Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-07-13
WHILE OLD MEN BOAST OF

GOSSIP ABOUT TODAYS Do
INGS AND YOUNG MEN
GROPE LIKE CHICKENS IN
THE NIGHT, TWENTY SEVEN
BOYS have decided to work out
their own recreational facilities.
Sunday evening they met at the
Masonic Temple on the third
floor which has been given over
to them for playing and musical
experimentation. A hero of the
war was their guest of honor, and
how proud we are that Herbert
Clark despite his bravery and
courage shown in plotting ships
of the Air Force of the United
States Army and his narrow es-
cape after being shot down over
German soil, is mindful of the
needs on the civilian front and
during his period of rest with his
parents and friends in his home
town accepted the invitation of
the twenty-seven citizens of to-
morrow! The club has bought
and paid for its own equipment.
1t has almost forty dollars in the
treasury and we trust that after
the musical which they rendered
on Tuesday evening to Pine Bluff
fans that they have been amply
supported financially and en-
couraged to move the frontiers of
backwardness so prevalent in this
community. shall try to find
the three little black boys who
were walloWing in the mud, re-
ported to you in this column
some weeks ago, and give them
memberships in the Pine Bluff
Boys Club. Won't you find one
and help this fine group of boys
develop in Pine Bluff something
which is needed for their physi-
cal and moral development?
Won't you forget the fact that
your head is now bowed and
must remain bowed in shame, so
long as lads of this teen age have
to make way for themselves or
PERISH?
THE BRONZE MAYOR OF
PIN EPLUFF is Ulysses S. Brown,
a native of this city who won out
in the mayoralty campaign spon-
sored by the Pine Bluff Branch
Of the National Negro Business
League. He defeated Harold
Flowers and w. 7. Alexander in
a very spirited contest, The re-
turns were announced at a meet
ing held at the A. M. g. N. Col
lege gymnasium on the night of
July 4th. Approximately five
hundred dollars was raised to
meet the needs of the League in
prosecuting the progressive pro-
gram which it recently endorsed.
The interest created in the cam
paign, DESPITE the unexpected
withdrawal of two candidates as
the campaign neared its close,
indicates that the future elections
will be heated and very interest
ing. Reports indicate a substan-
tial interest on part of the men,
bers in voting and shall we say
more--about hoping for the fu-
ture privilege of joining with the
political electorate of America
here in Arkansas and electing
men to public office who will not
rant like the Bilbos and the East
landsl 80.
UNITY AMONG LEADERS is
. always needed. Surely, Negroes
realize that if we are TO get any
where as group, we must get
together, at least at the top
There is certainly no need for in
telligent men to engage in bick-
ering and petty jealousies, and in
the doing of such things as might
destroy leadership among Neg
roes. Old men who have failed
in their duty yet have lust for
power and influence. There
should be no purposeful desire
to crush their efforts so long as
they recognize the needs of our
day and will 60 down the line to-
ward the reaching of goals that
viii help make life more mean
ingful for the masses Of man.
kind. In our splendid effort in
the League, there are those who
asscr, themselves to the extent
that they would rather see the
entire program destroyed before
yielding one inch. We must for
give one another and try, if pos
sible, to FORGET AND MARCA
DOWN FREEDOM ROAD TO-
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