TALKING IT OVER
True Friendship
By Mildred Bronson.
Dear Headers:
No doubt, if 1 were wi bin a
listening ear when you look at
the subject of this topic, 1 would
hear the remark, “She has writ
ten this once, why again?” Would
1 not? It is true 1 did write, on
ii a few weeks ago, but 1 am re
peating my version on it, for one
of my dear friends and readers
namely, Mrs. Beatrice V*. Davis,
of Superior Wyoming, who says
she is a Chris tan and trying very
hard to live it every day and re
quCits me to give my version on
'i rue Friendship for her. 1 wish
to thank Mrs. uavis for her won
den ul letter and 1 wi 1 do my best
to answer l. tor her a*id you.
'1 rue Friendship, a small phrase
of iourteen letters, but one that
means so much and 1ms sj much
to do with the living oi our lives.
^ ou hear some imes among out
people, “1 don't want any it lends,
especially in this town, me people
here are too dirty ana two-iaced
to mean any good, t ou ne..r peo
p e make remarks simuar io dial
haven’t you? Ferhaps you nave
made them yourseii. Kciueniber,
1 said perhaps.
V\ ell my friends, 1 may be
wrong, but in my opinion, as long
as you Utter remarks such as
these or even have them m your
heart or mind, you will continue
vo have no true irieiids. \ ou may
say why? This is the reason, io
have Friends, you must nrst show
yourself Friendly” Am i not
right? And another thing, you
must first show yourseii r nend
ly.” Am 1 not rigid? And another
tiling. You can not oe a true
friend to anyone urnes* you are
a true friend yourseii.
I Low true: ‘&o true, now tell
me this, how can you be true to
anybody when you are not true
to yourself? How can you think
well of anybody if you continu
ously have evil thoughts m your
mind? You can’t, because you
can’t carry evil thoughts m your
mind without thinking something
evil of everyone you meet
Did you ever siop io think oi
how far the Negro race is apart.
By that I mean, how distant the
majority is from one to die other.
If we had more true friendship
within our group, and when 1 say
true friendship, 1 mean friend
ship this is the same all of the
time. A friend that is willing t
do anything to help the other per
son. Friendship that will
down, maybe in the gutter wit a
friend. Go down in the gutter
with a friend, to stay? No, to help
brin" him back back up again.
Friends wi 1 say the same things
behind your back as you say to
his face. Friendship that is the
same when your friend is broke,
and down as it was when he had
money position, etc., in life. If yor
can not say that you withhold anj
of the above in True Friendsihp
you are not a true Friend and
never will be until you learn tht
above.
You have heard people say 1
am a Christian and then later or
hear them remark to ano.hei
person, ‘‘1 don’t like her or 1
can’t stand her.” Am 1 not right!
In your Bible you will find a
ph rase something ihat reads:
“liow can you hate your fellow
man which, you have seen and
love me whom you have not seen
It’s impossible. So True Friend
ship comes before us again. Y ov
have got to be a true friend tc
everyone before you can truth
fully bear the name of a Chris
dan.
My friends as 1 look through
one of my books. 1 came across
a Lttle quotation as follows.
‘ An enemy will say you arc
fooiish and be done with it, but
a friend will give all the reason
why. If you are a true friend to
a person you will not tell theii
faults behind their backs ,but will
tell them to their face. Will you
not. '
So my Friends 1 could go on
and on. with new thoughts con
tinously coming to me and this
vital subjeci, but since time and
space will not permit , I must
bring it to a close. But 1 seriously
hope that I covered the subject
fairly well for Mrs. Davis, and
trust that 1 have not been too
outspoken.
But my friend, I write from the
heart and put the plain facts be
fore you, whether they be pleas
ant or not. If a thought comes
to my mind as I w'as writing and
I would not put it down because
1 felt that it might cause me to
lose someone’s Friendship, I
would be cheating myself and
you. W hat we need today is peo
ple for wri.ers that are oging to
bring the true facts before the
public regardless.
