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CALVIN'S DIGEST By Floyd J. Calvin (Listed by Editor & Publisher) Work-Relief [‘rejects The National Urban League sounds a timely warning that our group should be on guard to “share quitably” in the “jobs recently made possible by new Congress ional appropriations.” The Lea says: “The WPA has announced that it will soon employ 200,000 workers in rural sections of the South in order to equalize their incomes with those cf farmers i ^ ether sections. Fearing that the Negroes may not share equitably BABE’S BUFFET 2229 Lake Street for Popular Brands of BEER and LIQUORS • —Always a place to park— DOUBLE JOLA IDEAL BOTTLING COMPANY WEbster 3043 4 | neFb raskT PRODUCE 1202—4—6 North 24th St. Phone WE 4137 i i Ponltry and Egg Dealers Out prices are reasonsable, see us first. Free Trading Stamps with each Purchase. * '•"•’■S' * Beware Kidney Germs if Tired, Nervous, Aching Are you Run Down, Nervous, suffer Aching or Swollen Joints? Do you Get Up Nights, or suffer from Burning Passages, Frequent Headaches, Leg Pains, Backache, Dizziness, Puffy Eyelids, Loss of Appetite and Energy? If so. the true cause often may be germs developed in the body during colds, or by bad teeth or tonsils that need removing. These germs may attack the delicate mem branes o/ your Kidneys or Bladder and often cause much trouble. Ordinary medicines can’t help much because they don’t fight the germs. The doctor’s formula Cystex, now stocked by all druggists, starts fighting Kid ney germs in 3 hours and must prove entirely satisfactory In 1 week and be exactly the medicine you need er money back is guar ir teed. Telephone vour druggist for Cystex fStss-tex) today. The guarantee protects you Copr. 1937 The Knox Co. I in the distribution of this special allotment for the South, the Lea gue urged a demand be made im mediately for a fair deal in this matter, so that some precautions against discrimination will be ta ken even before the program ac tually goes into effect. “Tho Public Works Administra tion recently was provided with funds making it possible for a public body—a state, a city, or a county—to secure funds for the Construction of such public build ings as community centers, hospi tals, and schools. The League urg ed Negro citizens throughout the country to give thought to im provements necessary in their own communities and appeal to their local officials for such projects as the Negro community might need. It also urged that efforts be made to secure jobs for skilled as well as unskilled Negro workers on all PWA projects. Provident Hospital Perusal of a brochure recently published by Provident Hospital of Chicago a three million insti tution administered by Negroes, reveals without discussing the merits or demerits of segregation, amazing opportunities for render ing specialized service of the high est type, and the ability of Ne groes to render that service under their own direction. Provident has 88 Negro doctors on its staff and last year there were 91,651 clinic visits, 9,914 emergency cases 514 major operations, 1,383 miner op erations, and 3,588 bed patients Claude A. Barnett, well known di-J rector of a national news service, is president cf the board of trus tees. Provident, located in a seven story building on East 51st street, lists on its trustee board and exe tutive committee some cf ahe best, known names in Negro life. It is now having a campaign to raise half million dollars as an operat ing fund fer 5 yrs. Negroes of course, are expected to help sup port the institution. New Books The Associateg in Negro Folk Education (Box 636, Ben Franklin Static^. Washington D. C.) have just released three new volumes in th bronze Booklet Series which -—| "Mary, I Have the Grandest News... We're Installing AUTOMATIC HEAT!” You'll be surprised to learn how little it costs to have the comforts and the hap piness provided by Automatic Heating. Turn the tough job of tending furnace over to a Modern Coal Stoker or Oil Bui’r.or next winter. Women have never relished the job of chopping kindling and nursing fading fires, and it certainly is good news to them when this drudgery is taken out of their daily routines. Right now is the time to investigate Automatic Heating. See your dealer today! SEE YOUR DEALER Enjoy BETTER LIVING with Cheap Electricity! “is plenned to bring within reach of the average reader basic facts and progressive views about Ne gro life." The Bronze Series “pre sents the Negro’s own view of his history, problems and cultural con tributions with competent Negrc( scholars as spokesmen. But they are addressed not