SOCIAL C ,, „ i - i .. CLUBS
AFFAIRS ''□-O-L-I-e-l-y'' ORGANIZATIONS
Mrs. R. M. Erving, 2616 Sew
ard, gave a season dinner party
Saturday, December 28th. Covers
were laid for 12. Everything was
in keeping with the seasoa. The
guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Calloway and son, Mr. Eugene
Skinner, who is a student at Iowa
university, home for the holidays,
Mr. and Mrs. D. Hill, Mr. and Mrs.
N. Aaderson, and Mr and Mrs. O.
Reed.
Miss Addie George of Pensac
ola, Florida, is spending the holi
days with her grandmother and
aunt, Mrs. Alice George and Mrs.
Carrie Thomas, 2631 Charles. Miss
George is a school teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. John Curtwright
entertained friends at their cozy
apartment, 418 So. 38 Ave., New
Years eve. Lunch was served at
12 m. The color scheme was car
ried out in pink and green. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. John
T. Fields, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Hammonds, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus
Long.
Everyone reported a lovely
time.
Mr. H. Gastnn, 2812 Charles,
gave a family reunion dinner
Chrstmas day. The guests were:
Mrs. Mary Brashenr and daugh
ter, Delores, of Chicago; Rev. M.
C. Clark and Mrs. Mary Beshears
of St. Joseph, Mssouri.
Rev. Clark and Mrs. Beshears
returned home Xmas night. Mrs.
Brashear and daughter will leave
Saturday, January 4th.
Mrs. C. U. Ward and grand
daughter of Shreveport, Louis
iana, arrived in the city De
cember 31 to make their home
with her son Mr. Willie Ward,
3024 Pinkney.
The dance given by the Aloaho
Social Club at the Dreamland
hall on Monday, Dec. 30, was one
of the season’s biggest events.
Never has the Dreamland hall
been more bonutifully decorated.
Omaha society turned out cn
masse for this big occasion. Music
was rendered by the well known
Siman Harrold’s Melody Boys.
Mrs. Ed Patton, 4610 Patrick
Ave., is spending the holidays in
Denver with her sister.
Robert James, Jr. left for
Muskogee, Oklahoma, to spend the
Xmas holiday with his relatives.
A musical festival will be given
Sunday, January 6th, at 3 p. m.,
under the auspices of Bethel A.
M. E. church. The public is cord
ially invited to attend. Admission
free.
Mr. Avery Washington, 1714
N. 28 street, was brought home
Monday from the Lutheran hos
pital. Mr. Washington is recup
erating from a fall which ocucred
a few weeks ago.
More Work; Less Pay
Birmingham, Ala., Jan, 4.—
With an admitted 30 per cent re
duction in tho number of direct
relief eases, local authorities were
claiming that relief clients had
been transferred to WPA.
Meanwhile, W. D. Twing, dis
trict WPA director, viciously de
nounced workers for preferring
WPA to private jobs financed by
tho government. The private con
tract jobs were reported to de
mand much harder labor with no
increase in pay.
Twing, irate, instructed fore
men und superintendents to drive
the WPA workers and "to get a
full day’s work from every man on
the job—If men now on the job
won't do a full day’s work, some
one else will."
Twing threatened that men re
fusing to give what he termed “a
full day’s work” would not be
transferred, but discharged.
Short Veil*, Long Train*
The bride who marches to an altar
bedecked with chrysanthemums
and gladioli will wear white satin,
velvet or uiolre. Her train will
he long, her veil quite short and
her bouquet decorations will fur
nish the color for the scene. It Is
possible, of course, to order ex
quisite bridal dresses In any shade
under the sun from the deep ltonals
snnee blues to rich marigold yel
lows.
