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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
PLAN Fight ON
CAB co. jim
CROW tactics

WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. %
Action against the Diamond
Cab company, which has a mono
poly on the business Of serVicing
travellers who enter the nations
capital through the union station
here, and employs the Jim crow
tactics Of refusing to carry Negro
passengers except under protest
has been instituted by the local
branch of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Col
ored People.
The N. A. A. C. P last week
addressed communications to all
Of the railroad companies operat-
ing train services into Washing
ton, protesting that colored pas
sengers were frequently refused
when they attempt to get service
from the Diamond Cabs here. Re
plies received from the Washing
ton Terminal company and the
Pennsylvania Railroad expressed
surprise at the situation, point
ing out that the cabs are public
service enterprise and should not
refuse any passengers who call
upon them. A complaint was al
so directed to the Diamond Cab
company but to date no reply has
been received.
DR.. c. Herbert Marshall, Jr.,
president Of the local N. A. A. G.
P. branch, announced that persons
experiencing difficulty in getting
cab service at the station should
make note Of all the facts, includ-
ing the number Of the cab, the
time of day and other circum-
stances, and turn this informa-
ton over to the branch for &C
ton.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
APPOINT RACIAL RELATIONS
OFFICER IN PERSONNEL DIVISION

Weaver.
AS a part Of his duties Mr.. Trent
assumed the. craftsmanship Of the
Interdepartmental Committee on
the Exhibit for the American Ne
gro Exposition now beng held in
Chicago. In this capacity, Mr..
Trent arranged for the Federal
Works Agency exhibit and for the
publication Of the "Way Of Pro-
grees. Negro Participation in the
Federal Works Agency Program"
This publication, distributed at
the American Negro Exposition,
has received so favorable a re-
ceptiOn that requests have poured
in on Mr.. Trent to a greater ex-
tent than could be handled under
the first printing. The 'Way of
Progress is an excellent viSuali-
cation Of the cooperative efforts
of the Federal Works Agency and
Mr. Trents work in coordination
Of Negro participation in the
WORKS program.
Mr.. Trent served as Assistant
Administrator to the Regional Di-
rector Of the Survey Of the Train
ing and Employment of White
Collar and Skilled Negro Work
ers under the direction Of DR..
Weaver during 1886. Before GO
ing into government work, Mr..
Trent was instructor in Econom-
les and assistant business mana
ger at Livingstone college 1ocat-
ed at Salisbury, North Carolina.
Mr.. Trent served as Acting Dean
of Bennett college in Greensboro,
N. c. A native Of North Caro-
lima, Mr.. Trent has been noted in
that state as a progressive young
educator Che is only 3O).
Mr.. Trent is a graduate of Liv-
ingstone college and of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania where in
1882 he received his Masters de-
gree in Business Administration.
He has also taken graduate work
IN Economics and Sociology at the
University Of Pennsylvania and
the University of Chicago, and is
the author Of the History Of Ne
gro Insurance Enterprises"
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
MAIL ON RURAL ROUTES
TRIED OUT IN ILLINOIS

When less than so years ago
rural free mail delivery in Illinois
was in its initial stage, doubt was
entertained in some quarters as
to the ultimate success Of the Eek
pertinent" Postal authorities,
says the Illinois Writer'S Project,
w. P. A., were reported ready to
abandon the service within a few
months if it proved to be unsuc-
cessful.
In November, 1896, Auburn
Township in Sangamon county
was selected as the place in which
to conduct test Of the rural free
delivery service IN the state. The
plan called for three mounted car
rlers to leave Auburn with three
deliveries a week to all farmhous-
es in the township. Farmers
were requested to place their let
ter boxes near their homes, 80
that the carriers can deliver their
mail without dismounting.'
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

Federal Works Administrator
John NJ. Carmody this week an
nounced the appointment of VIM,
j. Trent as Racial Relations Off
Ger in the Personnel Division I'M
der the direction Of A. J. Stare
director of Personnel for the Fed
eral Works Agency. This posi-
ton is the first Of its kind to be
established m "a regularly orga-
nized' personnel division of a ma
jor federal agency.
Previous to his appointment az
Racial Relations Officer, Mr..
Trent served both the Department
Of the Interior and the Public
Works Administration as Adviser
on Negro Affairs. In this capac-
ity he succeeded DR.. Robert @.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
THE NEW WORLDS
VERY OLD METROPOLIS
Dear BuZzing Bees:

