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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
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Oracle Mae Nixon

vi dSlS lVAoS ANbHoAA
Bobb Dudley and Mrs. Write
Lee Cillimit are on the sick list.
Mrs. Abigail Dudley and family
spent Sunday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Evie Steward. -.
The Eastern Star Sunday School
was opened Sunday at $50 a. m.
by A. B. Brown and Fora Bell
Joe. The Sunshine Band was
opened at $3.50 p. m. Sermon
by Rev. A. Crosby. The Mis-
sionary Meeting was held in the
home of Mrs. Leonia Stafford DC
tober 18th. Choir practice was
held October 25th at 8 p. m. q.
Mrs. Rosie Dell Scott spent two
weeks in Okolona with her faith
er and sister. Prayer meeting
was held Wednesday night. =.
Mrs. A. N. Merriweather of Cam
den spent few days with her
sister, Mrs. Mary Cunningham,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
WHO DOES THE WHIPPING AROUND HERE?

Ten lashes with fourfoot rawhide given by the
Sheriff of Prince Georges County, Maryland to ITS pound
who found guilty of beating his 8pound wife and
who said to have knocked two of her teeth No skin
broken, it is said but welts raised Associated
Press dispatch authority.
Twenty ashes with a cat-o-nine tails were laid on the
back of Negro housebreaker plus years imprisonment in
the Kent County Jail yard Delaware according to the AP
These incidents recorded in local paper this week
On January 1885, the Arkansas Democrat carried
article by John A. Lomax of Austin Texas according to
Editors not We quote For punishment there the solitary
cell the lash that the Negroes call the black heer
Black Betty have Black Betes hanging by the door
OF the mems dormory The lash is commonly about four
inches broad burn rather than to the flesh and
four or five feet long farm superintendent in Arkansas
complained of right shoulder because that day he and
helper had whipped eighty cotton pckers for grabbing off
much trash with the cotton nure the market price
Closely allied to whipping is the slavery in which it
alleged by the Gazette Q1-2736 that Paul D. Preacher
whe) had been convicted On that occasion the Gazette
had of its flashes of genius and denounced the evil in
outstanding editorial
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
HOT SPRINGS
GLORIA DOWNS

Mrs. S. B. Carey is in the act
of reconditioning and installing
new furniture and new equipment
in her rooming house which has
gained distinction through its
we'll balanced meals. Joseph
Davidson of Detroit is visiting
with his mother and father, the
Davidsons. The Douglas P.
T. A. conducted a special pro-
gram Friday with each member
bringing a visitor. Rev, w. @.
Washington, Jr., of New Jersey
is here with his parents, Elder
and Mother w. @. Washington,
Sr. :. The Rev. R. V. Madison of
the city has done a remarkable
job in Prescott as pastor of Mum
Baptist Church where he has
done over four thousand dollars
worth of repairs. The Baptist
ministers of the city have brought
to close a series of anniversaries
and the Methodists are now pack
ing for conference. Mrs. Sallie
Fonzer has left to make her home
in Louisiana. The H. T.
Wrights, Mrs. c. w. Whitehead,
G. Lemons and the J. c. Horizons
are back from vacations. The
Good Samaritan Hotel has added
a much needed pressing shop.
The next need is an equipped
grocery store manned by Ne
groes. Mrs. Chick Ferguson,
Mrs. A. Thompson and Miss Ruby
Hicks are attending the confer
ence of the Methodist Church
this week. Girl-of-the week
is Miss Bobbie Jean Paschal who
for three years has made money
selling the STATE PRESS while
other girls have felt themselves
too good to sell papers, prefer
ing to beg their parents for
change and to wash dishes in
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26

