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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11


Tau Sigma Chapter of Sigma
Gamma Rno Sorority held its first
meeting for 1947-4S, recently in
the home of the basileus, Miss Lii
lie Belle Walker.
Miss Maggie Little, Grammateus
of Tau Sigma, and Miss Walker
Basileus. who were delegates to-
the National Boale in st. Louis,
Mo-, in August, made valuable re-
ports on the boule.
Attention was called to the ap-
pearance of Minerva Laster Matt
news, Mezzo-Soprano, Soncert and
Radio Artist in Jackson on Sun
day, Nov, 10th, at the Grand Thea
ter.
Mrs. Matthews was charter
member and Basileus of Alpha Epl-
sion Chapter Director of the JuD-
ilants. a teen-age Girls Glee Club,
radio artists, who have recently
concluded thirteen-weekly SER
les broadcast, sponsored by busl-
ness firms of the city of Tallahas-
see, Fla.
Watch the papers for more facts
on the life of Minerva Lester Mat
thews.
Mrs. Cora Youngblood. og Geor-
ge street left the city this week
for Chicago, Illinois where she will
be the house guest of her sons.
Mrs. Irene Thornton of Wash
ington, D. O., and Mrs. Beatrice
Thornton Browder of st. Louis are
in the city for a few days as the
guest of their mother, MINIS. Myra
Thornton on West Church street.
They have been recipient of many
courtesis since being in the city.
Mrs. Daisy Willis, of Rodo st.
left the city Saturday for Chicago
where she will attend reception
in honor of her sister Mrs. Elsie
Mae Johnson who was recently
married to Mr.. Vincent E. Will
son of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Leaner of
Chicago arrived here early this
week on visit to his mother Mrs.
Leaner of East Church street. They
returned to their home Tuesday
morning.
Miss Idalett Patton who is tea
ching at Gloster, Mississippi spent
the weekend with her parents on
West Pearl street.
Mrs. Geraldine Amos, popular
young secretary of Union Baptist
Literary and Theological Seminary
of New Orleans, La, was recent
visitor of Miss Gwendoyn Greene
at Sanitorium, Miss.
Miss Myrtle Roseman is home
visiting her sister and nephew on
Franklin street. She is being
shown many courtesis by her many
friends while in the city. Miss
Roseman has made her home in
Detroit for the past two years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Booker Love ac-
companied by Mrs. Julia Jeffer-
son, mother of Mrs. Love of Chic
ago are in the city visiting their
Aunts and sister-in-law Mrs. Min
ME Matteway of West Pearl St
They also motored to Natchez,
Canton and Meridian while in the
state
Miss Lorraine Greene, who has
spent the past few weeks in New
Orleans, La, for observation and
treatments has returned to hel
home on West PascaocuIa street
While in Louisiana she was the
house guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. r
Collins life long friends of the
family. Mrs. Collins is the former
Ernestine Cobbs.
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--LATEST
/, RECORDS
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Leaner of
Chicago arrived here early this
week on visit to his mother Mrs.
Leaner of East Church street. They
returned to their home Tuesday
morning.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Miss Myrtle Roseman is home
visiting her sister and nephew on
Franklin street. She is being
shown many courtesis by her many
friends while in the city. Miss
Roseman has made her home in
Detroit for the past two years.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Booker Love ac-
companied by Mrs. Julia Jeffer-
son, mother of Mrs. Love of Chic
ago are in the city visiting their
Aunts and sister-in-law Mrs. Min
ME Matteway of West Pearl st.
They also motored to Natchez,
Canton and Meridian while in the
state.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Mrs. Geraldine Amos, popular
young secretary of Union Baptist
Literary and Theological Seminary
of New Orleans, La, was recent
visitor of Miss Gwendoyn Greene
at Sanitorium, Miss.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Mrs. Daisy Willis, of Rodo st,
left the city Saturday for Chicago
where she will attend reception
in honor of her sister Mrs. Elsie
Mae Johnson who was recently
married to Mr.. Vincent e. Will
son of Chicago.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Miss Ida1ett Patton who is tea
ching at Gloster, Mississippi spent
the weekend with her parents on
West Pearl street.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Mrs. Irene Thornton of Wash
ington, D. O., and Mrs. Beatrice
Thornton Browder of st. Louis are
in the city for a few days as the
guest of their mother, MMrs. Myra
Thornton on West Church street.
They have been recipient of many
courtesis since being in the city.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-10-11

