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Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
'Farren City
Sponsors Clean
Building Plan

The citizens of 'Farren City
-Farren Elementary school, 5000
South Wabash avenue-are ever
alert to the responsibility of a
good citizen to his home, his
school, and his community. The
Clean Building Plan is sponsored
by the Student Council. This civic
group wages a never ending war
for neatness and cleanliness. Ev-
cry room has a Sanitary Record
Sheet. Without warning the en-
spector" enters the room, looks
for waste paper on the floor and
in the desks, then records the con-
ditiOn of the room on the chart.
All rooms strive for one hundred
per cent record. The sanitary
inspectors are Gloria Wiseman,
Edward Jones, Rachel Shaw, and
Antonio Paez.
Ethel Clair, the mayor Of Farren
City, in her campaign platform
promised to make Farren a clean
city and this youthful politician"
and her council are carrying out
this promise to the constituency.
Unfortunately, Mayor Clair, the
daughter of Rev Clair of st.
Marks AME church, suffered a
fractured hip last week, but acting
mayor Antonio Paez is carrying
the program forward.
Mayor Paez has added another
point to the Clair program, that
is, 'Farren Community Beautiful"
Constance Reid, chairman of the
Speakers Bureau, urged all citi-
zens not only to paint and repair,
but ''brighten up that dark win
dow with flower box. The flow
er to plant? The petunia, of
course! And as if by magic color
full posters appeared on the walls
Of the corridors suggesting: "Why
not plant petunias this spring."
The ''citizens" have responded by
placing orders for nearly eight |
hundred packages of petunia
seeds. The current issue of the
Getty" newspaper "The Farren
Echo" carries instructions for
planting.
To further the Chicago Beauti-
full plan the twenty aldermen of
the Farren Council are inviting
the neighborhood merchants to
pledge their support.
If enthusiasm and hard work
count Farren school will be the
center Of a Community Beautiful.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
So. Educators
Ask Help To
Equalize Pay

ATLANTA.-(ANP) - Educa-
tional leaders from Is Southern
states meeting here Monday de-
clared that the problem Of equal
ling pay checks Of Negro with
white school teachers, required
bv q recent ruling Of the United
States supreme court, could not
he met without the aid Of the fed
era1 government.
The Southern educators endorS-
ed a bill before the United States
senate which would provide the
necessary funds and declared that
financial help from the national
government was the only way the
ruling could be complied with.
An estimated $25,O0O,OOO is re-
ouired to put the salaries Of Ne
gro teachers on par with the
whites, and if physical facilities
are to be improved $325,0OO,OOO
would be needed. Represented
at the meeting were Georgia, Al
ALBANIA, South Carolina, Florida,
North Carolina, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Texas, Missouri, Arkan-
sas. Tennessee, Oklahoma and
Kentucky.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
ROBERT WEAVER VICTIM OF
CRITICISM OF LEADERS

WASHINGTON, May IAN
IP)-Furious attacks on DR.. Ro-
bert G. Weaver, advisor to SIDNEY
Himan in the Office Of Pro
dtction Management are being
carried on continuously here by
disgruntled persons, who are
shouting that DR.. Weaver is do
ing nothing to promote the pro-
gress Of the Negroes he is sup
posed to represent.
At a meeting Of the Mu-So-Lit
club last week, DR.. Rayford Lo-
gan of Howard university was
loud in his denunciation Of DR..
Weaver, being seconded by Perry
w. Howard, president Of the club
and National Republican commit
teeman from Mississippi.
Declaring that DR.. Weaver IS
adopting on appeasement policy
instead Of a militant attack on the
Negro problems that are raising
their heads in the present set up"
Tic OISSGIISIS dIG COQIlnunR their
efforts to have DR.. Weaver re-
moved from his position.
Despite all Of these attacks, DR..
Weaver has moved along in his
task under handicaps which 9TH
ers would have succumbed to
long ago, refusing to answer his
critics, but making every effort to
achieve results in his work.
The man in the street, listening
to the discussions against Weav-
er, are beginning to take up their
refrain and sing loudly.
It is pointed out that DR.. Lo-
gan must have something in mind !
that he is continually
hammering away at Weaver. AL
though DR.. Logan is secure in his
position at Howard university, it
does seem a bit unusual that he
should go such lengths against
Weaver.
Only last week, DR.. Weaver was
offered the presidency of a large
southern school, billiard univer-
ity, and according to the latest
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
Chicago Walters
Union Presents
Two Resolutions

