SECTION j NEW LIBRARY SS RESULT OF JOINT EFFORT CHARGE DESK Mis MeJiie Husv-m Lc< kbr -L ,n ■ Re hard B. Kci-mcn Public Library, is shown sealed at the Charge Desk, overlookin > the main readme; -cam. Here borrowers sign out and return bocks for home use. ■ -n urntin-mi - - r-■rP~- > -'—***&&&>*»■ *>*ut*u,*ox*. • * *l* jfa******bu. -amt CHILDREN'S READING KGOM An o;>pcrt?:mty lor early in ir.e u f _: of library facilities which will result -n the more rapid ad ancetrcnf and biotidct knowledge on the pari of the school child is offered in the- new bu -ding - ; juvenile roLc’irg room which ;■> shown ab-ve. A collection of juvenile literature, rar.rpn Is • Moiher G <■•..• rhymes, Lory tales and similar reading matter for tiny lot., is housed in ini;. u r which also has number • . small tables and chairs for the use of the ycung folks. Other sec tier.- of the lib ary t.:. -; iko periodir/d veedir.-; room, arid rooms which house the Nerro 8..0k coilinners appro- : pruned the Sf’ boO pledged by May - • ' <>t Andrews without debate The j county followed suit with :i small.’. ; appropriation which boosted the total of public fund- to $3,250. . hi Nov- rrm. ; of 1935. ..pproxi inately !0 muiuits after the star* of drive, the Richard B T-farrisc-n . Public Library opened i-s doors in 1 rented store in ‘he 100 Block oi : East Hargett Street. When it opened, the library had in total of 890 volumes. During .the : first year of operation this number ! increased to 1.518. Oddly enough. • there were more borrowei s tnan, bt ■ ’*•? nd an average of at least. five es the library's 2.37 V members ! bo-rowed each hook. K A 1*11» GROWTH During the f (Having decade the H. Wallace Says Wo Quarter 9 in Figh t Fo r Righ ts WASHINGTON Declaring th.i*.,< .both President Truman and the Re-1 1 publican party had abandoned their c S civil rights programs, Henry WaJ-p 1 iact declared that the post-Civil!, War work of the Thaddt-us Stevens I. i Congress remains an unfinished task which must be completed if demo- j j cracy in this contry i> to remain i ; and expand.” He made the statement in an ad-1 ■ -dress before 500 people attending a ! ; W;.shingt--.n Wallace for President! I dinner at the Staiktr Hotel. Dr. | ! Joseph L. Johnson. Dean of Merii | c::l School of Howard University, ; was chairman, ! Wallace said that Congressman i John Rankin's recent statement that | there -would be unity in trie Dem ocratic Party on civil rights ques tions'' is the latest proof that thejt views of President Truman's civil j j j rights message “are not the veiws! of Mi Truman." j< CITES INACTION Wallace cited the fact that Tru- i ■ man took no action when Secretary !! of the Army Kenneth Royal! in-D structed the goveronr of New Jer-j -ey that segregation in the National I - Guard was in the interests of “na-[ tional security,” and that, on May i i 25 President Truman, “when asked j' j at his press conference whether an j Executive Order is being drafted to J prohibit employment discrimina- j Port in the Federal government, as- ! tor S'litif hesitancy Mr. Truman fin-j oily replied that no such order is; being drafted. Truman made his recent 8000- rmle swung across the coutry with- j out even mentioning directly civil j tights except to attack the Congress j led by Thaddeus Stevens whch was; ; vesponsbile for the 13th and 14th | ; Amendments, Wallace said Criticizing the Republicans for rights in their platform, Wallace! j their refusal 1o advocate full civil | ' charged that at the Philadelphia • library grew rapidly from the; standpoint of service, finance, : books and borrowers. rh.e original one-person staff w.c --: inci t\e-ed. The original store-front j -ite literally bursting at the seams; ns a result of the 11-fold Increase; m the number of books, was aug- ! minted Ly the opening of a branch; libs ar.v in Chavis Heights A bookmobile service was insti- > luted to meet the need of the zesi-i ; dents of Wake County. FOl eight days out of each month the book-; I mobih tr.ivi is an iverage of 383 1 miles, stopping at more than 50 j pom:■ in ihc county t schools* ! barbtj shops, churches, store- and. ! homes in order to leave books fori i tile countv resident;,. HO.SPHAi SERVED In the interests of the patients a* , St. Agnes Hospital a Hospital book j service, through which books and i ; magazines are carried So the bod j sides of the,, patients was also estab-l ; lishecl. By 