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The guardian., 1952-07-12
Girl Scouts Mark
Fifth Birthday

Girl Scouts of Ebenezer Bap-
tist Church celebrated their fifth
birthday in June when more
than so Girl Scouts and
Brownies gathered in the church
vestry.
The call to colors and the Girl
Scout and Brownie promises
were led by Scout Gloria John
son. Mrs. w. S. Ravenell brought
greetings. She challenged the
parents and friends to cooperate
with leaders who are striving to
build finer women for tomorrow.
"A pageant written by the
Senior Scouts, pages From Our
Girl Scout Album" featured
the making of cake by
the Intermediates. The Cakes
and a pie they made were
presented to their leaders. The
Senior Scouts gave demonstra-
ton of First Aid. Mrs. Mendoza
Red Cross instructor of First Aid
presented an imaginary fire dis
aster scene.
Merit badges were given in the
fields of First Aid, Home Nurse,
Child Care, Tree, Sewing, Cook,
Dancer, Cyclist and My Troop.
Miss Catherine Conklin, assistant
director, presented First Glass
Pins to Gloria Johnson, M airy
Queeley and Lucy Tanneyhill
who had majored in Health and
Safety; Elizabeth Ravenell who
had majored in the Out-of-Doors.
Five Year Pins were awarded
by Mrs. Jessie Carr, central
Boston district chairman, to
Mary Queeley, Gloria johnson,
Matte Hendricks, Elizabeth Raw
enell, Edna Lewis, Lucy Tanney-
hill and Mrs. Carrie Walton,
committee member and resource
leader Miss Ruth Bass, district
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K. P. SESSION
SIDE LIGHTS

Supreme Chancellor r. A. Hes.
ter of Dallas, Texas and Sup
rene Counsellor A. G. CASTOR
of Birmingham, Ala. stayed at
the Statler Hotel during the KIP.
session. They were met at the
airport by Grand Chancellor
Walter o. Taylor and Grand
Worthy Counsellor Sarah A..
Stratmon and by them were es-
corted to the hotel.
At the meeting Thursday night
in Union Methodist Church
Mayor Hynes was represented
by City Greeter John H. Brown
who presented an official bro
chure to Mrs. Hester. Judge Ed
ward o. Gourden represented
Gov. Dever. Joseph T. Kennedy
appeared for his brother, Con-
gresham Kennedy, who was un-
able to attend. Asst. Atty. Gen.
James G. Wolff read a letter
from Atty. Gen. Francis E. Kelly.
Bona B. Smell brought greetings
from fraternal orders, the Rev.
Mr.. Reeves, from the Ministerial
Alliance; the Rev. J. H. D. Bail
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KNIGHTS, CALANTHES IN
3-DAY SESSION HERE

Lodges of Pythians and Courts
of Calanthe under the New Eng
land Jurisdiction gathered here
July 3-5 for their annual ses-
sion.
Present were members not only
of Boston's four lodges and four
courts but also of lodges and
courts located in Springfield,
Providence, and Westerly, RI,
and Hartford, CT. They gis-
tered Thursday morning July 8
at Calanthe Home, $50 Columbus
ave. but Prince Hall Masonic
Temple, fremont ST., was the
main headquarters, where most
of the exercis were conducted.
The public opening meeting
was in the Union Methodist
Church, Columbus ve., Thurs
day night and the program there
included an organ selection by
Irving Funter, invocation by the
Rev. ]. H. D. Bailey, addresses
by DR.. w. o. Taylor, Mrs. Sarah
A. Stratmon, the Rev. E. c. Nc
Leod, representatives of Mayor
Hynes and Gov. Dever; Congress-
man John F. Kennedy, Atty-Gen.
Francis E. Kelly, Asst. Atty.-Gen.
James G. Wolff, H. C. Canty,
Hartford, Ct; Irene Cote, Spring
field; Atty. L. J. Horton, r. A.
Hester, A. G. CASTOR; also solos
by Mildred Jenkins, and Irving
Hunter.
Hunter. 1t was at this meeting
Rev. ]. H. D, Bailey, in behalf
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Medford Wife Promoted
Asst. Cam. Court Officer

