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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
editorials
SEGREGATION IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS
AND THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE

BY RUTH CAVE FLOWERS,
Washington Law Student, and
Instructor of Romance Languages
in School System of the District
of Columbia
This subject Of segregation in
the school systems is, like seq
regation on the railroads, a sub
ject which is very close to me,
first, because l am school teach
er in such system, and second,
because / have studied for about
five years the operation of the
legal principle in actual practice.
] am convinced through an I'M
hurried observation of schools
in many towns and cities, that
equality is a legal fiction which
does not and cannot apply to
segregated school systems. And
because segregation in schools is
the initial step in whole COM
pick pattern Of curtailment Of
privileges and civil rights of the
minority group, it should be
fought at every opportunity.
The question of equality and
due process will be argued on the
basis Of (l) buildings. (2) equip
ment, (3) course Of study, "a
teachers salary. (5) teacher
qualifications, (6) distance and
inaccessibility of school build
ings to the children they serve;
and by way of conclusion, some
thing about what we as lawyers
might do to remedy the problem.
Since ! am including some OBJ
servations throughout, l should
state that most of such observa-
tons will be based on cities and
towns in Arkansas, which l have
visited with my husband, w.
Harold Flowers, an attorney, dur
ing the many months that he
worked throughout the State,
trying to organize the Negroes
and make them petition the
State Legislature for better
schools, better salaries, and
longer terms. We covered every
county in the State, except
those mountain sections where
few, If any, Negroes live.
The Fourteenth Amendment
reads: IAN persons born or nat
uralized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein
they reside; and the States are
forbidden from making or en-
forcing any law which shall a
bridge the privileges or immuni-
ties of citizens of the United
States, or shall deprive any per-
son of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, or
deny to any person within their
jurisdiction the equal protection
OF the laws"
According to the Supreme
Court, the proper construction
Of this amendment was given in
the Slaughter-House Cases, l6
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
HEzp TO AVOID MFzATION!k

We SoAAoiuCi tilC QlQtl luB
fallacy of plaintiffs argument
to consist in the assumption that
the enforced separation of the two
races stamps the colored race
with a badge of inferiority. If
this be so, it is not by reason of
anything found in the Act, but
solely because the colored race
chooses to put that construction
on it. The argument necessarily
assumes that if, as has been more
than once the case, and is not
unlikely to be SO again, the color
ed race should become the domi-
nant power in the state legis-
lature, and should enact a law
in precisely similar terms, it
would thereby relegate the white
race to an inferior position. We
imagine that the white race, at
least, would not acquiesce in this
assumption. The argument also
assumes that social prejudices
may be overcome by legislation,
and that equal rights cannot be
secured to the Negro except by
an enforced commingling of the
two races. We cannot accept this
proposition. If the two races are
to meet upon terms of social
equality, it must be the result of
natural affinities, a mutual APP
probation of each others merits
and a voluntary consent of in
dividuals.
Plessy v. Ferguson, supra, p.
55l, Legislature is powerless to
eradicate racial instincts or to es-
tablish distinctions on physical
differences and the attempt to
do so can only result in accen-
tuating the difficulties of the
present situation. If the civil and
political rights of both race be
equal one cannot be inferior to
the other civilly or politically.
If one race be inferior to the
other socially, the Constitution
of the United States cannot put
them on the same plane"
Justice Harlan in his dissent
to the above case, p. SIS, said;
THE 18th Amendment does not
permit withholding or depriva-
ton of any right necessarily in
herring freedom. II not only
struck down the institutions of
slavery as previously existing in
the United States, but it prevents
imposition of any burdens or dis
abilities that constitute badges
OF slavery or servitude. 1t decreed
universal civil freedom in this
country. &. That amendment hav-
ing been found inadequate to
the protection of the rights of
those who had been in slavery,
it was followed by the Fourteenth
Amendment. These two amend
mentS if enforced according to
their true intent and meaning,
VIII protect all the civil rights
that pertain to freedom and
citizenship. They had, as this
Court has said, common pur-
pose, namely to secure ito a race
recently emancipated, a race
that through many generations
have been held in slavery, all |
the civil rights that the superior
race enjoy. . If a white and black |
man choose to occupy the same |
public conveyance on a public !
II Is their right to do |
so, and no government proceed !
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
VISITING
GRANDMOTHER

