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. Bishop Walker Urges All-Out Vote
Because so many issues on the
November ballot directly affect
the lives of Negro people Bishop
D. Ormonde Walker, presiding
prelate of the Fifth District of the
African Methodist Episcopal
church urged Negroes to register
and vote in the coming election.
The plea was made during the
61st Annual Puget Sound Confer
ence which convened at Spokane,
Washington August 6th.
“Because of the present polit
ical situation now facing the peo-J
pie, I’m urging all Negro citizens
to register so they’ll be able to'
vote in November,” said Bishop!
Walker.
Speaking of the civil rights and ^
ifair employment practice issues,
Bishop Walker said:
“Anything that disturbed both
major political parties so strongly
! at their national conventions (
ought to compel Negroes to take!
proper interest.
“When a man cannot work be
cause he’s black, when there’s
work to be done, it certainly is an
un-American practice. We should
use all means at our disposal to
see that this evil is corrected and
blotted out from our lives.”
Bishop Walker said he felt
the “milk and water platform of
the Republican party is to be re
gretted. I also feel the change in ■
the Democratic platform as related
to civil rights is unfortunate.” ;
Teacher Seems to Like i
Lassvi lie—as It Likes Her ;
CASSVILLE—The first Negro, j
to live in Cassville, the high I
school commercial teacher, has i
been accepted cn equal terms by 1
townspeople here, who don’t seem’
the least bit concerned with her'
race.
Attractive Mrs. Rebecca Wyatt,
21, has been welcomed jnto this j
Grant county village as any other ]
new teacher, or maybe even a bit <
more warmly. j]
She’s popular with pupils—the <
sophomore class elected her as ad- i
viser—and she’s been welcomed
graciously by the 10-member fac
ulty, the school board, and the!
community.
Dr. L. B. Bernhart took her into*
his home as a roomer, and she’s
taken part in most of the village
social events.
Principal Kenneth Holt said
Mrs. Wyatt seems to like Cassville
now as well as Cassville likes her
—although she was a bit nervous
at first. No wonder; it's her first \
■rip north of Chicago. Her home’s
n Paris, Tenn. She got her mas- I
ter’s degree from the University T1
of Tennessee. i
Her husband, in the Army three
pears, now is serving in Korea. I
Holt said Mrs. Wyatt was hired ft
’rom a teachers list from the State 1
industrial Commission and “we t
iidn't know for sure she was a: /
Negro till she got here. All we‘j
cared about was whether she ,
could teach.
So far she’s been excellent, he
added.
Mrs. Wyatt is probably the only
Negro teacher in a western Wis
consin school and the first in Cass- '
ville, Holt said, adding that “we
hope this will be a good example
for others.”
But to Cassville’s 956 people,
Mrs. Wyatt’s no “example”—she’s 1
just another resident and a good '
teacher. i(
Interchange Students
With ^ hite School
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa.
(ANP)—As part of a trend toward
more interracial activities by
FTotestant churches, the Theologi
cal Seminary of Lincoln univer
sity and the Evangelical and Re
formed Seminary of Lancaster,
Pa., have exchanged students this
semester.
Studying at Lincoln is William
Bador of Allentown, Pa., a gradu
ate of j'ranklin and Marshall col
lege and a middler at Evangelical
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•TATS ■ItTOSICAA SOCtITT
Nebraska’s Senators (9)
John M. Thurston, Unitec
Statets Senator from Nebraska
1895-1901, was widely known for
his oratorical powers. Indeed,
among Nebraska’s nationally
known political figures, he may be
second only to William Jennings
Bryan in his reputation for ora
tory.
Probably the high point of Sen
ator Thurston’s career was an ora
tor came during the campaign of
1888, when he appeared at Buf
falo, New York, with James G.
Blaine, Republican candidate for
president. The crowd was so
large that Mr. Blaine could not
make himself heard—this was be
fore the day of the public ad
dress system—and urfnble to hear,
they became restless. The meet
ing was about to break up in*
pandemonium when Senator Thur
ston was called upon to speak.
Thurston served as Blaine’s
floor manager during the Repub
ican National Convention, but the
junior senator from Nebraska wag
lardly well known to the rank
ind file in that Buffalo audience,
jn a few minutes, though, he was
ible to quiet the noisy crowd—
ind he held it spell bound for an
lour and forty minutes. After his
peech, he was carried out of the
tall on the shoulders of his newly
ron, enthusiastic admirers.
Senator Thurston’s triumph in
iuffalo came as no surprise to '
febraskans. They had seen him j
n action for almost 20 years.
Born in Vermont, August 21, ^
847, Thurston came to the
ustling new city of Omaha in
869. He had seen service in the;
fnion Army and had studied law
is a young lawyer in Omaha he
ad a hard time of it — durings
oost of his first year he slept on
he office floor—but in a short
yhile he began to get on.
In common with most of his
olleagues, Thurston was active
n politics. He served on the
3maha city council, and had a
erm in the legislature. His prin
:ipal influence was exercised,
hough, as a delegate to Republi-1
:an conventions rather than as a
:andidate for office. He was
chairman of the Republican Na-!
•ional Convention in 1888 and
1896.
He was a strong candidate for
the Senate in 1893. In that year,
however, he was but one of a
number of strong candidates—J
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wearing of sexy, sheathlike, so
phisticated, overfitted, satiny or
otherwise glittering gowns, re
ferred to by one high style fashion
writer as “exotic trappings.”
What the dress seems to lack
in fabric, the accessories seem to
take on in the form of bulk, for
earrings are large and massive, or
I long and dangling, tha gloves long,
;as though trying to compensate in
modesty for the extreme lack of it
in the cut of the gown,
i The shoes are likely to be just
a series of straps that twine pro
vocatively around the ankle and
* calf.
Obviously this type regalia was
not meant for the average Amer
ican woman who stands around
five feet, three inches and weighs
130 pounds. (What fashions were?)
Unless you are tall, thin but yet
curvaceous, and move with the
grace of a panther, then you had
best forget about the siren look,
and just be contest Ic be your
own sweet, charming self until
the fashion experts see fit to pub
licize the “Wholesome look” or
some other type less rigid in phys
ical specifications.
Meanwhile, there Is great wis
dom and considerable comfort in
the words of the French dress
maker who when asked by the
buxom customer to make her a
gown to make her look thinner
replied: “Oh, but Madam, not all
men like zee skinny girls.”
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’ The Siren Look—
, Approach With Caution
' The fashion indu-try, in its
endless quest «,o make women dis
satisfied with their present ward
robe, comes up from time to time
with a featured “look.” There has
been the “New look,” the “Middy
look,” the “Little-middle look,”
and now this fall, the “Siren
look.”
j Now, the siren look has its ad
I vantages, chief among which is
the fact that it invariably attracts
attention — particularly masculine
attention. Unfortunately, the wolf’s
i whistle cannot be depended upon
as a barometer of good taste, so
pin the matter of looking or not
looking like a siren, a woman has
to be her own best judge.
The siren look means just what
it says—to look like a siren. In
other words, to look alluring,
tempting and enticing. That sug-j
gests not only certain types of
;clothes for the absence of them)
but it also suggests certain phys
ical attributes.
The siren look is sleek and
Sterling Morton, Algernon S. Pad
dock, James E. Boyd, and William
Jennings Bryan—defeated by Wil
liam V Allen, Thurston’s position
as the Union Pacific’s general so-1
licitor weighed heavily- against!
him in a legislature dominated by
anti-monopo lists.
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