Brownsville Weekly News

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~REINT, Mich. ~ ~The Flint ~Cot,
ored Sportsmen's Club is sogring
high in the way of seasonal entertainment. It is~ putting on the
annual Sportsmen's Ball Monday

BG Deaminil, Kuieker
po vont the city~s most reos citizens. It~s Clubhouse

the only one of its kind which
is well appointed and maintained
exclusively. for -its members. The
new board of directors is function
_ing well, Mr. James Matthew; is

proving to be a very _ efficient
president, tco. The Club is. plan
_ hing to do something more con
structive in the near future. Last
year. the club. -contributeq to the
ingi}s daughters and the comm - @enter. This yedr it is
planning to do something more.

CLUB TWENTY-FIVE GIVES
FASHION SHOW

The famous Club. Twenty-Five
gave a unique.men~s fashion show
last Thurday right at the Goidén
Leaf Club hovse. A very large
crowd of the youths of the city and
several of the. young folks sang
solos. Among the solists were the

following: Messrs. Charles Mills,
Johnnie Kearsey, and Mesdames
Doris James and Leola Cololway.
fgnong ithe boys who modeled

sey, Charles Mills) James Murgerson, and Abner Davis. Club Twenty-Five upheld its tradition of being out in frent in the way of
outstanding affairs. Whenever you
hear that Club Twenty-Five is putting on something -you can pay
your last dollar that it~s going to
Bbe.a swanky entertainment.

Lester Haley is president.

EXCELSIOR PLAYERS~ PAG~EANT A SUCCESS

The Excelsior~ Dramatic Players
gave an inspiting pageant at the
Berston Field house~on the 18th.
A very big audience witnessed the
performance. The thirty-five char- |
acters acted well and the theme
was ~well presented. Many out-oftown guests were present. The play
was an historical portrayal of the
facts about the Negro life here
in America since his appearance
on the soil of this country. It was
acted in the march of time fash
ion, and was very effective.

HOGAN-WASHINGTON NUPTIALS

FLINT, Mich~(WNS)~

Sunday afternoon at one-thirty,
Terrade]j Hogan and Isaac Washington were uniteq in marriage at
Canaan Baptist church.

Everyone waiteq tensely for the
wedding procession to start. All
seats were taken about 12:45, so
you Can imagine the large crowd by
one-thirty.

Before the wedding march Charles
Mills ((cousin of the bride) sang
~J Love You Truly~. The seven
brides maids were Ezelj Hogan,
Gloriadeen -Mills, Olivia Morgan,
Anna Mae Harris, Ruby Turner,
Mary Ellen Walker. and Jonnie
Mae Terry, whose gowns were an

artay.. Of ~beautiful colors, (rose,
blue, green, pink, peach,. aguamarin.)

The ~seven attendants were James
Banton. Hernian Morgan, Arthur

Dunkling, Jack Hogan, William
Mabry, Silas Hogan.
The little flower girls were

Patricia Ann Brackens anqg Charlotte E. Walker. Maid of honor,
her sister, Inell Hogan, then the
bride and groom.

The bride~s gown was white net
over. white satin with lage.trim.
~The veil was white net. trimmed in
lace and about five yards t-iength.
Each of the bride~s maids, carried
a bouquet of selected colors of
gladiolas and that of the bride was
of pure white gladiolas. The maid
of honor~s gown was made of blue
taffeta. The little flower girls
wore pink taffeta. Rev. S. P,-Scott
performed the ceremony and Miss
Dessiree Johnson played*the wedding march. The reception was
held at the ~home of Mr. and Mrs.

Johnson on St. John street, -

Georgia Farmers~

The Citizens Fact Finding Committee of Georgia in commenting
on the comparative ills of the
farm people of Georgia, in which
was set forth facts revealing the
low income status of the Georgia
farm people stated that, The An
the. average, Over a period of years,
$100 less than the average individual-farm income for the United
States and that if there are five
in.a family, this means an annual income for the family
of $100 less than the average farm.
family income for the nation, and
~that a fitting or reagonable goal
ishowld be set to bring the state's
ennual income up to, at least, that
of the. nation.

