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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21
Dayton Represented
At Conference

Starting Tuesday and ending
Sunday June 27, the 39th annual
conference of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People will be held in
Kansas City, Mo. Miley O.. Will
hanson from the Dayton branch
will attend the conference.
With the opening Of the con-
ference it is necessary to empha-
size again the need for a stronger,
broader and more effective NAA
CP, both locally and nationally.
In this particular period through
which we are now going there has
been an accelerated drive against
the democratic liberties of the Ne
gro people corresponding to the
general drive against all the
people.
In commenting on the betrayal
of Negroes b ythe 88th congress
which did not pass one, not one
piece of civil rights legislation,
Walter White, executive secretary
Continued on page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21

WHEREFORE, O., June Fl.
Announcing that he had grant
ed DR.. Vishnu V. Oak, director Of
and department of bust
ness administration and editor of
the Negro College Quarterly, a
years sabbatical leave to go to
Alcon college, Miss, as dean and
assistant to the president in
charge of public relations. DR..
Charles Leander Hiss, president
of Wilberforce university, said
last Thursday he took this step be-
cause of the joint request of DR..
Oak and DR.. w. H. Pipes, presi-
dent of Alcorn college.
81 want to encourage such sab
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21
Package Plan" Possible
On Bus Fare Issue

the additional $4,000, but how
to sell the payroll tax plan to the
citizens of Dayton. The campaign
will probably follow the Column
bus pattern. The people of that
community were bombasted with
an intense press assault favoring
the tax. Thus far the approach
has been one of extreme caution,
but we can shortly expect both
guns on the issue.
Although emphasizing that no
decisions had been made on the re-
quest Of the bus companies to in
crease the fare, the mayor and
city manager, Russell McClude,
are considering tying the fare up
in a package plan along with the
curb loading. The package plan
is a ruse not to dissimiliar to a
congressional rider" 1t works
like this: when two related issues
are before a legislative body or
up for referendum for acceptance
or rejection and one is necessary
and tasteful while the other is dis
tasteful they are both written into
one measure or package" To
defeat the measure, of course
means to defeat the necessary por-
ton of it as we'll as the distaste-
full portion.
New York City used the pack
age plan in raising it's subway
fare from &c to 10c. The board of
transportation there combined in
n package the subway fare along
with the wage increase to the
transport workers. To defeat the
continued on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21

A Civil Rights committee was
organized recently here in Dayton
with the express purpose of fight
ing for the democratic rights Of
the people of Dayton and the
country at large. The committee
is long overdue in being formed
here in Dayton, but it has at long
last been formed, and it should
be supported to the hilt.
Civil Rights committees have
been formed in most o fthe major
cities throughout the nation. They
have amassed a remarkable rec
ord Of safeguarding the liberties
guaranteed citizens of this coun-
try by the constitution and the
bill Of rights. The composition of
these committees in all cases en-
braces the very best elements in
the community. Anyone interested
in the welfare o-fthe nation from
the standpoint Of civil rights is
welcome into the organization.
Here in Dayton, at it's first
meeting last week, a cr~oss-section
of Dayton citizenry participated
in the first action o fthe commit
tee which was to organize a coun-
ter theological campaign against
the Infamous Mundt bill. Included
in the meeting held at the WV at
the corner of Third and Wilker-
son streets, were a Negro minis
ter, a Polish clergyman, a pro-
gressive Greek, a Jewish rabbi and
many plain citizens of every race
and nationality.
The group discussed the neces-
sary steps to combat the reaction
airy drive to deprive many progress
sive citizens, and even ordinary
people of good will of their basic
democratic privileges. 1t was de-
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21
Tabernacle News

