Brownsville Weekly News

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| Fed the dusty OF the @choo! of. Re
A few members of the First Battalion of Ethi- Italians from their country, these men.are used

opian Troops, whe are commanded by an Austral- mostly to harass and attack enemy positions.
ian officer and four Aussie N. C. O.~s stop~ for a effective has been their tactics that many Italians

So

bite to eat. Fully armed and anxious..to drive the are now fleeing Ethiopia for their lives. (Acme.)

ligjdn of Howard University. for

| the second semester of the present
' school ~year 23 a specif] lecturer in

practical theology. Dr. Imes will
continue his reguiar duties at St.
James Church in New York City,
travelimg weekly from New York

I to waren to meet his classes.

_serve the Alpha
~sorority Founders Day

~Spiritual Diet
Deficiency~ Gets
Blamed for Ills

By SAMUEL A. BOYEA

MONTGOMERY, Ala.~(ANP)
~_Miss.Anne Cooke, director of
the Atlanta University Summer
theatre, expressed the belief here
last. Sunday that the world was
suffering from a ~spiri itual diet
deficiency. * Miss Cooke was adcressing an atidience which gathered in Patterson_hall here to obKappa ~ Alpha
celebration.

Miss Cooke, who was introduced by Miss Georgia Smith, said
that religious trends in the drama
were ~an indication that the
~orld was badly in need of some
fundamental faith and was turning to the theatre to find that
ideal.

The program was ushered in by
a two-piano recital by Mrs. Portia Trenholm, wife of President

HH. Council Trenholm, and Mrs.

- Hall the previous evening in Tul
_ Sain: ite es ~anys, Negro and wht

litody auditorium. The recital
which included Sonata in D major (Mozart) and Variations on
a Thetie by Beethoven (camille

a democratic touch-by the: ~~ntroeee

end les.

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Part ~Of Belgian |
Building Moved

RICHMOND,

Va.~(SNS)~Climaxing More than four months of

strenuous work and vigorous planning by administrators and campaign
officials of Virginia Union University, the first shipment of the nationally celebrated ~Friendship Building~, gift of war torn Belgium
to the University, arrived on the campus here on Tuesday. The chiet
engineer and the contractor were here to supervise the unloading of
the hnuge:.trucks used for transportation.

In this first shipment were the
famed bas-reliefs of ceramic sandstone, picturing Belgium at work.
One, executed by the sculptors Oscar. Jespers and Henry Puvrez, of
Brussels, is ten feét in length and
more thah seven feet high and is

~at Suse (Pers! ) g from 8

500 B.C. Two others~ ~by arti
Dupagne, also of Brussels, measure
sixteen feet in length and ten feet
in height. These show the Belgium
colonization of the Congo.

CORNERSTONE
PRESENTED |
The original cornerstone of genuine polished Belgian granite was
presented. to Dr. William J. Clark
of the University on Monday by
the chief engineer, Mr. Guilmain.
Preparations ~were immediately
made for reeovering the first
trucks. |
Other materials were. brought in
almost daily from the fair grounds
in New York and will continue, it
was. stated, until the entire section
is on the campus. The breaking
of ground -preparatory to beginning
construction is expected to start
during the latter part of Match or
first of April. It is believed that
the main sections of the building
wil) be shipped by freight. Official
estimates has placed the number
of cars needed at between 90, and
90.

STUDENTS CHEER

In spite of a piercing wind and
wintry sky, practically the entire
student body of the University as
well as members'of the faculty
were on hand to witness the unloading. Several young men rushed
forward to help with the unloading. as the first pieces were taken
from the truck, loud cheers and
yells filled the air. This attracted
others, including severa] passersby. Cameras and kodaks were kept
busy as both students and faculty
members sought to get impromptu
~shots~ of the various parts.

The erection of the building is

aens) was favoured with expected to be completed by Sep
tember in timefor the opening of

f better known ~Wwals~~: school.~ Dedicatory ~exercises | are

~scheduled for October.