BIGGER ’N’ BETTER
Pelican—Yes, Mr. Fish, yon Just
nil the Itllll
This Will Be a “Shrine of Shrines”
Before long this niche in the new archives building in
.Washington will be one of the most frequently visited of all i
American shrines. It will hold the nation’s two most import
ant documents—he Constitution and the Declaration of Inde
pendence. They are now in the Library of Congress,
ROYALTY HONOR MARIAN ANDERSON
-Marian Anderson, internationally 1 amom
Contralto, surrounded by Royal Dignitaries
after recent roncert in Budapest. Reading left
to right* Princes Hohenloe, Kosti Vehanen,
accompanist. Miss Marian Anderson, Mr. Szasz,
The Hungarian Impressario, Baroness Herzog1
and Mr. Julian Hart of San Francisco. —AN?.
Ancient Memorials Mark
Certain Parts of China
Wherever one goes In China he
Bees evidence that China Is an old.
very old country. In the heart of
Hangchow there are tenths and
memorials so undent that the
weather of the centuries tins worn
the stone statues and carvings to
smooth surfaces. In the country are
disintegrating vvnlls enclosing what
were once rich estates and Impos
ing buildings, the ruins of wit ch
are overgrown with semi-tropical
Jungle.
The "collin houses" along the
paths In the hills, where repose the
remains of the departed awaiting
an auspicious day for burial, are
in beter condition than the houses
of the living. These mausoleums,
writes Mason Warner In the Chi
cago Tribune, ure rows of 12 to
20 attached buildings, 10 to 12 feet
high, each having one room, with
space for either one or two cof
fins. Sometimes the burial of hus
band or wife Is postponed until the
death of the survivor, and that oc
casions the wafting of one for the
other In the cottln house.
For the peace of the departed
soul and the good luck of the sur
viving members of the family, a day
when all the elements of nature
are In harmony in relation to the
departed one must be chosen by a
learned geomaneer for Interment In
the earth. That Is always difllcult,
for what would be a lucky day for
one son might bring disaster to
another. It Is not untisuua! for a
corpse to wait five, ten, or twenty
years for burial. Very rich fami
illes have been known to wait lifty
years for the right day.
Lightness and Strength
Make Aluminum Popular
Aluminum Is used wherever a com
blnatlon of lightness and strength
Is desired. The pure metal Is high
ly reactive with various corrosive
substances, yet In actual practice
It resists corrosion very much bet
ter than the theoretically more re
sistant Iron. The reason for this,
writes Dr. Thomas M. Rock In the
Chicago Tribune, is that aluminum
on exposure to tho atmosphere
forms a microscopically thin, lough,
air-tight coating of aluminum rust
which gicos the underlying metal
perfect protection against corro
sion. Iron, on the other hand, forms
a brittle, porous rust that (lakes off
and exposes more metal.
Along with the advantage of
lightness and rust resistance, pure
aluminum has the disadvantage of
being relatively soft For a long
time this limited Its use to the
manufacture of kitchon utenal’s,
sheet aluminum and similar uses
In which It was not subjected to
very great strain. However, there
have been developing some highly
successful aluminum alloys. In
which the metal has a strength ap
proaching that of steel, with no sac
rifice of lightness. Oddly enough.
In the cases of some of the most
useful of these alloys the aluminum,
In gaining strength, loses much of
its resistance to corrosion. This
fault, however, can easily be reme
died by giving the alloy a thin coat
ing of the pure metal.
Peace
Peace on earth the world is
praying,
But the world is not obeying
The words of the Blessed
Mnster,
And it must turn to Him
If it is to escape disatser,
And accept His teachings, obey
His word
Before their prayers for peace
are heard.
Good will toward all men
And peace shall reign again
When love rules the hearts of
men.
— By Myrtle M. Goodlow.
C73CHET C?FT3
Ry CIIEUiE NICHOLAS
The beauty about the crochet sug
gestions offered in the illustration
is that each Item shown takes but
a short time to make and the cost
of the materials is trifling. The
dainty, lacy round collar at the top
Is crocheted of fine mercerized cot
ton. Among the five belts shown Is
one to suit every taste and require
ment—tailored ones, less tailored
ones for sports dresses and fanci
ful ones to wenr with dress-up silks
They are all crocheted of knitting
and crochet cottons, which is the
same as telling you they will wash
perfectly. An exquisitely carved
Ivory mounting Is a perfect comple
ment for the hag which is crocheted
of knit-crocheen, in an effective
shell stitch. These handbags are
creating a stir among women who
appreciate handwork.
