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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-20
DAYTON LOCALS

The La Clique Bridge Club had
election of officers at last weeks
meeting. The new officers are as
follows: President, Mrs. Marjorie
Braxton; vice president, Mrs. Rachel
Smith; Secretary, Mrs. Rosalie
Young, and treasurer, Mrs. Sara
Ellis. Other members of the club
are Mesdames Virginia Ellis, Bess
McUoud, Alene Streeter, Johnese
Pickens, Carrie Griggs, and Gladys
Robinson.
The Les Grenduer Club met at the
Linden Center Wednesday night,
The group discussed the possibility
Of having vaudeville show in the
month of January. We are depend
ing on our public to support us in
our show. Local high school students
with talent who wish to participate
n cur show please to report to Mrs.
Margaret Robinson at the Center.
Miss Louise Warner and Miss Eunice
Grew our vocal leaders are asking
for your cooperation in putting this
over. If anyone wishes to try out
for our show; attend our next meet
ing at the Linden Center, hours 30
to $3.50 pm.
Dona chatham, president; Mrs.
Margaret Robinson, advisor; Lewis
Larkins, reporter.
The Alumni cf Religious Educa-
tion wish to take this means Of ex-
pressing their thanks to those who
helped to make the tea at Linden
enter, October 9Th success. More
than 200 registered. A very select
program continued throughout the
afternoon. The memoers are en-
couraged to continue this form ol
acquainting the general pull ic witt
the work of the Sunday Schec
Council. A number of people have
expressed desire to attend thu
classes.
Last Sunday the Alumni met il
it's regular monthly meeting, which
is Ltd the third Sunday in eacl
month at the 9th Street YMCA q
4:3U pm. The president request
all to be present at each meeting.
Mrs. L Redmon, president; Mrs
Gertrude Harris, secretary.
Mrs. Lena Taylor Of Indianapoll
passed through the city last wecI
en- route home from Columbus, Wher'
she had been to visit her two chil
dren who are in school there. Mrs
Taylor formerly lived in Dayton, he1
friends were glad to see her
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-20
YOUNG ADULT DAY

The Young Adult Group Of Nor
wdod Christian Church, wl cele-
brate young Adult Day. October 20.
They will have charge Of the pr9-
gram all day including musical
program in the evening. Each young
person is asked to bring someone
Everybody IS welcome. Theme WI
be aTithing" with each member tith-
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-10-20

STATEMENT OF THE OWNER.
SHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRcU.
LATION, ETC, REQUIRED BY
THE ACT OF CONGRESS or
AUGUST ~, 1912.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08
The Right to Live

You do not have to be n gray
beard TO remember the day, not
SO long past, when the sight
of an automobile on Il public
street served as the signal for
mothers to rush their children
to the safety of their yards and
men held to old Dobbin until
the mechanical monster had
backlircd on its way.
But times have changed and
with it the attitude Of our pcdcs-
TRANS who now hardly stop to
glance at a passing motor vehicle
much less fear it's approach. AS
Il matter of fact great is the
lumber who virtually challenge
its right to beat them to the
jump at an intersection with q
definite start and an inward
voice which says you can't hurt
me-" "a
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08
CHARLES SATCHELL MORRIS, 2ND., WEEDS
IRENE OVENS FREEMAN on WEST COAST

was learned that the followin,
Tuesday night, Guiding the vigi
ant watching of persons clos
to them that the couple quietl.
slipped out of Los Angeles OF
the crack Californian of tn
Southern Pacific lines for an un
known destination.
Married by A.M.E. Minister il
Phoenix, Arizona
Although the former Mrs
Freeman is an Episcopalian anc
DR.. Morris a Baptist clergyman
they were married by the Rev
DR.. G. l.. Upthegrove, veteran
pastor of the Tanner Chapel
AME church, Phoenix, Ariz., on
Wednesday, November 16, in the
parlor of his residence just as
the day was dying in the western
sky. 1t was learned that DR..
Upthegrove was pledged to the
strictest secrecy and that only
two witnesses were in attend
ance including Mrs. Upthegrove
as required by Arizona law. The
license had been secured early
that morning just following
thei arrival in the picturesque
Arizona capital. In clipping to
wited their host of friends who
had more or les expected that
Phoenix they completely out
they would be married at some
town in the vicinity of Los An
geles. The morning following
their marriage the new Mrs. Nor
ris quietly returned to her home
in the city of the Angels while
her husband embarked on a
transcontinental speaking tour
which will keep him away fo'
fully thre months. The couple
will make their permanent home
in Los Angeles it was learned.
Bride Member of Pioneer Family
The bride on her paternal side
is descendant of the late Rev.
Phillip Owens who founded the
Second Baptist church of New
ton county in Missouri. Her
father, the late Phillip Givens,
was a leading agriculturist and
bushes man with valuable hold
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