That brings before me the fact
that up to date I have not re
ceived one letter from a Pastor. I
wonder wliat can be the trouble.
Am 1 too outspoken? 1 shouldn’t
be, not for a true Preacher of the
Gospel. Not if he is bringing the
people the true facts. I will close
now wiih this poem and sincerely
hope that you will remember it
as you go through life.
o—o—o
Life if good begins and ends,
In the circle of our friends,
Memories that help and cheer
Centers in the friendly years.
When at the years, when you
stand,
May you grasp a friendly hand.
And be glad the good Lord sends,
You, your company of Friends.
NEW YORK EDUCATORS, IN
PRAISE OF DUBAR
KINDERGARTEN
New York—Unstinted praise
from public school teachers and
private school principals as well
as many visiting educational ex
perts is given the model kinder
garten conducted for five years
by Paul Laurence Dunbar Apart
ments, Inc.
Mrs. Clara Burrill Bruce, as
sistant manager of the Dunbar
aud director of the welfare serv
ices, took the initiative in secur
ing the cooperation of the New
York Kindergarten Association.
That admirable association fur
nishes the principal teacher, Miss
Henrietta Maesing. Miss Maesing
is well experienced in handling
pre-school children; she has won
the sympathy and support of the
mothers of the Dunbar. A moth
cr’s club has been organized to
aid the work; it meets the first
Friday in each month. An assist
ant teacher, Miss Marjorie Wal
ton, daughter of the journalist,
Lester A. Walton, is furnished by
the housing corporation, as well as
rooms and playgrouds for tho
children.
Comments on the work have
stressed the high quality of the
training provided. Public and
private school teachers have re
marked that they can instantly
tell a Dunbar Kindergarten train
ed child. The program offered
places a premium on developing
the creative instinct in the child,
giving it appropriate materials
with which to work, such as
paints .brushes, etc., for painting
and drawing, a variety of toys,
and small projects in which the
children cooperate in making
such things as dolls and doll
clothes, and molding from plastic
material anything that catches
their fancy. „ , ,
The Dunbar JNursery ocuuui,
under the direction of Miss Ellis
and Miss Beatrice Cain, supple
ments the work of the kindergar
ten, taking babies from eighteen
m ,nths to 4 years while the kin
dergarten takes them from 4 to
5. A total of 32 children are now
enrolled in the kindergarten,
practically all of whom were born
in the Dunbar.
Miss Jennie Haxton, supervisor
from the Kindergarten Associa
tion, has warmly approved the
conduct of the school.
ATLANTA, GA., UNIVERSITY
ANNOUNCES OPENING DATE
OF SUMMER SCHOOL.
Atlanta, Georgia March 21.—
Special: — Atlanta University's
summer school ,in which all of the
collegiate institutions for Negroes
will participate again this year,
will open June 12th and continue
until July 24th.
The session will afford oppor
tunity for students to receive
special training in social work, in
teaching methods and school ad
ministration ,and in religious
work. As a special feature this
i year, the University, in coopera
tion with the ueorgia btate pro
gram of curriculum reorganiza
tion, is offering under the direc
tion of a specialist in curriculum
study, courses in the Fundament
als of Curriculum and the Plan
ning of Curriculum Units for
Elementary and Secondary
schools.
Only work of college and grad
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1 uale grade will be given at the
summer session. Gradua e cours
es will be offered in a variety of
departments, including biology,
chemistry, Eng'ish, history, econo
; mics ,education, and mathematics.
For' he benefit of students in
teacher iraining courses, a pro
gressive education demonstration
school including a nursery school
and a model one room rural school
| will be conducted.
Several members of the faculti
es of the cooperating institutions
will be in residence for the sum
mer school. In addition, experi
enced teacheres from the faculties
of other institutions are being se
cured.
The ins'itutions cooperating
with Atlanta University in the
1935 summer school are More
house College, the Atlanta School
of Social Work, Morris Brown
College. Clark University, and
Gammon Theological Seminary.
