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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

Rev. Oliver ". ChiIders Has Splendid
BishOpric Qualifications

To a group of friends, minis
terial and lay, who called upon
him and informed him he poss-
es the qualifications and exper-
fence to be a bishop in the
great African Methodist Epis-
copal church, Rev. Oliver w. H.
ChilderS, pastor of historic
Charles Street AME. Church.
Boston, Mass, gave the follow
ing ten points, setting forth
what he would do if a bishop.
l. I would strive to be hui
man. There would be no bitter
tears, no sad regrets, because of
my heartlessness.
2. In "the great judgment
Day" no one could point the
finger at me an dsay, he cruci-
fed me and mine.'
3. would seek diligently to
establish a fellowship among
my co-laborers that would
challenge the admiration of the
thinking world.
4. There would be no "big
men" or "littlS men" but all
one in Christ Jesus the Lord. 3"
5. In the swirl Of political
ambition, and adventure in the
church, I would contend ear
nestly for the old paths. the
good old way, and walk there"
6. I would re-light the Altar
fires within our borders to the
end that men may see in the
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Continued rom Page u
wife, a daughter, grandchil-
dren and many other relatives
and friends. His daughter. Mrs.
Pauline James, of Princess Anne,
Md. came on when his illness
became critical.
His wife, Mrs. Florence Bal
lard, was cheered by the loyalty
of friends and she wishes to ex-
press her deep gratitude for the
many floral tributes, the tele-
grams which came from Cali
fornia, Philadelphia, New York
and elsewhere, and the many
other expressions Of sympathy
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19
GRANT A. NJ. E. CHURCH
Rev. 1. CrumIin Pastor


Rev. M. c. Sutherland delir-
cred the morning sermon last
Sunday. Scripture lesson was
read by Rev. Smith. Mrs. Re-
becca Jones was the soloist. Rev.
c. Range, Jr's. subject for the
missionary service at $50 was
How to be a Good Missionary
We were pleased to have visitors
from the different missionary So
cietieS. Deaconess Clara Small
of Providence, R. L, is the house
guest of Deaconess Louise Owens.
The pastor, Rev L. Crumlin, de-
livered the evening sermon.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

The decision of the British
government to send 5000 chill
dren Of British girls and Ameri-
can colored G's to America ITO
be reared by fathers they have
never seen" is one of the worst
racial insults Of this or any other
war.
II the governments of the Pa
cihc Islands. Japan, India ana
Africa should employ this meth
cd, many, many thousands of
war babies born to white
American CTS would be trans
ported to America in many ship
loads for months upon months
and there would be a hue and
cry among white citizens de-
handing atomic bomb revenge
upon the offending" nations for
this humiliating insult against
white soldiers. Nothing like this
will happen in the case of the
5000 colored war babies. In
stead, the daily press has
played up this story with open
relish and it has provided more
ammunition for those who
would suppress the colored race.
The so-called Negro Welfare
Society Of London and Liverpool
which is engineering this first
wholesale transportation of col
ored people from one land to an
other, offers this excuse 1.-The
mothers can not fit them into
family and community life. They
are giving them up. We are
making the arrangements"
So here is England, a so-called
democratic nation using the
same excuse that was used
against the Jews in Europe, the
myth that a certain minority
group could not fit into the
community life" And could
these 5000 fit any better into
the USA. community life of Mis-
sissippi and Georgia? Nobody
seems to care. And what about
the thousands of half-casts left
by white GTs in Asia and Africa?
How viii they fare? Does any
body care about them
1t is an easy thing for some
women to give up their war
problem children, but it will be
difficult for others. This APP
plies not only to England, but to
all war torn countries and re-
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19
CONCORD BAPT CHURCH
w. BrOOkline st. & Warren Ave
Rev. A. ]. Spratley, Pastor


