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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
SoeioIogist Lauds
Improved Negro
Press
Chicago: ''It the Negro press
growing or dying?"

In answer to this question
Grinnell College sociologist John
H. Burma declares in February
Negro Digest that the Negro
press is doing both decreasing in
numbers and growing in circula-
ton and value to the community
In all, Negro general newspap-
ers today number 155, fewer than
any time in the last so years,
Burma asserts. And these news
papers are growing by leaps and
bounds, he continues. During two
years circulation has increased
more than u per cent and adj
yertising more than so per cent
This far surpasses the record
for white newspapers during the
same period, the Negro digest
feature insists.
Pointing out that smaller news
papers have been unable to cope
with rising cost of production in
the face of competing larger news
papers, Burma says that the bulk
of the present Negro press is now
in a sounder position than ever
before in its history. The writer
continues:
while this. decrease in num-
bers was occurring, number of
employees has been increasing a.
bout 10 per cent a year. Negro
papers are now published in 80
states and in all cities"
Contributing factors listed by
Bruma are, increased Negro in
terest in his status as a second
class citizen, increased income,
and migration of Negroes from
rural areas to larger cities.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
UTICA Farmers
Conference honors
HoItcIaW

Utica. Miss. - Jan. &c - The
45th Annual Farmers Conference
will be held here Tuesday Febru-
airy 18th it was announced here
last week by Prof. j. w. Gran
thaim, Principal of Kinds Coun-
ty Agricultural High School, for
merly Utica Institute.
Prof. Granthaim said that the
Farmers Conference would be
continued each year at the Utica
School in honor of the late Prof.
Holtclaw, founder of the confer
ence and the founder of Utica In
stitute which was for many years
valuable part of Negro education
al opportunity in Mississippi.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
Study Plans To
Improve Arkansas
Negro Schools

Little Rock, Jan. "a = Impro-
vement of secondary educational
facilities for Negroes and the pos
sibility of an expansion program
at tn estate College for Negrfoes
at Pine Bluff received consider
alton from Governor Laney and
state educational leaders here
Saturday.
The governor said he called
the conference to discuss the
whole problem of improving high
er education" in the state, par
ticulary in view of the recent
United States Supreme Court de-
cision upholding the right of a
Negro girl to be admitted to the
all-white University of Oklaha-
ma Law, School.
Governor Laney said no defin-
tie policy had been formulated
on the Negro question for Ark
ansas institutions, and added
nothing viii be done until after
the Southern Governors Confer
enca in Tallahassee, Fla. Feb.
rs. The conference has been
called to discuss a proposal to
establish regional professional Sc
hools for Negroes.
The Governor revealed that DR..
Lewis Nv. Jones, president Of the
University of Arkansas; Or. I. S.
Staples, president of Hendrix Col
lege and chairman of the State
Board of Educational ndEdMcQui-
ston, supervisor of state educa-
ton for Negroes, would attend
the Governors conference with
him.
1--WE, of course will make every
improvement we CAM, the Cover
nor said, but added eve can't
do it all at one time.''
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
Memphis Man
Freezes To Death

Memphis, Tenn. Jan. 23 - The
first fatality resulting from the
severe cold wave here was Mack
Moore, who was found dead in
an unheated room where he lived
Il the rear of PSI Butler street
Saturday morning.
The death was reported by T.
H. Hayes Funeral Home who took
charge Of the body.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
Legislature Gets
Bill To Establish
State Negro Law
School

