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-• v gap Thursday, March 16. 1939 Franklin V. Miller, a student at Brevard Colloge, Brevard, spent the week-end here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Miller. Mrs. L. A. Jackson returned to her home in Greensboro Saturday after a two weeks' visit with her mother, Mrs. Ha D. Burch, and other relatives at Rusk. Mrs. J. A. Swift, of State Road, is spending this week in Winston- Salem, the guest of her daugh ters, Mrs. E. C. Adams and Miss Irene Swift. Grady Jenkins, of Winston-Sa- Jem, spent Sunday at Rusk with * relatives. He was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. R. A. Jenkins, and sister. Miss Edna Jenkins. Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Totten and son, Johnny, of Beckley, W. Va., were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Reece, at their home on Bridge street. Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Gilliam and son. Samuel, of Statesville, were the week-end guests of Mrs. Sam T. Ray, at her home on West Mam street. Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Reeves of . this city, announce the birth of a ' daughter, at the Baptist hospital in Winston-Salem, March 14, 1939. Mrs. Edward Voss will return to her home in Greensboro today, following a visit of several days to her mother, Mrs. E. C. Grier, at her home on Bridge street. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Somers of this city, announce the birth of a son, at the Wilkes hospital, in North Wilkesboro, March 11, 1939. Misses Lesbia Graham and Nancy Click, students at the Woman's College of the Unver sity of North Carolina. Greens * boro, spent the week-end here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Graham and Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Click. Read This Big Economy Story! COLDK MAKING HgpH H Silent "POLAR POWER" Sealed Unit sets new records for low operating costs—yet gives all the refrigeration you'll ever need... enough to do the everyday job of FIVE ordinary refrigerators. NEW FEATURES that let you pack in jre fooc I s 10 CASH I k^w|S 24 MONTHS TO I PAY BALANCE | Kehriiiator ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR THE CHAMPION ICE-MAKER uAf. POWER COMPANY Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Wagoner spent the week-end in Boonville, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John ny Canipe, the latter a sister of Mrs. Wagoner. T. E. Burgiss spent Saturday at South River, near Turnersburg, visiting his brother, James Bur giss, who is critically ill suffering from influenza and complications. Mable Dare Tllley. of Chapel Hill, arrived Tuesday for a visit of several days to Misses Clyde and Madeline Myers, at their home on Gwyn avenue. Ben Kirkman, of High Point, and Robert Kirkman, of Win ston-Salem, were the week-end guests of their mother, Mrs. R. L. Kirkman, at her home on West Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Billings, of North Wilkesboro, announce the birth of a son, William Phillip, on March 9. Mrs. Billings was form erly owner of the Lady Fair Beauty Shoppe in this city. Friends of Mrs. R. L. Hubbard will be glad to know that die is much improved from a serious ill ness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Raymond Harris, to Win ston-Salem. Miss Amy Catherine Myers, a student at Meredith College, Ral eigh, spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Myers, at their home on West Mam street. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Griffeth and daughter, Saralee, of Char lotte, spent Sunday here the guests of Mrs. W. E. Paul and family, at their home on Terrace Avenue. Miss Mary Elizabeth Foster, a student at Meredith College, Ra leigh, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Foster, of this city, is a member of the sophomore bask etball team of the college, which won in the recent intramural tournament. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKiN, NORTH CAROLINA Edwin Royall, Henry Dillon, Hoke Cockerham and Worth Fol ger, students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, are spending the spring holidays here with their respective families. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Buuke meyer of Kemersville, were the week-end guests of Mrs. Bunke rr eyer's parents. Mr. and Mrs. J3. C. Magulre, at their home on Gwyn Avenue. Miss Oleen Norman, a student nurse at the City Memorial hos pital, Winston-Salem, spent the week-end here the guest cf her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Nor man, at their home on Gwyn ave nue. Mrs. Beatrice Myers Ph'llips and son, Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. McDaniel and Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Smith moved the early part of the week to the newly finished Mitchell apartments, on Bridge street. | Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Henderson and Mrs. Henderson's mother, Mrs. Berkshire, all of Chicago, arrived Tuesday for a visit with Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Nicks, the lat ter a sister of Dr. Henderson, at their home on Main street. James Gray, Lon Dillon, Mc- Neer Fields, Alexander Smith and Russell Burcham, students at North Carolina State College, Ra leigh, will arrive this week to spend the spring holidays with their respective families. Mrs. J. S. Atkinson returned i Sunday from Charlotte, where she was the guest for several days of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Atkinson, the former her son. Sam Atkin son went down for the day Sun day and to accompany her home. Miss Mary Frances Futrell, of Nashville, a student at the Wom an's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, spent the week-end here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Bryan, the former her uncle, at their home on West Main street. Mrs. W. W. Whitaker of this city, accompanied by her daugh ter, Mrs. Hoy Moose, of Mount Pleasant, left Sunday for New York, where they will spend a week attending the Flower Show and visiting other interesting places. Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Maguire moved Monday from Gwyn Ave nue to the Totten house on West Main street, recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wall, who have moved into the newly com pleted Mitchell apartments. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harris, who have been living in the Poindexter apartments, will have an apart ment in the Maguire home. Glenn Bailey has bought the Maguire property on Gwyn Avenue from his father, M. R. Bailey. WITH THE SICK The following patients have been admitted to the local hospi tal during the past week: Mrs. Gladys Cobb, Dobson; Clyde Eller, Elkin; Robert Lank ford, Elkin; H. 8. Reinhardt, Statesville; Russell Johnson, Elk in; Willie Mullis, Hamptonville; James Johnson, Dobson; Mrs. Lottie Cook, Jonesville; Or a Sparks, Boonville; Mrs. Inez Hamlin, Dobson; Paul Gwyn, Elkin; Johnny Jenkins, Jones ville. Patients dismissed during the week were: Rhetta Ladd, Hamp tonville; Mrs. Sarah Driver. Boonville; Denver Hayes, Ben ham; Hampton Vestal, East Bend; Mrs. Thelma Chatman, Elkin; Blanche Wellborn, Ronda; Lawrence Harris, Seaboard; Odell Clanton, Union Grove; Ray Nor man, East Bend; Mrs. Bessie Pish, Mooresville; Robert Lank ford, Elkin; Mary Sale, Elkin. TO AWARD PETE LEA EAGLE SCOUT RANK Sunday at the close of the ev ening hour of worship at the Methodift church a call meeting of the Boy Scout Court of Honor will be held for the purpose of awarding the Eagle Scout badge to Pete Lea. Young Lea, who is at present a student at North Carolina State College, Raleigh', is a member of Troop 48 of this city and has been active for several years in the work of the Elkin, Winston- Salem and Uhwarie councils. The public is cordially Invited to attend. FARM SECURITY RECORD BOOK WORK EXPLAINED Clyde O. Bickle, county RR su pervisor, for Surry and Yadkin counties, directed a meeting and gave instructions on the record book plan, assisted by Miss Linda L. Bailey, home management su pervisor, and Clifton Pratt, as sistant county RR supervisor. There was good attendance at the meeting, approximately 40 being, present and very anxious to learn the methods of keeping farm and Home records. After the meeting loan checks were given out for present needs of farming equipment, and ferti lizer. Wants 49th Stale «mhmb x f w Jm m DETROIT, Mich. . . . The secession of five counties from the State of Michigan to organise a forty-ninth state was visualized today by Coun cilman John A. Kronk. Councilman Kronk also says another state would square up the United States flag. [TODAY] i TOMORROw i PRANK PARKE* II | BTO.C K BR ID OE H WASHINGTON .... arts Whenever I have an opportun ity to roam around Washington, where I lived and went to school from the time I was ten until I was 21, I get new impressions of the Nation's Capital, and the peo ple who live in it. More and more I am impressed with the feeling that Washing ton is becoming the nation's cen ter not only politically but in the fields of science and the arts, as well as of information on every imaginable subject. In the Library of Congress, for example, there are more books and documents than in any other one place in the world, all index ed and available