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Largest Accredited Negro Nrwspaf1 er West of Chicago and North of KC Saturday, May 6, 1944 OUE 17th Year—No. 13 Entered as 2nd class matter at Post-office. Omaha, Nebr., Under Act of March 8, 1874. Publishing Offices at 2420 Grant Street, Omaha, Nebr. MRS. EUNICE H, CARTER TO SPEARHEAD LOCAL DRIVE WORKED UNDER THOMAS E DEWEY WHEN HE WAS -V. Y. DISTRICT ATTORNEY Mrs. Eunice H. Carter, who at tained national prominence as an as sistant District Attorney under Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New \ ork County, New York, is to be Guest Speaker at a meeting at the Zior: Baptist Church, 22nd and Grant streets, at 8 pm.. Friday, May 19th. It is a part of the membership effort on behalf of the Omaha Branch of the KAACP. Tickets are being soli for $1.20 each and each porch es provideder of a ticket will be given an annual membership in the NAACP if he signs his name and address on the face of the ticket on lines provid ed therefor. Mrs. Carter is a graduate of Smith College of Northhampton. Mass, and holds three degrees from the school an A. B. and A M. and an LLD. She also holds an LLB. degree from Fordham University. New York City. The number of tickets is limited to 2.000 and they are being sold very rapidly, and the public is urged to make purchases immediately. Tick ets may be had at the Johnson Drug Store. 2306 North 24th St., The Northside \ \Y C A.. 22nd and Grant Sts.. The Commuuit} Center, 20th and Dodge streets. Matthews Book Store. 1620 Harney street, and at the Workman's Club, 5219 South 29th St. Mrs. Carter will arrive in Omaha May 18th, and will be interviewed on WOW Friday afternoon at 12:45 p. m.. May 19th. At 8 p. m. she will deliver her address at Zion Baptist Church cm the subject : "TODAY’S CHALLENGE TO AMERICA." No one can afford to miss hearing and seeing Mrs. Carter and no on* can afford to be without a member ship in the NAACP. Rev. J. E j Blackmon: is president of the Omaha, Branch of thf’NAAGP * - Eunice H. Carter. Assistant Dis trict Attorney New York County 409 Edgecomb Avenue. New Y’ork City. N. Y*. Education: Public Schools. Brook- ; h-n. N Y\ Smith Collejy V B. and' A M. 1921; Fordlma University LLB 1932; Honorary Degree. LLB Smith College. 1936. Experience. Professional; 1921-22 Field Worker Community Service Society; 1923-24—Teacher New Y'ork Public Schools ; 1928-31—Senior Field Worker. Newark Institute fam-1 ily Service : 1921-32—Supervisor of Relief for Harlem Area under Gib-1 son Fund: 1932-33, Asst. Supervisor Home Relief Bureau : 1934-35—Priv ate practice law ; 1935-37—Member Special Rackets Investigation Staff under Thomas E. Dewey: 1938 to date Staff District Attorney Office. New York Co. Related professional activities: 1924 -25—Associated Women's Prison As sociation; Study on Neglected and Delinquent Negro Children: 1929-31 Consultant to Judge Keigler, Judge «f Juvenile Court. New Jersey; 1935 36—Secretary Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem; 1940-42— Assistant District Attorney in charge of Social Research and Adolesent Offenders.; 1941-42—Member Citiz ens Committee to cooperate with the Joint Legislature Committee on You thful Offenders: Note: Active in Civic and Political Life for the past 20 years. At present Legal Adviser and chairman of Board of Trustees of National Council of Negro Wom en. BROTHERHOOD BACKS MEMPHIS PREACHER WHOM CRUMP PERSECUTES New York, April 30 Following h?v upon the tree speech meeting in the First Baptist Church on Beale St. in Memphis. Tennessee at which A. Philip Randolph. George Googe, Sou thern Organizer for the American Federation of Labor ; Milton P. Web ster. 1st International Vice President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Tim Barrett, A. F. of L. Organizer of the South, spoke. Boss Crump's machine had the Fire De partment of Memphis to inspect Rev. Long's Church and place a fire haz ard penalty upon it. The repairs nec essary to lift this penalty will con stitute a considerable expense to the Church. Mr. Randolph has comm unicated with the Rev. Long and ■Cornelius Maiden. Negro A. F. of L Organizer in the South, who is leading the campaign to raise the funds to make repairs on the church, that the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porers will see to it that the funds are raised to lift the fire hazard pen alty. Mr Randolph indicated that Presi Jones, Field Director will Spend Week Here New York In all areas from coast to coast, the XAACP drive tor 500.000 new members got off to a fly ing start May 1, i or a two months intensive campaign. Already field ! secretaries—Noma Jensen, Irvena Ming, Noah Griffin and Donald Jon es have reached their respective ter ritories and are busy guiding hund reds of new captains, workers and volunteers, anxious to do their part in the Association’s effort to sus tain the advances made during 35 years of growth, marking 21 Sup reme Court victories out of p2 cases before the Supreme Tribunal of the land. Territories in which executive of- ; ficials will spend weeks during the campaign include Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvan-! ia. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, i Alabama, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri. Kansas, Louis iana, Virginia. Tennessee, Texas. Mrs Ming, heading up territories' in the midwest, is all set to garner membership quotas amounting to 6000 in Cleveland, Youngstown, and War ren, Ohio: .5,000 in Pittsburgh ; 2500 ! in Toledo: 2000 in Columbus. Miss i Jensen, will move from quotas of 1.000 in Desmoines and St. Paul, Minnisota; 1.500 in Minneapolis;' 3.000 in Cincinnati and in Chicago, j Illinois where the total membership | is expected to reach 20.000. the south west territory. Donald Jones will seek memberships ranging from 500 to I 5,000. Mr. Jones who has coverage of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, will divide a three week period between the two whose goals have been set for 1.200 andy 3,500 respectively. One week in both Omaha and Wichita, will be spent for goals amounting to 1,000 and 300. in the Arkansas areas. Little Rock, expects to obtain 1,300 while Pine Bluff will concentrate on 500. The larger grouping of goals are for Mew Orleans. 3,000; Baton Rouge 1,500; ; Lake Charles 1.000, while Shreveport has set its estimate at 500. Birmingham, Alabama, with a goal for 5,000, Savannah, Georgia 4,000. Mobile, Alabama, 2,500, Jacksonville, Florida and Columbia, South Caro lina, with goals of 2,000 each are in cluded in the territory to be covered by Mr. Griffin. The smaller areas, and their corresponding objectives are Charleston. 1,500, Tampa, Florida, 1,500, Bessemer, Alabama. 500 and St. Petersburg, 500. From her desk in the national of fice, New York City, Ella J. Baker, director of N’AACP branches, will supervise and coordinate the work of field secretaries and branch activ ity from coast to coast. Mrs. Ruby Hurley, youth director, will supple ment campaign work being carried on j in the eastern seaboard, concentrating on the tidewater area. Telling the Associaton's story in detail and amplifying the campaign slogan. FOR FREEDOM AT HOME AND ABROAD, will be pamphlets, leaflets and posters, graphically describing the work ad ministration and success of this or-1 ganization in its fight to obtain civil! and constitutional rights promised to every American, regardless of race, creed or color. , | Requests lor membership direct i my be made to the National Office, 69 Fifth Avenue. New York 13, N. j Y. at the rates of $1.00, $2.50, $5.00 $10.00, $25.00. $100 and life member ship $500. dent William Green of the American Federation of Labor at the Post War, Planning Conference at the Commo dore Hotel had indicated that the A. F. of L. will help meet this financial issue in the interest of putting the Church in proper condition as requir ed by the Fire Department in Mem phis. .V. I'. MEDICAL SOCIETY CALL FOR ADMITTANCE OF MORE NEGROES TO SCHOOLS Washington, DC., (CNS)— The Medical Society of New York has a dopted a resolution calling for ■'more qualified Negro students to be ad mitted to medical schools of New York County." stated in the resolution "the best interests of the public will be served by acceptance of qualified Negroes as internes, resident and staff members in the city's hospitals”. LEAVES NAACP $1,500 New York—Miss Irene Lewisohn. who died April 4, left $1,500 in her will to the NAACP and a similar a mount to the National Urban Lea gue. Miss Lewisohn had been a con tributor to the work of the NAACP for 19 years. Open Letter to Written by White Missionary NEW YORK, May 2 (ANP)— Open criticism of the decision of the state of Texas to circumvent the re cent ruling of the United States Su preme court that Negroes must be allowed to vote in Dixie primaries, has been made by E. Stanley Jones, white missionary to foreign lands, in this country on a lecture tour. Dr. Jones, who is now in Texas, has fearlessly spoken out to residents of that state, deploring their decision to get around the supreme court rul ings. He has addressed an open let ter to the editor of a Texas paper, and the Associated Negro Press was given a cops- of it as well. L>r Jones served three and a halt years as a missionary in India, ana once before, in this country, made public his distaste for restrictive reg ulations against Negroes. When a previous