Brownsville Weekly News

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1941

FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICHIGAN

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Mrs. Bethune Lauded As ~One Person

Epitomizes Stamina, Morale Of The Negro~

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- Up The Hard Way

By CHARLES P. BROWNING
If there is one person in the United States who epitomizes
the stamina and morale of Negro people, it is Mary McLeod

~ Bethune.

That stamina and mora'e are the products of

four great drives that have motivated her life~an insatiable
hunger. for knowledge and service, an indomitable courage

that knew not the meaning of

fear, a basic humanity which

gave her a sense of the essential] ~unity of all sons and daughters of one God, and, finally, a deep and simple faith whtich

empowered her to attack and
able obstacles.

It- was these great forces that
elevated her from ther lowly birth
as daughter of slaves on the cotton and rice farm near Maysville,
South Carolina, to sit in the cour
ciig of the President of the United
States; their fpower enabled her
to take a dollar and a half.and
five little colored girls at Daytona
Beach and build them mto a millicn doijlar educationa] institution
to train the leaders of her people.

These same forces enabled: her so

*to interpret Negro life and people
-to the majority group in the South
and throvghcrit the natiori that she
has become the outstanding symbol of interracial good-will and
emity: and, above all, they have
so moideg her.existence as to make
her the outs{anding guide and
stimulus of Negro youth in Ameri
ca.
FOWER I AWAKENED
This desire to know and to
serve, this unialtering courage,
this humanity and divine faith
are evident in every step of the
~wej, of her development, They
swakened in her first, as a child

- in the rice fields, the desire to walk

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parefooted every day to and from
the little school. They helped her
t~. win a scholarship to go to Sdotia Seminar and the Moody Bible
Institute They impelled her to
seek the opportunity to g0 as 4
missionary to Africa.

Disappointed in this desire, they
Grove her on to work with Luoy
Laney at the Haines Institute,. to
come to know the work of Booker
T.. Washington at Roepe a to
teach.at mission schools at Sum
sen Salat Carolina, and~ Palatka.
Florida; ~and. finally, to found the
Bethune-Cookman College at Daytona Beach, Florida.

It was at Daytona Beach a tg

reat wers flowered and repinoa. tthe had seen and realized the
almost overpowering social conditions under which Negroes were
living in that area. With only a
great desire to help and with a
deep faith in her ability to achieve
she took the job in hand practicall~ without resources.
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By the use of her own ingenuity,?

~She scraped together the bare ~scntials for the beginning of @
schoolhouse. Then, by the: slow,

arduous process of winning the
confidence of both white and coloreq people of the neighborhood,
she built, stone by stone, a great
institutnon. She won the hearts

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overcome apparently insuper-.
of her own students by the dauntless faith in her. mission, her own
integrity, and her seeming unwillingness to take ~no~ for an answei.

She gave to her students an
abiding belief in themselves and
their possibilities; she gave to their
parents the courage to drive anead
through knowledge and hard work;
she gave to her white and colored
friends ali over the nation a deeper insight into the hopes, aspirations. and possibilities of Negro
vouth.

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Motivated by such forces, her
striking personalitj, won friends
and followers and adherents in
every walk of life. She rose to
the leadership of such organizations ag the Nationa] Council of
Negro Women, the Nationa] Urban
League, the Commission on Iz:terracial Cooperation, and the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History. She was chosen
a few years ago by Ida M. Tarbell as one of the fifty greatest
vomen. Recognition of.her contribution to Negfo life is represented by such awards as the Spin~arn Medal, the Frances A. Drexel Award, and specia] citation by
the State of South Carolina.

This leadership was recognized
by the President of the United
States when he found it necessary
to set up the National Youth Administration. Among other outstanding figures in American life
Mary_ McLeod Bethune was aPpointed to the National Advisory
Committee to assist the President
in formulating the policies of that
Federal agency. ~Her interest was
so intense and her contribution so
specific that. she was asked to
serve as the Director of 4 Division
of Negro Affair, in order to promote the inteeration of Negro
youth into all phases of the program of the National Youth Administration.

ACCEPTS ASSIGNMENT

She was reluctant to leave what
che felt was her appointed task at
Daytona Beach, but it was made
plain to her that this was an even
larger service and that it would
allow her to carry out her ideals
umong Negro people on an even
larger scale. At the personal request of the President himself, she
a:cepted the assignment. Under

xoung Negro men and women have
felt the beneficent influence of the
National Youth Administration
program Through these channels
che was able to promote the edvcation. the work experience, and
the morale of Negro youth.

