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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29
Health Conference
Says High Negro
Death-Disease Rate
Due To Racial Bias

New York, Oct. 24-The high
disease and death rate among
colored people in this country is
directly due to economic and Gull
tural discrimination against them
group of sociologist, medical
men and laymen concluded at a
health conference here recently.
The conference was called by the
Physicians Forum to inquire into
health conditions among minority
groups of this area and to devise
ways and means of improving
them.
| DIR. Bernard j. Stern of the De-
partment of Sociology at Columbia
University was the first speaker to
link economic conditions and dis
elimination with the high death
and disease. rate among colored
people.
He reported that recent nation
al survey had shown that the NOR
tality rates for chronic diseases
decrease consistently from the low
est to the highest income group
with an especially significant diff
ference between the mortality rates
of the lowest and middle income
groups.
Bureau Report
DR.. Stern quoted from a report
by the Census Bureau which stat
ed when deaths are classified by
race, there is created +. hidden
classification of economic status to
the extent that economic status is
correlated with race. An observed
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29

difference in mortality between
race may in actuality be no more
than a difference in mortality of
different economic classes"
He concluded that as long as
colored people are the last to be
hired and the first to be fired and
discrimination continues to exist
against them in employment and
job advancement, they will not live
as long as white people.
He pointed out that the leading
causes of death among colored peo-
pie in New York City are cardio-
vascular-renal diseases with a
rate of 430 per 100000 tuberculo-
sis, 1913 per 100000, ald cancer,
145 per 100000.
The general death rate among
colored people in New York, DR..
Stern said is 1913 per 1000, COM
pared to the white death rate of
10 per 1000. But the tuberculosis
death rate among colored people
here was about twice as high in
1949 as that of the colored popu-
lation of the country as a whole.
He added that for the period 1913
1947 the tuberculosis death rate
for Central Harlem was 172 or a.
bout four times that OF the rate
of New York City as whole.
Dr. Rutherford B. Stevens color
ed psychiatrist of the Monninger
Foundation in Kansas, said Harlem
appears to be "tragically deficient
in mental hygiene from almost
every viewpoint"
Jim Crow Breakdown
DR.. Stevens broke down segre-
cation into two types, voluntary
and involuntary. The segregation
of Harlem he said is of the invol-
untary type This type Of segrega-
ton is damaging to the very core
of an individuals personality -
his sense of personal Identify" he
observed.
mo man can be emotionally Sc
cure unless his sense of personal
identity, his inner sense of self, is
in close relation to and confirmed
by external realities" DIR. Stevens
said
"A man who feels he is man
cannot be emotionally secure if he
lis treated less than man." he con-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29
NAACP Halls
UN AS ALLY
OF FREEDOM

NEW YORK, Oct. 20. - In a
statement saluting the United Ma
tons on the occasion of United
Nations Day, Roy Wilkins, acting
secretary of the National Associa-
ton of the Advancement of Col
ored People, described the inter-
national organization as "a pow
erful ally in the worldwide struggle
for recognition of fundamental
freedoms and the equality of all
peoples"
"Ry it's adoption of the Genocide
Convention and the Universal Dec
laration of Human Rights" Mr..
Wilkins wrote in a Letter to David
Bernstein, executive director of
the National Citizens Committee
for United Nations Day." the Gen
eral Assembly has struck a new
note of hope for subjugated mi
norities and other oppressed peo-
pies everywhere.
at is also the fervent hope of
the NAACP," stated Mr.. Wilkins
chat in the disposition of former
Italian colonies the member
nations Of the United Nations will
adhere to the principles of justice
in the UN charter and will full
fill the hopes of these former vic
TINS of imperialism for an end
to their exploitation and for real
ization of their aspiration for
democratic self government"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29

WEEKLY QUOTATION: 81 be-
ieve that our Great Maker is
preparing the world in His own
good time, to become one nation,
speaking one language" Grover
Cleveland.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29
Milton Wood And
His Repertory
Players Return
To Jackson

