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The Phoenix index., 1940-12-28
Volume Dates Back To 1852;
Believed To Be The Oldest

various anti-SlaHery societies.
turned over their libraries to Cen
eral Samuel Chapman Armstrong
fol the use of the freedmen whom
he was educating. Of especial inter-
est in this collection are books
containing the autographs OF
numerous famous Americans.
Prominent names that are repre-
sented are those of Daniel Webs
ter, Lysander Spooner, John
Brown, William Lloyd Garrison,
Frederick Douglass, Thomas Went
worth Higginson, Harriet Beecher
stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Abra-
ham Lincoln, William Wilberforce,
John M. Langston, Paul Lawrence
Dunbar, Charles w. Chestnut,
Blanche K. Bruce and Booker T.
Washington.
GOT MALONE COLLECTION
In 1908, George Foster Peabody,
trustee of the school, secured the
Malone collection of 1400 books for
Hampton. In 1914 the entire Ne
gro collection of DR.. Phil Broome
Brooks, a prominent Negro physi-
clan of Washington, D. c., was
given to Hampton Institute. In lat
er years the various collections
donated by friends of Hampton
have been expanded by the pur-
chase of several thousand books
and pamphlets, some of them rare
out-of- print editions, others con-
temporary writings by and about
the Negro.
In addition to the 1852 African
set, the Classified Catalogue of the
Hampton collection includes first
edition accounts of the slave trade
written by the Royal African Com
pany d71O, by Captain William
Snodgrass Q734), by Francis Moore
Q736), and by Anthony Benezed
(1762).
A rare 1888 edition Of the
poems of Phyllis Wheatley the Nc
gro writer of Massachusetts, is al
so of interest to students OF the
development and progress Of the
Negro in America.
HIS ORIGINAL SPEECHES
The Catalogue classifies the orr
ginal speeches of Richard Allen
! Frederick Douglass John M
Langston, Booker II. Washington
and many other Negro leaders, ano
lists the 3OO-volume file of news
paper clippings relating to sucf
topics as Negro towns, Negro dis
franchisement, the Negro church
Negro labor, Negro inventors, Ne
gro prize fighters, Negro actors
etc.
A complete set of Paul Lawrence
Dunbar's poems and Charles w
ChestnuttS stories and Separat
sections On contemporary poetr
and prose by and about the Negr
are included in the Hampton In
stitute Library Catalogue.
A force of Negro workers sta
toned at Hampton Institute an
supervised by Roscoe E. Lewis, c
! the faculty worked nearly wv
;? YET. in rr Daring &c ClaSslile
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Farmer 65, Turns Actor

in the School of Education working
under the supervision of Saunders
E. Walker, director of dramatlcs
and the Little Theatre at Tuske-
gee Institute. Interne teachers
contributing to the festival were
Gladys White, Melvin Lacy, Wilbur
Hines, Geraldine Howard, Elnora
Pendleton, Albert Frazier, Arthur
Lawrence, Laura Strickland, Mary
I. Howard and Constance Hunter.
Direstor j. r. Otis. School OF
Agriculture, offered two prizes to
the players. The first prize was a
pig to be raised by the school pre-
senting the best play. The pig will
be killed for meat next year for
the benefit of the school hot lunch
program. The second prize, 80
dozen eggs went to the hot lunch
pantry of the school presenting the
play judged 2nd.
Little Theatres organized in
Tuskegee's five rural laboratory
schools; a child's theatre at the
Chambliss Children's House on the
Institute Campus, and the Tuske-
gee Little Theatre college
students) are under the direction
of Saunders E. Walker.
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nothing of poor flesh and blood,
you are blessed, for you will never
be disappointed.
The best of men are men at the
best, but the highest grade of wax
will melt.
1T is a good horse that never
stumbles," and good wife that
never grunbles. Perhaps such
horses and wives are mostly found
in a fools paradise, in a section
with dunplings on trees. Remem-
ber that the straightest timber in
the forest has knots in it, and he
cleanest field Of oats has its share
of weeds. If you said you were
good when you knew you we're
hypocrite, whether others knew it
or not, this will make you feel sick
but a little of the tonic Of truth
will put you on the road to health.
The imperfection Of one man is
a sure reminder to another man OF
his imperfections for a sheep is
like a sheep.
We have no patience with that
crowd of people who poke their
noses into every mans home to
trot out his short comings or faults,
put on huge magnifying glasses to
find their neighbor's flaws, such
persons better look home, lest
they should find to their great sur
prise that the devil resides there.
'As for our faults, it would take
a large state to hold the account
of them, but thanks God, we know
where to take them, and how to
get the better of him." one writer
left on record TO rthe 'goody goody
people"
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-28
LEGISLATION To Aid Beauticians
Is Sought By Mrs. M. J. Joyner