definition of n Negro by the
Supreme Court. In view of the
growing rcStivenesS of the Ne
gro under the stigma of race
distinction and race discrimina-
ton an ultimate judicial def
ton cannot be much longer de-
layed. Such a definition will
test the highest legal and leXi-
cal ingenuity of the nine wise
jurists who constitute the SUI
preme Bench.
Since the Federal law recogniz-
es race distinction between the
whites on one hand and Negroes
Indians. Chinese, Japanese and
Mongolians on the other, appro-
pirate definitions will ultimately
be demanded for all of these ra-
cial varieties of which the law
takes cogniZancc. The cross pro
geny and mixed breeds of these
several race varities will greatly
complicate the difficulty of
formulating the resquisite legal
definitions.
"A white person constitutes the
normal unit with which all other
racial varities are compared. The
fundamental problem is to de-
fine a white persons. The anthro-
pologist tells us that there is no
such thing as n pure race, Ger
man craftsmanship will be put
to its wits end to define an Aryan
if he is to be the standard with
which all other varieties of man
kind is to be contraSted 1t will
be incumbent upon the Supreme
Court to define white person
before it can iudicially deter
mine who is to be classified as Il
non-whitc.
Acknowledgement of the De
claration Of Independence, that
all men are created equal and
are endowed with certain unali-
able rights, as the foundation of
democracy would obviate the
necessity of technical and legal
definitions of a white person or
Il Negro and Of the innumberable
hues and shades which lie be-
tween the two extremes.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08
BY Clara Carter Kane

Los Angeles and southern
California social circues wer'
Aflutter with excitement toda.
when news of the marriage O.
the dashing and beautiful Irene
Givens Freeman to the brilliant
Charles Satchell Morris ii, Of
Tennessee State college, Nash
vile, leaked out through the
proverbial grapevine.
Just three months ago the
popular Tennessee educator and
nationally known orator and
clergyman reached the Pacific
coast to deliver addresses at a
number of important anniver-
saries throughout the Golden
State. 1t is understood that he
expected to remain a month
then return to the South for the
resumption of his professional
duties at the Tennessee institu-
ton. Into the picture then came
the charming Los Angeles socia-
lite whom he had met original
ly on a previous trip oCalifornia
fifteen years ago. Almost i'm
mediately his name was romantic
: ally linked with the captivat-
ing Irene, a member of one of
Los Angeles first families. The
weeks slipped away and the
races renown orator did not re-
turn South instead he filled even
more numerous engagements
throughout the Pacific coast. It
was generally understood that
he had applied to President VIM.
j. Hale of the State college for
leave of absence.
Friends began questioning,
t h e public began specializing.
newspaper reporters ever on the
lookout for a STORY" began max
ing inquiries. To every sugges-
ton a positive and emphatic
denial was given that the couple
was married which was in accord
ance with the facts. Then on Sun
day morning, November 18th,
DIR. Morris addressed a monster
overflow ''farewell' gathering
at the Independent church. 1t
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08
KELLY MILLER SAYS:
The Legal Definition of q Negro

The circuit court Of Maryland
has just handed down a deci-
sion upholding the law forbidG-
irg inter-marriage between the
races. The attorney for the de-
Tense argued the lack Of tests
by which race identity can he
definitely determine d
There are twenty-nine states
which place the legal ban upon
inter-racial marriage. Some Of
these prevent the marriage Of
whites with Indians, japanese
Chinese, and Mongolians as well
as Negroes. Legal distinction
and discrimination on account Of
race is recognized by most Of
the states, which takes the form
Of separate schools, separate
cars, residential segregation and
the marriage bar.
The Federal government re-
cogrizes race distinction in the
public schools in the District Of
COLUMBIA and colored troops in
the United States army.
state laws establishing scIl-
rate schools and separate cars
are upheld by the Supreme
Court Of the United States. But
50 far no case has been compel
antly presented to the tribunal
of final result testing the consti-
tutioa'ty Of laws forbiddir2 the
inter-marriage of the races.
Although race distinction is
widely recognized by law, rae,
discrimination is regarded a.
violation of the Fourteenth
Amendment which guarantee.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08