CINCINNATI (ANP) - AT
the 30th general convention Of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees
International alliance and Bar
tenders International League Of
America, AFL held here Monday
in the Netherlands Plaza hotel, the
Federated Hotel Walters union,
Chicago group, presented resolu-
tons for adoption.
The resolutions were directed
against discrimination of Negro
labor in defense jobs being sub
sidized by the government, and
against the disfranchisement Of
Negroes and poor whites
through poll tax requirements of
states in that section Of the coun-
try. Chicago delegates to the
were w. r. Brown, r.
Pitts, ChylOW Brown and H. G.
president of the Federal
ed Hotel Walters union, local 356.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In {
timely message which is creating
wide discussion, James A. Atkins
Specialist in Negro Education
Federal Work Projects Admins
tration, shows what roles both
teacher and student must take ir
aiding the National Defense Pro
gram, and indicates the steps lead
ing to national unity through in
terracial understanding and CO.
operation.
Mr.. Atkins statement appears
in the April 7-12, 1871, issue OF
the Teachers edition of "Our
Weekly News" published by the
American Education Press at Co.
lumbus, Ohio. Three members of
the Public Activities Program
staff of the Federal WPA have
had messages in this publication.
Home and family living, workers
service, and the general field Of
adult education are the subjects
covered by those staff members
whose articles appear in earlier
editions of "Our Weekly News"
Increasingly, during the past
year, has the problem Of national
defense occupied the minds of all
Americans" the WPA Specialist
in Negro Education says. "And
because Of the many difficulties
Of adjusting civilian thinking and
practices to military and industrial
defense, this problem looms larg-
er upon the Negroes horizon than
upon that of many other groups.
In some sections the problem of
national defense has raised these
difficult questions: What has the
Negro to defend? Is there not an
exceedingly large amount Of I'M
among Negroes? Do
they not live in slums where there
are many lacks, such as good
housing, sanitation, adequate fire
and police protection, education,
hospital service, and so on?
can affirmative answer to such !
questions as these would not re
Lieve the Negro population Of the
obligation to put its shoulder to
the wheel to defend democracy"
The work to be done by adult |
teachers, continues Mr.. Atkins,
,enters on a speed up in national
defense and the preparation for
cushioning Of the shock Of that
even more critical period which is
pound to follow the present world
struggle. At the same time the |
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
NAME H. C. TRENHOLM OF
ALA, AS Head OF PROJECT

ATLANTA, Ga.-At an eXecu-
tive meeting Of representatives of
five cooperating professional
groups held at Atlanta university
Saturday afternoon, President H.
Council Trenholm of Alabama
State Teachers college was named
as the executive officer for two
year project set up to stimulate
the improvement Of the program
Of Negro colleges through their
wider utilization of current ap-
proaches in the areas Of collegiate
education and teacher education,
for which a subsidy Of $22,120
has been made available by The
General Education Board.
"A series Of conferences during
the past six months has resulted
in the associated effort Of The
Association Of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools for Negroes, The
Association Of Negro Land Grant
College Presidents, The American
Teachers Association, The Asso-
citation Of Collegiate Deans and
Registrars in Negro Schools and
The State Agents for Negro
Schools, to provide a follow-up
program which will include fac
ulty-study conferences at parti-
cipating Negro colleges, summer
workshop participation at North
western university and at the Uni
versity Of Chicago, a Negro Col
1ege Workshop at Atlanta univer-
sity October 20-November Is and
a series Of national, regional and
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
Alta Regional
To Be Held In
Knoxville May 10

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 1
The annual Regional Conference
Of the American Teachers ASso-
citation for members residing in
the Fourth Region comprising the
five states of Indiana, Kentucky,
Ohio, Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia, will be held at Austin high
school at Knoxville on Saturday,
May 10, beginning at 10.
The theme for the meeting will
center around the problems Of
education and defense in this ma
tional crisis with particular atten-
ton to the implications for the
educational efforts Of Negro
teachers and Negro professional
organizations. This theme will be.
in line with the emphasis of the
annual national meeting to be held
at the West Virginia State col
lege July 29-August l when Ed
ucatiOn for Individual Responsible
ity in Our American Democracy ~
will be the core for the presenta-
lions and discussions Of the gen
eral and departmental sessions.
This Fourth Regional Confer
ence is one Of the outstanding re-
gional projects Of the American
Teachers association. Last April
at Evansville, sixty-four teachers
were present for the program con-
Quoted by Mrs. Lucy Harth Smith
of Lexington who was serving as
the regional vice president. The
1941 conference at Knoxville on
May 10 will be under the dlrec-
ton Of Regional Vice President
Hoe A. Thomas of LaWrenceburg,
Tenn, with the assistance OF a
sponsoring committee drawn from
these five states under the stimu-
lation Of Miss Mary L. Williams,
president of the Alta and EX-
ecutive Secretary II. Council
Trenholm Of the Alta. The East
Tennessee Association of Teach
ers in Colored Schools under Ex-
ecutive Secretary Monroe D. Sen
ter and the Knoxville Teachers
League under President Dewey
Roberts will join Knoxville college
and Austin high school in the host
responsibilities for this regional
meeting.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

