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Elks To Saint Louis for 1940 Meet I. W. Thomas Offers Services To Public / # _____—,---*— ^ ^ -------- It shall ever be the aim of this establishment to fill every desire and they cater to all demonina tions and have a service priced w within the means of all and render t a modern dignified service. Thomas service renders honor to those whose task are done and aids those who are left behind by lightening their burden. Mr. Thom as has had special training in Der ma Surgery and Restorative Art; will give personal attention to all calls. Members of this firm are af filiated with the Elks and Masonic Ordei' as well as the Church and Civic Organizatons They will ever strive to merit your confidence by unfailing courtesy prompt and efficient ser vice at all t’mes, fair dealing and a considerate and reasonable com plete service cost made possible by their low over head. The Thomas Funeral Home 2022 Lake is the first house east of the Lake strteet fire barn and is | a largo eight room house, all modern with a full basement and a large att’<e. The down stars has been converted into a mortuary with living quarters upstair.s Mr. Thomas has been associated with Umfbergers Mortuary 1110 Q street Lincoln fod the past six years and had the privilege of working with four Nebraska licen sed embalmer8 on most all types of cases and is a graduate of Worsham/ College of Embalming Chicago Illinoif, one of the oldest schools existing today, a member of the Conference of Embalmers embalming and Funeral Directing. States Inc., and duly licensed by the state of Nebraska to practice embaltninv and Funeral Directing. Mr. Thomas also holds a Fcense "y from the State of Texas. When the Hour Glass has run X f RANK |f ILOSOfY /^OLAuREN 1V GERlNGER. It always had been a source of unpleasantness, this wisp of hair on the back of his head that con tinually stuck up in a "cow lick.’’ When he was small he had not cared much w'hether it lay down or not. But his mother had always been fussing with it, trying to slick it down, brushing it at the most embarrassing times. Now that he ■was old enough to take thought to » his appearance, this sprig of hair ■was his greatest problem In being ueat. No matter how carefully ha thought he had it plastered down, it would pop up suddenly In the most trying moments. Strangely enough, now that he wsa taking it serious, his mother F considered it lightly, w atching affec tionately hi3 struggles with it, and even seeming to take a delight in seeing this "little boy" trait stay with him. His girl friend, too, seemed to enjoy mothering him and helping him tend the contrary wisp. It seemed to give her a point in which she could act tolerant toward him, as though this alone kept him hu man and pot too-oerfect. » • * What we may be taking seriously, may be to others something of little marter or even of enjoyment. It may be Just as important in their lives as ours. In fact It may be v.ie.a we canpot see it while they have too. But still we place an o’cr-en;nhasi3 on it that is need less, ss for as it hindering us being veil thought of he our ffi'iwmrii, They may lo.a llttl® weaknesses lit tv°t ” u vent us being too s.its”!'r -o tb-m F »' ■ ■ .. .. ..I—....... ^ HIXOORAMS letter word and five _ '^rrows show direction ot spelling. ' Qbe letter has been placed In tlje ft proper piece. Fill In ihe othet jiwerre letters, & A-D-6-L-H L___ its course and the shadows of sor row fall, The House of Dependa ble Aud Considerate Services stands ready to serve and that yoilr selection governs the cost of their services made reasonable by their low overhead. Mr. Thomas has been a resident of Lincoln for thirty-two years, and comes here highly recom mended. He is married and has one child. -0O0 New Business Field Opened by Negroes Finchard’s Northside Automa tic Music Co., owned and operat ed entirely by Negroes has placed the latest model coin operated phonograph in the Little Dixie Cafe, 2210 N. 24th St. This company was organ:zed by Negroes and it is owned and oper s>ated entirely by Negroes, buying their beautiful new machines di rect from the Rock-Ola factory in' 1 Chicago, 111 i ne company is locally ownea. It is managed by Mr. Charles Pinchard, young Negro business man who has had experience operating coin photographs *‘goo lah boxes’ in Chicago and prom ises records of popular race bands and efficient service to please the public. Mr. Pinchard is pioneering in the field here