World Affairs Conference
Is Third for City
The fate of democracy hinges
on intelligent public opinion and a
sense of responsibility by citizens.
With this in mind, at least 50
civic, religious, professional, edu
cational and social organizations,
plus a number of individuals, have
assumed sponsorship of another
Conference on World Affairs to
be held at Love Memorial Library
auditorium Friday and lasting
through Sunday.
The conference, which is set up
In co-operation with the American
point, and, as opportunity offered,
to point out to the Russians how
they and their government were
increasing tension, and how they
could lessen world conflict.
Dr. Edgar Z. Palmer, head of the
Department of Business Research
at the University of Nebraska, and
Rev. Kenneth Yingst of the Church
of the Brethren, are co-chairmen
of the Conference. Secretary is
Dr. K. O. Broady, director of the
University of Nebraska Extension
Division. Committee chairmen are:
Rev. W. H. Holverson of Bethany Christian
Church, program committee.
Mrs. Arthur L. Smith, finance and sponsor
ship.
Sam Gibson, arrangements.
Mrs. M. C Leonard, publicity.
Boy Scout Week
Scheduled for
February 6-12
NEW YORK (ANP)—President
Truman, memebrs of congress and
governors will share in honoring
2,900,000 memebrs of the Boy
Scouts of America when they ob
serve their 42nd anniversary Feb.
6 to 12. officially designated Boy
Scout Week.
Twelve “outstanding” Eagle
Scouts, chosen to represent the
more than 2,900,000 memebrs of
the organization, will share in
ceremonies at the White House
when President Truman greets
them Feb. 8. President Truman,
as Honorary President of the Boy
Scouts of America, is to receive
a scroll stating the objectives of
the new three-year program
known as “Forward . . . On Lib
erty’s Team,” a program designed
to “help keep America free,” says
Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, chief scout
executive.
Since 1910, more than 19,000,000
American boys and men have
been identified with the Boy
Scouts of America. Today more
than 735 adults serve the move
ment as trained volunteer work
ers.
This year’s celebration will
honor the organizations and insti
tutions whose sponsorship make
possible the existence and growth
of the nation’s 80,298 Packs, troops
and explorer units.
Observed in every city and town
and most villages and hamlets by
more than 80,000 units, Boy Seoul
Week is the largest single birth
day observance by young Amer
icans.
35 Ladies in Charge
The Gypsy Fair and bazaar un
der the direction of Mrs. John
Johnson to be given at the Urbar
League, February 14th, for Quinr
Chapel Missionary society prom
ises to be a colorful affair witl
special interest for young and ole
alike. A delightful program is be
ng planned for the occasion.
Thomas Monroe Campbell
Thomas Monroe Campbell, first I
Negro to be appointed a farm
demonstration agent in the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, was
honored January 13 at a special
service at Tuskegee institute.
Campbell has worked as an ex
tension agent since 1906. He is
now one of two Negro field super
visors.—( ANT).
NAACP Accepting
| Nominations for
Spingarn Medal
NEW YORK. (ANP). Public
nominations now are being ac
cepted for candidates for the 1951
Spingarn Medal, Walter White,
executive secretary of the NAACP
announced this week.
A statement of the qualifica
tions and achievements of the
nominied must be submitted along
with their names, v/hich should
be mailed to the Spingarn Medal
Award committee at 20 W. 40th
street, New York, 18.
The medal is awarded annually
to a Negro American 'for distin
guished achievement. Mrs. Mabel
I Polio Case May Infect All in Family
I When one member of a family
has polio, recent studies indicate
that others in the family may also
be infected with polio virus,
■either with or without clinical
symptoms of the disease.
Two doctors from the Univer-|
sity of Michigan, Dr. Gordon G.
1 Brown and Dr. John D. Ainslie,
financed by March of Dimes
funds, examined 23 members of
three families in which there were
polio cases, trying to detect the
presence of polio virus.
The Olivers’ eleven-year-old
son had polio and two children
each in the Adams and Bailey
families also were ill with the
disease when Drs. Brown and
Ainslie asked if the families would
co-operate in an experiment.
