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CHURCH NOTES

Pilgrim Baptist Church; For October IL,
l945, Rev. Massey's sermon title was The
Lesson Of the Compass"
We were admonished TO get that some
thing within, to guide US on the dangerous
sea of life. We need parents, teachers, ETC.,
to give the Landmark" guidance. But at
times we venture into situations when par
ents and teachers are out of the picture
Then we need something within" TO steer
US safely.
The generation which will make steady
shaky world is the generation which will
not be gullible TO every fad of the season.
II will be those who say, NO" to I'M
Amerieanism as practiced by older people !;
1t will say, No" to war-mongers; it will
say NO" to race-haters ; It will say mo"
to the men who try to destroy faith in God
and the teachings Of Jesus Christ.
Yes. the Compass taught the lesson of
equippinE the heart and head for the sea
of life. With such. we can discover a new
world
The Children's Story was entitled. Lean
from the Hen"
Visitors present were: Mrs. Jessie Sweet,
Dowagiac, Michigan; Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Patrick. Minneapolis William G.
Harris, Kansas City; Miss Modesterie Will
liams, New York George W. Dozier, Duluth,
Mimi. Mrs; John o'Kelly. St. Paul; Mrs.
Lewis Jackson, Shreveport, Louisiana !;
Gaynell Henery. Omaha, Neb.: Christine
Carruthers, Minneapolis 4; DR.. Lloyd A. Hall,
Chicago. Illinois.
New members who Joined last Sunday are
Jeane stephens, Chicago; Mrs. Nellie Kemp,
442 st. Anthony.
On next Sunday, the evening worship
hour will be in charge Of the Henrietta
James Missionary Society. Reports will be
made on the National Baptist Convention.
Special music will be rendered by the Ches-
ter Russell and the renowned Pilgrim Gospel
Chorus.-Church Reporter,
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st. James A. M. E. Church: What
Prayer Does" was the subject of Rev,
Moores message text, Mark IL :24-''There-
fore l say unto you, what thing soever We
desire, when you pray, believe that We re-
ceive them, and ye shall have them" for
the morning service, October H. st. James
Day of Prayer. Rev. Moore said, Prayer
is the foundation stone of Christian re-
hgion, to help men unto God, prayer sets
US in the right relationship with God and
man. The heart of prayer with Jesus is
utter devotion, deep trust and reverence
the high point Of prayer with Jesus is God,
not man. Prayer is the all-purpose equip
ment of Soldiers of the Cross; prayer
builds a determination which makes us saw.
As for me and my house we shall serve
God Through prayer our spirit can be
cleansed, and God will lift US up and send
us on our way rejoicing
Beginning at $500 p. m. and continuing
through the evening service, a prayer SER
vice. emphasizing st. James Day of Prayer,
sent up prayers based on the theme Build
ing with God Thru Prayer" The Evan
gelistic Board, Cudellus Jackson, chairman,
was in charge of the service those assisting
were Calvin Parker, Matte Ellis, the Rev,
Joseph Jackson, and Rev. Moore.
At 5 100 p. m, the church school continued
on with the Building Theme, for its promo
tion exercise. Certificates were presented
by Rev. Moore TO children who graduated
from the beginners, primary and junior
department; the primaries also received
Bibles.
Church architecture was the theme OF
Rev. Moore's talk to the University of Life
at $3.50 p. m. What's Happening to
Church Music" is the subject for Sunday,
October 81.
As a part of the Bible Reading Crusade
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CamphOr Memorial Methodist Church :
Temperance Day was observed in our church
last Sunday. We were fortunate in having
Mrs. Ora Brown Stokes, a field representa-
tive Of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Cnlon' as the speaker at our IL a. m. SER
wee. Mrs. Stokes delivered a fervent,
thought-provoking address. Our pastor, the
Rev. Clarence T. r. Nelson, spoke briefly
on the subject, Something That Is Abso-
lutely No Good" and made an appeal for
both young and old to sign the total
abstinence card" More than a score of
cards were signed, and a special prayer of
conservation was given by the pastor for
those who signed the cards. Visitors TO the
service included Mrs. Mayme T. Burrell
Of Minneapolis, Mr.. and Mrs. George Adams
OF Duluth and the Rev. ]. s. Lewis, of Chi
cago, Ill. Mrs. Burrell introduced MIS-.
Stokes, and Rev. Lewis, the new pastor OF
the Carter Chapel c. M. E. Church, in st.
Paul.
The Sunday School is showing marked
Improvement, and we are pleased to see
how several OF our young ladies are CO.
operating with the Woodworking superin-
tendent, Mrs. Josie B. Williams, by teaching
and assisting in the work of the Sunday
school. Naomi Zachary presided at the
meeting of the Youth Fellowship at 6 80
p. m. Dolores Walker and Ruth Davis
assisted In the worship service, and Esther
Zachary was the pianist.
The men of the church, under the leader
ship OF Albert Bantam, Sr., as general
chairman, and James H. Rideaux, as charge
lay leader, will have charge of both SER
vices on Sunday, October 81. Leo Jones,
exalted ruler of Gopher Lodge, will preside
at the morning worship service and a mems
chorus will sing. Douglass Lewis will be
the organist for the service. DIR. James H,
Touchstone, associate lay activities secre-
tary of the Methodist Church, and one of
the Negro general officers of the denomina-
ton, will give a ten-minute pep talk ::
the. sermon will be delivered by the Rev.
G. B. Hancock of Kansas City. DR.. Ham
cock. who is the secretary of visual aids of
the St Louis Area, will show motion pic
lures Of some Of the national Negro church
conferences. and of Negro churches at $50
p. m, instead of 7:45 p. m. as previously
announced.
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Urbm League Recommendation to Trumqn

