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/ . ' f \ KWW--£ f : - Thyrgood Marshall Hi Segregation ITHEY1L NEVER DIE gfegflftyjjyj BORN 107 YEARS AGO IN gi ? TENN. OF SLAVE PARENTS 1 I RUPUB PERRY MANAGED 1 I TO ATTEND SCHOOL FOR 1 FREE NEGROES IN NASH- § VILLI* HE WAS SEIZED 1 AND SOLD AGAIN, BUT ES* 4 CAPED TO CANADA / AT 2\ HE BECAME AN ORDAINEr MINISTER ANO PASTOREO IN ONTARIO,CAN ADA, AS WELL AS BUFFALO, NEW YORK - REVEREND PERRY'S LITERARY TALENT ENABLED HIM TO EDIT “THE SUNBEAM* AND THE TTY. BAPTIST WEEKLY* a HE ALSO WROTE MOST A PROFOUNDLY ON THE. T JW\ HISTORY OF THE NEfrRO >2 AND THE SOLUTION TO HIS VARIED AND COMPLEX S PROBLEMS/ Coadiiengr^J^.),__ Mutism. ETHHOLMHT, AMD STUOEMT OF HISTORY URBAN LEAGUE FELLOWS ESTABLISH FELLOWSHIP One of the unique events of the conference was a meeting of Ur ban League Fellows, men and women who have received edu cational assistance through fel lowships from the National Ur ban League, which resulted in a decision to establish a $1000 fel Iowship. The grant is to be foum ished by the group and is to be administered through the Nation al Urban League. The entire conference was de voted entirely to the improve ment of Urban League program, with sites set upon expanding its services in the field of vocational guidance, employment. housing, education, and race relations, and increasing its budget. Lester B. Granger, National Urban League Executive, making the keynote speech of the con ference, stated ‘‘One responsibility of the Urban League in cities with swollen populations is to re cruit, train and support addition al leadership units in the Negro I Sl.'K.SCKII-Tlfcof RATES: l MONTH. id * MONTHS.’*1.50 « months . km * . M.M 900 VK.\R (Ont of Towi \ >4.(0 neighborhood, who because they know the problems first hand and are intimately acquainted with their neighbors can help restore the group discipline which has broken under social pressures of want, ignorance and greed. “We must bring this realistic Negro leadership," he continued into contract with open-minded, public-spirited and equally real istic white people who are not necessarily interested in Negroes sentimentally, i but are deeply eagejr to correct undemocratic practice^. ^\nd tp ti-iiM .secure ocmmunity living for all. In ad dition, we must persuade these leaders, both Negro and white, to accept social responsibilities which are specific, sometimes dif ficult and unusually unpopular.” The Conference recognized, however, the excellent work of groups of Negro and white citi zens working together in Ameri ca. by a resolution praising these groups. 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DEAL NAIM ATTACHMENTS • SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Woman Runs Only iVegro Finishing School CHICAGO—Dr. Charlotte Haw kins Brown, 68-year-old Negro educator is featured in October Ebony as the woman who built America’s only finishing school for Negroes, Palmer Memorial In stitute at Sedalia, North Carolina with money raised by her tears, shoe leather, and undying faith. “Dr. Brown virtually built the $500,000 educational plant brick by brick,’’ according to the Ebo ny story which say lack of space makes the school reject an aver age of 600 students yearly from Nergo America’s richest families. “Over 300,000 of the bricks uted in the present buildings were made by the students themselves on the school grounds.’’ Though the routine and regime is strait-laced. Palmer Memorial embodies all of the dynamic scholastic ability and good taste of its founder. Rated equal to any of the high class white New England prep schools, PMI’s list of required subjects includes classes in charm, sewing, music, and choral work. Religion is stressed, church attendance obli gatory, and bad manners punish, ed severely. Recently 18 seniors were suspended because of the use one profane word. Despite the rigidity of her iron clad regulations, however, Dr. Brown is well-liked by PMI stu dents and is very popular on the campus. This quiet lady who has been feted by presidents, prime ministers and princes is known to her students by such fond nick, names as “The Big Wheel,” “Madam.’ and “Doc.” NAACP FIGHTS FOR THREE MISSISSIPPI BOYS NEW YORK — In a desperate effort to secure the freedom of three youths of Decatur. Miss., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has employed counsel to appeal from the convictions of Thomas Tingle, James Monroe Tingle, and Henry C. Smith. The youths were accused of attempting rape of three white girls in Little Rock, Miss., on the night of July 28 and the Tingle brothers were arrested and taken to jail in Decatur where the police claim they confessed to the alleged crime. Smith was tak en to jail in Newton, Miss. The first trial, at which the youth3 were represented by Attorney J. Marshall Carr of Newton, Miss., resulted in a hung jury with sev eral wwhite witnesses testifying that the attempted rape did not take place. The jury voted eight for acquittal and four for 'lonvcition even in the face of this evidence. At that trial, the Tingle brothers testified that they had been beaten brutally ahd that their confessions were secured by this brutality. Defendants are in possession of blood stained cloth, ing and show evidence of physi