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The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Examiners
Approve


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-(SNS)
The Missouri State Board of Law
Examiners have approved the Lin
coin University School of Law.
Under the rules of the State Su-
preme Court, graduates of law
schools approved by the State
Board of Bar Examiners are
eligible TO take the bar exam1na-
ton. When the present students OF
the Lincoln Law School finish
their legal training, they will,
therefore. be ELIGIBLE for eXamina-
ton for admission to the bar.
Before approving the school, the
State Board Of Law Examiners
conducted a personal examination
of the same to determine whether
its facilities, methods of instruc-
ton and educational standards
measure up to the latest and best
in law school development. the
members of the Board who took
part in this examination were:
Mai. Thomas F.. Mcdonald, secre-
tary: r. B. Caldwell. president; R.
B. Oliver. Jr., and W. Wallace Fry.
The Lincoln University Law
School, although organized less
than a year ago, is rapidly gaining
official recognition by the leading
legal learned societies. Last Sep
tember, six days after the school
opened for the first time. 1t was
inspected bv Mr. will Shafroth,
adviser to the Section on Legal
Education and Admissions to the
Bar of the American Bar Associa-
ton, who reported that lin re-
spect to the library, the physical
equipment, the number of full time
teachers. admission requirements
and the length of course, the school
fully complies with American Bar
Association requirements. These
are what we term the external re-
uuirements, which can be definite
lv measured and aScertained. CON-
pliance with these requirements at
so early a date after the organl-
zation of the law school indicates
that your university is making
every effort to establish law
school of high standing"
Last December, the law school
library was elected to institutional
membership in the American AS
sociation of Law Libraries, an or
ganization of the leading law
libraries of the country.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Morris Brown
Will Be Scene
OF Conference
BY DAVID NORRIS

ATLANTA, Ca (SNS)-
Morris Brown College will be
the gathering place for the men,
bers of the college trustee board
and presiding elders of the eight
conferences of the state and lead
ing pastors and laymen April %.
They will take part in the mid
year conference and Founders Day
program
This promises to be the biggest
Founders Day exercise in the his
tory of the school.
President w. A. Fountain, with
the cooperation of his faculty, will
see that no detail is left undone in
their effort to round out an in
spirational program for the bene-
fit of the public as well as the stu
dents and trustees of the school.
There will be music by the Nor
ris Brown band, while splrituals
that gave life to the founders OF
the school will be heard. Orators
will tell of the past glory and OF
the present achievements.
Led on by Georgia's leader, Bish-
op W. A. Fountain, Sr., the public
will be waiting for April % at 10
O'Clock in the morning for the old
Norris Brown spirit on tle Hill. .
More than a thousand churches
will send their annual report. Thir-
ty-nine District Conferences, thru
their presiding elders, will be heard
from.
There will be a host of loyal fol-
lowers to take their places at this
founders day program that the
state has planned through its
leaders.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Hatch Act Amendment
To Exempt Recorder

WASHINGTON (ANP)-Of far
reaching Importance to colored po-
liticians and political activity, ac-
cording to authorities, is the
Amendment to the Hatch act ask
ing the recorder of deeds be ex-
empted from its provisions, now
pending in the rules committee Of
the house, having passed the SEN
ate without objection.
Offered jointly by Senators Har-
ry S. Truman of Missouri and Ell
mer Thomas, Oklahoma, the
amendment asks that the commits
sioners and the recorder of deeds
of the District of Columbia not be
considered officers or employees OF
the government. Mr.. Thomas, in
presenting the amendment, declar-
ed that the recorder Of deeds of
flee had always been regarded by
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Chicago Exp osition Giuen
$751; Rosen1uald Grant
Millions Z
Expected
To I Attend

