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Rating the lecords, to appear occasionally, it intended to keep you informed on current plat ters. It’s no secret that dusky musi cians make a large percentage of records and draw nice cash from theso waxings. Only on discs can many of our artists be heard, for just a slight percentage get radio time, and only a comparatively small number of people can hear them in person. Therefore, if you warft the offerings of such stars as Duke Ellington, Louis Arm strong, the Milk Brothers and scores more, you have to depend on records. However, this column will not deal exclusively with waxings by tho brother, nor will it include all but hot jazz despite the writer’s keen interest in swing music. Any disc which seems of general inter est will be treated in a fashion intended to let the reader know what it’s all about and conclude whether he ought to go to the mu sic store and buy one or ignore it completely. But in case of doubt, you can always hear the platter and decide for yourself! SIDNEY “POPS” BECHET. One excellent thing about records is the opporunity they give to hear the wizardry of Sidney “Popsf Bechet, the daddy of clarinetists. Ably assisted by a small hot group from Noble Sissle’s orchestra, Be chet in two numbers Blackstick and When the Sun Sets Down South, gets off some solid swing guaranteed to please the jitter bugs. Both are orginals, the first by Bechet and the second by Bechet and Brooks. The Down South number, a slow fox trot of Ellingtonish flavor, is the better side. And if you’re tired of listening to the clarinet manner isms of Benny Goodman, you will bo doubly appreciative of the pow erful and sincere New Orleans style of Bechet, one of the world’s three greatest on his instrument. The record is Decca, 2129. ... . . . . . • Dut'fy Pharmacy We. 0609 24th and LAKE STREETS PRESCRIPTIONS Free Delivery AV.'.V.V.V.V.VAV.V.'.V.V ftV.V.V.W.V.V.V.W.V.Wi Your Dream Book WHAT DREAMS MEAN IN YOUR LIFE! Multitudes believe GREAT SUC CESS has come to them by their ability to know what the Meaning of DREAMS ARE. It can also COME TO YOU. Be prepared to READ YOUR DREAMS COR RECTLY. Send 50c today for large book telling you how to READ YOUR DREAMS. Mail today to LAND CO., Box 5, Rochelle l’ark, N. J. r BING & BOB CROSBY Team ed. When Bing Crosby was in Chi cago a few weeks ago, he took time out to cut a few sides with his brother, Bob Crosby, the band leader, My Reverie, the currently popular number based on a Claude Debussy composition, and Old Folks are on the sides of a highly pleasing disc made at that time. Neither side is swing, but they show off Bing and Bob to fine ad vantage. Old Folks is a 'humorous but sympathetic portrayal in song of an old character in a small town. If you like the Crosbys, you should have this. It’s on Decca 2123. BLUES PLUS TEAGARDEN. Remember the piece, Down Heart ed Blues, made in the early 1920’s by Lovie Austin and Alberta Hun ter? It’s revived by Teddy Grace, assisted by a mixed orchestra which includes Jack Teagarden on trombone, Billy Kyle on piano and O’Neil Spencer on drums. Teddy is p. good si'nger, but his liphorn work and barrel house solo of Teagar den to plenty to insure the num ber's success. The other side is Monday Morn mg, current hit by the same artists likewise well performed. It’s on Decca, 2128. IF YOU LIKE PREACHING. The Rev. J. €. Burnett, assisted by 1 bis congregation, has waxed After 1 while Some Sweet Day and Jonah in the Belly of the Whale, for these who want records of good old fashioned sermons in the man ner made famous by the Rev. J. M. Gates. There’s plenty of moan in’ and shouting, with old time camp meeting singing featuring the first side. Decca, 7524. _nOo Calvin’s Digest —By FLOYD J. CALVIN— Forward with Blount Thu insurance business among Negroes has a nd\v official pilot, L. C. Blount, vice president and secretary of the Great Lakes Mu tal Insurance Company of Detroit. As president of the National Ne gro Insurance Association, which represents twenty millions of sav ings and protection of the Negro public which has been entrusted to Negro management and safe keeping, Mr. Blount holds ore of th„. nidst responsible positions in Negro life. Tho election of Mr. Blount at Cleveland last June was a gesture in the right direction. It pushed a step further the policy of.the lead crs of the insurance fraternity to elevate responsible and progres sive executives, whether they re present the larger companies or not. The records show that Mr. Blount’s company was organized only eleven years ago^ but that it has mado a fine