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Presents $6500 Award for Best Book Combatting Intolerance In America JULIAN MESSNER, President of Julian Messner, Inc., presents the Award of $6500 for the Best Book combatting Intolerance in Ameri L r I # I THEN TRY f One-A-Day | (MANS) Vitamins 0*1 a package of genuine One-A-Day (brand) Multiple vitamin capsules. They cost only $2.00. Take one each day for 60 days, if you are not en tirely satisfied, return the empty package to your druggist and he will refund your money. Remember, vi tamins help keep your energy, nerves and digestion up to par. Money back if not delighted. Ask your druggist for genuine One-A-Day (brand) Multiple Vitamin Capsules, made by Miles Laboratories. 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Clark manager of the eVterans Admin istration Omaha Sub-Regional of fice, that February 1 is the dead line for reinstating lapsed Nation al Service Life Insurance policies without a physical examination According to the present law, applicants for reinstatement after February 1 may be required to sub mit a complete report of physical examination, Clark said. To pick up a lapsed term policy . now the veteran need only sign a [ statement to the effect that his I health is as good at the present as i it was on the date of his first de faulted premium. With that state ment, the veteran must send two monthly premiums, one to cover the month of his reinstatement an the other to pay for the 31-day grace period which followed the lapse. Clark said he has been advised that the V. A.’s Branch 8 insur ance service at Fort Snelling, Minn is mailing reinstatement forms to all lapsed G. I. policy holders in this area to aid them in reinstat ing their insurance before the Febr uary 1 deadline. Veterans in the Omaha territory who wish to complete their rein statements in person may do so by calling at the Sub-Regional office, Federal Office building, 15th and Dodge Streets, Clark said. Others should reinstate by mail, directly to the Insurance Collections Unit, Veterans Administration, Branch 8, Fort Snelling, Minn., being sur* to identify themselves and includ ing their “N” or “V” numbers. NAT’L URBAN LEAGUE ANNOUNCES TWO STUDY FELLOWSHIPS IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMICS The National Urban League for Social Service Among Negroes an nounces Two Fellowships for study in social work and economics for the school year 1947-1948, availabl” to Negro graduates of accredited colleges with majors in the social sciences: THE ELLA SACHS PLOTZ A WARD of $1200 including remit ted tuition from the New York School of Social Work (Columbia University). AN AWARD OF $1100, includ ing rmitted tuition from the Uni versity of Pittsburgh for graduate study in its Department of Econ omics or Sociology. Applications should be filed with the NATIONAL URBAN LEA GUE, 1133 Broadway, Room 826 New York City 10, New York, on or before March 15, 1947. m4l&toMntt»loo&yom4ctir NATURAL HAIR ATTACHMENTS Ttfilf AOAIM—OFF AQAIH fcfc watti M awilww I I PAG9 *OY NATUtAL $3.00 BRAID t$4JO YOU CAM HAVE YOtl* MAIM PERFECTLY MATCHED latest Creation Easily Attached Human Hair— chignon All Shadn $5.50, SEND NO MONET lust SEND SAMPLE OP TOUR MAN OR STATE THE COLOR JESSIE RARE BEAUTY PRODUCTS 107 RFTH AW. (low 90S) KM TOK 17, N. T, Daft A Launch Crusade For Free Spiritual Mobilization! “HELP PUT IT OUT” “We Must Organize Negro Workers In Our Locals Whether We Want To or Not”, Says La. AFL Head NEW ORLEANS—"We must or ganize the Negro workers in our locals whether we want to or not.'’ That is the warning that was giv en to Organized Labor in the ' South sometime ago by the Louis iana State Federation of Labor, which is headed by E. H. (Lige) Williams, one of the best known AFL organizers in the country. Heeding the warning of the LS FL, many AFL unions throughout the South, which formerly operat ed with membership restrictions, have completely dropped all racial barriers and now have united fronts wherein all members, regard less of race or color, have equal representation and rights. SEEK BETTER OPPORTUNITIES Large numbers of colored work ers released from war industries and military service are now seek ing better opportunities than pre war unskilled work and it is by no means impossible that the key to the future of Organized Labor in the South lies in finding an answ er to racial difficulties before a showdown can develop. That opinion was expressed by Dr. George W. Snowden, Special counsel on minority problems for the AFL Southern Organizing Committee, who also commented that Southern income is still ap proximately 26 percent below na tional levels, despite a rapid move to narrow the margin during the war years. Dr. Snowden observed that, dur ing the 1941-45 period, Southern ■j income increased 65.8 percent, while the national average was I moving up 49 7 percent. This very substantial increase, he feels, was in no small way due to the exten sive unionization among war plant workers in the South. WAGES TAKE BIG UPWARD