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I^klac •Tcr the ConstltBtloii
UuU will ckart tkeir coune,
•re tke aeitly «taeted officers
ot tke N*rtk Carolina Aaaeola-
tloa of Stateit Councils elect
ed at the Deeonber, 4-5 Con-
Tcation held in Durham, at the
Hlllrido Hifh School.
h*tt te ri^t are; Addle Pos-
Vice-President, Green
Bethel Rigli School, Boilinf
Sprtncs; llionias Traeadale,
Treasurer, Second Ward Hifh
School, Charlotte; Joseph
Fogg, President, Hillside Hifh
School, Dnrham; Dora Simp
son, Secretary, WlllUm Penn
Hirh School, High Point; and
Ronald Schooler, Parliamen
tarian, Hillside Hifh School,
Durham.
Mrs. O. L. Thompson, cponsor
of Hillside lUxh School Stu
dent Connell was elected to the
NCASC Executive Committee.
Other members of the Com
mittee are: Mrs. Elizabeth
Schmolce Randolph, Executive
Secretary, West Charlotte High
of Charlotte; C. E. Yokely,
William Penn High School,
High Point and E. R. Brown,
Second Ward High, Charlotte.
The officers above were elect
ed by the 41 North Carolina
High Schools who had 200
delegates at the Durham Con
vention.
UNCF To Present! Member^ip Gift
Hanipton Choir
OverABCDecJByNAACP
The 120-voice mixed choir of
Hampton Institute, Hampton,
Va., will be featured in a special
program of Cliristmas music
over the networli of the Ameri
can Broadcasting Company, Dec.
25, originating with station WJZ,
New Yorlt City, from 4:30 until
5 P. M. The choral concert is
presented by ABC in coopera
tion with the United Negro Col
lege Fimd, of which Hampton is
a member institution.
The Hampton Choir is under
the direction of Dr. Henry N.
Switten, well-known conductor
and composer, formerly associa
ted with the Westminster Choir
School of Princeton, N. J., who
also has taicen part in the pre
sentation of choral works with
the New York Philharmonic Or
chestra, under Charles Mtmch.
The program will open and
close with a choral theme from
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony,
and the opening work will be
"Rise Up, Shepherd, an’ FoUer”.
Other Christmas Spirituals on
the broadiattt ~wtlt be “€te Teli
It On De Mountain”, and “Peter,
Go, Ring Dem Bells”.
In a more traditional vein of
Christmas music, the Hampton
Choir will sing Handel’s “Joy to
the World”, Mendelssohn’s
“Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”,
and “O Little Town of Bethle
hem”, “It Came Upon the Mid-
ni^t Clear”, “O Come, All Ye
Faithful”, ‘The First Noel”,
“Silent Night”, and “God Rest
You Merry, Gentlemen” will
round out the program.
The United Negro College
Fund, which is presenting the
program with ABC, assists
Hampton and 30 other private,
accredited Negro institutions in
meeting their yearly budgets.
Hampton and choirs of other
member colleges are heard in
a regular weekly choral series
over 170 ABC stations in the
United States and Canada.
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ContrilNitions To
Ciiristnias Clieer
Club Lagging
Have you made your contribu
tion to the “Christmas Cheer
Club” yet? If not, won’t you do
so real soonT
We have every reason to be
lieve that tlic number of needy
families in Durham will be in
creased ten per cent over last
year. That means that all oif
us will have to give a little more
^ if Santa is going to visit every
Durham home this year. Call
the Welfare Dept, 4-083 and ask
Mrs. Paricer for a family or send
a contribution today to the
“Christmas Ql^eer Club” care of
I. R. Holmes, W. D. HiU Cwn-
munity Center.
This year, for the first time,
a aolicltation of the homes will
be made to help our eontribu-
tioos. Sunday, December 14,
boys and girls of the Teen Agers
C3id> wUl solicit funds in our
v|riBU» conmiunities. They will
he MppOed wlih a letter and
from the “Christmas
fTwrr Club".
Plan Announced
New York—The National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People announced to
day that attractive gift member
ship, cards are available again
this year for persons who wish to
present NAACP memberships to
ihelr friends or relatives as
Christmas gifts. The NAACP
will mail the cards for the do
nors.
The cards are bright red fold
ers. approximately six inches
wide and nine inches high. The
outside of the folder features
a striking Allan Gould photo
graph of an interracial children’s
choir, with the caption “Peace
on Earth . . .Good Will Towards
Men.” Inside, the card says “To
wish you a year-long Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year
By Helping Men of All Races
To Know Each Other, (name of
donor) has subscribed for you
a membership in the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. We wel
come you.” The card bear^ the
signature of Walter White, NA
ACP secretary.
NAACP memberships are $2.,
13.50, $5., $10., $25., and up per
year. Youth memberships (un
der 21) are $.50 per year. Life
memberships are $500. Member
ships of $3.50 and up include a
year’s subscription to The Crisis
magazine.
Hreman Gets
Award For
Saving Baby
NEW YORK
A handsome, 39 year old fire
man, white, was presented with
a Hero award from a New York
newspaper for crawling through
dense smoke flame to rescue a
pretty 6 month? old I*fegro girl
from a burning bassinet.