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Ala

iateai

ama Proves Races

Will Work Together

NEW YORK~(SNS)~The recent Settlement of a strike at the
Alabama Dry Dock company. at
Mobile, Ala.,. where Negroes and
whites are employed was cited by
the Natidwal ~ Association
the Advancement of - Colored
People as an illuminating ~refu
~ tation of the spurious cldim ad
vanced by many industrialists

-_ who refuse to hire Negroes be
cause ~white employees won~t
work. with. them.~

4 e, according to the

OP, involved 3,500 members. Industrial Union of Ma-}

pbuilding Workers of

@ ClO affilidte, and} unskilled

for}:

members of the union benefited
from a settlement, which union
cfficials said involvd | ~general
wage increases. ~ ee

According ~to union~ officials, 4
minimum wage of fifty cents.per hour was eStablished which
meant a fifteen-cent-per hour increase for matiy of the colored
laborérs. The. higher _ ' ~lassifications received an inereliap of four
cents per hour:

Officials of the~ vrilioa deceit:
fed the settlement as representing
~the gate sa red for

witite| dustrigl | plant L "the Celt

When completed, the building
can be said to house one of the
finest. library-auditorium combinations ~tc: be found in the South. It
is believed by campaign Officials
that- the ~full amount will be

realized.

FETES INDIAN

RAF AIRMEN

LONDON~(ANP)~King George
entertained |24 non-white pilots
at tea in Buckingham palace freeently. The-men were all experienced flyers from India who were
being given special ~raining in
operating fighter planes.

Eleven pilots from New Zealand,
several of them dark brown skin
ned Maoris, were entertained at
the satie time. The group spent
more than an Hour with the king
and queen and the royal princesses, each of whom expressed
their delight in having these
men from the empire ~defending
the shores of Britain.

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| Does Not Come

WASHINGTON, D. C.~CANP)~
Determined that-not even a picture of Marian AndersOn shal) be
shown in a white spot in this city,
officials of the Corcoran Art gallery have ruled out an oil painting
Of the famous colored diva, declaring that it is not good art~and
that their act is not one of ~
prejudice. ~

~. Powell Minnigerode, director
of the art gallery, refused to permit the painting of Miss Anderson
by Paul Meltsner, internationally
known artist, to be shown in the
gallery~s biennia, exhibition to be
held in March.;

Meltsner declared that the: barred painting, ~rich in color,~ had
been exhibited in New York, where
~critics were enthusiastic about it.~

Mr. Minnigerode on the Other
hand charges that it is ~perfectly
absurd and utterly ridiculous~ for
Mr, Meltsner to charge the Corcoran Art gallery with ~being influenced by race prejudice.~

~A portrait of a Negro minister
is to be shown as a part Of the
very exhibit to which Mr. Meltsner
charges his portrait was excluded
because of race prejudice. Art is a
question of good painting, not the
subject,~ he said.

Minnigerode explained that the
vortrait of Miss Anderson by Meltsner had been examined by Guy
Pene DuBois and Russelj Coles of
New York and by Franklin C. Watkins, of Philadelphia, all nation.
ally known artists and cfitics, and
found it did not ~come up to Our
standard.

~We have exhibited Negro subjects on many occasions, and if
Mr. Meltzner~s portrait of Miss
Anderson. had been considered up
to. standard, we would have been
happy. to exhibit it,~.Mr. Minni~gerode continued.

| son operate was ~the net ves ever

done,~ Minnigerode said, ~I: am
very sorry.~

FISHING THROUGH ICE
DETROIT.~(ANP)~Memberg of
the~ Great Lake Country club of

this city have a new addition to
the list of winter sports. It is fish
ing; through the ice. On the club

~| property at Spring Lake,: a fishing

shdnty has been erected near a
hole in the ice. There perch and
pike are being caught in ccnsiderable numbers according to Howard
Harris, Otis Jo"y Cornelius Steph-'
ens and James Hodge, young Detroiters all of whom were recent
visitors at the club property.

PROMOTES MISS SALISBURY
HAMPTON INSTITUTE~(ANP)
~Dr. Maicolm S. McLan, president of Hampton institute announced Monday the appointment of
(Miss Thetis Lucile Salisbury as
special counselor in pre-college

~guidance.

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Dr.

School in Washington, D. C.

