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Fage EIGHT THE CAROLINA TIMES Elks Parade Thrills Pittsburgh Negro rontiniitt) frwni P*p«' >np •iffTM often. If somethin? fs not hj Uie U. S. Army soon, I aot be surprised to se^ a ■M^jor battl# between Negro and white soldiers. It scejns that aane top people want southeru USA trtasferred over here. Kv,*i Mr. Bondy from the American V«d Cross ' is over here trying M find reasons for moving the PC lor m] elnbs (clubs staffed by KigroM) ont of Certain cities, because it is said that oertaia yeopte mast be satisfied. One of ttiTTn ia Mr. Qibson, the Aflieriean Red Cross eommias- ionar in Great Britain. One o£ kia excases is that he under stood tbat the Negro persoun.‘t vtre too hic:hly skilled in their jobs. “White officers are behind ■ost of the trouble. They have •ven canvassed communities, telliDf the residents and busi- acss people not to serve or as sociate with the Negroes (whom they command and get their promotion off. The few Negro officers treated as bad by tkeif feilow officers. There are some fair minded officers, but they are not permitted to do ■lach because, they are not pro moted and are shifted in many ihstaoees from place to place. ^‘■Have seen a couple of col- «aek who were Troops Elks ( ontinHPil from ]’«"(* One conntry, and tho f'anal Zone to e.stnhlish new lodgc.s. Hr s.'iid lie had burnfd scores of mort^ngea on Klk homes with Tnlup of $350,000, and added that more th.nn $5,O0O,OflO in war bonds hns befn sold to Elk: TVilson’.s service resulted in his appointment ns a member of the advi.sory committee to the F. S. Treasnrey deportment. Di.senssions in the Tm.iinea.i .se?i.sion will concern recnmmend- ationR that 1) tbe balance of the •sinkinfr nnd othter fnnd.? be in- Tp.sted in Series F 'wnr bonds; 2) thnt the Indjre support eve^y movement JesTirnPd to protnot** traininjr of Negroea in indu"*- trinl, art.*!, crflft nnd other tradp occnpationa; 3) thnt mornl sup port be given Nep^roe.s \vho at tempted to secure union affilia tion; 4) thnt group insurance for Flkff'be studied; ami 5) thnt “open bnr.s” in Elks hom- eff be i^iminated. Opeti Jjara was denlt with at Cleveland six years npo where rules governing bars were adpt- ed, but since thnt time many violations hnve been reported reiluoed efl'ii-iein’y and mornie. I’d.st offii-e officials therefor" nre urging every per.son with « friend or relative in tl]e .sii vicc to get their mail in between the preseribed dutes. Principle rules for mailiiit? thf'se Christmas packages are (1) tht* parcels must not exceed five pounds, or be more than l-'i inches long and 30 inches in length nnd width combiniel; 2) not more than one package may he mailed in the same week to the same service man or for the same mailer, and such packages must be marked “Christmas Parcel” to call attention to its delivery before the December 25 Tioliday; 3^ contents should be tightly packed fn a strong box of ' nfetal, wood or similar material, wrapped in heavy paper and tied, with twine, but arranged so that the censor can inspe/'t such as fruits are prohibited; 5) intoxicants and inflammabl- f« such as fluids, matches, and poisons are also prescribed; anl G) sharpe articles like razors, knives and glass object must be packed so that they will not break and injure postal per sonnel. NNBL IN MOST SUCCESSFUL MEET AT BALTIMORE LAST WEEK; SPAULDING KEYNOTE SPEAKER .'\s.Toeiflti d Ni'.th) Press li U-TIMOIU'., Md. — Negro pje are playing in the wor pre- Busiiic."-.' .\i>w and in the Po^t dieted that the post-war period -War Perio; ,' vnn the theme ■^ould bring about many chang- which spai’keti the National Ne-' a^d that “our colored neigh- gro Business league in its 43rd bors will emerge with the res pect and appreciation * cf all.’ i ^ ^ _ ■ A, ,0» ^.,1 annual convention held in Balti more last Wednesday through Friday. With the largest at tendance since the days of Book er T. Washington, tfie founder of the league, delegations coming from a score of different cities as far north as Boston and Ncat York and as far west as Texas, with southern Florida feending representatives from half a doz en cities, the widespread inter est in business today was well exemplified. As an evidence of the new ap preciation of the vital part which commercial enterprise must play in the future of the race, President J. E. Walker of | Memphis pointed out that the | “Why Not Play Football AtN. a College This Fall?”