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A^OLUME 17 No. 3«
THE. CAJIOUfiA TIMES SATURpAY AUGUST 21, 1937
MICE FIVE CCNTS
DENTAL ASS’N CLOSES 24T
WM. BURGHAKl
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Iowa University Star To
Coach At North Carolina
■
Col legfe For Negroes
ETOerginir from a conference
during which several applicants
were considered. The North Caro
lina,. State ^College Athletic Coun
cil selected for its athletic coach
last week William Frankiar Burg-
hart, of Greenfield 111.
Burghart who is expected to re
port for duty Sept. 1 will succeed
Coach Ektward Adams who re*ent-
ly resigned at N. 3. State, to ac
cept la posit’on on the coaching
staff at Tuskeegee.
Burghart, who recently comple
ted hia masters degree in physi
cal education at the .University of
Iowa, achieved a splended record
In athletics while a student at
Eureka College, Eureka, 111. where
he ^tarred in PootbalJ, ba^«ti»ll,
track, boxing, biioball, rnnd swim-
ing. t
A record
ttudent
of distinctions while
Eureka College,, rC'
a ttulent it
veals that, he was varsity football
player for Your years, voted most
valuable map on team 1932, el
ected co-captain 1933, picked on
all, conference '■“Little 19” Teams
19.11, 32, 33. ■ -
He holds an A. B. in Economics
and 'Social His^tory from Eureka
College (White) A.J^. S. in Etta-
EAGLE’S NEW MENTOR
William ^rankim Burghart
cation from West Va. State Col
lege, And Masters degree in Phy
sical Education from the Univer
sity of Iowa, In av-oir-pois he
rates 190. Sbands 6 ft. 1 in. i^
25 years of age, and to whom it
may concern—he is unmarried.
A»oie IfiggiDS
BrowD Id Sod§
Kecital
The North Carolina College pre
sented-Anne Wiggins Brown, in
voice recital on Wednesday even
ing, August 18. Miss (Brown was
one of the leading characters in
the late George Gershwin's Negro
■opera'"Porgy and 3eM.”
The beautifully plaintive and
dramatic quality of her voice and
-he^-^—flowless—ftrtieul»tion—leave
THE SCOTTSBeWO BOYS AND tWO OF TH£ MOTHlStS
Hundreds Meet
In Washington
From 25 States
small wonder in the minds of her
listeners as to why she was chosen
to handle so important a role.
'Miss Brown was accompanied at
the piano by her sister Miss May-
me Brown. She was also accom
panied on her trip to '.Durham, by
her father, Rr. Brown, a promin-
ient physician of Baltimore, Md,
Her grandmother, Annie Brown,
was a great Evangelist, who was
well known throughout Durham.
The Rev. Dr. Thomas S. Harten
is shaking hands’ with Mrs. Viola
Montgomery of Atlanta, Ga. Just
back of her is Miss Mary Alice
Montgomery. On the other side
of Dr. Harten stands- Mrs. Ada
Wright o Chattanooga, Tenn. She
is thehno her of 'Roy Wright who
was released and Alan iWright
who was sentenced to ninety-nine
years in prison.
Standing left to right axe: Roy
Wright, Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Willie Robinson, Atlanta, Ga.;
Eugene Williams, Chattanooga,
Tenn; and Olen Montgomery, At
lanta, Ga. ^
Washington—(CNS)—The Na»
tional Dental Association in its
-Twenty-fourth Annual Convention
here August 10-13, drew repre
sentative members to the numebr
of 336, from 25 states, the West
Indes Islands and two Sonstitu-
ents Societies, the Lincoln Dental
Society of Chicago and the Alaba
ma )N. 8. Dental Association.
'Fully f'Dental Organizatia|i con
scious” laTid incorporated under the
title “National Dental,Association”
the association will celebrate its
• twenty-fifth (Silver) Anniversary
-next August in Chicago, llliopois.
After a four day rn^eting with
niany very interesting instruction
clinics and lecteures and most har
monious business sjessions the
twenty-toxxrth annual meeting clo
sed with the annual dance.
On the recreational side. Dr, J.
B. iLoveail, of Philadelphia took
Tennis honors and the trophy. The
social program was moSt enjoya:ble
conducted undet the aponaorship
of the Ladies Auxiliaries both Na
tional ani^Jocal, Mrs. Blake B.
Young of the Local and Mrs. A.
M. Markel of the National. |Re-
ceptiopi* c*trd imrties, picnic, lawn
party a^id get-together nieelings.
