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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17

black kings and black gods are by
no means unique. Outstanding per
haps is the chronicle footnoted in
John Millions mighty lyric, III PEN
seroso," Here is the statement by
the author of Paradise Lost and
Paradise Regained:'
"Memnon, son of Tithonus and
Aurora, was king of Ethiopia and
slain by Achilles in the siege Of Troy,
Although black he was famed for his
beauty. His sister was Hemera,
sCassiopa, queen of Ethiopia
boasted that the beauty of her
daughter, Adromeda, exceeded that
Of the Nereids or sea nynphs. Both
mother and daughter were starred"
(meaning of course they were trans
ferred to the skies as consultations
of stars) Cassiopa is represented in
old astronomical prints as a black
female figure marked with white
stars"
-tCopyright 1877
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17
SEX CRIMES
By WILLIAM PICkENS
(for ANP)

We always feel like sticking ou.
tongue in our cheek whenever We
hear white person talking superior
" to "you colored people, about
Negro crime" But when it comes
to brutal, violent sex crimes, any
white speaker who feels a tempta-
ton coming on to talk to colored
people aleng that line, should stick
his tongue in his own cheek an
keep it there. IT we are only to
half believe just half of what is
printed in the daily papers that are
owned, controlled and edited BY
white people, the Negro race in
America is an ignorant innocent
VINO does not know his way around,
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State Officials Present: Governor of California,
Mayor of Los Angeles and Host of
Officials Welcome Baptists

been feat Of hospitality, christian
brotherhood, interracsal goodwill,
md spiritual uplift.
At the formal opening Of the con-
elaye Wednesday morning, greeting
Wese brought TO the large body Of
$4,000 delegates from all parts Oh
the United States, by Governor
Frank Merriam, Mayor Frank t..
Shaw, Assemblyman A. +. Hawkins
P. L. Young of the Chamber Of Com
merce and various ministers from
white and colored church groups
here and in the state,
Negro Baptists count over $4,000
churches with a combined member
ship of million and property valued
at $1O3,000,0O0 in America.
The National Baptist Convention
has a publishing house at Nashville
Tenn, the largest and best equipped
Of its kind among the Negro race.
It has property valued at about ST.
100000 and business amounting
to 100000.
One hundred and fifteen schools.
3 colleges and academies and Sd
secondary schools are maintained by
the educational board, with a total
enrolment of 14,O10, and property
valued at $7,6S6,600.
A special training school for girls
in Washington, DC, was founded by
the Woman's auxiliary with Miss
Mamie Burroughs as head. Its stu
dent body represents girls from every
state in the union, Africa, South
America, and the West Indies.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17

lation Of motor vehicle. Wide variations found
between persons Some see through q very narrow
angle Careful measurement Of the visual field and
consequent training may improve such deficiencies
somewhat. knowledge Of narrowed field OF vision
may cause driver to be careful and turn his
head when In doubt.
The Glare Test Meter teftl TO discover the
degree to which motorists prone to night-blind
ness Some persons vision may drop off decidedly
in low illumination, while another person may be
afflicted with photophobia condition OF extreme sem
sitvity TO the glare from headlights The photo
phobc person is at great disadvantage when meet
ing car lights at night
The tests Co be made by these three devices, it y
made ceas, are purely educational Their purpose
is to give the persons who undergo the tests some
idea Of what their shortcomings may be as operators
OF motorcars. It is to be hoped that persons shown
TO have any driving handicaps resulting from SLOW
reaction time, narrowed field Of vision senstivtg
to headlight glare will try TO compensate for any
such handicaps by increasing their attention TO thu
adoption OF safe driving habits
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r E A I u r E S