When Milton Wood. director of
the American Repertory Players,
and his group present "Ghosts" by
Hendrix Ibsen at Lanier High
School on the evening of Novem-
Der 1, it will mark a new venture
in the field of theatre arts for the
modern Negro.
The Repertory group, which is
the only dramatic troupe playing
such an extended national and in
ternational tour this year, is COM
posed entirely of actors with col
legiate background from the Broad
way stage. They are trained and
experienced performers. in the field
of dramatic arts. Every one of the
cast is finished actor.
"Ghost" tells the absorbing story
of how the sins of fathers are visit
ed upon their children even unto
the third and fourth generations
and it promises to be one of the
seasons greatest dramatic treats
Each member of the cast has APP
peared in several motion pictures
played dramatic roles over the
radio, and some have already APP
peared on television.
The cast includes: Isabelle Coll
LEY, Charles Swain, Milton Wood
Jacoueline Levy. and Oden Browne|
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29
Beauty Expert
Selects Americas
.Lovliest Negroes

Chicago - Famed beauty ex-
pert, John Robert Powers, selects
as Americas most beautiful Negro
women in November Ebony, singer
Lena Horne, model Sara Lou Har-
ris, world-famed contralto, Marian
Anderson, DR.. Jane Wright Jones,
Judge Jane Bolin, college student
Thelma Porter, Mrs. Ralph j.
| Bunehe, actress Muriel Smith, and
Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement, Am
erican Mother of 1916.
Powers, owner of the largest and
best-known model agency in the
world, says in Ebony:
"My idea of beauty is natural
beauty which consists of outer glow
and inner glow. Outer glow con-
sists of the appearance of the ex-
ternal features and is very import
ant to well-rounded beauIy."
Mr.. Powers Ebony article con-
tfnues:
"But | think inner glow is more
for it embraces the core
of a woman's being, her natural
personality, and is beauty from
within which is the only true beau
ty."
Commenting on beauty in gener-
al and the beauty of Negro women
in particular, Powers declares,
Picking Americas most beautiful
Negro women is not an easy task.
There is among our Negro popula-
ton such fascinating variety of
external charm combined with in
ner glow, that one hardly knows
where to begin. The qualities |
deem necessary to outstanding fe-
male beauty | found in great a.
bundance in Negro women. There
is an important reason for this.
Negroes are well-endcwed with
great personality. | believe this
stems in a large part from the
unusual philosophy of life which
their experience has given Negro
people. 1t is compounded of wit,
charm, and humor and this makes
an irresistible combination"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29
The Creenville Crime

Up in Greenville this week another Young Negro
has been charged with henous of the kind which
when struck the front pages newspapers called
forth all of the emotion and passion which formed part
of what we call our Southern Traditions.
The glazing and spectacular publicity given to such
crimes emotion and passion that are directed
against all Negro citizens as we'll as the one accused of
the crime.
Remembering a similar incident in Mississipp of
only few weeks ago which when the final evidence had
been brought forward the crime bore an altogether diff
1eren race 1T appears to us too early to the Green
vile Crime of ndcting the whole Negro race
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29

We will never have peace in this
land
Long as you compromise with
wrong.
The world is handling most all the
The Bible says the worldly loves
it's own.
The Devil never gives Gods peo-
pie peace
He gives them all the trouble he
can.
The Bible says no Unjust Court
should attempt to try Gods
Gods people are tried by Unjust
Courts
Some Churches will witness there
Such churches are ruled by hip.
poerittes
And one Half are filled with
sin.
Jesus said for his people to separ-
ate
And yet they are walking there
Y in
He said the strong should bear in
trinity of weak
| Now where are the strong to be-
gin.
watch the world as they go by
And the strong is here and there
You have mixed Gods house up
with the world
Don't you know it not fair?
You are allowing money to Rule
Gods House
And part of the world also
Some preachers have programs of
their own
Now where do you expect to go !?
The Devil makes you believe you
are right,
He will lead you as long as you
are wrong
He will lead you to the Electric
Chair
And there he will leave you a
lone.
Why educate these people for He'll
| When they can go there Ignorant
as Ram
The Devil He fills his He'll with all
kinds
Because their souls are damned
Your Brains can shine like the
Midday Sun
And your Heart so rusty as we'll
When you have given all you have
to the world
Then your soul is doom for He'll.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29

