The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??, February 25, 1939, City Edition, Page Three, Image 3
BILL ROBINSON REELECTED1 AS GUILDS HONORARY PRES, New York, N. Y. Feb. 16—Bill Robinson, honorary president of the Negro Actors Guild of Ameri-| ©a, was unanimously reelected to j that post last Sunday (5th) at the organization's annual meeting. Oth er officers elected to f 11 vacancies wero I<aura Bowman and Lester A. Walton, vice presidents; James A. (.Billboard) Jackson, historian, and Vivian Harris, recording secretary. Reports olf Fredi Washington, executive director and secretary, and W. C. Handy, treasurer, were delivered to the membersh p body. Wflnu.v F. Lucas, certified public accountant, read the Guild’s finan cial statements. As part of her report, Miss Washington, introduced the chair man of the Guild’s working com mittees, who in^urn offeied brief summaries of their work. Such re ports were: Laura Bowman, children’s Christ mas party committee; Wilhelmina Williams, visiting committee; Edna Thomas, membership; Geraldyn Dismond, publcations; Lou Layne, publicity; Will Vodery, entertain ment; Eugene Kinckle Jones, social service, and Commissioner Hubert T. Delany, legal advisory. Elmer A. Carter, chairman of tha finance and nominations com mittees, delivered the report of the latter body. A motion from the floor, recommending that the com mittee’s recommendations be adopt ed, carried unanimously, thereby re electing Honary President Robin son and filling the vacancies in had been created by the deaths of officer personnel. Two of these James Weldon Johnson and Arthur Schemburg, Sr. Guest speaker was Frank Gill more, international president of the Associated Actors and Artists of America and president emeritus of Actors Equity, who was introduced by Alan Oorelli, executive secre tary of Theatre Authority. President Noble Sissle conducts the meeting, and delivered an ad dress in which he lauded the mem bership for its support of the vims o l the Guild—“to stress the posi tion of the Negro in the theare, to administer to his needs, and to per petuate his accomplishments.’ ’ The meeting was ODened with an invocation by the Rev. John N. Johnson, pastor of St. Martin’s Church- Dr. D. A. Pintner. chap lain of the Jewish Theatrical Guild delivered the benediction. A short musical interlude during the pro gram was provided by Lola Hayes outstanding soprano. -—0O0 NEW SET-BACK GIVEN GAINES CASE IN MISSOURI State Supreme Court Puts Matter on May Docket JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 16 (ANP)—The admission of Ne groes as students to the university of Missouri still remained an im the current school year-_-when it was learned that the State supreme court had placed the famed U. of Mo.—Lloyd Gaines case on its May term docket. Court attaches explained that Tuesday’s action by the court, de ferring the case to the May term, meant a new opinion would be prepared at that time to conform with the U .S. finding. Notifica tion of the decision will not reach the university until after the May term action, which means that col ored students can be denied ad mission for the remainder of the school year. In its Dec. 8 decision, the high court overruled the state supreme court and held that Gaines, St. Bouis student, should be admitted to U* of Missouri Law school un less tJie state could afford him e qual educational facilities “within the state." The U. S. supreme Court remanded the case to Mis souri, instructing the state su_ promo court to make a new finding in conformity with the Washing ton decision. This is the matter to be taken up by the state su preme court at its May term. -0O0 New York Feb. 23 (C)— Howard Barnes, reviewing the new Para mount talking picture, “St. Louis Blues," remarks in the New York Herald-Tribune that "Miss (Doro thy) Lamour’s vocal effortg suffer seriously in comparison with Miss (Maxine) Sullivan’s.” Mi3s Lamour is the white St. Louis star of the production. The Hall Johnson choir, is in the picture. Calvin’s Newspaper Service TESTED RECIPE ——By Frentes Lee Berio* [N tribute to the nations! legend j of George Washington and the cherry tree, we hold a National ; pvnoNAL CHER^? WEEK _J Cherry week in February. If j your patriotic gesture takes | the form of a ; Cherry Cobbler It will receive unanimous en* dorscment from the family. Cherry Cobbler 3 tablespoons quica - cooiuub i tapioca; % cup sugar; 2 table spoons melted butter; 3 cups pitted Bour red cherries, fresh or canned; 1 enp cherry juice; 2 cups sifted flour; 2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder; % teaspoon salt; 0 ' tablespoons butter or other short- , ening; % cup milk (about). Combine tapioca, sugar, butter, cherries, and cherry juice; let stand while crust Is being made. Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift again. Cut in shortening. Add milk gradually, stirring until soft dough is formed. Turn out on slightly floured beard and knead 30 seconds, or enough to shape. Roll y3 of dough in strip, 2 incheB wide and M inch thick; line sides of 8x8x2-inch pan, tilting closely Into corners. Stir cherry mixture well and turn into pan. Roll remaining y3 dough % inch thick; with sharp knife make slits to permit escape of steam. Fit over cherries, pressing edges of dough together with fork dipped m flour. Bake in hot oven (450° F.) 15 minutes; then reduce heat to moderate (350° F.) and bake 25 >o 30 minutes longer. Sprinkle pew dered sugar over top, if desired. Serves 8. -ooU OFFICE OF EDUCATION RE PORTS ON NATIONAL SURVEY OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND GUIDANCE OF NEGROES ( Continued from uage 1) points out, however, that “it is well for Negro students, teachers, and counselors to know that Ne groes are engaged in many highly skilled occupations, generally w.th success.” Vocational Agriculture More than half of the Negroes in the Unietd States live in rural areas. The study of vocational edu cation in agriculture for Negroes shows decided enrollment increases.1 In evening classes in agriculture, there was an increase in the num ber of men enrolled from 5,222 to 15,000 over a six year period. The enrollment of women in these clas ses increased from 500 to 3,100. The study indicatM'thaf vocational agriculture is offered in a limited number of Negfo schools. This is duo to a lack of funds and in some instances a lack of adequate demand for classes. It is reported that in qne State 80,000 Negro youths settled on farms after com pleting thS\ sixth grade without any formal training in agriculture. Tho study reveals also that the majority of Negro children do not have access to 'Vocational educa tion opportunities in high school. It is recommended, as a temporary ‘ measure, that vocational guidance, and preparation be introduced in the upper grades of elementary guidance and preparation be intro duced in the upper grades of ele mentary schools for Negroes in or der to benefit over-age pupils who drop out of school early, and in order to provide vocational pre paration for pupils who otherwise would not receive it. Home Economics There wag an increase over a six year period of more than 300 per cent in the number of vocational education classes in home econo mics for Negroes .This is signifi cant, the Office of Education study concludes, “because tfne training that Negroes receive in these clas ses can be put to immediate use in their homes.” “Home making ; education for hfegroes is of special importance. Its need is shown by the prevalence Of poor health, in adequate ,housing, early marriage, gainfully employed mothers and infant mortality among Negroes.” Comparatively few Negroes how ever, study child care, nursing, hy giene and parent education. Few boys are enrolled in home econo mics although a large numbers of Negro men are engaged in occu pations, and since the demands in j personal service occupations are increasing in number and com plexity, though home economics in structions or some other agency should definitely address itself to the task of preparing persons for effective adjustments in these oc cupations,” it is suggested. Trndeq and Industries The number of Federally aided courses in trades and industries offered in h'gh schools for Ne groes is ldmStfed in comparison with the total number of courses offered, and in many of those of fered relatively few Negroes are TEACHES CRIPPLED ..CHILDREN Ml! o i.i .11E L. GLARIN' Teacher of crippled children at Turner Sere 1 for Handicapped Children, Sr. Louis, Mo., who holds r. B. A. degree from Iowa State University, and a certificate in Physical Hherapy from the Medi cc'. School of the Wisconsin Gen eral Hospital and Wisconsin Child ren’s Hospital. Miss Gearin is State Deputy of Zeta Phi Beta sor ority and is a member of Xi Zeta chapter of St .Lou s. (Cal serv.) cnr tiled Among t’r. courses attract ing tho" largest number of Negro students in trade and indu tr al pursuits arc auto mechanics, car pantry, mason ry, shoe making and repairing, tailoring, indurtiial arts and mechm'crt drawing. Relat ve ly few students are registered in trade asd ind •* .rial educational classes in college?. The possibility of increasing the opportunities for Negroes to receive vocational edu cational in trades and industries should be explored. Teachers The Negro survey disclosed that many of the Negro teachers of vo cational education are inadequate ly prepared and that the handicaps wh'ch their inadequate preparation places upon pupils may result in serious consequences for the indivi duals concerned. Approximately ono fourth of the Negro teachers in public high schools had two years or less of college education. Salaries