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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

tain all these things is not the
question 50 far as he is concerned.
He is more concerned with being
able to dodge a meeting with the
champion.
With Conn out Of the picture, to
whom can Jacobs turn? Truth
OF the matter is, there is no one
in sight-or even in hiding who
might prove an attraction in a
match with the champion. So,
it looks pretty bad for the enter
prising Mr.. Louis who wouldn't
like to be forced to retire because
OF a lack Of opponents. But even
so, should this be the case, he
will not be disgraced. He can,
like Alexander the Great, weep,
if he wants to, because there are
no more worlds to conquer. But
his glory as a man who has con-
quered all will shine down through
the years as a brilliant beacon to
others who may finally come after
him.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

WASHINGTON, Aug. % GAN
P)-The colored musician, accord
ing to Alvin Campbell, former
yiOlinist with Blanche CallOWay's
band, has gone back from the days
Of the old Clef Club in New York,
and nowadays, you can hardly
find q Negro who can play any Of
the Instruments common to SYM
phonic bands, oboes, bassoons,
flutes, and other unusual types
Of Instruments.
That" said Campbell, els one
If the reasons for the decline of
the top Negro bands. They are
unprepared to change their styles
and cannot compete with bands
that improve and add various sec
tons to their bands. Some years
back, when the Negro bands were
sweeping the country, white must
clans came to see and hear the
Negro bands. They looked around
copied the styles, learned the ar
engagements and then took them
home and improved on them.
Meanwhile, the Negroes were sat
isfed to continue as they were 60
ing with the result that the white
bands added sections to their own
units and far outstripped the Ne
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

the 1899 team: ClemmOns' outfit
blasted Arkansas State $50 III
the seasons opener for both
teams, and about mid-season.
they hoped over to Florida
where they pinned Bill Bells
Florida IA. and NJ. juggernaut's
ears back with a stunning $40
oasting, This was F'lorida's only
loss Cf the 1899 season ard
knocked them cut Of the running
for the mythical national colleei-
ate title. This happened to be
the same Florida team that took
the Wiley Wildcats fer that hec-
tic 42-0 ride IN a pest season tit
the second week III December.
Need we 60 any further? Hey.
Elmer, slip me another aspirin.
Ahh-In the meantime OK. drop
Big Rettig q line over at Texas
college. According to the Stears'
present schedule, they are play
ing entirely too many games
against that outfit that masQue-
rades under the name Of open
Date"
Marvin Comins, quist, unas-
Stunning IT'S pound kackfeld star,
who was getting away all last
year for Lincoln while the oppo-
sition was keeping its eyes On
Robert Qualls, has cast his col
legiate destiny with Wiley.
COmins and Qualls are close,
close friends. but both are eager
to / schools where they will
be opposed 10 each other rather
than running mates as they have
been for the past three years
when they caVorted in a specta-
cular manner for the Booker T.
Washington Bulldogs and then
climaXed their prep grid careers
as members Of the fine Lincoln
Hi eleven that won all its games
last year except post season
affair with Jack Yates iii ROus-
ton, December 18th, to determine
the nonresident state grid title.
Dame Rumor has it that Tom
Carl Upchurch, and Car BLACK
Beauty Ingram, mainstays for
the past two years On the Wiley
eleven might be missing when
the first call is made for practice
on Methodist Hill the first week
in September. Other schools are
having kindred STAR troubles,
coupled with losses through SchO-
lastic difficulties, falling for the
''TWo can live as cheaply as one"
humbug, ct cetera.
The writer is reminded just
here Of the time when he saw a
self-styled turf expert lose his
money and shirt by wagering a
chance acquaintance that the
two mo Boys" listed On the rae
ing program were brothers, and
darn good jockeys to boot. We
hope to keep our vest pockets
Cloth vests lined with perfectos
by smart football experts that
fall III the same category with
the Turf expert."
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
By CARTER G. WOODsON