limitation of working hours throws
the balance of trade out of pro-
portion and forces shops that
would permit their operators to
have regular hours to keep open
in order to compete with those
which disregard these factors.
Seeking such regulations to bene-
fit the workers in the shops, for
health, civic and social reasons,
Mrs. Joyner is calling together a
group to attend a meeting to be
held on January 13, to which the
public In general will be invited,
to hear the proposals that are
expected to be incorporated in the
bills she hopes to get before Con-
gress.
All local beauticians are urged
to Immediately contact the ma
tional legislative chairman, Mrs,
Stewart, at 1906 You Street. NV,
Washington, D. c.
Further urging beauticians to
write their congressman and sena-
tors from all parts of the country,
Mrs. Joyner hopes to have the
united support of the entire group
in her efforts to get some legisla-
ton which will eliminate the Wild
caters and bootleggers who are
undermining the most profitable
investment and careers for Negroes
in the United States.
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Two Must
Face La.
GrandJury
Charges Filed
By New Orleans
District Attorney
By LEON LEWIS

NEW ORLEANS, La VSNSJ-
Pending indictment by the Or
leans Parish Grand jury, Paul
Hortman and Edward Johnson
were charged on three counts Of
embezzlelnent of Local lila No.
1419's funds, collected over period
Of the three months, April, May
and June of this year.
One charge of embeZZlement OF
$6O03.7l was placed against Paul
Hortman, a joint charge against
Hortman and Johnson in the sum
of $2106.00, and charge against
Johnson for $37215, embeZzlement.
Their bonds were set at $3,500.0 90
each.
The charges were filed following
an investigation into the union
deduct collections by Asst. District
Attorney, David McNeill, who stat
ed that his investigation was eased
by help of the union, whose dis
covery of the alleged shortage
prompted investigation by the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and
forced a resignation of Hortman,
as president and his entire cabi-
net several weeks ago. Johnson was
chairman of the deduct system used
in the collection of union fees by
the steamshipping companies, for
whom the laborers worked.
QUARTER MILLION SHORT
Although the shortage accused
in the charges were over the quar-
ter from April through June of this
year, nearly a quarter of million
dollars have been reported to have
slipped by the union Golfers over
the last few years, with 100000 OF
the total unaccounted for from
September 1888 to September 1910,
and further charges in this con-
nection are expected, as the in
vestigation continues.
The lid was blown off in the
Longshore union of some two
thousand Negro waterfront work.
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WASHINGTON, d. Ca N p
In an effort to protect beauty
20 eulturists throughout the country
,7r26,00O persons, Mrs. Joyner points
ar, out that this organized effort 30
3 tirapd to eliminate "bootleggerS'
sjand wildcat operators in the
profession, Mrs. Marjorie Stewart
Joyner, national supervisor Of the
Z Mme. C. j. Walker colleges, also
national legislative chairman OF
the National Beauty Culturists
2 League, Inc, is in Washington in
e Nthe interest of a bill which would
p ogive beauty culturists at large the
protection they have long sought.
g ~ Declaring that thee items are
a. contributing tn the decrease in the
business of the licensed culturists,
Mrs Joyner has concerned himself
with taking steps to eliminate these
practices and to further the in
terests Of the group in general.
SEEK REDRESS
Representing "a locals. scatter
/. eel throughout the country, with
a reputed membership of some
obtain redress from the evils which
have fallen or the profession, has
the backing of several we'll known
@ National figures.
s2h Naming price cIlttllg as cne Of
the chief evils, ull l'rnited hours,
stI1d the operations of the bootleg
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ATLANTA Ga.-(SNS)-

