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Evening star., 1947-02-09
Symons Urges
Extension Help
ToCityDweller
By T. B. Symons
Maryland Extension Ssrvie,

Director, Maryland Extension Service
While we have made great strides
forward in extension work, I am
anxious to develop 1t even further
to include our urban residents-city
gardeners and homemakers-so that
they, as well as farmers, may keep
abreast of the latest and best in the
agricultural and homemaking sci
ences.
There is still much to be done in
these growing and changing fields.
Marketing is one of the problems OF
our age and American genius has
not yet been fully applied to the
solving of marketing problems. Fur
ther work along these vital lines
will benefit both farmers, marketing
men and consumers-including the
great consuming public in our cities.
Farmers, as well as city people,
live in a changing world today and
are as eager for cultural and mate
rial improvement as their urban
neighbors. For example, farmers
should know as much about astron-
omy as any other citizen.
OF all our people, farmers are
deeply interested in the forces OF
nature. They should know the con-
stellations. the reasons for the
change Of seasons and the funda-
mental facts of meteorology.
The myth of planting by the moon
should he colnteracted with a thor
ough knowledge of the real forces
that guide our universe.
We hope to have corps Of spe-
cialists in cultural subjects similar
to the specialists we now have in
agricultural subjects at the Univer-
sity Of Maryland.
The Extension Service Is the great
est system of adult education in the
history of the world to date. More
ever, it includes not only adults, but
the youth Of the Nation through the
All Clubs throughout the country.
I would like to congratulate The
Washington Star on its Inauguration
of farm and garden page IN city
editions. I am in favor Of develop
ing greater understanding between
rural and urban people. I would like
to see all newspapers include in their
several editions matters of pertinent
interest and Importance to industry
and business on one hand. and to
agriculture on the other.
1t Is unfair to city men and won1-
en- not to be informed of agricultural
plans and developments, and it is
likewise unfair to farmers and their
families not to be informed in coun-
try editions of industrial and busi-
ness developments.
We can never expect a common
understanding between these two
large, important groups Of citizens
until they are better acquainted with
each others respective problems.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

Government forces are being
marshaled for an impending war
along the United States-Mexican
border.
It Is q war against the dread
foot-and mouth disease that has
broken out in nine Mexican states
having $4,000 cattle.
So grave is the situation, Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Anderson on
Friday asked Congress for emerg-
ency legislation enabling the Agri-
culture Department to cooperate
with any other American country
in the control and eradication Of
the disease.
At the invitation Of the Mexican
Government, five United States
veterinarians are on the scene OF
the outbreak. The department re-
ports that another veterinarian is
organizing the border defenses."
Senator Connally, Democrat, OF
Texas, has introduced a measure
in Congress providing funds to COM
plete an international fence along
the border. Whether the funds and
fence will be forthcoming In time
is anyone's guess.
Chairman Hope of the House
Agriculture Committee has named
a special committee to inquire into
the outbreak.
Disease Spreads Easily.
At last reports the disease was
being fought $50 miles south of the
actual boundary, but foot-and-
mouth disease is one Of the most
contagious known to science. It
affects dairy and beef cattle, hogs
and nearly all cloven footed ami
mails, both wild and domestic
Humans are rarely infected, but
they may carry the virus on their
clothing.
While the mortality rate among
animals is only to 4 per cent
its greatest impact is on the econ
omy of livestock-producing areas
Cattle fattened for market wither
away. Even if they recover, the
animals seldom regain their market
Weight.
Its conquences in a dairy -produc-
ing area could be even more catas-
trophic. Infected cows stop giving
milk. One official estimates the
cost of producing milk for the Ma
ton would be increased 20 per cent
II there were serious outbreak
among dairy cattle.
SLAUGHTER Most Effective.
Talks are now under way between
Mexico and the United States but
even if the two countries agree on
a control program, and funds and
authority are made available to the
department, there is one more bar
rier-selling the program to all
Mexican cattlemen.
This country has found that the
most effective method of eradication
is the simple but harsh expedient OF
slaughter of infected cattle. This
is based on the reasoning that the
sacrifice of few animals is much
wiser than to allow so costly a
disease to become permanently en-
trenched.
The most serious outbreak of the
disease in the United States was in
1914. 1t spread rapidly to % States.
To stamp it out required 100000
and the slaughter of 172,000 cattle,
sheep, swine and goats.
Mexican officials will have the
problem of combating native ig-
norance along with the disease itself.
Summary on Outbreak.
These are the events leading up
to the current outbreak, as summed
up in department report:
AS far back as 1880, the United
States established safeguards against
livestock diseases. That year this
country signed treaty with Mexico
in which the signatories banned the
importation of cattle and swine
from countries where foot-and-
mouth disease exists.
Evening star., 1947-02-09