SOMETHING THAT MADE Me
LAFF :. {. They tell me that here
in Jackson this week, the Teachers
had meeting Prof. O. b.
Cobbins, Bishop of the Holiness
Church, Secretary, Negro Cham
Der of Commerce, Member Noon
day Luncheon Club, Eft cetra, and
Supervisor of Negro Schools of the
City was there but when
asked he refused to give the
number of Negro teachers en-
ployed in the city What you
say :. a military secret.
THAT OLD BIRD ). That car
ries in its old bill that little heart
warming and family cementing
bundle, left one this past Wednes-
day morning out at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsey Griffin (she
used to be Miss Helen Washington
of the social set) ;. It's a girl
who'll be excellent company
for a little two year old brother
:. :. and everybo'y is well and
happy.
GOT ANY tETERAN
FRIENDS OUT OF TOWN =. :.
Well be sure and write or phone
them to be here Saturday, that is
Saturday, November 9Th, for that
big statewide Veterans Mass
Meeting up at Christ Temple
Church. Meeting starts at 10
o'clock in the morning. What
they're going to do and talk about
at that meeting has something to
do with the future rights of ev-
cry Negro Veteran in the State
of Mississippi /. You Coming
Vet?
HAVE YOU BEEN UP AND
REGISTERED YET Well if
you haven't if l was you I'd go
on up there now good time
to go anywhere is when there is
lot of company =. and there's
lot of folks going up there to
register every day s. Git
with 'em Brother . Git with
'em Sister.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: 81 be-
lieve that our Great Maker is
preparing the world in His own
good time, to become one nation,
speaking one language. Grover
Cleveland.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29

tinued, "Thus," he said, "segrega-
ton of this type, of necessity,
places additional burdens in the
path of growth to emotional ma
turity."
When such things as hostility
and fear brought on by discrimina-
ton is added to this, DR. Stevens
asserted, it is not surprising that
twice as mM1y Negroes as Whites
proportion to population are adj
mitted to state mental hospitals. /"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29
CARD OF THANKS

Mrs. Mary Odom of West
Pascagoula ST. wishes to ex-
press her sincere appreciation
to her many friends and neigh
bors for their lovely greetings
and flowers sent her at the time
of her illness.
(Signed) Mrs. Mary OdOm.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-10-29
j P
A n D
D o W n
F A R is H
S 7 R < ( T
By PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: | have been seldom dis
appointed in what | expect to hear
as most important among the con-
versations going on amongst Far
ish Street Regulars as they gather
of a Saturday Night over their
Fish and Beer a formality that
comes as sort of bid of goodbye
to another week, and the coming
of the dullness of another Sun
day, made dull and unexciting to
many a Parish Streeter, accord
ing to what they tell me, because
at the one place where they would
most like to be, the Church, its al
ways dull, uninviting, and always
liking in something new and ex-
citing always the same old
thing f. like it has been for the
past IS years On account of
it's being NAACP Appreciation
Week, and with programs at diff
ferent churches throughout the
city, some of them with Pastors
who would have it said that theirs
was of great renown, / wasn't
disappointed when | heard a con-
versation going on about the
Preachers, and the NAACP meet
ings. AS the conversation which
came my way went on | heard a
fellow saying that, one of them
meetings has been called at his
church, and that before it got
called :. the Preacher hadn't
said anything about it and
after it got called the Preach
er hadn't said nothing about
it "CEPTING" that when some
body asked him about the meet
ing he ups and says that he jest
lets them folks call that meeting
at his church, but He amt got no
time to be boosting no Naacp :.
Now, i'm they'd had some spiritual
program i. or some of them
gospel singers, and hka that, I
could boost it, but | amt got know
time for nothing that amt spir-
itual When / heard that con-
versation, | knew then why it is
that Up and Down Parish Street,
and almost everywhere amongst
Aunt Haggar's Chillun's, almost
everybody, but the old and afflict-
ed, and those who have already
run out, are finding Sunday so
dull, and finding it so hard to
maintain any kind of respect for
the Preacher As | heard
on another hand when You
hear a conversation like that you
wonder, when, if ever, will Negro
Preachers Learn that the Chris
tian Religions was started by
Christ as Militant Political Move
ment aimed against the ex-
cesses of the Roman Empire s.
| liked to forgot this part of the
conversation AS they were
getting through one fellow said
If | got a preacher that
DON'T WANT THE NAACP /.
He's got a church that don't want
me.
SOMETHING THAT MADE Me
LAFF They tell me that here
in Jackson this week, the Teachers
had a meeting Prof. O. Il.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28

heat operating properly in the
cars. Behind us were DPS who
had issued from the crowded COM
partments, crying. "The children.
The children are cold"
In Ulm, the next morning, where
a pale red sun came up on a frost
covered world, the German sta
ton attendants remained impassive
at our arguments for heat. The
coal had run out.
AT NOON, in the rail yard at
Karlsruhe, Simovitch and I climb
ed our way over the maze of tracks
to the dispatching office. The
yardmaster listened expressionless
to our request that he rush the
job of switching our engine, since
our train was already hours late.
To an associate he explained we
were from the GUIDE" transport.
We got our engine three hours
later.
Yet, however slowly, we began
to leave behind us the cities and
little towns sitting in the flat Ger
man countryside. Twice groups
of boys stood by the tracks and
jeered. In the black, semi-frozen
fields, stiff and unsmiling farmers
watched US go by.
AS we looked out the window,
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28
Other Cities Sforf Drives