Strange Animal
Four-year old Bobby wus taken to
see the circus parade. At dinner
his father said to him, “What did
you see in the parade, Bobby?”
“Oh, daddy I” exclaimed the
youngster, ”1 saw elephants and
they had their tails on the wrong
end."—Indianapolis News.
Indirect
“And now." asked the teacher,
“will anyone give me an example
of an Indirect tax, please?”
“The dog tax,” announced the
pupil.
“Why do you term that an indi
rect tax?”
"Because the dog doesn’t pay It.”
Faint Heart
Dentist’s Daughter — Have you
asked papa for my hand?
Candidate—No. But I’ve tried
four times. Every time I step Into
his office I lose my courage. To
day I allowed him to pull my fourth
tooth as an excuse.—Pathfinder
Magazine.
Take Another Look
Suspect—Well, boy, what are you
looking at me like that for?
Zealous Boy Scout (on guard at
a reservoir)—Please, sir, we’re look
log for a foreign gentleman with 50
tons of chemicals concealed on bis
person.—Pearson’s Weekly.
SPECIAL ORDER
Mrs. Justwed—I'll take that
chicken, and then 1 want two
pounds ol beefsteak, and have It
rare, please.
Flower* From Bulbs
Jlmson was relating his experi
ences In India.
"I was taking my usual morning
dip when I spotted three gladiators
making for me. so 1 had to swim
for dear life!”
“You mean navigators — some
thing like a crocodile?” interposed
Johnson.
“Well, what are gladiators?”
“Gladiators? Why they’re a sort
of flower grown from bulbs.”—Pear
son’s Weekly.
Wanted Full Detail.
“Ilere,” said the sightseeing
guide, “was fired the shot heard
round the world P*
But the studious young man
fresh from college was far from be
ing satisfied.
“Is the specific consumption of
time required for the reverberation
of the trajectory to circumnavigate
the terrestrial sphere also within
your scope of knowledge?" he In
quired.—Pathfinder Magazine.
J. B. Stradford Dies
Chicago, Jan. 4—(ANP)—
John B. Stradford well known
citizen died here Sunday even
ing, December 22, 1935, at 6:00
p. m. Chicago. He was born in
Versailles, Kentucky, Septem
ber 10, 1861. Educated in Ober
lin Academy, Oberlin, Ohio;
taught school in Harrodsburg,
Kentucky, moved to Indianap
olis, Indiana, where he complet
ed the regular course at the
Indianapolis Law School. In
1900 he located in Alexandria,
Indiana, and there established
and conducted a hotel, achiev
i n g considerable financial
heights.
Thereafter he went to Tulsa,
Okla., the heart of the great
south western oil belt where in
the hotel business he amassed
a fortune of $150,000. During
'the Tulsa riot of 1921 his hotel
was burned to the ground along
with forty-four square blocks
of Negro property, wdiile he
fled to Kansas to save his life.
Efforts were made to return
him, having been indicted
for rioting by the inflamed
Tulsa Grand Jury. Through
the ingenuity of his son, Atty.
Cornelius Francis Stradford,
however, his release was secur
ed by habeas corpus proceed
ings. A little later he came to
Chicago, the American haven,
with all its short-comings, for
the Negro. Though the police
tried to get him back to Okla
homa but to no avail.
He tried to launch a hotel
here in Chicago but capital was
not forthcoming in sufficient
quantity, so he returned every
dollar of the money which had
been subscribed.
In recent months he organiz
ed the Chicago Civil Rights Lea
gue to fight for his race’s civil
rights. This was in keeping
with the militant attitude which
had characterized his whole
life.