(SNS)-A grant of
$4,000 has been made by the JUL
ius Rosenwald Fund through its
president, Dr. Edwin R. Enbrea, to
the American Negro Exposition. it
was announced this week by Tru-
man K. Gibson, Jr., executive di-
rector Of the Exposition to be held
In the Chicago Coliseum from July
4 through September 2
This grant, intended to help un-
derWrite the entire Exposition. will
also be used in part for active
sponsorship by the Rosenwald
Fund of the special sections on ed
ucation, health, and social science
which will be strongly emphasized
at the coming event. Arna Bon
temps, noted author, and Horace
Cayton, prominent sociologist, are
gathering technical data in prepa-
ration for these exhibits. Both Mr.
Bontenps and Mr.. Cayton are for
mer recipients of RoSenwald Eel
lowships granted annually to out
standing Negroes and southern
whites.
The State of Illinois, which is Of
ficially sponsoring the event, has
set aside $75,OO0 as a sustaining
fund. Congress is also expected to
act favorably on bill introduced
by Rep. Arthur w. Mitchell of Chi
cago asking a similar amount in a
federal appropriation to subsidize
the Negro Worlds Fair which will
draw 100000 persons. of both
races during the 60 day event.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Want More
Negroes In
Tenn. P. @.

CHATTANOOGA CAMP P)-Hav-
ing no appointees since the en-
trance of the new administration
into government control, Chatta-
nooga's new million collar postof-
flee is the object of centralized
criticism from citizens who are
making an effort to place members
of the race in employment chan
nels, long deserved and needed.
Voters of the city and county
have pledged themselves TO wash
their hands in the August election
if elected officials do not attempt
to do something about the matter.
The present representative to the
U. 6. legislature from Hamlin
county, who is serving the uneX-
pired term of a deceased candidate,
has, according to information re-
ceived, in looking over the eligt-
bility list, discovered that there
are at the present time few eligi-
bles able to be placed on the ap-
poiltment rolls.
The postoffice mas not hired any
clerks or carriers since Roosevelt
took Office. Since the erection OF
the building Negroes have not been
rendered janitor jobs. and thous-
ands of Negroes in Chattanooga
are desperately in need of work.
Pleas and petitions to the authori-
ties have been to no avail, and the
elections, in which Negroes In
Hamlin county poll mora votes
than Negroes anywhere in the
state. only continue to put men IN
Office who are overlooking the
matter.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

When his wife brought in Negro
newspapers, all items pertaining to
labor or anything to make. him Ia
bor conscious were clipped from
the papers before passing them OIL
to the worker. Conditions grew so
obnoxious that the man finally re-
belled and took job digging
bitches.
Another well known cafe, oper-
ating for the past 20 years, has Ne
gro help in the menial jobs and in
the kitchen where they do not come
in contact with the white guests,
but in the preferred jobs, walters
and attendants in private dining
rooms, all of the workers are Fill
pinos. Among the Negro workers is
one who is a graduate of Tuskegee'
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20


Working hours are from 6 a. m.
to 10 p m. in some instances and
the pay ranges from $3.50 per week
up to ST. No time off Is allowed
with the exception of half day
per week. And these workers do
practically everything in the house,
even the cooking.
KEPT IN HOUSE
One interesting story IS told of a
young married man coming TO
Washington with his family, seek
ing work. Answering an advertise
ment in a paper, ne obtained work
of kind. But his employer kept
him in the house all the time, re-
fusing to allow him to go to the cor
ner store for a package OF cigar
cites or newspaper
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

