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EDITORIALS
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AND INTEGRITY MAKE MEN
AND RACES GREAT
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1933
OUR OPPORTUNITY
Negroes of South Texas have a distinct opportunity in con-
nectiion with the proposed University of Houston. The Hous-
thom sellooli board has pledged itself to the building of a Negro
Birancih off the university, along with the branch for white stu-
dintis, and the indications are from newspaper reports that the
ifem will lie to make this new institution of learning serve the
needs off the people whom it will be built to serve, rather than
merely teach some usual college subjects in the traditional way.
In considering our opportunity to such a situation the fol-
twingare some pertinent thoughts: it would be a fine thing if
the find for the Negro branch of the University of Houston
culi lie given by Negroes; it would be a fine lesson in self-help,
and would give us a worthy stake to this community enterprise.
Since the institution in planned on a bares of being completely
self-sustaining, it is not too early for Negro leaders to begin
th think about a program which will insure that the Negro
linncin will also carry itself; it would be very unfortunate to
gett the branch and then find that it would not pay its way.
Center interest should immediately be shown in the progress
off the Houston Colored Junior College, for the reason that the
new university will be more or less an extension of the junior
cnilige program; and our success with the junior college will
indicate our practical interest to the branch university.
Aswe view our opportunity to connection with the proposed
lininclh university, tot it never be forgotten that our progress
Hemcefurthas a race will depend more upon ourselves than upon
wlntt angledr eke does for or against us
THE BEAUMONT SUPERINTENDENT
The kind of addresses which Superintendent M. E. Moore
off the Beaumont Independent School District delivers upon oc-
easionss before the Negro teachers under his charge represents
the iifeall of the kind of helpful information and inspiration
which teachers deserve from their leader. Beginning the new
yearr Mir. Moore talked to the Negro teachers about “The New
iontier,” pointing out to them the new fields of usefulness
which now lay open to the teaching profession as the nation
mess through the present era of change.
The Informer trusts that Superintendent Moore’s example
will he am inspiration to other superintendents, and that more
off them will realize, as evidently Mr. Moore does, that Negro
tenchiers will respond to helpful influencees in about the same
proportions as other teachers respond.
OFF TO STUDY
Never to the history of the Negro college has there been
such interest manifested to having teachers go off to get the
ML. A and the Ph D degrees. There is scarcely a Negro college
anywhere which does mot boast of the number of its faculty
members who are away on leave, taking advanced work in
this on that university of the North, East, or West.
The informer trusts that this is a good sign. We hope that
hi means more than an effort to meet requirements of rating
linardis and the feverish competition to become standardized.
Thieve may be worthy aspirations, but in and of themselves
they are not enough. We sincerely pray that some of our col-
tore presidents may at least remember that the greatest edu-
entor Negroes have yet produced made his own standards, and
had the rest off the educators of the world flocking to Tuskegee
to untterm after his example.
LOW TEACHERS PAY .
Everybody who believes to justice and fair play will wel-
enme and stand ready to support the fight which the N.A.A.
CPL is about to wage upon the unjust and unequal salary
schedules for Negro teachers in the South. It is notorious that
im most places (San Antonio, Texas, being one outstanding ex-
ception) Southern school boards pay their Negro teachers on
a schedule under which the maximum which they may receive
is just about the minimum for white teachers, with work and
requirements the same.
Let the fight begin an contemplated in North Carolina, and
Maui want to ere justice prevail join in helping to win
BLACK GREATNESS
The Informer agrees with Paul Robeson when he says of
the Negroc “What he should do is to try for ‘black greatness’
and not an imitation of ‘white greatness.’” In no other way
cam our problems as a minority group be solved.
EDITOR C. N. DOVE
The staff of The Informer extends its best wishes and hopes
for many more years of usefulness and happiness to the dean
off Negro journalism in Texas, Editor Charles Norvelle Love,
mihe his seventy first milestone last Friday, September
Elitor Love has fought many a battle, but he has never hit
prior the belt, and he has always been ready to take a stand
fur thgoiof his race. It is fitting to pay honor and tribute
A veteran leader among the Negroes of the Lone Star
SHE- - -
THE HOUSTON INFORMER
. THE TEXAS FREEMAN
% A WERKLY NEWSPAPER FOR ALL TH rom
THE PROCESSION CONTINUES
The procession of old line Republicans who are deserting the
G. 0. P. ship for the Democratic party continues. The latest
convert is Judge Edward W. Henry of Philadelphia, who has
long been a rock-ribbed Republican. Whether viewed as a poli-
tical move or as a realization that there is no longer anything
in the Republican ranks for Negroes, it is becoming more and
more evident that Negro voters are no longer sewed up in the
Republican sack.