This committee said further that
~the Georgia farmer has only one
third as much crop land per per~son, from which to derive @ cash
~as the farmer of the midthat the yield. per

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that. have been in vogue for many
years, are largely being followed,
as much as it seems apparent that
a solution in part, is to increase
yields per acre of these staple
crops along with finding other
sources of -farm. income, in order
to raise this low income leyel of
the Georgia farmer.

This. committee set forth the
following ways.by which the low
income level might be raised: 1~
Increase acres of crop land per
person; 2~Increase yield per acre;
3~Increase sources of income; 4~
Ancrease days of labor; 5~Increase
use Of power; 6~Improve quality
of products; "7~IGrade and- pack
properly; 8~Increase use of land
resources; 9~Control insects and
parasites and diseases gnd 10~To
Support Farm Agencies and Organizations.

Bringing into play these 10 remedies require rather periodic action.
That is to say, at certain seasons
of the year and certain stages of
the farm operation, each of these
remedies might be acted upon.

It is now timely to. act on No. 6
which is regarded as strikingly important among these remedies:. Improve the Quality of Farm Products. This type of need is in more
abundant. Better seeds, bettcr
breeds of stock, better methods of
cultivation and better management, will go a long way toward
making up for the deficit in sbortage of lat ger person aud:nany
of the other deficiencies being
blamed for the low income of the

Georgia farmer.
In Memoriam

HOWARD NELSON, JE *

FLINT, Mich~In memory of our
dear son and brother who passed

April 30, 1938..Two years ago you
left-us, and chose a home of peace

remembered, for we know

Industrial Fish &:
Poultry Market

940 Dartmouth Avenue
Phone 3-9054. ~TRY OUR FISH ~
& POULTRY~

were Lionel Verdun, Johnnie Kear- i

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op ee eee Pe ees

The Clark University Concert

direction of J. DeKoven Killingsworth left Sunday for Atlantic City, N. J., where they appeared
Philadelphia and New York City.

Leaves For Conference: 5

Choir, under the

at the Methodist General Conference. They will sing
for the Educational] Board on May 1. En route they
wil] make appearances at Alexandria, Va.; Baltimore,

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BETWEEN THE LINES

By DEAN GORDON B. HANCOCK
(For ANP)
AN ALL NEGRG ~HUDDLE~
(THERE IS NO more pressing
need among the Negro race than
that for an all-Negro conclave, on
the educational program of this
nation as it pertains to the Negro
race. A mixed group of whites and
Negroes will not meet. the needs
of the emergency. These mixed
meetings are too full of ~parrying
and ~thrusting~ to give that freedom --of discussion that the program of Negro education demands.
In these mixed meetings both the
whites and: the Negroes become too
cautious to be constructive in many
instances.

Negroes. gre always tco afraid of
~selling out~ to meet squarely issues. involved. No Negro wants to
bear~ the odium that too often accOmpanies an advanced position in
interracial matters. There aré too

many hecklers to cry ~Uncle Tom~
and ~Handkbrehief Head~ for the
average Negro leader; so he tries
to defend many indefensible positions and quite as often refuses
to face ugly facts. There is a
great: need. today for a few Negroes who will be willing to be
~misunderstood~ in order to get
this race of ours to understand
certain fundamental facts. pertaining. to. the Negro~s future.

TOO MANY FIGHTERS

Too many Negroes want to pose
rs ~fighters and heroes~, rathe:
than make a sacrifice for the good
cf the people they are supposed
to.serve. The avelage Negro ~~leader~. cares little what becomes of
the race if he can pose as a ~fighter, ete.~ The sooner we have done
with this type of leadership the
better. The exigencies of the situ-:
ation demand constructive action
and this action~ cannot come from
men who are afraid to speak the
truth as they know it and see it.
The average young educated Negro is suffering from a ~DuBoisTrotter complex~ out of which
grows tne consuming passion for
the attention heaped upon these
two original fighters beside whom
the present ones are mere vestpocket editions.

