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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
R N. DIET I
SIGNS WIT H
MILLS M USIC

R. Nathaniel Dett, distinguished
American Negro composer, has
signed an exclusive contract with
Mills Music, Inc, for publication
Of his future compositions, an
nounced Jack Mills, president,
this week.
DR.. Dett director Of music at
Bennett college, Greensboro, N.
O., is composer Of "The Ordering
Of Moses, the oratorio which
scored instantaneously at the May
Festival in Cincinnati four years
ago. "Religious Folk Songs Of
the Negro" and "The Dett Col
lection Of Negro Spirituals' are
two books authored by the es-
teemed Negro lecturer and recital
jst. Well known as a composer,
, principally in the smaller forms,
he has written choral works, in
Guiding Chariot Jubilee" for ten
or solo, mixed voices and orch
estra, religious and secular songs,
many based on spirituals. For
orchestra he composed a SYM
phony, American Sampler, and
the incidental music to Edward
Hhngerford's pageants Pathway
to Programs" and THE Parade Of
the Years"
Winner of the BoWdoin Literary
Prize at Harvard in 1920 for his
essay "The Emancipation Of Ne
gro Music, Dett also received the
Francis Boot Music Prize at .Har-
ward, the first award for music at
The Harmon Foundation, and two
symphonic commissions by the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Born in Canada, he studied mu-
sic in the United States, holding
bachelor and doctor degrees from
Oberlin, Ohio, Conservatory Of
Music, and doctors degree from
Howard university. Much Of his
activity as a musician has been
at Hampton Institute, Va, where
he served as director Of music.
DR.. r. Nathaniel Dett is the
fast-groWing library Of serious
most recent personality whose
works have been added to the
tast-growing library Of serious
music published by Mills Music,
Inc, which has just signatured
long-term exclusive contracts with
Roy Harris and Morton Gould.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
DADDY AND THE
YOUNGSTERS TURN
BICYCLE INTO BUS

In the early 1905 when bicycle
riding first became a popular past
time, one Illinois father achieved
considerable local fame by his in
ventive turn of mind. He con-
verted his tWo-Wheeler into sight
seeing car for his five children,
ranging in age from one to sew
en- years.
"A reporter for Galesburg
newspaper, says the Illinois Writ
ers' Project, WPA, enthusiastical-
ly tol5 Of how the father and his
little flock went spinning over the
paVements with as much ease and
grace as the swallows exhibit as
they skim around the country
barn." Presumably the mother
saw that the youngsters were
tucked in safely and that the It'll
nerary was not too long.
BY way Of conclusion, the writ
err observed, 1--WE challenge the
world to furnish a duplicate Of
this family on wheels"
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
Personnel Deans
Face Problems
Of Negro Youth

ATLANTA Ga, May For
three days beginning April "a, the
Personnel Deans and Advisers Of
Men in AZ Negro colleges scatter
cd throughout the United States
gathered on the campus Of More
house college to discuss the pre-
paration of young college men for
jobs in national defense.
Local plans for the meeting at
Morehouse were worked out by a
committee headed by Dean B. r.
Brazeal. At the opening session
Thursday afternoon delegates
were welcomed to the campus by
President Benjamin E. Mays, and
the response was given by Dean
J. w. Drew Of Virginia Union uni
versity. The first paper at the
session on "Selection and Orien-
tation of College Freshmen" was
read by Dean G. w. Reeves OF
Prairie View State college, and
the discussion was led by Pro-
lessor D. K. Cherry Of Knoxville
college. Thursday evening, Pres
ident and Mrs. Mays were at home
to members Of the conference and
the Morehouse faculty.
Dean West PresideS
Friday morning the deans be-
gan their day at the nine o'clock
chapel hour at Morehouse college,
with Dean William B. West OF
Howard university and Dean Wal
ter Brown of Hampton institute as
the principal speakers. The scene
Of the session was changed to the
Library Exhibition Room at 10
o'clock when an address was de-
| liVered by Lieutenant Lawrence
Oxley Of the Federal Security Ad-
ministration, entitled Labor Reg
istratiOn and Placement OF Ne
groes with Reference to Defense
Industries" Dean West presided
at the morning session. In the
afternoon. after a short business
meeting, sessions again got under
way with w. Y. Bell, Jr., Secre-
tary Of the Atlanta Urban league,
discussing "What the Urban
has done in the field Of Oppor-
tunities, and the openings for the
Negro in the skilled and semi
skilled vocations.'
The principal speaker at the
open meeting Friday evening was
DR.. j. Max Bond, director OF edu-
cation at Tuskegee Institute, who
outlined "The Future Education OF
the Negro College Student in q
Democracy President Mays in
troduced the speaker. Invocation
was given by Dr. A. w. Loos Of
Spelman college, and program
of music was furnished by the
Morehouse GIee Club. De-0
James T. Taylor Of North Caro-
lima College for Negroes, who IS
president Of the national assocla-
ton, presided at this meeting.
At the closing session Saturday
morning, DR.. Chauncey |. Coop
er, acting dean Of the College OF
Pharmacy at Howard university,
spoke on pharmacy; and DR..
William J. Nicholson Of Tallade-
ga college, discussed "The Min
iStry."
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
|NTERRAC|AL FELLOWSHIP
HOUSE makes BOW
By G. JAMES FLEMING

