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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
NEGRO DOCTORS SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO USE
HOSPITAL FACILITIES IN THE STATE

One OF the greatest hondicops to Neoro doctors
and therefore of the greatest obstacles to the inn.
Provement of Negro Health in the stote, with IFS re
suont effort upon the heoth of everybody in the stot
in the denial of the of hospital facilities TO Neoro
doctors This truth not emphasized to ony greater ex
tent where the hosplto supported by public federal
and state money
In their meeting here last week, the Neoro doctors
OF the stote whose organization the MississoD Med;
col and Surgical Association complained btterv If Tho
denial of the of the hospital facilities of The stot
1t connot be that Negro doctors will hove roth;,o
to otter to the profession is allowed the use of these
facilities since it is everywhere recoonized tbot D.
l. Miller of the Afro-Hospito in Yozoo Civ oItbouob
Negro, is omong the leading SURGEONS of the Nation
he would hove much TO offer to the YOUNG and Jas Az
perIenced Negro ond White doctors of the store
With the exploits of Dr. Charles Drew in The fold
d medicine mad Surgery and thot of Dr. RiIev Tbomos
motive OF Miss, eodng authority on the treatment
't heart diseases, who now CONDUCTING experiments
With the use of atom material in the treatment Of eucb
diseases there can be logical grounds for con+,mn
such ronk discrimination against Negro doctors in Miss
With health conditions, and opportunity for med;col
service limited it is in Miss every INTELLIGENT citizens
regardless of oce, must be of the opinion thot Neo
doctors should be permitted use hospital facilities in
Mississippi :"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
No.7. LIBERIA I'M OUR HISTORY

Most Americans know little or
nothing about Liberia. Up until
the recent war there were millions
of Americans who had never heard
of this little West African Republic.
There is no other country whose
history, ideals, and traditions are
interviewer With those of America
as are those of Liberia. AS matter
Of fact, this little country was con
ceived of its halls of the Capitol
of our nation, and it was nurtured
vith> American lives and money
from the very beginning.
The founding and early history
were profoundly influenced by the
instituation of slavery in the Unit
ed States. When the first African
slaves were landed in the Tilted
States in the year of 1919, the
concept of slavery was not merely
racial; it was psychological and
economic in character. Carter G.
Woodson states in his book, 'The
Negro In Our History" that:
Seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
fury Europeans sought escape from
feudal Illustrations to win personal
freedom through economic afflu-
ence in America. In their new
home, they struggled for and talked
much of opportunity and equality.
In this, they were sincere, but
nevertheless their cultural habits
and industrial lives were in their
final pattern still influenced by
the baseness of serdfom which
had brutalized them and their an
cestors. Once physically released
from bondage, they romtly thurst
it uon others. At the full tide of
their noble asirations for freedom,
they continuously enslaved other
men from Africa. Astounding psy-
Geological in character, the sharp
controversy and irrefutible con-
Predictions arising from Negro
slavery in democratic America
fostered the Black Republic in
Africa
The instituation of slavery was
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
MOTHERS DAY

Sunday Moy 9th is Mothers Day found whot |
would like to say, end whot every one believe would
like to say about mother the following poem bv Robert
Sherey thompson, local young writer of promise
TO MOTHER
I'm gong to try to frite, today
Wonderful Mother of mine
he things in my heart that like to saw
Dearest Mother of mine
7Fv.
like to be with you q little while,
Yes, Dear one, just to see the smile
That love so WeII-thot think devine,
Wonderful sweet Mother of mine
take your hand in my own,
Wonderful Mother of NINE
And open my heart when the doy is done
To you, little Mother of Mine!
To tell you my the dow has brought
And tell you in my dreams eoch quiet thought.
like TO see the Ioveght shine ogIow in your eyes,
Little Mother of mine.
I'm wishing you health and happiness,
Joy through each doy of the year and success,
For deep nj the heart of enshrined your very SOUL
Little Mother of mine
Robert ShereIy Thompson
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
Negro America
League Eyes
Successful Base
ball Season

