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i OUR
GUEST
Column
Edited by Verna P. Harris
SEGREGATION BAPTIZED
By Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, former
President, Talladega College;
Prof, of Christian Ethics. Paci
fic School Religion, Berkeley,
California.
NOTE TO READERS:
Recently "Our Guest Column"
presented views on the church and
race relations by a noted Negro
churchman, Dr. George E. Hay
nes. This week we offer a discus
sion from the point of view of a
white clergyman who was as mil
itant while heading a Negro col
lege in Alabama as he is today in
a California interracial church.
Dr. Gallagher’s books include
Color and Conscience: The Irre
presible Conflict, an indictment of
white Christianity.
I write as a clergyman and as
a theoligical professor. I know,
from the inside, what it means to
work and serve in an institution
which affirms the exact opposite
of what it practices. We preach
the fatherhood of God and toler
ate anti-Semitism; we preach bro
therhood of man and practice se
gregation.
The Christian Church is the
leading candidate for the Jim
Crow badge of dishonor. There
are 6.500,000 Negro Protestants in
the United States Less than one
half of one per cent of them are
members of congregations which
Include other races. There is no
major social institution in Ameri
ca which has more completely se
gregated itself on racial lines. How
did we get this way?
It is a long story—much too
long for 500 words. For seven
[centuries, the church was inclu
sive, not exclusive. From its Afri
can and Egyptian church early
Christianity boasted such men as
Augustine. Clement, Athanasius,
Arius, Cypriam, Origen. But the
attitudes and practices of arro
gant superiority at the centers in
Rome and Constantinople so alie
nated the African and Egyptian
churches that they readily went
over to Mohammedanism in the |
I seventh century. The subsequent
conversion of the barbarian peo
ples of central and northeren Eu
rope made it a white man’s own
church. For eleven centuries, long
enough to forget its former glory
as an inclusive fellowship,
s The partnership of Christianity
and white supremacy in the con
quest of the Americas is the next
chapter in the story. The pious
Fathers- of the American colonies
first fell upon their knees and
fell upon the Indians. And they
brought the black man in slavery
to the land of the free also with
the blessings of Christianity.
With the eighteenth and nine
teenth centuries Negroes began
once again to be admitted to the
circles of Christianity—but they
were never taken in on a basis of
equality, just as they were also
denied the privilege of organizing
separately. Fearful of the power
of the Christian religion w’ith its
truth of brotherhood, the mas
ters compelled the slaves to stay
in their churches—in the back of
the gallery. The meetings in the
swamps and cane breaks after
dark were the nucleus of the later
Negro churches. Then, with Em- j
ancipation, the tune suddenly j
changed. The former masters now
emphatically demanded that Ne- [
groes get out of their churches; |
and Negroes, having fought des- [
perately to attain a position of eq- j
uality within the Christian fold, '
now turned to building up the Jim
Crow Negro denominations to j
powerful strength.
The sixty-four dollar question is j
whether the white man can forget
’ that he is white long enough to
remember that he is a child of
God. If not. he will have to admit
q that 'The 'Man’ Bilbo was correct
when he stood before a Mississi
ppi legislature and said, “The
white man is the custodian of the
j gospel of Jesus Christ’’, That’s a
lie; and the way to prove that it
( is a lie is to make it impossible
for men like Bilbo to point to a
i ‘white’ church anywhere.
We have white churches, Ne
gro churches, Filipino churches,
Mexican churches, Chinese chur
ches, Japanese churches; some
day we will have Christian chur
ches! That day is closer than you
think. It is dawning right now. I
* affirm that within this decade the
churches of America will be con
vulsed with a controversy the like
of which they have not seen since
the debates on slavery that pre
seded the Civil War. The conflict
between minority baiting and co
lor caste on one side and con
science on the other side is irre
pressible. The issue is joined, and
the sledgehammer is already be
ginning to pound against the mid
dle wall or partition.
There remains one other quest
ion. Will the blows be delivered
on both sides of that wall of se
j gregation? Or will we find Negro
clergymen and ecclesiastics and
church members grown so content
with their separate churches that
they will resist the effort to help
break down the wall ? Will they j
raise the cry that they like to be
by themselves? Or will they un
ite in the demand for a single
church, where all men stand on
a basis of equality? Will the big
sledgehammer of righteousness
pound mightily on both sides of
the wall.
BAY STATE PASSES
THE FEPC LAW
A fair employment practice law
has been passed in Massachusetts.