This program came at the deptr
cf an economic depression when
the way was exceedingly..dark for
young Negro people. They have
seen in this program and the leadership of Mary McLeod Bethune

1a ray of light on the horizon that

has made it possible for many of
them to rise out of despair into
achievement.

The democratic way of life is
facing its most severe challenge.
To meet the powerful disruptive
forces, the need of te hour is for
stamina and morale on the pare of
the people and an unassailable national unity There are some thirteen million Negroes in this country, representing our largest minority group, and it is essential
that they possess a deep belief in

x way of life and the sense ~of

cneness with all. other racial an
national groups that make up the
nation.
There are subversive forces thas
will seek to pull this large group
apart from the entire body: there
ave other forces that already devress their morale. Certainly at
this critica] juncture the nation
could well turn to the irresistable
forces that have motivated the life
of Mary McLeod Bethune~a hunser far knowledge and service, unfalterine} courage, a sense of oneress of al} hyman beings, and a
aeep and abiding faith in the ultimate victory of the right.

her direction, some fifty thousand:

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World Of Women

Slightly Siren Flavor SeenInEvening Dresses

By HELEN JAMESON
(Distributed by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.

What a woman has to say and
how she says it has so much to do
with her personality and the: impression she makes on others that
feminine gab should, by rights, be
included among the topics touched
upon by the pulchritude preacher.
Talking is the favorite diversion of
the majority of the sisters. When
we behold a sweet. smiling, silent
lady we feel like heaving a deep
breath, sinking back in a chair, and
basking in the joy of her presence.

When we sy that when a clacking woman talks a monotone she
makes us tired, we mean precisely
that. We get tired listening to her,
looking at her. We are fatigued
physically; it gets us Jown. There
are women, and many men too,
who are monologuists. On:and on
they go, like the babbling brook,
dwelling on subjects in which we
have no interest or concern. Draw
a house guest of that type and
you'll be fit to be tied when she
leaves.

WHAT.GOOD DOES IT DO?

A-woman who lives in a small
~ community, attends meetings of
various village organizations, tells
me that after business aftairs are
attended to there is an all around
exchange of domestic problems,

ful to those who inspire it.

each woman endeavoring to make
hers appear the most trying. It
may be a means ~%f emotional outlet, but what good does it do?

It is a socia]) advantage to be an
interesting conversationalist, and
if you can add the gay touch now
and then your company will be
souhgt. There's not half enough
laughter in the world; we~re grateWe
fight shv of the complainers who
talk only about themselves and
their. troubles. As if all of us
haven't anxieties of one kind or an.
other..

Gracious speech is an important
detail of attractiveness. Too bad
some of the sharp-tongued girls
don~t realize that. Nobody can endure quick, harsh words. They are
like slivers in the flesh, even when
handed along in jest. One-can~t
be too careful. Thc human heart
is a frail, silly affair, easily
wounded.

SHOCKING HABIT

Let~s consider the- voice and the
manner in which it is used. High,
strident tomes smack the ear
drums. Voices that are unnecessarily excited wear the listener down
to raw, quivering nerves. As for
shouting, that~s bad manners. No
well-bred woman shouts. Observe

~those who scream at their children; |.

it is a shocking habit.

CHICAGO~(ANP)~Mrs. A. jL.
Foster, formerly Mildreg Randolph
of New York City, has the distinction of being the first woman of
eny race to receive a four year
certificate in real estate from the
Central YMCA School of Business
Administration, it was learned
last week.

Mrs. Foster succeeded in completing the four year course in tWo
years. She studied property management and vroperty appraisal
wnder Percy Wagner, regional director of FHA, the only woman of
anv race to take this course.

She received the certificate in
1949 and not satisfied tp stop her
studies she continued and was
awarded the degree of bachelor of
science in commerce in January,
1941, graduating, however with the

June class. On June 27 she was

Californian Becomes First Woman
To Get Real Estate Certificate.

notified that she~had successfully |.
passed her examinations for a real}

estate broker~s license which she
has received.:

Mrs. Foster was well known in
New York having been. born there
and having attended high school

2nd Columbia university.- She was/.

a charter member of the Rho chaPter of Delta Sigma Theta. She
lived with her uncle, Dr. Leo Fitz
Neoran ane her mother Mrs. Louise Randolph.

