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ST. JONH' 8 A. M. C, BHUROH 22 4 Willis Av». Rev E. B. ChHdre5* Mason Dev^r^aux Jr, rapsrtor ' I The Chariot was chosen as the subject of our ministers Sunday morning address Sept. 7, to his spiritual filled congregation. He used as text 16 chapter 24th verse -of Mathews, and his thoughts for the day was as follows: "there is a corresponding amount of sacrific by a man; if that man expects to walk with God, it cost a man something to stand by the principles of rightousnesa against all odds, and there is but one security, and that security is in Jesus Christ. Visitors: Mr. Albert Black 2822 Srskine st, Omaha, Mr. Calven «riffin 2914H Omaha, Miss Ruth Ana ftardenshire 807 Wood sf, Topeka, Kans, Mrs. 3. H. Vinable and Son of St. Joseph, Mo, Mrs. HPa Chaetew 286 Erskine Omaha Mr. Tommie Chootaw 2208 N. 2fl at. Omaha, Nebr, Mr. Charles Me- , Pherson 4835 Calumet ave, CM oago III. Let us pray for the sick throu ghout the week whoever they may be wherever they may be. Auxiliaries of our chureh con tributing recently to the Annual conference are th# Senior Choir and the Junior Stewardress Board. All Clubs and auxiliaries having yet made a financial contribution to this fund take note. Help keep the banner of St. John’s flying to day by contributing today. Individuals as well as churc’i auxiliaries pay your conferense assessment for it is needed in or. der that our pastor and wife might go down to the annual «nn. ference fully equipped. Pay NOw! We of St. Johns thank Mr’ E. B. Childress our pastors wife for those brief echoes from +h • Missionary Conference at Beth''1 A, M. E. on August 28 and 28. We are proud of you Mrs. Cv dress and the ladies that are members of your society for brin ' ing hofee the banner for increase membership. A banner which has not been in St. John’s possession for more than five years. Let us keep this Banner ladies by con tinuing to increase the member ship this year. Keep up the splend id work. Mrs. Mary Speese and her dau ghetr Miss Florence Speese 2712 Erskine st., were the hostesses to the Minute Men and Auxiliary at regular monthly meeting Sunday afternoon Sept. 7. Tht president Mr. A. R. Goodlett presided: he urge? members and friends of St. Johns to give your names to members ef the club and auxili aries for the Annual Birth-dated Calendar. The Watchmen will reherase at the eburch on Friday Sept. 12, at 8 p. m. The Every-Ready Clubs King Solomon’s Wedding is set for Mon ’’ day Sept. 29, at the church. Mrs. R. C. Price president oi this auxiliaries and the members desir* the 100 per cent support of the St. John’s membership in this worth while effort. Plan to attend ed now the King Solomon Wed •dgin Monday Sept. 29 at 8 p. m. T?outh People don’t forget j the following meetings: Sunday at 6 p. m. the Allen League, Wed nesday at 8 p. m. the Jetfiior Choir rehersal, and the Youth for Christ Club on Saturday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Turn ■» your Aii-ftequest num bers for the fourth an*d last All * request Program of this Confer, ence year Sunday Sept. 28. Mothers send your children to Sunday School every Sunday morning at 9:80 a. m. Attend our morning Services at 11 a. m. Our evening services at 7:30 p. m. Visitors and friends always wel come at St. John’s th^ friendly church at 22nd Willis ave. Come and worship with us won’t you? HILL SIDE PRE9BYT«RI'AN CHURCH „ Sunday School 9:30 a. m. Mern Serviees 11:00 a at.. Sernom September 7, “The Tr#t Of Life ” Th«lrila Newte Reporter IMMANUEL COMMUNITY CHURCH 2200 N. 28th ave., R*v. E. P. RMfey. Pa®tor CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD 2418 Parker 8tre«t C. W. F. F. Rev. 8. K. Nicbote, Pastor INDIAN FAIR IN ,► SMOKY MOUNTAINS Cherokee, N. C.—The 1947 Cher, okee indian fair to be held in the heart of the Smoky Mount ains will last from SeptemTW 23 to 28. The Pair will feature instrue mental and vocal mountain and (Jterokee music, indian stickball, > blowgun and archery contests, ih dian dancing, exhibitions of Indi an handicraft, fm-ming, industry **d ntodern building. ipta*.. ^ MpPE LUTHERAN CHURCH ,Kj SOft & Corby ^Bj H. H. Qcbaulard, Pastor Si CLEAVES TEMPLE C. M. E. CHURCH 29th A MeMtur at. C. P. Rainee, Mrs, J»»nie E»gli*h, Report** This, the first Sunday in Sept, and almost the close of a confer ence yeas, also the last Sunday (or Communion befor0 going to thg Annual Conference. We were granted the unusual prlvlege of kneeling around the alter and of. fering a prayer to God for our selves. The theme chosen by Rev. Raines Confidence In the Garee of Gpd, in individuals word is all that be can rightfully call his own . 