PVT. CHARLES JONES, a
graduate Of Dunbar High School
is visiting his grandmother, Mrs,
Criss, 1900 Gaines Street while
on his furlough. He is stationed
in the China India Burma Area.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08

Australia has put millions OF dol.
lars into fences. the longest OF which
is l,l0o miles, to barricade dingoes
and rabbits.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
FL DORADO
f. c. Cutter

Tar Bell is still on the sick
list. John Henderson has open
ed his new store on East LIST
Street.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-06-08
SCOTT
Mrs. Nellie Chant

Mrs. Nellie Chant
The City Working Club of St.
John A. M. K. Church met ut
the home of Mrs, Ada Craig, Lit
tie Rock, May "a. Several visi-
tors from Bullock Temple c. M.
E. Church were present. $3.50
was collected for dues.
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Note; Mr.. Neal is the owner of
Neal Hardware Company, 923
West 18th Street.-Ed.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Baltimore e Plans
|ToCurb Teen-Aqe
| Service Dates
the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. ia cam.
paign by policewomen and plair
clothesmen to stop the "disgracefu
antics of teen-age girls who pick w
soldiers and sailors was announced
yesterday by Police Commissioner
Hamilton r. Atkinson.
The commissioner said the police
women and plain clothesmen woulo
patrol certain Baltimore streets al
night and take into custody any
teen-age girls seen with servicemer
not members of their families.
Police will communicate with the
girls parents, if possible, Mr.. Atkin-
son said, and ask for an explana-
ton. If parents fail to cooperate
they will be summoned to Juvenile
Court to answer a charge of con-
tributing to the delinquency of a
minor, he continued.
Girls who have no homes or fam
lilies here probably will be placed
in some institution, he added.
Mr.. Atkinson made his announce
ment after an inspection tour. In
one instance, he said, two young
girls about II or 13 were seen in 8
Baltimore street doorway with two
servicemen. He commented tba1
usually the girls took the initiatRa
IN flirting.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Mail Service Resumed
To Sovief-HeId Areas
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Post Office Department has
announced resumption of mail serv-
ice between the United States and
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
and parts of Poland and Romania
Service to Poland, Finland, Es-
tonia, Latvia and Lithuania is linn
tied to letters not exceeding / ounce
and to nonillustrated postcards.
Service to Bessarabia and parts
of Bukovina and Moldavia Gall in
Romania but now under jurisdiction
of the Soviet Union) includes letters
postcards, printed matter, samples
Of merchandise and commercial pa
pers. The announcement said mail
addressed to these areas should
include Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics
Britain has announced resump-
ton of mail service to Finland, but
stated that Finnish-owned property
in the United Kingdom would re-
main under control of enemy prop
erty custodians.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
More Pay TO Be Asked
For Psychiatrists

Unable to open clinics for mental
hygiene service under the Health
Department because of inability to
obtain two psychiatrists, Health
Officer George C. Rutland said yes
terday he was considering asking the
Commissioners for higher salaries
for psychiatrists.
The clinics and positions were au-
thorized in the l945 budget, under
which appropriations became avail
able July l, 1914. 1t called for two
psychiatrists at $4,000 each, and DR.
Rutland said he would be satisfied
to obtain one psychiatrist at IS 600
the original figure he recommended
to develop the clinics.
With such a man, DR.. Rutland
said, it might be possible to work out
a plan under which part-time psy-
chiatrists could help out during
clinic hours. A psychiatrist was in
terviewed this week, but wanted
more than we can give" DR.. Ruh-
land said.
The $500 salary would be the
same as that received by several bu-
reau directors. The total appropri-
alton granted was $4,000, and in
cluded salaries of two psychiatric
social workers and two clerk -stenog-
raphers.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Young April Set
For Falls Church

