THE NEGRO PRESS IN A
CHANGING WORLD
(Continued from p. 2)
dren of the public schools is $38
better than they are in some ot
place for the Negro Press?
RACE PROBLEM WORLD WIDE
In this changing world in which
the moral responsibility of one
people to another, and one na
tion to another has been made
vastly more acute by scientific
advances in communication, by
nearness and interdependence, a
condition that did not exist prior
to World War II, and the very
development of scientific means
of making war totally disastrous,
the nations of the world are re
examining their governmental and
national policies on questions that
flow from differences of race,
color, and creed.
There are no longer any purely
local questions of this kind. The
problems of the 13,000,000 Negro
es in America are linked with the
ones of the 150,000,000 African
natives, and with those of the
peoples of India an^ China. Like
wise, the political, economic and
social problems of England and
France and Russia are linked
closely with those of America
We hav* come face to face with
the prophetic vision of the late
Wendell Willkie.
AGENCIES FROM A TO Z
(BY MYRTLE GOODLOW)
God gave the soil to bear fruit
for our toil
To supply the foods we daily need
And to produce grains and hay
for cattle feed
And when our government a few
ye drs ago decreed
The planting of certain seed and
for some fields to remain
barren and not to yield
America was bound someday to
badly need
Foods an<j grains with which to
supply her table needs—and
grains for cattle feed
The pigs which were destroyed
we havn’t forgotten
Nor the fields of plowed under
cotton
Willful waste always makes
x woeful want and this bitter
truth should haunt
The guilty ones when they hear
the sad cry
Of millions who from starvation
shall soon dig
Surplus foods shoud have been
canned and full production
never banned;
Many growing children don’t get
proper food to eat
And folks go broke each week
because food prices are so steep
When foods should be plentiful
and cheap
Agricultural restriction has done
more harm than a four bell
fire alarm—
And when food supplies are low
that’s when drouths and
plagues strike their blow
America used to be a lan^ of the
free and a land of plenty
And now with all the agencies
from A to Z
This country' is far from being
free;
The OPA have their say and the
people can’t say nay
So they just trade with black
markets in a great big way
Making liars and cheaters of
customers and dealers
“Ceiling Price” describes the high
cost right
It would be very nice to have a
“Floor Price” which wouldn’t
drain our pocketbook
Nor strain our nerves when we
take a look
At the prices which are so high
We can’t afford to buy
And now they are cutting a big
fat hog
Sending most of the lumber abroad
They are very quick to forget
their slogan
“Nothing shall be too good for
the returning vet”
And thousands now wearily walk
the streets
While awaiting agencies to
complete
The plans for a housing program
It is sad to think—they who
fought to protect the American
Home
Return to have none of their own.
The Waiter*
Column •
By H. W. Smith
The Waiter's Key Club at 2409
Burdette St. extends a friendly
welcome at all times and will at
all times and hours of the day,
serve with a smie.
Waiters at the Hill Hotel are
FOIL NAZI REVIVAL
Frankfurt, Germany, Soundpho
to—In a series of zone wide raids
American Counter Intelligence
Corps broke up what was descri
bed as first major attempt to re
vive Nazi ideologies in Germany
Over 1,000 die hards in movement
were arrested- Here Anna Wilde
former member of Hitler Jugend
or youth movement, tells Counter
Intelligence corpsmen of where
abouts of her sister who escaped
before raid. Identification of old
woman is not given.
t
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Famous Gospel Singer In v
Nationwide Concert Tour. Evangelist Singers And (
\ Baritone Rollin Smith Added Program Features1
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, America’s sensational singer of gospel songs
will embark on a nationwide religious Concert tour commencing April
7th, under direction of Cultural Concerts Society, 2908 R.K.O. Building,
Radio City, N. Y. Auditoriums and churches in 105 major cities will be
played, under sponsorship of local churches and other religious, edu
cational and fraternal organizations. The full two-hour program of
inspiring songs and music will feature the nationally famous Evangelist
Singers, top flight choristers and soloists. A special added attraction
will be the first American Concert appearance of Rollin Smith, sensa
tional baritone, recently returned from a successful tour of European
cities.
