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SMITH) WE. 6458 mmMi0xa^0i0< xtox hi n uflWaiT^T if • L boys are on the up and I go at all time. Mr. Harry Swain Mr. Luther Johnon. Mr. Edmond Smith. Roy McAllter, Mr. George Dean, Mr. Jame Woods, and Mr. Lin wood Hall and Mr. Felix Metoy er are serving with a smile on the w'heels. ***** Capt. Langley and his summer suit are a streamlined feature on North 24th Street. ***** The Fontenelle Hotel waiters are on the job with streamlined serv ice at all times. ***** The Cottonwood room at the Blackstone Hotel is very much out in front. ***** The Paxton hotel with the race horse headwaiter and quick step ping waiters and the streamlined party Capt. Booth who is up from the Lone Star State is going over the topi ***** Read the Omaha Guide for all the latest news. ***** We extend our heartfelt sym pathy to the family of our fellow brother and eo-worker Mr. Than Lucas who passed peacefully and quietly away on July 7th to the great beyond and may he rest in peace. — ***** Mr. Joe Newt and a friend were In KC Sunday Aug. 1st to listen to the East and West Baseball game as Omaha was too far away. ***** Mr. Joe Brown is taking his va cation in cool Colorado and Mr. Travis Gaters is viewing the fine scenery in the great coast state of California. Go the limit boys as a good rest will build you up. ***** THE WEEK Four hundred men battle an un derground fire writh entrenching machinery at Princessanna, Md. | ***** Floods in Bombay, India have I taken 6.000 lives. ***** The National peace conference at a meeting in NT. asked Federal State and local agencies to invest igate the social and economic in equalities which causes racial d;s sensions. ***** Four men are seeking the Gov enorship nomination in Ky. and one Rep. has already been endors-d. ***** Freight train wreck on the NT. | THE ART OF GOSPEL j : SINGING TAUFHT BY j 1 THELMA S. POLK. j DIRECTOR ZION BAPTIST CHURCH CHORUS Thelma S. Polk, teacher of Gos pel Mu-ic. has been chosen Pianist Director for the Gospel Chorus at Zion Baptist Church. Mrs. Polk, a native of Chicago, comes to Omaha very much pre pared in this line of work having served in Union Baptist and a number of other prominent church es in her home town. OPENS STUDIO The Rev. S. K. Nichols, uncle of this fine young woman, has opened for her a studio at 2424 Erskine i street, where she will teach Gospel ' Singing exclusively. For inform 1 ation CALL JA-3229. 1 Tel. WE. 2022 \ * Considerate, Dependable, Dig- ? ! nified Service. It is for the { j family to decide what the funeral s J cost shall be. f | i Thomas { : FUNERAL HOME i i J ; 2020 LAKE ST. Omaha. Nebr. J Legion Auxiliary Hold Smoker, and Floor Show v<«*■ - « «j *■ ft- * r- *■ *? c w c wwv d < c vc c c c c £ c f *r », a *r a■ j —- - — — - - i p—'— " ■ 1 — ■ ■- ■ -.■ Chaplain Welcomes WAAC Unit ——_———_-—— by Signal S*ctioTj5q™3^trK?i^T5^2j, FORT KNOX, KENTUCKY—Chaplain (Captain) Robert Shelton, for fourteen years pastor of the Barnes Methodist Church, Indianapolis, wel ' comes 3rd Officer Evelyn Edwards of Tuscaloosa, Ala., with the first con tingent of WAACs to arrive here. They have been assigned to service in the Fort Knox hospital. This is Chaplain Shelton's second war. He was a Sergeant with the 372 Infantry in the first AEF. I CARD OF THANKS | I wish to thank The Thomas Funeral Home, = Friends and Neighbors for their ser\'ice and E sympathy given me during my recent loss of my || wife, Mrs. Sarah Walker. signed: Mr. Fred Walker, E 984 North 25th Street | t in 11111111 m i i m 1111111111111; 1111111111 m 11111111111111111111111 ] | ■ ■ < 111 ■ 111111111 j 11 < 1111 il i Central near Coruna. Indiana ki’l ed one hundred head of cattle. ***** 1.000 WACs inducted into th army at Ft. Myers. Va. ***** Editor McCormic of the Chicago Tribune warns of a conspiracy a mong us. ***** Huga Hanks an escaped war prisoner surrenders. ***** Admiral Ximitz visits the Stud ents in Frisco. ***** James Kramer of Alama. Xebr, was accused of poisoning. ***** Deneena Watson chairman of the Post war association has called a meeting of 11 wastern states in San Francisco for August :!0. ***** Read the Omhaa Guide and get all the first hand news. ***** Coordinating Council attended a cal meeting to welcome Mrs. Nell Hunter of the U. S. Treasury of fice who is contacting all Colored organizations and clubs in the in terest of buying war stamps and bonds. Mrs. D. W. Gooden spon sored the meeting and introduced Mrs. Hunter who in a very beauti ful talk and appeal asked that we all use our best efforts to sell stamps and let the U. S. Govern ment know we ae doing our bit. ***** Rev. John Williams of KC. will conduct a choral ensemble of 40 voices at JTlgrim Baptist