'Hie Writer of the Psalms look upon himself as the carrier for the sheep of God. David was willing to risk his life for the sheep left in hie care. Jacob and Areh&m had confi dence in the Grace of God. He knows first how much we can bare. The second Sunday in Septem ber is Appreciation Day for our pastor, lat us all do our part in making this a memorial day for him. Let us always remember to pray fior the shut-ins. We appreciate having visitors in our seiwice eaeh Sunday; al ways feel at home. Florid as’ Schools Ready For Reopening By Dr. Leonard F. HorSe JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a few days all of Florida’s Negro schools and colleges will have! opened for thw 1947-48 term. Open- j ing this week are th« Walker ! Business College and Vocational | School and the Richardson Busi-j ness School, both in Jacksonville.1 Next week Florida A. and M. Col- j lege at Tallahassee will open, as | will Bethune-Cookman at Daytona Beach, Florida Normal at Saint Augustine, Fessenden Academy at Ocala Hungerford at Maitland and Edward Waters at Jacksonville. Edward Water Announces the Following Faculty, Rt. Rev. H. Y. Tookes, B. D., D. D., S. T. D., 1 Chancellor, Presiding Bishop. Amos J. White, A. B. A. 1£M 'LL. D. , President Ernest E. King, B. A. S., B. D., A. M.. Dean of the Seminary. Leonard F. Morse, A. B. Ed. B_ B. B. D„ A. M„ D. D., LL. D Vice Dean of Seminary. Julius C. Caldwell , B. S., Princi pal of thet High School. June Duncan, B. A, A. M„ French, Spanish. Samuel H. Cooke B. S., A. M„ Science. Amy H. King, A. B., M. Litt., English. Abram Henderson, Music. Grace E. Gray, Mus, B., Music. Luella G. White, B. S., Business. Cleo H. Williams, A. B„ A. M„ Home Economics. Doris Milledge, B. S., Home Economics. Marie B. May noe, A. D„ Elementary Education. Harriet Q. Myers, A. B„ English. Arthur Brown, B S_, Head Coach. Robert Morgan, B. S., Vocational Training. Joseph L. Joiner, B. S., B. D_, New Testament History. James I. King, A. B., B. D„ Old Testament History* Ali H. Thorpe B. S, Dean of Women. Alice M. Skinner, A. B., L. S., Librarian. Evelyn Hughes, A. D„ Junior High School. Redman Berry, A. B., Jun ior High School. Many Counties Increasing School Terms Many Florida counties are in creasing the length of their school terms. Both Colored and white teachers are receiving salary in creases in Duval and other Florida counties. Nearly all Florida coun ties are conducting special teach ers seminars for two weeks or a month preceding the school term or immediately following it. WELL BABY CLINIC AT W. VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE INSTITUTE, W. Ya.— A Well Baby Clinic was sponsored at the West Virginia State College Health Center, Mrs. C. B. Hami ton, R N, in charge for the De partment of Health. Physical Edu cation and Safety, De. C. C. Haw kins. Director. This practical community enterprise was pro. | moted by the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Nu Chapter, under the aid of the Kanawha County Health Unit. Thg first clinic was held Febr uary 6. 1947 and once monthly thereafter. The largest enroll ments vere in July and August when 19 to 21 babies wers given the benefit of clinical checking and recommendations. . BISHOP WILLIAM MJTTCHELL OF ST LOUIS TO SPEAK AT CHRIST TEMPLE CHURCH Bishop Wm. MlttcheU of 8t. Louis, Mo, newly appointed Bis hop of the Western Diocese t&e Church of Christ (H) U. 8. A, will speak at Christ T. Temple Church of Christ (H) U. 8. A. 29 and Burdette «t, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Sept. I#17. Bishop Mittchell will accompany Rev. C. L. Qarhee and family to Los Angeles, Cal, where h« will confer with Bishop C. P. Jones Sr. Bishop of the Church of Chirst (H) U. 3. A. before, completing his tour of the Western Diocese. The Rev. Carhee will assume the duties of Pastor at Christ Temple Church of Los Angeles, California, The Road to Health By W. A. Davis, M. D. RABIES MACON, Ga. — A young boy came running into my office the other day in a very frightened state. His hand was bleeding and he told me in an anxious voice that he had been bitten by a “mad dog.” I immediately washed out the wound thoroughly with soap and water and then bandaged it. Mean while, I tried to calm and reassure my young patient and get him to tell me about the accident. I told h imthat, even if the dog were ‘ mad’’ and he had caught rabies, I could give him medical treat ment and he would not die. I was glad he had come to my office so quickly. He had been riding his bicycle down the street and had accident, aily bumped into the dog, runn. ing over its paw. The dog chased him along the sidewalk and bit his hand when he waved his arm to try to frighten the dog away. He said with a touch of chagrin, “This is the first time a dog ever bit me. I Jike dogs.’’ Thep he look, ed worried again and said, “But I’m going to tell my father and have him find that dog and shoot him. Whw, suppose I do get rabies He looked at me in fright. I explained to him he would not get rabies unless the dqg was mad—and that all dogs that bite are not mad. However, since a mad dog hod been found in the j neighborhood recently I though it] best to take no chance. So I told the boy I would give him certain inoculations to protect him in case the dog did have rabies. The boy agreed to this and I gave him an inoculation, telling him to come back in a few days for another one, as the inocula tions are given in a series. If a dog really does have rabies and the inoculations are not start ed immediately after the bite, the germs will travel from the place where the person is bitten to the spinal cord and to the brain, lead ing to death. This may take sever al weeks. If the bite is on the bite is on the face or neck, the germs travel to the brain more quickly than they do when the bite is elsewhere on the body. My young patient still wanted his father to find the dog and shoot it. I suggested that instead of doing this he ask his father to call the dog catcher. After all, we wouldn’t want his father to takg the chance of being bitten, too,especially if it turned out that the dog really was mad. I told the boy the dog catcher would shut the dog Up in a place where he could not get out and bite anyone else. Hg would keep the dog under observation for two weeks at least. If the dog dW have rabies, he would die during that period. As it turned out, the dog was yhot mad find v^aa [released, I could stop giving the inoculations to my young patient who, how ever, agreed with me that wfi did t the best thing when we started the inoculations, as we were “playing safe’’. Anyong who is bitten by any dog should go to the doctor lm meaditely. He should also tell the city authorities about the dog s® they can search for it and when they find him keep him under ob servation until they can deter. mine whether the dog has rabies. ——■ 4 iMcktkta^Chdrj H you have knockabout ekaias la the sunaoom or cm “sabbatical leave" from lbs van—«r peach- and fhxit aspearaaM is ul averyQdkg yea, dasta, eeasider aaakiag staple drwrin fcgifca. rtestreagfab M mm tfcfcttg ar *Mdk to last color*, sa they t.l* be tossed regu larly ipto the washing machine. Lynching Is Murder... By flljmdfife Alicfe Rich There are many people in this country of good intentions, whq^e hearts are in the right places They honestly believe Jfriat the United States means something Sometime ago the American prte* made a successful job in working up rightious indignation againsl the Batasm Death March, the hor rors of the German prison camps etc, but it looks like they very much overlooked the same prhc ticea right here under the Stars ami Stripes, and the America* government doesn’t seem to t* abl« to do anything about it. Borne years ago William Q Summer wrote—"It would be 9 disgrace to us if amongst us men should burn a rattlesnake or a mad dog. Thte badness of the vie. tlm Is not bad enough, but be cause we are too good-It is evident, however that the public opinion is not educated up to this level,” Publio opinten on burnings and lynchings is ot yet educated np to the level where such barbari ties are impossibble. The number of ipictlms each year has decreas ed, ttart the savagery with which the smaller number of victims are tortured by American mobs is greater than that at the turn ,pf th^ century. This may be attribift ed paftly to the effort of the war the lust for blood and cruelty. On the other hand it is safe to as sume that had not the war oc cured, there would have been some increase in torture of lynch ing. Lynching in the United States was first directed- against the whites not Negroes. As late as 1885, more whites than Negroes were lynched—110 whites