The Falls Church Community
Theater will present play, Young
April" February % through "a at
the Madison School Auditorium ir
Falls Church. The drama, writer
by Aurania Rouverol and William
Spence Rouverol, will be directed by
Alice Crost and features Lilirose Ed
monds and Capt. Acors Thompson
The production is under the spon.
sorship of the Falls Church Parent.
Teachers Association and proceeds
will be used for the purchase OF
equipment for the new community
high school.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Former Marine Given
Lonq Term for Robbery
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17.-Thomas
H. Loritz, 26, discharged Denver ma
rine, was sentenced yesterday to
serve IA years to life on two counts
of armed robbery, one bank hold
up in which he assertedly used a
borrowed child as shield.
Police declared LoritZ and his
wife, June, %, took Douglas Gray,
4, from his Beverly Hills home on
the pretext of buying him an ice
cream cone, and then obtained
$4,000 from the Beverly Hills branch
of the California Bank on the
threat that they would shoot the
child.
Loritz pleaded guilty on both
counts. His wife pleaded guilty to
being an accessory and will receive
probation hearing March 7.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Horses May Fly
| To Race Track
| In England

NEWMARKET, England (NANA)
We hope to make this the
racing metropolis of the world,
Canon T. r. Browne, chairman OF
the local town planning committee
says, adding that it would be pos
sible to. bring race horses here by
air"
A preliminary report adopted by
the committee and already accepted
by the town council recommends
provision of an adequate landing
field near this important race course
and the scrapping of out-of date
training establishments for first
class stables. Before the war
planes used to land on part of the
Newmarket training grounds.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Andrews Wary of His Future

her 11-month-old Victoria Eliza
beth has very beautiful legs" The
news angle would be if she didn't t..
Joan Crawford's contract at
Warmers calls for them to supply
her with nylon stockings in her
picture Mildred Pierce And it's
nylon all the way up to the top
says Joan, showing me where the
precious material ends. At night,
before going home, Joan returns the
nylons and puts on her own cot
tons, and she doesn't see them again
until the next morning. They pre-
sumably spend the night in the
studio safe! Dick Haynes
brings his coach dog tlike Dalma-
tian, but not so big and with brown
spots to the studio for the first
time, and the animal covers and
shivers. You can shoot gun off
in his ear and he doesn't vince" )"
says the mystified owner. But a
studio is much more frightening.
The food shortage has hit the
studios and for an eating scene
in State Fair" they are Using
papier mache buns and papier
mache hot dogs! This is hard on
the extras who used to fill up on
movie food Ella Raines 'caught
her current bad cold after going
through an Army hospital ward for
flu and cold victims. After visiting
another ward, Ella asked the colonel
with her, And what is this ward
for?" Measles and mumps,' re-
piled the intrepid military man
Dorothy Lamour is now down to a
shadowy 112 pounds and has been
warned by her cameraman to stop
losing weight. It's beginning to
show on her face on the screen. But
her clothes certainly look lovely on
the new figure.
Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck
are both eating their meals from
the mantelpiece. They are riding
like mad for their picture Duel
in the Sun" where they both have
to be expert on a horse. Neither
had met the animal before. AS
Greg says; you learn about life in
pictures.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc,}
Evening star., 1945-02-17

it, actually, when call came from
my agent some time later saying
the test was successful. But not
from Paramount's standpoint. II
looked around and discovered thai
it already had several singers, Mary
Martin. Dorothy Lamour and Betty
Hutton. M-G-M was less blessed
the agent told me, and it wanted
me to sign
Miss Maxwell was willing, o1
course, and was sure the studio was
thinking of her as a singer She
nearly tainted when the agent TOLD
her that it was her acting that had
impressed the man who had seer
her test.
She still does not think of herself
as an actress, but rather as singer
Moreover, she likes musicals better
than straight dramatic films.
It is sort of accidental that Miss
Maxwell is at the Capitol Theater
this week. A nice kind of accident,
she is sure.
1t happened that she was wanted,
for sentimental reasons, to start her
old band on its new career after the
discharge of its leader from the
service.
She went to New Orleans for that
first week with the notion that she
would go right back to Hollywood
when the bands new singer was
chosen and broken in.
Instead" she says, Il was asked
how 1 would like to go back to New
York. I said would like that very
much, so 1 went for three weeks.
Then I was asked If I would mind
doing a week in Washington. l
liked that idea, too. So here am"
She will go back to Hollywood,
however, upon the conclusion of her
local engagement.
II think" she says, they have a
role in a musical that is coming up"
But it is not the one around the
life of Marilyn Miller which is her
idea of the finest part that could
happen to her.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
NatiOnal-"Dark Of the Moon:
2::30 and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol This Mans Navy:
1890 am, los, $40, 6:15, $50 and
11:25 pm. Stage shows: 1920, 2:55,
$50, 8.05 and 10:40 pm.
Columbia-"Fighting Lady: II
am, 1850, 2:40, 4:30, $40, 8:15 and
1905 pm.
EarIe-"To Have and Have Not:
$50, 11:55 am, 2:35. $40, 7:50 and
1920 pm. and 1880 am. Stage
shows: 11:15 am, l:50, 4:30.
Keith's Three Caballeros"
$50, 11:15 am, los, 2:50, 4:40, $50,
BIS and 1905 pm.
Little-"The Informer":: II am,
Ito, 3:20, $50, TAO and 9:55 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Again:
11:10 m, lis, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 and
$40 pm.
Palace-"Keys of the Kingdom
1885 am, 1:35, 4:l0, $50 and $50
pm.
Pix-"Man About Town: 2:l0,
sos, 8, 1875 pm. and los am
Trans-Lux-Newsa and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1945-02-17