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 26 - A bill
to establish Law School at AL
corn College, >Mississippi's only in
stitution of higher education for
Negroes was introduced, last week
in the house of Representatives of
the Mississippi Legislature, which
is now in session here.
The bill which was introduced by
Representative Calmers Alexander
of Kinds County reads as follows:
BE 1T HEREBY ENACTED BY
THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION /. That there is here
by established a department. of law
to be located in Alocorn Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College as a
optional part of the educational
SYSTEM of said college, which de-
partment shall give adequate in
struction and education in the
legal requirements necessary for
proficiency as a prerequisite of adj
mission to the practice of law in
Mississippi.
SECTION 2. That the Board of
Trustees of state institutions of
higher learning be and it is here
by empowered and authorized and
required to establish such depart
men6 of law at Alcorn Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, and
to make necessary and proper con-
tracts of employment with per-
sons skilled in the teaching Of law,
to teach and give instruction to
the students alzing he prescribed
course Of study in such department,
an dto arrange a proper curricu-
lum and the terms, conditions, and
fees III regard to same.
SECTION 3. That the said de-
partme-nt Of law shall conform in
its respects and in its requirements
to the requirements upon the de-
partment of law now conducted
at the University of Mississippi.
The faculy of the Alcorn College
is hereby authorized. under the
requirements and authority extern
ded by the Board of Trustees of
state institutions of higher learn
ing to grant proper law degree in
graduation, which shall confer up
on the graduate student of the
colleg,. upon whom such degree is
bestowed, the full right to be ad-
mitted to the practice of law in
the State of Mississippi on ac-
cord with the existing laws now
in force in Mississippi relative
thereto.
SECTION a. That this act take
effect and be in force from and
after it's passage.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31

improper food and economic inse-
curity do not produce hardy men
and women, but there is no proved
racial susceptibility. More Ne
groes get tuberculosis and pneu-
monia, contact veneral disease and
other ills because, in the main,
they live under worse conditions
and because they do not receive
adequate, medical care. Then they
spread infection.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31

eS.
The committee came up with
the regional school plan which
proposes that southern states take
over and maintain existing Sc
hools Jointly. These schools would
offer Negroes degrees in medic
inc, law, journalism and other
specialied fields. Tuition and
transportation fees would be met
out of state educational appropri-
atoms.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
Governor Wright's Inaugural Speech,
Senator East|and's Attack On u. S.
Supreme Court Again Puts Miss.
Negro Issue On Nations Spotlight
University OF Miss studensH Segregation Says Students
Minds Being Boekaded By Prejudice
Negro Students Attempt TO Pay Respects To Governor
Provokes Wide Discussion Here

The inaugural address of Gov.
Fielding L. Wright here last Tues
day in which he bitterly attack
ed the report of the Presidents
Committee on Covil Rights, and
the growing demand for the ele-
mination of segregation and dis
elimination in the nation; and
threatened to bolt the Democrat
party if the National Party lea
ders continued their effort to past
the Anti-Poll Tax, Anti-Lynch and
F. E. P. G. Bills, which he re-
CARDS as aimed only at Mississ-
ippi and the south; coincident
with the attack of Senator East
land on the United States Supre-
me Court in hearing on the, Anti
Lynch Bill in Washington during
which the Senator charged that
the nations highest court was not
judically honest, spot lighted the
race question in Mississippi re-
miniscence of the days of the late
Senator Theodore G.. Bilbo.
A survey of reports published
throughout the south shows Gov.
Wright to have received little
support in this threat to bolt the
Democrat Party outside the state
Of Mississippi and the Mississippi
Congressional delegation in Wash
ington.
In Mississippi, the State Legis-
lature now in session by almost
unanimous vote, and the State
Democratic Committee went on
record in support of the Cover
nor's stand.
In Washington, the States Con-
gressional delegation, with the
single exception of recently ell
ected Senator Stennis also en-
dorsed the stand taken by the
governor. Senator Stennis when
called upon said that he was still
a freshmen Senator, Indicating
that he was not yet expected to
make comment on matters.
Here in the states capitol\Neg-
no leader expressed concern less
the governors speech would cause
deterioration in the approaches to
better race relations already exist
ing and being developed in the
state. It was also pointed out
that Negroes in Mississippi were
/ still not enjoying the right to re-
gister and vote; that the educa-
tional opportunities of Negroes in
the state were vastly unequal and
inadequate;; that Negroes were
not enjoying public, health, recreL
alton and other facilities all matt
ters of increasing concern to Neg
roes of the state, all of which
they would continue to seek as
being conducive to the highest
and best race relations in the
state.
The Anti-Lynch, Anti-Poll Tax
and F. E, P. c. Legislation are
regarded as being National is
sues by Negro leaders AMI they
say should not be allowed to in
terfere with the progress of in
terracial cooperation and good
will in the state.
Almost at the same time the
| governor was delivering his spe-
ech and Senator Eastland was at
lacking the United States Sup
RENE Court, white students at the
university of Mississippi attacked
the stand on segregation in the
| state.
The attack on the segregation
stand by the white university Of
Mississippi students came as a re-.
| suit of the refusal of the students
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
High Death Disease
Rate An,ong,N
roes Blamed On
Color Bar In Med.
PREJUDICE AGAINST NEGRO
STUDENTS SEEN DEBATING
NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM

