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Evening star., 1935-11-25

Good by" said she over her shoul-
der, and off she started with the chill
dren following her.
Welcome Robin watched them out
of sight. Suddenly he felt bit lone
ly. He was half tempted to follow.
Pride wouldn't let him. Anyway"
said he to himself, there is no hurry.
I can go any time. I don't have to
make up my mind right this minute" :"
He flew over to a certain swamp.
Evening star., 1935-11-25
OIL PROMOTER SLAIN

Refinery Worker Surrenders.
Business Dispute Blamed.
KILGORE, Tex, November Is up.
"A one-legged oil refinery worker, J.
z. Ferguson, surrendered yesterday
shortly after Harry Hunter, Kilgore
oil field promoter, was slain here.
Police Sergt. o. Wilmington was
informed that Ferguson shot Hunter
Evening star., 1935-11-25

when the latter attempted to pull Fer
guson from an automobile Police
said the two men had o business dis
agreement.
Evening star., 1935-11-25
TARIFF BENEFICIARIES
AGAIN HIT BY WALLACE

Secretary Suggests They Limit
Share in Consumers Dollar to
Pre-War Figure.
BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, November 25.-Sec-
retary Henry Wallace suggested yes
Evening star., 1935-11-25

Electric hot plate
for light housekeep-
ing, Nice Gift for
college students for
midnight snacks.
Evening star., 1935-11-25

You'll find EVERYTHING you need here for
your Thanksgiving feast-you'll find the prices
low-you'll find the service cordial and accom-
modating-youll be glad you did your shopping
at the stores
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-04-14

An American-born countess and family. the
Countess Folke Bernadotte, who was EStelle Man.
vile of Pleasantville NJ Y. at home in Sweden
with her sons, Edward and Gustaf. Her husband
lis a nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden.
Associated Press Photo
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11

continue to pursue such a course,
knowing as he does, that the enact
ment of this measure would have
been truly a gift from God to the
tenant farmers.
"Citizens, farmers, World War
veterans, you witnessed his slaugh-
ter of measures dear to your hearts
You have begged him for help in
behalf of righteous causes, and you
have pleaded in vain, and now soon
it will be his turn to beg you for
something.
Mention Election Year
'In 1885 Josiah w. Bailey will be
coming to you begging for your
votes. He likes that job of his in
Washington that you gave him. He
wants to keep it. But when you
go to that ballot box, Mr.. Tenant
Farmer, Mr.. World War Veteran,
don't you vote for Josiah w. Bailey
because he is your enemy and has
at every opportunity fought you
with his votes in Washington. He
refused your pleas. Now you re-
fuse his"
1t thus looks like the white tnr
farmers may may take owe. the
responsibility of the National AS.
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of
Colored People to see that Bailey
does not return to the Senate after
1886.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
Professor at
Howard Wins
p. B. X. Key

Washington, June 10 amp
Fifteen years ago this June, Dean
Mays Of the School of Religion of
Howard University graduated from
Bates College. The Bates Chap
ter of the Phi Beta Kappa calls
Dean Mays back June ID to make
him a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society. Two other Ne
groes have been honored latter
graduation) by their Alma Mater
in recognition of distinguished
achievement: John Hope of Allan
ia University, the honor having
been conferred by Brown UNIVERSE
ty and David Jones of Bennett Col
lege who received the signal honor
from Wesleyan University in Con-
neticut. Dean Mays has also been
notified by Bates College that he
has been elected to membership
in Delta Sigma Rho, the National
Forensic Society which, until this
wear, was closed to Negroes. While
at Bates, Dean Mays was an inter-
collegiate debater, prize speaker.
Class Day Orator, and honor stu
dent,
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
INCA. Leaders Plan
eet at WiIberforce

New York, June 10-(ANP) "A
national conference of leaders in
the Young Women's Christian AS
ISOLATION will be held at Wilber-
force university, Ohio, June 1925
The conference will bring together
secretaries and committee women
from all sections of the United
States to consider the common
problems of their work.
Mrs. Cordelia A. Vim of the
national staff, is executive of the
conference; Miss Marion Cuthbert,
also of the national staff, has been
responsible for program elements;
and Miss Viola T. Lewis of the Day
ton association, is registrar.
The phases of the work to be
stressed at the conference are the
relation of the branch work to the
whole Association program and the
problems of administration that
grow out of the present relation
ships. Miss Frances Williams of
the Laboratory division of the ma
tional board, will develop the theme
Of the present racial situation
,ut of which come the present prac-
tees; while Mrs. VIM, Miss Vogt
and Miss Bowles will deal with the
problem of administration.
A third phase of the work to be
studied at the conference is the
program for older girls. Miss Ma
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11


