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Lawrence /’. Lewia
A few weeks ago the last of
the Omaha boys who served as the
Cadre in the Special Training
Unit at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas, during my service there, re
turned home.
Now that it is all over I know
that Lloyd Neal, Delmar Woods,
Wanasebe Fletcher, Jim Jewell,
and Lawrence Myers, laugh at
many of their experiences during
-their stay there. Of course, there
were times when there was laugh
ter and joy, but for the first few
weeks when they were put in
charge of a group of trainees, that
probably knew more about the
army than they did, I know there
were plenty of times that they had
a headache and a doubt in their
minds.
My first day there, the command
ing officer dubbed yours truly a
clerk, because somewhere in my
life I had typed a few words a
minutp I used to watch the
fellows in the morning as they
drilled their formation to chow,
stretch, pull my blanket around
me, and go back to sleep.
Those days did not last long be
cause in a couple of months I was
doing the same thing as the rest.
A limited serviceman took over
my job. I thought the farmers got
up early, but at no time did the
sun ever beat the Special Training
Unit up, winter or summer.
All of these men have much to
be proud of, because they not only
helped to build men for the army,
but prepared them for their re- j
turn to civilian life. I was proud
to have served with them. Lloyd
Neal, Delmar Woods, Wanasabee
Fletcher, Jim Jewell, and Lawrence
Myers, can all tell some tall tal«?s
about their first days of army life
at Fort Leavenworth. I know, yes,
I know.
As soon as I found out that Li
onel Hampton was staying at Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Gaskin’s resi
dence, 2640 Decatur, I contacted
Mrs. Gwen Turner, the neice of
Mr. and Mrs. Gaskin, hoping that
this young lady would be able to
give me some off-hand informa
tion about this great band leader.
■ How do you feel having such
a famous man in your house”, I
asked.
“I can’t quite explain it”, she
answered. “Of course it is really
a treat, and both Mr. and Mrs.
Hampton are so charming”.
"They are both so busy, and by
me going to beauty school, I get
to see very little of them”.
"Have you been to see the show
yet?”, I asked.
“Oh, yes and it was grand. I may
go again if I have time. They cer
tainly have a wonderful show”.
"Are any other of the perform
ers staying where you live?”, ask
ed I.
"Yes, one of the dancers, ‘Curly’
stays there. He is part of the dance
team of ‘Red and Curly’. Lawrence
Mr. Hampton, has two of the most
adorable dogs, so well trained. I
wish you could see them. One of
them has a pretty color, almost
blue”.
“I certainly want to see his show
and now that I have talked to
you, I want to see it more than
ever I’ll bet this is one famous
person you’ll never forget”, I said.
During the war years, many of
our citizens set up residence else
where. Their places being filled by
newcomers. I know I speak for
hundreds of others when I say, we
welcome you.
In order to make Omaha a bet
ter city for all of us who live here,
we must all take an active part in
its betterment. There are so many
little things, that often seem un
important, asked of us, and often
we let them pass; not realizing
that we are shunning a duty and
an obligation.
OUR FUTURE IN OMAHA WE
MAKE OURSELVES. All of us
must work forward together; ma
king Omaha an outstanding city,
one that we can be justly proud
of when we tell others, yes, OMA
HA IS MY HOME.
At 5606 So. 14th Street, in a
house that overlooks the Missouri
river, and where there is always
a cool breeze, lives one of the most
adorable couples in Omaha. Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Gordon, who thru
the many years have never Chang- |
ed, and where welcome has always
been their first thought to the
many who have known them dur
ing: their many years in Omaha.
How often do I remember the
days that I have spent in their
home. The many times that they
have beaten me playing 500 rum
my. and the ice cold beer in the
basement.
Mrs. Gordon. (Aunt Irene to me)
would start preparing dinner. No
wonder I couldn’t beat them play
ing cards, inhaling the scent of
fried chicken, corn-on-the-cob, ma
shed potatoes, with cream gravy,
creamed peas, and down in the
basement a watermelon on ice. I
could hardly see the cards, think
ing of the tasty meal that would
In Wake of Rising Prices
Action Urged
To Curb
hSi
Senator Taft
NEW YORK— The National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People urged its Olho
branches, home state of Sen. Robt.
