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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY. APRIL 2. 1932
PAGE THREE
| The Houston Morgue I
PUBLIC HEALTH DOCTOR DISCUSSES
HEALTH PROBLEMS OF THE NEGRO
BENJAMIN—C. Benjamin, 54, 2711
Dallas, died March 26 at family resi-
dence. Funeral was conducted from
the 4th Missionary Baptist Church.
March 28, Rev. E. S. Branch officiat-
ing with Fairchild Undertaking Com-
pany in charge.
BROOKS-Henry Brooks, 55, 3801
Maury, died March 23, at family resi-
dence; funeralized from SL Mark
Baptist Church, March 27, Rev. J. H.
Cooks officiating and remains were
laid to rest in Oak Park Cemetery
by the Fairchild Undertaking Com-
pany.
1109 Cushing, died March 24, at the
BROWN-Mrs. Martha Brown, 81,
family residence; buried from the SL
James M. E. Church, March 26, Rev.
L. H. Greenwood officiating and de-
posited in Oak Park Cemetery by the
Daniel and Phillips Undertaking Co.
BROWN-Mrs. Sadie Brown, 28,
1615 DesChaumes, died March 21, at
family residence. Burial in Ever-
green Cemetery by L S. Lewis, Un-
dertaker.
CLEMONS-BiH Clemons, 48, Mc-
Kinney at SL Charles, died March
17, at 2515 McKinney. Funeral from
the chapel of Fairchild Undertaking
Company and burial in Oak Park
Cemetery.
JOSEPH-Mrs. Ruth Childs Joseph,
18, 2107 Staples, died March 26, at
family residence. Funeral from the
Payne Chapel A. M. E. Church, Mar.
30, Rev. Johnson officiating and body
carried overland to McBeth, Texas, by
L S. Lewis, Undertaker.
KEYS—Miss Nell L Keys, 20, 2821
Holman, died March 23, at Houston
Negro Hospital. Funeral from the
family residence March 25, and body
taken overland to Hockley, Texas, by
the Fairchild Undertaking Company.
LEWIS—Mrs. Lizzie Lewis, 80,
Rev. Taylor officiating and interred
in Evergreen Cemetery by I. S. Lewis,
Funeral Director.
MITCHELL—Hagar Mitchell, 65,
1210 Winter, died March 18, at fami-
ly residence. Funeralized from the
SL Paul A. M. E. Church, March 21,
Rev. A. R. Bogan officiating and in-
terment in Olivewood Cemetery by
Carter and Perry.
MONROE-Charlie Monroe, 40, 1620
Cleveland, died March 16, at family
residence. Funeral from the family
residence, March 24, Rev. Burton of-
ficiating. Body was shipped to Hemp-
stead, Texas, for burial by Daniel
and Phillips Undertaking Company.
PORTER—Julius Porter, 23, Acre-
age Home, died March 20, at family
residence. Funeral was conducted
from family residence. Rev. Burton
officiating and buried in Paradise
Cemetery by Daniel and Phillips Un-
dertaking Company.
PRUITT—Mrs. Julia Pruitt, 39,
3007 Rice, died March 19, at family
residence. Funeral conducted from
family residence, March 22, and body
shipped to Anchor, Texas, by Fair-
child Undertaking Company.
RICKMEYER—Mrs. Martha Rick-
meyer, 51, 802 West 19th Street, died
March 17 at family residence. Fu-
neral from the SL Paul A. M. E.
Church, March 20, Rev. A. R. Bogan,
officiating and burial in Olivewood
Cemetery by the Fairchild Undertak-
ing Company.
On March 21, 1915, the late Book-
er T. Washington, founder and princi-
pal of Tuskegee Institute, said: “The
future of the Negro race depends on
the conservation of its health,” and on
that date he issued a statement sug-
gesting a week in the month of April
each year to be “Health Improvement
Week.” Health Improvement Week
has now grown into the National Ne-
gro Health Week. Ten years ago,
March 4, 1922, the first National Ne-
gro Health Week radio broadcast
went out on the air from stations
throughout the land cooperating with
the United States Public Health
Service for better health. This mes-
sage stated that “The eight annual
observance of the Negro Health Week
is to be a period of intense activities
carried on to improve the health con-
ditions of the more than ten million
people of this race who make one-
tenth of the population of the United
States, and who are a health asset or
a health hazard in proportion to their
knowledge of hygine and their capa-
city to exercise sanitary control of
their homes and premises.”