Rev. E. c. Cutter

Julius Peterson of Memphis
Tenn, was a recent visitor here
While here he VISA the guest
OF his sister and brother, Mrs
Ida Meek and Luther Peterson
Cyrus Ratliff and wife OF
Little Rock visited relatives and
friends here last week. Sgt
l.. c. Niece of Fl. Benning, Ga
is spending a 30-day furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Robert MCGEE. Rev. j. w. AL
len Wilson is on the sick list.
Mrs. Odessa Mitchell has return
ed from Farmerville, La, after
spending several weeks with re-
latives and friends. Mrs. Net
tie Brown left recently to visit
relatives and friends in Urbana.
=. Miss Flossie Mae and Girdie
Mae Mitchell entered Union
Parish Training School. The
Friendship District Women's
Convention met in regular ses-
sion at the Ebernezer Baptist
Church, The meeting was open
ed in the usual order by the
president, Mrs. Ida Meek. The
highlights of the one day ses-
sion was soul stirring sermon
by Rev l., D. Champion. Rev.
John Thomas gave an inspira-
tional address which was en-
Joyed by all. The Appreciation
committee presented the presi-
dent beautiful silf comfort. To-
tai receipts for the session was
S479.95. c. P. Williams is
again a member of the FairvieW
Raculty. We are all happy to
nave him again. Mrs. B. y.
f1lll mas returned to school after
a two weeks illness. Troop
80 Of Fairview School plans a
Halloween party on the 3lst
of this month. A beautiful
tea was given by Stewardess
Board No. 2. Mrs. Odessa Low
EFT is president of the board.
The Mt Zion Usher Board of
Urbana is still progressing. The
Board held a rally last Sunday
night and a soul stirring sermon
was preached by Rev. f. f. Ford,
after which a singing program
was rendered. Mr.. and Mrs.
O. S, Gaines visited their broth
er, E, l.. Gaines and family.
Mrs. S. Hubbard is on the sick
list.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26

French for their alleged mshandlng of the Laval
The article concludes Surely French justice convict
traitor without sacrificing orderly procedure and without
leaving reproach upon the courts and the law of France
Nothing puts clearly the attitude of the American
Negro toward the occasional apses of America into lynch
law and the general tendency of the white to
take the law into his hands than this criticism of the
French legal procedure.
The average Negro of little training and limited back
ground still has wit enough to think something like this
Here is white who has law made by white men,
enforced in white courts carried out at points of racial
contact entirely by white policemen going in white
majority population yet-yet this white can't trust his
law and lawenforcing agencies. Well that proves
there's something wrong wit it. can't trust eher-or
him."
Surely American justice convict black miscreant
without sacrificing orderly procedure and without leaving
reproach the ability of Americans to submit to their
laws and law enorcers.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26

Irna J. Ragland


R. F. Bosley made a trip to
McGehee recently. Mrs. Tom
mic Fisher and daughters return
ed from visit with their mother
and grandmother who has been
very i'll. Misses Amy Pear
son, Ollie Mae Fletcher, Mildred
and Margaret Jakes of Dermott
High School visited their parents
the weekend. . Herman Freddy
who was recently discharged
from the army after many
months overseas, is home with
his wife, Mrs. Sarah Caveness
Pretty and children. Mrs.
Dorothy Daniels spent brief Wis
it with her brother, James VIM
berly in Warren. +. . Rev. G. Jones
left for his church on October
31st. Mrs. Ella Thompson and
Ruby Lee Raueford made a bust
ness trip to Warren. Thomas j.
Phillips was dinner guest of Rev.
and Mrs. D. w. Kidd october IA.
Mrs. Beatrice Phillips and her
two children returned home with
their father and grandfather, T.
j. Phillips, Pat H. Jones, Jr. of
Shorter College visited his par
ents the weekend. j. c. Flet-
cher has returned home after a
long stay in Jeffersonville, In
diana. The Fourt Quarterly
Conference will convene at St.
James AME Church Sunday. Rev.
c. H. Harris is pastor, Rev c. H.
Jones presiding elder of the Mon
ticello District. Richard Rid
gel, Jimmie Ragland, Charlie
Ridgel and sister Eula Bosley
were house guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe McKeever. Mrs. Odes-
sa Rawls visited her husbands
relatives. Mrs. Christine Will
son left for visit with relatives
Bauxite. S-Sgt. Paul Rawls
who spent two years overseas in
England and France with the
Engr. Corps, has been honorably
discharged and is at home with
his wife, Mrs. Lee Eta Rawls
and other relatives. Mrs.
Rosa Mae johnson will join her
husband in Detroit soon.
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CONWAY
Geraldine Morgan

