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Big Business Seeks
Negro Trade Thru
Giving Employment
MAX YERCAN GETS
SPINCARN MEDAL

NEW YOR K-Max Yergan,
American Y.M.C.A. secretary who
has worked for ten years among
the native students of South AT
RIGA, has been awarded the nine
teenth Spingarn medal for 1892,
the committee announced this
week. The committee statement
says: 8.
He Is a missionary of intel
hgence, tact and self-sacrifice
representing the gift of cooper
alton and culture which Ameri-
can Negroes may send back to
their Motherland; and he inaug-
urated last year an unusual To-
cal movement for interracial un-
derstanding among black and
white students"
Mr.. Yergan was born in Ra-
leigh, N. c., and is a graduate
of Shaw University. In choos-
ing South Africa for his work,
he went into a land with much
more color prejudice and cruel
ties based on color than the
United States. In South Africa
the natives are herded into re-
servations and limited to the
poorest land. If diamonds or
precious metals are found on
their land they must get out
without being paid any damages.
They are simply transferred to
other land and the government
takes their riches. Fourteen
per cent of the land is occupied
by 100000 natives while SO
per cent of the land is in the
hands of only 100000 whites.
The racial feeling is bitter.
Mr.. Yergan is expected in Am
erica in April and will receive
the medal at the N.A.A.C.P. an
nual conference in Chicag
June 27-July 2. The medal has
been given annually by J. E.
Spingarn, one of the founders
and president of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People for distin-
guished achievement among Ne
groes.
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P OL|CE USE
THIRD DEGREE
IN ARKANSAS

BLYrHENILLE. Ark, A.
cused of forcing two Negro ban
dit suspects TO beat each other
with rubber hose, two police
men and a former officer were
fined $25 each Wednesday by
Municipal Judge c. A. Cunning
liam, white.
The forcing of the two sus-
poets, Herman Seward and Fred
Boston, to whip each other dur
ing police questioning. has
caused much excitement in East
ern Arkansas.
The accused officers are Herb
Thompson, Bill Hicks and Oscar
Elliott, whites. Elliott quit the
police force when assault and
battery charges were filed ag-
ainst him and the other officers.
From the witness stand In the
city court Seward and Boston
related a startling story of po-
lice third degree" methods. Re-
sidents of this section of the
country had never heard of such
method of "wringing" confes-
sions out of prisoners.
The accused officers did not
take the witness stand to testi-
fly in their own behalf An APP
peal, however, was taken to the
circuit court.
Two weeks ago when Seward
went on trial, Thompson and
Elliott admitted the beatings oc-
Cured in their presence but
claimed that they were given
voluntarily
Another development in the
sensational happenings here was
the resignation of Chief og Po-
lice A. D. Gwyn, white. The
police chief surrendered his job
shortly after the assault and
battery warrants were filed a
eainst the three members of his
force.
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EDITORIAL
Negro Health Week

HEALTH FIRST. More Than
Ever Before, Carry ON" is the
slogran of the 1888 National
Negro Health Week Campaign,
April 90. During this week
through special meetings. clinics
and lectures. women's clubs, So
cieties, churches and other or
CARNATIONS stress the importance
of Negroes safeguarding their
health.
Without health the rich man $
millions turn to ashes. Without
health there can be no happiness.
A sick nation is weak one.
And sick race is invariably
made up of paupers. The sick
man is a drain on society.
Health, a strong and vigorous
body, is better to be chosen than
great riches. In fact, where
there is sickness there is sorrow
and suffering.
MANY PEOPLE pay more at
tention to their automobiles than
they do their bodies. Every five
hundred miles they oil and
grease their cars. but they walt
until they are half dead before
they visit physician.
An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure. Proven
tive medicine is gaining ascend
ancy over the old idea of getting
we'll after becoming ill., The
point Is not to get sick.
. SINCE SICKNESS is a drain
on family and public resources
everyone should endeavor to keep
well. Those who are poor can
least afford to be sick. In view
of the fact that large percent
age of colored people are poor,
it behooves them to guard their
health. During this week espec-
ial effort is being made to i'm
press colored people with the
need of good health and how to
keep II. 1t is the most valuable
asset in the world and it is a
valuable to the rich and poor
alike. Preserve your health.
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WH|TE'b[ACK
Student DANCE
rifles KANSAS