-“Shorty” Davis All Small Colleges To Have Teams Former Tuskegee so you will be equal before m.nn, the governor said. In the great work of organiza tion, production, transportation and combat which characteriz*? this war, I am proud to be on« of those who can attest to and record the fact that the men an8 women of the great Negrc race of these United States ai*o at the forefront in every acti vity,” said Mayor McKeldi:). “You are on farm, in mine, in the production of ships and plan es and the tools and engines of combat, in the fox holes and on the battle lines on land and tiMtir erecutive officers are! , , . — 13- J I nnder privnte owneri?nip. ©▼er. Th« Negro soldier is doing | , , . Meml»ers in several cities, it has very good, bat . . , * , p,. I be n chnrsred, opernto the bars Those . _ ... . pniltv of the prnctice hnve in- ^ "’ey ''ill »ithflr.w a« s jeih AH h« wants is to be i , „ „ , , , - like a soldier Negro t>«stsd like a Vn.. if the grnnd lodge - ,, t„|Sea, fighting, steering, dying nicomc this year from delegates, heritage of liberty bestowed upon your race by Abraham Lincoln shall ba preserved in this generation for ••Idiers want Negro officers. l^kMr conduct on a whole is e.v esUent . *‘If you can convince the ■white officer that each Negn soldier wants to get home to hi^ •olorcd wife or friend, you can do • food job. These boys arc Bot excited by the white girl.^ even thouerh they are sought out by the girls in many cases. the whole thing seems hinge on the friendship of thi Negro and the white girl. Many soldiers are in a low frame of mind, and if they were not reaJ soldiers, I a mconvinceJ that the enemy would be trying to work on them. However, it is possible that the enemy is helpiof these riots to break out Sinee the tension is so great. > “The American Negro sold ier is often fined his entire •sslarjr or more for the smallest lufraction. Oftimes they must ^ trSTel 20 miles to another town p^rchf^ie of to have a little fun. The Negro I Red Cross worker is being r> interferes. Other features of the openin-r of the convention was an ad dress by Pr. Willinm J. Thomp- kina, recorder of deeds for tha (listrict of Rolumbia and chair- niatl ttf the health commission, who expressed fenvs “lest th-' succesi? of the allies he endan gered by failure to kepp oursel ves phvsieally fit.” T>r. Thompkins said fbnt a1- thoTjg h“ we now have 4,000 or .'i.OOO physicians, we need S,- 000 more. But any armv call for r»00 more Negro phvsieinn would grentlv endanper tha^'henlth of our Negro ponuluntion.” He urg ed thnt dentists distribute them selves amonff small arena whrr** they are sor^v needed rather than foncentrntnp’ ns in the past on large nrbnn districts. and branch fees was nearly 30 times what it was when the .lea- i gne and its steering committee began the new program in Okla homa City Tour yeaVs ago. Ho said that a deepening and widen ing of the work of" the league would result. Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr.^ of the United States trea sury; Gov. Herbert O’Connor of Maryland, Mayor Theodore Mc- Keldin of Baltimore shared the program with President J. E..- Walker of the league on the first night meeting held in his toric Bethel AME church and which filled that edifice with Press Continued from Page One fore it could be put intb effect. His present service began in 1942 when he was commissioned a captain and assign- fd as commanding officer of the lilitary Police Detachment at Fort Huachuca. Captain Roberts studied engineering at Kansas State Agriculture College after which he* entered the advertising | people. I Mr. Morgenthau, making one Lieutenant Day also a resi-' of his first utterances in the | they differ in method of dent of Chicago, entered the U. j new governmental drive for lo | proach to our problems S. Army in 1941 when the 8th j billion dollars pointed to the them and for all of us wno are joined together fighting f o i freedom of America ^nd maa- kind.” Dr. Walker in his annual de parting from his description of work being done by Negro businessmen called for “an un derstanding among the leader- shib of our people.” “It is foolhardly for the so- called radicals to criticcize the so-called conservatives,” Dr. Walker said, “or for the so- Meet At Fort Knox JUSKEGKE, Ala.- — A news release received by th‘* Presid ent of Tuskegeo Institute, Dr. F. D. Patterson, from the Special Service Bureau, 375th General Service Hegiment, Fort Knox, Kentucky, states that “Pvt.-s,Arnold Lewis, of Galves ton, Texas, a former track cap tain'of Tuskegee Institute, took third place in the Fort Knox track meet on August 19. Com peting in the three mile run for the ^5th Engineers, General S'ervJice Regiment, iP'vt. Lewis ran a great race in KI His time was 19 minntes, 27 seconds. He has been appointed a member of th*e Port Knox cros.i country team which will com pete in Louisville, Kentucky, on Turkey Day. Pvt. Lewis will soon be a noncommissioned Officer in the engineering department last September, and at the time of his appointment as an officer candidate held the rank of First Sergeant. He was “Topkiek of the 01st Aviation Squardron. At Tuskegee, Conley was captain in the Reserve Officfr^ Training Corps unit. After graduation he worjted, as