ATLANTA, Ga-(SNS)-
Bishop w. E. Fuller has just re-
turned from the northeast and
southeast Georgia districts where
the F.. B. H. convention was held
at Gainesville. He made a few pas
toral changes at this meeting for
the good of the cause" Reports In
dicated that the spiritual tide was
high and financial receipts were
commendable.
Elder F.. c. Canty of the South
east Georgia district reported SOB,
while the Rev. S. T. Ryalls, one OF
the leading pastors on this district
reported $18. Some Of the outstand-
ing churches of the southeast
Georgia district were Griffin re-
porting $73 and Savannah SAT.
Elder w. A. Barbour OF the
Northeast Georgia district went
over the top, reporting $90 Some
of his leading pastors reported as
follows: Rev. c. H. Latimer, S4o'
Rev. S. M. Bryant, $23; and Rev.
B. F.. Hill, $40.
Some of the outstanding church
es of the Northeast Georgia dist
riot reported as follows: Games
vile. $57: Athens, $50; ST. Lilly
Atlanta, $120; and Zion Taoernacie'
Atlanta, $185.
A total of $14O5 was raised in the
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Gus socials.

GEORGETOWN, S. C.-Follow.
ng an outbreak of violence and beat
ing of several Negroes in George
town over the weekend after an
alleged assault upon a young white
woman by colored man, distin-
guished and respectful white wom-
en- of the town OF 1000 deplored the
happenings and asked for falr
justice in petition handed to re-
spectful and prominent Metro citl-
zens of the town late Tuesday aft
ernoon. The more important portion
of the petition read as follows:
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To Play Marietta

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)--
According to Principal M. L.
Woods of Marietta. Ga, in a tele-
phone talk to the Atlanta Daily
WORLD sports department, a
team of picked amateur stars OF
Atlanta, managed by John (Red)
Moore, will play his Marietta
High School Bluebirds on the
gridiron in a Xmas Day classic
at Joyland Park in the Cobb
County city.
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1t is not to be expected that one
should get white flour out of a
coal sack, nor perfection out OF
human nature; yet we are making
no claims against perfection, for it
should be and is the true goal OF
all real christians If a man has
reached that stage in life, We are
glad for him.
There is an old saying like this
"Lifeless, faultless" of dead men
we should say nothing but good,
but when it comes to the living. one
can say many things. It is quite
unfair to "hit a dead man below
the belt" BY so doing, such per-
son does not prove his bravery, for
it would have been far better to
have said the upkind words to the
man ere he fell asleep. Most
heads have soft spots in them,
while many hearts have their black
spots.
Why, if you please, even the
mighty sun has spots in it, and the
esthetic skies have darken clouds.
After all We are not so wise, for
many of us have folly enough to
rim a vanity fair. There is evil
mixed up with people for there is
no sunshine without some shadows.
Moreover, all mems faults are not
written on their foreheads, and 1t
is well that they are not, for they
would need hats with wide brims
to hide them.
Sin like hares pop out of the
ditch unexpectedly. If the horse
is weak in the knees, he will soon
STUMBLE, though he may go mile
or two and to avoid this, the rider
better hold him up well. Many a
child has embarrassed the parent
by calling some one of the outcast
minority group ugly names. No
one knows when sins will show it.
self. AS we live among men, lei
us be ever mindful that we are
perhaps imperfect. Hence, we
should not get excited when we find
out our friends failings; what;
rotten will smell as sure as q
cracked pot will leak If you expect
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White Women Petition
Race Leaders In 5. C..

I'm view of the recent lawlessness
in Georgetown with mob violence.
many of the women of our city de-
plore and gravely disapprove of the
breakdown of law and order and
condemn it.
"We have lived harmoniously fCf
generations with the respectable
colored families in our town and
county and it is our desire that
these relations continue and we wish
also to go on record as urging that
just punishment be legally neted
out to anyone committing a crime"
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-28

HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va
IS N S)-Published in 1882, one Of
the Oldest known histories Of
Africa has been found in the Ne
gro collection of the Coils P.
huntington Library OF Hampton
Institute, it was announced by
DR.. Malcolm S. MacLean, neww
pFesident of the famed institution
Of learning for Negroes.
Consisting or two volumes of
more than 800 pages, this descrip-
ton of Africa during the earliest
slave days was written in the
7tafian language by Leonis Afri-
cani. The two-volume set, in per-
feet state of preservation, is now
On exhibition in the George Foster
Peabody room Of the campus Ii
brary. The only other set of this
African history, known to be in
existence. is preserved in the rare
documents room of the Library OF
Congress.
ONE OF 5O76 ITEMS
This valuable set of books is but
|. one of the 5O76 items listed IN "A
. Classified Catalogue of the Negro
. Collection in the Coils P. Hunt
ington Library" which has just
been published by Hampton Insti-
tute. Mentor A. Howe and Roscoe
E. Lewis, who compiled the pub
licaJion under the Virginia Writ
; erS' Project, state in the Foreword,
that ethe classification of the ma
/ terial in the Coils P. Huntington
Library began as a necessary stage
f, in the preparation of The Negro
& in Virginia. The many Eequests
( that have been made for source
material on various aspects OF
J. Negro life have revealed an urgent
I need for catalogue of this val
4 liable collection"
4 BabliograTlerS have predicted
& that the publication of this CLASH
4 fled Catalogue will reveal the Ne
4 gro collection at Hampton as on a
par with or even superior to the
famed Schomburg Collection OF
Y the New York 135th Street Libra
ry and the Moorland Negro Colleci
ton of Howard University.
Consisting of two parts, Cd The
Negro in Africa, and CD The Ne
gro in America, the catalogue con-
tains a Preface by Eudora Ram
saw Richardson, State Supervisor
of the Virginia Writers Project, g
Foreword by Mentor A. Howe
and Roscoe E. Lewis, the compllers
and an authors index to the items
that have been classified, covering
in all 291 pages.
The new publication makes avail
able for the first time a complete
reference photography to the vas
amount Of source material relat
! ing to the Negro that has accumu
lated in the Institute library since
the schools founding in 1868.
During Hamptons early year!
) nn.oro'ts y7N;%.nt' ooiSts, n:'i
of ,Aanu .o...i~4 l.4~.:!J>l1
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CIRCUMCISION
for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis

A MARVELLOUS DISCOvERYN
CHRISTIAN AGENTS WANTED!! Ta
Sell the Worlds Famous Cow Boy MIN
O. al. an Iron Tonic and Astringent TAX.
ing the country by storm. Used ana
recommended by thousands of satisfied
users. Send one dollar ($1.OO) today Tor
a five (5) weeks supply. The Original
Mineral Distributed by, leagues Min
eraI Products, p. o. Box 264, Union
South Carolina.
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ers. when an inner-insp1red motlVa-
ton challenged the annual reporU
NJ the officers at meeting seVeral
weeks before Hortman ana MS Gil
tire cabinet resigned under pres.
sa1re. and an alleged shortage VI
funds. The National Labor Reia-
tons Board and the District AL
tornev's office launched an lnVes-
tigation to determine the response
hiIitv for the shortage of nearly
onarter of a million dollars.
The money, according to lnVeStl-
cation. was turned over to HorC-
man and johnson. 1t is anegeo
that inward from $4,000 each year
did not reach the union Golfers.
FORMER DISHWASHER
Hortman, who seven years aso
was a dishwasher in a downtown
cafe. has through labor bickerlng
risen to one OF the most intluentlal
characters in the labor movement
I'M until his pressured resignation
severa, months ago He was the
first Negro to be member OF tile
executive committee of the state
Feoeration of Labor; he is vice.
president of the lila. and has en-
gineered many labor strites on the
Local waterfront.
The Hortman situation was one
factor that prompted the resolu
ton attacking union racketeerlng
that was adopted under fire DUR
ing the Sixtieth annual conven-
tion of the American Federation
of Labor here last month.
Evidences gathered indicate thai
three is a possibility that higher
ups in the ranks of labor, politics
and business will be involved IN
'union- deduct" sortage.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-28
Your HOROSCOPE
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Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On

CreOmulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden pl1legm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the lin-
derstanding you must like the way 1t
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
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81, ,4O5 Reported To Bishop
Fuller At Gainesville, Ga.

double session.
Elder F.. C. Canty goes back to
the Southeast Georgia district as
presiding elder, while Elder w. A.
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ON THE REEL
By REV. rASCHEREAU ARNOLD
1T is EASY TO FIND FAULTS

"WHAT'S rotten will rend' If boasts of his being
perfect he NAV perfect in sheer folly We have been great
deal up and country and satisfaction
saw perfect house or perfect man. and perhaps will
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-28

Barbour goes back to Northeast
Georgia as presiding elder and as
pastor of Zion Tabernacle.
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mlnrorors JoN:EntN oDiets, MY
Of hem .o-4.i~- l.4~-;!]~!"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-30
AIRPORT PROJECT
PLANS ARE MADE
S Start OF Improvements
Talked By Airport Com
mittee, WPA Officials