MoMTAMoWER DlSTRiBUTINc CO.
l8 KeeIer Bida. Grond Ropids z, Michigan
Evening star., 1947-02-09
Garden Pilgrimage
OF Bay Counties
To Start May ;

1llc + CCQCI dCCA 1oA OCA Nlubo Va
Maryland will have their 10th an
nual Maryland House and Garden
Pilgrimage May 3 through May 13,
when more than 200 Maryland
homes and gardens will be open for
a small fee.
Proceeds will go toward maintain
ing the Hammond-Harwood House
in Annapolis, one of the most IA
nous examples of colonial archi-
lecture in America.
Among the county chairmen are:
Montgomery-Mrs. H. H. Semmes,
5000 Thirty-ninth street NV; Mrs
v. L. Ellicott, 6818 Glenbrook road,
Bethesda; Mrs. H. o. Stabler, Spen-
cerville. Prince Georges-Mrs. Rich
ard Zantzinger, Upper Marlboro, and
Mrs. John Stanley, Laurel. Howard
Mrs. Andrew Adams, Clarkville, and
Miss Eugenia Carr, 1923 Newark
street NV. Anne Arundel-Mrs
Amos Hutchins, Stokley House, Ar
mold, and Mrs. D. Elwood Williams,
r. F. D.. 2, Annapolis. st. Mary's-
1Sl1 os Cl AAdAAuo Nd1llbCkt SdA1A0A Al16s
and Mrs. Howard C. Davidson, Me-
chanicsville.
AS in the past, arrows will be
posted throughout the counties
showing the routes to be followed
This is the pilgrimage schedule:
May 3-Harford and st. Mary's;
May LCharles; May talbot
May 6-Queen Anne's and Baltimore
suburban tour. accessible by troll
ley; May 7-Kent, Howard and
Montgomery; May s-Cecil and Bal
timore Counties, Greenspring and
Worthington valleys; May 10-Bal-
timore environs: May 11-Prince
Georges; May 12-Lower Anne
Arundel; May 13-Upper Anne
Arundel and Annapolis.
Headquarters of the Maryland
House and Garden Pilgrimage are
Room 217, Sheraton Belvedere, Bal
| timore 2, Md.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-31
Pack Meeting Next Tuesday

The first pack meeting of the various deEs of the newly-organ- ized Cub Scouts will be held next Tuesday, June 3, at 7:30 pm at the Community Center.
 Delayed materials are expect ed to. be here in time for the meeting and all parents and ef- ficers are expected to be pres ent. A growth of interest has made it necessary to form 4 dens at the base, instead of the sched- uled ?.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-31
NOTICE OF SALE

Notice IS hereby given that O. A. Torgerson, as Administrator of the Estate of Doris B. Grah- am, Deceased, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, and subject to the con frmatien of this Court, on the 9thzday of June, 1947, at the hour of 2:06 o'clock P, M., of said date, in the office of the Un- tied States Commissioner and Probate Judge of Kodiak, Alas ka, all the right, title and inter est of the Estate of Doris B. Graham, at the time of her death, in and to:
 Lot Eighteen (1s), Block Nineteen (l9), of the City of Kodiak, Alaska, together with that certain dwelling house situated thereon;
 Together with all the personal property contained therein consisting of household furn- ishings and furniture, now re- maining unsold.
 The terms and conditions of sale are cash, in legal tender of the United States of America, to be paid to the administrator of the estate on the day of sale.
 Dated at Kodiak, Alaska, this 7th day of May, l947.
 O A. Torgerson
 Administrator of the Estate ot
 Doris B. Graham, Deceased.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-31
Legal Notice

THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION IN KODIAK PRECINCT In the Matter of the Estate of DORIS B. GRAHAM,
 Deceased. NO. 294 Probate.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
Urge Training Program
For Farm Workers
Need for a training program for