104 Harvard ave-, West Medford.
She is a former secretary and a
director of the Board of the Cam
bridge Community Center, a
member of the National Associa-
ton of Parliamentarians and is
a candidate for the Bachelors
Degree from Staley College next
lime.
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HIGH SCHOOL CLASS
w. H. BATUM

lector which positio nl1e held un-
til his retirement in 1943. He
married the former Miss Wini-
fred Black of Boston in 1922.
They have one daughter, Louisa,
who this year was graduated
from the Faction Pionoforte
School college course). The Ba-
tums live at 5 Amboy st., ALI
ston, home which they own.
Mr.. Batun is active in the
Allston Methodist Church. He
is a member of its board of
trustees, superintendent of the
junior department of the Sunday
School, teacher therein and plan
list for the school.
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CAMBRIDGE - Judge Edward
J. Dever, Presiding Justice of the
Third District Court of Eastern
Middlesex, has recently promoted
Mrs. Mildred Griffith, Principal
Clerk, to assist Mr.. Anthony ].
DiNatale, Chief Probation Officer.
Mrs. Griffith is the wife of the
well known Boston Postal en-
ploye, Mr.. William A. Griffith of
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of the knights presented Grand
Chancellor Walter o. Taylor
with costly brief case.
A social hour followed at CAL
anthe Home with Earl Medley,
host and Marie Pitts, hostess.
Meetings were held morning
and afternoon Friday at Masonic
Temple. In the evening there
was Fun and Frolic Entertain
ment" in Butler Hall in the
same building. The merriment
included dancing to the music
of Tasker Crosson's orchestra,
and admission was free.
Saturday forming the session
closed. The afternoon was spent
in sightseeing trips to historic
places il Boston and neighboring
cities and towns. Saturday night
a dinner party in honor of Su-
preme Chancellor r. A. Hester,
Dallas, Texas, and Supreme Wor-
thy Counsellor A. G. Castor. Bir-
mingham, Ala, was held at the
Professional and Business Club,
543 Mass. ave.
The session was the 34th for
the Knights of Pythias and the
32nd for the Courts of Calanthe.
DR.. Walter o. Taylor, Grand
Chancellor of New England Jur-
isdiction and Mrs. Sarah A. Strait
mon, Grand Worthy Counsellor,
New England Order of Calanthe,
said that the session was one of
the most successful in Pythian
annals.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

At a recent reunion of the
Boston English High School
Glass of '95 William H. Batum
was elected class vice-preSident.
The reunion was held at the
University Club on Stuart st. and
was attended by nearly two
score members.
A few years after graduation
Batum joined the YMCA, when
its building was on Boylston St,
near fremont st., downtown. At
the s'Y'' he starred as an athlete
winning many championships as
a sprinter and broad jumper. He
entered the Boston Custom
House as a clerk in 1902, became
an Entry Clerk and Deputy Col
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1852 GRADUATES

and currently at Harvard and
Boston University. Besides her
scholastic and public service ac-
tivities she is the mother of q
fine young son. She is a mem
Der of the we'll known John
Cromwell family OF Washington,
d. c., where she was born and
received her early education.
SIM resides at 48 Banks sty CAM
bridge. with her son and hus-
band, DR.. Henry Hill Ga research
chemist at Dewey Almy Chemi-
cal Coz who was recently hon.
ored by his associates at din
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school system. After graduating
from Fisk University in l948
Johnnie Immediately established
himself as owner of dry clean
ing service in Roxbury and part
ner in another enterprise in
Maiden.
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Beginning Monday, July Z,
through Friday, July II, the Holy
Ghost Filled Mission at 399 Col
umbus ave. will be in high spirit
ual services.
Each evening at 800 o'clock
the meeting will be in behalf of
the largest family that attends
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ey, from Grand Lodge, K. P;
Mrs. Alfalfa Brown, from Grand
Court of Ca!anthe. DR.. Walter 0.
Taylor was presented with
costly leather bag by X. P. mem
bers.
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England family; the 25-year-old
candidate was born in the city of
Boston and attended the public
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A BIessinu For The Largest Family

