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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
LIFE AT A
GLANCE
Ry RAY LAWRENCE

Well it's about time the phophets
stop talking about such a pros
porous year that's coming and al
ways leaving out the most import
ant subject which concerns the
masses of people, unemployment.
Now the Commerce Dept. has an
nounced that in February the ma
tons jobless rose to 1854, 900, the
highest figure in nine years. "The
picture for February was consider
ed encouraging" so said the Wall
Street Journal, and that spurted
Commentators and Industrial lead
ers to say that we are in for a pros
porous year, just because last mon
tn the increase was almost a mil
lion and this month, it was only
100000, that is February and
March.
The fact that we passed the five
million mark some time ago is a
cold fact. Labor economists are
generally agreed that the Com
merce Dept. unemployment figures
are about IL million shy of the
real mark
What's in store for the guy who
needs job and those who are just
waiting to be handed a pink slip,
no one knows. But this is not such
a bright picture to paint for every
one knows that during the summer
months-agricultural activity both
the labor force and volume df en-
ployment rise, but you cannot rely
on seasonal changes, and that is
just what industrial and labor
leaders have been wishing for-I
say wishing.
The trouble is that nobody, labor
or industrial has been able to find
a way to put folks to work and
keep'em working, and why? That
is the question.
President Truman made speech
in Detroit in 1948, in which he
warned labor that the congressional
sweep of Republicans would mean
unemployment in two years. At
that time, Labor was so badly split
up into selfish factions, which was
good for the COP, it could not
stem the tide of a Republican Con-
gressional victory.
But that is not the question at
the moment. What is Labor going
to do about the present trend of
unemployment in the year of 1850.
IT we ever needed jobs for the job
less, we need them new.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15

If You Obey Gods Word
Obey Him
God give to me a mind to think
And a nose | say to smell
An ear to hear an eyes to see
And a mouth to taste as well.
There are no excuses for leaders
The narrow path is right
But yet some love that broad road
Where they are always in a fight.
III
Jesus sent his comforter
To guide us all as well
Long as we walk this narrow path
It's path to Heaven or He'll.
~
Too many initiating in Gods House
And claiming a part in Christ
When they are only Hypocrites
And living a slufoot life.
That Importing won't sing this
song
I'm glad Salvation is free
They are charging for everything
they do
Some have their eyes on me.
vi
Jesus gives every shepherd a
charge to keep
And His Father to Glorify
To all who walk that narrow path
He has a home for them on high.
The disease of sin is spreading
each day
And the end is near at hand
Since virture has a very poor
chance
With the sin that's all over this
land.
The virture of our race we are told
Is the wealth of our race today
And yet sin is robbing us of our
wealth
And with your soul you are go
ing to pay.
Are you going to lose your soul
For the lust of this world today
Jesus gave the power to men on
earth
Now women are going this way.
X
Let every man abide in his own
calling
Stop calling the women this way
A disease of sin is in the calling
And leading the world astray.
Rev. j. r. Perkins
1890 Whitfield Mill Rd.
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
LOU SW ARR
10 THINGS

New York City - The Roller
Derby Shows here are showing off
the "Tiger" in our fairer sex with
even your catching glimpse over
TV of one actually sitting it out
on top of another. However the
Sport seems to be drawing record
crowds just as the Golden Gloves
Matches are doing.
SIGMA GAMMA RHO WORKS
WITH TEEN TOWN 4. The Au-
rora Club of the Sigma Gamma
Rho Sorority is becoming most ac-
tive with the program of the Teen
Town project which is being de-
veloped over at the Salvation
Army Red Shield Club; and pretty
soon there will be a beautiful Teen
Town room furnished by the Group.
MASS SEX SCANDAL UNDER
FIRE-No not here in in NYC
but out in another little Illinois
town again. This time it's Car
linville and just about five months
ago it was Belvidere Cloth in Hi
nois). Perhaps a Teen-Town I'M
der the direction of trained Rec
reation workers would help curb
such things out that way The
purpose of Teen-Town is to offer
directed Fun-Recreation, Enter
tainment to teen-agers. Nothing
like preventing delinquency. Then
you won't have to fight it after
it has started, will you?
ORCHIDS TO LILLIAN
SHARPE HUNTER as Director
of the Amsterdam Debutante Ball
which was an overwhelming sue
cess. Isn't it grand to have such
charming and useful personality
in the community? And it was
so timely for Mrs. Hunter to have
received that Citation from the
Beauticians' Sorority the same
week she put over such a beau
tiful Project. TEEN-TOWN is
happy to announce that it too
will have the guidance of this
great personality at the time when
the Project for a Scholarship
Award gets under way.
HAZEL SCOTT POW ELL
scored a success in Houston with
her Bach to Boogie Program which
shows that we like "all" music.
ROBERT McFERIN, a former
St. Louisan, is being presented in
Song Recital in the Wadleigh High
School Auditorium on March 26,
and Hall Johnson is as usual doing
his all toward making the city
conscious of the affair.
Keep the mail pouch full like
it Lou (Hotel Theresa)
Swarz, NYC.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
HIS WORD
BY Archbishop w. ID. C. johnson

