Deltas Take Liberal
Stand at Na
tional Conclave
Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 22
(By Fay M. Jackson for ANP) —
That educated groups of colored
men and women cannot afford to;
remain smug in “social exclusive- j
ness" while injustice and dis
criminations prevail against mi
nority groups, and that the de-j
mauds of a new era in our social
system call for a change in view
point among college folk are some
of the findings of the Delta Sig
ma Theta national convention
meeting in its 13th annual session ;
here last week.
With a view to bringing the j
community closer to the sorority
and the sorority into active lead
ership in communities where
members live, open luncheon j
meetings attenedd by citizens;
were an interesting part of eon-!
vention activities.
“We want people to know that
Delta is seriously considering her
responsibility as citizens and lead
ers in our race", vicepresident
Mary Lou Davis said at the first
of the luncheon series.
Miss Davis, who is a graduate
of Atlanta university and an as
sistant secretary treasurer of the
State Insiuran^e company of
Shreveport, presided in a most
efficient manner at the Monday
luncheon which brought out a
large number of distinguished
guests.
Speaker of the day was Bert
Wanzi, press correspondent of
the Globe syndicate, who recently
returned from Abyssinia and,
prior to his trip to the Hark con
tinent, spent three months in
Italy.
“The in vasio nof Abyssinia by
ltal ian forces is an attempt, by
Mussolini to ,save his face and
nothing more”/ he said. “Italy
is jealous iyf Abyssinia, its age,
and its civilization.”
The speaker also expressed the
belief that Japan fvould not stand
for the Italians to take possession
of Abyssinia.
Among the distinguished’guests
was Langston Hughes, noted poet
who was recently banned from
speaking in the local branch of
the YMCA because his social
views differed from those of the
board v)f management.
Introducing Mr. Hughes, Juan
ita Ellsworth-Miller, wife of the
distinguished journalist, said that
the time has passed when reac
tionary forces put a general
stamp of disapproval upon intelli
gent and progressive young peo
ple simply because they express
dissatisfaction 'with the present
System of graft and greed and
emotional instability as opposed
o Po intelligent direction and unifi
ed notions of racial independence.
Mr. Hughes delighed the Audi
ence with readings of his poems
that ha\£ been translated into
o man yforeign danguages.
Appfause lasting several min
utes greeted the poet.
O Claude Barnett ,director of
ANP, in Los Angeles for a vis*
with his noted wife, Etta Moten,
and £ director of Tuskegee, gave
illuminating remarks on chal
lenges which Negro Colleges have
to meet.
o
By popular request, partially
out of respect to Alpha Kappa
Alpha sonority, man yof whose
members were present, Miss Mot
en “broke up” the luncheon with
several songs. Proving her popu
larity with Deltas as well as in
her own sorority, persistent de
mands for her to sing the Delta
hymn were facetiously made.
“After all”, Etta said, “I AM an
AKA and if you don’t mind, I’ll
sing “Little Black Boy”.
Hilda Davis ,dean of women of
Sha wuniversity, led the discus
sion in a most commendable man
ner.
“Sororities have got to change
if they are to survive. A new so
ciety is on the way. Educational
challenges, religious challenges,
racial challenges all indicating a
decided turn, showed consider
able study, serious analyses and
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from response offered by partici
pating sopors, met with whole
hearted approval of the audience.
Delta Artists’ Recital
Wins High Praise
OSCEOLA ADAMS ARCHER
STARS IN DRAMA
Sorority Representatives Feat
ured at National Conclave.
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 22—
(ANP)—The Delta Sigma Theta
Artists Recital held lat historic
Trinity auditorium here Monday
night proved to be one of vhe
highlights of tbe 13th national
convention of the Delta Sigma
1 beta sorority which has been in
session here this week. Before a
grand audience of a thousand par
sons which crowded the auditori
um, a quintet of the most talent
ed women in Delta, an organiza
tion which, has always emphasiz
ed intellectual and cultural at
tainment, gave proof of the ac
complishment of Negro woman
hood, in the field of fine arts.
O
Osceola Adams Archer, Flor
ence Cole Talbert, Lorenza Jor
dan Cole, Netta Paullyn Garner
and Alice Buggs were the anLm
presented who gave the dramatic,
vocal land instrumental presenta
tions on the program.
