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PICKING A CAPTAIN
The Chicago Daily Sun.
Last week the Yale football
ball team elected Levi Jackson,
a great backfield player, to be
captain for 1949. The unanimous
election of Jackson wouldn’t ordi
narily have made a ripple in the
day’s sports news. But his elec
tion was different. Jackson is a
Negro. He was the lirst of his
race to wear Yale’s blue jersey.
There was no question about
Jackson’s ability. He was chosen
a member of the Associated Press
All-Eastern team. The New
Haven Gridiron club honored
him as the “outstanding football
player in 1948 in the Yale bowl."
The town of New Haven, where
Yale is located, was happy about
Jackson’s choice, because he was
the first “town boy” to be elected
captain since 1931.
The rest of the country should
be happy, too, that his fellow
players forgot the color of Jack
son’s skin and saw him only as
the best player on their team, a
real leader.
LaFayette college in Easton, Pa.,
recently turned down an invitation
to play in the Sun Bowl at El
Paso, Tex., because Texas has a
law prohibiting a Negro from
playing in the stadium. One of
LaFayette’s best players is a
Negro. The team would have had
to leave him at home. The players
decided against such an action.
Some day, we hope, some peo
ple in Texas, other Southern states
and even in Chicfego, will learn
that the less we are all concerned
about a person’s race, religion, na
tionality or politics, and the more
we judge him by his character and
his works, the better team play
we’ll have all around. That goes
for sports, business and life in
general.
BINGO
The Omaha World Herald.
Members of an Omaha organ
ization called the MacArthur
Mothers club are involved in a
dispute over the club’s funds. One j
faction charges that there has been
no proper accounting for about
eight thousand dollars, reputedly
the profit from bingo games, op
erated by the club.
In Detroit, too, bingo games are
in the news. A grand jury is in
vestigating bingo games which, it
is charged, are being run for pri
vate profit. The police dropped
in at a game being operated by
a group called the Society of Good
Neighbors, Inc., but refused to ar
rest the operator despite his plea
on bended knees (literally) that
he be arrested. The reluctance of
the police was not explained but
can be guessed at; if they prose
cuted the Society of Good Neigh
bors' for running a bingo game
they would, logically, have to
prosecute well-established church
groups as well.
The incident demonstrates the
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To start the week off nice and
fresh. Let me remind you that
there are only 13 more shopping
days until Christmas.
* * *
Speaking of Christmas, here’s
a note of fashion from the wise.
Listen girls if by chance you are
attending a formal party during
the holidays, the question is,
where do we wear the flower?
Why not try a bit of transparent
tape on the shoulder?
* * *
While we are on the subject
of fashion, the latest deal about
town is ^ the twin sweaters that
Jean Burns and Frank King
(steady deal) are wearing. They
are real cute. Incidently, if you
live on 22nd street between “O”
and “R” you would have seen
quite a show, free of charge, on
Saturday about 12 o’clock. What
about that kids?
* * *
There was a Teen Age Party
Saturday night in the Urban
League Gym.
* * *
There are a few teens that had
better watch what they are do
ing from now on. It will make
interesting reading. “Hear Me.”
* * *
Now for a bit of humor:
Sally: “I don’t like some of
these modern dances. They’re
nothing but hugging set to
music.”
Nancy: “Well, what is there
about that to which you object?”
Sally: “The Music.”
* * *
Freddie: “I’m forgetting men.”
Elsie: “So am I. I’m for getting
a couple of them as quick as
possible.”
* * *
“Lips that touch wine shall
never touch mine,” declared the
fair N.U. co-ed. And after she
graduated she taught school for
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That bashful boyfriend of mine
is a G-man.
“A government man?”
“Naw, all he say is ‘Gee’.”
Personalities of the Week
By Kilroy
Girl
Hair.Birdie Powell
Eyes.Phyllis Holcomb
Face .Vonna Finley
Figure.Bettie Rose Huston j
Feet .Mary Collier i
Personality . Betty Wilson
Boy
Height .Richard Holcomb
Face . Nate Casteel
Hair .Bertram Cooke
Eyes .Maurice Crouch
Build .Fletcher Bell
Personality.Albert Bowen
Little Rock Gets Postal
Clerk; 1st In 30 Years
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ANP).
Quietly working in the Little
Rock post • office for the past
three months is Porter G. Stokes,
29. He is the first Negro clerk
to be employed in a clerical posi
tion here in 30 years.
Stokes passed a civil service
examination to earn his appoint
ment. He is a veteran of World
War II, having served as corporal
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in the army in Scotland, England,
France, Germany, Belgium and
Luxemburg.
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Apology io Hazel Scott
AUSTIN, Tex.—Disapproval of
“the absurd and humiliating Jim
Crow laws of the South” was
voiced last week by the Campus
Guild, a co-operative house on
the University of Texas campus,
in connection with pianfy Hazel
Scott’s refusal to perform before
a segregated audience on the
campus.
The Guild, in a letter to Miss
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what they described as a dis
courtesy to the famed musician
by “another co-operative house.”
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