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The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04

toes. There was heaps OF 'em
here in American an | reckon oil
Mother Nature knowed there'd be
COW hands comm along soon so
she says TO herself. Il better be
a-makin' a change in these here
boss critters-they amt jest right
yet. So she started workin
on EN-. First she made 'em bigger.
then she drawed up one toe. an
another-'till there warn't but one
left. an she lowed as how she'd
make that into a hoof" The
COW hand paused for breath. and
catching the skeptical expression
on his companions face he frown-
ed. This here's the Gawd's
truth I'm a-tellin' you Sam seen
II all in a museum one time-where
they have skeletons Of them pre-
historic hosses an what they calls
fossil discoveries The boss air
the only critter today that walks /
around on the tips o his toes.
Sam was so impressed by the I
huh thing that he done named /
his boss Toe Dancer an don't
no durn ignorant COW hand dast 10
augh at that name not where
Sam can hear him"
See you next week. on Main
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04
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BY DoN ROBINSON
SURVEYS

SURVEYS -. personal
What sort of soap flakes does the
American housewife prefer?
What do the people OF this coun-
try think about universal training :?
What do men do with their used
razor blades?
What percentage of our popula-
tion suffers from halitosis?
What do children of five to eight
think should be done with the
atomic bomb?
How long should an egg be boiled
10 please the majority palate?
No matter how personal the
question may be-no matter
how silly or how invoIved-the
chances are that some organi-
xation has made nationwide
survey on u and can tell you,
within a fraction Of per cent,
how our nation feels about Il.
The survey business has become
one OF our major industries. We
have hundreds OF research organ
izations. publications. universities
and foundations which are continu-
ally at us toAind out what we think
and do. Newspapers analyze us 10
find our attitude toward problems
OF current debate. advertising agen-
cies want 10 know what we buy
and why we buy II. congressman
are anxious to determine the stand
OF their constituents on legislation.
psychologists hope to advance the
standing OF their profession by
measuring our reactions 10 every
thing from marriage 10 war. every
manufacturer wants to find out how
We like his product. and the radio
people insist on getting us up out
OF bed TO tell their telephone inyes-
tigators whether we are tuned In to
station WWWW or station XYZ.
CONFESSIONS privacy
Personally | am getting a little
tired OF this mania for information
about my personal life. | am be-
coming afraid to leave the shades
up In my home for fear some peep
iI.g pollist will sneak me into a sur
vey OF whether men wear neckties
when they are relaxing or what
percentage OF men kiss their wives
when they arrive home at night.
do have considerable re-
spect for certain polls, such as
the public opinion polls con-
Quoted by Or. George Gallup
and by Elmo Roper. Election
results have proven that those
men do get close to measuring
public opinion on subjects OF
real concern-and think Il is
undoubtedly Of help in de-
mocracy to have an accurate
measure of the stand Of the
people on debatable issues.
But as for the polls on what We
eat. buy, read, wear and hear
which are conducted by business
concerns in order TO help them
fight their competitors-it seems
to me that they are going too far
We used to object to the questions
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04

the l7st minute that come other
solution will be found and in
most cases the populace laas
far behind its leaders in decid-
ING that war is necessary
Therefore, If decisions on
war were left up to the people
Of all nations-and if reputable
polls could be conducted TO de-
termine the will of the people
they might prove to be a def
mite contribution to peace.
The public opinion polls, if they
stick to subjects OF major concern.
'an help to amplify the voice of the
people, and thereby produce better
government and sounder politics.
But as for the countless other
'olls, ! think we should draw the
inc somewhere. Unless we do
soon | am afraid polling
will replace baseball as Americas
avorite national sport.
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04

asked by the census takers. but
those questions are nothing com
pared with the ones the business
men think up
I might be willing to bare all of
my good and bad habits. all of my
likes and dislikes. and even admit
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04

