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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
LOU SW ARR
10 THINGS

New York City - And now that
the first Program Of the Harlem
Hospital School of Nursing Little
Theatre Group is over the mem
bers can surely have a MERRY
CHRISTMAS" and one of ease
since they will not be worrying
over the lines to that spicy College
Play they just put on under the
direction of "Yours Truly" and
Hattie King-Reavis-with an extra
ton of praise going to Hattie King
Reavis who really selected the
right play Getting Pinned" and
did more than just inspire those
Student-nurses.
There're no regrets having begun
with the group during the Spring
when the first group seemed to
have enjoyed brief Charm
Course along with some hints on
Speech, along with some play read
ing and Body Movement. And by
special invitation Hattie King
Reavis answered eyes" to your
Lou and has religiously been on
the scene and the Sunday Perform
ance told the story in a most beau
tiful way as was expressed by
Superintendent Aida Daley and
Activities Director Laurie Johnson
after the Program.
Adding splendor to the Program
were the Student Nurses Choral
Group under the direction of Mr.
N. Simmons, "The Creation" by
Gwendolyn Mayo, Piano Solo by
Miss Dangler, and selected Solos
by Baritone David Joseph.
The play was "double-cast" and
those who appeared on Sunday
December 18th were Villa Mae
Strickland, Doris Ashworth, Doris
Murphy, Helen Jackson, Dorothea
Scott, Ethel White, Thelma Hayes
Thurston Bacon. Maxine Terrell
Clarissa Marrow, and Minnie Nc
Claim took care of Props, Costumes
and Makeup. Others who will. APP
pear at later date will be Peggy
Howell Marilyn Singleton, Ethel
James Ernestine Thomas, Gwendo-
Ign Mayo, Gertrude Blair, Arvilla
Wilson, and M. Allison as we'll as
those who might try out in the
near future.
So you can know that the Harlem
Hospital School Of Nursing is ready
for a Merry Christmas while Civ
ing that unselfish service to those
who are shut-in, and Lou (Hotel
Theresa) Swarz along with Hattie
King Reavis say THANKS and
GREETINGS to them and all.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
'Boiangles Knew
The Art OF Living

Greensboro, N. C. - (Global)-
at was not strange that New York,
the city Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
loved so much and had done so
much for gave him one of the big
gest funerals that has ever been
known" President David ID. Jones
told the Bennett College family
last week." because you see Bill
Robinson was one man who truly
kept the Christmas spirit alive all
year."
"Bojangles, as the world knew
him." the president said, "knew
and understood that it is not in
receiving, but in giving of one
self that the greatest happiness is
received"
Recalling the trip he and his
wife, with their two youngest sons
made to the West Coast in 1885,
President Jones told the students
"We didn't know with whom we
were staying until we arrived. And
when the boys had carried the lug
gage into the house, they couldn't
have been more excited if it had
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Mrs. Rooseyelt's RESIGNATION

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has announced her resg-
nation from membership the board of directors of
the National Association for the Advancement of Col
ored People Her position at the United Nations post
she states occupies most of my time" and for that
sound reason she prefers the board to select
more active" to serve in my place
A bird in the hand is always worth thousand in
the bush. And this trusm applies with particular
force in the case of Mrs. Roosevelt who has served
and continues to serve large number of Negro and
other uplift and charitable Institutions 1t will be
possible for the NAACP to the services of some
other person, who doubt will give worthwhile
vices as a member its board. For the NAACP, from
its very inception, has been blessed with the good for
tune of having in its leadership strong and influential
white and Negro members. But it is going to be ex
tremely difficult to the services of any person
who can and has meant much to the work and adj
vancement of the NAACP has Mrs. Roosevelt.
Perhaps no voice in all America, not even that of
President Truman carries mucn weight and influ
ence with colored Americans the announcements OF
Ms Roosevelt. We regret that she cannot see her
way clear to continue in the services of the board but
it is natural for person who has led such vigorously
active and busy life she, will begin to the need for
slowing down some especially in view of her ripenng
years Ard it is prayers that she will continue to
give such services she feels abe to give in the
of our advancement and usefulness.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Roy Wilkins
.Congratulates DR..
Tobias on
Bank Election