take their turn with scrub buck
cts and turpentines and paint.
The third and fourth floors are
barely cleaned, but from the base
ment to the second floor, the
light can now come in, and al
ready Fellowship House is show
ing its worth and need in the
neighborhoOd.
Attracts NeighbOrhOOd
The other day little tous-
sled-haired white boy, not more
than eight years old, came in and
wanted to know, Cant I start
an airplane club hgere?"
But we aren't ready yet, we
haven't a club leader right nov"
the attendant at the desk said.
"But you don't need a leader,
just some boys, some wood and
q table," the insistent visitor came
back.
To make a long story short, be-
fore the day was over he had
rounded up six or eight boys OF
the neighborhood and had re-
turned, saying: 'Here is the air
plane club"
Potential Community Center
Another day a bunch Of kiddies,
colored and Wholesome Of the
1869 youngsters in the neigh
borhood-pushed their noses a.
gainst the plate glass, looked and
looked, finally they opened. the
door long enough 10 ask: "When
you going to start something here,
like games?"
"FelloWship House was secur-
ed in a mixed neighborhood, be-
cause fellowship wants to do its
work with all people," Miss Pen
ney explained, land we wanted it
too, in spot which could use the
kind Of community program we
shall be able to perform.
Anything that will help the COM
munity and promote the inter
racial idea will find Fellowship
House interested, Miss Penney
declared.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
BETHEL Church IN DE TROET
Gel EBRATES1 SIMULTANEOUSLY

program Tuesday will be dedt-
Gated to the youth and on We'd
nesday all former pastors Of
Bethel will be guests at the Cen
tennial Banquet" 'Interdenomi-
national Night is scheduled for
Thursday and brilliant pageant
under the direction of Mrs. Rosa
Gragg will be presented Friday.
The Centennial ceremonies will
come to q climax on Sunday, May
Is, when Bishop John A. Gregg
will be the guest preacher Sur
Gay evening the Hundred Ami
versary Celebration closes with a
program under the auspices Of the
local fraternities and sororities.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

Philadelphia, Pa, May 1-There
was "open house" last Sunday at
1881 Brown street, a building that
won't win any prize in architec-
ture, that won't be reproduced in
"The House Beautifulp, and which
not SO long ago was a print shop,
a perfume factory and an under
takers supply house.
But today 1431 Brown street,
where Ridge, Brown and 18th
meet, is Fellowship House," the
outward and visible signs of a
movement, a spirit and an ideal
now ten years old and known far
beyond Philadelphia.
Fellowship House is the new
home of the Young Peoples Inter
racial Fellowship, and it is an or
ganization Of young Gentiles,
Jews, whites and Negroes, Be
hind it are years of these young
people meeting together, thinking
together, playing together, and
working together "that they might
al be one"
House Means Work
And the house is a new Oppor-
tunity for working together-for
when it was first taken over it
had been vacant for many years,
dirt covered its walls and floors
several inches thick, its window
panes were BACKED out with lay
ers Of gray paper, lighting fixtures
were torn out, and altogether it
was a cold, gloomy place.
With little money the fellow
ship could not call in contractors
and give the order to ''clean up"
"And it is a good thing we hadn't
the money" Marjorie Penney, ex-
ecutive secretary will tell you, for
we would have lost a great deal
Of the kind Of working together
which we need to learn"
Saturday Work Crews
So Saturday after Saturday for
the past three months fellowship
pers have been reporting to "1431"
as work creWs-dressed in over
alls, slacks, old shirts and what
have you. Whites, Negroes, Gen
tiles, Jews, they have swept,
scrubbed, scraped walls, and paint
ed.
Young men would come to the
house after a hard weeks work;
CO. eds from Temple university
ard Bryn MaWr college would
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

