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The Phoenix index., 1941-02-08

nearly every state in the union and
many foreign countries being rep
resented OF this number Atlanta
University, Clark College, Cannon
Theological Seminary, ,Morehouse
College, Morris Brown College,
Spelman College and the Atlanta
University School of Social Work
are Negro institutions.
These colleges, universities and
graduate schools make the Gate
City unquestionably the leading
center of Negro higher education
in the world. The level of culture
and enlightened, mselfish leader
ship should be higher than could
be found among any similar group
of our people anywhere. The rela-
tionship between "town and gown"
should at all times be one of
reciprocal goodwill and helpful
ness. For whatever benefits the
gown" in college community,
benefits the "town."
In the eIIOrC Jl1aC MOTIFS Brown
has launched to build a stadium
for the training Of athletes. the
promotion of physical education
Continued From Page FOur)
and support IF every public spirit
ed and race-loving citizen and en-
terprise in the city. For whatever
its origin or present status, Morris
Brown, together with all the other
colleges and universities in Allan
ia, is our institution.
Its welfare is inextricably bound
UP with ours; and any triumph
which comes to her is reflected
upon us. Likewise her trials, ller
noble struggles for advancement,
her high purposes and her "hopeS
for future years" should be our
own. Let us be humbly proud of
being in a college town and let lis
make the institutions established
and operated here bless the day
when they we're founded in our
midst.
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and he could be sure that he could
pay them. That was typical re-
action of the man.
WAS A MISSIONARY
DR.. Archer was a missionary. 1t
was the missionary zeal that
pushed him along when tie flesh
was weak. 1t was the missionary zeal
that made him know things would
somehow turn out all right for the
faithful He trusted men with a
faith somewhat foreign to this
day and time. He suffered inward
ly, rather deeply. when they failed
him, but they never knew it be-
cause he could not be vindictive
and really could not lose faith in
their ultimate trustworthiness.
DR. Archer Was mans man and
for that reason, ii no other, he
was loved by nell in all walks of
life. He was bigger than college
and fraternity rivalries and frat
ernizad ccn ortably with mer re-
gardless of denominational ties.
DR.. Archer is not dead for death
comes only to finish lives and his
life is not finished. He has only
passed into another phase of the
organic cycle Tt is only short
journey from the earth to the
earth. Those who live well during
their brief mortal existence pass
out of it with proportionated less
regret.
After all Death is the continui-
ty of Immortality" Samuel Howard
Archer was my teacher, my presi-
dent, my confidante, my friend.
His eternal sleep is a great personal
loss to me.
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man in the country and as such
deserves to take UP where Roose-
velt leaves off. In spite of the Re-
publican party, Willkie looks gooc
in his present role, that of helper
tc his country and President. II
Willkie will sit tight and play his
hand carefully, he is headed for
the White House four years hence
and millions of President RooSe-
velt's ardent supporters will put
him there.
SIGNS OF TIMES
The signs of the times are al
ways propitious in this country for
big men such as Willkie is show
ing himself to be in his post-elec-
ton roles. This country will not
be slow to forgive such mistakes
as Mr.. Willkie might have made
during the campaign. With him it
was a matter of a good lawyer
with bad case. With a better case
which he is now making There will
be better results. Nobody opposed
Willkie more vigorously than this
writer; but nobody will support
him more arduously when he de-
serves a reward for great service.
If Roosevelt is the man. of the
hour during the war; Willkie looks
looks like the man of the hour
during reconstruction that is to
come.
In the meantime there are two
words that should be the shibbOleth
Of the Negro race. contend and
cooperate" We must contend for
those rights and responsibilities
which our defense program is In
volving and we must cooperate
whole-heartedly in everything per-
tanning to this program. We must
do our best to get in the front
lire; and do our best in the rear.
WILKES cooperation is winning
even where his contention failed.
BTGNESS MAY HAVE TO BE RE
RATED. Re-Rating Willkiel
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EDITORIALS
Musicians To
Meet In April
AT Ala. State