The number of deaths among color-
ed people is approximately one and
two-thirds the number for a like num-
ber of white people in the nation at
large, and in some communities, ur-
ban and rural, this ratio is even high-
er.
the environment and the immunizing
processes of the biological systen.
Pneumonia slays its thousands in
the more rigorous climates; and in
the moist warmth of the South, ma-
laria takes a subtle toll, not so much
in deaths as in lowered vitality and
the inability to labor, to earn, and to
prevent the poverty and misery of a
chronic illness. It is interesting to
note here, however, that malaria and
its regional confederate, hookworm
disease, are not as serious problems
with the Negro as with the white
man. It is the counterpart of the
theory of tuberculous and venereal
infection in the Negro. In the dark
and distant Africa, the Negro, long
exposed to the debilitating parasites
of these diseases, acquired a resist-
ance superior to that of the white
man in whom these parasites found
new and fertile soil.
Cancer, too, is increasing its toll
among Negroes, as are the so-called
degenerative, or organic diseases—
the breaking down of “the system,”
with early disability and death, due
to functional defection or failure of
HONOR ROLL FOR
WILEY STUDENTS
IS MADE PUBLIC
such organs as the heart and blood
vessels, the kidneys, and the nervous
machinery. This is often the result'
of lives too intensely and unwisely
spent, a condition which not long ago
needed little attention in the Negro’s
health program, but which now ac-
counts for an increasing number of
By LAWRENCE C. THOMAS
Marshall, Texas.—Miss Treasie Ma-
rie Jackson, freshman of Beaumont
(Charlton-Pollard High), and Miss
Helen Wallis, freshman of Ft. Worth
(Terrell High), lead the winter quar-,
ter honor roll, each making the fol-
lowing grades: A, A, A. Much inter-1
est is being manifested in the honor
roll and who shall lead.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
CUNDAYI .
School Lesson
(By REV. P. II FITZWATER, D. D., Mem-
ber of Faculty, Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago.)
(©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
URBAN LEAGUE
HEAD DISCUSSES
NEGRO POLITICS
Lesson for April 3
GOD IN CREATION
WESSON TEXT—Genesis 1:1-5, 26-31.
GOLDEN TEXT—In the beginning
j God created the heaven and the earth.
PRIMARY TOPIC In the beginning
JUNIOR TOPIC-o the Creator.
IN TERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TUP-
ROACH—Mrs. Rosa Watson Roach,
48, died March 22, at family resi-
dence. Funeral was conducted from
the Antioch Baptist Church, March
25, Rev. T. J. Goodall officiating and
remains laid to rest in College Park
Cemetery by the Fairchild Undertak-
SMITH—Richard Smith, 50, 2217
Arlington, died arch 20, at Jefferson
Davis Hospital; buried from the chap-
el of the Fairchild Undertaking Com-
Certain killing diseases add to the
depletion of numbers and racial vital- deaths in the middle-age group of the
ity of the Negro, not primarily, how-
ever, because of hereditary racial
characteristics, as often stated by
those who affect fatalistic attitudes
colored population.
Such is the problem. What of the
solution?
3008 Meilhenny, died March 14, at
family residence. Burial from the
chapel of Fairchild Undertaking Co.,
and interment in Oak Park Cemetery, pany, areh 22, and interred i coun-
McCARTY-Elmo McCarty, 31, - ’
2912 Conti, died March 21, at family
residence. Buried from the New ML
Pilgrim Baptist Church, March 23,
toward the survival and welfare of
the Negro, but because of environ-
mental physiological considerations
that seem to penalize every new race
subjected to our man-made civiliza-
tion. Tuberculosis and the venereal
diseases take heavy toll of the Negro
as through the nations and the cen-
ty Cemetery.
