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Northwestern University Divided Over
‘Racial’ Firing of Women’s Counselor
i* Lincoln U. Dean
Named to Mizzoo
Bar Committee
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
(ANP). Dean Scovel Richardson
of the Lincoln University School
of law was named a member of
the nine-man committee on legal
< education and admission to the
bar by Forrest M. Hemker, presi
> dent of the Missouri bar, here
' last week.
Function of the committee is
to keep abreast of the trends in
legal education and to make
recommendations for any changes
needed with respect to profes
sional education in the state and
jj^ admission to the bar under the
rules of the. Missouri Supreme
court. The committee will study
relevant information available
through the Association of Amer
ican Law schools, American Bar
association and the National Con
ference of Bar examiners.
Sex Histories of
Negro Same As
Others—Kinsey
WASHINGTON. (ANP).
“There is no evidence that Negro
f sexual histories are different
from that of any other segment
of the population if matched
social level with social level, age
for age, and educational back
ground with educational back
ground,” Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey
told Washington newsmen, Tues- j
day.
In Washington for a month’s
stay, Dr. Kinsey was honor
guest of the Capital Press club
at its regular weekly luncheon-'
meeting. The famous scientist
was also guest speaker at the
school of medicine, Howard uni
versity, Thursday evening.
The name of Dr. Kinsey is now
familiarly known in every house
* hold because of the famous “Kin
sey Report,” a scientific study of
human sex behavior. Dr. Kin
sey, a professor at Indiana uni
versity, began his research on
sexual activity more than ten
years ago, studying and sampling
insects. Then suddenly he
realized that after 2,000 years,
the field of human sexual activi
ties had never been invaded.
When this idea was first ad
vanced, everybody was against
him, he said, except his wife, one
colleague on the university fac
ulty and perhaps one person here
and there.
After 10 years of research, per
sonal interviews and recording
| sex histories, Dr. Kinsey came
out with a volume of more than
800 pages called “Sexual Be
havior in the Human Male,”
which hit the best seller list and
stayed there for quite some time.
Within the next two years, Dr.
Kinsey hopes to have his study,
sex behavior of the female, ready
for publication. The sexual habits
I of 100,000 American men and
r women is expected to be in
cluded in his eight-part monu
mental report.
McWilliams Is President
Following a union meeting held
) Sunday Nov. 28 at Newman
Methodist Church, the Rev. Trago
T. McWilliams, Sr., was elected
president of the Ministerial Al
liance to succeed the Rev. Wil
liam A. Greene.
EVANSTON, 111. (ANP). North
western university was again di
vided over the racial question last
week when new evidence was in
troduced in the explosive McCarn
issue.
Student editor Mai Shaw and
reporter Frank Cormier of the
Daily Northwestern, student
paper, have been reprimanded by
the school board of publications
for the printing of a copyrighted
story declaring that Mrs. Ruth
McCarn, popular counselor of
women, had been forced to re
sign because of having too much
interest in Negroes and Jews.
Dr. Franklin Bliss Snyder, uni
versity president, denied the story
and declared th^t the issue was
closed.
Miss Mary F. Hutchins, daughter
of Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins
of the University of Chicago, who
exploded the issue with her story
to the student paper, so far has
been called down in any way.
Mrs. McCarn, known to be a I
liberal at Northwestern, where un- !
til September, 1947, no Negroes
were permitted to live on the cam
pus, announced her resignation
last spring. It was on the basis of
a year’s leave of absence with pay
from July, 1948 to July, 1949, with
an effective date of August, 1949.
Although numerous school
groups and the student paper as
well as Chicago dailies asked the ,
reasons for her resignations, school j
officials gave as the only reason, j
the “good of the school” and an
nounced the case closed.
Last Tuesday the Daily North
western blew the ease wide open
again with a copyrighted story
quoting Miss Hutchins as stating
definitely that Mrs. McCarn was
fired because she was “too liberal
regarding Negroes and Jews.”
