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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
CHURCHES IN MILFORD
The Presbyterian Church
''Ths Church on the Plaza
SUNDAY July .,

SUNDAY, JULY q
9:45 a. m.-Sunday School. Wilmer
0. Landlord, Ill, Superintendent.
Classes for all ages.
11:00 a. m.-Worship and Sermon.
Topic: "Old Testament Heroes of the
Faith--Elijah." Text / Kings 1917.
This is the fourth in a series of five
sermons on Old Testament Heroes.
Mrs. Julia Holland will be at the
organ.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
First Baptist Church
Rev. Leon c. Nelson, Minister
"Holdlna Forth The Word OF Life"
SUNDAY JULY 81

"Holdlna Forth The Word OF Life"
SUNDAY, JULY q
1000 a. m.-Church School. Thomas
r. Founders, superintendent. We
have a class for every one in the fam
lily.
1l:0O a. m.-Morning Worship. Mu-
sic by the Young Peoples Choir.
Sermon by ]. Graham Stewart of
Dover
ZOO D. m-The Baptist Youth Fell
lowship, the Junior High Fellowship,
and the Praying Club will meet.
800 p. m.-Evening Worship and
nIfIoIrIImIaIlIIIIIIII
Informal Song Service. Music by the
Junior Choir. Sermon by Charles
Thomas
Wednesday, 500 p. m.-Prayer and
Bible Study Hour, led by James
Smith
Friday 500 p. m.-The Baptist
Christian Fellowship will meet at
the church.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25

When it was founded. the West
Point Military Academy was devo-
ted exclusively to the training of
military engineers, but it has since
broadened its program to include
other military education
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25

The human ear is sensitive to
sounds from 16 TO about 10000
vibrations per second.
About sone-fourth of all U. S.
senators in 1947 were more than
IS years old.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
st. Johns Catholic Church.
Rev. Andrew J. White
Rev. Leo r. MONTGOMERY
SUNDAY, JULY q

SUNDAY, JULY "a
Sunday Masses and 10 q. m.
Benediction, Sunday and Friday
1880 p. m.
st. Edmond's Catholic Church-Sun-
day Masses at and 10 a. m.
Evening star., 1947-02-19
Whatever That Is
Miss Graham Does,
She Does It Well
By Harry Macarthur

Martha Graham probably is the
greatest exponent of modern dane
ing making a living at 1t today. It
is probable, too, that she proved this
again last night at Constitution Hall
You will have to seek elsewhere to
find out whether or not sne did,
however. If, decade or so ago,
I happened to indicate some enthu-
siasm for the works of Miss Graham
know now that it was because /
did not know what the ,heck she
was doing and was shy about admit
ting 1T. = I have now reached one
conclusion about modern dancing: I
don't get it. Not any.
The classical ballet is a theatrical
entertainment that usually makes
some sense and is graceful abou.
doing it, but the modern dance is
Art. Not art, but Art. The creations
of Miss Graham make Salvatore
Dali look like a practitioner of
Photographic realism. People in the
modern dance are always in the
throes of something and they keep
leaping about.
Last nights program opened
with Miss Graham's appalachian
Spring" danced to the music by
Aaron COPELAND. This, according to
the notes, is a report on the celebra-
tion of spring "by a man and a
woman building house with joy
and love and prayer; by revivalist
and his followers in their shouts of
exhaltation; by pioneering woman
with her dreams of the Promised
Land" This was followed by John
Brown" which opened with the an
nouncement that John Brown had
been hanged this morning and con-
tinued with a great deal Of palayer
between John and an interlocutor,
during which Capt. Brown emitted
anguish all over the stage. 1t looked
like anguish, at any rate.
Came then Miss Graham's Ozark
Meadow" which, again according to
the program notes, sis concerned
with the adventure Of seeking. This
dance Is the re-enactment Of the
Mysteries which attend that adven-
ture: Remembrance of the ancestral
footsteps, terror of loss, ceaselessness
of love, recurring ecstasy of the
Towering branch" I am sure I would
have described 1t in the same words
If called on.
Miss Graham had me on the ropes
at this point, but I am reasonably
certain that Letter to the World"
did turn out to be built on the
legend rather than the facts of
emily Dickinson's) life" and that
the scene was laid in the shadow
world of her Imagination as set
forth in her poems, rather than in
the real world of Amherst where she
lived" I am sure, too, that Miss
Graham and her troupe, particularly
May ODonnell and Erick Hawkins,
did very well the things they were
called upon to do, whatever 1t was.
I thought Miss ODonnell was Won
derful, in fact, as She of the Ground,
who kept stalking back and forth
across the stage, clad in an ankle
length sweater and gold hat, during
Dark Meadow"
Evening star., 1947-02-19