Atlanta, Ca, May THE Negro
American League opens the 1s49
season on May 1 with an air of
hopes and expectancy. Undaunted
by the loss of some of the Negro
Debasall's most publicized stars in
the major leagues, the owners en-.
vision profitable and successful
season.
Owners of NAL clubs hope to
develop a market for Negro players
with the major leagues, quicker
the play of league games, open up
new fields for the league teams
restrict the mileage in travel for
scheduled games, and give the
fans more verve, dash and hustle
in competition.
Nearly every owner in the NAL
did business with the major league
the past winter. The Birmingham
Black Barons sold art wilson to
the indians, the Chicago American
Giants sold Jim Pendleton to the
Cubs, and the Baltimors Elite
Giants sold Luis Marquee to New
ark, to name fey of the deals
between the leagues.
When league play begins Nav 1
several new managers will be in
the saddle. The Chicago American
Giants have signed Winfield Welch
former pilot of the N. Y. Cubans
to replace Quincy Troupe.
Homer Goose" Curry, who man
aged the Atlanta Black Crackers.
is now at the helm of the Memphis
Red Sox.
A newcomer to baseball in these
parts is Ruben Jones, who has
been signed to guide the Houston
Eagles who got the franchise OF
the defunct Newark Eagles.
Other managers are Lorenzo
Piper Davis of the Birmingham
Elack Barons; Alzono Boone OF
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
DOCTORS HIT DENIAL
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page y
ris, Columbus; Fred Pinson, Jr.,
Vicksburg; A. B. Britton, Jack
son; R. o. Williams, Jackson.
A. w. Duman, Jr. Natchez, o.
D. Polk, Meridian; R. E. Wood
ruff, Aberdeen; Geo. w. Lane.
Greenwood; j. B. billiard, Vicks-
burg; T. R. M. Howard, Mound
Bayou; c. B. Christian, jack
son, R. E. Fullilove, Yazoo City;
T. E. Pinson, Vicksburg; H. L.
Knaive, Laurel; E. l.. Clark,
Meridian P. Naise George Mound
Bayou; Lee NJ. Owens, Vicks-
burg; Chas w. Smith, Hatties-
burg; L. L. Rayford, Grenada;
H. L. Benson, Laurel; and T.
j. Barnes, Laurel.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
Pfc. Charlie
Williams ASSIGNED

Camp Lee, Va.-Private First
Glass Charlie Williams assigned
70 the 549th Quartermaster Laun-
dry Company, son of Mrs. CCath.
crime Williams, P. o. Box No. &c
Pace, Mississippi has been promoted
to Corporal recently.
Corporal Williams enlisted at
Camp Lee, Jan. 20, 1919; received
his basic training at Camp Shelby
and later transferred to Fort Ben
ming, Georgia and Camp Gordon
Johnson, Florida.
Prior to his entry into military
service, he attended Pace Junior
High school.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
I'm GETTING INPATIENT
by Ruth Taylor

I'm getting impatient with people who color the
truth who twist the focts to suit their inerpretoIons
who dress up hofboked heores and personal preudces
like the shoddy restaurants who spend their money on
sIeozy decorations rather thon good food
Consider carefully the sources and reasons back
of all the propaganda you hear.
I'm Getting impatient with persons who think 1T
smart to be rude, who down everything OF q con-
structiye noure who never have good word for any
BODY, who mpute evil to all in high places.
Remember that man is omnscient enough to
know another mans motives, and that when he
mputes evil he is but rejecting his thoughts
I'm getting impatient with solosts, with those who
hove to be in the Iimeght they won't poy, who cont
cooperate who won't toke subordinate role, whose only
conversation of how great they ore and who only
,peok of others to beIittIe them.
Listen we'll to the speeches you heor-ond you
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
Famous Blizzard

The famous blizzard Of 1888 de-
posted l6.5 inches of snow In "a
hours
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07