With the families’ consent, the
scientists went ahead with pains
taking tests of feces and-blood.
| Polio virus was recovered from
the feces of not only ihe five sick
children who had clear symptoms
of polio but also from thirteen
other family members with no
signs of polio. Twelve of these
individuals carrying virus in their
. digestive tracts but wth no symp
i toms of polo were children under
- eleven years of age.
| Each of the 23 persons from the
Resolution * * ed At Natl
Urban Leay .nnual Meeting
Lincoln Church
Youth to Join
•Call to Action*
Plans are being made by youth
groups of Lincoln churches toj
participate in a “Call to United ^
Christian Youth Action” Feb. 3.j
The call is part of national plans ^
of Interdenominational Youth
Sunday.
Three meetings will be held in
Lincoln Feb. 3, with a caravan
parade highlighting the days ob-;
servance. The three meetings wilb
be held at:
Bethany Christian Church, 1645
No. Cotner Blvd., 3 p.m. »
Grace Methodist Church, 27th1
and R, 4:15 p.m.
First-Plymouth Congregational
.Church, 20th and D, 5:30 p.m.
The caravan will assemble oiv
' 27th street. Cars representing
! southside churches will assemble
j on 27th south of O, facing north.
I Cars from northside churches as
semble on 27th north of O, facing
1 south. The group will drive down
O street to 10th, and then proceed
to the final meeting place.
Each church is asked to have
one entry or more. Rev. G. G.
Williamson, assistant pastor of
First Presbyterian Church, is ir
charge of the" caravan.
Keaton Staupers, former leader
of the now defunct National As
sociation ot Colored Graduate
Nurses, was the recipient of the
medal in 1950.
Other winners include Dr.
Ralph J. Bunche, the late Charles
H. Houston, Miss Marion Ander
son, Judgfe William H. Hastie, Dr.
Charming H. Tobias, Mrs. Mary
McLeod Bethune, the late George
Washington Carver, Dr. Louis T.
Wright Thurgood Marshall, and
i Walter White.
The medal will be presented at
the 43rd annual NAACP conven
tion in Oklahoma City next June.!
three families donated two blood
samples to the experiment. The
first blood samples were taken
soon after the polio cases were
diagnosed. The second samples
were obtained three weeks later, j
The initial blood test showed i
that all members of the families!
older than eleven years of age
had antibodies to one type of polio;
virus. Anitbodies are disease-!
fighting substances manufactured
by the body when infected by a
disease organism. All but five in
the families had antibodies to the
specific polio virus t ype causing
polio in each family. The second
blood test revealed an increase in
the number of antibodies to the
specific polio virus, an indicaton
that the infection was recent and
that the indvduals in each family
were increasing their resistance
to polio.
The tests indicated that the fam
ily members were reacting to
| simultaneous exposure to polio
i virus. Older members of the fami
lies. had sufficient antibodies to
Resist the infection; children
under eleven wthout antibody pro
tection became virus carriers
wtihout symptoms; and five chil
dren became definite polio cases.
Join the March of Dimes
BY GLADYS P. GRAHAM
NEL YORK—(ANP)—A resolution condemning tht
Christmas bombing in Mims, Fla., which resulted in the
death of Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Moore and a pledge to sup
port the NAACP in its efforts to see that justice is done
were highlights of the National Urban League dinner held
here last week.
The league’s resolution also called upon its affiliates
throughout the country to give full cooperation to NAACP
representatives working in Florida.
Miss Anne Smrlia
Plans Program
For Dinner Meet
Miss Anne Smrha was general '
chairman of the program pre
sented at the 20th annual dinner
meeting of the Lincoln Urban1
League on Wednesday, January
30th. She was assisted by co
chairman, Mrs. Ritha Banks. Per
sons participating on the program
lover which Mr. R. T. Malone,1
j president of the board, presided
were: Rabbi Abba Fineberg, Stob
'ert Cumming, Beverly George,
Donald Kitchen, Mrs. Florence'
Gibbon, Mr. Tom Pansing, Mr.
Lynnwood Parker, Mrs. Roberta
Molden, Charles Bonds, Rev
Joseph W. Anderson, guest speak
er, and Rev. J. B. Brooks.
| Election was held to replace the
following directors whose terms
'expire: Mrs. Mary Kinder, Mrs.