The officers elect^ included;
Dr. R. E. Beamon, Cuicinnati, O.
president; iDr. S. C. Hamilton,
Chicago, 111., l()?B8i4ent ^ele!t; iDr.
Wi J. Howard, Houston, Texas,
I vice pres d;.ny, iPr.
Charlottesville, VaU aecretary-
tpeaaurer; iDr. Sylve^r iBL.Smith,
Philadelphia, Penn., assistant se
cretary; Dr. E. L. ^arper^^_Jt^.
Louis, Mo., jW/ Frank jrSykea
Decatur, Ala^, Dr. Springer. iCiO'
cinnati, O.j Dr. P. W. Hilf. Clark-
PASTDR WEDS
hat Message has
The Youth of Europe
For Negro Youth?
By Dean H. M. Smith
Crop Switdand
iPor some three months now I
have been living in the midst of
lowship in all'Europe. I mean that
small but determined group of
youn^p people ^ be found in every
great city and center of Europe
who feel thsat our wodd today is
not what it ought to be ^— and,
what is more important, are anxi
ously seeking a way to put their
thoughts into aiition.
Two months ago Tstood'in Hyde
Park in the heart of London and
saw more than 10,000 English
boys and girls in their late teens
and eorly twenties march in a si
lent protest against mr and fas
cism. finally within a stone's
throw of Buckingham Palace these
serioug-faced yo^^sters vowed
never to bear arms for King or
country.
A month later in the Palace de
la Concorde in Paris on July 14th
—the iiay when all ai 'Prance cele-1
brates the Fall of the’ Bastille and
Wrth of modem French ,freedom-r-
I saw in that famous square black
boys from the French coloniw in
A. Jack^'^|MP^‘ Weijtfield, N. J., secretary; ^Africa, young Jewish lads who bad
Reverand J. H. Thomas, iMstor
of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
who repeated the marriage vdws
in Detroit, Mich., on July 18, to
Misa Mary iArmstead of city.
sRev. and Mrs. Thonias were glv-
£n a surprise (reception at their
residence on , Dunbar Street on
Monday, evening, by members and
frienfis of their church.
dale, Mississippi; and Dr, J. M.
Tmsley, Richmond, Va., regional
vice preside^; Executive Board,
Dr. E. WrHraggart, Birmingham,
Ala., president; iDr. W. H. Thomp'
tor. Jj,LeiJtoy £axter. Orange, lU. J
Dr. A. Cyril Absolan, N. Y. City,
Dr. A. 6. Coopwr, Atlanta, 3a.,
M. D. IWiseman, Washington,
r. F. S. Ppshur, Philadel-
phiar Pr.'^ A. Dixon, ;^S^hington,
D. C. and ih!» .D^J^'Tu^inJ Naah
ville, Tenn.
come to (France to escape" the &ntl-
Jewiah hate, of eaatero Europe,
blue-eyed,, bloiid boya froin Brit
tany and Normandy—^yet as they
stood aigning the MarseHliaise^^^
uncoivered heads there was no
doubt that in spirit they were all
Prenchmen. For bf iome miracle
genius iPtance is willing and able
to accept all that she attracts.
In six other* great cities of Eu
rope I have talked to thousands
of these eager-eyed ypung people.'
Hundreds of them have talked to
me. What are they saying and
thinking? Have they any mes-
sajre for—the Young Negro of
America ?
First of all—these young people
ar e asking'laestions about their
world. For ejoample even in Ger
many of Herr Hitler I found a
deep and earnest interest in l^egro
Youth. A small but? significant
group of Germian young people
seek understanding and fellowship
wth Black Folk. This tin spite of
the fact that Germany teaches her
youth all non-Nordic people are
degencrat nacesv
t- ' ■
Again, these young people are
thinking ior themselves. Thi fact
that althrough all of Europe is
aiming,with a fury and speed that
tleaves one breathless—yet in the
midst of it all 10,000 British boys
and girls, >almost in the shadow of
the King’s palace, puhlicily pledg
ed themselves as ^lR»sfed’'1»‘war
and unwilling to bear arms under
any circumstances.
iFinally—the great fientral in-
terest of these youh people is So-
cial Justice. I was surprised of
example when in a meetifcg^ at Ge-
newa in Switzerland a young Swiss
asked me a question concerning the
Scottsboro boys. In Zurich at the
World Congress of Baptist Yiuth
economic problems share the cen
ter of interest with questions of a
more religious nature. The slums
of London, the share-«ropper of the
United J. States, the wage slaves of
Eur»pe- and the underpaid, over-*
worked natives of Asia and
—these are the burning social cen
ters around which the minds and
hearts of young .Europe,are turn
ing. 1
Durham Plays Host To
Thirteenth Annual
^ ’
Ushers Gathering
Miss Ruth Gwendolyn Smith, pro
fessor of Freiich at North Caro
lina College for .Negroes annou
nces a French Tuition Schlor-
ship of Fifty Dollars to be aw
arded annually.
