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VVol. 3, No. 64 Lincohi 3, Nebraska Official and Legal Newspaper Thursday, October 13, 1949
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ALPHAS MEET IN OIL CITY—A portion of the delegates to the
S-W convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity which met in Okla
homa City, Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. Front Row (1. to r.) Dr. H. Councill
Trenholm, president Alabama State College; Lionel Newson, Exec.
Council; Otis Freeman, Gen. chm.; L. H. Williams (U. of N. ’28),
Regional Director; A. Maceo Smith, Southwestern vice-president;
Charles Goolsby (U. of N.) Regional Director, and Bennie D. Brown,
Chicago, general secretary. Also in picture is Robert Fairchild,
Tulsa, (U. of N. ’28).
Alpha Phi Alpha Southwestern
Vonvention Notes Progress In
Education, Citizenship Rights
When the Southwestern Regional convention of the
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity met at Oklahoma City September
30th through October 2nd, it brought together students from
campuses and other college men from ten states (from
Colorado to Texas and Louisiana) under the convention
theme, “Full Citizenship Now, No Compromise.”
At the Saturday clinic on equality, Dr. G. L. Harrison,
president of Langston University, discussed the movements
for the opening of graduate
schools in Texas and Oklahoma
and the contribution the fra
ternity is making thru the efforts
of such members as Heman
Sweatt in Texas. Other speakers
on gains in civil rights were
President Pearlyear, Culver Col
lege, Texas; Dr. John E. Cadwell,
Houston and Bro. Nelson Jack
son, Southern Field Director for
the National Urban League.
A panel discussion brought to
gether students from Langston
University, Tillotson College and
Wiley College to discuss the role
undergrads can play in the
achievement of civil rights. The
discussion was summarized by
Charles Goolsby, director for
Nebraska and Iowa.
Dr. Felton G. Clark, president
of Southern University, New Or
leans, in a moving and powerful
address developed Carlyle’s state
ment that “that which thou seek
est is already within thee, the
ideal and the impediment.”
Highlight of the meet was the
public forum on Sunday at which
Dr. L. Hume Williams, director j
for Colo, Kan., Oklahoma and
Arkansas, presided. Dr. H. Coun
cill Trenholm, national director of
education for the fraternity pre
sented scholarship awards, and a
plaque to Heman Sweatt, citing
his “courageous” stand.
Bel ford V. Lawson, general
president and Washington, D. C.
attorney, m a brilliant address
cited the national eapitol as a
“graphic example of democratic
fetfcwe” where traditions are
deeply rooted, segregation is the
order of the day, and the people
have no vote. It is the arsenal of
the propaganda machines of the
country and the hope for creative
legislation lies with the people of
states. He urged college people
everywhere to become awakened
to greater civic consciousness.
However, there is a rising lead
ership of college people, he said,
in The American Council on Hu
man Rights, representing about
150,000 predominantly Negro stu
dents and graduates in seven na
tional Greek-letter organizations,
which has parked on Congress’s
doorstep in the interest of equal
rights for all. ‘This thing (segre
gation),” he concluded, “must
go!”
A. Maceo Smith, Dallas, Tex.,
Southwestern Vice-president and
race relations advisor to the Fed
eral Housing administration, di
rected the convention, which will
meet in New Orleans in 1050.
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Negro Pastor Named Head
Of Virginia Clergy Group
MIDDLEBURG, Va. (RNS).
Members of the London County
Ministerial Association, which in
cludes both white and Negro min
isters, elected their first Negro
president. He is the Rev. A. M.
Erwin, son of a former slave.
The name of the Rev. Mr. Er
wiu, pastor of the Asbury Meth
odist church, was placed in nomi
nation by toe Rev. M. Douglas
Newman, pastor of the Middte
oarg Methodist church, a white
congregation.