= Bobby Crawford Of DeS Moines
Iowa. is in the home stretch now
thanks TO an assist from the March
of Dimes. He's come a long way
from the leg braces that started
him on the road to recovery from
crippling attack of infantile
paralysis.
In every state of the Union.
thousands of other youngsters are
striving for victory over this
battling disease, and they look TO
YOU for help.
JOIN THE MARCT )F DIMES
JANUARY .4-3I
The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04

abruptly. "I'm aimin' TO beat the
tar outen' him-he amt got no
means"
a Main Street service man. re-
turned from overseas with a dis
charge. is one OF many throughout
the nations Main Streets faced
with the problem of resuming civil
ian life II haven't decided
whether to go back to college or
not" he told a friend. IT'S a won
derful opportunity the government
is offering us. but | have my wife
and kid 10 think OF and what wiz
be best for us as a family" .
The friend urged the ex-service
man 10 complete HIS education.
Think what II viii mean to you
in added earning power!" The
service man gazed straight ahead.
Il am thinking" he said at last.
For three years | have been un-
dergoing an intensive education in
the school OF life-and I'm not sure
our present brand of college educa-
tin is what ! want" .. The friend
Was frankly puzzled Maybe you
don't know what you want" he
ventured. "Yes," The service
mans face twitched suddenly.
"Yes-I know. o.. want TO make
sure my kid won't have TO face
the things | did-and can't learn
THAT at college!" No. not
that-nor the answer 10 any OF
civilizations vital problems. for
the key 10 these IS locked within
the nature OF each man himself
and only the still small voice
within can tell him where 10 find
IL.
Santa Claus was over generous
10 a Main Street younsster, who
came in from play Saturday 10
find one OF her three dolls gone.
=. Somebody took it," she told
her mother escitedly. "No,
dear" the mother explained.
"You had so many dolls that |
gave one 10 a poor little girl
who doesn't have any father"
=. The child began TO cry. -
want my DOLL" she sobbed. "Why
didn't you give her daddy"
Two COW hands were sitting or
a corral fence not far from Main
Street Saturday. as they watched
a companion expertly cur calves
from herd OF cattle. That
shore good COW horse Sans got,
remarked one. "Yup," an
swered his companion. Toe
Dancers a right smart critter.
"Toe Dancer! How come him
to name COW boss that?'
wall" answered the other, Seems
like prehistoric hosses was queer
critters no bigger'n a cat, or a
coyote. an a-havin' five padded
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
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in the world. 1t is a subject not
discussed, but the psychiatrists
of the nation can relate to you
stories of sex neuroses and brok-
en- lives that would excite the
pity of one of the keepers of Hit
ler's concentration camps. There
are literally thousands of homes
which are empty and tragic be-
cause of some failure in the great,
human engine which can be so
ruthless in its destructive power
and course. For those who come
into the world with this engine
faulty and out -of-gear, or with
a broken fly-wheel, the result is
misery and continual sorrow and
Illustration which leads often to
suicide, to crime, to haunting fear
or soaring disgrace. Those like
the young William Heirens, a
white boy of Chicago, who were
driven by the powerful force of
the erratic engine within him to
burgle houses to get women's silk
underwear for his own use; who
committed murder merely to put
his hands on feminine flesh--and
he is a bare II with a record Of
such robberies from the age of 10
are the more shocking exam
Piles. The pitiful, hopelessl nym-
phomaniacS, the old men who
abuse and attack children, the
wretched dangerously insane who
haunt public play grounds, the
worried, harrassed persons who
buy all the sex instruction books,
the borderline cases who patron
ize the newsstands for pictures Of
near nude women, all the inhibit-
ed, psychologically twisted per-
sons whose daily life is hell, all
of these, live more or less hidden
lives. 1t took us years to bring
teh words syphilis" and "gon-
orrhea" into open discussion, 1t
took us many more years to
bring on the city-wide tests
which few cities have had the
courage and sense to employ.
CONTINUED on Page Al
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
bEARCATS
BULLDOGS
IN 6-6 DRAW
BY Roscoe Sharpe

The Dunbar Bearcats and the
Langston High School Bulldogs
tangled in a conference tilt at
Tiger Stadium Saturday night
before a large crowd of some
$500 bowling fans in the season
opener for the lads from Wright
Avenue and Ringo Streets.
The visitors drew first blood
in the first stanza as the highly
touted Dogs" uncorked a
mighty touchdown pass as Wag-
gner tossed a long heave to Capt.
Brown in the end zone for the
only marker for the Lads from
Hot Springs. The try for extra
point was low.
During the second quarter the
Carter coached fellows pushed
over their lone tally as Thomp-
sons pass to Harvey set the stage
for Harvey to plunge over from
the 3, the plunge for the point
was stopped on the line OF scrim-
mage.
The Bulldogs displayed a fine
line led by a sparkling watch
fob guard in the person of Stepp
who stepped here and every
where with his brilliant tackling
and all his "all around" ability.
Spa lads kept the scrappy Bear
cat eleven in "hot water" with
stellar punting of Wagner crafty
left foot kicker with his spirling
so yard slants. This lad as pitch
cd several nice passes.
Coach Carriers bearcats show
ed plenty in the line as the en-
tire Dunbar forward played su-
perb football with their vicious
tackling. The Dunbar eleven
kicked away chance to win
the contest in the waning minu-
ties of the final heat as Mr.. Stepp
turned on the steam to stop the
Capitol city backs on the 4 yard
line.
The Bearcats are slated to op-
pose the Coleman High eleven
from Camden Friday night at
Tiger Lair. Coach Carter, john
son and Williams are explaining
the rough mistakes that their
charges made in the Langston
scrap.
Bass, Calvin, Rufus and Jordan
worked the game as officials.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11