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer McFarlin
accompanied by their cousin Of
Kansas City, Kansas, motored
here to visit their parents and
other relatives here and in Green
brier. Pfc. Luther Wilson and
Pfc. Johnnie Lee, Jr., both sta
toned in Missouri, are on fur
loughs here. Members of the
seventh grade class of Pine Street
High School were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Matti-
son Sunday evening. Mr. Mat
tison is the principal of the
school. E. Pfc. Nathan Crymes is
home on a 45-day furlough after
Is months overseas. He was &C
companied by his wife of Detroit,
Michigan. Cpl Walter Payne
arrived Monday from the Army
on a furlough. DR.. Ralph
Percy Cummings, physician here
since 1914 died Sunday, October
l4th, after an illness of two years.
Funeral services were held Fri
da vat Union Baptist Church. &.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evans Bryant and
daughter, Marie, had as their
dinner guests Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. Bruce Bynum, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Sutton, Mrs. Davis, Rev.
P. L. Jones and Robert Cum
mings of the Navy. Pfc. Curtis
Gatewood veteran of over three
years service has recently re-
ceived an honorable discharge aft
er Is months overseas; months
in Italy, 3 months in Germany
and 8 months in France as men,
Der of the 37oth Infantry of the
92nd Division. He has two broth
ers in service, Cpl. Broadly Gate
wood. Jr., in France and S-Sgt.
Chester Gatewood in the South
Pacific.
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BAUxITE
Cariola Fisher

Miss Beatrice Price has re-
turned home after spending all
summer in California. Mrs.
Christina Wilson is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Matte Carr and
other relatives here. G.. r.
Thompson is attending the As
ISOLATION in Hensley. Mrs.
Priscilla Evans spent few days
in Arkadelphia with relatives
and friends. The Travelling
Five Quartet Of Bauxite rem
dered a program in Little Rock
Wednesday night. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Andrew Nixon Of Lit
tie Rock spent the weekend in
Bauxite. Mrs. Ollie Williams
and Mrs. Christina Wilson are
still on the sick list. Regular
services were held at Little
Bethel A. M. f. Church Sunday.
Rev. o. j. Delamar is pastor IN
charge. Mrs. Rebecca Meorer
spent two weeks in Conway with
her family. Mrs, Catherine
Smith is visiting her parents IN
Dumas.
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Editorials

BY S. S. Taylor

Talk of recreational facilities for Negroes leads to
resume of cy-owned public facilities Here is the ap-
proximate situation.
In 1885, there were more than 600 acres public park
in the city for the recreatonal of white people
very limited of this by Negroes possble-in the
Fair Park But this recreaonal cannot be
ruhfuy said to afford ANY recreaona outlet for Negroes
It said that short time before the there was Negro
maternity at the University Hospital While the woman
was waiting her turn her people took her to park seat
the very edge Of the park In very few minutes somebody
who appeared be careaker asked her to Not
SICK coored could be tolerated for few minutes
public park bench
A boys club with adequate facilities for boys and
appropriation from the Community Ches27 sos 67-n ad
don other Chest supported facilities exist for white
children. We do not yet have Negro boys club.
YIN c. A. and Y. W. c. A. with appropriation from
the Chest than 100000 for the white and Negro
YIN and WV with combined appropriation of little over
$4,000 Now don't take this item as complaint this sua
ton is TREMENDOUS improvement recently achieved.
Nevertheless the WV lacks recreatonal facilities for
Negro glsa cramped and inadequate indoor space for
social games and plays and miniature tennis court part
y equipped Since there swimming pool in the city for
Negro boys girls it needs one, and GYM and SOME
tennis courts ETC. The YMCAUSO gives more facilities to
Negro boys than they have had before Still equipment
and pool sadly needed.
On the Playground situation there is extensive prov
sion for white children with elaborate equipment A few
swings and bars inadequate the provision
for Negro play school grounds The much denounced
and msrepresened WPA furnished the only full time paid
recreaona leaders which the Negroes of this city have
had With the exit of WPA there also an exit OF
the Negro playground.
1t is for this type of situation that many Negro papers
are now raising such hulabaloo against segregation The
disparity between the provisions for white and black is
great these newspapers have reached the conclusion
that it fight segregation than it to get proper
tomato provision The white who dedcates his public
acts to blocking provision for Negroes has
said by his actions that his real aim to block any Negro
progress participation in public funds or provisions
Let there mistake about it. The average Negro pre-
fers association with Negroes He also prefers adequate
facilities and wants any provision for public recreation that
anybody else wants,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
MORE DEMOCRACY AT HOME