supreme court ruling on Ne gro voting in South Carolina was handed down. Dr. Jones, speaking be fore a large audience in Columbia, asked permission from the master of ceremonies to announce an obituary from the platform. Bewildered, the MC gave assent. Dr. Jones began,— “Today, democracy was killed in South Carolina. The refusal of the right to vote for Negroes means the death of democratic procedure in this state ” Following that dramatic obituary, an association which pledg ed itself to fight racial discrimination was formed and is still functioning. Dr. Jones is also an author and is in terested in international affairs. Ex cerpts from his Texas open letter fol low : "This letter will have to express first of all my deep gratitude for your large-hearted kindness to me while in your midst My admiration for Texas and Texans is sincere and deep. Teaxs gets me! “Because of my deep appreciation of you. I'would share with you a con cem. I have been deeply concerned over the reaction to the supreme court decision regarding Negroes voting ir. primary elections. Initial anger and opposition was to be expected, for deep-ooted attitudes change with re luctance. This did not trouble me so | much as something else. “To my atonishment, I found public officials, dedicated to the upholding of law and court decisions, publicly • announcing that they were thinking; out ways to annul the Supreme Court decision. Do these public officials realize the effect of these official statements upon the public mind ? As I see it, the effect is something like | this: laws and court decisions can be annulled if you can get away with ; it. But if you do this in this partic ular case, then why not in other cas- j es ? Respect for law and court de-; cisions is undermined. This loosens j the whole fabric of public confidence, and it is upon confidence that a dem ocracy rests. This kind of an attit-! ude is far more dangerous to democ racy than Hitler could ever be. And1 this happens when we sav we are j fighting for freedom and democracy, j “If the impatient reply is made that: this is a private affair of Texas a- j lone, the answer must be that this b about as private would Le the case of one going into a cabin of a steam er and finds the occupant sawing a hole in the side of the ship near the water line, and when remonstrated with, the man replies: "This is my cabin, isn't it ? I can do what I please with it." This official attitude is en dangering the whole ship of democ racy. It thus becomes the affair of every American. As a lover of this democracy, I am deeply concerned, and as a free American I speak out that concern. “There is a side of this matter of ten overlooked. I know the fear that is in many minds: if we allow the Negroes to vote they will be able by their numbers to swing an elec tion. This is based upon misconcep tions. If you treat the Negroes as racial beings, they will respond rac ially and will vote as a race. If you treat them as human beings they will respond as human beings and not as racial beings. In India, where we have all races living together on the basis of complete equality in our As hrams, 12 years I have never known the discussions to divide up with the white people on one side and the col ored people on the other. Not once! The division is invariably at this point: the colored and white radicals will be on one side and the colored and white conservatives on the other. That division between radical and ! conservative is a division that runs through all raeces on all questions And it is a good division—some would ; conserve values and some would push ahead and apply them to larger areas. The human mind is made that way. “If the Negro is treated as a hum an being instead of a racial being then in elections tre white and colored rad icals will be on one side and the white . and colored conservatives on the oth ! er. That would be healthy. For ii BISHOP HAMLETT, MOTHER S DAY SPEAKER Honorably Discharged Omaha Colored Soldier Gets Prejudice Door Slammed in His Face ' - «• \ es, it happened right here in Omaha, Nebr. with one of your own who was raised and educated in 0 maha schools—A graduate of South High and a grad uate of Creighton University. The following is a letter that every red blooded American should re , sent: % ^ Omaha, Nebraska, May 1, 1944 Mr. C. C. Galloway, Editor Omaha Guide, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Sir: I am taking this opportunity to write you relative to an incident I experienced a few days ago as I applied for work. On Monday, April 17th, 1944, I registered with the Veterans’ Placement Bureau, 16th and Famam streets and was sent to the Alcohol Processing plant at 11 a. in., 4th and Jones