Definite plans for the start OF
Improvement work at Bluethenthal
airport were made at a meeting
of the county airport committee
with WPA officials from Atlanta,
Raleigh and Wilmington yesterday
afternoon. .
The county's rock quarry, where
rock for use in the runways will
be obtained, will be opened Tues
day and the movement of the ma
terial to the field will start.
Preliminary work, such as grad
ing, is now nearing completion and
the major part of the work Will
begin upon it's being finished.
Addison Hewlett and Harry
Gardner, members of the commit
tee, toured the field yesterday
along with Harvey Perkins, of At
lanta, airport engineer; Glen Bob
bit. of Raleigh, project director;
and local WPA officials.
Present plans call for the laying
of Macadam runways, but Chair
man Hewlett said if another an
ticipated project m~aterializes, the
strips will be converted immedl-
ately to concrete.
Full lighting equipment and 9TH
er facilities will be installed. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-30
WILLIAMS HELD ON
BOGUS COIN COUNT
Complete Counterfeiting
Outfit Seized In Column
bus By Raiding Officers

WHITEVILLE, Aug. 29.-Colum
bus county officers a raid yes
terday seized a complete counter
feiting outfit and arrested n mai
on a charge of manufacturing DO
gus so cent pieces, which for tn
past six or seven weeks have beer
showing up in this vicinity.
On one day recently 20 OF thu
counterfeit coins were detected Il
Tabor City.
Sheriff H. D. Stanley and H. L
Shaw, deputy and policeman, con
Quoted an Investigation which cul
minated yesterday morning in sew
en- officers making a raid of thu
home of Fred Douglas Williams
who is a native of Chadbourn, bu
has been in New York for the pas
three years, and only recently re
turned to Chadbourn.
The officers, who included Shaw
and Stanley, Chief of Police w. B
Coleman, of Whiteville, Corpora
w. W. Carraway, Chief j. M. Hin
son of C%hadbourn, Deputy W.. II
Billiard, and L. o. Padgett, OF tn
U. S. secret service. Charlotte, ane
seized a complete counterfeitins
outfit, including molds, metals ant
other apparatus for making coun
terfeit half dollars, along with 81
counterfeit fifty cent pieces. Pad
gett quoted Williams as admitting
making and passing these coins
and stated that he learned tn
trade in New York.
The accused man was given
preliminary hearing here before w
+. Benton, U. S. commissioner, ant
was bound over to the fall tern
of U. S. Federal court in Whining
ton. He was being held in defaul
of $1,000 bond.
Agent Padgett of the U. S. secre
service was loud in his praise O
the work of the Columbus count!
officers in working up the case
and said that it represented a INT
bit of sleuthing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-30

Several Iron
Step Reported In Midst Of
Axis Mediatory Efforts
To Settle Demands
VIENNA MEET TALKED
Rumania Intends To Estab-
fish New Defense Line
Near Russian Border

BUCHAREST, Aug. 80 (Friday).-
Up Reports circulated in the Ru-
manian capital today that attempts
are being made by King Carol II to
form a new cabinet in the midst of
axis mediatory efforts to settle terri
torial m a S of Rumania's
bristling n%eighbors.
After an extraordinary cabinet
session, in the royal palace until
near dawn, the king called in a num-
Der of prominent Iron Guard Cru
manian Nazi) members and private
audiences.
Councillors Called
The king also summoned the royal
councillors for an unprecedented
crown council session to discuss the
four-power conferences in progress
at Vienna, in which the Rome-Berlin
axis seeks peaceable settlement of
the Rumanian-Hungarian dispute
owe Transylyania.
The pro-Gerfnan George Bratainu,
peasant leader Juliu Manu- and John
Mihalache, who are not members of
the council, we're to meet with Carol
today.
1t was reported unofficially that
there was full discussion Of yester-
days meeting at Vienna.
An attempt will be made to reach
an agreement on a curse decided on
at Vienna and then to transmit ap-
prevail Of the plan to Foreign Min
lister Mihail Manoilescu, it was said.
New Line
Rumania will throw the bulk of
her army into a new line of defense
near the Russian border as soon as
territorial disputes with Bulgaria and
Hungary have been settled definitely,
diplomatic sources reported a s
night.
The Rumanian-B Bulgarian settle
Continued on Page Two, Col. s.