Mrs. Cora Youngblood. og Geor-
ge street left the city this week
for Chicago, Illinois where she will
be the house guest Of her sons.
Evening star., 1947-05-01
Caste Reform in India

1ndia's Constituent Assembly,
charged with drawing up a con-
stitution for that vast subcontinent,
has adopted a clause which, if duly
implemented and enforced, will rank
with other great social reforms such
as the abolition of slavery here and
the freeing of the serfs in Czarist
Russia.
The clause reads as follows: 'tUn-
touchability In any form is abolished
and the imposition of any disability
on that account shall be an offense"
Behind that brief declaration lies
a long story Of efforts to expunge
what Mahatma Gandhi terms "the
darkest blot on Hinduism" This is
the practice of inf1icting truly ter
rible determinations and disabilities
by religious sanction upon the lower
grades Of the complicated Hindu
caste system, whereby those unfor-
tunates are regarded as "untouch-
able" in the eyes of the higher
castes.
India's caste system is very an
cient, originating more than 5000
years ago, when the Aryan invaders
sought to perpetuate their ascend
ancy by sanctifying their superior
ity over the subjugated aborigines.
So complete was the ban that phys
ical contact Of any kind between
high and low caste persons is tabu.
In extreme cases, a low-caste in
dividual cannot come within many
feet of high-caste, while the mere
shadow of a low-caste will defile
the food or drink of a high-caste.
Thus vigorously segregated from
normal community life, the low
castles have been restricted to the
most menial and revolving occupa-
tions, especially those regarded in
Hinduism as ceremonially "unclean."
In accordance with its basic policy
OF not interfering with religious
practices except when these were
fiagrantly inhuman or antisocial,
the British rulers of India did not
attempt directly to reform caste
inequities, though they did ex-
tend civil rights to the low-castes
and protected them against the
imposition of physical penalties for
breaches of the caste code. En-
couraged by this protection, the low
castes have organized politically
into a federation and have been in
creasingly insistent upon the better
ment of their hard lot. Since there
are fully 50,o00,ooo low-castes in
India, the divisive effect upon Hin
duism is obvious. The low-castes
have tended to oppose the suprem-
Evening star., 1947-05-01
Promotion Restrictions

In disappearing use of deficiency
appropriations to cover upgrading
of Federal employees under the re-
classification procedure, the House
Appropriations Committee was di-
recting its attack not at the pro-
motions themselves but at what 1t
believes to be an abuse of the
deficiency fund system by some
Government agencies. There is
considerable evidence that undue
advantage has been taken of the
deficiency plan by a number of ad-
ministrative officers.
These officers have found that
they are more likely to obtain con-
gressional approval of reclassiflca-
ton funds by presenting Congress
with an accomplished fact" bill for
payment than by asking for an ap-
preparation in advance. This is
because Congress usually is inclined
to suggest that the funds for pro-
4IAOoAo14o NC SACoVCd Ny
on general expenditures. While Con-
gress in the past may have been too
inconsiderate of the overall needs
of department, there undoubtedly
are many ways in which savings
could be effected without impairing
governmental efficiency and without
depriving employees of merited ad-
vancement. Unfortunately, some
officials are not disposed to CO.
operate in the economy program un-
less pressed to do so.
The House committee proposes,
therefore, to put the pressure on
these officials. Actually, according
to civil service authorities, no wide
spread injustices are apt to result
If Congress adopts the committee
restriction. The larger departments,
of course. are in a better position
than the smaller agencies to reallo-
Evening star., 1947-05-01