You know like these editorials reading recently.
The title above is taken bodily from of local daes
the sixteenth.
striking sentence in this editorial follows:
What do with democracy will speak louder to
the Germans and Jap and the whole world than will any
thing say about democracy Our deeds will compare with
words shout with whisper democrat, 10-l645,
=. 6, c. 1-2)
Many of us have been thinking that for quite while,
We have been waiting for somebody else to see it.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
CURTIS
Booker l.. Banks

Booker l.. Banks
Cpl. A. l.. Mitchell has been
honorably discharged after five
years in service, and is here with
relatives. c. S. James Horton
stopped here for visit with rel
atives, en- route from California
to Philadelphia where he will
Join his family. Misses Vivian
c. and Samuella Quinn are home
from Nevada County Training
School. Booker T. Banks is in
a St. Louis, Mo-, hospital pending
an operation. Miss Emma Jew
ell Duncan is home visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan. .
Mrs. Allie Muriel Mitchell made
a business trip to Prescott Sat-
urday. Mrs. Oracle Mitchell
from st. Louis, Mo-, joined her
brother, c. S. James Horton here.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26

daughter and the 5000 the principal for payment The
principal referred her to one teacher who referred her to
still another to whom the payment duly made Later
the money returned to the mother
Evidently the payment was little early. To many OF
who don't think that high school diploma is the final
life that it not only too early but unneces
ay There to be too much Of tendency to make the
high school and junior college commandments an imitation
Of the college commencement The of it is chiefly the
effort of business exploit every opportunity to sell some
thing The the is not in the child but in the
business firm and the profiting salesman.
The thing applies to the demand for textbooks not
approved by the administration.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26

night clubs. Man-of-the- week
is S. B. Banks who is heavy
giver to worthwhile causes. =.
Rev. A. r. Pickett is still elated
over his recent trip to New Or
leans, La, where he was special
guest of Rev. Prim. The out
standing visitor on this weeks
list is Bishop II. Y. Tookes of
Florida. The Jr. Glass of the
Church School with Mrs. II. Fer
guson as teacher presented Rev.
and Mrs. T. J. Griffin with
cash purse. Guest speaker at
Haven for Sunday night October
28th is the Rev. G.. E. Wright,
SON. n-laW of Mrs. E. l.. Nolen.
He will speak Sunday morning
from Luke 1910 and Sunday
night from Isaiah AS. This young
minister is a gifted orator and
gospel singer. Hear him.
SOME GOSSIP::-Let's start
movement to solicit money to
put phones in each doctors office
so we can catch them without dy-
ing in the act of walking to find
them when we have stomach
ache. Let's start a movement
so I won't get my hair dusty
every time l 60 down Silver ST.
after football game. The
old lady with the blue hat on
who hadn't been to church in
three years was caught by a rain
storm Sunday night as she passed
a church and she went in to save
the hat. That's why she was
present. Good for Sunday
night rain. Mrs. L. M. East,
c. c. of Vapor City Colony Good
Samaritans was called to Little
Rock on account of sickness of
relatives. She also visited
dentist while in Little Rock.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
REVIEWS
MARCHE
Christine Walker

Mrs. Barbara Wallace of Los
Angeles, Calf. visited her bro
ther, Elvin Wallace, and her
niece, Mrs. Eustace Hutchinson.
Miss Myrtle erosion visited her
grandmother, Mrs. F. erosion and
other relatives of West Marche.
Mrs. Vanilla Smith of Chicago,
ILL.,, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Bessie Walker. Pvt. Donald
Lindsey visited his sister, Mrs.
l., B. Wright. Mrs. Mary Bak-
err of England visited her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Louie A. Pace, and sis
ter, Mines. A. Clay and l.. Walk
er. Mr.. and Mrs, Joshua Pace
are the proud parents of baby
boy.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
OLD PIONEER
BURIED

Waters Mcintosh, link between
slavery, reconstruction, and the
present, who was sold as a baby
in his mothers arms, and VINO
studied law and was admitted
to the bar after he was fifty
years old, was given his last
honors Monday afternoon AT
White Memorial Methodist
Church. Reverend j. II. Tag
CART conducted the funeral, and
members of the Southwest Con-
ference, (which Rev. Mcln-
tosh was a retired member were
the pallbearcrs.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
DUMAS