BACKWARD ALABAMA
It was to be expected that Alabama would lead the way in
persecuting Negroes for insisting that the NRA means that all
workers shall be treated alike. Last week news flashed all over
the country that Alabama had served notice of its attitude by
running out of the state a Negro minister who refused to ask
Negroes to take smaller pay than whites for the same work.
In view of Scottsboro and the more recent actual lynchings
in Alabama, it is not surprising that the intolerance of this
state has not been curbed by even so patriotic an undertaking
as the NRA.
37 YEARS OF SERVICE
Dr. M. W. Dogan is now entering upon his 37th year as
president of Wiley College, a record which no other, college
president in Texas has. But the years do not find any com-
plaints registered against this educational leader upon any
theory that a young man could do more than he is doing or that
he has not kept up with the times. Indeed, there is some evi-
dence, at least, that Dr. Dogan is ahead of his times, if follow-
ing in the beaten paths of other institutions is what is meant
by “the times."
For it is no exaggeration to say that there is no man in
Negro education who is more alive to the problems of the Ne-
gro college than the venerable president of Wiley College. He
had the courage to ask his board to change the name of
Wiley University to Wiley College, in order that the name
reflect the fact. There are some other presidents of Negro col-
leges who might with propriety follow this honest example.
And, as he enters upon his 37th year of service at Wiley,
Dr. Dogan has had the audacious wisdom to dare to tell the de-
gree hunting Negro colleges of the land that there is some re-
lationship between the courses in the curriculum at Wiley Col-
lege and the community problem of caring for the hair and skin
and nails of the millions of Negroes of the great Southwest.
May Dr. M. W. Dogan be spared to Negro education for
many, many more years of useful service.
* ODD FELLOWS LEAD AGAIN
Again the Odd Fellows of Texas have taken the lead in offer-
ing liberal consideration to its members who have felt the un-
fortunate hand of the depression, and have thereby been forced
to lose their insurance with this great fraternal institution. It
was the Odd Fellows who earlier in the depression provided
loans upon its policies for worthy, distressed members, saving
the insurance of hundreds of them.
And it is the Odd Fellows now who offer to members in good
health the opportunity to come Back into the order by paying
one quarterly premium at the present age, without any regard
to how long the member has been out or the amount of the back
indebtedness. The Informer calls this fraternal statesmanship.
THE BAPTIST CONVENTIONS
All Texas has its eyes on Houston and the annual convention
of the General Baptist Convention which meets the middle of
October for the purpose of weighing the momentous question of
unity which will come before that body. Likewise the eyes of
Texas will be on the conventions of the other wings of the Bap-
tist family which will gather to consider this same question.
There will be other important questions, to be sure; but
the most important question is the question of unity, and upon
its solution will ultimately depend the other problems of educa-
tion, missions, and everything else of importance which faces
the great Baptist family of Texas.
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(By REV. W. A. JOSHUA, Rustur
Greater Jordan Grove Baptist Church.
Houston, Texas, Instructor in B. W. I.
U. work to State S. S. and B. Y. T. W.
Congress of the General Baptist Suite
Convention of Texas).
LESSON I
SAUL OF TARSUS
Acts 21:39; 22:3, 27, 28; 26.17;
- Phil. 3.3.6
MOTTO TEXT: Give diligence to
present thyself approved auto (oil,
a workman that needeth mot the
ashamed, handling aright the word
of truth. Timothy 2.15.
Our study of Sunday school Hewsons
for this quarter carries us into a
study of the life of the Apostle Paul.
This lesson is made up of warious
cerning himsuir, re,*.om tee
information on his life, and who the
was than perhaps any other shuts,
ment in the Bible. Also this lesson
makes a splendid introduction the the
lessons that shall follow in the
three months. God had prepared:
circumstances and environment
the making of the illustrious dh
ter of whose we now study. His en-
acter.
EXPOSITION
L Paul’s Birth and Educufion
39. But Paul said I am a san whilth
am a Jew of Tarsus, a city iinilicia,
a citizen of no mean city; and I the-
seech thee, suffer me to speak umite
the people.
Having been rescued from in mmob
of Jews who sought to kill him, Paul
stood in the castle requesting mer-
mission to speak to the people con the
grounds, that he is a Jew, born in a
Roman free city, and new and Fgwp-
tian bandit, according to the accuse-
tion of the Jewish mob.
& Verily I am a man which am a
Jew, born in Tarsus, a city iin Cilicia,
yet brought up at the feet of Gama-
liel, and taught according to the mer-
feet manner of the law of the fathers,
and was zealous toward God as all we
are this day.
