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Governor Hastie Praises Negro Youths
‘YOU WILL WIN’, GOV. HASTIE
Washington, D.C., Aprl2—Gov
ernor William H. Hastie of the
Virgin Islands today told 120 del
egates to an interracial conference
at Howard University, sponsored
by the Youth Division of the NAA
CP, that "what you are doing is
going to win within your lifetime
and you will be able to pass on to
your children a much better Amer
ica than it is today.”
Governor Hastie spoke at the
final session held by the enthusias
tic young delegates from NAACP
youth councils and college chap
ters, representing twenty states,
north and south and midwest, who
met here on April 10 to learn
lobbying techniques and to press
for action on progressive legisla
tion. He said that since they were
talking of today and tomorrow he
would give them a few footnotes
about yesterday. “The work that
is being done in connection with
legislation, the political methods
and techniques as I see it, is some
thing that was going on in this
country seventy-five years ao," the
Governor declared. “It was easy
in those days to forget what was
going on in the south, but today
we want to fight the battles and
and see that they are won.’’
The Governor went on to out
line the fight for equality in the
1870’s. He concluded, “You know
that the efforts of 1870 were stran
gled by force and violence, but I
do not think that this time we
will be strangled and there is no
way of stopping any young peo
ple today throughout the country.
I think that what you are doing
is going to win within your life
time and I think that you will be
able to pass on to your children
a much better America than it is
today.”
The NAACP Howard University
Chapter and Washington, D. C.,
Youth Council acted as hosts to
the conference. Mrs. Ruby Hurley,
youth secretary of the NAACP,
led the delegates to Capitol Hill
where conferences were held with
senators and congressmen on the
importance of supporting the NA
r ACP legislative program. The NA
ACP program strongly supports
FEPC, housing, rent control, ad
ditional appropriations for school
lunches and federal aid to educa
tion, and just as strongly con
demns 'poll tax, lynching, jim
crow travel and filibustering.
Greeting the delegates, Dr. Mor
decai Johnson, president of How
ard University, congratulated them
on their interest. He declared that
the NAACP “is a great organiza
tion’’ which since the civil war has
“taught the people and their friend
to fight indignity and injustice. It
is the one organization which has
taught the people how to aim clear
for the things which we want and
how to go after them.’’
Dr. Johnson praised Walter
White, executive secretary of the
NAACP, and Dr. W. E. B. DuBoise
one of the founders and present
directors of special research, and
the late James Weldon Johnson,
TELLS YOUTHS
for their foresight and leadership
in the development of the Associa
tion.
Calling upon the young people
to act wisely, Dr. Johnson said,
“We have learned how to support
the NAACP “because we are now
in a decade in which we must put
forth every conceivable effort to
see whether democracy can De
made to work.”
He concluded by pointing out
that “from every point of view in
regard to the Negro race the NAA
CP is a focal organization with
supreme signifiance.”
Speakers at the first session
were Leselie Perry, administrative
assistant and Clarence Mitchell,
Jr., labor secretary, both of the
NAACP Washington Bureau and
Dr. Booker T. MrGraw, deputy
special assistant to the Adminis
trator of the National Housing
Agency. Mr. Perry presented the
NAACP legislative program and
discussed the status of bills in
which the Association is interest
ed. Mr. Mitchell discussed the new
FEPC bill known as the National
Act Against Discrimination in
Employment, which was introduc
ed in the Senate on March 27th by
Senators Irving M. Ives (R., N. Y.),
Leverett Saltonsta.ll (R., Mass.),
H. Alexander Smith (R., N.J.),
Wayne Morse (R., Ore.), Dennis
Chavez (D. N.M.), James E. Mur
ray (D., Mont.), and Francis J.
Myers (D., Pa.).
At the evening session, George
Weaver, director of the CIO Com
mittee to Abolish Discrimination
and Mrs. Katherine Shryver talk
ed about techniques of lobbying.
In an impomptu skit a typical del
egation—from the audience—vis
ited a “senator” and applied what
they had just learned.
On Friday morning groups kept
appointments with Carroll Reece,
Chairman of the Republican Nat
ional Committee and high placed
senators and representatives. In
the afternoon each state delega
tion tried to see its own senators
and representatives.
