Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 26]

_ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1946 |

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-Mr. and Mrs. William Buckner, 220 Julterson Avenue,
had several visitors from Alabama as their houseguests during
the week of the Elks~ Convention. Among the distinguished
visitors enjoying hospitality of the charming host and hostess
_ were: Mr. and, Mrs. Alvin Starrs,.Mr. Richard A. Carter, ex_ altedruler of Southern Pride Lodge No.
431; Mr. Eugene Seller, Prof. J. D. Cooke,
Mr. D. Calloway Ross, mortician and Mr.
A. Goldsmith, all of Montgomery, Ala.
Séveral courtesies were extended to these
distinguished guests all of whom expressed
themselves as having spent a lovely week
in the beautiful City of Buffalo. Othe:
guests present were: Amos Gordon, Birmingham, Ala. and Woddy William, New
Haven, Conn., both members of Louis

Armstrong~s orchestra, who also enjoyed
many. social courtesies.

Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Holland had as
their guests, Dr. and Mrs.~D. W. Davis and
* Dr. and Mrs. Sheridan Roane of Rich
CORA mond, Va., enroute to visit in Quebec.

Mr. La Monte Mitchell is visiting in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Russell Holland has returned from his visit in Idlewild,
Mich.

Mrs. Ruth Miller, 292 Purdy Street, was visiting in Ro-, chester for~the weekend.

Miss Jacqueline Lyman of New York City was oteceuedt
of Mrs. Gwendolyn Green,-116 Northland Avenue. They
were classmates at Virginia State College.

Mrs. Camille Robinson of Pittsburgh, Pa., was- guest last
week of her husband, Leonard Robinson, manager | ~of Sportsmen Club.

Mrs, A. Newton Service is recuperating in Silerkudr.
Pa.

Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Gillam of 229 Loring Avenue entertained Alpha men and wives Wednesday night. A lovely evening was had by all.

Mrs. lola Jackson, 21 Maple Street, had as visitors: Mrs.
Daisie Turner of Dayton, Ohio and Mrs. Maude Shepard of
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. and Mrs. a hine of Flint, Mich., were among the visitors in Buffalo this week en route to Niewaxa Falls.

Mrs. D. Ormonde Walker, wife of the Rev. D. O. Walker
of Bethel AME Church is visiting with her husband for.a f@w
weeks.. Lt. and Mrs. Frank Roberts, daughter and son-in-law
of Tuskegee. Ala. were their guests for a few days. They are
en route to Boston, to visit with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.
Roberts. Lieutenant Roberts has been transferred to Lackborn Airfield outside of Columbus, Ohio.

' The Rev. O. HH. Brown and his bride, Mrs. Grace Fisher
Brown are honeymooning in Hartford, Conn. at the, home of
the bride.

Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Gillam entertained for their sister, Miss
Dorothy Gillam with an informal AKA party, Monday: night.

Mr. Henry Brown, Jr., is visiting in Buffalo-with his bride
from Chicago, Ill.

Dr. C. R. Maloney will join Dr. Hamilton ~Maloney of
Washington, D.C. in New York City en route by plane to Trinidad, British West Indies to visit their mother, Mrs. Estelle Maloney and sisters. They will return in about three weeks.

Mrs. Francine Biddle, daughter of Washington, D.C. were
the guests of, Mr. Charles S. Scott and family during the Elks
Convention.

Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Gilbert, 413 Jefferson, have as their
houseguests, Mr. and Mrs. William Calhoun of Jacksonville,
Fla. t

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson, 1493 Jefferson, had visiting~
with them, Mr. Johnson~s mother, Mrs, W. A. Johnson and his
sister, Miss Viyian Johnson of Cleveland,~ Ohio and also his
brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson of Cincinnati.

Mr.: Eustace Gay, editor of the Philadelphia Tribune, was
dinner guest of Atty. and Mrs. C. M. Maloney.