Need for a training program for
white and colored farm workers
who may be displaced by cotton
mechanization and for those who
may remain to operate and main
tain the machines was emphasized
by e. d. White, Assistant to the
Secretary of Agriculture, in an
address last Tuesday before the
cotton mechanization conference
at Stoneville, Miss,
However, White was not alarmed
over the prospects of any great
displacement of farm workers in
the immediate future. Pointing to
the slow speed with which the
reaper, the combine, and other re-
volutionary farm machinery have
come into general use, he asserted
that although the present level
of engineering research may en-
able cotton mechanization to pro-
coed at a faster rate than earlier
machines, there is little cause for
panic.
IN fact" said White, Il feel
that we need a word Of caution
for those people who picture the
cotton picker sweeping over the
South, driving before it hords of
displaced workers. I wish the
picker, mechanical chopper,
and other improved machines
could come even faster than we
have good reason to expect. Ger
tainly, the speed with which they
promise to come will not cause
any great displacement in the i'm
mediate future.
And as long as the labor dis
placement problem does not take
See PRoGRAM-page five
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
Hopes BiIbo's
Future Better
Than His Past
BY PRESS Reporter

NEW ORLEANS. lathe Pub
lie Relations Director of the
Louisiana Weekly did not join the
ranks of those who deplored the
death of Senator Bilbo. In sting
ing statement to the PRESS, Clar-
ence A. Laws described Blbo as
{ h @ symbol Of malignant
growth on our democratic system"
Few mems passing in our time
has ongendered as wide range
of human emotions as has that of
Senator Theodore G. Bilbo," Laws
said. yet those persons whom he
harmed or suppressed, directly or
indirectly and those whose per-
sonal and Constitutional rights he
would have denied them, can i'll
afford to hate him as much as
they might, lest they descend to
level equal to his own"
"As a man." Laws statement
continued, IS c n a Or Bilbos
preachments and his past might
well be ignored. Unfortunately,
however. the Senator was not just
a man, but the symbol of a mali
gnant growth on our democratic
system. He was the exponent Of
See BILBO-page five
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
Increase In Fees
At Lincoln Univ.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The
rising costs of operation at Lin
coin university (MoJ has resulted
in slight increase in fees. En-
Iecigc September /, incidental
fcos will be $3.50 per semester
payable at the time of registra-
ton, room and board are on a
cash-in-advance basis, with meal
tickets being available in the ST.
so and SIS denominations. Meals
also purchasable for cash in the
University cafeteria, will be we'll
balanced and priced in keeping
with prevailing market conditions.
The office of the business man
ager announced recently the po-
Icy on student accounts TO the er-
feet that no student will be per-
mitted to re-enter school, nor will
any transcripts be released until
all past due accounts are liquidat-
cd
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

pi businessman, allegedly appear
cd at the pigford home to sell the
girls mother some gas. When
Mrs Plgford's mother assured
him that she had no need for gas.
Perry allegcdly asked whether
she had a daughter who wanted
to work lie was then introduced
TO Mrs. pigford whom he offered
10 cents an hour to Ike care Of his
children She agreed to keep his
children that night while he and
his wife attended a rodeo.
The alleged rape occurred on
the way to Perrys home
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

EVANSTON, nj. - What's the
matter with teachers? Prof. Paul
A. Witty, director of Northwestern
Universitys psycho-educat o al
clinic, said this week he had put
the question to several thousand
grade school pupils and their writ
ten replies mentioned the follow
ing undesirable traits: Ill-temper-
ed, intolerance. unfairness, favori-
tism, sarcasm, Inconsistency, in
stability, impatient, inflexibility,
talking excessively. talking down
to the child, being overbearing.
conceit and lack of humor. Prof.
Witty said some of the pupils
used rather general terms includ-
ing "old Crouch" "crab" and "old
sourpuss" "A mentor who doesn't
take everything too seriously, or
doesn't think school Is all worn
and no fun. would win an A In
! See HERE and THERE--page 1
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
Negro Girl Beaten;
Raped In Meridian