Pittsburgh Az etaoin shrdlu
PITTSBURGH, KANS.-(Spec-
ial) Inter-racial meetings are al
right but mixed dancing is all
wrong, the faculty of Pittsburgh
Teachers College decided Monday
after an Investigation of an in
formal inter-racial dance that
followed a meeting of the For
um Club on the campus last
week About so students were
at the Forum meeting sponsored
by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y
w. G. A. for discussion of cur
rent issues. After the program
the white and colored students
mixed In a dance in which six
white students danced with col
ored goods and three cDlored
students danced with white girls.
Despite the fact the dance had
been scheduled on the colleges
social calendar and was attended
by two professors as chaperons,
the affair created Juror result
ing in. "a Two mass meetil IS
(2) The passing of resolu; or
banning mixed dancing. CD The
taking away of all social pr vi
leges of three white men stu
dents for the remainder of the
current semester. (4) The suc
pension of one of the trio by his
fraternity.
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fine CAR CAUSES
Loss OF JOB

NEW YORK-Because il was
his habit to drive to work in
his own car with liveried
chauffeur, Robert Brooks OF
Flushing, an employee in the
Union League Club. was mott
fled that his services were no
required Although
Brooks had record for effi-
cheney and service as head OF
his department aud had worked
for the club for 30 years. II
was said that the sight of an
employee riding to work IN
big car was too much Tor the
club members and they had
more than once remarked about
1t.
on a salary of $50 month,
plus tips. it is said that Mr.
Brooks was able to buy MS
LONE in Flushing, one in AS
hurry Park, n. j., for a summer
home and hire chauffeur to
drive his car. 1t was this use
of his ear that is said to have
cost Mr.. Brooks his job.
There are SS Negro employees
in the Union League Club ana
many of them are In responsible
positions. Many of the employ
ees have been in the service for
long periods of years. william
S. Miles is the senior employee
at the club with As years ser
vice at present is in charge OF
the cafe. Next in the length
of years service comes Joseph
Queenan for forty years an EN-
ployee. Mr. Queenan is the
head waiter
It is said the club insures all
of its employees with $500
life insurance policy and at the
end of Is years. the policy, paid
up. is given to the employee.
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HEARING Be GINS
WITH ACCUSER
WITNESS MISSING

DECATUR, Ala, Wednesday.
March az Especially Argument
and testimony in support of proof
OF systematic exclusion OF color
ed citizens from juries in Alaba-
ma occupied the first three days
of the second trial which began
Monday for the lives of nine Ne
gro youths sentenced to death
FOR an alleged attack upon two
white girls aboard Southern
railway freight train March 25,
1891, near Scottsboro. The tes-
timony was offered by the de-
Tense in support of its motion
TO quash the Indictment against
The Negro boys because no Ne
groes were included in the grand
jury returning the true bills.
Tw Us X subpoenas have
been requested by the defense
counsel In an effort to establish
that racial discrimination keeps
the colored group off the jurles.
Included among the subpoenas
are THOSE for the secretary of
state. jury commissioners, and
colored citizens who the defense
Will attempt to show are quail
fled to serve as jurors except for
the color of their skins.
While the United States SUI
preme Court has held that col
ored persons cannot be excluded
from jury service because of CO.
Tor, the issue has never been the
basis for reversal of lower
courts. because no actual proof
of exclusion has ever been Of
fered This time it is regarded
as certain that direct evidence
Will be presented.
Attorney General T. IL. Knight
conducting the prosecution in an
attempt 10 refute the allegation
of the defense attorneys has sum
moned "A score OF Negroes for
examination regarding their qua
lllicallOn Tor jury service.
Disappearance of Ruby Bates,
the states principal witness has
weakened the case against the
Negro boys.
The girl, who also Is the al
legged author of a letter repudi-
ating her testimony in the first
trials two years go, has been
missing from her home in Hunts
Vile, Ala. since February 81.
Mrs. Mary Bates told officers
she believed her daughter had
been kidnapped.
Pamphlets purporetedly con
tanning the inside story" of the
Continued on Page Two
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DANCY NAMED ON
DETROIT BOARD