The National Urban done patriotic
job preparing for President Truman Aspects
Of which submitted him for study consideration
late in August
twenynine factua study every relations
1t covers public administration government
pymen housing education health Negro and postwar
military forces
In the section
report said:
I'VE that the support amendments
existing statutes affecting social welfare inclusion
visions similar legislation
equitable
to equal standards of service"
Citing Experience services to Negroes
equitable provided by Government agencies qualified
Negro personnel" utilized the Urban League
That qualified Negroes appointed personnel
including top administration"
The League though announcing its prime function educational
and political however Negroes
be improved when they have direct the determination
their representatives. 1t urges:
The administration with special Department
Of Justice vigorously extend and the franchise
Negroes the abrdgment accordance with rights
guaranteed all citizens the
Under employment which the calls
domestic problem Of the nation the President urged ad
mnsraOn supporting unOmpromisngy legislation appropriations
and programs which have the following purposes:
( To promote fair employment practices Federal
government firms
unions affecting interstate
~ To assist in the attainment of full employment
49, To develop adequate program during
periods Of economic slack.
~ To insure adequate unemployment compensation
(6) To provide full of unemployment
old age and survivors,
In this portions of the Urban
League covering other important phases
duct and which be ameoated
racial peace and justice
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Birthduy GREETINGS

Birthday greetings in Minneapolis to:
Oct. 21-Rev. E. G. Harris, 2S10 Clinton
Ave, Mrs. Peter Edmonds, 5O34 Abbott
Ave. So, Sandra Vaughn, COS Olson Blvd. :;
Oct. 23-Mrs. Margaret Campbell, 656
Emerson Ave. No., ]. E. Thomas, 2S15
Chicago Ave, Roy Jackson, 56S Seventh
Ave No, Mrs. Ada Patterson, 415 Aldrich
Ave. No, Alan Carlisle, 627 Fremont Ave
No.; Oct. 25-Cliford Rucker, 1914 18th
Ave. So, Ken Robinson, 419 Third st. &c.
J. d. Carlisle, 627 Fremont Ave. No. Oct
26-Ritajean Davis, ll07 Emerson Ave. No. I;
Oct. 27-Mrs. Naomi Whitaker, $40 Girard
Ave. No.
out-of-Town Greetings: Oct. 2l-Mrs.
Fife Lemonde, indianapolis, Ind. Oct. %
Lester L. Watts, u. s. Army, and Albert
Grissan, U. s. Army Oct. 25-Melvin Boyd,
Kansas City, Mo-. William Herbert Ashby,
Jr.. Kansas City, Mo-; Oct. 26-"Pete'
Wilson y: 8. Navy; Oct. 27-Joan Wash
Birthday greetings in st. Paul: Oct. al
Mrs. Babe Hill, SIT W. Central Ave. Oct
22-Louneer Pemberton, $40 N. st. Adams /;
Oct. 23-Mrs. l. M. Dorsey. 967 IRlehart !;
Oct. 25-George Brooks, Jr., 697 Rondo
Ave. Oct. 26-Daisy McAdams, 622 81. An
thony Ave.
VISITORS
Visitors to the ST. Paul office this week
included Paul T. Church, 954 Fuller Avenue |;
Mrs. Josephine Jordan, SAT W. Central Ave
nue.; Miss Clara Elizabeth Curry, 2s6 N.
st. Adams.
Visitors TO the Minneapolis office of this
Newspaper included Harry Miller, r. II.
Glenn, Estella Sims, Ruby Craig. Ben Perry,
Jrr Allan @. Hawkins, Harold Simpson,
Mrs. Robert B. Smith, Minneapolis; Charles
=. Rogers, w. B. Walker. Virginia Jackson,
DR.. Earl s. Weber. Marguerite p. Carter,
and Stephen L. Maxwell Of st. Paul, Elmer
Henderson OF Chicago, and Sarah Vaughn.
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G. "A. Hughes Asks
Increased Pledges
In War Chest Drive