NEW YORK, (JTA)-The 1949
United Jewish Appeal campaign
for $250,O0O,O0O will get under
way this week in many large and
small cities across the country, it
was announced by U.J.A. national
chairmen William Rosenwald, Her
man l.. Weisman and Rabbi Jonah
B. Wise.
Among the large communities
where campaigns on behalf of the
1949 U.J.A. are being launched
within the next few days are Pitts
burgh, Miami, Newark and Phoe-
nix.
Rosenwald, Weisman and Rabbi
Wise pointed out that the decision
of the Export-Import Bank to
grant a $100, 100000 loan to Is
rael, although gratifying in view
og the great needs in Israel, does
not reduce by one iota the neces-
sity to raise $25O,00O,0O0 for the
United Jewish Appeal in 1949."
They stressed that none of the
vital programs that are supported
by U.J.A. funds can receive any
part of the $1O0,0O0,000 loan.
They cited the fact that the Ex-
port-Import Bank loans are made
for specific projects that build up
the economic potential of the bor-
rowing country, and that loan
funds will not be used to trans
port immigrants to Israel or re-
settle them there.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28
Phoenix Council Wins
Award for Publicity

An award for the best set of
campaign material for 1948 has
been given the Phoenix Jewish
Community Council by the Coun-
ell of Jewish Federations and We'll
fare funds, J. S. Pearlstien, execu-
tive director of the Phoenix group,
announced this week.
The award was made in the
small cities category, covering cit
les with Jewish communities of
10000 and under, and followed an
exhibit of public relations material
at the national councils general
assembly earlier this month in
Philadelphia. Submitted for judg-
ing were all publicity media, mail
ing pieces and the like.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28
A Thousond Dps s+or+ Their Journey

ich took on a carnival atmoS-
phere. These were DP's-Jewish
DPs-leaving Germany for Israel.
AS they clambered into the COM
partments of the battered third
class carriages, group leaders
shouted instructions, parents warn
ed children, friends called good
bye, DPS with wares spread out
their goods, put up tea, sold fruit.
Over the entire scene hung an
air of triumph. Now, after three
years, they were going, leaving be-
hind the flat-faced men and wom-
en- who speak to Jews guardedly,
with eyes narrowed; leaving be-
hind the low, garage-like building,
complete with furnaces, that stands
in little park at nearby Dachau,
where no German comes to read
the sign that states, "Here 243,000
people were burned by the Nazis; ;"
leaving behind the slum-like settle
ments in the Munich countryside
known as DIP camps.
CLIMBED into the Red Cross
car, where Simkovitch, the Jewish
Agency man who was in charge of
the transport, and / were to stay.
It was filled with shabby, roped-
over baby carriages and valises-
the possessions of DPS who had
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28

left Munich for Haifa by plane
the day before. Boldly, labels pro-
claimed names and new addresses
like Leon Trone, Tel Aviv, Is
rael."
1t was 5 pm. when the forty
car train, bearing more than a
thousand Jewish DPS, haltingly
left Munich. The night had settled
in dark and cold, near freezing.
In a corner of the car, around a
stove in which they had built a
fire, four GI's-American Military
Police assigned to the train7-drank
cognac and whiskey, mixed.
"Sure knocks off the cold," the
sergeant said.
BUT WHILE the train rolled on,
Simovitch and l sat on my cot and
held a worried, whispered con-
versation.
"The heater cars attached to
the train don't seem to be work
ing" he told me. "And we're
moving so slowly we won't get to
Strasbourg, France, by morning,
when we're scheduled to. That
means the people can't have the
hot meal we have waiting there"
At Augsburg, the sallow-faced
station master shrugged when Sim
kovitch stormed at him to get the
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28

