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Soon the school had two anony-
NOUS donations of SIG q month
for textbooks. Now its fame
spread rapidly. Eight or nine
classes were held simultaneously
in the two rooms of the suburban
hall. Up to so student teachers
with an increasing number Of in
terested outsiders taught alter
nately throughout the weeks.
AS a result of the intense pres
sure from would-be students, two
more schools were opened in other
suburbs and the government made
an annual grant of L rs ($21O). :.
The activity soon expanded so
rapidly that the organizer formed
the Cape Non-European Night
Schools Association. Besides crude
vocabulary, students now were
taught reading writing, mathemat-
les.
More and more outsiders offered
to give one evening a week to
teaching. A set curriculum re-
placed the old rough-and-ready
methods. 1t soon went up to high
school standard. Religion and pol
tiles were barred. One or two stu
dents graduated to universities.
An annual street collection,
which today nets 81 ,26O, helped to
increase the scope. The govern
ment grant increased steadily I'M
til today it is $1,000 a year. The
association employed a part-time
organizing secretary.
So the story went on. And to-
day there are 13 such schools. In
some, African teachers are en-
ployed at 70 cents an evening, but
the vast majority are those 200
white business and professional
men and women who give at least
one night a week to this project.
The education is still free, though
students pay for their textbooks,
which nevertheless are heavily
subsidized by the association.
While the teachers rotate night
by night, the students mostly each
attend three or four evenings
weekly.
AS one veteran student put it:
Sometimes we have to miss our
supper to makes the classes On
time. But at least we are going
to see we don't go hungry for ed
ucation when its is given US like
this"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-07-21
Volunteers
7 each Africans

Cape Town, Africa, July IT,
Here is a story of an increasingly
important enterprise in behalf Of
the African in South Africa.
In a nutshell, it is the story
of a group of white university
students who looked around them,
saw four out of five Africans in
their country illiterate, and start
ed night school in their spare
time to teach--mostly by sign lam
guage-some 3O-odd Africans the
elementals Of education.
Today, 10 years later, some e.
900 non-whites, many of whom
have never been to school and cam
not read, write, or speak English,
pass each year through Ii we'll
run schools of the Cape Non-Euro-
pean Night Schools Association
which have blossomed from that
modest beginning.
And although there is still
sprinkling of university students,
the majority Of the 200 teachers"
who now give their evenings free
are by day civil engineers. ac-
countants, lawyers, girl typists,
and so on, with no professional
training in teaching.
Effort By Whites
These are the bare facts of the
story. 1t seems significant for
several reasons:
First, it Eliminates one aspect
of the South African scene often
overlooked or thought to be nom
existent-the desire and effort on
the part of numerous whites to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-07-21

improve the lot of the non-whites.
Second, it points up the consid-
cradle degree Of interracial har-
mony, gratitude, and understand
ing which can be generated at
such levels.
Third, the fact that the expert
ment was started and continued by
young South Africans as distinct
from older leaders Of the COM
munity yields some promise that
the new generation may be find
ing it easier than their elders to
alter traditional attitudes be-
tween whites and non-whites.
And last but not least, the en-
thusiasm for night school attend
ance Of uneducated non-white work
ers after a hard days manual
labor indicates the deep-rooted de-
termination of non-whites to up
lift themselves.
Invitation To Teach
The Cape Town night schools
originated when Harry Brodie, a
sophomore at the University of
Cape Town, answered an invita-
ton on the university notice board
from Oliver Kuys, an engineering
research graduate to get together
and teach illiterate Africans in
their spare time.
This was mid-1945 in the days
of gasoline rationing and at the
beginning of a bleak, English type
winter.
Throughout that winter some
seven or eight students caught
trains and walked the mile from
the station to the dingy hall they
had discovered in the Cape Town
suburb of Retreat.
Thirty curious Africans attend
ed on the first night. In two
weeks more than 100 were on the
register. Among these were few
coloreds (of mixed racial descent)
one a lady in her los who brought
her own candle to augment the
limited electric light.
Four evenings a week lessons
were held, the students gradually
gaining a basic vocabulary Of Eng
lish words from simple actions
named by their teachers, and from
pictures drawn for them. In four
to six months they had a vocab-
ulary of 400 words of immeasur-
able assistance to them in their
work for white employers.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1956-07-21
Mecom Group Buys
Oil Properties