If the young Negroes could understand that most of the notice
and honors from this type of leadership have already been distributed, perhaps the decks could be
cleared for constructive action on
the. Negro~s educational program.
The present~ progrem falls stort
of our needs and what is, more
kgscouraging, little is being said
and less being done to gear education to our needs.

Within recent weeks, Dr. Charles
Johmson of Fisk university ad
dressed the Norfolk unit of Virginia Union university from the
subject ~Education for Minority
Groups~. This address could easily be the key-note speech for the
all-Negro conclave. It does not
give a program to be sure, but it
sets forth boldly tne inadequacy
end -< the fallacy of the present
program and it thus -serveés q wondrous purpose.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE

While Dr. Johnscn, dces not.
come out fcr some type of vocationalism as I have time and egain
suggested in tis column, he neévertneless leaves no dcubt something must be done if the Negro
is to be spared great economic
and social tribulation. In 1927 I
wrote an article to Opportunity of
which Dr. Charles Johnson - ~was
at that time editor and set forth
under the caption ~When The
Man Faileth~ the grave possibilities facing the Negro because of
the general woper levels of economgc endeavor; that he (was
nomic endeavor; that he was not
prepareil and preparing for the
~middle levels; that they were being
forced out of the lower levels by
the impecunious ~new white man~
who takes everything like a job
be sight. Dr. Johnson wrote back
that although the article was
| gloomy he thought it had much
J truth and it was forthwith published.

I am glad that after these years.
Dr. Johnson is ~gloomy~ too. Wheat
is more important, if we could
make a few more men of Dr. Johnson~s ability ~gloomy~ we might
eet somewhere. The impcrtant

age to speak up, a courage too
generally lacking in our. timid
leaders and educators. This is not
time for timidity among our educators. We need insight vision
and boldness as. never before.

A theart-to-heart talk among a
group of Negroes with ~no whites
admitted~ wdculd be a blessing.
This would obviate the iftrevelant
questions of Who is going to sit
where and how? What are:the eating and seating arrangements?
Whether we outspoke the whites
or not? These superficial questions
have thwarted many a meeting
ctherwise nobly conceived. The
Negro needs to go into a kuddle~
an all-Negro huddle~if it is to
meet the needs of the emergency!

For timing radio programs a
clock has been invented that tells
how long a program has been on
the air and how much time is left
at the same time.

and rest. That day will always be,
God

NEW YORK.~(ANP)~In a nation-wide contest among Negro art
students, Roy DeCarava of Cooper
Union Art schocl, submitted the

Monday by the National Tuberculosis association, sponsor: of the
competition. The competition called for the designing of medals, the

T-B Institute Picks
Medal Design Winners

winning design, it was announced |

winning medal tc be in con- |.
nection with the Negro. es
say contest awaras.. than 200 }
students from. 15 participat
ed in the contest,,

~ Mr. DeCarava is 20 years of age

is: majoring~ in ~ and in

1937 won a prize in a national pos
ter. contest. by. the Pro
Mary Brady of the Harmon Foundation, New York.

-Gladys A. Logen, a student at
Claflin university, Orangeburg, 5,

league; New York: ce eee

-indigant citizens, angered by the
-revealed shooting and beating of

Police Brutality
Investigation
Now Underway

MONTGOMERY, Ala.~(SNS)
~The two-week reign of police
brutality shere which came to a
horrible climax with the death of
three Negro citizens is expected
to be investigated by the Montgomery County Grand Jury May
20.

Montgomery newspapers and

Negroes by certain members of
the Montgomery Police Department, are dcmanding ~ ~more than
a perfuntory investigation~ and
that the guilty officers of the
law be disciplined.