At the celebration OF the TWEEN
ty-hfth anniversary Of the Asso-
citation for the Study Of Negro
Life and History in Chicago on
the ninth Of September, historians
will discuss the Negro and the new
order. In other words, the Negro
will be examined with respect to
the ''isms" Of Europe. DR.. w. T..
Fontaine, a product Of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania and now
professor at Southern University
in Louisiana, will discuss this live
topic in the light of history and
other speakers will likewise direct
attention thereto.
In what way do these new doc
trines concern Negroes? Are these
movements matters with which
they should be concerned? What
does their past in connection
with such movement indicate that
the future Of the race will be?
Considering how the Jews have
Jared at the hands Of the agents
OF the new order, what can Ne
groes expect? The Negroes of the
United States say much about
these matters and at times engage
in fierce debate and agitation;
but in such cases, as a rule, these
Negro participants are being turn
ed about by the so-called Fascists
or Communists who would use the
blacks merely as a means to an
end.
Serious historians Of today con-
cede that the world is passing
through a significant transition
period, just as it did when emery
ing from the ancient order to
plunge into the darkness Of the
medieval periods, or when emery
ing from the chaos Of the latter
to the present modern order. The
world, they tell us, is not being
destroyed; it is being changed.
Whether for better or worse we do
not know. Some nations or races
may fare better than others by
taking the advantage Of the weak
just as some are now doing. What
encouragement does history offer
Is to the status Of the Negro in
the new order of tomorrow?
1t is Of much concern to histo-
rians that Negroes take little note
Of these movements except to fol-
low others. Negroes have refus-
ed to learn from history. Today
the world has reached the stage
of development when as result
of mechanization, a few can sup
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Joe Louis Gives
5000 Tickets to
Poor Children

Joe Louis, heavyweight cham
nicn Of the world, purchased
5000 tickets to the American
Negro Spiritual Festival, which
was held in Soldier Field, Sun
day afternoon, and turned
them over to Leo NJ. Lyons, Com
missioner Of Relief, for distribu-
ton to underprivileged children.
In order that children in all
parts of the city might attend the
festival, tickets were sent to
each Of the Chicago relief admin
istration's district offices for To-
cal distribution between the hours
of g and II Saturday morning.
Members of the era staff were
assigned during this period to
supply them to children between
the ages Of IL and IL who called
for them.
While the distribution of these
tickets was not limited to chill
dren receiving relief, it was ex-
pected that only those in the low
income group will call for them,
since a limited number were a
valuable for distribution.
Each ticket entitled the child to
whom it was issued to admission
to Soldier Field.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

ply the needs of the many but at
the same time diminish the pur-
chasing power Of the many who
are nevertheless required as con-
sumers to maintain the demand
for what is produced by the few.
| Under the circumstances so-called
democracy, or economic imperial
ism, has broken down and CAPT.
tai has lost its stranglehold on la
Dor. Being now all but free to de-
termine a new order, the laboring
classes face the alternative Of
Communism or Fascism. Com
munism, it is claimed, gives every
body everything he wants, and you
do not have to worry as long as
it lasts. But there is grave
question confronting such advo-
Gates. Will these common people
be able to take hold Of the reins
of government and direct the ship
Of state into the distant future or
soon fall the prey to the dictators
who are ever at hand to take ad-
vantage of the situation, as re-
cent history has shown? Up to
the present Communism has mere
ly been the forerunner Of Fas-
ciSm.
What Will Happen to Negroes?
A number Of historians claim,
however, that the totalitarian
state is inevitable. They insist
that government by RECOMMENDATION
is the only solution for the pres
ent-day problem. The frontier
program of individualism of early
America and Australia is no long
e1 feasible procedure, and the un-
developed portions of the world
await modern Improvements
which offer little hope there for
the methods Of yore. When the
totalltarian state comes, will the
Negro be included therein or driv-
en- therefrom as in the case Of the
Jews? What will be the function
Of the Negroes who have been
forced to the level Of drudgery
for which there is little demand?
In other words, will those in con-
troll take the Negro along or leave
him behind to fade out of the pic
ture?
The totalitarians base their state
on the important principle of one
people Of the same race living
within the same area, practicing
the same religion and speaking the
same language. Herein lie some
difficulties for the Negroes. They
belong to the black race, hated
because of the stigma of slavery.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
FOUR CHILDREN
! INJURED BY
CARS THIS WIZ.

Theola Turner, 8 years old,
1926 Prairie avenue, received a.
brasions of the left leg Friday
evening when she darted out from
the curb into the path Of car
driving south on Prairie. The
driver, George Miller, 50, 1920
Michigan, told police that the
child was in front of his car be-
fore he saw her.
Annie Rhane, 4, Of 525 E. 33rd
street, was hit by a Greyhound
bus at the crossing Of 33rd and ST.
Lawrence Monday when she at
tempted to cross the street.
Gwendolyn Smith, 6 years old,
4317 Vernon avenue, lost her
balance while riding on the street
car Saturday and fell from the
rear Of the platform at 43rd and
Indiana. She was taken to the
hospital and found to be suffer-
ing from a wrenched back and
shock.
Six-year-old Clara Mccain of
4316 Langley avenue, was knock
ed down while attempting to cross
the street in the middle Of the
block on Monday evening. Ernest
Fern, $500 Evans, driver of the
car, rushed the child to Provi-
dent hospital, where it was found
she had sustained injuries to her
forehead and left knee.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
NEW NEGRO MOVEMENT MAY
Be BOON TO COLOPED ACTORS