a civi-( lian in the Sub-Depot at the Tuskegee Army Air Field, Ala. He is a native of Livingston, Ala. This Season BY SHORTY DAVIS Conley was well-known on the Tuskegee campus and his rapid advancement in the Army of the United States. Shaw 'University shaes. | Announces New Pre- Theology Course *K)000 of the 375th Engineer General Service Regiment.” , I Infantry Regiment of the Illin- I ois National Guard was federa- li/.ed and became the 184th Field : Artillery. He had been a mem ber of the Natinal Guard since 11938 and was commissioned a second lieutenant, Field Artill ery in 1941 and in 1942 was pro moted to first lieutenant. ' His present assignment is with the 931st Field Artillery Battallion at Camp Forrest, Tennessee as Battery executive officer. Lieu- called conservatives to criticise the so-called radicals becau.?c ap- The in war bonds, I goal of all Negroes is the same dire necessity ; whether they live in Bostoj, Mass., or in Jacksonville, Fla.'* j C. C. Spaulding of Durham. for funds to finance this mo3t costly war in history. The secre tary paid tribute to the valor of | N. C., president emeritus of the Negro troops, singling out th» | league, delivering the keynote RALEIGH — Shaw University, _ „ f e Prs College is announces the organization oi ” an undergraduate program of Religious Education which will provide undergraduate course.s ' preparing students to be religi- Lewis was aidely known *'ud j oug education workers, niission- highly regarded by both stu-j field workers or a iniiiis- dents and teachers while enroll- {oj- ^ho may enter the school ed at Tuskegee Institute nndj-Qf Religion and pursue courses they will be glad to learn that ^ leading to the Bachelor oE he is carrying on his trnck acti- Divinity deg/ee. The concentrat ed program of pre-theological training will inable a high school graduate to complete tho pre-theological course of three GREENSBORO — Just as 1 got off the bus Monday 'iftcrnooii ill front of the Red Lir.tern, I met Sgt. Henry, stationed at A and T College. I was ^^talkin^ with him concerning A and T ’3 football team this year. Ho toM met that they were going to have a football team this year, while we were standing there talking, DeBerry passed in his car, Sgt. Henry said there goes A and T’s conch now and I told him I want ed ^o see him about a schedule. Sgt. Henry said they opened their first game with Winston- Salem Teachers College in early September and I thought to myself, if Winston Salem Teach- going to have a football team, any school can afford one. They always have had the smallest group of boys of any school in the state of North Carolina. vities in such a satisfactory manner for the Army. The Office of Public Rela tions at Moore Field, Texas, at so informed President Patterson I academic years of training which exploit of Dorie Miller of whom he said, “Many of us would giv« our last dollar if we could wear the Navy cross which was won by Dorie Miller ait Pearl HaibOf. He heard the impressive citation which went with Miller’s award. “Your government needs the help of every one of your,” np to them for leadership. Also the American Bed Cross workers •re not wearing bandana hand- —The U .8. arm>’ is to blame for most of I tent Day attended Crane .Junior ^ Mti R R Wri"ht nresident ^ College, Lewis Institute, and the i Morgenthau said. You did P 1 n-.- T ' i? I 'Chicago Art Institute {excellent job before but the re- of the ^>ti='^ns Swings Bank | Chicago Art Institute. ms o., la 1 p la, c imax j Both officers have been on enough. During September j'ou ♦inn^non I Washington ! are going to be asked to person- • ’ I for three days and will proceed : ally invest two week’s pay id j back to their stations after | the supreme effort to win this j which they will report to the • war and get it over with.” — i^iireaii for permanent duty. [ jGoy. O’iConner, praise dloqu- • I enly the parf^^nTiich^Negro peo- j address at the Wednesday se3.«- in at the, MasonTe temple said, “I believe Negroes are making progress in business today. There is a revival of ronfidenre among our people. We own two and a half billion dollars as a race. We have 40 odd life insur ance companies operating success fully, employing seven or eight thousand people. Let’s ’et the colored of our skins not have anything to do with the way we j run our businesses. Ciena np your businesses. Make them I look like the other man’s husi- ! ness. Let’s not have Negro busi- | ness but business cdnduucted i that “James M. Conley, Tuske. gee graduate (B. S. ’41), has left this Army Air Forces Flying School for Air Forces Adminis trative Officer Candidate School at Miami, Florida. He arrived here as a private Ruth Taylor will quality a student to be ad mitted to the school of Religion according to statenupnts made by Dean John L. Tilley of the Shaw School of Religion. Both