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TIOE CABOUmAM
KALEIGB. N. C., OATPBPAT, OCTOBER 10, IN4
Mammoth Project Undertaken By Nat’l Urban League
“March To Ballot Box Drive:
100,000 New Voters Registered
In Ist Month By Urban League
WASHINGTON, D C -More than
100,000 Negroes were added to the
voter*' list in 31 cine* during the
first month of the National Urban
Leiguaj "March to the Ballot Box '
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With faH report* not yet filed
by all the M cities participat
ing in the non-partisan voter
| education project. It ia estimat
ed that double this number reg
stered for the first time since
the campaign was launched on
August M.
Sterling Tucker, Drector of
the National Urban League
project, mid that the citizen
ship education program was
meeting with “good, solid suc
cess.”
“The large number* of Ncgroe*
being registered by the Urban Lea
gue and the many other organiza
tion* participating on the local
level should dispell the myth that
citizenship means less to them than
to other*,” he said.
The “March” is a two-phase pro
gram. A* soon as the deadline pass
es on registration in the cooperat
ing cities, the activity moves into
plannng for Intensive, non-partisan
“get-out-thie-vote" drives for the
November 3 election, “We are now
moving into high gear,” Tucker
said, into this effort to have more
Negroes exercise their citizenship
duties than ever before in U. S.
history.
A* an example of the results be
ing achieved. Tucker said that 12
cities accounted for a gain of over
60,000 new voters. They were At
lanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bal
timore, Columbus. Newark, New
Orleans, Miami, Lo* Angele*. San
Francisco, Detroit, and Cleveland.
In percentage increase, New
ark cam* In first during the
manth by chalking up a 66 per
cent Increase In Negro regi
stration*. Miami had a 56 per
cent Jump and Pittsburgh ac
counted for a 29 per cent gain.
Pittsburg was the leading riiy in
numbers of new registrations, add-
I r\P 14 ofl7 NdM*rr*s»«t in tVv*
{ ii*U.
I rf*noe*rw4 *K-i In llsneo I*9
cities alone, 57,414 volunteers rang
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PLAN HQUSING, URBAN RENEWAL CLINIC Members ot the Planning Committee
lor the fourth annual Housing and Urban Renewal Clinic, to be held at AhT College on November
12-13, wh0 met here laat week included, from left to right'. B. W. Harris, assistant director at the
Ab>T Division of Extended Services; Hubert M. Jackson oi the Public Housing Administration and
Albert L. Thompson ot the Federal Housing Ad jiirdstration, both ot Atlanta, Georgia, and Alfred
Scott, Winston-Salem, president of the Carolina Brokers and Builders Association, Standing are:
Dr. F. A. Williams director ot Extended Services, and Robert A. Thompson ot the Housing and
Home Finance Adrmmatration ot Atlanta.
Dr. Larkins Named Part-Time
Instructor At St. Augustine’s
A recent announcement from the 11
office of the Preeldent revealed l!
that Dr. John R. Larkina, Conault- ,
ant North Carolina State Depart- ,
tnent of Public Welfare, has Joined !
the Saint Augustine’s staff as a
part-time instructor for the 1904- j
j Dr Larkins holds the A. B. de-
M. S. W. degree from Atlanta Uni
versity School of Social Work re- (
actively, and was awarded the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
: by the Agricultural and Technical
College of Greensboro. He has also
done advance study at the Univer
sity of Chicago. Columbia, Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
He will teach several courses
In the newly-developed Social
Welfare curriculum. The col
lege Introduced this curriculum
to its students far the drat time
In September. It la a four-year
curriculum which haa been
doorbells and made telephone calls
to 714,390 households.
Though each Urban League affili
ate is being supplied with a wide
varety of campagn tools, "they are
using their ingenuity in devising
programs most effective in the in
dividual communities," Tucker re- 1
ported.
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DR. JOHN R. LARKINS
Yes, We All Talk
PUBLIC SPKAKINO OP JESUS
Wherever Jeaua traveled around
the lakes and hills, the crowds
flocked to hoar him. Poeaibly they
were attracted to his voice and
personal magnetism his was tha
voice that begets honors and de
mands respect When he called his
1 disciples, they answered because
they could not resist his personal
conviction about tha work ha bad
to da
Hart Mi language mar
wpSuaml es tha saeestaful
avatar. Jeaua talked In language
the termer* Jkerdaaaw, vine-
There la hardly a sentence
which a eh lid can act under-
geared to a bread gamut es asr
viees related te the prevention
of social ills, and the atrungh
thentng of the capacity of stu
dents te uas their potential*
peed actively.
A resident of Raleigh, lecturer,
muu tvitiu, ui. jLjcittuiio ia itincu ivi
several outstanding publications,
included faiiiong iitebtr aitr. aih?
Negro Population of North Caro
lina, Social and Economic”—l944,
•The Adjustment of New Boys Dis
charged from Morrison Training
School"—l947, “The Eempioyment
of Negroes in Pubic Welfare in
Eleven Southern States,” “The Con
tributions of Sociology to Social
Work,” “A Study of Negro Pa
rolees,” “The Negro in North Caro
lina,” and “Pattern* j»f Leadership
Among Negroes in North Carolina.”
Dr. Larkins holds membership
in several learned societies and
has received numerous awards.
sand. Perhaps this waa ane es
the reasons that little children
delighted In listening te tha
Master with their parents.
Christ’s illustrations were drawn
from the commonest experiences
of life: “a sower went forth to
sow”; “a certain man had two
sons"; “the kingdom of heaven is
like a grain of mustard seed.” Jesus
used few adjectives and this is
markedly striking.
Read the New Testament, begin
ning public speaker, and you will
learn to speak with some degree
of effectiveness.
READERS; For my free pamph
let on public speaking, send two
stamps and aelf-addreseed long
business envelope to Dr. Marcus H.
Boulware. Florida A&M University.
Box 310-A, Tallahassee. Florida
-32307.
Hampton Prater:
‘Begin Quest
For Eternal
Truths**’ Trent
HAMPTON UKTITIUTI. Ve.
William J. Trent. Jr., aaalatant
personnel director of Tto*. Inc--
and former bead of the United
Negro College Fund. Thwedar
urged students at Hampton Insti
tute to begin a quest for the eter
nal truths in life.
•Rubbing again* the greet
minds of the ages win produce
fire In your souls.” he told them.
Treat teU the stadsata at
Hr—y*— Institute's anneal
trating ea the givalapaaeai of
the|r\mer they wffl
nSSTume for your personal
self -development.” be said. “Whole
new worlds of literature, politics,
art and music win be opened up
to you through reading in the
He urged them to make a de
cision early about why they came
to Hampton Institute so aa not to
waste time or the school’s.
“If you ere willing to become
excited about stretching your
■mat and aihoming new ideas,
learning from the knowledge and
inijeritiading of the past wffl
you*sbouM hemmed term* ex
citing time.” Trent said.
He pointed out that the eta
dents win get out of heir years
at Hampton Institute only what
they put into them.
WORST Or ALL is te da good
work tarabom wbadoaean know
he*
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semi-animal meeting in the YWCA
in Durham recently. Members
from the four districts of the state
were present and transacted much
important business for the Feder
ation. •
tees appointed wage given the
fallowing tasks: T# revise the
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state constitution, Te plan the
program far the Mth annual
convention, and te help make
plane far the erection and tar
nishing of a chapel on the
campus of the GtrT* Haase tm
After the meeting, a deUekmt
dinner waa served and a fellowship
hour enjoyed by the board mem
bers. Mrs. X. M. Spellman of Bta
abeth City, is president