At the time he was condemnedI
by the Greensboro Daily News of
this state.
But prior to consideration of the
anti-lyynching measure, tee Bank
head Farm Tenants Home Amend
ment had been placed before the
senate. This measure would. have
enabled the federal government to
inaugurate program of provid-
ing farms anod homes for the mil
lions of sharecroppers in the South.
Due to the mouthings of Bailey, the
amendment was not voted upon, but
went back to the committee on ag-
riculture where it has rested ever
since.
Criticizes Senator
A white man, S. c. Merritt, re-
siding in Magnolia, in an open let
ter to The News and Observer, took
Bailey to task last week for his OPP
position that the share-cropper
measure as follows:
"What hopes were dashed to
nothing when Senator Josiah
w Bailey took the floor to bonn
bard this plan Y ii objections and
distractions and criticisms so
forceful that the fill that the bill
has been shunted aside. Another
victory for Senator Josiah w. Bail
ey. We cannot understand how
a senator of Josiah w. Bailey's sup
posed intelligence can expect t.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
Home for Girls on West
Coast Wins Praise as
a Community Center

San Francisco, June 10 (ANP)
The Nine C. ]. Walker Home for
Girls, 2066 Pine Street. the only
institution devoted to the welfare
of colored girls in San Francisco
has Just closed another successful
year. Praise was showered upon
it this month when it appeared as
one of the agencies sponsored by
thse San Francisco Community
Chest organization, in the program
given on the occasion Of the second
annual exhibit of those organiza-
tons. The exhibit was under the
direction Of the San Francisco
Junior Chamber Of Commerce and
the Walker Girls Home was repre-
sented by singing trio. The other
colored organizations taking part
in the exhibit was the Booker T..
Washington Community Center.
Miss Margaret c. Walker, widely
known throughout Texas and the
Southwest, for her educational
work. particularly at Paul Quinn
College. is the executive secretary
of the Walker Home, which is man,
ed for the late Nine. G. J. Walker,
although its support has always
been derived from a board of ear
nest colored San Francisco women
until it was taken over and support
ed by the Community Chest. The
Board still conducts it.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
A Child and His Books
"a CHAT WITH PARENTS)
BY B. MCCONNELL MEARES

Cities. l don't think YOU are
ready for that vet. l want YOU to
let it alone until you arc old
enough to understand it. That is
the one book in the house 7 don't
want you kids to touch 110r a
while"
He didn't exact a promise, and
in household conducted as theirs
was, he didn't encourage discbedi-
ence. (The children enjoyed the
confidence of their parents and
never thought of disobedience and
obedience as such-thev knew
right from wrongl=
The challenge flung to them
by their sire was a bitter dose for
the daughters. TRY as thew might,
they could not get interested in
Dickens masterpiece. But the
taunt that they were - old
enough to understand it was suf-
ficient to egg them on, they confess
sed one day when they were about
halfway through it, that they had
begun to read it. Their father, to
save his face, remarked that he
was sure they were having all
manner of difficulty. After that,
when they came to passages and
illusions which they did not un-
derstand, they would ask the faith
er about them.
These were really lessons in
Dickens that the children were
taking, but they never realized
that. And when they had compile
ed the work, the father had reaped
a three-fold benefit: he had in
creased the confidence and respect
the children had in his judgment;
he had opened new worlds to them
by introducing them to a study
read plan that encouraged them to
tackle ether more difficult books;
and he had increased their conf
dence in themselves and their in
nate abilities to grasp facts.
Parents like these are men and
women who build for themselves
spots in the hearts of the children.
They direct the activities of the
child. but do it with such delicate
fnesse, and with such apparent
lack of restraint of the child's
natural bent, that the child thinks
that he is really responsible for
his own development.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
Los Angeles
Church Moves
to New Site