Down in Savannah, Georgia,
young white man is twitching
nervously in his cell, the sound
of a mob's fury and, perhaps, the
dying screams of the feminine
victim still in his ears. 1t is
charged he assaulted and killed
a 38-year old spinster, known in
her small lcommunity as a good
Samaritan, always eager to help
out when someone was sick or
in distress.
The community spokesman
says; County police were in
formed on several occasions that
the prisoner had molested women,
both white and colored, and as
far as we know the matter was
never investigated This is
routine story. 1t not only can
happen anywhere, but does so
happen. There is hardly day
that passes but that some crazed
person, termed very properly a
sex maniac" commits crime
so horrible as to depress a whole
community. Almost invariably,
it is rveealed in the succeeding
daily stories, that the person
sought or in custody has a his
tory of sex crimes. In fact, in
Volvcd police departments usual
ly announce that they have gone
into their file of known sex GRIM
inals and are checking them in
an endeavor to locate the sus-
pect. In all the hue and cry, a
few persons may think to them
selves, my God, if they know
there are persons like that on the
loose, no child or woman is safe"
But, after a while, the guilty per-
son is caught and is forgot until
the next horror comes along.
ENGINE
No one knows what "Tiger,
Tiger, Burning Bright is loose
in the jungles of the mind. But
it is a fact, rarely discussed, that
the great engines of sex is respon-
sible for more crimes and mental
alterations than anything else
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11

DR.. George A. Singleton. Dean
Jackson Theological Seminary.
Shorter Flipper- Curry College.
will be the speaker at Big Bethel
A. M. E. Church. Ninth and
Broadway. DR.. G. WaYman Blake
lY. Pastor. Sunday at IL a. m. at
which time the church will OBJ
serve Friendship Day. All men,
bers are bringing friends to wor-
ship with them at the service.
Dean Singleton is former editor
of the Christian Recorder. and
has had a broad experience as
army Chaplain in World War
number one. college professor
at Allen University. Columbia.
South Carolina and president Of
Paul Quinn college. Waco. Tex
as. Pastor BlakelY is inviting
all friends of Bethel to hear DR..
Singleton. Special music by both
choirs of the church.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
Years Activities
Outlined BY Pon-
Helse mic Council

The Pan-Hellenic Council out
lined its plan for the year at its
Cundays meeting. Before enter
ing into the business session of
the Council, a brief memorial
service was held for the late Mrs
Helen Booker Ivy, former presi-
dent of Delta Sigma Thete Sor-
GRITTY and a newly elected repre-
sentative to the council
The council showed apprecia-
ton of Miss Christine Wiley's
service which was recently OBJ
tanned as a teacher under the
asupices Of the Crippled Child
rens Association, The council
incorporated in its plans to in
struct the children at the Bap-
fist Hospital three hours each
day They also plan TO extend
this service to The children in
the University Hospital.
The possibilities of the survey
to b mace by DR., Banner of the
National Urban League was dis
cussed by Attorney j. r. Booker.
Miss Annie Cox, chairman of
the Scholarship Committee re-
ported that the test held Mry 10,
was won by Edgar Epps. AS one
of the stipulation of the council
Is that the winner must attend
a school in Arkansas. The next
highest winner Miss Helen
Jackson, enrolled in Philander
Smith College, received $50 pay
ment on her tuition. Mr.. Epps
forfeited the council prize when
he enrolled at Talledega, where
he also won a scholarship.
The following committee chair
men were appointed; Civic, Miss
"A. B. Gillian; Yearbook, Mrs. A.
l.. Perry; Constitution, DR.. o. B.
White; Atty. J. r. Booker and
Miss A, b. Gillian, Scholarship,
Miss Annie Cox; Program, C. F.
Brown; Social, Mrs. S. Sowan
Williams.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
Morrilion Negro
Business League
Community Asset
BY w. P. McCawley, Executive
Secretary

