Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-07-06

JUS Stet0so' iiiS sPNtAh VI isN~
eoe Dunjee, fighting editor of
the Black Dispatch and Business
League prexy, challenging Ne
groes on positive organized ae-
ton was the type of message.
They got it, despite that long
welcome and singing program
which preceded the delivery
Despite Dunjee's advancing years
and the vigorous effort he has
put forth through the years, he is
still a sincere and convincing
speaker who comes right down
the line in social thinking, At
the meeting of the Business Leag-
ue on the evening before his
keynote message to the confer
ence, he spoke long and debated
much. All the South owes HIM
much for his militant fight in
Oklahoma and the Southwest.
Find out more about him by read
ing his Oklahoma City Black Dis
patch!. THE LAD Lawrence
A. Davis) educator, who has de
veioped into an exceptionally
good speaker, and whose per-
sonality has matured rapidly in
the midst of his struggles to main
tain higher education in keeping
with his ideals and consonant
with what is permitted by edu-
cation officials spoke burning
truth to the young people of the
conference on Friday evening.
All of the pussy-footers should
take heed of the daring, adven-
turous young college president
He may be your leader ''oa
time but how we could have used
such q man when the United
States Supreme Court told Lloyd
Gaines that he was entitled to
admission to the University of
Missouri Law School. Maybe we
have time yet to rectify the mis-
takes of the past. Mr.. Davis Is
doing a fine job! Such organiza-
tons as the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People can and must fortify him
when the reaction of the tories
bursts forth with retrogressive
violencel
HAROLD FLOWERS was
elected State Organizer for the
Arkansas Conference of Branches
Of the NAACP. His selection for
the task of organizing Negroes
finds him ably trained for the
job. He founded the Committee
on Negro Organization in 1910,
defying the complacency of the
local people who believed that
you can't organize Negroes"
You may expect big things in
organization among Negroes in
the coming months.
PANEL DISCUSSION ON
VOTING IN PRIMARY ELEC-
TIONS conducted by lawyers
Harold Flowers and Marion
Perry brought out the need for
Cd an attack through the
Courts on voting laws passed by
the last General Assembly, and
q Ia campaign to get Negroes
qualified for voting. Have you
paid your poll tax?
SIDELIGHTS -- K. M. Moore.
president of the Business League,
not only welcomed the conference
to our city, but was host at a
reception held at his home for
Roscoe Dunjee. On Friday
evening, the John c. Kahns,
with whom Dunjee stayed, had
a swank reception for the guests
and delegates, and even Har-
old Flowers made it. he surely
did. Delegates from Warren
led by Drs. Rhinehart and White
report the largest branch in the
state. Little Rock people
seem to have let down thclg
membership to about the three
hundred neighborhood, and what
a SHAME. There was not
enough praise on the recent Little
Rock school case victory won IN
the Circuit Court of Appeals for
the Eighth District at the Con-
ference, and we wonder why?
Dunjee mentioned other MACE
victories but it seems that he for
got the Susie Cowan Morris case.
and to 60 on further it seems
that Little Rock has forgotten,
The effort 10 organize a
state organization OF business
groups did not materialize. We