A. G. T. members that James Lee
Perry. salesman for the Fowler
Butane Gas Company Of Meridian,
had beaten her numerically until
she lost consciousness, raped her
and dragged her bound body be-
hind his car when her frightened
refusal to accompany him into a
roadhouse Infatuated him, After
dragging her bchind his car along
dirt road he carried her back to
her home unconscious
Perry who would ordinarily be
described as a clcan-cut MISSISSIPPI
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

tell me nor any one that I talked
with him, and speak truthfully.
There is a difference between a
false-statement and a false-hood.
Mr.. Bass which one did you mean?
You know you have not seen me,
neither have you spoken to me
publicly nor privately during the
past years, much less within the
recent past.
Now as it relates to DR.. Robin
sons statement, or alleged state
ments if he signed the petition
endorsing the Philander Smith
20 acre property Bishop Clay
born, would go along with nm.
Dear Doctor, I thought you knew
me better than to think I am
that flexible. No you were mis-
taken Doctor, you reckoned with
out knowledge, if you thought
that | am that weak. I don't
change that way for money, love
nor honor for white nor black. I
gave my reasons for having sign
ed for the Prewitt site, and I
stand there now. One Of the main
reasons why | signed for it, I saw
and read the many letters you had
written in favor of it, plus other
reasons, hence I signed, but your
having had a change of heart, be-
cause someone else asked you, or
other consideration never chang
ed me. When it comes to business
there is one man who speaks for
Bishop j. II. Clayborn, and Bishop
John Henry Clayborn is that man.
Mr. Nash, nor Mr.. Bass could
change me, neither could DR.. Ro-
binson, because he changed could
induce me to sign my name. A
talse-statement or a false-hood,
which? | must--I shall be true TO
the citizens Of Little Rock and
Arkansas.
Bishop ]. II. Clayborn.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

MERIDIAN, Miss - NAACP
officials in this city were attempt
ing to arouse sufficient public OPP
inion to guarantee the prosecution
Of a well-to-do white oil dealer
who allegedly raped and tortured
n Negro girl lurod by promises Of
a job as a baby sitter Prospects
Of any action against the rapist
appeared slim, although IL was
learned that he had been asked TO
post a five hundred dollar bond.
Ruby Aztec Pigford, from her
bed in local hospital, told N A,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
|URRWA.C|0 Takes
MP Violations
Before U.S.D.A.
Press photo by Grice.

The United Railroad Workers
of America, CLIO, has invoked the
services of the United States Dis
trict Attorney for the propose Of
prosecuting the Missouri Pacific
Railroad and its Superintendent
of Shops, Albert Hubener, for
violations of the National Rail-
way Labor Act.
The request for prosecution
arises from 81 grievance cases
filed with Hubener which he is
refusing to give the prescribed at
tention. These grievances .revolve
See URRWA-CIO--page five
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
Crack jinl-CroW Train
Target Of NAACP Suit

NEW YORK = The requirement
by the Southern Railway Com
pany that Negro coach passengers
be segregated on the Southerner,
crack train from New York City
to New Orleans, is unreasonable
and should be set aside by the In
terstate Commerce Commission
according to brief filed by the
National Association for the Adj
yancement of Colored People with
the ICC today in a suit on behalf
of Vashti Brown, Lillian Falls, and
Muriel Holcombe against the rail-
road
The brief was filed in support
of exceptions TO a report of an ex-
aminer of the ice and was pre-
pared by Attorneys SpottsWood
w Robinson, III, Thurgood Mar
shall and Robert L. Carter The
examiners report had found that
the accommodation furnished to
Negro passengers were subslan-
tally equal to those provided for
white passengers and that q regr-
laton requiring segregation is re-
asauable The brief took the posi-
ton that the railroad is without
authority to adopt such a rcgula-
uon, bdsIng much Of its argument
upon logic of the Irene Morgan
decision where t h Q Supreme
Court struck down a Virginia law
requiring segregation Of inter-
state bus passengers because ut
seems clrar TO us that the seating
arrangements for the different
races in interstate motor travel
require a single, uniform rule to
promote and protect national tra-
vel
The brief also pointed out that
any such regulation is unrcason-
able since it is based upon a sup
posed necessity to maintain the
safety Of passengers and to avoid
conflict among passengers. Yet,
pullman cars are operated by the
Southern Railway Company thru
out the South without any segre-
cation and their successful opera
ton without clashes among the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
WI. Commentaries Its
OrigIna! Founders In
Summer Commencement