acy Of the Congress Party, which Is
dominated by high-caste Hindus.
This division ID In striking contrast
to the basic unity among Indian
Moslems, whose cardinal religious
tenet is that "Au believers are
brothers"
The political implications Of this
split within Hinduism have probably
reinforced the efforts of genuine
reformers like Gandhi who have
condemned the caste system on
moral grounds. The upshot is the
abolition of "untouchability" now
written into the new constitution.
The question, of course, remains how
this formal outlawry of ancient
practices hallowed by religious sane
tions Is to be practically inple-
mented and legally enforced. But
at least a concrete beginning has
been made.
Evening star., 1947-05-01

cate their funds 50 as to take care
OF past promotions. Where such
agencies can show that actual In
equities and hardships would result
II the restriction were imposed, Con-
gress would be doing the fair thing
to ease the limitation for the Inn
mediate emergency. And, as a mat
ter of practical administration, 1t
would seem to be inadvisable to
make the rule so rigid in the future
as to preclude granting of unappro-
priated-for promotions when Fed
eral efficiency and justice may de-
mand 1t in exceptional cases.
Evening star., 1947-05-01
1t Should Never Happen

Strictly speaking, 1t may well be
that the State Department and the
Columbia Broadcasting System both
were within their rights" in the
parts they played In the imbroglio
which deprived CHS radio listeners
Of the privilege Of hearing Secretary
Of State Marshall's report to the
Nation Monday night. From the
standpoint of the public interest,
however, it seems nothing less than
deplorable that an address Of such
Importance should not have been
carried by every radio network In
the country.
Columbia officials refused 10
broadcast the speech on the ground
that the State Department had not
consulted representatives OF the
radio chains before announcing
that the Secretary would speak from
$3.50 to o'clock. This is an i'm
portant period in radio, any change
in which means transfers or can
collation. of commercial programs
booked months ahead. The State
Department admits that 1t selected
the hour arbitrarily because on
previous occasions disputes among
the networks always resulted"
Consequently only the National,
Mutual and American chains put the
speech on the air.
State Department officials pointed
out that they chose the 8:30-9
o'clock period because they thought
the Secretary would have the larg-
est possible audience then. The
choice undoubtedly was a good one.
But, as 1t turned out, the audience
was not by any means the largest
possible. Radio being the private
enterprise it is in this country, CO.
operation by the chains to assure
adequate public service is essential.
And the public is not being given the
service which it is entitled to expect
from radio if speeches like that
delivered by Secretary Marshall are
not broadcast by every network.
Arbitrary decisions by either the
State Department or radio author
tiles should not be permitted to
interfere to the slightest degree with
the public's right to hear such
official broadcasts. Steps should be
taken at once to work out some CO.
operative understanding that will
preclude any repetition of the Mon
day night controversy ~
Evening star., 1947-05-01
An Architectural Cuckoo

A letter from reader printed in
another column raises a number of
legitimate questions about the de-
sign for the projected General
Accounting Office Building.
First, II the structure must be OF
such tremendous size, it may be
asked whether the indicated site on
G. street between Fourth and Fifth
streets is capacious enough. The
introduction of so large an edifice
into relatively SO small a space
seems to be open to challenge on
engineering grounds.
In the second place, does the
General Accounting Office admins
tration really desire a building of
the "block type" without interior
courts even If 1t is conditioned
and adequately Illuminated with
artificial light? The low ceilings
planned for the G. street building
may be "space-savers," but they
likewise may have a depressing
effect upon the people who are des-
tined to work under them.
A third question is one of esthetics:
Ought structure so definitely out
OF. harmony with existing edif1ces
be introduced into downtown area
which during the next fifty years
is bound to see wide general i'm
provement? The original drawing
of the Public Buildings Administra-
ton architects suggested a much
more attractive composition-a de-
sign of one central unit and ten
wings. If this first sketch is "out"
because the General Accounting
Office heads want more space than
they at first contemplated, why not
take advantage of the suggestion of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission to use the "half-
squares" to the east and the west for
anneXes?
But there is no compelling reason
why big building should be ugly.
Neither is there any large amount
Of money to be saved by a starkly
"functiona" design. Washington
will not long continue to be Capital
OF notable beauty If 1t is to be in
vaded by unworthy art. The sketch
currently under discussion is, in
effect, an architectural cuckoo-an
alien element whose intrusion ought
not to be tolerated without protest.
Why not give the Public Buildings
Administration architects another
chanceo
Evening star., 1947-05-01
This and.That
By Charles E. TraceDeH.

