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VI._Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, November 19, 1932. _ Number Thirty-Nine._ I broadcasted \ Every Week frata tlis Columr ) By CLIFi:)M)r. -ur.HELL “WIKI'S WHO in Government". • • • The B.ograhical Research Society, 46o West oUh Street, Near York City are tue compilers and publishers of a reference work which is entitled, “Wnoi Who in Government”, and in a spirit of cooperation they sent me, a few ago, a copy of their edition for reference purposes and to enable me to check the contents a gainst my own files as far as the biographical sketches of Ncyjroes are concerned. • « • Th s volume contains over thirteen hundred pages filled with nothing but biographicr.1 sketches of over nine, teen thousand prominent men and women who are connected with the administration of government, elect ive and appointive, and covering fed eral. state. <-ity and a few county of fices. • • • The purpose of this particular di gest is not so much to give publicity to the reference work in question as it is to call the attention of all col ored office.holders, and their spon soring organizations, that they are. a. appai eally, losing quite a good deal of prestige simply by not furnishing a complete and accurate biographical data So *hat their names, jnd their positions, can be listed in a reference work that is universally accepted as a true and accurate Who’s Who in American Government. • • • There are so many persons of color whore position automatically entitles them to a place in this reference work but who are, for some reason or oth er. omitted, that space will not permit reference to their individual names but the well-informed reader can easily note these discrepancies by a mere listing of the forty-two sketch es of Negroes found in the book, and it is safe to infer that if I have over looked any name that all such can be counted on the finger* of one hand. • * * Without decimating their positions or residencies, hut listed in alphabet, leal order, are the names of all color ed office-holders who are represent ed in the 191*2 “Who’s Who in Gov ernment” with a complete biorrraph. ical sketch, • • • Ruf”= B Atwood: George H. Beati. bian: George W Blackwell: F D. B>i. ford; Matthew W Bullock; James Garrefh Carter; Louis Augustus Car ter; Frank W. C|erg; James A. Cobb; Harry >J. Dana; John warren Davis; Hub* rt T. Delanv: Oscar DePriest: William Harvey Fuller: John Manuel Gandy; Albert B George: Clavbonme George; Frank A. B. Kail; Samuel Lee • Hart; John C. Hopkins; Ben jamin F. Hubert; William H. Hunt; Charles J Jenkins: Gilbert Haven Jones; William E. King: Charles Ed ward MitchelJ; Ferdinand Q Mor ton; Eugene Washington Rhodes; Clement Richardson; Adelbert K. Roberts; Frederick Madison Roberts; John H. Ryan; William W. Sander--; John Winfield Schenck: James E Stephens: Cbas. E Toney; Harper Ciiun i: Trerhs'lm: William Samuel \ auglr; Joseph Henry Ward; Wil liam A. Warfield; William J. War_ field, and Isaac William Young. All others, holding a high govern mental position, should write at once submitting necessary data, to the ad dress riven in the first paragraph, and thus assure a representation in the 1933 edition. 6.600 ATTEND COMMUNITY CHEST MASS MEETING The Comunity Chest Mass meetirvt Sunday. November 13th at the Aud itorium. was a hti£e success. Thous. ands jammed the Auditorium. 31 Agencies were represented. A. mong our group were girls from th« North Side YWCA.. Cultural Center and a display booth cf the UrbaT League. Negro Appointed For N. J. School Survey Detective Jones Demoted SKROT. CHAS. SMART RETIRES Sergt. Charles Smart of the 10th Calvary now stationed at Fort Om aha was retired Monday, November Tin, after completing a 30 year’s ser vice. Sergt. Smart leaves the service with a fine record of excellency with ! every discharge. He served 18 years with the tenth Calvary on the Mexican border and made a trip around the world in 1909. Sergt. Smart wears two medals- of honor, Pistol expert and expert rifle man. He and his family are leaving for California where they will make their future home. "BILLY DAVIS" WORLD INSUR ANCE NEW REPRESENTATIVE Mr. Billy Davis of Washington, D. C., is now the new- representative of the World Insurance Co., of Omaha. Mr. Davis is of Howard University and comes to the World Insurance 'Co., with a splendid record and three years experience with the North A meriearr Insurance. "Billy", as he is known to his many friends, has been a very successful in his new territory and will be glad to serve you at any- time. He is the first Colored representa tive of this company- and lives at 2514 Corby St. BISHOP CARTER URGED ESTAB LISHMENT OF NEGRO DAILY NEWSPAPER La Grange, Ga., (CNS) “The Ne_ gni must immediately build a large daily newspaper in which he may be able to express himself freely and untrammeled,” declared Bishop R. A. | Garter in an address before the Geor gia annual conference of the CME. Church held here last week. Presiding