WALKER—Miss Elnora Walker,
turies they have taken toll until ex-
posure and susceptibility were re-
duced by the protective influences of
SHADO-GRAPHS
For women: the higher the heel the
lower their health.
19, 206 Grove, died March 20, at the
Jefferson Davis Hospital; body was
shipped to Grapeland, Texas, by the
Daniel and Phillips Undertaking Co.
WASHINGTON-Mrs. Ethel Lee
Washington, 36, Acreage Home, died----------------------
March 23, at family residence. Fu- o’clock Sunday morning from the
neral from Antioch Baptist Church,
March 26, Rev. McKinley Williams
officiating and burial in Paradise
Cemetery by Fairchild Undertaking
Company.
WEBB—Mrs. Nancy Webb, 60, 3021
Dennis, died March 19, at family resi-
dence. Funeral from the SL John
OUT OF TOWN DEATHS
PAYNE—Mrs. Betsy Payne of
Crab, Texas, died at her home last
week. The funeral was held at 10:30
chapel of the Fort Bend Undertak-
ing Company.
BURTON—Mrs. Maria Burton died
at her home in Thompson, Texas and
was buried on Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock. The Fort Bend Under-
taking Company was in charge.
PERKINS—Mrs. Lydia E. Perkins,
one of the most highly respected and
one of the oldest citizens of Fort
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Baptist Church (Bastrop), Rev. N. C.
Crain officiating and body shipped to
Tach Heart, Texas, March 23, by the
Daniel and Phillips Undertaking Co.
WHITE-Mrs. Mary White, 32,
3205 Green, died March 22, at family
residence. Funeral from Sloan Me-
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burial in Evergreen Cemetery by I. S.
Lewis, Mortician.
WILLIAMS—Mrs. Barbara Wil-
liams, 28, 1707 West, died March 23,
at family residence. Funeral from
family residence, March 26, Rev. W.
D. Lewis officiating, and body carried
overland to Hempstead, Texas, by L
S. Lewis, Mortician.
WOODS-Paul Woods, 90, 1216 En-
nis, died March 25 at family resi-
dence. Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by the Fairchild Un-
dertaking Company.
Bend County died at her home last
week.
Funeral services were held on Sun-
day at 3:30 o’ clock p. m., and the
great respect and high esteem in
cle of friends and acquaintances was
clearly evidenced by the large attend-
ance at her funeral and the great
profusion of flowers, floral designs,
and messages of sympathy and con-
dolence which poured in from all
sides.
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PHONE BEACON 30209
DR. C. M. NICHOLS
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Taborian Bldg., Suite 220
Office: Preston 9436
Residence: Capitol 2778
3071 Prairie Ave. Houston, Tex.
Mrs. Perkins leaves to mourn her
death her husband, Mr. Ned Perkins,
a son, Professor T. B. Mitchell, Prin-
cipal of Powell Point Training School,
Kendleton, Texas, and a host of other
relatives and friends.
Among the out-of-town attendants
at the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Flemming, Mr. and Mrs. Mat-
thew Flemming, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Sanderson, Mrs. Mabel Wesley, Dr.
H. E. Lee, Mrs. Irene Griffin, and
Mrs. Sarah Smith. The funeral was
in charge of the Fort Bend Under-
taking Company of Richmond.
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The year-round program of the Na-
tional Negro Health Week compre-
hends several avenues of approach to
this problem. They are in part as fol-
lows: Cooperation with health offi-
cers and health agencies to ascertain
facts and determine methods of pro-
cedure; contact with state and local
Negro organizations to secure inter-
est in the problem and support of
measures sponsored by the state and
local health officers; the training and
employment of Negro public health
nurses; physical education, and medi-
cal, dental, nutritional, and nursing
services in the Negro schools; and a
constant campaign for an understand-
able and workable relationship.
In closing this message, attention is
directed to the eighteenth annual ob-
servance of the National Negro
Health Week, Sunday, April 3, to
Sunday, April 10, 1932.