Osceola Adams Archer of
Washington, D. C., thrilled the
feudally attired audience bv her
presentations from 'the field of
sennits drama, a field which few
of our women have attained, pro
ficiency. She gave Oscar Wilde's
“Salome”; then the poignant
scene 3, act four, of Shakespeare’s
“Romeo and Juliet”. Miss Arch
er, who has studied under some
of the foremost masters in the
dramatic world, gave a most un
usual and artistic performance of
her programmed numbers and
then at the insistence of the audi
ence also depisted a scene from
“Anthony and Cleopatra”.
Florence Cole Talbert, one of
the noted coloratura sopranos of
the country, singing to an audi
ence of friends, many of whom
had known her since girlhood,
and with her mother occupying
a seat of honor in a box, display
ed great artistry as she sang a
group of songs among them being
the Aria “Je Suis Titania” from
Mignon, by Thomas; “What is a
Song” by Curran, and “Negro
Love Song” by Dunbar and ar
ranged by Wm. L. Dawson.
Mrs. Talbert who bears the dis
tinction of being the first singer
of the group to sing Aida in Italy
where she studied for several
years, was in her usual good
form. Of the group which she
sang the audience was most re1
sponsive to the -Dunbar poem,
“Jump Back, My Honey, Jump
Back”. Vocally she was at her
best in the aria from Mignon.
She was forced to respond to an
encore and rendered “The Hills
of Home”.
Lorenza Cole of Los Angeles, a
pianist whose technique has been
acclaimed by the foremost critics
of Europe and America, played
the “Concerto:” (A Minor-First
Movement) by Greig, with Alice
Buggs playing the orchestral
accompaniment on the rogan.
Mrs. Cole was received most
1 enthusiactically by the audience.
She is also a product of Los An
geles, having receive dher prepa
ratory training here, later furth
ering her musical education in
Europe.
Netta Paullyn Garner, the ac
companist of the famous tenor,
George Garner, chose a “Prelude
and Fugue” by Mendelsshon.
Mendelssohn’s works lend them
selves quite well to the delicacy
of Mrs. Garner’s touch. Al
though hailing from Chicago,
Mrs. Garner is making her
permanent home in southern Cali
fornia and is taking an active
part in the musical program of
the San Diego exposition. She
too, studied in Europe and has
had extensive training in piano
technique.
A reception for the artists, in
which the audience participated,
closed an evening which musical
Los Angeles will long treasure
in memory.
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Harlem Sees Hope in
Rhode Island Vote
New York, Aug. 21, (By A. E.
White for ANP)—Republican
: leaders are smiling broadly over,
the Rhode Island election and]
have seized upon it as a glimmer
of hope in their darkest days.
They see the defeat of the New]
Deal in 1936. But, as many of
the keen political observers point1
out, this is not an important fac
tor and the Democrats are de
pending upon the south and the
west to bring them through to
victory in the big election.
Yet right here in Harlem the
fights among the Democrats are
showing the dissatisfaction of
the laymen with the powers that!
be In the selection and designa
tion for various positions.
Down in the 19th Assembly
District, the Harry C. Perry
Democratic Club has named Rob
ert Justice and Chas. Lynch,
respectively, to run in the Demo
cratic primaries on September!
17th against James E. Stephens
and Charles Bradford, assembly
man and alderman respectively.
Blaming the leader of the dis
trict, Martin Healy, for the lack
of colored leadership, the mem-!
bers of the club are seeking to
place their own candidates in the
field and seize the two important
offices from the party.
In tke 21st district, the Repub
licans feel that in appointing
Eunice Hunton Carter to the law
staff of Special Prosecutor
Thomas E. Dewey, they have dis
charged their obligation to that
lady for her defeat at the hands
of William Andrews for the As
sembly two years ago. Mrs. Car- j
ter has had other appointments
since that time, but none have
paid her the salary she is to re
ceive in this two-year appoint
ment. Tt will probably equal or
surpass what salary she would
| have received had she been
elected to the Assembly.
However, other phases of the
situation remain the same here in
Harlem with few Changes if any!
in the line ups and the set ups for
the primaries and the elections.