of Negro' teachers of vo cational education range from $1, C60 to $11,871 per year, the lowest salaries being received by teachers of agriculture in rural areas. Guidance The survey point8 out that the kind of home and its upkeep, the opportunities for study and health ful sleep and recreation, quality and number of books, magazines and newspapers available have a bearing on the pupil’s ability to profit by the educational program provided. This is shown by the fact that principals of h!gh schools and university specialists in high school education ranked home conditions second in importance for guidance purposes in a list of eighteen items concerned with pupils background. In this connection, the survey indi cates that slightly more than one third of the parents of Negro pu pils included in this study owned or wero buying their homes. Twenty two per cent of the homes of pupils did not have electricity, 38 per cent had no bathtub, 26 per cent ha<J no toilet, 53 per cent wero without a piano and 32 per cent did not have a radio. Seven per cent of the homes did not sub scribe to a newspaper. Of the 28,000 pupils included in the social and economic back ground phase of the survey appro ximately two thirds supported themselves in part or entirely. The survey report, prepared by Am brose deliver, Office of Educa* tion Specialist in the Education of Negroes, who directed the survey with the assistance of Harold L. Trigg, State Supervisor of Negro High Schools for North Carolina, answers many other questions such as the following: What happens to Negroes who graduate from high school and those who drop out be fore graduation ? What occupation al adjustments do they make? What relation is there between school and occupational adjust ment? What are pupils’ interest and in what activities do they en gage? Some significant recommenda-; tions made as the result of survey | findings are as follows: 1. That Ne-j gro Urn] jtt-ant colleges t»ke a inoro active leadership in promot ing the occupational adjustment o fNegvoe?; 2. That citizens in ! each comTunity inform themselves c r.?c;ning the vocat'onal education needs of Negroes, acouaint them selves with the provisions of all i'cJtral aid programs for educa | tion. and take the necessary steps to insure that Negroes receive e ouitable benefits from such pro grams: 8 That schools for Ne groes institute programs of guid pneo for youth, and extension pro grams for the re-education of adults; 4. “That individuals and groups interested in the provement of educational facilities for Ne groes continue and increase their efforts to promote equality of ed ueatonal opportunity and equita ble distribution of funds without regard to race or color, especially with respect to Federal and State funds allotted to education." The report gives detailed facts I and statistics concerning vocation 1 al education and guidance of Ne I groes in high schools throughout the United States and in the fol lowing institutions of higher edu cation and States; Benedict College, Columbia, So. Carolina; Bennett College, Grenns boro, North Carolina; Chaflin. Orangeburg, South Carolina; Vir ginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia; Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia; Morgan College, Baltimore. Mary land; Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina; St. Paul Normal and Industrial School, Lawrence ville, Virginia; Morris Broiwn Col lege, Atlanta, Georgia; Selma Uni versity, Selma, Alabama; Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky; Howe-Roger-Williams In=titute, Memphis. Tennessee; Oakwood Col lege, Huntsville, Alabama; Le Moyne College, Memphis, Tennes see; Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.; Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee; Miles Memorial College, Birming ham, Alabama; Bishop Tuttle Training School, Raleigh, North Carolina; Atlanta School for Social Work. Atlanta, Georgia; Prairie View State College, Prairie View, Texas; Oklahoma C. A. and N. U. Langston, Okla. North Carolina N. A. and T. College, Greensboro. N. C.; Princesse Ann Academy, Prin cess Anne, Md.; Alcorn A. and M. College, Etrrick, Va.; Alabama State A&M College, Normal, Ala., West Virginia State College, In stitute, W. Va., Florida A&M Col lege, Tallahassee, Fla., Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., Tennes see State A&I College, Nashville, Tenn.; Louisiana Normal and In stitution, Gambling, La.; Arkan sas A and M. College, Pine Bluffs, Ark.; oHuistcyn College for Ne groes, Houston, Texas; Lincoln University, Jefferson" City, Mo.; Southern University, Scotlandville, La.; Delaware State oCllege, Dov er, Del.; Kentucky State Industrial Municipal College, Louisville, Ky. College. Frankfort, Ky.; Louisville North Carolina College for Ne groes, Durham, N. C.; Winstom Salem Teachers