Mr. and.:~Mrs. David Bishop and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Johnson visited friends and enjoyed cricket games in Toronto
Labor Day.~,

_ Atty and Mrs. Maloney, Mr. wa Mrs. Walter Jones and
son, Walter L:, Jr., visited Atty. and Mrs. Spencer Pitts of Toronto Labor Day and other friends

Mts.~ Marcus Garvey and sons were banguetted in Toronto

~ dine Day. Mrs. Garvey and sons qwere en route to ates.
They were the guests of Atty. and Mrs. S. Pitts.

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of 935 E. Long St., one of the
August Graduates in the field
of music, from Ohio State University, has.been placéd on the
teaching staff
N. C. He is the son of Mr.
a td Mrs.
935 E. Long St.

UNITED AFTER 24 YEARS
Mrs. Pennie Manning; has~
returned to her home in Tampa, Fla., after a six weeks visit
with her brother and_ sister,
Mr. end Mrs. Richard Garrett,
of 321 S. Highland Avenue, following a 24 year absence.

Mrs. Queen Peele,
lington, N. C., is visiting her
cousin, ~*Mrs. Ethel M. Fowler, of 148 Cleveland Ave.

Mrs. Grace Smith, of 227 S.
Oakley Avenue, and daughters
Misses Vivian and Norma Jean
-Niekens, sons - Walter, Victor
and Gray- Nickens and father
Albert Puckett, have returned
from vacationing in Cleveland
an Winsdor, Ontario.

Miss E. Oramae Pate, and
mother, Mrs.. Edna P. Coleman,
of 1245 Atcheson St., spent last
Sunday in Ashland, Ohio, as
guest of Mrs. Mary Flood, who
| is a neice of Mrs. Coleman.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Shelton, Jr.,.and tamily have returned to Washington, D. C.,
after a two weeks visit with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Shelton, of 357 S. Highland Avenue. While here he
accompanied his: father, visiting his grandmother who remains ill in the hospital,

Mr. Elisha Cooper, 252 Jefferson Avenue a_ veteran of
World War I, who has been
confined to his home for the
past seven months, entered the
Veterans Hospital in~ Dayton,
Ohio. We hopé for him a
speedy recovery.

EMBROIDERS MEET....The Unique Embroidery Club
TIne., will resume their meetings for the fall, Thursday,
September 12, with the host
ess, Mrs. Lelia Pressie, 1200
Arthur Place, at 2:15 p. m.
Installation of officers. All

members are urged to be pres
ent.

EASTERN STAR ADVANCE
The Eastern Star Home in

Urbana, Ohio, which has been

closed for several years, will

re-open on Sunday, September
15, to the. public, known as
~tlome Coming Day.~ Dinner

will be served. The nublic is
cordially invited to attend. Mrs.
Ida M. Williams, Royal Matron

filiation, woo was re-elected the
11th of August in Wilbe~orce,
Chio and vho has pret ~ously
served for niore than 20 years,
will presice,

Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Jenkins,
pastor of Second Baptist
Church. announce that ~ their
son, Williard, will be married
Saturday, September 14, in
Dayton, Ohio, to Miss Anna
Miss Frankie D. Thomas, of

{ Atlarrtta, Georgia; has. returned
' home after spending a delight
ful vacation with her aunt and
uncle Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Lynch
of 162 Jefferson Avenue. While
here she was royally entertained by many of her friends,
among whom are Misses Betty.
Joe Pickett, Dorothy Macklin, |
Dr.:and Mrs. Lynch, Misses
Alma Lou Murray and Miss
Ruth Jackson.