MONTGOMERY, Alas N 81
Recently the MUSIC department
of State Teachers College was
host to meeting of representatives
from the Association of Music
Teachers in Negro schools.
The group was made up OF a
special committee from the EXecu-
tive Board of the Association and
members from the national and To-
Cal program committees. William
Allen, concert pianist and professor
OF piano at Fisk University who is
chairman of the National Program
Committee, presided over the meet
ing.
Other persons present were
Joseph T. Brooks, chairman OF
the local program committee; Fred
Hall, President of the Association;
Crville Moseley, vice president; Fs-
sic M. Groves, recording secretary;
Portia L. Trenholm, chairman
LWceum Committee; Alice Creecy
chairman Membership Committee;
Edgar Rcgie-Clark, chairman Edi-
torial Committee; Frank L. Drye,
chairman Band and Orchestra
Clinic; Mary L. Hatchett and Alice
O. Brokenburr.
Plans were made for the first an
nual convention of the Association
which will be held at State Teach
ers' College Montgomery, Alabama,
April 4, 5, 6, 1941.
This promises to be the greatest
convention in the history OF the
organization Music educators,
concert artists, and education exc
cutives will gatner from ali parts
OF the country to make contribu-
tions to the program.
The Association of Music Teach
ers in Negro Schools IS the only
organized body OF Negro Music
Educators in the country and its
membership is composed OF per-
sons who are active in every
phase of music endeavor.
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lPX IAONAAS JEFFERSON FLANAGAN NSGA
AT Warm Springs

"Chilluns wade in de watah" for here the earth
Heaves forth healing balms
For those whom Fate designed from birth
AS cripples to beg for aims:
The Georgia sunshine christens here
The stream of Heavens delight
And Angels trouble the foam with cheer
Through which you walk in white.
Wade in de watah, chilluns, we come
To keep the home fires bright
From mansion hall to cabin slum
We enlist in this fight
That unseen enemies have laid
Upon the flower of life,
And here we lift the haven shade .
Over suffering and strife. - >5-7 -,
Wade in de watoh chiluns,' for we -
Will keep the ripples warm,
For He who bade-"Come unto me- ...s..
Holds out the sheltering arm,
And far from kin and tribe and creed
His bounteous love we share. ~:
Each rallying to his nations need
And feeling his brothers care
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BETWEEN THE LINES

help save democracy for the world.
This is a great country, for it
takes a great country to break a
great precedent in order to meet a
great emergency! When a great
country backs UP a great presi-
dent to save a great situation we
are going to get great results!
Democracy is fighting for it's life
and if We lose here we are lost
completely.
There were some old line Re-
publicans who played politics dur
ing the campaign and some are
playing the same oid game now;
but Wendell Willkie is showing
the way not only for the Republi-
cans but for the entire country.
More strength to Willkie- to-post-
election -Willkie.
BIG ENOUGH FOR PRESIDENT
What I intended to say in this
article is simply this: If Willkie is
big enough to lose a presidential
election and then come back and
help the victor put over his pro-
gam. he is big enough to be pres
ident. This writer even cares to
hope that Mr.. Willkie will do
nothing these four years to handi-
cap him in his endeavor to stage
a political comeback. If Roosevelt
ran break the third term -tradi-
ton then it is possible for Mr..
Willkie to break one by doing some-
thing that no other defeated pres
i0ential candidate has ever done
that is secure a denomination and
election.
For the last 12 years I have been
vCtirg a democratic ticket but the
tidket was incidental and the
candidate was fundamental.
have voted more for Roosevelt than
for the democratic party. Willkie
is proving that he is the next best
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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