Rev. and Mrs. j. Welby Broad
dus will leave Monday to attend
the National Sunday school and
Training Union congress at Cleve-
land. Mrs. Irene Richardson, Mrs.
Aureybelle Upshaw, William
Cruthcher and Thomas Lyle are
elected messengers who will also
attend. Approximately 10 persons
from the church will make the
trip.
Plans have been completed for
the annual Women's ay service to
be held at the church on the first
Sunday in July. Mrs. L. B. Fouse
of Lexington, KY, will be guest
speaker at the morning services.
A musical and literary program
will be featured in the afternoon.
Mrs. Lucille Pauley will be the
speaker at the evening services.
.1rs. Blanche w. Lewis and Mrs.
Winnie Parks are leaders for the
women. Mrs. Vashti S. Owens is
program chairman for the day.
Walter C. Copeland was hon
ored with a dinner last Monday
evening in his home at 324 AIDE
lite avenue. Mr.. Copeland, who
was II years of age, is a member
of the official board of the church
and is active in every department.
The First Aid club held a Tea
Sunday afternoon from 8 till 7
in the home of Mrs. James Hamil-
ton at 1040 West Fourth street.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21
Force Prof. Granted Leave

batical leaves at least once every
10th year for all professors for
they enable them to get away
from their environment and get
fresh ideas and hopes" DR.. Hill
added. "Otherwise, teachers and
administrators are liable to be-
come stale and stagnant after
staying in one place too long"
DR.. Oak will continue to work
as publicity director of Wilber-
force university through the sum-
mer and leave for Mississippi at
the end of August. DR.. Hill has
also commissioned him to finish
the second volume of his series,
Continued on page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21

Being in the lowest income
group in the city of Dayton, there
are two vital issues which Negroes
should follow with the most mi
croscopic vigilance. They are the
proposed bus fare increase from
sc to 10c and the not-as-yet pro-
posed municipal payroll tax prob
ably of l per cent of earned in
come.
The mayor, LoLuis Lohrey, an
nounced Friday that the city COM
mission will give the highest pri-
GRITTY to the bus fare increase. In
addition the mayor said that at
least three other municipal prob
lens must be acted on before fall.
They are: the problme of raising
$4,000 in additional operating
revenue in order to prevent the
city from ending 1913 in a def
icit; the problem of downtown
curb loading of trolley buses, and
the problem of determining the
most pressing m%unicipals needs.
1t is we'll known by most in
formed people that the city COM
mission is not so much graphing
with the problem of where to get
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21
Negroes in Picket Line

Several Negroes were in the
picket line at the Univis Lens
company on 401 Leo street, when
the rumpus was started last Tues
day. They have been in the line
ever since, although they did not
figure too prominently in any of
the pictures which were taken.
Only a few Negroes are employed
at Univis, and those in mental ca
pacities.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21
Courts Hard on
Gouging Landlords

NEW YORK, June 81, CAMP
-Gouging landlords, preying on
house hungry folk, are finding
that the courts know no mercy
when these cases reach the bar.
Two whites who fleeced their VIC
TINS of plenty, have been sent
enced and a third is facing nine
long years in the %hoosegow.
Harlemites are hoping that the
investigation reaches this area
where congestion and lack of
housing has made bonuses" and
apartment sales" a booming bus.
ness.
interruptions landlords finding
a victim Immediately offer for sale
and immediate occupancy a fur
nished apartment. The victim pays
a fabulous price for some fourth
hand furniture and worn out stuff
and assumes the apartment rental.
From time to time, victims have
paid for one set of furniture only
to find a different dilapidated sci
Continued on page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-06-21