A. Taft, to take immediate action
to force restoration of OPA. This
action came in the wake of fast
rising prices in all parts of the
nation. The NAACP branches were
urged to act in a telegram sent
from the Association’s offices in
New York. The message signed by
Walter White stated, "National
Association urges you wire today
strong protest to Senator Robert
A. Taft, Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. C.., against oppo
sition to effective price control le
gislation. Bureau of Labor Stat
istics announced yesterday prices
have increased 25 per cent since
OPA ended June 30th. Many pros
pects point to further runaway
inflation prices which work terri
ble hardship on lower income peo
nies. Get as many churches, la
bor groups and other organizations
also to wire Taft so that he will
know sentiment of Ohio”.
It may be recalled that, the NA
ACP became the first body in the
nation to call for a consumer's
boycott of skyrocketing commodi
ties when Walter White urged de
legates attending the NAACP An
nual Conference in Cincinnati late
in June, to return to their branch
es to organize members and neigh
bors in a solid boycott. At that
time Mr. White asked that only
bare essentials be purchased until
Congress was forced to act to re
store OPA price controls.
It was considered significant at
that time that both Mr. WTiite and
Max Lerner PM columnist and fea
tured speaker at the closing ses
sion of the NAACP conference out
of which a new political action pro
gram had been instituted, singled
out Senator Taft’s activities in op
posing price controls as being ser
iously detrimental to the welfare
of low income groups. Both speak
ers implied that the Ohio Senator
a leading GOP candidate for the
presidential nomination in 1948,
would do well to realize that most
Negroes are in the low income
groups now suffering from the ef
fects of OPA’s destruction.
Frisco Dept Store
Ridicules
Intolerance
SAN FRANCISCO, California—
Calvin’s News Service—Camp's
Department Store, one of San
Francisco’s largest issued this
week a statement from the owner
Richard Gump. The statement was
printed on the back of each in
voice which goes to a a customer.
It read:
“Art Knows no boundaries, nor
differences in race or creed. In
Gump’s 40 odd international set
tings, you’ll find the nations uni
ted in paintings, prints, handcrafts
silver and interior furnishings. Vi
sits to our Continental Room, Cam
bodian Court, Mandarin Room,
Georgian Room, Discovery Shop,
Art Galleries and Jade Room will
show how all nations have contri
buted to a finer, fuller life.’’
Interestingly enough, Mr. Gump
as a sidelight, admits he would
rather be a successful composer
than the very wealthy man he is.
His creative and liberal mind was
solely behind his business house
sending out such a constructive
statement to its purchasers.
soon be placed before us. There
are not many cooks that can pre
pare a meal like Mrs. Charlie Gor
don.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon will be sur
prised to see this in print, but the
many who know them will tell any
one that there are no two finer
people on this earth, and what
more can anyone ask from this
world, than to be loved and ad
mired by so many.
I have been trying to catch the
the four young ladies who make
up the Peace Caravan for an in
terview'. But I have never seen
four women so busy in all my life.
Misses Winifred Walker, Susan
Gitt. Margaret Wilson, and Patri
cia Fritz, have been so busy at
tending meetings, lecturing, and
holding discussions, and sometimes
three, but so far, four of them I
have not seen.
The work they are doing has
been very successful and is very
important. They are to be congra
tulated on their extensive efforts.
Our community is more than thank
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Man Sought in Double Slaying
Surrenders To Police
CHARMING
VISITOR
MISS JUNE BAKER
Miss uune Baker of Grand Is
land. Nebraska, who early this
month, was the guest of her bro
ther and sister-in-law Lt. and Mrs
Willard Baker of 2723 Corby St.
The Bakers are visiting June this
week-end at Grand Island.
(Omaha Guide photo;
(Henry P. Markham
Noted Singer
To Appear Here
By Wilbert C .Lewis
Omaha music lovers will have an
opportunity to hear a concert ar
tist of rare ability in the person of
Henry P. Markham, lyricc baritone
formerly of Chicago but with pre
sent headquarters in Los Angeles.
Mr. Markham makes a yearly
concert tour in which he visits such
cities as Detroit, Chicago, New
York, Savannah, Ga., and numer
ous other cities. This year Mr.
Markham has included Omaha on
his list of appearances and will be
gin his recital at 8:30 P. M. Fri
day, August 2nd at Zion Baptist
church. He has selected several
classical and Gospel numbers for
rendition, but usually sings from
the inspiration he gets from his
audience or the occasion.