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200,000 Ethiopian
Soldiers Ready
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(Continled from Paere 1)
shed as must be visited upon
: Ethiopia in the protection of her
independence?
Neither country is a sure shot
|.to win this war. Pictures have
! been published showing the flow
er of Italian youth on their way
to East Africa. Photographs* have
also showm the young Ethiopians
going through their paces. War is
not an ambition in the lives of
either Italian or Ethiopian youth.
1 But this war is upon them and
they are forced to make the sacri
fice in the name of something
called patriotism which, in Italy’s
case, is closely synonymous with
selfish political ambition.
Thousands upon thousands of
Ethiopians await the call to de
fend their country. They have a
proud heritage of years of inde
pendence. That independence has
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been maintained by a glorious
record of fighting. Never have
the Ethiopians, united, been de
feated. While the powerful whifS
nations of the globe have gobbled
up all the rest of Africa, the Ethi
opians have fought off all comers.
Back in 1866, King Theodore of
Ethiopia was defeated by a large
British army, but only after Ins
own chieftains had turned against
him. Twice, the Italians have been
defeated by the Ethiopians. Gib
bon records that when the armies
of ancient Rome reached Ethio
pia, they concluded they had gone
far enough.
Now against all the agencies of
destruction which civilized inge
nuity can devise, a united Ethio
pia prepares to defend itself once
more. Tin; special correspondent
of the London Times has recent
ly presented a preview of the war
as it is expected to break in Sep
tember.
Ethiopia now has 200,000 of
troops under arms, with 500,000
more straining at the leash. They
are ready and willing to die. They
have no realization of the deadli
ness of the machines which Italy
is sending to East Africa. They
want and expect to meet the Ital- •
ians man-to-man and destroy
them. They have no fear of air
planes or tanks, even of cannon.
At Adowa, in 1896, the Ethio
pians under Menelik II, repeated
ly charged into the cannon fire!
of the portified position of the
Italians, climbing over the bodies ■
of their stricken countrymen.
If you will consult yoor map of
Ethiopia, you will be able to fol
low the plan of the Ethiopian
military strategists who will op
pose Italy. Italy lias two African
colonies bordering on Ethiopia,j
Eritreo on the north and Somali-1
land on the south. Eighteen miles!
from Eritrea in northwest EthicT
pia is Adowa, scene of the disas
trous defeat of the Italians in
1896.
The Ethiopians believe that It
aly will strike first in the north,
in an effort to wipe out the stain
of Adowa. They already envisage
the capture of Adowa and a
speech by Mussolini to commemo-1
rate it. The Ethiopians will offer,
little resistance. To proceed
southerly from Adowa would be
almost suicidal for the Italians
because of the mountains, so it is
expected that the Italian army
will adopt a flanking movement
through the Barraka-Gash valley
on the way to Gondar. Such a
movement will, of course, length
en the line of communications and
supplies for the Italians, and re
quire heavy rearguards for pro
tection against Ethiopian snipers.
Emperor Haile Selassie believes
: the major attack from the Ital
ians is to come from Somaliland
on the south. He believes the in
vasion in the north will be to
wipe out the stain of Adowa and
to protect against an Ethiopian
invasion of Eritrea.
From the south, the Italians,
after transferring the bulk of
their troops in Erihea via the
Red Sea to Somaliland, might
launch an offense from Walwal,
already occupied, across the
plains of Ogaden province. Mili
tary roads are being built there
now and the right flank of the
Italian army would be protected
by the English Sudan. The first
objective of the Italian attack
would be Harar, Emperor Haile
Selassie’s own province, and the
second, Addis Ababa, capital city.
In two days, without unforseen
difficulties, the Italians might
reach Harar. The Italians would
then move eastward toward Ad
dis Ababa.
In order to combat this duel
threat of the Italians, Haile Se
lassie must divide his army into
two forces one northern and one
southern and each protecting an
imaginary line about thirty miles
on either side of the capital. If
commuincations in Ethiopia were
up-to-date the two armies might
operate as one.
Although most of the large de
tachments of troops which have
passed through Addis Ababa
have seemed to go into the north,
it is currently believed that they
are being concentrated in the
south.