DETROIT, Mich, May IA
brilliant celebration marking one
hundred years Of distinguished
public service on the part Of Beth
81 A. NJ. E. church, the mother
church of Negro Methodists in
Michigan, will be held for an en-
tire week beginning Saturday,
May 10, it was announced this
week by the pastor, the Reverend
William H. Peck.
Methodism among Negroes in
this section came largely through
the efforts Of John Stewart, free
Negro who served as Mission
ary to the Indians. William Paul
! Quinn and Willis Nazery, mission
aries of the African Methodist
Episcopal church, were response
bic for influencing these early
colored Methcdists to organize
themselves as Bethel A. M. E.
church in 1841.
The Bethel A. M. E. church
has served five generations Of
Detroiters. The Negro popula-
ton Of the city numbered less
than 500 when the Colored Metho-
dist Society began its work which
led to the establishment Of Beth
el church under the control Of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church on May 10, 1841.
Pay Tribute
DR.. Charles Wesley, dean Of
Howard Graduate School, Bishop
John A. Gregg, DR.. r. L. Brad
BY, DIR. Joseph Evans, DR.. Joseph
Gomez, DR.. j. P. @. Wallace, DR..
I. D. Scott, and a host Of emf
nent laymen and ministers will
participate in the week long OBJ
servance of the Centennial.
The Reverend William H. Peck,
pastor Of the church, has served
in this Office for thirteen years,
guiding a congregation of three
thousand members who express
themselves in fifty-tWo organiza-
tons within the church. The
Booker T. Washington Trade AS
sociation, the Detroit Housewives
League and the Fannie B. Peck
Credit Union founded by the pas
tor and his wife have won nat
lonal recognition and reflected re-
nown upon Bethel church.
In recounting the history OF the
church for this Centennial obser-
vance, it was disclosed that the
Colored Methodist Society, out Of
which Bethel grew, was granted
a meeting hall by the City Coun-
Gil Of Detroit for its first house
of worship.
Concentrating the early ac-
ton Of the municipal government
in Detroit, the present City Coun-
Gil voted unanimously in favor Of
z resolution praising the great
work Of Bethel church on April
Is, 1941.
Program HighlightS
On Saturday afternoon, May 10,
a pilgrimage will be made to the
site Of the original place Of Wor-
ship in the old town hall in down
town Detroit at Congress and
Woodward. Mayor Edward J.
Jeffries and other city officials
will greet the Reverend William
Peck and pay tribute to Bethel
church. That evening, Reverend
r. L. Brady, along with his
great choir Of Second Baptist
church, will join in the ceremo-
MES at Bethel.
On Sunday, May IL, DR.. Charles
Wesley Of Howard university will
be the Centennial guest preach
er. The combined choirs will pre-
sent cantata, "The Rose Mai
dem, on Monday evening. The
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
New Appointee
To Head Army
Morale Division

WASHINGTON, - (ANP) -
The appointment of well known
man to head up the Negro divi-
sion Of the Morale division Of the
army, a new branch to take over
the functions formerly attended to
by the YMCA and other welfare
groups, is expected here daily.
DR.. Claiming H. Tobias, under
whose direction this will fall, has
had several names under cons'd-
Grafton, but none Of those so in
vited will accept the responsible
ty. Because Of his out Of town
trip, Major Campbell Johnson of
the selective service office could
not be contacted to make a state
ment and the selection.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
Doctor Uses
LAG Stitches To
Sew Up Woman

LOUISBURG, N. CLAMP -
It took DR.. Herbert G. Perry three
hours to sew 146 stitches on the
neck, breast, abdomen, arms, legs
and back Of Maybelle Hayes.
whose former husband, Percy
Moss, is now being sought by po-
lice charged with assault with 4
deadly weapon. One Of the nu-
merous cuts missed the jugular
vein only by fraction Of an inch
but in spite Of this and a great
loss of b God the woman will re-
cover, DR.. Perry said.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