student and teacher. There was
no faculty ranking except the nat
iral difference accruing to elders
who showed dignity and wisdom
There was no academic procession.
until very recent years, for every
every employee of the college stood
on a par in sight of the admins
tration--the head of the family cir
Gle.
STRICT DISCIPLINARIAN
Mr.. Archer's unusual capacity
for sympathetic understanding,
philosophical wit and abundant
energy soon placed him in the
executive councils of this educa-
tlonal experiment and there he
served well for nearly a third of a
century. When the occasion de-
manded it he could be strict
disciplinarian as will be testified by
men whom he found it his duty
to suspend from the institution.
Even here his humanitarian spirit
was victorious for in the last few
years many of his strongest sup
porters have been men whom he
suspended.
DR.. Archer was tired from long
years of eXacting work. Just q
year or SO before his health so
weakened until he was unable to
continue on active duty, the writ
Ell noticing his great fatigue as the
school year ended suggested that
his former students might like to
send him on an ocean voyage. He
was appreciative but replied that
he could not think of such a thing
pending upon him for their salaries
when he had so many people de-
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police and court reporters take a
chance. If the woman is listed on
the records as being under Is, the
reporters call her Miss. If she is
over 25. they figure she is married
or ought to be. So she goes in the
paper as Mrs.
Now, you want to know, why the
reporters don't find out If the
woman is Miss OF Mrs.
In the first place, he reads the
police report, which gives him
nothing but the woman's name. II
the woman is accused of shooting
or killing her husband, then the
reporter knows she is a married
woman. But if she is charged with
stabbing or shooting someone else.
the reporters can't do anything
about it but make a guess.
Then, too, the average colored
woman who finds herself in the
police net is a woman who has
been living with a common law
husband. That's another problem
for the reporter.
Too many Negro newspapermen
have been cussed out for asking a
woman if she is Miss or a Mrs.
So the average reporter doesn't
bother with that method.
You'll never know by listening
TO a court trial. The lawyers cali
you by the first name and if a
witness unconsciously refers to a
colored person as Mrs. Brown,
the witness is asked If ne meant
"Sadie Brown.
It is a tough job for any re-
porter.
Last week police blotter re-
vealed the names of a man and
woman who died as the result of
drinking poisoned whiskey. Both
parties had the same last name.
But the police blctter did not list
them as man and wife. AT the hos
pital, a reporter asked If the VIC
tins were man and wife.
"They said they were," a nurse
replied.
CAN SAY FOR TIE Negro
Press, it dislikes the idea of print
ing wornan's name without first
giving her a title. But there are
times when it can't be helped.
1t doesn't pay to guess too much
because there might be alive an
unmarried woman who would re-
sent being called Mrs"
She might even sue.
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Safety Of Savings Rests With People

Although lite insurance of the safest investments at
anabe fact about dsregarded either by the
industry itself by the public without serious consequences The
strength and safety OF life insurance integral part of the
strength and safety of the nation The that make life
insurance safe can be side 1t has billions of its
nocyholder savings invested land industries and
government.
informed ctizenry able arrive at fair and intelligent
dec1slons OF paramount importance the sixty million citizens
who own lite insurance policies because those sixty million repre-
sent all that is. productive in the United States
Safety for the peoples savings is in their hands, they
but realize it.
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When P0is0ns Slow
kIDN EYS
and Irritate Bladder
Flush Them Out for 35 Cents

Go to your druggist today and get
this safe, swift and harmless diuretic
and Stimulant - ask for Gold Medal
Haarlem Oil Capsules and start at
once to flush kidneys of waste matter
saturated with acids and poisons. :
That's quick and effective way to
help bring about more healthy kid
ney activity and relieve that bladder
irritation with its scanty passage with
smarting and burning as well as rest
less nights.
Remember the kidneys often need flushing
as well as the bowels, and some symptoms of
kidney weakness may be: getting up often
during the night--puffy eyes-backache.
But be sure and get GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules - the original
and genuine - the price is small (35
cents), the good results will fulfill
your expectations Refuse q substitute.
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His retirement Irom active duty
at Morehouse College lowered the
curtain upon philosophy Of educa-
ton of male students that was uni
que. This philosophy was probably
never written, but certainly made
apparent in the conduct of More
house College. 1t conceived of the
small college as a family circle
an informal family group. Each
youthful member of this group was
the responsibility of every matured
The Phoenix index., 1941-02-08
ANDERSON IN
NATIONWIDE TOUR

CHARLOTTE, N. CLAMP
With a 10000 mile coast-to-coast,
border-to-border tour ahead of him,
Trezzvant w. Anderson, we'll
known writer of this city, and for
merly AMP correspondent in the
nations capital, left the city two
weeks ago to gather final material
for his coming book: "a Negro Dis
covers America. Before leaving
Mr.. Anderson said that he hoped
the book will come from the pub
fishers in January, 1912.
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FROM MY STUDY WINDOW By REV. JOHN c. WRIGHT