EVA MIXON HEADS
ELECTION GROUP FOR
LEGION, AUXILIARY:
Charles Biloce Auxiliary No.
157 American Legion, held their
business meeting on last Tuesday evening in the club rooms. |
Mrs. Rose Hamilton, made a
fine report of the proceedings
National Convention of
the American Legion which
convened in Cleveland. Mrs.
Eva Mixon, was named chairman of the nominating compenny for officers for the ensuing year, which election will
pe held Sept. 17 at Memorial
Hall, Members are urged to at
~ APNS,
Mr. Hilliary Rice Hatchett,

in Greensboro, |

Hilliary Hatchett, of:

of Bur-}

State of Ohio, Prince Fall Af-|{

Columbus Social Activities

HATTIE BUFORD REDMOND, SOCIAL EDITOR

tend. Mrs. Viola James is the

is the secretary.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Shipley,
Mr. and Mrs. Harris Steele, and
daughter, Miss Joyce Ann Green
and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Reid;
motored to Cincinnati, Sunday
where Mr. Steele, a ~Bass~;
broadcasted from station WLW
with the Harmoniers, who are~
with the Circle Air Show. They
also appeared on the 2:30 p.'
m.~ program at the Cimcinnati,
Zoo and are on WLW every.
Thursday night at 9 p. m. Atty.
Raglan Reid, is the director.

Mrs. J. G. Mitchell of 962 1-2
E. Long Street, and her grandmother here who is visiting her,
traveled to St. Louis, Mo. on
* Thursday night, whére she will
visit with her daughter Mrs.
Leah Hoard, Mrs. Mitchell ac
week end.

Elder S. P. West, 1115 Atcheson~ Avenue, is seriously ill,
we hope for him a quick recovery.

Mrs.
cheson Avenue is improving after ~ serious illness,

The closing of the Conference
year at St. Paul AME Church,
was quite a success on last
Sunday. Presiding Elder Lig
mon both morning and evening.

The City Federation of Colored Women~s Club, will hold
its regular meeting Tuesday,
September 17, at.9 a. m. at the
Mt. Vernon AME Church at 2
p. m. Mrs. J. Estell Barnett will

trude Hill is the secrétary.

THE J. C. LEMONS TOUR
SOUTHWEST OHIO BY AUTO

Prof. and Mrs. J. C. Lemons,
of 269 Taylor, visited in Springfield, Wilberforce and Zenia,
last week. They also spent the
week end in Cincinnati as the
guest of Mr. Clinton Gibbs, who
is the organist and director of
the First Baptist Church Choir,
which has a choir of 30 voices
of which church they worshipped while there. Rev. F. P.
Green is the pastor. They report the visit and scenery was
beautiful.

Mr. and Mrs. James Arnold
Quirfn, of 1281 Ann Street, spent
Labor: Day in Ann Arbor and
Pontiac, Michigan, the guest of
his brother, Mr. A. Quinn.

Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Lawrence, of 1366 Kent Avenue,
Mrs. Jessie Dixon, and son of
Poindexter, are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Estis, of Detoit, Mich. Mr. Sstis, is a
brother of Mrs. Lawrence.

ed to her home in Cleveland.
Ohio, after visiting her uncles
Robert, Russell and Ernest Oakfield, and the house guest of
Miss Manesa Oakfield, of 238
N. 22nd Street.

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Mr. Allen Eugien Robinson,
publisher and editor of the
Columbus American, was dinner guest last Sunday of Mr.
and Mrs. James B. Smith, and
family of 245 N. 2ist Street.

Mrs. Fannie Bates, and daugh-.
ter, of 241 N. 2ist Street, have
returned heme after spending a
we2k in Michigan, while there
they visited in Canada.

~Mr. Wilbur Guthrie, of Char
with his mother, Mrs. Mattie
Hurt, of 1141 Atcheson St.