cal mistreatment. A second trial was held on Au gust 29 where, despite the evi dence of two white witnesses, the youths were convicted and sen tenced to two years in prison, an extraordinarily low sentence for the type of crime which they are alleged to have committed. An appeal to Mississippi Sup. reme Court will be taken immedi ately in this blatant instance of Mississippi miscarriage of justice. HiffB Fire loll For many years deaths in the United States due to fire have been • woro«in« oroiwuJ 10 fWl * Aloha Fhi Aloha Frat to Convene in ISew Fork NE WYORK, N. Y— Congress men William Dawson of Illinois and Adam C. Powell of New York are scheduled to address the public meeting of the Eastern Re gional Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity which meets here October 4-5. Paul Robeson, world renown singer and dram atic artist, will also grace the program on the closing day at 3 p. m. in Abyssinia Baptist Church. Headquarters for the two-day meeting will be the Harlem Branch YMCA, 180 West 135th st. New York City, where a pre-con vention smoker has been arranged for Friday night, October 3. Re gistration will take place between nine and 10 a. m. Saturday. Busi ness sessions are set for 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. the same day. How ard Long will address the morn ing meeting. Mrs. Edna O. Gray, Supreme Basileus. AKA Sorority will be the afternoon speaker. An Alpha formal will complete the day’s activities. Sunday morning's session at Abyssinia will feature a lecture by Dr. William Gray, president of Florida A. and M. College. Music for the public meeting Jl PRESCRIPTIONS Free Delivery Duffy Pharmacy —WE-0609— 24<h & Lake Sts. WARNIN ! Good Coal Will be scarce this Winter. We suggest the filling of Bins NOW! While good coal is Available. | Lumber and Coal Co. PHONE WALNUT 0300 45tn & DODGE STS. Sunday afternoon will be furnish ed by the Philharmonic Glee Club under th# direction of Mrs. El freda S. Wright. 4 lively discussion of the labor issue is expected among members of the fraternity during consider ation of a six.point national legis lation program which was pre pared last April by a committo on public policy headed by How ard H. Long. At that time the committee took a stand, approved by the fraternity, proposing Con. j gressional action enacting a Fed-1 eral anti-lynching bill; new Fair | Employment Practice legislation,! possibly under a new name; a bolishment of the electroral col lege; limitations of the filibuster; I and Federal aid to education. At the same time the committee recognized the divergent opinions among Alpha men . concerning the labor issue and called for every person “to make himself vocal on his side of the question.” The report continued, “So far as we are informed, the fraternity as a whole has not taken a posi tion on labor legislation. Each member should feel it is liis duty to express himself for or against it as his conscience dictates.’ ■urile Lags Promptly Tartar mat during the growing saaaaa rcqtdraa prompt handling te avoid daianku-ation from decay, in sect attacks or sap stains, exten sioa faraataas report. Gives A Lift To give a nft to canned or cooked dried fruit, squeeze orange or grapefruit juice over the top just be fore serving. Land af Quarters Africa is the land of quarters. One quarter of its area is forest and bushland, one quarter is grass land, one quarter is desert and the re maining quarter is cultivated, World Hook pnovrloopdi* H'ceJjtcp# Your Child's School Career May Lag If Study Lamp Wiring Is Inadequate Inadequate wiring can dim an adequate atud? lamp bj a* murh at 30% pLECTRICAL wiring in the home can exert a marked- effect on the *-• grades your child makes in school Scientifically conducted tests, according to specialists of the National Adequate Wiring Bureau, have established that • iu per cent voltage loss, resulting from too-smaU wire taxed beyond its capacity, will cause as much as a 30 peT cent reduction in the bril liance of a lamp. Poor lighting causes eye strain which In turn affects vision. And defective vision, the specialists point out, frequently has a dis astrous effect on scholastic apti tude—at least 1,200,000 boys and girls in public schools fail each year because 'of poor vision; the educational age of students in well-lighted rooms exceeds that of students in poorly-lighted rooms by fully 10 per cent Thus, the specialists emphasize, it behooves parents to have both their wiring and their lighting checked—by a technician from the office of the local power sup plier, or by a qualified electrical contractor. Where to Put the Outlets It is not enough to equip the student’s room with proper lamps, the house wiring must be right if the lamps are to provide adequate illumination, the wiring experts declare, pointing out that when the branch circuits in the home are too few, the re sultant overloading of circuits chokes off a measure of the electricity needed at each outlet. -- 1 -— ■ There should be • lighting branch circuit for every 500 square feet of floor area of the house. Wherever studying is to be done in the living foom or bed room, a convenience outlet should t be readily available for plugging in a good study lamp. To avoid the use of unsightly extension