BY Archbishop w. ID. c. Johnson
And he said unto me, "Son of
Man, stand upon thy feet, and l
will speak unto thee" And the
spirit entered into me when he
spake unto me and set me upon
my feet, that l heard him that
spake unto me, and he spake unto
me and he said unto me, "Son of
man, | send thee to the children
of Israel, to a rebellious nation
that hath rebelled against me-"
And so Jesus Christ becomes thu
great interpreter of what we are,
he comes to interpret us to our
selves. 1t is the first step toward
the new and everlasting life. Christ
does other things and has other
characters. He is prophet, priest
and king. He is sacrifice and shep-
herd; wine and bread; head of the
church and intercessor at the
throne. Now to us he revealed of
the secrets of the soul, as Simeon
predicted he would when he held
him in his arms at his birth.
Not only does he reveal man to
himself, he reveals God to man.
He said, "Come to me and you
shall have power to live out your
better self by my strength and
inspiration of the Holy Ghost from
eternal high priest Jesus Christ,
God the Father, God the Son, God
the Holy Ghost, Holy Trinity, one
God, Amen.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
.PTA OF SHAW
COLORED HIGH
CONVENES

SHAW, Miss, April 1O.-The
PTA of Shaw Colored High met
Tuesday, April 4, in the school
auditorium and, besides conducting
its regular business, elected new
officers.
The new officers are Mr.. Wal
ter Lewis, president; Mr.. sTillman
Lloyd, vice-president; Mr.. H. D.
Greenwood, secretary, and Mr.. B.
M. Baker, treasurer.
Equally in Importance with the
election of officers was the ter
mination of a financial drive mi
tiated by Mrs. Mamie Brown, a
Shaw teacher, sponsoring the 8th
grade, to raise PTA funds. $54.00
was raised.
Mr.. B. G. Rainey, the principal,
is establishing home economics
department in the school. To help
him with it's establishment, the
PTA pledged itself to help buy a
kitchen sink, hot water tank,
cabinets, and other equipment
needed in this project.
The meeting ended with remarks
by Mr.. Rainey who asked patrons
to stand by their school and sup
port it so that it may train better
their girls and boys and better
prepare them to partake of the
blessing bestowed in their inner
tied American citizenship.
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Charge

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vention of initiation and provision
of equal job opportunity and equit-
able sharing in the fruits of pro-
duction.
"The people of Louisiana and
the South are a fair people," he
said. "They stand for fair labor
standards and fair employment
practices. Legislative measures
on these problems have been mis-
represented to the people of the
South by States Rights leaders.
"The voice of the true South calls
for legislation for fair minimum
wages and fair hours for all, es-
pecially women; it calls for bet
ter enforcement of the present
laws, especially those on child la
bor."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
DR.. David Blackwell,
Visiting Professor At
Stanford University
WILL SPEND SUMNER
WORKING ON NAVAL
RESEARCH PROJECT

WASHINGTON, D. CDR. Da-
vid Blackwell, distinguished young
statistician who is professor and
head of the department of math-
ematics at Howard University, has
been appointed to the staff of
Stanford University, Stanford,
Calf.
DR.. Blackwell will go to Stan
ford during the summer to work
on an Office of Naval Research
project and will assume his teach
ing and research duties on Sep
TENDER l, with the rank of visiting
professor of statistics.
The mathematics professor, only
30 years of age, is one Of the few
experts in probability theory in
the u. S. and is also interested in
applied mathematics, especially in
the fields of social and economic
problems.
He graduated from the Univers-
ity of Illinois in 1888, received his
Masters degree there year later,
and his Ph.D. degree in 1941. He
was a Rosenwald Fellow at the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, N. J., then a mathe-
mates instructor at Southern Uni
versity, Baton Rouge, La, and at
Clark College, Atlanta, Ca, be-
fore joining the Howard Univers-
ity faculty in 1914.
During various summer periods
he was a statistician with the
OPA, d research fellow at Brown
University, a visiting professor at
Cornell, and consultant on Pro-
ject RAND, with the Douglas Air
craft Company, Santa Monica. He
is the author of numerous tech
nical publications in the field of
statistics and mathematics, and
is member of the American
Mathematical Society and Eel
low of the Institute of Mathe-
NAUTICAL Statistics.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
Octavia Hawkins
To Head Child
Welfare Conference