the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Divinity de grees can therefore by earned in a period of five years. A stud-j had forty or fifty ent pursing this ^concentrated out for the team in North Carolihn College liaT planned to drop football for the duration, duo to the shortage of manpower, but if you can remem ber correctly, back in 1937 Coach William Burghart, head coach at North Carolinn (^ollege played an eight game schedule that year and won only one CIAA game that season. The following fall they won only two confer ence games and those teams were, St. Augustine College ind St. Paul Normal Institute. If you can see in any way, why they should be ashamed to pl.iy football this fall on account of a small group of men, when they men to go 1937-38 and the ers won't give the ifth Iruubk Continued from Page One they bad been referred by the [Ouebec conference tTollUiiued j*rum Page T'oui column business agent oi their lopai. Tli' not the fifth column. The offic- business agent immediately re- jw^ers prepared against the rising menace of attack. The Rus- a chance.” ; ported the case tothe Com- ‘ with 12 million trained reserves and more millions on tap. Rus- ■ mittee and, on the next requisi- f.sian arms al.so grew—tanks, guns, planes by thousands and lac- ! tion from the project, referred i tories for more thousands—scores of submarines for the Pacit- four Negroes. ic, a modemizsd fleet foi'the Baltic and the Black Sea—all these j On the advice of the Com- tfot ready. They were big and many and strong. They ■ mittee also, the business agent were a young people; a hundred, and ten million strong of them I took up the matter with the pro- Hospital Continued from Page One p tions. Approximately 20 fresii- I .i'’*^t men students have been accept ed for enrollment in the Septeui iter 1st class, which will give a total eDrollment of a]>proxiiuate- ly 50 students. Continued from Page One ^e men expected to be calisted was a small plot frooBd,.but has been expanded S)|U> even different camps be- es«se of the increased and enrol meat. Montford Point Camp No If although in process of con- ftrsetion is being partially used tmr tii^tralaing of new rccruiti. 1^ |i Isrgw than ail the othe* 4M99 pvt together. Adnition.^l are planned for the la the future and these will reeiived their basic .Mdtff We. foreman and was told that a number of the white worker.s had threatened to walk off when Negroes were put on the job. The union official promptly informed the foreman that h;> would “replace any operating rngineer who quit for such a rea son. Two more Negroes have since been added to the project. There has been no work stopp age. were under 30, knowing only tha new Russia. For the New Russia, as Russians and as ^cialits, they were ready to light , and suffer and die. Which they are doing. Mail Continued from Page One men depend upon mail almost a5 much as they do food for th-> 1»est morale and frequently in terrupt mess or delay mess when it conflicts with mail call. They have sad that arrival of mail home results in a distinct The wap has been unl>elievably hard for Russia. At least half a million square miles of her land were overrun. Her third and fourth citie.s ware taken, her two largest, Moscow and Leningradi, besieged and battered. Tens of millions of her peo ple are still under the invader’s hsel. Millions of her finest young men are dead or wounded. The "scorched earth” ))olicy, ap plied by both sides, has destro.ved untold Russian wealth. The defiance of the Russians, blowing up their own hard-built dam« and wr«H!king their own mines, was outdone only by the fury of the bafflad Nazis burning and slaughtering in retreat. The Russians are still fightingi, on the 2,000-mile front, in the great factories, and behind the enemy lines. Th3y know their cause is just, and they know that they will wim The above is a word picture of the nation whose representa tives are already being, ignored in shaping the course of this war and are expected to be ignored in the shaping of the peace. This is thd nation that is being played with about a second front and an invitation to the various conferences held by Roosevelt and t}hurchill. Unless the common people of the United States and Great , Britain get busy they will nevsr get through paying the debts jof the present conflicts before they are going to be called upon lift for every man, and its delay .to pay for another war on a greater scale than that of thie pres- or ahsenC invariably results in | ent conflict. ; “We can’t afford riots,” Mr. I Sapulding continued. ‘You busi- I ness men must do everything ' poa.sihle in vour communities to prepent any indication of a riot. Get rid of the loafers. Build up I our communities. Let us teach . our people to be law-abiding citizens.i I Willard Allen, general chai-- man, and Reginald