cords, at the same time insuring flexibility of furniture arrange ment, duplex convenience outlet! should be placed so that no poinl along the wall at the floor line in theSe rooms is more than six feet from an outlet Outlets also should be provided in wall spaces three feet or more in length. Supplementary Light Vital The specialists point out that adequate illumination for read ing, writing and other close visual tasks requires not only local lighting on the object to be seen but supplementary general illumination throughout the room This supplementary illumina tion, they say, can be achieved in a variety of ways—by using a well-designed central ceiling fix- ! ture, by providing valance or cove lighting, or from well-de signed portable lamps. It is good planning to install some fixed lighting, controllable by a wall switch at each main entrance, in every room. G^S ON TINIAN ISLE 1 SEND NAACP FUNDS NEW YORK—‘‘The above-men tioned donation is an initial one and is a very small one due to the understrength of our organi. zation here on the island of Tin ian. but it is to advise you that whatever is being done for the benefit of all mankind as well as our race, will be backed by every effort we can put forth.” Thus wrote a unit of Negro GI’s sta. tioned on a far-off atoll in the Pacific, to Walter White, NAACP executive secretary. “News is not plentiful here but we at one time or another enjoy privileges that have been sought and fought for by the NAACP in [behalf of the Negro soldier. May God bless you and the members of the NAACP and may He grant us power to subdue every obstacle hindering the peace and happi ness of mankind the world over” continued the letter. Enclosed, from the lonely unit, was a money order to the NAACP for $59.25. The collection had been taken and the letter cooperatively compos, ed by every man in the unit after they'd sat around their radio in the sweltering recreation tent on Sunday, June 29, the hear Presi dent Truman and Walter White assail racial bigotry and hate at the 38 Annual NAACP Conferer.ee in Washington, D. C. nr»„* m vreaaug The wearing'of something blue at the wedding was ancient Israelite custom which suggested a blue rib bon for the bride—blue being the col or of purity, love and ftdelity. Contractor See Bailey First SPECIALIZING IN PATCH WORK, PLASTERING • BRICKLAYING CHIMNEYS AND CONCRETEING• • RETAINING WALLS • OFFICE—2209 NO. 22ND SI —PHONE—AT115A— THRIFTY LIQUOR STORE .• WINES, BEER, LIQUORS “We Appreciate Your Trade” Mi & LAKE AT. 434® LEGION POST NO. 30 TO HOLD FIRST MEETING SEPT .18 THURSDAY AT 8:30 Roosevelt Post No. 3# Ameri can Legion will hold it's frist Fun Night Thursday Sept. 18,. At 8:30 p. m. at it’s club room. All members ex-service men and their guest are cordially Invited To Attend Free Lunch will be served. Also a very special enter, tainment wil be held. Milton Stromile Comdr. Millard Carr Service Offocer e Finhing and Hunting Area Sun VaHey, Idaho, borders on a hunting and fishing area as largo as the entire nt Conneeticut. Salt Lake Great Salt lake has a sah con •nt of about 24 per cent. I _ f Says Complete Equality of Citizens Impossible Without Equal Educational Chances hew Units Being Constructed At Lincoln Uni. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.,—^Con struction of a hospital unit and a recreation-study center has been begun on the campus of Lincoln University of Missouri, designated as Veterans Educational Facili- ' ties Project No. 23-V-9A and ap pvroed by the Bureau of Com munity Facilities of the Federal Works Administration. i hTe new infirmary, provided for veterans and students of the Uni versity, will have two 6 bed wards, a diet kitchen and a utility room, a clinic area including a waiting room, storage room, a general of fice and infirmary, a consulta. tion room and two examination and treatment rooms. Two units will comprise the re creation-study building and will be connected by a connecting en trance. One unit will be used as a study room with office and lib rary. A social unit and toilet fac ilities for men and women, to gether with four storage rooms and a small kitchen will comprise the social hall in the other unit. 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And "As a man lives so shall he die” they die j separated from the church and ! without the assistance of Sacra j ments. Divorce and re marriage are just | the same for rue Protestant cou. pie as for the Catholic. It is against the law of nature which is the law of God, it is living in an adulterous state and is never justified no matter what has been the' cause or the separation. If the Catholic couple or the Pro testant couple must separate on account of some kind of incom patibility, if they wish to preserve a chance of saving their immortal souls they must live the single life. And if they would strongly wish to return to the life of the married state, there is only one way “Go back to the right part I ner.” Joe Louis and Marva separated ‘ over two years and neither of them seemed to be happy over the divorce. No one knows just I what the cause of the separation | was and no one is interested in ’ trying ti find out. And now Joe Louis has done something that is a million times more edifying and