REV. J. H. BURKS ILL

Mr.
lis and family of 189 Jefferson
Avenue, daughter, were called
to the bedside of their father,
Rev. J. H. Burks, in Roanoke,
Va. Taken seriously iil last
Sundzy while preaching in the
pulpit, of one of the Baptist
churches. Mrs. Willis and fam
ily have returned and report
president and Mrs. B. Harris

companied her and spent the}

Ida Patterson, 1129 At-.

gens preached a wonderful ser- |.

be the guest speaker.~ Mrs. Wil- |
son is president and Mrs. Ger-;

Miss Gloria Yares has return-|
leston, West Va., spent a week].

and Mrs. Henry P. Wil-.

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ed ~he is somewhat improved.

Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Jenkins,
pastor of Second Baptist
Church, have returned from a
months~ vacation, in Saratoga
Springs.aand New York City,

end reported a very pleasant.

vacotion.

The Silver Leaf Social - Club,

~was entertained by Mrs. Mary:

| Johnston, 1312 E. Broad Street,
Wednesday, September 4, at the
1 ~Imhurst Party Home, on
105 Hamilton Avenue. After the, tramsaction -of business, covers
were laid for 20 who enjoyed
various games. *

The Progressive Sewing Club
had their annual Tea at Elmhurst Party Home, Sunday
September Ist. It was a very
successful affair, and well attended. Mrs. Bernice Macklin,
was chairman in charge.

Mr. Charles Tolliver, 105
Hamilton Avenue, is_ Slightly
impreved at this writing.

Mrs. Ruth B. Harris, 158 N:
Monroe Avenue is vacationing
with relatives and friends in

New York, N. Y. y

Mrs. Roberta I McNeil, of 44
N. 22nd Street, has been vacationing in Louisville, Ky., and
other points.

Mrs. Ida M. Williams and
Mrs. Isabelle Rutherford, of 111
WN. 9th Street, have returned
from Philadelphia, where they
attended the International
Grand Order of Eastern Stars.
Enroute home, they visited with
friends and relatives in Plainfield and Newark, N. J.!FIFTH ADDITION TO
FAMILY

Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Johnson,
Urbancrest, are the proud parents of an eight pound boy,
who has been named Richard
Edward. Mr. Johnson is proprietor of a grocery store, also
handling seed and grain.

Ingram Carter, proprietor of
the Gulf Oil Station, Garfield
at Mt. Vernon Avenue, returnthis week from a vacation in
the Bronx, New York City,
and points East, visiting his parents and friends.

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Mesdames Edward Nally, P.
Lofton, R. F. Hariston, and
daughter, Dorothy Mae, have
returned from Atlanta and
Dalton, Ga. Mrs. Hariston
and daughter included Winston-Salem, N.C., in their trip
as this was where the Rev. Mr.
Hariston was a guest revival

Wilberforce

Miss Dolores Ruff, a well
known Buffalonian will enter
Wilberforce university shortly
in order to further her studies
and major in the field of music.
Miss Ruff, who has been singing im the junior choir of Bethel AME church for some time
was presented in her initial recital last Thursday evening and
won much praise fer her artistic
ability.

Jack and Jill
Club News

The members of the Jack and
Jill Club met at the house of
Irma Clark, 229 Loring avenue,
for the purpose of electing offieers; Mrs. Dorothy Service, president; Mrs. Lorraine Edwards,
vice president; Mrs. Edna Saey,
secretary; Mrs. Cerise Jones,
treasurer. Other members present were Mrs..Hassie Robinson,
irs. Janice Rollins and Mrs.
Laura Holland.

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Mrs. Ruby Hunt, secretary
to the Poro School of Cosmetology, 660 E. Long Street,
and owner of the Hunt Beauty
Shop, 1220 Mt. Vernon Avenue, was very pleased with the
school~s enrollment this month.
She stated that last week 22
applicants were taken and of
this number many were ~ ex
WACs and ex-Gls.
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Ruby Clarke, employee of
the LVA Club, 716 Long
Street, returned last week from
a two weeks~ vacation with relatives and friends in Tampa
and Jacksonville, Fla., and

Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. William M..:(Elizabeth) Pressie, 1320 Clifton,
Apt.:J, was the proud receiver
of many beautiful gifts in her
home last Wednesday night,
Sept. 4. The Pressies celebrated their eleventh anniversary
and 50 persons attended to enjoy games and refreshments..