Decknan, executive committeeman
for the National Home and Property
Owners Foundation, 1773 Massachu-
sets avenue NV.
Charging the rent control commit
tee is dominated by Communist and
left-wing organizations, the letter
said rent control has been one of the
principal goals of the Communist
Party.
Evening star., 1947-02-19
Rent Control Committee
Assoiled by Deckmon

Use of the Interior Department
auditorium by the Emergency Com
mittee for Rent Control was pro-
tested today in a letter to Interior
Secretary Krug from Joseph H.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
BACKGROUND Facts on Civil Rqhts Committee Personu|t

John s. Dickey, 80. president OF
Dartmouth College, was born in
Lock Haven, Pa. A graduate OF
Dartmouth and the Harvard Law
School, he practiced law in Boston
from 1882 to 1910 with the exception
of two years spent here in the State
Department. He returned to Wash
ington in 1910 to work in the State
Department and in the Office of the
Co ordinator of Inter American
Affairs.
Morris L. Ernst, SO, is a New York
attorney and author who was born
in Uniontown, Ala. He is a graduate
of Williams College and the New
York Law School and has practiced
law since 1915. His clients include
the Newspaper Guild, the Dramatists
Guild and the Authors League OF
America. He has been a member OF
the New York State Banking Board
and was a consultant to the War
Production Board. His clubs include
the University Club of Washington
Rabbi Roland b. Gittelsohn, 81
of the Central Synagogue, Rockville
Center, Long Island, was Marine
chaplain. Born in Cleveland, he is
graduate Of Western Reserve Uni
versity and Hebrew Union College
He served in the Marine Corps from
June, 1943, to January, 1916, par
ticipating in the Two Jima cam
paign. His speech at the dedication
of the American cemetery on 1--we
Jima was widely published In the
United States.
Frank p. Graham, 81, president
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Bv the Associated Press

The Presidents Committee on
Civil Rights recommended today
that Federal and State laws be
revamped to guarantee four "es-
sential" rights:
The right to safety and security
Of the person.
The right to citizenship and its
privileges. 2
The right to freedom of con-
science and expression.
The right to equality of oppor-
tunity.
Concerning the safety of the per-
son, here are the major recommen-
dations: :
/. A Federal anti-lynching law
with penalties for taking part in a
lynching and punishment of public
officers who fail to use proper
measures to protect prisoner.
2. A stronger Federal law against
police brutality and related Of
fenses.
3. A review of the wartime evac-
uation of Japanese Americans
looking toward the development OF
policy that will prevent the TAX
ing away of civil rights from a
group because of race or ancestry
Citizenship Rights.
Concerning the rights of citizen
ship, the major recommendations
were:
/. Action by the States or Con-
gress to end poll taxes.
2. Federal laws protecting the
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Laws Souqht to Guarantee -Four Civil Rights

covenants" among property owners
outlawing discrimination and segre-
CATION in public or private health
facilities and guaranteeing equal
access" to places Of public accom-
modation"-like hotels and thea
tiers.
5. Federal and State laws saying
that Discrimination or segregation
in the rendering of all public serv-
ices Is against public policy.
6. A Federal law banning segre-
cation and discrimination in all in
terstate transportation.
7. A series of Federal laws BAN
ming segregation and discrimination
In the District of Columbia-in the
schools, hospitals, theaters and the
like.
8. A law ending segregation in
the Panama Canal Zone.
Besides these proposals the COM
mittee suggested ways Of strength
ening the machinery" of protect
ing civil rights.
| For example, 1t recommended a
bigger, stronger and more impor-
tant civil rights section in the JUS
tice Department. (Attorney Cen
eral Clark announced Monday in
Boston he is enlarging this Sec
tionD
Also recommended was a perma-
nent commission on civil rights, in
the White House, and Senate
House standing committee on civil
rights in Congress.
Evening star., 1947-10-29