At the printing of the story
Mrs. McCarn and Chancellor
Hutchins refused to deny or af
firm the story, and Dr. Snyder
could not be reached because he
was in New York.
Most of the colored students
who hail from far away places
in the south, usually are stuck
with unsupervised housing in the
city of Evanston. These unfortu
nate students often are forced to
pay rents of more than $10 a
week, without board, for a room
with a colored family in town.
In some “homes” as many as
four students are crammed into
one room at a rent of $6.50 a
week each. At International
house the students pay only $175
for a school year.
Some of the men live reason
ably at the YMCA. Other stu
dents commute from Chicago
which takes up nearly three
hours of riding a day.
Dawson Will Head
Congress Group
WASHINGTON.—Rep. William
L. Dawson (d., 111.), slated to be
the first Negro to head a congres
sional committee, said he antici
pates no raciol problem In work
ing with four southern commit
teemen.
Dawson said he would accept
the chairmanship of the important
house executive expenditures
committee if it is tendered him.
The 62 year old Chicago attorney
is in line for the position under
the seniority system.
Concerning the racial question,
Dawson said: “I have always
been treated with respect and dig
nity by other members of congress
and I treat them the same way."
Adams Elected
Barkley Expects
Passage of Some
Civil Rights Bills
By Alice A. Dunnigan.
WASHINGTON. (ANP). With
the full support of President Tru
man and Vice President Alben W.
Barkley, it is almost certain that
some civil rights legislation will
pass the new session of congress.!
Senator Barkley, who will serve
as senate majority leader from the
time congress convenes Jan. 3,
until he takes his seat as vice
president on Jan. 20, assured the
press Wednesday that he thought
some civil rights legislation would
be enacted.
AMEs Plan to Buy
The ‘State Side’ of
Wilberforce Univ.
NEW YORK. (ANP). The AME
church is planning to buy Wil
berforce university from the State
of Ohio, it was learned here this
week.
Although Bishop D. Ward
Nichols of the First Episcopal dis
trict was known to have left the
city Monday to attend an execu
tive conference of the school
board in Xenia and has since re
turned, he could not be reached
for a statement.
On Tuesday the school burned
a mortgage for $30.000.. which was
held by the First National bank
of Xenia, the school’s last out
standing debt, $20,000 being left
by Dr. Charles Wesley, president
now of the state controlled school,
and $10,000 incurred since Dr.
Chai'les Leander Hill took over
as the new president.
Among the bishops attending
the mortgage burning on Tuesday
night were D. Ward Nichols; A. J.
Allen; George W. Baber; D. O.
Walker, and J. H. Clayborne.
A conference will soon be held
by the executive board of the
school and the governor-elect of
Ohio, as well as with other state
and city officials.
Peaches Winston
Well Received In
St. Joseph, Mo. *
Friday evening, November 26,
Miss Winifred Winston, accompa
nied at the piano by Mrs. Eugenia
Brown, presented a recital in the
Junior College auditorium at St.
Joseph, Missouri. Miss Winston
appeared there at the invitation
of Mr. Arthur Shropshire, prin
cipal of Bartlett High School, after
having heard the youthful singer
while attending the University of
Nebraska here last summer, where
he was working on his Ph.D.Ed.
The occasion was a benefit for the
Branch of the St. Joseph Y.M.C.A.
At intermission time, Miss Win
ston was presented with a bouquet
of yellow chrysanthemums.
Following the recital, she was
special guest at a party given by
Teen Agers of the Y.M.C.A.
groups for about 50 guests, at
which time she also received a
token of their admiration.
Mrs. M. K. Winston, her mother,
went to St. Joseph on Friday to
be present for the concert.
After spending Saturday with a
friend, Winifred returned to Lin
coln via train.
Has Vo*® |?h Dist
Foster»« *Tn
Dr. John Adams
Quinn Chapel
Gives Offering
For CROP
“We must broaden our hori
zons,” Rev. J. Brooks told his
congregation at Quinn Chapel on
Thanksgiving day. Speaking for
the special service, he continued.