the meetings when that family
will receive a huge supply of
Continued on Page Four
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REV. DR.. T. S. HARTEN
Of Brooklyn, NY, dynamic
pastor and race rights fighter,
whose Boston friends and for
mer parishioners plan a
hearty greeting when he
comes to Western Ave. Bapt.
Church, Sunday, July 20.
sinceg
The guardian., 1952-07-12

HITLER'S REIGN suffered two
of its most damaging body-blows
from Americas colored athletes,
just as Stains propaganda faces
the same possibility at Helsinki
this month. Everyone knows how
Joe Louis turned back Germany's
Max Schmeling in one of the
most crucial psychological phases
of the last war. And at Berlin,
Jesse Owens & Co. actually did
make "Caesar Hitler" grab his
toga and flee the arena.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

OLYMPIC TRACK competition
established the colored athlete IN
the realm of track. But first Bos-
toms Ned Gourdin became first
athlete to broad-jump Is feet.
DeHart Hubbard won the Olym-
pic 1924 title in the event In
1882 Eddie Tolan and Ed Gordon
won three titles. Then in 1886
even Hitler fled when Jesse
Owens, John Woodruff, Archie
Williams and Connie johnson
grabbed six titles. ''Racism" was
smashed.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

Dinner hostesses at Masonic
Temple Friday noon were Mes
DANES Alfalfa Brown, Laura
Downs, Mary Powell, Myrtle
White and other sisters. At the
Grand Court sessions July 4,
Grand Worthy Counsellor Sarah
A. Stratmon received many beau
tiful gifts from sister Calanthes
and the Queen Esther Juveniles.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

MAJOR POLITICAL men of
so-called stature are, this month,
seeking to represent thems Ives
as big men" in national and in
ternational affairs. BY the press,
radio and TV, some Of these men
are showing spiteful stubborn
ness toward badly needed social
reforms. They are "little men"
trying to hold back the clock.
Many oppose inter-racial pro-
gress.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

Two sightseeing buses pro-
vided by City Greeter Brown
were crowded to overflowing,
Saturday afternoon for the tour
of Boston and environs. Out-of-
town guests were greatly i'm
pressed by the historic places
they visited.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

THE LESSON in all this, so
far as it relates to the Chicago
Conventions, is obvious. Many
years ago las at Chicago today
we had the same PegIers and
Dixiecrats and Old Guard hard
heads who opposed cOlOred men
being granted full citizen rights.
The first colored boxers, Olympic
Team members, and, Of course,
baseball players, were Sayagely
ovsosed. lust as FEPC and other
reforms are opposed today.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

THE HARD-HEADs don't
learn easy. Even as more sepia
stars prepare to help the U. S.
OLYMPIC Team in 1852, and Tan
Yanks fight a menacing enemy
IN far OF Korea. the so called
Bis BOYS with the cigars con-
finue to argue against equal rights
and social reforms. None Of
these Little Men" will live for
ever. But they could do a lot
Of good if they really were big
in the true sense.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

CoLORED ATHLETES, mean
while, continue to lead both
political parties toward better in
,ter-racial relations. One can go
far beyond tn early boxing bril-
lance of two ex-slav S, Bill Rich
mond and Tom Molineaux. The
list must also include Peter
Jackson, George Dixon, Joe Cans,
Sam Langford, Louis, Jersey Joe,
and many other glorifed in Art
Fleischer's "Black Dynamite"
volumes he and Doc Almy pre-
sented me.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