be BY our courts after trial he
will feel financial cost. Now il
money is required for the acauittal
Of the favored innocent ones, what
must be the fate of some poor,
friendiess accused one. Again, let
us remember that Negroes are con-
strained to live in the crime-bl,gnted
araas. Often gulhble, commercial
iow-broW ohticians dump the tlitf,
corruption and cIime-breedlng agen--
cies upon the districts wnere Me-
groes reside.
often the Negro politicians Of
cheap variety accept enese privileges
as their sole rewards. They help TO
fasten upon the unwary youth SET
Of crlfne-acallng factors. Christian
men and women ought to contend for
house cleaning here and now"
Race relations are getting better,
DR.. Williams thinks.
"The white press is more coufag-
eous and pronounced IN It's condenl--
nation Of the mstreatment OF Me-
groees and minority groups the
Negroes thoughts and uesIres are
better known to whites and lynch
ing is being rapidly reduced" he
reported.
Negroes and Unions
DR.. Williams advocated strong
unionism among our people as
solvent Of the race problem in
America.
1T seems to me that the Negro
should join any or all Unions that
will grant him jHstice and equal
rights. Labor, after its first strug-
giles Of organization are over, will
prove to be stonger amalgam Of all
laboring classes than any race di-
versities on race distinctions he
explained. 1t seems to me that %
this contest the church should advo
cate some basic rights, such as: more
liberal compensation for workers
from the dividends which their Ia
bors produce, and that capital and
labor alike must recognize and re-
spect the rights Of one another.
DR.. Williams abhorred the spread
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when II comes TO sex brutality. Ne
gro people stand agnast at the fic-
qGent reports Of attacks OH little
children, whom normal people re-
gard as babies and have every IN
clination and instinct to defend.
Negroes would not believe half of
hese reports to be true ii they were
being told by somebody else about
white people, and were not Icing told
BY white people themselves, and be-
ing aired III the courts.
Many of these cases are being re-
ported from the crowded communi-
ties of the north and east, and from
the far west. When | called the
attention of Southern woman to
that, she, recently from the south,
remarked: THE same thing goes on
at a great rate in the south, but
there they suppress the news and
avoid publicity. We have more
faith in the frank, open and un-
censored attack upon such demonism
which is being made on it in tht
north and east. 1t seldom helps tht
victim to have the news suppressed
it can only play into the hands Of the
criminal, especially when he is rlc'
and powerful or has powerful con
nections, and can bully and buv 0
weak and practically helpless. Th.
full and published truth about th
thing, and an open attack on it, ma,
be nasty work but it vii get some
where. AS rapidly as possible these
human degenerates or social misfit
should be rounded up and confinef
in the hospitals or in the penlten-
tiaries, - whenever seems most aTN
propriats in each individual case
Of course, some of these horrihl
creatures are themselves physical
and psychologically helpless unfor-
tunates, and while the wise and the
very tender hearted may pity them
still the rest of society cannot be es-
neeted to run the continual risk OF
natures mistakes. Something must
be done, first of all for the good OF
society. and in so far as it is pos
sible. for the good Of these anti
social individuals. taboo" will not
do any good.
The matter calls for brains, states
manship, human wisdom, human
vympat thy. Mere violence will do
no good. neither for the victims.
the criminals nor for society itself,
neither the illegal violence of the
equally brutal mob nor the legal
violence Of the authorities and the
courts. The wav out is through ac-
tion. determination and persistence.
the persistence of the tides, and
IS nearly as possible like the tides
in the absence of motion, sentimen-
talism and hate.
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MISS DOWNING
Continued from page one)

CONTINUED from page one
mitted to mention any commercial
names in her articles.
''In the first place she went on,
.it is necessary to have a means of
research and fact finding before one
can pretend to write authoritatively
This need was filled by the Larieuse
Beauty Foundation. In the second
place, since it was impossible to
call upon the press to pay for the
cost of the foundation, it was neces-
saIy to secure a public-spirited back
or to promise continued support.
This Mr.. G. w. Godefroy agreed to
do. at the same time stipulated that
the column was to be independent
of influence from him or his com
pany's products.
Miss Downing, who is tall and
slender, possesses a stately type of
beauty which is enhanced by her
natural grace and charm A lover
of art and dancing, she appeared in
the production of "Show Boat at
st. Louis Municipal Opera before
taking up beauty culture. In school
she was president Of both English
and mathematics classes.
Among her friends, Miss Downing
as well as her husband, Mr.. Evans
lists Elmer simms Campbell, Bill
Robinson, Georgette Harvey, Ethel
Waters and F'redi Washington.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