It forbids discrimination in em
ployment, upgrading or dismissal
because of race, color, religious
creed, national origin or ancestry.
The law sets up a three-man
commission charged with elimin
ating discrimination by concilia
tion, persuasion and education. If
conciliation fails, the commission
Urban League Asks |f
Full useof Negro Build
ing jTrade Workers
NEW YORK—The National Ur
ban League urged Emanuel Ler
ner, Labor Branch Director of
the National Housing Agency, to
act to insure the proper use of
Negro Labor as mechanics in the
emergency housing program re
cently authorized by Congress, Ju
lius A. Thomas, the League’s In
dustrial Relations Director, re
vealed today. NHA has already
estimated that more than one
million additional workers must
be recruited and trained for the
new emergency housing program
for veterans. A shortage is anti
cipated in the bricklaying, elect
rician, and plastering occupations
and other phases of building con
struction.
Reviewing the experiences o£
Negro building mechanics during
the public housing program of
the thirties, the Urban League
stated that unless definite action
is taken by the Labor Expediter
to protect the job rights of Negro
veterans and other building tra
des workers, discriminatory hir
ing and union practices would el
iminate many competent men.
The League statement, sent to
Mr. Lerner in the form of a re
port, named the International
Brotherhood of Elictrical Workers
and the United Association of
Journeyman, Plumbers, and Steam
fitters, as building trades unions
which manage either to exclude
Negro workers or limit the num
ber employed in these fields.
Other mechanics in the industry
the statement read, while not en
tirely excluded from union mem
bership, will be disadvantaged be
cause of the tendency on the part
of union officials to discourage
them in their efforts to secure
union status.
Although records show the num
her of Negro mechanics declined
steadily during the past two de
cades, the League reported that
because a majority of the Negro
people were used in engineering
units a considerable number were
trained as carpenters, electricians,
plumbers, and sheet metal work
ers. These Negro veterans should
qualify for employment in the
housing construction program with
much less Additional training than
is required in the regular appr
entice program, the League point
ed out.
To give the Labor Branch Di
rector a partial picture of Negro
employment in the building trad
es field the Urban League submit
ted summarized reports from 21
League affiliates. Only nine of
the 21 cities—Akron, Boston, De
troit, Chicago, Cleveland, New
York. Newark, Philadelphia, and
Portland, Oregon—reported a
fairly consistent policy of Negro
integration in trade unions, and
where there were exceptions the
electricians and plumbers unions
were named. The Cleveland Urban
League reported that through an
off the record agreement with
these unions (electrical workers
and plumbers) Negro plumbers
and electricians are permitted to
work freely for Negro clientele in
the Negro areas.
Mr. Thomas stated that all lo
cal Urban Leagrues, m 54 cities
throughout the country, are reg
istering veterans who received
training in the building instruct
ion- crafts while serving in the
armed forces, and are contacting
local home builders and represen
tatives of construction firms who
are expected to receive contracts
for new houses under the emer
genc program.
Much of the effort to facilitate
the employment of Negro mech
anics should be concentrated at the
level of actual construction—in
the local community, Thomas said
but this task will require all of
the support that can come from
the National Housing office.
may hold hearings, and it has the
power to subpeona and may issue
cease and desist orders.
Its actions are reviewable by the
courts, which may impose penal
ties of up to a year in jail or $500
fine, or both.
KANSAS SUPREME COURT
RULES AGAINST DISCRIMIN
ATION IN LABOR UNIONS
TOPEKA—The ruling last week
of the Kansas Supreme Court that
labor unions could not establish
rules that create racial discrim
ination when the organization is
named the collective bargaining
agent for all workers in any in
dustry, set the pace to end all
racial discrimination in the state
of Kansas.
The opinion of the court, writ
ten by Associate Justice Homer
Hoch, which held that discrimina
tion because of race or color was
a violation of the fifth amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States was hailed by Negroes over
STASSEN, WALLACE
SPEAK AT KAT’L AVC.
Bishop Says "Red ’ Scare Used To
Thwart Social Improvements
By W illiam R. Simms
Howard News Syndicate Feature
DES MONIES, la_The Ameri
can Veterans Committee (AVC)
meeting in its first constitutional
convention here Friday thru Sun
day adopted a constitution and li
beral platform which strikes a
blow at tolerance, bias and unde
mocratic action in America. More
than 800 delegates, forty of which
were Negroes, from forty-four
states and areas outside the Uni
ted States representing 32,000
veterans of World War II partici
pated in the three day convention.