miniStration of the institution; and
practically all work, skilled and
unskilled, in the town, was done
by students.
The local churches we're often
pastored by college professors, Of
ficials of students of theology, and
all the literary, musical artistic
and many of the social events and
functions of the college were open
to residents of the town. Hence
there was feeling of utter kinship
between town and gown, which
made the interests of each one and
the same. This was nowhere more
positively evidenced than in COM
petitive sports. Wher the local coll
iege won, the town celebrated it as
their victory. When it lost, none
felt it more keenly or stood by more
Loyalty than the towns people.
Even in matters of discipline the
town and gown have been known
tC cooperate.
In one small college town in the
middle west all matrons having
girl students in their homes sat
with the dean OF women and COL
lege advisers of women and house.
mothers as a women's board. Al!
flagrant cases of infraction of the
rules came before this star cham
ber. And woe to the helpless Of
fender who had to face them, for
the town matrons were often mora
jealous for preserving the fair
rame of the college than they were
for sparing the culprit.
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tOIy Vi CIle dQult
life Of DR., Ar
cher would tell
the story of two
most significant
phases of educa-
tional life Of Ne
groes, for he
was a pioneer in
higher education
for Negroes and
a specialist in
education OF Ne
gro male STU
dents.
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who graduated from West Point
June Is, 1885.
FIRST American regiment to en-
ter the st. Mihiel secter, during
Worlds Wharf.-The 370th. Infantry
(cClored)
FIRST Negro woman member of
any state legislature in the United
States. Mrs. E. Howard Harper
Was appointed by the governor of
West Virginia to succeed her huS-
band who died on December 81,
1927.
FIRST normal school for color
ed teachers established in New
York by John Peterson Q853).
TISTEN TO THIS"
FIRST recognized Negro physi-
clan of whom there is any record
was born in Philadelphia in 1862
James Derham.
FIRST time in the history of
tho united States where Negro's
name was necessary on all United
States currency and securities to
make it legal was when President
Garfield, May 10. 1881 nominated
B'-fnche Kelso Bruce at the end
of his first term in the Senate,
REGISTER Of the Treasury.
FIRST Colored Young Mems
Christian Association was 0rganiz-
eri in yVacbiooto,, ~ r., ~ ,oEo
Anthonv Bowen. an employee of
the United States Patient Office,
its first president.
FIRST Negro preacher of a Con-
gregetional church. In 1785. Lem
uel Hayes became the pastor of a
white congregation in Torrington,
Connecticut, and in 1918 began to
serve another in Manchester, NH.
FIRST Negro to become a sur
geon in the United States Army
was A. T. Auousta. of the Uni
versftv Of Toronto
FIRST Negro to pass bar exam
nation to practice law in the state
of Massachusetts, was Macon B.
Allen G345).
FIRST Negro to serve ss United
States Senator. and the first man
Of the race to appear N either
house of CONGRESS. was Hiram R.
Revels of Mississippi, who was
called upon to complete an un-
expired term and actually served
from February 25, 1870 to March 8,
1871.
FIRST successful operation on
The human heart. The Annals of
Medical History recentlv published
an article bv Harold Farmer, M q.
D., On Daniel Hale Williams. noted
Negro SURGEON, whose successful
operation on the human heart as
founded the medical profession and
brought world wide fame. DR..
Williams patient. a "a year old
Negro, Wa. brought into Provident
hospital on the morning Of July
10, 1893. He had reeived a small
Dunctured wound of the heart. DR..
Williams operated and the wound
was closed in the first operation
ever attempted on a human heart
According to reports the man is
still living.
FIRST person. through his dis
ooveries, to put dollars into the
hands of poor black and white
F"rr7ers of the South-George
Washington Carver, Agriculturis!
chemist
FIRST 1erson to plant wheat, in
the New World. wes Neero.
FIRST shot fired at Manila Bay,
f"o',7 tho OLYMPIA. flagship of Ad'
miral Dewey, commanding the
american forces on the Asiatic
.tatior during the SpaniSh-Amer.
'can War. was fired bv John Jor-
dan, chief gunner's mate-Unite6
Statec Navy, a Negro.
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In Memoriam

SOME TIME AGO this column
paid tribute to four great teachers
Who had been inspirations to the
writer in different ways. At that
time the score was two living and
two deceased. Now the score reads
three deceased. The reference is to
the late Samuel H. Archer, effec-
tive teacher, inspirer of youth and
friend of all men. A detailed his
The Phoenix index., 1941-02-08
FORTY TENANTS MOVE