Elementary school and Sunday
school in Topeka, Kansas marked
the beginning of Mr. Markham's
singing career, when as a boy he
sang on many church programs
and in school plays He continued
his career in high school, during
which time he won many singing
contests including a state music
contest. He climaxed his work in
music in high school by winning
the National Gospel Choruses and
Singers Convention Scholarship in
voice in 1937.
Later his work included singing
with the American Negro Light
Opera Company of Chicago where
he starred in light opera. He is a
former minister of music in the 1st
African Baptist church of Savan
nah. At present he is director of
the Gospel Choir of the Pilgrim
Baptist church of Los Angeles of
which Rev. B. W. Wade is pastor.
In between times Mr. Markham
finds time to conduct his own stu
dio in voice training and appear
over the radio on frequent acca
sions.
After leaving Omaha Mr. Mark
ham has an extensive tour to com
plete before returning to Los An
FOR THE
* OMAHA GUIDE
. .Every Week
was Overseas Veteran
I William Ross, age 23, accused
I in the fatal stabbing of his wife,
Mrs. Mattie Ro-a, ^j2j I'ranklin
St., and Levon Burnell, 2629 Par
ker St., surrendered to police au
thorities Thursday morning.
Detective Inspector, Fritz
Franks had signed two first-de
gree murder complaints against
Ross Wednesday after the body of
Burnell, the second victim had
been found in a garden at 2916
Seward St., which is diagonal to
the rear of the Franklin St. ad
dress. Inspector Franks said he
received a telephone call Thurs
day from Berry Holmes, a rela
tive of Ross, who said the wanted
man had returned and was on his
way to surrender.
The fatal stabblngs are said to
have occured about 10:15 Tuesday
night when Ross is purported to
lave returned to get two shirts, j
According to reports Mrs. Ross j
was stabbed through the heart
with a trench knife which j Ro§^ j
an overseas veteran, said he ob- ’
tained in Germany. Burnell was.
pursued and received cuts about!
the body he jumped out an up
stairs window injuring his leg.
Mrs. R033 was found lying on the
front sidewalk to her home and
taken to Doctor’s hospital in a
police ambulance where she was
pronounced dead on arrival.
Domestic difficulties were given
as the cause of the tragedy.
A restraining order against Ross
had been issued previously.
. After surrendering Thursday
morning, Ross told Inspector
Franks that he had wandered out
of town on foot after the stabbing
where he discarded the knife. He
was taken by detectives in an ef
fort to locate the weapon.
The couple were parents of a
3 year old son who is now stay
ing with relatives. Mrs. Ross was
planning to take a job with a 24th
St., concern. Her husband was em
ployed by the packing industry.
The body of Mrs. Mattie Ross
was taken to the Thomas Funeral
florae and Burnell to the Myers
Funeral Home. Arrangements had
not been completed for either bur
ial Thursday morning._
geles in the fall. The singer will
be presented by the Rheubennette
of Zion Baptist church of which
Rev. Felix C. Williams is pastor.
HOME OWNERS ASSN.
Pleased with
Methods of
Assessments
Figures recently released by
County Assessor Joe C. Stolinski
show an increase of more than
$39,000,000 in assessment valua
tions on all properties subject to
taxation.
State Tax Commissioner, issued
a statement commending Douglas
County Assessor Stolinski for do
a “good job” in evaluation of
Douglas County real estate and
personal property.
Locally, Charles F. Stepanek,
secretary of the Omaha Home
issued the following statement:
‘The officers and members of
our Home Owners’ Association
are elated to knoww that there
has been no general blanket in
crease on small home owners as
demanded by various pressure
groups.
‘A careful survey of all figures
released by the County Assessor
show that the largest amount of
increases will be borne by busin
ess firms and industrial proper- j
ties.
“The personal property valua
tion increase totals $24,984,864—
composed mainly of intangibles—
stocks, bonds, bank deposits, etc.
“Approximately 70 percent of
the total increase in real estate
valuations of $14,473,390 is on in
dustrial properties and large bu
siness firms.
“If the courts sustain these fi
gures, Mr. Stepanek stated, “much
additional revenue will be avail
able to the various governmental
agencies, which should be a ma
jor factor in solving their pro
blems. The Assessor is to be con
gratulated on a job well done’’.