HOWARITU” IN
TIE WITH WHITE
SCHOOL OF EAST
Washington, D. C.—Howard Uni-
versity will meet New York Univer-
sity on Monday, April 4, at 8:30 p. m.
in her twenty-seventh and last debate
of the season. The subject under dis-
cussion will be “Resolved: That Soci-
alism has more to Offer the People
than Capitalism.” In keeping with
the general practice of inter-col-
legiate debates, Howard, the home
team, will defend the affirmative
side of the question. This is not the
first debate of the season in which
Howard meets one of the leading
white colleges of the country, as Ob-
erlin, Ohio Wesleyan, and Rutgers
have all been numbered among her
opponents this season.
The Howard debaters are: Samuel
W. Tucker, Leonard E. Terrell, Mon-
roe N. Plant, and Fred Minnis. Dr.
Abram L. Harris, head of the depart-
of economics, and Prof. George D.
Lipscomb, of the department of Eng-
lish, serve as faculty advisors and
coach, respectively, of the Howard
team.
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EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS
1010 West Dallas Avenue
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This is a complete list of those who
made the honor roll this quarter: Ma- IC The Maker of All Things,
rie Allen, Brownwood; Gerald Adams,
Omaha, Neb.; Vernona M. Ayers,!
Houston; Charlie Anderson, Pales-
tine; Ernest Beechman, Jefferson; El-
rette Becton, Clarksville; Ernestine
Blackburn, Dallas; Mae Frances Blick,
Marshall; Arthur L. Bradley, El
Paso; Jerome Busby, Houston; Ethel able information we have of the origin
C. Brown, Dallas; Lois Carr, Fort of the heavens and the earth, plant
Worth; Eilba L. Clark, Wynnewood,
Okla.; Cecile C. Crawford, Huntsville;
Elsie Mae Francois, Beaumont; Cleve-
land Gay, Gary, Indiana; Newlyn Gar-
rett, Marshall; Katherine Greene, San
Antonio; Louise Gullatte, Dallas;
Mary Dell Jackson, Marshall; Treasie
M. Jackson, Beaumont; James L.
Jones, Dallas; Arthur L. Johnson,
Dallas; Estelle Jordan, Houston; Vo-
rice Leviston, Marshall; Phillip C. Lo-
gan, Ft. Worth; Walter S. McAfee,
Marshall; Grover C. Meridith, Tem-
ple; Lawrence Moon, Marshall; Mrs.
Talitha Morris, Monroe, La.; Leon
Morgan, Houston, Percy Neblett,
Navasota; Ross E. Phillips, Tyler;
Laura Mae Ray, Galveston; Leon E.
Smith, Palestine; Mrs. Myrtle 0.
Thomas, Marshall; Effie Vance, New
Orleans, La.; Compton Taylor, Gal-
veston; Ida Mae Taylor, Miami, Flo-
rida; Clotee Wallis, Ft. Worth; Helen
wallis. Ft. Worth; Leon Washington,
San Antonio; Aubrey L. Waters,
Denison; Taft Wilson, Pasadena, Cal.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP-
IC—God in Creation.
Genesis, the book from which the
lessons of the quarter are taken, as
its name indicates, is a book of be-
ginnings. It contains the only reli-
and animal life, human life, human
institutions, and human relations.
Without it we would be absolutely
Ignorant as to the origin of these fun-
damental things. The first chapter of
the book from which our lesson is
taken is one of the most wonderful
lu the Bible. Indeed, it is the key to
the whole Bible.
I. God (v. 1).
He was before all tldngs. He bad
no beginning. Everything but God had
a beginning. God, the uncaused cause,
is the cause of all things. “Before the
mountains were brought forth or ever
thou hadst formed the earth and the
world, even from everlasting to ever-
lasting, thou art God" (Ps, 90:2.)
II. The Origin of the Universe
(v. 1).
It was created by God. All things
Honorable mention roll: Jewel An-
drews, Dallas; Aaron D. Bell, Hous-
ton; Aster Leo Booker, Houston; Ha-
zel C. Brown, Shrevepoprt, La.; Wm.