NEW YORK-(SNS) - A cam
paign along all fronts, using every
resource of the courts, the federal
department of justice, and public
opinion, is being launched actively
by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People to
guarantee Negro voters in the
South the right to the franchise,
it was announced here Monday.
The NAACP campaign, now out
in the open, is a result of the ac-
tivitieS of many of its branches in
the southern states dating back a
year ago and includes the spectac-
ular fights in Miami. Fla, and
,Greenville, s. c., in which the Ku
Klux Klan was defied. The asso-
,ciation's birmingham, Ala, branch
has also been active together with
numerous units in the State of
Texas.
The NAACP barrage will include
action by the Department of JUS
tice, which has been consulted al
most continually since last July.
The NAACP legal staff has for
warded steadily a stream of men,
oranda, briefs and affidavits to
the FBI on violations of the Ne
gro's right to vote in the South
and has cited both to the F'BI and
to the attorney generals Office the
federal statutes which have been
violated.
That the drum-fire Of the asso-
citation on these cases will most
likely result In action was indicat-
ed at a conference last week be-
tween NAACP attorneys and O.
John Rogge, assistant attorney
general, in Washington.
In addition to urging action by
the attorney generals Office, the
-NAACP plans to bring criminal
and civil suits in the federal courts,
and the groundwork for several of
these already has been laid in Tex
as and will be instituted in the
next thirty days.
NUdI SDSC1d1
cotinsef Of the 'NAACP, will leave
New York shortly for investigation
and consultation on primary cases
in the states Of Texas, Alabama
and Louisiana. 80
The court actions planned in
Texas have special significance this
year because of the candidacy Of
President John N. Garner for
the presidency, and the campaign
for reelection Of Senator Tom
.Connally, foe of the anti-lynching
bill and organizer and leader of
the f1libuster against it. Congress-
man Martin Dies, who has refused
persistentfy 10 investigate the Ku
Klux Klan and mob violence, also
halls from Texas.
To back up its campaign, the
NAACP legal staff is completing
research for a memorandum on
procedure for instituting both
criminal and civil cases wherever
Negroes rights have been violated.
In Miami, the Klan burned
crosses in the Negro neighborhood,
and in Greenville, the president
sof the NAACP youth chapter, who
was leading the fight for registra-
ltion of voters, was twice arrested.
,An attempt to intimidate the pres
ident of the Greenville adult chap
ter was made by arresting him for
carrying concealed weapons. His
defense was that he needed pis-
itol because of threats against him
for his activity in behalf of the
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Tobacco User Rejected AS
Men1berTo Church Confab

group that Methodist rules, whico
specifically forbid smoking by min
listers, is well known to all minis
ters on probation To illustrate the
point of his ruling the Bishop
asked for a cigarette from his au-
dience. Failing to get one, he used
a pencil, stating to Rev. Green:
"If a man cannot free himself
of the spell Of some little mani
mate object like a cigarette. how
could he expect to resist "a real
temptation?" .-.i
Of the four candidates up for
adnittance to the conference, Rev.
Green was the only one barred.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

CINCINNATI, o. LAMP Be
cause he admitted the use of to-
oacco, the Rev. C. o. Green, a del
9gate from the Louisville district
10 the Methodist Conference held
here last week, was denied admit
lance to conference membership.
Members who had attended the
sessions annually for 20
years, were amazed at this action,
many stating this to be the first
ELECTION they had ever witnessed.
Bishop Robert f. Jones, who
barred Rev. Green from conference
membership after an examination
of him, reminded the conference
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Urban Peonage'
Charged In DC.

WAS1INGTON--( -(ANP)-"Urban peonage" is the title
given to conditions under which the majority Of Negroes in serv
ice capital city Long hours poor pay donneer
ing bosses all play part the horrible labor situation existing
der the very dome of the capitol
Boarding house propretors and srPernendnts of
small apartment houses long had employed do the mena
work around their premises but with the advent of the wage
hours covered by the act dismissed and
hired in their placss
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
"BuiId-Up" For Women
HELPS Avoid Distress

SO aids digestion and helps build up
strength, energy, physical resist
ance. Result for. many is less peri
odic distress. Or you may find this
also helps ease your periodic dis
comfort: Take CARDUI a few days
before and during "the time" 5o
years Of use and popularity invite
your confidence in CARDU1.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Broad Fiqht For Riqht To Vote Launched By NAACP
CourtActionIs
ngPlanned

see that Negroes are not deprived
of their right to vote this year, p"
the NAACP statement said. "The
issues in the 1910 election are the
most crucial in many years, affect
ing the welfare and very lives OF
Negro Americans. They must be
protected in their right to have a
voice in choosing the men who are
to run the government. No stone
will be left unturned within the
financial resources of the NAACP
to secure the results desired"
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

Negroes as means of laison, or con-
tact with the national government.
IF this position is put under the
ban of the law" he said, "advice
to the colored people as to what
is being done of particular impor-
tance to them through the record
er of deeds would be impossible" :"
Senator Hatch, author of the act,
expressed his willingness for an
amendment after the interlpreta-
tion of Senator Thomas.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

Do you suffer periodically from
headaches, nervousness, lrrltapll-
ity, cramp-like pain?
If so, here's good news! These
may be symptoms of functional
dysmenorrhea due to malnutrition,
often helped by CARDUI.
CARDUI usually increases appe-
tite and the flow of gastric juice:
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

uuIIng ILe preSenC Lrend OF our
government to serve as a social
agency.
The tendency in the past, too Of.
ten, has been to guess when de-
termining the proportionate share
that should be allotted Negroes in
the matter of benefits to be allotted
under the various alphabetical agen-
cies now doing business under the
Roosevelt Administration.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20