College, Winston Salen, N. C.; C-heyney Training School for Teachers, Cheyney, Pa ; I CALLOWAY TO PLAY FOR GUILD BALL MARCH 1ST New York, Feb. 23 —Preparatory for tho Second Annual Ball of the Negro Actors Guild of America' shifted definitely into “hi-deho” I Monday with the announcement that Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club orchc’tra will serve tho fea ture musical dish of the evening’s. festivities. In addition to Calloway, the danco menu includes the musical' courses of Erskins Hawkins and j his aggregation, and of A1 Cooper, and his Savoy Sultans, thereby guaranteeing no possible dearth of instrumental variety. All this takes place Wednesday night, March first, at the Savoy Ball room, universally accepted ag the “Home of Swing.” Chief vocalist will be June Rich mond, buxom delineator of mel low melodies, who now is sing ing with Calloway. Rarely seen along the Harlem rialto, Miss Rich mond joined the Calloway crew at the Cotton Club shortly after an engagement as featured soloist with Jimmy Dorsey’s orchestra. Hawkins and his trumpet are well-known figures wherever swing is played, and Cooper and the Sul tans, one of the more recent bands, have established themselves as be ing among the foremost exponents of the modern trend in dancing rhythms. Tho Negro Actors Guild is a wel fare and cultural organization formed fourteen months ago. Maintaining offices at 1674 Broad way, it carries on an intensive pro gram to stress the position of the Negro in the theatre; to adminis ter to his needs, of whatever na ture they ni ght be; and to perper uate his acco rplishments. The Second Annual Kail is one of the means of securing funds to carry on this work. Noble Sissle is president of the Guild, and Fredi Washington, at tho present time on leave of ab sence, is executive director and sec retary. •——-VVV-r I (Negro Demonstrates Human Side of Farming ■■ ■ --i Sunflower, Miss., Feb. 16 (ANP) —J B. McKinney, a Negro farm er located here, has demonstrated tho value of humanitarian methods in dealing with tenants and share croppers. Recently Mr. McKinney has connected with rural electri fication not only for his own mod ern homo but also for the homes of all his tenants. Beginning in 1894 as a tenant. Mi*. McKinney now owns 240 acres of land and this year's crop yield ed 65 bales of-cotton from 85 acres. M. M. Hubert, Negro State Ex tention leader for Mississippi, says that before the county authorities had provided school facilities for the Negro children of this com munity, “J. B.” McKinney built a school house himself and paid the teachers out of his own pockets." BOY SCOUTS OBSERVE 29th ANNIVERSARY Boy Scouts marked “Citizenship Day” February 8 ah the 28th An niversary of the beginning of the movement. The observance covered a period of a week, ending Feb. 15. There are several troops in the city, and the call went out during the weelo for increased membership. The call is fore men of “high character” to act as scoutmasters and assistant scout masters. It is believed that the membership ceuld be recruited if more masters could be obtained. •-~o •— E. SIMMS CAMPBELLS PARENTS OF BABY GIRL New York, Feb 23 (ANP)—A girl was born St. Valentine’s day at Gotham hospital to Mrs, E. Simms, wife of the well-known car toonist and illustrator. The baby has been named Elizabeth Ann Campbell. Tuskegee Institution, Tuskegee In stitute, Ala. J Statew. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Ga., Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Texas, Virginia, Washing ton, West Virginia, and Wiscon sin. - " ■ ' /-I THiliGS YOU NEVER KNEW | UNTIL NOW By Ft a in Fhrdlu _ ' ' r To whom It M*y Concern— I hereby rescind r 11 former state ment* concerning Willis F-hon. j ThU is only fair to all eonc trned. W. E. •v y * v Mr. Frank Williams of Ala. j remark, that the last two preeipi- j tations “were the biggest frosts, j ho had ever seen.” If those were frosts, I don't want it to snow. * * * * Notice— To the hoy who used had lan-1 guage in the show last Sunday.' You should know better. The man ager should have put you out. v v v v Gratitude— After warming themselves to the fire after coming to a private party last Sunday night, some boys vvero told to leave. They wanted to get warm. Their wish was granted. When they started to leave, the light was turned on so that they could see their way out. As they were going out, one boy said. "Turn out that d—n light’ # * * * Herman Stevens played his part of a Russian in the Senior Play all right. His fright at being hit over the head with a walking stick looked like the real thing. * * * * Willie ‘Go North, Young Man* Edson, is not going so north after all. Or is he? I wonder. * * * ¥ R. Rice was seen reading the other day practicing up on his technique. * * * Edith Lewis seems like dashing M. G. You had