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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-15

ments and increased demands for
scientific information require addi-
tional buildings for classrooms and
laboratories.
Although significant increases in
salaries have been made during the
past three years, they have not been
sufficient to offset the increased cost
of living. The cost of living has in
creased nearly rs percent since 1910,
while salaries of staff members at
Montana State college and the other
units of the university system have
been increased only about half that
much. In other words, salaries for
staff members should be increased
about a third above present levels,
to give faculty members the same
amount of purchasing power their
salaries had in 1910.
One of the best measures of the
adequacy of building facilities is the
square footage per student. Before
the war, the United States average
in American colleges and univer-
sites was 155 square feet per stu
dent. At the present time, with the
high enrollments, it is 10. The
presidents commission ON higher
education recommends that mini
mum standard facilities should pro-
vide 155 square feet per student, but
that a more desirable figure would
be ITS square feet.
Crowded Conditions
AT the present time, Montana State
college has an average of IS square
feet per student of permanent build
ings, and with the temporary class
rooms and laboratories that have
been added the past two years, the
average is "a square feet. The situa-
ton at Montana State university at
Missoula is almost identical. To bring
our institutions up to the minimum
standard recommended by the presi-
dents commission would require
doubling our present building facili-
ties.
The last legislature appropriated
money from the general fund sur
plus to construct a classroom build
ing at the State university, a library
at the State college, a classroom at
Eastern Montana Normal school and
an administration building at North
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-15
Services and SUPPORT of
HIGHER Education in Montana
By DIR. R. R. RENNE, President, Montana State College

of high rank for the nation as 4
whole.
Needs of System
In order to continue to render eff
fective educational, research and ex-
tension services, some of the more
urgent needs of the University Sys-
tenn must be met. The very rapid rise
in the cost of living during the past
three years makes higher teachers
salaries necessary. The heavy enroll
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-09-15

Montana property holders WILL
have an opportunity at the COM
ing general election TO vote on
vide needed e for Mon
fana's greater university system.
The present article by Dr.. Renne
is the first of three to be pre-
scented by Montana Farmer
Stockman TO provide readers
with a knowledge of the issues
on which to base their voting
decision. The second article Will
deal with the agricultural re-
search service of the agricultural
experiment station and its
branches and the third will deal
with the agricultural extension
service.
MONTANA'S UNIVERSITY sys-
tenn is composed of six units: the
State university at Missoula, the
State college at Bozeman, the School
of Mines at Butte, the State Normal
college at Dillon, the Eastern Mon
tana Normal school at Billings, and
the Northern Montana college at
Havre.
In addition to these six academic
institutions which train Montana
young men and women for various
professional and vocational careers,
the university system also operates
research and extension programs for
Montanans. These include the forest
experiment station and nursery at
Missoula, the agricultural expert
ment station at BoZeman, with its
seven branch stations located in va
rious parts of the state, the Montana
grain inspection laboratory and the
Montana wool laboratory at Boze-
man, the bureau of mines at Butte,
and the agricultural extension serv-
ice at Bozeman, with county agricul-
tura1 agents and home demonstra-
ton agents located in many Montana
counties.
Services of System
This university system has served
Montana well over the years. Com
pared with neighboring states and
the national average, it is not highly
expensive, and most of the more ex-
pensive duplication of services has
been or is in the process of being
eliminated. Since the close of the
war, the system has had heavy de-
mands placed upon it. The influx of
thousands of veterans and the in
creasing proportion of youth who
attend higher educational institu-
tons after finishing high school have
increased enrolment in the units OF
the university system to between
$500 and 5000 students. Before the
war;, enrolment was about half this
Great advances in scientific de-
velopment have increased the needs
for agricultural, forest and mining
research, and the agricultural ex-
tension service has had increased
calls to provide Montana farm anc
ranch folks with the latest scientific
information, not only on crop pro-
duction and livestock operations, bur
upon improved living, health, rec
reation and related services.
Montana's higher educational sys-
tenn compares ~favorably with thos.
of the rest of the nation and witt
most of our neighboring states. Mon
tana young men and women VIII.
have graduated from units of tn,
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Bv Constantine Bro,yn

Secretary Of State Marshall, back
in Paris after his trip to Washing
ton, has hard work ahead of him to
mend the fences of the Western
Evening star., 1948-10-12