=
MORRILTON - Among the
many accomplishments of the
Negro Business League of this
city during the previous year,
has been the sponsoring of a
great educational drive for the
erection of a home economic
building on ground adjoining the
Morrilton High School on Rock
Street
The ground on which the build
ing will be built was given by
the Negro Business League.
More than 100000 have been
paid in cash by citizens in Nor
rilton and adjacent communities
together with an appreclable
amount donated by local white
citizens, including $500 from the
superintendent of schools, V. l..
Boren.
The home economic building
will fill long felt need among
the girls and women to further
qualify themselves as future
home makers.
The League recently purchas-
ed the Morrilton Colored Gem
etery and employed a caretaker
to take care of it and render SER
vice to members of the cemetery
project.
Rev. E. J. Jennings has been
elected president of the League
filling the unexpired term of W.
L. Jarrett, who recently resign
ed due to business connections in
North Little Rock with the Ruff
fin-Jarrett Funeral Home. F. ID.
Thrower of the Cosmopolitan
Funeral Home is treasurer of the
League.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
Redemption Of Church Doomed"
With Minority Group In Restraint;
Pastor Of Progressive Era Resigns
BY Mrs. l.. Christopher Bates

By Mrs. l.. Christopher Bates
The end of several months of
controversy between pastor and
foe, representing the minority
group was evidenced Wednesday
night at the historical First Bap-
fist Church, 7th and Gaines SITS,
when the Rev. Emanuel c. Dyer
stood pat on his resignation.
For several months the his
torical church has been the sub
ject of confusion between the pas
tor and a minority group, what
seemed to be from the surface, a
desire to rule on the part of some,
and a determination to not be
ruled by a minority on the part
of the others. All efforts to get
both sides of the controversy have
proved futile, for the opposing
side, the side representing the
minority has taken a concealing
attitude, remaining retieent, and
twice has ordered this writer
from the sacred" wal lof First
Baptist Church over direct pro-
test of the pastor and his group.
The information the PRESS
was able to gather is from the side
that had nothing to conceal the
popular pastor has emerged twice
victorious after a popular vote.
But in church nowadays IS in
anything else, the majority has
ceased to rule and there is al
ways rule or ruin group. De-
spite the viii of the majority the
latter group was determined 10
live true to its name, which fore
ed the pastor in the name Of
Christianity and decency to make
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
Mine AME Bishops Charged with
MalaImsstissration ExoNera'ed
Bv ,yglyy Ffn ErsIesiasii- rourl
Bv I. s. Overall

DALLAS. Texas.-Bishops r.
r. WriPht, Jr., r. G. Raneor1. n
Ward Nichols, s. J.. Greene. Noah
w. villains. G. w. Pabor. 7. A.
Grern Fronk Madison Reid, and
John II, Clavhcrn were urani-
mouslv ocouitted of charges Of
INSTRUMENTATION by iurv COM
posed Of Bishop Al J. Allen Of
Cleveland. Ohio, DR.. /. 6. Overall
Of Little Rock ard F. D Coleman
Of Nashville, Tennessee. w. D.
wilkins of st. Louis, Missouri,
ard H. Thomas 2rimn Of New
Orleans, Louisiana, Bishop Geo
roo B Young, acting senior
bishop OF the African Methodist
Tniccoral Church. Jurisdiction
Tenth Episcopal District, presid-
ed over th" duly and legally call
ed ard constituted court.
The corr, was orranized and
set to work by Bishop Young,
After devotions and instructions,
ch9rres together with evidence
relating TO them were presented
bv Attorney Rice Of Dallas, Tex
as, who represented the church
and the accusers. The Defend
ants were represented by " M,
Townsend NJ Little pcc'c and r.
r poterg Of Now York, After
ri witnesses had been COMPLETED,
the Jury vas instructed and ord
cred to retire. After as minutes,
the Jury returned, and the verdict
was read to the re-assembled
court by the secretary of the trial
committee, Dr.. F. T. Coleman Of
Nashville, Tennessee 49, NOT
GUILTY.
It was generally believed
throughout AME church circles
and by many others that the
nine Bishops were never guilty
Of the charges made. 1t was al
legged that they were and are
men of integrity, but were at
tackled because they had been try
ing to clean house for the church,
their enemies having persons to
bring charges to prevent the BIZ
shops from further pursuing
their housekeeping activities.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
'Skegee.'Force
Clash Tonite