Chicago, ILL.,, April 10.-(Spe-
ciaD-One of Chicago's outstand-
ing Negro leaders, Mrs. Octavia
Hawkins, who is prominent in trade
union, welfare and club circles,
will serve as chairman of a ma
tional BREAD AND BUTTER
Conference on Child Welfare be-
ing held at Hull House, in Chi
cago, this weekend april Is and
49, under the sponsorship of 80
leading educators, doctors, social
workers and union leaders, it has
been announced. Honorary chair
man of the Conference will be
Flora Juliette Cooke, pioneer in
the field of progressive education
and principal emeritus of the
famed Francis Parker School in
Chicago.
Mrs. Hawkins, who has raised
five children and is a grandmoth-
er, is a welder in an automobile
plant and an officer of her local
in the United Automobile Work
ers, Clio. She is also active in
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
the Chicago Urban League and
the Status of Women Commission
of the Congress of American
Women.
The BREAD AND BUTTER
CONFERENCE has been organ
lied to discuss basic needs of
American children and map out
a constructive program for meet
ing those needs which can be pre-
scented to the Mid-Century White
House Conference on Children and
Youth next December, according
to Mrs. Hawkins.
The Conference will open at IL
AM, Saturday, with a keynote
address by Celia S. Deschin, as
sociate in psychiatric social work
at the Long Island College of
Midicine in New York. Follow
ing the opening address, delegates
will meet in four panels to dis
cuss problems of all American
children in the family, the school.
the community, and in attaining
good health. Chairing the panel
will be Bertha C. Reynolds, social
worker. formerly of Smith College
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
FBI Seeks To
lndict State
OfficersIn
GroveIand Abuse

NEW YORK, April 6.-The Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People was in
formed today by the Department
of Justice that the case against
the law enforcement officers in
the Groveland, Florida rape cases
will be presented to a Federal
Grand Jury in Ocala on April IT,.
U. S. District Attorney Herbert
F. Phillips will seek an indictment,
on behalf Of the Justice Depart
ment, against any state officers
who might have violated the
Groveland defendants constitu-
tional rights. FBI intervention
followed reports by NAACP at
torneys that Samuel Shepherd,
Walter Lee Irwin and Charles
Greenlee, the three youths whose
conviction is being appealed by
the Association, were brutally
beaten and otherwise badly mis-
treated by state police officers
following their arrest. Franklin
H. Williams, NAACP assistant
special counsel who is handling
the case, reported, after visit to
the prisoners in the state peni-
tertiary, that the beatings con-
tinued after their conviction.
The appeal of the convictions
is scheduled to be argued by Mr..
Williams and Alex Alderman, Jr.,
of Winter Park, Fla, on April Is,
before the Florida Supreme Court
at Tallahassee.
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messed the ordeal. The party of
whites was allegedly sitting in
car when the girl approached.
The detective commented: "This
is one of the worst sex crimes
have encountered in my entire ca
greer. The crime was reported to US
and when we arrived at the scene
the men and women fled, leaving
the girl naked in the wooded area.
She was bruised from rough hand
ling"
The mother of the alleged VIC
tim swore rent warrents for the
arrest of the men. The crime oc-
Cured at dusk Monday, according
RI the detective.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15

in Massachusetts; Mary Jane Mel
ish, community leader of Brook
lyn, N. Y; Jack Ellison, of the
Francis Parker School in Chicago,
and DIR. Harris B. Peck, vice.
chairman of the Citizens Mental
Health Council, and senior psy-
chiatrist of the Treatment Clinic
of the New York Domestic Rela-
tions Court.
A public meeting in the Little
Theatre at Hull House at 500
Pm. on Saturday will be chaired
by Mrs. Alva Delaney, president
of the Chicago and Northern Dis
trict Associations of Colored Wo-
mems Clubs. DR.. Gene Weltfish,
of Columbia University, will be
the main sneaker.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
Screen And
FOOtlights
By DAVID ]. RETHEA