aY>..~ -.., - n NNNgssSsAsssSSgss r. .N
T wouldn't have bei,svsd il, If I
hadn't seen 1t with my own eyes-a
mocking bird pecking, a blue jay to
death.
II didn't see the start Of the fight;
but, happened to glance out Of the
window and there on the lawn was
nocker, doing some fancy foot work
around another bird lying on its back.
"He would dance In. then back, then
circle around his 'hapless victim, which
was frantically failing its legs In vain
attempt to protect itself.
"All the time the mocker was singing
softly.
When my husband intervened the
mocker flew into the tree, over the nest
he was guarding. The Jay f1uttered
helplessly along the ground, after my
husband had picked him up.
I'm an hour or less he was dead
"Do you suppose the n1ocker had
blinded him, piercing the brain as he
picked out an eye?
mo marks OF any kind that I could
discover were made.
"A Jay is such large, strong bird, It
seems almost inconceivabie q smaller
bird could lay him low.
Yours very truly, A. L. B."
r
II the mocker were defending his
nest he would have been a fury In
carnate.
Then he easily could have whipped a
jay.
AS matter of fact, the mockingbird
IS not very much smaller than jay,
although more slender in build.
An ordinary average-sized mocking-
bird will be full 10 inches long.
A jay is only 111z inches from the tip
Of his bill to the tip OF his tall
He is, of course, somewhat heavier.
The plain truth Is that as fighter
the jay Is handicapped by his sense of
humor
Despite his sometimes murderous as
saults on baby birds Of other species,
and his fondness for other birds eggs,
Americas blue Jay Is pretty decent
fellow.
He has what few species have, 4 gen.
uine sense Of the fun in life
The mocker, on the other wing, B
all business.
Whatever he does he goes at hammer
and tongs.
The poor Jay, seeing Undoubtedly he
does the fun in life. never goes at
anything, even battle, with the in
tensity of his rival
Even Jenny Wren can chase a iav.
and we have seen the gentle dove, as
1t Is commonly called, run Jay out
of yard.
When jay Is forced into battle. he
wages war reluctantly, just as any hu-,
morous wight will, knowing the futility
Of physical combat.
Sometimes he discovers too late that
this is it."
One Of the great bird men wrote Of
the blue jay:
"The bird has all Of the nischieyous
thieving traits of the crow, and with a
lot of audacity or cheek thrown In for
good measure"
II a bird shows no evidence Of
wounds of any kind 1t is difficult to
tell of what it died
Birds are such high-strung creatures
that often they may be literally fright
ened to death.
We have seen robin kill another
robin, simply by chasing it so fast that
1t finally fell over and breathed Its
last. victim of some sort of sudden
heart failure
The jay, We insist, has too keen 4
sense OF humor to be good fighter.
Even as he dies he is probably saying
10 himself. TOO bad 7 picked ON a
mocker that ttme-if there Is q next
time for me I am going TO select .
hummingbird!-
Evening star., 1947-05-01
Portrait of q Mon-By
Rueburn

Forth from these eyes q lonely spsfss
looks,
Ruling t'aese nodded tsotxrss q mind
Acttve and cool, ,c1ssch secks tts osun Sn
books,
Never to cease Hs search, yet ssuer
find.
Keen and dao0re, he looks on Hte from feS
Gray peaks OF thought phereon tAs
gods kroau laughter,
Lore is a mortal thing tD1tch LETT It's scar,
Enen the wound OF Iore; but peacs
comes AFTER
Never to quite krtoso peace, or knotD
lope's healing,
NoD and toreDer feels, ut seeks no
feeling.
Here 10 a questtnc heart phich stossds
toTerer
vsiled and atoaS. ess0st ~ ~ sseo
Of tGshion,
Rich NTH the tysassrs a ~ Ss6n6s
snde6por,
Holding aloot ~ s~soxoAs ssssM h
pGssion.
HM1t ROWE HRsx1s
Evening star., 1947-05-01
Poll Taxes Due
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Saturday, May 3, Is the deadline for
meeting the poll tax requirements for
participation in the. 1947 primary and
general elections in Virginia. 1s47 may
well be the most critical election year in
Arlington's political history.
At stake is the control of the county
board, possibly the school board, the
county judgeship, the State legislative
delegation. and the constitutional offices
Of sheriff, Commonwealth attorney,
commissioner Of revenue and treas
urer. Return Of the control OF these
offices to the people viii smash the
Arlington branch Of the State political
machine
A peoples victory u dependent upon
Evening star., 1947-05-01
To Counter Russiu