The Soronians held their meet
ing on Tuesday with Mrs. Arnelle
Smith, 63rd and South Parkway.
Bridge was a feature of the eve
ming and luncheon was served.
The club will give a balloon sere-
made on May 10th at Dawes. Ha-
eel Tabb is president.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

The ladies of Greater Bethesda
were represented in the grand
opening Of Good Shepherd Com
n1unity Center last Sunday in
their opening tea at 512O South
Parkway.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

Mrs. Lizzy O'Nen Of Cincinnati.
Ohio, was the house guest Of
Mrs. Carrie B. Meeks, 1905 South
Dearborn street, last week. she
was en- route to California where
she will make an extended visit
through the West.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

State Consolation club, Paducah
club and The Kentucky State col
lege alumni. R. H. Jordan is the
chairman Of the committee on ar
rangements and "A. w. Montgom-
cry will be master of ceremonies.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

Miss Gussie Harris, Albert N.
and Larry Hill Of South Bend,
Ind, spent two days in our city.
the house guests Of Miss Gussie
Cobb and mother at 1923 S. Wa
bash avenue They returned to
their home Friday.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

The Washington Park Improve
ment Association will meet Thurs
day, May Is at the home Of DR..
c. H. Jones, 42O E. 10th street.
Evening star., 1941-06-01
An Article Complete on This Page

An Article Complete on This Page
p WAS talking with Clarence A. Dykstra.
chairman of the National Defense Media
. ton Board on day when the whole soft
coal industry was in tie-up. A coal tie-up.
if allowed to continue even for a few days,
meant a steel tie-up. A steel tie-up meant a
tie-up of virtually all our defense industries.
And what that might eventually mean, man
hardly dared to contemplate.
The coal dispute had not yet become
Dykstras baby. 1t had not been certified to
his board for mediation. But the whole
attempt to reach a settlement had stalled
simply because one side insisted on doing the
negotiating in New York and the other side
insisted on doing it in Washington. A dispute
which could conceivably mean the very end
of Our existence as a free nation ragged on be-
cause neither of two handfuls of men would
agree to travel a mere 228 miles to TALK over.
That sticking point lent striking emphasis
to terse Dykstra comment. Said DR..
Dykstra: Labor problems involve human
relations And the difficulty of human rela-
tons is that you are dealing with human be-
ings." Just that - no criticism of the orneri-
ness of human beings, the stupidity of human
beings, the pure cussedness of human beings
And then: When the actions of few hot
heads have become bitter, both sides tend to
become little nearsighted Our first job
always is to wipe out the false issues and see
that the differences are genuine
DR.. Dykstras board, at that time had just
Strengthened out its eleventh major dispute
in defense industries. Every one it had han
died - including the Allis- Chalmers strike,
whose wrangling and violence had lasted for
Evening star., 1941-06-01
PEACE MAKER
Meet Clarence "A. DYkstra mediator of defense
strikes-and see why this quiet ex-teacher was
given the most ticklish job in America
by Arthur Bartlett

nearly three months - had been brought to
an armistice in jig time: one day, two days,
three days. Then when General Motors strike
threatened, the board tried something new
1t stepped in before walkout had occurred;
this move seemed so sensible that it was
expected to set a precedent for the future.
As chairman of this all-important board,
Clarence A. Dykstra, like the little Dutch
boy holding back the flood that was trying
to break through the dixie, stands as key
defender of our free democracy; and his very
name - Dutch for 'mender of dikes" -
carries out the simile.
The board sits In panels to share the work.
Each panel is made up of representatives of
labor, employers and the public. Dykstra,
one of the public's representatives, is always
the man-in-the- middle whenever he SITS
That obviously is the toughest spot, and the
crucial one. What manner of man does it take
to do the job?
| put that question to one of the employer
members of the board, who has sat with
Chairman Dykstra in several sessions. He
shook his head as if in despair. Well" he
said, finally, ''it takes man with the patience
of Job, the disposition of an angel and an in
telligence that no one should ever even hope
to find in mortal
Evening star., 1941-06-01