Institute and a trained dietician,
receives only $40 per month al
though he has to prepare all OF the
menus as we'll as supervise the
other cooks in the kitchen. ....
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
The Census Will HeIp Us

TOO MUCH STRESS cannot be placed on the
vital importance of full and whole-hearted CO.
operation in giving data sought by our government
n the present taking of the 1910 United States Cen
SuS
How Important is this matter of obtaining actual
facts our status in this country looms even larger
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
The Globe Trotter
B, cHV M~ek3y

Full cooperation with the census enumeratof WIZ
give information that may lead to long-delayed So
cial and economic changes in our group :.
No longer will it be necessary to guess how Dad
y housed in our group any respective secuon: Inc
economic condition of group will be known, the
purchasing power and the amount OF properly we
possess. r. 4-=@- -, :, =
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
MANY ADVANTAGES

Communities in need of more Negro professionals
well as those able to provide fine business oppor'
tunities for young men of race will be revealed
These but few of the advantages that car
to group as whole through full coopera'
ton with the nsus-taker.
Opportunity will be afforded for Negroes of 2
given community to compare their status with other
groups in that community with Negroes of an
other community. Who knows but that the 1910 cen.
sus may affect profound change in status in
the country. Certainly everything the government
both state national does in behalf during the
next ten years will be based the facts and figures
obtained in the present
Nothing the census enumerator asks us should
prove embarrassing cause hesitation on our part
to answer. It is to be hoped that all of us
clearly and quickly the questions that your country
through the census-taker, is asking Certainly we
have nothing to lose by doing SO, on the contra
ry unquestonably have plenty to gain. ~
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
CAN COUNT JOBLEss

Answered too will be the biggest "guess" that the
experts have been making about us-the problem OF
unemployment ratio. Actual figures on this shoulo
by all means be helpful in your arguments tor o
larger participation in the federal relief set-up as
well as determ ming solutions to the recurrent
employment pr oblem.
The much guessed-at trend of our people away
from farm ownership to tenancy will also be prougn
to light; and jrst what is the general economic con-
diton of those who still cling to the soil.
Just what businesses people find most pros
perous just what is the leading type of Negro bus
the tendency of Negroes to expand out OF the
conventional business fields of barbering, undertak
ing and restaurant t-owning, all will become known
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
ESTIMATES VARY

Widely varied have been these estimates differ
ing largely according to our political strength in
given locality. Very few concrete facts offered
to support these "guesses".
An example in point is the guess" as to how
many Negroes there are in the United States. Sons
say there ten million, others twelve million and
the less conservative will argue that there are four
teen million. Some satisfied to estimate the Ne
gro population at one,tenth of the total population
+ Only through the present census will concrets
and unimpeachable data be available on this i'm.
porant matter. Only through the census will there
be determined just what population shifts have been
made during the last decade.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
fSI fSI G-L-O-O-M-S !?

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upset get prompt relief from those
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Quickly helps your bowels move
gently, yet thoroughly; so you get
HAPPY RELIEF and win back your
smiles and normal pep. What could be
easier? Millions, young and old, rely
on dependable FEEN-A-MINT. Get
this famous laxative for your family
today. A family supply costs only 1Oe
at your druggists.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
NEED NO EXPERT"

When the census is completed no expert" need
be called in to find out whether the Negro popua-
ion trend is stA northwnrd, or whether migration
of the thousands of Negroes jobless in northern
cities. has shifted again southwark as some social
workers now contend,
But population figures in the 1910 census will by
no means the the most important fact to be deter
mined in the 1910 census There are other facts OF
equal importance.
The Phoenix index., 1940-04-20
Must Give Results or Money Back

EXTERNALLY DARkENED C0MPLtxl0Ns
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
POTATOES