W1LBERFORCE, Ohio - Com
mcmorating the founding Of Will
bcrforce University as a purely
church-sponsorcd step, Wilberforce
authorities last Thursday present
ed an outstanding mid-western
Methodist as speaker for the Clos
ing Exercises Of the Wilberforce
University Summer Session.
Reaching into the ranks Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Gin
cinnati district, for their gradual
ton speaker, Wilbcrforce authori-
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

ties lined up with history, They
emphasized again the role Of the
two great, worldwide church or
carnations in setting up the
school which the state Of Ohio
has just split.
THE state, which now DEGREES
that there shall be two schools at
Wilberforce, had no part at all in
the hard task of starting educa-
ton here in establishing the first
great landmark in northern Ne
See WILBERFoRCE-page five
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
HERE and TfTNH5

his body. He got salt and pepper
and wrapped il in cloth and be-
gan rubbing the patient Berry
Mason when in reality he was
searching him and finally got
away with the old mans pocket
book. The white healer" tried to
persuade Mr.. Mason to unlock an
old trunk where the old man had
several hundred dollars. Not sue
cceding he grabbed the purse of
Mrs. Kitty Byrd who let him have
the salt and black pepper. and
ran.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

passengers proves concluSively
that such segregation is not nee
essary in the coaches. 1t is point
cd out that in some cases, the
same train will carry segregated
coaches and unsegregated pull
man cars.
Finally, the brief points out the
dirty, uncomfortable nature of the
cars set aside for Negro use as
compared with the modern, clean
and shining cars for the whites.
After listing all the many differ
See NAACP SUIT-page five
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

COLUMBIA, N. c. -- A spokes.
man for the Fellowship of South
ern Churchmen this week attribu-
ted forced departure of a group
of white students from a Negro
home here on "the inter-racial
character of their work" The an
nouncement by the group follow
eG disclosure this week by Sheriff
Ray Cohoon of Tyrrell County
that a band of nearly 300 white
men armed with ammunition had
ordered six youthful white stu
dents 10 leave this eastern North
Caro- town. The group Of stu
dents, the Sheriff said complied
with the mobster's order within
"a hours. Sheriff Cohoon in re-
porting the incident which occur
red August IL said, Il don't know
of any law preventing white folks
living with Negroes, but I know
people here don't think much of
it, It is stated by liberal whites
here that "the Sheriff doesn't
think much of it either or he
would have given protection to
tic students"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

have come from Harry Bass, Jr,
through William Nash, member
of the City Planning Boahd.
II Mr.. Bass told Mr. Nash that
l. j. H. Clayborn, approved the
Philander Smith site, he either
made a alse-statement or told
false-hood, Which? have not
seen, nor talked with Mr.. Bass, in
the Railroad station. over the
phone, nor any place He will not
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
False Statement or Fa|sehood'
WHICH?

l have just returned to the city,
and | understand that there APP
peared in the Arkansas Gazette
last week, a news release Bishop
John II. Clayborn, former advo-
cat Of the Roy Prewitt site south
Of the Roosevelt road, approved
the Philander Smith (20-acre)
property"
The article that appeared in the
above named journal was said to
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
AME's Endorse C|ayborn's Stand
OKLAHOMA All CLUBS

The Little Rock District Singing Convention Of the A.
Church Tuesday the stand TAX
by Bishop Clayborn endorsing the Prcwit site
ideal location for the Negro park.
The convention is in session at st. Andrews A. M. E.
Church. and presided by Dr. M Townsend presiding
elder of this district
After Bishop Clayborn finished his address, the main
his the situation
and Dr. G. Wayman BIakely offered the motion support
Bishop his Prewitt motion
seconded by Rev L. o. Grady Of Allen Temple A.
NJ. E.
Dr. Blakely was strong supporter of the Phiander
Smith site few weeks according appearing
through columns daily quoting Bakely
quoted saying the Prewitt site impossible
Negroes would there the city approve
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (MO.)
ANNOUNCES FOOTBALL
SCHEDULE

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo Even
though only two games will be
played on Lincoln University's
campus, these teams are consi-
doring the most formidable foes
the Tigers anticipate this coming
season. They meet Langston on
October If and Tennessee on Nov.
Is llomecominE) Two games will
be played in nearby 81. Louis.
Lane College, November 8, and
Arkansas State college, November
% Other off campus gridiron
meets viii be with Louisville Mu-
nicipal college, October 4. Ken
lucky State college, October 10,
and Wilbcrforce university, Nov
ember l. Practice for games will
begin early in September.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1947-08-29

SHREVEPORT, La. -- A white
man who called himself a heal
err body rubber and radio repair
man is being sought in this Sec
ton for Fleeing "old ante-bellum
Negi oes' out of their earnings.
The so-callcd healer drove an
old car to an elderly crippled Me-
gro's home this week and told him
he could stop pains by rubbing