4-T. UNDER!AKERS JONES & COMPANY, Undertakers 24th and Grant Sts. WEbster 1100 Satisfactory service always. PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS A. F. PEOPLES. Painting and decor ating, wall paper and glass. Plas tering, cement and general work. Sherwin-Williams paints. 2419 Lake St. Phone Webster 6366. rX-X-XX-X-X-XXX-X-X-XX-X1 EMERSON’S LAUNDRY \ The Laundry That Suita All £ j A .301 No. 24th St. Web. 0820 f LAWYERS W. B. BRYANT, Attorney and Coun selor-at-Law. Practices in all courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th and Farnam Sts. AT. 9844 or Ken. 4072. W. G. MORGAN—Phones ATlantic 9344 and JAckson 0210. H. J. PINKKTT, Attorney and Coun selor-at-Law. Twenty years’ ex perience. Practices in all courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th and Farnams Sts. AT. 9344 or WE. 3180 HOTELS PATTON HOTEL, 1014, 1016, 1018 South 11th St. Known from coast to coast. Terms reasonable. N. P. Patton, proprietor. THE HOTEL CUMMINGS, 1916 Cum ing St. Under new management. Terms reasonable. D. G. Russell, proprietor. BAGGAGE AND HAULING J. A GARDNER’S TRANSFER. Bag gage, express, moving, light and heavy hauling. Reliable and com petent. Six years in Omaha. 2622 Maple Street. Phone WEbster 4120. C. H. HALL, stand, 1403 No. 24th. Baggage and express hauilng to all parts of the city. Phones, stand, WE. 7100; Res., WE. 1066. Harry Brown, Express and Transfer. Trunks and Baggage checked. Try us for your moving and hauling. Also, coal and ice for sale at all times. Phone Webstar 2973. 2013 Grace street. DRUG STORES ROSS DRUG STORE, 2306 North 24th Street. Two phones, WEbster 2770 and 2771. Well equipped to supply your needs. Prompt service. THE PEOPI.ES’ DRUG STORE, 24tb and Krskine Streets. We carry a full line. Prescriptions promptly filled. WEbster 6323. BEAUTY PARLORS MADAM Z. C. SNOWDEN. Scientific .scalp treatment. Hair dressing and manufacturing. 1164 No. 20th St. WEbster 6194 I N. W. WARE | ATTORNEY AT LAW | ;j; 1208 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska | :j: Phones Webster 661 .'{-Atlantic 8192. | ! | \