SPECIAL THANKSGIVING
AND ANNIVERSARY SERVICE
Sunday marks the first ami
versary of our being in our new
Church Home. There will be
special music and sermons.
Rev. D. w. Hoggard of Phila-
delphia, pastor of the Mt. Car
mel Baptist Church will preach
Z to 8 a m. Early prayer meet
ing.
1920 a m morning worship
with spscial music by the SEN
ior choir and tn Gospel chorus,
sermon by Rev D. w. Hoggard,
of Philadelphia.
1890 p m Church school and
adult Bible class.
p m dinner served by
the Virginia Club.
D m Holy communion ana
hand of fellowship.
73O p m evening worship
with sermon by Rev. D, W,
Hoggard.
Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday evenings, preaching by
Rev. Hoggard.
Thursday evening, Spring
Fashion Show by the Junior
Missionary circle.
Come and help us give thanks
to God for having led us to our
new homo of worship.
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rent and racial matters. He has
no patience with the short
sighted prejudices of little peo-
pie He is broad and liberal. He
remembers Editor Trotter when
both had Offices ON Pemberton
So He knows lawyers Benjamin
ana Dorch,
Should you need his services
you will md him most
agreeable person to consult as
many others have found him.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19
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O'BanyOun'S
Observations

Back again to my pet theme
of American songs for American
audiences. Repetition in writer's
is discouraged; but l am an
agitator for American music.
Agitation always precedes rev
olution. Hundreds of singers
have, long since, caught the
same spirit, and are going places
and doing things with American
music. Turn on your radio for
witness to that statement. The
art" Of singing a foseign Ian
guage which you don't under
stand, taught to you by a teacher
who doesn't know, sung to an
audience who understands only
English, is a concealed art to me.
THE GUARDIAN is going to run
a Carnival of American Music"
at Ebenezer, the 3rd of June.
This Carnival seems to be the
brain child of DR.. Charles G.
Steward, co-editor of THE
GUARDIAN. Whether he has
caught the spirit from me, or
elsewhere, I am solidly behind
the proposition to give the aud
fence a night of American Songs.
1 say American can be sung.
Radio says American can be
sung. Reserve June 3, to come
and judge for yourself. More
particulars later.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

If you want to get an earful
Of real, coed music, hot off the
bats of three New England Con-
servatory students, reserve Fri
day, May 8, for a journey to st.
Mark Church, Roxbury, and hear
Robert Payton, baritone, Russell
Stevenson, piano, and Ernest
Simms, oboe. I have inside in
formation from some one I can
really trust that these boys, who
call themselves the TRIUMVI-
RATE, can deliver the goods. So
don't let anything come between
you and that date.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

One of the most genial and
friendly of men is Mr.. H, B.
Budding of the Company by
that name, who has been serv-
ing the public with personal
and mortgage service since 1899
Seated in his we'll appointed
offices ON the 9Th floor OF the
Little Building, rooms $50, s31,
corner Boylston and fremont
SITS, he delights his friends with
his keen observations on cur
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19
MT. CALVARY BAPTIST
CHURCH
1864 fremont st.
Rev. NJ. E. Grady, Pastor

rev. NJ. Z. Grady, Pastor
The pastor will speak Sunday
orning on the subject, 1T Is
EXpedient for you that go
Away" The Sunday School will
open at the regular hour $50
a m. Many children recently
joined the school. Supt. Frank
Davis is i'll and we are praying
for his speedy recovery.
LcTt Sunday many visitors
attended the morning worship.
One member was. added to the
church. Mrs. Grady presented a
musical program at p m. The
church was filled to capacity.
The program was a great sue
cess.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19
In Men1orian1

1892 - l947
In loving memory of my dear
daughter
ETHEL GIBSON RUSSELL.
Gone but not forgotten by her
mother, MARY E. GIBSON
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

Americans of the old American
League.
ALWAYS PROUD OF their
great ball players, Colored AM
erican baseball fans, thinking
baseball was then a democratic
game, met frankie Grant with
public demonstration of appre-
citation. But that act ended the
Big League career of the flashy
Indian
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

as a utility or extra infielder
this year. Robinson, regardless
of future success, has CARRIED
OUT his objective. That was to
open the doors for FUTURE
colored Americans. He symbo
Lies todays column message by
Archbishop Cushing.
THE SOUTHERN bugaboo that
was supposed to FOREVER bar
colored players from the majors
has now been EXPLODED.
Branch Hickey who signed Rob
inSon is a southerner. So is
Clay Hopper, Jackie's great
Montreal Royal manager who
stood by him all the way. So
what are the BOSTON RED sOx
and BRAVES going to offer for
an excuse now?
ARE BROOKLYN FANS and
players to be considered MORE
DEMOCRATIC in their attitude
toward colored players? OF
course not. But the club moguls
Of the Red Sox and Braves want
you to THINK SO.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