Los Angeles, June 10 (ANP)
Providence Baptist Church has just
moved into beautiful new church
home and the members of this
valiant congregation, pastored by
Rev. R. B. Porter. are rejoicing
among themselves and with their
friend. The new church edifice
is lovely stucco structure with a
large recreational hall at it's rear.
Located just a block from Central
Avenue, in the heart of the Negro
section, and led by a minister who
by his ability and sincerity has
made a profound impression upon
Los Angeles, since coming here a
bare six years ago, Providence bids
fair to assume an important niche
in the religious life of the commu-
nifty.
Rev. and Mrs. Porter came 10
the Angel City from Kansas City,
Mo. Rev. and Mrs. Porter are
both prominent in the National
Baptist Convention of America.
He is a member of the National
Educational Board and serves as
advisor and head of the Western
Territory, with headquarters here.
He is also president of the Los
Angeles Baptist Minister'S AL
lance. Mrs. Porter has been
national chorister and pianist for
the convention since 1929. She
is graduate of the music depart
ment of Western University and
did graduate work at the American
Conservatory of Music in Chicago.
Rev. Porter left this week to at
tend the National Baptist Con-
vention meeting at Houston, Tex
as.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
S9Graduateat
StateCOllege
in Virginia

Institute. w. Va. June 10 (ANP)
West Virginia State college con-
ferred Baccalaureate degrees upon
80 members of he graduating class
a its fortieth annual commence
ment exercises Monday afternoon.
The commencement address was
delivered by Harry H. Pace, presi-
dent of the Supreme Liberty Life
Insurance company. Chicago, Ill.
In speaking to the graduates Mr..
Pace emphasized the need for men
and women of character and con-
secration to face the social econo-
mic, interracial, and international
problems that are eminent today.
"There must be individual and spir-
itual recovery" he said. before
national recovery will come"
E. L. Powell president of the Ne
gro Board of Education was off
cial representative of the State
Board of Education at the exercises
and among the other distinguish
ed guests were Hon. Edgar Sims,
State Auditor and w. w. Sanders,
former State Supervisor of Negro
Schools.
Graduation honors were award
ed to four students. Magma Cum
Laude honors were conferred upon
Frank Jackson Wingfield of Nor
folk, w. Va; and Cum Laude hon.
ors were conferred upon Patsy
Alkaline Graves, of Atlanta, Ga;
Naomi Louise James, of Institute;
and Charles Raymond Merry, of
Covington, KY.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11

rL IJor,o o.ya ne Annual Eosh-
;on Sbon th;s Yea veer -. az The hsaut;f,,l
W., W. Ma,nor;el p,,;lS;rm W. one If +ba
H.. f;na.t s+,,,ot,,rns IA iorao
.,,y;e~an e arnIa,,dod tho norfoy
@ a,anoas ,,h;eb u,as ;ntrodnced hy a
fisI Is . 49, srd 80 hS y ,,,;v
al chorns Nnn,hars If solo;sts
GU -. '' g., Iasao. ;xsI,,J;n~
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
Texas School
Holds It's SD
Graduation

Austin, Texas, June 10-(ANP)
The 53rd commencement of Til
lotson college was observed on Sun
day and Monday. DR.. w. L. Cash.
pastor Of Plymouth Congregational
church, Dallas, Texas, delivered the
stirring baccalaureate sermon on
the text: "As a man thinketh in
his heart, 80 is he" Mrs. Jessie
Daniel Ames, Of Atlanta, Ca, some
time chairman Of the National In
ter-Racial commission, and a mem
Der of the Tillotson college board of
trustees, delivered a thoughtful
and moving commencement ad-
dress. Mrs. Ames presented a keen
ly analytic, but tolerant criticism of
the modern home, the church and
the school. She then urged the
graduates to face the duty of max
ing these institution serve the larg-
er social need. She touchingly com
mended to them the help they vii
get from real prayer and from the
faith of their fathers.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11