d e T R OF T, Mich.-John G..
Dancy, secretary of the Detroit
Urban league, has been named
by Mayor Frank Murphy as a
member of the commission of
the House of Correction, one of
the four key commissions of the
city government. The appoint
ment stirred up protest from pre-
JUDGED white people, but Mayor
Murphy is ignoring the agitation.
He stated he named Mr.. Dancy
not as political appointment,
but because he is an able.
trained, high class man such as
Is needed for the work. The
mayor said he hoped the ap-
pointment would influence other
cities. Mr.. Dancy is one of the
best known social workers In
the country. He is the son of
John c. Dancy, former register
of deeds for the District of Col
umbia, and is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania.
He has been at the Detroit Ur-
ban league for thirteen years.
Mayor Murphy is a national dir
ector of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People and will be remembered
as the presiding Judge in the
famous Sweet case.
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DILL SPONSORS
NEW PULLMAN
PORTER'S BILL

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator
Clarence C. Dill, Democrat. of
Washington, reintroduced in the
Senate last Wednesday his bill to
reqlire employment of Ameri-
can citizens on observation cars.
dining cars and sleeping cars
used by railroads in interstate
commerce. 1t was referred to
the interstate commerce COM
mittee.
The measure was introduced
by Senator Dill in the last ses-
son of the Seyenty-second Con-
gress, but was not reported out
of committee before the session
died.
The purpose of the bill is to
exclude employment of Japanese
and Filipinos on observation cars
sleeping cars and dining cars by
requiring the employment of A
mercian citizens only in such
railroad work. Senator Dill rea-
sons that such a requirement will
give the colored porter an exclu-
slve hold on such jobs.
Under the terms of the bill a
railroad or Pullman Company
would be subject to a fine for
each day of employment of a
foreigner as a porter on obser-
vation cars, dining cars and on
sleepers.
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She Had To Pass For White
Employment offices turned Her down because
in the Application Blank she wrote "Colored" after
her name. One day she wrote American and she
got job with trimmings"
a True Story by EdDard La.uson)

passed that any outward signs
of a breakdown in the machin-
cry were visible.
At first these took only mod
crate forms, a few of the girls
whose usefulness had been ques-
toned were fired, and other MI
nor retrenchments made. But
one day, very suddenly some
thing happened. None of US ev-
er understood exactly what it
was. But according to the most
reliable rumors published by the
papers, someone, an outsider
managed to gain a controlling
block of the company's stock
through a series of complicated
manipulations. This man then
used his power to step into the
presidency of the company, dis
placing the genial, easy-going
old fellow who had founded the
business originally, and who had
been its guiding star from the
very beginning.
At any rate, from that point
on, the company began to de-
cline. Their collections were
badly hit by the depression, and
pay checks were sent out ire
gularly. More women and men
were discharged, and Freddie be-
gan to fear for his own Job
Those were days of worry and
care for US, because we could
never tell when Freddie's check
would arrive from the home Of
flee, nor how much longer he
would retain his job.
And at last the blow fell.
Freddie. like so many others who
had worked for years in build
ing the assets of the company.
now found himself discharged.
1t was next to impossible for
him to get another job just at
that time. Men were selling ap-
pies on every street corner and
women stood shivering In the
bleak winter days. Thousands In
Harlem were out of work, and
thousands more lived in constant
deadly fear of losing what little
jobs they had.
Continued Next Week. =
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Youths
Face New Trial In
Decatur, Alabama
NEGRO CITY FIGHTS
TO KEEP CHARTER