What would make her happier
would be the privilege of playing
Marilyn Miller in the cinema biog-
raphy of the Sunny" girls life.
But, I don't guess I ever will"
Miss Maxwell philosophers. Every
one watts to play the role. Every
one who can dance, that is. And,
besides I'm under contract to
Metro Goldwyn- Mayer and the pic
ture is to be made by Warmers, if
they ever decide upon any one to
play the part. I doubt that my
studio would loan me out-but
wouldn't it be wonderful if it
would?"
Miss Maxwells luncheon COM
panions agreed it would. They
went further and agreed that she
looked like the dancing sensation
of the 20s, ard earlier.
X
Miss Maxwell, an honest girl, is
a little surprised even now to find
herself in the movies.
Il really had not thought of them
very much" she says, looking back
over ner career.
Il was born into the theater, of
course In fact it was while travel
ling with my mother that it seemed
I might as well become a profess
sional myself I started as a dane
er when l was a youngster. I guess
must have played all the worst,
the most dismal theaters and
night clubs in the country before
1 added singing to my repertoire
and ended up as a vocalist with Ted
Weems' band"
Some one wanted to know if Miss
Maxwell was Snatched right off a
bandstand by movie talent scout.
She said no, it wasn't that way
quite.
The fact is" she recalled, "that I
thought it might be a good thing
to learn something about acting,
voice use and control and that sort
of thing. I really was not thinking
of the movies then, but I registered
at the Pasadena (Calif0 Playhouse
1t is the showcase, of course, on the
outer fringes of Hollywood, but
did not think of that, honestly"
Miss Maxwell says she was sur
prised one time during her six
months course when a Paramount
talent scout-there we're many
others. too-suggested that she was
suitable for movies and should have
a screen test.
Il took the test" she says, land
really did not think any thing would
come of it. I had quite forgotten
Evening star., 1945-02-17
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.

I1oLlJI ftooo.
Dana Andrews and Sam Goldwyn
are having few words because
Sam wants to resign Dana to an
other contract when his present
deal expires next year. And Dana
says, NO" he'd rather free lance
He'll probably be in the Army any
way, as he has just been reclassified
IA. Dana tells me he has been
in Hollywood 16 years and that 1t
pictures! I think this is record
of endurance.
John Garfield was asked to CO.
star with Judy Garland in The
Harvey Girls" Il said No" John
relates. Il was scared. When Judy
opens her mouth to sing, no one will
look at mel" Which is being hon
est anyway! Garfield is another
whose seven-year contract is about
to expire. He says he will resign
with Warmers if he gets the same
deal as Bette Davis and Enrol Flynn
the right to produce (nominally)
one picture year with a percent
age of the profits. With Flynn, Bo-
CART and Miss Emerson all making
the headlines for Warmers, Garfield
now refers to himself as the good"
boy of Burbank. II lead a monas-
tical-is that right?-sort of life,
Garfield concludes.
Talking about Miss Emerson
who, by the way, Is swell girl-most
of the theaters are now billing heI
in The Very Thought of You
above Eleanor Parker and Dennis
Morgan. Before she became 'front.'
page news, Faye was at the bottom
in the listing Helmut Dantine
wears normal clothes for the first
time in his screen career in Shadow
of Woman" Hitherto you have
seen Helmut in uniform-Nazi-ol
a fugitive's getup. Now" says
Dantine, Il wear a tuxedo and even
swimming trunks. And Warmers
had me measured for all my sports
Clothes" pointing to his ill-fitting
sports suit.
Betty Cradle tells all who will
liSten-and this mother Will-that
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Floestud's s Husband
Reported Arrested
By the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 17.-Henry
Johansen, husband of Opera Singer
Kristen Flagstad, has been arrested
in Norway, the German-controlled
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau re-
ported today from Oslo.
No reason was given for the ar
rest. Mr.. Johansen has been chair
man of the Board of Directors Of
both the Grand and Bristol Hotels
in Oslo.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
'Y' Boys Department
Opens Life Suvino Class