Henry Butler, Houston; Willie D.
Combs, Tulsa, Okla.; Rossye Lee Gib-
son, Waxahachie; Pauline E. Harley,
Houston; Florida Hale, Denver, Colo.;
Carnis Hightower, Marshall; Willie
Fay Hogan, Dallas; Charlyn Hubert,
Orange; Constance Irvine, Marshall;
Hazel Pool, Shreveport, La.; Bertram
Prater, Orange; Wilbur L. Sewell,
Mexia; Samuel L. Smith, Marshall;
Randolph Titus, Fairfield; Lois B.
Towels, Texarkana; Anita V. Web-
ster, Houston; Lullelia Walker, Hous-
ton; Alva Welch, Texarkana; Dera-
line L. Winston, Dallas.
J. M. and G. H. Blackmon of Kil-
gore, Texas, brothers, who attended
Wiley College 50 years ago, paid the
school a visit March 22, 1932. They
were very happy over the progress
the school had made and what it is
still doing for the youth of our race.
These men have considerable holdings
in the oil fields of East Texas.
The annual town and rural pastors
school will open on the 5th of April
at Wiley College. Ministers of all
denominations will receive scholar-
ships to attend. If you have not re-
ceived yours and wish .to attend
please notify E. W. Dean or Lawrence
C. Thomas, at Wiley.
DOCTORS GATHER
AT TUSKEGEE FOR
MEDICAL CONFAB
Tuskegee Institute, Alft.—Physi-
cians and surgeons from the prin-
ciple medical centers of this country
and many from the rural sections of
the South, Southeast and Southwest
began arriving here this week-end for
the twenty-first annual session of the
John A. Andrew Clinical Society
which will open April 3 and continue
through April 9. The indications are
that more than 200 physicians will
register before the first session,
Monday morning.
The program this year will be the
most comprehensive and instructive
yet arranged by the society, accord-
ing to Dr. Eugene H. Dibble, Jr.,
medical director of the John A. An-
drew Memorial Hospital at Tuske-
gee Institute, and the secretary of
the clinical society.
Dr. Seale Harris of Birmingham,
one of the most distinguished and
outstanding physicians of this coun-
try will address the meeting at the
opening session. Dr. Harris will be-
gin his address at 8:30 o’clock Mon-
day morning, April 3. In view of the
fact that Dr. Harris’ address will be
| of particular interest to th laity,
| members of the faculty and friends
from the community have been invit-
ed to hear him.
Other physicians, who will appear
on the program on Monday are: Dr.
Walter Gray Crump, Dr. H. A. Callis,
Dr. Alan P. Smith and Dr. Theodore
K. Lawless.
A period will be devoted to a
memorial service in honor of Dr. M.
O. Dumas, former president of the
society, and of the National Negro
Medical Society, who recently passed
away at his home in Washington,
D. C.
As in former years the visiting
physicians will participate in the
Founder’s Day exercises which be-
gin at 3:00 o’clock, Sunday, April 3.
The Founder’s Day address will be
delivered by Dr. W. C. Jackson, Vice
President, North Carolina College for
Women, Greensboro, North Caolina.
NEW WEEKLY PAPER
STARTED IN KANSAS
Wichita, Kansas—(CNS)—A Ne-
gro weekly paper, the “Colored Ameri
can Citizen” has been launched here
recently. Captain Samuel M. Jones,
prominent colored citizen is editor
and publisher of the new venture.
IF YOU
Suffer From
DROPSY
came into being by the will and act of
a personal God. The Hebrew word
translated "create," according to re-
liable authority, is the strongest word
which the Hebrew language has to
express the Idea of the origination of
substance. The first four words of the
Bible exhibit the one fundamental,
all-pervasive principle of philosophy of
every right life. In the beginning of
the universe—God. In the beginning
of all science and philosophy—God.
In the beginning of every life—God.
In the beginning of every year—God.
In the beginning of every day—God.
In the beginning of every business—God.
In the beginning of every human rela-
tionship—God. In the beginning of ev-
ery thought—God.