Finally, a Republican defation set
in coincidentally with the presiden-
tial deflation of Harold Stassen and
that party's machinery is having te
be rebuilt by the plodding Gov
Luther Youngdahl with Senator
Ball drag on his heels.
AL this adds up to polls showing
President Truman currently ahead
Of Gov. Dewey and Senator Bal
well to the rear of the Demo.
cratic white hope, Mayor Hubert
Humphrey Of Minneapolis.
In an attempt to save the situa-
ton, Gov. Earl Warren's schedule in
the State was reshuf11ed to give him
an opportunity to harangue the
vote-heavy Iron Range around Du-
luth. Democrats say that it was
anti-Ball sentiment in this region
that forced the Progressive Party to
withdraw its senatorial candidate
Elmer Benson, because Mr.. Benson
might split the vote to Senator
Balls profit.
Non Communist Slate.
Henry Wallace has compaigned
in the Iron-Range region where his
principal hope Of a good vote in the
State rests. But the unions re-
portedly said they wanted no part
Of Mr.. Wallace unless he got Mr..
Benson out. as he now has.
Mr.. Stassen himself has not been
around to help pick UP the pieces
and nobody seems able or willing
to expound this strange case Of the
missing educator. With a poker
face, Gov. Youngdshl smoothly told
Warren reporters that presumably
the national committee thought
Harold could be more useful else
where.
Happily for themselves, the forces
coalescing as Democrat-Farmer-La-
Dor had already done effective spade
work. They decided long before
Washington did to chuck their Com
munist allies and completed the Job
last April, after some vicious court
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Bv L0weU MeUeff

How much labor's anger over the
ft-Hartley law will affect the re-
suits Of the presidential and con-
gressional elections is still proble-
Evening star., 1948-10-12
By Doris FIeeson

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 12.-Minne-
sofa is one OF the few places a
Democrat can enjoy himself these
days,
Evening star., 1948-10-12
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON DC. As
TUESDAY,

been written about the marble boat
and more people have visited it o,
wanted to visit 1t, than any of the
workable. practical greyhound.
which ply the oceans of the earth
So, the old lady must have hac
something.
Gem Of Perfection.
In travelling between the many
magnificent buildings of the palace
the Empress-Dowager didn't like
to get wet in case it was raining
So most Of them are connected by
galleries, one being more than q
mile long. Each rafter Of the gal
leries is beautifully decorated with
q hand-painted landscape, and each
Is . gem Of perfection. The WPA
at its best never spent money like
the old lady did. Ordinary
windows and gates didn't suit her.
All are hand wrought, and are OF
many shapes - leaves, teapots
stars, and the moon. Neither did
she care for regulation bridges
The canals and streams are span
ned by camel-back bridges, which
come almost to a point at the
top.
The Empress-Dowager had a de-
lightful sense of humor, too. One
OF her favorite pastimes, one
which almost made her burst her
girdle with laughter, was to see
the old Mississippi-style side
wheeler, which she purchased to
Evening star., 1948-10-12

vi z Empress henry McLem0re.
Dowager was at the height of her
power she restored 1t with a lavish
hand. The old girl liked her COM
forts first, and her country second.
To make I Ho Yuan what she
wanted 1t to be she appropriated a
fortune from the Naval Board, with
the result that when the war with
Japan came in 1894, the Jap fleet
had breeze.
There was one Chinese boat, how
ever. that the Japs didn't sink. It
is still there In the Summer Palace,
riding the waters Of the sparkling
lake. 1t was the fondest possession
OF the Empress-Dowager and today
Is something that no true lover Of
monstrosities should miss.
Not Little, Either.
1t Is a marble boat. Yes, that's
what I said-marble. And it is not
a little boat, either, being the size
OF a cozy excursion steamer. We
just finished a picnic lunch on the
boat, and this is being written from
what I suppose is the quarter deck.
The Empress-Dowager was sharply
criticized for building the boat, be-
ing as 1t has never moved q foot,
with its keel resting comfortably on
the bottom of the lake.
But, remembering the many un.
comfortable boat trips have made
In my lifetime, I believe the EN-
press-Dowager had something when
she told her naval architects to draw
up plans forsa marble boat. In the
first place, there is no getting sea-
sick on it. 1t Is as steady as Gi-
braltar, and even earthquakes never
have made 1t list so much as an
inch. In the second place, time has
proved 1t to be an economical ven-
:llre. Many are the great liners
built years later that have been
scrapped.
Too, there is no captains table,
where one has to sit and suffer in
the presence Of the skipper who,
more often than not, has the per-
sonality and charm of an underdone
Brussels sprout. And its decks are
not built for the vibrant, healthy
tread Of insufferable bores doing a
mile or two before breakfast. More
over, when you step of the s. s.
Marble there is no customs shed,
operated by men who work on the
theory that any man who travels
more than bus distances from his
home Is smuggler or 4 sinister
character. 81
. In conclusion, more words have
Evening star., 1948-10-12
On the Other Hand
Labor Aroused by Prospect of
Strengthened Taft.Hartley Act