70 the Editor Of the Forum:
! read your very timely editorial
on the Ohio Civil Rights Law which
appeared in the last issue Of your
paper. | was glad that you empha
sized the point that this is not a
new bill.
| heartily agree with you when
you say that custom can not be legis-
lated, but must be changed by a
process Of evolution. feel that
our suggestion in reference to section
12940 Of the General Code is very
practical.
BARBEE w. DURHAM,
Columbus branch NAACP.
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The three devices shown above will be used by
the Traffic Division of the Ohio Highway Depart
ment the State Fair in Columbus August 2S-Sep
tember g. inclusive, TO conduct experimental tests
for ascertainng the safe driving qualities OF mo-
torists.
The Reaction Meter (center) Is to test motorists
for reaction time: that is the time required which
must elapse while the driver is translatiEg the
thought of stopping into the operation of putting
the brakes. Everybody knows car cannot be stop
ped instantly but few persons realize that the time
factor includes only the time required after the
brakes applied but appreciable length Of time
before the foot can reach the brake pedal. The
slower the motorists reaction time the farther the
car will travel before he even starts to put on the
brakes. nee perfect brakes useless ii not
applied enough. accidents may be due to slow
reaction.
The Sde-vision Machine tright) is for the pur-
pose Of testing the field Of ison with the motorists
eyes straight ahead 1t is obvious that given
amount of vision is necessary to successful manipu
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BAPTIST HEAD

Continued from page one)
as the other.
ssIet US think Of courts and the
power Of money in connection there
WITH he challenged, s.for even Il
j man is innocent and so declared to
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17
ODD BUT TRUE
Black God and
Black Beauties
BY ONAH L. SPENCER

A little dark man with a sunburst
smile and whopping diamond ring,
swiskes regally down New York's
canyons in a robins-egg blue Rolls.
He is king Of scattered kingdom;
idolized by many thousands as God.
Ills cult members are angels. White,
yellow, brown, and black angels.
To contemporary Americans, white
and blacks, such fantastic figures ap-
pear novel, new and perhaps absurd.
However, Eagas or black beauties.
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TEC,HNICIANS

Continued from page one)
ingly good chances for well trained
men.
Marcel Scherer, national organiz-
ing director Of the Federation Of
Architects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians, delivired an address on
"The Technical Man and His Rela-
ton to archaeological Progress" DR..
Robert G. Weaver, adviser on Negro
Affairs for the Department oil the
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17
C O NJ Nj Y 7 S
Calvin 5 Digest

whites reach the point where they
publicity come to the support OF .
liberal arts" college for Negroes In
their own state. From this attitude
will flow other benefits to the Ne
gre population as q whole--the drop
ping of the bar against Negroes rid
ing in the fullest comfort on railroad
cars, and the discontinuance Of 9TH
er sights which still mar otherwise
pleasant trips to Texas by casual
Negro travellers.
DIR. Dogan, as an educator, IS con-
tinually rendering broader service
10 his race by winning such support
as will bring new benefits to his
eroup outside the collegiate field.
Ready for College
Young people returning to college
and those going for the first time,
should read the article by DR.. Buell.
G. Gallagher, president Of Talia-
dega College, Alabama, in the cur
rent Opportunity on college
Training for the Negro to What
End?"
DR.. Gallagher, young man from
the North, takes challenging stand
on several points of vital interest to
Negro college students. The Talla--
dega presidents thinking is deep and
vital, and he is unafraid to deliver
himself.
Quotations from DR. Gallagher,s
article give no adequate suggestion
| of the value Of the entire discourse,
| but for the sake of special points
covered, we reproduce two para
graEhs:
sIet it be clear at the outset that
we are not arguing that all Negroes
should attend colleges for the race
| exclusively. There want to be
number Of young men and women OF
first rate ability and genuinely in
tegrated personality in attendance at
| the colleges and universities in the
| North, That keeps the gaies o9en.
| 1t also does something to the white
students and faculty members which
Is worth doing. And in not few
cases, it is best for the Negro stu
dent Some Negfoes, particularly
from the South, ought to go to
Northern colleges and universities
for the experience which would be
theirs.
aAnd others, Of equally incisive
mind and stability of character,
should matriculate at the colleges for
Negroes. Not everybody should go
to college. There are many who
simply are not college timber, and
!. it is an injustice to them to take
their money, waste their time, and
then permanently warp their person
alities by funking them out. The
unfit should be eliminated before
they register. The college admins
tration which does not do this Is
guilty Of meAeeitary mdaey-grab-
bing. But for those who have the
| ability and the interest, the doors
| of college should swing wide; and
/ it is what lies back of those doors
that + want to talk about. What IS
the purpose Of a college education.
| particularly Of the education Of a
Negro?a
/ We recommend that you get the
September Opportunity and read this
article, in order to avoid "detours
and dead-ends. =
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17