Albergo Continentale inside the fence a»d there was
Rome, Italy
Sunday
Dearest,
We have had an audience with
Pope Pius—it is no wonder that
devout Catholic pilgrims travel
thousands of miles to be in his
presence; it was a truly profound
rfeverent ejtperlence for me,
protestant. We stopped at • little
shop near Vatican City to buy
few roserles and religious
Medals to be blessed by the
Pope for our loved ones. We
were almMt iate as we t«ok aur
place in the huge throi^K that
lined the «ot»t )Wd—there mtiat
have been twen^ thousaatf
people there; cliildren, quiet far
once; lang rehad nuns and
monks; rkh loekiog people and
many many poor loakinc people
from as many different couaft-
ties; some nterely curious but
most of them devoutly search
ing for sometiUng higher out
side of oneself.
Swiss guards, in their beauti
ful red and white uniforms lin
ed the one hundred or more steps
hat lead to the throne room.
No pictures could be taken, so
we'left our cameras in the check
bronze doors, just in time. 'Oie
dimb. We centered the hugh
narrow center lane in the throne
room and hurried up the long
room was partitioned off with
an iron fence-there were guards
As the fireman, William Mul
ligan, received the award, the
grateful mother, Mrs. Lillie Mae
Williams, a widow, rushed for
ward and wrung Mulligan’s
hand. His family, too, was on
hand to watch the proceedings
and his wife and five year old
daughter beamed with happi
ness.
'I'he fire had occurred on Elec
tion Day, when Mulligan was on
duty. He was the first to arrive
at the blazing four room apast-
ment and pulled the child, Bar
bara Jean, from a rear bedroom.
He applied first aid to the baby
until the doctor arrived.
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many savers of this community, and we hope that even more
folks will be sharing in the earnings payment next June.
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a hu|^ throng outside of both
sides of the fcnce. We had hardly
squeezed in along the wall when
the bronze docm opened again.
I will never know who took
a deep breath and allowed me
the inch I aeeded to pass but by
the time the tall wiiite-clad
Pope, bor«« aloft in a chair by
guards was paasing, I was right
up on the rail of the fence. He
looked back. I was looking into
the DMXt kindly looldng face
had ever seen. Once on the plat
form, he addressed the gather
ing in several different langu
ages and as he spoke to each
group in its native tongue the
group shouted loud and long
with surprise and pride. To each
he gAve his bendlctlon and bent
his head silently over his cupped
hands. He talked to a small
group of children, dressed in
white-the platform was too far
away to hear the questions and
answers but that was an exper
ience not to be forgotten by
those children.
Once again, the Pope gave the
audience his blessing, the guards
lifted the -chair to their should
ers and he started back down
the isle, turning first to the right
than left to smile a greeting and
give a blessing to the p^ple. One
woman and brought a small
white cap, much like the one
the Pope had on-she held it up
to him, he laughed with delight,
too off his own cap, handed it
to her and put on the one she had
brou|0it. I could no longer swal
low the lump that had been
growing in my throat when the
guards passed me and he was
looking and blessing the people
on the other side. Suddenly, I
was looking into that luminous
face again; he reached back, put
a gentle finger on the Medals in
my palm and whispered, “Blew
you”. I wouldn’t tell any one
else but you, but that was the
religious pinnacle of my life
time.
We toured St. Peter’s. The in
terior of this cathedral exceeds
my powers of description. It is
divided into three naves. The im
mense dome is in the central
nave; the dome Is decorated with
mosaics representing Christ, the
Virgins, and the Doctors of the
church. The main altar which
stands in the middle is overhung
with a bronze canopy, the work
of Bernini. At the end of the
central nave stands a bronze
statue of St. Peter. According
to the guide the statue is a work
of the fifth century.
In one* of the chapels we saw
a masterpiece by Michel Angelo;
i ^was a marble statue represent
ing a virgin, holding on her lap
the baby Jesus. '
We visited the Sistine Chapel,
next. This was built in 1473; It
divided into two parts by a
carved white marble screen. The
walls of the chapel are covered
with 12 frescoes representing
episodes in the life of Jesus
and Moses. At first, these walls
were covered with grotesque
figures but Julius II hired Mic
hel Angelo to redcorate the
walls. After working three years
on the walls Angelo produced
the work of art which now
adorns the walls of the Sistine
Chapel.
The Cathedral of St. Paul is
one of the national monuments.
The church rises up on the tomb
of St. Paul. It was erected by
Constantine who had the body
of- the (martyr enclosed in a
Sarcophagus in which it is still
kept. The cloister is considered
to be a masterpiece of ancient
architecture. The portico is sup
ported by a double row of arches
held up by twisted columns In
in which mosaics are embedded.
Fragments of the mosaics which
formerly ornamentefl'the ancient
church are kept in the cloister
as are the bronze knockers from
the doors.
By this time every one was
worn to a frazzle, so we merely
glanced in the Cathedral of St.
John, which had five naves; the
monuments, sculptures and fre
scoes are said to be of great
value.
My flowers were in my room
when I returned from the tour
of the Cathedrals; ttiey are beau
tiful. I am now called "The lady
with flowers from half-way
round the world.” 1 thought Dai
sy Would swoon with delight
over the flowers. “I would cer-
wonderful, husband,” she said
Pauline came up with the prize
saying when she saw them:
“What has Taylor been up to?”
Thank you. This has been a
perfect day for me.
Pay my insurance. I’ll give it
back to you.
Be Sweet,
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