Will Hold Merit Examinations For State Positions Soon
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positions in the Nebraska Depait
ment of State Assistance the Neb
raska Division of Placement and
Unemployment Insurance and for
Merit System Supervisor and Test
Technician, will be held soon, ac
cording to an announcement by
the Council today. Positions for
which merit examinations will be
given this summer include:
GROUP ONE Employment Ser
vice and Unemployment Insurance
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Max. Per Mo. $300 in salary.
Director of Placement and Un
employment Insurance, Min. Per
Mo. $275, Max. Per Mo. $300 in
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employment Insurance Min Per
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Welfare, Min. Per Mo. $235,
Max. Per Mo. $275.
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Test Technician, Min. Per Mo.
$160, Max. Per Mo. $200 in sal
ary.
Merit System Supervisor, Min.
Per Mo. $250. Max. Per Mo. $300
in salary.
In announcing examinations, the
Merit System Council also pointed
out that some of these positions
represent only one opening In
the cases of Merit System Super
visor and Test Technician, prepar
ation of examinations will be made
by a supervisor from another state
Interviewers in the Employment
Service are more numerous, how
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of the State Employment Service
has one or more such positions.
AM positions in the Department
of State Assistance and the Place
ment and Unemployment Insur
ance Division are filled on the bas
is of the Merit System, which pro
vides both for promotion of com
petent employees in the Service to
higher positions if they qualify,
and for recruiting of applicants
through competitive examinitions
Closing date for filing all appli
cations is August 25, 1941. Appli
cation forms and information a
bout the positions, and qualific
ations required of applicants may
be obtained by writing to or cal|
mg at the office of Dr- E. Glenn
Callen, Merit System Supervisor,
Room 414 Main Building, Nebras
ka Wesleyan University, Lincoln
They may also be obtained from
one of the following offices: Any
office of the Nebraska State Em
ployment Service or Any County
Assistance Office or Office of the
Chief of Personnel. Department of
State Assistance and Child Wel
are Room 1022, State Capitol.
Persons whose applications
show them to be qualified to lake
the examinations will be notified
of the exact time and place of the
examinations. Written examin
ations will be given at the follow
ing cities: Omaha. Lincoln, Grand
Island, McCook, Columbus, Ains
worth, Falls City, Scottsbluff. Nor
folk and North Platte.
Speaking for the Merit System
Council. Chairman, Charles C
Hellmers, Lincoln, said. “Select
ion of employees for these Neb
raska Departments on the basis of
the Merit System insures efficient
and economical administration.
Employees are chosen on the basis
of their previous experience, their
standing in examinations and per
sonal aptitude. Their advance
ment depends not upon political
preference, but upon their ability
to do the job.
‘ Selection on merit makes pos
sible a career service; assures
employees permanent positions,
unless, of course .they fail to per
form their duties in the proper
manner; and efficient government
service.
“The Merit System Council does
not operate any of the agencies,
but does provide ‘registers’ from
which employees are chosen ac
cording to ability and merit. The
Council urges all persons interest
ed in a public service career to file
examination applications.”
Mr. Thomas J. Dredla. Vice
Chairman, Crete, Mr. E. W. Aug
ustine, Gi*and Island. Mr. Rodney
S. Dunlap. Fremont, Mr. Alfred C.
Kennedy. Omaha, Mr. George F.
Williams, Lincoln, Dr. Hattie
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retary of the Centre Avenue
Branch YWCA. Pittsburgh Pen
nsylvania. She is also graduate
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whether they come wheeling their
baby buggies or carrying their
grocery bundles and drop in to ask
questions and give information
concerning the Red Cross servic
es,” she declared. In some com
munities the survey has already be
gun others will begin immediately
after the ward meetings have been
held
Ward chairmen have urged that
women wiio have time to give to
the survey in their neighborhoods
apply to their ward chairmen or
call Mrs. Abajian to offer their
services.
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Ilimes Jr., Secretary of the Fron
tiers of America announced that
three distinguished Negro citizens
were elected honorary members of
the natonal federation of service
clubs at the recent Convention in
Akron. Namd to this highest hon
or in the gift of the organization
are Eugene Kinckle Jones, Exe
cutive Secretary of the National
Urban League, Dr. Channing H.