Appearing before the convent
ion were several of the country’s
outstanding political, religious and
labor leaders. They were: Har
old Stassen, former governor of
Minnesota and since the war nas
been one of the Republican Par
ty's outstanding liberal spokes
i man, xienry a. v\anace, secy. ox
Commerce and outspokent New
| Dealer; Col. Campbell C. Johnson.
' executive assistant to the director
of Selective Service: Walter Reu
ther, president of the United Au
tomobile Workers; James B. Car
ey, national secretary of the CIO.
Bernard J. Shiel, D. D., Auxiliary
Bishop of Chicago; Mike Monron
I ey. congressman from Oklahoma,
and J. Donald Kingsley, former
Professor of Political Science at
Antioch College and at present
working in the Office of Recon
version.
Speaking at Friday’s opening
session, Bishop Shiel received
thunderous applause as he refer
red to the FEPC as “one of the
most vital pieces of legislature
ever written” and said that it “has
languished in the House for these
many months, because it actually
has the affrontery to espouse eq
uality of jobs for Negroes, for
Jews, for all men...”
Continuing, he said. “Many men
raise the red scare of Communism
wherever plans for social improve
ment are proposed. But America
has nothing to fear from Com
munism if we have here a social
; order that regards man as at the
same time the beginning and the
j end of life in human society. Peo
pie who are well fed, well clothed
and well housed are not interest
| ed in Communism’’.
‘Another problem still facing the
' thoughtful citizen is the explosive
question of racial discrimination
and prejudice. Our school children
like their elders before them,
j swear allegiance to the flag every
day; and pray that our nation will
I remain one and indivisible, with
; liberty and justice for all. What
j a mockery!”—Perhaps a cynical
1 smile plays around the Negro’s
| lips as he recited the pledge, and
| he thinks of the lynehings by sa
• vage mobs, the restrictive cove
' nants the second rate schools, the
filthy hoves; the legal tricks by
which he is disfranchized in so
many states of this Union, dedi
cated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.”
The bonus issue came up quite
unexpectedly on Saturday night at
the Shrine Auditorium while
many of the A VC leaders were out
of the meeting. Bolte immediately
rushed to the floor of the conven
tion and told the delegates that
he was unalterably opposed to a
bonus of any kind as a matter of
principle. In reminding the con
vention of their slogan: “Citizens
first and veterans second”, he
was given a great ovatiof. How
ever, the fate of the bonus issue
could not be decided until the
platform votes could be tallied
which was not expected until on
Sunday.
The planks on labor were the
center of much controversy. At
one subcommittee meeting, mem
bers succeeded in getting endorse
ment of a plank pledging support
to the CIO-AF of L drives to or
ganize the workers of Tne south.
At a later meeting, supporters of
the previous plank were absent
and a substitute plank omitting
the state as one of the greatest
victories toward establishing real
freedom and putting democracy
to work since the day that John
Brown started his movement for
the freedom of all peoples. Many
of the old timers expressed the
sentiment that Kansas had hit
back on the trail of years gone
by when the state was free from
southern practices.
mention of CIO and AF of L and
the south was rode through. The
substitute read:
"We support the right of all or
ganized labor to unionize any or
all workers anywhere in these
United States”.
However, proponents of the ab
ove statement agreed that we
might do much to give aid thru
the machinery of AVC without an
open statement which would stand
to harm the njovement.
The convention adopted a con
stitution which makes it perfect
ly clear that the American Vet
erans Committee will not tolerate
discrimination within or without
its ranks and makes a strong bid
for Negro and other minority
group membership. In the Pream
ble. the very first sentence reads:
‘ We as veterans of the Second
World War associate ourselves re
gardless of national origin, creed
or color—” Under Article III deal
ing with members. Section one
states that “persons shall be eli
gible for active membership re
gardless of national origin, creed
or color—’’ And Section six re
quires a person to subscribe in
writing to the principles set forth
in the Preamble as a prerequisite
to membership.
In the platform, the convention
delegation wrote in a strong plank
on discrimination and civil liber
ties:
We oppose Jim Crow laws, anti
Nisei restrictions and all other
forms of racial discrimination. We
forbid it in our ranks and we shall
fight it in law and in practice
wherever it is found. We strongly
and actively oppc-'j any laws, prac
tices, customs or usages whereby
any person or group by virtue of
discrimination due to race, reli
gion, color or sex attempts to pre
vent another from obtaining em
ployment, being paid at a fair rate
for the services performed,
We urge laws to make discrim
ination illegal and punishable. We
strongly urge and support all move
ments for a permanent federal
Fair Employment Practice Law.
