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The Confessions Of A Ham Singer BY CBABL18 JACOB HABBIS • (Contintted from last wtA) Alter aU ol the»e pleasint reature.,IwentU>AMidTCal- leae In GreenBboro and did a vocal “nop”. The dir^tor of muBic there at that time was nr. Fuller, now of Jefferson City, Mo. He came to my rotm early in the morning and awote me from deep Bleep. I got in tate the night before; hence, needed the Bleep from which he had robbed me. ’ HiB intentions were good, nevertheless. 1 luiew I wa» handicapped for the recital. I had a peculiar case of neurosis back in those days. 1 could not sleep any more during the day when once 1 had been disturb-, ed Dr. Fuller was the best ac companist 1 had had on this tour, but you can put turnip in jail In so far as my singing was this December night in 1926. After my first group of songs, I could just as well have done another Einstein-I was through. Furthermore, this was the end of my tour. The next morning I motored into Durham to see my family, having been away eight months. My wife despaired of ever see ing me again when first I left for Oklahoma. She said I would get shot. When I had been in Langston just eight days, I came near it too. I was on a amaii golf course playing with a young woman. There was an ROTC at Langn ston. Every afternoon the Maj or took his boys out for target practice. They were a scant haU mile from where we were—1 in quired of my partner the direc tion they were firing. She told me the opposite direction. She had hardly gotten the words out before a bullet unged by few inches over my head. I fell flat on the ground and stayed there. When I got up, said, “Let’s go, this is no place for a 'bird' from North Caro lina.” I have oftien wondered if someone was out to pick me off for being there with this good looking "honey”. I spent about a month getting iii some good rest in the “BuU City.” I also got in a bit of mod erate exercise by chopping wood and washing dishes, while here, I heard Marian Anderson training as though I wore a real for the first time since the phe- track man. Sometimes 1 did a YOU’RE ALWAYS WELCOME neJ^ork Unfl>teia Many N*w FacllHItt, Ifflprovtd Sarvkt Md Th« Parsonal Supervision of evr Rtlldtnt Minagtr—Auuro You of U|. mo4f €v«ry Courtasy, 300 Outild*—Roomt Modorn—firaproof Coffaa Skoppa—Oining Room C«cktal( lMnqa- Skyllna lalltoooi CONVINTION FACILITIES «ROUf RATES Wm. H. Rrow», Managat Savantk Avamia af l2Stfc Straat Na» York 27, N. Y. UN MJOO nomenal increase of her vocal range. Wheh 1 first heard her in 1916, she could barely get to "E” in the fourth space of the staff. It had no potency, but this night in 1927, there was a Wice of anotherHimtre, power apd range. I just sat and mar veled at such a contralto; never had I heard anything like it. Thirteen years passed before 1 heard Miss Anderson again. This time it was in Charleston, W. Va., in 1940. Her voice was still magnificent. U was now January, 1927. I made my way to Summerville, S. C., and did two programs. One in the Pine Forest Inn Ho' tel; the other in the Carolina. The one in the Carolina waa the better of the two. I attribu ted this to the beef I bad for supper in the home of B&Sj Mary Alston, widow of^the late Dr. J. H. Alston. After this, 1 went b^ck to Augusta and spent several weeks with my mother. Whenever the rainy, cold days of winter came, 1 spent them in bed. I did not even get up for food. I did another of my health experiments during this stay. For a period of three weeks, I fasted every other day ‘hot’; 1 too much when th* “eat” days came around. I did two recital* while in Au- giuta. One in my own little church. Rock of AgeS) where 1 ^t that monthly stipend of twenty-five cents; the other re cital was in Trinity Methodist Church. 1 went to Atlanta and did four programs—one in Butler Street and Hcrfaay Temple Me thodist Churches; one in St. Paul’s Episcopal Parish House; and the other in the home of Charles H. Candler, son of the late Coca-Cola king. I spent several months in .five mile Jaunt and sometimes took a six or seven mile walk. I took a course from the Milo Bar Pell School of Physical Culture. This course did much for me. I could do more with my hundred pound bar bell than some men 20 to 25 years my junior. If I had known the things about food then like 1 think I do noW, all of my re citals would have gone as well as the one in Cordelle, Ga. (Continued next week). Hillside Gets Honor Award Hillside lligh School of Dutt ham was among thirteen schools’ organizations, and in dividuals presented regional awards by the Freedoms Foun dation over the Charlotte tele vision station recently. Recipients from North Caro lina and South Carolina were present to receive medals and certificates. H. M. Holmes, prin- cipal of Hillside, and T. M. This experiment was not so Davis, advisor to the School A COMPLETE ELECTRIC AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICE DUKE POWER COMPANY ^ DIAL 2151 Corner Mangum and Parrish Sts. COMING TO RALEIGH— Billy Ward and his World Famous Dominoes who will appear at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium on Monday night, July 5th. On the same bill will be featured Paul Williams and his famous Huclde Buck Orchestra. State-Wide Principals Workshop Opens At North Carolina College The Summer School of North Carolina College at Durham is sppnsoring a special six week principals workshop which be gan June 21 and ends July 31 under the auspices of the North Carolina State Department of Southern Education Founda- Safety Patrol, accepted the hon or certificate for the school. tion. _ The SEF awarded some 30 scholarships to selected princi pals who will spend the six week period studying several “leadership competencies”! According to Dr. J. C. Fin ney, professor of education at NCC and direcftr of the work shop, the emphasis will be in SATtmPAY, jpT a, ltS4 TWE CAB(MJWA TUBM PAOT developing compe|encle« in the areas of "leadership in the com munity, in the school, and in poJ[icy-making”, Dr. Finney presided at the opening session in the Law Building. Dr. Barksdale, assis tant to the dean of the NCC Graduate School, welcomed the principals. Other participants at the opening meeting are: Dr. G. H. 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