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Negro Leaders Urge S
Of 1950 Red Cross Campaign
Drs. dimming Tobias, Charles
Johnson, F. 1). Patterson a nd
Dorothy Ferebee Join In Appeal
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Endorsements of the Ameri
can National Red Cross campaign for $67,000,000 which be
gan March 1 include tributes from heads of national organ
izations, college presidents, civic and religious leaders
throughout the nation.
Dr. Dorothy B. Ferebee, president, National Council of
Negro Women, Inc., says that “each of us must realize that
in contributing to the Red Cross we contribute to the health
and welfare of our nation.” Charles S. Johnson, president
of Fisk university, adds his pledge of personal service.
”1 ao not rerer merely to iinan
cial support,” said Dr. Johnson,
“although I am aware that this is
most important. I feel an obliga
tion to give the support of my
direct and personal service be
cause of its ever readiness any
where to give prompt and well
directed care to these emergen
cies, catastrophies, and critical
needs of the whole population that
are beyond the province of
specialized agencies.”
Dr. Johnson goes on to say that
“like catastrophe itself, the Red
Cross does not, and, in fact, can
not make distinctions bet\tf’&en
peoples with a common affliction
of misfortune. The contribution
of the institution which I represent
to the Red Cross was a substan
tial one in proportion to its means.
I have felt it urgent to be a part
of the campaigns for supporting
funds. It has been a privilege
with my colleagues and students
to give blood, which is the piost
intimate form of sharing.”
Eugene Kinekle Jones, general
secretary of the National Urban
league, calls the Red Cross every
body’s pet philanthropy.” He calls
this organization “the alert guar
dian of the public wealth,” and
says it stands ready to succor all
who suffer when disaster strikes.
Calling the American Red Cross
“truly an American organization,”
Claude A. Barnett, director, Asso
ciated Negro Press, says “it strives
as best it can to render these
services regardless of race, creed
or color.” As a member of the
American National Red Cross
Board of Governors, Mrs. Barnett
has had first-hand experience
with this organization, which he
says “represents the most unself
ish the most helpful, the most
humanitarian spirit of the people
of the United States.”
A FRIEND IN THE HOUR
OF NEED
Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, an
other member of the Red Cross
Board of Governors, and president
of Tuskegee institute, says:
“The multiple character of the
services which this organization
renders, both in war and in peace,
has led all of us to rely upon it
as the one agency to which we
may always turn in an hour of
need. No organization is more
truly national in scope or more
dependent on the response from
every public-spirited citizen for its
adequate support. Our response
this year will say to the officers
of this organization how much
we expect of them in meeting the
needs of servicemen and their
families, in providing blood, free
of cost, to the many thousands
who require it, and of standing
ever ready to help in disasters
which cannot be properly minis
tered to on a purely local basis.”
Pointing out that small contri
butions as well as large ones are
important, Channing H. Tobias,
director of the Phelps-Stokes
Fund, says these sums wrill show
“the largest possible expression
of interest on the part of all the
people.
“There is n.o appeal made by a
voluntary organization to the na
tion that is more important to all
the people than that of the Ameri
can Red Cross,” Mr. Tobias a$ds.
“Whether the service rendered is
in connection with disaster oper
ations, or in connection with per
sonal and family problems involv
ing servicemen and their depend
ents, in the blood program oper
ations, or in any of the other nu
merous services of this organiza
tion, the appeal is so important
that it cannot be overlooked by
any American citizen.'*
Dry Those Tears
Bewildered and tearful, this
youngster is comforted by a Red
Cross volunteer while food, cloth
ing, and shelter are arranged for
her mother at Red Cross disaster
relief headquarters.
To Return For
Meeting Series
The Rt. Rev. Alexander P.
Shaw. Methodist Bishop of Bal
timore, will be one in a series of
outstanding Methodists appearing
at St. Paul Methodist church dur
ing the Lenten season.
Bishop Shaw, who will be in
Lincoln Sunday, March 5, will
speak at Newman Memorial Meth
odist church at 3 p. m. and at
St. Paul at 7:30 p. m. This will
be the prelate’s second visit within
six months. He spoke at Newman
church last October to an over
flow audience where he told Lin
eolnites that God was not “tough.”
Others appearing in the series
are:
Bishop Dana Dawson of Kansas and
Nebraska, March 12.
Dr. Roy L. Smith, editor of Methodist
publications, March 19.
Bishop Richard C. Raines of Indian
apolis, March 26.
John Adams, who died at 90,
lived longer than any other U. S.
President.
ltVeak FI
Nurses to Get
Gaps At Grace
Church Sunday
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Capping exercises for some 24
student nurses at Bryan Memorial
hospital will take place Sunday,
March 5th, at Grace Methodist
church, 27th and R street.
Among those receiving their
caps will be Martha Hammonds,
Omaha, and Ada Coffey, Kansas
City, Kas., both VOICE scholars
at the school. (Capping marks
the end of a probationary period
during which the students
adaptability to the profession is
observed.—Ed.)
Speaker for the 8 p. m. cere
monies will be the Rev. H. C.
Sandall, pastor of the church.
Wood lee Wins
Approval of
Music Clinic
Stella Marie Woodlee. daugh
ter of Mrs. M. C. Woodlee, of Al
liance, was one of several hun
dred western Nebraska students
participating in a music clinic at
Scottsbluff last week. The clinic
is one in a series sponsored by
the University of Nebraska
school of music, and while of a
nm-competilive nature, none
the-lcss Miss Woodlee came away
with the approval of her fellows.
In a feature item in the Omaha
World Herald magazine for Feb.
26, Ken Keller tabbed the 15
year-old soprano as “one of the
outstanding high school voices in
Nebraska.”