1945 county and city appro : prialions plus $1,971.57 from the; | State Library fund had increased; ; the institution’s income from pub* ; lie monies to SB,IOO. By this time, however, the libra- • ! ry had outgrown its original loca-; tion, and a new drive was started to secure a permanent home which! would permit a better job of car rying on its existing services as! well as permitting space for the operation of new ones. Accordingly u new drive was : started for the securing of a new building' which would permit the setting aside of room- for adult and child reading, conferences, radio and recording listening mid other : associated library and community . activities. The building which is to be dedi cated on Thursday night icprestnls tin culmli alien of this drive. While 'much retr.ians which m v be dope, in order to increase the ability of the library to serve its community its record during the first thirteen : , year- oi its existence has been one ■1 rapid and steady improvement. The library staff is headed by Mrs. Mobile Huston Lee. chief li brarian. and M;ss Maude E Young '■ library clerk. Its activities are conducted un der mid supervised by a library board which consists of Mayor P 1.) Snipe;, chairman', die Rc v O S Li.iili , Mrs Juba B. Doi.mey Travis Tomflson. Dr. L E. McCau ley, Guyori Perry and A. T. White. GOP convention Republican lead ers handed out SSOO for parties to try and keep Negro delegates away from white delegates, ignored Ne gro representat;ves and refused to hear Magistrate Reynolds, their of ficia! appointed spokesman, on d - (Continued on page 8, 2nd Section) 1 6 N. C. Delegates Make 2,800 Mile Auto Trip To Attend NAACP Meet By J. B. HARREN Among the 600 delegates and observers attending the 39th An- ! nual Conference of the National : Association for thfe Advancement i of Color’d People in Kansas City, Missouri, June 22-27th were six j from North Carolina who com- ; posed a motor party doing the ' 2800 mile round t:ip, Mrs. B. G. Burnette, president of Tarboro Branch NAACP; Miss : Ivelia Pettiford, Spring Hope, j who won a SIOO free- trip to the conference, having been third in ; the State Conference “Miss j NAACP” contest last fall; Cleo pus Lucas, Spring Hope Youth Council member who represented 1 the Youth Councils of North | Carolina; J. L. Harrison, Mis. A. H. Harren, and J. B. Harren. eastern regional chairman of state NAACP activities, made up the group. Stops enroute were made at j Knoxville, Nashville and Mem phis, Tonn.; Little Rock and the jl Ozarks in Arkansas, From." St. i Louis through southern lilinois, j Indiana and Kentucky one is; amazed that you can drive more j than two hundred miles and not h see a dozen Negroes. However, 1 } i•’*•. -•' > .j '£■ ‘ / fa WORK ROOM A major part of the activity of any smoothly functioning library fakes place behind the scenes. Here is shown, the workroom of ihe Richard B. Harr; n Library which will conduct she formal dedication of its new building on Thursday night. Show in the picture are Mrs. Anne E. Robinson, assistant librarian and Miss Maude E. Young, lib r clerk. 34TH INFANTRY MARKS SAN m \ ANNIVERSARY TOKYO (ANP) - The famed ; 24th Int'anti",' rc.'';i . •• w!u h \v:i? 1 i transferred to Japan fiom Okinuv.,i j last year, celebrated the 50th e.imi-, versary of the battle »f San Jua.i Kill here Thursday. July 1. Hagi , light of the celebration was the j singing of a commemoc.diw ■ - 1 set Vo words written by Delos Avcrv Chicago Tribune c-ilumnisi. ’ cr.ti'ltd "San Juan Hill" i Organized m 1882. the re tin, on; saw hard combat in the Spanish- ' Americc.n war mrl p,articip cc.-d m : ihc Sr.-i Juan Hill victory it -.vo-R 1 , ; 'Continued on page f\ 2nd Scut ;.>ru luo (loioiTi! leachers Hired In New Jer*c\ EAST ORANGE N Y • ANPi jT'ic public schools f Last Orange will employ ;\vo coloicd .cr; : > begmninc m September, Joseph 1. Bustard, assistant comrm.