Houston.-John w. Mecom to-
gether with San Jacinto Petroleum
Corp. and Waterford Oil Co. have
purchased for SIS million about
275,000 acres of producing and nom
producing oil properties in Louis
lana.
1t was disclosed that Mecom
owns SO per cent of the purchased
properties with the two oil COM
panies owning rs per cent each.
Included in the purchase was the
acquisition by Mecom of 34.5 per
cent of the capital stock in Lutcher-
Moore Cypress Lumber Co.
The properties purchased from
H. j. Lutcher Stark and the
Lutcher- Moore lumber concern, are
located in Assumption, Calcasieu,
Cameron, Lafourche, Terrebonne,
and ST. Martin Parishes in Louis
lana.
-O-
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dropped from 22O years in 1890
to 2O.4 years in 1851; for men from
26.1 years to 22.6 years"
an 1857 he adds, mo less
than 81 per cent of all men under
20 were married, while 1877 per
cent of women under 20 were mar
ried. This represents a sharp rise
in redent years"
In discussing the advantages and
disadvantages of this trend DR..
Kirkendall finds that young people
are the victims of many miscon-
ceptions regarding the basis of a
sound marriage.
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Experts Discuss
Early Marriage

The increasing number of early
marriages in recent years raises
the important questions of social
policy, Lester A. Kirkendall, pro-
lessor of family relations at Ore
gon State College, declares in a
25-cent pamphlet TOO Young To
Marry" published this week by
the Public Affairs Committee, %
E. 80 Street, New York.
DR.. Kirkendall cites recent sta
tistics showing that there are more
early marriages today than ever
before.
"The average age for women at
the time Of first marriage has
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-10-12
Twin City
Church NeWs

light OF some one else TO shine In
our lives. We need to catch q Wis
ion Of the peoples need"
Three were united in the church
membership. Baptism was admin
istered following the morning ser
vice.
Rev. Williams brought another
dynamic message at the evening
service. The ordinance of holy
communion was administered.
Deacon Sam Lee Is i'll at his
home, s27 Aurora Av. Mrs. Louise
Hopkins is a patient IN st. JOS
eph's hospital. Deacon Sydney
Milsap is convalescing at his home
at 302 Kent st. Our continued
prayers for others who are i'll and
shut-in.
The Pastors Aid is sponsoring
Mrs. l.. c. Harris in recital Sun
day evening, october II, at s p. m.
Mrs. Cynthia Westbrooks OF
Zion Baptist church, Minneapolis,
and president of the Minnesota
South Dakota Sunday School Con-
vention was introduced to the Sun
day school and TO the church
other visitors presented were Mr..
and Mrs. J. L. Anderson of st.
Paul.
October 81. will be Annual
Homecoming Day. Deacon Robert
Carter. chairman and Mrs. Flor
ence Roger. co-chairman are max
ing plans for a delightful day.
You're always welcome at Mt
Olivet.
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Or. SIDNEY MEAD
SPEAKER At UNITY
CHURCH SUNDAY

DR.. Sidney f. Mead. recently
elected president Of Meadulle
Theological School, will deliver
the Sunday morning message at
Unity church (Unitarisn), 1888
Portland Av, st. Paul, October Ia
His topic will be Love and Learn
ing"
Or Mead, a recognized author
lty in the field of American
church history, has been a member
OF the Federated Theological fac
ulty of the University OF Chicago
for many years, He was graduated
from the University OF Redlands,
California in 1884. and received
hts graduate training at the Yale
Divinity school and the University
Of Chicago.
An ordained Baptist minister
Or. Mead later joined the First
Unitarian church of Chicago. In
August Of this year he was elected
president OF Meadvlle, Theological
school, Unitarian institution as
soctated with the University Of
Chicago.
While in st Paul. DR. Mead will
also address a dinner meeting OF
Unity Church to be held in the
parish hall Friday. October ~ at
q =. m. His topic at that time will
be 'Unitarianism. MeadvIle and
the Federated Theological Facul-
fyH
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Vel Washington Soys
Charges Are fclse /.