CLIMB In a release from the AFL Sou thern Director, it is reported that “hundreds of contracts” signed since the end of the war not only boosted wages 15 to 20 percent, but, likewise, carry “rock-bottom minimum scales of 75 cents an hour.” It is the opinion of Dr. Snowden that the Organizing Campaigns are bringing vast benefits to the South aside from unionization of work ers. Considerable social legisla tion hitherto unheard of in localit ies of the South, he explained, is being sponsored by a growing la bor consciousness. In conclusion, the Dillard Univ ersity economics professor said that the drive to organize in the South was not without growing ' opposition from certain reaction ary groups. He said such anti labor organizations as the Christ ian Americans, Veterans’ Indust rial Association, and the newly or ganized Federated Workers of A merica are making strong efforts to nullify the gains of Organized Labor in many ways, chief of which are campaigns to have anti labor open shop laws put on the statute books in Southern States, fourteen States now having some such legislation as well as spon sorship of such racist groups as the Ku Klux Klan, Columbians, Inc., and so on. NEW FISK HEAD TO ASSUME DUTIES JULY 1 Nashville, Tennessee—Dr. Charles S. Johnson, President-elect of Fisk University, has annonced he will assume his new duties on July 1. At a conference Dr. Johnson had with members of the Fisk Interim Adminstrative Committee, this date was agreed upon, in veiw of /—. . READ THE GREATER GUIDE CLEO’s Nite & Day BAR-BQ 2042 North 21st St. ALL KINDS OF DELICIOUS SANDWICHES “OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY” Deliveries Made—Small Fee | Charge for the same. Call Atlantic 9541 of his previous commitments and and responsibilities. Fisk’s new president recently returned form the Paris meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Cites Precedent For Savins Life of Willie Francis New Orleans, La., Jan. 22—New hope that the life of Willie Francis 17, condemned a second time to die in the electric chair in Louis ana, may yet be spared, came last week from A. P- Tureaud, NAACP lawyer here. Speaking for the As sociation, Mr. Tureaud last week, wired Governor J. H. David, point ing out that on April 23, 1921, Governor Parker set a precedent when he commuted to life impris onment one Lonnie Eaton, whose execution date had been forgotten by the sheriff of Ouachita parish. Stating that a second attempt to execute Willie Francis would be “cruel and unusual punishment,’’ Mr. Tureaud urged the Governor to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. NAACP BARRED FROM CASE SAYS WALTER WHITE New York, Jan. 22—In a state ment last week, Walter White, ex ecutive secretary, NAACP, said that the Association had been bar red from the Willie Francis case by the lawyer selected by Francis father, who told Mr. White, follow ing the failure of the first electro cution, that he preferred handling the case himself and didn’t want advice preferred by the Associat ion at that time. However, when the Supreme Court, by a five to four vote, up held the decision of the State of Louisiana, Francis’ lawyer sent the Association a telegram demanding that he be given a large sum of money to file a further appeal. Said Mr- White: i “It should be clearly understood that the NAACP is in nowise res ponsible for the legal handling of the case, although in every way possible, it is attempting to arouse public opinion to get the Governor of Louisiana to be merciful and commute Willie Francis’ sentence to life.” ATOMIC ENERGY HOLDS HOPE FOR SUCCESS AGAINST CANCER NEW YORK—“Atomic energy research holds out hope for sue -, cess against cancer that will be- I nefit all Americans, Negro and white,” said Dr. John E. Moseley, a radiologist at Sydenham hospital and one of America’s outstanding Negro authorities on cancer, in an interview this week. “First, it shows what we can do when we tackle a job if we have adequate facilities, funds and per sonnel; and second, the atom fis. sion itself has offered certain clues to cancer control in sev eral of its research by-ways. “Great scientific advances have always been the result of an end less chain of individual discoveries, each one making possible the one that follows. This is why the re cent discoveries in atomic energy have given us a well founded op timism for the future of cancer re search. These new discoveries give us new instruments with which to work in a field in which we had almost gone as far as we could with the tools we possessed. With the development of radio-,active substances many new experiments are under way which put these new substances to use in the studv | of metabolism and growth. This is a new and revolutionary means ' of investigating growth, since the ' riddle of cancer is essentially of uncontrolled growth. It is prob able that we are on the threshold of a very rewarding series of in | vestigations.” Dr. Moseley pointed out that last year the American Cancer Society invited the National Re search