Pastors Warned Against Making
Soapbox of Pulpits; Laymen Are
Installed as AME Close Meet
By Rubie W. Shakespeare
The 29th Nebraska Annual Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, which began September 28,
closed Sunday, October 2, with the final sessions being held
at Memorial Hall. The Rt. Rev. D. Ormonde Walker, pre
siding bishop for area west of the Mississippi, termed the
meeting as most successful spiritually and financially. The
reports of the various charges were received with unusual
enthusiasm.
Bishop Walker laid a great deal
of emphasis on the need for more
families to educate their children
in order to take on the new jobs
and roles developing in our coun
try. This was part of a plea for
funds for the Wilberforce Uni
versity and Payne Theological
seminary which are supported by
this section of the church. Sun
day’s contributions, over $1,000,
went to support the two institu
tions. Douglas hospital, operated
by the conference in Kansas City,
also received more than $1,300 as
the result of a special rally di
rected by Mrs. Walker thru the
church and special workers in
Kansas and Nebraska. Douglas
hospital is reported to be the best
equipped 100-bed institution of
any in the Plains and Rocky
Mountain region.
Speaking in his characteristic,
academic tones, the former dean
of Payne seminary inspired clergy
and laymen alike. He hit at pas
tors who turned politicians at the
expense of the church, pointing
out that in times in the past “the
church has been exploited by
some men, accepting money from
everywhere, selling themselves to
the highest bidder in exchange for
trying to influence votes. He said,
“We have got to clean up these
situations. It is God’s church and
we can’t sell nor buy it. We must
be filled with the power of the
Holy Ghost and breath into dying
souls and make them alive.”
In cautioning ministers against
using their pulpits for political
purposes, he said that they should
be non-political, but should urge
their congregation to support can
didates who favor such vital is
sues as civil rights, fair employ
ment practices, and legislation
giving Negroes and all people
equality of opportunity in every
respect.
The organization of the Confer
ence Laymen’s organization was
approved on October 1 and Bishop
Walker installed the following
elected officers: President J. J.
Parks, Kansas City; Vice-presi
dent, Cornelius Morgan, Omaha;
Secretary, Constance Smith, As
sistant Secretary, Gladys Jackson,
Atchison, Kansas; Treasurer,
George Camper, Omaha; and
Chaplain Mabel Banks.
Mrs. Rubie Shakespeare is in
charge of public relations. The
first meeting of the laymen of the
West will be in Denver next year.
Changes in pastoral charges
listed included the following min
isters.
C. R. Manning to New Bethel,
K. C., Kan.; Herbert Bletson to
the So. Mo. Conference; E. W.
Newton to Presiding Elder of K. C.
district; F. D. Gregory to Quin
daro; S. J. Holly to Atchison; J. L.
Humbert to Grand Island
Hastings.
64 Tons of Rhythm’
Comho A Hit Here
The “Four Tons of Rhythm,”
instrumental quartet from Kan
sas City, played to the guests at
Arbor Manor here September 30
and were a hit from the word go.
The combo, led by Clinton
Weaver, took only a one night
stand but, H is rumored, they
will return in the near future.
Dr. Julian Finds
Key to Synthesis
Of Wonder Drugs
CHICAGO. (ANP). Dr. Percy L.
Julian, 50-year-old chemist of
Maywood, 111., and director of re
search in the soya products divi
sion of the Glidden company, has
found the key to the artificial
manufacture of four life-giving
chemicals which will make pro
duction of scarce hormone sub
stances for the relief of arthritis,
rheumatic heart disease and other
unsolved human ailments a mat
ter of no concern, according to
an announcement made here
Thursday.
Dr. Julian’s discoveries, made
while he was engaged in finding
a cheaper method of manufactur
ing cortisone—a rare drug used
with success in treating a limited
number of arthritic victims suf
fering from the rheumatiod or
most crippling form of the dis
ease, are cortisone, compound S,
17 alpha hydroxy progeterone and
pregnetriolone. While Dr. Julian
nor the Glidden company make
any claim that these synthetic
hormone compounds will prove ef
fective in the treatment of arth
ritis or any other disease, scien
tists throughout the world be
lieve they theoretically hold prom
ise to have more prolonged activi
ties in the human system.
