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
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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.
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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?
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