A. Gardner, bresident of the host organiza tion, the Maryland Association for the Promotion of Business Avho profided a wonderful back ground and excellent facilities for the convention, were the recipients of praise. Vice President George W. Cox of Durham, opened th'* \Vednesday evening meeting and Sec. Albon L. Holsey presented the officials to the guests and the audicnce. Dr. R. O’Hara Lanier, acting president of Hampton Instituto delivered the address on “Book er T. Washington Night,” speak j ing on the founder’s contribu tion to the economic progress ! of the Negro. The National Housewive’s league, Mrs. Fannie B. Peck of i Detroit, president, met simul- I taneously with the businessmen frequently appearing in discus- ions. The housewives conducted an interesting exhibit of business being carried n in vaorious citi- I wisp of fancy for the steady j flame of idealism. When our I cussedness rules, we obey our i prejudices — prejudices based I on lack of knowledge of our bro thers’ needs or motives. Just as. we need three branch es of government to check the usurption of power by any one, .so we need to let the three — head, heart and cussedness — rule onr thoughts. Unquestionably we must first think with our heads, for we need clear and logical thought. We need to face and assimilate facts, to b^ reatiatic ami prart cal in time of national tension. But we must also think with our hearts, that we may add the I leaven of compassion to our j thoughts, that wo may have I faith nnd hope and charity, I that we may work in harmony with our fellow Americans be- 1 cause we think in harmony with I them. To these two we must add the .spic« of cussedness, turning it from personal prejudices against people to an active det«rmina- tion to fight a thing - an evil wl^ioh seeks to divide and dis rupt, to set religion against re ligion, race against race, class against class - and Color again st color - an evil which seeks to control by destruction of tha*: iinity which is democracy. Who does YOUR thinkingf You are but one - but as YOU and YOU and YOU think, so will the nation act. Tli.e r^pAnaibi- lity is great - and it is up to you! course will carry a full pVogramleould only win from one To two of studies for twc' regular school gainps a season, I would appreci- years and two twelve week sum-jate you telling me your reason, iner sessions. I Students maintaining satisfac-jy^rtrrrail tory school records during theirj 1 Cdl vyUlllIilCllUd tT;‘":^SiCovernor’s Interest conditions may be eligible to the! xk* , provision of the S,l««vc S»r- jj) DetfOlt RlOt vice classification in 2-A ac-| cording to an announcement is sued July 1, 1943 by tha Selec- ^;tve Service -^ - NEW YORK Dr. Max Yer- Ihe National Negro Coiijtress, today condemn- The Undergraduate (lepavt-L,,i the findings of Governor ment of Missionary and l{diE'‘||Kelly’s Commi.saion investigat- ons Education offers coursesrj,|g T^troit insurrection, and lending*to the Baohelor of .Arta|„t: tTre HaTfle ttine' ffTmmttniM thr degree providing opportunity ,]rive to secure men and women to prepare theni-l'i^^^yQ million signatures petition- selves for work as home orijjj,^. President RooSevelt to foreign missionaries,, teachersfifth pohamn in Am'*r- of Bible or Religious Educationjjjj.j, pptjt;j„n palls upon th.> in the public schools, director j to direct the Attorney of Religious Education or church immediate ae- secretaries in local churches. |],io„ the thirty three indicted seditionists to trial, and to arrest and proseente the lead- I rs of the Kii Klux Klan, th'! .\nieriean First Party, and other jknowi f'flh colnmnists operat- Ijing witiiiji tlio country. Brazilian Paper Devotes Supplement To Status of Negro 'I'be cjiinji.'iign to outlaw the Ivlnii is lisiiig initiated by the Nalioiial i'’eileration for Consti‘:u tional Liberties, the Internation al Labor Defense, and the Na tional Negro Congr(.»s. .. es. Panel discussions on various vital topics presented by ex perts and practical buusincss men crowded tfie three day sess ion. o o o o o RIO DE JANIERO — Reflect ing the growing concern of the races in this fiemTsphere a recent issue of a Rio de Janiero publi cation, “A Manha” devoted an entire supplement to the status of the Negro on “both Aineriein continents. Included in the group oiT ar ticles are such topics as Educa tion ttf 1.i\« Negro in the United States by Charles- Thompson, a bio-graphical sketch of James Weldon Johnson, the Role of Africa in the Americas by Me ville Herskoxitz, some poems by] Langston tHughes and an article'pends very largely by Franklin Frazier. cook. • The way to beat an inflation IS to wait it out. A joudnalist is an expert writer who needs no -facts. A philosopher ry about what think. does not vi^or* other people The sucesa of a meal upon J
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