.eagues, The KU Klux Khan. Mr..
JAWS and ar. Williams.
democrats S.,dd.ed With Eastland
The Democr It's are saddled
Sith Eastland, DAVIS and VII
Jams, there is nothing they in
end to do about them and other
sace-baiting Southerners who hold
.ey chairmanships Of Congression-
Il committees. They viii again be
-hairmen Of the committees and
Jperating from the same import
ant stands II a democrat Congress
. reelected.
And finally, Representative
Dawson was charged by a national
weekly newspaper on March Is
last with not having yet uttered
a word publicly on the bestiai a
torclties occurring in the South
and when asked later why he re-
NAMED silent, his answer was, I
am too busy.
He was too busy then to con-
Germ himself with human liberties
and even the lives OF human beings
and he was too busy in the past
few weeks even To intercede "a
gainst the rugged investigation of
Washington, u. c. schools until
the day ended without any help
from him"
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ST. PAUL LUTHERAN

In the World Wide Communion
sermon, preached last at st. Paul
Luthern church on Marshall and
Chatsworth, Pastor G. G. Sunwall
recalled that when the man who
was born blind had been healed by
Jesus he said, Lord / believe"
We Christians believe: /. That
the Bible is the inspired Word Of
God. ?. That what the Word says
about ourselves is true, that we
are all sinners. 3. That God Is tri-
une, Father-The Creator, Son, The
Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit
The Sanctlfier. That the Holy
Spirit Calls, gathers and enlight-
ems US in regards to our SIN and
reveals to us the Saviour. 4. That
in the Sacrament OF Baptism, we
become Children OF God and JOINT
heirs with Christ, whether II be
children or adults who believe and
are baptized. 5. That in the Lords
Supper we receive the forgiveness
of sin, nourishment for our souls
and grace and strength TO 1--we the
Christian life. 8. That the Chris
tian Church Is the Communion of
Saints or the Fellowship OF all be-
levers on earth and in Heaven. Z
That one OF the cardinal doctrines
of the Christian Church is that we
are justified by faith alone. For
the just shall live by faith" Ro-
mans l:l7.
Included in the reception OF
new members were five children
and two adults. by the Sacrament
Of Baptism. A total of twelve
adults and children were received
of which four were Negro and
eight were white.
The St Paul Lutheran Church
identifying itself with the com
munity ministry welcomes people
regardless of nationalities or ra-
cial background. There are fifteen
natioualistic and racial countries
represented in the membership of
the congregation at present
A World Mission Rally will be
held at the l0:i5 service next
Sunday. Miss Lois Walters OF the
Augustana Luthern Church World
Missions office in Minneapolis will
speak about the opportunities and
progress on the five mission fields
OF the Church.--ChurCh Reporter
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NOTICE o. INCORPORATION
I>NEsTOHs NNN kGEWENr AND
ANNIIlA AnMHANN