church on Sunday afternoon Aug. 15 at 3:30 pm. The affair is sponsored by Rev. Story and wife of Cleaves Temple who have the sale of tick ets. Mrs. SeleCkman of Elreno, Okla is very ill in a ocal hospital. ‘ r.e is a sister of Mrs. Stanley Goosby. ***** Shirley Kennedy very much rest broken and asleep in the barber shop. ***** Cornelius Bennett wounded in leg much improved. ***** Captain Burns on a 24th and Kan sas Street car. home from a hos pital. ***** Richard McCain very busy on the UPRR. ***** Essex Williams very much in the poultry game. ***** Brother John Evans takes time out with his wife on Sunday after i noon at home. The Topeka District Conference closed a vert- successful session July Sth. Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Reynolds report a very delightful time. All reports very much im proved. ***** Rev. J. E. Wade preached a very ! | lovely sermon at Clair Chapel Sun day morning. We were all over joyed to welcome Mrs. L. V. Gray with her friendly smiles and im proved looks and she says the wat er in St. Louis is a good buildup to her and her daughter and son in law. Rev. Clay and the two i grand children are just fine. ***** Everyone should attend Pilgrim Baptist church and hear Rev. Wil liams and the chorus of 40 voices. ***** St. Johns AME. church is mov ing- up at a rapid stride. Rev. E. F. Ridley and the earnest working members are #n the upward move at all times. ***** On Wednesday evening Aug. 4th Mrs. A. R Justus sponsored a very beautiful birthday party a surprise for Mrs. Nina Smith of 1920 North 25th St. It was so nicely arrang ed when Mrs. Smith arrived home she was dumfounded to find so many true and lovely friends wait ing to greet her with a broad smile with so many very nice presents. A very pleasant evening was en joyed. Those present were Airs. Jo Richards, Mrs. Frank Btlford, Airs. Daisy Banks. Mrs. Ha tut Robinson of Ibdianapolis, Indiana. Mrs. Kathryn Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. Eliis Kirtley. Mr. and Airs. Arthur Justus, Mrs. T. W. Logan, Airs. Ina Bennett and H. W. Smith. Mrs. J. E. Wade was unable to attend and sent presents. , . * LOCAL NOTES CLAIR METHODIST CHURCH Rev. and Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. ouisLe Wiley returned to the city last Sunday night, having attended the District Conference, Workers School, Women's Society and Youth Fellowship Conventions. They were accompanied home by Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Hancock, Dis trict Superinteondent of the Tope ka District. Rev. Reynolds will till the pulpit as usual this coming Sunday. . Clair Church made the highest financial report at the District Conference, having met all its Con ference Claims in full. Mrs. Lou ise Wiley was elected District Vice President of the Women’s Society of Christian Service. Mrs. Reyn olds was reelected District Presi dent. Miss Versie Winston was e lected District Vice President of the Young Adult Council. Rev. and Mrs. Reynolds were elected delegates to the Area Council meet ing in St. Louis. Missouri Septem ber 10th. Mrs. Reynolds was also elected delegate to the Jurisdic tional Women’s Society Meeting m Cleveland. unio next -Marcn. a total amount of iolo.OO was report ed for the special benevolences at che conference. The 1944 session will meet next August in Wichita, Kansas. Brief word pictures of the Conference sessions will be giv en by Mrs. Wiley and Mrs. Reyn olds Sunday morning before the sermon by Rev. Reynolds. JENKINS HOLDS MASONIC TRUSTEE BOARD CONFAB The M. TV. Grand Master of the Lodge of Nebraska and its Masoni# Ju risdietion. Prince Hall Affiliation Grand Trustee Board was called to a meeting for reorganization for the ensuing year. Graond Master P. H. Jenkins presided. The other officers of the board who were present are: Clayton Lew is, of Lincoln, Nebraska, chairman of the Board. R. C. Stewart. Secy, Richard Turner, Custodian, Dr. D. TV. Gooden. Leon Burden, J. T. Scott. P. L. Adkins. Maynard L. TVilson, Grand Lodge Reporter. Pearl S. Buck's “What America Means To Me!” (Continued from page 1) i I waited for her mother. “Mother is talking to my grand mother,” she said. “Grandmother has just had a long distance call from my father.._because it is Mother’s Day, you know: My fa ther is a major in the army, a doc tor. with the new flying corps of She was proud of her father, I Tuskegee.” ould see that. But I Could im agine any father being proud, too. of this daughter, so graceful sg full of ease and poise even with a stranger. ' This child, I thought, watching her and listening as she answeed my uestions about her school life, "is a happy child." She told me that she went to a public school where colored and white girls