In Memory of the Passing of the
Late DIR. A. VI. Hair, May Z, 1917
Jackson, Miss.
God took the Idol of the fam.
lily, and we know he stands at
the gate beautiful waiting our
arrival.
His father and mother, three
sisters, ane aunt, one niece, and
many family folks.
We love the Lord because He
hath heard our voices and sup
plieations, because He hath in
clined His ear unto us; there
fore we will call upon Him as
long as we live.
The sorrow of death compass
us, and pains of death got hold
of us. We find that He is Mer-
ciful unto us.
Thus saith the Lord: Refrain
thy voices from weeping, and
thine eyes from tears.
God took him. There is but a
step between us and death. We
shall go to him but he shall not
return to us. We shall see him
face to face.
God of our Fathers, known of
old; Lord of the far-flung life
line, beneath whose awful hand
He holds Dominion over all man
kind.
Lord of Host be with us vet
Lest we forget-Lest we forget.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. w. Hair
Messers. Ethel Hair Butler
Mary Ruth Hair Powell
Gertrude Hair Clark
Carrie Hair Bradley
Ruth Marie Leanard
jamie Rucker
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07

not racial during the first fifty
years after the year Of 1919, be-
cause thousands of indentured
whites were held in slavery along
with the blacks, in the north as
well as the south, until techno.
logical developments in the cotton
industry in England made slavery
economically profitable.
The central and most noble mo.
tive for the establishing of Liberia
was the sincere desire of Ameri-
cans, both north and south, to
atone for some of the obviously
degrading sins of the institution
of slavery. The consciences of men
of strong moral convictions every.
where were shaken to their found
ations. Men like Thomas Jefferson,
The Reverend Samuel opkinsH,
James Monroe, Henry Clay, Bush.
rod Washington, and Francis
Scott Key worked actively for the
founding of the American Colon
iZation Society in 1916. Henry
Clay, the great compromiser, pre-
sided and addressed the first meet,
ing. Bushrod Washington was ell
ected the first president. Most OF
the early meetings were held in
the chambers of the House of Re-
personalities in Washington.
Thirteen states organized State
State Colonization Societies, the
most active of which were Mississ.
ippi, New York, and Maryland
LLeading Shareholders in Mississ-
ippi emancipated many of their
slaves and contributed thousands
of dollars to transport them to
supported it's own separate Colony
for a number of years, called
Mississippi in Liberia"
About the time of the organiza-
ton of the American Colonization
Society, the United States Gov
eminent prohibited the further i'm
portation of slaves, and the navy
was instructed to capture any
slave trading vessels attempting
to transport slaves. AS result of
this order, many vessels were cap
tured and their human cargoes
confiscated. The question arose as
to the disposition of these capitives
and a place in Africa was sought
for this purpose.
The scheme of the American
Colonization Society seemed to fit
this purpose and the Government
cooperated with the Society in
the settlement of Liberia. Congress
appropriated $150,0OO to aid thhe
scheme, and it was out of this
fund that the first two ships, the
Elizabeth and the Nautilus, were
chartered to carry the first set
tiers to Liberia.
Under the auspices of the Soc
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EDITORIAL PAGE

The central government at Mon.
rovia was helpless in preventing
these demands. The only defense
that the central government had
was to shrewdly play the COM
mercial interest of one of these
powers off against the other. The
leaders of Liberia during that per-
iod must be admired for their alb.
ility to check foreign aggression
by this method, or the Republic
would have lost it's independence
altogether.
Our Government showed more
interest in Liberia during the
first World War when it became
apparent that Germany had plans
to take over the whole country.
During the years of tagging inter-
est by our Government, we lost
many of the cultural ties that we
originally had with the people of
Liberia. The Liberians turned to
for the education of their leaders
and for financial assistance.
After the first World War,
American interest in Liberia was
revived. The Firestone Rubber Co.
mpany secured a concession of
100000 acres for a rubber plant.
alton in the year of 1926. The con-
cession was almost Abandoned
during the depression years, but
it paved off handsomely during
the war period and proved a great
military asset while Far-Eastern
rubber was in the hands of the
Japanese, Liberia furnished the
major part of the natural rubber
supply for the allied cause. The
Firestone Rubber Company admits
thtat the net profit from rubber
for the year 1947 was twelve and
One-half million dollars.
After the fall of France, the mil
itary leaders of the United States
realized the strategic military
value Of Liberia. The Republic lies
on a hump of the continent of
Africa, adjacent to the sea lanes
from North and South America
and Europe. Liberia is only 1,75O
miles from the coast of Brazil.
Our Government Immediately built
Roberst Field which was the larg.
est airbase in Africa. President
Roosevelt visited the country on
his return from the Yalta Con.
ference. A 10000, 900 deep-water
port was begun Immediately. A
railroad is now being built from
Monrovia to the Boni Hills iron
deposits, one of the purest in the
world and the largest iron deposit
in all Africa.
Liberals new port is teaming
with American business, and i'm.
ports from the United States are
more than seventeen times as great
as they were ten years ago. It
seems that mericas interest in
Liberia has revived forever. Lib.
eria's future history is CLOSELY
tied up with the history of our
country.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
Keep Robby Off
Third Base

