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a.. Like a mailman going for a walk when off duty,
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis amuses himself
between defenses of his title with refereeing other
of New York~s ~refugee~ children engage in a paper
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weight bout at the colored orphanage asylum at Riv-erdale. |The home has been operating for 104 years
and is now seeking funds to further its work.~

_ More Than 30, 000 Negroes
Take Part In Draft Setup ~:WASHINGTOD sD. O. ~(~NS)~ |
~ ~Negroes ~ ~Rave

participated in the operation of

~ Selective. Service, Major Campbell

Johnson, Executive Assistant and
Racial Relations Adviser, National
Headquarters, told Negro college
journalists conferring with him in
Washington.

~Incomplete figures show ovelr

30.000 Nesroes have participated in,

the operation of Selective Service |
as registrars, on local boards, as
chairmen of local boards, on
registrants~ advisory boards, as
examining physicians, as government appeal agents, and on boards
fajor Johnson said.
Editors and reporters from nearby colleges. attending the -conference represented Howard University, Miner Teachers College, and
Maryland State Teachers College
They were greeted by Brig. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, deputy director
of Selective Service. The conference was called to promots
better understanding of Selective
Service by Negro college students.

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~The total: defense whicch oul
Nation is planning deals with such
factors in our national life as edu
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~ High Calibre: ve
-_ Of Negro Inductees
Draws Praise

cation, industry, armed | defense.
and probably as important as any
of these, national morale,~ Major
Johnson told them. |
~National morale is a ablpoutte
of the condition of morale of
minority groups. For that morale
to be healthy, each group must

have a sense of belonging to the

Nation, as a self-respecting basis
without any of the badges of differentiation which would set it
apart as entitled to less than the
full rights and responsibilities of
citizenship,~

Colone] William H. Draper, Jr.
liason officer between the Wal
Department and National Headquarters, Selective Service System
addressing the conference, praised
the high calibre of Negro inductees
and commended the Selective Service administration for guarding all
rights of racial minorities, He
said:

camps last week where a reception center for Negroes was being
operated. I was impressed with the
type of men selected. Their spirit
and morale are fine.~

Colonel H. F. Wanvig, also a
War Department liason officer,
told the conference that college
men have increasingly larger
portunities in modern
armies.

~Today's armies move more and
more on brains and less on_brawn,~
he said. ~During the coming
months Negroes will be imducted
through Selective Service in proportion to their percentage ~of the
total population and assigned at
the reception centers to every
branch of~ the army,~

Students attending the conference included: Melvin Dowyeary.
Miss Mary E. Jack, Mrs. Mary
W. Law, Miss Evelyn Brown, Elsey R. James, State Teachers~
College, Bowie, Md.; Miss Marian
Freeman, and Miss Virginia ~Moss
of Miner Teachers College, Washington, D. ~., and Otto McClarrin,
Howard University, Washington, D.
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Illness Delays Senate's _
Probe Of Defense Jim Crow

WASHINGTON, D. C.~(SNS)~
Final arrangements for introduction of a resolution for a Senate
investigation..of discrimination
against the Negro in the national
defense program were completed
here this week but introduction of

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Resolution To~
Be Introduced On
Wagner~s Return

the resolution was delilyed a Ie"
days by the illness of Senator Rok.
ert F. Wagner of New York who.
with Senator W. Warren Barbour
of New Jersey: is taking~ ithe lead in
plans for the probe.

Other co-introducers | ~with Senators Wagner and Barbour will.be
announced as soon as the last of
the Senators who have) been asked

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to join in introduction. notifies the
NAACP whether or not ~he wil] participate.

In conferences held isge this
week by Walter White, Secretary |
of the NAACP, preparations were
made to expedite action by the
Senate committee to which the resolution. will be referred. An immediate preliminary hearing has
been promised, afterwhich the res
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Urges F armer To
Use Ballot Power

ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~
"The Negro farmer ean make

| important contribuifions to Na
| tional Defense, Dr. F. D. Patterson

president of Tuskegee Institute declared in an address Wednesday
afternoon delegates ~attending
the~Southern Conference for Agricultural Workers, now in session at
the. Savoy. Hotel.