and S6 Negroes, in 1884, three times times as many whites as Negroes were lynched, or 160 whites and 51 Negroes. By 1890. seven times as many Negroes as whites were lynched during slavery. Masters protected their property and lyn chers were severely punished. The lynch orgy which has been the bane of American civilization established a higher record in 1946 than in the previous five years. The state of Georgia led the roster with four lynchings to its discredit, during July and Au. gust 1946. The total nifcnber amounted to six. The timely in tervention of officers of the law and interested persons snatched away from the mob 22 intended victims. In the last 50 years there havte been almost 4,000 lynchings in the United States. Mast of the occur ed in the South. The need not be a sentiment, alist to feel that such warping of the minds of the children is by far the worst aspect of lynching. In a community where lynching occurs there are thousands of spectators—including women and children, the effect upon the young minds are almost appaWng to be contemplated. In thg unoon scious of these immature minds are thus sown the seeds of lynch ing .Primitive impulses to vegea ance of violent character upon those whom the possessors of such minds do like are thus nourished and form one step to further mob murder. According to the moral law those who actively participate in a lynching are guilty of sin, that is those that concur in and con sent to the lynching in any way by, ‘ commanding, persuading, en. couraging, or inciting the lynch, ora to commit the crime. That is sheriffs, poliesmen, or anyone, who deliberately or thsough orim inal neglect fall to protect the lives of Negroes, must bare fall responsibility yto JGod for mob action against their charges. The lynch mob degrades not only itself and Its community, but it also degrades all Americans. Booker T. Washington wisely said “You cannot hold the Negro in the gutter unless thg white man stays in the gutter to hold him there.” j Lynching is but one phase in : the American pattern of race dis ! crimination, Just another aspect i of a general policy of subjugating the Negro, of denying him his basic natural rights. The European newspapers tell of our lynchings on their front pages. The lynchings have forced the British newspapers to break their' silence and voice openly their disgust they feel toward our lynchings. Britishers consider it one of the greatest blotches on American so-called democracy. Every instance of lynchings or mob violence gets hannerllned front page play in the daily and weekly newspapers in Europe. "Is the United States a Civilized Country?" asks the London Dai ly paper. "Trial by fury remains the unwritten lew of Anjmice's Sooth." they wrote. » Continued Next We*k b FROM A HEALTHIER,HAPPIER V A COMMUNITY RESULTING- } FROM THE RED FEATHER ^ SERVICES OF THE OMAHA V community CHEST THE CHEST LAST FALL. THIS IE fAOftfc THAN 1 GIFT FGJUTACWOF THE 63,000 ^CST/MATtO AtUWBEHOP ,WQU5EW0LCfS MC&A&FD TUlUTY^ DIFFERENT • \ I YOUTH ACTIVITIES A WEEK I WJRWETHE LAST WUXTER, N rA4su* fe- ------- 1 *" l MR* .HARRISON GIVES BIRTH TO SON Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison of 2124 Burdette st, are the proud garenta of a bbouncing baby boy weighing 8 lbs 8 oz; born August 23 at the hospital. I Mr. and Mrs. Johp Harrison named their son Edwaird William for his unple Edward William Killingsworth. Bi-Cameral Congress i Under its constitution. Chile has a bt-cuanaral congress elected di rectly by the people, as is Rie presi dent. The latter has samewhat the same power as the president of the United States. “Y” FESTIVAL OP SPORTS The annual “Y” Festival of Sfwrta, an open house athletic show, will be held at the Omaha Central Y. M. C. A. from 6:30 to 0:30 p. m. on Sept. 24th. This outstanding sports demon stration night will feature such popular activities as boxing, pad dig tennis, hand ball, shuffleboard badminton, squash mosquets, com petitive swimming exhibition, and volley ball, Everyone is cordially invited to come to the "Y” and spaad the evening learning about the vari ous sports while watching the experts perform. WILSON’S Wilson Trailer System Inc. Oldest Exclusive Distributors of Glider Trailers In America 118 So. Saddle Crk. Rd. ——■'1 1 -———■i—■■^ VETERANS TRAINING SERVICE APPROVES OF WIL&ERFOR'CE COLLEGE WILBERFORCE, Ohio — The office of Dr. Charles H. 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