Dear BuZZIng Bees
Now that the war has the en-
tire world upset to the extent
that travellers find it wiser to con-
fine their travels to their own
continent and SO avoid crossing
mine strewn waters, Americans
are visiting parts Of the new
world that. have heretofore been
overlooked. The present trek Is
| tc Mexico, a land interesting be-
cause of the remains of ancient
civilization to be found there.
The metropolis itself, boasts Of
some 600 or more interesting
years Of history.
The customs Of those early set
tiers Of Mexico City as well as
the frequent evidences Of ataVism
make that section Of North Ameri-
ca most interesting. This section
Of the continent gets credit for a
lot Of firsts. Americas first
sheet music and book were said
to have been published there, and
it was there that Christianity got
its first foothold in North Ameri-
ca. The cruel pagan gods were
pushed aside to make way for al
tars. And the first sugar mill
was built IN this section.
! The Aztecs built their first big
temples in Mexico about 1925
Two hundred years later the
Spaniards came and there was
sta ed one Of the most bloody OF
all combats between the Aztec
and Spaniard. Spanish prisoners
Of war were sacrificed to the cruel
pagan gods. More people were
probably executed there than on
any other spot on earth. More
than 100 900 skulls were found in
one temple. It is estimated that
at least 10000 men, women and
children were sacrificed each
year Even the Spaniards adopt
ed the habit Of executing their own
prisoners at this place and ex-
posed their heads in the same
manner as the Aztecs.
The Mexican sees no reason to
work as hard or as steadily as his
neighbor north Of the border
They celebrate 1870 holidays a year
there and Of course, every day
there is the monday habit of tax
ing the siesta from one o'clock
until about $50 in the afternoon
the hottest part of the day.
For strong contrasts in mode
fof living, for a rare mixture Of the
'ahcient and modern, a conglomer-
alton of facial types, of tropica,
lassitude and northern hustle, OF
rare beauty and the downright
ugliness characteristic Of impov.
erished conditions, of hot COLDER
sunshine coming through ancien
cypress trees and silver moon
light outlining exotic palm trees
we can find it all in the southern
part Of North America.
S'long until next week,
BUNDLE.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

"One-Tenth Of Our Nation, a
Film Associates, Inc, production
presented by the American Film
Center, under a grant Of the Gen
eral Education Board, got Of to
a flying start Wednesday at the
American Negro Exposition.
Called by DR.. Claiming Tobias.
chairman of the American Film
Center committee that supervis-
ed the production, "the first
great documentary film of Negro
education" it shows notable edu-
cational achievements against
great odds. The Roy Harris
score built on Negro themes pro
vides the musical background for
a quietly impressive Negro COM
mentator, Maurice Ellis.
The idea of the film came from
the authorities of the Exposition.
eve wanted to tell the people Of
the United States something about
Negro, schools and colleges" Claude
Barnett said. We wanted to
show everything from the hungry
boys and girls in overcroWded
one-room schools to the proud
graduates Of our great universe
ties. One-Tenth Of Our Nation
tells the story in its economic and
social setting and it's success
story Of Negro and white coopera-
ton even though there still re
mains plenty to do"
The film was made possible by
a gift from the General Education
Beard to the American Film Cen
ter. The center was established
under a grant of the Rockefeller
foundation to promote the pro
duction and use Of such educa-
tionally valuable films as One
Tenth Of Our Nation. Following
its usual procedure, the center
named group of experts who
controlled the content and phi
losophy of the film. Names of
committee: DR.. Claiming H. To-.
bias, DR.. F. D. Patterson, DR.. r.
E. Clement, Dr.. Arthur D. Wright,
DR.. Charles S. Johnson, Claude A.
Barnett. The committee met at
the office of the center, As Rookie
feller Plaza, in April to block out
the picture and again in May at
Atlanta university to work over
the script. The final meeting was
held Wednesday morning at In
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Commencement
Held at 'Kegee