LjJoseph Lytle, Maurice Copeland,
\'Mrs. Sarah Simms, Wyatt Wll
i liams, Fred Nevels and Mrs. J. R
/ Edwards.
j Decorations were furnished by
the Gardenettes Club and host
esses were from the Urban League
Guild and Wesleyan University.
NAACP Sets ’52 Goal at
300,000 New Members
NEW YORK — (ANP) — The
wheel of fortune is rapidly spin
ning with the “tide of resentment
against the upsurge of racial vio-j
lence during the past year, stead
ily rising.” The NAACP last week
announced plans for a nationwide
campaign with a goal of 300,000
new members for 1952.
The drive is slated to get under-j
way early February, says Miss
Lucille Black, membership secre-|
tary and chairman of the mem
bership drive.
Herbert L. Wright, national
youth secretary, stated that an ad
ditional goal of 20,000 new youth
members has been set by the'
NAACP youth department.
A new feature of the 1952 cam
paign will be the $5 Harry T.
Moore membership, a plan under
which an individual can take out
an NAACP membership and con
tribute at the same time to the(
memory of the Florida NAACP
leader. Moore along with his wife,
lost his life in the Christmas night
bombing of his home in Mims,
'Fla.
In announcing campaign plans,
Gloster B Current, director of
branches, leported that “thou-|
‘sands of ciitzens throughout
America have expressed their in
dignation ovei the killing of Harry
T. Moore. He emphasized that “one
of the best ways to help combat
mob violence and work for civil |
rights, is to join the NAACP.”
Other membership plans range
' from the $2 minimum fee to $5 for
a life membership. Memberships
of $3.50 or more, including the;
Moore memorial, carry with them
a year’s subscription to “The
i Crisis” magazine.
Dwight R. G. Palmer, newly
appointed chairman of the li
man Government Contract Com
pliance committee, President Tru
man’s version of a FEPC, was the
guest of honor at the dinner held
at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
Palmer received the annual Urban
League award.
Among the many noted per
sonalities attending the dinrter
were: Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander,
Philadelphia; Dr. Ralph Buncho,
UN Trusteeship director; Jackie
Robinson, Brooklyn Dodge r's
great second baseman, and Dr
William Heard Kilpatrick, Colum
bia university.
Also Dr. Charles S. Johnson,
president of Fisk university;
Winthrop Rockefeller, of the
Rockefeller enterprises: Mrs. Bea
lah T. Whitby, Detroit, Mich.;
Judges Nathan R. Sobel, Jane
Bolin, and Attorney Hope Stevens.
| Presiding at the dinner were
' Lloyd .R. Garrison, president, Na
tional Urban league, and James
’ E. Felt, president, greater New
■York Urban League. *
I Principal speaker was Gov.
I Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Other
I speakers included Palmer, Jacob
1S. Potofsky, general president of
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America, and Prof. Ira De A.
Reid, head of the department jf
Sociology at Haverford (Pa.) col
lege.
Gov. Stevenson said “our
illiteracy in human relations” re
mains perhaps our foremost
domestic problem.” He termed
“disturbing” the possibility that
“the incident at Cicero”—in which
some 6,000 persons rioted against
militia, the police and firemen
last July over a Negro’s attempt
to occupy an apartment—might
be readily matched elsewhere.
The award presented to Palmer
read in part: ‘For his unselfish,
untiring, and inspiring leader
ship in advancing the cause of
democracy through promoting
equal economic opportunity for all
Americans. . .**
In accepting the award Palmer
acknowledged, “I am here as a
symbol of the growing number of
Americans dedicated to the task
of improving human relations.”
Gov. Stevenson was honored at
a luncheon later, as guest of Gar
rison. He then went on a motor
cade through Harlem, where he
viewed developments made in
slum areas.
King George Honors
Delegate to U.N.
LONDON — (ANP) — King
George recently installed Grant
ley Herbert Adams, Oxford edu
cated lawyer from the West In
dies, as commander of the order of
St. Michael and St. George.
Adams received prominence a
few years ago when he became
the first Negro to serve on a Brit
ish delegation to the United Na
tions general assembly.
This honor was among the first
honors awarded by King George
since the new regime of Prime
i Minister Winston Churchill.