Philadelphia Chief cause for
the high rate of disease and dea-
tn among Negroes is the endless
practice of discriminating against
Negroes in the medical field. This
discrimination takes the form of
prejudice against Negro students
in medical schools and against
colored medical graduates in hos
pitfalls.
The Jan. "a edition of the Sat
urday Evening Post carries an ar
ticle by Henry F. and Katherine
Pringle, which deals with the
evils of discrimination in medic
inc. Entitled "The Color Line in
Medicine" the article declares,
"Contagion knows no color line.
'The federal government, the
states and cities of this vast,
rich nation spend many millions
of dollars every year to improve
public health. Yet, with tragic
imprudence, we are doing very
little to strengthen one of the
weakest links in this endless
chain of money and effert. We are
perpetuating, through prejudice,
a critical shortage of Negro doc
tors = situation which contri-
butes heavily to the high rate of
Negro mortality and results in
the spread of disease through. col
ored and white population alike"
The Pringles, who conducted a
two months investigation of OPP
portunities for Negroes in the
medical field by visiting white,
Negro, and biracial medical col
leges and hospitals, - uncovered
the fact that there are only A.
600 Negro doctors now practicing
medicine. This figure is more
than 400 percent less than that
for white physicians. 1t also
points need for an estimated
$500 more to care for the in
creasing Negro population.
They showed that the current
national average is one Negro
doctor to every 1887 Negroes, al
though the accepted minimum
standard is one to 1900. In Miss
issippi the ratio is one to 49,
527.
cone important reason for this
acute shortage Of skilled medical
men is the discriminatory policy
Of our medical schools in admit
ting minority students. Discrim-
ination against Negro students is
common in the north as well as
the south, and it is not limited
to the medical colleges. only two
of the " medical schools freely
admit Negro applicants and these
are Negro institutions. Many hos
pitfalls, vital to the training Of all
physicians, close their doors to
| colored medical graduates"
! The Pringles scotched the
widespread notion that Negroes,
as race, are especially prone
to disease They pointed out that
no competent scientists agrees
with that belief, but rather that
Negroes get sick because of power
ty and neglect, exactly like all
other members of the human race.
Generations of bad housing,
l
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
Prof. and Mrs. j.
M. Bates Home
Burns

The beautiful home of. Prof.
and Mrs. John M. Bates, on W.
Deerpark street was badly dam
aged by fire early Friday morn
ing.
The fire is reported to have
started from kitchen stove.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31

of Industrial Bank of Washington;
Elder Solomon Lightfoot Miehaux
radio evangelist, Washington; j.
B. Deans, Philadelphia, district ma,
mayer for the North Carolina Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, and
Emanuel C. Wright, Philadelphia.
president of the Citizens & South
ern Bank and Trust Company, and
president of the National Free
dom Day Association. (NNPA
photo.)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-01-31
WHITE HOUSE VISITORS

A group representing the Nat
ional Freedom Day Association is
shown leaving the White House
last Thursday after presenting Pre-
sident Truman with a portrait OF
the late Major R. r. Wright
founder of National Freedom Day
left to right, former Municipal
Court Judge James A. Cobb, Was
hington; Jesse Mitchell, president
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-31
Friday. December 3l. l948

f the exhibit would embarrass inc armed services.
 Despite the boards ban, how ever, a reporter recently walked through the exhibit and examined every item.
 The variety gets in;o full swing with blankets.
 The navy officers blanket Cat S8.25 each in l945D is a few inches wider and has a blue "USN' on it's white surface, whereas the sailors number CS73O, also l9451 is solid white.
 The marines blanket CS8 in l948) is green and has a special stripe which an accompanying card says forces the manufacturer 70 weave j: straight, even though hi slows p"oduc ion.
 The army-air force blanket '$755 in l940 is khaki.
 The army medical number S795 in l9f6p iS white with a maroon stripe and the one for field service 'S8.04 in l946) is olive drab.
 There are three folding canvas cots. The navy paid S320, the ma rineS $7.50 for the same weight Of canvas. The army, with a S6.34 price tag, points to a heavier ma terial which t says means twice the life of the navy cot.
 Pillows come in five sizes. The marines pay S25O for the same size the army gets for SHY.
 Here are white sneakers for the navy and marines C97 centS) and brown sneakers for he army and air force CSl.60.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-31
Red-Faced Military View Foolish
 Multi-Dept. Buying