better watch out for L P. and C. H. ***** Mary, is it true that a certain senior brought you a Valentine to your house, because he was afraid to trust the U, S- Mail Service with the precious inscriptions. —The PIE STACKER -0O0— CAPITAL HAS VARIED ACTIVITIES Washington, Feb. 23 (By Chase for ANP—Negro History Week, was widely observed throughout the city. In practically every school there was a special program fea turing noteworthy achievements on tho part of members of the colored race. In many of the pulpits, minis ters took advantage of the occg ison to urge tho young folks t<5 emulate those who had gone on before, and had left their marks, Lincoln’s Birthday w-as befitting ly observed, prograims of literary and musical merit was given, and the First Congregational Church showed D. W. Griffith’s talking picture ‘‘Abraham Lincoln..’ And ‘the mooch,’ mucking and rug cutting came in for its part in patriotic celebrations of Doug las’s birthday and other celebrities. Col. Benjamin 0. Davis, U. S. Army, led the grand march at a military ball given in the Lincoln Colonade, under the auspices of tho James E. Walker Post No. 26 of the American Legion. CAT IS A DUPUTY SHERIFF NOW BUT HE DOESN’T CARE Senoca Falls,, N. Y., Feb 23— They made Tommy Clark, famed cat of this villiage, a special de puty sheriff of Seneca county at his twenty-fourth birthday party tonight-T-but even this honor fail ed to arouse Tommy from his half slumber. Sheriff Herbert P. Yells, “swore in’ the cat, while Dr. William L. Clark, who owns the feline pro mised Tammy would uphold the constitution. More than two hundred persons sat down to the festive dinner to honor the cat. The party was ar ranged by villiage officials with Mayor Francis J. Souhan presiding. While speeches were made and songs were sung, Tommy was just as blase as ever. He just lay dreamily in his basket on the ban quet table—immune to the pro ceedings, -0O0-—. Philadelphia, Feb. 23 (CNA)— Described by detectives as a “South Philadelphia witch doctor,” Paul Petrollo, white, was ordered held without bail this week, charged with being leader in a tri-state murrfer-for-insuranoe ring. DIXIE MAYOR SLUGGED IN A STREET BRAWL Goldsboro, N. C. Feb. 2 (ANP) —Police, this week had under arrest Floyd Edwards, 22 and a companion named Baldwin, both colored, whe were jailed following the slugg'ng 1& t Saturday of Mayor J. H. Hill, allegedly knocked down by Ed wards as the mayor attempted to pass on a crowded sidewalk Bi wards was blocking. Witnesses sail the official was sturck on the jaw and knocked to the pavement. As Edwards fled n white youth and Kirby Wells, a meirhant jumped on Edwards to hold him for police, but at this juncture Baldwin reportedly joined tho fray, lie knocked Wells off, after which he and Edwards sped away with about 3ft whites in pur suit ani about 15 Negroes block ing them from the fugitives. The men wero caught later and placed under arrest. Edwards was cut, not seriously, during the scuffle. Mayor Hill was back at the City Hall on Monday, apparently none the worse for his experience. AROUND ABOUT Dinah Mite Nise vedder ve is hafing? Aint it. Imagine— Katherine as a seamtress instead of a Taylor. Mercedes as less instead </ Moore. Frank as red instead of Brown. Herman as Linoon instead of Washington. Joyce as Fremfl(iit .'instead of Blair. Louise as tan instead of Gray. Cibil as Alcatraz instead of Ellis. Vera as a lobby Instead of a Booth. j> Moon-eye (Leroy) Wright as wrong instead of Wright1. 1 Billy as short instead of Long. * * * v>i i I • What won’t people thirtk of next. Shoe—to chaw on sbriiOth'i'ng. Rust—what you do when you are tIM Ate—number between 1 and 10. Sheet—what you sit on when you go to programs. Head—word showing possession (had). . Phene—what a dog ha# around his mouth when he is mad. Money—what a guy gdfcs when he's in love (Moony) J ■« Faint—what you put on # house. Rain-^-melted snow. Center—the part that is nearer the bottom than tho top is, * * v * -r: The Kincaids, Auvern and Col leen, would like to have their John Henry’s in this column, but we want to take this opportunty to tell them that it is impossible to grant this wish. * * * You guys had better lay-off of Willie Etlson because he is a friend of Yaney’s. % * * * James Moseiy is changing his tune again. This time she is a Little smaller, < •* , ■?.« 1 il, v„Vl Wo wonder if James Williams hribe3 the Tech New Staff, because his name is always ,jn the paper. They all overlook poor little blue eyed intelligent me every time ? ? * * * Say, Williard Wright, why didn’t you wait for jtjie girl the other day when it was cold, instead of rheertingr Her at* her house. Now was tjiat anyway for a gent to act. You know you wouldn’t freese, because you hAVe your flame to keep.you warmlj!!!!! 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