grOeS.
II have some funny experiences
in booking music for various oc-
casions," Campbell continued.
'"The other night, q woman called
me and asked for a piano, violin,
cello and five stringed banjo.
Well, the five stringed banjo is a
relic Of antiquity and there isn't
a man in Washington who can
play one. | tried to satisfy this
and hunted out a man I
knew who at one time did play a
five stringed instrument. He
laughed when | asked him about
ii and said he didn't even know
where his old banjo was now.
"SaXOphOnes, trumpets, slide
horns furnish the majority of in
struments that Negroes now play"
continued the musician, cal
though there is some hope that
there will be new crop Of real
when the present GEN
Grafton grows up, for they are be-
ing taught various other nstru-
ments through the popular music
schools which now are springing
up through the country
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
PETERS Sisters
FEAT lyRED in
TENNIS M EE I

TUSKEGEE. Ala, AVG. pa
party of twenty-five left for the
tv"entv-fourth annual oharnpion-
ehins NE the American TERMS AS
ISOLATION which will be nlayed on
the c9mn11s at Wherefore Uni
versity this week.
Heading the list Ct tennis stars
are MARGARET Peters and ROu-
roania Peters. ratioral doubles
champions, who will defend their
title.
The rapid rise of Katherine
Jones, sophoncre Snrin gfeld,
Mass. Mamie Stanley, freshman,
BROOKLYN, N. Y, and Helen
born on the Tuske-
gee Institute camnus, sophomore
all playing excellent tennis. will
assure the Tuskegee contingent Of
feminine representation.
Clifford Fl. Russell, Howard
MINIS and Harmon Scales, who
starred on the Royal Courts in
the Bahamas, are expected to be
at their best at Wherefore.
Abbott Heads Party
The Tuskegee party, travelling
in private buses, is headed by
Cleve H. Abbott, director Of ath-
letics at the institute and vice
president Of the American Ten
mis- Association; Edmund H.
Burke, chairman of the tourna-
ment committee; Capt. r. S. OAR
nab. member Of the A. T. A., pu-
blicity committee; Mrs. Almore
Dale, Mr.. and Mrs. William l..
Baber. Miss M. L. Syrette, Mrs.
Russell Brown, Mrs. Cleve l.. Alb
bolt; SGT. john ID. Patton, Rouma-
mia Peters, Margaret Peters,
Katherine Jones, Mamie Stanley,
Helen Hutchinson, Jessie Abbott,
Clifford H. Russell, Howard Min
mis-, Harmon Scales, Robert Isaacs,
John Watrus, and Howard Ken
ney.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Ethiopian Clowns
CONTINUED from page 100

two were out, was jerked by
Captain Wahoo, and ImpO came
in from the bullpen. He had
pitched four innings in the
Clowns victory over the CoOrs
Brewers the day before, and the
EthiOps pinned ell their hopes Oh
him. The dangerous Jones
smashed in a run with a hit
which Selassie stabbed with his
bare hand, but could not hold.
That made the score 5 to 4 and
it appeared the Texans had the
game in the bag when Boron
doubled home another run in the
eighth. But the Clowns tied it
up in the ninth on doubles by Ba-
hoo and Pinchhitter MASSES, and
TarZan's hit.
Starting the tenth, Smith sin
gled for Mount Pleasant. Griffin
beat out a bunt. Catcher WahOo
unc0rked wild heave On
Frances bunt and Smith came a.
cross but Umpire Dan Darnell
ruled he had interfercd with the
throw. The batter was called out
fer interference and the runners
had to return to their original
bases.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

To understand their plight the
Negroes must turn away from the
politician and the soap-box agi-
tator and seek light in the knowl-
edge Of the history supplying the
background of these current move
ments. What is today has been,
and what is today will be tomor-
row. The present thus clarifies
the past and the past the present,
if haply we find the time to study
it scientifically.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Shippers Southwest
SPORT-O-GRApH
BY ROY Z. DIXON