Council, the sub-division of the National Academy of Sciences that undertook and successfully ■ completed the atomic energy re search program for the govern ment, to organize an all-out cancer research program. He said the Na tional Council is now recommend * Believing the ministers of Amer ica should take the lead in the crusade for freed Spiritual Mobil ization has launched a national campaign to enlist over 10,000 ministers by Easter, 1947. Spirit ual Mobilization is a movement to establish in America Spiritual freedom which this organization believes is the basis of all free dom. Organized 12 years ago, Spiritual Mobilization has been seeking to educate the people of America on the importance of its program, and what it would mean towards the contribution it is de signed to make towards the spi ritual betterment of the people of this country. Much of the philo sophy of this movement is con tained in a recent book entitled “The New Leviathan” by Dr. Paul Hutchinson. This book has created new interest among clergymen and they are beginning to realize that it is only through such an aim as Spiritual Mobilization's that real peace and happiness can be obtained. In order to bring the importance of this movement to the Negro churches of America Rev. Irving K. Merchant, a pro minent Negro clergyman, has been appointed one of the National Re presentatives of Spiritual Mobiliza tion to launch a program of expan sion among the Negro ministers of the country. Rev. Merchant is now engaged in a national tour in which he will bring to the attention of Negro ministers the purpose of this movement and seek their coopera tion in the propection of its pro gram. He has already held con ferences with Negro ministers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. Alter making his contact among I the ministers Rev. Mr. Merchant arranges that those who so de sire receive leaflets Bulletins, monthly letters, tracts and other literature distributed by the or ganization. Ministers who desire to cooperate sign a Representa tive’s card and are given a certi ficate of appointment which makes them local representatives and ac tive in the fight for Christian ideals and against pagan anti. Christian tendencies. In speaking of Spiritual Mobilization, Rev. Mr. Merchant said “Spiritual Mobili zation has a special appeal to Ne gro ministers who as a group have always crusaded for Freedam, and are anxious to keep clear the chan nels of democracy.” Some of the leading men of the nation have become interested in Spiritual Mobilization and believe it offers a solution of many of the vexing problems which confront the world, and will bring about better human relations. The leaders of this movement be lieve that freedom is in peril, be cause of the spread of Communism, the rise of paganism, and because the left wing group in America is seeking to substitute Marxism for Christianity. To save thsi free dom Spiritual Mobilization lead ers believe that our heritage is worth fighting for. More than 9,000 ministers have enlisted in the movement. Referring to how , ministers can serve as the key 1 people in spreading the work of ^his organization a statement from I one of its tracts reads as follows “When a minister of a local church accepts responsibility for Spiritual Mobilization he begins to be a rallying point for this program to restoring America’s basic freedom land spiritual ideals in his com munity.” The National Headquarters of this organization is the Title Guarantee Bldg., Los Angeles 13, California. The headquarters of the Eastern office is the Hotel Roosevelt, New York. Negro min isters interested in this movement are requested to get in contact with Rev. Mr. Merchant through either address. Rev. Mr. Merchant told a representative of the press that he was receiving fine coop eration from the Negro ministers in the cities already visited ing fellowships and research grants with money provided by the American Cancer Society, design-! ed to attract to cancer research' the most competent scientists. ! _ I DIFFICULT TASK NAMING OUTSTANDING RURAL HOME MAKERS CONTESTANTS Omaha. Nebr., Jan. 25—When the Rural Homemakers’ Commit tee of the Omaha Chamber of Com merce announce the outstanding rural homemakers on February 20 they will hate completed one of the most difficult of elimination contests. The individual qualifications were often so close that it was nearly impossible to judge any dif ference in the candidates, accord ing to Mrs May Yard, chairman of the Rural Homemakers’ Commit tee. The selected rural homemakers will be honored at a day-long ses sion of entertainment and evening banquet in Omaha on February 20. These outstanding farm women will be publicly acclaimed for the first time and awarded a certifi cate of recognition from the Agri cultural Committee of the Omaha Chamber who have sponsored the homemakers contest. “From the long list of recom mended candidates for Rural Home makers honors,” Mrs. Yard said, “Our selection committees have had a difficult time in deciding which