Yet it is singular fact that
out OF 274 persons killed on West
Virginia's roads during the. first
ten months of this year ia were
pedestrians. Statistics bore most
people and newspapers dislike
printing them for that reason,
but when the yearly toll of those
who walk to their death conti-
nues to rise it indeed is cause
for alarm. -
For you see it is not the bad
drivers who are usually listed
among the traffic fatalities, or
even the passengers who ride
with them although this is more
often the case More often it is
the pedestrians, who constitutes
two-tifths of the highway toll.
Many are victims of bad driv-
ing, but many more die because
of their own careles action.
There are many who have never
driven and some who fail to
realize the limitations to which
even u good driver 'and most
drivers are good drivcrs) can go
to offset the faulty actions of
careless, uniformed pedes-
TRANS. >,
What. then, must the pedes-
TRANS do to protect themseleS?
The answers to that question
could be many and varied, but
the State Police, desiring To
bring relief to q problem that
continues to involve itself. have
listed seven pertinent rules
which should be practiccd. They
are:
|. Always assume the rcspon-
aibility for YOUR safety.
=. Don't depend ON the driver
of nm approaching vehicle TO SEQ
and look out for YOU. He may be-
one of the BAD DRIVERS, or
the vehicle may be in an unsafe
condition.
3. Never step out upon the
highway until you have looked
and are sure that it is SAFE to-
do so.
4. When in cities and towns
cross only at INTERSECTIONS
and then in obedience to traffic
signals. rr
s.. Walk in SINGLE FILE on
the LEFT facisg traffic. Of there
happens to be wall on the left
which would preent your escap-
ing an approaching vehicle, you
should, of course, travel the
safest side)
6. At NIGHT be especially
alert, remembering that many
BAD DRIVERS do not slow
down when their vision is inn
paired by darkness or the head
lights of an approaching vehicle.
Z. Don't PLAY, or permit per
sons over whom you have control
to pay on the highway.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

of Chicago. was awarded Il Mas
ter of Arts degree from Column
bia where he also completed the
residence requirements for the
Phi. d. Later he attended the
lOberlin Graduate school of Theo-
logy. During the World War he
was National Executive Secrc-
tary for French War Orphans
| and a member OF the National
Secuity League in which capa-
city he delivered addresses thru
out the nation.
DR.. Morris has been professor
of English at Virginia State col
lege, Petersburg Tennessee A.
and l. State college, Nashville.
Dean of English ut Bluetield
CIV. Va.) State Teachers college,
educational adviser in the CCC
under the Federal Government,
and is now holding his second
professorship at Tennessee State
where is is understood he has
been close to President Hale.
The famous orator is now en-
gagged in an intensive swing thru
the deep south delivering II
series of more than forty address
es in Texas, Louisiana, Mississip
pi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia.
ennessee and other points on the
route to New York 1t is learned
here that he will be the speak
err at Alcor college, Mississippi
Sunday, December 3rd, and at
Florida A and NJ, Tallahassee,
Sunday, December 10th. He is
purchasing home in Los An
geles where he and Mrs. Norris
will reside permanently. II is
understood that he has accepted
a commercial positions with a
firm in this city effective as of
February 18th. He will be ac-
companied from New York by
his mother, Mrs. Chales Sat
chell Morris, ST., who will reside
with him,
The marriage was the second
for both contracting parties, the
first Mrs. Morris having died
more than six years ago at Roa-
noke Va, where their wedding
in December, 1880, was one Of
the highlights of Americans
society. While still admitting no.
thing to even her closest friends
it is learned that Mrs. Morris is
today wearing her engagement
and wedding rings beig unable
to stand the pressure longer.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

n '--s.--zu-s--s.n..-.--.-s~>-
to all citizens equal protection
of the law. Race distinction does
not necessarily impl inequality
but mainly separation in space
As President Harding once said
the two races should have the
same rights but need not enjoy
them in each otheEs company
The provisions for separate
schools and separate cars for the
races is hypotheticated upon the
theory of equal but separate
provisions. Lord McCauley some
where speaks of distinction
without a difference but expert
ence shows that race distinction
without discrimination is all but
impossible.
The idcM of democracy would
make neither legal distinction
nor discrimination ON account of
race or color. 1t not legal provi-
sionS were based upon such diff
lerehceS lherc would be no heccS
sity for Il legal definition Of race.
The states in which legal dis
lilictiohS aoould uSuaiy paSe
lhelr uei!hl'loh I'll Il Negro on
'he proportion OF whlte pioou
IN lhc VEINS OF ire llNilViduai.
ne state Oh Virginia cIaSSiiieS
Gerry ci'iZ'h !" Negro VINO mas
any lfaceaoic degfec Oh Negro OF
lholaf plooo.
The absurdity of determining
the race identity of an individu-
al bv the proportion of white
blood is absurd ON the face of
it. The United States Census
Office at one time classified Ne
grOes as Black, Mul.ato, Quad
room, Octoroon, but since 1890
has abandoned such distinctions
because of the impOSsibility OF
detiite demarkation. The fact
that Negroes of mixed blood a
rose under the institution of
slavery without marriage ccrti-
ficates clealy proves the absurd
ity of such clasSilications. Ac-
cOrdinG to judicial test, there
could probably not be found a
single quadrOon or Octoroon in
the United States. Frederick
Douglass used to say that genoa
logical trees did not flourish a
mong slaves. The only means of
classification is by here-say and
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