Interior, spoke on Technical Pur-
suits in the Service Industries.
Paul r. Williams, of Los Angeles,
led symposium on "The New Era
In Housing Mr.. Williams is a
prominent architect. The other par
tieipant in the symposium was Hill
yard r. Robinson, chief architect of
the Langston Housing project of
the PWA.
Daytonians In Attendance
Mr.. and Mrs. James Parsons and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. James Dunn,
ard A. j. Harbut.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17
BY FLOYD j. CALVIN
Handy Honored

Handy Honored
There was general approval of
the honoring Of w. G.. Handy at the
eighteenth annual convention of the
National Association Of Negro Mu--
sicians in st. Louis recently. Mr..
Handy, composer Of the st Louis.
Bluesp and many other popular
songs, was given placque on which
was inscribed: Achievement Award
to the famous Composer, w. G.
Handy It is reported that an au-
dience Of 1900 persons in Washing
ton Tabernacle Baptist Church wit
messed the event, and that present
were $50 local musicians Of both
races.
ssThe st. Louis Blues has been
popular throughout the world Tor
twenty-four years. 1t was published
in 1914, and has sold nearly 1,50o,-
900 copies, and brings nearly $2o,-
600 q year in royalties and radio
and movie rights.
At 64 this honor from Mr.. Handy's
own people comes to him. He is,
undoubtedly, proud man, for proud
should one be who can win the ap-
probation of his own people. Ones
own knows the faults as well as the
good points, and this makes it more
difficult to win their praise.
Mr.. Handy is still active in the
field Of music He and his brother
and his son, w. G. Handy, Jr., are
promoting worthwhile business.
Handy Brothers Music Company.
1857 Broadway, New York, and
have made conspicuous success Of
this work for several years. In the
heart of Manhattan's busiest section.
this colored concern has given Ne
gro business a kind of representation
that is noteworthy.
A recent publication hv this firm
is Twelve Negro Spiritualsv by
William Grant Still, illustrated by
Albert BarbelIe. Although Mr..
Handy's fame rests primarily on
songs in t.h e lighter vein
the introduction Of his firm to
the Still book shows that their inter
est runs deeper. In it we find this,
"The deep religious fervor of the
Negro spiritual makes it a folk-sone
peculiar to the striking musical tai
nnts of our race and as such it taps q
source Of deep religious feeling that
must be preserved at all costs if the
| integrity of our racial heritage il
! % survive. The spiritual, as we have
| it here represented with twelve ex-
cellent samples, is of and by and fol
tn Negro people. 1t comes from the
| heart and goes to the heart.
Texas Changes
One thing noted on our recen-
! tour 20 Iexas was the Improvement
in the attitude of the average whites
toward Negroes who have had some
Of the better advantages Of life.
Arriving at Wiley College, ir
Marshall, we found that leading
white magazine for an appeal fol
| support Of the endowment drive o.
the college so ably directed for the
past forty-two years by DR.. M. W
| Dogan. It Is not to be overlooked
that Wiley IS liberal arts college
that is, affording cultural train
ing as contrasted with vocationa
, training, and YET whites of Eas
Texas, and all Texas, are rallying tt
the support Of the last call in ths
endowment drive of the institution
Although Wiley is conducted undel
/ Methodist Episcopal auspices, it j
being supported by white and colore,
of all denominations.
/ We think it significant when Texa
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17
Children In Court
By JUDGE MALCOLM HATFIELD

By JUDGE MALCOLM HATFIELD
A young mother who shielded her
son in everything recently proved the
means Of laying a foundation for
a delinquent career.
Her first step started years ago
when she wrote an excuse to the
teacher after Junior had played
tlsuant. It didn't take long for the
budding youth to reason that moth
er could always be counted on to
protect him. Consequently, his ac-
tiyities expanded until he reached
an age where the law was forced
to step in and take over the train
ing and discipline which the parents
had been unable to administer.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17
WOODMEN MAKE
PROGRESSIVE REPORT

DENVER (C)--As I. H. Light
ner, former chief clerk, Iwas re-
elected supreme commander Of the
American Woodmen for second
term, the order reported total assets
of $2,951,6 and total receipts for
the four-year term OF Mr. xightner
of s2,122,asA-
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1937-09-17