Youthful delegates were shown
another aspect of the nation's cap
itol when one of the delegations
went to visit Gael Sullivan, exe
cutive director and vice-chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, in the Mayflower Hotel.
Staff employees at the Hotel at
tempted to force the delegates to
ride the freight elevator. Upon the
refusal of the delegates to ride
anything but the regular passen
ger elevators, the hotel's manager
was called. The manager support
ed the elevator operators and it
necessary for the young Negro
delegates to ride up to Mr. Sulli
van’s suite in the freight elevator.
Mr. Sulivan expressed regrets
when informed of the incident
but warned the youthful delegates
not to “demand” anything lesb
they lose some known “friends”.
The delegates then were carried
back to the lobby in the freight
elevator.
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LOU SWARZ CAPTURES FLOR
IDA ACCLAIM
Jacksonville, Fla.—Lou Swarz,
noted artist of radio, screen and
stage, was acclaimed in Florida
where she recently performed be
fore capacity audiences. She is
already booked for many return
engagements. Above, Dr. Leonard
F Morse, dean of B. F. Lee Theo
logical Seminary, congratulates
the famous dramatist after her
performance at Edward Waters
College, in Jacksonville, while
Miss Cecile Walker, her secretary
looks on approvingly.
ROOSEVELT COLLEGE
Chicago, 111.—Roosevelt College,
which was dedicated by Mrs. El
eanor Roosevelt on Nov. 16, 1945
in an old office building, will soon
move to a modern reconstructed
center centrally located on Michi
gan Boulevard. It will occupy the
historic Auditorium Hotel and
Theatre, which it recently pur
chased.
FOUNDED ON "ORE WORLD”
IDEA
“Dedicated to the Enlightenment
of the Human Spirit” according to
the bronze plaque on its corner
stone, Roosevelt College, was
founded by Edward J. Sparling as
a protest against the "quota sys
tem” employed by other leading
colleges.
Under his democratic leadership
Roosevelt College’s student body
has increased from 1200 to 3700
and the enrollment is expected to
exceed 5000 in the new quarters.
It is said by its founder to be
the only college in the country
to receive full accreditation dur
ing its first year of operation.
Dr. Sparling insists u.ai, x o the
nation, Roosevelt College offers
an important laboratory in demo
cratic education. Not in ivory
towers, but in institutions which
grapple with real problems in a
real way will the questions of
democracy be solved. To prepare
ourselves for one world, men of all
races must learn to work and play
together as they do here in the
college
He believes that the growth of
the college means high calibre low
cost education for thousands of
young people who have the abil
ity to profit from such education.”
$1,200,000 FUND CAMPAIGN
AUTHORIZED
The trustees of Roosevelt Coll
ege, in order to provide improve
ments and1' finance the new quart
ers, have authorized Dr. Sparling
to conduct a campaign to raise
$1,200,000.
The Ooliege offers a full liberal
arts curriculum. Recently a divis
ion of labor education was added to
aid college students and labor
leaders to understand union and
industrial problems. Any student,
regardless of race or religion, is
admitted to the college if he can
pass the entrance examinations.
First Negro Named To Governorship
Territorial Governors
Report To President
Truman
TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS REPORT TO
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
JUDGE WILLIAM H. HAST IE
uuugt i* miaiu xx. xxaotic, v_J u v
ernor of the Virgin Islands and
first of his race named to a gov_
emorship, shakes hands with
President Truman following a
report td the Chief Executive on
conditions in the Islands. Ernest
Gruening, (left), Governor or Ala.
ska and Jesus T. Pinero, (right),
Governor of Puerto Rico also re.
ported to the President on condi
tions in their respective territories.
It was the first time the Territor_
ial Governors were in Washington
at one time.
Judge William H. Hastie, Gov.,
ernor of the Virgin Islands, has a
lung i cvaiiu ui SCI vice t'J ilia CUUil.
try. He was an outstanding Fed.,
eral Judge in the Islands and has
been a pace setter for the Nfgro
race. His record includes service
as Dean of Howard University Law
School in the District of Columbia;
Assistant Solicitor in the Interior
Department and Civilian Aide for
Negro Affairs to the Secretary of
War. Mr. Hastie graduated A. B.
magna cum laude from Amherst
and won his L. L. B. at Harvard,
where he was one of the few
Negroes ever to serve on the Law
Review.