The present disposition of arm
ed troops in Ethiopia is as fol
lows :
The army of the North is divid
ed into four parts. Ras Seyyum
of Tigre province holds between
30,000 and 50,000 men concen
trated in the region of Adowa,
Aksuln and Makalle, all close to
Eritrea. It is not expected that
he would attempt to meet the
Italians in pitched battle. His
force will be divided into guerilla
bands to harass the invaders.
In Gondar and the northwest
v.
of the empire, Ras Kassa, the em
peror’s cousin, has between 50,
000 and 70,000 men. Th.ey would
menace Italian communications
and supplies if they tried the
southwest flanking passage thru
the Barraka-Gash valley. To the
east and south in Wollo province,
there are between 30,000 and 40,
000 men under the command of
the Crown Prince. These troops
are congregated at Dessie to
guard the desert tract from As
sab and the eastern flank of the
central Amhara plateau.
Directly east from Dessie at
Gojjam are 30,000 reserves under
the command of Ras Imru.
Much less is known of Ethio-i
pian concentrations in the south
than in the North. However, Dadj
Nasseru is known to have 15,000
troops at Dagga Bur in Harar,
from which province the Italians
are expected to try their advance
on Addis Ababa. Supporting him
are 10,000 Galla soldiers. Howev
er, the chief strength of the
southern troops is expected to
come from the Imperial Guard,
said to number from 7,000 to 50,
000 troops, specially trained by
Belgian officers.
Thus, in excess of 200,000 men
are already under arms.
They are not well armed, ac
cording to modern standards. In
worse condition than these, are
the 500,000 provincial retainers
who will answer the first call to
aims.
It is estimated that the Em
peror can quickly muster 500,000
1 i ties out of those already in pos
j session, 14,000 modern pattern
Military Mission and 16,000 mod
ern rifles and 600 light automat
ics imported through Ojibuti this
year. They also have severalhun
drcd machine guns.
Ethiopia's principal difficulty
is a lack of ammuntiom. From the
most reliable sources, reports do
not indicate that she possesses
morg than 10,000,000 rounds ot
ammunition. Seven million rounds
of ammunition, ordered from Ant
werp, were stopped this year.
It is the European ambargo on
ammunition that is going to cost
thousands of Ethiopian lives.
There is no calling them back
from the defense of their country.
The choice for defense or non-de
fense does not rest with Haile Se
lassie. If he sought to compromise
with Mussolini, the Ethiopians
themselves would depose him.
They want no compromise. They
art* frantic patriots.
The position of the European
nations is somewhat like that of
the lynchers in the United States.
There, the law enforcement offic
ers take a poor Negro into cus
tody, deprive him of all means of
defending himself, and turn him
loose to a howling mob which lias
emptied all the hardware shops
of firearms.
The lynching of Ethiopia, if it
occurs, will symptomize the spirit
of modern white civilization and
the essential weakness of prac
ticed Christianity among the na
tions of the west .
New York Technical
Men Protest to Ickes
New York, Aug. 21, (ANP)—
Aware of the appointment of Ne
gro architects and engineers to
slum clearance projects in other
cities, members of the New York
«
Technical Society, composed of
Negro architects, engineers and
technicians, have sent a protest
to Mayor Fiorella La Guardia
and Secretary -of the Interior
Harold Ickes against the exclu
sion of Negroes on the Harlem
project.
The protest is signed by Vert
ner W. Tandy, Gordon II. Jones.
Richard C. White and Frank G.
Holbrook.
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Search For Husband
of Slain Woman
Hartsville, S. C. Aug. 21,
(ANP)—Officers here are
searching for Laney Hammond,
the husband of Mrs. Fifi Ham
mond, 23, who was found dead in
her home here Wednesday after
noon.
Neighbor's discovered the body
of the dead woman early Wed
nesday afternoon when they
went to her home after she did
not appear on the streets or in
the neighborhood for two days.
Marks on the body showed that
she had been clubbed to death
and officers were summoned.
After questioning those who had
made the call, the police set out
to find the husband of the slain
woman, but a search of all his
haunts failed to give any light as
to his whereabouts. Information
was received, however, that he
had been missing for a day and a
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