We urge that veterans organize to
cooperate with other similarily
minded groups and with govern
ment law enforcement authorities
to protect civil liberties particu
larly such regions where they are
now threatened
Several Negro delegates were
very active on the convention
floor and in the committee meet
ings guiding resolutions and leg
islation important to minority
group veterans. Outstanding of
these is Franklin Williams, chair
man of the New York Metropoli
tan AVC Area Council and assist
ant counsel for the NAACP. Such
was Williams popularity and de
monstrated ability the he is, one
of the few nominees whose elect
ion to the National Planning
Board is virtually conceeded. An
other very vocal delegate who had
some support for the NPB was
Arnold Johnson.
Edward Brusch from Los Ange
les was spokesman and leader for
his mixed delegation. Burch’s stir
ring statement in opposition to a
bonus was widely acclaimed by
the convention delegation.
WALLACE SPEAKS
Highlight of the Saturday nite
panel of speakers was the address
of Henry A. Wallace as he specif
ically commended the organiza
tion’s fight for more housing, for
l continuation of price control, for
the full employment bill ’ and
against racial discrimination.
“In your own organization you
have allowed no place for discri
mination. And I am sure you wMl
fight against discrimination in
every area of our national life.
For you know, we must outlaw
racial discrimination on the job
just as we must outlaw racial dis
crimination at the polls. You know
that the one is as much a part of
our economic insecurity as the
other is of our political insecurity.
“But the enactment of perma
nent Fair Employment Practices
Act, and the abolition of the poil
tax, are only the beginnings of
our efforts to achieve an economic
as well as political democracy.
Those of us who believe in full
democracy have many other jobs
to do in implementing the Em
ployment Act of 1946. We must
fight for better health and better
education for all—and social se
curity for all—just as we have
fought for better housing for all.
And we must fight for a mini
mum wage law just as hard as we
fight for the conservation and de
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Fight for Democratic Community Rights
velopment of all of our natural!
| resources", said Wallace.
The American Veterans Commi
ttee meeting: here in its first na
tional convention, demonstrated
that it meant what it said in the
plank it adopted opposing Jim
Crow less than six hours before.
More than a hundred delegates
picketed the Rose Bowl Cafe, 1015
Walnut Street, Saturday night
after the cafe manager refused to
serve two Negroes, one a delegate.
Former Omaha Girl—
MRS ERNESTINE POSTLES
ADDRESSES, STUDENTS,
FACULTY AT WILBERFORCE
As part of the cost of living
; committee program at Wilber
force University, Ohio, students
and faculty members last week
heard Mrs. Ernestine Postles of
the Michigan District Office of
Price Administration.
Cost of living committees were
set up in many leading colleges
and universities throughout the
country to increase understand
ing of the economic forces oper
ating in favor of or against the
buying public.
Colored schools having these
committees include beside Wilber
force, A & T College in Greens
boro, N. C.; State Teachers Col
lege at Cheyney, Pa.; Howard U.
in Washington D. C.; Virginia!
North Carolina State College in
Durham, and Tuskegee Institute.
Mrs. Postles told her audience j
at Wilberforce of the shafts re
cently aimed at OPA by the Na- ,
tional Association of Manufactu-1
rers and other pressure organiza- {
tions seeking to abolish price con-1
trol. Their charges, she said, that |
OPA is stifling production and
preventing industry from flood-1
ing the market with goods is!
comepletely unfounded. She cited |
recent reports of the Civilian Pro
djction Administration on high
current production to prove her
point.
nrp 2?5 billion dollars of I
1Protest CIO Strikers Conviction
Under Pappy O'DanieFs Anti
Violence Law of Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK. Ark_Laurant
Frantz, southern field director of :
the Civil Rights Congress (second I
from right! talks with key figu
res in the fight for democratic!
rights in this community in front ■
of the office of the Arkansas
State Press, weekly Negro News
paper. Both the publisher and ed
itor are appealing jail sentences
imposed because the paper criti- ;
cized conviction of CIO strikers
under Pappy ODaniel’s Anti-Vi
olence Law.
b Landing behind her six-year
old daughter is Mrs. Ella Mae
Campbell (second from left), wi
dow of Walter Campbell, mem
ber of the Food and Tobacco Wor
ker’s Union murdered by a strike
breaker at the Southern Cotton
Oil Company where a six months ■
strike is still in progress.