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CIO CREATES
Five Man Exec. Board
^ ASHINGTON, D. C., Sound
photo—The CIO created a five
man executive board to lead its
controversial PAC to a new inten
se *ed political war under the ban
ner of the late Sidney Hillman.
Photo shows: left to right: Will
iam Pollock, Sect. Treas. of Tex
tile Workers union: Jack Kroll, V
P of Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers, former assistant PAC chair
man under Hillman, who was na
med Director of PAC to carry on!
the day to day activities; David J.'
MccDonald Sect. Treas. of United J
Steel Workers and George F. AU
des, Sect. Treas. of United Auto
mobile, Aircraft, Agrculture Im
plement Workers. (The 5th mem
ber, Julius Emspeck, Sect. Treas.
of United Elect., Radio and Ma- j
chine Workers was not present'
at time photo was made). I
“EYES" PUBLISHER gg
Speaks Before la. Lion’s Club
V
The colored and white press of
America should give as much at
tention to the progress and achieve
ment of the Negro as they do to
the reactionary forces affecting
the group Mr. William C. Fergu
son, publisher of EYES the Negro
culture magazine declared last
week before the Lions Club of
Waverly, Iowa.
Speaking before a regular ses
sion of the civic organization, Mr.
Ferguson said the one-sided pre
sentation of facts concerning his
race without recognitoin of their
I
innumerable advances has the ef
fect of producing a defeatist at
titude among the minority group.
"My principle reason for start
ing EYES was to provide a me
dium of expression for the notable,
achievements among our group",
the young Negro publisher stated!
While he feels it is necessary for
the press to present the true pic
ture of the race in America and
the injustices practiced against
them, Mr. Ferguson concluded the,
purpose of our magazine is to
chronicle the progress of the Ne
OUR 1
GUEST
I Column
Edited by Verna P. Harris
SCHOOLS AND PREJUDICE
Bv Helen Trager, Director of
Special Services, Bureau
for Intercultural Education
From all over the country, tea
chers are coming to summer work
shops sponsored by intercultural
groups like the Bureau for Inter
s'111'*1 Education. 1697 Broadway
New York 19, New York, to learn
how children can be taught tc
know, understand, and accept peo
. pl® of different races, religions,
and nationalities. These teachers
represent the South and Midwest
as well as the North and East;
they are white, Negro, Chinese
American; members of many re
ligions; from cities and small vi
cinities and towns. They have one
thing in common—They are try
ing to find out how they can, in
their schools, further the cause
of good human relations.
We know that no child holds ra
cial or religious prejudice or feels
superior to another child, unless
he is taught to feel that way by
grown-ups. Since the schools so
strongly influence children’s lives
we believe that they can do much
to help boys and girls avoid pick
ing up prejudice—they can teach
that there is no superior race, help
older children understand how peo
ple develop prejudice, and give
children the experience of work
ing and playing with people who
are different from themselves.
But teaching these things isn’t
easy, and many teachers do not
know how to go about it. To help
them find out how, the intercultur
al workshops have been set up.
Those being sponsored this sum
mer by the Bureau for Intercul
tural Education are located at God
dard College in Vermont, Ohio
State University, Columbia Uni
versity, New York University and
Chatauqua, New York, and mem
bers of the Bureau are on the staff
of each. Approximately fifty sch
olarships, which pay the full cost
of tuition have been awarded to
teachers for the summer, 1546.
Teachers and Principals come to
gether for three to eight weeks to
share ideas and experiences, to
talk over their problems and try
to find out how to solve them.
They work on special projects.
Some want to re-write the course
of study, review motion pictures
which might be used in shools, or
work with groups of children to
try out learning materials of all
kinds. Guest speakers who are ex
pert in some phase of intercultural
education are invited to talk.
The workshdps may also have
an important effect on the teach
ers’ own attitudes. Many of them
for the first time meet people of
different groups; a white south
erner will find herself working on
a committee with a Negro teacher
or having lunch with her. Such
experiences may help her to find
her own hidden prejudices and get
rid of them.
Only a few teachers out oi the
thousands in America can come
to these workshops; those who do
attend go back to their schools
as leaders to interview and to
interest others.
And what do the teachers them
selves think about the workshops ?
