From My Chair—At Midnight
Your Boy And The Fourth
I have been thinking about the
Fourth of July—and what people
should say to their boy on that
day. I turned to a few well
known persons for guidance.
They are parents, and leaders in
their walks of life. First, I saw
a minister whose oratory and
books have made him a name and
a small fortune. He would advise
his children to approach the day
with reverence, to consider the
blessings of this country and our
obligation to the rest of the world
—and, he concluded, we must
bring disarmament and spread
the word of God among the hea
then.
He talked for half an hour and
then sHd, “That is not what you
wanted me to say, is it?”
It was not what I wanted, but
it is what most of us get, on the
Fourth of July. And if we were
that minister’s child, we would
know what to do when the ser
mon ended.
I would like to take the advice
of one of our prominent politi
cians who. when I asked him
what he would tell his children I
on th° Fourth of July, said: “Tell
them to read the Declaration of
Indeoendence—and then go fish-;
ing.”
I asked several other Public
spirited men the same question— ]
most of them drew a deep breath, I
came to the soap-box attitude,
and delivered the stereotyped
Fourth of July “Give me Liberty
or give me Death” oration. They
spoke without serious thought or
deep feeling.
Then I turned to a “little old
lady” with silvery gray hair, and
asked the same question. Her
answer was. “Theodore Roosevelt
once s'ud, and I quote, ‘the Fourth
of July is our great National cele
bration. Around it center the
body of traditional ideas for
which our country stands. Tra
ditions are splendid things for
countries or for individuals only
if they are translated into living
aspirations. We have all seen men
or women who spend their entire
time boasting of their ancestors.
This amounts to nothing and
those who do it are entirely use
less. In the same way the count
ry which looks back on its tradi
tions and does not attempt to turn
them into action for the present
or the future is dying of dry rot.
When we celebrate our National
Holiday, we should try to make
it stand out to ourselves and our
children in vivid terms of the
present day. We should try to
translate our high thought into
high action. The obligation laid
upon us by our forbearers when
they promulgated the Declaration
of Independence is not merely
to praise and revere them for so
doing but really to see that their
doctrines of Democracy, Justice
and equal opportunity are con
tinued, that the great work which
they set under way is carried to
a successful conclusion. Nine
tenths of righteousness is good
acts—not good thoughts.’ ”
In thanking her for her little
lecture, she said, “and what is
your answer to that question”—
to all the children of America—
Long live Democracy, and may
God Bless You, Celebrate the
Fourth in the best way possible,
Drive safely, play safe, keep safe,
keep thinking of the future, and
the destiny we are creating for
our children’s children.
It’s only six months till Christ
mas but a w'hole year until the
next Fourth of July.
—“Red” the typesetter
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Our Children
By Mrs. W. B. Davis
Two is the age to encourage
sociability. At 2 children don’t
play much with each other, co
operatively. However, they love
to watch each other, co-operative
ly. However, they love to watch
each other’s occupations, and en
joy playng alongside each other.
It’s worth a lot of trouble to bring
a 2-year-old every day if possible,
or at least several times a w’eek,
to where other children are play
ing. A 2 or 3-year-old child won’t
get the hang of sharing, of rough
and tumble, unless he’s already
spent months becoming used to
other children.
Here’s what happens once in
a while when the needs of the
child of 1%, 2, 2Vij aren’t recog
nized. A mother decides that she
has to go to work, and arranges
for a stranger to come in and
take care of the child during the
day. He makes no fuss the first
day, but when his mother comes
back that evening, he hangs on
to her like a leech and refuses
to let the other woman come near.
The next morning there is a scene
when his mother leaves. That
evening he refuses to let her out
of his sight, and fi hts against
being put to bed. If she fears
herself away, he may cry in fear
for hours. If she sits by his crib,
he lies down only as long as she
sits still. Her slightest move to
ward the door brings him instant
ly to his feet.
If your child is around two, be
careful about drastic changes.
If it’s almost as easy to wait six
months for a trip or to take a
job, better wait, especially if it’s
your first child. If you have to
go now, arrange for the child to
get thoroughly used to the person
who is going to take care of him,
whether it’s a friend, a relative,
a maid, or a foster mother. (If
the child is going to be staying
at the other person’s house, it’s
even more important for him to
get used to the new person and
the new place by gradual steps.)
Allow two weeks anyway.
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N.A A.C.P Confab
To Kansas City In June, 1948
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People will hold its 1948 conven
tion in Kansas City, Mo., the dele
gates to the 38th annual con
ference decided Saturday.
The Kansas City delegation
headed by Carl R. Johnson,
branch president, extended the
invitation to hold the next meet
ing in Kansas City’s mammoth,
air-conditioned Municipal audi
torium. It will be the first time
that the NAACP has met in the
Missouri city since 1923 .
The Kansas Citians presented
letters from the mayor and other
city officials to back up their
invitation. Cleveland also wajited
the convention.
NAACP Asks End
Of House Committee
The National Association for
: the Advancement of Colored
People denounced what it called
: the “indiscriminate persecution
and condemnation of sincere lib
erals” by the House Committee
on un-American Activities, and
called for its abolition.
In a resolution adopted at the
thirty-eighth annual convention,
the NAACP said the committee
“has consistently failed to investi
gate undemocratic organizations.”
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TEXAS CITY BURIES 63
UNNAMED BLAST VICTIMS
Lord, Thou has been our dwell
ing place in all generations... We
are consumed by Thine anger, and
by Thy wrath we are troubled.. .
Teach us to number our days, that
we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.”
In voice resonant as an organ
note, the Rev. F. M. Johnson, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
read from the Ninetieth Psalm as
this death-seiged city laid race,
creed and color aside last Monday
to bury its unnamed dead in sol
emn and democratic ceremony.
Over 2,000 Wiinesses
Over two thousand witnessed
the mass burial of the sixty-three
unidentified persons killed in the
April 16 disaster. The caravan
of hearses that brought the bodies
from the Camp Wallace morgue
was more than a mile long.
Ahead of the six-volunteer
pallbearers that bore casket 243
into the gate of the Texas City
Memorial Cemetery were a
Catholic priest, a subdeacon, three
acolytes, a rabbi representing the
Jewish faith, and a trio of Protes
tant ministers, including the Rev.
Johnson.
All races and creeds had to be
represented in the solemn rites
for the sixty-three graves are
marked only with a numbered
copper plate .... The race, creed
or color of the dead will never be
known.
"It Could Be Him"
An elderly white lady cried
loudly. A teen-age white lad
tried to climb a fence to “see his
daddy.” “You said he was in there
he cried to his bereaved young
mother as an old man escorted
them to a near-by car.
Wringing her hands in tear
jerking fashion, a colored woman,
too heartbroken to even cite her
name, placed a spray of white
Oleanders on a grave. “It could
be him.”
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