CHICAGO, May 2s@R-(U. S.
Dept. Agr.)-Potatoes SO; on track
1858; total u. S. shipments 684;
California long whites demand
good, market strong; southern
bliss triumphs, demand moderate;
market slightly stronger; californ-
la long whites us No. ! washed
under initial ice 2.60-65; un e r
ventilation 2.50-62 IL; US No. l
size B under ice 200; Alabama
bliss triumphs US No 1 washed
2. 6O-70; u. S. Nc l unwashed ESQ;
u, S, No. l size B washed 1870;
bliss triumphs U. S. No.
l washed Car 2.65; aforementioned
car 2.55; U. S. No ! unwashed
2.42 IL to 60; U. S. No l size B
car 100; showing heated and spot
ted car 1856; old stock supply light,
demand moderate; Idaho russets
market firm; Northern stock mar
ket strong; Idaho russell Burbanks
U, S. No. / ass to rs; South
Dakota Red River Valley sections
and warbans generally
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
NEW YORK SUGAR

NEW YORK, May 28-R-World
sugar futures made a strong come
back after the effects of an open
ing dose of war-inspired selling,
moving forward rapidly to final
gains of / IL to S points in late
trade when offerings contracted.
Sales totaled 10,1oO tons; July
LII IL, Sept. ia.
Domestic futures never fully re-
covered from morning selling and
final prices still were down 3 to 6
points on the heavy turnover of
As, 700 tons. Brokers appeared sat-
isfied with the way the lis. held up
considering the severity Of the war
news.
The raw market remained NOM
inal with Puerto Ricans for June
shipment held at 2.80 cents a pound
and June shipment Cubas at the
same basis duty paid.
Eastern refined continued at 4.50
cents a pound but resale beet SUI
gar and offshore refined were rum
ored on offer at 40 cents. A TO-
point allowance on refined was Of
fered in western territory.
M 2 roppc fo11nuS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, May 28.-R-Heavy
shipments of hogs forced prices Is
to 40 cents lower today. The top
was $3.50, paid early. Cattle prices
also were weak to Is lower; but
fat lambs and springers closed 10
to rs cents higher for the week.
Hog receipts in Chicago were
$4,000, plus 1000 direct to big
packers, and were considerably
heavier than expected. Total re-
ceipts in the principal corn belt
markets were 124. 500, or more than
double the 81, 100 for a week ago.
Choice 200 to 270 pound weights
sold at $5.25 to $3.50.
Best lightweight steers topped at
$l1.00 and best heavy heifers at
$10.60 The market was firm on
cows and steady on bulls and veal
ers.
Best clipped fed lambs brought
$3.50 and the top for native spring
ers was $12.15.
(U. S. Dept. Agr.)-Salable hogs
%, 900; total $4,000; slow through
out, generally Is to 40 lower than
Monday; closed at full decline; top
5.55 early; bulk good and choice
200 to 270 lbs. 5.25 to 70; 27O to 300
BIS. butchers early $40 to IS; with
800 to $50 lbs. offerings 500 to 20;
late sales comparable 260 to 300
lbs. butchers 500 to Is; good and
choice ITO to 200 lbs. lights 5.25 to
so; bulk good 400 to 500 lbs. pack
ing soWs Ais to SO; lighter weights
up to ATS; shippers took 500; hold
over 1000.
salable cattle $500; salable
calves 1000; fed steers and year.
lings weak to Is lower; at close;
fairly active, order buyers and
shipper bought dependably; heif-
ers showed steer decline, but both
steers and heifers wound up more
nearly steady than definitely low
er, killing quality considered;
mostly 8.75 to 1925 steer market,
with most fed heifers 8.75 to CTS;
part load yearling steers topped
at HOO; most weighty offerings
III load lots 1915, few above 1925;
STABLE strings 1,47O lbs. bullocks
lO.40; 1922 lbs. western fed steers
1910; about thre loads at 1915;
thse corn belt fed offerings; more
medium grades today selling at
800 downward; best heavy heifers
1850; light heifers 1000; firm mar
ket on cows; bulls and vealers
steady, bulls selling at ZOO down
and vealers at 10. DOLL 90.
Salable sheep 5000; total 5000;
fed and spring lambs active, 10 to
70 higher for week; most handy
weight clippers $50, others CTS;
top native springers 12.15; others
1.50 to 1900, with throwouts
around 900; five double California
springers 11.25; with 10 per cent
out $50; few light natives ewes
400; bulk 2.75 to $50.