A teachers who attended the one
at Columbia University in the sum
mer of ’45 expressed the reaction
of many in a letter to the director:
"I should like to thank you for
all of the help the workshop has
been, not only in matters such as
the materials I learned about, but
basic attitudes necessary for any
progress in the fight against pre
judice. My heart was in the right
place, but I have a lot to learn
in bringing about changes”.
gro.
Mr. Wilbur Schields. president of
the Lions Club of Waverly ann
ounced that. Mr. Ferguson would
make a return trip to the city as
guest of his firm, the Schields
Bantam Company.
PEACE CARAVAN,
MEMBERS LECTURE
BEFORE SR. GIRL SCOUTS
Monday evening, July 22, the
members of the American Friends
Service Committee Peace Caravan
located in Omaha for the summer,
presented a panel discussion on
some phase of international rela
tions before the Senior Girl Scouts
of Omaha. The meeting took place
at 7:30 pm. in the Girl Scout Little
Demand
Speedy
Action
NEW YORK. July 18—The Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People announc
ed today that its offices in New
York's Freedom House had been
deluged with angry messages from
shocked Americans from every
part of the country demanding ac
tion speedily in bringing the sad
istic South Caroline troopers who
gouged out the eyes of a Negro
vet to justice.
The case of the 27-year-old vet.
Isaac Woodard, whose eyes were
! gouged out by Aiken, South Car
olina police only three hours after
he'd been discharged from Camp
Gordon Ga., has started a storm of
protest which is rapidly assuming
national and international propor
tions. A. correspondent for British
and Indian newspapers described
it as one of the most shocking ex
amples of race hate and sadism
he'd ever heard.
According to a United Press dis
patch of July 17, from Aiken, the
chief of police J. M. Sprawls was
quoted as stating that there was
no record of a Negro veteran being
taken from a bus and beaten by
police last February 13th as charg
ed by the NAACP. Said Sprawls
‘We have given them every co
operation but the whole thing is
a mystery as far as we know. We
have checked all the Negro am
bulances which may have taken
the reported victim to Columbia,
but none of them know anything
about it. . None of the men on my
force know anything about it and
there is no record of any such in
cident anywhere in Aiken County.
Oliver Harrington, NAACP Public
Relations Director, commenting on
Chief Sprawls’ statement declared
"This isn’t in the least surprising
It would have been more surpris
ing if there had been a record on
the Aiken police blotter admitting
that two of their troopers had
gouged out the eyes of a veteran
just returned from the South Pa
cific.
In a letter addressed to Atty.
General Tom Clark, Walter White
NAACP Secretary stated that be
cause it was felt that this matterr
was one of interest to the War
Dept, we immediately referred it
to the Secretary of War with the
hope that the War Department
would see fit to investigate the
case ad also to take some steps to
assist in rehabilitating Woodard,
either by granting him a pension
or by helping him to find some
sort of employment.
”We feel however that is is man
datory that the responsible parties
be prosecuted to the full limit of
the law and are requesting that
you immediately have this matter
thoroughly investigated by the
Department of Justice and take
steps to punish the police officials
who are guilty of this heinous
crime”.
House, 3201 Farnam St.
The Peace Caravan, made up of
young women college students,
have already spoken at Camp
Brewster of the YWCA, at a spec
ial meeting of Omaha youth group
leaders, ministers and educators,
at the Omaha Venture Club, the
Aypha Omega Club, the Jewish
Community Center and the Young
People’s Group of the Central Park
Congregational Church. They have
also told of their activities over
stations KOWH, KBON and WOW.
Volunteer work with childrren at
the Hattie B. Munro Convalescent
Home, the Christ Child Society and
the Social Settlement of the south
side has been part of their activi
ties in the city.
These young women were train
ed at an Institute of International
Relations at Earlham College, Rich
mond, Ind. They have come to stay
seven weeks in this community,
helping to stimulate public inter
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| N. A. A. C, P. l
Hits Order |
Suspending I
y Enlistments |
NEW YORK—Officials of the
NAACP revealed today that the
number of leters written by Negro
vets expressing bitterness over
conditions they find upon returning
to civilian life have reached alarm
ing proportions. Although the
shocking Isaac Woodard case now
being carried on by the NAACP
has spurred the most comment
from vet writers, the recent an
nouncement by the War Depart
ment that Negro enlistments are
no longer wanted by the arme>!
forces has resulted in a flurry of
bitter comment. It is usually
pointed out in these letters that
the irony of the situation, where
the War Department issues such
a directive at the same time it
drastically tightens draft defer
ment provisions, is not lo:.t on
these Negroes who only a rhfrrt
while ago were fighting to make
the world safe for democracy.