Chicago, Ill.,--R. S. Darnaby
Of Tuskegee Institute and |. S.
Lane, of Wilberforce University,
were enroute to Columbia this
week to extend invitation to the
Governor of Ohio to attend the
annual Tuskegee Wilberforce
football game, to be played at
Comiskey Park, at $50 o'clock
tonight.
An invitation will also be ex-
tended to the Chief Executive Of
Alabama, it was stated.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11

his resignation stick over the
protest of a majority vote.
So eager were his foes to rid
themselves of the minister after
he had made it known that his
service at First Baptist Church
could be of no benefit despite
the will of the majority who vot-
ed against his resignation the sum
of several hundred dollars in
salary for the remainder of the
year was voted him, and the pull
pit declared open.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
Does That Tooth Ache?

MIS- SDOVEY DELORIS HOP
K1NS, of 80l East 18th Street,
North Little Rock has just earn
ed the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Dental Hygiene from
the University of Southern Cal
ifornia, College of Dentistry, Los
Angeles. Miss Hopkins received
her elementary education at Ce-
dar Street School and graduated
from Jones High School in 1899
She attended Dunbar Junior Col
lege and finished the prescribed
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11

course in 1911. Showing much
interest in dental hygienics, she
went to California and entered
the University of Southern Cali
fernia and graduated in Septem-
Der with her degree. Miss Hop
kins graduated as one of two
Negroes in a class of three hun
dred. She is the daughter of Sam
Hopkins. Mr.. Hopkins journey
ed to California to witness her
graduation and is taking a short
vacation on the West Coast.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
High Court Orders
New Trial Of Negro
Strikers In Mill Case
BY A. M. JUDGE

The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed year SEN
fences Monday imposed upon three Negro strikers Pulaski
Circuit Court charged with violating the Arkansas anti
violence" law
The opinion in reversing the Circuit ordering
trials by Chief Justice Griffin Smith and was voted
five to two The sentences reversed in favor of Louis
Jones' Roy Cole and Jesse Bean members Of the PTACIO
who among employees of the Southern Oil Com
pany where strike called December H. 1915 in which
a union member killed by scab during fight
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11
CONOVACATION DATE
RESET TO OCT. 81

The date Of the Conovacation at
Shorter which was originally set
for Oct IS, has been changed to
Sunday, Oct. Dist, to meet the
conveience of participants on the
program.
Arkansas State press., 1946-10-11

The case against the strikers
and their conviction under the
"anti-violence" law has been
widely publicized, and brought
national attention to the labor
setup in Arkansas. Many critical
comments of Arkansas were voic-
ed through the leading publica-
tons of America as we'll as civil
right organizations as to the con-
stitutionality of the "anti-vio-
lence' law under which the Ne
groes were convicted while a
confessed killer goes free. The
publishers of this paper, who
contended that the Negroes were
sentenced by a hand picked
jury" are awaiting decision
from the Arkansas Supreme
Court after a conviction in the
Circuit Court on contempt
charges.
In reviewing the circumstances
the court said:
"It is clearly inferable -
that the relationship between the
strikers and those who remained
at work is far from amicable.
December 26, Walter Campbell
and Otha Williams Ga non-strik-
er) clashed. The defengive mcas-
ures employed by Williams re-
suited in Campbell's death : ..
A Grand Jury declined to indict
Williams"
The High Court held that al
though the indictment returned
against the three Negroes only
charged them with violating that
part of the statute prohibiting
use Of force or violence - to
prevent or attempt to prevent
any person from working and
omitted that part of the law max
ing threats of violence illegal,
evidence of the use of threats
was admitted in the lower court.
The court said: 1.-THE trial was
conducted upon the assumption
that although the indictment did
not allege threats were made,
evidence of threats was admiss-
able to prove use Of force and
violence-because, as the Judge
stated, a threat Is an element OF
violence"
1.-THE nearest approach to ac-
tual participation by Cole, Jones
or Bean, occurred when Cole, who
was said to have been carrying
a stick, came upon the scene as
Campbell assailed Williams and
lost his life"
In holding that a threat is an
element of violence the lower
court allowed too much latitude
for the introduction of testimony
going solely to other transac-
TONS" the court said.
The appellants were three OF
112 union members working un-
der contract at the Southern Cot
ton Oil Company, who went on
strike December II. They were
represented by local Attorneys
Robley and Schoggen, and Earl
Walden, CLIO Attorney of Fort
Worth, Texas.
a