reports the offer still is open
should he care to accept it.
Not only have the top notch
folks opened fire on Weaver, but
several newspaper men are be-
ginning to shout against Weaver
and his position. No one can learn
just what is behind the attacks
On him some political, as in the
case Of an office holder who made
g very bitter attack on him in a
closed meeting, it is reported, only
to be Kissed and booed down. If
DR.. Weaver is on the spot now
as some have it, and it is openly
discussed by some that he is on
the way out, it is because, his
Supporters say, his former sup
p0rters have put him there.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
NEGRO IN NATL DEFENSE IS
DISCUSSED BY WPA EDUCATOR

| education specialist sees the need
for expanding and intensifying the
drive to eliminate practical litter
acy; to improve health conditions
among Negro citizens; to raise the
living standards in Negro homes;
to develop an adequate program Of
social and vocational guidance for
Negro adults, and to assist where
ever possible in efforts to promote
national unity by removing barri-
ers to interracial understanding
and cooperation.
Turning to the question of ma
tional unity, the WPA Specialist
in Negro Education claimed: "The
nation as a whole may not be
well enough acquainted with the
achievements Of the Negro -.
to appreciate his possible contri-
button to a finer social order.
Likewise, a large part of the Ne
gro population possibly does not
grasp the full significance of the
Anglo-American contribution to
the growth and development of the
democratic way of life in the mod
ern world. This situation pre-
sents a challenge to the teacher
who is willing to work to develop
a better understanding Of the
principles upon which our Gov
eminent is built and of the mani
fold advantages and opportunities
which it affords to its many and
diverse peoples to perfect democ-
racy in our America"
In the earlier part of his mes
sage, Mr.. Atkins traces the growth
of the Emergency Education Pro
gram and calls attention to the
marked benefits received by Ne
gro students from the WPA Adult
Education and Nursery School
Programs. He also pointed to the
growth in home and community
pride and cleanliness. "There is
still an enormous task ahead" the
specialist says. I'm
areas where most Of the Negro
lives, one in every
5hree or four Negro adults lacks
4 knowledge of the modern world.
The average school attainment
If the adult Negro is probably
ess than six grades Of the com
non school. About ten Of every
one hundred Negro adults still
ign their name by making their
mark"
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
CCC Enrollees'
Exams Expedited
By Draft Board

Members of the Civilian ConSer'
walton Corps who have been claS-
sified for Selective Service train
ing and tentatively placed in
Class I prior to their enrolment
and assignment to a CCC camp,
may request that they be given
their physical examination at the
local board nearest their camp,
states a memorandum sent by Ma
tiona1 Headquarters to State Di-
rectors.
The memorandum, which re-
views recently enunciated policy
Of the War Department forwarded
to all corps commanders, points
out that eff a CCC selectee has
been classified and placed in Class
| by his local board prior to en-
rollnent, but has not received no
LITIGATION to report for physical eX-
animation until after he has been
assigned to a CCC camp, upon re-
ceipt of the notice to appear for
physical examination, the regis
trant may communicate with his
local board and request permits
sion that he report to the board
nearest his camp for the required
physical examination"
The War Department also has
ruled that CCC enrollees sum-
to appear before a local
board will be granted leave of
absence with pay for whatever
period of time deemed neces-
sary by the CCC company COM
mander.
Should a CCC enrollee be passed |
by a Selective Service board and |
discharged from the CCC, but sub
be rejected at an Army
reception center, he may be rein
stated in the CCC camp from
which he was discharged upon APP
plication made within IS days Of
the date Of his rejection.
The Chicago Bee has more ret
paid circulation than any other
local newspaper. u
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04