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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hampton, 1309 Hildreth, were entertained by many friends here
before leaving for California to
stay permanently, last week.

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The Rev. and Mrs. James.
Gallon, who occupied.an apart-.
ment in the home of Mrs. Hattie Shorter, 361 Hamilton Avenue, left Tuesday, Sept. 2 for
Hawkin, Texas, where the Rev.
Mr. Gallon will enter Jarvis
Christian College.

IN A LIGHTER

A PLEASANT PAST.

Tt is nice to be able to sit
back in an easy chair and relax so completely that there
is nothing on the mind other
~than pleasant thoughts~thoughts
of yesterday. This I did last
night in the peace and quiet of
my suite at Detroit~s swank
Gotham hotel. With appropriate
music, my mind wandered back
into the past, almost a year ago.
I remembered the party I gave
at the Theresa hotel in New

persoris present as Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.
Erskine Hawkins. Donald Heywood (the producer), Mantan
Moreland -and others too rum~rous to mention. -

Ai the particular time I maintained residence at th2 Theresa
amd in spite of the noisy environs I, nevertheless enjoyed
being in the ~thick of things,~
socially. I had spent A rather
quiet summer attending the
Writers Workshop at the University of Vermont. And the
contrast from my place of abode
im Purlingten, Vermont- to that
of the one in upper Manhattan
was great indeed. In Burlington
I resided at the Hotel Van Ness
near Lake Champlain. Frequently I had such guests as Louis

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Loudon whose mother Laura has~
contributed to numerous magazines. In fact, she is a very successful short story writer. Leaving the peace and quiet of Vermont for the neighborhood in
vrhich the Theresa is situated is
like leaving Bangor, Maire in
February for Miami. A_ great
difference. But it is good to look
back into the past and think of
such pleasant situations like the
party at the Therésa on which
occasion Rochester decided to
cccupy my bed in preference to
the one he mairtained at the
Belmont Plaza. But ome must
be kind to guests and I had to
be particularly so because Eddie
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REFLFCTIGNS

var UP-H'LL STRUCGLE~
y GARFIELD HINTON

If we course through the pages of history we will see man
struggling on. -Someimes it~s a siruggle for survival; sometimes
a struggle for wea'th; -ometimes is it a struggle for power;
sometimes a strugz'e fur. freedom but cont nua'ly there is a
struggle.

Man is past the stage in which he must struggle against
savage beasts for food, clothing and shelier. |
he live in trees, wear skins and eat raw meat.

There came clans, tribes, villages, cities ard firally counThere came the wheel, steam power, electric power and
atomic power.

Along with man~s mechanical struggles and progress have
been social! struggles and progress. Certa~n men appear to have
been more fortunate than others to have acquired wealth, power influence~but instead of helping their fellowmen there
seems to have been a tendency to expioit ~hem.

From time immemorial there has be-n a class struggle, a
struggle between the haves and have-nct; and sometimes the
near-haves. This struggle was at least ~pate "ly responsib e
for the travels of Columbus to discover a shorter route to Cathay and subsequent European settling in the Americas.

Looking for a better day~many have-nots as well a3 so vc
haves sought America~as a place of virgin soil and a place tr
the final struggle~that is the struggle for freedom. Within
this big struggle for freedom there have been mzeny sma! er
struggles for freedom.

After a time there rose up the cry ~~Taxat~on without rep-.
resentation~ and soon followed a war. Shortly after this Pevolutionary War the historical founders of cur country assembled in Philadelphia in the year 1787 to frame a const!i:ution.
They realized the necessity of a strong central government for
a surviving struggling nation.