KKINKST GKtfclNlING
nariest uruenmg, uovernor of
Alaska, since 19 9. started his
career as a reporter, following
his graduation from Harvard.
Author and Editor he has worked
on newspapers in Boston and New
York. He founded the Portland
Evening News; editor of the New
York Post; Manageing Editor of
the New York Tribune and was ap
pointed by the late President
Roosevelt as general adviser to
the U. S. delegation to the 7th Pan
American Conference at Monte,
video in 19 3; a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations,
American Academy of Political
and Social Science; also Foreign
Policy Association.
JESUS 1. EiTNEKO
Jesus T. Pinero is a native Puer.
to Rican. He was appointed July
25th, 1946 by President Truman
to suceed Rexford Guy Tugwell
as Governor of Puerto Rico. He
has been a resident commissioner
for Puerto Rico since Januray
■ 1945. Mr. Pinero, leader of the
popular Democratic Party in the
! Island was born in Puerto Rico in
1897. A farmer by calling he was
graduated from the University of
I Pennsylvania.
ROCKEFELLER TAKES BOSS
Appointment of Winthrop Rock
efeller as chairman of the corpor
ations division of the Urban
League Service Fund was an
nounced this week by the national
campaign chairman, Henry R.
Luce, editor of Time and Life.
In accepting, Mr. Rockefeller
ularly, the League has followed
an intelligent policy of investigat
ing employment possibilities, guid
ing Negroes to the best interests
of all concerned.
“The League is particularly for
tunate in having the cooperation
and experience of the ever-grow
ing host of firms who have suc
cessfully integrated Negroes in
their total employment scheme.”
LEAGUE ~ON RADIO
Over a coast-to-coast hookup of
the National Broadcasting Com
pany last week Mr. Luce urged
support of the League to help keep
the NegTo problem from becoming
insoluble.”
Mr. Luce said the league’s "36
years of patient, expert work”
must be expanded “so that our
promise as a democracy may be
fulfilled.”
“The Negro problem,” Mr. Luce
said, "cannot be solved this year
or next year- But progress can be
made, has been made.
To hundreds of thousands of
Negroes, the work of the Urban
League and its friends means just
a little better chance for decent
opportunity which can make all
the difference in a man’s life.
“To hundreds of American cit
ies and towns, the work of the Ur
ban League means just that little
smaller chance of bitterness and
resentment which can poison the
s p i r it—and the prosperity—of
your city and town.
“It isimperative that every Neg
ro be given a wide chance to work
to the fullmost of his capacity.”
Lester B. Granger, executive
secretary of the National Urban
League, described the work of the
National and 56 local leagues in
the fields of employment, crea'
tion of job opportunities, vocation
al guidance, industrial relations,
housing, health, education and re
creation.
1 The broadcast included a narra
tion written by Miss Manet Fow
ler and the singing of “America
the Beautiful’* ’by The’ Ravens,
Negro quartet.
Mr. Luce heads a committee of
Negro and White business and
civic leaders seeking $450,000 to
finance the League’s activities.
OUR
GUEST
Column
Edited by
Verna Harris
ARTIST OF HE ATOMIC AGE—
BY CLAUDE CLARK,
Phil—The giant ‘'Science”, a
child of art, put on his seven lea
gue boots during World War II
and walked across the universe.
The reason for this gigantic stride
into progress was that two oppos
ing philosophies had come to grips
each using every fragment of
scientific research to out-maneu
ver hie enemy.
The common man did not inten
tionally set the stage for this
drama but he certainly “got into
the aqt.” Those who were in the
thick of the fighting on the battle
fields and the millions who were in
the audience began to ask gues
tions- If science can be unleashed
for imperialism, then why not for
the progress of mankind?
The common man the world
over is raising his head to be
“counted” and the world is fast
becoming, in some wav* the “one
world” of which Wendell Willkie
spoke. The enemy of the multi
tudes is making his last-ditch
stand—clinging to his last thread
of hope, the weapons of confusion
and trickery.