from the same wide-awake st.
Louis Cardinal system" and
don't be surprised if Southworth
adds colored players. Hickey
is trying to pattern the Dodgers
after the Cards for speed. Last
season, for example, Rieser stols
"a bases. Reece is fast. Mont
real rockies will add to the speed
pattern. Rickley stole So bases
last year; Robinson stole 40 and
Tatum is also swift. Hickey
hopes in time to run the ST.
Louis Cards right int oths
ground.
SORE WITH RED SOX?
Robinson's entry into the Ma
tional League will naturally
swing many American League
fans over to the senior circuit
until the hard-headed moguls of
the American League wake up.
The last time Robinson was in
Boston your old friend Dave
Egan of the Record and yours
truly tried to wake Eddie Collins
and the Red spx into giving him
contract on one of the many
Red sox minor league farms.
Swelled with conceit at that
time (until debated by the
Cards. the Red Sox couldn't
even see Robinson, called him a
"sandlot" player. etc. But the
Smartest man in baseball,
Branch Hickey, president Of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, the man who
founded the famed st. Louis
Cardinals minor league farm
system, the greatest in both
major leagues, Immediately
signed Robinson, who has al
ready paid of in publicity alone.
Robinson has not forgotten the
Red Sox "brush-off." He beat
their farm club the Kentucky
Colonies last year with great
relish. He would like to be in
Dodger uniform to defeat the
soz in 3 World Series. That
would be justice paid in full, SO
buy that ticket to Braves Field.
And why not a gift to Hickey
and Robinson, too?
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

AT HARVARD, during 1902
1905, a former team-mate of
Fankie Grant was one of the
greatest shortstops in baseball
history His name, as many may
recall, was MATTHEW'S and he
was also secuted by major lea
que clubs. So were Doc Williams
U. Vermont; Frank Gregory, the
great Amherst team captain;
Charlie West, Nanny Rivero and
many more.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19
Boston Baked
By MABE KoUNTzE

advantages are blessings giU-
en- for the serUice OF others"
Archbishop Richard J. Gushing
BROOKLYN DODGERS of
the senior Major National Lea
que are receiving paeans of
praise for setting an example of
DEMOCRACY in the big leagues
with the signing up of Jackie
Robinson in 1947. My only re-
greet is that BOSTON could not
have been the first city.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

The 9th promises to be a full
day for music lovers. At $3.50,
Jordan Hall, Portia White, con-
tralto, will be the attraction. At
815, Jordan Hall, Marion McCree,
soprano, win be the attraction.
At $50, 558 Mass. Ave, the S.
Coleridge Taylor Musical Asso.,
will present the regular, monthly
program. The participants have
not yet been sent to me; but
know that Matilda Birch, sop
rano, will be one of the attrac-
tions. You can't go wrong going
to any of them; but you had bet
ter be on the safe side and go to
all Of them.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

GREAT HEROES of baseball
living and dead, gave Robinson
the spirit to keep fighting. Per-
hapS you have forgotten Smokey
Joe Williams, Joe Mendez, josh
Gibson, Rule Foster, Mule SUIT
ties, Turkey stearns, Dizzy Dis
mukeS, Cool Papa Bell, satchel
Paige and many many more.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

Tomorrow is the day. Brown
Hall, $3.50, Liberal Arts Club; if
you miss it, you'll be sorry.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

Schoolboy ] h n n y Tay-
LOR Of Hartford, a great pitcher
was also secuted by the majors
as was first baseman Frannie
Matthews of Cambridge who
was better than Elbie Fletcher,
his Milton rival, who got the
chance. One could relate MANY
TRUE STORIES Of colored
players whose color alone kept
them from the Major Leagues.
BUT BOSTON, the so-called
Athens Of Liberty, had such a
wonderful rare chance to give
try-outs to FRANKIE Grant, Mat
thews, Elmer Munroe the great
Eierett H. S. star: Burlin White
Big Bill Jackman, Sheriff Blake,
Schoolboy Taylor, Nose Sisco,
Just to mention a few, that we
can offer NO EXCUSE for lack
VI democracy here
WE PREDICTED that Jackie
Robinson at the very least,
could be retained by Brooklyn
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