LOS ANGELES - (ANP) We'd
nesday morning the Shrine was filled
to capacity when delegates and visi--
tors were formally welcomed by
state and city officials. AT tits
time Governor Frank Merriam,
Mayor h'ra4ih l.. Shaw, AssemDiyman
Augustus +, Hawkins md T, A..
Young, OF the Chamber Of Commerce
spoke.
Bringing greetings from the West
ern Baptist State convention, DR.,
Charles I'll. Hampton, dynamic young
pastor here addressed the large as
sembly. Dr. Otto S. Russell, execu-
tive secretary of the Los Angeles
Baptist City Missions; DR.. James b.
Fox, the Rev. S. NJ. Beane, of the
tnterdenominational Alliance; the
Rev. j. L. CASTOR, of the Baptist
Ministers Union and the Rev. d. B.
Moss, of the Providence Baptist As
ociation were other speakers.
Response to the welcome was
made by the Rev. t. S. Boone Of
Texas.
Before the Presidents message,
fully 5000 additional delegates ar
rived from Texas and other states.
interviewed just before press time,
DR.. Williams declared the opening
session the most brilliant display OF
hospitality he had witnessed for the
convention. 1--WE allotted more time
% the public officials addresses be-.
cause they seemed so genuine we
could not let them stop. This has
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-01-07
IN DAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

The thermometers in Oakland
registered two degrees below zero.
There was excellent sleighing.
DR.. Mahlon C. Hinebaugh's gray
horse "Bob" was taken suddenly i'll
and after several hours died. The
animal was valuable one.
His Honor Mayor H. W. McComas
notified all persons that snow must
be cleared from the sidewalks of the
town. To disobey meant fine of 81
to $25 or Imprisonment in the town
lookup. $50 said the ordinance).
Theodore Beckman and son Charles
of North Glade, enroute to their home
after looking at timber in West Vir-
ginia, were put to flight by moon
sinners of that state who thought
they were detectives.
The American Flag was to have 45
stars, according to an order issued by
the government.
The tramp nuisance continued un-
abated and there were an unusually
large number of them on the streets.
One of them, after having his hunger
sitisfed at the residence of DR.. Hine-
baugh took the doctors storm over
coat and macintosh which were hang
ing on the porch.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A portion of the old court house
roof was wrecked by storm, being the
second time within several months. 1t
had been used as high school build
ing but had been vacated following
the first damage.
Neil Fraley, employed in Baltimore
with an insurance house, was visiting
here.
There was a heavy fall of snow &C.
companied by a high wind which
blocked all roads and made mail SER
vice impossible.
Basketball season opened with Oak
land being trimmed by Salem 1918
On the Oakland team were Sanner,
Sincell, Bolden, Giessman, and Reid
Ter with Frantz and Yutzy substitutes
The Empire theatre advertised
Annette Kellerman in "Neptune's
Daughter" Also the third episode Of
the "Iron Claw" was scheduled.
Merchants paid as high as rs cents
per pound for turkeys and 20 cents
for chickens, completely dressed.
Archie Wolfe, of Garrett county
suffered a broken leg when horse
ran away, throwing him out of the
buggy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-01-07
CREATING HAPPY NEW
YEAR 9.

It may be a matter of opinion
whether the happy new year comes
to those who begin it without head
ache, but it is a demonstrated fact
that it comes most surely to those
who plan for it. This is not done by
planning to be happy, which is the
Pollyanna way, but by learning where
in real happiness lies, by knowing
intangible values as we'll as material
ones, by having a definite goal to-
ward which one moves, not ruthlessly
and relentlessly, but intelligently and
persistently.
No mere New Year resolutions
take care of such planning. 1t requires
more thought than that, more read
justment from time to time, a longer
view, with realization that some diff
ficulties and sorrows along the course
are inevitable.
Perhaps this all sounds too serious.
1t isn't. This sort of planning allows
for friendship, for pleasure, for recre-
alton, for doing unexpected things,
for being frivolous when the mood
calls for that. 1t seeks only to elimi-
nate false limitations of these things
which turn to bitterness instead OF
happiness. 1t involves sort of bud
getting of living itself, with plenty
of allowance for fexibility, as wise
people budget their finances.