Walter White, NAACP Execu
tive Secretary, commenting on the
suspension of Negro enlistment'
also called attention to the fact
that many Negro GI’s, taking ad
vantage of the Army’s offer of sel
ection of theatre privileges for re
enlistments, found after enlisting
for another ‘hitch' were then tofcl
that the order virtually meant fcx
white only. Thus Negroes who had
: reen'isted for service in the ETO
found themselves signed up a "am
j but excluded from ETO. I know
I of at least one instance where &
I GI has preferred to be taken to
the stockade said Mr. White. Thr
War Department is guilty of con
scienceless, undemocratic practit
; o-, whe" it bars these Negro vrts
; from a oeacetime army after
j drafting them for the shooting
; war continued Mr White, The
i NAACP stood against discrimina
j tion and segregation when we were
at war. It stands for an end to
j discrimination and segregation now
| that we are at peace.
est and education in problems of
international relations and world
peace. They are sponsored by a
local committee, composed of Mrs.
C. K. Ross, religious education di
rector of the 1st Central Congrega
tional church, Miss Elizabeth Jor
dan. executive secretary of the
Northside YWCA, Rev. E. E. Eric
son. pastor of the Central Park
Congregational church, and Mra.
Ruth Wiles, group work secretary
of the Community Welfare Council
These students volunteer their
summers for this community ser
vice and are prepared to speak to
civic clubs, churches, young peo
ples’ societies, farm and labor
groups and other community or
ganizations.
They are living at the Northside
YWCA and may be reached there
or through the chairman of the
sponsoring committee, Mrs. C. K.
Ross, telephone WA 3752.
The American Friends Service
Committee represents the religious
society of friends (Quakers) in na
tional and international fields of
social action. The committee was
founded in 1917 to carry on relief
and post war reconstruction m
Europe. It has since been engaged
in many projects here and abroad
to promote international and in
dustrial understanding and to of
fer opportunities for constructive
service, participated in and sup
ported by.Americans of all faiths.
At the present time, the commit
tee is engaged in child feeding and
relief work in France, India, Fin
land, China and Austria It also
maintains workers in the Middle
East and many parts of Europe to
tid refugees and people displaced
by the war. Such relief is always
given impartialy on the basis of
need and without regard to race,
creed or color.
Negro Scientist Hailed in Reader’s Digest
Dr. Percy L. Julian, grandson of an Alabama slave, whose achievements
in research ha>/e brought him nationwide recognition.
NEGRO SCIENTIST’S
ACHIEVEMENTS
BENEFITS MILLIONS
How Percy L. Julian, grandson
of an Alabama slave, fought his
way through the handicaps of race
prejudice to national eminence in
the scientific world, is told by Paul
de Kruif in the Reader’s Digest for
August.
De Kruif s article says of Dr.
Julian: “Honored as one of his
country’s greatest scientists, he
has brought the female hormone,
progesterone, within reach of all
expectant mothers threatened with
the loss of their unborn babies:
and his research has made possible
the large scale production of the
male harmone. at a price within
reach of the millions who need it.
As director of research of one of
America’s great corporations, he
is responsible, also, for the devel
opment of important industrial
products ranging from a new coat
ing for paper to a new method for
snuffing out gasoline and oil fires’’.
The article traces Dr. Julian's
career, from his early dreams of
organic chemistry research at De
Pauw University, through his stu
dies at Harvard, his brief period of
teaching at West Virginia State
Colloge for Negroes, his appoint
ment as head of the chemistry de
partment at Howard University
and his later studies in Vienna un
der the world-renowned Dr. Ernst
Spath. Dr. Julian carried forward
his experiments, ading to his sta
ture as a scientist, despite lack of
money and at times inadequate
equipment, and always having to
face the additional barriers against
his race.
Today he guides the Glidden Com
pany's staff of 50 highly trained
chemists, and the company is pre
paring to build him a “magnificent
research institute”.. “But one only
needs to know Percy Julian” De
Kruif says, “to realize that at 47
he is only at the beginning of his
work".