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Master Negro Engineer Disproves Theory of Prof.;\Encourages Young Engineers
(Continue'’ r> oact 1)
‘pone cf us can tell what we ca”
do until we try. And even then
we must keep on trying.”
One of Alexander’s white class
mate"?, Maurice A. Repass, disa
greed with the professor. A var
sity half-back also, he had worked
with Alexander in the Iowa back
field and he thought they made a
Pretty good team.
Today, 31 years later, they ire
s^ill a pretty good team and the
contracting firm of Alexander and
Repass is one of the most success
ful in its field. Specializing in
bridge, power plant, highway and
sewage disposal plant construction
the company has completed engin
eering and construction jobs thru
out the country since its founding
28 years ago.
At present, the firm is building a
bridge across the Tidal Basin at
Washington, DC. When completed
for the District of Columbia’s High
way Department at an estimated
cost of more than $1,000,000, this
bridge will extend from 15th street
THE FARM BLOC GOES A GUN
NING AGAIN FOR FARM
SECURITY
Uinued from Page 1)
man Clarence Cannon, Democrat,
Missouri, and Everett Dirksen, Re
publican, Illinois. A motion to
salvage Farm Security was voted
down 20 to 8, virtually without de
bate.
Why all this rumpus over the
Farm Security administration?
Perhaps a little background ma
terial will be helpful. The ABCs
of Farm Security—the agency that
has done so much Vn the past eight
years to help disadvantaged Negro
1 and white farmers—can be sum
marized as a common-sense at
! tempt on the part of the federal
| government to raise the level of
| life in rural America from the
| bottom up.
For many years there was a lot
I of big talk in agricultural circles
about crop improvement and .soil
I
i conservation. There have been de
I vices for boosting and stabilizing
i prices of farm products. Country
j life associations haveorated elo
j quently in terms of human values.
Recognizing the fact that an im
proved agriculture for America
—black as w-ell as white—must in
volve all the factors that affect the
millions of families living on Am
erican farms, FSA. came /into be
ing in 1937 to build a sounder,
healthier, and more satisfactory
rural life through a complete pro
gram that centers around all these
aspects of family living.
The program includes s°il censer
vation, improved farming methods,
home production of subsistence,
■ better housing and medical care,
education and encouragement of
I cooperative living and is now a
fully-mobilized production agency
helping Uncle Sam keep his food
arsenal filled to satisfy our fight
ing men, our allies and our civil
ian workers on the home front.
Some idea of how well the 464,
941 families on the Farm Security
program (this includes some 62,
000 Negroes) did their °b last year
ca nbe gained from a brief recital
of their production record.
In spite of the fact these famil
ies comprise only 7.6 pe rcent cf
the 6,097,000 farm operators in the
nation, yet they increased their
milk output by 1,419,000,000 (billion
Pounds. This lis more than a third
of the nation’s total milk supply
for 1942 and represents a 20 per
cent increase of FSA farmers’ out
put over their 1941 production,
compared with a 3 percent increase
by all farmers.
Farm Security borrowers in
creased supplies of other war
needed crops from 20 percent to
106 percent over 1941 production.
In terms of national increases,
they accounted for 27 percent of1
the total increase in dry beans, 10
percent of the total increase in
eggs, chickens and peanuts and 9
percent of the pork increase.
Out of the hundreds of thou3-1
ands of farmers, that Farm Secur
ity has helped, some have been
handcuffed by poor lands; some
have not known how- to use their
land; some have been swamped in.
the attempt to compete Uingle-’
handed and with poor equipment,
with the big commercial farms.
and Independence Avenue and con
nect with a driveway running a
log the Potomac. The structure
will consist mainly of North Caro
lina granite and limestone.
Alexander, the senior partner, is
supervising the Tidal Basin job
w'hich now employs 160 Negro and
white mechanics and laborers and
represents a capital investment of
more than *100,000 in cash and *90
000 in heavy machinery. The con
struction crew, wtfich includes two
white stone masons who have work
ed for the firm for 22 years, will
be doubled before the pob is com
pleted this summer.