Simkovitch's weary voice took on
hope. It'll be different up at the
border. Well get a good engine
to Marseille."
NIGHT, cold again, raw again,
had settled in by the time we pull
ed over the Rhine bridge into
France and the dim-lit station at
Strasbourg-19 hours late. But
there were hot tea, eggs, bread and
milk waiting for US.
Now, on the Strasbourg plat
form where / was to change for
train to Paris while the emigrant
train kept on for Marseilles, said
goodbye-to Simkovitch, to the
DPS whom / had come to know
en- route, to one of the MP's.
"Too bad the French haven't
got heat cars to give u.s." the MP
said. l translated-in my own
abominable Yiddish-his remarks
for my friends. Then / gave their
answer to the MP.
'They say the hell with it," l
told him. They're happy they're
through with Germany. They're in
a free country now"
The CT grinned back.
"Just thinking that warns them
up. huh? Attaboy! Attaboy"
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28

HUGH MCDONALD (above),
young Californian who fought with
the Israeli army against the Arabs
and helped crash the British
blockade aboard the illegal immi-
grant ship, Hatikvah, was the sche-
duled speaker this week at two
Phoenix events. One was the ad-
vance gifts dinner of the 1949
United Jewish Welfare Fund
drive Wednesday night and the
other was the young peoples
Dedication to Service" dinner
Thursday night, also in connec-
ton with the drive. Mcdonald, a
non-Jewish veteran of u. S. serv-
ice in World War ii, volunteered
to fight for Israel because of his
desire to see the Jewish people
gain their freedom.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28
BY Raphael Levy
Israel Army Demobilizing

TEL AVN, (JTA)- Israeli
Army rehabilitation is proceed
ing according to plan, with the
release of older and family sold
iers being given priority, it was
announced here this week. Special
consideration is also given to army
members whose families are finan-
cially in need as a result of their
service.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28
Exit SO Communities

BUDAPEST, (JTA)-The Hun
garian Official Gazette this week
announced the removal from the
official lists of so pre-war Jewish
communities. The inhabitants of
the communities perished as a re-
suit of Nazi pogroms.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-01-28
EDITORS NOTE:

Each month some 1000 jew
ish DPS leave Germany by
train for France, where they
board the ships that take them
10 Israel. Raphael Levy, pub
Rcity director of the Joint Dis
tribution Committee, who re-
tnrned last month from Europe,
here describes a trip he made
aboard one of these DIP emil
grant transports. JDC, major
American agency aiding distress
cd Jews abroad, covers all costs
in this mass movement with
funds it receives through the
United Jewish Appeal. UJA in
turn receives funds from Phoe-
nix' United Jewish Welfare fund
which will conduct its annual
drive commencing Feb. 6.
By Raphael Levy
AT DAWN the trucks began to
roll up to the empty, waiting train
The men jumped off first to re-
ceive the babies. The women, the
girls and the youngsters climbed
down from the olive-drab trucks
next. Then the suitcases and the
packages were unloaded.
Suddenly the whole dreary mud
and-cinder railroad siding at Mum
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-07-29
1O-F00T SPLINTER
DRIVEN THOUGH DRIVER

YAKIMA = A splintered 1O-foOt
length of a 2x6 plank was driven
through the body of a Cornelius,
Oregon racing car driver Sunday
when the drivers car plunged
through a fence at the Central
Washington fair grounds.
Four doctors had to saw away
more than four feet of the plank
on each side of the driver, Allen f.
Hobson, before he could be placed
in an ambulance.
The huge splinter pierced h e
left side of his abdomen. 1t ram
med more than seven feet through
his body.
Throughout the entire ordeal
Hobson remained conscious and
grimly jOked with bystanders. His
wife, Jean, saw the accident from
the stands and remained by his
side during the 50 minutes needed
to extricate him from the wreck
age.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-07-29
EDITORIAL

Attention should be called to the
splendid work being done by the
local Girl Scout Troops, One and
Four, In connection with the tour
list season.
Members of each Troop take
turns in meeting the boats and
showing tourists points of interest
in the town. Further, they have
compiled a neat pamphlet, mimeO-
graphed and containing drawings
of totem poles ETC., which gives
brief history of Wrangell, tells its
population, industries, about its
churches and fraternal and civic
organizations, and many other
things in which a tourist is inter-
ested
The Girls and their leaders have
studied up on Wrangelps history,
they have familiarized themselves
with present day facts about the
town. They give tourists a court
eOus, interesting talk as they on
duct them around the town.
Whether it be early morning or
late at night a delegation of Girl
Scouts is on hand to boost Wran-
gell.