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ODD "
[v9^DUNCAN
CELEBRATED BARITONE AND DRAMATIC
ACTOR WHO RECENTLY MADE OPERATIC^
HISTORY WHEN HE SANG WITH THE
NYC CENTER OPERA CO, FIRST ROSE TO^gi
FAME WHEN GEORGE GERSHWIN SElECTEDjMj
HIM TO PLAY''pOR6Y'|N‘POR6Y AVID
GRADUATING FROM BUTLER COLLEGE AND
COLUMBIA U, HE STARTED HIS CAREER AS A
VOICE TEACHER, AND LATER BECAME HEAD
OF THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD U.
^MADELINE R. MORGAN
L ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
^ [.TEACHER WHO WAS
9 RESPONSIBLE FOR NEGRO
'* HISTORY COURSES BEING ADOPTED
7 BY CHICAGO'S BOARD OF EDUCATION?
HER EFFORTS HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE
. YOUNG GENERATION TO KNOW OF THE CULTURAL
■—ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NEGRO.
W ^ A NATIVE OF CHICAGO SHE RECEIVED HER HIGHER
I (7~, EDUCATION FROMTHE CHICAGO TEACHERS COLLEGE
jy^jj^~V^^?^^^NONORTHWESTER^INIiV. I
doing their number,
Paxton Hotel headwaiter and
crew are taking very good care
of the service.
Waiters at the Regis Hotel and
White Horse Inn are on the up
and go at all times.
Omaha Club waiters and Capt
Earl Jones are on the improve at
all times on the service.
Fontenelle Hotel waiters going
good.
Blackstone Hotel waiters are
really on the ball.
This writer had an interview
with Mr. Simon Harrold who has
on taking care of special parties
and was very highly commended
by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at
the Blackstone Hotel.
• Radio Programs
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APRIL 14TH, WOW (590 kc)
6:30—Sunday Serenade
6:55—News
7:00—Revival Hour
8:00—A1 Williams Health System
8:15—Highlights & Sidelights of
the News
8:30—Chapel Service, Rev. R- R.
Brown
9:30—Midwest Report
9:45—Cheer Up Time
10:00—WOW News Tower
10:15—Gems and Jottings
10:30—This Bright World
10:45—Solitaire Time
11:00—World Front
11:30—House of Beauty
11:45—Master Radio Canaries
12:00—WOW News Tower
12:15—Farm Magazine of the Air
12:30—Your University Speaks
12:45—Mitchell and Utley
1:00—Harvest of Stars
1:30—John Charles Thomas
2:00—Carmen Cavallero
2:30—One Man’s Family
3:00—National Hour
3:30—Nebraska—Iowa Suiz
4:00—Symphony of the Air
5:00—Catholic Hour
5:30—Great Gildersleeve
6:00—Jack Benny
6:30—Bandwagon Cass Daley
7:00—Charlie McCarthy & Show
7:30—Fred Allen
8:00—Manhattan Merry go
Round
8:30—American Album of Fa
miliar music
9:00—Hour of Charm
9:30—Meet Me at Parkey’s
10:00—WOW News Tower
10:15—Show Time
10:30—Pacific Story
11:00—WOW News Tower
11:15—Music by Shrednick
11:30—America United
11:45—Francis Craig & Orch.
12:00—Midnite Melodies
12:15—Mary Ann Mercer
12:30—Midnite Musical
12:55—News
1:00—Sign Off
SUNDAY, APRIL 14 (KOID
7:00—News Summary
7:15—The Chosen People
7:30—Coffee Concerts
8:00—Sunday Morn Melodies
8:15—Christian Science Pgm
8:30—The Christians Hour
9:00—Old Fashioned Revival
10:00—Church of The Air
10:30—News
10:45—New World Coming
11:00—Southemaires
11:30—Stradvari Orch. with
Lavalle
12:00—News
12:15—Real Estate Program
12:30—Your University Speaks
12:45—Vagabond Dreamer
1:00—Warriors of Peace
1:30—Memo With Music
2:00—Religion in The News
2:15—Elmer Davis
2:30—Sammy Kaye’s Serenade
2:55—News
3:00—Darts for Dough
3:30—Right Down our Alley
4:00—Court of Missing Heirs
4:30—Counterspy
5:00—Radio Hall of Fame
5:30—Sunday Evening Party
6:00—Drew Pearson
6:15—News
6:30—Quiz ICids
7:00—Detroit Symphony
8:00—Walter WincheU
8:15—Louella Parsons
8:30—LaGuardia Speaks
8:45—Jimmy Fidler
9:00—Theatre Guild
10:00—News
10:15—Vera Massey, Songs
10:30—Weather
10:35—Music You Want
11:00—News
11:05—Henry Brandon’s Orch.
