The 1944 National Negro Health Week Recognizes 1
the Need for Preservation and Protection of Our
Children—Citizens of the Next Generation
War is “bad business” for the
moral and morals of any people,
whatever may be the cause or the 1
noble objectives of the conflict.
It is especially disastrous to a
growing generation of children who
feel the impact of war upon their
homes, neighborhods, and community,
and who are frustrated by the calam- |
itous turn of events in their other- |
wise normal and care-free lives.
Of course, all deficiencies in child
welfare are not chargeable to the
war. Remember, our President said
that one-third of all the people of the
Nation are ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill
housed. Many of these are children.
Hence, the cahllenge is two-fold:—
FREE EDUCATION
Free education, snappy nurse’s uniform, your com
plete tuition,room and board, and a regular allowance
of $15 to at least $30 a month will be furnished.
For information about all nursing schools write:
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May secure the same by calling or seeing
BARNEY W. GILL, Attorney for the adminis
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Correction of the conditions which
prevailed before the war, and increas
ed vigilance and industry to prevent
a further accumulation of the ills
which afflict the innocent offspring!
for whom we are responsible—Indeed
guilty of neglect and exploitation of
their bodies, minds and souls.
But the past is now a record; the
present is laden with challenge to re
trieve some of the losses; the future
bids and warns us to do now those
things which we should have done
in the past, and to prepare our child
ren in the midst of war for the dut
ies and opportunities of peace.
What can we do? So much! First
there should be the realization that
“children just don’t grow up like
weeds and animals"—not unless you
expect the harvest to be tares and
tears. Even flowers must be culti
vated and domestic pets trained for
the satisfactions which abide in their
respective beauty or devotion. How
much more, then, should mankind be
mindful of those made in his own 1
image, with promise of noble contri
butions to the society of which they
must become an integral part.
The National Negro Health Week
is one of the many avenues through
which an effectual approach might be
made to solution of prevailing prob
lems and the projection of helpful
programs. Cognizant of the need for
more conscious provisions for the
welfare of our . this year’s
Health Week chooses the health 01
these children as a major objective.
The Health Week enales a commun
ity to orient its needs and facilities
for child care and proection. The
year-round extension of the Health
Week findings and plans makes pos
sible collaboration for the maximum
utilization of available aids and the
acquisition and estalishment of those
means for child welarfe which are
lacking.
The Child of Today—Citizen of
Tomorrow! This is the challenge.
Unworthy as we may have been in
the past, let’s be worthy of the fut
ure which will determine the measure
and merit our Victory in the present
conflict, according to the success we
attain not only in saving the world
for democracy but also in making de
mocracy, as intended, a source of in
spiration for all and the insurance of
universal welfare.
The child receives its first nurture
and training in the home. The immed
iate neighborhood of the child is the
environment which influences both
the reaction of the child to cleanli
ness, order, and beauty in the com
munity, and the physical and social
welfare of the child. Therefore, the
home and the neighborhood have a
joint responsibility to protect and in
spire the children in the early years
of their lives.
S’. C. SENATE SNUBS WHITE
SUPREMACY RESCOLUTION
Columbia, S. C. March 28 (ANP
The South Carolina Senate adjourn
ed Saturday evening, without giving
concuiring action to the intemperate
“white supremacy” resolution which
created such a sensation when it was
adopted by the house three weeks ago.
Introduced by Rep. Long of Union
and asking, “the damn northerners to
leave the south alone,” in racial mat
ters the resolution drew a storm of
bitter criticism down on the state, ex
tending as far abroad as England,
where the London Daily Times gave
it front page space.
The senate’s failure to action means
that the resolution remains without le
gal status.
FOUR NEW MEMBERS
ELECTED TO BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF TOWN HALLt
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the Office of Civilian Defense, Re
gion II, and who is also serving as
chairman of the Women’s Activities
of the National War Fund.
Governor Edison, who says he in
herited his interest in adult education
from his inventor-father, was elected
to fill the vacancy of the Town Hall
Board of Trustees created by the re
cent death of Dr. Arthur E. Bester,
president of Chautauqua, who had
served as chairman of the Board of
Trustees for many years and who
was vice chairman of the Board at
the time of his death. Mr. Edison
will not automatically succeed Dr.
Bestor as vice chairman of the Board
however, as the election of Board of
ficers will not take place until the an
nlal meeting in May, when both a
vice chairman and a chairman will be
chosen.
Other members of the Board of
Trustees of Town Hall are: Mrs.
Yorke Allen, Mrs. Chester A. Bra
man, Harry Woodburn Chase, Gay
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Dr. James McCaskill, prominent
Dentist and Grand District Deputy,
Exalted Ruler of the Elks, was bur
ied Sunday at the Liberty Baptist
Church in Chicago. The prominent
fraternal leader died suddenly Wed
nesday at 4626 S. Michigan Ave. He
had been honored on Thursday March
16 with a huge testimonial at the
Great Lakes Lodge House by Grand
Exalted Ruler, J. Finley Wilson. A
Morehouse College and Northwestern
University graduate, Dr. McCaskill
has practiced dentistry in Chicago for
18 years. He was a member of the
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Disabled
American Veterans, Lincoln Dental
| Society, Masons and was active in lo
' cal, civic and social organizations. He
leaves a widow, Mrs. Grace E. Mc
Caskill. (Press Photo Service.)
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lord Davis, Mrs. Albert L. Deane,
George V. Denny Jr., Mrs. Carl Eg
gers, Marshall Field, Rev. Robert I.
Gannon, S. J., Mrs. Elgin R. L.
