Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1945-07-13

past due the thousands of patrons
of the rail and bus lines and the
citizens of this community. We
would like to urge the Chamber
of Commerce (White) and you
help too, Mr., Afro-American, 10
try to get a program of beautifi-
cation which might impress the
passers-through that Pine Bluff
is clean, progressive, and civic
minded community, now M.
Sorrells, what do you think2 =.
THE LETTERS YOU WROTE (ii
you so did were answered by
the Senators from Arkansas,
Many of you wrote them asking
support of bill to increase the
pay of postal employees. The bill
has been signed by President
Truman. The Senators, | he
lieve, do not know that you were
colored for they answered and
said Mr." and that's something
that Southern white gentlemen
don't like to do, except where the
writer is a voter and or a con-
tributof to the campaign fund,
We are glad to know that you
wrote the letters, and maybe one
day the Senators will know more
about you, huh? ;. BY the way,
the report reaches me that some
are busy figuring out what they
made since the President signed
! the bill. See the Comptroller
of the Treasury. Save your
brainpower. DOTS AND
DASHES while the city fumes.
A surprise birthday party was
staged for Mrs. Z. M. Moore BY
her husband and a group of close
friends at their residence which
the Black Dispatch correctly
quotes as 'palatiaf' last Friday
evening Mrs. Eloise B. Mi
que reports splendid trip
through Texas, Oklahoma, and
Kansas. She returns to join her
| husband in the operation Of the
Lions Den which you will hear
more about in the days ahead
BY the way, Mrs. Mazique is the
first woman member of the Pine
Bluff Negro Business League fol-
l945, and we believe that she in
tends to keep the record in tact.
Her youngest daughter, Jeannet-
tie had a birthday on Tuesday
She's a growing, This paper
carried no report on the NAACF
Conference, and wonder why
Dunjee's Black Dispatch of last
week had nice "write-up.'
and an editorial in which he re-
ferred to lawyers Perry and
Flowers as liable" Negro res
taurants serving beer are having
their trials and tribulations and
they need help Soon, the
Negro businessmen will be ade-
quately organized to register
protest against discrimination
made by wholesalers who during
the period of scarcity take adj
vantage of the little people in
business, There will come the
day of competition once again
when VI day is proclaimed and
I'd like to see the statesmen pun
ished along with the criminals of
war, especially where they have
been so discriminatory unkind,
=. A nice CLUB will be under
way in this city for select patron
age very soon, haven't you heard?
In st. James Methodist choir is
Miss Matte Tillmon. and she
reminds you of Marian Anderson
with her beautiful voice satura.-
ed with feeling Find out the
name of the girl who married a
second lieutenant and is prob
ably about to receive a promo
ton. she may marry a first
lieutenant. and she may not
name, for its all rumor. Dr..
George c. Taylor turned in a
fine piece Of work in the manag-
ing of the mayoralty campaign OF
Bronbe Mayor U. S. Brown.
Credited to his campaign work
ers will be more than three hun
dred bucks and don't you think
that is a fine job, huh? And
finally here's the feeling Of
Harold Flowers. the second
verse from the Prayer of q
Sportsman"
/ And Lord, may my shouts be
ungrudging and clear
A tribute that comes from the