Mercer Cook (right), instructor in modern languages at
Atlanta University, spoke on ~The Negro French Soldier~ in his
Negro History Week address at Linceln University
~Sunday, February 16. He was introduced to the Lincoln audience
by Cecil A. Blue (left), head of the Lincoln

Department, who was a classmate of Dr. Cook~s at

of Missouri,

University English
Dunbar High

ae ee a

who operates one of the
important manufacturing
cerns within the race, with his
plant in Chicago, announced

therapy equipment to both the
Warm Springs, Ga., infantile
paralysis unit and the new hospital of the same type located at,
Tuskegee institute

~Mr. Johnson speaking with pardonable pride of the increasing

paratus which he makes completely, said he was especially gratified at the support which came
from people within his own
group

He sells to many; white organizations as well but as he exhibited photostatic copies of checks
for $1,550 from Tuskegee; $1,550

The Globe Trotter

By Cliff Mackay

Dollar An Hour Men

DURING THE PAST week the writer was a
yisitor at the vast Camp Gordon project where
thousands of workers are busily engaged constructing a huge General Hospital for the War Department and an immense naval air station which is
to cover hundreds of acres. ae

It was with some difficulty im

that the writer even secured per-{
mission to inspect the project, so
frightened is America over the
spectre of sabotage. But firally
after seeing several officials, the
writer was pronounced okeh and
allowed to traverse down the red}
dusty road that led to the cohstruction. camp.

SAME OLD STORY
There, is a large army of Ne
gro workers employed at these twin projects up- |

on which milliong of doltars will be expedend. But it
is the same old story here that could be told in
just about every other defense construction project all over the country. The greater majority of
these men hold-the menial jobs. They are assigned
to tlie ditches, the heavy lifting, the common labor
and lowest paid class.

White men were seated atop the deisel-powered graders, Negro men were armed with shovels
on the. ground. White men were measuring and
fitting pipe, Negro men were. img &-. from
storehouse. White men were laying bricks, Negro
men were mixing mortar and carrying hods. White
men were doing the roofing work, Negro. helpers
boiled the tar, etc.

ane picture was not very encouraging at first
fre lance. The writer walked. further down the, long

e se pt conaaes units which are to comprise the

so AT WORK ae Ni t

~ At the very last. lye dinided echiabibietion a dif.

ferent Picture presented itself. Here fifty black
men ~were working as. carpenters and\it. was learned upon questioning that they were members of
Atlanta Local 552, AFL, tae gag had: just heen given
jobs. during the past

The jobs were ithe pn it was: explained, of

the refusal of white men to join the union. Union
carpenters were required under the government
contract and black men stepped in to earn this one
dollar an hour straight time and $1.50 an hour
overtime.

Fifty are at present working under two Negro
foremen, S. L. Vaughn, well known Atlanta contractor, and Marion Hamilton, whose father for
years was an Atlanta builder, White workmen
made a wide path around the two units being
erected by the Negro carpenters, but they are
working, and they are being paid the same scale
given white carpenters.: s
A DISCOURAGING THING

All of this is encouraging. But one very dise
couraging thing popped in this writer~s mind: as
he watched these black men construct these buildings to house the army~s sick and afflicted.

Too large a proportion of these men are well
past the forty-year mark und some are reaching
well into the fifties. Of the fifty men doing skilled labor, this writer saw possibly one that could

_ still claim to be in his thirties.

The young men were all classed as common
laborers. That picture told more clearly than anything the writer has seen the pentalties young Negroes are now paying for the mistake made by
educators in choosing the classical, rather than
the vocational path of education.

Very few young men, the writer was told, can
carpenter. Most of those who attended school dur
ing the last decade or so took ~liberal arts~ and are~

now teaching at: much less than one dollar
hour or working~on the WPA.

A TRAGEDY

The plight of these young men, who have been
taught so much about calculus, French and Chaucer, that they don~t know how to do anything to
earn. Ives a decent living is nothing less

tragic,
And this~ ~colotisa! plunder on the part of edu
~cators iS costing us every day millions of dollars

in. wages. And this is just a beginning to what
it will cost the race unless our~ schools make an
about-face and go~ down the path laid out by Book
er T. ee ne men now

ree ee Coe soon shi off the
it be that will take their plnces?

Gay ik Je 0 sche ere ae atas =)

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recognition which hospitals and|
physicians are giving to the ap- gaged in production of his: Therapy Equipment Is
sold To Warm Springs.
CHICAGO~(ANP)~ Paul E. from Dr. B. 0. Moore who opeJohnson, manufacturer of physi- rates a hospital at Hopkinsville,
cal therapy and X-ray equipment Ky., and a similar amount from
most the Louisiana Industrial Life Incon-| surance company, he said,