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala,
Aug. 29-The commencement ex-
ercises Of the Tuskegee Institute
Summer School was held in the
Institute chapel, Friday evening,
August II, at 7:30 o'clock. Di-
plomas, certificates and degrees
were awarded to approximately
one hundred persons completing
the courses in home economics,
business, agriculture, commercial
dietetics, commercial industries,
education music education and
physical education.
The candidates were presented
by William A. Clark, Director Of
the Summer School. The certifi-
Gates and diplomas were present.
ed and the degrees awarded by
DR.. F. D. Patterson, president Of
Tuskegee Institute, who delivered
the commencement address.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
COMEnY OF ERRORS
IN EARLY BASEBALL

There was a time when base
hall f1elders took their jobs lying
down and when it was viola
ton of rules to catch a ely"
Mullins" or 'Muffs". baseball
teams organized solely to provide
amusement fer spectators, became
popular in Illinois in 1867. The
idea was to ''muff' as many plays
as possible.
If fielder followed the rules
Of the muffin" games, say re-
search workers Of the Illinois
Writers Project, WPA, he sat
down when a ball came in his di-
rection and pointed it out to 9TH
er felders too far away to make
the catch. Base runners always
ran on foul balls. If a batter ac-
cicently hit a homer" he had
to be sure to mistake the pitch
er's mound for first base SO as to
give his opponents an opportunity
to recover the ball before he could
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
TEACHERS ASSN
D0NA S TO
Defense FUND

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 20
A dime from each Of the 2778
teachers of % states who took an
nual memberships in the Ameri-
can Teachers association during
its fiscal year which closed July
81, became the basis for the con-
tribution Of $27880 which Execut-
i've Secretary H. Council Tren-
holm has just transmitted to the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored people as a
donation to the Legal Defense Fund.
For two years, the American
Teachers Association has allocat-
ed ten cents from each dollar
membership to the NAACP as its
financial participation in the eff
forts being made to achieve the
removal Of race ditferentials in
teachers salaries and in provision
Of educational unity. The
contribution for 1938-39 was
$193 40 and this contributor Of
$193.4O for 1939-40 evidences an
increase of 854 members in the
Alta during the past year. At
the recent annual meeting at Pine
Bluff, a similar ALLEGATION was au-
thorized for the association year
Of 1940-41 and a membership ~oa1
Of 5000 teachers has been set W
for the new administration of
Miss Mary L. Williams Of Charles
ton, w. Va, which would make
possible a contribution next July
of $500 to the NAACP.
vitality interested in the pro-
gram of educational opportunity
and of Improvement of teacher
welfare, the American Teachers
association has not only made a
significant announcement through
its recently adopted resolutions
but is utilizing every means to
stimulate the efforts Of the state
associations in their programs as
we'll as making this contribution
Of ten percent of its receipts from
annual memberships.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Jobs Filled In
July Show Gain
Over Last Year

Jobs filled by the Illinois State
Employment Service during the
month of July show an increase
Of approximately Is per cent over
the number filled in the same
month Of 1889, Director Of Labor
Martin P. Durkin said this week.
There was, however, a drop of
about II per cent from the num-
Der Of jobs filled in June Of this
year. This decline is Seasonal
Durkin pointed out, since July is
usually one Of the dull months Of
the year from the standpoint of
job placements.
a total Of 1866 jobs was filled
in July. This compares with
9,446 in July of last year, and with
1916 in June Of 1910.
"Most Of the jobs filled were
in private industry" Director
Durkin said. "The increase over
last year was largely due to a
greater demand for skilled men,
especially in the metal trades.
There is a constantly improving
demand for men in these trades.
"Qualifed people in all lines Of
work should register with the
nearest office Of the Illinois State
Employment Service. We are
especially anxious at the present
time to have the applications of
skilled workers.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

The reading world has follow
ed with tense interest the heroic
battle of a Chicago youth, strick-
en- with infantile paralysis while
in China, against that dreaded
malady. 1t was a real life drama
that revealed a miracle Of science,
the 'iron lung"
Ii'-rention Of the mechanical
lung" ~ a Paris doctor in 1874
ard the ultimate perfection of the
strange device now a part Of tbs
equipment Of all major hospitals.
was traced in a radio broadcast
over Station WBBM on Saturday.
The script was prepared by the
Illinois Writers Pro- WPA
end dramatized Tor air i7r7 1T
eners the marvel of ger.u dis
played in the Museum Of Science
and Industry. It was the fifth Of
the series entitled Moments Of
Genius"
The apparatus the French doc
tor conceived to do the work Of
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
DAN CUPID PRESIDES OVER
TWO GOOSEBERRY PIES