SATCHEL PAIGE, of course,
has since been given his long de-
1ayed kingly crown, plus his
Throne, in Mcjor League base
ball, thanks largely to an ex-
u. S. Marine and the 80 per cent
good sportsn.a ship of the Am
erican public. And so Old Satch
and young Jackie and other sepia
stars have added to the record of
good inter-racial relations.
The guardian., 1952-07-12
BOSTON
BAKED
BY MABE KoUNTZE

Life is too short to be
little
DISRAELI.
The guardian., 1952-07-12

BASEBALL. in those years,
two decades ago, when l was
writing sports, was strictly jim
crow. AS at the Chicago Con-
ventiOns, there were stubborn
hard-heads who said the players
would never mix. So the
super-stars like "COOi Papa"
Bell, catcher Josh Gi bsOn,
DOubIe-Duty Radcliffe, and an
OId-tinner named Satcn Paige,
kept defeating major league
teams for fun just like the bas-
hetbau Globe TrOtterS fooled
with the Big Pros.
Evening star., 1952-06-25
BY Charles E. TroceweU

The whole thing went into the waste
basket. and, since that moment, though
1t was many years ago now, he has never
eaten anything without first looking
at it.
A good idea.
The booklover washes his hands be-
fore handling book.
This is particularly necessary in hot
weather. when perspiration and oil are
at their peak
The average hand has more CRIME on
it than the average person likes to ad-
NIT. It comes from the air, etc.
This CRIME, mixed with oil, always
makes a nice mark on the margin of
book. If you are not a careful reader,
you will never notice it, of course, and
what you don't know won't bother
you," according to the old country say
ing.
If, on the other hand, you are care
full about such things these marks made
by imprint of thumb and fingers will
disturb you, and there are enough things
in the modern world to disturb one with
out creating them thoughtlessly.
Wash the hands, then, before reading,
just as before eating.
Do not dog-ear the pages, and do not
eat while reading Do not suddenly yank
book open. splitting the back. Do not
use "gadget" book marks that leave
marks on the pages. If you are an edu-
Gated. cultured person. show it In every
way.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

A recent book survey shows that the
better education one has, the more likely
he is to buy and read books.
Well, what else could you expect?
Why have high-powered survey to
show that?
If there is one thing higher education
has done, it has created country Of
booklovers.
This was done by fine men who taught
Eng. Lit" over the years, men to whom
Shakespeare was a name second only to
that of God.
"A good cigar is smoke" said one Of
Victor Herbert's songs.
A good book is q joy.
The more books one has read. the
Surer he is to keep on reading.
Perhaps there is nothing more to it..
A great cult has been built up, in which
various factors may be named, but the
love OF books is fostered by books.
1t is still rare to find more than 100
volumes in home library. Part of this
is due, no doubt. to the lending libraries.
. It seems to many good way to save
money, and it is. but the true booklover
wants to have his own.
The older the booklover grows, the
more sure he is to want his own books
This is brought about, in part. by the
modern faith in science and the belief
in germs.
Ones own books have only ones own
Evening star., 1952-06-25
This and That !.
Carl Shapley.

germs. These, as every one knows, are
much easier handled than some one
else's germs. Even the virus, that par
ticle of life, knows this, and operates on
this basis. 1t builds up a certain i'm
munity against inimical factors, makes
them, indeed. its own.
AS persons grow older they tend to
become more sanitary, until, at the last
epoch Of life, they may become more
dirty. This is explained by failing eye
sight, and the sheer muscular difficulty
Of keeping clean.
But, until that sad epoch, the older a
person gets the more sure he is to re-
spect the germ theory, as it was once
called; he washes his hands before eat
ing, and is glad to do it.
He recalls that as a child and young
man. he often violated this rule.
One of the rules he observes today is
to look at each bite of food before eating
it. He remembers that time, in college
days, when he took to his room a large
bar Of milk chocolate Since it was q
hot night, he did not turn on the light
much to the delight of his landlady,
who wished no lights to be used at ALL.
He opened the package in the dark,
and started to eat. but suddenly thought
he should turn on the light and take a
look.
1t was just as well he did. because the
large bar Of chocolate was filled with
the fattest. whitest, wriggly worms he
had ever seen.
Evening star., 1952-06-25
Letters to The Star