11:30—Ron Perry’s Orch.
11:55—News
12:00 Sign Off
PRAYER CHANGES THINGS
Dear Editor:
Just a word, I would like to
make my thoughts in regards to
the present times and compare
them with the past. The Lord is
not dead. As Colored people in
America we are treated like the
Jews were in Egypt in the days
of old, and since God is the
WYNONIE HARRIS
BOOKED BY BEN BART
Hollywood Revuesical Sensation At Mardi Crat
By Ted Yates
(Staff Correspondent)
NEW YCXK, (IPS.)Wynonie
Harris, the sensational “Mr. Blues,
Himself” has hit the jackpot. The
former vooalist of Lucky Millinder’s
Harris
Orchestra who for
the past year has
been whamming
’em on the west
coast was booked
into The Shadow
1ah d in New
Orleans. The Hol
lywood revuesical
is the sensation
of the Mardi Gras
— and that’s
where Ben Bart,
genial theatrical
producer and
uoosing agent comes in.
Bart who has been around a long
time contacted Bill Donaldson and
together they have successfully
booked engagements for this hot
"ha show which is headlined by
t. arris and also features Lois Green,
a talented singer who possesses
goud looks as well; along with
Paul Barbarian’s Orchestra. Bar
barian was formerly associated
with Louis Armstrong as a drum
mer — and a good one too. The
troupe is proving a sensational
’’package” in the South where it is
now filling engagements in theatres
and nite spots. Sock entertainment
surrounds the three toppers of this
show-stopping presentation. There
is a creole chorus, a tap dancing
team and comedians that rated it a
box office smash at the Shadow
land Club in New Orleans and in
cities along the route.
Harris needs no introduction for
he has been rated as one of the
best blues singers in the country
When you say Wynonie Harris!
naturally, you insert “blues” after
the first name and before the last.
You just couldn’t be talking about
the same person if you didn't.
mis recording
of Wynonie Blues,
Around the Clock
Blues, Somebody
Done Changed the
Lock, Yonder
Goes My Baby,
now lead the Har
lem Hit Parade.
Harris recently in
t-oduced “Young
Man’s Blues.”
Lois Green, a
new singing star,
from advance no- *-0:s
tices shapes up as
being the find of the Spring season.
One west coast critic in reviewing
the show stated: “—Miss Green not
only has a gorgeous shape but she
shapes up as being 1946 rave.”
Both Ben Bart
ana Harry nen
etska, of Univer
sal. Attractions,
565 Fifth Avenue,
in this city, have
been swamped
with long distant
calls and tele
graph communica
tions for the
Wynonie Harris
Hollywood Revue.
it is c*.e of the _ . .
outstanding units Barbarian
of the day,” Mr. Lenetska told this
writer in an exclusive interview,
showing a stack of letters and tele
grams.
Paul Barbarian has a great mus
ical aggregation and already he has
created swing frenzy among the
bobby soxers who have “gone-all
out-of-this-World” for the Barbarian
rhythms. The Harris Hollywood
revuesical is strictly on the groovy
Bide.
BLUES WITH A STYLE!
SULTRY SONGSTRESS Lena Horne gives out with her own1 I
brand of love “blues” in a scene from her latest film,M-G-M’s j
“Ziegfeld Follies of 1946”. The setting is a waterfront cafe, and
the ballad she sings, called “Love”, was written especially for her
by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin^
God and will near I’rayers: =.s a
Colored race let us call upon Him
as those Jews did, and not onlv
as the Jews did, but as our fathe )»
in the days of slavery, Prayer
Changes Things.