Two gooseberry pies figured
prominently in Illinois papers a
generation ago, and Dan Cupid
was on hand both times to cut
them.
One had delighted friends, a
half century earlier, at the wedding
dinner Of a McDonough county
couple. When their golden we'd
ding was celebrated, says the Hi
nois Writer'S Project, w. P. A.,
the other pie became the center of
attention, for it was large enough
to serve not only the husband and
wife but also their children and
grandchildren. The berries came
from the same bush that had yield
ed fruit for the first pie.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
HISTORIANS TO DISCUSS west
Indian NEGRO IN CHICAGO

States Government has tried to
align the republics Of the Western
Hemisphere in the effort to pre-
vent the expansion Of the dicta-
tors into the domain Of the A
mericas. Nominally these repub.-
lies have consented to such an at
tempt to maintain the Monroe
Doctrine. At present, however
these loud speaking republics Of
the Western Hemisphere would
be defenseless before the recent
war machines and may be swayed
either way by forces economic or
military. The United States at
the present time, moreover. has
not enough up-to-date equipment
to defend New York CITY alone;
and the tendency Of so-called de-
mocracy is to waste time doing
nothing, as the United States Sen
ate is doing when every member
in fOolhardy fashion is eXerting
himself to deal with the situa-
ton in his peculiar way What
may happen to the Ne9rces in the
West Indies, then, is still a prob
lem.
Another important question re-
mains unanswered. Wat will the
United States and its sister re
pubIics Of Latin America do with
the West Indies if the British ard
French empires fail t. be recon
stttuted. These American repub-
lies say that Trey will prevent
these islands from falling into the
hands If the dictatorial conquer
ors. Will these possessions be set
up as independent countries or
fall prey to the economic imper-
ialists in the Western Hemi-
sphere? Are these American re
publics seeking to extend free
com or to- find new territory for
/ the exploitation Of the weak?
Gleefully it has been suggested
that the British and French West
Irdies be taken over by the Unit
ed States. Those nations are in
debt to this Government for 9d-
vanceS made them during the
World War Why not avail our
selves Of the opportunity thus to
settle an old score? Does his
tory show the wisdom Of such 2
course? This mettod, would be
eminently suitable for the eXpan-
sion of our capital and the eXten-
sion Of our trade. We would
thereby. become the masters Of
the Greater Canal Zone. But
what about the Negroes in the
West Indies Would they profit
by a transfer to the jurisdiction
Of the United States?
There are some native West In
dams living in the United States,
who, looking only at TIE present
economic. advantages, answer this
!. question in. the. affirmative. It
| must be kept .i14 Jpind,i however,
that race prejudice and the jim
crow follow the United States
flag. These Negroes in some
parts Of the West Indies have en-
joyed at least nominal freedom
Under the jurisdiction Of the
United States they must eXpec
such justice as is meted out to the
) Negroes here today. What have
: the historians to offer in answer
: to these questions?
@. G. Woodson.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
NAACP Reveals Alabama
Lynching, 5th This Year