CHICAGO-(A (ANP) Saturday
was moving day for the first 40
tenants of the $9,000,000 Ida B.
Wells housing project for low in.
come colored families. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester Warren received the
first house key from Robert R
Taylor, vice chairman Of the Chi
cago Housing Authority. The
Warrens have two children and
the father is a laborer for meat
packing company
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Mitchell Says:

.(To the millions of Negroes
throughout the country this weeks
column is dedicated).
Somewhere I read this little
poem--I pass it on to YOU
This land is ours by right of birth,
This land is ours by right of toll;
We helped to turn its virgin earth,
Cur sweat is in it's fruitful soil.
FIRST person to lose life in
Revolutionary War. according to
United States Department of IN
terior, was Chrispus AttuckS, AZ
Negro.
FIRST ships built on the Pacific
coast (1513) were built in part by
Negro labor in the employ of Bal
boa.
FIRST woman to attain literary
distinction In America was Phyllis
Wheatley, a slave girl. Published
her first book of verse in l773
when but twenty years of age.
FIRST movement to free Amer
ican slaves began in Philadelphia
(April IA, 1775) as QuakerS organ
lied the first anti-slavery society
with Benjamin Franklin as presi-
dent
FIRST Negro to be elected MEM
her of Phi Beta Kappa fraternity
was Edward A. Bouchet, 1874
Yele University.
FIRST Colored Masonic Lodge
warrant was granted from England
September II, 1884 Boston, Mas
sachusetts.
FIRST woman bank president in
the united States, Maggie Mitchell
Weuker. Negro, born in Richmond,
Vireinia, July, 1. 1857.
FIRST time in the history of the
country the Congress of the Unit
ed States officially honored dis
tinguished colored American, April
S The birthday of Booker t.
WASHINGTON was extolled in an ad-
dress delivered by Congressman
Arthur w. Mitchell--hls first
term.
FIRST AME church was organ
lied in Philadelphia by Richard
Allen. April g. 1916.
FIRST American to make
clock, BENJAMIN Banneker, Negro,
famous mathematician. helped TO
lay out the city of Washington,
D c.
FIRST human being to stand on
the North Pole, Matt Henson. Ne
gro, a member of the Perry North
Pole Exhibition.
FTPST ,,nixnd iurv ever irnpan-
eled in the United States was to
trv jefferson DeNis. president Of
the Confederate states, for trea-
son. but the case never came to
triol There were twelve whites
and twelve NEGROES. Chief Justice
sal'non p. Chase was to preside.
FIRST NEGRO to be granted
netent was Henry Blair Of Mair-
land. who received official rrotec-
tion for a corn harvester 1884.
FIRST Negro TO dine at the
white House as the guest of Pres
ido.>t NJ tho Trnited States-lS64,
and the first Negro to ride on
battloeh;D &c the orest IF the Unit
Cd Stetes Navy-Frederick Doug
Ices
FIRST Negro neWSpaDer was
rrblishe6 in 1907 Nv John Russ
wllrn. It was ralled the Freedman's
.Tn1l-ro1 Tn 1aAt the firsf NEGRO
pracozine was rvhliehed. being is
st1oA Nv the AME church.
FTP'ST rare oirl ever to enpear
q" tHn carnnus At West Point iden-
tif'od with graduating rnnnher Of
~ MILITARY school. was Miss Aga
trc Sc0tt ri New HaVen, Conn. =,
fisacee Of Benjamin O. Davis, Jr,.
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GLORIFIED COLLEGE TOWN

Atlanta is a sort of glorified
college town A little booklet
published by the Chamber of
Commerce for tourists informs us
that colleges and institutions of
higher learning in and around At
lanta, thirty-four in number, have
an enrolment well over $4,000,
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While They Hesitate

Many shrewd and intelligent business hying away
from life insurance the theory that initiation wipe
value While they hesitate and have hesaed years
because OF the initiation boge the insurance industry continues
pay out billions to widows and children and billions in
policies have been bought While they hesitate their families
main nDrctecd their cdrens education question mark and
their old age blank.
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Can't Be Hell ped Ladies!
BY ROBERT M. RADCLIFFE

THE LADY ACROSS THE BREAKFAST TABLE the
other morning asked rather disturbing question
1--WE been noticing it long time" she began
Noticing what?" asked.
WELL can't help but notice it. And who doesnt?"
she shot back in voice that exactly her sweetest
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