iyd 4OlkS' w ell the latest
word from across the country is
that vaudeville may be willing but
Dance Halls are blooming
BILLY DANIELS moving from
the Flaming Las Vegas to the
Mapes Hotel in Reno . . Earle
Theatre in Philadelphia is rock
ing with the Hawk" this week.
ERSKINE is really giving out
with his brass section, stopping
the show at every notch. HER
NAN CHITTISON trio still car
rying on at the Blue Angel in
N. 7. MILLS BROS. pre-
eminence as solid as ever in Min
neapolis, Mimi, this week
French pie star, DENISE OAR
Gel, MGM's battle-ground hero
inc debuting in Boston's Latin
quarter a WOW And from
Paris comes word that the African
dance team, the LES SICCOS"
IS about the hottest thing in the
business with the Tom Tom drums
and African folklore Out in
Hollywood, the film, MAKE Be
LIEVE BALLROOM" being shot
by Columbia Pictures, will include
such top headliners as Billy Dan
iels, frankie Lane, Bob and his
Bobcats, Kay Star, Moedrnaires
and The Mills Bros. And Sister
ROSETTA THARPE, booked into
HARLEM'S ONLY Golden Gate
Ballroom May IA, next stop Bop
City ILLINOIS JACQUET
is slated for N. Y. Paramount
Theatre this summer SARAH
VAUGHN will trek into Bop City
April II And if you are
Giant fan, you may hear all their
broadcasts as far west as Chi this
summer.
ALFRED LUNT and LYNN
FONTANNE, now starring in 81
Know My Love" celebrated their
3,40Cth performance in New York
as stage partners last Thursday
evening. What makes their asso-
citation all the more significant is
the fact that they are Mr.. and
Mrs; in the business for 26 years,
which is an excellent example that
with the right kind of considera-
ton for each other, domestic life
can be mighty beautiful working
together and caring a living in
the same vocation.
"THE MEMBER OF THE
starring ETHEL
has been awarded the
N. Y. Drama Critic Circles choice
for the best play of the Broadway
season. 1t might even pop up
for the Pulitzer play award.
Reports from sections of the
country stripped of Rent Controls
show dip in TV and Theatre box
office and sales. Too much rent
and decreasing of employment
makes for shortage of spending
cash Barmaids in the City of
New York may be routed from
the mixing of connections behind
bars if the local Restaurant and
Hotel Workers Union, AFL, has
it's way. The officials of the Union
will ask the City Council to pro-
hibit gals from working behind
bars . IT,.
SOUTH AFRICA. Strangely
enough "HOME OF THE BRAVE"
is still on the ban list, but IN
IN THE DUST" is
OK'd. AND Londoners are
going ali out to pay tribute to
the late Bill Robinson in ANITA'S
O'DAY'S waxing of "Blues for b.
jangles." And Back to America.
All Hibbler has been linked to s.
year contract to Atlantic Records.
There is always music in the
air for somebody, but one of these
days let's hope, the Negro will not
be the first to go and the last to
be hired when things get low. He
would like to help make music
even when times are bad. LAMP
YOU AT THIS SAME TIME
NEXT WEEK.
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and is still on the unfavorable list.
An appeal has been lodged and,
heard last September, the Min
lister of the Interior has not budged
from his decision.
Yet strangely enough, MGM's
"Intruder In The Dust which
deals with lynching in the deep
South has been given the green
light by the Censor Board for ex-
hihition to European adults only.
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u P
A N d
D o W N
r A r Is H
S T r l: I: 7
By PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: | was just sitting and
thinking as | INDUCED my Fish
and Beer and my mind went back
to another one of them "texts"
that l had heard a backsliden
brother illustrating on during a
period Of great mellowness, and it
took me bcak to thinking again
about the beautiful new Parish
Street Baptist Church in which
the parishioneers of that historic
Jackson landmark have just begun
to worship anew, after a period,
during its rebuilding of worship
ing from pillar to post, as the say
ing goes. The text which | heard
the brother illustrating on, as
above referred to, was something
like as follows: THE LORD FOR
BID Me TAKE THE PRICE OF
The GOSPEL . In the CONVEX
sation which | heard that text, or
one thereabouts, discussed the
Brothers were talking about some
Sermons that folks don't never
hear preached no more >. Think
ing of the new and beautiful Far
ish Street Baptist Church. and
then all Of the rest of them that
needs renewing so bad, some of
which were built out of the $500
per week salaries by the grand
pas and grandmas of the folks
who now go to church in 'em.
dts almost impossible to worship
in most of 'em anymore), | fig
ured that until lot more churches
like the Parish Street Baptist
Church have been built for Aunt
Haggar's Chilluns here in Jackson,
in Mississippi, and all over the
land of cotton, that text: THE
LORD FORBID THAT | TAKE
THE PRICE OF THE GOSPEL
. ought never again be preached
by anybody in earshot of Aunt
Haggar's Chilluns | take my
cue from being one myself. What
makes me say that that sermon
ought never to be preached in ear
shot of Aunt Haggar's Chilluns is
the fact that that TWO RITC A
WEEK, that most of their grand
pas and grandmas paid for church
dues, when they were getting $500
per week, is still being paid in
most of the churches by only about
half the folks who belong"
WHEN THEY GO TO CHURCH,
the Chilluns of Aunt Haggar be-
ing generally of the opinion that
the price of Me Gospel is
dirt cheap . *. or nothing !
The more | thought the more |
thought and the conclusion /
reached was that that text ought
not have been invented because as
long as it can be even limited at
Aunt Haggar's Chilluns for
the most part, are going to be con-
tented with setting up in them old
churches built by their grandpas
and grandmas until they
FALL DOWN ON EN-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15
Brave" On South
Africa Ban List