Victims: James Nelson, shot in
the arm, April 13; E. G, Gayle,
shot to death, April 15; Nep Roland, administered a death blow

Negro ~ Recreation
Council News |

- | wuNT, Mich.~(WNS)~

The Negro Recreation. Council, a
unit of the City Recreation Department, is holding its annual Pano
| rama ang Review at the Berston

Field House Auditorium Wednesday
May 1, beginning at 6 p. m. and

continuing unti) 10 p. m. In addition to the exhibit woodwork machinery willbe installed to show
those who attend how Many 4rticles are made,

The children wil] ~entertain with
@ program bejsinning at 8 p.m. We
are expecting this affair ill surpass
last year~s; when more. than five
hundred people attended. We are
expecting: all, parents. to. Rome, and
see some thirigs your children stave
accomplished.. The ~public is in
vited.
RECREATIOINW WORKERS CLUB

The Recreajion Workers Club,
with Mr. Tlireodore Taylor, president, has re-decorated the interior
of the St. John Center by papering and painting. The membership
of.the club qonsists of all persons
working in the recreation set-up
of the Recreation Council. These
workers are to be congratulated for
their jnterest in their center.. They
also intend to paint the exterior
which so badly needs painting.
GIRL SCOUT TROOP Neo. 110 |

Gir] Scout Troop No, 110, St.
John st Center, is making a splendid contribution to the Scout fund
through the sale of cookies. There
are two awards offered through the
Scout office~first, -q trip to Greenfielq Village for each girl selling
100 packages and an afternoon to
Flint:'Park for each girl selling 45
packages.

We ~are glad to report that our
Troop, Only two months old, also
our first cookie sale we have three
girls qualifieg for the two awards,
Bernice Brady, 101. packages; Vivian Dent, 100 packages, and Alberta
Chaney, 49 packages. Thanks to
parents: and friends for your splendid cooperation. Buy more cookies

with a blunt instrumént; and an
other mystery-veiled gun-deathScout Leadef.

next year. Mrs., Odell Brodway,

Coroner

In ~Open
Verdict

~Cause of Hey
Death Still
Remains Mystery.

LOS ANGELES ~ (ANP)
~Following the inquest last
Tuesday morning over Dorothy Gordon, at which time
a coroner~s jury returned a
verdict of homicide by a person or persons unknown, the
last rites for the girl were
conducted Thursday from
Cornerstone Baptist church
with Conner. Johnson ~in
charge.

The 9-year-old girl for whom 32
nation-wide search had been ir:
progress since iast March 5, wher
she was kidnapped at 16th anc

Hooper Avenue by a middle-ageo |
white man, was found last Friday.

afternoon buried in a shallow grave
near Jefferson and Culver boulevards.

Three Paramount. Studio -horticultural department employes
Frank Roman, Willard Robbins
and Andrew Johnson, the latter 9
Negro, were digging for carpetgrass
to be used on a movie set, wher
they saw a knee and a portion of
thigh protruding from a depressior
in the ground.

Object of a nation-wide searcr
was the first langible clue as t
by law-enforcement agencies
the whereabouts of either the
or her abductor. And when Mrs
Bernella Gordon, mother of the
dead girl, living at 1458 E, 23rc
street, was apprised of the discovery She collapsed.

Particularly significant
discovery by a Californie Eagle re
is the

porter that one of the men who|:

found the girl is a Negro, a fact
not mentioned in the daily age

-of the nation,

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ~ Congressman Arthur Mitchell~s speaking engagement at Howard College (white) Baptist institution,
was cancelled by President Harwell G. Davis because of the objections raised by certain Negrofearing white women who, read
~southern ideals and traditions.~

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Miss Ethel Broadway and John.
Gibson, Jr,, motored to the~ Fenton.
Community Hall to enjoy Coy Ek-.:
~land~s dance music.

Ce

Punt Youth, Coun! membersip
drive began May 1, Mr. John
son, Jr., president, *asks the
eration of all youths in making
~drive a success. _ i

monthly ~prizes. were also awarded -
to Mr. Sam Scurlark, first; Mrs,
Burnett, second, and John Clem- |

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