has been trying to ignore an embarrass-
ing fact: A prominent Army officer has
brazenly violated a well-known regula-
tion, No. 600-10, and in plain view for all
the world to see. If the Army diSci-
plined him it might have disastrous con-
sequences in several places. If it did not,
the consequences might be as bad in
another direction. The Army avoided
both horns, of the dilemma by render
ing "a new ruling" or Interpretation of
AR 600-10, namely, five-star generals
without active assignment are in a status
similar" to retired officers and, there
fore, are not subject to AR 600-10.
Did Eisenhower know that? If he did
why did he got to all the trouble to re-
tire. take off his uniform and give up
all his retired pay and allowances? If
he did not know it, why was it not
brought to his attention? Again, if five
star generals without active assignment
are similar" to retired officers, why is
not the regulation against the use or
wearing of the uniform while engaged
in civilian pursuits enforced? -.
The plain fact is that this general is
too big for his pants, and he seems de-
termined to damage his splendid mill
tary record by childish behavior. He
has known all along that he was bigger
than the Army. He even thought he was
bigger than the Commander in Chief,
but that little man called his bluff and
sent him into "a status similar to re-
tirement."
Observer.
Gen. MacArthur's fright" as defined
in the framework of Army regulations,
to keynote the Republican convention
brings to mind an item of interest.
The Department of the Army, in safe
guarding its stand in the issue. appears
to have bypassed an act of Congress.
The latter, to the mind of this writer,
appears to hold more weight than an
Army regulation.
Plastered on the walls of Federal
agencies in and out Of Washington is a
bold warning to those who work for the
Government.
Section 8 (a). congressional act OF
August 2, 1899. as amended, reads in
part as follows:
employed in the executive branch of the
department thereof, to use his official
authority or influence for the purpose
of interfering with an election or affect
ing the result thereof. No officer or
employe in the executive branch Of the
Federal Government, or any agency or
department thereof, shall take any
active part in political management or
in political campaigns. All such persons
shall retain the right to vote as they
may choose and to express their opinions
on all political subjects and candidates,
etc."
Carl Shapley.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

construction of military installations. major
segment of the construction program provides
for air bases Closed hearings already are under
way before the subcommittee under chairman
ship of Senator Long of Louisiana.
The Presidents fear of sharp reduction in
the authorization seems to have arisen from a
speech by Senator Long last month in which he
proposed new listing of military construction
needs, with first priority projects totaling only
about half of the dollar requirement of the pend
ing bill. In the wake of the White House letter,
however, the Louisiana Senator said he did not
expect the subcommittee would recommend any,
thing near so per cent reduction and he was
Joined by subcommittee colleague in promising
no "meat-ax" cuts.
Obviously the magnitude of our defense and
security commitments today makes mandatory
careful search for economies wherever possible or
practical. It is not unlikely that some can be
found in the pending program, but they should
not be such as to jeopardize the larger invest
ment we are making in military preparedness
Evening star., 1952-06-25
A Boys Vocation

When summertime releases him from
school
He scorns his breakfast: he can hardly
tpdit
To haunt the creek banks and quiet
pool
Where fish lie Dnittno for his wri0-
Cling bait.
No tireson1e clock no,D measures out his
time;
He roams the hillside Nth his dog at
heel:
His DAY no longer rounded out by
rhyme
He takes no time to think, but only
feel
Free as his dog upon rabbits track
He drives the hours along like fright
ened sheep.
Hunger the only thing that calls him
back,
Tired to the bone, but stu at odds
Dith sleep.
He makes the most OF his D1cdtion days.
With all the wide ,rorld open to his gaze.
Anna IA. PriestIsy.
Evening star., 1952-06-25
Are They Really Marrying Earlier?
By Edword Boykin