Francis P. Matthews, so, served
three terms as supreme knight OF
the knights of Columbus. Born in
Albion, Nebr., he is a graduate OF
Creighton University at Omaha and
practices law In that city. He has
been chairman. Of the National
Catholic Community Service since
1941. He was a founder and vice
president of the USO and was
awarded the Medal for Merit for
his war service. He is director OF
the United States Chamber OF
Commerce.
Franklin ID. Roosevelt, jr., 33, is
a son of the late President. A grad
uate of Groton, Harvard and the
University of Virginia Law School
he served in the Navy, attaining
the rank of lieutenant commander
He won the Silver Star and the
Legion Of Merit. He practices law
in New York. He is national hous-
ing chairman of the American Vet
erans' Committee and vice chair
man of Americans for Democratic
Action.
The Right Rev. Henry Knox Sher-
rill, presiding bishop of the Epis-
copal Church, is Sc and native OF
Brooklyn. He is a graduate Of Yale
and of the Episcopal Theological
School He served as an Army
chaplain In France during World
War I. He was rector of Trinity
Church in Boston and became
bishop of Massachusetts In 1890
Evening star., 1947-10-29

Here is brief biographical data on
the members Of the Presidents Com
mittee on Civil Rights which issued
its report today.
Charles E. Wilson, go, chairman
of the committee and president of
the General Electric Co., was born
in New York. He quit school at the
age of II and went to work at So
week in the shipping department
of the Sprague Works of General
Electric. He was executive vice
chairman (production -boss) OF the
War Production Board in Washing
ton from September, 1912, to Sep
tember, 1914.
Mrs. Sadie r. Alexander, 48, the
first colored woman in the United
States to receive a doctor of philos-
ophy degree, was assistant city
solicitor of Philadelphia for eight
wears. She was born in Philadel-
phia and spent her childhood ir
washington. She is graduate o.
Dunbar High School, of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania and the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Law School
James b. Carey, 36, secretary
treasurer of the CIO, lives in Airing
ton. He was born in Philadelphia
He became an organizer for th'
AFL In 1884, national secretary O.
the CIO in 1898, and has been Sec
retary-treasurer since 1912. He wa
member of the Planning Board o.
the old Office of Production Man
agement. He is chairman OF TIT
CIO Committee to Abolish Racia
Discrimination.
Evening star., 1947-10-29
-AP Wirephoto.

He has been a member of the Massa-
chusetts Committee on Racial and
Religious Understanding.
Boris Shiskin, Al. economist for
the AFL since 1898, was born in
Odessa, Russia. He came to this
country in 1928 and Is a graduate
Of Columbia University. He was a
labor adviser and consultant to a
number of Federal agencies includ-
ing the War Production Board. He
was a member of the Fair Employ
ment Practices Committee. He lives
in Alexandria.
Mrs. M. E. Tilly, Atlanta. Ca, is
secretary Of the department of social
relations of the Womens Society of
Christian Service of the Methodist
Church. A native of Hampton, Ga,
she is a graduate of Rinehardt and
Wesleyan Colleges. She is director
of the Committee on Interracial
Cooperation, member Of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Southern
Conference on Human Welfare.
Charming H. Tobias, IS, is director
Of the Phelps-Stokes Fund OF New
York and has long been associated
with the national council Of the
YMCA. Born in Augusta, Ga. he is
a graduate of Paine College and
Drew University. He was secretary
of the student department of the
YMCA national council from 1911 to
1923, and since then has been senior
secretary of the colored department
of that group.
Evening star., 1947-10-29

