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Calvin s Digest By Floyd J. Calvin (Only column in the Negro Presslisted by Editor Younger Generation Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Fed eral NY A official stationed in Washington, on a visit to her scbitol in Florid >, obsenis: "On Tuesday, Students’ Inter racial Day was observed. It was thriling to se those while students from the University of Florida, Rollins University, with the stu dents from Edwards Waters coll ege of Jacksonville, the Florida Normal college of St. Augusine and Bethune-Cookmnn,. meeting together for a day of conference and o,f getting acquainted. It was thrillingto see them on the enrnpus chatting together, eating in our dining room and discussing peace and justice at home and abroad. With young people like these fac ing together such problems, we ft ml that we are making an advnn ct ment that we have long dee med of hut just beginning to realize." This is a splendid statement on the growth of toleTence in the beautiful state of Floida. How un fortunute that nt a similar meet at Gammon Theological Seminary of Atlanta, at about the same time was mlirred hy a white woman with hate in her heart slapping President. Willis J. King because he refused to allow her to take pictures of such a gathering so peaceful and cordial. It was known 1)’- f this woman wanted the pie to stte nn ,roMb,e. for she })■•« ,‘vee slandered Gv Presidents w fo because that lad >’s friendly Attitude toward all people, inclu ding Negroes. Wo are sorry for President King’s enhnrrnssirtg experience, but mu«t commend him ,,n the dig rified way i t whHi he ha1 died the s’trf'tion. Those in the forefront of the movement toward larger leedom for our group must xpeet the unpredictable to haunon, and nm«f remain calm when all around may he shnkv and impetuous, "Finer Womanhood" The* recent national celebration of “Firi'r Worn* hood Week* by the national Zeta I ’hi Be'a sorori ty focuses attention on the splen did nims ad ideals of the modern voung womanhood of the group. The fine example of the unselfish devotion of energies to an ideal, set by the late Mary B. Talbert, and the splendid example of in spirational work now being done hy Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, are not beinvr lost on the rising women of the race. The fact that week is set aside to stress the develop ment of finer womanhood is proof that, we still see something far more important than material gains p«d benefits, for which to strive Wo see better lives and Irot ter living, and an ever improved status, as ends to bo sought. These ends are never attained in full for there is always room for im provmenit, but the fact that Zeta Phi Beta strives for that which may he attained hut is never corn plete. is worthy of the highest commendntion. C. ('. C. Anniversary The Civilian Conservation Corpr is celebrating its fifth anniver sary. When President Roosevelt went into office the young men of the country were in a bad way, suffering from idleness, lack of income, and inability to go to school or college. With the ecming of the CCC ns one of the emergen cy projects, immediately thousands of young men found a constructive way to occupy their time, as well as gainful employment which aid ed their dependent families and themselves. This experiment has cot quite a sum of money, but we belive the general good has been best served by its creation We note with some disappoint ment, that an order has gone tin ough to cut the to cut the num ber of camps- and we note with approval the fight being waged *o re store these camps. We think these camps are needed, for con ditions are about as had now as they were \yhen the emergency called forth the creation. We be lieve tile camps should be restored. It is good to be able tosay that the CCC has, on the whole, been fair to Negroes. A ratio of ten tier cent of the whole has been fairly well maintained in both the number of Negroes enrolled and the number of camps given over to Negroes. Negroes have been given "•i active part in the ndmiruUtra tsui if the project, including of ficers in vnrious units, and officials on the headquarters staff. 'll in all, we are proud of the rrr. Travel Industry Travel is now a five billion dol lar ir.tlui+tiy. according to Glover and Cornell in the “Development if American Industries." Negroes got very little from any general industry, except as laborers or consumers, but in life insurance we are goingforward, arud now in a ariety of ofher fields, including travel, wo are beginning to ven> tore forth. In this connection we mte the announcement of the tenth < ur of Europe by Mr. Adolph Hodge, of 1949 74th street Brook lyn, N. Y., who after walking to California in the early twenties, dicided he would like to continue to see the world, arid has since been to Japan, Norway. Russia, and nearly all of the countries of the Old World, tking parties with him each time. The business has grown to where Mr. Hodge’s annual tour, sailing early in July and return ing in from 50 to 60 days, is looked forward to as a regular summer evevnt. A teacher by profession, Mr. Hodge cater to teachers, social workers, business men, and others of travel persuasion, and always reponts a good trip by all. He re ports a goodly group already en rolled for a tour of Germany and other mid-European countries this vear, and has personal assurances from Chancellor Hitler that all will Big Investor John W. Roxborough, eo-mana- [ ger of Joe Louis, heavyweight ' champion of the world, has recent ly become associated in a very substantial way with the Chicago Rurr Oak Cemetery association which is completing one of the j finest all-Negro burial grounds in j the country. At the recent annual , meeting of the stockholders and directors, Mr. Roxborough was { elected to the company’s Board of j ' Directors for the ensuing official1 year, together with B. J. Broxton, j real estate owner who was also 1 elected vice-president, and Dr. Ed ward W. Beasley, prominent phy sician and surgeon. Other members of the board are J. Turner Wall, W. Ellis Stewart, I Larry If. Race, J. O. Ish, Jr., T. M. Mann, M. O. Bousfield, Ear! B. Dickerson, and