CITY EDITION ^ | TUf If Have You Read Price Five Cents jpf / p j|^ j J “D0ING the StroU” /JUSTICE/EQUALITY JEWTOTHtljN^ LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITY B^aph«.° wEU“.7Matter at Poat omca’0mah1' Nebr-under Act °‘,wn in the pic ture, standing, left, to light, are • Rev. M. E. B. Peek, Robert Thomas, Q. W. Baber, Detroit; W. H. Grif fin, M. R. Dixon, St. Louis; G. W. Blakeley, Little Rock, and J. D. . Howell, Detroit. Seated left to ' right, are Mrs. Janet W. Ward, wife [ of the candidate; Bishop R. A. Car ter of the CME. church; Bishop W. J. Walls of AME. Zion, Rev. Ward, Dr. Charles Thompson and I). S. Enteminger, Col. and Mrs. William E. Warfield have backs to camera. (ANP Photo) I AM AN ALL AMERICAN Symposium by Fred C. Williams I landed in America in 1619 at Jamestown, Vir ginia, an old English colony. My companions, a group of Dutch traders, sold me to a tobacco planter. I have been in this country everysince, growing as it grew, developing as it developed and I am woven into the web and woof so thoroughly that it would be imposs ible to separate me from its maker without destroy ing its present form of government. I have borne the burden of my fellowmen pat iently for I plowed the fields, planted the crops and gathered the harvest, altho I sang “Go down Moses, tell old Pharaoh to let my people go.” I listened to the Lord and waited and when the colonies revolted, mine was the first blood to be spilled there on Boston Commons when Crispus Attucks went down. A martyr to liberty. I was with Washington at Valley Forge but was sent back to my master at the end of the war. I planted cotton, hauled it to the gin and bal ed it and used it as the breast works when I was called to defend the port of New Orleans against the Eng lish fleet under Farragut. I was still shackled but God was in the plan that was to work out when the North and South came to grips over slavery. 1 was at work as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fred erick Douglas, constantly whispering into the ear of Abe Lincoln who abolished slavery by proclamation and I went forward 200,000 strong to break the rebel lion and save the union. I sought education, strengthened my Christ ian faith, built colleges and churches, developed edu cators and bishops. My name is Legion. I am every where and everything. The record enrolled me as Booker T. Washington, George W. Carver, Bishops of all names, Paul Robeson, Sisserite Jones, Bert Wil liams, Bill Robinson, Herbert Delaney, William Tomp kins. Too many to mention at this time. For I can be found participating in every walk of life and prof ession. I am without care or worry. My face re flects sunshine. My eyes are bright. My manner gay. My voice is filled with laughter and in my heart there is always a song. Each day I say “Lift Up Your Voice and Sing”—“Onward Christian Sold iers”—and “God Bless America”. For this is my land, my home. The America I love and will always defend and no one can deny. My claim that I am an ALL-AMERICAN._ SPURLARK. SWEEPSTAKES WINNER. LEAVES $30,000 ESTATE Chicago, Feb. 8 (ANP)—An es tate of $30,000 was left, the bulk of it to his wife, by Royal E. Spurlark, Pullman porter who won $75,000 on an Irish sweepstakes ticket in 1938 when he died at the age of 60 on .Tan. 19 following two major oper ations. Estimate of the estate was made by Atty. William H. Temple who filed Spurlark’s will for probate CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (ANP)— A banquet attended by leading Chic ago ministers and laymen at Poro college Tuesday evening launched a movement to elect the Rev. Way man Ward, noted pastor of Greater Bethel AME. church, to the bish opric at the coming AME. general conference in Detroit starting May 1. The Chicago Sponsoring commit tee, headed by the Rev. M. E. B. Peck and Dr. Charles M. Thompson with others of the church, has been enlarged in include ministers and laymen of the Chicago conference headed by the Rev. B. H. Lucas and others. His sponsors include the Revs. T. Deans Scott, J. D. Coston, Robert Thomas, G. W. Gordon, S. Robert Maguinez, M. E. B. Peck, John A. Alexander, G. W. Williams, and Archibald Carey Jr.;; H. O. Abbott and David W. Kellum; At torneys Oscar Brown, Roy L. Was hington, George W. Lawrence, D. K. Lawrence and Patrick Prescott; Bishops R. A. Carter and W. J. Walls; Dr. L. K. Williams, Mes dames Annie M. Malone, Minnie J. Foots and Margaret Joyner; Ald erman Earl Dickerson and Benjam in Grant, former Alderman Robert Jackson, former State Senator Wil field. These and many others at liam E. King and Col. William W’ar tended Tuesday’s banquet. I / Kw. W aidf noted as 0410 of th6 ♦ ' outstanding ministers in tbc conn- 1 ection, came here from Denver 