“It is a dangerous thing for us to
consider our religion as belong
ing only to ourselves and not
letting it enter into our relation
ships with others.”
In accordance with a resolu
tion of a recent church confer
ence, the offerings at the service
were donated to the Christian
Rural Overseas Program for Eu
ropean relief.
Amliersl Plii Psi
Initiates Despite
Fraternity Row
COLUMBUS, O. (ANP). The
widespread agreement and dis
agreement with the action taken
by Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity’s na
tional executive council in sus
pending the Amherst College
chapter because it had pledged a
Negro sophomore student to mem
bership caused Howard L. Hamil
ton, National President, to call the
council into special session in
New York Sunday to discuss what
further action should be taken.
A flood of letters had been re
ceived in the local headquarters
of the fraternity, many from frat
brothers expressing approval of
the action taken in dropping the
Amherst chapter, which was held
to have “broken an unwritten law”
barring Negroes from membership.
However, others held that Chin
ese, Jews and members of other
racial and religious groups had
been admitted but that the only
group against which the “unwrit
ten law” was directed has been the
Negro.
Among the letters received was
one from Ernest K. Lindley, news
paper commentator, Phi Kappa
Psi and Phi Beta Kappa frat
brother and former Rhodes Schol
ar at Oxford university. He urged
the council to “reconsider and re
voke its action” against the college
chapter.
Meanwhile, the suspended local
held initiation ceremonies Nov. 23
Dr. John Adams, Sr., prominent
Omaha attorney and Presiding
Elder of the Omaha District of
the AME Church found himself
unexpectedly elected to the Ne
braska unicameral legislature. Dr.
Adams, who was a candidate from
Omaha’s 5th district had been re
ported as losing the Nov. 2nd
election to Senator Harry Foster
on an unofficial tally of 6,024 to
6,208. However, when the Board
of Canvassers made their official
tally on Nov. 19, it was found
that Adams had won the tilt 6,248
to Senator Foster’s 6,108. Senator
Foster does not plan to contest
the official count.
Dr. Adams thus becomes the
first Negro member of the Ne
braska legislature since his son,
John, Jr., represented the 5th dis
trict back in 1936. In all, John
Adams, Jr., served 8 years in the
legislature and was a charter
member of the unicameral senate
when the two-house system
changed over.
Senator-elect Adams received
his legal education at Lincoln
University, Pennsylvania, and at
Yale received his B.A. degree at
Gammon Thelogical Seminary in
Atlanta, Ga., where he was born.
He married his wife Hattie E., in
Wilmington, N. C., where she was
principal of Peabody school.
Dr. Adams was admitted to
practice at Columbia, S. C., and
has been admitted to all courts,
including the U. S. Supreme
Court, before which he has argued
many cases. Perhaps the most
sensational one being the case of
the Commonwealth of South
Carolina vs. Pink Franklin which
involved the liberty of one Pink
Franklin and his wife Sad—both
of whom had been convicted and
sentenced to hang. Young attor
ney Adams appealed the case
from the South Carolina Supreme
Court to the U. S. Supreme Court
where he won a reversal of the
previous convictions and the free
dom of the pair.
He has probably tried more
Courts Martial cases than many
other civilian lawyers during his
Cont. on Page 3, C’ol. 3.
Negro Member of
French National
Council Presides
PARIS.—Gaston Monnerville,
Negro member of the French Rad
ical Socialist party, was elected
President of the Council of the
Republic, upper house of the
French parliament, it was an
nouncfd last Thursday. This is
Monnerville’s second time as head
of the salon. He nosed out Henri
Maxtel, communist party candi
date, 199 to 19.
General Charles DeGaulle’s par
ty, although the strongest in the
upper house, did not offer a candi
date since the Council is only ad
visory to the lower, legislating
house, the National Assembly.
for its pledgee class of 16 Amherst
students, including Thomas W.
Gibbs, Evanston, 111., student over
whom the controversy is raging.
The local, now known as Amherst
Phi Psi, devised a brief, simple
ritual for the initiation.
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