T. K. Gibson. Mr. Roxborough has been a prominent business man of Detroit, Mich., for a number of years, and Chicagoans welcome his entry into the busin ess life of the Windy City. (ANP) be well for Mr. Hodge and his friends in the Third Reiuh. Tenn, Communists Bar Jimcrow, So Office Is Raided (CNA)—Six persons, including two white workers, were arrested this wyck in a raid by city dctect itives on the Communist Party’s state office in this city. Formal charges against the six were “loitering and vagrancy,” but no one here doubts that the leal reason of he mid was police objection to the presence of men cf both races in the office on the basis of complete equality and fraternisation!. The ofice has been occupied by Ted S. Wellman, Communist Par-' ty district organizer for several months. Wellman was one of the* two whites arrested on a charge of “loitering and vagrancy.” Well man ami W. A. Humphrey. 5-1, a white WPA worker, were released on $1,000 bond each. Tho four other victims of the police raid were freed on $250 bond each. They are: Charles Lane, 18, Emerson McGuire, 19,' Charles Carey. 37, and Rena Carey 37. Wellman charger that the arr ests were merely a “smoke screen" j to cover an attack on progressive forces in the city, and to hamper the party’s program of uniting all progressives .Negro and white, in •the fight for democracy in the South. An immediate appeal was planned. SOUTH AFRICAN MINERS CAUGHT by 'QUAKE Johannesburg:. South Africa. April 16 (CNA1—A rocktall in the crown Rolrf mine as a result of an earth tremor trapped scores of native miners today. -o ' I 4 ' Delicious Flavor i | Whole Wheat j Flakes w ith Bran Patronize Our Advertisers I Music Features & Photo Syndicate 1 «QWEET LEIT \NI," Harry Owen*’ song which Bing Crosby firs'! *5 popularized : 1 the film ‘‘Waikiki Wedding,” captured first place itv the balloting of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the best song writ ten for a film during 1937. It topped by a com fortable margin, it is said, such other meritori ous tunes as Warren and Du bin’s “Remem ber Me?”. Cole Porter’s “Rosa lie.” and “That Louie Reid old peeling,” by Lew Brown and Sammy Fain. There are 2,270 different lullabies or cradle songs, regularly published and copyrighted in ASCAP'S files. Nearly one-quarter of them bear the title of “Berceuse.” . . . Again, showing how often composers have the same idea, there are 490 com positions entitled “Barcarolle," And air that is still heard is Irving Ber lin's “Alexander's Ragtime Band." But then, this tune is the epic of ragtime. One Enduring Ragtime Air A lifetime has passed since it first crashed upon the pianos of the old cabarets of the country. It swept across the nation with the force of a cyclone. Feature writers interpreted prominent citizens on the perils of ragtime and Berlin was considered everything from a menace to a genius. With ragtime now spelled as jazz and swing, Berlin confines his acti vities chiefly to blue skies and melo dies that linger on, leaving the hot stuff to others. Yet. when the call is clear and persistent, he, too, can turn out torrid jazz as he demon strated in “Heat Wave.” this list does not in clude 106 different ar rangements which have been made of Offen bach’s famous work of this name , . . Fifteen different lyrics have been published to the music of the Neapolitan serenade, “O Sole Mio.” Even the music of Wag ner's “Evening Star” has been published un der six different titles. Those Sentimental Ballads Sentimental ballad.i of home and mother md smilina-throuah-the James Weldon Johnson A.S.C.A.P. ■ The roof gardens and road houses are coming to life, • and the dance tune-men are ' scram bling for position. There's one thing sure in these uncertain times. Dance music was never better. The com petition is severe and? it is keeping the com posers, as well as the band leaders, on their toes. It is doubtful, however, dance music brings people to their toes in the parlors. Peo ple use it as background for bridge and conver sation. heartbreak continue to find a big public. Witness the recent pop ularity of “There’s a Gold Mine in the Sky," “On the Sunny Side of the Rockies" and “When the Organ Played O Promise Me." This type of song stems, of course, to the late j Charles K. Harris and his "After I the Ball," which was a tremendous hit for more than a generation. I Harris who had unusual talent for this style of number, followed up | his great hit with other successful ballads which, along with "After The Ball" are occasionally revived —“Hello Central, Give He Heaven,” “Always in the Way," “Break the tfews to Mother," and “Somewhere the Sun Is Shining.” The old ragtime tunes that flour ished when Theodore the First sat upon the White House throne are seldom heard today. The jazz pian ists and maestros of the present sniff at the “Maple Leaf Rag," at one time the craze of the land. Even such a tune as Kerry Mills' “Whis tling Rufus," once shouted in every cross-roads of America, rests in dusty oblivion. About the only definitely ragtime Ko song in the last six months hart a quicker rise—or a quicker fall — than “ B ei Mir Hist d u Schoen." The Curse of Repetition Repetition is still the curse ol music broadcasting. The public en dures repetition in heaping doses, or chestras playing the same tunes hour after hour, night after night. And yet, the music publishers are largely responsible fot the overplug ging. They have believed that con- I centrated airing of a new song over a period of a month or more to an audience of 60,000,000 would bring a rushing torrent of gold to their sheet music counters. They did not reckon uoon the effect of the constant airing. No listener can endure a persis tent dinning of a ditty. He quickly becomes fed up—fed up in most cases in less than a month. Even the complex strains of the classic com posers cannot stand nightly repeti tion. Even a Debussy or a Richard Strauss cannot hold up under it. And if they can’t, what chance has a simple Hollywood ballad? ! Reid’s Pharmacy | Phone WE 1613 i —CUT PRICES— l 24th & Seward Omaha ! Free Delivery_ ! 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