over more than 150, lay men and ministers, delegates to the Southwest Georgia Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in session here, Bishop Carter stirred audience when he insisted that '•hi- Negro must immediately build i large daily paper in which he may !» able to express himself freely and untrammeled. "It is not merely business or money that demands this p-ipei', but it be comes our duty to give to the world -his type of paper in a time when free expression in all too many in stances is denied us. The Negro j i -list become both a moral and relig. ■ us factor in this nation. He cannot ait for our white brethern to cry t o us at all times and protest the j v. ror.gs ocmmitted by those who a aid be protecting every citizen. I Others addressing the conference were Drs. H. P. Porter, General book agt at, Jackson, Tenn.; J. A. Martin, I A. Martin, Sunday School editor, Atlanta and J. A. Bray, Birming i ham. FATHER AND SON ANNUAL PROGRAM The Annual Father and Son's Pro gram will be held at Pilgrim Baptist Church, corner 25th and Hamilton Sts., on Sunday. November 20th and Tuesday, November 22nd. On Sun day, 11 a. m. services will be in j charge of the Boys with a short ser mon by Rev. J. H. Dotson. Pastor. Tuesday. Nov-ember 22nd, the An nual Father and Son’s banquet will be [ held at the Church. 150 Fathers and Sons are planning to attend this af_ fair. The program will consist of racial music by the Pilgrim Melody Boys and group singing. Melvin Downing will speak in behalf of the sons and Mr. Ed Fletcher will rer> the fathers. Rev. J. S. Wil Bams, Pastor of Hillside Presbvter Church, will give the principle address. The orry-ram is being snonsored by the laymen of the ’ urch. J. Harvey Kerns is Chair man of the Program Committee. DISTURBING THE PEACE Two men were picked up early Monday morning for disturbing the neace on 25th Street, between Grant and Erskine Streets. They refused jto give their names. 0-0 EDITORIAL WHY Do Women 9 Laugh at insults . by R. A. Adams (The Literary Service Bureau) o-o One of the strange things in con nection with the modern social trend of this morally decadent age is the lightness with which women consid er approaches from men. It seems that many of them consider it an hon or to “appeal” to men and. to be sought by them; and it seems quite evident that very few consider ser ious such things as would have been angrily resented a generation ago. A case in point is that of a young woman who stood on a street corner, in St. Louis, waiting for a bus. A man, an entire stranger, stood by her and began a conversation. It was 7 p. m., and he had no excuse that a late hour suggested something wrong yet, before he had talked to her ten minutes he had invited her to make a trip to Chicago with him, spend the night there and return the next day, at his expense. The young woman only laughed and said, “Why, I am on my way to Kansas City.” Telling of this incident the young woman still was laughing. When asked why she did not angrily resent the insult, and why she would laugh at so serious a thin?, her reply was, “It amused me to think he would con_ sider me so dumb as to accept such a proposition.” She was amused to have a man—a perfect stranger—re gard her as a woman of the world, or to seek to degrade her, with no pos sible encouragement. And she could not understand why she should have taken the matter seriously. Such an attitude and such conduct on the part of women are largely responsible for j the loss of respect for womanhood, j and the opinion that all women are j easy marks. Yes, it is past all un- ; derstanding why women would laugh j at insults—or at what should be con- j sidered insults, by any decent woman. FOUND NOT GUILTY Walter Scott Grimes, our promis. inr pug, received an arrest by local authorities last Wednesday after noon. Our City Police force blamed him of breaking in a North side home. Grimes and his col]eagu ue. Jimmie Butler, were found not guilty. FIRE AT THE APEX POOL HALL by C. Homer Burdette , The Apex Billiard rooms became ignited by rubbish early last Monday morning. The district fire chief blamed the fire on some matches that wrere thrown away unstruck. Only the basement of the building wras damaged. SCOTTSBORO VICTORY VINDI CATES METHOD USED FOR 22 YEARS BY THE NAACP. New Aork, Nov. 11—Gratification was expressed today by the National ' Association for the Advancement of ! Colored People at the U. S. Supreme Court’s decision ordering retrial for the 7 Negro boys summarily rail roaded to death sentences on a trump, ed-up rape ehanre in a mob-surround ed courthouse in Scottsboro, Ala bama. “We are glad that the method used ^ successfully for 22 years by the : NAACP. has been vindicated,” de clared Walter White, NAACP. Sec. notary, “and that the United States Supreme Court, to which the Negro’s cause has again and again been car ried by the NAACP. has r.iterposed its power against the legal lynching of these boys. “A stern and difficult struggle re mains to