A week after Mrs. Foster took
her degree she saw her son Albon
finish the eighth grade. the youngest member of his class. Mrs.
Foster and her family live in Glencoe; a suburb of Chicago, in 2
home which she herself designed.
Leonard, who at nine years of age
is-in the seventh grade.

Conversation And Chacniae
Twin Paths To Friendship

Clacking Woman Hard on The ~

Ears and Nerves, Says Helen

As for topics; don~t talk books
to a person who never reads. Don~t
give advice; nobody wants it, nobedy will follow it. Don~t talk
about your illnesses, past or present; the subject is not cheering.
This reporter of yours believes that
it is a mistake tc confide too mueh
in others. It embarrasses them to
have a soul revealed too openly.
Withold criticism, which ts a mis

Florida Club

Women In 33rd
Convention

WEST PALM BEACH, Fila. ~In
one of the largest gatherings of
women which the state of Florida
has seen with representatives from
Key West to Jacksonville and from
St. Petersburg to Pensacola, the
Colored Women~s Clubs of Florida
held their 33rd annual session in
Ocala, last week.

Many new clubs joined the federation and it is apparent that club
work in Florida is justifying the
faith of the pioneer women who
founded and nurtured it, for within practically every community
within. the state there is to be
found a club branch of the federation working for the betterment of

| humanity. To Alice Gertrude Fred
erick Mickens, who has served as
president during the most effective
development of the federation went
the thanks and gratitude of the assembled women.

The spirit of the meeting as Mrs.
Mickens announced that she would
not head the organization after
next year, was that those present
would attempt to carry on her task,
making Florida the leading state
in the Union, in club work.
BROUGHT FINE RESULTS. The Scholarship~Loan Fund
rally brought fine results this year.
Not since the scholarship effort
was adopted under the leadership
of Mrs. Clotelle Williams, of Tam
-| pa, has so large an amount been

raised at a convention as was raisz
ed this year. The tea held in connection with this special event was
well attended and officers and
delegates congratulated themselves
as they sipped tea informally and
discussed the work being done.

S. D. Rogers, president of the
Central Industrial Life Insurance
Company was the principal speaker at the platform meeting which
was well attended. Other speakers
were Present J. R. E. Lee of Florida A. and M. College and Dean
Bragg of the same institution.

On Monday morning the board
met. Mrs. Fannie M. Ponder, vicepresident of St. Petersburg, pressided in the absence of Mrs. C, C.
Williams the chairman. At its conclusion the body went immediately

brought a large delegation and
stood as a unit behind the president. The session was a busy one,
every delegate from the many clubs
over the state being busy on some
committee.

HOLD CLUB INSTITUTE

Outstanding features were the
the Club Institute, conducted by
Mrs. Margaret Sims of Jacksonville
and the Club Clinic, by Mrs. F. M.
Walker of West Palm Beach. These
two innovations proved so _ interesting that it was voted to give
time for them each year. The institute and clinic proved both informative and educational.

The remarkable address ~~ given
Monday evening by President Mickens created such a favorable impression that the executive board
voted to present to the body for
adoption as a theme for next year,
Opportunity Through Education.~

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JEFFERSON City, Mo~ Mfrs.
F. V. Houchins, business education
instructor of Washington, D. C., is
a@ member of the summer teaching
staff at Lincoln University where
she is teaching in-the department
of- Business Administration. Forty one students are being trained
in shorthand, typing and the operation of modern office machines,
of

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In addition to the regular courses
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all of St. Louts. ~ts

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York. An article by Mrs. Houchins
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Schools~ was. published in ~ the~

Business Education.

GREENSBORO, N. C.~(SNS)~
The Bennett College faculty will be
greatly enriched through the grant
ef fellowships and _ study-in-aid
made to a number of faculty persons. by the General Education
Board and other organizations.

Dr. Alberta B. Turner of the
Bennett College faculty has the un--
usual] distinction of being the first
Negro teacher to be invited to work
at the Consumér~s Institution at

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given by the college. For the past
two years Dr. Turner has conduct
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The General Education Roard
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Miss Coragreene Johnstone, for
five years teacher of English at
Bennett, retufns froma year. of
study at the University of Michifen with the beginning of the Pall

semester and Miss Frances John-~ -

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son, who had leave during the past -

year and is studying this summer
at the University of Wisconsin, will
also return in September.

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