When allowed to speak iin defense
of himself, Paul assures them that
he was born among the Romans and
reared among the Jews. And ffurther-
more being schooled at Gm Rtafc uE
Gamaliel, the great tencher who
her-r ansse, seen =
entitled to some rights which tow
dared not deny him. For the same
reason, any statement made Ry Jim
demanded their respect.
IL. Paul’s Citizenship and Jewish
27. Then the chief captain cume,
and said onto him, tell me, art thou a
Roman? He said, Yea.
Now that Paul has given subslan-
tial reasons for being heard, to mro-
ceeds to prove that he is both Roman
citizen and a Jewish religionist. The
chief, or caytoin, begins to question
him. His answer is that to iis a o-
man.
28. And the chief captain answerell
with a great aam I obtained this
freedom. And Paul said I was born
OPINIONS
RIACES
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REVIEWS
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COMMENTS
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Cher reneired or Africa was
meted out a punishment last week
by a British court that was second
only to death. He was removed from
the Bamangwato tribe, of which he
was ruler, and exiled from his tribal
lands, by order of the British con-
trollers of the territory, for the rea-
som that he dared to punish a white
That the white man deserved pun-
ishment was an admitted fact. The
man who was punished testified at
the trial of the chief that he had
voluntarily submitted himself to the
native court and that he did not wish
to prosecute the case. He admitted,
too, that he had been responsible for
the moral downfall of numerous
young women of the tribe. His
British friends called his lewd. But
the outstanding fact still stood
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against the handsome, young man,
known as Tshekedi, who had been
highly educated in Britian at great
expense, and who speaks English like
am actor. He had dared to punish a
white man. His administration had
been exemplary. In pronouncing
judgment, Vice Admiral Edward R.
G. E Evans, one of the most distin-
guished officers in the British Navy,
commented “It appears that you are
an extremely capable and good chief,
able to deal with your people and to
lead them, BUT you admit flogging a
European.” The fret that the chief
had several times previously appeal-
ed to the British authorities concern-
ing the lewd conduct of Phineas
Mackintosh, the white man in the
case, seems to have been passed by
lightly.
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The Afro American in commenting
on the cam said «... it appears that
the English authorities had deter-
mined upon the deposition of Chief
Tshekedi in advance. . . . The deci-
sion of the court would indicate that
the chastity of African women and
native laws regarding it need not be
respected to Europeans.”
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THE PROGRESS OF
with the end of last week, only
seven states atood between the 18th
Amendment and Repeal, reports Time.
Between this week and November
T, it: is estimated that ten more states
would vote for the repeal of the
amendment. Governor Frank Henry
Cooney of Montana, forseeing the
brilliant victory that the 21st Amend-
ment is to tone over the 18th, decid-
ed that it: will be a waste of time
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and money for his state to register
its opinion. “Montana won’t need to
vote,” he said. “Repeal win be in
the basket by Nov. 7, and we can
save our $100,000 and use it to feed
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When informed that the chief cup-
STUDENT GUIDANCE tain himself had out n H
The Informer congratulates President Joseph J. Rhoads he was born free, and therefore more
upon the inauguration at Bishop College of a new department deserving of the respect of a citizen
of personnel and guidance. College students need guidance and than those who sat in Ouemm
inspiration as much, if not more, than they need any other “82’ner *
single thing during this period of the development of the Negro youth, which was to first among
race, and it is encouraging that Bishop College is taking sogni- mine own nations at Jerusalem, know
zance of this problem. all the Jews. ”
__Paul had been reared in Jerusalem,
THE NEGRO LIBRARY end seme or =e==n
The Negro library and Mr. Hulbert, the new librarian, both he had been of notoriouseetEt
need the active services and cooperation of the Colored Ad- tone have been *" "
visory Committee. It is unthinkable to expect one young man 5. Which knew me from the begin-
to put over the kind of library program that is needled by a ning if they would testify, that after
Negro community of seventy thousand people. With the con- the most straitest sect of our mligion,
stant and continuously active cooperation of the advisory com- I lived a Pharisee . t a
mittee, Mr. Hulbert can do much; without it he will face un- facts that were being presented to
necessary difficulties, the prisoner before them; they were
--------------rather chargrined as Paul proved
THl? PROPER REMEDY that he was a Pharisee, for torn --
JILL I HUEDE AVAR strictest sect of Jewish religiontEY
It has been said that the reason athletics, in the Negro high were the Pharisees. P
schools of Houston were taken out of the hands of the colored A And now I stand and am judged women ma
principals and placed in the hands of whites was that one of for the hope of the promise snde • “— •
the high schools had created a large bill for athletic supplies Paul contends that he is loingg
that it was slow in paying. While they were at it, of course, tried for the possession of faith iin
the change was made complete by even having white people the promise of God. Such was true
sell and take up tickets at Negro games. The Informer feels for he had set aside ceremonial Jw
that the excuse is insufficient for, the srE.S our
Granted that one high school had been indiscreet in making tribes, instantly serving God any
bills, that is no just reason for penalizing the other two high night. Hope to come, for which hope’s
schools, which had been prompt in paying their bills. And, sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of
even in the case of the indiscret high school, the proper remedy the Jews. Turning to A -
was not to embarrass seventy thousand Negroes by the implies- her or the men who Mid we roues,
tion that their principals either did not have sense enough or tion for the religion that they mow
were not honest enough to manage a few high school football practiced. For they labored and
games. The proper remedy was to make necessary rules and built with the hope that Christ would
regulations about the creation of bills, and to require reasonable some- And INHACAEA
safeguards in the matter of accounting for athletic funds, be a curse, is transformed into a
---------------blessed privilege, of extending the
PROBLEMS OF BEAUMONT NEGROES -
(By Beaumont Correspondent)
PUT THEM IN SCHOOL
The Informer is supporting the “Back To School" movement.