inspiring to the youths of America and of the worl^than if he knocked out a thousand op ponents in the ring,he has gone back to this right partner. Whether Joe Louis was very fami liar with the words from Scrip ture “What God hath joined let no man put asunder,’’ or whether he thought seriously on the words of Our Blessed Lord when speak ing divorce “It was not so from the begining” is beside the ques tion.Though not a ICatholic he has left the road wide open in the Providence of God he should get the grace of conversion to the Catholic Church. He has fol lowed the best instincts of the human being. So,we hail the champion Joe Louis, greater than John L. Sul livan, greater than Jack Dempsey Greater than Gene Tunney, great, er than Jack Johnson, Louis cleanest fighter in the manly art who ever pulled on a glove and J who never belittled a fallen chal-1 lenger. But it is twilight time for , Joe Louis and If he continues in his profession he must kiss the rosin canvass soon, vdry soon, as the bells will toll the count of te.n. Time will count him out. But if and when this happens Joe Louis will rise from the canvass a Champion of another kind; for men and women youths of the | world over shall and will say. “He is a Champion of the inexor- [ able law that God has made for the male and female—one wife, one husband.” (Sent by Father Thomas J. Martin S. J. this article being - repub IFshed). , rl_ DENISON. Texas — Thurgood Marshall, chief of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's legal division addressing delegates assembled in this city for the Texas State Conference of NAACP branches, today reemphasized the position of the Association on the question of segregation in the United States. ‘The NAACP completely opposes all forms of segregation declared Mr. Marshall. Directing the attention of the delegates'* and anyone else in the State of Texas who wants to listen,” the NAACP chief counsel read from the resolution on education adopt, ed at the 38th Annual Conference in Washington, D. C. in June, in which it was stated, "Complete equality of American citizens is impossible without equality of edu cational opportunities cannot be obtained in a dual system of edu. cation. There has been some ques tion raised as to the position of the NAACP on this question. Therefore we re-emphasize our position as being opposed to all types of segregation including public education as being uncon stitutional, unlawful and immoral and call upon all semblances of segregation in public education in Southern states while at the same time opposing al suble attempts to establish segregation in public facilities in the North.” This resolution was unanimous ly adopted by all of the delegates, including the Texas delegates, who have been in the foreffront of the campaign for the abolition of segregation in public schools. Obsreyers here at the confer ence attached deep significance to Mr. Marshall's speech and part icularly to his withering blast against “Negroes who would be willing to sell the race down the river.” The NAACP legal head indicated a growing struggle whpn he stated, “It no longer takes courage to fight for mere equality in a separate school system. Even Bilbo mouthed phrases calling for equality for Negroes as long as there was complete segregation. I think that everyone knew that when the State Legislature in Texas agreed to advance more than three mill, ion dollars for a Jim Crow Uni versity. ther would be Negroes who would be willing to sell the race down the river in order to either get jobs in the school, or to determine who should build the school, pr to .detertnine where the school should be built, or any other method whereby the indivi. dual could get personal gain. It was also apparent that there would be Negroes who would at tack the N. A. A. C. P. for, they would resort to the Rankin Com mittee’s attack of yelling, "There' s a Communist in every closet.” Later in his speech, Mr. Mar. shall declared, “The Houston In former in an editorial obviously written by Editor Carter Wesley continuing fts fight to have the Negroes of Texas return to the days of Booker T. Washington and fight for “separate but equal” schools, asks several questions: ‘Is it the NAACP's position that it will take no action to better the educational lot of Texa« Ne ogroes, except fight for admiss. ion of Negroes into current Continued on Page Three UNIONS SflB< TO PROTECT WELFARE W' FARMERS AND WORKERS Dedlaring hat Congress and big business are “out to do a wreck, ing job on farmers’ cooperatives using the House Small Business Committee as a convenient mask.'’ President Donald Henderson of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union, CIO. todya urged a meeting of reprei sentatives of the National Far. mers Union to meet the attack or* cooperatives. The invitation, addressed to National Farmers Union Presi dent James G. Patton, said: “Members of our union. FTA-CIO, with their close relations to far mers, realize perhaps more clear, ly than others the dangers to the national welfare involved in any attack on thg family-size farmer.” TBe attack on farmers coopera tives by thg Small Business Com mittee. Henderson added, “is a threat to the welfare of both far mers and workers alike.’’ t