Developing the subject, ~The Negro Farmer ahd National Defense,~
Dr. Patterson said, ~Behind the
| efforts of Government and leaders
in National Defense, we must have
a united people, colored and white
in this great effort.

URGES PREPARATION
~In proportion as we prepare

~| each of the group of races, farmers

and industry, in that same pro| portion are we preparing for a
total national defense and democratic way of life.~

He said it is necessary to get ali
farmers, colored and white, to ap
-agiencies trying to adjust ~our
farming practices ~and economics
to the changing status of agriculture in the international jicture.~

The Tuskegee president told his
audience that ~We are. never going

4 to have a Significant democracy in

the, south, until Negro farmers go
jto the polls and ~exercise their
rights.~

BROADCAST INTERVIEW
TODAY

Before addressing the farm
conference, Dr. Patterson made a
recording at Radio Station WSB
The recording is to be broadcast
by the station this morning on its
regular farm program.

James P. Davis, Little Rock, Ark.,
will preside at the morning session
today, and Mrs. Jennie B. Moton,
Capahosic, Virgin #:, will be in
charge of the afternoon meeting.

Among those listed to speak today are Mrs. Moton, A. L. Holsey,
James P. Davis, C. F. Clark, N. W
Elam and C. A. Sheffield.

_Mr. Holsey will preside Friday at
the final session of the south-wide
conference which has attracted
more tham 50 @elegate from 16
southern. states,

The ~five-day conference opened
Monday morning.

DR. GANDY PRESENT

Among other dignataries present
Wednesday was Dr. J. M.. Gandy,
president of Virginia State college.

The agricultural workers~ conference was opened Wednesday morning with M. M. Hubert, state agent,
Mississippi Extension Service, presidng. Dean Mitchell of Morris
Brown college led the devotions and
eure was furnished ~by. the Morris
Brown quartet. ~

Jiles A. Hubert of ~the Farm
Security Administration, Washing
preciate and cooperate with the

ton, D. 'o SBave sleds 5 tical
facts relative to the needs of south|erm farmers, and some possible
solutions of the problems faced by
them.

DUGGAN UNABLE TO COME

Because of a cotton meeting called by ~Pres. ~Poosevelt, I. W. Duggan was unable to attend the meeting as scheduled, but was ably
represented by C. A. Cobb -of -Atlanta and C. G. Walker, of the

Washington AAA office, both of
whom discussed problems of adjustment in agriculture.:

The afternoon session.opened with
E. A. Miller, assistant to director,
Southern Division of AAA, presiding. With J. H. Shoulders of the
| Washington AAA office leading the
discussion, farmers from 16 States
gave ideas of what AAA program
has meant to them as farmers.
All expressed gnatifcation that the
program has contributed.to increased cash income, increased fertility
and productivity of the soil, more
gardens, and ~better homes. The
farmers stated that through their
~Nerxo county agents they have
been able to keep up with the program, and comply. with its qualifications. One farmer from,-South
Carolina, E. W. Lawrence, was sc
grateful for the work done thai
he interspersed his report repeatedly
with ~God bless,the AAA.~;

130-Year Old
New Orleans~
Resident Dies

NEW ORLEANS, La.~(ANP)~A
man ~who was too old to fight in
the Civil war, died Thursday at the
home of a friend who took him in
18 years ago. Charles Parcanses,
who said he was 130 years old
though he had no repers to prove
it, said he had been married 17
times.