c. A. Hughes, associate director
of district No. SO of the War Chest
drive, reported on Wednesday the
progress of the drive in that dis
trict.
Although the solicitors are work.
ing hard to. try and meet or in
crease their quota, they are ask
ing for more pledges. The quota
is $1,000.
Captains and block workers are:
Mrs. E. L. Escue, N. ]. Hunter,
Ella Harrier, B. G. Dahlberg, L. E.
Fellows, Daniel Bars, Martha Kay,
Eunice Leverette, A. E. Parsons,
Gladys De Jarlais, R. C. Newman,
A. L. Kenneth, Petrus Neston,
Norman B. Nelson, G.. Ostedal,
Jessie Shepard, M. Peterson, Avis
Carter, George Banks, Jr., Lena
Glover, V. D. McRoberts, W. D.
Edgar, Joe Michaelson, and Whsle
White.
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City has been called fascist" and
"Nazi," the fact remains that
everything that has happened so
far is along the traditional anti
Negro line followed by southerners
in the past.
First, the mind of the white
child is Conditioned" at home by
preachments of white supremacy
doctrines by the parents, who
learned the theory at the knee of
their parents and so on back to the
first days of slavery in this coun-
try; then the child is sent to school
to talk it over with other white
children who have been similarly
indoctrinated. All that is needed
then is for some older person to
provide the spark to start the con-
flagration.
If, the propagandists contend,
rioting and other disturbances can
be stirred up among white students
against attending classes with col
ored pupils, school boards in such
cities as Gary, Chicago, and even
in New York City, may be induced
to rezone school districts and
thereby create all-Negro and all
white schools. Chicago, with its
huge colored population concen-
trated on the South Side ranks with
Harlem as ideal territory for such
goings on. In fact, for many years
white students living in Negro dis
tricts on Chicago's South Side,
have been sent to all-Negro schools
such as Wendell Phillips and Du-
Sable High. A rezoning of schools
in Harlem would create overnight
the segregation the South and its
sympathizers want to see in the
North.
Talk is potent in keeping alive
such dangerous issues. Actual
fighting, disturbances and riots are
means whereby the whole matter
can be brought to a head, and those
stirring up anti-Negro strikes in
Gary, Chicago, and New York well
know it. Such strikes can easily
be instigated in Detroit, Cleveland,
Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia,
Dayton, and elsewhere and soon
the nation would awake to find the
theory of the South in complete
practice where it had not been
given a full chance before. There
seems, incidentally, to be a ten
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dency on the part of both Negro
and white educational leaders to
minimize the racial angle in these
student demonstrations. In an out
break now current around New
York's Lower East Side Metropol-
tan Vocational High School, the
principal discounts the racial angle
vigorously, as do social welfare
workers in neighborhood settlement
houses. They would pass it off
as indiscriminate pugnacity on the
part of the white pike Street
Gang" now terrorizing the 300 odd
Negro students attending the
Metropolitan Vocational High
School, which has a total enroll
ment of 1000.
This attitude is dangerous. The
situation must be recognized if it
is to be intelligently solved. These
leaders who have the ear of the
authorities, both board of education
and the police, should force every
thing out in the open and if there
is a fight on the horizon, be pre-
pared to meet it with every means
at their command. There is a diff
ference between telling a person
what he should do and making him
do it. Law, properly enforced,
means the difference between sue
cess and failure, both in the sup
preston of violence and the adjust
ing of human relationships.
Thus the South's attempt to hang
a haymaker on interracial amity in
the North through an insidious in
vasion of the impressionable young
white students can be defeated.
Meanwhile it would pay healthy
dividends if something concrete
were done to stop the activities of
young Negro street gangs. These
'Lost Sheep" may be the answer
to most of the trouble.
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Murtin of Bethesda