NEW YORK, Dec. % = Roy
Wilkins, acting NAACP secretary,
today congratulated DR.. Claiming
H. Tobias, director of the Phelps
Stokes Fund and assistant treasur-
er and a director of the NAACP,
on his election to the board of di-
rectors of the Modern Industrial
Bank of New York. Dr. Tobias is
the first negro in American finan-
cial history to serve on the board
of a major banking house.
'This is a great step forward for
the group" Mr.. Wilkins wrote,
"and another in the long list of
honors which have marked your
distinguished and unselfish service
to not only your own people, but
to the nation"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
LIFE AT A
GLANCE
By RAY LAWRENCE

Nobody knows what the year,
1850 has in store for the nation,
but one thing is certain; unless
somebody finds a way to pipe in
some more water in New York
City, the eight million inhabitants
are sure to take fewer baths than
they took in 1949. Of course Hall
ways and law-making chambers in
the nations Capitol is already rum
ming a temperature over Truman's
civil rights program, and is all
primed to get hotter. In fact any
kind of program that is designed
to aid in anyway the welfare of the
people in general is in for some
mighty tough opposition. Between
the Trumanites and the COP old
Guard hooked up with some dis
gruntled Demos and Dixiecrats
Estates Righters) egged on by
Senator Talf and his "Balance-the-
Budget" program, political fur is
going to really fly along cherry
tree lanes.
From this columns point of view,
the country will shape up some
thing like this: Every human who
is against the Truman Admins
tration will labeled it anti-Demo-
cracy :. Shucks that Amt moth
ing. Didn't they put the leftist
mark on the Republican Party when
it came into being and elected Abe
Lincoln as its first president ? My
my how times have changed.
Look out for an increase in liv-
ing expenses. The Big shots are
going to put the squeeze on every
thing that can't talk back in 1850
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Vaudeville Set
For Harlem's
Alhambra Thea.
BY DAVID J. BETHEA

NEW YORK (ATLAS) The
Alhambra theatre in the Harlem
section of New York is being pre-
pared by the RKO circuit for stage
presentations. The house is expect
ed to be ready within a month, and
will feature regular vaudeville in
the hey-day variety.
Of course the policy for the AL,
hambra is still to be set according
to an RKO spokesman. But it is
believes that the regular 8-act poll
cy in effect at the Palace on Broad
way will be utilized, or thereemay
be a named Negro and mixed at
fractions.
No matter what the policy, it is
certain to offer competition to the
nearby Appolo theatre, the all
Negro vaudeviller.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Welding America
By FREDERICK o. SCOTT