be fought in Alabama, to which state the case of the boys has been remanded for retrial. It will be a fight conducted in the courts, amid a public sentiment which only those who know the South can prop erly estimate. “The NAACP. believes, as it has believed throughout that victories of * Leroy Jones, former Detective of Central Police Station, was demoted to patrolman on the south side. E. R. Rose was promoted to Detective to replace him. this kind are best won by strictly legal means, as the case was won by Mr. Walter Poliak before the U. S. j Supreme Court. It is absurd to claim that mass demonstrations procured or forced the U. S. Supreme Court de cision because six victories have been won by the NAACP. before the same tribunal by the NAACP. without any such recourse. “The NAACP. is glad to have been able to participate in the defense through the cooperation of its legal committee by contributing $1,000 to Mr. Poliak’s fee, and stands ready to give whatever legal aid it can in helping to free the boys entirely.” NEGRO DOCTOR DENIED TRAIN ING IN CHICAGO U. MEDICAL SCHOOL NAACP. Challenges Color Line Drawn in School and Clinics Chicago, Nov.—The entire issue of race discrimination in Rush Medical College, of the University of Chicago is again raging due to the denial to a colored doctor, H. F. Bouyer, op portunity to register in a special course on oto-laryngology on the sole ground of his color. Dr. Bouyer at once ropted the facts to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peple which is challenging the jim crow policy of the Chicago University Medical; School. “I am at present on the staff of Provident Hospital,” wrote Dr. Bouy er to the NAACP., “in ophthalmol ogy and oto-laryngology—I was giv en a scohlarship on Sept. 9, 1932, by the La Verne Nayes Foundation of Chicago University and was refused the privilege of registering in one of the special courses, oto_laryngology, taught at Rush Medical School of Chicago University for the simple reason that I am colored.” Dr. Souyer qualified for the schol arship as an ex-serviceman of the world war, having spent 11 months in France, 30 days on the front line of battle, “carried a 90 pound pack on my back, lived for many months un der shell fire, and amid the mud, slime and hell of No Man’s Land, only to return and have a career spoiled and changed by those who in the thickest of the fray were living in ease and gathering in dollars.” Free Patients “Object” To Negro Doctors The NAACP. took up the matter with the Chicago U. authorities, an investigation being ordered by the university president, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins. Dean Ernest E. Irons of Rush Medical College then reported that free patients “object” to b^ing cared for by colored doctors, but that a “light” colored doctor had been ac cepted at the dispensary. Dean Irons wrote: “The work of the school is depend, ent to a considerable degree on the Central Free Dispensary .which re ceives patients of all races. A ma jority of patients in the Dispensary are white and a very considerable number of them obj'ect to being cared for by colored doctors. Dr. Sham baugh, however, agreed to take Dr. Tancil notwithstanding this diffic ulty. Dr. Tancil is relatively light in color and the difficulties in connect, ion with this service in the Dispens ary are, therefore, corresponding less. However, Dr. Shambaugh felt that he was unable safely to take on two colored men. especially as they will be there at the same time.” NAACP. Challenges Jim Crow Replying to Dr. Frederick Wood ward, Vice-President of Chicago Uni versity, who forwarded the report, Walter White, NAACP. Secretary challenges the position taken by Dean Irons. “I am certain that you will agree,” writes Mr. White, “that it is most absurd to permit free dispensary pa tient! to determine the policies of a medical school and in turn of the uni. versity with which that medical school is connected. “If those patients know that the hospital dispensary or medical school Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey, in response to a letter from the Nat’l Association for the Ad_ vaneement of Colored People, calling to his attention that among the mem. bers of his commission to survey ed ucation in the state, there was not a single Negro, has appointed Dr. J. C. Love of Montclair. Da Love has been active in many civic and educational activities and is a member of the executive board of the local NAACP. Governor Moore has written to the NAACP. to inform them of his ac tion in response to the letter calling his attention to the omission. The committee was appointed by Governor Moore to “propose recom mendations in regard to an essential program of modern education and the means to finance it.” Among the members of the com mittee and the State Commissioner of Education; Louis Bamberger of New ark; Thomas N. McCarter, President of the Public Service Corporation, and Mrs. J. T Preston, the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland. select