“The Alliance singers have
something of a star in . Stella
Woodlee,” he continued. But
Scottsbluff has good soloists too.
“Here was a test to see whether
the clinic would accept this un
usual notion of participation
without conflict,
“Stella Marie was called to sing
first. Under other circumstances
when the visiting star performer
takes the field, it’s a signal for
challenges from the ‘home fans.’
“But when Stella Marie stepped
out before that student audence,
there was but one spontaneous
reaction: a burst of unbridled
applause.
“The kids made it clear that
they weren’t concerned with con
flict. They were concerned with
performance. They got it. They
were part of it.”
Stella Marie has been active in
Alliance high activities and plays
clarinet in the band. In 1948 she
was state president of Y-Teens.
Boy Preacher
Adds Five To
Mt. Zion Church
Master Van Simpson, aged 7,
recently of Chicago, delivered the
morning message at Mount Zion
Baptist church last Sunday, Feb.
26. Master Simpson is the grand
son of Rev. W. I. Monroe, pastor
of the church, and is now making
his home here. In his talk he ex
panded on the story of The Good
Samaritan under the theme, “Who
Is My Neighbor.” Five persons
became church members follow
ing the boy preacher’s disserta
tion.
EPC Bill Passes
House Version Not What
Truman Wanted; Nebr.
Congressmen Split Vote
BY ALICE A. DUNNIGAN
WASHINGTON. (ANP). After about 17 hours of con
gressional bickering the House of Representatives finally, on
last Thursday, passed by a vote of 240-to-177 the McConnell
amendment as a substitute to the administration’s FEPC
bill introduced by Cong. Adam Clayton Powell.
U.L, President
msec-'
DALE WEEKS
Dale Weeks, Wesleyan univer
sity economics professor, was re
elected president of the Lincoln
Urban League last week to serve
I his second year in that position,
according to Clyde Malone, ex
| ecutive secretary. Also elected at
the board meeting were Mrs.
Estelle Davis, executive vice
president; Mrs. Basilia Bell, sec
ond vice-president; Mrs. Roberta
Molden, secretary and Dr. M. F.
Arnholt, treasurer.
Plans are being completed for
the league’s annual observance of
the Vocational Opportunity Cam
paign (VOC) which is sponsored
nationally by the National Urban
League and its affiliates March
12-19. Rev. John C. Foster is
chairman for the job clinic which
will offer occupational guidance
tests and conferences with suc
cessful people.
Appointed See*y
Of N.C. College’s
Board of Trustees
DURHAM, N. C. (ANP). Dr.
J. M. Hubbard, Durham dentist
active in state religious and civic
affairs, was elected secretary of
North Carolina college’s newly
appointed 13 member trustee
board here last week.
Dr. Hubbard is one of three
Negro members on the board. The
other two are Dr. C. C. Spaulding,
head of the North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance, and Dr. Rob
ert M. Hendrick, Asheville dentist
and former professor in the How
ard University Dental school. All
were appointed last July.
Meeting in the office of Presi
dent Alfonse Elder whose two
year administration at the college
was the subject of a special com
mendatory resolution, the trustees
heard progress reports on five
buildings now7 going up on the
campus and mapped plans for a
subcommittee to meet in conjunc
tion with a similar committee
from the University of North
Carolina to give further study to
the problems of Negro graduate
and professional students who de
sire study within the state.
Chancellor Robert L. Flowers of
The Powell bill HR 4453 was
brought to the floor for considera
tion by Chairman Johi Lesinski
of the House Committee on Edu
cation and Labor after civil right
ers finally cracked a southern fili
buster.
The near I5lfc hour session
which began at noon on Wednes
day and continued until around
3:20 Thursday morning is said to
have been the longest continued
session which the House of Rep
resentatives has known since the
Missouri Compromise in 1820
when the session under the lead
ership of Henry Clay continued in
session for two days and two
nights.
Battling down every parlia
mentary maneuver which the
southerners could muster up in
cluding seven roll calls, the read
ing of George Washington’s fare
well address, and the journal for .
the previous day, Mr. Lesinski
finally succeeded in bringing up
the FEPC measure about 4:45
p. m.
The fight for fair employment
lasted until past 3 a. m., when
weary House members finally
adopted the McConnell’s toothless
amendment which was further
watered-down by the adoption
of several other amendments to
this amendment.
Final action, however, was
postponed until Thursday after
noon after a demand had been
made for the reading of the en
grossed copy of the bill.
Coming back into session at 12
o’clock Thursday, proponents of
the Powell FEPC bill had agreed
in a previous caucus with the ap
proval of representatives from
several leading Negro organiza
tions, that they would vote to
send Une McConnell amendment
back to the committtee for con
sideration and to continue the
fight to bring out the Powell bill.
JuSt before .the vote on recom
mital a number of these propo
nents took an “about face’’ action
and voted against recommitting
the bill to the committee and
voted in favor of its passage.
Voting for the bill were Re
publicans Cunningham, Dolliver,
Gross, Hoeven, LeCompte, Martin,
and Talle of Iowa, Miller and
Stefan of Nebraska. Representa
tive O’Sullivan (d., Neb.) also
voted for it.
Five Switch Votes
Voting against it were Curtis
(r., Neb.), and Jensen (r., Ia.).
Five of the Congressmen
switched their votes from that
shown on the tentative ballot
early Thursday.
Changing from against the bill
to for it were Messrs. O’Sullivan
Cunningham and Gross; switching
the other way were Messrs. Curtis
and Jensen.
The bill that finally emerged
from the House fell so far short of
what Mr. Truman wanted that
many of its original supporters
refused to vote for it.
A statement signed by ten congress
men including Rep. A. C. Powell (d.,
N. Y.) and Vito Marcantonio (Alp. N. Y.)
stated that the northern member* of
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