The University of Minnesota
Press published some intimate
facts concerning the negro race.
This book of facts called
Negroes Morale" by Arnold M.
Rose.
Until a generation ago inter-
racial sex relations were common
in the South, and still is, between
white men and negro women. This
has not only created color@distinc-
tons in the negro group, but it
also permits significant number
Of those who are defined as negroes
to pass as whites.
When negro group Identification
was low, as it was until about
1910, except for the brief recon-
struction period, negroes did pass
in considerable numbers. AS group
Identification rose among negroes
after 1910, there was a less desire
to pass on the part of those who
could. Some took certain pride in
being able to pass, bat did not
actually do so. At the same time
group pressure increased against
those who did pass. In the mean
time a certain amount of envy re-
manned.
The predominant attitude toward
passers became one of disdain or
disgust. At best the passer was
looked upon as a prodigal.
Negroes themselves used expos
ure as a means of bringing a
pressure upon the passer, since
that would be aiding the white
man, passing may be either tenn
porary or permanent, and there are
different kinds of group pressure
used against each. While it is
permanent passing, that is an in
dex of low group morale, temper
airy passing is a more divisive in
fluence in the negro world.
Negroes know about the tenn
porary passing of one of their
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National
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NOOHIlIuGu lIOlt1 age Vic
egates to the conference.
Expressing the hope that the
conference will be well attended
by delegates "motivated by sim
cere desire to bring about the
speedy enactment of FEPC and
the entire civil rights program" "
the letter asserts, ''we do not con-
slider any communist front organi-
cations to be so motivated," and
accordingly, eve do not want and
wilb not permit delegates of such
organizations to be registered"
Specifically banned from partic-
ipation in the Mobilization were
the Civil Rights Congress, all po-
litical parties, and the ten unions
now under investigation by CIO
on charges of Communist domi-
nation: American Communications
Association; Fishermen and AL
lied Workers; Food, Tobacco, Ag-
ricultural and Allied Workers;
United Public Workers; United
Office and Professional Workers;
Mine, Mill and Smeiter Workers;
Fur and Leather Workers; Inter
national Longshoremen and Ware
housemen; Marine Cooks and
Stewards Union; United Furni-
ture Workers.
Each delegate will be required
to present an official letter from
one Of the national sponsoring or
CARNATIONS or a local affiliate
certifying him as a delegate to
the conference. Unaffiliated To-
cal organizations must be accred-
tied by vote of the national steer
ing committee.
"These precautionary steps have
been made necessary" Mr.. Wilkins
explained, because of the persist
ent efforts of Communist elements
TIC gain acceptance in the Mobili-
zation for purposes other than
passage Of civil rights legislation.
We do not intend co permit them
to subvert this drive. Offers of
cooperation by several left wing
organizations have already been
rejected
The National Emergency Civil
Rights Mobilization was initiated
by the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored Peo-
pie upon mandate of the Associ-
atoms 10th annual convention in
Los Angeles last summer. In re-
Spouse to a call issued by the
NAACP, so national church, la
Dor, civic and fraternal organi-
cations have joined in sponsorship
of the drive, which eliminates IN
Washington with a conference and
lobby on January 1917.
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Michigan
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ucation and Labor once the sec
ond session of the 81st Congress
has returned to Washington. Am
erican public opinion cannot per-
nit the Chairman of a congress
sional committee nor any member
of that committee to forestall dem
ocratic action by the full House
of Representatives, remarked Mr.
Hendrix
S 246 was drafted to assist the
states and localities in establish
ing a $55-yearly floor program
for public elementary and second
airy schools. Funds granted the
states from the annual S300-mil-
lion grant would be used to sup
plement local spending for teach
ers' salaries, text books, supplies
and Other items necessary for cur
rent school operation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Memorial Sung, To
Countee Cullen

New York, Dec. 26-Caterina
Jarboro, well known as Americas
first Negro "Aida," contributed
a recital in memory of the late
Countee Cullen, gifted Negro au-
thor, here Saturday. The affair
was held at Salem Methodist
Church.
Miss Jarboro, who was in ex-
cellent voice, rendered songs large
ly new to her audience, Catel,
Handel, A. Holmes, Chausson, La
forge headed the list with such
Negro composers as Cecil Cohen,
Elliott Carpenter, and II. T. Bur-
leigh.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Men Dressed As
Santa Picket
White House

WASHINGTON (INSo- Ten
men, dressed in Santa Claus cos
TUNES, picketed the White House
Saturday with signs that read
Christmas time is amnesty time"
for wartime conscientious object
OrS.
The committee for amnesty and
war resisters league said that the
demonstration was, a last minute
attempt to obtain an amnesty from
President Truman for the Jailed
DIRECTORS.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31