in Omaha, and in placing this vehy attractive ma chine in the little Dixie gives con crete evidence of what this busi ness will mean to colored people in the future, when he employed four colored men to more and set le machine. Three of the men were from the Negro owned and operated Northside Transfer Co. Mr. Pinchard has found in his experience that colored people in their advancement are patronizing establishments which deal with colored businessmen and that they are demanding the equipment of colored businessmen in the places where it is not. U'nchard’g Northside Outomatic Music Co., is featuring the Rock Ola Luxury light-up phonograph which is beautiful with floating clouds of varied colored light go ing around the sides- This ma chine is truly the most attractive on the street. -0O0-—. But Other Jobs Have Been Found for Them During the last week the North western Bell Telephone Company has been training seven young women in the operation of the elevators at the telephone build ing, 19th and Douglasts Sts. and September 5th they will complete their training and become regular employees. The elevators have been operat ed by imen in the past but other jobs in the company were found for these men and since young women run the elevators in many buildings the telephone company decided to replace the men with women. Raymond R. Brown, Executive Secretary of the Urban League, and Elma Forrest, in charge of the League’s Placement Depart ment, and Lucy Charlotte Craw ford, Girl Reserve of the North Side Branch of the YWCA sub mitted lists of candidates for the positions and the following seven applicants were selected from those interviewed: Marquerite Hill, Mable Longmire, Christine Dixon, Frances Thomas. Henriet ta Edson, Mary Alice Willis and Juanita Artison. ( -qOo-—■ OFFICERS MUST BE KIND TO btlod Raleigh, N. C. Aug—Detective Oliver T. Smith, was suspended for 10 days, Chief A. L. Bailey, said tonight. Smith was suspended because he clubbed a stray dog with a black jack and left it suf fering in a gutter. ADVERTISING MEANS “ MORE BUSINESS * An Interview with... The New Urban League Secretary —. . < length of Employment I have been employed in the Urban League field since 1925 with ten of those fourteen years as a full time staff member- In addition, I spent a year1 and a half as case worker at the Department of Public Charit;es in Akron. Duties My duties ranged from that of recreation supervisor to that of Ass’t Executive Secretary until coming to the Omaha Urban lea gue. Wihile in Akron, I was directly respons’ble for supervising oven 100 NYA youths used at the Ur ban League branch in Akron. My duties included those of a laison officer between industry ■and employee, social agency and client, and the whole realm (of social adjustment problems. Accomplishments While in the employ of the As sociation for Colored Community Work of Akron, Ohio (1) I was able to organize and develop a permanent vocational guidance committee which sponsored a suc cessful District Inter-city Youth Conferencs. 2() I developed a strong volun teer AthlePc Leadership program, High School Students’ Council plan of organization and various athletic leagues and activities; (3) I have been called upon for many inter-racial talks, radio speeches, and panel d’seussions; (4) My Boys’ Work in Akron developed from 50 boys in 1928 to nearly 1,000 in 1939. Organizations I was elected vice-president of the Ohio Conference of F)>cial Work among Negroes. I was form er vice-president of the Akron So. ■iial Workers’ Club (Inter-racial); Negro representative on the Red Cross Disaster Relief Committee cf Akron; President of Alpha Tau Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra ternity; Agency representative on Akron group work council; mem ber of the Elizabeth Park Co-or dinating Council and former chair man of the Case Work Committee under that group; Chairman for the 1939 City Recreation Basket ball League; member1 of Akron Pankee Knot Hole Bang eominit i ME Zion church; Secretary of [ tee; member of Wesley Temple, A Frontiers club of Akron and mem ber of numerous inter-racial cora mottees and organizations in this j field. Education I am a graduate of the Uni versity of Akron with Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Sociology. I have taken graduate work at Columbia University in New York and Akron University including courses in Boys’ Work Technique, Juvenile Delinquency, Sociology of Leisure Time; Case Work Technique; Leadership, etc^ Personal History My wife is a college graduate and we have three children; Do lores, 7; Barbara, 5; and Linda 5 months old. I was born in Cadiz Ohio. SUCCESS STORY CONTINUED WITH BROWN TAKING NEW JOB You might call this an Akron success story—one on the career of Raymond R. Brown, resigned Ass't Executive Secretary of the Association for Colored Communi ty Work, who leaves Monday to take over an important social ser vice post in Omaha, Nebraska. The climax of h’s career, as it relates to Akron, came yesterday wihen more than 150 Akronites gave him a surprise farewell at the Association’s headquarters, 199 Perkins St Leonard K. Firestone presented the departing Secretary with a wrist watch, gift of the Board of Trustees, and Horace Stewart, representing the colored Board of Directors and staff, made the presentation of an elaborate desk I set. , I In 1919. Brown and three young er brothree were brought to Ak ron from Cadiz, Ohio, by their widowed mother. The family lived over a Chinese Laundry on Fur nace St. Brown worked his way through Central High School and Akron Univens'ty by selling Bacon Journals on the streets, shining shoes and later by working as waiter (and janitor The young man's ambition was to study' medicine, but on the ad vice of Dr. H. O. DeGraff, of the University, he took his degree in social science. Immediately follow ing his graduation in 1929, he .be came Boys’ Work Secretary for the Colored Community Work or ganization. He was appointed Ass’t Executive Secretary in 19*1-1. Due largely to Brown’s efforts and those of George Thompson, veteran Executive who heads the staff, the organization has been expanded until it now serves 12, 000 persons of the Negro com munity and receives $8,500 a year from the Community Chest. In Omaha, Brown will be Execu tive Secretary ot' the Urban Lea gue, a social service (rganiz'itir-n covering an extens ve field among Negroes. Akron Beadon Journal Akron, Ohio July 22, 1939 ! RECORD IN SOCIAL SERVICE Raymond R. Brown, who leaves I today for Omaha, Nebiiaska, to I take up the duties of Executive ’ Secretary of the Urban League, a ; Negro social service organization has made a record in Akron that will not soon be forgotten locally. For the past ten years with the Association for Colored Communi ty Work, first as Boys’ Work Secretary and later as assistant to George Thompson, Executive Secretary, Brown has contributed much to the welfare of his race During his tenure, the Association has developed to the point where it serves 12,000 people of the Negro community and is an im portant function of the Community Chest. All who know the worth of Brown’s work here will be sony to see him go, but will wish hi.n everything good in his new posi tion. Beacon Journal, editorial Akron, Ohio July 24, 1939 --—oOo—* start on front page 1C CUT DEWEY IMPRESSES AS MAN AND OFFICIAL CONTROVERSY STARTS AS WOMAN’S PAINTING WINS FIRST PRIZE AT MISSOURI FAIR Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 1 (ANP)— Missouri’s biggest controversy in art circles since Thomas Hart Benton painted h's murals for the state capitol got under way last week when Mrs- Percy Lewis cf Marshall, Mo., won first prize in the state fair contest over the state’s most carefully trained white aii’sts. Her wining picture was “Farm Life,’’ a barnyard scene painted on muslin three and a half feet by four and half because she had no canvas. She used oils in the ma'n, but where she wanted to picture windmill blade or other aluminum shellac. Artists who lost to Mrs. Lewis, wife of a veterinarian, complained that her work was “primitive art.” The winner has never taken a painting lesson. “That's right,” agreed Austin Faricy, professor esthetics at Stephens College for Women, at Columbia, Mo., and judge of the contest. “It is the finest piece of primitive art I have ever seen. And if any riots start over this award, you know where to find me” As soon as visitors were ad mitted to the gallery, the row be gan in earnest. Crowds gathered in front of the picture, heatedly arguing both for and against. The museum, as a result did the best business of the fair. Mrs. Lew's lives in a battered fartn house near Marshall, Mo. She says she has been painting' since she was six and won a Chi cago World’s fair award for a handpainted pillow. More than 100 entered the state fair contest A reclining nude, offered by Robert Graham, white of Kansas City, was hailed by cri tics and vis'tors as a throbbing sensation, but “not sensational enough.” Mrs. Lewis used aluminum shel lac foi1 the painting of such sub ordinate deta'ls as windmill black's, a plow, a pitch fork and other instruments of her “farm Life," which made a striking con trast against the figures in oil, including animals, all approxi mately of the same size A log cabin centered the paint ing. Scattered around it were a surrey drawn by a dappled horse, bearing a Negro couple garbed in brilliant colors; a cow, manure pile, pitchfork, chickens, sheep, i stacked wheat, a grain field; a hunter and a dog, water lillies, cattals, and a boy and a girl, drinking from a well. Cats and dog are the same size. Observers agreed that it portrayed life on the farm as it is actually lived. But because of the unusual per spective, spectators agreed that Mrs. Lewis must have placed her easel upon the windmill, looked down and painted everything in view. VIRGINIA STATE TROJANS IN EARLY PRACTICE SESSION Petersburg Va.—In a desperate effort to whip his Virginia State Trojans into form for the opening ‘battle at Bluefield’ on October 7, Head Coach Harry R. Jefferson has issued invitations to a squad of 50 men to be on hand to be gin an early Fall practice Monday September 11. * Team Hit by Graduation With June graduation having weakened the Trojan wall, Coach Jefferson is not the least bit opti mistic about another championship aggregation as the 1939 season approaches. Such stellar pig-skin ‘toters’ as "Red’ Briscoe, All American half-back; Horace Rob inson, quarter; Ix>uis Ballard and Elrddge Pankey, ends; w'ill be missing when the Orange and Blue warriors don their togs for the initial practice session. Other men who will be sorely missed are George Lamb, center; David Holmes and James Terrell, tackles; and James Nelson, All American tackle. 20 lettermen Returning Joe Hall speedy Trojan back who will be remembered for his spectacular 89 yard run to score State’s touchdown against Union last October, will be back in the line up. Other backs returning who undoubtedly will be called upon to do a lot of ball carrying are Russell Burr, quarter; Stan ley Land, Marshall Brown, Leo Woods, James Harris, half-backs; Willie Hurst and Dick Cobb, full backs. Returning linemen will in clude such huskies as James Brewer, Bob Montjoy, Don Harris, Coleman Lewis, Lawrence Ifartee, Victory Reed, William Bennett, David Travis, Fred Kersey, and James Perry. 'Line Weak’ In a last minute interview with Coach Jefferson before he en trained for the New York Herald. Tribune’s Coaching School to be held this week (Aug. 28—Sept. 1) at the World’s Fair, this writer was told that there would be an abundance of backfield material returning but the real gaps to be filled are in the line. Coach Jef ferson and Assistant Coach Tom Verdell are beginning their sixth year at Virginia State College where they have developed two championship aggregations. The Trojans have lost only one game in three years. Starting his fourth year on the coaching staff at State is Janie* Arthur Moore, Director of Ath letics who recently received his Ph D. from the University of Cin c:nnati. Virginia State College Football Schedule—1939 Oct. 7 Bluefield, at Bluefield, Va. Oct. 13 Johnson C. Smith at Et trick, Va. Oct. 21 Howard at Washington, D. C.; Oct. 28 Open; N'oV. 4 Virginia Union at Ettrick, \'a.; Nov. 11 Shaw at Ettr’ek. Va.; N’ov. 18 A & T at Ettrick, Va.; Nov. 25 Hampton at Hampton, Va.; Nov. 30 (Thanksgiving) Mor gan at Baltimore, Md.; Dec. 9, Morris Brown at Atlanta, Ga. All games at Ettrick, Rogers Field, Virginia State College— called at 2 P. M. J. A. Moore, Di rector Physical Education; H. R. Jefferson, Head Coach; Thoma* Verdell, Assistant Coach. Read The Guide for News luiii rms «r tuiiai’I HEXOGRAM WHAT WOULD YOU DO? R CMFWY CMFWY CMFWYPS Should an Escaped Prisoner, Who Has Become a Model C.t.z a During the Time He Has Been at Large, Be Returned to Prison. Rv Dr W. Nisson Brennkr, Noted Crmwologt.it Actual life problem* which in varioua ware bava faced person* at different lime*, calling foe decieione o vital importance. Reader* *r* invited lo wru* theit opintonr of e'tetrutivee given ic the*# caiee effecting the heppineer, lb* liberly «nd •ometimet the live* of people. Nimei will b* omnted, if deiired. If you have a pertonal problem about which you .eak advice writ* to Dr. Brenner in car* of rhir neweoaper. For an anr-var by mail ancloe# a .elf-addreued envelop*. Communication* treered in conn dene*.) A Modern Jean