Louis Jones (center), shop ,
chairman of FTA workers at the ;
plant, is under sentence of one -
year on a frame-up following j
Campbell's murder. Two other
strikers have received similar sen- ]
tences. Three more are awaiting ;
trial. Mrs Bates (left) is editor ,
of the paper of which Mr. Bate!
(right) is publisher. Both were
sentenced on contempt charges ,
for printing a story ten days af- :
ter the trial of Jones and other 1
strikers which charged that the i
trial was ‘hand-picked’ by an of- 1
ficial of the Free Enterprise As- j
sociation. sponsor of the Anti- 1
Violence Law. i
All convictions are being ap- 1
pealed to the Arkansas State Su- i
preme Court. Contribution to sup- 1
port of the local defense commit
tee and aid in freeing the defen- <
dants should be sent to the Civil ]
Rights Congress. 205 Sast 42nd i <
St., New York 17, N. Y. j
all kinds of savings in this country 1
to buy that extra meat; to buy i
all the things that people have 1
been waiting for throughout the1 i
Omaha Fraternity
Adopts Youth Problem
As Order of Business
Alpha Pi Sigma Chapter of Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc, met
at the home of Mr. John Ander
son, 2010 North 25th Street, Oma
ha, Nebr, May 31 and organized
Alpha Phi Sigma Chapter of Om
aha. The following officers were
elected to head the newly organi
zed chapter; Mr. Chas. H. Davis,
president; Mr. D. C. Riddle, vice
president; Dr. A. K. Hines, secy;
and chairman of Bigger and Bet
ter Business; Mr. J. H. Robinson,
treasurer; Atty. Vernon C. Coffeyl
Chaplain and chairman of Edu
cation; Prof. G. H. Clark, Deon of
Pledges and Sgt.-At-Arms; Mr.
D. C. Riddle, chairman of Social
Action. Alpha Pi Sigma Chapter
pledged among other things to
give one or more scholarships to
Omaha youth annually and adop
ted as their number one order of
business for 1946 and the future
to take over the youth problem
of Omaha. Plans are now under
way to perfect a. complete pro
gram to help the young citizens
of Omaha thereby reducing the
juvenile delinquency which is *
burden which is largely due to
inattention to youth and youth
problems. Chaplain Coffey stated
that my organization will labor
to get distinct ideas of law, right,
wrong, justice, equity. Search for
them in our own mind, and will
aim at an exact knowledge of
the nature, ends and means of go
vernment. Compare the different
forms of it with each other and
each of them with their effect on
public and private happiness for
youth. And says that everybody
talks about helping youth, as they
talk about the weather, but most
of those who does C>e talking
do nothing about it, we are going
to do something about youth and
beg the citizens to coopearte with
us in our programs.
T5he STREET
and thereabouts
-- —by LAWRENCE P. LEWIS -
Few of have ever seen a person
STARVE TO DEATH. If you
don’t believe it is a horrible death
just try to go without food for
one day. I say it again, JUST ONE
DAY. Most of us could live many
days without food, but it is hard
to imagine one enduring the ter
rible suffering those days must
be, before death, a welcoming
death, comes.
The bread that we throw away,
those extra pieces of meat we
eat, the fats we so carelessly
waste, could very easily give
some mother's child a chance for
life, the life that should be theirs
to enjoy. Surely we cannot afford
to be the cause of their dying. It
has always been a SIN to waste
the necessities of life that men
ind women of this world must
lave in order to survive, but to
jvaste food now in these trying
:imes, is not only a sin against
Jod’s Will, but a crime against
nankind. CONSERVE FOOD—
SAVE A LIFE.
There are very few people in
Dmaha that I have known as long
is I have known Mrs. Elese Tur
ler, who operates the Grow Gloss
3eauty Shoppe, 2512 North 24th
Street. I had been in Omaha only
i few weeks when Mrs. Turner’s
leceased husband gave me my 1st
job. I stopped by to talk with Mrs
rumer for the first time since be
ng separated from the Army. Of
:ourse it is hard for me to talk to
ler without mentioning one of the
’inest men I have known, Mr. J.