of the University of North Carolina
since 1880, was born in Fayetteville,
N. c. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina and Co.
lumbia University. He has served
in Washington on the old National
Consumers Advisory Board, the
National Advisory Council on Social
Security, the Presidents Committee
on Education, the National Defense
Mediation Board and the War La
Dor Board.
Bishop Francis J. Haas, So, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, was director
of the National Catholic School of
Social Services here from 1881 to
1885 and dean of the Catholic Uni
versity School of Social Science
from 1887 to 1943 Born in Racine,
Wise, he attended st. Francis Semi
nary, Milwaukee. He was a special
conciliator for the Labor Depart
ment, member of the Labor Ad-
visory Board of NRA and later a
member of the National Labor
Board. He was chairman of the
Fair Employment Practice Commit
tee in 1943.
Charles Luckman, 38, is president
of Lever Brothers of Cambridge,
Mass, and chairman of the Presi-
dents Citizens Food Committee.
Born in Kansas City, he was gradu-
ated from high school and started
to become an architect, but instead
got a job in 1881 at $125 month.
He became president of the Pepso-
dent Co., in 1943 and of Lever Broth
ers in 1914.
Evening star., 1947-10-29

TlgntS Oh minority groups W VoVs
in Federal and State elections.
8. A law giving people in the Dis.
trict of Columbia the right to gov.
ern themselves. vote, and be repre-.
sented in Congress.
4. The granting Of the right tc
vote to the Indian citizens Of New
Mexico and Arizona.
/ 5. American citizenship for the
people OF Guam and American
Samoa.
6. Federal laws ending all racial
discrimination in the armed services
Concerning the right to freedom
of conscience and expression:
/. Federal and State laws re-
quiring all groups which try to in
fiuence public opinion to register
and tell the facts about themselves
2. Clarification of the loyalty
obligations of Federal workers, and
the setting up of procedures that
would protect their civil rights.
Concerning the right to equality
Of opportunity:
/. The elimination of segregation
based on race, color, creed, or ma
tional origin, from American life
2. No Federal grant unless there
Is to be no segregation or discrimi-
nation In the use of money.
| 3. Federal and State fair employ
ment practice acts. prohibiting dis
elimination in employment.
Would Ban Covenants.
4. State laws banning discrimina.
ton in schools, banning restrictive
Evening star., 1947-10-29

tional elections in the District
deprives a substantial number of
permanent Washington residents of
voice in public affairs"
"Outmoded Traditions" Cited.
Attacking practices by which
large numbers of citizens, becaue
of race or similar discriminatory
considerations, are barred or him
dered in trying to vote in some
States, the committee drew special
attention to the voteless citizens Of
Washington.
Some citizens-permanent resi-
dents of the District of Columbia
are excluded from political repre-
sentation and the right to vote as
result of outmoded national ira
ditions. AS result of such restric-
tions, all of these citizens are linn
tied, in varying degrees, in their op-
portunities to seek office and to
influence the conduct Of govern
ment on an equal plane with other
American citizens"
The committee urged establish
ment of fair educational and health
practice programs. 1t reported find
ing employment discrimination
against Negroes in Federal depart
ments here as well as in private
employment generally. 1t listed the
District Bar Association and the
Medical Siciety as being "for whites
only"
Special stress was placed on the
civil rights situation in the District
because the District is under the
immediate authority of the National
Government and because it is a
major gateway to Jim Crow areas
in the South.
Details D. c. Segregation.
Dealing in detail with the prob
lem of segregation in the District,
the committee asked Congress to
prohibit discrimination and segre-
CATION, biased on race, color, creed
or national origin, in all public or
publicly supported hospitals, parks,
recreational facilities, housing prof.
ects, welfare agencies, penal insti-
tutions and concessions on public
property"
The committee referred to the
Washington situation to answer a
contention that segregation can be
separate but equal" The idea that
facilities are equal when q COM
munity operates separate schools
for white and colored children is
"one OF the outstanding myths of
American history" the committee
declared.
The dual school system is "the
core of Washington's segregated
society,"" and Negro schools here
are inferior to white schools in
almost every respect" the commit
tee stated. Even reasonable equal
ity" Is impossible in the dual sys-
tenn, 1t added.
The greatest Inequalities are
Evening star., 1947-10-29

