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Farmers

In 1939, Secretary's Report Shows

As Episcopal Council "Held Meeting

President Edgar H. Goold of St. Augustine~s
College, Raleigh, N. C. (center) is shown with the

Joint Commission on Negro work appointed by the

Protestant Episcopal church of America during the

recent conference Held on the

North. & Carolina

Episcopal school~s campus, L to r front row are
Bishops Demby, Penick, Stewart, chairman, and

Scarlett. Back row, Lt.
B. Plaskett, Dr.
H. Oxley and the Venerable Bravid W. Harris,
archdeacon of Negro Episcopal work in Virginia.

L. A. Oxley, Rev. George
Warren Kearney, Rev. Edmund

ANTILYNCHING BILL SIDELIGHTS

By A, E. WHITE

WASHINGTON~(A N_ P).~
Lean gaunt John M. Robinson,
member of the house from Kentucky, holds what is possibly tiie
best record on the anti-lynch bill,
having been a consistent voter for
the bill since the first ong was
introduced way back in 1922. He
is @ Republican, formerly repre
_~"~"sefitative, then senator alii~ again

representative.
re
-_Time wag when James W.
Wadsworth, then senator of
~ New Yorn, wasn~t so highly
praised by his Democratic colleagues, but in these the twi~light days of Jim~s political
career, he is regarded by the
Democrats ~as the brainest
man in the Republican party
and an American.~

Hatton W. Summers, _representative from Texas, where the

whole state is Democratic, made an.

impassioned speech on Tuesday,
in which his theme was ~use your
common sense~ and ~when-_ the
Measure comes to a show down,
give the boys a vole,~ Humph.

Brother Hobbs and Brother
Rankin (wouldn~t. that make
them boil if they knew they were
called brother) just vote on the
~white supremacy~ business. and
stuff like that. Wonder if they
have any KKK regalia stowed
away. Brother Rankin looks

like the Little Colonel
in that race-hatred inciting film,
~Birth of a Nation,~

_. Party lines were smashed as, ~the ~vote was taken and the
~Solid South once again went
down to defeat in a Lost Cause
in the house. They have high
hopes for the senate though

~ ee ee oa oe

ed

Blaming the whites for sclling the: INegroes into slavery, the southern
representatives went to town (on
~ everything except the constituAionality of the bill and the legal
aspects of it. They believe it a
direct..slap at the South And
even while the bill-was being cebated, a. clipping _ read by Rep.
Ga told of. an attempted
of two Negroes in Missis
hans
Alongside us in the gallery, Mrs.
~Mcleod Bethune groaned at

~atid Tigh in front~ of us; Walter

of the

es | ceptable,

tion sat in on the hearings.

Bruce Barton, New. York, impeccably clad in a business suit of
brown with accessories matching
(hey, this ain~t no beauty show)
impressed as he quietly took his
seat during the proceedings and
voted a ringing ~Aye~.

George Tinkham, Massachusetts, quaint figure that he is,
the friend of many Negroés in
his Own state and a fighter
himself, saluting friends as he
walked in and about the chamber,

All public galleries filled to capacity~with many Negroes listening in on the debate which was
supposed to have ended on Tuesday. However, it ran over to Wednesday and the actual voting did
not. begin until 3:05. At 3:30 all
was over and up in the gailery,
felks began congratulating Walter
White for the work he had done.
in. this first half.

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Comes~ now. the fight in the senate where there are some real
name callers: and stallers. Until
then, all will be peace.

By LAWRENCE A. OXLEY ~

RALEIGH, N. C. ~ (SNS)~
Resolutions relating to tke Episcopal Church~s missionary program in Liberia, and ~the integra:
tion of Negro churchmen into~ al)
phases of the Forward Movement Commission~s program were
adopted by the Joint Commission
on Negro Work, meeting at the
Bishop Tuttle School on the
campus of St, Augustine~s college, January 10.

The Joint Commission was authorized by the General: Convention of the Episcopal Church in
1987, to adyise with the National
Council for the work among colored people ~n a national scale.

Members present at the meeting were: Rt. Rey, George Craig
Stewart, D.D., bishop of Chicago; Rt. Rev. William Scearlett,

Race Writers
Welcomed By
Publication

MONTGOMERY, Ala.~(SNS)~
Negro writers are welcome to contribute to the ~New South: 1940~
publication as the organization is
democratic ~with no prejudices ahd
exclusions~, according to Editor J
C. Leavell. The information says,
~all that is asked is the interest
ahd cooperation of those participating.~

Office of the publication is at
24 1-2 Commerce Street, Montgomery, where additional information
on the writing project may be secured on request,

~New South: 1940~ is sponsored
by the Writers~ Group. All materia)
submitted will be passed upon by a
jury on an equal basis, whether it
be from a professional author o1
from amateurs. A letter says, ~There

are no racial exclusions and if work

cannot pay for manuscripts; all we
can do is try to discover and foster
talent. eggieee shag tn con Abode
says, short ~wtarles. or Saal wae:
haye,~

Episcopalians Rap
Separate Church idea

_ support.