been the house of the President of
the United States; it was the home
Of "Bojangles."
During those ten days he
said," found out why Bill Robin
son was not only the greatest tap
dancer the world has ever known,
but in the words Of Twentieth Cen
fury Fox's vice-president, a great
star and a great man,"
President Jones then revealed
that "Bojangles" was a tireless
worker, arising at 6 a. m. each
morning, and working hard all
day.
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New Jersey
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American Bar Association of five
colored New Jersey lawyers, four
of whom are members of the
State Association.
William E. Evans, a member of
the board of governors of the
American Bar Association, openly
opposed Mr.. Unger's resolution.
He said that this was "an attempt
to antagonize the board of gov
ernors and would disrupt efforts
to effect a gradual improvement
in their attitude"
He disclosed that recently the
board has "a bitter fight" over
the admission to membership of
two colored lawyers of New York
State.
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African
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listeners time and again that the
data was now accepted by eminent
archaeokogist and anthropologist
of the world. His remarks were
based upon excavations already
conducted and now being conducted
in areas where cities are known
to have flourished in the past, even
as late as the middle ages. In fact
ancient historians, such as the
Greek, Herodotus and Homer, he
asserted, cited the wealth of Afri-
can Rulers.
Excavations, even as recent as
1947 have uncovered lost civiliza-
tons works of art, ornament, as
well as records of great African
Universities known to the scholars
of the Middle Ages.
The Howard professor carefully
pointed out that some of the langu-
ages inscribed in the tombs of
great African dynasties can be
read by only few persons in the
world. Unfortunately, there are
even languages which no living
person can decipher as yet. The
theft of records and valuables from
the thousands of grave mounds
which have been excavated only in
recent years also was cited as add
ed obstacle to the tracing of Afri-
can Civilization and Commerce
which flourished at the time of
the voyage of Vasco Da Cana.
In answer to the question as to
why the conception of Africa as
a backward land with no particular
history of note, DR.. Hansberry as
serted that one of the reasons was
the naturalization Of the slavery
of darker human beings by Euro
pean or lighter groups.
Until 1859, DR.. Hansberry said,
Africa was looked upon as land
of untold riches, and even now in
cludes the richest sources of uran-
ium, the basic element of atomic
energy. However, in 1863, he said,
in order to justify slavery, those
with a vested interest in the theory
that Africa was a backward land
with no historical background
worthy of emulation, while they
did not succeed in planting the in
stitution of slavery, did succeed in
planting the myth" of darkest
Africa.
In the words of DR.. Hansberry,
the facts of the case are that eli
matte changes, such as the gradual
drying up of once habitable areas,
the dispersal of people of once
flourishing cities, and the slave
raids of the Berbers destroyed the
remnants of civilization which
was one of the greatest the world
has ever known.
In the question period that fol-
lowed DR.. Hansberry revealed that
the facts, long misrepresented and
distorted, which he had so briefly
presented would be available in
document form in late 1850.
DR.. Hansberry expressed the per-
sonal belief that once American
negroes realize the greatness of
African Civilization, they will then
be justly proud of their ancestors
and heritage, and will possess
greater self-confidence in this
/ changing world.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
HIS WORD
BY Archbishop W.D.C. Johnson