We are not able to make our
selves equal with the other group
and poyerss, that be, we can not
get enough votes in Congress, but
we can get enough votes on our
knees, God has never turned a
faithful prayer down, he has al
ways listened to one who spoke
to Him, he heard Elijah on Mt.
Carmel, and answered his prayers
he heard Daniel in Babylon, Dan
ien 6:10; 11 and he also heard Sha
Daniel 3rd chapter. Queen Esther
requested the Jews to pray, and
(who knows whether Thou Art
Come to the Kingdom for such
a time as this)
I am saying to you who knows
whether the Lord has inspired me
to write this article in such a time
like this. God heard the Children
of Isreal in Egypt, Exodus 2nd
chapter; this is a time and age of
Atomic energy, but it should be
the time and age of Prayer and
the gospel of the Son of God. The
Atomic Bomb is powerful but our
prayers are more powerful. God is
not a whhite or a black man. He
is a spirit and he that would wor
ship Him in spirit and in truth,
not by power nor might, but by
My spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts
and we can not do it by power nor
by might if so the war would have
been ended long before it was,
and yet it is not ended because
sarikes on top of strikes and mur
dering and kidnapping and every
damnable thing that’s wrong. A
few of the members of Congess
in the White House are not right
Why? Why wouldn’t they vote
to pass the PEPC bill, that all
the citizens would have equal ri
ghts in this country to work?
They voted that our sons, fathers,
husbands and brothers all would
go to war, and yet when they wer*-'
back they met with the same old
thing—segregation, discrimination
disfranchisement, ostracism, Jim
Crowism, and everything else that
is wrong, but there are two places
where there are none of these
above things heaven and hell! I
am saying to the church through
out America, ‘Let’s pray that the
: Lord will take charge of affairs’
I He has never lost a single case,
so pray a week beginning the 1st
Sunday of April, I hope this state
ment will be announced in all of
the churchhes and the pastors do
urge it; that everybody will go
down in prayer. Paul and Silas
prayed and the Lord heard them,
the church prayed for Peter while
he was in jail and he was deliv
ered, and he Is the same God
now and forever.
Prayer is the Panacia for this
ill, and nothing else will heal as
well. Atomic energy will not be
able to do it. The Good Book says
therefore all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them: for this is
the law and the prophets). The
Lord Jesus Prayed in the garden
of Gelhsemane and a number of
other times and got results.
Rev W. C. Simmons, Detroit,
Michigan
RED CROSS RUSHES AID
TO TIDAL WAVE VICTIMS
Washington, D. C.—Red Cross
dissister workers were prompt in
providing food and shelter for the
thousands of tilad wave victims
GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE W HO TRAVEL
New ork, N. YY.—.After four years absence, the Negro
Motorist Green Book, the official guide to hotels, tourist
homes, restaurants and other places where Negroes are
welcomed without embarrasment, will soon be in circula
tion again. It is due off the press next month and will list
some 3,500 places throughout the country, all the leading
Negro newspapers, schools and colleges and will contain in
formation about the new cars.
The Green ook is used by all the Automobile Clubs of the
United States, the United States Travel Bureau and endors
ed by the Idlewild Chamber of Commerce. It is used ex
clusively by the Esso Marketeers. In the above picture
James A. (Billboard) Jackson, special representative for
the Standard Oil Company, New Jersey and Esso, is signing
a contract for 5,000 copies of the 1946 edition with Victor
H. Green, President of the firm publishing the Guide.
in the Hawaiian Islands, the ter
ritorial chapter reported by phone
to national headquarters last
week. Meantime, full resources of
the American National Red Cross
were alerted by chairman Basil
O’Conner to supplement the work
of the Hawaiian Chapter.