3. Turner, her late husband.
I wanted to talk to her about
lerself and her Beauty Shoppe,
>ut I found myself answering
piestions about my life in the
irmy,
‘There is really not much to
vrite about me’, she said. “I am
var. That money would bid up
he prices of all goods, if controls
vere abolished”, she told the
'roup. It has worked that way in
he past—after World War I— i
md it will work that way again
his time if prices are allowed to
ise unchecked without any con-'
rols at all. I
Bringing in OPA speakers who
:an emphasize the everyday im
>ortance of keeping down the cost
>f living to students, faculty and
>ersons invited from the commun
y is one of the program aims of
he cost of living committees. Si
nilar programs are geing and will
>e conducted at other colleges and ;
miversities.
HI, NEIGHBOR
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mz i
Courtly Appreciate America. Im.
still just a hard working woman’
W e talked for some time, and I
must confess it, I was doing most
of the talking, because I was tel
ling her about India, the Led®
Road, the Indians, and the way
they existed.
,. 1 bade her goodbye I kept
thmking of that phrase (There is
really nothing to write about me;.
I thought about her husband,
about her son, Streeter, and her
daughter, Mrs. Davis. I thought
about the twenty-five years that
she had spent in beauty work. I
thought about all the times she
had invited me to have dinner and
I was too bashful to accept until
her husband almost had to hold
me to get me to eat. I know that
in her life there must have been
some struggle, some tears, but I
can only pray to our God, that
my nfe will be lived as well.
Yes, I was tired, because it was
seven o’clock in the morning, and
I couldn t sleep, so I decided t®
take a walk dowm Twenty-fourth
Street. The missus .was asleep, but
she could have been faking, a®
1 lightly kissed her on her cheek,
tiptoed down the steps, and out ia
to the bright morning sun.
A cup of coffee should do me
some good”, I said to myself. Se
I walked down to Neals’s Cafe,
watching the people on the street
car as they journeyed to work sa
early in the morning.
Before I entered the cafe. I could
hear the music box sounding off.
Some singer was singing “Hey Ba
A Re Ba” on the record that wai
nlavina-.
Miss Evelyn Valentine, one of
the cafe’s most efficient and cha
rming waitresses, greeter me with
a cheereful “good morning-*.
“I see you are feeling good this
morning. You must have just
come on duty?’’ I asked.
“Certainly not”, answered she,
“I have been working since 12
o’clock last night”.
I felt ashamed as I said “May I
have a cup of coffee?’’ Looking
around and seeing others who
were eating bacon and eggs, pa*
cakes, and the many other fun
breakfasts, and I began to won
der why I did not have an appe
tite for them this morning.
Mrs. Horterise Johnson, a very
good friends of mine, came up to
me, a little surprised at seeing me
so early in the morning, and what
do you think she said. Mrs. John
son, in a soft tone, said “Been out
all night Lawrence”.
That ended it all. Just because I
come down the street and look
like I feel is no reason that mjJ
good friends should think that no
one could look like I did unless
he had been out all night. I said,
“No, Mrs. Johnson, I couldn't
sleep, that is all.”
I couldn’t tell for sure if she
J “ievel me or not, and as I
finished my coffee, paying the
young lady who waited on me, she
quietly gave me my change, a*
she hummed the music that was
playing on the record, and the ti
tle of the record was “SNEAKING
OUT”.
‘ The Whole Town’s Talking*
has been duly presented, and t
have been duly convinced that
I’m no Fonda or R. Taylor..Be
tween cues and ad-libs, I met a.
very charming young lady who
seemed to sympathize with my ef
forts. Although her talented mo
ther was up on the stage, and
doing a good job if it too. thi*
young lady still did not want t»
be an actress.
Miss Beverly Ann Madison, age
12 next birthday, and as pretty
as any girl aged twelve can bev
sat quietly, while her mother was
performing.
“What do you want to be whec
you grow?”, I asked.
“I want to be a stenographer”,
she answered.
“A stenographer! Do you want
to work for a doctor, lawyer, or
business man”, asked I.
“It doesn’t make any difference,
just so I am a stenographer”, she
answered.
“What school do you attend?"
I asked.
‘ I go to Howard Kennedy", she
answered.
“And what studies do you like
best" I asked.
“I like history and geography
the best?”, she answered.
“What are your hobbies and re
creation after school?’’, asked L.
Most of all I like to ride my
bicycle, and then I like to play the
piano. I have always liked mniur
I would like to learn to swim, aafl,
I guess I will sometime”, ahe
answered.
“On stage”, somebody yelled. X
frowned because it was my tiaM
to make-believe again. ____