Last July the members of the
World Circus side show in New
York. gave a party for him. and
this year they wrote him a letter
asking for a return engagement.
But the letter in which they urged
him not to cut his hair or his thick
white beard which he wore in
+ goede, ntasblony. aytived.~ day too

About 28 years ago, ~Pa,~ as everyone called him, was working at
cutting cross ties and he met a
younger man named Prince Reed.
Later, Reed invited him to make
his home with his family, and for
the past 18 years, ~~~Pa~ has been
an institution in the Reed home
and the delight of the neighborhood children with whom he liked
to visit. He was fond of telling
jokes and didn~t draw the line even
when he was at the. small end of
it. He said he was part Indian and
that ~only Indians and jacKasses

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1

poration: since--he-vhas..served ac- |;

~ living relatives. ~

Dr. F. D. Patterson, right, is shown as he was
making an instantaneous transcription Wednesday -
afternoon of a farm program which ig to be heard

early this morning over station WSB.
graph was made at WSB~s Biltmore

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Bill Prance, farm editor of WSB, is shown conducting the interview during which Dr. Patterson told
how # was Tuskegee Institute that pioneered in agriThe photo- | cultural education in the South, (SNS Photo.)

hotel studios.

Can't Control Employment In

GM Plants,

Replies to. NAACP |

ae was. the reply
William S. Knudsen to the request

Knudsen Declares ~

pealed to all. Americans to support
the defense. program to the ut
of

Qu of the NAACP that he act against | most. Mr.- Knudsen declared at
ery ~of Hiring the denial: of jobs to Negroes inj that time,
Of Negroes the General Motors plant. ~We shall have need of the ac- -

NEW YORK, ~(SNS).~ Declaring that ~every organization in a
position to assist~ in facilitating the
defense* program will utilize | all
qualified personnel at its command~ but that he now hag no
control ~over~ the employment policies of the..Genera] Motors Cor- |~

tive relationship with General Motors since becoming Director -General of the Office of Production

live a long time.~

Pa had always been well and
strong, and usually walked 10 or
12 blocks every day. but an attack
of flu proved too much for a ~man
of his. age, and he died Thursday
after a few week's illness.

He said he was born in Dallas
County, Ala., on a slave plantation,
and had come-to Louisiana 60 years
ago. His friends said he had no

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The Globe

Trotter

By Chiff Mackay |

G.. Wilde of Mr. Knudsen~s office
in the Advisory Commiission to the
Counci] of National. Défense, in a~
letter which was made.public by
the: Advisory~; Commission to the
~Council of National Defense, in a
Jetter wiih Was spade Png eet y

tive, aggressive, and enthusiastic

cooperation of every man, woman ~
and child. in the United States if
~we are. to make this arsenal. - in
~America adequate to the successful
defense of democracy and frees

This statement. was made by H.

dom.~

& to call ~attention to the General
Motors~ refusal to give jobs to Negroes particularly in the semi-skilled ranks when the OPM ~had ~ap
ployment policies.

|-gro country doctor of the South,
\ located in typical: small town and
probably the only Negro practitioner in his gounty, treats an average
of around 506 individua] patients
during the course of a year, nearly
half of which are ~charity cases~
in the sense that the doctor knows
at the time of undertaking the case |
that nothing can be collected, in- |
formation
Medical college reveals.

RURAL DOCTOR TREATS ~~
500 PATIENTS YEARLY:

NASHVILLE~(ANP)~The | Ne-| on the additional mileage in
volved.

i MISERIES"?

@ Feeling ~punk,~ headachy,
simply because of vscapgiah tree

secured by Meharry | MINT at.

setielet
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olution wil; be brought before the

A Quisler Squawks

~t THINK WE ought to go easy on all this talk
about equality in the defense program,~ one of my
friends of the Lord Chamberlain appeasement trend
ef mind cautioned this writer the other day,

~After all,~ continued this dark quisler, ~you fellows aren~t doing any good writ- ~_~~~___-~}
ing all that stuff in the paper. All |
you're doing is stirring up more}
trouble in a world already filled |
with woe. This is just not the right |i
time for that kind of talk.~

Doubtless my friend has sever-~
al others whose thinking runs in a~
similar vein. He is of the ilk that~
will quickly profit~ by and loudly ~
acclaim any benefits accrued, but =
can always be counted upon to. MACKAY
stay far behind the lines while the battle is going on.
He belongs, thank God, to the rapidly diminishing
ranks of black appeasers.