state. conferences to study the re-
port and the implication of the
current survey on Higher Educa-
ton Among Negroes just being
completed under the direction Of
The United States Office Of Edu-
cation.
Both The Commission on Teach
er Education of The American
Council on Education and The
United States Office Of Education
are contributing services and sug-
gestions to this two-year project.
One-Day all-faculty exploratory
conferences are being held during
this Spring, through the consul
tatiVe assistance Of the American
Councils Commission on Teacher
Education at State Teachers col
lege and A and M institute in
Alabama, at Fort Valley State
College in Georgia, at State A
and M in Florida, at Southern uni
versity in Louisiana, at the State
Training school at Jackson, Mis-
sissippi, at Knoxville college and
A and l State college in Tennessee,
at the Virginia State college and
at Hampton institute in Virginia,
at Bluefield State Teachers col
lege in West Virginia, at the Eli
zabeth City State Teachers COL
lege in North Carolina and at
Kentucky State college in Ken
lucky.
In attendance at the conference
at Atlanta university today were
four Of the five members of the
Executive Control Committee: DR..
R. B. Atwood and Dean T. E. Nc
Kinney, president and chairman Of
the Commission on Higher Educa-
ton respectively Of The Associa-
ton Of Colleges and Secondary
Schools for Negroes; E. c.. Nc
Gehee Of The Alabama State De-
partment Of Education as the rep
resentative of the State Agents of
Negro Schools and H. Council
Trenholm as the executive secre-
tary Of The American Teachers
Association. AS representatives
of the larger Advisory-Contr |
Committee were President r. E.
Clement and Registrar John Whit |
taker Of Atlanta university, DR.. |
j. f. Drake Of the Alabama A
and M institute, President Horace
Mann Bond Of Fort Valley State
Teachers college and Director w.
a, Robinson Of the Associations
Secondary School Study.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1941-05-04
GROUND STERILIZED FOX
Puerto RICAN PROJECT

Preparatory to constructing q
new Iow-rent project in Ponce,
Puerto Rico, the ground was steril-
lied. Reason for the unusual &C
ton was that hookWorm has a
bounded in the neighborhood and
most Of the children who will live
at the new site usually go bare
footed.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23

oNoRFOLK. Va. July 33-@
Their ship torpedoed some 400
.lniles off the coast Of Green
land while en- route to Great
Britain. four American Red
Cross nurses came home yester-
day under the strong arm Of the
u. s. Navy with Q vivid story Of
~ days In an open boat in the
North Atlantic.
n 4 Picked up July 3 by N Amer
lean destroyer, they were taken
first to . Naval hospital 1t
Reykjavik, Iceland, for treat
ment Of gangrene of the feet and
exposure before coming here In
4 navy transport commanded by
Capt. Clarence Gulbranson.
The four, who sailed June 3
from New Orleans aboard u
OO0-ton vessel were Marion Bills
1ett of Detroit, Mich; Victoria
Pelc Of Auburn, N. Y, Rachel
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23

WASHINGTON. July 23-(A
Despite assurances from
President Roosevelt that the
proposed so per cent cut In au-
tomobile production would be
arranged 20 As to prevent IN
unemployment crisis, q Michi-
gan group kept the subject alive
today.
Governor Murray D. Van
Wagner, who has said q 50
per cent reduction would cause
widespread hardship among
auto factory workers unless car
ried out over Z long time period,
pressed the Office Of Production
Management for IN acceptable
reduction program.
A delegation from the United
Automobile Workers (CIO),
expressing fear Of bankruptcy"
for smaller Independent auto
mobile manufacturers, demand
ed guarantees that workers
would not be made idle by any
sudden major shift to defense
production.
UNEMPLOYMENT SEEN
One unofficial estimate has
placed the potential number Of
unemployed factory men At
well over 100. 900 In Detroit
alone should there be too quick
Z change-over to allow for q
full exchange Of workers from
regular jobs to defense tasks.
President Roosevelt, in .
press conference yesterday, said
that the proposed 80 per cent
cut would mean . substitution
mot q curtailment-of work.
The change, he said, would b
gradual. OPM and the office
Of price administration are
working on the problem. he
mid. ~
The Prssident aid that ths
proceos Of reducing production
On automobile, refrioeratogs and
ether such Items did not involvo
. slash IN actual manufocturO
but the production of somsthing
e1se IN tie snme plants with
he sane men and machines.
UAW. CONCERNED
Ihe UAW-Clo sroup. repre-
eontlnG Hudson, Packard, Stu
dobakor. WHY Overland end
Nash- kelvinator. issued . Seate-
mont nying IL suto tue9ggy
WogborD Wuro 'acute1y CO..
eoeno1 ovuR tlbe proposed pr
eo1u11oe reeuctions IN uaaking
ou1omoh61oo."
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
Chute Volunteers
Swamp US. Army