Miss Ruth Gwendolyn Smith,
professor of Frefich at North Cor-
olina College for Negroes has an
nounced that in keeping with the
splendid gj^wth and progressive
expansion'^f greater North Caro
lina for Negroes—the under grad
uate unit of the future graduate
unit of to-morrow’s liorth Oaro'^
lina University for Negroes w’ith
graduate schools in the' Arts SJrd
Sciences and (Professiorial schools
of ijredicine, Pharmacy, D*nfc»fry,
eti. she fs dl9^tinoin]| the
French prise of five dollars Bith-
ertofore awawied annually to the
mott ouUitamWiig aeiiioir gtUdeiit in
French and that begrinnig with the
commecement exercises June 1838
she will offer ia2inual|p[ the Ruth
Gwendolyn Smith French Scholar
ship for excellency in French.
This scholarship which will be a
tutition scholarship of fifty dol
lars, will be awarded annually to
art'outstanding member of the
Junior Clasa-^^ollege of Liberal
Arts—a student of worth and abi
lity to 'be recommended by Dr. J.
E. Shepard, president of North
Carolina College for Negroes. The
student, besides having a general
average of B. must be a major in
ANNOUNCES FRENCH
SCHOLARSHIP
Barchrach
Mi«s Ruth Gwendolyn Smith
Pi'ofessor of the French Depart
ment, (Professor Holmes and Hen-
hingburg), has given the best evi
dences of mastery of the French
Language and fluency in speaking
of same. Thfe Ruth Gwendolyr
Spiith French Scholarship which
will be awarded for the first time
at the June -Commencement ’1938,
will be credited each June to teh
scholarship awardM for tuition for
the beginning of his senior year
French and who according to the at North Carolina College.
HUGE COLORED CHORUS TO
SING WITH RUBINOFF
fWhat does this tnean to our Ne
gro youth? As young Europeans
take stock of the world in which
they live, with clear heads and
high courage condemning much
that this old world has treasured^
and retained and seeking to butld j val at Soldier’s
into the world pattern much that voice- choir led
RubmofiF
One thousajid eolored . -singers
will be felitured in a “Cotton
Picking’’ -pageant called “Planta
tion Days,” to be presented Sat
urday night, August 21, at the
eighth Chicagoland* Music ' Fcsti-
Field. A 30i0
by j. Wesley
Mihahily for 1937 yevs has re- Jones, well known colored con-
jected. If youth. in Europe with ^ ductor, will sing from the Festi-
centuries culture and civiliza- ,val platform at the north end of
♦fa>n it daras do this much | h» field, and 700 mea and wo*
can Blaqk Youch in America af- nen will be in the cast in th^
ford t^do less than this ? arena.. Millions of radio listener
/ill' he^F this feature as their
OFriCUL BEiOB-re
DRAWING FOR FIRST SALE
OF DURHAM TOBACCO WARE
HOUSES OPENING
BER
SEPtEM-
16, AS FOLLOWS;
Ljharty Warehouae B First Sale
Uberty Warehouse A Second Sale
ItoyerolftB Warehouse A First Sale
Hoycrofts Warehouse B Second
.' Sal* '
The Boll First Sale
Stiir Warehouse Second S«le
dcasting system
and 4he National Broadcasting
Company networksr
Appearing with them will be
Rabinoff and his Violin, Marion
Claire, _wh6 recently returned
from'Hollywood after a picturt,
'Make A Wish”; Homer Rode-
hicsvcr,—intmnyMonally—kiiow»
community song leader; Fran^
Jiuc, Swiss flag thrower, and
massed choruses uid iband^ the
pro«rmm closing in ai burst of
fireworks. More than
eople an axiiected to attend
A gaest of hoqor for the evt-
NARRATIVE REPORT
Negro -Farmers -af Durham
County are improving their met
hods of com growing, and trying
to improve their soil. This week
while visiting farmers and ins
pecting corn demonstrations in va
rious communities it was gpratify-
ing to notice how peas were sown
in so many of the com demonstra
tions.