CAPE TOWN-(Atlas)- "Home
of the Brave" United Artist film,
starring James Edwards, was
banned last July by the South
African Board of Film Censors.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15

A CHALLENGE TO NEGRO
STUDENTS: When Judge w. l..
Mhoon died here Monday he left
only two Negro Lawyers in Mis-
sissippi and not one in Jack
son, the states Capital City j..
More than anything else, even doc
tors, Mississippi needs Negro law
yers As a result of the law
examinations just held no Negro
passed although there were five on
the examination There con-
tinues to be great reluctance with
respect to granting a Negro lie
ense to practice law in Mississippi
the most glazing example of
the Separate but Equal" in the
states educational system is the
fact that a Graduate from the
Law School of the University gets
his license without even having
to take the state examination /.
The rest is up to the young Negro
who wants to practice law in Mis-
sissippi.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15

THAT OLD BIRD =. That car
ries in its bill that little old
heart-warming and family-cement-
ing bundle, left one the other day
for young Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Shell
by. Twas six-pound girl. They
named it Cassandra. 1t was the
first baby born in the new Jackson
Apartments 5. and everybody is
well and happy.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15

WEEKLY QUOTATION: His
tory is voice forever sounding
across the centuries the laws of
r;erh+ and wrorr-T Fro,1do
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-15

IN THE EASTER PARADE:
When the Easter Parade got in
full swing up and down the Ole
Avenue the Easter Bonnets seen
showed all the bright and glow
ing, and alluring colors, and the
most subtle cunning of the MILL
merry art, among those getting the
second and sometime the third
looks were those we saw as worn
by Clare Collins (Mrs.) Harvey,
Clara miss Dolly)) Stevens, Hen
Tetta (Mrs.) Stevens, Mrs. A. D.
Doctor Birtton, Areteme Miss
Warren, Maggie Miss Topp,
Carrye (Mrs.) Shepherd, jamie
Marie Miss Singletary and Cecil
Miss Anderson.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-12-14
Conference Organized
For Big Black Schools
Class B And BIB
Schools Represented

Representatives of thirteen
schools met in Ethel on Monday,
December II for the purpose of
organizing a conference for Class
B and BIB schools in territory adj
jacent to the Big Black River Val.
ley. Schools represented at the
meeting were: Durant, Ethel
French Camp, Lexington, Maben
Mathiston, McAdams, Naxapater
Sails, Sturgis, Walden, Weir. and
West.
The representatives voted 70
name the conference 1.-THE Biz
Black" Officers elected were: w.
A. Thompson, French Camp, pres
ident; Harold Ming, Noxapater.
vice president; and N. c. Hath
orn, Durant, secretary and treas
urer. A committee was chosen to
make a study Of various confer
ence constitutions and make a re-
port to the conference at its next
meeting, which will be held on
January 10Th at Ethel. It was de-
cided to hold a conference basket
ball tournament on February 2
and 8. The site of the tournament
is to be set at the next meeting of
he conference.