only humiliates colored citizens, but
is a source of considerable embar-
rassment to these visitors. White
residents, because they are the DOM
inant group, share in both the hu-
initiation and the embarrassment.
Foreign officials are often mistaken
for American Negroes and refused
food, lodging and entertainment.
However, once it Is established that
they are not Americans, they are
accommodated.
This is the situation that exists In
the District of Columbia. The COM
mittee feels most deeply that 1t is
intolerable.
Evening star., 1947-10-29

and fascists in this country, th'
committee referred to the Govern
ment loyalty investigations.
1t warned that the Federal loyalty
program may lead to dangeroU
Red hunting" but it upheld thu
Governments right and duty" tt
determine the loyalty of its EN-
ployes.
Affects All Americans.
more than the civil rights Of oul
1000, 900 Federal employees are in.
volved here" the committee said
| "All Americans are bound to be af.
fected by what is done. The Fed.
eral Government must maintain 6
loyalty program which adequately
protects the civil rights of its en-
ployes. Otherwise, private employer!
and State and local government!
may not protect the rights of theil
own personnel, and, in fact, they
may actually be encouraged to in
fringe those rights"
The committee urged that &C.
cused employees be given bill o1
particular accusations, representa-
ton by counsel at all examination.
or hearings, the right to subpoena
documents and witnesses, steno.
graphic report of proceedings, 6
written decision, time to prepare 9
written brief for an appeal anc
due process" as we'll as specif1'
cally stated rules of evidence in al
proceedings.
Attorney General Clark, the re.
port revealed, wrote the committed
that ut is my firm purpose, insofar
as my Office has control over thi!
program to require substantial OBJ
servance of the safeguards recon-
mended."
The committee gave a specia
warning against the present system
by which an employees loyalty car
be determined by his af1iliatior
with an organization as subversive
Hit Federal Discrimination.
The committee said there wa.
considerable discrimination against
colored persons in the Federal serv'
ice. 1t requested the President tt
issue a mandate" against such
practices.
Much of the report dealt witt
conditions in the South, but on.
of the most critical sections related
to the District. Besides discussing
segregation and discrimination
practices here, the report stressed
the need for District suffrage, self.
government and national repre-.
sentation as a matter of basic civi
rights.
THE American tradition o
democracy requires that the Dis
trict of Columbia be given the sam,
measure of self-government in loca
affairs that is possessed by othel
communities throughout the coun
try" the committee declared. "Th'
lack of congressional representa-
ton and suffrage In local and ma
Evening star., 1947-10-29
Civil Riqhts
Continued From First Page.)

and in the armed services and pub
lie employment.
The report urged States to pro-
hibit restrictive covenants. 1t
called for an all-out legal fight
in Federal and State courts and
urged the Justice Department to
intervene directly in an effort to
have covenants ruled illegal.
Would Deny Federal Grants.
States and local communities
should be denied Federal grants
for education, public housing and
similar projects If they use such
money to support or perpetuate a
segregated pattern" the committee
proposed.
The committee exempted private
schools from this form of suggested
sanction" because some of the
members feared such an application
might lead to Government control
of education, the report disclosed.
Several committee members, while
favoring the outlawing of segrega-
tion. opposed this form of Sane
ton" in general against States and
local communities. For the District
of Columbia, however, the commit
tee proposed legislation establishing
a fair educational practice pro-
gram" directed against "discrimina-
ton" in admission of students to
private educational institutions.
One of the principal methods sug-
gested by the committee to
strengthen the machinery for en-
forcing civil rights would be to
build up the Civil Rights Section
of the Justice Department.
The recommendation called for
establishment of special FBI unit
of investigators trained In civil
rights work, creation of a perma-
nent Federal Commission on Civil
Rights and formation of similar
groups in States, and professional
ization' of State and local police
procedures in dealing with civil
rights cases.
In connection with its comments
on ways of combating communists