FRANK GRANT followed
Walker into the leagues. In 1885
Grant was playing with Meri-
dan and later Buffalo of the old
Eastern League. Then he joined
Harrisburg Of the Penn State
League where he played second
base He was signed as an IN
dian" by McGraW'S Baltimore
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

NEW YORK has always been
ahead Of Boston in baseball
democracy 1t was the great
JOHN McGRAW who signed up
the first coIored major league
player, FRANKIE GRANT. who
like Robinson was an infielder.
Yet, Grant played early baseball
here in NEW ENGLAND
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-04-19

NOSE WALKER, a brilliant
catcher, was perhaps the first
colored player to enter organic
ed baseball which embraces
both the major and minor
Leagues. In 1882 Walker was
playing with Toledo Of the Am
erican Association, and that was
over fifty years ago.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15
ARMY AIDS
 RACE PREJUDICE

Washington: The Unit d States Army is planning to set up an experimental unit of volunteer teen-agers at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This group is to consist of 664 individuals eighteen and nineteen years of age. They will represent an educational and geographical cross section from the country. Tn the group there will even be 40 iliiterates.
 This experiment is to be used to convince Congress of the expediency of universal military training.
 While the War Department acknowledges that the uni versal military training pro- gram will include the Negro, they have not seen fit to in- clude any Negro youth in this experiment. w h ich h would seem to indicate that despite the recent promises of integ ration for the Negro in the United States Army, it's re- alization is a long ways off.
 For these youngsters who are to be selected from all over the country are to be subjected to the same old pro- gram that encourages a super iority complex. based purely on the color of the skin.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15
STATE LAW IS SOUGHT BY DAV

Most states do not now have legislation providing effective civil service preferences for veterans, the Disabled Ameri- can Veterans has revealed.
 In bulletin to DAV legisla= tive chairmen in 1900 chapters throughout the nation, national DAV headquarters pointed out that effective civil service pref erences for veterans, and par ticularly for service disabled veterans, as to all state, county and municipal employment, should be provided for in every state. Most states do not now have effective legislation so pro- viding".
 The DAV recommended to it's state department and chapter officials a number of other de- sirable state laws, including:
 l. State appropriations to state departments of the DAV such as in Illinois, Ohio, Michi- gan, Indiana, Minnesota and Washington, for rehabilitation service.
 ?. Law providing for reim- bursement to employer of any financial loss he might face un- der State Workmen s Compen- sation insurance regulations through hiring of disabled vets.
 3. Unemployment compensa- ton credits to veterans for peri cd of active military service.
 4. Provide certified copies of necessary official records with out charge to the veteran and needed in the prosecution of any claim of disabled veterans.
 ,. Law which would admit vice-disabled veterans who have been vocationally rehabili- tated through government training into specified profes. sions without examination by state boards.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15
CARPES SEND
 THECRAMS TO TRUMAN

The Carpe Diem Fraternity sent telegrams to President Truman to Hold the Line" on rent controls.
 Realizing that low income people will be hit hardest by rent increases which will cut deeply into their incomes and materially affect their standard of living; the Fraternity joined in with other groups in pro- testing against a raise in rents.
 The Fraternity also went on record with letter to the Gov ernor protesting the sales tax, another blow at the lower in- come taxpayers.
 A committee was also select ed to be present at the hearing on FEPC and to enlist public support for the proposed FEPC bill outlined by State Commit tees, known in the house as Bill 226 and in the Senate as the Ward-Devaney Bill.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15

core of belief that the individ- ual comes first, that all men are the children of God and their personalities are therefore sa- cred, carries with it a great be- lief in civil liberties and their protection, and a repugnance to anyone who would steal from a human being that which is most precious to him - his good name; either by impugning things to him by innuendo or by insinuations. And it is espe- cially an unhappy circumstance that occasionally that is done in the name of democracy. This I think can tear our country apart and destroy it if we carry it further.
 I deeply believe in the capac- ity of democracy to surmount any trials that may lie ahead, provided only we practice 1t Tn our daily lives. And among the things we must practice is that while we seek fervently to fer ret out the subversive and anti democratic force in the country, we do not at the same time, by hysteria, by resort to innuendo, and smears, and other unfor- unate tactics, besmirch the very cause that we believe in, and cause a separation among our people, cause one group and one individual to hate another based on mere attacks, mere un- substantiated attacks upon their loyalty.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15
KEEP VA DATES DAV, TELLS VETS