Tobias, Senior secretary in charge
of Negro work, National YMCA-,
and Rev. Glenn T. Settle, Found
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Jordan.” In releasing this ann
ouncement, Himes declared: ‘Dis
tinguished Negroes are elected as
honorary members of the Front
iers of America who have made
outstanding contribution to the,
advancement of the Frontiers i
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Mrs. Roosevelt Praises Negro Achievements at
Hampton Movie Premiere
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Mrs. Roosevelt is presented with the first edition of “Swing Low.” Left to right: Lorenzo White, who was the narrator during the showing of the
Hampton Institute film at Hyde Park; Robert H. Hall, first tenor; George Hamilton, second tenor; Mrs. Roosevelt, Charles H. Flax, Jeremiah
Thomas, baritone, and William L. Byrd, bass.
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Charles H. Flax presents the “Swing Low” album to Mrs. Roosevelt in
the library of the summer White House.
HYDE PARK. N. Y.—Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt was thanked for
her long, devoted interest in the
;ause of Negro Americans last
rhursday when Hampton Institute
?ave the premiere performance of a
lew color motion picture on its pro
gram of “Education for Life” lr
the First Lady and approxir
I'M) of her friends in the Libn . j
the summer White House in Hyde !
Park.
The Hampton Institute Quartette
presented a program of spirituals
Before the motion picture showing
md Charles H. Flax, baritone solo
st from Hampton, presented Mrs.
ttoosrve’t with the first edition, of
‘Swing Low,” a new Victor album
of spirituals by the Quartette.
Mrs. Roosevelt, in introducing the
program, praised the strides being
made in all fields by Negroes and
told of her experiences in flying re
cently with Negro pilots. She said
that she hoped that there would
soon be an executive discrimination
order for the armed forces, similar
to the President’s recent proclama
tion against discrimination in de
fense industries. Robert Ogden
Purves, vice-president and treasurer
of the 'college, also spoke.
The picture, produced by Hamp
ton in cooperation with the Harmon
Foundation, was directed and photo
graphed by Mr. arid Mrs. Ray
Garner, who won the 1940 award
The Hampton Institute quartette with Charles H Flax, baritone soloist,
at the summer White House. Left to right: Robert H. Hall. Jeremiah
Thomas, Mr. Flax, William L. Byrd and George Hamilton.
for the best educational short on
16mm. film. The picture was ac
companied by a narrative by
Lorenzo White, of the Hampton
Institute staff.
Singers from Hampton Institute
were among the first to introduce
and spread the appreciation of
authentic Negro spirituals In the
United States. Many of the best
known spirituals today were care
fully taken down from the lips of
Hampton students, who entered
school in Its early life, and perma
nently recorded in the school's pub
lication "Religious Folk Songs of
the Negro as Sung at Hampton
Institute ”
Members of the ouarterte, which
began its 68th annual summer tour
with last week s Hyde Park per*
formance. are all graduates o|
Hampton Iastitute. They or*;
George Hamilton, second tenor;
Robert H. Hall, first tenor. Jeremiah
Thomas, baritone; and William L,
Byrd, bass Mrs. Thomas. »entoc
member of the group, nae. been
singing with the group since *W3.
This year the quartette will bo
joined and led by Chariea H. F.a».
one of Hampton’s best knowr ling
ers. who. in li;s student day's. uv.ued
Europe with the Hampton Ohoir.
Dorothy Maytior, celebrated •oprar.c,
was also a memoev of ‘he same
singing group »n;S* i ct
Hampton Institute.
dership. These men eminently de
serve this honor.
TWO LEAVE BAHAMAS FOR
ENGLAND TO FLY IN RAF
Nassau, Bahamas, Aug- 2 (ANP
Two of the first three Negroes ac
cepted from the Bahamas for ser
vice in the Royal Air Force, Ned
Isaacs and Constable W. A- Jordan
left here Tuesday by Pan Ameri
can plane for the United States
from which they will leave for
England. The third future flyer,
Basil Johnson, will leave late*’.