Gould, Peter Grimm, Mrs. Simon
Guggenheim, John W. Hanes, Luther
H. Hodges, Joseph M. Levine, Russel
Maguire, Robert G. Mead, Spencer
Miller, Jr., Walter W. Naumburg,
Arthur E. Orvis, Harry A. Overstreet
Mrs. Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Mrs.
Charles Poletti, Philip D. Reed, Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Charles Wil
liam Taussig, Norman Thomas, Miss
i Dorothy Thompson, Mrs. James H.
[Van Allen, Frederic A. Willis, Wen
i dell L. Willkie, Winthrop W. Aid
rich, ex officio, Leland Rex Robin
son, ex officio.
Officers, besides Mr. Deny are:—
Robert Erskine Ely, Director Emer
itus, Luther H. Hodges, Treasurer,
Iva Nichols, Secretary, William Stein
hoff, Vice President-Comptroller.
Plans were also discussed at last
week’s Board meeting for a dinner to
be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on
j this Wednesday, March 29, in honor
of returning war correspondents. “I
j Predict” was the theme of the dinner
jof which Peter Grimm and Mrs. Ric
jhard C. Patterson, Jr., were co-chair
men. Mr. Thomas J. Watson was
Honorary chairman. Arthur Krock
Washington correspondent of the N.
York Times was the toastmaster at
the dinner and the principal speakers
were Lt. Col. Vincent Sheean, USA.,
Sir Willmot Lewis, Washington cor
respondent of The London Times,
iorothy Thompson and Frank Gervasi
Collier's Correspondent just back
from Italy and Henry J. Taylor, cor
respondent just back from the Medit
erranean.
Mr. Denny reported a substantial
increase of gifts to Town Hall dur
ing the first ten months of the fiscal
yar. Twelve persons have endowed
chairs in Town Hall, each repersent
ing a gift of $1,000. Persons for
whom chairs were endowed are: Geo.
Bliss Agnew, New York State Sena
tor; Frances Newgass Binger, mem
ber and patron of Town Hall for
many years; Joseph R. Ensign, man
ufacturer ; Augustus C. Hone, Engin
eer; Raymond Vail Ingersoll, Bor
ough President of Brooklyn and la
bor arbitrator; Lionello Perera, in
ternational banker and leader of Ital
ian welfare work; David Dodge Ran
lett, LLB., lawyer and railroad exe
cutive ; Ellen Augusta Ranlett; Arth
ur F. Stevens, manager of Methodist
Book Concern; Joshua Marsden Van
Cott, M. D. pioneer pathologist;
Charles R. Walgreen, founder of the
Walgreen Drug Co., Elizebeth A.
Walsh, B. S., A. M. educator.
Gifts to Town Halls War Chest
WATM£MMAfi/m
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Published Every Saturday at 2420 Grant Street
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THE NEGRO VOTE
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Desnioines, la., Telegraph iMerald
Dubuque, Iowa, March 7, 19 kh)
A poll conducted among Iowa Ne- 1
groes by the Iowa Observor, publish
ed in Des Moines, showed that Wen
dell Willkie was more popular than
President Roosevelt. The ratio was
57 to 43. Other Republicans, howev
er, did not show up so well. Dewey,
for example, trailed Roosevelt in the
ratio of 51 to 49.
A shift of the Negro vote away
from the New Deal was noted con
spicuously in a recent New York Con
gressional election. The Democratic
candidate won by a margin of 1,571
votes out of more than 21,000 cast in
a predominantly Democratic neigh
borhood, but the Democrats fell be
hind in the Harlem sections of the
Congressional district.
Democrats in Harlem told the N.
Rork Times that there is a definite
trend away from the New Deal am
ong Negroes. They added that they
had warned President Roosevelt’s I
political advisers at a conference in
Washington last week to take action
to try to halt this shift. At the con
ference, it was said, the trend was
shown to be of national scope, Negro
Democrats have asserted that it was
responsible for the election of a Re
publican Governor in Kentucky last
Fall, for the election of a Republican
Representative in a special Philadel
phia by-election.
Four years ago, the same Harlem
districts gave the Democratic candi
date a vote of seven and eight to one.
Negro leaders blame this political
change on a number of factors, one
of which is resentment against mis
treatment of Negroes in the armed
, services. Another cause of dissatis
is faction is said to be discrimination
against the race in employment.
But there is still another reason tha
may be as important as any, and that
is the Negroes’ growing independence
of relief funds. The manpower
shortage has opened opportunities for
work at higher pay than he has ever
received before.
Many of them are still working for
the government, for these high wages
and year-end appeal, both to enable
Town Hall to carry on its education
al work through the war years have
amounted to $26,181.32. More than
600 people from all parts of the coun
try contributed to the Town Hall’s
work so far this year.
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Girls today can be grateful that
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come largely from government con
tracts, but it isn’t relief money or
WPA money in the old sense, and the
feeling that it must be paid for in
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A political swing based on such a
flimsy reason mya be quite unreliable
and may easily go back the other way
when the war ends; but the Republic
ans originally claimed most of the
Negro votes, and the return of the
pendulum would not be unnatural.
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RACE
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Republican party. It’s your opportunity to meet this
forward-looking, progressive Republican who in the
short space of four years has gained the admiration
not only of millions of Americans but of the entire
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and was graduated from Central High
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active practice of law- in Omaha for
the past fifteen years and maintains
offices at 1130 Ctiy National Bank
building.
Mr. Kennedy was born on a farm in
Sarpy County in the year 1901, and
an interesting sidelight on his early
boyhood is revealed by the fact that
his grandfather, James Gow, was the
first Judge in Sarpy County. Mr.
Kennedy is married, has two child
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