Despite opposition this constitution supported Ey Washington, Hamilton, Madison and Franklin was ratified the fo!lowing year becoming the ~Supzeme Law~~ of the ~and. The
obvious purpose of the Constitution was to have a s2t standard
to which any state in the union would be held accountable.
The ulterior motives as voiced by the f zmers in the prsamble
are: to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to provide for the commen defense,
to provote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of
liberty. The aim apparently, was to make freedom more than
a struggle but a reality. This was the eighteenth century. A
century in which agitation for the rights of mah were begun
anew and with great zeal. One year following the ratification
of the American Constitution, millions of Frenchmen, aroused
by such thinkers as Rosseau, Voltaire and Montesquieu revolte4
against tyranny and oppression. But while Frenchmen in
France were shouting liberty, equality, fraternity, Frenchmen
in Haiti were as loudly exclaiming slavery, hostility, brutality.
Slavery with all its unmentionable cruelties was well entrenched
in this little French-Haiti.

In the United States at the very time when the noble Con- __

stitution was drawn up and when such men as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin wer2 proclaiming the rights of
man~when Thomas Jefferson wrote*those immortal words:
~We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among thece are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness,~~ at this very time near!y three million
human beings were being held in a rather inhumane bondage.

For more than three hundred years there has been in the
United States a struggle between a political and economic minority and a political and economic majority that, because of its
undemocratic nature tends to defeat the cause of democracy~
The cause for which this country was founded, the cause for
which the Constitution was framed.

Yet, who is concerned with an American ~~Supreme Law~
and noble creed when a- man guilty or innocent is lynched?
Who is concerned with some equal rights dogma when nearly
ten million citizens have not the right to vote because of a poll
tax? Who is concerned when yearly miilions of Americans
are forced to accept unemployment or low-pay employment,
to live in ghettos and above all are denied the right to live the
lives they chose or would choose but are forced into a compromising existence?

It is evident that there is a struggle~not: sicas between
people or classes but between ideals and practices. But UPHILL. struggle~because progress toward this higher goal is |
continually being made in spite of adverse conditions.

Within this struggle the Negro has been and continues to
be attacked amd accused politically, socially and morally but
more than fifty years ago, an ex-slave, an abolitionist, an orator,
a statesman, a man~great~ if America has produced any~Frederick Douglass said: ~It is not the Negro, educated sly illiterate, intelligent er ignorant, who is on trial or whose qualities are giving trouble to the nation; the real question, the allcommanding question is whether justice, American
liberty, American civilization, p meso law and American
Christianity can be made to include~ and protect alike and forever, all American citizens.~

In current times we have seen axis nations eeabak upon

a bloody mission for world conquest. We have seen a nonaxis nation boast that the sun never sets on its empire. We are
now conscious and should be of the starving, struggling millions of Europe but more than ever there should be concern
with the starving, struggling millions throughout the world.

There is assembled an organization of the United Nations
to preserve world peace, but even now the millions of oppressed people struggling UP-HILL are like ~~a swollen river threatening to overflow and destroy~ every moral frailty and every
insincere gesture of every ruling class.

Thére is before the world~the task to come to the vat
zation that mankind has been struggling against one another
long enough now let us come together and together struggle
(as strugle there must be) upwards toward this higher goal not
just to make ~~our country~ but to make the world, ~~one nation
indivisible, with libery and justice for all.~

In conclusion; | wish to give a quotation by Mrs. Mary Mc
| Leod Bethune that is, I believe, an illustration of the struggling

oppressed. ~I Bern, Switzerland, I once saw a rose garden.
There were many colors of roses and among them was a black; rose, rich and lustrious. The realization came to me as i looked
at those flowers that all colors were destined to play their part ~

in God's garden and in his world. Flowers of all colors need
the sun. and the rain. You cannot expect the black rose to
bloom if it is hidden away from the sun under a rock or shut off
from the rain. The black rose says, ~Give me a chance and i i
will play my part.~ ~

No lenger must -