" phe editor says; ~At present we |

D.D., bishop of Missouri; Rt.
Rev. Edwin~ A. Penick, D.D..
bishop of North Carolina; Rt.
Rev. Edward T. Demby, D.D., of
Cleveland, Ohio; Ven. Bravid
W. Harris, of Norfolk, Va.; Rev.
Edmund H. Oxley, D.D., of Cincinnati; Rev. George M.. Plaskett, D.D., of Newark, N. J., Warren Kearny, D.C.L., of New Orleans,. and Lieut. Lawrence A:
Oxley, of Washington, D.C..

The Commission went on record as disapproving the action
of some Southern Bishops in their
petition to be presented to the
General Convention to be held in
Kansas City in 1940, asking for
the adoption of a racial episcopal
jurisdiction, which, the. Commission. stated, amounts to segregation,

Following a statement made to
the Commission by Bishop Penick regarding proposed and tentative plans for the rehabilitation
and modernization of St. Agnes
Hospital, Raleigh,. the Commission unanimously adopted a resolution approving plans for the
raising of $125,000 to finance
this program and commended the
plan to the General Church for |

Greetings were brought to the
meeting: by Bishop Penick and
Rev. Edgar H.: Goold, president
of St. Augustine~s College, The
next meeting of the Commission
is to be held in New York City,

tional executive secretary.

1935. Today it boasts of a membership of 53,000. This organization has the distinction of being
the largest national incorporate
body of Negro farm youth in the
world. During 1939 there was an
increase of 3,253 members in the
908 chapters.
URGE COOPERATION |

Each year the organization
adopts a definite program of
work, In the main these programs are made up of objectives
which have an _ important relationship to the economic life of
the Negro farmer. One of the
major objectives is to improve
and beautify communities, in
which local chapters are found.
To that end 6,389 homes and
yards were improved and beautified. Soil conservation activities
were sponsored by 506 chapters
~with 16,819 farmers taking part.

Much emphasis is placed upon
cooperative buying and selling in
the organization. Last year 500,000 pure bred baby chicks were
purchased cooperatively. The
chapter at Bricks, N. C., not only
purchased the chicks cooperatively, they brought feed and sold the
birds and eggs for themselves
and community people on a cooperative basis,

Pure bred livestock associations
-were organized in 389. communities. Many adult farmers realized
for the first-time that hogs could
_be made to weigh 200 Ibs. in six
months, Certified seeds were
placed on 1,680 farms, Fair exhibits were put up by 519 chap
521 chapters. A large number of
the banquets were put on cooperatively by the home economics
girls and the N.F.A, boys. There
was an increase. of. 93 chapters
"giving speciat programs:
Booker T. Washington~s birthday
and to acquaint the public with
what N.F.A. is doing to stimulate interest in vocational education for the Negro youth.
EMPHASIZE THRIFT

More and more the membership and chapters are. emphasizing thrift as a means of aiding
the youth to create the habit of
saving and making profitable investments. Forty-three percent of
the chapters had this special subject studied by its membership.
Thrift clubs have been formed in
108 chapters, The total cash de}
posited~$15,533.19, The total investments in farm implements,

Housing Experts ~
Hold Regional
Meet In Philly

PHILADELPHIA ~ (ANP) ~A
regional conference on housing
administration ~and management

uary 15 to 19 inclusive, at the RitzCarlton Hotel.

The conference was conducted by
the National Association of Housing Officials in cooperation with
the United States Housing Authority and the Philadelphia Housirg
Authority.

The local authority was in
charge of arrangements, officials
were here from Mew York, ~New
Jersey, and other Pennsylvania
cities. |

High point of the conference was
a dinner given by the local Authority on Wednesday, at which tie
principal speaker was ~Nathan
Straus, administrator of the VU, S.
Housing Authority,

Last Monday Roland R. Randall
was elected chairman of the local
Authority, a $35,555,000 corporation.
Members voting for the new chair~Man: Dr. W. Harry Barnes, James

April 22, 1940.