record in a sec tion where Nigroes insurance management is still in its primary stage—in the extreme northern part of our country. Tho Detroit Negro has achiev ed much: he has produced a State Senator, arl he gave to the country the second heavyweight champion Effective May 1st: 20 Cent Discount on Laundry & Dry Cleaning Cash and Carry t Edholm and Sherman Launderers & Dry Cleaners 1 WE 6055 i of the race, and the brains of dis covery and management along with the champion. It is fitting, then, that a business leader should come from Detroit and it is our hope that the administration of President Blount will leave the in surance buiness w 11 ahead of whero he took up. We feel confi dent the Great Lakes Mutal will continue to grow and prosper. Literary Protection At the tragic death of James Weldon Johnson, a name—Gene, Buck—not so familiar to the Ne gro public appeard as the one who delivered the funeral oration. Geno Buck is president of the American Society of Composers. Authors and "Publishers, with of fices in the RKO Building, Radio City, New York. On further inquiry it is found that the American Society is a powerful organization devoted to the protection of the rights of the creators of American music, and the promotion of the inter st of tho creators of that music. Sev eral Negro musicians are members of this organization, including W. C. Handy, Harry T. Burleight. Eu bio Blake, Will Marion Cook and other:! An interesting thing about this organization is this: Negroes I sometimes wonder where and when tho real integration of their own people into the main stream of American life will begin. Here is a place. This organization publi cizes the achievements of its mem bers in both the white and colored press^ many more white papers receiving and publishing its stories than colored. But the same stories are sent to all papers Negro musicians are treated on par with other members are treated alike. Wo say three cheers for this policy because the Negro is a basic part of the program and he goes where apologies or special treatment. A Poet Contiues The new booklet of poems by F’V’n' Marshall Dav's of Chicago “Through Sepia Eyes," published | fi-rv Black Cat Press, with de corations by William Fleming, marks Mr. Davis, a working jour nalist, as one who continues to see beyond the horizon of the repor (torial hack. In his heart there is something more than turning the routine task. Life to Mr. Davis is n song; and though bitter at times hy nevertheless sings about it. We are happy that a newspaper man find this type of solace from his depressing labors rather than seeking relaxation in more debili tating outlets. __nftn-• Visitors Spend Thanks giving at Hot Springs Hot Springs, Ark. Dec. 3 (ANP) —Although the height of the Hot Springs seaso^ does not begin un t 1 February, Pythian Bath house headquarters at America’s water ing spa is well filled with visitors, many of them well known in pub lic life. Bishop Noah W. Williams, pre i late of the AME church, Rev. F. Madison Reid, pastor St. Louis’s j fashionable St. Paul church; John H. Claybrook, wealthy Arkansas planter, and Mrs. Claybrook; Ed ward M. Sneed, recently elected county commissioner in Cook County, Chicago; Harry Willis, th? pugilist, Mrs. Willis; Miss Etta Moten and her accompanist, Miss Margaret Bonds, Chicago’s premiei pianist; Claude A. Barnett of Chi cago; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Shirley, I>awder, Wryo.; Mrs. Mattie F. Po well, New York City, Mr. and Mrs. “Brother” Powell. Fort Smith, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Gain, Decatur, 111.; Mr. and Mrs. Leon II. Stewart, De catur, Mrs. Clara E. Christopher, Cleveland, and Mrs. Annie Cole man, St. Louis are among recent guests. “It is remarkable,’ said Dr. H. H. Phipps, manager of the Pythian Bath house “how many people are beginning to realize that Hot Springs is really an all-year-round resort.” TRAIL BLAZERS A GREAT SCIENTIST By CARL CARTER (Features Staff, Crusaders News) WHILE the Civil War raged and men of color fused their fire with that of white fighters for demo cracy, a son was born of slave pa rents in the State of Missouri, a black son and slave of Southern soil who was to become its undis. puted master and America’s honor ed luminary in the orbit of inter national science. Less than seven weeks old and suffering from whooping cough, he was stolen from the plantation together with his mother, by Night. Riders. Moses Carver, master of the plantation, sent out a ..rescuing party” which redeemed him from he slave thiev. s for a run-down arc horse valued at $*100. His