mingled together with out s»-Lf-consciousness. Site liked (*er fries'ih. she sa d .and hud a good ume and she was not often t: rated differently because she wu-> not white But as she said this I saw a little shadow in the r**al7 beautiful eyes. I put a ques ti./f. to that shadow. "Don't your colored schoolmates ever feel any disadvantage in not being white?” Tes, it seemed they did. espec ially when they were seniors. There had long beet a pleasant custom in the school that the sen ior class went before it was grad uated on a trip to Washington, the capital of their country, it was meant as a sort of climax to their years of education in the excell ent public school. Actually it waa anti-climax and contradiction to what they had been taught. For the colored girls could not go be cause they would not be admitted to the hotels with their schoolmat es. There was no hotel in Wash ington which woulS take the girls if some of them were colored. "So the white girls go and we don’t," this child said quietly. She added hastily. “Of course we want them to go.._we wouldn’t want them to miss the fun.. just because we must." "I should like you to know,” I said, "that if I were a white girl in your school I wouldn’t go if you' could not. I am ashamed of those white girls who go without you to visit Washington of all places,” She did not answer this, but she smiled a painful little smile. “It won’t be a probem this year, anyway.” she said. “We can’t any of us go because of the war." Her mother came in then, a wo man graceful and pretty enough to explain her daughter. She was a auiet woman, gentle with long breeding. “How long have you been in Phil adelphia,?” I asked when we oegan to talk. She had been born in Philadel phia, and her family had been here for three generations. That is, she wa» of an old American family. The generation earlier had been in the South. Awhite ancestor had brought them here. I suspected several white ances tors in this beautiful woman. Her -kin was golden brown, and her hair was smooth and her features fine. “Tell me.” I said, “you are •t very mixed blood?” She told me frankly then of the story of those generations. Ex cept for the mixed blood it might have been the story o fany old and honorable American family whose ancsetors had come here eariy and had lived in dignity and even rome luxury. Obviously this woman had never known want or insecurity. Her husband, too, had a mixture, white blood from "ancaster county in Pennsylvania, where the Penn sylvania Dutch have no race pre judices. “Here is his picture.” she said I looked into the face of a hand some and strong man. He wore a uniform. “He fought in the last war, too” she said proudly, “and he didn't BROADCASTS SUNDAY Austin. Texas, Mr. I. Q. Hurdle, of 1416 12th Street, of this city, will broadcast Sunday, August 15, at 930 pm. to millions cf Americ ans on the "Wings Over Jordan" program. Mr. Hurdle is the pres dent of the Texas Christian Mis sionary Convention and will have listeners. The Rev. Glenn T. Set a message of importance for his tie is the program’s narrator and it is aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System's nation-wide hookup. (Press Photo Service). I reel he was doing his duty until he i volunteered again. But I hope he l will get home before he has to go : abroad.” j The house was very quiet. As she said this, I felt the quietness "Are you two quite alone here now?” I asked. Yes, it seemed they were. There was an older daughter away at Col lege living in a dormitory. I [ learned, with white girls, I asked to see her picture, too, and they brought me another framed photo graph. I looked into an extremely fair and pretty face. ‘‘What a handsome family you are.'” I exclaimed. They smiled at that ,but as if | the yhad heard it before. We had tea. and we talked and I heard of the trip to Europe where the father had gone for advanced study in medicine. Why had he gone to Europe, I asked?” The faint shadow passed over 1 the pretty woman’s face. “It's ; easier for us over there," she said. Then she added. "We doubted whe ther he would have been allowed to do the same work here.” Until then I had been enjoying myself. I had been thinking, here is a Colored American family who feels no disadvantage in their col or. Obviously they are well-to-do, highly educated and happy. I had never had this experience before. I had not seen Colored Americans who did not have a rankling bit teor sense of injustice done them. This family, I thought with relief, showed that it was possible to live in America, colored, and yet like anyone else. "Does your husband have white patients as well as colored?” I asked. ‘Oh, yes,” the pretty woman said. "He goes wherever he is