III. The Degeneration of the Earth
(v. 21).
Between verses one and two is a
clearly marked Interval of perhaps
long duration. The earth which was
created by God was later overtaken in
a cataclysmic judgment. The Hebrew
word for "was” might just as well
have been translated "became." In-
stead, therefore, the earth having been
created a void or chaos, we see that It
became chaos through a judgment. In
Isaiah 45:18 the prophet expressly de-
clares that God did not create the
earth a waste, but that be formed it to
be inhabited.
■ IV. The Regeneration of the Earth
(vv. 3-25).
As previously noted, the second
verse of Genesis does not describe the
state of the earth when it first came
from the Creator's hands, but a
changed condition which took place
subsequent thereto. The following
verses reveal a new effort of creative
power by which the earth is again
fitted up for the habitation of man.
The power active in this reorganiza-
tion is the Holy Spirit. On the first
day the voice of the Almighty was
heard saying, "Let there he light," and
the darkness was dispelled by the light.
In the second day the expanse or
firmament was made which separates
the waters above the firmament from
those below It. The third day dry
land appeared clothed with vegetation.
The fourth day witnessed the appear-
ance of the lightholders, the sun, moon,
and stars. They were not created
then, but set free from darkness and
ruin. On the fifth day fish and birds
were created and on the sixth day cat-
tle, creeping things, beasts of the field,
and man.
V. The Origin of Man (vv. 26-31).
He was created by God. This pre-
cludes the foolish Idea that man as-
cended from or through the brute. He
came Into being through a special cre-
ative act of God. This image and like-
ness is not physical or bodily, but in-
tellectual and moral (Eph. 4:24; Col.
3:10). God’s likeness Is reflected in
man's three fold nature. Man Is spirit,
soul, and body (I Thess. 5:23). As
there Is a trinity and unity in God so
there Is a trinity in man. Spirit is
that part of man by which he has the
power to know God. Soul Is self-con-
scious life, the seat of man’s emotions
and desires. The body Is the seat of
the senses, enabling man to have world
consciousness. God made man to be
a personality, capable of having fel-
lowship with himself, and with whom
he could share his glory.
By JESSE O. THOMAS
February 27, may be put down as
the date on which the Negro’s con-
trol or untrammelled participation in
the Republican politics of the state
of Georgia came to a sad and mourn-
ful close. He enters now upon a new
chapter with “lily-white” domination
which shifts him almost completely
from center field to the side lines.
The resignation of B. J. Davis as
secretary of the State Republican
Central Committee automatically
transferred all of the records out of
colored into white hands. Rules pro-
mulgated at this meeting for the or-
ganizing of ward and county organi-
zations are calculated to transplant
Negroes all over the state from po-
sitions of leadership they have oc-
cupied for the last quarter of a cen-
tury to that of fellowship. Like Pe-
ter of old “the brethren will follow
afar off.”
It was depressing to observe the
helpless of the Negro delegates to
this convention, the majority of whom
didn’t realize what was happening un-
til it was all over. It was obvious
that the white members of the organ-
ization had a well layed plan, they
had stumped the state in an intensive
campaign so that the delegate from
the farthest county was more intel-
ligent as to what the program was
and how it was to be executed than
the Negroes in Atlanta.
There had been no conference of
Negroes where the general scheme
which was known to one or two might
have been thoroughly analyzed; there-
fore, the Negroes had no collective
mind. A little delegation of Negroes
from Savannah, including the nation-
al committee-woman held a caucus
in the Herndon Building, while dele-
gates from other parts of the state
had their caucus in the Odd Fellows’
Building, and the most of the Atlan-
ta members of the committee had no
caucus at all.
If one can visualize the behavior
of ’these suspicious, unintelligent
from a point of view of knowing what
each had agreed to or would agree to
as against the solidarity that charac-
terized every movement of the white
delegation, he will get some faint
idea of how this painless operation
was performed. Before the Negro
came out from under the ether of
surprise and confusion, his wisdom
tooth had been pulled and his appen-
dix removed.