Bridge building is no new field
to Alexander and RepaSs. Tor
years, the firm has done the bulk
of such work for the Cfi/icago, Rock
island, and Pacific Railroad. And
since 1928, the partners have coi
structed half of the bridges in their j
native city of DesMoines, Iowa.
Other major contracts have includ
ed the erection of a power plant at
Columbus, Neb.; the construction
of the airport for a civilian pro
gram at Tuskegee, Ala.; and the
construction of a sewage dispojal
plant at Grand Rapids, Mich.
The senior partner’s greatest
personal satisfaction, however,
probably came from a pob in 1928.
In that year, the firm of Alexand
er and Repass completed a $1,000,
900 contract at the University of
low a—and put to rest the last
fears of the doubting professor
that the color of one's skin must,
of necessity, be a handicap to a
competent engineer.
Although the firm has made no
bonk loans for more than five
years, Alexander believes that cred
it rating Is of utmost importance
in his field. So firmly does he be
lieve this that once, during the
dark days of the depression, he
drew $75,000 from his personal
savings account and invested it in
the business so that the firm could
complete a contract on schedule.
Since the death of his only son,
Alex in ler has made a hobby of en
i ouraging othei young Negroes to
enter engineering and technical
professions. He receives more
than a hundred letters annually
turn Negr students in engineer
ing schools seeking advice about
their careers and job possibilif s.
He answei each of these lettelE
personally, Ufually with some word
of crcourngiment or advice i*a->n
from his own long experience.
And when one of the yiU'hs
.-eoms dis-cocr'iged, he remembers
his ojd engineering professor and
repeats the yme words he used in
I'll:’:
“None of us. can tell what ve
can do until we try. And even
then we must keep on trying. ’
$25 War Bond
Prize for Letters
F rom Soldiers
New York, N. Y.—The prize of a
l $25.00 war bond monthly is being
offered by The Crisis magazine be
ginning in June, for the best let
ter from Negroes in the armed Ser
vices. In addition to the Army,
Navy, Coast Guard, Marines and
the 'YVAACs, members of the Army
Nurse Corps, the Red Cross staffs
and the Merchant Marine are eli
gible to compete. The Crisis stat
es that it wishes to receive all
types of opinions from colored Poo
Pie in the war, good, bad or indif
ferent.
Real names will not be publish
ed if the authors desire them with
held, but real names must be sign
ed for the information of the mag
azine. Letters should be address
ed to The Crisis, 69th Fifth avenue
New York, N. Y.
Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe
to THE OMAHA GUIDE and learn what the dark
er one tenth of the American population is think
ing and doing.
Ark. State College
Elects ISew Pres.
Pine Bluff, Ark., April 22 (ANP)
Lawrence A. Davis, dean of Ark
ansas State college here, was elect
ed president April 14 when the
board of trustees met in a special
session to choose the successor to
the late Dr. J. B. Watson.
The president elect is a native
of Arkansas and a graduate of the
college. He became a member of
the faculty in 1937 and since that
time has served as teacher, regis
trar, assistant to the president and
dean of the school. Since the
death of Dr. Watson, he has Served
as chairman of the administrative
committee which has been in
Many of these small farmers
particularly in the south—have
been forced into the treadmill of
cash cropping, usually single crop
ping—to the detriment of the land
and people. Others have been
caught in the tenacles of the debt
machine and whose living is dict
ated by the “furnish merchant.”
To bring some order out of this
picture of rural chaos, FSA ep
proached the situation from three
sides:
1. as a credit problem, through
loans;
2. As an educational problem,
through guidance and supervision
and
3. As a problem of physical
need, through arrangements for
medical care and decent housing.
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, charge of affairs of the college.
The student body staged a great
parade of jubilation which did not
en duntil the new president had
spoken to them.