NOTICE - WEREBY GtyT.N
THAT Investors Management and
Annuity Company was duly inCnr
Pnrat"d on the sTth day % ssptsm
ter 1855 under and pursuant to tn
provisions % Chapter 400 % the
Laws ~ Minnesota Tor 1883 fkuow
a. the Minnesota business Corpora
ton Arb, a. amended and supple,
usnt"d
The general nature 81 tho bust.
ness 60 ~ conducted by the cor,
parRtion - 70 acquire. develop. i'm
prove, sell lease and otherwise 81.
Ii"nate property. - conduct gen.
"FRl insurance business TO make
and enter into contracts and - act
ss agent or representative for and
~ Investments fnr others and &c
an such things - are commonly
done ny fiscal agents. 10 athsrV 80
10 and Perform any ard all acts In
ciiruts' - N. above ard 20 other.
Wis" enter Into. make. perform. and
carry nUt any contracts not pro
hihftsd Nv law
The location ~ fts registered Or.
'ino - At 80 Roanoke Building
Minneapolis. Minnesota, County Of
lIrw0sIfn
The names ard addresses 81 the
-0rorparators and first Roard ~
Directors are
Elrta't Roy~r. ssan Ottawa Ave.
nue.. 81 i0gIs Park. Minnesota
Howard Wrtusr, Marshall MIrns
sofa.
TheHdnr Herman. er1s fappa Ave
0He. - Louis rark Minnesota
NORMAN FtCe0. Nstt LaEan Ave
ave south, Minneapolis Minnesota
ERfFt at Minneapolis Minnesota,
tbs ffh dsv - October. 1885
Thnnfnr Herman
Attorney ~ Law
no Roanoke VuNtfrg
Minneapolis NEnuesNta
Spokesman. oct ~. 1850
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NOTICE OF ISCOHPORATI
THE LAKE tOMpANN

NOTICE tx HEREBY GIVEN
THAT The Lake Company was duly
Incorporated on the sth day Of Oc-
tober. 1858. under and pursuant TO
the provisions of Chapter 500 OF the
Laws OF Minnesota for l9lS tknoWu
as the Minnesota business Corpora.
ton Acp. as amended and supple
msnted
The general nature Of the busl
ness To be conducted by the corpora
tion IL the buyinE and selling Of
real estate, Investment therein, and
onnducting general real estate
business
The location OF Its regiater.d Of
flee Is at $40 Roanoke Building
Minneapolis. Minnesota, County %
Itennepln.
The names and addresses OF the
tnCorporators and first Board Of
Directors are.
Avald ". OEron. 5ON 18TH Avenue
South, Minneapolis. Minnesota
Peter Fstro. 1905 " 5th street.
Minneapolis. Minnesota
MaTilyn Pstro, it0s y SIN street
Minneapolis. Minnesota
Julia A OErph. bNls 18th Avenue
South, Minneapolis Minnesota
Dated at Minneapolis, Minnesota
this 9th day % October. 1854
TheOior Herman,
Attorney at law
$40 Roanoke Building
Minneapolis. Minnesota
Spokesman. October -. 1850
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ZION BAPTIST

Rev II. w. Bolts Sr., chose rs q
subject for the morning message
Sunday. October o. Lift Him Up
Scripture lesson was from ST
John l2:23-32, text, And |. #
be lifted UP from the earth I wal
draw all men unto me"
Rev Bolts said, The world car
only know Christ as We lift Hin
up through our service TO man
kind, prayer and applications
Can the world see Jesus through
us? We must live daily for
Christ"
Music was by the combined
Chnirs OF Zion directed by WIN,
b Hale, Mrs, Bertha Smith wa
sOlOiSt
The ordinance Of holy commun
ion was administered The right
hand OF fellowship was extended
to all new members
A mass chorus OF 1875 voice,
composed Of the combined Choirs
Of the Twin Cities brought a rea
message In song at the 8 O'Clock
hour, Willie Hale was director
Remember. Oct. 10, IL the be,
ginning OF the 2Tth Anniversary
services for our pastor. Rev. Bolts
Plan TO attend all meetings
You are always welcome al
Zion. --- Mrs. Cynthia Westbrooks
reporter.
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PILGRIM BAPTIST