Rev. A F. Martin, Bethesda Baptist Churchs energetic dynamic
church October 26 to g.
When Rev. Martin first city, ye editor engaged
rather heated verbal fcufs Later Reverend
decided both going many important
may continue
afraid attack hypocrisy Negro whenever and
wherever it rears its ugly head
He the first Minnesota resident the
radio against the Nazi blood ama policy Red
Cross He also has not hesated vigorously
OF his people wherever it has occurred.
We understand Church. his administration has made
great progress spiritually materially.
We hope Rev. Martin and his kind wife will remain for
many years to We need his v
in Minnesota
It's too bad the Navy department didn't start
Negowhte relationships Changers present tour of Navy in
staatOns and his recommendations will probably
much good
The independence and freedom from the
un Just the Dutch who recently fought for freedom
the Naz Certainly the shouldn't expect the Java
nese to relish their return domination foreign
Of miles away.
Bravo Dewey and Clara Luce Boothe for their
attack on the un-Amercan policies of the D. A. R.
The Minnesota CLIO and Minneapolis Labor Union of
@ AL deserve the hearty commentator Of the Negro public
OF these groups have united insisting that
established and that the poax millions of whites and
blacks In the Southland Of the right of franchise be abolished
Christianity in Action
The recent institution Logan as rector Of
Calvary Episcopal Church. Philadelphia has passing sgnf
calvary Church. founded almost 100
white membership AS the nhborhood
number Of colored people moved in
The vey was faced with reduced membership depleted
budget Under these circumstances" itself
are three things that do.
First we keep the church exclusively white
lose ground;
Second sell the property a congregation and
out;
Third Christian thing of holding our ground and
inviting a coored congregation to join
They did the third thing and invited Mchaels Church.
former mission, to merge with Calvary.
The church, originally all white, mixed
Whether the experiment succeeds fails important
important thing that Calvary Church
It chose to do the right thing.-Afro-America
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Marriage Advice
Is Offered
To Veterans

Veterans of World War II were
told this week that they may find
marriage "more like a minefield
than a clover patch" if they rush
into it without thought and prepa-
ration. This admonition is con-.
tanned in a pamphlet entitled "The
Soldier Takes a Wife" issued by
the Planned Parenthood Fedora
ton of America, sol Madison Ave-,
New York %, N. Y, as a guide to
GIs who seek to establish their
marriages on a lasting basis.
To help prevent such tragedies
and to provide returning service
men with simple, factual informa-
ton which may guide them in max
ing necessary adjustments to mar
riage and parenthood, this pamph-
let is being made available. Illus
trated by the popular cartoonist
Sgt. Ralph Stein, art director of
YANK Magazine, it discusses love,
companionship after marriage,
family planning and infertility in
the language of the serviceman.
With light humor it deals with
matters of intimate and immediate
concern to millions of men return
ing to their wives and sweethearts.
Copies of the pamphlet are avail
able at 10 cents each from the Fed
eration's New York office, or from
local Planned Parenthood organiza-
tons and centers throughout the
country.
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Pilgrim Men
Organize Club.
Plun Activity

On tuesday, October 9, the men
of Pilgrim Baptist Church answered
the call of the minister to meet for
organization at the home of Robert
Williams, ST., 922 st. Anthony Ave.
The officers elected are as fol-
lows: C. IS. Anderson, president;
W. A. Brayboy, vice president; S.
]. Sydes, secretary; Dewey Jackson,
assistant secretary; Rev. ]. W. Jun
mel, treasurer, and John Banks, ST.,
chaplain. Those present in addition
to the above officers were the
Messrs. l. NJ. Dorsey, Robert Will
liams, ST., S. E. Williams, 1. S.
Wooten, C. H. Jackson, G. W. Wills,
S. V. Owens, J. T. Harris, M. A.
Boiling, Frank Boyd, W. V. Howard,
J. Green and the Rev. Floyd Mas
sey, Jr.
Several important committees
have been appointed. The next
meeting has been set for October
rs, at Pilgrim Baptist church.
Kansas City Pastor
CamphOr Mems Day
Featured Speaker
The Rev. G. B. Hancock, of Kan
sas City, Kansas, will preach at the
annual Mems Day service in the
Camphor Memorial Methodist
Church, 5S5 Fuller Avenue, Sunday
at IL a. m.
A mems chorus under the direc-
ton of Albert Bantam, Sr., will
sing. DR.. Hancock, who is the
executive secretary of visual aids
of the St. Louis area, will take
motion pictures of parts of the
service and groups of the church.
He will show motion pictures of
several national Negro church
meetings and churches at $50 p. m.
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Worth Reading
Attacks Myrdal's
Negro Study