IF FIGURES didn't lie, then it would be
useless to challenge the Commerce
Departments recent announcement that
Americans are taking their connubial
VOWS at an earlier age than ever before.
Basis for this claim is the disclosure
that the "median age" of today's bride
is few months past 20 and that of
the groom a shade over %.
Back in the days when America was
setting records, but wasn't bothering
to keep them. a girl unmarried at 20
was in the old maid class In 1780 an
observant contemporary historian wrote:
philadelphia has thousands of beau
ties between IA and Is. The usual age
of marriage is H." On the frontiers
teen-age weddings were commonplace.
and even the graduates of the Nations
early-day finishing schools were us,l-
ally married by 16.
First American nuptials to hit the
headlines was the Pocahontas-John
Rolfe affair at Jamestown, Va, in 1914.
She was mature 18. Rolfe 20. The
Indian princess was his second ven-
ture.
Most-publicized splicing in early
America was the Priscilla Mullins-John
Alden love match in old Plymouth Col
ony. She was 19, John 81. Incidentally,
Priscilla had II children. Today she
and John have an estimated million
descendants.
The girls sent over by the King of
France to brighten the lives of the
French colonists at Mobile and New Or
leans were mostly teen-agerS. The first
shipload Of 88 reached New Orleans in
1921.
The tobacco brides'-first feminine
invasion Of America-reached Virginia
in 1920. Most of these lassies were in
their teens. It cost the planter 120
pounds of tobacco delivered at the
jamestown wharf to get one of them.
Lovely Ann Eilbeck of Maryland was
16 when she lost her heart to George
Mason, 25, father of the Bill of Rights.
At 18, Patrick Henry, flaming orator
whose liberty or death summoned
America to revolution, married Sarah
Shelton, Is. The mighty hunter and
Indian fighter. Daniel Boone, was 10
when he drew bead on Rebecca Bryan,
II. That's just the way it happened.
While "firehunting" for deer one night
Daniel aimed at what he thought was
pair of shining deer'S eyes. But the
bright eyes were Rebeccas. He found
out just in time.
At II. Thomas Jeffersons mother.
Evening star., 1952-06-25
Pedestrions Not Pumpered

AS follow-up to letter from Care
full Pedestrian" I offer sad testimony
that, even had she obtained the license
number of the near-hit and runner, no
good would have come of it.
About two years ago I had actual
physical contact with a nonstop car
driven by a white-haired man. After
the brush, I noted his license number on
the package was carrying. and trudged
to the sixth precinct.
Even with the information and heated
words with the desk clerk, was in
formed that, since nobody was hurt, he
had nothing to do with it. What con-
stitutes hurt? Pride and dignity are
taken for a hard fall, and not even
sympathy is elected from an apathetic
police force.
had similar brush with car cross
ing sidewalk from a parking lot down.
town. A walk to the 18th precinct with
the same story produced the same re-
sponse. It just doesn't pay! Perhaps
if there were some weight attached to
a vigilante committees reports.
J. H. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1952-06-25

Jane Randolph, succumbed to Peter JEFF
ferson's Establishments. Nancy Hanks,
20, married Tom Lincoln, %, and went
to live in Kentucky cabin where her
son Abraham was born. Quakeress Dolly
Payne was 10 when she shared Quaker
John Todd. Left widow, she married
again at %. this time to the great
little Madison
Divine" Matilda Lee, heiress to
Stratford, was 10 when captivated by
her cousin, Light Horse Harry Lee, 26.
glamour boy of the. Revolution. When
Matilda died he married Anne Carter,
20, mother of Robert E. Lee.
The Father of His Country was q
before vowing eternal fidelity to Martha
Custis. George was her second hus-
band. She was 18 when she married her
first, Daniel Parke Custis.
In 1888 a Richmond girl, Mary
Amber. II. took gangling young bar