12 years ago after erecting one of the, most modern edifices possessed by the race in the Colorado city. He was the first Negro to serve with the Chicago Church federation, em bracing all Protestant churches in the area, as chairman of its Race Relations commission, and the first to become vice-president of the fed eration. Since being pastor of Greater Bethel the church has for more than 10 years led the entire connection in general dollars money and other finances. In addition to Chicagoans, guests at the banquet included several gen eral conference delegates from the Fourth Episcopal district who an nounced their intention of support ing Rev. Ward and bringing to the fourth district the first bishop e lected from there in 20 years.’ Thursday. He said the porter paid a tax of $19,000 on his winnings and purchased several annuities. The winner continued working until his illness as he was near retirement age and expected to receive a pen sion. i His widow, the former Albertine Pickens, noted in stage circles, was married to him last Dec. 8. She was his second wife. His son, Roy- j al Spuriark Jr., a law student at a local university, is understood to have had several tiffs with Mrs. Spurlark during the latter stages; of his father’s illness and after his death. IT TAKES PRESIDENT TO GET BISHOP WRIGHT OUT OF AFRICA CAPETOWN, South Africa, Feb. (ANP)-—Were it not for action on the part of President Roosevelt, Bis hop R. R. Wright, family and party might be stranded in Africa indef initely. As it is, he now expects to be back in America in time to at tend the AME. bishops’ council which meets F'eb. 15. Bishop and Mrs. Wright, their son, R. R. Wright III, and Dr. and Mrs. A. J. White of Wilberforce in stitute have been in Africa for some time where the prelate’s espiseopal district is located. Bishop Wright and his son hold return tickets to j New York over the Union Castle , and Cunard lines from Capetown, , but due to the European war, they I as American citizens, are barred J from taking passage aboard a bel ligerent’s vessel. Several months ago the party at GOP. COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN James Leonard Lewis, prominent Florida attorney, who was recently named chairman of a Republican survey committee to work with Re publican organizations through the state. Grandson of the founder of the Afro-American Life Insurance company. Mr. Lewis also serves as a company executive. He was laud ed by the national committeeman for forceful activity in republican politics. (ANP Photo) YOUNG NEGRO ARCHITECT DESIGNS NB)V INFANTILE PARALYSIS HOSPITAL \ Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Feb. $ — (ANP)—Louis Edwin Fry, head of. the department of architecture at Tuskegee institute, has won high praise from the architectural' con sultant of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Inc., for his drawings and specifications for the $121,000 infantile paralysis hospit al now under construction here un der a $161,000 grant from the foundation. This new hospital, only institu tion of its kind for Negroes in the nation, will be Fry’s fourth major work as principal executive archi tect since coming here in Septem ber, 1936. Since then he has des igned and supervised the construc tion of the new gymnasium in 1938 at Alabama State Teachers college, Montgomery, at a cost of $126,000; the science and health education building there in 1939 costing $89, D00 and the $50,000 Extension Serv ice building here erected last year. tempted to book passage over the U. S.—South Africa line and was told the company did not take Ne groes. The Java New York line made a similar statement. A total of 12 ships turned down Bishop Wright’s group using various types of excuses. Meanwhile white Am ericans found no trouble booking passage home. When three months passed and still no vessel would accept the bis hop’s party, he sent the following cablegram direct to President Roosevelt:' “I want to get to America for Bishop’s council Feb. 15. Americ an ships refuse me, claiming ‘fully booked.’ Consul here powerless. It’s a shame that American citizens in time of war when all want Am erican sympathy cannot get pas sage home because of race preju dice even in American ships. Dr. and Mrs. White, my wife, son and self appeal to you.” Soon after sending the message, Bishop Wright got first class ship accomodations from Capetown to New York. During the 1936 presidential el ections, Bishop Wright was one of the leaders in the campaign to re elect President Roosevelt and de layed sailing to his district in Af rica until the November elections were held although he had been chosen bishop and assigned to the African district of the AME. gen eral conference in June.