ambition for learning caused him to part with the Carvers when he was ten years old, to attend a little log-cabin school at Neosho | eight miles. While attending school ho did odd jobs at neighboring, farms, uisng empty horse barns for a sleeping place. Dr. Carver next hitch-hiked on I a mule Lam to Kansas, where he, attended l'ortscott. High School. , There ho stayed for seven years, ■ during which time he also operated !laundry, accumulating sufficient morn y to enter Simpson College in Iowa. From Simpson College he j entered Iowa State College where he took his II. S. and M. S. in 1894 j and was appointed to the faculty | two years later. FOR MANY years the scientific experiments and achievements of Dr. Carver went unheralded, but when soil crosin in the South held tho threat of a grave national pro blem he was suddenly swept to tho front page of scores of the nation’s newspapers. Ur. carver neiu uiai tne constant and “careless” growth of cotton was chiefly responsible for pauper ization of the land. He advised the planting of crops in rotation. , “Plough up your cotton and plant ! neanuts,” ho recommended, for his ' experiments had inedated that the peanut “put vitality in the soil.” Rut the farmers were loath to heed his advice: they questioned ! tho feasibility of any action .Only after Dr .Carver had successfully cultivated 19 acres of barren land wero they prevailed upon to rotate their cotton crops with the plant ing of peanuts. And then another serious pro blem developed. Thousands of | bushels of peanuts were harvested for which th- re was no market, the nut being chiefly used as food for pigs. Feeling ran high among the farm communities. Ill-tempi \ 1 farmers in an alarming degree o\' unanimity felt that Dr. Carver was personally responsible for their plight. Faced with this problem, Dr. Carver retired to his labora tory to work indefatigably at dis covering new usfs for the lowly peanut . TO DATE, Dr. Carver has creat ed more than 220 products from the peanut. Other products from the potato, from clay and from cotton add up to over 4-10 discov eries. Because of the discoveries of this wizard of agriculture, hug-' industries have sprung up in the South: the wheels of the peanut industry alone turn to the tune of $80,000,000 a year. Among the numerous by-prod ucts of thj peanuts are: butter, lard, milk, shaving cream, linole um, cheese Instant Coffee, face powder soap rope matting arle_ grease, mixed pickles, washing powrb r, chocolate, flour, Scotch butter, meal, wafers relishes sham l oo-lotion printers’ ink, etc. From the potato he extracted: starch of a much better grade than any other on the market and the production of which is much chea per, flour meal, library glue, co coanut, ginger, inks vinegar shoe blacking; coffee dyes, candles rub ber, molasses, sugar etc. From wood-sbavings be made suntheti marble. From glass he has created a mattariaH for making furniture. Dr. Carver extracted from cotton for reinforcing as phalt, making it as serviceable as steel; the formula for this was turned over to the State of Ala bama. FOR THE last four years Dr Carver has been experimenting with peanut oil as a cure for in. fanile paralysis. “It has been giver out,” he said “that I have found r. cure for infantile paralysis: 1 have not, but it looks hopeful. I have used it on 250 persons, am it has never failed so far as I car find out.” Tho honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon him June, 192H, by the State College of Iowa. Dr. Carver is a winner of the Spingarn medal and a mem ber of the Royal Society of ArD of Great Britain. HENRY A. WALLACE, Secre - Oh,shine on, shine on MANY of the American song writers of tills era began their careers as interpreters of song, as singing waiters or vaudeville ar tists. The composer of "Shine On Harvest Moon," native of Philadel phia, began as a blackface artist. He wrote his own songs and patter, and developed both talents until (he fateful day when with Norn Hayes he sang his most famous song in the Zlegfeld Follies. The ovation to the song rather than to the male singer sent him over the borderline front acting to song writ lug. He wrote a London levue, whose premier was marked by a Zeppelin raid. Our composer then went back to America, trouped with a vaudeville skit, married his plan l 1st and made a series of short films In Hollywood In the pre-double tea 1 ture days. The early song hit was picked l up recently by a little orchestra lit [ Texas, where Ruth Ettlng heard It and gave it added lustre in later renditions, and so, after twenty years the song again became a