All things that the Father hath
are mine: therefore said | that he
shall take of mine, and shall shew
it unto you. Jesus said, A little
while and We shall not see me:
again, little while, and we shall
see me. Because | go to the Father.
Verify, in our fathers house are
many mansions, let not your heart
be troubled, the Kingdom of God
cometh with observation.
Neither shall they say, Lo here
or Lo there: for behold, the King
dom of God is within you, my loved
ones, for as the lightning that
Ilighteneth out of the one part un-
der Heaven: so shall also the Son
of Man be in His day. And Mel
chizedek, King of Salem brought
forth the bread and wine; and he
was the priest of the most high
God, and He blessed him and said,
BLESSED be Abram of the most
high God, possessor of Heaven and
Earth; and blessed be the most high
God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand" And he
gave me tithes of all.
And the King of Seldom said
unto Abram, "Give me the persons
and take the goods to myself"
And Abram said unto the King of
Sodom, 81 have lift up mine hand
unto the Lord, the most high God;
the possessor of Heaven and Earth,
that | will not take from a thread,
even to a shoe lachet. And that |
will not take anything that is thine,
lest thou shouldest say l have
made. Abram rich" After these
things the word of the Lord Jesus
came upon Abraham in a vision,
saying fear not, Abraham, | am
thy shield, and thy exceeding great
reward. And Abraham said, "Lord
God, what wilt thou give me, seeing
| go childless ?"
And he brought him forth a.
broad, and said, Look now toward
Heaven and tell the stars, if thou
be able to number them" And he
said unto him, so shall thy seed
be-" And he believed in the Lord
Jesus, he counted it to him, for
righteousness, and Jesus said unto
him, II am the Lord that brought
thee out of the land of the Ur, of
the Chaldees, to give thee this land
to inherit it from the river of
Egypt unto the great river; the
river Euphrates, the whole land of
Ethiopia, the African home, that
wonderland of Ham and as it was
in the days of Noah, so shall it be
also in the days of the Son of man.
They did eat, they drank. they mar
ried wives, they were given in mar
riage until the day that Noah en-
tered into the Ark, and the flood
came and destroyed them all. Like
wise also as it was in TIE days of
Lot; they did eat, they drank, they
bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded. But the same day that
Lot went out of Sodom, it rained
fire and birthstone from Heaven
and destroyed them all.
Thus, shall it be in this day
when the Son of man is revealed.
In that day, he which shcll be upon
the housetop and his stuff in the
house, let him not come down to
take it away. Amen.
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sideration. First will be the adopt
ton of the constitution and by
laws for the local organization.
Second, will be the raising of
funds to send a delegate from
the state organization, President
Percy Greene, to represent the
state organization at the National
Civil Rights Mobilization in Wash
fngton, January 1917, called by
the NAACP and so other national
organizations.
President Greene said that he
was looking forward to a full at
tendance at this meeting.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Durham For s.
American Tour
By CHARLES CLARE

LONDON - (ATLAS) - Kath-
crime Durham and her dance troupe
have been signed for South AM
erican tour next summer by Sol
Hurok, international Impresario.
The Troupe will dance in Latin
America for projected five or
six months visit. Then they will
return to the States for a three
week engagement in New York.
The New York date will be their
only U. S. stop.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
Local Veteran =.
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NOUHCIIIUVu IIUIII dB6 OIItI
Johnson makes plastic lamps and
other decorative materials.
Johnson is unmarried and will
live in his new home with his moth
er, Mrs. Leila Johnson. His father
died in 1889.
The home was built by H. c..
Parker, with the other half of the
construction cost loaned by the
Magnolia State Building and Loan
Association. Escrow Funds held
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31

group and since only small seq
ment of Negroes do pass, the know
ledge causes feelings of jealousy
and distance on the part of those
who cannot. Also those who pass
sometimes feel a sense Of super
iority towards the rest of their
group.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31

pending completion of the home
was in the hands of the Deposit
Guaranty Bank and Trust Co.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31

WEEKLY QUOTATION: ring,
out the old, ring in the new, Ring
happy bells, across the snow; The
year is going, let him go; Ring
out the false, ring in the true. =
Tennyson.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31

OVER IN MERIDIAN - That
Old Bird that carries in his Bill
that little Old Heart Warming and
family cementing bundle is sche-
duled this week to leave one of
his little old bundles at the home
of Rev. and Mrs. j. r. Crump. She
is better known as JENNIE RUTH
SCOTT, efficient and energetic
principal of Wechsler High School.
Here's for many happy returns of
the day.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31

1T AMT WHERE YOU FROM
IT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING -
Look at that article on the front
page about archaeology, anthropo-
logy PROVING WE AMT
GOT NO CULTURAL LAG FOR
NOBODY knowledge, informa-
ton, and understanding out of the
head of Leo Hansberry +. he used
to, run barefooted upon Dreyfus
Hill and up and down Church
Street here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-23
Regular 1853
Infant
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Jared; buttons front or back.
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