D-NIFS VIC HSHfB
ChrFsnndon did not haAiA 10 DATE
lts years fropn the biStb a Cssist,
until shnoSt $50 4. D.. says cssiser's
Weekly, when uis rnathoA svpa IN.
troduced by DionysIus Exlet,us. q
learned monk Of Rome.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

/ plOueeT MlSSouIl ldiIiily. OHe Ii
: the sister of Mrs. Paul r. Viii
liams, wife of the information
, ally known architect who has de
signed some of the most beaut
full and palatiial homes in south
ern CALIFORNIA; famed movi,
colony and throughout the us
She was born in Missouri bu
was brought by her parents t.
California when she was quite
young. She attended the pub
| lie schools of this city and later
was graduated from the Los An
ge!es high school as we'll as Woo
bury's business college and the
Hurts Business college. She lat
er attended the university OF
Southern California at Los An
geles.
The new Mrs. Morris is a mem
Der of the Committee of Manage
ment of the local YWCA, of the
Business and Professional Wo-
mems Committee and Advisor
lOf the Business and Professional
Girls club of that institution,
and o member of Delta Sigma
Theta sorority. She is also popul-
ar socially, being a. member of
| the Twelve-thirty-three club and
the January club. She is COM
municant Of ST. Phillips Episcop-
al church. Mrs. Morris is an etli-
Gent and progressive young bust
ness woman and for the past
sevreal years has held lucrative
posts at Los Angeles and at pres
ent she is the manager of the
Lincoln Memorial park ceme-
terry, where she has made the
most enviable record. She is said
to be one of the few women in
America to hold such a position.
Mrs. Morris is widely celebrated
for her charm and grace and is
a social faWorite in California
and thougout the west.
GrOOu Scion of One of Nations
Distinguished Families
DIR. Morris is the elder son of
the late Charles Satchell Morris,
Sr., world famed pastor of the
great Abyssiniar' Baptist church
of New York City, who once was
secretary to the lamented Fred
erick Douglass and who later
married his granddaughter. He
was regarded as perhaps the
most eloquent orator and minis
ter of his generation. The new
groom is a grand nephew of the
late Bishop Daniel A. Payne,
founder of Wilberforce univer-
sity. His venerable cicuit-riding
great grandfather, the Rev. DR..
Charles Satchell founded the
Tulane Avenue Baptist church in
New Orleans, La, and the Third
Baptist church III San Francis
co. He is a cousin of Dr.. Sumner
A. Furniss Of indianapolis, head
of the Scottish Rite Masons Of
the United States, cousin OF
Mrs. John Roxborough, the wife
of Joe Louis trainer as well as
a cousin of Radford Morris, fin
ancial secetary to Joe. His grand
mothe who graduated from
Oberlin in 1865 was the first
colOred teacher at Wherefore
: He is ais GA cousin of the late
Bishop Joshua N. Jones Of Will
berforce and Of the Rev. DIR
Ferguson now rector of st. Cy-
prian's Episcopal church, Boston
| One Of his cousins was Louisi-
ana state senator during the
| Reconstruction Days. In his re.
cent autobiography Against
the Tide" DIR. Adam Clayton
Powell, Sr., of the Abyssianiar
Baptist church, New York City
his fathers successor in that
( famous pulpit, devotes a half
page to him.
The new benedict attended ;
| r L 4
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-09
l-H SHORT COURSE
BEGINS WED. JUNE IA
tcontinued from Flrst Page