The Interdenominational Minist
ers Institute will be conducted
this year at Morris Brown Col
lege. All other work will be
centered on the campuses of At
lan a University, Morehouse Col
lege, and Spelman College.
TOUGH LUCK
What is there in life for me?
Naught but care and sorrow,
Disappointments, lonflness,
Waiting for the morrow
Once I thought that luck was mine,
| I guess I was mistaken
All the joys I thought I had,
' I found, too late, were taken.
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So I’ll go on, a luckless chap
Chasing bright illusions
Till death, kind death, should claim
me
In sweet, tranquil conclusion.
By D. Eugene Murray
MOUNTED TROOPERS
CHARGE CROWD OF
.VJNERS AT COURTHOUSE
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Mounted troop
ers last week charged a crowd of
15,000 miners gathered before the
state courthouse here in protest:
against the arrest of 51 mine union
leaders- As a result of the troopers’
attacks, seven workers went to the
hospital. Eleven others were arrested
and put under bail amounting to
$47,000.
In the courtroom, Judge Valentine
heard the cases of 29 of the 51 ar
rested men. These union officials
have refused to heed an injunction to
call off the strike against the Glen
Alden coal company. No action by
the court has as yet been announced.
A tremendous mobilization of armed
force against the strikers is being
carried through by mine operators and
state and county officials- Local po
lice, state troopers, dectectives and
company police and guards are cooper
ating in an attempt to smash the
strikers’ ranks and reopen the mines.
There are rumors that martial law
j will be declared. The answer of the
, workers has been to increase the
! picket lines at the mines.
DOINGS AMONG THE DINING
CAR AND HOTEL WAITERS
By Hopie
Well, Well! Spring is here to
stay if what some of our down
home boys are right. And after
all, they can be right in their
way, can’t they? Mr. Robbins mis
sed* quite a few' last winter, didn’t
he ’ And he gets paid for study
ing the clouds, skies, and what
not. While those down home
boys study .he feathers on the
fowls, ring around the sun, corns
on the toes, the quack of the ducks
and geese travelling north and
above ail the jumping and that
ambitious attempt to dance to the
tune of ‘ ‘ Love in Bloom ’ ’ by some
ot those poor waiters while a few'
of their old faithful friends stand
by with tears in their eyes for
them, singing, “The Darned Old
Fool Ain’t What he Used to Be.’’
They can be right can’t they?
Sure. WTho knows your corns any
i better than you? Or whether you
know' .he moon or sun is filling
up with Spring rains any more
than they know when your are
drinking beer that you are filling
up? They may not be able to tell
what you are get ing down when
you are drinking sloe gin, and
high balls, if you could keep your
sober thoughts to yourself. Any
way, they may be right. Let’s
hope so anyway.
un, say. riere is sumcuims
that should be circulated. Last
week the Creighton club gave a
banquet down at the C. of C. to
welcome their new football coach.
After , he banquet the manager of
the C. of C. received a letter of
appreciation, which expressed
the following sentiment:
“We wish to thank you and
cannot say too much for you and
your well trained, manly crew
that served us perfectly. I must
say that you have been spoken of
many, many times since, and we
wish to show our appreciation to
you for the successful way you
served us. It wras considei’ed and
honor that you and your organiza
tion took a lively interet in the
affair, and such and active pai*t j
in making it a success. Many of
our 500 guests have remarked of
the excellent food, and the prom
ptness and courtesy of the wait
ers.”
W'e only hope that this is .inst
a beginning of many more like
this. We also hope that this will j
encourage Mr. Harrold to go on to
greater works. .
I would like to go back a week
or two and thank Mrs. Albright
and Miss South Omaha for bring
ing to my attention the feeling
that exists betwreen our groups of
North and South Omaha. I made
a special investigation because I
couldn’t credit the statements.
And I was surprised to find that
it is true? I asked about a dozen,
and ten of them told me or show
ed me that Mrs. Albright and Miss
South Omaha were right. I can’t
see how wre could be so small. The
very thought of it is shocking to
intelligence of good thinking peo
ple. Here is a quotation from our
great leader, the late Booker T.