hit. During the years the composer wrote many other numbers, Includl ing “Smarty", “Good Evening Caroj line”, the lyrics to "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"—enough tu earn him membership in the Amer ican Society of Composers, Author* and Publishers. His name is 'mjOMJON tpep (Music Features St Photo Syndicate) tary of Agriculture .and John Sutton, Negro agricultural expert in tho Soviet Union, are but two of r list of prominent Americans who giv( valuable praise to the genius of Dr. Carver Sutton studied un der Carver. The motion picture in dustry joined in paying him tri buto when only last month Metro Gold wyn-Mayer released a special screen short based tvn Ihis l,ifc and scientific achievements Dr. Carver never knew who his parents were. His mother was ne ver found and his father, who was a slave on a nearby plantation, trampled to death by a horse when Carver was still an infant. This Negro, who earned the plau dits of the world, is symbolic of tho unlimited contribution a free and equal Negro people tan make to our civilization. -0O0— WITH THE NEGRO ATHLETES World's champion RennaKsance Big Five strengthened by the ad dition of Bill ‘ Pop” Gates, 1937 Metropolitan schoolboy sensation and Clarence “Puggy” Bell, former ; “Y” Seniors captain.Ed Wil liams, NYU fullback out of game for two weeks with an ankle injury, will positevely play in the Fordham i game. If John Henry Lewns drops his $300,000 suit against the N. Y. Boxing Commission, it will be grounds for suspicion that it is I done in exchange for the Com j missions approval of the proposed shot at Joe Louis title,. Bernie 1 Jefferson, Northwestern’s triple threat, contsructs model trains for relaxation.. Joe Jouis will back the Detroit Bombers, a pro basket ball team. Despite participation of Sidat Singh in games with Maryland and Duke, and Ed Williams against North Carolina, plenty Negro stars Brilliant Array of Stage Stars to Entertain at Negro Actors Guild Show on Sunday, December 11th New York—Under the inspired direction of Bill Robinson, honor ary president, more than one hun dred of America’s foremost stage stars have enrolled tb entertain at tho first annual benefit show to he given by the Negro Actors ( uild at the 46th St. Theatre on Sunday evening December 11th. The money raised will go to establish a per manent fund to help the sick and netdy of the profession. A partial list of those who wiH entertain includes: Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Eddie Cantor, Wil liam Gaxton, Victor Moore,, Sophie Tucker, Ben Bernie, the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Leonidoff'a Radio City Ballet, Paul Ash, Kddie Garr, James Barton, Lou Holt*, J. C. Flipped, Hal LeRoy, Dave Ru binoff, Benny Goodman, Ethel Wa ters, Benny Fields, Cab Calloway, Nicholas Brothers and the Cotton Club Girls. James J. Walker, form er Mayor of New York, and Lo«a Gehrig, crack Yankee first base man, will also appear for thin charitable fund. Organized less than a year agt/, tho Negro Actors Guild already has almost six hundred members. It is expected the present drive to raiso money will increase the member ship to 1,000 by the first of the year. The officers of the Guild ar*?r President, Noble Sissle, 1st vice president, Ethel Waters; vice pres ident, Marion Anderson, Duke El lington, Louis Armstrong, Abbii Mitchell, Edna Thomas, Frank Wtt1 son, Paul Robeson, J. Rosamond Johnson; treasurer, W. C. Handy; assistant treasurer, Robert ft Braddicks; Recording Secretary, Muriel Rahn; executive director & secretary, Fredi Washington, Cab Calloway is chairman of the exe cutive board. On the advisory com mittee are Robert S. Abbot, CLaude A. Barnett, Bruce Barton, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Bing Cros by. Vinton Freedley, Joseph A. Gavangan, Eugene Kinckle Jones, Emmet J. Scott, Justice Charles E. Toney, Senator Robert F. Wagner, and J. Finley Wilson. of Northern universities did not play in games with Southern schools. Roland Bernard and Ches ter Smith, Boston U. guard and end, did not get into the game with Tampa University. -—oO o TO LOCAL POINTS IN COLORADO and NEBRASKA Take advantage of these new loarj one-way and round-trip fares. NoW( you can travel by bus much cheaper ■— even for less than driving your own car — and much more comfort ably and safely. Ask agent for details. Friend .. .. $1.60 Fairmont . 1.85 Hasting., . 2.6® Holdrege .. 3.55 Oxford . 3.95 MvCook . ....... 4.85 Wray . 6.35 Akron . 7.3® Imperial .. 5.90 Hojyoke . 6.6® BURLINGTON BUS DEPOT 1416 Douglas at 15th Sts. Phone: ATIantic 2300 Patronize Our Advertisers