In the Summer Public Opinion
Quarterly, Princeton University
publication issued September 4, Leo
Crespi, of Princeton's Psychology
Department, makes the first serious
attack on Gunnar Myrdal's famed
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program, the message for Sunday, October
81, IL a. m, will be brought by the Rev.
G. Bruce Cameron Of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Young Woman's Auxiliary Of the Mis-
sionary Department will meet with the
newly-elected president, Mrs. Rose /. Brad
shaw, Monday, October %, $500 D. M, at
the parsonage, 666 W. Central Ave.
Flowers Sunday morning were in memory
OF Mr.. Charles Miller, and donated by his
sister, Mrs. Birdie Miller, and of Mrs. Rida
Young, by her daughter, Mrs. ElRie Clay
and family.
The Senior Choir will hold its regular
fourth Sunday Night Musical, October 28,
at $500 p. m. Mrs. Myrtle Harris, chair
man.-Bertha L. King.
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Rev. Henry w. Bolts DESERVING Mon

Rev. H. W. Bolts and his good wife celebrating
sixteenth Of service Baptist Church Minneapolis
Rev. Bolts has rendered both
the community During the dark of depression
people faith his the people
whom he served and his spread into the community.
His services civic leader through city give
all right to feel proud of this and his hepmate
We're kinda tired of reading and the D. A.
by this time However getting good Hazel we hardly
blame the Rev. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell.
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WON'T USE STATE DEPART
MENT FOR DEMOCRACY

MEN rOh DCmOOhAI1
1t is sheer political lunacy and
infantiism to believe that those
who make no provisions for a full
job program for a stable and ade-
quate yearly wage, for social Sc
curity, for curbing imperialist-
monopolists profit grabbing here at
home are going to use their State
Department or other agencies of a
government which they dominate to
bring about world democracy. They
only see the rise of peoples move
ments and the desire for world
freedom as seriously curtaiIing if
not helping directly to end the
American Way of Life" as they
demand it.-Chicago Defender.
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Is South Behind
Anti-NegrO High
School Disturbances
BY DAN GARDNER

The high school situation in which white students
striking against coored classmates resolves itself into this
picture the white reaconary South is trying to kill mixed
schools in the North before liberal influences force such
schools on the people below the Mason Dixon lines While
agitation by adults in Gary Indiana Chicago and New York
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study of the Negro America
Dilemma"
Also in the same issue is "Preju-
dice Is Not the Whole Story" by
Joseph Weckler who contends that
industrial plant race trouble comes
not from prejudice but from bad
labor management relations.
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Wayman A. M. E. Church: Sunday was
trustee Day. The pastor, the Rev. l.. p.
Ashford, preached from the subject: Fin
ally My Brethren Be Strong in the Lord. !"
IN IN ms message he urged the Christian fam
ny 70 put on the whole armor of God. for
Il Is impossible to hold on to God with one
hand and Satan with the other. We must
nave perfect contact with God.
Music was furnished by a volunteer choir,
the services of which were very much an,
preciated. The Wayman Church is open for
persons who desire to sing the songs of
terested.
Tuesday night, Mr.. and Mrs. WenzeI
Miller entertained the Busy Bee Club.
Friday night, October 10, the Pastors Aid
society will meet at the home of the presi-
dent Mrs. Ruby Bobo, 90 Highland Ave, N.
Sunday the pastor will occupy the pulpit.
Tuesday, October %, the Missionary So
eiety is having a travelogue meeting at the
nome OF Mrs. Effie Turner, 5ll Emerson
ave. NJ at 2 p. m. Missionaries from ali
OF the churches have been invited, Mrs.
mahle ashford was elected president of the
society Tor another year.-Church Reporter.
st. Peter African Methodist EpiseopaI
Shurch: The Rev. Henderson Riddick
Drought very inspiring message, and IL
was Joyfully received by the Congregation
conference, which convened in the Allen
Chapel A. M. E. church, DanyiIle. mi.
where he attended Sunday school when n
boy, and where he was converted, The
meeting with his relatives and old friends
brought joy to his heart.
We were delighted to present SGT. Frank
curtis TO the congregation last Sunday
morning: He was more than four wears in
the service Of his country, and is glad to he
nome for good. Sailor Richards A. Banks
U. 5. N Air Station, gave a short talk To
the Allen Christian Endeavor League mem
ners last Sunday evening, and STAYED for
the evening service. We are always glad 10
nave those who are serving their country 10
worship at st. Peter, and there is a hearty
welcome for our returning soldiers.
Ihere was a noticeable increase in the
attendance at every service last Sunday. and
also in Sunday School and A. c. q. League
rms should inspire those who were not pres-
ent TO come next Sunday.
The pastors subject for Sunday: ''Tbe
way That Seemeth Right to a Man" at
Io:46 a. m, and The Reason Why Some
Hrayers Are Not Answered" at 7 ;45 n m
1ou are invited to worship with us at ali