Washington, “It is impossible to
hold a man in the gutter without
staying '.here with him, because
ii you get up. he will get up.” So
true, tsn t it .
Here you ate. Name it and take
it. Mr. (1 ordered two steaks,
two sa ads, two coffees, etc. Put
up his platter and said, pick up.
Cook “on de fire.” He picks up
platter, salads, bread and coffee,
covered platter with a nice hot
cover and as he pulls up to check
er said chick— check. Lifting
cover and said, “Two steaks, Oh,
oh, No, No, No.” And after a
long breath he said, “On fire.”
“Put them out.” Your problem,
not mine. “0. K. Take it away.”
Captain Booth went down to
inspect the shoes of the crew on
request of the head waiter, Mr.
Branch. He returned and said
that a waiter had on a pair of
‘ ‘ turnplow ’ ’ shoes. What kind of
shoes can they be?
Commodore tells me that while
I was sick, they put on a new
captain by the name of Jones.
Have you met him?
I am told that a certain waiter
got an order for a coffee cocktail.
He went to the bar and set it up
and said, “Coffee cocktail.” The
bartended told him to serve the
coffee on the side or put it in a^
the table. Did he? I wasn’t there.
Oh, me. Remember, I said, “I
wras told. ”
I visited the young waiters
class Friday night, and it surpris
ed me to see the progress of these
young men. Mr. Branch should be
given a big hand for the splendid
way he has taught and built up1
this class. The young men are
polite, and ambitious. We should
all lend Mr. Branch a hand to en
courage these young men on to
a higher standard in life.
JLST A JOKE BETWEEN
FRIENDS. “A waiter said to a
buss boy, “Why don’t you get
some brains in your head?” The
buss boy answered, “Well, maybe,
if you had some you wou'dnj’t
have to keep a hat on all the time
to keep the woodpeckers away.”
Oh, well. Take it easy.
See you next week.
HARLEM FIRE TRAP SCHOOL
BURNS— 2000 CHILDREN
BARELY ESCAPE DEATH
New York —CNA—Two thous
and youns: school children barely
escaped death here last wreek
when a fire broke out in a public
school in the heart of Harletm,
just after the school day had
ended .
The school it* located at 135th
and Lenox Avenue, and had been
for several years condemned as
a fire trap, unfit for use.
The fire did $25,000 worth of
damage to the school building.
Over eleven fire department sta
tions were active in attempting to
control the blazes. The smoke
and fumes enveloped the territory
blocks away from the fire. The
Harlem hospital, which is two
blocks from the school was com
pletely penetrated by the smoke,
causing injury to many of the pa
tients.
The school building wras erected
in 1889 and was turned over for
Negro children after it has be
come unfit for use. Although the
fire consumed almost die entire
structure, the children were re
quired to attend the same school
the nex, day.
A meeting was called last Wed
nesday night by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights at
which parents of school children
in Harlem, took action against
the use of this fire trap for their
children. A delegation was ap
pointed at the meeting to attend
the open hearing of the Board of
Education on March 13. At this
time unemployed teachers, par
ents, and Negro citizens of Harlem
will demand the building of a new
school in place of the half de
stroyed fire trap.
PROVERBS AND PARABLES
By A. B. Mann
(For The Literary Service Bureau)
YOITR CHICKENS AND MINE
The saying is, “Your chickens will
come home to roost.” It is based on
the fact that chickens may leave their
own yards, but at roosting time, will
return. The lesson is of retribution
or penalty for wrong doing- In the
Bible it is called reaping what is sown.
In ethical terms it is retributive jus
! tice. In slang parlance it is “getting
what is coming to you.” In penal lan
guage it is paying penalty for trans
gression of law, human or divine.
This saying and these interpreta
tions remind us that we cannot do
wrong or render injustice with im
punity; and it warns us to be careful
in all our dealing w.th others—and
with the conduct of our own lives.
The ideal of Friendship is to feel
as one while remaining two.—Madame
Swethchine.
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