With Ben Davis out of the picture
so far as the “lily-whites” are con-
cerned, the road is paved from here
on to the “eternal city of Negro elimi-
nation.” There will be a few Ne-
groes “immunized by appointment”
on some unimportant committees or
maybe one or two important commit-
tees, but who will be so completely
out-numbered that “he will be no
trouble.”
If Negroes had given the proper
support, financial and otherwise, to
the organization, they could have
kept it in tact and position to wield
great influence for the political good
of the group. The only Negroes who
have made any fight at all for our
political welfare have been for the
most part, the uneducated and those
cataloged as the “old Negroes.’.’ “I
keep a tell’n you, there is sump’un
wrong” with the educated Negro’s
conception of his responsibility for
the political salvation of the group.
For this misfortune our schools are
largely to blame. Negroes have been
taught there was something degene-
rating about political affiliation; that
no gentleman would indulge therein.
The white man teaches his children
“this one thing ye must do, learn all
you can about the science of govern-
ment and lie always actively engaged
in the political aspect of your com-
munity life, so far as relates to the
selection of those who are to make
the laws by which you are to be gov-
erned." “The more education you
have, the better you are qualified, not
only to understand the complicated
structure of the government, but also
to serve as an interpreter and admin-
istrator of the law pertaining there-
to.”
The young educated Negro confines
his participation to curb and barber
shop arguments and private parlor
symposiums.
TEXAN LEADING IN
VOTE CAMPAIGN AT
LOUISIANA PARISH
Monroe, La.—It was reported today
that largely through the untiring ef-
forts of Charles H. Myers, local presi-
dent of its chapter, the N. A. A. C. P.
is within a very few votes of its goal
of 500 qualified colored voters in and
around Monroe.
Although, Mr. Myers, through his
numerous activities, has shown him-
self to be a staunch and loyal citizen
of the State of Louisiana, he is a na-
tive Texan, having been born and
reared in Livingston, and his mother
and father, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Myers,
are at present living in Lufkin, not
many miles distant.
Song of Peace
The belfries of all Christendom now
roll along the unbroken song of peace
on earth, good will to men!—Long-
fellow.
Paths to Triumph
“God’s trials nobly borne in obedi-
ence to his righteous will are the
paths to victorious triumph.”
Mr. Myers is now serving his 4th
term as local president of the N. A.
A. C. P., and was a delegate to the
Republican State Convention in New
Orleans (old line regulars) in 1928
and again in 1932. He has been elect-
ed a delegate from the fifth con-
gressional district, and will serve at
the Republican National Convention
to be held in Chicago in June 1932.
Despite the fact that he has lived
in Louisiana for only a little more
> of
A Favorable Light . than ten years, Mr. Myers is one
Faith takes in a favorable‘light even . A»—3— Le 1: -
what seems adverse. — Bengel.
NEW NEGRO SCHOOL ERECTED
the recognized leaders of his com-
munity and has always shown him-
self willing and able in any worthy
community enterprise.
Edenton, N. C.—(CNS)—A new .
Negro school building has been com-
pleted here recently at the cost of
$227,000. It will be occupide by col-
ored students at'the next school term.
The structure was erected by funds
donated by the Rosenwald Founda-
tion, the Slater Fund, Chowan Coun-
ty and numerous colored organiza-
tions and individuals.
The auditorium of the new build-
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or dropsy swelling or shortness of
breath write us for FREE trial pack .
age. In use 24 years. Collum Medi while the class rooms will have a
cine Company, Dept. 250, Atlanta, Ga. seating capacity of 750 pupils.
ing will accommodate 400 persons
seating capacity of 750 pupils.
Los Angeles, Calif.—(CNS)—Al-
most the last words of the Rev. Hen-
ry Hunter, 45, were addressed to his
congregation at the end of his ser-
mon, when he said: “If you never see
me again, meet me in glory.” Short-
ly after that he was shot and killed
by a member of his congregation,
Mrs. Ella Jenkins, 55, who was in-
furiated because the deceased preach-
er owed her over $100 for a washing
bill, which he had failed to pay.
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