Boston ‘Buys’
Sammy Jethroe
For Cool 200Gs
By A! Moses.
NEW YORK. (ANP). Sammy
Jethroe’s sale to the Boston Braves
for a reported $200,000 (with ad
ded starter to boot) ties in with
what we wrote in this space last
August. We said then of the
$300,000 price-tag Branch Rickey
had placed on the best base-stealer
since Ty Cobb:
“It is unfair to the speedy for
mer Negro National league ace
for Mr. Rickey to keep his price
label at the $300,000 mark. A
drop of say $100,000 (or more)
will give Jethroe the big chance
he deserves even if Rickey is not
in favor of bringing the Montreal
star up to keep company with
Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella
and Donald Newcombe.”
So at last it has happened as
we predicted it might and for
Sam Jethroe’s sake, we are happy
no end. The signing of Jackie
Roosevelt Robinson three seasons
ago ushered in a “baseball renais
sance” for scores of talented Ne
gro diamond stars. Now with
Sam Jethroe bringing a price of
two hundred grand, we wonder
what ex-baseball commissioner
Kenesaw Mountain Landis would
say in his “sour-puss” manner
were he alive and in his customary
“driver’s seat?”
To Return
Miss Wylma Fletcher, lyric so
prona, who recently gave a con
cert in Lincoln under the spon
sorship of the Havelock Method
ist church, is scheduled for a
return engagement at First
Methodist church on October 24.
Miss Fletcher’s programs feature
spirituals and religious songs.
She has also written several
songs including “Just Follow
Him,” written while snowbound
in Nebraska during the blizzard
last winter.
BISHOP A. P. SHAW
The Rt. Rev. A. P. Shaw of
the Baltimore area of the Meth
odist church will be the speaker
at Newman Methodist church
on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p. m.
Bishop Shaw has had an inter
est in rural and agricultural
pastorates of the church for
some time.
Community
Chest Drive
Starts Oct. 15
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For the 28th time the Com
munity Chest will begin its an
nual drive for funds for Lincoln
agencies offering a variety of wel
fare services to the community.
The chest goal this year will be
$270,203, and the drive is under
the direction of A. Q. SchimmeL
One of the benefitting agencies
is the Lincoln Urban League, of
which Clyde Malone is executive
secretary. He said their quota haa
not yet been established at pres
ume, but solicitors are organized
and ready to move out when the
drive opens Saturday, Oct. XL
Those named are: Lt. Colonel,
Mrs. Basilia Bell; Captains: Rev.
Melvin Shakespeare, Mrs. Oifte
Collie, Mrs. Margaret Williams,
Mrs. Marguerite Bell and Mr*.
Lula Mae Williams.
Other agencies that are chest
supported include the Belmont
Community center, Catholic Serv
ice bureau, Child Guidance cen
ter, Community Emergency shop,
Council of Social agencies, Fam
ily Service association, Goodwin
Industries, Jewish Welfare Fed
eration, Peoples City Mission, SaL
vation Army, St. Thomas Orphan
age, Tabitha Home and the Vet
erans Service center.
Church Must End
Discrimination,
Says Bishop
ATLANTA. (ANP). Bishop B.
Bromley Oxnam of the New York
Methodist church, last week said
that the church must end “this
business of injustice and discrimi
nation.”
The bishop was charging Dr.
Harry V. Richardson with hie
duties as new president of Gam
mon Theological seminary here.
Bishop Oxnam said that he wa#
not casting stones; the north has
its share of injustices, discrimina
tion, and racial segregation. Ha
added that man cannot be united
by concepts such as race, nation,
or class, but only by the realization
that he is a part of one family.
In his response, Dr. Richardson
dedicated himself to help prepare
men who could aid in the recon
struction of society along godly
lines.
Bishop John W. E. Bowen of
ti»« Atlantic coast area, Methodist
church, presided over the cere
monies.