their staffs upon the basis of fitness rather than skin color and that they refuse to recede from the principles involved, these patients especially if they are charity ones, are not going to dar# question those principles. Dean Iron’s reference to Dr Tancil’s being relatively light in color’ is indicative, in our opinion, of a most unhealthy and unwise attitude Is a man to be denied opportunity for training because he happens to be dark of skin, and given opportunity even though a Negro, because his skin is light in color?” The University is asked in the NAACP. letter to take an unequivo cal stand against the jim crow atti tude of the medical school. POLICE HALT RED DEMONSTRA TION AT CONGRESSMAN DE_ PRIEST’S OFFICE Chicago, (CNS) Herbert Newton, Communists candidate for Congress in the First Illinois district led a band of “reds” in an attempt to stage a demonstration in front of Congress man DePriest’s office Monday, Nov ember 7. Surrounded by a number of women who held red banners and placards in their hands, Newton Har angued a crowd until driven away from the locality by the police. In the election Tuesday, Newton received less than a thousand votes. -: NEGROES GROWING LIGHTER New York City, (CNS) “Little new ' j white blood is now entering the Ne gro racial mixture in America”, says Dr. Irene Barnes Taueber of the i Mount Holyoke College in a paper presented before the Third Interna 1 tional Congress of Eugenics. Science : News Letter a science service public-! ation of Washington, D. C. expresses the views that: ’‘Negroes in America are becoming lighter in color, as a race, but a considerable range of dusk. | ■ iness will always be found among them.” Little new white blood is now en-' tering the Negro racial mixture in America, Dr. Taeuber stated. Never, theless the race as a whole is grow ing lighter, due to crossings with the lighter colored stock already in existence. The unmixed Negroes are a dwindling group: their percent i age among parents at present is 29, as against only 14 per cent of pure blooded Negroes among the off springs. “The American Negro population of the future will probably be more homogeneous as to ancestry,” said Dr. Taeuber: “there will be a smaller percentage of unmixed Negroes, a larger percentage with half or more Negro ancestry, and a smaller per centage of unmixed Negroes, a larger percentage with half or more Ne gro ancestry, and a smaller percent, age who pass as Negroes, but have more white than Negro ancestry. The segregation process operative in the inheritance of pigmentation will Drevent the development of a popula tion of one uniform hue.” Democrats on Trial before Negro Says N. A. A. C. P. V k Some of the Things Expected of Roosevelt. Washington, (CNS) Many times and in many places during the recent campaign Negroes supporting Roose. velt and the Democratic ticket were asked what they expected to gain in the event of his election. No one gave a very definite answer. Now that Mr. Roosevelt is president elect, Mr. Robert L: Vann, one of his staunch Negro supporters says in a leading editorial in- the Pittsburgh Courier: “Let us pause to warn the victor ious Democratic party that it must satisfy the hopes and aspirations of the American people if it wishes to control the government of this nation after Election Day, 1936. “Thanks to a century of popular education, enhanced by countless newspapers, magazines, books, and lectures, the memory of our people has grown much longer. This is particularly true of Negroes, whose bitter experience in this land of the tree has endowed them with insight, foresight and hindsight. “If we find that we have revolted in vain and committed ourselves to the political custody of just another Hoover, we shall wreak vengeance a gain in 1936, not by returning ig. nominiously to the discredited party that misruled the nation from 1920 to 1932, but by going even further to the Left! “We rightly expect President Roosevelt to use the great power he possesses by virtue of the high office to which we have helped elect him, to “(a) Definitely end discrimination a gainst Negroes in the Civil Service, “(b” Definitely end segregation of Negro and white workers in govern mental departments. “(c) Definitely end the flagrant and long.standing violations of the jim.crow laws in the South in inter state travel. “(d) Urge Congress to enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments and to do so himself in his capacity as Chief Executive. “(e) Definitely recognize the sup port given him by Negro voters and , party workers by increasing the number of appointments in the dip lomatic service and all other govern ment appointive jobs. “(f) Adopt immediately a hands, off, friendly-neighbor policy toward Haiti and Liberia. “(g) Generally take special recog nition of the fact that Negroes have serious problems due to color preju dice and that it is necessary and de sirable that he take immediate steps to impress upon the nation the fact that he is