Ne~
gro hospitals and insurance ~ome
panies are converting the nickels,

this week that he has furnished | dimes and quarters received from

their Negro policyholders into
modern equipment costing from
$1,000 to $3,000, purchased from
a Negro manufacturer. That is a
lesson in practical racial economics, for every: machine purchased

adds to the employment of Ne
groes,~
Mr. Johnson, who has been enline
for a score of years, makes

shock-proof x-ray,,short wave
diathermy, electro-surgical, galvanie qurrent, sinusoidal current,
artificial fever and colonis-thérapy equipment and. also manufactures. mercury quartz ljamps, luminious infra-red lamps; carbon are
lamps,~ water-cooled lamps, hospital and YMCA solariums and

physical therapy accessories,

WINS TWO SCHOLARSHIPS
CHICAGO ~ (ANP) Nellie

~Gloria Millett who at 14 years of

age graduated from DuSable High

school two weeks ago, has been |]

offered scholarships to both Fisk
and Howard universities.
finished grammar school when she
was I'l. She has not decided
which scholarship she will accept
but says that her final hopes are
pinned upon becoming a physician.

MRS, HOUSTON PASSES
| PHOENIX, Ariz~(ANP)~Mrs.
Drusilla Dunjée-Houston,
known writer and teacher, is dead.
Mrs. Houston, who resided in Oklahoma where she was in educational work for years has been living
in Phoenix for the past six years
Mrs. Houston, who was 4 sis
tery of Editor Roscoe Dunjee, was
buried here.

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HAMPTON INSTITUTE,
recent meeting of the Hampton

college residents and boatds of
States.

Lashing the ~too prevalent tendency to exclude Negro contractors~ from work at Negro institutions, the resolution ~statéd that
~millions of dollars have been literally poured jato new developments and~ exparsiofs of physical
plants of Negro colleges in recent
years. Practically none of this
work has been designed, supervised
or constructed by Negroes.~

The appeal against. discrimination against Negro workmen by Nego institutions ended~ with the

trying.. turbulent times- while Negroes are calling to the attention
of the officials of the Federal agencies, including the Army and
Navy, the Defense Housing Administration, the awful undemocratic
tendencies rampant within the natiori, the Hamption Institute Buiid-ers~~ Conference and the National

Builders~
call to the attention of ajl administrators of Negro colleges and institutions the urgent. necessity of their
support in helping the Negro architects; engineers and contractors to
get their fair opportunities to design,.bid and execute on any construction to be Built on the grounds
of Negro institutions.~

Objects To Camp
Being Named After
Klan~ ~ Founder

he

sent for training, be changed from
~Forrest~ to some hame more appropriate, was introdiiced in the 0 -linois legislature by State Senator
| Arnold P. Benson, youthful, able
and influential president pro-tem
of the Illinois State senate.

The Tlinois soldiers, the white
regiments of the state national
guard, are stationed in Tennessee.
Prior to the Illinoisians going there,
the camp was named Peay after a
former~ governer of ~Tennessee.

When the Yankees were sent

statement that ~finally, in these |:

Ass~n feer impelled to

} Charge
Discrimination

Va.~-( SNS)~Ant echo of the

Institute Builders~ Conference ~
ahd the National Builders~ Association was heard today whén the
officers of the convention released, a resolution mailed to

Negro
trtistees throughout the United

Answers Call
TE SS egy ee

Captain, Herbert R. Orr of
~Washington, D. C. Florida A, and
M. College faculty member for the

Infantry of New England, left the
collége campus Monday, February
24, to report to Fort Devens: Mas~gachusetts. Captain Orr received
his military training nay the ROTC

pieipen aap of a
St

| training March 3 for
year along with 32
serve. officers who are responding
eh monn

down the name of the camp was
changed to Forrest, who was the
notorious Confederate general who
founded the Ku Klux Klan.

The implied insult was not lost
upon Sen. Benson or upon other
~members of the legislature. The ac
tion of the authorities will be
watched with interest..

Just a'~little of this spicy, aromatic laxative by the directions
tonight, a drink of water, ~_
_there you are!

When the easy directions are
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then acts gently but thoroughly| t
next morning.

Main reason for the gently ef
Here~s Popular Way
To Wake Lazy Insides

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lazy bowel muscles,

Next time, be sure to take fine
tested~ BLACK-DRAUGHT. It~s
economical, too! 25 to 40 doses:

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past. five years, responding to a
call for active duty with the 366th |

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Tuskegee Institute
~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 uiles

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

Courses Lem to the Degree of hhactielie. of
Science are offered in the following Schools _; and Departments of Instruction:

Mechanical Industries

Diplomas in:

Complete Courses leading to Certificates and

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