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ATLANTA DAILY PAYS "TIGER” FLOWERS TRIBUTE By Pial Stevens (From Atlanta Constitution) All the world for countless ages has admired the fighter who fights clean, who fights squarely, who fights with every ounce of his strength, and be he white, be he black or yellow, if a fighter in war or a fighter in peace battles gamely and courageous ly he wins the admiration and respect of all, whether he win or whether he lose. Such a fighter was “Tiger” Flow ers, whose sudden death in New York following a minor operation came as a shock to the athletic world and as a grievous blow to the tens of thou sands of friends this sturdy Negro possessed among both races in his native Georgia. In the ring “Tiger” Flowers reach ed the highest pinnacle possible in his class and thus brought to his native state glory and honor. But beyond this achievement “Tiger” Flowers reached the supreme heights. With all his honors, with all the adulation showered on him in many states, with all the temptations set before him in other lands, this big and open hearted Georgia Negro chose to live and walk with his old friends and his old comrades in his old home and among his old haunts in Atlanta. His head was never turned. He brought credit to the Negro race at home as well as abroad. He was a clean liv ing man, a man who loved his family and his home life and who had the desire and the stamina to resist those temptations which have not always been resisted by the champions of the boxing ring, both those of the white race and those of the Negro race. Thrifty and frugal, “Tiger” Flow ers husbanded his gains from many hard and bitterly fought ring battles and with them chose to do good deeds and good works. He was a liberal contributor to the activities of his church in which he served as a dea con. He was a contributor to many funds for the betterment of Atlanta. He built for himself and his family a magnificent home and in its pos session he had no envy from the per sons of any race. The ring record of “Tiger” Flow ers is known to every schoolboy in Georgia. It was a victorious and glorious record in more ways than one. He won many glorious victor ies yet he was even greater in de feat. He won the championship of his class and showed the bigness of his heart by almost immediately en tering the ring to defend his title. He gave his rivals every chance de manded of a square and honest fight er, and, although many of his oppo nents failed to measure up to his standard, the grizzled old “Tiger” never forgot his sportsmanship. As one of the many marks of the high esteem in which he is held by members of his race, directors of Lin coln Memorial park have donated a plot for the use of “Tiger” and his heirs. N. A. A. C. P. WINS AGAINST GARY SCHOOL SEGREGATION Mayor Admits Uselessness of Trying to Defeat N. A. A. C. P. Injunction New York City.—A determined stand in the Indiana courts, financed by the Gary branch and the national office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with generous co-operation of color ed attorneys, has squarely defeated the attempt to segregate colored stu dents in the Emerson High school of Gary, Mayor Floyd E. Williams be ing quoted in the Gary Post-Tribune, a white daily, as saying, “he was con vinced the action of the school board in appropriating the $15,000 for the temporary building was illegal and that it was a useless waste of money to try to defeat the injunction.” The injunction against the appro priation of $15,000 for a segregated school was brought in the names of A. J. Terry, a contractor and builder, and Rev. Charles Hawkins, pastor of the First Baptist church of Gary, both colored taxpayers of the city. The national office of the N. A. A. C. P. appropriated $500 for this fight, sending R. L. Bailey of Indian apolis as its attorney to assist the attorneys employed by the Gary branch. The branch has spent an unprecedentedly small sum on this important case, less than $300 to date, testifying to the loyalty and en thusiasm of the colored attorneys who have helped to gain the smash ing victory. The N. A. A. C. P. entered the case at the very outset, the branch under the leadership of its president, John W. Russell, retaining attorneys to fight the segregation attempt, acqui esced in by the city council in defer ence to a strike of Ku Klux Kian in spired white students late in Septem ber. On the night of September 29, the city council of Gary voted $15, 000 for a “temporary” high school to house the colored students then study ing in Emerson High school. On Monday, October 3, the N. A. A. C. P. filed suit for an injunction to re strain the appropriation of taxpayers’ money for such a purpose. The fol lowing lawyers of Gary, besides R. L. Bailey of Indianapolis, were asso ciated in the case: F. Lawrence An derson, Charles H. Mason, C. L. Car roll, and Edward McKinley Bacoyn. On October 13, William Pick j ens, field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., who had gone to Gary to assist in the fight, reported by telegraph that the case had been venued from Lake to Porter county, as the mayor reported too much prejudice for a fair trial in Lake county. On November 7, the original re straining order against the appropri ation for a segregated high school ■was continued as a temporary injunc tion and final hearing set for Decem ber 12. At that time Attorney R. L. j Bailey reported telegraphically to the N. A. A. C. P. national office that he did not believe the defendants would let the