-smiie- ot education ar.d the administraior of :h<- division against discriminaiion of the state department of educa tion. ermonneed lost w;el; This will make the fourth Es-cx County c-onnmtiruty to employ Ku tj. o tcrchers to tr u h mixed da-. •• 1 Other ef'Tnri.unitic- me Newark U;. and Montclair. The two teachers were recom mended to the board of education by j>« Henry C. Kentopp. sup, .n ! t . ndc-nt of schools oi Onm;;i Mr- Cornelia Win!mg will tern n in the elem; ntury grade- ,1 Eastern schools and Mis- Gertrude R. ike ; men and women to help point out the way. But alas and alack, one is reminded of an ardent churchgoer •who hears a dynamic sermon or hwv to live, nods in approval, shouts amen and no sooner than he breaths the polluted air of ■he winked world, all but forgets what he heard I've always .’ontetided that every dav ought to be Sunday as ;ar preachments are concerned. We.ore too apt to listen to instruc i. ms ;,id as a matter of a weekly habit to be exetcised for one day only. By the same token, businessmen as a whole Should get to gether more often so that the contact and instructions imparted feus may become a vital part of their life and business. They ; yff. the Htt ! things in life that count Little gestures of ap p: eciation for the many benefits one derives from the customer e patron. A. the business or pro -siona.l person struggles to make ends meet, striving to make a idle business bigger, the business man mud real:;-:", if ho makes any progress at all, he certainly s we., a del.-’ of gratitude to his public. V. i. tan, .niton many mw chants ex pressed the attitude, either iy word or action, that his presence in the communiv is a favor t the eii irons foy.titling in many instances that these citizens afford him his bread and butter. Even a. fiorwt"w;>ul In't set up shop in a cemetery except for a memorial any rush. Businessmen look for a spot where people arc At some cross* , ;>nd where people an bound to be found, needing what mer chants have to offer. A business must be in the midst of traffic. That traffic is the buying public, What do we offer our public in return for their patronage, Do we have clean stores, clean comfortable offices? Courteous ole: k ii: seretaries? Arc we courteous ourselves? Do we inject ourselves in community welfare activities, are we civic minded? Are wc alert to the modern trends of mrchandising? These are just some of the “little things’’ that go to make a business successful. As it was pointed out in the meeting, mer chants whose only concern is their personal well being are most likely to be failures in their projects. No community ot intelligent citizens is interested in sup porting a business institution whose operators arc self-centered end selfish, who refuse to do their part in helping build a better city or county. They should be found sponsoring or helping to . ponsor and taking other active parts in the people’s daily struggle ■for a better world, u better America, a better state and a better community Tht re are a lot of things to be said about what ought to be (tone, yet in far too many instances little effort is put forth to make ■here things a reality. The merchants who act in this direction lore those who will get the business. LIBERIAN ECONOMIC MARCH AIDED BY USE OF OWN RESOURCES MONROVIA (ANP) Liberia is cm the march This West African republic, with riches that have lain fallow for 100 years, looks hopefully to the fu ture. For American business, in the form of the Liberia company and its affiliates, is working with the Liberians to make their country a real factor in world trade. The people of Liberia have built a proud and independent nation. Having weathered its first. century as a political unit, Liberia is eag er to come of ace coonomeally. Have the Liberians the persis tence and ability to push througn this economic revolution” For the answer, let's look at the record. The freed sieves who sailed from the United States early in the iftlhj Century to pioneer on the wild coast of Africa had U struggle from £ - MW MMWWIMVWMMwr r HELP BETTER RACE RELATIONS - MAKE i ■ i DEMOCRACY WORK ijthe beginning against tropical -dis* ! eases and hostile tribes Back of their thin line of settlements lay a , vast iriterlancl of grasslands nod j virgin forest. Ranges of mountains rose from the uplands; rivers ! chocked with rapids flowed swiftly ■; to the sea. Here lay a store of i great wealth, waiting to be tapped. LICKED PROBLEM Os this the Amcrico-Liberi ans knew little. Their first problem was J survival, and they licked it. By 184? their settlements were permanent • enough to warrant the setting up !of a government The United States, i which had aided and encouraged the !-settlers, gave the new nation reeog \ nition. Tltc Americo -L i beri nn s did not forget their heritage. The const iHt t-icn of their repubic they modeled 'Continued on page 8, 2nd Section