Brooklyn, N. Y. - (Atlas)
1t looks like Jackie Robinson will
have to start whamming him
self some triples if he expects
to reach third base. When he out
guessed Yank pitcher in the re-
cent inter-city exhibition game.
and streaked home from third
with a beautiful fode away slide.
he put ideas in the head of every
manager J around the circuits
Keep Robby" off third base If
you don't want him to steal home
on you.
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FOR MEMPHIS
my father
J. A. HibbIer

AS has been said the material
in this column in the material
the writer wishes to put in a book.
but since books are for readers,
newspaper publication is the ideal
thing.
Authors introduction
When / was a little girl four
teen years of age, | wrote a poem
of two stanzas and sent it to the
Southwestern Christian Advocate
who published it on it's front
cover. | do not now know what
was in that poem, and at the time
of it's publication, | did not really
believe it merited the space it got,
although it was something about
God, the only distant thinking ]
knew to do. Yet when it passed
the editor, Mr.. r. E. Jones, later
to be the first residential colored
bishop of the church, wondered
if / truly had ability as a writer
and just how would l ever learn
to write long things. The two stan
zas of my poem represented all
l had in me, and | knew it was
all | had in me even though DR..
Jones wrote my father that he
would be glad to publish any other
poems that | should send in. |
never sent another poem for I
never wrote another. For was not
all knew in the poem l had already
sent?
What that poem had contained
had been simply what l had learned
to think from my father and men,
preachers, like my father. Per.
haps this writing too is again what
learned to think from my father
and men preachers like my father.
Papa, why don't you stop
preaching and do something else?"
Daughter, the most important
thing you can do is to build the
kingdom of Christ"
but, I do not understand that,
papa. 1t sounds so funny, strange
to me; and you do not make any
mOney--not really enough. I can't
understand about Christ. I can
only understand thar we need
money"
'You can't talk. I can't under
stand a word you are saying. You
re swallowing your words" $500.
Thus my father evaded the thing
I was trying to say, but then he |
would sometimes say to me: 1.-THE !
world must be saved, and Christ |
is the only hope of the world"
But every argument he ended by |
complaining of my mumbling words
and | was left with some vague
concept of the value of properly
sounding words when speaking.
Dear! Dear! What funny man
to have for a father! He said he
knew Christ, and he said there |
was nothing greater than to know
Him. But his concept of knowing
Christ, one with that of John Wes-
leys, was connected with a large
and full program of studying and
learning, chat made a little sense
to me. And he felt that studies
were justified by the knowledge |
of Christ they promised. Thus
every sacrafice was made and
every opportunity sought for his
children's studies.
Our studies became a communitv
joke, mine a personal calamity.
but | can report that | did come
to understand what my father
meant when he said" 1.-THE most
important thing a man can do is
to build the kingdom of Christ"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07