The artist fits graphically into
the pattern. He can contribute to
the Gommon good by presenting in
his canvases the life around him
with such realism that man cannot
ignore hi* obligation to man, or
the artist can “sell out” his fellow
man by misrepresenting the race*
of men and their activities. Finally
he can innocently be unfair to him
self and others and portray a wor
ld of fantasy, a ‘‘never mind land”
—or so abstract his art as to es
cape reality.
The artist can no longer exist in
Rockefeller Takes Over
The Junior class at Northside
Beauty School Entertained the
graduating Seniors at a formal
Cocktail Party, Tuesday night,
April 15, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. V. Lewis,2002 Maple St.
Reading from left to right: Mrs.
Pauline Lewis, (Senior), Mrs.
Pauline Williams. Mrs. Josephine
Wilson, (Senior), Miss Gloria Lew.
is Anna Ray, (Instructor), Miss
Juanda Ruffin, (Club President),
Mrs. Octavia Hatcher, Miss Myrtle
Davison, Miss Florence Wingate,
Mrs Louise Maley, (Senior), Miss
Jessie Mae Kemp, (Senior).
an "Ivory tower” today, for with
science running rampant in the
hands of reaction he’ll be bombed
out of his tower tomorrow.lt is
reasonable to say that no matter
what one’s field of endeavor, he
should be all out for the defense of
mankind.
We must be realistic and ad
mit theat the progress of science
is out of our hands for the mom
ent. Those colossal contributions
in communication have been mon
opolized and are in the hapds of
greedy tryants who choose to use
them against us for their own sel
fish interest. Our radio, newspa
pers, and cinema are out of our
control. There is little left to us
but the grapevine.
We must use that grapevine
and our bare hands to fight and
regain those things rightfully be
longing to the peoples of th world.
The atom can be harnessed for
the good of common man- Pro
gressing from the machine age
into the atomic age. man can em
erge as the human family and his
lot can be the happiest since the
world began.
This cannot happen without
heavy personal sacrifices. There
fore the artist must post pone
pome of his experimenting with
abstract forms and fantastic ex
periences, and come to grips with
some of his problems. The artist
as well as the layman must dis
miss the mistaken idea that art
is something apart from our daily
lives. It isn't. Art is a fragment of
and it serves to make our live;
life, the day to day happenings—
complete.
So important is the culture of a
people or a race that it is the first
thing destroyed when reactior
spreads internally or reaches out
to engulf the minds and resources
of other nations. Art is an intern
national language—needi n g no
translation. The artist can use
his brush to combat the enemies
of society. His brush can be
mightier than the atomic bomb!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
New Organization
The Christian Church has been
newly organized and meeting every
Sunday morning at the Near North
jSide Y. M. C. A. The services begin at
11:00 a.m. and out at 1:00 p.m. All
persons who are interested in the
Christian Church call The Omaha
Guide, Ha. 0800 and ask for Rev. G.
H. Bundy who is the minister of the
church.
HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VA.—
Appointment of George C.Coopei
(Hampton ’39) as Chairman of the
Department of Trades Training in
the Division of Trades and Indust
ries of Hampton Institute, and o:
J. Lawerence Duncan as Consul
tant on Relationships with Indust
ry for the Division, was announc
ed by the college this week.
Mr. Cooper, at present Directoi
of the Veterans’ Bureau of Ham
pton Institute, will undertake hi:
new responcibilities September 1.
Meantime, beginning about May 1
he will study outstanding pro
grams of trades training and voc
ational technical training in edu
cational institutions from Boston
to Los Angeles. He will examine
particularly the ways in which
these programs have developed tc
provide training for emerging op
portunities in industry. This trav
el and study have been made pos
sible by a giant-in-aid to Hampton
Institute from the General Edu
cation Board of the Rockerfeller
Foundation.
Mr. Duncan, for many years on
the staff of the U- S. Employment
Service, took up his Hampton du
ties several years ago. His servic*
as consultant is the first step in
the creation of the position of
Guidance Officer and Coordinator
in the Division of Trades and In
dustries. As Consultant, he is con
cerned with exploring possibilities
for summer interships in industry
for students of the Division, and
also for developing relationships
with employers who can provide
graduates of the Division with
positions on the level of their
highest capabilities.