opposed to its treatment of the Negro, and wishes to improve the status of our people. m i/eiiniteiy end the breaking up of Negro regiments and their exile to Georgia and the Mexican border, open up technical branches of the army and navy to Negroes and end the segregation and discrimination practiced in the Citizens’ Training Camps. “These are some of the things we Negroes expect President Roosevelt to do. We expect him to do them be cause they are easy to do, and in do. ing them he will merely be properly living up to his oath of office. In , addition, as working people and cit izens, we expect him and his party to initiate policies that will increase the economic security and improve the cultural status of the American people. “Wre give thanks now for the elect ion of Franklin Delano Roosevelt be cause of the promises made by him in the name of the Democratic party, for the reconstruction of the nation and the assisting of the ' Forgotten Man. Eut we expect him and his party to make good.” ROLAND HAYES TO SING AT MINNEAPOLIS Roland Hayes, world’s greatest tenor is scheduled to sing -with the Minneapolis Orchestra. November 25, 28. He will then fill engagements in Canada. New York, Nov. 11—The Demo cratic party is on trial before the Negro citizens of the country declar. ed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to day in a statement commenting on the sweeping victory of the Demo cratic forces in the election. “Negro voters played their part as never before in this election,” says the statement. “Traditional party lines were scrapper! and it is evident that in this election for the first time on a national Scale the Negro was voting on the basis of his par amount interests. Neither the Negro as a race nor the NAACP. is Democratic. Bt>t the Negro exercised his right as a cit izen to vote .for those who promised to safeguard his basic rights. The NAACP. watched the Hoover Admin istration and commented freely on its shortcomings. The NAACP. will be just exactly as vigilant in watching the Roosevelt Administration, The NAACP. is neither Republican nor Democratic. It is non.partisan, and it wi]l continue advising the colored citizens concerning their best inter ests regardless of party. • “The Democratic narty now has a great opportunity to wipe out the dis trust with which it has justly been regarded by many colored people. The coming years will tell whether that opportunity has been taken or not. Meanwhile the NAACP. will re main on watch and on guard.” OKLAHOMA STORM CENTER IN BATTLE FOR NEGRO RIGHTS Oklahoma City, Nov.—The State of Oklahoma has become a storm center in the battle for Negro rights, no less than three cases of stirring interest to all colored citizens being now fought under the leadership of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. In the first of these, Editor Roscoe Dunjee of the Black Dispatch, re. ports that even prisoners in the state penitentiary have given their pennies toward the defense of Jess Hollins, who goes on trial for his life this month, the defense fund toward the lawyer’s fee of $500 and additional expenses, having reached a total of $378.94. The NAACP. National Of fice has given $100 toward the de fense of this man, railroaded to a death sentence on a charge of rape, whose conviction was reversed by the State Supreme Court; In the second case, also involving a rape charge and railroadinging to. the penitentiary, Mr. Dunjee, who is president of the Oklahoma State Conference of NAACP. branches, re ports that the convicted man, Charl es Dumas, stated that he had “con. fessed’’ his guilt under threat of mob violence. Dumas was immediately 1 to electrocution upon plead ing guilty. JJumas told Mr. Dunjee that he was a prisoner in a road camp at the me the alleged assault took place, ad that subsequently the girl alleged to have been assaulted failed to ident ify him. He confessed only when of ficers entered his cell and told him he would he killed if he did not “con fess” Dumas is scheduled to die on Nov. 18 and the Oklahoma State NAACP. is undertaking to prevent this legal lynching, almost identical in its general outlines with the Jess Hollins case. The third Oklahoma case in the state_wide battle for civil rights con cerns the driving of more than 200 colored citizens from their homes, farms and jobs, with threats of mur der, arson and beating as penalties for Negroes remaining in Beckham County. This occurred on July 17, 1930, and the National Office of the NAACP. has at last obtained a def inite pledge of action from the local I. nited States Attorney against the night riders and mobbists. Nugent Dodds. Agsistanst U. S. Attorney General, informs the NAACP. that the U. S. Attorney at Muskogee has been asked for a report on the mat ter. The NAACP. supplied the De partment of Justice with a lengthy opinion from its special counsel Na_ than R. Margold, holding V.at section 19 of the Federal Criminal Code of fered a basis for procedure against the white Oklahoma mobbists.