having decided to retire after 20
years In Congress, indicated recent
ly in radio interview one probable
change in his law that would be
acceptable to labor. This would
eliminate the requirement of union
membership elections on the ques-
ton Of the union shop. This re-
quirement has proved a nuisance
not only to the unions and the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board. but
to many employers.
Other Changes Forecast.
Other changes designed to
strengthen" the act, however, are
forecast by the expressed wishes
Of industrial employers. OF 100 ex-
ecutives questioned by the National
Industrial Conference Board, three
fourths declared themselves in favor
Of such changes. Most of them
would ban industry-wide bargain
ing and eliminate compulsory
bargaining on health, welfare and
pension programs.
Labor leaders take this as q tip
of Of what they can expect in case
the Taft-Hartley Act is revised by
a Republican Congress. Industry,
they say, will rewrite 1t to its full
satisfaction.
Reverting to that anxiously de-
sired big vote, the labor organiza-
tions received a real jolt through
the reduced registration in New
York City, while taking renewed
hope from the figures reported in
other industrial communities. They
are stepping up the pressure on the
rank and file to get their names on
the voting lists.
To this end Labor's Committee
for Truman and Barkley, set up by
go AFL unions, is presenting some
thing new in political campaigns
The chairman, George M. Harri-
son Of the railway clerks, announces
that $4,000 will be distributed in
prizes. with $1,000 the top prize, to
the local labor political commit
tees which, show the greatest per-
centage improvement ''over the
number of votes cast for President
Roosevelt In the same district in
1914"
Evening star., 1948-10-12

neCWee en- the Constantine Brown.
United States, and the French and
British governments in which all
parties pledged themselves to take
no action with respect to Russia
without first consulting the others.
Since early last week rumors have
been floating around Washington
that Mr.. Truman would execute
some spectacular coup to give the
country the impression at least that
he Is leaving no stone unturned to
avoid clash with the East.
1t seemed possible that he might
make direct appeal by radio to the
Russian people. But no one, either
in the State Department or in the
Pentagon. suspected that he wanted
to send Mr.. Vinson to Moscow on a
mission which was doomed before
hand to failure.
Double Crossed Before.
The State Department, which has
been advocating diplomatic negoti-
ations as q means of solving the
Berlin crisis and which had gone
long way in making concessions
to the Kremlin for that purpose,
has finally realized that there Is no
greater chance of doing business
with Stain than with the rest of
the Politburo.
The Russian dictator double
crossed us a few weeks ago in the
conversations with our Ambassador,
1t. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, when
he agreed to terms of a solution sor
Berlin and then reneged when the
occupation commanders In Berlin
met to work out the details of the
solution.
But President Truman's imme-
diate encourage, men without any
experience in international affairs
and whose chief concern lies in
catching votes on November 2, both
cred neither about the impossibility
OF talking to Mr.. Stain except in
terms of surrender, or about the
effect which new two-power talks
would have on the Western Euro
pean countries, which are more