Prof. c. l.. Reed, county tea
cher, and representative of the
Good Samaritans made a bust
ness trip to Little Rock recently
The Union Baptist Church cele-
brated the Ninth Anniversary of
their pastor, Rev. |. G. Quinn.
Welcome address was delivered
by Mrs. Higgins and responded to
by Prof. S. Burns. Rose Hill
Choir ard the Union Baptist
Choir played a wonderful part.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
cancer Not Hereditary

Cancer Is not considered heredi.
tary or trapsmissible and no one
even knows whether a susceptibility
to cancer may be inherited. A peri.
odic examination by your physician
can either reassure you or the minor
disturbances which are forerunners
OF cancer can be discovered. Early
treatment Of these disturbances will
prevent the development OF cancer
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES

at looks as orderly justice had been outraged in trial
that was like mob law" The Chicago Defenders not the
author of this Indictment neither the State Press In fact it
is not by any NEGRO newspaper Now am sure you want
TO know what white newspaper coming out in defense of
the Negro Well, they have done it. But not this time
This sentence is part Of editorial in an outstanding
white daily which turned aside October Is to ndc the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
PINE BLUFF
Rev. A. Smith

Rev a. Smith
Mrs. Willie Parker, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs, Hampton was
recently married. She now re-
sides at 24l9 West 18th Street.
Her daughter, Nettie Mae Good
win of st. Louis, Mo, is visiting
her.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
YOU MIGHT TRY THIS

careful mother either accidentally deliberately
solved problem recently that has perplexed number of
mothers in the past When her daughter home with
request for 5000 for June class ring the mother took her
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-10-26
Clean Registers

The suction attachment Of an
electric cleaner may also be used
for cleaning not air registers,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-02

and Nome, then visit the chapters on the coast and on her return late in August will visit Juneau, Skagway, Petersburg and Wrangell Chapters.
 Mrs. Landers is from Orlando, Florida, and has always had a desire to visit Alaska. Although she has seen but a small part of the terri tory and it has rained most of the time. she is already thoroughly in love with the country. She is fas- cinated by the sight of homes perch ed, so to speak, on the sides of the mountains, and by the mountain streams swollen by the rather steady rains, and by the glacier with it's deep blue, and the fields of wild Lu- pen, Iris and cotton. She has al- ready visited 32 subordinate Chap ters and before her term of office is over in the fall of 1946, she ex- poets to have visited all Grand and sub ordinate chapters.
 While in Seattle recently she was present at the installation of Grand Officers of the Order of the Rain bow, at which Anna Lois Davis of Juneau presided as retiring Worthy Advisor. Mrs. Landers was high in her praise of Anna Lois work as presiding officer. Her poiSe and personality has endeared her in the hearts of all the girls in her juris- diction
 Mrs. Landers is a charming per son, is enthusiastic in her work and local Stars who have not met her may well anticipate meeting her. A small group from among those pres
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-02
MRS. LANDERS ON
 BRIEF VISIT IN CITY SATURDAY
Most Worthy Grand Mdfron of 0ES Will Return
 Here Next Month

Mrs. Mamie Landers, Most Wor- thy Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star, arrived in Juneau Sat urday evening and visited briefly with members of the local chapters while the steamer was in port. De- spite the heavy rain, many Stars met the steamer and accompanied Mrs. Landers to the Scottish Rite Temple for an informal visit. Among those meeting the boat were Mrs. Lynna Holland, Worthy Ma tron, and Ralph Wright, Worthy Patron of Juneau Chapter, and MT ard Mrs Edward Bach, Worthy Ma tron and Patron of Nugget Chapter No at Douglas, and other mem ters of both Chapters.
 Mrs. Landers has just finished her official visit to the Ketchikan Chapter and will next visit the Chap ter in Dawson, Yukon Territory. Prom there she will go to Fairbanks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-02
SIGNAL CORPS MEN
 TO BE DISCHARGED

Three men who have served here for several months with the Alaska Communications System are now due for return to civilian life under the Army's adjusted service rating system, it is disclosed here today.
 Orders have been received trans ferring Tech/4 Ebert Knight. Pfc George Sanders and Pfc. Daniel Walker to Seattle for duty, pending discharge under the point system.
 SISgt. Alfred Henfling, former operator in charge at Haines, also received his orders to Seattle for discharge.