streets by Mr. Seigel Berg in charge of the Veterans' office to see Mr. Charles Diffendall about work in Chemical Laboratorv. Guards on dutv at the plant stated “MR. DIFFEN DALL DID NOT WANT TO SEE OR HIRE ANY NEGROES.” This is a Government Financed Plant. Seeker of Emplovment is a Veteran of World War II, HON ORABLY DISCHARGED. I went back to the Veterans’ Bureau, 16th and Farnam streets, Monday, April 24th. 1944 and Mr. Siegel Berg was unable to do anything about it as per his statement. He was asked to call Mr. Dif fendall. He refused to do so. A Mr. Strauss of the U. S. Employment Service, 210 South 18th street, also was told of the incident. His Special Job “is to place Veterans” he said. “It wasn't his duty to see that the Alcohol plant hired me. ’' Very truly yours. Joseph M. Owen. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? \\ hat are you going to do about it Mr. Omahan? I tell you what I think should be done. We should declare a MARCH ON THE ALCOHOL PROCES SING PLANT, 10,000 STRONG. It should be so large that Mr. Diffendall eouldn’t get to 4th and Jones. What do you think about it Mr. Individual American Citizen and what do you say about it N.A. A.C.P., American Legion, both white and black, the Omaha Race Relation Council and all of the Negro Churches and all of the Negro Professional Organiz ations! It is your job to go to 4th and Jones 10,000 strong in a silent protest parade. No one can seem ingly do anything about it according to the above let ter. Well, in my opinion it is time to call a halt on this kind of stuff right now. If you believe in what your boys and girls are fighting for, now is the time to show that vou have courage enough to back it up. LET'S GOTO 4th & JONES, 10,000 STRONG AND PROTEST THIS KIND OF TREATMENT ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR. we were all conservatives we would dry up. and if we were all radicals, we would bust up. Between the pull back of the conservatives and the pull ahead of the radicals we make pro gress in a middle direction. “I hope that Texas will assert her good sense and accept the fact that m a democracy every law-abiding, de cent citizen has a right to vote re gardless of religion, sex, or the color of his skin. If we cannot accept that fact, then the only thing to do is to end the hypocrisy and cease to rail our country a democracy.” RAXDOLPH TO MAKE CROSS COUNTRY TRIP WILL SPEAK HERE New York, N. Y„ April 30 Ac cording to information received at the International headquarters of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por ters, A. Philip Randolph, Internat ional President, will leave New York City, May 3rd on a cross country trip on which he will visit Chicago, St. Paul, Minnesota. Portland, Ore gon, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, California; Salt Lake City, Utah. Denver, Colorado, Omaha, Ne bra ska. and Kansas City, Missouri. He will speak at public meetings as well as organizational conferences on this tour. SUGGEST NAMING LIBERTY SHIP FOR E. E. JUST New York—It has been suggested ' to the Ship Naming Committee of; U. S. Maritime Commission by the N'.A.ACP that a Liberty ship be nam ed for the late Dr. Ernest Everett Just. Dr. Just was a world famous j biologist and zoologist, professor of ! physiology at Howard University j College of Medicine and the first recipient of the Spingam Medal in 1915. Omaha Uni. Fine Arts Student Honored UAL ARIA LEE McCAW, 2808 Ohij Street, a student in the fine arts department at the University of Om alia, was among those honored at the University Thursday, April 27. All students with an average of 8J5 or better were honored at the Convoca tion. Mrs. McCaw is the wife of Arthur B McCaw, Deputy in the County Assessor's office and the mother of ti .ee children, Jan is, Joan and Mel vin Arthur McCaw. MYRTIS GOES OVER THE TOP MVRTIS Invites friends, Custom ers and the public to come and enjoy the hospitality of her tavern. By Howard B. Bordeaux The morning that Carl Rabes, one time owner and manager of Rabies' Buffett, located at 2229 Lake Street, prepared to leave for Fresno. Calif.J where he was inducted into the air corps, I was in his employ he turned a number of kev> over to me that morning, one of which was to his Buffett and another to his home directly across the street, where I was instructed to live until his final return and in the event that he didn’t return I was to live there just the, same. Frank Johnson was one of the bartenders at this time and I be lieve the longest time bartender in Carl’s service at that time. I heard Carl say to Frank that morning. “You stay here and look after things until I come back and in case I don't come back, just keep on looking