What support and cooperation can be expected from the pa-
trons, students, and teachers? The statistical report shows
the total number of pupils on the census rolls: white 5,643, Ne-
gro 4,988; total number enrolled, white 5,269, Negro 3,157.
Where are those 1,831 Negro children?
gospel to some one who had mot ih
it.
m. Paul’s Christian Religion
3. For we are the “circumcis
which worship God in the spirit, and
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have mo
confidence in the flesh.
Having quelled the anger of the
mob at Jerusalem, by proving his
identity with the Jewish religion Pmuil,
at this time, set out to defend Mas-
self as a worshipper of God according
to the tenets of the Christian meli-
If they are not in school where the environments are clean
and wholesome, it is possible that they are in some dive or
slum which is inviting, but not for the best interest and per-
petuity of the race. The great State of Texas has appropriated
$16.00 each for them and the apportionment from the city
will go far in reducing illiteracy among Negroes. Whatever
amount of time, effort and energy put into it should be a profit-
able investment. For the sake of unborn generations put them
in school. L... -1:9 V liyPau com Y/he
gion.
4. Though I might also have com-
fidence in the flesh, if any Ml
thinketh that bn hath whereof that
he might trust in the flesh.
If there was anybody in
fines of the countries known
who could justly trust in th
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tory, Arthur Race of Boston, in an
, address to the American Hotel Asso-
- ciation at Del Monte, California, last
week, is quoted as saying that Presi-
? dent: Hoover told Mm last September
5 toto to favored repeal of the 18th
Amendment as soon as possible; that
President Hoover recognized the
i magnitude of the bootlegging and
I speakeasy industries and said they
■ should be eliminated as soon as pos-
■ sible, adding, “But still he would not
tell Me people of toe United States
toto and be asked me not to make our
conversation public.”
* sounds thin, but we admit that
some thin things are surprisingly
strong.
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NEWSPAPER COURTESY-
The newspaper war in Denver be-
tamem toe Denver Post and its pub-
Isher, toe late Frederick G. Bonfils
and toe Scripps-Howard “Rocky
Mountain News” is one of the classics
off newspaperdom. Last year, it re-
ceived new fame when Editor Bon-
fils died, leaving his daughter, 38-
MEI oinnter, Helen Bonfils as
One day test week, just as the pa-
mer was going to press, the gas
flames under toe linotype machines
im toe composing rooms, flickered,
gasped, and died. The recent storm
waters which devasted Texas had
broken the Texas gas pipeline. The
News had only one recourse, electric
linotype machines. The Denver Post
had a full battery of them. Answer-
mg the News’ distress call, Miss Bon-
fils, without reservations, agreed that
toe Post would let toe News use its
tosotype machines. Following this
example, other publishing houses,
hesitant to offend the Post, offered
their facilities.
The next morning the News carried
on its front page the following head-
line. “Your News this morning is
made possible by the courtesy of the
Denver Post The Denver Catholic
Register, and the Bradford-Robinson
Printing Co.”
And that goes further than court-
esy, that is friendliness in business,
and all too more to the credit of 1
Helen Bonfils is the fact that she
rescued am enemy of her father’s.
There ta no need to comment on how
Papa Bonfils would have answered
the distress summons had he been in
toe land off too living.
Which recalls that at his death.
Editor Bonfils willed $12,000 a year
to his other daughter, Mrs. May Bon-
ci.ee v. nenrouen whom" snto
Bonfils, resented and despised, but
provided that too receive $25,000 a
year * she became a wodow or a
divorcee. *a court, where the will
was contested, Mrs. Berryman won
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