merely to the growing Negro audience that de sires to know itself more fully but also to that wider general audi ence which is beginning to face the Negro and the race question more fairly and with intelligent open-mindedness." Tho three ne%v booklets are “Tho Negro and Economic Recon struction" by T. Arndd Hill, ‘The Negro in American Fiction" and “Negro Poetry and Drama” by Sterling Browm. Prof. Brown’s b'ok on Poetry and Drama is the seventh to bo issued. The first four issued were “Adult Educa tion Among Negroes,” by Ira A. Reid; “The Negro and His Music" by Alain Locke; “Negro Art: Past and Present” by Dr. Locke, and “A World View' of Race by Ran “A World View of Race by Ralph J. Bunche. The eighth booklet, to be pub lished next month is “Negro His tory in Outline” by the late “Art hur A. Sch mburg. Volumes which are contemplated for future publi cation are “The Negro in the Weet Indies” ‘The African Background” and “A Portfolio -f Negro Are.’’ ----- 4TH ANNUAL ECONOMICS CONGRESS OPENS IN BALTI MORE, AUGUST 21 Baltimore, Aug. ID (C)—The fourth annual Economics Congress, sponsored by the Grand Lodge of Elks, with James A. Jackson of New York as Economics Commis sioner, will open at Bethel AME church on Sunday, August 21, in connection with the exercises of the IK part met of Education, which Judge W. C. Huestom is Commissioner. The baccalaureate sermon to all Elk student gradu ates will ba made by Bishop D. H S’ms ef AME church. The congress will be addressed on Monday morning by Governor H. W. Nice of Maryland, after which it will be divided into sec tions, the Department of Econom ics directed by Mr. Jackson, the C'vil Liberties Division directed by Hobson Reynolds of Philadelphia, and the Educational Department by Judge Hueston. Dr. Jicihn Bruce, supervising principal of the pub lic schools of Washington, D. C-, is director of the Congress. -_o N. C- MUTAL COLLECTS $1,159,735.77 IN FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR j ~ __ Durham August 19 (C)—The N. Carolina Mutal Insurance com pany, C, C. Spaulding president, had income of $1,159,735.77 dur ing the first six months of this year, and spent $1,034,497.73, leav ing profit of $125,238.04. The com pany has assets of $5,329,287.50 and premium reserve of $4,744, 330.12. '-{y Central States Golf Tournament Starts Sunday, August 21 Minneapolis, Minn.— Tho Eighth annual Central States g$ f tournament will be contested hei£ Sund'ny morning am! afternoon over the tricky Hia watha 18-hole course. The first round ctf play will begin with the first group of players teeing off promptly at 6:30 a.m. The aflea ncon round will get under way at 12:30 p.m. The tournament is at .medal play for 36-holes. Practic ally every first rank player, and many lower lights, from Kansas City, St. I.ouis, Topeka, lies Mcines, Omaha, St. Paul and Min neapolis will be on hand to take a crack at the championship as well as tho beautiful array of tro ■'Mes which have been Delected for tho winners. The kcal club has left no stone unturned in making preparations for the event. The extreme interest in the affair by the local public has virtually as assured a large turnout to witness the play. Tho program calls for the visi ting golfers to register at the Io wa-Minn club rooms by 10 p.m. Saturday night. The Iowa-Minn club is located at 343 E- 38th Street. Housing information will be furnished from there. Tha Fel lowship club, 3013 Garfield Ave., S, will be the scene of the pair ings, refreshments and entertain ment. The trophies will be awar ded at 8 p.m. at the lowa-Minn club, Sunday right. Most of the golfers will arrive today (Friday) in order to get in a full day’s practice tomorrow. Sam Shepard of St. Louis, the defending champion has been here since early in the week. The com petition is expected to reach new heights Sunday with such stal warts as Charlie and Jack Howard of Des Moines; Leroy Doty and Gouge McClain of Kansas City; Boyd Galloway and Penny Murray, of Omaha; Herbert Love and San ders Mason, of St. Louis; Bob Jueenory of Topeka; and John Wil liams and Jimmy Lee of the local club. There are certa'n to be other challengers but when the day's battling i£ over it is likely tho champion will come out of the above list. Probably, Doty, Mc Clain, Lee, Mason and Lcve are shooting tho best golf of the lot. However, when the beys swing into action and know that every strokes counts past performances are not worth a thing. It will be the gol fer Who can keep going under the tremendous pressure who will come out on t< P. Dr. J. Walton Crump i3 the man ager and arbiter of the tourney. John H. 