DISPLAY OF IGNORANCE

His argument that the concerted campaign by
- the Negro press to obtain democracy in the America~s
rapidly growing forces to battle for democracy has
-gone for naught, is a remarkable display of total ignorance.;

For those who keep abreast of the times by reading Negro newspapers, it is not necessary to recite
any of the progressive results of the campaign for
defense equality~in the army, in the navy, in job
and vocational educational opportunities.

True we have but ~scratched the surface, but concrete results have been obtained nevertheless. The
appointments of Negro advisers in the ~Selective Service setup, to the War Department, the promotion of
~Col. B. O. Davis to the brigadier-generalship, the setting up of a Negro army air school, the proportionate
calling up of Negro draftees, the calling ~up of 119
Negro army reserve doctors and nurses are but a few

The fight ahead must {choose as its targets the
~arrogant attitude of the navy toward black Ameri
~ment,

~ This has served to deprive Negroes of the stabilizing

GAIN NEW FRIENDS
~The Negro~s progress since his emancipation, }

fast losing faith in' this way: of life:

The greatest Victory we of the Negro press havc
won is the bringing around to-the cause a large number of liberal white newspapers, who ~have at lasi
seen~ light of the repeatedly stated proposition that
there can be no democracy in a nation which proscribes, discriminates and legislates against a large
portion of the citizens of that nation.

Prime example of-this is the great Richmond
Times-Dispatch which has come out flat-footedly on
the proposition that this discrimination against Ne:
gro skilled workers is not only undemocratic, but unpatriotic as well. A large number of other white Vir.
ginia newspapers has fallen in: line with this ~argu

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A SHOT IN THE ARM

- The Northern Virginia Daily. adds this stron~
shot in the arm to the cause so loudly espoused by
Negro editors:

~The Richmond Times-Dispatch charged recently that discrimination was being practiced agains:
skilled Negro workers in defense industries and urged that this policy be abandoned both in the interesi
of national defense, which is now hampered by 2
shortage of skilled labor, and also out of justice tc
the Negro workers themselves. Full national defense, it argued, cannot be achieved so long as a large
body of skilled workers is prevented by arbitrar)
rulings and subtle prejudices from putting its capabilities to maximum use.

~We think the Time-Dispatch~s argument rests
on a sound basis...ordinary common sense woulc
seem to dictate that we make the fullest use of ow:
resources of skilled labor, and use it where it is mos~
needed, regardless of whether it is white, black, blu;
or brown.

~Aside from the defense aspects of the larg-.
scale exclusion of the Negro from the skilled trades,
most thoughtful people realize that Negroes suffer
many injustices because of their historical background and minority status. Vocationally, they have

largely been denied access to the mechanical trades ~

This has forced them to be content with common l<bor employment or to aspire tc the~ professions, thus
dividing the race into two widely separated groups.

influence of a great middle class, whose sound judgment charts the course of racial progress.

ihe: development of his intellect and character, his

good citizenship and loyalty to the larid of his birth. |

would seem to entitle him to a greater degree of respect and a larger opportunity for development than
he has been given thus far.~

And so we gain new friends and new weapons in}

The average. charge for office
consultation seems. to be fairly
standard at $1. The charge for
home ~visits within city jimits av} erages $2, while the scale. of charges

limits is almost~ uniformly based

} relief, helpi:; and spare, Mil

for county calls outside of the city |

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~A College Accredited by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States

with curricula designed to prepare students to meet
the vocational and social needs of successful living.

Institute

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~Courses Leading to the Degree of Bachelor of
Science are offered in the following Schools
and Departments of Instruction:

Agriculture Home Economics
| Commercial ~Institutional
Dietetics Management
Education Physical Education

Mechanical! Industries

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Diplomas in:

Complete Courses leading to Certificates ana.

| |Commercial Dietetics and Special Trade
Courses for Men and Women

for Tuskegee graduates.

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| ~Approved by the Civil Aeronautics ~Authority to offer Vocational Flight Training and efficient placement
service that has been. highly successful ih- getting ahs

F. D. PATTERSON, President
| For information address: The Registrar; Tuskegee. Institute, Alabama

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