Hall where the l-H'ers will be
greeted by University officials.
Beginning Thursday morning. All
club boys and girls will start a well
filled schedule of educational and
recreation meetings. AS in the past
the program has been divided into
two phases, one for boys and one for
girls.
On Thursday, the boys Will study
Soil Conservation Problems under r.
5. Snyder, project manager of the
New Castle County Soil Conservation
Service; Russell Albright, Soil CnL-
iservation Service Pr0iCct Forester,
and f. W. Barrie, CT The Delaware
State Fish and Game Commission.
On Friday, the boys will study swine
production problems under +. A.
Baker of the University staff and will
visit the poultry farm of II. S. Pal
mer near Glasgow.
On both Thursday and Friday, the
girls will learn about new develop
ments in clothing, foods and home
management under the direction of
Miss Annie West. New York City;
Mrs. Katherine Ribble. of Philadel-
phia, and Miss Pearl Macdonald and
Miss Louise r. Whitcomb, of the
Delaware Extension Service.
In addition to the educational pro-
gram, organized recreation is sched-
uled for each day of the Short
Course and, on Thursday evening,
twenty-five years of All" will be
the subject of program in Mitchell
Hall with A. d. Cobb, Assistant Di-
rector of Extension in charge. T. T.
Martin, Columbia. Missouri, one of
the first All Club leaders in the
United States, who is now state club
leader for Missouri. will be the guest
speaker. According to Mr.. Cobb.
many of the first club members and
club workers in Delaware expect to
be present, including Mrs. Elizabeth
Jefferson Tarr, Newark; Dewey
Sam. Houston; Mrs. Agnes Medill
McVey, Newark. as well as members
Of the original Houston All Club and
the original Black Swamp Girls
Canning Club which was organized
near FELTON, many years ago.
w. F.. Miller. director of music in
the Milford School again will be in
charge of music at the Short Course.
The boys and girls will live in col
lege dormitOries and eat in tre col
lege dining halls and will have avail
able all the facilities Of the recular
students during their Short Course
which ends Saturday morning
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-09
SAFETY FIRST

An authority on life insurance OBJ
serves that during depression, the
statistical and analytical sections of
the companies investment depart
ments have been increased, and more
and closer attention has been paid
to digging out investment posslbil-
tiles.
The job this industry has done in
protecting its policyholders, and at
the same time obtaining investments
which pay a reasonable rate of re-
turn, has been nothing short of mir
aculous. And 1t wasn't done by acci-
dent. It is the result of expert an
alysis of the investment field, under
management which holds as its car
dinal principle that safety comes
first"
That's why, in spite of hard times
and ups and downs in the business
cycle. your life insurance policy will
be paid. in full, on the day It comes
due.
Milford chronicle., 1939-06-09

The wall smacker" was a sobri-
0uet given Peter De Palo by veteran
drivers after he had been wrecked
five times in six starts during the
first slow steps up the ladder of rae
ing fame. A less plucky youth would
have turned to other fields. but De
Paolo had his heart set on becoming
Il famous champion like his illus
trious uncle. Ralph De Palma. with
whom he rode in his first contests as
a mechanic.
De Paolo hit his real stride in 1925
when he won the 500-mile Indianap-
oils race; setting an average speed
record that stood for seven years.
He went on to win the 1925 AAA
championship with a total of 1860
points, the largest score ever amas-
sed by a champion. The following
year he finished third in the national
championship standing, and in 1927
he placed first for the second time.
While qualifying for the 1928 In
dianapOlis race. De PaOlo crashed
into a retainer wall at l45 miles an
hour, turned over and was pinned in
the seat with the car ON top of him.
He escaped death miraculously. and
the accident decided him. "a family
man." to retire from his hazardous
calling.
De PaOlo lost practically all his
savings in the 1929 stock market
crash. This influenced him to accept
an invitation from Italo Balbo. Ital-
ian Air Minister, to recoup some of
his losses by competing overseas in
the 1884 TripOli sweepstakes. The
old lure was strong and De PaOlo
continued on to the tracks and cross
country courses of Germany, Italy.
France and Spain. In Barcelona,
practicing for a cross-country race,
he swerved on a hairpin turn to avoid
three youngsters. He went over
curb. crashed into a post and spent
three months in a hospital. He was
for eleven days and
blind for five weeks.
Surviving this accident. he deter
mined to retire once and for all from
track competition. He now pursues
the safer routine of American bust
ness life. connected with the makers
Of Hastings Piston Rings.
De PaolO will be at the Milford
Building. Milford. Della
ware, next Tuesday evening. June
13. at 500 O'Clock. His Milford event
Is being sponsored by Wharton and
Milford's well known auto
motive distributors.