DALLAS, Tex.-(By Roy E.
Dixon for Saturday, Sept.
Z, is the date Of the annual rules
Interpretation confab Cf the
Coaches and Officials Association
Of the Southwest, which convenes
for the second successive year at
the l. M. Terrell high school,
Fort Worth. Unless our memory
is playing us pranks, the consti-
tuition contains an amendment
setting the date as the first Sat
urday following Labor Day, all
reports and rumors to the con-
trary.
Last years roster of the asso-
citation lists 1913 names distribut-
ed as follows, Cd SO officials,
90 II college coaches and athlet-
ic managers, and ~ Z honorary
members comprising the presi-
dents Of the seven Southwestern
Athletic conference colleges.
Southwest Roundup
Also scheduled at the same
time and place is an important
business session Of the recently
formed Bi-State Athletic Confer
ence. The latter organization,
pioneered by G. G. Mosley for
Jarvis college, will endeavor to
perfect organizational plans,
adopt a constitution and bylaws,
and prepare a general sports cal
endar for its members in football
as well as other sports such as
basketball and track, Offhanded-
ly, the institutions either COM
prising, or being considered for
membership in the newly form
ed athletic loop are Jarvis, But
Ter, Tillotson, Louisiana Normal,
Mary Allen, Paul Quinn, and
Sam Huston.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
SPORT SCRIBES
EYE Dos 7 ON,
MONTGOMERY

BOSTON, Aug. 29-(ANP)-
New England college football
practice opens next week with
Lou Montgomery of Boston col
lege still the topic. Because if the
eX-Brockton, H. S. star returns to
college next month, it is dollars
to douehnuts that he won't be
in the B. c. opening game Of the
1910 season. The game is at
New Orleans-B. G.. VS.. Tulane.
Many spcrtswriters have been
fed the story that white colleges
make their schedules decades
ahead Of time. This is not true
Tulane was put on the B. c.
schedule only recently-While
Montgomery was still in school.
Moreover, several other southern
colleges were being considered
by the B. c. authorities only last
year in spite of protest by many
Hub fans, and 1889 marked a
"ati0n-Wide condemnation of the
B. G. police as everyone knows
Whether because Of this fact or
not, the B. c. first string quarter
back, who was cO-cantain in the
Cotton Bowl affair last season,
has now suddenly Quit B. c., and
will enter the priesthood next
month.
Another quiet and sudden move
has been the B. c. ousting Of the
1899 athletic administration heads
and substitution which so far
has not indicated any greater
Christian policy than the last.
This new B. G. setup will just
about decide whether any more
Negroes will don a B. G. football
uniform, and in case you've for
gotten, B. G., has a Negro half
back, Gil Walker, who is even
faster than Montgomery but who
has been diverted from football
to track for perhaps obvious rea-
sons. Walker is as big as Mont
gomery and he was a star on the
B. c. Freshman team. But if
Walker is kept out of football,
Montgomery will have no success
sor. In fact, Montgomery may be
the first and last B. G. Negro
varsity football player.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Must Find Way

Unfortunately ABOUT as far as
the Negro leader goes in such mat
tiers is to take up the slogan Of
some politician who says, "Vote
for me and | will give you a job, :"
OF "Vote for me and | will give
you more relief" Such unscrup-
ulous leaders are merely preying
upon the ignorance Of frustrated
people who have never had a pro-
gram. The Negroes Of today
must eventually find their own
way out of their difficulties or per-
ish from the face Of the earth.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Historians 10 Take Up the Negro
And the New Order

They do not yet speak the English
language correctly; and, as a ma
jority, they do not practice Chris
tianity. The talented" Negroes
pay little attention to religion of
any kind; and, although the cult
leaders in the store front churches
and religious camps claim to be
Christians, they are actually pa
gans who have baptized Christian
forms with heathenism in order
to exploit a frustrated people.
Will the totalitarians of tomorrow
take this crowd along with them
as they 60 forward with their
new program for the reconstruct
ed state?
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