Atlanta, Ca, June 10 by Jesse
o. Thomas for AMP AT the six
ty-eighth Anniversary Exercises Of
Morehouse College, the Degree of
Doctor of Law was conferred upon
DIR. Mordecai johnson, of Howard
university, and the degree of Doc
tor of Divinity was conferred upon
Rev. Howard Washington Thurman
of the School of Religion, Howard
university, and Rev. James Buc-
hanan Adams. pastor of the Col
ored Baptist church, Brooklyn,
New York.
This is in keeping with the po-
sition taken and the attitude as
sumed by President John Hope and
maintained by his successor, Pres
ident S. H. Archer, toward More
ouse men. 1t is no accident that
a larger number of Morehouse
men are heads of important institu-
tons of learning. of college level,
than is true of any other Negro
school. Two things DR.. Hope has
emphasized in the appreciation of
young men who have come to More
house through the years:
1. That Morehouse had some
thing unique to impart to those who
come there for training, and 2,
That Morehouse could be indepen-
dent in her appraisal of compar-
alive excellence on the part of her
graduates, on which account it
didn't have to wait until some 9TH
er institution or agency bestowed
honor upon them before Morehouse,
herself would accredit them signal
recognition.
Most heads of Negro schools re-
gard their graduates always as
children and wait until some 9th
er institution gives them recogni-
ton or accords them distinction be-
fore their own Alma Mater sig
nalizes their accomplishments.
The third thing that Morehouse
has done has been to use its in
fluence to place it's men in strate-
gic positions. Drs. Hope and Ar
cher have had the vision to recog-
nize the fact that one way of guar
that Morehouse shall
have in its student body from year
to year some of the best bred and
purposed young men,
was to have it's own graduates at
the head of and identified with i'm
portant educational centers which
may serve as a constant feeder for
There may be other schools that
have a stronger appeal to and hold
on masses of Negroes, but there is
no other school that ranks higher
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11

mic E. Davis, of the Association
in Philadelphia, will present this
program and Miss Elizabeth Ann
Nicely, executive of the Leadership
division of the national board, will
develop the theories of group work.
Other leaders and their topics
are:
Mrs. E. P. Roberts, national
board-"The Philosophy of the Y.
w. C. A. and the Problem of
Race"
Mrs. Fl. C. Bryant, national
board-"Volunteer Problems"
Mrs. E. R. Alexander, N. Y. as
sociation-"The Public Affairs
Program"
Miss Ethel Cutler, national board
staff-"Religion and the Modern
Woman"
Miss Lillian Espy, national board
staff-"Personnel Problems"
Miss Elizabeth Ann Nicely, exec
utive of the national board-"The
Social Work Conference at Mon
treal."
Outside speakers who will ad-
dress the conference are President
R. R. Wright of Wherefore uni
versity; Miss Katherine Gardner,
of the Federal Council of Church
es, and Ralph Bullock, of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
DIR. Waring Pleased With
Visit to Piney Woods
By DIR. MARY F. WARING
President, National Association of
Colored Women

During my visit to Mississippi
last fall, | happened upon one of
the most unique musical organiza-
lions l have ever seen, a full brass
band of girls, from the ages of
nine years to eighteen, being taught
and directed by woman who was
inspired to organize them by her
love of music and desire to help
"the poor girl who never had a
chance" This was down in the
backwoods of Mississippi and in a
place called Piney Woods. l was
simply thrilled when l heard such
pieces as Moonlight on the Nile"
washington Post" and New
White House" marches by John
Phillip Sousa; and bright Star
Overture" played by these little
girls.
Immediately it came to my mind,
"What wonderful inspiration it
would be, both to these little girls
and to our club women, to have this
band from Mississippi at our an
nual meeting in Cleveland"
l am so filled with admiration
and the thought of helping these
girls that l am willing to give my
time and energy toward raising a
fund of $500 with which to buy
them some simple uniforms
and to bring them to Cleveland for
our annual convention. 1t would be
a fine tribute to our late co-work-
Ell, Mrs. Lawrence c. Jones and 9TH
ers who have given their time and
energy for their education and in
the development of the Mississip-
pi Federation and our group pro-
jects in the South. We can help
them and they can help us even
more.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
Dixie Democrats Cry RAW Deal"

ed off the keynote of a battle to
show indignation at their freshly
administered raw deal.
In the striking front-page edi-
toroial the editors said in part:
"The colored political leaders and
their co-workers who supported
Senators Mcclellan and Bachman in
the recent Democratic compaign re-
ceived the greatest disappointment
that can come to a political group
of people. this week. News came
in from the civil service depart
ment of Atlanta with 10 appoint
ments for the labor jobs around
the Post Office. but, not single
Negro received a job"
The article further claimed that
the five Negroes alread employed
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11