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Knoxville, Tenn Aug. 12—Dis crimination against Negroes by the Tennessee yalley Authority in living conditions and in the field di labor relations will be brought b-l'ore the Joint Congressional In vestigating Committee now hold ing hearings here on the TYTA by officials of the National Ass<cia tion for the Advancement of Color ed People, it was announced to day*. Charles H. Houston and Thur good Marshall members of he As sociation’s legal staff are here compiling the results cf their in vestigation preparatory to testi fying before thl; committee im mediately following the disposal of testimony involving the sale of Tennessee marble by Major George Berry. HARLEM TO GET CONGRESS MAN UNDER NEW PLAN New York, Aug. 19, (C)—As surance that Harlem will be able to elect a oclored Congressman, whether 1% be Democrat vr Repub lican, was g*ivn Monday when the Constitutional Covention Commit tee, in session at Albany, agreed to revise the reapportionnient a mindment to increase from 16 to 17 the number of Assemblymen in New York county, and give Har lem three assemblymen instead of two as at present. Under this plan, will bo concentrated in the 13th, 14th and 17th districts, which will together form a Senator. The plan was endorsed by Kenneth Simpson New York county Republican leader and member of the Rpubli can National Committee. PEPSI-COLA ASKS WRIT TO RESTRAIN COCA-COLA CO. DEMANDS RIVAL TO BE ENJOINED FROM TRADE INTERFERENCE __ Suit was filed in Queens County Supremo Court by the Pepsi-Cola Company against the Cuca-Ccla Company, asking for a restraining order to enjoin the Coca Gilo Company from interfering with the Pepsi-Cola Company its subsi | diaries and licensees throughout tho United states. Simultaneously with the filing I of this bill of complaint against tho Coca-Cola compang the Pepsi Cola Company stated a petition had been lied in the U. S- Patent Office in Washington by the Pcp si-Cola Company attacking the validity of the Coca-Cola trade mark. The petition further states that the names “Gcca” and “Cola” are both descriptive names are public property and, therefore cannot be used exclusively by the Coca-Cola Company. ACTIVE 35 YEARS Tho bill complaint alleges that tho Pepsi-C-la trade-mark has been existence and in continous j use for more than 35 years and : that during all that period Pepsi- j Cola has been sold side by side in competition with Coca-Cola; and that its rights have never been challenged in the United States by anyone during this entire period. The bill of complaint further alleges that the Pepsi-cola com pany its subsidiaries affiliates and licensees, have an investment in excess of $25,000,000, and that in tho calender year has spent in excess if one million dollars ($1, 000,000. ' The Pepsi-Cola company com plains that the Coca-Cola com pany seeks to destroy its business and that of its subsidiaries affili- j at«s, and licensees.” RIGHTS* ATTACKED The Pepsi-Cola Company asks an injunction restraining the Coca Cola Company ‘ from causing any opposition to be filed to the regis tration of plaintiff’s trade-mark in any State of the United States or in any foreign country” and threa ten prosecution of anyone for manufacturing buying selling dis tributing or otherwise dealing in tho trade name c£ Pepsi-Cola. Papers in the suit were served today by the law firm of O’Brien; Driscoll ami Raftery, on Deputy Secretary of State William O'Brien at Albany as the legal representa tive of the Coca Cola Corpora tion in New York State* --ic» NAMED CHAIRMAN OF LABOR MEETING Los Angeles, Aug 18 (ANP,— John H. Owens, vice-president of thu Southern California district of th« International Workers order, was elected chairman of the en larged session of the ordr held lecently at the Gigueroa playhouse at which Max Beacht, executive secretary New York was principal speaker. Most i f the organization’s mem ber are white. -n -- BISHOP AND MRS WRIGHT IN SOCIETY COLUMNS OF PARIS DAILY Paris August 18 (C)—-The so cial column of the Paris edition of the New Ytcrk Herald Tribune on July 30 carried the following para graph: “Bishop and Mrs. R- R. Wright jr. are at the Lutetia (ho tel) for a week. They are enrouto to South Africa, where the bishop will supervise the African Metho dist Episcopal Church. They are sailing from Southampton next Friday.” In the same column were items i',n Williams C- Bullitt, A mericans Ambassador to France, and his daughter. Anne are spend ing a week end in Ireland and on Countess Reventlow (Barbara Hutton,) who is spending August in Venice. 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