woman should be honored from the 100 counties in Nebraska and Western Iowa. “Probably one of the most touch “Armed Forces Still Need USO in ’47” SAYS W. C. FRASER, DRIVE CO-CHAIRMAN ine Armed Forces still need the USO. in 1947, according to W. C. Fraser, Co-chairman of the Doug las County drive. "The USO is no longer in the Community Chest here and we will launch the USO. campaign for funds in Douglas County January 27th, Fraser said. Sam Reynolds and W. C. Fraser are Co-Chairmen of the Douglas County Chapter at the request of former oGvernor Griswold. Cecil Slocum will head the World Warn Veterans Appreciation Com mittee. This committee will be actively in charge of solicitations. Approximately 75 veterans, mem bers of the World War n Veterans Appreciation Commitee, met in the Omaha Athletic Club, Friday, Jan* uary 17th, to make plans for the drive- Mr. Slocum, in accepting the Chairmanship, pointed out that the Armed Forces still need the USO. At the USO. the soldier finds a “home away from home” where he can relax and join in clean whole some fun with hostesses of his own age.” USO. campaign headquarters have been established in the Om aha National Bank Building. POUT Iff THEM DOW*' •• 'V j • - J» i f J t* \ Fisk U To Hold 18th Annual Music and Art Festival April 23-26 tfaiferott &ys: \/oa mean if cost ,,mfoyer $600 &£m teX* Jbetond , to the' Lewis Club-1 It cost each coal miner over $600 to belong to John L. Lewis’ exclusive little club in 1946. For that money, they ought to get a whole lot more than they get from Mr. Lewis. I know of no millionaires’ club In the world which has dues any thing like that high. Each miner lost an average of $620 in the two strikes called by Mr. Lewis in 1946. In addition, each miner had to pay his regu lar union dues. That makes his total “club” assessment more than $10 a week. Belonging to a union some times may not be the “bargain” that the leaders make it out to be. ing and sincere entries we receiv ed came from a young lad who was in the army in Oregon.” “He listed the qualifications of his mother as a candidate for the homemaker honors in his country. When the selection board checked that entry against others from that section, they found that the wom an was the oustanding candidate, and she was duly nominated.” Chairman of the Agricultural Committee, Paul Stewart, compli mented the members of the Rural Homemakers’ Committee and mem bers of the Nebraska and Iowa Ex tension Service for their energy and patience in determing the leading homemaker from the hun dreds of nominations that were made. “Such recognition of our farm women is long overdue,” Mr. Stew art said. “But it could never be achieved if the members of the Rural Homemakers’ program were not giving unselfishly of their own time to see that the proper woman in each community is to be duly lonored” SPECIAL EVENTS mhhui HSUS WILLIAM MISKELL. 5120 Under'' wood Avenue, will serve as chair- i man of the Special Events commit! tee of the Douglas County 1947 i Red Cross campaign. Appoint- j ment was made by E. C. Schmidt, general drive chairman Join the MARCH OF DIMES r ' ] Oil fields of the world actually are graveyards of animals and plants which have been subjected to millions of years of heat and pressure beneath the earth’s sur face. During 1944 the U. S. produced as much oil as the whole world did in 1935 Beauticians KAIR DRESSING BOOTHS j —For Rent or Lease DOT’S BEAUTY SALON f 2031 North 24th St. AT-0459 J Nashville, Tennessee—The Eigh teenth annual Festival of Music and Art will be at Fisk Univer sity, April 23-26, it was announced today by Dean A A Taylor, of the Interim Adminstrative Committee. This year’s festival will feature concerts of contempory American music; the formal opening of the George Gershwin Memorial Col lection of Music and Musical Lite rature, founded inl944 by Carl Van Vechten; Puccini’s oper "Ma dame Butterfly”; ana art exhibit: a dance program; a prodution of Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” by the Fisk Stagecrafters; and two series of seminers: one on art. Literature, and Music, arranged by the Humanites Institute at Fisk; and the other, on the United Na tions Educational, Scientific, and Cutural Organization, arranged by Fisk’s Institute of Social Sciences. Philippa Duke Schuyler, of New York, talented young composer and pianist, will be presented in a concerted Thursday evenining, April 24. She will perform some of her be own compositions, as well as works of other contem porary writers. The opening ceremony of thc George Gershwin Memmorial Col lection of Music and Musical Lit erature willbe take place Friday afternoon, April 25, in the Fisk Library. Mr. Van Vechten will be present, in addition to a number of other distinguished guests who have contributed to this Collection said to be one of the best of its kind in the South. A noted author photographer, and music and nimuimtuiuitiiiiiiimiuimiHHiiMiimiiniHiMHHiHtiniHHwmMNHMiiiuiiiiuuiiiiuinMMiA 24th & Lake Sts. 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