iety, SO pioneers sailed for Africa
in February, 1920, on the ship Ell
izabeth. This expedition went first
to Sierra Leone, thence to Sherbro
Island, near what is now Cape
Mount, Liberia. Here it remained
until joined by a second expedit.
ion by the ship Nautilus in 1921.
The Nautilus picked up the sur
viving pioneers and sailed down
the coast of west Africa until it
reached the Montserrado River in
January,1822. This was considered
a good site for colony, and a land
ing vas made on a small island
near the mouth of the river. This
island was later called Providence
Island. The colonists began neg
citation for the purchase of suit
able land from the natives. They
met with many hardships and the
difficulties endured in the first
years of the colony paralleled
those suffered by the founding
fathers of the United States. They
had to combat tropical diseases,
hostile natives, and dissension in
their own ranks. At that time, one
of the agents of the society pro-
posed a return to the British Col
ony of Sierra Leone. This propos-
ition was objected to by the fam.
Gus words of Elijah Johnson, one
of the pioneers, who exclaimed:
1.-TWO long years have I sought a
home; here | have found one, here
| will remain
The Government of the United
States and the Colonization Soc
iety jointly nurtured the growth
of the colony from 1920 to1S47.
During this 81 year period, our
Government not only appropriated
S150,000 toward the establishment
oof the colony, but it also sub
sidized the Colony by patroling the
West African Coast With United
States war ships and by protecting
the infant colony from humiliation
by hostile natives and the en-
croachment of its territory by for
eign powers. The tendency toward
confiscation became so great after
1910 that it became necessary for
the colony to declare it's independ.
ence in the year of 1847.
The records of the American
the Society and its auxiliar state
organizations contributed more than
100000 toward the founding of
Liberia and the Society sent over
more than 10000 Negro immi-
grants. The Mississippi Colonial
ton Society contributed more than
$4,000 of the above amount and
sent some 1900 ex-slaves as i'm.
migranst.
After the founding of Liberia
in the year Of 1847, the United
States Government took rather
negative attitude toward the young
Republic. AS a matter of fact, it
was not until the year 1862 that
our Government formally recog-
nized the Government Of Liberia,
after recognition by all of the
other great powers. This attitude
continued on into the first two de-
cades of the twentieth century.
During this period of laxness of
interest in Liberia by our Gov
erment, the great colonial powers
whose territories surround Liberia
took advantage of the opportunity
to bring great pressure on the
young Republic for territorial con-
cessions. The Republic lost 10000
square miles or 20 per cent of its
territory to England and France.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07

the Louisville Buckeyes (former
ly the Cleveland Buckeyes; Jes-
Sc "Hoss" Walker of the Balti.
more Elite Giants; Buster Hay.
good of the Indianapolis Clowns;
John O'Neil of the Kansas CITY
Monarchs; Raymond cambridge
Of the New York Cubans and Os-
car Charleston of the Philadelphia
Stars.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-05-07
|. | b Z r ! q N
I r a Y e 0 G
Joseph l.. Reddix, President
jackson College
jackson, Mississippi

A day-to-day account of a six
month study in the African Rep
ublic of Liberia. The author is
using this method of greeting his
staff, and citizens.
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con evoIuote the worth of the speaker for your

can evoluote the worth of the speaker for YOUR
self
I'm getting impatient with hofiors, with weshers,
with those who connot face facts, who don't want to
know the truth but prefer their version of it And
this oppIes to both people and notions
Keep this country of prepared and ready
to at all times fight the attacks Of this breed Of
cot
I'm getting impatient with fose friends, with those
who crawl and fotter when they get something and
like scored rabbits when they think there is NOTHING
in it for Them
In fact. I'm so impatient I'm goin eto keep
close wotch myself
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-02-28

Life of a milk bottle is now 30
to 35 trips, in contrast to % trips
some years ago.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1949-02-28
M MT r-NttoSs cotu1Nf 1totta.aL. MaAYsvttt. Otto

for Dewey millions held their and
voted for Truman.
county polls blank bal
lot president November These who wanted
their registered the New Deal and there
do it, investigation ct the tabulaton counties adj
joining Union all showed the situation and about the same pro-
portion of casting blank ballots Three hundred thousand
citizens Ohio blank ballots for president and how many hum
ded thousands people stayed from the polls cannot be
known.
the people the United States chance to vote
against Deal and its corruption every the union will
monstrostyand Monopoly Pressure Group
England Ogarhy Hence the people must not
be allowed vote the subject
Now it has to point that if the Republican party too
cowary patriotism ambition allow the people
against the New Deal then should out of business and
happen which will be the formation of
ca party representing real interests of the Of the
American people, which will sweep the country
Why, little Albany had the people just
he should have been elected he would
wouldn't have been have advo-
repeal New Deal legislation If he had merely made
the that the 10 billions of dollars the employers and
employees have paid into the Social Security fund had been en-
bezzed New Deal squandered the millions of
payroll that alone would have elected the
little Albany, bat he couldn't do that
Already the forces of the Eastern SeaboardTery Church of
England Monopoly Pressure Group Oigsehyare beating the
for a repeat performance.
1t time a right kind of deal in the Republican party