The boys department of the
YMCA is sponsoring senior life
saving course for boys 16 or over in
the third year of high school, be-
ginning at 2:30 o'clock this after
noon. Those interested are asked
to report to the boys building of the
YMCA, 1876 G street, to Tom DON
aldson, who will instruct the class
The course will last for nine weeks
with two-hour class each Satur-
day. 1t is open to "Y" members and
nopmembers without cost.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
American i. Group
TO Present Drama

American University players will
present an anniversary drama, Il
Am Looking for an American" on
the SD Founders Day, February "a
The play was written and directed
by Severino Montana of the Office
Eof the President of the Philippines
and a leading dramatist of the is
lands, and will have cast of nearly
100 players. More than 20 men,
bers of the male chorus, including
the leader, Maurice Steven, are vet
Grams of this war.
Join the attack j. make your
dollars fight {. Il. buy extra War
Bonds!
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Marilyn Maxwell Admits Yen
To Play Marilyn Miller Role
BY JAY CARMODY.

My Maxwell that blond girl who singing at the Capitol
life
in the movies where lot of girls would like to BE- and things look
making
reputation herself that 999 900 girls well
Maxwell little luncheon
she ecouldb be happi
Evening star., 1945-02-17

Betty Cradle tells all who will,
listen-and this mother Will-that
Evening star., 1945-02-17

HISER- BETHESDA ..,t. ..l4 Wis Az Ave
PHIL BAKER, PHIL SILVER
and MARJORIE MASSOW in
TAKE 1T OR LEAVE 1T"
Also RUSSELL HAYDEN and
ALMA CARROLL in
SILVER CITY RAIDERS"
News and Short Subjects.
Evening star., 1945-02-17

HYpD0nR0MY K keor 9th.
ss ME- 1884.
Cont. 2-11-Double Feature
Today. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday
GINGER ROGERS, DAVID NIVEN,
BACHELOR MOTHER"
JON HALL. MARIA MONTEZ in
ARABIAN NIGHTS" tTechnicolor)
Evening star., 1945-02-17
ADJUSTMENTS.

MARI R0R0 Upper Marlboro, Nd.
Morl II.
Cont. 2-11-Double Feature.
LEON Enrol, SLIGHTLY TER
LANDIS. SECRET COMMAND"
Sun, Mon.-Two Big Days.
ALAN LADD, LORETTA YOUNG.
And Now Tomorrow"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1945-03-29
Easter Customs OF Today Contain Many
Curious Remnants OF Early Paganism

Bluffton churches Sunday will OBJ
serve Easter in commemoration of
the resurrection of Christ with many
of the traditional practices of the
observance marked by remnants that
were once distinctly pagan in char
acter.
The name, Easter, is used only
among the English and German
speaking people. 1t is derived from
a pagan goddess of the Saxons
known as Eastre. She was the per-
sonifcation of the east, of the morn
ing, of the spring.
"EAsTERMoNATH
The month of April was dedicated
to her and was called "Eastermon-
ath" among the Saxoas and Angles
"Ostermonat". Her worship struck
deep root in Northern Germany and
was carried to England by the Sax
ons. Her worship still survives in
some obscure customs in feasts to
celebrate the return of spring.
The Christian Easter was origin
ally a sort of thanksgiving observ-
ance lasting eight days. This con-
formed somewhat to the length of
time devoted by pagans to their
spring festivities and approached
the duration of the Jewish Paschal
observances.
The eight day period was after
wards cut down to three days, after
that to two and finally it became as
it exists now, a single day COM
memorative of the resurrection.
CHANGE EASY
1t was the invariable policy of the
church to give a Christian signif-
canoe to such of the extant pagan