needed.” "And you,” I asked, “do you have white friends?” "Xo,” she said quietly, “I have none.” "But your daughter,” I persist ed, “she tells me she goes to school with white girls?’” ‘S did I,” the mother said, ‘‘but after school I didn’t see them any more.” “But why?” I asked. “One doesn’t want to go where the welcome is doubtful,” she re plied. The shadow was very clear now. X determined to pierce it and find out what it meant. “I^et's talk frankly about this matter of race,” I said. “Do you have much trouble with it here in Philadelphia?” “Oh, no,” she said quickly. "Xot if we choose our places. That is. there are nice places to eat where they will let us come in and we just don’t go to the other places. We soon find out where the rignt places are and we avoid_insult.” “And the theatres?”' “The best ones don’t discrimin ate,” she said. “And we can hear "20th Centufy^Fox has hit the musical jockpot again!" says the New York Times!... "Tune ond talent treat!" says the Daily Mirror! Of course they're . _ talking about STORMY WEATHER, a honey of a show.with LENA HORNE, BILL ROBINSON, CAB CALLOWAY and His Band, Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe, Fats Waller, Nicholas Brothers, AdaBrown and Dooley Wilson! H ” « ★ ★ ★ I N> V n GetleTfor fun*in the wonderfuf ERNST LUBITSCH 4 ^ S manner in HEAVEN CAN WAIT with GENE 1 '> r TIERNEY, DON AMECHE and CHARLES COBURN! It's I 'n ^ect>nic°*or! The Smoker and Floor Show. Fri day August 6th given by the Lad ies Auxiliary of the Theodore Rouse velt Post Xo. 30 American Legion, was one of the midsummer's most pleasant affairs. We wish to thank Mrs. Edward Wright, general chairman of the entertainment committee for an en joyable evening. DEFENSE STAMP DRIVE The Auxiliary' Defense Stamp Drive, Saturday. August 7th war also a grand success. Mrs. Eva Milsap. President, Mrs. Susie Yancy, Reporter. good music.... they let us come to the Concerts.” “They?” I asked. ‘"The white people," she said, gently. “But you have your own friends? I asked. “Oh yes," she said. Her face brightened. “ Ihave very nice friends, and their daughters are my daughter’s friends. We have a pleasant little set of our own and we live within it.” We talked for an hour more, 1 pressing my questions and she answering with a sort of sweet frankness that I found Charming. Now and again the dark pretty daughter would add something I began after a while to have strange twinges of memory. Where had I seen this sort of thing b^* , fore.._delicate pretty women, sensitive faces, well-bred manners, and gentle voices, interest in mus ic and theatre, and yet all of it hedged about with an unexpressed fear? Where before had I seen this world within a world? While we talked I let my mind go search ing into the past, until I found the people of whom these two women reminded me. w nat I remembered were tre refugees in many parts of the world. They were the families of white Russian noblemen in Shang hai, driven out of their own coun try' by the communists. In a draw ing room in Shanghai I had sat sometimes like this, listening to Russian ladies who were living in a little world of their own, trying to forget the real world. Yes. I remembered refugees in France, the early refugees from Germany, wel-born, well-bred people, living in a small circle, maintaining their life by forgetting what they did not want to remember. And the other day in New York I saw the refugees again. Chines? Indies in New York, ladies from Hong Kong and Shanghai from Bangciiov and Peking, cone to America in finitely strange >ere in their delic acy and their beauty, clinging to getber .trying o mik; a httle world for themscives in a fearful world outside. Yes, that is what they reminded me of, this American mother and daughter. “Do you feel American?’’ I ask ed suddenly. They were startled by the question. “Oh, yes,-’ the mother said. Tt was her first touch of teal passion “Wty, she said, “we belong h?re!” She looked bewildered, I could see by my question, and hi If frightened by it. ‘We’ve been here for geneiations,' she said. “?.nd m yhusbami' fighting for A merica. Oh, yes we're American.” But now the shadow was very dark indeed, so dark that I had not the heart to go on trying to pierce it. Besides. I understood it. Re membering the refugees had made me understand. We talked only a few minutes more after that, abou* small things, and I came away. When I shut the door it was like shutting it on a walled garden, beautiful but enclosed, and the gate was locked behind me. I came away carrying the shad ow with me. Think of living in your own country, but having to be watchful continually for insult: Auto Parts Wanted BURNED. 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