In his report to the Nation the
other night Secretary Marshall
merely hinted at what lies behind
Russia's lone-wolf attitude. But
John Foster Dulles, in a follow-up
report, has now enlarged upon the
hint in way that constitutes
persuasive answer to the seeming
puzzle. Mr.. Dulles reduces the stu
alton to simple terms. As he sees it,
the Soviet Union does not want to
cooperate at this time because it
believes 1t can profit greatly by
doing its best to prolong hard times
and instability in Europe.
France, Britain and the United
States want a Germany politically
decentralized, with its economy so
ordered as to benefit all of Europe
without opening the way to a re-
birth of German aggression. The
western powers are agreed, too, on
restoring Austria to self-Supporting
independence, and on adopting the
American proposal for a forty-year
four-power pact to keep the de-
feated Reich disarmed. But the Rus
slams are stubbornly against these
measures. They prefer-or at least
their actions indicate that they
prefer-to let everything drift from
bad to worse. What they want,
according to Mr.. Dulles, is to wear
down western diplomatic opposition
in order to achieve strangle hold on
the Austrian economy and to build
a strong, centralized Germany that
could be kept under their thumb.
Above all, in Mr.. Dulles judgment,
there can be little doubt that they
are seeking primarily to wear down
the United States-little doubt that
they would "heave a great sigh of
relief" II we were to quit Europe
and go home" thus leaving them
free to dominate the whole con-
tinent.
Along with Secretary Marshall and
Senator Vandenberg, however, Mr..
Dulles holds that we can check
this game by refusing to be worn
down or bamboozled by it. He favors
immediate action to Tevitalize the
German economy rticularlysthe
Ruhr-now under control of the
western powers. Noting that France
and the United States have come
closer together within recent weeks,
he suggests that Russian obstruc-
tionism can be effectively cour1tered
by joint effort to achieve the eco
nomic uniflcation of the Anglo
French-American zones of Germany
and by going on from there to pump
vitality into as much Of Western
Europe as possible. This would not
lead to any miracles Of recovery.
But 1t could do much to mitigate the
effects of the Soviet holdout policy.
Indeed, If France joined us and the
British in political measures as well,
the results might be striking enough
to induce Russia to cooperate for
a change
In any case, as Mr.. Dulles has
declared, I'VE cannot let ourselves
be stymied merely because we can
not get agreement" with the Rus
slams. The western democracies
must refuse to be paralyzed by Mos
cows veto. They owe 1t to them
selves and peace-hungry world to
do everything they can, without
delay, to improve the present SIT
uation. If they begin to move closely
together along this line, the Soviet
Union may find that it has over
played its hand, and it may decide
then to stop saying no.
Evening star., 1947-05-01

and disinterested people pay their poll
taxes and vote.
At time when such splendid efforts
are being made to break the machine"
grip on Arlington 1t Is sorry citizen
indeed who will not. himself make the
effort to be prepared for those critical
elections that lie just ahead.
The poll or capitation tax is $50 q
year. with slight increase for late
payment. Those who have not received
a tax bill should contact the commits
sioner Of revenue at the courthouse
Immediately.
Payments will have to be In the hands
OF the treasurer or postmarked not
later than midnight Saturday to quail
~ voter for participation IN the elec-
tions this year.
HARLEY u. WIILIAM6.
Chairman, Arlington Better Govern
ment LsAguA