NEW YORK, Aug. 29-The vul-
ture-picked body Of 27-year-old
Jesse Thornton, fished out Of the
Pataylagga river near Luverne,
the county seat of Crenshaw coun-
ty, Ala, not far from Tuskegee
Institute, was the answer given
by the N. A. A. G. P. to Senate
Majority Leader Alben Barkley's
continued refusal to bring up the
Federal Anti-lynching bill, be-
cause the consideration of defense
measures "are more important
at this time. The body was found
June %.
The death of Thornton, who
was lynched by a police-led mob
because he had forgotten" to re-
fer to a white police officer as
"Mr.", marked the fifth anthem
ticated lynching this year investi-
gated by the association. Investi-
cation of three unConfrmed lynch
ings: one in Mississippi, and two
in Louisiana, has been hampered
because Of lack Of funds. The
lynching Of Thornton, one Of the
most brutal in this section, is told
in the following story written by
an N. A. A. c. P. investigator and
made public by the association:
If ever there was a streamlined
hushed-up lynching, according to
the new technique in Alabama,
that lynching happened at Lu-
verne, the county seat Of Crer-
shaw county.
Luverne is a typical southern
town in the heart Of farming
district only short distance from
Tuskegee Institute. There the
farmers gather in the city on Sat
urdays in large numbers to bar
ter and trade. The inhabitants
Of the little town gather in pub
lie places for one reason or the
other to talk.
Reliable Worker
On June % Jesse Thornton, a
farm worker, about q years old,
went downtown to a Negro bar
bershop. Regarded as a reliable
worker, who would fight anybody
if imposed upon, he had been liv-
ing in the community for the past
five years with his wife. He was
the manager Of a chicken farm.
He and his wife attended the Ne
gro community church.
AS he and a number of his
friends stood in front of the bar
Der shop a police officer came e.
long. Thornton said to his friends,
with whom he was talking There
comes Doris Rhodes, boys" The
police officer. overhearing the re
mark, turned and said, What did
you say?"
Thornton, not thinking that he
had been overheard, hesitated in
his reply, and tried to recant and
say that he had referred to "Mr.
Rhodes. The officer, using an
epthet accused him Of having left
off the MIR, Whereup Thornton
in a fortnight manner,
IT did say Doris Rhodes" Quick
as flash Rhodes knocked him
down with his blackjack, arrested
him and marched him off to Jail.
Near the pail door Thornton al
most succeeded in getting away
when he was stoned by bystand-
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01

] Historians, facing the present
and the past will seriously dis
cuss the West Indian Negro in
Chicago on the ninth of next
month. This will be an import
liant feature Of the exercises in
celebrating at that time the twen-
| ty-ffth anniversary Of the Asso-
citation for the Study Of Negro
Life and History.
! No topic can be of greater i'm
portance to the entire American
citizenry today. Thousands Of
natives from those islands live in
the United States, and some of
the most significant developments
in behalf Of the race in this coun-
try have been due to contributions
made by natives of the West In
dies. Without their contributions
the history Of the Negro in the
United States would be a differ
ent story.
1t is significant, then, that
distinguished scholars will appear
in Chicago at this celebration to
enlighten the uniformed and to
exchange ideas on the West In
dies. DR.. George Eaton Simp-
son, of Pennsylvania State Col
1ege, will speak on Haitian Peas
ant Economy" Dr. Ronald v.
SireS, of Ball State Teachers Col
1ege, Muncie, Indiana, will dis
cuSs ''The Labor Problem in ia
maica after the British Enamel
patton; and DR.. Mercer Cook, of
Atlanta University, will deliver
an address on 'The Literary Con-
tributions Of the French West In
dian Negro" Fortunately for the
public these gentlemen know
whereof they speak. They have
recently Travelled and studied in
that part of the Western Henri
sphere, and they have examined
the standard authorities in these
fields. Addresses delivered by
other speakers at this celebration
will bear indirectly also upon the
West Indies.
TIE Importance of the discus
sion of the West Indies at this
time becomes evident at a glance
at the Negro population of those
islands. In the British West In
dies there are 1857 in the Ba-
hamas; 162,055 in Barbados; IT,
862 in Bermuda; 62,929 in Grana-
da; 1,04O,269 in Jamaica; 106,378
in the LeeWard Islands; $4,000 in
st. Lucia; 44,549 in st. Vincent,
and 1855 in Trinidad. In the
French Vest Indies there are
213,925 in Guadalupe. and 1879
756 in Martinique. When we con-
slider the estimated Negro popu-
7ation Of 100000 in Cuba, Of p
$4,000 in Haiti, Of 473,664 in
Porto Rico, of 1,444,621 in SantC
Domingo, and of 2O.911 in the Viir37-
gin Islands we see al total Of more
than 100000 Negroes whose fate
hangs in the balance in conflic
between the Fascists and the eco
nomic imperialists.
What will become Of these Ne
groes at the end Of this conflict
The French Empire has faller
The fate Of the British Empire j
hanging in the balance. TIL
world domination of the conquer
ing dictators will bring these Ne
groeS new masters. The Unite,