Anncunced-The marriage Of
Miss Louise E. Spivey of Louis
burg, N. c., to Thomas A. Lee,
son Of the prominent Rev. H. L.
Lee Of Media Pa.
Dies-Robert Williams, promi-
nent citizen and native Of Baton
Rouge, La, suddenly while doing
longshore work at the WestWego
docks.
Composer = Reginald Dorsey,
Baltimore youth whose song, Il
Love to be the One was accept
ed by Tommy Dorsey, famous
band leader.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Bond Averages
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, April 16.-ReneWed
selling in the foreign dollar division
featured bond market trading today,
Towards the last hour, losses running
to points featured some selected
issues, in fair volume.
Italy rs dropped nearly 4 points,
Japan g. IS were down 5, and Norway
4l2s were more than 3 points lower.
Belgian issues steadied after re-
cent severe pressure. The Is and
6l2s each rose more than a point
Domestic corporate loans Jared
little better than the foreign divi-
sion although here losses for the
most part were limited to fractions
and a handful even managed to
get ahead.
Pressure was most severe against
rail liens and declines were posted
for such bonds as Frisco 4 IS Of 'I6,
Erie convertible 4s, Santa Fe 4s of
'95 and Missouri Pacific IS Of IT F.
Others set back a notch included
Western Union SIS of 80, Postal Tele-
graph 5s and Standard Oil of New
Jersey 23ls.
Among the gamers we're Portland
General Electric 4l2s, Boston &
Maine stamped 5s of ST and Colum-
bia Gas g. Electric IS of 81.
United States Treasures shufled
uncertainty.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Daily Oil Flow
Rises 176,907
| Barrels
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TULSA, April 16.-Daily crude { !
production in the United States -
creased 116,901 to 3,871,639 barrels
for the week ended April l3. the Oil
and Gas Journal said today.
Texas accounted for most of the
increase with production up 100050
to 1,494,4o3. East Texas flow was
up so to 396,939; Louisiana 1924 to
286632 California, 33,40O to 635, $50;
Kansas, 1850 to 176,400, and East
ern fields, 900 to 100000.
Oklahoma production declined
BATS to $4,000; Illinois, 5652 to
421.754; Michigan, Its to 62.130,
and the Rocky Mountain area, 5000
to 84,540.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Aluminium Co. Signs
Biz Power Contract
For Expansion
$2,843,75o Additional
Government Current
Will Be Used
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The aluminium Co. of America,
its production pace quickened by the
war, today ordered s2,843,750 Of ad.
ditional Government power to be
used in its Western plant at VAN
couver, Wash.
Secretary Ickes approved a five-
year contract between the big con-
Germ and the Bonneville Admins
tration for second block of 32,5O0
kilowatts of power produced by Fed
eral hydroelectric plants on the Co.
lumbia River near Portland, Greg.
Last December the company en-
tered a 20-year contract for 32,500
kilowatts and started construction Of
100000 reduction plant at VAN
couver to manufacture aluminium
and aluminium alloys from native
ores. 1t was the firms first Western
venture and originated from the
availability of the low-cost power at
Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams.
Today's contract specified that the
second block of power be sold to the
company at S1750 per kilowatt
year, or s2,843,75O for the total
amount delivered over the five-year
period.
I'm requesting the additional
power" the Interior Department
said in a formal statement, "Alumi-
mum Co. officials said that, in view
of unusual demand for aluminium
resulting from the situation in
Europe and the preparedness pro-
gram in the United States. that they
felt the company should proceed inn
mediately with expansion of the
Vancouver plant"
Officials said the plant as origi-
nally planned would be completed by
the end of 1940 The second block
will be made available for subse-
quent expansion.
Evening star., 1940-04-16

NEW YORK. April l6 lP.-Worid suga,
months were easy on prospective ISSUANCE
OF 200 May notices due tomorrow. while
far positions were firm on scattered trade
and producer buying. Midatternoon prices
were q point lower to 3l2 higher; May,
$50; July, 81 Il: September, .5l.
Domestic futures moved ahead :! to 4
points on covering and trade buying which
offset liouldation and proflt-taklne. Fears
OF rising freight rates was factor in the
advance. May traded at 81 July, .O3
The raw market was firm with parce
lots of Puerto Ricos in prompt position
held al go cents and forward outy frees
at .,95. An Eastern Tetiners early bought
5000 tons of Philippines loading tooay
at 295 cents. A cargo of June shipment
Cuhas were held at 2.OS c.&f.
Refined was UNCHANGED at 4.5O cents
Withdrawals were only fair.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Dv Goods Market

NEW YORK, April Is l4p.-Trading in
wooen goods increased today with sub
stantial bookings for fall requirements.
Traders said they believed might result
from increased consumption by be!llger-
ents.
Silk fabrics were unsettled following
another sharp decline in raw silk values.
which tended to restrict new buying
Only scattered lots of gray goods were
ecld today mostly for flll-in purposes, al
though prices held steady.
Spun rayons met less insStent demand,
but pigment taffetas for forward delivery
moved at brisk pace.