Disabled veterans who file claims for compensation and medical treatment should make every effort to keep scheduled physical examination appoint ments, the Disabled American Veterans has urged.
 Cont. on Page ID
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15
ATOMIC BOMB COMMITTEE
TRANSCRIPT OF LILLIENTHAL s REPLY TO THE ENANE QUERY OF SENATOR MCKELLAR AS TO HIS FITNESS TO HEAD COMMITTEE.
Continued from Page D

And whether by administrative acting arbitrarily against business organizations whether by investigating tves of the legislative branches whenever those principles the protection individual and his good smirchment by gossip hearsay and the statements of witnesses who subject then failed in carrying forward ideals respect That deeply believe.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15

nat uecply ucIicNc.
 This I do carry in my head, Senator. I will do my best to make it clear. My convictions are not so much concerned with what I am against as what I am for; and that excludes a lot of things automatically.
 Additionally, democracy has been an affirmative. doctrine rather than merely a negative one.
 I believe-and I so conceive the Constitution of the United States to rest upon-as does re- ligion-the fundamental propo- sition of the integrity of the in- dividual; and that all Govern ment and all private institu- tions must be designed to pro- mote and to protect and defend the itegrity and the dignity of the individual; that that is the essential meaning of the Consti- tuition and the Bill of Rights, as it Is essentially the meaning of religion.
 Any form of government, therefore, and any other insti- tutions which make men means rather than ends; which exalt the state or any other institu- tions above the importance of men, which place arbitrary power over men as a funda- mental tenet of government or any other institutions, are con- trary to that conception, and therefore I am deeply opposed to them.
 The Communistic philosophy as we'll as the Communistic form of government fall within this category, for their fundamental tenet is quite to the contrary. The fundamental tenet of Com munism is that the state is an end in itself, and that there fore the powers which the state exercise over the individual are without any ethical standards to limit them.
 That I deeply disbelieve.
 It is very easy simply to say one Is not a Communist.
 And of course if my, record requires me to state that very affirmatively, then it is a great disappointment to me. It is very easy to talk about being against Communism. It is equal ly important to believe those things which provide a satisfy ing and effective alternative. Democracy is that satisfying af- frmative alternative.
 Its hope in the world that it is an affirmative belief, rather than being simply belief against something else and nothing more.
 One of the tenets of democra- cy that grow out of this central
Hartford chronicle., 1947-02-15
GOVERNOR TO OPEN PREVIEW OF EXPOSITION

On the eve of three-day public showing of exhibits, Gov. James l.. McConaughy's radio address at 8 80 Wednesday eve ming, February 19, will be the principal feature of the preview of the Connecticut Inter-group Exposition. Gov. McConaughy will be introduced by the Rt. Rev. Walter H. Gray, Chairman of the Connecticut Inter-racial Commission, one of the sponsor ing agencies. Bishop Gray will describe the purposes of the exposition.
 Members of the State Legis- lature are invited as special guests at the preview which will begin at 7:30 pm. in the audi torium of the Hartford Times Radio Center, 555 Asylum St., Hartford. The persons who will serve as chairman fro the three special meetings, MT. c. C.. Hemenway, MT. Perry Hall, and Mrs. Beatrice Price Russell, will be present at the preview. Exhibits From 35 Agencies
 The exposition, which will be open to the public from 10 am. to 10 pm. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 20, 21 and 9, is the first to combine the resources of B national agencies in inter-group rela- tions. It is sponsored by the Connecticut Inter-racial Com mission, the Connecticut Valley Regional Office of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, acting through the Conn. Advisory Committee on Inter group Relations.
 Newly released movies, cleo rical transcriptions, on-the-spot strations, teacher counseling recordings, socio-drama demon and tests of prejudice will be going on continuously, in addi- ion to illustrated displays.
 Explaining the meaning of the word 'inter-group", an an- nouncement from the commit tee stated:
 ''Inter-racial" describes the relations among people of the three races in the world: Ne groid, black ;Caucasoid, white and Mongoloid, yellow.
 Inter-religious'' refers to he relations among groups hav- ing different religious beliefs and traditions, such as Catho- lies, Jews and Protestants.
 'Inter-cu1tural" applies to the interaction of different lan- guages, traditions and national origins.
 All these relationships, and even more, are so intimately connected that they may be con- sidered together under the title of inter-group" relations.