Having observed what the
denial of training meant in his
early manhood he had a burn
ing desire to see young men of
the race well educated. As a
result, he sent his son, C. Fran
cis Stradford, prominent Chi
cago attorney, recently much
discussed in connection with
the Virgin Islands Federal
judgeship, to Oberlin college,
and thence to the Columbia
ITniversiy Law School in New
York.
He had a wide circle of
friends throughout the country.
He leaves thnee sons, Henry,
John and Cornelius, a daughter
Ann Emanuel, a talented pian
ist ; a sister Mrs. Bettie Fortune
and a brother Rev. B. M. Strad
ford of Columbus, Ohio, to
mourn his loss.
Origin of Lighthouse*
The earliest lighthouses of which
records exist were the towers built
by the Libyans and Cuschltes in
Lower Egypt, beacon fires being
maintained in some of them by
priests. Lesches, g Greek poet (600
B. C.), mentions a lighthouse at
Sigeum, now Cape Inchlsurl, In the
Troad, which appears to have been
the first light regularly maintained
for mariners. The famous l’haros of
Alexandria was regarded as one of
the wonders of the world. The tow
er Is stated to have been 600 feet
In height It was destroyed by
earthquake In the Thirteenth cen
tury, bnt remains are said to have
been visible as late as 1350. The
name Pharos became the general
term for afl lighthouses, and the
term pharology has been used for
LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB
The. Ladies Friendship club
met at the residence of Mrs.
Thresa Anderson, 2883 Maple
street.
The larger part of the even
ing was spent in electing new
officers for the year, which are
as follows: president, Florence
Morris; vice-president, Emma
Bush; secretary, Joan Ramirez;
assistant secretary, Buelah
Watts; treasurer .Christine
Sturdevant; reporter, Sadie
shaw.
Those present wree: Florence
Morris, Christine Sturdevant,
Joan Ramirez, Buelah Watts,
Minnie Burns, Emma Bush,
Louise Hill, Janey Howell, Ida
Fountaine, Thresa Anderson,
Sadie Shaw and Mary Turner.
The club will meet neat
Thursday, at the residence of
Mrs. Minnie Burns, 2932 Grant
street.
A delicious luncheon was
served.
Sadie Shaw, Reporter.
THE JUST WE CLUB
| Tho Just WE, social and char
ity club met at the residence of
Mrs. Jessie Vann, 2403 N. 22nd
street, Thursday, Dec. 19th, with
tho president, Mrs. Edith Todd
presiding. The club opens with
song and prayer. All members
were present The minutes of the
previous meeting were read and
approved. The home was decor
ated in Xmas colors and a Xmas
dinner was enjoyed by all. The
members exchanged gifts and
wished ach a merry Xmas and a
happy New Year. The club meets
at the residence of Mrs. Ida Ar
tison, tho third Thursday in Jan.
Edith Todd, President.
Viola Turner, Secretary.
THE FRIENDLY 16
BRIDGE CLUB
The club met December 23 at
tho home of Mr. D. R. Willis,
2025 Ohio, with Mr. T. R. Turner
as host. After business, contract
bridge was played with Mr. Las
ter and Mr. Avant wianing the
prize.
Meeting next week with Mr. A.
Snyith, 2811 Miami.
Union Forces Em
ployment Of Tec
inician On WPA
New York—(CNA)—Anoth
er battle against discrimina
tion against Negroes in the
WPA set-up was won this week
when the Federation of Engin
eers and Architects forced the
employment of Solomon Harp
er, industrial electrical engin
eer, as a senior investigator #n
a WPA project.
Following a hearing in the
office of Mr. Kaufman of the
National Re-Employment Ser
vice, at which charges of dis
crimination were brought by
the Federation, Harper was as
signed to the job, with four
days back pay.
For months he had been giv
en a run-around, held off with
arguments of “inefficiency’’,
which were supported by all
WPA officials. Marcel Scherer
and Mr. Harper of the Federa
tion effectually and finally
spiked the jim-crow argument.
Mr. and Mrs. Elver Neely, of
Topeka, Kansas, were the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Needy,
3107 CoTby street, during the
holidays.