WASHINGTON, (P)-Out in a long warehouse in nearby Virgin ia is a dollarS-and-centS exhibit Of the high cost of independent buy ing by the army, navy and air force.
 Some 400 items Of clothing and personal equipment - things the three services are paying S247,- 000,000 for this year-are laid out on counters for the edification of red-faced military buyers.
 The munitions board-an adviS- ory group in the defense estab- liShment-2ot the exhibit together to convince the three services that many items should be the same for everybody, and cost less.
 The borad emphasized that it has no intention of trying 70 stan dardize such things as uniforms, buttons, insignia or distinctive items of outer clothing which show to which service the wearer belongs.
 But blankets, undershirtS. bel's, fatigue uniforms and host of other articles have come under critical scrutiny.
 News men are barred from the warehouse at the army quarter master depot in Arlington, just across the Pc o'omac River from Washington. The munitions board ruled that detailed public report
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-31
Release Tojo Slap per From Asylum

TOKYO, LP, - Shumei OkaWa, the Japanese propagandist who slapped Hideki Tojo on the head at the opening of the war crimes trial, was released from an insane asylum yesterday.
 OkaWa originally was one O. the defendants in the trial which re- suited in the hanging of Tojo and SIX others. He was declared insane after the skipping incident.
 Las. week, 24 hours after T0jo was executed, OkaWa was among l9 alleged war criminals whose names were cleared in a general amnesty order by Gen. Douglas MacArhtur.
The Nome nugget., 1948-12-31

Here are tan shoes for the navy at S7.73, tan shoes for the army and air force at S5.07.
 Here are electrically heated fly ing suits. The air force model at Sl2l.78 is good down to -65 de- grees. The navy's at S122.47 only down 10 20. F.
 Exposure suits for surviving long periods of soaking in the ocean cost the navy S25.9l, the air farce s47.l2 The navy's is black with a yellow dye package; he air forces is bright yellow. The air force had zipper on the case the suit comes in: the navy uses a snap button.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04

Help protect the peace. enlist
today In the United States Army.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04

land Of plenty, because we Amer.
leans have had the initiative to
do things for ourselves. We have
rot been willing, in the past. to
turn our everyday lives over TO
an expanding government. Our
fathers did not stand back and
beg the federal government to do
everything for them.
Freedom THE BRITISH PEG.
Easily Lost pie have had unhap.
by times with pub
lie housing and subsidies. During
the thirties they tried public
housing on q large scale. But il
was only after government had
failed, that private industry came
in and produced a real boom In
housing. The present Socialist
government in England is inter-
ested in public housing. It ID
routine there to interfere with
the liberties and freedoms Of the
people.
The Nsw York Times on May 3,
carried q short dispatch from .
small English town. It said that
a carpenter had used his life saw.
ings and his own hands to build
himself a small cottage, only TO
have government wrecking crews
come in to tear 1t down because
he did not have a permit to build.
Demolition crews were called of
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04

'ruR CENTRAL plsnners are at
= 1910 Thsv are oettin0 act TO
-. - ,u.h housing ieUIslation
through the special session ct
congress. There 70 hardly . Dill
70 b considered that the plan
nsrs" and socialist minded ex-
pssimsntsrs will push harder
than Q public housing bill. They
realise that government housing,
and the huge and wasteful spend
ing that goes with it, would put
the federal government right in
business.
w.. !. a.. o~;o-,, -, tho lido.
w. 20 ~. v should .uh-
s,ss oel , xIrein nmS n.s sv The costs
u' 4. sox al .s am prSs Whers
o. 81. IA. s cn,ps fror that The
W.. VIE ,uee so ,a.;an - nhi;s
gated TO furnish houses and lodg-
Ing TO It's people? These ideas
did not originate in America, the
land Of the free. They came from
Europe and from Russia. These
ideas have been tried over there.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04