L. McDevitt, John MeShain.

ters, banquets were conducted by
| Sia a

Membership Now
Stands At 53,000

if WASHINGTON.~ (ANP)
America, national organization of Negro vocational agriculture pupils which operates under the supervision of the U.
S. Office of Education, and the various state and county
educational offices, has completed another successful year,
according to information given out by S. B. Simmons, na
~ The New Farmers of

e organization was set up at Tuskegee institute in

land and livestock amounts to
$176,392.00.

It is the desire of every N. F.
A. adviser to help get the boys
profitably established in farming
and into positions of leadership
in the field of Agriculture. The
N, F. A. boy is encouraged to begin a farm program his first year
in high school which is increased
and enlarged each succeeding
year with the thought in mind
that he will have underway a good
farm program when he completes
~his high school course..

The reports submitted by the
various state associations bring
out the fact that 392 boys were
established in farming in 1939.
At Menefee, Ark., 64 young men
have been established in farmine
with most of them buying. their
land,

The achievements of the N.F.A.
have been made possible in 2a
large measure through the fine
_epoperation given by the parents,
school officials, agricultural
agencies and other public spirited persons without said cooperation many of the objectives mentioned could not have been carried out.

Freak Storms
Kill Six In
South Alabama

_ MONTGOMERY, enna ae

by freakish storms in Southern

was held in Philadelphia from Jan- |

| Alabama Sunday. The disaster
broke ahead of the usual spring
) blows. There was much property
damage.

Three were reported killed by a
twister which cut an eight-mile
swath in Monroe county and three
others by an erratic storm in the
Mount Meigs section near here.
Thunderous electrical disturbances
and torrential rains added to the
terror created by the storm.

Red Cross field workers were on
we scene Monday,

Supreme ~Court
Asked To Hear
Dave Canty Case

WASHINGTON, D. C~(S N 8)
~The life of Dave Canty, Mobile,
Ala., restaurant worker, whose life
has been snatched three times
from the electric chair during the
past two years, received a new
lease here Thursday, January 11,
when attorneys for the NAACP,
through a writ of certiorari, asked
~the U.S: Supreine Court to review
his case.

Charged with the murder of
Eunice Ward, a white nurse, near
Montgomery, Ala., Canty was convicted June 7, 1938, and sentenced to be exccuted

Tuskegee-Trained Canin
Get Jobs At White School

Six Others Get
Positions At
_ New S. C. Cafe

TUSKSGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.~ )
(ANP)~Paculty and students of
Tuskegee~s commercial dietetics department beamed with pleasure this
week when it was learned that a
complete kitchen crew, trained here
at Tuskege2, was selected to manage and operate the kitchens of the

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~New York~s ~anak Bs OC techie ind Judge;
William Hastie were honored when members of the
Omega Psi Phi fraternity held their 28th annual
conclave in Manhattan recently..
torney Richard E, Carey, former, assistant district
attorney of New York, is shown pinning a delegate~s
badge on the mayor, follewing his address. Grand
Basileus Albert W. Dent of New. Orleans and Vice
~Grand_ Basileus Mifflin T. Gibbs of New York look
Dean William H. Hastie, former judge of the

In top photo At
La Guardia, Jud

dd 3 253 Mittibiers |Omegas Honor La

receiving the first y ays

award in lower photo. | Grand ~Baclleug Dent
the presentation, as Major ~Campbell C.

Washington, D. C., director of the Achievement ~Proj
ect, looks on. The award was presented to. ~Dean
Hastie at a public session held at the International

House of Columbia University, for teenie
achievement in the legal profession. ~: ~

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MY NEW. 1940 ASTROLOGY
READINGS ARE READY

S. B. R~Something is either
wrong with me or I don~t know how
to spend my money. I make a good
salary each week but I can~t make
my salary stretch: from..one pay
day to the other. Advise me what
to do.

Ans: Stay away from the pool
parlors, card games, and the corner drug stofe and spend more
time with your wife and family
and you will not be tempted to

R. R. C~My trade ig~a barber.
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Ans: Before you can do very
much you, must get ail: your

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dredits and arrange to get your | Slate

diploma. AS you are now, you

aren~t classified

graduate although you only lack-j|
ed a few months completing your
work, Enter school this coming
February or make plans to go
this summer, so you can get the
type of work you are seeking.

A. C~Tell me truthfully if my:
friend and this other girl meet

down underneath

bridge as I suspect and what makes
them both get up and start home}

at the same time?

Ans: Well, you seem to have}
their number....they are beginning to like one another quite]
well and that is why they ar-}
range to be going in the same

direction each.

n~t seem to care for the church. I.

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Ala. State To.
Get $11, 000 For

New Equipment

MONTGOMERY) Ala~(SN5)~
The Alabama Board of at
Thursday approved applications
for $18,000 federal loans
~* ment of new physical
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