after them." I i elate these facts now that you may know the real Carl Rabies. At that time there was always a number of girls employed who would work on different shifts at the Buf fett. but there was one who would always come first to wait on the early morning trade. Carl instructed me that in the event this girl taken sick or something happened which caused her not to show up for work, that I should send for the next one I thought next best to take her place. TO PREACH AT CLEAVES TEMPLE MOTHERS DAY Bishop J. Arthur Hamlett of Kan sas City. Kansas will be the guest speaker at Cleaves Temple CME. Church on Mother's Day, Sunday, May the 14th. Bishop Hamlett is one of the lead ing thinkers of America, a great scholar and pulpiteer. He is the pre siding Bishop of the Third Episcopal District of the Colored Methodist Church, comprising the states of Ne braska. Kansas. Missouri, Tenenesset and Louisiana. The friends of Cleaves are cord ially invited to come out and hear cur Bishop. Rev. T. J. Douglass, is pastor. BEGINNIN6 MAY 9, HR. 7 WILL BE ON SENATE FLOOR SEE THAT YOUR SENATOR IS THERE Dear Friend: We wrote you on April 18. We told you the poll taxes were hard at work behind the scenes to keep HR 7 from ever coming up; that Washing ton was full of rumors that they were succeeding. We told you only one thing could save the anti-poll tax bill. Your insistence. Your insistence carried the day. Senator Barkley this morning an nounced that, by agreement with the proponents and opponents of the bill, HR 7 would be called up May 9th. Now to the job of actually passing the bill. 1. We must brand as irresponsible the filibuster which will meet the bill, brand it as a tactic that disfranchises the United States Senate itself. 2. We most pledge each Senator to vote for cloture, not only once but a second time. By the rules of the Se nate, cloture can be called for over and over again. Not to call for it a second time will be an unnecessary surrender of the right of ten million Americans to vote. Between now and May 9th, work on your Senators. We think, at this point, no Senator is hopeless. Every Republican and every Northern De mocrat can be pledged to vote for do_ ture. Every poll-tax Senator can be persuaded that the filibuster will be too great a price to pay for the bill’s defeat m terms of loss of Senate dig nity and blackening the magnificent war record of the Southern people. 3. If your Senator says he's for clo ture, pin him down to a second cloture mote and to an aggressive fight for the bill. Don't let up now. JUDGE WATSON APPEALS FOR LYNCH BILL New York City (CNS) . Judge James Watson, a member of the Na tionalC ommittee to Combat Anti Semitism, has issued an appeal for a deluge of telegrams and letters to be sent to Rep. Thomas G. Burch, chair man of the House Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, before which the Lynch Bill is now pending Commented Judge Watson: “The Lynch Bill will keep the poison of Anti-Negro, anti-semitic and other anti-racial material from being spread amongst our armed forces where it is serving to cause disunity. So one morning this really happened, and we were in quite a jam, but an old friend of mine happened to be in the place who had his car outside. So I asked him to go after Myrtis, who has been on that job ever since. 'ies, now Myrtis goes over the top, through perserverance, honesty and prompt, courteous service to all. | Myrtis has gained the confidence of a host of friends and I have just read the license which gives her the right to have a sign across the win dow of the tavern reading “MYRTIS TAVERN". The Omaha Guide wushes you much success Myrtis, which we well know you have earned and still we shall always miss Carl. [ 5th War Loan Drive To Open June 12th NEBRAESKA’S QUOTA $106,000,000 —A-A Nebraska's over-all quota for the Fifth War Loan Drive starting June 12 will be $106,000,000, the State War Finance Committee was advised today by The Treasury Department. While this is an increase of 12 3-4 percent above the $94,000,000 quota for the last campaign, it is less than the $110,230,117 which was raised by Nebraska residents in January and February Drive "We must enter this campaign, dur ing the most crucial period of this war, with grim determination to make and surpass this quota," declar ed W. Dale Clark, State Chairman of the War Finance Committee. "We are depending upon our Fight ing Forces to defeat the enemy and they are depending upon us to sup port this great task through the pur csasc of our share of War Bonds." Under the new quotas, individual Nebraskans are asked to purchase $36,000,000 in War Bonds, an in crease of $3,000,000 over the last cam paign. State figures