Logan Allen ?md Eugene Jeff
ries in Henderson Grove Com
munity have an outstanding corn
demonstration ;“land cultivated as
recommended by Extension Meth
ods, pe^s so-wn as a supplement or
companion in com. Corn and peas
were in perfect condition. The far>
mer will ot only get fuller crop, of
corn, but he will leave that soil in
a mijch better shape ofr grain
another year. There is no ques
tion about it, farmers are improv
ing their jmethfldsLJiffam in
Dorhsm County.
A. Hamme^ ^
■ ( K:gro County Agent
Th^ Thirteenth Annual 3es»ion
of the Inter-Denominational Ush
ers will open here Frikiy, August
20, with the morning session be
ing devoted to the, presentation of
J. W. E>oak, president of the? or-
gmtsation by T. L. Moore, presi
dent of the Durham Ushers Union,
Appointment of Committees and
instructipns of committees wil also
take place.
The aifterwKin sescion will be
presided over by President' Doak
with the address by Reverand J. S.
Merridith, on ‘‘What The Church
Expects of te Ushers,”
The pobJlc gathering Friday
evening will be held at », P. M.
iwijhe major W. F. Carr delivering
the %v*8wc B^4re% on beMi
the city. Other addresses of wel
come will be delivered by D, B.
Martin, Prof. J. W. Davidson, Dr.
A; S. Morris and Mrg. €. A. Oreew-
wood. Responses will be made by
Joseph P. ‘Williams, Miss A. B.
Miller, Rev, W. F. Witherspoon,
Miss Alma Slllars and Mrs, Rutn
H. Morgan.
The Saturday morning session
wfll open with devotion led'tqr* Q,
L. Brown and Mias Mary Wither-
spooni.7^^Mrs, W. iR. Hawhtns, First, *
Vice President »ill caU the session
j to order, with continued eoroll-
I ment -of New Churches,
The afternoon session will be
presided over by C* A. Langston,
At this session, the election of of
ficers will be made. Rev. W. F.
Witherspoon will deliver the ad
dress.
The evening session will inalttde
an Oratorical Contest, directed by
Miss A. B. Miller.
The Sunday afternoon services
w’ill be held at St. Mafis' A. M, E.
Zion Church at '2 P. M. The devo-
'l tion will be led by A. D. Clark and
Miss Minnie Ford. A report on
Efiand Ho-me will be given by J.
H. R. Gleas.
The convention this year anti
cipates the largest gathering in its
history end a large number of
cities and towns ar6 represented
The association has made much
progress under the leadership of
J. W, Doak.
CALVIN FAMILY VISITS CITY
iDiirham was foutuhate last week
in having as its quests, Mr, and
Msr. Floyd J. Calvin and their two
very talented daughter.
Mr. Calvin, who is one of the
outstanding journalists of the day
has visited our city on numerous
occasions, but this is the first tima
he has been aecompanied by his
very splendid family. The child
ren Delores 9, and Bernioe 12* have
recently received many honors for
excellence ht pUvtny the piano.
sons were given the opportunity
af hearing them in an informal
recital at the Lome of Mr. and Mrs,
A few muaically interested p«r-
»ing»wiU i>e diarlea WalefieM
Madman, eminent composer. wito
. .will direct the 100 piece syn\-
lp0,0004 ibony orchestra in his own eoni-
osition, “At Dawning.” ‘
. CANP’
E. R. Merrick on the evening of
August 12th. They handled such
difficult compositions as Chopins
Revolutionary Etude and an ar-
i^gement of Mendelsohn’s Rondo
Capricciso with surprising skilL
Mrs. Calvin is largely r^ponalUe
for ther unusual accomplishnients
for while she claims no muaieal
ability herself, she attends their
lesson periods and sopervises their
“practice hours eac^ day. The
younger -one ^, Delores,, 'practiecs
three lioars each we^ and Ben^
practices five hou^
. It is the hope fhat these young
artists wij^retum to^ Durham in
the near future and present a for
mal recital. ' .
FREE SCOTTSBORO
SENDS THANKS TO
WHO HAVE AIDED
aoYS
We destre to thank aB
friends who have,,ai(M tat’
w%y, fumneimtfy glA-
we hope they wiH^itiat tlMfc
interest in the odtar M«
still koMeriac ta
The Scottsioc* iRfa
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