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TEXAS FARMERS’ PRODUCTI’N
COMMITTEE MEETS IN
ORIENTATION PROGRAM
Prairie View, Texas, April 22 —
(ANP)—The six members of the
Texas Negro Farmers’ War Prod
uction committee, under the spon
sorship of the Texas USDA war
board, met in an orientation pro
gram at Prairie View state college,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
The conference convened to an- j
quaint the committee members
with the program, provisions and
services of all agricultural agenc
ies serving Texas Negro farmers.
The group was selected because
of their contributions to agricult
ural production. The orientation
discussions were introduced by rep
resentatives from the Texas USDa
war board, agricultural adjustment
agency, extension service, farm se
curity administration, soil conser
vation service, farm credit admin
istration, vocational education and
rural war production agencies.
Each representative indicated tor
the committee the means by wbjch
Texas Negro farmers can help real
ize the food and food goals of the
war effort.
One of the chief purposes of the
committee is to distribute general
information to Negro farmers on
the availability of the services of
fered by governmental agricultur
al agencies and emphasize the im
portance of such information in the
war production program.
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Erecting New Tidal Basin Bridge in Washington, D. C.
More than $90,000 worth of heavy machinery is being used by the firm of Alexander and Repass in
the construction of a million-dollar bridge across the Tidal Bksin in Washington, D. C. Some of this
machinery is shown above. The Des Moines, Iowa, firm has done the bulk of the bridge building work
for the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad for a number of years.
OFFICIAL OWI PHOTO BY ROGER SMITH.
BECOMES DEBT FREE
Central Baptist Church. St. Lou
is, mo., pictured above, became
debt free last Sunday when the
$5,0000 mortgage was burned by the
newly installed pastor, the Rev. T.
BURNS $5,000 MORTGAGE SIX
MONTHS AFTER BECOMING
PASTOR OF ST. LOUIS CHURCH
ST. LOUIS, April 22 (ANP) —
Six months after becoming pastor
cf Central Baptist church, the Kev.
T. T. Huntler was able Sunday to
preside at ceremonies during which
the church’s $5,000 mortgage was
burned.
The day's program began with an
inspirational worship led by the
Sunday School and featuring a vic
tory march headed by the girls’
drum and bugle corps of the Tom
Powell American Legion Post. Saul
F. Boud acted as marshal. After [
the corps came Rev. and Mrs. Hunt
ley. Dr. Marshall A.'Talley, pastor
Of Ebenezer Baptist church, Indi
anapo?is; the official boards, choirs
and general membership. They I
marched around a city block typ I
ifying the march around the walls
of Jericho.
E. Huntley, just Six months after
he took over. Special services, in
cluding a victory march, featured
the occasion. (ANP Photo)
In the morning services which
followed. Rev. Huntley introduced
Dr. Talley as the man who inspired
and gu‘ded him in preparation for
the ministry. The Indianapolis
pastor, before delivering his ad
dress. read a congratulatory mes
sage from Dr. A. Clayton Powe’,1
Sr., pastor emeritus of Abyssinian
Baptist church *in N. Y.
During the course of the servic
es it was disclosed that during the
time Rev. Huntley had been pastor
church receipts had totalled near
ly $18,000. The burning of mort
gages on the church and parish
house followed.
In the afternoon a fellowship
and consecratton service sponsor.
ed jointly by the Interdenominat
ional Ministerial alliance of Metro
politan St. Louis and the church
was conducted. Dr. Clark Walker
Cummings, executive secretary of
the church federaijion, delivered
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the consecration address. Repre
sentatives of the ministry conse
nted the pastor with the laying
on of hands and with fitting cere
mony. The membership next filed
by the pastor pledging their loy
alty.
Following the close of the gen
eral BTU. service in the evening,
the Junior Harrison players dram
atized the story of the Resurrect
ion and pantomimed the song, 'The
Holy City.’
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