Mr. Isaacs is the husband of
Bertha Isaacs and both are well
known in tennis circles having
played in Florida, Georgia, Ala
bama and elsewhere at various
state and national meets. Their
son, Robert, won jhe boy’s singles
championship of the American
i Tennis association at Hampton in
stitute in 1938.
Prior to their departure Mr. Is
aacs and Mr. Jordan were invited
by the Duke of Windsor, governor
of the islands, to the government
house where they spent an hour.
TEXAS TEACHERS VOTE TO
ASK EQUAL PAY
Marshall, August 3 (ANP) —
Voting to ask the Colored State
Teachers Association of Texas to
inaugurate a program to secure
equal pay for Negro and white
leachers in Texas, some 300 tea
chers in summer school at Bishop
college here west on record Thurs
day i.s supporting such a move.
The resolution rsked also for e
qua’ization of educational oppo^t
uiii:ief for Negro youth in the
state.
BEAUTICIANS MEET IN -
ATLANTA MONDAY
Atlanta, Aug. 3 (by Cliff Mack
ay for NP) Hundreds of the na
tion’s leading hair stvlists. beau
ticians and cosmetologists will
start pouring in this city Monday,
Aug, 11. vtfhen the 22nd annual
covention of the National Beauty
Culturists league is scheduled to
get underway. The sessions are
to last through Friday.
The executive board is to meet
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Between The
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(by Dean Gordon B .Hancock for ANP
The Threatless Way
When the March on Washington
was called off, there were those who
sighed with relief It is extremely un
fortunate that there are those who are
implying that the march is an up the
sleeve card to be used at some subse
quent date, if the objectives in defense
are not attained, so far as a larger in
tegration of the Negroes is concerned.
When President Roosevelt made
his statment there was no further
place for the march on Washington.
The dramatization of the Negro’s dis
satisfaction and plight with his de
fense opportunities is about all that a
march could accomplish. The Presid
ent’s deliverance on the matter was
far more effective than any march
could have been; and so the cause was
advanced. But Negroes should beware
of intimating that Roosevelt was
“smoked out” as some erroneously im
ply. Roosevelt needs no “smoking
out” on the race question. His stand
has been so manly and heroic that
“smoking out” tactics are utterly out
of place. Moreover, the Roosevelts are
the type that will not be “smoked out”.
The Roosevelts are tearless ana
what conviction will not do to a Roose
velt intimidation can not do. For
more than eight years Republicans
have tried to force him to make a
statement for the anti-lynch bill; and
he has refused to be coerced. He knew
that a statement from him would mean
nothing but conflict with the Southern
constituency of Congress upon whom
he must depend for the promulgation
if policies the triumph of which will be
more beneficial for the Negro cause
;han any deliverance on the anti-lynch
ironouncement. Roosevelt would be
ess than a great statesman to alienate ,
i large part of his support to placate
the Negro race who are practically
voteless in South.
But Roosevelt has a better way
than merely “talking” his interest in
the Negro race. He tries to formulate
policies that will not w^ork without
them and which will be a general bless
ing in wrhich the Negro must share.
Let us beware of the implications of
those Negro leaders wrho always hold
the Negro up as a threat. Negroes are
not in a position in this country to do
| much “threatening”. The psychology
of threats is against the Negro’s inter
ests.
Furthermore, there is a question
in many minds, W'hose face was saved
when the march on Washington was
called off, the administration’s or the
march sponsors? There have been
raised serious questions, as to the num
ber that would have marched. The
fundamental question raised as to lett
ing the march drift into the leadership
of subversive elements prejudiced
many conscientious Negroes against
the march tactics. Our communist
comrades have a way of “running a
way with the show” and so caution
was in order. Our leadership should be
wary about using the Negro as a
threat. As a threat the Negro and his
best efforts are strictly limited. Co
operation is the w'ord and offers the
more effective threatless way.
Will somebody tell the world why
Hitler is not in Moscow or Leningr ad
or Kiev?
What we want to know is why
Germany continues to capture the
same cities and annihilate the same
armies, when Russia has so many oth
er cities and armies that might be cap
tured to German advantage.
When the Germans captured the
son of Stalin they captured the wrong
Stalin. The one that is giving the
trouble is still at large. The Germans
ire not going to get far capturing the
^rong man.