“It is hoped.” explained Pres
ident Ralph P Bridgman, “that
in the near future Mr. Duncan’s
explorations will provide so signif
icant that the position of Guid
ance Officer and Coordinator can
be put into operation as a perman
ent office in the Division.”
Hampton has more than 500 stu
dents enrolled in Trades and In
dustries this semester as against
a pre-war ten-year average of 210.
MISS COSETTA EUBANKS
ELKS ORATORICAL CONTEST
WINNERS
The Elk* Oratorical Contest was
held Tuesday April 15th. Winner
of First Place was Miss Cosetta.
Eubanks- Choose as her subject_
The Constitution and Citenship
Second Place winner was, Miss
Nadine Hancock she choose as her
subject— The Constitution and
Slavery. The time keeper was Mr
Wendell Thomas. The judges were
Mrs. J. E. Wade. Mrs. Ray Wil
liams and Mrs. Charles Mayo.
The winner will compete with
the winners from the various sta
tes of our district of the Middle
western Assn . which will be held
1947DenVer’ Colorado—July 6th,
A pair of hand embroidered pil
low cases was the door prize giv
en to Mr. W. W. Sims, a Pullman
porter.
Directoress—Dt. Bennita L
Cleveland
Sec—Dt. Margery Clayton
Reporter—Dt. Vivian Smith
FHREE YOUTHS CONFESS
TAKING CASH REGISTER
Police Wednesday held three
minors who confessed taking a
cash register Tuesday from the
Belzer Grocery Store, 1624 North
Twenty fourth Street.
The youths are James D. Blaine
Jr.. 2106 Maple Street; Edward j!
Kelley, 2406 North Twenty-first
Street, and Wallace Murrell 2851
Binney Street. All are 16.
James is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James D. Blaine; Edward
of Mr. and Mrs. Earl W, Kelley,’
and Wallace, of Mr. and Mrs.
George F. Murrell.
REV, C. C. REYNOLDS RETURN
TO CLAIR CHURCH FOR 7 YR
By appointment of Bishop E. W.
Kelly in St Louis, Mo. First Sun
day Rev. Reynolds has been re
appointed for the seventh year to
Clair Church this Coming Sunday
April 27th. **
Dr. B. A. Turner, who is Acting
Director of the Division of Trades
and Industries, continues in that
capacity. With the two new ap
pointments, the three departments
into which the Division was organ
ized last summer will be chaired
as follows: Trades Training, Mr.
Cooper; Teacher Training, Dr.
Turner; and Engineering and"
Architecture, William H Moses.
Hampton’s entire offerings are
in the process of being re-evalu
ated and reorganized through the
work of the Long-Term Program
Committee, the Administration, &
the Board of Trustees, with the
3timulus of a series of planning
conferences with outside specialist
consultants.
Mr. Duncan, a native of Detroit
Michigan, and a resident of Cleve
land, Ohio, for the past three
years, is a Wayne University
graduate and has completed a
/ear and a half of graduate study
n public administration at the
University of Michigan. His eight
minority group job placement was
climaxed by his heading a staff of
31 Negro U. S. E. S. workers as
chief of the Minority Groups Sec
ion for the Miohigan-Ohio-Kentu
'ky region. His regional responc
bilities also included certain gen
ral administrative funct ions
“In the industrial field, partic
years of state and federal work in
mg economic opportunities for
Negroes and improving interracial
relations.
vith the Public Employment Of
fice, including supervision as to
tandards, research, and counsel
ng.
Mr. Cooper, who is completeing
work for his M. A. degree in Per
sonnel Administration at Colum
bia University, is a 1939 Trades
Education graduate of Hampton.
One of two Hamptonians who
said:
“I welcome the opportunity of
helping the Urban League cam
paign because of my personal
knowledge of the needs' and of the
league’s effectiveness in develop
-eached the rank of Naval ensign
in World War II. Mr Cooper,
after a period at Great Lakes
Naval Training School, served in
the Naval Training School at
Hampton, first as Supervisor of
Instruction and later as Personnel
Officer. He became director of the
Veterans’ Bureau of the College
upon his discharge in October,
1945, a position which he has held
since.
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