for reference. A new eight-million-dollar annex has just been added to the Li brary to accommodate the grow ing store of knowledge on every subject under the sun. j The new National Art Gallery, the gift of the late Andrew Mel lon, is nearlng completion. It will house the finest collection of paintings in the world, in addi tion to two great art. collections already in Washington. Nearly all the important scientific societies have headquarters in Washing ton, and more and more nation al business organizations are es tablishing themselves in the Cap ital also. PEOPLES . . . . . Negroes Every race and nation of the world is represented in Washing ton, either by an ambassador and bis staff, or by larger groups. Of the racial strains which make up the American people there is a higher percentage of Negroes than the average/for the whole nation. The largest Negro institution of learning, Howard University, is located in Washing ton, turning out doctors, lawyers and teachers who go forth to serve the people of their own race. There is a large number of Ne feToes of both sexes employed in the Government offices. Nearly all official elevators are run by colored girls, and the messenger, doorkeeper and janitor staffs of the departments are practically all Negroes. They get good pay, life jobs and pensions at retire ment age. A few Negroes hold ieally important Government po sitions, but they are the excep tions. The majority of Washington Negroes live in alley slums, which furnish about the worst living conditions to be found in any large city. Many public officials have tried to do something about the Washington slums, but little has been done effectively. VOTES segregation For years there has been a strong movement to give the cit izens of the District of Columbia the right to vote. 80 many of those holding Government offices, however, find it important to re tain their voting residences in their home states, that the move ment to give the District resi dents the franchise has been blocked by the fear of Negro con trol of the.local government as much as by any. other one cause. Nearly a third of Washington's permanent residents are Negroes. While separate schools are pro vided for the colored folk, they cannot legally be segregated in street cars or excluded from seats in theaters. Once across the Potomac, In Virginia, Negroes have to ride in "Jim Crow" cars. PREJUDICE .... equality I seem to have got into a dis cussion of racial prejudices. That subject is up toward the top of world discussions right now. It i& almost unescapable. I know lew, If any, persons who Ido not have a feeling that some ox all people of other races tinm : their own are Inferior in one way or another. I believe that is on inherent and Ineradicable trait nf human nature. Bat such prej udices are no excuse far depriv ing those we dislike of their oom mon human rights. We can admire the achieve ments of persons of a different race without giving a blanket en dorsement of the whole race. The wise thing, it seems to me, is to tolerate all races and welcome whatever contributions they can make to the general good, with out either banishing them, as Hitler is doing with the Jews, or opening the doors of our private lives to them. Equality under the law Is one thing, which every good Ameri can should insist upon, especially if the legal rights of one of an other race are infringed. But social equality Is something else. The right to choose pne's asso ciates and friends is as sacred as the right to worship according to one's individual conscience. MUSIC .... achievements There are two races which stand out among .all others for their achievements in the field of music. They are the Jews and the Negroes. Probably a major ity of the outstanding musicians of the past two centuries have been Jews. Certainly musical ability is more common among Negroes than among the white races generally. Many eminent critics of today acclaim Marian Anderson, a Ne gress, as the greatest singer of modern tmes. In Washington no hall large enough U> hold the crowds who want to hear her be obtained. The largest auditorium in the Nation's Capital is Constitution Hall, which is owned by the BASKETERIA STORES SPECIAL! SPECIAL! SPECIAL! 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The Men's Shop Herman Guyer Phone 199 Barrett Lankford The ladles are, of course, en tirely within their rights. There probably are few if any Jewish members of the DJLR., and cer tainly no Negroes. But racial prejudices are racial prejudices and the line is drawn sharply in Washington, even against a great artist.
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