representative or company repre- sentative
would come stalking out of the room, mutter-
ing. The reporters didn't need to ask how
things were going.
Then suddenly there came burst of laugh
ter, general, spontaneous. The reporters
rushed for telephones. 1t could mean only
one thing. The strike had been settled.
1t was not until afterwards that the joke
which brought the burst of laughter leaked
out. Time after time throughout the session
a carefully -worded formula would be pro-
posed, seeming to sum up all the points of
agreement. Then somebody on one side or
the other would pop up with a demand that a
word or phrase be changed. The other side
would hoot in disgust, and the whole angry
turmoil would begin again. And now that the
agreement had been reached at last, someone
offered resolution of thanks to the chairman
for "his patient painstaking and impartial
efforts" 1t was about to be adopted perfume
torily when another participant rose solemnly
Don't you think" he inquired, with mock
seriousness, THAT we had better change just
one word?"
The joke was all the f,nnier because it was
so obvious here was one case where there
could be no earthly reason to change word.
Through it all, even when the shouting dis
putants turned their noisy wrath unjustly
on him, Chairman Dykstra had kept right on
being patient, painstaking and impartial. "
Time after time, he had literally turned away
wrath with a smile
That is his technique. "Dykstra," one
Evening star., 1941-06-01
horvis 4 Ewino
restored a five per cent


pay cut to city employees. In the big Ohio
River food in 1887, he was made virtual
dictator, and won nationwide recognition for
the way he kept the city under control during
the disaster. Soon after that he resigned to
become president of the University of Wis
consin, post which he still holds, though he
has taken time off first to get the Seective
Service System into operation and now to
mediate strikes.
His work as Selective Service administra-
tor was excellent preparation for his present
job. dealing as he did with countless groups
and delegations with all kinds of grievances.
Often he put in fifteen hours steady at it.
Nowadays, when there is mediation session
on, he works much the same kind of hours.
asked DR.. Dykstra to tell me just how the
board gets its results. When we get case"
he said, 1T has been in dispute for some time
The facts as alleged on both sides have all
come out, and are usually quite diverse. We
call in the disputing groups, get them to put
their feet under the same table. In that way,
we try to get at the real meat of the difficulty.
Then we talk to each side in separate sessions,
to see how far apart they really are - and
usually it is not as far as they think When
we have the picture straight in our minds,
we get both sides together again and try to
narrow down the difference until it becomes
thin line that both sides can tread
Sounds simple enough. doesn't it? But you
just ought to sit outside one of those rooms
and listen to the shouting,
The End
Evening star., 1941-06-01
Hot and Hectic!

N1EDIATIoN sessions, as you can gather from
that remark, usually get hot and hectic
There was one, for instance, that had been in
session for two days. early and late Millions
of dollars worth of vital defense materials
were being held up. Outside the conference
time, angry, Strident voices rose. A union
Evening star., 1941-06-01

labor leader told me. 'is not the strong man
type. He just sits there, suave moderator,
and tries to exert a calming influence on the
fighting factions. 1t wears you down after
while"
Perhaps an even better summation OF
Dykstra's methods was given me by per
sonal friend of his. Dyke" he said, never
intrudes his personality into a situation -
but he uses it plenty"
Evening star., 1941-06-01

III IllCuldllOIi. bcIllIlu
his impersonality. his
precise, almost profess
sorial manner Of speak
ing. is a deep, under
standing interest in
people. Whencityw
ers were brought onto
the carpet before him,
they knew that Dyk-
stra would actually
help them bring out
the facts in their de-
fense - and that, when
everything was consid-
cred. they would get
just what they de-
served.
How did it go?" a
policeman was asked
one day, as he came
out of Dykstra's office.
Hes square - that
Dyksua, said the cop.
"He gave me every
break he could"
But wha at hap
pened?" the questioner
insisted. What did he
do?"
He fired me-" said
the cop. He had to-"
Dysktra proved an
able administrator as
we'll as a ''humanizer
in the ten years that
he was in Cincinnati;
he reduced expenses
81, 900, 900, cut the
debt S14,OO,0OO, and
Evening star., 1941-06-01
BvsinessEke Professor

"A TALL, broad -shouldered man of fifty eight
with a thinning fringe of gray hair, DR..
Dykstra looks like prosperous businessman.
Actually, his background is that of college
professor and specialist in city government.
Born in Cleveland, the son of clergyman,
he worked his way through the University
of Iowa, and started teaching. He resigned
in 1918 to become executive secretary of the
Cleveland Civic League, served in similar
civic jobs in Chicago and Los Angeles, and
became city manager of Cincinnati in 1927.
recently asked Cincinnati city official
to sum up Dykstra's amazingly successful
administration "He humanized the machine
of government" said the ex-colleague.
And that is the real clue to Dykstras flair