matter come to trial. On November 18, the mayor of Gary was publicly quoted as saying it was useless to fight the N. A. A. C. P. injunction. James Weldon John son, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., today reports by letter that the Gary council met Monday night, November 21, to act on the mayor’s recommen dation that it rescind its action ap propriating the $15,000. The motion Rescinding the appropriation was I passed in its first and second reading Jand the final passage is expected at the next meeting of the council on the first Monday in December. The victory in the Gary fight is a testimonial not only to the devotion of the colored attorneys in the case, but to the united stand of the col ored people of Gary under the able leadership of the Gary branch. THE DECEMBER OPPORTUNITY Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life for December promises to be a fitting issue closing an eventful year. Eugene Gordon in “Outstanding Ne gro Newspapers for 1927,” contrib utes his yearly appraisal of racial newspapers, measuring and scoring them on the points of general news value, columns, departments and spe cial features, editorials, makeup, and general attractiveness. Mr. Gordon has done a conscientious and dis criminating critical survey, and his article is calculated to draw interest ing comment and results long into next year. In “Racial Segregation,” William Pickens hits hard an insid ious institution, dissecting its evil in fluences from angles not hitherto considered. As a follower up of our recent article on Haiti by Mr. John Vandercook, Mr. Rayford Logan of Virginia Union university has trans lated for us “Haiti Under the Rule of the United States,” an impassioned indictment of the American occupa tion, by Mr. Dantes Bellegarde, for mer commissioner of education in Haiti and a fiery patriot. An ex tremely interesting essay, the prize winning essay of our last contest, is offered in “Moving Pictures in an Old Song Shop,” by Julian E. Bag ley of Los Angeles, Cal. Editorials by Charles S. Johnson, the standard columns, The Ebony Flute and The Dark Tower, distinguished poetry and book reviews, as well as the practical vaule of an index of the material car ried during the entire year, all con tribute toward an issue too important to be missed. COLORED MASTER BARBER ASSOCIATION Pimples Nothing is more embarrassing to a person, especially one of the younger set, than to have a face covered with a mass of pimples or blackheads, which is not very conducive to pop ularity. Many a good friendship has been spoiled by just such a complexion; but sometimes such conditions may be confused with a more complicated and malignant skin eruption. Such being the case, one should use every precaution in patronizing barber shops whose dermaticians are able to determine this difference by know ing the structure of the skin, and how it functions. The skin is lubricated by the oil gland known as the sabacious glands. When the sabacious glands are not active the skin becomes very oily. If the skin is not taken care of properly the oily secretions harden, clogging the pores, and each pore is capped on the surface with dust from the oil. Thus, those malicious little dis turbances known as blackheads put in their appearance. At this stage the follicles are abnormally large due to the pressure of dried oil, dead cells, and microbe invasion, results in infection, that causes a harvest of pimples. It must be remembered the skin must primarily be kept clean, other wise very little can be accomplished. Sometimes a whole crop of pimples may result from one lone infection. The spot is tender and the afflict ed person may finger the irritation and cause it to infect other portions of the skin. Care chould be taken in this case by using the best methods of treat ment, also patronizing places where strict rules of sanitation are prac ticed. The use of clean towels and clean hands, sterilized tools, which are sources of the precautions to be used; as skin infections sometimes prove more disastrous than organic diseases. | - PAUL ROBESON AT LAKE New Lake presents next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Paul Robeson, the world’s greatest col ored actor, in “Body and Soul.” This is by far the greatest colored pic ture ever shown in Omaha and was brought here at a tremendous ex pense for the Lake patrons ahead of all other theatres in the several states adjoining Nebraska. H. J. PINKETT, Attorney Notice By Publication on Petition for Settlement of Final Adminis tration Account. In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska. In the matter of the Estate of Ola Roulette, Deceased. All persons interested in said mat ter are hereby notified that on the j23rd day of November, 1927, Eva J. Roulette filed a petition in said County Court, praying that her final administration account filed herein be settled and allowed, and that she be discharged from her trust as ad ministratrix and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said [Court on the 17th day day of Decem ber, 1927, and that if you fail to ap pear before said Court on the said 17th day of December, 1927, at 9:00 o’clock A. M., and contest said peti tion, the Court may grant the prayer of said petition, enter a decree of heirship, and make such other and further orders, allowances and de screes, as to this Court may seem : proper, to the end that all matters • pertaining to said estate may be l finally settled and determined. 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