MARYNILLE. S C.-The 474
citizens of this little town have
hired lawyers in determined
fight against the bill in the
state legislature to withdraw
their charter. introduced by Re
preventative H. G. Senseney, of
Charleston.
The attempt to take their
charter was initiated by four
white merchants who objected
to paying an annual tax Of So.
Rather than abide by the taxa
ton fixed by Il colored MAYOR
and his board of wardens they
pulled strings to have the Al
year-old town abolished.
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Freddie and I were married
four years ago. l had lived in a
little New Jersey town all my
life, but after the ceremony Was
over Freddie took me with him
to New York, where he had a
fine job with a branch insur-
ance office. We managed to find
a beautiful apartment in a nice,
middle-class section of Harlem,
made hundreds of new acquaint-
ances, and very soon found our
selves in the swim of things. We
were invited out almost every
night to bridge parties or dan
ces, and over the dull week-ends
we would motor down to visit
my parents, who seemed always
so lonely now that l, who had
been their only child, had left
them.
In a word, we found Harlem
society life the most pleasant We
had ever known. Freddie's hours
of work were definite-from
nine until five-and his salary
was large enough to permit us
every comfort we desired. We
always had the evenings free for
tea or bridge, and took part in
every community activity which
arose from time to time. Freddie
said that participation in things
of that sort helped his business
and 1 was always glad to do
whatever pleased him.
So we lived in almost perfect
happiness and bliss for more
than a year, working hard dur
ing the daylight hours, playing
hard at night. 1t was a great
life and a merry one, and we
both enjoyed it to the utmost.
But it was too much too good
to last.
The financial crash of 1929
seemed to have little effect upon
the company by which Freddie
was employed. To all intents
and purposes it still remained
as firm and as solid in its fl
nancial foundation as the rock
of Gibraltar. And 1t was not
until after several months had
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VIRGINIA JUDGE
CONDONS Use Of
DARBY EP|THET

RICHMOND. Va.-The epithet
"darky" has been used in local
courts for forty years and is per-
missible in the courtroom of Jus
tice II. A. Maurice. II was ruled.
Tuesday, during a hearing OF r.
II. Stone. white, charged with
refusing TO leave a police station
house when ordered.
Stone, who had been attempt
ing to arrange bail for members
OF the Unemployed Council ar
rested for attempting to hold a
meeting without permit. was ac-
companied by J. J. STICKY Dur
ing the hearing a spirited debate
on the Objectionable term took
place between Stone, Justice
Maurice and Lucius f. Cry,
white, who appeared FOR the city
attorneys office.
When officer Taylor insisted
on referring to j. j. STICKY as
that darky STICKY" Stone re-
minded the court, as he and
Tomkin have done on many Oc-
Continued IN para TUoA
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HIRE
NEGRO statesmen
AND SOLICITORS
BY J. A. jackson
Head of the Division of
Small Business, i'm the
u. y. Department of Com
merce.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The uti-
lixation of the services of Ne
groes in the selling field has
not yet been adopted on ma
tional scale by any of the white
national distributors of commo-
dities. Many have begun local
application of the idea of ap-
pealing to the Negro market
thru salespeople of the race.
The automobile and the food
industries through employment
of our sales people in retail
stores seem to lead the field in
this respect. Independent stores
have in a number of cities far
outnumbered the chains in the
adoption of this policy.
Disregarding the small mer-
camille places of a single unit
the record is as follows:
In the food field. 1t is found
that the Atlantic and Pacific
stores employ colored statesmen
and women in some stores in
Atlantic City, New York, Cam
den, N. j., Chicago, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, East Orange. N. j.,
Kansas City, Mo-, and Philadel-
phia. In Detroit there are col
ored branch managers.
The National Tea Company
has colored clerks in Chicago
and in Minneapolis, MINI.
The Kroger stores in Cleve-
land, Detroit Durham, N. c.,
Indianapolis, Pittsburgh. and st.
Louis, Mo-, have colored clerks
in. stores in our districts.
This is true of the Piggy
Wiggly stores in Chicago and
Tuskegee, Ala, and of the Ma
tional Grocery Company stores
in Montclair, N. j.. and Gary,
Ind. The First National Gro
Gerry Stores in Boston are expert
menting in two of their units
in the same direction. The Am
erican stores in Philadelphia
have several such stores.
Other Stores
Others doing the same are the
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Elks Fighting for Troops

WASHINGTON The Elks' CT
vii Liberties Bureau is making
a strong effort seeking restora-
ton Of the Negro troopers to
The same status as they had be
fore being detailed to Fort Mey-
er, Va.
The matter of the reduction
of these troops TO subalterns and
hostlers had a wide Influence in
swinging the vote OF the colored
people against the Republican
party, the grand exalted ruler
said.
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Russians to Film
Life of L'Ouverture

MOSCOW U.S.S.R.-The life
If Toussaint L'Ouverture, hero
d the Haitian insurrection at
Re end of the 18th century, will
ra-live on the motion picture
screen, 1t was announced by
Serge Eisenstien, Russian film
producer.
Eisenstien is basing his YER
sion on The Black Consul" by
Alexander Dumas. He plans
early production.
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Can Live Anywhere