From Pennant Race to World
Series" WAS the subject OF Or
Wloyd Massey Jrs sermon at the
morning worship service on World
Wide Communion Sunday, October
Z. Deacon ". ~. Smith offered
morning prayer and music was by
the Senior Choir. the Choral group
and the Gospel Chorus. Soloist
with the Senior Choir was Miss
Estelle Gray. Mrs. Magda Hunt is
accompanist for the Choral
Group,
II was noted that Mrs. Inez
Goss. 1888 st. Anthony is confined
TO her home as the result OF an
automobile accident and Robert
Mansfield is a patient at Veteran :
hospital
New members who were united
IN September include the Mines
Chrlstabelle Bantam and Alberta
Davis. Bernard Hampton and Al
bert Bantam.
Commentator was expressed 10
General chairman NJ. \. Knott. all
unit leaders and members who did
their share in making the resent
rally success Commentator
was also expressed 10 Miss Anita
Hin and her pupils and members
Of the Choral Group for the cS-
violent presentation OF musical in
terpretations held on last Sun
day evening.
Richard Murphy and the mem
bers 81 the Ladies' Aid Society
were also commended for the ex.
cellent recital on last Friday eve
ming.
Members who represented the
church At the MINI. Convention OF
the American Baptist Churches
last week included descons 4 W
Jordan, l. p Tarver. y. ". Smith
and @ w Wills. deaConessez
Lydia Brown. Cordelia Hunter and
the Mines Cora Relle Banks
Louise Thomas and Or Massey
Following bsnedictiOn. the or
diuauce ~ communion was OBJ
served pelicatory prayer was n.
fered By Trustee s Ed. Hall. Trci.
dental organ music was by SD
nsy Williams.
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Raleigh v. Humburd
Dies: Hod Been
10 Since 1855

Services for Itaisign v. Hum.
buTd. who died at his home, gli
MARSHALL Az, Thursday. October
1, were held at 10 a. m, Monday,
October 4. at 81. Philips Episcopal
church, with REV. Denial 4. Carly
officiating,
Mr.. Humburd had been III
since December 1855. and hospital.
lied from December ~. 1855 %
March rs, 1860
lie vas born In Caresllins. Mo.
and when "a child moved with his
mother 10 Omaha. Neb. and waa
graduated from Tech high School
In Omaha. In 1926 lie came 10 81
Paul IN 1884 and was married
November 3. 1912 In Chicago TO
Miss Frances Conway who sur
wives him,
until his illness he WIS EN-
ployed az a dining car waiter for
the Northern Pacific Railway and
was a member Of Dining Car
Waters Union. Local 5lB lie was
n member 0f ~. Philips Episcopal
church and president Of the Rec
tura Guild of the church and was
Il member Of tho Twin CITY Rod
and Trigger club.
Surviving are his wife, Frances,
parontA Mr.. and Mrs, John 3
Overton. all of ~ Paul, three
brothers. clyde iIumburd 81 Dea
MoineS, Ia, Walter ana Calvin at
~, Paul ono aunt, Mrs walalo
Th0npkins 81 Dca Moinca. la.
four unclea. Whitfield Ihmburi.
Marshnlltown, Ia. Warren. Dos
Muinos, Robert LsaycnwoTth.
kana. and Charles Of ~ Madison.
Ia. one nephew, Robert liumbufd
pca Muines. four cousins, Arthur
Winston, Champaign, III William
Winston. Des Moinea, Mrs Allie
Wilson and Mrs Lucille McAdams
~ Minneapolis. other relatives and
- host of friends
Burial WA In Elmhurat cemo.
terry
A brother, clyde Humburd Of
pos Muines, Mrs Wayne Conway.
Springfield. q. mother Of Mrs
Humburd. an aunt, Mrs Clara
Harris, raqua, o. cousins, Mrs
Margaret Page and sons, Private
Robert Page and Forrest Page OF
Toledo. q. and close friend. Mrs
Sue Raymer of Chicago. III. ali
came to ~, Paul To attend funeral
services,
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Airline Pilots :.
Continued from page II