One father / know used to go
on long picnic hikes with his two
daughters. They always carried
two or three books instead of the
proverbial fishing pole. When the
children appeared to want to read,
they read, all of them, stretched
on a blanket beneath the shade of
some great tree. Sensitive to the
moods of the children, the father
would feel them out. When they
chose to talk books, they did, and
he guided their conversation so as
to stimulate Imagination a d
thought, even though the children
were not very old.
These chats never acquired the
pedantic attitude which would
have been disastrous to the whole
plan, for the father was wise
enough to respect his children's
opinions, likes and dislikes. Some
times they did not open the books
at all. The plan under which this
man worked was especially bene-
fetal, for one move toward coerc,
ing the children to read would
have killed all the interest he had
worked so hard to cultivate.
One occasion revealing the depth
of his understanding of the
daughters, and the degree to
which he practiced psychology on
them occurred when he tried to
get them interested enough to read
Dickens "Tale of Two Cities"
For months the book had lain idly
by, though the parents sought to
attract attention to it by all the
little innuendoes and subterfuges
at their command. Tit first sever
al pages were dull reading, and SO
neither of the children would
bother to see what was behind
them.
Having placed the copy apart
from the rest of the books in the
home. the father remarked one
dav: "You kids seem to have been
doing more reading than usual
laaeiy. Have you read everything
in the house?" This brought on
recitals of books read, and those
still in the unread class. Later
so naively, and so innocently, the
father remarked: "Those will al
make good reading. That is, al
of them except that Tale of Tive
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11

Talladega, Ala, June 10 (ANP)
Amid the beauty of flowers and
soft music, the graduating class of
1885 marched solemnly and happi-
ly to historic Deforest Chapel, the
scene of the sixty-seventh COM
mencement of Talladega college
Thursday. Preceded by the choir
thirty-three. took their accustomed
seats for the last time as students
Of Talladega college and listened
with rapt interest to the inspiring
words of the Reverend Robert
Wood Coe, pastor of the Leyden
Congregational church of Brook
line, Mass.
Doctor Coe pointed out very WV
Idly to the graduates the high way
and the low way of life and the i'm
portance to civilization of choos-
ing the broad and difficult high
way. He drew from his rich ex-
perience and from literature and
philosophy carefully delineated il
Illustrations Of the advantages of the
high way and the disadvantages Of
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11

county. | points out the lack of
Negro pat nts in the tuberculo-
sis hospitals and in hospitals de-
voted to the care of chronic disease,
in the latter case because they are
refused admittance. The report
sets out number of recommends
tons, among them being:
1. That hospitals and sanatoria
admit Negro in-patients on the
same basis as any other patients in
need of care.
2. That all the tax-supported
hospitals recognize their RESPONSE
bility to consider Negroes on ex-
actly the same basis as any other
physicians, in making their staff
appointments.
8. That qualified Negro physi-
clans be given the privilege ON
treating their private patients in
hospitals, through memberships in
the organized courtesy stats.
4. That opportunities be given
qualified Negro physicians to work
in patient departments of hospitals.
s. That opportunities for the
training of Negro Internes and Ne
gro nurses be provided by one or
more hospitals.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
.Redfern's Dad
Is Teacherin
Columbia, sc.

Columbia, s. c., June loan
PIT has just been discovered
that DR.. Frederick Redfern, a teach
er at Benedict college, Columbia,
S. c., is the father of Paul Red
fern, noted white American avia-
tor, who disappeared eight years
ago, while on flight over the jun
giles of South America. Redfern has
on several occasions, been report
ed as rescued by tribe of natives
in the jungle, among whom he
lives and by whom he is regarded
as a medicine man." The latest
report was brought back two weeks
ago by Tom Roche, a German
American citizen, who claimed to
have talked to Redfern. The avia-
tors wife lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Metropolitan news. (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??, 1935-06-11
Babies Face Starvation; Mother Held

was sent to the Knoxville General
Hospital, while the older one is
being held at the Detention Home.
The case will be heard before the
Juvenile Judge soon.
Officers were summoned to the
scene by nearby residents who
were disturbed over the continual
cries of the children for a two-day
period. The officers after gaining
entrance to the house found the
two hungry lads with no one to
care for them. After enough light
was shed on the situation, Mrs.
Johnson was found and placed in
custody. Neighbors were shock
ed over this near tragedy.