tificate will be considered primary
evidence of relationship & affidavit
evidence as to the dependency of
the parent or parents must be SUBJ
mitted before benefits under the
new law will be paid the veteran.
Commander Golob stressed the
fact that every veteran who be-
lieves himself entitled to these be-
nefits should secure the official re-
cords and affidavit evidence of de-
pendency At once and file them with
the VA. The offices of all National
Service Officers of the DAV stand
ready to assist any disabled veteran
in securing the necessary legal EVIL
dence and preparing the required
affidavits to establish entitlement.
Don't write the VA" said Golob,
but do get the evidence we know
they will request"
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04

taxpayers throughout the state are
becoming more and more concerned
about who handles the states funds.
I was repeatedly told that the Of
flee should be completely free Of
political entanglements and the
treasurer should not be under OBJ
legation to any bank or bankers.
1T believe I can give our citizens
what they want. because I am per-
sonally financing my campaign
being a successful Businessman in
the lumber and building supplies
field. As result. I am not COM
mitted to any special interest
groups, and am completely free to
administer the duties OF the Of
flee in the most satisfactory man
ner.
IT entered this race sincerely be-
lieving that 1t is every good citi-
zen's duty to offer himself for
public service"
Abel attended the Naval Acade-
my at Annapolis, graduated from
the University Of Washington and
served as a naval officer in World
War II.
Pro America Republican women,
after q careful and exhaustive sur
Wy Of the COP. field IN the
treasurers race, strongly recon-
mended Abel
The Pro America report said:
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04
BY Frances Ainsworth


The other day my sister Jean and
/ went shopping for q baby gift.
jean suggested that we select
something In silver, because every
one would surely be sending dresses
and sweaters and the usual sort Of
thing baby gets. So off we went
to the jewelry store and We
found the most wonderful gift
you'd ever dream OF q step-up
set of 1S47 Rogers Bros First Love
silver.
The complete set consists Of a
tiny spoon for when the mother
starts to feed the baby, q small
spoon and fork for when baby
starts to feed himself, and a young
ster set for when the child becomes
expert at manipulating a knife,
fork and spoon.
Jean bought the set. The tiny
spoon Is something very new
very small, about the size Of an af-
ter-dinner spoon. The jeweler told
us that many mothers and doctors
approve of 1t because they feel that
baby spoons are too large for .
baby's mouth. I particularly like
the small spoon and fork, or 'Edu-
Gator set, as 1t Is called. The young
ster set viii be very welcome when
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04
Law 81 Providing New Benefits
For Veterans Now effective

AL veterans who have been grant
ed compensation awards Of so per
cent or more for their service con-
nected disabilities and who are
married or have minor children or
dependent parent or parents are
entitled to additional benefits un-
der the provisions of Public Law
ST., signed by President Truman,
July 2, 1913.
A statement has been issued by
the National Commander of the
Disabled American Veterans, John
L. Golob, in Cincinnati, in which he
states:
Benefits under the law viii date
from September l." said Comman-
der Golob.
I'VE do not know the exact meth
cd the Veterans Administration will
use in determining entitlement to
these added benefits, but we do
know the VA viii require each vet
eran drawing compensation of so
per cent or more to submit legal
proof of his marriage as well as Of
fetal birth records of his child or
children If such evidence has not
already been submitted"
In establishing the dependency Of
parent or parents Commander
Golob brought out that proof Of re-
lationship as well as proof Of de-
pendency of a parent viii also he
required. The veterans birth GER
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-09-04
ABEL BELIEVES
IN EQUITABLE
FLOW OF FUND

Harry A. Abel, Jr., Of Seattle, the
aggressive Republican candidate
seeking the nomination for state
treasurer, firmly believes there
should be q more equitable dis
tribution Of the states multi-mil-
lion dollar accounts.
Following an extensive statewide
tour, in which 1t Is generally con-
coded Abel made much Roadway in
his drive for votes. Abel asserts:
1T Is increasingly obvious that