line flies for IA cargo carrier IN
Alaska. The irregular airtnes have
employed n few Negro crewmen
The Discrimination sentence
In the policy reads
The hirlincs reiterated their
policy Of Judging applicants in all
cateEortes OF employment and OF
upgradiuR on the basis of merit
and without regard 10 race. creed
or color, " national origin"
The airIincs sought 10 outlaw
solicitation OF applicants from
employment agencies, training
schools, or other sources which
Discriminate In the refersI OF Job
candidates
The state commission has mum
erous agency registration cards
with the notation Whites only"
on them
In addition the airitnes pledged
themselves TO intensity efforts to
educate their own employees on
the non discrimination policy.
Meetings between the State
Commission and the sirlincs will
continue with the aim OF nipple
menting the policy statement The
agency obviously prefers to use
persuasion rather than cease and
desist orders in specific cases I'M
der the State Law Against Dis
elimination.
Tho main reasons given by air
lines In the past for not consider
ing Negroes was the concern over
the reaction OF Southern paSsen-
gers, concern over reaction OF
other company employees. and
fear OF possible tension In the
cockpit between Negro and white
colleagues.
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BORDER METHODIST

we do not have TO achieve our
unity. only realize that we are
one"
Rev. Charles NJ. Sexton read
from John l4th chapter as the
morning scripture lesson, Il don't
Know You" was the subject Of his
morning message. Those whom
we think we know often do things
that change our thinking We all
know Christ, II not prayer can get
you well acquainted.
Remember the sick, the shut-in
and the afflicted. On Borders sick
list are Mrs. Lizzie Marks, Mrs,
Lillian Williams, Mr.. J. Clardy and
Mrs. Ann Crews.
4 Christian love makes the place
where we live a blessed place
Border welcomes all visitors and
all are given a Christian welcome.
Next Sunday. October IA, i.
Women's Day, a day of real en-
joyment. Mrs. A. &. Wolby and
Mrs. Gwenethe Starkey of Henne-
pin Methodist church will speak
Music Will be furnished by Miss
Ramia Estes. Mrs. Sylvia Little
and the Golden Echoes. Following
the morning service, dinner will be
served and at p. IN. a program
Will be presented. The ladies are
planning a big day. Join them.
Thanks from Border TO the
Usher Board and the Reyes for the
fine way they are working TO meet
some OF the responsibilities OF the
church. Keep up the good work.
Sunday evenings church meet
ing was Of great value.
The first quarterly conference
will be held Tuesday evening Octo-
Der 10 Every officer Is required
10 be present and the heads OF
each organization should be pre-
pared TO make a report. Your dis
trict superintendent will have
thinsg to tell you. BE sure TO be
present.
In closing do you agree? Your
promises TO God should be AZ
binding as those you make at the
bank, Co. Harry Davis, reporter.
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10 SHOW VIEWS or
TIE HOLY LAND

Or L. Albert sclplo viii show
slides ON the Holy Land At
EaAtertimc" at Pilgrim Baptist
church Sunday evening, October
10 at 4 y, IN,
pr SciPio IL a lecturer and
scientist with the University OF
Minnesota and at Roscmount.
This meeting Il being sponsored
by tho Earnest Workers club "
the church Mrs W Il Walker IL
president and Mrs Everett Chap
man is secretary
The public ~ invited
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Js"G ~ara. Gloria Fiorenz and
.siarindA Cox.
The member group had boycott,
d services at the church for the
past few weeks. holding services
Al homes Of various members and
owing not 10 attend service al
heir church until Rev Jones had
left or been removed.
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August W. Noistror,

Services for August " Hni
strom ~. NJ 1929 Olson Hghvs,
who died October q. at the home
~ friends. 1000 Irving Az y
were held At . m. "Wednesday
October TO 81 the Woodland Furrr
al Chapel Jehovah Witnesses "
ncistsj az the services.
Burial was IN Crystal Lake
cemetery with woodlrd ENncr1n
Home in charge " arrangement