WASHINGTON, Jul. 23-(R
More than twice the needed
number of men and six times
the number Of officers required
to fill the army's four author-
lied parachute battalions have
volunteered for parachute troop
duty, the War Department an
nounced today.
The battalions In service and
In process of formation at Fort
Benning, Georgia, will require
1900 jumpers, including both
officers and men, the army said,
but 1878 men have volunteered
for duty. Also, . steady stream
Of inquiries from soldiers and
civilians In all walks Of life are
being received ut the provision
NJ parachute group headquarters
1t Fort Benning.
Group officers estimated that
there would be no shortage Of
officers Or men even If the unit
were expanded to 80 or 90 bat
talions.
Unmarried volunteers o n ! y
are accepted, and the enlisted
men must pass q ririd physical
examination and have had at
lest six months service in the
regular army. Officers must pass
the same PHI sical tests. Captains
and lieutenants list not be
r-ore than 80, and majors not
more than 40.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
Michigan Groups Bottles
Cut in Auto Production
Proposed 50 Per Cent Reduction
Fought by Governor, JAW Hseds

I'VE are convinced" .the
statement said, that If anything
like the reductions that are BE-
ing talked about now are put
throuDh, the result will be
bankruptcy for the independents
producers. The effect on relief
costs and the morale Of our
communities will be disastrous. "
The union men said the pro-
posed cut should not be put into
effect In any plant until plans
are worked out for the trans
fer Of the plants and its en-
ployes to defense work.
KNUDSEN EXPLAINS
william s. Knudsen and Sid
ney Hillman, co-directors Of
OPM, told manufacturers Of au-
tomobile parts that they soon
would have opportunity to OBJ
tain . greatly increased amount
Of defense work.
With the growth Of the ar
mament program, they said, ad-
ditional defense orders must Be
given plants now producing
consumers' durable goods.
The OPM chiefs emphasized
that contracts must be placed
quickly to avoid danger Of .
ut-down Of plants for lack Of
materials and labor for civilian
production.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
Axis oIlsuIs
Held on Ship
Aweit ksleoss
Of Americans

OLISBON, July 2S-(R-The
United States naval transport
West Point locked In Lisbon
harbor 1t $40 Am. today but
the expelled German and Ital-
ian, diplomats aboard were in
formed they could not land un-
til American conslls for whom
they are being exchanged have
crossed the Portuguese border.
Motorbusses were waiting at
the quay to take the Germans on
. tour to Sintra where lunch
con had been prepared by the
German colony to welcome them
''out Of America"
But the Germans and Italians
were told they would not be al
lowed to leave the West Point
until the American legation had
informed the West Points cap
tain that all Americans had ar
rived safely in Portugal.
AZ the first diplomatic train
bringing the Americans probably
will not cross the border before
2 am. tomorrow, the Germans
and Italians apparently were
destined to. spend another "a
hours aboard ship.
Special police precautions kept
the crowds Of Germans, Italians
and Portuguese away from the
dock. Only . few chosen ones
were allowed aboard after pain
stalking Identification by Portu-
guese police and ship ofdcers.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
The plea That
Failed 70 Click

oGRAND RAPIDS. Mich. July
23-(H-Polics Judge Edward
q. Burleson had hi own reply
TO the plea Of { prisoner serving
% days for obtaining money %
orders 10 failed - deliver.
m peisoner, q 6ocoad offend
e, boelo0 1ne his innnnodlate ~
loo azSee sewing - days q ~
term, md Quoted provesbe 3o-l3:
He that covereth HE slno
shall noe pgogpoe, but whosoeNer
con1ooUo4h ~ loeSokefh them,
shall hive merry"
Wrote III Judge n reply:
HI thot &aketh Ne ueighb0g0
douGh md retarneth Il No q ~
value thoroo(, mus pefforce -.
u,aln n the hooeooow. Pr hin
who ooeth X onco soro1y
gTisvos but twics. darn e, = oooe
10 many"
N nm y still n jail.