Valjenn-Martln J. wag a fine boy. In his early teens, who gave promise of becoming a splendid young man. After being graduated from high school he sought In vain to obtain employ ment. During the years of drift ing he came In contact with ^ i group of mischievous lads, wbt went from one depredation to an Other. One night they stole an au tomobile. attempted a hold-up ant were caught. Marun was sen tenced to ten years in the peniten tiary. Four years later he escaped, went out west, changed his name and became an upright, honest citi zen. He married, had several chil dren, became the pillar of a church and was widely admired for hi* benevolence and kindliness. Ele' en years after his escape a detective from the Hast recognized him and caused his arrest THE PROBLEM: Should Martin be returned to prison despite his excellent rec ord, where he may perhaps be come a vicious criminal? Should he be pardoned It would serv» as tn Incentive for other prisoners to brash Jail. . If vou were In autho*44r WHAT [ WOULD YOU DO? BILLY HILL, who wrote “The Last Round-Up," witnessed his first round-uD recently at Beau mont, Texas. . , . Most en thusiastic of mu sical mariners is Guy Lombardo. For years he has lived on his cabin cruiser during the sum mer months. . .. No one can sing a blues song more enticingly 1—i-M*—l-1 than Frances | Louis Reid Langford. . . . Hottest of the fiddlers it said to be Ray Venuti_Who is the coolest? [. . It is not an uncommon sight in recording studios to see an orches tra composed equally of white and colored musicians making discs. . . . No World’s Fair ditty is yet within earshot. . . . Larry Clinton, song writing bandleader, takes about two hours to write his tunes but spends months thinking up the right title. , . . It’s often the title that turns a song into a popular craze. . . . Clin ton’s tongue-tickling titles, “Dipsy from 1900 to 1906. However, dur ing this short span, he became ■with his partners, comprising his brother J. Rosamond Johnson and Bob Cole, famous vaudevillian, the top-ranking writer of American popular music. The trio set up shop in Tin Pan Alley, developed the technique of playing and singing— and subsequently selling — their pieces to the leading stars of the day. _m ..M. Their songs became Identified ( with such personalities as Anns Held, for whom they wrote “The Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes”; Lillian Russell, whom they sup plied with “The Maid of Timbuc too”; Bert Williams, who sang their “My Castle on the Nile,” and Marie Cahill, who made their “Congo Love Song” famous. But their most popu lar songs—they were the rage of $he nation for many months — were “Oh! Didn’t He Ramble,” which was written for the famous minstrel, George Primrose, and “Under tho Bamboo Tree.” James Weldon Johnson—he was the lyrist of the trio—did not ctm uooaie ana noua Dabba” had much to do with the popularity of these numbers ,. . New est title in this style is “A - Tisket A - Tasket,” [don’t ask us what it means!) from the work thop of Ella Fitzgerald and A1 Feldman. Six Years a Great Songwriter In the passing of lames Weldon Johnson in an automobile acci dent in Maine, America tost one of its most sifted writers of songs. Though a man of ex jeptional and varied James Weldon Johnson A.S.C.A.P UUC UU l/i Uiu IHM.UIIUU to popular songs. With his brother, who had been graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music, he wrote a hymn. "Lift Every Voice," rec ognized today as the na tional anthem of the Negro. He also prepared the English version of the libretto of the grand opera, "Goyescas," which was produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1915 He retired from Broadway in 1906 when Theodore Roosevelt appointed him U S. Consul at Puerto talents—he had served his country in consular positions in South and Central America, had won wide prestige as aa educator, a poet, lawyer and crusader for the Negro race—it is as a songwriter he will be chiefly remembered by his fellow Americans. And yet his career as a maker of popular melody was a brief one. It was confined within six years—_ Lautnu, » ciiCbUviu, Until his death he maintained his affiliation with the American So ciety of Composers, Authors and Publishers, in which he was one of the highest-ranking members, though in late years hit life had been devoted to education, serving as Professor of Creative Literature at Fisk University and visiting pro fessor of the same subject at hew York University.