The islands principally affected
according to Howard Ellis, Haw
aiian Red Cross executive, were
Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii. Sixty
thousands pounds of food were
rushed by army and navy planes
to Hilo on the island of Mawiia
on the day of the disaster, Ellis
reported, and a planeload of
clothing was sent to the island of
Maui. Food, clothing and medical
supplies in the islands were ade
quate to handle all emergency
needs, Ellis told Chairman O’Co
nnor, but the chapter would re
quire assistance from the national
organization in the rehabilitation
of disaster victims. Property da
mage on all three islands was ex
tensive, he said.
The American Red Cross ex
tends deepest sympathy to the
people of Hawaii who have suf
fered as a result of the destruc
tive tidal wave, Mr. O’Conner ca
bled Gov. Stainback. Full resour
ces of the American National ,,ed
Cross have been offered to our
Hawaiian Chapter and will be ap
plied to relief and rehabilitation
of disaster sufferers to supple
ment efforts of the Hawwaii Red
Cross Chapter.
Hall-Johnson Choir To Sing
for Russian War Relief
The Hall Johnson Choir and
Billy Holliday have joined the
prominent group of entertainers
who will appear on the American
Polk Music program to be pre
sented by the Greater New York
Committee for Russian Relief at
Carnegie Hall, Saturday, April 20
at 8:30 pm.
Carl ) Sandburg is honorary ch
airman of the event and Earl Ro
binson will fly from California to
be chairman of the evening’s en
tertainment. \
The leading singers of the couri
tries folk music, including Johs
White, Susan Reed, Woody Guth
rie. John Jacob Niles, Pete See
ger and Leadbelly will perform
Sophie Maslow and group will
dance in Folksay, a sccoreogha
phic interpretation of Sandburg’s
book of the same title.
American Folk Music is the 1st
in a series of pretentations in the
fields of folk music, modern mu
sic and the da4ce. The second
event based on Modem American
Music win be given in Carnegie
Hall Thursday evening, May 2
and a program of The American
Dance will be presented in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, on
Saturday evening, May 25.
Tickets for each event, priced
from 51.80 to $3.60 may be ob
tained at Russian Reliefs head
quarters, New York City. Pro
ceeds will go toward the reequip
THE KING IS 28
Happily cutting his angel food
birthday cake with only eight
candles on it, Nat Cole celebra
ted his 28th birthday at the Hol
lywood Trocadero, where he is a
current star- Waiting to get a
piece are Johnny Miller and Os
car Moore, who make up the other
part of the King Cole Trio, and
who gladly helped Nat Celebrate
the entire evening. —(C ) News
ping of the First Central Medical
Institution of Moscow.
HANDS OFF JACKSON
VILLE JIM CROW SPORTS
New York City (WDL—Reply
ing to a plea from the Worker’s
I Defense League that he press for
elimiraticn of r Jacksonville's re
| gulaticn barring inter) acial ath
letic eve-tr. Se,'f’.tn" Claude A.
Pepper of Florida stated his pol
icy is hands off on all state af
fairs.
I have made it a policy ever
since I have be-n in the senate
to devote my attention xclusively
to federal matters and not to en
deavor to influence matters that
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are exclusively within the juris
diction of the state ard its politi
cal sub division so for that rea
son I I will have to decline your
request., the senator wrote Rev.
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man of the league.
Writing Senauu Former follow
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an exhibition baseball game be
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Rev., Gilmartin pointed out that
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Negro players, have played some
games in other Florida cities.
OFFERS AID TO REPEAL
Rl LING VOIDING ANTI
INJUNCTION LAW
NEW YORK CITY (WDL)—De
c'aring that Vice Chancellor John
O. Bigelow’s recent decision out
lawing the New Jersey anti-in
junction act is a threat to labor
throughout the state, the Work
ers Defense League has offered
aid in appealing the case.
The otter was made in a letter
to Samuel Rothbard. Newark at
I torney for the United Radio and
Machine Workers. The union has
| announced it will appeal the case
to the highest court in the state
and to tue US supreme court if
necessary. The law voided by
Chancellor Bigelow is a state
counterpart to the federal Norris
LaGuardia act, which safeguards
labor against injunctions His de
cision granted permanent anti
picket injunctions at Westing'
house plants in Newark and in
Bloomfield and at the Phelps
Dodge plant in Elizabeth.
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