for the “E” Bond series remain the same at $34, 000.000. Businesses ot all types in Nebraska have been given a quota of $50,000, 000, or a $9,000,000 increase of the S41,000,000 quota they received dur ing the Fourth War Loan Drive. The state increase had been anticip ated for several weeks in view of the national quota being placed at $16, 000,000.000, which was up $2,000,000 000 from the last campaign. The na tional quota tor individual purchases will jump from $5,500,000,000 for the Fourth War Loan to $6,000,000,000 for the Fifth War Loan campaign County quotas for the forthcoming campaign, based on the newly ann ounced state figures, will be announc ed within two or three weeks, accord ing to Leon J. Markham, Executive Manager of the Nebraska War Fin ance Committee. HOST TO ELKS Chicago, 111, Frank W. Henry, Exalted Ruler of the Fort Dearborn IB POE. of W, speaking before the Grand Lodge Committee which met on Monday, April 24th, invited dele gates from the 48 states of America to attend the Grand Lodge Conven tion and Bond Rally scheduled for Chicago, August 20th. “A most ex tensive program for the entertain ment of the delegates has alerady been completed” said Mr. Henry. <Press Photo-News Service) SUBSCRIBE NOW! White Pressure Forces Ban on Lillian Smith of “Strange Fruit” Appearing before White Club ~ •1 1 " ■ ■ ■ _^—— MAN IVHO SOUGHT TO SELL “STRANGE FRUIT" ON TRIAL; FINED $200 Cambridge, Mass,, (CNS> A Cam bridge book dealer was fined 5200 this week for selling a copy of ( "Strange Fruit" in a test case by District Judge Arthur P, Stone. Judge Stone, after reading Lillian Smith's controversial novel about a Negro girl's love affair with a white doctor's son. says: “I wouldn't say that a book was impure because of one word, but I believe that cer tain incidents have been lugged in to make this book dirty. I believe that the author brought in the filth with an eye to increasing the sales.” • dumbia, S. C.. May l ( \'\P)— Cancellation of the schedu’ed appear tn'-e here Thursday. May 4, of Miss Lilian E. Smith. Georgia an no i* the novel, "Strange Fruit" and t-iuor of the quarterly magazine. ‘South Today" was verified Wednesday by Mrs. M. H. Hickman, whit', chair man of the Book Forum, wh h iiad arranged the lecture as its final pro gram of the season. While Mrs. Hickman wo a. 1 not discuss circumstances leading to the c mediation, saying, "I have teen th-orgh so much humiliation and cm bm-rassment because of it I wish cnlv to forget it.” she did admit that ‘se vere pressure” had been brougn* by white women's clubs and other white poi pie to cancel the program She wi's bombarded with letters, phone calls, threats, and all other so Is of cen-munications, some of them ai.non vioknt. Among letters received by Mis. R’ckman was one from the New Ccn tury Book Club here signed by Mrs. E.Hyn D. Pope, secretary, a said in part: "'It seems a pity to spo 1 'he tine effect of your efforts (wr’i the Book forum) nwo by having as gues\ speaker Lillian Smith, author “Strange Fruit”, the subject matter of which would be an affront to any thinking people, but particularly so t._. the people of this state and the South. It is filthy and obnox'oui.” Mrs. Pope said her club felt M>ss Smith’s coming here unwise and dan get ous because of “social and political ur.iest on the part of the Xego. i-ar . a condition caused by adverse ad vis ers.” The following excerpts were in cluded in a letter to Mrs. H;ckmar from the Fortnight chip of which Frances Sylvan is secreta-y: ‘ 1 he problem of racial adjustment is to us sc serious that we are impelled to protest against the discussion _t it by the speaker (Lillian Smith) The theme of her book seems to rs to be one that better not be tossed a bout at present In case .he does come, may we earnestly ask that she speak on the orient and not on th: N'egro problem at all.” Protests were also received from the Garden club, probably the most influential organization in ‘he city, whose president is Mrs. J. Heyward Gibbs, other organizations and ju ov erwhelming number of white woi.vn and men. Plans were underway Monday to have M iss Smith speak in Chai kst^n May 4 and other sources were I ying to have her speak in CoIumb;< j~. that day but to colored persons. ' - other source reported Jewish -cj>L. were indignant over the refusal and had offered the suggestion of ■> cak ing up the Book forum as it as ex isted for nearly four years . a r. ng white people) and extend it *o ' -- ed residents, also. An uncon - td rumor was that official word had been taken around that Miss Smith would be barred from speaking in Columbia and other places in the state. Have you entered your favorite Die or cake in our Recipe Contest? p. 4