THE NEGRO is losing ground. ="
walls Dean Kelly Miller, because
the U. S. Census figures on farm
ownership show that farm lands
owned by Negroes dropped $S54,-
500, 526 in value in the past
ten years. Dean Miller mourns
because our people left Southern
farms for the cities. Dean Nil
Ter would have us go back to
the farm; back where life is
unsafe, where peonage exists,
where Negroes can't vote, and
where there isn't a bath tub,
an electric light, an eight month
school, a moving picture or a
radio set. Civilization on many
far Southern farms is on the
level of so years ago. None of
the great scientific and mechan-
ical inventions have penetrated
the one-room cabins. Farming
is done with two mules, a plow
a hoe, and a knife. The only
food is pork, cornmeal and rice.
INSTEAD OF WEEPING, wall
ing and crashing his teeth.
Dean Miller should rejoice be
cause Negroes have turned their
backs on these benighted regions
and walked into cities where life
is more pleasant. We think they
showed good sense. Life is more
than food and drink.
OF COURSE THESE Southern
Negroes in the cities will have
their problems. They will have
an employment problem, and a
health problem. a housing prob
lem and others. IL any other
race can learn to dwell in cities,
so can we. Whatever problems
the city has, in the long run,
we will solve them. They may
cause us hard labor. They may
cause us to wait hungry and
jobless. They may cause us
sickness, plague and many of
us death But we will learn
We always have. We always
will. Any race which has sur
vived the horrors and cruelties
of slave ships and slave trade.
endured ESQ years of slavery.
survived the transfer from a
tropical to temperate climate,
can live anywhere human kind
can exist.
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Olympic Star Pays
Dentist with Medals

DETROIT-John Lewis. mem
Der of the 1928 U. S. Olympic
team and winner of many gold
medals in the 400 metres as a
member of the City College
track team here. is eating on
his medals these days.
Lewis, unemployed, and in
need of dental attention, select
ed three gold medals from his
assortment and took them to his
dentist who melted them down,
using part of the gold for
crowns and Filings and keep
ing the remainder as his fee.
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Ohio Girl Loses
Segregation Case

COLUMBUS. Ohio-The Ohio
state Supreme Court ruled a
gainst Miss Doris Weaver Of
Cleveland. last Wednesday, de-
nying that the refusal of Uni
versity of Ohio authorities to
permit her to live with white
students in the home manage
ment house was a denial Of edu-
cational advantages or privileges.
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Reds Peeving Alabama
Interracial Committee

BIRMINGHAM, Ala-"Certain
sinister influences" are at work
upon the Southern Negro, says
James d. Burton secretary Of
the subcommittee of the Ala
bama Interracial Commission, In
a report which claims that the
Communists are using the South
ern Negro TO fight their pro
posed revolution.
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Not Much Money for
Hall Johnson's Show

NEW YORK Although Hall
Johnson's play, Run, Little
Chlllunl" showing currently at
he Lyric Theatre has receive d
the finest praise from the news
paper critics, 1t is not stacking
up as box-office attraction.
Last week, the show drew 3d.
600 in trade, with cast of 100
persons. Strike Me Pink, "
which opened the same week,
drew $4,000.
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FIGHT TO BREAK
CAROLINA UNIV.
COLOR LINE BAR

DURHAM, NC.-The fight to
break through the color bar
lines at Chapel Hill, the Uniyer-
sity of North Carolina, was stiff
fened Friday when Judge M. "
Barnhill ordered the university
registrar to show cause before
him next Friday why writ of
mandamus should not De issued
compelling him to admit Thon"s
r. Hocutt TO the university
Hocutt had been refused ad-
mittance to the universitys
school of pharmacy by Registrar
Thomas J. Wilson, Jr., and the
court proceedings have been
brought to test the institutions
right to bar colored citizens.
Constitutional Rights
Attorneys for Hocutt are bas-
ing their action on the grounds
that it is against the u. s. Con
stitution to bar any American
citizen from a tax supported III
stitution on account of his race
or color. The issue is being pre-
scented by a group of Durham
leaders
Several days ago, a white Dur
ham newspaper sounded an a
larm, advising those pushing the
matter to abandon the suit In
an editorial the paper stated that
the more conservative leaders
accepted segregation and the
whites insisted upon II.
Durham leaders, however, de-
clared that the matter would be
fought out to the finish.